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National Union cites Rader v. Manufacturers Cas. Ins. Co. of Philadelphia, 242 F.2d 419, 427 (2d Cir.1957), to support its construction of section 1352.  National Union's reliance on Rader is misplaced.  The court in Rader specifically noted that the case was not an action on a bond executed under the laws of the United States.  The court reasoned:

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Section 1352 is also inapplicable.  This is not an action "on a bond" executed under the laws of the United States within the meaning of the statute....  Plaintiffs, by their present action attack the validity of the indemnity agreement dated November 30, 1949, the confession of judgment dated December 1, 1949, and the agreement of June 12, 1952.  None of these were required to beBy Molly Bentley

Science reporter, Orlando, Florida

Each time a probe visits, it does so with better instruments

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New images and analyses of the massive planet have revealed surprising details of its atmosphere, rings and moons.

They include never-seen-before observations of Jupiter: lightning displays at the poles, mysterious clumps embedded in its rings, and the first movie of volcanic eruption on its moon Io.

Scientist took advantage of the flyby, designed to give New Horizons a gravity boost and shorten its journey to Pluto, to learn more about the Jovian system, and to follow up on previous missions to the gas giant.

"It was a very close flyby - three times closer than Cassini - and our first mission with really modern instruments," said Amy Simon-Miller, a planetary scientist at the Nasa Goddard


Space Flight Center.

It's a planet on steroids; it rules the Solar System

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The pictures, taken during the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter in February and March this year, were presented at the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Orlando, Florida, in anticipation of their publication in the journal Science.

Big sparks

One result is a comprehensive picture of volcanism on Io.

Along with identifying new volcanic hot spots, the New Horizon movie camera captured a 350km-high plume spewing from Tvashtar, a volcano near the moon's north pole. It is the first observation of an eruption in motion on Io.

"We've seen glimpses of eruptions like this before," said John Spencer, from the Southwest Research Institute, "but we got a lot more detail than we were able to getwith any previous spacecraft."

Dr Spencer suggested that some of the sulphur material gushing from Io might become charged, flow along magnetic field lines, and rain into the Jovian atmosphere.

The largest - and most turbulent - planet in the Solar System, the gas giant is 320 times more massive than Earth.

"It's a planet on steroids," said Harold Weaver, from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "It rules the Solar System."

New Horizons has provided insight into the forces driving Jupiter's atmospheric dynamics - in particular, its circulation, along with its thermal convection.

Its instruments captured the first-seen flashes of Jovian lightning at the poles, when the spacecraft sailed around the dark side of the planet.

"These are superbolts, a thousand times stronger than what we usually see on Earth," said Dr Simon-Miller.

Scientists


Elemental Affinity specialization grossly favor fire-damage spells, at least for the PHB selection? Do I need to include other spell sources if I want to attempt this build outside of fire?

A:

Pretty much. Fortunately, there's an official free answer. One of the early published adventures was set in the classic Temple of Elemental Evil, and there is a freely-available Elemental Evil Player's Companion. The spells from that supplement are published as freely available in D&D Beyond (including errata from later printings of the same spell, which are considered official updates).  Most of them are also in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
You can find that list here:
D&D Beyond Spells filtered by "Source: Elemental Evil Player's Companion".
This includes spells like Frostbite, Gust, Ice Knife, Magic Stone, and Tidal Wave —S Korea to crackdown on illegal plastic surgery clinics

The Health Ministry has unveiled a raft of measures that requires any clinic treating foreign patients to be registered with the Ministry

The number of foreigners travelling to South Korea for medical treatment has been increasing by an average 37 percent annually

Singapore: South Korean Health Ministry has announced a crackdown on illegal plastic surgery clinics in the country, amid increasing complaints by medical tourists, who flock to Korea of cosmetic surgeries. The Ministry has unveiled a range of measures in a bid to sustain international trust in the country's plastic surgery market.

The new guidelines require any facility treating foreign patients and any brokers used to attract clients to register with the ministry. Failure to do so carries a maximum three-year jail


sentence and a hefty fine. The Ministry also said that it will issue cash reward to people who help identify such illegal clinic or brokers.

Recently, a 50-year-old Chinese woman was left brain dead after undergoing a plastic surgery procedure at the Gangam district of Seoul. The Ministry said in a statement, "Market-disturbing activities involving illegal brokers and inflated fees, as well as disputes over malpractice, are sparking complaints from foreign patients."

The number of foreigners travelling to South Korea for medical treatment has been increasing by an average 37 percent annually, since 2009 and totaled more than 210,000 in 2013. South Korea, and particularly Seoul, has an international reputation for plastic surgery and Chinese account for a vast majority of their clients.potential fish habitats remain. So our work continues and luckily we are not the only ones now working on the subject," said Elina Erkkilä, WWF's leading freshwater expert.

The single largest reopening was achieved in 2019 when 126 kilometres was freed after WWF and the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment for South-East Finland built a bypass strip imitating a natural stream past the last dam that blocked the migration of fish on the Vaalimaanjoki River.

More than 100 kilometres of river water were also released to fish in Siuntio's Kirkkojoki River when WWF and the Uusimaa ELY Center built two nature-based bypasses around the old Munks dams. The fish routes were significant for two reasons: the original stock that lived in isolation above the dams now benefits


Pleasure committed a blunder in an otherwise decent title
that for consumers is next to impossible to overcome. It
teased three scenes with artwork on the back of the box that
are not in the DVD. There are six still photographs of cover
girls Krystal Steal and Nikki Benz engaged in a threeway with
Mick Blue on the jacket, but the scene is missing from the
video. There are also two stills of a g/g/g with Steal, Benz
and Isabella Camille that's absent. And somehow there are
also two stills of Benz and what looks like Steven St. Croix
that is also not in this video.

The good news is Steal does appear in one scene - a routine
turn with Eric Masterson. Benz and Trevor Zen get it on in a
good coupling, and the adorable Simone basically stealsalmost-perfect crescent that is Molokini. We didn't see a single green sea turtle at Molokini, and felt quite proud of ourselves for not disturbing its natural habitat.

But then, after lunch, our catamaran sailed close to Makena Bay. After five minutes in the water, we had seen a green sea turtle. Look, there it is, my 14 year-old son had said.

Indeed, there it was – metaphorically anchored on the bottom, some 10 metres below a gaggle of humans as if reinforcing its knowledge of turtle legislation.

So, having glimpsed the turtle, I swam on. But a couple of minutes later my other 12-year old son began slapping flipper. "Dad, you're missing it," he said. "We're swimming with the turtle!"

Should I reprimand him for an over-fertile turtle imagination? Or reprimand him


enough, one of the Trilogy guides interrupted our reverie, pointing out we were getting dangerously close to where the relentless Pacific surf was about to pound into coral shore of Makena Bay.

But back to Molokini. From the air, the crater is one of the most spectacular spots on earth – an almost perfectly formed hemisphere, a crescent-shaped volcanic moon in a deep blue ocean, an unoccupied Santorini of the Pacific.

Today Molokini is recognised as one of Hawaii's most popular scuba diving and snorkelling venues. But it wasn't always so. In World War II, the US Navy bombarded Molokini with heavy artillery because – apparently – the island resembles a non-moving Japanese battleship.

For a decade after 1975, the navy carried out a program of detonating any unexploded munitions ita sailboat rather than a "stink boat".

You know the clincher that persuaded us to choose Trilogy over the cheaper alternatives?

The quality of the buffet... But then swimming after turtles is hungry work.

TRIP NOTES

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GETTING THERE

Hawaiian Airlines flies daily from Sydney and four times weekly from Brisbane direct to Honolulu, using new Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Connections from Melbourne and other Australian cities available with preferred partner Virgin Australia.

Hawaiian Airlines also has around daily Boeing 717 flights between Honolulu and Kahului airport, Maui.

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SAILING THERE

Sail Trilogy is considered one of Hawaii's premium snorkelling and scuba experiences. See sailtrilogy.com

Steve Meacham travelled at his own expense.


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This Saturday and Sunday, the summer season finals of the ESL Pro Series are taking place in the ESL Studios in Cologne, Germany. The summer season, which started back in June, is coming to its end. With StarCraft II and FIFA 14 already having had their champions crownedwill face Planetkey Dynamics (Winter Champion 2013), ESC Gaming (Spring Champion 2013) and Team Alternate (Summer Champion 2012) - who will come out on top in this battle of the seasons?Speaking about the League of Legends finals on Sunday, Jason Kaplan said:“The EPS Germany League of Legends finals is just a few days away, with plenty of nail biting games on the horizon. We have the reigning champions from last season, n!faculty, up against the team they beat last season for first place, Team ALTERNATE (previously Tick Trick Duck). Then, of course, on the other side of the bracket we have Playing Ducks, returning from last season to come up against ex-champion ESC Gaming. There should be some great games coming your way this weekend, and if I


Eugene Stoner designed the AR-15 specifically to be an assault rifle. It's an assault rifle.

Even assuming that it's semi-automatic, the idea that a semi-automatic rifle stops being an assault rifle is idiotic. It's simple ignorance of grammar.

