The dissent continued throughout the year with protesters participating in anti-police chants such as “How many kids did you kill today?”.

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# Martin Luther King's Birthday Marked by Protests Over Deaths of Black Men

Jaiya Smith, 14, carrying a sign down the aisle during the Martin Luther King Birthday commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta, where Dr. King preached.

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Justice League NYC supporters participate in a "Dream4Justice" march to the United Nations in New York.

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Demonstrators marched down Market Street in St. Louis in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday.

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A wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington.

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Streets were closed in Chinatown in Washington during an MLK Day of Action, Resistance and Empowerment march led by the Coalition Against Police Violence.

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Dwayne Gilbert, center, marched to honor Dr. King in Philadelphia.

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Visitors at the tomb of Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, in Atlanta.

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Many tributes spoke of the treatment of African-Americans by law enforcement officials that has set off protests around the country.

Protesters gather near an illuminated sign at the house of Mayor Libby Schaaf in Oakland, Calif.

In Atlanta, about 200 young demonstrators sat down in the middle of Peachtree Street, not far from the annual Martin Luther King's Birthday commemoration at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and briefly stopped the parade.

In St. Louis, a group of protesters rushed the stage at a prayer service, bringing the event to a halt until the police arrived.

In New York, there was a "die-in" outside Bloomingdale's, in the heart of an upscale shopping area, while in Boston, similar "die-ins" took place on streets between Boston Common and the Public Garden and then in front of the Statehouse.

The nation's celebration of Dr. King's birthday on Monday was punctuated by protest, as a new generation of activists, angered by the deaths of several unarmed African-Americans in confrontations with the police, demanded that the traditional holiday rituals of speechmaking, community service and prayer breakfasts give way to denunciations of injustice and inequality.

"The events that have happened have kind of diminished his dream a little bit," said Aleah Hutchinson, 17, who attended a King event in Athens, Ala., and won a local essay contest connected to the holiday.

"He wanted us all to work together in unity, but when certain events occur, like the events in Ferguson and the Trayvon Martin case, it kind of diminishes his dream a little bit because at that point, we're not working together."

In Atlanta — where the holiday has long been a big but generally mellow and celebratory affair — a showdown occurred between the civil rights old guard and the new, more boisterous generation of protesters, many of whom were catalyzed to action by the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, both at the hands of the police.

The protesters argued that the holiday had become corrupted by corporate involvement, diluting Dr. King's ideas about economics as well as race.

With signs, slogans and shouts, they inserted themselves into the annual parade as it made its way down Peachtree Street, Atlanta's downtown thoroughfare.

Several times, the group sat and lay en masse in the middle of the street, raising fists toward the air as the police pleaded with the protesters to move on.

"We're going to reclaim M.L.K.'s holiday!" Aurielle Marie, 20, an activist and author, yelled at the Atlanta protest.

"We will not allow those that actively subject us to an oppressive lifestyle to lead the parade or be in the parade."

ImageMartin Luther King's Birthday was commemorated with a "die-in" in Union Square in New York.

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In front of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King and his father both preached, protesters marched to the front of a stage where a service was underway.

Carrying a cardboard box decorated like a coffin, and demanding to be heard, they chanted, "Black people are dying."

Organizers of the commemoration seemed both frustrated and accommodating, allowing the demonstrators to take the podium for a time, during which one young man declared that he had had enough of "the M.L.K. they shove down our throats."

K. Renee Robertson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said afterward that she thought the insurgents' passion was "great."

"But do it in the right way," Ms. Robertson said.

Similar events unfolded in St. Louis, where several thousand people marched from the city's Old Courthouse, where enslaved blacks were once sold as property, to Harris-Stowe State University, where the marchers joined a packed auditorium for an interfaith service.

As a musical act took the stage, a couple of dozen demonstrators ran up.

The microphone was seized, and one man shouted, "St. Louis P.D., K.K.K., how many kids did you kill today?"

About a dozen St. Louis police officers helped university security officers clear the stage.

"The difference this year is that people are more energized," said State Senator Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat who has been involved in the Ferguson protests.

"They are ready to rise up and promote change."

One of the day's larger gatherings was in Philadelphia, where thousands marched peacefully through the city center, calling for an end to a stop-and frisk policy by the city police, higher funding for cash-starved public schools and an increase in the minimum wage.

"This is to make people aware that it's not just a day of service," Wesley Wilson-Bey, 68, said at a rally outside the school district headquarters.

"People have relegated Dr. King to just cleaning floors and all that kind of stuff on this day, and that's not what he was.

He was a person who made things happen."

More than a thousand people gathered in Harlem; across a plaza, a banner reading "Black Lives Matter" was suspended from the front of a church.

Demonstrators, some carrying signs demanding justice for Mr. Garner and Mr. Brown, marched down Lexington Avenue through the Upper East Side, accompanied by a mobile system broadcasting Dr. King's speeches.

ImageAcross the country, Martin Luther King's Birthday was celebrated, from top, by a parade in St. Louis, a "die-in" in New York and a visit to the King memorial in Washington.

"Martin Luther King's dream hasn't been realized yet," said Norell Edwards, 23, a graduate student from Washington, who joined the protesters in New York.

"This is a way to try to finish his work and stand together with unity and equality."

In Boston, where hundreds gathered, march organizers said they wanted criminal justice reforms, a $15-an-hour minimum wage, and an end to efforts to bring the Olympics to town, among other demands.

Lena Zuckerwise, 35, a senior lecturer in political science at Simmons College, carried a sign that read, "Dr. King was no moderate/Shut it down."

"There is a perception that what Martin Luther King Jr. was doing was honorable and what we are doing today is disruptive," Ms. Zuckerwise said.

She added, "I think it's a historical falsehood, that there were profound differences between what Martin Luther King and others were doing at that time and what we're trying to accomplish here."

Smaller crowds gathered in Chicago, where more than 100 protesters marched down the sidewalks of the upscale Magnificent Mile shopping district and to the Board of Trade, and in Washington, where about 100 gathered in front of the White House.

"Just seeing the recent news with unarmed civilians being shot by the police, it's an obvious injustice," said Denisha Burns, 33, in Chicago, where protesters recited the names of people killed by police.

In Washington, as Ananda Ewing-Boyd, 16, sang "A Change Is Gonna Come," organizers passed out lists of demands, including an end to violence by the police, and raised money for local homeless shelters.

"Part of the idea is reminding people what M.L.K. Day is about," said Caroline Tyson, a 19-year-old college student.

Even in small towns, the events of recent years affected the celebrations.

In Athens, Ala., where a column of Junior R.O.T.C. cadets and the mayor led an annual parade past Limestone Drug and the U.G. White Mercantile, some marchers wore black shirts with the names of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin as well as Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, the two New York City police officers who were shot to death as they sat in their patrol car.

"We've got to break the cycle of the past," said Lionel Turner, a 38-year-old marcher.

"There used to be slave masters and stuff like that, but now it's changed to organized police officers, and they find a way within the law to break the law themselves.

You've got to find some kind of way to unify everyone."

Reporting was contributed by Jess Bidgood from Boston; Alan Blinder from Athens, Ala.; Richard Fausset from Atlanta; Jon Hurdle from Philadelphia; Colin Moynihan from New York; Jada Smith from Washington; Mitch Smith from Chicago; and Eli Yokley from St. Louis.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: King Events Punctuated by Protests Over Deaths of Black Men.

