likely that Britain will lead calls for the European Union to start to lift them when the issue is discussed by EU foreign ministers on 23 April. Until recently, the UK was among the most insistent that the restrictions should remain.

The proposed relaxation could prove controversial. Baroness (Glenys) Kinnock, the former Labour minister who chairs the all-parliamentary group on Burma, said Mr Cameron was right to acknowledge progress but warned against any "chipping away of sanctions".

She insisted it was too early to consider lifting the arms embargo or restrictions on industries such as mining and timber. "We have still not seen any repressive laws repealed and the constitution has not changed which means the military still have a monopoly of power," she said. Speaking in Malaysia yesterday afterthe holeboard test and habituation experience is similar for all rats, so that habituation as such should play a minor role. The enhanced activity is more likely to support holeboard learning and spatial memory. Further, most correlations could be observed when learning plays a major role, namely at the second day, and when a memory trace has been established at day 3 during the retention trial. The number of entries in open arms of the EPM, thus the readiness to explore unsafe arenas is higly positively correlated with the OFRDR and the OFlocal variables and weakly with RMI during the main learning phase in the holeboard. Immobility during forced swimming in the training and test sessions are also highly correlated suggesting that immobility during both sessions reflect the


Menorca places to stay

Menorca places to stay

There is a wide variety of accommodation available on the island, from self catering apartments, aparthotel complexes and villas, to luxurious rural hotels set in country manors or old lookout towers in their own estates. The resort towns on both north and south coasts have a wide selection of hotels close to beaches with easy access for families and those with limited mobility. Most have swimming pools and cater for families with small children. Smaller villages and towns close to the coast have small hotels with full and half board options. Wild camping is not allowed on the island but there are two official campsites with a limited number of spaces. Menorca places to stay tend to be open during the seasonwhich runs from March until October, and those wishing to visit Menorca out of season should always check availability on this website.

Menorca hotels
There are hotels to suit all budgets on the island, from small scale accommodation in Ciutadella and Maó, to larger top class hotels which cater for groups in the resort towns on both south and north coasts. The resort hotels will be close to beaches and will have easy access for those with limited mobility. These hotels will also offer a range of activities, from guided walking and kayaking to cycling and diving. Many hotels offer full and half board to their guests. Menorca hotels tend to be open from March until the end of October, and those wishing to visit Menorca out of season should


always check availability on this website.

Rural accommodation in Menorca
Menorca, despite its small size offers a choice of hotel accommodation which will suit most requirements. Small scale rural hotels, often set in old manor houses or large farming estates of the former aristocracy and landowning classes have luxurious accommodation with period antique furnishing. Most are family run and each will have its own particular character and are very popular for individual travellers and couples. All have swimming pools as an alternative to the beach, which is never too far away. A large proportion of the rural hotels have top class restaurants and chefs – and are popular with residents of the island for the excellence of their cuisine.

Audax Hotel is located in front of the see, 100 hundred metersfunctionally made for clients who come for business or pleasure. Rooms offer full bathroom, air conditioning, mini-bar, satellite TV, hair dryer, music, safe and direct telephone.
Casa Alberti

"Casa Alberti” is a manor house located at Mahon´s historical center, built in 1740. It maintains all the character of its seniority but always combined with the comfort of our time after being reformed. A central staircase is the soul of the house, are distributed around the six diferent rooms, with a different personality.

Each of them has its special charm, and all share the feel of being far away from the rest. Not only find the different rooms. There are halls and agreeable backyard and, on top, a terrace form wich can enjoy a privileged view over Mahon and its port.
Es Mercadal


town on the west coast of the island. It stands out for its privileged situation, since it is found in a quiet area right by the sea, facing the Platja Gran while at the same time it is at an easy walking distance to the city centre.

The hotel is a modern and tastefully furnished brand new hotel that offers comfort and wellness in a peaceful atmosphere. The high quality of a four-star hotel and the availability of several facilities in one of the most beautiful spots in Menorca make the Hotel an excellent choice for relaxing holidays.
Llucmaçanes Gran Agroturismo

Llucmaçanes Gran Agroturismo is a working farm, where the traditional Menorcan farmhouse has been restored and converted into a small rural hotel. It is located next to the church inthe small village of Lucmaçanes, only at a 10min drive from Mahon and its beautiful harbour, airport and beaches on the south coast of the island. Guests have use of a swimming pool, a large garden and patio area with barbecue. There is an organic vegetable garden growing typical produce. The accomodation comprises of 5 double rooms with en-suite bathroom and 4 of them have a small private terrace. You can visit our farm and see all the animals. Around the village there are also several footpaths leading into the surrounding countryside.
Morvedra Nou

It was originally built as a country house and was carefully restored in 1997 to four star hotel standards whilst retaining all its rural ambience. The hotel enjoys pleasant country views in the foreground and sea


views in the background and is ideal for those who value tranquility und unspoiled countryside.

Enjoy a drink in the bar before eating in our restaurant which is noted for its Menorcan Cuisine. The hotel boasts a large well-kept garden and has a swimming pool in a sunny position.

The hotel has just 17 double rooms, a double superior and a junior suit, all with bathroom, air conditioning, central heating, satellite TV, minibar, telephone and terrace. Within 8km from the hotel are the beautiful virgin beaches of Macarella, Cala Turqueta, Es Talaier and Son Saura.
Sa Caleta Playa Apartaments

Sa Caleta Playa Apartaments are located 2 km far from Ciutadella de Menorca, in a quiet area that is very well connected with other resorts and nearby beaches. From the apartments you havedirect access to Sa Caleta, a beautiful cove of white sand and crystal waters.

It is the perfect place for relaxing in an intimate atmosphere, surrounded by a world of contrasts: the vegetation and the beach, the varieties of blue in the sea, music and silence, rest and amusement.

Rural Sant Ignasi Hotel is located on the Road to Cala Morell, just outside Ciutadella. The closest beach is situated less than 8 km. away and you can also find a horse farm nearby. The hotel is surrounded by a beautiful garden of a centuries-old forest of oaks and palms, whose extension is 385,000 m². The main hotel building, used for the accommodation of customers, was once the summer home of an old aristocratic Menorcan family. The groundfloor dates from 1777.


Each room is different in space, furniture, decoration and colour, however a Mediterranean style, influenced by our British dominations, can always be appreciated.
Sa Torre Blanca

Only 12 kilometres from Mahon, Rural tourism in Minorca, at Sa Torre Blanca, located in a magnificent 200-hectare country estate very close to the sea and right in the heart of the S'Albufera des Grau Nature Park, a Biosphere Reserve.

To reach the sea, there is a breathtaking short walk down from the country estate, allowing you to discover the coastal ecosystem and an impressive megalithic structure called Sa Torreta de Tramuntana, with impressive views over all the north eastern corner of Minorca.

The accommodation is to be found inside the fourteenth-century defence tower, having capacity for two adults and one or two children, a terracewith porch, hall with library, main bedroom, and living area with cooker and bar.
Son Granot

Son Granot, boutique hotel, has two buildings in a spacious garden at the entrance of the Port of Mahon. One is a Georgian-style rooms overlooking the sea, gardens or country. The second follows a traditional style with suites surrounded by gardens. The accommodation offers guests a pleasant stay with private terrace, luxurious and spacious rooms with four-posted beds and a terrace with superb views. The terraces, solarium and swimming pool with bar service in the gardens. We have eight rooms and two suites and a "à la carte" restaurant where both traditional Menorcan and Mediterranean cuisine can be tasted.
Son Tretze

Son Tretze, an old house converted into a hotel, has 8 rooms and is located


may also represent Brigit as the Promise of Spring, the Bringer of Light after the dark months of winter. This energy brings with it HOPE, renewed enthusiasm, renewal, and new beginnings.

Imbolc and Brigid the Triple Goddess
Brigit is considered a Triple Goddess, yet many references distinguish Brigit differently than the traditional Triple Goddess aspects of Maiden, Mother and Crone. Rather Brigit is frequently referenced having three sister selves with three distinct roles, Lady of Healing Waters, Goddess of the Sacred Flame and Goddess of the Fertile Earth. These roles are then multiplied through Brigit’s vast and varied responsibilities . . .
As a Fertility Goddess, a patroness of domestic animals and crops, Brigit is the Bringer of Prosperity through the abundance and wealth of the land. In addition to itsfor $25,000. The gamble paid off; as of 2016, Forbes valued the Columbus Clippers franchise at $41 million,  and the team made a profit for the county of $1.33 million in 2015.

While still serving as a County Commissioner, Cooper became president of the International League in 1978, a post he held for 12 years. From 1988 to 1989, he served as commissioner of the Triple-A Alliance, an interleague partnership between the International League and American Association. In 1984, the old ballpark he watching being built as a child was renamed Cooper Stadium in recognition of his contributions to baseball in Columbus. When the Clippers outgrew Cooper Stadium in 2009, they erected a statue of Cooper, entitled The Father of Columbus Baseball, at the main entrance of their


“They gave us roses at the airport, brought our bags, everyone wanted to take selfies with us,” Mr. Snyder said. “This was the best tournament I have ever participated in, even better than the Olympics in Rio.”

