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16.4 hrs • Mar/07/2017 • Unabridged
A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the worldGripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrère ferries readers through his “doors” into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith’s founding.Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carrère recreates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own reckoning of the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Carrère puts himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Luke’s encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity and retracing his investigation of its founder, an obscure religious freak who died under notorious circumstances.Boldly blending scholarship with speculation, memoir with journalistic muckraking, Carrère sets out on a headlong chase through the latter part of the Bible, drawing out protagonists who believed they were caught up in the most important events of their time.An expansive and clever meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion and the ongoing quest to find a place within it.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD13.1 hrs • Mar/07/2017 • Unabridged
Set during the chaotic years of World War II, The General’s Women tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war. Told from three alternating points of view (Kay’s, Ike’s, and Mamie’s), the novel charts the deepening of the relationship as Ike and Kay move from England to North Africa to England, France, and Germany before and after the Normandy landing. At the end of the war, Ike is faced with the heart-wrenching choice between marrying Kay and a political future.The story continues into the post-war years, as Ike (returning to Mamie) becomes Army Chief of Staff, president of Columbia University, Supreme Commander of NATO, and president of the United States. Kay, meanwhile, struggles to create a life and work of her own, writing two memoirs: the first (Eisenhower Was My Boss, 1948) about her war work with Ike; the second (Past Forgetting, 1976) about their love affair. An author’s note deals with the complicated question of the truth of Kay’s story as it appeared in the posthumously published Past Forgetting.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD8.7 hrs • Mar/01/2017
It’s the 1920s—cars and planes are new.Lily Gabriel is scruffy and confident and takes no nonsense from anyone. Antony is rich, spoiled, and arrogant, and Lily is completely and utterly—no nonsense!—in love with him.So join Lily as she falls falls in love, falls out of the sky, falls through time, and effortlessly, inescapably, falls into her future.Life is never what you expect or what you predict. But if you’re lucky, you hold on to exactly what you need—a young and wild heart. Wild Lily is a striking, timeless coming-of-age story that reminds us that the untamed life is always worth living.Available Formats: Download14.9 hrs • Feb/28/2017 • Unabridged
In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the Chicago Blues, the soundtrack for a transformative era in American history.But, for Leeba Groski, Chess Records was just where she worked …Leeba doesn’t exactly fit in, but her passion for music and her talented piano playing captures the attention of her neighbor, Leonard Chess, who offers her a job at his new record company. What begins as answering phones and filing becomes much more as Leeba comes into her own as a songwriter and befriends performers like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, and Etta James. But she also finds love with a black blues guitarist named Red Dupree.With their relationship unwelcome in segregated Chicago and shunned by Leeba’s Orthodox Jewish family, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the civil rights movement, and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD10.9 hrs • Feb/28/2017 • Unabridged
In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets of eighteenth century London to her stepmother Queenie’s Fairy House—a place where decadent excess is a must.Trained by Queenie to become a courtesan, and by Mr. Crease—a magician who sees that Tully holds similar special powers to his own—Tully soon becomes the talk of the town.But as Tully goes on a journey of sexual awakening, she falls in love with one of her clients and the pleasure soon turns to pain. Especially when the estranged husband she was forced to marry by her father suddenly seeks her out. Now Tully is awaiting her trial for murder, for which she expects to hang … and her only chance of survival is to get her story to the one person who might be able to help her.Delaney’s incredible tale of a young woman’s journey out of the depths of despair is shocking, haunting, and evocative. Part historical fiction and part magical realism, this juicy, jaw-dropping story will linger long after the last page is turned.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD12.9 hrs • Feb/21/2017 • Unabridged
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night.Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the façade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another—or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD6.8 hrs • Feb/07/2017 • Unabridged
Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration.Meet Calla Destry, a young black woman desperate to escape the violence of her town, and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. Every road leads to the bedlam of Marvel, and on it lives will collide and be changed forever.Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich, Edward P. Jones and Marilynn Robinson, The Evening Road is the story of two remarkable women on the move through an America riven by fear and hatred, and eager to flee the secrets they have left behind.Available Formats: Download12.8 hrs • Feb/07/2017 • Unabridged
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants’ lives and tangled relationships—perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey, Sarah Waters, and Angela Carter.May 1959. From one side of St. Brigid’s Island, the mountains of Connemara can be glimpsed on the distant mainland; from the other, the Atlantic stretches as far as the eye can see. This remote settlement, without electricity or even a harbor, has scarcely altered since its namesake saint set up a convent of stone huts centuries ago. Those who live there, including sisters Rose and Emer, are hardy and resourceful, dependent on the sea and each other for survival. Despite the island’s natural beauty, it is a place that people move away from, not to—until an outspoken American, also named Brigid, arrives to claim her late uncle’s cottage.Brigid has come for more than an inheritance. She’s seeking a secret holy well that’s rumored to grant miracles. Emer, as scarred and wary as Rose is friendly and beautiful, has good reason to believe in inexplicable powers. Despite her own strange abilities—or perhaps because of them—Emer fears that she won’t be able to save her young son, Niall, from a growing threat. Yet Brigid has a gift too, even more remarkable than Emer’s. As months pass and Brigid carves out a place on the island and in the sisters’ lives, a complicated web of betrayal, fear, and desire culminates in one shocking night that will change the island, and its inhabitants, forever.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD8.7 hrs • Jan/17/2017 • Unabridged
In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her patients, a Scottish officer, but Jo’s heart is seared by the pain of all she has lost and seen. Nearing her breaking point, she fights to hold on to joyful memories of the past, to the times she shared with her best friend, Kay, whom she met in nursing school.Half a world away in the Pacific, Kay is trapped in a squalid Japanese POW camp in Manila, one of thousands of Allied men, women, and children whose fates rest in the hands of a sadistic enemy. Far from the familiar safety of the small Pennsylvania coal town of her childhood, Kay clings to memories of her happy days posted in Hawaii, and the handsome flyer who swept her off her feet in the weeks before Pearl Harbor. Surrounded by cruelty and death, Kay battles to maintain her sanity and save lives as best she can … and live to see her beloved friend Jo once more.When the conflict at last comes to an end, Jo and Kay discover that to achieve their own peace, they must find their place—and the hope of love—in a world that’s forever changed. With rich, superbly researched detail, Teresa Messineo’s thrilling novel brings to life the pain and uncertainty of war and the sustaining power of love and friendship, and illuminates the lives of the women who risked everything to save others during a horrifying time.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD13.2 hrs • Jan/17/2017 • Unabridged
When she discovers her husband cheating, Ella Hawthorne impulsively moves out of their SoHo loft and into a small apartment in an old Greenwich Village building. Her surprisingly attractive new neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement at night. Tenants have reported strange noises after midnight—laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano—even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the place hid a speakeasy.In 1924, Geneva “Gin” Kelly, a smart-mouthed flapper from the hills of western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway known as the Christopher Club. Caught up in a raid, Gin becomes entangled with Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson, who persuades her to help him catch her stepfather Duke Kelly, one of Appalachia’s most notorious bootleggers.Headstrong and independent, Gin is no weak-kneed fool. So how can she be falling in love with the taciturn, straight-arrow Revenue agent when she’s got Princeton boy Billy Marshall, the dashing son of society doyenne Theresa Marshall, begging to make an honest woman of her? While anything goes in the Roaring Twenties, Gin’s adventures will shake proper Manhattan society to its foundations, exposing secrets that shock even this free-spirited redhead—secrets that will echo from Park Avenue to the hollers of her Southern hometown.As Ella discovers more about the basement speakeasy, she becomes inspired by the spirit of her exuberant predecessor, and decides to live with abandon in the wicked city too.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD11.2 hrs • Jan/10/2017 • Unabridged
