the real-ideal discrepancies in four once-monthly meetings. The effect of the feedback on the social climate of the unit was ascertained by further assessment using the WAS and from interviews with all staff. The evaluation suggested that the feedback had contributed to changes in several procedures in the unit and to a reduction in the real-ideal discrepancies for the systems maintenance elements. The effect was greater for the group of staff who had the opportunity to discuss the feedback in a formal setting.out by the Flyers in 2013 cannot play for the Flyers during the 2013-14 season, and a player bought out by the Flyers in 2014 cannot play for the Flyers for the duration of the 2014-15 season.

Of course, that doesn’t mean a player bought out by the team will never return. As the Flyers have proven multiple times over the years (Simon Gagne, Brian Boucher … ) they aren’t afraid to bring players back into the fold.

When do buyouts occur?As of now, compliance buyouts are scheduled to take place over the same brief timeframe as ordinary buyouts: Starting the latter of June 15 or 48 hours after the final Stanley Cup Final game, and ending at 5 p.m. Eastern on June 30. However, because of the late start


Trump voters.

Tillis, for his part, dared to question whether Trump’s national emergency is a legitimate exercise of his authority. In response, North Carolina Republicans immediately said this act had opened the door to primary challenges.

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Amash, by the way, was also one of only 13 House Republicans who opposed Trump’s national emergency. Unlike Tillis, however, he hasn’t backtracked.

Earlier this week, Amash resigned from the Freedom Caucus, a group he helped create, after it held an informal vote to disagree with his views about Trump. Notably, the Freedomminutes. Staying tie, the tie will be made by the greatest number of goals scored in the opponent's field. The fourth criterion is not considered in the case of a tie between more than two clubs.

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October 20 last year had left him and his friends petrified. The axe man cometh: John Powell with rubbish he says was left behind by nuisance teenagers close to where he and his fiancee staged their fake attack

Powell wielded a 4ft axe during the episode in the Cumbrian country lane. Here, fictional mad axeman Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, smashes through a door in the climactic scene of The Shining horror film

Weeping as she gave evidence, Miss Walton said the spoof attack had been her idea and a split-second decision.

But she insisted: ‘I waved to them and I was laughing, I don’t understand how they didn’t realise it was a joke.’

However magistrates told Mr Powell he could be jailed when he is sentenced next week.

The couple hadState's case, the jury's verdict will be upheld.
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Viewed in that light, the record shows that on July 13, 1999, between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m., Norman Blackwell, a member of the auxiliary unit of the Cornelia Police Department, was patrolling an area of town known as "the Hill." As Blackwell turned onto Second Street, he saw Griffin, whom he had known for about three or four months, in the middle of the road. Griffin turned, looked at Blackwell, and dropped a piece of paper onto the road; then, watching Blackwell over his shoulder, he walked to the side of the road, dropped another item, began walking quickly down the road, and then broke into a jog and jogged out of sight. Blackwell stopped his car where Griffin


had dropped the paper and called in, giving out over the radio Griffin's direction of travel and general description, including his height, weight, and color. He also stated that Griffin was wearing blue shorts and a blue shirt with black stripes. Jake Hendrix, the shift supervisor, Detective Grover Addis, and Lt. Denver Gunn arrived and took control of the scene. Blackwell told *407 the officers that Griffin had dropped the paper. Addis opened the paper and found what appeared to be crack cocaine. A forensic chemist with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime laboratory testified at trial that the contents of the paper had tested positive for cocaine.
Addis testified at trial that he had seen Griffin, whom he had known since 1985, twice on July 13 before heresponded to Blackwell's call. Griffin was wearing "a dark blue, dark outfit, shirt and shorts." The first time Addis saw Griffin was when Griffin approached the patrol car in which he and Gunn were sitting. Addis saw Griffin again about an hour later near the place where he later dropped the paper containing the cocaine, and not far from the house on Dover Street where Griffin lived. On the stand, Griffin denied having seen either Addis or Gunn on July 13.
Officer Margaret Krockum of the Cornelia Police Department was on patrol near Griffin's house when she heard the description of Griffin on the radio. She drove to Dover Street, where Griffin lives, and saw a black male fitting the description come up the street and enter the house


at 120 Dover Street. The man, who was pulling off his shirt as he walked into the house, was Griffin, with whom Krockum was personally acquainted. Krockum advised other police units that she had located the suspect and told them of his location. A warrant was obtained from the magistrate judge for Griffin's arrest, and he was arrested the next day. The evidence was sufficient to support Griffin's conviction of possession of cocaine.
2. Griffin next argues that the trial court erred in allowing the State's witnesses to testify that the area in which the incident occurred, and he lived, was a high crime area, and denying his motion in limine to prevent the same. Griffin maintains that any testimony that the area known as "the Hill" was areference.
When the MOSFET and the Schottky diode are mounted in a commonly housed lead frame as described above, the drain terminal of the MOSFET and the cathode terminal of the Schottky diode typically contact the main pad area. In a T0220 package, for example, the main pad area is integral with the central pin, and a bonding wire connects the gate terminal atop the MOSFET to another of the pins. Additional bonding wires connect the MOSFET source pad area and the Schottky diode anode pad to a third external pin.
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Pharmassist participates in Swiss Biotech Day 2018

Pharmassist UK-based BD department, under the lead of Giovanni Trolsese, takes a trip to Basel, Switzerland in order to explore partnering opportunities and expansion of clientele at an international level, during the 2018 Swiss Biotech Day.

This year around 620 participants from 19 countries attended the event and arranged 526 one-to-one meetings, making the SBD as popular as never before in its 11-year history, and Pharmassist was proudly present!

Certificates

Pharmassist Ltd is a full-service Contract Research Organisation (CRO) located in Athens (Greece) and London (UK). It operates in Europe since 1999 providing services in Clinical Trials, Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, and Quality Management.Trump is Trump.” His approval rating is underwater. A full 20 percent of his first five months in office has been spent golfing instead of learning about policy. He watches cable TV and then tweets in a rage. He lacks the temperament to fulfill his role. For all his ranting about fake news and fake media... the truth is, he is the fake president.


work that was previously done within manufacturing firms is now outsourced to specialised service providers? This column looks at changes in the US economy over the past 60 years, and shows that the evolution of the input-output structure – which is mostly due to professional and business services outsourcing – accounts for 36% of the increase in services and 25% of the fall in manufacturing.

We are constantly told that we live in a service economy. Over the past few decades, the reported share of services in the economy has certainly experienced a sharp increase in most countries. In the US, for example, the service sector today accounts for more than 83% of total employment – a considerable increase from its share of 60% in 1947. On the otherside of the coin is the widely lamented decline of the manufacturing sector. To rationalise this fall, Pierce and Schott (2014) look at the first culprit – manufacturing offshoring to China.

But what if both sides of this ‘structural transformation’ of the US economy can in part be explained by the domestic outsourcing of service inputs – for example, manufacturing firms outsourcing work on their annual tax returns to specialised accounting firms? In a recent paper (Berlingieri 2014), I analyse the production side of the economy and the role of firms in shaping the reallocation of labour across sectors.

In particular, I focus on two relatively unexplored mechanisms that can help to explain the rise of services and the fall of manufacturing:

First, changes in the composition of intermediate inputs –


the only driver of the rise of services.

