AUSTIN (KXAN) — The man who boarded an AISD bus and claimed to be with the DEA and CIA has been taken into custody. The AISD police chief says the man, John Mikel Humphries, 29, is in the Travis County Jail.

“Many thanks to all the citizens who called in tips leading to identification,” Chief Eric Mendez said in a tweet.

Humphries was seen at Murchison Middle School on Tuesday, taking photos of students as they used the crosswalk.

AISD police say Humphries, later that afternoon, pulled over an AISD school bus after the driver dropped off the one remaining student.

Police said the man drove a black Chevrolet Tahoe, which looks similar to many unmarked police vehicles, and flashed the school bus with his headlights. At first, the bus driver openedher door at a red light and spoke with the man while he was seated in his vehicle. Authorities say Humphries asked the driver about her route.

After she dropped off an Anderson High student, Humphries boarded the bus and asked about the route again. He wore black military-style pants, an orange shirt and had a holstered handgun. The bus driver said the man said, “I am getting paid by the city. I am not a vigilante or an a**hole.” When asked for his law enforcement credentials, he got off the bus.

Cameras on the bus captured the moment, but were too blurry to see his license plate number. Chief Mendez said police would patrol the bus routes during operating hours until the suspect was found.

“In my 26-year career… I’ve


never seen someone as brazen as stopping a school bus and entering a school bus here in Austin,” the chief said. “Thankfully, no students were on board.”

In 2011 and 2012, Humphries was charged with assault causing injury–family violence. He has previously been accused of a variety of crimes, including failure to stop and render aid, public intoxication and criminal trespass.Noell Wolfgram Evans · From fps #2 · May 1, 2005 | George Davis picked an odd time to get into animation. It was 1950 and most of the animation studios at the time found themselves at a crossroads. Television and its unique requirements were just coming together and calling for content; theatres were adapting to these new rivals with special processes like 3D, Cinemascope, Emergo and others. If those weren't enough, UPA exploded into the public consciousness with an Oscar win in 1950 for Gerald McBoingBoing, which brought a new style to the industry.

Still, this was animation and plenty of people were willing to get involved in the making of cartoons. One of these was George Davis. In 1950, Davis was working in New York City as


a commercial artist and sometime photographer. He used his dual skills to keep busy, often landing referrals from artists for photographic work and vice versa. One of the referrals he got landed him a photography assignment from Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio in New Rochelle, New York. They wanted him to head to the Toy Fair Show in New York City and take some pictures of the Terrytoons licensed products that were on display.

When he returned with the photos, he presented them to Paul Terry himself, who was very taken by he had done. They had a long conversation about photography and then got into Davis's other business, commercial art. Former newspaper photographer Terry must have sensed something of his own career path in Davis and, liking what heSenator Calls for Hearings on Windows XP

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, called Tuesday for senate hearings on Windows XP.

Schumer is urging state antitrust officials to force a delay of the Oct. 25 Windows XP release unless Microsoft allows PC manufacturers and consumers to choose their media player, messenger service and other software. Schumer also urged Charles James, the assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, to require changes to Windows XP before agreeing to any antitrust settlement.

Schumer, who identifies himself as a Microsoft supporter over the last year and a half, says Microsoft's behavior surrounding Windows XP is changing his opinion of the company.

"In a number of markets, and specifically in the case of two New York companies --


also provides a wide range of bindings (web services, web20 bindings, etc.), implementation types (Spring, BPEL, Java, etc.) as well as integration with technologies such as web20 and OSGi. Tuscany was working on implementing SCA 1.1 that is being standardized at OASIS.

Apache Tuscany also implements Service Data Objects (SDO) which provides a uniform interface for handling different forms of data, including XML documents, that can exist in a network of services and provides the mechanism for tracking changes. Tuscany supports the SCO and the SDO (2.01 for C++ / 2.1 for Java) specification.

The Apache Software Foundation announced on August 2016 that the project was no longer maintained.

References

External links
 Apache Tuscany Project Home Page
 SCA Home Page at OASIS web site
 "Introduction to SCA bindings" from Ch 7Hsu-Tang Wedding (GONG GONG) - Page Text Content

BC: So long, Southie!... | Jovan's 1st day of business school! | NYC, here we come!

FC: Jovan & Sena | 7.11.09 Boston, MA

1: To Gong-Gong | With love, Jovan & Sena

2: About Sena (in Jovan's words): | Sena is truly a beautiful person, inside and out. She has the amazing ability to bring joy and light wherever she goes, and it's no exaggeration to say that to know her is to love her. Sena possesses relentless energy, as well as the intelligence and creativity to carry out whatever task she sets her mind to. She's also an independent and adventurous spirit, ready and willing to try new things and embark on new experiences. Most importantly, she has great taste in men.


| Other things that you may want to know about her: She loves kids, dogs, and food (not necessarily in that order). She's allergic to apples, strawberries, and mangoes, but not oranges. She's an accomplished baker. She's messy, but cleans up well. She does a creepily accurate John Mayer impression. | Suffice to say I think she's a great catch! | About Jovan (in Sena's words): | Jovan is one of the most genuine people that I know. He is thoughtful, insightful, caring, intelligent and most importantly he laughs at my jokes and weird impressions (even when they aren't funny to anyone else but him). | He's a die hard Celtics fan through and through (no fair weather fan here, folks). He enjoys eating junk food of anya bench by the water and I was busy taking pictures of two swans. When I put my camera down, Jovan was holding the ring right in front of me and asked me to marry him. I was so overwhelmed that all I could say was, "Are you for real? Are you for real?..." and started crying. Jovan finally said, "Would you say yes?" I said yes and continued to cry like a little girl (out of happiness, of course). It was perfect! | Our Engagement September 24, 2008

21: Our ceremony and reception took place at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in South Boston. We loved this space because: | Our Ceremony and Reception Saturday, July 11, 2009 | 1. The building is Platinum LEED Certified, making it


one of the top 10 most sustainable buildings in America | 2. It serves as the headquarters for Artists for Humanity, a non-profit organization that runs programs to empower under-served youth through paid employment in the arts | 3. It's in South Boston, our (old) adopted home

26: Cocktail Hour took place in Artists for Humanity's 3rd floor painting studio, where our guests enjoyed a wonderful view of Boston's skyline along with yummy hors devours from our caterer, Season to Taste.

27: Our Reception immediately followed back in the 1st floor gallery space. All artwork displayed on the walls were created by Artists for Humanity's teen artists. A fresh, locally produced dinner was served family style.

29: Our First Dance "At Last" by Etta James

30: Time for the Toasts!

31: Let's EatOwatonna-Northfield Rivalry Heats Up Tuesday

Owatonna and Northfield have quickly developed a great Big Nine Conference rivalry since the Raiders rejoined the league a few years ago. Northfield has had the upper hand for the most part this winter. On Tuesday, Owatonna's basketball teams will be looking for a season split with Northfield while the OHS boys' hockey team aims for a season sweep.

Boys' hockey will be hosting "Stick it to Cancer" night as they play the Raiders at 7PM on Kat Kountry 105FM. The team is raising money to support the From the Heart run in Owatonna and former OHS hockey player Red Wencl who will have cancer surgery in February. Huskies' coach Josh Storm says defense in front of the Owatonna net was an important factor for


the earlier 4-1 victory. Northfield leads the conference standings.

OHS boys' basketball lost 56-44 December 12 to the Raiders, Owatonna's lowest point total of the season. Coach Josh Williams says Owatonna is a much different now. Several players were just getting out for basketball after the state championship football season. Alex Raichle had only practiced one day and came off the bench against Northfield. Jason Williamson was still recovering from a record-setting football campaign and did not play that night. Both are starters for Owatonna. The Huskies are on an eight-game winning streak. Tuesday's game from Northfield will be on KRFO AM1390.

Owatonna's girls basketball team lost by 20 at Northfield December 12. Coach Lindsey Hugstad-Vaa thinks it will take a near perfect game to beat Northfield, who has notlost a conference game. She looks for her team to shoot better on Tuesday in their home gym.

Over the years, Owatonna and Northfield have had a great playoff rivalry. That has changed recently as the Huskies and Raiders are not in the same section for basketball or boys' hockey. OHS and Northfield are both in Section 1AA for girls' hockey and have met in the playoffs in each of the last two seasons. The Raiders beat the Huskies last week.


Salvation Through Sight: The Photography of Fr. Paul Anel

Looking is an act of salvation, of compassion, and it is the path Father Paul Anel has taken in his vocation as a Catholic priest and photographer. His new exhibition, Walls and Light , opening at the First Things gallery this week, brings together ten photographs by Fr. Paul that shed light on the beauty and mystery of ordinary and ephemeral moments in life and nature. Shifting reflections, quiet shadows, moving streams and passing clouds appear as timeless markers of a transient world caught between the infinite and finite, the personal and the universal.

In these works, Fr. Paul approaches his subject”an empty stairwell, an urban commute, or a frosty morning glare”without any agenda except the joyful desire to see theworld with the eyes of Christ, that is, of compassion and love. Photography embodies the act of looking and in Fr. Pauls eyes, seeing becomes aspiration, prayer, and praise.

Fr. Pauls earliest experience with photography came by way of his grandfather while growing up in southwestern France. The elder was an amateur photographer and botanist who always seemed to be taking pictures of the local landscape and flora, and who took delight in photographing his grandchildren. This left a deep and lasting impression on Fr. Paul.