That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon Springs Road all on my own, when a dreadful knowledge seized me that my mother had gone away never to return …In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate near Shanghai. Jialing is zazhong—Eurasian—and faces a lifetime of contempt from both the Chinese and Europeans. Without her mother’s protection, she can survive only if the estate’s new owners, the Yang family, agree to take her in.Jialing finds allies in Anjuin, the eldest Yang daughter, and Fox, an animal spirit who has lived in the haunted courtyard for centuries. But Jialing’s life as the Yangs’ bondservant changes unexpectedly when she befriends a young English girl who then mysteriously vanishes.Always hopeful of finding her long-lost mother, Jialing grows into womanhood during the tumultuous early years of the Chinese republic, guided by Fox and by her own strength of spirit, away from the shadows of her past. But she finds herself drawn into a murder at the periphery of political intrigue, a relationship that jeopardizes her friendship with Anjuin, and a forbidden affair that brings danger to the man she loves.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD3.3 hrs • Jan/03/2017 • Unabridged
“I did have a murderous trip down South, but it was mighty interesting.” In October 1913, Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a tour of South America. The thrill-seeking adventurer had no idea that he would soon receive an offer he couldn’t refuse: the chance to lead an expedition deep into the Amazon jungle to chart an unmapped river with his son Kermit and renowned Brazilian explorer Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon.Death on the River of Doubt takes listeners inside the thrilling journey that unfolds as Roosevelt, Rondon, Kermit, and their companions navigate an unpredictable river through an unforgiving jungle. With new threats at every turn, from bloodthirsty piranhas and raging rapids to starvation, disease, and a traitor in their own ranks, it seems that not everyone will make it out alive.Through it all, the indomitable Teddy Roosevelt remained determined to complete their mission and rewrite the map of the world. Or die trying.Available Formats: Download7.3 hrs • Jan/01/2017 • Unabridged
Oslo, Norway, 1942. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he’d never ask her; she’s had a crush on him for as long as she can remember. But Hermann won’t be able to make it tonight. What Ilse doesn’t know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis. The work is exhausting and unpredictable, full of late nights and code words and lies to Hermann’s parents, to his boss … to Ilse. And as life under German occupation becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made become more important by the hour: To speak up or to look away? To stay or to flee? To act now or wait one more day?In this internationally acclaimed debut, Marianne Kaurin recreates the atmosphere of secrecy and uncertainty in World War II Norway in a moving story of sorrow, chance, and first love.Available Formats: Download11.3 hrs • Dec/27/2016 • Unabridged
Dublin, 1962. Within the gated grounds of the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of the city’s Magdalen Laundries. Once places of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. Some inmates are “fallen” women—unwed mothers, prostitutes, or petty criminals. Most are ordinary girls whose only sin lies in being too pretty, too independent, or tempting the wrong man. Among them is sixteen-year-old Teagan Tiernan, sent by her family when her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest.Teagan soon befriends Nora Craven, a new arrival who thought nothing could be worse than living in a squalid tenement flat. Stripped of their freedom and dignity, the girls are given new names and denied contact with the outside world. The Mother Superior, Sister Anne, who has secrets of her own, inflicts cruel, dehumanizing punishments—but always in the name of love. Finally, Nora and Teagan find an ally in the reclusive Lea, who helps them endure—and plot an escape. But as they will discover, the outside world has dangers too, especially for young women with soiled reputations. Told with candor, compassion, and vivid historical detail, The Magdalen Girls is a masterfully written novel of life within the era’s notorious institutions—and an inspiring story of friendship, hope, and unyielding courage.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD, Digital Rental10.3 hrs • Dec/06/2016 • Unabridged
The summer of 1917 should have been a summer like any other. Stephen Robbins should have been doing the same thing he’d been doing for years past. As a young boy he’d fled his life in a secluded mountain cove and risen through the ranks to become the manager of the South’s finest resort, the elegant Mountain Park Hotel. By all rights, he should have spent this summer as host to some of the wealthiest gentry on the East Coast. Hans Ruser, German commodore of the world’s largest and most luxurious cruise liner, Das Vaterland, should have been sailing yet again with his elite passengers to the far corners of the world. And Anna Ulmann, captivating and beautiful, should have been at home in her New York mansion planning yet another lavish dinner party for her famous husband and his rich and powerful friends. She should have idled away her spare time by taking perfectly staged photographic portraits of the very same people.But war will change everything that should have been in that summer of 1917―the US enters WWI and the Mountain Park Hotel is pressed into service as an internment camp for over two thousand German nationals, including Ruser and his men. This sudden collision of lives and cultures in the small town of Hot Springs, North Carolina, is both frightening and exhilarating. And the unlikely alliance that forms between Hans Ruser and Stephen Robbins will force each to decide just how far they are willing to go to keep peace in the beautiful and isolated mountains. Feisty Anna Ulmann, seeking to assert her independence in a male-dominated world, mysteriously flees south to devote her life to documentary photography. When she steps off the train at the Hot Springs depot one sultry summer day, she could not have imagined the passionate journey that will result when she matches wits with Stephen Robbins. Haunted by demons both past and present, they will face heartbreaking tragedy. Yet together they will discover the true meaning of imprisonment and escape.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CD, Digital Rental8.7 hrs • Oct/04/2016 • Unabridged
From the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core. A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. There, she begins a journey causing her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation.In 1925, Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There, she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child.Seven-year-old Janie O’Daire is a mathematical genius, which is surprising. But what is disturbing are the stories she tells: that her name was once Violet, she grew up in Kansas decades earlier, and she drowned at age nineteen. Alice delves into these stories, at first believing they’re no more than the product of the girl’s vast imagination. But, slowly, Alice comes to the realization that Janie might indeed be telling a strange truth. Alice knows the investigation may endanger her already shaky professional reputation, and as a woman in a field dominated by men she has no room for mistakes. But she is unprepared for the ways it will illuminate terrifying mysteries within her own past, and in the process, irrevocably change her life.Available Formats: Download, MP3 CDLoading more titles...
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About: Little Elden Springs Horse Camp is a place for people who love horses and open spaces. It is a special place created exclusively for those individuals who enjoy riding their horse through beautiful country. The Horse Camp has been designed with the special needs of the horse-camper in mind. Each of the fifteen sites allows easy access for trucks pulling horse trailers. The campground sits near the base of Mount Elden in a beautiful grove of Ponderosa Pine and Gamble Oak. A trail connects the camp to a system of riding trails on the mountain, but also is within easy access of many areas on the Forest that can be enjoyed by horse riders.
Fees: $20 (2011)
Restrooms: Vault Toilet
Directions: Drive 5 miles northeast of Flagstaff on US 89. Turn west (left) on FR 556 and drive 2 miles to FR 556A. Turn north (right) and continue to the campground.

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Hollywood is waking up to the fact that controversial films are raking it in
Gross record breaker
TWO hugely popular, hugely controversial movies have left Hollywood's big studios looking red-faced for passing up the chance to profit from them. “Fahrenheit 9/11”, Michael Moore's flawed but entertaining George Bush-bashing “documentary” has grossed a record $24m in its opening weekend, having cost $16m (see article). Disney had controversially decided not to distribute the movie. Earlier this year, the big studios shunned “The Passion of the Christ”, produced by Mel Gibson, partly because of accusations that it was anti-semitic. It went on to rake in $370m, making it the seventh-highest grossing film ever.
Disney's official justification for preventing its Miramax subsidiary from distributing “Fahrenheit 9/11” was that the half or more of America that disagreed with Mr Moore's views might avenge itself on the firm's products and services. “Eisner made the right decision to not use Disney shareholders' money to advocate a partisan political position,” says Herbert Allen, president and chief executive officer of Allen & Co, an investment bank in New York.
Other media executives suspect that Disney's boss, Michael Eisner, also hoped to make life difficult for Harvey and Bob Weinstein at Miramax, with whom he has a fraught relationship. The Weinstein brothers had to buy the film themselves and use a smaller distributor, Lions Gate—something that seemed riskier at the time than it looks now.
Hollywood may be a bit braver in future. Rupert Murdoch, boss of News Corporation, recently told his number two, Peter Chernin, that he was disappointed at his decision to pass over “The Passion”. Mr Murdoch liked the film—and would have liked the money too.
Politically controversial movies often benefit from lots of free publicity. They can expand the market for films, as the people who flock to them tend to avoid Hollywood's typical fare. When Mike Dunn, president of home entertainment at Twentieth Century Fox, went to see “Fahrenheit 9/11” in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, he noticed that many in the audience had not been to a movie for ages. “They didn't even know how to buy a ticket, and bitched about the price of the Coke,” he says. Almost one-third of the audience at “The Passion”, he says, had not been to the movies in the past year.
Now studios are jostling to win the home-video rights for “Fahrenheit 9/11”. Sony Pictures is said to be in the lead. Twentieth Century Fox's home entertainment division will release “The Passion” in August and, later, “The Hunting of the President”, a documentary about an alleged right-wing conspiracy against Bill and Hillary Clinton. The surest guard against self-censorship by America's media giants, it seems, is big box office.
