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358 F.3d 655 Kevin COOPER, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Richard A. RIMMER, Acting Director of the California Department of Corrections; Jeanne Woodford, Warden, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, Defendants-Appellees. No. 04-99001. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted February 8, 2004.* Filed February 8, 2004. David T. Alexander, George A. Yuhas, and Lisa Marie Schull, Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner-appellant. Holly D. Wilkens, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, California, for the respondents-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Jeremy D. Fogel, District Judge, Presiding, D.C. No. CV-04-0436-JF. Before: James R. BROWNING, RYMER, Pamela Ann and Rymer, and Ronald M. GOULD, Circuit Judges. OPINION PER CURIAM: 1 Kevin Cooper, a California death row inmate whose execution is scheduled for Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at 12:01 a.m., appeals the district court'sjustification for doing so (such as a material change in the law or factual circumstances or an exceptionally strong showing on the merits), the district court indicated that it should follow the Supreme Court's guidance. The court also observed that even though Cooper's action has the avowed purpose of addressing alleged deficiencies in the lethal injection protocol, the timing of Cooper's action suggests that an equally important purpose is to stay his execution to continue to pursue other claims. 3 On the merits, and apart from delay, the court found that Cooper had not met his burden of demonstrating either the likelihood of success on the merits or the existence of serious questions going to the merits. The court noted that every state and federal court to consider the question

trained in executing the protocol. He contends that it is impermissible for many veterinarians to use this combination of chemicals to euthanize animals, and he submitted declarations by Dr. Corey Weinstein, a doctor in private practice who is a medical consultant to prisoner organizations, describing possible complications and executions by lethal injection in California and elsewhere that appeared to be flawed,1 and by Dr. Mark Heath, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Columbia University, describing the effects of pancuronium bromide. 6 Woodford countered with a declaration from its experts indicating that a condemned inmate who is administered five grams of thiopental sodium will be rendered unconscious, and not experience pain for the time period necessary to complete the execution. Specifically, Dr. Dershwitz, a board-certified anesthesiologist on the faculty atA Yazidi girl who escaped after she was captured by ISIS jihadists said she was raped every day and attempted to kill herself. The woman, who only identified herself as “Ekhlas,” told The BBC she was 14-years-old when ISIS fighters captured her in 2014. She and thousands of other Yazidi women were kidnapped in northern Iraq by the terrorist group. Ekhlas was held captive by an ISIS fighter. “Every day for six months he raped me,” Ekhlas told the BBC. “I tried to kill myself.” Ekhlas said her captor chose her out of a group of 150 other women. “He picked me out of 150 by drawing lots,” Ekhlas said. “He was so ugly, like a beast, with his long hair. He smelt so bad, I was so frightened I couldn’t look

Pratyangira Prathyangira (Sanskrit: प्रत्यङ्गिरा, Tamil: பிரத்யங்கிரா; Prathyaṅgirā), also called Narasimhi, Narashimhika and Atharvana Bhadrakali is a Hindu Goddess associated with Shakti. She is a form of Adi Parashakti and is the consort of Sharabha. She is described as a goddess with a male lion’s face and a female human body representing the union of Shiva and Shakti. She holds the combined destructive power of Vishnu, Shiva and Shakti. This combination of lion and human forms represents the balance of good and evil. In Shaktism, Pratyangira is Siddhilakshmi, a form of Guhya Kali. In Vaishnavism, Pratyangira is Narasimhi, the power of Narasimha avatar. In Durga tradition, Pratyangira is Purna Chandi, the fiery destructive power of Brahman. In the Vedas, Pratyangira is Adharvana Bhadrakali, the goddess of Adharva Veda and magicalA Rear Load Helper, for a Refuse Collection Company in Texas, Died When He Was Crushed by the Rear Wheels of a Refuse Collection Vehicle SUMMARY: On March 2, 1998, a 62-year-old rear load helper (the victim) died when he was crushed by the rear wheels of a refuse collection vehicle. The victim and the driver of the vehicle had been picking up trash along their assigned route. On the particular street where the incident occurred, there were only four locations where trash had to be picked up. The driver backed down the street as he was originally trained to do. One of these locations had an excessive amount of trash. The driver decided to reposition the vehicle so the rear of the vehicle was as close to the pile

Worker Injuries and Deaths From Moving Refuse Collection Vehicles and also include the National Solid Waste Management Association (NSWMA) Manual of Recommended Safety Practices (NSWMA 1988). INTRODUCTION On March 2, 1998, a 62-year-old rear load helper (the victim) died when he was crushed by the rear wheels of a refuse collection vehicle. The TX FACE program officer was made aware of the fatality by the OSHA area office on March 11, 1998. On August 18, 1998, the TX FACE program officer visited the job site and met with the safety manager. The police department and EMS were contacted. The justice of the peace was also contacted. An autopsy report was not prepared. The employer is a refuse collection company employing approximately 168 employees, four of whom are permanent and 5-10 ofwhom are temporary employees who work in the same occupation as the victim. The company has been in business at its present location for 25 years. Only one other employee (the driver) was at the site at the time the incident occurred. The safety program was managed by a designated safety director. There was a written safety program which described specific operating procedures for the driver and rear load helper. Safety meetings were conducted on a weekly basis. The employer conducted pre-employment physicals and drug screening in hiring new workers. New hire training was conducted and included safety program requirements. Specific task training was conducted on the job. Training was conducted in the classroom and at the job site. The victim had been employed for nine years and five months as

a rear load helper. He was trained in the task in which he was engaged at the time of the incident. The vehicle operator had been employed for nine months. He had a Commercial Drivers license (CDL) which was required by the Department of Transportation before a refuse collection vehicle can be operated. The driver had also completed training on how to drive the route to which he was assigned. INVESTIGATION On the day of the incident, the vehicle operator drove the refuse collection vehicle to the victim’s residence to pick him up. They then proceeded to their assigned route. When they reached the street where the incident occurred, the driver backed his vehicle down the street. The driver was either shown this way of approaching this street or decidedto back down the street on his own. (One possible explanation for backing down the street was that there were only four stops to make and the truck would be facing in the direction required to continue with the route once the four pick-ups were made. This was not a dead-end street.) After picking up refuse from two houses, the driver proceeded up to the next house. This third stop had more then the usual amount of refuse to pick up. The driver decided to reposition the vehicle at approximately a 45 degree angle to the curb so the rear loading area of the truck was closer to the refuse. The driver observed the victim in his right side mirror as he dismounted the right rear step. He then pulled

drivers and collectors (rear-load helpers) on the procedures outlined in the NIOSH Alert, Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths From Moving Refuse Collection Vehicles and also include the National Solid Waste Management Association (NSWMA) Manual of Recommended Safety Practices (NSWMA 1988). Discussion: The Manual of Recommended Safety Practices by NSWMA contains detailed procedures for backing safely, acting as a spotter during backing, and working around mobile equipment. These procedures include the following: Maintaining visual contact between the driver and workers on foot when working close to the vehicle and when backing. Checking both side mirrors repeatedly when backing. Using a reliable spotter positioned to see both the driver and any blind spots behind the vehicle when backing. Using standard hand signals when backing. Stopping the truck if the spotter must change positions. Immediately stopping the maneuverif visual contact with the spotter is lost. Remaining clear of the rear of the vehicle when the back-up lights are on or the alarm is sounding. The NIOSH Alert also includes case reports and recommendations employers can use in their safety programs. REFERENCES ANSI [1992]. American national standard for mobile refuse collection and compaction equipment-safety requirements. New York, NY: American National Standards Institute, ANSI Z245.1-1992 Please use information listed on the Contact Sheet on the NIOSH FACE web site to contact In-house FACE program personnel regarding In-house FACE reports and to gain assistance when State-FACE program personnel cannot be reached.

Two children are dead after a Kiwi Farms member William Atchison (Kiwi Farms Profile archive) went on a school rampage in New Mexico (archive). Atchison, 21, was apparently a member of the web forum Kiwi Farms that this site has campaigned to close for nearly 2 years. Kiwi Farms has previously been linked to threats to murder school children, but now for the first time the massacre threats have actually been carried out leading to real world deaths. For those unfamiliar to this site, I am a law graduate – I have passed the lawyer’s exams here in the UK but not sought admission as a solicitor. I assist the vulnerable in court solely for charity and I have been mentioned in Parliament. Earlier this year I was praisedNew trailer previews song ahead of July 13 debut in Japan The staff of Gekijōban Pocket Monster: Minna no Monogatari (Pokémon the Movie: Everyone's Story), the 21st film in the Pokémon franchise, announced on Thursday that rock band Porno Graffiti is performing the film's theme song "Breath." A new promotional video previews the song: The film will open in theaters in Japan on July 13. Lugia and a new Mythical Pokémon named Zeraora will appear in the film. The story is set during the annual Wind Festival at Frau City, which is blessed with wind from the Legendary Pokémon Lugia. The film's guest cast includes: Mana Ashida as Largo, a mysterious girl who is found alone in the forest. Rina Kawaei as Risa, a Pokémon newbie and high school student. Gaku Hamada as Torito,

a timid researcher with no confidence in himself. Kōji Ōkura as Kagachi, a man with a tendency to boast and who can't stop lying. Masako Nozawa as Hisui, an eccentric old woman who is prejudiced against Pokémon. Shoko Nakagawa (in her 12th consecutive guest star in Pokémon films) as Riku, Risa's younger brother who loves Pokémon. Kouichi Yamadera (in his 21st consecutive guest star in Pokémon films) as Mayor Oliver, Largo's father. The film's returning cast includes: Rica Matsumoto as Satoshi Ikue Ōtani as Satoshi's Pikachu Megumi Hayashibara as Musashi Shinichiro Miki as Kojiro Inuko Inuyama as Nyarth Unshō Ishizuka as Narrator Kunihiko Yuyama, who has directed many of the earlier Pokémon films, including last year's Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! , is returning as animation supervisor. Eiji Umehara (Grimoire of Zero, Beelzebub scriptwriter) and Aya Takaha are writingthe script. Wit Studio (Attack on Titan, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress) is handling animation production along with the franchise's mainstay studio Oriental Light and Magic. Tetsuo Yajima, the assistant director of last year's Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!, is returning to direct the film, and Shizue Kaneko (If Her Flag Breaks, Pan de Peace!) is designing the characters. Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (Gekijōban Pocket Monster: Kimi ni Kimeta!), the previous film in the franchise, had its world premiere at the Japan Expo 2017 event in Paris on July 6. The movie then opened in Japan on July 15 and earned 516 million yen (about US$4.61 million) in its first two days to rank at #1 at the box office. Source: Comic Natalie

Tickets went on sale without much fanfare Thursday at etix.com and sold out within minutes. The concert is one of more than two-dozen after-shows affiliated with Lollapalooza the next three days at Chicago clubs. The booking continues the long relationship between the North Side club and Foo Fighters’ singer-guitarist Dave Grohl. Grohl first played the club in the early ‘90s as the drummer in a fast-rising Seattle band, Nirvana. He played among his first shows with Foo Fighters there in 1995, opening for Mike Watt. And in 2009 on Lollapalooza weekend, he debuted a new trio, Them Crooked Vultures, with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.Last updated on .From the section Premier League BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of guests. Lawro's opponent for this week's Premier League fixtures is Joe Clarke, who won kayak gold for Great Britain at the Rio Olympics. The 23-year-old Stafford and Stone Canoe Club slalom canoeist is a lifelong Stoke City fan and told BBC Sport: "I first went to watch them with my granddad when I was about eight. "I just remember that it was very cold. But it is always cold there. That is what resonates with me as a Potters fan - it is always cold, but we always go." Olympic gold medallist Joe Clarke predicts this week's Premier League games Winning Olympic gold

gave Clarke the chance to meet his heroes at their training ground, and he had an eventful visit. Clarke explained: "I went to see the Stoke players and staff when I got back from Rio, which was a crazy experience. They were all so friendly. "I opened the door and was greeted by the captain, Ryan Shawcross, then had breakfast in the canteen with the rest of the team. "I went out to kick a few balls afterwards and put in a few crosses to Crouchy (Peter Crouch). They were terrible, but he still tried to sink them." You can make your own predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans, and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC SportVoice & Baroque Ensemble, 48' Confessions, a collaboration between the acclaimed American composer Nico Muhly and the Faroese singer/songwriter Teitur, on October 21, 2016; the vinyl edition is due November 4. The two musicians began work on the project when Muhly was composer-in-residence at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The songs’ lyrics were inspired by or culled from video and commentary the pair found on YouTube. Confessions was recorded with Holland Baroque and is available to preorder at iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the track “Describe You,” which you can hear below. Muhly and Teitur will perform songs from the album with New York Baroque Incorporated at New York’s (le) Poisson Rouge on Friday, October 21. Hailing from the Faroe Islands, halfway between Norway

music, and that brought another interesting tension to the project.” The original four songs from Eindhoven worked so well that Teitur and Muhly continued writing. By 2009, they had a concert-length piece comprising the 14 songs on Confessions. Muhly, Teitur, and Holland Baroque toured the Netherlands, performing the piece with the videos that inspired it projected behind the players; they recorded the songs at the end of the tour.candidate, is service the common thread throughout his life? PETER KUNHARDT: Service and country above party and courage. He's always had the courage to stand up to whatever the -- whatever the issue is or the person is who he's against. So he's -- one of the things we found most interesting is the consistency of his message. You know, what he's saying today to kind of bring the Senate together resonates today because of all the turmoil in Washington, but he's been saying it for decades. And if you go back in his career, he's been very consistent. Rubbish. As Robert Robb summarized in the Arizona Republic: This is one instance in which President Trump's criticisms of McCain are well-founded. McCain did run, as Trump is drumming, on a