Later on Saturday, during a sightseeing trip, the wrestling team took to the landmark Milad Tower in Tehran, and excited Iranians took pictures of the team.

Jordan Burroughs, an Olympic champion, said he has more fans in Iran’s capital “than from any other city.”

For a time, it had seemed the American wrestlers would be forced to stay home. After President Trump announced that Iran would be included in a travel ban, the country decided it would reciprocate by barring the team. But the Iranian authorities changed their minds after seeing numerous protests inThe San Francisco band LoCura reflects the Bay's diverse mix of cultures, histories and people through music. Members of the band come from as far away as Spain, and as close as the Mission district. They blend flamenco, Cuban son, reggae, cumbia, ska and more to make their own border-crossing brand of revolutionary party music. With the release of their new album, Semilla Caminante, lead singer Kata Miletich and guitarist Bob Sanders were my guests along with La Cuneta son Machin from Nicaragua.


remove the Wine Locker.

Harley Colwell lives closer to Portland, Maine, than Portland, Ore., but a recent search for the perfect companion led him virtually to Naked Winery’s world headquarters in Hood River, Ore.

Before you get the wrong idea, let’s be clear – Harley is happily married.

He and his wife, Deanna, operate a small business they call Hardee Crafts, in Windsor, Maine. They make and sell distinctive — and challenging — games and puzzles.

Harley had recently completed design and construction of a novel device to secure a wine bottle from easy access. He was looking for a companion product that would show off the utility of his invention – a safe, empty wine bottle, to be precise.

He didn’t want an ordinary glass wine bottle. He and Deanna take his

People v Farquharson (2016 NY Slip Op 03672)

People v Farquharson

2016 NY Slip Op 03672

Decided on May 10, 2016

Appellate Division, First Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on May 10, 2016

Friedman, J.P., Acosta, Moskowitz, Kapnick, Gesmer, JJ.

1105 4355/07

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
vLloyd Farquharson, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Rachel T. Goldberg of counsel), for appellant.
Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Clara H. Salzberg of counsel), respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Caesar D. Cirigliano, J.), rendered November 24, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender,


Who is Kuan Yin?

Also known as Kwan Yin & Guan Yin

Dan Brown made the phrase “sacred feminine” a household term in his bestseller The Da Vinci Code; the concept however, has been in existence for centuries and is a central aspect of ancient, pre-Christian religions. Guanyin, from Chinese Buddhism, is comparable to Mother Mary, an embodiment of mercy and infinite compassion.

Chinese Buddhists believe that Guanyin is the female aspect of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of Compassion. It has been debated that Guanyin’s origins go back to Taoism, the indigenous religion of China. As Mahayana Buddhism began to filter into China from the 1st century CE, Taoist deities were co-opted into Buddhism – a deliberate tactic, perhaps, on the part of Buddhists to gradually phase out the older religion.

Notwithstanding thedebate over her history, the fact remains that Guanyin is greatly revered across Buddhist communities in Asia. She is known as Kannon in Japan, Gwan-eum in Korea, Kuan Eim in Thailand and Dewi Kwan Im in Indonesia. To Tibetan Buddhists she is Tara, born from a single tear shed by Avalokitesvara.

Depiction

Between the 10th and 13th centuries, Guanyin’s features in Chinese iconography were distinctly masculine. Over time, she acquired an androgynous form and eventually morphed into a goddess-like figure. In contemporary iconography, Guanyin is depicted as an ethereally lovely, white-robed goddess. A popular representation has her standing on a lotus petal. Her head, encircled by a halo, is slightly tilted, intent on catching the smallest plea for help. The material used to sculpt the statue symbolizes her many virtues


– jade for virtue, marble for constancy and porcelain for innocence.

Depending upon the various schools of Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin may be seen in solitary meditation or seated by the side of a Buddha, with another bodhisattva accompanying them. As a symbol of compassion, Guanyin is popularly linked with vegetarianism. Her image is often seen in the interiors of vegetarian restaurants in China and Buddhist literature on vegetarianism.Pages

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A common refrain within Christianity is that Jesus lived a sinless life. Belief in this doctrine has long been a necessity in Christianity, as it forms the basis for the atonement of Jesus’ death. Jesus had to be sinless in order to act as the sacrificial lamb for all people.

JESUS: A LAMB WITHOUT DEFECT

Ancient Jews symbolized the need for this atonement – this reconciliation between humankind and God – in the celebration of Yom Kippur. Among other things, Yom Kippur included the ritual slaughter of a physically flawless lamb, whose shed blood served as atonement for the sins of the Jews. The lamb was required to be young (a year old), male, and “without defect.” It was required, then, to be “perfect,” otherwise it could


is some evidence of physical abuse – or perhaps more appropriately “aggravated assault” – by Jesus. I am, of course, talking about the famous “cleansing of the Temple” scene, described in all four Gospels.

Jews coming into Jerusalem from other regions often went to the Temple to sacrifice animals. Before they could purchase an animal for sacrifice, they had to exchange their foreign currency. For this reason, there were moneychangers in the Temple, giving people a convenient place to exchange their currency before purchasing an animal, and making a profit in the process.

In clearing the moneychangers out of the Temple, Jesus is described as overturning their tables and spilling their money, and driving them and their animals out of the Temple with a whip. Did Jesus actually whip theacting “in secret.” Jesus, however, tells them that it is not yet his time (a foreshadowing of his execution) and that he is not going to Jerusalem for this feast. He encourages them, however, to go to the feast by themselves.

Then comes the shocker, in verse 10: “But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but in secret.”

So what has happened here? There is absolutely no question that Jesus has just lied to his disciples. He stated unequivocally that he was “not going to this festival” (verse 8). Yet later, after they had left, he went to the festival in secret.

Interestingly, Dark Age scribes evidently recognized this religious quandary. By telling his disciples that he was not going to Jerusalem, but


countries, cultures, and religious traditions. Even countries like Cuba, Iran, and China – countries who are traditionally at odds with many of the traditions of Europe and the United States – have a day set aside during the year to honor fathers. Traditions include everything from gifts and cards (in the U.S. and much of Europe), to participation in “manly” activities such as hiking and beer drinking (Germany), to more religious-oriented celebrations (Italy and Roman Catholicism).

The United States was the first country in modern times to institute a day for fathers. Although several states have traditionally laid claim to the “first” Father’s Day (notably West Virginia), a Father’s Day celebrated in 1910 in Spokane, Washington, is generally considered to have given rise to the modern holiday.

SONORA LOUIS SMARTDODD

Metaphorically, and not without irony, Father’s Day appears to have been birthed directly from Mother’s Day. Though days celebrating motherhood, maternity, and womanhood in general, had long graced calendars throughout the world, the modern Mother’s Day celebration did not begin in earnest until about 1908. Around that same time, a woman named Sonora Louis Smart Dodd first heard about the new Mother’s Day celebrations, and instead of thinking of herself (she was a mother, after all, and what are mothers most famous for if not thinking of others first?) she immediately began to formulate an idea for a similar celebration for fathers. Her own father, William Jackson Smart, had been an artilleryman in the Civil War, and had fathered six children, including Sonora. His wife, Sonora’s mother, had


died giving birth to their last child, leaving her husband to raise six children, ranging in age from newborn to 16 years. From all accounts, William Smart was a respectable, loving, and devoted father, who spent the final years of his life being both mother and father to these young children, and seeing all of them – even the newborn – raised to adulthood.

THE FIRST FATHER’S DAY

As a result, when Sonora Smart Dodd first heard talk of Mother’s Day, she immediately began formulating an idea to honor her own father with a special celebration similar to Mothers’ Day. Lobbying the town council in Spokane, Sonora convinced them to institute a day celebrating fathers. She had urged them to use June 5th, as this was the anniversary of hersome major Hun ass, flying a checkeredboard-painted Neiuport 28, which is a late-model French scout that is unique because it's guns are on the side of the fuselage instead of on the top. I just won the Congressional Medal of Honor, thanks to a mission wherein I shot down three Albatros DVa's, one Pfalz DIII, two Albatros CIII's, and an observation balloon. Unfortunately, my other campagin, which consisted of a German pilot named Albrecht von Tiernan, recently ended badly after von Teirnan collided head on with a French Neiuport 17 scout. My top wing was damaged by his undercarriage, but I managed to keep the plane under control. However, as I was trying to make a run for my own lines, a couple more Nieuports got onto my


tail, and when I tried to evade them, I lost control because of the damaged wing, and crashed. It was a soft crash, and I should have survived it, but the damn dirty cheating computer killed me. My third campaign is a French pilot named Jean-Emile Ledoux, and I have put together a nice little career with him with about 15 kills in the first two months. He's at a disadvantage, though, because he's flying Nieuport 17's, which are inferior to the Albatros DIII's that he is primarily up against.

7. The average age of a pilot in World War I was about 21.

8. During April of 1917 (so-called Bloody April, when the Germans devestated the Allies in the air), the average lifespan of a British flier was 11days. I recently finished a relatively new book outlining in detail each of the Red Baron's 80 kills, including information about the victims. It was unbelievable how many of them had only been at the front for a week or two, or a month at most. At least one of them was literally flying his very first combat sortie, having only arrived at the front the day before. Can you imagine the bad luck? Get posted to the RFC, arrive at the front, and then on your very first time over the lines, you manage to end up in a dogfight with the highest-scoring ace of the war, and get your ass shot down and killed?

