through an unmarked door to the side of the customs hall. The door led into a small room in which there was another steel table bolted to the floor and a large mirror on the wall. There were no other furnishings of any sort. The officer left Gillian standing in the room while she left the room through another door set beside the mirror. Some considerable time passed and during that time Gillian walked round the room noting with some surprise that there was no handle on the door through which she had entered. She fixed her hair as best she could using her hands and looking in the mirror (the officer had taken her handbag along with the other luggage) and eventually sat up on the tablelooking at herself in the mirror and swinging her legs in time with some tune she had picked up on the plane and which she just could not get out of her head.

The door opened suddenly and the officer returned to the room. Abruptly she said that she had reason to believe that Gillian was in possession of illegal substances and that she would be required to undergo a search in order to establish the facts of the matter. Gillian immediately and loudly exclaimed her innocence, but this had no effect what so ever. The officer explained that the search would require all body cavities to be examined and that if she wished it was her right to insist that a doctor be called to carry out the


search. However, the officer warned, such a course of action would lead to a delay of at least eight hours during which she would be required to remain in the search room in case she were considering disposal of the contraband. A bucket would be provided for any necessary bodily functions. How bad can it be thought Gillian, she had experienced embarrassment far worse than one woman could inflict in the past and although she had thought all such experiences were now well and truly behind her, in view of her business schedule and the people she was due to meet, she decided that such a delay would be intolerable, so she agreed to a search there and then.

"Very well," said the officer, "please do exactly as Iroom for doubt. Yes, that was exactly what was expected of her and she herself had agreed to the procedure. Gillian made a vow to herself at that moment; this may not be the first time she had been naked in front of strangers, but it was sure as hell going to be the last!

"Officer Johnson is currently on secondment to the customs service here at the airport and he is required to learn as much as possible in a very short time. I will therefore be issuing the instructions and recording the results and Officer Johnson will be performing the search."

It wasn't a question, it was a statement. Gillian was so shocked by this latest blow that her voice failed her and her reply was nothing more


than a squeak.

"Very well," continued the lady officer, "please remove your right shoe only and pass it to Officer Johnson.

Gillian did so. Her heels were not high by any standards, but the lack of a shoe unbalanced her and she put her right foot down touching the cold concrete floor. Again an involuntary squeak escaped her lips.

"Thank you," said the officer. "Now the left, please."

Again Gillian complied and the cold of the floor seemed almost painful as her bare feet rested on it.

"Your blouse now, please."

The voice was harsh and loud in the in the room and it echoed around increasing the effect.

Gillian's hands moved slowly to the top button of her blouse. She was trembling and found it difficult to undo the button.

"If you are having troubleI can ask Officer Johnson to help," said the woman, "only we've got a lot to get through and haven't got time to waste."

Her hands found the button and succeeded in their task, and the next and the next until the blouse hung loose around her where she had untucked it from her skirt. It was only by a conscious effort of will that Gillian managed to get the blouse off and she passed it back behind her to Officer Johnson without turning in an effort to preserve some modesty. As she felt the blouse taken she covered her breasts with her hands only to be sharply rebuked and told to keep her hands at her sides. This felt like school all over again and Gillian stood rigid


shaven pussy to one of the two other occupants of the room in order to comply. Frozen in space and seemingly time a thousand options ran through her head, but none would offer her an escape so, keeping her legs as close together as possible, she squatted down and picked up the skirt handing it back to the ever present Officer Johnson as she straightened up.

"We will now proceed to the body search," the voice informed her. "Please bend over and shake your hair out fully," was the next instruction.

Gillian did so. Her embarrassment had turned to humiliation and as it did so, the numbness she had felt earlier had returned; it was almost as if this whole horrible experience was happening to someone else.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Onego with them on Halloween night. Jim is a big dork who thinks he's the shit, but we let him get away with it because he's hilarious. That and he's hot, with big blue eyes, wavy hair, and features in all the right places. He's dressed as a zombie, complete with a torn shirt that shows off quite a bit of chest (no complaints!) And the other jerk calling me a chicken would be his girlfriend and my bff, Elizabeth (Lizzers to us cool people). Lizzers is almost the complete blonde stereotype, complete with big boobs and a tendency to do stupid stuff all the freaking time! She's dressed as a naughty schoolgirl, ultra-short skirt and all, which for her is just a way to show her inner-self


mouth to search for the key." hearing this made Jim noticeably exited. "Also, there is no time limit" The clown added with a wink.

Jim looked to Lizzers, and she pointed to the lady fourth from the left and said "Do that one! She's hot, so you'd better get me a souvenir."

Jim didn't need any more encouragement, as he walked over to his victim. The girl was gagged and tied in place, like all of them, and had no way of escaping or avoiding her fate. As we walked to her tub, she started shaking her head back and forth and screaming what sounded like "NO! PLEASE!" through her gag. This kinda creeps me out, so I try to tell Jim to stop, but Lizzers reassures me "Oh don'tworry, she's an actor. The 'victims' here are supposed to act helpless and never break character, it's not actually real."

Hearing Lizzie's explanation relaxed me, but it sent the victim girl into hysterics. If this was all just an act, then this woman should be in Hollywood. Jim got on his knees in front of her tub, put his hands behind his back, and dunked his head into the shallow water by her breasts. He felt around for awhile with his tongue trying to find where to look, while the victim girl thrashed around helplessly and tried to escape his mouth. He eventually got a good grip on the strap between her breasts with his teeth and started pulling back. The edible top stretched out before snapping, leaving this


girl's nipples in serious danger of being exposed! Thinking about that makes me check my own again, and to my horror I see that they are still poking out through the dress clear as day.

Jim dives back in and grabs the loose left bikini triangle, ripping it clear off like an animal! We can all see her nipple, and she looks even more embarrassed than I am in my wet dress. He hands the now-removed covering to Lizzers, and then goes for the other boob. After tearing her top apart, she is now completely topless in front of all three of us, with nipples erect and screaming for attention. She is not much more endowed than I am, with red hair similar to mine, leaving me to wonderif Lizzers chose this girl as a way to see someone similar to me stripped like this.

Unfortunately for the victim, the key was not in her top. Jim gets a naughty smile on his face once he realizes that it's time to take her bottoms off. The girl pleads again, but Jim ignores her and goes right in for the center between her forced-apart legs. He licks her there on her apple-flavored bottoms between her legs several times, and it's clearly torturing the poor victim. Amazingly, Lizzers seems to be enjoying her man licking this girl as much as he is! Jim finally grabs the side of her panties with his teeth and tears the front of them off by eating them completely. While eating, his tongue continues


to explore around, shocking me at what I'm witnessing. When Jim sits back up, he stares right at the victim girl's bald and very naked pussy before taking the key out of his mouth and smiling. The poor girl is unable to even cover up or close her legs, hanging her head in shame while we all lust after her bare body.

Her acting is amazing...at least, if it IS acting. I mean, what if this place is really the madhouse it pretends to be, with an insane clown kidnapping teenagers and forcing them to be creepy sexual entertainment for money? That thought makes me shiver, and the look in that clown's eyes makes me wonder more and more just how dark the soul behind them truly is.

"Ooooo, numbercourse we waited around. I took her sister out to eat at a McDonald's nearby and when we got back she got into another argument with my girlfriend. Something about ruining her trip, even though it was OURS, but whatever.

One thing about her sister was that she actually wasn't bad looking she just acted really annoying. Like she would be the girl that would date a guy my age but I bet the fact that she is annoying sometimes is why she isn't.

Anyway her sister found a pamphlet at the McDonald's about a cardinals baseball stadium tour. She apparently was a fan even thou we were from Chicago and the Cubs hate them but whatever. She wanted to go and who was I to stop her from giving


'IOA have violated their own constitution'

December 29, 2016 17:34 IST

Sports Minister Goel hits out at IOA chief N Ramachandran for making Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Chautala life presidents

Union Sports Minister Vijay Goel, on Thursday, hit out at Indian Olympic Association president N Ramachandran for honouring scam-tainted Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Chautala by making them life presidents at its AGM.

"I feel that IOA president Ramachandran is equally guilty. He brought this item (into the meeting) despite it not being on the agenda and passed it," Goel told reporters after inaugurating the 10th national Vanvasi archery competition at the RCF ground in Mumbai.

"Indian Olympic Association's job is to work with basic principles of ethics and good governance, but they have made two persons -- Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Chautala whoElon Musk is being targeted by the conservative political action committee, Citizens for the Republic. The group's so-called Sunlight Project is behind an incendiary lobbying campaign and website called, "Stop Elon Musk from Failing Again," with a mission of divesting the Tesla/SpaceX/SolarCity boss from federal clean energy subsidies.

Musk himself has tweeted about the recent rash of attacks.

According to the Washington Examiner, the campaign was launched a few days before Tesla's recently approved merger with sister company SolarCity.

"The Musk empire appears to be nothing more than a collection of failing startups and plummeting stock options," Citizens for the Republic said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. "Even the once-touted SolarCity had to be bought out by Tesla" to survive.

"Following the victory of President-elect Donald Trump and a majority


the solar industry "Big Energy," calling it a pet project of "the Obama Administration and those who claim to care about the environment." It accuses Washington of funneling millions in tax credits to solar companies "despite posting losses year after year." (Actually, the solar industry has reported record-breaking growth in recent years).

