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1 What is the criminal Aris Kindt doing in a Rembrandt painting?2 Who is the bestselling novelist of all time?3 What is Sue, dug up in South Dakota in 1990?4 Which ritual is performed by a mohel?5 What birds scientific name means footless footless?6 Which composer was a neighbour and protege of Oscar Hammerstein?7 Who would undertake the Kobayashi Maru test?8 What is bisected by the rabbit-proof fence?What links:9 Byrons memoirs; Sylvia Plaths novel Double Exposure; Philip Larkins diaries?10 Ilium; ischium; pubis?11 Greyhound; In Which We Serve; The Cruel Sea; Das Boot?12 Roberts and Brasier?13 Acute; grave; circumflex; cedilla; diaeresis?14 English; Irish; Irish Red & White; Gordon?15 Achaemenid; Sasanian; Safavid; Qajar; Pahlavi?

1 Being dissected (anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp).2 Agatha Christie.3 Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton (found by Susan Hendrickson).4 Circumcision (Jewish).5 Swift (apus apus).6 Stephen Sondheim.7 Starfleet cadets in Star Trek.8 Australia (Western Australia).9 Lost or destroyed works by poets.10 Parts of the hip bone.11 Films set in the second world war battle of the Atlantic.12 Original surnames of female PMs: Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.13 Diacritic marks used in French.14 Setter dog breeds (as recognised by Kennel Club).15 Persian/Iranian empires and ruling dynasties.

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As Im writing this, it is Sunday afternoon. It feels like an early fall day already. Its brown meadow season with bright blue skies, hardly a cloud, eye-popping flower colors, and a mellowness of air that betrays that the hottest days this year are over. My head feels dizzy, and Im looking at Mt. Rainier for the umptieth time these past days. No lenticular cloud no weather change. But my body tells me we are in for rain. Or was it just the past sleepless nights that take their toll on me?

Rain. As a child I simply hated it because usually it meant disrupting outdoor playtime. As a teenager, though, I started embracing it. I guess, its because my mother taught me how to use all my senses to experience Nature. And there is so much more to rain than just getting wet. Even the stages of getting wet can be so different. Have you ever experienced horizontal rain on a beach? Or bicycling through it, while somebody up in the sky has decided that its time for another shower today down to your skin? The soft caressing of drizzle in a face that doesnt have to fear running mascara (anymore)?

Or just observe how it starts raining. There might be even a moment of almost breathless silence before the first drop splashes down on a leaf that ducks under the sudden pressure; on your hand from which it immediately evaporates as if it never happened; on your driveway where it widens as if to reach out to another drop to unite and color the entire asphalt area a darker hue. Maybe, the drops are invisible at first, then they become bigger, until they are pelting down, and it seems like a white curtain has been drawn across your backyard. They might even splash back upward on the road as if they were jumping on a trampoline. And they build up pools in the ditches where later the sky will see its own reflection.

Also, I find there is no more soothing sound then the rush of rain. Not even the sea or a bubbling brook is as calming. Have you ever fallen asleep to rain with your window open?

And then, the fragrance that comes with rain. Its as if it were unlocking an entire cabinet of aromas while its falling and afterwards. Theres the smell of freshly mown grass that gains a totally new quality of herbal and sweet. The bitter-sweet, almost taste-like scent of wet brick and asphalt, the earthy smell of a wet beach, the cold-smoke fragrance of wet wood, the infinitely sweet and pungent smell of a forest after the rain.

I remember sitting with my sweetheart and his best man under the canopy of my balcony two days before my wedding, when a sudden cloudburst made us flee inside. Or how many hiking tours in my childhood and youth seemed to be ended by a race against darkly looming clouds. These moments of surprise or of an almost sporty competition wholl make it to the car first the rain or me?

