not consider to be a nationally recognized candidate who will likely have to turn in 2,500 signatures if he wants to qualify for the GOP primary. De la Fuentes ran as a Democrat in 2016 when he also took the signature route to the ballot.

Lyons said that during an incumbent presidency neither political party has submitted names other than that of the sitting president seeking re-election.

"We will follow set protocol and do the same, as has been done before in 2012 under Democratic President Barack Obama and in 2004 under Republican President George W. Bush," Lyons wrote.

Both Obama and Bush ran virtually unopposed in their re-election bids by any nationally known figures with the stature of someone like Weld.

But in 1992, MassGOP Chairman Leon Lombardi only put forwardthe name of President George H.W. Bush for the ballot, despite the incumbent being challenged by conservative commentator Pat Buchanan. Buchanan did end up getting onto the Massachusetts primary ballot that year, and won almost 75,000 votes, or 28%.

The parties, by law, have until Jan. 3 to submit their lists, but Galvin said he's following the same timeline he used during the last cycle in order to prepare ballots ahead of the Jan. 18 deadline to make them available to military and overseas voters.

Galvin plans to hold a drawing to determine the order of name placement on the ballots on Dec. 20, and candidates have until Jan. 10 to withdraw and have their names removed.

Tom Mountain, a Trump campaign spokesman in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and a member


of the MassGOP state committee, has previously said that Weld should give up on his campaign.

"If he has any dignity he should ride off into the sunset," Mountain told the News Service last month after Weld held an event to call for Trump's impeachment. "No one is taking Bill Weld seriously except Bill Weld."

Gov. Charlie Baker suggested recently that he thought the Republican primary in Massachusetts would be a low-turnout affair with or without Weld on the ballot.

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The Gordhan Files on state capture and what Zuma cost the country

Ferial Haffajee from Daily Maverick published this report after the affidavit of Gordhan was leaked last night.

Public Enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan’s testimony to the Zondo Commission of Inquiry, as contained in his affidavit which was leaked on Wednesday night, has revealed that the axing of former Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene in December 2015 cost the South African economy R500-billion.

This is the first formal figure of what the era of high corruption cost as the markets tanked and the rand went into free fall following what was regarded as an attack on the Treasury.

Gordhan’s 68-page affidavit also places former president Jacob Zuma front and centre the State Capture project. In recent speeches, Zuma has denied that State Captureexists and also said that he had not come up at the Zondo commission of inquiry.

Gordhan will reveal for the first time:

– How Zuma personally tried to commandeer three big deals to be funded by the fiscus despite misgivings by the Treasury;

– How he failed to protect Gordhan when he faced an investigation by the Hawks soon after taking over from Nene; and

– How Zuma took control of the appointment of a SARS commissioner from him and put in place Tom Moyane who was fired last week by President Cyril Ramaphosa as tax boss.

Of Nene’s axing, Gordhan writes that: “The devastating impact of this unexpected announcement on the South African economy is estimated to be approximately R500-billion. As commentators and market analysts had described, over two days, the


ANC and the country at the time, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa.” Three hours later, Gordhan went to the Presidential guesthouse Mahlamba Ndlopfu where he met Zuma.

“During that conversation, former president Zuma indicated that he was of the view that Mr van Rooyen (Des van Rooyen was appointed Finance Minister by Zuma but lasted for two days) was suitable for the Finance Minister position, but others felt that the turmoil when markets re-opened on Monday could be even more serious if Mr van Rooyen was returned…. he wanted me to take up the position in order to calm the markets.” Gordhan was back at his desk by Monday morning.

Zuma had been strong-armed by the ANC into returning Gordhan to the Treasury and he was not happy with the Finance Minister’sterms of return.

These were: to deal with Moyane at SARS, to deal with Dudu Myeni who was chairing the national carrier SAA and to end the push to procure nuclear power stations at a cost of R1-trillion. On the day that Nene was fired, the Cabinet had approved the nuclear deal.

A clash between the two comrades turned mutual nemeses was inevitable and it came soon enough.

Two months into his second term as Finance Minister, Gordhan faced another crisis. “Shortly before my Budget speech in Parliament, Major General Mthandazo Berning Ntlemeza head of the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation, known as the Hawks, requested and attended a brief meeting at the Treasury. General Ntlemeza advised me then that two investigations were ongoing: into SAA and SARS…. I believe that


him and to ask him whether he was aware of, and agreed with, this law enforcement action against me.

“During that meeting, I objected strongly about this persecution and asked former president Zuma whether political activists like myself must now prepare to be eliminated during the democratic era even though we had survived the oppression of the security police in the apartheid era.

“In response to my objection, he merely flipped through the pages of the letter. He said he would discuss it with the then Minister of Police, Mr Nkosinathi Nhleko. I received no information from the former president in this regard subsequent to this meeting.”

Gordhan reveals in his affidavit that he believes he was first redeployed out of the Treasury after the 2014 election to pave the wayfor three projects that Zuma took a personal interest in.

The Treasury team had resisted giving guarantees and approvals for each of the mega-deals that Zuma wanted to be done.

The first was the procurement of 9.6 Gigawatt of nuclear power generating capacity as provided for in the integrated resource plan of 2011 – the former president established a national nuclear energy executive coordinating committee (NNEECC) shortly after the plan was adopted.

“Following the establishment of the NNEECC, it was evident that former president Zuma wished to procure the 9.6 GW of nuclear power generating capacity for South Africa from Russia. Such a transaction has been estimated to cost in excess of R1-trillion, if not more,” says Gordhan in his affidavit.

He then sets out how Zuma pressurised him to fund the


deal but Gordhan and his team at the Treasury would not accede to fast-track the nuclear buy and he says this was one reason he was removed from the Treasury and made the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs instead.

Zuma also personally lobbied Gordhan to provide guarantees for the purchase of the Engen share held by Petronas, the Malaysian oil company. When former minister of energy Ben Martins applied to the Treasury for a state guarantee for the deal in 2014, Gordhan and his team raised red flags because there was a difference of up to R6-billion in how the stake was valued.

In his own testimony before the Zondo commission of inquiry, Nene revealed that the fact that the Treasury had put the kibosh in the PetronasIron Mountain Details

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in 2009, and reemerged in the United States in 2010. He claimed that the CIA had abducted him and that he suffered “intense psychological pressure to reveal sensitive information.” Reports about Amiri are inconsistent, with some alleging that he was a spy for the United States or a double agent for Iran. Upon his return to Iran, Amiri was greeted as a hero, but he was tried for treason and sentenced to prison only a year later.

Prominent Journalist Sentenced to Three Years Prison: An Iranian court sentenced Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz to three years prison on Tuesday for “insulting the Supreme Leader” and “propagating against the state.” His son, Mehdi Saharkhiz, reported to the Committee to Protect Journalists earlier this year that his father suffered from a numberincreased regional security cooperation [Pr] between the nations. Iran and Azerbaijan inked a “protocol of invention” that would result in the construction of a new transport corridor in the Caspian Sea region to provide a railway link between Iran and Azerbaijan.

The three leaders also signed a joint declaration reaffirming their commitment to stronger action and regional cooperation against terrorism and organized crime. In a separate bilateral meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the two leaders agreed to work more quickly towards boosting cooperation in both the economic and political realms.

Meanwhile, Iran is looking to build its relationship with several other key nations. It has focused on boosting ties with Turkey, which reported that its trade with Iran has increased 30 percent since sanctions


Wharton student, worked for JPMorgan before pursuing her MBA and is now in a marketing role at Earnest. Kulkarni, who is working in the “office of the CEO” at Earnest, had done a stint at Bain & Company. Silverman, who is working in capital markets at the startup, had been at McKinsey. Terraforte, who is busy developing partnerships for Earnest, was at New York Life, and Harvard Business School’s Sabina Robinov, who is doing risk assessment this summer, has a resume stamped by Intel and Google.

The opportunity to do hands-on work from the get-go in the heart of the Bay Area startup scene is alluring to MBAs. Terraforte, who spent her early career in traditional work environments, says there has been “implicit trust” of the interns from theare quite friendly from a regulatory perspective.”

During the boot camp, which is in its third year, lectures highlighted career opportunities within China for international MBA graduates. Both the government and private sectors boast massive cash reserves, and the rapidly growing consumer class is hungry for Western- and Chinese-made goods, Chason says. The country’s chemical and energy sectors are booming, and auto production exceeds that of the U.S., Europe, and Japan combined, Chason says, noting that BMW, Nissan, and Ford F recruited at CEIBS last year, as did Honeywell Aerospace. Most major consulting firms also recruit at CEIBS, Chason says.
Emergence of Chinese brands combined with growing consumption, along with rapid development of the country’s interior, large investments in the tech sector, and a highly diversified economy are promoting job


schools returned nominations, with Poets&Quants evaluating candidates on their professional achievements, academic prowess, and personal narratives.

