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Marquette County, Mich. – The family of an unarmed man who was gunned down by an officer on July 14 of this year plans to sue in federal court after prosecutors cleared the officer of any wrong doing.

The circumstances surrounding the shooting are extremely troubling. Auto mechanic Timothy Mitchell, 46, had gotten into a verbal dispute at an area auto dealership. A call was placed to 9-1-1 alleging that he was highly intoxicated.

A police chase ensued but was broken off due to high speeds. At a later point the officer saw Mitchell’s vehicle crashed on the roadside with Mitchell standing nearby.

The officer, Justin Schlabach, had a dashcam on his vehicle that was operational at the time, but allegedly his walk around microphone was not working atconsists of five steps, as follows: Segmentation, enhancing the minor ROI image contrast, feature extraction, feature reduction, and classification. In the segmentation phase, the minor ROI was cropped semi-automatically from the remaining parts of the fetal images. Afterwards, the minor ROI images were improved by a mixture of contrast stretching methods. Next, in the feature extraction phase, six subsets of features were extracted. The first subset represents the horizontal, vertical, approximate, and diagonal coefficients of the 4th decomposing stage of the DWT. The second subset feature was extracted using Gabor filters. The third subset of features was extracted using the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and statistical features. The forth subset is a combination of features extracted from DWT, GLCM, and statistical features. The fifth subset is the GLCM


. . Roger Greene took and carried away a Ford 1970 model Ford Diesel 2000 Series and Long bogg disk, took and carried away this property from Newland Welborn and Hershel Greene . . . intending at the time to deprive Newland Welborn and Hershel Greene of its use permanently, and that the property was worth more than two hundred dollars, it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of felonious larceny."
When the evidence is considered in the light most favorable to the State, it shows that Welborn was the owner of the tractor and Hershel Greene was the owner of the disk boggs; that the disk boggs had been borrowed from Greene by Welborn and were last seen on 15 May 1974 at 8:30of a three-point hitch and were very heavy and could not be readily moved without the use of a tractor, the circumstances permit the inference that the party that had recent possession of the disk boggs must have had recent possession of the tractor.
The majority opinion of the Court of Appeals attempts to distinguish this case from State v. Foster, supra. The facts in Foster indicate the owner of a filling station secured it about 7:30 p. m. on 31 December 1965. He returned to the station before 2:00 a. m. on 1 January 1966 and found that there had been a breaking and entering. He discovered that six Phillips "66" tires were missing from the storeroom (these six tires consisted of two 775 × 14 Deluxe action


tread, white wall tires; two 775 × 15 safety action tread, black wall tires; and two 825 × 14 premium action tread, white wall tires). He went to the grease pit and found his used battery charger missing. The evidence indicated that no breaking and entering was involved in taking this battery charger. On 5 January 1966 he saw and identified his used battery charger at the county jail. Shortly thereafter he saw two automobile tires and four other tires on *368 a car at the police station. The six tires were the same size and tread design as those that were stolen from the service station, but were not positively identified by the owner. The value of his used battery charger and the six tires was morethan $200. On 31 December 1965 the defendant and his brother, Jackie Foster, operated a garage in Charlotte. On 5 January 1966, a deputy sheriff went to this garage and found the battery charger. Also found were two new Phillips "66" black wall tires. The battery charger had been freshly repainted. On 4 January 1966 the defendant was seen driving a 1959 Oldsmobile. There were four new Phillips "66" white wall tires on the vehicle which were later identified by the filling station operator as the same type and size as four of those stolen from the filling station.
On these facts our Court held that although these six tires were found in defendant's possession this was not enough evidence to raise a presumption of defendant's guilt since the


make him a pair of shoes. The firm was composed of William Brooks, Joshua Brooks and Henry Brooks. The firm was in possession of the finished shoes, holding them for the owner Hagler, when they were stolen. The firm had a lien on the shoes for making them. Joshua Brooks individually was not the bailee. Rather, he was one of three men who together owned the firm that was the bailee of the shoes. The indictment failed to allege either the owner Hagler or the bailee firm as having a property interest in the shoes.
The facts in Burgess are distinguishable from ours and certainly not controlling in this instance. In our case, there is no failure to name either the owner or special owner in the indictment. TheSweden probing its envoy to China over 'threatening' meeting Sweden's foreign affairs ministry says it is investigating the country's ambassador to China over a meeting she arranged between the daughter of a detained Swedish publisher and businessmen she says made threats

BEIJING -- Sweden's ambassador to China is under internal investigation over a meeting she arranged between the daughter of a detained Swedish publisher and two Chinese businessmen who she says threatened her father.

Ambassador Anna Lindstedt returned to Stockholm on Wednesday to meet with officials from the foreign affairs ministry, the Swedish Embassy in Beijing said by phone. Lindstedt is not under criminal investigation.

The ministry later confirmed that Lindstedt's departure was related to meetings she arranged between Angela Gui, the daughter of detained Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai, and


the two businessmen.

"The ambassador has acted incorrectly in the sense that the foreign ministry had no knowledge that the meetings took place," spokeswoman Catherine Johnsson told The Associated Press. She said the internal investigation was aimed at getting "an overall picture of what has happened," and that "as far as the action of the ambassador is concerned, we must wait for what the inquiry will come up with."

Angela Gui published an account Wednesday in which she described the meetings as "strange." She wrote on Medium, an online publishing platform, that the businessmen threatened her after initially offering to help secure her father's release from prison in China.

Gui Minhai, a naturalized Swedish citizen, co-owned a Hong Kong store which sold gossipy books about Chinese leaders.

Gui, 53, went missing in2015 from his seaside home in Thailand, turning up months later on Chinese television saying he had turned himself in for an alleged 2003 drunken driving accident in which a female college student was killed.

Several of Gui's colleagues from his Hong Kong publishing house also went missing in quick succession, sparking suspicions that mainland security forces were seeking to snuff out independent voices in the semi-autonomous city.

Gui was released in October after completing a two-year sentence, but committed to remaining in Ningbo, where he was born, until an investigation was completed into charges of running a business illegally.

In January 2018, he was taken off a train by Chinese police while in the presence of two Swedish diplomats with whom he was traveling to Beijing. Sweden said its officials


were taking him to seek medical treatment. China said Gui was being investigated for leaking state secrets.

Gui later told pro-Beijing media outlets that he never wished to leave China and that Sweden was using his case to "create trouble" for China's government. The statement from Gui, who spoke in a detention facility flanked by police, was immediately denounced by rights activists as coerced.

Angela Gui is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge who has become a self-described "accidental activist" for her father. She wrote in her Wednesday post that the role has landed her in a "fair number of bizarre situations," but few of the same magnitude as her encounter with Lindstedt and the businessmen.

She said Lindstedt convinced her to fly to Stockholm on Jan. 24 toexplore a "new approach" to her father's case. During a two-day meeting with the businessmen and Lindstedt, she said, the businessmen told her they could arrange a Chinese visa and job for her and that they had connections within China's ruling Communist Party.

They then told her they had already started to negotiate over her father's case without her prior knowledge, according to Angela Gui. One businessman said it was possible that Gui Minhai would be released, but only if Angela Gui promised to stop publicizing her father's case for a month.

Gui wrote that one of the men told her, "You have to trust me, or you will never see your father again."

She later learned that no one at the Swedish foreign ministry had been informed of the meeting.

"I'm


not going to be quiet in exchange for a visa and an arbitrary promise that my father 'might' be released," she wrote. "Threats, verbal abuse, bribes, or flattery won't change that."

In Sweden, Jonas Sjostedt, a lawmaker for the pro-government Left Party, accused the ambassador of "trying to silence the daughter of a Swede who is a political prisoner in China."

"Someone who is representing Sweden has instead been running errands for a foreign power," he said Wednesday on Swedish broadcaster SVT TV.

Sweden announced last month — prior to the incident described by Gui — that Lindstedt was leaving the Beijing post to become ambassador to the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She was to start in the new position in March.