Even if the NRA was some sort of "official definer" of the English language, it would still be correct to define something that met the definition of an assault rifle except for not being selective fire with an adjective phrase, such as "semi-automatic".

Besides, the term "assault rifle" was made up by Germans during WW-II and they made semi-automatic assault rifles, so you are demonstrably wrong.

An "assault weapon" is a widely used phrase with a clear and well known meaning. it's even defined in law, unlike the term "assault rifle" It refers toassault rifle.

learning a bit about guns would be a good place to begin. That's just totally wrong.

Germany during World War II, had several Sturmgeweher. There was the StG44, the StG45, the "Volkssturmgewehr " (which means people's assault rifle) series which were mostly semi-automatic.

It IS cute how you NRA types pretend to be experts when you know so little about the subject.

/but at least you don't think the phrase "assault rifle" was invented by pro-gun control people like most gun nuts.

I guess I should feel obligated to point out that the gun you are talking about was produced for maybe the last month of the war and was part of Germany's "Primitive Weapon" program. It shouldn't really be dictating modern firearms definitions, especially when its predecessor and its derivatives


(incisors) of the giant beaver were up to 15 cm (6 in.) long. They had prominently ridged outer surfaces and blunt, rounded tips, unlike the chisel-like tips of the modern beaver's incisors. The giant beaver's cheek teeth looked much like those of today's capybara. They had S-shaped enamel patterns on their grinding surfaces. The teeth were well adapted to grinding up the plants that made up the animal's diet. Despite their general similarities, the giant beaver and the modern beaver are not close relatives. The giant beaver is classified in the genus Castoroides, while the modern beaver belongs to Castor. There were two species of giant beaver: Castoroides ohioensis and Castoroides leiseyorum. The oldest giant beaver fossils (of Castoroides leiseyorum from Florida, U.S.A.) are 1.4 million years old.In Canada, fossils of Castoroides ohioensisprobably from the last interglacial age (about 130 000 years ago)were found in Toronto, Ontario, and in the Old Crow Basin of Yukon. Giant beavers were most abundant just south of the Great Lakes, in what is now Indiana and Illinois, U.S.A. The earliest Canadian record is of a skull that was found with the Highgate Mastodon in southern Ontario in 1891. The giant beaver died out in North America about 10 000 years ago, along with mammoths, mastodons and ice-age horses. Competition from the modern beaver, as well as reduction of its habitat, may have led to its demise.


respond. Seldom would a case be concluded at the trial level for few litigants would fail to take advantage of such inexpensive review. Appellees' counsel made a deliberate decision on behalf of his clients to cast all their eggs in one basket, relying on rules provided by the Court of Appeals. For an appellate court to use its discretion to reach and raise issues disregarded by counsel for appellants necessarily prejudices the result, not in favor of him who complies and relies upon our rules, but in favor of him who has not. That procedure treads dangerously near a judicial denial of due process.
It is unfortunate that future litigants who may face the standard of care question raised here must deal with the uncertainty of nisi prius precedentOne of the most-anticipated games of this year is about to hit store shelves from 2K Games and Irrational Games. BioShock Infinite, the first new game from celebrated game creator Ken Levine since BioShock, introduces PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers to a brand new world that could only be conjured from the mind of Levine and his talented team of 200 in Boston.

Levine told me that one disappointment he had in the original BioShock was that he felt they never were able to provide a payoff for all the work that was put into Rapture being at the bottom of the ocean -- outside of from the visual perspective.

“We never really got to bring that into the gameplay,” said Levine. “When we started BioShock Infinite we


By John Turner

Turning on the TV in Los Angeles in 1949, you might have come face-to-face with a young man in a jeweled turban with a dreamy gaze accentuated by dark eye shadow. Dressed in a fashionable coat and tie, Korla Pandit played the piano and the organ—sometimes both at once—creating music that was both familiar and exotic.

According to press releases from the time, Pandit was born in New Delhi, India, the son of a Brahmin government worker and a French opera singer. A prodigy on the piano, he studied music in England and later moved to the United States, where he mastered the organ at the University of Chicago. Not once in 900 performances did he speak on camera, preferring instead to communicate with viewers via thathypnotic gaze.

He became one of the first TV stars, ever, with friends like Errol Flynn, Bob Hope, and Sabu, the Elephant Boy. He eventually ceded his TV performances over a contract dispute to the young pianist Liberace. And the way he came to fame is one of those only-in-America fables where the audience and the performer are both invested in the illusion.

I first got to know Korla Pandit in 1990, while I was working at KGO TV in San Francisco. I was producing a series on Bay Area eccentrics and a colleague at the station mentioned that Pandit had a live show on KGO in the ’50s.

I tracked Pandit down to a private residence in the Napa Valley, where I was greeted by a man who appeared much


shorter than the pianist I’d seen on faded television clips. He was elegantly dressed in a grey Nehru jacket, a turban, and highly polished shoes. As he spoke to me in a soft but high-pitched voice, Korla regaled me with stories of India, Hollywood, and sold-out concerts, cleverly salted with “Indian pearls of wisdom.” He told me that in India a song never dies but materializes into beautiful forms and that he had played at the funeral of his famous friend Paramahansa Yogananda. I had no reason to doubt his integrity or question his philosophy. He seemed like a gentle soul.

Although his face was sunken and his gaze less alluring, he was able to take me back in time, much like the character Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.After we got the necessary footage of him playing the organ and a great shot of him walking off into the sunset, we left, promising to stay in contact.

When the piece ran a few days later on the evening news, Pandit called me at work to say that he was happy to reconnect with his Channel 7 fans. He continued to call me every four months or so for the next seven years. We usually talked about the clubs he was playing at in Los Angeles. He told me he had a new audience of tiki hipsters who canonized him by calling him the “godfather of exotica music.” And he told me about his cameo appearance in Tim Burton’s film about cult film director Ed Wood.

When he called,


I’d pick up the phone and hear a woman’s secretarial voice asking me if this was Mr. Turner. Then she’d say “Korla Pandit would love to talk to you.” After an acknowledgment, the line was usually quiet for 15 to 20 seconds until he came on with his familiar greeting of “Namaste, John.” It was straight out of a ’50s noir film.

In 1996, he invited me to attend a San Francisco concert held at Bimbos 365, an atmospheric club with ’50s-style booth seating. This was the only time I got to see him perform before an audience and boy, was he great. He played songs from his 29 albums. The crowd was on their feet for the whole performance.

In October of 1998, a viewer called the station towho grew up in San Francisco and remembered his mother saying she was mesmerized by Pandit’s eyes, which seemed to see right through her.

We agreed that Pandit’s true story was astonishing, tragic, and yet illuminating—the foundation for a movie and a true American archetype of self-invention. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, he had actually been one of the first African-American television stars. Twelve years later, when we were both retired, Eric and I decided to use our pensions and social security to make that movie.

We started by filming Smith, the author of the magazine piece, who had known Pandit in the early ’90s. Only years later, as he was interviewing musicians for a book on L.A.’s great African-American music clubs in the ’40s, did Smith begin to


uncover Pandit’s true history. When Smith complimented a piano player of note, Sir Charles Thompson, Thompson said offhandedly that while he thought he was a decent piano player, there was another musician from Columbia, Missouri, who was much better, a fellow named John Redd. He went on to say that when he was working in L.A., he turned on the television and lo and behold, there was John Roland Redd, running over the keys while wearing a turban and going under the Indian name of Korla Pandit. Well, this was a real shocker to Smith, and of course to us.

Smith confirmed that Pandit was indeed John Roland Redd, one of seven children born to Baptist pastor Ernest Redd and Doshia O’Nina Johnson, in Columbia, Missouri. His love ofmusic took hold in childhood and he played a mean boogie-woogie piano. Smith learned that Frances, one of Redd’s sisters, had preceded him to Hollywood, where she found work as an actress on an all-black film called Midnight Shadow in which a shifty villain wore a turban. When he first came to L.A., Redd changed his name to Juan Rolando, because at that time, Mexican music was in vogue and Mexican musicians had an easier time then African-Americans getting studio and club work.

Frances had a white roommate who was a Disney artist named Beryl DeBeeson, whom she set up on a date with her brother. Their relationship eventually led to a Tijuana marriage, as interracial marriages were illegal in California at that time. Beryl helped John become Korla


of passing or reinvention was dishonest. Almost all responded that he did what he had to do to navigate the existing racism in the U.S. This overall sense of approval seemed to ring true because while many of the members of his father’s congregation knew of his transformation from John to Korla—as did numerous musicians—no one outed him. He was able to take his secret with him to his grave.

Hollywood was also kind to shape shifters who’d invented their biographies. And Pandit and his wife understood that Americans knew very little of India outside of the magical rope-climbing swamis or men-of-mystery they saw in the movies. With their sets and music, they created an exotic escape in people’s living rooms. Female fans of Pandit have told us thatearly Playstation 4 and Xbox One games, which initially had to be developed for both last-generation and current-generation consoles. This may have taken away development resources from the games and prevented them from truly taking advantage of the excess power of both systems. Each of the aforementioned titles were developed by Nintendo, who always ensures the highest level of quality in their games with innovative gameplay, a unique approach to level design, a ton of creativity, and most importantly, fun.

