liked.

I believe there are two people in Ryan’s life that helped fill the void left by his father. The first is former Congressman Jack Kemp, whom Paul worked for in Washington. The other is Robert Woodson Sr., a civil rights activist who runs the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. And while the congressman’s relationship with Kemp is well known, his tutelage at the hands of Woodson is not.

Paul and I were both close to Woodson’s son, Robert Woodson Jr., when we all worked on Capitol Hill together. Woodson Jr. was 40 years old and serving as the chief of staff at HUD during the George W. Bush administration when he was killed in a car accident.

Both Woodsons were civic and community activists. For decades, Woodson Sr. has mentored Paulpolitical pivot.

The Way Forward is refreshingly candid in detailing Ryan’s personal evolution as a politician while offering insight in how much he is guided by his love of family and his faith. And given his wonk-like zeal for numbers and fixing our failing entitlement system, I would bet he’s angling to become the next chairman of the Ways and Means Committee rather than the next president of the United States. At the same time, given both the timing of it release and its content, I wouldn’t be surprised if Republicans see this book as a glimmer of hope, and beg him to run for the White House in 2016.


reported using products containing THC, the substance in marijuana that gets people high, although it was not clear if that was the case for the Michigan patient.

On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that lung samples taken from 29 patients with vaping-related injuries suggest all contained Vitamin E acetate, a discovery they hailed as a “breakthrough” in the investigation.

The Michigan boy was admitted to St. John’s Hospital in Detroit on September 5 with what appeared to be pneumonia and was intubated a week later as his ability to breathe worsened, doctors at Henry Ford said.

He arrived at Henry Ford on October 3 critically ill and suffering such severe lung damage that he was placed at the top of the list for a transplant, whichCanada identifies both leading lawyers and law firms from across the country.

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Islam in South Africa

Islam in South Africa is a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.5-2.0% of the total population. It is also one of the fastest growing religion in South Africa. Islam in South Africa has grown in three phases. The first phase brought the earliest Muslims as part of the involuntary migration of slaves, political prisoners, and political exiles from Africa and Asia (mainly from the Indonesian archipelago) that lasted from about 1652 to the mid-1800s. The second phase was the arrival of indentured labourers from British India to work in the sugar-cane fields in Natal between 1860 and 1868, and again from 1874 to 1911. Of the approximately 176,000 Indians of all faiths who were transported to the Natal province, almost 7-10% of the first shipmentAmerican Adoptions, a private adoption agency founded on the belief that lives of children can be bettered through adoption, provides safe adoption services to children, birth parents and adoptive families by educating, supporting and coordinating necessary services for adoptions throughout the United States. For more information on American Adoptions, please call 1-800-ADOPTION (236-7846)


humbled himself,
by becoming obedient to the point of death
– even death on a cross!
As a result God exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow
– in heaven and on earth and under the earth –
and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father.

The NET Bible note on the typesetting reads:

This passage has been typeset as poetry because many scholars regard this passage as poetic or hymnic. These terms are used broadly to refer to the genre of writing, not to the content. There are two broad criteria for determining if a passage is poetic or hymnic: “(a) stylistic: a certain rhythmical lilt when the passages are read aloud, the presence of parallelismusto be memorized both because of the theological import and the flow of the words.  (For instance, the repeated use of the word "name" in verses 9 and 10.)
Music has been a part of Christianity from the beginning Mark 14:26 (ESV):

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Presumably hymns at that stage were composed much like modern song: a literarily-gifted person wrote the words and a musically-gifted person (perhaps the same person) wrote the music.  With use, the words were likely to have changed to smooth out rough edges and fit more appropriately with the music.  Hymns were certainly an oral tradition and rarely written down.
If it is a hymn, Paul probably would have expected the Philippians to


professionals, social media activists and PR professionals, most of whom I knew, were present there along with senior officials from Airtel.

George Mathen, HuB CEO for Kerala & Tamil Nadu at Bharti Airtel, told us how September 14th was a big day for Airtel as they rolled out 4G service in the capital city. He also gave us details about the long journey that Airtel has travelled since the launch of their first 4G network in Kolkatta, the first in the county too, way back in 2012.

Airtel is the first Telecom service provider to introduce 4G in Kerala. Trivandrum is the third city in the State after Kochi and Kozhikode to get a 4G network. At least for now, 4G pricing is same as 3G.

All of us were givenBRANDON SPECK: It’s more than basketball for Baldwyn, Biggersville

Lainey Little has already proven she’s good at playing catchup. But she has a ways to go to catch up with her father, Biggersville coach Cliff Little.
Little has his Class 1A Lions back in the MHSAA state semifinals today, a familiar territory for him.
He has guided four previous teams to Jackson, three as head coach at East Webster, where he won a title in 2008. Biggersville lost in the title game last season.
Little, 34, hasn’t missed attending a state tournament since seventh grade, a streak of 21 years.
Lainey, who turns 6 today, has only missed one. The youngest Little was born premature to Cliff and Jana on Mar. 1, 2007 and weighed barely more than a pound. She has caught


Tilbury on 15 May 1963.

She was then chartered by Otto Friedrich Behnke GmbH as a floating hotel for the duration of the International Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg, accommodating 1,150 guests. Orion arrived in Hamburg on 23 May 1963; the Exhibition ended on 30 September and on 1 October she left Hamburg for Antwerp, where she was broken for scrap by Jos Boel et Fils.

"Orion" was converted to a one class ship taking immigrants from Tilbury on 18 March 1958 to Australia.  Passenger manifest for that voyage.

References

 Lloyd Jenkins, Douglas. 40 Legends of New Zealand Design. Auckland, N.Z.: Godwit, 2006.
 Maxtone-Graham, John. Liners to the Sun. New York: Macmillan, 1985.
 Mulliss, Steve. July 2003. RMS Orion History.
 Van der Ven, Martin. RMS Orion.

ExternalWhile Mark is in Washington D.C. he gets a Redbirds update from Cardinals broadcaster John Rooney who is currently in San Francisco, and we hear from Reid Wilson and Josh Krauschaar with the National Journal.

Mark talks with Dan Stein with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and we hear from Josh Krauschaar and Reid Wilson of the National Journal, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, St. Louis native and author Kevin Jackson, and Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan.


Pulis relishing Holloway meeting

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Tony Pulis will face one of his oldest friends in football when Stoke travel to Crystal Palace in the third round of the FA Cup.

Pulis and Palace boss Ian Holloway have known each other for almost 30 years since their youth days at Bristol Rovers and Holloway is godfather to Pulis' son Anthony.
"I've known Ian since he was 12 years old," said the Stoke boss. "His mum and dad were lovely people and we knew their family really well. They're typical Bristolians really, and it's lovely to see him do so well.
"He's done fantastic, not just as a manager but his playing career was fabulous, especially the back end of it when he was playing for QPRin the Premier League."
The pair were in opposite dugouts twice in the 2010/11 season when Blackpool, who Holloway managed until joining Palace in November, spent a year in the Barclays Premier League.
Holloway had the upper hand on those occasions, with Blackpool picking up four points and Stoke one, and he could well return to the top flight in August.
Palace sit third in the npower Championship table, two points adrift of the automatic promotion places, but Pulis was keen to praise the work done by former manager Dougie Freedman.
He said: "I think Ian will be the first one to say this, you've got to give the previous manager a lot of credit for putting the team together.
"Ian's gone in there and I think the majority of it has been


least a two-year mission. The main task of the Chinese satellite is to potentially secure communications in an age of cyberattacks and global electronic surveillance.

This could be the first unhackable encryption method. A video posted by RT (@rt) on Aug 16, 2016 at 7:12am PDT

The 600+kg Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) is nicknamed 'Micius' in honor of the fifth century BC Chinese philosopher and scientist.

The satellite is positioned in a sun-synchronous orbit, some 600km (373 miles) above the Earth, and, as well as the RSGS in Miyun, it will in the future be linked to a station in Kashgar, northwestern China, and in Sanya, southern China.The property, to be rebranded as Landmark at Collin Creek, was built in 1988 and is 98 percent occupied.

The apartment complex was part of a $98.2 million, four-property deal. In total, the properties contain 1,346 apartments, which are 95 percent leased.

With the completion of this deal, Landmark increased the number of properties it owns, operates or manages in the Dallas area to 21. The company just purchased the 194-unit Mission Preston Wood apartments at 333 Prestonwood Dr. in Richardson.

North Texas' occupancy rate is 94.4 percent, which is the region's highest occupancy rate in the past 12 years, according to MPF Research. That strong occupancy rate has boosted the average rental rate of apartments by 3.4 percent year-over-year in third quarter 2013.


British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a joint press conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People on January 31, 2018 in Beijing, China.

China's prime minister promised Wednesday to increase its trade with the U.K. during Theresa May's visit to the country at a time of economic uncertainty in Britain amid Brexit negotiations.

Following meetings between the U.K. and Chinese premiers and officials, Li Keqiang told a press conference that both countries were "committed to upholding to free trade and pushing forward economic globalization, and in the process promoting free trade."

"We have delivered a two-way opening up between China and the U.K. and China will open even wider to the U.K.," Li said, adding that the world's second largest economy "will expand openness"to products from the U.K., particularly agricultural items such as dairy products.