However, it was not until Fr. Paul moved to Brazil in 1998 to begin work at Hearts Home, a non-profit international Catholic organization committed to promoting a culture of compassion through charitable, cultural, and educational activities, that photography once again became part of his


world. Hearts Homes emphasis on forming communities of love and prayer with the poor, disadvantaged, and socially isolated brought Fr. Paul close to many suffering people in the favela slums of South America. Yet the rich encounters and bonds of friendship that arose inspired him to use photography as a means of capturing and recording their experiences living in some of the most desperate areas of the world. His aim was not to show their material poverty, but their dignity and beauty.

In a recent interview, Fr. Paul spoke of his desire to see with Christs eyes. He said, I wish to have the attitude of Christ when he looked at people, even the landscape; to see the beauty that is within them. He explained further, the act ofSilvis. This is evident in a color photograph of a stone fence (2009); it is deceptively simple, but a longer view discloses varied layers of natural elements brought into a unifying wholeness by the photographer. Earth, sky, stones, and leaves become the rich layers of reality. A single cloud pauses over the wall.

In Stairwall (2008), the end product of the New York City building code becomes the site for spiritual awakening as light enters and reflects off its prosaic walls and handrail. Light breaking through clouds in Molokai (2010) recalls the hidden beauty behind the once wretched land of leprosy, abandonment, and decay that was transformed into a haven of grace by the holy love and work of a priest, St. Damien (1840-1899). A tree becomes a sign


of hope as it pulls toward the light.

Contrasts between light and dark , as well as movement and stillness are important elements in Fr. Pauls photographs. A train ride through Brooklyn is the occasion for a quick reflection on another ride, a harrowing one on a Coney Island roller coaster. In one photograph two bending, trembling tree limbs awaken to a bright and bleary frosty morning. In another, flashes of light twist through the swaying, sagging overcast sky above the Williamsburg Bridge. And finally, lights salvific dimensions materialize in Pieta (2008) where a Passion procession in Spain culminates in an image of a mothers piercing encounter with her crucified Son. Light floods the darkness; her crown glows. Mary becomes the embodiment of compassion.

Fr. Pauls photographs invite us toto the United States through what he has characterized as “chain migration.”

The lawsuit centers on regulations the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) enacted during former Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration aimed at encouraging people living illegally in the country to seek lawful status.

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Under regulations enacted in 2016, undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens could go through a process to seek waivers that would allow them to largely remain in the United States rather than leave the county while pursuing permanent residency.

But the lawsuit said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been detaining people who were going through that process and in January alone arrested seven people while they were at


a Massachusetts or Rhode Island USCIS office.

The complaint contended the administration’s actions stemmed from a “racial animus and animus based on national origin,” noting that Trump during his election campaign referred to Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

The lawsuit contends the administration’s actions violate the Immigration and Nationality Act and are unconstitutional, and seeks an injunction to prevent further similar detentions.

John Mohan, a spokesman for ICE, declined to comment.

The class action claims were added to an earlier case centered on Lilian Calderón, a Guatemalan immigrant who was arrested at a government office in Rhode Island in January after an interview that was part of the process to seek legal status.

Calderón, who was brought to the United States when she was 3 years old in 1991, was detained forhad to find it. Since the tanks were yellow/brownish already, the auto fuel stain didn't stand out. The slight stain on the inside bottom covering fabric helped zero into the area. I ended up putting a couple gallons of water in the tank and tipping it around slowly. It was coming from a flat, blank, unstained, smooth, area on the inboard side forward. Even when it was leaking it was impossible to see why.

And then there's the cover. I covered the bottom with Stits. The top requires a metal cover that is screwed down with 44 screws, each of which requires it's own riveted on nut plate. I only used 42 screws, for the obvious reason. This was a lot of work but there was no other option.


The decree also states that security forces may use firearms to suppress protests.

The de facto government of Bolivia issued a decree Saturday exempting Armed Forces and National Police from criminal responsibility when committing acts of repression against protesters who have taken to the streets to reject the coup d'etat.

"The personnel of the Armed Forces, who participate in the operations for the restoration of order and public stability, will be exempt from criminal responsibility when, in compliance with their constitutional functions, they act in legitimate defense or state of necessity," the decree reads.

The document also states that security forces may use firearms to suppress protests, as they are allowed to “frame their actions as established in the approved Force Use Manual, being able to make use of all availableresult of repressive actions carried out by the security forces that support the coup-based government headed by Senator Jeanine Añez.

"23 people have died since the coup. The most recent victims are four people shot dead in La Paz and five in Sacaba," La Paz Ombudsman' Office delegate Teresa Zubieta told teleSUR.

While the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the “disproportionate use” of police-military force in the repression in the city of Cochabamba where nine coca growers died and dozens were injured.

The IACHR expressed "concern about the actions of the armed forces in the operations carried out in Bolivia since the beginning of the week," and on Saturday the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet also warned on Saturday about the dangerous path that protests are


taking in Bolivia after the deaths in Sacaba, as the situation could ”spin out of control.”

President Evo Morales was forced to resign on Nov. 10 after senior army and police chiefs called on him to do so following weeks of right-wing unrest and violence against his Oct. 20 elections victory, in what his government and world leaders have called a coup by opposition forces in the country.more than 76 percent of the state’s population. Range will work to ensure that Texas gets its fair share of CDBG-DR Funds.

The Candidate

Rick Range is best qualified to manage the Alamo, veterans affairs, and natural disasters

Rick Range is a fourth-generation Texan and a lifelong resident of Dallas County where his family has lived since 1890. He graduated from Irving High School and then attended North Texas State University in Denton and West Texas State University in Canyon where he received his B.M.E. Range taught at the junior high and high school levels before becoming a career firefighter with the Mesquite Fire Department. Here he served for over 31 years as a Driver-Engineer and also as Spanish translator for both the fire and police departments.

For the last dozen years,


Range has been heavily involved in research for a book covering all aspects of the Alamo and the Texas War for Independence. He serves as a Board Member of the Alamo Society, an international association of Alamo scholars, researchers, and dedicated enthusiasts. Also a member of the Alamo Battlefield Association, the San Jacinto Battleground Conservancy, and an associate member of the Alamo Defenders Descendants Association, he has spent nearly twenty years in Alamo research in both English and Spanish.

A few months ago he founded the Save The Alamo Committee along with its associated website and social media in order to get the word out to the voters of Texas about George P. Bush’s disastrous REIMAGINE THE ALAMO Master Plan. On November 1, Range publicly announced his candidacy for"(Music stops)" "I didn't go to work on the day of the inquest." "I wasn't needed as a witness." "It was Lucy he'd written to." "Since Jim's death, I'd felt sort of stunned." "Like I was drugged or something." "I bought a paper from a newsboy, quite calmly, although I knew I was going to read what they said about Jim." "Lucy made it sound as though he was just a man she'd met a few times who'd become infatuated with her and was making a nuisance of himself." "(Lucy) He came to see me on the afternoon of his death." "He was very drunk." "I told him to leave." "I also told him that I was going to be married again, and a further meeting would be


Half Dome hiker tried to grab Ariz. woman as she tumbled to her death Yosemite's classic hike can be treacherous. Here's how to stay safe

In this July 15, 2014, file photo, hikers gather in the foreground as climbers use the assistance of cables to scale Half Dome in Yosemite National Park National Park in California's Sierra Nevada. A hiker in Yosemite National Park fell to his death while climbing to the top of iconic granite cliffs of Half Dome. Park spokesman Scott Gediman says 29-year-old Danielle Burnett, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, was scaling the steepest part of the trail Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, when she fell more than 500 feet down the steep, rocky terrain. Gediman says Burnett was dead when park rangers arrived on the scene.less In this July 15, 2014, file photo, hikers gather in the foreground as climbers use the assistance of cables to scale Half Dome in Yosemite National Park National Park in California's Sierra Nevada. A hiker in ... more Photo: Brian Melley / Associated Press Photo: Brian Melley / Associated Press Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close Half Dome hiker tried to grab Ariz. woman as she tumbled to her death 1 / 5 Back to Gallery

Shawn Slimp was climbing the steepest part of Yosemite's Half Dome with his friends when a woman above them slipped and fell under the cable handrails. She began sliding down the massive granite slab.

"Me and my friend both reached out to try and grab her but she was too far away,"


the Roseville man wrote in a Facebook post. "Definitely not something you ever expect to see or be a part of."

The woman, 29-year-old Danielle Burnett of Lake Havasu, Ariz., tumbled more than 500 feet to her death on Sept. 5. It's not clear what caused her to lose her footing; park officials say they are investigating the accident.

Burnett's death is the latest on the 8,800-foot peak, which along with El Capitan, is Yosemite's most famous rock formation. Since 2005, there have been at least 13 deaths, 291 accidents and 140 search-and-rescue missions on Half Dome (2010 data not included).

Before 2010, up to 1,200 people per day attempted the climb. But that year, the National Park Service put a 300-person per-day limit on the summit and required hikers tocovering member of the seat cushion. The costs in that respect are then higher. Moreover, the edge of the mouth portion of the storage container is exposed on the seat back, which results in giving an unpleasing touch to the occupant and also deteriorating the outer aesthetic appearance of the seat.


