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The much-talked-about Republican "civil war" is over, at least for the people who thought it even existed in the first place. Both the Tea Party grassroots and the GOP establishment have taken lessons from the clashes over the past three election cycles. Republicans have learned to adopt more Tea Party talking points, and conservative grassroots voters have shown they are willing to back establishment candidates who have adopted


their views.

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, who has been described as the "ideological godfather" of the Tea Party, told Business Insider he believes the warring factions of the Republican Party have merged.

"There is no war between the Republican establishment and the Tea Party for the same reason Siamese twins who share a heart and brain do not argue much," Norquist said in an email. "The Tea Party won two years ago when 'spend less' was added to 'never raise taxes' in the Reagan Republican catechism."

Overall, the Republican divide of the past few years seems to be fading. There's perhaps no better example of this than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's huge victory Tuesday night in a primary battle in which he faced an intra-party challenge fromMatt Bevin, who was endorsed by the grassroots group FreedomWorks and the Senate Conservatives Fund.

McConnell beat Bevin by adopting a theme designed enhance his potential appeal among grassroots voters. In 2008, as he had been for much of his career, McConnell was a proud promoter of congressional earmarks and the money he was able to bring back to Kentucky. He ran an ad during that race boasting about the more than $1 billion he brought back to the state.

"That would never fly today," said Amy Kremer, the former chair of the Tea Party Express.

By 2010, as Tea Party earned a series of election victories and earmarks became a symbol of waste in Washington, McConnell helped end them. He won't campaign on "bringing home the bacon" this year, and


he stands firmly against an effort to bring back earmarks.

"McConnell’s evolving message shows how the real Tea Party can co-opt and win over the GOP establishment when it sticks to its principles," wrote John Hart, Sen. Tom Coburn's former communications director, on Real Clear Politics.

The "real Tea Party" Hart is referring to is a larger movement.

Rob Engstrom, the national political director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a staunch supporter of the GOP establishment, said the definition of the Tea Party "means a lot of different things in a lot of different places." Indeed, in the Kentucky race, the notion of a Tea Party proved to be a relative one. Down went Bevin, the candidate of choice of some Tea Party-aligned groups. But Tea Partiers got their candidatein the form of McConnell — and they clearly gave him their votes.

McConnell ended up barreling over Bevin, and he did so in large part by winning over the most conservative of voters. A poll released last Friday showed him up 58-35 among self-identified conservatives.

"Tea Party people got the candidate they wanted," one GOP strategist told Business Insider.

McConnell was often portrayed in the national conservative media as a candidate who didn't subscribe to conservative ideals. But his battle during the primary season was almost entirely against the groups he felt didn't flow with the conservative movement. He was referring to these grassroots groups when he said in March he would "crush them everywhere."

Engstrom agreed the so-called civil war is over, but he attributed it to the fact the


UPDATE: Suspect Caught In Tenn. Amber Alert, Child Safe

HOUSTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WHNT) – Tennessee authorities have canceled an Amber Alert for a 2-year-old boy. The child is safe, and his father is in custody.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the driver of an 18-wheeler spotted the car Austin Whitehead and his son, Cael Whitehead, were in at approximately 2:30 p.m. The driver spotted him on Interstate 24 near Kimball, Tennessee, west of Chattanooga, and called 911.

Authorities pulled the car over and arrested 23-year-old Austin Whitehead. He is now in the Marion County, Tennessee Jail. The child is safe, TBI spokesperson Kristin Helm said.(CNN) -- It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas.

Mike Graczyk poses outside the Texas death chamber prior to an execution in January.

At that rate, Mike Graczyk has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men -- and a few women -- die.

Graczyk, a correspondent for The Associated Press, is believed to hold a macabre record. He's almost certainly watched more executions than anyone else in the United States.

"I can't possibly imagine there's been someone present at more than Mike," said Michelle Lyons, the spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which uses lethal injection at its execution chamber in Huntsville.

Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, no state has executed more inmates than Texas. And no


one has witnessed more of them than Graczyk.

He's on the witness list for 315 of the state's 439 executions -- more than any other reporter, prison employee or chaplain -- and no records were kept for another 80. Interactive map: See how Texas compares with other states »

In his early days, he kept count. But he eventually stopped. He didn't want to know.

"In one circle, I was perceived as putting notches on my gun belt," the 59-year-old reporter said. "I didn't like that."

Prison regulations in Texas require The Associated Press to be given one of the five designated media witness passes for each execution.

Texas execution facts

Texas executions since death penalty was reinstated: 439

Cost per execution for drugs used : $86.08

Average time on death row before execution: 10.26 years

Youngestinmate executed: Three at 24

Oldest inmate executed: 66

Women executed: 3

Source: Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Graczyk works in the AP's Houston bureau -- it's closest to the state's execution chamber in Huntsville. Since the early 1980s, he's made the hourlong drive north almost every time an inmate has faced the needle.

The first was March 13, 1984, for the execution of James "Cowboy" Autry, convicted of shooting a female store clerk between the eyes with a .38-caliber revolver while arguing over a six-pack of beer.

She died, along with a former Catholic priest that Autry killed at the crime scene.

"The first time definitely leaves an impression on you," Graczyk said.

There are others that stand out along the way.

Graczyk remembers Bob Black, convicted of killing his wife and trying to collect the


insurance money.

"I walked into the death house, and he was strapped to the table and he said, 'Hey Mike, how are you doing?' It threw me for a loop."

Graczyk said it's normal for him to know the name of the condemned and not uncommon for the reverse to be true. There have been others who greeted Graczyk by name with a needle in their arm.

Once, while waiting to be let into the death house, a prisoner phoned him in the media holding area.

It was the inmate whose execution Graczyk was about to witness.

"He said, 'I just wanted to call and make sure you were OK.' I was flabbergasted."

Don't Miss Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Official Web site

Over the years, the inmate's name has slipped from Graczyk's memory, butnot the unexpected phone conversation.

"I don't think he had any family to call," he said.

There was Ponchai Wilkerson, who once nearly escaped from death row and, years later, coughed up a handcuff key as he lay dying from his injection.

There was the "Candy Man," Ronald Clark O'Bryan -- convicted of poisoning his child's Halloween candy with cyanide -- and the gauntlet of college students wearing Halloween masks who showed up to cheer.

And Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas since the 1800s. He remembers a network correspondent crying after her death -- and another blow-drying his hair.

Of the entire death chamber ritual, Graczyk said, it's the final statements that stick in his mind. Some have been confessions. Others were denials.

Poetry. Prayers. Bible verses. Curses. Emotions ranging


from defiance to resignation.

There was Jonathan Nobles, an electrician who stabbed two people to death. He sang "Silent Night."

"Ever since then, I think of him on Christmas or Christmas Eve when I'm in church," Graczyk said. "That's the kind of thing that haunts you."

The person who may come closest to Graczyk's status also felt things that haunted him.

Don Reid, a writer for the AP and, before that, a Texas newspaper, witnessed 189 executions in the 1960s, when Texas still strapped inmates to "Old Sparky," the nickname for the state's electric chair.

The experience changed Reid, who died in 1981, from a supporter of the death penalty to an opponent. He wrote a book, "Have a Seat, Please," chronicling that transformation.

Graczyk said he doesn't worry about the mental toll ofwatching so many deaths. His bosses with the AP have offered counseling. He's declined.

"To see someone go to sleep -- not to sound insensitive -- but the carnage at the murder scene is harder than what you see in the death house in Huntsville," he said.

Over a 25-year career, Graczyk said, the executions have only been a small portion of his work. He finds balance in those other stories.

As a journalist, Graczyk never answers the question when friends ask his own views on the death penalty.

"I'm not sure I really know," he said.

But as long as Texas keeps executing people, Graczyk said, it's important that he keep showing up.

The next execution in Huntsville was scheduled for Thursday before the condemned, convicted murderer Kenneth Mosley, was granted a reprieve


device are increasing in order to lower the cost of ownership; designing-in and building-in reliability through optimized design and process control are the methods proposed to reach the improved product reliability.
In order to meet these often conflicting requirements and to support these ambitious trends, the electrical design of packages for IC devices must more and more be based on sensitive modeling and analysis. Guided by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), universities such as the University of Arizona at Tucson or the University of California at Berkeley, have been creating and developing electrical simulation and analysis programs for semiconductor packages for several years. While these calculation programs are accurate, their application turned out to be cumbersome in the practical world of industry designers, and sometimes unnecessarily detailed. Unfortunately, thereLOS ANGELES — Game 3 of the World Series, an exhausting 3-2, 18-inning win by the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Boston Red Sox, was one of the zaniest games in World Series history. Here are some statistics related to Friday’s game that stand out.

[World Series Game 5: Follow our live coverage of Red Sox vs. Dodgers]

FRIDAY, 5:10 P.M. PACIFIC The time of the first pitch.

18 innings, which tied the record for most innings in a postseason game.

1 The Dodgers became the first World Series team to win after trailing in the 11th inning or later.

7 HOURS 20 MINUTES The game’s length made it the longest postseason game in major league history.

6 HOURS 23 MINUTES The previous longest postseason game was Game 2 of a 2014 National League


things were evident: 1) the dog handler tries to force the dog, for 35 to 40 seconds, into the water when, clearly, he didn’t want to go in; and 2) in a separate take filmed sometime later, the dog did go into the water, on his own, and, at the end, his head is submerged for about 4 seconds. These two things are absolutely INEXCUSABLE and should NEVER have happened. The dog trainer should have stopped trying to get the dog to go in the water as soon as the dog seemed uncomfortable, and the trainers should have had support under the dog as soon as he came to the side of the pool and/or had less turbulence in the water so he never would have gone under.TORONTO

If you thought Drake was a lock to headline the NBA All-Star Game halftime show next month, well… you were wrong.