strong repeal-and-replace platform. In fact, it was the principal distinction he drew with his Democratic opponent, Ann Kirkpatrick. He would vote to repeal Obamacare. She would not. McCain did not say that he would vote to repeal Obamacare, provided Democrats agreed. If he had, his Republican primary with Kelli Ward might have turned out differently. CNN began by playing gushy praise of McCain from the film by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and David Brooks. Then came the “traitor” passage: BRIGGS: Perhaps Memorial Day will give people a little perspective on what he's all about. I mentioned that service throughout his entire life, but he, Peter, has become probably the most divisive figure in politics, and I don't mean Democratic politics, I mean among Republicans, because of one thing, this thumbsdown vote on health care. The president has perpetuated this, that John McCain is in a sense almost a traitor to the Republican Party. What does he make of that, being so -- a divisive figure as he fights for his life? KUNHARDT: You know, I think what he makes of it -- and the thumbs down is kind of the culmination of the film. What he makes of it is, it's noise, and he's trying to filter out the noise. When we first went to Sedona to interview him, Trump was down there for a rally and there were a lot of calls -- catcalls against McCain. He's saddened by it. He's put off by it. But he doesn't want to address them point by point. He

average family size was 3.23. In the village, the population was spread out with 32.5% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 32.5% from 25 to 44, 16.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 123.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.4 males. The median income for a household in the village was $24,500, and the median income for a family was $34,063. Males had a median income of $32,292 versus $19,583 for females. The per capita income for the village was $10,626. About 2.3% of families and 7.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.6% of those underVideo of the Day -SERPENT POWER – “LUCIFER’S DREAM BOX “ new killer psych for all the kids with kaleidoscope eyes… Their Bio.. Serpent Power are Ian Skelly (Coral) and Paul Molloy (Zutons). Music from a 19th Century U.F.O..coming soon!!! . The Serpent Power , Facebook Serpent Power is a new psychedelic music collaboration between Ian Skelly (the Coral) and Paul Molloy (the Zutons) formed in 2014. After the pair discovered an instant songwriting chemistry between them at an aftershow party, they immediately booked themselves into Castle Grayskull studios in Merseyside and began work on their debut album. Deciding to keep the name of Ian’s backing band from his ‘Cut From A Star’ solo album tour..The Serpent Power was born. After an intense flurry of recording activity, the album was complete; and a strange and bizarre world

diagnostic criteria used and was independent of age and prepregnancy BMI of women included in this study. Women with GDM had a 50% higher risk of having a caesarean section and a more than double risk of labor being induced compared to women without GDM in both years. However, the chance for both outcomes previously listed was higher in 2010 than in 2014. GDM is traditionally associated with increased rate of caesarean deliveries \[[@B24]\], but only according to data reported before results of HAPO study in 2010 and before new WHO guidelines for GDM in 2013, while studies on perinatal outcomes after implementation of new GDM guidelines are scarce. This suggests that despite significant increase in prevalence of GDM, the prevalence of GDM related induction of labor andIbrahim prize: Liberia's Sirleaf wins African leadership prize Published duration 12 February 2018 image copyright Getty Images image caption Mrs Sirleaf is the first woman Ibrahim Laureate Liberia's ex-president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has won the $5m (£3.6m) Ibrahim prize for African Leadership. Mrs Sirleaf, who stepped down last month, became Africa's first elected female president in 2006. The prize committee admitted that while Ms Sirleaf was accused of tolerating corruption, she had shown exceptional leadership in difficult circumstances. It added that Liberia was the only country out of 54 to improve in every category and sub-category of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. Mrs Sirleaf served two terms as president, but could not run again in recent polls, which were won by former footballer George Weah. Her own party has expelled her, alleging she had

campaigned for Mr Weah rather than her party's candidate. She is the fifth recipient of the prize since 2007, which celebrates African leaders who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. The $5m prize is spread over 10 years and is followed by $200,000 a year for life. But it is not always awarded. On six occasions, no leader was considered worthy of it. Ibrahim prize timeline: 2007: Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano 2008: Botswana's former President Festus Mogae Botswana's former President Festus Mogae 2009: No award given No award given 2010: No award given No award given 2011: Cape Verde's former President Pedro Verona Pires Cape Verde's former President Pedro Verona Pires 2012: No award given No award given 2013: No award given No award given 2014: Namibia's former President Hifikipunye Pohamba Namibia'sHere's the full chart showing the steady rise in gold after the September 11 attacks. Note the 2008 meltdown caused only a brief blip. The price went up even more steeply after it. Then in 2011 the Fed began illegally manipulating the market. Is this too big for you to get your brain around? MHG Christ, you miss the obvious even when it's a chart. Gold followed it's normal trajectory after a crisis or event of that magnitude. There was no manipulation, it was an historical norm, you are one clueless idiot. Christ, you miss the obvious even when it's a chart. Gold followed it's normal trajectory after a crisis or event of that magnitude. There was no manipulation, it was an historical norm, you are one clueless idiot. Christ, you miss the

A Chinese gambler who murdered his parents after a dispute about money is believed to have killed 17 more people, including three children, in an attempt to cover up the original crime. A Chinese gambler who murdered his parents after a dispute about money is believed to have killed 17 more people, including three children, in an attempt to cover up the original crime. Police arrested 27-year-old Yang Qingpei in Kunming, about 160km from his Yunnan province village of Yema, where the murders took place, late last week. Police arrested 27-year-old Yang Qingpei in Kunming, about 160km from his Yunnan province village of Yema, where the murders took place, late last week.Recent developments in the Indian Ocean have been a witness to India’s mustering enough political will to advance its regional interests through actionable deliverables, visibly in opposition to mere notional assertions of the past. As India reorients its Indian Ocean policy, a tripartite transformation is underway—a regional outlook that ties together India’s Act East policy, its Look West policy and, most noteworthy, its cooperation with the United States in the regional maritime domain. Acting East The transformation from a Look East to an Act East policy has been at the center of India’s maritime recalibrations in the past few years. Such an approach has been accompanied by an improvement in relations with not just the individual countries to its east, but with strong regional organizations such as ASEAN. Countries of

specific focus for India have recently included Vietnam, Brunei, Thailand and Indonesia. The maritime area extending from India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands has also been critical to India’s recent regional maritime calculus. The focus on the Andaman Sea, for instance, has been critical to both India’s developing role in the Indo-Pacific as well as its by now axiomatic desire to be a regional net security provider. In this regard, from April 19–27 in the Andaman Sea, INS Karmuk along with a Dornier maritime patrol aircraft participated in the twenty-second Indo-Thai Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT). CORPAT has been underway since 2005, taking place biannually to ensure the safety of international trade and shipping lines. The twenty-second CORPAT had a clear focus on search and rescue at sea and preventing unlawful activities,furthering India’s regional net security provider agenda. India has also extended naval cooperation with Thailand in other areas, such as training of Thai navy and coast guard trainees. For this purpose, Indian naval ships Tir and Sujata and sail-training ship Sudarshini, along with the Indian Coast Guard’s Varuna, were deployed in Phuket, Thailand as part of an overseas deployment this spring. Another country that has been involved with India recently in maritime CORPAT exercises is Indonesia. The Indonesian-Indian CORPAT followed the Indo-Thai CORPAT. The 2016 CORPAT exercises between the two countries marked the twenty-seventh in the biannual series since 2002. In the ongoing exercise, which lasts almost a month, both countries are working to secure Indian Ocean sea lanes from the twin threats to commercial shipping and international trade,

east like China, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand. The peacekeeping component of Force 18 focused on regional stability. India’s eastern maritime inclination has been further concretized by its enhanced focus on the Andaman Sea, and by extension the Indo-Pacific. The aforementioned CORPAT exercises largely took place in the Andaman Sea. The maritime area comprising the Andaman Sea has become strategically crucial for India over the years. This message was made loud and clear when India built its first Tri-service theater command of the Indian Armed Forces, based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The post has assumed special strategic significance, not only because it allows India to keep a close watch on China’s naval forays in the Indian Ocean, but also because it proves agood launch pad for India’s anticipated net-security-provider role in the region. Besides India’s aforementioned eastern maritime rejuvenation, the latest step has involved an Indian geostrategic push for the South China Sea, which the Ministry of Defence in India has labeled a region of “of vital strategic importance to India.” On May 18, India sent four ships of the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet for a two-and-a-half-month operational deployment to the South China Sea and northwestern Pacific. India’s step, coming on the heels of several bilateral steps to increase maritime cooperation with the United States in the Indian Ocean and the Asia-Pacific, has been widely interpreted as pitting India against growing Chinese maritime dominance in the region. An Indo-U.S. Grand Regional Maritime Strategy The Andaman Sea, along with the larger Indo-Pacific, has become

indispensably critical to the joint India-U.S. regional grand maritime strategy that is in the making. This has been sufficiently established by both the gradual strengthening of the U.S.-India defense partnership through deliverables, and the series of bilateral agreements signed between the two countries, bringing them closer than ever before. India and the United States signed the “U.S.-India Joint Strategic Vision for the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region” in January 2015. The mention of the South China Sea, together with “freedom of navigation and over flight,” brought out the common interests between the two countries in the Asian maritime theater. This sentiment was supplemented by the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) agreed to, though not signed, during the visit of the United States’ Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to Indiain April 2016. The LEMOA contains apparent anti-China rhetoric. Ashton Carter’s April visit also underscored the need for a navy-to-navy bilateral discussion between the two countries on the issue of antisubmarine warfare. China’s submarines, which have been spotted more frequently in the Indian Ocean since 2010, have raised hackles both in New Delhi and Washington, causing the countries to come together on the issue. To advance the pledge made in April this year, India and the United States have started discussions on antisubmarine warfare (ASW). ASW is likely to prove a critical maritime deterrent strategy against China’s Indian Ocean adventures. The most likely cooperation in ASW between India and the United States will be in naval aviation, as India’s naval aviation has reached a “threshold of transformation.” The

United States’ Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol/anti-submarine warfare aircraft and the Indian Navy’s P-8I Neptune, an export version of the P-8A, constitute the most modern ASW technologies. More notable is the maiden maritime security dialogue between India and the United States held recently, where both countries discussed Asia-Pacific maritime challenges, naval cooperation and multilateral engagement, stressing the bilateral maritime agenda. The involvement of officials from the Defence and External Affairs Ministries of India shows that the current establishment is demonstrating renewed policy seriousness toward India’s littorals. The rhetoric surrounding a regional grand strategy in the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Pacific has been gradually moving from a stage of tacit consent to one that is fast becoming unequivocal. During his most recent visit to New Delhi, the commander of U.S. PacificCommand, Adm. Harry B. Harris, invoked the idea of the now defunct Quadrilateral Initiative, in a clear shot at reviving the idea of cooperation between India, Japan, Australia and the United States. Outlining his choice of the term “Indo-Asia-Pacific” versus the term “Asia-Pacific,” he voiced Washington’s desire to bring back Australia to the quadrilateral maritime partnership that went awry due to Beijing’s opposition soon after it was proposed in 2007. Looking West The part of the Indian Ocean to India’s west has traditionally been the outlier in its regional maritime strategy. However, more recently, there has been a perceptible shift in India’s maritime policy to integrate some of the countries that lie to its west. India’s western maritime focus in the Indian Ocean has been accelerated by the growing Chinese

presence in the region, but more importantly by a realization that a holistic Indian Ocean strategy (one that conforms to a regional grand strategy in principle) is probably a better way to stop the Chinese juggernaut in the longer term. A few immediate concerns in the Indian Ocean that have retooled its erstwhile maritime policies are China’s port-led encirclement of India, Chinese control of the Indian Ocean port of Gwadar in Pakistan, China’s gaining basing rights in Djibouti in East Africa and, most recently, an increase in the frequency of Chinese submarine visits in the Indian Ocean. Although India has officially protested at some of the aforementioned Chinese steps in the Indian Ocean, it has considered a long-term comprehensive maritime response to increasing Chinese footprints in the Indian Oceanto be a fitting countermeasure. India’s recent finalization of the Chabahar Agreement, along with Iran and Afghanistan, is aimed at mitigating Chinese leverage in the Indian Ocean through its unbridled access to the Gwadar port. This has been backed by India’s heightened sense of responsibility towards guaranteeing security in the Indian Ocean, besides a show of strength in the Persian Gulf. India has increased routine reconnaissance in the western Indian Ocean. Recently, a naval Poseidon-8I long-range patrol aircraft on routine reconnaissance thwarted a pirate attack on the high seas by flying over a merchant vessel that was being targeted by three pirate ships, around eight hundred nautical miles from Mumbai.

and Ole Miss had both agreed to home-and-home games with the Hokies."Playing Vanderbilt in Nashville, in the relative near term, provides a drivable destination for our fans in a major market with a strong Tech alumni base," Babcock said. "Vanderbilt should also be a nice draw and addition to our ticket packages in Blacksburg."Tech owns a 6-3 all-time advantage against Vanderbilt with the most recent meeting coming in Beamer's third campaign as Tech head coach as the Hokies prevailed by an 18-0 margin. Tech has won the last five games in the series dating back to 1983. The first meeting between the two squads took place in Nashville in 1930. The Hokies are set to return to Music City in 2024 with a contest at Nissan Stadium, homeDepartment of Defense Education Activity The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is a civilian agency of the United States Department of Defense that manages all schools for military children and teenagers in the United States and also overseas at American military bases worldwide.[1] DoDEA also provides support to more than one million military-connected students who attend public schools throughout the United States. It is headed by a director who oversees all agency functions from the Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia.[2] DoDEA's schools are divided into three areas, each of which is managed by an area director. Within each of these three areas, schools are organized into districts headed by superintendents. DoDEA's schools serve the children of military service members and Department of Defense civilian employees throughout the world. Children

(NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card." DoDDS and DDESS student scores consistently rank at or near the top of the scale when compared with the scores of other participating states and jurisdictions.[citation needed] Furthermore, the performance of African American and Hispanic students is among the highest in the nation. Though achievement gaps persist between white and minority students, the academic performance gap is far narrower for DoDEA students than for students throughout the United States.[3] Shortly after the end of World War II, the United States military established schools for the children of its servicemen stationed in Europe and East Asia (at that time, servicewomen were not allowed to be mothers and remain on active duty). Schools for children of military members stationed in the United States wereestablished in the South after President Truman's 1949 order desegregating the United State military services.[citation needed] The need for integrated schools can be seen in the pattern of today's Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools (DDESS).[citation needed] First administered by the military branches they served, the growing number of schools was soon transferred to civilian managers. Federal schools in the United States meant to serve the children of military and federal personnel were known as "Section 6 schools," and defined in federal directives as, "When a DoD-operated school is established on Federal property to provide a free public education for eligible children or, if not established on such property, the eligible child resides on such property." Overseas schools were often titled, "American Dependent Schools." They were staffed

mainly by teachers recruited from the United States. The European branch of the overseas dependent schools was called the United States Dependents Schools, European Area (USDESEA). Later, the various organizations were combined and two separate but parallel systems developed: the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) overseas, and the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools in the United States. In 1994 the two systems were brought together under an umbrella agency, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). In June 2011, an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense substantiated allegations of abuse of power by DoDEA's former director, Shirley Miles. The abuses included violations of federal law and DoD policies in hiring and personnel practices and travel entitlements. Miles was removedA 101-year-old woman died after her home-health aide broke both her legs while trying to get her out of bed, a new report says. Emily Sims passed away after her home-caregiver, Beryl Allen, forcefully swung her legs out of bed by the ankles, leading to the victim’s fatal injuries, the Mail Online said. An investigation launched in Cornwall, England, where Sims lived, ruled that the elderly widow’s death was the direct result of her mishandling by Allen, who has since died of natural causes. Before her death, Sims told her niece on video that Allen forcibly grabbed her by her ankles and swung them to the floor, toppling the 101-year-old to the ground, breaking both her thigh bones. The bilateral spiral fractures in her femurs led to a perforated duodenal ulcer,

including Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company and J & L entered into a consent decree with the Departments of Justice & Labor and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to resolve claims of alleged employment discrimination on the basis of race and sex. In 1975, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company entered into an agreement (implementing agreement) with the United Steelworkers Local 4211 to implement the consent decree. The implementing agreement provided for the reassignment of patrolmen at the Campbell and Brier Hill facilities in the event of a reduction in work force. The consent decree established an Audit and Review Committee. The function of the Audit and Review Committee, among other things, is to review implementing agreements to assure compliance with the Consent Decree. The implementing agreement with Local 4211was approved by the Audit and Review Committee. Plaintiffs were patrolmen in the security department at the Campbell facility. The security department at the Brier Hill facility was closed in 1982. J & L and the Union assert that pursuant to the implementing agreement, senior patrolmen from the Brier Hill facility could displace patrolmen with less seniority at the Campbell facility. Plaintiffs were patrolmen at the Campbell facility who were displaced by senior patrolmen from the Brier Hill facility. Plaintiffs assert that pursuant to the implementing agreement, patrolmen from the Brier Hill facility could only displace employees in a patrolman-excess position at the Campbell facility. A patrolman-excess is an employee who is in the process of being trained for a regular security department position (patrolman) or who is filling temporary

vacancies in the security department. In May, 1982, plaintiffs filed a grievance with Local 4211 regarding the displacement of Campbell patrolmen by Brier Hill patrolmen. The grievance was discussed at a meeting of Local 4211 on May 12, 1982, however, no action was taken. The grievance was again discussed at a meeting of Local 4211 on June 9, 1983. At the June 9th meeting, plaintiffs were informed that the Union agreed with J & L's interpretation of the implementing agreement and therefore, the grievance would not be processed. After plaintiffs were informed by Local 4211 that their grievance would not be processed, plaintiffs requested the Audit and Review Committee to review the Union and J & L's interpretation of the implementing agreement. On July 8, 1982, the Audit and ReviewCommittee informed the plaintiffs it would take no action concerning their complaint. On August 3, 1982 plaintiffs again requested the Audit and Review Committee to review the decision of the Union and J & L. On October 21, 1982, the Audit and Review Committee again decided no action would be taken on the plaintiffs' complaint. On June 19, 1982, plaintiffs also petitioned United Steelworkers President Lloyd McBride to aid in a resolution. At a meeting on August 20, 1982 the plaintiffs were informed that the International Union would take no action on the grievance. On January 11, 1983, the plaintiffs filed their complaint in this action. The defendants raise the following issues in their motions for summary judgment: *42 1. Whether the plaintiffs' action is timebarred by the statute of

Review Committee, such action was not required under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Audit and Review Committee was established under the consent decree to ensure its implementation. Consequently, plaintiffs' petitions to the Audit and Review Committee are not part of the grievance procedure as set forth in the Collective Bargaining Agreement and do not toll the period of limitations. Plaintiffs petitioned the Audit and Review Committee and were informed no action would be taken on July 8, 1982. Plaintiffs petitioned the Audit and Review Committee again in August, 1982 and were informed no action would be taken on October *43 21, 1982. This is the date the plaintiffs assert the period of limitations commenced. Following plaintiffs' theory, they could postpone indefinitely the commencement of the period of limitations byfrom his seniority sub-unit would exercise his plant continuous service to displace an employee with less plant continuous service in the other seniority sub-unit at the patrolman level. This intent is reflected by the presence of a line drawn between the two seniority sub-units at the patrolman level on the diagram appearing on the ninth page of Exhibit A to Mr. Wuslich's Affidavit, which line is a recognized means by which the parties indicate where movement between jobs occur. It was the further intent of the parties that the junior employee displaced from the patrolman position would then exercise his plant continuous service, if sufficient, to perform the duties of the patrolman excess position. Botos Affidavit at ¶ 7. Gary L. Wuslich interprets the diagram of promotional sequence for plant

protection employees as follows: It was the Company's intent, as well as the intent of the USWA as expressed to me by the Union Co-chairman, that the Implementing Agreement would provide *45 that, in the event of a reduction in force, an employee who was "reduced" from his seniority sub-unit would exercise his plant continuous service to displace a junior employee in the Patrolman position in the other seniority sub-unit. As indicated by the chart on page 9 of the Implementing Agreement (Exhibit A), that displaced employee would then exercise his plant continuous service to hold the Patrolman (Excess Force Job) if his plant continuous service with YS and T were sufficient. In the Implementing Agreement, the Implementing Committee intended to provide, in the event of a reduction in force,for movement between the Brier Hill seniority sub-unit and Campbell seniority sub-unit at the Patrolman position. This intent was evidenced by the line on the chart (Exhibit A, page 9) between the two seniority sub-units at the "Patrolman" position, which meant that lateral movement between the seniority sub-units was contemplated at the Patrolman position — rather than the Patrolman (Excess Force Job). Indeed, the use of such a line "connecting" job positions in a Promotional Sequence or a Job Line of Progression is a recognized method of designating on that document where the movement between jobs occurs. Wuslich Affidavit at ¶ 4 & 5. William Maizel attests he was assistant superintendent of plant protection at J & L's Campbell facility from 1972 to 1978. Maizel attests he has been the

superintendent since 1978. Maizel's observations of the practice of "bumping" at the patrolman level under the implementing agreement, from 1976 until 1982 when Brier Hill's security department was closed, supports Botos & Wuslich's interpretation of the agreement. Maizel attests: In the period from 1976 until the Brier Hill sub-unit of the security department was shut down in 1982, security department employees from Campbell Works were moved to Brier Hill, and vice versa, as the need for security personnel arose. These moves were sometimes made on a daily and weekly basis, since reductions in force became a daily reality for J & L in the late 1970's. To the best of my knowledge and belief, in the case of a reduction in work force, every transfer that displaced security departmentcards with similar design and image. Front of card says: "Cure for Rheumatism Found at Last! An Internal Remedy, Getty's... Advertising card for Wm. Getty & Son with image of a flower and ribbon. One of three cards with similar design and image. Front of card says: "Cure for Rheumatism Found at Last! An Internal Remedy, Getty's... Advertising card for Wilcox & White Organ Co. showing a boy pushing a large egg along the ground and a bird flying in front of it. Front of card says: "Wilcox & White Organs. Few Equals--No Superiors..."... Advertising card for The Western Installment Book Company with image of flowers (lily of the valley). One of two cards with similar design. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 218... Advertising card for

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Ex-Labour chief: I was abandoned Labour's ex-general secretary has accused party leaders of abandoning him over the proxy donations row. Peter Watt was forced to resign after admitting he knew businessman David Abrahams had been donating cash to Labour through third parties. Mr Abrahams, Mr Watt and two other ex Labour general secretaries have been told they will not face charges. But Mr Watt hit out at the way Labour treated him, saying the past 18 months had been a "nightmare" for his family. In a statement, he said he had worked for the party 11 years, through which his family had frequently suffered for the long hours and stress his job entailed. "When this matter involving contributions to the Labour Party became a story I was abandoned by the political leadership of thedonations came to light in 2007. Mr Abrahams, a property developer from the North-East of England, had said he had given the money using the names of associates, including his secretary and a builder, because of a desire for privacy. 'Reasonable steps' The revelation created an outcry that led to the resignation of Mr Watt, when it emerged he knew of the arrangement. Scotland Yard was called in by the Electoral Commission in November 2007 and handed over its files to the Crown Prosecution Service last June. The Labour Party has always taken the view that we should be beyond reproach with regard to accepting and reporting donations Under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 ('PPERA'), people donating more than £5,000 must do so in their own names. Lord Triesman, Mr Carter and

there is absolutely no merit to these claims and, based on our investigation no evidence that the person who has made these allegations actually exists.” Jeffrey Epstein, a former banker and convicted sex offender, is also named in the lawsuit, which was filed April 26 in the Central District of California. The plaintiff claims the sexual assaults occurred at a home owned by Epstein, and that he hosted “sex parties” which were frequented by Trump. Johnson claims in the suit that a former employee of Epstein was a witness and can confirm her claims. The lawsuit further details that Johnson and other juveniles were used by Trump and Epstein as “sex slaves” from June to September 2004, enticing her by the potential of a modeling career and financial compensation. No criminal chargessame,” Cohen was quoted as saying. Yet when asked by the Guardian whether she stood by the allegations detailed in the lawsuit, the woman said in a text message: “Yes.” The woman, now a successful makeup artist in New York, declined to discuss the allegations in detail. Cohen and a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign did not respond to several requests from the Guardian for comment. The copy of that lawsuit details claims that Trump engaged in hostile and offensive sexual behavior towards her from 1992-1997, including “groping” under her dress on several occasions, forcibly moving her to his daughter Ivanka’s bedroom in an attempt to have sex with her, and “repeatedly propositioning her for sex.” After Trump business associates left, the defendant (Trump) over the plaintiff’s objections forcibly prevented plaintiff

The blast at a bustling market in the city of Azaz, near the Turkish border, kills at least 14 people. More than a dozen people were killed in a car bomb in a city held by Turkish-backed rebels in northern Syria, a war monitor and Turkish state media said. The incident took place at a bustling market in the city of Azaz, near the Turkish border, killing 14 people, according to anonymous sources talking to Turkey‘s Anadolu Agency. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, Anadolu added. Four children were among those killed in the explosion, said war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reported the death toll as 19. The attack also wounded more than 20 people, according to the UK-based monitor. “Many people were leaving evening prayers whenthe explosion happened,” Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman told the AFP news agency. Shoppers buying clothes and gifts before the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday were among those killed, Jihad Berro, a coroner at a local hospital, told AFP. He said the medical facility was crammed with victims and their relatives. ‘The damage is severe’ An AFP photographer saw a large crowd gathering at the scene of the attack, charred vehicles dotting the side of the road. Rescue workers searched through mounds of rubble, looking for bodies, he said. Resident Abu Youssef said the explosion torched the neighbourhood. 190603030050450 “The damage is severe: at least six stores were burned, the storefronts of dozens of other stores were blown out,” he told AFP. A similar explosion on Saturday reportedly killed 10 people and wounded 20 in the

northern city of Raqqa. Turkey launched two operations in northern Syria since 2016, clearing the areas of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL and ISIS) and Kurdish fighters. Ankara keeps Turkish troops and intelligence forces around parts of these areas, and still backs Syrian rebels serving as police officers.the title. Rafael Nadal has looked strong at the Australian Open, having won every set he has played so far at the tournament. Jason Heidrich/Icon Sportswire "I feel lucky to be where I am after all the things I went through," said Nadal, who quit during his quarterfinal at Melbourne Park a year ago because of a right leg problem, quit again during his semifinal at the US Open in September because of a painful right knee, and then had offseason surgery on his right ankle. "Not easy situations," he said, summing it up. Nadal, 32, reached his 30th major semifinal and prevented Tiafoe from getting to his first, two days after he turned 21. "I knew he was going to bring crazy intensity," Tiafoe said. "I knew the ball was going to

subscribed, please subscribe." Lest anyone get the idea that Tsitsipas' stunning victory over Federer at Melbourne Park was a fluke, he followed it up by becoming the first player from Greece to reach the final four at a major tournament. "I knew that win against Federer was important, played a huge role in my image -- like, who I am," said Tsitsipas, who eliminated the Swiss in the fourth round Sunday. "But I knew that the biggest challenge was today's match, that I can prove myself once again." Cheered on by a loud, flag-waving contingent of Greek fans inside and outside Rod Laver Arena, Tsitsipas displayed his varied toolbox, producing 22 aces, 30 more winners than unforced errors (68-38) and a nose for getting to the net. It was a terrific encoreto what he did against his idol, the 37-year-old Federer, in a result that left Tsitsipas unable to sleep. Tsitsipas was down a break in the first and third sets before turning both around against Bautista Agut, whose own thrill ride to the quarterfinals included victories over three-time major champion Andy Murray and Marin Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion and the runner-up to Federer at Melbourne Park a year ago. "Well, he's a good player, no? He's very complete. He has a good forehand and backhand. He's serving well," Bautista Agut said about Tsitsipas. "I think he knows the game. He knows how to play." That's why his peers voted him the 2018 Most Improved Player. And why he's already in the top 20, seeded 14th in Australia. Stefanos Tsitsipas, 20,

