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1st Minnesota Infantry
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Muster In: April 29, 18611
Muster Out: July 15, 18652
Brevet Major James C. Farwell
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Captain Frank Houston
First Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army3
Commander: Captain James C. Farwell4
Unit Strength: ~165 officers and men PFD (around June 11, 1864)5
Weapons: Springfield Rifles (.58 caliber) (June 30, 1864)6
Second Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army7,8
Weapons: Springfield Rifles (.58 caliber) (June 30, 1864)10
Note: The 1st Minnesota was a battalion of two companies in late June 1864.11,12
Third Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army13,14
Commander: Captain James C. Farwell (at least July 31, 1864)15,16
Note: The 1st Minnesota had only two (2) companies present.17
Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army18,19
Commander: Captain James C. Farwell (August 7 and 31, 1864)20,21
Unit Strength: ~110 officers and men PFD (August 7, 1864)22
Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army23
Weapons: Springfield Rifles (.58 caliber) (September 30, 1864)24
Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army25,26
Commander: Captain James C. Farwell (October 31, 1864)27,28
Note: The 1st Minnesota consisted of two (2) companies, A and B, at this time.29,30
Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army31
Commander: Brevet Major James C. Farwell (December 31, 1864)32
Note: The 1st Minnesota consisted of two (2) companies, A and B, at this time.33
Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army34,35,36
Commander: Captain Frank Houston (January 31 & February 28, 1865)37,38
Note: The 2nd United States Sharpshooters was discontinued on February 20, 1865. Company "A" transferred to the 1st Minnesota Infantry.41
Note: This unit is listed in the casualty returns for the Battle of Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865, implying it was present during the Eighth Offensive and the battle.42
Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Second Division | II Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army43,44
Commander: Captain Frank Houston (March 31, 1865)45
Note: The 1st Minnesota consisted of two (2) companies, companies A and B, at this time.46,47
Siege of Petersburg Battles1:
Moved to Petersburg, Va., June 12-15.
Assaults on Petersburg June 16-18.
Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864.
Demonstration north of the James July 27-29.
Demonstration north of the James August 13-20.
Strawberry Plains August 14-18.
Weldon Railroad August 25.
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-29.
Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-11.
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
Watkins' House March 25.
Hatcher's Run, Boydton Road,-March 29-31.
Crow's House March 31.
Sutherland Station and fall of Petersburg April 2.
Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.
High Bridge and Farmville April 7.
1st MN: History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864
1st MN: No More Gallant a Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers
1st MN: Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Annual Reunion of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 20-21, 1902
1st MN: The First Volunteers; History of the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment, 1861-1865
1st MN: The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
OR XL P1 #62: Report of Captain James C. Farwell, 1st MN, June 11-July 30, 1864
OR XLVI P1 #58: Report of Captain Frank Houston, First Minnesota Infantry, of operations February 5-11, 1865
Petersburg Medals of Honor: Scenes from Hatcher's Run
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), pages 219-221 ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), pages 373-375: Farwell says he lost about one-third of his command, or 55 men, as casualties from June 11-August 7, 1864. This means he had about 165 officers and men when the 1st Minnesota Battalion joined the brigade on June 11, 1864. ↩
Volume 13 (Ordnance Returns for the Second Quarter, April-June, 1864); 1st Minnesota Entry, Page 97; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 2 (Serial Number 88), page 613: "Organization of the Army of the Potomac…August 31, 1864" ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), pages 117, 130: "Return of Casualties in the Union Forces (August 1864)" ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), pages 373-375: Farwell wrote this report on August 7, 1864 and signs it as commanding the 1st Minnesota Battalion. ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), pages 373-375: Farwell says he lost about one-third of his command, or 55 men, as casualties from June 11-August 7, 1864. This means he had about 165 officers and men when the 1st MN Battalion joined the brigade on June 11, 1864, and around 110 officers and men when this report was made. ↩
Sommers, Richard J. "Grant's Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship. The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia)." Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1298. ↩
Volume 15 (Ordnance Returns for the Third Quarter, July-September, 1864); 1st Minnesota Entry, Page 92; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 459: "Organization of the Union Forces" (October 31, 1864)" ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), page 153: "Return of Casualties in the Union Forces…Boydton Plank Road, Va., October 27-28, 1864" ↩
Aubery, James M. The Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry … An Authentic Record of the Regiment from its Organization to its Muster Out. A Complete Roster of its Officers and Men with their Record … A Copy of Every Official Paper in the War Department Pertaining to the Regiment … (Milwaukee, WI: Unknown Publisher, 1900). p. 176 ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 1116: "Organization of the Union Forces" (December 31, 1864) ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 326: "Organization of the Union Forces" (January 31, 1865) ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 739: "Organization of the Union Forces" (February 28, 1865) ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 1 (Serial Number 96), page 63: "Return of Casualties in the Union forces at Hatcher's Run (otherwise known as Dabney's Mill, Armstrong's Mill, Rowanty Creek, and Vaughan Road)… (February 5-7, 1865)" ↩
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One TWU
How One Of TWU's Most Decorated Deans Went From Star To Sunset (Mars' Hill Article)
**This article was originally published by Carter Sawatzky in the student newspaper, Mars' Hill. This blog post is a re-post of that article for One TWU audiences. Writers of any background/point-of-view are welcome (within reason) to post on One TWU's blog.
by Carter Sawatzky
"It was a hard decision to leave, but for me, it became clear that there was a direction that the university wanted to go. And it wasn't the direction that I was going… There's been a change in style of leadership. And I think that it's time for me to go."
Why would a well-loved, accomplished professor (and former Dean of Education) have the sudden instinct to leave Trinity Western University (TWU)?
Dr. Allyson Jule recalls her "happy memories" working at TWU. She started with sessional work for the English department in 1993 and continued with some part-time contracts for English and Communications and the TESOL certificate programme over the years (always part-time). Dr. Jule then moved to the U.K. in 1998 to complete her Ph.D. She worked in the U.K. until 2008, returning to the Lower Mainland where TWU hired her full-time in the School of Education.
In 2016, Dr. Jule was named one of Canada's top 10 professors and was awarded the prestigious 3M Teaching Fellowship for excellence in teaching and leadership––the first TWU professor to win the honour.
On this award, Dr. Eve Stringham, then TWU's Vice Provost of Research and Graduate Studies said in a TWU announcement, "Dr. Jule embodies everything we desire to see in a faculty member at TWU, including innovative teaching and exemplary scholarship. As a teacher, Dr. Jule's dedication to her students is second to none. She is a credit to the School of Education, the Gender Studies Institute, and the university at large."
In 2008, Dr. Jule co-founded the Gender Studies Institute along with other notable faculty including Dr. Robynne Healey (History), Dr. Holly Nelson (English), and Dr. Alma Barranco-Mendoza (Computer Science). In 2011, Dr. Jule and the co-founders introduced the gender studies minor at TWU, and, in 2012, she introduced an innovative course on gender in education—the only undergraduate course of its kind in the country.
From being advertised on TWU's social media for positive credibility during the Supreme Court Trials, to holding vibrant events and discussions on campus with varying points of view, no one could have foreseen what was to come.
In interviewing Dr. Jule, it became clear that her November 2019 appearance at a UBC event, "Faith and Family: Navigating SOGI Inclusion in Schools," was highly influential in shaping the circumstances she now finds herself in—leaving a place she deeply loves.
SOGI (pronounced so-jee) stands for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Despite the controversy in evangelical circles, SOGI-123 at its core is, according to the BC Ministry of Education, "a resource that supports educators in addressing [gender identity and sexual orientation] topics in the provincial curriculum."
"I've moved quite quickly past what I would call a misunderstanding of what my comments were," she said. At the conference, someone had roughly transcribed her comments "about the difficulties at Trinity regarding SOGI-123," which Dr. Jule believes were fair given the public spotlight on TWU's treatment of LGBTQIA2S+ students during its fight for a law school.
Yet the university, Dr. Jule claims, interpreted her participation in the event and demarcating herself as an "ally" to LGBTQIA2S+ people as misrepresenting TWU's position (against) same-sex marriage.
According to Dr. Jule, TWU administration was made aware of her comments after Kari Simpson, the founder of an anti-SOGI organization Culture Guard, sent letters to Christian schools and parents in the Langley area informing them of one Dean of Education's "sex activist agenda" at TWU. Simpson also published an episode of her e-series "Culture Watch" on the matter shortly after. The episode has since been taken down from Vimeo, but Mars' Hill was able to obtain a copy downloaded by a viewer at the time, concerned with the remarks about Dr. Jule.
Simpson continues to advocate on social media and right-wing media channels, in line with socially conservative values, against Provincial Health Orders and access to public spaces for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals (to name a few). More recently Simpson was part of a "freedom rally" that closed the Pacific Highway border crossing. In the same video where she criticized Dr. Jule, she referred to One TWU, a support group at TWU for queer students and alumni, as "sex activists."
But perhaps most alarming was the way Simpson concluded her commentary: "I don't think Trinity is going to have any remedy available to itself but to ensure Allyson Jule is put in a place where she can no longer affect the children, the students, and the future teachers of Trinity Western," she said.
In an interview with Rebel News, for a September 17, 2021 story entitled "Unvaccinated university students risk losing everything in B.C." commenting on TWU, Simpson echoed her sentiments: "There are some very good people on the Board of Governors. There are some really excellent teachers. But I also know that there are some very bad teachers. Some of the professors, some of the ideologies, that are infecting, and I'll use that word because it's like a bad disease. [Those professors] need to be eradicated, surgically removed."
Nevertheless, according to Dr. Jule, community members and some TWU donors had contacted President Husbands with the concerns raised by Simpson in "Culture Watch" shortly after her appearance at UBC was politicized.
Although Dr. Jule had spoken at the same conference the year prior, "without incident," her comments in Fall 2019 provoked a strong reaction from senior leadership, with a newly-minted President Husbands and Board Chair Fred Fleming at the helm. "The thing that had changed wasn't me. I hadn't changed. The President had changed… He came with a more authoritative way." To Dr. Jule, it was "his way or the highway."
Suffice to say, senior leadership was "a bit more disappointed" about her comments than Dr. Jule expected. "It did feel like not everybody was supportive of gender studies. And the new leadership, in particular, was uncomfortable with it… I thought the university would defend me since I've been at TWU for years and they knew my scholarship [in gender] well and had supported me and my scholarship in the past," she said. "So I was surprised when that wasn't the attitude."
Looking back now, however, she said she "shouldn't have been surprised." Dr. Jule recounts being called into a meeting with the Provost, Dr. Bob Wood, after her appearance at UBC and Simpson's "Culture Watch" had gone live: "Culture Guard had made [the President's Office] aware of the event… and had contacted them with some pretty inflammatory comments about a 'gay agenda.'"
