text:
Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo will be kicking off his exclusive blog for MASNsports.com tomorrow afternoon, with a live chat at 12:30 p.m. I'll be at Nationals Park with Rizzo, who will answer your questions on the upcoming draft and the team.
We'll have more information posted here in the morning, but if you'd like to start submitting questions ahead of time, you can do so by leaving them in the comments section of this post. The goal for this chat is to focus primarily on the upcoming draft, but if you've got a few questions on the current Nationals roster, we can get into those, as well.
So have at it, and check back for more information.


text:
41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment
|41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment
Cap badge of the Royal New South Wales Regiment
|Australian Army
|Light Infantry
|Headquarters, Signals Platoon and two Rifle Companies
|Part of
|8th Brigade, 2nd Division
|Mors Ante Pudorem (Death before Dishonour)
|Black over Blue
|Cock O'The North
|Commanding Officer
|Lieutenant Colonel Andrew McPhee
|Unit Colour Patch
The 41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, (41 RNSWR), is an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. A Reserve unit, it is one of four battalions of the Royal New South Wales Regiment and is attached to the 8th Brigade, 2nd Division. It is based in northern New South Wales, with its headquarters in Lismore and depots in a number of locations including Tweed Heads, Taree, Grafton, Kempsey, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour.[1] In its present form the battalion was raised in 1965, however, it can trace its lineage back to a Scottish Rifles unit formed in 1899. It also perpetuates the battle honours and traditions of a battalion that served on the Western Front during the First World War.
41 RNSWR was formed in 1965 after the Australian Army ended its experiment with the Pentropic divisional structure which, in 1960, had seen the reorganisation of the previously existing regional Citizens Military Force (CMF) infantry battalions into company-sized elements within six new State-based regiments.[2] The experiment was a failure and by 1965, the Army returned to the triangular divisional structure and the CMF was reorganised once more. In an effort to reinvigorate the regional ties that had been so important to the CMF, the Pentropic battalions were reduced and new battalions formed by re-raising a number of their subordinate companies to battalion strength and re-adopting historical numerical designations.[3] As a part of this reorganisation, the Byron Scottish Company, which had been part of the 1st Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment was expanded to form the 41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment,[4] headquartered around Lismore on the northern New South Wales coast.[3]
Drawing its lineage from the Byron Scottish Regiment, which had previously existed prior to the Pentropic restructure, 41 RNSWR's predecessor units can trace their history back to the Maclean Company Scottish Rifles which was formed in 1899.[5] This unit went through a number of name changes during its early history, eventually becoming the 9th Infantry in 1912. In 1918, it was amalgamated with the 12th (Byron) Infantry to form the 2nd Battalion, 41st Infantry after the Citizens Force was reorganised to form multi-battalion Regiments which were numbered after units of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) with which they had been associated.[5]
In 1921, the decision was made to disband the AIF and to perpetuate its battle honours and traditions by reforming the Citizens Force along the same lines as the AIF, with the multi-battalion regiments being redesignated as separate battalions and adopting the unit colour patches and battle honours of the AIF. Consequently, the 2nd Battalion, 41st Infantry was redesignated as the 41st Battalion.[5]
During the First World War, this battalion had been formed in February 1916 at Bell's Paddock in Brisbane, Queensland, with men drawn from Queensland and northern New South Wales.[6] Attached to the 11th Brigade, 3rd Division, it took part in the fighting on the Western Front from November 1916 until the end of the war, during which time it took part in battles at Messines, Broodseinde, and Passchendaele in 1917. In early 1918, they took part in repulsing the German Spring Offensive, defending the railway near Amiens before taking part in the Allied Hundred Days Offensive which ultimately brought about an end to the war. The 41st Battalion's final involvement in the fighting came in early October when they took part in the joint Australian–US operation along the St Quentin Canal. It was out of the line resting when the armistice was signed in November 1918 and was disbanded in May 1919.[6] Losses during the war totalled 444 killed and 1,577 wounded.[6] One member of the battalion, Bernard Sidney Gordon, received the Victoria Cross.[7] Other decorations included: one CMG, two DSOs, 13 MCs and three bars, 12 DCMs, 82 MMs and two bars, four MSMs, 26 MIDs and seven foreign awards.[6]
In 1927, territorial designations were adopted and the battalion adopted the title 41st Battalion (The Byron Regiment). The motto Mors Ante Pudorem was also approved at this time.[8] In 1929, the compulsory training scheme was suspended by the Scullin Labor government, and this, combined with the economic hardships of the Great Depression led to a decline in the number of recruits. As a result, the battalion was amalgamated with the 2nd Battalion to form the 2nd/41st Battalion.[5] In 1933, these two units were delinked, however, the 41st Battalion was amalgamated with the 33rd Battalion to form the 33rd/41st Battalion. They remained linked until 1936 when tensions in Europe meant that the government decided to double the size of the Militia.[9]
During the Second World War, the battalion served in a garrison role within Australia and did not see active service overseas, even though it was gazetted as an AIF battalion after the majority of its members volunteered to do so. In 1943, when the Australian Army began reallocating manpower resources, the battalion was amalgamated once more with the 2nd Battalion, forming the 41st/2nd Battalion.[8] They remained linked until December 1945 when the demobilisation process began and the unit was disbanded.[5]
In 1948, the Citizens Military Force was re-raised, albeit on a limited scale.[10] The 41st Battalion was re-formed at this time, adopting the title 41st Infantry Battalion (The Byron Regiment), however, the following year its title was changed to The Byron Scottish Regiment. This remained the state of affairs until 1960, when the Pentropic divisional structure was introduced and the battalion became 'E' (Byron Scottish) Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment.[5][8] The unit remained part of that regiment until being reformed as a full battalion within the Royal New South Wales Regiment after 1965.[4]
Recent roles[edit]
Recently 41 RNSWR has had a number of operational roles. These roles have included providing soldiers to the serve with INTERFET in East Timor and with the Peace Monitoring Groups in Bougainville. In 2000, they took part in providing security to the Sydney Olympic Games through the Operational Search Battalion. Personnel from the battalion have also deployed as part of commitments to the Solomon Islands as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) and Malaysia with Rifle Company Butterworth.[11] In 2011, members of the battalion served in East Timor as part of the Timor Leste Task Group (TLTG).[12]
Kilted tradition[edit]
Due to its lineage from the Byron Scottish Regiment, 41 RNSWR retains an entitlement to wear a kilt. The battalion was formerly known as the 41st Battalion, The Byron Scottish Regiment.[5] This is due to the large number of Scots who settled in the north of the state in areas such as Grafton, Byron Bay and Maclean.[11] 41 RNSWR maintains an alliance with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and personnel from the battalion's Grafton depot may wear the kilt of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on ceremonial occasions.[13]
Unit motto[edit]
"Mors Ante Pudorem" which means "Death before Dishonour". This motto was adopted by 41 RNSWR because since its formation in 1916 none of its personnel have been captured in battle.[11]
41 RNSWR is located all along the northern New South Wales coast, including depots in:
- Tweed Heads: (1 Platoon, 3 Platoon and Headquarters 'A' Company)
- Lismore: (Battalion Headquarters, Admin Company, 2 Platoon 'A' Company)
- Grafton: (8 Platoon 'C' Company)
- Coffs Harbour: (Headquarters 'C' Company, 7 Platoon)
- Kempsey
- Port Macquarie (9 Platoon 'C' Company)
- Taree
Victoria Cross recipients[edit]
- Lance Corporal Bernard Sidney Gordon, 41st Battalion, 11th Brigade, 3rd Division:
For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on 26–27 August 1918, east of Bray. He led his section through heavy shell-fire to the objective which he consolidated. Single-handed he attacked an enemy machine-gun which was enfilading, the company on his right, killed the men on the gun and captured the post, which contained one officer and ten men. He then cleaned up a trench, capturing twenty-nine prisoners and two machine-guns. In cleaning up further trenches he captured twenty-two prisoners, including one officer, and three machine-guns. Practically unaided, he captured, in the course of these operations, two officers and sixty-one other ranks, together with six machine-guns, and displayed throughout a wonderful example of fearless initiative.[7]
- ^ "8 Bde Units". Department of Defence. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- ^ Grey 2008, p. 228
- ^ a b Grey 2008, p. 239
- ^ a b Shaw 2010, pp. 10–11
- ^ a b c d e f g Harris, Ted. "Lineage of the Royal New South Wales Regiment". Digger History.org. Archived from the original on 19 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
- ^ a b c d "41st Battalion". First World War, 1914–1918 units. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- ^ a b "No. 31082". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 December 1918. p. 15118.
- ^ a b c Festberg 1972, p. 99
- ^ Keogh 1965, p. 45
- ^ Grey 2008, p. 200
- ^ a b c Harris, Ted. "41 RNSWR". Digger History.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- ^ Manley, Mairi (15 June 2012). "Celebrating safe return from Timor". My Daily News. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- ^ "The Argylls: Allied Regiments, Volunteers and Militia". About Scotland. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- Festberg, Alfred (1972). The Lineage of the Australian Army. Melbourne, Victoria: Allara Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85887-024-6.
- Grey, Jeffrey (2008). A Military History of Australia (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69791-0.
- Keogh, Eustace (1965). South West Pacific 1941–45. Melbourne: Grayflower Publications. OCLC 7185705.
- Shaw, Peter (2010). "The Evolution of the Infantry State Regiment System in the Army Reserve". Sabretache. Garran, Australian Capital Territory: Military Historical Society of Australia. LI (4 (December)): 5–12. ISSN 0048-8933.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Mr. GRAHAM. I agree entirely. If I could add one thing on this point: perhaps the best evidence that the current Rasul system undermines effective interrogation is that even the detainees' lawyers are bragging about their lawsuits' having that effect. Michael Ratner, a lawyer who has filed lawsuits on behalf of numerous enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay, boasted in a recent magazine interview about how he has made it harder for the military to do its job. He particularly emphasized that the litigation interferes with interrogation of enemy combatants. Ratner stated:
The litigation is brutal for [the United States]. It's huge. We have over one hundred lawyers now from big and small firms working to represent these detainees. Every time an attorney goes down there, it makes it that much harder [for the U.S. military] to do what they're doing. You can't run an interrogation ..... with attorneys. What are they going to do now that we're getting court orders to get more lawyers down there?
When I read that quote, that for me was the last straw. I knew that something had to be done. On this issue, both the detainees' lawyers and the Defense Department seem to agree: involving enemy combatants in adversarial litigation in U.S. courts undermines effective interrogation of those detainees.
Mr. GRAHAM. You are absolutely correct Senator KYL. I must admit, I'm a bit baffled by the assertion that our amendment is somehow internally inconsistent, that our provisions interfere with the McCain provisions in some way.
While we must ensure that detainees are treated humanely, and that is what we addressed so well with the McCain portion of our total package, directing our departments and agencies to refrain from cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment; we also don't want to give these detainees the right to abuse our courts by going after our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines based on how we have decided to treat them. In fact, while it is true that some physical abuses have occurred, we know that members of al-Qaida are trained to claim mistreatment to manipulate public opinion of the war.
I would like to remind all of my colleagues of some of the most egregious cases that prompted our amendments. For instance, a detainee who threw a grenade that killed an Army medic, a medic--someone trying to render medical assistance, and who often treats our enemies on the battlefield as well as our own troops.
In any event, the detainee who threw the grenade that killed an Army medic in a firefight, and who comes from a family with longstanding al-Qaida ties, filed for an injunction forbidding anyone from interrogating him or engaging in ``cruel, inhuman, or degrading'' treatment of him.
Now clearly, our reaffirmation of America's policy against treating anyone in a cruel, inhuman, or degrading way tells the world that we are not like our enemy. We do not allow our departments or agencies to treat people like that. And if our people do abuse people, we prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
However, to allow a detainee access to our courts to contest every aspect of his detention, a person who has fought against the very system he now seeks to make use of, is ludicrous. And for anyone to say that somehow our provisions undermine the McCain provisions or our overall amendment is just as wrong.
Senator MCCAIN, due to his service in our Nation's military, is uniquely qualified to take the lead on these issues. The McCain provisions are about us. How we behave. How we administer justice. It is another affirmative statement that the United States of America is that ``Shining City on the Hill'' President Reagan referred to. I am very proud to have been part of Senator MCCAIN's effort to retake the moral high ground in the war on terror.
The Graham-Kyl provisions are about them, the detainees, and what rights they do and, most importantly, do not have. And I am proud of the provisions we have made for the detainee's status to be reviewed by the Federal courts on the one time direct appeal. We allow for a just process, in the form of military tribunals and boards and commissions, a process based on Supreme Court precedent, modeled on the tribunals we have used in the past and created in accordance with Geneva Convention requirements. That is the process we have established for determining the status of detainees.
But I have gotten a little far a field here, let's get back to the lawsuits. Here is another of the crazy lawsuits out there: there's a suit out there by a detainee accusing military health professionals of ``gross and intentional medical malpractice'' in alleged violation of the 4th, 5th, 8th, and 14th Amendments, 42 U.S.C. 1981, and other, unspecified, international agreements. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but a detainee has no business in our courts suing the individual doctors and nurses that are making sure that that detainee is in good health.
Here is another one. There is one guy down there that we are trying to send home, and he's suing to keep us from sending him home. Imagine that, he is trying to stay.
One high level al-Qaida detainee lawsuit complains about the base security procedures, the speed of the mail, and his medical treatment. He is asking the courts to order the marines to transfer him into the ``least onerous conditions'' at Guantanamo and allow him to keep any books and reading material sent to him.
I think this one is the one that makes me the maddest. A high level al-Qaida member, who probably has the blood of 9/11 on his hands, complaining about the speed of his mail delivery. Complaining about how onerous the conditions are at Guantanamo.
With the McCain provisions of our amendment, we have, in addition to the President's order and other regulations already in place, directed the Department of Defense to treat him humanely. But under our provisions, he will receive the justice he deserves.
As you can see, these cases have nothing to do with cruel or inhumane treatment. They are abuses of our courts by the very people who are trying to kill Americans here and abroad. I don't know about you, Senator KYL, but I believe that when you raise arms against the United States, you should not be surprised when you lose the privilege of our court system. As the McCain amendment provisions state very clearly, we are not going to treat people inappropriately. And, Senator KYL, as our provisions state very clearly, we are not going to allow them to make a mockery of our courts, standing beside our own citizens at the courthouse door.
We have provided a fair alternative judicial process for the detainees with our provisions. In fact, we have been more than fair. We have given them more process than our own soldiers and marines would enjoy under the Geneva Convention. This in no way undermines the McCain provisions about how we will treat them and I would challenge anyone who thinks so to come to the Senate floor and debate us on that point.
Mr. KYL. To be clear, neither the CSRT nor the ARB process is designed to entertain grievance about the conditions of confinement. Is that your understanding as well?
Mr. GRAHAM. And those are the only channels that have been created where the detainee himself can pursue a remedy on his own in a semi-adversarial forum. These complaints about conditions of confinement, these are for the military itself to enforce through its own procedures and systems of accountability for monitoring its soldiers. And we have no reason to believe that those systems are not adequate to investigate and remedy abuses. For all the attention to cases such as Abu Ghraib, one thing that deserves emphasis is that it was our own military that discovered, investigated, and punished those abuses. That is as it should be. These standards of treatment are important, but they need to be enforced through the military's internal systems of accountability and Congressional oversight, not through lawsuits and adversarial proceedings brought by detainees. The military's own accountability systems ultimately, I think, will be more effective in monitoring our detention centers and in remedying abuses. All that litigation would do--letting these detainees into court--is undermine intelligence gathering through interrogation.
Mr. GRAHAM. I thank the Senator from Arizona for his comments. I'd also like to say a word about the timing of this bill because we drafted this section very carefully and I want our colleagues to know exactly what they will be agreeing to. While our language does respond to the Rasul decision by effectively reversing the Supreme Court's decision in that case, we wanted to respect the courts' role in this by addressing two different considerations.
First, as we stated before, we wanted the CSRT process to yield decisions which will be reviewed by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. And we wanted to be sensitive to the Rasul court's concerns about a process for the detainees. So, what we did was make the substantive provisions governing the CSRTs and ARBs apply to all cases, those pending on or after the enactment date. This was to ensure that every detainee was provided with the same protections and review.
Second, regarding the modification of the jurisdiction of those courts currently hearing individual habeas or other actions that have been filed by the detainees, we wanted those cases to be recast as appeals of their CSRT determinations. We believe that is the best way to balance between allowing the detainees to challenge their status, and still allowing effective detention and interrogation techniques. As we all know, a court either has jurisdiction to hear a case or it doesn't. Jurisdiction doesn't attach for all time when the case is filed.