Sweden's relations with China were also roiled last_________________

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Hey donzy OMG what a fab weight lol. Sounds like hes doing brill

Im right there with you on the immobile bit but unfortunately theres no stopping Sam

He has perfected the sitting up in the last couple of days and can sit for around 10 mins

Hey Snoop hun. Glad the sleeps better. I started Sam with Baby porridge. Never gave him baby rice as its horrid

I started him with a few spoonfuls at tea time and he gradually took more and more. Then after about 3 weeks i started him on breakfast with his first bottle. Now he has lunch most days . Hes a right pig. He will eat the equivalent of a full jar of


has her 2bottom teeth.
She's been rolling all around the room since 3 1/2months. (she's always been a wriggler, from about 1month she was on her side trying to get further lol)
She can sit up for quite a while unless she's particularly excited and just bounces then falls
She's now on 3meals a day.
Despite being big at birth (9lb 12oz) she has dropped from 98th centile to 25th. So she's not my chunky monkey anymore but still healthy, apparently she just wasnt destined to be a big baby and has now found the line she wants to stay on. She's around 14lb 11oz atm. She still fits in some newborn babygros still and has only just gone into 3-6months clothes but most look really big on her, she's got reallya nightmare atm though cause he can now get about loads so is into everything i am constantly taking things off him. Keep having to remind the kids to shift her stuff

But apart from that all is good _________________
My babies are growing up!

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I was due early August but my little girl arrived a few days early so here I am. Gosh my little one sounds like a lazy little madam compared to your babys lol.

She has no teeth but has been teething since she was about 10wks old. She can sit up for about 2mins after that she tends to lean too far forward, she's not too keen on being on her stomach, tho does sleep


much better and for much longer if put on her stomach.

She has rolled over just once when she was 4months, but has not been able to manage it since, i think its due to her weight lol

She reaches and grabs for things with ease, she's a very happy noisey baby, constantly smiling, she laughs out loud really LOUD. I haven't gotten round to getting her weighed yet, but she is a very chubby baby, she wears 6-9months clothes, forget 3-6months lol

I started weaning her at 4months, (was adviced not to as she suffers from reflux, and was on medication for this, but i trusted my instincts that starting her on solids might help, and it did-she has never experienced any problems associated with her reflux since.

I started herOld Records Are Outselling New Ones for the First Time

In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence. But until last week, they'd never seen old records outsell new ones.

The first six months of the year saw sales of 76.6 million catalog records -- industry-speak for albums released more than 18 months ago -- compared to 73.9 million current albums.

"That's a combination of two things: not having the big blockbuster new releases in the first half, and having very, very strong catalog," says Nielsen analyst David Bakula, who points out that these numbers resulted even though Adele's 21 -- still


three times faster.

As for autonomous vehicles, they will be developed on the basis of hydrogen cars and electric cars. By 2024, the ministry plans to establish major infrastructure, including telecommunications, precision maps, traffic control and roads, essential for fully autonomous driving on major roads. It will also create the institutional basis for autonomous driving, such as standards for production and operations, a performance verification system and insurance.

President Moon Jae-in speaks at a proclamation ceremony for the national vision of future car industry at Hyundai Kia Motors Namyang Technological Research Center located in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province on Tuesday. (Yonhap)

The nation also plans to commercialize flying cars by 2025 through technology development and legal system maintenance. By adopting flying cars, travel time in the metropolitan areas will be reduced bywith the Hawks, there were flashes of interesting things, but Tarvaris Jackson could rarely rally the offense in the second half of games, particularly the 4th quarter, to pull out wins. In 2011, that offense finished the season 28th in overall yardage, averaging just over 300 per game.

Russell Wilson’s first season started slowly, too, even though the Wilson-led version of the O finished 17th in total offense at an average of 350 yards in 2012. After four games, they were averaging just 280 yards of total offense per game.

2013, the Super Bowl season, began a good bit better: the offense averaged 350 yards after four games… though the average was bloated by a 45-17 trouncing of the hapless Jaguars at the Clink which featured a flashy 470 yards


of offense. The Hawks finished the regular season ranked 18th in total offense averaging 340, so the output actually declined as the season progressed.

In 2014, the average after four weeks was a gaudy 370 yards… but remember how awful the offense actually looked getting those yards? Remember the painful loss at home against the Cowboys in week five, with Harvin refusing to play in the 4th quarter? Remember Harvin getting traded the next week? Even after all that pain, do you recall that the offense finished the season ranked 9th in total offense last year, averaging 375 yards?

This year, after three games, the offense is averaging 346 yards per game, in the middle of the pack at 18th. It’s far from time to panic. With the least experiencedthan $1000 per year.
5. The domestic Aku fleet relies heavily on the use of Nehu as live bait for its fishing operations, and the limited supply of this baitfish is considered to be the primary bottleneck to expansion of the Hawaiian Aku fishery.
6. On the basis of statistics kept by the Division of Fish and Game and the individual experiences of plaintiffs, the yield per pound of Nehu is much greater when the Nehu is used as live bait to catch Aku than when it is used as dead bait by plaintiffs in catching Omaka.
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8. There is ample evidence from which a rational legislature might conclude that an Omaka fisherman is able to catch ample Nehu with a 50-foot net to satisfy his fishing requirements.
In view of the


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Hero MemberActivity: 770Merit: 500 Re: Kipcoin lost 3000 btc and shutdown February 19, 2015, 03:29:21 AM #62 Ah yes. The "hack".

I made a dream last night.

In that dream exchange operators all over the web were stealing BTC from their exchange wallets and blaming all of this on a ''hacker''.

Everybody believed it. Life is good.

Then again that is just a "dream"

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intelligence services quoted by the German news agency DPA. The Islamic extremists “are trying to approach the young unaccompanied refugees, who arrive in our country without their families and are particularly looking for contacts and support,” a spokesman for the intelligence service in the southern state of Bavaria told DPA.

He said many of the youths are approached around reception centres but also at Munich railway station where many of the asylum seekers have arrived from Hungary and Austria in recent days.

The Islamic extremists “want to take advantage of the insecurity and distress of the refugees,” he said.

On Tuesday, the intelligence services in North Rhine-Westphalia reported similar contacts in their region, noting that Islamic radicals were approaching asylum seekers through fake charities.

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In his Lawfare critique of one ofMore than 100 Russians are being held in prisons on politically motivated charges, according to a new list compiled by the Memorial rights group.

Memorial publishes the list every Oct. 30 to coincide with the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression commemorated since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Millions are believed to have died during the repressive Soviet period, which reached its pinnacle with the mass killings and imprisonments of the late 1930s under Josef Stalin.

This year the report said there were 117 political prisoners in Russia, which is 15 more than last year.

“The real number of political prisoners and persons deprived of their freedom for political reasons, in today’s Russia, is undoubtedly much larger,” the NGO said in an English-language statement.

Since the publication of Memorial's previous


list, 45 people have been included and 28 removed after either serving full prison terms or being released.

The victims of political repression include Yury Dmitriev, the head of Memorial's branch in the northern republic of Karelia. Dmitriev faces up to 15 years behind bars for allegedly involving his adoptive daughter in producing pornographic materials.

Memorial called for the release of the 117 prisoners, 25 of whom were added to the list for religious persecution. “There should be no political prisoners in Russia," Memorial said.

The Russian government labeled the human rights group a “foreign agent” last October in response to its criticism of the foreign agent law as politically oppressive.PROFESSIONAL MUSIC RECORDING STUDIO FILM & AUDIO POST PRODUCTION SERVICES

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Drew Youngs, born in in Palo Alto and grew up on the Stanford Campus. He quickly became immersed in the music, technical and electronics industries. Drew is a naturalin the entertainment industry and adds his vision to any project. Drew is adept in all the required fields needed to produce any type of entertainment content. Youngs started his career as a jazz vocalist with Phil Mattson and the Fanfairs. In the late 80’s, Drew enjoyed a tenure as the front man, lead vocalist and guitarist for the Tazmanian Devils, signed by Warner Records.

Drew has plucked a few notes with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Steve Miller, Pete Escovedo, Michael Manring, John Handy, Terry Miller, Steve


Smith and Bob Weir to name a few. He has seven original albums in the acoustic Latin Jazz, Pop, Film, New Age and Jazz Fusion genres.

He has also produced a wide array of music projects, consulted dozens of tech startups, public relations firms, advertising agencies, and has also made his mark in the film industry composing orchestral scores for movies and television.his party's choice due to principle, he persuaded enough Federalists to cast their votes for Jefferson. Never one to forgive an offense, in 1804 Vice President Burr shot and killed his rival Hamilton in a duel. Scholars cite the election of 1800 as one of the most colorful in American his-tory—especially given its ultimate conclusion.