It was also announced that a long-standing ban on British beef exports to China would be lifted within six months. Li said intergovernmental cooperative agreements in the areas of trade, investment and "people to people exchanges" had been reached.

"In line with our agreement, China will expand openness to products from the U.K. including agricultural products. China will import U.K. products that are needed in the Chinese market," he said.


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Burnley-born keeper Fulton targets Pompey promotion!

Dan Black

Burnley-born goalkeeper Ryan Fulton is targeting promotion after making his senior debut with Portsmouth in League Two.

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp allowed the 19-year-old to move to Fratton Park on loan until the end of the season to provide the Reds stopper with some valuable first team experience.

The Anfield teenager made his Pompey bow in the 1-0 defeat to Oxford United, where he denied Liam Sercombe from the spot having initially upended Danny Hylton, and went on to feature in the South Coast derby against Bournemouth in the FA Cup.

Fulton was also involved in the stalemate against Morecambe at the Globe Arena midweek where, incredibly, he was beaten by Shrimps goalkeeper Barry Roche in the fourth minute of stoppage time.

With Paul Cook’s side


Steve Jobs wrote in 2010.

Earlier this year, Google said it would start blocking Flash by default in its Chrome browser come October, and Microsoft has sought to stop Flash from showing up in its Edge browser for Windows 10.

"Adobe will also remain at the forefront of leading the development of new web standards and actively participate in their advancement. This includes continuing to contribute to the HTML5 standard and participating in the WebAssembly Community Group. And we'll continue to provide best in class animation and video tools such as Animate CC, the premier web animation tool for developing HTML5 content, and Premiere Pro CC," Adobe said in its blog post.Afghans from across the political and social spectrum to meet Taliban representatives in bid to end the 18-year war.

Doha, Qatar – Dozens of high-profile Afghan politicians and civil society activists, including women, are meeting with the Taliban in the Qatari capital for an intra-Afghan meeting that seeks to find lasting peace in war-torn Afghanistan.

The two-day meeting, sponsored by Qatar and Germany, began early on Sunday and is being attended by a delegation of about 50 high-profile Afghan citizens.

“The meeting is aimed at further pushing the intra-Afghan negotiations for peace,” former Afghan envoy to Pakistan, Omar Zakhilwal, who is attending the meeting, told Al Jazeera. Zakhilwal said the gathering “complements” the ongoing United States-Taliban talks, also being held in Doha.

As the meeting was under way, Taliban fighters on Sunday


so far. In February, senior Afghan politicians, including former President Hamid Karzai, met a Taliban delegation in the Russian capital and discussed, among other issues, the adoption of a new constitution and an interim government.

The two groups, bitter former foes, were also seen praying and dining together during the talks in Moscow.

In May, a Taliban team, led by chief negotiator Mullah Baradar Akhund, met Afghan politicians, including those planning to challenge President Ashraf Ghani in September presidential elections, met again in Moscow.

The Taliban, which effectively controls half of Afghanistan, said “decent progress” was made at the Moscow talks, but the negotiations were still short of a breakthrough.

“The same conference took place in Moscow with a much higher level of participation, but did not produce any results,” political analystdetonated a powerful car bomb during the morning rush hour traffic in capital Kabul, killing at least 16 people and wounding 105 others, including 51 children and five women.

The Taliban has been called out for causing civilian casualties by the United Nations, the NGOs working in Afghanistan as well as the Afghan government.

“For lasting peace and stability, the Afghan security forces must be given more strength. Also, to avoid the recurrence of a civil war, a certain number of international troops must remain in Afghanistan,” said Wahdatyar.

“Otherwise, the negotiations in Qatar will not bring peace and once the US withdraws, the country will become a hotbed of international terrorism.”


party prevailing below. See R.G. Moore Bldg. Corp. v. Mullins, 10 Va.App. 211, 212, 390 S.E.2d 788, 788 (1990). So viewed, the evidence at the evidentiary hearing proved that on April 4, 1997, Carter sustained an injury to his left knee while he was on his knees cleaning a floor. Carter testified that when he leaned back to grab a bucket, he felt a sharp pain in his knee. Marriott, his employer, denied responsibility for Carter's claim.
Carter selected as his treating physician Dr. Thomas Stiles, an orthopedic surgeon, who was listed in his employee handbook. On June 5, 1997, Dr. Stiles performed arthroscopic surgery on Carter's left knee, shaving some chondromalacia from the patella and removing a small flap tear on Carter's lateral meniscus. Dr. Stiles also shavedthe fat pad on Carter's knee. Despite this surgical intervention, Carter continued to have pain in his knee. In August 1997, Dr. Stiles noted *740 that Carter had a "rather marked weakness of his left quadriceps." Nevertheless, following a September 22, 1997 examination of Carter's knee, Dr. Stiles released Carter to return to work.
On October 2, 1997, after a fall he attributed to weakness in his knee, Carter went to a hospital emergency room, where he was treated by Dr. Thomas Camp. Dr. Camp's assessment of Carter's condition was that Carter had sustained an "[a]cute exacerbation of a chronic left knee disorder with effusion." Dr. Camp provided Carter with a knee immobilizer and crutches and directed him to follow up with his physician.
Carter testified that he had no


income and no other source for paying his medical bills because Marriott had not paid any of his medical bills. Carter, therefore, obtained treatment through his wife's health insurance plan. Using her plan, he received treatment from Dr. Virginia Wells, the designated primary care physician for his wife's health insurance plan. After examining Carter regarding his knee injury, Dr. Wells referred Carter to Dr. Charles Wilhelm, an orthopedist.
Dr. Wilhelm viewed the videotape of the arthroscopic surgery performed by Dr. Stiles and opined that the chondromalacia treated by Dr. Stiles' surgery was probably caused by Carter's April 4, 1997 injury. Dr. Wilhelm further opined that he did not see any reason why Carter's accident could not have caused the chondromalacia. He explained that he was "not aware that thereDr. Wilhelm testified that muscle atrophy can result either from injury and disuse or pain syndrome.
During a February 13, 1998 visit, Dr. Wilhelm noticed an absence of quadriceps contraction in Carter's left leg and referred Carter to a neurologist, Dr. Shawke Soueidan. Dr. Soueidan performed an EMG of Carter's left leg and lower back, the results of which were minimally abnormal. Based on the results of various tests, Dr. Soueidan concluded that the atrophy was not progressive, but was caused by disuse secondary to Carter's knee pain. After an August 1998 follow-up visit, Dr. Soueidan noticed, however, progressive atrophy of the quadriceps, coupled with hypoflexia.
On June 11, 1998, Dr. Wilhelm performed arthroscopic surgery because Carter "had persistent left knee pain." He observed further erosion of the articular surface


of the kneecap and "some inflamed ... lining tissue." Dr. Wilhelm found nothing that satisfactorily explained the extent of Carter's pain and admitted he was at a loss to explain the cause of the atrophy and hypoflexia. He described Carter's pain complaints as enigmatic and concluded that Carter "had a pain syndrome, which emanated from a work-related injury without a diagnosis for that ever provided by my intervention." Dr. Wilhelm explained that he could find no orthopedic explanation for Carter's pain; however, he concluded that Carter was pain-free prior to the accident and that the pain was caused by the work injury.
Following the hearing, the deputy commissioner ruled that Carter was unable to work as of December 30, 1997, and ordered compensation to be paid to Carter asof that date. The deputy commissioner also ruled, however, that the medical treatments Carter received from Drs. Camp, Wells, Wilhelm, and Soueidan were unauthorized and that Marriott was not responsible for those medical treatments. On review, the commission affirmed those rulings in part and reversed in part. The commission held that Carter was only partially disabled from December 30, 1997 through June 15, 1998 and that he *741 had failed to adequately market his residual work capacity. The commission also held that Carter was totally disabled effective June 16, 1998. Although the commission agreed that Dr. Stiles was Carter's treating physician, the commission applied Code § 65.2-603(C) and found that Carter had established good reason for seeking treatment from Dr. Wilhelm and the other physicians Carter had seen


One of the revelations that came out of the e-mails released by Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday was that his brother-in-law Jared Kushner was present, at least for a short time, during the meeting with the Russian lawyer. And ever since then, Democrats had been calling for him to lose his job. And during Thursday’s edition of NBC Nightly News, the network aided them in their endeavor. “Kushner was in the meeting with that Russian attorney and Donald Trump Jr., and now Democrats are questioning why he still has his security clearance or his job,” announced Anchor Lester Holt.

Correspondent Peter Alexander wasted little time in getting to the heart of his report by playing two clips of Senate Democrats calling for Kushner’s head to roll:

SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: JaredThe September 11, 2001 attack in the United States was the “mother of all false flag” operations, according to Stephen Lendman, an American writer, journalist and political analyst.

In a recent interview, US President Donald Trump said he knows who was behind 9/11 that left thousands of Americans dead.

Trump said that “Iraq did not knock down the World Trade Center.”

“It was not Iraq,” he told the American broadcaster. “It were other people. And I think I know who the other people were. And you might also.”

