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Flipsid3 Tactics looked to refresh their roster before the start of RLCS S5. Markydooda left and joined exceL, which meant that one of the longest-standing duos in Rocket League history – Kuxir and Marky – would stop playing together. He was replaced by Yukeo who is supposed to bring in some fresh ideas. Now that two weeks of league play have passed we wanted to check in on Flipsid3 Tactics. The team led by miztik currently sits on the 6th spot and is facing probably its toughest weekend of league play, which will decide if F3 still has a chance of a higher placing at the end of the season. Rocketeers.gg, the magazine all about Rocket League esports, spoke with miztik about the tough road ahead and their pastabstraction, and yet sold-out crowds sing along to every proto-linguistic grunt. But the centerpiece of Go Tell Fire to the Mountain-- a stunning lockstep of drum rolls, tart guitar chords, and a maddening chant for raising beers and clenched fists-- makes it clear: This is life-affirming music, repulsed by hype and cynicism. The name of the song? "We Bros". The first word of the title is the important thing: Go Tell Fire celebrates togetherness. Approach the record with no context whatsoever, and it's fairly trad indie rock for crescendo junkies that could be laid over just about anything-- a stirring football highlight, your morning commute-- for instant widescreen effect. Dissatisfied with the sound they were getting in traditional studios, WU LYF self-produced in an abandoned church, which could once

again be sniffed at as another publicity stunt. But they needed every bit of open airspace to capture their sound in full, and the building itself acts as an active participant. Silvery, melodic guitar lines are given extra dimension with decay and release, and a pipe organ draws lengthy sustain. And man, what it does for the percussion: the term "crash cymbal" has rarely sounded so literal, and a critical mass of reverb pushes the kick drum's natural tone to its limit on "Dirt" and "14 Crowns For Me & Your Friends". But underneath all that bouncing room echo, you hear a band trying to live up to its own hype, unglamorously woodshedding until every arrangement was tight as hell. It's danceable in the same way older Modest MouseEverton Have Signed Keeper Jonas Lössl on a Free Transfer Everton have made their first signing of the summer by signing Jonas Lössl from Huddersfield Town on a free transfer. With the 2019 summer transfer window open and rumors swirling around, Everton have made their first signing. 30-year-old keeper, Jonas Lössl will join Everton on a free transfer on the first of July. Signing Lössl most likely signals the end for Maarten Stekelenburg’s time at Everton. The 36-year-old have appeared in only 19 matches for Everton since signing in 2016. This signing is also significant for youngster João Virgínia. Virgínia could be sent out on loan for the 2019 / 20 campaign to gain some first team experience. Who is Jonas Lössl? The 30-year-old keeper began his career with FC Midtjylland from 2008-2014 compiling

over 125 appearances for the club. He eventually got a move to the French club, Guingamp in the summer of 2014. Lössl quickly established himself as the club’s first-choice keeper during his 2 seasons in France. His fine form in France lead to a move to German club Mainz 05. Lössl was viewed to be a direct replacement for Loris Karius, as he left to join Liverpool. However, after one season in Germany, the Danish keeper was sent out on loan for the 2017 / 18 season and joined Huddersfield Town. He went on to make 38 appearances for Huddersfield Town during their first season back in the Premier League. The following summer he gained a permanent move to Huddersfield Town Jonas Lössl Style of Play Lössl is a tall andfirst play in the tour opener in Detroit. Check back here for setlist updates throughout the nine-date tour. 10/18 – The Fillmore, Detroit, MI 10/19 – Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL 10/20 – LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH 10/22 – Sherman Theater, Stroudsburg, PA 10/23 – The National, Richmond, VA 10/24 – The Fillmore Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD 10/26 – Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 10/27 – Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA 10/28 – Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY Tip from our friend @HeyScottyB at Hidden Track on Trey’s new Fender guitar.

Prince Harry to Join Australian Defense Force then Resign Military Post Prince Harry of Wales, the second son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, is set to attach to the Australian Defense Force then step down entirely from his ten year military post. As the official head of the British State, it has long been expected that the various members of the British Royal Family engage themselves in military service. Such an expectation has been demonstrated in the life of 30 year-old Prince Harry. Prince Harry first joined the British Armed Forces in 2005 and has since served two tours of duty in Afghanistan – the second of which was served as an Apache helicopter gunner. Prince Harry as an Apache Gunner Now, after ten years of service with hisnative British Armed Forces, Prince Harry, in grand British tradition, will be exporting his military prowess to the former British colony of Australia. According to an official press release posted on the Prince of Wales’ official website, Prince Harry will be spending four weeks in April and May seconded to the Australian Defense Force. The Prince of Wales’ announcement continued on to state that the purpose of this military arrangement was to allow Prince Harry to gain an understanding and appreciation for “…the Australian Army’s domestic operating environment and capabilities.” After his four weeks down under, Prince Harry is scheduled to leave military service all together. In a statement released by Prince Harry, he stated. “After a decade of service, moving on from the Army has been a really tough

to be held in April, 2011. The purpose of the bill, SB… In an indictment rendered by a Grand Jury in the Western District of Missouri on September 9, 2010, five Missouri men allegedly participated in torturing a mentally disabled woman online or in person over a multi-year period when the victim was between the ages of 16 and 24. Among the charges are: Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud or Coercion, Forced Labor Trafficking, Transportation for Sexual Activity, and Conspiracy. The allegations… Consent Counts: We're Making a Difference Completed Federal and State Legal Research Developed Educational Programs and Outreach Materials Built Alliances With Sexual Freedom Advocacy Groups About Consent Counts NCSF is leading a major national campaign—Consent Counts—to change the laws and police practices that our communities now endure, and to establish that consent isYemeni drones have hit communications systems belonging to Saudi-led forces which have been attacking the country’s key port of Hudaydah, al-Masirah television network has reported. "Drones belonging to the Yemen army and popular committees, in an important operation, attacked communications systems of the invading and occupying forces in the western coast of Hudaydah," the television said Sunday. "The attack came after careful observation of the enemy's movements," it said, stating that the operation was set to "deepen crisis among the invading forces and undermine and confound their options" in the offensive. The report also said a number of mercenaries fighting for Saudi Arabia had been killed in an air raid after attempting to flee the battlefield in Hudaydah. Meanwhile, media outlets close to the coalition admitted that five members of the Abu-Haroon

battalion of the so-called Fifth Amaliqa Brigade had been killed and several others injured after their position was mistakenly bombed by Saudi aircraft. The battle for Hudaydah on the Red Sea, which began last month, has hit a brick wall in the face of stiff resistance put up by Yemen's Houthi fighters and their allies. The UAE has been helping coordinate the battle to retake Hudaydah which is Yemen’s largest port on the Red Sea. Its strategic view of the battle is bigger than just the port because the Persian Gulf Arab state has also been working in Somalia and Eritrea to expand its influence in the region. After going on for several weeks, the battle for Hudaydah was paused in the first week of July to allow for a potentialdiplomatic solution as Saudi-led forces were dealt serious blows on multiple fronts. Saudi Arabia and its supporters in the West have come under attack over the humanitarian crisis which the offensive has sparked. The British daily The Independent has characterized the assault as "a deliberate act of cruelty by the Trump administration,” highlighting US support for Riyadh. File photo shows a Yemeni woman carrying a malnourished child as she waits during food distribution in the western province of al-Hudaydah. With the Hudaydah battle being drawn into a stalemate, Saudi media said militants led by the kingdom were pushing towards an ancient town in the west. According to Al Arabiya television, they had taken new areas in the Kataf district in Sa'ada Province and killed 10 Houthi fighters after fierce clashes. Clashes were raging

1341, 1342) and violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 1952 and 2. The indictment was filed October 7, 1987. The defendant Gabel, at the times charged in the indictment, was a New York State Supreme Court Justice. The defendant Carl Capasso ("Capasso") and his former wife, Nancy, were involved in a divorce action, Capasso v. Capasso, over which Gabel was presiding. Defendant Bess Myerson ("Myerson") was Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs ("DCA") for the City of New York. The indictment charges that Capasso and Myerson were "steady and intimate" companions during the period in question. The indictment alleges that "Myerson, in her capacity as Commissioner of DCA, hired and employed Sukhreet Gabel in the official position of Special Assistant to the Commissioner of DCA." Sukhreet Gabel is the daughterof defendant Gabel. Allegedly, the conspiracy charged in the indictment had two principal purposes: 1. Influencing defendant Gabel's "judicial decisions" in "Capasso v. Capasso for the financial benefit of defendants" Capasso and Myerson; and 2. Obtaining and providing "employment for Sukhreet Gabel ... as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of DCA." An investigation of the three defendants was being conducted by a Federal Grand Jury in this District and in December, 1986 defendant Myerson was called to testify before that Grand Jury and invoked her rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. On January 22, 1987 the Mayor of the City of New York, Edward I. Koch, ("Mayor") appointed Harold R. Tyler, Jr., Esq. as "Special Counsel to investigate the circumstances and substantive issues in the context of which

... Myerson availed herself of her Fifth Amendment privilege before a Federal grand jury, and which might in any way involve the discharge of Commissioner Myerson's official duties and any other matters reasonably related thereto." On the same day, the Mayor directed all City Agencies and Departments "to cooperate fully with Special Counsel, and to make available ... the facilities, services, personnel and other assistance" necessary to conduct the investigation. On January 28, 1987 Kenneth Conboy,[1] then Commissioner of the Department of Investigation ("DOI") of the City of New York, designated Special Counsel Tyler and *43 Tyler Commission staff as DOI agents "for the purpose of conducting the investigation directed by the Mayor on January 22, 1987 into matters which relate or may relate to the office, standards, dutiesand actions of Bess Myerson as Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City." At that time, Special Counsel Tyler was advised by former "Commissioner Conboy that DOI had been involved with the United States Attorney's Office ... in a joint investigation of the defendants named in the instant indictment." (Tyler Affidavit of February 17, 1988, at ¶ 5). On the recommendation of the former Commissioner of DOI, the Tyler Commission staff met shortly thereafter with the Assistant United States Attorney in charge of the federal investigation and the senior staff member of DOI who had been cross-designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. In paragraph 6 of his affidavit, the Special Counsel points out that "the focus of my investigation was whether Ms. Myerson should continue in office" and

that he also knew that he was required under § 803(c) of Chapter 34 of the New York City Charter to forward a copy of his Report "to appropriate prosecutorial authorities if it involved allegations of criminal conduct." From late January until early April, 1987, the Tyler Commission conducted its investigation which included reviewing over 20,000 pages of documents and interviewing 35 witnesses. (Tyler Affidavit of February 17, 1988, at ¶¶ 7, 8 and 10). Three of the witnesses, defendant Gabel, her husband, Milton, and daughter, Sukhreet, were questioned under oath — the remaining witnesses were not examined under oath. The Special Counsel made his Report to the Mayor on April 8, 1987. Somehow the Report was leaked to the press and parts of it appeared in the Village Voiceby the Mayor on January 22, 1987 into matters which relate or may relate to the office, standards, duties and actions of Bess Myerson as Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City." Indeed, paragraph 3 of the Designation directs that nothing "obtained from ... Myerson under legal compulsion ... be disclosed to any official or employee in the Department of Investigation since the Department is formally participating in an official, criminal inquiry into related matters being conducted by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York." Nothing in the Designation makes the Special Counsel a participant in the "criminal inquiry" referred to in paragraph 3 thereof. Moreover, paragraph 4 of Special Counsel's Reply Affidavit of March 7, 1988 confirms that the Tyler Commission was not viewed

Residents who Pin their Hopes on Big The residents of the small village of Otjivero in the Omitara area have their hopes pinned on the Basic Income Grant (BIG). The poverty-stricken village, 115 km from Windhoek, will be the first beneficiaries of the BIG, a monthly cash grant aimed at reducing destitution, poverty and inequality. With dwelling units made of remnants of other building materials, old tents, iron sheets and plastic sheeting, the first impression is that poverty here rules the game. Most of the 1 000-odd residents of this village, who are former farm workers evicted from the farms surrounding the area, have no source of income of their own. The only people with a regular income are those working for the primary school, the clinic, the police station, NamWater andnearby farms. Unfortunately, the people of Omitara are haunted by their reputation of being “cattle and fuel-wood thieves.” “Farmers follow the youth to their farm gates with guns, saying people of Omitara are thieves,” remarked Steven Eigowab, a former principal of Otjivero Primary School, who had decided to settle at the village to try and help the residents. Eigowab is also the chairman of the PPRC. The residents are then left with old-age pensions and remittances from their relatives elsewhere as their source of survival. This situation also affects the school in that children go hungry to school and cannot gain knowledge on empty stomachs, says Principal Rebecca Jeremiah, one of the longest-serving employees of the school. To keep the children in school and to improve their performance, the school