Six-time Grammy Award-winning musician Sting has been announced as the headliner for the 65th edition of the NBA All-Star Game halftime show during the Entertainment Series presented by JBL on Sunday, Feb. 14.

Sting will take the stage at the Air Canada Centre – a venue he has played both as a solo artist and with The Police.

Prior to tipoff, Cirque du Soleil will kick off the evening with an acrobatic performance designed to illustrate “the story of a basketball dream.” Their performance will lead directly into the introduction of the 2016 NBA All-Stars, which includes Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry.

Last year’s halftime show, which took place in New


York City, featured Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj.

Drake fans can rest easy. The local rapper has been announced as a coach for the All-Star Celebrity Game (against Kevin Hart).

Other music stars set to perform during NBA All-Star weekend include Usher and Gwen Stefani at the True North concert, Friday, Feb. 12, and Snoop Dogg Sunday night.

Sting is set to join forces with Peter Gabriel on the Rock Paper Scissors tour this summer, which stops in at the ACC on June 29.

More NBA All-Star performers are expected to be announced in the coming days.

The NBA All-Star Game gets underway at 8 p.m. on Sportsnet ONE and TSN.

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mark.daniell@sunmedia.caThe head of a police department in Blagoevgrad, southwestern Bulgaria, has been removed in a row that began after the arrest of a construction company owner over an insult to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova has asked for the resignation of Rosen Tanushev, arguing he had "exceeded police powers" by allowing the detention of Metodi Bachev, the owner of a construction company named Agromach, who used a public gathering to make offensive statements about Borisov.

In the video, Bachev is seen issuing his remarks apparently under the influence of alcohol.

Bachev was arrested after the footage was published by a local news agency.

He later filed a complaint with police, saying it was "unacceptable" to air his comments which were outside the public part of the event.

His detention went


'''Abba Libanos''', also known as Abba Mete'a, was one of the [[Nine Saints]] credited in Ethiopia with enculturating and spreading the Orthodox Faith in the country following its official conversion by St. [[Frumentius of Axum]].

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'''Abba Libanos''', also known as Abba Mete'a, was one of the [[Nine Saints]] credited in Ethiopia with enculturating and spreading the Orthodox Faith in the country following its official conversion by St. [[Frumentius of Axum]]. Abba Libanos is commemorated on 3 T'er ([[January 11]]).

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It is said that the Nine Saints arrived in Axum, the first great capital city of Ethiopia, in 480. They came from various parts of the East Roman Empire, having fled the persecutions of the Orthodox who remained faithful to the teaching of St. [[Cyril of Alexandria]] after Chalcedon. Although itis written that Abba Libanos was a member of the ruling imperial family of the Roman Empire, Abba Libanos' name literally means 'Father Lebanon' and it is possible that he actually came to Ethiopia from Lebanon.

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It is said that the Nine Saints arrived in Axum, the first great capital city of Ethiopia, in 480. They came from various parts of the East Roman Empire, having fled the persecutions of the Orthodox who remained faithful to the teaching of St. [[Cyril of Alexandria]] after the [[Fourth Ecumenical Council|Council]] at [[Chalcedon]]. Although it is written that Abba Libanos was a member of the ruling imperial family of the Roman Empire, Abba Libanos' name literally means 'Father Lebanon' and it is possible that he actually came to Ethiopia from Lebanon.

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is recorded to have preached primarily in the Mereb Melash, which today forms part of Eritrea. As a result he is sometimes called the 'Apostle of Eritrea.' Abba Libanos spoke out against the corruption of an earlier bishop of the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]] and suffered exile as a result, but later returned to imperial favor during the reign of Emperor Gebre Mesqel.

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Abba Libanos is recorded to have preached primarily in the Mereb Melash, which today forms part of [[Eritrea]]. As a result he is sometimes called the 'Apostle of Eritrea.' Abba Libanos spoke out against the corruption of an earlier [[bishop]] of the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]] and suffered exile as a result, but later returned to imperial favor during the reign of Emperor Gebre Mesqel.

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Abba Libanos, also known as Abba Mete'a, was one of the Nine Saints credited in Ethiopia with enculturating and spreading the Orthodox Faith in the country following its official conversion by St. Frumentius of Axum. Abba Libanos is commemorated on 3 T'er (January 11).

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It is said that the Nine Saints arrived in Axum, the first great capital city of Ethiopia, in 480. They came from various parts of the East Roman Empire, having fled the persecutions of the Orthodox who remained faithful to the teaching of St. Cyril of Alexandria after the Council at Chalcedon. Although it is written that Abba Libanos was a member of the ruling imperial family of the Roman Empire, Abba Libanos' name literally means 'Father Lebanon' and it


is possible that he actually came to Ethiopia from Lebanon.

Abba Libanos is recorded to have preached primarily in the Mereb Melash, which today forms part of Eritrea. As a result he is sometimes called the 'Apostle of Eritrea.' Abba Libanos spoke out against the corruption of an earlier bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and suffered exile as a result, but later returned to imperial favor during the reign of Emperor Gebre Mesqel.shown by these results is, we think, a significant piece in the puzzle of understanding the complexities of the interactions between humans and the climate system. It’s important to take account of this.”

In addition to Stephenson, coauthors of the paper were Wenshan Wang, Charles Zender, and Steven Davis at the University of California, Irvine, and Hailong Wang and Philip Rasch at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Their work was funded by the Department of Energy (the Regional and Global Climate Modeling, or RGCM, program for Philip Rasch and Hailong Wang, and the Earth System Modeling, or ESM, program for Wenshan Wang and Charles Zender), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Steven Davis, Wenshan Wang, and Charles Zender.


Four parties responsible for the widespread bootleg version of Microsoft's Windows XP in China have been found guilty and sentenced to spend as much as three and a half years in a Chinese prison.

China has long been linked with international cyber crime and foreign malware. However, according to Xinhua -- the official news agency of the People's Republic of China -- the hundreds of thousands of other cases of online deviance pales in comparison to the bootlegged "Tomato Garden" version of Windows XP.

Biggest Piracy Case in Chinese History

Created in 2004, the Tomato Garden has had a hemorrhaging spread throughout China, and has been dubbed 'the biggest software piracy case in Chinese history' according to Xinhua news agency.

The illicit software was created by Hong Lei and distributed via tomatolei.com,where it was consumed by the millions. Lei was able to turn his situation profitable thanks in large part to the earnings made from a number of advertisements found on the site.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, the hacked version of Windows XP Tomato Garden caused a crippling effect on program authentication and certification barriers. (Source: yahoo.com)

BSA Cracks Down on Piracy

In June 2008, the Business Software Alliance (a coalition set up to rid the world of commercial piracy) stumbled upon tomatolei.com and complained to Chinese authorities. Now, Lei finds himself facing a three and a half year prison sentence via a court ruling in Suzhou, located in eastern China. (Source: hollywoodreporter.com)

Another one of Lei's accomplices was handed the same prison sentence while the two remaining parties each received two year sentences.

The


Special Agent Wesley Petonak, 34, was sitting at his desk in November 2018 when he came across a PowerPoint presentation file that alarmed him.

A nine-year veteran at San Diego’s Homeland Security Investigations office, Petonak knew firsthand the importance of intelligence gathering for successful immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border.

But the PowerPoint was different.

Nine of the slides revealed that agents working under “Operation Secure Line” — a codename for the government’s response to a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants approaching the southern border — were also tracking the movements of journalists, attorneys and humanitarian aid workers.

Petonak would learn that many of the targets were U.S. citizens who had broken no laws, yet the government would put them in secondary screenings for hours, place alerts on their passports,to the U.S.

Pastor Kaji Dousa, formerly of the United Church in La Mesa, was another target. Dousa claims she was crossing at the San Ysidro Port of Entry to pray with migrants seeking asylum when agents led her to a back room, where she sat for hours until they questioned her about her work.

Dousa is suing the DHS for interfering with her constitutional right to counsel and assist members of the migrant caravan.

Alex Mensing with Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a human rights group that assisted the migrant caravan, told NBC 7 he’s been sent to secondary screenings nearly every time he has crossed the border north to San Diego, more than 40 times in the last year. Mensing said he has never been charged with a crime.

“He pointed the


gun at me and said, ‘I’m going to shoot you.’”

Petonak was born in Morris County, New Jersey, and moved to San Diego in April 2011 to work for DHS Investigations.

For his first six years, Petonak worked on the Border Enforcement Security Task Force, focusing on gun trafficking into Mexico and border violence. Eventually, he says his duties expanded to investigating all contraband crossing into the U.S.

But his border enforcement career was interrupted in August 2017, when Felicia Ocampo claimed that Petonak, in a fit of road rage, pointed his gun at her while she was driving on Interstate 15. Ocampo, then 31-years-old, said Petonak drove alongside her, and yelled for her to pull over. The Escondido woman said her toddler son was in the back seat during theduring the press conferences for her title fight against Carla Esparza. She went right after the then-champion. Jedrzejczyk was intense and made no bones about the fact she was the No. 1 fighter in that division. She proved it in the cage with yet another incredible performance.

Jedrzejczyk's personality also shines through her Instagram posts. It showcases a different side of the champion.

She's silly and stylish. She's endearing.

It makes her the most important champion the UFC has. Yes, even over Rousey.

Will she ever be as big a star as Rousey? No. Rousey broke the glass ceiling and is a true crossover star. And that's great. But she is at her peak popularity. She is still an incredibly influential individual, but Jedrzejczyk is more important. She is able to connect


through her personality to a whole new set of fans. As the UFC eyes more Eastern European events, a champion like Jedrzejczyk can reach that new audience.

