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A wildlife biologist is reasonably certain a mountain lion killed Bobby Fulton's pet goat in Mound House.
Rain and sandy soil obscured the attacker's footprints, but they were the right size for a lion, about 4 inches, according to Jack Spencer, wildlife biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Carson City.
Mountain lions will eat a large amount of meat, compared to other predators like coyotes, and the goat carcass was completely consumed. The animals also eat everything but intestines, which were left, Spencer said.
Fulton, who owns another goat named Sugar, said he isn't getting much sleep. He set up his video camera in an attempt to catch the lion on film — and he's armed and ready. He said he will kill the cat if it comes back.
Spencer said another attack is possible, but highly unlikely. No search for the lion will be scheduled unless a habitual problem arises.
Spencer said reports of lion sightings have remained relatively stable over the past few years, despite encroaching civilization. The nocturnal animals are very elusive, but have come in increasing contact with the urban environment, just like coyotes.
He said complaints about coyotes killing pets are far more prevalent, but mountain lion sightings are not uncommon.
Three complaints were received in north Reno on Monday, primarily involving mule deer killings.
The Department of Agriculture promotes nonlethal methods of handling the problem, Spencer said.
He said dogs and snares are used to capture the lions, which are game animals in Nevada. If an animal becomes a problem, it will be euthanized instead of relocated.
About 3,200 lions roam throughout Nevada, Spencer said.


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Q: Bitwise treatment of objects in python So I was attempting to a bitwise "XOR" between two objects in python, as part of an xor-swap routine (just as a demonstrative example). But I noticed that the bitwise xor doesn't work on strings.
I did some exploring on stackoverflow and came across:
Bitwise xor python
The answer is unsatisfactory, namely because I want to be able to do, raw byte level manipulation with my data. Is this simply impossible in python?
I'm hoping someone can point me to a library that will let me be able to treat all objects as blocks of bytes that I am free to manipulate with familiar operators such as "xor"

A: Strings are immutable in Python.  You want the bytearray type to manipulate data in place.
>>> b = bytearray([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8])
>>> for i in xrange(len(b)):
...   b[i] ^= 255
...
>>> b
bytearray(b'\xfe\xfd\xfc\xfb\xfa\xf9\xf8\xf7')

A: Strings are not byte arrays in Python, like they are in C. Internally they are UTF-32 (UCS-4) IINM.
Python is very hackable. If something is not there, you can bend it to do what you want most of the time:
>>> class MyBytes(bytes):
...     def __xor__(self, v):
...         return bytes(a ^ b for a, b in zip(self, v))
...
>>> MyBytes('!7-x9*=x9x49"!x:*9,', 'ascii') ^ MyBytes('XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX', 'ascii')
b'you are a lazy brat'

This is Python 3, I guess you can figure out how to do that in earlier versions.

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Ronald J. Lampard/June 15, 2016
The Louisiana legislature passed LA S.B. 324 on June 6 and has sent the measure to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, a former ALEC member legislator in the Louisiana Senate, who supports the bill. Colloquially known as the "Raise the Age" bill that will change the minimum age to charge someone as an adult from 17 to 18, it requires that 17-year-olds be treated presumptively as juveniles rather than adults. Once signed into law, S.B. 324 provides that 17-year-old offenders will be phased into the juvenile justice system over several years, completely by 2020.
Importantly, S.B. 324 won't affect a district attorney's option to treat 17-year-olds charged with certain crimes as adults. For example, if a 17-year-old committed a violent crime such as a homicide, rape or robbery, they could still be charged as an adult and sent to an adult prison upon conviction. However, for lesser crimes such as felony theft or simple drug possession, convicted 17-year-olds would be sent to a juvenile facility rather than an adult prison, a key change that advocates say will help rehabilitate the offender. A full list of crimes eligible for transfer to adult court is prescribed by Louisiana Children's Code Article 305.
Advocates have argued that sending 17-year-olds to adult prison for non-violent crimes has the potential to make the offender a more serious criminal upon release. In fact, research from the Center for Disease Control has shown youth who are prosecuted as adults are 34 percent more likely to recidivate than comparable youths who are prosecuted in the juvenile system. The research has also shown that 16- and 17-year-olds in adult lockups are exponentially more likely to be physically and sexually abused. Moreover, county jails will save considerable compliance costs that are associated with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) requirement of keeping 16- and 17-year-olds separated from the general population of adult offenders in adult facilities.
The ALEC model Resolution to Treat 17-Year-Olds as Juveniles has noted that states that have raised the age of juvenile jurisdiction, such as Connecticut, have seen positive results and that over "four-fifths of all states presumptively treat 17-year-olds as juveniles." In addition, state juvenile justice systems typically allow for most types of offenses to be eventually sealed if the person subsequently is law-abiding. However, an adult criminal record presents a significant obstacle to an individual's ability to obtain employment, housing and education. In essence, while treating 17-year-olds as juveniles will not prevent all recidivism, the recidivism rates will drop due to the juvenile justice system's goal of rehabilitation, rather than punishment, as demonstrated by nonpartisan research.
ALEC is excited that Louisiana has undertaken this juvenile justice reform measure. According to research, S.B. 324 will result in lower recidivism rates and will not compromise public safety, as dangerous offenders who are a threat to public safety will still be transferred to adult court.
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Historic Franklin School Downtown to Become Interactive Language Museum
Philanthropist Ann Friedman and developer Dantes Partners are leading the project.
by Andrew Giambrone January 25th, 2017 September 17th, 2020
Credit: Danny Navarro via Flickr Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Looks like downtown D.C.'s long-vacant Franklin School will be redeveloped into a museum after all.
Almost two years since Mayor Muriel Bowser put the kibosh on plans to convert the landmarked 1869 building into an art museum that was to be called the Institute for Contemporary Expression, the administration today announced that it has picked local developer Dantes Partners and philanthropist Ann B. Friedman to transform the old school into the city's inaugural "interactive language arts museum."
Similar to the Mundolingua in Paris, Planet Word—as the D.C. museum will be known—is to feature linguistic exhibits, arts and music events, and classes and workshops, according to the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. Planet Word would contain 15,000 square feet of exhibit space, a 150-seat auditorium, 1,900 square feet in classroom space, and a 3,500-square foot restaurant—all across four floors. DMPED predicts that the museum will host approximately 100,000 visitors per year.
In a statement, Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner says the museum is a "one-of-a-kind project that delivers on our promise to invest in the arts." Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, whose ward includes the building, calls the plans "viable."
Critics challenged Bowser's scrapping of the proposal to develop the Franklin School into ICE, which was struck under ex-Mayor Vince Gray. ICE insisted that their fundraising was sufficient, even though the new administration disputed it. Officials say money won't be an issue for Planet Word due to major philanthropic backing, and that historic preservation work on the school—located at the intersection of 13th and K streets NW, just across from Franklin Square—can soon begin.
It's estimated that the project will cost roughly $30 million. The museum is expected to open with free admission during the winter of 2019. Friedman is the wife of New York Times journalist Tom Friedman, who along with national partners has worked on plans for the museum for more than three years, DMPED says. The Friedmans live in nearby Bethesda.
Dantes Partners, meanwhile, has a hand in many affordable housing and mixed-use developments in the District. They are currently collaborating with D.C.-based Roadside Development to construct a luxury apartment project on a vacant parking lot in Shaw at 8th and O streets NW. (Roadside built the City Market at O project.) Buwa Binitie, a managing principal at Dantes, is known to have close ties to Bowser, having donated $10,000 to the now-defunct political action committee FreshPAC. (When FreshPAC dissolved toward the end of 2015, donors received most of their money back.)
The Franklin School served as the city's first high school in 1880, before becoming the school system's administrative headquarters for four decades and then an adult education center for three decades. It has also functioned as a homeless shelter, and was briefly taken over by Occupy protestors.


