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NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TRANSITION
When we first came to Landmark School our son was starting fifth grade. We were told by Karl Pulkkinen* that it's never too early to start thinking about transition. Our son is now finishing seventh grade and, with just one academic year left before high school, these words ring all too true.
For parents of typical learners, the path is fairly clear: one can be reasonably sure that at the end of each grade level their child will be ready to move on to the next grade, the next school, the next step. For parents of children with learning differences the path is rarely clear, progress is not predictable or even. Our children work hard while we hope, cajole, encourage, worry, and occasionally despair.
We have no doubt that Landmark School saved our son's life and gave him a chance for a decent future. We also have no doubt that Landmark is the only place he wants to be and it is where he needs to be for high school, but the choice is not so simple. Finances may dictate our situation. We have looked at the other options. At Landmark we would be excited about his growth and development, his academic and personal progress. Looking at other schools, we find ourselves desperately seeking the least damaging environment, someplace where he can "survive".
Then we take a step back, we try to breathe. We rejoice at his gains and the foundation he is building. We are hopeful about the time remaining this year and all of eighth grade next year. We step back again and see the person he is already becoming: a capable reader, mathematician, creative writer and this year for the first time, he is participating in sports.
We will do everything in our power to keep him at Landmark, but at the end of the proverbial day, if it is necessary to transition him elsewhere, we will keep the big picture in mind and hope that the foundation he has just begun to build will be substantial enough to support the cathedral of his future hopes and dreams.
* Karl Pulkkinen, Public School Liaison and Guidance and Transition Counselor, Landmark School
Submitted by Stephanie Johnston, Landmark School parent and architect.
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NO-BRAINER? AT LEAST NO PRE-FRONTAL BRAINER…
PEDALING BACKWARDS
"…hope that the foundation he has just begun to build will be substantial enough to support the cathedral of his future hopes and dreams." My son began to attend Landmark Middle School, graduated from the Landmark High School. Landmark School gave my son the foundation, last week my son graduated from Suffolk University, Cum Laude, this is just the beginning of his dreams. Instilling skills along with their dedication, curiosity to learn and the pursue of his goals, success is achieved.
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The Galaxy Diner
Susan Nastasic (author)
Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849545
The Galaxy Diner is a great place to hang out and looks just like a spaceship, but things really get interesting when a group of friends think they find a real spaceship in the woods.
The Gotcha Plot
Margo Sorenson (author)
Two boys harassed by a group of rowdy kids at school get their revenge when they stumble into the school custodian's cleaning closet and find something very unusual.
The Hidden Dagger
When Walter overhears a lord's murder, he must reveal the true killer before his innocent friend is convicted.
The Jayhawk Horse Mystery
Dorothy Francis (author)
Cody Smith and his family are new in a small town. When he reads an article about a local woman who collects antique carousel horses and was sold a fake, Cody wants to solve the mystery and find the crook.
Top Fin: Dolphin Dives
Addie Meyer Sanders (author)
Kelly, one of a group of students with special needs chosen to participate in Dolphin Dives, finds her voice again after not speaking for three years when one of the animals is threatened by a very angry boy.
What's the Trick?
Caroline E. Walsh (author)
A chance friendship with an elderly ex-magician helps Jared come to terms with the tensions in his own family.
Shatter with Words: Langston Hughes
Transported accidentally back in time to a college campus in the South in 1931, Kenneth and Aleesa meet the young Langston Hughes on his poetry-reading tour and confront racism and threats to Hughes first-hand. What do they discover about the real power behind his words?
Survival at Big Shark Key
When Grady's family moves to a deserted island in the Florida Keys, the family finds more activity than expected as a hurricane comes their way.
T.J. Westin, Man of the House
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T.J. can't believe it when he wins a trip to New York to be a contestant on Whiz Kid. Will he make his family proud?
The Case of the Bad-Luck Bike Ride Across Iowa
Francis, Dorothy (author)
Cody finds himself in danger when he receives a note that warns him of bad luck on his big bike ride. He has to find out who's behind the note and why he is the target.
The Case of the Disappearing Kidnapper
When Cody, his mom, and his friend Maria arrive in the Florida Keys to house-sit for their friend Sally West, they are warned about a kidnapper at large in the neighborhood who tried to abduct young Angela Gomez.
The Case of the Missing Emeralds
Cody and his friend Maria find themselves in the middle of several mysteries as they search for a missing emerald necklace.
The Case of the Vanishing Cat
Cody is involved in another mystery. When the cat keeps vanishing and a mysterious stranger is hanging around, Cody needs to do a little investigating to solve the case.
For Honey
Bonnie Highsmith Taylor (author)
After being sent from one foster home to another, Patrick finally settles in with the Kellys, where he learns the meaning of trust and how to love when he rescues and takes care of a skunk he names Honey, who was caught in a trap.
Eighth-grader Derrick wants to be a stand-up comedian, but his football coach, his parents, Joe, his boss at Taste of Italy, his English teacher Dowling the Dragon, and his Mr. Perfect older brother Craig don't think he's so funny. When Derrick discovers he needs a B on an English paper to stay eligible for football, how can he tame his smart mouth to stay out of trouble?
Gypsy in the Cellar
Doreen, a young Gypsy girl, struggles with both her own prejudices and those of others when she becomes separated from her family and is cared for by two sisters who insist she attend school regularly.
Holding the Yellow Rabbit
"I walked across the room and opened the small door. The sound stopped as I peered in. All I could see were some old magazines and a book. As I watched, the book moved! I was scared and wanted to run, but my feet seemed nailed to the floor. I finally reached out and picked up the book and blew dust from it. I felt someone or something next to me once more."