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## Commemorating King's Legacy and Invoking Change

## The Fight for Civil Rights, Long After Selma

The United States.:Examples.:Ferguson, Missouri.

The shooting of unarmed African American Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson on the 9th of August 2014 catalysed public rage throughout the country. Thus, it renewed a global dialogue that heavily condemned the law enforcement’s use of force against the marginalised. From the 9th of August to 25th of August following Brown’s murder, the Ferguson unrest occurred wherein members of the community demanded police accountability which further strained the African American social group's level of trust in their authority figures.


Madhavan later wrote and starred in a Hindi version, "Ramji Londonwaley", which released in September 2005.

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Maybe it's because I was famished, and the very idea of a self-styled gourmet chef pulling off great epicurean feats effortlessly appealed to me, but I indulgently smiled through most of Ramji Londonwaley's first half.

The actor was reportedly quite good in the film's Tamil original, Nala Damayanthi, and he shines through this simpleton role with flying colours.

It's a very straight character, a naïve do-gooder country bumpkin struggling to cope with London.

The challenge is in lacing his straight-man with likeability, and this is something Madhavan manages quite deftly.

He is utterly believable, almost always convincing and delightfully restrained -- something our finest leading men seem quite incapable off.

As the chef bumbles through credible difficulties, we're convinced it's a refreshing film.

The premise is predictable to the hilt  cook needs dough for sister's wedding, goes to London, loses everything, and then goes from rags to riches through a series of fortunate filmi events.

But it's 'feel-good' -- which translates to an audience supposed to suspend disbelief and leave our cynic hats at home.

So we're initially okay with the film, as is our Bihari protagonist.

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Except, we notice by the time we're munching interval-bought popcorn, Ramji's accent slips.

From a blissful ignorance of the English tongue, he has oddly enlightened moments when he spouts perfectly comprehensible complete sentences in the language.

This, in a nutshell, is the problem with this initially harmless film  it is tragically inconsistent.

And we aren't talking about the bad direction.

First-time director Sanjay Dayma is totally lost throughout the film, with continuity and factual errors glaringly difficult to miss.

Characters change position between cuts, the editing is shoddy, and the whole package is decidedly amateurish.

Still, we start by settling into Ramji and giving it the benefit of the doubt, because of Madhavan's character, and the script's simplicity.

It is this simplicity that the film starts to lose as it goes on, and this is most unfortunate.

Starting well with Ramji's life in a small Bihar village populated by the residents of Ashutosh Gowariker-Land (yes, the director's regulars), our hero gamely tackles irate flight attendants, travel on the London Underground, and an unexpected funeral.

And  again, because of the way he plays it straight  we're okay with the way things progress.

Then he meets his heroine, Sameera, played by Samita Bangargi.

The girl looks reasonably fine as long as Dayma isn't zooming right into her face  which he likes to do quite a bit  and she's surprisingly not an intolerable (as opposed to, please note, 'a tolerable') actress.

At least she doesn't shriek, or giggle annoyingly.

Anyway, we're still waiting for them to fall in love, and for some mush being garbled by our bumpkin.

Unfortunately, this doesn't happen till the very end of the film, and in between, things go very awry.

The simple film turns very contrived with a dozen little side characters and a lot of very avoidable melodrama.

As things drag needlessly on  the film stretches slowly close to the three-hour mark  Ramji's constant confusion is replaced by his being a man of action, and the director begins to prioritise the wrong subjects in his narrative.

For instance, one of the highlights of the film, his entering a cooking competition, is reduced to tiny little spool-time during a song sequence.

And copious scenes are devoted to a very confusing, totally irrelevant sister-best friend subplot.

It's irritating because this could have been polished into a good film.

Madhavan makes a valiant attempt, and renders the film almost entirely watchable, but that happens to be a big almost, sadly.

And then there's the end, the very end, which feels like a bad Kaun Banega Crorepati promo.

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The film was a moderate success at the box office and performed well in multiplexes across Chennai. Sify gave a verdict that the film was a "comedy caper" and a "clean comedy with some warm moments". The Hindu called the film a "decent offering", adding that "a logical storyline and a well thought out script by Kamal Hassan are definite scoring points that sustain viewers' interest till the end".
 Kamal Haasan stated that he intended of remaking the film in Hindi, with the title of "Maharaj", but the project did not take off.


In 1987-89 she worked in Hong Kong and Macau amongst the addict community.

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# Philippa Stroud on family breakdown, welfare reform and Brexit

On the surface, Baroness Stroud has the perfect Westminster CV.

She helped found one think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, and is now running another, the Legatum Institute.

In between, she worked as special adviser to Iain Duncan Smith, helping to devise and implement his welfare reforms.

Yet as our conversation in the latest episode of Free Exchange makes clear, her career is rather more interesting – and rather more extraordinary.

She entered politics after a lifetime of working with the homeless and destitute, slowly working out what the root causes of family breakdown were and then attempting to implement those insights on a national level.

You can listen to the full interview here.

Despite the occasional interference from an awkwardly placed phone, it really is worth your while.

Philippa Stroud on… working with addicts in Hong Kong

"If you are an addict in the UK, and you go through a drug rehab centre, and you fall out of it or don't succeed going through it, you may get one other chance, but you won't get many other opportunities.

What [my mentor] was doing was saying was that if this takes 12 times, 15 times, we are committed to seeing you go on your journey through this.

You often find with addiction: people don't make it the first time.

But each time they come back in, they make another choice, and they go a little bit further."

"One day I was coming down to speak to the Conservative Party conference – I wasn't a Conservative Party member then – about the voluntary sector, and I thought I'd better check that I was right about what was driving [addiction] before I took to the platform.

I asked each of my residents, in private, the question: 'If there was something that didn't happen in your life, that had meant that you wouldn't end up in a place like this, what would it have been?'

And they all answered: 'It started when my father walked out' or 'when my stepfather walked in'.

"The disintegration of the family, and the violence in some of these families, and the abuse in some of these families, was such a theme running through what we were doing, but was not being talked about in national politics.

Governments were very happy to pay money to these people, but what they really wanted was strong, stable families."

Philippa Stroud on… changing the Conservative Party (16 mins 30)

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"When we first launched the Centre for Social Justice, Tim [Montgomerie] did a picture of a typewriter which only had three keys – Europe, immigration and tax.

The vision of the CSJ was to restore all the others – family, employment, managing our personal finances, modern-day slavery.

It was a hugely exciting agenda to be part of.

'Hug a hoodie' was actually from a day conference the CSJ hosted to bring the players in the early intervention space together.

We actually titled it 'Thugs: Beyond Redemption?', which sounds awful now

Philippa Stroud on… modern slavery (20 mins 30)

"Once the [CSJ] report was published, everybody thought it was completely self-evident that you would do it.

But because there was such a packed legislative programme, it got stuck in No 10.

I remember conversations with advisers where I was told that it wasn't a priority, and I wrote an email saying why I thought it was – why British families didn't want our progress as a nation made on the backs of slavery.

"They said, if you can find a Secretary of State who will take the legislation through, you can do it.

I thought, should I go to William Hague, who'd written a William Wilberforce book, or Theresa May, because it was obviously on her patch.

I knew Fiona Cunningham – now Hill – and she said 'We need to be in this space, and Theresa will definitely want to do this.'

And we met and it was just like an open door."

Philippa Stroud on… battles with the Treasury (32 mins)

"When Iain went back in [after the 2015 election], I knew that he was going to have to take £12 billion out of welfare.