is the youngest man to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since 2007. Lynn Bo Bo/EPA Tsitsipas recently was asked what his goal was for this season. The reply: reaching the semifinals at a major. Well, we're all of three weeks into 2019 and that box is checked. So is he satisfied? "That's like the starting point to go deeper," Tsitsipas replied. "That's like the minimum, I would call it." No man as young as Tsitsipas had advanced this far at any Grand Slam tournament since Novak Djokovic at the 2007 US Open or at the Australian Open since Andy Roddick in 2003. "It all feels like a fairy tale, almost. I'm just living the dream, living what I've been working hard for," said Tsitsipas, who dropped his racket, fell on his back andday, it was also reported that a group of Wal-Mart workers are planning to stage a walkout on Black Friday. According to the report, the walkout builds on an October strike that started at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles which has now spread to stores in 12 other cities. A day later on November 16, 2012, it was reported that employees at Los Angeles International Airport are considering plans to walk off the job on Black Friday, traditionally the busiest traveling day of the year. According to the report, as many as 1,000 airport workers and union supporters are expected to march on Century Boulevard just as an estimated 1.8 million passengers are expected to travel through LAX over the holiday weekend. On November 20, 2012, it was

with millions, a terror attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York while children are stranded on a school bus, a free-for-all prison break where criminals terrorize the streets, and a very vivid attack on the a professional football stadium in Gotham (New York). Obama Weak on Terror Just as the Obama administration attempts to pick up the pieces of a public intelligence failure in the alleged Al Qaeda attacks on U.S. embassies in Benghazi, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia, and the highly publicized sex scandal regarding the resignation of U.S. General David Petraeus, the illegal state of Israel is busy attacking the Gaza Strip in a coordinated effort to enrage Muslims against the West just prior to major terror attacks against the United States. These events are being orchestratedto precipitate a “revenge” type of scenario whereby the U.S. is attacked for its support of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and because of Obama’s perceived weakness on foreign policy as the U.S. Commander in Chief. Middle East Scapegoats Primed Only days before a potential terror attack, both Al Qaeda and the Taliban are front and center in the minds of millions, all thanks to the corporate media and the government of the U.K. In the highly rated Israeli inspired “Homeland” television series, terrorist leader “Abu” Nazir is being sought by the CIA in an effort to stop suicide bombers and other unknown terror attacks on America. In an obvious collusion between the CIA and Hollywood, it was reported on November 13, 2012, that a radical Islamist cleric “Abu” Qatada, described

by prosecutors as a key Al Qaeda operative in Europe, was mysteriously freed from prison. According to reports, the preacher was seen smiling as he was driven away from Long Lartin maximum security jail in Worcestershire, central England. “Abu” Qatada is accused by Britain of links with Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Three days later on November 16, 2012, it was reported that a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week in which he publicly CC’d the names of everyone on his mailing list. According to the report, the names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson was made up of more than 400 recipients includes an address appearing tobelong to a provincial governor, an Afghan legislator, several academics and activists. These incidents, which appear completely contrived, have set the stage for the return of Islamic terror to the United States. 1. POTENTIAL TERROR SCENARIOS 1.1: Active Shooter? In 2012 alone, there have been over 30 highly publicized shooting and massacres in America, the most deadly being the “Batman Massacre” which occurred on July 20, 2012, in a theater in Aurora, Colorado. In the weeks following the Batman Massacre, there was a rash 9 shooting in August of 2012 including the Sikh Temple Massacre, something unprecedented in American history. Although a majority of the 2012 shootings occurred in public locations fully equipped with working CCTV security cameras, the video footage of almost all the shootings has never been released to

strange airport attacks, evacuation and outbreaks at airports have raised red-flags concerning airport security. Since September of 2012 alone, there have been at least a dozen major security scares and incidents at American airports which may indicate that airport terror is imminent. Although the Millennium Terror Plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was allegedly foiled by officials in 2000, a suspect in the case was just sentenced to prison for the act on October 24, 2012, curiously bringing the entire case back to life. According to a May 13, 2012, report, security has been stepped up at airports worldwide as surgically-doctored terrorists plot suicide attacks with implanted bombs that would be undetectable to airport body scanners. Complementing the ever increasing airport terror threat is a numberwith the resources to organize, plan, drill and execute a major bio-terror false-flag operation. 1.5: Chemical Attack? Unprecedented chemical releases and terror threats suggest that a chemical terror attack may be planned by Zionist terrorists within the U.S government. On October 29, 2012, a train “crash” caused a chemical release in Kentucky which resulted in a hazmat declaration and the evacuation of a one-mile radius. Two days later on November 1, 2012, it was reported that a hazardous materials release had sickened some 200 people in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexican border. A day later on November 2, 2012, it was reported that police had closed streets and sidewalks around the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta, Georgia due to the investigation of a chemical bomb threat. A few

the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. parade “capable” of inflicting multiple casualties, Catholic nationalists in Croatia who planned to petrol bomb on a gay parade, a warning from the president of the Philippines that terrorists might target a Roman Catholic parade Manila, and terror threats against people who sailed on the Turkish boat in Amsterdam’s Gay Pride Canal Parade. 1.7: History of Parade Terror The history of parade terror indicates that there have been at least 5 incidents in 2012 alone: 1. July 22, 1916: Preparedness Day Parade Bombing, (San Francisco, California) 2. June 11, 2000: Puerto Rican Day Parade Attack New York, New York) 3. May 9, 2002: Kaspiysk Parade Bombing (Kaspiysk, Dagestan) 4. April 27, 2008: Military Parade Terror Attack (Kabul, Afghanistan) 5. April 30, 2009: Dutch Royal Parade Attack (Apeldoorn,Netherlands) 6. December 30, 2009: Shiite Parade Attack (Karachi, Pakistan) 7. June 13, 2011: Gay Pride Parade Attack (Split, Croatia) 8. February 24, 2012: Irish Parade Attack (Liverpool City, Ireland) 9. May 21, 2012: Yemen Military Parade Attack (Sanaa, Yemen) 10. June 26, 2012: Chicago Pride Parade Attack (Chicago, Illinois) 11. October 18, 2012: Carlisle Parade Attack (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) 12. November 16, 2012: Texas Veterans Parade Disaster (Midland, Texas) 1.8: Mall/Retail Terror? Aside from the fact that a terror attack in the movie “Mall Cop” occurred on Black Friday, mall terror propaganda and recent events surrounding malls, stores and markets indicate that major terror attacks on malls and retail outlets in America are imminent. Since 9/11, numerous mall terror plots have been executed and even more thwarted as the alleged suspects were conveniently arrested just prior to

in 1998, an Israeli suicide bomber plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol but was not successful due to faulty wiring. Steel street grates in Philadelphia have been “mysteriously disappearing” over the last year, and in Wyoming, numerous horse tails have been clipped and stolen, potentially indicating that suicide bombers dressed as women may be in the false-flag suicide terror script. In the 2012 Hollywood blockbuster entitled “Act of Valor”, suicide bombers target American sports stadiums, a concept which could transpire in reality at an NCAA or NFL game. According to a May 13, 2012, report, security has been stepped up at airports worldwide as surgically-doctored terrorists plot suicide attacks with implanted bombs that would be undetectable to airport body scanners. On August 14, 2012, it was reported thatcyber-terror attacks against the United States. On October 5, 2011, U.S. lawmakers publically accused China of cyber-terror and demanded that China stop its “pervasive” cyber-espionage campaign and cybercrime against America. A few weeks later on October 28, 2011, it was reported that Chinese hackers may have interfered with two US satellites on four separate occasions. A week later, a U.S. government report stated that it can expect more aggressive efforts from China to collect information through cyberespionage in areas such as pharmaceuticals, defense and manufacturing. In March of 2012, a U.S. congressional report stated that China’s strengthening cyber capabilities will complicate U.S. efforts to defend itself against industrial espionage. Despite the alleged cyber-terror threat from China, Chinese joint ventures with U.S. manufacturers in hardware, software and telecommunications have

created a “potential vector” for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to exploit and compromise American security. In what appears to be cyber-war political posturing, Chinese police arrested over 10,000 suspects and 600 criminal gangs during its latest crackdown on cybercrime while U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, has publically stated that after several years of escalating diplomacy and warnings, the U.S. is making little headway in its efforts to tamp down aggressive Chinese cyber-attacks against American companies and the government. October 8, 2012, a report from the House Intelligence Committee warned that American companies should avoid doing business with China’s telecom companies because they poses a national security threat to the U.S. and that “China has the means, opportunity, and motive to use telecommunications companies for malicious purposes”. 3.7: Militarybut not limited to active-shooter scenarios, bio-chemical attacks, dirty bomb explosion and suicide terror attacks. In 2001, FEMA officials simulated a terror attack on the Superdome in New Orleans Louisiana, just prior to it hosting the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl terror drill simulated explosions as well as the outbreak of a mysterious bio-terror plague. Coincidentally, the Superdome will also host the 2013 Super Bowl on February 3, 2013. 5.2: NFL Dirty Bomb Terror Plot (October, 2006) On October 20, 2006, it was reported that Jake J. Brahm, an alleged 20-year-old grocery store clerk, had posted threats on the internet of a terrorist attacks on NFL stadiums in which radioactive “dirty bombs” would be detonated at seven NFL football stadiums. According to reports, Brahm’s posting on October 18, 2006, targeted

be scapegoated for the nuclear attack that would kick off a nuclear World War III. 5.7: New NFL Security Protocols (2011-2012) Shortly after the failed Super Bowl terror plot, the NFL drastically changed their security protocols, a clear move to give the NFL plausible deniability in the aftermath of a terror attack. The first phase came in September of 2011, when it was reported that under the new “enhanced” pat-down procedures, the NFL had ordered all 32 clubs to search fans from the ankles to the knees as well as the waist up. Previously, security guards only patted down fans from the waist up while looking for booze, weapons or other banned items. The second phase came in August of 2012 when it was reported that even newer security protocolsnuclear terror plot, there have been numerous incidents which foreshadow that NFL terror is on the horizon. On August 21, 2011, it was reported that two men were shot and a third man was beaten unconscious inside the stadium in the parking lot of Candlestick Park after a preseason game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders. Roughly three weeks later on September 13, 2011, a man was arrested after allegedly using an illegal Taser in a fight with other fans during the Dallas Cowboys and New York Jets game. About a month later on November 10, 2011, a man was stabbed during a fight in the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot during a San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders game. A month later on December 20,

2011, the start of Monday Night Football at Candlestick Park in San Francisco was delayed when a transformer exploded just outside the stadium. The unprecedented explosion delayed the start of the game for about 30 minutes. After being allegedly fixed, the power and lights went out for a second time around 6:45 p.m. causing a second delay of game that lasted 16 minutes in the second quarter. Roughly eight months later, on August 18, 2012, it was reported that a man was police responded to a call from a man who said he had “accidentally shot” another man in a parking lot near the University of Phoenix stadium during the Oakland Raiders and Arizona Cardinals game. Roughly a month later on September 15, 2012, a man shot andwounded a female parking lot employee before killing himself between the stadiums that are home to the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals. A month later on October 15, 2012, a man suffered non-fatal injuries when he was stabbed outside Candlestick Park, shortly after the start of Sunday’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants. Based on the sheer amount of events involving NFL teams from Oakland and San Francisco, a terror event may transpire in the Bay Area sometime in the near future. During an October 28, 2012, NFL game in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania between the Steelers and the Washington Redskins, visiting Redskins coach Mike Shanahan allegedly had money and his passport stolen from the locker room. According to the report, Redskins director of security

Ed Burke released a statement stating that officers in Pittsburgh insisted on filing a police report and that the investigation is ongoing. On November 16, 2012, it was reported that officials had found the dead body of a 26-year-old man who was reported missing after attending Thursday night’s NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins. 5.9: NFL Bomb Threat (January, 2012) On June 2, 2012, it was reported that a Detroit Lions fan, Shawn Payton, 34, had called in two bomb threats during Detroit’s playoff loss to the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome in January of 2012. According to reports, Payton called in the hoax threats from his home in Jackson, Michigan, in an attempt to halt the January 7, 2012, game, which the Saints wentreported that potentially rabid bats had swooped down fans during a game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Detroit Lions and that the Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) has warned people sitting in section 500 that they could be at risk for rabies. Curiously, the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Baltimore Ravens in Pittsburgh on November 18, 2012. Will chemical laden jets, missiles or bombs be waiting for NFL fans come Sunday night? 5.11: NFL’s ‘Salute to Service’ (November, 2012) The NFL is dedicating the entire month of November to the U.S. military in what is being called ‘Salute to Service’, a pro-war propaganda campaign started in 2011. According to reports, “The National Football League will continue its long history of honoring veterans and active duty members of

may be planned for the city. On October 25, 2012, a gunman went into an Atlanta mega-church and opened fire killing one volunteer. A few days later on November 2, 2012, it was reported that police had closed streets and sidewalks around the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta, due to the investigation of a chemical bomb threat. Two days later on November 4, 2012, it was reported that according to authorities, a police helicopter crashed in Atlanta, Georgia, instantly killing the two officers aboard. Whether this alleged crash was an accident or these police officers knew something they shouldn’t is unknown, but their deaths are suspicious nonetheless because there are no photos of the crashed helicopter. That same day, Georgia police were searching for at least one gunmanwho wounded seven people, mostly teenagers, after opening fire amid the rides at a crowded fair in Georgia. Coincidentally, Atlanta is home to CDC, a city has been conveniently set-up for bio-terror. 6.2: Chicago, Illinois (O’Hare International Airport?) Obama’s hometown Chicago has a rich history of bio-terror and its Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is the son of a Zionist terrorist. Chicago was also recently depicted in the bio-terror propaganda film entitled Contagion as the first American city hit with a bio-terror outbreak in a fictitious global pandemic that kills millions. Chicago is also one of 21 cities NOT at risk for elimination from the Cities Readiness Initiative, meaning that Chicago is “ready” for bio-terrorism. 6.3: LA Terror Threat (LAX?) On October 24, 2012, it was reported that Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam, who in

