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By Jared Malsin
On July 3, 2013, after three days of vast protests against Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, the country's Republican Guard took the president and his aides into custody. Jubilant crowds gathered in Tahrir Square while thousands of Morsi's supporters flooded another public square a few kilometers away. Military forces began to deploy in the streets of Cairo. Then, on state television, a dramatic press conference: the country's armed forces chief, General Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, announcing the end of Morsi's rule.
Appearing alongside Sisi was a set of leaders representing the broad coalition against Morsi: youth protest leaders, liberal politicians, Salafi leaders, Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, and finally, Tawadros II, the 118th Pope of Alexandria and leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The pope is also the spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian community, ten percent of Egypt's population.
Copts joined the demonstrations against Morsi in large numbers. They were Copts who felt that the one-year-old Islamist regime had failed to protect them from attacks by extremists and had pursued a sectarian agenda. Much like the January 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, Copts' participation in the June 30 protests had little to do with the institutional church. In fact, a recent, as yet unpublished study carried out by researcher Mariz Tadros of the UK-based Institute for Development Studies found that there was no evidence to support claims that the Church did anything to mobilize protesters.
But the pope's appearance in the July 3 news conference marked a shift for Tawadros, who, after being elected in 2012, had preached the importance of separating religion from politics. "If religion enters politics, it [religion] becomes polluted," the pope had said, shaking his head during a televised interview. "And this applies to any religion."
After the coup, the military-led interim government launched a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamist groups, and later, on political dissent in general. In August, government security forces dispersed protest camps organized by Morsi supporters, killing hundreds and arresting more than 1,000 others in the deadliest incident of political violence in Egypt's recent history. Islamist extremists, who in an outburst of sectarianism blamed Copts for the coup, responded by attacking police and also Coptic institutions, homes, and businesses, including dozens of Churches, particularly in Upper Egypt. At least 42 Orthodox, Coptic, and Protestant churches were attacked. Four Christians died in sectarian attacks.
Even if they were uneasy with the Church's public role in backing the coup, most Copts supported Morsi's removal. However, the Church's more recent forays into politics have been a source of deep contention. In January, the church made the rare step of urging Christians to vote "yes" in a referendum on a new constitution drafted under the military-backed government. Priests spoke of the new charter's virtues. Pope Tawadros also appeared in a video stating that a "yes" vote would bring "blessings and welfare." Egypt's top state newspaper, Al-Ahram, also published a handwritten letter from the pope calling for an affirmative vote.
In the three years since Egypt's 2011 revolution, nearly every Egyptian institution—governmental, religious, and otherwise—has faced an emboldened citizenry schooled in the art of protest and insisting on the need for reform. The Coptic Church, an ancient institution that traces its history to Saint Mark, is no different. Egyptian Copts, are more openly expressing discontent with church policies, including its historically close ties with the Egyptian state, and are demanding recognition as equal citizens whose identity is not defined by their religion.
"The new pope gave us the impression that he wanted to get out of the political equation," said Mina Thabet, a founding member of the Maspero Youth Union, a leading Coptic activist group. "But when we got to the June 30 revolution. The church became part of the political equation again."
"I am a citizen. I will defend the civility of the country because I will defend my own interests. But these people [the Church] will not defend my interests. They will defend their own interests," he said.
In late January, military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, the charismatic general who led the coup against Morsi, received an endorsement from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Egypt's highest military body, for a potential presidential run. Though the church did not directly address the possibility of a Sisi candidacy, Pope Tawadros nodded approval, sending Sisi a telegram congratulating him on receiving the military's political support.
The future of the church's relations with the state is yet to be defined, but for some politically active Copts, the institution's recent forays into the political realm raise the specter of the Mubarak-era collaboration between the church and the authoritarian state.
"The church somehow supported Hosni Mubarak's regime," said Mina Fayek, a blogger who closely follows Coptic affairs. "The church was afraid of that change. 'We know Hosni Mubarak. We don't want a rapid change.'"
"The people in the church—I believe it's a minority—who want to go back to the Mubarak situation. It's impossible for them to do so," said Fayek. "The barrier of fear has been broken, whether from the state or from religious authorities or the patronizing narrative of the elders."
Collaboration and confrontation: Church and state since 1952
The history of church-state relations since the founding of the modern Egyptian republic in 1952 is generally a story of cooperation interrupted by moments of confrontation. President Gamal Abdel Nasser weakened Coptic elites (primarily through land reform) and strengthened the role of the pope as the main political representative of the Copts. Nasser granted Pope Kyrollos IV political concessions (for example Nasser submitted lists of nominees to his political party for the pope's approval) in return for unwavering political support.
Church-state relations shifted following Nasser's death in 1970 and, soon after, Kyrollos' death in 1971. Nasser's successor, President Sadat, angered Copts by pursuing a program of Islamization (for example, amending the constitution to cite Islamic law as "the principle source of legislation"), and gave Islamists a freer hand to operate as a counterweight to secular opposition groups. Moreover, the new pope, Shenouda III, engaged in a more confrontational style of politics. In March 1980, following a wave of sectarian attacks, Shenouda cancelled Easter celebrations and withdrew to his monastery to protest what the Church saw as a passive government response to the violence. In retaliation, the government placed the pope under house arrest.
President Hosni Mubarak only lifted Pope Shenouda's house arrest in 1985, marking a new phase of cooperation between the church and the government. Shenouda shifted to a policy of non-confrontation with the government and a channel of communication between the pope and the president was restored. Shenouda also threw the institutional support of the church behind Mubarak, for example urging Christians to vote for Mubarak when he was campaigning for a fifth term in the 2005 election. When Mubarak was elected with more than 88 percent of the vote, the Holy Synod celebrated by having all churches across the country ring their bells.
The implicit agreement between the church and Mubarak's state rested in part on the assumption that the state would protect Copts from sectarian violence. In fact, under Mubarak relations with the Copts were managed by the State Security Investigations Service, a powerful intelligence agency notorious for its record of torturing detainees.
On face, the Church and the Coptic community at large might appear to be natural allies of the state in the fight against a common enemy of Islamist militancy. But over the years the "securitization" of state relations with the Copts failed, sometimes disastrously, to prevent sectarian attacks and to arrest and try those for responsible for attacks after they took place. Meanwhile, the security state overseen by Mubarak was not exactly a diverse institution, with virtually no Coptic officials in the upper ranks of the military and security forces.
The entente between church and state began to fray in the last years of the Mubarak era, beginning with a crisis over the wife of a priest who attempted to convert to Islam in an apparent attempt to leave an unhappy marriage. Shenouda again confronted the state, withdrawing the church's support for Mubarak's party in the 2007 Shura Council election.