I hadn't thought that I would go back in with him, but… I thought, that's a really, really difficult task.

Do I want to leave it to somebody who doesn't know the welfare budget inside out, and who will do it brutally, or do I want it to be done as carefully as possible?

"They were hugely difficult decisions to make, and behind the scenes I expended a huge amount of energy explaining to people the consequences of doing them, and in fact a good proportion of them never happened.

"I actually didn't believe it was possible to take that amount out only from working-age [benefits]…

As the election went on, more and more was being taken off the table, more and more promises were being made.

So what was difficult but possible when Osborne first announced it became almost almost impossible, because so many areas of the welfare budget had been taken off the table.

Which is why when I came out of government, I spoke and wrote publicly about the fact that the tax credit cuts should not go ahead."

Philippa Stroud on… the triple lock (35 mins)

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"I always thought, why are we protecting universal benefits for people who go right up the income stream?

I genuinely believe there should be a very honest conversation, almost a cross-party commission, on welfare.

Because Labour are known to protect the benefits of the poorest, and rightly so, and Conservatives are known for protecting the universal benefits.

But actually, we should be asking what is a 21st-century welfare system required to do, and what should be the best way of constructing it?

And it shouldn't be providing an income for people who have a decent income."

Philippa Stroud on… her mission with the Legatum Institute

"Even when you look at what's going on in Brexit, you have the 52 per cent of people voted for this – and the reason why they did that was because of job insecurity, lack of access to housing, education challenges, and health challenges.

And some of these things are very much the space I've been in for a very long time."

Philippa Stroud on… why religion matters (45 mins 30)

"Faith is running through the heart of society.

If you push it to the sides, that's when you get extremism.

You need faith running through the warp and weft of society, because that's when it's healthy."

You can listen to the full interview here:

Or catch up with our recent interviews with Frank Field, Nick Cohen, Daniel Hannan, Peter Oborne and Lord Lawson.

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Stroud spent seventeen years in poverty-fighting projects and published a book on social injustice.


Active citizenship was granted to men who were French, at least 25 years old, paid taxes equal to three days work, and could not be defined as servants (Thouret).

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# Thouret, "Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility" (29 September 1789)

Jacques–Guillaume Thouret (1746–94), a lawyer from Rouen, spoke for the Constitutional Committee of the National Assembly that included, among others, Sieyès and Rabaut Saint–Etienne.

His report formed the basis for the subsequent legislation on qualifications for voting and officeholding.

The materials listed below appeared originally in The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt (Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), 82.

The number of individuals in France is about 26 million; but according to calculations that seem to be very definite, the number of active citizens, with deductions made for women, minors, and all those who are deprived of political rights for legitimate reasons, is reduced to one-sixth of the total population.

One must only count therefore about 4,400,000 citizens qualifying to vote in the primary assemblies of their canton [local administrative unit]. . . .

The Committee proposes that the necessary qualifications for the title of active citizen in the primary assembly of the canton be: (1) to be French or to have become French; (2) to have reached one's majority [be a legal adult; the age was set at 25]; (3) to have resided in the canton for at least one year; (4) to pay direct taxes at a rate equal to the local value of three days of work, a value that will be assessed in monetary terms by the provincial assemblies; (5) to not be at the moment a servant, that is to say, in personal relationships that are all too incompatible with the independence necessary to the exercise of political rights.

To be eligible for office, either at the town or departmental level, one must have fulfilled all the conditions cited above with the sole difference that instead of paying a direct tax equal to the local value of three days of work, one must pay one equal to the value of ten days of work.

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Substance.:Active and passive citizenship.

While the French Revolution provided rights to a larger portion of the population, there remained a distinction between those who obtained the political rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and those who did not. Those who were deemed to hold these political rights were called active citizens.


On 1 September 2009, Gmail suffered another outage for several hours.

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Google has issued an apology after a "miscalculation" caused a blackout of its Gmail service, affecting the "majority" of its 150 million users.

The firm described Tuesday's two-hour outage as a "big deal" and said it was investigating ways to ensure it did not happen again.

The disruption was caused by an error during "routine upgrades" to the company's web servers, it said.

It follows outages of the Gmail service in February and March.

"We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications, and we take it very seriously when there's a problem with the service," said the firm's Ben Treynor in a blog post.

"Thus, right up front, I'd like to apologise to all of you - today's outage was a big deal, and we're treating it as such."

He said the problem occurred when engineers took some of Gmail's servers offline to perform routine upgrades.

"This isn't in itself a problem - we do this all the time, and Gmail's web interface runs in many locations and just sends traffic to other locations when one is offline," he said.

However, said Mr Treynor, engineers "slightly underestimated" the increased load put on other parts of the system during the upgrades, causing the "widespread outage" of its webmail.

Other ways of accessing the service - such as through desktop email programs - were unaffected, the firm said.

Google's last major technical problem happened in May, with millions of people unable to use its main search page, as well as Gmail and Google News.

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He also co-sponsored the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act to provide protections to female employees and applicants for employment from discriminatory or unlawful employment practices based on pregnancy, childbirth, or any related medical conditions.

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# Nevada Expands Protections for Pregnant Workers

Nevada first included sex as a protected category in 1967.

That year, the legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 7, which included for the first time sex discrimination as an unlawful employment practice.

Twenty-one years later, in 1989, Nevada passed legislation that required employers to provide pregnant employees the same benefits provided to other employees due to sickness or disability related to a medical condition.

On June 2, 2017, Governor Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill No. 253, which greatly expands the legal protections for pregnant employees.

The new law, the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act, is actually much broader than the name implies.

The Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to provide a reasonable accommodation to a female employee or applicant for a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition.

It is also an unlawful employment practice to take adverse action against, or deny an employment opportunity to, an otherwise qualified female employee or applicant due to a request for, or use of, a reasonable accommodation.

An employer, however, may take action in relation to the employee or applicant based on a bona fide occupational qualification.

The terms "condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition" are defined to include a "physical or mental condition intrinsic to pregnancy or childbirth."

This specifically includes lactation and the need to express milk for a nursing child.

As such, it arguably provides broader protections for lactating employees and imposes potentially greater requirements on the employer than the Affordable Care Act's amendments to Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

"Related medical condition" is also defined to mean "any medically recognized physical or mental condition related to the pregnancy, childbirth or recovery" from the same.

The Act states that this includes: mastitis or other lactation-related medical condition, gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, and post-partum depression.

It also includes the loss or end of pregnancy and the subsequent recovery.

Similar to requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 6 of the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act requires the employer and employee to engage in a "good faith and interactive process" to determine an effective and reasonable accommodation.

This process is triggered when a female employee or applicant "requests an accommodation" for a protected condition.

The employer is permitted to require a statement from the employee's physician concerning the specific accommodation recommended.

Section 6 gives examples of some possible reasonable accommodations: modifying equipment, revising break schedules, and providing space other than restrooms for the expressing of milk.

It also provides examples of job modifications that may be reasonable, such as assistance with manual labor (if manual labor is incidental to the employee's primary work duties), light duty, and temporary transfer to less strenuous or hazardous positions.

Other reasonable accommodation examples include restructuring the position and providing a modified work schedule.

The Act clarifies that, in accommodating the employer, the employer is not required to create a new position or discharge or transfer any employee with more seniority unless the employer has or would take similar action to accommodate other classes of employees.

In addition, an employer may not require a female employee or applicant affected by a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition to accept an accommodation that she did not request or choose.