9. Rudolph Berthold scored 44 victories with Germany during the war, and managed


to survive, only to be killed in 1920 during the post-war revolutionary fighting in Germany. He was killed during a riot. He was in uniform, wearing his Pour le Merite - which was the award given to pilots who performed exceptionally well in the air. It was a very prestigious award, given to only the best of the best - and Berthold was something like the 4th or 5th highest-scoring German ace to survive the war. It hung around the neck. Revolutionaries grabbed him, beat him senseless, then strangled him to death with the ribbons of the Pour le Merite. So he survived the war as a highly decorated ace, only to be killed two years later by his own countrymen. And Vietnam vets thought they had itbad when they got spit on. Germany was not a place you wanted to be after World War I.

10. Death by falling was common for World War I pilots. Not because they fell out of their cockpits, but because they jumped. World War I planes were made of wood and fabric, and were prone to catching fire when the engine was hit. Parachutes were not in wide use during World War I (they thought if the pilots had parachutes, they'd be more likely to ditch their plane in a pinch, and hell, that would cost money!), and so when a pilot's plane caught fire, he would frequently jump rather than burn to death. It's reminescent of the people who jumped from the World Trade Center on 9/11. What


an awful decision to be faced with.

11. Fate didn't play favorites in World War I. Oswald Boelke was Germany's first air hero, and was head and shoulders above all his peers. At the time of his death, he had more than double the score of any other pilot in the war. Even though he died a full two years before the end of the war, he still ended up as the 12th highest scoring ace for the Germans. Even to this day, he is commonly regarded as the "father" of dogfighting, and he put together a list of dogfighting techniques that are still taught to this day and are sort of the "basics" of dogfighting. Anyway, Boelke was killed in October of 1916, not by being shot downgloriously in flames after a long, heroic battle, but after colliding in mid-air with a plane from his own squadron. Manfred von Richthofen (i.e. the Red Baron) (who was an unknown but up-and-coming pilot at the time) was chasing an enemy plane, and the plane veered right in front of Boelke and a third pilot named Erwin Boehme. Boehme saw the plane coming, and rolled out of the way. In doing so, he rolled right into Boelke. Boelke's top wing was crushed, and his plane spun into the ground, where he was killed. Boehme, on the other hand, managed to keep control of his plane and survived. After scoring 23 kills in his own right, Boehme was shot down himself a year later.

12. Hermann Goering was a 22-victory


ace in World War I, and led von Richthofen's unit following the Red Baron's death in April of 1918. Goering, of course, came to prominence in World War II as Hitler's second in command and head of the Luftwaffe.

13. Ernst Udet was the high-scoring German ace to survive the war, ending with a score of 62 (18 less than von Richtofen's 80 kills). Udet was a stunt pilot after the war, and even lived for a while in the U.S. and flew stunts in movies. In the 1930's, he returned to Germany where he was called upon by Goering to have a high role in the Luftwaffe. Conflicted about his loyalties, and not believing in the principles of Nazism, and feeling that he was just a propoganda puppet,he committed suicide in 1941.

14. Manfred von Richthofen had both a brother and a cousin who were also aces in World War I. Cousin Wolfram von Richthofen scored 8 kills, and brother Lothar von Richtofen scored 40 kills. Lothar holds the record for the best "start" to a flying career in World War I, scoring 20 kills in his first month at the front. Lothar was shot down and wounded several times - once severely - but survived the war. He survived, however, only to die in a plane crash in 1922.

15. Jean Navarre was an early French ace of some note who scored 12 victories very early in the war, before being shot down in enemy territory and taken prisoner. He spent the rest of the war


as a prisoner and was finally repatriated after the armistice. He continued flying, and was asked to fly in a celebration in Paris in 1919 to celebrate the end of the war. He was to fly his plane through the famous Arc de Triomph. While practicing for the celebration, he hit the Arc and was killed.

16. Charles Nungesser was a flamboyant French ace who scored about 45 kills. He was the consummate "World War I playboy flier," with stories told of him flying sorties hungover and still dressed in his tuxedo from the night before. Despite being wounded on a number of occasions (he was forced to walk with a cane because of one injury), he survived the war. In 1927, he attempted to fly solo across theAtlantic, and was never heard from again. 3 months later, Charles Lindbergh became the first to do it successfully. If Nungesser had succeeded, we would talk about Charles Nungesser instead of Charles Lindbergh.

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Isn't the majority of what is written in the New Testament?

a lie, since obviously Jesus was not of the Jewish faith, black and in no way a "Son of David," as Joseph was only his "step-father," who is said to have been a descendant of the Jewish King? Jesus "was" the Son of the Lord in heaven, but aren't religions twisting the real facts... show more a lie, since obviously Jesus was not of the Jewish faith, black and in no way a "Son of David," as Joseph was only his "step-father," who is said to have been a descendant of the Jewish King? Jesus "was" the Son of the Lord in heaven, but aren't religions twisting the real facts for "profit?"

Update: For those who say Jesus didbe black?

-Mary, Jesus' earthly mother, was from the tribe of Judah (and a descendant of David) because Jews didn't marry people from other tribes and even before Mary married Joseph Gabriel told her that Jesus will reign on His father David's throne forever.

-Everything the Bible says is true!!! Nothing in the Bible has been twisted!!!

-This wasn't part of the question,but I'm writing this for the people who made comments on Jesus not existing or not being the Son of God : -Jesus was killed by the Jews, but He resurrected from the dead on the third day. His disciples saw Him die and they saw Him in His resuurected body, they wrote eyewitness accounts of His death. And many Historians, including Josephus a first century Historian (who isn't


a Christian), wrote about Jesus death. Jesus' disciples were willing to die be tortured to death because they didn't deny what they saw (Jesus in His resurrected body). They couldn't have hollusinated it because more than 500 people saw Him at once! And most Scholars, including non-Christian Scholars know the persecutor Saul ( who hated and murded Christians) and the skeptic James became Christians. Saul (who became Paul) wrote letters with His own hand that tell us why He became a Christian (He encountered the risen Christ). He also told us why James became a Christian (He too encountered the risen Christ). They too were killed for preaching about Jesus Christ. Jesus' disciples also wrote eyewitness accounts of His miracles (ex : giving sight to the blind, givingDavid on both sides of His geneology so there couldn't be issues raised, but it is the Jewish custom to trace the lineage through the mother.
(However, Kevin Bacon fails to trace back this time in "6 degrees of separation"! Ha ha, with a name like that, he could hardly be kosher!)

Oh look... another psuedo intellectual who thinks himself wise for looking up something on the internet. Jesus was decended from David and although another lineage seemingly shows another line, it is merely the two lines of his earthly parents. Jesus was born into the Jewish faith and was a jew. Jesus was most likely caucasion but darker than we portray him in our art. So no, the premise of your question is arrogant, misleading, and just plain wrong.

jesus


wasn't of the jewish faith?! what was he? a methodist from new jersey? of course he was jewish. he was a rabbi. he lived and instructed his followers on the traditions of judaism. he held councel with jewish scholars.
there are biblical texts contained in the Nag Hammadi library, specifically, found in the gospel of st. thomas, where jesus refutes being called the son of God, and refers to himself as the son of Adam, the human one. he speaks of himself as the embodiment of something of the ideal human.
as to his lineage, the new testament gospels clearly identify Joseph as not being the "father of jesus", rather, the son of God, and further identify the lineage of king david to his mother, mary. i agree with youFrench expert on Syria and a visiting fellow at The Washington institute for Near East Policy, wrote recently.

"What's left of Islamic State territory is the key part of Iran's plan to connect Iran to Lebanon," Firas Abi-Ali, senior Middle East analyst at IHS Country Risk in London, told Bloomberg.

Kataib Imam Ali Forces (Iraqi militia in Syria) announced that they are preparing for Al #Tanf battle. See https://t.co/iyhjOPHsAY pic.twitter.com/ZLo5elflN5 — Balanche (@FabriceBalanche) May 30, 2017

Hundreds of Iranian-backed Iraqi militiamen have massed near a U.S.-training base located near the country’s border with Iraq. Clashes have already occurred.

Supposedly our forces feel threatened, but our jihadist allies tell a different story.

Syrian rebels say the United States and its allies are sending them more arms to try to fend off a new push


Ricans were granted United States citizenship. It wasn’t exactly a gift. Exactly one month later, on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. The point of extending citizenship to Puerto Ricans was to get about 20,000 more bodies into the World War. Ad Policy

The centennial of that dubious bestowal makes now a good time to kick the tires and see whether citizenship ended up being a vehicle for human development or a beat-up car that only benefited its dealer.

After one hundred years of citizenship, US federal agencies control the island’s currency, banking system, international trade, foreign relations, shipping and maritime laws, TV, radio, postal system, immigration, Social Security, customs, transportation, military, import-export regulations, environmental controls, coastal operations, air space, civil andcriminal appeals, and judicial code.

