is to fairly decide about the social position. Advancement through education is the formula which equips the individualistic middle class with a strategic advantage towards the system of collective vocational training, because academic education and diplomas leading to it are principally valued higher than vocational training. In addition to this, the opening of higher education institutions which in the 1970s was used by many ambitious working-class children and youth for advancement – primarily in the public service (whose expansion became limited very soon), as a consequence led to a new closure: more and more children from the expanding class of academically educated parents are striving for higher education institutions where the academically educated middle-class faces itself[29] and marginalizes the youth who dare take their first steps outside thetechnology. That is the perspective of the clever essay by Martin Rost, “Zur Produktion der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter“ (“On the Production of Scientific Communication in the Digital Age“. In: Universitäten in der Wissensgesellschaft. Erfurter Universitätsreden 1999/2000. (Universities in the Knowledge Society. University of Erfurt Speeches 1999/2000). Published by Universität Erfurt/Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Munich 2001, p. 145 – 167. The writing of Yehuda Elkana/Hannes Klöpper, Die Universität im 21. Jahrhundert. Für eine neue Einheit von Lehre, Forschung und Gesellschaft (The University in the 21st Century. For a New Unity of Teaching, Research and Society), Hamburg 2012, discusses (p. 390 – 499) the perspectives of the “University in the Digital Age“, but leaves it at the didactic possibilities and does not see how the production regime could be


This application is the response of the University of Washington and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) of Seattle and King County, WA to the RFA HL-04-001 entitled "Clinical Research Consortium to Improve Resuscitation Outcomes." The EMS of Seattle and King County have a programmatic focus on cardiac arrest and life-threatening trauma and continue to make important contributions to each link in the American Heart Association's "chain of survival," as well as important advances in trauma management. An experienced group of internationally renown investigators, along with the infrastructure and resources provided by the University with broad community support, are committed to advancing resuscitation science through the training of young investigators in the field of prehospital emergency care and the conduct of clinical trials. This application sets forth 2 research proposalsIn late 2015, an "anti-Uber alliance" was formed between four global ride hailing companies. Now at least two of those partners have quietly dropped out.

Lyft and China's Didi Chuxing's roaming arrangement, to allow users to book rides on each other's platforms, was suspended in January, a Didi spokesperson confirmed.

Lyft's similar arranagement with Southeast Asian firm Grab, is also over.

Ola, in India, has been approached for comment.

When announced, the original agreement was hailed as a way for the foursome to stymy some of Uber's ravenous global growth, but that's all done now.

"The roaming service was the first test of ways to provide customers with rides when they travel abroad, from which we have gained invaluable knowledge of cross-border coordination," a Didi Chuxing spokesperson said Wednesday.

The roaming service was suspended


said over email. "We all gain valuable knowledge and experience from the partnership."

But how healthy is Lyft and Didi's relationship?

The suspension of the roaming arrangement between Didi Chuxing and Lyft answers at least one big question the industry had after the Chinese rideshare giant swallowed up Uber in 2016: How healthy can the Lyft and Didi relationship be these days?

In August, Uber admitted defeat in China, merging its business with Didi Chuxing. As Bloomberg noted at the time, this gave the American company a 20 percent stake in the new combined entity. And also, paradoxically, a speculated interest in Lyft. As part of the deal, Didi made a $1 billion investment in Uber.

Lyft made its displeasure known at the time, with company representatives sending the message it alwaysVote-Counting Under Way in Kenyan Elections

Vote-counting is under way in Kenya following Thursday's presidential and parliamentary elections.

About 14 million Kenyans were eligible to cast ballots in a tight presidential race between the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, and his main challenger Raila Odinga. The first official results are expected Friday.

Witnesses say voter turnout appeared to be high, although no official figures have been released.

Reports from Kenya's western Nyanza district say two people were killed today in election-related violence. However, international election observers say the voting process was largely peaceful.

The chief European Union election observer, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, also said he had seen no evidence of fraud.

Odinga has repeatedly accused Mr. Kibaki of trying to rig the election, allegations that the president has denied.

Today, Odinga came out of his Nairobi polling


station saying he could not vote because his name was not on the official register. He filed a complaint with the election commission, and was later able to cast his ballot.

Voting stations were scheduled to close at five pm local time but remained open in some areas where polling began late because of organizational problems.

President Kibaki is seeking a second and final five-year term in office. Kenya's economy has grown about five percent each year of his tenure, but he has been criticized for not upholding his promise to fight corruption in government.

Citizen groups have accused both major presidential candidates of bribing voters and raising funds through illegal sources.

To win, a presidential candidate must not only get the most votes but also win at least 25 percent ofvotes in five of Kenya's eight provinces. The rule was adopted in 1992 to ensure the president's support is spread across the country and not focused in a few urban areas or tribes.

Kenyan voters also were electing 210 members of parliament and more than two thousand local councilors today.


List of North American countries by population

This is a list of North American countries and dependent territories by population. The largest country by land area is Canada, and by population is United States. The largest city by population is Mexico City. The languages most spoken are English, Spanish and French.

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List of countries in the Americas by population
List of Arab countries by population
List of Asian countries by population
List of Caribbean island countries by population
List of European countries by population
List of European Union member states by population
List of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations by population
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STORY: Cuban President Raul Castro told the U.N. General Assembly on Monday (September 28) that normal relations with the United States would only be possible if Washington ended its trade embargo on his country, returned the military base at Guantanamo and ended anti-communist broadcasts beamed into the island.
With diplomatic ties now restored, overall normal relations "will only be achieved with the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba; the return to our country of the territory illegally occupied by theGuantanamo Naval Base; the cessation of radio and TV broadcasts, and of subversion and destabilization programs against the island; and when our people are compensated for the human and economic damages they still endure," Castro said in his first address ever to the United Nations. Castro received sustained applause.

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for each ISA across the entire gait cycle were compared between genders. The kinematic curve of the inter-segmental foot motions showed a characteristic pattern during the whole gait cycle. Although the hallux of female was aligned in a more valgus angulation during gait, the overall patterns of the inter-segmental foot motions were quite similar for both genders. Most differences in the inter-segmental foot motions between men and women were observed in the range of motion. Considering the stance phase of gait-cycle, the range of motion in the sagittal and transverse plane of the hindfoot was greater in females than in males. The sagittal range of motion of the hallux was also greater in females, mainly due to higher plantar flexion. The gender differences of the inter-segmental foot motionImages) Cut logs sit at a sawmill in Anapu, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The rate of deforestation Brazil's Amazon rain forest dropped 18 percent over the last year, according to a report by the country's environment minister in November. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images Timber is stacked in piles at a sawmill in Anapu, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The rate of deforestation Brazil's Amazon rain forest dropped 18 percent over the last year, according to a report by the country's environment minister in November. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images A section of burnt forest stands in the southern of Amazonian state of Para, near Belo Monte, Brazil on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. The rate of deforestation Brazil's Amazon rain forest dropped 18


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The researchers' climate models give some sense of how big the impacts could be. For instance, the continued loss of the Amazon rainforest would ultimately make Siberia colder, but plants and trees in the southeastern United States would likely benefit. The Amazon's neighboring forests in South America would also do well, as the loss of the Amazon could increase rainfall during the summer months. Those precise effects might not end up happening in reality, but they point to how disruptive the loss of forests could be on a global scale. In any case, it will take time to tease out exactly how the world's forests connect with climate.

"It's a global system," said Swann. "We expect the atmosphere has preferred ways in which it responds to being poked.Akhila Kishore

Akhila Kishore (born April 2, 1989) is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Kannada and Tamil language films. After making her debut in the Kannada film Padhe Padhe  (2013), she won critical acclaim for her performances in Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam (2014).

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After completing college and gaining a BE in Computer Science from the Global Academy of Technology, the 6 feet tall Akhila chose to venture into modelling and gained success participating in beauty pageants. She received recognition, gaining awards at the Femina Miss India Bangalore 2013 competition. Akhila made her film debut with the 2013 Kannada film, Padhe Padhe, with a critic noting she was "good" for the role. The actress was then asked to audition for a role in Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam


A 26-year-old woman who became a volunteer firefighter after her home burned down filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming her instructor at the Ocean County Fire Academy bound, tortured and raped her in his home last year.

The woman, identified in court papers by her initials, told investigators that her instructor, John Syers, lured her to his Lacey Township home on Sept. 26, 2018 under the guise of showing off his new house. Syers is listed as an instructor at the academy, according to the county government website. He is also a firefighter in Elizabeth, officials said.

“While Syers was showing (her) his bedroom, he proceeded to restrain, beat, burn, sexually assault and strangle (her) over the course of 46 minutes, despite her continuous pleas for him to stop,” thebecome a firefighter after narrowly escaping a blaze that burned down her home in a Lavallette condominium complex in May 2017. She escaped the blaze through a window, according to court documents.

After applying to the fire department, the woman attended training at the Ocean County Fire Academy in Waretown, according to the suit.