This is really no different than transferring a case from one court to another. But in this case, given the change in the substantive law as well, we were required to extinguish these habeas and other actions in order to effect a transfer of jurisdiction over these cases to the DC Circuit Court and substantive legal change as well.
Mr. KYL. Right. It may not be quite right to characterize this bill's provisions as transferring jurisdiction. Rather, they extinguish one type of action--all of the actions now in the courts--and create in their place a very limited judicial review of certain military administrative decisions.
Mr. GRAHAM. Yes, that is correct. But we do still allow some types of judicial review to go forward--those cases asking for review, in accordance with section 1405, of military commissions or CSRTs. And the very last paragraph of section 1405--I believe that it is paragraph (h)(2)--adopts a compromise of sorts. It states that the bill's authorization for limited DC Circuit review of CSRTs and military commissions shall apply to pending cases. Obviously, no pending case seeks judicial review in the DC Circuit pursuant to section 1405. What this paragraph means is that, at the same time that the courts like the DC district courts kick these cases out of their courtrooms, they can also tell them where they should go next. And if, for example, a habeas action currently is in the DC Circuit, that court can simply construe that action as a request for review of the detainee's CSRT pursuant to subsection (e) of 1405, and allow that claim to go forward in that form.
Mr. KYL. The DC Circuit will have to give the petitioner leave to amend his claim, I assume?
Mr. GRAHAM. Yes, I assume that they will do so. No sense in kicking out a detainee's current habeas action in the DC Circuit just so that he has to refile a section 1405 review request--it would be better to let the current case go forward as a 1405 review request, as appropriately amended.
Mr. KYL. We agree on that point. The one thing that critics have said about this bill that is correct is that it is a jurisdiction stripping bill. It strips every court of jurisdiction to hear claims from detainees held in Guantanamo Bay. The courts' rule of construction for these types of statutes is that legislation ousting the courts of jurisdiction is applied to pending cases. It has to. We're not just changing the law governing the action. We are eliminating the forum in which that action can be heard. And there is no exception anywhere in this bill for keeping intact part of that forum to hear the case. The case simply has nowhere to be heard.
I have just been handed a memorandum on this subject. The governing cases on this question are the Landraf case, as well as Hallowell v. Commons, 239 U.S. at 506, and Sherman v. Grinnell, 123 U.S. at 679. As the Landraf court noted, these statutes ``speak to the power of the court rather than the rights or obligations of the parties.'' These cases articulate the rule that will govern the detainee habeas actions and other lawsuits that currently are in the courts: legislation removing jurisdiction applies to pending cases and removes those cases from the courts.
Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, if Senator KYL would be so kind, could he explain how our amendment will affect ongoing litigation? Specifically, my understanding is that the Supreme Court granted certiorari recently in a case.
Mr. KYL. Yes. The Constitution gives Congress the power to make ``exceptions'' and ``regulations'' to the Supreme Court's jurisdiction--or at least, to its appellate jurisdiction. It was Marbury v. Madison that held that Congress could not regulate original jurisdiction, but the court since then has made clear that even habeas actions filed directly in the Supreme Court are regarded as falling within a subspecies of the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction. This would be an interesting exam question for a law school class.
The Congress's authority to use this power was affirmed by the Supreme Court in the case of Ex Parte McCardle. That case involved, I believe, an even sharper use of this authority than this bill does--I believe that there the Supreme Court had even heard argument in that case before Congress stripped the court's jurisdiction over it. The Supreme Court upheld the statute and dismissed Colonel McCardle's case for want of jurisdiction.
Mr. GRAHAM. And we are confident that McCardle still is good law?
Mr. KYL. So long as the Constitution still is good law. I am not aware that the clause in Article III allowing Congress to make exceptions and regulations to Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction has been repealed.
I suppose that some might argue that stripping the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over a pending case is unconstitutional if it is driven by some impure motive. But I can't imagine that the court would take away an authority clearly granted to Congress by the Constitution, regardless of what motive one might attribute to us. I am a member of this body, and would have great difficulty describing some definitive motive or intent to every law that we enact. I don't know how the Supreme Court or any other court could accurately discern such a motive. The laws that we enact have meanings that can be discerned through ordinary rules of construction. I think the rule of law is much more secure when the meaning of legislation is governed by those universally accessible rules of construction rather than through some attempt to psychoanalyze Congress's motive. And in any event, as I recall, this amendment was filed before the Supreme Court even granted review in the Hamdan case. That makes it a little hard to argue that the amendment was motivated by a desire to strip the court of its jurisdiction in that case. I don't think that the Constitution gives Hamdan a greater right to have his case go forward than it did to Colonel McCardle.
Mr. GRAHAM. So once this bill is signed into law, you anticipate that the Supreme Court will determine whether to maintain their grant of certiorari?
Mr. KYL. Yes, in my opinion, the court should dismiss Hamdan for want of jurisdiction. That is what they did in Ex Parte McCardle. I assume that we may see an unhappy dissent from the court's order from one or two of the Justices--there may be some members of the court who refuse to accept McCardle and article III. But I think that a majority of the court would do the right thing--to send Hamdan back to the military commission, and then allow him to appeal pursuant to section 1405 of this bill.
The court also may well request a round of briefing on the effect of the effect on the Hamdan case. I suppose that a lawyer in the SG's office can look forward to rereading Ex Parte McCardle and the debates on the case in Hart & Wechsler's. But again, I don't think that this will change the result.
As for legislative history, I think it usually is regarded as an element of the canons of construction. It gives some indication of what Congress at least understood what it was doing--the context in which a law was enacted. Although, I understand that Justice Scalia does not read legislative history. I suppose that for his sake, we will have to strive to be exceptionally clear in the laws that we write.
Mr. GRAHAM. Let me address another issue. As we worked through this language in conference, we received a lot of comments from our colleagues who were concerned not only about the frivolous cases being filed by al-Qaida terrorists at Guantanamo, but by people detained by our forces in Iraq.
I believe there are several cases that have been filed by those held in Iraq challenging their detention by American forces. Our language does not address these cases, and let me tell you why.
The Rasul v. Bush decision that we have talked so much about worked two significant changes in prior POW or detainee law. Prior to Rasul, the Eisentrager line of cases had governed whether foreign combatants had access to our courts. In 1950, the Eisentrager court held that a Federal district court lacked authority to hear habeas cases for some German POWs held by U.S. forces outside the U.S. These Germans had been tried and convicted of war crimes by an American military commission headquartered in Nanking, and then put in jail in Germany.
The Court stated six reasons for its decision. The German prisoners were: (1) Enemy aliens who (2) had never been or resided in the United States, (3) were captured outside U.S. territory and there held in military custody, (4) were there tried and convicted by the military (5) for offenses committed there, and (6) were imprisoned there at all times.
The Eisentrager line of cases is the reason the Bush administration chose to locate the al Qaida and Taliban holding facility at Guantanamo. The Bush administration relied upon the Eisentrager line of cases so as to prevent exactly what we have seen happen since Rasul: terrorists with lawyers. Now I'm a lawyer myself, and I think we can all agree that that is a bad combination.
In fact, if my colleagues will permit me a quick aside, I would remind them again of the statement by one of the lawyers for some of these terrorists, Michael Ratner. Mr. Ratner boasts about the fact that this litigation has undermined intelligence gathering in the war on terror. In an interview published in May of this year Mr. Ratner stated:
The litigation is brutal for the United States. It's huge. We have over one hundred lawyer now from big and small firms working to represent these detainees. Every time an attorney goes down there, it makes it that much harder for the U.S. military to do what they're doing. You can't run an interrogation with attorneys. What are they going to do now that we're getting court orders to get more lawyers down there?
Now that is what we are facing. Terrorists with lawyers. I am pretty sure the American people expect more from their government than that.
But getting back to what I was saying about Eisentrager. The Bush administration relied on the Supreme Court's decision in Eisentrager when they located the detainees at Guantanamo, reasoning sensibly, at least I think it was sensibly, that since the al-Qaida and Taliban members were enemy aliens who were being held by U.S. forces outside the United States after being captured on the battlefield, that they would not have access to Federal courts.
But then the Supreme Court held in Rasul that the detainees could have access to our courts to challenge their detention. Would my colleague from Arizona care to comment on the Rasul decision?
Mr. KYL. Where to even begin? The U.S. has been accused before in its history of imperialistic behavior, but I think that this is the first time ever that a portion of a sovereign nation has been annexed to the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. GRAHAM. Yes, my friend from Arizona is correct, our language applies only to Guantanamo just because we understand that the Supreme Court only extended the jurisdiction of the courts over the detainees held at Guantanamo. And since the Rasul decision was based on the habeas statute in the U.S. Code, I am very comfortable amending that statute as a proper congressional response to the Court's decision.
As I stated repeatedly to a number of my colleagues, we did not want to deprive the courts of jurisdiction to hear cases filed on behalf of detainees in Iraq because we are confident that, as the law stands now, those cases are already barred by previous Supreme Court decisions, which the Rasul decision left in place.
We should always be careful when dealing with our co-equal branches. Just as we do not appreciate it when they stray into our areas of constitutional responsibility, we should always be willing to refrain from straying into theirs unnecessarily. As I read the Rasul decision, these other cases from other parts of the world are still subject to the Eisentrager opinion and will not be considered by U.S. courts.
And so, our language is limited to Guantanamo. To my friends who counseled that we should extend our jurisdiction modification to those cases being filed on behalf of Iraqis held in accordance with the Geneva Convention, I would just counsel them to be patient. I cannot imagine the Court extending its jurisdiction halfway around the world to involve what is almost exclusively an executive branch function. However, should that become necessary, I am perfectly willing to modify our courts' jurisdiction again to ensure that does not happen. But again, in truth, especially after our very robust action here today, I cannot even conceive of such a decision by the Supreme Court.
Mr. KYL. Well, that is what I thought before Rasul was decided. But we can cross that bridge if we get to it.
Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I would also like my esteemed colleague from Arizona, Senator KYL, to address the misunderstandings that seem to have made their way into the press. For instance, when I returned from Iraq this morning, I was surprised to see the New York Times editorial page making some fundamental mistakes about what our legislation does.
Mr. President, I would also request unanimous consent to have the New York Times editorial entitled Ban Torture. Period. from December 16, 2005 entered in the RECORD.
The first sentence reads, ``It should have been unmitigated good news when President Bush finally announced yesterday that he would back Senator JOHN MCCAIN's proposal to ban torture and ``cruel, inhuman or degrading'' treatment at United States prison camps. Nothing should be more obvious for an American president than to support a ban on torture.'' I agree, nothing should be more obvious. And I'd like to applaud the New York Times for finally endorsing the actions President Reagan took when we signed the Convention Against Torture on April 18, 1988, and the Senate ratified the Convention on October 21, 1994.
But since they appear to be laboring under some confusion, I would like to clarify how and when our antitorture statutes apply. First, torture has been illegal for quite some time. Indeed, Section 2340A of Title 18 of the United States Code specifically provides for the prosecution of people who torture overseas. And most of the techniques of torture, beatings, improper imprisonment, and threats have long been part of the criminal code of the United States.
I strongly supported Senator MCCAIN'S amendment each and every time it came up. I am extremely pleased it passed. But, make no mistake, it does not make torture illegal. Torture has long been illegal. What the McCain language does is make a very clear statement that we will treat people humanely while we have them in our custody. The McCain amendment is a very clear policy statement that is in accord with the best of American tradition. But it does not ban torture. Accordingly, the Graham-Levin-Kyl provisions do not equivocate in any way regarding torture. The Times editors, regrettably, for I appreciate the place the Times holds in our public discourse, do not appear to understand what they are talking about.
I would like to address one other statement the Times makes. They state, and I quote, that ``What is at stake here, and so harmful to America's reputation, is the routine mistreatment of prisoners swept up in the so-called war on terror.'' Now I take great exception to this baseless smear of our soldiers and marines. It is said off-handedly, almost as if everyone takes it for granted that the fine men and women of our armed services routinely mistreat our prisoners.
Well I will tell you, I for one don't take it for granted that the fine people who are putting their lives on the line to protect our Nation routinely mistreat the prisoners in their care. I believe they follow the orders that their superiors give them, orders based on such policy statements as Senator MCCAIN'S or the Army Field Manual, and they follow them to the best of their ability.
Now, are there going to be bad apples? As a former JAG prosecutor and defense counsel, I can tell you affirmatively, yes, there will be. And they will be arrested, tried, convicted, and will serve long sentences. Those few individuals who do not live up to the high standards of the vast majority of our honorable service members, will be held accountable for their actions.
Our troops do not deserve such a slander, and I call on the New York Times to take back the vile assertion they have made against the people who exemplify the best our Nation has to offer.
Mr. GRAHAM. I was pleased to support this legislation and work toward its enactment from the beginning. Under section 1402, our troops now have one standard--the Army Field Manual--for their interrogations. In section 1403, we close the loophole in the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. As National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said, ``those standards, as a technical, legal matter, did not apply abroad. And that is what Senator MCCAIN, in the second section of his legislation, wanted to address--wanted to make clear that those would apply abroad. We applied them abroad as a matter of policy; he wanted to make sure they applied as a matter of law. And when this legislation is adopted, it will.'' I agree that these sections do not create a new private right of action, but that they are binding on the executive and may be applicable to actions brought under other statutes.
Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, today I rise to comment upon the recently passed Defense authorization bill. That bill contained a Graham-Levin-Kyl amendment which dealt with the Combatant Status R eview Tribunals and Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay. I was very pleased to join with Senators LEVIN and KYL and others to offer this amendment, and I want to thank them for working so hard on this issue.
In rising today, I address one particular section of our amendment, the requirement that the tribunals consider whether evidence was coerced. In drafting this section, we were compelled to recognize three basic facts.
First, we were compelled to recognize the impracticality of importing domestic criminal protections into a forum constructed to administer what are essentially enemy soldiers; combatants for a very unique enemy, an enemy without uniforms, capitals, or cohesive command structures, but combatants nonetheless.
Second, we were forced to address the necessity of relying on evidence without a complete picture of how it was obtaine d; evidence that might be obscured by the fog of war, derived from battlefield intelligence, from classified sources, or even through unknown circumstances.
Lastly, we were required by our constitutional responsibilities to err on the side of protecting the American people. In instances where there is some doubt as to the evidence or the status of the detainee, the benefit of the doubt must go to the government as it seeks to discharge its first duty, providing for the common defense of our people.
In our efforts to balance these interests, we initially included an exclusionary rule for evidence obtained through ``undue coercion.'' We felt that the term ``undue coercion'' reflected the reality that, in the national security context, there is some level of coercive interrogation that is acceptable. We also understand that, at some point, the reliability of the information can be questioned as a result of the methods used to obtain it. I believe Guantanamo Bay serves a unique and necessary purpose in the war on terror, but we need to ensure that we are holding the right people.
However, upon reconsideration, we came to believe that the term ``undue coercion,'' being a new term without legal precedent, might not be as instructive as we required. Furthermore, a number of the military judge advocates we consulted were concerned that the exclusionary rule could limit them from considering evidence tainted by only an allegation of mistreatment.
Therefore, after much consultation with legal professionals, we decided to eliminate the ``undue'' qualifier. Unfortunately, striking the qualifier also eliminated the consideration of whether the information was obtained by acceptable sources and methods. Accordingly, we decided to refrain from mandating the exclusionary rule. Instead, our language requires, for the first time, the panels to consider the source of the information and the information's reliability. I am very confident our language provides for the proper consideration.
Now, to be sure, our language also provides for the benefit of the doubt to go to the government. In granting this benefit, however, we recognize that we are fundamentally different from our adversaries. Though we may fail at times, we strive to be fair and just and honorable. And because our military men and women exemplify those values, we can trust them to fairly administer this process. In the end, we must remember that this is a military administrative process, and, with the proper congressional and judicial oversight provided by our amendment, we must trust our professional military officers to do their jobs.
In our amendment as a whole, we sought to protect our national security while still striking the proper balance between aggressively interrogating detainees and providing a competent military administrative process for their status determination. I am confident that this new evidentiary standard serves that goal.


