Nixon won the presidency on the backs of White voters, with only eighteen percent of the Black vote.

Trump was elected after years of protests, riots, and legislative attacks on marriage inequality. The hope of the first African American president — marriage equality, universal health care, an end to the Iraq war, a stabilized economy — was followed by riots in Ferguson and Baltimore (incited by alleged police brutality), and the police slayings of hundreds of unarmed African Americans, from Eric Garner to Tamir Rice to hundreds of others. The pendulum swung back, and Trump won the presidency on the backs of White voters, with only eight percent of the Black vote.

After all of this, it should come as no surprise that Trump has already begun making a listContents

When the previous fiscal year ended on September 30, 1995, the Democratic President and the Republican-controlled Congress had not passed a budget. A majority of Congress members and the House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, had promised to slow the rate of government spending; however, this conflicted with the President's objectives for education, the environment, Medicare, and public health.[1] According to Bill Clinton's autobiography, their differences resulted from differing estimates of economic growth, medical inflation, and anticipated revenues.[2]

When Clinton refused to cut the budget in the way Republicans wanted, Gingrich threatened to refuse to raise the debt limit, which would have caused the United States Treasury to suspend funding other portions of the government to avoid putting the country in default.[2]

Clinton said Republican amendments would strip the U.S. Treasury of


year was not approved, on October 1 the entire federal government operated on a continuing resolution authorizing interim funding for departments until new budgets were approved. The continuing resolution was set to expire on November 13 at midnight, at which time non-essential government services were required to cease operations in order to prevent expending funds that had not yet been appropriated. Congress passed a continuing resolution for funding and a bill to limit debt, which Clinton vetoed[1][4] as he denounced them as "backdoor efforts" to cut the budget in a partisan manner.[2]

On November 13, Republican and Democratic leaders, including Vice President Al Gore, Dick Armey, and Bob Dole, met to try to resolve the budget and were unable to reach an agreement.[2][5]

On November 14, major portions of thefederal government suspended operations.[4] The Clinton administration later released figures detailing the costs of the shutdown, which included payments of approximately $400 million to furloughed federal employees who did not report to work.[6]

The first budget shutdown concluded with Congress enacting a temporary spending bill, but the underlying disagreement between Gingrich and Clinton was not resolved, leading to the second shutdown.

The second shutdown lasted 22 days as White House and Congressional negotiators worked out a balanced budget agreement that included modest spending cuts and tax increases.[7]

During the crisis, while being questioned at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast by Lars-Erik Nelson, Gingrich made a complaint that, during a flight to and from Yitzhak Rabin's funeral in Israel, Clinton had not taken the opportunity to talk about the budget and Gingrich


42% as it progressed into January.[16] Once the shutdown had ended, however, his Gallup approval ratings rose to their highest since his election.[16]

The shutdown also influenced the 1996 Presidential election. Bob Dole, the Senate Majority Leader, was running for President in 1996. Because of his need to campaign, Dole wanted to solve the budget crisis in January 1996 despite the willingness of other Republicans to continue the shutdown unless their demands were met. In particular, as Gingrich and Dole had been seen as potential rivals for the 1996 Presidential nomination, they had a tense working relationship.[17][18] The shutdown has also been cited as having a role in Clinton's successful re-election in 1996.[18]

According to Gingrich, positive impacts of the government shutdown included the balanced-budget deal in 1997 and thefirst four consecutive balanced budgets since the 1920s. In addition, Gingrich stated that the first re-election of a Republican majority since 1928 was due in part to the Republican Party's hard line on the budget.[19][20] The Republican Party had a net loss of three seats in the House in the 1996 elections but retained a 227-206 seat majority. In the Senate, Republicans gained two seats.

A 2010 Congressional Research Service report summarized other details of the 1995–1996 government shutdowns, indicating the shutdown impacted all sectors of the economy. Health and welfare services for military veterans were curtailed; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped disease surveillance; new clinical research patients were not accepted at the National Institutes of Health; and toxic waste cleanup at 609 sites was halted.


reconciliation. Joe replies that she is welcome back anytime, but only if she stops drinking. Kirsten refuses to admit she's an alcoholic, but does acknowledge that without alcohol, she "can't get over how dirty everything looks." Kirsten sadly advises Joe to give up on her, and leaves. Joe fights the urge to go after her, and looks through the window down the dark street as she walks away, in the vicinity of a bar. When Debbie asks "Is she going to get well?" he answers gently, "I did, didn't I?"  Again Joe looks down the street, the bar's flashing sign reflecting in his window.

Cast
 Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay
 Lee Remick as Kirsten Arnesen-Clay
 Charles Bickford as Ellis Arnesen
 Jack Klugman as Jim Hungerford
 Alan Hewitt asAn MSA committee drafted three resolutions at around 1 a.m. Wednesday that would block President-elect Haden Gomez and Vice President-elect Chris Hanner from taking office.

The pieces of legislation from the Missouri Students Association Operations Committee came after screenshots surfaced indicating Gomez and Hanner knew about campaign misconduct.

The first resolution would nullify the entry of the Gomez/Hanner slate in the presidential election and appoint runners-up Syed Ejaz and Heather Parrie in their place. The second would nullify the election as a whole. The third would also nullify the election, but allow for 72 hours for Senate to determine their next steps.

Senate will discuss the resolutions in the next full Senate at 6 p.m. Jan. 27 in Leadership Auditorium.

The decision came after former Gomez/Hanner campaign manager Natalie Edelstein gave screenshots


cancellation after only fourteen episodes some seventeen years ago, it feels an unfair comment. Supernatural has gone beyond being just a television show for so many people in part due to the numerous projects and charity works that have sprung out from it.

Back in 2009, Misha Collins started down a path that led to the formation of a not for profit charity called Random Acts. Run by volunteers the charity has dedicated itself to improving the world ‘one random act of kindness at a time’. It has been responsible for rebuilding communities in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, building a school for a community in Nicaragua, and numerous other good deeds all over the world. Once a year the charity runs an event called GISH, which stands forthe Greatest International Scavenger Hunt, teams take part trying to complete a list of tasks ranging from the wacky to charitable. There is a prize to be won for those teams of serious participants but a lot take part just for the fun of it. Taking part costs, but all the money goes to Random Acts to further their good works. In addition to Misha Collins being the president of the charity, there are several other Supernatural cast members who are involved. Genevieve Padalecki (who played the demon Ruby), and Danneel Ackles (who played the angel Anael) are both board members, and Rachel Miner (who played the demon Meg) is the Executive Director.

In addition to these random acts of kindness, there has also been the creation and development


was, depending on your vantage point, an ignominious end to a year that saw U.S. Special Operations forces deployed at near record levels, or an inauspicious beginning to a new year already on track to reach similar heights, if not exceed them.

On December 6, 2014, approximately 36 of America’s top commandos , heavily armed, operating with intelligence from satellites, drones, and high-tech eavesdropping, outfitted with night vision goggles, and backed up by elite Yemeni troops, went toe-to-toe with about six militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. When it was over, Somers was dead, along with Pierre Korkie , a South African teacher due to be set free the next day. Eight civilians were also killed by the commandos, according to local reports. Most of the militants escaped.

Inthe dead of night, they swept in aboard V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Landing in a remote region of one of the most volatile countries on the planet, they raided a village and soon found themselves in a life-or-death firefight. It was the second time in two weeks that elite U.S. Navy SEALs had attempted to rescue American photojournalist Luke Somers. And it was the second time they failed.

During the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2014, U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) deployed to 133 countries -- roughly 70% of the nations on the planet -- according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bockholt, a public affairs officer with U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). This capped a three-year span in which the country’s most elite forces were active in more


and a few cherry-picked journalists reporting on cherry-picked opportunities, much of what America’s special operators do is never subjected to meaningful examination, which only increases the chances of unforeseen blowback and catastrophic consequences.

The Golden Age

“The command is at its absolute zenith. And it is indeed a golden age for special operations.” Those were the words of Army General Joseph Votel III, a West Point graduate and Army Ranger, as he assumed command of SOCOM last August.

