but I would need to read the original article to be definitive about this. But taking the fall of the Roman Empire in the round, the fact that Europe entered a 1,000 year period which was back at the stage of economic development before the classical Greek and Roman civilisations and largely bereft of the Age of Commerce that they ushered in, suggests that Adam Smith's assessment was correct.

The destruction of the western European economy under the war lords, the great land grab and the almost permanent centuries of warfare between and among local war lords, were not conducive to economic progress. I am not sure we owe very much to the barbarians, whose demise was the appearance of settled fuedalism, almost non-existant trade and thereby local self-sufficiencyof the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns policy, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law; and he says that in the Wealth of Nations he had executed this promise so far as policy, revenue, and arms were concerned, but that the remaining part of the task, the theory of jurisprudence, he had been prevented from executing by the same occupations which had till then prevented him from revising the Theory. He adds: "Though my very advanced age leaves me, I acknowledge, very little expectation of ever being able to execute this great work to my own satisfaction,


for all 31 years; he did not have to make public pronouncements of his intentions to remind readers of what was missing; he wrote and delivered the bulk of his intellectual ‘system’ in his Glasgow lectures in 1751-63 (see his ‘Lectures on Jurisprudence, 1762-3; for which he received his doctorate, LL.D) and he worked diligently from 1778-1790, excepting some minor periods of leave while engaged in publishing editions of his two books and advising the UK government on trade policy and, significantly the American war, as a Commissioner of Scottish Customs in Edinburgh, showing anything but indolence or the effects of ‘advanced age’ right up to a few months before he died.

In this respect note that Smith wrote or signed 90 per cent of the over 1,100 piecesthe parliaments of Scotland and England and of his own predilections that led him to be within the Duke of Argyll’s sphere of interest in those crucial years from which he obtained his education at Glasgow and Oxford, and his chairs at Glasgow University, and knowing from his works of he ‘republican’ sympathies (i.e., ‘democratic’, pro-the lower orders of society and in favour of ‘liberty’), it is not a stretch of conjecture to suggest that the American rebellion posed serious personal problems for Smith.

Wealth of Nations contains material of the ‘recent disturbances’ in the American colonies and he takes a conciliatory line towards the demands of the colonists within a frank discussion of the proper role of colonies in a ‘great Empire’. That is about as far as


he could go without causing political repercussions for himself and for others who espoused similar sympathies. In the context of Smith avowal of the benefits of stability in social harmony, amidst the ever present dangers of ‘factions’ and ‘discord’, he faced a dilemma: to support the cause of constitutional liberty in America was disloyal to the Hanoverian King and government; to oppose the same was disloyal to those principles he enunciated to his classes in 1751-63. He chose to remain silent.

As it was just after his death in 1790, from the time Dugald Stewart read his eulogy in 1793, the political atmosphere had swung towards repression under the influence of the French Terror, and many of Smith’s friends were investigated, along with Smith’s books, for signs of seditionand for stirring up discord among the common peoples. Men of lesser social importance were subjected to judicial punishments, including transportation to New South Wales and in a few instances to hanging. If ‘Jurisprudence’ had been published as it was likely to have been written on the basis of his jurisprudence teachings, the ‘close’ inquiries into Smith’s friends, and his own reputation, would have been a lot ‘warmer’ and discomforting than it was when the authorities only had Wealth of Nations and informers’ reports to go on.

When Smith ordered his unfinished manuscripts to be burned he did not know about the students’ notes, which by then were stored among family papers and forgotten. He could assume that the oral tradition was not a threat to him or others,


next few months. I am connected to Lost Legacy on the net from 10 May on my system at our house there.

Apologies for this interruption to Lost Legacy, which comes at an inconvenient time as in the last week of April Lost Legacy achieved the best number of weekly hits and the largest number of page views since we started in March 2005 (10,000).

As I will be hoping to complete my current project of a volume on Adam Smith for Palgrave's 'Great Thinkers in Economics' series during the next few months in France, I shall have quite a lot to say about Smith's social evolutionary 'system', much of which I hope to share with readers.

I shall also update Smith's bibliography which I first published in 2005 on Lostbest way to lower the price of gas or anything else is to leave it to the marketplace.

CommentHonest enough to admit he hasn't read Wealth of Nations - too long, big words? - but right about gas regulation, Peter Moreira is different from most people who have read Smith's book. Many of them get it all wrong.

Anyway, nice to see the good folks of Nove Scotia are reading good advice (and without any reference to invisible hands and laissez faire!

Monday, May 01, 2006

For a Bit of Balance

“He will, perhaps, be best remembered for his infamous praise of the Soviet economy in the 1980s. Writing in The New Yorker, he said: "That the Soviet system has made great material progress in recent years is evident both from the statistics


Keynes and Smith were each in their own way great explicators of their ideas on how their economies worked. If they wanted to gain and keep the attention of the people who made decisions about the degree of interference in the economy, for good and ill, they had to write clearly (preferably with ‘perspicuity’, as Smith advised his students in his lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Edinburgh and Glasgow between 1749-63).

Whatever stance you take on the different policy issues represented by Galbraith and Friedman, I was struck by the anecdotal reference that the “Friedman's occasionally vacationed with the Galbraith's at the latter's Vermont farm, according to biographer Richard Parker” (in John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005).As a student I attended a lecture given by Milton Friedman in the late 60s at the University of Strathclyde at the height of controversy about his advocacy of economic policies to deal with inflation and he opened with his greetings to fellow citizens of the ‘Republic of Letters – the one true republic’. I think this defused the tension a great deal, enough at least to guarantee him a hearing from an audience containing among it what can only be described as a ‘hostile ’ minority from the largely leftwing faculty. It was the first time I heard the Republic of Letters invoked, though I have heard it many times since, the notion of the Galbraith’s and the Friedman’s vacationing together in peace and harmony as members


as a socialist), the Friedman's occasionally vacationed with the Galbraith's at the latter's Vermont farm, according to biographer Richard Parker.Galbraith, in his book The Affluent Society, argued for the importance of fiscal policy in influencing the allocation of resources between rich and poor. This was to be done through the maintenance of a progressive tax system to insure that the wealthy provided their proportionate share of funding to enable government to channel funds to such endeavors as the environment, support for the poor, and the development of the arts. The objective was to create a society that would provide a better standard of living for all.Friedman, on the other hand, in a book Free to Choose, advocated a minimalist role for government, relying instead on lower tax ratesto provide the wherewithal for Americans to decide for themselves how they wished to live and spend their increased take-home pay. In another work coauthored with Anna Jacobson Schwartz, The Monetary History of the United States, he had earlier argued, however, for a significant government role in managing monetary policy to guard against the booms and busts that characterized the early part of the twentieth century. According to this thesis, by regulating the supply of money, governments could have an immediate and important impact on such things as interest rates, inflation, and general economic prosperity. “

From: “Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith? by Professor Jim Heskett.

I wonder how many in that audience have since changed their minds of the certainties they


In this Thursday, May 23, 2019, photo, an official of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources hugs Marium, a baby dugong separated from her mother, near Libong island, Trang province, southern Thailand. The baby dugong that has developed an attachment to humans after getting lost in the ocean off southern Thailand is being nurtured by marine experts in hopes that it can one day fend for itself.(Sirachai Arunrugstichai via AP)

In this Thursday, May 23, 2019, photo, an official of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources hugs Marium, a baby dugong separated from her mother, near Libong island, Trang province, southern Thailand. The baby dugong that has developed an attachment to humans after getting lost in the ocean off southern Thailand is being nurtured by marine expertsin hopes that it can one day fend for itself.(Sirachai Arunrugstichai via AP)

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on the bed but then thought that _they_ might have sat here. They'd probably looked between the mattress and the springs. They'd felt the pillow. They'd run their hands along the same sheets where she and her lover had lain. She dropped the card and saw, as it flipped over and over, the words _Please call me_.... _Det. William Corde_ flash on and off then disappear as the card landed in the wastebasket. She wondered if even the trash had been violated. Emily walked into the hall then into the telephone alcove.

She made a call and stiffened slightly when someone answered. "It's Emily.... I have to see you. No, now." She listened for a moment to vehement protests then answered defiantly. "It's about Jennie." The voice on thepackages? Old horses? Old pigs? Strumm shit?

"I'd write you boys a check for two hundred thousand dollars if you built a reactor and named it after me."

Sayles said quietly, "Hal, we need three and a half million."

_Nip_.

"That much, hum? I couldn't come close to that. Been a bad year for the company. Economy's down, people get rid of plants. First thing to go. I'm not recessionproof like everybody says."

"Auden's going to close."

"Even if I had a stadium and a reactor both I couldn't come up with much more than a quarter million."

"We can name a chair after you. A building. We've got a couple buildings. You could have your pick."

"Three hundred's the top. Maybe for a vet school I could go up to three-fifty but that'd be the


he’d founded was housed in a former auto repair shop in a rundown Philly neighborhood, a few doors down from an adult video store.