"Executed in a brooding, distinctively British pop style," this collection of the three brothers' early-era hits bears out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's description of them in the induction citation: "The introspective British pop and danceable American R&B that served as dual influences have remained consistent throughout…. [1960s singles included] such well-crafted, harmony-rich songs as 'New York Mining Disaster 1941,' 'To Love Somebody,' 'Massachusetts,' 'Words,' 'I’ve Got to Get a Message to You' and 'I Started a Joke'." "The threesome … created a slew of tender, affecting, and quite lovely hits…. Their songwriting acumen, combined with their harmonies … and ace orchestral/band arrangements by Bill Shephard, holds up astonishingly well."—All Music GuideStory In a small trading village, an adolescent orphan boy by the name of Noren helps an aging shopkeeper provide services for travelers passing through. The town has fallen upon hard times, and resources are scarce. The harsh tribute requirements imposed by the distant Commonwealth make life difficult. ​ One morning, as Noren is running an errand, he stumbles across a mysterious relic of long-forgotten technology that has lain dormant, hidden in plain sight. He begins to have strange dreams, and frightening abilities awaken within him. After tapping into the power of the relic, he embarks on a quest that will lead him to faraway places as he desperately attempts to figure out what's happening and find a way to help those close to him. ​ The journey is treacherous, and shadowy figures

stalk him at every turn. Over the course of his travels, he uncovers an insidious plot laid out against him long before he was born. He is not without allies, as his survivalist friend, the outdoorswoman Ayana, accompanies him. Together, they unearth secrets that will not only change their lives forever, but alter the face of the world and the destiny of humanity.Tomb of Cyrus the Great Tomb of Cyrus the Great Tomb of Cyrus the Great In the way from Shiraz to Isfahan you can visit the remnant of Pasargadae the great capital of Cyrus-founder of the greatest ancient east empire. Tomb of Cyrus the Great is also located in this place. While nothing has remained from glorious cities of ancient world like Babylon, ruins of Pasargadae still shows the glory of the Acheamenids art and culture. Pasargadae as a national heritage site includes many Acheamenid relics such as Acheamenid palaces,a fort,tomb of Cambyses and Mozaffari caravanserai from Islamic period. One of the remained structures of Pasargadae is the tomb of Cyrus the great which always were a sacred place through history. The first Archeological studies about the tomb dates back to 207

or tomb of Solomon. According to this belief In the seventh century Atabakan the governors of Fars province named themselves Solomon heirs and built a mosque. It was actually an important mosque and people used to travel here for Qurban prayers although it lasted about 5 to 7 days .This was the reason of building a caravansary near Cyrus tomb. In the 9th century Ibn Balkhi an Islamic historian says that the punishment of looking into the tomb is going blind and people believed any one should not get into the tomb. Pietro della Valle who traveled to Iran during Safavid period mentioned that people believe on Fridays strange looking flow of blood comes out of an ancient cypress near the tomb of Solomon’s mother. In Safavid period and evenNEW YORK -- Forwards Ryan Getzlaf of the Anaheim Ducks, Andrew Ladd of the Winnipeg Jets and Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks are the three finalists for the 2014-15 Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award presented by Bridgestone, which is awarded "to the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice, during the regular season," the National Hockey League announced today. Mark Messier solicits suggestions from club and League personnel as well as NHL fans to compile a list of potential candidates for the award. However, the selection of the three finalists and ultimate winner is Messier's alone. The winner will be announced Wednesday, June 24, during the 2015 NHL Awards from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Following are the finalists

for the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award presented by Bridgestone, in alphabetical order: Ryan Getzlaf, Anaheim Ducks Anaheim's captain since 2010-11, Getzlaf led the Ducks with 25-45—70 during the regular season to power the club to its second consecutive Western Conference title. Off the ice, he continued his philanthropic endeavors throughout Orange County, highlighted by the annual Getzlaf Golf Shootout. This year's event generated more than $300,000 for CureDuchenne, a nonprofit that raises awareness and funds research for those suffering from the progressive muscle-wasting disease. Getzlaf also continued his efforts to grow hockey in Southern California, partnering with teammate Corey Perry to support - both in money and time - the Anaheim Ducks Learn to Play Program, which offers free classes for first-time hockey players ages 4-12. Andrew Ladd, Winnipeg Jets Ladd,the franchise's captain for the past five seasons, established career highs with 38 assists and 62 points to propel the Jets to their best campaign in club history. Also known for his leadership role off the ice, Ladd partners with Special Olympics in a variety of fundraisers and activities. Those include tickets to games, meet-and-greets and floor hockey tutorials. This year, Ladd increased his participation with organization - which provides year-round sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities - by serving as the presenter of medals at the Special Olympics Manitoba Games, donating his time in live-auction prizes and attending the Stars ‘FORE' Special O Golf Tournament as a celebrity host. Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks Chicago's captain since he was just 20-years-old, Toews led the

club with 28-38—66 in the regular season to guide the Blackhawks to their seventh consecutive playoff berth. He also built upon his work in the community, where he actively participates in various team endeavors, including Make-A-Wish visits and the Four Feathers Golf Invitational. Independently, Toews served as the honorary chairperson for the Israel Idonije Fundraiser, which helps underserved communities by providing programs focused on social and emotional life skills; supported The Winnipeg Foundation in creating its Nourishing Potential campaign; and continued his role with Misericordia, a Chicago group that offers care for those with mild to profound developmental disabilities. History Presented by Bridgestone in honor of one of hockey's great leaders, this award was first handed out in 2007. Announcement Schedule The three finalists for NHL trophies are being announced by NBCSNaccount differences in population size and the level of urbanization. Given that the authority represented by the Mounties long ago expanded into every corner of the Canadian prairies, the persistence of this difference is surprising. Apparently in some remote and lawless areas, the Mounties arrived too late to prevent the development of a culture of violence. In addition, those who live in areas that historically lay outside the reach of the Mounties are most likely to vote for members of the Conservative Party — the only party in Canada that opposes restricted gun ownership.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has confirmed that two pilots died when a Russian Mi-24 helicopter crashed due to a technical fault near the Syrian Hama military airfield, on New Year’s Eve. Read more The incident took place on December 31, when the “Russian Mi-24 helicopter crashed while making a hard landing” 15 km from Hama airfield, the ministry said in a statement. Both pilots were killed in the crash, while a technican sustained injuries and was transported to Khmeimim Airbase. The ministry denied reports that Mi-24 had been in the line of fire. The Russian air campaign in support of anti-terrorist efforts by the Syrian authorities lasted from September 2015 to December 2017. In mid-December, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Khmeimim Airbase to announce the withdrawal of Russian troops from the country. Russia played aUber's complicated, messy history with tipping What's one problem Uber has that's just the usual level of upsetting, and not totally horrifying? Tipping. The ride-hailing giant has for years stood strong against letting customers tip their Uber drivers within the Uber app. Lyft started letting riders tip their drivers in 2012, and Uber still hasn't gotten on board. The issue has been one of the stickiest for Uber's fraught relations with its drivers. Uber might finally be forced to change its tune after New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission introduced a proposal this week that would require ride-hailing companies operating in the city to allow riders to tip their drivers. The need to follow a rule like that in one of Uber's biggest and most important markets could force the

company to allow tipping across the country or around the world. Uber's history with tipping has been around since its early days and goes all the way to the top. According to the New York Times, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick personally opposes tipping. Kalanick reportedly thinks that a tipping feature could make Uber somehow less appealing or make people who don't tip their drivers feel guilty. A tipping tool for Uber is reportedly already built and ready to go, but hasn't been introduced. The lack of a tipping feature also points to the company's broader issue with its drivers. Uber drivers are technically contractors, not employees, meaning they work for themselves. For Uber, there's only downside in including tipping since it would make trip more expensive without any of thatmoney going to the company (unless it started taking a cut...). The issue was serious enough that it went to court, where a major settlement Uber reached last year in a class-action lawsuit brought by drivers almost required the company to move forward on tipping by telling customers that their fares didn't include tip. But that settlement was later rejected by a judge. Not allowing riders to tip their drivers in-app contributed to the perception of Uber as the unfeeling, win-at-all-costs player in ride-hailing, particularly compared to Lyft, which passed the milestone of $200 million awarded in tips in March. And of course there's regular taxi cabs, which have allowed tipping forever. Riders can technically tip their Uber drivers with cash, but since they're never paying for the ride with

It was late in the 4th quarter on November 28. A tense Smash stadium watched as their team fought against the Deadly Dogs with their first winning record and championship hopes on the line.Both teams were frustrating each other throughout the quarter. Neither team's offense could make much progress and punts were kicked back and forth over the blue turf. The future of the Smash looked darker, until the Smash's outside safety stepped in front of a pass and sprinted to the Dogs' 26 yard line. The crowd's fear turned to excitement. With 3:23 left to go in the game, the powerful offense of the Smash tried to break through the big Deadly Dogs' defense.The Smash made some big pass plays and got down to the four yardmy senses, making my eyes and nose burn and water. The detective led us down a hallway into a back bedroom where something had obviously gone terribly wrong. The bed was covered in blood and as we got started on the room, the officer began his tale of love gone wrong. The room we worked in had belonged to a young female student whose boyfriend had reportedly been of a very suspicious and jealous nature. Believing she had cheated on him with her male roommate, he had flown into a rage, stabbing and strangling her in her bed before moving to the next room where the male tenant stayed. There the killer waited in the dark for the roommate to return from work. As the man entered the apartment and

walked into his room, the attacker struck from behind, breaking his neck and then dropping his lifeless body to the floor. I’ll never forget that home. The bodies had not been discovered for a week and with the heat wave we had been experiencing, the state of decomp was severe. The result was a perfect outline in bodily fluids of where the man had fallen. It might have ended there if not for the untimely return of the third roommate. She didn’t stand a chance as he beat her to death on the couch in the living room. He then fled the scene. The last we heard on the case, the police had not been able to locate him. A story of love gone wrong ends with ABT being calledwas scheming with the bird to find the bad guy. The name of the books does not have Owl in the title and in the book/one of the books the owl/bird is kidnapped. Here are some books that I know it's not: The Books of Magic Chronicles Of Narnia (Owls feature prominently early in The Silver Chair) Harry Potter Series Owl Mage Trilogy (Owlflight, Owlsight, Owlknight) Guardians Of Ga'Hoole The Owl Service The Belgariad Series The Cheysuli Chronicles Clash Of The Titans The Vengeance Of Wol Cloud's Rider Rider At The Gate The Fortress of Owls Series Sky Trillium Venus Rising Slan Hunter Pip & Flinx Series The Beast Master Valdemar Series including the Owl Mage Trilogy - Into The Dream The book has more of a sci-fi spin to it than it does

The Last Legionnary Quartet. These were written by Douglas Hill in the late 1970's and early 1980's. I won't spoil the series, but during the first adventure, the hero Keill Randor teams up with a telepathic bird like alien - Glr. I don't have a description to hand but I recall her being described as having big eyes. In the final book, the enemy is shown as having some telepathic powers as well, derived from an artificial life form that was created. The whole setting is science fiction rather than fantasy. The four books are Galactic Warlord Deathwing Over Veyna Day of the Starwind Planet of the Warlord There was also a prequel - Young Legionary, which is about Keill's early life (to about age 18) SAUL STEINBERG ART American Artist-Cartoonist Born in Ramnicu Sarat, Romania - June 1914 Famous Artist, Saul Steinberg ~ He graduated as an architect while in Milan in 1940. He then came to America in 1942. Steinberg’s work began in the ‘New Yorker’ Magazine in 1942 and featured extensively throughout his entire lifetime. A superb draftsman, he elevated the cartoon to a fine art. He has had many exhibitions worldwide and had dozens of books of his drawings printed. His depictions of the American scene both political and social are uniquely portrayed in his own inimitable style. Many of the artwork of Saul Steinberg has been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as numerous private collections worldwide.

A great example is Women in ML http://wimlworkshop.org/ , an organization co-founded ten years ago by four women in ML who were rooming together during the 2005 NIPS conference. The first WiML workshop took place at NIPS 2006 with almost 100 participants. WiML 2016 had almost 600 participants, which was roughly 10% of NIPS. The networks established through WiML tend to keep women in the field, and in particular to expose them to new opportunities. Natural language. Writing this feels like an anachronism, since I was working with a natural language processing back in the early 1990s. Some smart folks at a company called AICorp had figured out how to pose English questions to a database. A program would parse the question into words that would be referenced againstlearning in the last ten years. "Adversarial" was a more common word in ICLR 2017 submission titles than "reinforcement," "variational," "convolutional" or "unsupervised." On the commercial side, we've seen NVIDIA's stock soar, numerous deep learning startup acquisitions, and the rise of far more players in the autonomous driving space. In 2017, I think we can expect to continue to see an influx of people and dollars into the field. The deep learning hardware market will become more competitive and more complex, with new specialized hardware taking on GPUs. Companies that were not traditionally associated with machine learning will build machine learning teams to streamline their business. As the field grows, researchers will be able to diversify and populate previously niche areas, like AI safety, machine learning security and privacy, and economic

answers UTAH, OMAHA, OVERLORD, MULBERRY and NEPTUNE, all of which were secret codewords for the Normandy landings, mere days away. An understandably suspicious MI5 interrogated the setter in question, Leonard Dawe. The spooks found themselves confronted with a typical enough compiler of crosswords – that is, someone extraordinary. Dawe was a headmaster who, in his career, would also find the time to set 5,000 Telegraph puzzles, without a sniff of the quisling about him. The authorities had cause to be wary of puzzles: Adam McQueen's recent collection of state secrets, The Prime Minister's Ironing Board, discusses a Nazi propaganda leaflet that was dropped into Sussex the same year, containing among its trumpeting of the "German inventive genius" a puzzle in which the black squares spelled out the message "V1". Butwhat were they to make of UTAH and so on? At the point where Dawe was released to return to his school, the story is one of spooky coincidence; indeed it sat comfortably in Tales of the Unexplained-type, free-binder-with-issue-two periodicals until the 1980s. Then, during the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of D-day, one of Dawe's former pupils approached the Telegraph and insisted that as a lad, he had overheard US and Canadian soldiers discussing the plans, picked up on the codewords, and suggested them to his headmaster as possible entries. Here it stops being Tales of the Unexplained, and becomes more like Tales of the Unexpected – a gripping yarn with a cute twist in the tale. Too cute for me. Real life tends to be messier than that, its

but they're both lovely splodges of colour. There's a quote from one Tom Weston, head boy of Dawe's school at the time, recalling the day that MI5 came to school: "An official-looking car turned up," he recalls. "I was interested, so I kept watching. After a time, I saw Mr Dawe go off in the car with whoever it was." Weston and his schoolmates were flabbergasted, and the Telegraph has surely never printed anything more Telegraphy than this remark: "We were astonished at the thought that Dawe was a traitor. He was a member of the local golf club." I was also tickled by how Bill Deedes, Telegraph editor during those 40th-anniversary celebrations, responded when he heard about the Dawe affair. He was: "alarmed by the scandal afresh, and instructed theJoseph Sand As a little boy growing up in the country, Joseph Sand loved to scoop up clay in the root cellar and form little cubes with it. It wasn’t until his early 20s, though, that he knew he would one day make his living as a potter.Born in 1982 and raised outside the small, southern Minnesota town of Austin (pop. 24, 718), Joseph excelled at art at an early age. He stored Play-Doh for his creations in the family’s broken dishwasher and learned to draw hockey players and other athletes while studying with a sports illustrator.

of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania was on the west, Estonia was on the east, and the one in the middle was Latvia. They came into independent existence at the end of the First World War, and disappeared again at the onset of the Second. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union grabbed up the Baltics. Then, when Hitler went to war with Russia two years later, the Wehrmacht marched through the Baltics on their way to Stalingrad.” The Latvians in my audience seemed to be paying the most attention to this little history lesson, and they were the ones who already knew it. Graceland closes every evening at six. At precisely five-thirty Friday afternoon, a girl named Moira Beth Calloway detached herself from her tour group. “I’m coming,The arrest of an online predator in New Zealand led to 31 children being rescued around the world and another 17 arrests. Drew Webb, 20, a bartender who lived in Canterbury, was jailed in May last year for six years after admitting a raft of charges relating to the creation, possession and distribution of child sex abuse images. At the time, the court heard the case had led to the rescues of 17 children overseas and the arrests of 11 adults, including caregivers, parents and a kindergarten teacher, who had traded images with Webb. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said in his weekly blog, posted on Wednesday, that the investigation had resulted in a further six arrests and 14 children rescued since Webb was jailed. READ MORE: * Young man's raging interest in child