His rhetoric may have been high-flown, but it wasn’t hyperbole. Since September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Operations forces have grown in every conceivable way, including their numbers, their budget, their clout in Washington, and their place in the country’s popular imagination. The command has, for example, more than doubled its personnel from about33,000 in 2001 to nearly 70,000 today, including a jump of roughly 8,000 during the three-year tenure of recently retired SOCOM chief Admiral William McRaven.

Those numbers, impressive as they are, don’t give a full sense of the nature of the expansion and growing global reach of America’s most elite forces in these years. For that, a rundown of the acronym-ridden structure of the ever-expanding Special Operations Command is in order. The list may be mind-numbing, but there is no other way to fully grasp its scope.

The lion’s share of SOCOM’s troops are Rangers, Green Berets, and other soldiers from the Army, followed by Air Force air commandos, SEALs, Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen and support personnel from the Navy, as well as a smaller contingent of Marines. But you


Votel, told members of the 352nd Special Operations Group at their base in England last fall.

The Air Commandos are hardly alone in their exploits on that continent. Over the last years, for example, SEALs carried out a successful hostage rescue mission in Somalia and a kidnap raid there that went awry. In Libya, Delta Force commandos successfully captured an al-Qaeda militant in an early morning raid, while SEALs commandeered an oil tanker with cargo from Libya that the weak U.S.-backed government there considered stolen. Additionally, SEALs conducted a failed evacuation mission in South Sudan in which its members were wounded when the aircraft in which they were flying was hit by small arms fire. Meanwhile, an elite quick-response force known as Naval Special Warfare Unit 10 (NSWU-10) hasbeen engaged with “strategic countries” such as Uganda, Somalia, and Nigeria.

A clandestine Special Ops training effort in Libya imploded when militia or “terrorist” forces twice raided its camp, guarded by the Libyan military, and looted large quantities of high-tech American equipment, hundreds of weapons -- including Glock pistols, and M4 rifles -- as well as night vision devices and specialized lasers that can only be seen with such equipment. As a result, the mission was scuttled and the camp was abandoned. It was then reportedly taken over by a militia.

In February of last year, elite troops traveled to Niger for three weeks of military drills as part of Flintlock 2014, an annual Special Ops counterterrorism exercise that brought together the forces of the host nation, Canada, Chad, France,


Mauritania, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Senegal, the United Kingdom, and Burkina Faso. Several months later, an officer from Burkina Faso, who received counterterrorism training in the U.S. under the auspices of SOCOM’s Joint Special Operations University in 2012, seized power in a coup. Special Ops forces, however, remained undaunted. Late last year, for example, under the auspices of SOC FWD West Africa, members of 5th Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group, partnered with elite Moroccan troops for training at a base outside of Marrakech.

A World of Opportunities

Deployments to African nations have, however, been just a part of the rapid growth of the Special Operations Command’s overseas reach. In the waning days of the Bush presidency, under then-SOCOM chief Admiral Eric Olson, Special Operations forces were reportedly deployed in about 60countries around the world. By 2010, that number had swelled to 75, according to Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post. In 2011, SOCOM spokesman Colonel Tim Nye told TomDispatch that the total would reach 120 by the end of the year. With Admiral William McRaven in charge in 2013, then-Major Robert Bockholt told TomDispatch that the number had jumped to 134. Under the command of McRaven and Votel in 2014, according to Bockholt, the total slipped ever-so-slightly to 133. Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel noted, however, that under McRaven’s command -- which lasted from August 2011 to August 2014 -- special ops forces deployed to more than 150 different countries. “In fact, SOCOM and the entire U.S. military are more engaged internationally than ever before


-- in more places and with a wider variety of missions,” he said in an August 2014 speech.

He wasn’t kidding. Just over two months into fiscal 2015, the number of countries with Special Ops deployments has already clocked in at 105, according to Bockholt.

SOCOM refused to comment on the nature of its missions or the benefits of operating in so many nations. The command would not even name a single country where U.S. special operations forces deployed in the last three years. A glance at just some of the operations, exercises, and activities that have come to light, however, paints a picture of a globetrotting command in constant churn with alliances in every corner of the planet.

In January and February, for example, members of the 7th Special ForcesGroup and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment conducted a month-long Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) with forces from Trinidad and Tobago, while troops from the 353rd Special Operations Group joined members of the Royal Thai Air Force for Exercise Teak Torch in Udon Thani, Thailand. In February and March, Green Berets from the 20th Special Forces Group trained with elite troops in the Dominican Republic as part of a JCET.

In March, members of Marine Special Operations Command and Naval Special Warfare Unit 1 took part in maneuvers aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens as part of Multi-Sail 2014, an annual exercise designed to support “security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.” That same month, elite soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines took part in a training exercise code-named


Fused Response with members of the Belizean military. “Exercises like this build rapport and bonds between U.S. forces and Belize,” said Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Heber Toro of Special Operations Command South afterward.

In April, soldiers from the 7th Special Forces Group joined with Honduran airborne troops for jump training -- parachuting over that country’s Soto Cano Air Base. Soldiers from that same unit, serving with the Afghanistan task force, also carried out shadowy ops in the southern part of that country in the spring of 2014. In June, members of the 19th Special Forces Group carried out a JCET in Albania, while operators from Delta Force took part in the mission that secured the release of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. That same month, Delta Force commandoshelped kidnap Ahmed Abu Khattala, a suspected “ringleader” in the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, while Green Berets deployed to Iraq as advisors in the fight against the Islamic State.

In June and July, 26 members of the 522nd Special Operations Squadron carried out a 28,000-mile, four-week, five-continent mission which took them to Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Japan, among other nations, to escort three “single-engine [Air Force Special Operations Command] aircraft to a destination in the Pacific Area of Responsibility.” In July, U.S. Special Operations forces traveled to Tolemaida, Colombia, to compete against elite troops from 16 other nations -- in events like sniper stalking, shooting, and an obstacle course race -- at the annual Fuerzas Comando competition.

In August, soldiers from the 20th Special


the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Finland, Great Britain, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Slovenia for Jackal Stone, a training exercise that focused on everything from close quarters combat and sniper tactics to small boat operations and hostage rescue missions. In September and October, Rangers from the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment deployed to South Korea to practice small unit tactics like clearing trenches and knocking out bunkers. During October, Air Force air commandos also conducted simulated hostage rescue missions at the Stanford Training Area near Thetford, England. Meanwhile, in international waters south of Cyprus, Navy SEALs commandeered that tanker full of oil loaded at a rebel-held port in Libya. In November, U.S. commandos conducted a raid in Yemen that freed eight foreign hostages. The next month, SEALs carriedtraining of a coup leader; in Iraq, America’s most elite forces were implicated in torture, the destruction of homes, and the killing and wounding of innocents; in Afghanistan, it was a similar story, with repeated reports of civilian deaths; while in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia it’s been more of the same. And this only scratches the surface of special ops miscues.

In 2001, before U.S. black ops forces began their massive, multi-front clandestine war against terrorism, there were 33,000 members of Special Operations Command and about 1,800 members of the elite of the elite, the Joint Special Operations Command. There were then also 23 terrorist groups -- from Hamas to the Real Irish Republican Army -- as recognized by the State Department, including al-Qaeda, whose membership was estimated at


anywhere from 200 to 1,000. That group was primarily based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, although small cells had operated in numerous countries including Germany and the United States.

After more than a decade of secret wars, massive surveillance, untold numbers of night raids, detentions, and assassinations, not to mention billions upon billions of dollars spent, the results speak for themselves. SOCOM has more than doubled in size and the secretive JSOC may be almost as large as SOCOM was in 2001. Since September of that year, 36 new terror groups have sprung up, including multiple al-Qaeda franchises, offshoots, and allies. Today, these groups still operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- there are now 11 recognized al-Qaeda affiliates in the latter nation, five in the former -- as well asMoves: The Real American War in Vietnam received a 2014 American Book Award.