Ghorab also managed to incur a visa violation, the kind of error that would have been shrugged off months earlier, but times had changed. Authorities swept down upon Ansaarullah, arresting its leader as he dropped off his daughter Eliza at school, in full view of other parents, children and teachers. (No one could explain why the arrest was made so publicly, instead of home at the mosque, where Ghorab quietly spent his days.) Subsequently he was deported.

Other members of the congregation were arrested or fled, while the mosque was raided and searched. Nothing incriminating was ever found, but the building closed in 2008, unable toamong other outlets. He is a lifelong music obsessive whose interests range from rock to folk to hip-hop to international to blues. He currently lives in western Massachusetts, where he works in human services. Catch up with his blog, The Party Never Stops, at davidmaine.blogspot.com, or become his buddy on Facebook (or Twitter or Google+ or whatever you prefer) to keep up with reviews and other developments.


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Deng couldn't travel with the Bulls for the franchise's Game 7 against the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center after getting admitted to the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Deng suffered leakage of spinal fluid and several discomforting side effects after getting a spinal tap in his lower back, to test for viral meningitis, before Game 6 on Thursday. Deng had also been suffering from the flu.

He missed Game 6 of the series, along with Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich. Chicago has played without its star point guard, Derrick Rose, the entire season.

Deng had averaged 16.5


has been reflected in Trump's comments, officials said, and some of that intelligence will be available to members of Congress who oversee the intelligence community.

If the Saudis offer an explanation — such as that Khashoggi died during a botched interrogation — that is contradicted by U.S. intercepts or other intelligence, the Trump administration would face pressure to dispute it.

In the White House, Trump and his aides have been focused on preventing the debacle from disrupting the U.S.-Saudi relationship, which the Trump administration sees as key to its broader Mideast agenda and its campaign to isolate mutual foe Iran, officials say. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser who is close to Crown Prince Mohammed, has emphasized that as a close U.S. partner, Saudi Arabia should be treated differentlyin this situation than if it were a U.S. enemy.

Pompeo, who traveled this week to Riyadh to discuss the situation with Saudi leaders, was stern in his meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed, two U.S. officials familiar with the meeting said. Pompeo emphasized that the U.S. is committed to maintaining its close relationship with Saudi Arabia and working together on Iran but can no longer tolerate domestic messes like the Khashoggi killing, the officials said. In recent months Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed have also attracted negative international headlines for crackdowns on women's rights activists and a heavy-handed corruption purge in which princes and members of the business elite were rounded up and jailed in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton.

Although the U.S. currently lacks definitive proof, officials say there is


a strong circumstantial case linking the killing to the crown prince, including published reports in recent days that many members of the Saudi team Turkey has accused of killing the journalist had ties to the prince.

Moreover, experts say, Salman's total control of the Saudi security apparatus makes it almost inconceivable that Khashoggi's death was the result of a "rogue operation."

"It's possible that there was a complete misunderstanding, a partial understanding or that what happened in Istanbul was somehow ordered by him," said Jon Alterman, a former State Department official and Mideast expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "But it's very hard for me to imagine — given what I've heard about the crown prince and how his office works — that people were wildly freelancing."

Togain a fuller picture of what transpired, former intelligence officials say, the National Security Agency, which specializes in eavesdropping and hacking communications, would seek to obtain any evidence as part of the U.S. intelligence collection effort targeting this incident, including stealing audio and video surveillance maintained by private companies or the Turkish or Saudi governments.

Foreign consulates are often the targets of CIA recruiting, former officials say, meaning it is possible the CIA or an American ally such as Britain, Israel or Jordan has a paid informant inside the facility.

The mandate to the NSA would be "give me everything you got," said former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin, now an NBC News analyst, who briefed Republican and Democratic presidents. "They are constantly sweeping up stuff and most of it


to the leading end so as to oppose the leading end to the preceding tape, a movable holder disposed on the other side of the transport path at the joining station for releasably holding the rear end of the preceding tape, means for pressing the movable holder against the fixed holder at the joining station, and an accumulator provided downstream from the joining station for sufficiently slackening the tape to be transported.
The apparatus described essentially requires the accumulator for continuously feeding the tape, but it is favorable to dispense with the accumulator if possible.Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode

Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode is an ode "So many true Princesses who have gone" written by John Masefield and set to music for choir and orchestra by Sir Edward Elgar for the occasion of the unveiling of Sir Alfred Gilbert's memorial to Queen Alexandra on 8 June 1932 outside Marlborough House in London.

History
It was Masefield's first commission as Poet Laureate, and Elgar, as Master of the King's Musick, was requested to set the verses in mid-May 1932, shortly before his seventy-fifth birthday.  Elgar originally set the poem to an orchestral accompaniment but, due to a change of plan, the accompaniment was hurriedly re-arranged by Captain Andrew Harris of the Welsh Guards so it could be played by a military band.

The day chosen for


gay, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBTQ), either in the workplace or any other arena of daily life.

“It is constitutionally jarring to know that, in most states, a lesbian couple can get married on Saturday and be fired from their jobs on Monday, without legal redress,” notes the legal scholar William Eskridge, professor at Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn.

And many throughout the country, even those with liberal-leaning views, continue to be uneasy about the presence of transgender people in certain sensitive places, including school bathrooms and locker rooms.

On Friday, President Trump issued a policy memo that would disqualify most transgender people from serving in the military, after tweeting about his plans to issue such a ban last July. As Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reported to the presidentEarlier today, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed a number of Embassies of foreign countries in Pyongyang, including the British Embassy, and representatives of international organisations that they would be unable to guarantee the safety of Embassies and international organisations present in the country in the event of conflict. They invited the Embassies and organisations present at the meeting to inform them by 10 April what assistance they would require from the DPRK should they wish to be evacuated from DPRK or to be relocated elsewhere.


Aberdeen hope to leave Pittodrie by 2017

Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne hopes to announce details of a new training facility in the next few months.

He also aims to have the Dons playing in a new stadium by 2017, assuring fans work is ongoing behind the scenes to eliminate the club's debt.

"We would hope to be in a position within the next few months to announce something on the training facilities," he told BBC Scotland.

"Then they'll be delivered over a period of time."

Aberdeen finished third in the Premiership last season, their highest placing in the league since 2006-07. They also captured the League Cup for the first time since 1995.

Many pundits have predicted the Dons are the most likely team to give Celtic a long awaited challenge for the leaguetitle. However Milne insists that despite the club's progress under manager Derek McInnes, the championship, for the moment, is out of reach.

"I think we made serious progress last season, probably way beyond what everyone thought we were capable of doing," he said.

Interview - Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne

"Since Derek came into the club he's given us a real lift, he's built on the platform that Craig [Brown] and Archie [Knox] created. He's just developed a whole new approach within the club.

"The bonus of course was winning the League Cup and I think there's a genuine belief that we can build on last year's performances.

"Turnover-wise and player budget-wise Celtic will always be a multiple of what Aberdeen is.

"I think the important thing from our point of view is we've got


a squad of players there and a management team that go out wanting to and believing that we can win every game. We just want to finish as high up the league as we possibly can.

"If any team is going to challenge it's going to be on the back of another three or four strong teams at the top of the league as well.

"It is a great disappointment that we've got Hearts, Hibs and Rangers in the Scottish Championship, but this is the league we've got for the season ahead.

"I think last season was probably one of the best seasons that Scottish football has had for a long time. Hopefully we can build on that with the teams that are in the league this year.

"I think every club(CNN) An Oakland firefighter is at the center of the latest high-profile case of what appears to be racial profiling in the area.

Last month, Kevin Moore and some colleagues were performing routine inspections in the upscale Oakland Hills, which has some of the priciest real estate in the Bay Area. Another firefighter, Megan Bryan, was so frustrated with the treatment he received from residents during the inspection, she wrote a post about it on Facebook

Because California wildfires have been devastating in recent years, Oakland Fire Fighters scour neighborhoods looking for fuel, such as dead trees and brush, to help mitigate a potential disaster.

The fuel inspections are done annually and fire fighters try to alert the residents by knocking on doors and ringing doorbells. If no one is home,


The spectacular ‘lost city of the Incas’ high among the Andes mountains in Peru attracts so many visitors today and their presence causes so much damage that a limit has had to be put on their numbers. Hiram Bingham, the man who first revealed it to the world, was a buccaneering American explorer, born in Hawaii in 1875. His parents were missionaries and hoped he would follow in their footsteps, but his youthful efforts to do so made him feel physically sick and he preferred playing American football. Educated privately in New England, he went to Yale University in 1894 to embark on an academic career. He was strongly interested in Latin American history and studied for his PhD in it at Harvard. Fortunately for him and theworld at large in 1900 he married – to her parents’ dismay – a girl called Alfreda Mitchell. She was an heiress to the Tiffany jewellery fortune and Bingham used her money to travel in South America. He was appointed a lecturer at Yale but found exploring far more interesting than teaching. His enthusiasm for exploring extended to women as well and he took full advantage of his travels away from home.