text:
New cable and lock security for the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and iPhone 6S Plus models, includes acrylic iPhone stand.
Lock & Cable Security For the NEW iPhone 6 & 6 Plus!
Also Works with iPhone 6S Models!
Just introduced for the iPhone 6 & 6S, the iPhone 6 Security Kit. Our new iPhone 6 Security Kit adds to our line of security products designed exclusively for the iPhone and iPad.
The new iPhone 6 Security Kit includes a 40" black PVC coated steel wire cable and brass padlock. Aluminum brackets, with rubber inserts, attach to the sides of iPhone 6 & 6S to provide a lightweight and secure fit. Once secured the iPhone 6 has full-flexibility in any direction.
Also included, is a 4 1/2" clear acrylic iPhone stand for holding the iPhone 6 & 6S. The acrylic stand can be mounted to the table with a clear double sided adhesive strip (included) or with non-skid bump-on clear feet (also included).
Ideal uses for the iPhone 6 Security Kit include: retail store displays, trade-shows & conferences, schools, special events and dozens more. If you are looking for a secure and stylish solution for housing the new iPhone 6 & 6S, then look no further. Choose your model below.
Price: $39.95
For custom order needs contact us
iPhone 6 & 6 Plus Security Kit
iPhone 6 Lock & Cable Kit!
Click to view images.
iPhone 6 lock & cable kit with acrylic stand
Security brackets hold iPhone 6
Includes lock, cable, stand & hardware