Several new reports have determined that the anti-solar/anti-Musk campaign has dubious ties with conservative interests and Big Energy lobbyists.

Electrek writer Fred Lambert reported that Citizens for the Republic, which was first launched by Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and later dismantled, is now spearheaded by none other than conservative radio host and climate change denier Laura Ingraham. Ingraham, a top Donald Trump surrogate, happens to be in the running for press secretary under the Trump administration.

The Drive'sWalcher, the president of the Natural Resources Group and the former executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. In 2004, The League of Conservation Voters added Walcher to their "Dirty Dozen" list of anti-environmental candidates during his run for Congress in Colorado's 3rd District.

Walcher boasts on his resume that he "helped forge a compromise and approval that allowed new technology to access oil shale in the Piceance Basin, leading to the first practical oil shale production in 30 years."


Pasadena, CA – NASA reports that Astronomers, including a team member from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, have detected the first population of radio bursts known to originate from galaxies beyond our own Milky Way.

The sources of the light bursts are unknown, but cataclysmic events, such as merging or exploding stars, are likely the triggers.

A radio burst is a quick surge of light from a point on the sky, made up of longer wavelengths in the radio portion of the light spectrum. A single radio burst was detected about six years ago, but researchers were unclear about whether it came from within or beyond our galaxy.

This image shows the Parkes telescope in Australia, part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Researchers, including a teammade incredible times that had oddly enough, given the results of recent races, made him euphoric. He probably still believed in his chance at a comeback for the championship title. Unfortunately for him, Valentino got ahead of him again and then everything ended in an argument between the two during the post-race press conference.

There is much, too much, agitation in the Yamaha camp, but especially in Jorge Lorenzo’s mind as he continues to create stupid controversy on the way the other riders overtake him. At Misano he complained about Valentino’s pass, considering it too aggressive, when none of the other 100,000 spectators noticed and Vale, quite rightly and politely, told him to get stuffed.

Jorge Lorenzo has always complained about these passes in the past. He did it with


Marco Simoncelli, continuously accusing him of misconduct, then he did it with Andrea Iannone and now with Valentino too. All of this is a symptom of insecurity and it is a pity that it also seems like a way to make excuses when he loses. Get back to being that great rider who won the world championship with the right dose of sporting aggressiveness. He has more than enough.

For Valentino Rossi it was a bittersweet day: he had made everyone dream of the win, a true cherry on the top of the Sunday, but things went differently.

Marc Marquez had a bad day, but he continues to ride with the handbrake engaged, given the fact that his 43-point advantage is still quite good with five races left until theend of the world championship.

However, we are seeing a strange Marc, a rider who sometimes risks, even too much, especially during practice, and who races with a fear of falling during the races. Here we have a different Marquez from the one we know. He is boyish, he keeps a low profile and he is very afraid of losing this championship that he would have tried to win in a different way in past years.

The final Grand Prix races will not be easy for the Spaniard.


vanguard was made up of 100 Cossacks led by Captain Belogorodtsev. Belogorodtsev sent a seven-man scout detachment, who stumbled on a similar reconnaissance troop from Kirkor's Tatar regiment. This led to fighting in the vicinity of Opsa, during which Kirkor's regiment fought against a Cossack force of a few hundred men led by Colonel Kireyev. After a few hours of fighting, the Lithuanian regiment was forced to retreat. Rotmistrz Miłłaszewicz was captured, and Lieutenant Achmatowicz was severely wounded. Zabiełło believed that a few dozen Russian soldiers were killed.

Sułkowski writes that Kirkor's regiment watched the movements of the Russian troops. Rautenfeld encircled Opsa on the night of 25 May, with the aim of neutralising the Lithuanian Tatar force. Kirkor wanted to avoid being captured by the Russians, so heAir compressor systems for internal combustion engines, such as those powering locomotives, are known in the art for the purpose of generating compressed air to be used in the braking and auxiliary systems of the locomotive. For example, a prior art air compressor system may include a multi-cylinder air compressor with a pair of low pressure cylinders and a high pressure cylinder mounted on and supported by a crankcase. Generally, the air compressor is powered by the locomotive engine and is unavailable for use while the locomotive is shut down.
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A motorcyclist near Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, had a terrifying close encounter with a bear.

Just as the rider and his passenger are coming to the end of a left turn, a bear can be seen running out of the woods toward the riders.

It's unclear if the bear was attempting to attack the motorcyclist or just cross the road, but it certainly spooked the driver, who simply said, "Whoa!" after swerving slightly to avoid that animal.New Survey Finds Nearly One-Third of Respondents Have Experienced Sexual Harassment or Assault While Climbing

Catcalling, verbal harassment, unwanted touching, following and kissing, flashing and rape—these are the forms of sexual harassment and assault women and men said they have experienced while climbing, according to a recent survey.

The survey was administered last spring by #SafeOutside, a new grassroots initiative that aims to combat sexual harassment and assault in the climbing and outdoors communities. More than 5,000 people took the survey and 31.2 percent said they had experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault in a climbing environment.

The survey was spearheaded by a group of climbers, including Charlie Lieu, an MIT-trained data scientist and operational strategist who has been climbing for nearly 25 years and is on the board


sample (a group that accurately reflects the greater climbing population). Rennison and Lieu acknowledge the results represent only a small portion of climbers nationwide. In 2017 in the U.S., more than 2 million people participated in sport climbing/bouldering and more than 5 million participated in indoor climbing, according to the 2018 Outdoor Participation Report.

In addition to specific questions, the survey also provided space for users to write free-form comments. The 998 comments collected in the survey illuminate what sexual harassment and assault can look like for climbers. Respondents described people climbing into tents uninvited, groping and unwanted kissing, and being assaulted at home, at work or while visiting climbing friends. The incidences of sexual assault also included attempted rape and being raped while on an expedition at camp.Our cardboard cutout of Filip Chibs Telford from the television series Sons of Anarchy- Portrayed by Tommy Flanagan, he holds the rank of Sergeant at Arms of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club- Unlike the rest of the club, Filip is Scottish and not American- He received the nickname Chibs because of the scars on his face, chib in Scot means scar or knife- Telford is wearing a dark button down shirt, leather vest, blue jeans, and tan boots- Made In The USA- High Quality movie theater quality movie cutout- Easy Assembly - Comes with stand-up easel- Realistic Appearance, Great For Parties or Collectors- Officially Licensed- Size: 72" x 30"- SKU: ADVGRP215 008203301337


in April, 1977. Judgment was entered for the bank on December 7, 1977, in the amount of $131,258.80.[1]
In 1968, Wear was an agent for the Century Life Insurance Company (hereinafter "Century"), a Texas company, and had been since 1952. He was not paid a regular salary. Instead, Century agents were financed by Century's advancing to them commissions from sales of policies on which the premiums had not yet been paid. In return the agents signed promissory notes to Century, and assigned as collateral for the notes commissions on future premiums. On November 21, 1968, Wear executed the promissory note at issue here to Century for $87,460.73, plus seven per cent interest. Century, on December 26, transferred this note to Century Life Investment Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary, which inturn sold it to the plaintiff bank on the following day. The bank paid Century Life Investment the face value of the note.[2]
Wear did not make direct payments to the bank. Rather, Century made lump-sum payments to the bank, and the bank in turn credited the Century agents with the monthly payments due on their notes. The bank's record of payments shows that Wear's note was paid in this manner through July, 1969.
In that month Century was placed in receivership under the Texas Department of Insurance. On October 1 the receiver sold Century's assets, including the insurance policies in force, to National Old Line Life Insurance Company of Arkansas. Century's agents were paid or credited for deferred commissions and service fees due them through September, 1969, but not


for any commissions or fees becoming due after the sale to Old Line. Century agents who signed on with Old Line continued to receive their commissions and fees, but Old Line did not attempt to hire Wear, nor did Wear approach Old Line. At the time of Century's sale to Old Line, the value of the deferred commissions and service fees that Wear would have been owed in the future was about double his indebtedness on the note.
The bank received no payments after July from Wear, the receiver or anyone else. Therefore, on January 22, 1970, the bank notified Wear for the first time that it was the owner of his note, that he was behind in his payments almost $14,700, and that the note would be acceleratedif he did not at once remit that sum. Six months later, on July 20, the bank credited Wear with one final payment of $10,382.[3] It has formally considered the note to be in default, and hence subject to ten per cent interest, since that date. After this final payment, the balance due on the note was $65,842.70. In September, 1970, a Texas court approved an agreement between the bank and the receiver wherein the bank agreed to pursue the agents personally on their notes and not go against Century's assets.[4]
*29 In defending the bank's suit against him, Wear argued that he had the right to set off against the bank's claim the value of deferred commissions which he had earned from the sale of Century policies and


was a transfer, assignment and conveyance of Wear's note from Century to its wholly-owned subsidiary, Century Life Investment Corporation. But this assignment purported to transfer to Century Life Investment only the "certain note or notes described in Exhibit A attached hereto." (Emphasis added.) Exhibit A (Plaintiff's Exhibit 3) described Wear's note, but the actual note was not endorsed to Century Life Investment, nor was it so firmly affixed to the assignment that the assignment became a part of the note. In fact, the actual note was not attached to *30 the assignment at all. What was attached was merely a description of the note and a statement that Wear had collaterally assigned to Century his deferred commissions on insurance policies that he had written to apply to themonthly payment due on the note. In these circumstances, Century Life Investment did not become either a holder or a holder in due course of Wear's promissory note made payable to the order of Century Life Insurance.
On the day following the transfer and assignment from Century Life Insurance Company to Century Life Investment Corporation, the latter executed an instrument transferring and delivering to the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Las Cruces, New Mexico:
those 27 certain promissory notes described in Exhibit I attached hereto and made a part hereof, and all of the right, title and interest of the undersigned in each respective collateral agreement to which reference is made in the description of each note contained in said Exhibit I.
Wear's note was included with the 27 notes thus


