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Jairo Reyes is shown talking to UPS workers in video of a UPS strike. SocialistWorker.org UPS recently fired 250 Queens, N.Y., employees for staging a 90-minute strike in February to protest the dismissal of one of their co-workers, Jairo Reyes.

The story has been widely reported, but little has been said about why Reyes — a 49-year-old longtime employee of UPS and a union activist — was fired in the first place.

We spoke to UPS and Reyes to get their sides of the story.

UPS said it dismissed Reyes on Feb. 14 because he repeatedly clocked in earlier than his shift was set to start, which resulted in his being paid overtime for hours that he allegedly didn't work.

"There was a disagreement over the hours he clocked and the hourshe actually worked, and we discharged him after several warnings," UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told Business Insider.

The early clock-ins were reported over a period of five days, Gaut said. Reyes was officially fired for "admitted dishonesty."

But Reyes said he had a manager's approval to clock in early, beginning around Jan. 6. That same manager later denied giving approval for the new schedule, and Reyes was subsequently fired, he told Business Insider in an interview.

Reyes has alleged that the manager was retaliating against him for signing a grievance in early February about senior workers' hours. Reyes said he was never given a warning before he was fired.

"It broke my heart," said Reyes, a married father of two and a 24-year UPS veteran. "I was out on disability for a


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Ortega upsets Robles at IAAF Centennial Anniversary meet in Havana

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Orlando Ortega ran the best 110m Hurdles of his life, clocking 13.09 to upset World record holder and Olympic champion Dayron Robles at a meet held Sunday in Havana to celebrate the IAAF centennial anniversary.

The starting gun seemed to confuse a few athletes, including Robles, but Ortega did not hesitate and took an earlylead. Robles tried to catch him in vain as the 20-year-old cruised to victory in 13.09, a massive personal best by two tenths of a second.

The meet generated high expectation as Robles was running his first race on home soil since the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships.

Ortega moved to third on the Cuban all-time lists and the 2012 world lists. He also posted the second fastest time ever on the Island, only slower than Briton Colin Jackson’s 13.07 at the 1992 World Cup.

"I am excited as I was expecting a great result for a while. I will continue to train hard to fight for a medal in London," said Ortega was he was congratulated by Robles and coach Santiago Antúnez. Ignacio Morales finished third in 13.58.

"I am


not surprised by Ortega’s win as he is a good shape," stated Robles, who admitted he hesitated about a possible false start. "But it did not affect the final result. I continue to train to peak at the right time," he added as he was surrounded by dozens of children.

Coach Antúnez commented, "There was a certain irregularity with the starting gun, but that does not justify anything. We expected a fast race."

Both Ortega and Robles will next race in the US legs of the Samsung Diamond League in Eugene on 2 June and New York on 9 June.

World junior medallists Dainelys Alcántara in the Triple Jump and Amaury Valle in the 400m Hurdles also posted surprising wins.

Two-time World junior champion Alcántara landed at 14.58m, a personal best, toinflict Yargelis Savigne’s first loss at home in many years. Savigne finished third in 14.20, behind Josleidy Ribalta (14.30).

World medallist Alexis Copello took the men’s event in 17.00m, ahead of Osviel Hernández (16.75m) and David Girat (16.71m).

In the 400m Hurdles, Amaury Valle ran his first sub-50 second race since winning the World junior bronze in 2008 to win in a personal best of 49.22 over 2011 Pan American Games champion Omar Cisneros (50.49). Valle ran under the Olympic A standard and will join Cisneros in London.

Just three days after competing in Ostrava, two-time World Hammer Throw champion and Olympic medallist Yipsi Moreno unleashed her best throw ever on home soil (75.27m) to move to the fifth spot on the world lists.

"It was a great experience competing in Ostrava


Nurul Anwar on Malaysian elections and her famous Dad

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Malaysians will vote this weekend in what political analysts are calling the closest election since the country's independence. The last election in 2008 delivered a shock for the party that's ruled since 1957 -- it lost its two thirds majority in the parliament to a coalition formed around the country's former Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim. His daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar, won a seat in the parliament in 2008. She tells us she is cautiously optimistic about this weekend's election and how the arrest of her father in 1998 opened her eyes politically.

ELEANOR HALL: Malaysians will vote this weekend in what political analysts are calling the closest election since the country's independence.

The last election in 2008 delivereda shock for the party that's ruled since 1957 - it lost its two thirds majority in the parliament to a coalition formed around the country's former deputy prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim.

Mr Anwar was arrested in 1998 and jailed for six years after falling out with then prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad. He was arrested again in 2004 but is now the unofficial leader of the opposition coalition.

His daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar, won a seat in the parliament in 2008.

She spoke to me from Kuala Lumpur and said she is cautiously optimistic about this weekend's election.

NURUL IZZAH ANWAR: If you look at the polling results, the latest one clearly shows that Anwar Ibrahim is now more popular and seen as a more credible prime minister versus Najib. And this


more debt as the solution to a problem that was caused by too much debt.

And of course this emerges in the context of an election campaign afflicted by voter apathy, where opinion polls give Sarkozy’s socialist opponent a clear lead.

Consider also that Sarkozy has been president of France for five years, and that before that he was—twice—Minister of Interior. If he now thinks France has too many foreigners, what is he telling us about his record of achievements in political office?

Sarkozy was one of three European politicians who some time ago declaimed that multiculturalism had failed.

David Cameron was another of them, Cameron being also a conservative politician who promised his voters drastically to cut the number of new arrivals in the United Kingdom.

The Socialist party has been toppledas a result of Spain’s severe debt problem. The policies of the Socialist party has given Spain one of the worst economies in Europe.

In elections for the 350 member Spanish Congress, the People’s Party won 44% and the Socialist Party 28%. The People’s Party will gain 32 seats and the Socialist party will lose 59. The new president will be Mariano Rajoy of the People’s Party.

This dramatically changes the Spanish government.

The conservative Catalonia Nationalist party received about 5% and 16 seats. Another 12 seats will go to Basque nationalists split between a centrist party and a left-wing party. The rest of the seats went to centrist and left-wing parties.

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have been implemented….

Finally, I will not, under any circumstance, consider reforming and re-opening Barnhardt Capital Management, or any other iteration of a brokerage business, until Barack Obama has been removed from office AND the government of the United States has been sufficiently reformed and repopulated so as to engender my total and complete confidence in the government, its adherence to and enforcement of the rule of law, and in its competent and just regulatory oversight of any commodities markets that may reform. So long as the government remains criminal, it would serve no purpose whatsoever to attempt to rebuild the futures industry or my firm, because in a lawless environment, the same thievery and fraud would simply happen again, and the criminals would go unpunished, sheltered by thewhen a 44-year-old man, Manolis Kantaris, was killed by three Mahgrebs (Morrocan or Algerian according to the police), as they tried to rob him of a video camera he was carrying. The most shocking part, and that which infuriated Greek citizenry, was the fact that the victim carried the video camera because he was going to take his wife to the hospital where she was to give birth to their second child. It was five in the morning, and he was heading to pick up his car so he could transport his wife and mother-in-law. When they saw he was late, they searched for him and found him in a pool of blood. The security cameras of a nearby store showed three dark colored men attacking him and


stabbing him in the body and neck as he tried to resist.

Neighbors and angry citizens started to gather around the killing spot after a few hours and used thrash bins to stop the traffic. Hundreds of them gathered. Then the first clashes began. At neighboring streets and plazas in the area, which is the most heavily populated by immigrants, various Africans and South Asians were attacked and beaten. There were also attacks on anarchist squats with the police intervening to protect them.

The next day, we had two more incidents. During a demonstration (organized by leftist parties and anarchists) a demonstrator was heavily injured, allegedly by the police, and moved to the hospital in a coma. Later in the night, an Asian man was attack and killed allegedly byblack-clad youth and immigrants as well as with the police. There were also waves of attacks against anarchist-owned squats. About 50 people were taken in police custody.

At the same time, 3,000 leftists and anarchists were gathering in the centre of Athens. Molotov cocktails were tossed were thrown at banks and at the police. But these ended quite early. Up until the morning, the center of Athens was described as being a free for all situation with clashes everywhere, mainly attacks on immigrants.

The morning of Friday 13th, came with another Greek pensioner stabbed, possibly by immigrants, again after he withdrew some money from a bank. The tension is still building up, as the first murder spot has become vigil, with people there almost 24 hours a day; the police


damages.