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Blomfield Worksite, Liverpool Street, 11-12 Blomfield Street, EC2 (Crossrail XSL10)
Three trenches were excavated in the basement of the now-demolished 11 and 12 Blomfield Street and rearward extensions. Natural gravels were exposed in two trenches. In the E of the site, natural deposits were cut by a series of sterile waterlain clays sloping from W-E, probably from a relatively fast flowing section of the Roman Walbrook (or a tributary of it) whose ancient alignment is echoed in the current N-S orientation of Blomfield Street. A small fragment of Roman tegula roofing tile dated AD 50-160 was recovered from within a sandy dump deposit sealing this sequence, mortar on the broken edge suggesting reuse. To the west the sequence was repeated, with a naturally formed alluvial layer and inclusions of wood and plant suggesting formation in a semi-terrestrial environment, possibly delineating the eastern edge of the Walbrook. Again Roman pottery was recovered from overlying dump and/or reclamation layers. The earliest tentatively identified as a Roman round-bodied jar likely to be 1st century in date. A sherd of Roman natural blue-green glass was also recovered along with pottery common in London assemblages dated to the 1st-3rd centuries. This suggests that this part of the Walbrook may have been backfilled or become disused in the 2nd-3rd centuries, with dumped domestic rubbish utilised as landfill. In the lower double basement at the back of 11 Blomfiled, 19-c brickwork was exposed immediately below the foundation slab. A floor surface and wall formed of yellow stock bricks were of similar construction and probably contemporary appearing to relate to an earlier phase of construction, and may an be a retaining wall for the metropolitan line underground built in the 1870's. The basements and foundations of 19th and 20th-c buildings completed the archaeological sequence in all areas of the site.
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A National Book Award Finalist
The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy.
Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed.
With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.
David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and professor of anthropology and Italian studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of nine books, including The Popes Against the Jews, which was a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has twice been awarded the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best work on Italian history. He and his wife, Susan, live in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Knock at the Door
THE KNOCK CAME at nightfall. It was Wednesday, June 23, 1858. Anna Facchini, a 23-year-old servant, descended a flight of stairs from the Mortara apartment to open the building's outer door. Before her stood a uniformed police officer and a second, middle-aged man of martial bearing.1
"Is this the home of Signor Momolo Mortara?" asked Marshal Lucidi.
Yes, Anna responded, but Signor Mortara was not there. He had gone out with his oldest son.
As the men turned away, she closed the door and returned to the apartment to report the unsettling encounter to her employer, Marianna Mortara. Marianna sat at the living room table, busily stitching, along with her twin 11-year-old daughters, Ernesta and Erminia. Her five younger children, Augusto, aged 10, Arnoldo, 9, Edgardo, 6, Ercole, 4, and Imelda, born just six months before, were already asleep. Marianna, a nervous sort anyway, wished that her husband were home.
A few minutes later, she heard sounds of feet climbing the back stairs, which could be reached through her neighbor's apartment. Marianna stopped her stitching and listened carefully. The knocking on the door confirmed her fears. She approached the door and, without touching it, asked who was there.
"It's the police," a voice said. "Let us in."
Marianna, hoping though not really believing that the policemen had simply made a mistake, told them what she prayed they did not know: they were at the back door of the same apartment they had visited just a few minutes before.
"It doesn't matter, Signora. We are police and we want to come in. Don't worry; we wish you no harm."
Marianna opened the door and let the two men in. She did not notice the rest of the papal police detail, some of whom remained on the nearby stairs while others lingered on the street below.
Pietro Lucidi, marshal in the papal carabinieri and head of the police detail, entered, with Brigadier Giuseppe Agostini, in civilian clothes, following him in. The sight of the military police of the Papal States coming inexplicably in the night filled Marianna with dread.
The Marshal, not at all happy about the mission before him, and seeing that the woman was already distraught, tried to calm her. Pulling a small sheet of paper from his jacket, he told her he needed to get certain clarifications about her family and asked her to list the names of everyone in the household, beginning with her husband and herself, and proceeding through all her children, from oldest to youngest. Marianna began to shake.
Walking home beneath Bologna's famous porticoes with Riccardo, his 13-year-old son, that pleasant June evening, Momolo was surprised to find police milling around his outside door. He hurried up to his apartment and discovered the police officer and the other strange man talking to his frightened wife.
As Momolo entered the apartment, Marianna exclaimed, "Just listen to what these men want with our family!"
Marshal Lucidi now saw that his worst fears about his mission would be realized, but felt even so a certain relief at now being able to deal with Momolo, who was, after all, a man. Again he stated that he had been given the task of determining just who was in the Mortara household. Momolo, unable to get any explanation for this ominous inquiry, proceeded to name himself, his wife, and each of his eight children.
The Marshal checked all these names on his little list. Having noted all ten members of the family, he announced that he would now like to see each of the children. His request turned Marianna's fright to terror.
Momolo pointed out Riccardo, Ernesta, and Erminia, who had gathered round their parents, but pleaded that his other children were asleep and should be left alone.
Moved, perhaps, but undeterred, the Marshal remained firm. Eventually the Mortaras led the two policemen through the door into their own bedroom, with the three oldest children and the servant trailing them in. There, on a sofa-bed, slept 6-year-old Edgardo. His parents did not yet know that on the list the Marshal had brought with him, Edgardo's name was underlined.
Lucidi told Anna to take the rest of the children out of the room. Once they had left, he turned back to Momolo and said, "Signor Mortara, I am sorry to inform you that you are the victim of betrayal."
"What betrayal?" asked Marianna.
"Your son Edgardo has been baptized," Lucidi responded, "and I have been ordered to take him with me."
Marianna's shrieks echoed through the building, prompting the policemen stationed outside to scurry into the bedroom. The older Mortara children, terrified, sneaked back in as well. Weeping hysterically, Marianna threw herself into Edgardo's bed and clutched the somnolent boy to her.
"If you want my son, you'll have to kill me first!"
"There must be some mistake," Momolo said. "My son was never baptized. . . . Who says Edgardo was baptized? Who says he has to be taken?"
"I am only acting according to orders," pleaded the Marshal. "I'm just following the Inquisitor's orders."
Lucidi despaired as the situation seemed to be slipping out of control. In his own report, he later wrote: "I hardly know how to describe the effect of that fatal announcement. I can assure you that I would have a thousand times preferred to be exposed to much more serious dangers in performing my duties than to have to witness such a painful scene."
With Marianna wailing from Edgardo's bed, Momolo insisting that it was all a horrible mistake, and the children crying, Lucidi scarcely knew what to do. Both parents got down on their knees before the discomfited Marshal, begging him in the name of humanity not to take their child from them. Bending a bit (and no doubt thinking this was all the Inquisitor's fault anyway), Lucidi offered to let Momolo accompany his son to see the Inquisitor at the nearby Convent of San Domenico.
Momolo refused, afraid to let Edgardo into the Inquisitor's hands.
Lucidi recalled: "While I waited for the desperate mother and father, overcome by a terrible agony, to return to reason so that the matter could be brought to its inevitable conclusion, various people began to arrive, either on their own or because they had been called there."
In fact, with Lucidi's permission, Momolo had sent Riccardo to alert Marianna's brother and uncle, and to fetch their elderly Jewish neighbor Bonajuto Sanguinetti, whose wealth and community position, Momolo hoped, might ward off the impending disaster.
Hurrying back to the cafe where, less than an hour before, he and his father had left them, Riccardo came upon his two uncles, Angelo Padovani, his mother's brother, and Angelo Moscato, husband of his mother's sister. Moscato later described the encounter:
"As I sat with my brother-in-law at the Caff? del Genio on via Vetturini, my nephew Riccardo Mortara came running up, in tears and disconsolate, telling me that the carabinieri were in his house, and that they wanted to kidnap his brother Edgardo."
The two men rushed to the Mortaras' apartment: "We saw the mother, devastated, and in such a sorry state that it's impossible to describe. I asked the marshal of the gendarmes to explain what was going on, and he responded that he had an order-though he never showed it to me-from the Inquisitor, Father Pier Gaetano Feletti, to take Edgardo because he had been baptized."
Marianna was "desperate, beside herself," as her brother, Angelo Padovani, recalled. "She lay stretched out on a sofa which they also used as a bed, the sofa on which Edgardo slept, holding him tightly to her chest so that no one could take him."
Trying to find some way to stop the police from making off with Edgardo, Padovani and his brother-in-law persuaded the Marshal not to remove the child before they could consult with their uncle, who lived nearby. The uncle, Marianna's father's brother, whose name was also Angelo Padovani, was still at work in the small bank he ran in the same building in which he lived.
After his nephews filled him in on the dramatic events at the Mortara home, Signor Padovani decided that their only hope was to see the Inquisitor. While the younger Padovani rushed back to inform the Marshal of the need for further delay, the other two men made their way to the convent.
At 11 p.m., they presented themselves at the forbidding gate of San Domenico and asked to be taken to the Inquisitor. Despite the hour, they were rushed up to the Inquisitor's room. They implored Father Feletti to tell them why he had ordered the police to take Edgardo. Responding in measured tones, and hoping to calm them, the Inquisitor explained that Edgardo had been secretly baptized, although by whom, or how he came to know of it, he would not say. Once word of the baptism had reached the proper authorities, they had given him the instructions that he was now carrying out: the boy was a Catholic and could not be raised in a Jewish household.
Padovani protested bitterly. It was an act of great cruelty, he said, to order a child taken from his parents without ever giving them a chance to defend themselves. Father Feletti simply responded that it was not in his power to deviate from the orders he had received. The men begged him to reveal his grounds for thinking that the child had been baptized, for no one in the family knew anything about it. The Inquisitor replied that he could give no such explanation, the matter being confidential, but that they should rest assured that everything had been done properly. It would be best for all concerned, he added, if the members of the family would simply resign themselves to what was to come. "Far from acting lightly in this matter," he told them, "I have acted in good conscience, for everything has been done punctiliously according to the sacred Canons."
Seeing that it was impossible to get Father Feletti to reconsider his order, the men pleaded with him to give the family more time before taking the boy. They asked that he suspend any action for at least a day.
"At first," Moscato later recounted, "that man of stone refused, and we had to paint a picture for him of the sad state of a mother who had another child she was nursing, of a father who was being driven almost out of his mind, and of eight [sic] children clutching at their parents' and the policemen's knees, begging them not to take their brother away from them."
Eventually, the Inquisitor did change his mind and allowed them a twenty-four-hour stay, hoping that in the meantime the distraught mother could be made to leave the apartment, thereby heading off what threatened to become an unfortunate public disturbance. He asked Moscato and Padovani to promise that no attempt would be made to help the boy escape, an assurance they gave only reluctantly.
Father Feletti later recounted what went through his mind as he weighed the risks of permitting the delay. He knew full well, he said, of the "superstitions in which the Jews are steeped," and so he feared not only that "the child might be stolen away," but indeed that he might perhaps even be "sacrificed." His was a belief shared widely in Italy at that time, for it was thought that Jews would rather murder their own children than see them grow up to be Catholic. He would take no chances. In the note he prepared for Padovani to give to Lucidi, he ordered the Marshal to keep Edgardo under constant surveillance.
Meanwhile, the vigil at the Mortara apartment continued as other friends and neighbors converged on the home. Among these was the Mortaras' 71-year-old next-door neighbor, Bonajuto Sanguinetti, like Momolo a transplant from the Jewish community of nearby Reggio Emilia, in the duchy of Modena. Sanguinetti had already gone to bed when Riccardo, after fetching his two uncles at the cafe, came to his home and told the servant what was happening.
Sanguinetti described his first reactions when his servant woke him up: "I went to the window and saw five or six carabinieri walking about under the portico, and at first I was a little confused, thinking that they had come to take one of my own grandchildren."