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Solo photography exhibit, 'Idiosyncratic,' a love letter to Wichita Falls
What: Michele J. Garcia art exhibit, “Idiosyncratic.”
When: Friday Jan. 17 to Mar. 22, 2020
Where: NorthLight Gallery, Kemp Center for the Arts, 1300 Lamar.
Information: (940) 767-2787.
Opening reception is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 16.
When Michele J. Garcia was 6 or 7, her parents gave her a Polaroid Land camera, and she taught herself how to take pictures, well enough that Garcia works full-time taking pictures of houses and properties for area realtors.
“I wanted to be a painter growing up,” Garcia said. “I wanted to be like Salvador Dali or Picasso. I just couldn’t do it,” she said, despite taking numerous lessons. Her fascination with art eventually brought her to the creative aspect of digital photography and post processing. Though, she has dabbled with painting over the past several years in order to enter the Kemp Center’s Mystery Art program.
Garcia’s solo photography show, “Idiosyncratic,” opens on Friday, Jan. 17 in the NorthLight Gallery of the Kemp Center and runs through March 22. Her opening reception is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 16.
She has previously shown in the Kemp Center and 9th Street Studios in group exhibits and is currently in two galleries in Los Angeles, as well as having exhibited a piece in a Lubbock, Texas gallery in 2019.
Garcia will exhibit 44 digitally altered 16” by 24” photographs printed on Kodak Professional Endura Metallic paper, and said the work is very much downtown centric. “The show has sort of mutated into my love letter to downtown. I have so many ties to downtown. I love the area. It’s my second home,” she said. Growing up in Quanah, Garcia said that coming to Wichita Falls was something they did quite a bit.
She began working on putting together the exhibit with two series. The first, she will finish sometime the year. The second series – this one - began with her taking pictures from the corner 4th floor apartment of LaSalle Crossing, an apartment with windows facing downtown.
“I played with those images in Photoshop and some various phone apps, and everything began flowing and I changed my focus. It was so easy and fast, and I realized that this is what I should be doing. There are 2 or 3 pictures in my exhibit from those first photos.”
Her images are surreal and kaleidoscopic and feature numerous iterations of recognizable buildings and architectural landmarks in the Wichita Falls. “I wanted to take recognizable images and do something different with them,” shew said.
There’s an obvious surrealist influence on the series along with that of the NYC artist Andy Warhol, she said. “There are certain buildings I am really into, and there are iterations of them and that’s the Warhol influence. I hope people will find those variations interesting.”
“It’s all DSLR to start with it,” she said, before she takes those images that she shot with the camera and a 35mm Sigma Art lens through a number of post processing permutations along the way. “What I am doing,” she said, “I want to tell anyone they can do this. Grab your camera, go take a picture and then experiment.”
The 44 large images will be her largest show to date, she said. All of the images are framed in a plain black gallery frame. “Everything is for sale. No mattes. Plain gallery black frames. I wanted each image to pop.”
The art in the show could be hung in a salon, an office building, a living room wall, a bank or really pretty much anywhere, and be effective in terms of form and color.
Garcia said that she fell in love with photography, “over time, because I realized I could be expressive because of the new digital technology. That means Photoshop and Lightroom and the photography apps on my phone. I will take pictures on my DSLR and then everything goes through Lightroom and I can then bounce it back and forth because of things like Photoshop and apps.”
The original JPG or Raw Image file will have changed a great deal by the time she is finished with the image.
Garcia said that her work has underwent a great and important change, after losing her grandmother -who meant very much to her - in late 2018. “From that time to now, there has been a major progression in my work. The anniversary of her passing was the beginning of November 2019 and it was about that time, this series started.”
In 2019, she also began submitting her work outside of Wichita Falls, which led to her inclusion in important shows in Lubbock and Los Angeles.

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Rihanna Brands Herself as a BOY In a Sexless Attire when camera’s caught her arriving.
Rihanna was seen arriving at LAX airport in a cap which had the word “BOY” emblazoned across the top in huge letters. She is never afraid to make a statement with her style choices. In fact, Rihanna took on a sexless look as she headed to board a flight at LAX.
The singer stepped out in a mannish look black Adidas trainers, and her bleached blonde locks were seen peeking out from under her statement headwear, as she made her way through airport security. Rihanna has never shy away from flashing, covered up in an all-black ensemble, a leather jacket and a grey hooded jumper boosted her slogan.
On Friday night, she stepped out in Hollywood in jeans and a denim shirt. The blonde ambition looked striking in a denim shirt tied at her midriff and a pair of floral patterned jeans with white heels. The 24-year-old hit singer wore sunglasses and bright red lipstick as she left the Las Palmas Club on Friday, where she had been partying with Ne-Yo.
Despite, the growing rumors about the singer been spotted arriving at Ashton Kutcher’s house at midnight earlier this week, and leaving at 4am, according to TMZ. Rihanna is not worried, she looked relaxed, and look gorgeous in her new hair-style with a pair of flower patterned jeans and a denim shirt, tied at the midriff.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars will be without two starting starting defenders in Terrance Knighton and Matt Roth. Knighton is out with an ankle injury and has missed the past two weeks and now it will be a third this week. In Knighton's place the Jaguars will play C.J. Mosley and Nate Collins. Roth is out with a concussion that he suffered in the second half of last weeks game against the Tennessee Titans. Aaron Kampman will be starting place in place of Roth at defensive end.
DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN PRACTICE: Cornerback Derek Cox (knee, out), defensive tackle Terrance Knighton (ankle, out), defensive end Matt Roth (concussion, out).
LIMITED PARTICIPATION IN PRACTICE: Defensive end Aaron Kampman (hamstring, questionable).
FULL PARTICIPATION IN PRACTICE: Running back Brock Bolen (calf, probable), defensive end John Chick (abdomen, probable), wide receiver Brian Robiskie (hamstring, probable), wide receiver Cecil Shorts (hamstring, probable) and tackle Guy Whimper (thigh, probable).
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The European Commission has presented a new Framework Agreement to make it easier for cross-border workers to pay their insurance premiums. From 1 July 2023, workers can work from home on a larger scale without the employer having to register and pay contributions in the employee’s country of residence.
The place of physical employment is often a decisive criterion for determining an employee’s affiliation to insurance regulations, and teleworking (or working from home) abroad has implications for both the employee and the employer. If an employee has an employer abroad, performs his work in more than one Member State and his activity in his country of residence exceeds at least 25% of his total activity, he is automatically covered by the insurance scheme in his country of residence under the current rules. Due to the Framework Agreement, the limit on the proportion of time worked has now been raised to 49.9%, where, if the conditions are met, requests for such exemptions will be approved automatically without the need for consent from another Member State.
The Czech Republic was one of the first countries to sign the Framework Agreement. In addition to the Czech Republic, 17 other countries have now signed. Countries can accede to the agreement even after it is in place. It is possible to apply for an exemption for up to 3 years, but a request may also be placed repeatedly. Retroactive applications will only be possible under certain conditions. If no exemptions are requested, the employee’s jurisdiction will be determined according to the insurance rules under the applicable EU coordination rules.
The Framework Agreement sets out the following conditions for granting an exemption:
- the employee works from home in a country of residence different from the employer’s country of registered office,
- the work is not performed in any Member State other than the country of residence and the employer’s registered office,
- the employee has an employer (one or more) in only one Member State,
- the employee performs the same work at the place of residence that would be performed from the employer’s registered office, but it is not manual work,
- the employee spends no more than 49.9% of his working time in his country of residence,
- the employee and the employer jointly apply for an exemption in the country, where the employee wants to be insured,
- both the country of residence and the country of the employer’s registered office have signed the Framework Agreement.
The framework agreement cannot be applied if the employee is also self-employed or if he works from a branch of his employer in his country of residence. In such situations, an exemption may be requested under Article 16(1) of Regulation (EC).
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Chicken Subs are a quick and healthy meal. Chicken is a classic lean muscle building protein. Top it off with lettuce and vegetables which are packed with essential nutrients that benefit health.
|1 Pkg||Maple Leaf Prime Naturally® Fully Cooked and Sliced Chicken Breasts (400 g)|
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|0.5 cup||Tomatoes - thinly sliced|
|0.5 cup||Peppers - sliced|
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Looking into last 5 trades, the stock observed a return of nearly -0.89%. An M-Score lower than -2.22 indicates that the company will not be a manipulator. Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) has risen 44.43% since December 6, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 36.90% the S&P500.