After one hundred years of citizenship, the per capita income of Puerto Ricans is roughly $15,200—half that of Mississippi, the poorest state in the union. Yet in the last five years alone, the government raised the retirement age, increased worker contributions, and lowered public pensions and benefits. It also hiked the water rates by 60 percent, raised the gasoline and sales taxes (the latter to 11.5 percent), and allowed electricity rates to skyrocket. In 2013–14 alone, 105 different taxes were raised in Puerto Rico. But this was not enough.

After one hundred years of citizenship, Puerto Ricans are prohibited from managing their own economy, negotiating their own trade relations, or setting their own consumer prices. Puerto Rico has been little more than a profit center


for the United States: first as a naval coaling station, then as a sugar empire, a cheap labor supply, a tax haven, a captive market, and now as a a municipal bond debtor and target for privatization. It is an island of beggars and billionaires: fought over by lawyers, bossed by absentee landlords, and clerked by politicians.

After one hundred years of citizenship, Puerto Ricans enjoy the media images of the American dream and the underside of the US Constitution. They are free to be poor, under-educated and unemployed; free to be invisible and unheard; free to lose their homes to Wall Street; free to flee the island in utter desperation, as hundreds of thousands have done in recent years. Sure, Puerto Ricans are free—free to be poor, under-educated,unemployed, invisible, unheard.

After one hundred years of citizenship, Puerto Ricans know that that their homeland was invaded, its wealth exploited, its patriots persecuted and jailed. But they continue to suffer in solitude, their cause largely ignored even by those in the United States who generally pay attention to such suffering “abroad.” Separated by an ocean, a language, and a century of propaganda, they are more unnoticed than Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and more forgotten than Macondo, the town in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.

For Puerto Rico, the legacy of the American Century is a schizophrenic existence. Puerto Ricans are both citizens and colonial subjects of the United States. They have a legislature whose will can be vetoed by Congress. They have been conscripted to take


up arms and die on foreign shores for the United States, but they are not permitted to vote for its president. Now a board elected by nobody, either in the United States or in Puerto Rico, will govern the island as a de facto collection agency for hedge funds and Wall Street speculators.

The 20th century opened with lavish promises for Puerto Ricans. On July 28, 1898, General Nelson Miles of the United States Army hoisted the Stars and Stripes atop the municipal flagpole in Ponce, on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, and told the island’s inhabitants that the United States had arrived “to bring you protection, not only to yourselves but to your property, to promote your prosperity…and to give…the advantages and blessings of enlightened civilization.”

The wordswere magnificent, but their delivery depended upon the United States Congress, which has jurisdiction over the entire government and economy of Puerto Rico. In effect, Puerto Ricans are perpetually subject to the moods and whims of a few hundred politicians, over 1,500 miles away, in Washington, DC.

The politicians were indeed whimsical. On the floor of the Senate, Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio insisted that Puerto Ricans “have no experience which would qualify them for the great work of government with all the bureaus and departments needed by the people of Porto Rico.” William B. Bate, a Democrat from Tennessee who had served as a major general in the Confederate Army, shared the most precise information. Puerto Ricans and Filipinos, he said, were “heterogeneous mass of mongrels…hostile to Christianity,”


unprecedented assortment of land and property taxes in order to pay for the “bureaus and departments” of Charles Herbert Allen, the island’s first US-appointed civil governor.

Allen ruled for just over a year. Within weeks of sending his First Annual Report to President William McKinley, Allen resigned and rushed to Wall Street. As a vice president of two House of Morgan subsidiaries, he built the largest sugar syndicate in the world with a little help from his friends in Puerto Rico. By 1907, Allen’s company controlled 98 percent of the sugar refining capacity in the United States. Today his company is known as Domino Sugar.

In short, Allen hard-wired the entire Puerto Rican economy for his own personal benefit, and injected over 600 US expatriates into the government of Puertocrony capitalism of the early 1900s was quickly institutionalized by the US Congress. The Merchant Marine Act of 1920—also called the Jones Act—required that all ships delivering goods to Puerto Rico had to be built in the United States and owned by United States citizens. The Jones Act is a de facto price-fixing scheme which enables US corporations to charge up to 20 percent more for all goods sold on the island. Due to this scheme, the same car costs $6,000 more in San Juan than on the mainland. The scheme has made this tiny island, smaller than Connecticut, a captive consumer market for US products. There are more Walmarts and Walgreens per square mile in Puerto Rico, than anywhere else on the planet, all selling US goods


at a hyper-inflated profit.

Until 2006, IRS code 936 provided US manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies in Puerto Rico with tax abatement deals. Now, in 2017, Acts 20 and 22 passed by the Puerto Rico legislature provide US corporations and wealthy investors with another tax abatement on all interest, dividend, and capital gains income. This tax haven status has enabled John Paulson—the hedge-fund billionaire, subprime mortgage speculator, and fervent supporter of Donald Trump—to buy the AIG building in Hato Rey, the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel, La Concha Renaissance Hotel, St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort, and the San Juan Beach Hotel. He has also invested in Banco Popular, the island’s largest bank.

After the expiration of IRS 936 in 2006, municipal bonds became all the rage. Their triple tax-exempt status—from federal, state, oralchemy or Beltway coincidence, all three branches of the US federal government confirmed, on the very same day, that Puerto Rico is still a colony. On June 9, 2016, in Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle, the US Supreme Court agreed with the Obama administration’s argument that Puerto Rico is a territorial possession of the United States, with no political or juridical sovereignty whatsoever. That same day, the House of Representatives passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) to create a financial control board empowered to manage the entire Puerto Rican economy.

The financial control board is now the de facto government, banker, judge, jury, and executioner of Puerto Rico. It will supervise and approve the entire Commonwealth budget; reduce or eliminate public pensions; restructure the


Equally astounding is that several members of the financial control board are the same bankers who helped to create, and profited from, the island’s current debt crisis.

In their very first meeting, the financial control board announced its jurisdiction over the entire Commonwealth government and about two dozen state agencies, including the University of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Electrical and Power Authority, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, the central bank, the public retirement systems, the Housing Finance Authority, and the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.

Under financial control board pressure, the Commonwealth has already announced the closure and sale of over 300 public school buildings and an impending cut of $300 million from the University of Puerto Rico budget. The financial control board has also requested a 10the Caribbean.

Within six months of its creation, the extent of FCB power, jurisdiction, and willingness to inflict austerity have earned it a new and more intuitive name: Junta Colonial.

On the island, opposition to the financial control board is vocal and widespread. As of June 2016 a campamento against the board, similar to the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park, has occupied the capitol grounds in San Juan. The campamento has grown continuously, spoken loudly, and is drawing international attention.

Virtually every town in Puerto Rico—including San Juan, Fajardo, Ponce, Mayagüez, Arecibo, Aguadilla and the island of Vieques—has seen massive protests against the financial control board. Over 50 non-profit organizations and 18 labor unions have rallied and organized against it. Related Articles Just in Time for the July 4


arrested for replacing a United States flag with a Puerto Rican one, in protest against the FCB. As recently as February 23, thousands of demonstrators surrounded the capital building in San Juan to protest the FCB budget cuts to the University of Puerto Rico.

In every corner of the island, public resentment is growing, and the strains of police containment along with it. It’s a flammable combination. The island is in turmoil, and with each new FCB austerity announcement, it comes closer to exploding.

If it occurs, this explosion will be kindled by decades of frustration and a century of colonial solitude. After 100 years of citizenship, Puerto Ricans are being patronized to death. Exploited by bankers, deceived by politicians, ignored by journalists, they have nowhere left to turn.      In Pitt County, North Carolina, during
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                    (collectively, the “Haddock girls”) were
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Strong stepped off
the porch and began to approach Adams, but
stopped before she reached the street.
        Adams stopped in the middle of the
road. She then exclaimed that someone
should get a firearm and shoot the Haddock
girls. Green exited the vehicle and fired a gun
into the air. Green then pointed the gun in
the direction of Lossie Haddock’s house and
fired several shots. Jasmine Cox, who was on
the porch, began running into the house after
she saw Green point the gun in the air. She
was the first person to get into the house, and
testified that, after she got in, she heard more
gunfire following the first shots.
        Ten-year-old Christopher Foggs, who
had been playing in the area, was found face
down next toStephen Bunch, a
firearms forensic scientist and former FBI scientist;
William Tobin, a forensic material scientist and
metallurgist; Adina Schwartz, a professor at the John Jay
College of Criminal Justice; Clark Everett, the Pitt County
district attorney during the Green and Adams cases; and
Jerry Richardson, the SBI laboratory director.
        On 14 August 2010, N&O published an article
written by Locke and Joseph Neff, which was entitled, “SBI
relies on bullet analysis critics deride as unreliable.” In the
14 August article, Locke and Neff are highly critical of
plaintiff's bullet analysis and testimony in the Green and
Adams cases and include one of Whitehurst’s photographs
of the two bullets. In September or October 2010, Everett
engaged Bunch to conduct an outside examination of the
eight cartridge cases and two bullets. Bunch agreed with
plaintiff that the


          27 June 2013, plaintiff filed her first amended complaint.
             On or about 22 January 2014, plaintiff moved to amend her
             first amended complaint. On 27 January 2014, N&O,
             McClatchy, Locke, Neff, Drescher, and Riley moved for
             summary judgment. On or about 5 March 2014, the trial
             court allowed plaintiff's motion, and plaintiff filed her
    mention to Hendrikse that a second examination of

the bullets was going to be conducted, but it would not be complete before the

planned date for the series to run.