text:
Finally, Apple tested a lot of screen sizes before it settled on the 9.7-inch form that Steve Jobs declared "the minimum size required to create great tablet apps."
Asked about a 7-inch Pad during a 2010 earnings call, Jobs replied:
"It's meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of their present size."
I have to agree, but I bet it was more to keep the Apple name out of the muck, trading blows with Kindle and Samsung. Ultimately having to sell 7 inch iPads for under a hundred bucks, to compete with the seventy nine number the others can go for. Steve had selfish reasons for his designs and implementation of his products. They were his brain childs and he didn't want them to be anything less than what he intended them to be. Modern corporations don't operate like that, they will follow the money, if it takes them to bowels of Wal-Mart black Friday sales.


text:
Hadley: LibidoMature
Maxxie took me to a restaurant in the end, even though he did jokingly take me to a McDonald's. I didn't pay much attention to the place; I was too busy teasing Maxxie. It's his own fault for paying for all this. By the time our food actually turned up, I wasn't all that hungry anymore. I ate most of it anyway, just because I'd feel bad if I didn't. Actually, maybe that was why I didn't feel like eating...
I flopped on the bed once we got back to the hotel. When we'd gotten here, the plan had been dinner and sex but my libido seemed to have fucked off with my appetite. To be honest, I kind of just wanted to go to sleep.
Maxxie crawled over me and kissed me. I smiled and kissed back, willing myself to stay awake a bit longer. He lay on his side next to me and wrapped me in a hug. I hugged him and kissed back kind of lazily when he started kissing me some more.
"Sleepy?" he asked.
"Kind of"
He smiled and stroked my hair, planting a lighter kiss on my lips. I hummed and he hugged me a little closer. I snuggled against him and he kissed the top of my head. I smiled and kissed his neck lightly, earning a hum in response. I pressed my forehead to his chest like I normally seem to do when I fall asleep and felt Maxxie playing with the hair in the nape of my neck. He snuggled a bit more and I felt myself starting to fall asleep. I could tell Maxxie wasn't tired but he stayed with me anyway. He might've moved after I fell asleep but then again I wouldn't know, would I?
The next thing I was aware of was a phone going off. I was only sort of half awake and thought for a second that it must've been Caleb calling to see how I was. But then reality set in again and I remembered I still hadn't replaced my phone. Maxxie answered, kind of sleepy himself, and groaned slightly. I opened one eye a watched him.
"No, mum I'm not in London right now" he mumbled.
I sort of listened in, only really picking up on certain words.
"I'm on a break with Bu- Hadley. You woke me up. I wanna sleep" he whined and glanced at me. "I think you woke us both up. We'll be back in a couple of days or something... I dunno. Lemme alone"
I woke up a teeny bit more and even thought about opening the other eye. 'Thought about' being the main point of that sentence.
"Well if you're bored go visit granddad. You're not coming here" he said, starting to sound kind of annoyed. "No. Bye, mum" he hung up and threw his phone on the floor, snuggling with me again.
"Wha's that all about?" I asked sleepily.
"Mum got all pissy that we took off without a word to anyone"
I shut my eyes. "Shoulda left a note"
I was still sleepy and Maxxie playing with my hair wasn't helping.
"You can go back to sleep if you want*
I hummed and snuggled up to him, not really minding that he hugged me kind of tight. I started falling asleep again and soon enough I was dreaming. Is it bad that I was dreaming about Maxxie?
I woke up to see Maxxie lying next to me, sort of staring absently at the TV.
"Hey" I smiled.
He glanced over and smiled back.
I gave a tiny yawn. "What time is it?"
"Nearly half three"
"I was asleep that long?
He nodded and I blushed a tiny bit. "You should've woken me up"
He smiled and pecked me on the cheek. "Not like we had anything planned"
"So be spontaneous" I chuckled and he grinned.
"I was. I let you sleep and spent all day watching TV" he said with a wink.
I rolled my eyes and smiled, making him laugh slightly. I hummed and closed my eyes.
"Don't go back to sleep" he said, sounding kind of amused.
I smiled. "I'm not"
He shuffled over me on all fours and kissed me lightly. I kissed back and he smiled. I mirrored it and ran a hand through his hair. He kissed me again and I hummed.
"Where d'you wanna go tonight? We can go anywhere" he smiled, "or we can stay here, if you prefer"
I smiled a little. "I'm too lazy to go anywhere. Unless you wanna go out, I mean"
"Only wanna go out if you do, gorgeous"
I hummed a little. "Staying here it is then"
"We can watch a film or something" he said with a smile and I smiled back.
"Sure" I said and pulled him down to snuggle.
He hugged me. "You can choose"
"A horror" I chuckled and he smiled slightly.
"You and your horrors"
I kissed his cheek and he hummed. I already felt kind of tired even though I'd only just woken up but I was determined to stay up for the whole movie. And you never know, maybe all the cuddling would get my libido working again.


text:
Business topic page
8:14 am on Saturday April 19, 2008
Officials: $26M runway expansion needed
Image by Microsoft Live Search Maps, staffImage by 20080429runway.jpg Charleston's longer runway of 9,000 feet will be closed for a year in 2011. Officials says that means we need to lengthen our shorter, 7,000-foot runway. Charleston's airport has...
6:27 pm on Wednesday April 2, 2008
Local farmers markets nearly ready to reopen
Image by 20080402produce.jpg A PDF chart of when produce is in season is available at the Certified SC Grown Web site. Get ready for plentiful local foods, the Charleston Farmers Market is set to open Saturday, April 12. The weekly market in Marion...
10:07 am on Monday March 31, 2008
Charleston hospitality extends to review board
In Robert Behre's architecture column in The Post and Courier this week, he discusses how the building review system along Charleston's major arteries in West Ashley and on James Island got to where they are today. The story focuses on construction...
8:26 pm on Sunday March 30, 2008
Home sellers looking to foreign buyers
The Charleston housing market may soon get some relief thanks to Carriage Properties' move to look for international home-buyers. The Post and Courier writes: Carriage Properties has begun advertising in the International Herald Tribune, a New York...