December of 1999, drove off a ferry from Canada into Washington state with a trunk full of explosives, was sentenced to 37 years in prison for plotting to LAX airport bombing plot. On November 19, 2012, it was reported that 4 California men of Arab decent were charged with plotting to kill Americans and destroy U.S. targets by joining Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The defendants, including a man who served in the U.S. Air Force, were arrested for plotting to bomb military bases and government facilities, and for planning to engage in “violent jihad,” according to the FBI. Aside from being ground zero in the Rodney King riots which started on April 29, 1992, the city of Los Angeles appears to be getting ready formajor attacks of terror and mayhem. On February 8, 2012, it was reported that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) opened a new high-tech war room which “gives it eyes all over the city”. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck stated that “We are targets on our own soil…We have to be ready.” Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the new intelligence hub is interestingly called RACR. Should any acts of terror be committed at the “Twilight” premier in Los Angeles, the LAPD will be ready. 6.4: Massachusetts Terror (MBTA, Gillette Stadium?) On May 17, 2011, it was reported that there was a radiation scare at the Tip O’Neill Federal Building in Boston. According to reports the radiation leak triggering a massive emergency response in the heart of Boston shortly

before the Boston Bruins playoff game. Six months later on November 16, 2011, it was reported that The FBI was enlisting the public’s help to locate a domestic terror suspect on its “most wanted terrorists list,” who they say may be hiding in Massachusetts. The suspect, Daniel Andreas San Diego, is wanted for his alleged involvement in two bombings in the San Francisco, California area. According to the report, the bombings date back to August 2003, where two bombs exploded an hour apart on the grounds of a biotechnology corporation, and September 2003, when a bomb strapped with nails exploded at a beauty products corporation. A couple weeks later on November 29, 2011, it was reported that a second radiation scare had occurred in Boston after a cargo (D. Wyo.) DAVID FREUDENTHAL, individually and in his official capacity as Wyoming Governor; BRUCE SALZBURG, individually and in his official capacity as Wyoming Attorney General; JEANIE STONE, individually and in her official capacity as the Campbell County District Attorney; MR. MATTHONEY, individually and in his official capacity as the Campbell County Undersheriff; BILL POWNELL, individually and in his official capacity as the Campbell County Sheriff; MR. CHEAIRS, individually and in his official capacity as the Campbell County Detention Center Jail Administrator; JIM HLOUCAL, individually and in his official capacity as the Gillette Police Department Chief of Police; MR. SALO, individually and in his official capacity as the Campbell County Detention Center Correctional Officer; MR. O’NEAL, individually and in his

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Updated September 17, 2020. In March 2015, a Saudi-led “Arab Coalition” launched Operation Decisive Storm in order to bolster the internationally recognized Yemeni government led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. Since then, Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched a significant number of short-range ballistic missiles towards Saudi Arabia and other coalition military installations within and outside of Yemen. Despite major efforts to negate Houthi ballistic missile assets through airstrikes and strict air, sea, and ground restrictions, the Houthis have maintained and continue to develop their missile arsenal. Report The Missile War in Yemen (June 2020) is the first comprehensive review of missile and missile defense activity in the ongoing Yemen conflict. It reviews the events and trends that have shaped this part of the war, the strategy behind Houthi missileThe United States used Swiss intermediaries to urge Iran not to retaliate so strongly that it would provoke President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported Saturday. The Swiss embassy in Tehran has long been used by the US government as a backchannel to communicate with the Iranians, according to The Wall Street Journal. After receiving the message from the US, Iran responded by striking military bases housing US forces, though leaving no American casualties, and sending a message saying there would be no further retaliation for now. The Times reported that that message ultimately convinced Trump to stand down. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. United States officials used a secret backchannel to communicate with Iran in recent days, sending messages via Swiss intermediaries warning Iran not to retaliate so harshly

that it would further provoke President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported Saturday. The messages came not long after the Trump administration authorized strikes that killed the top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, immediately escalating tensions between the US and Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Saturday morning that the Trump administration sent an encrypted fax to Iran just hours after killing Soleimani, warning not to escalate. The message set off several days' worth of communications between the two countries, using Swiss intermediaries. The Swiss embassy in Tehran has been used by the American government to communicate with Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. "We don't communicate with the Iranians that much, but when we do the Swiss have played a critical role to convey messages and avoid miscalculation," one seniorUS official told The Journal. The Times reported that the secret messages sent after Soleimani's killing urged Iran not to escalate tensions to the point where Trump would feel obligated to strike back even harder. After receiving the message, Iran responded by firing more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases housing US forces, though no Americans were killed. According to The Times, Iran then sent a message back to the US via the Swiss saying there would be no further retaliation for now. The newspaper reported that that message was forwarded to Washington within five minutes, and convinced Trump to stand down. It's still unclear whether Iran will seek to retaliate further in the near future.

By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Some of the millions of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in the United States are still spewing methane, marking a potentially large source of unrecorded greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released on Monday. Researchers at Princeton University measured emissions from dozens of abandoned wells in Pennsylvania in 2013 and 2014 and found they were emitting an average of 0.27 kg (0.6 lbs) of methane per day, according to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "These measurements show that methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells can be significant," according to the study. "The research required to quantify these emissions nationally should be undertaken so they can be accurately described and included in greenhouse gas emissionsinventories." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is mulling whether to issue mandatory standards for reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector as part of President Barack Obama's broad climate action plan. Environmental groups have told the EPA that directly targeting methane rather than secondary volatile organic compounds, which the agency currently regulates, is more effective and can help the United States make steeper greenhouse gas emission cuts. Methane warms the climate at least 80 times more than the same amount of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent greenhouse gas, over a 20-year period. (Reporting by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

BJP-led NDA News The filmmaker is all set with his upcoming rural-urban migration story, City Lights starring Rajkummar Rao and directed by Hansal Mehta Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt said he struggled hard to release his film Zakhm, which was based on communal tension between two communities, in 1998 when the BJP-led NDA was at the helm. The film depicted tension between two religions in contemporary society. Click here to read moreOn February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas and Louisiana as it returned from a 16-day mission in space. The cause of the accident was a piece of foam that had fallen off the Shuttle’s external fuel tank during launch. The foam struck the left wing of the shuttle, causing serious damage that ultimately led the vehicle to disintegrate when it reentered Earth’s atmosphere. It was the second major failure for the Space Shuttle program, and all seven crew members onboard the vehicle died. They were two of the first people to know that something had gone wrong with the shuttle It was a tragic moment for NASA, but it was also a tragic time for my family. My parents are retired NASA engineers who spent

most of their careers on the Space Shuttle program. They were both working the mission, known as STS-107, the day of Columbia’s scheduled landing, and they were two of the first people to know that something had gone wrong with the shuttle. As soon as there was a sign of failure, both of them got to work on figuring out the cause of the accident. The investigation would keep them at work for many long hours over several months. So for the first half of 2003, I didn’t see my parents that much. I was a freshman in high school and an only child, so I spent a lot of time home alone as my parents exhausted themselves at work. At the time, I didn’t really consider it strange,(or core) it is attached to the back end of a speaker cone 58 or a diaphragm 68 to spider 72 connection element 74. In each pictured radiator, a central moveable element is suspended by a speaker “surround” (52, 70, 84) which acts as the flexible element between the stationary front of the speaker basket (50, 66, 80) and the speaker moveable element. Because the range of travel available from each spider (62, 72, 88) is less than the range of travel available from the surround (52, 70, 84), as the spider (62, 72, 88) reaches the limit of its travel and stops. The sudden stop in the movement of the spider, due to its full extensions, causes distortions in adjacent components as well as in the pressure

rest of the cast suffer mostly for the lack of talent . kevin beacon is the only one that performs gracefully . his face is not seen for the most part of the film , and the only way he exists is as a disembodied voice . there are times when his presence actually saves the film from being completely embarrassing . in the end the effects are the only reason to see this film in the first place . being probably the best technical achievement since " jurassic park " , they are absolutely amazing . we observe the layers of skin , muscle , tissue , and bone being peeled away as a body is slowly rendered invisible . we see a beating heart , inflatinglungs , and veins pulsing with newly-pumped blood . there are a couple of inventive shots with smoke , fire , air and water , but are a few scenes like that worth attending a movie for ? what is truly disturbing is that with a great book , talented actors and a grand budget , this could have been so much more . pretty much like jan de bont ( " twister " , " haunting " ) , paul verhoven has never made anything extraordinary . he was responsible for several good films ( " basic instinct " and " starship troopers ) " and some incredibly bad films ( " showgirls " , " total recall " ) , but he has never made anything

that was great . in a way " hollow man " fits perfectly in this collection . it's not better or worse than verhoven's average film . he proves once again that he is incapable of handling more complex issues . and so , instead of depth and chills , verhoven inserts some of his trademarks : stupid dialogue , and lot's of dull action with blood and naked bodies . he even throws in some of the worst of film clich ? s - the slowly advancing fireball , the villain who comes back from the dead , etc , etc . - and tops the whole thing off with one of the most ridiculous endings of the year ( you'll be screaming " nooooo ! "Loading... Book Reviews Adventures of Button Broken Tail Book II Animals have lives beyond panting at the feet of their masters or lying in a patch of sunlight on the kitchen floor. Take Button Broken Tail, for example. She has a comfortable home and a boy who loves her, but her real life takes place beyond the backdoor, in the forests, fields, and swamps that surround her neighborhood. It’s here in the wilderness that she finds her true friends, and her true enemies. Over several chapters, Button and her friends—Sally the beagle, Iggy the squirrel, and Ssserek the rattlesnake—find adventure and danger in the wild landscape around them. In the first story, Button’s friends run her through an intense training program to prepare her for a dog show. In another story, Button and

Ssserek defeat a hunter and his dogs. Later, the animal friends help each other recover from a tornado and are treated to a visit from a princess dragon. Embedded in each adventure is a lesson about valuing friends and treating others with respect. Richard W. Leech, MD, a retired professor of medicine and author of two previous books, proves himself capable of producing highly imaginative scenarios. His collection of characters maintain distinctive personalities throughout the book, and even the secondary characters recur regularly with worthwhile new roles to play. Unfortunately, a few problems will keep readers from thoroughly enjoying this book. First, while the author recommends a readership of children between the ages of nine and twelve, there are several instances of language and drama that are inappropriate. For instance,the nature and seriousness of the present offense and defendant’s professed motivation for it—purportedly he stole the paint and attempted to return it to feed his young child. The court also weighed the factors in aggravation, including a long history of criminal activity encompassing crimes similar in nature to the present offense, and a propensity for “scamming.” Defendant had a prior arrest in Oklahoma in 1992 for second degree burglary, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison. In 2000, defendant was convicted of first degree burglary (§ 459) for which he was sentenced to 24 months in prison. Following that, defendant was convicted of check fraud (§ 475, subd. (c)) in California in 2002 and sentenced to 28 months in

days after stroke, the mouse performance and spontaneous motor remapping was evaluated on the M-Platform for 5 days a week along 4 more weeks. The results from the first week 1 month after the injury is the so-called "stroke" condition, while the results during the last week, when the animal recovers the motor function is referred to as "rehab." Each day, the beginning of the wide-field imaging session was triggered by the start of the training session on the M-Platform. To detect the movement of the wrist of the animal in the low-light condition of the experiment, an infrared (IR) emitter was placed on the linear slide, and rigidly connected to the load cell and thus to the animal\'s wrist. Slide displacement was recorded by an IR camera (EXISare active when there is also a force recorded, and conversely, there is low activation when the slide is still. It is also worth mentioning that, although the two muscles receive the same inputs from the descending stimuli, their activation levels are different due to the feedback circuitry of the spinal cord and the activity of muscle spindles, which are different for the two muscles. Thus, the output of the spinal cord circuitry is not a mere filtering of the input signals, but it also takes into account the feedback from the embodiment, which can change during the experiment. This effect underlies the importance of embedding neural circuits in a proper, realistic embodiment. The comparison between the simulated slide position and the recorded one shows that, thanks to

PARIS – The European Commission on July 20 approved the Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) takeover of launch-services provider Arianespace, saying the companies had accepted conditions the commission imposed to minimize the chance of anti-competitive behavior. The decision, which was expected, is likely to result in ASL’s payment of about 150 million euros ($166 million) to the French space agency, CNES, which holds the 35 percent stake on behalf of the French government. CNES officials have said they will be able to invest the money into their own programs without forwarding it to the French government’s general treasury. The transaction is expected within weeks. The commission concluded that Evry, France-based Arianespace does not have a monopoly on global commercial launch services. Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX and International Launch Services of Reston, Virginiait diplomatically, not fans of his work--has proved himself the man for the job. He took famous works from five legendary painters--Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Peter Paul Rubens and Titian--stretched them across Louis Vuitton's most famous leather goods, like the Speedy, Neverfull and Zippy wallet, and then belabored the point by spelling out the artists' extremely famous names in giant gold letters across the front. The interiors also include details about the work and artist, which is the only detail I actually like. In an interview with The New York Times, Vuitton CEO Michael Burke admits he expects some negative reactions to the designs. "I think we’re going to get some pushback. People are going to be upset about the sacred entering the realm of

Wondale Collier, 30, was found sleeping in the Norwood Park home of a Chicago police detective clutcing a Kindle Fire tablet, prosecutors said. Collier has been charged with burglary. View Full Caption Chicago Police Department COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A burglar who broke into the Norwood Park home of a Chicago Police detective was heard talking to the family's dog before responding officers found him sleeping in the ransacked living room clutching a broken Kindle Fire, prosecutors said. Wondale Collier, 30, broke into the detective's Norwood Park home early Friday morning, according to a police report. The detective was not home, but his wife awoke to the sound of a strange man's voice talking to their dog, prosecutors said. She immediately called her husband, and police arrived quickly to discover Colliersleeping in the living room, prosecutors said. There was vomit everywhere, and the room had been ransacked, with papers strewn about, prosecutors said. The frame of a Kindle that Collier was holding had been pried off, and the screen was in the front yard. Collier apparently climbed through a window police found pried open, according to the report. Police arrested Collier about 4:45 a.m. and charged him with residential burglary, according to a police report. Prosecutors offered no explanation for the strange scene. Collier, of the 5900 block of West Eastwood Avenue in Jefferson Park, appeared briefly in court Thursday and was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail. For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here:

The rebuilding of the Houston Astros has been one of baseball's longest-term projects. Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, upon taking over the reins after a nine-year stint with the St. Louis Cardinals, was not brought in to do touch-ups or some routine maintenance, but rather to lead a complete overhaul of the franchise's organizational structure. Three-and-a-half years later, Houston stands atop the AL West as we near June, a feat that has happened a bit earlier than expected in the rebuilding cycle. But is Houston's current first-place status a mirage, or will this team be in the thick of things in September?Police seek information on missing Indonesian man -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a 34-year-old Indonesian man, who has gone missing. Mr Ali Wijaya was last seen at Ghim Moh Food Centre on Friday at about 11am. The Straits Times understands that he suffers from schizophrenia and is in Singapore with his mother to seek treatment at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He was eating with his mother at the food centre when he said he wanted to step out for a smoke. He did not return.