Other popular franchises to grace the Wii U are both the Donkey Kong and Super Smash Bros. series’ in the way of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Zelda even received a spin-off title with the challenging, yet incredibly fun and content-packed Hyrule


Read the Prologue and Chapter One from the upcoming Halo universe book Glasslands, the first in a new trilogy that takes place after the events of Halo 3.

The Human-Covenant War may be over, but the age of good feelings has not begun. In fact, with the unity that war brings now gone, old divisions once again become visible. Even more ominous are rumblings of a new uprising in the heart of the former Covenant Empire. With dangers on all sides, the UNSC must somehow reassert its presence in hostile territories. A reliable author in a potent trilogy starter set in the post-HALO 3 world.

When you’re finished here, read the next chapter at Halo Waypoint.

PROLOGUE

NOVEMBER 2552, LOCATION UNDEFINED. LAST VERIFIED

REALSPACE LOCATION: THE CORE OF THE PLANET ONYX.

It’s a beautifulTHE ABIDING TRUTH—ON

REVELATIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE FORERUNNERS)

FORMER COLONY OF NEW LLANELLI, BRUNEL SYSTEM:

JANUARY 2553.

It was an ugly bastard, and the temptation to kill it where it stood was almost more than Serin Osman could handle.

It was also pretty upset. Its arms flailed as if it was on some passionate Sangheili rant about politics or religion or what ever they played instead of football, its cloverleaf jaws snapping open and shut like a demented gin-trap. Osman watched from the shuttle cargo bay with her rifle resting on the control panel. Matters could get out of hand with a two-and-a-half-meter alien before you knew it. She was ready to drop the thing before it crushed Phillips.

He could actually speak their language, even if some of the sounds defied


do they teach these academics about personal safety?

She leaned against the hatch frame and waited, glancing at her watch to check Sydney time. Around her, the ruins of New Llanelli felt like a rebuke. The dead tapped her on the shoulder, appalled: And you’re talking to these bastards now? On our graves?

A shaft of sunlight struck through a break in the clouds and threw up a bright reflection from a lake in the distance. No . . .that’s not a lake. Her brain had joined up the dots and made the wrong assumption. She eased her datapad out of her jacket pocket one-handed and checked. There was no body of water for a hundred kilometers on the map in the CAA Factbook. The reflective surface was vitrified sandypromise. Admiral or no Admiral.

A small crowd watched from the shore, a mix of construction workers, firefighters, and sappers who were still digging bodies out of the rubble two months after the bombing. The workman, now teetering on the end of the gantry, lunged at the flagpole and managed to haul in the halyard. He clipped the flag to it and wobbled for a moment before tugging on the line to reveal the white stars of the Southern Cross on a deep blue ground, with a single gold Commonwealth star on green ground in the canton.

Everyone cheered. A fleet tender in the harbor sounded its klaxon.

Mal seemed to be working something out, lips moving as if he was counting. “Well done, Oz. Seven hundred and sixty-five not out.”


caught sight of Kelly, the Spartan was looking up.

“Damn, he’s right,” she said, and aimed.

Halsey could see now. There was a black dot in the picture-perfect blue sky, getting bigger by the second. Something was swooping down on them.

Tom was nearest to her. “Ma’am, down!”

It was a fluke. If anyone had the lightning reflexes and sheer speed to reach her, it was Kelly. But Tom cannoned into Halsey and pinned her down just as a charcoal gray cylinder the size of a wine bottle whisked by so close that she felt the rush of air on her face. For a moment she couldn’t see where it had gone. She was looking up at the lower edge of Tom’s visor, wondering for a moment why she could still breathe.

Thatlaws.

In an appeal issued then, the commission had said the objective behind the endeavour is to address discrimination against vulnerable groups and harmonise various cultural practices even as it assured the people that the "norms of no one class, group or community will dominate the tone and tenor of family law reforms".

In an accompanying questionnaire, the commission had asked whether the existing personal laws and customary practices need codification and whether these would benefit people. (PTI)


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Take a look back as the world's best men skateboarders face off in Asia's only VPS-certified skatepark in their battle for the top title in the Vans Park Series World Championships 2017 in Shanghai, China.Update as of 3:10 a.m. EDT: All the hostages taken by suspected Islamist militants in a standoff with Malian soldiers at a hotel have been evacuated, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday, citing military sources.

The attackers raided the Hotel Byblos, poplar among foreign visitors and troops, on Friday morning, authorities said, adding that military efforts against the gunmen were made “sensitive” by the presence of hostages. At least eight people were killed during the attack, including five Malian soldiers, one United Nations contractor and two militants.

Original story bel0w

A group of suspected Islamist militants attacked a hotel hosting United Nations staff in central Mali on Friday, killing at least six people and taking others hostage. The dead included five Malian soldiers and one U.N. contractor, government officials said.

On Friday, the militants


first raided a military site in the town of Sevare, about 400 miles northeast of the capital Bamako. After government troops successfully repelled the attack, the militants stormed the Hotel Byblos nearby around 8 a.m. local time (4 a.m. EDT), Reuters reported, citing MINUSMA, the U.N.’s peacekeeping mission in Mali and witnesses.

According to officials, at least two militants were killed in the fighting while seven suspected militants were detained by government forces. Officials also said that at least six people were being held inside the hotel, and that an operation to free the hostages was ongoing, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

A Russian and a Ukrainian were confirmed to be among those being held inside the hotel, while some unverified media reports said early on Saturday that a numberMali in 2012, a 2013 French-led military operation ousted them from power. While the U.N. has been trying to firm up a shaky peace agreement between Mali's government and ethnic Tuareg rebels, remnants of the Islamist fighters -- left out of the negotiations -- have carried out sporadic attacks on U.N. peacekeepers and Malian forces.

Ansar al Dine, one of Mali’s most violent Islamist extremist rebel groups, recently attacked towns on Mali's borders with Mauritania and Ivory Coast in an attempt to expand internationally. The growing rebellion in southern part of Mali came nearly a week after the Malian government and Tuareg rebels signed a peace deal in Bamako.

In late June, Islamist gunmen attacked a town in western Mali near the border with neighboring Mauritania, and leaving 12 people


are attorneys. Since their marriage, the Debtor and DuFauchard have maintained separate bank accounts and paid for their own expenses. However, they have never executed a written agreement transmuting their community property into separate property.
In 1996, DuFauchard purchased a residence located at 12300 Elvessa St., Oakland, California (the "House") where the Debtor and DuFauchard reside. The purchase price was $280,000. DuFauchard used his separate property savings to make the $14,000 down payment and took out a loan to pay the balance of the purchase price. He was the sole signatory on the promissory note. The House was placed in his name alone. The Debtor executed an interspousal deed, disclaiming any interest in the House. She executed similar deeds later when the deed of trust was refinanced and whenDuFauchard placed an equity line of credit on the House as a junior lien. DuFauchard has made all the mortgage payments as well as all the other payments related to the House expenses from his income.
In 2004, the Debtor, as executor for the estate of her deceased son, filed a lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco (the "City"), alleging that the City had used excessive force, leading to her son's death. The Debtor did not prevail in the action, and in 2008 the City was awarded a judgment for costs against her for approximately $120,000 (the "Judgment"). The Judgment is currently on appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
After entry of the Judgment, the City began enforcement efforts, including efforts to enforce the Judgment


House as having a value of $430,000 as of March 17, 2009. The City's appraiser appraised the House as having a value of $710,000 as of December 16, 2008. The City contended that the earlier date, which was the date the bankruptcy petition was filed, was the appropriate one to use.
The City contended the petition date was the proper date for valuation. The Court has researched the issue of the appropriate date to use for valuation purposes. It concludes that the proper date is the hearing date of June 17, 2009.[3] Because *100 neither appraiser used this date as the date for his valuation, the Court is forced to speculate to some extent about the value of the House as of the hearing date.
The Court found the City'sappraiser's testimony and report more persuasive. There is a well known adage that one picture is worth a thousand words. A comparison of the photographs of the House with the photographs of the Debtor's appraiser's comparables persuaded the Court that the valuation placed on the House by the Debtor's appraiser was substantially too low. As a consequence, the Court will use the City's $710,000 appraisal as a starting point.
The Debtor's appraiser testified that property values in the general area were declining during the relevant period by as much as thirty percent. However, the Court was persuaded by the City's appraiser's testimony that this figure was skewed because the area used to calculate it was too large. While many areas were experiencing substantially declining values, the values of the


finish.

In the demonstration events we saw the collection of Porsche Museum cars currently in the country, but also local heroic cars including the ex HDT Marlboro Holden Commodore VB that Peter Brock took to the 1980 Australian Touring Car Championship. The owner, Rowan Harman, also competed in the regularity Division 2 events.

A number of categories were mixed due to the entrant numbers, which led to 1960s F2 & F3 cars combined with Formula Ford. John Bowe made another appearance in Trevor Simpsons Brabham BT23B-2 Climax & showed his dominance during qualifying and the race over the Brabham BT29. Then it was the battle of the Formula Fords with young Tim Blanchard driving a proper racing car, the Van Dieman RF88 (in which his father competed in period) leadingthe similar RF89 of Andrew McInnes and David Hardman driving Bill Hemming’s Elfin 600.

