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UK Spends $200 Million On REFUGEES While Leaving 100,000 British Kids HOMELESS
The UK is clearly prioritizing immigrants over citizens these days. Just in time for Christmas, over 100,000 British children are facing homelessness, while local authorities are spending millions to help foreign refugees.
It has been revealed that the growing number of lone refugee children in the UK has cost local authorities more than £200 million, just weeks after a leading charity warned such councils are failing British families, and 100,000 British kids face being homeless this Christmas.
New figures suggest that over the past five years ten councils have spent close to £200 million on lone children claiming asylum, with £36.9 million spent in the last year alone on 1,168 unaccompanied children in the UK. The Suncalculates that that works out at £31,500 spent per child per year.
Individual councils, who are also responsible for housing British children and families, largely pick up the bill for unaccompanied migrant children, not central government.
At the beginning of this month, the homelessness charity Shelter warned that councils are increasingly being forced to move British families into cramped bed and breakfasts and hostels.
Because of such failings, they estimate that more than 100,000 British children will wake up homeless on Christmas morning this year. That number has been consistently rising, up nearly 25 per cent on Christmas four years ago.
It looks like every country is turning into Sweden, where immigrants get preferential treatment over citizens.
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Cilantro Lime Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
For maximum flavor and ease, this vegetable and chicken dinner comes together in one pan.
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Cilantro Lime Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a large shallow baking pan with foil, if desired; set aside. In a small bowl combine cilantro, lime peel, garlic, salt, and crushed red pepper. Pat chicken dry with paper towels. Rub herb mixture evenly over chicken pieces. Arrange chicken in prepared baking pan. Add Brussels sprouts to pan. Drizzle chicken and sprouts with 2 tablespoons of the oil. Roast, uncovered, for 20 minutes, stirring sprouts once.
- Add sweet potatoes and apples to pan (or divide mixture between two baking pans if crowded). Drizzle with remaining oil and toss to coat. Roast for 15 to 20 minutes more or until an instant-read thermometer registers 165 degrees F in the thickest part of the breast and at least 170 degrees F in the thighs or drumsticks and vegetables are tender. Garnish with additional cilantro and lime slices.
Nutrition Facts (Cilantro Lime Chicken and Sweet Potatoes)
- Per serving:
- 643 kcal ,
- 38 g fat
- (9 g sat. fat ,
- 7 g polyunsaturated fat ,
- 19 g monounsaturated fat ),
- 144 mg chol. ,
- 460 mg sodium ,
- 36 g carb. ,
- 7 g fiber ,
- 14 g sugar ,
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Holy Week services
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 1110 St. Stephen's Church Road in Crownsville, will host the following Holy Week services:
•Liturgy of the Palms and Holy Eucharist, 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Palm Sunday, April 17.
•Prayer, 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday, April 18 and Tuesday, April 19.
•Holy Eucharist, 10 a.m., prayer 5 p.m., Wednesday, April 20.
•Maundy Thursday, April 21.
•Book of Common Prayer Service, Stations of the Cross, noon Good Friday, April 22.


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Generally, the apartment owner has overpaid for the building at purchase. To sell the property would require the owner to take a loss.
2. Apartment Owner's Asking Price Is Too High
Typically, necessary maintenance on the building are being deferred and cost for true repairs are not estimated into the asking price. The owner is not willing to consider the repair costs as a deep asking price reduction.
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What is this page?
This is a collection guide. It is a description of archival material held in the Special Collections Division,
J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. The materials described here are physically available in our
reading room. None of the original documents in this collection are digitally available online at this time.
Papers (1858-1921) consisting of copies and originals, consisting of correspondence, equipment catalogues, and miscellaneous.
Papers (1930-1968, undated) consisting of correspondence, clipping, scrapbooks, photographs, biographies, etc.
Papers (1728-1901) including correspondence, inventories, wills, estates, land records, legal records, slave deeds, financial records, tax receipts, poems, cipher book, account book, and miscellaneous.
Collection (1855-1958) of manuscript and printed materials compiled by Antoinette S. Jenkins, including a history of St. Peter's Church, Salem, Massachusetts, 1958; notebook containing records of the botanical research conducted by Hugh M. Neisler of Taylor, Georgia, 1866-1881; photocopy typescript account of the 45th Georgia Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) during Civil War battles at Richmond, Cedar Run, 2nd Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Shepher...
Papers (1783, 1812-1901, 1912, 1934, undated) consisting of indentures and land records; wills, an inventory and other estate records; correspondence; receipts, a promissory note, and other financial records; a broadside; a poem; a postcard.; and miscellaneous.
Papers (1788-1869, 1965) Hoyle J. Windley, of Bath, NC, a teacher, postmaster, and lieutenant in the NC militia, and his children, consisting of correspondence, store accounts, receipts, promissory notes, wills, summonses, bill of sale, special events-major fire, tournaments, coronation Ball, etc.
Papers (1795, 1827, 1856-1956) including correspondence, financial papers, copies, genealogical notes, a will salutatory address, brief essay, Civil War events, etc.
Papers (1791-1945) of steamboat operator on the Cape Fear and Black Rivers, based in Point Caswell, NC, consisting of correspondence, genealogical material, wills, indentures, marriage certificate, receipts, inventories, exposition programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and miscellaneous.
Papers (1831-1937) consisting of correspondence, ledgers, deeds, wills, indentures, legal papers, photographs of Spanish-American War.
Includes genealogical correspondence, documents, photographs, research notes, and obituaries compiled by the donor, Frances Holloway Wynne, relating to the Holloway, Sorrell, Cooper, Poole, and related families of Durham County, Johnston County, and Wake County, North Carolina; and Burned County, Virginia, ca. 1512-1995.
Papers (1766-1869) consisting of correspondence, legal papers, land records, financial papers, reports, newspapers, and miscellaneous items.
Papers (1830-1919) of a prominent New Bern, NC attorney, state representative, 1876-1880, and state senator, 1881-1883, consisting of correspondence, legal briefs, financial papers, accounts, estate papers, land book and miscellaneous.
Collection (1785-1824) including correspondence, tax lists, wills, slave records, deed, property holders.


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TALLAHASSEE — The Florida State Seminoles got where they wanted to go Saturday night against Tulane, via a different route.
For a team that lives and dies by the pass, Florida State finally won a game with a strong running game.
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida State Seminoles got where they wanted to go Saturday night against Tulane, via a different route.
For a team that lives and dies by the pass, Florida State finally won a game with a strong running game.
Victor Floyd and Sammie Smith led a rushing attack that produced 215 yards of offense en route to their 54-21 victory. This marked the first time since the Gator Bowl victory last year that the Seminole backs have rushed for more than 200 yards in one game.
Danny McManus, made his first start since October 12, 1985, Saturday night. When McManus got in to trouble in the second half, Bowden turned to the backs for help, and got it.
Floyd, a sophomore tailback from Pensacola, carried the ball 16 times for 93 yards and one touchdown. He credited the offensive line for his performance.
''The offensive line played their hearts out tonight. They made things happen,'' Floyd said. ''Without their performance, it would have been nearly impossible.
Smith, a freshman from Apopka, rushed for 66 yards on 13 carries after coming off a knee injury that sidelined him from practice last week. Smith also gave credit where credit was due.
''Coach Bowden gave a speech at halftime, and the offensive line really got fired up,'' Smith said. ''They were mentally ready to do the job, and when they play well like tonight, it really makes things easier for me.''
''In the first half we thought that we would go with a simple game plan, just run at them and wear them down. In the second half the line took over and gave us the backs the holes we needed,'' Floyd said.
The Seminoles rushed for only 40 yards in the first half, compared to 175 in the second.
Mark Salva, a junior offensive guard, started the game in place of Parrish Barwick, who is out with a bruised knee. Salva is ecstatic over the play of the line and the running game.
''I tell you, Vic and Sammy are awesome backs. I love those guys,'' Salva said. ''When you give them just a crack, they can kill you. The line pulled together and helped make things happen. When you have backs like Vic and Sammy, and your line blocks well, watch out there is going to be a show.''
Salva said the key was the outside.