Founding partners of the $1 billion blockchain fund backed by the government of the Chinese city of Hangzhou are planning to roll out a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin. Yao Yongjie, one of the founding partners of the Xiong’An (Grandshores) Blockchain Fund, said the work has already started on the project and that the team hopes to launch the stablecoin by the end of this year or early 2019, South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday. Grandshores Technology – a different firm also chaired by Yao that recently got listed in Hong Kong via a reverse takeover of a Singapore construction firm called SHIS – is planning to raise HK$100 million ($12.7 million) to help finance the project, the report added. The dedicated fund is now seeking contributions denominated in tether – theU.S.-dollar pegged cryptocurrency – from accredited investors outside China, Yao said. Further, founding partners of the blockchain fund are already working with a mid-tier bank in Japan for the project, though they declined to disclose name of the institution. Yao added that, in future, stablecoins anchored to the Hong Kong and Australian dollars might also be developed. The news comes just days after Grandshores Technology officially rebranded from the SHIS name, having purchased over 60 percent of the firm in May of this year. As CoinDesk previously reported, Grandshores Blockchain Fund was launched by Tunlan Capital, a Hangzhou-based investment firm also headed by Yao, in partnership with the local government and Chinese bitcoin tycoon Li Xiaolai in April. Japanese yen image via Shutterstock

Swansea City midfielder Matt Grimes has joined Northampton Town on a season-long loan. The move sees England Under-21 international Grimes link up with former Swans David Cornell and Raheem Hanley at the Sixfields Stadium. Grimes trained with the Cobblers today and will be available to make his debut in Saturday's League One clash at Charlton. The 22-year-old joined the Swans from Exeter City for an undisclosed fee in January 2015 and signed a four-and-a-half-year deal. He made three Premier League appearances at the tail-end of the 2014-15 season, and after three more Swans appearances in the early months of 2015-16, Grimes joined Blackburn on loan for the second half of the campaign and played 13 times for the Ewood Park club. In 2016-17, he joined Leeds United on a season-long loan, but madeonly 12 appearances during a frustrating year in Yorkshire. Grimes was part of the Swans' squad for the pre-season tour in America, but wasn't part of the match day squad in last weekend's Premier League opener against Southampton. He will now look to gain valuable first-team experience with the Cobblers, who are yet to pick up a point from their two league games so far.

You are here Bethabara Bethabara is the site of the first Moravian settlement in North Carolina. Located just north of present-day Winston-Salem, Bethabara, meaning "house of passage," was established on 17 Nov. 1753 by 15 Moravian men sent down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania. At first Bethabara was nothing more than a small abandoned cabin located in the northwest part of Wachovia, a 99,000-acre tract of land purchased by the Moravians. Each of the first colonists had a special skill needed to build a settlement in the backcountry wilderness. Within a few years they and additional church members sent from Pennsylvania had built a thriving community of log and stone structures, including a church, a tannery, and a mill. English, Scotch-Irish, and other German non-Moravian settlers from near and farcame to Bethabara to trade. Given its location along the Great Wagon Road and the number of craftsmen making up the settlement, Bethabara became an important economic center on the North Carolina frontier. When the French and Indian War broke out in 1754, refugees from the outer settlement areas began to arrive at Bethabara looking for shelter and protection. By July 1756 the war was going so badly for the colonists that the Moravians built a stockade around the Bethabara village. As the Indian attacks came closer to Bethabara, the number of refugees grew, soon outstripping the Moravian population. In April 1758 another stockade was built around the mill to protect it and the approximately 200 refugees gathered there. Not until 1761, when the war slowly wound down, did

the refugees leave and life at Bethabara return to normal. After the war Bethabara continued to grow. In 1765 the community received instructions from church leaders to begin construction of the new town of Salem, more in the center of the Wachovia tract. Perhaps the last notable event in the history of the thriving Bethabara village came in June 1771, when Governor William Tryon encamped his army nearby after his victory over the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance. Within months all of the key industries and craft operations were moved to Salem along with most of Bethabara's population. During the Revolutionary War, Lord Cornwallis marched his English army through Bethabara in February 1781, causing great consternation by confiscating livestock and supplies. By then the few Moravians that remained atanimals and Tallulah help her dress for Antonio and Luciana's engagement party. Thanks to their efforts, Ro arrives in a stunning dress while her grace leaves all the guests impressed, including Peter. When Antonio confesses to Ro that he loves her, Ro reminds him of his pledge to Luciana. After a dance together, she leaves and spots a carriage outside the castle bearing the same design as the flag found back on the island. The carriage's horse tells Ro that the flag belongs to another neighboring kingdom called Paladia, but the duke and duchess (the carriage's owners) only had three sons; no daughters. Fed up with his father's attempts to push him into marriage, Antonio gives up the throne and writes a note for Ro, saying that he wants to

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BEIRUT, Oct 28 – Syrian rebels including jihadists began a counter-attack against the army and its allies on Friday aiming to break a weeks-long siege on eastern Aleppo, insurgents said. The assault, employing heavy shelling and suicide car bombs, was mainly focused on the city’s western edge by rebels based outside Aleppo. It included Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, a former affiliate of al Qaeda previously known as the Nusra Front, and groups fighting under the Free Syrian Army (FSA) banner. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said more than 15 civilians had been killed and 100 wounded by rebel shelling of government-held western Aleppo. State media reported that five civilians were killed. There were conflicting accounts of advances in areas on the city’s outskirts. Aleppo, Syria’s biggest pre-war city,has become the main theatre of conflict between President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Iran, Russia and Shi’ite militias, and Sunni rebels including groups supported by Turkey, Gulf monarchies and the United States. The city has been divided for years between the government-held western sector and rebel-held east, which the army and its allies put under siege this summer and where they launched a new offensive in September that medics say has killed hundreds. Photographs showed insurgents approaching Aleppo in tanks, armoured vehicles, bulldozers, make-shift mine sweepers, pick-up trucks and on motorcycles, and showed a large column of smoke rising in the distance after an explosion. Rebels said they had taken several positions from government forces and the Observatory said they had gained control over a checkpoint at a factory in southwest

rockets and shells, struck southwestern districts, the Observatory said. JIHADIST GROUPS Fateh al-Sham played a big part in a rebel attack in July that managed to break the government siege on eastern Aleppo for several weeks before it was reimposed. Abu Youssef al-Mouhajir, an official from the powerful Ahrar al-Sham Islamist group, said the extent of cooperation between the different rebel factions was unusual, and that the largest axis of attack was on the western edge of the city. “This long axis disperses the enemy and it provides us with good cover in the sense that the enemy’s attacks are not focused,” he said. The powerful role played by Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, listed by many countries as a terrorist group, has complicated Western policy towards supporting the anti-Assad opposition. The United States has preventedmore powerful weapons such as anti-aircraft missiles from being supplied to rebels partly out of fear they could end up in jihadist hands. The Syrian military source said Friday’s attack had been launched in coordination with Daesh, a group against which all the other rebels, including Fateh al-Sham, have fought. Daesh fighters did clash with the Syrian army on Friday at a government-held airbase 37km (23 miles) east of Aleppo, next to territory the jihadist group already controls, the Observatory reported. Syria’s civil war, now in its sixth year, has killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced half the country’s pre-war population, dragged in regional and global powers and caused a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe. Mouhajir, the Ahrar al-Sham official, said cloudy weather was helping to reduce the

Peter Gow has been an administrator and teacher in independent schools for nearly 40 years. Currently Executive Director of the Independent Curriculum Group, he writes about the relationship between private and public education and how the two sectors might draw upon each other's strengths. Independent Schools, Democracy, Plutocracy, and Responsibility A reader suggested offline that independent schools might not be a good thing in a democracy. I know where he's coming from--the elitist tag sticks, a strange historical afterglow of the Gilded Age, when only the self-styled Right Sort of People seemed to send their children off to prep schools. The issue isn't about democracy, but plutocracy. Plutocrats of a century ago were surely bloated, but if they did send their children to independent schools, it was a matter of choice--the heartschools were established to enshrine socioeconomic privilege. I won't argue that for a century or so they did largely that, although the origins of some of the most "exclusive" schools had, at least in their founders' eyes, a more idealistic raison d'etre: they were to educate to the children of the untethered wealthy--Robber Barons, some of them--who had neither the time, the inclination, nor perhaps even the values to raise boys and girls of intellectual and moral substance. Let there be boarding schools, they said, where these children could be taken in hand by adults with a firm sense of educational purpose and given a dose of discipline and some training in sportsmanship, serious academics, and the moral principles of muscular Christianity. In the absence of anything much

with ‘Bali aga’ (original inhabitants of Bali from long before the Hindu-Javanese started coming) society. Terasering subak in Bebandem is set between the Gamongan hill and Mount Agung, Bebandem subdistrict, Karangasem district. Busungbiu is usually an unmissable part of North Bali travels, before or after visiting Singaraja or watching dolphins in Lovina. It features one of the most beautiful terasering subak on the island, making it a perfect trekking venue with tranquil atmosphere and a deserted tourists drawcard.Busungbiu terasering subak is located on the southern end of Kekeran village, a borderline to Subuk village in Busungbiu sub-district, on the south of Singaraja (Buleleng district). The terasering subak is located by the main road from Denpasar to Singaraja via Pupuan subdistrict of Tabanan.Research at Nucleus Research. Hootsuite Amplify for Selling "is a great example" of such a tool, she told CRM Buyer. Social selling is "a different stage in the sales funnel -- moving from marketing-qualified leads to sales-qualified leads, and then enabling sales to expand the scope of interactions with a prospect and insights about them," Wettemann said. Why Just Twitter? Adding social to CRM "makes sales people 12 percent more productive, on average, because they spend less time hunting down insights and relationships, and can connect with customers more actively in the social sphere," Wettemann remarked. Hootsuite lets sales teams publish content to Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, as well as Twitter, but Amplify for Selling is restricted to Twitter, at least initially. "It makes sense that Hootsuite is starting with Twitter, as sales people

said. They "share openly and expect that organizations and sellers engage them appropriately." Millennials prefer to search and consume content on their mobile devices but shun phone conversations, she noted, so "sellers of today and the future need to up-level their social media skills to actively listen for buyer signals." Social Selling's Importance The combination of account-based marketing and social selling "produces very high-quality leads compared to the mass-blast approach," she noted. Social selling can be time consuming, and Hootsuite Amplify for Selling "helps actively alert sellers on opportunities for engagement." Richard Adhikari has been an ECT News Network reporter since 2008. His areas of focus include cybersecurity, mobile technologies, CRM, databases, software development, mainframe and mid-range computing, and application development. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including Information Weekfine. I have been capable of earn over $20 in games doing this, in just several weeks. It is a fairly good 1988 sport the place you play as a kiwi chick armed with a bow who has to travel all over New Zealand to … It most likely comes as a shock to anybody below 30 that there was pc games without graphics. At one time, computer displays were strictly text-primarily based; the one pictures they might produce had been ASCII artwork, footage composed of strategically placed letters, numbers, and special characters. It was an entire totally different world then, and PC games had to make do with very limited sources. Interactive fiction games were born in consequence. Objects offer some variety. You’ll have items drop with frequency,

transport players directly to a hunting area. They appear as light shafts or as orbs surrounded by a good aura. Players can immediately attack and deal damage after using a teleporter (if they walk out of a spawn room without using a teleporter, they cannot deal any damage to enemies for up to 10 seconds). Regular maps always feature two teleporters: a green one that leads to the second and a purple one that leads to the fourth of five hunting zones. Teleporters on Adventure maps, on Elite maps, and in the secret place will transport players to a random one of several spawn locations in the hunting area. The teleporter on the Arreat Summit map will transport players to a fixed location. It is red when the boss encounter hasmore than one active boss in a game at the same time, with the exception of the Ancients on the Arreat Summit map. The Ancients (orange names: Talic the Defender, Madawc the Guardian, and Korlic the Protector): They are three level 60 bosses that the player(s) must fight at the same time. The Ancients have also mastered the art of the Barbarian Leap and will sometimes jump to reach higher ground (see 4.5 Map Types to learn more about the Arreat Summit boss encounter). (orange names: Talic the Defender, Madawc the Guardian, and Korlic the Protector): They are three level 60 bosses that the player(s) must fight at the same time. The Ancients have also mastered the art of the Barbarian Leap and will sometimes jump to reach higher