While the employer clearly cannot force an unwanted accommodation on the employee, both have a duty under the Act to engage in "good faith" in the interactive process.

Exactly what this means is unclear and will probably be the subject of future litigation.

In addition, the accommodation must be reasonable.

Section 7 of the Act creates a burden-shifting test.

If the employee or applicant makes a prima facie showing that she requested a reasonable accommodation, the burden shifts to the employer to prove undue hardship.

The bottom line is if the accommodation requested by the employee or applicant is reasonable, the employer will have to accept it.

Employers are also prohibited from requiring female employees who are affected by a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition to take leave from employment if there is a reasonable accommodation that would allow the employee to continue to work.

That said, it is clear the Act contemplates leave as a reasonable accommodation.

In fact, Section 5 of the Act includes in its definition of adverse employment action "refusing to reinstate the employee to the same or equivalent position upon return to work."

The Nevada Pregnant Worker's Fairness Act applies to employers with 15 or more employees.

Employers who are contractors licensed under Chapter 624 of the Nevada Revised Statutes have a partial exempt from the Act's requirements.

Such employers are not required to provide a place other than a restroom to express milk if the employee is performing work at a construction job site that is located more than three miles from its regular place of business.

Contractors are also exempt from the prohibitions against requiring an employee whose work duties include manual labor to accept an accommodation or take leave from employment.

Employers subject to the Act are required to provide employees three distinct written or electronic notices.

The notices must inform employees that they have the right to be free from discriminatory or unlawful employment practices pursuant to the NRS 613.335 and Sections 2 - 8 of the Act.

The notice must also include a statement that a female employee has the right to a reasonable accommodation for a condition relating to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition.

The first notice must be provided to new employees on commencement of employment.

The employer must provide a second notice within 10 days after the employee notifies her immediate supervisor that she is pregnant.

Finally, the employer is required to post notice of these rights in a conspicuous place at its place of business and in an area accessible to employees.

The notice provisions of the Act are effective June 2, 2017.

The Act is effective October 1, 2017, for all other purposes.

Information contained in this publication is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or opinion, nor is it a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney.

Subsequent to this first legislative session, Ford was named Freshman Senator of the Year by both the Las Vegas Review Journal and the Reno Gazette Journal. Ford was named Senator of the Year by Nevada Political Action for Animals and the Nevada Conservation League.
 During the 2016 interim, Ford serves on the Legislative Commission, the Advisory Committee to Develop a Plan to Reorganize the Clark County School District, and the Legislative Commission's Subcommittee to Study Water. He also sits by designation on the Interim Finance Committee.
 During the 2014 interim, Ford served as a Member of the Council to Establish Academic Standards; Technological Crime Advisory Board; Legislative Committee on Public Lands; Legislative Committee on Education; Legislative Commission on Energy; and the Advisory Council on Parental Involvement and Family Engagement.
 During the 2017 Nevada Legislative session, Ford led the efforts requiring law enforcement agencies to turn over rape kits for testing within 30 days and require labs to test them within 120 days. The bill mandated the creation of a Nevada-wide sexual assault kit tracking program, which would allow victims to follow the status of their rape kits as they go through the criminal justice system.


Hilton died in 2019 at the age of 75; he had dementia in his later years.

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# Roy Hilton, longtime Baltimore Colts defensive end who was on Super Bowl-winning team, dies at age 75

Roy Hilton played for the Baltimore Colts from 1965 to 1973.

In Super Bowl V, Baltimore Colts defensive end Roy Hilton played the game of his life: four tackles, two sacks and a fearsome fourth-quarter rush of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback that forced a hurried pass, a Colts interception and the tying touchdown.

After the game, celebrating a 16-13 victory in Baltimore's locker room, head coach Don McCafferty approached Hilton, embraced the leggy defensive end and whispered, "Thanks."

"That [moment] was the highlight of my entire career," Hilton said later.

An 11-year NFL veteran, Roy Lee Hilton died Sunday at Gilchrist Center Towson.

The Randallstown resident, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and dementia, was 75.

Hilton played for the Colts from 1965 to 1973.

Roy held on for a long, long time," said Marie Hilton, his wife of 53 years.

She called him "a good guy, in his way, and a very giving person."

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"Roy was a dear, dear friend," said Lenny Moore, 85, the Colts' Hall of Fame running back and wide receiver who played with Hilton for the latter's first three years in the NFL.

"All our lives, we could talk and relate.

You could trust him, on and off the field.

He was a beautiful guy who took care of business; I'm still going through the loss."

In a statement, the Ravens mourned the passing of Hilton, "a mainstay on a defense that helped the Colts earn two Super Bowl appearances …

We remember Roy for the lasting contributions he made to Baltimore's rich football history, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family."

Hilton parlayed his humble beginnings — picking cotton as a kid in Hazlehurst, Miss. — into a pro football career.

At 6 feet 6 and 240 pounds, he starred at Jackson State and was selected by the Colts in the 15th round of the 1965 draft (No. 210 overall).

Four years later, he became a starter but was overshadowed by the Colts' other defensive end, Bubba Smith (6-7 and 265 pounds), the No. 1 pick overall in the 1967 NFL draft.

Teammates admired Hilton for his work ethic and consistency, traits they said Smith sometimes lacked.

"I saw Roy last year, walked up and gave him a big hug," said Bob Vogel, the Colts' All-Pro offensive tackle who squared off against Hilton in practice.

"I said, 'I want to thank you for playing a part in whatever success I had.

As the league's smallest tackle, my technique had to be good, and I attribute that to you.

You stayed out there and worked with me, and I am grateful.' "

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Hilton peaked in the playoffs in 1970, totaling 4 ½ sacks as the Colts ran the table.

In the Super Bowl, he harried Dallas quarterback Craig Morton all day.

With 8 ½ minutes to play and the the Cowboys leading 13-6, Hilton dismissed All-Pro tackle Ralph Neely with a head slap and charged Morton, who threw a rainbow pass over Hilton's outstretched arms.

The ball grazed a receiver's fingertips and was nabbed by safety Rick Volk, who returned it 30 yards to Dallas' 3-yard line.

Two plays later, the Colts tied the game before winning on Jim O'Brien's 32-yard field goal with 9 seconds left.

Retiring in 1975, Hilton settled in Baltimore and worked as a security officer at Johns Hopkins University, a job he held for 20 years.

In 2011, having dealt with three knee replacements plus gout and arthritis, he reminisced with a Baltimore Sun reporter.

"I've been blessed," said Hilton who, despite multiple aches, took brisk walks daily.

"When I go out in the rain, my wife tells me what a goof I am.

I may drop dead, working out, but I feel like I've got to do it."

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A public viewing for Hilton will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Vaughn Greene Funeral Home, 8728 Liberty Road in Randallstown.

A wake is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 14, at 10 a.m. there, with the funeral to follow.

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During that span he appeared in Super Bowl III and Super Bowl V for the Baltimore Colts. He played college football at Jackson State University.


Ben Kuchera of "Ars Technica" enjoyed the improvements of the "Halo" maps in "Anniversary"'s multiplayer mode, but criticized the inability to play said mode via four-person local split screen as in the original game.

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## This $40 remake of Halo: Combat Evolved brings updated graphics, sound, and …

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary shows how far we've come in a decade—and it's not always a pretty picture.

This release celebrates the 10th anniversary of the original Halo by bringing back the classic campaign with updated graphics and sound, along with a passable replication of the game's multiplayer.