In 1906 Bingham traced Simon Bolivar’s routes through Venezuela and Columbia in the 1820s. In 1909 he explored historic South American trade routes and took the old one from Buenos Aires to Lima in Peru, going on to Cuzco. In 1911 he led a small expedition to Peru in search of the ‘lost city’ of Vilcabamba, the


last refuge of the Inca Manco Capac II, who fought against the Spanish conquerors in the 1530s. This took Bingham and his party of seven to Cuzco and from there by mule and on foot to a small settlement called Mandor Pampa, near Aguas Calientes, where they encountered a local farmer named Melchor Arteaga. Through Bingham’s policeman-interpreter, Arteaga told him that there were extensive ruins high in the mountains nearby at what Arteaga in his native Quechua called Machu Picchu, meaning ‘old mountain’.

They climbed up to the ruins next morning through a persistent drizzle of rain. No one else in Bingham’s party showed any interest, but Bingham, Arteaga and the interpreter spent two exhausting hours clambering up the mountain to a small hut occupied by peasants who weregrowing crops there. They greeted the American hospitably and deputed a small boy to show him the astonishing things close by. They soon came to what Bingham called ‘an unexpected sight, a great flight of beautifully constructed stone terraces, perhaps a hundred of them, each hundreds of feet long and 10 feet high.’ They continued along one of the terraces: ‘Suddenly I found myself confronted with the walls of ruined houses built of the finest quality of Inca stonework.’ The ruins were overgrown by trees, bamboo thickets and tangles of vines and covered with moss, but the white granite walls were ‘carefully cut and exquisitely fitted together’ and the scene ‘fairly took my breath away.’

Bingham was sure he had discovered Vilcabamba. He believed that to the end of


his life, mistakenly as it turned out, and he was fascinated by the mystery and magic of the place, with the great snowy peaks looming above it. Returning in succeeding years he took thousands of photographs. He also took thousands of objects to the United States for study and safekeeping, which was to cause wrangling between the Peruvian government and Yale University for years afterwards.

After the First World War Bingham went into politics in Connecticut and was US senator for the state at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. He and Alfreda had seven children but by 1937 she could stand his persistent infidelity no longer and divorced him. In the 1950s he had a controversial role as head of President Truman’s new Loyalty Review Board, whichmade it easier to dismiss civil servants for Communist sympathies. He died in Washington DC at the age of 80 in 1956.

The Spanish conquistadors never saw Machu Picchu and consequently never wrote about it. A few other outsiders had seen it in the years before Bingham, but he was the one who revealed it to the world at large and it made him famous. He has a moon crater named after him and the character of Indiana Jones is thought to owe something to him but he is not highly regarded by scholars. He was not trained in archaeology, his theories were wrong and the real Vilcabamba was discovered by another American explorer, Gene Savoy, in 1964. Machu Picchu is now believed to have been the mountain retreat


The present invention relates to a vehicle lamp device, more particularly to a vehicle lamp device illuminating forward which includes a housing displaceable rearward when the vehicle lamp device collides with an obstacle.
A vehicle lamp device includes a headlamp, fog lamp, and turn signal lamp at the front end of a vehicle as well as a tail lamp, stop lamp, turn signal lamp at the rear end of the vehicle. In such vehicle lamp devices, the headlamp and the fog lamp at the front end of the vehicle are specifically provided for enhancing the visibility to road ahead and obstacles (objects) on road when the vehicle is running at night, in a tunnel, or in a limited visibility under bad weather.
In late years, in order to relieve thethe housing accommodates a reflector, a bulb and others therein. A pair of upper and lower inclinable stays is coupled with a vehicle body, and a slit is formed in each end portion of the inclinable stays. A pair of upper and lower brackets is also secured to the rear end portion of the housing, and an engaging pin is attached to each the bracket wherein each the slit (engaged portion) of inclinable stays is releasably engaged with corresponding the engaging pin. In a normal condition, the inclinable stays are kept in their approximately vertical posture to maintain the engagement of the engaging pins and the slits. For example, in the collision with an obstacle, each inclinable stay inclines or rotates to its approximately horizontal position to allow


Counting exercise at Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan after government order to deposit donations daily. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna) Counting exercise at Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan after government order to deposit donations daily. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna)

Minutes after the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan shuts for the afternoon, the main hall is abuzz. This is the time the deity is supposed to sleep but 15 uniformed guards troop in and sit in circles atop a wide alcove. There are a few armed policemen around.

Four lawyers, in black coats, take up positions on chairs arranged in front of the guards and sit among two members of the temple trust. Another guard drags a heavy strong box and places it in front of the lawyers and trustees.

WatchVideo| Here’s How Banke Bihari Temple In Vrindavan Counts Donations Post Demonetisation

All is ready now. The lawers and trustees nod in approval. Seconds later, five locks — sealed and marked — on the strong box are opened and out tumbles a cascade of currency notes. One of the guards gives a gentle shake to nudge out more notes and coins — of all denominations. The notes are piled on a blanket and passed on to the guards sitting above, who begin counting and stacking them.

This is Vrindavan post demonetisation. With banks running out of currency notes and money in short supply from treasury chests, the government has directed the biggest temples in Vrindavan to deposit the money they receive in donations into their bank accounts every day.

The Banke


It’s always risky to speak with too much certainty about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s prospects for the Democratic presidential nomination, but her devastating defeat of Sen. Bernie Sanders in South Carolina last weekend appears to have put her on track for a near sweep of Tuesday’s dozen Democratic primary contests throughout the country.

Her dominance over the Vermont democratic socialist among black, female, middle-aged and older voters in the Palmetto State points to a repeat performance in a handful of Southern and Southwestern states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Texas – the cherry on top of the electoral sundae, with 222 delegates at stake.

Related: After Shellacking in South Carolina, Sanders Looks to Pick up the Pieces

Sanders may pick up important support from Hispanics, especially youngerpeople and college students enamored of his talk of political and economic “revolution” and promise of free college tuition and “Medicare for all.” But Clinton’s campaign insists that the former senator and first lady did better among Hispanics in Nevada than network entrance polls suggest. And if she can come close to replicating her five-to-one margin of victory among African Americans in South Carolina, many of the southern races will be a blow out for Clinton on Tuesday.

Sanders, the darling of progressive Democrats who put a scare into Clinton’s campaign with narrow losses to her in Iowa and Nevada and a big win in New Hampshire, has lost momentum. He is now struggling to slow Clinton’s march to the magic number of 2,382 delegates needed to lock up


the nomination.

Not surprisingly, he holds a huge lead over Clinton going into the primary in his home state of Vermont. But it is a surprise that he is trailing her in Massachusetts, where he was expected to do very well, by eight percentage points in the latest poll. And Clinton leads in Minnesota, which at one time was thought to be another Sanders stronghold.

Clinton and Sanders will be competing in 12 contests – 11 states and American Samoa -- with 865 delegates up for grabs, or roughly 20 percent of the total. A candidate needs to amass at least 2,382 of the 4,763 delegates to the national convention in Philadelphia this summer to claim the nomination.

Related: Clinton Is Under Mounting Pressure to Release Her Wall Street Speeches

Currently, Clintonaway from me. Reporter: She gets out. Turn around and face your vehicle. Ma'am, listen to me. Reporter: Then changes her mind. Her 14-year-old son gets out and scuffles with the officer before rushing into the car. Open the door! Oh the door! Reporter: Things escalate. The officer smashing the side rear window with his baton. Ferrell's five kids inside, creaming. Her drives away again -- another officer fires at the minivan. This morning, she's faces charges inkuding child abuse, feeing from authorities, and possession of drurg parapherna paraphernalia. Her son charged with abuse of an officer. According to her website, she's a mother, an empowerment coach. Schedule one-on-one time. It's simple. Reporter: Her lawyer tells abc news they have no comment. New mexico police say all three


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Brockenhurst is a good example of a village that has migrated over the years leaving its parish church stranded outside the village.

Run your mouse over the small maps and watch Brockenhurst move.

The original village clusters around and below St Nicholas' Church at the top of the hill.

With the coming of the turnpike the village slowly migrates down the hill to the new road, and starts to spread along Brookley Road to the west.

In 1847 the railway cuts the village in half, reroutes the Beaulieu Road and makes the oldChurch Road redundant.
Pressure from sucessive Lords of the Manor ensures that all new development take place north of the railway line.

St Nicholas may be stuck on a hill all by itself but what a little gem it is.
It claims to be the oldest church in the forest. The church certainly existed by 1086 as it is recorded in the Domesday Book and, going further back,
there is some evidence of Saxon stonework by the South Door.

Some people have speculated that the mound the church sits on may be partly artificial, and certainly the word 'henge' immediately sprang to my mind
when I saw the bank behind the parking area.

Given the early Christians habit of building churches on old pagan sites of worship, it is quite possible that this has been


a religious site
since Bronze Age times.

