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Die Yongala war ein 1903 in Dienst gestelltes Passagierschiff der australischen Reederei Adelaide Steamship Company, das Passagiere, Post und Fracht in einem regelmäßigen Linienverkehr zwischen australischen Häfen wie Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne und Cairns transportierte. Am 23. März 1911 wurde der Dampfer vor Townsville an der Ostküste Australiens von einem Zyklon versenkt. Alle 122 Passagiere und Besatzungsmitglieder kamen dabei ums Leben. Das Wrack der Yongala wurde erst 1958 entdeckt. Die genauen Umstände konnten nie geklärt werden, da es keine überlebenden Augenzeugen gab. Bis heute zählt ihr Untergang zu den größten Schifffahrtsunglücken Australiens.

Das Schiff

Die aus Stahl konstruierte Yongala wurde auf der Werft Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Limited auf dem Fluss Tyne in der englischen Stadt Newcastle upon Tyne gebaut. Sie lief am 29. April 1903 vom Stapel und wurde im Oktober 1903 fertiggestellt. Gemäß der Tradition der Reederei wurde das Schiff nach einem Wort aus der Sprache der Aborigines benannt. In diesem Fall war es yongala, was so viel wie "weites Wasser" bedeutet. Auch die Stadt Yongala im australischen Bundesstaat South Australia wurde nach diesem Begriff benannt.

Die Yongala wurde von dreifach expandierenden Dampfmaschinen angetrieben und verfügte über eine Einzelschraube und fünf Dampfkessel. Ihre Maschinen waren von der Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company hergestellt worden. Die offizielle maximal erreichbare Dienstgeschwindigkeit lag bei 15,8 Knoten. Bei der durchschnittlichen Reisegeschwindigkeit von 15 Knoten wurden 67 Tonnen Kohle pro Tag verbraucht. Bei zahlreichen Überfahrten wurde sogar eine Höchstgeschwindigkeit von 17 Knoten festgestellt. Auf dem Vorschiff waren eine Reihe belastungsfähiger Ankerwinden und Spills sowie sieben Seilwinden, zwei dampfbetriebene Ladekräne und mehrere Derrickkräne angebracht, die für eine schnelle Be- und Entladung der Frachträume sorgen sollten. Die Yongala war außerdem mit elektrischem Licht, Kühlvorrichtungen für die Fracht und einer dampfbetriebenen Rudermaschine auf dem Poopdeck ausgestattet, die von der Kommandobrücke aus gesteuert werden konnte.

Die Yongala war in Adelaide registriert und beförderte Passagiere von Western Australia zu den Häfen von Adelaide, Melbourne und Sydney. Ab 1906 wurde sie auf der Route Brisbane–Fremantle eingesetzt. Sie war das erste Schiff, das diese 5000 km lange Strecke bewältigte. Zwischen 1907 und 1911 fuhr das Schiff in den Wintermonaten von Melbourne nach Cairns, da die Brisbane–Fremantle-Route im Winter nicht besonders nachgefragt wurde.

Die letzte Fahrt

Erste Stationen der Reise
Am Dienstag, dem 14. März 1911 legte die Yongala in Melbourne unter dem Kommando des 62-jährigen Kapitäns William Knight zu einer weiteren Überfahrt nach Cairns ab. Es war ihre insgesamt 99. Fahrt in australischen Gewässern. Kapitän Knight war seit 14 Jahren bei der Adelaide Steamship Company und galt als kompetenter und verlässlicher Schiffsführer, in dessen Laufbahn es noch nie zu einem Unfall gekommen war. An Bord waren 72 Passagiere und 73 Besatzungsmitglieder.

Am Morgen des 20. März legte der Dampfer an der Pier Municipal Wharf in Brisbane an, wo 70 Reisende von Bord gingen. Nachdem neue Passagiere und Fracht an Bord genommen worden waren, fand eine Inspektion des Schiffs statt, die zeigte, dass es sich in einem hervorragenden Zustand befand. Die Weiterfahrt hatte sich verzögert, daher steuerte die Yongala mit Höchstgeschwindigkeit ihren nächsten Zwischenhalt, Mackay, an.

Am Donnerstagmorgen, dem 23. März traf die Yongala in Mackay ein. Wieder schifften sich Passagiere aus, andere kamen an Bord. Als das Schiff um 13.40 Uhr wieder ablegte, waren 49 Passagiere, 73 Besatzungsmitglieder und 617 Tonnen Fracht an Bord. Die Yongala war noch in Sichtweite, als die Wetterstation in Flat Top in der Nähe von Mackay per Telegramm die Nachricht erhielt, dass zwischen Townsville und Mackay ein Zyklon an der Küste von Queensland wütete. Im Vorjahr war in Sydney die erste mit drahtloser Telegrafie ausgestattete Funkstation Australiens eingerichtet worden, aber bisher waren die wenigsten Schiffe mit einer solchen Anlage ausgerüstet. Fünf Stunden nach dem Ablegen in Mackay wurde die Yongala vom Leuchtturmwärter von Dent Island auf der Inselgruppe Whitsunday Islands gesichtet, wie sie direkt in die Schlechtwetterzone steuerte. Dies war die letzte bekannte Sichtung des Dampfers.

Verschwinden
Die genauen Umstände des Untergangs der Yongala konnten nie geklärt werden. Im nördlichen Teil Queenslands drehten die starken Winde von Südost nach Nordwest und kamen anschließend aus Nordosten. Somit hätten sie den Schiffskurs mit voller Wucht im rechten Winkel getroffen. Der Radius des vom Zyklon betroffenen Gebiets war zwar nicht größer als etwa 30 km, dennoch hinterließ der Wirbelsturm in der Gegend von Cape Upstart eine Schneise der Verwüstung. Die Verspätung der Yongala sorgte zunächst nicht für große Aufregung. Als jedoch drei andere Schiffe, die sich in derselben Gegend befunden und Schutz vor dem Sturm gesucht hatten, in ihren Zielhäfen eintrafen und die Yongala nicht, war man alarmiert. Am 26. März wurde das Schiff als vermisst gemeldet. Der Premierminister des Bundesstaats Queensland, Digby Denham, ließ alle zur Verfügung stehenden Einsatzkräfte für die Suche nach dem Schiff einsetzen, darunter die Polizei und sieben Schiffe der Küstenwache.

Von Hinchinbrook Island bis Bowen wurde von Trümmern und Wrackteilen berichtet, die an die Küste gespült wurden, das Schiff selbst und die Menschen darauf blieben aber verschwunden. Eine Woche nach dem Verschwinden der Yongala wurde die Hoffnung aufgegeben, noch Überlebende zu finden. Es wurden auch keine Leichen gefunden. Lediglich der Kadaver des Rennpferds Moonshine, das an Bord der Yongala nach Townsville gebracht werden sollte, wurde geborgen. Er war bis in die Bucht Gordon Creek gespült worden. Da auch keine Rettungsboote gefunden wurden, glaubte man, dass das Ende der Yongala sehr schnell und unerwartet gekommen war.

Dem Verschwinden des Dampfers folgten viele Theorien und Spekulationen darüber, was dem Schiff zugestoßen sein könnte. Einige gingen davon aus, dass die Maschinen der Yongala zwischen der Whitsunday Passage und Cape Bowling Green durch den Zyklon in Mitleidenschaft gezogen worden waren; möglicherweise waren auch die Anker losgerissen worden, wodurch das Schiff festsaß und seine Breitseite den heftigen Böen ausgesetzt wurde. Unter Umständen kollidierte die Yongala auch zwischen Flinders Passage und Keeper Reef mit einem Unterwasserfelsen oder lief auf Grund.