In court papers, the woman said she and her instructor, Syers, dated briefly, but then broke up when he found another girlfriend. When that relationship ended, Syers then began texting and messaging the victim on social media, the suit states.

On the day of the alleged assault, the woman said she and Syers shared a consensual kiss and when she pulled away and “withdrew consent for sexual contact,” he handcuffed her hands behind her back and pinned


her to his bed. Syers said he was punishing her for making him wait and referring to occasions where she didn’t show up for dates, the suit states.

"Using the rope skills he honed as a fire academy instructor, (Syers tied the victim’s) arms, neck and legs to the bed with rope,” Fuggi said. The suit states Syers tore the woman’s clothes off, struck her several times, blindfolded her and ripped out some of her hair before sexually assaulting her repeatedly. He strangled her until she was unconscious and then poured a substance on her “leaving large burn marks,” the suit states.

The suit also states that Syers snapped several cellphone photos of the woman as she lay restrained on his bed.

Fuggi said when the assault began, the woman notedthe time according to a clock in the room was 10 a.m. When the woman regained consciousness, the time was 10:46 a.m., Fuggi said.

After the alleged assault, the victim was able to free herself from the handcuffs and rope while Syers was in the bathroom, the attorney said. The woman quickly dressed, refusing Syers’ offers for her to shower at his house, the suit states.

Syers offered the woman a few “insincere apologies” before letting her out of the house, her attorney said in the suit.

The woman called a friend and tried to explain what happened, but couldn’t because she was too distraught, the suit states. The next morning, the woman went to Community Medical Center in Toms River and was given a rape test, antibiotics and an emergency


course was just as good with delicate shredded crab, “petites legumes”, and a hint of tart green apple and lime.

The third course was perfectly cooked roasted merlu (hake) served with celeri rave and a delicate sauce scented with orange zest.

Next came chicken poached in a ginger infused kombu broth, probably my least favourite of the night, but still good.

We finished with two desserts, a silky vanilla panna cotta with a raspberry coulis and a chocolate mousse “boule” floating in a mint “nage”

The counter seats finally vacated and we had coffee at the bar and got the chance to talk to the charming chef who offered limoncellos as he finished up for the night. He told us about his stint at Le Bernadin in New York and generously showedThe mid-engine Chevy Corvette C8 is the auto industry’s Bigfoot: lots of sightings in the wild, but no confirmation as to when it will be officially revealed.

The 2019 Detroit auto show? Came and went. A springtime reveal at an exotic location? Not looking likely.

But we know the elusive Corvette exists because, well, we just saw video of General Motors President Mark Reuss riding in a caravan of camouflaged C8s in Arizona. And because a group of journalists stumbled across five similar C8s north of San Diego. And then there was the barely disguised mid-engine Corvette that broke down last week at a Speedway gas station near GM's Milford Proving Grounds and had to be towed.

It's driving would-be Corvette buyers to distraction.

"It's a great-looking car, and everybody's eagerly waiting


C8's debut could be coordinated with the 25th anniversary of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in late August. The Corvette assembly plant in Bowling Green has undergone an overhaul in the last three years, including a massive paint-plant investment, to prepare for the mid-engine car.

A debut of the C8 in late August would also allow Chevy to showcase the car at Corvettes at Carlisle, a huge annual gathering of Corvette owners in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in late August.

Whatever the venue, the intense speculation speaks to how important this eighth-generation Corvette is to GM — and to the external pressures building on Chevy to produce the car.

Sales of C7 Corvettes have fallen dramatically this year — off 20 percent from a year ago — as buyers anticipatethe mid-engine supercar. About 10,000 C7s reportedly languish unsold on dealer lots, sitting for an average of 232 days, unprecedented for the iconic sports car. Potential buyers like Figueroa say dealers are bending over backward to offer deals, which get sweeter the longer the C8 is delayed.

The good news for Chevy is the C7's stale sales indicate huge pent-up demand for the C8.

The clock is also ticking on Corvette's race program, which is expected to debut the car for the 2020 IMSA Weathertech racing season at next January's Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. The current front-engine race car is getting long in the tooth against formidable competition like the mid-engine Ford GT. The race-car version of the C8 has been seen testing at tracks in Florida, Wisconsin and


Germany.

While endurance-racing rules are famously opaque when it comes to official recognition of production cars, the Corvette race car effectively has to be licensed for competition by the end of 2019 in order to qualify for Daytona and LeMans next year. GM has traditionally introduced its production car before racing it. The front-engine C7, for example, went into production in September 2013 ahead of the C7-R's 2014 Daytona debut.

The multitude of sightings of camouflaged cars — from Reuss' ride in Arizona, to California, Colorado and Florida — suggest a mature exterior design ready for prime time.

The idea of a mid-engine Corvette actually dates back to legendary designer Zora Arkus-Duntov, who considered the layout in the early 1960s. But the program really picked up speed in 2007 when itResidential Air Purifier Estimated To Reach USD 8.65 Billion By 2024

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In 2016, Kent RO Systems and Hindustan Sanitary ware India Ltd (HSIL) entered into residential air purifier business. These new entrants into air purifier business are expected to boost the growth of residential air purifier market. Moreover, leading market players of residential air purifiers are also running campaigns for creating awareness and to increase adoption of air purifiers as their marketing strategy in developing countries such as India, China, Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia and South Africa. For instance,


was a great example last year and even Brian Boyle was an overpay by the Leafs considering their situation.

Duclair represents a much different scenario. He’s still young and in a flexible contract situation. If a trade happens now, he would have four full months to settle in before the playoffs. After the season, the team acquiring him will be able to decide whether to retain him or not. And unless he has an explosive second half of the season with his new team, he’ll likely be affordable.

Duclair is a talented player stuck in one of the worst situations in the league with the Coyotes. The Yotes are trying. They made moves this summer that seemed smart at the time. They looked to be assembling a team that couldgo back to Arizona as part of a deal would be J.T. Brown or Slater Koekkoek. Moving either of those two would infuriate sections of the fan base. Brown is deservedly a fan favorite for his selfless play on the ice and his role as a leader in the community. Koekkoek feels like an overpay with too much potential to trade at this point in his career...although Arizona fans might say the same of Duclair.

The dream scenario for the Lightning would be to package Andrej Sustr with a pick of some kind. If the Yotes are desperate to unload Duclair, maybe they would consider that but John Chayka will understand the pressure on the Lightning to move a roster player and would likely not settle for Sustr. Chayka


President Trump on Monday signed legislation authorizing the honorary promotion of former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., from captain to colonel in the U.S. Army in recognition of his service in World War II.

The legislation, which was passed unanimously last month by the House of Representatives after going through the Senate, recognizes Dole’s time spent in the armed forces during World War II, where he earned two Purple Hearts and was twice awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor.

BOB DOLE TURNS 95 - LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY FRIEND AND A GREAT AMERICAN

"I was proud to wear our nation's uniform 77 years ago when I enlisted, and my pride in America's brave servicemen and women continues today," Dole said in a statement in March, when Congress passed thelegislation authorizing his promotion.

The 95-year-old Dole, who ran for president in 1996, was last seen publicly in December when he rose from a wheelchair to salute the coffin of former President George H.W. Bush in the Capitol rotunda.

BOB DOLE GIVES GEORGE H.W. BUSH STANDING SAULTE, RISING FROM WHEELCHAIR IN DRAMATIC MOMENT

Dole, who represented Kansas in the U.S. House and Senate for a total of 35 years, was injured by German machine gun fire while serving as an infantry lieutenant in 1945 in the European theater. The injury left him with limited use of his right arm.

Trump last year praised Dole as a “great American” during a presentation awarding the former lawmaker the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by Congress.


active participants in the homosexual lifestyle. And the target age starts as early as middle school.

At most of these off-campus clubs, your sixth grader would be welcomed by adult homosexual volunteers and staff, and allowed to socialize with high school and college age "queer" or gender variant youth, without your permission or knowledge. All he or she has to do is show up, and many are located conveniently on bus lines to accommodate kids under driving age.

"No parents" plus homosexual approval is the reason these centers call themselves "safe" places. There is a homosexual youth center now in virtually every medium or large city in the United States. Many are funded by private foundations or connected to a local adult center for "GLBT" people. Some are even fundedbe invited to youth center events, where no parents, no school boards, no teachers are there to supervise what might take place.

The Cleveland, Ohio, "GLBT" Center youth program hosts numerous area GSA meetings and conducts "activism training" for high-school GSA's. At Kaleidoscope Youth Center in Columbus, Ohio, a "GSA Summit" was held on
April 1. A news release announced it was open to all "LGBTQ youth and their allies, age 20 and under." (LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning.) The summit was to "provide assistance to
all youth who are working as advocates in their schools, whether they have a formal GSA or not." According to Lindsay, a volunteer I spoke with at the center, the summit had participation by 13 Columbus-area high-school
GSAs.