Metro-North deal

Metro-North pays NJ Transit to offer commuter service into Rockland and Orange counties in New York on its Pascack Valley and Port Jervis lines, the so-called "West of Hudson" lines that also serve parts of Bergen County including Montvale, Westwood, Emerson, River Edge, Wood-Ridge, Ramsey and Garfield. As part of that agreement, Metro-North provides NJ Transit with 15 locomotives and 65 rail cars to use on those lines.

Marjorie Anders, a spokeswoman for Metro-North, confirmed Thursday that salt water damaged all electrical components, including brake lines, on the equipment.

"The West of Hudson equipment will be repaired by NJ Transit at an estimated total cost of $1.7 million," she said.

Officials plan to seek reimbursement from FEMA or their insurance policies, she said.

NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder said that allThe Genocidal Madness of Idealism: Back by Popular Demand!

May 21 - Jul 31, 2009

Controversial Exhibition returns for Summer 2009

Due to overwhelming response, Paul Rodgers/9W is pleased to re-present last year's summer exhibition 'The Genocidal Madness of Idealism' in Summer 2009. The exhibition examines the influence of television on the imagination and links it to the market for contemporary art.

Omni-present in the domestic environment, television represents a real-time, surrogate imagination that occupies the new entity of a collective mind born out of belief in a sociologically determined 'visual culture'. Staggering statistics underscore our relationship to television's influence. According to the A.C. Nielson Co., in a 65 year life, the average American will have spent 9 years watching television.

The medium of television is inseparable from the idea that culture exists


in a market place. The average child sees 20,000 thirty-second commercials per year, inundated with market-motivated persuasion. While art was previously anchored in intellectual meaning, in the contemporary art market it is reduced to the status of a commerical product. Now that the world economy has to confront the break-down of its market model, this exhibition poses the question for the art world to contemplate: what remains of contemporary art if it is taken out of its market context?

What an extraordinary difference one year makes! Welcome, again, to the 'The Genocidal Madness of Idealism.'

The exhibition opens May 21 and will remain on view through July 2009.the deck again:

After an 8 hour train journey the day before I was up early on Saturday for the Grand Clash. There were 36 players registered but only 28 showed up which is still an increase of 2018’s 20 player total. There were also a lot of tough players in attendance: Thomas who won UKGE 2019, Michael from Steel City, Paul with his fearsome Mollog, Jan-Willem from Europe with his crazy Reavers and Derek the king of Canada himself to name but a few. Still the event was held at the spacious Dewars Centre. It was game time!

Round 1

First up was Cameron and his Zarbag’s Gitz. Losing board roll I placed the Shattered Refractor while Cameron set the Katophrane’s Reliquary in long configuration.

Losing priority I simply pushed all


Ganging Up. Snirk scattered around and after I got Nowhere to Go. The Queen got into a duel with Snirk but his 4 defence was too much. The Queen took 2 damage from Snirk but survived a bad swirl.

Going first in phase 3 I attack Snirk with the Queen and missed, used Endless Malice but Snirk rolled 3 crits. He spun back to an adjacent Queen but completely whiffed. I attacked back but got crit’d again. Then the Queen went down to Snirk. I charged Helmet Head into the last Squig, a single fury went through to kill it and get me Precise Use of Force. Drizgit charged it but he was saved by Rebound. I then drew a card while Drizgit killed Helmet Head leaving me withcards while drew a card then put Varclav on guard and gave him the Formless Key. In the end phase I scored the Formless Key, Escalation, Supremacy and Superior Tactician to win 12/17.

It was a really tough set and I completely abandoned my swarming cards Nowhere to Go and Ganging Up in order to win. Derek’s Curesbreakers are intense and I survived repeated magical barrages from him thanks to Maddening Cackle (MVP) as well as his ability to miss and my ability to roll crits. The King of Canada is no slouch however as he was still the only undefeated player prior to the Grand Final.

After all of that I had done it! I had successfully defend my first Grand Clash title being the first person in the


this type of thing. CCTV will be a key line of inquiry."

No one was injured in the explosions, which occurred within 10 minutes of each other. Martin described the attacks as "callous and cowardly".

Unionist and nationalist parties have united in their opposition to Thursday's bombings and the ongoing terror attacks in Derry.

The Real IRA has an active unit in Derry, which has been responsible for a number of attacks on symbolic targets across the city. Two years ago the terror group bombed a branch of the RBS-owned Ulster Bank, and last year admitted responsibility for two bomb attacks on branches of the Santander bank. The Real IRA later told the Guardian in an interview it had targeted banks as part of a new campaign against bankers and thebanking system.

It has also repeatedly targeted the offices of the UK City of Culture in Derry. Northern Ireland's second city will become the UK's European City of Culture in 2013. Hardline republicans reject the notion that Derry, with its nationalist majority, is deemed part of the UK because of the award.


asymmetrical warfare. Although the drones are not sold in the Middle East, they are being sold to various factions that sell to that region, as well as others, through third parties.

The recent August 2018 attack in Venezuela where there was an attempt on the life of President Maduro, shows the increased use of drones as a new weapon to take down political rivals. Attacks on individuals are on the rise. Drones are an affordable weapon and ones that is not easily defeated.

Can a civilian drone be used as a weapon?

When it comes to Americans using their drones for aerial cameras or other hobbies, one out-of-ten “get lost” on their initial flight.

So if we have 500,000 drones that have been sold in the United States, ten percent of themof 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e, et seq.
The background facts are not in dispute. Darland began working for SRI in late 1996 in the Credit and Collections Department. She reported to Sherri Bruner, the Manager of Credit and Collections. During the summer of 1997, SRI promoted Bruner and divided her former supervisory functions into two new positions. In early August, Bruner announced that Barb Rhodes would be the new Credit Supervisor and Paul Dunn would be the new Collections Supervisor. Darland was not pleased that Dunn would be her supervisor. Before he was named as the new Collections Supervisor, Dunn had made comments and physically touched Darland in a manner that she felt was inappropriate. Despite her request that he stop, Dunn continued his action for some time


before August 15, 1997. Dunn's promotion was to become effective on or around August 15, 1997.
On August 8, 1997, Bruner notified her staff that a client had invited them to a professional football game the following Friday. Because Darland and her husband shared a vehicle, and because Darland and Dunn lived in the same area, she accepted Dunn's offer to drive her home after the football game. Before the game, Darland had second thoughts about sharing a ride with Dunn, but because she was unable to arrange alternative transportation, she decided to allow Dunn to drive her home after the game on August 15.
After the game, Dunn drove Darland to her house. According to Darland, on the way home Dunn made several inappropriate comments. He told Darland thathe had had extramarital affairs and that he wanted to have sex with her. Darland states that Dunn kept grabbing himself, putting his hand on her leg, and refused to drive straight home. When they finally arrived at Darland's house, she allowed Dunn to go inside, ostensibly to use her restroom. When he came out of the restroom, Dunn tried to get Darland to watch sexually explicit movies on television. Darland's husband soon came home, and she then left the room. Dunn and Darland's husband talked and Dunn stayed at the house until the next morning.
When Darland went to work the following Monday, she eventually told Rhodes about Dunn's conduct on the previous Friday night. Rhodes took Darland to Bruner's office where Darland recounted the story to Bruner.


Bruner notified Scanlon, her Department Head, Sniadecki, Vice President of Employee Services, and Latner, Director of Employee Services, about Dunn's alleged conduct. After Darland told them what had happened, they thanked her and told her she could take time off with pay if she wanted, and that they would handle the situation.
SRI then confronted Dunn with the allegations. He denied Darland's version of the events and stated that Darland had acted strangely the night of the game. SRI placed Dunn on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. SRI told both Darland and Dunn to prepare written statements of the incident. The next day SRI management met with Darland's husband, who corroborated Darland's version of events. Darland and Dunn both sent their statements to SRI that day.
Onthe next day, August 20, 1997, Dunn told the Vice President of Employee Services that while cleaning his car, he found a cigarette package that he believed belong to Darland and that it contained a white substance in the package. Dunn stated that because he believed the package was Darland's and that she had acted strangely the night of the game, he believed it might be drugs. After discussing the information provided by Dunn, SRI management decided to test both Dunn and Darland for illegal drugs.
Dunn and Darland were both requested to take a drug test. Several days later, *638 SRI received the results. Dunn tested negative for all substances, but Darland's tested came back positive for amphetamines and methamphetamines. On August 25, 1997, SRI terminated Dunn for


Q:

Is it allowed to take the LED stumps to home after winning the match?