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code number 201164-04, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Hydrangea plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in Glandorf, Germany on Mar. 15, 2009.
Asexual reproduction of the new Hydrangea plant by vegetative cuttings in a controlled environment in Glandorf, Germany since Mar. 15, 2010 has shown that the unique features of this new Hydrangea plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.West Ham have confirmed the signing of England striker Andy Carroll from
Liverpool for an undisclosed club-record fee believed to be around £15
million.

the 24-year-old, who has scored twice in his nine international appearances, passed a medical at Upton Park and is understood to have inked a six-year deal to the tune of £100,000-a-week deal, meaning the deal will eventually cost the Hammers in the region of £50 million.

Carroll spent last season on loan at the Boleyn Ground, scoring seven times in 24 league appearances in a campaign which was dogged by injury.

"It's fantastic for me to be here," he said on West Ham's website. "I really enjoyed last season, and that shows in me coming back and making it permanent.

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lot of time to think, I've missed it and that's why I'm back."

The club described Carroll as their "marquee signing" who "represents a significant step for the club".

Liverpool sold Carroll at a significant loss, having bought him from Newcastle for a British-record £35 million on transfer deadline day in January 2011.

He never really fitted in at Anfield despite the best attempts of Kenny Dalglish, the manager who signed him.

Carroll scored 11 times in 58 appearances, but when Dalglish was replaced by Brendan Rodgers last summer it became apparent his chances of regular first-team football would be minimal.

A deal to loan him to West Ham was secured the penultimate day of the transfer window and despite some encouraging performances for the Londoners – which earned him an England recall– it was made clear to the striker Rodgers had not changed his view of him.

"Everybody at Liverpool FC would like to wish Andy all the best for the future," said a statement on Liverpool's website.

Carroll finished last season with a heel injury, which ruled him out of the national team's friendlies against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil and could keep him out of the new campaign, which the Hammers start at home to promoted Championship winners Cardiff.


Alexander de Tartagnis

Alexander de Tartagnis ( 1424 – 1477) was an Italian jurist.

After completing his studies in Bologna, he became an assessor at the Conservatore della Giustizia and taught law in Bologna, Ferrara and Padua.

His work includes commentaries on select parts of the Pandects and on other works, as well as more than 1200 advisory opinions. He reports that, for humanitarian reasons, he did not issue advisory opinions in the disfavour of the accused in criminal cases.

Paulus Castrensis was one of his teachers. Jason de Mayno, Bartholomaeus Socinus, and Ludovico Bolognini were three of his students.

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Category:University of Padua facultyits value as a trading partner has kept it free from invasion for over a hundred years.

Election process

Clustermen are chosen to represent a district through an informal outpouring of popular approval. Every year, prospective Clustermen, usually influential members of the community, gather in an open area, popular tavern, or dockside to plead their case to the community. Citizens cheer, curse, question, and make a commotion until a clear winner emerges. These contests are rarely settled without some great exposure or dramatic debate, so citizens are encouraged to participate if for no other reason than to watch a powerful man or woman get knocked down a peg.

Representatives in the Assembly are known as Advisors and the leading group is known as the Directorate. Advisors are chosen by the Clustermen


much in the same way that they themselves were chosen, but in much more exclusive settings with much more powerful people. The Advisors then elect eight among them to establish the year’s Directorate. The Directorate hold the power of the treasury and, effectively, the heart of the city.

Guild politics

The great guilds of Lune vie for power in the Assembly in every level of politics. They seek the favor of citizens to elect friendly Clustermen, the votes of Clustermen to elect guild Advisors, all in an attempt to control the Directorate for the year. Whichever guild controls the Directorate controls the purse of Lune, paving the way for more favorable conditions to grow its power.

Gallads

Gallads are large public parties reserved for holidays or special occasions. In theory, anyone canSeveral mountain climbers have reportedly scaled a wooden replica of President Trump's steel border wall that was built to disprove Trump's claims that a portion of the wall is "impossible to climb."

Rick Weber - a 75-year-old retired engineer, and active rock climber - built a replica of an 18-foot tall section of border wall in Kentucky earlier this month, inviting mountain climbers to compete to see who could climb it the fastest.

Weber said his proposed challenge was inspired by Trump's visit to a section of border wall in California last month, where he announced that 20 of the most skilled mountain climbers out there had been tasked with trying to scale the wall, but were unable to do so.

Some raised questions over Trump's claims of a climbing test,


however, with award-winning climbers saying they "never heard of any climbers ever being recruited to try and climb a border wall." Weber too said he was skeptical of the climbing test, prompting him to create his climbing challenge.

As of Friday, Oct. 11, The Courier-Journal reports that numerous people have already scaled the replica wall, including an 8-year-old girl, even though Weber's competition isn't until this weekend.

According to the Courier-Journal, 30-year-old Peter Favaloro of Boston reached the top of the wall in about a minute. The novice climber told the publication he traveled to climb the wall after seeing news coverage about it.

Another climber, 29-year-old Erik Kloeker, made it over the wall in approximately 30 seconds during a demonstration for reporters. He later climbed the wall a second timewhile also juggling.

Weber, who is certified by American Mountain Guide Association as a Single Pitch Instructor, admits his wall is not exactly the same as Trump's but says it doesn't matter. He says if you can climb his wooden wall, you can climb the larger steel wall.

The section of border wall Weber replicated is closer in style to a 18-foot steel bollard wall erected by a private company in May of this year, but is made of wood instead. The new section of wall Trump spoke of in California last month is a steel bollard wall that includes beams filled with concrete and stands at 30-feet tall.

Trump ran on the campaign promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a pledge that has led to funding battles


with lawmakers. Trump has since declared an emergency in order to reallocate billions of dollars in military funding for wall construction.

The section of wall touted by Trump in September is one of the first new sections of the wall built since his emergency declaration.

Weber's official competition is set to take place Friday and Saturday. On Friday afternoon, he posted to Facebook that the fastest wall-climb so far was 17.25 seconds.compress it through openings in a stencil.
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Development of feedback and feedforward control of upright stance.
Feedback and feedforward (anticipatory) adjustments of stance were investigated in 58 children with normal development aged between seven months and 14 years, and in 14 children with motor and mental retardation aged between 21 months and seven years. Feedback responses after tilting the body were elicited in all but the two youngest children, aged seven and nine months. The observed rapid decrease in feedback response latency with age suggests considerable acceleration of central transmission. Effective anticipatory postural adjustments (feedforward) were elicited only in the normal children over four years of age. The development of both feedback and feedforward continued until adolescence.so long as the shareholders are pleased with their commitment to the bottom line, is going to demand from the news division? ... think back to some of the more heavily covered national stories in recent years: the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the death of Princess Diana, John Wayne Bobbitt's severed penis, the Columbine school shootings, the saga of Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher ... Did these stories merit coverage as national news? ... none of them deserved anywhere near the amount of coverage that they received ... For decades, media owners knew that their television news programming was going to lose money. It was the one area of the TV business that was still looked upon as a public service - the price a company had to


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Located in the suburbs, Garden-Lodge Sydney is seven kilometers from the business district. It is easy to access by public transportation thanksmethodology. He places fundamental importance on the production of goods and the stratification of the population that results from the mode of production in all historical human societies: slaves and masters in the ancient societies, peasants and feudal nobility in the medieval Europe, and proletariat and capitalists in the industrial society of nineteenth-century Europe. Marx believed that the old mode of production is toppled only through a revolution carried out by the oppressed class equipped with the ideology that springs out of that class. He thought that the ultimate social structure was communism, which was classless, and was achieved via a proletarian revolution. The history of communism from its inception in 1917 to its total collapse today, is a testimony to the failure of Marxian sociology.