Indian Ghost Mystery
Alice and her brother Louie meet Johnny Boyd when they spend summer vacation with their grandparents on the farm. Louie thinks he saw a ghost and the three children are out to solve the mystery.
Javier's Dream
While spending the summer on his grandparents' Texas cotton farm, Michael sees a teenage boy on the other side of the Rio Grande in Mexico. He starts to write letters to Javier, and then helps him cross the river to come into the United States.
A 12-year-old boy and his frisky horse experience many humorous trials and tribulations. The horse, Joker, means well, but seems to cause non-stop trouble.
Kimo and the Secret Waves
During his summer in Hawaii, Kimo repeatedly visits a secret and forbidden beach, ignoring several frightening warning signs. Who is threatening him and why?
Leap into the Unknown: Albert Einstein
While on detention for disrupting a science lesson, Kenneth and Aleesa are transported to 1939 where they try to protect the privacy and even the life of Albert Einstein as he struggles to decide whether he should help build an atomic bomb to stop Hitler. Can they stop the Nazis from getting the atom bomb first?
My Brother, Javier
After being adopted by Michael's family and moving from Mexico to Dallas, Javier tries to adapt to life in the United States but realizes he misses his old life in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Pete Ramsey and the John Thing
Pete finds that the strange noise he hears coming from the toilet is a pink alligator, who can change appearances at will into a mouse, spider, or a dog, is an alien from the planet Galunk.
Recipe for a Rebel
Lori Pollard-Johnson (author)
After his dad leaves, Matt Delaney rebels and his erratic behavior lands him in the vice-principal's office. He is assigned a new class schedule which includes a cooking class. Matt is a rebel, not a joiner, and this could be a recipe for disaster.

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FBI's Comey defends pre-election Clinton email decision
The FBI chief has said it makes him "mildly nauseous" to think reopening a probe into Clinton emails tipped the US election. He also spoke to a Senate panel on Russia and Wikileaks' role in the election.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey on Wednesday defended his decision to reopen a probe into Hillary Clinton's emails only days before the November election, but said it made him feel "nauseous" to think it could have swayed the outcome of the vote.
Comey informed Congress 11 days before the November election that the FBI had reopened an investigation into Clinton's use of a private server during her time a secretary of state only months after the country's top law enforcement body had closed the case and recommended no criminal charges.
Democrats have charged that Comey's decision to reopen the probe may have been politically motivated and helped swing the election in Donald Trump's favor.
"It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election," Comey said during a four hour hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Committee. "To not speak about it would require an act of concealment in my view," Comey said. "Concealing, in my view, would be catastrophic."
Comey told the senate committee the FBI reopened the probe after agents discovered additional classified emails forwarded by Clinton aide Huma Abedin to her husband, who was not authorized to view them.
FBI agents had seized the computer of former congressman Anthony Weiner, Abedin's separated husband, as part of separate investigation into a possible sexting scandal involving a minor.
Not a political call
Comey said he felt he had to inform Congress at the time, after which news of the reopened probe was leaked to the press, because he had previously testified under oath that the investigation had been closed.
"I can't consider for a second whose political futures will be affected and in what way," Comey told the panel. "We have to ask ourselves what is the right thing to do and then do it."
Only two days before the election the FBI notified Congress that an examination of the emails on Weiner's computer did not change its determination Clinton should not face charges, but Democrats maintain that by that point the political damage had already been done.
In one of her first major remarks since the election, Clinton said on Tuesday that Comey, misogyny, Russian interference and a Wikileaks' dump of Democratic Party communications emails were in part responsible for her defeat in the election.
FBI confirms investigation of Russian interference in US election
Russian role
US intelligence agencies in December accused Russian-backed hackers of interfering in the election to tarnish Clinton and the Democratic Party in a bid boost Trump's chances of victory.
Emails obtained during various cyberattacks on Democratic Party targets were published by WikiLeaks. Russia denies any involvement.
The FBI launched a counter-intelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign in July, but did not confirm the probe until March.
Democratic senators questioned Comey about why he made public the Clinton investigation but waited until after the election to divulge information about the Russia and Trump probe.
"It's still very unclear - and I hope director that you will clear this up - why the FBI's treatment of these two investigations was so dramatically different," Senator Dianne Feinstein asked
Comey said the Russia investigation at the time was in its early stages and classified, unlike the finished Clinton investigation.
He also declined to say who was under investigation in the Russia-Trump associate investigation. He said that the FBI does not expect to divulge anything about the Russia investigation until it is completed.
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Russia, FBI chief part of election defeat: Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has laid bare who she holds responsible for her electoral defeat against President Donald Trump. "I was on the way to winning" until WikiLeaks and the FBI undermined her campaign, she said. (03.05.2017)
FBI confirms it's investigating links between Russia, Trump campaign
The director of the FBI has confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating Russian efforts to interfere in last year's US election. He also shot down President Donald Trump's wiretapping allegations. (20.03.2017)
Related Subjects Vladimir Putin, Russia, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, White House, Dmitry Medvedev
Keywords FBI, James Comey, US election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Russia, Wikileaks, United States
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Donald Trump willing to accept foreign intelligence on election rivals 13.06.2019
US President Donald Trump has said he would take dirt about 2020 presidential election opponents offered by a foreign government. The statement has led to even more calls for his impeachment.
Opinion: Donald Trump's running again — and he could win 19.06.2019
Donald Trump's conviction that he will be reelected should come as no surprise. He may deny reality to paint his presidency as a success, but it's naive to think he'll leave the White House soon, DW's Nancy Isenson says.