A rise in sectarian attacks in the late Mubarak era also added to the tensions between church and state, culminating with the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on January 1, 2011 which killed 23 people. For some, the attack disproved definitively the notion that cooperation between the church and the authoritarian state could provide security for Christians. The bombing marked a low point, not just for Copts but for Egyptian society as a whole. It was the darkest hour before the uprising that would end Mubarak's government.
Copts in a revolutionary age
January 27, 2011, was a night of fervent anticipation in Egypt. Two days earlier, the largest street protests in recent memory had completely overturned previous notions of what was politically possible in the country. Earlier that month, protesters in Tunisia had forced dictator Zine El Abedine Ben Ali to flee. Egyptian activists called for mass mobilization on January 28, a Friday of Rage. In households and cafes accross the country Egyptians argued with one another: Who would march the next day? Who would stay at home?
In Giza, across the Nile from Cairo's city center, an engineering student named Mina Nageeb attended a meeting in a nondescript room at his local Coptic church. A well-known church official cautioned the parishioners against protesting: "Tomorrow will be a bad day," he said. "You could be attacked. It's better to stay home and pray for Egypt."
Nageeb shot back at the church official. "You have no right to tell us what to do. The regime is corrupt and you're protecting the regime!"
"I'm not protecting the regime, I'm trying to protect my children," Nageeb remembers the official saying. "I don't want to hold a funeral the next day for one of my children."
The next day, massive demonstrations shook the country. By the time the sun set on the Friday of Rage, the police had retreated after long hours of fighting with protesters. Demonstrators occupied Tahrir Square and the headquarters of Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party was in flames. Nageeb himself was forced to stay home by his parents, but the following day, he left on the pretext of attending one of his classes at Cairo University and instead went to Tahrir.
In spite of the official discouragement of the Church, Copts participated in Egypt's January 2011 revolution in large numbers. As any one of those Coptic protesters will tell you, they participated not as Christians but as Egyptian citizens. They participated, in fact in order to resist a state that deals with Copts not as ordinary citizens, but people whose citizenship is qualified by their religion and mediated through the institution of the church. Ishak Ibrahim, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a top human rights group, says the state employed the church as a way of containing Coptic protest and keeping Coptic society bounded. Under Mubarak especially, he said, the state "dealt with the Copts not as citizens, but instead dealt with them through the church."
The 2011 revolution produced an upsurge in political activism throughout Egyptian society, and Copts were no exception. Coptic activism outside the confines of the church reached an all time high, coalescing around groups like the Maspero Youth Union, which organized demonstrations outside the state TV and radio building (called Maspero) in Cairo demanding that the government do more to protect Copts from sectarian violence and treat Christians as equal citizens.
One such demonstration against sectarian violence, on October 9, 2011, became the most violent confrontation to date between Copts and the state. Soldiers fired on demonstrators and military vehicles careened into the crowds. In the end, some 27 demonstrators were shot or crushed to death. The massacre hardened many Coptic attitudes against the state, and for many also laid bare the intentions of the military vis-à-vis the Coptic community. Maspero, a building originally named after the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, soon became synonymous with a massacre. The horrific scenes of protesters with bodies and skulls crushed by military vehicles also meant that Maspero was remembered as a turning point in Egypt's long revolution: an outright massacre of civilian protesters by the military that, in the initial days of the uprising, had been seen as a protector of the revolution.
For newly emboldened Coptic activists, the January uprising and the Maspero massacre reinforced the importance of activism outside the auspices of the institutional church. "There were no front lines and a dignified fight," says Sally Toma, quoted by the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr. "There was a march of women, children and those believing Egypt is theirs at last, and must fight even the church for their rights as citizens.""The January 25 revolution gave people hope that if you stop and say 'enough,' you can make a change," said Mina Thabet, a founding member of the Maspero Youth Union. "It encouraged people to not be silent about their rights again, if they are violated by anyone. If the church violates their rights, they'll go against the church."
Coptic Egyptians continued to mobilize under both the government of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that took power from Mubarak and under Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president. Many Copts felt the Islamist-backed 2012 Constitution did not truly guarantee religious freedom. Meanwhile, sectarian attacks continued to escalate, culminating in an assault on the Coptic cathedral in Cairo in April 2013. As the violence worsened, Morsi did nothing to dismantle the sectarian-tinged policies of the old regime. "Part of the problem with Morsi," says Ishak Ibrahim of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. "Was that he dealt with Copts in the same way as Mubarak," reproducing a sectarian logic of rule.
Egypt's last secularists
Mariz Tadros, a research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies and an expert on Coptic politics characterizes the relations between the church under Pope Shenouda and the Egyptian state under Mubarak as an "entente." It was a tacit agreement in which the church cooperated with the security apparatus and lent political support to Mubarak's government. In return, the state granted the church leeway to manage Copts' social affairs (for example marriage and divorce) and also fought to protect Christians from Islamist militants. In the end the state failed to deliver security and the pope reduced his support for Mubarak, but the entente, as an overall structure, persisted until Mubarak's downfall.
In the wake of Morsi's removal, with an interim military-led government ruling Egypt, the nature of church-state ties is less clear. "There is an open line of communication," says Tadros, "But I wouldn't call that an entente. An entente is the kind of deal where in return for church support the government will provide A, B, C, and D, and I don't see that as emerging yet."
Whatever the future shape of relations, the church will face a Coptic laity unafraid to openly criticize the church. Disputes over the church's political role have sparked a furious debate on social media and at least one protest in front of the Coptic cathedral in Cairo's Abaseyya district.
"Your father might be a priest and you still criticize the Church. That's how deep it got," said blogger Mina Fayek. "These people love the church, love the pope. They don't want to see him in that situation. Therefore they're expressing displeasure with these stances. This is one change the revolution made: it breaks taboos."
Activist complaints about the Church's political stances have recently focused on the pope's pronouncements about the constitution and about Sisi, but there are other sources of controversy centering on the Church's conservative stances on social issues such as marriage and divorce. Egyptian law permits divorce but the Church forbids it, meaning that a Christian can be divorced in the eyes of the law but unable to remarry. The issue has even been a source of friction between the church and state institutions like the judiciary.
Church officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the church's political stances. In a brief phone conversation, Coptic bishop Anba Ermia, an assistant to the pope, said only that the church is "working to build our country, Egypt, to complete what we began on June 30."
Both the constitution drafted by an Islamist-dominated committee under Morsi and the recently adopted constitution drafted under the military-led government delegated significant power over matters of marriage, divorce, and family to religious institutions like the Church and Al Azhar, the most prestigious institution in Sunni Islam. In fact, some Coptic activists view their contention with the Church as part of a struggle to reduce the power of religious authorities in general.