Is it permitted for a player to take the LED stumps or at least bails to home after winning the match at least in the final?
I heard it costs  Rs. 25 lakhs.

A:

As I said in my previous answer, Zings, the new high-tech LED stumps, are very costly. The entire set-up during a match costs US$ 40,000. That's why Bronte EcKermann, the inventor of Zings doesn't allow players to uproot them after winning the match. He also denied to take them even after winning the final.
But as an exception he said that he will allow MS Dhoni, the captain of the Indian Cricket team, to take the stumps only if India win the T20 Worldwithin six months of the date this petition was filed.
At the termination hearing, appellant testified that, although he had the ability to support M.Y. over the years following her birth, he had provided no financial support whatsoever for her care. In addition, testimony at the hearing supported the State's allegation that, when appellant left M.Y. with Michelle, he knowingly abandoned her in a threatening situation, with a person who engaged in conduct that endangered her physical and emotional well-being. Other testimony established that M.Y. has been in the custody of her foster parents, who have indicated a willingness to adopt her, since she was removed from Michelle's home. Appellant testified that he has rarely visited the child or inquired about her well-being. The visits he has had with


(Vernon 1996). Prior to her birth, appellant had lived with M.Y.'s mother for approximately one year, and he continued living there for about seven months after the child was born. While he was still living in the home with M.Y., appellant told members of his family and employees of Children's Protective Services that she was his child. In December of 1993, he acknowledged in open court that he was M.Y.'s biological father, and in February of 1994 he filed a sworn statement of paternity with the trial court acknowledging that he was the child's father.[3] Based on this evidence, we hold that appellant is M.Y.'s presumed father because he received her into his home and held her out to others as his child.
Under the Texas Family Code, aAmendment of a right to a speedy trial;
2. Denial under the Fourth Amendment of a right to be free from unlawful searches and seizures; and
3. Denial under the Sixth Amendment of a right to the assistance of counsel in a 1963 conviction which was used as a conviction necessary to support his habitual criminal adjudication.
At the evidentiary hearing held on January 14, 1976, the petitioner sought to introduce evidence on the first and third issues. The respondent objected, arguing that the petitioner had received a full, fair and adequate hearing in the state courts of Nebraska on all issues raised. I conditionally heard the evidence of the petitioner, subject to a later ruling on the fairness and adequacy of the previous state court hearing.
Prior to 1963, the controlling


consent to this search. Testimony on this issue came from only two sources: the petitioner, who stated that Officer Addison stopped him, ordered him out of the car, searched the car and found the guns, and then asked the petitioner if he could search the car; and Officer Addison, who stated that he stopped the car, asked for and received permission to search the car, and then did so and discovered the guns. The petitioner's codefendant was an occupant of the car at the time the vehicle was stopped; he testified that Officer Addison first asked him for permission to shake down the car and he replied that it was not his car so he could not say yes or no; he states he did not hear anycounsel and pleaded guilty at his arraignment in March, 1964. He was put on an informal probation and was not sentenced until September, 1964. At that hearing the judge merely reminded the petitioner that he had previously waived counsel at the March entry of plea. The court found that the express waiver in March should not be deemed effective in September, stating four circumstances which required that conclusion: The petitioner's youth and inexperience (he was 20 years old); the lapse of six months between the hearings; the change in posture of the case due to events in the interim (the court apparently saw two problems here, (a) that the judge's sentencing determination was made on the basis of behavior during the informal probation hearing, and (b) that the


said he then drove to a hotel near the Detroit international airport, where he placed the reptiles in a room he had booked for two nights, later meeting up with Lin at the hotel.

On Wednesday, the document said, Xu dropped Lin off at the airport bound for Shanghai, China. Lin, who checked in two pieces of luggage, was arrested after a search turned up more than 200 North American pond turtles.

None of the allegations has been proven in court and the accused have not offered a defence.

The turtles are apparently prized as food or pets in China.

In his detailed complaint, Adams described how his agency had received a tip Aug. 5 from a courier company in Detroit about a parcel addressed to Xu that was awaiting pickup.

The brownbox, which had been shipped from Alabama, weighed about three kilograms and had no air holes but carried the notation "Live fish -- keep cool."

On the same day, U.S. border agents notified the fish and wildlife agency that Xu had crossed into Detroit from Windsor in an SUV.

Adams and other agents then staked out the courier depot, where Xu arrived to pick up the brown parcel.

The complaint states Xu then apparently opened various boxes in the rear of the SUV, took out several round clear plastic containers, and placed their contents into plastic baggies, and was also seen with packaging tape and scissors.

"Xu turned towards me as he looked around the parking lot," Adams states.

"As he did so, Special Agent (James) Fuller noticed irregularly shaped bulges under Xu's


While an urgent need to diversify and a lack of capital are challenges facing economic development in Michigan, efforts to retain and retrain talent are very important, as well.

The economic development panel at Synergy, Michigan's commercial real estate conference on April 29, addressed issues of diversification and capital, as well as teamwork and entrepreneurialism. But the conversation kept returning to talent.

"Michigan will face significant challenges in terms of having enough people to fill jobs ... not just enough bodies but enough trained people that have the kind of skill set that's needed," said Greg Main, president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp.

Michigan does have a good talent pool to draw from. For instance, Saginaw County area has one of the largest concentrations of Ph.D.s per capitain the United States, and 53 percent of the work force has some college education, said JoAnn Crary, president of Saginaw Future Inc.

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Also, most panelists agreed that the region is rife with engineering talent, but that may not be enough.

"The types of jobs we're creating require a whole different skill set, and (prospective companies are) certainly asking about the training skills of the employees that are here and how they can get access to training and team up with local universities," said Brian Murphy, assistant city manager of economic development services for the city of Troy.

Murphy said connecting businesses with universities and even high schools and middle schools is very important because it shows a commitment to education


and lifelong learning.

Andy Meisner is thinking even further into the future.

"I think the biggest game changer for us is something that's not normally considered an economic development tool, but trust me when I say that it is, and that's early childhood education," said Meisner, treasure-elect for Oakland County and former state representative.

Meisner explained that 80 percent of a child's brain is developed before the age of five.

States that have successfully transitioned from a labor-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, such as North Carolina, have invested in early childhood education, he said. Investing in early childhood education makes it more likely the children are going to succeed academically and go to college, and less likely they will have dangerous social problems.

"I (suggest) early childhood education as the biggest gamechanger and the most cost-effective dollars that the state government spends," Meisner said

Others are focusing on community colleges as a resource to quickly retrain the work force.

Every quarter, Michigan Works!, Delta Community College and the Saginaw Country area employers who are hiring get together and try to predict what kind of jobs and skills they're going to need, Crary said.

One thing they found recently was the need for hundreds of chemical operator jobs for the next several years. Delta College has a two-year chemical operator/chemical processing associates degree program, but they condensed that to a four-week fast-track program, which is getting national attention.

He said that within the past year, new studies say in the economic crash, that's not true.

"People are going where they have relationships around employment," he


TO THE LAZERS IN THE FINAL FOUR. OCC, WINNER OF 11 OF THE LAST 13 NJCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, ENTER …

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Ninh explains the RULES of Field Lacrosse The objective of the game is for your team to score more goals than the opposing team. To score a goal, a player must use his lacrosse stick and shoot the ball into the goal. The ball must completely cross the goal line and the shooting playertold me all sorts of things: how he battled the authorities, trying every possible dead-end route to get his sister out of immigration detention; how relationships with him end before they start because no-one can handle his uncertain future; how all he hopes for now is an ordinary life, one in which he can get up in the morning and go to work or school.

In his more positive moments, Jafar admits that finding the group of friends we share has changed his life – maybe even saved it. At late-night karaoke sessions, he delights us with his sassy commentary and moves that flow like caramel. We gossip about dating. He is teased for his well-manicured eyebrows and admired for his good looks. There are good moments, but the


mood can tilt in an instant. With a traumatic past, a precarious present and an uncertain future, it’s hard to avoid the darkness.

Jafar has been stuck in Indonesia for over four years, in that infamous queue of refugees. A gay man who fled his home in fear of losing his life, he now lives in another country where attacks on and arrests of LGBT people are worsening, and criminalising consensual same-sex sexual acts has become top of the political agenda.

Jafar arrived in Indonesia hoping, like many others, to travel to Australia by boat. His was one of the boats that the Australian government so proudly stopped. His is the ‘life saved’ by bureaucracy. But, he says, it’s a life barely worth living.

