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tempting him. But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you? Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away. To whom Jesus answering said: Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mark. X. 2-9).
Words could not express more clearly the unity and indissolubility of marriage. Our Lord reminds his hearers that the Mosaic bill of divorce was merely a temporary concession granted “on account of the hardness of their hearts,” that went counter to the primitive perfection of marriage. He then lays down the new Christian law, and restores the primitive indissolubility of the marriage contract. “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
The disciples, thinking that perhaps they may have misunderstood his public answer to the Jewish teachers, questioned him again privately “concerning the same thing."
“And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing. And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery" (Mark x. 10–12).
By these words our Savior clearly teaches his Apostles that the Mosaic bill of divorce is abolished forever, and that the Christian man and wife cannot remarry alter being divorced without being guilty of adultery.
The Gospel of St. Luke sets forth the same doctrine : “Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery” (Luke xvi. 18).*
Could the condemnation of divorce be put more strongly ? A (the husband) is validly married to B (the wife). If A divorce B and marry C (another woman), this second marriage is declared an adulterous union; if D (another man) attempt to
* It is interesting to find both these texts quoted by the 113th Protestant Episcopal Council of South Carolina to show that the Gospel confirins the State law against remarriage after divorce, The Living Church, September 24, 1904.
marry the repudiated wife (B), this union is also declared adulterous.
Before discussing the disputed passages in St. Matthew's Gospel, let us first consider St. Paul's inspired commentary on the Savior's teaching. Surely his interpretation is of more value than that of the modern schismatic Greeks, or the leaders of the Anglo-German revolt of the sixteenth century, whom Dr. McKim and his school follow.
St. Paul says: “But to them that are married, not I but the Lord commandeth, that the wife depart not from her husband. And if she depart (i.e., if she be divorced from bed and board on account of adultery, or some other grave cause), that she remain unmarried, or (if she choose to condone the offense) be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife" (I. Cor. vii. 10, 11).
In the same letter he teaches that the consummated Chris. tian marriage can be dissolved only by the death of one of the married couple. “A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth ; but if her husband die, she is at liberty; let her marry to whom she will; only in the Lord” (Ibid. 39).
He teaches the same doctrine in his letter to the Romans: “For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man; but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband; so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man” (Rom. vii. 2, 3).
It is a universal law of Scriptural interpretation, that cbscure and doubtful passages ought to be viewed and interpreted in the light of clear and certain texts.* Bellarmine t pointed out long ago that the early Christians, who possessed only the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke (and we may add the Epistles to the Romans and Corinthians), would surely have been deceived by the Evangelists if, as the modern Protestants maintain, the marriage bond was dissoluble.
It may be well to state that Catholics do not pretend to arrive at their infallible certainty on this important doctrine by mere critical arguments or mere private opinions about certain Bible texts. The history of the past four hundred years is ample proof that the Bible interpreted by the individual can be brought forward to deny in turn every single teaching of Christianity and theism. As Mr. Mallock once said: “To make it (the revelation of God) in any sense an infallible revelation, or, in other words, a revelation at all, to us, we need a power to interpret the testament that shall have equal authority with that testament itself.” ". With an interpreter divine, infallible, and authoritative, even as Jesus Christ was, Catholics alone can have divine certainty on this question of divorce. We have seen + that from the earliest ages the Fathers of the Church were unanimous in declaring that adultery did not dissolve the marriage bond. The same doctrine was taught by innumerable councils—provincial and general—from the fourth century till the sixteenth, e. g., Elvira, 313 A. D., Arles, 314 A. D., Milevis, 416 A. D., Hertford, 673 A. D., Soissons, 744 A. D., Friuli, 791 A. D., Florence, 1439 A. D., Trent, 1545– 63 A. D. But as our Protestant brethren will not admit the existence of an infallible guide to interpret the Sacred Scriptures, let us meet them on their own ground, and see if the two obscure texts of St. Matthew's Gospel cannot readily be reconciled with the Savior's teaching in St. Mark and St. Luke. The first text, Matt. v. 31, 32, is as follows: # “And it hath been said: Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery; and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.” Some interpreters š have called attention to the fact that in both the classical Greek and the Greek of the Old (Septuagint) and New Testament the sin of unchastity before mar
* This principle is maintained by The Living Church, October 1, 1904, p. 719, in view of these very texts.
+ De Mat., Cap. xvi. n. 6.
* Is Life Worth Living 2 Ch. xi. p. 267. Putnam, 1879. # Cf. CAtholic World, March, 1905.
# It may be interesting to quote the views of some of the members of the Protestant Episcopal Convention, who hold the Catholic interpretation: “The passage in St. Matthew, taken on its face, gives permission for divorce for one cause only. It gives no permission for a man or woman to remarry under any circumstances" (Rev. Dr. Oberly, of New Jersey). “A proper reading of Matt. xix. 9 will show that our Lord did not make an exception by implication of adultery as a cause of divorce" (Rev. Robert Richie, of Pennsylvania).-The Living Church, October 22, 1904, p. 847.
§ Dollinger, The First Age of the Church. Appendix.
riage is generally called porneia, and after marriage moicheia. As the word porneia is used in the above passage, they maintain that our Lord, speaking only to Jews, told them it was lawful to put away a wife who was found guilty of ante-nuptial sin. With the Jews this was not regarded as a dissolving of the marriage bond, but as a declaration of nullity, for among them marriage with a virgin was alone regarded as valid.* When Christ, however, laid down the Christian law of marriage (Mark x. 2-12; Luke xvi. 17), he forbade divorce under all circumstances.
The most common and most natural interpretation, however, grants that porneia does mean adultery, and that our Lord was speaking of marriage in general, and not merely of marriage under the Jewish law; but it declares that he does not speak of divorce with the right to remarry, but divorce in the sense of a perpetual separation on account of adultery. The meaning of Matt. v. 32, therefore, is: “Whosoever shall put away his wife and refuse absolutely to live with her again, which he may not do unless she is an adulteress, maketh her to commit adultery, by exposing her to the danger of living with another in an adulterous union.”
To realize that this is not a forced interpretation, let us consider the scope of our Lord's teaching, and the context. Now it is evident that Christ is opposing a new and higher legislation to the old Mosaic law of divorce. (“It hath been said.”—“But I say to you.”)
But if according to our Savior's teaching adultery is to dissolve the valid Christian marriage, wherein lies the superiority of the new law ? On the contrary, it would appear to be far more lax than the old. The Mosaic law permitted divorce only to the husband, t and decreed death to the adulteress. The Christian law, from the Protestant standpoint, would allow both husband and wife to sue for divorce, and would put a premium upon adultery, by declaring the adulteress free of the bond that had become irksome to her.
Dr. McKim would, no doubt, object to this last statement, and maintain that the guilty party has no right to remarry. But we remember that he quoted with approval the following in The Living Church of July 30, 1904: “ Adultery is the one cause which destroys marriage physically by confusion of blood. It is the one cause which takes away the very ground of the mutual contract, and makes its continuance impossible. It is the one cause which destroys the social or civil contract,
* The same idea is held to-day by the natives of the West Coast of Africa. + Josephus. Antiq. Lib. XV., c. vii. n. 10.
1 Deut. xxii. 22.
But if "adultery destroys marriage,” and makes the continuance of the mutual contract impossible, why illogically teach that the innocent party is free to remarry, while the guilty one is not free? Surely this modern theory is fraught with strange consequences. For suppose that a man commits adultery without his wife's knowledge, and still continues to live with her-no impossible case-it would follow that she a good woman is, despite herself, living in adultery with one whom she supposes to be her husband. Her children born after her husband's adultery would be also illegitimate ! * This is surely a reductio ad absurdum.
Again, if we carefully consider the context, we will discover that the Savior plainly declares the marriage bond unbroken after the separation for adultery, for he says that the repudiated wife who remarries is guilty of adultery (“maketh her to commit adultery"), and the man who marries her is also an adulterer (“and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery").