The GSA Network in California


is a network of several hundred GSAs and has ongoing interaction with groups such as the San Francisco Bay area LYRIC, Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center. A LYRIC event for girls was publicized in 2003 by the GSA Network to encourage attendance by school "gay" club members. The event, "Make Your Own Sex Toy Night," encouraged girls to "Let your imagination go wild and create a sex toy you can be proud of!"

Some of the youth centers in more liberal areas of the country have been around a long time. BAGLY was established in 1980, and for years has sponsored the annual Boston Youth "Gay" Pride parade. Many area GSA's marching proudly in the parade have been captured on film by numerous observers.

The Columbus, Ohio, youth center,Kaleidoscope, advertises that it is a center for kids from ages 12 to 20. It's in a rundown storefront across the street from a new shopping center. It's also a few steps from a bus stop, and two blocks from the campus of Ohio State University, which makes it convenient for college-age "gay" youth. The center offers support groups with peer-mentoring and no parental knowledge or permission is needed.

On March 15, representatives from the Ohio AIDS Coalition, the Columbus AIDS Task Force and Planned Parenthood spoke on STDs and HIV and "positive decision-making," to the Kaleidoscope youth in a program called K.I.S.S., Keep It Smart and Safe. Local AIDS groups have ongoing relationships with these youth centers which brings up potentially compromising dilemmas regarding interaction with minors.

For instance,


on April 25, the second annual "Hope's Voice" tour is planning a stop at Kaleidoscope in Columbus on its cross-country tour. "Hope's Voice" features HIV-positive young adults who give speeches in what is termed "peer-to-peer education," even though few adults would see a 12- or 14-year-old as the "peer" of a 22-year-old.

The stop is co-sponsored by the Ohio AIDS Coalition and the program includes free confidential HIV testing for youth, using oral swabs which provide a response in around 20 minutes with over 90 percent accuracy.

The misleading, risky messages are subtle, but powerful. The young adults involved in Hope's Voice are articulate and healthy-looking. Some talk openly about being homosexual. How would a naive teen digest the Hope's Voice message? The adolescent takeaway may well be, "These coololder kids look all right and seem OK, so HIV isn't all that big a deal, as long as I use a condom." Few high schools are sponsoring stops by Hope's Voice, but the GSA members are sure to be invited to the presentation and free testing at the local "gay" youth center.

The Cleveland, Ohio, "GLBT " Center program offers ongoing "safe schools" and HIV-prevention education for youth including the GSA members who frequent its gatherings. On the center website, a quote is featured from a 16-year-old "gay" youth:

"Most information about HIV isn't written for us. We're afraid to talk to our family doctor - he may tell our parents. So where can you go for help if you're young and gay?"

The Cleveland center website also states, regarding


Succubus is an action-oriented Agony spin-off coming to Steam

It's Agony, but you can defend yourself.

The team behind ludicrous survival horror game Agony has a new action-oriented spin-off in the works. Dubbed Succubus, it follows the nominal Succubus (who appeared in Agony) as she traipses around hell getting revenge on Baphomet. This revenge will take the form of brutal hand-to-hand violence.

According to a press release received by DSO Gaming, Succubus will feature combat using "weapons and pyrokinesis", an expandable skill tree, boss fights and "a system of weapons and armor that affect a player's statistics". In other words, don't expect to feel quite as disempowered as you did while playing Agony.

Here's the plot breakdown, as per Youtube. "With the disappearance of the legitimate rulers of Hell, the remaining demonsrecognized Nimrod as their ruler, because he was the only soul who could dominate the mind of the mighty Beast. By raising his new empire from the corpses of sinners, the new king, along with his new queen Succubus, managed to control the chaos left by the former rulers.

"The new title didn't fit the Succubus. The life of luxury and walking on rugs sewn from the skins of martyrs was not for her though, and so she has chosen a life in the wilderness of Hell. During her travels, the new queen meets the powerful Baphomet who, together with his army, is going to get the soul of Nimrod. Captured, maimed and betrayed by her own species, the Succubus is left with only one goal that matters –


Ukraine and Iraq may worsen fueled investor demand for safety. Economic reports out of Europe, and Asia were disappointing. The United Kingdom reported that although there has been gains in employment wages had fallen. Japan reported negative growth and a shrinking economy. Spain, Portugal, Italy also saw an unexpected stalling in their economies beyond what was expected. Japan saw a larger than expected decline, as did China. Russia showed that they had some slowing, but not as much as expected with the economic sanctions. All in all it was a poor week for the rest of the world as US economic reports were pretty good with the exception of Macy’s reporting that sales had fallen, leaving investors to wonder what retail reports are yet to come. The 10-yearshowed. The number of existing properties for sale climbed to 2.37 million, the most since August 2012. At the current pace, it would take 5.5 months to sell those houses, matching the May and June reading. Inventory was up from 2.24 million a year earlier. Distressed property sales, including foreclosures, accounted for 9 percent of the total last month, the least since records began in 2008, the group said.

Data Quick-Southern California home sales fall, median price drops. Southern California home sales hit a three-year low for the month of July and the region’s median home price dipped to $413,000, DataQuick reported Wednesday. Hampered by rising prices, a limited inventory and a decrease in investor activity, sales of new and existing homes and condos in Los Angeles, San Bernardino,


GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan judge has ordered the arrest of former attorney general and presidential candidate Thelma Aldana on charges including embezzlement, the police said on Tuesday, amid an escalating campaign on high-profile corruption and rights cases.

FILE PHOTO - Guatemalan Attorney General Thelma Aldana participates in a news conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Aldana, who helped lead investigations into top politicians, including the current president, is seeking the presidency in a June election.

The warrant for her arrest, issued by Judge Victor Cruz, cited charges of embezzlement, lying and tax fraud. Aldana has denied wrongdoing.

Aldana, who was in El Salvador on Tuesday for a meeting, planned to return to Guatemala by Thursday, she said in an appearance on CNN.

She added that her presidentialparty is seeking to pass a law to free military officials convicted of human rights crimes during the Central American country’s 36-year civil war.

Lawmakers were set to review changes to the law on Wednesday, but dropped it from the agenda amid an onslaught of criticism from local and international rights groups, including the United Nations.

Instead, they have scheduled a discussion on modifying the criminal procedure code.

The proposed changes would limit jail time for accused people awaiting verdicts, which could allow the release of at least 100 people facing corruption charges, as well as others accused of war crimes.


made by Raytheon, among other military equipment, according to a department of defence statement.

It said the proposed sale would “contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by improving the security of an important ally which has been, and continues to be, a force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East”.Adult Blog

About the Book

As WWII draws to a close, war widow Vera Larsen Trumbell knows all too well the sacrifices of those left on the home front. Working on her family's farm has sustained Vera and her young children, but she now yearns for a sense of normalcy. The end of the war has been bittersweet for the Larsen clan as they and the residents of their small Wyoming town continue to pick up the pieces of their former lives.

Navigating the complexities of a postwar world, Vera and her family face the changing ideals swirling around them. From rising controversy surrounding women's presence in the workplace to the town's cold reception of the newest member of the family—a beautiful French freedom fighter—the American dream of days gone by


has been thrown off balance. Even Vera's own life is set spinning when, despite her better judgment, she feels a growing attraction for the brooding and mysterious local schoolteacher.

As the Larsen family and their neighbors tread on thorny territory, will the people of this small town find the strength to embrace an unfamiliar and extraordinary future?

About the Author

During her early years of reading, Ranee` S. Clark devoured fantasy books, which continued into her adulthood—since she often believes that a well-written romance novel is a delightful fantasy. Though raising three boys can sometimes hamper both romance with her own Mr. Charming and her writing, she tries to get a little of both in every day. And most of the time she succeeds.

Review

In her novel Beneath the Bellemont Sky,author Ranee S. Clark does a fantastic job of capturing the time period, as well as family life and the life of a small town. Readers will immediately fall in love with the historical story and the many characters, with the main focus not so much being on the war as being the Larsen family. This story is about this delightful family picking up the pieces of their lives and pressing forward after the men return home from fighting in WWII. After the war, things are different; some family members have not come home or some have been wounded both physically and mentally. Not only are there these challenges, but the challenge of prejudice against one of the Larsen’s French wife come home from the war with him.


The mystery deepens with an unlikely gesture

A chapter in the book Super Fortune Cookies

Nightmare

BackgroundAs good & evil collide, an unlikely boy is caught in between. The fate of a murdered soul and mankind rests on the shoulders of a boy, El, who is learning about his own journey.

One week earlier on October 17, 1996, 6:02 a.m.

A shadow-like cloud moves ominously to the hall's end in the all boys' floor of Mary Park Hall.

From every angle, neither the light of the early morning, nor the lights from the ceiling can explain the concise movements of a shadow that appear driven by purpose, or hunger rather than the dim light of an early dawn that peeks through a small window. To add to the mystery, the dense mist darkens arounda doorknob with a sense of control.

The door begins to shake, but the sound goes unheard by the sleeping residents who will wake within the hour to the seventh anniversary of game three of the 1989 World Series when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake froze the world of sports.