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Team Israel completed a clean sweep of wins in Pool A on Thursday morning after they beat the Netherlands 4-2 to top their group.

Their three wins to date have all been watched under the watchful eye of their ‘Mensch on the Bench’ mascot, who has been with them since their qualifying matches, which took place in New York last year.

Brought to the team by infielder Cody Decker, the 5ft mascot has been a big hit in South Korea and with pictures of him wearing a t-shirt making the rounds on social media, he’s also been involved with generating the hashtag #JewCrew.

Manager Jerry Weinstein is also happy to have him on board, saying: “He’s on the team, everybody brings something to the team and certainly The Mensch is


at easy standing. The activity of all muscles studied increased and became continuous with exception of that of the TA. The latter was silent but was involved earlier when gravity center passed behind its projection. VL being a synergist of TA during slow sway became continuously active as a synergist of SOL during the fast sway. Typical changes in muscular synergies appeared when induced body oscillations were imposed during horizontal and rotational movements of the platform. The various patterns of muscular synergies during pronation and supination of the foot depended on the knee joint angle. The amplitude of body leaning forward and backward and its variability as well as the plane of the lateral sway depended on the biomechanical variables and related motor programs for postural control.1 of 7 View Caption

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The maximal and minimal thickness ofto destinations outside the State."
"Widepread news-gathering, news-interchange, and news-distribution activities of the respondent, transcending the limits of the State of Maryland, are conducted through its branch offices in New York City, Washington, D. C., and London, England, through its correspondents in the principal foreign news centers, through its exclusive right in the United States to all the special correspondence and other material published in the Manchester Guardian of England, and through its direct wire, wirephoto, and teletypewriter arrangements with The Associated Press, the North American Newspaper Alliance, the New York Herald-Tribune, and Consolidated News Features, Inc. The respondent's membership in The Associated Press, a New York corporation engaged in the collection and interchange of information and intelligence for publication in newspapers in the United States and foreign countries,


entitles that association to the exclusive use for publication of all local news and of certain types of news dispatches published in the respondent's papers. The respondent is also a member of the Newspaper Publisher's Association, a nation-wide organization."
"Advertising, representing a large variety of business interests, is solicited in a majority of the States for publication in the respondent's papers."
"The raw materials used in the publication of the respondent's papers, newsprint and news ink, are derived, predominantly, from sources outside the State; all newsprint, from Canada and New York; 78½ per cent of the news ink, from the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania. Machinery, supplies, repair and replacement parts are purchased within and without the State."
We are of opinion upon these facts that the business of the respondentfalls within the purview of the Act. It is true that the circulation which goes outside the State of Maryland is a relatively small part of the whole, but it nevertheless constitutes in itself a substantial volume of business. With this exception the news-distributing activities are of small extent. But the news-gathering activities are far flung, advertising is generally solicited throughout the nation by "National Advertising Representatives" (non-employees), and occasionally by employees, large portions of the Sunday edition are printed outside the State and shipped to Baltimore, and the raw materials used in all of the publications are derived for the most part from sources outside the State. It is clear that the instrumentalities of interstate commerce are used to a very large extent and are affected by


who admitted signing up with the Union, that the place would never change and that he had time to think it over; and to another employee that if he would stick by the company and not become a Union man, he would be given a better position. One of the employees was warned by Miller not to talk to the men about the Union on the premises. A few statements somewhat similar to those of the superintendent of the press room were attributed to the night foreman and they serve to corroborate the testimony as to Miller.
On his part Miller admitted that he had made inquiries of the men as to their interest in the Union because he desired to know what their attitude was; but he saidthe time of the hearing before the Board.
According to a circular distributed by the Union, William F. Schmick, executive vice president and business manager of the establishment, stated at the beginning of the Union campaign that he had no objection to the press room employees joining the Union, and there was no evidence that Miller's attitude with regard to the Union was assumed at the behest of his superior officers. His testimony was to the contrary. The newspaper maintained an open shop. Two other departments of the business, the stereotype and the typographical, had previously been unionized and negotiations between the Union and the publisher had been continuously carried on.
It is obvious from this recital that even if all the testimony unfavorable to the employer be accepted at


The doctrine of respondent superior applies and the management must assume responsibility for the actions of its supervisory official even though it had no actual participation therein.
We find, however, no substantial ground for the conclusion of the Board that the employer sponsored and encouraged the establishment of the Press Room Committee. The evidence is definite that the idea was conceived by one LeFaivre, a pressman of some ten years' experience, one of the younger employees, who, being unfavorable to the Union himself, reached the conclusion that his fellow workmen, especially his associates on the night force, were disturbed by the efforts of the Union to organize the press room. With the aid of a law student he prepared a petition to be circulated amongst the men. In substanceit stated that the signers were entirely satisfied with their working conditions; that whenever necessary they would form a committee to represent the press room in matters pertaining to the welfare of the men and of the publisher and pertaining to salaries or working conditions; that they would abide by the ruling of the committee, and did not wish to join any union or other association; and they requested their employer to recognize no other committee. According to the direct testimony, neither Miller, the superintendent of the press room, nor the foreman, nor any official of the company had any share in the circulation of the petition or formation of the committee.
LeFaivre circulated the petition among the night men and three other pressmen, Groves, Johancen and I. O'Connor,


circulated it among the day men, and it was signed by 72 out of the 87 press room employees. An engagement was then made through Miller and the petition was presented to Schmick on June 4, 1937 by a group of men which included LeFaivre, House, Krausch and Snyder. Schmick received the petition, thanked the men and dismissed them.
After leaving Schmick, it was decided to call a meeting of the signers at Krausch's home on the following Sunday afternoon. The men were notified and 30 to 47 attended, according to varying estimates. At this meeting Groves and Johancen were nominated as officers but Barnes and Berry, both of whom were members of the Union, were chosen. No explanation of the election of union men by employees supposedly hostileto the Union is vouch safed. A committee of seven was also *957 chosen to confer with the management as occasion might arise. After the business meeting was concluded, beer was served which had been purchased out of a common fund and the men took part in a card game. This entertainment was shared by Miller and O'Connor, the day foreman, who arrived after the business meeting had been adjourned. No subsequent meetings of the organization were held and the committee chosen to represent the men made no subsequent attempt to confer with the management.
The Board in its opinion refers to certain attendant circumstances as indicating that the formation of the committee was inspired by the management in order to impede the efforts of the Union organizers. Reference


is made to evidence showing that a month before the petition was prepared, LeFaivre happened to be in Miller's home when the president and vice-president of the local Union called, and tried unsuccessfully to persuade Miller to join the Union, and that Miller then told the Union men that 80% of the press room employees were pledged to him, a percentage close to that of the signers of the petition which was subsequently circulated; that Miller told one of the signers that by signing he had done the right thing; that some of the signers affixed their names on the desk in Miller's office during his absence; that two of the press men, Grove and Johancen, who circulated the petition amongst the day force, sometimes acted like assistantforemen and gave orders to other workmen in the press room, although it was proved that the two received the same salary as other press men and had no greater privileges or authority than they to discipline the men; that a third man who circulated the petition amongst the day force was a son of the day foreman and that LeFaivre was the son-in-law of the foreman of the composing room, although the Board made no mention of the fact that LeFaivre's father-in-law was a strong Union man; that Grove acted as day foreman when the regular foreman went on vacation and that one of the men who waited on Schmick with the petition after it was signed acted as foreman one night a week in the absence


untrammelled action of the employees themselves, denial of recognition to the committee would deprive them of the most important rights accorded them by the statute, the right to self organization and the right to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.
We are of opinion also that the form of the notice of the Board's decision which it ordered to be posted in the press room of the employer should be modified. The Board ordered the employer to cease and desist from interfering with, restraining or coercing its employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act, and specifically to cease and desist from discouraging membership in the Union and from recognizing the Press Room Committee as a bargaining agency, and from interferingthe BIA vacated the IJ's decision regarding the "aggravated felony" charge and ordered Douglas' removal from the United States. The BIA ruled that Douglas' 1992 "sexual misconduct" conviction qualified as an "aggravated felony" based on the charging instrument from that conviction, as submitted by the DHS, which reflected that Douglas engaged in "nonconsensual sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old female" victim. BIA's Op. at 2. It found that because this description of Douglas' offense fulfilled the necessary elements for "sexual abuse of a minor" under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(A), as defined by the BIA's decision in Matter of Rodriguez-Rodriguez, 22 I. & N. Dec. 991 (BIA 1999), Douglas' conviction falls within the portion of New York Penal Law Section 130.20 that qualified as an "aggravated felony" under the INA,


acquired the exclusive rights to develop and commercialize the Silex uranium enrichment technology globally through a licence from Australia's Silex Systems Ltd. GLE began operations of a test loop facility in July 2009 at its facilities in Wilmington, designed to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of the technology.