''For the first time in a while, we were able to turn the corner. We had different avenue's this game aside from dives into the line,'' Salva said. ''To have Vic and Sammy turn the corner, is like having an arsenal of ammunition. It is very dangerous and can explode at any minute,'' Salva said. By virtue of their statistics, the Seminoles proved that going somewhere through the air is not always better than traveling on the ground.


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A darker, tougher companion piece to El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire has always been unfairly overshadowed not only by its more popular predecessor, but also by the fall of its own behind-the-scenes empire. (The mammoth project's disappointing box office led to the end of Samuel Bronston's Europe-based super productions.) Both films benefit immensely from the sobriety and rigor Anthony Mann brings to a genre usually governed by mindless spectacle, though Fall hems closer to the director's obsessive theme of the system collapsing from within, a motif Mann explored in settings as diverse as the noir city (T-Men), the French Revolution (Reign of Terror), and the American frontier (The Man from Laramie). In Mann's epic, the seeds of Rome's collapse are planted with the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness), whose dream of a unified Pax Romana gives way to the bitter conflict between his corrupt son Commodus (Christopher Plummer) and heroic general Livius (Stephen Boyd). Their brotherly bond turned to bloody rivalry, Livius seeks refuge in romance with his beloved Lucilla (Sophia Loren) while Commodus toys with his crown of laurels and barbarians prepare to cross the frontiers.
Put bluntly, the difference between El Cid and Fall is the difference between faith in a concept of heroism that can transcend even death, and the realization that the fate of the world rests not in the hands of brave warriors but in those of devious schemers who speak softly and carry poisoned daggers. The former is sun-dappled and hopeful, the latter is wintry and gravely Olympian: Plummer's Commodus mentions the "laughter of the gods" that oversees the intrigue, a notion superbly visualized by Mann in various severe tableaux in which the howling wind seems to mock the characters. Robin Wood once praised Mann as one of the few American filmmakers able to convey the pain of violence, and, pictorially gorgeous as it is, the picture fully illustrates his claim; the torture by torch endured by the adviser Timonides (James Mason) is an instance of off-screen brutality to match Gloria Grahame's collision with scalding coffee in The Big Heat, while the protracted duel between Livius and Commodus is authentically draining in its vision of a civilization's cruel and virtuous sides canceling each other out. Indeed, in its profound disillusionment, Fall seems to owe its failure with mid-'60s audiences less to being out of fashion than to being ahead of its time.
The pristine visual transfer (preserving the anamorphic 2.35:1 ratio) and the full-blooded sound design are, in one word, epic.
As with the Weinstein Company release of El Cid, this deluxe DVD package is stocked to the rafters with solid extras. Samuel Bronston's son Bill and biographer Mel Martin in the commentary continuously steal credit away from Mann and the actors to keep the image of Broston the visionary burning; more informative is "The Rise and Fall of an Epic Production," a featurette that brings out several production anecdotes (including missing scenes and the building of the world's biggest movie set) before admitting that, yes, it did lose money, but it's a hell of a movie. Composer Dimitri Tiomkin gets his own featurette in "Scoring the Roman Empire," and the veracity of the picture's narrative is tested in "An Historical Look at the Real Roman Empire," "Hollywood vs. History: An Historical Analysis," and a batch of rather soporific Encyclopedia Britannica shorts. Rounding things out are trailers, photo galleries, and a really snazzy booklet of production stills.
The HBO series may have orgies on its side, but Mann's underappreciated epic goes deeper and darker into the fall of Rome.


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Hey Guys!!
I actually bought these items for when I went to Butlins at the weekend, there will be a post coming up on the weekend, you can also see the daily vlogs on it HERE. Anyway, stop rambling and get to the point, I needed to get a new scarf as for some reason when we moved I lost a scarf, I seriously think magical clothes fairies took stuff.
I was going to actually pick up a tartan/plaid scarf but seen this gorgeous woven black scarf and got this one instead. It is lovely and warm and glad I went for this one. I also picked up the matching mittens, which you can fold the top half down and its like fingerless gloves, these are the same woven material and really do keep my hands warm. I also decided to pick up a plain coloured beanie hat as I have a lot of patterned ones and thought why not throw a plain one in the mix. I absolutely adore the colour on this hat as its a Burgundy/Oxblood colour and is perfect for Autumn/Winter.
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Waka Flocka Flame has been in the news lately for banning Lil Xan from Hip-Hop but new music is on the way too as he's gearing up to release I Can't Rap Vol. 2 in the Summer. Tonight we get a little taste of what to expect. It's a little late but Waka jumps on Cardi B's 'Bodak Yellow'.
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Do they exist?
Seriously, are there any great jeans out there for under $100.00?
I bought a pair from Banana Republic the other day that look Fab!!!! $120.00 ( a little over...but hey thats close!!!)
Bebe is OK too
are you kidding?
it doesn't get better then levi's men's 501. shrink to fit gives you the dark dark denim formal look, white are super soft but classic. those are perfect perfect jeans - button fly, etc. they're $40 and under.
for my $$ jeans, i wouldn't touch anything besides apc, and they keep it under $200 (for now).
The ones that fit me the best are the Curvy jeans from Express.
I wanted to get a pair of really nice ones from NM...but sadly all the expensive ones don't fit well on my body
I love Pure Color jeans as well...they are not too high...
I have a couple pairs of Mavi jeans which I got at Macy's. I think they're around $75 or so.
Zara TRF Jeans and MNG by Mango Jeans both fit me very well (except for the skinny jean style). They're all under $100.
Mavi and Guess are decent for their price. Better if from the factory outlet.
I love designer jeans...True Religion being mu favorite, but I was at Marshall's recently, and bought the best pair of jeans (for going out), for $19.99. They were so cute that when I came out of the dressing room, two ladies asked me where they came from and went ang got a pair. The brand name is Indie, and they were in the juniors department.....
i like see through soul....a sales girl at Nordstrom's brass plum was helping my friend try on jeans and talked me into a pair too. they can be had for between 50 and 70 dollars most of the time. they stretch a lot...i wear a 30 in most brands, but can easily fit in a 28 in those.
i have a few pairs of cheap jeans.. miss sixties mostly, and frankie b.
i have to admit i dont wear them as much as my more expensive jeans tho.
i normally hate old navy jeans, but i recently bought a pair of their skinny jeans that are fabulous - they seriously look so much more expensive than they are. they were $25. i was astounded (as i mentioned in several threads, lol).
i also really like jcrew jeans - some of them are over $100, not all of them, but their washes are really nice and classic and they're good quality. i recently bought a beautiful pair of their trouser jeans at the outlet that were about $70.
I've heard that J.Crew jeans run large. Did you have to buy a smaller size?
these did seem a tad big, i usually wear a 34 and i bought them in a 33. i find that trouser jeans usually run big, though, so i can't attest to the other cuts. i do remember trying on a pair a while back at the regular store in a 34 that were too big in the ass, but my ass is basically not even there anyway, so that's not that unusual.


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I also got a strange e mail, supposedly from Jeff Hookway. I thought the better of it and did not open it. Contacted Jeff and he confirmed my suspicions. It is as you say, some sort of phishing scam.
It is amazing that more of these people are not caught and prosecuted. I talked with a friend of mine who is a retired police detective. he said that there are so many of these guys (or gals) out there that they only chase the big fish.
It pays to be vigilant with your e mails.
If it is anything that you don't recognize, DON'T OPEN IT!!! Take care my friends.
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COIN 2009 : 8th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems
Conference Series : Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems
|Link: http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/coin@ijcai09
Call For Papers
8th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations,
Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems
July 11-13, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Web site: http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/coin@ijcai09
In recent years, social and organisational aspects of
agency have become important considerations in MAS
research, especially in applications such as Service-Oriented
Computing, Grid Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In
addition, the MAS requirements for openness, heterogeneity,
and scalability pose new demands on traditional interaction
models in that coordination and control has to be expanded
to consider societal and organisation-centric views. Within
this context, this workshop seeks to provide a forum for
the convergence of AI developments from the complementary
perspectives of coordination, organisations, institutions
and norms.
Relevant topics include, but are no limited to:
* Modeling multi-agent organizations.
* Models and architectures for social agents.
* Coordination in dynamic and emergent agent organizations.
* Organization design and monitoring of regulated MAS.