Like most old New Forest churches, St Nicholas is a glorious mixture of different periods.
The original Nave dates from around 1130
and contains some fine late Norman stonework, particularly the South Doorway.
The addition of the neo-classicalNorth Aisle and the Gallery in 1832
more than doubled the capacity of the church

The windows on the north side contain some lovely stained glass from the 1930s.
It is often said that glass from this period lacks the vibrancy of both earlier and more recent glass, but I rather like the subtlety and fine detail it often presents.

The Chancel dates from around 1260 (as does the Porch)
with a fine 17th century barrel vaulted roof.
Its chief glory however is the stained glass in the four side windows depicting grapes, sunflowers, liliesand passion flowers. They are believed to date from about 1877.

Outside, the Tower was completed in 1763, the earlier one having been in danger of falling down.
It is a fine example of Georgian brickwork surmounted by a short octagonal spire
covered in Mathematical Tiles.

The Great Yew tree has been carbon dated to be more than 1000 years old and there is every reason to believe that it is at least as old as the church.
It has a trunk over 6 meters (20 feet) in diameter at its widest. Like most yews of its age, the trunk is hollow and the width is in part due to splitting.

The churchyard was full of bluebells when I visited in early May. Bluebells are a rarity in the forest due to the pressure


of browsing animals,
and it is only in enclosed areas, such as churchyards that they are to be found in abundance,

You could spend all day in the churchyard trying to decipher the inscriptions on the old gravestones, including that of 'Brusher Mills', a local snake-catcher.
However, perhaps the most surprising sight is the Anzac War Cemetery.

Finding the graves of almost 100 New Zealanders and being reminded of the horrors of the Great War in such a stark way,
in the peace and quiet of the English countryside is quite a shock to the system.

Why are they here? Well between 1916 and 1918 the No.1 New Zealand General Hospital was based at three sites around Brockenhurst.
At its height this had a staff of over 300 and admitted, on average, around 26 patientsa day.

Brockenhurst Village

As explained above, the modern village of Brockenhurst post-dates the arrival of the railway.
This includes St Saviours Church, originally built as a private chapel for Rhinefield House,
but given to the town in 1890.

The best that can be said for the rest of the village is that it is blessedly free of the 'gifty' shops that swamp so many villages in tourist areas.
It is a real village with shops for local people.

For much of the information on this page I am indebted to the excellent leaflets, listed below, that are for sale in both churches.


It is saddening that the
latest celebrity to succumb to the fallacious Palestinian narrative
of the relationship between the Palestinian population and Israel is
Alice Walker, the distinguished Afro-American writer whose book The
Color Purple was a prize-winning contribution to American
literature. In a letter of June 9, 2012 to the Israeli
publisher Yediot Books she refused to allow the publication of a
Hebrew translation of her renowned book, dealing with racism in the
United States South, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in
1983.

Her letter is more based on fiction and misconceptions
than on fact. She argues that “Israel is guilty of apartheid and
persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in
the Occupied Territories.” This goes even further than most of
those who charge Israel with the appellation “apartheid,” since
they apply the term only towhich He chooses the finest of His
believers, as it is written in the words of the Prophet.”

How does Alice Walker’s accusation of apartheid apply
to the reality of the recent Israeli case where a supreme court of
two women and an Arab convicted a former president of the state of
sexual offenses? Alice Walker appears to be so entrenched in
her anti-Israeli views that she is apparently preparing to take part
in another flotilla to Gaza. On the way there she may witness the
10.000 rockets in Gaza, some of which are deployed daily against
Israeli civilians, the 50.000 missiles in the hands of Hezbollah in
Lebanon, the absence of Israeli settlers in Gaza and in Sinai, the
attacks on the pipeline in Sinai that exports gas to Jordan and
Israel, and the fence that Israel is building


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After working his way into the Wallabies squad after missing most of the Super Rugby season, Drew Mitchell is in line for another year on the sidelines, and another missed season of Super Rugby ahead for the winger.

Rugby365.com reports that Mitchell ruptured an ankle tendon in Australia’s 22 – 0 defeat to New Zealand, with the winger told that the recovery after surgery anything up to 12 months.

This is the umpteenth time that Mitchell is forced into rehabilitation following serious injuries, and it remains to be seen if he will make it back into the Australian side after yet another setback.


The sounds of Athens today evoke the sounds of another capital in economic distress around ten years ago, Buenos Aires.

Argentina had seen it all, hyperinflation, the high unemployment, economic contraction, a run on the banks, a freeze of deposits and a colossal national debt. And all that brought the protestors out to the streets with pots and pans. In December 2001, Argentina defaulted on around $100 billion. Then came a big devaluation of the Argentine peso, which had been pegged to the dollar, and then came austerity measures which brought out still more protestors.

So, is the Argentine crisis safely consigned to history or does it still plague Argentina and what possible lesson is there in that story for Greece? Well, Martin Redrado is a former president of theCentral Bank of Argentina and joins us from Buenos Aires. Welcome.

(SOUNDBITE OF PROTESTERS)

MARTIN REDRADO: Good to be here.

SIEGEL: And tell me, in what ways has Argentina recovered from the default of 2001 and in what ways would people still feel it there every day, in everyday life?

REDRADO: Well, the fear of 2002 was of great anarchy in Argentina and the poverty rates increased to around 28 percent of the population. So I wouldn't recommend the route that Argentina has taken to any country around the world. Although the country's back on its feet, clearly there are a lot of social issues and social inequalities that need to be tackled.

SIEGEL: Let me read to you, though, what Paul Krugman(ph) wrote a few days ago about the relevance of Argentina


RICHMOND, VA (WTVR) –The Federal Aviation Administration last week released a list of 63 authorized drone launch sites in 20 states, including spots in Virginia.

The information was released after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

There are several active locations in Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University was previously listed as a drone spot. Active locations in the state include Virginia Tech University, the United States Marine Corp north of Fredericksburg and DARPA in Arlington.

The EFF has compiled this information into an interactive Google map. Just click on the image to go directly to the map site and see all the locations. Red flags show active sites and blue show those locations where licenses have expired since 2006.

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Ecological impacts of tall buildings

What are the environmental factors of tall buildings?

(Updated June 2013) At the council meeting on Dec 16, 2010, a council member asked the Planning Department about optimal building heights in terms of environmental factors. The staff response lasted about a minute. Speaking as Director of Planning, Brent Toderian advised our elected officials that the optimal height of a building is sixty storeys. Upon further research, people will realize that the topic is MUCH more complex and deserves a fair discussion. At the time Council requested from Planning Department data comparing energy performance of different building forms. What were they told at the time? An honest discussion is needed. Our elected officials are generally not academically or professionally trained in architecture or land use. TheyAfter a two-and-a-half-year wait, the Canadian health authority has approved an abortion pill that's used in nearly 60 countries worldwide.

Following a series of delays, Health Canada announced this week the drug mifepristone will be available in January 2016 through a doctor's prescription — prompting cheers from abortion advocates and warnings from pro-lifers.

Experts tell VICE News the newly approved drug will be safer and more effective than the current cocktail of harsh pills prescribed for medical abortions, but it won't necessarily mean an end to issues of access to abortion in Canada.

Abortion is legal in Canada, but access is patchy. One province, Prince Edward Island, has no abortion clinics, so women and trans people aiming to terminate their pregnancies must leave the island for surgery. For patients seeking non-surgical


abortions, it can be tough to find physicians who will prescribe abortion pills, meaning patients rely on word of mouth to access medical abortions in PEI.

If a patient finds a willing doctor, the physician can prescribe a cocktail of misoprostol, an abortion pill with spotty results when used alone, and a harsh drug called methotrexate that is also used to treat cancer.

Mifepristone, on the other hand, is recognized as the "gold standard" for medical abortions, according to its manufacturer Linepharma International Limited. Also known as RU-486, the drug works by suppressing progesterone, and is safe to use up to nine weeks of pregnancy.

It was first approved in France in 1988, in Britain in 1991, and in the United States in 2000. Despite its ubiquity around the world, inCanada its approval has been somewhat controversial. The pill was denounced by Jim Hughes, the national president of Campaign Life Coalition, as a "human pesticide which kills the pre-born child and harms women."

But as one OBGYN told VICE News over the phone Thursday, it's shocking mifepristone wasn't approved earlier in Canada.

"It's not a revolutionary new drug," said Dr. Robyn MacQuarrie, who practices in Nova Scotia. "It's been well accepted that Canadian women have the right to control their reproduction, and medication like this has been sitting there for three years during the approval process when it's not a revolutionary therapy."

Health Canada's delayed approval of mifepristone had to do with politics, she believes, not the safety of the drug.

"It's something that clearly falls in the realm of politicking. And


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Leandrew "L-Rock" Beasley, a drug dealer with a history of gun violence, took part in a wild and deadly shootout on the Northeastside not long after getting out of prison in 2012.