He rushed to the Mortaras' home: "I saw a distraught mother, bathed in tears, and a father who was tearing out his hair, while the children were down on their knees begging the policemen for mercy. It was a scene so moving I can't begin to describe it. Indeed, I even heard the police marshal, by the name of Lucidi, say that he would have rather been ordered to arrest a hundred criminals than to take that boy away."
At half past midnight, the eerie vigil at the Mortara home was interrupted by the arrival of Moscato and Padovani, brandishing the piece of paper that they had extracted from Father Feletti. Marshal Lucidi was astonished that the Jews had had any success with the Inquisitor. He had assumed that he would not be leaving the apartment that night without the boy.
"I could see," the Marshal later recalled,
that Signor Padovani was an erudite person, of dignified demeanor, a man who was looked up to and respected by his coreligionists, and they counted heavily on him. Indeed, they had good reason to do so, for it must have taken someone of great influence to obtain a stay in the decree, and in my opinion others would not have succeeded in getting one, all the more so when I learned that the order came from the highest level, and that the Father Inquisitor himself was not in a position to change it.
When the Marshal departed, he left a scene that he described as a teatro di pianto e di afflizione, a "theater of tears and affliction." Aside from the ten members of the Mortara family and the two policemen guarding Edgardo, he left behind Marianna's brother, her brother-in-law, her uncle, and two family friends.
Momolo reacted to the news of the stay with relief, saying later it gave them "a ray of hope." He was less happy, though, to discover that in putting into effect the Inquisitor's admonitions to guard Edgardo closely, the Marshal had ordered two of the policemen to remain with the child in the Mortaras' bedroom.
It was a terrible night for Momolo and Marianna: "Both of the policemen stayed in our bedroom, with the guard changing from time to time with others replacing them. You can imagine how we passed that night. Our little son, though he didn't understand what was happening, slept fitfully, shaking with sobs every now and then, with the soldiers at his side."
The only hope left to the family was finding someone in a position to overrule the Inquisitor and vacate his order. There were only two men in Bologna who, in the view of the men of the Mortara and Padovani families, might have such power: the Cardinal Legate, Giuseppe Milesi, and the city's famous but controversial archbishop, Michele Cardinal Viale-Prel?. Encouraged by the diplomatic success enjoyed by Marianna's brother-in-law and uncle the night before at San Domenico, Momolo and Marianna asked them to undertake this new mission. In midmorning, on June 24, they set out.
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of David Kertzer's The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. The book tells the dramatic story of a Jewish child torn away from his family, a child whose fate would have powerful consequences for the future of both the Italian nation and the Catholic Church.
1. Marshal Lucidi, who headed the police squad that took Edgardo from his home, seemed ill at ease with his task. Do you think he had sincere doubts about the justice of what he was doing, or did he simply dislike an unpleasant assignment?
2. Why do you think Father Feletti, the Inquisitor, granted a 24-hour reprieve before the taking of Edgardo from his parents? Should this be seen, as he later portrayed it, as evidence for his desire to be as humane as possible about his order to have Edgardo seized?
3. Cases of "forced baptism" such as this had occurred many times in the past. How can you explain the fact that it was only in the Mortara case that the taking of a small Jewish child on orders of the Inquisition led to such a huge international backlash against the Church?
4. When the Mortara's relatives initially heard the tearful story that Anna Morisi, the former servant, told about baptizing Edgardo, they believed her. Do you? What reasons might she have had for inventing the whole story of the baptism? Do you think she was capable of it? Is there any grounds for supposing that Anna Morisi told her story of baptizing Edgardo in order to win a dowry from the Inquisitor? How credible do you think this theory is?
5. How do you interpret the claim of the grocer, Cesare Lepori, that Anna Morisi was lying when she said it was he who had suggested baptizing Edgardo? Who was telling the truth, and how can you be sure?
6. WIn trying to win back Edgardo, the Mortaras did all they could to discredit Anna Morisi's testimony, including gathering salacious sexual material to be used against her. Were the Mortaras acting immorally in doing this?
7. The Rector of the House of the Catechumens told the Mortaras that they had a blessed solution to their problems. All they had to do was join their son and accept baptism, and the boy would be returned to them. They never seem to have seriously considered this option. Why not? Should they have? If you were in their situation, would you?
8. How significant were the tensions that developed between the leadership of the Jewish community of Rome, on the one hand, and the Mortara family and the Jews of Bologna on the other? Was the Jewish secretary of Rome justified in blaming Jews outside Rome for the failure to win back Edgardo, based on his argument that only quiet diplomacy would work?
9. Two tales soon developed in 1858, one of a tearful, frightened boy, violently taken from his loving father's arms, and begging continually to be allowed to return home. The other told of a child who, no sooner free of his (Jewish) parents' influence, was filled with Christian spirit and the desire to be a good Catholic and dreaded the prospect of returning home. Which of these accounts seems more credible to you and why? Do you think the Church was fabricating its account or sincerely believed in it? Should the child's attitude have made any difference in determining whether he should have been returned to his parents?
10. Exactly when do you think it was that Edgardo decided he wanted to remain Catholic? How do you explain this transformation?
11. Is there any parallel between the Church's defense of its arguments in the Mortara case and the argument sometimes used by state authorities today that taking a child away from his parents may be in the child's best interests?
12. Following the fall of Bologna to the troops of unified Italy, the Inquisitor was arrested and charged with kidnapping Edgardo. He argued that the civil court had no authority to try him. How valid was this claim?
13. Do you agree with the verdict in the kidnapping trial? Should the case have hung on the issue of whether the Inquisitor had acted according to the laws then in effect in the Papal States? Did the Inquisitor in fact scrupulously follow the law?
14. With much of the Papal States falling in 1859-1860, how hopeful do you think the Mortara parents were at the time that they would get their still small child back?
15. Why do you think the Rector of the House of the Catechumens fled with Edgardo when he heard that his mother was coming, when he had not done so earlier when he heard that the boy's father was coming for a visit?
16. Marianna Mortara was often portrayed in the media as totally incapacitated by what had happened to her son. How accurate do you think this characterization was? To what extent are gender stereotypes at work here?
17. From Pope Pius IX's perspective, he had suffered greatly and lost much ground politically in order to stand up for a matter of principle in holding onto Edgardo. Do you believe the Pope was sincere in this belief that he was acting for the child's best interest, and that he had no choice but to keep the child from his parents? Was the Pope not affected at all by political motives?
18. The Pope singled the press out for special blame for their role in the Mortara case. What role did the press play in the case? Was the press acting responsibly? Could the case have taken the course it did a century earlier, when no such popular press existed?
19. Discuss the plays that were written based on the Mortara case in the following years. What do they tell us about attitudes at the time toward the Jews in France and Italy? How would a play written today differ from those earlier plays?
20. When Rome finally fell in 1870, should the new authorities have acted to return Edgardo (then age 19) to his family? What if Edgardo were then age 16, would this change your opinion about what should have been done?
21. Was Momolo's subsequent arrest on a charge of murder the product of anti-Semitism, or did the authorities have strong evidence implicating him?
22. How do you interpret Edgardo's attempts to make contact with his family later in his life? Were those of his siblings who wanted to have nothing to do with him justified in their attitude?
23. What lessons does the Mortara story have for religious belief and practice today? Can a religion that believes it alone knows the will of God be expected to favor religious pluralism and the equality of all religions?
"A thrilling history... Kertzer's careful scholarship and fine narrative skill make a great drama." --Boston Globe
"A lucidly drawn, dramatic narrative. Kertzer's account reads like a courtroom drama. As shapely and surprising as fiction." --Newsday
"Brilliant... a book that has all the merits of a historical thriller." --Daily News
"Fascinating... full of rich material.... Kertzer has unearthed an evocative and unjustly forgotten episode of history." --The Washington Post Book World
"A gripping, vivid and well-documented rendering. A highly readable work that is dramatic, moving and informative, as interesting to general readers as it will no doubt prove to historians." --San Francisco Chronicle
"David Kertzer tells a riveting take, with great mastery of the sources." --The New York Review of Books
"David Kertzer's account of this extraordinary but largely forgotten moment in history is told with verve. Sounding much like a conventuonal thriller writer, Kertzer combines a gripping yarn with a details historical reconstruction." --Financial Times
"A spellbinding and intelligent book. The story itself isutterly compelling, but is entirely Kertser's skill as a historian and a writer that allows him to maintain the suspense.... Deftly constructed." --Toronto Globe and Mail
"I read the book, all of it, cover to cover, nonstop, gasping, amazed. What an important and spectacular work! (With the narrative pace of a gripping novel.) One of the most impressive reading nights of my life." --Cynthia Ozick
"A scrupulously researched, elegantly written narrative that deftly combines the take of one family's anguished and fruitless efforts to reclaim their child and the stirring saga of the Risorgimento." --The Jerusalem Report
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dougwood57 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
A Jewish family's illiterate Catholic housekeeper sprinkles well-water over an infant child and furtively mumbles the baptismal sacrament. When the Inquisitor learns of the deed, he orders the kidnapping of the then six-year-old Jewish boy. This foul deed is almost certainly sanctioned by the highest levels of the Catholic hierarchy. The police forcibly remove the child from his family's Bologna home and swiftly transport him to the Church's House of Catechumens in Rome for reeducation. Despite all protests from the boy's family and the Jewish community and in the face of a destabilizing international uproar, the Holy Father refuses to yield. By holy grace, the boy has been miraculously saved and the Church keeps him, inculcates him in the Catholic Christian religion, and assiduously converts the boy. The boy kidnapped in the name of religion? Edgardo Mortara. The Holy Father in question? Pope Pius IX. The year? 1858. That's right 1858, not 1458, not 1658, but smack dab in the middle of 19th century Europe. Historian David Kertzer tells the complete tale in his excellent work, `The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.' As Kertzer relates in the epilogue he learned to his surprise that there was no reliable work on this topic. Kertzer sets out to remedy this gap and succeeds by examining the episode in fine detail. Using detailed court and police investigation records, Kertzer explores numerous evidentiary questions such as whether the baptism took place at all, whether the proper conditions for a valid lay baptism existed, who put the girl up to it, and how did the Inquisition find out about it? The story is told against the background of the movement to unify Italy under secular rule. And here is yet another surprise for the uninitiated reader, including this one: until 1861 the Pope was still the temporal ruler of a wide swath of the Italian peninsula (this rule continued on a lesser scale to 1870). The treatment of young Edgardo was one of the factors that helped build support across Italy and internationally for the Risorgimento or Italian reunification. The episode also hastened Pius IX's evolution, shall we say, to reactionary beliefs. Pius IX not only made papal infallibility part of Church dogma, but he also issued his infamous Syllabus of Errors in 1864, a broad attack on rationalism, science, and religious freedom - really a frontal assault on the Enlightenment and most other signs of progress in the previous three centuries. If Kertzer's book does nothing more than direct his reader's attention to this astonishing document, he has succeeded in the historian's task. Kertzer examines the trial of the Inquisitor in detail and the formidable difficulties facing the prosecution. For example, what crime did the Inquisitor commit when his acts were legal at the time he committed them? Would the new government prove willing to violate the fundamental principle that the accused must have had notice of the illegality of his acts? As for Edgardo, he remained with the Church fathers until he reached his majority and by then his conversion had firmly taken hold. He went on to become a famed proselytizer for Catholicism especially among the Jewish peoples. This role may help explain why this story has remained untold: it embarrassed Jews and Catholics alike. Some readers may find the detail devoted to the investigations and trials to be excessive, but bear in mind that Kertzer is writing the seminal history of Edgardo's kidnapping. A fascinating tale full of surprises, very highly recommended.