The present invention relates to an electronic copying machine with fault detection apparatus.
In a conventional electronic copying machine, for several tens of seconds to a few minutes, a wait mode is displayed at a display unit arranged on an operator's panel after power is supplied until the copying machine is ready for the copying operation. Further, information for completion of continuous copying, jam information, paper empty information and the like are also indicated at the display unit.
However, the electronic copying machine of this type has the following problems.
When an urgent copying operation is required when the machine is in the stop mode, the operator must wait, while looking at the display unit, for a certain period of time after power is supplied until the copying machine is readyFieldFOOD final meeting Zaragoza

Final meeting of the FiedlFOOD project was held on March 15 and 16, 2018 in Zaragoza (Spain) in Bodegas Aragonesas and at the University of Zaragoza.

During the two days meeting, partners presented a summary of the main results obtained along the project that demonstrate the achievement of most of the proposed objectives and it was discussed the procedure to be follow in order to prepare the second financial and technical periodic report and the final report.

By first time, one of the SME partners, Bodegas Aragonesas hosted a meeting of FieldFOOD project. At the end of the meeting, attendants visited the winey including the place where the industrial tests were conducted during the development of the project and the location where the company is planning to


install the PEF process in a next future.

The second day of the meeting was celebrated in the meeting was celebrated in the facilities of the University of Zaragoza. During the meeting, partners had the opportunity of testing olive oil and apple juice obtained from olives and apples treated by PEF.can be used as well)

Intraclast: sedimentary particle formed by reworking of lithified materials formed within the depositional environment

Meniscus cement: refers to calcite cement that precipitated at or near the grain contacts in vadose zone. The curverlinear fabric captured by the crystals reflects the curverlinear meniscus formed by water trapped in the vadose zone.

Mesogenetic: ocuuring during the time interval in which rocks or sediments are buried at depth below the major influence of processes directly operating from or closely related to the surface

micrite: a term coined by Bob Folk to describe microcrystalline calcite usually less than 5 micron millimeter, found as matrix in many limestones, see lime mud

micrite envelope: a dark thin layer of micrite found around an allochem, usually associated with the micrite filling of borings produced by


replace existing component.

Stromatactics: a spar body common in Paleozoic muddy carbonate sediments, it is result of centripetal cementation in a cavity system. Its origin is still debatable

Stromatolites: a laminated, mound biosedimentary structure, precipitation as result of the growth of cyanophytes.

Stylolite: a grossly planar sutured structure that cuts through depositional rock components, and also some diagenetic components. Stylolites arise from simultaneous compaction and dissolution and may develop substantial accumulations of insoluble materials.

Subhedral: describes a crystal that manifests only partial development of its characteristic crystal faces

Superficial ooid: an ooid with a very thin cortical coating

Syndeposition: processes that occurred during deposition. See Penecontemporaneous

Syntaxial cement: cement that adopts the crystal orientation of its nucleation substrate; an overgrowth. In limestones such cements are common on echinoderm fragments.

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Matter of Bird (2018 NY Slip Op 06067)

Matter of Bird

2018 NY Slip Op 06067

Decided on September 13, 2018

Appellate Division, Third Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered: September 13, 2018

[*1]In the Matter of RYAN JOSEPH BIRD, an Attorney.
(Attorney Registration No. 5241807)

Calendar Date: August 27, 2018

Before: Lynch, J.P., Clark, Devine, Mulvey and Aarons, JJ.

Ryan Joseph Bird, Rockledge, Florida, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Per Curiam.
Ryan Joseph Bird was admitted to practice by this Court in 2014 and lists a business address in Rockledge, Florida with the Office of


The shadow of NASA's space shuttle Endeavour is projected on solar arrays outside the International Space Station on March 23, 2008 during the STS-123 mission.

HOUSTON -The seven astronauts aboard NASA?s shuttle Endeavour will cast off from theInternational Space Station (ISS) late Monday after a record-long stay at theorbiting laboratory.

Shuttlecommander Dominic Gorie and his crew will undock from the station at 7:56 p.m.EDT (2356 GMT) tonight, wrapping up a packed 12 days of construction to delivera Canadian-built robot and the first module of Japan?s massiveKibo laboratory.

?I sort oflooked at this flight sort of like a college team looking at MarchMadness?every spacewalk was a win, every robotics [operation] was a win,? Gorietold reporters on Earth during a Sunday crew conference. ?We?ve got a greatwinning team.?

Gorie andhis crew launched toward theWyoming toad. Photo by Sara Armstrong/USFWS

Tyler Abbott, Ryan Moehring and Kim Vincent share some good news for the Endangered Wyoming Toad.

The Laramie Plains of south-central Wyoming aren’t exactly what you would call prime amphibian habitat. At an elevation of more than 7,000 feet, the sun beats down ruthlessly on this arid highland. Blazing hot summers yield only to subzero winters. There are few trees for cover and the wind is as relentless as the endless hordes of hungry mosquitos.

Yet this inhospitable land is the unlikely – and last – sanctuary of North America’s most endangered amphibian, the Wyoming toad.

Once abundant on Wyoming’s Laramie Plains, the species experienced an unexplained population crash in the middle 1970s, and the last-remaining wild Wyoming toad population survives in a tiny oasis at


species that was presumed extinct from 1985 to 1987, and even now is considered extinct in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. As recently as 2011, the annual survey counted only one toad in the wild.

But in 2012, Team Toad (the Service, zoos, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, University of Wyoming and other academia, private landowners and many other conservation organizations) decided to try a new approach. We launched a pilot study that used reptaria – a type of release pen for amphibians. The concept is simple: provide tadpoles with a safe, enclosed environment to grow and acclimate in the aquatic habitat in which you intend to introduce them. We provide them with cover and food until they morph into toadlets. Once they areA steel hulled cargo steamer from Sweden sailed the waters off the coast of Alaska alone and crew-less for thirty-eight years.

The SS Baychimo, a 1,322-ton cargo ship launched in 1914 was originally called the Ångermanelfven. It was built at the Lindholmens shipyard in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Intended for the Baltische Reederei GmbH of Hamburg, it was used for trade between Hamburg and Sweden until 1914. The 230-foot long ship, powered by a coal burning triple expansion steam engine reached a top speed of 12 miles per hour.

After World War I Germany’s reparations for shipping losses included transferring the ship to Great Britain’s Hudson Bay Company in 1921.

It was renamed “Baychimo” and found a new home in Ardrossan, Scotland. She collected fur pelts, and every summer went back and forth between


trading posts along the coast of Canada trading for tobacco, sugar, tea and weapons.

In 1924 the ship circumnavigated the globe and continued carrying furs and supplies until 1931 when the crew found itself trapped in an early season icepack at the end of a trade run.

The men hiked for a half mile over the ice to Barrow, Alaska to wait a few days for the ice to break up so they could continue on to the next post.

A week later the ice trapped the ship again. Most of the crew was airlifted to safety, but a few remained behind in a hastily constructed shack to keep watch over the ship fully expecting to remain there for the duration of winter.

According to Arctic historian, Kenn Harper in a columnin the Nunatsiaq News, the captain “sent a wireless message for an aircraft to take out most of his men.

The remaining crew built huts on the beach. Baychimo was only a half-mile offshore.

Their plan was to remain near the ship and sail her out the following summer. On Nov. 24, the temperature rose dramatically, from minus 60 to zero.

A blizzard raged for three days, and no man dared venture out of his shack. When the storm abated, there was no sign of the Baychimo. Where she had been, only a pressure ridge of ice remained. They presumed her to have sunk.”

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A few days later, an Inuit seal hunter reported that the ship had broken free from the ice during the storm and was floating about


45 miles away.

When the ship’s captain, Sydney Cornwell, found her still intact he decided the ship was no longer seaworthy, unloaded the cargo and other valuables and left the ship.

The Baychimo, however, proved to be more than seaworthy. Several months later she was found to have moved about 250 miles to the east.

A year later, Leslie Melvin was traveling with his dog sled team near Nome and reported seeing her floating near shore as if waiting for her crew to re-board. Some months later prospectors also reported a sighting of the crewless ship.

In 1932 a trading party attempted to board the ship near Wainwright, Alaska. A year later an assemblage of Eskimos boarded and found themselves trapped for ten days due to an unexpected storm.

A few months later,the Hudson Bay Company received word that the ship was still afloat but decided the ship was too far out to sea to attempt salvage operations.

A year later explorers again attempted to board the ship but returned to their schooner. Another sighting was reported off the northwest coast of Alaska a year later.

In 1935 Captain Hugh Polson attempted to salvage the Baychimo but was unable to do so due to ice.

Several other sightings were reported over the years including one in 1962.

In 1969 she was seen for the last time stuck in an ice pack off the Alaskan coast in the Chukchi Sea.

Ten years ago, the Alaskan government launched a project to find the Baychimo searching both above and below the sea but at this writing, the “Ghost


Broadside ballad entitled 'The true Scots Mens Lament for the Loss of the Rights of their Ancient Kingdom'

Commentary

This ballad begins: 'Shall Monarchy be quite forgot, / and of it no more heard? / Antiquity be razed out, / and Slav'ry put in Stead?' This was published by John Reid, of Pearson's Close Edinburgh, in 1718.

The first eight lines of this ballad also feature as a verse in the popular Scots song 'Auld Lang Syne'. There are many versions of 'Auld Lang Syne' and most poets during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries wrote their own version of it. The origin of the tune is also obscured by the oral culture in which it is embedded. As a result it is a little difficult to give this poem, with itsnegative extension on the loss of Scottish Independence, any concrete context.