What are the **criticisms** of the **electoral college?**

Detractors of the electoral college tend to be proponents of the popular vote, and often mention the fact that the electoral college can result in a president being elected, as in the election of 1824, with fewer popular and electoral votes than his opponent. Opponents also point to the risk of faithless electors, although there has never been an instance of a faithless elector changing the outcome


graduated in 1904. While in college, he was the editor-in-chief of the _Harvard Crimson._

Did he **marry?**

Franklin Roosevelt married his distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, when FDR was twenty-three and Eleanor was twenty. Eleanor Roosevelt became one of the most significant First Ladies in the history of the United States. She contributed mightily to the president's policies. After FDR's death, President Harry Truman appointed her to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations.

President Franklin D Roosevelt.

Did he have any **children?**

Yes, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt had six children, five of whom lived to adulthood. The five were Anna, James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., and John. Anna achieved prominent success in journalism and public relations. James served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Elliott was a successful businessman andhousing unit having a dome-shaped cover. A perforated plastic core is concentrically disposed in the center of the cylindrical filter material to support, or hold up, the filter element within the housing. A conical cap forming an upwardly directed peak separates the end of the cylindrical filter material from a generally flat housing cover. A gas vent is centrally disposed at the apex of the dome-shaped housing cover. The conical cap causes inlet blood to swirl and create a vortex between the conical cap and the housing cover. This vortex action purportedly drives gaseous matter toward the center of the housing cover to escape through the gas vent located at the center of the cover.
In such designs, however, because the gas vent is located at the center of


The crash site of aircraft X3941, a British Vickers Wellington Mark III bomber, which crashed on 30th January 1943. The aircraft belonged to Number 27 Operational Training Unit. It was on a night-time exercise from Church Broughton when the crash occurred. The aircraft was operating over hilly terrain around Beeley Moor, it struck a line of trees near Gladwins Mark and crashed into a field. Two...

This battery had two 152.4/50mm Vickers 'V' in one turret, with gun performance the same as at Paloma Alta. These guns came from the Spanish cruiser Miguel de Cervantes and were installed in 1941. There is a fire control position directly behind the guns.

The Vickers VC10 is a British airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown in 1962. Theairliner was designed to operate on long distance routes with a high subsonic speed and also be capable of hot and high operations from African airports.

Today a handful of these aircraft are still in service as aerial refueling and transport aircraft with t...

The 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash was an air disaster that occurred on 17 February 1959, near London Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK). A Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount Type 793 with registration TC-SEV on an international charter flight from Esenboğa International Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC) in Ankara, Turkey, to London Heathrow Airport (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), United K...

Airbus will start delivery of the new A380 superjumbo from 2007. Lufthansa and other airlines are planning to operate this new widebody aircraft at the FRA hub.


Adam Warwas (Founder) has been writing about the Vikings for a total of eight years. Five of those years have been here at Vikings Territory where he continues to surround himself with enough talented individuals that people keep coming back. As proud as he is of what Vikings Territory has become, his real treasures are in his home... a beautiful wife and three amazing children (and a dog named Percy).Dec. 18, 2002 — It was
finals week at the University of Illinois when biology major
Peggy Gatsinos got a clear sign she was running short on sleep.

After breakfast, she explains, "I went to put the things away
and I put the cereal in the refrigerator and the milk in the
cabinet."

For reasons that scientists don't yet understand, sleep is
critical for normal functioning of the human brain. If we skimp
on it, we start making mistakes — from putting cereal in the
refrigerator to falling asleep at the wheel.

Soldiers that Never Stop

Lack of sleep has been blamed for a number of infamous
mishaps from the Chernobyl meltdown to the space shuttle
Challenger disaster. Most recently, reports suggest it was a
pilot's lack of sleep that led to the fatal crash of Sen. Paul
Wellstone's plane in Minnesota.

It's a


since in the first three to
four weeks after birth, newborn orcas and their mothers appear
to stay completely active.

"The first stage is to confirm these abilities exist," says
Carney. "Then maybe we can begin applying it to humans."

Niels Rattenborg, meanwhile, is tapping the brains of tiny
birds to find answers.

Even when kept in a cage, white crown sparrows don't sleep
during the time they would normally be winging thousands of
miles in their biannual migration from Alaska to California and
back again.

"This bird will spontaneously start to hop around its cage
when it would be migrating," says Rattenborg. "At the most
during these periods they occasionally get drowsy, but they
never get any real sleep."

Rattenborg, under the guidance of Ruth Benca, both of the
University of Wisconsin, are attaching small sensors to the
sparrows' brains to monitor their brainjunk DNA may not play a role in
people, but could trigger important functions in other animals.

"The other animals may be using them," said Carney. "If we
know what the genes are, then we can look for them in ourselves
and turn them on."

DARPA-funded researchers are searching for such magical genes
in mice and fruit flies.

Another approach is to improve upon an old ploy — using
pharmaceutical stimulants. For decades the military has depended
on caffeine and other, less common drugs to stay awake.

During World War II, U.S., British, German, and Japanese
soldiers were issued amphetamines to counteract fatigue and
heighten endurance. The Air Force's Surgeon General's Office has
recently acknowledged the military still occasionally prescribes
amphetamines to counter the effects of fatigue.

A more recently developed stimulant, modafinil (sold under
the name Provigil), was approved by the Federal Drug
Administration


absorb all their experiences.

Sledgehammer Games’ top studio brass, Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, talked up Call of Duty: WWII’s new features, improvements over previous iterations and all the other stuff Call of Duty fans want to know. Then came, like an awkward Thanksgiving dinner conversation, the conspicuous and almost patronizing mentions of race and gender, again reflecting back to the white male perspective.

“We also fold in a story of diverse and global characters,” Condrey said of the cast of characters after talking about its largely American male cast. He proceeded to talk about ... a British male soldier.

Schofield followed this with a reference to the game’s female lead. “Rousseau, the powerful female leader of the French Resistance,” he said, as if reading from a cue card. Powerful female.Therapeutic play to prepare children for invasive procedures: a systematic review.
To analyze the available evidence regarding the efficacy of using therapeutic play on behavior and anxiety in children undergoing invasive procedures. The systematic review search was performed in the MEDLINE, LILACS, CENTRAL and CINAHL databases. There was no limitation on the year or language. The literature search found 1892 articles and selected 22 for full reading. Eight articles were excluded, as they did not address the objectives assessed in this review. Twelve studies, representing 14 articles, were included. The studies were conducted between 1983 and 2015, five in Brazil, one in the United States, five in China, one in Lebanon, one in Taiwan, and one in Iran. Most studies showed that intervention with therapeutic play promotes reduction in


Problems of fouling are caused by the attachment and growth of juvenile mollusks in service and cooling water systems, and the settlement of young adults in condenser tubes of condenser water systems, causing deleterious effects to the operation and safety of these systems. In fossil-fueled systems, problems have been related to plugging of condenser tubes, surface water heat exchangers, and fire protection systems. In nuclear power plants, additional problems of blockage may occur, including the shutdown of service water and emergency reactor cooling systems.
Among the most serious threats posed by C. fluminea is its macrofouling of nuclear and fossil-fueled power generating stations. In power plants, the shells of living and dead clams foul steam condensers and service water systems. Clams enter these systems as juveniles or adults carried2, pp. 151-166((1986)) measured a population of 1000 clams per square meter in the Trinity River and Benbrook Lake area in Texas. Since power generating stations require a large quantity of service water, they are located on major streams or lakes. The water is drawn from the supply source through a canal. Clams find these canals to be favorable for the production of their larval offspring which may be many thousands per clam. The larval stages and small adults are small enough to pass through the screens used to retard the passage of detritus into the plant. The larvae will then attach themselves to surfaces by their suctorial foot and the elaboration of mucilaginous byssal attachment threads.
Once attached, the juveniles mature into adults. In one to three months