an option to purchase, not one obliging her to buy the property. She also testified that she understood the agreement her attorney in fact signed for her with the Watsons to contain an option to purchase, not to amount to a binding contract to purchase. Her attorney in fact testified that she orally agreed by telephone for him to execute a contract to purchase some ten days after the written power of attorney was executed. Other witnesses testified that she made statements after the power of attorney was signed to the effect that she intended to purchase the property. However, none of the witnesses testified that Mrs. Coleman intended to authorize her attorney in fact to obligate her to buy the property at the time she signed thecourt erred when it applied a two-level sentence enhancement for using a minor to commit the crime. The enhancement was based on evidence that Hamilton had distributed drugs through a young co defendant, Jamel Shields, who turned 18 years old in February 2007 and thus would have been underage during approximately the first three years of the conspiracy charged in the indictment.2 Hamilton does not dispute the substance of his association with Shields, only its timing. He asserts that because the record does not show exactly when he began distributing crack through the younger man, 2 Shields continued to participate in the conspiracy for more than a year after he turned 18, and he was prosecuted as an adult. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 168 months


still a minor. Avarah Williams, who testified that Shields sold crack for the group, could only have observed Shields involvement before his own arrest and incarceration in March 2006. Byron Washington likewise testified that before his own imprisonment in November 2006, he had seen Shields accompanying Cawthon on trips to buy cocaine from him. Taken together, this evidence supports the conclusion that the members of the conspiracy used Shields to deal drugs while he was still a minor, and that this use was foreseeable to Hamilton. The district court did not clearly err in applying the sentence enhancement. III. Slack s Fine Slack argues that the district court erred by imposing a fine to compensate the government for some of its costs of prosecution. At sentencing, the governmentDonald Trump become U.S. president in 2016. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)

Magerman gained momentary fame a couple of years ago as an outspoken critic of Trump — and of his own boss, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Mercer was a pioneer in the use of data for investing, and was an owner of the now-defunct data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which some believe had a significant role in electing Trump in 2016.

All of that has ultimately driven Magerman to a new purpose in life: To try to strangle the golden goose of the internet economy — data collection — and replace it with something more socially useful and less profit-driven.

He's looking for ideas and, if no one else will, he'll put some of his own money into them.

A better internet

Magerman


worked at Mercer's hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies, for a couple of decades, using his computer science background to help make a fortune for himself, for Mercer and for the business.

Even then, Magerman was conscious of how little social benefit came from his work. He saw Renaissance Technologies as "a place that uses really bright people, who could do a lot of great things in the world — and simply has them sit at their desks and make money from money." And yet, he was one of those people.

But it was over Trump that Magerman had a tabloid-worthy falling out with Mercer, Trump's most influential backer.

Magerman argued with Mercer about all of that—specifically about race politics — and was fired. He filed a wrongful dismissal suit with sensational allegationsof racism against Mercer that lit up the normally prosaic business press, which had previously reported with envy and awe on the rise of Mercer's company to the pinnacle of the hedge fund world.

Robert Mercer is the enigmatic co-owner of Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm that is widely thought to have had a large role in Trump's election win. (Oliver Contreras/Washington Post/Getty Images)

Eventually, the suit was settled. Magerman says he got everything he wanted, but he didn't go back to work. He continued to nurture his bitterness about the 2016 election and a suspicion that Facebook and Cambridge Analytica had somehow helped usher Trump into the White House.

How much data analytics really had to do with the outcome in 2016 we might never know. But it added


The Kurdish Areas of Turkey have an unfortunate reputation in our Western media. Travelling through the areas however, is a very rewarding experience. The old city of Mardin and Göbeklitepe – the oldest temple in human history – are just two examples of the rich culture in the area.… Read MoreThe 23rd Annual Home Tour | Building the American Dream

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In 2019, Preservation Durham is concentrating on residential architecture just before and immediately following World War Two. The Great Depression of the 1930s wrecked the housing industry in America for nearly a decade. The industry barely got back on its feet before America’s entry into the war stopped home construction again as materials were diverted to the war effort. This double hiatus lead to a bumpy recovery, but a combination of pent-up demand and renewed economic activity stimulated by New Deal policies like the FHA loan program and veterans’ housing benefits in the


G. I. Bill, finally led to a post-war housing boom.

Turning away from the bungalows of the 1920s, architects looked for new inspiration and found it a number of diverse sources. The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg by the Rockefeller family stimulated a new interest in an American traditional style that ranged from small, practical, entry-level homes promoted by government programs to high-end homes rich with historically accurate detail. Wartime industrialization and mechanization led to experiments with new materials and new designs resulting in fascinating modernist homes including the all-metal “Lustron” house. Societal changes brought on by years of sacrifice during depression and war changed American expectations of family life and architects responded with the more informal Ranch style house.

During this period, home ownership became the central component of anew “American Dream” of economic and social security. Of course, the picture that developed was far from perfect. The benefits of a renewed economy and the post-war housing boom did not reach all people. Old attitudes about race and class survived. Neighborhoods, like schools, shops, and other institutions, remained segregated. African Americans had little access to financing and even black veterans found it difficult to enjoy their hard-won housing benefits as lenders and government agencies instituted systems of redlining. But in Durham African American families did build new homes in the new postwar styles. Many of these are concentrated on Pekoe Avenue and Nelson, Otis, and Cecil Streets.

For months now, Preservation Durham has been engaged in identifying nearly one hundred houses across town representing pre- and post-World War


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a pulpit on Sunday morning in a church. He was giving a message on the seven eyes of the God. He says these are the seven prophetic rivers that the Lord is releasing upon the church. These seven eyes are seven prophetic areas of the prophetic ministry. The Seven eyes are being restored to the church in these days.

I then see a great prophetic anointing, a prophetic anointing of all prophetic anointings of the prophets in the past coming upon this generation of prophets. I see the prophets move in the prophetic and in power as they give forth the living prophetic word, they give signs to conform their prophecy.

I see Prophets moving in northern India with signs and begin revival to villages. I see prophets moving infrom the heart of the apostolic anointing in the center of the apostolic church.

I see prophetic voices arise nationally, globally and city levels by the Spirit ministering with a heart of fire and a heart of revelation, and a heart of pure love.

I see many eyes filled with light arising and beginning to fill the other eyes with light. This is a revival and move of prophetic light filling the church and His prophets and the prophets of the house.

I see pure vision, pure light, pure revelation, and pure prophetic fill certain churches and many churches. The fires of the holiness of God begun to fall upon these churches and the deep humility filled the hearts of many.

Then I see the end of many spiritual famines in the


PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal. The Librarian of Congress decided in October 2012 that unlocking of cell phones would be removed from the exceptions to the DMCA. As of January 26, consumers will no longer be able unlock their phones for use on a different network without carrier permission, even after their contract has expired. Consumers will be forced to pay exorbitant roaming fees to make calls while traveling abroad. It reduces consumer choice, and decreases the resale value of devices that consumers have paid for in full. The Librarian noted that carriers are offering more unlocked phones at present, but the great majority of phones sold are still locked. We ask that the White House ask the Librarian of Congress to rescindarticle

A 39-year-old woman of Otsego, Minnesota tried to cheat her way into a MnPass lane without paying.

The woman tried to make her purse look like a baby while driving on I-35W in Richfield, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

She was pulled over for not having a visible passenger while in the MnPass lane. According to State Patrol, the trooper had a rider with him from MnDOT who said the woman mouthed “baby” and pointed to a car seat in the backseat.

The trooper discovered the woman had put her purse in the car seat and covered it with a blanket so it looked like a baby.

She was ticketed for a MnPass violation. Depending on the county, citations that are issued can cost up to $300.

Per MnPass laws, children and infants


to make way for large development projects.

Background

Brazil's first female president, Dilma Rousseff, took office on 1 January promising to promote development and eradicate extreme poverty. Despite strong economic growth and improvements across most social and economic indicators over the last decade, more than 16.2 million Brazilians continued to live on less than R$70 (approximately US$40) per month, according to census data. In June, the federal government launched a national plan to eradicate extreme poverty within four years. During the year, seven ministers were forced to resign amid allegations of corruption involving misuse of public funds.

The new government pledged to pursue a human rights agenda in its foreign policy. In March, Brazil supported the creation of a UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, butin November was criticized for abstaining on a UN Security Council resolution condemning human rights abuses in Syria. In contravention of promises made on its election to the UN Human Rights Council, Brazil refused to accept the precautionary measures issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the Belo Monte hydroelectric project.

