Though in later life Botticelli was influenced by the puritanical preachings of Savonarola and took to cranking out boring Madonnas, the young painter began in grand pagan style. Both paintings were commissioned between 1477 and 1483 by a Medici cousin for his private villa, and they celebrate not only Renaissance art's love of naturalism but also the humanist philosophy permeating 15th-century Florence, a neo-Platonism that united religious doctrine with ancient ideology and mythological stories.

In the Birth of Venus, the love goddess is born of the sea on a half shell, blown to shore by the Zephyrs. Ores, a goddess of the seasons, rushes to clothe her. Some say the long-legged goddess was modeled on Simonetta Vespucci, a renowned Florentine beauty, cousin to Amerigo (the naval explorer after whomAmerica is named) and not-so-secret lover of Giuliano de' Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent's brother. The Primavera is harder to evaluate, since contemporary research indicates it may not actually be an allegory of spring influenced by the humanist poetry of Poliziano but rather a celebration of Venus, who stands in the center, surrounded by various complicated references to Virtues through mythological characters. Also check out Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi, where the artist painted himself in the far right side, in a great yellow robe and golden curls.

Room 15 boasts Leonardo da Vinci's Annunciation, which the young artist painted in 1472 or 1475 while still in the workshop of his master, Andrea del Verrocchio; however, he was already fully developed as an artist. The solid yet light figures and


sfumato airiness blurring the distance render remarkably lifelike figures somehow suspended in a surreal dreamscape; view it from the lower-right to appreciate his mastery of perspective. Leonardo helped Verrocchio on the Baptism of Christ -- most credit the artist-in-training with the angel on the far left as well as the landscape, and a few art historians think they see his hand in the figure of Jesus as well. The Adoration of the Magi, on which Leonardo didn't get much beyond the sketching stage, shows how he could retain powerful compositions even when creating a fantasy landscape of ruinous architecture and incongruous horse battles. The room also houses a Pietà that shows Perugino's solid plastic style of studied simplicity. (This Umbrian master would later pass it on to hispupil Raphael.)

Alas, visitors are no longer permitted in room 18, the Tribune, where mother-of-pearl discs line a domed ceiling; antique statues, such as the famous Medici Venus (a 1st-c.-B.C. Roman copy of a Greek original), are housed; and Medici portraits wallpaper the room. The latter include many by the talented early baroque artist Agnolo Bronzino, whose portrait of Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, with their son Giovanni de' Medici (1545), is particularly well worked. It shows her in a satin dress embroidered and sewn with velvet and pearls. When the Medici tombs were opened in 1857, her body was found buried in this same dress.

Room 19 is devoted to both Perugino, who did the luminous Portrait of Francesco delle Opere (1494), and Luca Signorelli, whose Holy


Family (1490-95) was painted as a tondo set in a rectangle, with allegorical figures in the background and a torsion of the figures that were to influence Michelangelo's version (in a later room). Room 20 is devoted to Dürer, Cranach, and other German artists who worked in Florence, while room 21 takes care of 16th-century Venetians Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, and Carpaccio. In room 22 are Flemish and German works by Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans Memling, and others, and room 23 contains Andrea Mantegna's triptych of the Adoration of the Magi, Circumcision, and Ascensio (1463-70), showing his excellent draftsmanship and fascination with classical architecture. Room 25 is overpowered by Michelangelo's Holy Family (1506-08), one of the few panel paintings by the master. The glowing colors and shocking nudesin the background seem to pop off the surface, and the torsion of the figures was to be taken up as the banner of the Mannerist movement. Michelangelo also designed the elaborate frame.

Room 26 is devoted to Andrea del Sarto and High Renaissance darling Raphael. Of Raphael we have the Madonna of the Goldfinch (1505), a work he painted in a Leonardesque style for a friend's wedding, more vivid than ever after a 2009 restoration. Also here are important portraits including Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi and Pope Julius II, as well as a famous Self-Portrait. Del Sarto was the most important painter in Florence in the early 16th century, while Michelangelo and Raphael were in Rome. His consciously developed Mannerist


the Madonna of the Long Neck (1534). Room 31 continues to chart the fall of painting into decorative grace with Paolo Veronese's Martyrdom of St. Justine (1573), which is less about the saint being stabbed than it is a sartorial study in fashion design.

Room 32 is a nice break provided by the dramatic and visible brush strokes that boldly swirled rich, somber colors of several lesser works by Venetian master Tintoretto. All the better, as these must see you through the treacle and tripe of rooms 33 to 34, stuffed with substandard examples of 16th-century paintings by the likes of Vasari, Alessandro Allori, and other chaps who grew up in Michelangelo's shadow and desperately wished they could paint like him. (Note: They couldn't.)

Room 35 features the taffeta, cotton-candycatch a new angle on the Palazzo Vecchio's façade.

Downstairs is a space used to house temporary exhibitions that, at their best, provide some added context to the permanent collection, but at worst are just a way to slap a few more euros onto your entrance fee. However, it's certainly worth visiting the space devoted to Caravaggio and the Caravaggeschi. Caravaggio was the baroque master of chiaroscuro -- painting with extreme harsh light and deep shadows. The Uffizi preserves his painting of the severed head of Medusa, a Sacrifice of Isaac, and his famous Bacchus. Caravaggio's work influenced a generation of artists -- the Caravaggeschi (painters who followed his style) included Artemisia Gentileschi, the only female painter to make a name for herself in the early baroque. Artemisia was


eclipsed in fame by her less talented father, Orazio, and was the victim in a sensational rape trial brought against Orazio's one-time collaborator. It evidently affected her professional life; the violent Judith Slaying Holofernes is featured here, in all its gruesome detail.

The precise configurations of the other rooms here are in flux, but look out for other European students of Caravaggio, including Matthias Stomer, Francesco Rustici, Nicolas Regnier, and Guido Reni, perhaps best known for his collaboration with Annibale Carracci on the Farnese Palace in Rome, but also noted for his paintings betraying the influence of Caravaggio. His rendering of a triumphant David admiring the slain head of Goliath, upon your exit, is a fitting tribute to your conquest of this overwhelming gallery -- because that's it. Thedecreased from 55.6% in 1989 to 11.4% in 2007-09 (P < 0.001). In 2007-09, of 787 pregnancy-associated deaths, 254 were classified as maternal by the enhanced system and 211 by the death statistics; 34% of maternal deaths in the enhanced system were FNs in the death statistics, and 20% of maternal deaths in the death statistics were FPs. The hierarchy of causes of MM differed between the two systems. The discordances were mainly explained by the lack of precision in the drafting of death certificates by clinicians. Although the underestimation of MM in routine death statistics has decreased substantially over time, one third of maternal deaths remain unidentified, and the main causes of death are incorrectly identified in these data. Defining relevant priorities in maternal health requires the


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There are two churches in use in the parish today. Bulgaden
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road. Fr McNamara explained to us that this is because in the last century
the old road passed by the front of the church. The new road runs by the
back of the church. The large stained glass window behind the altar is
dedicated to the memory of Fr O'Clery.Right-hander Nao Higashihama threw five scoreless innings to lead the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to a 6-1 victory over the Chiba Lotte Marines in their final regular season game on Monday.

The Hawks finished the regular season second in the six-team Pacific League with an 82-60-1 record. They will face the third-place Nippon Ham Fighters when the first stage of the Climax Series opens on Saturday.

The Seibu Lions have clinched the league pennant, and the Marines sit in fifth place behind the Orix Buffaloes with three games remaining in the season.

In front of 29,806 at Zozo Marine Stadium, Higashihama (7-5) limited the Marines to six hits and a walk.

After pitching a perfect first inning, he surrendered a pair of hits and a walk to load the bases in the second


with one out. Higashihama, however, managed to strike out the next two batters to close the inning without any damage.

Alfredo Despaigne homered twice and drove in five runs against his former team. He opened the Hawks’ scoring with a first-inning, two-run home run off left-hander Seiya Dohi (2-1) to the left stands.

The hard-hitting Cuban, who joined the Hawks in 2017 after playing three seasons with the Marines, homered again in the third inning. A walk and a double put runners on second and third before Despaigne blasted his 29th homer of the season.

The Hawks scored another run in the fourth on catcher Takuya Kai’s RBI single.