Nachspiel
Die Regierung von Queensland bot eine Belohnung in Höhe von 1000 australischen Pfund für Hinweise an, die zum Auffinden der Yongala führten. Nachdem aber keine Anhaltspunkte oder Aussagen eingingen, wurde dieses Angebot fallen gelassen. In den südöstlichen Regionen Australiens wurde in vielen Gemeinden und Städten des Unglücks gedacht, zudem wurde der Spendenfonds Yongala Distress Fund ins Leben gerufen, dessen Erlös den Hinterbliebenen der Yongala-Opfer zugutekam. Eine Summe von 900 australischen Pfund, die ebenfalls im Rahmen dieses Fonds gesammelt wurden, gingen im September 1914 an die Organisation Queensland Shipwreck Society.

Am 8. Juni 1911 wurde in Brisbane die Untersuchung des Unglücks durch den Marine Board of Queensland eröffnet. Sie wurde am 20. Juni abgeschlossen. Da keine überlebenden Augenzeugen vernommen werden konnten, beschränkte sich die Ermittlung im Wesentlichen auf den Kurs, die Sicherheit, die Stabilität und die Seetüchtigkeit der Yongala und auf die Frage, ob Kapitän Knight vorsichtig genug gehandelt hatte und generell ein zuverlässiger Kommandant war. Der leitende Ingenieur Adamson sagte aus, dass alle Tests und Übungen, die nach der Fertigstellung des Schiffs durchgeführt worden waren, den Anforderungen der Adelaide Steamship Company entsprachen und dass sich die Sicherheit und Seetüchtigkeit der Yongala in acht unfallfreien Dienstjahren bestätigt hatten. Der Ausschuss war davon überzeugt, dass das Schiff die erforderlichen Standards erfüllte.

Der Ausschuss ließ weiterhin die Kompetenzen des Kapitäns genauestens hinterfragen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Zeugen gehört, denen Fragen zu seinen Fähigkeiten und seinem Charakter gestellt wurden. Alle Befragten schilderten Kapitän Knight als einen erfahrenen und vorsichtigen Schiffsführer. Der Marine Board kam zu der abschließenden Einsicht, dass sich "die Yongala nach der letzten Sichtung durch den Leuchtturmwärter von Dent Island dem menschlichen Auge und Wissen entzogen hatte, um den mysteriösen Vorfällen auf See einen weiteren hinzuzufügen".

Der Ausschuss sah sich ferner in seiner Meinung bestätigt, dass die Schifffahrt und die Navigation an der Küste von Queensland durch die jährliche Hurrikansaison von Dezember bis April beeinträchtigt wurden und dass, egal wie sicher ein Schiff und wie professionell ein Kapitän sein kann, es trotzdem jederzeit zu einem Unglück kommen kann. In den Jahren nach dem Verschwinden der Yongala traten Geistergerüchte um das Schiff auf. Ein Geisterschiff, das wie die Yongala aussah, soll regelmäßig zwischen Bowen und Townsville gesehen worden sein.

Entdeckung des Wracks

In den folgenden Jahrzehnten wurde das Schicksal der Yongala weitestgehend vergessen. 1943 lief ein Minensucher elf Meilen östlich von Cape Bowling Green auf etwas, das damals für eine Sandbank gehalten wurde. Nach Kriegsende wurde die Stelle durch das Forschungsschiff Lachlan, das der Royal Australian Navy gehörte, untersucht. Die Lachlan traf im Juni 1947 ein und suchte das Gebiet mit Echolot und anderem Gerät ab. Sie stellte fest, dass auf dem Grund des flachen Gewässers ein etwa 91 Meter langes Objekt lag, das möglicherweise der Überrest eines Dampfschiffs war. Außer der Yongala gab es in der Gegend kein anderes gemeldetes Wrack. Die Navy erforschte das Wrack jedoch nicht weiter und fand daher dessen Identität nicht heraus.

1958 bekamen die beiden Taucher Don Macmillan und Noel Cook an der Yongala Interesse und machten mit einem Forschungsteam eine Erkundungsfahrt zu dem noch nicht identifizierten Wrack. Die Mannschaft barg einen mit Schalentieren verkrusteten Safe aus dem Schiffsinneren, der lediglich Schlick enthielt. Der einzige verwendbare Hinweis war die Seriennummer des Safes – 9825W. Das Fundstück erwies sich als ein Tresor der Marke Chubb und wurde zu den Herstellern nach London geschickt, um nachzuprüfen, auf welches Schiff der Safe gebracht wurde. Die Antwort kam erst 1961, fiel jedoch erhofft positiv aus. Es handelte sich um den Safe aus dem Zahlmeisterbüro der Yongala.

Das Wrack der Yongala liegt in etwa 30 Metern Tiefe auf den Koordinaten , 35 km nordöstlich von Ayr und 100 km östlich von Townsville. Es liegt vor Cape Bowling Green im Korallenmeer innerhalb des Naturschutzgebietes Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Trotz einer Schlagseite von 60 bis 70 Grad nach Steuerbord befindet es sich in einem relativ unversehrten Zustand. Es ist bis heute ein beliebtes Tauchziel.

Todesfall an der Yongala
Am Morgen des 22. Oktobers 2003 machten sich die frisch verheirateten Amerikaner Tina und David Gabriel Watson auf um die Yongala zu betauchen. Im Gegensatz zu Gabriel war Tina wenig erfahren im Tauchen. Etwa um 10:45 Uhr tauchten die zwei Richtung Yongala ab. Sie folgten einer Gruppe von sechs Tauchern, geführt von einem Tauchlehrer. Rund fünf Minuten später fand der Tauchlehrer Tina Watson regungslos am Grund auf rund 28 Meter Tiefe. Alle Wiederbelebungsversuche, von zwei auf dem Boot anwesenden Ärzten, schlugen fehl, so dass Tina Watson 40 Minuten später für tot erklärt wurde. Noch auf dem Tauchboot wird Gabriel Watson des Mordes an Tina bezichtigt. Weil er sich in späteren polizeilichen Verhören mehrmals widersprach, erhärtete sich der Verdacht, dass er seine Ehefrau – durch das kurzzeitige Abdrehen der Luft – ermordet habe. Nach umfangreichen Untersuchungen durch Spezialisten wurde erst am 20. Juni 2008 gegen Gabriel Watson Anklage in Queensland erhoben. Am 18. Juli 2009 wurde er vom Queensland Supreme Court, wegen Totschlags, zu 12 Monaten Gefängnis verurteilt. Kriminelle Absichten konnten ihm keine nachgewiesen werden, wohl aber das offensichtliche Unterlassen jeder Hilfeleistung zur Rettung des Lebens seiner Ehefrau.