The current slate of champions is bland. Many have taken to wearing a suit and tie to look professional, but they forget to sell themselves and the fights they have. Outside of the cage, the best word to describe the champions is “blah.” They're mundane.

Jedrzejczyk, thankfully, is a breath of fresh air.

She has “It.” She makes us smile and want to see her compete. She is the champion of a difficult division but if she can continue to sit atop the mountain, she will only become a bigger figure in the sport. The UFC needs that.

Jedrzejczyk is the champion the UFC needs.Lebyazhya Polyana

Lebyazhya Polyana () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 950 as of 2010. There are 29 streets.

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the people.”

Attached to the letter was a newspaper excerpt in which Klasic said he would welcome a decision by the Austrian authorities to ban and sanction the public display of the WWII Ustasa movement’s symbols.

Earlier this year, the Austrian Interior Ministry banned the display of two Ustasa symbols – the letter ‘U’ with a grenade, and the checkerboard coat of arms of the Nazi-backed WWII-era Independent State of Croatia.

These symbols are often seen at the annual Bleiburg commemoration in Austria, which commemorates the killings of Croatian Nazi collaboration troops and civilians at the end of WWII.

Klasic told BIRN that this was not the first such letter he has received, but that it was the most explicit death threat, and that he will report it to the police.

He saidMoshe Arens, former Israeli defense minister, dies at 93 Moshe Arens, a former Israeli defense minister, foreign minister and an early political mentor to Benjamin Netanyahu, has died at 93

JERUSALEM -- Moshe Arens, a former Israeli defense minister, foreign minister and an early political mentor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died Monday. He was 93.

An engineer by training, the American-raised Arens was instrumental in developing Israel's military and aircraft industries and served three stints as the country's defense minister. He was a longtime stalwart in the hawkish Likud party.

In the early 1980s, Arens was the first to recognize the skills of a young Benjamin Netanyahu, who then was running an anti-terror institute and working in marketing. Arens took Netanyahu under his wing and brought him into Israeli politics.

"There


was no greater patriot. Moshe Arens' great contribution to our people and our state will be remembered forever," Netanyahu said in a statement.

Addressing Arens by his nickname Misha, Netanyahu concluded: "I loved you as a son loved his father."

Arens was born in Lithuania in 1925 but grew up in the United States, where he was active in the Beitar youth movement of Likud's precursor, the Herut party of Menachem Begin. He served in the American military during World War II before immigrating to Israel in 1948.

After completing his engineering degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, Arens settled in Israel permanently. He worked as a professor of aeronautics at the Technion — the Israel Institute of Technology — and as an executiveat Israel Aircraft Industries before going into politics. Arens was first elected to parliament in 1973.

In 1982, he was appointed Israeli ambassador to the United States and named his young protégé Netanyahu as his deputy. The position gave Netanyahu great exposure, led to his posting as ambassador to the United Nations and launched his political career.

Arens served as foreign minister and twice as defense minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He briefly served as defense minister again under Netanyahu in the late 1990s. He later became a columnist for the liberal Haaretz newspaper, wrote several books and won numerous awards in Israel and overseas.

President Reuven Rivlin remembered Arens as a pillar of the Likud's ideological wing, and "a man of honor who never flinched from the fight."

"Misha was


one of the most important ministers of defense the state of Israel ever had. He was not a commander or a general, but a devoted man of learning who toiled day and night for the security of Israel and its citizens," Rivlin said. "His internal compass and Zionist vision showed him the way in everything he did."

Arens is survived by his wife Muriel, four children and numerous grandchildren.On score inflation for master league and how to compare historical scores.

With the current conditions, the higher score will slowly grow indefinitely if there is enough activityit seems that there is an inflation of score points in the top league, maybe due to points taken from players joining the top league, losing points and then stopping playing or going back to lower leagues. In this way (at glance, it has to be formalized a bit better) the top league is slowly accumulating more and more points that then end up on the top players (especially if those do not get inactive for long time).

The phenomena is balanced only when top players (top league) stop playing, making points not accessible to others (because there is no exchange of points


if in january 2017 a player with 1600 score in the top league would get between 10 and 25 points from the top20, it means that the player is not weak but neither dominating. Actually he has often many over than him.

The problem is to get a "snapshot" of the ranking at a certain time (I'm doing this on telegram with screenshots), since mostly one can see the historical elo of one players, but not how strong was this score compared to the other players at that time.

Example from the telegram chat###Pier A:TCT around 2200 is outstandingNullPointer:you're right that the ELO is fine now that I stopped to think about it.

He's ~8% ahead of the 2nd and is not losing many points with a loss, which is correctThe Couriers

The Couriers is a series of graphic novels created and written by Brian Wood and illustrated by Rob G. and published by AiT/Planet Lar.

Publication history

Woods has discussed a fourth volume, saying, in mid-2009:

Plot
The story depicts the near-future world of New York City where two gun toting couriers deliver questionable goods by questionable means. Very heavily influenced by the Hong Kong style of cinema and Japanese manga style comics, The Couriers is an action driven graphic novel that returns the artform of comic books to its pulp/action oriented stories, albeit with an updated modern feel.

Connections with other comics
Some of the characters first appeared in the Couscous Express. It is also a part of Wood's Channel Zero universe as Jennie 2.5 showed up in the last chapter of the


and the situation on the ground.”

The pair were found in critical condition from suspected exposure to an unknown substance near the English city of Salisbury where a former Russian spy was poisoned in March.

Reporting By William James. Writing by Andrew MacAskill; editing by Stephen AddisonIntroducing Play and Learn with Wallace

If you don't know them by name, Priddy is the maker of over 500 books, including First Words, ranked by Scholastic as one of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids. They have sold over 100M titles over the past decade so they really understand the early learning segment.

Working around a model known as co-creation, we called upon our own learnings from building dozens of ebooks, apps and games at Unicorn Labs, combined those learnings with the ethos and IP of Priddy, and a built that into a series of early learning apps.

These apps are delightfully fun for kids, to be sure, but in the process of play, kids develop cognitive, creative, spelling, math and drawing skills.

What's unique about the approach is that while


Indians will no longer be able to exchange expired currency for new notes after midnight on Friday as severe cash shortages continue to disrupt daily life across the country.

The prime minister, Narendra Modi, gave Indians a 50-day window to declare and deposit their 1,000- and 500-rupee notes after a surprise announcement on 8 November that both denominations would become invalid that evening.

The scheme, kept secret even from the Indian cabinet until the day it was announced, was intended to drain the finances of terrorists and criminal groups and to widen the tax base in a country where just 1% pay any income tax.

But it has suffered from poor planning and implementation, with only about one-third of the cash removed from the system replenished by the end of December,have underestimated the amount of untaxed wealth being hoarded by citizens.

Defending the scheme, the finance minister, Arun Jaitley, said on Thursday there had been a 14.4% increase in the value of income tax collected since the policy was introduced, while indirect tax collection had grown by 26%.

The life insurance, tourism and air travel industries had also shown strong growth, he added.

Modi had promised that cash supplies would have returned to normal by 30 December, and has scheduled a televised address on Saturday during which he is expected to outline the next steps.


50% off 70 years of culture and history – Changing Britain festival

Changing Britain festival is open – interrogating 70 years of British culture and history through discussion, debate, film, music, performance and visual arts.

The first weekend (Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April) covers 1945-1979. Housewives Choice tracks the journey away from the domestic sphere during the 1950s. Rid England Of This Plague discusses attitudes towards homosexuality before and after the 1957 Wolfenden Report. No Longer the Second Sex delves into the feminism of the 1970s and we also ask ‘What were the consquences of the arrival of the contraceptive pill?‘ Screenings include the classic TV play Abigail’s Party and BAFTA-award-winning Vera Drake.

The second(Saturday 25 and Sunday 26)examines the period 1979-1997 and looks in depth at one of theKingdom. Then, as now, there was much bleating and whining. How dare Osborne threaten and bully poor-but-proud little Scotland! The SNP and the wider Yes movement rushed for their forks and pitchforks.

Some of those objecting to Obama's intervention have rewritten history to argue that Osborne's currency union position was a disaster that only fuelled the thirst for separatism. Conveniently, most of those people now think Obama's remarks will rebound on the Remain campaign and persuade more people to embrace the uncertainties of leaving the EU.

I doubt that. What happened in Scotland was that those who were already inclined to vote Yes found their instincts confirmed by the currency union brouhaha. But there were many other voters, those whose voices were not nearly so often heard (because they were


Trump' is the fault of Obama's 'abrasive style of politics'. He didn't attend Nancy Reagan's funeral, the cad. A reminder that Obama did little to 'build ties' with the American right.

Pull the other one. As this Republican primary season has confirmed, a large part of the conservative base has never accepted Obama's right to govern. His reliance on Executive Orders to advance his agenda is a mark of Congressional failure, itself the product of the break-down and polarisation of America's political system in which everything has been redefined as a zero-sum game.

The notion Obama's presidency has been unusually imperial is so laughable it must be dismissed by any observer with even an ounce of impartiality. The presidency has been an imperial business for at least half a century.told, the British government was briefing against Britain. The fever swamps are bottomless, you see, and there are traitors and sell-outs everywhere. Everywhere!

But then one of Obama's talents has been the manner in which he drives his opponents crazy. That has long been apparent on his home turf; it seems to be true on the British right - or at least a goodly chunk of it - too. As Donald Trump would say: Sad!


(1992), Used People (1992), Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) and Along Came Polly (2004). He was a regular on That Was The Week That Was, a weekly satirical series that aired on NBC-TV in 1964-65.

He appeared on Broadway and in television in:

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David Silva has opened his heart on the toughest year of his life.