Referral rates of senior family practice residents in an ambulatory care clinic.
Discretion regarding the need for and appropriateness of consultations and referrals is an important dimension of clinical competence. However, the process of consultation by medical residents has not been well studied. In the study reported here, a review was made of office-based referrals requested by second- and third-year family practice residents over a three-year period. Significantly lower referral rates were found for the second-year residents than the third-year residents. Possible explanations for this finding included: differences in approach to case management, lack of referral experience by second-year residents, and differences in case mix. Although no explicit protocol existed for the distribution of patients to the residents, differences in case mix and patient age between the patients seenThe Rocketeer – Cargo of Doom follows the adventures of Cliff Secord, also known as The Rocketeer. Our story opens with Sally, the young assistant around the airport, trying to pass a plane inspection when the inspector gets a little too personal. Sally fends him off, but triggers a parachute releasing and wrapping itself around the plane as a result. Peabody sees the plane in trouble and calls for Cliff to suit up and rescue them as The Rocketeer. After helping Sally land the plane, Cliff lets them go. The inspector blusters a little but leaves before Sally tells exactly what happened. We then cut to a mysterious cargo ship on the ocean, carrying a dangerous load. All we see when someone inspects the load are two eyes,


Osterville Custom Building

Nestled on the south edge of Barnstable along Nantucket Sound, Osterville is a charming Cape Cod village with a rich history. The Native American name for the village was Cotacheset, but as it transformed into a popular oystering destination, it became known as Oysterville. (“Osterville” is actually the product of a map’s misspelling.) The village’s historical sites include The Cammett House, the oldest in town, dating back to 1720, the Crosby Boat Yard, and Armstrong-Kelley Park, the largest and oldest privately owned park on the Cape. The waves at Dowses Beach and the golf course at the Oyster Harbors Club mean there’s no shortage of seaside activity in the warmer months. And when the tourists head home, Osterville’s sweet Main Street is home to plenty ofIs this the most vile reality show stunt yet? US Fear Factor contestants served glasses of donkey semen (with a urine chaser)

A US television is set to win the prize for the vilest game show stunt yet.

Fear Factor has filmed a segment in which contestants of the NBC show are challenged with drink a mug of 'donkey semen' - with a chaser of urine for good measure.

The stomach churning segment was apparently filmed last summer and is expected to air next week.

Too vile? Blonde twins compete in electrocution task in an episode of Fear Factor, which will also shows contestants facing the challenge of drinking a mug of donkey semen

Show executives had had their reservations and there was plenty of controversy behind the scenes.

Host Joe Rogan hinted about


a kangaroo testicle on the show in 2004

Contestants had to drain both glasses in order to qualify for the next round.

And the episode, which will be aired on Monday, will reportedly see several contestants completing the questionable challenge.

It is unclear whether the ingestion of such liquids pose any health risk to the contestants.

The American sports stunt/reality game show is produced by Endemol USA, and sees hopefuls compete for a grand prize of $50,000.

The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland.

The stunt is similar in nature to those on British reality show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.

On the ITV programme, contestants have to eat a variety of disgusting animal parts such as testicles and eyeballs in a bid to win meals for the rest ofby the Yale Energy Sciences Institute. The principal investigators are Batista and Bruno Robert of the Institute of Biology and Technology Saclay.

Lead authors are former Batista lab members Junming Ho, now a faculty member at UNSW Sydney, and Dalvin Mendez-Hernandez, now a faculty member at the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, and Elizabeth Kish of the Institute of Biology and Technology Saclay. Additional authors are Katherine WongCarter, Smitha Pillai, Gerdenis Kodis, Devens Gust, Thomas A. Moore, and Ana L. Moore of Arizona State University, and Oleg Poluektov and Jens Niklas of Argonne National Laboratory.

Support for the research came from the European Research Council, the National Research Agency, the French Infrastructure for Integrated Structural biology, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and Yale.


understandable. Among the first: giant fund firm Fidelity Investments, which brings us to Fiske.

A pony-tailed classical musician based in Boston, he paid his bills by taking on financial writing assignments. In 1991, Fidelity hired him to help solve a problem: Some people who requested its prospectuses, a focus group had revealed, were so confused they simply threw them away. The nine-month assignment involved rewriting the prospectus of Fidelity's flagship Magellan Fund, and led to rewrites of more Fidelity prospectuses (many of which are currently being rewritten once again to comply with the SEC's latest mandate).

The project also yielded a new career for Fiske. Indeed, his music now takes a back seat to his thriving Firehouse Communications, a communications/design firm he founded in 1997 with Lynn Riddle, a graphicIntroducing Revel Bikes16

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Spider-Ham is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is an anthropomorphic funny animal parody version of Spider-Man, and was created by editor Larry Hama,  Tom DeFalco and Mark Armstrong.

He first appeared in the one-shot humor comic book Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham (November 1983), which was then followed by an ongoing bi-monthly series, Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, under Marvel's Star Comics imprint, with both titles edited by Hama. The character existed on Earth-8311, which was a universe populated by anthropomorphic funny animal parody versions of the Marvel superheroes and supervillains. Spider-Ham made his feature film debut in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), voiced by John Mulaney.

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‘In late April, Robert Work — then the deputy secretary of the Defense Department — wrote a memo establishing the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, also known as Project Maven. The team had only six members to start with, but its small size belied the significance of its charter… Project Maven is the first time the Defense Department has sought to deploy deep learning and neural networks, at the level of state-of-the-art commercial AI, in department operations in a combat theater…

‘Every day, US spy planes and satellites


‘People, ideas, machines — in that order!’

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DARPA, ‘precision strike’, the ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ and bureaucracies

The Project Maven experience is similar to the famous example of the tank. Everybody could see tanks were possible from the end of World War I but over 20 years Britain and France were hampered by their own bureaucracies in thinking about the operational implications and how to use them most effectively. Some in Britain and France did point out the possibilities but the possibilities were not absorbed into official planning. Powerful bureaucratic interests reinforced the normal sort of blindness to new possibilities. Innovative thinking flourished, relatively, in Germany where people like Guderian and von Manstein could see the possibilities for a very big increase in speed turning into a huge nonlinear advantagehad effectively destroyed any sort of serious negotiating position, and I suggested Westminster/Whitehall had to learn from successful management of complex projects to avert what would otherwise be a debacle.) These ideas were born with the Manhattan Project to build the first nuclear bomb, the ICBMs project in the 1950s, and the Apollo program in the 1960s which put man on the moon. These projects combined a) some of the most astonishing intellects the world has seen of which a subset were also brilliant at navigating government (e.g von Neumann) and b) phenomenally successful practical managers: e.g General Groves on Manhattan Project, Bernard Schriever on ICBMs and George Mueller on Apollo.

The story we are told about the Manhattan Project focuses almost exclusively on the extraordinary collection of physicists


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The flight deck area is 14,700m² and aircraft take-off is assisted by a bow ski-jump angled at 12°. The flight deck is equipped with arrester wires. Two starboard lifts carry the aircraft from the hangar to the flight deck.

The ship has the capacity to support 16 Yakovlev Yak-41M (Nato code name Freestyle), 12 Sukhoi Su-27K (Natoexports makes Cameroon vulnerable to shifts in their prices. Tourism is a growing sector.
Health: Life expectancy at birth is 52 years, among the lowest in the world.
Education: The literacy rate of Cameroon was 78% for males and 64% for females.
The population averages almost 6 years of schooling.
Most children have access to state-run schools. Cameroon has one of the highest school attendance rates in Africa,
although girls attend school less regularly. Northern schools are chronically understaffed.
Nature:
The southern rainforest cover 40% of Cameroon and has vast timber reserves.
Laws mandate the safe and sustainable exploitation of timber. Nevertheless, in practice, the industry is one of the least regulated in Cameroon.
The country suffers from deforestation, although the commercial bushmeat trade has now surpassed deforestation as a major threat to wildlife in Cameroon.

EDUCATIONSchool on


Wheels, 2008-2010
School on Wheels takes children to school, and teachers to children. Apart from reading and writing, children are taught practical skills and competences that they... more

French Cameroon became independent of France in 1960 under President Ahidjo, and united a year later with the formerly British Southern Cameroons. Ahidjo concentrate his power, making his party the sole legal political party as of 1966. Ahidjo pursued an liberal economic growth policy, although many major development projects failed through mismanagement and cronyism.
After more than 20 years as President, Ahidjo transferred power in 1982 to his constitutional successor, Paul Biya. Biya initially moved toward a more democratic government, but a failed coup nudged him toward the leadership style of his predecessor. A long period of economic decline followed due to corruption,lobbying increases the value of the educational certificate and makes the schools eligible for state aid.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €120,000 towards this project, earmarked for the formalisation process and improving the quality of education, of which €24,000 in 2019.