Siehe auch
 Koombana
 Valbanera
 Portland

Literatur
 Max Gleeson. Townville's Titanic. Turton & Armstrong, Sydney (1987)
 Holthouse. Yongala Vanishes. In: Cyclone, Seiten 59–66, Rigby, Adelaide (1971)

Weblinks

 Illustrierter Bericht über das Verschwinden der Yongala (mit Passagierliste der letzten Fahrt)
 Zusammenfassung in kurzen Stichpunkten

 Hauptseite von www.yongaladive.com, einer australischen Taucherwebseite
 Die Lage des Wracks der Yongala

Fußnoten

Passagierschiff (Australien)
Schiffsverlust mit ungeklärter Ursache
Schiffsverlust 1911
Schiffskatastrophe
Schiffswrack
Betauchtes Wrack
Dampfmaschinenschiff
Verkehrsunglück 1911
Seeunfall
Schifffahrtsgeschichte (Australien)
Verkehrsgeschichte (Pazifischer Ozean)
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WASHINGTON: In the line of succession, House Speaker John Boehner is the third-ranking official in the country. For practical purposes, he has all but disappeared as a leader. That failure is pushing the country toward the financial brink.
Boehner�s collapse as speaker has been sad to watch. Unable to control his own caucus, negotiate effectively with the president or pass legislation, he flounders in office � a likable man who is utterly ineffective. He is the prisoner of the extreme wing of his party, and of his supposed lieutenants, such as Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who spend their time pandering to the extremists rather than helping Boehner lead.
Boehner�s problem is that he is unable to deliver House Republicans for any pragmatic piece of legislation. He survives from crisis to crisis, thanks to Democratic votes that salvage last-minute compromises. But on major issues that Boehner personally supports, such as immigration reform, he has been powerless.
We are seeing the consequences of a leaderless House in the GOP�s renewed threat of a government shutdown or debt-ceiling default. These reckless actions are part of a grandstand play to reverse the Affordable Care Act, which begins to take effect in October, but they�ve assumed an illogic of their own. The House Republicans seem almost to enjoy holding the country hostage. Their version of Russian Roulette has become so familiar that we forget just how outrageous it is.
Boehner surely knows this course is folly. Legislation to defund Obamacare won�t pass Congress. And the GOP�s brinkmanship, however popular with the right wing, is damaging the party nationally. Boehner last week struggled to find an alternative strategy � to avoid a shutdown by delaying Obamacare a year, or by attaching the defunding plan to the debt-ceiling extension. Both were seriously bad ideas, but even these extreme proposals were rejected by his caucus.
Boehner declared his impotence during a July 21 interview on Face the Nation. Moderator Bob Schieffer asked him to express support for the comprehensive immigration bill he had earlier said he favored. �If I come out and say I�m for this and I�m for that, all I�m doing is making my job harder,� answered Boehner. �This is not about me,� he said several times, as if abdication of control were some kind of virtue.
House Republican sources tell me that Cantor has cunningly worked to undermine his nominal boss. By often allying himself with the roughly 40 tea-party extremists who refuse any compromise with Obama, Cantor gives them political oxygen. He encourages their showboating, as on the bill he championed this month to slash the food-stamp program. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, described this bill as �a monumental waste of time.� House committee chairmen ignore Boehner; they know Cantor is the guy with the knife.
This dysfunction isn�t built into the system. It�s a result of human failure. President Obama gets pummeled daily for his weak leadership but compared with Boehner, he�s a titan.
It�s useful to remember a time when House speakers were able to cut deals that put the country�s interests first. MSNBC�s Chris Matthews describes such a moment in his new book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. It was early 1981, and a newly elected President Ronald Reagan needed the votes of the House Democratic majority to, yes, raise the debt ceiling. House Speaker Tip O�Neill (for whom Matthews worked at the time) agreed � on condition that Reagan send �thank you� letters to all the Democrats who backed his request.
Perhaps O�Neill is an unfair comparison. He had the rare combination of loyal lieutenants and a president who, for all ideological bluster, wanted to govern effectively. But even by comparison with GOP conservatives Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert, Boehner has been a disappointment. He doesn�t have Gingrich�s intellectual horsepower or Hastert�s deal-making savvy.
Nancy Pelosi wasn�t a perfect speaker, but she showed that a strong leader can enforce discipline even within a House majority that�s being pulled toward its extreme wing by activists, interest groups and the effects of redistricting. She wielded power, sometimes ruthlessly, to keep her committee chairmen and rank-and-file members in line.
I�d love to celebrate Boehner for finding a way to re-empower the speakership and lead the House GOP. But right now, he�s on track to be the worst speaker in modern American history.