"Al Azhar and the Church are religious institutions. They don't want a civil country. They want a religious country because they want more power," said Mina Thabet of the Maspero Youth Union.
Copts' demands for a separation of religion from politics stem both from a longstanding suspicion of political Islam and concern about the dangers of the church's political involvement. So adamant are Coptic activists about the need for total secularization of politics that their position can seem unrealistic. Such activists are, in a sense, Egypt's most staunch secularists, demanding a total withdrawal of religious institutions from politics that has no precedent in any country, much less in Egypt, a country whose powerful religious institutions have long histories of political involvement.
Activists' objections to the Church's political involvement point to thorny and deeply complex questions about the blurry boundaries between religion and politics. But even though their position may seem unrealistic, young Copts' objections are both genuine and internally consistent. Many such activists are using the same discourse of secularism they employed in the struggle against Morsi to denounce the pope's friendly gestures toward the new regime. "It's not fair to tell the Brotherhood or Salafis or others not to be involved in politics and smile at the church when they interfere with politics," said Mina Nageeb.
Though the future of church-state relations is far from certain, Coptic activists and analysts agree that any return to the collaboration that existed under Mubarak and Shenouda would be both harmful and unlikely to go without fierce protest from the highly politicized laity.
"Any future political order where, if we see any kind of reinstatement of the politics that we saw during pope Shenouda's era, namely, collaborating with the state and eliminating any independent Coptic civil society will be detrimental for citizenship on two fronts," says Tadros. "It will be detrimental for citizenship in terms of citizens demanding their entitlements directly, and it will be detrimental for the church as well in terms of being forced in a political position that is not always to the benefit of the Coptic laity."
With the government pursuing its vast crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, sectarian rhetoric and violence is persisting, and with it a sense of fear anxiety among ordinary Copts. Large numbers of Copts are fleeing the country for the perceived safety of places Europe, North America, and Australia (although the exact scale of the exodus is unknown as the government has not released definitive figures). Though not s mya total elimination of the Christian population (as occurred with the flight of Iraq's Christians in the carnage following the 2003 US invasion), the Coptic struggle for equal citizenship looks increasingly like a struggle for survival.
Jared Malsin is a journalist based in Cairo. He has contributed to TIME, VICE, The New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications. He tweets at @jmalsin.
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Head to Powderhorn Saturday, Jan. 22 to jump into the action. Registration opens at 8 a.m. If you show up on telemark skis lift tickets are discounted to $35. Professional clinicians will be on hand from all over the state leading lessons for beginners through experts.
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Jump in the uphill/downhill race kicking off at 8:30 a.m. Contestants add their equipment to a pile, then race off a starting line to dig out their skis, poles and skins, gear up, and ascend the Wonderbump run to the top of Powderhorn. The first racer who skis back down and across the finish line wins a GoPro helmet camera.
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I sent off my contribution to the ornament swap on Thursday. Let's hope the ladies of Group 52 like glitter as much as I do!
In the store I thought I was purchasing red ribbon, but it turned out to be hot pink. Luckily, I think it is the perfect accent!
I made a fun blog sticker to put on the back of each package. Gotta love label paper. I'll post photos of the ornaments I recieve when they all arrive. I've received two so far, and it has been so fun. I can't wait to participate again next year!
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I found your blog on Chelsea's blog. I've been looking at all of your creations and I just want you know how much I love to look at all of your crafty masterpieces! They are all wonderful! Merry Christmas!
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*ahem* not everyone is group 52 is a lady.. me being the sole exception of course! ;op
these are so pretty! i will have to watch out my friends dont try walking out of my apartment with it lol
did you get the one i sent to you yet?
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whoops - sorry Ricky! I did get your ornament and it is gorgeous. Thank you so much! My husband loves it as well.
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How did you make these? I want to make some!
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There's no reason Oprah shouldn't have her own network-her entertainment brand is as clearly defined as Walt Disney's, and her message of self-improvement finds a perfect match in the reality format. But Rome, even when envisioned by mighty Oprah, is not built in a day. The launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on Jan. 1 was bland and soft. It tasted like something meant to coddle a New Year's hangover. The titles she personally introduced include conventional if well-done shows like Searching for…, about a genealogist who helps forge reunions, and a documentary series on the making of Oprah. Forthcoming programs look more promising and capitalize on Winfrey's genius for celebrity confessional. How can you miss with a show about the royal disaster area known as Fergie, Duchess of York?
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KERMIT AS AN EQUESTRIAN.; President Roosevelt's Son to Participate in Contests at Major Wadsworth's
ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 2. -- Kermit Roosevelt, son of the President, is a guest of Major W.A. Wadsworth at Genesee, N.Y. He arrived there to-day, and on Saturday, July 4, will participate in the annual equestrian contest at Major Wadsworth's, an event that brings together the best of New York State horsemen.
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The bright colors in the bar might be the same bright colors in the synagogue. Sarah Herbst, a third generation stained glass maker at All American Art Glass, has seen her family's glasswork in a variety of places.
"I used to take a picture whenever I'd see one," said Herbst, whose family has been creating and restoring glass since the Great Depression. "But there were just so many."
Though some of the standard images—multi-colored flowers or bright circles—she sees around were created by other glass makers, Herbst can usually tell her grandfather's style: thick but breezy, even lines curving together to make palm trees, windmills, lighthouses.
Though Herbst's great-grandfather was the first in the family to get into the glass business as a salesman, it was Herbst's grandfather, George Herbst, who began creating stained glass artwork. He worked in a glass factory in Brownsville, where he learned Yiddish from the shopkeeper.
Herbst's grandfather created ventilator-style windows, made lamps and designed cabinets. But much of his work, whether it was creating or restoring, was for synagogues—windows designs and nameplates— like the many on Ocean Parkway or at the Jewish Center of Kings Highway.
"There was actually an article about him," Herbst said. "The Gentile who worked in the synagogues."
Her father, Dan, began working with his father, even though initially the father resisted laboring with the son.
"It's dangerous—glass is heavy, lead is heavy," Herbst said, noting the different structural issues that can cause problems, like worn walls.
But Herbst's father was persistent. He started helping his father when he was a teenager, assisting in making broken stone windows. The glass shards—pretty but often discarded pieces that were too small to use for most projects—were merged together, the opaqueness of the different pieces shining bright.
"These days, people buy doors with pre-manufactured glass," Sarah Herbst said in a matter-of-fact tone that neither endorses nor disavows the inevitable changes that have occurred throughout the more than half century of business.
Herbst, though, does things the old-fashioned way.