Protecting and restoring nature around water sources, Cameroon, 2016-2019
LiveBuild works with local organisations and communities on sustainable development in the Anglophone western part of Cameroon.
Its projects employ a community-driven approach and are related to water. LiveBuild's goal is to improve access to safe water and adequate sanitation. This initiative is by three communities (Manganjo) that want to build a water supply system connecting their villages to a water source above the villages. An essential aspect of ensuring the long-term water supply is protecting and restoring the catchment area by


planting trees and encouraging sustainable land use.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €95,000 towards this project (about 50% of the total budget), of which €30,000 in 2018.

Quality improvement and continuation vocational education, Cameroon, 2016-2019
The Dutch foundation Babungo has been committed to improving health care and education in the Babungo valley in Cameroon for the last eight years.
It provides, among other things, the annual school fees for 274 disadvantaged children.
This project includes not only school fees for 20 motivated young people at the technical school,
but also training for 20 local artisans by a qualified teacher. They learn how to give pupils a good internship.
This increases the exchange between the 'market' and the course, which will improve the quality of the course.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €22,500 (50% of the totalbudget) towards this project (of which €4,500 in 2018).

Quality Education with local co-investment, North West Region, Cameroon, 2017-2019
The Turing Foundation has been supporting Knowledge for Children with their book programme in Cameroon since 2009.
The foundation teaches primary schools how to manage their stock of schoolbooks independently within three years,
trains teachers to teach students better, and facilitates new community leaders to ensure good education in the long term.
More than 100 schools have now completed this process. This project is focusing on a new group of 21 schools.

In two years 700 young people from rural areas have completed the one-year or three-year sustainable agriculture training course at one of the twenty FFSs.
The students learn about sustainable farming techniques and management skills at school, which they then apply in practice at


300 farms and agricultural businesses.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €30,000 (20% of the budget) towards this project, of which €15,000 in 2017.

Teacher training and a community-led library, Bameli Village, Cameroon, 2015-2016
The AgriDynamic Foundation is committed to improving school performance by training teachers and providing better teaching materials. After the good results of an earlier project supported by the Turing Foundation in Bamessing, AgriDynamic is expanding its activities to another village: Bameli. Establishing a library with all the necessary textbooks and training teachers will enable the 1,270 children from four primary schools to learn better. The availability of teaching materials and the use of more active teaching methods improve students' school performance, lowers the number of children who repeat a year and decreases dropout rates.

Teacher training and a communityFoundation previously donated € 90,000 to the successful first phase of the project,
and supports the next three years with € 90.000 (€20.000 of which in 2015).

Schoolbooks for a primary school in Northwest Cameroon, Turing Project Visit, March 2012

Revolving library and teacher training, Bamessing, Kameroen, 2014-2015
To help improve school results, the AgriDynamic Foundation arranges better teaching materials and facilities in Cameroon. After a successful pilot at a primary school in Bamessing, AgriDynamic has decided to scale to 6 other primary schools. By setting up a revolving library, 1760 children will have access to teaching materials. 32 teachers will be trained to teach actively and interactively. In doing so, the foundation expects better school results (an 80% graduation rate rather than 60%) and fewer dropouts (5% instead of 20%).

Vocational training


will increase its contribution to a total of € 150,000 for the project until 2014 (50% of training costs).
In 2011, the program exceeded all expectations with regards to the number of applications, so ASSEJA decided to assign more than one youth to each trainer.
A total of 105 girls and 40 boys have enrolled in the program. It's currently being looked into whether the overcrowding affects the programs' quality, but it doesn't seem to.
The boys are especially motivated and there are hardly any dropouts.

Two girls who have set up their own businesses after their ASSEJA vocational training. Turing Project Visit, Februari 2012

Improvement of education at 8 primary schools, East and Adamawa Region, Cameroon, 2011-2013
Since 2007, the border of Cameroon's East Region has been host to over 100,000 refugees
from theCentral African Republic. In collaboration with the Cameroon Red Cross
and Plan International Cameroon, the UN High Commission for Refugees
wants to improve education at 8 primary schools open to both locals and refugees.
The program involves training new teachers, improving school buildings, providing
furniture and teaching material, and will focus especially on access to education for girls.

Up to and including 2013, the Turing Foundation contributes € 120,000 to this project.

Refugees from the Central African Republic fetching water from the oldest well of Gbiti, Cameroon

School book project for primary schools, Northwest Cameroon, 2010-2012
Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon by building up a decent book stock and effectively using books as an instructional tool in education. A book fund will also be set up in order for the schools to


eventually manage and supplement the book stock themselves. With its activities, Knowledge for Children aims at improving the level of education for primary school children between the ages of 6 and 14.

The Turing Foundation contributes about € 90.000 to this project,
of which € 30.000 in 2012.

School books for a primary school in Northwest Cameroon, Turing Project Visit, March 2012

Construction of a new school, Mamfe, Cameroon, 2010-2012
LiveBuild, in association with United Action for Children (UAC), wants to set up a high-quality school in Mamfe. UAC has already realised a similar school in Buea, with smaller classes, quality education, information on HIV and Aids, vocational training, tutoring and computer training. School results of the Buea school are among the best of its area. The school in Mamfe wants to matchthat success level.

The Turing Foundation will contribute € 25.000 in 2010 for the construction of the school in Mamfe.

Lessons have started downstairs, while a second floor is built on top of the school. Turing Project Visit, March 2012.

Teacher training in Northern Cameroon, 2010-2012
VSO sends out vocational specialists to developing countries in Africa and Asia who can share their knowledge and experience with local organisations, helping them to do their work in a more efficient way. The project that will run in Northern Cameroon for the coming three years means that four specialists will develop training modules for teachers, headmasters, parents' councils and civil servants serving education. Moreover, several activities are organised to make education more accessible to girls.

Organic gardening and 'night paddocks', Cameroon, 2009-2011
Njamnjama is a vegetable similar


businesses. The other 20% generally has a good chance of remaining
with the small businesses they were trained at.

In 2011, the Turing Foundation will contribute € 38,000 to the project (50% of training costs).

Four girls who have set up their own clothing business after two years of ASSEJA vocational training. Turing Project Visit, Februari 2012

Restoration of Mountain Forests by Introduction of Analogue Forestry, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008-2010
CENDEP introduces and stimulates the durable cultivation of forest products. The highlands of Bamenda are sometimes referred to as the storehouse of Cameroon. Many original forests have lost ground to agriculture and cattle breeding. As a consequence, the quality of the soil and drinking water noticeably declines, while erosion and poverty increase. In order to break out of this spiral, CENDEP andIUCN NL are creating an exemplary project for long-lasting increase of income through analogue forestry techniques. These entail the protection and recovery of original vegetation, combined with the planting of income generating varieties.

The Turing Foundation finances this project, which runs until 2010 (€ 93.500).

Part of the CENDEP project area, destroyed by fire (possibly arsony as a result of a quarrel between project stakeholders). Turing Project Visit, Februari 2012

School on Wheels, Cameroon, 2008-2010
One Men's School on Wheels project, in association with United Action for Children, dedicates itself to alternative education aimed at competence development and vocational training for children between the ages of 6 and 13. School on Wheels brings children to school and teachers to children. Besides reading and writing, School on Wheels also wants to teach the


children practical skills and competences they will need to survive in their own communities, such as extra vocational training that will enable them to find jobs as electricians, ICT professionals, carpenters or painters.

Up to and including 2010, the Turing Foundation will be co-financing this project so it can
expand to reach 6,000 children in Mamfe, Kousseri and Kumba (€ 150,000, of which € 50,000 in 2010).

One of the Turing Foundation busses for School on Wheels, Cameroon, Turing project Visit, March 2012

Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2009
The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children and young people in developing countries. In many cases, the Liliane Foundation helps those children to go to school. What especially appeals to the Turing Foundation is that the Liliane Foundation in thisway offers opportunities to children who cannot be helped by any other educational relief organisation, because their needs are too small-scaled. Often, these needs concern one single child in a location where education is available despite poverty, but of which the child cannot make use because of its handicap.

Just like last year, the Turing Foundation donates € 150,000 to the Liliane Foundation in 2009
for help to children in the field of education.
With this amount, the Liliane Foundation will be able to help more than 3,000 children
in Cameroon, D.R. Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.