While Microsoft made a big deal about the game's Kinect support, that feature isn't listed anywhere on the box and you have to add it to the game via a day-one patch.

By using the Kinect, you can say things like "grenade," and Master Chief will throw a grenade.

You can say "flashlight" and your flashlight will turn on.

You can say "pause game," "resume game," and "change weapon," and it all does what you expect it to do (with a little bit of a pause).

It's a neat trick, but using the buttons is faster and easier.

This is a bullet point and, if you don't have a Kinect, you're not missing anything.

When you install it, the game also asks if you'd like to redeem the code to add the game's classic maps to your copy of Reach as a map pack.

It's a nice way to add value, but just once I'd like to play a game without a series of updates and five minutes of inputting codes and unlocking features that "reward" me for buying the game new.

Maybe so, but the rest of the Anniversary package is more than worth the annoyances of setup and the almost useless Kinect features.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Campaign Trailer

Very little has been added to the game itself; this is the Halo you remember.

You can find hidden skulls that change how the game is played (my copy came with the "Grunt Funeral" skull that causes grunts to explode like plasma grenades).

You'll also find terminals that give you some background information on the world of Halo, and there may even be a few hints about what's coming next.

The new content is certainly fine, but the real thrill is being able to play the classic Halo with remastered graphics.

The graphical updates are extensive, and they make everything look like a contemporary game.

You can hit the select button at any time to flip between the new graphics and the game's original look, and the changes are startling; a lot of work has been done to make this look as good as it possibly can.

The ability to switch between the two versions of the game at will also proves that the new textures and character models are all running on top of the original engine, so you don't lose any of the of the game's feel.

Everything acts just how you remember it, and for fans of a series that has gone through so many changes, it's great to go back to the original style that made Halo so popular.

The magnum is still incredibly overpowered at both close and long range, and it's great to have it back.

The Flood sections of the game are still annoying as hell.

While there might have been some temptations to adjust the game here and there, the decision was made to keep everything as you remember, for good or bad.

The updates are purely cosmetic, although the sound and music have also been completely redone.

In fact, the changes to the game's sound effects and music need more love than they've gotten in the press so far; the game sounds just as good as it looks.

You can play the entire game through in co-op with another person over Xbox Live, which is amazing, but the ability to play local four-player splitscreen is gone, which is madness.

The game brings you into the Halo: Reach engine to play the six included classic multiplayer maps:

Each map can be played in a state close to its original design, or updated to fit in with the other Reach maps.

You can also enjoy the classical loadouts and playlists to replicate the original experience.

There's also a brand new firefight mission and, if you don't care about the single-player game, all this content can be purchased separately as a Reach map pack for 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15).

New copies of the game come with a voucher that provides the map pack free of charge.

(As a side-note, on Twitter I'll be giving away all the codes that came with the game, so follow @BenKuchera if you want a chance for some free Halo content.)

To be absolutely clear: if you don't like Halo, you will still not like it now that it's prettier.

For fans of the original, however, this is a great way to revisit a game that remains fun to play, and it adds some great new content to your multiplayer rotation.

The visuals and sound are impressive without taking away from your fond memories, and the Kinect features are safely ignored.

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IGN's Steven Hopper felt that the level design was dated, the repetitious environments making it easy for players to lose their bearings, and that vehicles handled poorly. Giant Bomb's Brad Shoemaker wrote that while the best aspects of the game remained, other aspects—such as the level design and fighting the Flood—were no less frustrating after ten years; Digital Spy's Matthew Reynolds echoed the sentiment, praising the game for presenting situations unsurpassed in later titles while faulting irregular checkpoints with increasing frustration.
 The remastered visuals were positively received; reviewers such as "The Inquirer"'s Chris Martin and "The Escapist"'s Russ Pitts singled out the graphics-switch button for praise. "The Guardian"'s Steve Boxer called the feature "utterly fascinating—a bit like ... archaeology on your console", and said that the visual overhaul improved areas where the original game engine was weak, such as rendering outdoor environments. While praising most of the game's refinements, Watters singled out the Flood as enemies he thought the original game envisioned better, saying "the simplicity of the classic look feels more sinister and alien". Hamza Aziz of Destructoid appreciated the visual updates, but not some of the resulting audio–animation syncing issues.
 Critics had split opinions on "Anniversary"'s additional features. The stereoscopic 3D effect was alternately praised and dismissed: Matt Miller of "Game Informer" wrote that the feature "doesn't add anything to the experience", while Aziz described the feature as "fantastic", considering its use in "Anniversary" to be more subtle and pleasing than in other games. Aziz also applauded the narrative terminals, although he criticized the Kinect voice command support for being slower in combat than pressing buttons.


This resulted in later ill-feeling from the scientific community towards Lawrence and other members of his laboratory.

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Using stories from science's past to understand our world

Ernest Lawrence championed the idea of science done collectively.

But he failed to champion his own scientists during the Red Scare.

Ernest Lawrence and his team pose with a giant magnet, part of his 60-inch cyclotron particle accelerator, August 1938.

Lawrence, fourth from the left on the bottom row, shifted the scale at which scientific research was undertaken.

### Michael Hiltzik. Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex.

On April 26, 1954, nuclear physicist Ernest O. Lawrence phoned Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to inform him that he couldn't testify against his colleague and one-time friend J. Robert Oppenheimer, despite his earlier pledge to do so.

Strauss, who led the hearings exploring Oppenheimer's background and associations, was none too happy with Lawrence's change of heart.

Lawrence and Oppenheimer had worked together at the University of California, Berkeley, and, more famously, on the Manhattan Project.

Lawrence even named one of his sons Robert after Oppenheimer.

But Lawrence had grown exasperated by Oppenheimer's vocal support for a public debate on U.S. nuclear policy—a debate that could impede Lawrence's efforts to expand the American nuclear program.

In truth, Lawrence's second thoughts about testifying were not out of concern for a former friend but for his radiation laboratory.

Lawrence feared the reputation of his Rad Lab, as it was known, would suffer if he participated in the AEC's private hearing to remove Oppenheimer's security clearance, widely viewed as a witch hunt by the physics community.

So the day before he was due to testify, Lawrence called Strauss and told him he was too sick to make the journey from California.

It was the truth—Lawrence was suffering from one of his recurring bouts of ulcerative colitis, likely caused by intense stress—but it was not the whole truth.

Although Lawrence did not testify in person, a transcript of an interview he gave condemning Oppenheimer was presented at the hearing, and it included the words "[Oppenheimer] should never again have anything to do with the forming of policy."

Several other members of Lawrence's lab team also testified against Oppenheimer, including Luis Alvarez, Wendell Latimer, and Kenneth Pitzer, apparently united against their colleague and the idea of political dissent in the scientific community.

Lawrence's reputation and that of his laboratory never fully recovered from his involvement in Oppenheimer's persecution, despite Lawrence's considerable contributions to nuclear physics and his status as a Nobel laureate.

In Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex, Michael Hiltzik depicts Lawrence as a man of unique strengths and inescapable weaknesses.

As the title suggests, Lawrence's strengths perfectly positioned him to transform the way science, particularly nuclear physics, was done, from benchtop experiments in small, ill-equipped, and understaffed labs to large-scale experiments in government-funded labs with big teams of scientists and even bigger equipment.

But despite this scientific success Lawrence's flaws tripped him up throughout his career.

He learned to compensate for some of his weaknesses, but he couldn't escape them all.

Lawrence's education did not follow the typical path of East Coast elites in the nuclear-physics field.