(up to a maximum of 6 enemies). 4.8.4 The Arreat Summit The Arreat Summit map is a special boss encounter in which the player(s) must defeat the Ancients - three level 60 bosses that will all come to live and attack them at the same time. Player level 20 is required to use the portal to the summit. To begin the encounter, a player must active the sky blue orb (the tablet of the Ancients) by pressing Crouch. Unlike other bosses, the Ancients can jump and will leap on top of elevated positions. Player cannot leave the combat area, delimited by a large sky blue sphere during the battle. When defeating the Ancients for the first time, a player will receive an enormous amount of Experience, 5 points of Horadric Favor, andonly). The match will automatically end 10 minutes after a raid has been completed. The amount of gold and EXP players will receive upon completion depends on the number and types of enemies they have defeated during the raid. The completion time will be rated with a rank. Better completion ranks grant a bonus to the initial base stats of equippable items obtained as raid rewards. The completion time has no impact on the item quality of reward items. In the final area, players have access to the Buy Back, and Create Save Code stations. Level 100+ players can also use the Enchant station once per raid completion. When a group of players completes a raid without suffering a single death, they can obtain an additional reward from a special No Death Reward

hydration of the airway mucus, thus resulting in highly viscous mucus in the lungs of an individual afflicted with cystic fibrosis. Hypersecretion obstructs the air passages of individuals with cystic fibrosis, further compromising lung function. Other disease involving hypersecretion include chronic obstructive lung disorder (COPD). Oxidant stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis of COPD. Cigarette smoke, which generates oxygen free radicals, is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis. Neutrophils are often seen at site of inflammation in COPD, and interestingly, oxygen free radicals are known to be released by neutrophils during activation. Mechanical intubation is often necessary in order to provide assisted ventilation to patients with various pulmonary diseases. A tube is introduced via the oropharanx and placed in the trachea. To prevent leaking of air around the endotrachealLeadership EXECUTIVE BOARD A graduate of Political Sciences and holder of a Master's degree in Business Law, Jean-Luc Bernard began his career as the co-founder of the Transfac publication, in the early 80s. Following this creation, he embarked on an advertising career within the EURO RSCG group. Read more here Henri MartyManaging Director, Board Member Following a classic career path - IT studies and some years spent at various software solution companies within the industrial and laboratory domains - he co-created his company, which specialises in the creation of private clinical management software solutions, becoming director of studies and then operations director. Read more here SUPERVISORY BOARD Daniel BenchimolMember of the Netwave Supervisory Board A graduate of Toulouse Business School with a diploma in accounting and financial studies, Daniel Benchimol began his career in 1977

at CCMC as a commercial engineer. In 1981 he became Commercial Director at SLIGOS, which then became ATOS, and then Director for France and Spain at INFORAMA. It was in 1989 that he founded EUROGICIEL in Toulouse. Read more here François MomboisseMember of the Netwave Supervisory Board François Momboisse is, and has been since 2002, President of FEVAD (the Federation of E-Commerce and Distance Selling). He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He began his career at Procter & Gamble and then Benckiser. In 2001, he rejoined the Fnac where he became Managing Director of Fnac Eveil & Jeux... Read more here Philippe HerbertMember of the Netwave Supervisory Board Philippe Herbert is General Partner at Banexi Ventures Partners. This French management company invests, by meansA titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive & forget. Starring Melissa McCarthy & Kristen Bell.

Alahna Kindred, The Sun, November 19, 2018 Artificial intelligence is “shockingly” racist and sexist, a study has revealed. Researchers looked at a range of systems and datasets and found examples where AI had provided inaccurate information for women and minorities. In one example, the team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked at an income prediction system and discovered it was twice as likely to misclassify female employees as low-income and male employee as high-income. However, the team was able to adjust the system to make sure it was less biased. When researchers increased the dataset by a factor of 10, they found the mistakes decreased by 40 percent. Irene Chen, a Ph.D. student who wrote the paper with MIT professor David Sontag and postdoctoral associate Fredrik D. Johansson, said it comes down to usingThe purpose of this agreement is to provide funding for scientific and technical support as well as quality assurance of three large audiometric examination surveys funded by NIDCD. These health surveys are: (i) The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), (ii) Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility Study-Reykjavik Study (AGES-RS), and (iii) the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class of 2010/2011 (ECLS-K:2010/2011). The Audiometry Components of all three health examination surveys were previously developed by NIDCD in collaboration with NIOSH and other consultants. NIOSH collaborated on the design of the experimental protocol and provided the equipment specifications, oversight of maintenance and calibration, technician training and oversight, operations manual development, and quality assurance for the NHANES. As well, NIOSH provided similar support to AGES and ECLS-K:2010/2011, including setting-up training sessions

and observing/monitoring technical competence in obtaining audiometric measurements, technical assistance as needed, and limited quality assurance. The NHANES scientific goals are to establish a statistically accurate, demographically representative baseline on the general health (including Hearing Health) of the U.S. population. NHANES is now a continuous survey and while general health issues are always under investigation such as height, weight and blood pressure, there are also elements that track individual health outcomes that move in and out of the NHANES as it cycles. NHANES consists of two major components: the household interview and the physical examination in the NHANES Mobile Examination Centers (MECs) that are set up in various areas around the country. The data from the NHANES elements are collected, weighted, and made available to the government andinterest here? She wasn't certain. She could almost see it, but then her thin logic was broken by the sound of a new voice. "Madam." A young man was filling up the restaurant's front door. Behind him, in the late-evening gloom, perhaps a dozen others stood in a loose tangle. All were young, but not all were human. At least two Janusian couples stood near the front, and a giant harum-scarum stuck up in back. To all of them, she said, "Hello." "Madam," the young man said again. Then he stepped closer, a hint of nervousness betrayed in the quick rolling of his thick fingers. "Do you remember me?" Security systems went on silent alert. The face might be familiar, or might not, and there could be something memorable in the broad build of

The Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area is a 55 acre natural preserve next door to the Shoreline Park in Mountain View, Calif. The salt marshes and Stevens Creek are seen with birds and other small wildlife that lie on either side of the Study Area's levee trail on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2010. If you love bird watching, grab a pair of binoculars and visit the Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area in Mountain View. Particularly spectacular during spring and fall migrations, the preserve is rich with birdlife in all seasons. The Study Area is the tiniest - only 55 acres - of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District's 26 preserves. Adjacent to Shoreline at Mountain View Park, the Study Area's levee trail is flanked by Stevens Creek onthe west and salt marshes and ponds to the east. The trail continues as part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge all the way to the bay. With views to the east of Moffett Field and beyond to Mount Hamilton and the East Bay, this is a perfect fall outing to squeeze in between rains. The distance from the trailhead to the bay and back is about 3 miles. The trail Pick up the trail at the Shoreline Amphitheater parking lot, Section E. Walking through the long lot, you will see benches and the kite-flying area to your left. At the end of the lot, look ahead to a rust-colored arched bridge that leads across Stevens Creek to the levee trail. Getting to the bridge requires a series

of turns. Approach a paved road that leads down to the Crittenden storm water pumping station and turn sharply left at the pump station. Then, at the trail sign, turn right toward the Stevens Creek Trail. Turn left onto Stevens Creek Trail and then right onto the rust-colored bridge to the levee. You can see Moffett Field to the east. From the bridge, walk to your left along the levee. Having entered a birders' paradise, watch for dramatic white pelicans, great egrets and great blue herons. Cormorants, black-necked stilts, pied-billed grebes, coots, pintails and mallards are also common. Plant life along the creek bed and in the marshes reflects the salty habitat. Cord grass and pickleweed are plentiful. The parasitic salt weed dodder creates colorful yellow-orange patches on thethe Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area. To pick up the Stevens Creek Trail from Caltrain's Mountain View station, go north on Moffett Boulevard and right on Central Avenue, then enter the Stevens Creek Trail. Continue north into Shoreline park. Cross the rust-colored, arched metal bridge that spans Stevens Creek to reach the preserve's levee trail. From Highway 101 heading south, take the Rengstorff Avenue exit. Stay right at the fork, following the signs for Amphitheater Parkway. Turn left at North Shoreline Boulevard and continue through the entrance kiosk at Shoreline at Mountain View Park. Turn right into the "Kite Area" parking lot. By car, from Highway 101 heading north, exit at Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View, and continue north on Shoreline through the entrance kiosk at Shoreline at

what I was doing, my face was gushed by hydraulic oil. The colleague said my face would glow for the rest of my life. Today tunnelling is my life,” says Annie, 35, ahead of the inauguration of South India’s first underground Metro rail on Friday. In Bengaluru, she alone steered Godavari, the tunnelboring machine that recently finished boring underground from Sampige Road to Majestic. She calls it her tunnel because the machine had got damaged just when she joined as assistant engineer in Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRC) in May 2015. After that, she used to spend eight hours in the tunnel every day. “Sometimes when people see me with the helmet and jacket and learn that I work for Namma Metro, they would only ask when the workwill get over,” she says. Recalling her long journey, she said she wanted to pursue her masters after completing degree in mechanical engineering from Nagpur University. “But I lost my father and I had to get a job to bail out my family from financial crisis. I got a job offer from Senbo, a contractor with Delhi Metro, and took it up in October 2007,” says Annie, who hails from a middle class family in north Kolkata. In 2009, she joined Chennai Metro. And then went to Doha for six months in 2014. “My visa application was rejected thrice by Qatar because they do now allow unmarried women to go and work there. But the fourth time, I fought it out with them,” she laughs. Annie is proud of her work

with Trump the way it did with past presidents. ~~~ deusofnull Reunification efforts in the late 1990s and early 2000s were complicated by the shift in US Policy from the Clinton to Bush Admin. Clinton's admin wanted to support the so called Sunshine Policy, which favored moving towards reunification. For the US's part, they agreed to not re apply new sanctions on the North as long as the North continued to operate within the parameters of their Sunshine Policy negotiated with the South. That was what was happening, but then Bush came into office and this policy changed. New sanctions were put upon DPRK and they would eventually be included in the Bush Admin's "Axis of Evil" (Iran, Iraq, and North Korea). This caused the North to go back on its agreements and the Sunshine Policy as a whole, and did also alignall the comments here but so far I haven't seen anyone give credit to Kim Jong Un. He's probably a pretty smart dude and has been planning these moves ever since he was a kid. At the end of all this, he will agree to "denuclearize" by reducing his nuclear stockpile over a very long time period; promise to stop doing nuclear research etc. In return he will get a ton of foreign aid, much weakened sanctions against his country and legitimacy in the international stage. But who knows. I am no expert. ~~~ malnourish Sure, give him some credit. In the same breath that he allowed for and committed atrocities against his people. ~~~ imbokodo You mean like the massacre of No Gun Ri and the general policy of shooting civilians in the Korean war? The Gwangju massacre? Oh you don't mean the

now. People in each country would like this drama to be over, because it feels dangerous and intractable. The leaders in each country would love to deliver that feeling to us. Kim Jong-un has an incredibly strong hand. He has nuclear missiles at his disposal, with apparently rapid progress toward increasing their range. He knows that other nations are fearful of those weapons, and that they won't do anything that risks putting them on the receiving end of even one. We've had one bold historic headline after another now: Kim Jong-un has telegraphed a desire to denuclearize and to end the Korean war. He has raised the hopes of South Koreans and of Americans just enough that they each want a deal now, and their leaders now _need_ to deliver. But the price has not yet been negotiated. What will bethe US presence is no longer there, it becomes a lot harder for the US to re-enter in times of conflict because now NK can threaten us with nuclear weapons. Most American will not trade Seattle or SF for South Korea. Unification of Korea is pretty much a non-negotiatable goal for the North Korean regime. It's been their goal since the start and the reason why the leading families in NK support the Kim family. ~~~ flycaliguy I would be careful to underestimate the North's ability to fight a war. You don't need cutting edge technology with the sort of topography they've got. Look at a topographic map of North Korea. It's mountain ranges and valleys. Dense veg, steep drops, spots for tunnels, rapid currents. You could put an army from the 50s in there and have a hell of

Germany's in the 1990's. There are also cultural factors: North Korean workers are used to working under Communism, will they accept working under a capitalist elite? That being said, a thought experiment with a Unified Korea is rather interesting. North Korean labor would perhaps be cheaper; South Korean companies could outsource manufacturing to the North instead of to China and still remain globally competitive. The North has vast mineral resources which could be exploited. A land route to China would increase Korean-Chinese trade immensely. So generally it would look very good economically. ------ tobyhinloopen This is just a PR show... the war isn’t over until the NK population is free ~~~ lucb1e That's a... very American statement. USA has a history of forcing their view of freedom on other nations, whether they want to or not. ~~~ eggnet By which country's standards is North Korea free? Edit:them fear too much freedom among the survivors. People hunted Nazis for generations. Wouldn't the North Korean decision-makers fear being hunted? Meanwhile, China has been invaded more than once from the Korean peninsula. How willing will they be to lose a buffer between themselves and U.S. military bases? ~~~ mc32 The only significant thing to change was American policy. The admin put great on China to end smuggling goods across the border and ending the hijinks in the high seas, basically putting an end to doing an end around sanctions as well as the bluster. The South Koreans indeed mention that the US played a major role in having this happen. It would be cosmically ironic if peace is achieved in this instance given the prev admin winning the peace Nobel while achieving no peace at all. ~~~ 21 Trump & Kim Jung Un have the

Are the people who authorised and developed South Africa's nuclear weapons still living in that part of the world? ~~~ neuro_imager South Africa didn't 'denuclearise' in the sense of giving up arms. They had a change to a completely incompetent government who wouldn't know how to spell 'nuclear' let alone fathom the scientific research and economic and political strategy required to run such a program. And given that nuclear scientists and competent political strategists tend to be smart, they don't hang around in swamps very long. ------ bitL So Kim's nuclear test site collapsed, likely destroying years of work, necessary equipment and possibly hit trained human personnel, so he suddenly went on a "tour for peace". Can't say I am unhappy. ~~~ nsnick That's not how underground nuclear testing works. The bombs are not developed or stored inside the mountain where they test. There would havecountry. Capitalism with socialist characteristics- style. ------ golergka Trump's madman tactic turned out to be much more effective than everyone gave him credit for. Who would have thought. ~~~ louhike Maybe it's giving it too much credit to say it happened because of him or that it was what he planned. ~~~ frockington South Korea thanked him and said he had a big role. It's definitely not 100% on him but he had a large role ~~~ lightbyte The only thing that drives him is praise, seems like an easy way to suck up to him regardless of what he actually did ------ gaius I expect this will be a chapter in The Art Of The Deal vol II ~~~ fnord123 I'm very naive of NK/SK politics but I do wonder how much of this was influenced by installation of John Bolton who is absolutely frothing at the mouth for a war with