Large-scale development projects under the Growth Acceleration Programme continued to pose risks for Indigenous Peoples, fishing communities, small-scale farmers and marginalized urban communities.

In January, flooding and mudslides swept through a mountainous region (Região Serrana) near the city of Rio de Janeiro. More than 800 people were killed – the majority in the towns of Nova Friburgo and Teresópolis – and more than 30,000 were made homeless. The floods were followed by widespread allegations of corruption involving


misuse of public funds earmarked for relief. Some residents made homeless from the previous flooding that hit Rio de Janeiro and Niterói in 2010 were still living in precarious conditions awaiting the provision of adequate housing.

In May, the Supreme Federal Court unanimously recognized the rights of same-sex couples in a stable partnership as equivalent to those of heterosexual couples.

Past human rights violations

On 18 November, President Rousseff ratified laws limiting to 50 years the period state secrets can be held, and creating a Truth Commission to investigate human rights violations committed between 1946 and 1988. The Commission, made up of a seven-member panel appointed by the President, will hear evidence for two years, before issuing a report. These reforms were important advances in tackling impunity. Nevertheless, there were concerns2011, 18 UPPs had been installed across the city of Rio de Janeiro. In November, a major police and military operation in the southern zone of the city cleared Rocinha and Vidigal of criminal gangs in preparation for the installation of further units. While the UPPs represented important progress in moving away from policing based on violent confrontation, more comprehensive investment in social services for communities living in poverty was still lacking. In addition, overall reform of the security system, including police training, intelligence and external control, was still needed. Reports of excessive use of force and corruption in some units indicated the absence of effective oversight mechanisms to monitor the UPPs' presence in the communities.

Socially excluded communities continued to face violence by criminal gangs and abusive policing


that often resulted in residents being treated as criminal suspects. This in turn increased social deprivation and distanced communities from broader state services such as access to schools, health care and sanitation.

Between January and September, 804 people were killed in situations defined as "acts of resistance" in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. While in Rio de Janeiro this reflected a decline of 177 from the previous year, the number of reported violent deaths recorded by police as "undetermined" rose.

In July, 11-year-old Juan Moraes disappeared during an operation in the Danon community in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro state. His body was later found in Rio Botas, Belford Roxo, in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu. A civil police inquiry concluded that he had been killed by the militarypolice and his body removed by police officers. Between them, the four police officers implicated had previously been involved in at least 37 killings registered as "acts of resistance". Following the killing, the civil police introduced new measures, including mandatory crime scene, forensic and ballistic investigations, in cases registered as "acts of resistance".

Similar measures were introduced in São Paulo. From April, all cases of police killings in greater São Paulo were referred to a specialized homicide unit.

Death squads and militias

Police officers were believed to be involved in death squads and milícias (militias) engaged in social cleansing, extortion, as well as in trafficking in arms and drugs.

In February, the federal police's Operation Guillotine uncovered a web of corruption extending to senior officials in Rio de Janeiro's civil police. Forty-seven


serving or former police officers were accused of forming armed gangs, embezzlement, arms trafficking and extortion.

In February in the state of Goiás, 19 military police officers, including the sub-commander of the military police, were arrested and charged with involvement in death squads. In June, a special commission investigating police involvement in death squads in the state released a report examining 37 cases of enforced disappearance where police involvement was suspected. Following the release of the report, members of the commission themselves received death threats.

In São Paulo a report by the civil police attributed 150 deaths between 2006 and 2010 to death squads in the north and east of the city.

In Rio de Janeiro, militias continued to dominate large swathes of the city, extorting protection money from the poorestresidents and illegally providing services such as transport, telecommunications and gas. This placed vulnerable communities at risk through the imposition of illegal or unregulated services. Those who opposed them were subjected to threats, intimidation and violence.

In August, Judge Patrícia Acioli was shot 21 times outside her home in Niterói, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. She had received a series of death threats related to her uncompromising stand against the militias and police criminality. Ten police officers, along with the commander of the São Gonçalo Battalion, were arrested in connection with the killing and were detained awaiting trial at the end of the year.

Between October and December, the President of the Rio de Janeiro State Human Rights Commission, State Deputy Marcelo Freixo, who had headed an


inquiry into the militias, received 10 death threats.

Torture and other ill-treatment

Torture was prevalent at the point of arrest and during interrogation and detention in police stations and prisons.

Prison conditions

The prison population reached around 500,000 in 2011, with 44 per cent of all prisoners held in pre-trial detention. Severe overcrowding, degrading conditions, torture, and prisoner-on-prisoner violence were commonplace.

In October, a long-awaited bill was sent to Congress for the creation of a National Preventative Mechanism and a National Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Torture, in line with requirements under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture. By the end of the year, three states – Rio de Janeiro, Alagoas and Paraíba – had passed legislation for the creation of state preventative mechanisms and one, Rio deJaneiro, had started implementation.

In September, a 14-year-old girl was lured to the Heleno Fragoso semi-open prison in Belém's metropolitan region, where she was drugged and raped over a period of four days. She later escaped and told police that two other adolescents were being used as prostitutes within the unit. Thirty staff members, including the Superintendent of the prison system, were suspended pending an inquiry. After receiving death threats, the girl, along with another girl who was raped in the unit, was forced to enter the Programme for the Protection of Children and Adolescents.

In most states, many prisons and police cells were effectively under the control of criminal gangs.

In February, in the state of Maranhão, six inmates were killed – four of whom were decapitated – when riots


encamped by the side of highways, awaiting restitution of their lands. Delays in the demarcation process exposed communities to heightened risk of human rights violations.

A group of armed men repeatedly threatened and attacked 125 families of the Guarani-Kaiowá community of Pyelito Kue after they reoccupied traditional lands in the municipality of Iguatemi, Mato Grosso do Sul state. In September, armed men arrived in two trucks and fired rubber bullets, set fire to shacks, beat individuals and shouted threats as the community fled in panic. Several people, including children and the elderly, were seriously injured in an attack described by federal prosecutors as genocide and the formation of a rural militia.

In November, 40 gunmen, many hooded, attacked the Guaiviry encampment near the Brazil-Paraguay border, shooting Indigenous leader Nísio Gomesdead and taking his body away in a truck. His fate was not known at the end of the year.

In February, three men accused of killing Guarani-Kaiowá leader Marcus Veron were convicted of kidnapping, the formation of a criminal gang and torture, but were acquitted of homicide. At the end of the year, the three were at liberty pending an appeal against their sentences. Marcus Veron was beaten to death on traditional lands in February 2003.

In February, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources issued the environmental licence for work to begin on the Belo Monte hydroelectric project in Pará state. Indigenous Peoples and local communities protested at the plans, arguing that the project would affect their livelihoods and that the licence had been issued


without a fair consultation process with those affected. In April, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called on Brazil to suspend the licensing process pending free, prior and informed consultations with affected groups and the implementation of measures to safeguard their health and physical integrity. The federal authorities responded by withdrawing their representative to the OAS and stopping contributions to the Commission, among other measures.

Rural killings

Land activists continued to be threatened and killed in their struggle for access to land and for speaking out against illegal logging and ranching in the Amazon region.

In May, environmental activists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, were shot dead by gunmen in the municipality of Ipixuna, in Pará state. They had exposed the activities of illegalloggers, ranchers and charcoal producers in the region. Three men were subsequently arrested in September in connection with the killings. However, threats against the victims' relatives and community continued.

In May, rural leader and survivor of the Corumbiara massacre in 1995, Adelino Ramos, was shot dead in Vista Alegre do Abunã, in the municipality of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. He had previously highlighted the activities of illegal loggers operating along the borders of Acre, Amazônia and Rondônia states.

In the wake of the killings, the NGO Pastoral Land Commission presented the Federal Human Rights Secretary with the names of a further 1,855 people under threat because of land conflicts nationwide.

Violent land conflicts were reported in many other states in the north and north-east of the country.