When the general public thinks of executive MBAs, they often picture thirty- and forty-something executives taking weekend classes (on the company dime) to prep them for the next promotion. That model is largely a reflection of the past. No doubt, you’ll find EMBAs from Goldman Sachs and big pharma on the list. But increasingly, you will also discover students who are paying their own way, working for smaller to mid-sized companies, and eager to try their hand at a startup.

Take Father Pete McCormick, 38, the director of the campus ministry at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his EMBA at the school’s Mendoza College of Business. Why would a priest need a— For Kellogg MBA Cacky Calderon, far more is at stake than money when it comes to paying off her staggering student debt. And staggering it is: Calderon earned an MBA and a law degree simultaneously from Northwestern University. Both the Kellogg School of Management and law school are among the most highly selective schools in the nation.

She was paying tuition of around $70,000 a year and came out of school with $350,000 in student loans–more than triple the average debt piled up by Kellogg MBAs. The sooner she’s out of debt, the sooner she can launch her startup, an enterprise rooted in profound personal loss, and focused on improving the lives of cancer victims and their loved ones.

After graduating last year, Calderon has been paying down her


Love Care and devote herself to it full time as soon as she unburdens herself from her student loans, whether that happens this year, with a SoFi contest win, or later, after she pays the debt off herself. She wants to give families across the country the ability to do what she tried so hard to do for her mother.

Foreign B-school grads left out in the cold in U.S. job market

(Poets&Quants) — No question, Sudhanshu Shekhar was an all-star student at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He was on the dean’s list. He was elected partner in the school’s consulting club, selected as vice president of the operations management club, and held membership in four other student groups. He won a Best Buy marketing strategy challenge andto make an offer to anyone from outside the U.S. Worse, 47% of the companies hiring MBAs this year in the U.S. said flatly they would not employ international graduates.

Many of the companies that refuse to consider foreign-born MBAs told GMAC that international hires cost too much, require time-consuming paperwork and documentation, face a limited supply of visas, and often pose language barriers and an additional investment of time in the hiring process. Companies also cited concerns related to security clearances and cultural differences to explain their refusal to hire international MBAs.

For international students who attend European business schools, the situation is even worse. GMAC found that even fewer firms—just 23%—plan to offer a job to an international MBA graduate. But the challenges loom larger in the U.S.


because of the much greater number of international students enrolled in American business schools.

An oversubscribed path to employment

The H-1B is the work visa used by the vast majority of international MBA graduates from U.S. schools. The visa provides work authorization for up to three years, and after three years can be renewed for another three. Employers apply on behalf of employees, and applications have risen sharply over the past three years, but the number of available visas has remained the same.

When American business schools enrolled fewer international students, it was less of a problem. But as U.S. MBA programs have admitted larger and larger numbers of students from outside the U.S. to increase diversity and bring more of a global mindset into the classroom, getting jobs for thosegraduates has become a more troublesome issue.

The vast majority of international students apply to U.S. schools because they hope and want a job in the U.S. GMAC research shows that 87% of all foreign students studying in American graduate management programs intend to seek work in the U.S. after graduation.

However, the H-1B visa has become a political hot potato, with critics alleging massive abuse by firms seeking to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign employees, and two prominent companies—Disney and Southern California Edison—this year reported to have forced U.S. workers to train their foreign replacements before American workers were laid off.

For foreign nationals wishing to work in the U.S., getting an American MBA comes with a severe risk: those who fail to get work visas may end up


Francisco airport and Silicon Valley in 2013. “H-1B Problems?” the billboard read. “PIVOT to CANADA.”

Dealing with disappointment

For many who come to the U.S. with dreams of earning an MBA, long-term employment in America is at least a struggle, if not an impossibility. Kellogg’s Shekhar is a prime example. He had worked as an intern in the U.S. in 2007, researching enzymatic biofuel cells at Saint Louis University for a summer while getting a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur.

Straight out of his undergraduate program, he landed at Procter & Gamble in India as an associate manager for product supply, was promoted to manager after two years, and worked for the company for another two years, in India and at corporate headquartersclass of 2013, for example, 36% of 73 U.S. students—about 7% of the class—returned to the U.S. for jobs after graduating, the same proportion as in 2010.

The number of American students at leading European schools varies widely. At the Rotterdam School of Management, there were 10 Americans out of 140 students in the MBA class of 2014.

Students from North America made up 18% of IE’s MBA class of 2014. According to the school’s careers report, 35% of those in the class who obtained jobs went to work in Europe, 28% in Latin America, 12% in Asia, and 12% in North America.

The career paths of HEC Paris’ MBA graduates offer a window into the European job market. Ninety per cent of 2014 MBAs were employed within three months after


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certified record, is as follows. Mother and Father are parents to 6-year-old

Child, who was born in December 2011. Mother and Father remain married,

but have been separated since March 2014. Child lived with Mother and Father

at five different residences until parents separated. Father moved to Arizona

in May 2014 and Child remained in Mother’s care.       For approximately one

year, Mother and Child lived intermittently between the home of Maternal

Grandparents in Maspeth, New York and the home of I.W. and H.W. (“Maternal

Great-Grandparents”) in Pennsylvania. Father continues to reside in Arizona.

      On March 2, 2015, Maternal Great-Grandparents filed a pro se

Complaint in Custody and requested temporary physical custody of Child. On

March 25, 2015, Maternal Great-Grandparents filed a counseled Amended

Complaintfor Custody, joined Father as a plaintiff, and requested that the

Court grant Father primary physical custody of Child.     On April 16, 2015,

following a Custody Conciliation Conference, the trial court entered an Interim

Order awarding shared legal custody to Mother and Father and temporary

physical custody to Mother subject to periods of partial physical custody for

Maternal Great-Grandfather every Saturday.

      In October 2015, Mother moved to New Jersey with Child and began

living with her current paramour. On or around October 19, 2015, the New

Jersey Division of Family Services removed Child from Mother and placed Child

in foster care pending an investigation into 1) allegations of unexplained


file a petition with the court for a full evidentiary

hearing once the home studies were complete.

       On January 26, 2017, Father filed a Petition for Evidentiary Hearing.

The trial court held evidentiary hearings on May 19, 2017, September 11,

2017, and October 13, 2017. Father presented testimony from himself, his

paramour, his friend, and Maternal Great-Grandfather.         Maternal Great-

Grandparents presented testimony from Maternal Grandmother, Maternal

Step-Grandfather, and Mother.

____________________________________________

1The trial court awarded Mother supervised partial physical custody as agreed
upon by Mother and Maternal Grandparent, awarded Father 6-hour increments
of partial physical custody when he is in the New York area, and awarded
Maternal Great-Grandparents partial physical custody every Saturday.

             Grandparents. In sum, when then 4-year-

old Child came to live with Maternal Grandparents, she had a speech delay,

she was afraid to take a bath and wash her hair, she was not potty-trained,

and she was behind on her immunization shots. Id. at 173, 177. Child is

currently up to date on all of her immunizations and medical and dental

appointments, and is fully potty-trained.       Id. at 175-76.       Maternal

Grandmother took child to multiple evaluations and the school district created

a full I.E.P. for Child, which included co-teaching, speech and language

therapy, and counseling. Id. at 178-79. Maternal Grandmother presented

evidence from Child’s general education teacher, special education teacher,

and speech teacher to show that Child made consistent progress throughout

the school year with school services


with it.

As such, it is reflective of the reinvention of the magazine under its new editor, Radhika Jones, and its pivot away from a kind of arch celebrity-meets-intellect fantasy.

It is also reflective of the approach of the photographer Collier Schorr, the artist/recent fashion favorite who took the picture, and who has built a career out of exploring ideas of gender and identity.

But it’s also something else.

See, Ms. Williams is an official brand ambassador of Louis Vuitton, the luxury house. She appears in some ad campaigns, attends shows and so on.

On the cover of the magazine, perhaps not surprisingly, she is wearing Louis Vuitton, as she generally does at the Oscars, the Met Gala or other big eyeball events. (That’s usually part of the deal.)

At the same time, Ms.this, where the dots are connected out in the open, is rare. According to the magazine, though, it was not by design, but by accident.

Vanity Fair chose Ms. Schorr to shoot the cover in May, before it was aware that she had shot the Vuitton ad campaign, which was unveiled in mid-June. The magazine was drawn to her both because of her aesthetic and because she was one of the few photographers in fashion to speak out when the Harvey Weinstein revelations broke, demanding that fashion take responsibility for its own actions.

This is also, presumably, part of what drew Vuitton to her, since a number of previous ad campaigns had been shot by Bruce Weber, a photographer accused of abuse by more than a dozen men in an


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Musicology

Don't U miss the feeling music gave ya back in the day?