through the receiver, transferred its insurance policies to National Old Line. Because Century breached its implied agreement to remain in business, Wear has been deprived of the right to his deferred commissions. Wear thus would have had a defense against Century if it had sued on the note.
We are now confronted with this question: whether the bank is also subject to the defense that Wear had against Century. The defense had not ripened at the time the note, no longer negotiable, was transferred to the bank, but the potential for nonperformance by Century was present. However, under Texas law,[11] where a set-off arises out of the same transaction which created the obligation which is assigned, which is the situation here, the obligor may assert subsequent nonperformance by thewith any horrific elements only secondary to fulfilling that. The tale was inspired by a story told to him about a garden in Bremen's New Town by his niece Caroline Amalie Gildemeister ( Kotzebue), with whom he corresponded frequently. It was completed and published in volume four of Volksmärchen der Deutschen in 1786.

Publication and translations
"The Spectre-Barber" was first published in 1786 in the fourth of the five volumes of Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1782–86). Volksmärchen der Deutschen was collected into a single volume in 1842, extensively illustrated by Ludwig Richter, and has been republished many times in Germany since then.

The story was translated anonymously into French by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès as "L'Amour Muet", the first story in his collection of German ghost-stories Fantasmagoriana (1812). An English translation of most


The screenwriter behind top Hollywood hits such as Gladiator and Les Misérables is to open Derry's biggest film festival this Friday.

William Nicholson will be appearing at the Foyle Film Festival (FFF) to discuss his latest movie Hope Gap.

Nicholson has worked with some of the biggest names in the business; including the likes of Sean Connery, Jodie Foster, Russell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Andrew Garfield and Angelina Jolie.He began his distinguished career at BBC Television as a documentary filmmaker before moving into drama.

His film credits include Nell with Liam Neeson, First Knight with Richard Gere, Gladiator, Elizabeth: the Golden Age with Cate Blanchett, Les Misérables with Anne Hathaway and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom with Idris Elba.

Now in its 32nd year, the festival promises a host of cinematictreats and industry talks.

The Closing Night Gala features Irish film The Last Right - a comedy-drama road movie telling the story of a man bringing the body of a stranger home for burial.

As always, the festival showcases the best in Irish cinema and some of the programme’s highlights include Land Without God - an intimate portrait of a family coming to terms with decades of institutional abuse. Lost Lives is a major cinematic film inspired by the book of the same name, and marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the conflict in the North.

Also included in this year’s programme is the acclaimed documentary Gaza which brings the audience into the lives of the people trying to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict.

This year


But the case began to unravel in 2001 when a federal informant who had been a member of a violent gang called the Patio Crew gave the feds the name of the real killer. The Appellate Division for the Second Department reversed Deacon's conviction in 2013, but the D.A.'s office refused to drop the case against him.and very formidable talents to create the true essence of the most radical decade to ever be called "The 80's." The Molly Ringwalds create an 80's Experience by honing their abilities to apply make-up and tease their hair while showcasing all the musical genres of the decade. From their days of building a following at a pub located in a large portion of a big city near a small village located south of a place you've never heard of, to selling out large venues in the United States, The Molly Ringwalds are an indescribable act. Luck and circumstance brought these young lads together. The rest is the history of the 80's.


NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 05: Mandy Rose attends Meet WWE Superstars during 2018 New York Comic Con at The Queer Lounge at Javits Center on October 5, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Mandy Rose gave an interview to Sports Illustrated, where she talked about her goals and Sonya Deville:

“Last year I was able to show off the seductive side of my character, but that was just the beginning. The next goal is to be the women’s champion of SmackDown. Sonya Deville and I will continue to work until we win the tag team titles. “

Besides, Rose stated that she and Sonya Deville have been friends since Tough Enough and NXT. Mandy later said her “Fit with Mandy” app was designed to help peoplecandidates extending all the way back to Richard Nixon's election in 1968.

It is important to realize that the enormous inherent advantages of incumbency can make representation appear to be arbitrary from this nationwide vantage point. Why was Wyoming's representative, the now-retired Barbara Cubin, so stridently conservative, while North Dakota's Earl Pomeroy is a moderate Democrat? Wyoming did replace Utah as the reddest state in '08, but the Presidential and political gaps--exit polls indicate 39% of Wyoming voters consider themselves conservative and 14% liberal to North Dakota's 36% and 16%, respectively--are not nearly as wide as the chasm between the their respective Congressional representatives are. The same sort of contrast is apparent on the left end by looking at Delaware's Michael Castle, a centrist Republican, and Rhode Island's Patrick


Kennedy and James Langevin, both of whom are reliably leftist Democrats.

The question is meant to be rhetorical. I don't have an answer, other than point out that Wyoming's Cubin had been in office since the Republican revolution of '94, the same year Ted Kennedy's son Patrick took office in Rhode Island, Pomeroy and Castle were first elected to Congress in '92, and Langevin, at age 45, has been in his spot for five consecutive terms. Especially when a representative is opposite the center of his constituency, the longer he stays, the easier it becomes to keep staying. There are a combination of reasons for this, including voter appreciation of pork brought in from the federal level to the district feeding trough, name recognition and its conseqeunt media advantages,and financial backing from the party's national committee.

As the House putatively exists to enact legislation at the federal level, the charge that North Dakotans are being poorly served relative to Wyomingites ignores the fact that it is the nationwide aggregate that is ultimately important from the political perspective of voters. State and local governments matter more than Congressional representatives do in the way residents go about their daily lives. Their congressional representatives mostly matter to the extent they are able to win stuff through the spoils system. With the odd exception of a Ron Paul, the vast majority of congress critters are making concerted efforts to bring home the federal bacon, whether they be on the left or the right.

Despite apparent randomness in some solidly red (blue) states


is estimated by averaging the votes of the rest of the representatives in their state who share their party affiliation. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio's 11th district died last August and was not replaced until November by Marcia Fudge. Consequently, only Tubbs-Jones votes are used to determine Ohio's political composition.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A new Zogby poll exposes what amnesty proponents are aiming for. Among the key findings:

• A clear majority of people in Mexico, 56 percent, thought giving legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States would make it more likely that people they know would go to the United States illegally. Just 17 percent thought it would make Mexicans less likely to go illegally. The rest were unsure or thought it would make no difference.

• Of Mexicanswith a member of their immediate household in the United States, 65 percent said a legalization program would make people they know more likely to go to America illegally.

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• A new Pew Research Center poll also found that about one-third of Mexicans would go to the United States if they could.

• An overwhelming majority (69 percent) of people in Mexico thought that the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) should be to Mexico. Just 20 percent said it should be to the United States. The rest were unsure.

• Also, 69 percent of people in Mexico felt that the Mexican government should represent the interests of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) in the United States.

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•Both the bad economy and increased immigration enforcement were cited as reasons fewer people were


shell. The eccentric vibrator is driven by a 10 kw electric motor for developing a circumferential vibration of 2800 cycles per minute. The eccentric vibrator is comprised of two eccentric discs having a moment of 18 kg.cm. In operation, in boring a horizontal passage, it is first required to drill a 75 mm hole for a traction rope which is passed therethrough and connected to the "vibratory bullet". After the eccentric vibrator is started, the "vibratory bullet" is pulled forward by a hoist or tractor to which the other end of the rope is connected. The actual forward speed of the device, in forming a passage in sandy soil is equal to the tractor speed running in third gear. Operation of the device is described in "The ExperienceOne of the women accusing the judge, Prof Christine Blasey Ford, said Mr Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party in 1982 when they were high school students.

She provided testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee and Mr Trump initially called her a "compelling" witness - but he later questioned her credibility and mocked her at a rally.

What did Mr Trump highlight?

As the White House ceremony got under way on Monday, Mr Trump said: "On behalf of our nation, I want to apologise to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure."

And he decried a "campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception", adding that "under historic scrutiny", he had been "proven innocent".

Last week, the


The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is the second-oldest, continually-operating soccer tournament in the world and the best-kept secret in American sports. Since it was launched in 1913 (as the National Challenge Cup), this single game elimination tournament has been open to both amateur and professional teams in an effort to crown a true national champion for the United States - similar to England's FA Cup. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the American sports landscape.

Until TheCup.us was launched in 2003 (under the name USOpenCup.com), there had never been an independent media outlet dedicated to giving the tournament full coverage from qualifying to the Final. Since then, the staff of TheCup.us has worked diligently to not only tell the stories of the current tournament, but hasIran has blocked the sale of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday in its native region after alleging that the choice-driven PC game presents "false and distorted information" regarding the 1979 revolution.

The narrative-based title from independent studio Ink Stories puts players in the shoes of a photojournalist and claims to present a "historically accurate" realisation of the uprising in Tehran.