* Ontologies, methodologies, tools and standards for
regulated MAS.
* Social science background for regulated MAS: Roles,
authority, motivation, social power and other social
relationships and attitudes.
* Languages for norms:expressiveness VS efficiency.
* Agent communities, electronic institutions and virtual
* Coordination and interaction conventions, technologies
and artifacts.
* Institutional aspects of peer to peer interactions.
* Issues in regulatory dynamics (creation, evolution, change).
* Issues in regulated MAS implementation.
* Simulation, analysis and verification of regulated MAS.
* Engineering organizations (validation, implementation and
tools for agent organizations).
* Scaling and control issues in agent organizations.
* Norms, institutions and organizations: authority, power,
dependence, sanctions, contracts, trust, reputation as
regulating tools for agents within organizations.
* Application of organizational theory to MAS.
* Organised Adaptation of regulated MAS: protocols and
* Models of norm (law, policy) change: norm revision,
conflict detection, norm updates.
* Simulation, analysis and verification of dynamics of
multi-agent organizations.
* Dynamic, adaptive and emergent organizational structures.
* Practical applications of agent organization systems.
Important Dates
Deadline for papers submission: March 06, 2009
Notification about submissions: April 17, 2009
Camera ready copy: May 08, 2009
Proceedings and Submission
Proceedings will be available at the workshop. As with
previous COIN workshops, selected, revised and
extended versions of the papers of the 2009 COIN
editions will be published in a single Springer LNCS
volume. The length of each paper, including figures
and references, may not exceed 16 pages. Further
formatting guidelines and instructions on how to
submit a paper may be found at the workshop web page.


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17 December – Koussouka, 8:02pm
I woke up the next morning (the 16th) and realized that it was the day for swear in! Yay! We didn't have any agenda in the morning, but I wanted to go buy a big bag (they sell large square vinyl ones that zip) and go to the Transit House to take a bunch of books. I went to breakfast downstairs and found that Antoinette and David both wanted to go to the small market nearby. I learned how to haggle properly (thank you David), we bought what we needed, and even managed to get all of it back to the hotel – people were very amused at David and Antoinette carrying a mattress on their heads. They wanted to go shopping elsewhere so I started walking to the Transit House which was right near the restaurant we'd been at the night before. It was a much longer walk without company, and I ended up having to call Josh to get me to the correct side street, but in the end I found it and will certainly be able to find my way back next time. I talked with the PCVs that were hanging out at the House (I was pleased by how many I already knew!), and then grabbed lunch nearby with Al before we caught a taxi back to the hotel to get ready to go to the Ambassador's house.
We all looked magnificent in our matching pagnes, if I do say so myself. (A pagne is a printed piece of fabric that you can buy at any street market and comes in a bolt of 3. You can ask the vendor to cut off one – a little more than 5 ½ feet long and 3 ¾ feet wide - but they prefer if you buy all three at once. Used for making clothing, curtains, baby-carrying slings, etc) Don't worry, we took lots of photos! I think the Americans were amused, but the Burkinabe seemed impressed with our matching outfits – you see a lot of families wearing matching outfits for important ceremonies here. The ceremony was interesting for the most part, and the hor-d'overes and drinks while mingling with staff and older PCVs after the ceremony was over was a lot of fun. When we stood up in front of the Ambassador to take the oath (the same one given to government workers, court justices, and the President) I was kind of hit with a feeling of "This is it!" a happy and slightly nervous sensation of being about to take the proverbial plunge into the unknown. Cliché, perhaps, but true.
A couple of us took the bus back to the hotel to leave our bags in our rooms, and then we caught a taxi to a restaurant with a big outdoor seating area so we could sit in long rows. There was a good mix of old and new PCVs, and as more people kept showing up we just kept adding on tables. After dinner people kind of split off into groups to go find entertainment – I ended up playing pool (badly, but it was a lot of fun none the less) for a few hours with a bunch of older Volunteers and then we went and joined everyone else at a restaurant that also had a bar/dance floor. I got the chance to chat with a bunch of new people, and it was an absolutely fantastic way to celebrate becoming a Volunteer and also saying goodbye to our stage group.


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August 2, 2016,
10:24 local time,
House of Lieutenants Homeland Security Hearings, House of Lieutenants Building
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"Agent Hotchner," said Justice Department Special Investigator Mike Milner upon taking his seat. "You're here very early."
"I always like to be early," said Behavioural Analysis Unit Chief Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner coolly but smugly. "Helps me stay on top of things."
"...and, as usual, Agent Morgan is late," said Milner matter-of-factly.
"He has his ways of doing things," said Hotchner, not hiding his contempt.
A few minutes later, the sound of doors crashing and feet thundering could be heard getting closer and closer to the hearing room. The Secret Service Agents tensed up anticipating a situation, but they relaxed after the figure burst through the doors, panting but not out of breath.
"Sorry I was late," said BAU teammate Special Agent Derek Morgan. "The traffic was unusual getting out of Chesapeake Bay."
"Yet you deal with it every day," said Hotchner, giving Morgan the side eye. Morgan returned a death glare in Hotchner's direction but thought better of responding.
He then made his way to his seat, where Morgan made no secret that he was in a fighting mood.
"Special Investigator Milner," said Morgan calmly but firmly, "with all due respect, I'm not sure why I'm here. Hotch is the Unit Chief, not me."
"In late 2009 and early 2010, you were the Unit Chief," said Milner. "I also understand Agent Hotchner gave you more responsibilities once he re-assumed the position."
"I assumed those responsibilities on my own," said Morgan sternly. "Hotch didn't impose them on me."
"I don't really care," said Milner. "You made some decisions that you need to answer to, and you will answer them."
Milner then gave the court page the nod and the page started the recording of the proceedings. Milner, a former prosecutor, was tasked by Eva Avita, Roman Prefect of North America, to write a report on the state of crime fighting in North America, evaluating the culture of law enforcement offices continent-wide.
"Now, to get started, I understand you two are the longest active members of the BAU, correct?" said Milner.
"That is correct," said Hotch. "I began in the BAU in 1996, assuming Unit Chief upon the retirement of David Rossi in 1998."
"...and I joined to replace Agent Rossi," said Morgan. "I was 25...hired after being on patrol with Chicago P.D."
"I understand Agent Morgan you didn't go to University," said Milner.
"Correct," said Morgan, "I just did my Police Foundations training at 19 and became an officer at 20...since then I have gained a Psychology degree online."
"So why did you hire Agent Morgan, Agent Hotchner?" said Milner. "Surely there were others more qualified."
"None more determined," said Hotchner. "We worked a case in Chicago in 1997...Officer Morgan distinguished himself on the case and made an impression...it was clear that he was being held back by his precinct Captain, Stan Gordinski."
"So you were being charitable," said Milner, folding his arms.
"I resent that!" said Morgan, getting up and forcefully pointing at Milner.
Milner struck down his gavel, which didn't abate Morgan's anger but it made him re-assume his seat.
"If you're here to play politics Investigator then I have no interest in these proceedings," said Hotchner.
"I don't care if you don't have interest in these proceedings," said Milner. "Except that if you care about your career, you will take an interest in them...and if politics did play a role in your decision-making, Agent, that is certainly of importance to me."
Morgan just shook his head derisively.
"What is there to make us think you haven't written this report of yours already," he said angrily, "and you're just putting on show trials just so your buddies in Congress think you're doing your due diligence?"
Milner only chuckled in response.
"Agent Morgan," he said, "one of these days you're going to have to realize that the only way you do get by is because people do you favours. That's not politics, that's reality."
"Derek earned his position," said Hotcher interjecting. "It had nothing to do with his skin colour."
"So why is he the only member of the BAU who is black?" said Milner, matter-of-factly.
"I hired Jordan Todd to replace Agent Jareau for a few months," said Hotchner, "and the BAU has more women than any other department in the FBI."
"So this is about politics for you, Agent Hotchner," said Milner.
"No, it's not," said Hotchner, trying to hide his frustrations.
"Why do you need to tell me that you have a much higher quota of women than other departments of the FBI?" said Milner. "If everything is equal that wouldn't matter."
Hotchner then looked Milner right in the eye.
