SEOUL (AFP, REUTERS) - North Korea said on Thursday (Oct 3) that it had successfully test-fired a "new-type" of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), state media reported, after Washington voiced alarm at the move just days before the planned resumption of stalled nuclear talks.

"The new-type ballistic missile was fired in vertical mode" on Wednesday in the waters off Wonsan Bay, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

It identified the SLBM as a Pukguksong-3.

The North's leader Kim Jong Un sent "warm congratulations" to research units involved in the launch, which "had no adverse impact on the security of neighbouring countries", KCNA said.

North Korea is banned from ballistic missile launches by United Nations Security Council resolutions, and Tokyo said earlier that a part of the missile landed in waters within Japan'sexclusive economic zone.

The test-firing "ushered in a new phase in containing the outside forces' threat to the DPRK and further bolstering its military muscle for self-defence", KCNA said, using a formal acronym for the North.

Photos released in the North’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a black-and-white painted missile emerging and clearing the surface of the water, then the booster rocket igniting to propel it into the sky.

A US State Department spokesman called on Pyongyang to "refrain from provocations" and to remain committed to the nuclear negotiations.

South Korea expressed strong concern and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the launch, saying it was a violation of UN Security Council resolutions.

North Korea rejects UN Security Council resolutions that ban Pyongyang from using ballistic missile technology, saying they are an infringement


missile flew 450km and reached an altitude of 910km.

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It was likely a Pukguksong-class weapon, as the North’s earlier SLBMs under development were known.

South Korean Defence Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo said the Pukguksong, or Pole Star in Korean, would have had a range of about 1,300km on a standard trajectory.

North Korea had been developing SLBM technology before it suspended long-range missile and nuclear tests and began talks with the US that led to the first summit between Mr Kim and Mr Trump in Singapore in June 2018.

The latest version of the Pukguksong may be the longest-range North Korean missile that uses solid fuel and thetilted flaw such that the extension direction of the tilted flaw and a propagation direction (propagation direction viewed from a normal direction of a tangential plane of the pipe including an incident point of the ultrasonic wave) of the ultrasonic wave transmitted by the ultrasonic probe are orthogonal to each other, an external refraction angle (incident angle to an external surface flaw existing on the external surface of the pipe) and an internal refraction angle (incident angle to an internal surface flaw existing on the internal surface of the pipe) are changed corresponding to the tilt angle of each tilted flaw (corresponding to the propagation direction of the ultrasonic wave). If the intensities of the echoes from the tilted flaws are different depending on the tilt angle of


along an axial direction of the tubular test object, a shorter axis direction of the ultrasonic probe is along a circumferential direction of the tubular test object, and the center of the spheroid correctly faces an axial center of the tubular test object, and a shape of the annular curved surface is determined so that the respective external refraction angles θr of the ultrasonic wave in the plurality of propagation directions are approximately equivalent, and/or the respective internal refraction angles θk of the ultrasonic wave in the plurality of propagation directions are approximately equivalent. (claim 5 and the like of Patent Literature 4).
According to the method described in Patent Literature 4, a plurality of the tilted flaws respectively extending in a direction orthogonal to the plurality of thethe elements of music in order to give you a detailed primer in melody, rhythm, pitch, harmony, texture, tempo, dynamics and form. Section 1 includes a short history of Rock and Roll to illustrate the musical elements and musical style.

After that, each section is devoted to one of the broad eras of music:

• The Middle Ages. Learn about early music beginning with monophony and how polyphony developed during the period of the building of the great cathedrals.

• The Renaissance. What was happening in music during the period in which Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel? A return to some Ancient ideals led to a rediscovery of the science of acoustics, providing a basis for the theory of modern harmony. How the course of music changed as a result


of Martin Luther’s break from the Church.

• The Baroque. Here we have the origins of opera, as well as a flowering of instrumental music, culminating in the works of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

• The Classical. In reaction to the florid complexities of the Baroque, and influenced by the Age of Reason, the Classical period focused on simplicity and elegance, producing such composers as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

• Romanticism. The Age of Reason was too “reasonable” for the the Romanticists. They valued heightened emotion over elegance. The music of Schumann, Chopin, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Puccini were some of its greatest accomplishments.

• The Modern Period. Formerly referred to as the 20th century period, it now needs to reflect its expansion into the 21st century. Some of the greatest composersMr Rudd has long insisted he will not challenge the prime minister for the leadership.

After announcing the ballot during question time, a distraught-looking Ms Gillard turned to the opposition and said: "In the meantime, take your best shot."

Ms Gillard, Australia’s first woman prime minister, failed to win an outright majority at the 2010 election and has since struggled in the polls. Labor is set for a wipeout at the election, which is currently scheduled for September 14.

Mr Rudd has a higher public approval than Ms Gillard but has struggled for support within his party. He challenged for the leadership last year but lost a party ballot against Ms Gillard.

Ms Gillard’s authority fell away as a key backer and senior minister, Simon Crean, withdrew support for her and backed


BIG GAME PROJECTS

In January of 2011 ninety-nine pronghorn antelope were released on to the Yakama Reservation. These are the first pronghorns to occupy reservation rangelands in over 100 years. After six years of work the efforts of the Yakama Nation Wildlife, Vegetation and Range Program and the Central Washington Chapter of Safari Club International finally came to fruition.

The first step in this long process began in 2005 with pronghorn habitat analysis for the rangelands of the Yakama Reservation. This analysis, funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, indicated that there was suitable habitat throughout the shrub-steppe portion of the reservation, with the best habitat in the eastern portion of the East Satus area (Simmons-Rigdon, et al., 2005).

Funding for this project was provided by Shikar Safari Club andthe Central Washington Chapter of Safari Club International. Safari Club members, the Nevada Department of Wildlife and numerous volunteers assisted in the capture and transport to the release site.

Thirteen California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana) were released in historic range in the Dry Creek and Logy Creek areas of the Reservation in February of 2005. An additional 10 bighorns were released in October of 2005 for a total release of 23 sheep. The first group of sheep came from Cleman’s Mountain northwest of Yakima and the second group came from private property in the Yakima Canyon. Three of the sheep were rams and twenty were ewes. Eight lambs were born in April and May to the first 13 ewes that were released.

In January 2007, three additional sheep were


released. January of 2008 saw the release of 22 more for a grand total of 48 released on the reservation since 2005.

The WDFW assisted the tribe in capture of the bighorns, personnel from the USFS and BLM also assisted in the capture of bighorns on Cleman’s Mountain. Funds for this project were provided through a grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Tribal Wildlife Grant).

Twenty-two animals were fitted with radio collars and are monitored on a monthly basis.

As the population grows, surplus animals will be harvested on a permit basis providing a long missing component of Yakama culture and tradition.

In 2006, our first drawing took place and four permits were issued to Yakama Nation Tribal Members to hunt Bighorn Sheep rams in the Ceded Area. Permits willagain be available this year with a drawing to be held on August 1st, 2010.

In 2010, the first permit was issued to a tribal memebr to hunt a bighorn sheep on the closed area of the reservation. The lucky hunter was John Washines, who harvested his ram on October 27th, 2010.

Picture left - John Washines with his 2010 bighorn sheep ram harvested on the Yakama reservation. Picture right - Jim Stephenson measures and marks the first reservation bighorn sheep.

Mountain Goat Research (Waw)

In the fall of 2004 four mountain goats (Oreomnos americanus) were captured on Mt. Adams and radio collared with conventional VHF radio collars. Two of these animals were darted from the ground and two were darted from a helicopter. Five+ goats were also color marked with paintball


guns.

The objectives in this study were to determine goat movements between the Mt. Adams population and the Klickitat River Canyon population, to determine seasonal habitat use and to determine productivity and mortality. Funding for this research was provided through a grant from the Tribal Wildlife Grant (USFWS).

In 2005 Laurel James, Yakama tribal member and employee of the Wildlife Program, became the first Native American recipient of the Wildlife Conservation Society Research Fellowship awarded in North America. This grant will greatly augment the current research on the Yakama Reservation Mountain Goat populations by providing an enormous amount of data over a short period of time. Four GPS collars and a receiver were ordered from Vectronic Aerospace GmbH and attached to goats within the Mt. Adams sub-population area. One goatwas darted on the ground and 3 goats were darted from a helicopter in the fall of 2006. Location and activity data were collected several times a day and stored on the collar for each animal and downloaded to the receiver during the telemetry flight. The information gained from these collars further assists the tribe in determining the full extent and range of seasonal habitat.

Picture - Jim Stephenson monitors a sleeping goat, and finally it is released!