Early ballads were dramatic or humorous narrative songs derived from folk culture that predated printing. Originally perpetuated by word of mouth, many ballads survive because they were recorded on broadsides. Musical notation was rarely printed, as tunes were usually established favourites. The term 'ballad' eventually applied more broadly to any kind of topical or popular verse.


moments... next weeks... next years... next days of life for his son, he decided to do something that would benefit not just his son, but many - and perhaps by example, all - individuals with disabilities. He wanted his son to someday have the security of a job. As the senior executive in Walgreen's, responsible for the functioning of the distribution centers of one of the largest and fastest growing pharmaceutical retailers in the United States, Randy set as his goal the creation of an inclusive workplace where those with disabilities would be employed under the same conditions, held to the same standards, for equal pay and with equal benefits - as their typically abled counterparts.

Not only is the story an authentic glimpse into life with a childSparring with Hemingway

Sparring with Hemingway is a book written by Budd Schulberg consisting of a collection of Schulberg's articles on boxing spanning nearly half a century. The book includes descriptions of fights between Marciano and Archie Moore; Ali  and Foreman; Leonard and Duran; and Hagler and Hearns. A review of the book in the New York Times praises Schulberg's technical expertise on the subject of boxing. A Chicago Tribune review of the book states:

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Protesters in Hong Kong’s Central district pulled down a banner celebrating the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China from a bridge and set it on fire to the sound of cheers from onlookers.

Some demonstrators, chanted “rebel Hong Kong people” and “masking is not guilty, unreasonable legislation.”

Secondary school students wearing school uniforms could be seen among the throngs of people.

Lam said she was concerned by the number of students involved in recent demonstrations. From June to August, students accounted for around 25 percent of those arrested, she said, but since the start of school in September the proportion has now risen to 38 percent.

She said she hoped the ban would discourage young


be aware of the de-facto martial law may be applied in Hong Kong soon, in the next few hours or in the next few days," Wong later told reporters.

Anti-government protests have gripped the former British colony for months, plunging it into its biggest political crisis in decades and posing a popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The protesters are angry about what they see as creeping interference by Beijing in their city's affairs despite a promise of autonomy in the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong returned to China in 1997.

China dismisses accusations it is meddling and has accused foreign governments, including the United States and Britain, of stirring up anti-China sentiment.

Lam said Friday that so far some 1,100 people had been injured and ofthem around 300 were police officers in the violence.

What began as opposition to a proposed extradition law, which could have seen people sent for trial in mainland courts but has now been shelved, has grown into a call for five demands, including universal suffrage and an inquiry into alleged police brutality.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam attends a news conference to discuss sweeping emergency laws at government office in Hong Kong on Friday. ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA / Reuters

Protesters, some wearing gas masks and helmets, marched past some of the city's most expensive real estate including British bank HSBC's head office, on Friday, calling out for "five demands, not one less".

Riot police moved in to districts across Hong Kong overnight, firing tear gas at a chanting crowd in a residential


The Democratic Front’s leaders Milan Knezevic and Andrija Mandic denied involvement in the alleged coup attempt. Photo. DF.

Montenegro opposition leader Milan Knezevic on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges of plotting a coup, and told the court in Podgorica that he was only there because he was a Serb who opposed Montenegro’s membership of NATO.

Knezevic, one of the leaders of the strongest opposition alliance, the Democratic Front, is one of 14 Russian, Serbian and Montenegrin citizens facing trial for alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the pro-Western government in October last year.

Knezevic appeared in court wearing Russian military symbols which he said he had received during a visit to Moscow at the ceremony marking Russian Victory Day in World War II.

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Nation Giuliani continues his conservative shift Favors fewer rights for same-sex unions Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to discard the moderate and liberal positions of his past. The latest is civil unions for same-sex couples, which the Republican presidential candidate has been backing away from in recent months. A campaign aide told the Globe this weekend that Giuliani favors a much more modest set of rights for gay partners than civil union laws in effect in four states offer. Giuliani has described himself as a backer of civil unions and is frequently described that way in news reports. But he began distancing himself from civil unions in late April, when his campaign told The New York Sun that New Hampshire's new law goes too


as an inconsistency in his position. "It's really disappointing he's stepped back from his position on civil unions," said Joe Tarver, spokesman for the Empire State Pride Agenda, a group that advocates for gay rights in New York state that worked with and against Giuliani on a number of issues during his eight years as mayor. Calling the former mayor's shifting stance "pretty un-Giuliani-like," Tarver said: "It's quite obvious he's playing to the people whose votes he needs to get the Republican nomination." Tarver has company. Representatives of New York groups who advocate for abortion rights, gun control, and rights for immigrants, also said Giuliani's actions on the presidential trail, presenting himself to a more conservative GOP electorate, bears little resemblance to the man they knew as thestand-up mayor of Gotham in the 1990s who was open to moderate and liberal arguments. More than any candidate in the Republican presidential field, rival Mitt Romney has been tagged with the flip-flopper label. But Giuliani, with late shifts on civil unions and federal campaign finance laws, is a political makeover in progress. On Aug. 6, he called his past support of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law a mistake, deciding after two election cycles that it does not work. Giuliani's transformation is, in many aspects, subtler than that of Romney, who has reversed his support for abortion rights. Giuliani often cites a states' rights rationale as the basis of his new views, though his objection to states adopting civil unions is a notable exception. What was right


for his city when he was mayor might not be for other states, he says frequently to explain changing stances. Of Giuliani's past assertions endorsing civil unions, Comella said the definition has changed over time beyond what Giuliani supports. Giuliani has used the terms civil unions and domestic partnerships interchangeably, as in comments in 2004 to Fox News's Bill O'Reilly. "I'm in favor of . . . civil unions," Giuliani said. "So now you have a civil partnership, domestic partnership, civil union, whatever you want to call it, and that takes care of the imbalance, the discrimination, which we shouldn't have." But that was nearly four years after Vermont became the first state to enact civil unions, which provided marriage-like benefits to same-sex partners. "It's about rights andbenefits more than the title," Comella wrote in an e-mail to the Globe. "The mayor supports the benefits and rights as they are written in the domestic partnership law in New York City." Like New Hampshire, civil union laws in Vermont, Connecticut, and New Jersey "confer upon same-sex couples all of the state (though none of the federal) rights, protections, and obligations afforded married spouses," according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, a national advocacy group. Benefits of domestic partnerships can also be broader than those under the New York law. Giuliani is attempting to become the first GOP presidential nominee since Gerald Ford in 1976 to support abortion rights. But he has wavered significantly from his once steadfast support for Roe v. Wade, the 1973


Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. Moreover, he has done an about-face on the issue of late-term abortions and has made numerous statements over the years about public funding of abortions that have been viewed as inconsistent. Most recently he decided to support the Hyde Amendment of 1976 (which he opposed while mayor), which banned federal funding for abortions under the Medicaid program except in cases of rape, incest, and danger to the life of the mother. "We were pretty dumbfounded as an organization when we heard him say things like he'd be fine either way if Roe v. Wade was overturned or kept," said Mary Alice Carr, spokeswoman for the New York state affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America, referring to Giuliani's remarks during a televised GOP presidentialdebate in May. When he ran for a second term as mayor in 1997, Giuliani scored a 100-percent rating on the abortion rights group's questionnaire and as mayor held events to mark the anniversary of the landmark court case, which he termed historic, she said. "His record was so clear," Carr said. Until recently, Giuliani, who has always said he personally opposes abortion, had many times expressed opposition to a federal ban to the late-term procedure that is called partial-birth abortion by its opponents, who consider it infanticide. In 1996 and 1997, President Clinton vetoed bills that would have made it a federal crime for doctors to perform the procedure. Giuliani voiced his support for Clinton's actions and as recently as 2000, when he was briefly a candidate


Rudy Giuliani, and it's his political capital, really, is what you see is what you get," Carr said. "He was always in your face. To now see a guy who says it doesn't matter either way on Roe v. Wade, we don't understand who this guy is." Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, has a similar view on Giuliani's hardening stance on immigration. "When he was mayor, he spoke up for what was fair," she said. As mayor, Giuliani fought in the courts to preserve the city's right to withhold from federal officials the immigration status of city residents who received benefits from the city. He was a great defender of immigrants, legal and illegal, and, in 1994, at a press conference declared: "Ifof understanding," Hong said. "Despite his strong record on understanding immigrant issues as a local official . . . it sounds like he's resorting to simplistic, anti-immigrant rhetoric rather than coming up with a workable plan." As a chief executive who presided over a sharp decline in crime in New York, Giuliani was a staunch supporter of strict gun control laws, including at the federal level, and was a high-profile supporter of the federal ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004. But as a presidential candidate he describes himself as "a strict constructionist" on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, advocating that reasonable restrictions be legislated by the individual states. "As mayor, he talked about the need for strong federal laws because cities were at the


mercy of the states with weak laws," said Jackie Kuhls, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, a statewide group. "He clearly knows that as a fact but he's backing away." "Disappointing is too weak a word," said Kuhls. "I think he is pandering." (Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Page One story yesterday about Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani's positions on social issues gave the incorrect name for a statewide group in New York that advocates for gay rights. It is the Empire State Pride Agenda.) © Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company.

Advertisement SEARCH THE ARCHIVES All Globe stories since 2003 are now FREE More search options Advertisement Advertisement2007. That it took Amazon until January 2013 to make the latter work with the former is interesting. Of course, Amazon MP3 is still only available in 7 of countries, including the U.S., U.K, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, and Italy. iTunes music, by contrast, is available in 118 countries.

Mobile has been the biggest trend of the last few years, and music has been the spearhead of the digital media revolution. It's great that Amazon is taking these steps, but they're taking them far, far too slowly.