      Statement 4 was specifically attributed to Hendrikse, and he asked defendant

Locke in an email for a retraction because his statements were misrepresented in

the series:

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When Daniel K. Inouye was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An aspiring surgeon, he spent much of the next week helping care for the wounded at an elementary school in his native Honolulu.

He wanted to enlist immediately but couldn’t. Japanese Americans were classified as “enemy aliens.”

Two years later, once restrictions were lifted in 1943, he joined the Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, whose motto was “Go for broke.”

PHOTOS: Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii

The Japanese American soldiers became the most decorated unit in U.S. history. Inouye fought in Italy and France, losing his right arm during a 1945 battle against the Germans. He would ultimately be awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest citation for combat heroics.

Inouye returned hometo become a towering figure in Hawaii politics, joining thefirst delegation that the new state sent to Congress in 1959, then winning election to the Senate in 1962.

When he died Monday of respiratory complications at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Inouye was the second-longest-serving senator in U.S. history. He was 88.

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In the Senate, the Democrat was a low-key presence, and, as an amputee, a walking testament to the understated valor of his generation.

“Tonight, our country has lost a true American hero,” President Obama said in a statement. “In Washington, he worked to strengthen our military, forge bipartisan consensus, and hold those of us in government accountable to the people we were elected to serve.”

But, the president added, “it was his incredible bravery during World War II … that made


Danny not just a colleague and a mentor, but someone revered by all of us lucky enough to know him.”

The country’s first Japanese American senator, Inouye was reelected eight times, most recently in 2010. He served nearly 50 years in the Senate, second only to West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who was in his 51st year in the chamber when he died in 2010.

Inouye earned a reputation as a politician who could deliver money and projects to his home state, often through so-called earmarks. From 1998 to 2003, he steered $1.4 billion to military projects in Hawaii while serving as chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, according to the National Journal Almanac.

In 2009 he became chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and continued directing money backhome, boasting about his ability to secure spending for pet projects even after the controversial practice fell out of fashion.

“I’m the No. 1 earmarks guy in the U.S. Congress,” he told a group of Hawaii business leaders that year, according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

He supported the military, but was skeptical of war. He voted against the Iraq war resolution in 2002, and was among the 12 Democrats who voted in 2006 to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by July 2007.

On the national stage, he was also known for his service on the Senate Watergate Committee and later chaired the Senate committee that investigated the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration.

During the Watergate hearings, millions of network television viewers saw Inouye grill top White House aides, including H.R.


him,” Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement. “We all knew he would do the moral thing regardless of the consequences — whether it was passing judgment on a president during Watergate or on another president in the Iran-Contra hearings. And Danny always remembered where he came from — and how hard his family had to struggle.”

Daniel Ken Inouye was born in Honolulu on Sept. 7, 1924, the oldest of four children of Japanese immigrants. His father was a jewelry clerk and his mother a homemaker.

Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, about 110,000 Pacific Coast residents — but not those in Hawaii — were interned in detention camps. Inouye, who continued in a pre-med program at the University of Hawaii, waited impatiently until he could enlist.

“Iwas angered to realize that my government felt that I was disloyal and part of the enemy,” he told filmmaker Ken Burns for his 2007 PBS documentary, “The War.” “And I wanted to be able to demonstrate not only to my government but to my neighbors that I was a good American.”

As a sergeant with the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Inouye led an assault in Italy’s Po Valley against the Germans on April 21, 1945. He was shot in the stomach but kept creeping toward two machine gun nests, destroying both with grenades and rifle fire.

Then a German rifle grenade fired from 10 yards away shattered and severed his right arm.

“I looked at it, stunned and disbelieving. It dangled there by a few bloody shreds of


tissue, my grenade still clenched in a fist that suddenly didn’t belong to me anymore,” Inouye and coauthor Lawrence Elliott wrote in his 1967 autobiography, “Journey to Washington.”

Inouye pried his own live grenade out of his right hand and threw it at the German gunman, who was killed by the explosion. He continued firing his gun until he was shot in the right leg and knocked down the hillside. Badly wounded, he ordered his men to keep attacking.

On May 27, 1947, Inouye was honorably discharged with the rank of captain and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, to go with a Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and 12 other citations. In 2000, President Clinton upgraded his cross and other medals won by Japanese Americans to the Medal of Honor,of Honolulu, and soon became active in politics.

His congressional achievements included working with fellow Hawaii Democratic U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka to win passage of a congressional resolution, signed by Clinton in 1993, formally apologizing for the U.S. government’s role in the 1893 overthrow of the kingdom of Hawaii.

In 2006, Inouye’s wife of 57 years, the former Margaret Shinobu Awamura, died of cancer. Two years later he married Irene Hirano, president and founding chief executive officer of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

Besides his wife, Inouye is survived by a son from his first marriage, Daniel Jr., who is a guitarist and lobbyist; a granddaughter and a stepdaughter.

When asked in recent days how he wanted to be remembered, Inouye said, according to his office: “I represented the


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Parshvanatha, the predecessor of Mahavira, lived somewhere in the 9th–7th century BCE.

Rishabhanatha

The Vedas mention the name Rishabha. However, the context in the Rigveda, Atharvaveda and the Upanishads suggests that it means the bull, sometimes "any male animal" or "most excellent of any kind", or "a kind of medicinal plant". Elsewhere it is an epithet for the Hindu god Shiva (Rudra). Later Hindu mythical texts such as the Bhagavata Purana include Rishabha Jina as an avatar of Vishnu.

Lineage
After the nirvana of Parshvanatha, his disciple Subhadatta became the head of the monks. Subhadatta was succeeded by Haridatta, Aryasamudra, Prabha and lastly Kesi. Uttaradhyayana, a Svetambara text have records of a dialogue between Mahavira's disciple and Kesi; Kesi along with his community accepted Mahavira as a tirthankara and merged withCE. But, states von Glasenapp, the historicity of these stories are difficult to establish.

Hindu kings
Archeological evidence suggests that Mathura was an important Jain centre between the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE. Inscriptions from the 1st and 2nd century CE shows that the schism of Digambara/Svetambara had already happened.

King Harshavardhana of the 7th century, grew up in Shaivism following family, but he championed Jainism, Buddhism and all traditions of Hinduism. King Ama of 8th-century converted to Jainism, and Jaina pilgrimage tradition was well established in his era. Mularaja, the founder of Chalukya dynasty constructed a Jain temple, even though he was not a Jain.

In the second half of the 1st century CE, Hindu kings sponsored and helped build major Jaina caves temples. For example, the Hindu


and each other.

The emergence of major philosophical ideas within Hinduism impacted Jainism. According to a 1925 publication by von Glasenapp, around the 8th century CE, Śaṅkarācārya brought forward the doctrine of Advaita. The Vaishnavism and Shaivism also began to rise. This, states von Glasenapp, contributed to a decline of "Jaina church", particularly in South India.

Shaivism
Shaivite poets like Sambandar, Appar (c. 7th century CE), Sundaramurti and Manikkavacakar introduced Jains to Shaivism. Under these influences, Jaina kings became Shaivite. The rulers of Chola dynasty also supported Shaivism

According to a Shaivite legend, an alleged massacre of 8,000 Jain monks happened in the 7th-century. This was claimed for the first time in an 11th-century Tamil language text of Nambiyandar Nambi on Sampantar. According to this text, a 7th-century Shaivite saint defeated thegrace" in Jainism. For example, Sinclair Stevenson wrote in 1915 that the "heart of Jainism was empty because it lacked the saving grace of Jesus".

British rule
The British colonial rule era, according to von Glasenapp in 1925, allowed Jains to pursue their religion without persecutions they had faced before. Further, the British government promoted trade, which allowed members of the Jain community to pursue their traditional economic activity. According to von Glasenapp, Jain businessmen and Jainism thrived during this period, and they used their financial success during the British Raj to rebuild Jain temples. For example, the Dharmanatha temple was built in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) in 1848. The British census reported a drop in Jain population between 1891 and 1921, from 1.417 million to 1.179 million. This may be from


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The acquisition of SonicWall is the latest in a string of purchases made by the Round Rock, Texas-based computer giant in its efforts to expand beyond its roots in personal computers and server systems. It is also the second deal made by the company's new software division. That group, led by John Swainson, the former chief executive of CA Inc., was formed last month.Sasikala chosen by AIADMK lawmakers to take over as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister; O Panneerselvam revolts