Philadelphia Financial Management Of San Francisco Llc increased Slm Corp (SLM) stake by 99.72% reported in 2017Q2 SEC filing. Slm Corp now has $4.97B valuation. VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN) stock price dropped with downswing change of -0.79% when it was compared to 20-day moving average. (VRSN). Let's have a look at recent traded volume and some historical average volume information.
Ciena Corporation's average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -27.1 percent during the past 12 months. It has outperformed by 27.73% the S&P500. Asset Management Inc holds 0.01% or 8,935 shares. Therefore 87% are positive.
Several research analysts have issued reports on the company. The original version of this article can be viewed at https://www.truebluetribune.com/2017/12/05/engineers-gate-manager-lp-acquires-130904-shares-of-ciena-corporation-cien.html. As per Friday, September 1, the company rating was maintained by Dougherty & Company. The stock's average target of $25.30 is 20.62% above today's ($20.975) share price. The stock of Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) has "Overweight" rating given on Tuesday, January 12 by Morgan Stanley. The firm has "Buy" rating by Jefferies given on Monday, August 21. Drexel Hamilton upgraded the shares of CIEN in report on Thursday, June 1 to "Buy" rating. As per Sunday, August 27, the company rating was maintained by William Blair. Deutsche Bank maintained the stock with "Hold" rating in Friday, September 1 report.
Ciena Corporation (CIEN)'s mean Altman Z-Score: -0.12 during the last 7 years. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.44 earnings per share. CIEN's profit will be $62.79 million for 12.04 P/E if the $0.44 EPS becomes a reality. The communications equipment provider reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.50 by ($0.04), Bloomberg Earnings reports.
Since June 15, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 6 selling transactions for $338,245 activity. The insider PETRIK ANDREW C sold $100,555. On Thursday, June 15 MOYLAN JAMES E JR sold $50,040 worth of Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) or 2,000 shares.
In other news, VP James Frodsham sold 2,000 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 19th.
Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) had an increase of 4.5% in short interest. $50,040 worth of stock was sold by Rothenstein David M on Thursday, June 15. It tells an investor how quickly a company is increasing its revenues. Its up 0.06, from 1.2 in 2017Q1. That's a potential 11.49 increase relative to where Vonage Holdings Corp. 60 funds opened positions while 92 raised stakes. The stock has 404.97 million shares outstanding and Average True Range for 14 days of 0.97. Independent Port Consultants stated it has 0.02% in Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN). The Earnings Yield Five Year average for Ciena Corporation is -0.000082. The stock price dipped -1.74% in three months and declined -19.40% for the last six months trading period. Moreover, Swiss Bank & Trust has 0.01% invested in Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) for 235,300 shares. University Of Notre Dame Du Lac has invested 1.31% in Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN). The Florida-based Voloridge Invest Mngmt Ltd Liability has invested 0.21% in Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN). Thrivent Financial For Lutherans invested in 0.2% or 1.88 million shares. Cambridge Research Advsrs invested 0.01% of its portfolio in Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN). Advent Mgmt De reported 0.01% in Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN).
It is the net asset value of a company, calculated as total assets minus intangible assets and liabilities.
Other equities research analysts have also recently issued research reports about the stock.
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The company has analyst rating of 1.80 on scale of 1-5. TH Capital downgraded it to "Sell" rating and $1 target in Friday, July 24 report. Advisor Group Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Ciena by 6.4% during the 2nd quarter. It also upped Inphi Corp 1.125 1Dec20 (Prn) stake by 18.07 million shares and now owns 31.15 million shares.
Media coverage about Norwegian Cruise Line (NASDAQ: NCLH ) has trended somewhat positive on Thursday, Accern reports. Shares of NCLH have downtrended -6.37% in the past three months, while the S&P 500 has moved -12.24% in that time.
The bill , which the National Rifle Association has called its "highest legislative priority, " passed by a 231-198 vote. It is the first gun legislation in Congress since mass shootings in Nevada and Texas killed more than 80 people.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses decisive protest with regards to statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation dated March 11, 2014, which recognizes as legitimate the so-called “declaration on independence of Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol”.
The decision, adopted by Verkhovna Rada of Autonomous Republic of Crimea, is unconstitutional, unlawful and legally unworthy.
This so-called “document” violates national legislation of Ukraine and provisions of international documents, including the statement by President of UN Security Council dated July 20, 1993, which was unanimously supported by all members of UN Security Council, including Russian Federation.
Ukraine categorically condemns direct intrusion of Russian Federation into our country’s internal affairs. The actions of Russian side are in contradiction with fundamental principles of international law and generally recognized principles of states’ coexistence.
The Russian side refers to consultative conclusion of UN International Court on unilateral declaration of Kosovo’s independence.
At the same time, Written Statement on Kosovo case, officially submitted by Russian Federation to UN International Court, states that “the right for self-determination cannot be interpreted as sanctioning or facilitating any actions that would lead to dismemberment or to partial or full violation of territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent states”.
Based on this position, as of today, Russian Federation has not recognized the independence of Kosovo. However, one can observe an attempt by Russian side to apply the principle, which was earlier condemned by it, with regards to Ukraine. This means that reference to decision of UN International Court is a classic example of double standards on behalf of Russian Federation.
The Russian side claims that OSCE observers were invited to participate in so-called “plebiscite”. The cynicism of the situation is that the invitation to visit the territory of sovereign Ukraine was transmitted by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE.
It is also well known that Swiss chairmanship of OSCE has characterized the “referendum”, scheduled for March 16, as illegitimate and excluded the possibility of its observance by OSCE mission.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine condemns the practice of provocative statements and any actions aimed at aggravating the situation in Crimea.
In order to inform of this position and to obtain the necessary explanation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine calls in the Charge d'Affaires of Russian Federation in Ukraine.
Ukraine insistently calls on the Russian side to deescalate the situation, to enter into direct dialogue and to fully comply with norms and principles of international law and interstate relations.


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State Parks hears input on controversial ‘Plastic Park’
Activists, residents of North Brooklyn adamant on environmental issues
“Stop the Plastic Park” was the battle cry that summed up the views of community members regarding the state’s initial, aborted plans to renovate Marsha P. Johnson State Park, which featured a garish design and would have added more than an acre of thermoplastic to the Williamsburg waterfront site.
Since the design process is now starting anew, online and in-person meetings will continue with the aim of capturing community input about design and uses of the park.
The issue came to a head earlier this year when the state released a rendering showing large plastic and foam flowers and a large surface mural featuring loud colors. The State Parks Department planned, for all practical purposes, to go ahead with the plan without community input. Community outrage erupted in news stories and social media.
In the beginning of March, the state finally halted construction after community members, Marsha P. Johnson’s family and LGBTQ+ advocates spoke out. Johnson was a gay, trans activist who was instrumental in the Stonewall rebellion of 1969.
Since the new input process began, throughout the public listening sessions, activists have been saying that NY State Parks has prioritized the food fair Smorgasburg in the park design.
In a letter addressed to NY Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid, activist Kate Yourke wrote, “this is evident in the percentage of the park devoted to cement, as well as the manner in which the design was presented to the community.
“This is a real estate investment accelerator disguised as a small-business incubator disguised as a park improvement project,” she continued.
Elizabeth Mitchell, author and local activist, agreed that “the park’s cement-heavy design was and is very much to accommodate Smorgasburg, a private entity.”
Brian Nearing from NY Parks said, however, that “the public review comment sessions remain ongoing for State Parks to receive public input from the community.”
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- Santosh Trophy: Karnataka run riot as Goa lose plot in 2nd half
Goa slumped to an embarrassing 1-4 defeat against Karnataka in a Santosh Trophy Group B match at Howrah Stadium. It was the second straight loss for Armando Colaco's boys, hurting their chances of claiming a semi-final berth from the five-team group.