Contents History ‎While Lego had released several themed sets over the years from licensed film franchises such as Star Wars and Harry Potter, there had been no official set themed around The Lord of the Rings untill 2012. Sets At the International Toy Fair in New York the first seven sets of Lego The Lord of the Rings were revealled.[7] All sets are scheduled to be released in June 2012 and are aimed for children between 8 and 14 year.[5] Sets of Lego The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey are expected to be released in December 2012.[5] Rumours In 2010, Wesley Yin-Poole, interviewing LEGO Harry Potter producer Loz Doyle, wrote that "[Doyle] refused to deny that a LEGO Lord of the Rings or a LEGO The Hobbit game is in development" but admitted a LEGOPresident Donald Trump said Tuesday that extreme vetting of U.S. gun owners would have made "no difference" to the Texas church shooting. Speaking at a joint press conference alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul, Trump was asked by a reporter whether he had considered extreme vetting for U.S. citizens seeking to buy a gun. He replied: "If you did what you are suggesting, there would have been no difference three days ago." At least 26 people were killed and about 20 others wounded after a gunman opened fire during a Sunday service at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The victims ranged in age from five to 72-years-old. The U.S. president also said the suspect might not have been stopped if the "very brave person" attempting to "neutralize"

the assailant was without a firearm. "I can only say this, if he didn't have a gun, instead of having 26 dead you would have had hundreds more dead... so that's the way I feel about it." 'Mental health problem' Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, was identified by authorities as the gunman. Law enforcement officials identified Kelley, who was killed hours after news first broke of the shooting at the First Baptist Church. The church's pastor and his wife lost their teenage daughter in the massacre, according to a report by the Associated Press. Kelley was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after a failed attempt to flee, authorities said. On leaving the church, Kelley was shot twice — in the leg and torso — by an armedresident later identified as Stephen Willeford. While Kelley had attempted to make his getaway in a sports utility vehicle, Willeford reportedly waved down a passing motorist, Johnnie Langendorff, in a pickup truck. Reuters reported that the two men chased after the suspect at high speed, before the gunman's vehicle crashed in a ditch, authorities said. On Monday, Trump said the Texas church shooting was caused by a "mental health problem" and was not a domestic gun laws issue. Trump — who received political support from the National Rifle Association during his 2016 election campaign — has consistently been against implementing more rigorous domestic gun control laws. Indeed, in February Trump quietly signed a bill into law that rolled back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses

him in the smallest particular to mislead them. A model was set them, but the task of transferring it from one art into another gave them abundant opportunity for independent thought. The originality manifested in their deviations from the model proves them to have been no less great in their art than the poet was in his. Now, reversing the matter, I will suppose the poet to be working after the model set him by the artists. This is a supposition maintained by various scholars. I know of no historical arguments in favor of their opinion. The work appeared to them of such exceeding beauty that they could not believe it to be of comparatively recent date. It must have been made when art was at its perfection, becausemoral beings than might be expected. The artists are much fuller on this head; and one who would know how they were each set off must go to the medals of the Roman emperors. The poets, in fact, speak of them very often as persons ; but of their attributes, their dress, and the rest of their figure they generally say but little." When a poet personifies abstractions he sufficiently indicates their character by their name and employment. These means are wanting to the artist, who must therefore give to his personified abstractions certain symbols by which they may be recognized. These symbols, because they are something else and mean something else, constitute them allegorical figures. A female figure holding a bridle in her hand, another leaning against a column, are

rich in subjects for an artist, while another in a high degree picturesque may yield him nothing, this puts an end to the theory of Count Caylus, that the test of a poem is its availability for the artist, and that a poet's rank should depend upon the number of pictures he supplies to the painter. Far be it from us to give this theory even the sanction of our silence. Milton would be the first to fall an innocent victim. Indeed, the contemptuous judgment which Caylus passes upon the English poet would seem to be the result not so much of national taste as of this assumed rule. Milton resembles Homer, he says, in little excepting loss of sight. Milton, it is true, can fill no picture galleries.in Sophocles; in Homer; among Europeans; among the Greeks; in its disfiguring extreme, not compatible with beauty; expression of, among the English. Painting among the Greeks confined to imitation of beauty. Passion, violent, not expressed in ancient art. Pauson, character of his pictures. Phidias, his indebtedness to Homer et seq. Philoctetes of Sophocles, the, his sufferings compared with those of Laocoon; the, of Pythagoras Leontinus ; of Sophocles, the embodiment of physical and mental suffering . Picturesque, the, in poetry. Pisander, possibly Virgil's predecessor in the history of Laocoon. Pliny, his mention of the Laocoon; of famous Greek sculptors et seq. Poetry, how it surpasses art in description of physical beauty et seq. Polygnotus, pictures of et seq. Pope, contempt of, for descriptive poems; his explanations of Homer et seq. Pordenone, his picture of the entombment. Pyreicus, character of his pictures. Religion,

minutes via a glass-enclosed cart. "Everything is fresh, made to order, and for lunch we are hoping for the bustling kind of energy like the movie scene (from 'Beauty and the Beast') in the dining room," says Lenny DeGeorge, Walt Disney World executive chef. In the evening, the restaurant transforms into fancy table-service dining, inviting guests to feast upon French onion soup, mussels Provençal and charcuterie while sipping on French wines and beers. This is a first, since alcohol has never been served before in the Magic Kingdom. HLN's Bob Van Dillen dances with "Dancing with the Stars" pro Chelsie Hightower at Disney World's New Fantasyland. In true Disney style, the decor inside and out is over the top. From the chandeliers to the walls to the terrazzo floor to the draperies,it's all true to the movie. Even suits of armor that whisper to passersby line the hallway. Guests then make their way into the grand ballroom, which has an entire wall of arched windows, complete with magical snowflakes falling upon the French countryside. Faith Lee, from Lake Mary, Florida, appreciates the extreme theming. "I felt like a kid again entering (Be Our Guest restaurant)," she says. "It completely recreates the details of Beast's Castle to the most minute aspect." Other areas of New Fantasyland involve similar attention to detail, completely immersing guests in the beloved Disney stories. The expansion, which has been in the works for more than three years, introduces two new areas ---- the Enchanted Forest, which focuses on Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, and

Storybook Circus, an area inspired by the Disney animated feature "Dumbo." Major focus on character time Outside, to the far left of Beast's Castle is Maurice's Cottage, a provincial abode that houses an enchanted mirror. It spectacularly transforms into a portal whisking guests into the story of Beauty and the Beast. Once in the Beast's library, Enchanted Tales with Belle goes way beyond a typical meet and greet when Belle and friends invite guests to help act out the "tale as old as time." Next door at Prince Eric's Castle, kids and adults alike will enjoy Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid (almost identical to the Disney California Adventure version). After walking through an interactive queue, guests board giant clamshells as animation and animatronics retell Ariel's story. Afterwardtime to board the ride. Another option is to grab a FastPass and wait in a traditional line outdoors. Overall, the new additions certainly have Disney fans aflutter, but will this translate to an influx of Orlando visitors? Danielle Courtenay, chief marketing officer for Visit Orlando, thinks so. "When any major new attraction opens in Orlando, there's always a positive impact in terms of increased awareness and interest in the destination," she says. "With New Fantasyland being the largest expansion in Magic Kingdom history, we are certainly optimistic that it will impact visitation for 2013 and beyond." Coming soon Princess Fairytale Hall is scheduled to open in 2013 in the former home of Snow White's Scary Adventures. Located in the Castle Courtyard in the center of Fantasyland, it will be a place for

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice — who was elected as a Democrat but later switched to the Republican Party — signed a bill into law Monday that protects babies who are born following attempted abortion procedures. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which penalizes physicians who don't provide the newborn baby medical care, moved through the state's House and Senate with near unanimous support before reaching the governor's desk. "This is an absolute no-brainer as far as I'm concerned," Gov. Justice said. "I've said for a long time, even back before I took office as governor, that I would support measures like this because every human life — born or unborn — is precious and truly a gift from God." What's the background? West Virginia's newly signed law is nearly identical toby force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they are detaining the relatives of those who resist. About 1,300 people are being held in cramped conditions in towns across Puning county, in Guangdong Province, as officials try to put pressure on couples who have illegal children to come forward for sterilisation. The 20-day campaign, which was launched on April 7, aims to complete 9,559 sterilisations in Puning, which, with a population of 2.24 million, is the most populous county in the province. A doctor in Daba village said that his team was working flat out, beginning sterilisations every day at 8am and working straight through

several years • Despite the policy, it is common to find couples in the countryside, where 80 per cent of the population live, with a large number of children • Many couples get round the law by sending pregnant women to stay with relatives, then claiming that the baby was adopted or belongs to a friend or relative What word of condemnation has issued forth from the lips of any member of the administration of President Barack Hussein Obama? None. What word of condmenation issued forth from the lips of any member of the administration of former President George Walker Bush as forced abortions were being carried out in the southwest part Red China in 2007? None: The forced abortion campaign hit the southern Chinese province like a deadly hurricane. The provincial governmentoutside world. National Public Radio, the taxpayer-funded alternative to Rush Limbaugh, actually ran a story on the campaign on its Morning Edition show. This described in harrowing detail the plight of Guangxi resident Wei Linrong. She and her husband, Liang Yage, already had one child but wanted a second. Mrs. Liang was arrested when she was seven months pregnant and forced to abort her child. The Liangs are Christian, NPR reported, and do not believe in abortion. The Hong Kong and foreign press also reported how local officials were imposing punitive fines on those who had already given birth to second children. These fines were, in some cases, equivalent to several years' income. In response to these heavy-handed tactics riots broke out in 28 towns throughout the region. Thousands went on

the rampage, storming government buildings, breaking windows, smashing furniture and vandalizing vehicles. Some rioters even tried to set buildings on fire. To quell the unrest, the regional government called in hundreds of armed police. Tian Congming, President of Xinhua News Agency. This Agency claimed that the Chinese who rioted against the one-child policy were only to be "re-educated." The sympathy of the foreign press was obviously with the victims of forced abortions. NPR’s Morning Edition told not just the Liang's story, but other tales of Chinese women whose babies were aborted weeks, sometimes days before they were due to be born. The Los Angeles Times published full-color photos of the riots and printed the stories of peasants who had “finally had enough.” Even the New York Times finally got intonumber cannot expect to be treated well in jail. A blind attorney, who has been one of the leading activists in China against forced abortions, was recently severely beaten while in jail. Human rights groups say prison officials ordered fellow inmates to beat him after he resisted having his head shaved and insisted on his legal rights. This is unusual only in that the officials themselves did not administer the beating. How many more millions of women will have to suffer forced abortion before China's leaders realize the bankruptcy of the policy they adopted so long ago? (Steven W. Mosher, One-Child Terror Campaign Continues) The administration of former President George Walker Bush did deny American taxpayer dollars through the United States Agency for International Development to the United Nations Population

Fund (UNFPA) because of forced abortions and forced sterilizations in Red China under terms of the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which was enacted originally on August 15, 1985 (see Kemp-KastenAmendment Legislative History.) All the while, however, the "pro-life" George Walker Bush administration fully funded voluntary"family planning programs," including the funding of abortifacient contraceptives, here in the United States of America and around the world, providing funding directly for surgical abortions in cases where a mother's life was said to be endangered. What the George Walker Bush administration did not do, however, was impose any direct sanctions on the government of Red China itself for its coercive "population control" policies as to do so would be to damage "economic relations" with a country where most of our manufactured goods are madeby what is, for all intents and purposes, slave labor. [Remember, this was the "pro-life" George Walker Bush whose Solicitor General argued before the Supreme Court of the United States of America that pro-life champion Joseph Scheidler was akin to a "bandit" under the Hobbs Act of 1946 because he was taking money away from a legitimate "business," that is, the business of baby-killing, by means of his sidewalk counseling. This was the same "pro-life" George Walker Bush whose administration did nothing to reverse the September, 2000 decision of the Food and Drug Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to permit the sale of the human pesticide, RU-486, the French abortion pill. This was the same "pro-life" George Walker Bush administration whose own Food

arms merchants who were permitted to "sleep over" at the White House. (See The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate.) Not one word issued forth from the lips of President George Herbert Walker Bush to condemn forced abortions and forced sterilizations in Red China. Indeed, Bush the elder sent his National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, a member of the Trilateral Commission and a close associate of former United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, for whom Scowcroft once worked and whom he succeeded as the late President Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.'s National Security Advisor, to Red China on December 10, 1989, just a little over six months after the massacre of students in Tianamen Square on June 3 and 4, 1989, to reassure Red Chinese Communist Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping thatthe Bush the elder still considered the octogenarian Communist despot to be a "friend" of the United States of America Indeed, the Red Chinese, enemies of the legitimate national security and economic interests of the United States of America, are pretty much immune from any biting criticism from an incumbent American president as they have been permitted to invade our economic infrastructure without a shot being fired and as they have been enabled by one presidential administration, Republican and Democratic, after another ever since the late President Richard Milhous Nixon's Shanghai Communique (February 28, 1972 Full Text) with then Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai. Who cares about "regional aberrations" such as those taking place now in Puning county in Guangdong Province in Red China? Too bad. We can't let that interfere

with our economic relations with the Red Chinese thugs or let that stand in the way of the mythical "democratization" of Red China, right? Wrong. The members American governing class that is beholden to the multinational corporate and banking classes simply do not care for objective moral truth, no matter whether it concerns the the taking of innocent human lives or the bodily mutilation of innocent human beings or the protection of a nation's legitimate national sovereignty and security, which includes the preservation of domestic jobs and the refusal to "outsource" those jobs to foreign nations merely as a means of maximizing profit. Moral truth matters nothing to devils who reject the Social Reign of Christ the King and who live their lives in search of bigger andbetter ways to enrich themselves and to assure themselves of more and more of the power of this world. Father Denis Fahey, writing in The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, explained the difference between a world where the Social Reign of Christ the King is accepted and respect and the world of Modernity in which we find ourselves at this time: By the grace of the Headship of the Mystical Body, our Lord Jesus Christ is both Priest and King of redeemed mankind and, as such, exercises a twofold influence upon us. Firstly, as a Priest, He communicates to us the supernatural life of grace by which we, while ever remaining distinct from God, can enter into the vision and love of the Blessed Trinity. We can

thus become one with God, not, of course, in the order of substance or being, but in the order of operation, of the immaterial union of vision and love. The Divine Nature is the principle of the Divine Vision and Love, and by grace we are ‘made partakers of the Divine Nature.’ This pure Catholic doctrine is infinitely removed from Masonic pantheism. Secondly, as King, our Lord exercises an exterior influence on us by His government of us. As King, He guides and directs us socially and individually, in order to dispose all things for the reception of the Supernatural Life which He, as Priest, confers. Society had been organized in the thirteenth century and even down to the sixteenth, under the banner of Christ the King. Thus, inspite of deficiencies and imperfections, man’s divinization, through the Life that comes from the sacred Humanity of Jesus, was socially favoured. Modern society, under the influence of Satan, was to be organized on the opposite principle, namely, that human nature is of itself divine, that man is God, and, therefore, subject to nobody. Accordingly, when the favourable moment had arrived, the Masonic divnization of human nature found its expression in the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. The French Revolution ushered in the struggle for the complete organization of the world around the new divinity–Humanity. In God’s plan, the whole organization of a country is meant to aid the development of a country is meant to aid the development of the true personality of the citizens