She claims that the Provost reviewed both the comments Culture Guard had made and, apparently, a significant number of comments, which were made to the President's Office. In terms of the presentation she had given at UBC, Dr. Jule recalls the Provost saying (she paraphrases), "…You know, that was not the right thing to say or do and we don't think it's best for you to continue as Dean."
She recounts: "I said, No, I wanted more conversation perhaps. And I didn't want to leave the deanship over it."
Dr. Jule did propose, however, to take the Spring 2020 semester off.
But something did not quite sit right with her about the exchange with Dr. Wood, a long-time friend and colleague. "It was so weird because to me, the Provost––the actual person, like Bob Wood himself––I have known him for years to be a very thoughtful, gentle person who seems to have encouraged me all along and seemed very affirming of how I was with the School of Education. So then there was this kind of awkward conversation with him that sort of seemed like he wasn't him. I just had the feeling that he was representing, perhaps, someone else's views."
Kari Simpson, in her episode of "Culture Watch," admitted she hoped her views on Dr. Jule's comments would be represented: "The good news is that TWU is under new leadership. And I guess this will be a test for the new president there… Mark Husbands, to see what transpires."
In her time off, Dr. Jule, still blindsided by the reaction, decided to secure an employment lawyer to review her experience because "it was a very odd conversation and it was going in a very strange direction." Her employment lawyer stated that the resignation proposal was an "overreach" of leadership and "there would be employment policies that would have given a different response." It was Dr. Jule's understanding that there would need to be due process, certain procedures, and employment policies carried out before a Dean is told to return to a faculty position.
With that legal advice in hand, she returned––countering the suggestion that she should resign because of Culture Guard (and others') reaction to her comments––and continued as Dean. "And then by the time I came off, came back, it was COVID. So it was like, the story had just come and gone."
The reality is, it hadn't.
Fast forward to early 2021, and it was time for an end-of-term review, something that all Deans face when they are near five years into their terms.
Dr. Jule had received glowing reviews by her fellow faculty, within her department and beyond, and, as mentioned earlier, was recognized nationally for her pedagogical and relational skills in the classroom. However, this did not preclude the administration from raising some concerns.
"In the process of renewing my term as Dean," Dr. Jule said, "it became clearer and clearer that the leadership at Trinity felt that, to quote them, '…[my] desire to show care to all persons, including LGBTQIA2S+ persons, appears to make it difficult [for me] to model an institutional perspective as Dean.' And the fact that this was a 'problem,' well that kind of, for me, changed everything."
When asked if the TWU administration was reprimanding her because she is an [LGBTQIA2S+] ally, she said, "Well, that's yeah, I think that that's a worry."
She describes how the comments made by members of TWU's Executive Leadership Team indicated a "lingering issue of doubt in my Christian commitment" because of her inclusive attitude towards LGBTQIA2S+ persons. As to whether the Provost, Dr. Wood, was suggesting she would resign (again) from her role as Dean, Dr. Jule said it was communicated that she could return to a faculty position, but that senior leadership in the university remained uncomfortable with her continuing as Dean, especially in her area of study—in some ways, fulfilling Kari Simpson's prophecy.
In speaking with Dr. Jule, it became clear that she is not the only recent departure of a high profile female faculty member of the university. Dr. Adrienne Castellon, Dr. Kimberly Franklin, and Dr. Eve Stringham have also left TWU. Wondering if there were implications for the working environment at TWU, Mars' Hill reached out to the Office of the Provost for comment on how senior leadership views this predicament.
"As a senior administrator," Dr. Sonya Grypma, Vice Provost, responded, "I grieve the departure of anyone who I've come to admire and respect, who I enjoy working with, and whose contributions to TWU are meaningful and impactful… including the four you've mentioned. The opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder towards a common purpose, and the relationships (and deep friendships) that are built out of collaborative problem-solving is, in my view, part of what attracts, and keeps, women academics at TWU."
The Provost, Dr. Bob Wood added, "It is of course discouraging when gifted female leaders move on from their roles at TWU, regardless of the reason."
On how TWU seeks to fairly treat faculty of diverse views, Dr. Wood commented: "An important foundation for achieving better representation of women and minority groups in the University is the personal and organizational awareness of biases and structures that create barriers."
Dr. Wood said he was "privileged to be part of a group of six individuals who facilitated the conversation on hospitality several years ago that ultimately led to the establishment of the Practicing Christian Hospitality Core Value."
Dr. Grypma calls TWU's hospitality statement "a beautiful expression of one of TWU's core values. In the context of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), it calls us to receptive humility, reflective commitment, and imaginative empathy… Practicing Christian hospitality is required of everyone. The expression of hospitality is not gendered––it should not be practiced only or mainly by women. Men in our community are also expected to genuinely include and consistently care for all individuals––including (and certainly not only) individuals who identify as gender and sexual minorities."
Additionally, Dr. Wood said he is encouraged by "the commitment of President Husbands to advance these initiatives" by creating the role of VP Inclusive Excellence, hiring Jennifer Adkins, and "providing a deep theological framework for the work of faith-informed inclusivity."
These values, however, did not translate to Dr. Jule's own experience. When asked what was the "straw that broke the camel's back" in her decision to depart the place she loved, she responded, "I was just very disappointed and I felt unsupported. In who I am, who I have been, and the kind of relationship I've had with Trinity and the administration in my own role as leader here."
She said the leadership has gone a bit more "autocratic," and has "moved into more competition than relationship––and that, I think, is too bad."
Feeling her position of leadership was undermined, Dr. Jule was "not going to continue as Dean" especially if TWU had expressed doubts in her position because of her allyship. "I felt like I was flourishing––for many years I was flourishing at Trinity––and then the mood kind of changed," she said.
"I went into my own process of discernment. You know, 'Is it time for me to move on?' Which is what I decided to do. And so it was time for me to go."
Even before the last two years, Dr. Jule admits she saw something emerging within evangelical Christianity itself. The "deep theological framework," one of Dr. Husbands' initiatives, is something she factored into her decision to leave.
"I [noticed] a real division and a privileging of the right-wing conservative view on social issues at the expense of more progressive views," she said. "And that seems to be going on in Christianity, in North America, everywhere––not just at Trinity." She believes the President and the Chairman of the Board were more concerned with "certainty and clarity" against queer-affirming views rather than "a university culture of inquiry."
"I think there's a discomfort in general within the evangelical Christian community about gender issues. Full stop," she said. "Women in positions of leadership, sexuality, egalitarian versus complementarian, marriages, purity and chastity, and LGBTQIA2S+ issues. And I think there's a discomfort in evangelical Christianity on those social issues anyway."
Dr. Eve Stringham, the former Vice Provost of Research and Graduate Studies, agrees. When asked about the variety of gender issues in evangelical communities and the privileging of the right-wing conservative view on social issues at the expense of more progressive views at TWU, she said, "Unfortunately I think Dr. Jule is correct."
"One of the things I liked about TWU," Dr. Stringham said, "was that––unlike some other Christian colleges––TWU employs an open enrolment system. Students don't have to be Christian to attend. To me, this meant that TWU had a vibrant intellectual culture for a faith-based institution."
"When I started at TWU back in 1996, creation vs. evolution was the big issue facing evangelical Christians. I held a theistic evolutionist perspective while other colleagues held different views," she continued. "At times there was external pressure to conform to a particular view but somehow as an institution we managed to defend academic freedom within a faith-based context. Now it would seem to be the LGBTQIA2S+ issue that is causing problems for the evangelical churches."
"There is no consensus among Christians on this subject," Dr. Stringham said. "I'm an Anglican and… within the worldwide Anglican communion, there are differences of opinion with respect to same-sex marriage. It's allowed in the Anglican Church of Canada but not in England, for example. So given that there are differences of opinion within a single denomination, why would we expect a Christian university with faculty, staff, and students from a variety of Christian denominations to hold exactly the same view? Goodness, if you can't have healthy conversations about these matters at TWU, where can you?"
"The academic freedom policy should ensure that people at TWU can have varying opinions and discuss these things with collegiality, without it [being] treated as a faith test," she continued.
Regarding the climate at TWU towards women faculty who support feminist perspectives, and gender and sexual minorities, she said, "In my last year at TWU (2019-20) it was clear that President Husbands was reverting to a tokenism and hand picking approach to appointments instead of adopting best practices regarding equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)."
Dr. Robynne Healey, Professor of History and Co-director of the Gender Studies Institute, also spoke to Dr. Jule's concern. "There's a lot of backlash against those who interrogate issues of gender that some evangelicals find uncomfortable," she said. "Christian scholars experience this. Historians Kristin Kobes Du Mez at Calvin University and Beth Allison Barr at Baylor University have been vilified on social media by evangelicals who dislike the conclusions presented in their recent books Jesus and John Wayne and The Making of Biblical Womanhood. In some cases, Du Mez and Barr have been purposefully misrepresented to generate further backlash and attacks against them."
"Most recently," Dr. Healey said, "in the Canadian context, we are just learning that an independent investigation found evidence of sexual misconduct by Bruxy Cavey, lead pastor of the Toronto megachurch The Meeting House. Danielle Strickland, another pastor in the church, has resigned in solidarity with the victim. Issues of power are at play in all of these cases. As Christian scholars, we must engage in these conversations. Shying away from them perpetuates a culture where the abuse of power goes unchecked."
Despite these discouragements, in her famously generous tone, Dr. Jule still believes "Trinity has a lot to offer."
Following her career at TWU, Dr. Jule will assume the role of Dean for the Faculty of Education, Community, and Human Development at University of the Fraser Valley, effective July 1, 2022. "I've had a wonderful time at Trinity and I'm moving to the next chapter and that's the story… There's been more pain and disappointment than it needed to have."
Amidst everything, Dr. Jule maintains the students have been the "biggest blessings" of her life and the "students never let me down" throughout her time at the university.
"The students at Trinity are exceptional," she said, "and many of them I remain in touch with over the years. I hope that their experiences at Trinity are very affirming and that they sense a real joy and enthusiasm about their lives and what they have to offer the world. I feel incredibly privileged to have been part of that for years and years."
During the interview, it was clear Dr. Jule felt torn between sharing her experience and the possibility for it to implicate the wider TWU community.
Ultimately, she believes her mistreatment centers on a handful of individuals––including the "change of leadership in both the President and the Board Chair" and the criticisms leveled in the Provost's Dean review. Dr. Jule concluded that "the hospitality many [faculty] were encouraging was being silenced."
"You know, maybe this story is just my story," she said. "And this was my own journey. And these are the moments that happened to me on my journey. But do they represent the larger story?"
Only time will tell.