Despite widespread praise for its depiction of the Iranian revolution, the country's video game supervising board – the Iran National Foundation for Computer Games (NFCG) – took action to block the game's sale from online retailers, such as Steam, due to what it described as "anti-Iranian" sentiments.

NFCG director Hassan Karimi explained the decision to Tehran Times, stating that "Games like this can poison the minds of the youth and young adults


about their country by means of false and distorted information, and also damage their spirits." He added: "Iranians will quickly realise the hostile intentions and objectives of the developer if they see the game."

Karimi also stated that the game has "not been well received by gamers," an evaluation that sits at odds with the title's "very positive" overall rating on Steam (based on 108 reviews at time of writing) and a Metacritic aggregate score of 81 out of 100.

Based on "real first hand testimonies of freedom fighters, witnesses and casualties of the revolution which helped define the 21st Century," 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is told almost entirely in flashback sequences from the perspective of protagonist Reza Shiraz. The game mixes third-person exploration, tense dialogue-choices, first-person photography and quick-timeNippon Ichi Software has released an animated video in celebration of the Disgaea series’ 15th anniversary. The first game in the series, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, launched for PlayStation 2 in Japan on January 30, 2003.

The animation was created by students of the Nagoya Communication Art Senmon School.

Watch the video below.


A taxi driver who is separated from his wife has failed in a bid to lift an order which bars him from texting their 12-year-old daughter - despite being able to meet her in person.

The order was made by a judge following private family court hearings and the man, who lives in south-west London, has failed to persuade a Court of Appeal judge to lift it.

Detail of the case emerged at a public at a Court of Appeal hearing in London on Thursday.

A taxi driver from south-west London has been barred from texting his daughter

No-one involved has been identified.

Appeal judge Lord Justice McFarlane was told that the order had been made by Mrs Justice Parker, who is based in the Family Division of the High Court in London.

Theman, who is allowed to see his daughter twice a month, complained that Mrs Justice Parker's order was unfair, and the youngster had written a letter to Lord Justice McFarlane asking to be allowed to swap texts.

But Lord Justice McFarlane ruled that the man had no grounds for mounting a challenge.

He said Mrs Justice Parker had been entitled to make the order and had done nothing wrong.

Lord Justice McFarlane said, in a ruling, that there was a long history of 'dispute and counter dispute' between the parents.

He said the girl loved both her parents and wanted a relationship with each of them

And he said Mrs Justice Parker had had done her best to 'grapple' with the parents' 'toing and froing'.

Lord Justice McFarlane said Mrs Justice Parker had made


an order which did not permit the man to text his daughter and barred him from permitting or encouraging her to text him.

He said Mrs Justice Parker had also barred the man from providing his daughter with a mobile phone and had refused to 'compel' the woman to provide the girl with a phone.

Lord Justice McFarlane said there was a 'lengthy history' of 'unwelcome communications' being sent to the woman.

One judge said the girl loved both her parents and wanted a relationship with each of them (stock photo)

Mrs Justice Parker had felt that allowing texting between the man and the girl would 'simply cause more anxiety' and had said that 'previous generations had not expected to be in communication with their parents every day'.

The judge had also thoughtLeague of Ireland players are being targeted by match-fixers ahead of the new season

Four League of Ireland players have contacted the Players' Football Association of Ireland in the past year claiming they have been approached online by people claiming to be able to fix matches.

The news which was revealed by The Times casts a shadow of the start of the season which begins on Friday night. Champions Dundalk begin their campaign the following night, looking to win their third league title in a row.

Former Longford Town player Colm James was given an 18-month ban in 2013 "on six counts of breaching FAI Rules associated with match integrity". One of the rules dealt with gambling/betting "that damages or could damage the integrity of matches".

Speaking to The Times, the PFAI's


for probation in the trial court after the affirmance of the judgment. Judge Ambrose of the trial court permitted the application to be made and the hearing was set for September 28, 1948. In the report of the probation officer at that time it is set forth that the defendant had "... presented a written statement attached hereto in which he has covered some of the points covered in the above paragraph and in addition states, 'My brother-in-law has offered to loan me from $500 to $1000 per month to pay on these accounts until fully paid. I have explained the situation to him and he is willing to help, starting immediately.' "
 That report further stated "... it appears to the Probation Officer that he has notin Los Angeles County, namely grand theft of $15,000 and seven counts of violating the Corporate Securities Act and a conspiracy charge. The probation officer recommended that "defendant be found in violation of probation, that probation be revoked and sentence imposed." On December 16, 1958, the defendant was present in court with his counsel and Judge Ambrose revoked the probation. Hearing on the violation was continued to January 20, 1959, and ultimately to February 24, 1959. On February 24, 1959, Judge Walker ordered that "probation is revoked" and sentenced the defendant to the state prison on all counts in Case Number 112872, the sentences to run concurrently with the sentences imposed in Case Number 197622.
 On February 25, 1959, the defendant filed a notice of appeal from the


officer was told of the defendant's trial and of his having been found guilty of the charges in Case Number 197622. The conviction of the defendant of the charges in the case last mentioned was a matter of public record at least one day before the order of revocation was made. The defendant was in court with his attorney on December 16, 1958, and each of them knew that the jury in Case Number 197622 had returned a verdict of guilty on the charges set forth in that case, with the exception of one count on December 14, 1958. Certainly the conviction of the charges warranted the revocation of the probation. There is no reason to believe that there was any irregularity in the proceedings. Indeed there isNutritive implications of dietary microRNAs: facts, controversies, and perspectives.
As a group of non-coding RNA molecules, microRNAs have recently become more well-known due to their pivotal role in gene regulation. A large number of endogenous microRNAs naturally occur in the human body, and some of them act as regulatory targets of diet and its components. The wide presence of microRNAs in various food materials has inspired food scientists and nutritionists to explore their nutritive and bioactive significance. This article comprehensively reports updated insights into the accessibility, stability, absorbability, and bioactivity of dietary microRNAs by combining the current knowledge into figures and tables for reader's convenience. As one frontier in food science and nutrition, the research platform on dietary microRNAs is imperfect and even defective as indicated by the inconsistent


663 F.3d 770 (2011)
Ada D. TURNER; Ronnie Turner, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Neal E. PLEASANT; RPIA of Delaware, Incorporated; Standard Fire Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 11-30129.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
November 23, 2011.
As Revised December 16, 2011.
*772 Russell Bennett Ramsey, Jr. (argued), New Orleans, LA, Ernest N. Souhlas, Souhlas Law Firm, Carter B. Wright, Law Office of Carter B. Wright, Covington, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Elton Anthony Foster, Waller & Associates, Metairie, LA, Ralph S. Hubbard, III (argued), Reed S. Minkin, Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:
Ada and Ronnie Turner seek to reopen a judgment entered in 2001. Their personal injury claims were heard in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. After a benchpassed by a yacht controlled by Neal Pleasant. The Turners allege that the high speed and size of the yacht created large swells in the waterway. The swells grew so large that the Turners' boat was thrown into the air. The Turners claim that Ada Turner injured her back when she landed.
The Turners brought a personal injury lawsuit against the yacht's operator, owner, and insurance company: Neal Pleasant, RPIA of Delaware, and the Standard Fire Insurance Company, respectively. The case, filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana, was assigned to Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. Originally, the defendants were represented by Mark S. Taylor, a lawyer in Metairie, Louisiana. One week before the preliminary conference, the defendants retained Richard A. Chopin as well. While Taylor still worked on


the case, Chopin was designated as the trial attorney of record.
Chopin and Judge Porteous were friends. They would dine and travel together. Their relationship was such that Chopin served as an intermediary when a company unrelated to this litigation provided Judge Porteous with all-expenses-paid hunting trips. Chopin accompanied Judge Porteous on these trips, sharing a room at least twice. One of these trips occurred during the pendency of the original lawsuit, after the complaint was filed but three months before Chopin was retained by the defendants.
A central evidentiary battle at trial was between expert witnesses. The defendants' experts disputed the assertion that the yacht caused the wake and, even if it did, that Ada was injured. The defendants presented evidence that at the time of the accident, Adawhether impeachment was warranted. This authorization was renewed at the beginning of the 111th Congress. In January 2009, the House Judiciary Committee delegated the investigation to a special sub-committee. The sub-committee concluded its report in early 2010, and recommended to the full committee that Judge Porteous be impeached. The members of the full committee agreed, introducing Articles of Impeachment on January 21, 2010. H.R. Res. 1031, 111th Cong. (2010).
On March 4, days before the House was to vote on the matter, the House Judiciary Committee printed a Report detailing its investigation into Judge Porteous's misconduct. On March 11, 2010, the House unanimously voted to impeach on four articles of impeachment. 156 Cong. Rec. H1334-1337 (daily ed. Mar. 11, 2010). On December 8, 2010, the Senate removed Judge Porteous


by the moving counsel and made deceptive statements that distorted the factual record as to his relationship with the attorney at issue." Id. at 135. As alleged in the Report, his conduct "assured affirmance on appeal of his denial of the recusal motion, and a victory below for Chopin." Id. Allegedly, Chopin and Porteous engaged in a "sustained effort to keep Judge Porteous's hunting trips a secret from litigants who would have reason to believe their interests before the court might be affected." Id. at 136 n. 643. This is far more than an allegation of friendship by the judge for an attorney and a witness.
These allegations make it plausible that Chopin, Cenac, and Porteous acted in their pecuniary self-interest at the expense of the court's integrity. SuchTexas Rep: Voters 'Don't Have Confidence' In System

This week, a federal panel is hearing arguments for and against a voter ID law in Texas. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Texas voter ID law is like a modern poll tax. Guest host Maria Hinojosa talks more about the issue with Rep. Jose Aliseda, who testified at the hearing. He's a Republican State Representative for Texas who was born in Mexico.