Opinion: We don't need the Mueller report 18.04.2019
The Mueller report will fuel yet more controversy about Donald Trump and his administration. It also confirms what we already know: This president is not fit for the White House, says DW's Oliver Sallet.
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Prof. David Strauss leads a town-hall-style discussion with President Obama.
President Obama reacts to Amelia Garza-Mattia, a first-year law student who said she once asked him a question during a campaign rally in New Hampshire.
President Obama addresses students at a watch party in the Law School library.
(From left) Profs. Douglas Baird and Geoffrey Stone arrive with Law School Dean Thomas Miles.
Third-year law student Saif Kazim asks about the moral and legal grounds of drone strikes.
President Barack Obama returned to his academic roots at the University of Chicago Law School on April 7 to make the case for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in a wide-ranging, emphatic, and at times professorial conversation with law students, faculty, and other attendees.
Describing Garland as"an eminently qualified jurist," Obama told the crowd in the Law School's Harold J. Green Lounge that if the Senate does not give such nominees a hearing it would mean that partisan polarization is "seeping entirely into the judicial system and threatening the integrity of the judicial branch. "At that point, people lose confidence in the courts … and our democracy cannot afford that, Obama said.
The town-hall-style discussion included a Q&A with law students and noted Supreme Court scholar David Strauss, the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law. The talk placed Obama's message against the backdrop of the Law School where he once taught constitutional law and the University's long tradition of open discourse.
"We pride ourselves on being a place of substantive debate where diverse and conflicting ideas can be thought through and reasoned through, and we're enormously grateful that the President recognized that and chose the University of Chicago Law School as the place to have that conversation," said Law School Dean Thomas J. Miles, the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics.
Obama–who taught classes devoted to constitutional law, voting rights, and racism and the law between 1992 and 2004, until he was elected to the U.S. Senate–was undoubtedly shaped by the Law School's culture, said Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law.
In addition to his comments about the Supreme Court, Obama addressed a variety of themes–from mass incarceration to voting rights to drone strikes–many of them in response to student questions.
"We're incredibly grateful to President Obama for taking the time to field real and hard questions from our students and taking those questions seriously and giving them real and deeply thoughtful answers," said Aziz Huq, the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law.
First-year law student Amelia Garza-Mattia, who asked Obama about efforts to address mass incarceration, told the President that it was the second time she'd asked him a question. The last time, at a small rally in New Hampshire, Obama was a senator and Garza-Mattia was 15.
This time, she said she was more nervous—but she was thrilled that Obama offered a thoughtful answer.
"He went so in-depth and addressed exactly the things I wanted to hear about," she said.
Obama's visit reminded some students why they love the Law School.
"It was incredible—not only because I was sitting a few feet away from the President of the United States, but also because of the palpable sense of community in the room," said first-year law student Alison Frost. "I witnessed the mutual respect and fondness President Obama shares with his old faculty friends, and I felt the audience around me bursting with pride at the opportunity to welcome him home.
But he also took a more serious tone in addressing the students.
"I hope that all you students here are excited about the incredible changes and good that you are going to be able to do," he said. "I know that sometimes the news feeds cynicism, and democracy at this moment seems particularly frustrating … but you can make a really meaningful difference.
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Date: 12.11.20 Written by: Bethan Hall Posted in: News, Visual Arts
Wales Contemporary/Cymru Gyfoes Exhibition Opens
Wales Contemporary/Cymru Gyfoes, the first international exhibition dedicated to Wales, is coming to Milford Haven.
Wales Contemporary/Cymru Gyfoes is an international open competition for 2D and 3D artworks inspired by Wales' people, landscape, art history, traditions, and contemporary culture. Developed by the Waterfront Gallery in association with the Welsh Government, the exhibition celebrates everything Welsh by gathering paintings, drawings, sculptures, crafts and more.
Nicola Hope, The Cunning Little Vixen
Now in its second year, Wales Contemporary/Cymru Gyfoes has established a strong reputation for championing art about Wales and from Wales. The international competition has been described by artists and visitors as "a signal of the wealth of creativity in the country" and "a celebration of Wales' land and culture in art".
Over 1, 150 submissions were sent in by 600 artists living across the United Kingdom and Europe as well as countries as diverse as Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, Russia and the United States. All entries were considered by a prestigious panel of judges: artist Basil Beattie RA, painter and emeritus professor Gerda Roper, and sculptor Sebastien Boyesen, who selected a little over 150 pieces for the exhibition.
The shortlisted artworks will be available to view in the Wales Contemporary/Cymru Gyfoes exhibition at the Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven, from Thursday 12 November to Wednesday 30 December 2020 and at the Gallery@OXO, London, from Thursday 25 February to Sunday 7 March 2021. The opening night at the Waterfront Gallery will be marked by an invitation-only private viewing.
Julia Wager, Helwr BlinedigII
The 2020 Wales Contemporary/Cymru Gyfoes exhibition brings together original, diverse, and often unexpected expressions of what makes Wales Welsh. It offers a panorama of the country's landscapes, including photorealistic depictions and impressionistic evocations, from its snowy mountain tops to its valley villages, from its mining communities to its industrial cities, from its green farmlands to its picturesque coasts. In addition to meditative still life works and vulnerable portraits, today's socio-political context is equally represented, with crisp depictions of lockdown life as well as a meticulous and satirical Golden Age inspired Basket of Fruit and Vegetables Attacked by Brexit Gremlins.