krazy4katz on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara describes a period during the mid 1800s when Italy was becoming a unified, secular country, modeled after France, Great Britain and other European countries. Prior to this time, it was a conglomerate of separate states with large areas ruled by the Catholic Church. Edgardo, a young Jewish boy, was taken from his home because he was reportedly baptized by a young illiterate servant working in the Mortara home. What made this so incredible was that, although baptism was not permitted without parental consent, once it was done, the Church felt it had no choice but to remove the child from his home so that he could be brought up as a proper Catholic. At the same time, there was a movement in Italy to unite under a secular ruler. The author contends that the Mortara case, although not unusual, was so widely publicized across the western world that it tipped the balance in favor of anti-papist sentiment and precipitated the annexation (under force) of the papal lands to Sardinia and the other parts of Italy. I don't know if I entirely buy this premise, but it certainly suggested to the rest of Europe an archaic way of thinking that they no longer wished to support. My expectations for this book were slightly different. I think there was more of an emphasis on history than I expected, although the personal plight of the Mortara family was addressed within the context of the struggle between secular and religious forces in Italy. I was fascinated to learn that there was still an Inquisition in Italy at this time and that regions outside the papal rule did not require Jews to live in ghettos. The book clearly serves as a warning that theocracies are dangerous as governing bodies and likely to treat those of other religions as second class citizens. For the most part, the book was well written, although there were times when it seemed disorganized and repetitive, because it would go back a few centuries, then come back the the 1800s. I was also unfamiliar with the Catholic hierarchy, so it took me a while to realize that Cardinals could be archbishops etc. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the book and found that it significantly broadened my understanding of European history.
bcquinnsmom on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
This book was a finalist for the National Book Award, and deservedly so. But the catch is, you probably really have to like a good history; the story is not told in straightforward, narrative style, and it isn't a novel. Parts of it read like one, but it probably isn't a book that you'll want to check out if you're looking for a "folksy" history for the lay person. This book has a great deal to do with the risorgimento, the unification of Italy, and it does give a lot of well-researched historical treatment to Edgar Mortara's story and that of his parents, the Jewish community at the time, and the outrage that was the last straw in the eyes and minds of many calling for the removal of the Pope from temporal power & the elimination of his territory, the Papal States. If you're interested in that topic, Kertzer has a marvelous book called Prisoner of the Vatican, which I can very highly recommend; again, another history.But let me try to synopsize here. In 1858, the family of Momolo Mortara, living in Bologna, answer the door to find two Inquisition officers at their door, saying that they were there to take away their boy Edgardo, who was just 6. It turns out that when Edgardo was younger, a Catholic servant girl working in the Mortara home thought Edgardo was going to die during an illness, and "baptized" him. The law was that having been baptized (and how a mere girl could do this and have it stick is fascinating reading with long history), Edgardo was no longer a Jew and had to be put under the protection of the Catholic Church. Well, naturally, this didn't sit well with Edgardo's family; the story tells all about their efforts for years trying to reclaim their son. At first, the office of the Inquisition would not even tell them where he was being taken; Edgardo's father, Momolo, was simply told that the boy was going to "someone who is a good family man." (33) Before you think that this was an isolated case, the author notes that "the taking of Jewish children was a common occurrence in nineteenth-century Italy." (34) These types of "clandestine" baptisms occurred often. But they were also punishable by corporal punishment (44), but the cases where this law was actually applied were pretty rare. One of the most interesting parts of this book was the "clash of two realities," or the Jewish take on the situation v. the Catholic take. The accounts in the newspapers & in reported testimony are absolutely fascinating to read... you can't tell who's telling the truth, although it's easy to see that both sides are embellishing for their own purposes. But even more fascinating is the fact that the news of this kidnapping leaked out of the Bologna borders into Europe & even into America -- there the same polemic started all over again, based on one's side in the religious debate. The case spawned several plays -- for example, the author notes "La Famiglia Ebrea" (The Jewish Family) in 1861 -- in which a Jewish boy was baptized in secret by the family servant & raised by Jesuits. However, in this version, the boy "nourished a smoldering hatred for those who had deprived him of his parents," and eventually came to lead the fight for Italy's unification! (252-253)Absolutely fascinating; I also found a reference to the testimony of Edgardo Mortara himself, a deposition taken at a time when Pius IX (the pope at the time) was being considered for sainthood: here -- again, you have to kind of take it for what it's worth. I didn't decide to read this as a part of any anti-Catholic campaign; the premise looked interesting and the subject matter looked intriguing. It is a very well-researched book, and it's obvious the author has a passion for his subject. The link between the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and the chain of events leading to unification of Italy is well established in his research. Very well done, and if you are at all into history, you may really enjoy this. I had also read that at some point there was going
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For his masterful editions and explanations of Greek poetry from Homer to the Attic tragedy as well as for his groundbreaking research in the alleged and still violently debated relationships between Greece and the Orient.
Born in 1937 (*1937 - †2015), a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, West is considered one of the world's leading classical philologists. His masterly critical editions include Hesiod's works, Greek lyric, orphic poetry and all of Aeschylus' tragedies. His Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient offers a decisive and well-balanced contribution to the age-old debate over the "originality" of Greek culture and its indebtedness to other cultures. His groundbreaking studies on early Greek music are also noteworthy.
Martin West is rightfully considered an irreplaceable, indeed unique figure in the world of Greek studies. He combines the methods and techniques of traditional philology with comprehensive studies going far beyond the call of his discipline.
Handling the dry business of editing and commenting texts which have suffered serious, sometimes irreparable damage in the manuscript tradition with a virtuoso-like performance which is no less productive, it is to him that the academic world owes new editions of Hesiod's didactic works, a large part of the surviving fragments in the minor genres (elegy and iambus), of Aeschylus'tragedies and of the Iliad. His mastery of the editorial work - collecting and arranging codices, restoring and interpreting corrupt, difficult loci by means of parallels drawn from other collections - is unrivalled, thanks to his stupendous learning and his skill at finding connections leading to ever more amazing solutions.
It is on the editions that West has built his activity as a commentator, whether in the commentaries accompanying the text, or in collections of studies published separately. West's commentaries of Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days (seventh century BCE) stand out for their accuracy, reliability and multiple perspectives: they have from the start become indispensable standard works for anyone in the field of ancient Greek poetry. Equally revolutionary has been the inclusion of ancient Oriental sources only recently made available; Works and Days acquires a distinctive trait in the light of the exemplary collection of Sapiential literature of Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian and Old Testament origin.
For the text of Aeschylus - the most difficult of the Greek classics - West has written excellent studies on grammatical and orthographical questions. His book on Orphic poetry combines a masterly command of materials with the iron determination to transform a "bottomless morass" into something in keeping with the philological tradition.
As papyri are newly discovered, West is always ready to make the best possible use of them. His edition of the Iliad offers a profusion of textual variants which ground themselves in these materials. Thanks to his combinatorial acuity, a papyrus from Cologne, quite famous in the academic world, was found to be the work of the stubborn early Greek poet Archilocus.
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17 February in Race History – A Rich 120 Year Racing Story
17 February has a deep racing history stretching way back a whole 120 years to 1901
That's when Maurice Farman drove the first-ever Mercedes to a race winning debut from brother Henri's Darracq at Pau. Eleven years later, Frank Kulick raced a modified Ford Model T to a record 33.4 second 103.4 mph flying mile on frozen Lake St Clair, Michigan in 1912.
More recently down under, John Surtees steered his Lola Climax to 1963 Lakeside International victory and Peter Gethin won at Sandown Park driving a Chevron B24 Chevrolet in 1974. Moving across the Pacific more recently, Lucas di Grassi won the 2019 Mexico City Formula E Prix.
In other racing, Pedro Rodriguez won the 1963 three-hour Daytona Continental sports car race in a Ferrari 250 GTO (above), but Daytona stock car action on this day goes back to 1957 when Cotton Owens drove to Pontiac's first NASCAR win at the Grand National.
17 years later in 1974, Richard Petty took his fifth Daytona 500 win and his second in a row, while Buddy Baker (below) won the fastest ever 500 at 177 mph in 1980 and Bill Elliott took a rare pole, qualifying race and 500 victory in '85.
Ernie Irvan passed Dale Earnhardt with six laps to go to win an upset 1991 500, while Ward Burton took the 2002 500 after Serling Martin was penalised for illegally tampering with his car's bent fender. Ryan Newman won the first restrictor-plate 500 in 2008 and Danica Patrick became the first woman to win take pole in NASCAR on her way to eighth in the highest finish for a woman in the history of the 500 in 2013. Denny Hamlin won in 2019.
There were two 1930s ice races on this day when Per-Viktor Widengren steered his Alfa Romeo 2300 8C to Swedish Winter Grand Prix honours on Vallentunaloppet in 1935 and Eugen Bjornstad took the '36 Horkensloppet race in a similar machine.
Keeping with the Scandinavian winter theme, the Swedish Rally more recently entertained the locals as Stig Blomqvist slid his Saab 96 to win that second-ever WRC rally in 1973. Anders Kullang won the 1980 rally in an Opel Ascona 400, Ari Vatanen took the '85 win in a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 and Ott Tanak's Toyota Yaris WRC won in 2019.
Off the track, it seems controversy made a habit of finding Formula 1 over the years on 17 February. Like in 2001, when Bell sued Michael Schumacher for switching to Schuberth's helmet (below). Schumacher's Bell contract would end after 2001, but the German wanted a change on safety concerns. Bell proved its helmet was safe and a Belgian court ordered the world champion to pay US$115,300 in damages every time he never wore a Bell.
A year later, BAR boss David Richards was playing down an ongoing war of words between drivers Jacques Villeneuve and Jenson Button. Villeneuve claimed Button had to earn his respect and prove his mental resilience to race in F1 before Button informed his new teammate that he that he was not there to earn Villeneuve's respect in an elevating bout of handbag slinging.
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For those of you that follow the various recruiting sites and Twitter feeds, who are we after for next season? I know there is some information out there but I have not found it.
You'll find a lot of recruiting news by using twitter's powerful search function daily. Verbal Commits ain't bad but they are late to the party more often than not. If you visit our board and see the extensive recruiting news posted by Thairacer that comes from him combing twitter mostly. Guess y'all need a Thaigov lol.
I have a twitter account but very rarely access it. Don't even get me started on Snapchat LOL, I don't even want to attempt that one. I feel like Coach Loos when I heard him telling our guys in a team meeting to watch what they posted on "the MyFace" (Myspace/Facebook) many years ago when facebook was just becoming popular.
45%3 pt and 90% ft....sign me up for some of that!
I've heard the Silveira kid has the chance to be really good. I can't find anything on him though.
seems very agile and athletic for his size.
wonder who might be transferring at the end of the season. APSU keeps offering scholarships to PG's so my guess is Booty Butler?
I am hearing through the grapevine that McGhee May have another year and that coach has asked him to please return. Has anyone else heard that? I saw on social media where Abaev said ..."Please come back! We need you.'" That would be awesome!
I have not heard that but i will gladly take another year of McGhee. I doubt it is the case because he is already a 5th year player/ grad transfer.
I have not heard that as well. I as well would take him for another year if we could. He's been a big presence down low and there's a few games we don't win this year without him.
If he does come back, we need to schedule games vs Bama and Auburn since he's 2-0 this year in the state of Alabama lol.