Yoshifumi Okada, who had been hitless in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, had three hits as he closed the curtain on his 10-yearcareer. His last hit came in the Marines’ game against the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles on Oct. 4, 2016.

Hiromi Oka’s sixth-inning sacrifice fly drove in a run for Lotte, after Hawks reliever Shinya Kayama allowed a single and a walk.

Dohi pitched four innings and allowed six runs on seven hits and two walks.

CENTRAL LEAGUE

Swallows 6, Tigers 5

At Jingu Stadium, right-hander David Buchanan (10-11) limited Hanshin to a run on four hits and a walk over six innings and helped Yakult win its sixth straight game. The Tigers rallied late with a four-run eighth inning, but right-hander Taichi Ishiyama pitched a perfect ninth for his 35th save.

The Tigers lost their second straight and will finish bottom of the league for the first time in 17 years.


the first time on August 11, 2012. On August 16, 2012, he got his first hit of his MLB career. He finished the game 2 for 4 with a double.
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Was Pelosi a central figure in stopping the repeal of Obamacare once Republicans won the House (and eventually the Senate and presidency)? Maybe. But remember that repeal actually passed the House, because ultimately,


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alienage and illegal entry, and then they were arrested for being aliens unlawfully in the United States, and transported to San Francisco.

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Petitioners and fifteen other arrested workers, retained Mr. Douglas Haffer as counsel. At their first meeting, lasting approximately thirty minutes, Haffer allegedly did not interview any of the aliens individually nor did he elicit from them as a group any information about their arrests. He did circulate a piece of paper to get names, addresses, phone numbers, and hearing dates. He also allegedly said he would file a motion to suppress and claimed that if he lost this motion, he would appeal it all the way to the Ninth Circuit. At a second meeting, lasting about forty-five minutes, Haffer did not individually interview his clients, but allegedlysuppression motion would not be successful and that the best he could get for them was an extended period of voluntary departure. Petitioners claim that Haffer refused to pursue an appeal for four of the aliens who wanted to appeal unless it was joined by all those he was representing. He allegedly told them that they risked immediate deportation and the loss of their jobs if they did not accept the offer of extended voluntary departure. After consulting with all the petitioners, Haffer told the judge he would request voluntary departure.

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CHANDIGARH: A 37-year-old

man, who was mercilessly thrashed and forced to

in

's Sangrur district, succumbed to his injuries Saturday morning at a hospital here, police said.

"He succumbed to his injuries at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER)," Sangrur senior superintendent of police Sandeep Garg said.

He was admitted to PGIMER and his legs were amputated.

Garg said section 302 (murder) of the IPC has been added to the FIR registered in this matter.

The dalit man, a resident of Changaliwala village, had an altercation with Rinku and some other persons on October 21 but the matter was resolved with the intervention of villagers.

He had told police that on November 7, Rinku called him to his house and they discussed the matter. The man had alleged that he was thenthrashed by four persons after being tied to a pillar and when he asked for water, he was forced to drink urine.

Four persons were arrested on the charges of abduction, wrongful confinement, and under various sections of the IPC, and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act at the Lehra police station in Sangrur, police said.

Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission has also sought a report from Sangrur senior superintendent of police over the incident.

Chairperson Tejinder Kaur on Friday said the commission learnt about the incident through media reports and took suo motu cognisance and sought the report.


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are not white--as compared to the natural "reason" and capacity for "critical thinking", "objectivity" and "rigor" which supposedly comes with being white and male.

It is also important to highlight the raw truth: many members of the white public are invested in white on black and brown police brutality and violence because of both their implicit, as well as overt biases against people of color.

Moreover, even when "habeas corpus" is, quite literally in these instances, in effect, where an unarmed or otherwise innocent black or brown person has been killed by the police or other white identified street vigilantes, and the events are recorded, white racial paranoia still finds a way to twist those events into a bizarre lie of a scenario in which the victim somehow provoked theirown murder or abuse.

Eric Garner was killed by police and it was recorded on video. John Crawford III was killed by the police on video. Levar Jones was shot by police on video. And we cannot forget the recent recordings of a police officer beating a black woman MMA style on the side of the highway, throwing pregnant women on the ground, attacking street vendors, and the many other examples of police thuggery against unarmed, innocent people.

Life in a white supremacist society exacts a high cost on the mental well-being, sanity, and overall health of non-whites. In such a culture, one of the most exhausting experiences is when white folks "discover" a truth that people of color have long known and communicated.

When white folks are surprised or shocked


in Canada, there might be some racism, but not the long, centuries old racism to its own citizens. Tariq is also correct that a great way for a younger person to get out and travel to another country is to teach English abroad. College grads, with huge debt and no opportunity for a job here in the U.S. can do very well in India, Japan or China. Everyone outside of the U.S. wants to learn English. I know of a UWSP graduate who went to China. Within two years, he was able to pay his entire student debt. My sister-in-law, from Taiwan, studied English with a private tutor before coming to the U.S. She said that her family paid $125.00-USD per hour for her English language studies. Shemaintenance of morale and morality requires that we feel good about ourselves and regard our society as just. In the extreme, this panglossian attitude holds that this is the best of all possible worlds, everything happens out of absolute necessity and for the best. It has produced to a high degree of mass schizophrenia as folks try to put a happy face on the general demoralization.

Even though this country has a long history of anti-black violence and non segregation, the lifestyle of integrating came with punishment. White communities that were casually and actively integrating with Black citizens in churches, shopping districts, schools and neighborhoods, were confronted with violence by other white neighbors. I have experiences of being stopped and harassed by other white women while being with black


remember how pissed they were at me when I scolded them harshly about running around outside with these toys. My oldest son, at the age of fourteen, could pass for an adult (at least in the eyes of a nervous white racist)... I told them if they ran around outside with these realistic-looking weapons, a neighbor would call the cops, and they'd be shot on sight. They were PISSED at me, and probably feel resentment to this day. But they're alive.

Years later, I was driving with my youngest son when he was a high school senior. We passed a town police car coming toward us in the opposite direction. I could see him through his dashboard. He raised his hand, and with his thumb and forefinger, made aBurton and Rathod have been making music together for the past few years. Originally from the UK, the pair specialise in a deep and minimalist form of house that often features the added touch of Radhod's vocals. To date, they've released just a handful of collaborative 12-inches, the most recent being February's The Flip Side EP. As a solo artist, Burton's production history goes back to the late '00s, having put music to wax for labels like Fear Of Flying, Retrofit and Leftroom. The forthcoming EP sees the Brits venture outside the club-oriented 4/4 territory they've spent much of their career working within. It's due for release in late October, with samples available now over at Burton's SoundCloud page.


strange look and responded, "Work in the fields? Senator, I'm a house n****r."

Following Maher's use of the slur, outrage broke out on social media with some calling for the host to lose his job.

Maher spoke with Dyson on the subject in an interview that lasted roughly 15 minutes.

Related: Bill Maher apologizes for using racial slur during 'Real Time' interview

"We're all evolving at the pace of day by day," Maher said.

The comedian made it known that the use of the word was "wrong" and that it was "a mistake" comparing it to a quarterback throwing an interception.

"This was just a mistake," he said. "This was just a dumb interception."

Later in the show, rapper and actor Ice Cube told Maher that the word is "like a knife" in that ita strong emotion in
a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that
woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us
away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred
interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of
his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while
Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul,
remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books,
and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the
drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He
was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and


occupied
his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in
following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had
been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I
heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the
case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy
of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission
which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the
reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however,
which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew
little of my former friend and companion.