Air-launched missiles strike hospitals in Syria Anne Barnard And Somini Sengupta ​Beirut: Air strikes hit four hospitals in rebel-held northern Syria on Monday, including child and maternity facilities, international aid officials and witnesses reported. The United Nations said at least 50 people were killed, including children. Up Next Barcelona terror attack: Spain hunts for van driver Barcelona terror attack: Spain hunts for van driver Spain mounts a sweeping anti-terror operation after a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13 people before fleeing, in what police suspect was one of multiple planned attacks. Up Next Barcelona Terror attack: Aussies injured Barcelona Terror attack: Aussies injured Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed three Australians have been hurt when a van mowed people down in a popular tourist spot, killing more than a dozen people andinjuring around one hundred more. Video shows horrific aftermath in Barcelona Russian missiles strike hospital Doctors Without Borders says at least eight hospital staff and patients in Syria died and others were still missing, after air strikes hit hospitals on Tuesday. It was unclear who was responsible for the attacks, which came days before international powers have called for a "cessation of hostilities" in the five-year Syria war. Russian and Syrian aircraft operate in the areas where the hospitals were struck. Two of the four hospitals were supported by UNICEF. UNICEF's executive director Anthony Lake said in a statement, "Apart from compelling considerations of diplomacy and obligations under international humanitarian law, let us remember that these victims are children." Related Articles ​Farhan Haq, a spokesman for the United Nations in New York, told reporters that

the death toll was 50. Doctors Without Borders, the international medical charity, said the air strikes destroyed one of the hospitals it supports, killing at least seven, wounding eight and leaving an unknown number of patients buried in rubble. Advertisement The hospital, in the town of Maarat al-Noaman, in insurgent-held Idlib province, was hit by four missiles in two sets of attacks within a few minutes of each other, the charity said, citing reports by hospital staff members. A wounded Syrian man is carried to a hospital in Kilis, Turkey. An air strike in the northern Syrian province of Idlib destroyed a makeshift clinic supported by an international aid group on Monday. Photo: AP "This appears to be a deliberate attack on a health structure, and we condemn this attack in the strongestpossible terms," Doctors Without Borders head of Syrian mission Massimiliano Rebaudengo said about Monday's strike on the charity's affiliate. Deliberate attacks on medical facilities are forbidden under international law. The hospital had 30 beds, 54 staff, two operating rooms, clinics and an emergency room, and its destruction leaves 40,000 people without medical care, the charity said. Syrians fleeing a government offensive and Russian air strikes try to cross the border into Turkey this month. Photo: Getty Images Anti-government activists and residents said warplanes also attacked three other hospitals on Monday. Three people were killed and six wounded in one, the National Hospital, which is also in Maarat al-Noaman. And in Azaz, a major prize in the fierce battles unfolding in Aleppo province, two hospitals were hit, at least one of them

early Mesozoic (185\~210 Ma)^[@CR19]--[@CR21]^ granite, diorite, granodiorite and syenogranite, as well as the locally distributed late Mesozoic (110\~120 Ma)^[@CR19],[@CR20],[@CR23]^ granite porphyry and diorite porphyry. Among them, the granite porphyry records intense phyllic alteration, accompanied by abundant mineralization^[@CR19]^. The emplacement age of the granite porphyry has been well constrained, concentrated at 110\~113 Ma^[@CR19],[@CR20]^ which is broadly consistent with the time of the gold mineralization. We therefore infer that the gold mineralization is spatio-temporally and genetically associated with the granite porphyry. The emplacement of the granite porphyry and subsequent pulses of volatile release and gas streaming resulted in breccia pipes and fractures. When the ore-bearing fluids exsolved from the granite porphyry, they migrated into the breccia pipes and fractures, leading to the intense alteration and precipitating abundant ore minerals due to water-rockand epithermal gold deposits along eastern margin of NE China. The Yanbian-Dongning region, located in the southeastern margin of NE China, is recognized as a unique zone that underwent two stages of evolution within the tectonic regimes of the Paleo-Asian and Paleo-Pacific oceans^[@CR6]--[@CR8]^. Although the transformation time of the two tectonic regimes is still debated, it is generally accepted that the study area was associated with subduction of the Paleo-Pacific plate (Izanagi plate) during the Mesozoic^[@CR7],[@CR33],[@CR34]^. The temporal--spatial distribution of Mesozoic granitoids and volcanic rocks in the Yanbian area demonstrates that an arc front migrated oceanwards, probably as a result of roll-back of the subducted Pacific plate (Izanagi plate)^[@CR9],[@CR35],[@CR36]^. During the late Mesozoic, the presence of early Cretaceous A-type granite and alkali rhyolite^[@CR37]^, metamorphic core complexes^[@CR38],[@CR39]^, typical bimodal igneous

beer bottles, cut and finished by Andy in glass. Clare Grennan and Laura Caffrey established Irish Design Shop in 2008. A love of Irish craft and good design led these two jewellers to set up a retail space which offered customers both. Irish craft was witnessing a revival at this time, with a new breed of Irish designer/maker producing exciting, design-led products which embraced traditional and new techniques. Clare Grennan and Laura Caffrey established Irish Design Shop in 2008. A love of Irish craft and good design led these two jewellers to set up a retail space which offered customers both. Irish craft was witnessing a revival at this time, with a new breed of Irish designer/maker producing exciting, design-led products which embraced traditional and new techniques.proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration. The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have been convicted of domestic abuse. The new rules, The Hill, continues, are aimed at expanding the number of people who will be banned from owning a gun: The Justice Department plans to issue new rules expanding criteria for people who do not qualify for gun ownership, according to the recently released Unified Agenda, which is a list of rules that federal agencies are developing. Some of the rules come in response to President Obama’s call to reduce gun violence in the wake of Sandy Hook.

located not that far from the former capital. The closest area with a reference to "Aranyik" is Nakhon Luang. The district has a sub-district called “Phra Non” in the Aranyik area. The Pa Sak River is running through this sub-district and there is a monastery called Wat Phra Non or the "Monastery of the Reclining Buddha". The head monk of the monastery indicated that there was no image of a reclining Buddha on his temple premises, but stated that outside the temple opposite the road there was a vihara, which once contained a very large image of a reclining Buddha. He added that the site was destroyed by the Burmese in 1767. The prayer hall was before part of the premises of the temple, but now a road separatedit from the present monastery. (1) On the indicated spot stood a large and wide vihara, about 15 to 17 meters long. All around were scattered bricks and tiles. Remnants of broken Buddha images were gathered in one place. The vihara was restored in the first half of 2013 by the Fine Arts Department. Considering an old ordination hall and a chedi in Lao style on the left bank of the Pa Sak River and the location of the prayer hall inland, there must have been a large monastery in this location. This site could have been once the famous Wat Pho Aranyik. The area was before mainly populated by Lao people and some Mon. The vihara is located is in Geo Coord: 14° 29' 49.62" N, 100° 38' 15.04" E.

This order contained no proof of service and National Bank's counsel claims never to have received it. 5 National Bank did not respond to the conditional order. The BAP dismissed the appeal on April 14, 1988. National Bank moved the BAP to set aside its order of dismissal, claiming the designation of the transcript was "incorrect[ ]," that no notice of the procedural default was received, and that dismissal was therefore "an unwarranted sanction." The BAP denied this motion without explanation on June 14, 1988. National Bank filed a notice of appeal to this court on June 24, 1988. 6 National Bank's notice purports to appeal both the bankruptcy court's December 1987 summary judgment and the BAP's June 1988 refusal to reconsider its order ofIraq jihadists release pictures of mass execution BAGHDAD, IRAQ- The Islamic State (IS) group on Monday released pictures of the execution of 13 men described as anti-jihadist Sunni tribal fighters near the northern city of Tikrit. Three pictures published on a jihadist forum and pro-IS social media accounts show the execution of the men wearing orange jumpsuits. Local residents confirmed to AFP that a mass execution had taken place on a large roundabout six kilometres (four miles) east of the city of Tikrit at around 3:30 pm (1230 GMT). The first picture shows 11 men kneeling, heads bowed, with one black-clad and masked gunman behind each one and black IS flags in the background. The next picture shows the gunmen brandishing their handguns after the execution and in the third a

small gathering of onlookers, including children, can be seen near 13 bodies, which have been dragged off the roundabout's central island and onto the road. Residents said the roundabout is at an intersection for roads leading to Tikrit, Kirkuk and the town of Al-Alam. They said the men who were executed were members of an anti-IS group of Sunni tribal fighters known as the Knights of Al-Alam who were captured by jihadists in Tikrit and Al-Alam around 10 days earlier. The city of Tikrit has been under IS control since the beginning of the jihadists' major offensive in Iraq six months ago. Iraqi government forces, backed by Shiite militia and in some areas by Sunni tribal fighters have inflicted a string of defeats on the jihadists in recentThis season with the Timber Rattlers, Williams has appeared in 5 games, starting 4 of them and pitching a total of 21.0 innings. He has a 1-1 record, a 4.29 ERA, and a WHIP of 1.286. Despite his #9 status, Williams is not perfect. He has the ability to have a three pitch arsenal made up of a low to mid 90’s fastball, a slider, and a changeup. There have been some questions about Williams’ ability to command his pitches and he has had control issues arise in his short career. During the 2015 season, he averaged 3.6 walks per 9 innings and also had 19 wild pitches. He definitely has the potential to be a middle of the rotation guy, but he must work on his command in

offers many amenities including an attractive business district, a hospital (Lawrence Hospital), public paddle and tennis courts, fine dining at local restaurants, two private country clubs and a community library. While the earliest settlers of Bronxville date back to the first half of the 18th century, the history of the modern suburb of Bronxville began in 1890 when William Van Duzer Lawrence purchased a farm and commissioned the architect, William A. Bates, to design a planned community of houses for well-known artists and professionals that became a thriving art colony. This community, now called Lawrence Park, is listed on the National register of Historic Places and many of the homes still have artists’ studios. A neighborhood association within Lawrence Park called “The Hilltop Association” keeps this heritage alive withart shows and other events for neighbors. Bronxville offers many charming neighborhoods as well as a variety of living options for residents including single family homes, town houses, cooperatives and condominiums. One of the chief benefits of living in “the village” is that your children can attend the Bronxville School. The Bronxville postal zone (10708, known as “Bronxville PO”) includes the village of Bronxville as well as the Chester Heights section of Eastchester, parts of Tuckahoe and the Lawrence Park West, Cedar Knolls, Armour Villa and Longvale sections of Yonkers. Many of these areas have their own distinct character. For instance, the Armour Villa section has many historic homes and even has its own newsletter called “The Villa Voice” which reports on neighborhood news. MyhometownBroxnville reserves the right to monitor and

evaluation of the process model as well as the effects of the intervention both synchronously and over time. STJ focuses specifically on African American identity and youths visions of their own future possibilities. As a selective preventive intervention, the application meets a number of the Priorities for Prevention Research at NIMH (Publication number 98-4321) recommendations: We address cultural issues, the need for longitudinal research (recommendation 1), a broadened basis for conduct disorder prevention research and connection with other NIMH funded preventive trials (recommendation 5). We have established collaboration with the community sites with the Fast Track team, with the Detroit Initiative here at the University of Michigan, as well as with Project Aim, a CDC funded prevention effort in Alabama (Leslie Clark, PI)his co-defendant, and that the court erred in singling out and tearing down in the presence of the jury the explanation of what occurred at the time of the alleged defense, it is sufficient to say that these matters of procedure present nothing of substance, the defendant Caraway had not testified against Siglar, and there was nothing to cross examine her on. The court did not prevent counsel from using her as his own witness. Indeed he told him if he wished to examine the defendant, he must make her his own witness. Nor is there any basis for the charge that the court's remarks and conduct in connection with the explanation of what occurred at the time of the alleged defense was beyond the

About The School Welcome to the Australian Graduate School of Policing & Security The Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security has a global reputation as a leading provider of research and education for professionals in law enforcement, regulation, emergency management and security. The School places practical scholarship and pedagogy ahead of abstract theory and consequently our students learn to bring critical perspectives to their work and meet the complex challenges faced by professionals in a fast changing world. Our graduates have the creative intellectual capacity and skills which are sought out to fill senior positions in policing, compliance, security, and emergency management by law enforcement, regulators and blue chip companies. Our courses and programs combine theory and knowledge with strategic law enforcement, intelligence, emergency management, public safety, fraud prevention, counterterrorism and security studies. The School continues to grow through close collaboration with law enforcement, regulators, universities, research bodies, private industry and emergency services providers in Australia and overseas, with our courses attracting students from around the globe. AGSPS also provides education and training programs in Abu Dhabi, China, India, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore and Canada. In 2013 the School absorbed the under graduate courses previously offered by the School of Policing and joined with the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies in Canberra to become the world's largest provider of university education in law enforcement, counter-terrorism, emergency management, customs and border security studies. International Policing and Security Conference 2018 New website launched The School has launched a new Terrorism Studies website. Applications are now open for the 2017 face-to-face program in Canberra. Our

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a drug-induced coma for several weeks in order to let her brain heal. When she woke up a nurse came to her and asked her of which faith her father was. She told the nurse that both of her parents had been dead for many years. The nurse asked, “So maybe he is a Rabbi or something like that?” The woman was baffled. As far as she knew, nobody other than her doctor even knew she was in the hospital. Then nurse called over several physicians who described to the woman a visitor who’d been at her bedside after her surgery. He was heavyset, bald and wore a “long white dress” and had a blanket over his shoulders. The doctors told her that the strange man had sat by her side for severalweeks holding her hand and seemed to be there twenty-four hours a day. Only when woman had began to regain consciousness did the man with the blanket finally get up and walk away. She had a small picture of Maharaji copied from Be Here Now stashed away with her personal affects in the night table and when she showed it to the doctors, they all agreed that it the man in the photo was the same one that had sat by her side and held her hand. A few years later while I was In India I heard that the woman’s cancer had come back. One of Maharajis old devotees was married to a lady who ran a naturopathic hospital in Delhi that was said to have success in treating