- Goa, seat of Asia’s first high court
The Goa bench of the Bombay high court may be just three decades old, but Goa has a rich legal legacy, one that spans more than four-and-a-half centuries, and even boasts of the first high court in Asia. Back in 1544, when the Tribunal de Relacao was created, it was the highest court in the Portuguese territory of Goa with jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters. Also known as Relacao de Goa or Relacao, it had territorial jurisdiction over not just Goa, Daman and Diu, but also Portuguese colonies of Macau, Timor, and, for a brief period, Mozambique, too. It initially constituted three judges and appeals went directly to the supreme court of Lisbon. There were no oral hearings in criminal or civil matters at the Relacao, former additional solicitor general of India and former advocate general of Goa, Manohar S Usgaonkar says. “Submissions were made in writing where there was analysis of the evidence with citation of law and decisions and the conclusions. Thereupon, the respondent would give his submissions within a particular time frame and after payment of the costs, the entire file would be remitted straight away to the Relacao. With that, much time was saved,” Usgaonkar adds. In 1774, Portuguese prime minister Marques de Pombal abolished the Tribunal de Relacao and reintroduced the office of the auditor-general with all powers of the high court. Two years later, the Relacao was re-established with a chancellor presiding over the court with a bench of five judges. “The judicial district of Goa comprised eight comarcas, six in Estado da India -- Ilhas de Goa, Salcete, Bardez, Bicholim, Quepem and Daman, and two in the overseas provinces of Macau, Timor, and two Jugaldos Municipais Especiais (special municipal courts) of Mormugao and Ponda, and one Jugaldo Municipal (municipal court) of Diu in the same Estado da India,” senior advocate Fernando Jorge Colaco says. At the time of Liberation, the tribunal functioned from the present day commercial taxes building erected in the 1940s. It originally functioned from a building in Bainguinim, Old Goa. Colaco says that on January 10, 1962, in a 24-hour ultimatum, the military government under the newly appointed military governor Major General K P Candeth ordered “those holding top legal positions in Goa” to choose between “swearing allegiance to India and signing of a declaration to that effect, or being ejected from their posts”. On January 12, the Chief Justice, trying to protect the judiciary in his charge, signed the declaration, but eight days later resigned after a second declaration was asked of him, which he declined to sign, Colaco says. The Tribunal de Relacao de Goa was abolished and substituted by the judicial commissioner’s court that had jurisdiction over the union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu. Although it was given powers of a high court, it was not a full-fledged high court. “There was a strong fight for the status of a high court to be restored to Goa, considering its centuries-long tradition and given that it had the oldest high court in Asia,” Colaco says. The high court at Bombay (Extension of Jurisdiction to Goa, Daman and Diu) Act, 1981, extended the jurisdiction of the Bombay high court to the union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu and a permanent bench was set up at Panaji on October 30, 1982. It was inaugurated by Y B Chandrachud, the then Chief Justice. The first judge to set up the bench was Justice D M Rege and local judge to sit in the bench was Justice Gustavo Filipe Couto. “The task entrusted to Justice D M Rege was accomplished successfully and to the satisfaction of all. Similarly, the contribution of Y V Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, as he then was, to the state of Goa, was remarkable. It is he who laid on strong footing the necessity of maintenance of uniform family laws of Goa when he inaugurated the conference of Family Law of Goa, Daman and Diu held in 1979 by the Goa, Daman and Diu Advocates Association,” Usgaonkar says. The setting up of the permanent bench has benefitted the state tremendously, he says.
- Chennai City reject Minerva's approach to poach their players ahead of I-League title decider
Relegation-threatened Chennai City FC (CCFC), who finished their I-League engagements with a stunning win over Minerva Punjab last Friday, might have struggled as a team but players like M Soosairaj and Jean Michel Joachim have caught the attention of other clubs with their individual skills. Such has been their performance that title contenders Minerva wanted to sign midfielders Soosairaj, Edwin Vanspaul Sydney and striker Joachim on loan for their last match against Churchill Brothers on Thursday.
- ‘Most cops involved in drug nexus’
PANAJI: The special investigation team (SIT) investigating the police-politician-drug mafia nexus is in a quandary. A House committee, chaired by former Nuvem MLA Francisco ‘Mickky’ Pacheco has named a large number of police personnel as accused in the nexus. The SIT has now asked the state government for directives whether to file a general first information report (FIR) against police and politicians or register the FIR against the accused persons named in the House committee report. Superintendent of police (SP) Karthik Kashyap, in a notesheet to the government, has asked for a specific directive to the crime branch whether to conduct the enquiry or to investigate based on the report. A senior police official said, “Dozens of police personnel have been named as accused in the report. If we register the case against the police, then most police personnel will come under the scanner.” A senior officer at the state home department said, “We have forwarded the file to chief minister Manohar Parrikar for his instructions. Crime branch has already received the 2013 House committee report on police-politician-drug mafia nexus submitted by then Nuvem MLA Francisco ‘Mickky’ Pacheco.” The state government had constituted an eight-member SIT headed by deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Edwin Colaco. The state government had asked the anti-corruption branch (ACB) of the vigilance department to investigate the police-drug mafia nexus. But, the ACB did not conduct any investigation into the matter on grounds that it did not fall within its scope. The committee submitted its report to the state assembly in October 2013. The government transferred the report to the ACB for investigation in September 2015.
- Sanguem farmers oppose IIT project, suggest alternate sites
QUEPEM: Farmers from Cotarli in Sanguem have opposed the proposed Indian institute of technology (IIT) project on agricultural land, pleading that they should not be pushed to take drastic steps like their counterparts in Maharashtra. The villagers contend that the livelihood of over 300 families is at stake if the project comes up. “The project will not only destroy our agricultural land, but will be an environmental disaster, as the land is partly-forested and covers a hill,” a villager said. Kiragall Panivatto Sanstha (KPS), a group which has extended support to farmers has suggested alternative sites. The farmers also endorsed shifting the project to either Kostimoll in Sanguem, or Pedamoll in Quepem taluka. With over 400 signatures collected on a memorandum, KPS, headed by Constancio Mascarenhas, has petitioned agriculture minister Vijai Sardesai to intervene and said that farmers are not opposed to setting up of the project in Sanguem but are against destruction of their agricultural land. The site is barely five kilometers from the Selaulim irrigation project and a major part of the area it falls under is the ‘command area’. “If the government has set up the dam to increase cultivation, then why does the government intend to acquire the land for the IIT project?” Josephina Colaco, 60, a local asked. The ban on mining had turned most people to agriculture for their living. In February, the government started sending notices to farmers and landowners for signing their consent terms through the Quepem and Sanguem mamlatdars, with documentary evidence. Sanguem MLA Prasad Gaonkar said, “I will convene a meeting with the villagers along with government officials. If they don’t want the IIT project, then I will stand by the people,” Gaonkar said.
- Aadhaar seekers in Quepem, Sanguem vent ire
QUEPEM: Long queues for registering new Aadhaar cards have caused immense resentment among people in Quepem and Sanguem taluka, as they have to make repeated trips to complete formalities. A simple requirement for registering the name for a card means the Aadhaar card seeker has to make numerous and lengthy trips, sources said. A specified date is fixed once in a month to secure appointments to furnish papers, due to which people from far-off places in Quepem and Sanguem talukas are facing hardships in getting their Aadhaar cards issued. “When people approach the office, they are not given appointments, but are told to come on a particular day for the appointment. After that date, they are called on the next date for registration, thus requiring three trips for a simple task,” stated former chairperson of Quepem municipal council, Manuel Colaco. The Quepem Aadhaar card registration office is located at the primary health centre, while the Curchorem office is functioning in a private building. Officials from Quepem and Curchorem offices said that they have fixed March 15 and 16 respectively for appointments. Hence, the applicants have been told to appear on that date, an official said. Goa Electronics Limited (GEL) official Harish Amonkar said that the Curchorem and Quepem offices have only one operator, and added that people fail to turn up after taking appointments. Hence only one day in a month is fixed for taking appointments, he said. The operator at Quepem office said that only 30 appointments are fixed in a month.
- Roger Federer becomes most decorated Laureus award winner
Tennis legend Roger Federer became the most decorated winner in the history of Laureus World Sports Awards after he won twin honours, his sixth, which includes the Sportsman and Comeback titles at the 18th edition of the prestigious awards ceremony.