In the melee, Beasley clutched a gun in each fist, blasting away. More than 40 shots were fired as neighbors huddled in their homes and bystanders were only yards away.

James Allen III was struck by six bullets, including a fatal shot to the head. Yet another name was added to the long list of Indianapolis murder victims — a toll that accelerated this year causing the community and public officials to join in discussions and seek answers to a deadly surge in gun violence.

And, while many agree that attacking root causes such aspercent of cases.

• A change in the state's criminal code that began July 1 reduced the jail time for possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.

Why the charges meant to keep gunslingers off the street are dropped is a complicated question tangled in prosecutorial will, rules of evidence and sentencing practices written into the law. But when shown The Star's findings, Newman called for legislation to close the incentive to bargain away such charges. It is an idea endorsed by public safety officials.

'I'm angry that he was out'

The serious violent felon law has been called "the homicide prevention statute," but it didn't stop Beasley and others.

Beasley, 33, had all the hallmarks of why the law was written. At his sentencing hearing, the prosecutor noted that Beasley


had a juvenile record and seven convictions as an adult, with 19 arrests.

"He's had many chances," the prosecutor told the judge.

Beasley had a long rap sheet that included multiple drug and gun arrests, including two convictions for carrying a handgun without a license.

In 2008 and again in 2009, Beasley was charged with possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. But prosecutors dropped the charges both times. Instead, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges: visiting a common nuisance in the 2008 case and resisting law enforcement in the 2009 case, both pleas coming during former prosecutor Carl Brizzi's term.

Had he been convicted on the 2009 gun charge and received even the advisory sentence of 10 years, rather than the maximum of 20 years, Beasley would have beenin prison today. Instead, he was released in May 2012.

Back on the streets, Beasley quickly returned to his old ways, carrying a gun despite the legal prohibition placed on felons. And soon, his gun came into play in a dispute with Allen. The day before Allen was killed, the pair struggled over a gun, and Allen fired a shot that grazed Beasley with a bullet.

In the next day's shootout, Allen was killed. Beasley was convicted of murder and the attempted murder of Allen's cousin. He is appealing.

Allen's mother, Sylvia Tolbert of Indianapolis, told The Star her son had a troubled past but was putting his life together.

Tolbert bristled when told that Beasley's previous gun charge had been dropped.

"I'm angry that he was out," Tolbert said. "If he still


gun charges and given the advisory sentence.

Dorvae Barnett, 36, was charged with possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon in 2011 after police responded to a report of a loud party at an apartment and found a gun in the bathroom. Barnett's cousin, who lived in the apartment, and her boyfriend both told police the gun belonged to Barnett, who admitted police might find his fingerprints on the gun because he had moved it.

Despite not being able to give police a reason for why he would have moved the gun, the state dismissed the charge because a key witness could not be located for the trial. Barnett was charged with murder in 2013 in the shooting of James Chatman after an argument. In March, he wasfound guilty of reckless homicide and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Anthony Spearman, 23, was charged with possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon in June 2013, but was found not guilty after a judge disallowed the evidence because of problems with the arrest.

Less than a year later, Spearman was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Kevin Coughlin, who was found bound and shot in an alley just south of West 34th Street on April 23. He is now awaiting trial. While in jail, Spearman had his telephone privileges revoked for contacting a prosecution witness, even though he had signed a no contact order.

Daryl Gilbert, 31, was charged with serious violent felon in possession of a firearm in December 2010, but found not guilty


thrown out by the court, as in the Spearman case. But only 11 percent of all the gun charge cases dismissed by prosecutors during the five years studied by The Star were for evidentiary reasons.

Other times prosecutors bargain away such a charge in order to secure a guilty plea on another charge.

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said his office often dismisses a charge in negotiations to get a guilty plea on another charge.

That's typical of other prosecutors as well. A large majority of cases nationwide are plea bargained. While the most recent cases examined by The Star, from 2011-2014, were dismissed by Curry, a Democrat, his predecessor, Republican Carl Brizzi, dismissed gun charges at a comparable rate from 2009-2010.

Typically, Curry said, the guilty plea is on a chargethe groups; see
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See especially, "Anchoring vision in a set of governing ideas," pages 223-225.I even heard a full Clash album. 'London Calling' album's my favourite of theirs but it's not a good example of the Clash's roots etc, it's something like 'pop punk' and I only use the word punk there because it's the Clash innit.

I think Strummer proved what a fantastic front man he was, with the Clash and then solo/with Mescaleros, but he was a living contradiction I suppose. And he couldn't be trusted with anyone's girlfriend or wife either! He was also a brilliant writer and vocalist, and the good Clash stuff is superb as is his work after the band. The poorer material is average at best compared to other bands' output but at least their split wasn't particularly acrimonious, unlike 'our' band's (okay, Hugh left, it


, painted , spikes/Mohican , bondage trousers) . The first bands had other influences whether it be blues , rock n roll or whatever , but the later bands were following the early works of the first punks and trying to be harder versions of that ( ie Crass, Conflict , Exploited ) . Whereas many of the originals had success or changed and became successful , I don't think th elater bands were that intested in chart success outside of the punk fans following them , it certainly wasn't music that was aimed at success . I liked both/all versions of punk from 77-85 - I did find the later bands more "honest" , but the earlier one's were more intelligent and inventive.may be inserted along with the hidden lock. This embodiment allows the hidden lock to then connect the fence rail and fence post together.
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their operating experience had been negatively impacted. Senior residents thought that their education had been negatively affected, while junior residents thought that their operating experience in general had been negatively affected. Senior residents and attending surgeons felt that continuity of care had been negatively impacted. All agreed that quality of life for the residents had improved and that residents were more rested. On the basis of the survey data, the implementation of the new work-hour restrictions was found to result in a decrease in the number of hours worked per week for PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents and in an increase in work hours for PGY-4 residents. This could explain the definite difference between the attitudes expressed by the senior residents and those of the junior residents. Senior residentsA Bangladeshi-born psychiatrist says the ABC plays a role in radicalising young Muslim teenagers by over emphasising how they are victims of discrimination.

Tanveer Ahmed, a cultural Muslim who moved to Australia when he was six, says the national broadcaster's obsession with perceived Islamophobia was often counterproductive.

'Often the voices they reach for reinforce that because their first instinct is to quell so-called Islamophobia,' he told Daily Mail Australia on Monday.

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Sydney psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed says the ABC's focus on Islamophobia is unhelpful

Tanveer Ahmed (pictured right with Sydney radio broadcaster Alan Jones) is an ABC critic

Following the London terror attack, Tanveer Ahmed says there is a link with the Koran

'It keeps feeding the message that none of it is their fault, that the West is in fact against


them.

'It's inaccurate and doesn't get to the source of the problem. It keeps feeding grievance, it keeps feeding this idea of Muslim grievance so in that respect it's part of the problem.

'Terrorism is, at its heart, a conflation of personal resentments with a political ideology of resentment which Islamism is.'

Dr Ahmed is a former SBS journalist who has also previously been a member of the federal government's Australian Multicultural Council.

The 42-year-old psychiatrist, who has a practice in Sydney's west and visits prisons, called on the ABC to be wary of airing so-called moderate Muslims who downplayed the link between Islam and terrorism.

'There has been too much promotion of so called moderate voices of Islam who usually turn out be apologists for terrorism, desperate to dilute any link betweendirectly in response to Islamism, not the other way around.

'In no white nationalist text are there calls explicitly to kill their ideological enemies.

'They're channeling a legitimate and widely-held anxiety about Islam and mass immigration.'

Dr Ahmed, who is a Liberal Party member, has praised British Prime Minister Theresa May's speech outside 10 Downing Street which said it was no longer acceptable to unduly focus on unity and preventing Islamophobia to combat radicalisation.

Prime Minister Theresa May said the time for focusing on unity at the expense of national security was over

'There is no longer an appetite for mere tolerance and a facile message of tolerance and unity,' he said.

He believed Australia's Muslim population was better integrated than Britain's however he said local terrorism was still a threat, especially in areas


followers on Sunday.

He also supports One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's call to ban Islamic migration.

The Shia religious leader said 'unmonitored multiculturalism' was to blame for terrorism

The Iranian-born religious leader, who moved to Australia from Iraq aged 12, later told Daily Mail Australia 'unmonitored multiculturalism is to blame'.

'We need to make sure that those coming into the West really want to be part of the West,' he said.

His calls comes after police in London shot dead three jihadist terrorists who had killed six people and injured at last another 48 during a van and knife rampage in central London.

The sheikh took to social media as Senator Hanson tweeted: 'Stop Islamic migration before it is too late.'

Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi backs Pauline Hanson's call to ban Islamic immigration

The Shia imam's callto ban Muslim migration from the Middle East echoes aspects of Pauline Hanson's policy proposal

Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi and Pauline Hanson want Islamic migration banned in some way

Asked about her call, Sheikh Tawhidi said the idea had merit although he stopped short of advocating a ban on all Muslims.