The feature for the meeting was the re-enactment of the Rose City 10000 race of 1978. That year, former F1 World Champ James Hunt flew in for the race & drove one of the MR8-AC Elfins. This weekend saw two of these cars in the Formula 5000 race, one the Hunt car, which was driven by Bob Harborow, and the other of Bill Hemming, probably Australia’s most travelled historic competitor this year fitting in this event between consecutive weekends of racing the Junior in Europe.

The Penfolds Wines Matich A50 of Bryan Sala took the first race win of the weekend, but it wasn’t without dramas in Friday practice when he collided with another 5000, but


usually meant the exact opposite. Like last week when he tried to hang a picture above the stairs and ended up hammering right through the wall.

But Forest was right. Olive was not her dad trying to hammer a nail in the wall. She cleared her throat and stood up straight. Easy peasy.

"I'm Olive, and this—"

"Sm-olive!" Colton blurted.

"That's enough, Colton," Mrs. Finn scolded.

"He didn't say anything!" Benjamin called out.

"Go ahead, OLIVE," Josie said. She shot an angry look at Colton and Benjamin.

Olive's body warmed with thankfulness for her friend Josie, and the warmth unglued her jaw. She was about to speak when a loud crunching noise came from Colton's direction.

"Colton, I know you're new at this school, so I'm giving you a break," Mrs. Finn said. "But no snacksin the classroom."

"But I don't have a snack!" To prove it, Colton opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue—which, Olive noticed, was slightly more orange than normal. His face had the same kind of "wasn't me" look Ryan gave their dad when he wanted to get out of trouble.

Olive gulped and started again. "I'm Olive, and—"

This time, Olive saw Colton's hand dart from his pocket to his mouth before she heard the CRUNCH.

"Colton, please stop making noise. Olive give speech now," Forest said. Colton's face twisted with annoyance. Olive couldn't help but smile a little.

"I'm Olive."

"Sm-olive!" Colton whispered.

"This summer—"

Colton crunched on the snack again, even louder than the time before. It made Olive so nervous, she started to hiccup.

Forest stared at Olive, then at Colton, then back


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Along with "Deep Blue" and "Miss O'Dell", "I Don't Care Anymore" was one of three non-album B-sides issued by the artist during the 1970s. Having been unavailable officially for 40 years after its initial release, the song was included as a bonus track on the 2014 Apple Years 1968–75 reissue of Dark Horse.

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"I Don't Care Anymore" is one of the few George Harrison compositions released before 1980 that he does not discuss in


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From Borrodale (fort-dale) to Kilmory (Maelrubha’s chapel), from Druimindarroch (oak-tree ridge) to Eireagoraidh
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many hopes to the New World. Where, despite clearance and emigration, potato blight and deer forest,
poverty and hardship, a new road and railway were eventuallyDescription

Kevin Millar currently serves as a studio analyst for the MLB Network. Kevin also co-hosts ”Intentional Talk”, MLB Network’s first-ever daily talk show that covers everything and anything in Major League Baseball. For the 2012 season, Kevin will also be serving as a studio analyst on the MLB on Fox pregame show.

Kevin was with the Toronto Blue Jays for the 2009 season after spending the previous three seasons with the Baltimore Orioles.

Prior to joining the Orioles, Kevin spent three seasons with the Boston Red Sox and five seasons with the Florida Marlins. In 2004, he helped the Red Sox win their first World Championship in 86 years.

After the 2003 season, Kevin received the Jackie Jensen Award, presented annually by the Boston chapter of the BBWAA to the player


who best embodies the spirit and desire of the former Red Sox outfielder.

Following the 2001 season, Kevin was presented with the Charlie Hough Good Guy Award from the Florida chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Kevin went undrafted out of college and was signed by Florida scout Gary Hughes after playing one season in the independent Northern League with the St. Paul Saints.

Kevin grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from University (CA) High School. He then went on to study business at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas

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The 2009 Lions squad may only have been announced last week but Brian O'Driscoll has already started searching for the next generation of future Lions players.

As an HSBC Lions ambassador, O'Driscoll was at Ashbourne RFC in Dublin at an HSBC Rugby Festival with over 400 children from across Ireland in attendance.

This was the third major HSBC Rugby Festival to be staged in Ireland, following events at Terenure College in Dublin last October and Cooke Rugby Club in Belfast last month.

"It has been great coming to Ashbourne and seeing so much enthusiasm from the youngsters," said O'Driscoll, who is all set for his third successive tour with the Lions.

"This has been a fantastic week for Irish rugby with a record 14 Ireland players named


in the Lions squad, as well as an Irish captain in Paul O'Connell.

"With that following the Grand Slam earlier this year, there has never been a more exciting or inspirational time for kids in this country to pick up a rugby ball.

"I have been impressed by some of the skills on show and have confidence that in ten or 20 years time there will still be a strong contingent of Ireland boys in the Lions squads of the future!"

O'Driscoll spent time coaching the youngsters from clubs and schools across the country as well as signing autographs and passing on tips and advice. The festival was organised in conjunction with the Ireland Rugby Football Union and is one of 500 festivals that will have been staged across the UKschools. The programme is also being extended to schools in South Africa during the tour when Jason Robinson will coach youngsters in four cities in South Africa.

"The HSBC Rugby Festivals is an extremely important part of HSBC's investment in rugby," said Giles Morgan, group head of sponsorship for HSBC.

"The partnership with the Lions has allowed us to launch the world's biggest schools rugby programme and unite children from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as children in South Africa.

"Having our HSBC ambassadors involved with the festivals has been fantastic and a dream come true for the many children involved. What better incentive is there to start playing rugby than to be coached by one of the greatest ever rugby players?

"We really hope that children who have been


introduced to rugby, many for the first time, through the HSBC Rugby Festivals, will continue to enjoy the game and will be supporting the Lions this summer."

Ryan Grant displayed some impressive singing skills while on tour with the British & Irish Lions. The full release of Lions Raw will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray from October 28th. Pre-order on Amazon.

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I later closed my shop and went ot work for Moroso Performance as a development engineer. I was given the responsibility of developing chassis performance products for the sister company Competition Engineering. I later worked on the development of front wheel drive traction and performance parts and campained a 10 second Honda Civic R&D vehicle with the world record holding engine tuner Raphael Fuentes.
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It was definitely a case of puppy love when Tony Conway took to the skies with his pampered pooch.

The canny collie cross-breed, called Harry, was strapped into a paraglider and enjoyed a tandem flight with his owner down Slieve Donard mountain.

It took about 20 minutes to glide the 2,700 feet from the top of the peak to the beach in Newcastle, County Down.

So was it a case of the dog being barking mad or did man's best friend enjoy the ride?

"He was really comfortable, he just sat there," said the Craigavon man.

"I think if a dog could smile he would have been smiling up at me. The way the harness attaches he ended up sitting on my knee. He wasn't trembling or anything.

"When I was petting him, hewas looking up at me as if to say: 'This is great'.

Image caption Tony Conway has been paragliding for nine years

"He seemed to just love it. There was no issue with him at all. He never made a whimper. Even when we landed, he was quite happy... When I unhooked him from the harness he started running around the beach."

Tony, who has been a member of the Ulster Hand gliding and paragliding club for nine years, said it was quite unusual to have a canine companion along for the ride.

"We walk up the mountain and fly off it regularly," he laughed, "but I don't know anyone else at the club who has a dog harness."

Tony said he had been inspired by pictures of other dogs 'flying".

So, with the


help of his wife, Donna, and a seamstress in Lurgan, they set about making a harness for Harry.

"I hooked him into the harness and walked about in the garden to make sure that he was okay and got him comfortable with it," said Tony.

"And he showed no signs of distress at all. He seemed quite happy; I think he was happy to be close."

So although a dog may not be the usual passenger on a paraglider, it may not be Harry's last adventure in the sky.

His fur was certainly not ruffled by his maiden flight - or maybe it was the cooked ham treat when they landed that had him smitten.

"Now when I lift the harness and hold it up and show him it, he starts barking andEditor’s note: This story was originally published June 5, 2009. Former Longhorns first baseman Brandon Belt, profiled here, will play in Saturday’s Alumni Game.

At 6 feet 5 inches tall, Brandon Belt has the makings of a top pitching prospect. Tall and lanky, he had great leverage off the mound and the perfect frame to add muscle. He had the angles to blow his low-90s fastball past hitters. He was left-handed, which never hurts a pitcher’s chances.

In the middle of his dominant senior season a the ace of Hudson High School, a small school in East Texas, something changed for Belt. His velocity dropped below 90 mph. As his fastball’s speed dipped, so did his draft status.

“I had a chance to do really good, and go really high, but


my velocity wasn’t as high as it once was, and I kind of slipped,” Belt said.