As part of the exhibition, the following prizes will be awarded:
Wales Contemporary Prize (overall winner) – £4,000
2-Dimensional 1st Prize – £2,000
2-Dimensional 2nd Prize – £500
Young Artist Prize (25 and under) – £1,000
Prize for artists born, educated or resident in Wales – £1,500
Public choice – £1,500
To keep up to date with the latest news and announcements, follow @parkerharrisco on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and join the conversation using #WalesContemporary.
(Title Image: Adam De Ville, Sing Dinas Mawddwy)
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After several years of experience with canal surgery first followed by medpor as a second surgery, Dr. Roberson, in cooperation with Dr. John Reinisch, performed the first Combined Atresia Microtia Repair (CAM) surgery in the world in January 2008. The two combined two previously separate fields of surgical practice into one unified surgery. This 8-9 hour, outpatient procedure combining both the atresia repair canalplasty and the medpor outer ear reconstruction. At this time, they remain the only ones performing this surgery in the world.
Having completed over 300 CAM surgeries with Dr. Reinisch and dozens with other surgeons, it is commonplace for patients to select this option for AM repair. Surgeries are performed in Palo Alto. The recovery time required in California following the procedure is 4 weeks, with post op appointments split between southern California and Palo Alto.
The CAM procedure offers several advantages over traditional techniques and comes with drawbacks as well, but it is important to know that we have found no difference in hearing results in patients undergoing separate v. CAM procedures.
In the evaluation process, several factors are taken into consideration when Dr. Roberson is recommending the method of surgery that would be advised for each child. Specific case-by-case evaluation is important, as there are times where separate procedures may be recommended over the combined approach and vice versa.
In the situation where a child is not a candidate for a canalplasty based on CT scores but the family would like to combine the Medpor reconstruction with an implantable device, this can often be done in coordination with each other. This too helps cut down on the number of surgical procedures one must undergo by addressing both the outer ear and hearing simultaneously.


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"Prepare to meet thy groom"
On a semiregular basis, Orlando Weekly devotes editorial space to guest columns sent in by readers with strong, well-considered opinions on the issues of the day. This week, Maitland video-game designer Brian Gossage discusses the controversial subject of gay marriage.
Hi. If you're like me, you've been hearing a lot about gay marriage recently. Some people say that allowing men to marry men and women to marry women undermines the institution of heterosexual marriage, weakening a tradition that's the bedrock of our society. Whether or not that's true, I honestly can't say: I've never been married and have no plans to get married in the near future. What I can say – based entirely on my own experience, mind you – is this: Gay marriage is definitely undermining the institution of the heterosexual second date.
Ever since stories of same-sex unions started filling the news broadcasts, I've noticed, I've been unable to get past that casual first date with any woman I've shown an interest in. The timing is too precise to be a coincidence. A bunch of Massachusetts Marys start picking out monogrammed towels together, and all of a sudden I'm the romantic equivalent of poison oak.
Now, some of my friends (my former friends, I should probably clarify) have suggested that the blame for my rut might lie closer to home. To hear them tell it, the limited shelf life of my popularity could rest with something I myself am doing or not doing. I think you'll agree that this is ludicrous on its face. What in the name of heaven could I be doing wrong? I'm young, successful, good-looking and a joy to be around. And if some skank can't appreciate that, it has to be because the concept of honeymooning homos has put her off relationships in general.
Still, I didn't want to put my opinions into print before double-checking the facts behind them. (That's what all of the other sections of this paper are for – Ed.) Out of the blue, I called three women I had dated recently and asked them to revisit our time together, explaining how in each case, the very existence of gay marriage had torpedoed my chances of a follow-up. I won't identify any of them by name, but Bachelorette No. 1 is a beautician who works at a chi-chi spa in the Buena Vista area. We split a coffee at Barnes & Noble, then I never saw her again. Here's how our catch-up conversation ran:
Me: Hi, this is Brian Gossage.
Bachelorette No. 1: HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER?
M: You gave it to me, remember?
BN1: Oh, good Lord almighty.
M: Good to talk to you, too. Listen, I'm doing a piece for Orlando Weekly, and I just wanted to ask you: Do you feel that the advent of gay marriage prevented us from having a second date?
BN1: What?
M: "Do you feel that the advent of gay marriage ..."
BN1: I heard you. I just wasn't sure I could trust my ears. Listen, Brian, me not wanting to see you a second time has nothing to do with gay marriage. It does, however, have one hell of a lot to do with you showing up an hour late, expecting me to pay for the coffee and biscotti, and then asking me to help you shoplift Bill Clinton's book by hiding it under my shirt. A midriff tee, I might add.
M: So I can put that down as a "yes"?
See? Told you so. A red-blooded American male's best shot at bliss goes right out the window the minute Target opens a gift registry for the happy couple of Phillip and Raoul. But you don't have to make do with just one case history. Consider Bachelorette No. 2, a totally stacked paralegal I took out for Italian food after I got these great Val-Pak coupons in the mail. I thought we were really hitting it off – she spent most of the night calling friends on her cell phone and visiting the kitchen to hobnob with the 21-year-old busboy. So I could tell she wanted to let as many people as possible know what an awesome time she was having. But as soon as the night was over, she, too, promptly vanished from my life. If this were a game of Clue, I'd be guessing Mr. and Mr. Green, in the wedding chapel, with the vibrating candlestick. Here's her take on it.
Bachelorette No. 2: Bartholomew, sweetie, how are you?
BN2: Oh, right right right. The one with the coupons. (Yawns.) How's it going, Brian?
M: Well, not too good. I'm doing a piece for Orlando Weekly, and the date we had is kinda part of it. Tell me: Do you think that us not going out a second time has a lot to do with the fact that, even as we speak, two Disney parade dancers are celebrating their lifetime commitment by playing smother the python in a fantasy suite in Niagara Falls? Or is that only partially the reason?