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package eu.livotov.labs.android.d3s;

/**
 * (c) Livotov Labs Ltd. 2013
 * Alex Askerov, Dmitri Livotov
 *

 * Date: 20/09/2013
 *

 * Callback interface to receive authorization events
 */
public interface D3SSViewAuthorizationListener
{

    /**
     * Called when remote banking ACS server finishes 3DS authorization. Now you may pass the returned
     * MD and PaRes parameters to your credit card processing gateway for finalizing the transaction.
     *
     * This is called when 3-D Secure v1 completes
     *
     * @param md    MD parameter, sent by ACS server
     * @param paRes paRes parameter, sent by ACS server
     */
    @Deprecated // 3-D Secure v1 ... this will disappear by the end of 2020
    void onAuthorizationCompleted(final String md, final String paRes);

    /**
     * Called when remote banking ACS server finishes 3DS authorization. You must
     * pass the CRes value to the payment processing gateway to complete the transaction.
     *
     * This is called when 3-D Secure v2 completes
     *
     * @param cres
     * @param threeDSSessionData - session data from request that's been reflected back in the callback
     */
    void onAuthorizationCompleted3dsV2(final String cres, final String threeDSSessionData);

    /**
     * Called when authorization process is started and web page from ACS server is being loaded.
     * For isntace, you may display progress now, etc...
     *
     * @param view reference for the DDDSView instance
     */
    void onAuthorizationStarted(D3SView view);

    /**
     * Called to update the ACS web page loading progress.
     *
     * @param progress current loading progress from 0 to 100.
     */
    void onAuthorizationWebPageLoadingProgressChanged(int progress);

    /**
     * Called if a loading error occurs
     *
     * @param errorCode
     * @param description
     * @param failingUrl
     */
    void onAuthorizationWebPageLoadingError(int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl);