text:
Mammoth Braidys Rope Bone Large 14in {bin-2}
Mammoth Braidys Rope Bone Large 14in {bin-2}
Product Description
Large 14in Braidys Rope Bone. Mammoth Flossy Chew Braidys Rope Toys are made from premium materials in fun shapes dogs love. Braidys are tougher than our standard rope chews and made more durable for strong chewers. Rope fibers floss dogs' teeth as they chew and play. Perfect for medium - large sized breeds. Great for playing fetch. Play time is an important part of bonding between dog and owner. This toy is perfect for interactive playing & creating the positive play experience with your dog!


text:
Simple is best and other lessons from a road trip with kids
Road trip season is around the corner.
Tour a secret suite in downtown Las Vegas at the El Cortez Hotel and Casino
Requests to book the suite are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
6 awesome hotels for reliving summer camp
These hotels have adopted some of our favorite summer camp qualities.
6 high-altitude hotels over a mile in the sky
intro: It should come as no surprise that if you want to get high -- in elevation, of course -- you'll need to head to the...
Heli-yoga takes yoga to new heights in Las Vegas
From the Strip to the Valley of Fire for a one-of-a-kind experience.
Stops to make along the Pacific Coast Highway
See some of the best places to stop when traveling down the California coast.
Take a tour of one of Las Vegas' biggest and best buffets
The Bacchanal Buffet serves up to 4,000 people each day.
Spectacular aurora spotted over New Zealand lake
It was the perfect time to see the Aurora Australis.
5 dates to fly for cheaper summer airfare
Early and late summer trips could help save a bundle.
Hotel suite of the week: Nobu Villa in Las Vegas
The suite is one of the most expensive on the Las Vegas Strip.
Tax refund vacations: 8 alluring trips
Take advantage of these getaways that cost less than the average tax refund.
Man pushes best friend in wheelchair as they trek 500 miles across Spain
Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray wrote about their trip in "I'll Push You."
Rooftop pool hangs 500 feet above downtown Houston
Market Square Tower's rooftop pool boasts breathtaking views.
Top All-Inclusives for Mega-Resort Haters
These hotels have a quiet and intimate vibe.
6 best all-inclusive resorts in Cabo San Lucas
Located on Mexico's Baja Peninsula, Cabo San Lucas boasts incredible hotels.
8 ways to handle a long-haul flight
Check out tips on how to manage even the worst of flights.
9 vertigo-inducing hotels in Asia
These hotels offer stunning and electrifying views.
Hundreds of thousands of red jellyfish dot Australian waters
It almost looked like the water had chicken pox.
See the amazing 'super bloom' in central California
Everything's coming up flowers at Carrizo Plain National Monument.
What to see and what to skip in San Diego
San Diego has beaches and entertainment, but some things are worth skipping.
Hotel chain offers refunds to recently divorced couples
Countryside Hotels thinks a stay could fix these couples' marriages.
3 can't-miss tips for cheap summer flights
Use these expert tips to bring costs down.
9 insanely over-the-top hotel packages
If you really want to splurge on a vacation, why not go all out?
5 ways to save on summer vacation flights
But you must start now!
Summer's most expensive day to fly
Choosing this particular day could cost you $100 more.
Guinness, Airbnb offer Dublin brewery bar for 1 night only
It's the chance of a lifetime for beer lovers.
TripAdvisor Names Top US Hotels Based on User Reviews
The awards are based on reviews from 2016.
In Colombia, Gourmet Meals Worth Going to Jail For
Visitors are flocking to the all-women San Diego prison in Colombia to dine at Cartagena's trendiest new restaurant
10 Luxury Hotels You Can Actually Stay at for Under $200 a Night
It's possible to land in the lap of luxury at a price that's more palatable.
Hotels Nationwide Flipping for Mermaid Trend
The most fun you can have with a tail.
Watch: Secret hotel suite at historic Las Vegas casino
The Jackie Gaughan suite at the El Cortez is bookable by request only.
Watch: Las Vegas company takes yoga to new heights
One company is taking guests from the Strip to the Valley of Fire for a one-of-a-kind experience.
Watch: Inside the $35K per night Nobu Villa at Caesars Palace
ABC News' Genevieve Brown tours the exclusive Nobu Villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Watch: Inside one of the most popular buffets in Las Vegas
ABC News' Genevieve Brown tours the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace, which serves over 500 dishes daily.
Watch: Girls in leggings barred from United Airlines flight
"The View" co-hosts discuss the airline's dress policy and whether it's fair.
Watch: Americans start thinking about summer travel plans
ABC News' Genevieve Brown gives tips on planning fun summer experiences.
Watch: Charter flight offers gorgeous views of Aurora Australis
Footage shows view from charter flight that gives passengers a spectacular look at the Southern Lights.
Watch: United Airlines responds to criticism over leggings policy
United Airlines responded to criticism it received on Sunday after it barred two teenage girls from boarding a flight because...
Watch: Peek inside the mini world coming to Times Square
ABC News' Angela Williams takes us inside Gulliver's Gate, Times Square's newest attraction.
Watch: Dublin visitors at St. Patrick's Day parade in New York
Visitors from Dublin, Ireland, tell ABC News' Aaron Katersky how they're enjoying their St. Patrick's Day.
Watch: Walking Tour of The Land Pavilion at Disney's Epcot
ABC News' Genevieve Brown gives a tour of The Land Pavilion at Epcot Center with Les Frey.
Watch: Classics With a Twist at Walt Disney World's California Grill
ABC News' Genevieve Brown is at the iconic California Grill learning to make the goat cheese ravioli appetizer, the...
Watch: Best Resolutions to Help With Parenting in 2017
ABC News' Genevieve Brown reports on some New Year's resolutions aimed at helping parents be happier.
Photos: Nation's best family beaches revealed
Just in time for vacation planning, Family Vacation Critic names top choices.
Photos: Suite of the Week: Presidential Suite at the Boston Park Plaza
The Back Bay mainstay has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation.
Photos: Hotel Suite of the Week: Boston's Envoy Hotel 'Premier Suite'
The new addition to Beantown offers sleek accommodations and great views.
Photos: OUTSIDE Names America's Best Towns
After 1.6 million votes were cast, the list was narrowed to the final 16.
Photos: The Majestic Beauty of America's National Parks
The National Park Service turns 100 in August.
Photos: Hotel Suite of the Week: Anguilla's Malliouhana, an Auberge Resort
Malliouhana is once again a go-to Anguilla hotel for the jet set.
Photos: Go Around the World in These Breathtaking Photos
View the entries of the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.


text:
Still A Winter's Journey
Written by Greg Budig
Illustrated by
Lovereading4kids Price £13.20
£16.50 saving £3.30 (20%)
when in stock
As soon as this book is back in stock we will send you an email.Compare book price We'd love you to buy your books from Lovereading - especially if we helped you to choose them! But as our mantra is guidance, and that includes guidance on price, please do use our 'Compare Book Price' service to discover if the best value deal is from Lovereading or another specialist bookstore.
Still A Winter's Journey by Greg Budig
About the Author
Other Formats
Book Info
32 pages
Greg Budig
More books by Greg Budig
Stemmer House Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Publication date
23rd November 2009
I love Lovereading because I often never know what to read and this helps you find a good book. I have recommended this to many people.Shannon-Louise Masters – age 15
It is THE website to use for narrowing down your search for any book. Definitely knocks the socks off any other book review website.Nickey and Tomasz Hawryszczuk
Lovereading4kids is great, we get books really early never late. We love to read and review, and think you would like it too. The excitementJasmine Harris-Hart, age 12
We love Lovereading4kids because they put books in front of us we wouldn't otherwise have read. They make us more adventurous readers!Emily Jacques
We love Lovereading as my 5 year old loves to read new books before anyone else has a chance, she says it makes reading exciting!Tracey Chorley
I love Lovereading as it provides an honest opinion and showcases a range of fiction. Suited to both parents & kids alike, it's a must-use.Georgie Rowe – age 16
It's so easy to find the right book for your child. Such an easy-to-use, yet in-depth website. 100% reliable.Pippa, Jack, Liam & Matthew Wils
I think Lovereading4kids is an amazing company because of the friendly staff and the fabulous chance to read great books before publication.Adam Graham


text:
Throughout the gospels we read snippets about John the Baptist. Put them all together, and you have a confused portrait. (Maybe the gospels shouldn't be categorized as history.) [Read more…]
Clueless John the Baptist
Word of the Day: Pareidolia
Pareidolia is perceiving meaning in something random—a face in a cloud, for example. Or Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich. We don't need to imagine a supernatural explanation for these images when the natural explanation explains the evidence. [Read more…]
On 11/11/11, Let's Crank it to 11!
You only get one Spinal Tap day every century—11/11/11—and today is it. Spinal Tap was a fictional heavy metal group whose amps had dials that didn't stop at 10 but went to 11. Today is a day to crank it to 11 by considering some similar nonsensical thinking within Christianity. [Read more…]


text:
Reviewed By Charles R (MIDDLETOWN, PA) Reviewed for a 2016 Ford F-150 —5/17/2017 4:18 AM
Wanted something to read the boost on my F150 EcoBoost. Reads more than just that. Might even help me great better fuel mileage!
Reviewed By Michael D (JOLIET, IL) Reviewed for a 2009 Dodge Ram —2/16/2017 10:00 PM
Of the included tunes, only 2 do not require premium fuel. A high mileage, and an 87 tune. Of the two, I really can't tell much difference between them. Both do speed up the gear changes and feel a bit more torque, but the fuel economy in the high mileage tune is no better than stock. Fuel economy in the 87 tune is also not much different from stock. A wider selection would be a good upgrade. As to the hardware, it is easy enough to use, if a bit slow. About 15 min to load a tune in 5.7L Hemi