Pronghorn Antelope (Wáwataw) Habitat Analysis

Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) were historically present on the Reservation. A comprehensive analysis of habitat for this species was conducted in the area of East Satus during 2004. Approximately 40,000 acres of fair to good habitat was identified in this 150,000 acre area. This project was also funded


by a Tribal Wildlife Grant (USFWS). Further habitat analysis for pronghorns is planned for the West Satus area in 2007. A reintroduction of pronghorns is currently under consideration for 2011.

Mule Deer (Yáamaš) Study - Toppenish Creek Game Reserve Herd

From 2002 to 2008, a study of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus)was undertaken on the 85,000 acre Toppenish Creek Game Reserve. This study is a continuation of the Klickitat Deer Study Project funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Since 2002 seventy-five deer were captured from this herd. Forty-three of these animals were radio-collared and ear-tagged and another 32 were ear-tagged only.

Many of these deer migrate to higher elevations during the summer, but a considerable number remain within the confines of the Game Reserve throughout the year. Many deer migrate acrosswere radio collared during this study. Habitat use was determined to differ between males and females, but adult and sub-adult males selected habitat in a similar manner. Males preferred mature, semi-closed forest and females selected more open terrain. Most elk mortality was caused by hunting and most elk were taken from late August to late October while they were still on summer and fall ranges.

Dr. McCorquodale is currently employed as the deer and elk specialist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.


another Henry message. I don't breathe as I open it. It reads:

I've been taking a look at swaps, longevity swaps. What can you tell me about those?

I crash back to earth. Longevity swaps? I know a lot about currency swaps and helped Tim do a few of those, but longevity swaps? I think they have something to do with betting on the length of someone's life. How does a guy go from dreaming about me while on an island to figuring out how to profit from speculating on the human life span?

I'm about to call the swaps desk but glance again at Stone snapping his nail clipper. I feel massive irritation at his very existence. I call him even though he's ten feet away and watch as hethe table.

"Where were we?" he interjects. "Someone has raised the issue of the 'girls down in the front of the building.' The women hired from the modeling agency to act as escorts. That's old news and that was a mistake according to some," he says. "Next."

Weird. None of us raised any issue about the downstairs girls. I wonder if he had to rehearse his answers before this and lost track of the questions in real life.

"Maybe we could form some version of a guidance team to help new women recruits find their way around here?" I suggest weakly.

"This is a meritocracy, as you've just heard," he storms. "You didn't have a pen pal when you came here and you survived."

"Yes, but women can be a little sensitive to


finale concert of their school's culture festival. The song also appears in the 2005 Nintendo DS video game Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan,. Other songs, including "Train-Train", "Owaranai Uta" and "Hito ni Yasashiku", have been featured in the Konami arcade games Drummania and Guitar Freaks. The 2015 anime series The Rolling Girls features covers of several Blue Hearts songs sung by the cast, including covers of "Hito ni Yasashiku" and "Tsuki no Bakugekiki" in the opening and ending sequences.

They were seen as controversial in Japan, where antics such as using the taboo Japanese word for crazy, and spitting on television cameras got them banned from TV for a year.

Post-breakup
After The Blue Hearts broke up in 1995, Kōmoto, Mashima and Shirai formed a new group, The High-Lows. In addition to retainingThree months after first announcing plans to convert a 193-acre site at Biscayne Landing into an indoor skiing venue dubbed Solar Mountain, the prospective developer, Solar Mountain Management Group, has abandoned the project due to disputes with the site’s trustee over several key provisions.

In April, Solar Mountain’s $30 million bid was approved to acquire the property from Wells Fargo Bank. Since then, the developer has been negotiating with the city of North Miami to reduce its off-site financial obligations. Developers had hoped to break ground on the project next year and open in 2013.

Iglesias clearly needs to stop playing games with his fans, and step up to the plate with his water ski stunt, as the Miami ski community surely needs an uplifting moment to forget the loss


Mr. Beat presents
Supreme Court Briefs
Georgia
The 1820s
The Cherokee Nation, which held territory within Georgia’s borders, as well as in North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee, is threatened by the increasing amount of Americans who were trespassing and wanting to straight up take over their land.
Georgia governor George Gilmer, as well as most of the Georgia legislature, made it very clear they wanted the Cherokee out of the state.
In 1827, the Cherokee Nation formally established a constitutional government and declared themselves sovereign, meaning American laws didn’t apply to them.
This, of course, angered governor Gilmer and the legislature, and they annexed all Cherokee land in the state, dismantled the Cherokee government, and redistributed much of their land to white citizens.
Not only that, but three years later Congress passed and President Andrew JacksonMR. MCCURRY: Good afternoon, everyone. I think, as you
all know, earlier today, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, in Beijing,
along with Chinese authorities, announced that arrangements have been
made that will allow for the enforcement of the 1995 Intellectual
Property Rights Agreement between the United States and the People's
Republic of China. You heard the President earlier today welcome
that news and say that it is a good understanding that is now in
place.

And to talk about it further, I've asked Dr. Laura
Tyson, who is the National Economic Advisor to the President and
Chair of the National Economic Council, to be here, along with
Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor. It's a pleasure to have both of
them here.

Laura, Mickey, the podium is all yours.

DR. TYSON: Thank you very much. I might also say that
afterward there will be Jennifer Hillman


Chinese imports. Those sanctions would have been in
neither country's interests.

This important agreement represents the culmination of
tireless efforts by Ambassador Barshefsky on behalf of the U.S.
industry, and I want to take an opportunity to congratulate her for
this significant achievement. From the start she has worked closely
with the U.S. industry. Many representatives have been here today
and they have voiced their strong support for this agreement.

I want to emphasize that this agreement, like our other
trade agreements with China and our other trading partners, reflects
the President's fundamental approach to trade issues. He has
consistently stood firm for American industry and American companies,
American workers, insisting that our products be granted fair access
abroad. China's actions today are consistent with that goal of fair
access abroad, and will protect some of our nation's most dynamic and
competitive industries.

Finally,have
been closed, for a total of 19, only 16 of which are licensed, three
of which are underground. There were 31 licensed plants.

The 15 remaining plants are under the agreement, being
investigated actively by Chinese authorities. That will be the
Ministry of Public Security, which is a major new step in the right
direction. The Ministry of Public Security is taking over both the
enforcement and monitoring of this agreement from the Press and
Publications Administration. Therefore, it has been put in the hands
of Chinese law enforcement.

In addition to that, all additional underground plants
will be closed when they are found. That's an absolute commitment.
A third step, there will be -- they will stop the shipment of presses
at the border, also work with Hong Kong authorities in that regard --
all new presses that would go


to plants, which would increase the
production capability of these plants. And fourth, this is all under
plant closures. There will be no new licensed plants until further
notice, all of which are important.

So no new licensed plants; stop the presses at the
border; close all underground plants; four plants have already been
closed; 12 new licensed plants closed; and, of course, three
underground plants closed in addition.

Special enforcement period that has been implemented.
By the way, under that, six wholesale operations were just shut down,
including the largest one in China. That's a big step forward. Five
thousand laser disc theaters have been shut down. A nationwide
special enforcement period has been implemented through August, and
seven months special enforcement period implemented in Guangdong
Province.

Border enforcement, I talked about to some degree.
They'll cooperate with Hong Kong. They have beenLive updates

Authorities in the US state of Connecticut are investigating a possible threat against President Obama, according to local media reports.

A statement from the US Secret Service, which oversees the President's personal security, said: "Information has been received by law enforcement regarding a potentially suspicious person and vehicle. We are working with our local law enforcement partners to determine the validity of the information provided."

The US Secret Service said it was working to establish the 'validity' of the threat to President Obama. Credit: Olivier Douliery/ABACA USA/Empics Entertainment

A local newspaper said state police were looking for a man who had allegedly made a threat against Obama.

He was believed to have been driving a car with Connecticut licence plates.

Obama was making a number of fundraising appearances in the north-east of


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NCERT Solutions for Class 11th: Ch 6 The Three Orders History

NCERT Solutions for Class 11th: Ch 6 The Three Orders History

Page No: 122

Exercises

Answer in brief

1. Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

Answer

Two features of early feudal society:
(i) The lord enjoyed special status. His order was supreme. Nobody could deny his order.
(ii) It was based on the lord peasants relationship. The peasants offered labour in the service of the service of their lord.
(iii) Early society was divided into three orders .These order were the priests, nobles and the peasants. In reality the nobility played a very dominating role in the society.

2. How did long-term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe?

Answer

Long term changes in population levels affected the economy and society:
(i) A number ortowns came into being. They also became the centre of trade and commerce. Society became more advanced and civilized.
(ii) This change brought about new changes in agricultural production. Production reached at its peak. Good quality of goods was also produced .It increased the life expectancy rate.