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Brian Elliott is a better goalie than you think he is
By Peter Raaymakers@rymkrs Dec 9, 2010, 7:00am EST
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Brian Elliott's not going to impress too many folks with his style, or even his individual numbers. But despite less than stellar GAA and SP, his winning percentage is among the league's best. What explains this counter-intuitive situation?
I don't think Ottawa Senators goaltender Brian Elliott gets a lot of credit around the league. And I'm probably as guilty as just about anyone else: I think Elliott is a serviceable goalie who's done well enough for Ottawa, but certainly doesn't offer the kind of reliable play a team needs to be competitive in the long-term in the NHL. But you know what? Maybe I'm wrong.
Brian Elliott's stats aren't really stellar, in all honesty. Among the 80 goalies who've played more than 20 games since Elliott entered the league, he's got the 34th-best goals-against average at 2.65, and the 46th-best save percentage at .908. And yet, despite those lacklustre numbers, Elliott has still managed won 52.3 per cent of games he's played--21st in the league, and not remotely reflective of the GAA and SP numbers Elliott has put up. So is there possibly some intangible factor that Elliott possesses that could explain his success in the most meaningful measure there is: Winning percentage?
Justin Goldman, goaltending sage behind TheGoalieGuild.com, thinks quite highly of Elliott. He credits the coaching he's received most recently as going a long way in making up for poor guidance in the past. He also thinks that Elliott's numbers don't look great because they're averages, and can be skewed by unrepresentative off-nights.
First of all, Elliott is a very unassuming goaltender when it comes to his style and technique. Coming out of college at Wisconsin, his goalie coach was very unconventional and taught a butterfly style that is not successful in the NHL. When Elliott got to Ottawa, he was working with a couple of new and different goalie coaches. I know Eli Wilson was one of them, but in the summers, Elliott trained with Mike Valley, who is now the goalie coach of the Dallas Stars. If you go to www.elitegoalies.com you'll see more about Valley and his coaching philosophy and some pictures of Elliott.
Valley took Elliott's game to the next level by systematically adjusting his style to match his body and mind. What makes Valley such a good goalie coach (he's the youngest in the NHL) is his philosophical approach to mental toughness. It has worked for Elliott and he is quickly developing into a sound goaltender, not because he is elite in areas of skill, but because he has awesome focus, consistent work ethic and has great mental toughness.
So Elliott won't have flashy peripheral stats, he won't look overly talented on the ice, but he simply gets the job done. Fans and goalie scouts are starting to learn what makes him tick - he works really hard and has good enough talent to thrive. The more he plays, the more experience he gains, the better he becomes.
Another reason why his career stats won't look great is simple math. These are averages. So at the start of his NHL career, his numbers were a little more bloated. The more games he plays, the tougher it is to get those numbers down. So this is the main reason why stats mean nothing when it comes to analyzing the potential of a young goaltender. They could have two terrible games where they give up 10 goals and stop 2 shots and it ruins their stats forever. This is something I stress to all fantasy managers when it comes to drafting and tracking goalies. So I would explain that aspect of it as well.
So, as most of us have seen in watching Elliott, he's not a flashy goaltender. Aside from the occasional very impressive glove-save, most of his saves are due to his technical proficiency and ability to ensure he's in the right position to have the best chances of stopping the shots that come his way. Because his game is based so heavily on technique, he's rarely out of position--and as a result, rarely has to make highlight-reel saves. For that reason, we rarely remember him, and won't often think of him as among the league's top tenders.
Among his peer group, however, Elliott's stats are even more impressive. Or at least his winning percentage, which ranks him eighth best among goaltenders under 25 years of age, ahead of such big names as Henrik Lundqvist, Cam Ward, Cary Price, and Tuukka Rask. His SP is 17 in that group, and his GAA is 15; being eighth in winning percentage is not representative of those numbers.
And to make an even greater case, consider the fact that Elliott hasn't benefited from backing up an elite team, such as the case with Sergei Bobrovsky, Semyon Varlamov, and Michal Neuvirth. While Elliott's won far more games than he's lost in his career (his all-time record is 56-34-17), the Senators' winning percentage since his rookie season is barely 49 per cent. So it's obvious that the Senators win more games with Elliott in net than another goaltender.
So, really, there's little question that Elliott's been a capable goaltender in Ottawa. But is there some way to explain the seemingly counter-intuitive presence of a significantly higher winning percentage than one would expect based on Elliott's GAA and SP numbers?
Goldman's explanation of the fact that the bad games will skew his averages upwards, but the same can be true of the opposite angle: Elliott's got nine career shutouts, and those would lower his average, too.
Or maybe the problem isn't even with a skewed SP or GAA; maybe it's the WIN% that's skewed, especially by the nine-game winning streak Elliott put up last season while the Senators were scaldingly hot, and even a five-game streak this season.
A third possibility, though, could be that Elliott plays well when needed, and not as well when not needed. If it's a tight game, Elliott makes the saves he needs to to get the two points. When the team isn't playing well, Elliott doesn't either, and his numbers suffer as a result.
It's tough to say which the reason is. As Elliott's professional career continues, we'll see more from him: In all likelihood, his GAA or SP will improve, or his winning percentage will decline. But maybe, if Elliott really is the clutch goaltender his stats indicate currently, they'll continue to be oddly uneven, and he'll continue to help his teams win games when they need him most.