Community Forest, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008-2010
ANCO introduces and stimulates sustainable agriculture and other types of durable sources of income. In the Bamenda High Mountains of Cameroon, where CENDEP introduces analogue forestry pilots, ANCO


and IUCN NL together start an exemplary project in the Western part of the mountains. The project allows members of the Dom community to exploit the relatively intact forest in a durable way and to reduce the burden of agriculture and cattle breeding on the forest. 120 acres of degraded forest will be restored and the community will be trained and provided with materials for sustainable use of the forest, sustainable agriculture and cattle breeding, erosion control, apiculture and sustainable market gardening.

The Turing Foundation funds this project, which runs until 2010 (€ 53,500).

School Books for Developing Countries, 2007-2008
The Read to Grow Foundation collects English language recreational and school books and sends them to village schools in developing countries where books and information are scarce.

Read to Grow operates moreIndian pugilists advance to second round

India's medal contenders Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar romped into the into the second round of the boxing events of the 15th Asian Games on Saturday.

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India's medal contenders Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar romped into the into the second round of the boxing events of the 15th Asian Games on Saturday, recording comfortable victories over their first round opponents.
Akhil, who won the sole boxing gold for Indian in the Commonwealth Games early this year, began his campaign by out punching North Korea's Ju Hyok Kwak to win the bout with a 22-7 points margin in bantamweight category at the Aspire Sports Complex.
Akhil adopted an attacking mode from the very beginning to unsettle his opponent with


a flurry of punches and keep scoring points right till the end of round four.
The Indian pugilist opened up a lead after the first round and kept consolidating his position in the subsequent three rounds to emerge victorious without really sweating much.
Akhil will now lock horns with Uzbekistan's Orzubek Shayimov who prevailed over Saudi Arabia's Ibrahim Manaa Al Bishi in the pre-quarter finals.
In the 54 kg category, Jitender was more ruthless as he carved out a 36-16 victory over Ibrahim Al Gharagir of Jordan to progress into the pre-quarter finals.
Jitender will cross swords with Pakistan's much heralded Nauman Karim, who accounted for Macau's Wai Tom Kang with a 28-14 victory on points.
It would be a tough ask for the Indians on Sunday as Karim is 2003 world championshipsThe anatomical basis for femoral nerve palsy following iliacus hematoma.
With increased use of anticoagulant agents, femoral neuropathy subsequent to hemorrhage within the iliacus muscle has become a frequent clinical problem. The mechanism for this type of femoral nerve palsy was studied in dissections of the iliac region and by injections of latex into fascial planes in that area. In most dissections, up to four fascial layers, parallel to the iliacus sheath, could be identified. Variable states of fusion of these layers often produced up to three pouches, separated by loose connective tissue or fat. These fasciae (called "lamina peritonealis," "lamina transversalis," "lamina preiliaca," and "lamina iliaca") appear to be variable adult remnants of distinct fascial layers present in the posterior abdominal wall during embryological development, and serve to


Wednesday, March 20, 2013

I often ponder, 'how did we get where we are now'? This is true in many aspects of life. I think it's especially true in politics.

I recently saw the movie Lincoln starring Daniel Day Lewis. I often remind my friends that it was a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, that ended slavery, not a Democrat. Yet the modern day Republicans are reviled as racist elitists in many circles, such as college campuses, the media, and urban governments. Having freed slaves, how did Republicans become so hated?

On my flight to Hawaii I read a book called Not In My Neighborhood, How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila. Mr. Pietila prefaces the book with saying that bigotry has shaped many big cities in the United States,but he picked Baltimore. This is a fascinating book that I highly recommend.

Baltimore grew up as city torn between the North and South. Baltimore was industrial like a Northern city, yet south of the Mason Dixon line, which many people, even today, view as the divider of the north and south. If you ask people in Baltimore what they consider themselves few, if any, will consider themselves southerners. What's wrong with being called Mid-Atlantic? During the Civil War there were many Southern-sympathizers in the city, yet Baltimore, a short hour north of Washington, D.C., was occupied by the Northern Army.

After the Civil War, many blacks moved to the area in search of work. Baltimore had a busy port and by the late 1800's a booming steel mill that


eventually became the largest in the country, and the city was in need of cheap labor. And with the great influx of people, someone had to manage where they were going to live. Who better to do that the Democratic machine that ran the city? Blacks and Jews were forced to live in designated areas of the city, which then became overcrowded and evolved into ghettos. During the Great Depression, the banks came up with the concept of red-lining. And all of these actions were not only sanctioned and endorsed by the Democratic machine, but also by The Sun, Baltimore's newspaper.

Here are some of the things that caught my eye:

Maryland U.S. Senator Millard Tydings, namesake of the Millard Tydings Memorial Bridge, which carries I-95 over the Susquehanna Riverbetween Harford and Cecil County, called for formal restrictions on the inflow of Negros into Baltimore. Had he done this 60 years later, he probably would have ended up in jail for a hate crime. Instead, his bigotry was during the decades of the 1920's through the 1960's, so he was awarded with a bridge in his honor.

The Baltimore Sun has made no bones that it hates Republicans. Yet in 1910 one of their editorials read, "The White race is the superior race, and it will, of course, maintain its supremacy." (page 38) In another display of blatant racism, The Sun supported a measure to evict blacks from Roland Park at the turn of the century saying that it was better to bar blacks from neighborhoods using binding


Mr. Rouse maintained Jewish quotas for his properties. Only 12% of a rental property could be rented to Jews until it was 75% occupied. Yet he is celebrated in our area. (page 141)

One of the practices I mentioned previously was redlining, a practice where banks and lenders, often in cahoots with local government, drew lines around areas of the city and would not load money to people who didn't meet their criteria, usually that the applicant was a white Protestant (and they say Catholics are intolerant. Ha!). This practices was well established and perfected by the Democrats for half a century. It wasn't until Baltimore elected a Republican, and perhaps last, Republican Mayor Theodore McKeldin, who would go on to be Governor, then Mayor again. He made ityour mother?" " She's fine." "She sends her love and everything." " Good." "For his daughter, Ingrid, prison was always part of family life." "Now in her 50s, she's begun to explore her father's history." "That's the one." "That's the house Dad was born in." "February 2nd 1932." "Course, it's not where my grandparents lived, but" "Grandad was robbing the place at the time, and Gran's waters broke while she was on lookout." "# We'll meet again Don't know where... #" "Fletcher had a rich criminal ancestry, but he was also a child of his time." "In 1940, aged eight, he was evacuated with his older brother George, who's returned from his home in Australia to take part in this film." "Yeah, me and Norman were evacuated -


jailbirds sing" "# Let's rock Everybody, let's rock... #" "While everyone was out rocking and rolling, Fletch was strolling off with all their worldly goods." "# Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone" "# Little Jo was blowin' on the slide trombone... #" "And he moved with the times to become king of Muswell Hill's teddy boys." "Fletch?" "Rock and roll, he was, yeah." "King of the Teds, they called him." "The tightest trousers in Muswell Hill." "He could be a bit lairy when he wanted." "But he was a very good singer." "I said if he hadn't devoted his life to crime, he could've been just like Cliff Richard." "He said that was the biggest incentive to keep robbing he ever had." "I used to love hearing himsubject of Montegos came up in another celebrity appearance by Grout." "So, what was the thinking behind Montegos?" "Well, I've always been fascinated by the hospitality industry, having spent so many years receiving hospitality at Her Majesty's expense." "I felt it was time to give something back." "Although the '80s was a time to be young and thrusting," "Fletcher was lazy and in his 50s." "At Montegos, he kept his head down, and waited for Grout's inevitable insurance scam." "The club burnt down in suspicious circumstances, didn't it?" "Suspicious, Melvin?" "Unfortunate, certainly." "Who could have predicted such a freak electrical accident?" " It was rather..." " Rather what?" "Nothing." "When has a business owned by Harry Grout NOT burnt down?" "It was Dad's night off when the place


"He took a lovely floral tribute." "# Moon River... #" "You know, Dad was the last person Harry Grout spoke to." "He whispered something to Dad just before he passed away." "This way, Mr Johnson." "Police were stunned today as the jewels from the Covent Garden robbery were recovered after more than a year." "They were found by a 70-year-old North London man Norman Stanley Fletcher." "Mr Fletcher was delighted to help the police, and was looking forward to receiving his £250,000 reward." "Fletcher's luck had finally changed." "Dad's a wily old fox." "I asked him what Grouty had said to him on the plane." "He just smiled at me and said," ""Ingrid, my love, that man's words of wisdom changed my life."" "Aargh!" "Thank you, ladies andThe officer who forcibly dragged a United Airlines passenger off his flight in April 2017 is now suing the airline — and the city of Chicago — over the circumstances surrounding his termination.