One night—it was on the twentieth of March, 1888—I was returning
from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice),
when myway led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered
door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and
with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a
keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his
extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I
looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette
against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his
head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who
knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own
story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created dreams
and was hot upon the scent of some


had not yet
returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly
after eight o’clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, however,
with the intention of awaiting him, however long he might be. I was
already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded
by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the
two crimes which I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case
and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own.
Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had
on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation, and
his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study
his system of work, and to follow the quick,avenue. It was a smart little landau which rattled up
to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the loafing men at
the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a
copper, but was elbowed away by another loafer, who had rushed up with
the same intention. A fierce quarrel broke out, which was increased by
the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the
scissors-grinder, who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was
struck, and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage,
was the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who
struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes dashed
into the crowd to protect the lady; but, just


house more precious to her than what we are in quest of. She would
rush to secure it. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and
shouting were enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded
beautifully. The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just
above the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a
glimpse of it as she half drew it out. When I cried out that it was a
false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed from the
room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making my excuses,
escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to attempt to secure the
photograph at once; but the coachman had come in, and as he was watching
me narrowly, it seemed saferStreetscapes/Astor Row on West 130th; In Harlem, Restoration of Rowhouses at Mid-Stage

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY

Published: October 9, 1994

THE New York Landmarks Conservancy's restoration of Astor Row, the little brick houses at 8 to 62 West 130th Street, is now at a middle stage, with some houses still almost derelict, some in mid-restoration and some completed.

But this half-done phase helps make it interesting, and a trip to one of the most memorable blocks in the city will repay anyone who makes the journey.

The Astor Estate, worth $80 million in the mid-1870's, began a particularly aggressive building program in 1878, eventually putting up structures like the old Waldorf-Astoria, the St. Regis and other big buildings. But it also built more modestly, and from 1880-1883 William Astor built 28 brick rowhouses for


investment at 8 to 62 West 130th Street, designed by Charles Buek.

In 1883 The Real Estate Chronicle described them as "Philadelphia-style" and they are unique in Manhattan -- 14 pairs of houses set back 20 feet from the street, three stories high, with wooden porches and recessed light courts partly separating each pair. The intelligence and ingenuity of their planning rebukes the standard high-stoop brownstones built across the street.

In 1920 the row was still sound but buffeted by changing conditions. A real estate collapse in Harlem around 1905 had given blacks their first toehold in the neighborhood, previously almost exclusively white.

The 1920 census shows that Astor Row's tenants were all white. But in late 1920 the Astor Estate, headed by the young Vincent Astor, announced that it wouldthe explanation, the 1925 census offers a picture of black life. At 12 West 130th Street, the occupants were Joseph Bushnell, a 50-year-old minister;, his wife, Effie; their five children, and three lodgers: Thelma Hatcher, a teacher, Charles Hamlet, a bellman, and his wife, Iva. All were American-born.

In 46 West 130th Street, occupied by a machinist, Allen Abramson, and his wife, Mary, and several roomers, most of the occupants had come to this country from St. Kitts, St. Thomas or the Barbados since 1905. The youngest Astor Row inhabitant recorded in 1925 was Marion Walton at 32 West 130th Street, 106 days old, daughter of Wilbert Walton, a West Indian electrician who had been in America since 1919.

Astor Row was pretty much forgotten by 1978, when the second


edition of the AIA Guide to New York City, by Norval White and Elliot Willensky, mourned the "restrained beauty which has been tarnished by years of economic distress," especially their fragile wooden porches, many of which were collapsing or had been removed.

IN 1981 the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the houses landmarks, but they continued their slide until 1990, when the New York Landmarks Conservancy began of one of the city's most unusual restoration projects.

Although the 28 houses are now mostly privately owned, some by occupants, some by investors, the Conservancy has collected $2.16 million for facade and interior repairs to 17 buildings. Of this money $375,000 is for low-interest loans, but the rest is outright grant money, about $100,000 per house.

Some are being restored by owner-occupants, some arebeing rebuilt into co-ops, and there's one "where we're still not sure who the homeowner is," says Peg Breen, president of the Conservancy. Later financing will cover other buildings, but the exterior work on most of the houses will be finished by 1995.

The project began in 1992, and now scaffolds and carpenters and other tradespeople dot Astor Row. The porch woodwork, originally painted in three different color combinations, is being repainted in a single uniform scheme of olive, white and gray.

The renovation has not been without problems, however. The Conservancy is prudently waiting to move ahead on houses that are still unoccupied. And it had a dispute with two homeowners over delays and financing.

Not many years ago there was something almost romantic for students of architecture discovering this


ignored, tumble-down row. But this same romance was killing Astor Row, and in this case the drama of the steady reclamation is just as exciting.

Photos: The house at 26 West 130th Street, part of Astor Row, in 1939. The houses, many almost derelict, are being restored today by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The project encompasses the buildings from 8 to 62 on the block just west of Fifth Avenue. (Office for Metropolitan History; Chris Maynard for The New York Times)design temperature, the mass flow of air through a turbine engine can be restricted by closing compressor inlet guide vanes (IGV), which act as a throttle at the inlet of a compressor for the gas turbine engine. When the IGVs are closed, the trailing edges of each of the vanes rotate closer to the surface of an adjacent vane, thereby effectively reducing the available throat area. Reducing the throat area reduces the flow of air which the first row of rotating blades can draw into the compressor. Lower flow to the compressor leads to a lower compressor pressure ratio being established in the turbine section of the engine. Consequently, the compressor exit temperature decreases because the compressor does not input as much energy into the incoming air. Also,


challenger, former Kazakh boxer and politician Serik Konakbayev, with 86 votes out of 134 valid ballots cast.

Rakhimov is on a U.S. Treasury Department sanctions list for alleged links to international heroin trafficking. The sanctions bar U.S. citizens and companies from doing business with him. He has denied wrongdoing.

The IOC said in a statement "there are issues of grave concern with AIBA regarding judging, finance, and the anti-doping programme, and with governance," including Rakhimov's election as president.

The Olympic committee added that AIBA will be on the agenda at the next executive board meeting in Tokyo, starting Nov. 30, and called for "a clear roadmap for long-term sustainable reform of the federation."

Speaking before the vote, Rakhimov -- who had served as AIBA's interim president since January -- sought to playthat, in one test, produced more votes than the official delegate count and had to be re-taken.

Organizers eventually resorted to hastily printed paper ballots and a makeshift voting booth made of tables and sheets.

The defeated candidate, Konakbayev, said he would form an opposition grouping.

"My team is reviewing the decision as well as the election process," Konakbayev said. "This is not the end but the start of a movement to reform the world governing body and save boxing. We will not give up the fight. Round 1 is over. The bell for Round 2 is chiming."

The U.S. Treasury alleged in 2012 that Rakhimov was "one of the leaders of Uzbek organized crime with a specialty in the organized production of drugs in the countries of Central Asia" and involved


in trafficking heroin. AIBA has said Rakhimov is preparing a legal challenge in the U.S. to his inclusion on the list.

The sanctions do not amount to a finding of guilt, and Rakhimov's legal team contends they stem from persecution by people connected to Uzbekistan's former president, Islam Karimov, who died in 2016.

Rakhimov is based in Dubai after previous legal issues in his native Uzbekistan, where he was at one stage featured on a wanted list.

He was a boxer in his youth before moving into business and then sports politics. In 2007, he lobbied IOC members for Russia's bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

"I can say with real certainty that Sochi would have found it hard to count on victory" without Rakhimov persuading voters from Asia,the then-president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Leonid Tyagachev, told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper at the time.

As interim president, Rakhimov said he saved AIBA from bankruptcy. AIBA reported it was in negative equity of $19 million as of June, against less than $4 million in assets.

Rakhimov said Friday he convinced AIBA's creditors to "waive" much of its debt but didn't say how.

The IOC has suspended payments to AIBA and did not let Rakhimov attend the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires last month. British authorities previously blocked his accreditation request for the 2012 London Olympics.

Rakhimov also could not attend the 2000 Sydney Olympics when Australia's government denied him a visa despite being accredited for the Games.

AIBA was plunged into financial instability during the 11-year reign of former president C.K.


Wu, who had ambitious plans to expand into professional boxing.

Wu was ousted last year, and the AIBA executive board has sought to ban him for life over what it called "gross negligence and financial mismanagement." He has denied wrongdoing.

Besides Rakhimov's leadership, the IOC has also objected to the frequent disputes over judging at the 2016 Olympics. That prompted a profane tirade from Irish fighter Michael Conlan, who accused AIBA and Russia of corruption after losing a quarterfinal bout to a Russian opponent.

On doping, AIBA executive director Tom Virgets said Friday the organization had resolved 38 long-running cases this year but that the verdicts were secret.Teaching excellence across the University has been recognised in the annual EUSA Teaching Awards.