Manchester City’s brilliant Spanish midfielder will return to the Etihad on Sunday after his post-World Cup summer break with his mind made up that he will quit the club when his contract expires in 2020 after a decade of service.

But while Silva will always treasure the trophies he has won with the Blues - three Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups - his most precious memory is of how the club gave him such unflinching support when he needed


it most.

When Silva’s son, Mateo, was born prematurely last December, Pep Guardiola was adamant that the midfielder had to put his family first even if it meant losing the magic of the man City fans call ‘Merlin’ with his team still fighting for the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup.

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Silva spent the next five months dashing between Manchester to the Casa de Salud hospital in Valencia to be at Mateo’s side as he slowly triumphed in his fight for life.

“It is too early to say all is well with Mateo,” said Silva, as he relaxed at the ANFI holiday resort close to his hometown of Arguineguín in Gran Canaria and spoke in honest detail about how his dream of becoming a father for theby those named were unsuccessful.

In a deal struck in March with international lenders, the cost of the Cyprus bail-out ballooned to 23 billion euros that included a bail-in from uninsured depositors.

Cyprus was forced to wind up failed lender Laiki and impose a massive levy on larger deposits in the Bank of Cyprus (BoC), the island's largest.

BoC customers with deposits of more than 100,000 euros could lose up to 60 percent of those holdings.

Those in Laiki will have to wait years to see any of their money over 100,000 euros, after it was split into a good bank and bad bank -- the good part being absorbed by BoC.

The unprecedented eurozone "haircut" on deposits forced the government to close all of the island's banks for nearly two weeks in


of old” – to borrow a line from the Communist Manifesto – “have entered into a holy alliance” in their favour. Even the retrograde Coalition government has climbed on the bandwagon, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg calling for a ‘John Lewis society’ of worker-owners: ‘The 1980s was the decade of share ownership. I want this to be the decade of employee share ownership’.

On the left, cooperative ownership has an agreeable horizontality that endears it to a new generation of activists suspicious of hierarchy and centralisation. Crisis-driven worker-led transitions of previously capitalist enterprises into collective ventures in countries as diverse as Argentina, Greece, Italy and the United States offer hope for a new future rising out of the ashes. The growing sophistication of co-op networks in the Basqueat the level of the city, the region, the nation and internationally. Alternatives must do so as well and must include mechanisms and transition strategies for the democratisation of capital at a variety of scales.

There has been a great deal of innovative new thinking along these lines in recent years, spurred in part by the failure of traditional social democratic solutions. Alternative system models (or partial models) are now on offer from an array of thinkers, including David Schweickart, Richard Wolff, Gar Alperovitz, Michael Albert, Herman Daly and Erik Olin Wright. For example, in place of the traditional elements of capitalism – private ownership of the means of production with markets in capital, labour, goods and services – Schweickart proposes worker self-management of enterprises and social control of


be bought and sold”.

Democratising Capital at Scale

Part of the intuitive appeal of co-ops is their practicality and immediacy, such that it is easy to imagine an economy in which cooperative forms proliferate. But there are plenty of other real-world examples of democratic wealth-holding institutions and strategies that work in practice and can also be taken to scale.

Take public banking: the US federal government currently operates around 140 different banks and quasi-banks, from the Import-Export Bank to agricultural lending programs. At the state level, the Bank of North Dakota has contributed more than $300 million to public revenues over ten years and has been highly successful in promoting community lending by local banks and developing the state economy. In Germany, in addition to more than a thousand cooperative banksAllen Funt was the creator, producer, and host of the long-running Candid Camera TV program, one of the earliest, and by far the most popular, hidden camera/practical joke series on television. Candid Camera aired continuously on network television, in one form or another, from 1948 to 1967 (and in a syndicated version in the 1970s), with its heyday occurring during the show’s 1960-67 Sunday evening run on CBS.

In February 1969, a few years after Candid Camera had ended its network run and Funt was engaged in completing his first feature film, the Candid Camera-like What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?, he was en route from Newark to Miami with his wife and two youngest children when the Eastern Airlines flight on which they were traveling was


hijacked to Cuba. (This was a not uncommon occurrence at the time: in 1969 alone, nearly three dozen attempted or successful hijackings to Cuba took place on flights originating in the U.S.)

Funt, whose face was familiar to millions of Americans through his role as host of, and participant in, many Candid Camera stunts over the years, was the most famous personage aboard that flight; and he recounted his experiences in an Associated Press article published the following day, noting that some of the other passengers recognized him and therefore believed his presence indicated the hijacking was merely a set-up being filmed for television:

When the captain of our plane announced that we were going to Havana instead of Miami, at least four people who recognized me pounced on me,plaintiff and, after judgment had been entered against her, purchased the property at a Sheriff's Sale.
Plaintiff claims that the FDIC's interest in the property is subject, however, to a Declaration of Homestead declared and filed prior to judgment on the default; this declaration, she argues, renders her eligible for an exemption under Mass.Gen.L. ch. 188, § 1. Plaintiff contends that the proceeds from any subsequent sale of the property by the FDIC must be allocated first to satisfy any prior mortgages on the property and second to her in the amount of her homestead exemption.
The FDIC asserts that plaintiff is ineligible for a homestead exemption because her debt to the Bank was contracted prior to the acquisition of her estate of homestead and therefore is not exempt under


her by the Bank, which provided that the guarantor waived all defenses that might be available to her, including any homestead exemption. At the time of the guaranty, plaintiff was the owner of a home in Longmeadow, in which she resided with her husband and children. Plaintiff's guaranty to the bank was not secured by a mortgage on her home.
On April 3, 1990, the Bank notified plaintiff that Kahn had defaulted on the Loan. On April 6, 1990, plaintiff recorded a Declaration of Homestead in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds, declaring a homestead interest in her home pursuant to Mass.Gen.L. ch. 188, § 1. On April 18, the Bank sued Kahn and the guarantors of the loan, alleging default on the loan and guaranties. The Bank thensought and secured an ex parte attachment of plaintiff's real estate. The attachment was recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds on May 2, 1990.
Judgment was entered against plaintiff and the other guarantors of the Loan on February 21, 1991. The Bank's assets were subsequently transferred to the defendant, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC"). On July 30, 1993, plaintiff's property was sold to the FDIC for one hundred seventy thousand dollars ($170,000.00) at a Sheriff's Sale.

IV. DISCUSSION

The ability of a homeowner to claim a homestead interest is established under Massachusetts Law at ch. 188 §§ 1 et seq. Mass. Gen.L. ch. 188 (1990). Under the statute, an estate of homestead is exempt from sale for payments of debts, except in the case of a "debt contracted


prior to the acquisition of said estate of homestead." ch. 188 § 1(2). Plaintiff claims that her obligation as a guarantor of the Loan to Kahn was not a "debt contracted" under the meaning of the statute until final judgment was rendered by the *155 bankruptcy court in February 1991. Therefore, plaintiff contends that she is entitled to a homestead exemption and that the FDIC's interest in the proceeds from the sale of her home is subject to her $100,000.00 homestead interest.
In support of her contention that her homestead exemption was filed before she contracted her debt with the Bank, plaintiff cites two recent decisions of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts, In re Miller, 113 B.R. 98, (Bankr.D.Mass.1990) and Braunstein v. Creech, No.of the tappet cancel each other out, and therefore, in order to switch the valve, only a slight actuating force is required by one of the actuators acting on the end face of the tappet remote from the first port.
However, the pressure-compensated design not only prevents high pressure at the first port from holding the tappet on the seat, but also prevents high pressure at the second port from releasing the tappet from the seat. If the aim is to use the valve in a hydraulic system in which the pressure at the second port can temporarily exceed the pressure at the first port and thereby endanger components of the system, a non-return valve must be installed in parallel in order to prevent such pressure peaks, which markedly


File Image of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal | Photo Credit: PTI

New Delhi: An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) delegation, on Friday, met the Chief Election Commissioner, demanding action against the Delhi Police for allegedly harassing call centre employees hired by the party.

The delegation, led by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, alleged that the police has been carrying out searches at their call centre for the past four days at the behest of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The AAP delegation, including senior leader Sanjay Singh and Lok Sabha candidates Raghav Chadha and Atishi also urged the CEC to direct the Delhi Police to stop the harassment of the call centre employees.

Before meeting the Election Commissioner, the AAP leaders staged a dharna (sit-in protest) outside the poll panel's office protesting againstsurface area of the cleats from the lateral edges of the track towards the longitudinal center line of the track causing cleats 115 to have less surface area bearing on the ground, minimizing traction and flotation, and being more aggressive when used on soft terrains such as mud, sand and in wetland areas, etc.
The present invention provides a novel form of endless drive track for snow vehicles and the like, incorporating moulded tread blocks and tread sections designed to be used on snow and other substratums. The tread sections are configured in a staggered pattern along the outer surface of the tread blocks by a plurality of slots providing both longitudinal and lateral traction on snow and other surfaces, improving the maneuverability of the track. The flat inner


a plurality of tread blocks divided into tread sections by a plurality of slots. The tread blocks and tread sections have front and rear faces perpendicular to the outer surface of the endless drive track providing the maximum tread section outer surface area bearing on the ground, allowing the track to have maximum flotation and traction with minimum aggressiveness when used on soft terrain. The tread sections will accommodate removable ice screws and/or studs for maximum traction and braking action when being used on slippery surfaces. The plurality of slots in the tread blocks reduces the weight of the track as well as displacing the accumulation of snow, mud and other objects from the track by centrifugal force when the slots pass over the rotating front and rearMOSCOW--Russia's manufacturing sector further deteriorated in July due to poor demand which put pressure on production and new orders, a Markit survey of purchasing managers showed Monday.