Silex CEO Michael Goldsworthy said the SER and EIS represent a "significant milestone towards obtaining an operating licence for the commercial enrichment facility – the first time a licence application has been considered for a third-generation laser enrichment technology."

The next stage in the licensing process will be a mandatory public hearing by the NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), which is to be held in Wilmington in July. The ASLB will then submit its recommendations to the NRC, which is expectedto make a final decision on issuing a licence by the end of August 2012. In addition to allowing the plant to be built and operated, the licence would also authorize GLE to possess and use special nuclear material, source material, and byproduct material at the facility for a period of 40 years.

Should GLE construct the plant, it would be one of a handful of new enrichment facilities in the USA, but the only one in the world to use laser excitation to separate uranium-235 from the marginally heavier uranium-238. Other new facilities use centrifuges, while older facilities use a diffusion process.

GE holds a 51% majority ownership stake in GLE, while Hitachi holds a 25% stake and Cameco 24%.

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Premier Colin Barnett said he tried to persuade Christian Porter not to leave state politics but ultimately respected his career-driven decision.

The loss had left "a hole" in Cabinet, with the Premier taking on the role of Treasurer and experienced Upper House MP Norman Moore appointed Justice Minister as a "temporary measure" likely to last two weeks.

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Mr Barnett said he was "disappointed" to lose Mr Porter but he respected his choice.

"It's not selfish, people have a right to pursue their career and pursue their interest," Mr Barnett said.

"My only disappointment is Christian hasn't done what I would have liked, which is another term in state politics and then move over to the federal scene."

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Mr Porter this morning said he had grappled with the decision tosetting."

Abbott welcomes Porter

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he would welcome Mr Porter's move to federal politics, saying he had been outstanding in his state role.

''I would welcome Christian Porter in Canberra,'' Mr Abbott said.

''I think he has a fine contribution to make to our team in Canberra.''

Mr Abbott wouldn't say if he would give Mr Porter a position on his frontbench, or who would have to stand aside from his cabinet to make way for him.

Resignation is 'disrepectful to parliamentary process'

Opposition leader Mark McGowan criticised Mr Porter's immediate resignation from his portfolios while the budget was still befor parliament.

"That is showing a major disrespect to the parliamentary process, to the state's finances, to the future of WA," Mr McGowan said.

"The state's finances are more important than any single


getting a fair share of the pie in Canberra.

"He's taking a risk. Good on him, I wish there were more MPs like him."

Planning Minister John Day said there was now "a big hole" to fill in government but would not comment on whether Mr Porter had put personal ambition before the party.

"Politics is an uncertain business, you've got to take opportunities as they arise," he said.

"I wish Christian well. We'll certainly muss him from the state arena, I think he would have gone a long way further in the state arena if he chose to stay but he's got to make his decision as he sees it."

"One of the things that worries me is the lack of talent in Australian politics and as much as we like talent[to be] in WA politics, it's more important to have talent in federal politics," he said.

Premier Colin Barnett, who has taken on the role of Treasurer as a "temporary measure", said he did not sense any anger from the other MPs following Mr Porter's resignation.

"I think there was a sense of surprise and perhaps, like me, disappointment because Christian was a key member of government", he said.

Mr Barnett said Mr Porter raised the idea with him a few months ago and he made a firm decision last week.

He said he never discussed succession with Mr Porter and he hoped to remain Premier for several more years.

He did not believe Mr Porter's resignation was based on a belief they would not win the next election, nor were there any


conflicts between the pair.

"What Christian has done is follow his career ambition," Mr Barnett said.

"It was his choice, it was a personal choice, he's taken that opportunity as it comes.

"He's also done it in the most appropriate way."

The temporary portfolio changes would remain until at least the end of next week, when parliament breaks for the winter recess. Mr Barnett said he had not given thought to who would take on the roles permanently.

However, Troy Buswell is the most likely candidate to take on at least the treasury portfolio. He lost the role - and unofficial standing as the next premier - in April 2010 amid allegations he misused ministerial allowances.

Mr Buswell has the economic credentials required of the portfolio but whether the public holds a grudge overhis colourful and occasionally controversial antics remains to be seen.

Porter's move 'could harm re-election'

Mr Porter has particularly fought hard for reform of the Goods and Services Tax.

He hoped his colleagues would recognise his good work for the state government and not "begrudge" him the opportunity to attempt federal politics.

Mr Porter rejected suggestions his resignation would have a detrimental effect on the government's chances of re-election.

"What makes this decision for me so personally difficult is that I think this has been a good government. It will continue to be a good government," he said.

Mr Porter said he only discussed his decision with his wife and Premier Colin Barnett, who had tried to talk him out of leaving state politics.

"In the end he advised me to trust my instincts and


very unusual and sends a message to investors in the state and the broader community that all is not well," Mr McGowan said.

"I think it's a very strange and damaging course of events for the state.

"I think it shows the government is in disarray and turmoil because you can't lose the most senior minister - and from both the portfolios - and then expect to continue on business as usual.

"He's let the portfolio down and he's let the State Parliament down to a degree."

Porter likely to run for Pearce

Mr Porter, who won the seat of Bateman at the 2008 election after entering politics months earlier at a by-election, is expected to win pre-selection for the federal seat of Pearce, which covers outer eastern Perth suburbs and surrounding ruralareas including Toodyay, Mundaring and parts of the Swan Valley.

The seat has been held by Liberal Judi Moylan, who is retiring, since 1993. She presently has a majority of 8.9 per cent.

Professor Phillips said it was not unusual for a state minister or premier to switch to the federal sphere and Mr Porter probably sounded out his federal colleagues before making the leap.

He would likely be immediately elevated to a federal portfolio if the Coalition won the next election, expected by October next year.

"My belief at this stage is that he would be an immediate federal minister," Professor Phillips said.

"It's probably too much to expect being [immediately] granted Attorney-General or Treasurer but he would certainly be a candidate for any one of the range of portfolios that would


utilise those two brackets of expertise.

"Winning the federal seat could be just totally expected and his strong stance on the GST in WA will only further enhance him winning the Pearce seat."

His state colleagues are reportedly unimpressed at the shock resignation, which some view as selfish.

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Perfect fit for the Coalition. He promises everything, blames everyone else and, in the end, achieves nothing at all. Almost an Abbott clone.

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So why are we even in the federation?

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LIZ until recent times WA was supported with tax money from over east – Don’t listen to winging Barnett - These days when you see a big infrastructure project and check up about it ,most of the time most of theTiVos, and DVD players--are already running on stripped-down, "embedded" versions of Linux. Linux is even gaining in the desktop environment, where IDC estimates that shipments are increasing yearly at a 25% rate.

Because of Linux's increasingly important role, the SCO suit swiftly escalated from an arcane two-party licensing dispute into a whirlpool of litigation engulfing a widening circle of companies. The dispute stemmed from SCO's 2001 acquisition of Unix, an operating system developed by AT&T in the late 1960s for use on mainframes and minicomputers. Included in the purchase were some 30,000 licensing contracts that AT&T had entered into with about 6,000 universities, government agencies, and businesses, including IBM.

SCO's acquisition of Unix soon had repercussions for all Linux users, even those who had never licensed Unix. Linux had been


announced that it actually owned all the crucial Unix rights that SCO had been asserting against IBM and Linux end users. Novell cited provisions of an impenetrably confusing 1995 contract in which Novell had sold certain Unix rights, while retaining others, to the company from which SCO had later acquired its Unix rights. In January, SCO sued Novell for "slandering its title" to the Unix assets.

Finally, this March, SCO sued two Linux end users, AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler, in state courts in Nevada and Michigan, forcing even the sleepiest of corporate counsels to take notice. Every business that had either switched to Linux or was contemplating doing so--and it was a rare company that didn't fall into one or the other category--now had to worry about becoming the nexttheir work went up in smoke. The new machine came with its own proprietary operating system, whose source code was a carefully guarded trade secret. To his horror Stallman learned that he and his community of developers would no longer be permitted to tinker with it.