}

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Osama, known as' The Waste Dog 'and banished from both the party and the workplace, becomes the' Golden Wolf 'and strips the brave clan of fangs!
104 Lone Wolf 4-43
A letter from Cinderella Osan, an analogy to modern times, equals a direct letter from a yearning Hollywood star.
The office in Bitz-Rabits became noisy.
"Nh... what?!?A letter from Mr. Gordwolf!?
"Isn't it a fake thing!?Did you let the appraisal house do the appraisal!?
"Yes! Gordo Wolf's own magic wax stamp (tarp) was pressed as a sealed wax!
"Hmm... what a thing!I can't believe you got a letter from someone who's been rumored to be more than Kitty Gayser now!
"King! Let's have a quick look!
The ministers in the office gathered around, but Bitz-Rabits drove them away as if they were against wild dogs.
"You idiot! This is a token of my dear Lord Gordwolf... no, no, no, no, no, no!
Down on the clouds, like you, you can't even see!
Now, get out of here!
Bitz-Rabitz threw all the humans out of the office and then opened the letter.
The envelope contained two sheets of paper.
A line was drawn on the map of the Seven Lucks kingdom.
And the other one...
"Hmm... this is it!?
An image illustration of a magic train that even the King breathed.
A magic train is a train that moves with magic and is scheduled to run on the "Intercontinental Railway".
Everyone in this country knows that the train's exterior is already open to the public.
Next, the design depicted on the body of the train was broken down within the royal family of the great Powers.
This "railway between the great powers" is a project between the great powers, regardless of the brave face.
However, the intention was greatly appreciated by all countries.
The illustration on the body of the car was also decided to be a gorgeous smart logo and a king character....
What an illustration magic train sent by Gordwolf...
The Slam Dog Mart logo and Wild Dog characters were drawn...!
Of course, Bits Rabbits knows that Gordwolf is the president of Slam Dog Mart.
But at the same time that Gordo Wolf took office as a brave man, Slam Dog Mart was supposed to be reborn as a whole store, gorgeous smart.
Bitz Rabits looks at two letters spread out on his study desk and is alone.
"What the hell is this...!?
A map drawn with lines and illustrations of magic trains.
What do these two mean...!?
"Whoa... no way!?
Bits Rabbits took a map from the desk drawer.
This is the route map for the Intercontinental Railway, which will be announced at the beginning of the week.
It traversed the central kingdom and led to an adjacent power, as shown in the figure below.
The map sent by Gordwolf is shown in the figure below.
What a route that included the dogleg countries...!
"Did Gordwolf tell you to change the route of the 'Intercontinental Railway' like this...!?
Now that Gordo Wolf has become a brave man, it is only right that he wants to include small countries in the railroad route.
This is because each small country is beneath Slam Dog Mart, and if there is a railroad, it can be used as a stepping stone to further expand the circle of commerce.
It was an impossible story for Bitz Rabbits.
Because the small nations unilaterally destroyed the Evantailles Alliance.
Until the queens of every country admitted and bowed down, they stood ready to resist.
Bitz-Rabitz can think about things.
"Hah...!?It's not "gorgeous smart" in this Evantaille country....
Will every adventurer's shop be a 'Slam Dog Mart'...!?
In your head, fictional logic comes to fruition like reality.
Immediately after writing, the king summoned the ministers back.
"Everyone! Investigate and report on the state of Gorgeous Smart in this country now!
If there's no madness in the rest of my eyes, I'm sure it'll be a closing rush!
The ruins will all be Slam Dog Mart!
The reading of Bitz-Rabitz was bingo.
According to a Royal Intelligence Department survey, more than half of the country's gorgeous smart stores are already closed, and the remaining stores are a matter of time.
Bits Rabbits was convinced.
"Really, is that so...?!
That's what the brave upper echelons are already talking about!
Next, we need to amend the law and land "Slam Dog Mart" from a small country...!
Bitz Rabbits has taken every obstacle to keep Slam Dog Mart from landing.
It is all a tribute to the brave men.
But if "Slam Dog Mart" is going to be the "shop of the brave" in this country, of course not.
Dirty wild dogs are just like dog show Grand Prix dogs...!
... welcome, welcome, welcome...!
"I'm sure Gordwolf has given us as much confidential information as he can find in the upper echelons of the brave!
The traditional "Intercontinental Railroad" route has taught us that the brave upper echelons are not satisfied!
This letter was a gift from Lord Gordwolf who wanted to build a special relationship of trust with the rest of us....!
Bitz Rabits stood up with a bang on his study desk.
"Alright! I'm changing the route of the Inter-Power Railroad in the rest of my life!
Just in time for next week's official announcement...!
But unexpectedly, an alarm-like voice echoes through his brain.
... wait a minute...!
Isn't this a trap...?
That's right...! "Crisis Detection", a special ability of Bitz Rabits...!
That hunch lifted my head...!
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Category: Army
What If The Taliban Had Attacked Pakistan's Nuclear Facilities?
Does Pakistan Need Any More Wake-Up Calls? The recent brazen attack by Taliban on the Pakistani army headquarters may be the last wake-up call that the nation is going to get.
Pakistanis have to ask themselves some serious questions. What If The Taliban Had Attacked Pakistan's Nuclear Facilities instead of the Army Headquarters? Or, what if these had been coordinated attacks simultaneously? The results would be horrible and ugly domestically and in the international response and concern about Pakistani nuclear assets.
That there are Taliban, Al Qaeda, Jihadi as well as Khliafat movement supporters and apologists in Pakistan is a sad fact. That there are still Pakistanis who do not see beyond the length of their nose – or a few months of perceived good and bad political stability – and yearn for martial law and its "benefits" is also a sad fact. That there are plenty of "blame America for every problem that Pakistan faces" people in every walk of life is also a given.
But if they all needed any further reminder, slap on the face, and one serious final wake-up call, this attack was it. It literally was an attempt to take over the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, something even India and Pakistan do not try to do to each other in times of cold and hot war. This should show the most ambivalent and secretly sympathetic Pakistanis that the Taliban are the enemies of Pakistan.
It appears that the attackers had inside information before the attack. The fact that there remained a not so secret cadre of Pakistan military officers who theologically, intellectually and emotionally remained supportive of the Taliban was dangerous enough. That they may still be providing material and professional aid to these enemies of Islam and Pakistan is far more treasonous than any actions of corrupt politicians or even dictators imposing martial law.
I must say I am shocked, and seriously disappointed, that the Army did not expect or prepare for the kind of brazen attack that took place. Signs had been pointing to it. Events were leading up to it. Yet, the very center of Pakistan's army operations was caught off guard.
I am surprised at the news reports suggesting that the guards on duty were confused by the fact that the attackers wore army uniforms. This should have been the most basic expectation provided to the guards in their basic training. Expect the enemy at any time, in any guise.
I am also thankful, and actually surprised, that these were not a series of automated attacks by uniform wearing terrorists attacking several Army locations around the country. We should be thankful for that, but also expect, and prepare for the worst.
This also highlights a serious risk that Pakistanis would be foolish to ignore. A similar uniform wearing gang of terrorists could attack nuclear facilities in Pakistan. We are fortunate that this attack did not target nuclear installations. As it is, it is a matter of serious embarrassment and grave concern for Pakistan and supporters of Pakistan.
The time has come for Pakistan, Pakistanis and the Pakistan army to wake up, and march forward, with no doubt, no hesitation in the no prisoners attitude to deal with the cancer that is now obvious to everyone except anyone harboring a secret desire to live in the Stone Age again.