Does it seem probable that our Savior would desire to favor an adulteress rather than an innocent wife ? Yet on the Protestant hypothesis, he would have done so. For if an innocent woman be put away without cause by her wicked husband, she would be denied the right to remarry, whereas to obtain that privilege she has only to commit adultery. Such a doctrine is unworthy of the Son of God.
The other alleged exception is found in Matt. xix. 3-9: “ And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause ? Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. They say to him: Why then did Moses
* The Living Church, September 10, 1904.

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Two thieves carrying a bronze statue of Catholic saint Francis of Assisi were caught by Italian police because the statue was too heavy.
The 80 kilogramme, 1.70 metre statue was placed on a fountain in a public garden near the military base of Cecchignola on the outskirts of Rome.
Police caught the thieves, a 47 year-old man from Rome and a 49 year-old Romanian man, using special tools to remove the statue from the fountain and then tried to take it to their pick-up van.
Because of the weight of the statue, both thieves struggled to take it to their van when they were spotted by a patrol unit from Italy's paramilitary police. The thieves tried to escape but were later arrested.
Both of them were unemployed and were previous offenders.
Saint Francis of Assisi was a Catholic deacon and the founder of the Franciscans. He is considered the patron saint of animals, the environment and Italy.
He died on 3 October 1226 in the city of Assisi, located in central Italy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Such a belief takes the onus off the offender and places it on the survivor.
A person should always ask to ensure his advances are wanted.
Every year, the dating site Match surveys single Americans ages 18 and up to examine these kinds of beliefs about dating, sex, and love.
Supposedly, we're constantly buried in our apps, we barely interact in person, and when we do, it's just for casual hookups.Acquaintances, friends or relatives are more likely to use tricks, verbal pressure, threats or mild force like arm twisting or pinning their victim down during an assault. Lack of obvious physical injury or knowing the attacker doesn’t change the fact that sexual assault is violent and against the law. a person who has agreed to sex previously with the offender (for example, their spouse, an acquaintance, or a client who has paid for sexual services) cannot be sexually assaulted by that person?Sexual violence can have significant impact on victims, regardless of the physical details of the incident: a Canadian study notes that while few survivors report sexual assault to the police, “a single incident of assault or sexual assault…can be a life-shattering experience” and as a result, survivors can feel fear, guilt, shame and low self-esteem (Status of Women Canada. Assessing Violence Against Women: A Statistical Profile.).. Sexual assault is any unwanted sexual activity forced on one person by another.We're also 30 percent more likely than other generations to want a relationship this year.2. A lot of us have heard our friends (or ourselves) rant about how online dating doesn't work and meeting through friends is much easier.But the reality is, dating app users were four times more likely to date in 2016.

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23rd July 2020 at 10:11 pm #110898
I wonder why I only fail here at home. I wonder how I am well regarded at work. If my husband could share his opinion right now he would say that I am the ultimate liar – a chameleon who is able to change to suit each situation I am in. I can’t understand anything anymore. I can’t think straight. I don’t have any anchor in my mind which helps me remember what is truth and what is not. I don’t know how to breathe anymore – I live in constant panic that I am making the wrong decision, that I am behaving inappropriately, that my every thought and action is the wrong thought and action. I am shamed when I look in the mirror because his voice is in my head telling me I am my mother – and all I see is her.
I am not innocent. I have failed as a mother and wife – but part of my brain is fighting the belief that I have no value here, both in my past and my future. He is not malicious, he is acting through pain and hurt. This man that I married is acting through anger that his life has not evolved in the way he wanted. I think his reaction to the breakdown of our relationship is just as reasonable as my reactions.
I just can’t breathe properly anymore when I am here. When I hear his voice I am paralysed. I am scared to say anything just in case I get it wrong. I am confused all the time wondering if I am going crazy because our version of events don’t meet up. I am suspicious and fearful when he is having conversations with the kids because I am so paranoid he is undermining my authority or counsel to them. I have to believe my babies will one day recognise the ‘truth’, but I am wondering if I will ever know the ‘truth’
23rd July 2020 at 10:22 pm #110899TurtledoveParticipant
Sending a hug and just letting you know that you’re not alone and you’ve come to the right place. X
23rd July 2020 at 11:31 pm #110901LottieblueParticipant
The way you speak will be familiar to many on this forum. It certainly is to me.
Are you getting any support from anyone at the moment? Like from Women’s Aid? Have you done any reading?
That complete muddle in your head can be straightened out a bit (I know from experience) which may give you some clarity. Try reading (or listening to) Healing from Hidden Abuse by Shannon Thomas and Why does he do that by Lundy Bancroft. They will both help you gain strength and also to make some sense of what is going on.
Keep posting. I’m sure more people will be along with the pearls of wisdom soon. X
23rd July 2020 at 11:32 pm #110902Kitkat44Participant
I hear you, I know this feeling. You describe it so well. Sending a hug, you are safe here.
I practise heart coherence to sit still and know and trust my inner voice. It has helped bring me some peace
25th July 2020 at 9:49 pm #111014
Thank you. I want to call and speak to someone at women’s aid. I don’t want to talk about him and how he feels. I just want to focus on how I have become this person. I am ashamed that I have become this useless unimportant woman. How did I allow myself to become a person of no value. I don’t care about what he believes. I just want to know how I bought into all of this. I am not able to practice any self love techniques because I have nothing in me to love. I have bought into the reality that I am everything that is black and rancid. Outside this home I am liked and appreciated and my work colleagues are seemingly genuinely pleased to have me there. Here at home I am cancer. My presence is a dark stain – one that my babies will never recover from. I was once a formidable storm of positivity and self assured attitude. I can’t grasp how I did this to myself. How did I allow this person I loved to change how I felt about myself?
25th July 2020 at 10:09 pm #111017iliketeaParticipant
Hi, have a look at the post I just bumped for women new to the forum…its time to start learning about Abuse and to get YOU back…you’re still there…I promise…I was like you…I could have written your post 5 months ago…you feel rock bottom now…but you can come up for air. First things first. Do just that. Sit and breathe, on your own somewhere, count for 4, hold for 4, let it out for 4, slowly, very slowly. Secondly, look at some of the book recommendations. A good place to start is Why does he do that? but its only hard copy, so get it if you can hide it and read it. If not, get audible and download and listen when you’re cooking, cleaning, driving, sleeping, exercising, shopping, walking, on headphones. Healing from Hidden Abuse…and Covert Passive Aggressive N********t. Both will help you. I promise. Be patient as the voices are “Therapy” voices but they also make you feel safe, and heard. Honestly. Please please try this as a first step.
You are not the cancer. He is.
You are not black and rancid. He is.
They project. They mirror. They deflect. It is Abuse 101. Please believe me. This is so so normal in everyones stories here.
Look at This is My Abuser – I bumped it earlier on. It will help. I promise.
On Monday, call your GP and set up an appointment to tell them about how you’re feeling. Not necessarily the abuse directly, unless you feel you can, just your mood, your depression, your anxiety. This is the result of this abuse. It is not you. It is the result of what you are experiencing.
Sorry to sound bossy. I want you to believe so much it is not you. Honestly I felt like this. But it wasn’t me, it was him. I left. I’m never going back.
Time to learn the Truth. The truth about Abuse that you are experiencing. Your babies will be ok, you will be ok, its time to to start learning about the insidious world of Hidden Abuse. Sending you strength. You are not a failure, you have reached out and posted here.
25th July 2020 at 10:35 pm #111018
I don’t think I can do any of this. I love how strong you all are. I wish I could transfer some of your energy into my psyche. I don’t think I can. Im pretty sure I have two outcomes – I will always be in this place forever or I will try to escape this and I will end up ending my life because my babies will not want to stay with me
25th July 2020 at 10:57 pm #111019TurtledoveParticipant
alonesadhomeless, if I can do it, anyone can! There’s alot of support and help out there, you’re honestly not alone on this. And you won’t loose your children, if this is your biggest worry then give rights of women a call, they’ll put your mind at rest, xx
26th July 2020 at 8:48 am #111027TickleribberParticipant
Hi, I just read your posts and wanted to add that yes, this could have been me writing this almost exact thing a handful of years ago, particularly the bit about work. And how you don’t feel your former confident self, that’s down to him working on ruining your self esteem over the years, but definitely you can get it back in time.