the antiquity and grandeur of the Christian civilization in the regions where Communism successfully penetrates, so much more devastating will be the hatred displayed by the godless. (Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, March 19, 1937.) None of the leaders of the two organized crime families of naturalism in the United States of America understand or accept this, which is why they continue their merry "engagement" with the "People's Republic of China, an "engagement" that may very well result in Red Chinese economic and/or military aggression against the United States of American. Then again, why should the leaders of the naturalistic crime families, the Republicans and the Democrats, understand this when the false "pontiff," Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, has sold out the underground Catholics in Red China and urged them to cooperatereign of Communist terror there and to the conversion of this land to the true Faith. The Catholic Church does not use "force" to effect such conversions. She uses the graces won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, to effect such conversions, aided by the blood of the martyrs who refused to compromise one little bit with evil regimes. The Catholic Church seeks the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King all nations as each civil government in the world recognizes her as the true religion and as its rulers stand ready to

other means. It is from this date on that the existence of the painting as such was considered miraculous, not only because of its arrival at Genazzano, but because it is for the most part suspended in the air. Eyewitnesses also testify to extraordinary phenomena regarding changing features of the image. Since that time, there have been many privileges granted to the shrine, papal visits and honors. An undated prayer card in our Marian Library tells us, "As can be seen from the register at the shrine [in Genazzano, Italy], Benedict XIV, Pius VIII, Pius IX, and Leo XIII are enrolled as members" of the organization then known as the Pious Union of Our Lady of Good Counsel. "It was Leo XIII who chose the motto for its members:Children, follow her counsels. Pope Pius XII placed his pontificate under the maternal care of Our Lady of Good Counsel." In 1777 the Sacred Congregation of Rites approved a Proper Office commemorating the history of the shrine. The Augustinians were granted the privilege of this office. In the newly revised Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (1988) there is also a special votive Mass in honor of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Good Counsel. In the United States, there is a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Our Lady of Good Counsel soon became a symbol of lay involvement and responsibility in Counter-reformation times. It was the woman, Petruccia, who saw the need for the restoration of

a church fallen to ruins. She gave her utmost for the restoration and beautification of the church, and according to the story, she also prayed for the church. Today, there are women's groups, such as the Christian Mothers here in America, who turn to the patronage of Our Lady of Good Counsel.wouldn’t want to do this from a public perspective.” Stacking the deck When the Hampshire Mews townhomes hit the market in Richmond Hill about four years ago, the buyers weren’t exactly lined up at the developer’s door. “It took a little while for people to get their heads around the product type,” said Bob Finnigan, chief operating officer of Herity Homes, which owned the two-acre site near Yonge St. and Elgin Mills Rd. It was the conventional townhouses in the complex, with a garage in the front and a patio at the back, that sold first. The stacked towns — 42 of the 60 units — were a newer commodity. They had less outdoor space and the garage was at the rear. Hampshire Mews was among the first stacked town developments in Richmond

MONTREAL – The Montreal Impact announced on Friday that midfielder Jeisson Vargas has been loaned to Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, in the Primera División de Chile, for the 2019 season. In his lone season with the Impact in 2018, Vargas scored four goals in 19 regular season games, including 10 starts, and 871 minutes of play. He also registered one assist in two Canadian Championship starts. Transaction: The Montreal Impact loaned midfielder Jeisson Vargas to Club Deportivo Universidad Católica for the 2019 season.faciling the Vembanad lake and the Internal lagoon also the Swimming pool with a fantastic view from the balcony .The food also excellent. The staffs are... I visited this place in September 2012 with my family, its a beautiful property with an amazing lake view. Rooms have balconies facing towards the lake which wakes you up in the laps of nature every morning. Rooms are clean, comfortable, big and beautiful. Food at the restaurant is good, services are slow though. Staff is polite and co operative.... I visited this resort in January, 2012. this is an excellent hotel and provides perfect hospitality. the hotel gives you perfect blend of resort and backwater lake view. All rooms are open to lake view. My kids enjoyed their stay in this hotel and

Arctic Cold Blankets Midwest, Freezing Routines Slide Show | Dangerously Low Temperatures in the Midwest A so-called polar vortex was accompanied by the coldest weather in decades. Joshua Lott / Getty Images By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI and STEVEN YACCINO January 6, 2014 MINNEAPOLIS — Hildagard Omete, 36, a mother of three who has been unemployed for a year and a half, went job hunting on Monday. Sitting at the public library scanning help-wanted ads on a computer, Ms. Omete was wearing two hoods and a knitted hat, along with a full-length down jacket. It was cold inside the library. Outside, the temperature was downright frigid, even by Minnesota standards. The thermometer read minus 15 to minus 20 degrees for most of the day. A deep freeze not seen in decades swept through the center of the countryteeming on weekdays with tourists and workers at lunchtime, seemed all but deserted. “It’s a matter of life and death,” said Phil Kwiatkowski, president of Pacific Garden Mission, a homeless shelter in Chicago, where more than 1,050 people slept on Sunday night, the most he has seen in years. Close to 10,000 homes were without power in Illinois on Monday morning, according to the state’s emergency management agency. In Indiana, the number was above 30,000, state officials said, and the National Guard had evacuated at least 450 residents from heatless homes in Indianapolis, according to Marc Lotter, a spokesman for the city. Sections of two major highways in Northern Indiana — Interstates 65 and 94 — were shut down for most of the day, their traffic cameras displaying post-apocalyptic stretches of

AlWasta Governorate(central Governorate) AlWasta Governorate is located to the south of the Governorate of A'Dakhiliyah and A'Dhahirah Governorate. It is flanked on the east by the Arabian Sea, on the west by The Empty Quarter, and by Dhofar Governorate to the South. It occupies a large area in the middle of the Sultanate. Its beaches stretch for vast distances along the Arabian Sea. These beaches are famous for their cleanliness and the purity of their waters. This has resulted in an increase of marine plants which give the water its green colour. You can also find other types of plants swaying in the shallow waters of Barr Al Hikman (Al Hikman Peninsula). Many birds pass this area during their annual migration. On land, the moderate climate, influenced by the annualtotality of the packing; however it is commonly used, as herein, to refer to individual elements of the packing (i.e. concentric cylinders, rectangular plates, etc.). The canister is surrounded by a magnet which serves to magnetize the matrix contained therein, the magnet generally being arranged to provide a magnetic field in the direction of the cylindrical canister axis. With the matrix magnetized, a slurry of fine mineral ore, for example clay dispersed in water, is fed into the inlet of the canister. As the slurry passes through the canister, the magnetizable particles in the slurry are magnetized and captured on the matrix. Eventually, the matrix becomes substantially filled with magnetizable particles and the rate of capture decreases so that the quantity of magnetizable particles in the treated slurry leaving

hours of down time and at least three workers. Yet another disadvantage was the risk of injury to the workers from the compression process and from handling sharp steel wool. Compression of the matrix against perforated plates additionally created corrosion problems at the interface of the steel wool pad and the perforated plate. Perforated plates at the entrance and exit of the canister perform two diverse functions in prior art HGMS units. First, perforated plates sandwich, compress, and restrain the steel wool matrix which has a spring back force of up to 50 tons for a large magnetic separator. Second, perforations in the plate serve to distribute flow of clay slurry or water across the cross-sectional area of a canister. A typical perforated plate consists of 1/4 inch thick430 stainless steel having a regular pattern of 1/4 inch holes, giving about 50% open area. Slurry or water pumped from a plenum through the perforated plate enters the matrix as a series of small jets or streams. After flowing through several inches of steel wool matrix, these discrete streams coalesce into a uniform plug flow across the cross-sectional area of a canister. The non-plug flow space adjoining the matrix, both at the entrance and the exit of a canister, has dead spots and is difficult to clean of magnetizable products, non-magnetizable products, and minute debris present in the slurry. As a result of this gradual accumulation of deposited particles in the first few inches of canister (equivalent to 6 or more layers of matrix), corrosion followed by partial

John Macleod, 31 Ranish Seaman JOHN MACLEOD Last address in Lewis: 31 Ranish, Son of William and Catherine MacLeodHusband of Maggie MacLean MacLeod, of 31, Ranish, Service unit: Merchant Marine Reserve, HMD Cornrig Date of death: 1 January 1919 at the age of 39 Drowned in sinking of HMY Iolaire Interred: Crossbost Cemetery Local memorial: North Lochs, Crossbost John appears in the 1881 census, aged 1, the son of William (30) and Catherine (30) and brother of Angus (4).ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The Oakland Raiders took a big step toward improving their struggling run defense by acquiring five-time Pro Bowl defensive lineman Richard Seymour from the New England Patriots on Sunday. The move does not come without its risks as the Raiders gave up a first-round pick in 2011, which could be in the top 10 based on Oakland's recent history, to acquire a lineman who turns 30 next month and is in the final year of a contract paying him $3.685 million this season. Raiders owner Al Davis wanted immediate help for a defense that has struggled to stop the run in recent seasons. Since going to the Super Bowl following the 2002 season, Oakland has had the worst run defense in the NFL, allowing 141.7 yards per

Richard Seymour established himself as one of our premier players for nearly a decade," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Sunday. "His presence has been felt as a force on the field, a respected man off it and a multiyear champion." The move is only the latest as the Patriots continue to get younger on defense. Linebacker Mike Vrabel was traded to Kansas City in the offseason, safety Rodney Harrison retired, and more recently Tedy Bruschi officially called it a career after 13 seasons. Seymour was the last member of the 2001 Super Bowl championship defense still with New England. Earlier this summer, Oakland sent two-time Pro Bowl defensive end Derrick Burgess to New England for a pair of mid-round draft picks. The Patriots also acquired receiver Randy Moss from Oakland inis therefore subject to an injunction and ancillary order directing the State to share in the costs of desegregating Metro schools. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments represent the end of a century of slavery throughout the South. Despite Congress' enactment of the Civil Rights Acts, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, et seq., to protect blacks against unfair treatment by state officials and to assure them the rights and privileges guaranteed to all persons within the United States, enforcement of the Jim Crow laws through the mid-1960's diminished the rights of blacks, segregating them from other American citizens and limiting their opportunities to obtain quality education, housing, and medical care. In 1954 the Supreme Court, recognizing the inequitable position of the nation's minorities, declared an end to the "separate, but equal"

the same school. *1143 The Tennessee Supreme Court struck down the provision as unconstitutional in 1956. Roy v. Brittain, 201 Tenn. 140, 297 S.W.2d 72 (1956). The State of Tennessee held four constitutional conventions between 1959 and 1978. Despite the Brittain Court's ruling, the provision was not removed from Tennessee's official books until the fourth convention in 1978. The Brown II directive created great apprehension throughout many communities. Local school boards were particularly concerned about their responsibility to desegregate schools. In response to numerous requests for advice and direction, Attorney General George McCanless issued an opinion letter defining the State's legal responsibility in implementing the Brown II mandate and that of the local school boards. The June 16, 1955, letter states: Under the Code of Tennessee the management of the publicown course of action. Local school boards which are sued by negroes seeking admission to schools under their jurisdiction must be prepared to defend their own action determining the manner in which their schools shall be desegregated. It will be necessary for legal counsel for defense of such suit to be provided by the county, the city, or special school district involved. While the office of the Attorney General is aware of the problems that will confront the school boards and is sympathetic with their problems, the office can do no more than to advise with representatives of the boards with respect to these problems as they arise. Under the Constitution and the statutes of Tennessee, the office of the Attorney General is limited to representation of the state

have adversely affected desegregation in Nashville. Moreover, the State claims that the exercise of federal jurisdiction over Nashville and Davidson County schools has made State intervention into the local desegregation program inappropriate and, as such, has absolved the State of any affirmative duty that may have required them to participate in the elimination of vestiges of state-imposed segregation. 2. The Eleventh Amendment bars the award of retrospective or prospective relief against the state. *1145 3. Plaintiffs are barred from relief by operation of both the statute of limitations to the equitable doctrines of laches and unclean hands. Discussion A. The State of Tennessee is Obliged to Eliminate the Vestiges of State-Imposed Segregation. The State of Tennessee asserts that it cannot be held responsible for the costs of desegregating Metro schools because, although admittedlyof the state. Leeper v. State, 103 Tenn. 500, 53 S.W. 962 (1899) (upholding as constitutional the Tennessee *1148 Uniform Textbook Act). The Leeper court's analysis of the state's authority over public schools is as valid today as when it was spoken at the turn of the century. The Tennessee Constitution establishes the State's central role in public education. EDUCATION'S INHERENT VALUE — PUBLIC SCHOOLS — SUPPORT OF HIGHER EDUCATION. — The State of Tennessee recognizes the inherent value of education and encourages it support. The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance, support and eligibility standards of a system of free public schools. The General Assembly may establish and support such post secondary educational institutions, including public institutions of higher learning, as it determines. (emphasis added). Tennessee Const. Art. XI, §

12 (amended March 31, 1978). Title 49 of the Tennessee Code addresses public education within the State of Tennessee. Its thirteen chapters illustrate the control state officials exert over local school matters. For example, the State regulates teacher compensation and advancement under the "master teacher" program; it approves the location of new school facilities, and frequently prescribes the curriculum offered in schools. Counties do not operate their own, autonomous schools; rather, local districts operate state schools at the direction and for the benefit of the state, serving those children who reside within their jurisdictional boundaries. Matters which affect the educational milieu in a local school district are matters of state concern. Desegregation certainly is one such matter. General McCanless' opinion letter declaring the State shall stay out of the"local problem" of desegregation establishes a policy to delegate fully the State's responsibility to formulate and achieve a solution. b. The State Deliberately Has Refrained From Participating in the Desegregation of Public Schools. The State has the nondelegable duty to participate in the desegregation of local schools. State officials have abdicated that duty. The violation continues today. Placing all consideration of the State's post-Brown conduct aside, this Court believes that State action prior to 1954 — in mandating strict separation of the races in public schools — serves, in and of itself, as a sufficient basis on which to find the State responsible for eliminating the continuing effects of racial discrimination. The decision by Tennessee to cease its official discrimination against blacks in light of Brown did not eliminate the