"It comes in handy when you're restoring because we literally will have the same glass."
Even as a child, Herbst was helping her father with their business—even if it was just lending him her art supplies, especially the stencil lettering kits he'd end up using as a guide for stained glass nameplates. When she was in high school, Herbst would use some of the stained glass décor to make pendants or jewelry, including an unusual-looking jewel—white but a shimmery gold in the light—that turned out to be a piece from Tiffany Studios.
Eventually, Herbst began cutting glass and only needed to learn a few of the most important lessons, like not clearing out leftover glass pieces stuck in a pair of pliers with her bare fingers. It took her only one time to remember that one.
Though now, it's some of the modern-day challenges for Herbst that can still sting. Herbst uses lead and won't install a piece, like a broken stone window, in a home that has either children or a person with respiratory problems. And though she sometimes uses the Internet to market her art, there is often more pitfall than profit. Sites like Etsy mean expensive shipping and Craigslist customers have too often become synonymous with scams.
Herbst is able to find work in many religious institutions since, typically, many look for the old-fashioned style, consistent with what she—just like her father and grandfather—is able to produce. Recently, Herbst found out her father did glasswork for the synagogue where her maternal grandparents, who are Jewish, were married.
The studio, located in Marine Park, is in her father's backyard.
"Born and bred," Herbst, who has lived in Gravesend, Marine Park and now in Kensington, says of her home.
As Herbst flips through one of the thick photo albums that holds the blues, greens, yellows and reds—like the rose, more permanent than any pressed ones, her father made for mother when they first started dating—it's clear that their art has become not only part of their past but also, of Brooklyn's.
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BERKELEY — Condos at the downtown post office? Burgers at the Veteran's Building Mall? A five-star hotel at Old City Hall?
Not likely if the City Council agrees with Wednesday night's unanimous Planning Commission recommendation to adopt a law that would preserve nine historic sites in civic center and guarantee that they serve the public.
The council is expected to consider the recommendation Sept. 9.
Among sites included in the ordinance, known as the Civic Center District Overlay, are Old City Hall along with the adjacent courthouse and Public Safety Building; the Veterans' Memorial Building; the State Farm Insurance Building, 1947 Center St.; Civic Center Park; the Civic Center Building on Milvia Street; the Downtown Berkeley YMCA; the Berkeley Community Theatre and adjacent Florence Schwimley Little Theater; Berkeley High School; and the downtown post office.
It requires that these buildings and the park serve the community with educational, cultural or civic functions. Current uses, such as office rental at the city-owned State Farm building and the fitness center at the YMCA, are "grandfathered" into the law.
The specific uses allowed include libraries, courts, museums, parks, public safety, government, education, live theater, a public market, as well as nonprofit organizations serving the arts, culture, environment, community service and history.
The ordinance limits buildings in the district to a height of 50 feet.
The language of this ordinance is also incorporated into Measure R on the November ballot. Measure R addresses a broad range of downtown development issues, including the overlay district.
While some 50 people attended the Planning Commission meeting to support the overlay district, a legal firm representing the United States Postal Service, which hopes to sell the downtown post office, sent a letter to the commission opposing the district.
Legal firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson argued in the letter that the overlay district requires a higher level of environmental review than the Negative Declaration that the commission unanimously approved before recommending the overlay ordinance. A "Neg Dec" is a formal finding that a development will not have a significant adverse effect on a project area. Under California law, a full environmental impact report must be undertaken if a project is deemed to have a significant adverse impact.
The letter contended that an EIR is required "because substantial evidence exists that the Overlay District may result in urban decay." It continued by claiming that the overlay district would "foreclose private uses that could fund the restoration and preservation of the historic buildings within the Overlay District."
Cox, Castle & Nicholson further warned the city that "the proposed overlay may amount to an unconstitutional attempt to regulate the functions of a federal entity (the postal service) and, among other things, regulate in an area that may have been pre-empted by Congress."
Addressing the commission before its vote, Mike Lonergan, with Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post Office, complimented the commission for listening to the public, and blasted USPS for only paying attention to the public with their opposition to the overlay district.
Holding the USPS attorneys' letter, he drew laughs when he quipped: "I think we could have another window open at the downtown post office for a year from what this letter costs."
Steve Finacom, former president of the Berkeley Historical Society, also argued for the district.
"Downtown Berkeley is not going to expire if developers don't get their hands on the post office as a development site. We're not going to starve if we can't buy gourmet cheese there," he told the commission.
"Future generations are going to bitterly resent us if we don't act to protect a tiny bit of downtown that's still public and community space while there's still time," he said.


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During Laurence Fishburne's two year stint on "CSI," his character, Dr. Raymond Langston was plagued by Nate Haskell (Bill Irwin), a relentless serial killer. And in the eleventh season finale, Langston finally got his revenge and killed Haskell.
However, the episode ended during an internal affairs interview before Langston answered the question of whether he killed in self defense or if he had murdered his long time adversary.
While we still don't know what Langston's response will be, one thing is clear: Fishburne is leaving the show. Deadline broke the story about Fishburne's departure, indicating that Fishburne himself decided not to renew his contract in favor of returning to feature films on a full time basis. It's currently unclear if Fishburne will return for at least a guest appearance to wrap up Langston's storyline.
Additionally, Marg Helgenberger's contract with "CSI" is also up, although she is expected to return next season in at least a few episodes.
"Most of our actors are negotiating for next season, so at the moment we don't know [who will be back]," noted executive producer, Carol Mendelsohn. "It must be a test for the writers of 'CSI.' We always start planning for next season without knowing for sure."
Fishburne notably replaced William Petersen on the show and the network is reportedly looking for a high profile actor to step in for Fishburne as well. In a bit of armchair casting, Entertainment Weekly suggests that the new male lead should be one of these five actors: Jimmy Smits, Chris Meloni, Michael Chiklis, Ethan Hawke and Terry O'Quinn.
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I am so grateful we were able to make the trip. It is so wonderful to have the opportunity to spend time with family. I appreciate so much my husband who works so hard to be such a loving father, grandfather, and now great grandfather. He is THE BEST!!!
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SOLANA BEACH — At a press conference outside of the County Administration Building March 15, Republican Supervisor Pam Slater-Price crossed party lines and endorsed Dave Roberts to replace her once she retires.In January, Slater-Price will step down from the District 3 seat she's held for nearly two decades. District 3 includes Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Rancho Bernardo and Escondido. Although three Republicans are vying for her seat, she endorsed Roberts, a democrat."I strongly believe that partisan politics has no place in doing what is best for San Diego County," Slater-Price said.