First, three industries – finance, real estate, and professional and business services – account for a very large share of the growth of the service sector.

The last category includes accounting, engineering, consulting, and legal services – as well as less skilled work such as security, maintenance, and janitorial services.

Second, these industries are highly specialised in the production of intermediate inputs, with firms rather than individual consumers demanding the goods and services they provide.

In particular, professional and business services have increased their share in total employment by 9.2 percentage points, accounting for roughly 40% of the total growth of the entire service sector – the biggest contribution among all industries. Moreover, 91% of the output of this industry is sold to firmsin the US economy, 1947–2002

Note: This figure displays, for each year, the share of professional and business services in the total requirements of all commodities.

Figure 2 shows the evolution of the average forward linkage for a selection of industries. Professional and business services have become the industry with the biggest influence on the rest of the economy, overtaking industries with traditionally high forward linkage, such as transport (industry 65), and overshadowing fast-growing industries, such as finance.

Figure 2. Average forward linkage over time for selected industries

Notes: This figure plots, for each industry, the total forward linkage divided by the number of commodities. In a given year, the share displayed for professional and business services is the average along a circle of Figure 1.

Structural change: The role of intermediate inputs


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in the House and Senate in 2010. But Rahm Emanuel, who has always been a creature of the banking establishment (and who worked as a bankster for a brief time between his Clinton job and his congressional job-- during which he "became" a multimillionaire-- is ruthlessly demanding that Democrats honor Obama's commitment to bailout European banks with American tax dollars, the biggest political misstep the administration has made since... hiring Emanuel on as chief of staff.Many of the congressmembers and staffers I've talked to repeat the mantra Emanuel has pounded into their skulls: "we can't vote against the troops." They sound as stupid and worthless and the Republican rubber stamps we worked so hard to drive from power. None of them-- not even the worst of them-- everarctic breeding bird species in Alaska rely on public lands for habitat, including 34 breeding shorebird species of high conservation concern. There are more public lands in Alaska than in the rest of the U.S. combined, offering huge potential to manage lands for conservation.

Islands: More birds are in danger of extinction in Hawaii than anywhere else in the U.S. Public lands in Hawaii support 73 percent of the distribution of declining forest birds. Among declining Hawaiian forest birds on Kauai, about 78 percent rely on state land. Four endangered species in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands are entirely dependent on federal lands.

Wetlands: Wetlands protection has provided the “gold standard” for bird conservation. On the whole, 39 species of hunted waterfowl have increased by more than 100 percent during the


In February 1993, acclaimed New York City hardcore act Born Against arrived in Springfield, Missouri, to play at the Commercial Club Community Center. But the group, known for its left-wing lyrics and repudiation of all things racist, never had the chance.

The band pulled up in its van only to find the place empty — empty, that is, except for a group of hulking white-power skinheads, who apparently chased everyone out. "They were big and had lots of muscles," remembers lead singer Sam McPheeters. "I'm sure they had suspenders and boots, the whole deal."

McPheeters and guitarist Adam Nathanson emerged from the van looking conspicuous, particularly Nathanson, who wore a patch on his jacket of a swastika being crushed by a fist that read, "Smash Racism."

As the band members approachedthe community center's entrance, the skinheads smacked Nathanson in the face with the door and taunted, "Smash racism, motherfucker? I am racism!"

The pair didn't know if they were being targeted for their politics, or if the skinheads were simply looking for trouble. In any case, there was no time to think about it. They rushed to the van, told the driver to step on it, and headed to the house of a member of a local band called Uncle Fester, where the show was to resume. But the skinheads got there first and began beating the daylights out of fans who'd shown up.

"People who had been given a whooping were laid out on the grass when we got there," Nathanson recalls.

Meanwhile, a group of SHARPs — Skinheads Against


songs at ultra-fast tempos and bellowing barely intelligible vocals, Ozarks bands embraced the ethically minded sensibilities pioneered by groups like Minor Threat over the more melodic and debauched music fashioned by the Ramones and Sex Pistols.

By the early '90s, ethical punk had fallen out of favor around the country, and pop-punk bands like Green Day would soon rule the radio and MTV. In the isolated Ozarks, though, a decade behind the curve, things were just getting started.

"It could never compare to London, Seattle, New York or Portland, where the underground scenes are enormous, but it was real and strong for what it was," says Criger. "The whole unconventional scene, the freaky punkers, the radical political overtones, the shows in the bad part of town, all completely captivated me."

Inthe late '90s, Dan Johnston was the lead singer of one of Joplin's most popular underground bands, U$MC. Now a 33-year-old married social worker, he and his family moved to Springfield in 2004. Several months ago, the barrel-chested Bob Odenkirk look-alike hosted a punk reunion of sorts at his Springfield house. Assembled were mop-topped Jason Kearbey, also a Springfield social worker, and the reed-thin Gabe Harper, a Springfield native who now lives in University City.

The three played in numerous bands over the years, including Gabe Harper and the Abortions, Fugue and the Richards. Harper documents the era on his blog, Ozark Punk Rock (ozarkpunkrock.blogspot.com), where visitors can download demo tapes, studio albums and even a low-budget documentary about the era called Ozark Babylon.

"You'd see scenes in other towns,


and it just wasn't the same," says Harper, who still practices the straight-edge lifestyle and is the older brother of former RFT music editor Jordan Harper. "Not as cool."

Recalls Johnston: "In those days of the college-rock circuit, cities like Lawrence, Columbia, Tulsa and St. Louis had premade punk-rock scenes that went back to the Sex Pistols playing in Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, or Black Flag and Nirvana playing in Lawrence. These were consumer cultures. The cool thing about our town is that we had a vertical monopoly. We booked the shows; we played the music. It was a production culture."

But why the Ozarks? Because, proffers Johnston, the place had been so miserable for so long.

Johnston draws a line that leads from southwest Missouri's racial intolerance (an African Americanthe scene."

Springfield and Joplin served as the primary nexus for punk. Those relatively populous cities harbored the region's most popular bands and, despite their remote locales, national touring acts considered them a perfect stopping point while driving from, say, Chicago to Dallas. One such band was the Queers, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, group that still tours frequently.

"Back in the '90s, Springfield and Joplin had really good punk scenes," says lead singer Joe Queer. "It was a big surprise — we always heard they were off in the boonies."

His group had a memorable show at a Joplin joint called Culture Shock in 1995. Some 150 kids showed up, and quite a few bought the band's merch. "It was a good, lucrative show," Queer says. "It's weird that I remember


write-in candidate.

The 39-year-old Potts, a Gulf War Navy veteran who was injured during service and now lives off disability benefits, was involved in some of the scene's most memorable shows. In 1994, she helped organize the largest punk event ever held in the Ozarks: Midwest Music Fest, which took place on a piece of rural property just north of Springfield owned by Potts' mother.

More than 500 people watched two dozen bands play before police arrived. "People were cutting themselves with razor blades and stuff," Potts recalls. "A band called Cocknoose threw a deer head filled with black powder, and it exploded out on the land. Then after the flames went down, Joe Morton of [Springfield band] Grout grabbed a power saw and commenced to cutting up the deerhead."