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". . . lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self control" and so forth.
But as Christians we are not like that. As Christians we can not be like that! For as Christians we have died to self and now live in Christ Jesus. And that changes us. Christians are by definition different and the change that has taken place in us must be seen not just in how we live before God but also in how we live with one another. First of all how we live with one another in church, as members of the one body of Christ, but also how we live as citizens of this world. And so the apostle Paul concludes his letter to the Galatians in chapter 6 by teaching us what it means to live out of the gospel and how this changes both the way we see others around us and also how we treat them. For we do not live for ourselves but we live for God. And living for God, we also live for one another.
And then how you live, whether for yourself, for your own pleasure and to fulfill the lusts of the flesh, or for God and your neighbor will bear fruit. "Do not be deceived" Galatians 6:7 tells us, "God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap." The man or woman who is obsessed with himself will reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap everlasting life. And so the question that Galatians 6 sets before us is this: Who do you live for, and what seed do you sow?
Gospel sowing bears a gospel harvest.
Be sure of what you reap.
And if, by His Holy Spirit, it is Christ who lives in me then I am a new person! I am free from always trying to compete, always trying to be better than others, always worried about how other people see me, always measuring myself against others. And therefore, as it says in Galatians 5:26, we will not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
The gospel,, therefore, makes us humble. Living from the gospel and believing that the old "me" is dead in Christ and that it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me makes us humble because we know that we are only saved by grace! And that in turn stops us from being narcissistic, from being a "selfie man" or a "selfie woman", that is a "lover of self" to being a lover of others. Since we've been saved by grace alone and in Christ alone, we will not only have a different view about ourselves, but also a different view about others. Because what I've received, I want others to receive also!
And so there is a huge difference between living out of the sinful flesh and living out of the gospel. There is a huge difference between sowing to the flesh and sowing to the Spirit.
They have no part because they have not turned from the way of the flesh, they are not living the gospel-filled life. And then he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption: your deeds will find you out and you will have no excuse.
But there is also another way to sow: to sow according to the Spirit. When we receive the gospel, when we believe in Christ, then we are renewed by Christ's blood and the Holy Spirit. Our sins are forgiven from God, through grace, and our lives are made new and set apart as members of Christ so that more and more we become dead to sin and lead a holy and blameless life. And then as we grow in this life, we will grow in the Holy Spirit and then, Galatians 6 tells us, we will also sow to the Spirit.
Bear one another's burdens. When you see someone, particularly a brother or a sister in the faith, burdened in one way or another by the cares of this life, come along side them and serve them, helping them along the road of life. This bearing another's burden can be practical. It can simply be inviting a person into your home or going to his to have a cup of tea, to be a companion, to be there when they need you. It can simply be to come and to offer a listening ear. To bear another's burden can be coming around with a pot of soup, a meal or a home-baked cake or a tin of biscuits. To bear another's burden might be looking after another person's child, whether it be after school or for a few days. To bear another's burden might be to help clean their house or wash their clothes. Do not despise these things! Do not think they are unimportant or beneath you, but do these things when you have the opportunity.
And on the other hand, brothers and sisters, when others come to offer you their friendship, to offer you their help, to do those things for you, do not be too quick to say no. Accept their help, accept their hospitality, be thankful for their support. And then you in turn go and support others.
But bearing one another's burdens is not just about doing things for others; it is also about praying for others. Perhaps you are not in a situation to do much for others in the congregation or in the community. Perhaps you do not have the strength, you do not have the resources, you do not always see what you can do to help. But you can pray and you can encourage!
To give a personal story of this: when our family was in PNG, we would receive mail, letters, cards and later emails from those who prayed for us back home. We appreciated it; we were deeply thankful for all those who took time out of their busy schedules to write a card, to send a letter, to encourage us in our ministry. But there was one lady's letters that stood out for us. She was an older lady and her handwriting wasn't the best but her letters were beautiful! She'd write about the weather, about her family and about her church. She'd also write about the past and the seasons her own life had gone through. And as time went on we got to know her through her letters and we were encouraged. And in one of those letters, at a time when we needed it – although she would never have known – she encouraged us to remember how great our God is. "Remember", she wrote, "by my God I can jump over a wall!" We chuckled about that one, having mental pictures of an old lady jumping over walls and fences, but we remembered it, and we found the text in the Bible where it actually says that. And we still remember it today, and we are still encouraged by it.
Bearing one another's burdens is to love them, to love your neighbor as yourself, and to encourage them to look to Christ and to find their strength ultimately in Him.
If a brother or a sister falls into sin, then do not stand by and do nothing, nor gossip to others, nor look down upon them as if to say "I would never fall into a sin like that" but help them! Come alongside them, express your concern and point them to the freedom that is theirs in Christ. Do not be harsh with them but call them back to the gospel, back to a life of fellowship with both Christ and His Church.
Each one shall bear his own load. In other words, don't pike out and leave it to others. Do not stand back from the rest of the community and stop your sowing! But rather, press on, and do what the Lord calls you to do. Live the gospel filled life. Bear your own load – and note that a load is not the same as a burden. Bear your own load, that is, whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. Don't give up, do not become weary or disheartened but sow to the Spirit.
When we sow to the Spirit we are not sowing for ourselves. We are not looking at people to see how much we can get out of them, whether or not the relationship would be worth our time. There is no hidden motive, no "what's in it for me?" no "She'd better appreciate it after all the effort that's gone into this." Rather we are simply living the new life that is ours in Christ. We serve them and bear their burdens because we love Christ. And because we love Christ, we love them too.
"Let us not grow weary." We do get weary, we do get frustrated and we do give up. We take our eyes of Jesus, we lose sight of who we are and what we are doing. And so the Bible encourages us: do not lose heart! Remember the gospel! Remember who you are in Christ and remember what you are here for. Remember that you are not doing this for others in the first place, but you are living for God, you are sowing to the Spirit. And then press on. And where you have the opportunity, do good to all, but especially to the household of faith. Wherever you have the opportunity live out of the grace that is yours in Christ. You can not do it all, and you will be overwhelmed if you tried. But start here, the Bible says, start here in the household of faith, in the church community to which you belong. And then go on and live in love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness as you share the love of Christ with others.
"Let him who is taught." The Greek word that is used here (Katecheo) is the same word as our English word catechism. Paul expected the Galatians and indeed all Christians to be taught, to be catechized by a teacher, a minister. And those who are taught, that is each one of us as members of this church, ought to share our gifts with those who teach us. In other words, let us not hold the blessings that God has given us to our chest as if they were all for ourselves, but let us share them for the sake of the ministry of the gospel. When it comes to the church, we are not consumers, here to take but not to give. Rather let each one of us give as the Lord has given to us. Let the teacher and the preacher give from the gifts God has given Him, and let the hearer and the learner give also. For in this way the ministry of the gospel will continue, we will each grow in the gospel of grace, and we will sow to the Spirit.
Will with his sheaves come home again, exulting in the golden grain.