He grew up in a fairly conservative, if intellectually encouraging, household in South Dakota.

His parents, the children of Norwegian immigrants, were both teachers.

He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of South Dakota and his master's degree at the University of Minnesota, and then headed east to Yale University for his doctorate.

In 1928 Lawrence was recruited by the University of California, Berkeley, at the time somewhat of a backwater in research.

Four years later he invented the cyclotron, which Hiltzik describes as a "method for artificially driving subatomic particles into the nucleus with enough energy to give physicists a clear picture of what it was made of."

One cyclotron led to another, each larger and more powerful than the last.

Lawrence's use of big equipment and big teams of scientists, who were needed to keep the cyclotrons running, was atypical for the field.

Hiltzik points out that the father of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford of the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, distrusted the cyclotron and believed that great discoveries could still be made with simple tabletop equipment.

Lawrence transformed this romantic notion of the lone, scrappy scientist working in his tiny lab into that of big science.

Lawrence encouraged an atmosphere of collaboration in the Rad Lab, unlike the standard practices in Europe and the rest of the United States.

Each member of his team focused on one chemical element, bombarding that element's nucleus, while Lawrence acted as overseer.

He encouraged curiosity and exploration for their own sake and recruited team members from chemistry, medicine, and engineering as well as physics.

His skill in attracting talent was matched by his skill in finding the money to pay that talent.

Robert Oppenheimer and Ernest Lawrence standing by a 184-inch cyclotron, ca. 1946.

The pair, who had worked closely together in Lawrence's lab and on the Manhattan Project, would become estranged because of their political differences.

To illustrate the unusual nature of Lawrence's rainmaking abilities, Hiltzik offers up Marie Curie and the lengths to which she went to obtain a tiny amount of radium in 1921.

She went on a fund-raising tour of the United States for six weeks, finishing up with a visit to the White House, all to obtain just a thimbleful of radium for her experiments.

Lawrence, however, created a trifecta of steady income from academia (through Berkeley), government, and foundations.

Lawrence's interdisciplinary style of research actually increased the number of potential funders.

When he discovered that foundations, including the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, were interested in funding the use of isotopes in cancer research, he tailored his pitch to them.

Lawrence also understood the need for a little spectacle, and on his 1935 East Coast lecture tour—a thinly veiled fund-raising campaign—he drank a glass of radioactive salt water at each stop and then used a Geiger counter to demonstrate the radioactive sodium's circulation throughout his body.

He referred to these kinds of activities as "the vaudeville."

Sometimes Lawrence's personal traits led him astray.

Early in his career a discovery might so excite him that he would fail to do the careful work required to confirm his results.

At the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, Lawrence used his cyclotron observations to suggest that deuterons could explode when hit hard enough, which directly challenged research coming out of the Cavendish, the place where artificial nuclear fission had first been discovered.

After the New York Times and Time published pieces on Lawrence and his new theory, the Cavendish tested it and disproved it.

They found, as Hiltzik bluntly puts it, that "Lawrence's targets were contaminated—his supposed great discovery the product of poor technique."

Lawrence refused to believe his theory was faulty, continuing to promote it until his childhood friend Merle Tuve, also a renowned physicist, checked his results.

"Dear Ernie," Tuve wrote, "we reached the astounding conclusion that we were unable to check a single one of the observations which you have reported."

To add insult to injury, scientists at the Cavendish discovered two new isotopes—tritium and helium-3—while performing the same experiments.

After more such mistakes Lawrence learned his lesson and, according to Hiltzik, reoriented his laboratory "toward much more careful research."

Lawrence's efforts paid off when he found a new radioactive isotope of sodium in 1934.

Rather than rushing to make an announcement, Lawrence painstakingly reviewed his work and detailed his methodology in a long report sent to the journal Physical Review.

His work was of great use for research in the physics and medical communities, and his more mature approach buoyed his reputation.

Lawrence went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for the creation of the cyclotron and for the discoveries he made with his machine.

Still, his inability to correct for all his habits of mind led to some serious professional mistakes, including his consistent advocacy for keeping politics out of the Rad Lab.

Lawrence believed scientific work to be removed from the political realm, and he did not approve of his staff discussing politics in the lab or having opinions about the political implications of their research.

Lawrence felt scientific activism led to "frittering away so much time and energy on political problems, when [the scientists] could be devoting themselves to scientific pursuits."

But Lawrence's career took him through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, and he alienated many talented scientists who weren't willing to keep politics out of their lives.

Despite his assertions Lawrence was not truly apolitical.

The funders who kept his cyclotrons running and with whom he rubbed shoulders were often very conservative men, and they influenced him.

When Lawrence received a government Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant during the Depression to hire out-of-work shop craftsmen, many of his private foundation funders balked at the idea of being associated with a New Deal program.

Ludwig Kast of the Macy Foundation, one of his largest funders, worried that if the WPA was overturned by the Supreme Court, the foundation's and the WPA's dual support of the Rad Lab would be incriminating and indicate "that [the foundation has] something to do with sinister communist tendencies."

In response, Lawrence removed all acknowledgment of WPA funds from research papers involving work supported by the Macy Foundation.

Despite his great success in executing his big scientific ideas, Lawrence failed at managing his lab in this one way: he could not keep politics out.

In 1947, with McCarthyism under way, the California legislature's Un-American Activities Committee began to investigate security at Berkeley, considered a sanctuary for leftists by committee members.

Their concerns moved the AEC, under pressure from the House Un-American Activities Committee, to form regional security boards.

Jack Neylan, a personal friend and patron of Lawrence's and a regent at the university, headed the board at Berkeley and began investigating members of the faculty for Communist sympathies.

Lawrence did not view these investigations as a systemic problem: he "accepted the rules, focusing his efforts on a defense of the accused rather than an attack on the system."

He saved a number of Rad Lab staffers from being fired by acting as a character reference, but he would not speak out against the investigations themselves.

His primary motivation in getting involved was to keep his team intact.

Outside of the Rad Lab he stayed away from the government's inquisition.

Frank Oppenheimer, Robert's brother and a former Rad Lab staffer, was accused of Communist activity while working at the University of Minnesota, in a post for which Lawrence had heartily recommended him.

Lawrence refused to let Frank visit the Rad Lab while he was under suspicion and even asked a mutual friend to rescind a dinner invitation to him.

The accusations eventually cost Frank his job.

By 1949 anti-Communist pressure had escalated, and all Berkeley appointees were required to take an oath that they disavowed the Communist Party and did not support "any party or organization that believes in, advocates, or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government."

This demand outraged many of the faculty, especially those who were immigrants and had lived under totalitarian regimes in Europe.

What Lawrence saw as "byzantine quibbles," members of his team saw as a violation of academic freedom.

When physicist Gian-Carlo Wick declined to take the oath, Lawrence argued with him; Wick refused to back down, and Lawrence told him to "get the hell out of the Rad Lab."

Those who refused to sign the oath were dismissed.

Many of the people who did sign began to look for other positions, as their once creative, open environment had soured.

In the end the Rad Lab lost vital talent.

Four years later Lawrence's testimony led to the removal of Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance.

The physics community did not look kindly on Lawrence's involvement.

As Hiltzik writes, "A great deal of obloquy fell on [him] and his colleagues at the Rad Lab, who had stood united, and virtually alone, against Oppenheimer."