Crimea closes air space to commercial flights

Kiev, March 11, 2014

Ukraine's Crimea has closed its airspace to commercial flights, five days ahead of a referendum organised by its pro-Russia authorities called to join the Black Sea region to Russia.

A Ukrainian airline plane was turned back on Tuesday on its way from Kiev to Simferopol, the region's main city, and had to return to the Ukrainian capital.

The captain told passengers that the Crimean authorities had closed airspace to all commercial flights and there had been no flights on Monday either.

Tension has increased in the region ahead of Sunday's referendum which pro-Russian leaders, backed by Russian forces, have called despite it being denounced as illegal by Ukraine's new rulers and Western governments. – Reutersof them free fell in what appeared to be the same path. Anyway, the local news had a video of the lights, but the
person had taken the video down and they were asking for it to be posted again. A quick google search brought up several results, including this
Youtube video. What are your thoughts ATS?!?

This was on my Facebook page of the local news channel talking about the incident:

It appears the person who posted the video of the strange lights to our page, that we shared, has removed the video, which removed it from our
feed. Does anyone else have video from last night? While there were skydivers at Mile High, most of videos were taken in the suburbs, looking at
suburban fireworks displays.

The blurb above about paratroopers at Mile


not incidental to him being an MP – it was corruption in the course of his MP duties. And it was corruption aided by his Ministerial colleague who rubber stamped almost every immigration application made by Field.

And what happened when allegations were made. The Labour leadership defended Field. They said he was only guilty of working too hard.

And even after the full scale of his offending was made clear by the Ingram Report, the Labour leadership still defended him. If Rodney Hide is unfit to be a Minister, then Helen Clark and Michael Cullen were equally unfit to be Ministers.

Even worse, Labour never booted Field out for his criminal offending. He only got booted out when he talked of not standing for Labour.

And the final indignity came aftermet David Garrett 7 years ago at a symposium and in fact we ended up sharing a cottage at the resort where it was held. He was a fascinating individual with a great intellect and some useful ideas on law and order matters. A number of character flaws became immediately apparent and left me with a sense of unease and I felt that he was a man with whom one needed to be very cautious about being closely associated with because it was only a matter of time before his lifestyle choices caught up with him. I was frankly surprised when he was given such a high ranking on the ACT list and felt that the pressures of Parliamentary life would open up the cracks that he had


CNN Anchor Jake Tapper in an interview with Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. CNN CNN anchor Jake Tapper grilled Hillary Clinton's campaign chair Sunday over the FBI's announcement that it is further examining the investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

In an interview on "State of the Union," Tapper asked chair John Podesta why the campaign was criticizing FBI Director James Comey for his letter to congressional leaders. The letter informed them of new information potentially relevant to the Clinton investigation, which was reportedly found on a device Clinton aide Huma Abedin shared with estranged husband Anthony Weiner.

"You and the Clinton campaign seem to be blaming Comey for being transparent with Congress. What was he supposed to do?" Tapper asked.

Podesta reiterated hisoften, without any reflection on what they actually imply, is a nice little window onto the established British view of the road environment, where danger is accepted as normal, and the only way to address it is to clad your body in protective equipment, rather than minimise or remove that danger at source.

This recent news story from Australia – where helmets are indeed compulsory – represents almost a textbook example of this kind of attitude –

A HAMILTON cyclist’s life was saved by his helmet after he was hit from behind by a car on Saturday morning. The impact thrust the 63-year-old man backwards on to the car windscreen before landing on the roadside. Yesterday, he was in a stable condition in Melbourne’s The Alfred hospital with multiple fractures.


of speed is sensible or even sane.

The disturbingly similar British version of these attitudes often manifests itself in response to the injuries of children in the road environment. Earlier this year the Ryan Smith case attracted a huge amount of publicity, as the family campaigned for – you guessed it – compulsory helmets after Ryan was left in a coma after a collision with a van (while cycling, not while walking).

And more recently we have the Put Things Right campaign, set up in the wake of the death of 15-year-old Harrison Carlin, hit while cycling by a driver travelling at or above 60mph, and 12-year-old Jeff Townley, a pupil at the same school, again killed while cycling. Put Things Right is also campaigning for compulsory helmets, as wellJulia Kenny of New London, center, hugs her nephew Kevin Banta while other family and friends watch balloons along Pequot Avenue in New London in memory of Kenny's son Sean Madec on Feb. 4, his birthday. Madec died in January 2012 of a heroin overdose. Kenny is working to raise awareness of the devastating effects of heroin addiction on a family.Tim Cook/The DayBuy Photo

Eighteen-year-old Sean Michael Madec, a brown-eyed, baby-faced guitar player with a growing appetite for hard drugs, checked into a Mystic hotel suite two years ago to party with friends and talk about opening a car and motorcycle restoration business.

He snorted line after line of cocaine and heroin. When he left the Residence Inn the next morning he was unconscious and on a stretcher.

He was dead


on arrival at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital.

Madec would never again jam with his rock band, Torn Veil. He wouldn't be around to see his infant niece, Bianca, take her first steps. There would be no autobody business.

Hoping to put a face on the scourge of fatal drug overdoses in southeastern Connecticut and throughout the country, Madec's mother, Julia Kenny, and his grandmother, Sandra Kenny, provided The Day with police and medical reports from the Jan. 14, 2012, incident.

Madec, who lived in New London, was one of 23 people who died of an overdose of heroin or heroin mixed with other substances, such as alcohol and cocaine, in New London County in 2012, according to statistics provided by the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Last year, thenumber jumped to 34.

"I've seen too much of what happens to people with the drugs," said Madec's grandmother, a 71-year-old retired correction officer. "I've seen the whole thing that evolves. It's a blackhead, then a pimple and it's a boil."

A teen who started with marijuana and moved on to pills, heroin and cocaine, Madec didn't think he was going to die when he went out that night, his grandmother said. But drugs and death do not discriminate, she said.

"Wait until it knocks on your door," Sandra Kenny said. "You're not going to like it."

Hearing "cough" noises from Madec and finding him unresponsive in bed sometime between 3:30 and 4 a.m., Madec's friends yelled his name to rouse him. They put him in the shower, where they said he


Madec was in "cardiac standstill."

"The patient was expired," the report says.

He was pronounced dead at 5:46 a.m. His family members were allowed to see his body before it was placed in a body bag to await transport to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

"I was the last one to hold his cold body and brush his hair and kiss him and asked him questions like how and why and who," said his grandmother.

Her Groton apartment is like a shrine to Sean, she said.

"He was so beautiful," Kenny said. "He just shined. He was the most loving kid. He never raised his voice to me."

No one charged

The toxicology results would take several weeks to confirm what Madec's friend Rory Dole told Stonington police at the hotel that morning.Madec had snorted at least 10 lines of heroin and cocaine, sometimes doing lines of the two drugs combined. The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner eventually notified the family that the official cause of death was cocaine and heroin toxicity and the manner of death was accidental.

Madec had gone to the Residence Inn that night with Dole, of Waterford; Benjamin Gale and Juan Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez, both of New London, and an older man, Joseph Lavigne, 39, of Thompson, who had paid for the room and who, Madec's mother said, was going to provide startup money for the autobody business. Madec had graduated six months earlier from Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Technical High School, where he completed the automotive technology program.

When police interviewed Lavigne in a hotel


conference room the next morning, Lavigne admitted he had driven Madec to Rhode Island two days earlier and introduced him to a girl named "Blue," a dealer who sold Madec 6 grams of heroin, for $120 a gram. Madec's family members think he may have also purchased drugs in New London.

In the hotel room bathroom, police recovered from a garbage can a plastic bag containing about 2.4 grams of heroin and another plastic bag containing what appeared to be cocaine residue. In the room where Madec and Lavigne had slept, they found what appeared to be a marijuana blunt on the floor near the nightstand. There was half a pill, its type not identified, on the kitchen floor. In the other bedroom, they found an empty mini-keg ofHeineken beer and a paper fold containing a small amount of powder residue. There was vomit on the floor between the bedroom where Madec had slept and the bathroom where his friends had tried to resuscitate him.

The police found on the floor a cellphone containing several text messages between Madec and Lavigne involving drugs and drug transactions. They later determined it was Lavigne's phone.

None of the men who were with him on the last night of his life has responded to interview requests.

Madec's family members consulted with police and the state's attorney's office to see if anybody would be criminally charged. The authorities determined no crimes could be proved.

"We went back and forth with the state's attorney's office, and we just didn't have enough," said Sgt. David Knowles,


a detective with the Stonington Police Department. "There was nobody holding the proverbial gun to his head forcing him to use it. He was responsible for his own death in that aspect."

Knowles said he feels for Madec's family.

Fearing withdrawal, he tried heroin

Madec's mother, 48-year-old Julia Kenny, has struggled with her own addiction demons. She said alcohol had been her drug of choice in recent years, and in February 2014, following the second anniversary of her son's death, she found herself in a hotel room alone, crying and chugging vodka.