Eu El remains in a deep sleep on the other side of his shaking door. He remains asleep until the noise of metal and wood creates enough noise to stir his attention, but not his body's willingness to react to the desperation of force that now creaks his door to a slow open.

The silence gives way to the rusted hinges as El's partial consciousness makes out a familiar, but unwanted recognition of a pale foot.

Again, the foot slowly drags along the


the beat of his rising pulse equals the intensity of the drumbeats in New Order's song, "Bizarre Love Triangle" (The Extended Dance Mix Version).

Turning his head one last time, El discovers the feet have vanished.

He breathes a sigh of relief. The vacant spot where the feet once hovered convinces him the last few minutes were just another bad dream. Yet, his state of paralysis implies the event was real, and unfinished.

Again, El turns his head, this time directly facing the ceiling. Without his glasses, his 30/70 vision barely makes out a shocking, blurred silhouette of a girl floating above his uncovered feet, where his toes peek from the blanket's edge. Each feature of her face is completely hidden underneath thick black hair that seem to mock the lightof dawn.

Like a lightbulb moment of certainty, El convinces himself he is in the presence of a frail, vulnerable girl.

Like the girl, El, too, defies the world's normalcy in his own style that directly reflects a past molded by neglect.

"A girl!" he tells himself with a spark of interest. "Isn't she from my Japanese class?"

There's an awkward pause between them as the beating of his heart slows to a calm wonder fueled by curiosity, rather than fear.

Again, he acknowledges, "There's a girl in my room! Awesome! A girl is on my bed! My friends aren't going to believe this! Finally! I'm not a loser!"

With the characteristics of an innocent schoolboy, he advises himself, "Don't be a doofus, El. DON'T BE A DOOFUS!"

His eyes turn far enough to find


his copy of "Web of Spider-Man" issue 31, where a spider scurries behind the comic tacked perfectly onto the wall as if to seek protection from the force of evil emanating from the girl.

Oblivious to the potential danger, El smiles towards his silent visitor, never understanding he is now in a place he does not belong to.

The gesture connects a bridge of emotion between the awkward pair, one evil; the other naive. And, in an instant, time stops long enough for El to witness the parting of her hair that opens wide enough to reveal one of two eyes.

As their gaze connects, she feels...

salvation.

Please note this is chapter 20. Please read previous chapters to understand what is being developed. Picture is of my niece, Rein, which was editedseason was produced by FremantleMedia Australia.

Format

Contestants
Contestants typically meet each other very shortly before shooting begins. However, in season six, contestants only met each other as a whole group for the first time upon completion of the very first assignment of the game, which saw them split into three groups of four, blindfolded and left at an unknown destination.

Unlike in the American version of the show, player alliances are quite rare and are considered, by many players in fact, cheating.  Only the most informal, friendship-based groups ever took shape, and only in Seasons 2 and 5. Season 6 had many alliances formed, in part due to the fact that exemptions were now tangible items that could be traded freely and the introduction of freebies saw players using them


sometimes earn freebies (corrects a wrong answer) or free passes (sometimes known as "exemptions" or "immunity") through to the next round. In contrast to the American series, these are usually quite rare (they increased in number in season five), and the exempted player does not take the quiz. However, in season six, players who won exemptions would have to defend them in later assignments, or risk losing them. If there was a tie for the lowest score, the player in the tie who took the longest time to take the quiz would be eliminated. Sometimes, contestants are offered the chance to give up their free pass in exchange for a particular amount of money to be added to the kitty; however, he or she must still take theThe use of fine nets to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes on dry farmland in southern Taiwan.
The stagnate water stored in buckets traditionally used by farmers in southern Taiwan to irrigate their dry farmland, serves as favorable breeding ground for Aedes aegypti, the vector of the dengue virus. The public health bureau there distributed fine nets to the farmers to cover their buckets to reduce vector breeding sites. The goal of this study was to compare the container index (CI) in Alian and Tianliao Townships, Kaohsiung County in southern Taiwan over a 2-year period, for 1 year before the fine nets were distributed and 1 year after. In March 2005, we selected eight villages in Alian Township and 10 in Tianliao Township. Specialists monitored the local Stegomyia indices


Graffiti in Saigon via Saigon - Graffiti on da Street

Vietnam isn't exactly a bastion of free expression. Freedom House declares the country " not free ," Transparency International ranks the country 123/176 on its corruption index (tying it with Sierra Leone and Mozambique), and the Committee to Protect Journalists indicates the imprisonment of 232 journalists in 2012 reached an all-time high.

In a country where freedom of expression remains an idea, not a practice, street artists appear undeterred. Saigon's urban canvas is slowly emerging as a place where artists express feelings that in other outlets would be curtailed. The street art scene is young in Vietnam, but the preliminary art looks very promising.

Graffiti in the Bến Nghé neighborhood of Saigon, via Saigon Graffiti

Most of the graffiti in Saigon featurestags and throw ups of particular artists:

Four images above via Saigon - Graffiti on da Street

Outside artists visiting Vietnam provide inspiration for up and coming street artists. French street artist Julien Malland, a.k.a. Seth Globepainter , traveled to Vietnam in 2010. His murals appeared in Saigon.

El Mac , a photorealist graffiti artist from Los Angeles, California, has visited the country a couple of times and left his mark. For the piece below, El Mac teamed up with Shamsia Hassani , perhaps Afghanistan's first female graffiti artist. Hassani added to the piece: " بعضی حرفها را باید دید ،بعضی حرفها گفتنی نیست." which translates to "Some Of The Things You See Are Not Worth Mentioning."

(via StreetArtNews.net)

Here is a video of El Mac painting a mural outside of Sàn Art,


favor.  Although we rely on different reasons than did the district court, we affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment.

2
During the afternoon of July 9, 1982, appellant Hershey was driving in Clearwater, Florida, when he became slightly indisposed, suffering from medical problems compounded by a recent lunch.  He pulled off a thoroughfare into the shade offered by the trees of a public park.  Because Hershey, a Pennsylvania resident, was visiting a friend in Florida, his car contained many household goods, including a mattress in the back of his hatchback car.  Having parked his car in the public park, Hershey lay down in the back of his car on the mattress.

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Driving by, Officer Swain of the Clearwater police force perceived the seemingly unoccupied vehicleasserted that, upon finding appellant Hershey lying on a mattress in the back of his car, surrounded by articles of clothing, cooking utensils, food items and other personal property, she believed Hershey to have been sleeping or lodging in his car;  that she then issued a citation pursuant to the ordinance;  and that because Hershey refused to sign the citation, she then took him into custody.

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Appellant Hershey made no response to this affidavit.  Because he failed to come forth with any documentation to dispute Officer Swain's statements, for which he would have the burden at trial, the district court correctly granted summary judgment in the officer's favor.  The undisputed facts (Hershey was lying on a mattress, various articles of clothing and other personal items


The group acknowledges it faces an uphill battle in protecting area outside of park from logging.

Local environmental group Friends of Seven Sisters hopes to stop planned logging adjacent to Seven Sisters Provincial Park.

The park, named after the Seven Sisters mountain range, is a 39,000-hectare wilderness park and protected area that is an hour and half drive from Smithers that was established in 2000.

Six logging cut blocks have been mapped out near the Seven Sisters Park, including two that are adjacent to the park boundary that total about 50 hectares.

Rod Major, spokesperson for Friends of Seven Sisters, said the group is concerned the proposed logging will not only negatively affect the scenic value of the park but mushroom picking areas, the Coyote Creek watershed and access to the parkQ:

What does "Khorosho" mean?

In episode 10 of Love Live season one, when Yazawa Nico is woken up and everyone sees her facial mask, Ayase Eli comments saying "Khorosho". She says this also when Sonoda Umi is woken up and turns into a "demon". Given the context, I thought "Khorosho" meant something like "scary" or "frightening" but it was weird that NISA didn't change this in the English subtitles.
However, at the end of the episode when all the girls are on the beach holding hands and watching the sunrise, when Nishikino Maki thanks her, Eli says "Khorosho" and also Eli's sister Alisa says "Khorosho" when she's corrected in thinking that a red bean bun was a cream puff in episode 12. In both of these situations, I can't really


project and his government's wider nuclear power development plans.

There are currently 20 nuclear power plants in operation in India, producing around 5,000 megawatts of electricity.

Seven more reactors are under construction across the country.

Image caption Villagers from around Kudankulam have been gathering outside a local church to protest

They are part of a nationwide drive to guarantee that India can power its own economic growth and support a growing population without relying too heavily on imported supplies.

However, experts say to make nuclear energy more palatable for citizens, particularly in light of the accident in Fukushima in Japan earlier this year, the government will need placate the fears of its people over the safety and security of nuclear facilities.