"Because there are people like you who like to look for things like that and assume there's a meaning when there isn't," said Hotchner. "Maybe you don't realize that, as a white man, there are things that I have to do to make sure I don't look like 'the bad guy' because there's always someone assuming an ulterior motive."
"It's my job to assume there's ulterior motive unless you correct me," said Milner.
"Well, Mike, you're being corrected," said Morgan, "because I know Hotch, and there isn't a racist bone in his body."
"No," said Milner, "but there is a sexist bone in both of your bodies," said Milner.
"I beg your pardon?!" said Morgan, apoplectic.
Milner chuckled.
"Miranda Jakar," said Milner. "Why did you kill her, Agent Morgan?"
"Maybe because she tackled me and was firing a gun at my head?" said Morgan, as if the answer was obvious.
"Your police report makes no mention of her tackling you," said Milner. "It just says that she 'posed a threat' and you had to 'eliminate it'. Besides, Miranda is 5'8'', 135 pounds...you are 6'1'' and easily twice her weight, in pure muscle. I find it hard to believe she could tackle you and posed much of a threat to you."
"I was blindsided," said Morgan. "George Foyet did the same to me a few months earlier and he weighs even less than Miranda does. She's also much stronger than you give her credit for."
"Speaking of George," said Milner, who sounded like he was only beginning to have his fun, "Agent Morgan, you let Foyet have his fun with Hotchner and did nothing to prevent his death at Hotchner's hands. Am I right?"
"George Foyet was a crazy madman," said Morgan. "He was impossible to get a read on...this guy...he played us right left and centre...I mean, he was just...really, we tried everything."
"A likely story," said Milner. "You know, I have a series of text messages that were entered into evidence...you call Aaron Hotchner's wife Haley, who died at the hands of Foyet, the B-word and you wished that Aaron's son Jack would die so you 'wouldn't have to see that little runt again'."
Morgan stood up, beside himself with anger.
"Excuse me?" he said. "I never said any of that! Who gave that to you?"
"I can't reveal my sources," said Milner, "just that I have them."
"That's not all, though," said Milner, continuing before Morgan could protest some more. "You sent the City of Calgary into a panic by taking your sweet time in apprehending a serial killer who was dropping women like flies. You even apprehended the wrong suspect before you got to the right one."
"Edgar Calvin Burrell was also a tricky suspect," said Hotchner. "He covered his tracks real well...he was very hard to catch."
"I'm sure the City of Calgary was very understanding of that," said Milner, sneering at Hotchner.
"Of course," said Milner, continuing, "I could just go into all of your cases...almost every one involves women being killed, women your team could never save. In fact, many times you were called on to a case and women still died at the hands of the killer, so you can't even say that local incompetence was to blame. More to this point, the vast majority of your cases involved beautiful, young, white women...women of colour, older, less desireable women or men of any age or skin colour meant nothing to you."
"That is not true at all," said Hotchner, who began feeling a sense of inevitability about the proceedings, "we got involved many times in cases where women of colour and men were targeted. One of the cases I am most proud of is the Kansas City Legacy Killer where we apprehended Charles Holcombe and saved his would be final victim, Maggie Stephens, and allowed her to get a new life. The locals had written off Holcombe's killings because his victims were homeless people and prostitutes, but, because we care about everyone, we treated them the same way we treated Ann Herron and Natalee Holloway."
"Natalee praised your work," said Milner with a smile.
"Then there was Mason Turner, the Windsor Farmer," said Morgan. "We stopped him and his killings, and saved Kelly Shane from her fate." Morgan then began to tear as he continued. "You know, she sends me a Christmas card every year and calls me regularly just to thank me for our work and allow her to have the family that Mason nearly took from her."
Morgan needed a moment to cry before regaining his composure.
"You can't make that stuff up," said Morgan. "We're not just a 'bunch of heroes' looking just for glory...we're real law enforcement agents, doing real jobs and saving real people. I have no idea why you can't see any of that."
"You know why?" said Milner, who shook his head at Morgan's emotional display. He then turned to his page. "Bring Elle Greenaway into the room."
The page did as she was told as both Morgan and Hotchner turned to look at each other as Greenaway took a seat well to the right of Morgan and Hotchner.
"I've already interviewed Elle," said Milner, "but she wanted the opportunity to address you both. She has attempted suicide five times in the past ten years and has been to therapy more times than she can count...all because you failed to protect her from a killer and sent her to her near doom at the hands of a known rapist...a rapist your team was too incompetent to arrest. Elle, I admire your bravery in coming in today."
"This is an outrage!" said Morgan, getting up and gesturing wildly. "She violated protocol, couldn't listen to commands- or rather just didn't want to- and has no one to blame but herself for the situation she is in!"
"Victim blaming," said Milner. "Rich, Agent Morgan."
"Investigator Milner," said Hotchner as Morgan re-assumed his seat, "Agent Morgan is right, even if he's too blunt about it. I'm sorry that she is going through all the rough times, but she did kill William Lee in cold blood. I had to cover for her because I cared and wanted her to avoid jail, since I know she did the right thing."
"Your report is wrong, Agent," said Greenaway, interjecting, barely able to contain the tears in her eyes. "I knew both of you would be callous jerks...I didn't think it would be this bad."
"My report is right," said Hotchner curtly. "Just because I don't have physical evidence doesn't make it wrong."
"It makes it completely wrong," said Greenaway. "Your only proof that I killed William Lee was that I stood in front a grave that said 'Lee'...that wasn't even his grave. You just used your 'profiling' bunk, your whack job science, to convict me. Because you're a man, people in power believe you...and because they believe you, I could not find a job in law enforcement ever again. They all said they read your report, and, worse, they didn't even believe me when I told them that he raped me and almost killed me if I didn't get lucky and some bystander ripped him off of me and beat him to death."
"Beat him to death?" said Hotchner, his noted cool facade cracking noticeably. "No, no, no...I saw the M.E.'s report...he died of a gunshot wound to the chest...there were no beatings."
"Beatings...gunshot," said Milner, "what difference does it make? We're talking about an event that happened ten years ago...Elle is going to get some details wrong."
"That's not a detail you get wrong, Investigator," said Morgan forcefully. "The colour of his shoes, the buildings around her, the location of the stain on his shirt...that is stuff you get wrong. A gunshot you will remember...it's less subtle than a beating. Besides, who even is this guy that rescued you, Elle?"
Greenaway broke down and cried for several minutes before she could regain composure.
"He left," said Greenaway. "I thanked him, but he walked away. I never knew his name."
"That's because he didn't exist," said Morgan. "What does he even look like?"
"It was all a blur you numbskull!" said Greenaway, pounding her fist on her desk. "I don't remember, mostly because I had a severe concussion brought upon by that loser."
"I noticed you're a registered Unionist," said Hotchner, noticing a pin on Greenaway's blazer jacket. "Who did you vote for in the primary?"
"That's none of your business," said Greenaway.
"I bet you any money it's Haylie," said Morgan, referencing Presidential hopeful Haylie Modine, an unabashed feminist, running against the "classical liberal" Juan Castro for the Unionist nomination.
"Feminist causes were always big for you, Elle," said Hotchner. "Haylie Modine says a lot of things you were known to say...you even told me there's 'nothing more feminist than capturing serial killers', because they're men who target women. Lee held a special place in your heart and there was no way you were going to let him get away."
Hotchner paused to grab a drink of water before continuing.
"You know," he said, "you always admitted that you killed Lee in self-defence...that was never in question. I know you gave an interview to a New York radio station where you said the exact same thing...this mysterious rescuer never showed up until this year...when you went on TV and told your story for a CBS special, the one that started this whole process with Mike Milner...shortly after Haylie Modine announced her candidacy for the North American Union Presidency and gave you an opportunity to play the victim even more than you already did."
Greenaway just shook her head.
"If you think you can go 'Hotchalanche' on me like Les Serling you're mistaken," said Greenaway firmly. "I support Haylie because she's the only one that's willing to say what you men aren't willing to say...all this stuff about my memory and nitpicking over the details...all this is just some sorry way to discredit me so you don't have to admit to the fact that you, Aaron and Derek and the rest of the men in the BAU, failed me. William Lee raped in plain sight but you did nothing to stop him. In fact, he had multiple federal stalking charges that he could have been held on...you didn't need to send me in to my doom with him.