In June, 40 families in


the settlements of Assentamento Santo Antônio Bom Sossego and Acampamento Vitória, in the municipality of Palmeirante, Tocantins state, were attacked by gunmen who fired shots over the encampment and threatened to kill land activists.

In Maranhão state, residents of the Salgado Quilombola community complained of a sustained campaign of harassment and intimidation by local farmers, who destroyed crops, killed livestock, fenced off water sources and issued death threats against community leaders.

Housing rights

In Brazil's urban centres, large-scale development projects – including preparations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games – left communities living in poverty at risk of intimidation and forced eviction. In April, the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the rightto non-discrimination said that she had received reports of evictions involving human rights violations in cities across Brazil, including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Recife, Natal and Fortaleza.

In February, council workers with bulldozers, accompanied by municipal guards, arrived without warning at the community of Vila Harmonia in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Rio de Janeiro, one of several communities threatened with eviction because of the construction of the Transoeste bus corridor. Residents reported that municipal workers ordered them to leave immediately, without sufficient time to clear belongings from their houses before they were demolished.

In São Paulo, thousands of families were threatened with eviction to make way for urban infrastructure developments, including the construction of a ring road; the widening of highways running along the Tietê


River; and the building of parklands along the banks of streams and rivers, where up to 40 per cent of the city's favelas are situated. Residents affected by the evictions complained of lack of consultation and inadequate compensation.

Human rights defenders

The National Programme for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders was fully operational in five states – Pará, Pernambuco, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia – and in the process of being implemented in a further two – Ceará and Rio de Janeiro. However, in many instances, bureaucratic problems hampered its effectiveness and some defenders in the programme complained that they had not received adequate protection.

Local NGOs faced intimidation and threats.

In Maranhão state, activists working for the Pastoral Land Commission were threatened with death outside a court in thetown of Cantanhede. They were attending a hearing related to a land dispute.

In Rio de Janeiro, members of the Network of Communities and Movements against Violence were subjected to threatening phone calls and intimidation by police officers.

Sexual and reproductive rights

In the five years since the Maria da Penha Law on domestic violence was passed, more than 100,000 people had been sentenced under the Law.

In August, in a landmark decision, the CEDAW Committee concluded that Brazil had failed to fulfil its obligation to "ensure to women appropriate services in connection with pregnancy, confinement and the post-natal period, granting free services where necessary". The decision was handed down in the case of Alyne da Silva Pimentel, a 28-year-old woman of African descent and resident of one of Rio de Janeiro's


warm up before being transferred into the hot whipping cream mixture.

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Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and churn for 25 minutes.

Place the ice cream in a freezer safe dish and drizzle the caramel topping over it. Hint: dragwith meticulous investigation culminated into the arrest of two the suspects and with that bringing down a family run fraud syndicate of over R7 Million to a screeching halt," Naicker said. He said some of the complainants in the reported cases alleged that they were called by a person who lured them into investing in a business. "The caller would inform the complainant of a container with goods coming from overseas and the victim will be asked to invest into the business. Once the complaint shows interest in the possible business venture they would then be asked to deposit money into a particular bank account. After the money had been deposited the promised investment opportunity would not materialize. Other complainants reported that the person who had called them


would inform them that they were selling bank repossessed properties. If the victim exhibited interest in the property they would also be requested to deposit money only to later realise that they have been scammed," Naicker said.

He said all the reported cases from all the stations were centralised for the purposes of an effective investigation.

The investigation into all the reported cases was led by a team of seasoned detectives based at the Pietermaritzburg police station.

The team worked tirelessly in trying to put all the pieces together with all the evidence at their disposal which would result in the arrest of the culprits.

"A countless number of hours as well as resources were invested in trying to bring down this syndicate. Once the investigation phase was completed and the suspect'sMonday, January 23, 2012

NEW DELHI — Indian navy personnel will take command of the country's first nuclear-powered submarine in two decades on Monday after collecting the vessel near the Russian port of Vladivostok, an official said.

Moscow offered the Russian-built Chakra II to the Indian navy on a 10-year lease, a move that has angered India's archrival and nuclear-armed neighbor Pakistan.

The Akula II class craft is the first nuclear-powered submarine to be operated by India since it decommissioned its last Soviet-built vessel in 1991.

"INS Chakra II is being handed over to Indian personnel in the east, near Vladivostok," a senior navy source in India said, asking not to be named because Russia will formally announce the transfer.

The 8,140-ton submarine, capable of firing a range of torpedoes, as well as


nuclear-tipped Granat cruise missiles, will sail under the Indian flag to its base at Visakhapatnam in the Bay of Bengal.

India is currently completing the development of its own Arihant-class nuclear-powered ballistic submarines and the Russian delivery is expected to help crews train for the domestic boat's introduction into service next year.

The submarine was due to be handed over to India in 2009 but has been hit by various problems during testing.

During trials in the Sea of Japan in November 2008, 20 sailors were killed when a fire extinguisher released a deadly chemical that had been accidentally loaded into the system.

The INS Chakra was commissioned by India in 2004 and has seen the South Asian nation pay $650 million in construction costs.

Earlier newspaper reports in India said New Delhimay end up paying as much as $900 million under the terms of the deal. Russia's RIA Novosti news agency valued the contract at $920 million.

Russia supplies 70 percent of India's military hardware, but New Delhi has been unhappy about delays to arms orders from Moscow and has looked to other suppliers, including Israel and the U.S., in recent years.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier passed through Strait of Hormuz on Jan. 22 and is now in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon said, after Tehran threatened to close the strategic shipping route.

"USS Abraham Lincoln ... completed a regular and routine transit of the Strait of Hormuz ... to conduct maritime security operations as scheduled," Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. John Kirby said in an email to AFP. "The transit


was completed as previously scheduled and without incident."

The carrier, which can have up to 80 planes and helicopters onboard, was escorted by the guided-missile cruiser Cape St. George and two destroyers.

Earlier, Britain's Ministry of Defence said a British Royal Navy frigate and a French vessel had joined the carrier group to sail through the waterway.

While allied ships often participate in U.S. naval exercises and sometimes are part of joint naval flotillas, the presence of British and French ships seemed to be a message to Tehran about the West's resolve to keep the route open.

"HMS Argyll and a French vessel joined a U.S. carrier group transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, to underline the unwavering international commitment to maintaining rights of passage under international law," said a spokesman fromBritain's MoD.

He said Britain maintained "a constant presence in the region as part of our enduring contribution to Gulf security."

Iran's military and political leaders had warned they could close the strait — a key transit route for global oil supplies — if increased Western sanctions over Tehran's suspect nuclear program halt Iranian oil exports.

The Islamic republic's navy had also warned it would react if the U.S. tried to redeploy one of its aircraft carriers to the waterway.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has repeatedly said closing the strait would cross a "red line." Two of the 11 U.S. aircraft carriers are in the region.

Since then, Iran has tried to ease tensions, with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi saying last week that Tehran had never tried to close the strait.

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Richard Willard BERNDT, Appellant,v.UNITED STATES of America.
No. 14811.
United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.
June 22, 1953.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Richard Willard Berndt, pro se.
R. S. Wilson, U. S. Atty., and Charles A. Beasley, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Fort Smith, Ark., for appellee.
PER CURIAM.

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Appeal from District Court dismissed, on motion of appellant.