S.W.2d 72 (1956), the State maintained the provisions on its books until 1978. While the State had no authority to enforce the provisions, the continued publication may be construed as an official statement of State policy on the issue of desegregation. The 1957 parental preference statutes, the statutory prohibition on voluntary busing and the numerous official antibusing resolutions reaffirm the State's lack of commitment to eliminate the vestiges of discrimination in Tennessee. The State was aware of the segregated conditions in Metro schools and of Metro's resistance throughout the 1960's to desegregation. The State did not protest nor threaten sanctions, but continued to fund Metro and to pass legislation consistent with Metro's obstructionist spirit. The State, like Metro, simply did not want to desegregate Metro schools through a busingantibusing resolutions, maintained segregation statutes and constitutional provisions on the books, and threatened to cut off funds to any school system voluntarily imposing busing to alleviate racial balances. In Nyquist, state officials were held not liable for failing to withhold state funds in light of their other affirmative efforts to promote desegregation. Here, state officials have no favorable light to reflect on their actions. No "legitimate policy considerations" justify the State's conduct. The Eleventh Amendment does not bar this Court from enjoining state officials from continuing to refuse to discharge their duty to participate in the implementation of desegregation in Metro schools. To assure compliance with the injunction, the Court exercises its remedial authority to order State officials to assist Metro in meeting the costs of eliminating the invidious

should not be forced to share in the cost of desegregating Nashville schools. The Court notes that the State likewise has *1154 been less than enthusiastic about the prospects of desegregation. The failure to remove the State's unlawful constitutional and statutory provisions mandating segregation and its passage of statutory provisions authorizing the cutoff of funds to local schools districts voluntarily desegregating schools through busing reflects conduct taken in less than good faith, vis-a-vis the state's affirmative obligation to eradicate the effects of past discrimination. If an equitable doctrine is to apply at all, the Court would look to the principles of in pari delicto. That is, recognizing that both Metro and the State have been culpable of acts taken in bad faith, as between the two, the State islevels of performance on standardized testing, development of effective communication skills, and the ability to earn high school and higher education degrees. The present desegregation plan seeks to ameliorate these conditions. The payment of State funds to finance the remedial programs seek to improve the educational opportunities for black children so as to permit them to achieve a level of academic performance that reasonably could be expected had the black population not have been subjected to long term segregation in public education. Finally, the Court believes that the impact on the state treasury will not unduly infringe on the state's ability to carry on traditional state functions. The remedy is not intrusive on the autonomy of state officials to exercise discretion over state affairs. For these reasons, the Court

cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); NEW YORK – The United Nations and Israel clashed at the end of last week over recent IDF allegations that Hezbollah terrorists are operating under the guise of an environmental NGO near Lebanon’s southern border.In footage released by the IDF on Thursday, Hezbollah operatives can be seen erecting observation posts near the Blue Line border with Israel, presumably in order to gather intelligence. According to the IDF, the group has been carrying out these activities while pretending to operate as an environmentalist NGO group it called “Green Without Borders,” at least since April.Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon had sent a letter to the president of the Security Council shortly after the footage was published, calling on him to “send aplurality of connections between the first computer system and a plurality of computer systems, and the first connection is selected based on a predetermined criterion. In addition, the first computer system selects and establishes a second decentralized direct network connection between the first computer system and a third computer systems, in place of the disconnected first decentralized direct network connection. dynamically selecting a first decentralized direct network connection between a first computer system and a second computer system, said first connection selected from a plurality of connections between said first computer system and a plurality of computer systems, and said first connection selected based on a predetermined criterion; and dynamically disconnecting a second decentralized direct network connection between said first computer system and a third computer system in response to

latency of the interconnection between the two the computer systems. In one embodiment of the present invention, the message includes an identification of the first computer system and the time of when the data was sent from the first computer system to the second computer system. In step 204, the second computer system receives the stream of data from the first computer system and determines the current latency of the interconnection between the first computer system and the second computer system. In one embodiment of the present invention, the current latency is measured by the second computer system comparing when the data was sent by the first computer system to when the data was received by the second computer system. In an alternative embodiment, the second computer system will generateTop Corps Blog And Tweet According to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research, while last year’s Fortune 500 study drew attention for the leveling off of blogging with only 23% hosting a public facing corporate blog in both 2010 and 2011, the latest iteration documents leap forward, as the F500 show the first signs of really embracing a range of social media tools. Source: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, August 2012 (A company was counted as having a blog if they had a public-facing corporate blog from the primary corporation with posts in the past 12 months) In 2012, says the report, 139 companies (28%) had corporate blogs showing the largest increase in use of this tool since the 2008 study of the F500. These include two of the top five corporations

(Exxon and Wal-Mart), leaving the other three without a public-facing blog. They include Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Berkshire Hathaway (replacing Bank of America in the top 5). The 139 corporations with blogs come from 54 of the 71 industries represented in the F500. Companies in the Telecommunications industry have 40% of their companies blogging. Commercial Banks, Specialty Retail and Utilities have 25%-30%, and only one company in the Aerospace industry blogs. Since 2008, rank has influenced adoption of blogging in the F500. Those corporations ranked in the top 200, out blogged those in the bottom 200. This continues to hold with 54% of all F500 blogs coming from the top 200 corporations and 28% coming from those ranked 300-500 on the list. In 2012, 90% of the F500 blogs take comments, have RSS feeds and takeand the severance damages to be caused by this proposed borrow pit. In June, 1962, eight months after the original order of expropriation, the Department by ex parte supplemental petition obtained an amendment of the order of expropriation in the Bordages suit. By this amendment the Department sought to expropriate, without making any prior deposit or payment, an entirely different area of 22 *806 acres on the west side of the highway in substitution for the 22 acres on the east side which had previously been lawfully expropriated through the original petition, deposit, and order. The amended ex parte order was obtained on June 7, 1962. On June 13th and on June 18th, within two weeks, the defendant landowners filed exceptions and motions to rescind, as unlawful, the ex parte

amended taking of the west 22 acres. Despite these pleadings questioning the lawfulness of the substitute expropriation, the Department through its contractor on June 15th began clearing the west 22-acre borrow pit area described in the supplemental order. It began hauling dirt from the pit on September 15th for roadway fill, and it continued to do so until June 1, 1963, when it completed its highway construction operations utilizing dirt from the borrow pit. The Department never used the borrow pit servitude on the highway's east side which had previously been lawfully expropriated.[1] In the meantime, the District Court tried the landowners' demand in the Bordages suit to rescind the amended taking. On January 14, 1963, the court signed a formal judgment rescinding as invalid the amending order of expropriation, sincefeet deep, excavated in the west 22-acre area described by the illegally taken servitude. The demand of the petition approaches $600,000. Made defendants were the Department of Highways, the contractor (Aldrich) which had excavated the borrow pit at the direction of the Department, and also Aldrich's liability insurer (National Surety). All defendants denied liability. The Department further reconvened to pray for an allowance of an offset against any award allowed the plaintiff landowners up to the amount of the compensation paid to the landowners for the properly expropriated (but unused) borrow pit on the east side of the highway. The Department claimed that otherwise the landowners would be unjustly enriched. The trial court concluded that the plaintiff landowners' recovery is limited by law to the diminution in market value caused by

construction of the 1960 amendment of Article III, Section 35, Louisiana Constitution in Hamilton v. City of Shreveport, 247 La. 784, 174 So.2d 529 as effectuating such waiver so as to obviate special legislative permission to sue for injuries caused subsequent to the amendment. Legal theories concerning the measure of an owner's award when dirt is illegally removed from his land. In the present instance, prior to the illegal appropriation, the Department had expropriated a 26-acre highway strip across the northeast corner of the owner's 650-acre tract. To the (north) east of this was the 22-acres including the legally expropriated, but unused, borrow pit. The remaining 550 acres to the (south) west constituted a valuable industrial tract. Upon this remainder the Department took possession of the 22 acres illegally appropriated fora landowner. As a result, the landowner's cattle escaped, and he sued for the resulting damages. In holding there was liability coverage, the court in Knight held that, insofar as the landowner was concerned, the damage was unexpected and was thus caused by accident, despite the intentional nature of the several acts of the contractor's employees through their taking down 2½ miles of the landowner's fence. As noted, we approved the Knight holding in Foreman v. Jordan. See 131 So. 2d 809. Also, even though the contractor's employees did intentionally remove the dirt, the damage for which the contractor is held liable may nevertheless from his point of view have been caused by accident insofar as attaching an unexpected legal liability to intentional acts. J. D'Amico, Inc. v. City

a credit against any recovery by the plaintiff landowners for the amount *817 paid them for the original borrow pit servitude. The Department contends that the plaintiffs will otherwise be unjustly enriched by payment for this servitude, since it was never used. This was the borrow pit servitude affecting 22 acres on the east side of the highway, which was validly expropriated by the original petition and deposit of September 28, 1961. The present suit was precipitated by the Department's invalid attempt to substitute the 22-acre area on the west side of the highway for the east borrow pit area, and by the Department's unlawful appropriation of this west 22 acres instead of using the east 22 acres lawfully expropriated. See also companion suit, State, Through Department of Highwaysborrow pit servitude was not divested or rescinded by the subsequent ineffective amendment attempting to substitute a different (the west) area. See State, Through Department of Highways v. Bordages and also federal authorities cited in Footnote 5 above. Under the terms of its expropriation order, the validly acquired (east) servitude was limited in duration to the completion of construction. The highway project was completed in May, 1964; and the Department or its contractors never used the east servitude prior to its termination through the expiration of the time for which granted. In contending that the landowners were unjustly enriched by the $36,000 deposited for this original unused borrow pit, the Department principally contends that the borrow pit servitude originally expropriated had "failed for failure of delivery". The short answer to

in the instant suit. In that case the *821 Policy Jury of St. Tamany Parish, through its contractor, dug a canal on plaintiff's property without permission to do so and without any court order or color of authority at all. Plaintiff protested before the work was started, but his protests were ignored. He did not take any legal action to enjoin defendants from continuing to dig the canal, but instead he waited until after the work was completed and then he sued for damages. Our brothers of the First Circuit held that under those circumstances plaintiff could recover only the amount that he could have recovered in an expropriation proceeding. The court said: "In other words, the plaintiff, with knowledge that the contractor was going upon his land todays after the last dirt had been removed and then they filed suit against the Department for damages. Under the holding in the Hornsby case the plaintiffs clearly are relegated to an action for the value of the property taken and severance damages, as in expropriation suits. In Schneidau v. Louisiana Highway Commission, 206 La. 754, 20 So.2d 14, the Highway Commission, without authority, appropriated a part of plaintiff's property for use as a borrow pit in the construction of a highway. Plaintiff sued primarily for a mandatory injunction to compel the Commission to fill up the pit, and alternatively he prayed for damages for trespass. Our Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court which rejected plaintiff's demands for the mandatory injunction and for damages for trespass,

plaintiffs in the instant suit, enjoined the Department of Highways from appropriating his property, and he then sued the contractor for the damages which were incurred prior to the time the injunction was issued. The trial court allowed plaintiff to recover damages, which included disturbance of possession and the cost of replacing the dirt which had been removed. On appeal, however, our brothers of the First Circuit Court of Appeal reversed all of the awards which had been made by the trial court except for one, that being the value of the land taken. In determining the amount of the award, the court said: "In addition to the removal of the earth, a portion of plaintiff's shell driveway was destroyed and taking this into consideration with the quantity ofthe purposes of assessing damages. With reference to the question of whether the defendant may be treated as a trespasser, it is appropriate to note that on September 28, 1961, the Department of Highways obtained a formal Order of Expropriation granting to it, in addition to the 26 acres needed for the actual highway right of way, a temporary servitude for use as a borrow pit. This temporary servitude affected 22.22 acres of the landowners' property, located on the east side of and adjacent to the proposed highway. About eight months later, before any excavating work was done, the Department filed a "Supplemental and Amending Petition" in the district court in which it formally prayed for a change in the location of the servitude. A plat showing the site

of the new servitude was attached to that petition. Pursuant to that pleading, the trial court issued a "Supplemental and Amending Order of Expropriation" on June 7, 1962, granting to the Department the new servitude, comprising 22.22 acres on the west side of and adjacent to the proposed highway, and it restored to the landowners the servitude which had been granted originally. The Department, acting under this formal amended order of expropriation, then began removing dirt from the new location on June 15, 1962, and continued to do so until the last dirt was removed from that pit on June 3, 1963. No excavating work has even been done of the original borrow pit area located east of the highway which was restored to the landowners. On June 13,had been raised prior to that time. In excavating dirt from the west 22-acre tract, the Department was acting under the title and authority which was specifically granted to it by the court order of June 7, 1962, and that order was not rescinded until a later judgment "rescinding and recalling" it became final on December 16, 1963, several months after all the excavating work had been completed. The amended order of expropriation, which was issued on June 7, 1962, has never been decreed to be void or invalid. It was simply "rescinded and recalled" by the trial court on January 14, 1963, after the trial, and the judgment rescinding it became effective in December, 1963, long after the excavating work had been completed. The Department, therefore, was authorized

The immediate political cost of consumer outrage from higher electricity rates may be postponed, but the real economic cost promises to be massive. The sad thing is that this is all unnecessary. The source of the crisis was rigid regulation of retail prices in the face of rapid increases in wholesale prices driven by increased fuel prices and increased demand in the national electricity market. The only effective solution to the crisis is to make retail price regulation more flexible, so that consumers see the real economic cost of electricity and respond to high prices through conservation efforts that reduce demand and push prices down. On the supply side, the state should encourage construction of new in-state generation capacity through the right market signals, giving producers the opportunityA California Watch report published Friday claims to have found evidence that the California state EPA allowed the American Chemistry Council to have undue influence over the drafting of the state's new environmental curriculum. According to California Watch investigative reporter Susanna Rust, a private consultant hired by California school officials in 2009 inserted a new section in the teacher's edition of the 11th-grade Mass Production, Marketing and Consumption in the Roaring Twenties textbook entitled "The Advantages of Plastic Shopping Bags," which includes… more In the 1980s and 1990s Big Tobacco, mostly led by Philip Morris, spent millions of dollars trying to stop two things they were convinced would ruin their business: regulation of smoking and how cigarettes are marketed, and the dissemination of information about the health effects of

Heading out Comment Sault Ste. Marie Evening News - Sault Ste. Marie, MI Writer Posted Aug. 23, 2013 at 12:30 PM Posted Aug. 23, 2013 at 12:30 PM Leon Malone crossed the International Bridge early today — bound for a fundraising trip that will take him on a 210-mile route through Newberry, Curtis, Germfask, McMillan, Seney, Paradise, and Brimley. Malone is using his lengthy bike trip, to be completed on Sunday, as a fundraiser for improvements to the War Memorial Hospital Emergency Room.Female fish have become better swimmers in order to escape male sexual harassment, new research claims. The female guppies have learnt to shake off the unwanted male attention by changing their physiology to swim faster and more efficiently. The scientists behind the research likened it to athletes who train to become better at their sports. The study, which was led by academics at the universities of Glasgow and Exeter, exposed female Trinidadian guppies for several months to varying levels of male harassment. After five months, females exposed to higher levels of harassment were able to swim much more efficiently, using less energy to swim at a given speed compared to those exposed to lower levels of harassment. Dr Safi Darden, of the University of Exeter, said: "In the wild, male guppies spend most

of their time courting and coercing females in an attempt to mate with them. "Most of this male attention is unwanted and females attempt to avoid males by rapidly swimming away from them during pursuits. "It seems that prolonged increases in high-intensity swimming in females, caused by male harassment, leads to changes in the physiology or swimming mechanics of individual fish, which reduces the energy costs of swimming and could allow female guppies to reduce the burden of this coercive behaviour." Dr Shaun Killen, of the University of Glasgow, said that sexual coercion of females by males was widespread across the animal kingdom. "Typically, male reproductive success is limited by access to females, and males of many species will try to overcome this using a number of behaviours, such as chasing andWomens Go Karting: Do Females Race & Compete? Posted by admin on April 29, 2016| Featured Unfortunately, like a lot of sports, go karting can appear to be male dominated at the highest level. However, there are lots of inspiring female drivers out there and the only way to tackle the male stereotyping is for more women to get karting! A good organisation to know about is The British Women Racing Drivers Club, formed by Mary Wheeler in 1962, which has played a pivotal role in promoting and supporting women in motorsport. Membership to the club offers female racing drivers a full network of support and guidance. There is also a focus on providing recognition for achievements through BWRDC championships. Other organisations have attempted to take steps towards supporting women in racing