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By Mack Willett July 18, 2019
Keeping Tabs
Art by Alice Yang
Imagine you've committed a crime. You're going to court. Maybe you're being accused of murder, or getting involved in a few burglaries. You're guilty, but you're desperate to walk free. You're organising your case with your lawyer, and at a certain point in proceedings you have to present all the evidence you plan to use to the prosecutors, and they have to do the same. You're making your way through their evidence when you get caught on this abbreviation, CSLI: cell site location information. It becomes clear what the prosecutors are doing. You realise that the police have contacted your cell-service provider (EE, 3, O2, etc.) and requested CSLI for this case. The information details which cell towers your phone connected to when searching for service. It links you very accurately, in location and timeframe, to the crimes.
This was the predicament in which US defendants Aaron Graham and Eric Jordan found themselves: on trial in a Maryland District Court in 2016, arguing that the acquisition of the CSLI was a violation of the Fourth Amendment (which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, and sets requirements for issuing warrants). Graham and Jordan were being charged with a series of armed robberies. Law enforcement had confiscated their phones and, without a warrant, contacted Sprint (their cell-service provider) for CSLI to place them near the robberies. Sure enough, Sprint provided the evidence linking Graham and Jordan to the time and location of four separate robberies. Their lawyers contested the evidence, claiming that it allowed the government "to paint an intimate picture of the defendants' whereabouts over an extensive period of time," but the court denied the request, prosecuted them, and they were sent to prison.
Until recently, the acquisition of CSLI without a warrant had been perfectly legal in the US. The US justice system works on precedent, as it does the UK, meaning that previous cases are cited to add validity to certain claims. United States v. Graham is just one of a host of cases that helped establish the government's ability to access the location of any defendant without a warrant – until recently. In 2017, this discussion was thrust into the mainstream all across the US by one of the most significant privacy cases in history: Carpenter v. United States. A Michigan District Court jury had convicted Timothy Carpenter of armed robbery, and after a number of appeals from Carpenter to re-evaluate the case, it was eventually reviewed by the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States. As in US v. Graham, government prosecutors were able to determine that Carpenter's cellphone communicated with certain cell towers at certain times, and had used CSLI to link him to four robberies. All investigations were completed without a search warrant.
The legal specifics of the case are complicated. Like in US v. Graham, the dispute involves discussion of numerous different aspects of criminal justice procedure: the difference between court orders for disclosure and search warrants, the 1986 Stored Communications Act which governs the privacy of stored Internet communications, and the 'third-party' doctrine, which determines whether citizens can expect privacy when disclosing information to a third-party (in this case, cell-service providers). To the average person, the legal justifications don't seem important, but the June 2018 Supreme Court ruling was monumental; in a five-to-four majority decision, the court ruled that the government, when it accesses historical CSLI without a warrant, is in violation of the Fourth Amendment. In a seminal departure from precedent established by cases like Graham, the Court found that the proliferation of cell-phones in the modern world meant that the rules had changed. The Opinion of the Court neatly sums it up as follows:
[S]eismic shifts in digital technology […] made possible the tracking of not only Carpenter's location but also everyone else's, not for a short period but for years and years. Sprint Corporation and its competitors are not your typical witnesses. Unlike the nosy neighbor who keeps an eye on comings and goings, they are ever alert, and their memory is nearly infallible. There is a world of difference between the limited types of personal information addressed in Smith and Miller [landmark privacy cases from the 1970s] and the exhaustive chronicle of location information casually collected by wireless carriers today.
Cases like Graham and Carpenter provide insulated environments in which lawyers and judges can conceptually address data privacy, one of the most pressing issues of the modern world. It's easy to feel distanced from the issue; after all, we aren't criminals, are we? But the Supreme Court conspicuously mentions "everyone else"; that's us. Unless people around the world acknowledge that the implications of conclusions around CSLI and location data ripple out far beyond the courtroom, Carpenter v. United States will have been for nothing. Criminals and defendants aren't the only people affected by the concerns surrounding location data, and it doesn't take much imagination to realise that location tracking can and does affect the regular consumer, in numerous ways, on a day-to-day basis.
You know when you're talking about something with a friend, and then a minute later you check your phone and see an ad for the exact thing that you were talking about? Facebook and Instagram (who are usually the culprits) aren't actually listening in; they're exploiting your location data. In an episode of the tech podcast Reply All, hosts Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt debunked this urban myth. With the help of ex-Facebook employee Antonio Martinez, they demonstrated that location tracking (using CSLI) and the Facebook 'check-in' feature created a pretty accurate map of your surroundings, and that that, rather than sound recording, was one of the biggest factors in targeted ads. If you've been to Caffè Nero, Facebook knows you've been, and if you've been eight times in a week, Facebook knows you love Caffè Nero. In the all-too-common occurrence of feeling like your conversations are being listened in on, the likelihood is that Facebook knows that you and your friend are together, and bases your advertising profile on the recent consumer interactions of both parties. From patterns of movement, companies are able to weaponise your location data against you and tailor your advertising profile accordingly.
Even when location data is anonymised, it can be reliably traced back to you. Last December, The New York Times ran a piece on their website using forty-six-year-old maths teacher Lisa Magrin as an example: the data they accessed, which had been sold without her knowledge, traced her to her home, the school she taught at, her ex-boyfriend's house, and even her weightwatchers class. Connecting the dots, you could pretty easily correlate her location data with her identity. Nine out of ten times, you could do the same with anyone; researchers at MIT and the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium found that it took very few pieces of data to uniquely identify ninety-five percent of users. Could someone identify you if they were just looking at a map with your footprints on it? Statistics suggest they could.
Even more concerning are examples of government agencies tracking the location of their citizens. This year, leaked government documents revealed that the Trump administration systematically identifies and monitors many journalists, attorneys, and even protestors who work on immigration and civil rights. In a secret database accessible to the Department of Homeland Security, suspects' names, dates of birth, and passports are available, alongside suspected links to 'migrant caravans,' immigration journalism, anti-NRA protests, and immigration protests. The Western consciousness often relegates this kind of surveillance to China or North Korea, but it happens right under our noses. What if the Trump administration had obtained warrantless location data, too? Suddenly, the Carpenter ruling takes on the significance of protecting dissenting journalists and upholding the right to criticise government policy. If it hadn't been for the landmark privacy case, location data would've made the database even more invasive, and even more troubling.
To make things more complicated, CSLI isn't even the only way your location can be tracked. Whilst governments might not be able to access CSLI without a warrant, there's plenty of other ways to obtain location profiles. Have you used Uber in the past year? If so, you've created a locational profile for yourself through their app, based on your rides. Up until 2017, Uber could track you even when you weren't in the car; this controversial, since-removed feature, which they say was used to optimise pickups and dropoffs, was likely used to build locational profiles of users and establish how long the average user might walk before and after a journey. What about a fitness app? You'll meet the same problems. In fact, running/cycling app Strava's location services were so used by so many people that they unintentionally gave away the location of multiple secret US military bases. The company released a global heatmap visualisation of running routes as a way for users to see popular trails, but analysts quickly noticed that military personnel, who'd been using the app to keep in shape, had created accurate heatmap representations of operating bases in locations such as Afghanistan, Djibouti, and Syria. Whilst the average consumer doesn't have the same considerations as the US military, it's a stark reminder of just how intrusive running apps can be. Apple Pay, WiFi connections, Google searches from your IP address: all of them can be correlated to create an accurate map of your location through your phone. If you're not worried, you should be, and if you don't believe me, search up "meet jack ACLU" on YouTube. No spoilers.
In the UK, we haven't had our Carpenter v. United States yet. If you Google "CSLI US" you'll find hundreds of results about privacy, with news outlets reporting the monumental Supreme Court case, Youtube videos explaining how cell towers work, and article upon article celebrating the landmark ruling or looking forward to the future. Do the same with "CSLI UK", and all that's there is maths textbooks, computational linguistics analysis, and an NGO called the Lazarus Union whose website looks like it was made in 2002. In 2016, the British government released an appendix to its Codes of Practice and Conduct, put together by the inspiringly-titled Forensic Science Regulator. It's pretty difficult to find, but the title reads "Appendix: Digital Forensics – Cell site analysis." It's 23 pages long (bear in mind that the pdf. of Carpenter v. US is an enormous 119-page document). Nowhere in the directives are the implications of the technique mentioned. The word 'privacy' doesn't appear once. It's interesting, if concerning, that the same discussions around the justifications and objections to CSLI and location tracking raised in the US just don't seem to be happening in mainstream UK discourse.
The world over, we need to assess the way we think about location data. Some might use the word 'reassess', but in many ways this is the first time location data has been addressed at all; if the Supreme Court of the US is acknowledging the speed of technological development, we certainly need to as well. We need to think about it at an institutional level; there's a very limited amount any given consumer can do to protect their location privacy. Google can track you in numerous ways even if you do turn off location history, and without a significant amount of time and effort, a regular user can't reliably stop that. We're relying on institutions like the Supreme Court and the government to take action, and that won't happen without advocacy. We need to get started. ∎
Words by Mack Willett. Artwork by Alice Yang.