Its strange how these days I crave a good rainfall, no matter which time of day. After all, we didnt have much of a spring other than this cool, dark-gray wetness here in Washington State, and our summer this year hasnt had more than a weeks worth of real summer days. Even our gardens harvest will fail us this year because we could plant only comparatively late, and then there was a lack of nourishing sunlight. (If any of you guys has a good recipe for green tomatoes )

Even music has made much of rain. Have you ever heard the French chanson Sous le ciel de Paris? It describes Parisian life and how it gets interrupted by a shower. Theres Rain drops are falling on my head and November Rain, there are Totos Africa and Led Zeppelins Rain Song, even Beethovens symphony Pastorale describes a rain storm. But the song that comes to my mind first, is one of the first rain songs I ever learned, a call to harvesters to get the grain in as rain is looming; heres a link: youtu.be/ne__mIBETt8

You see, rain is certainly something you can learn to embrace. Especially when it comes in a balanced way not too much, not too often, not for too long. Right now, I could do with some birdsong after a good, hard shower and maybe a rainbow in the sky.

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by Alison Bonaguro 8/27/2020

Let that sink in a little. Thirty years ago today, on Aug. 27, 1990, Garth Brooks released his second studio album No Fences.

And by now, its 100 percent obvious that there was never any kind of sophomore slump for Brooks.

Quite the opposite, in fact. That album from 1990 won him the Academy of Country Musics album of the year award, and when Brooks accepted the award and thanked his team and his pickers he also thanked the fans. Most of all, the people who bought this album, man, hed said, thanks for spending your money.

I picked the album title No Fences because once you hear The Thunder Rolls into New Way to Fly, Friends in Low Places, Mr. Blue, Unanswered Prayers, Wolves, it just became clear that this record had no boundaries, and, as much as we could guess, the future was whatever the music wanted it to be. We were beginning to feel that, really, there were no fences, Brooks wrote, and wed be fools to put any up.

All you knew was, Man, theres some thing about this record that makes me pull for it. Something about it that makes me want to hear it again. I just know thats how it hit me.

Brooks also tells the story of his now-signature hit Friends in Low Places. How George Strait had passed on it, how Mark Chestnutt was about to cut it, but how Brooks had always thought of it as his song because hed been singing it at shows for years. (Ultimately, Chestnutt did record the song for his 1990 album Too Cold at Home, but never released it as a single.)

Once Brooks released the song, he recalls driving home from a recording session at 2:00 in the morning, listening to the radio, and the DJ saying, In my entire career, Ive never had so many requests for one song. This has to be the most-requested song Ive ever known.

Im yelling, Ive got my hands up in the air. We are on a ride that, Brooks admitted, we have no idea. We didnt have a real sense for what was getting ready to happen, none of us did.

The songs from No Fences were some of Brooks very biggest hits, and they still are today. Even the deep cuts have been fan favorites at his live shows since 1990.

No Fences track list:

1.The Thunder Rolls (Garth Brooks, Pat Alger)2.New Way To Fly (Brooks, Kim Williams)3.Two of a Kind, Workin on a Full House (Bobby Boyd, Warren Haynes, Dennis Robbins)4.Victim of the Game (Brooks, Mark D. Sanders)5.Friends in Low Places(DeWayne Blackwell, Earl Bud Lee)6.Wild Horses (Bill Shore, David Wills)7.Unanswered Prayers (Brooks, Alger, Larry Bastian)8.Same Old Story (Tony Arata)9.Mr. Blue (Blackwell)10.Wolves (Stephanie Davis)

Alison makes her living loving country music. She's based in Chicago, but she's always leaving her heart in Nashville.

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The following items were submitted by the Panola County Sheriffs Office.

While on patrol, Deputy Robert Delconte and Deputy Randy Payne initiated a stop on a vehicle for no front license plate. Deputies then made contact with the female drive and male passenger. While speaking with the female driver, she admitted to deputies that there was marijuana inside the vehicle. Deputies then conducted a search of the vehicle and located two suspected marijuana joints, which the female subject advised belonged to her. Deputies also located a mason jar containing two bags of suspected marijuana inside the male subjects belongings. The female subject was issued a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and the male subject was placed under arrest for possession of marijuana as well as three local warrants.