- Court reserves order in DME appointment case
Madurai: With just a day left for S Revwathy, dean-cum-special officer of Government Medical College (Karur) to retire from service, the Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Monday reserved its order on a batch of pleas that pertains to her promotion to the post of the state’s director of medical education (DME). A division bench headed by justice T S Sivagnanam heard the cases including a contempt plea and another filed by the dean of Government Medical College (Thiruvarur), A L Meenakshi Sundaram against the appointment of dean of Government Medical College (Coimbatore), A Edwin Joe as DME. The petitioners’ counsels told the bench that the single judge had on September 20 last set aside a government order appointing Edwin Joe as DME. When appeals were preferred against the single judge order, the division bench also set aside the government order by observing that the government positively recommended Edwin Joe to the post of DME and directed the state to consider the promotion issue afresh. But, the government did not obey the court order in spirit. It had allowed him (Edwin Joe) to continue in the post, even after the court order. After the issue was taken to the court, the government relieved him from the post. Meanwhile the government went to the Supreme Court against the high court order, but was not interested in continuing the case. It withdrew its case by saying that it did not want to press the case. Now, it appointed the same person (Edwin Joe) as DME. How could it appoint him, when the court had already quashed his appointment? the counsels asked. Filing the counter-affidavit of health secretary J Radhakrishnan, the additional advocate general told the court that the government again examined the merit and ability of the five medical officers in the light of the orders of the court and found that Edwin Joe is having more merit and ability. The orders passed by the court were fully complied with, the AAG said. After hearing concerned sides, the court reserved its order.
- HC calls for all files as govt picks Edwin Joe as DME
Madurai: The Madras high court Madurai bench on Friday raised questions over the government’s proposed appointment of Edwin Joe as director of medical education (DME) and called for all files relating to the appointment of DMEs since 2014. The court’s observations came on a contempt case filed by the dean-cum-special officer of Karur Government Medical College, S Revwathy who has been fighting for her right to the promotional post of DME for two years. The additional advocate general told the division bench of justices N Kirubakaran and R Tharani that the state’s health and family welfare department had prepared a panel of names for the appointment of the new DME, from which it had chosen Edwin Joe. When the bench asked the reason for picking Joe, the AAG said that the department had taken into consideration various aspects of the contestants, among whom Joe had more “positive aspects”. At this, the bench asked whether the other contestants did not possess positive aspects. It also asked whether Joe did not have any “negative aspects.” . It then asked the government side, “Will you (government) do anything to appoint a person whom you want, and disturb others whom you don’t want?” adding, “If you are not able to do good to those people leave them, but don’t give trouble to them. The government shall produce all documents relating to appointment of DMEs from 2014 and the proposed appointment of Joe on February 7.” The post of DME had fallen vacant on December 28, 2015 after the then DME S Geethalakshmi became vice-chancellor of Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University. As per the norms framed by the government, Revwathy should have been appointed as DME. But the government appointed Madras Medical College dean R Vimala as DME on March 18, 2016 by relaxing the rule under the Special Rules for Tamiil Nadu Medical Service. Thereafter, it appointed Coimbatore government medical college dean Edwin Joe on April 25, 2017.
- DME threatened for filing cases against government, court told
MADURAI: The Madras high court Madurai bench was on Wednesday told that dean-cum-medical officer of the Government Medical College in Karur, S Revwathy, has been threatened by officials for opposing the government's action to appoint another person as the DME. Revwathy has been fighting for her right to get the promotional post of state’s director of medical education (DME). Her counsel, S Alagarsamy told the court that the petitioner has been threatened by top officials of the health and family welfare department. They had allegedly threatened her saying, “You moved the court against the government’s action appointing government medical college (Coimbatore) dean A Edwin Joe as the DME, due to which we (the officials) had to drop him from the post of DME. Thus, you (petitioner Revwathy) will not retire peacefully?" Revwathy is going to retire on February 28 this year. In her contempt plea, she said that when she had already filed the case before the high court bench regarding promotion, the single judge passed an order on September 20 directing the government to appoint her to the post of DME, against which the health secretary and Edwin Joe preferred appeals. After hearing it, the division bench passed a common order on December 12 setting aside the appointment of Joe as DME and directed the secretary to reconsider Revwathy to the post of DME within six weeks. But, the government disobeyed the court order, which amounts to wilful disobedience to the court order, she said. The division bench of justices N Kirubakaran and R Tharani which heard the contempt plea recorded the counsel’s submission and told the additional advocate general (AAG) B Pugalendi that the health secretary committed contempt of court by calculating the period relating to court order after the AAG had told it that the period before which the court order should be obeyed is yet to get over. The bench said, “On seeing the case on hand, it appears that there might be some reason for not appointing her to the promotional post. The government should do some good things to the people, which will bring rain and prosperity to the people. Because, after hearing elaborate arguments from concerned sides the division bench has set aside the government order appointing Edwin Joe as DME and gave direction to the government. Why did you not implement the court order? Why shouldn't we take contempt action against you?” Following it, the AAG said that the government is preparing a panel in order to obey the court order and wanted time to complete the process. Accepting it, the court adjourned the case to Friday.
- As climate changes, our fish are at sea
KOCHI: There is growing, substantial evidence that climate change has affected fish and other marine population over the decades. A national study on the vulnerability of Indian fish stock due to climate change showed that fishes on the east coast were more vulnerable (72%) than those on the west coast (30-33%). A team of scientists at Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) undertook the study in four coastal zones after assessing pan-Indian historical marine data and taking into account a host of parameters such as temperatures, fish data, life history, reproductive capacity, food availability and different environmental indicators. The study showed that changes in ocean currents, water column mixing (that could alter larval dispersal) and food availability were likely to impact fishery resources in the next few decades. The changes in primary productivity – which influences the abundance of several species – can lead to a redistribution of fish stock, it said. The study classified the vulnerability as high, medium and low for 68 species in India. Around 69% of the total species were found to be highly vulnerable. Along the east coast, 72% of the species studied were found to be highly vulnerable in northeast zone, while it was 77% in southeast zone. In southwest and northwest zones on the opposite coast, it was 30% and 33% respectively. Almost 83% of the pelagic (upper layer of ocean) fishes studied were highly vulnerable, followed by demersal (closer to the sea floor) fishes (66%), molluscs (60%) and crustaceans (53%). Prawns and catfish were assessed as highly vulnerable in southwest, southeast and northeast zones. Black pomfret was assessed as highly vulnerable in the southwest, southeast and northeast zones. One of the major changes in Indian waters was the variation of sea surface temperature (SST) from 1976 to 2015. SST increased by 0.602°C along northeast India, by 0.597°C along northwest India, by 0.690°C along southeast India and by 0.819°C along southwest India. However, the rate of change was highest in northwest India (0.0156°C/ annum) followed by southwest India (0.0132°C/annum), indicating greater climate change impact along the west coast. Following this report, scientists are now all set to develop a new, computerized model to estimate the state of oceanic marine resources in the coming decades. The model, similar to the IMD’s climate model but would factor in the above mentioned parameters. This will help in estimating species availability and its vulnerability to changes in climate and environment. “Some countries have developed models, but we don’t have a successful model. We hope to run the model (akin to IMD) so that it can provide a strong base to evolve strategic management plans for highly-vulnerable stocks to counter the likely impacts of a changing climate in the long run,” said CMFRI’s head of demersal fisheries division PU Zacharia. Another study by Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) assessed the carbon emissions by different boats and fishing gear right from the production stage. “We have looked at carbon emission involved in the production of steel and fibreglass used for making boats as well as polyethylene used for making fishing gear. A detailed assessment was done on the use of diesel, the main fuel for boats,” said Leela Edwin, head, fisheries technology division, CIFT.
- Man arrested for growing ganja on roof
CHENNAI: Police have arrested a 49-year-old man for growing ganja on the terrace of his house in KK Nagar. During a search, a police team led by inspector M Thangaraj discovered ganja plants which had grown to a height of six to seven feet in pots on the terrace. Police seized the fresh plants and arrested the man who was identified as Charles Edwin Jayaraj. Jayaraj told police that he had been growing the plants on his terrace for several months. During questioning, he said that he had been using the ganja leaves in his food as it has medicincal qualities. A police officer said, “People sprinkle the leaves inside the boiling sambar to get high. This is a common practice in many households in and around Theni and Usilampatti.” The KK Nagar police registered a case and arrested Jayaraj who was remanded in judicial custody after being produced before a magistrate court in Saidapet on Monday. Preliminary inquiries revealed that he had been distributing the fresh ganja leaves to some of his friends free of cost. During questioning, Jayaraj said he was not aware that growing ganja in his terrace garden was an offence, adding that he had never sold the leaves to anyone, said a police officer. The issue came to light after someone posted pictures of the plants on social media. Subsequently, city police commissioner A K Viswanathan instructed officials to search houses in several parts of the city. During one such search, police personnel in KK Nagar came across the plants.
- Goan diaspora: Zest, thy name is Zulema!