She said Roberts shares her passion for the environment and arts. Slater-Price also touted Roberts' experience as a businessman and Solana Beach councilman.
"I know that Dave Roberts will work hard to balance the county budget," she said. "He has the public and private sector experience doing just that."
The five-member Board of Supervisors addresses budget matters, policy issues and health concerns. The last time a democrat was elected to the board was in the 1980s.
Among other Republicans, Carlsbad Mayor Pro Tem Ann Kulchin and former Vista Councilman Bob Campbell also reached across the aisle to back Roberts. Other supporters included former San Diego City Councilman Donna Frye and Encinitas City Councilwoman Teresa Barth.
"I'll always carry on with this bipartisan spirit," Roberts said.
If elected, Roberts said he would use his experience as a Solana Beach councilman to reform San Diego's pension system, create a business advisory committee, promote clean air and expand healthcare coverage and lure high-profile companies to San Diego.
The Republicans in the race are congressional aide Steve Danon, Del Mar Mayor Carl Hilliard and Bryan Ziegler, the senior deputy county counsel for the City of San Diego.


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The J. League issued Oita Trinita and its Olympic team goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa a warning on Wednesday after Nishikawa wrote in his personal blog that he intentionally got himself booked in Sunday's 2-1 win over Jubilo Iwata.
The 22-year-old wrote he "got booked on purpose," because he would be able to serve the subsequent one-match suspension while he is on national team duty with Japan's Under-23s at next month's Beijing Games.
"I didn't really deliberately try to get booked, it was just me writing carelessly," said Nishikawa. "I have done soccer lovers a disservice. I apologize."
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The sequel to X-Men: First Class is officially on the way, with the cast and director Matthew Vaughn all expected to reteam for the sequel, which is due in theaters on July 18, 2014. That's all well and good, but what's X-Men: First Class 2 actually going to be about? What classic villain or story will the X-Men have to deal with on the big screen this time? Well, hang on to your butts, because it might be one of the greatest comic book stories of all time… The X-Cutioner's Song!
No wait, that was just silly. We mean Days of Future Past.
Yes, Chris Claremont and John Byrne's iconic tale of a future in which mutants have been hunted to near-extinction could be en route if Ain't It Cool has it's facts straight. They're received word that 20th Century Fox has registered the title "Days of Future Past" with the MPAA, which would officially stake their claim on releasing an upcoming film with that same title. The original story found Kitty Pryde traveling back to the present (1981, when it was published) to prevent a disaster which would lead to the witch hunt that destroys her species.
If true, Matthew Vaughn would have a lot of adapting on his hands. Kitty Pryde isn't a member of X-Men: First Class, having been most recently played by Ellen Page as a member of present (or vaguely future) team. She or technically any member of the previous X-Men movie franchise could make the journey back to First Class Land, in what would be a most exciting crossover, or Vaughn could introduce a new (read: existing) character in her place, like Bishop, whose time-traveling origins always felt like a bit of a Days of Future Past rip-off to us anyway.
Alternate timeline X-Men stories have always been a big draw to fans of the comics – Age of Apocalypse remains one of the best superhero crossovers ever, in our opinion – but introducing them to the movie universe could have another calculated benefit to the First Class franchise. Vaughn could conceivably be going the Star Trek route, freeing his prequel series from existing continuity by altering its timeline. To put it another way, if this rumor is true, there's a chance that X-Men: The Last Stand could be retconned out of continuity, and possibly X-Men Origins: Wolverine along with it. And wouldn't that be a victory for fans everywhere?
Take it with a grain of salt. A grain of hopeful salt.
CraveOnline will be back with more X-Men: First Class 2 news after we do a fastball special.


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St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced the global launch of the Optisure™ Defibrillation Lead. This new lead is an addition to the company's Optim™ lead family, joining the proven Durata™ Defibrillation Lead, which is supported by more than six years of implant experience and the most robust post-market surveillance monitoring in the industry. Based on the established Durata lead design, the Optisure lead features additional Optim insulation at the proximal end of the lead, including under the superior vena cava (SVC) shock coil. The lead design is identical to Durata distal to the SVC shock coil. Optim insulation is a hybrid insulation material unique to St. Jude Medical and created specifically for cardiac leads. It blends the biostability and flexibility of high-performance silicone rubber with the strength, tear resistance and abrasion resistance of polyurethane to provide increased durability, along with the flexibility and handling characteristics that facilitate device implantation. With both 7 and 8 French diameter leads, the St. Jude Medical high-voltage portfolio now provides physicians more treatment options to tailor therapy to individualized patient needs. "The Optisure lead has a thicker layer of Optim insulation that adds additional abrasion resistance to a lead that has already demonstrated excellent safety and reliability, backed by clinical evidence from St. Jude Medical as well as large, independent, multi-center studies," said Dr. Raymond H. M. Schaerf, a thoracic and cardiac surgeon at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, in Burbank, Calif. The Optisure defibrillation lead is compatible with all of the company's implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), including the company's next-generation Ellipse™ and SJM Assura™ portfolio of ICDs and CRT-Ds. The Ellipse and SJM Assura family of devices feature the DynamicTx™ Over-Current Detection Algorithm, which automatically adjusts shocking configurations within the device to ensure the delivery of high-voltage therapy if an electrical short in one portion of the system were to occur. In addition, the next-generation Ellipse and SJM Assura portfolio of implantable defibrillators feature low friction coating on the device, which has been demonstrated in testing to significantly reduce the friction between the device and leads. Physicians using the St. Jude Medical high-voltage system, now including the Optisure lead, have access to the most advanced portfolio of products to address commonly known causes of lead failure.
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ABC News reports that a court in Guangzhou, China, has jailed Australian businessman Matthew Ng for over 14 years after he was found guilty of embezzlement, corruption, bribery and falsifying records. The charges reportedly followed a dispute Mr Ng had with state-owned travel company Lignan, in relation to the purchase of shares. According to ABC News, the case will strengthen concerns foreign companies have about doing business in China, particularly with state-owned firms.
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This psalm is entitled a prayer of Moses. Where, and in what volume, it was preserved from Moses's time till the collection of psalms was begun to be made, is uncertain; but, being divinely inspired, it was under a special protection: perhaps it was written in the book of Jasher, or the book of the wars of the Lord. Moses taught the people of Israel to pray, and put words into their mouths which they might make use of in turning to the Lord. Moses is here called the man of God, because he was a prophet, the father of prophets, and an eminent type of the great prophet. In these verses we are taught,
I. To give God the praise of his care concerning his people at all times, and concerning us in our days (Ps. 90:1): Lord, thou hast been to us a habitation, or dwelling-place, a refuge or help, in all generations. Now that they had fallen under God's displeasure, and he threatened to abandon them, they plead his former kindnesses to their ancestors. Canaan was a land of pilgrimage to their fathers the patriarchs, who dwelt there in tabernacles; but then God was their habitation, and, wherever they went, they were at home, at rest, in him. Egypt had been a land of bondage to them for many years, but even then God was their refuge; and in him that poor oppressed people lived and were kept in being. Note, True believers are at home in God, and that is their comfort in reference to all the toils and tribulations they meet with in this world. In him we may repose and shelter ourselves as in our dwelling-place.