This approach was worse than infantilizing, in Stallman's view. It was "antisocial," "unethical," and "simply wrong." Stallman decided to devise his own operating system, whose source code would be free and open for all to examine and critique and modify. He would call it GNU, which stood for "GNU's Not Unix." (It's pronounced with a hard "g," and rhymes with "canoe.")

Stallman's GNU project produced many of the higher-level functions of an operating system, but as the 1990s dawned he had still not yet


gotten down to the "kernel" --the lower-level functions that interact most directly with the hardware. Serendipitously, in 1991 a 19-year-old Finnish college student named Linus (pronounced "LEE-nus") Torvalds independently began composing his own operating system. Unlike Stallman, Torvalds began at the lowest levels. ("Lowest" in this culture is not pejorative but laudatory. The closer a developer gets to the machine, the greater the respect to which he or she is entitled.)

Torvalds posted his work-in-progress on the Internet, inviting comment. To his surprise, his posting garnered considerable interest, as well as insightful suggestions from sophisticated developers around the world. From that point forward the project proceeded quickly and communally, with Torvalds or his delegates making the final determinations about which suggestions to incorporate. Many open-source enthusiasts believe that this1995. In May 2001, Caldera's Love bought those Unix assets from Santa Cruz. He bought the Santa Cruz name too, announcing that Caldera would become the SCO Group in summer 2002.

Meanwhile, the tech economy was falling apart, throwing the company into turmoil. In addition, in 2001 IBM suddenly withdrew from a joint venture with Santa Cruz--known as Project Monterey--that Caldera had banked on as an important revenue source.

In June 2002, Love was replaced as CEO by Darl McBride, a former Novell executive who had been selected because of his expertise in marketing through a reselling channel. McBride had opened Novell's Japan operation in 1990--he speaks fluent Japanese, which he learned on a Mormon mission during college--and had taken that unit to $150 million in revenues in about three


partners, he recalls, like Oracle, HP, and Red Hat. "The reactions were neutral to positive," McBride claims. "Except in IBM's case. Which was a violent reaction. Their response back to me was very simple: We cannot let customers even have an inkling that there might be intellectual-property problems inside of Linux. For any reason."

With tension between SCO and IBM rising--IBM's withdrawal from Project Monterey was still a simmering issue--SCO announced the launch of the licensing unit at a LinuxWorld conference in January 2003. It also signed up the most credentialed litigator in America, David Boies, as the unit's enforcer. At the same conference Steve Mills, the head of IBM's software group, unwittingly exacerbated tensions in his exuberant keynote. According to one news account, Mills stated that while Linuxthen thought it was--a sale by Novell to Santa Cruz of Novell's "Unix business" and "Unix intellectual property," as the companies' joint press release described it at the time. Nevertheless--and at least in part because the smallish Santa Cruz could not have afforded the Unix business otherwise--the actual contract specifies that Novell is to continue to receive 95% of the royalty income from the existing Unix licenses, and that it retains veto power over the enforcement of those licenses. (The contract anticipates that Santa Cruz would eventually release a next-generation Unix, whose royalties would be entirely its own.) What the contract leaves unclear is whether Novell's veto power also extends to the non-royalty-yielding source-code licenses, including the one that now forms the crux of SCO's case against IBM.

The


Corinne Olympios
is requesting the tapes from the alleged "Bachelor in Paradise"
scandal that has made news recently.

"Corinne hasn't seen the tapes," the contestant's publicist
Stan Rosenfield told The Hollywood
Reporter. "We just want to find out what
happened and get to the bottom of it."

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THR reports that Marty Singer, Olympios' high-powered
attorney, has sent a letter to "Bachelor in Paradise" producer
Warner Bros. demanding that it release the tapes to his
client.

According to sources
close to the production, Olympios was engaged in sexual acts
with fellow cast member DeMario Jackson while taping the show
last week. Show sources have alleged that she was too intoxicated
to give consent. Warner launched an investigation into the
situation and suspended production on the show after a producer
filed a complaint.

Olympios said in a statement on Wednesday that she had very
little memory of what occurredA portion of the dado is in place, and the Vision of place in the Siege Perilous is well advanced. The
the Holy Grail, the cartoon for which is reproduced former we hope to find exhibited at the forthcoming
on page 222 by kind permission of Messrs. George Arts and Crafts Exhibition.

Bell & Son (from " Edward Burne-Jones, a Record The tables and chairs, the buffet (not shown),
and Review "), is just completed. and the dining hatch, deserve special notice, while

This panel will hang on the wall not shown in the carpet is perhaps the most noteworthy item in
the illustration, and is planned to allow for a door- a splendid room, since it is one of Mr. Morris's
head in the extreme right of the composition, most successful designs and large


enough to ex-
Another, representing a party seated at the banquet- hort admiration on that ground alone. The ceiling,
ing board, The Arrival of Sir Galahad to take his in delicately moulded plaster, also commands atten-
tion, and yet keeps its right place. The
painted ceilings, both in the entrance hall
and staircase deserve study, not because
they are 'hand-painted,' but because of
their beautiful forms and dainty colours.
The delicate tones, like those of embroi-
dery on old white silk, are in shades
of pinks, purples, tender greens, and
spring yellows, on a pale creamy
ground, the whole bright yet light
and with an aerial effect not kept
in the photographs wherein the
pattern seems to bring the roof
down, a result entirely absent in the
originals. This lightness of the
ceilings and carpets with the un-
touched oak of much of the
panelling and furniture, givesan
air of gaiety without vulgarity,
most unusual in work of this
' school. On the walls of the ves-
tibule a delicate pattern in printed
silk and linen, and in the draw-
ing-room a rich warm silk tapes-
try, unite in preserving the same
harmony of sumptuous decoration
kept within proper proportion.
One has but to compare "Stan-
more Hall " with houses of equally
elaborate adornment to feel that in
this respect it has no rival. The
large ornament and bold forms Mr.
Morris delights in, prove their power
to blend into a perfect whole, elabo-
rate but in no way overwhelming.
The modelled ceiling in the vesti-
bule, and several others in the house, are
left in pure low-toned white, so that their
rich decoration keeps its place. The
staircase with its solid balustrade of oak
inlaid with dark walnut, is an important
feature of the central hall. The


of securing funds and international outreach. The following year, the group Aswat: Palestinian Gay Women was founded as part of an independent project within the Palestinian feminist organization Kayan in Haifa.

In 2007, activists broke away from the Jerusalem Open House and established Al-Qaws, a group campaigning for “sexual and gender diversity” in Palestinian society.

This move reflected a political development in Palestinian society more generally. Rather than working within Israeli organizations, the activists became more politicized and independent.

Haneen Maikey, the director of Al-Qaws, said in an interview with The Electronic Intifada: “During the Oslo years [the time period following the 1993 signing of the Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization] a lot of Palestinian organizations or committees followed the process of either being twinned with orPrince Charles has sparked an angry reaction from academics and sceptics after becoming a patron of the Faculty of Homeopathy (FoH).

The faculty, which regulates education, training and practice of homeopathy, announced the appointment on Monday to mark its 175th anniversary.

It said it was "delighted" at the "enormous honour" to name The Prince of Wales a patron, who has long been a vocal supporter of the branch of alternative medicine.

But a number of people, including medical professionals, have since criticised the appointment, with one calling it "obscene".

Edzard Ernst, an emeritus professor at the University of Exeter who specialises in alternative and complementary medicine, said the appointment showed the prince was a "promoter of quackery" and "an enemy of progress in healthcare".

He said: "From the perspective of the FoH, the


Growing, selling, smoking weed now legal in Uruguay

A roar of applause rang out from the Uruguayan Senate Tuesday after a bill was passed to legalise growing, buying, selling and smoking weed.
The bill allows citizens over the age of 18 to buy (40 grams) 1.4 ounces of marijuana per month from licensed pharmacies.
Citizens will also be able to grow six marijuana plants in their homes per year.
Although other countries have decriminalised marijuana possession, Uruguay is the first nation to legalise the whole chain of growing the plant to selling and buying it's leaves.
Uruguay is one of the safest countries in Latin American and one of the most liberal. The new law is being considered a social experiment and is being watched closely by other countries considering the legalisation issue.

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and fire departments, as well.

The governor is committed to changing the property tax rate and the growth in the property tax rate in the state, she said. The governor knows that property taxes are out of line.