Potts also hosted shows on the front porch of her pastel-color shack on West Walnut Street, known as the Pink House. Concertgoers would sometimes slip away and sneak past the industrial gas supplier's unlocked gates across the street, where they would steal tanks of nitrous oxide from the loading docks.

"I witnessed this once," says Harper. "They inhaled an industrial-sized tank of the gas in about an hour. God knows how many brain cells they killed."

Other favorite Springfield punk spots included downtown the 423 Club, which was run by Jason Kearbey and his brother Justin. Its owner refused to spring for heat, and the pipes froze. For a year, anyone who wanted to use the bathroom had to go to a nearby brewpub. Eventually, the Kearbeys stopped paying rent


altogether and were forced to leave when the city realized they didn't have the necessary permits.

"[Before] our last show, the power got cut off to the building, so we had to go into the basement and run a 100-foot extension cord from a light socket to the main level," says Jason Kearbey. "The whole show was powered from that!"

The Looney Bin was located next to a redneck nudie bar in the north part of town. "A guy got murdered behind the joint," says Harper, a Looney Bin co-proprietor. "I never had the balls to go in there."

Despite the dodgy locale, Ded Bugs member Matt Bug recalls being impressed upon playing there in 1997. "At that point we'd only released one album, and it was just a small show,but what I remember most is the enthusiasm of the kids we met," says the vocalist and guitarist for the DeSoto pop-punk mainstays. "Bright kids with easy smiles. I was surprised, and probably a bit taken aback, that we were received so well and that anyone even knew our music."

The Looney Bin doubled as a record store for the Kearbey brothers' still-active Wee Rock Records label. Bug was impressed with that, too: "There are people who talk of doing things, and then there are people who simply do things. They were certainly the latter."

Down the street was the Commercial Club, which was to have hosted the aborted Born Against show, as well as slam-dancing soirees inspired by groups like Springfield's Now or Never. Another of Harper's ventures, Harper's


until a rambunctious fan trips over the cord powering the instruments and briefly shuts down the show.

Taking its moniker from the old Marines tag "Uncle Sam's Misguided Children" (the dollar sign's thrown in for added irony), U$MC featured a blazing-fast pace, melodies draped in distortion and sociopolitical lyrics. Its songs had confrontational titles like "Bury My Heart at Jonestown" and "Die Heathen Die," and band members sometimes had difficulty staying on-message, such as when the bassist would jump onstage and say things like, "Which one of you bitches wants to suck my dick?" They were also infiltrated by a Nazi.

"When we started, I asked our first guitar player if he was still into Nazi shit," Johnston remembers. "He said no. So then the son of a bitch gota flaming swastika tattoo on his arm. It was huge! He tried to pull the, 'It's the Hindu sign of peace' shit. On fire and tilted at a 45-degree angle? That's a swastika; I'm not stupid.'"

The white-supremacist group Hammerskin Nation was particularly menacing in Springfield. Gabe Harper, who is also a political-science professor and regularly writes about extremist groups, says the Hammerskins came there en masse "to raise their families in an all-white environment" in the 1990s.

"The Hammerskins are a national skinhead organization, while most skinhead gangs are locally based," explains Harper. "They pride themselves on being more disciplined and organized than the local skinhead crews, and in my experience they are considerably more dangerous. The Hammerskins in Springfield looked down on the local skinheads and only grudgingly


acknowledged them."

The skinheads and the Hammerskins attempted to wreck havoc, says Springfield punk enthusiast Michael Criger: "The core, committed group of jerks who started fights tried to destroy everything the rest of us were creating. They played a role in the scene's eventual downfall, but I'd hate to give them too much credit for that — we fought back!"

In any case, once U$MC had eliminated its white-supremacist element, it was ready to roll. Along with Joplin crust-punk act Initial Detonation, it became one of the only groups from the era to tour nationally and release professional-quality albums. Of course, "professional-quality" is a relative term. Johnston says that the band's CD The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class was recorded for $120 in Springfield, "which means it tookan hour and fifteen minutes to do."

The band broke up not long after a 1999 tour when it ran out of food and money. Before that, it played plenty of memorable shows, many of which the police shut down. That's what happened at Better Than Bemo's, but as Johnston remembers, the owner took issue with the cops that night.

"They put him in a hold, face-down on the concrete," he says. "I thought they were going to break his arm." At that point the owner's brothers began screaming bloody murder, causing the cops to drag one of them to jail, too.

Johnston, meanwhile, was left to evacuate the club and pack up the band's equipment. He was also responsible for hosting a group of anarchists who had come up from


sake. Then we could develop our own culture, and that might end up being unique."

Still, some of the old punkers have stuck around and are still making moves. Jason Kearbey plays drums in garage-influenced band Thee Fine Lines — a successful touring act that frequently plays St. Louis and has European and American album distribution — and Initial Detonation guitarist Roger Hannifan and Johnston still conspire at times to bring punk rock to the faithful.

In fact, on an October night in Joplin, the Hannifan-owned Blackthorn Pizza & Pub is hosting Johnston's new outfit, the Itch. Shortly before midnight, the group blasts through a quick set of surf and garage-influenced punk songs. Though Johnston has added drumming to his repertoire, his singing style hasn't changed; he's still screaming atreports a 2010 University of Sydney study.

In August 2015, a You Tube video of a live snake being stuffed into a large bottle of alcohol during the making of snake wine went viral, with viewers shocked to watch the reptile drawing its last breaths.

At Taipei’s famous Snake Valley (formally known as the Huaxi Street Tourist Night Market), hawkers have been known to slice a snake along its underbelly and drain the blood into a glass filled with rice wine or grain alcohol in front of you. Travellers who see this live skinning of reptiles as a cruel relic of a past era are starting to steer clear.

And, although extremely rare, it seems as though some snakes can survive in the bottle for months – possibly due to their


Health services in the New England region and their relevance to Aboriginal people.
Public hospitals provide the vast majority of available health services in rural areas of Australia. These services reflect their clinical European origins in terms of organisation and delivery. This is one reason why they remain largely foreign and irrelevant to Aboriginal people, who are reluctant users of the services and facilities available. In this article we examine what is being done in the New England region of New South Wales to improve the relevance of existing health services for Aboriginal people; this is an important first step in improving the third world health status which they presently endure.Dear Sky Sports, does relegation no longer matter?

Stephen Mcilkenny wonders why Celtic are appearing on TV four times over their last five games, while the entire bottom six only features twice.

By The Newsroom Friday, 14th April 2017, 4:21 pm Updated Tuesday, 9th May 2017, 6:36 pm

Celtic's trip to Partick Thistle will be screened live by Sky Sports. Picture: SNS

Like many Scottish football fans yesterday morning I was waiting patiently for the post-split fixture list to be announced. While Celtic have been crowned Champions following a spectacular season, I was still excited to plan ahead and watch the crucial fixtures that could decide who is playing in the top flight league next season and who would make that final push to the European football.

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My excitement left as soon as I saw the televised fixture list. Looking back, as a Scottish football fan, I should have known better.

Of the seven games televised on both Sky and BT Sports, only two of the matches involved teams in the bottom six. In fact, two out of the first three games to be shown from the split involved teams in the bottom half before the focus from TV once again shifted to the top half of the table for the remainder of the campaign.