Weeks after graduating high school, the Boston Red Sox drafted Belt in the 11th round of the 2006 draft. He became a dreaded “draft and follow” prospect, with Red Sox scouts tracking his progress during the summer before offering a contract.

The pressure of scouts and radar guns continually looming over his every move was too much for Belt. His professional opportunity was slipping away.

“It was really tough on me, especially being 18 and all you want to do is play Major League Baseball,” Belt said. “I tried to stay positive, but there was a lot of pressure.”

When he signed to pitch for the Longhorns that year, Belt was still focused on chasing his“He calls himself a winner, and reminds everyone of that in the running drills. They try to hold him by his belt and cut in front of him to stop him from winning, but he finds a way to win.”

While Texas has failed to make it out of the regional round for three straight seasons, Belt helped the Longhorns find a way to capture two magical wins, though for a few scary moments in the regional’s first game against Army it looked like Texas would have to capture the tournament without its leading hitter.

In the first inning of the opening game against Army, Belt took a fastball to the helmet. The errant pitch struck just under his ear, leaving Belt collapsed on the turf near home plate, blood


Traditional parade through the streets of Aalst for the 89th annual carnival in the Belgian town. The carnival was registered in 2010 on the list of intangible cultural heritage of the humanity of Unesco. The carnival celebrations last for three days from Sunday before Lent

Photograph: Stephanie Lecocq/EPAwhen prioritising the output of the cash transfers in these TB-affected households. Thus, deciding on the cash transfer amounts and timing was difficultFollowing previous and updated analysis of hidden costs and income of TB-affected households \[[@CR7]\], cash transfer amounts were increased with the aim of reducing their poverty-related TB risk factorsCollaborationThere was strong multi-sectorial collaboration with Peruvian National TB Program and bank staff, allowing multiple, virtual cash transfers to be made and recorded, reducing fraud and security risksAccount maintenance charges were introduced by the bank during implementation of the intervention and delays in cash transfers eroded participants' trust in the projectWe changed our bank service provider: the new bank had better accessibility and no charges. We self-imposed penalties on our project for late cash transfers (participants gained additional


educational component was an important element of the participatory community meetings, in which participants were involved in educational activities concerning: managing a household budget; spending and saving responsibly; and meeting the conditions for cash transfers. This TB-related and financial education was highly rated by participants and perceived as an ethically sound accompaniment to cash transfers by CRESIPT project staff and TB-affected households:""*I understood and learnt more, and saw that I was not alone"* \[TB-Affected Household Member\];"*The meetings generated good solidarity and camaraderie*" \[TB-Affected Household Member\]."

Our experience is consistent with reports that financial incentives should be complemented by education or "social marketing" if health objectives are to be achieved. Further research is needed to investigate the relative importance of health and financial education on the impact of cash transfer interventionsfor International Development (DFID, UK-AID) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. TW was also supported by the British Infection Association with a research project primer grant. CAE was partially supported by Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre.

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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The World Health Organisation's post-2015 End TB Strategy explicitly identifies social protection and socioeconomic interventions as a key pillar of TB control. However, although cash transfers are an established form of socioeconomic


Grand Theft Auto: San Nicola (also know as Grand Theft Auto: Vice Strips Stories in Australia) is an open world third person shooter developed by Rockstar North and takes place in not just a modern and updated rendition of Vice City but the entire state of San Nicola (In 3D era, Vice City was in Florida). Release after Grand Theft Auto: Vice Strips in 2019,Taken place same of Vice Strips in 2015.

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Location

The state contains three large cities (From largest to smallest: Vice City, Orseelo, and Tianta) which are based of Miami, Orlando and Tampa respectively. Also in between the cities are the Mapleglades (Everglades) swamps which include smaller and more rural towns which lead to the north of Orseelo, Mount Jackson. Just south of Vice City are theStrait of San Nicola (Strait of Florida) which includes the city of Isle West (Key West).

Plot

Template:Grand Theft Auto chronologyThe game revolves around Bruce the son of the wealthy, highly respected and influental boss of the Vice City Salvadores that meet with Shawn Mossran,a hired gunman, a major gang of the East Coast having turf over San Nicola. The game revolves around Tomas's unexpected rise in power as a co-leader as a result of his father's and several high-ranking members' death as a result of a drive-by by their largest enemy in Vice City, the San Juan Cartel,Verdian Gang and the Canada Mafia.

Gameplay

Many gameplay elements such as the ability to claim/defend gang turf and the ability to purchase properties return. Many new elements are also introduced.

This feature returns from


San Andreas. Turf war erupts when you kill at least three gang members. This results in three gang cars arriving, each filled with gang members. Kill all the gang members and a piece of the territory is one. There are three pieces to each area of territory. Once a piece is won, you must kill another wave of better armed gang members which come in 4 cars. Now, the drive-buys are possible. Once you complete that, the last wave comes which is the best armed. Now, there is the possibility of members shooting from the roof (includes RPG missiles). Once this wave is completed. The entire area is Vice City Salvadores property. This unlocks property and safehouses in the area.

The property system from GTA: Vice City returns, butMonday, December 22, 2014

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End of year wrap-ups and critics' annual lists of the top 10 events in their field aren't really my thing. Yet it gives me great satisfaction to note small accomplishments which would probably seem insignificant to most other people.

Mind you, these tiny milestones are not the kind of events most people would put on their bucket lists. Some might wish to go skydiving on their 75th birthday or travel to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, Others might yearn to participate in an intensely intimate and sensual threeway or go scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Here's Inga Swenson (who played Lizzie Curry in the original Broadway cast of 110 in the Shade) singing about the happiness that can be found in "Simple


course of human events in a particular community) allowed me to do so in December.

In the following hour-long clip, you can watch the New York cast of Avenue Q (ten years into the show's run) discuss the challenges of auditioning, attending "Puppet Camp," understudying various roles, and learning how to "feel the audience." Many questions about what actually transpires onstage during a performance are answered in the session (which was taped at the New York offices of Google) while revealing some juicy tidbits about puppet design and construction, how a female puppeteer learns which motions will best inform the audience that Trekkie Monster is masturbating, and what it's like to simulate sex between puppets.

Although I missed last season's production of Avenue Q by the New Conservatory Theatre Centerof Wilder's script.

Working on Nina Ball's skeletal set (gently enhanced by Heather Basarab's exquisite lighting, Christine Crook's costumes, and Theodore J. H. Hulsker marvelous sound design), Ms. Martin has staged Wilder's play with an ensemble of gifted local actors whose skill at communicating with an audience (while seeming to underplay their roles) may well be one of this production's greatest assets.

Shotgun's production is also strengthened by the intimacy of the 100-seat Ashby Stage as a venue and Ms. Martin's ability to have various characters located among the audience (or running up and down the stairs that bracket the auditorium's main seating area).

While there are many moments in Wilder's play where the plainspoken beauty of his language (combined with the simplicity of life in the early years of the


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has alleged that Chauhan, known for his role of Yudhishthira in television serial ‘Mahabharat’, lacked the “credentials and vision” to head an institution such as FTII, which is supposed to give direction to the Indian cinema.

It has also called for removal of five members of the FTII society who reportedly have affiliation with BJP and RSS.

Asked on composition of the proposed delegation of students expected to meet the Ministry authorities on confirmation of their appointment, he said, “It will comprise both current and past students of FTII.”

Meanwhile, peaceful protests on the campus continued with the striking students putting up various new posters, slogans and street plays condemning Chauhan’s appointment, suggesting it was a political one without merit because of his association with the ruling BJP.

Chauhan had earlier claimedNow >

June is a beautiful time of year to visit, and there are plenty of things to do in NY during this early part of summer. Central Park is in full bloom and many outdoor activities, such as canoeing in the park’s lake or cycling through the city are a couple of ways to enjoy spending time outdoors. Below are some of the other popular events taking place in June.

Book Expo America
When: May 29 through June 1
Where: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center | 655 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001
For more information call: 800-840-5614
This once trade-only event is now on the list of things to do in NY for anyone who loves to read. The first two days of this event are still for industry professionals, but


the final day it is open to the general public. Attendees during the trade show portion of this event can attend seminars, network and learn about the newest products and services for the publishing industry. On the last day, attendees can meet authors and learn about new books that will be coming out.

The International Franchise Expo 2013
When: June 20 through June 22
Where: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center | 655 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001
Anyone considering opening their own business should attend this event in New York. Attendees can learn about more than 400 franchise opportunities, get advice about financing as well as assistance choosing the best franchise for their situation.

Governor’s Ball and Music Festival
When: June 7 through June 9
Where: Randall’s Island Park | Along the EastRiver
Of all the things to do in NY, this one is a must for music lovers. See some of the biggest names, such as Kanye West and Guns N Roses, perform in outdoor concerts. Other activities including games, dances and more are also part of this fun event.

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thing as well...], taken back to their flat, and tortured to death, in the manner of a video game called Killology.

Another speaker is the inventor of this game, Killology, who is an unsympathetically imagined, thinly-drawn, public-school sociopath – albeit, interestingly, one from a cynical ex-union father, who made a killing in industry, hiring out protective suits for cleaning out industrial-something-or-other, having successfully sued his former employers for not using them. The idea behind Killology is that no one who plays about video games much cares about the wandering around bits, so he invented one which just focusses on torturing and then killing. With extra points for being inventive.