Musicology

(Columbia)US: 20 Apr 2004UK: 19 Apr 2004

The past 10 years have been difficult for Prince, the once-brilliant performer whose grasp on songwriting and production slowly loosened following a decade of unmatched creative fertility. Following his “emancipation” from Warner Brothers Records, Prince was free to do whatever he desired—as they say in the comics, with great power comes great responsibility. Prince didn’t handle this responsibility carefully; ultimately his status as an independent musician turned out to be a curse disguised as a blessing. Perhaps it was his ego and/or a lack of direction that helmed many a problematic release: the three-CD Emancipation, four-CD Crystal Ball, and even single disc releases like Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic and Thelearned how to have fun again. He has put himself on the road to reclaiming that expressive joy he once so fondly possessed in his heyday. While Musicology isn’t a brilliant brushstroke or a complete return to his past, it is without a doubt the best record Prince has made in a long time, a release that provides plenty to be excited about while he continues to find his way back to pop bliss.

Zeth Lundy has been writing for PopMatters since 2004. He is the author of Songs in the Key of Life (Continuum, 2007), and has contributed to the Boston Phoenix, Metro Boston, and The Oxford American. He lives in Boston.


Wing Commander Sahil Gandhi with his wife.

Read this report in Marathi

BENGALURU: Two Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team aircraft collided mid-air and crashed on Tuesday during a practice sortie for the 12th edition of Aero India, casting a shadow on the five-day biennial airshow that will kick off on Wednesday.One pilot, Wing Commander Sahil Gandhi died at the crash site. Wing Commander Vijay Shelke and Squadron Leader Tejeshwar Singh are under treatment at Command Hospital, the IAF confirmed. Shelke was the second-in-command of the Surya Kiran aerobatic team.The planes crashed around 11.50am near Isro Layout in Nagenahalli, about 17km from the Yelahanka Air Force Station, from where they had taken off.“Singh has fractures to both legs and was operated upon, while Vijay, who has relatively minor injuries, is undergoing scans,”with the other’s tail, making it very difficult to recover for the pilots. The two aircraft were performing a close spin-and-cross manoeuvre, while the other aircraft were engaged in a separate formation.The rest of the Surya Kiran team (seven aircraft) landed in HAL airport and has been based there. As part of standard procedure, the aircraft will be grounded temporarily. They will not perform on Wednesday.While all Surya Kiran aircraft (Hawk) are twin seaters, the team generally flies with one pilot. On Tuesday, one aircraft involved in the crash had two pilots, both of whom ejected to safety. Gandhi was flying solo, sources said, and could not eject immediately as his aircraft lost its nose, and thereby, complete control.Four years ago to the day (February 19), two aircraft


belonging to the Flying Bulls aerobatic team were involved in a mid-air collision right over the runway of the Yelahanka Air Force Station, very close to the tarmac area. However, the pilots recovered and landed safely as only the wings had clipped against each other. The Flying Bulls were performing for the crowd and, as TOI had reported then, nobody was injured.The Surya Kiran team had flown in full formation only on Monday during the full-dress rehearsals and all parameters of the flights were reported to be normal. With the Aero India inauguration scheduled for Wednesday, the team took off for morning sorties on Tuesday when the aircraft collided.Air Marshal RK Bhaduria, IAF Training Command chief, said: "When you operate nine aircraft in an aerobatic display team, thereThe hotel has 209 number of bedrooms across 6 different categories and can do large room blocks for groups. For any VIPs they also have two four bedroom Manor Homes – a real treat for a CEO travelling with his family. The bed was huge and comfy, and the room had all the amenities needed – a packed mini bar, luxurious shower and a Nespresso machine. Breakfast buffet was a feast of English and Scottish delights – the star being the delicious black pudding.

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Education Acroynms

Advanced Learning - SPS' three-tier program for advanced learners. Made up of APP, Spectrum and ALOs. (Note: the name of the district program is "Advanced Learning Services and Programs" but these three programs fall under "Highly Capable Services" of AL Services and Programs.

ALO - Advanced Learning Opportunity, the third tier of SPS' Advanced Learning program

AP - Advanced Placement. A national program of college-level classes given in high schools.

APP - Accelerated Progress Program. One of the levels of the Advanced Learning Program. NOTE: the name of this program is now "HIGHLY CAPABLE COHORT." This change occurred in 2014.

ASB - Associated Student Body. High school leadership groups.

AYP - Adequate Yearly Progress. Part of NCLB.

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CAICEE - Community Advisory Committee for Investing in Educational Excellence. Created by former Superintendent Manhas in 2008, to issue a report about reform recommendations for SPS.

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The year was 2009, and Miko Grimes—one of the few people completely unafraid of the NFL—had some advice for her football husband: Ignore your coaches.

Miami's Brent Grimes is now recognized as one of the best corners in the sport. But then, as an Atlanta Falcon, he was struggling to get off the bench. He would eventually play after a series of injuries devastated the secondary, but the coaching staff, Miko says now, didn't fully trust the backups. So they told Brent and others: Play soft, play safe and don't take risks.

Then, and now, Miko and Brent text at the halftime of games. Miko serves as an extra pair of eyes. Once, at halftime of a Falcons game, she texted to Brent, "Ignore the coaches. Go afterthe ball."

Miko had already studied the game so intensely, even at that point, that she could grade out the Falcons corners. Now, she is so studious about the sport, she is practically a coach. And while she was clearly biased in thinking her husband was better, she was also correct. He was. This would be proved in one of Brent's transformational moments in a Monday night game against New Orleans that year.

Brent came off the bench, and Drew Brees immediately challenged him. Ignore the coaches, go after the ball. Brent seemed to jump 20 feet high to pick off the pass.

There would be no more playing it safe. That aggressive Brent finished with six interceptions despite just eight games started.

It's rare for NFL players to disobey coaching orders.


been heard mostly sporadically, usually in opinions from her various radio appearances, Twitter interactions and blog posts. But her presence, especially in Miami, is growing exponentially.

What turned her into almost a national presence was her Twitter rant on the league's treatment of Brent at the Pro Bowl last year. It quickly became viral and was typical, truthful Miko. But also, it was a view of the NFL the public rarely sees.

Her fearlessness touches many corners in and around the sport. She takes on the media, especially if they criticize Brent. She called Jets wide receiver Eric Decker "weak." She's been called a 9-11 truther. She discussed teams' lack of loyalty to players in the NFL.

No media entity, player, coach, team or league official offers a more vivid, truthful,intertwined. It's a media story because she has few sources to protect, which gives her great freedom. She also has extensive knowledge of the NFL, on the field and off. Some of the stories she tells of football life, are, well, remarkable. She won't allow me to write them, but after hearing some, I almost fell out of my chair.

It's a love story because Miko re-energized Brent's confidence, helping him become one of the fiercest corners in the sport. And Brent allows Miko to be herself. They are each other's most trusted confidants, with Brent trusting Miko to fire his old agent and hire a new one.

And it's a football story because Miko talks about the sport in ways no NFL wife ever has publicly, allowing the outside


the NFL's problems is to discuss them.

Go back to a portion of Miko's Twitter rant about the Pro Bowl:

"I have friends that were beaten, thrown down stairs WHILE PREGNANT, guys arrested, & @nfl suspended them 1 F--KING GAME! Now yall care? FOH"

She didn't rant solely out of pure anger. She ranted to show the league's hypocrisy. Saying the league is greedy or hypocritical is not new, but giving stark, publicly unknown examples from inside the locker room is fairly rare.

She added:

She also has little patience for the media, which she believes can at times be lazy and take the easy way out. After her words about the Pro Bowl on Twitter, a reporter caught up to her at an airport and asked her about the resulting commotion.

"Do youthink [Brent] should have been MVP of [the Pro Bowl]?" she asked the reporter. "I'm asking your opinion."

"I honestly watched Miss Universe," the reporter said.

"So you didn't watch the game?" she asked.

"No, I watched Miss Universe," he said.

"Then why am I even talking to you right now?" she said.

Miko is unlike any NFL spouse I've ever met in some 25 years covering the sport. Most keep a distance from the NFL's inner workings. Most never go near the press. Almost all never publicly criticize the NFL, particularly when their husband is still in the league. They're too afraid.

There have been a few exceptions, but not many. One of the better-known exceptions is Gisele Bundchen, defending husband Tom Brady after the Patriots' Super Bowl loss to the Giants. In


She speaks to defend her husband or to address issues in the NFL. She was initially slightly hesitant to speak to Bleacher Report because she didn't like some of the things a B/R writer wrote about Brent.

There is no box that neatly fits Miko. She is a brilliant woman, a self-starter, an unabashed user of curse words, but she is also respectful to people who treat her with respect. She gets along with almost anyone, but she doesn't talk much to the other players' wives. They don't get her, Miko says. She was, and is, an excellent athlete but focuses more now on pursuing a broadcast career. She also plans to write a book one day.

(Interestingly, Miko's cursing is often mentioned on Twitter and in the rare profiledone on her, including this one. Lots of men curse, and that fact would never be mentioned. This is an example of the double standard Miko speaks of.)

Miko is one of the few football analysts who can deftly combine reporting skills, her connections in the sport and her own athletic background to get a three-dimensional picture of the NFL.