Once I got onto this Forum and educated myself reading the info and others posts, and the material other ladies are suggesting, it all fell into place and I saw the bigger picture of what’s happened. Then I could start to regroup.
Once I figured it out, my perspective changed and yours will too, you’ll see it for what it is, you sound like a very smart woman.
Sending you virtual hugs, we all need those.
26th July 2020 at 12:55 pm #111038EscapeeParticipant
Hi, I felt as desperate as you do. I was a complete wreck. That was a year ago…..I am now on my way back to living.
Remember how friends see you; how you felt before you met him…..who you really are away from the constant criticism and head games.
Like the other ladies say, read, read, read and breathe!
I made every excuse for him but really his behaviour is his to own and not your job to excuse.
Sending you strength and love 🙏 xx
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The small girl with the big voice is now a grown ass woman that clocked 34 today, i’m talking about not other than the incredibly talented Christian Aguilera, incredibly talented really does not do her justice because every time this voice power house sings i literally get the chills! For those who don’t know, Christina started her career on The Mickey Mouse Club show with Ryan Gosling, Keri Russell, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake.
The mother of two released her first song when she was fourteen, the duet titled “All I Wanna Do” was recorded with Japanese singer Keizo Nakanishi. In the year 1998 she sent her cover version of Houston’s “Run to You” to Walt Disney Pictures in hopes of being selected to record the theme song “Reflection” for their animated feature film Mulan, she was given the opportunity to record the track and the song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Happy birthday Christina! Continue to be awesome!

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The Innocent (McEwan novel)
The Innocent is a 1990 novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It received positive reviews from book critics and is often considered one of his best novels.
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The novel takes place in 1955–56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 operation to build a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Russian sector to tap phone lines of the Soviet High Command. Leonard Marnham is a 25-year-old Englishman who sets up and repairs the tape recorders used in the tunnel. He falls in love with Maria Eckdorf, a 30-year-old divorced German. The story revolves around their relationship and Leonard's role in the operation.
Leonard Marnham is "The Innocent" of the novel, a Post Office engineer who is employed by the Americans to install monitoring equipment in the tunnel they are building specifically to tap the Russians. The British and Americans view each other with distrust. Leonard is befriended by Bob Glass, an American obsessed with security.
The British are aware that the Americans are on the verge of a breakthrough with decoding, and are annoyed that they have not been a part of it. MacNamee, a scientist, insists that Leonard act as a spy for them, as he is in with the Americans. Leonard fails dismally in his role as spy.
Ironically, Leonard lives in an apartment above one occupied by a rather stuffy character named George Blake, who was a Soviet agent imprisoned in the 1960s, and who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs. The novel neatly intertwines fictional meetings between the two men, and one of Blake's most notorious betrayals is given a new slant by Leonard's foolhardy act.
At a bar with his new American colleagues Leonard meets a girl called Maria to whom he is 'innocent' due to having never had sex before. They become engaged but after their engagement party Maria's ex-husband Otto, a self-proclaimed war hero and alcoholic turns up and starts a very violent fight with the couple. While defending Maria Leonard is being badly beaten, Maria hits Otto with a blow to the head which subsequently kills him.
The couple, aware they cannot report this to the police as Otto was friends with the police, decide they have to dispose of the body. They cut Otto's corpse up and pack him into cases Leonard has taken from the tunnel. Leonard, exhausted and in shock, wanders through Berlin with the heavy cases trying to find somewhere to leave the body parts, but gives up and returns to his flat with them. While leaving his flat again with the cases the next day, he encounters Blake in the lift and claims the cases contain equipment from the USA, to be used in the tunnel for the next twenty-four hours only after which it will go back to the USA. Then Leonard runs into Glass, who admonishes him for removing equipment from the workplace and forces him to return the cases to the tunnel, driving him there himself. Leonard deposits the cases in the tunnel, then betrays its existence to the Russians to avoid the actual content of the cases being discovered by his colleagues. (Though it turns out later that Blake had already betrayed the existence of the tunnel long before. Blake tells the Russians about the new equipment Leonard has, so the Russians break into their tunnel from their end with a view to seizing the equipment for their own use.)
Leonard and Maria's relationship seems about to fall apart due to the strain of dismembering Otto's body, and both appear relieved when Leonard decides to go back to England for a short time. Just as his plane is about to take off he sees Maria and Bob Glass together on the roof of the airport terminal. Convinced from this that they are having an affair Leonard decides it is over between Maria and himself, having already been suspicious of them for some time.
In a postscript, the novel then skips forward thirty-two years to them both in late middle age (Leonard now circa 57, Maria circa 62). Leonard has received a letter from Maria explaining that she was never unfaithful to him with Glass until after his failure to reply to her letters, from which she took it that things were over between herself and Leonard. Maria tells Leonard she later married Bob Glass in New York, moved to America, and bore three children by him, but that Glass has recently died of a heart attack. She reveals that Glass found out about Otto and helped cover for the killing, which was the true reason for their suspicious behaviour together. The novel ends with Leonard deciding to fly to America and pay a surprise visit on Maria at her home.
Leonard becomes fatally embroiled in the life of his German girlfriend, Maria. He finds his life changed forever in the space of one evening. A virgin, he is introduced to the delights of sex by Maria, who is herself entranced by his innocent charm. She is not threatened by him and this is very important to her. However her past catches up with her one fateful night. The tunnel, loyalties, all become part of Leonard's desperate attempt to escape his deed. The novel unravels Leonard's "innocence" in a deceptively comic fashion: the young Englishman, bumbling along, out of his depth, enduring jokes and insults from the Americans, suddenly finds himself at the abyss of fear and terror, where betrayal becomes easy.
The Innocent was acclaimed by book critics. Michael Wood of the London Review of Books discussed the Gothic literary mode and wrote that "McEwan’s great gift is for getting his characters onto this level of experience by the most casual means." Wood stated that the connection between Leonard's work and personal life gets too unsubtle, but praised the precision of McEwan's portrayal of emotion, billing the novel as "a haunting investigation into the varied and troubling possibilities of knowledge.” Joan Smith referred to the novel as "far and away McEwan's most mature work" and "an outstanding achievement".
A reviewer for Kirkus Reviews stated that The Innocent is as "skillful in design [and] execution" as previous McEwan works. A writer for Publishers Weekly argued, "Though its plot rivals any thriller in narrative tension, this novel is also a character study--of a young man coming of age in bizarre circumstances, and of differences in national character: the gentlemanly Brits, all decorum and civility; the brash, impatient Americans; the cynical Germans. McEwan's neat, tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre.” George Stade of the New York Times Review of Books wrote that the different elements in the story material are well integrated, and said that the book establishes McEwan as "an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind". Anthony Burgess is a fan of the novel, writing that the "resonance twangs long after the reading".
Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times praised The Innocent as "powerful and disturbing", and called it "bone tight: every detail of every event works as a time bomb, waiting to go off, while every image seems to pay off in terms of plot, atmosphere or theme." Kakutani argued that “while these Grand Guignol events are hardly plausible by everyday standards of reality [...] Mr. McEwan's cool, perfectly controlled account of the macabre events lends [hardly plausible events] a kind of inexorable logic”. Richard Eder of Los Angeles Times wrote an unfavorable review, however. Although he praised McEwan’s account of the building and installation of the communications tap as "taut and exciting", he said that the story of Leonard and Maria "gets out of hand" when her husband appears and that the ending, "after so much tension, [...] seems lackadaisical and routine. An epilogue, set years later, turns this routine ending into a 'happy' ending that is utterly banal". Eder concluded that the novel is entertaining but lacks feeling.