S S Bajaj, the Chairman of India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, says: "Wehospital complaining of dizziness, physicians diagnosed her with "mild mental retardation and cerebellar ataxia" (2014, p. e3), fi nding her cerebellum never developed and many areas of her brain were more cerebrospinal fl uid than brain tissue. See also: Feuillet et. al (2007, p. 262). They describe the case of a 44-year-old man-married, father of two, employed as a civil servant. Complaining of leg weakness, he went to the hospital, and brain scans revealed "severe dilation of the lateral ventricles" and "a very thin cortical mantle and a posterior fossa cyst" (2007, p. 262). The scans showed that most of his brain was cerebrospinal fl uid. Works Cited Aristotle. (1984) On the Soul. J. A. Smith (trans.). In Jonathan Barnes (ed.), The Complete Works of Aristotle, Revised Oxford


M. Cooper (ed.) and D. S. Hutchinson (assoc. ed.), Plato: Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. 48 G. M. Trujillo, Jr. Ross, W. D. (2002) The Right and the Good. Philip Stratton-Lake (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Slote, Michael. (2010) Moral Sentimentalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Yu, Feng, Quing-jun Jiang, Xi-yan Sun, and Rong-wei Zhang. (2014) A new case of complete primary cerebellar agenesis: clinical and imaging fi ndings in a living patient. Brain: A Journal of Neurology: e1-e5.Travelodge digger crash: Man arrested over hotel damage Published duration 14 February 2019

media caption Travelodge Liverpool: Digger driver wrecks hotel reception

A man has been arrested after a digger ploughed through the doors of a new hotel and smashed into the building.

A 35-year-old from Netherton has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage with intent to endanger life, Merseyside Police said.

He has also been arrested on suspicion of assault in relation to a separate incident in Broadgreen.

The digger crashed through the reception desk and windows at the hotel, causing extensive damage on 21 January.

Ceiling fixer Samuel White, 24, witnessed it and said the driver had claimed to be owed about £600.

He said the destruction went on for "a good 20 or 30 minutes" and had left workers "gobsmacked".

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copyright Samuel White/PA image caption The scene of destruction that was left inside the Travelodge after a digger was driven into the lobby

Building firm Triton Construction said there had been no structural damage to the hotel.

A firm spokesman said the driver had been employed by a sub-contractor and had become "increasingly frustrated" when he couldn't find the owner "[so] took it upon himself to drive a small mini excavator through the front entrance screen of the hotel".

Paramedics treated a man for eye irritation caused by exposure to diesel, police said at the time.

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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon issued a statement about Thursday night's military strike against an airfield in Syria.

"At the direction of the president, U.S. forces conducted a cruise missile strike against a Syrian Air Force airfield today at about 8:40 p.m. EDT (4:40 a.m., April 7, in Syria). The strike targeted Shayrat Airfield in Homs governorate, and were in response to the Syrian government's chemical weapons attack April 4 in Khan Sheikhoun, which killed and injured hundreds of innocent Syrian people, including women and children.

"The strike was conducted using Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) launched from the destroyers USS Porter


and USS Ross in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. A total of 59 TLAMs targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air defense systems, and radars. As always, the U.S. took extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties and to comply with the Law of Armed Conflict. Every precaution was taken to execute this strike with minimal risk to personnel at the airfield.

"The strike was a proportional response to Assad's heinous act. Shayrat Airfield was used to store chemical weapons and Syrian air forces. The U.S. intelligence community assesses that aircraft from Shayrat conducted the chemical weapons attack on April 4. The strike was intended to deter the regime from using chemical weapons again.

"Russian forces were notified in advance of the strike using the establishedDid Reagan's Military Build-Up Really Lead to Victory in the Cold War?

Mr. Wittner teaches history at the State University of New York/Albany. His latest book is Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present (Stanford University Press).

In an op-ed published in the New York Times on January 5, Professor Kiron Skinner, co-editor of Reagan: A Life in Letters, repeats the familiar refrain of Republican triumphalists that Ronald Reagan's aggressive rhetoric and military policies improved Soviet-American relations and led to the end of the Cold War. This fairy tale may warm the hearts of true believers in the efficacy of military buildups and wars, but it has little resemblance to reality. In fact, Soviet-American relations went into a deep freeze until early


1985. Horrified by the Reagan administration's nuclear buildup and loose talk of nuclear war, the Soviet government ratcheted up its own military might. The new Soviet party leader, Yuri Andropov, concluded that "peace cannot be obtained from the imperialists by begging for it. It can be upheld only by relying on the invincible might of the Soviet armed forces." Responding to U.S. missile deployment in Western Europe in December 1983, the Kremlin broke off arms control negotiations, resumed the SS-20 nuclear missile deployment that it had previously halted, placed SS-23 nuclear missiles in East Germany and Czechoslovakia , and moved Soviet nuclear submarines closer to the coasts of the United States . In late 1984, the Kremlin incorporated a 45 percent increase in military spending into its nextfive-year plan. Reagan's "evil empire" speech of March 1983 was widely noted in the Soviet Union , recalled Vladimir Slipchenko, then a member of the Soviet General Staff. "The military, the armed forces . . . used this," he added, "as a reason to begin a very intense preparation inside the military for a state of war." Furthermore, "we started to run huge strategic exercises. . . . These were the first military exercises in which we really tested our mobilization. We didn't just exercise the ground forces but also the strategic arms." Therefore, "for the military, the period when we were called the evil empire was actually very good and useful, because we achieved a very high military readiness. . . . We also rehearsed the situation


when a non-nuclear war might turn into a nuclear war." Soviet leaders, terrified that the Reagan administration was preparing a nuclear first strike against their country, nearly launched a nuclear war. In November 1983, during NATO's Able Archer military exercises, the jittery Soviet government became convinced that, under cover of the exercises, a U.S. nuclear attack upon the Soviet Union was underway. Consequently, Soviet nuclear forces were alerted, command staffs reviewed their strike missions, and nuclear weapons were readied for action. "The world did not quite reach the edge of the nuclear abyss," recalled Oleg Gordievsky, a U.S. intelligence agent within the KGB. "But during Able Archer 83 it had . . . come frighteningly close." Thus, as Anatoly Dobrynin, the longtime Soviet ambassador to the United States,recalled: "The impact of Reagan's hard-line policy . . . was exactly the opposite of the one intended by Washington . It strengthened those in the Politburo, the Central Committee, and the security apparatus who had been pressing for a mirror-image of Reagan's own policy." In the period up to early 1985, it was Reagan who began a policy reversal. Reagan entered the White House as a fanatic foe of the Soviet Union and as a staunch opponent of every nuclear arms control and disarmament agreement negotiated by his Democratic and Republican predecessors. Not surprisingly, he and his entourage initially called for a massive nuclear buildup and talked glibly of waging nuclear war. But, battered by antinuclear protests, frustrated by Congress, badgered by uneasy allies, and confronted by


an obdurate Soviet leadership, Reagan softened his hard line. His administration opened arms control negotiations, championed a "zero option" for Euromissiles, compromised on strategic nuclear weapons, and observed the limits of the unratified SALT II treaty (which, previously, Reagan had condemned as "appeasement"). Starting in April 1982, Reagan began declaring publicly that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." He added: "To those who protest against nuclear war, I can only say: `I'm with you!'" As these last remarks indicate, Reagan was seriously rattled by popular agitation against the nuclear arms race. In October 1983, in the context of the massive protests against Euromissile deployment, he told his startled secretary of state: "If things get hotter and hotter and arms control remains an issue,maybe I should go see Andropov and propose eliminating all nuclear weapons." On January 16, 1984, he followed up on this idea. Over the objections of other administration officials, he delivered a remarkable public address, calling for peace with the Soviet Union and a nuclear-free world. In short, in the period leading up to March 1985, Reagan and Soviet officials confronted each other eyeball-to-eyeball, and it was Reagan who repeatedly blinked. Only in March 1985, with the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev, did Reagan find a Soviet leader ready to implement a program of peace and disarmament. Gorbachev, of course, differed from his immediate predecessors in that he came from the ranks of Soviet reformers, who favored peace and democratization. What is not as well known is that Gorbachev's


ideas were profoundly influenced by the world nuclear disarmament movement. As he declared: "The new thinking took into account and absorbed the conclusions and demands of . . . the public and the scientific community, of the movements of physicians, scientists, and ecologists, and of various antiwar organizations." Thus, Gorbachev and his circle were ready to reject the traditional "peace through strength" basis of Soviet (and American) foreign policy. In subsequent years, he and Reagan pushed past the obstacles erected by the hawks in both their countries to halt the nuclear arms race and end the Cold War. If the contrasting version of these events--the triumphalist version trumpeted by Professor Skinner--is to hold water, surely there should be some evidence for it in Soviet sources. After all, theWest Germans were protected from the USSR by the firmness of Truman and Eisenhower. JFK (and Carter) let the USSR do incalculable damage for decades.

President Reagan subdued the USSR in spite of their folly.

Some history:

1956 - Ike demurred on Hungary. The USSR smashed revolt.

1961 - JFK betrayed the Brigade at Jiron in April.