Ross County v Inverness at 7.45pm on Friday 28 April and Inverness v Hamilton Accies at 12.15pm onThe Austin Aztex played its final game of the season Saturday for a 3-2 loss at the hands of the Montreal Impact. Though the loss eliminated Austin from the playoffs in a 5-2 aggregate series, the night wasn’t a total loss for the Aztex.

In just its second year in existence, the team managed to land the third seed in the USSF D-2 Pro League playoffs after being in the first position for much of the season. The Aztex went neck and neck with the Canadian squad that has a significantly larger roster and payroll and will be joining Major League Soccer in a couple of years.

Montreal scored early goals in both halves and the third just before stoppage time to extinguish any chances of an Aztex comeback. However,


Awareness changes the public discussion of government employee salaries in Nevada Share This:

Our outreach to open government activists is spreading nationwide. This time our guest blogger is Eric Davis. Davis is a transparency researcher with the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in Las Vegas, Nev. He specializes in using technology to make government more open. Also a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he spends his free time watching movies and reading about politics.

Transparency advocates know that without constant scrutiny, corruption and abuse fester in government. And for years, this is what happened in Clark County, Nev., which includes the city of Las Vegas. However, since the creation of TransparentNevada, the flagship transparency project of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, public employeeI am a writer and editor living and working in New York City. I am Editor of the Roosevelt Institute's Next New Deal blog and my writing has appeared on The Nation, The Atlantic, GOOD Magazine, AlterNet, and others. From women's issues to wonking out, I'm always looking for the stories that can shape the debate. Previously, I was a financial reporter and head of the energy sector at mergermarket, a newswire that is part of the Financial Times Group. Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/brycecovert.

Sequestration Will Harm Domestic Violence Victims as Rates Rise

It looks like we may finally get a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, landmark legislation that has helped lead to a 67 percent decrease in the rate of intimate partner violence since it was


Cougar encounters on the rise, hunters say

With the cougar population increasing in Northeastern Oregon, reports
of cougars stalking people are raising concerns that the big cats might
be losing their fear of humans.

A ranch hand from the Haines area reported being stalked by a cougar
along the North Powder River, and two days later a bow hunter with ties
to Baker County reported killing a cougar near Ukiah after it stalked
him on Aug. 30, the first day of the hunting season.

Those are just two of a growing list of cougar sightings and encounters reported recently in Northeastern Oregon.

In the Haines cougar stalking incident, Sebastian Combs, 28, was
sitting in a tree stand scouting for deer and elk when he saw a pair of
eyes staring at him from a patch of brush.

“At first Ithat time it was so dark all he could see of the cougar were glimpses of the cat moving through the grass.

“Dad showed up with two pistols and we walked together back to the four-wheeler,” Combs said.

Combs said his parents live about 300 yards from the spot where he saw the cougar Aug. 28, two days before the start of bow season.

The next morning, before heading off to work in the the hay fields, Combs took his pistol and went looking for cougar tracks. What he found sent a chill down his back — two sets of cougar tracks.

One set was made by a large cougar with paws the size of his hands, and the second set of prints appeared to be from a smaller cougar.

The cougar stalking


from 576 in 1994 to 11,323 in 2004. Even so, the cougar population has doubled and even tripled in some areas since 1994, despite the huge increase in the numbers of cougar tags sold.

Before 1994, cougar hunts were controlled, meaning the state limited the number of tags it sold. Most cougar hunting seasons lasted for a month to several weeks.

Since then, however, ODFW has changed cougar hunting to a general season, which means anyone can buy a tag, and there are no limits on the number of tags sold. The cougar season is open for 10 months of the year, too.

Don Whittaker, ODFW’s cougar specialist, said hunters killed 308 cougars statewide in 2007, 20 more than the year before.

That’s more than twice as many cougars as hunters killedin 1994.

Whittaker said cougars were nearly extinct in Oregon in the 1960s when bounties were paid to cougar hunters who used hounds to tree and kill them.

When the bounty ended and ODFW began managing cougars as a game animal in 1967, the statewide cougar population was estimated at 214. ODFW estimated the cougar population had grown to 3,114 by 1994 and was still increasing when the hound ban took effect.

Since then, Whittaker said, the state’s cougar population has nearly doubled to around 6,000.


Planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to be retired

Israel Montgomery |Friday, November 02, 2018

The Kepler space telescope's end has finally come

TESS builds on Kepler's foundation with fresh batches of data in its search of planets orbiting some 200,000 of the brightest and nearest stars to the Earth, worlds that can later be explored for signs of life by missions such as Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

Mr Borucki described his favourite exoplanet, named Kepler 22B, which was first spotted by the telescope in 2009 and is located more than 600 light years from Earth. After completing its initial mission, NASA tasked Kepler with its extended K2 mission, which resulted in the spacecraft having surveyed more than half a million stars.

NASA scientists are expected to spend the next decade trawling through dataThe Nash army (however many of you are still out there) may be soon losing its torchbearer.

On a recent episode of Kachitagari TV, Masato "RB|Bonchan" Takahashi seemed to imply that he'd be lowering Nash to secondary character status in favor of Karin.

The Japanese player had a rough transition to Street Fighter 5, and the community gave him even less of a chance after he switched to Nash, a character regarded as low tier in Season 2. When he wound up winning three CPT events in three weeks, he inspired a new sense of hope for Nash players, and fear for the rest of us.

Though he's still been performing well, (he finished ninth at EVO this year after being knocked into the losers bracket during pools) he's transitioning away


UN declares Somalia famine in Bakool and Lower Shabelle Published duration 20 July 2011

image caption An estimated 10 million people have been affected by the drought in east Africa

The United Nations has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region suffers the worst drought in more than half a century.

The UN said the humanitarian situation in southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle had deteriorated rapidly.

It is the first time that the country has seen famine in 19 years.

Meanwhile, the UN and US have said aid agencies need further safety guarantees from armed groups in Somalia to allow staff to reach those in need.

Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which controls large swathes of south and central Somalia, had imposed a ban on foreign aid agencies in itsterritories in 2009, but has recently allowed limited access.

An estimated 10 million people have been affected in East Africa by the worst drought in more than half a century. More than 166,000 desperate Somalis are estimated to have fled their country to neighbouring Kenya or Ethiopia.

The UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, said $300m (£186m) was needed to address the famine in the next two months.

The UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said the response by many European and developed countries to the crisis in the Horn of Africa had been "derisory and dangerously inadequate".

"The fact that a famine has been declared shows just how grave the situation has become. It is time for the world to help," he said.

US Secretary of State Hillary


to access communities in the south, which are controlled by al-Shabab.

"If we don't act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks," Mr Bowden warned.

Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking.

"I was talking to mothers with children, the children looked maybe nine months to one year old - the mothers were telling the children were three and four years old, so they are absolutely tiny."

She said some of the mothers had walked up to six days with no food to try to find help.

media caption Mark Bowden: "It is likely that conditions will deteriorate further in the next month"

The BBC's Mohamed Mwalimu in Mogadishu, says he meta woman called Habiba at a camp set up for the drought victims in the capital who had walked 200km (125 miles) from her village near Buurhakaba city in south-west Somalia.

Her five children were with her, but the youngest ones - aged two years and five years - died on the way.

She said she abandoned their bodies along the roadside because she was too weak to dig graves.