Deputy Hollie Mojica took a report of theft that occurred on County Road 1512. Complainant stated that some unknown actor(s) came onto this property and stole his 6-foot cultipacker. This case is being investigated

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Meg Marcel will compete with the best home run hitters in the state for charity.

PLYMOUTH - Meg Marcel didnt hit a softball until she was 13-year-old but shes quickly made up for lost time. The Plymouth native and recent Archbishop Williams graduate will put her powerful swing up against the top power hitters in the state as part of the inaugural A Shot for Life Home Run Challenge.

The event will take place over the weekend of Sept. 12 at the Austin Prep School in Reading. Money raised from the event will be donated for ongoing cancer research being conducted by the Dr. Curry Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.

A similar ASFL charity challenge to crown the top boys and girls basketball shooters in the state has been a successful event for the last eight years under the direction of ASFL CEO Mike Slonina. This year 16 softball players and 17 baseball players are in this event two-day event. Each participant was asked to raise $1,000 to compete.

Plymouth South senior Amelia Freitas, a teammate of Marcel on the Mass Drifters Showcase AAU softball team, will also take part in the contest.

Im honored that Ive been asked to take part in this competition, said Marcel, who was settling in over the weekend as an incoming freshman at Bryant University. Its raising money for a great cause and I get to play the game I love. I jumped at the chance to be a part of this.

Speaking of jumping, the softball has a tendency to jump off the bat of the 18-year-old, 58 right-handed hitter.

I can hit the ball with some power, said Marcel, who had a legitimate shot at breaking the Bishops career home runs record if her senior season had not been canceled by the Coronavirus pandemic. Ive learned that you cannot swing for home runs. You need to make a good swing and get solid contact with the softball and then let the pitcher provide the power.

That hitting philosophy has served Marcel very well. She was a three-time Central Catholic League All-Star as the starting shortstop with Archbishop Williams and is now a member of the NCAA Division I Bryant University softball program. She will major in Business and carry a minor in Sports Management.

I love the campus and everyone was very nice to me when I came here for my visit, Marcel said about the Smithfield, RI university where classes started on Tuesday. One of my teammates is my roommate and the rest of the softball team is coming in this week. I think weve got a couple weeks of conditioning practices to start and then theyll add on more in a couple weeks as long as everything remains safe.

Marcel grew up playing baseball in the Plymouth Youth Baseball and Softball league before switching over to softball at the age of 13. The angle the ball comes to you at the plate is one of the bigger differences she encountered in her switch from one sport to the other because the softball comes at you from a lower spot than a baseball, which is thrown over the top.

You meet a softball and a baseball at different points in the swing so that was something I had to make some adjustments for, she said.

The adjustments she made worked out very well for Marcel. She batted .463 as a freshman and came back as a sophomore to club eight homers and 20 RBI. She saw her batting average continue to climb as a junior when she was named a Patriot Ledger, Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic.

Along with choosing a college, Marcel also had to pick what sport she wanted to play at the next level. She played four years with the Bishops girls basketball program, making it to four Division 3 South title games, winning three of them, and she was also a part of two state championship hoop teams.

I was playing basketball as soon as I could walk. I thought I was going to be a basketball player when I started high school but softball came along and I grew to love it, Marcel said. I have some great memories of playing basketball for Archbishop Williams. Ill miss my teammates and (Head Coach Matt Mahoney) was the best to play for but I think it will be better for me now that I can concentrate on playing just one sport.

You can donate to any competitor in the ASFL Home Run Derby at http://www.gofundme.com/f/asfl-home-run-derby . Make sure you indicate which player you are donating to in your message.

Email the reporter at dwolcott@wickedlocal.com and you can follow him on Twitter, @DavidWolcott1.