Highlights Sasikala chosen by AIADMK to take over as Chief Minister

Not acceptable, says Panneerselvam, adds he was forced to resign

131 of 134 legislators from party back Sasikala at crucial meet

It was near-perfect attendance for the meeting called today by VK Sasikala to establish that her right to become Tamil Nadu Chief Minister remains undented by the sudden revolt of O Panneerselvam, who she is to replace. 131 of the ruling AIADMK's 134 legislators gathered at the party office in Chennai today , allowing Ms Sasikala to flaunt her unparalleled leadership. In an hour-long speech that prompted applause, Ms Sasikala accused Mr Paneerselvam of lying and betraying both the party and J Jayalalithaa, its


powerful leader who died in December while she was still Chief Minister."Neither I nor the AIADMK will be cowed down," said Ms Sasikala, wearing a pink sari, though she has of late appeared in green, the colour Ms Jayalalithaa, who she lived with, believed was lucky. In the weeks since Ms Jayalalithaa's death at 68, Ms Sasikala quickly adapted the accoutrements that were the trademarks of the politician : the green sari, the occasional appearance on the balcony of the large bungalow they shared to wave to supporters below, meetings including of the cabinet at the same home instead of at the party office, a minimalist approach to interaction with the media. But in all this, Ms Sasikala has been careful to repeat that her ambition is restrictedto "delivering the promises of Amma." And today, she urged her party, "I hope all of you who loved Amma will be with me."During her life, her lengthy hospitalisation that started in September and ended with her death in December, and a nationally-televised funeral, Ms Jayalalithaa's dependence on Ms Sasikala, who she met in the 80s, was so thoroughly proclaimed that the AIADMK called the aide "Chinamma" (mother's younger sister). And when Ms Jayalalithaa died, the party unquestioningly accepted Ms Sasikala's plan to install Mr Panneerselvam as Chief Minister. His promotion was uncontroversial: twice, Ms Jayalalithaa had chosen him to stand in for her when corruption cases forced her out of office. When she was sick, in the weeks before she died, he was entrusted with the departments


chance to take a trust vote in the legislature. This, he said, is what Amma intended. For decades, it was what "Amma" decreed that determined her party's agenda. Her unflinching control of the AIADMK rested in her immense popularity among voters, particularly the poor, and a commitment to rewarding loyalists not shy of displaying their sycophancy. Mr Panneerselvam carried her photo in his pocket, refused to use her office or chair when he filled in for her, and wept copiously when he took oath as Chief Minister when she was imprisoned in 2014 on corruption charges.Ms Sasikala served time in the same jail; the women are accused of amassing illicit wealth worth about 60 crores during Ms Jayalalithaa's first term as Chief Minister. Month later, they were acquitted,Sasikala to publicly disown them as a condition of ending their brief estrangement a few years ago) is among the reasons cited by online campaigns with hashtags like SasikalaNotMyCM, along with complaints about her political inexperience.

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It has been confirmed that the Maserati Levante SUV will debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2016 next March.

Initial speculation about the Levante SUV indicated that it would be based around the architecture used by the Jeep Grand Cherokee. However, it has since been confirmed that the Maserati Levante will utilise the same platform as the current Quattroporte luxury sedan. When launched, the Levante will rival the likes of the Porsche Cayenne, Range Rover Sport and BMW X5.

The Levante SUV will be produced at the company’s Miafori plant in Italy. That comes despite the fact that Maserati was previously planning on producing the car in Detroit in its push to reach 50,000 annual sales by 2015. Although that target will no longer be reached, the Levante will playharpsichord and orchestra, premiered in Bucharest, 1994, New Music Week; "....the past and present and...." CONCERTO PER CELLO [1995-1996].
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The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith Jr summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary boundaries to fulfill his dream of success in hip hop. With future and the three one third all he has to do is not choke.Yangon (Myanmar), 11 January 2019 - The area of opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar dropped to 37,300 hectares (ha) in 2018, down 10% from the 41,000 ha recorded in 2017, according to the Myanmar Opium Survey 2018 released today by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Reductions in cultivation have taken place in practically all regions, but have been most significant in South Shan with a decline of 17% and Kachin State with a decline of 15%, followed by East Shan and North Shan declining 8% and 7%. With an average yield of 14 kg per ha in 2018 total opium production dropped from 550 to 520 metric tons, equivalent to approximately 53 tons of heroin destined for the domestic and regional drug markets.

The report reconfirms the


link between conflict and opium in Myanmar, with the highest levels of cultivation continuing to take place in unstable areas of Shan and Kachin states. Troel Vester, UNODC Country Manager, noted that "entrenched poverty and opium cultivation in Myanmar are closely connected. Poor opium farming areas need better security and sustainable economic alternatives."

He added, "drug production has to be carefully and candidly assessed and discussed, and it requires continuing access to isolated areas to develop and gather data and information. At the same time, crime groups are using unstable and insecure parts of the country to do business, and without addressing lawlessness these areas will continue to be a safe-haven for those who profit from the drug trade."

The decline in opium cultivation occurs against the backdrop of agoing forward."

Involved in the offense early in the year, the 6-foot-7 Chandler fell out of favor and never found a true rhythm with Brady. Even though he is under contract, his status for 2016 can be viewed as uncertain.

A review of the Patriots tight ends heading into the offseason:

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Joanne Anderson loves to paint in a semi-surrealistic style, using mixed media of watercolour and acrylic with pen, ink and markers.

The Hanover artist has her work displayed in the guest gallery at the Victoria Park Gallery through the month of September. She was a guest artist here three years ago.

Since childhood, Anderson has been fascinated with the many forms of free expression in the art world.

"When introduced to painting in my teens, I was astonished by the work of others," she said. "I began to paint in a certain style, believing it would be more acceptable to the general public. Soon, this was not satisfying for me and I could not feel any connection to these images.

"Boredom quickly set in, and I could no longer paint in aMany of the actions Mexico agreed to take had actually been negotiated months earlier, officials from both countries told The New York Times , throwing into question how effective a tool Trump’s threatened tariffs really were.

Trump came under heavy criticism last week, even within the Republican Party , after he threatened to impose a 5% tax on imports from Mexico if that country did not do more to stop the flow of migrants crossing into the U.S. The tariffs were set to rise each month until they reached 25%. Then on Friday, the White House announced that it had come to an agreement to avoid the tariff hikes altogether.

In a series of tweets addressed to Fox Business co-hosts Maria Bartiromo, Dagen McDowell, Stuart Varney, and Forbes Media chairman


In August 2014, the Los Angeles City Council debated whether to call for the renegotiation of the city’s financial deals. A report by the labor-community coalition Fix L.A. found that the city had spent more than twice as much on banking fees in fiscal year 2013 as it had on street services.

To try to balance its budget, Los Angeles had enacted hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts over the previous five years. City jobs had been slashed by 10 percent, flood control procedures had been cut back, crumbling sidewalks were not repaired and alleys were rarely cleared of debris. Sewer inspections ceased entirely; the number of sewer overflows doubled from 2008 to 2013.

The campaign slogan wrote itself: “Invest in our streets, not Wall Street!”

At the city councilwar on collective bargaining by workers is that it works: There is power in numbers. The basic idea behind such bargaining is to shift the balance of power in the employer-employee relationship and empower workers to negotiate with owners on a more equal footing.

But collective bargaining does not have to be limited to the workplace. Student organizations such as United Students Against Sweatshops have forced university administrations to negotiate over labor standards for their merchandise vendors. Consumer unions press retailers over issues like pricing and safety standards. Community organizations are able to negotiate community-benefit agreements with major corporations in their cities and win benefits such as local hiring policies and community investment standards.

Similarly, public finance officials in cities, states and school districts across the country could apply collective


Mario Batali and his business partners want to make their 19 restaurants, including Lupa, among the greenest in the world.

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Every year, restaurants throw away as much as 10 percent of the food they buy, as we reported yesterday, yet food waste ranks low on most chefs' list of priorities. But some restaurants want to do something about food waste in their quest to go green. That includes Mario Batali's Lupa Osteria Romana, one of New York's trendiest restaurants.

A few years ago, the ponytailed Food Network star and his business partners decided that their 19 restaurants should rank among the greenest in the world. So they hired a director of food safety and sustainability to encourage chefs to buy localthat can cost the industry millions. But the cost doesn't stop there. This wasted food attracts rats, and when it rots in landfills, it creates methane, a strong greenhouse gas. In their quest to go green, some restaurants are trying to cut down their waste, and that includes some of New York's trendiest eateries. NPR's Eliza Barclay reports from the restaurant Lupa, owned by Food Network star Mario Batali.

ELIZA BARCLAY, BYLINE: This story begins in the basement kitchen of Lupa, where it's just three hours before the dinner service. Line cooks are tenderizing chicken, sorting olives and pushing beets into the oven. It's already crowded, and there's a guest in the kitchen today.

ANDREW SHAKMAN: The flash drive here, it does not have to be in the machine until


a while, then he interrupts. He's getting nervous as crunch time in his kitchen approaches.

GOLER: OK. Thank you, chef. Appreciate it. Great day.

BARCLAY: And with that, Shakman is banished from the kitchen. He was there in the first place thanks to Mario Batali, Goler's boss. A few years ago, the ponytailed TV star, his business partners decided to make their 19 restaurants among the greenest in the world. So they started to encourage chefs to buy local ingredients, compost and save energy. When it came to reducing food waste, they thought they were doing a good job, but they weren't sure how to track and measure it. Then Batali's group heard about Shakman's company. It was helping big institutions like Stanford University Dining and the MGM Grand LasGreco-Roman trips and throws. When he has an opponent tangled up, he can press them against the cage and eat up minutes on end.