3. Why did knights become a distinct group, and when did they decline?

Answer

Local wars became the common feature of the European society during the 9th century. There was also a shortage of trained cavalry for these wars. The adroit horsemen were the need of the hour to win these localized wars among the nobles feudal. Taking the advantage of this situation, the knights became a distinct group precisely for the achieving this aim. The fall of feudal power paved the way for the


Audit of dental reports (II): first Phase-II study in a Spanish Faculty of Dentistry.
As a measure for correction of deficiencies registered through an audit of dental records in the Comprehensive Dentistry Clinic of the Dentistry Faculty of the University of Seville, we elaborated a new format for dental records which was used in 70 patients, carrying out a monitoring audit (Phase V) by applying the same quality criteria and criteria for data collection used in the initial audit (Phase III). We calculated the indices of fulfilment of 46 quality criteria, extending fulfilment percentage to 41 criteria, while statistically significant differences were found in 25 criteria. The standard prefixed as appropriate (75 %) was reached in 29 criteria (against the 12 criteria in which such standard was reached inCulture minister 'lined up for health job'

Jeremy Hunt could be made Health Secretary if Andrew Lansley refuses to make major concessions to his NHS reforms, the Standard has learned.

The Culture Secretary is being talked up as a possible replacement in the key role amid signs that both David Cameron and Nick Clegg are insisting on major changes to the flagship Bill.

With his strong Right-wing credentials, Mr Hunt's name might pacify Tory backbenchers who are agitated that Mr Clegg is demanding sweeping policy concessions in the name of Coalition unity after last week's AV referendum.

The backbenchers erupted after Mr Clegg and other Liberal Democrats declared at the weekend that their price of continued coalition was the emasculation of the NHS reforms.

A shot was fired across the Prime Minister's bows


today by Mark Pritchard, the secretary of the powerful 1922 committee of Tory MPs, who attacked the Lib-Dems for "sour grapes".

"Essential legislation on welfare reforms, health, law and order, immigration, and Europe, should not be 'gutted' to the point where Bills are no longer recognised," he wrote in an article for PoliticsHome.

Former Tory health secretary John Redwood accused the Lib-Dems of losing their nerve on the NHS reforms. "These are coalition proposals which Liberal Democrats contributed very strongly towards," he said.

Right-winger Bernard Jenkin added: "If the Coalition's going to work at all, we're going to carry on discussing things on their merits, and not descend into party politics within the Coalition."

A series of disputes have opened in the wake of the drubbing received by the Liberal Democrats inFor indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.

When the Center for Investigative Reporting published a bombshell report last month that the late Black Panther Richard Aoki was an FBI informant, the news was met with disbelief. The longtime Bay Area radical’s friends and defenders argued that the evidence fell short, pointing to an ambiguous FBI document and a misinterpreted interview with Aoki. And why, they wondered, had there never been any hint of Aoki’s betrayal during his years of work uniting Asian-American and African-American activists?

But last week CIR reporter Seth Rosenfeld published another 221 pages of FBI documents that show conclusively Aoki was an informant. They reveal that Aoki, who used the alias “Richard Ford,” worked with the


Jay cheats on Ashley within his first 48 hours of being in the United States.

On the other side of the equator, Steven is finally in Russia for the birth of his son. He struggles getting around the airport and train station because he can’t read Russian. I can’t help but laugh at him as the producer, who is probably fluent in Russian, watches him struggle to tell his right from his left. When Steven finally gets to Olga’s small hometown seven hours outside of Moscow, his very pregnant girlfriend is waiting for him outside. Steven and Olga are absolutely sweet together and I don’t want to see how Steven messes this up … because he will surely mess this up. Olga is overcome with emotions for him, whichManchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher will miss the rest of the season following surgery to resolve his chronic bowel disease.

The 28-year-old Scotland captain because of ulcerative colitis but returned to make 13 appearances this season for club and country.

His last appearance was on Boxing Day as an 89th-minute substitute in the 4-3 victory over Newcastle.

United say the surgery was planned.

Fletcher's career Age: 28

Man Utd appearances: 310

Man Utd goals: 23

Scotland appearances: 61

Scotland goals: 7

Honours: 4 Premier League titles (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011), 1 FA Cup (2004), 2 League Cups (2006, 2010), 1 Champions League (2008), 1 World Club Cup (2008)

Debut: v Basel, 12 March 2003 (Champions League second group stage)

Most recent game: v Newcastle, 26 December 2012 (Premier League)

A club statement read: external-link "Darren Fletcher will be unavailable for


the remainder of this season having undergone surgery to resolve his ulcerative colitis condition.

"We wish to stress this was a planned procedure undertaken at the optimal time having achieved a period of sustained good general health, as illustrated by the fact that Darren has trained with the team regularly this season and been available for selection right up to the operation.

"Whilst it is frustrating for both Darren and the club that he won't be able to contribute further during this campaign, this decision has been taken with our full support in the best interests of his long-term health and we look forward to him returning next season with this problem firmly behind him.

"We would be grateful if his privacy could be respected at this time and in thecoming months in order to aid his recuperation."

New Scotland manager Gordon Strachan external-link praised Fletcher's "commitment and pride" in playing for his country.

"I'm sure I speak for all Scotland fans when I say I hope that the operation allows Darren to overcome his condition and resume his role as a major influence for club and country in his own time," he said.

"In the meantime, I have stressed to him that, as captain, he remains an integral part of the international set-up and that he is welcome to join up with the squad at any time during his recovery."

Fletcher, who is contracted to the Red Devils until 2015, returned to first-team football after 11 months out when he came off the bench in United's 1-0 Champions League win against


tough to play in. But Indy was a dome team. The Chiefs should have been used to dealing with the elements. They were the best KC team since the 1969 squad that won the Super Bowl. Nevertheless, on January 7, 1996 the Chiefs lost by a score of 10-7. Ouch.

12. The 1995 Kansas City Chiefs The John Elway-led Broncos were the #1 seed in the AFC in 1996, having gone 13-3 in the regular season. Everyone thought this might be the year that they finally won the Super Bowl after losing it three times in the late 80s. And first up in the Divisional Playoffs were the Jacksonville Jaguars—a team in only its second year of existence who barely made the playoffs because they won their last 5games of the season. The Jags were supposed to be a minor road bump and, sure enough, Denver jumped out to a quick 12-0 lead in the first quarter. But then the Jags came back, and in the process transformed from speed bump to road block. They won the game 30-27, and some feared this might be the 36-year-old Elway's last big-game choke. Luckily Elway had a few good years left in him, and the Broncos won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1998 and 1999.

11. The 1996 Denver Broncos If 49ers wide receiver and punt returner Kyle Williams had made just one bad play against the Giants in last year's NFC Championship Game, he wouldn't have qualified for this list. But he didn't make just one. He made two.


with 589. So anything short of a Super Bowl win was unacceptable. Then the New York Giants won the NFC Championship Game—not the 13-3 Dallas Cowboys or 13-3 Green Bay Packers, but the 10-6 Giants. So the Pats were 12-point favorites. Then they lost.

5. The 2007 New England Patriots The only other Super Bowl "team choke" on this list? That would be the 1968 Baltimore Colts. They were a whopping 18-point favorites over the New York Jets, and the NFC was widely believed to be vastly superior to the AFC. But Joe Namath made his famous promise that the Jets would win, and they did, 16-7.

4. The 1968 Indianapolis Colts The Vikings went 15-1 in 1998 and place kicker Gary Anderson didn't miss a single field goal attempt...untilYork's Trey Junkin was no good and the game ended on an incomplete downfield pass by the holder.

2. The 2002 New York Giants Despite his reputation, I didn't set out to put Tony Romo at the #1 spot. I really didn't. But after I looked at all the big playoff chokes in NFL history, this one just jumped out at me. Of course, the Cowboys weren't really that good in 2006. They went just 9-7. But their opponents in the Wild Card game were the Seahawks, and they were also just 9-7. More importantly, though, the Cowboys had the ball on the last play of the game on Seattle's 2-yard line, down by just one stinking point. All they needed to win the game was a gimme 19-yard


DUNLOP, JAMES, businessman and militia officer; b. November 1757 in Glasgow, Scotland, third and youngest son of David Dunlop, merchant and textile manufacturer, and his wife, a daughter of James McGregor of Clober; d. unmarried 28 Aug. 1815 in Montreal, Lower Canada.

James Dunlop received a “sound commercial education,” which included instruction in “bookkeeping, mathematics and navigation,” probably at the High School of Glasgow. Like many other young men of the city’s mercantile class, he was sent out to Virginia, the focus of the tobacco trade and the main centre of Scottish overseas enterprise; he arrived, it seems, early in 1773 and settled on the James River opposite Jamestown as an employee of William and John Hay, correspondents of his brothers Robert and Alexander Dunlop, partners in Glasgow. Atthe outbreak of the American revolution, according to James’s nephew, Alexander Dunlop of Clober, he served as a loyalist in several campaigns in Virginia and the southern colonies.