Students voted in a range of categories to honour staff who have had a major impact on improving their learning experiences.

The Teaching Awards began in 2009 as part of an ongoing commitment to highlight the importance of excellence in teaching alongside the University’s research activity. They are organised by Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA).

The awards recognise teachers, support staff and peer support leaders who strive to raise standards and introduce innovative ways of helping students to learn.

Night of celebrations

Winners were announced at a ceremony held in the University’s Teviot Row House.

More than 2000 nominations were received, and a student judging panel agreed the shortlist and winners.

Awards in 11 categories, including Best Personal Tutor, Best Feedback


and Best Support Staff were presented.

More than 100 students and staff members attended the event.

Recognising excellence and innovation in how we deliver teaching across the University is vital. The student run EUSA Teaching Awards are now firmly established as one of the most important events in our academic year. The awards, along with our new 'Teaching Matters' initiative, which celebrates and highlights some wonderful examples of teaching, makes me immensely proud of Edinburgh's success in supporting learning Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea Principal and Vice-Chancellor, the University of Edinburgh

The teaching awards are an incredible way for our students to celebrate excellence in teaching, rather than just satisfaction. Growing every year, the awards are helping to make teaching a top priority and give great teaching the recognition it deserves atthe university. Imogen Wilson Vice-President, Academic Affairs, EUSA

The winners

The winners in each category were as follows:

Best Feedback

Mal Burkinshaw, School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art

Best Personal Tutor

Dr Jamie Cole, School of Physics and Astronomy

Best Student Who Tutors

Paul Archibald, Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art

Best Research/Dissertation Supervisor

Professor Siân Bayne, Moray House School of Education

Best Support Staff

Lee Gaedtke, School of Health in Social Science

Best Course

Dr Meryl Kenny and Professor Fiona Mackay, School of Social and Political Science (for: Social and Political Science in Practice)

Best Overall Teacher

The Kendell Award for Teaching in Medicine

Professor Jamie Davies, Edinburgh Medical School; Biomedical Sciences

The Award for Teaching in Veterinary Sciences

Julie Dickson, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine

The Van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science and Engineering

Dr Ahmad Al-Remal, School of Engineering

The Ian


Campbell Award for Teaching in the Humanities and Social Science

Marwa Mouazen, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Innovative Assessment

Dr Isla Myers-Smith and Dr Aidan Keane (for: Conservation Science)

Teaching Matters

The University is also celebrating innovative learning techniques – and sharing great teaching ideas – as part of its Teaching Matters initiative.

The Teaching Matters website, and accompanying blog, allows teachers and learners to explore new ideas, demonstrate fresh approaches and discuss ways to improve learning. It also highlights the best examples of teaching.strikes across the United States over pay and school funding, including job actions in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Arizona. Denver teachers could vote to strike by Saturday if no deal on a new contract is reached by then.

TEACHERS SEEK 6.5 PERCENT PAY HIKE The strike by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) marks one of the largest and one of the few targeting a Democratic-controlled government in a blue state. Los Angeles County officials say the union demands are unaffordable.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat weighing a run for his party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential race, has largely avoided taking sides. In a video posted on Twitter, Garcetti urged the district and union to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

Union negotiators have demanded a 6.5


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Thomas Kuykendall was an eighteen year old high school student who occasionally worked on his father's ranch.  The son was not paid regularly, but sometimes he was given money and cattle by his father.  Thomas Kuykendall admitted to feeding the cattle, rounding up the cattle, and protecting the cattle from coyotes.  In his testimony, C. R. Kuykendall stated that his sons participated in the management of the ranch and that they did not always consult with him in all matters dealing with running of theUIC release Sustainable Urbanism Guide

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s City Design Center has produced a 96-page electronic publication illustrating ideas for green development in Garfield Park as a case study for use by Chicago neighborhoods and individuals.

“Green Schemes: Sustainable Urbanism for Garfield Park” presents 80 concepts such as filtration gardens, narrowed roadways, and an elevated bikeway adjacent to the Green Line tracks. Graduate students and faculty in urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture conceived the schemes in five studios taught at UIC’s City Design Center.

Their designs for urban agriculture, public ways, building technology, manufacturing, transportation and other planning elements address four scales of development: building, street, neighborhood, and the two-square-mile community.

“Green Schemes” shows that planners, architects and landscape architects can make green design feasible by collaborating, said


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says approval of the two contentious pipelines “is in the best interest of Canada”.

Ottawa, Canada – Canada has approved two controversial oil pipelines, despite growing criticism from environmental groups and Indigenous communities that have vowed to block the projects.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday that his Liberal government had approved a plan to replace a continental pipeline known as Line 3 from Alberta to the United States, and expand a pipeline running from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia (BC), known as the Trans Mountain pipeline.

“The decision that we took today is in the best interests of Canada and the best interests of Canadians,” Trudeau said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.

“This is a decision based on rigorous debate, on science,his promise to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples,” Fauret said.

Energy giant Enbridge Inc. operates Line 3, which runs between Alberta and the US state of Wisconsin. The cost to build a 1,660-kilometre replacement pipeline is estimated at around $6bn.

Originally built in 1953, the 1,100km Trans Mountain pipeline, meanwhile, stretches from Edmonton, Alberta, to an export terminal in Burnaby, BC.

Kinder Morgan, the company that operates the pipeline, estimates that expanding to a twinned pipeline would almost triple its capacity from 300,000 barrels of oil per day to 890,000 barrels daily.

The company says the $5bn US project is necessary to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands to markets beyond the US, with a particular focus on Asia. It also says it will create thousands of jobs and generate


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Worldwide there were 1390 parkruns, and the total worldwide 5K parkrun population was 231858 parkrunners and 21176 volunteers (plus a few pending results).

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22,722 people got their parkrunWorkers behind Russian-linked Facebook Inc. accounts helped organize or finance real-life events before and after the 2016 election, often working directly with U.S. activists and playing both sides of the same hot-button issue—even on the same day.

In July 2016, as outrage swelled over fatal shootings in Dallas and Minneapolis, alleged social-media agitators tied to Russia worked quickly to capitalize on the emotionally charged atmosphere.

Workers linked to a Russia-based firm organized two gatherings, both for July 10: In Dallas, a “Blue Lives Matter” rally honored the five police officers slain there on July 7; and near Minneapolis, nearly 300 people rallied in support of Philando Castile, a man fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop.

The events show that the Russian-linked account activity went far beyond paying


for polarizing ads dropped into Facebook members’ news feeds. At least 60 rallies, protests and marches were publicized or financed by eight Russia-backed Facebook accounts from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., according to a review by The Wall Street Journal, which looked at archived versions of now-deleted Facebook posts and interviewed activists, attendees and others familiar with the events, most of which were posted on Facebook.

Facebook said in September that it had found 470 such accounts that it says belonged to Russians and that sought to exploit social divisions in the U.S. through provocative issue ads. The eight accounts the Journal examined are among those Facebook unearthed, according to people familiar with the matter. Facebook said it closed the accounts.

Much of the scrutiny of the Russian accounts soA guy is having a drink and smiling, and another guy is looking at him while laughing
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Entertainment News | The State

Mexico's leftist chief of state front-runner is competitive and unbending, and his personality-based campaign proclaiming honesty and igneous ism could set up a unique and ignescent state with his boreal similitude should he win. film industry is celebrating the end of 2017 with astronomical sales from "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," which is on evidence to shortly exceed $1 a billion in global process sales and yet become the bigger movie of the year. But that won't be adequate to make the commercial enterprise happy.ASSOCIATED PRESS Rumors that Hillary Clinton filed for divorce from her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in the aftermath of her election defeat are untrue.

Don’t believe that story about Hillary Clinton filing for divorce from her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in the aftermath of her presidential election defeat. It’s totally fake.

It alleged that attorneys for the former Democratic presidential candidate had served papers, citing “irreconcilable differences” between her and the former president, with the Supreme Court of the State of New York for Westchester County earlier that day.

But myth-debunking website Snopes.com ― which specializes in dispelling hoax news stories and urban legends ― disproved the rumor just hours later.

christiantimesnewspapercom The Christian Times Newspaper published this story on its website which claimed that Clinton had filed for divorce


The NFL has rewritten the rule on using the helmet, making it a 15-yard penalty for any player to lower his head to initiate any hit with the helmet.

Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay, the president of the competition committee, called it “a significant change,” noting that it was a “technique too dangerous for the player doing it and the player being hit”.

McKay said the tackle made by the Steelers’ Ryan Shazier last season that resulted in the linebacker suffering a spinal injury – Shazier underwent spinal stabilization surgery two days later – was not the impetus for the change. But it was an example of what needs to be eliminated from the game.

“This one technique, we saw so many hits when a player lowered his head and delivereda hit and either hurt himself or the player he was hitting,” McKay said. “It was time for a change of this magnitude.”

While the offender could be disqualified, owners did not call for an automatic ejection on such a play – at least not yet. In college football, when a player is penalized for targeting and a replay review affirms it, he is ejected.

Earlier Tuesday, the NFL simplified the catch rule in an attempt to eliminate confusion – and, the league hopes, controversy – about receptions.

Team owners unanimously approved the new language, with basically three elements defining a catch:

having control of the ball;

getting two feet down or another body part;

making a football move, such as taking a third step or extending the ball.

“We wanted to simplify and provide


isn’t.”

Also approved Tuesday was making permanent spotting the ball at the 25-yard line after a touchback on a kickoff; allowing players on injured reserve to be traded; and authorizing a designated member of the officiating department to instruct on-field game officials to eject a player for a flagrant non-football act when a foul for that act is called on the field.

Withdrawn by the Jets was a proposal to limit defensive pass interference to 15 yards, the penalty in college, except for egregious incidents. The competition committee was not in favor of such a change, but McKay and football operations chief Troy Vincent said the idea has “some momentum.” It is likely to come up again in future meetings.

Tabled was a proposal to allow an assistant coach whose teamSubmitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Complicity reigns supreme as everyone benefiting from a scam keeps quiet about everyone else's skim lest their own share of the spoils fall under the harsh light of inquiry.

The uncomfortable truth is that America has become a nation of skimmers and scammers. The rot runs deep not just in the upper reaches of the financial and political Elites, but in the bottom 99.5% as well.

America can now be summarized by this phrase: "don't call out my scam and I won't call out yours." In other words, all the skimmers and scammers have become complicit, not just in protecting their own scam from the light of day, but in protecting everyone else's scams, too, lest those who lose their swag unmask someone else's


pensions are based on the top three years of pay, soon-to-retire workers pile up the overtime to amass much higher pay in their last years. Everyone involved helps make this happen because they expect to pull the same scam when their time comes.

To sweeten the already enlarged pension pot, they then declare (with the seal of approval by a complicit doctor) that their work left them with a disability of some sort (a heart murmur is apparently a favorite excuse) that makes their pensions tax-free. (Millions of "the rest of us" also have heart murmurs. Where's our tax-free pensions?)

In the lower rungs of the social-financial order, claiming disability is high on the list of skims and scams, as evidenced by the astonishing rise in the number of suddenlyMichael Blake: In the Grand Scheme of Things

The beginning of an unusual release, "Road to Lusaka" is the first track from Canadian-born, New York-based saxophonist Michael Blake's In the Grand Scheme of Things. While maybe not as widely known in some circles, Blake is a masterful practitioner of the art form who is at ease working in or outside of the mainstream with a discography that includes a number of recordings and credits with the Lounge Lizards, the Jazz Composers Collective and others.

Sumptuous noises encompass the cinematic openingshadowy trumpet wails and subtle nuances of exotic percussion mingled with gentle cymbal crashesand then suddenly, the resonant synchronized pulse from a Moog bass line. As the track settles into the groove, Blake and trumpeter JP Carter exchange an open dialog


with sporadic and purposed statements as drummer Dylan van der Schyff splashes the ostinato theme with detailed percussion.

One of the key elements of the compositionand the entire releaseis Chris Gestrin's exceptional work on both Fender Rhodes and Micromoog. The synthesized bass riff drives the piece, providing a wide sonic backdrop for the two lead voices to travel. At the track's closing, the Moog's frequency range is thoroughly manipulated with contoured embellishments. It's an electro-acoustic thoroughfare that is absorbing and enjoyable.

I was first exposed to jazz when I discovered that one of Jimi Hendrix's influences was Wes Montgomery. I played guitar growing up and idolized Hendrix, so I knew that anyone he looked up to must be good

I was first exposed to jazz when I discovered that one ofHarris acknowledges that intelligence played some role in her success as an MSC, because "doctors can recognize if they are dealing with a person with some intelligence of some sort." (Id. at 178:14-17.) Harris claims that, in 2006, in the North Houston territory, she helped Defendant achieve a 31 percent market share. She acknowledges that this was due in part to her efforts and in part to the clinical trials and "detail pieces" she received from Defendant. (Id. at 183:14-18.) However, at one point in her deposition, Harris testified that her role was limited to "handing out pens and the table paper" that Defendant provided. (Id. at 184:22-25.)
Parks, in describing her calls, testified that she would usually walk into the doctor's office because she "had a very good


doctors were in her region.[5] She explained that she had a large HIV physician base because people who suffered from HIV were often hypogonadal. (Id. at 49-50.) Hatten asked Harris if these doctors were typically homosexual, and Harris responded that they were. (Id. at 50:7-12.) At that point in the ride-along, Harris had arrived at a hospital they were going to visit, and Hatten began to quote Bible verses to Harris and tell her that "homosexuals and gays will go to hell." (Id. at 50-13.) Harris then explained to Hatten that her brother, who was gay, had been killed by AIDS. (Id. at 50-51.) Hatten informed Harris that he wanted to tell her about Billy Graham and his personal religious beliefs. Hatten explained that Billy Graham taught that(Doc. No. 84, Ex. ¶ 9.) In 2006, Testim had a national market share of 19 percent; however, when it implemented the quota system, Defendant assigned Harris an annual quota of 5,676 prescriptions for the North Houston territory, which accounted for 67 percent of the market share. (Id. at ¶ 10.) As a result, Harris asserts that her 2007 quota was unattainable. Hers was the highest quota in her region and the fourth highest in the country. (Id. at 82:13-20.) Harris contends that she was deprived of substantial incentive compensation that Defendant pays MSCs who achieve their quotas. (Id. at ¶ 12.) According to Plaintiffs, an MSC can get paid a bonus only if he or she obtains one hundred percent of his or her quota. (Harris Dep.


161:1-19.) If Harris did not obtain her quota, she would make less money and lose her rank at the top of the company. If she ranked near the bottom of the company, she would risk termination for being a "low performer." (Id. at 82:13-20.) Harris concludes that, if her quota would have been fair, she would have qualified for the President's Club bonus again in 2007. (Id. at 267:24-25.) Harris believed that Hatten was hiring younger women for MSC positions and giving them lower quotas. Harris complained to Hatten about the quotas, and he tried to offer her some explanation. (Id. at 96.)
Harris took a leave of absence on June 12, 2007 and resigned from Defendant on October 12, 2007. (Harris Dep. 121; 289-90.) Harris alleges that herreplacement, Gerald Brady, a younger man, receives a higher base salary than she did and has a lower sales quota. (Id. at 171:15-25; Kessig Dep. 198-199.) Parks took a leave of absence from her position on June 2, 2007 and returned to work on September 10, 2007. (Parks Dep. 240.) Parks took another leave of absence from October 8, 2007 to November 12, 2007 and was ultimately terminated on January 10, 2008 because she refused to perform her job duties. (Id. at 96, 99, 140-141, 240.)
In her Second Amended Complaint, Harris asserts, on behalf of herself, Parks, and others similarly situated, that Defendant violated the Equal Pay Act ("EPA"), 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), et seq. and § 215, the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201,