"I really got crazy yesterday," she said the morning after the binge. "I drank. I lost my best friend."

She had achieved 10 weeks of sobriety as of April 23.

She says when her son was younger, he knew she smoked crackcocaine and begged her to stop. Then, Kenny said, he became just like her.

She said her son started smoking marijuana in high school and faked a back injury to obtain pain pills.

One day he couldn't get pain pills and, fearing withdrawal, he tried heroin. "He went from weed to pills to 'I ain't got no pills' to heroin," Julia Kenny said. "He's like me, in search of the eternal buzz. I can never get high enough on anything. He would smoke bowl after bowl after bowl and I would say, 'Sean, you can't get any higher.'''

Madec's sister, Cassandra Kenny, 24, also shares in the family curse. She said she is a pain-pill addict who is taking Suboxone, a doctor-supervised maintenance drug, to stay clean.

She admitted she used heroin,


Looking back on this Spring, I thought long and hard about why Minnesota was able to win the Spring Season Championship. I came up with three reasons.

They played a high press.

Minnesota played a high press in 8 out of 9 of their games. The only game they lost was the game that they sat back and tried to counter. The high press is particularly effective in the NASL because of the skills that are needed to beat a high press.

One way to beat a high press, you need either centerbacks and central midfielders who are very strong on the ball. For most NASL teams, they do not have enough players with these skills to effectively beat a high press. Instead, many of Minnesota‘s opponents were forced to trythe second teeth 13 formed at the top edge of the other end of the second engaging member 12 and the first teeth 10 formed at the under surface of the first engaging member 9 fixed at the under surface of the upper steering column 4. Thus the upper steering column 4 can freely rock around the first horizontal axis at pivots 6, 6 (within a range in which a pin 19 projecting from the side of the upper steering column 4 can move inside a long hole 20 formed in the supporting bracket 5), enabling the free adjustment of the height of the steering wheel fixed to the one end of the steering shaft 1 passing through the inside of the upper steering column 4.
When the tilt


is working with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies on extending the Tera system installed in Sierra Leone to neighbouring countries.

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Dave Lee from the BBC Online Technology Desk.the black and white photos encased on the wall that tell the story of the company’s earlier years. He points to the ones of him as a child, when he worked for his grandfather, the proprietor of the business that once inhabited 3619 Walton Ave.“You’d never see anyone without a collared shirt,” he notes. He’s motioning to one of himself with a delivery truck used to transport the meat. One destination was the West Side Market, at which the company owned two stands. As a young boy, Hildebrandt would go daily to collect all the receipts. Today, where those delivery trucks once pulled in, popular food trucks now park.Unlike many warehouses that rent by square footage, the Hildebrandt is unique in that its past allows for more adaptive


National Home in Slavic Village by calling it the name he grew up with, the Nash on East 80th . Trzaska wants to keep afloat a community cornerstone with updated ideas.Just as the Nash was built in two parts – an old hall and lower-ground lounge in 1919 and a new hall and bowling lanes added in 1948 -- it also holds two sides of its history. A once bustling neighborhood mecca, Trzaska is working to revive its heyday.At mid-20th century, Nash membership numbered in the hundreds. The St. Lawrence neighborhood was densely packed with Slovenians growing up between E. 78th and E. 82Streets, with the National Home and the St. Lawrence Church a few doors down at the epicenter. The problem, of course, is that the populationhas been decreasing.Trzaska stepped onto the board in 2011 and added his own spin on events -- like open bowling to the regular fish fries and tailgate themes to the clambakes. He watched attendance climb, but not nearly enough to have the momentum it fully needs.“That’s proof of concept, but figuring everything else out is what we’re dealing with now,” Trzaska says.In February of this year, he stepped off the board to disengage with the organization and reengage with the building itself, he explains. Trzaska has been taking on his own share of work by founding Sonny Day Development , a real estate development aiming to bring in local businesses to Slavic Village, such as the addition of Saucisson butchery into the old Jaworski Meats location.Past the Slovenian


of the Year photos that line the entrance, the main hall built in 1948 opens up to an auditorium where 50/50 raffles are held and a polka band plays to the crowd. Trzaska points to a black and white photo from 1951, propped in the kitchen, showing how densely packed the hall at one time was. On one corner of the photo is his grandma, on the other his grandpa. The hall is so full that they never even brushed shoulders or knew one another existed at the time.Next door, the old hall is candy-coated pink, like a scene stolen directly from Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel. Few rooms in Cleveland have nearly as much character and yet only two major events have taken place since Trzaska’s youth:the presumption of validity with clear and convincing evidence. Samsung's prior art references fail to disclose key limitations of Apple's inventions, as Apple's experts will explain. Samsung's deliberate copying and the iPhone's and iPad's commercial success reinforce the conclusion that Apple's inventions were far from obvious. Moreover, Judge Grewal struck prior art references to the '915 patent cited by Samsung's expert Stephen Gray, as well as references cited by Andries Van Dam (except as technical background to the '381 patent). (Dkt. No. 1144 at 3, 5.) Samsung cannot rely on these references as prior art. Finally, Judge Grewal's rulings preclude Samsung from presenting evidence of any efforts to design around Apple's software patents. On May 4, 2012, Judge Grewal ruled that as a sanction for Samsung's unjustified failure


Ahead of midterm elections, tech companies meet to protect their platforms against foreign meddling The most influential companies are preparing for misinformation campaigns.

Members of the country's most influential tech companies met Friday to prepare for misinformation campaigns by foreign countries, including Russia, ahead of the midterm elections in November.

At least one company confirmed Friday's meeting, held in San Francisco, to ABC News.

The companies plan to discuss efforts to defend their platforms from the type of meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential election.

The meeting was first reported in BuzzFeed.

It comes after a tumultuous week in the cyber landscape. Microsoft announced Tuesday it took control of half a dozen websites that had been operated by the Russian military intelligence agency that hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016.

On Wednesday,Facebook and Twitter suspended or removed hundreds of accounts linked to Russia and Iran that displayed “inauthentic behavior.”

Friday’s meeting comes on the heels of a meeting that took place in May between the top tech companies and United States intelligence officials. That meeting occurred at Facebook’s headquarters and included Twitter, Snap, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Oath, according to the New York Times.

According to reports, the tech companies walked away disappointed because intelligence officials refused to share information.

Tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have come under heavy fire after federal authorities announced that Russian agents launched a misinformation campaign on social media in the United States during the 2016 election.

Earlier this month, a number of top U.S. national security leaders gathered in the White House Press Briefing Room


The Great American Read viewing party: Other Worlds

The Great American Read continues this fall. This is a TV series on PBS that is seeking Americans’ favorite book, based on the list of 100 books revealed in May. Join us in the Trustees Room to watch and discuss episodes of the show on Wednesdays from September 19 to October 17 from 6:30-8pm. Get up to speed by going to pbs.org/greatamericanread and watching the first episode which aired in May and then episode #2 which will air on Sept. 11 at 8pm. Tonight's penultimate episode and last we will view together (due to the Booksale taking over space upstairs) explores how books about other worlds reflect our own world.his 2008 White House campaign.

The president may opt for projects he thinks Republicans in Congress will agree to, or go instead for proposals he knows they will block, allowing him to portray them as obstructionist.

One of his would-be Republican challengers, Mitt Romney, has proposed an alternative approach to Obama in which economic revival would be left to the private sector rather than the federal government.

In a 160-page book setting out proposals for getting people back to work, Romney advocates keeping taxes low and even reducing some, while cutting federal regulation and scrapping Obama's healthcare reforms.

Voters traditionally begin to pay more attention to politics after the Labor Day weekend, and this week will help shape the race for the White House.

As well as Obama's attempt to win Congressional support


for a job stimulus package, the Republican candidates seeking to replace him as president are scheduled to debate in California on Wednesday night. It will be the first time Texas governor Rick Perry, who is well to the right of his party, will share a platform with the others seeking the Republican nomination.

Although he only joined the race last month, Perry has quickly established himself as the frontrunner. The Politico poll puts him on 36%, with Romney, the previous favorite, on 17%. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul are each on 10%, with the remainder in single figures.