Early in 1779 Dunlop came to Quebec and, in the upper part of a house on Rue Saint-Pierre, established a small store in which he sold dry goods, hardware, groceries, and “fancy goods,” imported on credit from Glasgow. Having lost his slender working capital during the revolution, he formed a partnership with Andrew Porteous and worked closely with John Porteous and Daniel Sutherland*, all of Montreal. The Porteouses were members of a family connection which included a number of Patersons equally active in the trade of the colony, was already well established in the province, and was also of Ayrshire origin.


Like many other Scottish merchants in the colony, Dunlop was involved in the scandal surrounding John Cochrane, agent at Quebec between 1779 and 1782 of a British firm responsible for providing Governor Haldimand with the specie needed by the colonial administration. Cochrane, without authorization, had advanced on credit to colonial merchants large sums in bills of exchange, and Haldimand’s suits at law against some of the tardy debtors, through judge Adam Mabane*, provoked a financial crisis in the colony. The amount given to Dunlop had been small in comparison with the advances to many of these merchants, but in 1787 he still owed £3,000.

Dunlop’s energy, resourcefulness, and desire to open new fields of endeavour had meanwhile driven him in 1781 to dissolve his partnership with Porteous, and, apparentlythe following year, to set himself up in Montreal, which was burgeoning as the centre of Canadian commerce. He continued, nevertheless, to import and export to some extent through Quebec where he maintained an agent, John Pagan. By 1785 Dunlop was established in a warehouse, with its own wharf, on Montreal’s main business thoroughfare, Rue Saint-Paul. It was probably from there that he sold the large assortments of dry goods, cutlery, alcoholic beverages, sugar, and other products that he continued to import. Foreseeing the possibilities in the flour and lumber trades, he began in the early 1780s to travel extensively throughout the colony, negotiating purchases of grain and timber. His activities in this business, and the wide range of contacts he established, had placed him in a strong


position by 1788 when an act of the British parliament permitted vessels from Canada to carry lumber and provisions to the West Indies and to bring back, free of duty, sugars and rum to the value of the outward cargo. By 1789 he was also exporting shiploads of choice Canadian oak to Leith, Scotland.

Wines and spirits were another specialty. Dunlop imported high-grade rums and whiskies from Greenock and found a ready market among habitants and fur traders. His rum, identified by the initials J. D. and a thistle burnt into the barrel, was highly regarded. Before the war with Spain began in 1796, he imported from Cadiz shiploads of Spanish, Madeira, and Portuguese wines, supplying the domestic cellars of most of the fur-trade magnates, including Simon McTavish. Dunlopalso imported from Cadiz on a large scale rum, sugar, and tobacco. He maintained a useful network of agents, mostly Scottish firms, in Tuscany (Italy) at Leghorn, in Spain at Cadiz and Barcelona, in Portugal at Lisbon, and on Madeira. Spirits also formed a large part of his trade with York (Toronto), where he supplied Alexander Wood* and William Allan* beginning in 1798. Dunlop was linked to Upper Canada as well through his association with Richard Duncan and his group of “insatiate” (according to Chief Justice William Osgoode*) land speculators, among them Coll McGregor and James Caldwell of New York State. In 1794 their petition for hundreds of thousands of acres in the Beauharnois region of Lower Canada was rejected, as was another in 1796 by less important


men, in an association of which Dunlop was leader, for the entire 64,000 acres of Derry Township on the north shore of the Ottawa River.

In Montreal Dunlop rented a house on Rue Saint-Paul until March 1788. By 1795 he was ensconced, on the outskirts of the city, in a handsome mansion that became a social centre; visitors to Montreal testified to Dunlop’s warm-hearted hospitality, which was characteristic of Montreal’s Scottish nabobs. His liveried servants were invariably brought from Scotland. Like most of the city’s Scottish merchants, he had been a member of the Protestant Congregation of Montreal (Christ Church), an Anglican body, but he had joined the Scotch Presbyterian Church, later known as the St Gabriel Street Church, when it was formed in the early 1790s.

Dunlop also participatedin the public life of the city. In 1792 he offered himself as candidate for the House of Assembly in the riding of Montreal West, but the electors preferred James McGill and Jean-Baptiste-Amable Durocher. As fear rose among the British population of the activities of French revolutionary agents operating in Lower Canada from the United States [see David McLane*; John Black], Dunlop became active in the British Militia of the Town and Banlieu of Montreal; he joined it as an ensign in 1790 and was promoted lieutenant in 1794.

Dunlop exploited fully the favourable economic conditions in the period of potential and open conflict with France and then the United States that lasted from 1793 to 1814. In 1797 he wrote that his business activities had become so numerous


and so varied that he required additional staff from Scotland. By 1802 his headquarters on Rue Saint-Paul were among the largest mercantile premises in the colony. Dunlop’s exports for 1803 were estimated to be worth a total of £60,000, surpassed among Montreal firms only by the North West Company and Parker, Gerrard, Ogilvy and Company [see John Ogilvy]. His original import business had by then been overshadowed by new lines of activity; in 1800 he stated that his imports from Scotland made him no profit, but that he was rapidly accumulating a large fortune through bill brokering, shipowning, and the export of bulk products.

Dunlop had engaged in bill brokering since the Cochrane scandal, and in the interim he had learned to deal in government bills of all kinds,routing them via New York where good gains could be made in specie. It was the war with France, however, that launched him into the field of high finance. In the early 1800s he was purchasing bills drawn on the paymaster general – £21,000 worth in June 1800 alone – at a discount of almost two per cent and selling them in New York for specie at a premium of almost two per cent. Bill brokering was his major activity as a financier, and he conducted it with skill and foresight. By 1812 he was the most important operator in British North America and the recognized channel through which the mercantile fraternity of Montreal and Quebec disposed of army bills, as is evidenced by the records of his


transactions with Frederick William Ermatinger* among others. The magnitude of Dunlop’s dealings entitle him to be considered Canada’s first large-scale bill broker.

The war with France had also spurred Dunlop to move into shipbuilding. In 1793 he took a long-term lease on a lot at Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal, where he constructed a shipyard, staffing it with skilled craftsmen brought from the Clyde and New York and local men and apprentices who were acquiring shipbuilding skills. From this yard came the vessels for his trade with Europe and the West Indies, as well as for privateering. In order to augment his fleet more rapidly he bought vessels, such as the schooner Marie in 1794 from the Quebec merchant John Munro, the sloop Peggy three years later, and, in 1805, the Industrie,constructed by the Quebec shipbuilders François and Romain Robitaille. In 1806 Dunlop’s fleet numbered three large ocean-going vessels, and seven smaller craft for the river and coastal trades. By the end of 1811 he had six vessels named after members of the Dunlop family, and that May the launching of the last of these, the James Dunlop, built at a cost of £10,000, attracted a crowd of 5,000. The following year Dunlop laid the keels of three more large vessels, one of them, the George Canning, of 482 tons. In 1814 he purchased the Earl St Vincent, an East Indiaman of over 900 tons, and was planning to buy several others. Shipbuilding costs in Lower Canada were approximately 35 per cent higher than on the Clyde, but Dunlop


had faith in the future of the industry in British North America if first-class materials were used by competent craftsmen.

War had sharpened demand in Britain for bulk products such as potash, lumber, grain, and flour; in the autumn of 1797 Dunlop remitted bills to Glasgow for more than £17,000, derived from grain exports in the preceding eight months. By 1800 he was considering the ambitious project of cornering Canadian flour and potash supplies, and in 1805 he nearly succeeded in monopolizing the latter, which he exported on a large scale at a handsome profit for use in the cotton, linen, and woollen mills on the Clyde. Similarly, in the years 1812 and 1813, when Scotland suffered a crisis in provisioning that led to the formation of “meal-mobs,” Dunlopdispatched several thousand tons of flour from his stocks, the most extensive in the province, and was able to secure considerable returns. With the Scottish market, supply contracts for the British army on the Iberian peninsula, and provisioning of the forces in North America during the War of 1812, he bid fair to being the key operator in the Canadian grain trade.

The interlocking of Dunlop’s shipbuilding and privateering activities with his commodity operations is shown by the special permission accorded him on 22 July 1812 by the Legislative Council of Lower Canada: he was authorized to dispatch his large and heavily armed vessel, the James Dunlop, to Lisbon with army provisions despite Napoleon’s embargo, since “her force [of armament] . . . will in all probability be equal


to her protection.” He was so confident in the strength of his ships, all of which were accorded letters of marque as privateers, that he refused to insure them throughout the war, apparently considering insurance rates excessive; his risk was justified, since he lost only the James Dunlop, wrecked in 1812 during a storm off the coast of Anticosti Island but well compensated for by the capture of an enemy ship. In 1814 he boasted in a letter to his sister in Glasgow that he had done “more good business since the War began than ever I did in the same space of time” and that he was the wealthiest man in the province. Even making allowance for his natural ebullience, there seems little reason to doubt theassertion: in November 1813 one of his cargoes of imported goods was valued at £50,000 including duty; six months later he remitted what was apparently the largest bill of exchange – £32,500 – yet sent from the colony; in August 1815 he had a stock of goods in hand estimated at £100,000; and that year the Montreal Herald noted that his fortune was “supposed to be greater than ever was acquired by any individual in this country.”