James Long, who was filmed yanking David Dao out of his seat and dragging the bloodied passenger off the April 2017 flight, filed the lawsuit against United, his former employers at the Chicago Department of Aviation, and the department’s commissioner, Ginger Evans, The Chicago Tribune reported.

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According to court documents, Long claims United should have known that removing Dao from the flight would require “physical force” when requesting the services of aviation officers. His main gripe, however, appears to be with the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA), which he


Sun-Times. Long is also claiming United implied that he “sexually harassed or criminally stalked” Evans following the incident.

Long is reportedly seeking over $150,000 in damages, including back pay stemming from his termination in August.

Long was originally placed on administrative leave immediately following the April 9, 2017 incident, during which David Dao, the United Airlines passenger, was dragged off the flight.

In footage of the incident, Long can be seen dragging a bloodied Dao, who was 69 at the time, down the aisle of the plane after the passenger refused to give up his seat on the overbooked flight.

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Dao reportedly reached an undisclosed settlement with United less than three weeks after the incident.out enjoying it.

While Mrs Wickham was drinking from a bowl a Black Bird did the same from the bird bath. We have room for them all!!

Cassie decided to wet her feet while drinking while a bemused Florence watched on.

I remember years ago a yoga teacher I had brought me back a Mala from India when she had been on an Ashram over there. She told me it would help me find my 'inner peace', maybe it did, maybe it didn't, but I know I have found it now, where it probably always was, in my garden.

On the 25th of April at 5:30am TOF and I went to the Dawn Parade in Parana Park for ANZAC Day. I had never been to a Dawn service before, very moving it


($7).

And not quite 2mtrs of lovely embroidered trim that can 'zhoosh' up a pair of plain black pants for Winter!!

Last weekend in the wee hours of Saturday morning Big was involved in a cat fight. We did not see him until late that day when he came limping in the back door looking a little worse for wear. On Sunday I took him to our vet who confirmed the limp was from a cat bite, so he got two jabs, an antibiotic and a pain killer. $130 later I took him home where he succumbed to the idea of staying indoors and resting.

In a matter of days he was out in the garden but taking things at a slower pace, with his shaved back left foot, and evenstaying in at night now. Maybe he has finally grown up and put his 'all night outings' behind him, I can only hope.

Toebee made sure he was okay with regular check ups.

Then yesterday I noticed old Cassie wasn't looking too flash so I bought her inside for the night. Think the other girls have been picking on her, well her head as she has lost feathers and had some dried blood. She is very old and quite possibly not long for this world. I put her out in a nesting box where she will be warm and safe. Nature will take it's course.

On the light hearted side of things, Sheba has been making me laugh how she sleeps with her tongue hanging out. She barks and twitches in


How does a NASCAR driver communicate with the pit crew?

NASCAR race cars are becoming more complex as their performance and safety technology evolves. One result is that more people need to be in the driver's communication loop. While the number of pit crew members allowed over the wall to service the car remains at seven (eight during the second half of longer races), the full team standing behind a single NASCAR driver can include more than 30 people.

It's especially important that the team manager, crew chief and spotter be able to talk with the driver during the race. The driver relies on these three individuals for guidance as the race progresses. In recent years, the team spotter has become even more valuable to the driver, helping him (orPresident Carter's most recent moralizing on American foreign policy in the Middle East is exasperating particularly in light of President Mugabe's misrule of Zimbabwe, where Mr. Carter's role in bringing the dictator to power has been mostly forgotten.

Mr. Mugabe is one of the nastiest dictators in Africa  he has inflicted a "silent genocide" by starving his own people. The effects of his authoritarian rule have been made all the worse by his staying power. In more than 27 years as head of state, Mr. Mugabe has turned one of Africa's most productive economies into a shambles. A country whose currency once beat the British pound now boasts an inflation rate nearing 10,000% per annum and a land that once exported beef and grain now has a population


desperately in need of food and humanitarian aid.

Last month, Mr. Carter termed the American and Israeli government's boycott of the Hamas-led Palestinian government "criminal." It would be more enlightening though to hear what he thinks of the terrible situation he helped to create in Zimbabwe.

In 1978 Ian Smith, the prime minister of white-ruled Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, who had just declared two years earlier that majority rule would not come for "1,000 years," reached an agreement with black moderate leaders for a transition government. Under this plan, termed the "internal settlement," whites, who represented about 4% of the population, would be reserved 28 out of 100 parliamentary seats as well as control over certain government ministries  privileges that seem ripe for condemnation today but hardly unusualfor an African country emerging from nearly a century of colonial rule.

The plan facilitated by the American and British governments that Mr. Mugabe would eventually accept in 1980 put aside 20 out of 100 seats for whites  eight less than the arrangement stipulated by the internal settlement.

In April of 1979, the first fully democratic election in Zimbabwe history's occurred. Of the eligible black voters, 64% participated, braving the threat of terrorist attacks by Mr. Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party, which managed to kill 10 people. Prior to the election, Mr. Mugabe had issued a death list with 50 individuals he named as "traitors, fellow-travelers, and puppets of the Ian Smith regime, opportunistic running-dogs and other capitalist vultures." Nevertheless, Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the United Methodist


Church emerged victorious and became prime minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as the new country was called.

Yet the Carter administration, led by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, would have none of it. Mr. Young referred to Mr. Muzorewa, one of the very few democratically elected leaders on the African continent, as the head of a "neo-fascist" government. Mr. Carter refused to meet Mr. Muzorewa when the newly elected leader visited Washington to seek support from our country, nor did he lift sanctions that America had placed on Rhodesia as punishment for the colony's unilateral declaration of independence from the British Empire in 1965.

Messrs. Carter and Young would only countenance a settlement in which Mr. Mugabe, a Marxist who had repeatedly made clear his intention to turnZimbabwe into a one-party state, played a leading role. Mr. Young, displaying the willful naiveté that came to characterize Mr. Carter's mindset, told the London Times that Mr. Mugabe was a "very gentle man" whom he "can't imagine ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone."

Mr. Mugabe already had pulled the trigger on many innocent people, though. And not long after taking power in 1980, he killed about 25,000 people belonging to a minority tribe, the Ndebele. In spite of this, in 1989, Mr. Carter launched his "Project Africa" in Zimbabwe, a program aimed at helping African countries maintain food sustainability.

Now, however, the Carter Center maintains no programs in Zimbabwe. There is probably more of a reason for this than simply due to Mr. Mugabe's recent


ban on foreign aid groups.

Since Mr. Carter was thrown out of office by the American people in 1980, he has spent his post-presidential years lecturing others on morality. The same year Mr. Carter lost a democratic election, Mr. Mugabe ascended to power in a violently flawed one. Yet over the past 27 years Mr. Mugabe has escaped being a target of Mr. Carter's frequent hectoring.

Rather than criticizing the American and Israeli governments for their stance towards Hamas, perhaps Jimmy Carter ought to focus his efforts on how to rid the world of the murderous despot in Zimbabwe whom he helped create.   our estate, after the death of the survivor

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For several weeks, the Daily Caller, a conservative Web site — co-founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, a former aide to former vice president Dick Cheney — have had a reporter poking around what they thought would be a scandalous story about Mayer.

The allegations were serious — that Mayer borrowed or plagiarized from a liberal blogger and other mainstream publications for an Aug. 30 smackdown in The New Yorker on the conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. In the end, even the Daily Caller found the allegations to be unfounded, and to its credit, abandoned the story.

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Melbourne's Federation Square will house Apple's second global flagship store outside of the United States

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Apple has unveiled the details of its plans to build its “most significant” store in the Southern Hemisphere at Melbourne’s Federation Square.

As early as November last year, it was reported that the US tech giant was in secretive talks with the Victorian Government to establish a $50 million flagship store in Federation Square, which already hosts a number of cultural attractions, including the National Gallery of Victoria’s Ian Potter Centre.

Now, both Apple and the Victorian Government have confirmed the deal, with Apple previewing its planned flagship project in Melbourne, and introducing a design concept aimed at complementing the original vision for the precinct.

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an insult.

The official IRNA news agency said Vatan-e-Emrooz was summoned because its report may have "violated national interests," but it did not say when a court hearing would take place.