Miko, who stands about 5'8", played volleyball, softball, basketball and ran track in high school. She would go on to play basketball in college and then professionally overseas. After retiring, she did radio in Atlanta, and now in Miami for 560-WQAM.

Miko and Brent met in Atlanta at a birthday party. She was wearing six-inch heels, and when the 5'10" Grimes tapped her on the shoulder, she jokingly looked over Brent


like she couldn't see him. They hit it off immediately, mainly because Brent got her sense of humor.

"Before I met my husband," she said, "I thought football players were stupid, playing such a violent game without guaranteed contracts."

She saw him play basketball once, before he became a star football player, and thought, "He is the most explosive athlete I've ever seen."

They were married in Las Vegas, and Miko would become Brent's greatest backer. Brent went to Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and wasn't drafted. Draft picks, especially high ones, gain a modicum of protection from the front office. Not so for undrafted players. They can be stomped by the NFL machine, often losing jobs to draft picks, even if the undrafted players are better than the picks.

This was definitelythe case with Brent, and Miko saw it early. Miko served as a buoy for Brent as he languished on the bench in Atlanta, constantly reminding him that he was going to be a star one day.

And now he is. Brent is a prototypical example of player who isn't a household name because he's quiet and not a self-promoter. He is one of only a handful of corners who can cover any route and any type of receiver, all over the field.

There was one more thing that Miko did to help Brent: She got him to fire his agent.

They talked extensively about it, and Brent agreed. Miko had soon set up a meeting with the prestigious Creative Artists Agency to represent him.

"Why do they want me?" he asked


her.

"Because you're f--king dope!" she said.

"My husband is an angel," Miko says. "He's very proper. He doesn't ruffle feathers. He doesn't bang on tables.

"I ruffle feathers. I bang on tables. I'm the devil on his shoulder."

She's more than that. She's the NFL's great truth teller.

And hopefully she'll never change.

Mike Freeman covers the NFL for Bleacher Report.Javad Zarif by name in his concerns about the deal.

“In some extent, I did not believe in the way that the nuclear deal was implemented. Many times I reminded both the president and the foreign minister,” he said.

He did not detail how he thought Rouhani and Zarif should have implemented the nuclear deal, but hawks for years have criticized the accord for giving too much away from the West without enough economic gain.

Khamenei has final say on all matters of state. His remarks to hard-line students gathered to hear a Ramadan lecture indicate the growing power of hard-liners within Iran a year after US President Donald Trump withdrew America from the nuclear deal.

Relations between Washington and Tehran plummeted a year ago when Trump pulled out of the multinational


The Bob McLean Show

The Bob McLean Show was a Canadian talk show television series which aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1981.

Premise
CBC Television created this series in 1975 to replace Elwood Glover's Luncheon Date whose host had left the network for another Toronto-based broadcaster. Bob McLean hosted this new talk show from the lower floor of the Cumberland Terrace, a small downtown Toronto shopping centre at Yonge & Bloor.

From the second season, the series featured an increasing proportion of Canadian guests and subjects. In 1979, the series travelled from its normal Toronto studio with episodes produced in various Canadian cities such as Halifax, Ottawa and Vancouver.

The Royal Canadian Air Farce's Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson were frequently seen on the series as were comedians Howie Mandel andGitex Shopper, the biggest sales extravaganza for the Middle East’s IT and consumer electronics industry, kicked off on Saturday and will run for the next eight days delivering record deals and bargain offers on the latest gadgets and cutt

Plug-Ins, Al-Futtaim’s multi-brand electronics and IT retailer has opened its new Mobility Store at Dubai Festival City. The store is adjacent to the 35,000 square feet Plug-Ins store located in the Festival Centre.
The new store will ena


under
religious pretexts.

~ His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al
Hussein Bin Abdullah II

At age twenty, the dashing Crown Prince
of Jordan, His Royal Highness Al Hussein Bin Abdullah
II, is the youngest person to
have ever chaired a meeting of the 15-member Security Council of the United
Nations.He did so while serving as
President of the Council on behalf of his country for the month of April
2015.Appropriately, the meeting he
chaired was a debate on “The Role of Youth in Countering Violent Extremism and
Promoting Peace.”

Noting that more than half of the
world’s population is below the age of thirty, the Crown Prince cautioned:

We are in a race to invest in the
hearts and minds as well as the capabilities of the youth.The ideologies of darkness can reach where
the armies cannot, as modern communications have provided to every voicean
opportunity to reach every ear willing to listen.

The Prince’s remarks, promoting youth
in the peacemaking process, were tweeted - first in Arabic, then in English - to Twitter, with the hashtag,
#AlHusseinUNSC, from the verified Twitter account of the Royal Hashemite Court,
@RHCJO.His remarks, in Arabic, were also posted to
YouTube, with English subtitles, shared via Twitter.Photos of the event were posted to the Royal
Court’s Instagram and Tumblraccounts.

The Royal Jordanian Court has
consistently demonstrated a deep command of social media – and an ever-deeper desire to promote
peace, tolerance, and opportunity, especially for youth, in a region troubled
by violence and despair.

There are few people better poised – or possessing more poise – than the
Crown Prince, when it comes to commanding leadership, particularly among the
youth of the world, in promoting peace. His royal family claims


at enhancing
the capabilities of young peacemakers in confronting extremism and
terrorism.”It cannot come too soon.

PLEASE NOTE: In March
of this year, I had the privilege of touring Jordan with a group of bloggers as
a guest of the Jordan Tourism Board, as a travel blogger, @TravelEsquire. From that experience and an earlier visit to
Jordan as a speaker at a tech conference, MENA-ICT, I have come to have a
particular fondness for the efforts of the Jordanian leadership and people in
promoting peace in the region. A visit
to their country will demonstrate that tolerance and mutual respect for
diversity have found a home in Jordan.
This writer hopes others will follow that great model and the leadership of a future king.

Reference

Center For Middle
East Policy at Brookings, The ISIS Twitter Census: Defining And Describing
The Population Of Supportersday we went, they were out of tickets by 2:00 pm. The guided tour takes about an hour and provides some interesting Las Vegas history.

The Neon Museum features signs from previous hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. So long Sahara!

There are rides for the amusement park lover. The LINQ casino boasts one of the tallest Ferris wheels in the world. And it is impressive, I checked it out at night and the view was unbelievable. The Stratosphere has some risky rides on the roof of their building. Plus, the New York New York has a roller coaster with a fantastic view of the south end of the strip.

As always, a drink with a view, from the LINQ High Roller.

You can shop… The bus will take you to the


ITU Announces 2015 Grand Final Chicago Dates

By Triathlete.com

Published Aug 28, 2014

Photo: Delly Carr/Triathlon.org

The International Triathlon Union, USA Triathlon and Lagardère Unlimited Events North America have announced the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series Grand Final and World Championships will take place Sept. 15-20, 2015.

Read the news from USA Triathlon below:

New to the World Triathlon Series circuit in 2014, Chicago welcomed more than 4,000 elites, age-group triathletes and paratriathletes to a race venue based in the city’s beautiful Grant Park along the Lake Michigan shoreline, with athletes finishing at the iconic Buckingham Fountain.

In 2015, Grant Park will once again serve as the main venue for the Grand Final, featuring 150 of the top elite men and women in the sport vying for a world title. Other world championship events tobe contested over five days in Chicago include age-group sprint and Olympic-distance triathlon races, paratriathlon, juniors, under-23, U23/junior mixed team relay and aquathlon. Nearly 6,000 athletes from around the globe are expected to descend on Chicago for a thrilling week of multisport.

“The 2014 World Triathlon Chicago was a great success, so we are thrilled that Chicago will return in 2015 as the Grand Final,” said Marisol Casado, ITU President and IOC Member. “The city provides great support and a phenomenal backdrop for triathlon. Together with Lagardère Unlimited Events North America and USA Triathlon, I’m sure this World Championship race will be one of our best yet.”

The 2015 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Chicago will mark the first time a U.S. city has hosted the Grand Final since


the series was launched in 2009. It is also the first age-group world championship event to be held in the U.S. since the 2005 ITU World Championships in Honolulu, Hawaii. Chicago is the third U.S. city to host the ITU World Triathlon Series, joining Washington D.C. (2009) and San Diego (2012-13).

“Chicago was an exceptional host this year, and we are proud to welcome the world’s best triathletes back to the city in 2015 as they compete for world titles,” said Rob Urbach, USA Triathlon CEO. “With a sold-out field of age-group athletes as well as top-ranked elites and paratriathletes at the event in 2014, we know the 2015 event will showcase even more outstanding triathlon talent here on home soil.”