Q: What was the earliest black advocacy for Palestinian rights? According to a recent book published by Historian Michael Fischbach, Black Power and Palestine, the SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, one of the main advocacy bodies for black emancipation during the civil rights era in the USA, in its June-July newsletter in 1967 raised questions about Israel and Zionism and which led to a backlash, resulting in a significant drop in donor support. In fact the article itself took the form of a two-page spread titled Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge and was compiled by editor Ethel Minor from a Palestine Research Center pamphlet titled, Do You Know? Twenty Basic Facts about the Palestine Problem and included cartoons by Kofi Bailey. In their preamble,HONG KONG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Chinese military commander responsible for Hong Kong has assured a Pentagon official that Chinese troops will not interfere in the city’s affairs – an apparent signal that they will stay in their barracks amid renewed political upheaval. Trucks full of white-gloved People’s Liberation Army soldiers rolled into Hong Kong within hours of Britain handing its colony back to Chinese rule in 1997, sparking anxiety and raising lingering questions about their role. Major General Chen Daoxiang was speaking at the start of a meeting last month with David Helvey, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, according to people briefed on the discussion. Helvey met Chen on a courtesy call at in the PLA’s Hong Kong headquarters on June 13 – just meters from

they won’t be used, particularly if things start to move in a whole new direction, such as inspiring protest action on the mainland,” he said.Foreign envoys estimate the strength of the Hong Kong garrison at between 8,000 and 10,000, with troops in bases on both sides of the border. It includes a small naval and air force attachment. While they stage frequent drills, they are seldom seen outside of their bases. The PLA still occupies bases formerly used by the British across the territory, including several prime sites on Hong Kong island and across the harbor in Kowloon. The British-built PLA headquarters, topped by a large neon red and gold star, flanks key government offices and the city’s legislature – a key target of recent protests.previously made no sense taking him off the field. In free agency, the Birds added Givens and Randle. Huff is in an interesting spot. He was of course among the Oregon players brought in by Chip Kelly. While he has shown explosive flashes, overall he has been inconsistent. What does the new regime think of him? For now, we'll leave him at WR3, but I put him there with no conviction. The addition of Randle gives Huff legitimate competition. The other wide receivers on the roster are Freddie Martino, Jonathan Krause, Seantavius Jones, and Xavier Rush. Tight end TE1 TE2 TE3 TE4 Zach Ertz Brent Celek Trey Burton Chris Pantale Ertz's numbers spiked at the end of the season for the second year in a row. He's the better receiving threat while Celek

as a nation united. While Rome is going to be the center of attention for the upcoming Conclave that will seat a new pope following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, In June, Israelis will elect a new Ashkenazi chief rabbi. Just as Catholics look to The Pope for religious and spiritual direction and moral clarity in an ever evolving world, Jews in Israel and some around the world rely on Israel's chief rabbi to also offer direction and clarity, but they are also too often disappointed. More than the politics of governing, the politics of the rabbinate and what it means to the Jewish state will set the tone for the real future of Israel. As it is, about half of the citizens of Israel feel that they aredo not disclose a new hockey training device. The inventive device includes a panel having a front edge, a back edge, a first side edge and a second side edge, a top side and a bottom side. The top side has an apex extending from the front edge to the back edge and positioned between the first and second side edges such that a first portion and a second portion of the top side are defined. The first portion is angled toward the first side edge and the second portion is angled toward the second edge. A platform is attached to and extends away from the front edge. The platform lies in a generally horizontal orientated plane. A net is attached to the top side of the panel

Tags: Current nuclear war plans are among any nuclear-armed military’s most closely guarded secrets. Details of one such attack plan recently became available, however, revealing that the United States envisaged using 80 nuclear weapons in case of war with North Korea. The way this particular detail emerged is also pretty unusual — the associated passage appeared in U.S. journalist Bob Woodward’s book Rage, detailing President Trump’s administration, which was published this week. In fact, the particular quote from the book was not entirely clear: "The Strategic Command in Omaha had carefully reviewed and studied OPLAN 5027 for regime change in North Korea — the U.S. response to an attack that could include the use of 80 nuclear weapons." This can be read two ways: a potential attack from the North could involveThe National Guard defends here at home and abroad. The National Guard is bigger than the active duty force. The National Guard is the only "combat" reserve component the Army has. Through out history the National Guard was activated in every armed conflict since before the revolution. The National Guard was able to defend the sates domestically and provide soldiers to lessen the load on the active duty component. The National Guard are soldiers and airmen plain and simple. Their primary mission is to defend and fight. For a long period in history, the National Guard was the Army. Relief effort is relatively a new mission. Yes they should Yes they should promote both for combat and domestic disaster relief. If they don't help us out here at home then they

News 30th Anniversary of CHIBS and 3rd Anniversary of DDBC On the afternoon of 13 June 2009, a talent show and the joint exhibitions held at Dharma Drum Mountain World Center for Buddhist Education in Jinshan Township marked the thirtieth anniversary of Chung Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies (CHIBS) and the third anniversary of Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC). Honorable guests, including President Abbot, Venerable Guo Dong, President of DDBC, Venerable Hui Min, President of CHIBS, Venerable Guo Jing, former President of CHIBS, Pro. Li Zhifu, and President of Huafan University, Venerable Xiu Ci, attended to deliver their warmest blessings and to share their joyful stories of CHIBS and DDBC. After three wonderful performances, the highlight of the concert was the performance of Buddhist songs by a young guitarist, singer and composer,Miss Lin Tingchu, who skillfully brought Buddhist mantras into her performance. A beautiful song, "Home", composed and sung by Mr. Kang Jiliang, a student of DDBC, deeply touched the hearts of everyone. This was followed by an impressive show from the Frame Drum Team of the Dharma Practice Society of DDM. Following the performances, Venerable Guo Dong said in his speech that DDM has been receiving high recognition from the wider society. He encouraged everyone to take this opportunity to continue their work in the development of Chinese Buddhism in Taiwan, and DDM. This can be achieved through supporting CHIBS and DDBC in cultivating Buddhist talent in Taiwan, propagating Dharma, and to "build a pure land on earth", an idea proposed by Venerable Master Sheng Yen. Venerable Guo Jing said that so

Collège Mixte Le Bon Berger, Montrouis Collège Mixte Le Bon Berger, Montrouis Judy is a retired teacher, and an American. Her husband David ran a factory in Haiti for 15 years before retiring himself and moving with Judy to the seaside village of Montrouis. They've lived there now for 25 years. One day a couple years ago Judy's passion for teaching reemerged and she decided to sponsor a local school. A contractor was hired and a building went up that was pretty standard as Haitian schools go. Two years later there an earthquake shook the region and the couple sought the help of Archiecture for Humanity to make repairs to the school–if any were needed. Architecture for Humanity sent an architect and a structural engineer who together determined the wholebuilding was unfit to occupy. Judy's school, Collège Mixte le Bon Berger ("collège" in French being another world for "secondary," or "junior high" school) was too insufficiently reinforced and would have to eventually be torn down. Perhaps the foundation could be salvaged. The 300 students from Bon Berger will have to start this next schoolyear away from the school building. They'll have to move their benches and chalkboards under large canvas canopies for the time being until they can get a new school in the yard. This new school would have to be designed and built with the utmost attention to detail, that it might serve succeeding generations of Haitian students who, in turn, can grow to expect their school, as a foundation of Montrouis, to serve their families

ALGOMA TRANSFER - 15 June 2014 - Photographed while she was secured alongside wharf 17 in the outer harbour of the Welland Canal at Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.. She was subsequently stripped, partially dismantled and finally moved to the scrapping berth at the Marine Recycling facility just south of this location. There she was cut up for scrap.. Photo by Jeff Cameron..Bottom Line The Trump Taj Mahal opened in 1990 after the success of the original Trump Plaza a mile down the boardwalk. The not-so-subtle exterior reveals the Indian theme from afar and is just as dated as the original gold interiors and crystal chandeliers. The enormous 17-acre property has 2010 rooms spread across two towers: the original Taj Tower and the newer Chairman Tower. Contemporary rooms in the Chairman Tower -- with bursts of color and floor-to-ceiling windows -- are some of the most desirable. While common complaints include fees for parking, Wi-Fi, and use of the fitness center, this hotel is kept clean and there are plentiful restaurant and nightlife options. Customers Who Viewed The Trump Taj Mahal Also Viewed Oyster Hotel Review Scene Large hotel and casino complex with options for

resort. The huge casino floor is home to 3500 slot machines and 200 table games. Beyond gambling, the hotel also offers a large heated indoor pool (with outdoor sundeck), slightly generic spa, and business center with printing services. Casino offers a Baccarat Pit, a smoke-free poker room that is home to the US Poker Championship, a High Limit Gaming Salon, and an Asian gaming salon. Food Variety of fine dining, casual, and convenience options spread out in a mega resort Certain aspects of the Taj Mahal are dated, but the restaurants are more contemporary. The newest addition is Il Mulino New York -- a high-end Italian restaurant in a white tablecloth, sophisticated space. Other fine dining options include Safari Steakhouse for high-grade steaks and seafood, Dynasty for Asian food, and Moon atDynasty for sushi. There are just as many casual options, including Royal Albert's Palace for Indian food, a 24-hour option called Plate American Cafe, The Rim Noodle Bar, and a more casual version of Il Mulino New York called the Il Mulino Trattoria. The Trump Taj Mahal also offers several convenience options, including a sub sandwich shop, a burger joint simply called Burger, along with chains like Starbucks, Sbarro, Mrs Fields, and Auntie Anne's. Bottom Line The Trump Taj Mahal opened in 1990 after the success of the original Trump Plaza a mile down the boardwalk. The not-so-subtle exterior reveals the Indian theme from afar and is just as dated as the original gold interiors and crystal chandeliers. The enormous 17-acre property has 2010 rooms spread across two towers: the

at IRI's Banca Commerciale Italiana in 1938. In 1946, he was appointed president of Mediobanca when it was founded. Subsequently, he was the first head of the bank, which was initially named as Banca di Credito Finanziaro. In 1982, he retired from the board of Mediobanca and was given the title of honorary president. Antonio Maccanico succeeded him in the post. Cuccia kept an office at the bank until his death in 2000. He also served as a personal adviser of the Agnelli family. However, their alliance ended at the end of the 1990s. Activities Cuccia shaped the Italian company patterns until 1992 when a bill became effective in order to encourage the privatization of state-owned companies and banks. He was the major contributor to the merge of Montecatini and Edison intogoosebumps. Every young Sindhi has heard stories from their grandparents about growing up in Sindh in undivided India, and the difficult journey across the border and the loss of life during Partition when Hindu Sindhis had to journey over the border and look for suitable land all over India where they could settle down, often in the face of resistance. A Sindhi musician. | Photo Credit: Khalid Mahmood And, for many Sindhis, the yearning to reconnect with their original home by the Indus, the place of their ancestors, is powerful. Aruna Madnani, 62, is the founder and trustee of the Sindhi Culture Foundation. She says she always longed to walk the streets where her father grew up, visit the hospital where her grandfather practised, and see the place they called their own.

She finally made a trip to Sindh in Pakistan last December. Her journey began in Karachi, took her up the River Indus to Mohenjo-daro. At the recent event ‘Journey through Sindh: A Lost Homeland’, held at the Partition Museum in Amritsar, Madnani spoke about this emotional voyage to Pakistan. A map of the Sindh province. | Photo Credit: Saqib For Henna Kalro, 50, who handles events for the Sindhi Council of India (SCI) and who is the author of two books, Flavours of Sindh on food and Glimpses of Sindhiyat on Sindhi culture, the journey was internal: to find meaning and pride in her ethnicity. Initially, says Kalro, she was not particularly proud of her roots. “It pained me that my classmates’ parents in Chennai were heading banks or were scientists Opinion of the Court Defendant lived in an apartment in Brevard, North Carolina, where Naomi Jean Barker (Barker) and Richard Holden (Holden) were her neighbors. Early in the morning of 21 August 2009, defendant knocked on Barker and Holden’s front door claiming to have money she previously borrowed from them. When Holden opened the door, defendant pushed him against the wall and stabbed him repeatedly. Defendant then approached Barker, calling her by the wrong name, and stabbed her six times. Defendant removed five dollars from Holden’s wallet and left the apartment. Barker called 911. The police arrived to find Holden dead at the scene and

Barker suffering from serious injuries. Shortly after the incident, a rescue squad member saw defendant, who was still wearing bloody clothes, trying to catch a ride at a nearby church. An officer located defendant at the church and brought her to the police station, where she was interviewed by an S.B.I. agent. When the agent recited defendant’s Miranda rights, she refused to speak further and requested an attorney. On 5 October 2009, defendant was indicted for first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Defendant indicated her intent to plead the defense of insanity and was subsequently evaluated by David Bartholomew, M.D. regarding her capacity to proceed and her mental condition at the time of the offense. a release became possible, the argument implied that such a finding was routine. Instead, history shows that few who are acquitted of murder or another serious crime on the grounds of insanity are released shortly after their acquittal. One need look no further than the case of John Hinkley, Jr., who was acquitted in 1982 on the basis of insanity of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others, but was not released from institutional psychiatric care until 2016. Gardiner Harris, John Hinckley, Who Tried to Kill Reagan, Will Be Released, N.Y. Times (July 27, 2016), http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/hinckley-who-tried-to-kill-reagan-to-be- released.html. Closer to home, Michael Hayes was not released completely until 2012 following his 1989 acquittal on the basis of insanity of four murders in Forsyth County. Michael

of the ugliest of the harassment. They also engage in systematic harassment of trans women and trans allies on twitter, most by repeating their same tired rhetoric: “trans women are men” and “penis is male”. They also engaged in an extended harassment campaign targeting Against Me! singer and trans woman Laura Jane Grace. Earlier this year, Tina Vasquez penned a lengthy piece on for Bitch Magazine running down dozens of examples of harassment perpetrated by radical feminists against both trans activists and trans allies, including herself. In a moment reminiscent of conservatives parading around of “ex-gays,” Goldberg then presents a single “de-transitioned” person, Heath Atom Russell — a woman who had previously lived as a trans man, and had returned to living as woman. Ms Russell says that sheof it is of a sexualizing nature. I talked at great length about Cathy Brennan who is notorious for her personal attacks and outing of trans people, her various websites where she engages in smear campaigns against trans women (once again, usually of a sexualizing nature). I mentioned how, after my appearance at a SF Dyke March forum on AGE DIVERSITY AND GENDER FLUIDITY – which was designed to build bridges between trans-positive queer women and those (often of older generations) who are trans unaware, and which resulted in respectful and constructive dialogue on all sides – several TERFs crashed the Facebook page and spewed so much hateful speech that they had to shut the whole thread down. None of this made it into the story, which will

Lukas Podolski: Joined Inter on loan in January Lukas Podolski wants to return to Arsenal when his loan expires at Inter Milan, according to manager Roberto Mancini. The Germany international, who joined Inter in January on loan until the end of the season, has endured a difficult time in Serie A. And Inter boss Mancini says the World Cup winner has already decided he will return to London rather than make his loan at the San Siro permanent. "In Italy, we have a habit of not being able to wait," Mancini said in response to criticism of both Podolski and his other January recruit, Xherdan Shaqiri. "Not everything can be done quickly, especially when moving from one country to another, from one club to another. "The same applies to Podolski who I consider agreat player and a great professional. "That situation is a little different though, because he is on loan and wants to return to Arsenal." Podolski has made 13 appearances for the Nerazzurri but has failed to find the back of the net during his brief stint at the club.