II. To give God the glory of his eternity (Ps. 90:2): Before the mountains were brought forth, before he made the highest part of the dust of the world (as it is expressed, Prov. 8:26), before the earth fell in travail, or, as we may read it, before thou hadst formed the earth and the world (that is, before the beginning of time) thou hadst a being; even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God, an eternal God, whose existence has neither its commencement nor its period with time, nor is measured by the successions and revolutions of it, but who art the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, without beginning of days, or end of life, or change of time. Note, Against all the grievances that arise from our own mortality, and the mortality of our friends, we may take comfort from God's immortality. We are dying creatures, and all our comforts in the world are dying comforts, but God is an everliving God, and those shall find him so who have him for theirs.
III. To own God's absolute sovereign dominion over man, and his irresistible incontestable power to dispose of him as he pleases (Ps. 90:3): Thou turnest man to destruction, with a word's speaking, when thou pleasest, to the destruction of the body, of the earthly house; and thou sayest, Return, you children of men. 1. When God is, by sickness or other afflictions, turning men to destruction, he does thereby call men to return unto him, that is, to repent of their sins and live a new life. This God speaketh once, yea, twice. "Return unto me, from whom you have revolted," Jer. 4:1. 2. When God is threatening to turn men to destruction, to bring them to death, and they have received a sentence of death within themselves, sometimes he wonderfully restores them, and says, as the old translation reads it, Again thou sayest, Return to life and health again. For God kills and makes alive again, brings down to the grave and brings up. 3. When God turns men to destruction, it is according to the general sentence passed upon all, which is this, "Return, you children of men, one, as well as another, return to your first principles; let the body return to the earth as it was (dust to dust, Gen. 3:19) and let the soul return to God who gave it," Eccl. 12:7. 4. Though God turns all men to destruction, yet he will again say, Return, you children of men, at the general resurrection, when, though a man dies, yet he shall live again; and "then shalt thou call and I will answer (Job 14:14, 15); thou shalt bid me return, and I shall return." The body, the soul, shall both return and unite again.
IV. To acknowledge the infinite disproportion there is between God and men, Ps. 90:4. Some of the patriarchs lived nearly a thousand years; Moses knew this very well, and had recorded it: but what is their long life to God's eternal life? "A thousand years, to us, are a long period, which we cannot expect to survive; or, if we could, it is what we could not retain the remembrance of; but it is, in thy sight, as yesterday, as one day, as that which is freshest in mind; nay, it is but as a watch of the night," which was but three hours. 1. A thousand years are nothing to God's eternity; they are less than a day, than an hour, to a thousand years. Betwixt a minute and a million of years there is some proportion, but betwixt time and eternity there is none. The long lives of the patriarchs were nothing to God, not so much as the life of a child (that is born and dies the same day) is to theirs. 2. All the events of a thousand years, whether past or to come, are as present to the Eternal Mind as what was done yesterday, or the last hour, is to us, and more so. God will say, at the great day, to those whom he has turned to destruction, Return—Arise you dead. But it might be objected against the doctrine of the resurrection that it is a long time since it was expected and it has not yet come. Let that be no difficulty, for a thousand years, in God's sight, are but as one day. Nullum tempus occurrit regi—To the king all periods are alike. To this purport these words are quoted, 2 Pet. 3:8.
V. To see the frailty of man, and his vanity even at his best estate (Ps. 90:5, 6): look upon all the children of men, and we shall see, 1. That their life is a dying life: Thou carriest them away as with a flood, that is, they are continually gliding down the stream of time into the ocean of eternity. The flood is continually flowing, and they are carried away with it; as soon as we are born we begin to die, and every day of our life carries us so much nearer death; or we are carried away violently and irresistibly, as with a flood of waters, as with an inundation, which sweeps away all before it; or as the old world was carried away with Noah's flood. Though God promised not so to drown the world again, yet death is a constant deluge. 2. That it is a dreaming life. Men are carried away as with a flood and yet they are as a sleep; they consider not their own frailty, nor are aware how near they approach to an awful eternity. Like men asleep, they imagine great things to themselves, till death wakes them, and puts an end to the pleasing dream. Time passes unobserved by us, as it does with men asleep; and, when it is over, it is as nothing. 3. That it is a short and transient life, like that of the grass which grows up and flourishes, in the morning looks green and pleasant, but in the evening the mower cuts it down, and it immediately withers, changes its colour, and loses all its beauty. Death will change us shortly, perhaps suddenly; and it is a great change that death will make with us in a little time. Man, in his prime, does but flourish as the grass, which is weak, and low, and tender, and exposed, and which, when the winter of old age comes, will wither of itself: but he may be mown down by disease or disaster, as the grass is, in the midst of summer. All flesh is as grass.
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Consultation document issued by working group on women bishops legislation
A consultation document setting out a new way forward in enabling women to become bishops in the Church of England has today been sent to all General Synod members.
The document draws on the facilitated conversations arranged by the Working Group on women bishops legislation held earlier this week and the meeting of the House of Bishops on February 7.
The consultation document can be read here.
Statement following the meeting of the House of Bishops PR28.13
The facilitation process referred to was set out in PR160.12 on 11 December 2012 http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2012/12/statement-from-the-house-of-bishops-on-defeat-of-women-bishops-legislation.aspx
Membership of the working group was set out in PR169.12 on 19 December 2012 http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2012/12/working-group-on-new-legislative-proposals-on-women-bishops-announced.aspx


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Warrington Speakers Clubs ended their current speaking year at the AGM in July.
Outgoing president Doug Pass handed over to new president John Hill for the new season starting on Thursday, September 11, at the Village Hotel, Warrington.
Guests and new members will be welcome to join to enjoy the evening's planned programme.
A speaking course is now available for those who wish to develop their public speaking skills to advance their career or for a forthcoming social occasion.
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1980's Love Songs This Weekend On KXRB
A lot of people mistakenly think that Country Music is dominated by drinkin' and cheatin' songs. Actually, Country Music is much more the home for great Love Songs.
This weekend, Jim Ed Brown features the greatest country love songs from the 1980's on 'Country Music Greats'.