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The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the editor-at-large is Paul Kelly. Available nationally (in each state and territory), The Australian is the biggest-selling national newspaper in the country, with a circulation of 116,655 on weekdays and 254,891 on weekends, figures substantially below those of top-selling papers in Sydney (The Daily Telegraph), Melbourne (The Herald Sun), and Brisbane (The Courier-Mail). Its chief rival is the business-focused Australian Financial Review.
The Australian is owned by News Corporation Australia. Recent years have seen significant decreases in circulation.
5.2 The Australian''s "Australian of the Year"
The Australian is published by News Corp Australia, an asset of News Corp, which also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne. News Corp''s Chairman and Founder is Rupert Murdoch.
The Australian integrates content from overseas newspapers owned by News Corp Australia''s parent, News Corp, including The Wall Street Journal and The Times of London.
The first edition of The Australian was published by Rupert Murdoch on 15 July 1964, becoming the third national newspaper in Australia following shipping newspaper Daily Commercial News (1891) and Australian Financial Review (1951). Unlike other Murdoch newspapers, it was neither a tabloid nor an acquired publication. From its inception The Australian struggled for financial viability and ran at a loss for several decades.
The Australian''s first editor was Maxwell Newton, though he would leave the paper within a year and was succeeded by Walter Kommer, and then by Adrian Deamer. During the 1975 election, campaigning against the Whitlam government by its owner led to the paper''s journalists striking over editorial direction.
Daily sections include National News (The Nation) followed by Worldwide News (Worldwide), Sport and Business News (Business). Contained within each issue is a prominent op/ed section, including regular columnists and non-regular contributors. Other regular sections include Technology (AustralianIT), Media, Features, Legal Affairs, Aviation, Defence, Horse-Racing (Thoroughbreds), The Arts, Health, Wealth and Higher Education. A Travel & Indulgence section is included on Saturdays, along with The Inquirer, an in-depth analysis of major stories of the week, alongside much political commentary. Saturday lift-outs include Review, focusing on books, arts, film and television, and The Weekend Australian Magazine, the only national weekly glossy insert magazine. A glossy magazine, Wish, is published on the first Friday of the month.
"The Australian has long maintained a focus on issues relating to Aboriginal disadvantage." It also devotes attention to the information technology, Defence and mining industries, as well as the science, economics, and politics of climate change. It has also published numerous "special reports" into Australian energy policy.
The Australian Literary Review was a monthly supplement from September 2006 October 2011.
In October 2011 News Ltd announced that it was planning to become the first general newspaper in Australia to introduce a paywall. It charges readers $4.00 per week to view premium content on its website and mobile phone and tablet applications.
Editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell has said that the editorial and op-ed pages of the newspaper are centre-right, "comfortable with a mainstream Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd, just as it was quite comfortable with John Howard." According to other commentators, however, the newspaper "is generally conservative in tone and heavily oriented toward business; it has a range of columnists of varying political persuasions but mostly to the right." Its former editor Paul Kelly has stated that "The Australian has established itself in the marketplace as a newspaper that strongly supports economic libertarianism".
The Australian presents varying views on climate change, including giving space to articles and authors who agree with the scientific consensus, such as Tim Flannery, those who agree with the cause but who disagree with the methods of coping with it, such as Bjørn Lomborg, through to those who disagree that the causes or even presence of global warming are understood, such as Ian Plimer.
In September 2010, the ABC''s Media Watch presenter Paul Barry, accused The Australian of waging a campaign against the Australian Greens, and the Green''s federal leader Bob Brown wrote that The Australian has "stepped out of the fourth estate by seeing itself as a determinant of democracy in Australia". In response, The Australian opined that "Greens leader Bob Brown has accused The Australian of trying to wreck the alliance between the Greens and Labor. We wear Senator Brown''s criticism with pride. We believe he and his Green colleagues are hypocrites; that they are bad for the nation; and that they should be destroyed at the ballot box."
Regular columnists include Dennis Shanahan, Peter van Onselen, Paul Kelly, Greg Sheridan, Nicolas Rothwell, Janet Albrechtsen, Imre Salusinszky, Chris Kenny, Troy Bramston, Nikki Savva, Judith Sloan, Emma Tom and Angela Shanahan. It also features daily cartoons from Bill Leak and Peter Nicholson.
Occasional contributors include Gregory Melleuish, Kevin Donnelly, Tom Switzer, James Allan, Hal G.P. Colebatch, Luke Slattery, and Noel Pearson.
Former columnists include Phillip Adams, Mike Steketee, David Burchell, Michael Stutchbury, Simon Adamek, Glenn Milne, Cordelia Fine, Alan Wood, Michael Costa, P. P. McGuinness, Michael Costello, Frank Devine, Matt Price and Christopher Pearson.
The Australian''s "Australian of the Year"
In January of every year, The Australian announces its choice for "Australian of the Year". In 2011, the newspaper announced that Treasury Secretary Ken Henry was its winner of the award for 2010. Previous winners include Kevin Rudd (2009), Stephen Keim (2008), Bob Brown (1983) and Gough Whitlam.
The average print circulation for The Australian on weekdays was 116,655 during the June quarter 2013, having fallen 9.8 per cent compared to the June quarter 2012. The average print circulation for The Weekend Australian was 254,891 during the June quarter 2013, down 10.8 per cent compared to the June quarter the previous year.
In November 2006, The Australian journalist Caroline Overington was awarded both the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalism and a Walkley award for investigative journalism over her coverage of the AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal for the paper. The following year, Hedley Thomas won the Gold Walkley Award for his coverage of the Haneef case.
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The duo (or rather in this show, the foursome) hit the audience with a very simple bit of comedy as they walk in the room and realise that the Abba song you can hear is actually being sung by the sound man Phil.
It's not the only inspired piece of comedy in this show and no surprise that Colin and Fergus won the Writer's Guild award in 2004. This year they have dispensed with their usual sketch format in favour of one long sketch  well play I suppose you'd call it accompanied in its execution by their mate Dave McNeill and, of course, sound man Phil.
Rutherford Lodge is a Victorian detective so desirable he even has his own theme tunes. In this adventure (we are told he has had many others) he comes up against Emperor Toot, his deadly henchman Wong and the heinous three men in a tub with their terrifying Rub a Dub Dub chant - the last thing that many a salty seaman heard before a certain and messy death.