The BBC's Africa correspondent Andrew Harding says the emotive word "famine" is used rarely and carefully by humanitarian organisations, and it is the first time since 1992 that the word has been applied to a situation in Somalia.

Militia talks

Meanwhile, the UN is calling for unhindered access to affected areas, saying that the security situation is hampering humanitarian efforts.

Adrian Edwards, a spokesman


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By Winfield Bevins

A few years ago, Bishop Stephen Cottrell of Chelmsford had a conversation with a priest who boasted about his church’s 150th anniversary. “So you’re running a church plant?” Cottrell said. “Every church was planted at some point. Every church owed its existence to the dedicated ministry of a particular group of Christians at a particular time who were seeking to respond to the needs and challenges of their day by establishing some new expression of Christian life” (see Ancient Faith, Future Mission: Fresh Expressions in the Sacramental Tradition [Seabury Books, 2010], p. 56).

I had a similar realization on a recent visit to England. As I looked around London, where hundreds of historic churches were built throughout the 19th and early


20th centuries, I began to think, “Isn’t it ironic that I am teaching on 21st-century church planting in church buildings that were planted only 100 years ago?” Surely, there is nothing new under the sun. After this trip, I began some research on English church planting in the 19th century. What I found was nothing short of inspiring.

The Victorian period ushered in an era of unprecedented prosperity to England, as well as major cultural change and upheaval. Population growth skyrocketed in major cities like London as a result of migration and rising birth rates. Tremendous economic development resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Both trends contributed to increased poverty, pollution, and factories where children as young as six worked hard hours for little or no pay. As towns andcities grew rapidly around factories, problems such as urban crime, poverty, alcohol abuse, prostitution, and high infant mortality increased. For every 1,000 babies born each year, nearly 160 died before reaching their first birthday.

All of this led to national concern about the spiritual and moral welfare of England and its future. The Victorian church responded to the national changes by founding hundreds of schools, missions, and welfare organizations. Church planting, or church extension as it was commonly called, was but one solution the Church of England used to address the growing changes and challenges of the 19th-century context.

Let’s be honest. When you think of Victorian England, church planting is hardly the first thing that comes to mind, but a significant and well-documented movement swept across the country, resulting


in thousands of new churches. Multiple Archbishops of Canterbury — including William Howley, Charles Longley, and Archibald Campbell Tait — supported and were active in church planting in the Church of England in the 1800s. In 1836, Bishop Charles James Blomfield of London issued “Proposals for the creation of a fund to be applied to the building and endowment of additional churches in the metropolis,” providing for new churches and schools to meet the needs of the city’s rapidly increasing population. Blomfield aimed to have a church for every 3,000 people and believed that once a church was built it would have a larger influence on the surrounding community. By the time of his retirement in 1856, the diocese had built 200 new churches.

On the national front, K.D.M.Snell’s social history of England offers a statistical analysis of new ecclesiastical parishes in the 19th century. Between 1835 and 1896 nearly 7,500 new ecclesiastical parishes were formed, with two boom years of 1844 (193 parishes) and 1866 (113 parishes). A fifth of all Anglican churches were built after 1801.

Snell estimates that from 1835 to 1875, new churches were being completed at a staggering rate of one every four days (see Snell’s Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950 [Cambridge, 2006], pp. 409-14). The number of churches and chapels increased from under 12,000 in 1831 to well over 16,000 in 1901, with a net increase of nearly 50 percent over 70 years. Alongside these entirely new churches, there was extensive rebuilding, extension, and


restoration of existing structures.

This was not just a top-down phenomenon coming from bishops and other leaders in the Church of England, but included a grassroots movement. Along with the growing need for church planting, the national context of change and development produced young, energetic clergy who were mission-minded and open to the work of pioneering new churches. Many Victorian church planters went into “the highways and hedges” (Luke 14:23), where the church was absent, such as the East End slums of London. Stories abound of priests, both evangelical and Anglo-Catholic, who ministered to the poorest of the poor and those displaced in society.

Consider a few examples. The Rev. Thomas Gaster served with the Church Missionary Society in India and later planted All Saints, Peckham, in London in 1867.The church began with about 20 people meeting in the Gasters’ sitting room. In a few years the congregation grew to over 600 adults with a service for 800 children on Sunday afternoons.

The Rev. Richard Temple West planted St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, in 1865. The first church service register from July 1866 shows three Sunday Masses and a daily Mass, with 75 to 100 Sunday communicants, increasing to about 150 in 1867. From the start, West and his parish worked with the local community. They eventually established a convalescent home for the poor on Weymouth Street, off Harrow Road. The church continued to grow under West’s leadership and by 1886 the congregation had grown to over 1,000.

A final example is the Rev. Arthur Osborne Montgomery Jay (1858-1945), whom


the Bishop of London appointed as Vicar of Holy Trinity, Shoreditch, in late 1886, in order to reach the outcasts of the Old Nichol district, one of England’s notorious slums. Old Nichol was described by one person as “a district of almost solid poverty and low life, in which the houses were as broken down and deplorable as their unfortunate inhabitants.”

When Jay entered the parish, there was no church building and services were held in the loft of a stable that stank of manure. Jay’s first service on New Year’s Eve attracted 14 people. Within 10 years he had raised enough money to build a church, social club, lodging house, and gymnasium.

Jay became known for two things: being a high churchman and opening a boxing ring in whichPresident Trump’s porn star mistress scandal was given new life on Tuesday night when it was revealed that Donald Trump had failed to sign the non-disclosure agreement he had arranged to conceal his affair with adult actress Stormy Daniels, rendering it null and voice.

While the President had hoped that the story would die down after being plastered on headlines across the nation, it has returned to haunt him in a show of hilarious poetic justice, seeing as Donald is notorious for reneging on his deals and cheating the people who have worked for him throughout his entire business career.

In response, the lawyer for Daniels fired back that he didn’t consider the restraining order to be valid and the lawsuit was going to proceed as usual in a public


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Round 1: Sass takes the center; Volkmann comes forward first with an inside leg kick. Volkmann ties up with Sass and Sass pulls guard. Volkmann threatens a one-armed guillotine, but Sass is defending. Sass threatens the triangle and transitions to the omoplata; Volkmann defends. Sass slaps on the triangle and then the armbar. It's only a moment before Volkmann taps.team around Anthony, who remains living proof of the fact that, while there may be no I in team, there's definitely a me.

Anthony met with Mr Zen this past week to assert his desire to remain with the club. Besides pleasantries, the meeting was also necessary for Jackson, as Melo has a no-trade clause in addition to a trade kicker in his contract.

Despite this, Jackson's apparently taking to the phones to gauge interest in the former scoring champ.

Reportedly, the Knicks have reached out to the Cavs, Celtics, and Clippers in particular, as a potential Anthony landing zone.

The Knicks have proposed a Melo for Kevin Love trade, but Cleveland was none too keen to deal their star PF. While Melo could help the struggling, Love is having his own


of the largest mosque in Australia gave a speech at Sydney University described Jews as the cause of all wars and the existential enemy of humanity.

In July 2006, Hilali refers to the Holocaust as a ‘Zionist lie’ and referred to Israel as a ‘cancer.’ This kind of dangerous rhetoric is not new among Muslims or unique to Australia.