USSR began the Berlin Wall in ninety days.

Kruschev began putting troops and missiles in Cuba.

1977 - Carter warned of an "inordinate fear of Communism"

1978 - Carter gave away our Panama Canal.

1979 - USSR clients took Angola, Ethiopia, South Yemen

and the Red Army invaded Afganistan. Our ally,

the Shah was overthrown by an anti-US ayatollah.

1980 - Castro emptied his jails in the Mariel Boat Lift.

Note a correlation between your "patience & wisdom" and defeat. Had you noticed SDI


and Grenada were victories? RR's firmness with the USSR also produced victory.

Bill Heuisler

James Driscoll - 1/26/2004 The Marshall plan and the policies laid down by the Truman administration at the end of World War II led inexorably, if slowly, to the end of the Cold War. I spent two years in Germany in the late fifties as an American soldier, and was not optimistic at the time that the experiment would end in democracy gaining a strong foothold. Not long after, John Kennedy cried out earnestly, but in a terrible accent, the famous: \"Ich bin ein Berliner\", and, indeed, the entire world outside the Wall, and the Soviet Union, was transformed at that moment, into honorary citizenship in (western) Berlin, and the fallacy of the Communist system wasstarkly revealed. We needed patience and wisdom for almost thirty more years, but the Soviet system was crumbling all the while. We were also incredibly lucky, considering some of the fingers hovering near the buttons of doom during those years, on both sides.

Today, the German people can give the current president inflicted on the American nation a few lessons in democracy, and representative government. Who would have dreamed, in the immediate decades after the War, that would now be possible?

Reagan, with his simple-minded and belligerent bluster, actually delayed the inevitable end of the east-west standoff. His anti-democratic and murderous escapades in Central America, the Star Wars lunacy, the ridiculous Grenada operation, and other erratic behavior perhaps is evidence of an early onset of the Alzheimer\'s disease that tragically


is correct; the Soviets had plenty of oil and the shortage/embargo in the early Seventies increased their profits on the world oil market. A case could be made that the 1973 oil crisis held up the tottering Soviet giant a few more years. Castro didn't pay for oil. The USSR gave him millions each year in financial credits and trade support in manufactured goods. Cuba made a poor return with a dwindling sugar crop - hardly worth the shipping. Much of Cuba's oil was imported from Mexico's Campeche Banks using tankers registered to places like Liberia and paid in credits from the USSR.

Forget the Caspian Depression oil. Siberia has some of the largest oil reserves in the world - first exploited in the early Twentieth Century. Price hikesonly added to the Soviet economy during the bad times of chronic crop failures and misadventures in the Hindu Kush. Soviet oil exports during the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties were cheap, secondary-overland-pipe exchanges through client countries who paid cash or raw materials, almost pure profit bubbling up from West Siberian permafrost into wellheads built by WWI era Americans and Brits and sloshing through pipes built by WWII German POWs. Ironic.

Bill Heuisler

Oscar Chamberlain - 1/25/2004 I took it that Cur was referring to the widespread impact of the increase in oil prices on nations like Cuba, that the USSR supported and who were hurt badly by those price increases.

The Soviets did get some compensation in terms of increased prices for its oil exports, but the Soviet's poor integration into


security guard standing outside of the bank. Lee swore at the guard, pressed something into the guard's back, and ordered him to jog towards the bank entrance. The security guard believed that Lee had pressed a gun into his back. While Lee forced the guard toward the bank, the guard stated he "heard [Lee] drop what he had been pressing up against [his] back and it made a metallic sound as it hit the ground." Lee denied having a gun at that time, but admitted to having dropped a screwdriver he was carrying, asserting it was carried in case they needed to steal another car. Based on this conduct, the district court applied the sentence enhancement described in section 2B3.1(b)(2)(E) of the Guidelines: "if a dangerous weapon wasin a 1945 production of Maurice Evans's The G.I. Hamlet. Three years later, Walston became one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio.

In 1949, he appeared in the short-lived play Mrs. Gibbons' Boys, directed by George Abbott, who later cast him as Satan (who bore the name "Mr. Applegate") in the 1955 musical Damn Yankees opposite Gwen Verdon as his sexy aide Lola. The chemistry between the two was such that they both garnered critical success and won awards for their roles. After a decade in New York theater, he won a Tony Award.

He starred as Luther Billis in the 1951 London production of South Pacific. He reprised that role in the 1958 film adaptation. He and Juanita Hall (as Bloody Mary) were the


of due process of law.
On May 27, 1980, a complaint was filed in the Justice Court of Flathead County, Montana, charging defendant George Allen with two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and one count of incest. Defendant was arrested, bound over to the District Court on one count of sexual intercourse without consent, a felony, and bail was set in the amount of $45,000.
On July 14, an information was filed in the District Court of Flathead County charging the defendant with sexual intercourse without consent, a felony, involving a regular course of conduct with his daughter, age under 16, commencing in 1977 and continuing to and including September, 1979. Defendant appeared with counsel at the arraignment on July 15, 1980, at which time an amended information wasfiled charging defendant with sexual assault, a felony. Defendant entered a plea of guilty and was released on his own recognizance to permit his admission to the Veterans Hospital in Sheridan, Wyoming, for diagnosis and treatment of any physical or mental problem, and the hearing in aggravation or mitigation of punishment was continued pending completion of a treatment program and a report from that hospital.
On November 3, 1980, a sentencing hearing was held in aggravation or mitigation *381 of punishment. On the same date judgment was entered finding the defendant guilty of sexual assault, sentencing him to 20 years imprisonment, designating him a nondangerous offender for parole purposes, committing him to the Montana State Prison for a 45-day evaluation and report, and providing for further consideration of any


plea of guilty to "sexual assault" and that the recommendation was to be that his entire sentence be suspended. The prosecuting attorney stated at the time that he didn't know what would be a good disposition at that time and that the information was amended because the original charge required a mandatory two-year prison sentence which deprived defendant of the opportunity to show the judge that he should not be incarcerated. The prosecuting attorney further stated that it was his understanding that both attorneys would recommend the Fort Sheridan facility as their expectation was that there they could find out what would be proper. He further stated that the "Fort Sheridan thing" did not work out and they were back in court for the sentencing. He stated thatWon her first event as a collegiate student-athlete in the 200 free relay at Boston University (Oct. 14) ... Competed for Houston in two events at the Conference USA Championships, swimming in the 100 free and a personal-best in the 50 free (24.69).

HIGH SCHOOL

Clark posted four-straight seasons as a state championship qualifier at Badger High School under coach Glenn Biller...Served as a vital piece of the State Champion 200-yard medley relay team (2008) and 400-yard freestyle relay (2011)...Named an All-American from 2008-11...Won the 2011 Southern Lakes Conference Athlete of the Year and was named the team's MVP in the same year.

The Bristol, Wisc., native won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events at the Greenfield Sectional in early November of her senior season to earn her fourth trip to


the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletics Association State Championships...There, she took seventh in the 50-yard freestyle (24.25) and ninth in the 100-yard freestyle (53.27)...Clark qualified multiple times for the YMCA Nationals (2006-11), the Junior Nationals (2008-11) and the ConocoPhillips Short Course National Championships (2008-11).

Clark was also a three-year varsity soccer player for Badger High School...Earned All-Conference accolades in 2008, while guiding her team to conference and regional championships that season...Competed in one year of varsity track and field.

PERSONAL

Daughter of Grant and Tracy Clark...Born on February 27, 1993...A member of the Patriot Aquatics Swim Club team under coach Karl Milkereit...Enjoys surfing, water skiing, wake boarding and spending time with family and friends...Plans to major in communications.There is an ongoing need in the fragrance industry to provide new chemicals to give perfumers and other persons the ability to create new fragrances for perfumes, colognes and personal care products.
The odor of musk is a universally appreciated fragrance and is usually thought of as the animal note in perfumes. A number of naturally occurring species, both of animal and vegetable origin, possess musk odors; however, only the animal sources have achieved any commercial importance. It is because of the high demand, short supply, and expensive cost of these naturally occurring musk odorants that numerous attempts have been made, since the 1920's to synthesize compounds which would duplicate these desirable odors. It has been long and well known that macrocyclic carbonyl compounds having more than 13, but


Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code ("Code") in 1986. Steven R. Levy ("Levy"), a member of the law firm of Dolack Hansler, was appointed trustee on August 26, 1986. Levy then obtained an order from the court on September 17, 1986, allowing him to employ Dolack Hansler as counsel for the trustee. On February 6, 1987, the case was converted to Chapter 7 and Levy was appointed Chapter 7 trustee. Dolack Hansler continued to act as counsel for the trustee. Although the record is unclear, it appears that sometime in 1990 Levy opened his own law office and continued to act in the dual role of trustee and attorney to the trustee. Levy requested and received approximately $240,000 for services provided as attorney.
On March 23, 1994, Levy filedtrustee, Levy needed to provide detailed records of his time spent rendering services as trustee, records which were as detailed as those for his attorney time. This should be true of all cases where a trustee acts as his own attorney. In such cases the trustee should maintain meticulous time records both as attorney and trustee so the court can make a determination of time spent *607 in those roles and the true benefit to the estate in each role.
The Application demonstrates that Levy performed numerous services on behalf of the estate. However, the Application fails to demonstrate the time expended as required by Rule 2016. Based on this record, the Panel finds the Application inadequate such that interim fees should not have been awarded. The Panel notes


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Perth, Australia – 2nd Feb 2011

Do-It-Yourself RFID Video Poker Table kit officially launched today by

developer Andrew Milner.