The September, 11, 2001 attacks, also known as the 9/11 attacks, were a series of strikes in the US which killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.

US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by


19 al-Qaeda terrorists but many experts have raised questions about the official account.

They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.

Following the 9/11 attack, the United States, backed by some allies including Britain, invaded Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was sheltered, according to the George W. Bush administration. Then 9/11 was used as part of the justification for the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

‘9/11 part of America’s tradition’

Lendman told Press TV on Tuesday that “9/11 is part of America’s tradition, going back to the mid 19ththere will be all the latest and greatest Troma merchandise available!

Stan Lee’s Comikaze is Los Angeles’ first and only large-scale, multi-media pop culture convention. Held annually at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Comikaze assembles the most exciting and innovative in comics, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and all things pop-culture. Partnering with comic legend Stan Lee and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Comikaze is the only pop-culture convention owned and operated by true pop-culture icons.

Having attracted 45,000 fans from around the country in only their second year, Stan Lee’s Comikaze is quickly growing into one of the most diverse and celebrated geek and pop-culture events in the United States. The 2012 event housed over 600 diverse artists and vendors, selling exclusive, rare and limited editions of comics, collectibles,


"I would rather have watched a friend play Transistor than have experienced it on my own."

Transistor poses quite a conundrum for this reviewer. Often times beautiful and sublime, yet basking in obfuscation and self-indulgence, Supergiant Games' latest effort appears more concerned with creating questions and theories rather than telling an informative or elaborate narrative. Worse still, Transistor's gameplay lacks the bite and strategy necessary to push a player forward in a world far more interested in looking good rather than actually saying anything of value. It's art for art's sake, putting style ahead of substance in the worst way possible. But still, it is damn pretty.

Transistor tells the story of Red, a young woman who has lost her voice and comes into possession of the titular sword-like objectcalled the Transistor. This sword does... something? Unfortunately, the narrative structure of the game plays out like a dream, with fantastical visuals that lack any real connection or feeling. The Process (a phrase that eventually brought a foul cringe to my face with every inane utterance) threatens the city of Cloudbank, though the Transistor can stop and turn back the corruption of the town and her citizens. Transistor attempts to bridge the gap between gameplay and story by encouraging players to explore and try out new combat techniques, but the story is told through text boxes and audio logs rather than through action and consequence. With the exception of the stylistically amazing final encounter, very little actually happens in Cloudbank. You see the aftermath, with the city feeling


The Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) can roll itself into a ball so tight that only a puma's claws can penetrate its protective shell. But this evolutionary advantage hasn't done much to protect the species from humans, who have turned savannah habitats into inhospitable cattle ranches and soybean plantations. Once found throughout Brazil, the armadillos—one of 20 armadillo species that live through much of North and South America—are now restricted to several shrinking pockets of habitat. Scientists estimate that the Brazilian species's population has dropped by as much as 30 percent in the past decade.

Now, Brazil is aiming to make a conservation goal to help the species. The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), soccer's governing body, on September 17 named the endemic armadillo its mascot for thefor the future. My innovative defense mechanism, my diverse ancestry, my passion for football and my love of life all convey an important message: that we must take care of Brazil's majestic environment."

The Brazilian three-banded armadillo—one of just two armadillo species that can roll into a complete ball—was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in the 1990s. It now exists only in scattered locations, mostly in the eastern portion of the country. In addition to habitat loss, the species is also classified as "Vulnerable to extinction" because of subsistence hunting, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, and climate change, according to a paper published in August in Biological Conservation. The paper, by scientists from University of Brasilia and the Jaguar


Conservation Fund, looked at three different climate change scenarios and found that for all of them the armadillo's arid habitats would become unsuitable by the year 2050. The authors concluded that existing protected habitats in Brazil will fail to preserve the species from climate change "under any scenario" and called for the creation of additional reserves.

In related news, the southern three-banded armadillo (T. matacus) will be the mascot for the 2014 "Sport Your Trainers" campaign, where people in Scotland will pledge to wear sneakers ("trainers") in support of that year's Commonwealth Games. That mascot won't be a cartoon, though: a real armadillo named Dillon, a resident of the Edinburgh Zoo, will fill the role.

Of course it's hard to say if making an endangered species the mascot for aBarneys New York said Tuesday that it would file for bankruptcy and close 15 locations.

The closures will leave the retailer with seven stores two in New York City and locations in Beverly Hills, California, San Francisco and Boston, as well as two Barneys Warehouse stores.

Bankruptcies have claimed nearly 43,000 jobs across the U.S. so far this year, 40% higher than a year ago.

Barneys New York on Tuesday said that it's filing for bankruptcy and will close 15 locations. The high-end retailer is the latest retailer to seek bankruptcy protection and shutter stores amid a consumer shift to online shopping.

Barneys said it will shutter 15 locations, leaving it with seven stores, including two Barneys Warehouse locations. The other stores that will remain open are its flagship New York store


on Madison Avenue and another located in downtown Manhattan, as well as stores in Beverly Hills, California, San Francisco and Copley Place in Boston.

Barney Pressman founded the business in 1923 in New York as a discount clothing store, with the company refashioning itself as a luxury retailer under his son in the 1960s. In the 1990s, it started expanding nationally and to Japan.

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Barneys had recently hired legal and financial advisers to help consider its options, according to The New York Times, which noted that the rent on its Madison Avenue store had surged from $16 million to $30 million. The stores had also struggled with a shift to online shopping, a pressure that almost all retailers, regardless of the wealth of theircustomer base, are struggling to offset.

"Like many in our industry, Barneys New York's financial position has been dramatically impacted by the challenging retail environment and rent structures that are excessively high relative to market demand," Barneys CEO Daniella Vitale said in a statement.

More than 7,000 stores have closed this year across the retail sector, according to Coresight Research — far outstripping the pace of closures in 2018. The retail data firm forecasts that up to 12,000 stores close in 2019.

As part of its bankruptcy filing, Barneys New York will close its stores in Chicago, Las Vegas and Seattle, as well as five smaller stores and seven Barneys Warehouse locations. The two Barneys Warehouse locations that will remain open are Woodbury Common, New York, and Livermore in California.

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York's bankruptcy is adding to the growing river of financially troubled retailers, said outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

"We have seen a number of retailers filing for bankruptcy, closing locations, and cutting workers, and indeed, the majority of bankruptcy cuts occurred in that industry," said Andrew Challenger, vice president of Challenger, Gray & Christmas in a statement.

Through July, U.S. companies have announced 42,937 job losses due to bankruptcy, up 40% from the same period last year. That also amount to the highest seven-month total since 2009, when more than 50,000 job cuts due to bankruptcy were announced, the company said.as a palatable sweetener, is obtained by concentrating the sap collected from certain maple species including the sugar maple (Acer saccharum), which is native to North America. It is a very popular food product preferred by a large number of children, adults and even elderly people in the world.
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had build a palace there. This is a blatant heresy in the eyes of official Nijmegen, bearing such epithets as "Keizerstad" or "Emperor's town".

According to received tradition , Charlemagne maintained a palace in Nijmegen.This palace was supposed to have been situated on the Valkhof hill, the highest point in modern Nijmegen, where visitors are shown its alleged ruins. Charlemagne, the emperor, again according to standard accepted history, would have sojourned at this palace on his travels through his empire.

The location of Nijmegen would have been an important symbol in support of Charlemagne and the myths that followed him, as it had been a border town at the northern frontier of the Roman Empire with a market and a garrison.

A part of the story of the palace was thatVikings came and took it for the winter in the year 880. It's not true, said Delahaye. The palace was not there. There's no trace of it. (Those ruins are from two different periods, a few centuries later.)

Post Scriptum.

With thanks to Steve Edwards for some parts of the text in English wich he has clearly written. With his permission we used some parts in this website. See also Steve's personal website: Website of Steve

Also many thanks to Dick Gagel (Aberdeen, Scotland) for the revisions of the text.

2. There was practically no population extant in The Netherlands: The Low Countries were under water (Dunkirk Transgression II)

Delahaye developed a broader theory for the development of the Low Countries, mainly that the Netherlands could hardly have been populated in any important


that a theory against the existence of Charlemagne's palace would be unpopular. But, also, the theory is a bit hard to swallow — that all of scholarship is misinterpreting the cardinal directionality of the whole body of historical literature.

Classical historical sources utilised a geography where the base orientation is the West, rather than the North used by us. Thus, when a Germanic or Latinate writer of that time speaks of "North", he means West.

In the Middle Ages maps were even more differently oriented. (In this case to the south). A map by Sebasian Münster dated 1489 gives an idea about the orientation of maps in those days.

Italy is here at the top of the map with Denmark and England at the bottom.A close look at the map willreveal that most of the Netherlands is inundated by the sea.