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Author and childhood safety advocate Dominic Cappello spoke to the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce's Feb. 21 lunch. (Bulletin photo by Mike Cook)
BY MIKE COOK
Las Cruces Bulletin
LAS CRUCES – When New Mexico State Senator and retired educator Bill Soules asked the 60 Advanced Placement (AP) students in the psychology class he teaches at Oñate High School to take the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey, one-third of them scored a six or higher.
"These are AP students, students who are doing well," Soules said. Students who are not performing as well academically likely will have even higher ACE scores, he said.
The ACE survey includes 10 experiences that can severely impact a child for the rest of his or her life, like physical and sexual abuse and neglect, and living in an environment of parental conflict, substance abuse and violence.
A score of three or higher has been found to "have devastating effects on the future health and prosperity of children," said Soules, a Las Cruces Democrat who has a Ph.D. in education and psychology and is chair of the New Mexico Senate Education Committee. Those long-term effects include serious health and behavioral health problems, substance abuse, learning difficulties and the inability to hold a job and have a successful career and significantly shorter lifespans.
Kaiser Permanente HMO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted an ACEs study in the mid-1990s that "uncovered a stunning link between childhood trauma and the chronic diseases people develop as adults, as well as social and emotional problems," according to mentalhealthcoalitionvv.org. "This includes heart disease, lung cancer, diabetes and many autoimmune diseases, as well as depression, violence, being a victim of violence and suicide."
Author and former New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) official Dominic Cappello told the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce's Feb. 21 quarterly lunch that he has spent the past year talking about the impact of ACEs on children, families and the state's economy during 100 presentations across New Mexico.
His book, "Anna, Age Eight, The Data-Driven Prevention of Childhood Trauma and Mistreatment," details the life and death of a fictional eight-year-old girl. Anna is based on a real child Cappello knew of while working in CYFD's Assessment and Data Bureau with the book's co-author, Katherine Ortega Courtney, Ph.D. The real child was passed back and forth eight times between her mother's custody and state care before being kicked to death by her mother, Cappello said.
He and Ortega Courtney wrote the book "to create a blueprint to stop this from happening," Cappello said. "I have to take responsibility for 'Anna.' I can't just be pointing fingers at other people anymore."
The state system that deals with childhood trauma "is so challenged," Cappello told chamber members and guests at the lunch and "really needs your support." Staff, relying on inadequate data and burdened by huge caseloads, are "paid to deal with the aftermath" of child abuse," he said. CYFD can substantiate that one in eight children in New Mexico is maltreated by age 18, he said, but that is "the tip of the iceberg. We've got a serious problem here."
"Childhood trauma is the root cause of almost every major challenge New Mexico faces: from the opioid crisis and violence, to low school achievement and underemployment," according to www.annaageeight.org/institute.
The ACE pyramid. (Photo www.cdc.gov )
A bill sponsored by Soules in the 2019 legislative session would create the Anna, Age Eight Institute at Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) in Española. It received a do-pass recommendation from the Senate Public Affairs Committee after a Feb. 25 hearing and moved on to the Senate Finance Committee. NNMC is "the right place to put this to serve all the people of New Mexico," Soules said.
He said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and her administration support the bill, which would create a statewide database and clearinghouse to help communities deal with ACEs.
ACEs constitute "a public health crisis," Soules said. "I think it's a core of a whole lot of issues that children come with when they come to school." ACEs, he said, are "completely preventable. Our kids can't wait for us as adults to start protecting them as children."
That work is already underway in Las Cruces, where City Councilor Kasandra Gandara has set up the state's first data-driven program focused on ACEs prevention, Cappello said.
With support from others, Gandara has completed five tasks in the past year, including creating "the nation's first data-driven and cross-sector program focused on ending adverse childhood experiences," Gandara said in a March 1 Bulletin guest column. She also has formed 10 task forces that meet monthly in Las Cruces to identify gaps in ACEs services, and has reached out to business and nonprofit leaders and the community to more effectively meet the ACEs challenge, which he said is "spread across all socio-economic levels."
The last statewide ACEs-related survey, done in 2009, showed one third of New Mexico adults have three or more ACEs, Cappello said. One-third to two-thirds of New Mexico students have three or more ACEs, he said, and a huge majority don't graduate from high school because of their untreated trauma.
"What we have is essentially an epidemic of ACEs that no one is talking about," said Cappello, who said his personal score on the ACEs survey was a five. With support from friends, mentors and counselors, Cappello said, he has "worked very hard to overcome a lot of trauma."
The only way to end the cycle, Cappello said, is to provide support to both parents and children with "vital family services" that include behavioral health care, medical and dental care, safe and stable housing, food programs and pantries and transportation and vital services, along with family-centered schools, early childhood learning, youth mentorship, parent support and job training and placement.
"ACEs prevention requires systematic change," Cappello said. "Innovators and entrepreneurs" are needed to 'Uber-ize' the system, he said, creating apps and websites that bring services to those who need them. "Everyone's a driver; everyone's a passenger," Cappello said. "We will end ACEs when we get these 10 sectors working."
For more information, visit www.annaageeight.org/institute and www.risktoresilience.org/author/dcappello. You can download "Anna, Age Eight" for free.
Mike Cook may be contacted at mike@lascrucesbulletin.com.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey
Prior to your 18th birthday:
1. Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often push, grab, slap, or throw something at you? Or ever hit you so hard that you had marks or were injured?
2. Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you? Or act in a way that made you afraid that you might be physically hurt?
3. Did an adult or person at least five years older than you ever touch or fondle you or have you touch their body in a sexual way? Or attempt or actually have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you?
4. Did you often or very often feel that no one in your family loved you or thought you were important or special, or that your family didn't look out for each other, feel close to each other, or support each other?
5. Did you often or very often feel that you didn't have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, and had no one to protect you? Or your parents were too drunk or high to take care of you or take you to the doctor if you needed it?
6. Did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic? Or who used street drugs?
7. Was your parent or stepparent often or very often pushed, grabbed, slapped, or hit by a thrown object? Or sometimes, often, or very often kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, or hit with something hard? or Ever repeatedly hit over at least a few minutes or threatened with a gun or knife?
8. Was a household member depressed or mentally ill, or did a household member attempt suicide?
9. Were your parents ever separated or divorced?
10. Did a household member go to prison?
Add up your "yes" answers to get your ACE score.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a leader in Global Commercial Card solutions, recently announced that it has launched a mobile application for cardholders of prepaid cards. The app launch demonstrates the bank's commitment to making the lives of our clients and their cardholders easier by bringing new, digital capabilities to corporate and government clients and to their customers or beneficiaries.
Viewing balances: Cardholders can check their balances while on the go.
Viewing transactions: Users have instant access to pending and posted transactions.
Finding an ATM: Users can access an interactive map that makes it easy to find a nearby ATM.
Suspending or reactivating cards: Cardholders can use the app to place a lock on their card in the event that it is lost or stolen. They can also use it to unlock their card.
Managing and receiving alerts: Users can set up email and text alerts to be notified when card balances are low, when deposits are received, and when their personal information changes.
Biometrics: For biometric-enabled devices, users can take advantage of touch or facial recognition to authenticate their device, replacing the need to input a password.
"While cardholders can already access their account information either online or via customer service phone number, the mobile app makes it even easier for them to manage their financial transactions, which they can now do regardless of their physical location," added Jolly.
The BofA Merrill Prepaid mobile app is free and available to download from the Apple iTunes® and Google Play™ stores.
Making Cardholders' Lives Easier Through a Convenient, Transparent Card Experience.


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Shortlist unveiled for 'Journalists, Whistleblowers and Defenders of the Right to Information' award
The shortlist for the inaugural GUE/NGL Award for 'Journalists, Whistleblowers and Defenders of the Right to Information' has been unveiled.
Dedicated to individuals or groups who have been intimidated and/or persecuted for uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public, this year's award is named in honour of the late Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
The winner(s) will be announced at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday 29th May 2018.
The nominees are:
– Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski
Two intelligence officers whose revelations about wiretapping of over 20,000 political opponents by ex-FYROM PM Nikola Gruevski's government led to the cabinet's resignation.
– Jan Kuciak
Slovak investigative journalist who specialised in tax fraud amongst businessmen with links to top Slovak politicians, and whose murder in February toppled the Fico government.
– Julian Assange
Founder of WikiLeaks who has been holed up inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid probable extradition to the US.
– Maria Efimova
Former Pilatus Bank employee-turned-whistleblower exposed corruption relating to the Azeri and Maltese leaderships. Currently in Greece but wanted by Cypriot and Maltese authorities.
– Raphaël Halet
Former PwC employee behind LuxLeaks alongside Antoine Deltour. He is still on trial for leaking documents that exposed multinationals' tax evasion in Luxembourg.
The winner will receive 5000 euros for his/her work.
You can find out more about the award and the jury here or on the GUE/NGL Facebook page.