That aside, the implementation looks good and works well, mixing a vertical page stack with horizontally scrolling sections. There's currently a focus on $5 albums, along with best sellers, new releases, genres, editor's picks, and top new albums. If you're logged in,


beets from the water and peel them under cold water, the skin should easily come off. Remove the tops and bottoms.

Dice the peeled beets into 1-inch chunks.

Make marinade: Measure vinegar, water and sugar into a small stockpot and heat over medium heat. Stir briskly until the sugar dissolves. Add the salt and ginger, and place the peppercorns in a spice diffuser or piece of cheesecloth hooked to the side and submerge. Bring the marinade to a boil, and remove from the heat, taking out the peppercorns. Pour the hot marinade over the cut beets, and refrigerate overnight.

When ready to use, drain the marinade from the beets (you can keep it and use it again by storing in an airtight container in the refrigerator) and place the beets inLady Titans: 3 Local Women Crushing the California Surf Scene

Everyone around here knows about Mavericks, the big wave surfer destination just outside of Half Moon Bay; and Titans of Mavericks, the invitation-only daddy of all surfing competitions. But did you know the prestigious contest was once called Men Who Ride Mountains? Since then, "men" and "titans" have been basically interchangeable...until now.

In October 2016, a big barrier fell as Titans of Mavericks, one of the world's premier big wave contests held in Half Moon Bay, announced that it would add a women's heat for the first time in its 17-year history."It's really exciting," said Bianca Valenti, a local surfer who campaigned for the change. "It's super important for the progression of the sport."

Despite the competition being cancelled this year


due to financial difficulties, here are three local women who could make history in the near future.

Valenti, 29, became the first woman to win a Big Wave Tour competition when she took first place in the Dive N' Surf Oregon Pro in 2014. The SoCal native now lives in SF and trains at Ocean Beach and Mavericks. “I'd be beyond ecstatic to get an invite [to Mavericks]. I love competing. The motivation it gives you—I love that, and I know other women do too."

Shaughnessy is among the few women who can say they've been directly involved with Mavericks—in the past as a judge, and this year, as an alternate along with her brother, Patrick Shaughnessy. She's also taken her fair share of beatings at the legendary surf spotBest known as the Teutonic beauty who sang alongside Lou Reed on The Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut album, Nico — born Christa Päffgen — was a Zelig of contemporary culture. She worked as a fashion model in Berlin and Paris, played a bit part in Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita,” embedded with Andy Warhol’s Factory and had an affair with the French film star Alain Delon (with whom she had a son). Music was her life’s connective tissue; she spent decades after her Velvet Underground moment as a solo performer, writing and performing in her bewitching contralto.

The Italian filmmaker Susanna Nicchiarelli’s affectionate and unflinching new film “Nico, 1988” focuses on the final chapter of the icon’s life. An unrecognizable Nico — she appears in the first scene as


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The nature center offers field trips designed to provide students with meaningful, enjoyable outdoor experiences enhancing their study of science and appreciation of nature. Field trip options include various hikes, birding, botany, green features tour, stream studies, local history, and many other topics.

School groups may also visit the nature center on their own on Wednesdays and Fridays when the office is open or by appointment. For more information about a self-guided visit, please call 615-862-8580.

Public Programs

To help people of all ages enjoy the beauty and wonder of the Beaman Park, the nature center offers a variety of public programs tailored for all ages. Almost all of our programs are free of charge. Pre-registration for programs is required and can bedone by calling the nature center at 615-862-8580.

Preschoolers

(ages 3-5) These programs are designed specifically for young children who are just beginning to develop their innate curiosity for the natural world.

School-aged Children

(ages 6-12) Through hands-on exploration and first-hand experience, children discover the intricacies, as well as the beauty, of the natural world.

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(all ages) These programs are fun, friendly, informal gatherings where children and adults can celebrate the wonder and beauty of nature. Topics are often very general, but there is always something of interest for everyone.

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(ages 13 and up) For park visitors who are looking for programs that address natural history topics in an adult manner, these programs incorporate outdoor experiences with meaningful interpretation.

Junior Naturalist Program

The Junior Naturalist program encourages learning through nature study, nature exploration, and nature reflection.


DFR: the first nuclear power plant to appear in (and almost win) a green contest

In the summer of 2013, a German online contest for green innovations, the GreenTec Awards became the stage for a most extraordinary public vote in favor of advanced nuclear energy. The list of winners of 2013, published on Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greentec_Awards shows nothing of the uproar that took place when one of the contesting proposals appeared to be one for a nuclear power plant: the Dual Fluid Reactor (DFR). Hell broke loose.

It’s nuclear, how can it be green!

From what has later become known, the people that organized the GreenTec Awards must have been dismayed by what they saw happening: the Dual Fluid Reactor became the favorite of the public vote! In the minds of conservativeIt is believed the A-League soccer game was identified as worthy of investigation by international match-fixing experts after the betting plunge. The amount of money held was a massive spike on normal betting trends.

European Union law enforcement agency Europol this week revealed nearly 700 games around the world were suspected of being fixed.

It is believed Europol investigators have been briefed on the A-League betting plunge. The game is believed to have drawn more gambling interest in Hong Kong than a major British Premier League game held the same weekend.

Match-fixing experts look for unusual betting patterns coupled with high scoring to identify soccer games that could have been manipulated.

Fairfax Media has chosen not to reveal the game for legal reasons.

If the Australian Crime Commission decided to investigate the game


Democrat Jaime Harrison will form an exploratory committee for Senate as he inches closer to challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamGraham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Fox's Napolitano: Supreme Court confirmation hearings will be 'World War III of political battles' Grassley, Ernst pledge to 'evaluate' Trump's Supreme Court nominee MORE (R-S.C.) in 2020.

Harrison, the former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, has been hinting at a 2020 Senate run in the deep-red state.

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In late January, he told “The Bill Press Show” that he was seriously considering a campaign and would make a decision in a few weeks.

He’ll make the official announcement of his exploratory committee on Friday, as he assesses his chances against Graham, who is well-funded and now chairs thedata communications as the king did in Scandinavia.
The Bluetooth technology connects nearby devices at a data rate of 1 Mbps. It automatically searches for devices within its radio range (10 m) and connects them. The Bluetooth technology allows one to get rid of the troublesome operations needed to find a connector at the back of the PC to plug a cable in it. Over two thousand companies have adopted the Bluetooth technology for such ease of use.
If one has been to an exhibition on electronics or computers in the last year, there were some Bluetooth devices on display at the exhibition. Cannon of Japan has displayed digital cameras at such exhibitions, for those that can remember Dick Tracy, IBM demonstrated a watch shaped computer with the Bluetooth technology


Bizarre 500-Million-Year-Old Creature Unearthed

Submitted by IWB, on June 27th, 2013

A new fossilized, cigar-shaped creature that lived about 520 million years ago has been unearthed in Morocco.

The newfound species, Helicocystis moroccoensis, has “characteristics that place it as the most primitive echinoderm that has fivefold symmetry,” said study co-author Andrew Smith, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, referring to the group of animals that includes starfish and sea urchins. Modern echinoderms typically have five-point symmetry, such as the five arms of the starfish or the sand dollar’s distinctive pattern.

The primitive sea creature, described Tuesdayin the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, could even change its body shape from slender to stumpy. Researchers say it is a transitional animal that could help explain how early echinoderms evolvedis when people try to redefine marriage,” Ms Foster said earlier this year.

The judge in Belfast heard the cases together due to the similarities of the legal arguments.

The first case – known as Petition X due an anonymity order – involved two men who married in London in 2014 and were attempting to get their union recognised in Northern Ireland.

Their marriage was changed to a civil partnership in law when they moved to Northern Ireland.

In the second case, two couples in civil partnerships – Grainne Close and Shannon Sickles and Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane – argued the prohibition breaches their human rights.

Both couples were, respectively, the first and second in the UK to enter into a civil partnership after Northern Ireland became the first part of the UK


the automated "disclosure" played in the initial sales call, where it was revealed that the $10 would be taken directly from the consumer's account each month.

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Not surprisingly, BABC received a host of complaints from customers who thought they had been going to receive a credit card. Incorporated separately but doing business under the name Bay Area Business Council, BABC Customer Service handled customer's complaints and requests for refunds. Special Technologies, Inc. essentially succeeded BABC Customer Service in July 2002. Both operated from a suite in Largo next to the offices of Porcelli and Harris. That suite received all calls placed to the toll free numbers for BABC, American Leisure, Sr. Marketing Consultants, and Bay Memberships, Inc. In addition to calls from disgruntled consumers, corporate records reveal that betweenNovember 2001 and July 2002, BABC received over 900 written consumer complaints forwarded from the Better Business Bureau, state attorney generals' offices, and private lawyers.

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The remaining corporate defendants also worked in conjunction with BABC. Like BABC Customer Service, Sr. Marketing Consultants, Inc. did business under BABC's name. Sr. Marketing Consultants, however, had only four employees, three of whom were related to Porcelli. They operated from Porcelli's mother-in-law's home in Dunedin, Florida. Sr. Marketing Consultants charged BABC and American Leisure for the "ChexCards," and then, through a series of transactions, gave the proceeds to Harris, who handled most of BABC's finances. At the end of July 2002, Porcelli created Bay Memberships, Inc. as a way to ensure that banks, which had begun refusing to process payments to BABC and


American Leisure, would continue to charge customers. In the three weeks that Bay Memberships, Inc. operated, it processed approximately $200,000 in debits from customer accounts. Although it is not entirely clear from the record, Bay Vacations, Inc. was apparently another shell corporation doing business for BABC.