Watch the brand new demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-p4JNrgQw

In September 2008, video of a prototype RFID Poker Table was released, showing a poker table that

had been equipped with RFID electronics and software that displayed real time video of a poker

game, with graphics that displayed each player's cards as they were dealt.

The video received over 50,000 views on YouTube and resulted in an avalanche of commercial

enquiries. "There was clearly strong demand for a commercial product, but at the time the

technology wasn't available at a viable price point" says Andrew. He added "Today that has changed,

and I'm pleased to be able to announce the launch of a commercial grade kit at a priceGovernor and the Legislature for their consideration and action. The report is available at www.lhc.ca.gov.

Fact Sheet

Study Description

For this study, the Commission examined California’s Denti-Cal program, a Medi-Cal affiliate that provides dental care for low-income Californians, including approximately five million children under 21. This review was requested by Senator and Dr. Richard Pan in an April 6, 2015, request letter to the Commission. Dr. Pan contended that persistent Denti-Cal shortcomings put its beneficiaries at higher risk of dental disease.

The Commission specifically examined the administrative structure of the Denti-Cal program – a division of the California Department of Health Care Services – and explore potential improvements to produce better outcomes for beneficiaries. A December 2014 audit by the California State Auditor reported continuing weaknesses in the program that discourage dentists


in Sacramento.

As part of this review, the Commission will examine the administrative workings of the Denti-Cal program and hear from advocates for improving Denti-Cal outcomes. The Commission also will examine impacts on Denti-Cal patients due to low dental provider participation rates and consider ideas to attract more providers and broaden the availability of care.

At the hearing the Commission will hear from two state legislators who will discuss their reasons for asking the Little Hoover Commission to review the Denti-Cal program. The Commission also will hear from a panel of representatives from the Department of Health Care Services and Delta Dental of California, who will discuss the current administration of the Denti-Cal program. Another panel will include representatives from the California Dental Association and the Children’s Dental Health Clinic,possible solutions and alternatives to the problems currently experienced in the Denti-Cal program.

At the hearing, the Commission will review several possible solutions or alternatives for Denti-Cal, including: targeted reimbursement increases, a greater emphasis on reaching the underserved in their neighborhoods, the dynamic between funding prevention versus restorative care and ideas for emerging dental technologies. The Commission also will hear testimony about the needs of adults in the Denti-Cal program following the restoration of adult dental coverage in 2014. At the hearing the Commission will first hear from a representative who coordinates Medicaid dental benefits for children in Washington state and a former chief dental administrator from Alameda County’s public health department. The second panel will include representatives from First 5 Amador and Sutter Amador Pediatrics, to discuss local


experienced in the Denti-Cal program.

At the hearing, the Commission will review several possible solutions or alternatives for Denti-Cal, including: targeted reimbursement increases, a greater emphasis on reaching the underserved in their neighborhoods, the dynamic between funding prevention versus restorative care and ideas for emerging dental technologies. The Commission also will hear testimony about the needs of adults in the Denti-Cal program following the restoration of adult dental coverage in 2014. At the hearing the Commission will first hear from a representative who coordinates Medicaid dental benefits for children in Washington state and a former chief dental administrator from Alameda County’s public health department. The second panel will include representatives from First 5 Amador and Sutter Amador Pediatrics, to discuss local success in increasing dental prevention and care forby Shaheen with Webster in New York. It is based on the allegation that Shaheen inspected a delivery of soccer balls in Guatemala, found them damaged and requested Franklin survey them in anticipation of Shaheen's filing of a claim. Its adjudication will principally rely on the presentation of witnesses employed by, and the mustering of evidence gathered by, Shaheen and Webster, entities based in New York, and Franklin, an entity based in Guatemala. The convenience to Shaheen of proceeding in a New York forum, versus the significant inconvenience of transporting witnesses and evidence to Pakistan, is therefore real and substantial.
The inconvenience of the New York forum to Asia is relatively slight. Although Asia will likely need to send some employee(s) to testify in New York, and transmit some


The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Loropetalum chinense variety rubrum Yieh and was discovered a branch sport of Loropetalum chinense ‘Shibori’ (unpatented) in Fulshear, Tex.
The genus Loropetalum is included in the family Hamamelidaceae that comprises about 15 genera of shrubs and trees growing in the Northern Hemisphere. Loropetalum comprises one species of evergreen shrub or small tree, which possesses desirable ornamental characteristics. Loropetalum was first introduced to Europe as an ornamental plant the 1880's, and is believed to have been cultivated in North America since the early 1930's.
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum is a native of China, and was first discovered in 1928 in Hunan province. It was rediscovered in the late 1980's and subsequently introduced to the United States. Loropetalum chinense var. rubrumhe front of the newly constructed Sandy Hook Elementary School, built to replace the building torn down after a gunman shot dead 20 young children and six educators in a 2012 massacre, is pictured in Newtown.

Sandy Hook Elementary School students have been sent home for the day after a bomb threat forced an evacuation on the sixth anniversary of the massacre that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

Newtown police say the threat was made at about 9 a.m. Friday and the school was evacuated. Lt. Aaron Bahamonde says there's a heightened level of anxiety in town on the anniversary and the school superintendent decided to cancel remaining classes.

It's unclear whether the threat was related to the bomb threats made nationwide Thursday.

The school where the shooting happened on Dec.


want to read more globally this year, i looked for a books from East Europe, as Romania and Bosnia made cultural headlines yesterday at the international Berlin film festival: indie film from Romania won the Golden Bear. Here's an interesting prize-winner article at the Guardian: "Berlin film festival honours eastern European movie-makers": Two low-budget films, one from Romania and the other from Bosnia,
take top prizes for portrayals of post-communist life." - and here's the film trailer: Child's Pose.
But back to books: Romania. Another country i never read something from, and when looking for detour sunday reads in the currently-for-free-e-book-list, i arrived at the "Here's Romania" book, which includes "58 short stories set in Romania, written by former BBC journalist Mike Ormsby. The preface of the collection consists ofthis single line: "These stories are based on fact. Spooky but true."

Ten Thousand Miles by Freight Train: A Memoir of Beauty and Freedom on the Rails
Another book i came across while browsing said list is the Train Travel memoir by Carrot Quinn - i read into the first lines, and they made me think of "Wild" with their eagerness to get out there, despite lack of money and obstacles and all: "This is the true story of a young woman who sets out across the continent on wild freight trains in search of beauty, freedom and adventure. There is weather, wind, and peril; she becomes hopelessly lost; she lives for days in magical, forgotten forests."
The first train ride leads to Mexico and back, and the second one, i


1776. He said that consumers will
make choices that give them the greatest
amount of satisfaction. He was a
proponent of the invisible hand
(minimizing government intervention in
the marketplace).

3.
CONSUMER PROTECTION IN ANCIENT
TIMES:
• Kautilya’s Arthasasthra
• Sales and Price of commodities were organized.
• Profit and time fixed for Traders.
• Super intendant of Commerce was to supervise weight and
measure.
• Trader who sell inferior goods as a superior goods will be
fined.
People in different parts of the countries today celebrate in
different ways the dates dedicated to the remembrance of
ancient period during which it is believed that , people’s welfare
was the first concern of the rulers.
Eg : Onam festival in Kerala

4.
DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATIVES:
• First consumer cooperative was started in Great Britain in the
year 1844.
• First consumer cooperative store in India came up in
Madras in the year 1904.
• HelpsIndia, the basic reasons for the consumers
movement have been:
• Shortage of consumer products; inflation of early
1970's
• Adulteration and the Black Market.
• Lack of product choices due to lack of development
in technology
• Thrust of consumer movement in India has been on
availability, purity and prices

8.
FACTORS STIMULATED THE CONSUMER
MOVEMENT:
The factors which stimulated the consumer movement
in recent years are:
 Increasing consumer awareness
 Declining quality of goods and services
 Increasing consumer expectations because of
consumer education
 Influence of the pioneers and leaders of the
consumer movement
 Organized effort through consumer societies

10.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CONSUMER
MOVEMENT:
o Development taking place in the field of consumer
education.
o LIC has setup claims review committees at the
zonal & central levels.
o Consumer protection is being incorporated in the
courses at different levels in schools and college.
o The Government of India has set up a


separate
Directorate called Directorate of Public Grievances
at Sardar Patel Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi.