In October 2006 insinuating that the long prison sentences handed to Sydney’s Lebanese gang-rapists for attacking young teenage girls in the year 2000, were unfair he compared Australian women who do not wear the Islamic veil to meat left uncovered in the streets and then eaten by cats. During his long career, Hilali also praised suicide bombers as heroes and called the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States“God′s work against oppressors” and “the work of 100 per cent American gangs.’

At the time, Hilali’s principal adviser and spokesperson, Keysar Trad, wrote, ‘The criminal dregs of white society colonised this country and… the descendants of these criminal dregs tell us that they are better than us.’ Trad subsequently served as president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils the national umbrella organization, which represents Australian Muslims at national and international level from July 2016 until May 2017.

The Auschwitz Institute, the Holocaust memorials are among the thousands of places where evidence exist if Mr Hilali and his lot are interested in some history lessons, but I suspect they are not! However, I will offer some anyways, because as George Santayana remarked, ‘Those who do not learn history are


doomed to repeat it.’ Though the quote is most likely due to, and in its original form read, ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ As Mr Hilali and his cohorts will find, between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 40,000 camps and other incarceration sites. The perpetrators used these sites for a range of purposes, including forced labour, detention of people thought to be enemies of the state, and mass murder. The total number of sites is based upon on-going research in the perpetrators’ own records.

Concentration Camps

From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called ‘enemies of the state.’ Most prisoners in the early concentration campsII, the Nazi camp system expanded rapidly. In some camps, Nazi doctors performed medical experiments on prisoners.

Succeeding the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Nazis increased the number of prisoner-of-war (POW) camps. Some new camps were built at existing concentration camp complexes (such as Auschwitz) in occupied Poland. The camp at Lublin, later known as Majdanek, was established in the autumn of 1941 as a POW camp and became a concentration camp in 1943. Thousands of Soviet POWs were shot or gassed there.

Jewish Genocide Centres

In order to expedite the ‘Final Solution’ (the genocide or mass destruction of the Jews), the Nazis established killing centres in Poland, the country with the largest Jewish population. The killing centres were designed for efficient mass murder. Chelmno, the first


massacre centre, opened in December 1941. Jewish and Roma people were gassed in mobile gas vans there. In 1942, the Nazis opened the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka killing centres to systematically kill the Jews of the General government (the territory in the interior of occupied Poland).

The Nazis constructed further gas chambers (rooms that filled with poison gas to kill those inside) to increase killing efficiency and to make the process more impersonal for the perpetrators. At the Auschwitz camp complex, the Birkenau killing centre had four gas chambers. During the height of deportations to the camp, up to 6,000 Jews were gassed there each day.

Jews in Nazi-occupied lands often were first deported to transit camps such as Westerbork in the Netherlands, or Drancy in France, en route to
259 F.Supp. 148 (1966)
Robert W. ANDERSON
v.
UNITED STATES of America and
Norfolk Dredging Company.
Civ. A. No. 31849.
United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.
October 10, 1966.
*149 Harold E. Kohn, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff; Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Dilks, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.
Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., Joseph R. Ritchie, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for the United States.
Krusen, Evans & Byrne, John Patrick Kelley, Philadelphia, Pa., for Norfolk Dredging Co.

OPINION
KRAFT, District Judge.
In August of 1961, the plaintiff was, and still is the owner of a tract of land on Deal Island, Somerset County, Maryland. On or about the above date, Norfolk Dredging Company (Norfolk) was conducting dredging operations in the vicinity of Deal Island pursuant to a contract with the Corps of Engineers, United States Army.
As


a necessary and concomitant result of these dredging operations, Norfolk entered upon plaintiff's land and there dug a trench, constructed a dike and deposited the by-product of its dredging operation, consisting primarily of mud and silt, to the depth of eight feet. These operations were performed by Norfolk "for the benefit of and on behalf of the United States of America",[1] as provided in the contract between Norfolk and the United States. The site of this dumping operation was one of four specific areas designated on a chart supplied by the United States and referred to in paragraph "SC-4, Contract Drawings, Maps and Specifications."[2]
The plaintiff gave no permission to the United States or Norfolk to enter upon or alter his premises or to deposit the "spoil" thereon. TheUnited States mistakenly believed that it had obtained permission so to do by an earlier, unrecorded easement it had secured from Ralph R. Brown, a former owner of the premises.
The plaintiff has filed an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1346, against the United States and Norfolk and, by reason of diversity of citizenship, against Norfolk alone. His complaint, in two counts, in substance alleges an ordinary common law action of trespass to land (quare clausum fregit) against both defendants.[3] Norfolk filed a cross-claim against the United States which has been dismissed, pursuant to a stipulation[4] whereby the United States has assumed the complete defense of this action and agreed to indemnify Norfolk in the event of the entry of an adverse judgment against


and was not an independent country. Subsequently, in 1377—a few years after the death of Gajah Mada, Majapahit sent a punitive naval attack against a rebellion in Palembang, contributing to the end of Srivijayan successor kingdom. Gajah Mada's other renowned general was Adityawarman, known for his conquest in Minangkabau.

In the 14th century a Malay Kingdom of Singapura was established, and it promptly attracted a Majapahit navy that regarded it as Tumasik, a rebellious colony. Singapura was finally sacked by Majapahit in 1398, after approximately 1 month long siege by 300 jong and 200.000 soldiers. The last king, Sri Iskandar Shah, fled to the west coast of the Malay Peninsula to establish the Melaka Sultanate in 1400.

The nature of the Majapahit empire and its extent is subject toWhile in later period, Yingya Shenglan mentioned that large numbers of Chinese traders and Muslim merchants from west (from Arab and India, but mostly from Muslim states in Sumatra and Malay peninsula) are settling in Majapahit port cities, such as Tuban, Gresik and Hujung Galuh (Surabaya). A special tax was levied against some foreigners, possibly those who had taken up semi-permanent residence in Java and conducted some type of enterprise other than foreign trade. The Majapahit Empire had trading links with Chinese Ming dynasty, Annam and Champa in today Vietnam, Cambodia, Siamese Ayutthayan, Burmese Martaban and the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire.

Administration

During the reign of Hayam Wuruk, Majapahit employed a well-organised bureaucratic structure for administrative purposes. The hierarchy and structure relatively remain intact and unchanged throughout Majapahit history. The


formation before entering the imperial phase. This includes the capital city and the surrounding areas where the king effectively exercises his government. The area in and around royal capital of Trowulan, port of Canggu and sections of Brantas River valley near the capital, also mountainous areas south and southeast of capital, all the way to Pananggungan and Arjuno-Welirang peaks, are the core realm of the kingdom. The Brantas river valley corridor, connecting Majapahit Trowulan area to Canggu and estuarine areas in Kahuripan (Sidoarjo) and Hujung Galuh port (Surabaya) are considered as parts of Negara Agung.
 Mancanegara, areas surrounding Negara Agung — traditionally refer to Majapahit provinces in East and Central Java. This area covered the eastern half of Java, with all its provinces ruled by the Bhres (dukes),Attorney General Maura Healey hugs Paula Haddad, whose son Jordan died from opioids at the age of 26, as Healey entered the courthouse at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston for a status update on the Attorney General's suit against Purdue Pharma on Jan. 25, 2019.