Also testifying on behalf of Oppenheimer was Lansdale, who was involved in the Army's surveillance and investigation of Oppenheimer during the war. Lansdale, a lawyer, was not intimidated by Robb. He testified that Oppenheimer was not a Communist, and that he was "loyal and discreet".
 Ernest Lawrence was known to dislike political activities, seeing them as a waste of time better spent on scientific research. He did not oppose the investigations of Oppenheimer or others, tending to distance himself from those under investigation rather than supporting them. He said he was unable to testify at the Oppenheimer hearing because of illness. On April 26, Lawrence suffered a severe colitis attack. The next day, Lawrence called Lewis Strauss and told him that his brother, a doctor, had ordered him to return home and that he would not be testifying. Lawrence suffered with colitis until his death during colostomy surgery, on August 27, 1958. However, an interview transcript in which Lawrence stated that Oppenheimer "should never again have anything to do with the forming of policy" was presented at the hearing, and several other members of Lawrence's Radiation laboratory did testify against Oppenheimer in person.


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PRESIDENT Mamnoon Hussain administering the oath of office to federal ministers at Aiwan-i-Sadr on Friday.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday formed a 43-member cabinet with 27 federal ministers and 16 ministers of state, besides creating five new ministries and their divisions.

Some changes have been made in the cabinet with induction of new faces, while former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan did not become a part of the new prime minister's team, as he had already announced.

Mr Abbasi ordered that federal ministers and secretaries of their ministries would not travel abroad at the same time and would have to inform his office prior to going on foreign visits.

Federal ministers, secretaries barred from leaving country simultaneously

President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to 43 cabinet members at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Abbasi, National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, PM's Personal Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad, diplomats and senior bureaucrats.

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Portfolios have so far been awarded to 39 cabinet members — 26 federal ministers and 13 ministers of state.

The new cabinet is bigger than the last one, which had 36 members.

According to the 18th Constitution Amendment, the size of the federal cabinet should be not more than 11 per cent of the total strength of the National Assembly and Senate, which means that the maximum number is 47, not leaving much choice for the new prime minister for further inductions.

The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) managed to get two federal ministries in the new cabinet against one in the last.

Maulana Ameer Zaman is the second leader of the party inducted into the cabinet with the Ministry of Postal Services.

Akram Khan Durrani is the Housing Minister.

Absence of Daniyal Aziz in the ceremony was noticed as his name was on the list of ministers of state issued by the presidency.

It was learnt that he was eyeing a full ministry and did not agree to accept the slot of Minister of State for Kashmir Affairs offered to him.

The name of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Mumtaz Ahmed Tarar was replaced with Sardar Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari.

The earlier official list carried the name of Mr Tarar, but not Mr Leghari's.

However, the oath as a member of the cabinet was taken by Mr Leghari.

Mr Tarar was offered the Ministry of Science and Technology but, according to the notification issued later, his name was not in the list of ministers.

He told Dawn that he had declined the ministry offered to him.

It is believed that Mr Leghari's name was included in a bid to have a stronghold of the N-League in south Punjab by securing more seats of the National Assembly from the region in the general elections scheduled next year.

In the 43-member cabinet, 11 belong to south Punjab — Awais Leghari, Syed Javed Ali Shah, Muhammad Baleeghur Rehman, Riaz Hussain Pirzada and Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan as federal ministers and Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju, Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha, Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari, Sardar Muhammad Arshad Khan Leghari and Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry as ministers of state.

Although no official list of cabinet members with their portfolios was issued, it was available on the official website of the National Assembly.

According to the list, Ishaq Dar, who has become quite controversial after the Supreme Court sent his case to the National Accountability Bureau for being involved in the Panama Papers case, retained his office as Finance Minister.

Khawaja Asif, who served as defence minister in ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's cabinet, became Foreign Minister.

He is the first foreign minister in this government as the ministry was earlier overseen by Mr Sharif.

Ahsan Iqbal took the oath as Interior Minister and his previous ministry — planning and development — will work directly under the prime minister.

Mushahidullah Khan, who had been removed from the federal cabinet by Mr Sharif over his controversial remarks against the military establishment, rejoined the cabinet as federal Minister for Climate Change.

Khurram Dastgir was given the ministry of defence and was replaced by Pervez Malik as Commerce Minister.

Baleeghur Rehman, who was the minister of state for interior and education in the last cabinet, was elevated as federal Education Minister.

A newcomer in the cabinet, Hafiz Abdul Kareem, was given the portfolio of communications ministry and retired Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch retained the ministry of States and Frontier Regions.

Sheikh Aftab and Akram Durrani also retained their ministries of parliamentary affairs and housing, respectively.

Rana Tanvir Hussain will serve the Defence Production Minister.

Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi will look after the ministry of industries and production and Riaz Pirzada will hold his previous ministry of inter-provincial coordination.

PML-N legal wizard Zahid Hamid will remain law minister, while Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo and Khawaja Saad Rafiq will retain the ministries of posts and shipping and railways.

Sardar Muhammad Yousuf will continue Religious Affairs Minister.

Saira Afzal Tarar, who was minister of state for national health services and coordination in the last cabinet, wads made federal minister Marriyum Aurangzeb was given her previous assignment of Minister of State for Information and Tariq Fazal Chaudhry of Minister of State for Capital Administration and Development.

Shahnawaz Ranjha, a former parliamentary secretary, was made a minister of state.

Talal Chaudhry, another new induction, was appointed Minister of State for Interior.

During the first cabinet meeting, Mr Abbasi issued several directives to the ministers regarding the functioning of their ministries.

He said the federal ministers may not seek permission for travel abroad only if the visit was required in the line of the performance of their duties related to their ministries and divisions.

He said the ministers should inform the Prime Minister Office about the dates on which their official travel was required.

He said the ministers would have full authority for allowing the ministers of state and all officers working in their ministries, divisions, attached departments and autonomous bodies under their control, but as a matter of policy, a federal minister and secretary should not travel at the same time unless absolutely necessary, in which case the prime minister should be informed in advance.

Mr Abbasi asked all the ministers to work diligently and complete all ongoing projects on top priority with utmost transparency and quality of work.

The prime minister formed five new ministries of narcotics, privatisation, statistics, water resource and postal service.

Earlier these divisions were working with other ministries.

Also, with the appointment of parliamentary secretaries Talal Chaudhry and Mohsin Ranjha as ministers of state, their previous posts became vacant.

Now the government has to appoint new parliamentary secretaries.

With the induction into the cabinet of four chairmen of NA standing committees, these posts also fell vacant.

Awais Leghari was chairman of the standing committee on foreign affairs, Hafiz Abdul Karim religious affairs, Arshad Leghari water and power and Junaid Chaudhry rules and procedure.

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 In 2013 Pakistani general election he was elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He also won provincial assembly seat which he relinquished in order to retain his national assembly seat.
 Durrani was appointed as Minister for Housing & Works by the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain on the advice of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 29 August 2013.
 On 27 November 2015, Durrani survived an attempt on his life as his convoy came under a bomb attack in Narmikhail area of Bannu.
 He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Panama Papers case decision. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi.


Rowney made his NHL debut on January 31, 2017, in Pittsburgh's game against the Nashville Predators.

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There weren't any American Hockey League games played yesterday, but it was still one of the busiest news days that the AHL has seen this season.

Here's a rundown of the big ticket items from Tuesday, January 31.

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CONGRATS CARTER – The piece of news that Wilkes-Barre/Scranton fans will be happiest about is the NHL debut of Carter Rowney.