THS grad Carlin wraps up basketball career at Ottawa Well before she ever donned an Ottawa University jersey, Tonganoxie High alum Shannon Carlin was on coach Bruce Tate's radar. Carlin, a 2008 Chieftain grad, received much attention from Tate and the OU coaching staff as she wrapped up her high school career. However, a spot on the Braves' roster wasn't what she had in mind. Well, at least not right away. Instead, Carlin took her talents to Kansas City Kansas Community College, where she averaged 7.2 points and 3.4 rebounds per game in two seasons. When her time as a Blue Devil was about to expire, Carlin re-opened communication with Tate. The second time around, conversation ended with her signature on a national letter of intent. "We definitely kept in touch," Carlin said. "Towardstop at off-the-court conversation. During the offseason, the duo logged several hours in the gym and weight room in an attempt to overcome the obstacles — both mental and physical — which kept Carlin from succeeding her junior season. One year later, the hard work paid off. Carlin saw improvement across the stat sheet as a senior. She averaged 8.8 points and 4.1 rebounds en route to All-Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference honorable mention honors. She was at her best against KCAC opponents, averaging 9.5 points per game in league play. "We had a great summer with her and she turned into a phenomenal leader for us her senior year," Tate said. "She was one of our top scorers and a team captain. She was a tough matchup for everybody. Her career

at Ottawa was good and we're definitely going to miss her." Carlin's emergence didn't go unnoticed by her peers, either, as the OU students voted her the school's Queen of Hearts. She was crowned in a ceremony on Feb. 18 when the Braves played host to Kansas Wesleyan. With her basketball career officially in the books, Carlin has now set her sights on joining the work force. After graduation, she hopes to become a sports broadcaster for a radio or television station. As she works toward making that goal a reality, she does so knowing her time as a Braves has helped prepare her for plenty more success down the road. "There are a lot of things that playing a college sport does for you," she said. "I think basketball, of course,is to say in the direction of a ring gear of the internal combustion engine. As soon as the force acting on the output shaft owing to the overpressure is larger than the spring force acting in the opposite direction, the overpressure causes the pinion mounted on the output shaft to disengage from the ring gear (similarly to a pneumatic piston). Furthermore, the overpressure has the effect that after the starter is switched off the pinion can no longer be moved back into the position of rest since the spring force which is applied for this purpose is lower than the opposing force of the overpressure. The pinion can then abut against the ring gear or after starting cannot be moved, or cannot be moved sufficiently quickly, out

Bard also has a distinguished narrator, already known to many young admiring fans as one Professor Dumbledore and he adds depth and intrigue to the stories with his dark commentary on the 'historical context' of the tales. Also illuminating the collector's edition are the extra illustrations created by J.K. Rowling for the original. The book is published by the Children's High Level Group charity which aims to help a quarter of a million children, through education and support access, per year, and the net proceeds from the book sales will be donated to The Children's Voice charity campaign. More suitable for bookcases than toyboxes, The Tales Of Beedle The Bard is more a book to cherish and admire than to throw in the bottom of a schoolbag and might make theat 1081. In addressing the petitioner's arguments, the Commonwealth Court first considered how to define the terms "tangible" and "corporeal" within the meaning of Section 7201(m), examining various analytical frameworks employed by other jurisdictions, including the approach taken by the Louisiana Supreme Court in South Central Bell, supra.[6] Rejecting a strict adherence to the traditional notion of the terms "tangible" and "corporeal" which would require that, in order for a transfer of software to be considered tangible personal property, some physical matter must be involved in the sale, the court instead embraced the "essence of the transaction" test, also referred to as the "true object" test, to be applied when a transaction appears to involve both tangible and intangible property or tangible property and a service: In order to determine

physical models and computer-based (Jmol) explorations of specific proteins. Teachers will then receive explicit training in the use of these materials to connect the central elements of each molecular story of current research to the basic concepts of chemistry and biology that are taught at the high school level. In the second phase of this project, teachers will be introduced to the principles of scientific teaching - and challenged to apply the same experimental rigor to their classrooms that researchers apply in their laboratories. Teams of teachers will be assisted in the development of individualized research plans in which the impact of implementing the project's instructional materials in their classrooms will be studied. Beginning in a summer workshop and continuing into the implementation of these shared research plansin their classrooms, teachers will be encouraged to become active participants in a professional community of educators - committed to documenting the impact of their classroom innovations on student learning and to sharing the results of that education research with others. In the final phase of this project, the molecular stories and related instructional materials will e disseminated to a national audience of high school students and their teachers though a Protein Modeling event in the Science Olympiad competition. More than 9,000 students in 48 states will be exposed to stories of personalized genomic medicine as they construct physical models of proteins that play key roles in molecular stories. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): The Teachers FIRST project aims to provide high school biology teachers with the

knowledge and tools to go beyond the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (DNA to RNA to protein) in their teaching, and to engage their students in meaningful discussions of genomic medicine and its implications for personalized health care. The project will also empower teachers to become education researchers who study the impact of their classroom innovations on student learning.Directions to Illinois Willows From Champaign - Urbana : take Interstate 72 west to Rt.47 exit. Turn left ( south ) at top of the overpass going south to Rt. 10. Turn right ( west ) 1 mile to Seymour. Turn left ( south ) into Seymour, heading south about 1 mile to 1477 County Road 200 East. Illinois Willows will be on the west side of road. ( we are the first farm south of Seymour ). From Springfield / Decatur : take Interstate 72 west to Rt.47 exit, turn right ( south ) to Rt.10 . Turn right ( west ) one mile to Seymour. Turn left ( south ) into Seymour, we are the first farm south of town. From Chicago : take Interstate 57 south to Interstate 72 west. Exit

at Rt.47 north, at top of overpass take a left ( south ) to Rt.47. Turn right( west ) to Seymour. Turn left ( south ) thru town, we are the first farm south of town. From Effingham ( south ) : take Interstate 57 north to Interstate 72 west ( Springfield/ Decatur ) exit. Intstate 72 west to Rt. 47 exit. Turn left ( south ) at top of overpass going south to Rt.10. Turn right ( west ) 1 mile to Seymour. Turn left ( south ) into Seymour, go thru town . Illinois Wilows is the first farm south of town on the west side of road.flashed on network television in the days after the disclosure of tenuous links between one of the Oklahoma City bombers and his movement, finds himself unable to organize an armed standoff between the remnants of his once 12,000-strong militia and law enforcement. He thought he had his flash point on an apocalyptic millennialist family's farm that local zoning officials have ordered dismantled. "We're itching for a standoff someplace," Olson said in an interview in his modest ranch house in Alanson, on the mainland just southwest of this idyllic tourist island in Lake Huron. "Any movement needs a good and noble rallying point, an Alamo or a 'Remember the Maine,' and this could be it." Olson's frustration underscores a situation faced not only by his own struggling militia faction but also by the militant armed wings of the patriot movement across the nation.

The groups often depend on publicized confrontations with law enforcement for the legitimacy they crave among like-minded sympathizers, but for several years have found themselves without them. Dressed in Army fatigues and interrupting his conversation occasionally to greet visitors to his at-home gun shop, the Alanson Armory, Olson, 51, mused about the publicity opportunities of a police siege in northern Michigan. "The FBI and state police show up, and hostage negotiators, a crisis management team and television satellite trucks are all there. I'd have militia people from Washington state and North Carolina and you'd have another Waco or Ruby Ridge," Olson said, referring to two of the most infamous armed standoffs to stain the reputation of federal law enforcement. Then, referring to Attorney General Janet Reno's embarrassment over the FBI's and Justice Department's failure to disclose the use of potentially incendiary devices in the" said Chris Stitt, 37. "I thought, some publicity would be okay, but Commander Olson, you've just been given your walking papers. Are you willing to risk the lives of my children for media attention?" The Stitts decided last week to sell their 37-acre farm, put their horse, peacock, three pigs, 150 chickens, four goats and three emus on the island ferry and get out of harm's way. The Stitts' capitulation to local officials they claim are hounding them off the island because of their religious and survivalist lifestyle is only the latest in a series of setbacks for the militia movement in conservative northern Michigan, which along with Montana and the Pacific Northwest traditionally has been home to anti- government paramilitary groups. Olson, a retired Air Force master sergeant, co-founded the Michigan Militia Corps in Wolverine, about 40 miles south of

here, in 1994 and commanded it for a year during a period of rapid growth. In that short time, he said, he organized 83 well-armed county brigades comprising 12,000 active members and many more followers. However, after Oklahoma City bombing suspect Terry L. Nichols was reported to be affiliated with the group, the organization began to fall apart. Even though Olson repeatedly insisted that Nichols had attended only one meeting and was forced to leave because he was "too radical," defections snowballed. "There was so much fear. About a third of the members quit when they realized this wasn't just shooting paintballs in the woods. Another third went underground into leaderless resistance cells, and the rest became extremely aggressive," Olson recalled. He said Christian Identity white supremacists came into the militia and began to criticize him for admitting members of all racesand religions, leading to a schism. "I said the heck with it all and came up here to get away from it all and form my own militia," said Olson, who also is pastor of the "unregistered" Freedom Church in Wolverine, which blends fundamentalist spiritual beliefs with strident patriotism. Militia expert Chip Berlet, senior analyst for the Boston-based Political Research Associates, said the Michigan militia is only one such group that has "fallen on bleak times but not gone away" since Oklahoma City. He said that as militia membership has shrunk, many of the ideas of the movement -- such as opposition to gun control, the IRS, the Federal Reserve and the United Nations -- have become mainstream issues for some conservative Republicans. "A lot of these people have taken their ideas into the ultra- conservative political movement and drained it away

from the militias," Berlet said. "That's not necessarily good, but it's different." But Olson was one who stayed with the militia movement. As he sought a new cause he began issuing communiques alleging a massive campaign of Japanese espionage against the United States. He said that in retaliation the Pentagon sent "secret teams" to release sarin gas in Tokyo's subway a month before the Oklahoma City bombing and that Nichols's accomplice Timothy J. McVeigh, possibly acting under the influence of implanted mind-control microchips, was a Japanese "operative" in a counter-retaliation. Olson said that such conspiracy theories turned the media away from his group and that since moving here from Wolverine he has concentrated largely on organizing "wolf packs" and holding weekend training camps in which as many as 50 members at a time practice "ambush sniper skills, combat hand-gunning, guerrilla squad maneuvers and battlefieldThursday, August 30, 2012 2012 Arctic sea ice melt sets new record with no signs of slowing down This is amazing...it's like watching a slow motion train wreck. You want to look away, but you just can't do it! The former record Arctic Ocean sea ice melt was set five years ago, in 2007, and though a couple of other years since then looked like they might flirt with setting a new record, none of them really came close. In October 2007 The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that the Arctic sea ice had shattered the pre-exisitng record from 2005. You can read that full report by clicking the link below. This graph from the NSIDC October 2007 report shows the difference between the sea ice melt in 2005 and