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In August 2002, the FTC filed its action alleging that BABC, Inc., BABC Customer Service, American Leisure, Porcelli, Tomasulo, and Harris violated Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(a), and multiple provisions of the TSR by engaging in deceptive trade practices. The FTC later amended its complaint to name Bay Memberships, Inc., Bay Vacations, Inc., and Sr. Marketing Consultants, Inc. as defendants (collectively the "corporate defendants"). The FTC also secured an ex parte temporary restraining order with an accompanying freezeon the defendants' assets. On August 15, 2002, a temporary receiver, accompanied by FTC employees, entered the corporate defendants' premises in Largo, Florida to seize business records and shut down operations pursuant to the restraining order.

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After conducting extensive discovery, the FTC moved for summary judgment against the corporate defendants, Porcelli, and Harris.2 With its motion the FTC filed the required Northern District of Illinois Local Rule 56.1(a)(3) statement of undisputed material facts. In response to the FTC's motion, the defendants filed a document averring that an attached affidavit sworn by Porcelli contested "the vast majority of all facts listed as undisputed by the FTC." The defendants also submitted affidavits from three former BABC employees and one former BABC Customer Service employee. The affidavits made the following three assertions:


twelve of the FTC's Rule 56.1 statement says that BABC and American Leisure entered into contracts with a company in St. George, Utah to telemarket for them. Paragraph twelve of Porcelli's affidavit, however, makes the unrelated claim that "BABC and [American Leisure] telemarketing scripts ... included language regarding a vacation package." As demonstrated by the preceding examples, Porcelli's affidavit in no way constitutes "a concise response ... to each numbered paragraph" in the FTC's statement. Indeed, many portions bear no relationship at all to the facts set forth by the FTC.

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Moreover, with the exception of a sole reference to the defendants' answer to the FTC's amended complaint, Porcelli's affidavit fails to cite a single piece of record evidence to support its assertions. See Bradley v. Work, 154 F.3d(service as director, president, and secretary of multiple corporations demonstrated defendant's authority to control); Amy Travel, 875 F.2d at 573 (authority to control may be demonstrated by active participation in the corporate affairs, including assuming duties as a corporate officer). For example, he controlled decisions such as who would perform telemarketing for BABC and American Leisure Corp. He also created Bay Memberships, Inc. to secure continued payments from banks becoming suspicious of BABC. As the mastermind behind the entire scheme, there is no question that Porcelli had authority to control the defendant corporations. See Amy Travel, 875 F.2d at 574-75.

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Nor does Porcelli's stay in Canada diminish the evidence that he knew about the corporations' deceptive practices. He testified in his deposition that while in Canada he received regular


claim, she points to her affidavit in the district court stating that she is not an "owner or stockholder" in any of the corporations and makes a salary of $1250 a week. In addition to being evidence that the district court properly disregarded, her assertion is irrelevant. Harris cites no authority, nor are we aware of any, to the effect that receiving a weekly salary is somehow inconsistent with having corporate control or knowledge of corporate affairs. The record establishes that Harris handled the corporate finances for American Leisure, and also transferred funds to pay expenses for BABC, BABC Customer Service, and Special Technologies. She also had signing authority on the corporate accounts for BABC, BABC Customer Service, American Leisure, Sr. Marketing Consultants, Inc., and Bay Memberships, Inc."(Vivaldi concerto)" "A naturalist of very fixed habits followed the sun around his house." "Soon after dawn, he sat at breakfast with his family on the porch that faced due east." "At 11 o'clock, he joined his family for a cup of coffee on the veranda that faced the sun towards the southeast." "At lunchtime, he ate on the terrace with his family overlooking the garden to the south." "At about seven o'clock, the naturalist dined with this family in the conservatory that faced the sunset, and as soon as it was dark, the naturalist went to bed." "When the world began to spin anticlockwise, the naturalist couldn't change his habits and he spent the day alone living in the shadow of his house and never met, sat


common in many places where it often has small colonies." " P is for..." " Potato." "H is for bean, haricot bean and has-been." "Rooks may often breed in small copses and along the edges of woods." "A woman who lived in the country watched and waited for the approach of the city." "She was convinced it would come from the north and only in the afternoon." "So, she scanned the northern horizon through binoculars until teatime." "H is for horizon." "Her expectations and her anxieties, however fearful, always ceased abruptly and absolutely at four o'clock." "The speculators grew wise, and parked their lorries east of her property and unloaded their bricks and their timber on the western and southern sides of her garden whilst she was pouringtea." "When the city was built in the woods and fields around the woman's house, the town planners had left the woman an open corridor to the north." "But at four o'clock every afternoon, they confidently filled that corridor in with temporary buildings and disposable traffic." "H is for halo, halation, helix, halcyon, heliotrope, heliosis, helium and helix." "H is for heliolithic." "A man believed that the human eye was like some sort of battery that the sun alone could recharge." "Avoiding the dangerous glare of the day, he took to watching summer sunsets in the hope that his sight would thus be much improved for the winter." "He persuaded his friends to watch with him and soon, in various parts of the country, groups of people sat


out of doors in the evening looking westward." "Before very long, rival societies sprang up to watch the dawn." "Sun-watching to recharge sight became endemic." "Controversy arose." "The rift between those who looked east in the morning and those who looked west in the evening led to argument and abuse and ultimately to blows." "Cynical observers began to look west in the morning and east in the evening, and a group of satirical opticians began to look north and south in the middle of the night." "(loud Vivaldi string music)" "(loud blackbird call)" "H is for house." " D is for..." " It's all dark outside." "Go to bed."   I. BACKGROUND
A.     Facts
       Richard Logan is currently, and was at all times relevant to this case,
employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“the BOP”). Specifically, during
the events of this case, Logan was employed as a Senior Officer Specialist at
the Federal Corrections Center in Pollock, Louisiana (“FCC Pollock”). Logan
was assigned an initial twelve-month IT specialist training detail from
February 2009 until February 2010 and was given a six-month extension in
that position. While on detail, Logan performed “the jobs encompassed in the
job description of” Information Technology Specialist (“ITS”). Warden Joseph
Keffer appointed Logan to the ITS training detail in 2009 after Logan
expressed interest in making a career in the computer services field. 2 The
vacancy announcement for the training detail


selection process for the ITS position. On September 23,
2010, Logan received a Notice of Right to File a Discrimination Complaint from
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“the EEOC”). The District
Office of the EEOC then conducted a hearing via video conference on November
17, 2011, before Administrative Law Judge Nancy Graham. Thereafter, the
EEOC denied Logan administrative relief. He then unsuccessfully appealed
the EEOC’s final order and was issued a Right to Sue letter. On May 1, 2013,
Logan filed his complaint in federal district court. The Defendant–Appellee
then filed a motion for summary judgment, which was denied.
      On March 22, 2016, District Judge Dee D. Drell held a one-day bench
trial and ultimately issued a ruling that Logan had failed to meet his burden
of proof in establishing age discrimination underPages

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Measuring Murray up

Good article and video here by Andy Staples on Aaron Murray getting measured, both by NFL scouts and his own peers.

Murray hopes coaches will judge him more by his 35-17 record and by the way he played when his team needed him most. Can he throw under pressure? Check out this third-and-13 play that sealed the win against South Carolina on Sept. 6. Is he mobile? Check out this run against Tennessee, which came after the Bulldogs had lost nearly every key skill position player on offense to injury except Murray.

Or ask a teammate. Georgia tight end Arthur Lynch is playing for the South team this week, and he came to Athens with Murray in the class of 2009. "He's the epitome of


what you'd want as a quarterback," Lynch said. Lynch said Murray had the team's respect in his first game as the starter in 2010, and Lynch said Murray is still earning his respect. "For [goodness] sakes, he's out here and he can't even drop back," Lynch said. "But he's out here taking mental reps and helping quarterbacks who are essentially his competition. He's encouraging me. What else could you ask for?"

Or, better yet, ask an opponent. Former LSU linebacker Lamin Barrow faced Murray between the hedges on Sept. 28. "If I had to pick a word, it would be underrated," said Barrow, whose Tigers lost, 44-41, and gave up four touchdown passes to Murray. "I think he's one of the best quarterbacks in the country." In the daysThe Transylvania Times -

Photos from: Democracy Project Recognizes Local Students

Students from Mountain Sun Community School enact a skit entitled "A Tale of Three Branches" about participation in a democracy. From left, the students represented the three branches of the federal government: the executive, the judicial and the legislative, in which the latter is represented with two heads in one body.


President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE on Monday seized on years-old comments from Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersThe Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power Bernie Sanders: 'This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy' The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump stokes fears over November election outcome MORE (I-Vt.) comparing parts of Baltimore to a Third World country, arguing the Democratic presidential candidate should be labeled a racist for the remarks if people are going to criticize the president's own recent tweets about the city.

"Crazy Berniedeflect criticism over Trump's barrage of tweets about Rep. Elijah Cummings Elijah Eugene CummingsBlack GOP candidate accuses Behar of wearing black face in heated interview Overnight Health Care: US won't join global coronavirus vaccine initiative | Federal panel lays out initial priorities for COVID-19 vaccine distribution | NIH panel: 'Insufficient data' to show treatment touted by Trump works House Oversight Democrats to subpoena AbbVie in drug pricing probe MORE (D-Md.) and Baltimore, which Trump labeled a "very dangerous & filthy place" where "no human being would want to live."