'I support a temporary ban on Muslims coming from the Middle East,' he said.

Sheikh Tawhidi said jihadists had a history of attending mosques that promoted sharia law - a hardline Islamic legal system derived from the Koran and the Hadith, covering the life of the Prophet Mohammad.

'The majority of mosques advocate for sharia law without removing the violent parts,' he said, adding the imam who preached to the three London terrorists needs to be held responsible.

Tawhidi said he had not had


dozens injured.

It came after three jihadi terrorists killed six people and injured at least another 48 others during a knife rampage.

The men 'of Mediterranean origin' had shouted 'This is for Allah' after they had mowed down 20 revellers in a white van hurtling across the London Bridge.and aviation industries rose nearly threefold in the first seven months of 2016

A month after signing the agreement with the United States, China inked a similar deal with the United Kingdom, and, in November 2015, China, Brazil, Russia, the United States, and other members of the Group of Twenty accepted the norm against conducting cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property. The United States and China have also held two round of cyber talks between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the first in December 2015, the second in June 2016. At these meetings, Washington and Beijing agreed on the guidelines for requesting assistance on cybercrime, discussed establishing a hotline, and conducted tabletop exercises. In August, the Ministry of Public Security reported


that the hotline between DHS and MPS was up and running.

The shift in Chinese hacking seems to have been driven by external and internal forces. Over a two year span, the United States mounted an aggressive naming and shaming campaign, indicted five People’s Liberation Army (PLA) hackers, and, in the weeks before the September summit, hinted it would sanction Chinese individuals or entities that benefited from cyber-enabled theft. Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign and the clamp down on criminal use of state resources as well as efforts to modernize the PLA and bring cyber operations under more centralized control may have also produced the decline in hacking.

Former National Security Agency official Dave Aitel argues that the Chinese move to a higher grade of hacking, and increased capabilities across thethe White House National Security Council. This adds another bureaucratic step and opens the door to additional deliberations, contributing to the delay. It's a heavy hint.

In recent months, Israel has received several worrisome messages from the United States. These were not sent by official sources in the administration nor by American officials in active service, but by unofficial friendly sources: members of research institutes connected to the Pentagon, Jewish American leaders who enjoy access to Washington and people close to the White House or the State Department. The messages were sent by the administration indirectly to allow it to publicly deny involvement should the information leak out, but the insinuations are clear. According to the veiled messages, Israel’s continued war against the US administration will ultimately seep into


ranks in line with the view of the country’s diplomatic echelons: that the deal is a bad one that turns Iran into a tremendous terrorist power that will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fuel conflicts in the Middle East and back various Shiite agents, from Hezbollah to the Houthis in Yemen. Nevertheless, there are also those in Israeli intelligence who are cognizant of some advantages of the agreement, one of which turns the clock back on the Iranian nuclear project for more than 10 years.

The most scathing Israeli criticism of the agreement, including that from military officials, is directed at the deal's verification mechanism and especially Articles 74-78. The problem is mainly with the inspection of some sites, either suspicious sites or new sites with whichspeaking to Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity.

Netanyahu has been working against the Iranian nuclear project for 20 years already. He claims to have been the first to identify the threat, rouse the Western world and raise the issue on the public agenda. There is a kernel of truth to these pats on the back (although, truth be told, it was late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and not Netanyahu who first pinpointed the Iranian threat). The problem is that Netanyahu did not carry out his key promise to his constituents.

According to Netanyahu’s own view of the situation, Iran became a "nuclear threshold state" on Netanyahu’s own watch. Netanyahu's joining the Republicans in an attempt to subvert Obama or prevent the president from signing an agreement with Iran was a


evolving North Korean military threat that appears to be advancing far more rapidly than many experts had predicted. U.S. officials concluded last month that Pyongyang is also outpacing expectations in its effort to build an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the American mainland.

So how likely is war with North Korea at this point? Well thanks to Obama refusing to deal with the threat of North Korea during his presidency, while cutting our strategic defense capabilities, things have now developed into a crisis point that Trump now has to deal with.

Back in 2010, then President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did absolutely nothing to stop North Korea, after North Korea made the brazen announcement they had enough weaponized plutonium for the development of four to fivecosts picked up on the town side of the ledger, and is in the middle of per pupil costs for Wayland's "peer group," she said. That peer group, defined by the School Committee, generally includes the dozen or so richest towns in the state.

The $15,900 figure comes from the School Committee's FY14 Budget Hearing Presentation. It's instructive to examine not only the per pupil expenditure (PPE) ranking, but also two key drivers of it.

1. The first driver is teacher salary. As the figure below shows, Wayland ranks 3rd in its peer group of 10 on this measure (for FY11; at last check, FY12 data were not available; the source for all three of the school-related data sets is the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education).

2. The second


ASIC or the banks.

According to FLA’s financial statements, $17.9 million has come in the door in donations since 2014. It has directed $6 million over four years in grants. This is a company with no full-time employees, two part-time employees and – at last balance date of December 31, 2017 – $12 million in cash.

Its directors – Robert Brown, Paul Clitheroe, Craig Dunn, Linda Elkins, Fiona Guthrie, Elaine Henry, Anthony Mackay, Ian Silk, Michael Smith (retired) – are well connected. Smith was formerly CEO of the ANZ and Dunn a former CEO of AMP. Media personality Paul Clitheroe and his partners sold their IPAC financial advice business to Commonwealth Bank, bought it back and then sold it to AMP. Fiona Guthrie heads up Financial Counselling Australia. Air Commodore“provides independent and strategic guidance to Government and ASIC on financial literacy”.

Members of the Australian Government Financial Literacy Board include Clitheroe, Robert Brown, Fiona Guthrie and Elaine Henry.

We attempted to contact these members through ASIC, and the institutions with which they are publicly linked. Save for Clitheroe, we were told nobody was available to respond to questions.

Other members of the Australian Government Financial Literacy Board include ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell and chairman James Shipton, whose former company, Goldman Sachs, agreed to an EU with ASIC in July this year for sharemarket transactions involving private hospital group, Healthscope. The Saturday Paper is not suggesting his role affected this EU in any way.

Throughout the Hayne royal commission, the corporate regulator has come under constant criticism for being too close


neither were residents of Virginia with offices in the state, they were prohibited by a local rule of the district court from representing Reizakis without being associated with a Virginia attorney who had been admitted to practice in the court.  Reizakis' Virginia attorney was Robert C. Watson.  In the latter part of May, Watson, with Reizakis' consent, prepared an order to permit D'Agaris and him to withdraw.  At the June pretrial conference, the court denied withdrawal until Watson was replaced by another Virginia lawyer and set the case for trial on Tuesday, September 12, 1972.  Notwithstanding the denial of his motion to withdraw, Watson took the position that Reizakis had released him in May.  He notified Reizakis of the trial date, but apparentlyneither he nor D'Agaris did anything further to prepare for trial.3

4
Sometime after the middle of August, Chaconas satisfied himself tha the doctors who were to be Reizakis' witnesses would be available for the September trial.  However, he did not obtain subpoenas for them.  In the meantime, acting on behalf of Reizakis, he made several unsuccessful attempts to engage local counsel to replace Watson, but not until the first week of September did he succeed in obtaining a new Virginia associate.

5
On Thursday, September 7, five days before the scheduled trial, Thomas J. Harrigan, the replacement for Watson, and Richard H. Lewis, attorney for Loy appeared before the district court.  They were accompanied by Watson who moved for a continuance of the trial so that Harrigan could


could be present.  By this time it was too late to subpoena them.

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On the day of trial, Tuesday, September 12, Reizakis, Chaconas, Watson, D'Agaris, and Harrigan appeared in the district court.  Chaconas, citing the absence of the doctors, moved for a continuance. Lewis, noting the inconvenience to Loy's witnesses, objected, and the court denied the motion.  Chaconas then stated that the witnesses who were to testify on the issue of liability were present, and he moved to have the trial proceed on this issue and for a continuance of the damage issue only.  Again, Lewis objected, and the court denied the motion.  Chaconas then conceded that in view of the court's rulings it was impossible to proceed, and Lewis moved to dismiss thefirm's grand $400-million plan to build two towers and a public square on a Manitoba Public Insurance-owned surface-parking lot at 225 Carlton St. and a third tower on the CentreVenture-owned Carlton Inn site at 220 Carlton St.

He said he showed this video to Bowman and provincial cabinet minister Kevin Chief in mid-November, following a Winnipeg Jets game. Bowman has said he only knew "rumours and rumblings" about the True North project.

"It's not our practice to allow someone to accuse us of doing something improper or stand idle and allow for a complete mischaracterization of the facts to occur," said Chipman, adding he doesn't understand why Bowman claimed the video -- also viewed by Jason Fuith, the mayor's chief of staff -- was imprecise in its details about where


the project was located.