2007. The dark gray line shows the 1979-2000 satellite data showing the average sea ice extent during those 20 years. The dashed green line shows the record set in 2005, and the blue line shows the new record that was set in 2007. The NSIDC analysts concluded that the 2007 record ice melt was the result of a series of weather and other factors including the following: Lower than average sea ice extent at the beginning of the ice melt season Thinner ice than average at the beginning of the ice melt season A persistent high pressure cell over the central Arctic Ocean through much of the melt season. That high pressure cell meant clearer skies, and increased amount of solar radiation that struck the ice and ocean surface, accelerating melting. Low pressure cellsover northern Siberia that produced strong offshore winds that pushed sea ice offshore faster and earlier than normal, plus these winds were warm and promoted further sea ice melt OK, so what!? Well, this year, 2012, the Arctic Ocean sea ice melt season still has anywhere from 2 weeks to a month to go, and there is already a new sea ice melt record that from all current indications has the potential to not only exceed, but smash the old record! This is what the 2012 sea ice melt season looks like so far. The dark gray line shows the 1979-2000 average, and the dashed green line shows pattern of sea ice melt in 2007, the year of the previous record sea ice melt. The blue line in this graph shows the

sea ice melt pattern for 2012. If you look at the vertical axis on the left of the graph you can eyeball it and see that the sea ice extent for 29 Aug is probably between 500,000 and 1,000,000 km2 less in 2012 than it was in 2007. All right, so what were the conditions this year? The map below shows the maximum sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean in spring 2012 (18 March 2012). If you look, the sea ice extent is greater than average in the Bering Sea and off Kamchatka. It reached historical average extents off of the east coast of Greenland and exceeded them off the west coast of Greenland. At the same time Arctic sea ice cover was below average in the Barentsthat produced that Arctic storm. The low pressure cell in the middle of the map should have been a place where cloud cover formed, blocked solar radiation, and produced winds that slowed the compacting of sea ice and sea ice melt...but that didn't happen. So, to sum up, there was a lot of ice when the melt season began, conditions conducive to rapid sea ice melt were not particularly evident in this year's weather patterns, but a record-setting sea ice melt has already occurred and there are still at least two weeks and perhaps as many as four weeks to go in the ice melt season. This is what the sea ice cover looked like as of 29 August 2012. Remember that the orange lines represent the average area of

funds to UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). President Bush initiated both restrictions upon taking office (the Global Gag Rule, however, is an executive order first put in place by President Reagan) and both compromise or outright deny funds for family planning services abroad. The Global Gag Rule (GGR) forces family planning health centers in developing nations (sometimes the only source of healthcare for women and their families available) to censor any discussion about safe abortion in their own centers and even prevents those centers from using their own money to advocate for safe abortion laws, or refer for abortion or abortion related services. If they do not abide by this rule, they are not eligible for the U.S. family planning funds so critical to their sustainability. Heather atGuttmacher says that if Obama is elected her organization is "hoping that on his first day in office, the gag rule would be overturned by executive order. That’s a high priority for us." More than 170 countries contributed to UNFPA, a fund that supports voluntary family planning and promotes maternal health in 150 countries, in 2007. The United States has not contributed a dime since 2001. President Bush has instructed Congress to withhold the funds our representatives allocate every year. Tens of thousands of women around the world could have benefited from the U.S. support that in reality would go for reproductive health services like contraception, prenatal care and HIV/AIDS prevention tools. By censoring health care providers in other parts of the world and withholding funds to global governing bodies

women of all ages. The Center for Reproductive Rights, among its top priorities, wants to address "the FDA’s refusing to make Plan B available without a prescription to women of all ages even though its own scientific review staff recommended as much." Women’s access to emergency contraception, a safe and effective form of birth control, has been hampered by the Bush administration from its approval process by the FDA to the pharmacy counter today. Advocates are calling on a new administration to ensure that EC is included in guidelines for hospital treatment of sexual assault survivors, as well as made available to military women (something that has been blocked by the Bush administration). Prevention, Prevention – Did We Mention Prevention? Senator Obama has framed reproductive health and rights in aU.S. is home to over 420 pulp and paper mills, which together employ an estimated 445,000 Americans. In recent years, though, these mills and the good paying jobs they support have been put at risk. According to the Pulp and Paper Research Council, an estimated 105,000 jobs have been lost across the paper and paper products sector in recent years, leaving families and communities devastated. In 2011 alone, America's oldest recycled paper mill closed in Oregon City, Oregon, while SP Newsprint mill in Newberg, Oregon declared bankruptcy.

both species of analyzed mosses. Among the analyzed trace metals the highest concentration in mosses was recorded for iron, while the lowest for nickel, cadmium and mercury. The obtained studies showed that the sources of polonium and uranium isotopes, as well as trace metals in analyzed mosses are air city contaminations transported from Gdańsk and from existing in the vicinity the phosphogypsum waste heap in Wiślinka (near Gdańsk).to dismiss based upon the expiration of the one-year statute of limitations. Mr. Cochran acknowledged that he had been involved in a motor vehicle accident on August 6, 2009, and that he resided at 9833 Chestnut Ridge Road, Heiskell, Tennessee, but he stated that he had not been served with a summons or a complaint in the lawsuit. He also stated that no return of proof of service of process had been filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Knox County. Relying upon Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 3, Mr. Cochran argued that, because Ms. Fair had failed either to serve him or to reissue process within one year of issuance of the original summons, she could not rely upon the filing of the complaint to establish commencement for purposes of tolling the statute of

his companion to lie on the ground. The complaint further alleges that Crabtree struck Hall twice with the shotgun; Hall turned and walked away. Crabtree then fired two shots at Hall; the second struck him in the back of the head, killing him. In the first two causes of action of the first amended complaint, the Halls seek damages for their son's wrongful death. In the fourth cause of action, the Halls purport to seeks damages on their own behalf for violation of their civil rights under the Bane Act. The civil rights in question are the Halls' "constitutional rights to parent and enjoy the society and companionship of their son." In the third and fifth causes of action, the Halls allege Bane Act civil rights violations purportedly onbehalf of Jerrold Hall's estate. The third cause of action, referencing Civil Code section 52.1, alleges that Crabtree's action violated Jerrold Hall's civil rights "to be free from unreasonable seizure, to be free from discrimination on the basis of race, and not to be deprived of life without due process." The fifth cause of action references Civil Code section 51.7, and alleges Crabtree's actions violated Jerrold Hall's statutory right to be free from violence committed against him because of his race. BART demurred to the third and fifth causes of action on the ground that they were not fairly reflected in the government tort claim filed by the Halls. That claim was limited only to wrongful death damages. The claim, prepared by counsel read: "claimants have suffered the following

Q: Looking for a short story where shooting a man with a crossbow is not legally prohibited I once read an offbeat story in a hardback SF anthology which I checked out from a library, back around the late 1980s. This story qualified as science fiction, since it was set well in the future when society had changed a great deal, but I don't think it was written by any of the "big names" of the genre. I still remember the plot fairly well, but not the title or any of the character names. Here's an outline: It was a short story, and the bulk of it was basically a courtroom drama. I don't remember if such terms as "judge" and "district attorney" and "defense counsel" were used in the text,preserves his reputation as an advocate who usually or always "wins," but everyone else is satisfied that the defendant got what was coming to him. Nobody seems to miss the guy. (The ethics of this society appeared to have mutated drastically from the ones we take for granted in modern criminal justice systems.) A: The story is "In the Matter of the Assassin Merefin", by Ken W. Purdy. It is a courtroom drama set in the future, the killer used a crossbow, an "obscure weapon", because "I could be sure that no one would recognise it", and there is a discussion on legal points and precedents "the principality of Usa forbade the use of the crossbow against animals." In addition, the crossbow was not only not declared illegal for the purpose of

attacking men, but it is specifically listed as a proper weapon to use to dispatch heretics, which the victim had been proven to be. "I beg to disagree, O Judge," Ter­ravan says. "I will cite further prece­dent. In the year 1139, Earth Reck­oning, the Second Lateran Council, a duly authorized, although secular, governing body of the time, formally outlawed the crossbow as a weapon, forbidding its use except—and this goes to the heart of the matter—ex­cept against the infidel. The term 'in­fidel' was understood to mean one who did not profess the accepted faith, in this case Christianity, one of the ancient religions. To be classified an infidel one did not need to reject the entire faith in its every tenet: the rejection of the smallest part of itwould suffice. Clearly, therefore, an infidel was a heretic. And clearly the Eminence Fallett, in rejecting the of­ficial policy of this planetis, the Venusian deorbitizing, was heretical." And indeed, he looks to be about to get off with only a relatively minor sentence for disclosing privileged information in his defense, when the judge orders the execution. "The court finds as follows," the judge says. "The Regional Eminence Fallett was a heretic. The assassin Merefirs killed him. But by his choice of weapon, Merefirs, standing upon the precedents cited by his counsel, is found not guilty of assas­sination, although he did assassinate. So much for that. "Azulno, the common statutes of the planetis forbid disclosure by a civic servant of material made known to him in the course of his

3. A study by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that the longer a baby or toddler lingers in foster care, the greater the chances they could become developmentally delayed. To that end, an infant mental health therapist skilled in child-parent psychotherapy is immediately assigned to the family, parents are also required to stand in front of a judge monthly as opposed to every six months, and there is frequent visitation involved with consistent check-ins on the progress of the family. The model has proven to be successful in expediting reunification between parents and children. According to Florida's Dependency Court Information System (FDCIS), in 2015, the median number of days from removal to reunification for children up to 3 years old in out-of-home care statewide was 280 days, compared with212 days for children in Early Childhood Court. Meanwhile, the median number of days from removal to permanency statewide was 518, compared with 360 days for children in ECC. In the past three years, the initiative has grown from covering two to 17 circuits within the state of Florida. Advocates hope the system will soon be implemented nationwide.

Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) The Verizon IndyCar Series has issued multiple penalties in the wake of on and off-track incidents in the MavTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway. The most notable include Will Power being fined $25,000 and put on probation through the end of the season after the Team Penske driver shoved a safety crew member after exiting his car following a two-car crash with Takuma Sato. The team of race winner Graham Rahal was fined $10,000 ($5,000 suspended) for leaving his pit stall with part of a fuel hose. The restSAINT LOUIS, Mo. – For a second consecutive year, San Diego junior quarterback Anthony Lawrence has been named the Pioneer Football League’s Offensive Player of the Year. In addition, Drake defensive lineman Nathan Clayberg was named the PFL Defensive Player of the Year, the duo leading the league’s 2018 Major Award recipients, presented Monday. Lawrence capped his four-year career with his third consecutive major award, beginning with the 2015 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year and including last season’s Offensive Player of the Year award. Drake defensive lineman Nathan Clayberg was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Year and San Diego’s return specialist Michael Armstead was the PFL’s Special Teams Player of the Year. The league also recognized its top freshman contributors. Dayton quarterback Jack Cook was honored as

the league’s Freshman Offensive Player of the Year. Butler defensive lineman Mickey Kane and Davidson defensive back Dreylan Hines were co-Freshman Defensive Player of the Year. Capping the league’s major awards this season is Stetson head coach Roger Hughes, who was named the PFL’s Coach of the Year. These honors launch the PFL’s annual awards week. The PFL will announce its 26th All-PFL Teams, Tuesday. The league will announce its Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Wednesday, coinciding with the announcement of the 26th Academic All-PFL teams. Lawrence, a fifth-year senior from La Mesa, California, finished his career as the PFL’s career passing yardage leader, compiling 12,306 yards during his four-year career which concluded Saturday. Through the first round of the FCS playoffs, Lawrence led all FCS passers in passing efficiency (171.7) andin 2018. That total was boosted by a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown during the season, one of only 13 kickoffs returned for a score in all of the FCS this season. Armstead’s 877 combined kick return yards also ranked No. 5 in the subdivision. Cook, a redshirt freshman from Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, was thrust into the starting quarterback role after senior Alex Jeske tore his ACL in the first quarter of the season’s first game. He led all FCS freshmen in passing efficiency (155.5, 8th overall) and was ranked third among all FCS freshmen in passing yardage (2,421) and passing touchdowns (20, 22nd overall). Kane, a redshirt freshman from Northfield, Illinois, led all PFL freshmen defenders with 10 tackles for loss and five sacks while playing all 11

games for Butler. Those stops behind the line of scrimmage were the bulk of his 21-tackle performance in 2018, his 10 tackles for loss were all solo stops. Kane ranked third among all PFL tacklers with 0.45 sacks per game. Hines, a freshman from Arlington, Texas, led all PFL freshmen with eight passes defended and four interceptions in 2018. He finished 2018 ranked No. 24 among all FCS players in interceptions per game (0.24). In addition, Hines was fourth among all tacklers with 39 stops (3.5 per game) from his safety position. Hughes, the seventh year head coach of Stetson, earns his first PFL Coach of the Year citation after leading the Hatters to their best record since the program’s restart. Stetson’s second-place finish in the 2018 PFL race wastheir best since joining the league seven seasons ago. The Hatters posted a 6½-game improvement from 2017 (2-9 record) to 2018 (8-2 record) that is the second best among all FCS programs. San Diego won the 2018 PFL title outright with its third consecutive unblemished 8-0 mark. It was the Toreros 1oth PFL crown, all coming since the 2005 campaign (14-season span).

Maryland rockers CLUTCH have set "Earth Rocker" as the title of their new studio album, due in March 2013 via the band's own Weathermaker Music label. The CD was produced by Machine (LAMB OF GOD, FOUR YEAR STRONG, FALL OUT BOY) and is described by the band's guitarist Tim Sult as "the heaviest and fastest CLUTCH album to date." In conjunction with the album's release, CLUTCH will embark on the "Earth Rocker" world tour beginning in the United Kingdom in January 2013. The North American trek will run from March 8 through April 20. Fans can keep up on the progress of "Earth Rocker" studio sessions by visiting the newly launched www.earthrocker.com web site. Expect to see daily updates, including photos, videos from the studio, songtitle announcements and samples ofquick run of dates, including two stops in Flint, Michigan and two shows in Detroit, Michigan. MONSTRO will open these dates, with LIONIZE providing direct support. . In what has become an annual tradition, CLUTCH will play a string of holiday concerts this December. The dates kick off December 26 in Washington, D.C. and conclude with a special New Year's Eve performance in Worcester, Massachusetts at The Palladium. Support on these shows will come from MONDO GENERATOR, SAVIOURS and WINO.

GET THE LATEST UPDATES ON WHAT'S HAPPENING AT GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL SIGN UP Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email Stormzy's powerful and career defining headline set at Glastonbury Festival has got people talking. The 25-year-old performed a tight set, tackling knife crime, racism within the arts, racial profiling, and politics - all things we've seen Stormzy deftly broach before. But that's not to say the set was without surprises - including a mid-performance tribute to Ed Sheeran, as Stormzy (real name Michael Omari Owuo Jr) sang and danced to Sheeran's Shape of You - much to the delight of his crowd. As Stormzy made history for being the first grime artist to headline the festival, he also made history with his tightly choreographed set - complete with pyrotechnics, multiplecostume changes, incredible dance breaks, and generally impeccable staging. A lot of fans noted the rapper's black stab-proof vest which depicted the Union Jack in black and white. It was a part of the South Londoner's continued effort to highlight knife crime in his work, which was front and centre during the set. Now the creator behind the customised vest has been revealed - the artist Banksy. The urban artist revealed the news on his official Instagram page was left humbled by Stormzy wearing his artwork. He shared a photo of Stormzy with the caption: "I made a customised stab-proof vest and thought - who could possibly wear this? "Stormzy at Glastonbury." The Vozzi Bop singer shared the photo on his Twitter page, with the caption "Absolutely f****** speechless". Headline set broadcast uncensored on BBC (Image: PA) The

BBC confirmed that they wouldn't be censoring any of Stormzy's set - meaning the channel aired the entirety of his set for viewers at home. In a statement to the Metro, the BBC said that Stormzy's set would "be broadcast live on BBC2 post-watershed with the appropriate language warnings, in accordance with the BBC’s editorial guidelines." The star is known for his political statements in his music, including his renowned performance at the Brit Awards last year where he called out Theresa May's government on their inaction over the Grenfell Tower disaster. He didn't shy away from politics tonight, with a reference to Boris Johnson in his second song of the night, Cold, where he rapped: "So tell Boris Johnson, 'suck your mum, we don't care.'" That wasn't the only reference tothe UK's likely next Prime Minister in the evening. He also performed his hit single Vossi Bop, where he chants: "F*** the government and f*** Boris." Stormzy also highlighted the work of politicians he respects, sampling lines from Labour MP David Lammy's speeches. Want more Glastonbury Festival news? To subscribe to our daily newsletter, enter your email address into the box at the top of this story. If you want the latest Glastonbury Festival news, visit our homepage here If you love all things Glasto and want to discuss the best festival in the world, join our Glastonbury Festival Gossip group here To keep up to date with our latest news across Somerset, follow us on Facebook and Twitter