The headline manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, a gauge of the economy's health, slipped to 48.3 in July from 48.7 in June, remaining below the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction.


Since World Trade Tower Building seven is the most decisive evidence that the collapse of the towers was, as it seemed, the work of terrorists equipped with boxcutters, the troofers manipulatively announce it to be their strongest evidence to the contrary.

Building Seven begins its fall like a tree, falling sideways towards the holes blasted by the plane on the south Side, and the fires started by the plane on the south side.

In this video, shot from the north side it falls away from the viewer. The structure on top disappears not because it falls into the building, for at this stage of the collapse the outer shell of the building is tilting like a tree, falling like a rigid object, but because the tilt of the building takesit out of view:

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After about two or three seconds into the collapse it starts to fall downwards, as if in a demolition, but the start of the collapse is that the shell of Building Seven tilts and rotates southwards away from the camera like a tree falling towards the notch cut by the axeman. The change in the angle of the dark line shows that in the first few seconds of the fall, the movement is primarily rotation sideways, rather than droop downwards. The further end of the dark line drops by more than the north face of the building drops, indicating considerably more rotation southwards than droop downwards. In these images of the


very first part of the collapse of the outer shell, the top of the building is moving away from the viewer a lot faster than it is moving downwards.

The image below, shot from the east side, shows it half way through its fall, transitioning from falling sideways like a tree, to collapsing downwards like a building.

Building seven was rated to survive three hours of uncontrolled fire, before the heat penetrated the insulation on the steel beams, softening them and causing them to collapse.

It instead survived seven hours of uncontrolled fire, roughly the amount of time predicted when it was built, when the builders considered the possibility of a fire raging for a long time without being brought under control.

They expected that any fire would be brought under controlUpdated 17.10

A man is in a serious condition after being shot in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

The incident occurred on Bridgefoot St. in Dublin 8 at approximately 4:10pm.

It's understood that one gunman was involved, and the injured man has been taken to St James's Hospital.

Four units of the Dublin Fire Brigade are also in the area and are attending to a burned out car nearby.

The area has been sealed off for technical examination, and Gardaí in Kevin Street are appealing for witnesses.


the threat of the coronavirus to push Yemen’s combatants to agree to fresh talks to end a war that has left millions vulnerable to disease. The United States and Britain have provided the coalition with arms, intelligence and logistics support.

Yemen had witnessed a lull in military action after Saudi Arabia and the Houthis began back-channel talks late last year. But a recent spike in violence, including ballistic missiles fired towards Riyadh last month and retaliatory coalition air strikes, threatens fragile peace deals in vital port cities.

Yemen, already the Arab world’s poorest country, has been mired in violence since the Houthis ousted the government from power in Sanaa in late 2014.

The conflict, largely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and regional arch-foe Iran, has unleashed an urgentTeaching professionalism in orthopaedic residency.
Two residents, wearing white coats with their names and "Department of Orthopaedics" conspicuously embroidered on them, boarded a hospital elevator crowded with physicians, employees, and visitors. In a clearly audible voice, one resident began a story: "You should have seen the patient I saw in my clinic the other day. She was beautiful. I should send her to see Dr. W. He would love to see her!" This comment drew the undivided attention of everyone in the elevator and cast a ghastly silence over the rest of the ride. In recent years, interest has expanded regarding professionalism and its importance in medicine and surgery. Orthopaedic surgery is no exception, as the topic has recently reached prominence in our literature and policies. It is unlikely


Thursday, February 24, 2011

Bob Sullo

Jill Bayly sent this email to her colleagues at TAFE in Queensland about her attendance at the workshop Bob Sullo presented on the Gold Coast this week.

I went along to a teacher’s workshop yesterday to listen to a man from the U.S. named Bob Sullo.This was an interesting workshop where I once again connected with the work of William Glasser. Bob is a psychologist, G.O. and student counsellor and works mainly out of the William Glasser Institute U.S.

It was refreshing to revisit skills whereby teachers encourage and inspire students to engage in their learning simply by participation and interaction with their teacher.

I resonated with the idea that we do indeed teach the whole student, both morally and academically and that each and every person cereal      boycott
    dollar      finance     china       derrick
    bankrupt    milliner    java        mercury
    cash        pullman     cashmere    colossal
    mint        grocer      macadam     turbine

=Exercise 2=

The days of the week and the months of the year are interesting in their
derivation. Monday, for example, represents the day sacred to the Moon
as a deity. Explain the origin of each of the


_a_ in the alphabet? This is called the natural or long
sound of the vowel. The other is called the short sound.

Drop the _e_ from _hate_. Explain the result.

Name other monosyllables ending in _e_ and containing the long _a_
sound.

Explain the difference in pronunciation between _Pete_, _pet_, _ripe_,
_rip_, _hope_, _hop_, _cube_, _cub_.

Find other monosyllables ending in _e_ and containing a long vowel that
becomes short if the _e_ is dropped.

=Monosyllables ending in silent _e_ usually contain a long vowel sound,
which becomes short when the final _e_ is dropped.=

=Exercise 12=

Pronounce carefully the following words containing the short Italian
_a_:

    advȧnce      clȧss      lȧnce     plȧster
    advȧntage    contrȧst   lȧst  is preceded by
two vowels.

Make the participles of the following verbs:

    chat    lap     suit    step
    cheat   leap    sit     steep
    rot     train   sop     trot
    root    trim    soap    treat

    _Trap_, _trapping_, _trapped_    _Track_, _tracking_, _tracked_

Why is the final consonant in _trap_ doubled before _ing_ or _ed_ is
added?

The final consonant in _track_ is not doubled because _track_ ends with
two consonants.

    _Pin_, _pinning_        _Pine_, _pining_

_Pine_ drops the


 _ent_
    important        independent
    pleasant         convalescent
    triumphant       competent
    luxuriant        convenient
    stagnant         confident

The endings _eous_ and _ious_, where _e_ and _i_ are often confused, are
illustrated in the following:

     _eous_            _ious_
    hideous           delirious
    miscellaneous     impious
    courteous          bureau          assessment      stationery, _n_
    illuminate      deficient       accommodate     parenthesis

Lesson 15

    coupon          indispensable   measure         proprietor
    length          innumerable     condemn         transient
    vehicle         investigate     security        persistent


                  money-making.

    _Subordinate clause_: (_a_) _that_ business is only humdrum routine and
                                sordid money-making.
                          (_b_) _since_ most of the world's big questions
                                 that             whenever

_Illustrations_

               { A lamp that _smokes_ }
    ADJECTIVE: {                      } is a torture to a student.
               { A _smoking_ lamp     }

            { _When she was good_ }
            {


or _least_.
Besides the adjectives in these two classes there are some which do not
follow any regular method and must, therefore, be watched a little more
closely.

The following table illustrates the different methods of comparison:

     _Positive_           _Comparative_          _Superlative_
    bright              brighter            brightest
    dangerous           more dangerous      most dangerous
    beautiful           more beautiful He does write      They do write

This is called the _emphatic present_ tense.

The _past_ tense indicates that the action took place in past time; as,

    I wrote                We wrote
    You wrote              You wrote
    He wrote               They wrote

or, the _past progressive_; as,

    I was writing          We were writing
    You were writing       You


determined that I ---- win.

      12. I ---- sail probably on the fifteenth.

      13. He ---- be twenty-one to-morrow.

      14. I ---- go in spite of him.

      15. ---- you go by train, do you think?

      16. I ---- be greatly obliged if you ---- send the
      book at once.

      17. I promise you John ---- know his lesson to-morrow.

      18. ---- you be at home this evening?

      19. ---- the train be on time?

      20. ---- the      forsook             forsaken
    freeze              froze               frozen
    give                gave                given
    go                  went                gone


be followed

              _Present Perfect Tense_

    I have been followed           We have been followed
    You have been followed         You have been followed
    He has been followed           They have been followed

                _Past Perfect Tense_

    I had been followed            We had been followed
    You had been followed      I was being followed (progressive)
    Tenses {           {
           {           { _Future_   I shall be followed
           {
           {           { _Present Perfect_  I have been followed
           { _Perfect_ { _Past Perfect_     I had been followed
           {


   11. If the package ---- left yesterday, as you say, it
      must have been while I ---- not at home.

      12. If he ---- late yesterday, he must start earlier
      to-day.

      13. If every man ---- honest, business life would be
      very pleasant.

      14. I saw that he ---- not interested.

      15. If he ---- not interested, he surely looked as if
      he ----.

      16. ---- I certain that the bonds ---- safe, I should
        We expect to _organize_ a club.

  28. Did you notice how that show       Did you notice how that show
        window was _got up_?                    window was _decorated_?

  29. It is _going on_ ten o'clock.      It is _almost_ ten o'clock.

  30. He said _to go_ at once.           He said _that we should go_ at


10. I secured a position sooner than _she_--_her_.

      11. It seems to me that they ought to go rather than
      _we_--_us_.

      12. I am surprised that you arrived sooner than
      _they_--_them_.

      13. They should have elected him rather than
      _I_--_me_.

      14. I am not so well-fitted as _he_--_him_ to hold the
      position.

      15. You are more popular than _he_--_him_.

=Exercise 129--Correlatives=

There are certain conjunctions, called _correlatives_, that are used in
pairs. They are

    both--and             (_c_) They have not advanced in price.
             (1) Quaker Oats.
             (2) Ivory Soap; Sapolio.
             (3) Mennen's Talcum Powder.
    III. Widespread advertising works to the advantage, not the
           disadvantage, of the consumer.
         (_a_) It gives new opportunities
             (1) To compare values.
             (2) To


the expression that we put
into our words and sentences. Some sentences we say all in one breath
and with not much change in emphasis from one word to the next. We may
be pretty sure that such a sentence is short and simple, with all its
elements arranged in their natural order. In this respect compare the
sentences given below.