text:
If you find a broken link below, please use the Report a Broken Link form to let us know.
|Cemeteries & Burials
Meigs County cemetery and graveyard burials, of which the largest is Beech Grove Cemetery in Pomeroy.
|Court Records | Common Pleas
Meigs County Common Pleas court records. Includes civil filings over $15,000, felony criminal, court of appeals, delinquent land tax, judgment, domestic relations (divorce, dissolution, annulment, custody), and state tax lien filings.
|Court Records | Municipal
Meigs County Municipal Court computerized court records and case schedules. Includes traffic, misdemeanor criminal, civil (under $15,000), landlord-tenant, and small claims case filings. Jurisdiction is countywide.
|Court Records | Municipal Celina
Celina Municipal Court court records online.
|Economic Development Opportunities
Meigs County Economic Development Office resources, including available property, location & expansion information, and quality of life.
Property record and property sales database from the Meigs County Auditor. Find records by parcel number, owner name, address, intersection, or use the advanced search feature.
|Registered Offenders
Meigs County Sheriff's Office offender registry.
Please use the Report Broken Link form if any of the above resources do not connect


text:
Current versions:
7-Zip is a free data compression program with high compression and strong encryption.
Using 7-zip, a powerful Packer for 7zip comes formats on your computer.
The open-source software 7-zip will convince you by their reliability and their high tolerance to many different formats. In addition, this tool supports the 7z format, which is clearly superior to other files of the Pack when it comes to compression. It is able to achieve better compression rates than other common formats. This software 7-zip supports other formats, although the best compression rate is achieved with its own 7z format. You can create themselves easily self extracting archives using the 7z format.
Usually, 7-zip compressed in 7z format better than the ZIP format 30-70%. 7-Zip in ZIP format compressed 2-10% better than most of other ZIP compatible programs. Most of the source code is under the "GNU LGPL" licensed and also the unRAR code is available as a plus under certain license limitations. Some main features of 7-zip are in addition to the high compression ratio, the excellent encryption with AES-256 in the 7zip - and IP format and the self-extracting 7z archives, as well as the intelligent integration into the Windows context menu. This freeware tool has a powerful file manager and also a powerful command line version. The plugin for FAR Manager is already available. It runs on Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000/NT/ME/98. Important to know is that the command line version of 7-zip on Linux and UNIX was ported already.
Are two more highlights of this really good open source software: you can use completely free 7-zip on all, even on commercial use, computers, without that specifically need to register. All relevant changes are in the release notes, the release notes, on the homepage of the manufacturer.
Features and benefits of 7-zip at a glance:
• High compression rate
• Excellent encryption
• Pack / unpack
• Command line version for Linux and UNIX
• Selfextracting 7z archives
• Plug-in for FAR Manager
"Best open source project"
7-Zip is an excellent in July of 2007 as best open source project, free Pack program, initiated by Igor Pavlov, has also continuously developed further. 7-Zip represents the string version of the "Lempel-Zic-Markov algorithm" of the same developer. 7-Zip adds intelligent in the Windows context menu, and as a plug-in for FAR Manager. Extra to the graphical interface, 7-zip has a great command line version. The freeware dominates over 60 languages. «You can make to the surface on German by you the language file under» Tools | Options | Language «select.
The new version of the well known freeware is easy and versatile to use. If you frequently send E-Mails with file attachments, you'll know the possibility to compress the files, to appreciate. The new version features more improve of the compression ratio in all popular formats. The new version of the program is offered in 74 languages, so you can use it also for E-Mail mail with attachments abroad without any problems.
Advantages of the new version of the Pack program 7-ZIP 4.65
• very high compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA
• greatly improved compression for ZIP and GZIP formats
• strong encryption for 7z and ZIP formats
• comfortable handling
• international operational