Dunlop’s ability to exploit the favourable economic climate in the 1790s and early 1800s was due in part to the wide range of business contacts that he had established in Canada and Britain. He had earned the confidence of the Montreal merchants from the time he settled in the city, and in


the 1780s and 1790s was frequently called upon to act as trustee for the estates of deceased businessmen. He never engaged in the fur trade as did many of the Montreal merchants, but out of solidarity with them he had signed in 1782 and 1785 several petitions in which the fur magnates requested from the government protection and freedom in the prosecution of that trade. Although he separated from Andrew Porteous, Dunlop maintained his connection with the Paterson-Porteous group; its members, and especially the younger ones (the Robertsons, John Ogilvy, and their close allies), were active in opposition to the NWC in the 1790s and, as part of the Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy empire, the group became one of the most important elements in the trade between Quebecand Britain. Like John Porteous, Dunlop was on close terms with James and Andrew McGill, with whom he shared a Glasgow background, and in 1806 he was executor of the latter’s estate.

Unlike the merchants of the fur trade, whose business was transacted through London, Dunlop conducted his affairs in Britain largely with Scottish correspondents. He had contacts with James Dunlop of Garnkirk, the Dunlops of Lockerbie, and his brothers Alexander, a bookseller, and Robert, a linen manufacturer, who still acted in Glasgow as purchasing agents and exporters for the wide range of dry goods and other commodities Dunlop imported. However, his most important Scottish agent was Allan, Kerr and Company of Greenock, a leading firm in the trade to the Canadas.

Throughout the early 1800s Dunlop continued to participate


enthusiastically in the Montreal militia. A captain in 1803, he became a major, commanding four companies of the 1st Battalion, including the artillery. In June 1811 he and Étienne Nivard Saint-Dizier were chosen to take an address from the citizens of Montreal to Governor Craig, who was about to depart for London. In November 1812 part of the militia, including Dunlop’s artillery company, was placed on alert. The following year he expressed the hope that the American invaders would penetrate to Montreal so that “my Great-Guns will make Thousands of them Sleep with their Fathers.” His military service, however, involved him in a dispute that led to his court martial in December 1813. He was accused of insulting a subordinate officer at Lachine named Hart Logan when anenemy attack was expected, and of being drunk at the time. Dunlop told Logan that he “esteemed him less than the driver of a milk cart,” an insult typical of Ayrshire parlance but perhaps also derived from the little dogcarts used to transport milk in the colony at this period. Ordered to apologize to Logan by a military court presided over by his friend James McGill, Dunlop refused and lost his commission. The incident did Dunlop no damage in the community; he was commended by many for his pride and sang-froid before the tribunal. Dunlop was distressed when the war with the United States ended in 1814, and he wrote to George Canning, ambassador extraordinary to Portugal, as well as to the member of parliament for Glasgow, that


“we will never again have the same good opportunity of bringing the United States to our own terms.”

In August 1815, perhaps as the result of an excursion late in July to the Chaudière Falls near Quebec, Dunlop developed inflammation of the bowels, for which he seems to have put off medical attention. He died on 28 August in Montreal. At the time of his death he was full of new projects: planning more and larger vessels for his fleet, embarking on a massive scheme to import and speculate in thousands of tons of Irish flour, and pondering the possibility of instituting a regular passenger service across the Atlantic. In a letter in 1814 to his brother-in-law he had claimed to “have been more bold in my Speculations thanany other person or Company in this Province,” and the Quebec Gazette acknowledged that he had been “one of the most eminent, respectable and enterprising” merchants in Montreal. In Dunlop the colony lost a lively businessman who might have made a great contribution in the ensuing period of commercial growth and formation of banks. Within two years of his death, the Bank of Montreal was founded, and his vision of regular transatlantic passenger service was being pursued by other men.

A colourful and imaginative figure, Dunlop was a worthy contemporary of Simon McTavish, also known as “the Marquis,” and other characters who composed the Montreal trading circle. Throughout his life, though very much a progressive businessman of the enterprising 18th-century type, he had been keenly conscious of his heritage,


warehouse; as he watched the blaze, seated on a sofa rescued from the building, he remarked, “Why should not a man enjoy his own fireside?” In Clober’s words, he was “a prompt, active and dashing fellow, with indomitable intrepidity, both in maintaining sword and pen. He took fortune by storm, and dared his all to secure it.”

The executors of Dunlop’s will, dated 12 July 1811, included James McGill (who died two years before Dunlop), John Forsyth*, Isaac Todd, William Lindsay* Jr, John Harkness, and Adam Lymburner Macnider* in Canada; Andrew McNair, his brother-in-law, at Glasgow; and Allan, Kerr and Company and John Denniston, Scottish mercantile and financial magnates at Greenock. Between £150,000 and £200,000, representing the bulk of Dunlop’s fortune, went to his nephews and nieces in Scotland;his sister received an annuity of £1,000. Dunlop also left an endowment of £5,000 to an illegitimate son, James, born in 1810 to Mrs Elizabeth Whitlaw, apparently of Glasgow. Dunlop and Company was wound up following the owner’s death, and it appears that the amounts received by Dunlop’s heirs fell far short of the real value of the estate.

James Dunlop was a mercantile man of outstanding talent and originality, far beyond his contemporaries, even the fur-trade magnates, in techniques and vision. He was directly responsible for opening up several important lines of Canadian commercial activity, and, certainly, he was one of the founding fathers of Canadian finance.

James Dunlop seems to be the only British merchant of prime importance in Canada in the 18th century whose personal business correspondence


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Could Oregon Ducks Settle On Retaining Mark Helfrich?

Following the loss to Oregon State, the conversation quickly turned to the status for Head Coach Mark Helfrich.

Within the last several weeks, the University of Oregon has set up a coaching search to replace their Head Coach. Mark Helfrich said following a 4-8 season and 34-24 loss to Oregon State in the Civil War that ‘no job was safe in college football.’ He knows his seat is pretty hot, but Oregon has yet to pull the firing trigger.

Helfrich is expected to have his season wrap-up Press Conference this morning at 10am Pacific Time. Right after is the Season Ending Banquet followed by departure, but not from the University. Coaches will leave this afternoon to recruit as they have in years past.No meeting has been set with Athletic Director Rob Mullens, at least not publically.

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If Helfrich is let go Oregon will owe him $11.6 million. The College Coaching landscape has already started to transform with Charlie Strong fired from Texas on Saturday and Tom Herrman being named his replacement. The best coaching option may already be gone for Mullens and Company.

Phil Knight, the Ducks biggest benefactor was also not in the State on Saturday. He spent the afternoon in Columbus, Ohio watching Ohio State beat Michigan in Double Overtime. (Read into that what you will)

Mark Helfrich still has a lot of positives on his resume including a Rose Bowl win and a National Championship Appearance, but 8 losses in 2016 has led to 37-16 record as


wire electrodes were compressed between the stopper with the inlet tube and the body of the syringe to prevent air escaping. The assembly was inserted vertically into the chiller fluid with the region containing the locust submerged and the inlet region, with the wires, held out of the fluid. For whole animal electromyography without respirometry, the locusts were implanted with electrodes and thermocouple, restrained and held in the body of a 10 ml syringe that was cut and completely open at both ends. This assembly was then placed horizontally into a 500 ml beaker that was submerged to a depth of about 3 inches in the chiller held at −3 °C.