The video shows the locations, on a map, of the proposed development on both the 220 and 225 Carlton St. properties. The proposal calls for housing, a public square, retail space, a hotel and office space, possibly for Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries, which is in the midst of choosing a company to build or renovate its new headquarters.

'It's not our practice to allow someone to accuse us of doing something improper or stand idle and allow for a complete mischaracterization of the facts to occur' ‐ True North chairman Mark Chipman

Chief, who serves as jobs and economy minister and is also minister responsible for the city of Winnipeg, confirmed he saw the video and said he was clear about what it depicted.

"You could tell thestreets that were involved with the project," he said, adding he was "blown away" by its scope and did not understand why it has caused such controversy at city hall.

Bowman said he saw "a video" but was not clear about what properties it depicted, and certainly was not made aware of the city's financial stake in 220 Carlton St. Bowman said he was only in office for weeks and had not been briefed on the file.

"Showing someone a video before they're apprised of what we now know doesn't constitute public disclosure," the mayor said from Toronto, where he is attending a big-city mayors' conference.

"The facts are the facts, regardless of whether I saw the video. My actions have always been, 'Let's get the facts before council, involving two


contracts for two developers at the same land.' "

Until last week, construction company Stuart Olson was obligated to build on the former Carlton Inn site. Chipman said he stepped in after Stuart Olson made it clear in April it had no intention of building a hotel on that land.Chipman said True North's proposal, years in the making, still requires detailed planning and would take three or four years to develop. He said the project is now on hold until trust can be re-established with city hall.

"We're very excited about the prospect (the project) has for our city," Chipman said. "In my personal view, it can be transformative."

Chipman also said he doesn't understand why Bowman claimed to be left in the dark about the project when he was been220 Carlton site in early 2014 because he sat on the agency's board. He said he recused himself from any discussions about True North's bid for the property and resigned from the board in July.

Chipman rejected the assertion his position on the board conferred any advantage over another developer. CentreVenture's volunteer board chairman, Richardson International CEO Curt Vossen, said his agency opted to deal with True North rather than look for other developers.

Vossen said CentreVenture was aware hotel operators approached construction company Stuart Olson about 220 Carlton, but didn't believe those operators remained interested in the property when the agency signed its option with True North.

Along with releasing Stuart Olson of its obligation to build on the site last week, council voted to demand CentreVenture open up the


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in the car. They told her she wasn't being arrested, just "detained." She started to cry and asked permission to call her husband, Josiah, but that request was denied. No one asked to see the kids, still sitting in the car. The officers told Curry that while they were not charging her with any crime, they were going to file a "JC3 form" — a hotline-type alert to the Kentucky child protection system.

The next day a child protective services investigator showed up, eventually with a sheriff's deputy. All this is laid out in a lawsuit the Currys are now pursuing.

The two authorities insisted on entering Holly's home, though they had no warrant, warning her that if she stood her constitutional ground and forbid them entry, they would returnand take her kids, the lawsuit alleges. Curry let them in.

Once inside, the woman from CPS:

…questioned Curry about her home life. Curry answered fully, the lawsuit said, worried that any refusal would add to her peril. The investigator insisted on taking the youngest child from Curry's lap and, without permission, began to undress her. In the presence of the male deputy, the investigator proceeded to undress each child, male and female, down to the genitals (removing the diapers of the two youngest). Curry tried to object, but she knew she was powerless to stop the investigator from doing full-body inspections. The last to be undressed was her 4-year-old son, taught by his pediatrician that he should never let a stranger take his clothes off without his mom's okay.


But when the boy tried to make eye contact with Curry, the investigator stood directly in his line of sight, leaving him helpless. Then the investigator pointed to the deputy and said, "Show that cop your muscles!" The little boy removed his shirt and flexed his biceps as ordered. The investigator and deputy began laughing while the investigator started to pull down his pants. When the little boy finally was able to look back at his mother, she was holding back tears. The little boy's face registered shame and fear.

About two weeks later, Holly was found not guilty of child neglect. But why did a muffin stop end up with a strip search at all? How dare the authorities not only second-guess a mom's very safe decision, butaverage deceleration is defined as the amount of reduction in a weighted norm of the hand-state velocity vector divided by the time over which the hand-state velocity reduction is measured.

9. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein said adaptive signal processing for determining the next nearest hand-pose starts by calculating the generalized distance to the most recent nearest hand-pose, then calculates the generalized distance to the most recent second nearest hand-pose, and then proceeds by checking the remaining hand-poses in order of decreasing probability of occurrence, where each generalized distance calculation is prematurely terminated whenever the running sum total of the weighted squares of individual joint errors exceeds the calculated generalized distance squared from the hand-state to the current second closest hand-pose.

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Metropolitan City of Florence, the Province of Prato and the Province of Pistoia, all in the region of Tuscany.

The metropolitan territory is largely flat, and stretches from the alluvial Po Plain into the Apennine Mountains; the highest point in the metropolitan city is the peak of Corno alle Scale in the commune of Lizzano in Belvedere, which is  above sea level.

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Category:Villanovan cultureCharlottetown is a national leader in employment growth in the digital technology sector, according to a new study from the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council.

The study shows a 21 per cent growth in the sector's employment, second only to Vancouver's 21.5 per cent.

"Part of it was a little bit of a lower base initially than some other cities, but the growth rate over the 2011/2016 period was very strong," said Patrick Brannon, director of major projects for APEC.

In 2016, 4.7 per cent of Charlottetown's workforce was in the digital technology sector, which put it on the lower end for cities in the region.

Fredericton: 6.3%.

Halifax: 5.9%.

Saint John: 5.2%.

St. John's: 4.8%.

Moncton: 4.7%.

While employment is not as large a part of the economy as it is in other areas, the city ranks


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We have Smoke, Rage, Boney, Shrek and Cupcake, and each name has it's own story to tell.

Smoke, the president of Cobra, earned his from when he used to work in a vape shop selling e-cigarettes and vaping liquid. He would be surrounded by the big smoke clouds.

The 33-year-old also would wear a soft mask over his face when riding, which resembled the character, Smoke, from popular video game Mortal Kombat.

Then there is Shrek, who unapologetically rides his motorcycle covered in the infamous Dreamworks character.

"My bike is covered in Shrek because that's what my grandchildren picked out," he revealed.

'Bikers are given a bad reputation'

The club members are regulars to popular Southend venue and pub, Chinnery's

Smoke said: "Bike theft sticks in people's minds, it can put them off."

Cupcake addedthat those who ride stolen bikes or those without number plates give others a bad name.

"We get caught up in the middle of it. Some people make so much noise to prove something and they want the attention," he said.

Rage also brought up the danger of young people on similar vehicles, such as quad bikes, on the street.

Smoke

Road name: Smoke

Age: 33

Riding history: First loved motorbikes when he was four years old and his uncle took his mum for a ride on his bike, which left him jealous and confused as he wanted to go on it too.

Cobra history: Smoke first became a part of Cobra five years ago and is now president.

What does everyone else think of bikers?

"If you look at common TV programmes, like Sons of Anarchy,


were wearing dark hoodies and jackets underneath their leather waistcoats which were decorated with several tags. Their road name, club role, and area is featured on each side of the chest, as well as the word 'COBRA'.

Rage

Road name: Rage

Age: 39

Riding history: When he was a passenger, Rage was in a car accident and flew through the windscreen in the incident. A few years after he decided to get into riding instead.

Cobra history: Rage first became a part of Cobra four years ago and is now vice president of the group.

The group of men don't believe that their piercings, beards, jewellery and 'biker look' should affect how others see them.

Cupcake said: "Tattoos are still considered taboo in life, but that is changing and it's becoming more accepted these days.

"It'shas been a member for two years.

Cupcake is the newest member, earned his patch around a year ago. This is followed by Boney and Shrek who have been a part of Cobra for two years.

Rage, the vice president, earned his patch almost four years ago, and Smoke has been a part of the club for five years.

The president said: "We are nice, people should realise most bikers will be the first one to rescue your children from a burning building."

The group explained that most bikers nod to each other when seeing other motorcyclists on the road- even if they are not in the same club. This boils down to the respect they hold high for others and other bikers.

We are human beings

Smoke said: "The fact is we are


human beings, we are people too.

"Some give the police a bad name and then at the end of the day they go home to their mums, dads, sisters, brothers, children and grandchildren - we are just the same as them.

"When we are riding down the road and people drive too close, we are human too."

And on to the bikes

Boney, who is 63, has three trikes and seven bikes. His love for the two-wheeled vehicle started when he was a child.

"I have been riding since I was 10-years-old," he said, "We would ride over the fields before the A127 was built."

With more than half a century of experience, Boney, said he joined the Cobra MCC as it was the best group for him to become a part of.

Cupcake

Road name:single. Ibanez then lined a two-run homer to right to end Lohse's night.

The Cardinals scored three times in the ninth off relievers Michael Stutes and Ryan Madson, highlighted by Schumaker's two-run double.

The two teams took different roads to get here.