BN2: (Stunned silence, giving way to irrepressible chuckles and finally hysterical guffaws.)
M: I'm going to take that as "partially."
BN2: (Gasping for air.) Oh, that is good. Listen, Brian, hold on a second. I'm getting a call on the other line.
(The connection is abruptly terminated.)
I think we can all agree that she seemed awfully receptive to the idea. If that other call hadn't come in, I bet she would have upgraded her "partially" to "without a shadow of a doubt." But since two matches do not a thesis project make, I contacted a third young lady who had given me the cold shoulder after a single evening of heart-palpitating promise. Bachelorette No. 3 is an Orlando Predators cheerleader and unlicensed massage therapist who I met through a mutual friend. He's this guy I knew from high school who ended up going into the bail-bonds business. But that's neither here nor there. What matters is that Ms. Right and I took in a Preds tailgate picnic, and true to form, she turned into vapor immediately thereafter. At least she shot me her number before she did her disappearing act, which made this little exchange possible:
Bachelorette No. 3: Hello, and welcome to MovieFone! Please enter your ZIP code to locate theaters in your area!
OK, so maybe that one has to go on the books as inconclusive. Still, the call wasn't a total loss. Before it was over, I had made plans to go see Dodgeball – alone, but I'm starting to think that spending more time on my own isn't such a bad idea, after all. And that, my friends, is as positive a moral as any I could leave you with right now.
P.S. The movie was seriously gay.
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Vahid Halilhodzic speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday about his dismissal as the coach of Japan's men's national soccer team. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Vahid Halilhodzic says firing was a 'shock'
by Andrew McKirdy
Online: Apr 27, 2018
Former national team manager Vahid Halilhodzic insisted Friday that he still had not "found out the truth" as to why he was fired two months before he was set to lead Japan at the World Cup.
"This has been the most difficult time of my life," Halilhodzic said at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, where he launched an impassioned defense of his record in front of over 300 reporters and 30 TV crews.
"Maybe I was a little naive, but everything I did was to make the team successful. I feel there has been a lack of respect."
Halilhodzic was fired by the Japan Football Association on April 7 and replaced with former JFA technical director Akira Nishino for the June 14-July 15 World Cup in Russia, where Japan has been drawn in a first-round group with Colombia, Senegal and Poland.
JFA president Kozo Tashima cited a "breakdown in trust and communication" for Halilhodzic's dismissal, but the Bosnian insisted Friday that the JFA hierarchy had given him no prior warning.
"I haven't found out the truth," said Halilhodzic, who was also fired by Cote d'Ivoire just months ahead of the 2010 World Cup, despite leading the West African nation to qualification. "I wish the president had told me that there was a problem, and that goes for Nishino too. I wish he had given me some information. Why didn't they tell me or my staff? I am in shock. No one told me anything."
Halilhodzic, who was fired along with assistants Jacky Bonnevay and Cyril Moine and goalkeeping coach Enver Lugusic, insisted that he had received messages of support from his former players but suggested that two unnamed players may have been responsible for his downfall.
"I never had any problem with anyone I worked with in the three years I was in the job, especially the players," he said. "I stayed in touch with all the players, both those who play overseas and those who play in Japan. I was in constant contact with them. I never criticized any of my players in public in the three years I was in the job. I always said that I would take the brunt of the criticism myself.
"After we qualified for the World Cup after beating Australia, there were two players who didn't play who were disappointed. But they had played in a lot of the previous games."
Local media have speculated that Halilhodzic's refusal to choose star players like Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa and Shinji Okazaki for big games may have contributed to his dismissal. Honda and Kagawa were both unused substitutes for Japan's 2-0 win over Australia at Saitama Stadium on Aug. 31, 2017, a win that clinched Japan's place at the World Cup.
Results since then have been disappointing, however, with Tashima pinpointing a 1-1 draw with Mali and a 2-1 defeat to Ukraine in friendly matches in Belgium last month as another reason for Halilhodzic's dismissal.
"I was building a team for the World Cup," said Halilhodzic. "I was looking for solutions in midfield and attack. I wanted the players to find a new level of performance at the World Cup, better than they had ever played before. I wasn't really thinking about the results (in friendly matches). I wasn't satisfied with the results but there were lots of positives things to come out of those games."
Tashima told Halilhodzic of his dismissal in person at a hotel in Paris, and the Bosnian said Friday that he had not seen it coming.
"At first I thought it was a joke," he said. "After a minute I asked him why he was saying these things. He told me it was because of a breakdown in trust and communication. I was in shock."
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Iran Lobby Admits Skirting Lobbying Laws
There was an admission made yesterday during ongoing nuclear talks between the Iran regime and the P5+1 and it wasn't that the negotiators were going to miss yet another deadline. No, the real news that leaked out and escaped the notice of most news organizations came from the National Iranian American Council, the regime's longtime loyal lobbying group.
The NIAC announced the formation of a 501(c)4 lobbying arm dubbed "NIAC Action" dedicated to openly carrying the mullahs water through the halls of Congress and collect funds on behalf of the mullahs to advance a nuclear agreement giving Tehran's cash-starved mullahs access to $140 billion in frozen funds and allow it to retain its nuclear infrastructure without intrusive international scrutiny or inspection.
While the NIAC claims it launched its lobbying group to counter what it feels is the strong anti-regime lobby already operating in the U.S., the more practical reality is that the NIAC had been skirting federal lobbying laws and had to make this move in order to avoid further investigation and possible charges for violating federal laws.