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The researcher used three categories of respondents in each school namely; the administrators, the teachers and the students. The completed questionnaires were then coded, entered into the computer using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) and then analysed.
The study revealed that both students and teachers have developed a positive attitude towards the use ICTs and related accessories in the teaching/learning process. This was reflected by the frequency


education in Kenya as well as potential challenges. The study was conducted through survey method. The researcher sought permission from the Ministry of Education in Kenya to collect research data from the sampled schools since all of them were public secondary schools. The researcher constructed questionnaires which were used to collect data from various respondents in the sampled Nepad e-schools in Kenya. The researcher used three categories of respondents in each school namely; the administrators, the teachers and the students. The completed questionnaires were then coded, entered into the computer using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) and then analyzed. The study revealed that both students and teachers have developed a positive attitude towards the use ICTs and related accessories in the teaching/learning process. This was reflected byeducation, ICT has begun to have a presence but the impact has not been as extensive as in other fields both globally and locally within Africa as well as in Kenya. In this study, the researcher sought to find out how the use of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centered learning settings. The study seeks to determine the various impacts of ICT on contemporary secondary education in Kenya as well as potential challenges. The study was conducted through survey method. The researcher sought permission from the Ministry of Education in Kenya to collect research data from the sampled schools since all of them were public secondary schools. The researcher constructed questionnaires which were used to collect data from various respondents in the sampled Nepad e-schools in


Kenya. The researcher used three categories of respondents in each school namely; the administrators, the teachers and the students. The completed questionnaires were then coded, entered into the computer using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) and then analyzed. The study revealed that both students and teachers have developed a positive attitude towards the use ICTs and related accessories in the teaching/learning process. This was reflected by the frequency of use of the facilities and the interest as indicated by the respondents. The study also found out that the schools under study were already using educational management software for various processes carried out in the schools. The study also revealed some challenges faced by the schools. Notable challenges included lack of funding to support the purchase of theinfrastructure to improve access to educational materials, lack of training for teachers to adopt ICT as a teaching tool and lack suitable e-content for various subjects.

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to 15 students in most of the developed countries, the access rate in Kenya is approximately one computer to 150 students (EMIS, 2005).
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concluded prosecutors and a judge improperly invalidated a plea agreement with Kareem "Little Red" Gilbert who admitted he reneged on his part of the deal by telling a jury his father killed no one.

"I've never seen the state (prosecutors) set aside a plea," Hamilton County Public Defender Ray Faller said of the case.

"It's a deal with the devil that they made," Ohio Public Defender Tim Young said.

Hamilton County prosecutors, who said they will appeal the decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, said they followed the law.

The underlying case started in October 2008 when then-16-year-old Gilbert was horsing around with Brian Austin and Vernon Davis. Tempers flared and Austin hit Gilbert with a meatball sandwich, causing Gilbert to shoot Austin to death as Davis ran off. Davis, aware ofGilbert's family's neighborhood reputation, was so scared that he, too, would be killed that he told his family what clothes to put on him at his funeral.

Davis was shot and killed on Oct. 31, 2008. Police eventually charged Gilbert with both killings.

At a drama-filled May 18, 2010, guilty plea, prosecutors dropped the murder charges against Gilbert. In exchange, he pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and agreed to be imprisoned for 18 years -- and to testify that his father, Ruben "Red" Jordan, sitting in the audience, had shot and killed Davis.

Gilbert, now 20, gave prosecutors a statement to that effect and agreed that if he changed his story at his father's trial, prosecutors could reinstate the original murder charges and he could face a potential life


sentence.

That's exactly what happened. When Jordan, now 40, went to trial for murder, his son testified his father killed no one. The jury apparently didn't believe him -- prosecutors also played Gilbert's earlier taped statement where he said he saw his dad shoot Davis to death -- and convicted Jordan of murder. Jordan is serving a prison sentence of 30 years to life.

Ruben Jordan is escorted into the courtroom for sentencing on a murder charge in Cincinnati on Feb. 15, 2011.(Photo: Gary Landers, The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Prosecutors agreed to allow Gilbert to be sentenced before he testified because both father and son were in the Justice Center, posing a security threat, and they wanted to lock in the agreement before Gilbert changed his mind, prosecutor spokeswoman Julie Wilson said.

"Therecould be an intimidation issue," she said.

Prosecutors asked Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Winkler to reinstate Gilbert's original charges. Gilbert then pleaded guilty to murder, not the manslaughter plea as in the plea deal, and was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.

That violated Ohio's laws, the appeals court found, noting the judge had no authority to reinstate the original charges after Gilbert was sentenced.

The prosecutors were criticized for allowing Gilbert to be sentenced before he testified against his father. If the case stands, prosecutors said it could impact plea deals, allowing criminals to make deals and renege on them. Then prosecutors shouldn't have botched the case, critics countered.

"This is a mistake of the Hamilton County prosecutors," Young said.

"It's to their advantage to hold the sentence over


(Gilbert's) head," said Candace Crouse, head of the Greater Cincinnati Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. "They might have just messed this one up."

Wrong, countered Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, who also is president of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

He had the same situation in his county, he said, in a case involving Bobby Bethel. After Bethel didn't complete his part of the plea deal, his plea and sentence were withdrawn, the original charges were reinstated and he was convicted of murder -- and sent to death row where he resides.

"If the (Ohio) Supreme Court upheld a death sentence in those circumstances certainly trial judges have the authority to vacate pleas and judgments when the defendant breaches a plea agreement to testify for the state," O'Brien noted.

That's not what AppealsThe Mute Minstrel

the air was unexpectedly cool that night, especially for a summer evening. with the streets packed full the people of Krayton went about their usual business. the shops along the main road through town were helping the last of their customers before they closed up for the day. the flower stand had just closed leaving the sweet smell of the seasons best lingering in the breeze.

only a few folks noticed the stranger as he walked down the street at first. he had an innocent face with wise eyes that looked as though they could peer through the ethereal fabric of reality. enveloped in a flat black cloak, he appeared to have on a typical green tunic and brown leather pants underneath it. he didnt seem to


have much, just a small coin purse tied to his waist and a string-less guitar strapped to his back. most of the villagers assumed he was a wondering homeless person.

he had barely entered the village through the south gate intently walking towards the north gate which was peculiar because other than the krayton mountains, which are rumored to be inhabited by demons, is the mysterious glory spot at the top of the world. no one is sure what the Glorious Spot really is, many have speculated though. some say its the gate to a Utopian paradise, some say it is the entrance to hell, others say it is the birth canal of all life. most regard it as a holy temple, thousands have set off on pilgrimages tothe pilgrimage, but since the viceroy declared the Glorious Spot as a suicide mission…lets just say things are better than they have been in a while.”

he looked around her shop contently. there were normal things you find in a general goods store. there was bread that was probably freshly baked that morning. there were all different kinds of cured meats hanging all around the front counter. behind the counter were shelves stocked full of potions, potions of all sorts. there were cures for poison, paralysis and burns and anything else you could possibly need a potion for. next to the door was a painting of a tall man in his mid twenties with his right arm around a beautiful young woman that came up to his chest. next


to $25 billion, noting that "core gamers seem to be willing to spend more money than ever." Analyst Jeremy Miller said the company expected the lack of major new releases to have a negative impact, but "the top titles of 2012 continued to do well in 2013 and new titles like Battlefield 4 and Total War: Rome II had solid performances."

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Security guards were caught on camera beating a teenager outside a shopping mall. The incident occurred at The Mall at Stonecrest, which is about 20 miles east of downtown Atlanta.
The guards can be seen in the video beating the teen multiple times.in Indianapolis outside of the realm of sports. “This has really brought out the best of Indianapolis,” she says. “It’s brought the community together in an incredible way.”

Over 8,000 volunteers will participate in the events surrounding the Super Bowl, which Williams believes will strengthen the community. The city will also benefit from several more physical and concrete improvements:

Over 200 near-Eastside homes were rehabbed in preparation for the event.

Volunteers surpassed their goal of planting 2012 trees around the community to commemorate the event.

46 murals have been painted around the city by both local and national artists.

Arsenal Technical High School (an inner-city public school) will get keep the turf field and fitness center created for the New York Giants to practice in.

Arts and music should flourish on newly-redesigned Georgia Street


facts show that Cimarron Coal Corporation operated a non-union mine in Hopkins County, Kentucky, employing approximately 30 miners. In October of 1968, the United Mine Workers were striking mines in Hopkins County where they had had bargaining rights. They had never had a contract with Cimarron nor does this record make any showing of any union membership. Beginning on October 10 and continuing until October 25, 1968, when this injunction was entered, the United Mine Workers undertook to organize Cimarron Coal Corporation by the expedient of appearing in front of the plant gates with 75 to 100 pickets and picket signs.

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Cimarron Coal thereupon wrote the state police and the local sheriff asking for protection. The sheriff and some state police did appear and some of the employees didwhether Trump had initially said, "Don't meddle in the election, please," or "Don't meddle in the election, president." Journalists in the room and watching video of the exchange heard him say "please," but a White House transcript later maintained that Trump had said "president."

Either way, Trump’s casual comments to Putin were unlikely to satisfy his critics, who have lambasted him for repeatedly casting doubt on whether Russia interfered in 2016 despite the firm assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and former special counsel Robert Mueller.

Trump continues to dismiss the Mueller probe as a "witch hunt," and Putin says he agrees.

In a Financial Times interview just ahead of the G-20, Putin brushed off "mythical" Russian interference and argued that Trump really won the election because he "looked into his opponents’


attitude to him and saw changes in American society, and he took advantage of it."