We'll go back, oh, 25-30 years and fall in love again with artist's like Clint Black,Terri Gibbs, Dan Seals, Keith Whitley, Roseanne Cash and many others.
Falling in Love in the 80's on 'Country Music Greats' with Grand Ole Opry star Jim Ed Brown Saturday night at 10 and Sunday afternoon at 4 on AM 1000 Classic Country KXRB and KXRB.com!


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Ark. AG not sure of result if Voter ID challenged
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Arkansas' attorney general says he cannot say for sure whether the Voter ID law would survive a court challenge, should the legislature override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto.
The Legislature has passed a bill last week that would require voters to show an identification card at the polls.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel released an opinion Monday saying he cannot predict whether a court would reject the law on grounds that it imposes a new condition on voter eligibility. McDaniel said, however, that a challenge based on the right of suffrage would likely fail since Arkansas lawmakers would make ID cards available to people who don't currently have them.
Beebe has said he wants to explore McDaniel's opinion before acting on the bill.COMPLETE COVERAGE
Ark. Senate panel advances voter ID bill (Feb. 14)
Arkansas Senate approves voter ID legislation (Feb. 20)
Ark. House panel delays voter ID bill (Feb. 27)
Ark. House panel advances voter ID bill (March 6)
Ark. House Speaker says he's reviewing voter ID (March 11)
Voter ID bill hits a roadblock (March 12)
Ark. panel looks at dispute over voter ID bill (March 13)
Ark. Senate delays vote on voter ID requirement (March 18)
Ark. AG not sure of result if voter ID bill challenged (March 25)
Gov. Beebe vetoes voter ID bill (March 25)
Arkansas Senate to take up override of voter ID bill (March 27)
House overrides governor's veto of voter ID bill (April 1)


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In this era of perpetually declining moral standards, it's hard-warming to see people sticking up for the scruples of decent, hard-hitting rugby players and their famously beer-guzzling fans.
This year, Auckland New Zealand is hosting the Rugby World Cup, a major event in the many parts of the world that care about that sport. The games happened to coincide with a controversial tradition: New Zealand's annual "Boobs on Bikes" parade, which has been held, on and off, for the past eight years.
The event is just as it sounds: topless women — some actual porn stars, others just non-professionals — ride on motorcycles, prominently displaying their mammary assets. Bystanders ogle and jockey for a better view, recording the action on cell phones and video cameras. Boobs on Bikes was first held in 2003, according to Wikipedia, after two women were arrested for being topless at a protest. It's been the subject of a high court ruling protecting its ability to exist, according to a New Zealand TV interview.
This year, the parade was to roll down Queen Street, one of the Auckland's main commercial thoroughfares. Liberation, the French newspaper, reported that the it would coincide with the Auckland-France rugby match.
Family values campaigners were outraged. They called the event public porn, a threat to youth and to the dignity of New Zealand, and campaigned to have it halted.
Organizer Steve Crow, a former Auckland mayoral candidate and porn industry tycoon, told New Zealand TV that the event was just good clean fun. When asked if families might find the Boobs on Bikes parade offensive, he responded, that people are free to "turn away."
"Look I find organized religion offensive, but I don't try to stop it. It's a fact of life, it's there."
He cancelled the 2011 Boobs on Bikes after an Internet survey found that 68 percent of respondents disapproved of it, Liberation reported.


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For the past dozen years, Victor Bayne has solved numerous murders by interrogating witnesses only he can see - dead witnesses. But when his best friend Lisa goes missing from the sunny California campus of PsyTrain, the last thing he wants to find there is her spirit.
Disappearing without a trace in a school full of psychics? That's some trick. But somehow both Lisa and her roommate have vanished into thin air. A group of fanatics called Five Faith has been sniffing around, and Lisa's email is compromised.
Time is running out, and with no ghosts to cross-examine, Vic can't afford to turn down any offers of help. An old enemy can provide an innovative way to track Vic's missing friend, and he enters into an uneasy alliance - even though its ultimate cost will ensnare him in a debt he may never manage to settle.
©2011 Jordan Castillo Price (P)2015 Jordan Castillo Price
"At the risk of sounding like a broken record..."
Fabulous storyline...fabulous voice actor! Can't wait for Spook Squad to be performed by Gomez!
It's funny how many subtleties and sheer funniness you miss while reading that you catch while listening that makes you marvel at the genius work of both author and narrator.
All I can say is 'Thank you Jordan and Gomez!'
"Must Read Series!"
This was another excellent addition to this series.. We get to see Victor gain a few abilities and the return of the GhosTV as they attempt to figure out what is going on with Lisa.
As usual the plot is crazy twisty and hard to put down. The men are crazy hot and I can't help but love Victor's wittiness while panting over Jacob's hotness and the way he cares for Victor.
Gomez does an excellent job of narrating once again bringing live to the already great book written by Ms Price.
Can't wait for more of these characters especially after the little surprise we get at the end!!!
I received a free copy of this book to read and review for Inked Rainbow Reads.
"Love 'em all!"
This series is an automatic download for me. Victor 's thoughts are so 'off-the-wall!!!' Jordan is s very talented author & where she comes up with this stuff is beyond me & beyond funny & entertaining. Well worth a credit.
"Dear Jordan and Gomez"
I heart you - you're a winning combination - lightening in a bottle. Even though I read this via ebook version, the moment that the audio came out there was no hesitation to purchase it.
"More entertaining than watching your (ghost)TV!"
I've listened to other Psycop books read by Gomez Pugh, and I'm always ridiculously pleased with them. He is probably the best matched narrator I've ever found for an audio book... He does every character's voice perfectly, but his Vic is so spot on that I now hear Gomez's voice when I'm reading the books! Outstanding.
"GhosTV- That's the Spirit"
I am always so pumped when a PsyCop novel/audiobook comes out. I've been waiting for this one with baited breath as it is the longest in the series and I could listen to Gomez Pugh all day...and night. I even warmed to Dreyfuss; as sleazy as he is. The characterizations were on point and Victor and Jacob remain my favorite m/m couple evah. Still, I wanted more Crash and Ms. Mattie as well as more of Jacob's family. Already can't wait to get the next one. Thanks Jordan and Gomez 👍🏽👏🏽🌈
"Vic looks good with confidence"
Loved it! Great story, characters, humor, and mystery. Gomez knocked it out of the park with his narration.