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Australia hatches first IVF shark

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MELBOURNE - Australia has successfully hatched its first shark born via artificial insemination with hopes that the development can ultimately be used to help breed threatened species, an aquarium said Wednesday.

Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium said the brown banded bamboo shark pup was born on March 3, ending a process which began in September when aquarists collected a semen sample from a shark in Mooloolaba in northeastern Australia.

This was flown to the southern city of Melbourne and inseminated into the mother the same day -- making the pup the first shark to be born globally via a live semen sample transported from one facility to another, Sea Life said.

Melbourne Aquarium vet Rob Jones said the birth of the shark --Aquarium research consultant Jon Daly.

"Hopefully we can use this technology as a basis for breeding grey nurse sharks in captivity and, in years to come, boost the species' dwindling numbers in the wild."

Grey nurse sharks are considered critically endangered, with estimates that there could be as few as 1,500 left on Australia's east coast.

Sharks are a known danger for those swimming, diving and surfing around the country and are currently subject to a controversial cull in Western Australia state after a series of fatal attacks in recent years.

The policy to catch and kill any protected great white, tiger or bull shark bigger than three metres off popular west coast beaches has been condemned by conservationists.


Buddha and the Political Events of His Times

The life of the historical Buddha emerges in several layers from the classical Buddhist literature. The earliest version does not appear in any one text, but can only be pieced together from incidents recorded in the Pali sutta (Skt. sutra) and vinaya literature of the Theravada tradition. Later texts of the Mahasanghika, Sarvastivada, and Mahayana traditions embellish the bare outline that emerges from these earlier texts with many, sometimes superhuman features. The original picture that emerges from the Pali literature, however, reveals a very human person who, living in troubled, insecure times, faced numerous difficulties and challenges, both personally and to his monastic community. Here, we shall outline this earliest version of Buddha’s life, based on the scholarly research of StephenBatchelor presented in his Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. All names shall be given in their Pali versions.

Buddha was born in 566 BCE in Lumbini Park (Lumbi-na’i tshal), in present-day southern Nepal. This park lay not too far from Kapilavatthu (Ser-skya’i gnas, Skt. Kapilavastu), the capital of Sakiya (Sha-kya, Skt. Shakya). Although his personal name Siddhattha (Don-grub, Skt. Siddhartha) does not appear in the Pali canon; nevertheless, for convenience sake, we shall use it here. Gotama (Gau-ta-ma, Skt. Gautama), another name often used in reference to the Buddha, was, in fact, the name of his clan.

Siddhattha’s father, Suddhodana (Zas tsang-ma, Skt. Shuddhodana), was not a king, as described in later Buddhist literature. Rather, he was a nobleman from the Gotama clan, who maybe served as a regional governor


in the eastern part of Kosala, with the province of Malla (Gyad-kyi yul, Skt. Malla) to Sakiya’s southeast. East of Malla was the Vajji (Skt. Vrji) republic, with its capital at Vesali (Yangs-pa-can, Skt. Vaishali). The Vajji Republic was ruled by a confederation of clans; the Licchavi (Li-ccha-bi, Skt. Licchavi) clan was the most famous of them. South of Vajji and Kosala, across the Ganges River, lay the mighty kingdom of Magadha (Yul Ma-ga-dha, Skt. Magadha), with its capital at Rajagaha (rGyal-po’i khab, Skt. Rajagrha). To the west of Kosala, in present-day Pakistani Punjab, was Gandhara (Sa-‘dzin, Skt. Ghandhara), which was a satrapy of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. In its capital, Takkasila (rDo-‘jog, Skt. Takshashila), was the most famous university of that time. There, Greek and Persian ideasand cultures mingled with their contemporary Indian counterparts.

Kapilavatthu, where Siddhattha grew up, was a major city on the North Road, the main commercial artery of the time. The North Road linked Kosala to Gandhara to the west and, passing through Sakiya, Malla, and the Vajji Republic, to Magadha to the south. Thus, although the Pali canon says very little about Siddhattha Gotama before the age of twenty-nine, he was quite likely exposed to many cultures. He might even have studied at Takkasila, although that cannot be established.

Siddhattha married Bhaddakaccana, who is known in the Sanskrit literature as Yashodhara (Grags ‘dzin-ma). She was Siddhattha’s cousin and the sister of Devadatta (Lhas-byin, Skt. Devadatta). Devadatta later became Buddha’s main rival. They had one child, a son Rahula (sGra-gcan ‘dzin, Skt.


was dissatisfied with these attainments, however, and so he left these teachers. He then undertook a regimen of extreme austerities, eating almost nothing. Again he felt that such practice did not lead to liberation. He then broke his fast and went to nearby Uruvela (lDeng-rgyas, Skt. Urubilva), present-day Bodh Gaya, where he attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree at the age of thirty-five. This was six years after he had arrived in Magadha.

After attaining enlightenment, he went west to Migadaya (Ri-dvags-kyi gnas, Skt. Mrgadava), the Deer Park, at Isapatana (Drang-srong lhung-ba, Skt. Rshipatana), present-day Sarnath, just outside Varanasi. Although north of the Ganges River, King Pasenadi had ceded this area to Magadha as part of the dowry when he had given his sister Devi in marriage to KingBimbisara. Buddha spent the rainy season there at the Deer Park with his five companions and soon attracted a small number of followers, who formed a celibate community that he needed to care for.

The Licchavi nobleman Mahali from Vesali heard of the Buddha and suggested to King Bimbisara that he invite him to Magadha. So after the monsoon, Buddha and his growing community returned east to the Magadha capital Rajagaha. King Bimbisara was impressed with Buddha’s teachings and offered him a disused park called “Veluvana” (‘Od-ma’i tshal, Skt. Venuvana), the “Bamboo Grove,” where he could base his community during the rainy season.

Soon, Sariputta (Sha-ri’i bu, Skt. Shariputra) and Moggallana (Mo’u dgal-gyi bu, Skt. Maudgalyayana), the leading disciples of a prominent local guru, joined Buddha’s community. Later, they became


Buddha’s closest disciples. Sariputta requested Buddha to formulate vows for the growing monastic community and King Bimbisara suggested that the community adopt some of the customs of other mendicant spiritual groups, such as the Jains. Specifically, the King recommended that they hold quarter-monthly assemblies (gso-sbyong, Skt. uposhadha) to discuss the teachings. Buddha agreed.

One day, Anathapindika (dGon-med zas-sbyin, Skt. Anathapindada), a wealthy banker from the Kosala capital Savatthi, came to Rajagaha on business. Impressed by the Buddha, he offered him a place to spend the rainy seasons in Savatthi, King Pasenadi’s capital. Shortly afterwards, Buddha and his community of monks moved to Kosala; but it was several years before Anathapindika could offer them a suitable place to stay.

In the meantime, Buddha returned to visit his family in Kapilavatthu. Hismore on her behalf, and Buddha finally agreed to ordain the women. This took place in Vesali, in the Vajji Republic, and was the start of the nun’s order in Buddhism.

Anathapindika was noted for his great generosity and a few years after Buddha’s return to Kosala, he paid a huge amount of gold to buy a park in Savatthi, called “Jetavana” (rGyal-byed-kyi tshal, Skt. Jetavana), “Jeta’s Grove.” There, he built an extremely luxurious rainy season residence for Buddha and his monks. Eventually, about twenty years after his enlightenment, Buddha instituted the custom of the formal rainy season retreat (dbyar-gnas, Skt. varshaka), for his monastic community, during which the monastics would remain in one place for the three months of the monsoon each year and not wander from place


to place as they did during the rest of the year. All in all, Buddha spent nineteen rainy season retreats at Jeta’s Grove, during which he delivered 844 of his discourses. Anathapindika continued to be a major patron of Buddha’s monastic community, although near the end of his life he became bankrupt.

The Kosala King Pasenadi first met the Gotama Buddha at Jeta’s Grove, when the Buddha was about forty years old. The Buddha greatly impressed the King, and subsequently Pasenadi also became one of his patrons and followers. Buddha’s relation with King Pasenadi, however, was always very delicate. Although the King was an intellectual patron of learning; nevertheless he was also a sensualist and often very cruel. For example, out of paranoia, the King had Bandhula, his friendfrom Malla and commander of his army, killed; although, feeling remorse, he then appointed Bandhula’s nephew, Karayana, to head his army. Many years later, General Karayana deposed Pasenadi in revenge for his uncle’s death. Buddha, however, tolerated the King’s erratic ways and changing fortunes, undoubtedly because he needed his protection for his community against thieves and wild animals, as well as access to wealthy patrons who would support them.

To secure the succession of his ruling dynasty, King Pasenadi needed to have a son. His first wife, the sister of the Magadha King Bimbisara, apparently bore him no children. The King then took a second wife, Mallika (Ma-li-ka, Skt. Mallika), a beautiful low-caste follower of the Buddha. The brahmin priests in the royal court were scandalized at her lowly


birth. Mallika bore King Pasenadi a daughter, Vajiri (rDo-rje-ma, Skt. Vajri).