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Last month a new President was elected in Iran. Leaders of the world rejoiced, openly at least, in their assertions to the media. Iranian President-elect Rohani was defined and touted as a moderate reformist because he built his campaign around promises to ease Iran’s tensions with the West, end international sanctions, allow greater freedom of the press and reduce government interference in private lives. Analysts of nuclear affairs saw his election as a positive step towards non-proliferation for in October 2003 he as a nuclear negotiator he had agreedMinister Benjamin Netanyahu is 100% correct in warning that Iran is still moving forward with its nuclear weapons program, one month after alleged moderate Rohani was elected. Netanyahu is 100% correct in calling for sanctions against the Islamic Republic to be strengthened, along with a credible threat of military action against Iran. Incorrectly the world believes that Rohani is a moderate. Dore Gold in an article two weeks ago revealed the well known facts about Rohani. Rohani was national security adviser under President Khatami when Iran concealed its vast nuclear program from the West; and when the Shahab-3 missile, which Iran hopes to arm with a nuclear warhead, became operational in the Iranian armed forces. At the time in 2004 Rohani openly spoke and explained that he was


The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Phlox plant, botanically known as Phlox paniculata, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Spinners.
The new Phlox is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Zwaanshoek, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program was to create new Phlox cultivars with attractive flower coloration, healthy foliage and resistance to Powdery Mildew.
The new Phlox originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 1999 in Callantsoog, The Netherlands of a proprietary selection of Phlox paniculata identified as code number 98421, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary selection of Phlox paniculata identified as code number 96562, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Phlox wasdiscovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Callantsoog, The Netherlands in 2001.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings at Callantsoog, The Netherlands since 2001, has shown that the unique features of this new Phlox are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.


years and the one or two victims that actually had a father present in their lives settled the score. Bravo to the anomaly that is the black father!

With checkered past and gang affiliations,It's a wonder he was allowed to work withKids, unless this was approved by the CourtsAs part of his rehab.It's the lure of easy moneyIt's got a very strong appealin the state of Florida.

According to Qiao's arrest affidavit, another detective posing as a customer at Hollywood Asian Spa paid $40 for a 30-minute massage in a back room. When he asked about a sex act, Qiao said it would cost an additional $100, the report said.

Qiao was arrested after the detective gave her the cash for it.

Police said Qiao admitted that she wasn't a licensed massage therapist in Florida.

Wang and Qiao also face charges of operating a massage establishment without a license.


A former banker, who began supplying crystal meth after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, has been condemned to die in prison after being sentenced to 11-years.

In a plot mirroring that of the hit US television drama, Breaking Bad, David Parkinson, 34, went into the deadly drug business after being told his illness could not be cured.

Recruiting his mother Diane as his bookkeeper, Parkinson travelled from his home in Lancashire to London to buy large quantities of the highly addictive drug.Siobhan Magnus: American Idol Female of the Week

While Crystal Bowersox broke out the electric guitar last night and put on an incredible show once again, we highlighted her American Idol performance last week.

Therefore, Siobhan Magnus gets the honor this time. The glassblowing apprentice from Cape Cod, Massachuetts sang an entire verse of "House of the Rising Sun" a cappella, remaining in control throughout.

It was a brave, impressive rendition. Crystal might not have the women's crown sewn up, after all. Watch and enjoy:

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jute•March 10, 2010 18:09

Simon didn't even make any comment on the vocals. Instead, he pointed out the "weirdness" of her outfit and the fact the song is dark and boring. I know why he did. Because vocally, he couldn't fault Siobhan's performance. Plus,


he said virtually the same thing about "Wicked Game." It's obvious, he doesn't like it when Siobhan does slow songs. Personally, I think Siobhan did a brave and smart thing with "House of the Rising Sun." The song best showed off her tone, range and pitch control.

Katie•March 10, 2010 16:18

I think that was possibly the very best semi-finalist performance in 9 years.actively, with the world. Political activism, yes — but there are other ways to get involved. The arts, for instance.

"Artists are on the periphery of society, so we're looking at it from a critical perspective," says sculptor Gina Miccinilli of Mahwah. "We're commentators, and critics."

Her own response to the this year's superstorm of crazy: she went to Bkarzla, Lebanon, on the Syrian border, from August to October, to work with refugees. Specifically, to create art that spoke to their plight.

"I made a sculpture piece for the peace center," she says. "I had to register to go, since I was going into an active war zone. The government emailed me that they would not come to my aid if any issues occurred."

The kinetic sculpture she ended up creating there


was a 49-foot, upside-down, dangling tree. "It's all about transplants, and uprooting, and identity," she says.

Even more than conditions in Lebanon, her piece was about conditions at home — America. "It was in direct response to my disgust here, to the rhetoric of hate and divisiveness and fear and ignorance," she says.

Change your view

There's one other way to stay sane in an age of madness. Perspective.

Decades ago, there was another year that left people feeling much as they do now: 1968, the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy assassinations, the year when police brutally clashed with protesters at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, the year of the Tet offensive in South Vietnam, of violent conflict in Northern Ireland, of riots on campuses and innercities. Many, by December, felt that the world was coming apart.

Then, on Dec. 24, the spacecraft Apollo 8 became the first to go into orbit around the moon. Astronaut William Anders beamed back an amazing picture: the Earth, seen whole for the first time, a fragile blue marble in a vast expanse of black.

The "Earthrise" picture caused a sensation. For many, it seemed to put all the pain of the previous year into proportion. "Thank you Apollo 8. You saved 1968," someone telegraphed mission commander Frank Borman.

"It was a symbol of hope that everyone could gather around," Bocock says.

This year, on a smaller scale, we may have had a similar moment. On Feb. 6, America took a breather to view the launch and return of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy


sense of
humor, but refrain from lewd comments and off-color jokes. He is
someone The Girlfriend is proud to introduce to her friends and must
never, never, NEVER embarrass her in their presence. He needn't be the
most handsome guy on the planet, nor the best built, but he should
present himself in his best possible light. Every once in a great
while, he may look a slob, but this is only so that The Girlfriend may
scold him, wherein he must be properly apologetic and allow her to "fix
him up."
The Boyfriend should have a good job, or at least, the potential for a
good job, and ambition is a definite plus. If that ambition involves
guitars and strobe lights and fog machines on a stage, The Girlfriend
should realize that The Boyfriend may never grow up, andPosted by

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Toronto FC's latest venture in player development finally kicked off this past weekend as TFC II began their season in USL Pro. A much needed step in keeping players on the fringe of the first team active, as well as providing a place for both academy and college prospects to continue to grow, are the obvious benefits of being involved with the league. Aaron Neilsen (@ENBSports) and Toronto FC II's reporter Kamal Hylton (@KamalHylton) meet up to discuss the first ever game with Toronto FC II taking on the Charleston Battery. The make-up of this fixture is interesting because it pitted youth against a club that has a long history in the


league and some veterans of USL Pro. As the game wore on, even thought Toronto FC shot out like a cannon with two quick goals, the experience of Charleston began to show as they were ready to fight for the full ninety minutes. For a first game, Toronto FC II showed signs of being a good team and individuals stood out as real prospects for the senior side. Mark Anthony Kaye has the physical presence to watch for in the future, while Luca Uccello making an appearance at 17 years of age shows he could be one to be making real strides for the first team before he is 20. Of course Jordan Hamilton continues to prove he is a top finisher, however, from a defensive standpoint there[Little histories of magnetic cures].
Men were very early fascinated by magnetism because of its manifest and particular working at distance, which looked different of gravity. It was tryed to be explained by mecanism, for exemple Descartes and Boyle. Paracelse valued the therapeutics with magnets and conceived medicines as working by a magnetic virtue. Gilbert limited the medicinal properties of magnet but helded it to be animated. Many authors praised remedies that work at distance of the evil as Bacon, Van Helmont, Croll, Porta, Goclenius, Digby. Such a belief related to magic ideas of this time. In the Bacon's way Boyle collected facts of magnetic cures, and his actual testing of the divisibility of bodies led him to conceive imponderable corpuscles. Newton supposed a subtil and universel fluid going


through every solid body. Mesmer misappropriated this idea by founding the animal magnetism of which physical working was only proceeding from the inside of the patient by an effect of suggestion (psychosomatic). Homeopathy took again the notion of remedies having an infinite or a magnetic virtue, which partly issued from Paracelse's and Mesmer's doctrines, which were extolled in Germany at the time of Hahnemann. The latter decided in favour of a spiritualist and not corpuscular interpretation of the working of his homeopathic medicines.Union Says Plácido Domingo Engaged In 'Inappropriate Activity'

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The union representing opera performers, choral singers and dancers says that according to an independent investigation it commissioned, opera megastar Plácido Domingo engaged in "inappropriate activity" with women both "in and outside of the workplace."