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Before the first Polynesian settlers arrived roughly 1,500 years ago, the Hawaiian Islands were ruled from the sky. Not a single land-dwelling reptile or mammal called the archipelago home just winged insects, one variety of bat, and a truly vast array of birds.

While Hawaii is still flush with life today, many of those birds are now gone roughly 67% of all endemic Hawaiian birds have been wiped from existence since humans first arrived on the islands. Although habitat loss and more recently, climate change have played a role in that decline, one especially persistent threat to these native birds has been predatory invasive species, which were introduced inadvertently or otherwise to the islands by humans. For example: feral rats stowed away on canoes used by early Polynesian settlers.

To protect Hawaiis native birds from these and other four-legged predators, conservationists at the Klauea Point national wildlife refuge on the island of Kauai are trying something new: building a sprawling wall around the birds nesting ground.

In 2014, the wildlife refuge unveiled a state-of-the-art, predator-proof fence; standing two meters tall and spanning 624 meters (2,050ft) across, it creates a physical barrier that blocks invasive predators from accessing nesting seabirds and their young. The fence is capped with a rolled hood to stop attempts of climbing over, and an underground extension of its base wards off predators who can burrow and dig. The fence with its very fine mesh can prevent anything larger than a one-day-old mouse from getting through, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

In addition to non-native invasive species like feral cats, dogs, rats and pigs Hawaiis rare native birds also face the looming threat of climate change, according to Jen Waipa, a local employee of the Fish and Wildlife Service. To that effect, the fence is also composed of marine-grade stainless steel to withstand natural disasters.

The fence the second of its kind in Hawaii was installed at the behest of the Nihoku ecosystem restoration project, which is dedicated to preserving the archipelagos coastal ecosystems and establishing safe breeding grounds for Hawaiian seabirds.

While the barrier is designed to protect the seabirds from bodily harm, the wildlife refuge ultimately wants the birds to thrive which necessitates a large number of ongoing side projects. One is habitat restoration just as predatory mammals are catastrophic to Hawaiis birds, invasive plants have crowded the islands, choking out native flora that can be used as a food source for Kauais birds. Each year, the Nihoku project transforms one acre of the wilderness refuge, uprooting all introduced vegetation and replacing it with native species. Volunteers also build artificial burrows, which provide the birds with reliable shelter.

The Nihoku project is also working to attract animals to Klauea Point. Seabird calls are broadcast from a large speaker to attract the attention of adult birds, while volunteers search for hatchlings.

The gradual loss of biodiversity across Hawaii has painted a bleak picture, but Klauea Point serves as a beacon of hope for the archipelagos future.

We have six protected seabird species that are believed to breed annually, including one threatened species. In addition, we have the largest breeding population, approximately 160 pairs, of threatened nn [an endemic goose] in the state, states Waipa. Although breeding is unconfirmed, several breeding behaviors have [also] been documented for black-footed albatross, great frigate bird, Bulwers petrel, Kermadec petrel, and the endangered Hawaiian petrel.

In the coming years, the Fish and Wildlife Service aims to double the number of breeding species at Klauea Point; the service highlights the success of Hawaiis Lehua Island in the north-west as cause for optimism.

And while many of the unique species that once called Hawaii home are now extinct, Klauea Point serves as another source of hope. Human settlers and colonizers may have started some of the troubles facing the islands endemic birds but careful conservation and creative thinking could now help protect whats left of them for future generations.

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Columbus Municipal Airport will receive more than $2.5 million in Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants for infrastructure and safety improvements. The funds will be used for the airports fencing project.

The grants, which total $2,793,500, were announced Friday by Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind. The funding includes $279,350 from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which Pence supported in March.

Airport Director Brian Payne said that once the funds arrive, all of the money will go toward the airports fencing project, which includes not just perimeter fencing but also work on back-access drives behind hangars.