Panaji: Zulema Colaco-de Souza sports artificial knees and uses a pacemaker. That in no way affects the 82-year-old’s zest for life. She attends fitness classes three times a week and feeds on the nostalgia and energy released by the sport of hockey which the Margao-born is in no mood to forget as the highlight of her life. Ironically, Zulema never played for a Goan team but scorched the turf in Uganda in the 1960s after her family migrated to the African nation from Pune where they settled when she was not quite a teenager. Her skills honed by the legendary KD Singh ‘Babu’, she delighted fans with her speed and body swerves on the left wing. In later years she emerged as the first woman umpire and extended her prowess to coaching, even initiating a club and national team. Zulema, now a resident of Toronto, Canada, is in Goa where she connected with friends and functionaries giving valuable insights on her journey across cultures, communities and professions but, last but not least, the sport that she loves. While doing so, she endorsed Stars Next Door, a book on the Goan sporting diaspora by Australia-based Cyprian Fernandes and shared camaraderie with Goan hockey icon Loretta D’Souza, Barbara D’Mello and Uganda teammate Esme D’Souza. Feisty by nature, Zulema took a lot in her stride. A victim of politics caused by split women’s hockey governance denied her a place in the India team. Then, after moving to Uganda in 1961 and initiating, not just a club but a national team as well, she had to flee the country in 1971 with her husband and children after the dictator Idi Amin reigned terror against foreigners. Zulema, by then, had developed resilience of a high order. She coped with indifference, even antipathy, not from the locals in Kampala where she instituted the Kololians, a team of school students, but from her very own Goans, a major segment of the expatriate population. “Goans looked at me as an ‘Indian’,” she said. The indifference partly arose because Zulema never ever played for a Goan team. Far from dispirited, she then embarked on developing the Kololians but, expectedly, received little or no support from Goans. Instead, help came from another quarter – the Punjabis, especially Sikhs! “They reached out far and wide for aid and a move to raise funds from drive-in theatres worked wonders,” Zulema reminisces. Goan at heart she well may be, but Zulema put sports above any regional, communal or religious affiliation. A fan of Sikh Union she was spontaneous in cheering every piece of skill on the pitch—to unsavoury reaction on one occasion. “A Goan spectator used slurred words at me for cheering Sikh Union but I reacted with a threat to drag him to court,” she recounted. Zulema, however, prefers to remember a more endearing moment – the gold medal from the board of directors of the Kololian school – a token of appreciation from Sikh, Punjabi and Gujarati students and parents! In Canada, she picked up the pieces – and sticks – and formed a team from the ample Goan talent available. She developed the Goan Overseas Association team, many players of which went on to play for Canada. That included son Shaun who donned the Canada colours at the 1985 Junior World Cup in Vancouver, one of six players of Indian origin in the team. It seems to have come a full circle for Zulema as she offered support for Goan hockey which appears to be caught in an eternal pit of mediocrity. But if there’s anyone whose counsel could turn the tide, it’s Zulema. After all her multi-faceted skills and abilities have seen her top up her sporting endeavours with forays into teaching, counselling, marriage and family mediation, even anger management, that have traversed cultures and international boundaries. Something a slogan that supported one of her many campaigns shouted: “Don’t be in a dilemma, vote for Zulema!”
- ‘Imposter’ collecting funds: School
MARGAO: The management of St Anthony’s High School, Veroda, Cuncolim has issued an alert about ‘an imposter going around in a priest’s cassock’ to collect funds for their school. The person, who calls himself Blaine Gomes, has been described as being of heavy build, having dark complexion and curly hair and travelling on a white two-wheeler. Fr Nelson Cristo Colaco, the school manager issued a notice stating ‘We have been informed that a man in priest’s cassock has been going around in Benaulim and Navelim collecting funds for our school. Please note that no priest has gone to collect door-to-door funds from our parish” Diocesan Society of Education (DSE) secretary-cum-treasurer Fr Zeferino D’Souza confirmed to TOI that they had received reports of the said individual asking for donations in the name of the school on Christmas Day in Benaulim. “We even have copies of the receipts issued. But we have not sent anybody. We urge those duped to file complaints with the police,” said Fr D’Souza. The police said that till date they have not received any complaints in this regard.
- Santosh Trophy: Goa count on Armando’s Midas touch
Panaji: The National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy has evaded Goa since 2009. Last year that void appeared to have ended when Goa made it to the final at Bambolim but Manvir Singh – now incidentally with FC Goa – broke Goa’s hearts with an extra time winner. Manvir’s goal helped archrivals Bengal win the trophy for a record 32nd time while Goa are still looking for their sixth title. If there is someone in Goa who knows how to win football trophies it must be Armando Colaco. The former Dempo Sports Club coach won almost everything with Dempo and helped the club emerge as the most successful club of the last decade. Can he now extend his Midas touch to Santosh Trophy? “The first target is to qualify. You don’t know how your opponents will play. The complacency, casualness creeps into the players, so I have told them to take care,” said Colaco at the end of the team’s last training session at Rosary ground, Navelim, on Friday. For the second successive year, the Goa Football Association has managed to put together a strong squad. Many leading names will be missing but the abundance of talent means, Goa will remain a force to reckon with. Leading the pack is Victorino Fernandes. The Sporting Clube de Goa striker has been named captain and he will be assisted by Dempo defender Mathew Gonsalves. The 20-member team handpicked by one of India’s most successful coach will leave for Ahmedabad early on Saturday. Goa’s quest to bring the Santosh Trophy home will begin against Rajasthan on Wednesday. They will play Gujarat in the second match on Friday. The preparations have been sweet and sour. Out of four friendlies, Goa won two against Sesa FA and FC Bardez and were held by Guardian Angel but were stunned by Dempo SC 6-1. “Practice matches are only to work out combinations. Individually we are great but gelling is very important in the team,” said Armando, who will have to blend the young talents like Kingslee Fernandes, Mackroy Peixote and Nestor Dias with the experience of Mathew and midfielder Peter Carvalho. Only six players from last season’s team made it to the initial list of 41 probables. Only four have made it to the final squad. If last season, it was Liston Colaco who got most of the goals for Goa, this time around much will depend on Sporting forward Victorino. He will need support upfront from Marcus Mascarenhas and Beevan D’Mello. Team: Victorino Fernandes (captain), Mathew Gonsalves (vice-captain), Ozen Silva, Melroy Fernandes, Agnelo Gomes, Nickson Castanha, Shallum Pires, Peter Carvalho, Jessel Carneiro, Mackroy Peixote, Kingslee Fernandes, Nestor Dias, Kapil Hoble, Beevan D’Mello, Velito D’Cruz, Joaquim Carvalho, Clinton Niasso, Marcus Mascarenhas, Clive Miranda, Joaquim Abranches; Armando Colaco (coach), Mateus Costa (assistant coach), Richard Sanchez (goalkeeper’s coach), Schubert Furtado (manager), Andre Menezes (kit incharge).
- Pending FRDI bill is deadly: Shantaram Naik
MARGAO: State Congress president Shantaram Naik on Thursday told people to be cautious about the new Financial Resolution and Deposits Insurance (FRDI) bill that is now pending before a standing committee in the parliament. Speaking at the foundation day celebration of the Congress party at a function held in the party’s South Goa district office in Margao, Naik said that the FRDI bill was “even deadlier than the demonetization exercise and the GST.” “You need to be alert to the dangers of this bill as the government is going to commit nothing less than dacoity on the bank accounts of the common man,” Naik said. AICC secretary Girish Chodankar exhorted party workers to take on forces of “divisiveness, deceit and falsehood” with renewed vigour. Leader of opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar, former chief minister Ravi Naik, former South Goa MP Fransisco Sardinha, M K Shaikh and others also spoke at the function. Senior Congress workers – Baptist Pereira from Ponda, Piedade Fernandes from Sanguem, Damodar Borkar from Margao, Antancio Carvalho and Magna Colaco from Cortalim and Agostinho Carvalho from Canaguinim, Quepem, were felicitated on the occasion.