Pakistan has to eradicate the Taliban, and by extension Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, not for the sake of Afghanistan, not for the sake of America, a not for the sake of any supposed global war on terror. Pakistan has two fully eradicate this cancer from every part of its body and soul for its own survival.
It is not to be easy. There will be blood. Unfortunately, that is what happens when the cancer is allowed to grow freely, or even encouraged in the false assumption that it can be controlled. The time is now. The need is critical. Pakistan's survival is at stake.
Pakistan's army and its people have to work together to meet this challenge together. The time of ambivalence is gone. The time to tolerate terrorists apologists is gone. The time to eradicate the cancer is here. Let us not let down our nation. Pakistan Zindabad.
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Pakistan Democracy: The Long March, The First Step
What a difference a day makes. What an even bigger difference a week can make.
What an amazing and exciting week this has been for Pakistan as a nation. Its elected leaders had just recently squandered a historic opportunity to set Pakistan boldly and directly on the path to institution and nation building.
On more than one occasion, on TV and radio, I had compared Pakistan, as a nation and especially as a government, to the ship Titanic, except that this one had deliberately hit every iceberg it could find.
Just when it seemed that the current government in Islamabad had completely forgotten the lessons of history – of merely one year ago – something changed. It had appeared that the policies of Islamabad were surely and not so slowly pushing Pakistan in the direction of chaos and eventual return of martial law.
As someone who has told his share of lawyer jokes, for the last one year I have had nothing but praise and kudos for the barristers and attorneys of Pakistan. Theirs is a career dependent upon daily earnings, made from daily work outside the court houses of Pakistan. One could not have been imagined that profession as the consistent and unstoppable source of the year-long protest movement. What the lawyers of Pakistan carried out was doubly special, as they did it against not one but two tyrants within one year.
Besides self-inflicted wounds, almost exactly of the kind that General Musharraf suffered from, perhaps there was some hubris or misconception in Islamabad. Maybe there was a feeling that people in Pakistan have become immune to tyranny. Perhaps it was felt that when push comes to shove Pakistanis are so used to having people in power do what they please that nothing would come out as protest against any power grab carried out by Islamabad.
But just when it seemed that our ship PNS Titanic was headed straight into a minefield, surrounded by icebergs, in the midst of the perfect storm, the most amazing opposite perfect storm arose in response. The nation became a nation.
The Long March, as it was called, was the best example of a peaceful (at least by Pakistani standards) uprising by the people of Pakistan to have their way with an elected ruler trying to cling to, and expand, his power.
I was in Lahore in 1977 when it happened the last time. I remember driving past puddles of blood covered with ash in dozens and dozens of locations on The Mall where anti-PPP protesters had been killed by the government at that time. This time however, thankfully, the perfect storm that arose was one of common sense, decency, courage and people power.
In particular in addition to the lawyers of Pakistan, there are many people I, even as a New York-based Pakistani, want to give thanks to.
This includes Prime Minister Gilani for his understanding of which way the wind was blowing and helping President Zardari see some light. General Kayani must have had to fight the urge not to take over the government. It must have been difficult when the elected leaders were themselves creating a situation that was going to endanger not just law and order in Islamabad but bring chaos across the nation.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has grown in stature not just within Pakistan but also abroad. He is being praised for taking a stand on principle, showing patience and then being very statesmanlike in his response to broken promises from Islamabad. To then show courage and refuse house arrest to march upon Islamabad put him on a much higher level of leadership than he was at before.
Even the police officers who, after some "kaarwai", showed common sense and decency, either to resign or to let the protesters begin their march towards Islamabad, should be considered heroes of democracy. As most of my readers and fans know from my background, during my days at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, in the early 1980s,
I was a student leader and chief organizer of QSF. The Islami Jamiate Taliba, as well as its parent, the Jamate Islami, were considered the mortal enemies of liberal organizations like ours. They even murdered Anas Choudhry, a final year student member of QSF, the year I joined UET.
But, today, as during the previous year, I am happy to give credit to this party for its principled stand against tyranny and dictatorship.
I never thought it possible, but even a member of the very political party and inner circle of Islamabad, Ms. Sherry Rehman, deserves praise for her decency, courage – and good timing – in resigning her position. It can be argued that she did it because there were others interfering in her ministry rather than what the government was doing to the independent media. But I, and the people, still give credit for her resignation.
Many of these things would not have become possible had it not been for the courageous, first-time in the life of our nation, stand of the real Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Choudhry, and his fellow judges, who resigned under General Musharraf.
They stayed out of office and jobs, despite pressure, incentives and other tricks that governments have at their disposal in Islamabad. I will avoid passing comment on the people who sold out their souls to get the appointments that they got. But I hope that this new chapter in Pakistan's history will also be the time when we start naming our villains for future generations to remember and spit on the names of.
Another hero, an entire industry really, that is among the less respected professions around the world these days, including America, was the Pakistani media. I say this not as a member of the media but as a proud Pakistani American who was ashamed of the silent acquiescence of American media in George Bush and Dick Cheney's shameless rape of the American Constitution and human rights around the world.
American media cannot be shut down by any government. Yet the media here quietly let the Bush government do whatever it wanted.
The Pakistani government, through many of its Stone Age laws curtailing freedom of expression and press, can shut down almost any Pakistani media entity. The bigger they get in Pakistan, the more the government can squeeze them. Even as a teenager I know how many magazines Prime Minister Zulfiqar Bhutto, whom I then admired, shut down for being critical of his policies. Urdu Digest was one that frequently had to reappear under other names.
I was a member of the press in Pakistan when vile dictator General Zia-ul-Haq gave many journalists a taste of what a dictator can do. He had writers' nails pulled with pliers to make them stop criticizing him.
For the Pakistani media to have stood up, first to General Musharraf and then to the current Zardari government in Islamabad, at great risk and financial loss to themselves, is another element to celebrate in this great victory of the people. A lot of credit goes to GEO TV, Jang and many other media.
Lack of space and time prevent me from individually thanking every single group or individual, like Mr. Aitezaz Ahsan, who played a central role in this great turnaround. God bless you all, for being the new heroes of a new democracy that can still rise in our nation.
The long march may have been intended for Islamabad, but it may turn out to be something far more important.
The Long March may have become The First Step in a thousand-mile journey – to the true destiny of Pakistan – as a great, free, democratic society ready to take its place in history.
"Qadam Barhao Saathio, Qadam Barhao"
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Musharaff Out – Pakistan Gets Yet Another Historic Opportunity
Like the Democratic party in America, which is capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory, I have seen fewer countries in the world that have the ability to waste historic opportunities like Pakistan has.
Much that I have been a critic of President Dictator Musharraf in Pakistan, I do have to give him credit for not having been the evil dictator that General Zia had been about 20 years ago. On top of that, I must laud retired General Musharraf for having the decency to step down, and resign instead of facing impeachment.