Notice that the following sentence is spoken as one word group:

      Steam and electricity are making one commercial
      community of all nations.

A part that is subordinate in idea is subordinate in tone; as,

      Steam and electricity, _which are the greatest of all
      discoveries_, are making one commercial community of
    sentence from the next?

3. We use punctuation marks for the same reason. Explain.

4. The word to keep in mind in punctuation is _separate_. If two words
belong together in idea, the two making one idea, allow them to stand
unseparated. If they give two ideas, separate them by a mark of
punctuation. What is the difference in thought in the two sentences that
follow?

    (_a_) She is a pretty, energetic girl.
    (_b_) She is a pretty energetic girl.

=Exercise 166--The Apostrophe (')=

The _apostrophe_ (') is used--

1. To show the possessive case of nouns (See Exercise 82); as,

      The _boy's_ writing is excellent.

2. To indicate the omission of one or more letters; as,

      _I'll_ attend to the matter.

3.


in imitation
      of the leap of a frog. The boy did as he was told, but
      he caught no fish. His uncle said that he should try
      again. Suddenly the bait sank out of sight, and the
      boy cried out that he had caught a fish at last. As he
      spoke, he pulled up a tangle of weeds. His uncle said
      that he should try again, because fishermen must have
      patience. In a moment the boy felt something tug at
      his line, and as he jerked it up,to the point, we can do it with all steel of that
      type,' I replied.

      "The polite incredulity in his face stirred my
      professional pride, and I said, 'If I let you go to
      the mills, pick out a dozen of those rivets just as
      they come from the rolls, and hammer them with your
      own hands, will you use that steel hereafter, if it
      comes up to the test?'

      "He said he would, and the rest was easy, for it is
      much


were recently laid. This
      was done when contracts were signed for the delivery
      of three aeroplanes and they are the first aeroplanes
      that the United States bought. These aeroplanes are of
      the latest development. They are all capable of rising
      from land or water. They are able also to land on
      water or on the deck of a ship, and they can carry at
      least one passenger and are equipped with wireless
      outfits. Two of them are Curtis machines and the third
      is    alabama may 2 19-- mr john harvey 19 e monroe st
      rochester n y dear sir

      2. 173 broadway new york June 10 19-- mr walter thomas
      191 e main st waltham mass dear sir

      3. 25 broad st maplewood n h messrs hausen & ottman 18
      la salle station chicago ill gentlemen (supply date)

      4. john randolph & co druggist 14 jefferson st
      charleston s c jan 8 19-- gerhard mennen & co newark n
      j gentlemen (letter head)


on new store arrangements, window
      decorations, and advertising plans.

      Your first order makes you a co-operating member and
      entitles you to all the privileges of the Bureau and
      the services of an institution with wide experience
      and with a recognized reputation for square-dealing.
      Fill out the enclosed order blank, mail it to-day, and
      receive this week's Bulletin by return mail. It
      contains several splendid suggestions for novel,
      inexpensive advertising.

                                     Yours truly,

The letter given above is personal and yet dignified. Usually that is
the best style to use, and the one that we wish to practice writing.
Sometimes, however, results can best be obtained by using the colloquial
or even jocular tone illustrated in the following letter sent to a
retailer in Ottumwa, Iowa:

      Dear Sir:

      We sell cheese, a new brand, the finest kind you ever
      tasted, put up in the most attractive package, to sell
      at the most attractive price. Called Par Excellence


we would have
      advised you to hold off your purchase until the
      offering was ready. We feel that you know us and the
      policy of our house well enough to be sure that we
      would not willfully take advantage of you in this way.
      We trust that the arrangement that we have made
      satisfactorily straightens out the matter.

                                  Yours very truly,

=Exercise 235=

1. What is the  bridge over the Snoqualmie River at North Bend; double
      arch, with one pier in the river; span of arch 92
      feet; width of bridge 50 feet. Plans may be had by
      addressing the Chairman.

The McClaine Construction Co., of Spokane, Wash., send in a bid for
$25,000, guaranteeing to use Atlas Portland cement, crushed rock for the
coarse aggregate, and torpedo sand for the fine aggregate, the concrete
to be reinforced with the Kahn system of reinforcement as set forth in
the specifications. The company specify, further, that they shall be
paid extra for excavation, on the scale of 25¢ a yard for earth, 75¢ a
yard for loose rock and hard pan, and $1.00 a yard for


to break up half a million dollars' worth of machinery
and replace it with newer and more efficient kinds.

The third essential to manufacturing success is aggressive marketing of
the product. From the standpoint of money success this is probably the
most important consideration; so important is it, in fact, that it will
be more fully discussed in the chapter following.

=Exercise 251--Manufactured Articles=

_Oral_

      1. Define the word _industry_. When is a business
      called an industry? (Consult an unabridged
      dictionary.)

      2. _a._ Name several raw materials.

      _b._ Name some industries whose business it is to
      produce raw materials.

      3.piece of glazed
      pottery.

      13. Trace clay to bricks.

      14. Trace flax to a tablecloth.

      15. Trace the steps necessary to make a five dollar
      gold piece.

=Exercise 252=

Subjects for Themes, Oral or Written

The following are suggestions for theme subjects on manufacture. Develop
one or more as the teacher directs.

     1. Household uses for asbestos.
     2. Making turpentine from wood.
     3. A convenient electrical device.
     4. The advantages of the fireless cooker.
     5. The advantages of concrete as a building material.


runabout to a
      woman. Develop the following into a talk:

    _a._ Ease of operation.
    _b._ Noiselessness and comfort.
    _c._ Elegant appearance.

      13. You are trying to sell the manager of a local
      express company a motor truck. Gather all the data you
      can and present it in a talk on why he should replace
      his horses and wagons with motor trucks. Be as
      specific as possible.

      14. Get up a talk showing why a man with considerable
      means shouldclass two advertisements of the same kind of article, in one of
which a still-life illustration is used and in the other of which human
beings are used to center the attention upon the article that is offered
for sale.

=Exercise 288=

Bring to class (1) an advertisement that is not good because it contains
too much--lacks a center upon which the attention naturally focuses; and
(2) an advertisement that is good because it has a definitely defined
center of attraction.

=Exercise 289=

Bring to class an advertisement in which the principle of balance is
used to advantage, two illustrations, one on each side of the text,
being used to convey one impression.

=Exercise 290=

In writing the following, try to embody the principles that have been
brought out in previous exercises:

      1. An entertainment is to be


paragraphs on each of the following:

      1. Advertising is essential in modern business.

      2. Advertising helps the housewife economize.

      3. The study of advertisements saves the shopper's
      time and strength.

      4. Advertised goods cost more than the unadvertised
      brands. (Give the reasons.)

      5. Trade-marked and advertised goods have increased
      the cost of living.

      6. Increased advertising causes the styles to change
      quickly.

      7. Every advertisement must catch and hold the
        Notify him of the fact. Do this courteously so that
      the depositor may have no reason to withdraw his
      account.

      12. In your city there is a real estate dealer who
      often has large sums of money idle for a short time
      because, when he sells one piece of property, he does
      not always have another immediately in view. He is not
      a depositor in your bank. Write to him, inducing him
      to take out a Certificate of Deposit at such times and


into the same bundle, good notes, bad notes, and notes
      of different denominations. When they are mixed in
      this way, it requires a good deal of work to separate
      the money. The Treasury thinks that the banks could do
      this work, so that, when the money reaches Washington,
      it could easily be separated by packages instead of
      each package having to be separated first. The
      Assistant Secretary says he believes that, when he
      gets the subject worked out in detail, new washed
      moneyobjectionable, of the introduction of a letter, 242;
    of the courteous close, 242.

  Abbreviations, of states, 26-27;
    of commercial terms, 27-28;
    of titles in letters, 235;
    objectionable in the body of the letter, 242.

  _Able_ and _ible_, 33.

  Absolute use of the nominative case, 65.

  Abstract noun, defined, 57.

  Accent, indication of, 17;
    words changing meaning with change of, 17.

  _Accept_ and _except_, 102.

  Account, opening an, 250;
    letters for opening an, 250 ff.

  Accounting department of a railroad, work of the, 360-361.

  Active voice of verbs, defined, 84;
    conjugation of, 88 ff.

  _Ad_, prefix, 32.


an, 151 ff.

  Paper money, kinds of, 332 ff.

  Paragraph, the, 215 ff.;
    in dialogue, 168 ff.;
    proper length of, 215-216;
    topic sentence in, 216 ff.;
    "hammock," 216;
    how developed, 222-223.

  Paragraphs on, Sacramento City, 48;
    exports in cattle, 76;
    cost of living, 173;
    the government's laundry, 173-174;
    luck and labor, 174;
    sawdust, 174-175;
    a new kind of wood, 175;
    hogs as mortgage lifters, 175;
    cotton seed, 176;
    making paper, 176-177;
    how to advance, 177;
    bubonic plague,177;
    politics of a city, 181;
    cotton in the Soudan, 181;
    the "yellow" invasion, 182;
    saving, 182, 184, 193;
    investors, 184, 185;
    Chicago's milk supply, 186;
    the dead letter sale, 190;
    industries, controlled, 193;
    the secret blotter, 197;
    a mummy's doll, 198;
    office efficiency, 217;
    stenographic efficiency, 217;
    business courtesy, 218;
    the rural landscape of Norway, 218;
    the _Spectator_, 218-219;
    income, 225;
    gas mantles, 280-281;
    production of wool, 281;
    casting metals,


would appropriate," said Christel Kjenner, the city's director for housing and homelessness.