Were very happy with receiving the grant, and appreciate the support that weve got from Congressman Pence and the FAA to receive these funds, Payne said. Thatll be a huge improvement for our airport thats been needed for quite some time, so were looking forward to the project.

He said that while the board has already voted to accept the grant, there are still some decisions that need to be made before the airport submits its final plans to the FAA.

The debate for aviation board members now is what type of fence will be requested of the FAA, Payne said.

The design for 10-foot fencing between hangars, which was the initial plan submitted to the FAA, was created by Payne, the airport and its consulting firm. He believes it to be the safest and most secure option.

Tenants, on the other hand, asked the airport to look at a smaller fence between hangars and a larger fence on the outside.

The main concern from the airports standpoint, the administrations standpoint, is that we would have more people coming through what would be the larger fence and the larger gate into their hangar complex or their hangar buildings, Payne said.

He said that some people have also raised concerns about the appearance of the fencing. Payne said the plan is to have a more ornamental black, iron fence around the terminal building and black, PVC-coated chainlink for the rest of the property, not nearly as institutional as some people have feared.

Payne said the airport board will meet this afternoon to discuss the fencing project and hopefully come to a decision about which fence to request. Once a decision has been made, the airport will submit its final plan and numbers to the FAA for final review.

He said that the final numbers shouldnt be that far off from what was originally estimated. Depending on which fence option is chosen, there would be a difference of about 100 or 200 lineal feet of fencing, Payne said.

Payne said that the foremost function of the fence will be to keep out wildlife. He added that it will also limit the number of vehicles that are able to access the airfield.

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More information about the Columbus Municipal Airport is available at columbus.in.gov/airport/.

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CHICAGO Hours after Mayor Lori Lightfoot scolded a large, maskless crowd at Montrose Beach on Twitter, city crews erected fencing to try to block off access to the closed beach.

Its called a pandemic, people. This reckless behavior on Montrose Beach is what will cause us to shut down the parks and lakefront. Dont make us take steps backwards, Lightfoot warned in a tweet.

In a follow-up tweet, Lightfoot said she visited Montrose Beach personally.

In case you were wondering, I stopped by to see for myself. Its being addressed, Lightfoot wrote.

By Sunday, approximately 300 yards of fencing was installed between the grassy area that leads to the beach and the sand.

Less than 24 hours after Lightfoots tweet, people continued to gather near Montrose Harbor and the nearby lakefront. Many people walked around the fencing.

Some entered the area by walking past The Dock at Montrose Beach, the newly reopened beachside restaurant. But owner Luke Cholodecki said he does not let customers wait outside his restaurant and none of his patrons were involved in the partying condemned by the mayor.

Amy Osborne of Lakeview who was at the beach with two friends said she didnt see the mayors tweets.

I dont think its really a problem, she said.

Chicago Park District spokesman Michelle Lemons confirmed that park district employees installed fencing Sunday to deter large gatherings.

While the lakefront trail is open, Chicagos beaches and parkland east of Lake Shore Drive remain closed under the Chicago Department of Public Healths executive order, Lemons wrote in an email.

On Sunday evening, Chicago Police and emergency workers blocked cars from entering the driveway that leads to the beach from both Montrose and Wilson Avenues, but were not stopping pedestrians on foot.

Another woman at the beach who declined to give her name said she did see the mayors warning. She shrugged her shoulders in response.

Her boyfriend, who accompanied her, responded with a shrug, too, and a laugh: That says it all.

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Clinton was hit very hard from the storm last night. Clinton County is one of many that Governor Reynolds has declared a disaster area, which means they are eligible for federal aid.

Trees are down all over Clinton, and one was in the middle of a road. Local Four News spoke with one neighbor who had some property damage.

David Martensen just moved into his new house in Clinton a couple weeks ago. Last night was a wild one and its one that he will never forget.

I came home. I came with my mom in a car and we came here to see the damage at my house and I witnessed branches and trees laying on my shed here and its pretty devastating. I was pretty frightened.