She said the state is also committed to holding tax increases to below the 2 percent threshold.

Theres nothing the governors asking anybody to do that he hasnt done at the state level, Ms. Scozzafava said.

She said the governors budget includes money to promote tourism in the Adirondacks and on the Tug Hill, including an advertising campaign that she recently saw on television while visiting New York City that touts Tug Hill.

In my experience, there has not been a governor that is this committed to the north country economy, she said. Hes madeso constructed that the paint blow-out hole and air blow-out hole are opened out in the outer surfaces of the atomizing head and a liquid-state paint is blown out from the paint nozzle and is atomized and dispersed with another paint flow blown out as diffused mixture around the liquid-state paint flow. These spray guns utilize a suction power, that is, a negative pressure, of the compressed air for blowing out the paint. In other words, the paint is blown out under a pressure of several kgf/cm.sup.2 by means of a supply unit such as a pump and the paint will not be atomized just by the paint blow-out alone. The compressed air is used as energy for atomizing the paint. Usually an air pressure of about 2


in a single month. Ten years later in Silver Lake, Colorado, an astounding 6.3 feet of snow got dumped on the small town in 24 hours—another record amount.

In just a few weeks, the 2018 Winter Olympics will commence in PyeongChang, South Korea. Did you know the only person to ever earn a gold medal in both the winter and summer Olympics was an American? Eddie Eagan was both a light-heavyweight boxing champ (1920 in Antwerp, Belgium) and a member of the four-man bobsled team that took the top prize in Lake Placid, New York in 1932.

Who do we have to thank for curling (you know, the sport with the brooms)? That would be Scotland, where it originated in the 16th century.

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Our longest standing project, and the inspiration for our organisation, is based in the Olt region of Romania, in the towns of Slatina, Caracal and Cezieni. We also work in the rural areas surrounding the town of Bacau in Romania, in a slum in Hyderabad in India and most recently in Pleven, Bulgaria. Whilst these places are all extremely different in history and current status, each have their own individual


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Introduction

The 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee lineup features two new models, the luxurious Overland and the high-performance SRT8. The Grand Cherokee was completely redesigned for 2005, and is bigger, more modern, and more powerful than previous versions of this iconic, midsize SUV.

The edgy, angular body is devoid of cladding and is proportioned differently from earlier Jeeps. It looks new and contemporary, but people instantly recognize it as a Grand Cherokee.

Interior materials are dramatically improved over the previous generation's, which left much to be desired. The atmosphere inside the latest Grand Cherokee is light, comfortable, and more enveloping than the previous model; from the driver's perspective it's more bolted in than hanging on, with lots of seat adjustment, excellent outward vision around relatively slim windshield posts, and with all thebuilt in 1903, the Overland automobile was the earliest ancestor of the Willys. Willys played an instrumental role in the development and production of the World War II-era Jeep, but was also the first automaker to seriously envision a civilian market for a military-style utility vehicle. The Willys Jeep debuted in 1946 and had its name shortened to just-plain Jeep in the early 1960s. Although the Jeep brand has passed through several owners since then, its lineage remains unbroken.

The SRT8 has a monochrome look all its own, relieved by bright accents at the belt level and bodyside and accented by enormous five-spoke, 20-inch forged aluminum wheels. Functional air ducts in its more bluff front bumper fascia improve brake cooling. The rear bumper is cut out to accommodate dual


four-inch exhaust tips, and the extended side sills are claimed to enhance downforce. SRT8 is available only in Bright Silver, Brilliant Black or Inferno Red. It looks hot, very sporty. Our silver 2006 SRT8 drew a lot of admiring glances when we drove it around Los Angeles, a place where vehicles don't garner attention easily. When we pulled up to a posh restaurant, the valets insisted in posing it in front, a position usually reserved for Ferraris and such.

Interior Features

The Grand Cherokee interior was completely redesigned, beginning with the 2005 models, and it's significantly improved. The two-tone, dark-over-light-over-dark instrument panel and door trims; vinyl grains; and materials and finishes are generally much richer and better looking than in the previous generation. That's good because the previous generation wasn'tas required by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, to consider and give effect to the substantial mitigating evidence that Motley was abused as a child.  Accordingly, we reverse the district court's decision denying the writ.

I. BACKGROUND

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On the morning of July 22, 1984, Maria Duran left her home to drive to a friend's apartment to go swimming.  She never arrived.  Duran's family called the police, who began investigating her disappearance.

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Seven days later, on July 29, 1984, the police arrested Jeffrey Motley as he was driving Duran's car.  A search of the car uncovered a sawed-off shotgun, a number of shotgun shells, and a hunting knife.  Police also discovered traces of human blood on the spare tire in the trunk of Duran's car and on


one of the tennis shoes that Motley was wearing.  Duran's credit cards, driver's license, and social security card were found in a trash bin near the apartment complex where Motley was arrested.

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On August 1, 1984, three days after Motley's arrest, police found Duran's body in a field.  There were some signs that Duran had been sexually assaulted,1 but the evidence was ultimately found to be inconclusive.  The cause of death, according to the medical examiner, was a gunshot wound in the back.  Investigators could not determine, however, whether the shotgun slug that killed Duran was fired from the shotgun found in Duran's car.

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Based on the evidence found in Duran's car at the time Motley was arrested, as well as other circumstantial evidence linking Motleyabuse qualifies as constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence rather than "vacuous sentimentality," as the district court deemed it.  Finally, we discuss the extent to which the evidence of child abuse was beyond the "effective reach" of jurors.

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a. Was Motley's Penry claim properly preserved for habeas

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review?

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At the punishment phase of trial, Motley testified that his father began physically abusing him when he was about four or five years old.  Motley recounted one instance when his father beat him until he was "bloody, all over."   On this occasion, Motley recalled, his father "had to put me in a tub of ice to stop the bleeding."   Motley also stated that his father used his head as a battering ram and, on more than one occasion, slammed


his head between doors.  Other instruments of abuse included:  "belt buckles in the face" and a boxed-in wrench, which his father used to hit Motley "everywhere he could hit."

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According to Motley, the abuse by his father did not stop at beatings;  it also included sexual and psychological abuse.  Indeed, Motley testified that his father had anal and oral sex with him until he was about thirteen.  Although Motley could not recall the number of times his father sexually abused him, he stated that the sexual abuse stopped after his mother threatened to divorce his father.  Motley also recounted an incident in which he was punished for not cleaning out his gerbil cage.  He stated that his father took his gerbils outand "squashed them" to death in front of him.

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Nor was Motley's father the only abuser.  His mother often failed to protect him and, on at least one occasion, physically assaulted him herself.  Motley specifically recalled an instance where his mother came up behind him with a pool stick and "whacked" him in the back of the head.  When he turned around, Motley further recalled, he "got whacked in the mouth."   At the punishment phase of trial, Motley pointed to the F-shaped scar on his face which, he contended, was the result of being hit with a pool stick.

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Motley's stories of abuse were corroborated by his neighbors, the Howells, who had known Motley since he was three.  Margaret Howell recalled that, when Motley


was about eight, he spent the night out on a busy highway;  she knew this because her son picked Motley up the next morning and brought him to her home.  She also remembered Motley being locked out of his home "on one of the bitterest [winter] nights."   On one winter day, she continued, she saw Motley being hosed down with cold water by his father in the yard.  She further testified that, on numerous occasions, Motley came to her house bruised and bleeding, and that she gave him food and shelter.  Mrs. Howell concluded, "He has had a hell of a life."   Mrs. Howell's husband, Douglas, also recalled seeing evidence that Motley was being abused.  He stated that, althoughabuse "cannot explain his actions, which were inconsistent with Fason's expert opinion."   According to the State:

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Fason testified that victims of child abuse react with fear and terror and lash out at perceived threats against them.  As confirmed by the trial court's findings on state habeas, ... those effects do not correlate with Motley's relevant behavior....  The facts of Motley's crime belie the argument that he reflexively lashed out at a helpless individual because he was feeling the rage and terror he experienced when he allegedly was abused as a child.  Because Motley's evidence provided no reason for a jury to conclude that he was less responsible for his conduct than the average person, it certainly was not probative of a reduced culpability beyond


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in a mate.(Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 21: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry are spearheading a new campaign called Heads Together in partnership with inspiring charities, which aims to change the national conversation on mental wellbeing.The campaign has the huge privilege of being the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon Charity of the Year. The 31-year-old royal sparked romance rumors with another hot young star.