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Biden Declares War on Unvaccinated Americans 'Our Patience is Wearing Thin and Your Refusal Has Cost All Of Us' (VIDEO)
September 10, 2021 News
Tyrant Joe Biden declared war on the 80+ million unvaccinated Americans on Thursday.
Biden announced he will be forcing all 2.1 million federal employees to take the Covid jab or else face firing in the next couple months.
Joe Biden also announced he will be forcing companies with more than 100 employees to either test workers or prove they are vaccinated.
Like a true dictator, Joe Biden warned Americans that his "patience is wearing thin."
"What more is there to wait for? What more to do you need to see? We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us," said Biden.
Biden also threatened GOP governors and told Americans 'screw your freedoms.'
Sink Chicken 10 September 2021 at 06:23
What has it cost you Joe?
If you are vaccinated you have no worries unless you amit that the vax has nothing to do with covid?
the mighty wak 10 September 2021 at 06:39
operation warp speed in action
Diver Don 10 September 2021 at 07:02
A vaccine SO EFFECTIVE it can't protect against someone not vaccinated for the virus it was reportedly designed to prevent. Does anyone else see the parody here???
Ben2Joe 10 September 2021 at 10:00
VERY well said. Thank you
Peace21 10 September 2021 at 07:15
There are so many things wrong the list would take several pages. Let's try ... Biden is not the president,... Covid -19 has never been ISOLATED in other words there is no evidence that it exists,... the mRNA is experimental and has NEVER gone through human trials,... there is poison in the mRNA it is called Graphene Oxide, among many other very toxic ingredients and ,... it isn't even a vaccine, ...it is a gene modification agent,... years ago when this mRNA was created in the animal trail,...ALL THE RATS AND ALL THE FERRETS DIED.,... THIS ALONE MAKES THIS INOCULATION 100% ILLEGAL. The FDA has NEVER approved it. ,,, it says so on page 12 of their report. Forced medication of any kind especially experimental is 100% against the 1945 Nuremberg trails pertaining to forced medication. The list goes on and on,...
Line In The Sand 10 September 2021 at 07:47
@Peace 21, you nailed it. Also, supreme court has ruled you can't be forced to take a treatment. Let the lawsuits fly, unions are going to get involved. It's game on. Washington is a rabid dog lashing out...and we all know what happens to rabid dogs.
arrest this devil.
desertspeaks 10 September 2021 at 14:07
demensia joe, the vaccine is NOT A VACCINE, it protects NO ONE FROM ANYTHING "unless you include the legislation crafted to protect the vaccine manufacturers from being wiped off the planet from lawsuits due to their POISON"


PLOT: Initially, I was really thrown off from the alternating chapters. I couldn't really tell what was going on and the 1000 year gap between them made me think that I was missing something. In reality, it was actually pretty clever to have that large gap because Simon messed up when he was a kid. It's all clear by the end of the book and I really appreciate that now.
Of the two different plots, I was definitely more interested in Eliana's. Rielle's wasn't bad, it just wasn't as engaging as the other one. I think they were both very necessary and in terms of pacing, they each moved at the speed that they needed. Also, that prologue sets them both off perfectly, from content to title. I'm curious to see where each plot goes, especially since there is a limited amount of time to work with in Rielle's story. We got the "two years earlier" notification and the trials took months to complete, so there's only what, a year and a half, for her to get pregnant and have Eliana? I suppose she could already be pregnant, but we'll see what happens with that because she isn't the queen yet. She's been named the Sun Queen, but not the Queen queen and I think she will be. Still looking forward, I don't know if I want the alternating chapters to remain. They were disorienting and often I had to stop to remind myself where the characters had been left off from their last chapter. It was just slightly distracting, so I hope each character gets larger chunks of page time at a time.
Rielle: Clearly, Rielle is not the Sun Queen. I can't say I don't like her though for being the Blood Queen because I think she's a good character. A bit messed up from her childhood and devious in terms of being enticed by the empirium, but at her heart, I think she has good intentions. It does make me nervous though that she has such a close relationship to Corien, which I'll get into him later, but I hope she becomes more independent in the next book.
Eliana: She really reminds me of Celaena from Throne of Glass. And I do mean Celeana for those who have read that series. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a level of selfishness that I find annoying and that I think frankly makes her stupid at times. I love that she takes action though and will stand her ground when challenged. I wish though that her relationship with Simon had been developed better. It seemed like it went from distrust one second to wanting to hook up the next without absolutely no transition in between.
Audric: I feel like he's probably the most innocent of all the characters. Yes, he knows the least, but he also I feel like has the least volatile reactions to things. I don't see him as a fighter, even though he supposedly has been trained and is super powerful. If we can see some more of that in the future, I think it would help improve how I see Audric. Right now he's at like a puppy level of cuteness and I don't think that was the intention.
Simon: On the other hand, Simon is as cutthroat as he is initially described and we get to see that in action. He is honestly my favorite character with the exception that he went from "shut-up-and-listen-to-me" toward Eliana to a doe-eyed "you-say-I-do." That was not fun to read. I do ship them, but it was a forced ship. It didn't feel natural.
Corien: This dude gets the creep award. At first, I thought he was just a minor detail- more of a nuisance that would lead to a larger problem. But then he starts to get inappropriate with Rielle and it skeeved me out. Even though he's a creep, I think he is the best-written character out of them all. It's a slow reveal of his personality and his role in both plots and it works amazingly. So even though he is a creepy psycho, I think he is the strongest and most dynamic character.
Navi: She came out of absolutely nowhere, but I'm glad she did. There isn't too much that I want to say about her other than I'm really interested to see what she brings to the table with the involvement of her country.
Ludivine: I was not too surprised when she came back and was revealed to be an angel. There just wasn't enough grief from the other characters to really let that pain seem real. I also think she may end up becoming the wraith that Eliana meets in her chapters, changing her name from Ludivine to whatever it is that begins with an E (sorry I can't remember right now!).


The Freeman's Journal reviewed the June 15 performance of Hamlet at the Gaiety Theatre. The reviewer thought Mrs. Bandmann-Palmer played the Prince of Denmark 'creditably' but was critical of the ghost and of the musical score.
In addition to Mrs. Bandmann Palmer, numerous female actresses played Hamlet, most famously the French tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923). This photo was taken by Lafayette during her performance of Hamlet (in a French version by Eugene Morand and Marcel Schwab) at the Adelphi Theatre in 1899. Other Hamlet 'male impersonators' included Miss Winetta Montague, Miss Clare Howard, Miss Hanette Steer, Miss Mariott, Miss Louise Pomeroy, Miss Charlotte Compton, Miss Julia Seaman, and Miss Oliph Webb (ILN 1899).
Kate Josephine Bateman (1842 - 1917) was an American actress. She was born in Baltimore, MD, the daughter of Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman (an actor and theatrical manager) and an actress mother. A child prodigy, she started on stage around the age of 5 in Louisville, KY, together with her sister Ellen. Between 1851 - 1854, they toured under the management of P.T. Barnum. After she outgrew her childhood career and matured as an actress, Kate achieved great success in the title role of 'Evangeline', a dramatization of Longfellow's poem (1860), and as Julia in Sheridan Knowles' 'The Hunchback' (1862). Her most famous role however was Leah in 'Leah the Forsaken', a play adapted specifically for her by Augustine Daly from a melodrama then popular in Vienna. Despite harsh reviews by critics, the play opened to an enthusiastic public in New York (1863). It remained Bateman's primary dramatic vehicle for many years. After 1892, she led a school of acting in London, and played minor roles. This CDV shows Kate Bateman as Leah around the time Rudolph saw her in London.
The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat theatre located on The Strand in the West End of London. It was founded in 1806 as the Sans Pareil (= Peerless). In 1819 it took on its present name from the Adelphi Buildings opposite. Actor William Terriss was stabbed to death in the theatre in 1897, and it is said that his ghost haunts the place. Terriss's daughter Ellaline and her husband Seymour Hicks managed the Adelphi for some years. It was bought in 1993 by Andrew Lloyd Webber. This print shows the Adelphi in the 1860s, with people at the door waiting to get in, Rudolph possibly among them.
Adelaide Ristori (1822 - 1906), often referred to as the Marquise, was a distinguished Italian tragedienne. Her famous roles included Mary Stuart, Myrrha, Medea, Phaedra, Lady Macbeth, and Queen Elizabeth. The daughter of strolling players, she started on the stage as a child, and became quite famous in Italy. In 1855, she moved to France, and stirred great passions as a rival to the French actress Rachel; playgoers fought at gallery doors over the merits of their respective favourites. In 1856, she started a European tour including London, Madrid (and I presume Vienna). In 1866 she paid the first of four visits to the USA. She retired from professional life in 1885. This is an autographed card; such cards were sometimes handed out in the theater lobby to adoring fans after a performance.
The play is 'Leah the Forsaken' (1863) by Augustin Daly, loosely translated and adapted from the German drama 'Deborah' by Salomon Hermann von Mosenthal. It takes place in 17c. Germany, and deals with the love of the Jewess Leah (Kate Bateman) for a young Christian farmer, Rudolf (Edwin Adams). The play gave Daly his first success and started him on a distinguished career. It also gave Kate Bateman her signature role.
In the Bible, Leah and Rachel were sisters, daughters of Laban, and wives of Jacob (Rachel being the favorite). Their story is told in Genesis 29-35.
"Nathan's voice! His son's voice! I hear the voice of Nathan who left his father to die of grief and misery in my arms, who left the house of his father and left the God of his father.
"Mr Bloom went round the corner and passed the drooping nags of the hazard. No use thinking of it any more. Nosebag time. Wish I hadn't met that M'Coy fellow.
"Damn all they know or care about anything with their long noses stuck in nosebags. Too full for words. Still they get their feed all right and their doss. Gelded too: a stump of black guttapercha wagging limp between their haunches. Might be happy all the same that way. Good poor brutes they look. Still their neigh can be very irritating.
This is the perfume jar of the flower garden, a single plant in bloom filling the whole atmosphere around it with its delicate fragrance.
It is a well know, hardy annual about 1 foot high, producing its flowers on spikes from 3 to 6 inches long.
It is one of the most popular annuals grown. No garden should be without it.