The nationwide opioid epidemic has led to a sharp increase in the death rate for overdoses by teens and young adults, according to a study published Thursday.

Death rates from drug overdoses for people ages 15 to 24 rose by 19.75% from 2006 to 2015, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Researchers at the nonprofit Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Maryland reviewed millennial and Gen Z mortality data from the National Center for Health


Statistics.

During the study period, 36,422 adolescents and young adults in the United States died of drug poisoning.

Most of the deaths from drug overdoses were from opioids, prescription and illicit drugs like heroin, the researchers said. Death rates from opioid use rose by an average of 4.8% annually over the same time period, with an even steeper increase of 15.4% a year between 2013 and 2015.

"The surge in drug poisoning deaths among adolescents and young adults reflects the ease of access to pharmaceutical drugs, especially prescription opioids and later transition to more potent opioids," said Dr. Bina Ali, the lead author of the study.

The new data highlights how the crisis is impacting American families. It also provides U.S. prosecutors more ammunition in their legal fights against the companies andhealth-care professionals accused of helping fuel the epidemic, which kills roughly 130 Americans every day.

On Tuesday, a former CEO of Rochester Drug Cooperative, one of the nation's largest drug distributors, was indicted on what prosecutors say are the first criminal charges against an executive of a drug company to stem from the opioid epidemic. In addition the federal government reached a $20 million settlement with the company over its alleged role in the crisis.

Separately, federal prosecutors last week charged 60 doctors, pharmacists and other licensed medical professionals across five states in connection with illegally prescribing more than 32 million pain pills.

The indictments came as some 1,600 cases against OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma and other opioid manufacturers are being consolidated and transferred before a judge in the Northern District of


Happy Frame Of Mind

Horace Parlan

Initial release : 1988

Blue Note

This session was recorded in 1963. It was first released on a double LP credited to Booker Ervin. It was then released on CD as originally intended under the title Happy Frame Of Mind. Grant Green plays on this album

Tracks

Home Is Africa (Boykins)

A Tune for Richard (Ervin)

Back from the Gig (Parlan)

Dexi (Coles)

Kuchenza Blues (Weston)

Happy Frame of Mind (Parlan)

Musicians

Horace Parlan - piano

Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone

Johnny Coles - trumpet

Grant Green - guitar

Butch Warren - bass

Billy Higgins - drums

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The music from this session was first released as one LP of the double LP set;Labor has accused Mr Robert - who owns shares in some of Mr Marks' other companies - of a conflict of interest and misuse of public office. The scandal deepened on Tuesday when it was revealed Mr Robert had a meeting with a Chinese government minister during the trip, which Labor says weakens his claim he was travelling on a personal basis. Labor ramped up its attack on Stuart Robert during question time on Tuesday. Credit:Andrew Meares Now a translation of a Chinese government webpage suggests people from Nimrod were at Mr Robert's meeting with Wang Min, China's vice-minister of land and resources, the day after the signing ceremony. "Stuart Roberts (sic) said the Australian government welcomes Chinese company investment in mining exploration and development in Australia," the


translated document says. "He said that China Minmetals Corporation and Nimrod Resources have set up a joint technical committee, the sign of a new beginning.

"He is glad that the Ministry and Geological Survey Bureau officials, people from the China Minmetals Corporation and Australia Nimrod Resources attended the meeting today." Mr Robert, pictured with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, was asked several questions during question time. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen Mr Robert declined to comment on the revelation, which will raise fresh questions about the lengths he went to for Nimrod and Mr Marks. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ordered the nation's top public servant - Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet boss Martin Parkinson - to investigate the affair. Mr Robert arriving to question time with Treasurer Scott Morrison. Credit:Andrew Meares

LaborFriday, 21 February 2014

Hat Etiquette for Men

Removing your hat is considered to be a gesture of respect for certain occasions and in certain places. Keeping your hat on during these occasions and in these places is a gesture of disrespect.

All hats, including baseball caps and knit caps, should be removed when the wearer is indoors, including in private homes and restaurants. Although it is not necessary for the hat wearer to remove his hat in public places such as lobbies, corridors, and elevators.

Hats should be removed during the singing of the National Anthem, the passing of the American flag, funeral processions, and during formal outdoor occasions such as weddings and dedications.

After removing your hat, hold it so that the inside of the hat is toward you and not


Construction Co., Inc., defendants. The United States was dismissed as a party immediately after service. In this opinion, the remaining parties will be referred to as Tropic, NADLQ, Len and Aloha, respectively.
The case arose in connection with the construction of military housing at Naval Ammunition Depot, Lualualei, Oahu, under the Capehart Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1594 et seq., pursuant to a housing contract executed by the United States, NADLQ, and Len on May 9, 1958.
Len was the prime contractor of the project. He performed his contract through Aloha, a Hawaii corporation which he organized and of which he was the sole stockholder.
NADLQ was a Delaware corporation organized by Len to serve as the "mortgagor-builder" of the project under the established Capehart procedure. Its capital stock was originally whollyowned by Len, but the plan from the outset was that it would be transferred to the United States immediately upon the completion of the project.
As the mortgagor-builder, NADLQ was the owner of the project, and held a 55-year lease of the project site from the United States. The lease was mortgaged to Ralph C. Sutro Co., which provided the construction money.
*364 Tropic was a concrete and masonry subcontractor on the project. It did its work under subcontract agreements with Aloha.
The project was completed to the satisfaction of the United States and NADLQ on April 30, 1959. On the same day, Len transferred the capital stock of NADLQ to the United States.
The notice of completion of the project, prescribed in R.L.H. 1955, § 193-42, was filed in the


circuit court on May 19, 1959. On that day, Aloha owed $21,578.12 to Tropic under the subcontract agreements. In order to collect that amount, Tropic filed a notice of mechanic's lien, together with a demand for payment, on June 26, 1959, and had the same served on the United States, NADLQ, Len, and Aloha on June 30, 1959, all in compliance with §§ 193-42 and 193-45. Mechanic's lien was claimed on the interest of NADLQ in the project site and the improvements thereon.
Upon failing to receive satisfaction from the notice and demand, Tropic filed a complaint for the enforcement of mechanic's lien, as well as for personal judgment against Len and Aloha, and had summons issued thereon, on August 10, 1959. The complaint and summons were duly servedas NCQ.
NCQ was substituted for NADLQ, and was duly served by service upon the director of state regulatory agencies on November 12, 1965, and upon the commanding officer of the Capehart housing at the Lualualei Naval Ammunition Depot on November 15, 1965. NCQ's first response was a motion for dismissal of the action. Upon denial of the motion NCQ answered, and also filed a third-party complaint against Len, Columbia Casualty Company and Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd.
The third-party complaint was based upon a payment bond required under the Capehart Act and furnished by Len, as principal, and Columbia Casualty Company and Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd., as sureties. The complaint was filed on July 26, 1966, and served on Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd., on July 27, 1966, and Len and


Ocean’s 8 is a 2018 American heist comedy film that was directed by Gary Ross and written by Ross and Olivia Milch. The film is both a continuation and a spin-off from Steven Soderberg’s Ocean’s trilogy and features an ensemble cast that includes Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, and Awkwafina. The film follows a group of women that are lead by Debbie Ocean, the sister of Danny Ocean, who plan a sophisticated heist of the annual Met Gala in New York City.