With the Mueller investigation complete, Trump and Putin are entering a new period in which the years-long probe no longer hangs over them, although Congress continues to investigate.

Offering an outstretched hand to Trump, the Russian leader invited him next May to attend Moscow's massive annual World War II victory parade, which most global leaders have traditionally shunned. The Kremlin told Russian media that Trump has "reacted positively to the invitation," although a White House official would say only that while Trump supports commemorating Allied troops who died in the war, "he has not confirmed participation.”

In recent weeks, Trump has renewed concerns about his seriousness in confronting Russia’s efforts to interfere in U.S. democracy bysaying he would listen to damaging information offered from foreign governments about one of his political opponents.

Amid the ensuing uproar, Trump shifted position and argued that he would also tell the FBI.

Trump's playful approach to broaching the election issue with Putin stood in sharp contrast to outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, who chided Putin for "hostile interventions in other countries, disinformation and cyberattacks, which undermine Russia’s standing in the world," a Downing Street spokesman said. In her meeting with Putin at the G-20, May also confronted the Russian president on Moscow's actions in Ukraine, LGBT rights and what she called "irrefutable evidence" that Russia used a chemical weapon on British soil.

As Trump's meeting with Putin got underway, he told reporters they would be discussing trade, disarmament and


“a little protectionism, perhaps.” The White House later said they had discussed Iran, Syria and Ukraine and had agreed “that improved relations between the United States and Russia was in each countries’ mutual interest and the interest of the world.”

Putin, for his part, said the two leaders had much to discuss in Osaka, noting that they had not seen each other since the Helsinki summit. Still, he said through a translator that their teams had been working together in the interim and said their session in Osaka would be “a great opportunity to follow up on that.”

The two sat side to side in front of Russian and American flags, flanked by their delegation. Trump was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national security adviser John Bolton, TreasurySecretary Steven Mnuchin and chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, along with daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband and Trump’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner. Accompanying Putin were Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other Russian officials.

A White House description of the meeting later said Trump had told Putin that “a 21st century model of arms control” must include China. It was a reference to the New START nuclear arms treaty between the U.S. and Russia, set to expire in 2021, and the Trump administration’s desire that any renewal of the agreement also include China, which is not currently bound by the treaty.

Meeting later in the day with the Brazilian leader, Trump told reporters he and Putin had discussed "a lot of things" — including Venezuela, where Russia is supporting


and Iraq — notwithstanding its new, U.S.-supported constitution).

Note, again, that Omar Mateen is the American-born son of immigrants from Afghanistan, where homosexuality may also be punished by death — notwithstanding American nation-building efforts there for the last 15 years.

The problem with mass immigration from sharia enclaves is not merely that trained terrorists may infiltrate the immigrant population. It is that sharia-adherent, assimilation-resistant Muslims will form sharia enclaves in the U.S., as they have throughout Europe, where young Muslims will be “radicalized” under our noses in the years to come.

Today, we have gotten another glimpse of radicalization, which is not “homegrown” but rather fueled by a foreign, anti-American, anti-liberty ideology.

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Tim Lizura, former head of the state Economic Development Authority, will lead NJPAC's real estate development, signaling the art center's desire to move forward on several projects adjacent to the theater. (Yasmeen Fahmy | NJPAC)

By Mark Di Ionno | NJ Advance Media

Right from the start, the operative word for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center was “center.”

There was a reason it was not called a “theater” or “concert hall.”

“Governor (Tom) Kean believed the arts center should be the driver of what was next for Newark,” said John Schreiber, NJPAC’s CEO. “As the center was planned, the acreage around it was bought for future development, to anchor the city’s revitalization.”

That was the long-range vision of Kean, former NJPAC CEO Lawrence Goldman, former Mayor Sharpe James, and community partners likeformer Prudential CEO Art Ryan and the late Star-Ledger Editor Mort Pye.

That future began in late 2016 with the ground breaking of One Theater Square, in the year before NJPAC's 20th anniversary. The 22-story luxury apartment building on NJPAC land was the second piece in the "center" puzzle.

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The NJPAC was always planned as the center of Newark's revitalization. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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On Monday, NJPAC will announce the hiring of a new puzzle maker.

Tim Lizura, most recently the president of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, will take over the business of development for NJPAC.

He will be officially announced as the senior vice president of real estate and capital projects, a newly created position.

For Lizura, it’s a homecoming of sorts. He did his


undergraduate and MBA work at Rutgers-Newark, and one of his first jobs was as project accountant during the early part of NJPAC construction.

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Sen.Tom Kean Jr. talks with his father former Gov. Tom Kean, right, and former acting Gov. Donald DiFrancesco during Gov. Kean's 80th birthday party at NJPAC in 2015. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

From there, Lizura has had a hand in almost every major public-private partnership development in New Jersey for the past 22 years, including the creation of the Biotech Technology Center in North Brunswick, an incubator for small company research and development with 300,000 square-feet of state-of-the-art laboratories.

The only break he took from the state EDA was to work for the Port Authority ahead of the construction of One World TradeCenter and created its nearly $3 billion financing plan. He also negotiated with JP Morgan Chase to develop a $2 billion trading floor operation at 5 World Trade Center, but the economic downturn of 2007 killed the deal.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Lizura oversaw the distribution of hundreds of millions in small business and community development grants, including heat and power upgrades at a number of hospitals and water treatment plants.

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NJPAC as seen from the 22-second floor of One Theater Square, the first building developed by the arts center. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Lizura put together deals for the new Camden Amphitheater and waterfront, for repurposing Fort Monmouth, for the new Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, for improving the Liberty


fracture in the image to aid the provider in detection and diagnosis. It was approved by FDA on May 24, 2018.[@bib42]

Interest in the AI topic in the Pubmed library indexed publications is increasing according to the law of innovation development. The number of non-English publications increased until 2018, with English publications being the most common, followed by Chinese, German, and French. After 2018, the number of non-English publications decreased in favor of English publications.

Examples of AI implementation in modern practice are now available to more people than just mathematics professionals. Tools for machine learning are widely available to more mainstream scientists. For example, a scientist can download the R statistic language that is an open source and free from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) project site andjust play,

“It was good to get the first one out of the way and obviously get the win.”

Undrafted after a junior career that took him from Lethbridge to Seattle, Portland and Brandon, Klinkhammer went on to score 22 goals and add 21 assists in 193 NHL games with Chicago, Ottawa, Phoenix/Arizona, Pittsburgh and Edmonton.

He also spent time with Norfolk, Rockford, Binghamton, Portland and Bakersfield in the AHL.

Now in his third season in the KHL, he plays for Kazan Ak-Bars.

Life is good there, he says. The team is well-run with plenty of support and the city of Kazan is beautiful. The players and their families live together in a gated complex.

Some 8,200 kilometres away, Lethbridge has not forgotten him. His hometown paper, the Herald, has followed his progress closely.

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City Creek Center update: on track for March, 2012 opening

Four years ago, LDS-owned Property Reserve, Inc. and Taubman Centers began construction on downtown's biggest revitalization project in a half century, City Creek Center.

The center is slated to open March 22, 2012.

Covering 20 acres between South Temple and 100 South and State Street and West Temple, the erstwhile footprint of ZCMI Center and Crossroads Mall will offer housing, commercial and retail space, not to mention multi-level sidewalks, six acres of green space, fountains and a stream.touring around London, also filmed part of our new travel show for the travel show network:

Then that weekend we were booked to play Fabric, its a legendary club and it was so great to play there for the first time:

We did the night with Fuzzbox, Ali B and A Skillz. They killed it. The club was so dope inside and out - and really lived up to it's reputation. We had to bang it out a bit cause there was major drum & bass dudes playing the other rooms, but that suited us just fine.

Also Maya showed up to hang out, as well as a bunch of Calgarians who live in London. It was so great to see everybody jamming in London.

As Ali would say: "Result"

Saturday we hopped


grab a nice mid grade example at around $100.

3) 1957-58 Topps Dolph Schayes. This card was issued nine years after Schayes was drafted but with no cards issued during the first part of his long career, the ’57-58 is his rookie card. Schayes was one of the NBA’s first superstars. He was one of the last–and most deadly–set shot artists, with a high-arc that writers referred to as “Sputnik”. However, he also knew how to drive to the hoop.

Schayes was named to the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players team in the 90s. As great as he was, durability was also a hallmark. Schayes did not miss a game from February 17, 1952, until December 26, 1961; 706 straight games at a time when travel was less than ideal. HisThe Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication evolved from the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication and succeeds what was formerly known as the Center for Global Communication Studies.