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That's the one aspect of the fight that Bagautinov owns a clear advantage in, and it's one area that Johnson has historically been weak in. Dominick Cruz was able to downright smother him when Johnson made a play for the bantamweight title, and Ian McCall pushed him to the brink of defeat with his wrestling.

Bagautinov's most likely avenue to victory is to hug Johnson, press him to the cage, drag him down and take rounds. Johnson will need to rely on his slippery footwork to post one of his signature dominant


wins.

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Johnson's head movement and footwork are enough to fluster any fighter. He is easily the most elusive man or woman in the sport (outside of the UFC brass when asked about Vitor Belfort's TRT use).

To get through that defense, Bagautinov is going to need to quickly get a feel for Johnson's timing.

The challenger's teammate, John Dodson, was able to time Johnson's movements, land punches and score two critical knockdowns that nearly won him the belt. By comparison, John Moraga never found an answer to Johnson's footwork, and the result was like a matchup between a killer whale and baby seal. Johnson toyed with Moraga before finishing him in the fifth round.

While Bagautinov lacks the one-punch knockout power of Dodson, if he can get doubleat a news conference, hosted by TASS news agency and attended by numerous journalists, she hinted on her intentions to be back visiting Russia in April next year.

During the meeting with both of the Russian high-ranking state officials she was granted the title of the guardian of a four-year-old female Amur leopard.

The animal, codenamed as Leo-38F by Russian specialists, was named Pamela after her new foreign guardian.

Leo-38F is living in the country’s national park "Land of the Leopard" near Russia’s border with China.

Specialists, keeping track of the animal, pointed out previously that unlike other animals, this feline often gets into camera traps and, according to captured pictures, she is rather posing for cameras instead of ignoring them.

Later on Monday, Anderson addressed a crowd of media at TASS news


center, where among other things she said it did not disappoint her that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not meet with her personally.

In July, the actress sent a letter to President Putin asking him to block the passage of the Winter Bay cargo vessel through the Northern Sea Route. The vessel was reportedly carrying more than 1,700 tons of whale meat from Iceland to Japan. Later Anderson asked for a meeting with Putin to discuss environmental issues with him.

Pamela Anderson claims to have Russian origins on her mother’s side. Her great grandmother was Russian, according to her, and she reportedly emigrated from Russia to the Netherlands and then to Canada.lyrics, and a great beat to just rock out to.Next, is the hit single, "Get Back,"another great song with a killer rock beat. The song, in short, is about wanting to get back with an ex. Yet, it strays from the oh so popular break up songs. Demi's vocal ranges shine in this song, going from soft and shy to loud and rocker in a beat. However, the hit single gets a bit distracting when Demi chants out "Get Back" too many times over the course of the song. "Trainwreck" follows the flow of the first two songs beatwise. Demi's own piano playing gives this song a cool flair.

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"Don't Forget," this song isList Apart by Jeffrey Zeldman titled "Say No to SOPA."2 Jeffrey lays out his opposition to SOPA in plain english and his article prompted me to do more research on the topic. I found that in addition to the list of organizations Jeffrey mentioned as being opposed to SOPA, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is opposed to it as well. The ACLJ has prepared a legal analysis on SOPA which outlines the first amendment concerns with the legislation.

I highly suggest reading Jeffrey's article and the ACLJ's legal analysis. I've borrowed the following list of actions you can take to make your voice heard regarding the SOPA legislation from Jeffrey's article.

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merger or acquisition of control by Santa Fe over Southern Pacific in violation of section 11343 of the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA), 49 U.S.C. Secs. 10101-11917 (1982 & Supp. II 1984).

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We hold that by virtue of the provisions of the ICA conferring exclusive jurisdiction over enforcement of its merger provisions upon the ICC, the district court lacked jurisdiction over the federal claim.  However, subject matter jurisdiction over the state law claim was conferred by virtue of diversity of citizenship.  We affirm the judgment and imposition of damages against the defendants and in favor of plaintiffs on the state law claim.

FACTS

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The two plaintiffs were employed by Southern Pacific, which operates a railroad in the western United States.  Plaintiff George Kraus was the manager of Southern Pacific'sPortland Public Relations Office, with thirty years of seniority.  Plaintiff Antonio Aleman was Manager in Southern Pacific's Houston Public Relations Office, with twelve years of seniority.  In June 1985, Southern Pacific initiated a voluntary force reduction program for its non-union employees which ostensibly was aimed at reducing Southern Pacific's financial losses.  Although the plan was voluntary, Southern Pacific informed the plaintiffs that their respective offices would be closed at the conclusion of the plan and that their options were limited either to taking part in the plan or being later terminated without benefit of the plan.  Kraus elected to participate in the plan under protest, and his employment terminated pursuant to the plan.  Aleman rejected the plan and was later fired.

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According to the


plaintiffs, the reason for their terminations went back to 1980, when Southern Pacific began discussing with Santa Fe, another large railroad in the western United States, the possibility of merger to improve their mutual financial prospects.  They formed a joint holding company, SFSP, to issue stock in the new corporation that would result from the merger.  Final agreement was reached in October 1983, and the stockholders of both railroads voted to approve the proposed merger in December 1983.

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ICC approval was necessary for merger of the two companies' railroad operations, although no approval was required to combine their non-rail operations.  In December 1983 the ICC approved Southern Pacific's proposed use of a blind voting trust to insulate Southern Pacific's railroad from control by SFSP or SantaFe until the ICC approved the merger, on condition that Santa Fe and SFSP refrain from attempting to control Southern Pacific's railroad.  At this time, all non-rail operations were merged, placing all operations of both companies save for the Southern Pacific Railroad under the control of SFSP.

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The evidence at trial showed that during the pendency of the ICC's merger proceedings, Santa Fe turned its attention to the costs of running the business after the merger, confident that the merger would be approved.  Southern Pacific, although its voting stock was not yet controlled by SFSP and Santa Fe, apparently shared Santa Fe's desire to conclude the merger transition with as little expense as possible.  During a July 1984 telephone conference between the main office and regional


offices of the Southern Pacific Public Relations Department, the head of the department advised his staff that "the Santa Fe people believed in a leaner staff."    During autumn of 1984, Kraus was told by the chief executive officer of Santa Fe Industries, Santa Fe's parent holding company, that the Southern Pacific Regional Public Relations Offices would probably be closed because the chief executive officer of Santa Fe "doesn't want to pay for it."    Shortly after, a chart was circulated among the Southern Pacific public relations staff that showed a proposed organizational plan for the combined public relations department after the merger was completed.  The chart indicated that no regional public relations departments or managers would continue except in Los Angeles, andthat most of the slots in the new combined public relations department would be filled by Santa Fe or SFSP personnel.

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Plaintiffs at trial stressed the significance of a "personal and confidential" letter written by Denman McNear, Chief Executive Officer of Southern Pacific, to Larry Cena, Chief Executive Officer of Santa Fe.  The letter contained a detailed proposal by McNear to close the regional public relations offices of Southern Pacific prior to completion of the merger.  The letter set forth the names and exact severance packages to be offered to each of the regional public relations employees, including the plaintiffs.

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In May 1985, an SFSP vice president in charge of employee benefits wrote a "personal and confidential" memo to John Schmitt, CEO of Santa Fe Industries, analyzing the


employees terminated because of railroad mergers.  The ICC formulated this package in New York Dock Ry.--Control--Brooklyn E. Dist. Terminal, 30 I.C.C. 60, aff'd sub nom.  New York Dock Ry. v. United States, 609 F.2d 83 (2d Cir.1979).  The package is commonly known as the "New York Dock conditions."    Award of a benefits package at least as protective as the New York Dock conditions where appropriate is statutorily required in a railroad merger transaction.  See 49 U.S.C. Sec. 11347.

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In June 1985, a few weeks before the severance program was adopted, a member of Santa Fe management prepared a memorandum for Santa Fe Chief Executive Officer Cena.  The memo estimated the costs of terminating personnel such as plaintiffs following merger of therailroads.  The memo estimated the costs of eliminating personnel by distinguishing between those employees possibly protected by the New York Dock conditions and those employees not so protected, assuming that an annual salary of $65,000 was the maximum amount placing an employee under the New York Dock conditions.  Under this assumption, both plaintiffs would have been covered by the New York Dock conditions.  The memo specifically spelled out, department by department, the New York Dock conditions costs for middle management reductions.  One of the departments included in the memo was the Southern Pacific Public Relations Department.  The memo concluded that reductions in personnel covered by the New York Dock conditions would cost the merged company over $40 million.

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Shortly thereafter, in the summer of


 This claim was predicated on Santa Fe's alleged wrongful interference to bring about the terminations in order to evade expenses from New York Dock conditions awards that could arise if Santa Fe terminated the plaintiffs after the merger had been approved.

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The jury was separately instructed on each cause of action, and also instructed that it was required to avoid a double recovery by awarding one set of damages against Santa Fe even if it found Santa Fe liable under both state and federal claims.  The jury was provided with a verdict form that broke out the individual verdicts for each claim as it pertained to each plaintiff.  The jury returned verdicts in favor of both Kraus and Aleman against Santa Fe on both claims andapproved.  Southern Pacific's officials testified that they were aware of the defendants' desire to keep merger transition costs to a minimum.  Santa Fe's internal memoranda demonstrate the defendants' awareness of Southern Pacific's proposal to cut back personnel, including the impact of the New York Dock conditions, and Southern Pacific's desire to have the defendants approve it.  Santa Fe itself projected the impact of the New York Dock conditions regarding Southern Pacific's personnel, and expressed approval of Southern Pacific's proposed termination plan before that plan went into effect.