“The countdown has begun, and we are already makingSeptember 1, 1969, provided:

"Neither intoxication nor temporary insanity of mind produced by the voluntary recent use of ardent spirits, intoxicating liquor, narcotics, or dangerous drugs, or a combination thereof, shall constitute any excuse for the commission of crime. Evidence of temporary insanity produced, however, by such use of ardent spirits, intoxicating liquor, narcotics, or dangerous drugs, or a combination thereof, may be introduced by the defendant in mitigation of the penalty attached to the offense for which he is being tried.
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would have remained afloat. After Air France Flight 447 went down in the middle of the Atlantic in 2009, searchers found some 3,000 pieces of debris scattered across the surface.

With the passage of time, the absence of MH370 debris becomes increasingly puzzling. Recently Emirates Airlines CEO Tim Clarke expressed frustration over the ATSB analysis of the plane's fate, saying: "Our experience tells us that in water incidents, where the aircraft has gone down, there is always something." This is true. As far as I know, there have been no cases where a commercial airliner has crashed into the sea and no parts were recovered, even if the crash occured in an unknown location far out in the middle of the ocean, as MH370's presumably did.

Consider the fate ofthe Boeing 377 Stratocruiser "Clipper Romance of the Skies," which disappeared on the first leg of a planned round-the-world flight somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii in 1957. An aircraft carrier was dispatched and found floating debris six days later, halfway between its origin and destination and 90 miles from its planned track, some 1,000 miles from the nearest land.

The area where MH370 is now believed most likely to have gone down is a bit further out to sea, some 1,500 miles southwest of Perth. But far more assets were deployed in the search, including satellite, ships, and land-based aircraft. Indeed, the area was one of the first to be searched for surface wreckage back in March.

Still, it's easy to imagine that even pieces of debris might have


the coastline of Australia. It is possible that some materials may have drifted to the coastline of Indonesia, and an alert has been issued in that country, requesting that the authorities be alerted to any possible debris from the aircraft."

It's not clear why the AMSA believes that the debris' main landfall would be to the north of the presumed impact area. Pioneering ocean-current researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a retired professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, says that the South Indian Current should have been carrying MH370's wreckage eastward, at a rate of five to ten miles per day. That implies an arrival window on the beaches of Western Australia of between mid-June and late September.

Computer models of drift patterns suggest a similar conclusion. Click here for athreats affecting salmon populations.

The findings appear in the journal Global Change Biology.

The team's study focused on the changes recorded over a 20-year period to Atlantic salmon populations in Asturias, Spain - considered to be the "vulnerable" southern limit of the species' natural range.

"Salmon develop quite distinct population structures because of their ability to home to their natal rivers," explained co-author Jamie Stevens, from the University of Exeter's School of Biosciences.

"If you have such a defined system, they will quite quickly develop genetic profiles that become definitive to a particular river system."

He said the unique characteristics meant that the fish adapted to the conditions found within a particular river.

"There is a whole bunch of things: river chemistry, ability of the fish to withstand things like temperature, behavioural factors like


an increase in fish straying between rivers and a breakdown of population structures.

"Increased water temperature appears to disrupt the fidelity of salmon returning to their natal rivers," Dr Stevens added.

In their paper, the researchers from the universities of Exeter, UK, and Oviedo, Spain attempted to untangle how the different factors were undermining the salmon population structures of the five rivers.

They suggested that while the impact of the introduction of foreign fish was decreasing over time, the influence of changes to water temperature was becoming increasingly important.

However, they said that more data was required to get a clearer picture.

"Without many additional studies, it is not possible to determine the exact moment or life stage when the population structuring was eroded," they wrote.

"Long datasets of well-monitored populations could serve forcenturies of patient work, reducing his cult to smithereens–and all its members to a bloody splatter. Nothing remained except a tiny speck of demon shadow. Immortal and irreducible, this mote of evil was enough to seed the Shadow Demon’s next scheme, and in fits and starts, over further centuries, he began to regroup. Whatever that speck of shadow touched, it tainted, and its influence gradually grew. A chaos of damaged parts pulled together, reknit, and combined to give Shadow Demon a form even stronger than his former. He is all but complete now, and his plan for infinite dominion lacks all of its former weaknesses. It would seem that such a being of pure malice and malevolence, a threat to all creation, would be forever out of place


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A day after escaping from house arrest and slipping out of his country, a Venezuelan opposition leader arrived in Spain on Saturday and met with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

“I am going to dedicate myself to traveling the world, to spread the hope of all Venezuelans to escape this regime, this dictatorship,” the opposition leader, Antonio Ledezma, declared. “Venezuela isn’t on the verge of an abyss — it has fallen into the abyss.”

Mr. Ledezma, who had been under house arrest in Caracas on sedition charges since 2016, managed to evade his captors on Friday morning and flee to neighboring Colombia.

His flight from Bogotá landed at Barajas airport in Madrid, where, a Venezuelan flag draped over his shoulders, he hugged his wife and two daughters, who had left Venezuela earlier.to Ottawa through GM Tim Murray who was formerly an assistant GM with the Senators, was the most likely landing spot should Richardson make the jump to the big leagues. With former Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma being named the Sabres’ new coach, however, it appears Richardson’s options may have dried up.

As Garrioch reports, the Sabres had never officially requested permission from the Senators to speak with Richardson, but speculation is they would have had the deal with Bylsma fallen through. Richardson, who was an NHL assistant coach for three seasons with the Senators before taking the reins for the AHL Senators, has become a highly regarded coach by many around the league. His work in Binghamton over the past three seasons hasn’t produced a Calder Cup-winning team,


but he’s made a roster that doesn’t boast many top-flight stars into a competitive club each season.

In 2014-15, his top scorer was 21-year-old Shane Prince, who scored 28 goals and 65 points in 72 games. In THN’s Future Watch issue, Prince wasn’t a top-five prospect for the Senators, which could be a testament to how much Richardson was able to get out of the young left winger.

Over his three full seasons as Binghamton’s coach, Richardson has led the club to a total record of 122-82-24 with two post-season appearances. However, in both seasons the Senators made the playoffs, they were eliminated in the first round. Last season was the first in which his club didn’t make the post-season under his watch.

While terms of an AHL deal are uncertain,this price. Unwilling to wait, he rashly offered seventy-five dollars to an ex-soldier to take his place immediately. The substitute received twenty-five dollars in cash and a promissory note for the balance. As with his departure from the University of Virginia two years earlier, Poe now left the army with a debt he had no means of honoring. When John Allan learned of this, the truce with his prodigal foster son began to unravel.

Fourteen months would elapse before a place opened up at West Point. John Allan made it clear that Poe was not especially welcome in Richmond—"I am not particularly anxious to see you," he wrote—so Poe passed several months in Baltimore, living mostly at the home of a cousin. He spent much of his time assembling


NBA Draft Prospect of the Week: B.J. Young

B.J. Young is one of the most talented scorers in college basketball, but is facing significant question marks after an uneven sophomore season. Is he a prospect a NBA team should consider investing in?

After a very efficient freshman season, B.J. Young strongly considered entering the 2012 NBA draft, before eventually electing to return to Arkansas. The hope was that Young would build on his promising debut campaign and ride a strong sophomore season to a comfortable position in the first round of the 2013 draft, after improving on some of the weaknesses he displayed as a freshman.

Things didn't go exactly as planned, as Young had a rather disappointing season, both individually and from a team perspective. Arkansas went 18-1 at home,but struggled to win on the road (1-12), and ended up not even being invited to the NIT after losing in the first round of the SEC tournament to Vanderbilt. Individually, Young's production dropped off in many key areas. His scoring rate went down by 10%, in no small part due to his struggles shooting the ball, with his 3P% regressing from an excellent 41% (on four attempts per game) as a freshman to 23% as a sophomore.

On the bright side, he managed to improve his passing rate (4.5 assists per-40 compared with 3.4) while cutting down on his turnovers (2.8 per-40 compared with 3.5), but his struggles as a shooter put a major dent in his overall efficiency.

Off the court, Young had some rocky moments as well.


He was suspended in November for a violation of team rules (reportedly due to missed classes), and was benched for disciplinary reasons against Texas A&M a few weeks back.

On the court, Young remains one of the most electric open-court scorers in college basketball, blessed with terrific quickness pushing the ball up the floor and the ability to finish above the rim. He gets a huge chunk of his offense in transition, as Arkansas ranks as one of the fastest paced teams in the NCAA, but he's also extremely effective here, converting 70% of his shot-attempts in fast breaks situations, while getting fouled 21% of the time.

As you can see in the chart below, there's a case to be made for him as the best transition scorer in collegequestions NBA scouts will ask themselves in the next few months will likely revolve less around his playmaking ability and more around the disappearance of his jump-shot this season.

After making 64 of his 146 (44%) attempts last season (48% of shots with his feet set and 37% off the dribble) according to Synergy Sports Technology, Young regressed badly this year, making just 32 of 137 (23%), not being effective with either his feet set (30%) or off the dribble (20%). He seemingly lost his confidence in his jumper this season, as he appeared to be experimenting with different release points as the year went on. Young's mechanics look much more like someone who can't shoot than those of a knockdown shooter, so how well he's able to shoot


in private workouts could go a long way in convincing a NBA team that he has better potential in this area than he displayed this season.