What would you do if someone cut your child's hair without permission? This happened to Miriam Brandon when a teacher cut her child's hair without consent. Yes, apparently a teacher cuts student's hair without parental approval. Brandon's son Dominic, who is also autistic, attends a special needs public school in Ottawa, Canada and his teacher called Brandon a few times to ask if he could cut Dominic's shoulder-length hair. The teacher claimed that Dominic's hair often got in his face.
Although parents trust teachers to educate and discipline their children, we don't expect them to make grooming decisions. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board issued a statement that confirmed they are investigating the incident and the teacher has been placed on home assignment. Additionally, they issued an apology to Dominic and his family. Brandon, who hopes the teacher faces serious consequences, decided to move her son to another school. "For a teacher to grab scissors and cut a child's hair, that takes away my son's voice, and it takes away my voice as a parent," she said.
We're not sure what will come of this, but we're hoping this is the last time a teacher cuts student's hair without parental consent.


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This is a list of municipalities of South Africa. The largest metropolitan areas are governed by metropolitan municipalities, while the rest of the country is divided into district municipalities, each of which consists of several local municipalities. Since the boundary reform at the time of the municipal election of 3 August 2016 there are 8 metropolitan municipalities, 44 district municipalities and 205 local municipalities.

Metropolitan municipalities

District municipalities
For comparison purposes the metropolitan municipalities are also included in this list.