of the company. Each PR represents BMS in meetings with medical providers and promotes BMS drugs. The success of BMS's business depends in part on the success of its PRs in educating physicians about BMS drugs. Thus, the nature of the work performed by PRs is directly related to BMS's management or business operations.
Id. at 476-477. The district court then found that the defendant was likely to satisfy the second prong of the administrative exemption as well. In deciding that the company's representatives exercised the discretion and independent judgment required by the statute, the district court considered the fact that the representatives tailor the content of their presentations to each medical provider based on the provider's patient populations, prescription practices, and other factors, and *737 independently decide whatphysicians and give them information about the defendant company's drugs. As in the instant case, since the drugs were regulated by the FDA, the defendant prepared scripts and related materials for the representatives to use when delivering a "core message" about the defendant's products to physicians. The representatives were not allowed to go beyond the boundaries of the message created by defendant. The defendant also provided the representatives with drug samples, pamphlets, clinical studies, visual aids, and other materials, and instructed the representatives on how to use these materials during their visits. The representatives had the discretion as to when and how to use these materials, however, and they planned their daily call schedules and decided when to visit the doctors on their target list. The defendant set


excluding an outside salesperson] are fairly apparent. Such sales [people], to a great extent, work individually. There are no restrictions respecting the time he shall work and he can earn as much or as little, within the range of his ability, as his ambition dictates. In lieu of overtime, he ordinarily receives commissions as extra compensation. He works away from his employer's place of business, is not subject to the personal supervision of his employer, and his employer has no way of knowing the number of hours he works per day. To apply hourly standards primarily devised for an employee on a fixed hourly wage is incompatible with the individual character of the work of an outside salesman.
118 F.2d 202, 207-208 (10th Cir.1941). The In re Novartis courtthat, although it is a close call, the reasoning of the In re Novartis court is ultimately somewhat more persuasive than that of the Kuzinski court. While it is true that FLSA's exemptions must be strictly construed, given, the historical purpose of the statute, and the unique nature of the pharmaceutical industry, MSCs make "sales" by securing a physician's commitment to write a prescription. While the commitment may later be broken, MSCs are measured in terms of the number of prescriptions actually written for the purposes of satisfying quotas and earning incentive compensation. Harris's own testimony suggests that MSCs are ranked, and receive "President's Club" status, based on actual sales, or prescriptions written, in their territory. Moreover, MSCs spend the majority of their time in the field and


An EEOC complaint must be filed within 300 days of the discriminatory act. Id. "Discrete discriminatory acts are not actionable if time-barred, even when they are related to acts alleged in timely filed charges." Id.
In her Second Amended Complaint, Harris identifies several such male and younger female comparators who were promoted. They include: Jeff Hatten, who was promoted to RSD on January 3, 2005, Lisa Miles, who was promoted to RSD on July 1, 2005, Jeff Rosenstack, who was promoted to RSD on September 26, 2005, Robin Burger, who was promoted to Marketing Development Manager on April 3, 2006, Sarah Degen, who was promoted to MDM on April 3, 2006 and RSD on September 11, 2006, Chris Noonan, who was promoted to RSD on September 11, 2006, NelsonMorgan, who was promoted to RSD on September 11, 2006, and Tom *744 Fucarile, who was promoted to RSD on October 6, 2006. Defendant argues that Harris was required to file suit within 300 days of the occurrence of each of these promotions. The Fifth Circuit has identified the employer's failure to promote the plaintiff as a "discrete act" that is actionable. Newton v. Securitas Security Servs., USA, Inc., 250 Fed.Appx. 18, 20-21 (5th Cir.2007). As a result, Defendant argues, any promotion that occurred before October 31, 2006 is time-barred, meaning that the only promotion Harris can challenge is that Jim Hinchberger, who was promoted to RST on November 21, 2006 and to RSD on October 1, 2007.
As Harris points out, however, President Barack Obama recently signed into


refusal to rectify her unequal pay, refusal to promote her to an RSD position, "setting her up to fail" by making her 2007 annual quota unattainable, and constructively discharging her. Harris argues that all of these actions constitute "adverse employment actions." The Court will now consider each of these alleged retaliatory acts in turn.
Harris alleges first that Defendant retaliated against her by failing to rectify her unequal pay. Harris does not explain when she first complained to Defendant about her unequal pay, however, besides her Second Complaint regarding the quotas. Naturally, the Second Complaint occurred after her First Complaint, so there cannot be a causal link between Harris's First Complaint and Defendant's failure to rectify her pay.
Next, Harris argues that Defendant retaliated against her by assigning her anwhen he was demoted, asked to train his younger successor, forced to explain his demotion and introduce his successor to clients, assigned significantly reduced responsibilities, and received a $10,000 pay reduction after he was told his salary would not change). The Fifth Circuit has further held that an employer's "discriminatory failure to promote" a plaintiff, without aggravating factors, is insufficient to establish constructive discharge. Brown v. Kinney Shoe Corp., 237 F.3d at 566 (holding that the plaintiff, who resigned, was not constructively discharged because he was "repeatedly denied promotions and transfer opportunities"; his work was not degrading or menial, and he was not subjected to badgering or harassment designed to encourage his resignation).
Finally, the evidence does not support Harris's claim that Defendant failed to punish Hatten's reference to


before approving the country’s 2019 budget, Corriere della Sera daily reported on Tuesday.

Mexico's new leftist government on Saturday avoided major surprises in its closely watched first budget, sticking to fiscal promises made to investors who have been jittery about plans for Latin America's No. two economy.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was quoted as saying on Wednesday he was ready to amend slightly some of the measures included in the country’s 2019 budget in a bid to overcome a rejection by the European Commission.investors to take a second glance at their bullishness and their optimism, said John Schloegel, vice president of investment strategies for Capital Cities Asset Management in Austin, Texas.

The Nasdaq fell 3.4 percent for the week, breaking a nine-week winning streak. The S&P 500 lost 5 percent and the Dow shed 3.6 percent.

Options expiration also added to volatility.

Equity options and some options on stock indexes stop trading at Friday's close and expire the next day. Typically, options expiration is orderly, but some volatility may occur as players unwind positions against stock and index products.

Struggling General Motors Corp said it will drop about 1,600 U.S. dealers as it tries to cut billions of dollars in operating costs and debt before an expected bankruptcy filing at the end of May. GM's


we built in New York and just his personality and who he is and what type of man he is, I said, 'I feel comfortable making the move.' Going down there and seeing what he was doing and what he was doing was something I wanted to be a part of."

Hixon, now retired, joined Giants.com on Monday to discuss his relationship with Gettleman, now back with the Giants as the team's general manager. Hixon also provided insight on new offensive coordinator Mike Shula, who served in the same role during Hixon's first and only season with the Panthers. After two years of working with Cam Newton as the quarterbacks coach, Shula, 52, took over play-calling duties in 2013 and helped guide Carolina to a 12-4 record and anUnder a more anonymous Chris Petersen, Washington aims to break out

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Washington Huskies coach Chris Petersen, left, walks and talks with Seahawks coach Pete Carroll during Washington's pro day April 2 in Seattle. For the first time in nearly a decade, Petersen isn't the most prominent football coach in his own town, or state. / Joe Nicholson, Associated Press

by George Schroeder, USA TODAY Sports

by George Schroeder, USA TODAY Sports

SEATTLE - For someone who describes himself as a "shy, private person in a public job," the new reality has been a very nice perk. When Chris Petersen leaves his new office â?? the one with the fantastic view he still marvels at, every day â?? and occasionally gets off campus, he goes mostly unrecognized.

"No one has a clue


who I am," he says.

That's not quite true, of course. A few weeks back, during spring break, when the Washington Huskies' new football coach took his son sightseeing in downtown Seattle, four people approached Petersen, and the conversations invariably started with something like: "Hey coach â?¦"

"They were all from Boise," Petersen says, laughing.

He knows it won't last. One way or another, his face will become familiar. But after all those years at Boise State â?? a place he loved for its quality of life, but where he says he couldn't go anywhere without being recognized â?? the change has been "really refreshing."

The obvious question, even after the Huskies wrapped up spring practice, remained: After all those years on the blue turf, why did Petersen finally leave?

He'll average about$3.6 million a year, a third more than his last salary at Boise State. He'll preside over a program with far greater resources, and what feels like far bigger potential.

But in a nomadic profession where coaches moving upward as quickly as possible is the norm, Petersen resisted overtures from programs in more prominent conferences than the Mountain West and WAC on several occasions. After awhile, it seemed he might just stay forever in a place where he had built one of college football's most consistent winners.

"It was just time for a new challenge," he says. "It's really hard to put into words, other than it was just kind of a feel. I loved Boise, loved my time there. It was great. That's why I was so careful."