"Barring that, we would be looking at acquiring potential sites for redevelopment and retrofit of existing buildings."

City staff are expected to come back with four recommended sites early next year.

Ambitious 10-year plan

Edmonton was part of a wave of North American cities that developed 10-year plans to end homelessness, with a focus on housing-first strategies where the chronically homeless are housed in apartments or other lodgings, without conditions such as sobriety as a pre-requisite.

But two years ago, numbers showed the city was falling behind on a different part of the plan — to build 1,000 new permanent supportive housing units.

So far, only about 200 have been constructed.

McGee said part of the problem comes from a lack of fundingAbout the property

A charming one bedroom apartment well located close to the City and Tower Hill. The property is available furnished and boasts a spacious reception room, separate kitchen and a private patio.

The area is situated along the north side of the River Thames. Although The City is within walking distance, the area is also well connected via Wapping, Tower Hill & Tower Gateway stations and is home to St Katharine Docks which is central London s only marina, boasting an array of bars and restaurants.


Bradley Manning Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize

Last month, over 30,000 people signed a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award former Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower Bradley Manning with the Nobel Peace Prize. Based on Manning's bravery, heroism, and treatment at the hands of the U.S. government, it is hard to think of a more deserving candidate for the prize.

While Manning has slipped off the media's radar as of late, his story is an inspiration to all of us fighting for justice, transparency, human rights, and peace. Manning is currently being prosecuted by the U.S. government for leaking classified documents which, like the Pentagon Papers, document the systemic corruption of American foreign policy.

As journalist Chris Hedges explains, Manning provided an "important window into the inner workings ofunder "suicide watch" which meant being confined to his tiny cell for 23 hours a day and stripped of all clothing besides his underwear. They took his eyeglasses away. Guards would harass him every five minutes to ask if he was okay, even in the middle of the night.

Perhaps out of jealousy for their incompetence, the mainstream press has smeared, defamed, and dragged Manning through the mud. They have questioned his loyalty, his patriotism, his motives, and his sexuality (he happens to be gay).

Now that he has finally been given a trial, he has plead guilty to leaking the classified documents knowing full well he could spend up to twenty years in federal prison. Not content with this plea, U.S. prosecutors want to add "aiding the enemy" and


informed public, which explains the U.S. government's ferocity in their prosecution. Despite the possibility of life in prison, harassment, and persecution, Manning, when given the chance to speak, knew what he was doing. He saw "bloodlust," corruption, and evil and simply couldn't take it any longer. His bravery and courage are not only heroic, but humbling.

It is truly a shame that while President "Kill List" enjoys swooning crowds, massive popularity, and a second term wielding the might of the war machine, Manning sits alone in a government cage. But perhaps Manning will be vindicated in the end. In the petition sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, there were hundreds of private notes from Americans showing full support, love and solidarity.

Manning deserves the highest recognition possible for what hehas done. While Manning should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, this award doesn't even begin to honor the magnitude of humanitarianism of this true American hero.

Robert Taylor has been writing for PolicyMic since January 2011. He spends his time writing, ranting, reading voraciously, and advocating the virtues of economic and political freedom. He has written for multiple websites and dedicates himself to undermining the state's ability to initiate aggression against peaceful people. He hopes to play a small part in bringing a free, voluntary society into fruition. He also loves billiards, whiskey, and sabermetrics. He blogs at http://roberttaylor.liberty.me/


the incredible stunt, Mr Shay said: “I think their internet access is pretty limited in North Korea so they didn’t have too many opportunities for research.”

The pair were some of the luckier travellers to pull a prank under the ever-watchful gaze of Kim Jong Un’s totalitarian regimen.

Earlier this year, 21-year-old American tourist Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for trying to snatch a political banner in a North Korean hotel.

The University of University of Virginia student was forced to confess and apologise on camera for “the worst mistake of my life” before he was found guilty of the “hostile act”.

Another young American, Matthew Miller, was arrested in 2014 for a provocative stunt in which he dramatically tore up his visa after arriving in Pyongyang.

Hewas tried and sentenced to six years’ hard labour but the US government managed to secure his release after 202 days.

And in a particularly bizarre case, US citizen Jeffrey Fowle landed in trouble in 2014 after he left a bible in a nightclub in the North Korean port city of Chongjin.

The devout Christian, who later admitted he knew exactly what he was doing, was detained after running afoul of North Korea’s strict laws against Christian proselytism.


By Everett Millman – Gainesville Coins ……….

The United States Mint has decided it will not release one of its premium items, the Limited Editions Silver Proof Set, in 2015. The product’s expected released was previously listed as “To Be Determined” on the mint’s website.

A combination of factors have contributed to the decision, from packaging delays and recent legislative changes.

The Limited Edition Silver Proof Sets, originally known as “Silver Premier Sets,” have been offered by the mint since 1992. They often included an impressive 11-coin arrangement, and in a way helped revive the U.S. Mint tradition of producing silver by offering 90% silver versions of its circulating coin designs. The sets are really the last remnants of the 90% pure “coin silver” standard in America, along with the silvercommemorative coins. There are only one or two silver commemorative issues each year, however.

Today, the set includes an American Silver Eagle (as the de facto silver dollar coin), a silver half dollar, silver dime, and the silver America the Beautiful quarter designs released during the year. These are small, quarter-sized silver ATBs as opposed to the five-ounce silver bullion coins produced by the Mint. Because they are all proof coins, with reflective fields and frosted relief devices, these coins are also popular with collectors.

Multiple Complications

Initially, the Mint put its 2015 Limited Edition Silver Proof Sets on delay due to packaging problems. This pushed back their release date, but was unlikely to disrupt their eventual issuance, according to the Director of the Mint’s Office of Corporate Communications, Tom Jurkowsky.

“The


Mint was working well towards resolving the packaging issue. However, because of the recently passed legislation, the product would not have been able to be offered in 2016. Accordingly, the decision was made to cancel the offering,” Jurkowsky said.

The legislation he refers to was actually to establish special 30th anniversary versions of the American Silver Eagle for 2016. (The series began in 1986.) Inadvertently, this legislation bars the Mint from issuing or selling any 2015-dated Silver Eagles next year; only the 30th anniversary coins can be issued. For this reason, the Mint decided that it would be pointless to distribute its 2015 silver proof sets so late in the year since the legislation prevents them from being sold after the calendar changes to 2016 (because the sets includepower and authority.

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A three-time chief minister of Jharkhand, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Arjun Munda is considered one of the most prominent tribal leaders in the state. The 51-year-old won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Khunti constituency by defeating Congress’s Kalicharan Munda by 1,445 votes.

An avid golfer, Munda began his political career in the early 1980s as a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and joined the movement for the creation of a separate state for tribals from the southern regions of Bihar.

He won the 1995 assembly elections held in the then undivided Bihar on a JMM ticket but joined the BJP in 2000.

In 2003, the then 35-year-old Munda, who comes from a family of farmers, became Jharkhand’s chief minister for the first time.He was elected to the Parliament in the 2009 general elections from Jamshedpur.

Munda earlier served as the Chief Minister of his state for three terms.

Having started his political career with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Munda first became a legislator in 1995. He joined the BJP before the 2000 Assembly polls and after getting elected as MLA became a Minister in the Babulal Marandi government.

He became Chief Minister at the age of 36 in 2003 and helmed the state till September 2006. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Jamshedpur in 2009 but resigned after becoming the Chief Minister for the third time in August 2010.

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It is well known from the state of the art that each hair follicle undergoes repeated cycles characterized by three stages: growth (anagen), involution (catagen), and resting phase (telogen). During anagen, the longest phase of the cycle, the follicle reaches its maximum growth potential. The matrix cells actively proliferate giving origin to the main anatomical structures of the follicle: the internal root sheath and the hair shaft (composed by cuticula, cortex and medulla). During catagen much of the follicle undergoes programmed cell death that causes the disassembling of the hair bulb (the hair shaft factory) and the reduction of the hair follicle size. At the end of this phase the hair follicle enters telogen, during which the proliferative and biochemical activity of the organ reaches its lowest level.
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In the duplex printing mode of operation in which a toner image is arranged on each side of the single sheet, the fusing of the front and rear side takes place simultaneously. For this purpose, the single sheet which is printed on on one side must be turnedTony Blair has many fine qualities. He can be a brilliant advocate; and he has a gift – although he found its limit – for finding agreement among apparently incompatible interests. His supporters also put forward other qualifications for the post of President of the European Council: he has experience of working with European institutions; as Prime Minister he sought to engage Britain more constructively in the European Union – again within limits; and, whatever the critics might say, he is well known and respected among world leaders.

However, The Independent on Sunday cannot support his undeclared candidacy for the job that is now almost certain to be created. This is not simply a matter of his decision to join the American invasion of Iraq. That was an error


of judgement, and an important one. It must count against him in consideration for any leadership position. But the Iraq war also undermines Mr Blair's claim to be a unifying force. The issue itself was divisive, pitting the governments of the European Union against each other. When the choice between Britain's relationship with America and its relationship with the rest of Europe became unfudgeable, Mr Blair chose America, which speaks volumes about his instincts.

Mr Blair rode roughshod over popular opinion across Europe, and misled people at home. He used information selectively to help persuade Cabinet and Parliament of the case for military action. As we say, he was a forceful advocate, sometimes stretching the facts to the utmost in order to make his case. His lawyerly persuasiveness maybe useful in presenting Europe's case to the rest of the world, but it is not necessarily the ability that makes for the best chairman of summits of European leaders.