Roger Boylan of the Boston Review argued in 2006 that Leonard's relationship with his American boss and affair with Maria "are tense and dynamic relationships, masterfully unveiled, and the atmospherics are first-rate. The Berlin of McEwan’s novel is scented with the real thing, the diesel fumes and beery scents and the Wurstwagens and the bracing Berliner Luft, the air of Berlin.” In a 2014 article for The Irish Times, Eileen Battersby praised the novel as "an interesting study of distrust" and one of McEwan's three best books. Tina Jordan and Susan Ellingwood of The New York Times listed The Innocent in 2018 as one of McEwan's six noteworthy works.
McEwan also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie of the same name.
- Modern first editions – a set on Flickr
- Malcolm, David (2002). Understanding Ian McEwan. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-57003-436-7.
[Wood's views are] typical of the novel's reception.
- Wood, Michael (10 May 1990). "Well done, Ian McEwan · LRB 10 May 1990". London Review of Books. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- THE INNOCENT by Ian McEwan | Kirkus Reviews.
- "Fiction Book Review: The Innocent by Ian McEwan". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- Kakutani, Michiko (29 May 1990). "'The Innocent'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- Eder, Richard (24 June 1990). "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel : THE INNOCENT by Ian McEwan (Doubleday: $18.95; 270 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- Boylan, Roger (9 January 2006). "Ian McEwan's Family Values". Boston Review. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- Battersby, Eileen (28 September 2014). "Reasons to read Ian McEwan, and the ones to avoid". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- Jordan, Tina; Ellingwood, Susan (17 May 2018). "6 Noteworthy Works by Ian McEwan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 January 2020.


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He toured heavily in the 90s with the House Levelers and has played South By Southwest, New Orleans Jazz Fest, North by Northwest and MusicFestNW. He’s shared stages with Squeeze, Calexico, Uncle Tupelo, the Dead Milkmen, the Black Lips, Apples In Stereo, Shonen Knife, Rev. Horton Heat, among many others.
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Two American teens who fatally shot an Oshawa boy in a prank gone horribly wrong have been convicted of reckless homicide.
Nicholas King, 14, died last Oct. 30 when a bullet from an assault rifle ripped through his neck at his best friend’s home in Franklin Township, Indianapolis. The family moved to Indiana from Ontario when King was 5.
On Friday, a judge found Kevin Edwards, 18, guilty of reckless homicide, criminal recklessness and dangerous control of a firearm. Edwards accepted a plea bargain and will serve four years in prison.
Edwards’ 15-year-old stepbrother, who cannot be identified because he is a minor, had earlier pleaded guilty to the sole charge of reckless homicide and is now serving a six-year term in a juvenile detention centre. The younger teen was King’s best friend — they had bonded over video games, rap music and oddball humour.
King’s sister Tiffany, a third-year political science student at Indiana University, submitted a victim impact statement at Edwards’s sentencing.
“I honestly want to believe that this is all a mistake, a big misunderstanding . . . But I’m not naïve,” she wrote.
“I was told by your former friends that Nick’s last words were, ‘Why did you shoot me?’ ” she wrote. “He shouldn’t have had to ask that, because you shouldn’t have bought the gun . . . and you shouldn’t have loaded it, and you shouldn’t have given it to your younger brother.”
The night before Halloween, King’s friends invited him over. It was raining when he arrived at their door, around 8 p.m.
“They thought it would be fun to scare him,” Indianapolis police Sgt. Linda Jackson told reporters at the time. “Whey they opened the door, the 15-year-old brother had the weapon in his hands and pointed it at the victim and pulled the trigger and shot him.”
Edwards told police he purchased the Romarm 7.62mm assault rifle on Craigslist. Both brothers claimed they didn’t know the gun was loaded.
“It’s painfully apparent in this case that nobody knew anything about this weapon and how to make it safe,” Jackson said at the time. “And now that we have a dead 14-year-old, a lot of people are going to be filled with regret for the rest of their lives over this, and it all could have been avoided.”
A few months before the shooting, the King family took in Edwards, after Nick’s pleading when his friend was thrown out of his own home.
But when Edwards refused to find work and started “engaging in petty thievery, bringing the stolen items into our house,” as Tiffany explained in her statement to the judge, his invitation was rescinded.
“Nick didn’t want to see any of his friends hurting,” Tiffany said of Edwards in her letter to the judge, “so we did something big; we let this complete stranger move in . . . And then you had the gall to hurt us in a way that nothing will ever make right.”
The month after Edwards was arrested for King’s death, police also charged him for possession of stolen goods.
King, who had just started his first year of high school in Franklin, never saw Indianapolis as his permanent home. His father Maxwell was relocated for work.
“In Nick’s eyes, moving to Indiana was just a pit-stop on our way back to Canada,” Tiffany, 20, told the Toronto Star by phone from her home in Indianapolis.
It’s why her family decided to bury him in Oshawa.
Tiffany and her mother Lori are planning to move back to the city this spring.
“We’re working on getting our lives back to normal,” Tiffany said. “The house we have now, it’s just a normal-sized house but it feels too big, too quiet.”

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Who is most likely to die in Avengers: Infinity War? We rank the entire cast on how likely they'll survive
This is probably the biggest cultural question since Who Shot Mr. Burns?
Marvel movies do a lot of things fantastically, but the thing they don't do well is kill off their characters.
Sure, a lot of villains have been murderized in the 10 years and 18 movies to date, but in terms of actual good guys biting the dust, not so much.
Here comes your SPOILERS warning, but they've either been killed and come back in the next movie (Loki, Bucky Barnes), been killed and come back in a TV show (Agent Coulson) or been killed and come back in the same movie (Nick Fury, Loki again).
As far as we can tell, the only two to have been permanently written out of the MCU to date have been Quicksilver in Age Of Ultron, and Yondu in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2.
However, with Infinity War on the horizon (in Irish cinemas from Thursday 26 April), we have been promised deaths aplenty, especially since the Avengers roster continues to fill up with more and more new additions.
Check out our chats with the movie's directors The Russo Brothers right here, and from there on, we're getting into the nitty gritty of who is most likely to kick the bucket in the new Avengers movies:
So here we go, from Least Likely To Die in Avengers: Infinity War, and ending with the Most Likely.
Considering that we know that the Infinity War is actually the first half of a two-parter, it would follow reason that Thanos is still going to be around for the second one, so that the Avengers still have... y'know... the Infinity War to fight. So he's definitely still going to be present for the currently untitled second half of this war movie, due to arrive in May 2019.
ANT-MAN / THE WASP
Ant-Man & The Wasp is released in cinemas in July 2018, three months after Infinity War, so... yeah, they're fine.
Considering the epic box office clout this movie has had this year - it's currently on $1.3 billion worldwide and counting - there is no way they're killing off their latest money-maker. In fact, we imagine T'Challa will be placed front and centre as the new Avengers leader in the aftermath of the Infinity War.
We haven't been properly introduced to Brie Larson's new addition, but we have it on good authority that Infinity War will fix that. Her standalone movie (MCU's first female-headed film) is due for release in March 2019, so again, it would be very weird to kill her off before then. Having said that, the Captain Marvel movie is apparently set in the '90s - the directors have said their biggest influence on the movie is Terminator 2! - so who knows?
He stole the show in Civil War. His standalone movie Homecoming was fantastic. And the sequel is due in July 2019. That being said, if they were to kill him off, it probably would be the most shocking death of the lot.
Marvel have been very quiet about what is happening after Infinity War. Ant-Man 2, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man 2, Guardians 3... and that is it so far. However, we've only had one Doctor Strange movie so far, and having set up the mystical side to the Marvel universe, it would be weird to drop it so suddenly.
This is where things get... murky. Reportedly, Marvel have hired a screenwriter for the Black Widow standalone movie, but there's no guarantee that it isn't some sort of prequel. The upcoming Captain Marvel movie features both Ronan The Accuser (Lee Pace) and Korath (Djimon Hounsou), both of whom were killed off in the first Guardians Of The Galaxy movie, so it is possible Black Widow could be killed. Possible, but unlikely.