The King then felt he needed to take a third wife in order to bear him a son. So he then married Vasabha, the daughter of Buddha’s cousin Mahanama (Ming-chen, Skt. Mahanama), who had become the governor of Sakiya after the death of Buddha’s father. Mahanama was the brother of Buddha’s close disciples Ananda and Anuruddha. Although Mahanama passed Vasabha off as a noblewoman, she was actually his illegitimate daughter from a slave woman. Although Vasabha bore King Pasenadi a son, Vidadabha, his position as heir to the Kosala throne was precarious due to the hidden deception concerning his mother’s blood line. This deception also put Buddha in a difficult position, because of his being related to Vasabha.

Notknowing of his illegitimacy, Vidadabha visited Sakiya and his grandfather Mahanama for the first time when he was sixteen. While there, Karayana, the commander of Pasenadi’s army, learned of the true background of Vidadabha’s mother. When the army chief reported to Pasenadi that his son was the illegitimate grandson of a slave woman, the King flew into a rage against the Sakiyans. He stripped his wife and son of their royal positions, and turned them out into slavery. Buddha interceded on their behalf and the King finally reinstated them.

After this, however, Buddha’s position in Kosala became insecure and, at around the age of seventy, he returned for the first time to Magadha and its capital Rajagaha. There, he stayed in the Mango Grove owned by Jivaka (‘Tsho-byed, Skt.


Jivaka), the royal physician, rather than at the Bamboo Grove of the King. This indicates that perhaps Buddha was already sick at this time.

When Buddha was seventy-two, his first patron, King Bimbisara of Magadha, was forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Ajatasattu (Ma-skyes dgra, Skt. Ajatashatru). Ajatasattu imprisoned his father and starved him to death. Bimbisara’s widow, Devi, the sister of King Pasenadi, died of grief. To avenge her death, Pasenadi launched a war against his nephew Ajatasattu to try to regain the villages around Varanasi to the north of the Ganges that he had presented to Bimbisara as part of Devi’s dowry. The war was inconclusive and to secure the peace, Pasenadi was forced to give his daughter Vajiri in marriage to Ajatasattu.

At about thehad left Buddha’s community to return.

It seems that Devadatta regretted his actions, but died before being able to ask Buddha’s forgiveness. In any case, Buddha never harbored a grudge or ill will against him. King Ajatasattu also regretted killing his father and, upon the royal physician Jivaka’s advice, openly admitted to Buddha his patricide and sought to repent.

About a year later, Buddha journeyed to his native region Sakiya once more. During King Pasenadi’s visit to the Buddha to pay his respects, General Karayana staged a coup and set Prince Vidadabha on the Kosala throne. The deposed king Pasenadi, having nowhere to turn, fled to Magadha to seek protection from his nephew and son-in-law King Ajatasattu in Rajagaha. Pasenadi, however, was refused entry into the city and was found


dead the next day.

Meanwhile, the new Kosala King Vidadabha launched a war against Sakiya in revenge for his grandfather Mahanama’s deception about his bloodline. Mahanama, you will recall, was Buddha’s cousin and the current governor of Sakiya. Although Buddha tried three times to convince the King not to attack, he was ultimately unsuccessful. The Kosala forces had orders to slaughter all the inhabitants of the Sakiya capital Kapilavatthu. Unable to prevent the massacre, Buddha fled to Rajagaha in Magadha, seeking the protection of King Ajatasattu, as Pasenadi had unsuccessfully done before him.

The road to Magadha passed through the Vajji Republic, where Buddha’s closest disciple Sariputta was waiting for him in the capital Vesali. There, however, one of Buddha’s former attendants, Sunakkatta (Legs-pa’i rgyu-skar, Skt. Sunakshatra), a nobleman fromVesali who had previously disrobed and had left the Buddhist community, discredited the Buddha to the Vajji parliament. He told them that Buddha did not possess any superhuman powers and taught merely according to logic how to stop craving, but not how to attain transcendental states. Buddha took this as a compliment. Nevertheless, this denunciation, plus perhaps his founding of a nun’s order possibly at this time, caused Buddha to lose his support and good standing in Vajji. Consequently, Buddha crossed the Ganges and proceeded to Rajagaha, where he stayed in the caves on the nearby Gijjhakuta (Bya-rgod-kyi phung-po, Skt. Grdhrakuta), Vulture’s Peak.

Vassakara, King Ajatasattu’s prime minister, came to visit the Buddha. He informed him of Ajatasattu’s plan to expand his kingdom and his intention soon to invade


the Vajji Republic. Although Buddha advised that the Vajjians could not be won over by force, but would keep their traditional honorable ways, he was unable to prevent the impending outbreak of war, as had been the case with the Kosala invasion of Sakiya. As a further loss, Buddha’s closest disciples, Sariputta and Moggallana, both died at around this time. The elderly Sariputta died of an illness and Moggallana was beaten to death by bandits while in a solitary retreat.

Having gained no sympathy or support in Magadha, Buddha decided to return north once more, most likely to his homeland of Sakiya, perhaps to see what was left after the Kosala attack. Before setting out, Buddha asked Ananda to gather all the monks at Vulture’s Peak, where he woulddeliver his last advice to them. He instructed them to model the monastic community after the democratic system of the Vajjian parliament. They should hold regular assemblies, live in harmony, share their alms, and respect their elders.

Buddha soon left Vulture’s Peak and Magadha, and upon reaching Vesali in the Vajji Republic, stopped to spend the rainy season retreat. He found the society there seeped in decadence despite the looming threat of war. Having lost favor with the Vajji parliament, Buddha spent the monsoon alone and told his monks to find shelter among their friends or supporters.

During the course of the monsoon rains, the eighty year old Buddha became severely ill and was close to death. Ananda asked him to deliver a final piece of advice to the monks.


Buddha told them that he had taught them everything he knew and that, in the future, the teachings themselves should be their primary refuge and source of direction. To gain liberation from suffering, they must integrate the teachings into themselves and not depend on some leader or a community to save them. Buddha then announced that soon he would die.

With his disciple cousins Ananda and Anuruddha, Buddha set out once more after the rains. On the way to Sakiya, they stopped in Pava, one of the two principal cities of Malla. There, the party was served poisoned pork by a blacksmith named Chunda (Tsu-nda, Skt. Cunda). Suspecting something afoul, Buddha told his cousins not to eat the pork, but rather ate it himself and told them to burywere headed by Mahakassapa (‘Od-srung chen-po, Skt. Mahakashyapa), who insisted that the cremation wait until they had paid their last respects. Mahakassapa was a brahmin from Magadha who had become a monk in his old age a few years earlier. When Buddha had first met him, he had given Mahakassapa his old worn out robe in exchange for the brahmin’s new one. Later, this presentation of Buddha’s robe was taken to represent the transmission of authority and the start of the line of Buddhist patriarchs.

Buddha, however, had stated explicitly to his disciples on several occasions that, after he had passed away, the Dharma itself would serve as their teacher. He wished his community to continue on the model of the parliamentary system of Vajji. He did not intend


Indian master who brought the Chan teachings to China. In East Asia, he is counted as the First Chan Patriarch.

In summary, the Pali literature of the Theravadins reveals a picture of the Buddha as a charismatic, almost tragic spiritual leader who struggled to establish and support his ever-growing community of disciples and followers under extremely difficult circumstances. He had to face political intrigues, several wars, the massacre of the people of his homeland, a personal denunciation before a government, a challenge of his leadership from among his disciples, the murder of one of his closest disciples, and, in the end, a death by poisoning. Yet, throughout all these ordeals, Buddha maintained peace of mind and did not get discouraged. Throughout the forty-six years during which he taught afterGarth's team of the week

Two weekends in and it feels like the Premier League title race is coming alive already.

Champions Chelsea's crushing defeat by Manchester City means Jose Mourinho's side already trail City and Manchester United, who beat Aston Villa on Friday, by five points.

Leicester also share the early lead after making it two wins out of two at West Ham, whose bubble was burst following their opening day win at Arsenal.

The Gunners bounced back with victory at Crystal Palace, while Swansea continued their encouraging start by easing past 10-man Newcastle and Everton romped in at Southampton.

At the bottom, Sunderland had another day to forget as they were outplayed at home by Norwich, who get one nomination in my team of the week.

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is a sure indication that the Manchester City skipper has found his confidence again.

However, there was something more relevant about Kompany's performance against an unconvincing Chelsea and that was his developing partnership with Eliaquim Mangala. I am convinced that the secret of Manchester City's title hopes lie with the success of this relationship. Everything else about City's start to this season's campaign looks in excellent shape.

DEFENDER - Daley Blind (Manchester United)

Blind had more touches than any other United player against Villa (84), completing 95.6% of his passes

There is so much more to this Manchester United side than we've seen so far. However, as unconvincing as they appeared in Friday night's first Premier League fixture, Aston Villa barely laid a glove on them in sliding to defeat.

What has savedbrilliantly.

Even when they occasionally switched wings (as they do from time to time) the Spaniard never looked fazed and in the end both players left the field totally disheartened by the looks of things as the Gunners secured their first win of the season.