As the severe weather was rolling in, Martensen immediately went to his mothers house to pick her up and get her to safety.

I cant really get her down in the basement so I figured it would be safer to get her in a car and find some shelter somewhere. So we found kind of like an overpass to just hide under.

Matensen didnt have any damage to his house, but his shed and fence in his backyard werent so lucky.

I was renting another house up in the north end of town, central part of town and I loaded it up on a trailer and just brought it down here because I thought it would be a nice little extra shed to keep lawnmowers and stuff in and I wasnt really expecting a limb to fall on it and destroy it the way it did.

Considering the extent of the storm, Martensen knows it could have been a lot worse.

I was surprised that was all there was. It was just a shed. Im not complaining at all.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota's temporary fence around the state Capitol has cost taxpayers at least $38,000 -- and counting -- and state officials say the barrier will stay up indefinitely.

The decision to keep the fence up is a reversal in tone from last month, when officials said it would come down soon. During Monday's meeting of the Advisory Committee on Capitol Security, state officials said the Capitol has recently become the target of increasing vandalism.

Minnesota's temporary fence around the state Capitol has cost taxpayers at least $38,000 -- and counting -- and state officials say the barrier will stay up indefinitely.

The fence has been in place since May 31. Large protests broke out after the Memorial Day police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, prompting Gov. Tim Walz's administration to order the Minnesota National Guard and a large contingent of state troopers to guard the Capitol around the clock. The National Guard has gone home and most of the troopers have returned to their regular posts, but the fence has remained.

The fence cost $18,707 for installation plus $274 a day in rental fees, according to a copy of the contract with Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction and Keller Fence in St. Paul. The money is coming out of the Department of Administration's operational budget.

The fence -- and the locking of the Capitol because of the coronavirus pandemic -- has blocked the public from entering the building, even as the Legislature has held two high-profile special sessions this summer. A third special session is scheduled to start Wednesday.

"Its helpful, and thats the bottom line," State Patrol Col. Matt Langer said of the fence. "I would hope it could stay in place for the foreseeable future."

In the past two months, Langer said the State Patrol has "staffed the Capitol complex like we have never staffed it before and is significantly over budget for security. The Capitol is "extremely large" to protect with troopers alone, added Capt. Eric Roeske, the head of the State Patrol's Capitol Security unit.

Administration Commissioner Alice Roberts-Davis said the Capitol complex is increasingly a target. In recent weeks, taggers have put graffiti on concrete, statue pedestals and security bollards. Someone used a chisel to damage the Peace Officers' Memorial, she said.

The Peace Officers' Memorial is being repaired, Roberts-Davis said. She did not say whether anyone was caught or arrested for the incidents, and a follow-up email to the state Department of Public Safety went unanswered.

The most infamous incident on the Capitol grounds in recent weeks happened June 10, when protesters toppled the Christopher Columbus statue. No one has been arrested in that incident. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension turned over the case to the Ramsey County attorney in July, and prosecutors are "getting close" to a charging decision, Langer said.

The fence has many critics.

State Sen. Scott Dibble said the Walz administration should take it down by January, when the Legislature is scheduled to start its 2021 session.

"Ill just make the point that the fence is ugly and sends a really negative message," said Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who has argued for fence removal in July, said she also wanted an answer by January so the public would know how to engage with lawmakers.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea pushed for a timeline on fence removal, and said the court wants to hear cases in its Capitol courtroom in September.

"Its almost middle of August now. So what is the deadline for when were going to have a plan here?" Gildea asked.

Monday, no one provided any timelines. Roberts-Davis made a cost-savings argument, pointing to the recent $310 million restoration of the Capitol and said the state must protect its investment.

What I would hate to see is us take the fence down and go through that expense and then end up in a position where we have to put the fence back up because of something thats happened again," Roberts-Davis said.

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