11.
CHALLENGES AHEAD/ TASK FOR THE
FUTURES :
 Making the Consumer Protection Act effective is the first
challenges facing the consumer movement in India.
 Consumer movement needs to be extremely alert regarding
hazardous products entering the country in the wake of
liberalization.
 There are now about 1000 organizations of consumers in
existence, but all the cities and towns have not been covered.
 Lastly, the concern of consumer movement should also be to
discourage racism, communalism, violence & conspicous
consumption.

12.
 The words of Anwar Fazal, Regional Director, United Nations
Development Programme for the Asia Pacific Region, "The
Consumer Movement should be directed towards service to
the people and the Environment instead of just ensuring value
for money for consumers." Consumer movement should seek
a new vision which embodies 3 newhad recently been manufactured with a web-site formerly occupied by a Firestone facility. The plant had not yet come to be entirely operational when the explosions happened. There was no lack of lifestyle due to the incident but shortly after the explosion Osage BioEnergy, the homeowners from the $a hundred and fifty million facility, declared the plant was for sale.

“After a mild pulmonary more info an infection, tended way too minimal and also late, had quickly become a critical pneumonia that took its toll of my overall entire body and laid me up for a minimum of three months at nearby Wels, which has a medical center renowned in the sphere of so-named internal medication, I approved an invite from Hoeller, a so-known as taxidermist within the Aurach


resulted in the deaths of what some estimate to be over 470,000 people. Terrorist groups are proliferating in Syria and conducting attacks in the region and in the West. And the flow of millions of refugees threatens the stability of Syria’s neighbors and the European Union.

To work effectively with Russia, the United States should recognize Putin’s consolidated foreign and domestic policy perspective and use this to its advantage. For several years, Putin’s foreign-policy circle has been shrinking and as the diversity of viewpoints has diminished, so has the variety of regional priorities and the distinction between foreign and domestic politics. If success abroad is a pillar of support at home, then Putin’s zero-sum game is not necessarily between Russian and U.S. interests, but between Russian prestige and U.S.when it is necessary to achieve U.S. goals.

Alexander Decina is a U.S. foreign policy research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He has previously worked in think tanks and NGOs in Beirut, Lebanon, and Iraqi Kurdistan during the Syrian civil war. Eugene Steinberg is an assistant editor at CFR and a rising expert at the Center on Global Interests.

Image: Flickr/U.S. State Department. Public Domain.


Last week was one of those weeks for the Nintendo Switch in Japan, where the console sold more units than all other consoles combined. It shows you just how popular and dominating the console is in Japan right now.

The Switch sold over 53,000 units in Japan last week, the runner up, PS4, sold less than half of that. On the games front, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze on the Switch was once again the best selling games.

Of the top 10 best selling games, 7 were on the Switch.

Here are the complete hardware and software sales numbers for last week in Japan.

Switch – 53,113 PS4 – 25,064 PS4 Pro – 9,930 New 2DS LL – 6,545 Vita – 5,502 New 3DS LL – 3,509 2DS – 731 Xbox One –National Swine Flu Immunization Program (Swine Flu Act) of 1976, Public Law 94-380; 42 U.S.C. § 247b(j)-(1). The program was designed to inouclate the country's adult population against the threat of a swine flu epidemic. On November 16, 1976, thirty days after her vaccination, plaintiff experienced a sudden onset of severe pain in her lower back, followed by tingling and numbness in her legs and torso. She was hospitalized and diagnosed as having a serious neurological disorder known as transverse myelitis. This disease rendered her extremely weak and immobile. She still has residual effects from transverse myelitis.

II.

SUMMARY OF HOLDING
To summarize what we have concluded, we note that Mrs. Unthank developed transverse myelitis as the proximate result of her swine flu inoculation. Additionally, she is entitled to recover damages


from the federal government incurred as a result of that neurological disorder.
In so holding, we do not find the government negligent nor do we rely for plaintiff's recovery on any theory of tort liability. Instead, we are interpreting the Swine Flu Act consistent with its clear and discernible legislative history, the policy expressed by former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr., and the stated position of the Department of Justice in other swine flu litigation.
In our view, the intent of Congress in passing the Swine Flu Act, and the expressed policy of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, support just compensation for a plaintiff whose malady was predictable under the state of medical science in 1976 and was proximately caused by the swinepast.
In 1965 Mrs. Unthank suffered from peptic ulcers and the drug Aventyl was prescribed. She had periodic dizziness. Plaintiff was involved in an automobile accident in 1969 which required treatment for whiplash and pain in her head, right arm and neck. She was hospitalized again in 1970 for the surgical removal of a tumor from her right foot.
Plaintiff's testimony and medical records revealed other less severe medical problems prior to 1976. Although she experienced fatigue due to depression from 1970 to 1973, Mrs. Unthank testified that her energy level returned prior to November 1976. Her medical records indicate that she had fallen accidently on two occasions and sustained minor broken bones. Plaintiff first fell while she was in the mountains collecting rocks and the second fall occurred while


she was carrying one of her children.
*707 Other recitals in the medical records relevant to a neurological diagnosis include complaints in 1973 of instances of incoordination and weakness between 1969 and 1973. The medical records from 1973 to 1976 (time of her swine flu shot) indicate that plaintiff had no significant neurological disorders.
Several items in plaintiff's medical history were the subject of conflicting interpretation by doctors. In 1970 plaintiff complained of vertigo[3] to a family physician. The incident occurred the previous day. Plaintiff testified that she used the term "vertigo" to describe a light sensation on the top of her head. At trial, Charles M. Poser, M.D., a neurologist, testified that her complaint was not medically recognized as vertigo. He explained that vertigo involves a rotatory component andthe patient feels that either she or her environment is spinning.
Another item of controversy in plaintiff's medical records was a reported incident of blurred vision in September 1976.[4] There are three separate reports of this single episode, each indicating that it lasted for a different period of time. One states four hours, another twelve hours, and the last report twenty-four hours. Plaintiff testified that the incident lasted for about forty-five minutes commencing when she awoke in the morning.
As noted, on October 18, 1976 plaintiff received a swine flu vaccination. She encountered no noticeable medical problems for the first thirty days. However, on the evening of November 16, 1976 plaintiff took a hot bath. Upon lifting herself from the bath tub she began experiencing a sharp pain in her


lower back. She related that at first the pain felt like gas, but the intensity increased and the pains persisted. Within a few minutes Mrs. Unthank began experiencing numbness in her right leg which quickly spread to her left leg and torso. At about 10:15 p. m., when she called for the paramedics, she was unable to support herself on her right leg. By the time she arrived at the hospital, about 11:00 p. m., she could not walk, even with the help of two paramedics.
She remained hospitalized from November 17 to December 8, 1976. During that interval she was unable to walk without assistance and had no feeling in her legs. On December 8, 1976 she was transferred to the University of Utah Hospital for rehabilitation. Shecausation in the instant case.
Dr. Petajan ruled out multiple sclerosis and a spinal cord infarction as causes of Mrs. Unthank's condition. He testified that the vaccine was the only viable identifiable cause of the transverse myelitis suffered by plaintiff.
*711 Dr. Petajan eliminated a spinal cord infarction in light of plaintiff's age, her relatively good health prior to the vaccination, the lack of vascular problems, and the loss of sensation experienced by Mrs. Unthank. In ruling out multiple sclerosis, Dr. Petajan found evidence of only one lesion. He testified that multiple lesions are required for an accurate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. In addition, Dr. Petajan found no history of neurologic illness prior to 1976.

B.
Dr. Wirthlin was Mrs. Unthank's treating neurologist while she was first hospitalized. He took an independent


medical history and performed numerous neurological tests. He testified that Mrs. Unthank suffered an idiopathic[11] transverse myelitis. In his opinion, there is no single proven cause of transverse myelitis, although the swine flu vaccine may have been the cause in this case.
In Dr. Wirthlin's view, the episode of transverse myelitis places Mrs. Unthank in the "possible to probable" multiple sclerosis category. According to his medical records, her blurred vision lasted twenty-four hours. While he stated that some of the events in Mrs. Unthank's medical history appeared to be neurological in origin, they could also be explained by her severe depression between 1970 and 1973.

C.
Dr. Matsuo, to whom Mrs. Unthank was referred in 1977, testified that she suffered an acute transverse myelitis as a result of a spinal cordinfarction. He could neither connect nor disprove a relation between the transverse myelitis and the swine flu vaccine. In his opinion, the acute onset and severe pain were indicative of a spinal cord infarction. He testified that the neurological findings were consistent with this diagnosis and that plaintiff's age did not rule out an infarction.
In Dr. Matsuo's notes, plaintiff's episode of blurred vision lasted four hours. While he did not completely rule out multiple sclerosis, he stated that one episode of blurred vision would not support a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

D.
Dr. Aranson[12] testified that, based on the medical records and his experience, plaintiff's transverse myelitis was caused by a pre-existing multiple sclerosis. He did not examine or interview plaintiff. In reaching his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, Dr. Arnason