"No...the truth is you fail women...you fail them all the time. You pick the cases because you want to look like you're the 'knight in shining armour' coming in to save the 'damsel in distress' and you do it every time...except when that damsel is that b*** of a feminist who just never knew when to shut up. Am I right, Aaron?"
Hotchner pursed his lips and moved them around, uncomfortable and unable to come up with a response.
"Oh, and 'Mr. Chocolate Thunder'?" said Greenaway, sneering at Morgan. " 'Chocolate Thunder'...what a pathetic nickname...what are you, some lame wrestler who couldn't make it in the WWE?"
"Penelope gave me that name!" said Morgan, pointing at Greenaway forcefully.
"Ah, Penelope," said Greenaway, sounding more confident as she spoke, "Penelope Garcia...that one you 'banter' with, a banter filled with so much misogynistic filth I'm surprised the FBI hasn't fired you already."
"We're friends," said Morgan. "Besides, she started it...we're just playfully flirting, and you know I would never do that with someone who is unwilling...I'd never disrespect a lady. Ever."
"Except me," said Greenaway. "Do you think I liked hearing that every day? How do you think that made me feel? Especially because I knew you were just stringing Garcia along...you were never going to go out with her."
"She was never going to go out with me," said Morgan. "Don't you know how attraction works? We were friends...that's it."
"Then why did Penelope say to me that you smacked her ass once," said Greenaway. "Actually, it wasn't once...it was a few times."
"OK," said Morgan, shaking his head in stunned disbelief. "That never happened."
Morgan then got up and began gathering his things. Milner tried to get him to sit back down but Morgan wasn't going to back down.
"No," said Morgan, letting loose his anger in his voice and in his gestures, "I will not sit back down and take part in this kangaroo court! I know what's going on...you, Mike, the Federalist...the worst of the conservatives...you're just trying to take down Hotch and I because you can't stand the thought of a black man rising up the ranks of the FBI, even though he's earned it. That's why you made up that fake text saying that I hated Hotch's wife and kids, and sent Elle here to roast me on some harmless banter that she not once ever said to me made her feel uncomfortable...on top of lying about me grabbing Garcia's ass, because I would never do that. You also sent Elle here to destroy Hotch's credibility, because how dare this guy who's hired more women than anyone else on this continent fire another woman who couldn't follow orders and decided to take matters into her own hands. Elle agreed to go undercover and try to get Lee...but she botched that operation. I'm sorry she's gone through this life of misery and believe me, I'm sick to my stomach about what happened between her and Lee...but at some point, she's going to have to stop blaming other people for her problems and look in the mirror. Her grandstanding and changing the narrative only does a disservice to the real victims who struggle every day to be believed, because they have to deal with narcissistic nutcases like Elle, like Haylie Modine, like you, Mike Milner who want to exaggerate and fabricate because it fulfills whatever fantasy world they want to live in, and know they'll never get."
Morgan then walked over to Greenaway's desk and leaned in, looking at her with furrowed brows.
"You know Elle," said Morgan, calmly but sternly, pointing at her as he talked. "I'm sorry you had to deal with what you did...I prayed for you every day and I still do, and I'm going to keep on doing so because I wished nothing bad happened to you. I wish I could go back in time and stay at your house, because there would have been no way that Randall Garner would have broken in and shot you...it would never have happened on my watch...and that's not a dig at Hotch, because I'm sure he would love to go back in time and send someone other than Anderson to look after you after the pathetic job he did. Elle, we love you...we care about you...to see you up here and engaged in some kind of sick witcth hunt hurts me beyond words. I just hope that one day, you'll realize what you've done and realize you're not doing yourself or any other rape victims any favours."
Morgan then turned and addressed Milner, at which point Hotchner himself decided to get up and walk out with Morgan.
"As for you," he said, his steely glare locked into Milner's. "You said you're just after the truth...well, I think I know what you're really after. You don't care about finding out what really happened and looking at things objectively...no, you're just after confirming the 'truth', your truth, the one you've already decided has occurred and one that you're going to shoehorn everything to fit into it. This whole proceeding was a sham right from the start...I should have known better. You know, after you're done tearing apart my career and Hotch's, you take one good look at yourself in the mirror and revel...because you know there's going to be one day when someone's going to be coming after you and they're going to do the exact same thing to you and there will be nothing you can do to stop it."
Morgan then lowered his voice but the anger in his voice didn't subside.
"Enjoy your victory," he sneered, "because you're not going to like it when you lose."
Morgan and Hotchner then quietly left, with Milner adjourning the proceedings for the day.
Once inside their car, Morgan and Hotchner reflected on what they just sat through.
"We never should have agreed to be questioned," said Morgan. "I had to put Milner in his place."
"You jeopardized our careers," said Hotchner curtly.
"They were jeopardized the minute Milner started these proceedings," said Morgan. "That's how politicians work. They research to fit their own narratives, they don't want the truth. Milner never wanted the truth...he just wanted to confirm his own suspicions."
"Milner's not a politician, though," said Hotchner with a sigh. "He's supposed to be 'one of us', so he was supposed to be objective."
"Yeah, but he wasn't," said Morgan matter-of-factly.
Hotchner again let out a sigh.
"You don't really think I sent those messages, do you?" said Morgan. When Hotchner didn't respond, Morgan chuckled in disbelief before giving Hotchner a look.
Hotchner again sighed.
"No," he said. "I don't believe you sent those messages. Jack still plays with the basketball you gave him for Christmas when he was seven, and Haley wore the bracelet you gave her ten years ago to celebrate Jack's birth when she died. We also appreciated your yearly trips to our house, especially your gumbo."
Morgan laughed with appreciation.
"My father taught me well on that one," he said with a smile.
Morgan then turned serious.
"You don't think Elle and Milner are coordinating to bring down the BAU?" he said.
"Milner wants to bring down the entire FBI," said Hotchner. "As well as the Military Police and any other federal law enforcement agency he can get his hands on. The Unionists have been crowing for years about 'removing the police state', and Milner seems like he's obliging."
"So what do we do now?" said Morgan.
"We need to do what we can to investigate Elle and Milner," said Hotchner, "knowing it won't be easy. We may have to accept our fates and realize that next year there may be no BAU."
Morgan sighed and nodded his head faintly, acknowledging Hotchner's words.
"All our work," he said pensively, "gone because of some idiot with an obsession...I wish these nitwits would understand just what it is exactly what they're doing, that there are lives that are being ruined. I mean...what's Rossi going to do? Prentiss? Reid? Hawkes? Jane? Garcia? JJ? You?"
Hotchner chuckled with a sigh.
"I may just decide that being a single father and being there to raise Jack is all I need to do," he said. "Dave and I could easily get into the consulting business. Zoe and Reid, they're still young enough to have more opportunities...so too does Emily and JJ...and Garcia is one of a kind. Someone will find a use for her. Then Patrick...well, he was a showman once...he could be a showman again."
Hotchner then turned to look at Morgan.
"As for you," he said, "multiple departments have asked me if you'd be willing to lead them, not just New York. Just say the word and I'll send them your way."
"Not yet," said Morgan, mustering up some confidence. "I'm not quitting just yet. I won't let Milner get the best of me. We still got the BAU and we're going to be in it until the very end."
2018 Post-script
Milner would write his report, titled "Heroism and Hero Culture in North American Law Enforcement", which was more commonly referred to as simply "The Milner Report". It was issued on September 22, 2016, a voluminous document that recorded thousands of instances of improprieties by continental agents, all of them driven, concluded Milner, by a "need to be recognized as a hero". LEOs, asserted Milner, only picked cases that were both "high profile" and "easy to solve", with agencies sometimes writing false reports in a bid to "pad their statistics" and thus make their work seem better than it actually was. The Report noted that all levels of law enforcement were affected by this "hero culture", but none more so than the continental agents who were their superiors.