The story also carried sub-headings, including; "Signs of collapse of Saudi Arabia," "Death of Abdullah and $200 oil," "Wahabism equals terrorism," and "Crisis of succession of Abdullah."

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter and the biggest producer in the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, to which Iran also belongs.

In a letter to Iran's media regulator, the Vatan-e-Emrooz editor defended the Abdullah report, saying his health is the focus of unprecedented attention, according to Mehr news agency.

He said the allegedly offensive words were "a colloquial expression in our culture which in this case was used against one ofthe most hostile enemies of the people of Iran and whose hands are stained with the blood of tens of thousands of innocent people in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen."

While Riyadh says it is financially strong enough to withstand the drop in oil prices by around 50 percent in the past year, the budgets of Iran and other oil sales reliant nations are under strain.

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The Iran-Saudi relationship deteriorated when they took opposite sides on the war in Syria, with Riyadh supporting rebels while Tehran backs President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

In the past eight months, however, Tehran has made a strong diplomatic push to improve ties, although the oil price slump has led top Iranian officials to implicitly criticise the kingdom's oil policies.


Denver Nuggets Add Sue Bird to Front Office Staff

The Denver Nuggets have added current WNBA Champion Sue Bird to their front office staff as Basketball Operation Associate, President of Basketball Operations Tim Connelly announced today.

“We are very excited to have Sue join our organization,” said Connelly. “Her resume certainly speaks for itself and as a still active player she will offer an extremely unique perspective.”

Bird recently wrapped up her 16th season in the WNBA which saw her earn her 11th All-Star bid and third WNBA Championship, all with the Seattle Storm. The New York native attended the University of Connecticut where she won two National Championships before being selected first overall by Seattle in the 2002 WNBA Draft. Bird was named to the WNBA All-Decade team in 2006,has been All-WNBA First Team five times and All-WNBA Second Team three times and currently ranks first in the WNBA in career games (508), first in career minutes played (16,173), first in assists (2,831), third in points (6,154), third in made three-pointers (855) and fifth in steals (652).

“I’m really excited to join the Denver Nuggets organization. I’m thankful for the opportunity and look forward to learning from some of the best,” said Bird.

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WASHINGTON — She holds a commanding lead in the presidential race and has $150 million in the bank, but some leading Democrats are urging Hillary Clinton to use more of that money to mobilize black voters in hopes of winning control of Congress, publicly revealing a crack in party unity that could have lasting consequences if she is elected.

In interviews, two senior African-American members of the House called on Mrs. Clinton to draw from her war chest to fund voter-turnout efforts in congressional races. They warned that even if she handily defeated Donald J. Trump, her presidential agenda would be stymied unless she swept in new Democratic lawmakers with her.

At issue is a strategic choice with profound implications: Should Mrs. Clinton reach to defeat Mr. Trump in morestates like Utah? Or should she instead divert some of her resources to Democrats who are battling in tight races in liberal states like New York and centrist states like Colorado, or in Republican-leaning states like Indiana and Missouri that she has effectively written off?

As Mrs. Clinton confidently expands her campaign into conservative-leaning states, she should make the knife’s-edge fight for the Senate and the Democratic effort to cut into the Republicans’ House majority a priority, said the lawmakers, Representatives James E. Clyburn of South Carolina and G. K. Butterfield of North Carolina.


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GENEVA – JUNE 04: Adriano of Brazil before the international friendly match between Brazil and New Zealand at the Stadium de Geneva on June 4, 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

For those of you who are unable to remember this great Brazilian dude, here are a few videos to remind you who he was.

Adriano Leite Ribeiro was born on February 17, 1982 in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil’s capital of nightlife, The Carnivale and the Samba). He is commonly known as Adriano and is currently plying his trade at American 4th division club Miami United. A talented stiker he is, but his playing career has often been marked by inconsistency, lack of fitness, weightgain and addiction to drugs. Despite the problems His main titles are four Scudetti for Inter Milan, a Brasileirao for Flamengo and for the Brazilian national team, a FIFA Confederations Cup and a Copa America title each. During his time in Italy, he earned the nickname L’Imperatore (the Emperor).

Adriano began his career with Flamengo, he made it to the professional team from the youth setup. From 2000-01, he made 24 appearances for Flamengo and scored 10 goals. He then moved to Inter Milan where he scored one goal in eight appearances, meaning it was not much of a good spell and was later loaned out to Fiorentina for the remainder of 2002 where he scored 6 goals in 18 appearances. He then joined A.C Parma in 2002 for


8.8 million Euros and went on to form one of the best striker duos in the country with then Romania International Adrian Mutu, scoring 23 goals in 37 appearances over a span of two years (missing the month of November 2003 due to injury).

Adriano during his time at Parma

In 2004, Adriano returned to the San Siro side on a 4.5 year deal, worth 23.4 million Euros and scored 15 goals in 16 appearances for the club in 2004-05 season. From July 11, 2004 through June 25, 2005, Adriano was in peak form scoring an impressive total of 40 goals in both domestic and international competitions. In September 2005, Inter Milan rewarded him for his efforts with an improved contract running until June 30, 2010.

However, despite the new contractand form he was out of form and fitness. his constant late partying had put a toll on his fitness and he was benched many times. Then Brazil coach Dunga did not call him for the friendly against Ecuador in October 2006 because of his fitness issues and for much of the 2006-07 season, he was subject of controversy when he was constantly spotted at nightclubs. On February 18, 2007, Adriano skipped a team practice with Inter Milan following the lengthy effects of a birthday celebration the night earlier.

In 2008, for a lengthy unpaid leave Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti sent Adriano to Brazil at FC Sao Paulo’s training center so he can regain back his fitness. that later turned into a loan spell. West Ham United and


Manchester City were interested in signing him but his lack of fitness following his father’s death and weight gain forced the clubs to move away from him. Massimo Moratti stated that after the loan spell, he would like Adriano to be back at the club in better shape.

Adriano during his time at FC Sao Paulo.

Inter finalized a deal on December 19th, 2007 to loan Adriano to São Paulo for the remainder of the 2007–08 season in order to allow him to compete in the 2008 Copa Libertadores. São Paulo fans were soon seen standing in long lines to buy his new number 10 jersey at the team’s official merchandise retailer after Adriano was introduced and his shirt was unveiled at a team press conference. Adriano celebrated his competitivedebut with São Paulo by scoring both goals in their 2–1 victory over Guaratingueta on the opening day of the 2008 Paulista Tournament. He was sent off after headbutting Santos fullback Domingos on February 10, 2008, and was suspended for two matches after initially risking a suspension of eighteen months.He was fined by São Paulo on February 29 for arriving 30 minutes late for training, then leaving early and exchanging words with a photographer. According to team sporting director Marco Aurélio Cunha, Adriano “left the training ground because he wanted to. The team does not miss him. If he is not happy at São Paulo, he is free to go.”

Adriano was a regular goalscorer in the early stages of the 2008-9 Serie A campaign, reaching a combined total


of 100 domestic goals in the Italian Serie A and the Brazilian Serie A. On 22 October 2008, Adriano scored the winner in a 1–0 win over Anorthosis Famagusta, and, with this goal, Adriano scored his 18th Champions League goal, and 70th for the club. In December, Inter Milan allowed him special dispensation to return to Brazil over the winter break earlier than planned. Inter confirmed on April 4 that Adriano had not returned from international duty with Brazil and had signed no contract with the club. On April 24, Adriano finally rescinded his contract with Inter Milan.

Adriano signed a one-year contract with Flamengo on May 6, 2009, the club with which he started his career.On his debut after returning to Flamengo, played on May 31, 2009, hescored a goal against Atletico Paranaense. On June 21, 2009, he scored his first hat-trick for Flamengo in the 4–0 win over Internacional in the Brazilian Série A.,his performances would be instrumental to lead Flamengo to their first Brazilian Serie A title since 1992.

On 31 January 2010, Adriano scored his second hat-trick since his return, this time in a 5–3 comeback win in the Rio de Janeiro (Fla-Flu) derby against city rivals Fluminense in the 2010 Rio de Janeiro State League.

ROME – SEPTEMBER 28: Adriano of AS Roma in action during the UEFA Champions League group E match between AS Roma and CFR Cluj at Stadio Olimpico on September 28, 2010 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Paolo Bruno/Getty Images)

On 8 June 2010, Italian Serie A side A.S Roma