This book is part of a series and I have not read any of the other previous books. With that said, I am not sure that this is a stand alone book because much of the primary character's angst centered on past experiences and the story did not explain much of what happened in the past, other than it was not good. I think I would be better served going back and starting from #1 in order to get the full gist of the story. That said, I did enjoy this book and I liked it for the most part. The paranormal genre can certainly draw one in. Though I was a bit lost of some of the history of the intertwining characters, I enjoyed the basics of the story and the dynamics between the two lead characters. I will be curious to see where the next chapter takes them...but first, back to the beginning! Additionally, the narrator did an excellent job distinguishing the characters and added to the story.
"Too many superlatives - just amazing!"
Oh man. So, you remember how cool that Ghost TV was when we first saw it in book 2, right? Well, now we get to see what it really does, and man, is it ever awesome!
First, we see Lisa's new Psy Train and meet some more people from Vic's past. We see how the new group of psychics are being trained and we learn even more about Vic's talent. AND Jacob's! Woot!
We also see a little bit of what Con Dryfuss is all about and that man is about as cool as any super spy could possibly be. What can't he do? I'm not sure it can be measured!
There is a lot of very cool metaphysical stuff in this book. Sure, there is a bit of creepiness, but most of this feels like a tense "whodunit" rather than scary, ghost story. At times it felt like "Clue" as people keep going missing and clues get dropped one by one.
I found the OBE (out of body experiences) to be fascinating. How each person "sees" themselves and what they can do. I'm not sure how Jordan went about preparing her research, but I do know that some of what she speculates here is practiced and I think the whole damn thing is just so compelling. The mind is such an unknown quantity when you break it down, we really don't know much about it.
I was so happy to see Lisa again, and though we don't see much of Crash this go around, what we do see is funny/touching, as usual.
So, I can't really gush any more than I have, but Gomez Pugh. *sigh I just love him! He's absolutely made these characters real for me and I feel like I'm walking into their lives when he tells their story. He's gotten even better, as each story progresses, just subtle nuancy things that make his performances even more tight.
I'm sad to see this series wrapping up, but I'm so happy to have had the experience of listening to these books.
6 of 5 stars
"Ghost of a chance you won't love it"
I could have paced myself, after all as a fan of the series I already knew the ending. Instead I spent every spare moment listening to each word; relishing the small wonderful nuances Pugh's voice gives to JCP's already terrifically written characters. I especially loved how the shifts in voice tone and inflection emphasized the difference between each characters astral identity and their public personas. The author presents similar dualities for the sub characters as well, and the narrator teases them all out. Brilliant.
"love it"
Despite having read the books, the narrator pulled me in and I hated to stop listening. Great narrator for the stories.
"This series had me hooked"
Vic and Jacob's story just gets better and better !! This series is truly unique!! I love the writing, storylines and characters ..the next story is on auto buy 😀
"Exciting story"
Fabulous narration as always by Gomez Pugh. I adore his characterisation of the main characters especially. A long yet enjoyable story with some touching moments between Vic and Jacob. Plus a surprise ending.
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Which Doctors in Florida Uses the BRAVA System with Fat Transfer to the Breast?
i want to know which doctors located in Florida offer the BRAVA system when doing fat grafting to the breast and what is the average cost to have this done?
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Dr Roger Khouri, Key Biscayne, FL
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Sick and tired of in-school fights – the Kansas City's superintendent tries to land a knockout blow to kids causing classroom problems.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Sick and tired of in-school fights and bad behavior, Kansas City
Public Schools superintendent is trying to knock problems out high
school classrooms. Despite funding issues, the district is planning
to start a new, half-million dollar alternative program at Manual
Tech High School.
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"If the students fight, they're out," said Dr.
John Covington, superintendent of Kansas City Public Schools.
Some students and parents claim fighting, during the first two
weeks of school, is not rare at Southwest Early College Campus
"They had fights day one, the first day of school,"
said Patricia Tivis, a parent. "There's basically about
a fight every day up here."
a female security guard was pushed down stairs inside the
, according to Kansas City Police. Witnesses said they saw
several students involved. However, it is how the fight started
that deeply concerns district officials.
"The problems were not sparked by the students themselves,
but were sparked by the students' parents who went onto the
campus to engage in inappropriate behavior," Dr. Covington
SWECC has 1,600 students, according to district officials. High
enrollment seems to be a factor to parents and Dr. Covington.
Two weeks into school, some kids run rampant in hallways and
skip class, Dr. Covington said. Southwest is not alone, though.
With high school enrollment up across the district, other schools
have similar problems with overage students.
"They are 18, 19, and in some cases 20-year-old,"
Dr. Covington said. "There are some 17-year-olds who have
only acquired to date maybe two, three or four credits. We know
that those kids are not going to be successful in
To fix it, the district plans to unveil the Options Program.
Starting Monday, 100 students will move into Manual Tech. The kids,
grades 7 through 12, will be selected by their principals based on
academic or behavioral issues.
As a result, more teachers, possibly some laid off earlier this
year, will be hired.
"They're going to look for those teachers that
really want to work with those kids and if they do that, this
should be a good program," said Andrea Flinders, president of
the teacher's union.


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Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy Decision — An Inspiration For All Women Regarding Breast Cancer!
I'm interested in hearing what women (you) think about Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy. Please share your thoughts with me!
My opinion is a short and simple one: HEROIC, INSPIRING, AND BRAVE SACRIFICE BEYOND COMPARE!
Read Angelina Jolie's entire commentary, entitled "MY MEDICAL CHOICE", as printed in the NEW YORK TIMES!
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The LSU track and field teams will have one final tune-up before the start of the indoor championship season when they return home Friday to host the LSU Twilight meet in the Carl Maddox Field House.
The meet will begin at 12:30 p.m. with the field events, while the track events will get under way at 5:15 p.m.
Friday's competition will be LSU's home indoor opener as the top-ranked Lady Tigers and No. 14 Tigers have been on the road for the first five weeks of the season while competing against many of the nation's top programs.
Many of coach Dennis Shaver's athletes will be making their final preps for the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships to be held Feb. 22-24 and the NCAA Indoor Championships, set for March 8-9.
On Friday, LSU will welcome Mississippi State, whose men have been as high as 12th and women are currently 25th in the USTFCCCA power rankings, to the Field House for a little SEC preview.
Other combined programs scheduled to compete Friday include Louisiana-Lafayette, Southeastern, Arkansas Baptist, Louisiana-Monroe, Loyola, McNeese State, Northwestern State and Hinds Community College.
Also expected for the meet are the Southern and UNO men and the Tulane and Nicholls State women.
Men's tennis
NO. 25 TIGERS UPEND NO. 56 RICE: The No. 25 LSU men's tennis team (4-1) bested No. 56 Rice (2-5) 4-3 on Thursday.
The Tigers won the doubles point early and then were victorious in three of the six singles matches.


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