Two-thirds of the way through Civil War, we thought we'd witnessed our first proper Avengers death when Iron Man's best mate hit the ground at terminal velocity. Turns out he was only really badly injured, so to kill him off in the very next movie would just be mean.
ALL OF THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (except for one person)
As we already mentioned, there is a third GOTG movie on the way, due sometime in 2020. But just like the Avengers themselves, they've been stacking up on members, with Mantis joining the crew, and GOTG2 hinting at the arrival of Adam Warlock (who is a big deal in the Marvel-verse). So we imagine the majority of these folk will be just fine for the foreseeable future, with the exception of one character, which we'll get to later...
On the one hand, killing off Banner right as he is reunited with Black Widow would be the biggest emotional gut-punch imaginable. On the other hand, after the success of his chemistry with Thor in last year's Ragnarok, as well as the issue that we're not 100% sure that the Hulk can actually be killed, we're putting him right in the middle. There is a chance that Mark Ruffalo could leave and Hulk can be constantly CGI going forward, though.
We were all a million percent certain that Hawkeye was going to fire his last arrow in Age Of Ultron, but he's stuck around to save the day a few more times, despite being in semi-retirement since then. The directors have said that they have "a bit of a long game" for him (check out their full comments in our interview above), but since when can we trust that? Remember when Benedict Cumberbatch definitely wasn't going to be Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness? Or Christoph Waltz definitely wasn't going to be Blofeld in Spectre? Trust nobody.
Back in the day, Sam Jackson said he had a nine-movie contract with Marvel. Infinity War would be his seventh. However, he's also appearing in Captain Marvel (which is set 20 years ago), which would leave him with just one movie left. 50/50 odds if he doesn't die in Infinity War, he'll die in the sequel.
In the comic books, when Steve Rogers hangs up his shield, Bucky Barnes takes up the Captain America mantle. However, while The Winter Soldier and Civil War have been pretty great, whenever Bucky Barnes plays a "nice guy", it doesn't seem to quite work. Again, killing him off just when Captain gets his BFF back for good would be a pretty good way to shock the audience.
A year ago, we would have had Thor right near the top of this list. Hemsworth's contract was coming to an end, and the first two Thor movies aren't exactly anyone's favourite in the MCU. But then Ragnarok came along, made over $850 million worldwide, and Thor is suddenly very popular again. Plus, they just gave him an eyepatch. That being said, they've probably had it planned to kill him off in Infinity War regardless, so even his recent successes and new aesthetics might not be enough to save him.
It has never really felt like Marvel knew what to do with spider-fingers Scarlet Witch, and there is nobody clambering for a standalone Elizabeth Olsen superhero movie. The only thing saving her from absolute impending doom is the fact that her would-be boyfriend is even more likely to die.
Captain America's other BFF has had a good run of it, but in terms of collateral damage, he does just seem like the most likely to get swatted out of the sky.
RDJ's contract has actually expired since Iron Man 3, but he's still popping up here and there, most likely to give Tony Stark a proper send off. We've got a gut feeling that he's going to survive this one, only to die in a moment of self-sacrifice in the Infinity War sequel to mirror the ending to the very first Avengers movie. Or maybe he'll be fine and get to spend his days happily ever after with Gwyneth Paltrow? Nah.
Yep, the one part of the Guardians Of The Galaxy movies that is highly unsafe going into this war. We know that both Gamora and Nebula are daughters of Thanos, so there is definitely some kind of epic Shakespearean angle to be played out there. Considering Nebula's recent semi, kinda, but not really, but maybe really turn from evil (also known as "Doing A Loki"), her turning on her even-more-evil Dad and dying in the process is about as Shakespearean as it gets.
The clean-shaven, square-jawed, all-American hero has a beard now, so you know he's troubled. Chris Evans has been talking for a while about being kind of done with the idea of playing Captain America, and his contract has also run dry. He very nearly lost a fistfight with Tony Stark in Civil War, even with the help of one of his bestos, so him properly going toe-to-toe with Thanos does not bode well. Consider his almost certain death to be the "All hope is lost" point that the first Infinity War movie will semi-cliffhanger end on.
Thanos already HATES Loki, having disappointed him several times over, all the way back to that first Avengers movie. If we were a betting person, Loki will be the very first to go.
Scarlet Witch's wannabe lover has an Infinity Stone in his head, and is the only reason he's alive. Thanos has arrived to collect all of the Infinity Stones to become the ultimate power in the universe. Sorry Vision, but there is no way you're getting out of this alive.


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Near Springfield in Marion County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
Ben Hardin, 1784-1852. ← Grave
Erected 1980 by Kentucky Historical Society & Kentucky Department of Transportation. (Marker Number 1363.)
Location. 37° 39.333′ N, 85° 14.317′ W. Marker is near Springfield, Kentucky, in Marion County. Marker is on Lebanon Hill Road (Kentucky Route 55) 0.3 miles south of Montgomery Lane, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Lebanon KY 40033, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Elmwood (approx. 1½ miles away); In Honor of Louis Sansbury (approx. 2.2 miles away); You are in The Holy Land! (approx. 2.2 miles away); Washington County (approx. 2.2 miles away); Felix Grundy (1777 - 1840) Morgan in Springfield (approx. 2.2 miles away); On Civil War Routes (approx. 2.2 miles away); Lincoln - Hanks (approx. 2.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Springfield.
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1. Benjamin Hardin. (Submitted on November 7, 2016, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee.)
2. Benjamin Hardin - Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. (Submitted on November 10, 2016, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.)
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Credits. This page was last revised on March 27, 2017. This page originally submitted on November 7, 2016, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 153 times since then and 5 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on November 7, 2016, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. 2. submitted on March 25, 2017, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.

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For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
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An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee.
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While living on campus at the University of Sydney, a student suggested to Jo Burnand that she become involved in rowing – small and bossy, they thought she was perfectly suited to the role of coxswain.
Jo joined the university rowing team and quickly developed a true passion for the sport. She made her Australian team debut in 1986 and was awarded an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship the following year.
Having put her career on hold to have a family, Jo returned to rowing in 2004 when she represented New South Wales at the Queens Cup.
A friend of two-time Paralympic cyclist Lindy Howell, Jo says she was honoured when Australian Para-rowing head coach Gordon Marcks asked her to be coxswain of their mixed coxed four team.
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Screen City Biennial 2019 to engage a post-anthropocentric worldview
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by Dilpreet BhullarPublished on : Feb 24, 2021
Taipei Biennial 2020, titled You and I don’t live on the same planet— New Diplomatic Encounters, focusses on the environmental issues and climate change, and it could not have resonated more firmly with the audience than the current times when the large part of the world is still grappling with the consequences of the pandemic. The biennial, running from November 11, 2020 to March 14, 2021, at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, is an opportune moment to relook at the past year(s). Importantly to question how and why we reach the stage of pandemic crisis - putting the entire world onto hold for a significant quantum of time. Not a smooth pause to be cushioned against, but the reverberation of this sudden jolt would be felt in the ensuing years.
Taking a step forward from the 2018 edition of the Taipei Biennial, Post-Nature, that talked about the ecological issues, latest edition curated by Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard is an attempt to have insightful conversations on the dynamics and diplomatic tactics between human and non-human worlds. Talking about the title of the latest biennial, the curators mentioned in their statement, “The expression ‘you and I don’t share the same vision of the world’ is a frequent figure of speech in political debates, whether in an official or informal setting. But the point is that today it is not merely a difference of ‘visions’ about a space that would be the same for everyone, but a question of ‘the material nature’ of the very world that we are talking about”.