Even as late as the early 17th Century, maps of the Netherlands show the country lying on its back, so to speak, where the Western coast is at the top. (Comitatus Hollandia. T Graefschap Hollandt, by Willem Janzszoon, 5.Augu. 1608)

It will be appreciated that a theory challenging the existence of Charlemagne's palace would be unpopular. However, the latter hypothesis is even harder to swallow, that all of present day scholarship is misinterpreting the cardinal directionality of the whole body of classical historical literature. One of the consequenses of the North-West orientation is the placement of the latin city "Noviomagus". Delahaye believed that by "Noviomagus" etc, classical writers meant Noyon, a city on a river in northwestern France. All


the story about Vikings wintering in Nijmegen is untrue

6. Willibrord and Bonifatius were never in The Netherlands

Willibrord, Archeveque of Tournehem, Bonifatius marter of the French

In Nijmegen Albert Delahaye started his study about Charlemagne and the "Valkhof". In that period (1946-1950) he considered only Charlemagne and he did at that time not know that most of the history of The Netherland from 250 till 1050 was displaced.

Progressing from his initial findings, Delahaye found each following year more evidence about historical displacements affecting the history of the Netherlands. A number of key facts from its history are plainly wrong. What happened according to him was this: when the sea level had sufficiently fallen, the people living in Northern France and Belgium started to migrate to the North and, and havingsettled first in the south of the present Netherlands, continued later further North and NorthWestwards. The places where they settled and the rivers they encountered were named after the locales and streams where they had lived before.

After the displacement of the names followed the displacement of the facts and stories that originated in the ?old?country. These facts and stories were transposed in the Middle Ages to "Holland" by historical chroniclers, commissioned by important persons, e.g. a ruler. Writer and artist were paid to produce a good looking manuscript, where facts were mixed with heroic tales, as the aim was to aggrandise the ruler.

A good example is the double displacements of St. Willibrord and St. Bonifatius who were claimed in the 13th century by Dutch historian Melis Stoke as


apostles to the Netherlands and localised respectively in Utrecht and Dokkum (Friesland) Again, historically impossible as both places did not exist at the time these clerics lived..Facts: St Willibrord, bishop of Trajectum, present day Tournehem, in 695.

Founder of abbey at Aefternacum, (Eperiecques). Then follows the myth of Echternacht which combines the bishoprics of Tournehem and Utrecht.

Bonifatius was murdered near the river Burdina, present Bourre. The placename Dokkum is erroneously derived from Dockynchirica ? Dunkirk.

What do the French say about these saints? They consider them of an entirely local character and statues of St. Willibrord and St. Bonifatius are often seen in local churches in the region of Northern France, their main mission field.ravine and his arm is trapped by a falling boulder, leaving him unable to move.

As the hours tick by and Ralston’s scant provisions and poor equipment fail to sustain him, he becomes increasingly desperate and delirious until he takes the decision to set himself free by hacking off his arm with a blunt penknife.

While the key scenes are necessarily difficult to watch, 127 Hours is a fascinating portrait of one man’s struggle as well as a depiction of the strength of the human spirit in general.

The film is tense and compelling, even though the main event (Ralston’s initial fall) is over pretty swiftly, and Boyle wastes no time as he shares the mind-set of this hot-headed young man with his sense of invincibility. Early scenes whizz by but


Christopher Meeks

Scott, Vicknair, Hair & Checki, LLC

Attorney Christopher Meeks is an Associate of Scott, Vicknair, Hair & Checki, LLC, a law firm in New Orleans, LA. As a lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, attorney Meeks serves Orleans County, as well as clients throughout Louisiana.and speaks Arabic.

Morjane, a former U.N. assistant high commissioner for refugees and special envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, helped defuse tensions between the United States and the European Union over a politically charged trade dispute over bananas at the World Trade Organization in the late 1990s.

With the warring Syrian sides deadlocked in a bloody war of attrition that has uprooted millions from their homes and claimed more than 150,000 lives, Brahimi has been unable to find a way to bring the warring sides together after two rounds of talks in Geneva. A former foreign minister of Algeria, he apologized to the Syrian people for the lack of movement after he adjourned the talks in mid-February.

“We haven’t helped them very much,” he said.

Brahimi’s Syria stint has


He is one of the quickest minds I know. He remembers every detail. He remembers every date. He sees and hears everything going on in the room.” The official spoke anonymously under the conditions of the briefing.

Brahimi first appeared on the global diplomatic stage during Algeria’s struggle for independence from France as the representative of Algeria’s National Liberation Front in Southeast Asia, based in Indonesia, from 1956 to 1961.

In 1963, the first president of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, appointed Brahimi, 29 at the time, to be ambassador to Egypt and the Sudan and as Algeria’s permanent representative to the Arab League in Cairo. In 1989, it was Brahimi, then undersecretary-general of the Arab League, who brokered a cease-fire among Syria, the Lebanese army and the Christian Lebanese forcesCBP, DHS Using Quasi-Scientific Guesswork To Turn Adult Immigrants Into Minors

from the and-vice-versa dept

Our nation's immigration agencies wield a considerable amount of power. So much power, in fact, that they're free to dump incoming immigrants off the space-time continuum at will. If a CBP officer decides a person isn't the age they say they are, they can alter the person's age so it matches the officer's beliefs.

How does the CBP accomplish this neat little trick? Well, oddly, it involves X-rays. A recent episode of This American Life details the surreal nature of this CBP-induced time warp -- one it inflicted (repeatedly!) on a 19-year-old Hmong woman coming to the United States to reunite with her fiance.

Yong Xiong was questioned by Customs officers at the Chicago airport. The CBP


officer thought she was being trafficked and didn't believe the birth date on her passport. After a round of questioning meant to determine whether or not Yong was being trafficked, the CBP officer arrived at the conclusion she was, despite the officer marking "No" on ten of the eleven trafficking indicators.

So, how does the CBP try to determine someone's age when officers don't believe the person or the documents in front of them? They call in a dentist. Yong's teeth were x-rayed to determine her age. This may involve science on the front end, but the back end is mainly educated guesswork.

From This American Life's Nadia Reiman:

The dentist took the X-ray. No one would talk to me on the record about this, but because it's the government, there17-year-old and a 19-year-old. The same teeth might belong to a 15-year-old or a 20-year-old.

In Yong's case, the CBP was sure she was being trafficked. Since the officer already thought that, the CBP leaned toward the lower end of the dentist's estimate.

In the documents, the dentist writes, quote, "The range of possible ages is 14.76 to 19.56 years." In other words, it's totally plausible that Yong could be 19 as she's been saying.

Instead of accepting this as evidence that might back the birth date on Yong's passport, the CBP agent gave her a new birth date: January 1, 2000. This instantly turned Yong into a minor and the CBP placed her in a juvenile shelter. She continued to tell staff and counselors she was 19 and needed to


end of the range possible. The documents say DHS, the agency that oversees everything related to immigration, told them to. Her new, new birth date is now September 1, 2002.

A wrist X-ray was performed to determine "bone age." The results said Yong was most likely 18. The doctor interpreting them for the DHS decided this simply wasn't true and issued a conclusion saying Yong is 15, but with "advanced bone age."

After 14 months in a juvenile detention center, Yong is finally released by the DHS… as a minor, into the custody of her aunt. A couple of weeks later, the DHS stated to her lawyer it would no longer "contest" the "contents" of her passport. The single contested "content" was Yong's true birth date. The US government graciouslyA Turkish sports club claims it is the world's first football team to purchase a player using bitcoin.

The player — 22-year-old Omar Faruk Kiroglu — received 0.0524 in bitcoin (approximately £385) and 2,500 Turkish Lira (£470) as part of the deal with Harunustaspor.

It was a move to put the club on the global football map.

A little-known sports club in Turkey claims it has completed the world's first football transfer using bitcoin.

Amateur club Harunustaspor, who competes in the Sakarya First Division Group B, paid for 22-year-old Omar Faruk Kiroglu using the cryptocurrency.

Club chairman Haldun Sehit told CNN Turk that the club completed to world first "to make a name for ourselves in the country and the world."

Kiroglu received 0.0524 in bitcoin (approximately £385) and 2,500 Turkish Lira (£470) as


In politics, there are two guiding principles: Anything is possible, and always expect the unexpected. Therefore, it is conceivable that if Hillary Clinton is elected 45th president of the United States she could nominate the 44th president to the Supreme Court.

For starters, it is perfectly legal, and President Obama would not be the first former president to hold the title of Justice. That distinction went to William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States. After his reelection defeat in 1912, Taft did not don the robe of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court until 1921 when appointed by Republican President Warren G. Harding. Taft then led the high court for nine years until 1930.

It is doubtful that Chief Justice John Roberts would step aside for PresidentSulphur High Students Set A Great Example For Homecoming

On Friday, September 24, Miss Claire Conrad was crowned the 2016 Homecoming queen during ceremonies at the Sulphur High School football game. She and her fellow students have set a fantastic example for everyone, and it's not going unnoticed.

This beautiful young lady has Down Syndrome, but she also has an amazing smile and an obvious love of life.

The post celebrating her coronation has been shared countless times across Facebook. She has been offered gifts and words of congratulations from people who are thrilled by the joie de vivre emanating from her pictures.

Parents of other children with Down Syndrome share how they are inspired to see that students today are able to look through to the heart of who someone who


THE BOYS! Thus, our semi-annual, DADDY CAMP is now open for business! On a fine, warm day (alright, in the middle of the first bad heat wave of the summer), The Pres, Tree Rider, Kite Flyer, and I hopped on the camp bus (okay, the family van) and headed out for a day of sweating like crazy. I mean, hiking. Definitely hiking. So began Day 2 of Daddy Camp.