text:
The Kurdish soldiers relax half a mile behind the front line where they have been battling Isis forces west of the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn. The women are in no doubt about why they are fighting.
Nujaan, who is 27 and has been a soldier for four years, says that Isis's "target is women". She says: "Look at Shingal [in Iraq] where they raped the women and massacred the men. It is a matter of honour to defend ourselves first, and then our families and lands." Sitting beside her is Zenya, 22, who adds that she also "is fighting for myself and my family".
Overhead, the drone of US aircraft is clearly audible and Nujaan reports that there have been several air strikes that morning, as well as ground fighting.
She says that several Kurdish soldiers have been killed and wounded, though she does not know the details. She adds that the YPJ Kurdish women's militia, to which she belongs, is gradually driving Isis towards the west. She and the other women appear remote and detached from what they are saying, possibly because they are exhausted from days on the front line.
In fact, the push westwards mentioned by Nujaan is of great military and possibly political significance because the Syrian Kurdish armed forces are closing in on a crucial Isis-controlled border crossing point from Syria into Turkey at Tal Abyad. The Syrian Kurds note bitterly that Turkey has closed the crossing points into Kurdish-held territory, but has kept open those used by Isis.
In pictures: The rise of Isis
In pictures: The rise of Isis
1/74 Isis fighters
Fighters of the Islamic State wave the group's flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria
2/74 Isis fighters
Fighters from Islamic State group sit on their tank during a parade in Raqqa, Syria
3/74 Isis fighters
Fighters from the Islamic State group pray at the Tabqa air base after capturing it from the Syrian government in Raqqa, Syria
4/74 Isis fighters
Fighters from extremist Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria
5/74 Isis kidnapping
A video uploaded to social networks shows men in underwear being marched barefoot along a desert road before being allegedly executed by Isis
Getty Images
6/74 Isis kidnapping
Haruna Yukawa after his capture by Isis
7/74 Isis kidnapping
Khalinda Sharaf Ajour, a Yazidi, says two of her daughters were captured by Isis militants
Washington Post
8/74 Isis fighters
Spokesperson for Isis
Vice News via Youtube
9/74 A pro-Isis leaflet
A pro-Isis leaflet handed out on Oxford Street In London
Ghaffar Hussain
10/74 Isis fighters
Isis Jihadists burn their passports
11/74 Isis controls Syrian Aid
A man collecting aid administered by Isis in Syria
12/74 Isis controls Syrian Aid
A woman collecting aid administered by Isis in Syria
13/74 Isis controls Syrian Aid
Local civilians queue for aid administered by Isis. Since it declared a caliphate the group has increasingly been delivering services such as healthcare, and distributing aid and free fuel
14/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi security forces detain men suspected of being militants of the Isis group in Diyala province
15/74 Iraq crisis
Mourners carry the coffin of a Shi'ite volunteer from the brigades of peace, who joined the Iraqi army and was killed during clashes with militants of the Isis group in Samarra, during his funeral in Najaf
16/74 Iraqi refugees
An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, arrives at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region
17/74 Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
A photograph made from a video by the jihadist affiliated group Furqan Media via their twitter account allegedly showing Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon during Friday prayers at a mosque in Mosul. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamist caliphate in the territory under the group's control in Iraq and Syria
18/74 Islamic extremists destroying mosques in Iraq
Shiite's Al-Qubba Husseiniya mosque explodes in Mosul
19/74 Islamic extremists destroying mosques in Iraq
Smoke and debris go up in the air as Shiite's Al-Qubba Husseiniya mosque explodes in Mosul. Images posted online show that Islamic extremists have destroyed at least 10 ancient shrines and Shiite mosques in territory - the city of Mosul and the town of Tal Afar - they have seized in northern Iraq in recent weeks
20/74 Islamic extremists destroying mosques in Iraq
A bulldozer destroys Sunni's Ahmed al-Rifai shrine and tomb in Mahlabiya district outside of Tal Afar
21/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi security forces celebrate after clashes with followers of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi, in front of his home in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad
22/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad
23/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi at his home after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad
24/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad
25/74 Iraq crisis
A vehicle burns in front of a home of a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad
26/74 Iraqi refugees
An Iraqi woman holds her exhausted son as over 1000 Iraqis who have fled fighting in and around the city of Mosul and Tal Afar wait at a Kurdish checkpoint in the hopes of entering a temporary displacement camp in Khazair
27/74 Iraqi refugees
Displaced Iraqi women hold pots as they queue to receive food during the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at an encampment for displaced Iraqis who fled from Mosul and other towns, in the Khazer area outside Irbil, north Iraq
28/74 Isis fighters in Syria
A militant Islamist fighter waving a flag, cheers as he takes part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa. The fighters held the parade to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq
29/74 Isis fighters in Syria
Isis fighters wave flags as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province
30/74 Isis fighters in Syria
Isis fighters travel in a vehicle as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province
31/74 Isis fighters in Syria
Fighters from the Isis group during a parade with a missile in Raqqa, Syria. Militants from an al-Qaida splinter group held a military parade in their stronghold in northeastern Syria, displaying U.S.-made Humvees, heavy machine guns, and missiles captured from the Iraqi army for the first time since taking over large parts of the Iraq-Syria border
32/74 Isis fighters in Syria
Isis fighters during a parade in Raqqa, Syria
33/74 Isis fighters in Syria
Fighters from the Isis group during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. Militants from the splinter group held a military parade in their stronghold in northeastern Syria, displaying U.S.-made Humvees, heavy machine guns, and missiles captured from the Iraqi army for the first time since taking over large parts of the Iraq-Syria border
34/74 Isis fighters in Syria
Isis fighters hold a military parade in their stronghold in northeastern Syria
35/74 Isis fighters in Syria
Isis fighters during a parade in Raqqa, Syria
36/74 Isis fighters in Syria
A member loyal to the Isis waves an Isis flag in Raqqa
37/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi anti-government gunmen from Sunni tribes in the western Anbar province march during a protest in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. The United Nations warned that Iraq is at a "crossroads" and appealed for restraint, as a bloody four-day wave of violence killed 195 people. The violence is the deadliest so far linked to demonstrations that broke out in Sunni areas of the Shiite-majority country more than four months ago, raising fears of a return to all-out sectarian conflict
38/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi security forces hold up a flag of the Isis group they captured during an operation to regain control of Dallah Abbas north of Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad
39/74 Isis fighters in Iraq
Isis fighters parade in the northern city of Mosul
40/74 Iraq crisis
Volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants from the radical Isis group, demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony after completing their field training in Najaf
41/74 Iraq crisis
Kurdish Peshmerga troops fire a cannon during clashes with militants of the Isis group in Jalawla, Diyala province
42/74 Lieutenant General Qassem Atta speaks during a press conference
Iraqi Prime Minister's security spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassem Atta speaks during a press conference about the latest military development in Iraq, in the capital Baghdad. Iraqi forces pressed a campaign to retake militant-held Tikrit, clashing with jihadist-led Sunni militants nearby and pounding positions inside the city with air strikes in their biggest counter-offensive so far
43/74 A police station building destroyed by Isis fighters
An exterior view of a police station building destroyed by gunmen in Mosul city, northern Iraq. Iraq's new parliament is expected to convene to start the process of setting up a new government, despite deepening political rifts and an ongoing Islamist-led insurgency. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani issued a decree inviting the new House of Representatives to meet and form a new government
44/74 Isis fighters in Iraq
Smoke billows from an area controlled by the Isis between the Iraqi towns of Naojul and Tuz Khurmatu, both located north of the capital Baghdad, as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces take part in an operation to repel the Sunni militants
45/74 Iraqi refugees
An elderly Iraqi woman is helped into a temporary displacement camp for Iraqis caught-up in the fighting in and around the city of Mosul in Khazair
46/74 Iraqi refugees
An Iraqi Christian woman fleeing the violence in the village of Qaraqush, about 30 kms east of the northern province of Nineveh, cries upon her arrival at a community center in the Kurdish city of Arbil in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region
47/74 Iraqi refugees
An Iraqi woman, who fled with her family from the northern city of Mosul, prays with a copy of the Quran
48/74 Isis fighters in Iraq
The body of an Isis militant killed during clashes with Iraqi security forces on the outskirts of the city of Samarra
49/74 Iraq crisis
Iraqi civilians inspect the damage at a market after an air strike by the Iraqi army in central Mosul
50/74 Iraq crisis
Members of the Al-Abbas brigades, who volunteered to protect the Shiite Muslim holy sites in Karbala against Sunni militants fighting the Baghdad government, parade in the streets of the city
51/74 Iraq crisis
Shia tribesmen gather in Baghdad to take up arms against Sunni insurgents marching on the capital. Thousands have volunteered to bolster defences
52/74 Iraq crisis
A van carrying volunteers joining Iraqi security forces against Jihadist militants. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Iraqi government would arm and equip civilians who volunteered to fight
53/74 Iraq
Fighters of the Isis group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul
54/74 Iraq
An Islamist fighter, identified as Abu Muthanna al-Yemeni from Britain (R), speaks in this still image taken undated video shot at an unknown location and uploaded to a social media website. Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the wars in Syria and Iraq, in the new video released by the Isis
55/74 Iraq
Al-Qa'ida inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint belonging to Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad. The fighting at Beiji comes as Iraq has asked the U.S. for airstrikes targeting the militants from the Isis group. While U.S. President Barack Obama has not fully ruled out the possibility of launching airstrikes, such action is not imminent in part because intelligence agencies have been unable to identify clear targets on the ground, officials said
56/74 Iraq
Militants attacked Iraq's main oil refinein Baiji as they pressed an offensive that has seen them capture swathes of territory, a manager and a refinery employee said
57/74 Iraq
Militants from the Isis group parading with their weapons in the northern city of Baiji in the in Salaheddin province
58/74 Iraq
A smoke rises after an attack by Isis militants on the country's largest oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad. Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and said they regained partial control of a city near the Syrian border, trying to blunt an offensive by Sunni militants who diplomats fear may have also seized some 100 foreign workers
59/74 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group stand next to captured vehicles left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. For militant groups, the fight over public perception can be even more important than actual combat, turning military losses into propaganda victories and battlefield successes into powerful tools to build support for the cause
60/74 Iraq
An injured fighter (C) from the Isis group after a battle with Iraqi soldiers at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
61/74 Iraq
Fighters from the Isis aiming at advancing Iraqi troops at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
62/74 Iraq
Fighters from the Isis group taking position at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
63/74 Iraq
Fighters from the Isis group inspecting vehicles of the Iraqi army after they were seized at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
64/74 Iraq
One Iraqi captive, a corporal, is reluctant to say the slogan, and has to be shouted at repeatedly before he obeys
Sky News
65/74 Iraq
Iraqi captives held by the extremists
Sky News
66/74 Iraq
Iraqi captives held by the extremists
Sky News
67/74 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group force captured Iraqi security forces members to the transport
68/74 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group transporting dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members to an unknown location in the Salaheddin province ahead of executing them
69/74 Iraq
A major offensive spearheaded by Isis but also involving supporters of executed dictator Saddam Hussein has overrun all of one province and chunks of three others
70/74 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province
71/74 Iraq
Isis militants taking position at a Iraqi border post on the Syrian-Iraqi border between the Iraqi Nineveh province and the Syrian town of Al-Hasakah
72/74 Iraq
Isis rebels show their flag after seizing an army post
AFP/Getty Images
73/74 Iraq
Isis militants waving an Islamist flag after the seizure of an Iraqi army checkpoint in Salahuddin
Getty Images
74/74 Iraq
Demonstrators chant slogans as they carry al-Qa'ida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. In the week since it captured Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, a Muslim extremist group has tried to win over residents and has stopped short of widely enforcing its strict brand of Islamic law, residents say. Churches remain unharmed and street cleaners are back at work
But now Tal Abyad, the northern end of the road that leads straight to Raqqa, the Isis Syrian capital, is threatened by a pincer movement by Kurds advancing from both the east and west. Some are coming from the battered town of Ras al-Ayn in the main Kurdish canton of al-Jazeera and, from the west, forces are advancing from Kobani, which withstood a four-and-a-half-month Isis siege.
Sehanok Dibo, adviser to Saleh Muslim and Asya Abdullah, the leaders of the PYD (Democratic Union Party), the ruling party in the three Kurdish cantons on the Turkish border that make up the statelet of Rojava, told The Independent in an interview that Tal Abyad is the next Kurdish military target. "We are 18km from Tal Abyad in the east and 20km [from Tal Abyad] in the west," he said. "We hope to liberate it soon." If this happens, it will be a serious blow to Isis, and also to Turkey, which will see even more of the Syrian side of its southern frontier controlled by Kurds. Mr Dibo takes it as a matter of proven fact that "Turkey supports Daesh [the Arabic acronym for Isis used in Iraq and Syria]".
He stresses that he is not part of the Syrian Kurdish military command structure, but his opinion about Isis's future strategy is significant because the Syrian Kurds are the only military force in Iraq and Syria consistently to defeat the jihadis. He says: "I think their next target will be Dayr Az Zawr [the provincial capital on the Euphrates which is partly held by Syrian government forces] because the people in the city are Sunni Arabs and tribal. Isis will get support there."
In the longer term, Mr Dibo expects Isis and other jihadist groups, such as Jabhat al-Nusra, to try to capture the half of Aleppo that is still held by President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian army. He sees Mr Assad's military strength ebbing by the day. Despite savage rivalries between Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra, he believes that in most respects they are just the same. "They are the children of al-Qaeda," he says.
The leaders of the Syrian Kurds are jubilant at the moment because of their victory over Isis at Mount Abdulaziz last week. Trucks full of cheering soldiers are returning from the front. The Kurds in this north-east corner of Syria know, somewhat to their own surprise, that, encircled by enemies though they may be, they are living in the safest part of Syria. The territory behind the front line where Nujaan and Zenya are fighting is full of farmers bringing in the wheat harvest and without the undercurrent of terror you find in the rest of Syria.
Of course, the greater safety in this triangular-shaped Kurdish enclave only stands out because of the contrast with everywhere else on the borders of the "Islamic State". But, for the moment, there are no car bombs, kidnappings, bandit gangs at check points or fear of massacre. The PYD and its armed wing, the YPG (People's Defence Units), have an effective monopoly of power here, as it does in the two other Kurdish cantons on the Turkish frontier that gained de facto autonomy when the Syrian army withdrew in July 2012. Though its militarised rule is not popular with all Kurds, its militiamen and women do provide genuine protection – unlike the Syrian or Iraqi armies.
It may not last and it has not come easily. Ras al-Ayn, a town of about 30,000 people, still looks shattered by heavy fighting in 2012 and 2013 when it was at the centre of clashes between the Kurds and extreme jihadists led by Jabhat al-Nusra, then the Syrian branch of Isis and now the official affiliate of al-Qaeda in Syria. Everywhere in this shabby little town, there are bombed-out ruins and surviving walls peppered with the pockmarks made by machine-gun bullets.
Ibrahim and Jamil, two middle-aged PYD representatives, give a guided tour of their town, pointing to the border crossing with Turkey across which Jabhat al-Nusra-led forces poured on 11 November 2012. They say that "at first we welcomed them because they were against the Assad regime and then we were shocked to find they were all jihadis".
They enforced compulsory attendance at the mosque, stole Christian houses and attacked and killed all who opposed them. Captured officers from the ruling Allawi sect were massacred and the regime in Damascus responded with random bombing that killed many civilians and levelled rows of houses.
The battle for Ras al-Ayn went on from November 2012 to July 2013 and has similarities with the struggle within the opposition to the regime between the jihadis and secular forces. The difference is that, here in Ras al-Ayn, the anti-jihadis were well armed and militarily experienced, since the PYD is effectively the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has been fighting the Turkish army since 1984.
Ibrahim says the final stage of this complex battle, which had many ceasefires interrupted by new bouts of street fighting, came on 16 July 2013. Rojna, leader of the YPJ women's fighters, was buying material for uniforms in the bazaar, when she and her guards were attacked by al-Nusra militants infuriated by the sight of a female military leader. "It was then we decided to finally drive them out," says Ibrahim.
The Kurdish canton of al-Jazeera is a well-defended island in a sea full of sharks. Turkey has demanded a "buffer zone" in Syria that would conveniently allow it to occupy the Kurdish enclaves along the border. Mr Dibo says that it is difficult to predict what will happen next as "the balance of power in the war in Syria can be changed abruptly at any moment by the actions of one of the outside powers".Reuse content