The modernity with the clouds of “development, efficiency and wealth” shadowed the salient features of modernisation – “protection and identity”. The differences between the two social conditions opened a chasm that dawned a realisation, “how divided the different people of the Earth are as to what is the exact nature of their planet. It is clear, for instance, that Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg don’t live on the same planet! In the world imagined by Donald Trump, CO2 emissions are not an existing threat to the environment, greenhouse emissions are a mere belief, and business as usual must go on with American interests at its centre. Obviously, those who support such a view don’t live on the same land as those who are suffering from a deep ecological crisis”.
Harking on the recognition of the deep lines of division when it comes to the issues of ecology - the oppositions that could be traced back to the era of British Empire in the Indian subcontinent - is the work Seeds Shall Set Us Free II by Munem Wasif. During the colonial era, the Bengal rice production was reduced to nil in an effort to produce the market- favourable products - indigo and jute. The famine of 1944 in Bengal was the result of this minimised production and hoarding practice of the British. The artist collaborated with the research-based organisation, Unnayan Bikalper Nitinirdharoni Gobeshona (UBINIG) in Dhaka, which restores the traditional ways of agricultural production sans synthetic way of farming. The work calls upon the viewers to reimagine the spaces that may stand at a distance from the regular life, yet contributes towards making us lead a normal life.
If the cyanotype work by Wasif traces the history of ecological imbalance to the late 20th century, then the work Frame of Reference by the artist Su Yu-Hsin documents the current day practices to track the movement of the internal structure of Earth. At the site of Taroko Gorge in Taiwan, the geologists have placed real-time monitoring tools to check how weather determines the movement of the landslides, and if it bears a result on climate change. Both the physical reality of the human body and human ability to gauge the geological changes have been swapped by the cameras, seismometers, and weather stations. With video installation Frame of Reference, Su Yu-Hsin “addresses the question of formatting scalar relations between the field, laboratory and database”.
The on-site installation Exomind, Deep Water, with a beehive on the head of the sculpture of a woman, by Pierre Huyghe, underlines the need of “self-organising” and “co-evolving”. Placed outside in the garden of the museum, the work made of organic material has the human mind visible to the audience. The artist likes to see it as an exoplanet that is “growing by pollinating other living symbols”. The emphasis is not on the unique identity of the matter but highlights the need to draw the threads of connections between each of the elements present in the universe.
Central to the idea of modernity and modernisation are the terms: land and territory. Often overlapped to “present political situation not only as a clash of visions but also as a clash about what the earth is really made of”. Citing ecological issues as a continuation of political struggles, the museum transmutes into a space where “a new form of diplomacy between the various positions is depicted by each planet”. The questions curators seek to explore through the biennale - “Where to land; On what planet are we living” - are pivotal to the discussions termed as the “new climatic regime”. The geopolitical framework of the questions, curators are hopeful, shall give impetus to what they like to call the “new diplomatic encounters”.
(Taipei Biennial 2020 is on view until March 15, 2021, at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.)
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HOMEOWNERS below one of the country's most notorious interchanges have insisted they love it – despite the noise and dirt.
People whose properties are just yards from Birmingham's so-called “Spaghetti Junction” are showing a brave face.
They have revealed how they suffer daily from noise and pollution from the pounding traffic on major motorways such as the M5 and M6.
But it also seems to offer benefits – including its own reputed ‘beach', despite being Britain's most inland city.
Gravelly Hill Interchange is Britain's busiest motorway junction – and one of the country's most iconic concrete structures.
More than 200,000 vehicles are on the road every day on the winding labyrinth of streets in England's second largest city, Birmingham.
It even features in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the most complex interchange in the UK road system”.
Still, the neighborhoods lie below the five tiers of freeway lanes — and locals below the overpass insist they're ok with that.
There are complaints of early-morning wake-ups from car horns, emergency services sirens and speeding racers.
Dirt and dust also spatter surrounding gardens, cars and homes, yet residents say they enjoy living next to such a landmark.
Father-of-one Brian Thomas, 45, said he found traffic noise soothing and joked about a nearby “beach” – a pile of industrial sand next to a neighboring canal.
He said: “I don't mind, I find the traffic quite calming. You get used to it and the transport links are good as you can imagine.”
“We also have our own beach, so to speak – what more could you ask for?
“It's a nationally recognized landmark – I'm kind of proud to live near here.”
Local business owner Aqeel Naeem, 35, who runs an electrical appliance repair shop, said the roads are not a problem for him.
He said, “It doesn't bother me — I actually enjoy it, otherwise it gets quiet.”
“For the most part, the road is very busy with people wanting to take the freeway – it can get quite dusty.”
But he sees it positively, adding, “One good thing is that you can tell someone the direction of the company – it serves as a landmark.”
Mum-of-two Meeka, a 33-year-old NHS worker, admits she was initially “disturbed” by living so close together – although her home's triple glazing helps.
She said: “All I hear is the trucks honking or when an ambulance drives by.”
“It's not all the time, it doesn't bother me that much now.”
“I don't think about pollution at all. There's a patch of forest, so there's a section that absorbs the noise.”
Still others complain of disruption from the junction linking the M6 with the A38M, which runs into the heart of Birmingham, as well as links to other motorways such as the M5.
Mark McKinley, who has lived on Copeley Hill next to Spaghetti Junction for six years, described it as a “hodgepodge”.
The father-of-two added: “Noise can be an issue in the evenings – it's more of an issue when the race starts in the evening. There have been a few accidents.”
“We get a lot of dirt from traffic – I have a brand new car and I have to clean it every day.”
“The amount of dust and trash that comes out is ridiculous.”
And he said congestion is at its worst when nearby Premier League football club Aston Villa have home games, saying: “People park here, they put cars everywhere.”
Another resident said she's moving because she lives at what was once considered “the most stressful crossroads in the world.”
She said: “The noise bothers me – it's too loud and it bothers me all the time so I want to see if I can escape.”
Spaghetti Junction opened in 1972, taking four years to complete and costing £10 million.
It features 559 concrete pillars – about 80 feet tall – and is reinforced with 13,000 tons of steel while covering an area of 30 acres.
Birmingham is dubbed the ‘Venice of the North' for its waterways, with even more canals than the famous Italian resort.
Spaghetti Junction might elicit a groan from motorists, but it didn't make it into a recent list of the world's most stressful transport hubs.
Elsewhere in Birmingham, residents of Britain's “most polluted” estate have revealed the air is so toxic that plants die within hours and yet they don't want to leave.
But locals who live in a posh part of the city say new developments are springing up all the time and they don't fit into the landscape.
Further north, homeowners in Greater Manchester say their lives have been ruined by nightmarish noise after what they call Britain's busiest road was built next door.
Complaints have also been made by a father who lives under the M4 motorway in Port Talbot, Wales – although his wife says she is fine.
But another family living below the same stretch shared how they actually find the noise soothing.

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Sebastian Bach To Play Slave To The Grind Album At One-Off Show
Sebastian Bach broke the exciting news during an interview that Skid Row fans in Los Angeles will be treated to two special shows where he will perform his former band's first two studio albums live.
The singer revealed last week that he will be launching a special tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Skid Row's self-titled debut. During a SiriusXM appearance later in the week, he announced that he will be also playing the group's sophomore record "Slave To The Grind" during a second show at the Whiskey A Go Go in West Hollywood.
Bach had the following to say (via Sleaze Roxx"On this tour, we are playing two nights in Hollywood, California at the legendary Whisky A Go Go... So if someone's buying a ticket for the first night, they're gonna get the first Skid Row record in its entirety.
"On the second night, for one night only, Bobby Jarzombek, Rob DeLuca, Brent Woods and myself, on the second night in Hollywood at the Whisky, we'll play.. Slave To The Grind in its entirety."
Skid Row Premiere Time Bomb Video

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SALEM – Earlier this month, the Virginia Department of Transportation awarded a $38.4 million design-build contract to The LANE Construction Corp. of Chantilly to complete the partial interchange at Interstate 581 and Valley View Boulevard in Roanoke.
The design-build contractor will complete final design, acquire right of way and construct the project. Construction could be underway by fall 2013 with work completed in mid-2016.