The result was that, while the BAU and other federal agencies continued following the Report, the agencies were transformed into "desk jobs" with federal agents being prohibited from going out into the field unless a state legislature approved of their presence. This meant that local law enforcement units took on more work, being forced to solve more cases on their own, though funding was not increased to manage the new amount of work. Many, thus, opted for trained law enforcement mercenaries known as "Spitzenkreigen" (singular "Spitzenkreiger", or "top warrior" in German), whose training both physically and mentally was military grade. North America's Spitzenkreigen were all trained by Stark Industries, who employed former Roman military commanders and many of the world's top detectives to train the new recruits, who would then be sent out to local agencies. Although the Spitzenkriegen were themselves expensive, agencies still saved money in hiring them, since they could do the work of dozens of police officers and detectives at a fraction of the cost.
Barred from the field, the team of Hotchner did all leave the Bureau for other agencies in November 2016. Doctor Spencer Reid joined Stark and taught the recruits profiling and detective work. Patrick Jane resumed his old career as a showman, though he stressed his "psychic evaluations" were not real and he incorporated magic tricks into his performance. Emily Prentiss joined the police agency for the Roman alliance, the Mundiali, as a field agent, as did Zoe Hawkes, though both based themselves in different locations- Hawkes in her native Cleveland and Prentiss in Edinburgh. Jennifer "JJ" Jareau became the top crime reporter in Buffalo, earning numerous awards for her work.
Then there is David Rossi and Aaron Hotchner. Both decided to retire, opening a consulting business in Buffalo where they provided investigative assistance to any police force that required their services, whether or not they were in North America. They also included in their practice private investigation services. The reduced workload allowed the two to enjoy their lives as bachelors, giving Hotchner time to raise his son, Jack.
As for Garcia...she disappeared after leaving the BAU, with rumours persisting that she reconnected with her hacker roots. She still communicated with Morgan and Prentiss from time to time, though she never did reveal her location. She appeared to be joined by her boyfriend Kevin Lynch, who disappeared at the same time she did.
Finally...Morgan. He wondered if Hotchner's claim that multiple agencies wanted him as their leader was correct, as his experiences taught him they wouldn't. Sure enough, his inquiries were left with invitations to interviews that went nowhere, because many cities just wanted the appearance of diversity and a diversity of candidates without actually committing to that cause. For six months after leaving the Bureau, Morgan was out of work, as no one would actually commit to hiring him.
In May 2017, Morgan received his break. Tony Stark was referred to Morgan by Reid, and Stark believed he would be the perfect instructor for the Spitzenkreigen's physical training. Morgan accepted the job but itched to get back into the field. A few months after starting with Stark, Harvey Bullock, the Police Chief of Sunshine City, a resort town on Kino Bay in Sonora, asked Morgan if he would build a SWAT team for him in the City. Morgan accepted, and moved to the City in November 2017, where he still works to this day.


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Make angels smile by taking a stand
And trying to help all the people you can
Don't expect angels to do all the good
When you're only wishing and knocking on wood
Do expect angels to march thru the mud
To wade in the waters to save wasting blood
Don't expect angels to lock any doors
To save you from anger, to save you from lures
Don't expect angels to seek out your friends
And marshall the forces to stop wayward winds
For angels are mighty in deeds and in words
They roar like a lion and sing like a bird
Angels can be anyone on the street
A private chauffeur or a cop on the beat
Do expect angels to be everywhere
In peace and in danger they're standing so near
For angels are tranquil, they're smooth and they're tough
They're complex and simple, they're wistful and rough
They're soft like a baby, they fly while you walk
They shine through the sky, they sing while you talk
You may not know them when they are around
They're constantly working and work without sound
Do expect angels to love you each day
To fall on their knees and watch while you pray
Do expect angels to look like you look
They may be a star or just a plain cook
A man with a derby standing near you
He looks like a banker. Is he an angel too?
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"These units are equipped with necessary weapons and hardware and are staffed with contract servicemen," a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Earlier on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was ready to replace Austrian peacekeepers on the Golan Heights with approval from the United Nations and if the regional states showed interest in the Russian proposal.
"In view of the complicated situation which is currently unfolding on the Golan Heights, we could replace the Austrian peacekeeping contingent, which is withdrawing from this region, on the disengagement line between the Israeli troops and the Syrian army," Putin said at a meeting with Russian officers who have been appointed to top army posts or promoted to top military ranks.
"Naturally, that will happen only if the regional powers show interest in our proposal and if the U.N. secretary-general asks us to do that," Putin went on to say.
At the same time, the Russian head of state said that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had personally asked him to increase Russia's participation in the United Nations peacekeeping operations during his visit to Russia some time ago.
On Thursday, the Austrian Defense Ministry ordered a withdrawal of its peacekeeping contingent from the Golan Heights. Austrian Defense Minister Gerald Klug said that the withdrawal mechanism had been launched and that the pullout would take from two to four weeks according to schedule. Klug emphasized that Austria could evacuate its soldiers in several hours if the situation got radically worse.
According to Klug, if the withdrawal goes according to plan, the first group of soldiers could return to Austria on June 11.


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The Bab el Mandeb connects the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, which is part of the Indian ocean. The Red Sea connects to the Mediterranean sea through the Suez canal.
Bab el Mandeb The Bab el Mandeb is a strait located between the countries Yemen and Djibouti. Bab el Mandeb means Gate of Tears in Arabic it is called this because of its rough waters and because of an Arabic legend about a huge earthquake that split Asia and Africa and a lot of people drowned.
Control of the Bab el Mandeb
In the past France and great Britain fought over the control of the Bab el Mandeb because of its strategic location. Now it is used by everyone to deliver goods faster.
Dimensions The approximate Width is 13 miles from the edge of Djibouti and small island Mayyun that's part of the country, Yemen. The length is 33 miles long from the end of the Red Sea and the end of the Sawabii Islands
` The Bab el Mandeb is very important to the united states and Europe because they receive their goods everyday. This is one of the worlds major oil transit checkpoints.
If the Bab el Mandeb were to close that would hurt most countries because a lot of goods passes through there, if it closed then the ships will need to go all the way around Africa to deliver the goods. That way takes longer and costs more money.
The Bab el Mandeb is a very strategic strait because it is one of the worlds largest oil transit checkpoints. Millions of gallons of oil goes through everyday to the united states and Europe. There is military presence on the Bab el Mandeb the base is called Camp Lemmonier. The camp was established to prevent terrorist from the Bab el Mandeb.
Advantage Mostly all countries can use this strait because it's a shortcut from Western Europe to the Indian Ocean. It's faster then going around Africa. Disadvantages The only disadvantages is rough water and navigation and there is pirates roaming the area.
Today a lot of oil tankers pass through the Bab el Mandeb because it gets the oil to europe and the united states quickly 3.3 million barrels go through per day that's why the Bab el Mandeb is one of the worlds major oil transit checkpoints. A lot of cargo ships go through to delivering a lot of goods. Like cars, food, clothes, act.
The Bab el Mandeb is also called the Gate of Tears because its waters is dangerous. The strong winds agitate the water which makes it a rough ride. The current flows south-east from May-October and north-west from November-April
Somali Pirates roam the waters off the bab el mandeb and they attack the cargo ships because they want the cargo. Recently the moved more in to the bab el mandeb causing all sorts of trouble. They even held a captian of the Maersk Alabama ship hostage then the navy seals came and saved him .
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Saturday, May 8, 2004
Women of Troy cruise
West High shines on cool day
By Andy Hamilton
Iowa City Press-Citizen
CEDAR RAPIDS - Stocking caps, gloves, hooded sweatshirts and heavy coats were fashionable clothing at the Mississippi Divisional
The air was cool, the wind was brisk, and a Friday night track meet in May felt more like an October evening cross country
For the West High girls, the dreary conditions were absolutely beautiful.
"I think they're perfect," West's Claire Hall said after the Women of Troy won their fifth Mississippi Valley Conference divisional
title in seven years on Friday in Cedar Rapids Prairie. "Everyone else (on other teams) is thinking, 'This is my worst day.'
West High track thinks, 'This is my best day.'
"Mentally, they're going to be thinking 'This is the wrong weather for me, I can't run fast in this.' At West, we're always
thinking this is the best weather, this is when we run the best."
The final standings don't dispute Hall's argument. West High cruised to the team title by racking up 159 points - 57 ahead
of second-place Dubuque Hempstead.
"Elements or not, what we hoped to gain out of this meet was a conference title," West High coach Mike Parker said. "As we
talked about before we got here, I don't want to hear that it's windy, it's cold; it's the same for everybody."