In that, he has shown greater courage and decency than either president Bill Clinton did or that I wish President George Bush would show.
Some of the statements in his farewell speech were laughable. But, one also has to understand how difficult it must be for any president, much less a dictator, especially one who suffers from a savior complex that Musharaff did, to step down.
But all is well that ends well. And one has to say that the Musharraf presidency and role in Pakistani politics has run its course. For better or worse he is now a part of history. Now it is up to the Pakistani coalition government as well as the Pakistani population to decide where they want to go from here.
Will Mr. Zardari and Mr. Sharif, the two men in power for now, do the right things for Pakistan? Will they have the good sense, decency and moral courage to put their own political ambitions aside and focus on putting Pakistan on the right track?
In this case, the right track that Pakistan needs to be on is, in reality, a long and winding road – of several interconnected and sometimes opposing paths!
On the one hand Pakistan has to do everything in its power to curtail the evil of fundamentalism and lawless terrorism that has become the norm. On the other hand it also has to stand up for its national self-interest, even if that means standing up to United States pressure.
Pakistan has to ensure that education of the masses, especially in the rural areas is a high priority. But, it cannot be done at the expense of economic development in the major cities. It needs to ensure the provinces get their fair share of revenues and development funds, but not at the expense of idiots holding up building of dams and power plants needed to survive, much less thrive, in coming years.
I am personally a big proponent of considering dictators and their supporters punishable by death when they overthrow an elected government. However, we also have to remember that the so-called elected rulers of Pakistan generally have themselves been guilty of becoming "elected dictators".
So, yes, there is some value to charging Mr. Musharraf with treason, which he did commit, in overthrowing the government of Mr. Sharif. This is especially true if the Pakistani people seriously want future generals and dictator wannabes to have the deterrent of death staring them in the face, should they decide to overthrow an elected government. But, at the same time, I realize that the Pakistani army is not going to stand by and watch one of its own actually be hanged.
I am also quite certain that Mr. Musharraf and his partners in crime, including bureaucrats, and people like Mr. Shaukat Aziz, have played a major role in plundering the economy of Pakistan, playing the stock market, and manipulating commodity prices to their own benefit. However, these are crimes that have been committed by every single government, and every single ruler, in Pakistan.
So, if we want to jail or imprison Mr. Musharraf, we should be ready, willing, and able to do the same for Mr. Sharif as well as Mr. Zardari. After all, neither Mr. Musharraf, nor Mr. Sharif, were ever given the name Mr. 10% that Mr. Zardari is commonly known as.
In the immediate future the biggest threat to Pakistani democracy and being on the right track does not come from the Army or from any external threat. The biggest internal risk to Pakistani democracy would come from the politicians starting infighting for greed and personal ambition.
Let us all hope for the best and make sure we keep the pressure on these new rulers to follow the rules. Let us pray that this historic opportunity is also not squandered by politicians, bureaucrats and illiterate followers of fundamentalist murderers.
Author imrananwarPosted on August 19, 2008 August 19, 2008 Categories 2 Centences Worth, America, Army, Bush, Clinton, Constitution, Dictator, Dictatorship, Economy, Elections, Freedom, History, Military, Musharaff, Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Politics, President, Terrorism, Terrorist, ZiaLeave a comment on Musharaff Out – Pakistan Gets Yet Another Historic Opportunity
Can Bush Push Mush? Another Legacy Leaving Opportunity Lost
For all the years I have followed Pakistani politics, from the inside as a student political leader, or from the outside as a media person, I have always been amazed by the huge number of historic opportunities squandered by Pakistan, Pakistanis and Pakistani generals, judges and politicians.
From the dictator Zia having an opportunity to clean up the country of corruption, to Benazir Bhutto doing something for womenkind and education, history was wasted. Ghulam Ishaq Khan was thrust into the role of President and blew a historic opportunity for him to be apolitical, and have a chance to be someone Pakistanis would remember as a hero.
Alas, once in power in most countries, and especially in Pakistan, elected and unelected heads of state, regardless of being 40 years old or 70, seem to live in the moment, for the moment, and moment by moment. Even the aged Ghulam Ishaq Khan did more to enrich his relatives, and play political games, than grab the incredible opportunity he had to become a new father figure in Pakistani history.
It is amazing that in Pakistan's 61 years, there is not a single head of state who has tried to, or left, a legacy good enough for Pakistanis to consider adding his (or her) photo on even a (now defunct) One Rupee note.
We now have a situation that is eerily similar to what we have seen before. A dictator, even more unpopular than Zia, is clinging to power, simply because one of the most unpopular American Presidents, ever, George W. Bush's grand foreign policy for the South Asian region is — 'we stand by Musharraf.'
Perhaps Bush supports Mush because it ensures there is at least ONE President who is more unpopular than Bush himself is! But, jokes aside, even a tragic accident of history like George W. Bush is trying, belatedly and with no success, to spend the next 6 months trying to "leave a legacy."
I can easily say Musharraf is a far smarter and more cunning man than Bush ever was, or will be. But, one thing they both share in common besides the sound of their names – no understanding of how legacies are left.
They do not understanding that a legacy is not created by clinging to power, or failed ideas, but by doing things in the greater interest, things bigger than what even our biggest admirers could imagine us doing. Legacy and history smile on us when we do things even we could not imagine being selfless, brave and visionary enough to do. When we become bold enough to stop living for our own egos today, but to step aside now, so the future can look back on us with respect.
Alas, neither Bush, nor Mush, get the concept, which is why they are both close to each other in how history will not remember them. They are among the most unpopular, ineffective, and impeachable Presidents – though they rule over countries thousands of miles apart, and worlds apart in political, religious and social systems.
Author imrananwarPosted on August 12, 2008 August 13, 2008 Categories America, Army, Benazir, Bhutto, Bin Laden, Bush, Dictator, Dictatorship, Elections, Freedom, Judges, Justice, Musharaff, Musharraf, Opportunity, Pakistan, Politics, President2 Comments on Can Bush Push Mush? Another Legacy Leaving Opportunity Lost
Murder's OK, But Make Love & You're Dead!
The US military, with two recent draft-dodging Presidents as Commanders-in-Chief, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has punished and dishonored a General who actually proudly served this nation in Vietnam and elsewhere. Because he committed….. adultery?
And, even that he did with someone who is neither his subordinate, nor his intern and not even a vendor offering him a job on retirement.
Yet, today a military court (where else but in Texas) let Pfc. Willie Brand go with a slap on the wrist, though he basically murdered two Afghan prisoners.
Way to go. Murdering unarmed prisoners under your control is fine, but God help you if you make love to an adult consenting woman. What would Jesus think.
You never know how much a top General can learn from a soldier. Perhaps the decorated General should have learnt from the murderous Pfc. Willie Brand.
The General would have been better off having sex with a non-consenting woman, that he should have held prisoner; torturing, maiming, raping and finally murdering her. The punishment would have been less severe than what he got now!
That's just, In My Humble Opinion.
Author imrananwarPosted on July 29, 2008 July 29, 2008 Categories Adultery, Afghanistan, Army, Bush, Clinton, Draft Dodger, Iraq, Jesus, Military, Murder, President, Prisoners, Sex, VietnamLeave a comment on Murder's OK, But Make Love & You're Dead!