The televised debate will present a first opportunity for much of the U.S. public to appraise Perry. Ornstein, who works for the AEI but describes himself as a "bastion of conservativism," saidChemical mechanical polishers are used in several applications including the manufacture of integrated circuits where they provide the silicon wafer substrates with a smooth flat finish during the deposition of conductive, semi-conductive and/or insulative layers. The semiconductor wafer is placed on a carrier head which holds the wafer using a combination of vacuum suction or other means to contact the rear side of the wafer.
A retaining ring around the edge of the wafer retains the wafer on the carrier head. The front side of the wafer is then contacted by a rotating polishing pad that polishes the outermost surface of the wafer to a flat smooth surface. During the polishing, the carrier head and retaining ring assembly press against the substrate and the rotating polishing pad. The movement


the physical properties of the plastics, such as the heat stability, durability, ability to withstand friction, etc., were suitable substitutes for metal in the polishing process and equipment. Where the substitution of plastic for metal has not sufficed, it has been necessary to design processes that allow for some inherent contamination during processing.
While the problems inherent in polishing conductive materials seem apparent, there are also significant difficulties in polishing non-conductive materials such as doped oxide materials, including tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), borophosphosilicate glass (BPSG), and other layers deposited using chemical vapor deposition, electrodeposition, epitaxy and other deposition methods. As a result, the process environment must also be controlled during the polishing of these materials.
While non-conductive materials tend to be more stable than conductive materials, they are nonetheless subject toSynthesis and characterization of graphene: influence of synthesis variables.
The optimization of graphene growth on copper foils using an atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition setup is reported. CH4 and H2 were used as precursor gases and Raman spectroscopy as the main graphene characterization technique. Different growth parameters, including temperature and reaction time, the molar ratio of CH4/H2 in the feed and total flow of gases during the reaction step, were studied in detail. It was shown that graphene growth was not homogeneous in the entire sample, multilayer graphene was present in most of the sample, however as the synthesis parameters were optimized, graphene gained better quality, obtaining bilayer graphene over most of the sheet in the final optimized sample. Homemade software was used to analyze the quality of the


of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom). Mouse monoclonal anti-Myc antibodies, clones 9E10 and 9B11, were from Sigma-Aldrich and Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA) respectively, and rabbit polyclonal anti-Myc was from Abcam (Cambridge, United Kingdom). Mouse monoclonal anti-ERGIC53 was from Enzo Life Sciences (Exeter, United Kingdom). Mouse monoclonal anti--LAMP-1 was obtained from the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA). Mouse monoclonal anti-GalNAcT2 was a gift from Henrik Clausen (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark). Mouse monoclonal anti-TfR was purchased from Invitrogen (Paisley, United Kingdom). Mouse anti-p115 (4H1) was described previously ([@B7]). Rabbit polyclonal anti-Sec24C was a gift from David Stephens (University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom). Antibodies to GM130, golgin-84, GFP, and OCRL1 were described earlier ([@B7]; [@B6]). Antibodies to GORAB were raised against GST-tagged recombinant GORABforce to a fiber plug mated with the optical fiber connector.
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expects the French 2017 crop to fall to 413 million cases worth of wine, sinking lower than the previous post–World War II record low set by the 1991 crop of 455 million. That places the 2017 crop 18 percent lower than the 2016 and 17 percent below the five-year national average.

The exception is Burgundy. While Chablis and Mâcon are down, local trade group BIVB reported a 12 percent increase over last year's dismal yield for the entire region. Picking began in their region at the end of August and the fruit is high quality.

Throughout France, the 2017 vintage has also been characterized by an early picking season, some 10 to 15 days in advance of the norm. The maturity and health of the grapes leaves growers hopeful thatYou are here

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Lindsay Downs

Lindsay’s connection to UA Study Abroad goes back to 2003 when she first started working in the office as a graduate student. Passionate about international education, she decided to stay on the team as a Study Abroad Coordinator until 2011 when she took a break to stay home to raise her two children. She’s excited to be back, now in a new role. focusing on study abroad course registration and curriculum integration efforts. A native of upstate New York, Lindsay graduated from Le Moyne College in Syracuse. She participated in study abroad programs to both England and Ireland and later earned her master’s degree in Higher Education from the UA— go Wildcats! When she’s not at the office, she enjoys spending time with her


Rough Road Ahead: Rocky Mars Terrain Challenges Curiosity Rover

Engineers are faced with surprising wheel damage on the Curiosity Mars rover mission.

Credit: NASAJPL-Caltech/MSSS

The Curiosity rover's wheels have taken a beating thus far on Mars, and the road ahead may be even rockier.

The 1-ton robot has just crossed out of its landing ellipse — the 12- by 4-mile (19 by 7 kilometers) zone that was targeted for its dramatic August 2012 touchdown — and is now moving toward an increasingly challenging landscape called the Zabriskie Plateau, mission team members said.

"We are heading out into very rough terrain," Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger, a geologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said during a presentation at the 8th International Conference on Mars, which took place at Caltech last week.its Southeast Asian ride-hailing business to rival Grab and could announce the deal as early as Monday morning in Singapore, people familiar with the matter said.

SINGAPORE: With sales stagnating and high rent and manpower costs eating away at his profits, Azan Tengku, the director of Singaporean gift company Kalms, decided to close down his stores and move all his products into vending machines.

SYDNEY: The leaders of Australia and Singapore closed a regional summit on Sunday with a stand against against protectionism, arguing in favour of multi-nation trade deals as fears mount that US plans for new tariffs could stoke a global trade war.


Xavier joining 'Catholic 7' in Big East

Xavier University is leaving the Atlantic 10 Conference after 18 years to join nine other schools in the new-look Big East Conference, beginning July 1, the Cincinnati Business Courierreports.

The athletic conference is rooted by the so-called Catholic 7 schools that don't play the top level of college football and finalized a move away from other Big East schools earlier this month, taking the Big East name with them.

Xavier, along with new additions Butler University and Creighton University, will join DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall and Villanova.

The conference also announced Wednesday a television deal with Fox Sports.

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Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif wrap up the Abu Dhabi schedule of Bharat

Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat is one of the most anticipated films of the year. Starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead, the film is an official remake of Korean film, Ode To My Father. Busy with film’s shoot schedule, the starcast of Bharat was in Abu Dhabi since the last couple of weeks. It was recently when Varun Dhawan had also gone to Abu Dhabi to shoot his cameo for the film.

Today, Katrina shared a picture on her Instagram handle with co-stars Salman Khan and Sunil Grover as they wrapped up film’s Abu Dhabi schedule. The pretty actress captioned the picture as, “Schedule wrap #bharat @aliabbaszafar went for shopping”

Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat marks histhird collaboration with Salman Khan post Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai. It’s even his third film with Katrina Kaif after Mere Brother Ki Dulhan and Tiger Zinda Hai. Earlier Priyanka Chopra had to play the female lead opposite Salman in the film but she had to eventually walk out of the film due to her own reasons. Post that, Salman and Ali decided to bring Katrina on board. Bharat also stars Tabu, Disha Patani, Nora Fatehi and Sunil Grover in important roles. Produced by Atul Agnihotri and Bhushan Kumar, Bharat is all set for Eid 2019 release.


blitz could dash the Cowboys dreams.

Eagles Key Players

The obvious is the newly appointed Kevin Kolb as starting quarterback. The Eagles offense has been explosive but inconsistent. If Kolb can manage to distribute the ball without making critical mistakes, the Eagles offense will continue to improve.

The less-obvious is defensive end Darryl Tapp. Tapp is a player that has consistently ranked at the top of the league in quarterback hits. If the Eagles start getting pressure on opposing quarterbacks from both edges of the front four, the defense will return to their elite status.

But the story is about Stewart Bradley, as he re-assumes his starting duties at middle linebacker. Before his third ACL injury ended his 2009 season, Bradley was the leader of the defense and the focal point ofan injury or two away from slipping into the bowels of the East. Each team is no less than an impact player or two away from becoming one of the dominant teams in the NFL.

The race for the title is on and I expect a twisting, turning season with the healthiest team winning.


Washington (CNN) Turkey is recalling its ambassadors to the US and Israel in an official protest of the Trump administration's decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency, citing Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag, said the envoys were being called back, the report was confirmed by the Turkish embassy in Washington.

Asked how long the recall would last, a spokesperson for the Turkish Embassy said "we don't know at this stage" adding that the US ambassador was recalled for "consultations."

In recent days, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been harshly critical of the US decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The holy city has long been considered such a fraught and thorny issue that international negotiators had agreed(64-68°F).

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La La Anthony

Alani Nicole "La La" Anthony (néeVázquez; born June 25, 1979) is an American radio and television personality, New York Times best-selling author, business woman and actress.

In the early 2000s, La La came to prominence as an MTVVJ on Total Request Live. La La can currently be seen in the Starz original drama series, Power, executive produced by 50 Cent and starring Omari Hardwick and Naturi Naughton.

In 2014 La La reprised her role as Sonia in the film "Think Like a Man Too" and recently wrapped production on "November Rule" and "Destined," both due for release in 2015.

In 2004 La La became engaged to basketball player Carmelo Anthony and they were married by


Michael Eric Dyson on July 10, 2010 at Cipriani's in New York before 320 guests. The ceremony was filmed by VH1 and aired as part of a reality series on the couple, titled "La La's Full Court Wedding." La La and Carmelo Anthony's son, Kiyan Carmelo Anthony, was born on March 7, 2007.

Early years

Anthony was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are both Nuyorican, people of Puerto Rican heritage born and raised in New York City. Anthony (who describes herself as an Afro-Puerto Rican) has a younger brother and two younger sisters. As a young child, she was involved in many activities, but music was her main interest. She went to Howard University, where she studied communications.

Lala (website)

Lala was an online music store created by Silicon Valleyentrepreneur Bill Nguyen. The service allowed members to legally create online shareable "playlists" (formerly known as "radio stations") of their own uploaded music which could play full length songs for other registered Lala members, purchase MP3s, stream music on a one-time basis or as inexpensively purchased "web songs," buy new CDs from the Lala store, leave blurbs on other members' pages, and participate in the community forums. Lala contracted with major labels and offered a large catalog of albums to stream or purchase. Their home page claimed over 8 million licensed songs available.

Apple Inc. acquired Lala on December 4, 2009. On April 30, 2010, Lala announced it would be shutting down its service on May 31, 2010. They also announced they are "no longer accepting new users" and


that users with credit would receive credit in Apple'siTunes Store instead.