Parker said the Women of Troy took a cross country approach to the meet.
"You come in and your time doesn't mean anything," he said, "but your place means everything."
West's evening was highlighted by a sweep of the individual distance events and underlined by a strong showing in field events.
Sarah Wickman and Julia Frudden finished first and second in the 3,000. Hall and Frudden were one and two in the 800. Wickman
and Janet Dobyns were the top two in the 1,500.
Wickman said she and her teammates take pride in following the storied past started by other West distance runners.
"We hope it'll carry on," she said. "I feel good I'm carrying their tradition on."
The Women of Troy got a victory from Nicole Novak, Naomi Hillsman, Hall and Lizz Huntley in the 4x400, and West piled up 41
points solely on the strength of its performance in the field events.
Kolie Eko won the long jump with a leap of 16 feet, 10 inches. Steph Koepp's toss of 123-6 won the discus. Danica Haight placed
second in the shot put, and Allison Dirks finished second in a field that included the top three among Class 4A high jumpers.
Cedar Rapids Prairie's Jessica Statler, Dirks and Cedar Rapids Kennedy's Alyssa Fisher entered the meet with the three best
jumps of the year.
Statler won the event by clearing 5-4 to finish ahead of Dirks, West's Cae Lamb and Fisher, who each cleared 5-3.
Dirks said she was looking forward to jumping against Statler, but the wind created problems for all the high jumpers.
"It's more mentally hard," Dirks said. "You try not to think about it, but (it's hard) when it's blowing in your face. I was
trying to wait for the wind to die before I jumped, but you've got a time limit."
MVC Mississippi Divisional
Team scores - 1. West High 159; 2. Dubuque Hempstead 102; 3. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 73; 4. Linn-Mar 64; 5. Waterloo West 61;
6. Cedar Rapids Prairie 35; 7. Waterloo East 8.
Winners, West place-winners
3,000 - 1. Sarah Wickman (W) 10:30.09; 2. Julia Frudden (W) 10:37.60.
4x800 - 1. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (Maggie Bobbin, Andrea Wacker, Megan Yossi, Audrey Smith) 10:24.71; 3. West (Cindi Klein,
Maggee Mitchell, Jacqueline Astor, Christine Skopec) 10:50.06.
Shuttle hurdle relay - 1. Dubuque Hempstead (Nina Schnee, Nichole Schnee, Cali Lyons, Leah Timmerman) 1:04.31; 2. West (Katie
Johnson, Christina Swift, Lindsay Freeman, Kristen Shaffer) 1:05.25.
Distance medley relay - 1. Linn-Mar (Melissa Becker, Nicole Novy, Lindsey Digmann, Chelsie Hoststedler) 4:24.67; 2. West (Heather
Brechtel, Lisa Mellecker, Nicole Novak, Janet Dobyns) 4:27.72.
100 - 1. Lindsey Derby (DH) 13.23; 6. Johnson (W) 13.67.
400 - 1. Alyssa Fisher (CRK) 59.27; 2. Lizz Huntley (W) 1:00.14; 3. Steph Mount (W) 1:03.72.
Shot put - 1. Ashley Simpson (DH) 42-51/2; 2. Danica Haight (W) 37-8; 3. Jane Ebot (W) 34-1.
Long jump - 1. Kolie Eko (W) 16-10; 5. Huntley (W) 15-11.
Discus - 1. Steph Koepp (W) 123-6; 4. Haight (W) 97-5.
High jump - 1. Jessica Statler (CRP) 5-4; 2. Allison Dirks (W) 5-3; 3. Cae Lamb (W) 5-3.
4x200 - 1. Dubuque Hempstead (Lyons, Timmerman, Nina Schnee, Derby) 1:51:06; 4. West (Naomi Hillsman, Rachel Park, Annie McAleer,
Jenna Holida) 2:00.44.
100 hurdles - 1. Lyons (DH) 16.00; 3. Swift (W) 16.69; 4. Freeman (W) 17.01.
800 - 1. Claire Hall (W) 2:25.18; 2. Frudden (W) 2:31.08.
200 - 1. Fisher (CRK) 26.28; 4. Huntley (W) 27.19; 5. Johnson (W) 27.25.
400 hurdles - 1. Chelsea Ronemous (WW) 1:10.49; 3. Kristen Shaffer (W) 1:15.39; 6. Chloe Mellecker (W) 1:18.98.
Sprint medley relay - 1. Dubuque Hempstead (Nicole Schnee, Nina Schnee, Derby, Melissa Dupont) 1:54.63; 3. West (Brechtel,
Sarah Minor, Mellecker, McAleer) 1:56.71.
1,500 - 1. Wickman (W) 4:52.34; 2. Janet Dobyns (W) 5:05.84.
4x100 - 1. Linn-Mar (Katelin Blasingame, Linsey Digman, Amanda Spencer, Marissa Becker) 52.17; 3. West (Brechtel, Freeman,
Swift, McAleer) 53.62.
4x400 - 1. West (Novak, Hillsman, Hall, Huntley) 4:08.08.


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Kellyanne Conway was born Kellyanne Fitzpatrick in South New Jersey on January 20, 1967.
She was raised by her mother, Diane Fitzpatrick, after she and Kellyanne's father divorced when Kellyanne was very young. "Kellyanne was reading by the age of 3. She loved to learn," Diane has said of her daughter. Kellyanne escaped working class roots where she studied Political Science at Trinity College and eventually law at George Washington University. She's an accomplished woman. She also does standup comedy.
She's a divisive figure, the woman who may have singlehandedly guided Donald Trump to the White House. She has no problem spinning facts or attempting to cover-up any malfeasance committed, publicly or privately, in the past, present, or future. She is the type of person who grins at the face of truth before ordering a Yeungling. That's not for her.
There's something about her though. Yes, she has reformed a beast and is very bad, the kind of being whose hooves have been reshaped into heels and passes as human. You cannot stop watching this person prattle on, spinning the truth into golden lies.
On the surface, she and I don't have much in common. Or do we? Her last name is (Was.) Fitzpatrick. She has a Diane Fitzpatrick in her family. I have a great aunt named Diane Fitzpatrick who is a raging alcoholic who once got so blasted at a wedding that she thought I was unrelated to her and attempted to seduce me. Kellyanne is from New Jersey. My parents are from New Jersey. We both pulled ourselves out of working class roots to legitimate colleges in Washington, DC. We both enjoy politics. We're both dye bottle blondes.
The last name thing—The Fitzpatrick.—is what makes me crazy. Knowing this truth ("truth") casts Kellyanne as a different figure. It offers a context that she is a fun loving Catholic girl who will fight for a cause out of a need to survive instead of an actual belief in truth. It's a selling outward and upward to get ahead. It's the sort of deal you make with a dark force in the hopes that you will be sanctified in their darkness. It's a desperation unique to those fiery Irish Jersey people that we love to make fun of. She is Atlantic City with a law degree. She is a Fitzpatrick.
Of course I do not know Kellyanne but I know her because she is family. She is a person that I have met at weddings and funerals who I squint at from the back of the conversation in an attempt to understand the how and why we are related. Her hair is piled high on her head, thin and breaking at the ends, makeup lying like dried pus on sore wrinkles. Her outfit is gaudy and cheaply gilded and she stands out as an alternate reality fashionista. She is the person who drinks all the bad wine, who I will later ask my parents if we are related to. They will nod and I will ask them how and they will say that we have a lot of distant cousins that we don't keep in touch with, some of whom have that rough Jersey Fitzpatrick way that we don't necessarily participate in. I'll nod and wonder how much more of New Jersey I'm related to.
This happens every few years, more and more Kellyannes revealing themselves as adjacent family at once-in-a-decade events. I've never actually met another person with the same surname who wasn't related. Fitzgeralds, Kilpatricks, Fitzhugh: I've met people with those names. I've never met another Fitzpatrick though. Particularly, I've never met a person who goes by "K. Fitzpatrick" like me. You could even scramble the first part of her name and my name and end up with the same name.
She is a fiction to my fact, a person in an orbit outside of my real life. She exists in a fantasy of she and my making that, sadly, is actually real life. She is the wet crawling woman from the Ring movies that falls out of the television, this time from a political reality program that now rules the nation. It's scary because it's irresistible. You watch the tape she stars in even though you know you will die.