- Salcete’s beaches turn into open toilets
COLVA: A morning walk along Salcete’s Colva-Cavelossim beach stretch is quickly turning into a revolting experience as people, including tourists and allegedly shack staff, use the sand dunes as open toilets. President of the Shack Owners Welfare Society of Goa, Cruz Cardozo, said it is easy to blame the shack staff and questioned lack of facilities for Drishti lifeguards all along this belt. Also, the government does not pay attention to the tourists who come to the state in droves in buses and other vehicles, who tend to use the beach for urination and defecation, he added. “After receiving complaints about open defecation along the beach stretch, I inspected the Cavelossim beach. Here I found women relieving themselves in the shrubbery on the sand dunes. But shacks do not engage women,” he said. Shacks have built makeshift toilets, Cardozo said. The Goa State Pollution Control Board, however, raised questions over how and where the human refuse that’s collected in tanks in the makeshift toilets was disposed. Pollution board member secretary Levinson Martins said there is no consensus between the tourism department and the pollution board over the responsibility to monitor the scientific disposal of human waste. Tourism director Menino D’Souza told TOI that his department is only the licensing authority and that pollution falls in the domain of the board as “they have the equipment and infrastructure to monitor and carry out inspections”. Terming the issue as serious, Martins said a mechanism is needed to be worked out between all authorities and that instead of blaming the pollution board, cases could be reported by any authority or department based on which violators could be booked under the Goa, Daman and Diu Public Health Act. The health department can also conduct inspections, Martins said. Shack owner Edwin Barreto said the government should have a sewage pipeline or connect shacks to the Jica sewerage system along the coastal belt. Junior environmental engineer with the pollution board Digvijay Dessai said that after cyclone Ockhi, the board had inspected a shack in Sernabatim and given directions on disposal of toilet waste. He said human waste disposal is not being monitored at present by the board, but said they would inspect the Colva-Cavellosim beach belt in the next few days.
- Juvenile fishes caught from coastal waters
KOCHI: There is a large diversity in the fishes being caught in the coastal waters in Cochin region. According to a year-long study conducted by Central Institute of fisheries technology as many as 86 species have been caught by the ring seine boats which are landing their catches at Chellanam. The findings of the study were presented at the recently concluded 11th Indian fisheries and aquaculture forum which was held in Kochi earlier this month. The study revealed the presence of 86 fish of which nearly 50% were pelagic or surface level fishes which the next half were deep sea species. Of this, a total of 15 species showed one time occurrence during the study period. The species ‘assemblage’ study from February 2016 to January, 2017 covered three categories of ring seines viz., small mesh ring seine type I (SMRS-1), small mesh ring seine type II (SMRS-II) and large mesh ring seines (LMRS). “The study showed that juveniles are being caught in the coastal waters. Many of the species come in to breed or in search of food and they get caught in the small meshed ring seines which are being operated near the shore,” said Leela Edwin, principal scientist, CIFT. She said that not all fishermen are avoiding juvenile catches. “They bring it like a mixture and sell it for whatever price they get.” Around 72 species were caught in SMRS-I followed by 67 species in SMRS-II and 50 species in LMRS. Highest values of biodiversity indicate presence of non-targeted species in the catch. None of the species were threatened or endangered, the study found. The catches included sardines, mackerel, shads, anchovies, giant trevally, pomfret, barracuda, ponyfish, threadfin, groupers, croakers, catfish, mullet, eels, tropical two wing flying fish, shrimps, prawns, crabs and jellyfish, said Leena Raphael, research scholar. She said that the fishermen complained of puffer fish and jelly fish menace during their fishing.
- Top three police stations get awards
PANAJI: Vasco, Panaji and Bicholim police stations were awarded first, second and third prize, respectively, as the best police stations in the state for the year, on Wednesday, during the Goa police raising day event. This was the third consecutive year where Panaji police station featured in the best three. Vasco police inspector (PI) Nolasco Raposo received the first prize of Rs 30,000 for the police station, while Panaji PI Siddhanth Shirodkar accepted the second prize of Rs 20,000. Bicholim PI Sanjay Dalvi received Rs 10,000. All three PIs also got a running trophy from the director general of police Muktesh Chander. Staff of the police stations, during the year of assessment, will each get a certificate. “This is the third consecutive year for Panaji police station. It is a matter of great pride. I am organising a sports day for the personnel of my police station with the prize money awarded,” said Panaji PI Shirodkar. Twenty-one police personnel were also awarded individually on the Goa police raising day with the DGP’s insignia for excellence. Calangute PI Jivba Dalvi, Saligao PI Santosh Dessai, Ponda PI Sudesh Naik, and Vasco PI Raposo received the insignia of excellence, along with SP foreigner regional registration office (FRRO) of Panaji, Bosco George, and deputy SP of security of Panaji, Edwin Colaco. Roy Pereira of Vasco traffic cell, Salim Shaikh of anti-terrorism squad at Altinho, Kapil Nayak of special branch in Margao, Deepak Pednekar of police training school at Valpoi and Mohan Gaude of traffic cell of Margao where the other PIs who were awarded the insignia, in addition to those awarded to different PSIs and head constables. Criterion for the prizes awarded included the crime detection rate, maintenance of records, disposal of cases, maintenance of premises, and manner of handling citizens, besides other criteria. A committee checked records of police stations and also carried out inspections.
- HC asks govt to make DME posting afresh
(Cleared/ Gopa) Madurai: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Tuesday set aside the state government order on April 25 appointing Edwin Joe as the director of medical education (DME) and directed it to consider afresh the case of the three medical officers including Joe for promotion to the post. The other two who were in contention for promotion as DME were Karur government medical college dean S Rewvathy and Thiruvarur government medical college dean A L Meenakshi Sundaram. The court said the dean's claim that she was senior to Joe was not reflected in qualitative and quantitative terms in the government order. Joe's contention that seniority had no priority and that the administrative experience in the post of dean were not relevant to the post of the DME was contrary to service rules. “Besides, certain insertions made in black ink do not inspire the confidence of this court. On a careful consideration of respective contentions and overall assessment of the instant case in a cumulative manner, this court comes to an irresistible conclusion that the government order had not weighed the pros and cons of comparative merit and ability of medical officers coupled with seniority." Hence, the court said that “based on equity, fair play, justice and good conscience and even as a matter of prudence,” it was setting aside the government order to prevent an aberration of justice and to promote substantial cause of justice. It directed the health and family welfare principal secretary to reconsider the case of Rewvathy, A L Meenakshi Sundaram and Edwin Joe afresh for promotion to the post of the DME “in a fair, free, just impartial, unbiased, dispassionate manner and that too with an open mind and to pass necessary qualitative, quantitative and tangible reasons by evaluating the comparative merit, ability and seniority” in accordance with law/rules within six weeks of the receipt of the judgment. So saying, the division bench of Justices M Venugopal and Abdul Quddhose disposed of a batch of appeals filed by the state health and family welfare principal secretary and Edwin Joe against the order of a single judge quashing Joe’s appointment as DME and directing the government to appoint Revwathy as the DME. Setting aside the single judge's direction, the bench said: “The single judge's positive direction to the Tamil Nadu health and family welfare principal secretary to grant promotion to Rewvathy as the DME with all consequential benefits are held to be incorrect in the eye of law.” The division bench had earlier ordered status quo on the single judge order. Revwathy had filed a case claiming that she deserved the post of the DME after the government appointed Joe to the post on April 25. After hearing the concerned sides, Judge R Mahadevan quashed the government order on September 20 and ordered to promote Revwathy as DME. Thereafter, the government and Edwin Joe preferred appeals against the single judge order.


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Jada Pinkett Smith is ready to tell her truth.
The Red Table Talk host is set to publish a “tell all” memoir with Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, reports People.
Pinkett Smith will detail how she was “in crisis at age 40” and had to redefine her life. She will also write about her “complicated” marriage to Will Smith.
In the book, Pinkett-Smith "chronicles lessons learned in the course of a difficult but riveting journey—a rollercoaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery and the celebration of authentic feminine power.”
She talks about her unconventional upbringing in Baltimore—as the child of two addicts, her studies in theater as a student, and her brief interlude as a petty drug dealer. She delves in on her rise to stardom alongside her close friend Tupac Shakur, her marriage to Will Smith as well as the revelation of motherhood.
"At the heart of this powerful book," states the description of the book, "are two unexpected love stories, one being Jada's complicated marriage to Will Smith, the other being the one with herself."
Carrie Thornton, VP and editorial director of Dey Street Books shared her excitement about Pinkett-Smith’s upcoming book in a statement.
"The world has imposed many labels and narratives on Jada Pinkett Smith. This is down to the realities of our media landscape, but also the roles thrust upon women by culture,” said Thornton.
"At the center of all the speculation and false stories is a woman who, like so many women, has had to reconcile her personhood with the needs of those she loves. This memoir is Jada giving the world her truth, taking readers on a journey from lost girl to woman warrior," she added. "It is my great honor to take that journey with her."
The yet-to-be-titled memoir will be released in the fall of 2023.

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