We started at the parking lot at Mansfield Community Park. We put Kite Flyer in the stroller (my first stroller hike! So glad I didn’t carry him this hike), walked around the baseball field, admired the farm machinery at work, and headed off down the trail.

The trail curved around and passed a lovely area of flowers before moving under theshade of the trees.

The trail crossed a small creek, came out of the woods, and began to pass a nice farm. We admired the view from a picnic table before pushing on.

We adventured onward through the trees until we crossed another bridge, which put us out in the very, very, very, very warm sun.

We hit a small area of shade before heading back out into the sun. Luckily, the heat was lessened by the beautiful farm views. We crossed a creek to turn the corner, and kept walking until we reached the end of the trail at Skunk Island Road.

At the end of the trail, we sat down to eat a snack and drink a whole lot of water (fun part of bringing stroller… super easy to carry


  Officer Brandon Stephens of the Dallas Police Department testified he made a traffic stop

on a silver Dodge Charger at approximately 3:30 a.m. on August 26, 2012. Stephens explained

he stopped the Charger because it was operating on a public roadway with blue headlights, a

violation of the transportation code.1 When he saw the blue lights, Stephens got behind the

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       See TEX. TRANSP. CODE ANN. §547.326.
Charger and ran the license plate because “[he] knew [he] was going to stop the vehicle.” When

the license plate came back clear, Stephens activated his emergency equipment. The driver of

the Charger then pulled to the right-hand lane, traveled two or three blocks, and pulled into the

driveway of a church.

         When the car pulled over, Stephens testified he “could see the driver moving around,

reaching from. . . the backseat back to his left down on the side like reaching toward the map

pocket.” There were four occupants inside the car. Stephens explained no one else was making

gestures or movements.

          Stephens testified that, when he and his partner approached the vehicle, he knew he

wanted to pull the driver out of the vehicle to “do a pat-down on him and the lounge area around

him to make sure he wasn’t concealing a weapon.” After he approached the vehicle, Stephens

identified the driver and obtained his identification to run his name in the police database. He

also obtained the name of appellee, one


of the backseat passengers. Appellee was sitting directly

behind the driver. Stephens testified appellee was not wearing a seatbelt, and he was prepared to

issue appellee a citation for the failure to wear a seatbelt.2

          After he secured the name of the driver and the name provided by appellee, Stephens

went back to his police car and first ran the driver’s name in the computer. The driver’s name

came back clear. He then ran the name provided by appellee, but nothing came back on him.

Stephens explained the fact appellee’s name did not come back could “mean a lot of things.”

Specifically, he said it could mean appellee was lying or that he did not yet have an I.D. At this

point, Stephens testified everyone was    –2–
video confirms this. Stephens then testified, “After I ran the names, I was going to go back up

and perform the Terry frisk of the driver and the back left passenger.” (emphasis added).

          Stephens explained he asked the driver if there were any weapons in the car, and the

driver responded, “not that I know of.” At that point, Stephens explained he was suspicious and

brought the driver out of the vehicle and conducted a Terry frisk on him. After completing the

frisk of the driver, Stephens sat the driver on the curb.

          After Stephens sat the driver on the curb, he stated he “immediately went to the back left

door


Gandy Dancer

Midwest Living Review

Karen Sorensen

The landmark Michigan Central Depot has been beautifully restored and transformed into the Gandy Dancer, a fine-dining seafood restaurant.

A "gandy dancer" was the nickname for railroad workers who looked like they were doing a waddling dance as they levered railroad track into place. It's a fitting moniker for a restaurant that's preserved and restored the landmark Michigan Central Depot, a huge stone structure built in 1886 that was once Ann Arbor's train station. Every part of the building is used for the restaurant, from the room that once held luggage to the bar area that had been reserved just for men. Oval-shaped Faberge lamps descend from an intricately laid ceiling, beautifully designed glass decorates the arched doorways, and the original woodwork has been buffed-... more

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The long-awaited next move in UK interest rates could be down rather than up, as the third instalment of a “crisis trilogy” unfolds across the world, the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane, has warned.

The intervention from the Threadneedle Street policymaker followed the unexpectedly cautious tone struck by the US Federal Reserve on Thursday in holding interest rates close to zero, sending tremors through global stock markets.

Mr Haldane reinforced his position as the Monetary Policy Committee’s leading dove on interest rates in a speech in Northern Ireland. He warned that recent events in China – where growth worries and a shock devaluation set off financial market turmoil last month – formed the “latest leg of what might be called a three-part crisis trilogy”.

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caste communities across religions and in securing the interests of ‘secular,’ Hindu or Muslim elites respectively. In this sense, the pasmanda articulation has highlighted the symbiotic nature of majoritarian and minoritarian fundamentalism and has sought to contest the latter from within in order to wage a decisive battle against the former. As Waqar Hawari, a pasmanda activist, says: “While Muslim politicians like Imam Bukhari and Syed Shahabuddin add the jodan [starter yoghurt], it is left to the Hindu fundamentalists to prepare the yoghurt of communalism. Both of them are responsible. We oppose the politics of both Hindu and Muslim fanaticism.”

Faith and ethnicity

The structures of social solidarity that pasmanda activists work with are deeply influenced by the entangled relation between faith and ethnicity. The domains of Hinduism and IslamThe present invention is directed to a rod coil for ignition systems, in particular in the form of an ignition coil in internal combustion engines of motor vehicles according to the definition of the species in claim 1.
A rod coil having a cylindrical housing in the basic form is known from German Patent 196 23 399 C2. A rod-shaped core of an open magnetic circuit is centrally located in the housing and within a winding set. To control the magnetic field, the winding set is concentrically surrounded by a sleeve-shaped slotted yoke mounted on an inner wall or, alternatively, on an outer wall of the housing, an insulator being inserted in between. The purpose of this yoke is to close the magnetic field of the rod coil.
Due to


Small very smooth bell bridge, dark and limited overtones, woody stick definition. ABOUT ISTANBUL MEHMET CYMBALS - Mehmet Tamdeger learned his art from Mikhail Zilcan, the grandson of Kerope Zilcan, after whom the Zilcan K series is named. In the 1950s, he worked in the K. Zilcan factory in Istanbul. At the age of nine Mehmet Tamdeğer started to work for Mikhail Zilcan. Mikhail Zilcan and Kirkor Küçükyan taught him every aspect of this ancient Turkish art, based on a history that stems back to the early 17th century. The Istanbul brand name was adopted by a cymbal works established by two cymbal smiths, Mehmet Tamdeger and Agop Tomurcuk. At that time, they had over three decades of cymbal making experience. Mehmet and Agop named their cteeth from the remains of rodents found in the southern Levant.

Mice started their relationship with humans "as soon as our species started to stay put and build houses 15,000 years ago", he said.

The people lived in round houses made of stone and mud. They foraged for wild cereals, such as emmer wheat and barley, and hunted deer and wild boar.

Mice appear to have thrived in this environment, with ample food to eat and few predators. It was a while before cats and dogs arrived on the scene.

Interestingly, the site also contains some of the earliest evidence for the domestication of dogs, in the form of the burial of a human cradling a puppy.

Dr Jeremy Searle of Cornell University, US, who is not connected with the research, said it


cross tuning (idea)

Cross tuning refers to any of a number of alternate tunings for the fiddle. Typically a violin is tuned in fifths, to the notes E, A, D, and G (from high to low). This arrangement is known as standard tuning, and is uniquely suited to the requirements of classical music (and most styles of western music) due to the logical and systematized fingerings that arise.

Alternative tunings for the violin vied with the now-standard system of fifths during the early history of the instrument, before many aspects of it's form had been codified. This experimentation extended throughout the Baroque period and well into the Classical, before finally giving way to the now almost universal standard tuning.

In traditional fiddle music and most country blues, however, alternative tunings continuedto enhance the performance capacities of instruments. In rural America, they often spontaneously arose during the auto-didactic process of solo musicianship since the absence of formal musical education forced the individual to invent his own tunings. Cross tunings allow for the addition of more double-stops, drone notes, and create sympathetic tones amongst the strings, and thus were the natural choice for geographically or culturally isolated fiddle players. Legendary North Carolina fiddler and National Heritage Arts Fellow Tommy Jarell, for example, had never been exposed to standard tuning prior to his "discovery" in the early 1970's by a new generation of traditional music revivalists.


assembly-elections

Updated: Jul 14, 2020 12:20 IST

Manohar Lal Khattar is set to return as Haryana chief minister with the support of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA Abhay Chautala, Haryana Lokhit Party (HLP) MLA Gopal Kanda and seven Independents. Khattar reached Delhi to hold joint discussions with those offering support and the party leadership and complete the formalities to stake claim in Chandigarh tomorrow.

The BJP won 40 seats in the assembly polls held to elect a new government in Haryana and fell six short of a simple majority in the 90-member House.

“The legislature party meeting will be held tomorrow,” Anil Jain told reporters after a meeting between Khattar, BJP’s working president JP Nadda and the seven Independent lawmakers. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and general secretary Arun Singh will goto Chandigarh as central observers.