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went 92-12 in eight seasons with Petersen as head coach. If the Broncos weren't the first BCS-buster â?? that honor went to Utah â?? their overtime victory against Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl was the signature moment of the movement. But often lost in the three perfectly crazy trick plays that beat the Sooners was the fact that for the first three quarters or so, the Broncos were the better, more physical team.

"It just sort of happened that we ran a couple tricks when we really needed them, and they worked," Petersen says, "and so that's what people remember rather than an off-tackle play."

Over the next few years, as the Broncos kept winning â?? and kept beating BCS conference opponents â?? the rest of college football figuredwin, the college football landscape shifted around them, first with realignment â?? as fellow BCS-busters Utah and TCU moved into "Big Five" conferences, Boise State was left behind â?? and then with the advent of the College Football Playoff.

The era of the BCS-buster is over. Under the old system, Boise State was a longshot to reach the national championship game, but it might have been easier then than now. Even with slots for four teams instead of two, the BCS formula probably was more likely to rank Boise State (or a similarly qualified program) No. 1 or 2 than a selection committee is to evaluate everything, including strength of schedule, and place them into the four-team tournament.

So when Petersen, who will turn 50 in October, says he wanted


the right fit, and that it was time to leave the comfort zone he'd created in Boise, it makes sense on several levels.

At least initially, comfort won't be an issue at Washington.

The Huskies faced the usual spring questions, both pressing (who's the quarterback?) and also intriguing (star linebacker Shaq Thompson as a running back, a la UCLA's Myles Jack?). The Huskies are, according to Petersen, "paper-thin" at several positions on the depth chart, a fact that surprised him. The bigger part of the project, though, is infusing the roster â?? the entire program â?? with Petersen's philosophy.

Petersen praises Steve Sarkisian for rebuilding the Huskies from the ashes of 0-12 in 2008 to respectable. But like every coach, he has his own system, built over the years in Boisedifferent way."

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More obvious, there are the external challenges. Although Washington has exponentially more resources and potential, it also faces very significant hurdles to realize it.

Petersen's building project starts from a very nice foundation, laid in the past five years by Sarkisian. That's physically evident, every time Petersen looks up from his desk. The head coach's office features a fireplace and looks out over Husky Stadium. Beyond that, the view is of Lake Washington, and on a clear day, the snow-capped Cascades.

"Yeah," he says, "it's something else" â?? especially when compared to his former office, which for part of his time at Boise State looked out onto â?¦ the back of temporary bleachers.

Sarkisian had only moved into the office last fall, when a $280 million renovation of Husky Stadium


was complete. Before reaping many of the benefits of the change from an aging, substandard stadium to some of the nation's finest facilities, Sarkisian was gone, back to Los Angeles and USC.

That provided the opportunity â?? and the right fit â?? for Petersen (who had also been involved in the USC search). The general sentiment among Husky fans was that they had traded up, but Petersen acknowledges things are different at Washington than at Boise State.

In the years of Washington's decline, from national power to irrelevant and back now to something slightly above average, another national power arose in the Pacific Northwest. A historically one-sided rivalry with Oregon still is, but now it's the Ducks dominating (10 consecutive wins against Washington, and few have been truly competitive) andexisting as a perennial Top 10 program. From the same division, Stanford has won two consecutive Pac-12 championships and played in three consecutive BCS bowls.

Petersen acknowledges those opponents as formidable obstacles, and also emphasizes another: the traditional Apple Cup rivalry with Washington State. Beyond those, there's this reality: Just about every team in the Pac-12 is a threat on any weekend.

"The parity is really there across the board," he says. "That's gonna be the biggest difference."

That simply wasn't the case for Boise State, either in the Mountain West or before it the WAC, at least not after Petersen built the Broncos into BCS-busters. Not counting the seemingly annual showdown with a BCS conference team, Boise State was only seriously challenged once or twice a season. Many weeks, the


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Day 05: Trek from Tirkhedhunga to Ghorepani (2675 m.) takes about six hours.

Day 06: Trek from Ghorepani to Poon Hill (3180m.) and then to Tadapani (2675m.) takes about five and a half hours.

Day 07: Trek from Tadapani (2675m.) to Ghandruk (1950m.) takes about three hours.

Day 08: Trek from Ghandruk to Chhomrong (2040 m.) takes approximately four hours.

Day 09: Trek from Chhomrong to Bamboo (2340m.) takes about five hours.

Day 18: Transfer to the Airport for final departure. (Fly out from Kathmandu).

Day 01:Arrive in Kathmandu International Airport.

Arrive in Kathmandu International Airport. Transfer to the hotel and stay overnight at hotel in Kathmandu.

Day 02: City sightseeing in and around Kathmandu valley.

City sightseeing in and around Kathmandu valley. (Kathmandu, Bhaktapur & Patan). Stay overnight at hotel in Kathmandu.

Day 03: Drive from Kathmanduof Annapurna South, Hiunchuli, Gangapurna (7455m.), Annapurna III (7755m.) and Fishtail. Stay overnight at lodge.

Day 08: Trek from Ghandruk to Chhomrong (2040 m.) takes approximately four hours.

In the beginning, you ascend gently for an hour up to Ghandrukkot (2100m.) followed by a steep descend to the Kimron Khola (1700m.). Chhomrong is a gateway to Annapurna Sanctuary trek and inhabited by Gurung, one of the major ethnic groups of Nepal. Stay overnight at lodge.

Day 09: Trek from Chhomrong to Bamboo (2340m.) takes about five hours.

Leaving Chhomrong, the trail descends on a stone staircase and crosses the Chhomrong climbing further on a rocky trail (beware of the stinging nettles!) you reach three hotels at Sinuwa, a check post at 2350m. You descend a long, steep stone staircase into deep bamboo


Jhinudanda. From the town you walk down for 20 minutes to reach Hot Spring at the bank of the Modi Khola. You can unwind yourself at the hot springs. Stay overnight at lodge.

Day 14:Trek from Jhinudanda to Pothana (1600m.) takes about five hours.

For the first part of the trek, you will descend observing beautiful waterfalls. The trail then ascends gently crossing numerous streams and terraces. After short trek, you will be at Landruk (1640m.). Now the trail gently ascends to Tolka (1850m.) and then to Bherikharka. From here, the trail goes steeply up to Deurali (2100m.) which offers romantic views of different mountain peaks. Now, the trail gradually descends to Pothana passing through a forest of oaks. Stay overnight at lodge.

Day 15: Trek from Pothana to Dhampus Phediin reputation in France.

Absinthe is usually created from a wine base and is particularly flavored with herbs. Its principal herbal ingredients are typical wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium), which provides Absinthe its name and its particular bitter taste, aniseed and fennel. Other common herbs employed in the creation of Absinthe contain hyssop, lemon balm, star anise, dittany, juniper, nutmeg and licorice.

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night before the exam, limit your review to a few basic concepts, then relax, watch a favorite TV show and get plenty of sleep.

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The timing is particularly important: Term sheets often include clauses that may prevent you from pursuing other investors for the next 30 days. "If you can interest a couple of people at the same time, you'll be golden," Wasserman says.

Don't: Get overwhelmed by lingo

If you're baffled by all the legalese, consider using one of Y Combinator's SAFE contracts, says Amol Sarva, a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Knotel, Halo Neuroscience, Knotable, Peek, and Virgin Mobile USA. "These easy-to-read financing documents are not only friendly to founders, but also fair to investors," with "vanilla" terms, he says.

Under a SAFE (simple agreement for future equity) contract, an investor makes a cash


may allow an investor to force the sale of a company) all relate to a company's control. Terms concerning your startup's valuation, options pool, and liquidation preference fall under the financial category. In the negotiation, push for better terms in the category most important to you, and stay flexible on the ones that are not.

Don't: Be a pushover

Know when to walk away. "I turned down at least one term sheet because of terms that might not benefit the company in later stages," says Amir Trabelsi, CEO of Genoox, a tech company that runs a genetic data analysis platform.

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the terrifying story of a date gone wrong.

Jackie told Rolling Stone journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely that just a few weeks into her freshman year she was asked out on a date by an older student she worked at the pool with.