Again: what's unfortunate is that I know Kellyanne. I probably really am related to her in some tangential way, a cousin of a cousin of a cousin four times removed, our family trees shaking hands at the roots feet beneath the earth. I know this person is inherently good but is still trying to escape the past for fear of the then becoming the now and beyond. It's a working class Irish Catholic Jersey fear that I hear in my father's voice whenever we talk about money. It's the type of zombie eyed glaze that makes him pant when you mention retiring. There is a concern that the mid-century working class struggle is going to snatch them out of their successes and force them into poverty. That is probably why my father voted for Donald Trump. (This is unverified but I assume my Fitzpatrick patriarch was lulled by the reigning Jersey Cheeto King™.)
This is what gives Kellyanne her demented genius: she is escaping a greater demon behind her, that Jersey past, the one where she actually is a person who attends funerals for dead Fitzpatricks because she has nothing else to do. If that means attaching yourself to an Annoying Orange™ demogorgon to get out, that's what you have to do. Yes, you take baths in bleach when you get home, stripping your skin until you burn yourself down to bones to see your own truth, but you still have hope. She has hope although misguided.
It is understandable, it is wrong, but it is a unique type of Irish Catholic Jersey desperation that requires your latching on to something in order to just survive.


text: He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306| by Alex Tsakiris | Feb 24 | Consciousness Research | 0 comments Please Share Share on Twitter Dr. Eric Wargo has turned Carl Jung's synchronicity idea upside down by suggesting a link to successfully replicated precognition experiments. photo by: Robbert van der Steeg One of the mantras I've learned on Skeptiko is, "follow the data wherever it leads." As truth seeking mantras go this one is pretty good. I've had to endure some helpings of humble pie after doing an about-face on my cherished beliefs, but that's part of the process . Sometimes, however, following the data isn't enough. On today's episode of Skeptiko Dr. Eric Wargo, creator of TheNightShirt.com and author Trauma Displaced in Time, gives us a new way to look at data that's been staring us in the face all along. Has Dr. Wargo cracked the code of Synchronicity, déjà vu and remote viewing. Let's find out: Eric Wargo: …I'm really starting to think in terms of our relationship to time as kind of this circuit. We're completing these circuits [and] moving through life sort of oriented toward future rewards. This I think explains a lot. I had a series of blog posts about a year ago where I took on Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity using this model. And I think it explains so-called meaningful coincidences much better than synchronicity can because really all it says is we are orienting constantly, unconsciously, toward information from our future. And we're orienting toward rewards specifically in our future. But when we are completely unconscious of that fact–when we find this thing that we are unconsciously orienting towards, we feel this surprise and shock. It feels like some intelligence in the universe is guiding us or that God has sort of given us a sign. But I think it's just really ourselves. We're oriented toward [future reward] unconsciously, precognitively; and because our society doesn't allow us to even think about the possibility of precognition, we throw up our hands and say well it's some bigger organizing force in the universe. It's archetypes. It's collective unconscious or whatever. I think this PSI model of precognition, specifically precognition for our own future rewards, I think this explains synchronicity perfectly. Alex Tsakiris: And just let me interject because one point to take from that is part of what you're saying is an unavoidable natural fallout from these presentiment and precognition experiments we have. It's unavoidable, right? That's what the data clearly says. So if you're a student at Northwestern University and you're told you're going to win five dollars if you guess the right picture before it's even selected by the computer, and that motivates you, and we can demonstrate that you're therefore able to orient yourself towards the future that's coming. Then it's only a question of to what extent you're right–not whether you're right or not because you're clearly right. The experiment shows that. It's just to what extent that does play a role in guiding our lives. Eric Wargo: That's a great example. Exactly.


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Any genealogy researcher will tell you that death certificates and obituaries hold a great deal of valuable information for your family tree. These often contain the name of the deceased, place of residence, place of death, the names of family members and cause of death. It's always fascinating when you stumble upon an unusual cause of death. Here's a clipping from The Ocala Evening Star dated April 3, 1908. A woman, Mrs. Anna Ferrer of New York, laughed herself to death while attending… Read the full story
Did you miss our Google+ Hangout on Air with best-selling author A.J. Jacobs? Don't worry, you can catch what you missed in the video below! A lot has happened since AJ first announced the Global Family Reunion. In this hangout, AJ gave us an update on his latest celebrity-cousin discoveries, dished on upcoming television appearances and explained ways for you to get involved. Here are some ways you can help: Connect for the Cure – Help… Read the full story
We hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween! Now to kickstart the month of November, check out our roundup of articles from around the web! Image: 100-Year-Old Notebook Found Encased in Antarctic Ice / Tech Times The Genealogy Sphere 13 Tips for Landing a Wife (in the 19th Century) (mental_floss) – Here are some 19th century tips for landing that special someone Can You Marry Your Cousin? (Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter) – Dick Eastman discusses the question… Read the full story
Happy Halloween! A yearly celebration in many countries, Halloween is a fun holiday filled with candy, costumes and parties. But do you know where these Halloween activities originated? From Samhain to Halloween The origin of Halloween dates back the Celtic harvest festival Samhain, which was annually celebrated on November 1. During this time, it was believed spirits or fairies could more easily come into our world. Bonfires were lit and offerings of food and drink were left in… Read the full story
In just a few days, millions of children and adults will celebrate Halloween. For those looking for a scare, haunted houses and hayrides are frightening and fun activities to partake in. With costumes of all shapes and sizes, families get to enjoy trick-or-treating for candy, costume parties and pumpkin carvings. It wasn't until the 1930s that Halloween costumes were mass-produced and sold to consumers. Before then, costumes were made by hand. Do you remember what costumes you wore on Halloween? If you're still… Read the full story
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Do you have old postcards in your collection of family history mementos? Before email and texts, postcards were a perfect way to send short messages to family and friends. Because of this, postcards often hold wonderful anecdotes of family memories written in the hand of your relative. Whether your relative was traveling or just sending well wishes during the holidays, postcards bring us an intimate connection with your family's past. With Halloween season upon us, check out… Read the full story
Earlier this month, we shared some great ways to celebrate Family History month. One suggestion was to plan a trip to the cemetery, a fun activity to explore the outdoors and to take in some family history. To help inspire your next cemetery field trip, Geni user Georgette Tan shares her experiences photographing cemeteries in her country of Malaysia. Born in Sarawak in East Malaysia, Georgette works as a journalist with the local English daily,… Read the full story
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In the news, the topic of "We are compelled to stop free access" wrote that, quote: "We are in great necessity of financial support to keep developing the game and enhance our servers." As you also wrote, "We did not expect a dry and a big wave of new users.", Then you may want to present the game on your website kickstarter.com, thanks to which you can perform a fundraiser for smooth continuation of the project and the opening of a free test server.
The game has a very high potential, and thanks to this site, you can also estimate its popularity not only itself but also its value to a potential customer / player.
But this is just my little suggestion.
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I hate fat kids' parents
*To clarify the car accident. It was a result of a mis-placed pass of the football by my brother on to a main road,which i chased enthusiastically and got completely mowed over in front of my house, great days.
Here in Bahrain, trees are for shade and cars are the only way you get can get from A to B. Sad but true.
Shocking true story: Just last week I was leaving work and was stopped by a colleague as i was going down the stairs to our car park. I noticed a family at the foot of the stairs. After i had finished my conversation 2 minutes later i continued down the stairs to find 2 x 30+ ladies and their 2 x 10 year old children still there. They asked "excuse me, do you know where the lift is?". I was amazed that they had waited there and not actually walked up the stairs (which takes about 10 seconds max), i answered by saying "im not really sure but there are stairs right behind me", they walked off with a look of dissapointment. The world we live in! pretty sad, eh?
Here in the Middle East, exercise/activity for kids involves 'shopping' in the malls, which basically means the cinema and some crappy fast food with the BD20 (about 30 quid) pocket change they are thrown every visit. Or they can get their entertainment fix on their I-phones. Arrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
In a sentence... I believe technology is killing the child sport star.
Ok, im good now.
Share and post comments as usual, Thanks.