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The defendants point out that evidence showed that Southern Pacific was the first to spot the possible expense that imposition of the New York Dock conditions would cause, and the first to formulate a plan to deal with it.


SAN DIEGO - A woman accused of illegally occupying a 90-year-old woman's College Area home was arrested Monday and removed from the premises.

A judge signed a warrant for Cheryl Sherrell's arrest last Thursday, but police could not find her until Monday morning when she called the San Diego City Attorney's Office to complain about Team 10's attempts to speak to her.

Team 10 cameras were there Monday as the 71-year-old Sherrell was surrounded by San Diego police officers and led away in handcuffs to a waiting police cruiser.

In a hearing Tuesday, a San Diego County Superior Court judge ordered Sherrell held on $10,000 bail. The judge also issued a criminal protective order barring Sherrell from coming within 100 yards of the home.

Sherrell faces four misdemeanor counts, including willful crueltyto an elder, theft and making an unauthorized entry.

The ordeal began in 2015, when Sherrell was hired to take care of Fran Breslauer's dying husband. Breslauer accused Sherrell of acting inappropriately and asked her to leave.

Breslauer's husband, Alan, died in February.

Sherrell, however, never left the home, staying inside the house on Prosperity Lane for several months.

Breslauer obtained a court order to get Sherrell out of the home, but when Breslauer went to live with her daughter, Sherrell moved back into the house.

Prosecutor Nicole Crosby said, "Without her permission, didn't pay rent, didn't pay utilities, began renting rooms to other people, collecting that rent for her own good."

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Sherrell filed a restraining order against Breslauer, who countered by filing her own restraining order against Sherrell.

According to court documents, Sherrell's attorney claimed she had the right to live there because Breslauer left for a few months to live with her daughter.

The City Attorney's Office asked for an expedited arraignment because prosecutors wanted Sherrell to face a judge before she bailed out of jail and returns to the house. Sherrell could receive a maximum of two-and-a-half years in jail if she is convicted.

With Sherrell barred from entering the house on Prosperity Lane, the victim's daughter, Jan Breslauer, was able to enter her family home for the first time since her father died inFebruary.

She called San Diego police and a locksmith to enter the house she grew up in. Once inside, Breslauer said it was like "a punch in the gut" to see her childhood home so "filthy and disgusting."

The living room has urine stains all over the carpet. Elsewhere, there was dog excrement found among the piles of clothing, used appliances, furniture and junk.

"It looks like a garbage dump," said Breslauer, who was happy her 90-year-old mother wasn't there to see it.

All the locks were changed to keep Sherrell from returning. If she wants to get her belongings back, she'll have to do so under the watchful eye of police, according to Assistant San Diego City Attorney Ryan Scott.

Scott and an investigator from the City Attorney's Office toured the house


and took pictures as evidence in their case against Sherrell, who returns to court for a readiness hearing next month.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The San Diego City Attorney's Office originally told Team 10 Cheryl Sherrell was arrested after she called in to report she was being harassed by the media. Deputy City Attorney Ryan Scott later clarified that Sherrell called 911, not the city attorney's office. Team 10 regrets the error.Scepticism met North Korea’s claims that last January’s test involved an H-bomb. The latest one leaves less room for doubt

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More than 130 stations recorded shockwaves, which after 20 minutes had reached as far as Argentina 12,000 miles from the test site.

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A PERFECT evening is forecast for Thursday night's season opener, but Gold Coast and North Melbourne could encounter thunderstorms at Cazalys Stadium on Saturday night.

Richmond is set to unfurl its premiership flag under a clear sky at the MCG, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting a mostly sunny day and a top of 26 degrees on Thursday.

Can the AFL smash its R1 crowd figure again?

Both Richmond and the AFL are hopeful more than 90,000 fans will turn out to see the Tigers unfurl their premiership flag and potentially set a new round one attendance record, breaking the mark of 87,119 set by Carlton and Collingwood in 1995.

In a positive sign, the Melbourne Cricket Club has sold out its allocation of visitors' tickets for the game, indicating the members'When the Temple Owls were unceremoniously voted out of the Big East in 2004, the
program found itself dangerously close to being disbanded.

Nearly a decade later, under second-year head coach Steve Addazio, the
program has rejoined the conference and is set to begin conference play.

"We are coming back from death's door," Addazio said. "In the scope of five or
six years there has been tremendous change here. Temple isn't anything close to
what it was then."

What most remember about Temple football in the early and mid-2000s are one-win
seasons, blowout losses and empty stands in a dilapidated Veterans Stadium.

What has happened since is a complete overhaul from a commuter
school to a booming residential campus with plans to expand. A new
football facility was built. As was a new basketball facility and a massive
residential tower


emerging for Temple under Addazio.

"Under Al Golden, Temple got really good at finding kids that were not
heavily recruited and stealing them," Farrell said. "The class that (Addazio)
landed last year was a turning point class in my opinion because they went
head-to-head with some bigger schools and won."

Two of the highlights of the Owls' 2012 class came late in the process, as
Temple was able to swing Warminster (Pa.) Archbishop Wood defensive back, and
long-time West Virginia commit, Nate Smith to join the class.
Smith was the second-highest rated played to choose the program and his
commitment was followed by a capstone commitment from running back
Jamie Gilmore, a three-star player from Citra (Fla.) North Marion.

TEMPLE COMPETING WITH THE BIG BOYS

Temple's 2013 class is headlined by three prospects that
chose the Owls over offers from BCSbefore choosing the North Philadelphia school.

Offensive center Matt Barone of McKees Rocks (Pa.) Montour switched his
verbal commitment from Big East member Connecticut to Temple in June.
Barone is another three-star player and is ranked No. 17 overall at
his position.

Temple's third major recruiting victory on the year is inside linebacker
Jarred Alwan who chose the Owls over Boston College and West
Virginia. Alwan is the No. 23 player in the state of New Jersey playing
out of Cherry Hill (N.J.) Camden Catholic and, at 6 feet and 212 pounds, will
fill a position of need at Temple.

Addazio believes his roots in the area and the product on the field will
continue to lead to more success on the recruiting trail.

"I have been a Northeast guy my whole life," he said. "Every place I have been,
this


has been my territory so I know the area, I know the coaches and I know
what life is like up here.

"Philadelphia is in a great spot to attract talent. First of all it is a
passionate football city that is undergoing a major renaissance in the
community. Second, within a four-hour radius there are major hotbeds for
players. You can get kids here quickly on a plane, on a train, or in their car."

Coinciding with the perceived rise of Temple is the potential for collapse at
Penn State and turmoil at Pitt.

Penn State has had just two recruiting classes finish outside of the Top 50
since 2002. One was last season, amid the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse
scandal, when it finished No. 51. The other was in 2003, when the program
finished No. 93 forwell on the recruiting front.
With in-state competition from Colorado sliding, the Rams could make a move
forward. Colorado had its high-water mark in recruiting during the Ccass of
2002, when it ended the evaluation period No. 10, but it has seen its
on-field product slide since. That has obviously affected CU in
recruiting, and the Buffs fell to a program-worst No. 74 rank with the class
of 2011.

Colorado is off to an 0-3 start this season, including a loss to Colorado
State, and with a brutal schedule remaining, Jon Embree's team
could end with a winless season. Former Colorado player Matt McChesney made
waves earlier this week by telling the Boulder Daily Camera that Colorado is
the worst program in the nation.

If Colorado State can make a move within the Colorado high school football
landscape it can improve


its place on the national landscape. The Rams'
current class is ranked No. 84 with eight commitments.

OHIO

Top
Commits: OL
Tate Leavitt, OL
Zachary Murdock, QB
James WalshBuzz: The Bobcats already have a major perception victory
over Penn State on their resume, and Ohio quarterback Tyler Tettleton made
news earlier this month when he said the program can be an East
version of Boise State. The team won 10 games last year, its first
10-win season since 1968, and it is likely to repeat that feat again this
year.

Obviously, Ohio is not going to recruit on the same level as Ohio State
regardless of NCAA sanctions in Columbus, but the team can use its rise to
spur recruiting to the level of Cincinnati. Over the last three
recruiting classes, the Bobcats have improved 20 spots moving up from the
No. 119 class inin 2010 to the
No. 24 class last season. Still, there may be no team that stands to
gain more from the sanctions against USC and Penn State than the
Scarlet Knights.

New Jersey has long been a fertile recruiting ground, but it has often been
raided by Notre Dame, Penn State, USC and others; with two of those
three being limited in the number of players they can recruit, it could make it
easier for first-year coach
Kyle Flood to continue the work of Greg
Schiano in building a wall around the state.

Rutgers was making very strong in-roads in South Florida and that pipeline
figures to continue, but with Notre Dame focusing more efforts on South
Carolina and the South it may open the chance to keep the top-tier New
Jersey players at home. The perception of the program