She said the September 28, 2012 get-together started with dinner at a local restaurant and then progressed back to her date's fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi (called Phi Psi), for a party.

From there, the account turns grim as Jackie describes the boy - identified as 'Drew' in the article - leading her upstairs where she is locked in a room with several other men who proceed to rape her for three hours in what appears to be an initiation ritual.

While the article sparked debate about the issue of campussexual assault, facts of the story quickly came into question by Jackie's friends who encountered her later that night and those in the fraternity who stood by their claim that they didn't host a party that night.

Rolling Stone has since issued an apology for the story and has asked the Columbia School of Journalism to investigate how the writer's reporting failed. The magazine is expected to publish those findings on April 8, according to CNN.

At the press conference on Monday, Longo announced that his department had been unable to confirm a rape happened that night, that a Phi Psi brother named Haven or Drew ever existed, and nearly any of the other claims made by Jackie to police and in the article.

Before the press conference, Jackie's attorney declined


to comment.

Longo says the university first learned of the attack in the spring of 2013, when Jackie had a meeting to discuss academic issues with Dean Nicole Eramo, which she then pinned on a traumatic event in September.

It wasn't until the next year, however, that police were informed of the alleged rape when a Charlottesville Police Detective Via was called to the university to meet with Jackie and Dean Eramo about another attack on campus.

Jackie claimed she had been harassed by a group of men on campus who flung a bottle at her, leaving her face battered.

The facts: The November 2014 Rolling Stone article ignited fury on the UVA campus and across the nation for Jackie's horrific account of gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity (picturedabove). However, most of the details of the story could not be verified by police - including the existence of her alleged attacked

This incident was also detailed in the Rolling Stone article, but two of the facts didn't line up for police.

The first was that Jackie said she called her mom after the attack, and phone records indicate she never dialed her mother's number. The other is that she claimed her roommate cleaned glass out of a wound on her face. Police interviewed her roommate who denied doing such a thing, saying the injury was more of an abrasion than blunt-force trauma.

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Jackie allegedly told Detective Via about the September 2012 gang rape at a meeting about the bottle incident, but refused to go into details.

When the Rolling Stone article was published the following fall, and the police were called in to investigate, Detective Via remembered Jackie's name and reached out to her to talk. After dodging his call, Jackie responding a few days later with an email saying she would meet with police after Thanksgiving break.

She held up on her end of the deal, but when she arrived at the police department a few days later in December, she was accompanied by a lawyer who spoke on her behalf, saying she would not be cooperating with the investigation. When police tried to obtain university recordspertaining to Jackie, she also refused to sign off.

As for her alleged attacker, Haven Monahan - police could not find evidence that he existed.

They checked the fraternity's roster for the time and found no record of a Haven or Drew (as he was named in the article), or other brothers matching the description in the article. They also interviewed nine of the 11 men who lived in the house at the time, as well as the current brothers, who stood together to deny witnessing any such incident.

Two of Jackie's friends say she talked about Haven, and that they exchanged text messages with him, but say they never actually met him in person.

Police searched phone records to try to connect the suspect to the phone used to text Haven


but were unsuccessful.

Jackie's two friends also said the story in Rolling Stone differed greatly from their memories of the night they found her shaken after a date.

Police interviewed supervisors and former student workers at the school's pool, where Jackie says she met her attacker, and none remember a specific coworker that Jackie grew close too.

While there was one worker at the pool who was in a fraternity, it was not Phi Psi, and he said his shift patterns didn't overlap with Jackie's.

The members of that different fraternity also didn't recall an incident in September 2012, and the layout of their house on campus is 'very different' from the one recalled by Jackie to Rolling Stone, Longo said.

Phi Psi's social calendars show that they didn't have any party plannedoccur. We will continue our collaborative partnership with the Charlottesville Police Department, united by our shared commitment to fostering a culture of respect while ensuring the safety and well-being of all members of our community. Advertisement

Police also obtained a picture taken inside the fraternity on the night of the alleged attack, and it shows a man holding two chairs near the front door, with no one else around - differing from Rolling Stone article's account of the house being packed with revelers.

'There's no basis in fact that there was even an event that night,' Longo said.

In the article, Jackie said she finally decided to go public with her story because she met two other girls who said they too were gang-raped at the same fraternity, one in 2010


Wednesday, April 11, 2018

One frequently hears of Sweden as a role model for socialism, but rarely hears how the nation achieved prosperity under that political system. As many advocates of liberty would suspect, that is because it was freedom, not socialism, that made Sweden into a prosperous country, as a recent article by Johan Norberg indicates. Norberg presents a lengthy historical overview of Sweden's transformation from one of the world's poorest nations into one of the world's richest over the past couple of centuries, looking at the ideas and actions of many prominent figures, such as Anders Chydenius, also known as "the Nordic Adam Smith." Norberg introduces Chydenius by discussing his take on emigration, which many in his day saw as a big problem:

Anders Chydenius (Image via Wikipedia)

...like a real firebrand, and he was also a major proponent of freedom of speech, which the article correctly notes was integral to Sweden's transformation. That said, the article, like Chydenius himself and the movement to which he belonged, is a mixed bag. To wit:

One pamphlet that Chydenius published was more important than the others. The National Gain was a short but forceful argument for economic freedom. Chydenius explained why a free market is self-regulating because the profit motive and the price mechanism keep us all in check and stimulates us to help others by producing the kind of goods and services they want most...

Chydenius, who worked with the poor, deserves credit for realizing that freedom is the best way to help them, but note his suspicion of


312 F.Supp. 822 (1970)
Jess C. COOK, Petitioner,
v.
Dr. P. J. CICCONE, Director, United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri, Respondent.
No. 18196-4.
United States District Court, W. D. Missouri, W. D.
May 19, 1970.
*823 Frederick O. Griffin, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER DIRECTING THE RETURN OF THE PETITIONER TO THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ELMO B. HUNTER, District Judge.
Petitioner is presently an unconvicted inmate of the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri. He has filed in forma pauperis a petition for writ of federal habeas corpus alleging certain conditions which relate to his present confinement at the Medical Center. Leave to proceed in forma pauperis was granted by the Court in an order enteredApril 13, 1970.
On April 8, 1968, petitioner was arraigned before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California upon an indictment charging him with a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2312 (Dyer Act). Shortly thereafter, upon the motion of his counsel, petitioner was committed to the custody of the Attorney General for psychiatric examination under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 4244 to determine petitioner's competency to understand the proceedings against him and to properly assist in his own defense. On September 20, 1968, following the recommendations of the psychiatric staff of the federal facility at Terminal Island, California and a hearing upon his competency, petitioner was determined incompetent to stand trial and was committed to the Medical Center under the provisions of 18 U.S.C.


in February when it learned of his "misconduct."

"We are outraged by Mr. Kang's shocking betrayal of his responsibilities," the fund said, adding that Kang was dismissed in February and it worked with law enforcement once the misconduct was uncovered by authorities.

Sure enough, a quick search of Kang's LinkedIn account reveals that he left the NY Pension in February 2016, after spending 2 years and 2 months collecting substantial bribes. Prior to the NY Pension, Kang spent time at Guggenheim and PIMCO just after spending 2 years as professional tennis player.

According to his bio, Kang "outperformed his peers year after year because of his astute investment strategies and sound judgment for value"...while that could be interpreted as a veiled reference to "hookers and blow" we can't be certain atthis juncture.

Navnoor is a seasoned portfolio manager and macroeconomic strategist who has built and managed fixed income portfolios across various investor objectives in both the private and public sectors. He has outperformed his peers year after year because of his astute investment strategies and sound judgment for value. Most recently, Navnoor was the Director of Fixed Income and the Head of Portfolio Strategy for the New York State Common Retirement Fund which is the third largest public plan in the country with over $185bn in assets. He was directly responsible for investing over $55bn in fixed income assets with a focus on credit products and for creating the macroeconomic framework for asset allocation for the entire $185bn fund. Earlier, Navnoor was co-head of investment grade corporate credit at


Guggenheim Partners Asset Management and an associate portfolio manager for corporate credit at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). He began his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the credit default swap trading team. In another avatar, Navnoor spent three years competing on the men’s professional tennis tour. He holds a degree in economics from Columbia University.

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