The undrafted fourth-year pro was originally recalled by Pittsburgh last week when Evgeni Malkin was sidelined due to injury, but he didn't crack the lineup in his first stay with the team.

After being returned to NEPA and helping the Pens to wins over Utica and Binghamton last week, Rowney was recalled again by Pittsburgh on Monday, and suited up for the club in its 4-2 win over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday.

He logged 9:24 of ice time in the victory while skating alongside Bryan Rust and Carl Hagelin.

Rowney was among the hottest players on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton roster headed into the AHL All-Star break.

After missing about a month and a half due to injury, Rowney returned to the Pens lineup on January 13 in Rochester.

He recorded eight points (5+3) during the next eight games, and posted a four-game goal streak from January 13-18, a career best for the 27-year old center.

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The Rocket de Laval, who will hit the ice next year serving as the Montreal Canadiens AHL affiliate, unveiled their logo and uniforms yesterday afternoon.

The team's uniforms feature the familiar red, white and blue of the parent club, and the team name pays homage to Maurice 'the Rocket' Richard, who played 18 seasons with the Canadiens, won eight Stanley Cups, and became the first player to record 50 goals in a season and 500 in a career.

The Rocket will play their home games at Place Bell, a 10,000 seat facility currently under construction.

ADIEU ALBANY – The New Jersey Devils announced that they will move their AHL club out of Albany and into Binghamton next season, and they signed a deal to keep hockey in New York's lower tier for the next five seasons.

The Ottawa Senators announced earlier this year that they would be relocating their minor league operations to Belleville, Ontario for the 2017-18 season, leaving the future of hockey in Binghamton in limbo for several months.

"After evaluating multiple scenarios and obtaining the approval of the AHL Board of Governors, we have agreed to partner with a local operating group in Binghamton, NY to relocate the franchise for the 2017-18 season," said Hugh Weber, President of the New Jersey Devils.

"The new arrangement will allow the organization to focus its efforts on developing our player prospects, while leaving the business operations to those with expertise in the market."

Albany has been home to an AHL team since 1993, when the Capital District Islanders moved from nearby Troy, New York and became the Albany River Rats.

The River Rats were affiliated with the Devils (1993-2006) and the Carolina Hurricanes (2006-10) during their tenure, with the Colorado Avalanche splitting the affiliation with Carolina in 2006-07.

When the Hurricanes relocated their AHL club to Charlotte, New Jersey moved it's minor league operations back to the capital city and dubbed them the Devils.

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He played collegiate hockey for North Dakota's ice hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) from 2009 to 2013. In 2010–11 and 2011–12, Rowney was named to the All-WCHA Academic Team. On September 18, 2012, North Dakota suspended Rowney (along with teammates Andrew MacWilliam, Corban Knight and Danny Kristo) for the opening game of the 2012–13 season because of a violation of team rules that occurred during a team party.
 On April 9, 2013, Rowney signed an amateur tryout agreement with the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League (AHL). On October 3, 2013, Rowney signed an AHL contract with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. He re-signed with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on July 24, 2014, on another one-year AHL contract.
 On March 9, 2016, after three seasons playing with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL, Rowney signed his first NHL contract, a two-year, two-way contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins worth an average annual value of $612,500. He was named the AHL Player of the Month for March 2016, recording 17 points in 12 games for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.


The mission was led by the friars Juan de Salas and Juan de Ortega, with Ortega remaining for six months.

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Fray Juan de Salas, Spanish religious official, came to New Mexico with Alonso de Benavides in 1622 and worked at Isleta mission, at the site of present Albuquerque.

In 1629 Jumano Indians went to the monastery and asked for religious instruction, stating that they came at the request of the "Woman in Blue," María de Jesús de Agreda.

In July of that year Salas and Fray Diego León visited Jumanos and labored among them for some months in an area 300 miles east and southeast of Isleta.

Tribes further east sent messengers to ask the fathers to come to teach them, and the padres promised that they would return with other priests.

In 1632 Salas again set out for the Jumano country, this time with Father Juan de Ortega and a few soldiers.

He probably penetrated as far as the site of present San Angelo, Texas, then returned to Santa Fe, leaving Ortega, who worked in the area for six months before also returning.

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Prior to the arrival of Europeans, San Angelo was the center of the Jumano people. As of 1600, the area had been inhabited for over a thousand years by succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples.
 In 1632, a short-lived mission of Franciscans under Spanish auspices was founded in the area to serve the Indians.


Jackson began suffering from severe depression and anxiety, leading her to chronicle the experience in her sixth album, "The Velvet Rope," released October 1997.

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# Janet Discusses Depression With "Newsweek"

Janet Jackson's return to record racks was a long difficult one according to an article in the new issue of "Newsweek" magazine.

Very down," Janet tells "Newsweek" of the two year bout of depression that nearly stalled production of her "Velvet Rope" album.

There were times when I felt very hopeless and helpless, and I felt like walls were kind of closing in on me."

Jackson tells "Newsweek" that the depression began building in her childhood, and stems not from her family but rather from humiliating experiences with her teachers.

She goes on to say that the depression was so bad during the recording of "Velvet Rope" that she occasionally broke down into tears in the studio, bringing recording to a halt.

Things have taken a significant upswing for the singer since those days.

Jackson recently visited Sydney, Australia to make a personal appearance for her "Velvet Rope" album,

which debuted at number one in its first week in stores.

Despite its chart-topping start, some considered Jackson's sales sluggish (the new album sold some 200,000 copies in its first week as opposed to 350,000 for her last effort, "janet"), and the singer has since changed her management team.

Perhaps more important than new management to the potential success of "Velvet Rope" is Jackson's new single.

The singer is following 'Got 'Til It's Gone" with the more dance-friendly "'Together Again," which is reportedly already causing radio programmers to prick up their ears.

Life and career.:1997–1999: "The Velvet Rope".


The following day, prior to the start of the ALPB season, his contract was purchased by the Seattle Mariners.

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# Seattle Mariners Purchase Contract of RHP Christian Bergman

The Sugar Land Skeeters today announced that the contract of right-hander Christian Bergman has been purchased by the Seattle Mariners.

Bergman is the first member of the Skeeters' 2019 roster to have his contract purchased by an outside professional baseball organization.

The Skeeters had 14 contracts purchased in 2018, which was the franchise's single-season record.

Bergman, 30, made three appearances with the Mariners in 2018, going 0-1 with a 5.79 ERA.

He also appeared in 13 games with the Mariners at the Major League level in 2017.

He spent the beginning of the 2019 season in Spring Training with the Chicago Cubs.

The Colorado Rockies drafted Bergman in the 24th round of the 2010 MLB Draft out of UC Irvine.

The California native made his Major League debut with the Rockies in 2014 and appeared with them at the MLB level from 2015-16 as well.

Through five Major League seasons, Bergman is 11-15 with a 5.59 ERA (215.2 IP) and a 2.65 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

While at the Minor League level with the Rockies, Bergman was selected as a California League Mid-Season All-Star in 2012 with High-A Modesto and a Texas League Mid-Season All-Star in 2013 with Double-A Tulsa.

In 2012, he was selected as an MiLB.com Rockies Organization All-Star and was named High-A Modesto's Pitcher of the Year after going 16-5 with a 3.65 ERA in 27 starts.

Bergman was named to the Big West All-Conference First Team his sophomore year at UC Irvine in 2008 after recording a 1.94 ERA through 25 outings.

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Professional career.:Seattle Mariners (second stint).

On April 15, 2019, Bergman signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.