This time, it's 29-year-old pop star Ellie Goulding.SEE ALSO: Kourtney Kardashian hangs out with 'long lost twin' Lindsay Lohan in London The pair attended a polo event the other day and were reportedly seen "canoodling" throughout the day.might not necessarily be indicative of future sales.

Battlefield 1 launches on October 21, though people with an EA/Origin Access membership or those who pick up the deluxe edition can get in on October 18. Additionally, a beta will be held sometime before launch.

In other news about the game, EA will broadcast a livestream of a 64-player match at E3 2016 as part of the company's EA Play event.


The most famous of Ungoliant's children, though, lived far to the south and east of the Ered Gorgoroth, on the borders of the land of [[Mordor]]. This was [[Shelob]], who haunted a network of tunnels watching the pass of [[Cirith Ungol]], eking a living on the hapless [[Orcs]] of [[Sauron]]. She had offspring of her own, too, smaller than she but with a cruel intelligence, that spread throughout the [[Ephel Dúath]] and north into [[Mirkwood]]. It was creatures like these that [[Bilbo Baggins]] encountered in [[The Hobbit]], and through fighting them that his sword acquired its name [[Sting]].

The most famous of Ungoliant's children, though, lived far to the south and east of the Ered Gorgoroth, on the borders of the land of [[Mordor]]. This was [[Shelob]], who hauntedthe years before the First Age. A gigantic creature of spider-shape, it was she who destroyed the Two Trees of Valinor, and escaped with Melkor into the lands of Middle-earth. Though Ungoliant herself disappeared into the far south, she left the northern lands infested with her offspring. During the First Age, the mountains of the Ered Gorgoroth were infested with these monsters, and became a place of dread.

The most famous of Ungoliant's children, though, lived far to the south and east of the Ered Gorgoroth, on the borders of the land of Mordor. This was Shelob, who haunted a network of tunnels watching the pass of Cirith Ungol, eking a living on the hapless Orcs of Sauron. She had offspring of her own, too, smaller than she but


with a cruel intelligence, that spread throughout the Ephel Dúath and north into Mirkwood. It was creatures like these that Bilbo Baggins encountered in The Hobbit, and through fighting them that his sword acquired its name Sting.

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In Gnomish, one of Tolkien's early conceptions of an Elven language, the word for "spider" is cing or cingwin.[1]

Inspiration

A common myth is that Tolkien was bitten by a spider when he was young and this fueled his hatred for the species in his works, this is proven inaccurate through the below quotes:

"...when Ronald [Tolkien] was beginning to walk, he stumbled on a tarantula. It bit him, and he ran in terror across the garden until the nurse snatched him up and sucked out the poison. When he grew up he could rememberyears ago. At the time of the recovery, ZDNet UK reported that "the date 19 September, 1982, is now likely to join the lexicon of other significant dates in the information revolution." And sure enough, the fanfare for the 25th anniversary has been ample. Despite the significance of Fahlman's world-changing combination of three punctuation marks, there were actually a few predecessors in earlier decades, proto-emoticons if you will.

First of all, Fahlman should properly be credited for devising the earliest known ASCII smiley, since in the 1970s users of the PLATO message board (among the first of its kind) concocted a whole range of smileys by overstriking characters. But emoticon-like symbols also turned up from time to time before the age of online communication. Urban legend debunker Barbara Mikkelson


had thought that Bierce's suggested punctuation looked like this: \___/. That's how it appears in a footnote to Andrew Graham's online essay, "Forked Tongue: The Language of Serpent in the Enlarged Devil's Dictionary of Ambrose Bierce," as well as the Wikipedia entry on emoticons. It's interesting to discover that the parenthesis-as-smile representation actually goes back 120 years. (In Ambrose Bierce's Civilians and Soldiers in Context: A Critical Study, Donald T. Blume dates this essay to September 25, 1887, but the version published in the 1912 collection may have been subsequently revised.)

So as we celebrate Fahlman's baptismal smiley, let's also pay homage to Bierce's "snigger point or note of cachinnation." (The OED defines cachinnation as "loud or immoderate laughter" — for the kids that would translate to LOL orMORE to BROWSE - Pages that might be of Interest

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Robert Cronin, who is studying at Birkbeck University London UK (I did my half-degree there!) has offered these thoughts about the recent mass grave of Viking skeletons found in Dorset.

Fifty one beheaded bodies and skulls were found at Weymouth, Dorset, England in July 2009. They were carbon dated to c.910-c.1030 and water tests on ten sets of teeth revealed they came from a wide range of area in Scandinavia. One set of teeth came from north of the Arctic Circle, which means this person was not a Norseman, but probably one of the Saami or Finn Reindeer nomads and herders. These people were fantastic archers, which is perhaps why he was a member of the Viking crew.
Saami's


just before dawn of Friday 13th November 1002 - otherwise known as the 'St. Brice's Day Massacre'.

The reason being that Pallig (married to Swegn of Denmark's sister) the commander of the mercenaries, was plotting to take the English throne, but were pre-emptied by the English. (See the Anglo Saxon Chronicles and William of Malmsbury for more details.) There were other massacres in Oxford and probably two Viking armies in winter quarters, under a peace treaty were wiped out in the same ordered massacre in London and another place in Essex or East Anglia.

[N.B. from Helen: Æthelred ordered all the Danish settled in England to be slaughtered. We do not know why, obviously some political or treacherous reason was behind it. In most places the order was ignored: Oxford,TV down the street and asked the man if he needed help. He then recognized the television as his own, looked up and saw the door to his home ajar, said Master Sgt. Adam Ringle.

#3 Shocking video has surfaced of a young thug walking up to a defenseless elderly man in a Chicago subway station and knocking him out cold. In the video, the friends of the young man are cheering him on and laughing at how easy it was to knock the old man out cold.

#4 Beating up old people for no reason seems to be catching on all over the country. Just check out the following report from a recent article posted on philly.com….

AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young punks during a walk


gangs members.

#22 Be careful who you befriend online. They might just hold you captive and use you as part of a Satanic sex ritual. The following description of an incident that recently happened in Milwaukee comes from thesmokinggun.com….

Two young Milwaukee women were arrested this week after an 18-year-old Arizona man–who traveled to Wisconsin by bus after meeting one of the suspects online–told cops that he was held captive in the duo’s apartment for two days and slashed and stabbed more than 300 times as part of an apparent satanic sex ritual.

Anger and frustration are growing to unprecedented levels in this country, and all of this anger and frustration is manifesting in thousands of different ways.

As I have written about previously, the rioting, the crime and the violence thatOnly two weeks left to Double your gift

You may have noticed it’s been a hot summer so far. June temperatures were above average across the world, and both NASA and NOAA ranked the month among the top five warmest since record keeping began in the late 1800s.

Not surprisingly, snow extent in the Northern Hemisphere was at its third-lowest on record by June. But what makes the current paltry snow cover more significant is the fact that, just a few months ago, the Northern Hemisphere was unusually snowy — April 2013 had the ninth-highest snow extent since 1967. A month later, half that snow had melted away. The Washington Post reports:

“This is likely one of the most rapid shifts in near opposite extremes on record, if not the largest


secondary somatosensory cortex (SII), the retroinsular cortex (Ri), and the granular insula (Ig). In the border region of the areas 2 and 7ant, labelled neurons appeared after injections into both the PIVC and the area 3aV. This region is presumably the homologue to the vestibular area 2v of the macaque brain. In all regions cells within the contralateral cortex were less frequently labelled than cells in the homologous structures of the ipsilateral hemisphere. The cortical system for processing vestibular information about head-in-space movement consists mainly of the reciprocally interconnected areas PIVC and 3aV, and most likely of border regions of area 2 and 7ant. This "inner cortical vestibular circuit" also receives signals from two other cortical sensory systems, the somatosensory-proprioceptive system mediated by the primary somatosensory cortex andDavid Cameron will today call for sanctions against Burma to be eased if the country continues to pursue its path towards democracy.

On the final leg of his tour of Japan and South-east Asia, the Prime Minister will become the first premier of a leading Western country to visit Burma since military rule, imposed in 1962, was relaxed last year.

He will hold talks with Aung San Suu Kyi, the revered opposition leader who spent two decades mostly under house arrest before being elected an MP this month.

He will also meet Thein Sein, the Burmese President, and praise his drive to introduce democratic reforms. Yesterday the Prime Minister said he wanted to see for himself what is happening in Burma before making any decision on sanctions. But it looks increasingly