News media have previously chronicled the suspicious and often blatant lobbying efforts by members of the NIAC, especially its founder Trita Parsi who recently lost a defamation suit aimed at a journalist who reported on Parsi and the NIAC's lobbying actions on behalf of the regime.
An appeal by Parsi resulted not only in another loss but also resulted in NIAC being forced to pay $184,000 and condemnation for blatant and systematic abuse of the discovery process and repeated false and misleading declarations to the court.
NIAC's Jamal Abdi attempted to spin the lack of coordination between the NIAC and Iran regime officials by saying "We are not lobbying on behalf of the Iranian government. We don't coordinate. We don't take money from the Iranian government or the U.S. government."
But Abdi neglected to mention any prohibition on accepting funding from individuals who receive funding directly or indirectly from the Iranian regime or its vast network of shell companies and false fronts built over the past decade to evade economic sanctions and fund worldwide terror groups such as Hezbollah.
The NIAC has been a constant fixture at the sites of nuclear talks, in news media and online through its aggressive social media efforts. It skirted the letter of federal law by claiming status as a 501(c)3 "social welfare" group even though it organized "legislative action days" where it sent teams to Congressional offices and "lobbied" key representatives and Senators on important Iran-related legislation.
Unsurprisingly, key NIAC staff who have long sought to pressure and influence members of Congress have moved over to key slots at the lobbying arm, including Abdi who is now the executive director, Ryan Costello and Tyler Cullis who move over as policy and legal fellows respectively. It will bear watching to see the amount of cross-over and coordination that occurs between these two groups and whether or not federal lobbying laws will be violated.
It is unsurprising that this new lobbying arm for the NIAC is not devoted the stated mission of the NIAC which is to promote "greater understanding between the American and Iranian people," but instead was specifically created "to protecting a nuclear deal."
This will also allow the NIAC to even endorse U.S. political candidates, although an endorsement by a group so closely identified as a mouthpiece for a state sponsor of terrorism, currently holding American hostages and engaging in three proxy wars responsible for the murder and displacement of millions of people would hardly be a welcome endorsement by any Republican or Democratic candidate.
At least the truth is unveiled and we now know the full extent of what the Iran lobby is willing to do to secure a deal for the mullahs.
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King Richard III (1452-1485)
King Richard III was a Yorkist and was represented by the White rose, he was the last of the Plantagenet's.
Richard (Duke of Gloucester) was the younger brother of King Edward IV. As a child he was sent by his father (Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York) to be brought up by the most powerful nobleman in England, Richard Neville (Earl of Warwick). It was during his education at the Earl's castle in Wenslydale that Richard not only received instruction in the arts and sciences but also in chivalry, weaponry and warfare. Richard married Anne Neville which gave him great power in the North but as a result made him enemies with the Woodvilles, who were allies with his brother, King Edward IV.
1483 Edward IV died, Richard's young nephew, Edward V, should have been proclaimed King although he was only 12. Richard didn't trust Edward's relatives, especially Elizabeth Woodville whom he feared was conspiring against him, and so, just before Edward's coronation, Richard usurped the throne and made himself protector in the young Edward's place. Richard then took Edward and his younger brother, also called Richard, to the royal apartments at the Tower of London. They were never seen or heard of again and in the summer of 1483 Richard declared himself Richard III, rightful King of England.
Richard had alliance and support from the people in the North of England but the southerners distrusted him, especially after the disappearance of the two princes. This resentment was becoming dangerous for him due to the warring factions between the Houses of York and Lancaster but was to be made even greater when, in 1485, Henry Tudor returned from exile in France. Henry was a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, one of Edward III's younger sons and so had a strong claim to the throne. Richard supported his claim by arguing that Henry's grandfather, Owen Tudor, was not of high birth and therefore should not produce a line of kings and so Henry had no real right to rule.
22nd August 1485 Richard met the outnumbered forces of Henry Tudor at the in a field just out of Market Bosworth, this would be known as the Battle of Bosworth. During the battle Richard led a cavalry charge deep into the enemy ranks in an attempt to end the battle quickly by striking at Henry Tudor. Richard fought bravely and ably during this manoeuvre, unhorsing Sir John Cheyne, a well-known jousting champion, killing Henry's standard bearer (Sir William Brandon) and coming within a sword's length of Henry Tudor before being surrounded by Sir William Stanley's men.
Richard was struck down and killed in this conflict, making him the last English king to die in battle as well as the only one to have been killed on home soil. Richard's naked body was then exposed on the back of a horse on the battlefield and on the journey all the way to Leicester, before being buried at Greyfriars Church in Leicester.
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The Discovery of Richards remains
24th August 2012 The University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with Philippa Langley from the Richard III Society, announced that they had joined forces to begin a search for the remains of King Richard.
Experts set out to locate the lost site of the former Greyfriars Church which was demolished during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, and to discover whether his remains were still interred there. By comparing fixed points between maps in a historical sequence, the search located the Church of the Grey Friars, where Richard's body had been hastily buried without pomp in 1485. Its foundations identifiable beneath a modern-day city centre car park.
5th September 2012 the excavators announced that they had identified Greyfriars church, two days later that they had found a human skeleton.
12th September it was announced that the skeleton discovered during the search might be that of Richard III.
4th February 2013, the University of Leicester confirmed that the skeleton was beyond reasonable doubt that of King Richard III.
There were numerous wounds on the body, and a part of the skull had been sliced off with a bladed weapon which was most likely to be a halibut, this would have caused rapid death. The team concluded that it is unlikely that the king was wearing a helmet in his last moments.
The Mayor of Leicester announced that the King's skeleton would be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral in early 2015.