In his 2015 comments, Sanders, who was running for the Democratic presidential nomination at the time, took issue with the inequality in parts of the city.

"Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you


were in a wealthy nation, you would think that you were in a Third World country," Sanders said at the time.

"What we're talking about is a community in which half of the people don't have jobs," he added. "We're talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable. We're talking about a community where kids are unable to go to schools that are decent."

Sanders's critical comments of Baltimore were resurfaced over the weekend by conservative outlets, and "Fox & Friends" aired portions of the 2015 press conference during its broadcast Monday morning.

The president further promoted the remarks as part of his days-long attacks on Baltimore and Cummings, whose district includes part of the city.

"Trump's lies and racism never end," Sanders tweeted in responseto the president.

While I have been fighting to lift the people of Baltimore and elsewhere out of poverty with good paying jobs, housing and health care, he has been attacking workers and the poor.

Trump's lies and racism never end.

While I have been fighting to lift the people of Baltimore and elsewhere out of poverty with good paying jobs, housing and health care, he has been attacking workers and the poor. https://t.co/7N0K4GQgEO — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 29, 2019

In a tweet following his attacks on Sanders, Trump again blamed Cummings for holding the city back, mockingly referring to the 13-term congressman as "King Elijah."

"When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call!" Trump


tweeted.

Trump decried Cummings on Saturday as a "brutal bully" for his fierce critiques of conditions at the southern border and suggested Baltimore "is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA."

Over the course of the weekend, he tweeted about Cummings and Baltimore more than a dozen times, eventually calling the lawmaker — the son of sharecroppers in South Carolina — a "racist."

Democrats have widely condemned Trump's attacks on one of their most prominent colleagues, decrying the tweets about Cummings's majority-black district as racist.

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the evening      of    November 13,           2009, Jessica Abear was sleeping in Maddaus' s

residence when a group of three to four persons kicked down the door and entered. One of the

intruders   ordered   Abear ' to "[ f]
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Proceedings ( VRP) at 647. The intruders stole roughly $140,000 in drugs-and cash.

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and suspected      that Abear had been involved.             7 VRP     at   653.     Attempting to elicit a confession,

he hit her on the head with the butt of a firearm, sprayed her three times with mace, ripped off

her   clothes, and shot    her ten times     with a paintball gun.


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conversation    of   the   persons   involved in the robbery.          Although most of the voices were

unrecognizable,      Maddaus believed that       one      was    Shaun Peterson.   Late the next evening,

November 15, Maddaus met with Peterson and several friends ( Matthew Tremblay, Jesse Rivera,

Daniel Leville, and Falyn Grimes) to question Peterson about his involvement in the- robbery.

Peterson was handcuffed, and Maddaus was armed with a firearm and a knife. Nobody else was

armed. While questioning Peterson, Maddaus played the recorded phone conversation. Peterson

eventually walked out the front door; Maddaus followed him outside, after which Maddaus' s
friends  reported   hearing five     rapid   gunshots.         Immediately following the shots, Matthew

Tremblay saw Maddaus standing outside, pointing a firearm at Peterson,'who ran a short distance
before collapsing on the ground.

          Early the following morning, November 16, Olympia police responded to a report of

gunshots. They found Peterson on his back, having bled to death from multiple gunshot wounds.

Police found four empty bullet         casings and a cell phone near      Peterson' s   body. The cell phone

began to ring; the     caller   identified herself   as


          Meanwhile, Maddaus had acquired a wig and a false passport bearing the name " Chad

Walker Vogt"       and a photo of           himself wearing        a   blond wig. 17 VRP          at   2003.    When asked why

he had the wig, he         stated, "   Because I knew there              was a warrant out          forassault with

a deadly weapon), and four counts of witness tampering (two based on his contacts with Farmer

from the jail).10 The first degree murder, attempted kidnapping, and assault charges each carried

a     sentencing   enhancement    allegation     that "[   Maddaus] was armed with a deadly weapon, a

firearm." CP at 21 -22.

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    defendant did an act that was a substantial step toward the commission of kidnapping in the first

    degree."     CP at 437 ( Instruction 21).

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    with a   deadly weapon         at   the time   of   the   commission of         the   crime[ s]."   CP at 447 (Instruction 31).

    The   specialprovides in part:
            The following additional times shall be added to the standard sentence range for
            felony crimes committed after July 23, 1995, if the offender or an accomplice was
            armed with a firearm as defined in RCW 9.41. 010 and the offender is being
            sentenced for one of the crimes listed in this subsection as eligible for any firearm
            enhancements based on the classification of the completed felony crime.


Article

Klinsmann delighted by last-gasp win

United States coach Juergen Klinsmann has praised his squad's mental fortitude following Saturday's last-minute away win over Jamaica.

The visitors looked to have thrown away a vital three points in their World Cup qualification bid after Jermaine Beckford cancelled out Jozy Altidore's goal in the 89th minute.

However, a Brad Evans strike in the second minute of injury time propelled Klinsmann's men back into second place of their CONCACAF group.

And the German was understandably delighted to win in such circumstances.

"We said that from the beginning and I think we are ready now to come to difficult places like Kingston and say that we want the three points," he said.

"That's obviously a big plus for us going into the two home games and I think the teamhappen too often with the national team so it's be something that I always remember whether I'm in the stands or playing in the game or whatever it is, it'll be a great moment, especially for the city of Seattle too."

The United States have posted two wins, one draw and a loss from their four qualification matches thus far, and are level on points with group leaders Costa Rica.

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A late winner from Brad Evans gave the USA a 2-1 win over Jamaica, moving them into second place in the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying group.

The USA took the lead on the half-hour mark on Friday at Independence Park in Kingston when Jozy Altidore latched onto a cross from Graham Zusi and headed past Donovan Ricketts from close range.

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striker Jermaine Beckford looked to have secured a point for Jamaica when he netted in the 89th minute, but there was one more twist in the tale when Evans collected a Michael Bradley pass in the box in stoppage time before turning and rifling a right-foot shot into the top corner.

The win moved Juergen Klinsmann's men into second place in CONCACAF's World Cup qualifying group, level on seven points with leaders Costa Rica, who enjoyed a 1-0 win at home over Honduras.

Roy Miller scored the only goal of the game for Costa Rica after 25 minutes.

Mexico are also on seven points after their 0-0 draw with Panama away from home.

The top three sides in the group will all get a place at Brazil 2014, and it is aa flannel shirt. Cindy and Brion were
teenage "sweethearts" and now have gotten back together again after over 30 years. Okay, that's romantic and all, but here's what's odd about the
picture.

The event is Cindy's brother's wedding (1985), and at that period of time, Cindy was married to a guy named Frank. Frank was (and still is) an
extremely dangerous individual. Big on guns and creating corpses and keeping on the street by ratting out guys that were (are) even worse than he was
(and still is). At that exact point in time, Frank was still looking for Brion to turn him into a corpse (they'd gone against each other over Cindy a
half-dozen years before, and they have hated each other ever since) Brion ended up leaving the area and marrying another


woman, and starting his life
over in another region of the country. He never got over that loss, but he had to suck it up and move on.

Happily, Frank's lost a lot of his capacity since 1985, and he's easily managed now days. In 2009, Brion and Cindy got back together again, and even
now if Frank could, he'd kill Brion. The guy never let go of his hatred, and we still keep Frank under threat of extreme retaliation if he even
breathes wrong. To say that Brion could not have actually been at that wedding reception, is to state the obvious. Both Brion and Cindy agree that he
wasn't and couldn't have been there.

What adds to the credibility of that statement is the fact that Brion's not properly dressed for athat Frank was actively trying to kill Brion when this photo was taken. Frank was Cindy's husband at that moment in time, and
he was at this wedding. If Brion was stoned, and wandered into this reception, he'd have had a very short evening of it. Very short.

He sure as hell wouldn't be alive to wonder about why he's in that photo today.

Originally posted by BirdOfillOmen
Are you sure he wasn't just stoned out of his mind when the picture was taken and he forgot all about that night?

I think I made it clear that Frank was actively trying to kill Brion when this photo was taken. Frank was Cindy's husband at that moment in time, and
he was at this wedding. If Brion was stoned, and wandered into this reception,


Laboratory (CSAIL) and second author on a paper describing the model that was published today in Radiology.

The other co-authors are first author Constance Lehman, professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and the director of breast imaging at the MGH; CSAIL PhD student Tal Schuster; Kyle Swanson '18, a CSAIL researcher and graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and senior author Regina Barzilay, the Delta Electronics Professor at CSAIL and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT.

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The model is built on a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is also used for computer vision tasks. The researchers trained and tested their model on a dataset of moreby definition, in the business of selling their bodies, while geisha were not, at least in theory. Remember how upset many people were at the portrayal of the mizuage rite of passage, in which men bid extraordinary amounts of money for the honor of being the one to deflower the main character, Sayuri.


when she was first arrested and arraigned for the offence.

Therefore, out of the 10 years which she will spend in prison, she has already spent five.

Justice Oyewole in his judgement held: “the accepted testimony of Ebubedike that the defendant, acting with one Chief Ikechukwu Ogbu, presented to her that they had United States Dollars to clean with chemicals, a representation, the defendant knew to be false and fraudulently obtained various sums of money from her.”

According to Oyewole, the EFCC alleged that the convict committed the crime between May and July 2005.