Defensively, Young is a mixed bag. With his quick feet and long arms, he's capable of playing very good man to man defense when he wants to, and he can put excellent pressure on the ball in full-court situations as well. Off the ball, Young is pretty poor, though, as he's quick to get out of his stance and will relax far too easily as soon as his man passes the ball awaywhich is a real issue considering his team plays a lot of matchup zone, which demands a high level of attentiveness. He loses his focus in longer possessions and gives upfollowed him seemingly throughout his career, starting from when he was expelled from Christian Brothers high school as a sophomore, and then again when he was asked to leave Hazelwood Central high school as a junior.

His stay at Arkansas is not ending on the best note either judging by what his coaching staff is reportedly conveying to NBA teams, so the interview process and background checks will likely play a significant role in where he ends up getting picked and the success he ultimately finds.

Young wouldn't be the first talented young athlete to overcome such concerns and thrive at the NBA level after maturing, and the fact that he is the same age or younger than freshmen like Ben McLemore, Anthony Bennett, Willie Cauley, T.J. Warren, Alex Poythress


and Steven Adams certainly bodes well for his long-term potential.

Young has a little over three months to prepare himself for the NBA draft, so anything he can do to improve his body, perimeter shooting or ease the concerns around his off-court concerns will go a long way in solidifying his stock.

In a draft class lauded for its guards, three exceptionally talented, and wildly different, forward prospects sit in the top six of our mock draft, each taking a very different path to the top, and demonstrating wildly contrasting strengths and weaknesses. So who is the best prospect among the three?during the 1860s as a holiday house for William Taylor, who had arrived in Brisbane in 1849 on Chaseley, one of emigrant ships organised by the Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang. It is possible however, that references to Taylor at Cleveland during this period derive from his purchase of land, in the vicinity of Fernleigh, in the 1851 land sale.

By the late 1850s, Brisbane was finally recognised as the main port for Queensland. Cleveland remained isolated, developing into one of two fashionable Brisbane holiday resorts, the other being Sandgate to the north of Brisbane.

The Taylor family's first recorded connection with Fernleigh is in 1879, when Taylor's daughters, Ellen, Ann and Elizabeth acquired lots 14-15. Also in 1879, Taylor purchased the Cleveland State School building for , and it


sash windows.

A recently constructed weatherboard garage with a corrugated iron gable roof is located at the southwest boundary.

The grounds include a very large Fig tree at the southwest boundary, two large Candle Nut trees framing the driveway near the northwest boundary, a Macadamia Nut tree and Black Bean tree to the west of the residence, large Eucalypts near the western and southern corners of the site, as well as numerous smaller shrubs and flowering plants. The northwest boundary has a timber paling fence, with a timber pergola structure over the entrance gate. The northeast and southeast boundaries have wire fences.

Heritage listing
Fernleigh was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 March 1994 having satisfied the following criteria.

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern ofThe two plays that you are about to see could very well go down as the two best plays from the entire college football bowl season. And they both happened within a minute of one another during the Sun Bowl today.

First, Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas destroyed UCLA linebacker Myles Jack—and the entire UCLA defense, for that matter—on an impressive run:

And then, the UCLA defense got their revenge by knocking Thomas out of the game on the very next play:

Wow…and wow. What more can we say?

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Lloyd Young reprises his Tony Award-winning portrayal of the legendary lead singer of The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli. Erich Bergen stars as Bob Gaudio, who wrote or co-wrote all of the group’s biggest hits. Michael Lomenda and Vincent Piazza star respectively as Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito, two original members of The Four Seasons. Oscar® winner Christopher Walken (“The Deer Hunter”) stars as mobster Gyp DeCarlo

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Like this: Like Loading...As violence rages, Sangh fishes in troubled waters

As Assam riots rage on - causing reverberations in Maharashtra and Karnataka - the RSS and the BJP have a readymade Hindutva issue: a fight between "Indians" and "illegal Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants".

As Assam riots rage on - causing reverberations in Maharashtra and Karnataka - the RSS and the BJP have a readymade Hindutva issue: a fight between "Indians" and "illegal Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants".

Threats to students from the north-east in the southern states are being referred to as the "anti-national" siding with the "foreigner".

And even as the state governments geared to prevent the exodus, the RSS student-affiliate ABVP set up 24-hour helplines in 20 cities across India on Thursday for north-eastern students.

Also, people from the north-east who rushed to the Bangalore Railway


Station to board trains to Guwahati found about 250 RSS volunteers there to protect them, urging them to stay back.

Repeatedly under attack over the Gujarat riots of 2002, the BJP sees the Assam riots as an opportunity to attack the Congress government there and appeal to Assamese voters.

For the RSS, this provides an opportunity to appropriate north-eastern tribes - the Sangh's influence has been limited in the north-eastern states - within a wider 'Hindu' narrative.

"Workers of the RSS have met north-eastern students and offered all help for their safety and security," RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale told the media in Guwahati.

PTI quoted BJP president Nitin Gadkari as saying, "The problem in Assam is not communal but that of Indians versus outsiders. Anti-national people are involved in thisviolence. In Mumbai, the crowd waved the Pakistani flag, made provocative statements and vandalised the martyrs' memorial."

Talking to reporters in Delhi, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj wondered why the PM had talked to the Karnataka CM but not to the Maharashtra or Andhra Pradesh CMs.

She, however, added that the Karnataka government would ensure peace in the state.

The BJP has said that the government must offer refuge to Hindus fleeing Pakistan due to persecution.

This distinction between immigrants on grounds of faith is a fundamentally Hindutva theme which the BJP has articulated as a subtext amid the loud, secular clamour over corruption and inflation.


used pictures of his notebook to show how his work progressed.

David Fisher: We saw his notes written with a fountain pen before the ballpoint pen had even been invented!

Phillip Fitzgerald: Yes, and also just how he just showed his true love of doing science, and how he was always there on the weekends on Saturdays and how it just came across that this wasn't work for him, this was a labour of love.

Clare Smith: He called himself still a child of science and he was nearly 90, you know, and still running around the lab with his wife, who's also a scientist. They would be pretty amazing to work in the lab with.

David Fisher: Clare Smith and Jan Gralton from Australia, and Phillip Fitzgerald from the United States.administration came in, and how that prevented good scientists from having the resources to do robust research.

David Fisher: So is the Nobel Prize the career pinnacle for a scientist? Hans Rosling from Sweden's Karolinska Institute spoke in a panel discussion on global health, which we'll hear later in the year on The Science Show. Here's his take on the ultimate reward for scientists and medical researchers.

Hans Rosling: The personal highlight was to sit on the podium next to Professor zur Hausen. He's my hero. He found the cause of a major disease and he found a way to prevent it - cervical cancer in women. And when I worked in Africa I saw so many women dying painfully of cervical cancer. The only thing I could do was


Assessing students' knowledge regarding the roles and responsibilities of a pharmacist with focus on care transitions through simulation.
To evaluate the impact of a pharmacist-focused transitions of care (TOC) simulation on students' perceptions and knowledge of pharmacist roles in the healthcare continuum. Educational Activity and Setting: Two simulations, highlighting pharmacist roles in various practice settings, were conducted within the Pharmaceutical Skills courses in the third-year doctor of pharmacy curriculum. Patient cases were built utilizing electronic medical records (EMR). Students' knowledge was assessed before and after the simulations regarding pharmacist involvement in medication reconciliation, reduction in patient readmissions, reduction of inappropriate medication use, roles and communication on an interprofessional team, and involvement with health information technology (HIT) during care transitions. Fifty-one third-year pharmacy students were anonymously evaluated prior to andBill Gates makes $4.6 billion charity pledge, his largest since 2000

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Show Caption Hide Caption Bill Gates just gave 5% of his fortune to charity Microsoft founder Bill Gates just donated $4.6 billion to charity, marking his largest donation in 17 years.

Bill Gates has made his largest donation in 17 years, giving away $4.6 billion worth of shares in Microsoft Corp.

The billionaire philanthropist, who has long been the world's richest man, donated 64 million shares accounting for five percent of his overall fortune, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission filing released Monday and first cited by Bloomberg.The donation reduces Gates stake in the software maker to 1.3 percent.

The recipient of the gift was not disclosed in the filing dated June 6, though the majority of


his prior donations have been to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the charity set up by Gates and his wife to promote global development.

Gates' most recent pledge takes his overall charitable donations to approximately $50 billion, based on the foundation's most recent financial statement.

In 2000, the businessman who co-founded Microsoft in 1975, gave away more than $20 billion worth of shares, according to Bloomberg calculations.

Gates' estimated net worth is $89.9 billion, as of July 2017. He was briefly overtaken by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world's richest man on 27 July this year.Parker (in the episode entitled "The Fluellen Family" as Greenbriar).