Five of the winning Independents - Sombir Sangwan from Dadri, Balraj Kundu from Meham, Dharampal Gonder from Nilokheri, Nain Pal Rawat from Prithla and Randhir Gollen from Pundri are BJP rebels who contested as Independents. The remaining two Independent MLAs are Ranjit Singh, son of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal and younger brother of the former chief minister OP Chautala, and Rakesh Daultabad from Badhshahpur. All seven gave their letters of support to the BJP on Friday.

Independent MLA from Dadri, Sombir Sangawan told HT that he is meeting the chief minister on Friday. “I will extend my support to the BJP,’’ Sangwan said.

Sirsa MP Sunita Duggal, who facilitated a meeting between Kanda and BJP working president JP Nadda, told HT that most of


Democratic control of the upper chamber, which is five seats away from a GOP majority. Obama was accompanied at the baseball park by his new legislative-affairs director, Katie Beirne Fallon, and new political adviser John Podesta.

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A day earlier, Obama entertained House Democrats for two hours at the White House, with about 10 members of his Cabinet, including Secretary of State John F. Kerry, joining the reception.

The meetings come amid rising anxiety among Democrats about the president’s pledge to work around Congress to advance his agenda and the effect his declining popularity might have on the midterms. Long-shot hopes of regaining the House appear to have faded after Obama’s failure to accomplish much of his agenda last year.

In the Senate, members in tough reelection races have begun to distancespersecution more likely if mistreatment is systematic rather than a series of isolated incidents).

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The IJ did not make a specific credibility finding, but rather accepted Attia's account of his experiences. Attia, who came to the United States in 2001, testified regarding various acts of discrimination that he had experienced as a Christian growing up in a predominately Muslim society. Notably, he recounted that his teachers had belittled his religion and struck him, and that a distant relative (a priest) and his family had been killed when the relative attempted to build a church on land adjoining the property of an influential Muslim military officer. Attia also recounted two attacks upon himself. The first occurred in 1991, when he was escorting a group of children to religious training. Attia


stated that an elderly (but large) Muslim man approached him, insulted Attia's religion, and then beat him in front of the children. The second incident occurred in 2000. Attia testified that he was baking sacramental bread in a church bakery, when Muslim merchants, angered by the heat from the bakery coming into their stores, repeatedly attacked him. Attia was not significantly injured in either incident. Attia also testified that he had previously come to the United States in 2000, but returned to Egypt to be with his family. Regarding his immediate family, all of whom are also practicing Coptic Christians, he stated that his father serves as the head of taxation for the Egyptian government and that both his sisters work as accountants in Egypt.

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The IJ's conclusion thatcan;" and Community Environmental Action Scale -- "I talk with friends and neighbors about how we can get healthier foods in our town."

The original EHEP survey instrument was reformatted from a telephone interview tool to one completed with paper and pencil and renamed the EHEP Kentucky Nutrition Version.

Using this new survey instrument, responses were collected from a general adult population (18 yrs and older) by UK-SRC's researchers, which consisted of graduate students and faculty credentialed as registered dietitians. This was a convenience sample with no randomization of participants. We located and recruited participants from several of the University of Kentucky's (UK's) Cooperative Extension Service (CES) events and selected Kentucky community festivals between May and August, 2010. Five groups were formed based on proximity to hazardous waste sites. Kentucky


has over 500 designated hazardous waste sites, which vary by state and federal designation in visibility and functioning status. Three of the four data collection events had proximity to designated U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) sites. Hazardous waste sites are placed on the NPL to indicate that they are a priority due to release or possible release of hazardous contaminants and require further investigation and cleanup by the federal Superfund Program \[[@R21]\]. Out-of-state participants were included depending on proximity to some of the events at the state's borders, Ohio and Tennessee.

Data were collected based on the following five groups: Statewide Extension Agents Group -- participants were from UK's CES Family and Consumer Sciences' (FCSs') agents attending an annual meeting representing 52 out of theThis office has recently completed an audit of Communication Workers Local 4603 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization's compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with you, Treasurer Wunder, and Ms. Rivard on June 2, 2006, the following problems were disclosed during the CAP. The matters listed below are not an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas since the audit conducted was limited in scope.

Recordkeeping Violations

Title II of the LMRDA establishes certain reporting and record keeping requirements. Section 206 requires, among other things, that adequate records be maintained for at least five years by which each receipt and disbursement of funds, as well as all account balances can be verified,


There are no self-help books for those who have unintentionally killed someone. Illustration by Brian Stauffer

Until 3:35 P.M. on June 15, 1977, Maryann Gray was happy. She was twenty-two, and had just decided to take a leave of absence from Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, where she was pursuing a master’s degree in clinical psychology. Graduate school had been her mother’s idea, and Gray was unpleasantly surprised by how scientific the program turned out to be. Inside the front cover of her statistics textbook was a squashed bug, which she had circled and labelled “Maryann at the end of Stat.”

That summer, Gray was preparing to move into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in a neglected area of Cincinnati, which its residents called an “urban commune.” There, she hoped, shewould eat curry, burn incense, and talk politics late into the night with new friends. Her father, a businessman, and her mother, a homemaker, who lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, were not supportive of the plan. But Gray couldn’t wait to move in. She spent the day painting her new bedroom yellow.

By the afternoon, Gray was sweaty and paint-stained, and she decided to go back to her boxed-up apartment in Oxford to take a swim. The hot, hour-long drive crossed through suburban sprawl and then into emerald countryside. Gray had the windows of her father’s 1969 Mercury Cougar down, and the radio tuned to the news. She was only fifteen minutes from the apartment, driving at the posted forty-five miles per hour along a wooded,


The status of school-based nutrition education at the state agency level.
The status of school-based nutrition education at the state agency level was examined. Telephone interviews with agencies in all 50 states revealed that nine states mandated nutrition be taught and another 21 included nutrition as a required topic in mandated subjects, frequently health. The other states had initiatives to promote school-based nutrition education but it was not required. Published requirements for teacher certification in elementary education, home economics, and health education seldom (two to three states) specified nutrition as a requirement. However, follow-up investigations revealed many states indirectly promote nutrition preparation for home economics and health education teachers through guidelines for approval of college programs in these areas. An inventory of nutrition education curricular materials revealed they wereThis invention relates to a new and distinct variety of shrub Rose, Rosa L. The varietal denomination of the new variety is xe2x80x98Orawichkayxe2x80x99. It has as its seed parent the unpatented variety known as xe2x80x98DIComonoxe2x80x99 and as its pollen parent, an unnamed and unpatented cultivar of the species rose known as Rosa wichuriana. It is believed that botanically, the new variety would be classified as a hybrid species of Rosa wichuriana.
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The new variety may be distinguished from its unnamed Rosa wichuriana pollen parent, by the following combination of characteristics: (Rosa wichuriana is a species rose indigenous to Northeastern Asia). The pollen parent is nearly prostrate with creeping branches and has few flowers which are small, single to semi-doubleGannett, and distributed in Rochester, New York.
In the Fall of 1999, plaintiff discovered that the Monroe County District Attorney's Office ("D.A.'s Office") had mishandled certain felonies in a number of respects.[1] With her editors' approval, *236 plaintiff undertook to investigate the matter further. When she did so, she discovered even more problems concerning unresolved felony cases.
Plaintiff's first story on the subject was published on page 1 of the February 18, 2001 D & C. Complaint ¶ 51. Several more stories followed, as well as editorials critical of the D.A.'s Office. (The editorials were not written by plaintiff.)
Howard Relin, the then-District Attorney, publicly denied the stories' accusations, or attempted to explain them away or to shift blame to others. At an interview on February 27, 2001, Relin allegedly told


by her on the subject were published in the D & C.
On March 13, 2001, at Relin's request, he met with plaintiff and several members of the D & C's top management, including Publisher Dave Hunke, and Executive Editor Karen Magnuson. The meeting was relatively cordial, and Relin indicated that he was open to an independent audit of his office concerning the questioned felony prosecutions. Complaint ¶¶ 78-80.
Later that day, however, Relin called the D & C and said that he had changed his mind, and would not agree to an outside audit. Complaint ¶ 83. More stories and negative editorials followed over the next several days.
As plaintiff pursued her investigation, she continued to discover more problems at the D.A.'s Office. On March 28, 2001, she asked herplaintiff, though, that plaintiff was going to be given an award for her stories about the D.A.'s Office. A ceremony was held at the D & C offices that afternoon, and plaintiff was given an award and a $125 check. After the ceremony, though, she was again admonished not to discuss the situation with anyone. Complaint ¶¶ 133-34.
Plaintiff and her editors continued to clash over the matter, however. On March 30, plaintiff learned that Relin was going to hold a press conference to discuss felony cases. When she told Finnerty about this, he said, "That couldn't be true; that's not part of the...." "Deal, Bob?," plaintiff responded. "It isn't part of the deal?" Finnerty made no reply. Complaint ¶ 142.
Later that day, Finnerty told plaintiff that Magnuson was