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Strong Consumption in Paper and Plastic Production Drives the Calcium Carbonate Market, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Follow us on LinkedIn – Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) is an inorganic mineral that finds extensive use as a functional filler in the production of plastics, paper, and rubber. Along with talc and kaolin, the mineral is extensively used in metalloid mineral applications. Growth in the global calcium carbonate market is heavily reliant on the health of the paper, automotive, plastics, and construction industries. The paper industry's shift from acid to alkaline-based process technology is expected to benefit demand for precipitated calcium carbonate derived from natural minerals. Consumer demand for high quality, waterproof, anti-smudge paper products will drive growth in the paper industry in the coming years. In the plastic processing industry, ground calcium carbonate finds indispensable use as an additive that helps improve surface opacity and gloss and increase impact strength of plastics. Growing demand for bioplastics is expected to spur volume consumption of calcium carbonate in the plastic processing industry.
Ground Calcium Carbonate (GCC) represents the largest and the fastest growing product market, supported by growing demand for paints and plastics from the construction sector in Asia-Pacific. China ranks as a major producer of calcium carbonate worldwide. The last decade witnessed the establishment of several satellite WGCC (wet ground calcium carbonate) plants in the country. Marble deposits represent the chief source of calcium carbonate for these plants. The increase in licenses granted for mining marble will additionally benefit production of premium ultra-fine wet ground calcium carbonate in the country. A key tend in the global market is the growing prominence of nano calcium carbonate. With particle sizes ranging from 1nm and 100nm, nano calcium carbonate is highly favored in plastic and rubber production due to characteristics such as high reinforcing effect, dispersion and transparency. With most of the current demand for calcium carbonate met by low- and middle-grade material, there exists huge potential for premium-grade calcium carbonate, especially in applications such as automobile paints, adhesives, cosmetics, ink, food, and pharmaceutical industries.
As stated by the new market research report on Calcium Carbonate, Asia-Pacific represents the largest and the fastest growing market worldwide. Growth in the region is led by the rise in paper production, establishment of new paper mills, and the trend towards the use of higher mineral fillers in paper to reduce pulp usage. China, in particular, is expected to remain a major growth driver spurred by increasing use in the paper and paperboard manufacturing sector.
Key players covered in the report include Excalibar Minerals LLC, Huber Engineered Materials, Imerys, Maruo Calcium Co. Ltd., Minerals Technologies Inc., Mississippi Lime Company, Okutama Kogyo Co. Ltd., Omya AG, Schaefer Kalk GmbH & Co. KG, Shiraishi Kogyo Kaisha Ltd., and Solvay S.A, among others.
The research report titled "Calcium Carbonate: A Global Strategic Business Report" announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of industry segments, trends, growth drivers, restraints, market share, size and demand projections and forecasts. Major geographic regions covered include the US, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Middle East, and Latin America (Brazil and Rest of Latin America). Product segments analyzed include Ground Calcium Carbonate (GCC) and Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC). End-use markets analyzed include Paper, Paints & Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants, Plastics, and Others. The report also offers coverage on mergers, acquisitions, product launches and other strategic industry activities of major global and regional players.


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A Disaster That Science Brought Upon Itself
By researchok
Opinion • 10/31/12 1:06:53 am • Views: 278
The jailing of six Italian scientists and a government official for failing to predict an earthquake has caused uproar in the scientific community. The men were convicted of manslaughter on the basis that they failed to give an adequate risk assessment of the 2009 earthquake in the central Italian city of L'Aquila, which killed 300 people. Outraged by the court's verdict, the CEO of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science wrote to the president of Italy to tell him 'there is no accepted scientific method for earthquake prediction that can be reliably used to inform citizens of an impending disaster'. The verdict is 'perverse' and 'ludicrous', says the science journal Nature.
That's true - the verdict is perverse. It has a strong whiff of the Middle Ages about it, except instead of dunking witches for bringing about a harsh winter and destroying crops, we lock up scientists for failing to foresee a fatal earthquake. But at the same time, isn't the verdict also the tragically logical conclusion to the scientific community's feverish adoption in recent years of the role of soothsayer, predictor of the world's end and proponent of solutions for how to prevent it? Over the past decade, leading scientists have repositioned themselves as modern-day diviners, particularly in the climate-change debate, where they insist that not only can they tell us what the world will look like in 50 years' time, but also what minute changes all of us must make now if we want that future world to be different. And their predictions are treated as unchallengeable credos, as all those awkward, anti-green question-askers who have been branded 'deniers' will know.
In such a climate, is it really surprising that scientists who fail to predict a natural disaster, who do not fulfil the role of saviour of mankind that the science community has carved out for itself, can be demonised? If scientists play God, it's also possible for them to be treated as the Devil.
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No Surprise, Garnets Looking Like a Contender Again
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Rye's ice hockey team has made it to five consecutive Section championship games, and if their sizzling 2011 start is any indication, they'll be back for a sixth crack at the title.
By Jim Byrne
The Garnets have kicked down the door of the new season, racking up four victories while outscoring opponents 19-3. They dominated Shaker-Colonie 6-1 in the season-opener December 2 at the Ice Hutch, and then put up the same lopsided score at home against Mt. Pleasant December 7.
"I was hoping we would start off the way we did, and thought we had the potential to do it, so it's very exciting to see it come to fruition," said head coach Jason Friesen.
The Rye train continued to roll last weekend, as the Garnets headed upstate and beat Bethlehem 4-1 and Glens Falls 3-0. Friesen said the games were good tests, and that his team executed well, especially on the power play.