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As we report today, this is the view of none other than Sir Stephen Wall. Sir Stephen was Britain's ambassador to the EU for Mr Blair's first three years as Prime Minister. He was then Mr Blair's adviser on Europe until 2004. In that time, he helped to draft the European Constitution that later became the Lisbon Treaty, which created the post of European president. He claims that it was a British idea, but that Mr Blair might one day fill the post "was not in


our thoughts at the time". The job was seen then as one with "very constrained" powers, he says, of "co-ordinating the business of the European Council" – the meetings of the leaders of the member states that take place four times a year.

Sir Stephen says that having a high-profile figure as president "is not necessarily a good idea", which, from someone in his position, is damning indeed. Above all, however, the argument against Mr Blair's appointment is that it would be undemocratic.

This newspaper supports the Lisbon Treaty, but sees a terrible missed opportunity in the way it began – as an attempt to impose a constitution on the EU from above. The EU can only be strengthened if its peoples are given their voice. A referendum on theTreaty would have been essential had it proposed significant changes in the EU – as it was, the demand for a referendum was only a cause behind which Europhobes could rally. But Mr Blair is not the choice of the peoples of Europe, and it would weaken the EU if his appointment were to emerge from the secret horse-trading that is now going on behind the scenes.

Mr Blair is not even the choice of the people of Britain. Anyone who thinks it would be good to have a Briton in the job to fight for a "British" pragmatism in Europe should think again: he would provide a focus for Conservative anti-Europe feeling.

Nor should European leaders choose someone simply on the basis that the Americans have heard of him.


doing it, I’m showing that there are ways, and there will always be.”

Amiri’s performance, part of the annual state Fajr music festival, brought 55 musicians and a 16-member choir – with women making up almost half of both groups – on stage for two hours, to play three pieces by masters of Persian classical music, including a work by the legendary composer Morteza Hannaneh, for the first time.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amiri conducted a 71-member orchestra as part of the Fajr music festival. Photograph: Alireza Ramezani/Ilna.ir

The Naghmeh-Baran (the melody of rain) ensemble had been practising for six months. All of them, including Amiri, worked for free. It was Amiri’s first performance on such a large scale in 12 years, and took place at Vahdat auditorium, which was one ofsaid problems within the arts were more wide ranging. “Music in my country is like a child without parents, like an orphan,” she said.

After the Islamic revolution, Iran started a crackdown on music – initially even banning uncontroversial traditional Persian music. Restrictions have since loosened, with pop and even rap and rock becoming popular. But the laws and codes governing the arts are ambiguous and, at times, arbitrary. Female musicians, in particular, face bigger and more fundamental problems.

One recent image, shared widely online, shows a female musician who was blocked from appearing on stage in a provincial city peeking through the curtains, watching her male bandmates playing.

“After 38 years, the authorities need to come forward and make clear if music is haram [forbidden by Islamic law] or halal,”


the Iowa contest, finished second overall. He came in third among urban caucus-goers behind Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio. He finished second behind Cruz in rural areas.

Cruz and Rubio ran a virtual dead heat among urban caucus goers. But Cruz over-performed in rural areas. He got 55% of his caucus support in rural counties, while Rubio received only 24% of his support from rural. Trump got 44% of his support from rural areas.

Statewide, rural participants made up 41% of the Republican turnout.

For Democrats, Clinton’s and Sander’s performances were virtually even in urban and rural. Statewide, Clinton received support from about 300 more caucus-goers than Sanders. Clinton outperformed Sanders by about 1,600 supporters in rural counties. Sanders had an advantage of about 1,300 supporters in urban areas.

Sanders performedbest in counties that Barack Obama won in the 2012 presidential election. Sanders won 20 of the 38 Obama counties. He also won eight of the 10 counties with the highest percentage of Democratic voters. Seven of those counties – including the two that Clinton won – are rural.

In the 2008 Iowa race, Clinton finished third behind Obama and Senator John Edwards. After Iowa, however, her support from rural voters helped keep the Democratic nomination uncertain until late in the 2008 primary season.

The Daily Yonder also examined county-wide average individual income for patterns among voters. The average individual income of counties that Rubio won was highest of the three top candidates, at $46,562. Cruz was next at an average of $44,732. Counties that went for Trump had the


Oil production and smuggling in ISIL

Oil production and smuggling was the major revenue maker for the self-declared state of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS),[1][2] its product being termed "the 'black gold' feeding the 'black flag'".[2] Oil extracted from fields controlled by ISIL( Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant ) in Syria and Iraq were mainly distributed within most its territory, but also smuggled to surrounding states at below market prices.

While oil products, petrol and mazout, were the backbone of the economy of ISIL-controlled areas with mazout being the power source for generators for electricity,[2] not all energy production was provided by oil. Hydroelectric power plants had been captured in northern Syria, so the Tabqa Dam, the Baath Dam, and, from 2012-2015, the Tishrin Dam.[3]Some electric power has been sold back to the Syrian government.[4] The Syrian government was also reported to send technicians to support and maintain ISIL-controlled gas power plants, and, in return, received electricity.[5]

Oil production within ISIL developed over time reaching a peak by 2014.[6] Due to military interventions, ISIL subsequently lost much of its territory to continue oil production on a larger scale in Syria and Iraq, yet continues to produce oil from those oil fields it controls.[6]

Estimates of the income ISIL derived from its oil operations vary. In 2014, Dubai-based energy analysts put the combined oil revenue from ISIL's Iraqi-Syrian production as high as US$3 million per day.[7] An estimate from October 2015 indicated the production to be about 34,000-40,000 bpd that was sold at US$20–45 at


Tabqa fields.[14]Deir Ezzor oil field is located in Deir ez-Zor province that produces 34,000-40,000 barrels a day. al-Omar and al-Tanak are top producing and beneficial oil fields. Quality of Petroleum determined price of each barrel sold at the wellhead 25 to 45 dollars.[11]

In Iraq ISIL conquered the Ajil and Allas oil fields in northern Iraq during the Mosul campaign in 2014. These areas were later recaptured by the Iraq army.[2] Also, in north of Iraq, the Qayyarah oil field was controlled by ISIS producing 8,000 barrels a day of heavy crude oil.[9] Ajil in north of Tikrit and Himiran were important ISIS-controlled oil fields in Iraq.[15] ISIL had been able recruit engineers and expert personnel to manage the oil production sites. Oil production was centrally controlled by theareas in Syria and Iraq by traders. Rebel-held areas in northern Syria were also receiving oil from ISIL.[14]

ISIS had several markets in Iraqi and Syrian towns and provinces. Some of the largest ISIS oil market were Manbij, Al-Bab, and Al-Qa'im.[9]

Oil smuggling to areas outside of Syria was profitable bringing contraband to Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Iran.[18] A network to smuggle oil had been in place since at least the 1990s when Saddam Hussein evaded sanctions and smuggled oil out of Iraq.[17] A report by The Guardian in 2014 suggested that corruption and bribery facilitated transport of oil from ISIL-controlled areas into surrounding areas.[18][19]

In November 2015 the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev indicated to have information that some Turkish officials had a "direct financial interest" in the oil trade


with ISIL,[20] an assertion rejected by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[21]Vladimir Putin indicated that the extent of the oil smuggling had reached commercial-scale with trucks operating day and night as a "living oil pipe".[22] Several independent analysts, on the other hand, argued that the allegations of Moscow did not carry any weight.[23][24] Officials from the US responded that in their view only a small amount of oil is smuggled into Turkey and that this is economically insignificant.[25] According to Adam Szubin, acting U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, most of the oil that leaves ISIL-controlled areas is going to places that are under control of the Syrian government.[26]

In January 2016 the Israeli Defence minister alleged that Turkey was buying oil from ISIS[27]In March 2016, an RT documentary presented documents left by retreating ISIL operatives and witness reports that also suggested a link between ISIL's oil production and support by Turkey that, in turn, was benefiting from cheap oil.[28] In response to the allegations, Serko Cevdet, the head of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government's (KRG) energy commission, told the Turkish media that the trucks in the footage actually belonged to the Kurds and there was no way that ISIL could have transported them through a Kurdish controlled territory due to the ongoing conflict between the Kurds and ISIL.[29] Fawaz Gerges from the London School of Economics and Political Science argued that the claims about Turkey's involvement in ISIL oil trade were conspiracy theories.[30] In 2016 WikiLeaks published more than 57,000


emails from 2010 to 2016 reportedly obtained by the hacktivist group Redhack that linked ISIL with Turkey's Minister of Oil Berat Albayrak, Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law, by allegedly "proving his connection to ISIS operation smuggling oil into Turkey," even years after Turkey banned most oil imports from ISIL.[31] Commenting on the allegations, John R. Bass, the US Ambassador to Turkey, told the press that the claims about the Turkish government's involvement in ISIL oil trade were unfounded, citing the official apology issued by the CIA with regards to the allegations in 2014.[32][33]

Arab media accused Israel of being a major buyer of oil smuggled out of the ISIL-held Syrian and Iraqi territories.[34] According to this accusation, oil was smuggled to Zakhu where Israeli and Turkish dealers would determine the price,the oil was then sent as Kurdish oil to Silopi, Turkey, and transported to Turkish ports (such as Ceyhan) and shipped to Israel.[34]

ISIL transferred oil in different ways out of its territory. Oil could be trucked to Turkey, refined there and be used in Turkey or transported to tankers at the ports of Ceyhan or Dortyol.[35] Oil could also be sold to middlemen in northern Iraq who then would mix it with legitimate oil that enter through one of many feeders the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline.[35] At the end of the pipeline it would have been difficult to determine if some ISIS oil was present in the mix that was supposed to come from Kurdish fields.[35]

Another way of smuggling was the transport of oil to Jordan. Smugglers went south through