angry at Relin and that Magnuson wanted plaintiff to cover Relin's April 2 press conference. On April 3, the D & C published a story by plaintiff about the conference, at which Relin announced the formation of a "Permanent Committee to Track and Resolve Felony Cases." The story also reported that Governor Pataki had asked the New York State Commission of Investigation ("COI") to look into the allegations about the mishandling of felonies by the D.A.'s Office. This turned out to be plaintiff's last published story about the D.A.'s Office. Complaint ¶¶ 143-46.
Again, plaintiff and her editors continued to butt heads over matters in the D.A.'s Office. Finnerty told her that no more stories on the topic would be published until after the COI investigation was complete. Plaintiffagain brought up the alleged "deal" with Relin. Finnerty told her that if she did not stop talking about the "deal," she would never again write a front-page story. Complaint ¶ 151.
Finnerty also told plaintiff that if she did tell anyone about the "deal," he would deny its existence. Plaintiff responded that it did not matter because she had tape recorded prior telephone conversations with Finnerty when plaintiff was initially pulled from the stories. Finnerty told plaintiff that she was off the stories for good, and that she would never write another page-one story. Complaint ¶¶ 152-54.
On April 4, 2001, a meeting was held with plaintiff, her union president, Finnerty and Magnuson. At one point, plaintiff mentioned that Magnuson had called her at home and threatened plaintiff with


a slander lawsuit. Magnuson initially denied this, but when Finnerty told her that plaintiff had been taping her telephone conversations, Magnuson admitted having made both the call and the threat. Complaint ¶¶ 157-58.
On June 18, 2001, plaintiff was seen by the D & C's publisher, David Hunke, who told her to appear at his office the next day, without a union representative, and with her tape recordings. When she refused, he told her, "Keep this up and we're going to crush you." Complaint ¶ 203.
As plaintiff was leaving work that day, a security guard stopped her, in Finnerty's presence, and demanded to see the contents of her purse. When plaintiff responded that she would only consent to a search in the presence of her lawyer, a union representativeand a television news crew, the guard looked at Finnerty, who shook his head, and plaintiff was allowed to leave. Complaint ¶¶ 203-04.
On June 25, 2001, a Rochester television station ran a story about plaintiff's removal from the investigation of the D.A.'s Office. The story suggested that this might have been done as a courtesy to Relin because of an incident that had occurred in 1996, when the D.A.'s Office allegedly gave *238 a "break" to the wife of the D & C's then-publisher concerning a charge of driving while intoxicated ("DWI"). Complaint ¶ 208. In response to the story, Relin stated that "the fact that she was the wife of the Gannett publisher had nothing whatsoever to do with the case." Complaint ¶ 209. He also denied


compensatory and punitive damages, and attorney's fees.

DISCUSSION

I. Defendant's Motion to Dismiss

A. "Under Color of State Law" Requirement-General Principles
Section 1983 provides in relevant part:
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress ...
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Howard Hill

Howard Hill (born Lemuel Howard Hill and later cited Howard H. Hill; November 13, 1899 – February 4, 1975) was an expert bowman who for over two decades, from the early 1930s into the 1950s, was often introduced or billed as "The World's Greatest Archer". He established the record for winning the most bow-and-arrow field tournaments in succession, a total of 196 competitions. In addition, Hill served as a supporting actor, trick-shot performer, and technical adviser on archery for Hollywood shorts and feature films. He also produced and directed documentaries and instructional films on bowhunting, and in the 1950s published two books on the subject, Hunting the Hard Way and Wild Adventure.

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Lemuel Howard Hill was born in Wilsonville, Alabama, in 1899, the youngest ofbe, and would be elected, President of the United States.

The Russian woman also said that Barack is himself “a Soviet,” that is, a communist. She also said Barack was from Hawaii, educated in “Ivy League” schools, had been to New York, and was presently in Chicago.

Three years after Fife’s encounter with the woman in Moscow, in 1995, Barack Obama was chosen by Alice Palmer to succeed her in the Illinois State Senate. Palmer was an admirer of the Soviet Union and had attended the 27th Communist Party Congress in the Soviet Union. Palmer announced that Obama was her chosen successor in the Chicago home of Bill Ayer, a self-described communist and former terrorist of the Marxist Weather Underground.

Neeley’s comment is also consistent with what Nation of Islam leader


is as futile as defending oneself against the loaded accusation, “When did you stop beating your wife?”

Given that, the smart move for the Democratic Party is to field a black candidate for president and make sure he wins.

In 2008, the Demonrats had their dream candidate — the half-black Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama. Recall that in 2010, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan made the cryptic remark that “Obama was selected before he was elected.” Recall also physicist Tom Fife‘s fascinating account that in 1992 while he was visiting Moscow, a woman with undying allegiance to Soviet Communism (the Soviet Union had recently collapsed, on December 31, 1991) told him that a black man named Barack, born of a white American woman and an African male, was beingwhy….

The Republican Party made an agreement 30 years ago with the Democrat Party NOT to ensure voting integrity and NOT to pursue suspected vote fraud.

PolitiJim writes for Gulag Bound, November 13, 2012, that during the weekly True the Vote webcast, Catherine Engelbrecht (see her photo below) related a meeting she had with Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), asking what the GOP would do about voter integrity. The answer?

In 1981, during the gubernatorial election in New Jersey (NJ), a lawsuit was brought against the RNC, the NJ Republican State Committee (RSC), and three individuals (John A. Kelly, Ronald Kaufman, and Alex Hurtado), accusing them of violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 1971, 1973, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments


to the Constitution of the United States.

The lawsuit was brought by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the NJ Democratic State Committee (DSC), and two individuals (Virginia L. Peggins and Lynette Monroe).

The lawsuit alleged that:

The RNC and RSC targeted minority voters in New Jersey in an effort to intimidate them.

The RNC created a voter challenge list by mailing sample ballots to individuals in precincts with a high percentage of racial or ethnic minority registered voters. Then the RNC put the names of individuals whose postcards were returned as undeliverable on a list of voters to challenge at the polls.

The RNC enlisted the help of off-duty sheriffs and police officers with “National Ballot Security Task Force” armbands, to intimidate voters by standing at polling places in minority precincts during voting.recently collapsed, on December 31, 1991) told him that a black man named Barack, born of a white American woman and an African male, was being groomed by communists to be, and would be elected, President of the United States.

In 2008, this “perfect candidate” won the presidential election. And despite his many failures in his first term, he would be reelected in 2012 for a second term via massive vote fraud. But nothing would be done about the vote fraud, because of that Consent Decree signed by the RNC 30 years ago.

The Republican Party is dead — and with it, the U.S. two-party system as well — and the sooner we voters recognize that the better.

The question that remains is whether the American Republic is also dead.

UPDATE (Nov.


that a black man named Barack, born of a white American woman and an African male, was being groomed by communists to be, and would be elected, President of the United States.

I thought Fife’s account curious at the time, but did not publicize it because it was anecdotal hearsay evidence. But it now takes on greater credibility in light of recent events:

During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid 1994, I was making frequent trips to Moscow, Russia, in the process of starting a software development joint-venture company with some people from the Russian scientific community. One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named V. M.; he had a wife named T. M.

V. was a level-headed scientists while his wife was rather deeplyand he’d be a Communist to boot. She made it quite obvious that she thought that this was going to breathe new life into world Communism. From this and other conversations with her, she always asserted that Communism was far from dead.

She was full of little details about him that she was eager to relate. I thought that maybe she was just trying to show off that this truly was a real person and not just hot air.

She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the legislature. “Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet.”

At one point, she related some sort of San Francisco connection, but I


year, after year). So far, this war has been about 80% informational, 15% economic and 5% kinetic. But this could very well change, and very suddenly. Russia has therefore embarked on an immense effort to prepare against both a conventional and a nuclear atack by the AngloZionist Empire. Here are some of the measures which have been taken in this context: (partial, non-exhaustive list!)

In response to the conventional NATO threat from the West:

Putin has ordered the re-creation of the First Guards Tank Army. This Tank Army will include two Tank Divisions (the best ones in the Russian military – 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division and the 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division), and a total of 500+ T-14 Armata tanks. This Tank Army will be supported by the20th Guards Combined Arms Army (in progress). This will be what was called a “Shock Army” during WWII and the Cold War.

The deployment of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system (completed)

The doubling of the size of the Russian Airborne Forces from 36,000 to 72,000 (in progress).

Creation of a National Guard: which will include troops of the Interior Ministry (about 170’000 soldiers), personnel from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the OMON riot police forces (about 40,000 soldiers), the SOBR rapid-reaction forces (about 5000+ soldiers), the Special Designation Center of the Operational Reaction Forces and Aviation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs including the Special Forces units “Zubr”, “Rys’” and “Iastreb” (about 700+ operators) for a total of about 250,000 soldiers which will probably reach the 300’000 men figure in the


as long as the US continues to use the printing press as a substitute for actual wealth and as long as the internal socio-political tensions in the US continue to heat up – then Putin’s plan is working.