Local municipalities
For comparison purposes the metropolitan municipalities are also included in this list.

Former municipalities
These municipalities have been dissolved since the current system of local government was established in 2000.

By province
The lists linked below also include maps showing the locations of the municipalities.
 List of municipalities in the Eastern Cape
 List of municipalities in the Free State
 List of municipalities in Gauteng
 List of municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal
 List of municipalities in Limpopo
 List of municipalities in Mpumalanga
 List of municipalities in the North West
 List of municipalities in the Northern Cape
 List of municipalities in the Western Cape

References

External links
 Municipal Demarcation Board

Municipalities of South Africa
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Dubai Muscle Show: Co-Founder Nick Blair Talks About DMS 2018
Posted on April 28, 2018 July 12, 2018 by Esmail Hanif
The only way to do great work is to love what you do – Steve Jobs
Today, we talk to Nick Blair, the co-founder of the Dubai Muscle Show. His success story will inspire you to achieve your dreams and pursure your passion.
He shares how he started the Dubai Muscle Show, why he chose Dubai, and what to expect in the future shows.
SW: Hey Nick, tell us about yourself, where were you born? Where did you get your education?
Nick: I was born in London in the UK, but moved up to a place called The Wirral, which is about 20 minutes' drive from Liverpool – who also happen to be my favourite football team!
SW: Tell us about your story from a sales professional to a fitness event organizer? How did it all happen?
Nick: I first moved to Dubai in 2011 and joined an exhibitions company where I worked for 2 years, I then spent 2 years in London selling telecoms solutions to city based businesses.
Then in 2014, the draw of Dubai was too great! So I returned, to work for a company called Informa within the team that runs Arab Health. I really enjoyed my time working for these companies, and I learnt a lot.
My passion since in high school has been working out, and playing sports. I represented my university in the finals of the American Football league in the UK, and went on to play for the UAE.
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I started training with weights in the gym 3 times a week after school when I was 16, and then that quickly became 5-6 times a week when I reached 18. I spent all my money on Men's Fitness and FLEX magazines, and of course my gym membership and all the latest supplements.
I had visited some fitness and bodybuilding shows in the UK and Europe, just to stand in line and get a photo with Jay Cutler. So after all the years of experience in running exhibitions 10 years later living in Dubai – it really was the 'perfect storm' when I thought: "why isn't there an event like the ones in the UK for me to go to?"
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I raised the idea to one of my best friends and colleague at the time, Craig, and without hesitation he said "I'm in!"
So we both left our comfortable corporate events jobs and went full time trying to get Dubai Muscle Show launched.
I had personally always wanted to have a go at running a business – and this was a case for both Craig and I of: "if we don't do this now – when is an idea that we believe in so much next going to come around?"
SW: How many events you have done till now? What are your aspirations for the future?
Nick: We are into the 3rd edition of Dubai Muscle Show. Our aspirations are to keeping growing Dubai Muscle Show in size, by adding the 'Dubai Active Show' which we feel can appeal to the masses.
We want to see Dubai and the Middle East as a much more fitness oriented region, and hopefully our event can play a part in inspiring tens of thousands of people to be more active.
Outside of Dubai, we plan to take the event to other countries and regions, with some exciting plans actually being announced very soon!
SW: Who were the first validators (believers) of your idea of Dubai Muscle Show?
Nick: One of the hardest things in our first year was convincing companies, such as SquatWolf to take part in the expo. There had been so many big promises from other fitness type events in this region that had never delivered. We heard stories of people promising 250,000 people would attend another event, when in reality it was more like 250 people.
Because of these previously outlandish claims from other events, companies were very cautious to invest in our event to start with.
We always wanted to be honest with people from the start, and I think that has been one of the key reasons to our success.
Everything that we tell companies that participate, and people that attend the event, we have delivered on.
SW: Why did you select "Dubai" to organize this event? What were some reasons and statistics to bring in sponsors and brands for the event?
Nick: Well we lived in Dubai and ran events here, so had experience within the local exhibitions industry and saw a gap in the market.
It is much easier now to bring in sponsors and brands as, in reality, what other platform can you reach 25,000 highly targeted consumers and speak to them face to face over 2 days?
Companies like Squat Wolf are testament to the fact, that we deliver the people for you to sell out of your products (twice!) …
The great thing for brands is that Dubai is the hub for business, and people love coming here. Because of this, there were a LOT of distributors, retailers and wholesalers from around the MENA region at Dubai Muscle Show.
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SW: What are some big names you will be bringing in Dubai Muscle Show 2018?
Nick: Well that wouldn't be a surprise if we told you now would it?
Haha! We know who the fans want to see again from last year, so we will of course be bringing back some of the big names from 2017 and adding some fresh faces that have never been to Dubai before including one celebrity that is going to break social media when we announce them!!
SW: What were your goals to achieve from this event?
Nick: From a personal perspective, all I wanted was to create an event which I would want to attend! And I definitely think we have done that!
I think it's so much easier running any business when you are passionate about that particular industry and know what you are talking about.
We also wanted to put Dubai on the map for international fitness and bodybuilding – which I also think we have done. Over 35% of our attendees last year flew in from outside of the UAE!
The weekend of the event, the fitness world was dominated by the #DubaiMuscleShow hashtag and pictures of the show, with the video of Kai Greene and Jay Cutler training by the Burj al Arab getting over 8.5 million views!!dd
SW: Dubai Muscle Show has been nominated as one of the Best Consumer Exhibitions in Middle East. How did you feel when you heard this news?
Nick: This was awesome news, and we were so honored this year to be in the large exhibitions category along with some huge events like Dubai Motor Show.
SW: Squat Wolf sold out twice during the Dubai Muscle Show. How do you think about the brands like SquatWolf and their scope in GCC market?
Nick: I think like Dubai Muscle Show, Squat Wolf have spotted a regional gap in the market for affordable, but high quality gym clothing.
We get lots of people to Dubai World Trade Centre for the companies that participate, but if you're products are rubbish, of course we can't make people buy them! So it just proves that SquatWolf's clothing really impressed people at Dubai Muscle Show.
Having worn the clothes myself, I know that the quality and feel of the product is amazing – which is something you can't necessarily get from a website. For this reason, I think live events like this will always be important for consumers to try and sample products before they buy them.
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When I first started gym training 12 years ago, people were not too bothered about what they wore. I used to just pick up and old tshirt and get down to training.
But I think now, especially with the rise of Instagram and the sharing society we live in, people are a lot more keen to have nice clothes to wear in the gym that feel and look good.
SW: What is the future of Dubai Muscle Show? How 2018 event will be different from last two events? What are some new ideas you are bringing in?
Nick: Well for starters, we have added another hall – so it is much bigger. We have loads more sports happening, as well as classes that people can arrive in their workout gear and join in with.
We are going to have celebrity athletes taking the attendees through a Live Workout, much more food options in a big food court area, and of course plenty of free stuff to give away!!
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You can meet Nick and the SQUAT WOLF Team at the next Dubai Muscle Show in December 2018.
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