Part of the charge read that, “Miss Mary Eze and Mr Kingsley (still at large) on or about the 26th day of May 2005 at Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N490,000.00 (fourBy Yi Whan-woo

The number of North Koreans who defected to South Korea from January to July reached 815, up 15.6 percent from the same period last year, the Ministry of Unification said Tuesday.

The figure was 2,706 in 2011 but dropped to 1,502 in 2012. It bounced back to 1,514 in 2013 but fell to 1,397 in 2014 and down to 1,276 last year.

The official also said such an increase possibly indicates accelerated destabilization of the Kim Jong-un regime.

The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, a private research institute in Seoul, agreed.

Citing its survey, the institute said there have been an increasing number of elites among the defectors recently.

"A growing number of survey correspondents over the past few years said they were part of the middle- and upper-classes


in the North," said Yoo Yeo-sang, the chief director of the institute. "Also, the number of defector cases involving North Korean workers who worked outside their country increased significantly this year."

North Korea is believed to have screened its workers for work abroad, including manual laborers and waitresses, from among middle- and upper-class families. They are generally highly-educated and better off than the majority of the North Koreans.

Yun attributed defections among the workers abroad to growing pressure from the Kim regime to earn hard currency despite the U.N. Security Council's harshest sanctions imposed against Pyongyang in March.

The sanctions are aimed to cut off the flow of cash into the repressive state and prevent it from using the money to continue developing nuclear weapons.Anniversary, it would have been better to just let them play as a duo and forego the band. Cotton was not well served by this format at all, and I would say he was greatly disrespected by the band. After he departed, Winter ended the night on a nice note, with a rousing finish that included several encores and some of those greased lightning guitar licks that made him famous, reducing my crankiness quotient enough to look forward to coming back tomorrow night.

Overall, an evening that seemed out of its element for too much of the night, but maybe it was just me projecting onto the surrounding.

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Water officials in San Diego have speculated about the possibility of a “death spiral” for agriculture in North County. As farms go out of business, water districts sell less water. That makes water prices even higher because water districts still have to pay to operate plants, pumps, reservoirs and pipelines – so they charge more for each unit of water. When water prices go up again, fewer farmers can stay in business, so they shut down, which then drives prices up again.


Number 41-36, signed by Governor Coke R. Stevenson on 1 December 1943. It was authorized in its present form by the Sixty-fourth Texas Legislature in Senate Bill Number 724 and approved by Governor Dolph Briscoe on 20 May 1975, effective same date.

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The medal pendant is an antique bronze finished Maltese Cross, 1-1/8 inches in diameter. On the obverse side of the pendant, a wreath of laurel fits between the arms of the cross with the seal of the Texas State Guard in the center. The seal is a shield on which is a raised five-pointed star, one point up, over which is the letter, "T." Around this seal and inside the arms of the cross are the words "TEXAS STATE GUARD" along the upper 3/4 of theProduction on Tom Cruise's latest Mission: Impossible sequel has been temporarily shut down to allow director Christopher Mcquarrie time to tweak the ending, just five months before the film's scheduled release.

TV Superman Dean Cain choked back tears on U.S. TV on Wednesday morning (21Jan15) as he recalled watching American Sniper with his teenage son, and the 14 year old's reaction to the film about family friend Chris Kyle.

Former TV Superman Dean Cain has blasted Seth Rogen for comparing Clint Eastwood's hit new movie American Sniper to Nazi propaganda footage, urging the funnyman to "go to war" and then take aim at soldiers.

Actresses Bette Midler and Julianne Moore are among the stars who have expressed their sorrow and heartbreak after gunmen shot and killed 12 staff members at French


satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday (07Jan15).

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Documentary that celebrates the motion picture combat cameramen who served on the front lines of World War II. The program traces their story from Pearl Harbor to the war's aftermath in devastated Nagasaki. Most of the combat camera operators were enlisted men who were handed cameras instead of guns, given a brief training program and sent into battle armed mainly with Eyemo cameras -- hand-held, hand-wound 35mm machines that carried only two-minute film loads.open. Cox gave federal prosecutors until Oct. 17 to respond to Durkin's motion, and is expected to rule on the matter on Oct. 21.

In court, Durkin said Khan was "more concerned about his rights and the public's rights," in arguing for the hearing to be kept open.

"I'm adamant about not giving up constitutional guarantees out of fear and hysteria," Durkin added.

Agents arrested Khan on Saturday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport as he was about to board a flight to Vienna en route to Turkey. A criminal complaint alleges that Khan acknowledged during questioning by the FBI that he intended to travel by bus to a transit point where he would meet an Islamic State contact who would get him into Syria.

Authorities, who searched Khan's family's home, found notebooks


said the suspect's parents, Shafi and Zarine, were not the ones to alert authorities about his plans to travel overseas. He also said that Khan's parents were not aware of the alleged note Khan wrote until after agents searched the family's home.

Durkin said Khan was born in the USA and had attended one year of college at Benedictine College in the western suburbs of Chicago. He argued that "there may be room to disagree with [Khan's] views" but that he wasn't a threat to U.S. security.

Ultimately, he said, Khan was caught up in "geopolitical grandstanding" by American politicians.

"If anyone hasn't noticed, ISIS went from a group that wasn't supposedly a threat to the United States to being our existential enemy in a matter of weeks," Durkin said. "Inof the house looks like a disco in the mornings,” he said.

Donald went on to assert that the town had originally approached General Electric to construct the turbines, but that the company had turned those plans down due to its safety guidelines, which call for a significantly larger setback area than those of Vestas. Due to the possibilities of the turbines flinging shards of ice in cold conditions, and of the blades themselves flying away from the turbines in the event of a catastrophic mechanical failure, said Donald, GE considered many of the homes around the facility, a stretch of Route 28, and the wastewater plant itself, to fall inside the minimum safe distance.

Susan Hobart, another resident of the area, blamed Vestas’, and the town’s, shorter setback-distance standards


Moving alcohol prevention research forward-Part II: new directions grounded in community-based system dynamics modeling.
Given the complexity of factors contributing to alcohol misuse, appropriate epistemologies and methodologies are needed to understand and intervene meaningfully. We aimed to (1) provide an overview of computational modeling methodologies, with an emphasis on system dynamics modeling; (2) explain how community-based system dynamics modeling can forge new directions in alcohol prevention research; and (3) present a primer on how to build alcohol misuse simulation models using system dynamics modeling, with an emphasis on stakeholder involvement, data sources and model validation. Throughout, we use alcohol misuse among college students in the United States as a heuristic example for demonstrating these methodologies. System dynamics modeling employs a top-down aggregate approach to understanding dynamically complex problems. Itsa precursor—an incident that has been described as one of “the strangest cases in the annals of police history.” (It is the basis of a Clint Eastwood movie, “Changeling,” which will be released this fall.) On March 10, 1928, a nine-year-old boy named Walter Collins disappeared in Los Angeles. Six months later, after a nationwide manhunt, a boy showed up claiming that he was Walter and insisting that he had been kidnapped. The police were certain that he was Walter, and a family friend testified that “things the boy said and did would convince anybody” that he was the missing child. When Walter’s mother, Christine, went to retrieve her son, however, she did not think it was him. Although the authorities and friends persuaded her to take him


home, she brought the boy back to a police station after a few days, insisting, “This is not my son.” She later testified, “His teeth were different, his voice was different. . . . His ears were smaller.” The authorities thought that she must be suffering emotional distress from her son’s disappearance, and had her institutionalized in a psychiatric ward. Even then, she refused to budge. As she told a police captain, “One thing a mother ought to know was the identity of her child.” Eight days later, she was released. Evidence soon emerged that her son was likely murdered by a serial killer, and the boy claiming to be her son confessed that he was an eleven-year-old runaway from Iowa who, in his words, thought that itthe left side of the diamond shank it is the shape number 8597. I can’t much information about the brand. It is a bit of a mystery pipe but under the grime and the peeling finish there was nice looking grain. The pipe was dirty and the finish was very rough. The varnish coat was peeling away. There was a large chip out of the ring on the right side of the bowl. The rim was darkened and caked under tars. The cake was thick and overflowing the bowl. The stem was oxidized and there were tooth marks on the top and underside of the stem next to the button.I took a close up photo of the rim and the bowl to show you what I was working


dust and super glue. I mixed the two together and made putty and pressed it into the damaged area of the ring. In the photo below you can see the repaired area on the ring.I used the Dremel and sanding drum to remove the excess patch and sanded it back until it was smooth against the rest of the bowl.I sanded it with 220 grit sandpaper until the ring blended in with the rest of the pipe. I used a hack saw blade to recut the grooves on each side of the ring repair. The photo below shows the recut grooves and the repaired ring. It still needs to be cleaned up but it is looking better.I used a knife blade needle file to clean up the grooves.waterways of the nation. The report identifies five main impacts of changing climate:

Increases in heat waves and very hot summers

Increases in Arctic temperatures

Rising sea levels and storm surges

Increase in intense precipitation

Increases in hurricane intensity

The report finds that the greatest impact will be felt by the 53 percent of the US population who live in coastal counties; here, a confluence of the impacts listed above will act in concert to flood coastal roads, railways, runways, and transit systems. In Alaska (and Canada), thawing permafrost is already causing subsidence that damages infrastructure, including roads and pipelines. The much greater likelihood of heat waves in some regions will affect road and rail links.

Not all of the findings are bad news, however. The melting of the polar ice cap means that shipping