In 1969-1970, Stone portrayed Hamilton Greeley in the NBC comedy series My World and Welcome to It. He played Sam Steinberg on the 1972-1973 CBS comedy Bridget Loves Bernie, and had the role of Charlie on the CBS comedy Joe and Sons (1975-1976).

Personal life
Stone was married twice. His first wife, Jean, died in 1960. He and his second wife separated in 1964. He had two sons and one daughter.

Death
Stone died  in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles at the age of 92, of natural causes.

Recognition
In 1964, Stone was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in CBS's The Nurses.

Filmography
 The Blue Dahlia (1949)
 The Harder


'Corteo' tells story about a clown

The three performers on Wednesday also wore clown makeup, which fits in with the storyline of "Corteo."

The Cirque du Soleil production features a tale about Mauro, a clown who dies but his spirit remains. Instead of being a dismal affair, Mauro's funeral procession is a celebration and a parade that celebrates life, according to Cirque du Soleil's website.claims.

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A photo caption in a Haryana government magazine describing 'ghoonghat' (veil) as the 'identity of the State' has sparked a controversy, with the opposition saying it reflected the 'regressive' mindset of the BJP government.

However, senior Minister Anil Vij dismissed the opposition charge, saying that BJP government had taken a number of steps for women empowerment and was not endorsing that women should be forced to keep a 'ghoongat'.

The recent issue of Krishi Samvad, a supplement of the Haryana Samvad magazine, a monthly magazine published by the State government, carries a photograph of a veiled woman.

The woman's face can be seen covered with a 'ghoongat'.

The woman is seen carrying cattle feed on her head, even as the caption reads: "Ghoongat ki aan-baan, mahra Haryana ki pechchan (pride of theveil is the identity of my Haryana".

The front cover of the magazine carries the photo of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

Reacting sharply to the description, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and senior Congress leader and party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said it reflected the regressive attitude of the ruling BJP government.

"This shows regressive mindset of the BJP government. Women from Haryana are ahead in every field. Just three days back, a young woman from the state was crowned as Miss India.

Girls from the state have made a mark in sports arena and other fields. India-born US astronaut late Kalpana Chawla hailed from Haryana," Hooda said.

Recently, Haryana girl Manushi Chhillar was crowned Femina Miss India 2017.

"Women wearing veil was not the original culture of Haryana. This practice started only


after foreign invasions and because of the fear of invaders. In south India, there was no 'purdah' system. Therefore, what I want to say is that BJP government wants to move back in time rather than thinking ahead and taking the state forward," he said.

Surjewala said it was a "regressive mindset and objectification of women, which is part of the DNA of the BJP".

"The BJP government has failed to realise that Haryana girls and women have excelled in fields such as space science, sports and the armed forces to name just a few," Surjewala said.

Dismissing the opposition criticism, Vij told PTI over phone, "What you are seeing in a government magazine should only be seen as what was Haryana's tradition. Nowhere are we saying that we want toThe effects of combined lesions of the subicular complex and the entorhinal cortex on two forms of spatial navigation in the water maze.
The role of the subicular complex and entorhinal cortex (SUB-EC) in spatial learning was examined in 2 water maze experiments. In Experiment 1, rats had to locate a hidden platform that was always a fixed distance and direction from an intramaze landmark. Each day, the landmark and platform were moved to a new location. Both control and SUB-EC-lesioned rats learned to locate the platform equally readily during training. However, the control group was impaired in locating the platform when the visual extramaze cues were concealed, whereas the lesioned group was unaffected by this manipulation. In Experiment 2, the lesioned rats were impaired in finding a hidden


Action movie star Tugg Speedman is on the downslide of his professional career. He wants to be considered a serious actor, but his latest serious role as the title character in "Simple Jack" resulted in negative reviews and ridicule. Comedian Jeff Portnoy is best known for his leading roles in sophomoric comedies, and may be less well known for his rampant drug use. Five time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus is a serious method actor, who immerses himself in whatever the role. On location in southeast Vietnam, they are the stars of "Tropic Thunder", based on Vietnam war veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoirs of his rescue during the war, that rescue which was considered a near suicide mission for the assigned army force and resulted in him losing bothA woman, whom the medical journal Current Biology simply calls SM, has a rare from of brain damage, and literally can not feel fear. But researchers sure had a good time trying to scare her!

According to a post on ScienceBlogs, a team from the University of Iowa took SM to an exotic pet store, to see how she'd behave around snakes and tarantulas. She poked and touched them all, and had to be stopped so she wouldn't be bitten. Next they took her to a Halloween haunted house, where she "walk[ed] into dark corners and hallways without hesitation." When people dressed as monsters/ghosts/murderers jumped out and tried to scare the group,

SM laughed and smiled at them, and even scared one by poking it in the head because she


was curious about how it felt. She rated her fear level at 0 throughout, saying instead that she found it exciting.

The researchers also showed SM scenes from scary movies — The Ring, The Blair Witch Project, The Shining — in an effort to frighten her. "She told the researchers that she found them exciting, and even asked for the title of one of the movies so she could rent and watch it. "

On some level, SM's disorder sounds beneficial — can you imagine the things you might accomplish if you weren't scared or intimidated? The things you'd try, the people you'd talk to, the dreams you'd chase? Fear can prevent us from quitting a job we hate, making the first move in a relationship situation, and from speakingup for what we want.

Of course, there's a downside: SM's disorder has caused her to make "risky financial decisions." And she's gone through some frightening experiences: When she was 30, she had a knife held to her throat by a drug addict while she walked through a park at night; she's been held at gun point, was nearly killed in an act of domestic violence, "and has been the victim of numerous crimes in the poverty-stricken area in which she lives." Since she's unable to determine what is a threat, she doesn't avoid potentially harmful situations, like most of us do. Still, there's something alluring about being able to laugh in the face of danger — and being able to poke monsters in the head.

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on his sword and he’s got the $20,000 fine and the ban from next year’s Matador Cup.

”Earlier in the evening he had a crack at a lot of people in the room, officials, he said things to teammates, he’s said things to the partners of teammates. Some people tried to get him out of the function. Inexplicably he was allowed into the after party after some of this behaviour.”

Breen also recalled the first incident that O’Keefe was pinned for.

”Last year in August when he came home from the Sri Lankan tour, very disappointed, he got on the booze and went to the Manly Steyne Hotel, got drunk was asked to leave, didn’t leave and the cops came,” he said.

”Then he said things to the police officers on thatin

The Region of Peel was established in 1974, and throughout its 40 year history the structure has not changed much (and neither has its logo). But in this day and age of mistrust of institutions and the constant need to adapt to survive, even the stale image of Peel Region may require some kind of a facelift.

Apparently inspired by Mississauga's recent re-branding, the Region of Peel recently commissioned a redesign of its existing logo. Suffice it to say, the reaction to the results of the re-branding was not as positive as they would have liked. The Region set aside approximately $190,000 for this project, and as of December, $95,000 was spent on producing three designs.

This is the current Region of Peel logo:

And this is what was produced after


to come up with something better. Now Creative is based in both Brampton and downtown Toronto, and these are the alternative logos they devised for Peel Region.

Now Creative, based on their own description, went with using simplicity and representing the components of the region as the theme. What I notice is the commonality of representing threes (as in Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon). The first one on the left has three colours, representing the three component municipalities. The second one in the middle shows a section of the map of Peel Region, specifically in the centre where Brampton is (which makes sense because it's where Region's main administrative building is located). The third one has three pillars representing the three municipalities.

In my personal opinion, I think the logos devisedby offering something they needed.

In 2006, Slesnick created the nation’s only research-based drop-in center for homeless youth in Columbus. Her research identified street-living youth and provided essential services that helped lead them to affordable, long-term housing. She created a one-stop shop to meet immediate needs: getting a meal, finding clean clothing and taking a shower. At the same time, she gained her research population.

A new drop-in center, Star House, last year served 984 homeless youth, who visited a combined 48,642 times. Additionally, 191 youth received crucial therapy and mental health services.

With help from the center, Malone found immediate resources to get off the streets.

“They treated me like any other person, not a piece of trash living in an alley,” the 30-year-old said. “They made me feel like family


whose previous club was Spanish outfit CD Ronda and also young Centre Back Alex Finney, on work experience from Leyton Orient.

Admission prices on the night are:

Adults – £10 (First 75 paying adults receive a match programme)

Concessions – £5

Under 16’s – FREE

Following their respective exits from the FA Carlsberg Trophy, ‘Boro and Chelmsford City (subject to Football Conference approval) have agreed to bring forward the match at The Melbourne Park Stadium from Monday 17th March 2014 to next Saturday (November 30th), confirmation should be received on this fixture switch tomorrow.The snowstorm is happening much earlier than normal, forecasters say.

Some areas have seen temperatures drop 50 degrees in 24 hours.

Parts of the nation that were mowing lawns this week broke out snow shovels Thursday as a sprawling storm sweeping across the West threatened to develop into an "all-out blizzard" over the Dakotas, where a blizzard warning has been issued.