Junior Michael Benincasa and senior captain Ryan Rogers, last year's second- and third-leading scorers, have picked up right where they left off. Benincasa was quiet in the opening victory, but now leads the team with nine points. Kirk Holmes, also a senior captain, and sophomores Cal Hynson and Jack O'Brien have powered the offense as well.
"We roll up three lines and all go hard," said Friesen. "We're not overly big or physical, but we are quick and we know what we're doing."
In net, Aidan Talgo is saving 97% of the shots he's facing, and is protected by a gritty group including seniors Justin Uzcategui and CJ Murphy and juniors Jason Chin and Max Bresolin.
"Every time we've needed Talgo he has stepped up," said the coach. "He's done a great job, and has stuffed a few 2-on-1 breakaways."
The Garnets have won three of the last five Section titles, but dropped their crown to Pelham in a 1-0 loss last season at West Point. They also fell to Pelham by one goal at the end of the 2008-09 season, but Friesen believes the team is primed for another run at the championship.
"I absolutely think we have a chance to contend again," he said. "Both times we lost there we were in the game but didn't end up on the right side of the score."
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MI5's assessment of the terrorist threat in the UK
Domestic Security, Intelligence, Terrorism, Europe
Has the MI5 chief's warning on 9 November updated our appreciation of the the terror threat in the UK?
In her first public speech since the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, Director General of MI5, has spoken of the increased terrorist threat to the UK. Her words come during a period in which we have been told by Peter Clarke, Head of Scotland Yard's Anti Terrorism Unit, that there are 'thousands' of individuals involved in terrorist activities in this country. Furthermore, the Home Secretary informed us that there are twenty-four active terrorist 'plots' against the UK. Is the presentation of these figures an effort to give the country a more accurate illustration of the security landscape so that we can understand the limitations of intelligence and prepare for any future atrocities? Or, are they merely an additional group of numbers to add to an already fragmented picture of the UK terrorist threat?
Whilst the media have focused on the 'eye-catching' numbers of plots and individuals involved in terrorism, the speech given by Dame Manningham-Buller was well balanced, measured, distinctly apolitical and wide-ranging across the panorama of the current terrorist/counter-terrorist effort. What are we to make of these assertions which the press are labelling as 'chilling' and a 'stark public warning'? Firstly, there is no doubting the significance of the Head of MI5 speaking publicly about the level of the terrorist threat faced by the UK. For an organization usually shrouded in secrecy, and which carries the brunt of responsibility for the UK's fight against terrorism, Dame Manningham-Buller's announcement is poignant. If anyone should understand the full security picture in the UK, it is her. Therefore, the fact that there are around thirty plots to 'kill people and to damage our economy' is of grave concern. MI5 officers and police having to contend with some '200 groupings or networks, totalling over 1600 identified individuals who are actively engaged in plotting, or facilitating, terrorist acts here and overseas' adds to a somewhat alarming picture. However, what these figures lack is a context upon which to base analysis. How many of the 1600 individuals represent a potent terrorist threat? Or, indeed, how many are considered to be of 'low risk'? Obviously, for reasons of operational and national security it is not possible to know the full meaning of these numbers. Yet we should temper our fear of these statistics by not taking them at purely face value.
In 2005 a leaked Home Office and Foreign Office dossier entitled Young Muslims and extremism, it was estimated that the number of British Muslims who were actively engaged in terrorist activity to be 'extremely small and estimated at less than one per cent'. This is a particularly inaccurate representation of the figures, but this would equate to somewhere in the region of 16,000 British Muslims involved in extremist activity. Therefore, are we to understand that the number of British Muslims involved in terrorist activity has decreased since 2005, or is it a matter of UK government departments not communicating with each other to establish an authoritative understanding of the threat we face. If, as a nation, we are to effectively combat terrorism there is a requirement that government departments share information so that an accurate intelligence package can be formulated.
Conversely, the fact that we are facing 'thirty plots' at present would indicate that there is a higher degree of organisation within the terrorist networks in the UK. For there to be so many plots of a serious nature being carried out by what is ostensibly a low number of people, it would indicate that their methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated. What is more concerning though is that these figures are representative of the plots that MI5 know about, there are of course going to be more of which our security service knows little or nothing about.
In a speech given at RUSI on 9 November 2006, Margaret Beckett called for the 'moderate majority' of citizens who are against violence to rise up and reclaim our society, values and way of life from extremists. If this is to be achieved, then it is important that we know and understand the threat we face. Dame Manningham-Buller's speech went some way to enhance this understanding, however, it is for wider society to 'rise-up' and act upon information that they may have regarding extremists within society to assist in the fight against terrorism in the UK.
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Encapsulating Change: Germany's Latest Minehunter Commanders on Leading from the Front
RUSI Journal, 31 October 2013
Joanne Mackowski
For the first time, women are in command of two of Germany's minehunters; they speak about the challenges and opportunities they face
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A Global Fund for Community Engagement against Terrorism
Al-Qa'ida is enjoying a period of resurgence and is attracting recruits. This is a poor commentary on over 12 years of concerted international effort to counter the threat. Governments need more community support to confront the appeal. A new global fund aims to help them do so. A new global fund aims to help them find it.
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From Ukraine with Hate: What Pavlo Lapshyn Conviction Says About the Far-Right Extremism
Far-right extremist Pavlo Lapshyn has today been imprisoned for murdering a Muslim man and attempting to bomb mosques. The incident highlights that violent Islamists are not the only ones willing to murder in advance of a political ideology.
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Network of Terror
Within days of the London terror attacks, we have heard a great deal about how terrorism in the UK has entered a new era.


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