The purpose of the project is to complete the partial interchange at I-581’s exit 3C that was constructed in 1999. Work will include building an off-ramp from southbound I-581 onto Valley View Boulevard and an on-ramp from Valley View Boulevard onto northbound I-581.
The project also includes implementing a diverging diamond interchange concept which will include improving the existing off-ramp from northbound I-581 onto Valley View Boulevard and the existing on-ramp from Valley View Boulevard onto southbound I-581.
The diverging diamond interchange concept at this location will reduce the right of way impacts, simplify traffic signal operations and reduce impacts to streams and utilities.
Other features of the project include:
· Building a continuous lane on southbound I-581 to connect the on-ramp at Hershberger Road to the new off-ramp at Valley View Boulevard
· Building a continuous through lane on northbound I-581 to connect the new on-ramp from Valley View Boulevard to the off-ramp at Hershberger Road
· Widening the bridge over I-581 to four lanes with turn lanes onto the I-581 on-ramps
· Realigning a portion of the Lick Run Greenway to the north of its current location
· Installing sound walls along portions of I-581
· Installing roadway lighting at the interchange and along the ramps
· Installing new signals for the intersection and ramp movements
· Replacing the signal at Valley View Crossing
· Repaving portions of Valley View Boulevard
To view the diverging diamond interchange concept, visit http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/salem/valley_view_interchange.asp


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Mitch Trubisky is "a Manziel-type recruiting sleeper"
2013 QB recruits who can make an instant impact: Mitch Trubisky, Mentor High (Mentor, Ohio) - It seems unlikely that anyone will unseat Bryn Renner as UNC's starter next season, but Trubisky certainly has the pedigree to step in if Renner goes down. The Tar Heel pledge passed for 4,065 yards, rushed for 1,129 yards and scored 60 total touchdowns as a senior to generate hype as a Manziel-type recruiting sleeper. (Sports Illustrated
Recent Football Recruiting Articles:Flip Watch For UNC Football RecruitsFriday January 23, 20152015 Football Recruiting Flips Fill UNC's NeedsThursday January 22, 2015Safety Prentice McKinney flips commitment from Notre Dame to UNCWednesday January 21, 2015UNC linebacker commit Johnathan Sutton recaps official visitWednesday January 21, 2015Tar Heels Offer 2017 Top-Ranked QBWednesday January 21, 2015

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The NFL has seen a challenging season with numerous injuries to quarterbacks, resulting in more backup quarterbacks taking the field. As a result, bettors have found success backing the under in points totals wagers through the first nine weeks of the season. Scoring has been scarce in 29 prime-time games, with unders boasting a 75.8% success rate at 22-7.
In Week 9, unders went 11-3 in 14 games, including all three prime-time games on “Thursday Night Football,” “Sunday Night Football,” and “Monday Night Football.” Teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants have struggled, leading to lower-scoring games.
Week 9 also saw a record number of backup quarterbacks and rookies taking the field, with the majority of them experiencing low-scoring games. As a result, oddsmakers have opened six out of the 14 games on Week 10’s schedule with a points total under 40 points.
Additionally, nine NFL teams have struggled with their point totals this season, which has resulted in a significant number of unders.
Looking ahead to Week 10, the betting trend on unders is expected to continue, with two prime-time games featuring low points totals and backup quarterbacks.
Overall, it has been a difficult season for NFL offenses, and given the increasing number of backup quarterbacks and rookies entering the fray, it appears that the trend of lower-scoring games will continue.


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Villiage Conques, Midi-Pyrenees, France
Surrounded by legend, Conques’ history can only be seen through the many marvels that have accompanied its creation and development, from the arrival of Saint Foy’s relics with the monk Arionisde in 866, to the supernatural healing of Guibert “who had had his eyes gouged out” in around 985. Between these two dates, innumerable miracles, less blatant but just as apparent, had revealed the divine protection that the village enjoyed, thanks to the saint’s relics of which it was the trustee and guardian.
Conques was built around a primitive oratory that became a Benedictine monastery, then one of the main halts on the route to Compostela, and shone throughout Christendom until the 13th Century, when the first portents of moral and spiritual decadence began to appear. This twilight was the consequence of the material prosperity and political power that were enjoyed by the monks, who were gradually dazzled by earthly goods. It was already significant at a time when King François Ist had agreed to the secularisation of monks.
The wars of religion turned these violations into a veritable collapse, and the ruin was consummated when the Protestants, in 1568, tried to set fire to the basilica. But this, in its turn, was miraculously saved. Abandoned after the Revolution and destined for imminent destruction, it was rediscovered by Prosper Mérimée, who, in 1833, had been appointed as Inspector-General of Historic Monuments. An artist as well as a civil servant, he recognised the building’s exceptional purity when he visited it in 1837 and released the initial funds required for its restoration.
The restoration works continued for over a century, until 2000, and the building was given new stained glass windows designed, drawn and installed after some extremely complex research work by the world-famous Rouergue artist Soulages. This renovation, in the precise meaning of the word, restored a level of light to the basilica that is as its initial builders intended it to be.
This light has revealed the exceptional beauty of a building that is perfect in terms of its balanced dimensions and remarkable for the extraordinary tympanum over the entrance porch, in which over a hundred figures take part in the tragedy of the Last Judgement and which testifies to the perfection that the great medieval artists achieved.
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Last month, I joined twenty veterans and nineteen other civilians at a training organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and Civilian-Soldier Alliance (Civ-Sol). The week was devoted to community building, strategic planning, leadership development, and sharing stories of hope, struggle, hardship and commitment.
It was exciting to see the level of strategic thinking and critical reflection from everyone in attendance, and the further development of the organization’s organizing model – reflecting aspects of two leading poor people’s human rights organizations, the United Workers and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – focusing on transformative organizing, leadership development and campaigning.
New Leadership for a Movement
The two host organizations have come a long way, surviving both Bush terms, Obama’s broken anti-war promises, the “end” of the Iraq War, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and the withering, if not the complete halt, of the Peace Movement.
Those left standing will dictate the leadership and strategic direction of any revival – or, better yet, reconstruction from the ground up – of such a movement. IVAW and Civ-Sol’s decision to invest in this inaugural training – along with other key organizations such as Courage to Resist and Catalyst Project – makes it clear that they have taken up the challenge to redefine and lead a movement against war and militarism.
Looking Back to Learn
The training is a long way from IVAW’s humble beginnings as a speaker’s bureau in July of 2004. Along with the anti-war movement, the organization grew and picked up momentum. In 2005, IVAW members participated in Camp Casey, an encampment Cindy Sheehan began outside President George W. Bush’s vacation home to protest her son’s death in Iraq. In 2006, they marched in the Gulf Coast to highlight the Bush administration’s negligence of human life not only in the wake of Katrina, but also in the other Gulf where the war in Iraq was still officially being waged. Winter Soldier marked a peak for the organization in March of 2008. The event brought together hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan service members and veterans to testify on the atrocities of war, modeled after the historic 1971 Winter Soldier hearing during the Vietnam War.
Through their strong presence at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, IVAW demonstrated that they are a determined and significant force that will not be silenced. From 2004 to 2010, scores of chapters were built, Conscientious Objectors were supported, and countless actions were held to highlight the horrors and inhumanity of war and our country’s inadequate care for veterans.
Although in 2003, The New York Times once quipped that the massive anti-war demonstrations were emblematic of a second “superpower,” there has been no shortage of shocking disappointments for the organization and its supporters. Yet with every event, action or march, IVAW believed that each effort would bring about an end to the wars. A strategy rooted in ending the war in Iraq, and, later, Afghanistan, only brought disappointment. The lack of a longer-term strategy or vision proved to be demoralizing and demobilizing for IVAW and the anti-war movement; this morale deficit proved to be a weakness when President Obama “ended” the war in Iraq. What becomes of IVAW when the war in Afghanistan “ends”?