In a brief press release issued early Tuesday, American Guild of Musical Artists gave no information about specific incidents of alleged misconduct, except to say that it ranged from "flirtation to sexual advances, in and outside of the workplace" nor did the union provide any time span for those activities. The release continued: "Many of the witnesses expressed fear of retaliation in the industry as their reason for not


women matter. We look forward to the release of the final report."

Several prominent American companies, including most notably the Metropolitan Opera, parted ways with Domingo in the wake of the accusations. By contrast, many European opera houses and singers either offered him public support or suggested that they would await the results of the investigations.

Speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, the sources with knowledge of the planned $500,000 settlement told NPR that Domingo's legal team withdrew its settlement offer with AGMA early Tuesday morning. NPR has viewed the email which senior AGMA leadership sent early Tuesday to its officers and national board of governors, a group of about 80 individuals, saying that the union intends to take "appropriate action" against any members who had spoken to the AP,of this case we find as follows:[1]
Approximately ten years ago the debtor and his wife purchased an improved parcel of realty. Although the premises are encumbered by a mortgage, a significant amount of equity currently reposes in the property. The debtor's wife individually filed a petition in this court in 1981, for the repayment of her debts under chapter 13 of the Code while last year the debtor filed a petition for reorganization under chapter 11 of the Code. Apparently some time after the filing of the wife's petition, a divorce petition was filed in state court. As a consequence of the divorce proceeding, the property of both parties is subject to the divorce court's power of equitable distribution.
It was not until after confirmation of the wife's chapter


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This frank drama contrasts the lives of two brothers who are opposite in a almost every way. Joe (Brad Pitt) is the perfect son and athlete obsessed with his dream of a track scholarship. His brother Billy (Rick Schroder) is a short-fused teenage rebel paroled from reform school. When Joe talks Billy into joining a rival school's track team, he unexpectedly finds himself racing against his own brother and possibly killing his scholarship dreams, as well as his relationship with Billy. Pitt and Schroder are fantastic as the bickering brothers who can't seem to come to a truce.Assessment of reproductive performance in F1 sows exposed to the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus at different periods of production stage on farms with different hygienic environments.
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) occurred in Japan in 2013 after an interval of 7 years. The present study assessed individual productivity of sows exposed to PED virus at different periods of the production stage. The present study was performed at three commercial farms that had PED outbreak during the month of December 2013. Herd immunization was conducted for all gilts and sows. The production records were obtained for sows that were alive during the PED outbreak at each farm. The sows were categorized into six groups based on the period in which they were exposed to PED virus between days 0-30 (G1), 31-60


Five years ago, Yusuf Shegow visited the ruins of the once-grand Al-Uruba hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean on Mogadishu’s waterfront. His grandfather had worked at a nearby hotel in the 1970s, and shared stories with Shegow of the diplomats and dignitaries who stayed there on frequent visits to the country then known as the “Switzerland of Africa”.

After decades of civil war, Al-Uruba’s arched windows and white plaster facade were in tatters. The entire fourth floor was gone, levelled by mortar fire.

For Shegow, a recent graduate of the Manchester School of Architecture, “buildings were an education” that taught him about a country he left for the UK when he was a child. They connected him to the stories of his parents and grandparents. “There were roads and buildings asgood as anywhere else,” he says. “It could have been one of the biggest cities in Africa.”

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mogadishu was once a flourishing economic and cultural capital but much of its architectural heritage has been obliterated by war. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Shegow is the founder of Somali Architecture, a project that digitally recreates buildings and monuments from Mogadishu’s prewar age, presenting a positive vision of a city that was once a flourishing economic and cultural capital – and could be again. Their work includes an ambitious set of 3D digital models of prominent buildings now largely destroyed, created by Shegow after years of archival research. There’s also a popular Instagram account featuring hundreds of images of the city’s former grandeur.

“By focusing on how the city used to be,


machine years ago apparently also captivated Parts &
Labor's Dan Friel as he worked on Sunburned, his second solo EP and his first to see proper release
on a label. He opens the disc with a track called "Dead Batteries", a song literally built on a foundation
of an old Casio struggling to play a rhythm preset with the power provided by nearly expended C batteries.
The effect is a twitching, crackling foundation for his laser-toned guitar to slice through that perfectly
sets the tone for this intriguing, challenging disc.

Friel has slowly been making a name for himself in Brooklyn not only with Parts & Labor, who last year split
a full-length with rising avant-garde star Tyondai Braxton (now a member of Battles alongside ex-Don Caballero
guitarist Ian Williams), but also with his bit partsin ensembles helmed by Damo Suzuki and Glenn Branca.
In his spare time, he records with an intentionally limited setup, working to coax the best music he can
from an array of electronics like remote-controlled car joysticks and walkie talkies. The squealing, dense
textures he builds from those sounds form the bulk of this record, and he interacts with them with his
electric guitar, pouring on layer after layer of his distinctly hued drones and distorted overtone series
until the wall of sounds is complete.

The music he ends up with sounds like little else out there, a heaving mass of static beats, monolithic
distortion, and bending, diving tones. Most of the modulating squeals that cut through songs like "Tractorcalls"
are created by amplifying the signals of the remote controls, which produce a surprisingly wide array


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Around 1983, the American musician Bob Dylan (né Robert Zimmerman) was studying Jewish scripture at the main Lubavitcher synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York. At that time, a letter from “R.Z., Hibbing, Minn.,” appeared in an issue of “Mendy and the Golem.”

I actually own an issue, number 12, which you will see in the gallery below. I distinctly remember buying it in the candy store down the block from my house. They had an old spinner rack full of comics (Try finding one of those nowadays. Thanks, direct market.) and one week, among all the superheroes I saw Mendy and the Golem. It was very out of


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Shortly after takeoff, the pilot noticed the engine was running roughly and that power was decreasing despite full throttle being selected. As the aircraft was unable to maintain altitude, a MAYDAY was declared and a forced landing was carried out in a field of standing crop. The aircraft sustained substantial damage in the landing, but both occupants were uninjured and able to leave the aircraft unaided. Weather conditions at the time were highly conducive to the formation of carburettor ice.the harvestable lumber never left the forests but, having been damaged in the logging, rotted or was burned in place. The unsurprising result of these and related policies is that out of 17 million hectares of closed forests that flourished early in the century only 1.2 million remain today.

Air pollution
Due to industrial waste and automobiles, Manila suffers from air pollution, affecting 98% of the population. Annually, the air pollution causes more than 4,000 deaths. Ermita is Manila's most air polluted district due to open dump sites and industrial waste. According to a report in 2003, The Pasig River is one of the most polluted rivers in the world with 150 tons of domestic waste and 75 tons of industrial waste dumped daily.

Climate change
One of the most pressing


ultimately be required to address these complicated issues.

Hugo Barra, a top member of Google's smartphone team, is leaving the U.S. technology company for upstart Chinese phone maker Xiaomi.

Barra, vice president of product management for Google's Android phone operating system, will head up the Chinese company's international business development as vice president of Xiaomi Global, he announced on his Google+ page.

Xiaomi currently sells few phones outside of China, but has quickly carved out an impressive share of the world's largest cell phone market, surpassing Apple in sales in the last quarter and, with its Mi 2S model, taking the title of top selling phone away from Samsung Electronics's Galaxy S4 in the first half of the year.

Part of the attraction is that Xiaomi's phones are usually priced at lessthan half the level of the leading global models, but the company actively involves customers in its design process through social media to keep up with their changing tastes.

Barra has been with Google for over 5 years and joins a group of Chinese Google, Microsoft and Motorola veterans in guiding Xiaomi's expansion. While Chinese phone makers lag well behind Samsung and its South Korean peers in the U.S. market, Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo and others have already fared far better overseas than Japanese rivals other than Sony.

Xiaomi, whose investors include Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek, last week completed a new round of fundraising that valued the company at $10 billion according to Lei Jun, its chief executive. The company has made its mark through sales via social networking sites