The Phillies cruised to their fifth straight division title, winning a franchise-record and major league-best 102 games. Anything less than a second World Series title in four years will be considered a failure by players, management and fans.

The Cardinals needed an incredible collapse by Atlanta and help from Philadelphia to earn the wild card. St. Louis trailed the Braves by 10½ games on Aug. 25, but went 23-8 the rest of the way and got in after Game 162 when the Phillies completed a three-game sweep in Atlanta.

For a


while, it seemed the Phillies might regret helping the Cardinals reach the playoffs.

A day after borrowing a line from William Shakespeare, saying he "came here to bury Caesar, not praise him," Halladay didn't back up his words right away.

Rafael Furcal led off the game with a single and stole second. One out later, Halladay walked Pujols on four pitches. Berkman drove the next pitch off the mini-scoreboard hanging on the facing off the second deck in right field.

"You have to beat those guys 3-to-whatever," Berkman said. "He's not going to give up much more than that. He's a great pitcher."

The switch-hitting Berkman hit all 31 of his homers in the regular season from the left side. No. 32 was the first three-run homer Halladay allowed since Aug. 21,2008, when Hideki Matsui connected for the Yankees in a 14-3 loss to Toronto.

"He was kind of like a 'Rocky' movie," manager Charlie Manuel said of Halladay. "He got mad after he gave up that homer. That ticked him off and he hung in there and he got going. But he's special. He's everything people talk about."

The Phillies will turn Berkman around the next two games with lefties Lee and Cole Hamels on the mound.

Howard hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh, and Victorino and Ibanez each had RBI singles in the inning to pad Philadelphia's lead.

An unearned run got Philadelphia within 3-1 in the fourth. After Utley's one-out double, Pence struck out and Howard walked. Victorino hit a foul pop down the left-field line that should've ended


the inning.

But third baseman David Freese tried to make an over-the-shoulder catch and the ball fell out of his glove for an error. Victorino hit an opposite-field single to left to score Utley.

Halladay, a two-time Cy Young Award winner who won it last year in his first season in the NL, was 19-6 with a career-best 2.35 ERA and eight complete games this season.

He made certain the relievers stayed in the bullpen until this game was out of reach.

A crowd of 46,480 was the 218th straight sellout at Citizens Bank Park, including postseason play. The stadium resembled an apple orchard with all the red-clad fans.

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Cardinals RHP Kyle McClellan was disappointed that he was left off the roster because of a tired arm. "McClellan is a real weapon,"few are worth being excited about, and some can't even work unless you play the game online.

One of the most interesting features about the original Portable Ops was the ability to have non-combat units that supported your assault teams. Divided into Spy, Tech and Medical units, each of these special groups gave you new attributes, ranging from weapons and ammunition to special information that couldn't be seen anywhere. Sadly, Portable Ops Plus completely neuters these characters. Spy units now simply improve the map, occasionally marking enemy or item locations. In the original title, Medical units revived weakened characters, and Tech units created new weapons and items over time. However, since all of your characters are healed at the end of every mission, and weapons can only be procured


excellent graphics can grow tiresome after a while, and Portable Ops Plus really doesn't add much to the mix. A few new stages, a few new weapons and a few new character models are thrown in, but you'll still be wandering in the same areas, shooting most of the same soldiers, with the same weapons. It's hard to work up enthusiasm for the same stages that you played countless times in Portable Ops, and the simple fact that you're sneaking past slightly different-looking soldiers doesn't alleviate that. The audio is also mostly identical, the only changes being a few additional grunts or brief vocal clips from the newer characters.

In the end, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus is a glorified map pack for the original Portable Ops. WhileDuring the TCU men's basketball team's summer tour of Australia, the Horned Frogs defeated the Longhorns 101-87.

That's not nearly the most interesting part about the box score.

Since the Longhorns didn't have any names attached to their jersey numbers in the official scorebook, the TCU statistician decided to give the Longhorns names of characters from The Office.

Here's how the Dunder Mifflin All-Star team fared against TCU.

Jim Halpert, a person who has a ton of potential but rarely exerts himself, led the way with a game-high 28 points. Halpert was 6-of-8 from behind the 3-point line.

Don't let the haircut fool you. Halpert can ball.

Meredith Palmer, a well-known shot-taker, was 7-of-12 shooting. Team captain Michael Scott scored 13 points.

Despite the team's high-profile status, they were no match for the Horned Frogs.


Guard Desmond Bane scored a team-high 21 points, while Alex Robinson chipped in with 19 points.

Actually, the more I think about it, there's probably a reason why TCU won this game by 36.

Notable: Before the game, a local woman attempted to sing the Australian and United States national anthems, according to a TCU release. But in the middle of the Star-Spangled Banner, a song she tried learning two weeks before TCU's visit, she stopped in the middle of the song. Per the release, the entire TCU team, which was standing behind the woman, started singing the anthem and finished the rest of the song.Genealogy, Family, Poetry and Peeves

Charles Lowrie King (1-4-5), born March 19, 1855, died single on the 12th of June, 1920.

Lucy Belle King (1-4-6), born May 27, 1859, married Carson Newham and lived at Grafton till her death on the 27th of January, 1917. No
children.

Frank Nichols King (1-4-7), born May 24, 1864, was still living and not married in 1929.

Thomas Dunn King (1-5), born October 17, 1819, married Ann M. Frankenberger, daughter of John Frankenberger, October 11, 1849, and
lived in Marion County. He died on the 20th day of July, 1887; his wife, on the 6th of August, 1854. Children: (1) Sarah Hedges; (2) John
Frankenberger; and (3) Joshua Hedges.

Sarah Hedges King (1-5-1), born June 28, 1850, married James W. Brumage, January 10, 1878, and lived in Marion County. She


24, 1912, married Dorthea Cyrena Rumble, .daughter of William A. Rumble, November 5, 1940, and lives near Fairmont.

Howard Sydney King (1-5-3-2-4), born November 10, 1915, married Marguerite Sleek, daughter of H. R. Sleek, February 15, 1940, and lives at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.

Mary Ann King (1-6), born January 23, 1822, married Joseph Ratray, son of Joseph Ratray, July 1, 1852, and lived near Monongah. She died on the 9th of February, 1904; her husband, on the 18th of January, 1893. Children: (1) James Elliott, died in childhood; (2) William Wolcott, died single at 25; and (3) Helen.

Helen Ratray (1-6-3), born May 1, 1861, married Albert A. Fesler, son of Frederick Fesler, October 4, 1894, and lived near Monongah till her death in 1936. Her husband died on the 28th ofson Charles was living in Clarksburg and another son, Smith, was at Salem. No further record.

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Patrick Francis Donehue (1-8-7), born August 18, 1868, was married and was reported to be living somewhere in Massachusetts in 1931.

Dorcas Leaper King (1-9), born July 12, 1330, married John Keane, February 6, 1851, and lived at Grafton. She died on the 6th of January,
1899; her husband, on the 10th of December, 1902. Children: (1) James Wolcott, died at 13; (2) John M., died single; (3) Thomas Herbert, died
single in 1928; (4) William Berton; (5) Francis Marion; (6) George Emery, died single; and (7) Emma Leaper, died in childhood.

William Berton Keane (1-9-4), born August 22, 1859, married Sadie Limbers, daughter of David Limbers, and lived at Elkins, West Virginia. He died on


the 1st of July, 1906; his wife on the 7th of April,1925. Children: (1) Emma Alberta, died in childhood; (2) Ada Belle, died in childhood; (3) Eva Dell; (4) Charles Herbert; (5) Mallie Marie; (6) Nellie Natalie; (7) George Washington; <8> William Berton; and (9) Edward Salisbury.

Eva Dell Keane (1-9-4-3), born October 25, 1883, married Dr. Charles

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N. Brown, son of Dr. Ashford Brown, September 2, 1903. Her husband was born in Independence, Preston County, January 16, 1869. He at-
tended the Fairmont Normal and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore and took his medical degree at the Hospital College
in Louisville in 1894. During the World War he was commissioned a captain in the Medical Reserve Corps and served as surgeon in various
military camps in the UnitedStates until he was discharged in June, 1920. He practices his profession at Swandale, Clay County, West
Virginia, where the family lives. Children: (1) William Byrne; (2) Evelyn Charlene; and (3) Charles Samuel.

William Byrne Brown (1-9-4-3-1), born August 2, 1904, married Kathryn Elizabeth Boundy, daughter of J. J. Boundy, May 26, 1933,
and is at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri. His only child is Thomas Byrne.

Charles Herbert Keane (1-9-4-4), born August 9, 1885, married Hallie M. White, April 11, 1918, lives at Swandale, and has no children.

George Washington Keane (1-9-4-7), born February 22, 1892, served in the World War through all the major battles and was decorated by
the French and Italian governments. He married Annie Gilnet, daughter of Levi Gilnet, June 24, 1909, lives at 50V2 S. 17th Street, Wheeling, and