Lala shut down as scheduled on May 31, 2010. However, it still served for a while as the music engine for Billboard.com, providing full-length previews of songs on the Top 100 chart. After that, Billboard.com used MySpace Music as its provider.

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Over September and October 2001, La La Land was charted for 7 weeks in the Belgian hit-parade, peaking at the 22nd position; meanwhile, still in Belgium, La La Land hit the 5th place of the local dance charts. In May 2002, this single reached the 29th place of the British charts.

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This American Land - 306 - New appreciation for centralgovernment witnesses1 testified that Armando Melendez and his father, Jesus "Chuy" Melendez, were involved in an extensive marihuana trafficking conspiracy between 1985 and 1992.  These witnesses testified to purchasing and transporting extensive quantities of marihuana acquired from Armando Melendez and his family;  through the years this marihuana was transported in everything from vans to trucks to planes to avoid detection.  Indeed, several of these witnesses were caught during this period while attempting to smuggle marihuana for the Melendezes.2

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In 1989 Chuy Melendez, the patriarch of the clan, was murdered.  By the end of 1989 a change had occurred in this drug trafficking scheme.  Defendant-Appellant Octavio Carreon joined with Armando Melendez and others to bribe U.S. Border Patrol Agent Patrick Maynes--who was a childhood friend


of Carreon--to provide Melendez and Carreon with information on law enforcement activity in the area where they smuggled.3  Maynes was working undercover, however, and spent the next year and one-half gathering evidence during meetings with Melendez, Carreon, and other members of the conspiracy.

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The Melendez-Carreon drug smuggling business terminated in April 1992.  During April, Maynes met several times with various members of the conspiracy and agreed to transport marihuana.  Maynes eventually transported 327 pounds of marihuana to Albuquerque on April 12, where it was unloaded, moved to a residence, and then seized by police.  On April 16, government agents moved in and seized corroborating evidence from the residences of Melendez and Carreon.4

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Both Carreon and Melendez were indicted, along with thirteen others, in May 1992 forunable to determine how the district court resolved these issues.  For example, the government's theory supporting the foreseeability finding--that Melendez was the "key man" in the smuggling organization, and hence was aware of all the transactions engaged in by that organization--was at least partially rejected by the court at the sentencing hearing when it rejected the PSR finding that Melendez was the organizer or leader of the organization.16  In rejecting this finding, the court stated:

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As to the role in the offense, I think it's somewhat exaggerated to characterize [Melendez] as the mastermind or as the organizer or leader.  He was a key member, of course, and occupied some supervisory role, but I think a two-level adjustment rather than four would be more appropriate under the


infected the sentencing of Melendez.  The district court followed the same approach as it had in sentencing Melendez by concluding that the drug quantities listed in the PSR of Carreon--which are virtually identical to the ones listed in the PSR of Melendez--were "well justified."

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On appeal, Carreon attempts to limit the scope of his agreement (and hence his sentencing accountability) by contending that the instant case contains at least two conspiracies:  the bribery-importation conspiracy involving Maynes, and an earlier importation conspiracy centered around Melendez and the government witness, Charles Aragon.  Carreon concedes he was a member of the Maynes conspiracy but argues that he had no involvement in the earlier Melendez-Aragon conspiracy.  The government counters that there was only one conspiracy here--with Melendez as thefor additional findings by the sentencing court.

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 Senior Circuit Judge of the Second Circuit, sitting by designation

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 Charles Aragon, William Delval, James Grice, Patrick Trujeque, Lowell Ray Donaldson, Gerardo Soto-Quinonez, Jose Guzman, and Lisa Wagner, all of whom were coconspirators, testified against Melendez

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 In March or April 1988, Donaldson crashed while attempting to fly an airplane containing 1300 pounds of marihuana into the United States.  This crash led to the arrest and conviction of Donaldson.  In November 1988, Wagner and another person were arrested while attempting to enter El Paso from Mexico with 100 pounds of marihuana.  In December 1988, Soto-Quinonez was arrested in El Paso while attempting to transport 100 pounds of marihuana.  All of the witnesses testified that they were smuggling marihuana


When the testimony of these families is carefully read, we are left with an impression of a schizophrenic system of public and private supports for home care for children with severe disabilities and specialized health care needs. The official rhetoric affirms the primacy of the family, and yet the experience of these families is otherwise. Again and again, the families told of benefits managers, case managers, discharge planners, social workers, program administrators, special educators, and the like who implied that parents were out to "milk the system." This attitude was conveyed even in dealing with entitlements and plans to which the parents had long contributed. Families were treated as beneficiaries of benevolent charity for which they should be grateful. Families, already struggling to come to terms with theirBoro beaten by late double as Dimi left deflated

A MOMENT to forget for Dimi Konstantopoulos proved costly for Middlesbrough as two stoppage time goals secured a 3-1 victory for Queens Park Rangers.

With the score level after George Friend's first half opener had been cancelled out by Yossi Benayoun's equaliser seconds before the half-time whistle, disaster struck in stoppage time at the end of the game for Boro.

Just as the game looked like ending in a draw, Konstantopoulos somehow missed his kick on the edge of the box and Bobby Zamora nipped in to put the visitors ahead.

As Middlesbrough, whose players looked on in disbelief, pushed on Ravel Morrison then broke at the other end and added a third to pile the misery on Aitor Karanka's men.

The defeat leaves


Boro 14 points shy of the Championship's top six, while Queens Park Rangers remain ten-points behind to the Championship's top two.

Friend was the man to put Middlesbrough ahead in the first half when he was rewarded for a persistent run in to the visitors' penalty area.

Despite an encouraging first half display, however, QPR pulled level in the dying seconds of the opening period. Yossi Benayoun powered in the equaliser.

When Joey Barton tested Dimi Konstantopoulos inside the opening 60 seconds it had looked like it could be a long afternoon for Middlesbrough.

But the big Greek goalkeeper made a fine double stop to deny Barton and the rebound from Tom Carroll and that paved the way for a decent opening half from the home side.

Left-back Friend was particularly impressive. Heoften got beyond his marker down the flank and it was from one of those that Middlesbrough took the lead.

When Friend burst in to the box, he took on one man and then a tackle from another ended up with the ball bouncing kindly off him. While Barton shouted for handball, the Boro defender continued and struck towards goal, where goalkeeper Robert Green could only help over the line.

That arrived in the 18th minute and after that Middlesbrough looked confident, even if Jacob Butterfield's distance drive, which was saved by Green, was the only real occasion they looked like adding to their lead.

QPR had done very little to threaten either, though, until Ravel Morrison's excellent run and shot was tipped over by Konstantopoulos in the final minute of


the half. Seconds later QPR did level.

A Niko Kranjcar effort in to the area was half blocked, but it dropped beyond the Middlesbrough backline and Benayoun was on hand to power beyond the goalkeeper. There was a suspicion of offside, although he did appear level with the last man.

After the restart there was nothing to really trouble either Konstantopoulos or Green, but there was an interesting moment when a Kei Kamara spat with Morrison threatened to end in worse. Barton got involved too, along with many others, and the three players ended up with cautions.

Just before the late double, Friend volleyed just wide. Then Konstantopoulos missed a back pass, Zamora put QPR ahead and then Morrison secured the points.your ability to buy it while vacationing on the Florida panhandle.

Now they’ve decided that Louisiana is their next market.

This is a family-owned brewery that has always changed its ownership by the purchase of the company by the children of the previous owner.

David Gottlob Jüngling, a brewer from Germany arrived in the United States in 1823 after saying “Auf Wiedersehen” to the small suburb of Stuttgart where he was raised. Wanting to start a new life in America, he anglicized his surname from Jüngling to Yuengling and began the "Eagle Brewery" on Center Street in Pottsville Pennsylvania, in 1829. The Eagle Brewery changed its name to D.G. Yuengling and Son in 1873 after David’s son Frederick Yuengling joined the brewery. Although the company's name changed, the bald eagle still


is the Yuengling’s company's symbol.

During the Prohibition, Yuengling survived by brewing "near beers" — beers similar to O-Douls, with less than a 0.5 percent alcohol content. The company also ran a dairy and opened and operated several dance halls. In 1933, when the 18th Amendment was at long last repelled, Yuengling reintroduced its beers and shipped a truckload of its well-liked lager to the White House to show their appreciation to President Roosevelt.

Yuengling is a reasonably priced, very popular lager beer sold primarily in the Eastern and Southern States. The Tampa brewery supplies much of the Gulf Coast, and soon Louisiana. The Yuengling breweries use corn grown in Minnesota, barley from the Mid-west and hops from Washington as ingredients in their beers. It is not really a craftrelease by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the letter also warns Adidas that the company’s continued complicity with Israeli settlements “may expose it to consumer-led boycott campaigns in the Arab world and globally”.

Speaking in support of the campaign, former Palestinian national team player Mahmoud Sarsak described how he was “jailed by the Israeli occupation for three years without charge or trial and released only after a 96-day hunger strike and worldwide outcry”.

Read: Israel moving 40 settler families to new West Bank settlement

While Palestinian players “run this risk” all the time, Sarsak continued, “the IFA holds matches in illegal Israeli settlements, which rob us of our land, water, resources and livelihoods”.

PACBI’s Hind Awwad said:

Adidas relies heavily on football league and club sponsorships