"The normative dichotomy of Russian propaganda versus Western information, coupled with an unwavering belief in the power of words to foster regime change in Russia has been the foundation of Western media diplomacy over the past few years. "


Ten years ago this week, a comedy about a quartet of hapless sixth-formers debuted on E4. The channel’s first original sitcom was met with a dismissive review by the Radio Times and tiny viewing figures. Just three years later, The Inbetweeners Movie was breaking records at the box office, the show had a Bafta award and the critics were fully on board the banter bus (the show has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes). A decade on, The Inbetweeners has established itself as one of the most successful UK sitcoms of the 21st century. So how did this puerile tale of four idiots on the pull earn its place in the canon of great British comedy?

When The Inbetweeners pitched up in 2008, there hadn’t been a hitin the coming years streaming soon would – Netflix was introduced in the UK in 2012 – and viewership would fragment.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Derry Girls … wouldn’t have existed without The Inbetweeners. Photograph: Jack Barnes

The turn of the decade was a pivotal moment for television in general, but it was especially important for comedy. As blockbuster sitcoms died away, a new style of comedy was taking its place – one that focused on the people who always played the boring characters: women. As a show about failure, disappointment and rejection, it feels faintly ridiculous to view The Inbetweeners as a tale of four middle-class white men and their privilege, but it is true that the show seemed to put more effort into thinking up slang terms for vagina


than giving depth to its female characters. Which makes one facet of The Inbetweeners’ legacy even odder: it created a template for the female-centric sitcom to thrive. Shows such Derry Girls, Some Girls and Drifters (whose leads appeared in the first The Inbetweeners Movie, and is executive-produced by Morris and Beesley) have all been referred to as the “female Inbetweeners”, while Caroline and Caitlin Moran’s sister-sitcom Raised By Wolves picked up where the masturbation-obsessed teen boys left off. Without the original, these shows might never have been possible – they flipped the script that The Inbetweeners wrote.

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The Inbetweeners also existed at a particular point in teenage life. When it began in 2008, Facebook had just about taken root inIt's a bizarre and twisted tale of brainwashed sex "slaves" who were branded with a leader's initials on their private parts – and top executives of the secretive group in upstate New York reportedly pumped thousands of dollars into Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.

Keith Raniere, co-founder of NXIVM, was arrested Monday in Mexico and extradited to the U.S., where he is being charged with sex trafficking. He appeared in court Tuesday in Texas and signed a waiver for US Marshals to bring him back to New York.

On Tuesday, the FBI raided the Albany home of Nancy Salzman, 63, a registered nurse and hypnotist who is president of NXIVM. The organization describes itself as a "community guided by humanitarian principles that seek to empower people and answer important questions


about what it means to be human." In a series of articles published by James Odato in the Albany Times Union, NXIVM's practices were questioned and the group was compared to a cult.

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A criminal complaint charging Raniere, 57, with sex trafficking alleges that he made female followers have sex with him and do menial chores for masters. The women were reportedly forced to stay quiet about the arrangement or they would be publicly humiliated.

According to the complaint, victims were branded in their pelvic areas with a symbol featuring Raniere's initials. The branding was performed with a cauterizing pen. Raniere was reportedly known as "The Vanguard."

"During the branding ceremonies, slaves were required to be fully naked, and themaster would order one slave to film with the other held down the slave being branded," the legal document states, according to CBS News.

"Investigators said that Raniere preferred exceptionally thin women, so 'slaves' had to stick to very low-calorie diets and document every food they ate," CBS reported. "As punishment for not following orders, women were forced to attend classes where they were 'forced to wear fake cow udders over their breasts while people called them derogatory names,' or threatened with being put in cages, court papers say."

Raniere reportedly fled the U.S. last year after the government started interviewing witnesses. Court documents say he dumped his cell phone and began using encrypted email.

Authorities found him living with several women in a posh gated community in Puerta Vallarta.

"After authorities


took him into custody on a U.S. warrant, investigators said that the women got into a high-speed car chase," CBS reported.

The NXIVM website describes Raniere as a "scientist, mathematician, philosopher, entrepreneur, educator, inventor and author" who has "devoted his life to studying the human psychodynamic and developing new tools for human empowerment, expression and ethics."

Senior FBI official William Sweeney told BBC News: "Keith Raniere displayed a disgusting abuse of power in his efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves. He allegedly participated in horrifying acts of branding and burning them, with the co-operation of other women operating within this unorthodox pyramid scheme. These serious crimes against humanity are not only shocking, but disconcerting to say the least, and we are putting an end tothis torture today."

In 2017, Raniere denied the claims against him in a letter on his website, stating, "These allegations are most disturbing to me as non-violence is one of my most important values."

In October 2007, then-New York Post writer Charles Hurt reported that leaders of the Albany group gave thousands to Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. And Salzman, the woman whose home was reportedly raided by the FBI, is reportedly a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Hurt reported:

Executives and top associates of the Albany-based NXIVM group – along with their family members – donated $29,900 to Clinton's presidential campaign, according to federal records. On March 14 and April 13, records show, more than a dozen contributions poured into Clinton's coffers from NXIVM, an executive and group-awareness training organization led


by Brooklyn-born Keith Raniere, 47. Most were from first-time political donors, each giving the $2,300 maximum. ... At least three of them – group President Nancy Salzman and the Bronfman sisters – are members of Bill’s charitable organization, the Clinton Global Initiative. Membership is by invitation only and requires at least a $15,000 donation per person for one year.

An Albany woman with the name of Nancy Salzman has also contributed nearly $1,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and $400 to the pro-abortion group Emily's List.

The 2008 Clinton campaign reportedly downplayed the importance of the contributions.

"Over 100,000 people from across the country have contributed to Sen. Clinton's campaign for change, and regardless of who supports her, she will always continue to stand up for what she feels isright," campaign spokesman Blake Zeff told the Post at the time.

The Albany Times Union is also reporting that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is probing a nonprofit organization linked to NXIVM that allegedly conducted brain-activity and other human behavioral studies with no oversight.

The Times Union reported:

The nonprofit Ethical Science Foundation was formed in 2007 by Clare E. Bronfman, who owns a horse farm in Delanson and is listed in public records as the trustee and donor of the foundation. At the request of the attorney general's office, a state Supreme Court justice recently signed an order directing Bronfman and Dr. Brandon B. Porter, who is involved with NXIVM and conducted the human studies, to turn over all documentation associated with the research, including any written communications,


videos, conclusions, consent forms and the names and addresses of "individuals associated with Ethical Science Foundation who participated in any manner with the studies."

Clare Bronfman, an heiress of the Seagram Company who has called herself the operations director of NXIVM, is a repeat Clinton donor, according to FEC records.

Last October, a Vancouver woman named Jennifer Kobelt, 28, said NXIVM President Nancy Salzman recruited her for brain studies. Kobelt said she was hooked up to an EEG machine to monitor her brain activity. She claims they showed her horrifying images and videos of murder, rape and mutilation, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has also received money from Bronfman, who reportedly gave $2,400 to the New York Democrat's 2010 special-election campaign.

"The lawmaker's dad, Doug Rutnik, worked as anthat both sides can accept through peaceful exchanges and negotiations”, the ministry said in a statement.

China’s state news agency Xinhua quoted Yang as saying both countries must “appropriately handle relevant disputes and problems”.

He later met with Vietnam’s president and its Communist Party chief.

His visit comes as the region braces for the verdict in the case brought by the Philippines in 2013 to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague seeking clarification of parts of United Nations maritime law.

China has said 47 countries support its refusal to recognize the case. Its diplomats have written editorials in regional newspapers denouncing what has been seen widely as a bold move by Manila, with scope for repercussions.

Incoming Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, on Monday said he would not discuss it until a


The idea for "Persona" came to him after seeing his friend Andersson sunning next to Ullmann, a Norwegian actress who became Mr. Bergman's companion and muse for many years. Struck by the resemblance of the two actresses, Mr. Bergman decided "it would be wonderful to write something about two people who lose their identities in each other."

This idea of "two people who lose their identities in each other" is not exactly what happens in Immobilité, and there is actually an invisible, third persona that infects the narrative's movement. Also, there is more to Bergman's "Persona" narrative than "losing identity" and in my new work, what at first looks like "losing sight of oneself" becomes part of a longer process where one actually finds oneself (albeit as as alok-sabha-elections

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Chief electoral officer (CEO) Anand Kumar on Sunday appealed to voters to “vote fearlessly” in the second and last phase of Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan on Monday.

“Elaborate security arrangements have been made in all areas for holding peaceful elections. Voters enthusiastically took part in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan, which was an achievement in itself,” Kumar said, adding that every voter should contribute to strengthening the democratic system in the country.

The parliamentary constituencies that will go to polling on Monday are Sriganganagar, Bikaner, Churu, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Jaipur Rural, Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Karaulidholpur, Dausa and Nagaur.

Kumar said polling will be held on 23,783 booths in the state from 7am to 6pm.

He said there are 134 candidates in the fray,