MIDFIELDER - Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)

Only team-mate Mesut Ozil (five) created more chances this weekend in the Premier League than Cazorla (four)

After last week's somewhat inept performance against the Hammers, the Gunners suddenly looked something like title contenders against Crystal Palace.

At the heart of their resurgence against the Eagles was Cazorla, who was superb throughout and dominated the play. If they can play with the same authority and intensity as they did in the first half then Arsenal, with their array of talent, must have a


chance of lifting the title.

MIDFIELDER - Mesut Ozil (Arsenal)

Ozil found a team-mate with all but one of his passes against Crystal Palace (98% pass completion)

Every so often we see a player that is so gifted that he can change a game in an instant and Ozil is one of those players.

His assist for Olivier Giroud's opening goal was so inviting the striker was compelled to make the volley. If there was an opening to be found against Palace, Ozil would find it - he is another player crucial to the Gunners' title hopes.

MIDFIELDER - Ross Barkley (Everton)

The Everton midfielder scored and assisted in the same Premier League game for the first time

Everton's first win at St Mary's since 2002 and their best away performance for some considerable timelooking good again. His first goal in an eye-catching win at Southampton was reminiscent of the great 1970s Everton striker Bob Latchford external-link at his best and his second wasn't bad either.

It's patently obvious to me that if manager Roberto Martinez wants to get the best out of Lukaku then he must continue with his current strategy and allow the striker to lead the attack. With the support of Ross Barkley and Arouna Kone, the Belgian (if he remains fit) could be looking at another 20 goals.


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A 5 year old boy presented to his general practitioner in the rural town with 6 hours history of acute scrotal/testicular swelling. The boy had cough 7 days prior with intermittent fever. He then developed rash over both feet then gradually spread up till the knees, thighs and to the buttocks. This was followed by knee swelling and pain. Few hours later, child\'s mother noted some redness and swelling over the scrotum, hence presented to GP. He was transferred to our hospital for further evaluation and management. There was no history of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, hematuria, scrotal trauma or urinary tract infections. On arrival, the child was not in any distress and his vital signs were in the normal range. On physical exam, there were petechial/purpuric rash diffuselyThis contrasts with the United States’ vast trade deficit, a comparison which infuriates President Trump.

Threats to German business will intensify over the next few weeks. In talks currently underway with Mexico and Canada, the US administration is seriously considering abandoning the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) sealed in 1994. Under NAFTA, cross-border North American trade has grown five-fold, and now represents one-third of global trade.

The abolition of NAFTA would not only damage world trade, hurting Germany’s export-driven businesses. It would also severely disrupt the production supply lines of German car companies including Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes and BMW, all of whom manufacture in Mexico for export to the United States.

“America First" is the slogan of Mr. Trump’s security policy as well as his trade policy. In fact, the


minister, Sigmar Gabriel, said in a remarkably frank interview with Handelsblatt. Although European and German forbids companies from bowing to American sanctions, the US has been uncompromising in using its laws to punish European companies: European banks BNP Paribas, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank have all been hit with billion-dollar fines for transactions with Iran, Cuba and Sudan.

The 2015 nuclear deal was supposed to end sanctions, but fear of American reprisals has meant most German banks refuse to finance deals with Iran. This has stifled a hoped-for renaissance in German trade with the Middle Eastern country. Iran’s economy is booming but so far, French and Chinese companies are reaping the rewards.

American threats are causing real anxiety at the highest levels of German business. On Tuesday, industry organizations met withgovernment officials to discuss the prospect of new sanctions on companies dealing with Iran and Russia. “There is major, major concern,” said Michael Harms, the director of the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations.

New Russian sanctions could hit German business hardest of all. Despite existing restrictions, German companies have been key in the recent increase in foreign investment in Russia, which quadrupled between 2015 and 2016. There are around 5,000 German firms doing business in Russia, including many household names. Carmaker Daimler is building a factory near Moscow, chemicals giant BASF is expanding production in St. Petersburg, and conglomerate Siemens sells gas turbines to Siberia. In the first half of 2017, German-Russian trade increased 25 percent.

As America gears up to impose its will on global business, all


Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes.

"Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers," the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. "Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal cues with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear."

Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person's general age, their gender, income, political affiliation, and other personality traits, including someone's emotional stability.

Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone's shoes. In theMills employment.
Mills alleges that on July 3, 2001, he was told by a representative of Local 66, Alan Pero, that the Centre Hall shop was going to be shut down and, hence, his employment was terminated. Mills further alleges that on July 6, 2001, the Centre Hall shop reopened and was staffed by another Furnival employee, Kenny Richards, who was a member of a different union.
Mills alleges that when he inquired about Richards, Pero told him that Richards was only there to shut down the plant and complete an inventory for a two week period. Pero also assured Mills that he should accept a two week severance as compensation for any violations. Mills accepted the severance believing that the plant was shutting down.
Mills now alleges, however, that the


plant never shut down. Moreover, Furnival ran a classified advertisement from July, 2001, through October, 2001, for his position. Mills alleges that Local 66 conspired with Furnival to invent the story of the plant shutting down and Richard's two week inventory project in an effort to remove Mills from his position and to induce him to accept the two weeks severance payment in violation of the collective bargaining agreement.
On November 6, 2001, Mills filed an unfair labor practice charge ("ULP") against Local 66 with Region 6 of the National Labor Relations Board arguing that since July 3, 2001, and continuously thereafter, Local 66 restrained and coerced employees of Furnival in the exercise of rights guaranteed in Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. A copy of theULP charge is attached to Furnival's motion to dismiss.
On January 31, 2002, the Regional Director of the NLRB issued a letter informing Mills there was insufficient evidence of a violation of the NLRA and, therefore, he was refusing to issue a complaint on the ULP charge. Mills then filed a timely appeal to the Director's decision. On July 2, 2002, the General Counsel of the NLRB informed Mills that his appeal was denied because the evidence failed to establish that Local 66 was motivated by any unlawful consideration in handling his grievance. A copy of both Mills' notice of appeal, and the letter denying his appeal are attached to Furnival's motion to dismiss.
Mills filed this action on October 28, 2002, under Section 301 of the NLRA alleging that


and that the union failed to adequately represent him. Thus, this court should determine when Mills knew, or should have known, that he was terminated in violation of the collective bargaining agreement and that the union failed to adequately represent him.
Mill's employment was terminated on July 3, 2001. He inquired about Richards presence at the shop and was told to accept the severance because of the shop shutting down on July 6, 2001. Mill's alleged, and in fact attached to his complaint, Furnival's classified advertisements for his position that ran from July 2001 through to October of 2001. Clearly, Mills *214 should have known that the shop was not closing and that Furnival was replacing him at any point between July of 2001 and October of 2001.
By NovemberAP Photo Christie throws his hat in the ring for RNC chair

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expressing serious interest in the job of Republican National Committee chairman -- and he’s getting an audience to make his case.

Christie told senior members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team on Thursday morning that he is interested in the post, according to three sources familiar with the talks. One person said the governor had embarked on an aggressive, “full-court press” in hopes of getting the chairmanship.

Christie began seriously considering the job over the last week and has concluded that he would be a solid fit, several of his aides said.

The governor was an early supporter of Trump after dropping out of the presidential race in February, but has had a rocky


relationship with his transition team as of late. Christie had been overseeing the transition but was booted from the post last month in favor of Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Some Trump aides believe Christie did a poor job overseeing the process; others said he clashed with Jared Kushner, Trump’s influential son-in-law.

As Christie's prospects for a job in the Trump administration have dimmed in recent weeks, he has downplayed interest in a position, saying he intends to serve out the remainder of his term as governor, which expires in January 2018.

The governor huddled with the president-elect last month in New Jersey, where they discussed several possible still-vacant cabinet posts, including secretary of homeland security, according to two people briefed on the meeting. Christie, however, has told his aides heto take place in January, when the RNC meets for its annual winter meeting.

Whether Christie gets the nod may depend on whether he is able to win over Kushner, who, along with the Trump campaign’s digital director Brad Parscale, is playing a central role in devising what the president-elect’s political operation looks like going forward. The Trump son-in-law has long been critical of the governor, blocking him from getting the vice presidential nod and playing an instrumental role in getting him removed from the transition.

Kushner, along with other Trump aides, believed Christie had overseen a messy, chaotic transition process, and blamed him for loading up the transition team with lobbyists – a departure from the president-elect’s promise to drain the Washington swamp.

Yet Kushner, who was deeply concerned about


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Need help on a SQL select query in MS Access

I'm sure this question is fairly simple, but I am not very savvy when it comes to SQL queries. Here is an example table:
|Name  |N|
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|Mike  |1|
|John  |2|
|Dave  |3|
|Jane  |1|
|Kyle  |2|
|Susan |4|
|Tim   |5|
|Joe   |5|
|Tina  |7|
|Carly |1|

I need to select all 'N' from this table that occurs only once. The result for this table should be 3, 4, and 7.

A:

You can use a having clause for that:
select  n
from    YourTable
group by
        n
having  count(*) = 1