IVAW’s identity as an explicitly “anti-war” organization has also hamstrung the organization, limiting its opportunities to speak to the majority of veterans, who don’t identify as being anti-war. This false dichotomy of pro-war vs. anti-war serves solely as coded speech among those who already identify with that ideological construction. If the goal is to organize as many veterans and GI’s as possible, than selecting a narrow ideological framework closes doors on potential leaders and members. The construct also carries with it the weight of the anti-war movement (predominately white and middle class), which is not necessarily reflective of the veteran and GI community.
This is why organizing around universal values as opposed to ideology can speak to a much broader base of people. Through the universal values of dignity, respect, and human rights – the same values the highly successful United Workers and the CIW incorporate into their organizing models – communication can occur across ideological or partisan barriers.
The Civilian Soldier Alliance has been active in the anti-war movement for at least as long as the IVAW. Their work has been crucial in supporting the work of resisting veterans and service members throughout the years. In 2007, they formed an alliance with IVAW, looking to the Student/Farmworker Alliance’s (SFA) relationship with the CIW for a partnership model-focusing much of the work that many of these committed civilian peace activist were already doing.
Civ-Sol was subject to the same hopes and frustrations faced by other players in the national anti-war movement, yet, like IVAW, has weathered the challenges with a core group of highly committed leaders. Like IVAW, Civ-Sol, found themselves rushing from protest to protest to fill the larger anti-war movement’s leadership gap, hoping that their next protest would end the war.
Looking Forward to Change
Thanks to Obama’s brilliantly managed “peace” campaign, by 2009 there were few peace groups to speak of left on the scene. IVAW and Civ-Sol’s momentum had also been stagnated by the 2008 presidential elections, but, unlike other groups, they emerged with a strong set of leaders ready dive into an honest assessment of their work’s impact. Members studied the anti-war movement’s shortcomings and its history during the Vietnam War, sought advice from like-minded organizations, and reflected on the history and organizing during the Civil Rights Movement. Their synthesis resulted in two significant documents: IVAW’s organizing model and the Civilian Ally organizing manual.
By week’s end, the group had collectively identified an issue to start a campaign around. IVAW announced on July 11 that it will focus on advocating for adequate PTSD and mental health care for veterans and GIs and against deployments of traumatized veterans – a clear shift from the previous strategy of trying to create bigger and bigger events to end the war. The change will help focus organizational resources and unite veteran and peace organizations, while also exposing the federal government’s neglect for the health of veterans and service members.
Recommendations for the Future
On many fronts, IVAW along with Civ-Sol are pushing forward in a much more strategic, intentional and sustainable way that has the potential to organize a broad-based peace movement led by veterans and GI’s capable of shifting the power relations that create poverty, war-profiteering, and killing at the expense of fair development and dignified healing. As they move forward, they should:
Think Beyond Current Wars
As it stands, both organizations identify the core of their strategic visions to be an end to the military war and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. This has been and may continue to be a barrier for them to establish long-standing, effective organizations. Wars can be ended rather abruptly by presidents and by mass media’s perception management – as evidenced by President Barack Obama’s “end” to the war in Iraq. If an organization’s chosen war was ended, then its mission would be “achieved” and its relevance subsequently imperiled. I would like to see these organizations around in thirty years, not because the U.S is still in Iraq and Afghanistan, but because members fight for the human rights of veterans and build power to transform national priorities toward peace and reconciliation.
Learn Lessons from Poor People’s Human Rights Movement to Expand the Movement’s Base
Great efforts are being made to pursue a transformative organizing model where people engage in struggle not out of self-interest, but to participate in collective struggle for something much larger then themselves. Poor people’s human rights organizations like the United Workers organize through universal values that speak to a larger struggle toward realizing the full human potential of all – values of respect, dignity, and sanctity of life. In heeding this lesson, the anti-war movement’s base of veterans and a select group of civilians could expand beyond of the polarized pro-war/anti-war ideology and connect with people around shared values and cultures.
The two groups should also continue to prioritize critical reflection and analysis, especially in the early stages of the campaign, and – taking yet another lesson from the CIW and United Workers – construct a compelling campaign narrative to make their struggle epic, and lay the groundwork for power-building through perception in a story where the movement gets to be the heroic underdog rather then a reactive, powerless force of protesters facing off against police.
IVAW and Civ-Sol can be the new leadership we need for a more vibrant peace movement. If they continue along their current path, they will move from being a reactive anti-war force to a proactive, pro-peace force for a more just, humane, and dignified order, not solely for veterans and service-members, but for everyone, at home and abroad.

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February 6th, 2012
Seventh District Judge Darren Simpson had a full calendar Monday.
BRIAN KEITH BLACK, age 45 from Gillette, Wyo., was sentenced to at least four years and no more than nine years in the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) on a felony charge of burglary. He will pay an $800 fine, court costs of $225.50 and $36.86 restitution to WalMart.
Black was credited 120 days served on this charge.
In Blackâ€™s case, Judge Simpson had rejected the plea deal agreed to by the state and the defense.
BLACKFOOT â€” The Latino Economic and Development Center was granted a charter from the Boy Scouts of America as the sponsoring organization for Venturing Crew 256.
Venturing is a Boy Scouts of America youth development program for young men and women who are 14-20 years old. Students from Blackfoot High School, Independence Alternative High School and Mountain View Middle School currently participate in the after-school program.
There are several aspects to the venturing program including leadership development, service, outdoor adventures and citizenship.
GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) â€” Josh Powell's boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make.
He boxed up their books and toys and took them to a charity. He carried heavy cans of gasoline inside his house and set aside a hatchet.
He thought about what to write in the final emails he'd send out: where people could find his financial accounts, how they could shut off his utilities. He didn't mention his wife, Susan Powell, missing for the past two years.
An automated call from Blackfoot High School went out Monday afternoon stated that school has been cancelled tomorrow. That call is incorrect. There will be school at Blackfoot High School tomorrow.
According to Blackfoot School District officials there will be school at Blackfoot High School tomorrow and they are looking into the problem.
A second automated call was sent at approximately 2:25 p.m. apologizing for the mistake and said "they were testing the system."
Growing up, Sara Thompson enjoyed attending her brother Josh's boxing matches.
Since her freshman year at Blackfoot High School, the tables have been turned. Now Josh attends his 20-year-old sister's matches.
Thompson has had a dozen bouts, the most recent one for the Women's Intermountain Bantomweight Championship in Pocatello on Jan. 28.
She battled 29-year-old Mary Vellinga of Salt Lake City, Utah, and beat her, winning a large championship belt. It was her third win in a row. She is now 9-3 although, she pointed out, two were walk-throughs. That means her opponent didn't show up.
The Blackfoot High School Jazz Band performed Saturday afternoon at the Idaho State University 25th Annual Jazz Fest. BHS junior Jose Cruz, on trumpet, steps forward for his solo. The Blackfoot Bands invite the community to their annual Jazz Band Dance Feb. 17, where all Blackfoot Jazz bands will provide the live music. There will be dance instruction at 7:30, followed by the dance 8 p.m. All proceeds benefit BHS bands.
GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) â€” The long, bizarre case of a Utah woman missing for two years took a horrific turn Sunday when a powerful house explosion killed the woman's husband and his two young sons, moments after the boys arrived for a visit that was supposed to be supervised by a social worker.
Authorities say it appears the husband, Josh Powell, blew the house up on purpose.
Attorney Cleve Colson has announced that he is running for the office of Bingham County Prosecuting Attorney.
Colson is a lifelong resident of Bingham County. He began his career at the Bannock County Prosecutorâ€™s Office in 2005 and is currently Bannock Countyâ€™s assistant chief deputy prosecutor.
Hobbs Middle School teacher Jill Wray is undergoing treatments for cancer. She teaches home economics and science.
Three boys in Natural Helpers decided they could help Wray and her family, said Teresa Dye, the club's advisor at Shelley High School.
"They wanted to let them know that we care," Dye said.
The 22 students in the Natural Helpers class at Shelley High School had been challenged to make "an ultimate gift."
Two businesses are donating to the Wray fundraiser.