text: What is a baby goat called? 1,075,092questions onWikianswers Add New Page Edit Edit source History Talk0 Share A baby goat is termed a 'kid'. Retrieved from "http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/What_is_a_baby_goat_called?oldid=5588227" Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you've made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Categories: Answered questions Placental mammals Add category Cancel Save


text:
Life's a Beach – A bevy of beauties lazes about on beach towels in this month's edition of Elle Singapore. Fashion photographer Joel Lim snapped the images of retro-styled models Sveta M, Adau M, Klaudia K, and Juliano A. Daphne Chen styled the lovely ladies in swimsuits and summer apparel from Versace, La Perla, Prada and Mileti. Makeup by Larry Yeo, Hair by Calvin Gan and Leo … [Read more...]
Ksenia V. by Zhang Jingna for Elle Singapore July 2011
The Secretary - Ksenia V. faces a long day of work with photographer Zhang Jingna's office themed story for the July issue of Elle Singapore. Tidied up yet seductive, Ksenia sports the colorful designs of Louis Vuitton, Etro, Dolce & Gabbana, Nova and others styled by Daphne Chen. … [Read more...]
Sasha Luss by Zhang Jingna for Elle Singapore December 2010
Zhang Jingna photographs breezy fabrics for the December issue of Elle Singapore. Starring Sasha Luss and outfitted by Daphne Chen, romantic patterns and feminine silhouettes take to another level in Swept Away. … [Read more...]


text:
Sci fi flick 'The Host' proves uninteresting
What are we to make of the fact that the new science fiction movie in town, "The Host," opened on Good Friday? The eventual resolution to the basic problems put forward in the story is a sort of mutual understanding that is associated with Christianity. Otherwise there doesn't seem to be much to relate the great holiday of the church with the second plot of novelist Stephanie Meyer of Twilight fame.
Instead what's interesting about "The Host" is that it often looks like a late 1950s TV western—you know, with fake caves that Zorro or the Lone Ranger can rest in. This is a talky movie, and limited sets and sparsity of casting make it look a lot cheaper than its projected $44,000,000 budget would suggest it should have looked.
Directed by Andrew Niccol, who also gave us "In Time" and "Gattaca," the movie features a good cast. Melanie and Wanda are played by Saoirse Ronan (star of "Lovely Bones," "Atonement," "City of Ember," and "Hanna"). Diane Kruger, William Hurt, and Frances Fisher all appear.
But they all seem to have been smoking pot between takes. They are intelligent and well-cast. But they are also deliberate and without energy. And then there is the problem with the young men—they all look so much alike that I couldn't tell Melanie's admirer from Wanda's, and this caused a certain amount of consternation.
The idea here is that aliens who look like fiber-optic dust-bunnies have been going from world to world, physically inserting themselves in the dominant creatures on each planet. Some of them have lived in many other bodies—perhaps they switch out when their bodies would ordinarily die. I couldn't tell what the aliens' motivation was.
As the story opens, they have just about taken over Earth by occupying all living humans. When they get into a human, the body's eyes turn steely, unnaturally blue. A few rebel people are still hiding out. One, Melanie, tries to kill herself rather than be caught by the invaders.
Inserted into her body is a sympathetic alien called "The Wanderer." She tries to help alien Gestapo agent Seeker (Kruger) in accessing Melanie's memory of the hiding places used by other rebels. But The Wanderer discovers that Melanie's personal essence hasn't died. The two of them spend the movie, then, giving "internal monologue" a new meaning.
Not only does Wanda, as the rebels begin calling her, spend a lot of time talking trying to convince the humans that she means them no harm, but she also chats inside her head with Melanie, who actually knows the rebels they meet.
Pretty soon everybody gets used to Wanda being around in the New Mexico caverns where the humans secretly grow wheat (!). A young man falls for her. Not "her" the part that's Melanie but the consciousness that is The Wanderer. Not that this makes any sense to the viewer, who is being lolled to sleep by the gentle rolling of the movie plot: talk, talk, activity, talk, talk, activity.
Eventually Wanda becomes the leader of the club that's made for human beings. She uses alien medicine to save Melanie's brother from a scythe cut and finds a way to recover the consciousness of occupied bodies without hacking the aliens out of them. Now if only Kruger would quit using those silver copters and Lotus cars to hunt down humans out foraging, everything would be copecetic.
Perhaps because the problems are solved so easily, "The Host" isn't very interesting. Sci fi lives on action, and there just isn't much happening in this drowsy little teen-aged girls' movie.


text:
Need to get lab tests in Blytheville, AR? Simply order online and get lab tests near you (Find More Locations):
How much does it cost to Get Lab Test?
Our prices to Get Lab Test include the doctor's order that you need to get tested in Blytheville, AR, all lab fees and taxes, and a pdf copy of your results. To get started, CLICK HERE.
What does a report look like if I Get Lab Test through you?
For a sample lab report of a popular panel, please CLICK HERE.
In a time of rising healthcare costs, we are happy we can help people in Blytheville, AR Get Lab Test at an affordable price.
Get Lab Test in other cities near Blytheville, AR:Armorel | Bassett | Burdette | Cooter | Dell | Driver | Gobler | Gosnell | Holland | Hornersville | Luxora | Osceola | Steele | Tomato | West Ridge


text:
Current versions:
The download for the screensaver ice age 2 - now taut's is free and guaranteed virus-free.
The screensaver ice age 2 - now's taut, is easy to download for free in just a few steps. After you's have selected your software, in this case the screensaver ice age 2 - now taut, you click on the button download. Thus, in this first step, you activate the download wizard. This opens up within seconds. Your free download wizard for the screensaver ice age 2 - now taut's begins its work. Your free registration is done in the second step. You allows you to get information about necessary software updates in the future. You are always up to date, without even painstakingly searching for the appropriate updates. Step three on the way to your screensaver ice thaws's age 2 - now is the agreement for the free use of Joosoft. You can use free of charge the software archive so that - for example, when you eventually thaws age 2 - now the screensaver ice's want to replace by another cult screensaver. In the fourth step, your download will begin. The download wizard automatically regulates the download. In the connection starts automatically the screensaver ice age 2 the newly downloaded software - in your case – now taut's.
As a member of the Joosoft community, you can also the screensaver ice after downloading age 2 – now taut's on your favorite list use. So you will be informed about the latest updates automatically. In addition, you will receive details of the latest programs - more than 500 directly download programs once a week! In addition, you will receive a free toolbar for your browser, a free desktop widget and free download wizard for the screensaver ice age 2 - now taut's.
The screensaver ice age 2 - now taut's own a license of adware. The program language is German and he is 13.0 MB in file size. The system requires Win 98/NT/ME/2000/XP.
The download is for the screensaver ice age 2 - now taut's guaranteed virusfree - being the Joosoft team 24 hours a day for you in the usage. At Joosoft, there are no viruses and spyware not only approved software. The operation is simple and transparent, there are no hidden costs when downloading the screensaver ice age 2 - now taut's.
More benefits, if you melt your screensaver ice age 2 - now's when Joosoft down load:
• Clear portal with easy search
• Descriptions and reviews in many languages
• Screenshots for each product
• Trends (top downloads) in each country
• Transparency
• Constant updating
Through the affiliate program "JooSoft Friend" anyone in the future may propose software, write reviews, rate products or tutorials. Just load it!
The second part of the cinema classic ice age is the perfect screensaver for your computer free download ready. You need only one of the operating systems listed in the list below and space of 13.0 MB. So, you can quickly and easily on your own screen install the squirrel Scrat, one of the main protagonists, you and get you the ice age home.
Screensaver ice age 2 for the computer
• Download required operating systems: Win 98 / NT / ME / 2000 / XP
• File size: 13.0 MB
• free download available
• License is adware


text:
It only takes a minute to get started. Fill out our simple sign up form and login to the site.
This step is noncompulsory but will drastically enhance your chances of getting interest from other over 50s members on the site. Write a little about yourself, your hobbies and upload some good photos of yourself.
Use our website's sophisticated search to encounter over 50s members who satisfy your requirements. Or just look through listings and encounter singles that arouse your interest.
Located someone who you're attracted to? Send them a message or just a wink and see how you get along. With a little luck you'll be on your way to discovering your perfect match.
It's quick and simple


text:
|incl. VAT
|excl. VAT
Puzzle brings a brand new, original and unique view of the fabled capital of the Czech tradition. The full three layers, you can create your own face of the city and see how it is changing under your hands. It's up to you how the final result will look like, and you can rotate it at will and transform. Observe how Praha looked at the time of the legendary Charles IV., Gullible Rudolf II., Or before the First World War.
4D offers puzzle players, except the three dimensions that constitute the pieces in the form of history, the present and the monuments and buildings, players and the fourth area. About this mysterious and unusual dimension already talked Albert Einstein. What is it about? About time. For you, this means that you can build a map of Prague, depending on how it has evolved over the centuries and individual noticing what architecture was typical for a certain period of time.
Toy meets European Parliament and Council Directive 2009/48 / EC of 18 June 2009 on the safety of toys and all legal standards under Czech legislation. Of course there is a declaration of conformity.
Specifications can be changed without notice. Images are for illustrative purposes only. Retail Price (MSRP) means the manufacturer's/supplier's suggested retail price.
Link to Manufacturer's Website: Enter link to the external review