The government has been told to stop talking about its aims and goals regarding the UK's transport and energy sectors and start taking action.
Chancellor George Osborne has previously stated that £250 billion has been put aside to tend to the country's infrastructure, as part of the Coalition's economic recovery plan.
However, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) believes that now is the time to begin spending that money, instead of just talking about how much cash is available.
John Cridland, director general of the employers' lobby group, pointed out: "Businesses can't yet see that things are getting better – 73 per cent don't think transport infrastructure will improve over the next five years and two-thirds believe the UK's energy and water infrastructure is unlikely to get any better."
The survey, which the CBI carried out in partnership with KPMG, also found that just 35 per cent believe the government is currently "having a positive impact on infrastructure investment".


Jacob Segal first tried getting in the water. But that didn't take.
The other sport he discovered also involved water but instead of diving in, it was all about staying dry. He tried rowing in middle school and it didn't take him long to discover that he had found his sport.
It's also about staying in shape and being healthy.
Last year's Pioneer crew team won multiple medals at the Frogtown Regatta in Toledo and the Speakmon Regatta in Columbus, Ohio. The team also achieved first place overall at the Head of the Grand Regatta in Lansing.
Success in crew is all about cohesiveness and support – everyone not only rowing in the same direction but focused on the same goal.
"Everyone is there to help make everyone else faster," says Segal. "We also have been really successful at recruiting novices to join. This has increased the depth of the team to a point where there are lots of fast guys.
Parents also play a big role in crew. And don't think that the kids take their energy and efforts and enthusiasm for granted.
"We have an awesome group of parent volunteers who make our regattas filled with warm delicious food, a dry tent, and supportive comments," Segal says.
The Pioneers are looking for another strong season this spring. Segal says the Pioneers have strong front-line rowers and great depth which will allow them to enter numerous boats at every regatta.
Segal will carry his passion for crew onto college. He plans on rowing next year at Purdue University. The Big Ten for a Big Time rower! Sounds like he found that sport he was looking for.


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What Happens When You Mix Baking Soda With Vinegar to Inflate a Balloon?
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Materials for Bouncing an Egg for a Science Fair Project
By Susan Davis
Balloons, baking soda and vinegar lead to fun-filled, science-related experiments for any age. These materials are common in science classes from elementary to college. The chemical reaction caused by mixing baking soda and vinegar can cause balloons to race, homemade volcanoes to erupt and bubbles galore. Balloons are often used in baking soda and vinegar experiments because you can see the result of the chemical reaction.
The Chemical Reaction
Baking soda has the chemical name sodium bicarbonate. Vinegar is a combination of water and 5 percent acetic acid. Since both materials contain chemicals, when the two combine there is a chemical reaction. When vinegar and baking soda are mixed, a new chemical called carbonic acid is made. This carbonic acid immediately decomposes into carbon dioxide gas. When you mix the vinegar and baking soda, it's the carbon dioxide gas that makes the bubbles.
Inflating a Balloon
Put 1 teaspoon of baking soda in a medium-sized balloon. Empty a 1-liter water bottle and put 4 tablespoons of vinegar into the empty bottle. Place the balloon over the mouth of the water bottle. Turn the water bottle so that the vinegar pours into the balloon. Turn the bottle right side up and watch the balloon inflate. The balloon inflates because the carbon dioxide gas that is formed fills up the balloon. Try varying the amounts of baking soda and vinegar you use and see what happens.
The chemical reaction that occurs to make the balloon inflate also happens when baking soda is used in cake and bread mixes that don't contain yeast. There is a chemical reaction when the baking soda combines with the heat of the oven, making the cake or bread rise. Nahcolite is naturally forming sodium bicarbonate. It is found 2,000 feet under ground. Most baking soda that is bought from the store is artificially made.
Other Things to Try
Try putting baking soda in a plastic cup, then pour in some vinegar. The cup will soon overflow with foam and bubbles. Make a volcano by wrapping a cone-shaped object with brown paper. Put red food coloring in baking soda and put baking soda into the volcano through the top of the cone. When you are ready for the volcano to erupt, pour in some vinegar. The bubbles and foam will soon be flowing down the side of the volcano. You can also try filling a film canister with baking soda. Add 2 teaspoons of vinegar on top of the baking soda and quickly close the lid. Turn the canister upside down and set it on a flat surface outside. The carbon dioxide that forms in the canister has nowhere to go, causing the entire container to lift off the ground. Be sure to stand back.
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8,000 Ballots Requested In GA Senate Race Believed To Be From Non-Residents, Secretary of State Investigating
by Natalie Winters
Roughly 8,000 ballots are believed to have been requested by non-Georgia residents for the upcoming Senate elections according to the Secretary of State.
In response, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office sent letters to individuals who had filed a National Change of Address notice with the US Postal Service indicating that they live outside of Georgia, but still requested absentee ballots.
"Qualified Georgians and only Georgians are allowed to vote in our elections," Raffensperger noted in a December 22nd press release.
"I have said many times that I will not tolerate out of state voters attempting to undermine the integrity of the vote in Georgia. Let this be a warning to anyone looking to come to Georgia temporarily to cast a ballot in the runoffs or anyone who has established residence in another state but thinks they can game the system: we will find you and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law," he added.
Natalie Winters
Natalie Winters is the Lead Investigative Reporter at the National Pulse and co-host of The National Pulse podcast.