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So… what do we know about (Brian) Cant?
Returned in the late 90s to voice a parody of a kids TV show for Lee and Herring's This Morning With Richard Not Judy, the Organ Gang.
Not to be confused with Cantabrian, who make hurdles for athletics tracks.
Nor with the angle of lateral banking on railway tracks.
Samsung may be regretting their decision to have Ray Winstone shout the slogan on their new TV ad.
And another one throws the towel over the ropes of life as Brian Cant shuffles off….
A staple of childhood television of my formative years perhaps he was born Cannot, and just got shortened.


Victoria heard the comments made and cried all the way home. She is now reportedly scared to go out in public, and will refuse to get out if they go somewhere. Her family have been appalled and heart-broken that she has had to endure such treatment, and in protest took to social media to raise awareness.
Her picture was posted on Facebook, with a caption underneath describing the events after questioning: "Does this face look scary to you?" As you can imagine, there was a great response with many in complete shock and disgust.
She was mauled in April by three off her grandfather's Pit Bulls. They ran into his home after ripping through the back door, and then dragged her outside where they mauled her body. She suffered from a shattered top and bottom jaw, broken cheekbones and eye sockets, a broken nose, the loss of her right eye and the ability to move the right side of her face. When her grandfather Donald Mullins, and his girlfriend Rita Tompkins finally saw, they tried to pull the dogs off but were then attacked themselves. They were forced to shoot, and two of the Pit Bulls were killed. The pair have been arrested on charges of child endangerment and their eight surviving dogs were seized.
Victoria was hospitalised for one month after the attack, and now continues to have physical therapy and eat through a feeding tube. KFC have stated they are investigating further and have a zero-tolerance for disrespectful behaviour. They have decided to donate $30,000 to help pay for her medical bills, regardless of the outcome of their investigation.


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March 8, 2002 by Richard Moore
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MST Informa #9                           February 8, 2002
Resisting Neoliberalism, militarism, and war:
For Peace and Social Justice
Confronting the continually worsening conditions,
neoliberalism, and war, we the world social movement, tens
of thousands of people, meet at the Second World Social
Forum in Porto Alegre. Here in large numbers, in spite of
attempts to break our solidarity. We gather again to
continue our fight, ratifying accords from the previous year
and reaffirming that "a different world is possible".
We are diverse - women and men, youth and adults, farmers,
fishermen and women, city dwellers, unemployed workers,
students, professionals, migrants, indigenous peoples and
people from all beliefs, colors and sexual orientations.
Diversity is our strength and its expression is the base of
our unity. We are a global solidarity movement, united in
our determination to fight against the concentration of
wealth, the proliferation of poverty and the destruction of
our planet. We are constructing an alternative system and
using creative paths to do it. We are constructing an ample
alliance through our struggles and resistance against the
system based in patriarchy, in racism and violence, that
privileges the interests of capital over the needs and
aspirations of the people. This system creates a daily
existence in which thousands of women, children and senior
die of hunger, lack of medical attention and illnesses that
could have been prevented. Entire families are forced to
abandon their land because of wars, modernization, loss of
farmland, natural disasters, loss of jobs, the precarious
nature of public services and the destruction of community
solidarity. In the South as well as the North, the struggles
and resistance demand dignity.
September 11th marks a major change. After the terrorist
attacks, which we completely condemn, just as we would
condemn other attacks against civil society in the rest of
the world, the government of the United States and their
allies responded with massive military action. In the name
of the "war on terror", they put civil and political rights
in jeopardy all over the world. The Afghani war, in which
terrorist methods were used, was expanded to other fronts.
It is nothing more than a permanent global war that
consolidates the domination of the United States government
and its allies. This war reveals the brutal face of
neoliberalism. They satanize Islam, and in doing so,
intentionally exacerbate the problem of racism and
xenophobia. Methods of communication and information create
a war-like atmosphere, dividing the world into "good" and
"evil". The opposition to the war is an important part of
our struggle.
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Bul'var Rokossovskogo () è una stazione dell'anello centrale di Mosca inaugurata nel 2016. La fermata serve il quartiere di Bogorodskoe nel distretto amministrativo orientale della capitale russa. La stazione funge da interscambio con la linea 1 della metropolitana attraverso la stazione omonima, che dista circa 250 metri.

Nel 2017, la stazione era mediamente frequentata da 15.000 passeggeri al giorno.

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Stazioni della metropolitana di Mosca
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Q: Javascript eval in function I want to make a function that has to generate a random number between 2 numbers and you can save it in a variable. I'm using this code:
function rand(ran1, ran2, randVar) {
    var randomNumb = Math.floor(Math.random()*(ran2 - ran1)) + ran1;
    eval("var " +randVar+ " = "+randomNumb+";");
}
rand(12, 49, rand1)
alert("Your number is: "+rand1)

The error I get is: Can't find variable: rand1
Can anyone help me?