AccuWeather meteorologist Geoff Cornish said some parts of Montana have seen a foot or two of snow. More areas could see that much as the storm eases east, he said.

"It's going to be really cold out there, and a spectacular winter storm for early October, much earlier than normal," he said. "Nasty winds are going to be buffeting the northern Plains on the backside of this storm."

Some areas saw temperatures


drop 50 degrees in 24 hours. Billings, Montana, fell from 74 degrees to 25 degrees. Denver, which saw a high temperature in the 80s Tuesday, saw temps plummet into the 20s. The city was forecast to get its first accumulation of the season Thursday, 1 to 3 inches.

More record-breaking:It was the hottest summer on record for the Northern Hemisphere

Spokane International Airport recorded 3.3 inches of snow Tuesday, breaking a record set almost 40 years ago. Thousands were without power in the area as the heavy wet snow took down tree limbs and power lines, Avista Utilities said.

"#avista crews working to restore power to areas that are still without. A lot of progress has been made in 24 hours," the company tweeted.

Heavy snow fell on the northern Rockies andmoved southeastward along with a charge of cold air, AccuWeather said. Winds were expected to increase into Friday, and blowing and drifting snow could force some roads to close down as conditions deteriorate, AccuWeather said.

"Crippling blizzard likely Friday into Saturday morning for much of eastern ND & Red River valley," tweeted the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

"One to three feet of snow is expected, with locally higher amounts," the weather service said, noting that one of the storm's impacts will be "several days of impossible travel."

The National Weather Service in Bismarck, North Dakota, warned that snow had made roads slippery Thursday: "Use caution if on the roads today!"

In California:Power restored to 50,000 homes, businesses, but many still in the dark.

And down South:Blistering heat and little


Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump has spent weeks drawing battle lines for a trade war with Europe and courting Vladimir Putin -- causing almost universal angst in Washington. On Wednesday, he blinked on both.

Trump's decisions to put trade hostilities with the European Union on hold and to delay the Russian President's visit he had planned for the fall are likely to be widely welcomed among Republicans and among US allies who have been concerned by his tendency to elevate US enemies while criticizing friends.

At the White House, Trump declared what appeared at first to be a stunning breakthrough in transatlantic trade amid fears of an all-out trade war.

"We had a big day. Very big," Trump said, promising a "new phase" in the relationship in which both sides win,after meeting European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. They sealed their meeting when Juncker kissed Trump, pictured in a tweet posted by Trump later Wednesday evening. It was a far cry from the President's smoldering rage at Europe that was in evidence during his trip across the Atlantic earlier this month.

"This was a very big day for free and fair trade. A very big day indeed." Trump said.

A victory or a walk-back?

The President needed a big day. His White House reeled Wednesday over a tape made by his former lawyer Michael Cohen aired on CNN'S "Cuomo Prime Time" that showed he knew about an effort to pay off a Playboy model who said she had an affair with him that contradicted his previous denials.

Trump refused to answer questions about


the tape during an photo-op with Juncker -- and the White House later banned CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins from the trade announcement for asking them.

The announcement on trade was dressed up as a huge victory, held in the Rose Garden, the traditional venue for big state announcements, and in front of a group of Republican lawmakers apparently called down from Capitol Hill to serve as a backdrop.

Yet in essence, its real effect seemed to be to disguise a step back by the President who has imposed steel and aluminum tariffs on US allies in Europe, repeatedly threatened to slap a 25% tariff on European cars imports and blasted the European Union in public.

The two sides said that they had agreed to discuss tearing down all tariffs,to this month as foes.

After all, on several occasions the administration seemed to reached agreement with China to avert Trump's trade war, but each time, the President unilaterally doubled down.

The President's apparent blink on trade came a day after the administration unveiled a $12 billion aid package for farmers hurting from retaliatory tariffs, especially imposed by China, on US products.

Given vehement complaints by Republicans in Washington about the tariff war, as well as cries for help from GOP candidates and office holders in the Midwest ahead of midterm elections, questions will now be asked whether the administration has suddenly realized the political impact of Trump's populist trade approach and is taking steps to mitigate it.

Trump-Putin II delayed

The trade deal issue was not the only climbdown on Wednesday.

Trump's national


security adviser John Bolton announced that the Russian President would now not visit Washington in the fall -- following an invitation issued suddenly by the White House on Twitter last week.

Bolton blamed the "witch hunt" -- the White House's terminology for the special counsel's Russia investigation -- for the delay and said the visit would now take place after the "first of the year" when the probe was over.

The White House has no control over the duration of Robert Mueller's probe, so its timeline may well be over optimistic.

And Trump's reversal again came amid fierce opposition from Republicans on Capitol Hill over the invitation which followed his deferential behavior when he met Putin in Helsinki last week, and warnings from US intelligence agencies that it is already targetingthe midterms.

Since the President also declined to answer questions about the Putin invitation, the prospect that he had been snubbed by the Russian leader could not be ruled out, though the Kremlin -- which had never showed much enthusiasm about the prospect of a Putin visit to Washington -- said Wednesday that it hadn't begun planning for the summit.

Given that the Russian leader so comprehensively outdueled Trump in Helsinki, Putin may have had little inclination to offer the US President a do-over in such a high-profile setting.

The two men could still meet elsewhere this year. Both would be expected to be at the Asia Pacific Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea in November, for example, or the G20 summit in Buenos Aires later this year.

Given the sometimes erratic


nature of Trump's impulsive foreign policy making, in on the cuff chats with reporters or on Twitter, no one can take it to the bank that where Trump landed on Europe and Putin will end up being his definitive position.

In a contentious hearing on Wednesday, senators repeatedly challenged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the question of whether US foreign policy was represented by formal statements of the State Department, the Pentagon and the foreign policy bureaucracy in the White House or Trump's often conflicting comments.

Pompeo complained that senators "somehow disconnect the administration's activities from the President's actions. They are one in the same."

How far that proves true for Wednesday's developments on Russia and EU trade might be best be covered by another of the President's favorite phrases:Conversely, as many commentators have noted, and as liberals' behavior since Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss to Donald Trump has demonstrated, when liberals lose under the existing rules, they seek to change the rules, specifically, the Electoral College whereby the individual states choose the president, replacing it with a nationwide "popular vote."

A key difference between conservatives and liberals is the way in which they handle a presidential election loss. When conservatives lose a presidential election, they take a moment to lick their wounds, then use the rest of their time in the wilderness to examine, analyze, and strategize to win the next election.

It is obvious why liberals, whose political philosophy and preferences are anathema to much of the nation, would want to do this. Eliminating the Electoral College means


District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

At last count, the total number of electoral votes among the states so far agreeing to the NPVIC is 189, with Ohio set to vote, soon. But none of the so-called blue states has approved the NPVIC, so it remains to be seen whether, ultimately, NPVIC proponents will garner the required number of states. It also remains to be seen whether the NPVIC is constitutional. NPVIC proponents typically support their argument by paraphrasing a portion of the Constitution in order to assert that the states "determine the time and manner of elections." But their paraphrasing is incomplete. And misleading. Here is theand when the NPVIC takes effect.

There is, however, one issue with the SPV concept we must address: the occurrence of a "Florida 2000" situation, where a SPV state's popular vote is close enough to trigger a statewide recount. One obvious solution would be to conduct any recount under seal, supervised by a judge or panel of judges.

And finally, to any NPVIC proponent tempted to dismiss the writer's SPV concept out of hand, let the writer point out an apparently unconsidered flaw in the NPVIC. The nationwide Electoral Vote distribution typically changes with every census. Surely, the brilliant minds behind the NPVIC have noticed the exodus of Americans from "blue" states to "red" states, such that after the 2020 census, some electoral votes will "shift" from blue states to


While it is Salah's generosity that has been called into question, the stats suggest the Egyptian was even more of a team player than Mane last season. The Egyptian passed to the other two forwards 48 times more than Mane (258 passes v 210 passes).

Firmino was the top assist maker of the trio, laying on five goals for the pair. All three of Salah's assists were for Mane, while the latter was responsible for creating just one goal for his fellow forwards (to Salah).

Mane can perhaps count himself unlucky to not have had more assists to his name, given he created 20 chances for Salah.

FIRMINO STUCK IN THE MIDDLE

Klopp's side have started this season as they finished the last, winning all four of their games - and theysit top of the Premier League table.

It was looking like a serene start until Mane's outburst, but does he have a point?

The stats show that Salah has passed to Firmino 10 times more than Mane and has yet to create a chance for the latter. He has created three for the Brazilian.

However, it appears the Egyptian might have cause to feel equally aggrieved with Mane, given he has received just five passes from him this season – one fewer than in the opposite direction and 15 fewer than Firmino has been on the receiving end of.

When compared to Firmino's passing stats, the pair came off unfavourably. This, however, can be explained by the fact they play on opposite sides of the pitch, with Firmino largely tasked with feeding


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