Russia needs to continue to walk a very narrow path: to act in a sufficiently evasive manner as to avoid provoking a direct military confrontation with the US while, at the same time, sending clear enough signals to prevent the Americans from interpreting Russia’s evasiveness as a sign of weakness and then doing something really stupid. The Russian end-goal is simple and obvious: to achieve a gradual and peaceful disintegration of the AngloZionist Empire combined with a gradual and peaceful replacement of a unipolar world ruled by one hegemon, by aYes, she is 61, but her music remains determinedly contemporary, with the drum-machine sounds of trap, collaborations with hip-hop vocalists (Quavo and Swae Lee, shown on video) and the bilingual, reggaeton-flavored Latin pop sometimes called urbano (with the Colombian singer Maluma, also shown on video). The concert, with most of its music drawn from the “Madame X” album, was packed with pronouncements, symbols and enigmatic vignettes to frame the songs. Madonna often wore an eye patch with an X on it, no doubt a challenge to her depth perception as a dancer.

By the time Madonna had completed just the first two songs, she had already presented an epigraph from James Baldwin — “Artists are here to disturb the peace” — that was knocked out onstage by one of


Friday, September 25, 2015

#Friday Review - The Winter People by Rebekah L. Purdy (YA, Fantasy)

Series: The Winter People # 1Format: Hardcover, 320 pagesRelease Date: September 2, 2014Publisher: Entangled TeenSource: LibraryGenre: Young Adult, FantasySalome Montgomery fears winter—the cold, the snow, the ice, but most of all, the frozen pond she fell through as a child. Haunted by the voices and images of the strange beings that pulled her to safety, she hasn't forgotten their warning to "stay away." For eleven years, she has avoided the winter woods, the pond, and the darkness that lurks nearby. But when failing health takes her grandparents to Arizona, she is left in charge of maintaining their estate. This includes the "special gifts" that must be left at the back of the property.

Salome discoversshe’s a key player in a world she’s tried for years to avoid. At the center of this world is the strange and beautiful Nevin, who she finds trespassing on her family’s property. Cursed with dark secrets and knowledge of the creatures in the woods, his interactions with Salome take her life in a new direction. A direction where she'll have to decide between her longtime crush Colton, who could cure her fear of winter. Or Nevin who, along with an appointed bodyguard, Gareth, protects her from the darkness that swirls in the snowy backdrop. An evil that, given the chance, will kill her.

When Salome Montgomery was SIX years old, she fell through the frozen pond on her grandparents property and nearly died. Luckily, someone saved her, and


name, by the way. Goes back to Salome /səˈloʊmiː/ was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. Or, Salome is named as one of the women present at the crucifixion of Jesus: "There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome"

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I love receiving book recommendations from my friends, and authors, and appreciate when I'm lucky enough to receive an ARC before release. I consider myself lucky enoughlate 2008, the number and extent of extreme poverty roughly doubled, rising by more than 600,000 households. The increase continued after the recession of 2008, but the pace was now accelerated. Over roughly three years following the financial meltdown, 450,000 more families joined the ranks of the utterly destitute, with a sharp increase in numbers in the first six months of 2011.

The report, published in Social Service Review, was authored by H. Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan, School of Social Work, and Kathryn Edin, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government. Measuring extreme poverty uncovers a further income stratification among those below the official poverty level. The sharply rising income inequality in the US has created in its wake a new phenomenon: massive numbers of US families that live


in 1996 that the caseload dropped below 50,000.”

By June 2013, the caseload in Michigan dropped to 43,400 welfare cases, nearly half the number counted in late 2011 when new state measures eliminated exceptions to strict federal and state time limits for welfare. A 60 months’ lifetime limit for welfare was imposed under the Clinton administration in 1996 and was cut to 48 months in Michigan by Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm in 2007.

In fall 2011, the Republican Michigan state legislature eliminated exceptions, such as those that kept people living in high unemployment areas in the state from losing their benefits. There are still more than 400,000 unemployed in Michigan today.

The report also explores long-term unemployment and the increase in extreme poverty. There were 4.8 million workers in the US"A documentary film about the private sacrifice and spiritual conviction behind Cesar Chavez's struggle for the humane treatment of America's farm workers, and the impact Chavez's legacy has on today's generation of organizers fighting for farm worker rights. The film is built around powerful, never-before-seen footage of Chavez's 1988 "Fast for Life," a 36-day act of penance for not having done enough to stop growers from spraying pesticides on farm workers"--Film website

"A documentary film about the private sacrifice and spiritual conviction behind Cesar Chavez's struggle for the humane treatment of America's farm workers, and the impact Chavez's legacy has on today's generation of organizers fighting for farm worker rights. The film is built around powerful, never-before-seen footage of Chavez's 1988 "Fast for Life," a 36-day act of penance


Finals.

12. Keith Ballard Decapitates Tomas Vokoun

Keith Ballard was angry at himself not being able to catch Ilya Kovalchuk on a breakway, allowing him to score on a rebound. He tried to take his anger out on his stick by breaking it over the post, but he caught something else in the process:

11. Bizarre Golfing Injuries

In the summer of 2008, Erik Johnson was enjoying a nice round of golf after a productive rookie season. However, things took a turn for the worse when he got his foot stuck between the brake and accelerator, tearing his ACL in the process. The injury forced him to miss the entire 2008-09 season.

In August of 2013, Claude Giroux was forced to have surgery on his hand after his golf club shattered and splinteredgame by a score of 3-2. Smith’s own-goal was the series clincher as the Flames went on to win the Stanley Cup that year.

6. They Hurt Themselves…Doing What?

On a January morning in 2012, Dustin Penner sat down to eat “some delicious pancakes that my wife made.” When Penner reached for his flapjacks, his back gave out and began a fit of back spasms that would cause him to miss the next game. Of all things that could have happened, and injuries hockey players play through, Penner was injured reaching for pancakes.

Five years earlier in 2007, Brent Sopel was playing for the Vancouver Canucks, who were scheduled to face off against the Dallas Stars in the first round of the NHL Playoffs. However, Sopel was unable to suit up


for Game 1 of the series because he injured his back. The cause? He was picking up a cracker off the floor that his daughter had dropped.

5. The Statue of Liberty

It was Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals in 2002, and the Avalanche held a three games to two lead over the Red Wings. Patrick Roy made a beautiful save on Steve Yzerman, and proudly held up his glove hand (looking like the Statue of Liberty) to show the robbery he had just committed.

Problem was, he didn’t have the puck in his glove.

Roy left the puck sitting in the crease where Brendan Shanahan hammered it home to take the lead in the game. The Red Wings would go on to win the series, and later, the Stanleyused an
autodialer because she heard pre-recorded messages whether she answered the calls or
let them go to voicemail. She also admitted that she had known for years that FMB had
the wrong social security number on file for her and that she signed the account
maintenance form with the opt-in provision.

        After post-trial briefing, the district court entered findings of fact and
conclusions of law. Though Walton may have initially agreed to be contacted on her cell
phone, the court found, she had revoked her consent by March 2016. The evidence
showed that she received at least five calls to her cell phone about her personal loan
after that. The bank manager’s testimony was inconclusive about whether the bank
used an autodialer to place those calls, however, and the


UN Security Council refuses to swallow LTTE propaganda pills

Top diplomats from Britain and France were rebuffed
Monday (May 11), when UN Security Council members refused their request
to discuss on the on-going hostage rescue operations in Sri Lanka,
despite extensive and relentless LTTE propaganda efforts to spin tables
in favour, expecting a breather for the internationally proscribed
terrorist outfit now facing total defeat.

The council members that opposed taking up the issue
were not named publicly.

Foreign Ministers David Miliband of Britain and
Bernard Kouchner of France were also joined by Austria's Michael
Spindelegger, the Federal Minister for European and International
Affairs, to protest inaction by the 15-nation council at UN headquarters
in New York.

When asked which council members opposed their
request, Miliband said, 'We can only speak for ourselves. Others can
speak for themselves.'

'We are clear, this is an issue thatthe UN Security
Council should address, it involves major civilian loss of lives and
distress,' Miliband said. 'It does have ramifications for the region. We
as European members of the UN Security Council, we believe that the
issues belong here.'

As a rule and unless a crisis is already on the
council's agenda, a majority of nine council members have to approve a
new issue be put on the agenda of discussion. Some council members have
opposed discussion over matters they consider domestic matters.

China in the past opposed discussion of Myanmar's
political crisis and Russia opposed discussion of Chechnya, where armed
opposition was fighting Russian troops for independence.

'Thousands of Sri Lankans have already died in the
past several months due to the conflict, and more still remain in grave
danger,' Ban said, adding that he was appalled at the killing.

'The


of his testimony.

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during the afternoon of March 2, 2010. This was a routine patrol, and there had been no
reports or dispatches regarding suspicious or criminal activity in the area. The officers were
dressed in uniform and displaying their badges of office. As they rode northbound on Texas
Street, Officer Rice observed a black Audi station wagon parked in an apartment complex
parking lot. He did not recognize the car as being from the area. The car was parked in a
marked parking space facing westbound, toward the apartment building. Officer Rice’s
suspicion was aroused when he noticed that there were three individuals sitting in the car and
the motor was not running. He admitted, though,Reuben Austwurn (born 17 May 1955 - died September 27th 2014) is an author and scientist within VX, most famous for his book Ferrocores and You.

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He attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with an A.B. summa