A: Using eval for this is entirely unnecessary. I'd recommend something like this instead:
function rand(ran1, ran2) {
    var randomNumb = Math.floor(Math.random()*(ran2 - ran1)) + ran1;
    return randomNumb;
}

var rand1 = rand(12, 49);
alert("Your number is: " + rand1);

Notice that in calling the function, the only real difference is in where you place the identifier, rand1.
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Authors: Tomita A, Vandormael AM, Cuadros D, Di Minin E, Heikinheimo V, Tanser F, Slotow R, Burns JK.
Background Unprecedented levels of habitat transformation and rapid urbanisation are changing the way individuals interrelate with the natural environment in developing countries with high economic disparities. Although the potential bene t of green environments for mental health has been recognised, population-level evidence to this e ect is scarce. We investigated the e ect of green living environment in potentially countering incident depression in a nationally representative survey in South Africa.
Methods We used panel data from the South African National Income Dynamics Study (SA-NIDS). Our study used SA-NIDS data from three waves: wave 1 (2008), wave 2 (2010), and wave 3 (2012). Households were sampled on the basis of a strati ed two-stage cluster design. In the rst stage, 400 primary sampling units were selected for inclusion. In the second stage, two clusters of 12 dwelling units each were drawn from within each primary sampling unit (or 24 dwelling units per unit). Household and individual adult questionnaires were administered to participants. The main outcome, incident depression (ie, incident cohort of 11 156 study participants without signi cant depression symptoms at their rst entry into SA-NIDS), was assessed in the adult survey via a ten item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; a total score of ten or higher was used as a cuto to indicate signi cant depressive symptoms. Each participant was assigned a value for green living space via a satellite-derived normalised di erence vegetation index (NDVI) based on the GPS coordinates of their household location.
Findings Overall, we found uneven bene t of NDVI on incident depression among our study participants. Although the green living environment showed limited bene t across the study population as a whole, our nal analysis based on logistic regression models showed that higher NDVI was a predictor of lower incident depression among middle- income compared with low-income participants (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0.98, 0.97?0.99, p<0.0001), although when this analysis was broken down by race, its positive e ect was particularly evident amongst African individuals. Living in rural areas was linked to lower odds of incident depression (aOR 0.71, 0.55?0.92, p=0.011) compared with study participants residing in urban informal areas that often lack formal planning.
Interpretation Our results imply the importance of green environments for mental wellbeing in sub-Saharan African settings experiencing rapid urbanisation, economic and epidemiological transition, rea rming the need to incorporate environmental services and bene ts for sustainable socioeconomic development.
Funding South African Medical Research Council, National Institutes of Health, and Academy of Finland.
Citation: Tomita A, Vandormael AM, Cuadros D, Di Minin E, Heikinheimo V, Tanser F, Slotow R, Burns JK. Green environment and incident depression in South Africa: a geospatial analysis and mental health implications in a resource-limited setting Lancet Planetary Health,1:152?62 (2017).


У них и по Британии нет доставки очков и оправ - только ножками до магазина..
Видимо, никогда. В Ленинбурге есть магазин, торгующий настоящими Specsavers, но Кайлина линейка в нём, увы, "не представлена".
Комбез огонь! Попу акцентирует ух!
TO mark the launch of Kylie Minogue's new range of glasses at Specsavers Opticas, we asked her some questions about her new range.
Q. How's it been designing this collection?
A. I've absolutely loved designing this collection. Glasses are a big part of my life, day in, day out. I really tried to inject my personality into it – for me that means functional daytime-but-still-fabulous glasses which can transition to a dinner date or an evening show.
Q. What are the key themes for the collection?
A. I built the collection upon three key themes: modern classics, subtle bling and reinvented vintage.
Modern classics is just as it sounds – if it ain't broke don't fix it! There are classic shapes like round-eyes that work for most people, so we took those and put my twist on them.
Subtle bling is another part of the collection – I think the crystals worked really well in the first collection because there's just that surprise element. I think I will probably always have a bit of sparkle in my life somewhere – thank goodness I have a job where I can indulge myself in that a lot. I've kept it subtle and wearable, so that it's not overpowering.
icons, who wore styles that are still so relevant.
I honestly hope that this new collection appeals to everybody. I don't know what the fashion rules are – I hate rules, so maybe there are none. I hope that there is a little bit of everything in my collection so that people can choose exactly what they like.
These new styles will be available exclusively at Specsavers Opticas from the 23rd of May. View the collection online at www.specsavers.es or visit your nearest store.
Тема - Коллекция 2017-2018 "Kylie Minogue Eyewear"


Sanguinary Trance are a band from Austria that plays a very frantic and melodic form of black metal and this is a review of their self released 2018 ep "Wine, Song And Sacrifice".
An almost silent sound starts off the ep before going into more of a darker and heavier musical direction along with the solos and leads also being done in a very dark and melodic style while the first track is over 13 minutes in length as well as some clean playing also being used briefly.
When the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats and tremolo picking can also be heard which also gives the songs a more raw feeling while the vocals are a mixture of deep and high pitched black metal screams along with the songs also bringing in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts, all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and psychedelic and experimental elements are added onto the closing track which is also an instrumental.
Sanguinary Trance plays a style of black metal, that is very raw, melodic and experimental sounding, the production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover personal experiences and interpretation along with some inspiration from the writings of Georges Bataille and the philosophies of the Order Of Nine Angles.
In my opinion Sanguinary Trance are a very great sounding frantic and melodic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should c heck out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Carvings". 8/5 out of 10.


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Jörg Schiedek (* 17. Januar 1970) ist ein deutscher Behindertensportler.

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Jörg Schiek stammt aus Jena. Obwohl er schwerbehindert ist (Unterarmamputation links), wollte er auf Teilnahme am sportlichen Leben nicht verzichten. Als Sportart wählte er die Leichtathletik, in der er in mehreren Disziplinen aktiv wurde. Neben Weitsprung und Laufwettbewerben (100-Staffel- und 400 m Staffellauf) wurde seine Paradedisziplin der Speerwurf.

Wegen seiner guten Leistungen, besonders im Speerwurf, wurde er in die deutsche Behindertennationalmannschaft berufen, mit der er an drei Paralympischen Sommerspielen (1992, 1996 und 2000) jeweils in der Leistungsgruppe E 46 teilnahm. Bei den Paralympischen Sommerspielen 1996 wurde er im Speerwurf mit 53,58 m Olympiasieger und damit Gewinner einer Goldmedaille. Auch bei der Weltmeisterschaft 1998 erreichte er den ersten Platz. Bei den Paralympischen Spielen 2000 war er wieder dabei. Er gewann, ebenfalls im Speerwurf, eine Bronzemedaille.

Für den Gewinn der Goldmedaille 1996 wurde er vom Bundespräsidenten mit dem Silbernen Lorbeerblatt ausgezeichnet.

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Behindertensportler (Leichtathletik, Deutschland)
Teilnehmer der Sommer-Paralympics 1992
Teilnehmer der Sommer-Paralympics 1996
Teilnehmer der Sommer-Paralympics 2000
Paralympics-Sieger (Leichtathletik)
Paralympics-Teilnehmer (Deutschland)
Speerwerfer (Deutschland)
Träger des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes
Deutscher
Geboren 1970
Mann