After the release of Ocean’s Thirteen in 2007, Soderbergh stated that he had no intentions in making a fourth film, citing his desire to have the series “go out on top”. However, an all-female spin-off was announced inOctober 2015, with much of the cast signing on by August 2016. Filming took place from October 2016 to March 2017 around New York City.

Ocean’s 8 premiered at Alice Tully Hall on June 5, 2018 and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on June 8, 2018, 11 years to the day of the release of Ocean’s Thirteen. The film has grossed approximately $294 million worldwide and received a lukewarm critical response from critics, with praise for the performances of the cast (particularly Bullock, Blanchett, and Hathaway), but criticism for the overall storyline.

The Film Itself (3.75/5):

While it isn’t nearly as smooth or seamless as its predecessors, Ocean’s 8 has just enough chemistry between its cast and characters that it works. I’ll admit, it took a


BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the killing of a Biloxi police officer (all times local):

10 p.m.

A Mississippi police chief says one of his officers driving home spotted the suspect wanted in the fatal shooting of a Biloxi police officer, leading to the 19-year-old's arrest 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of the crime scene.

Biloxi Police Chief John Miller says the officer was driving home through Wiggins when he saw a man on the side of the road who looked like Darian Tawan Atkinson. Miller says the officer called Wiggins police, who arrested Atkinson before sunset Monday on a capital murder charge. Atkinson is accused of fatally shooting Biloxi Patrolman Robert McKeithen Sunday night in the parking lot of the coastal city's police station.

Miller says he's not surestation surveillance camera took a picture of a man before the shooting death of McKeithen. Officers have appealed for help in identifying the man, and a reward offer has risen to $35,000. And on Monday, police were seen searching some apartments.

Bryant writes on Twitter that the shooting is "senseless" and that he met with Biloxi Police Chief John Miller. Bryant, a onetime deputy sheriff, writes "we will find the coward who fired the shots" and arrest him.

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9:30 a.m.

A Mississippi Gulf Coast police chief says a gunman who killed one of his officers outside the police station is an "animal," and he's still on the run.

Biloxi Police Chief John Miller says he believes the man who fatally shot officer Robert McKeithen is still in the area, but says he


multiple times and then ran off.

Firefighters rushed the officer to a hospital emergency room down the street, where he was pronounced dead.

Chief Leonard Papania of the Gulfport Police Department is leading the investigation along with the Harrison County sheriff and prosecutors' offices. He says the suspect was wearing navy blue shorts, a black T-shirt, a red beanie cap and dark high top sneakers with red caps.

A law enforcement helicopter has been flying over Biloxi as officers search the area.ruling is the first of its kind on a rating agency's liability for investors' losses.

Today's court ruling will enable the councils to recover a significant proportion of their losses that will now be available to provide services for their communities John Walker, Director, IMF Australia

Federal Court Justice Jayne Jagot said that both S&P and ABN Amro were "misleading and deceptive" in the rating of two structured debt issues in 2006, which she agreed were "grotesquely complicated".

She said the agency had published false information and given "negligent misrepresentations" to potential investors about the riskiness of two financial products.

The AAA rating conveyed a message that the likelihood of financial obligations being met was "extremely strong".

It was also "a representation that S&P had reached this opinion based on reasonable grounds and


to adopt its own inputs "in numerous communications", including five instances in which it wrongly asserted key pieces of financial information.

ABN Amro bank was sold to three banks in 2007, including the Royal Bank of Scotland which took over its Australian activities.

In a statement RBS said it was "studying this long and complex report and considering our next steps".

Damages

The case was brought against S&P and ABN Amro Bank by several Australian local governments which lost millions when the value of the investments was virtually wiped out during the financial crisis.

Judge Jagot said S&P and ABN Amro would have to pay 30m Australian dollars ($31m; £19m) in damages to the authorities.

IMF Australia, a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange which funds legal claims, said the ruling was "likelyNorovirus outbreak hits cruise ship passengers Published duration 11 August 2017

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At least 91 passengers on a cruise ship have been hit by a suspected case of norovirus, Australian authorities say.

The virus, a stomach bug, was detected on the first day of the Sun Princess cruise to the South Pacific, a statement by its parent company said.

Queensland state health authorities confirmed the cases after the ship berthed in Brisbane.

The Sun Princess was affected by two similar cases in February

In the latest instance, passengers had boarded the ship for a 10-day cruise when they began reporting symptoms, Princess Cruises said.

"We have been advised that on-board testing has found norovirus to be the cause of the illness," a spokesperson


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A new buildup of Russian troops along the Ukraine border raised concerns Tuesday that Moscow might be contemplating another intervention like the one that annexed Crimea earlier this year.According to a NATO official,

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India Village To Be Named After Donald Trump

Bindeshwar Pathak, International founder and chief of NGO Sulabh, has announced that an open defecation-free (ODF) village in north Indian state Rajasthan's Mewat region will be named after US President Donald Trump.

"I announce to name one village in India as Trump Village," Sulabh International founder said at a community event organised in the suburbs of Washington DC.

According to him, the move is part of his effort to enhance India-US relationship.

While giving a presentation to the local community and political leaders in the US, Pathak said that he is working to provide affordable sanitation and toilets to the masses in other to end the practice of manual scavenging in India.

In his address, he urged the Indian-American community to help realise the goalof sanitation and cleanliness in India. The cost of one toilet ranges from USD 25 to USD 500, depending on nature of construction. Technology remains the same, he said.

However, the Rajasthan government officials in a counter-statement, have said there is no such proposal with the government to rename any village after the name of the US president.

"It is the government which renames a village and there is laid down procedures for that. As of now, there is no such proposal with the department to name a village after the US president. I have nothing to comment on what Mr. Pathak has said," Alok, Rajasthan government's principal secretary of the revenue department, told PTI in Jaipur.

He added:

"The competence of renaming a village lies with the government and no private


fear that generates consent (for example, the ‘asylum invasion complex’, which emerged most strongly in the New Labour years). Tyler convincingly argues that neoliberal states rely to a great extent on the ‘endless reconfiguration of abject others’, a process of scapegoating that is not merely an effect but a fundamental pillar of neoliberalism.

While drawing on some international parallels – from the Parisian banlieues to the Niger Delta – the book offers a scathing assessment of ‘neoliberal citizenship’ in modern Britain. It argues that abjection is ‘a design principle of British citizenship’, with the 1981 Nationality Act and other legislation institutionalising state racism. Revolting Subjects shows how the idea of the ‘underclass’ was ‘deployed as a means of both explaining and containing the meaning of the 2011 riots askeeps borrowing costs low for the issuers in the $3.7 trillion market using the bonds to finance infrastructure, schools and hospitals.

Cantor added a note of caution, saying he had recently met with members of a philanthropic organization lobbying Congress to preserve the deduction people take for donations to charities. The municipal bond tax break has "stiff competition," he said.

"You're up against the charitable deduction," he told the treasurers, who were visiting Capitol Hilln to press for the exemption. "The realtors are in town at some point. You're up against the realtors and the mortgage deduction."

In fiscal year 2011, the government missed out on collecting $30 billion in revenues because of the exemption, according to a Congressional Budget Office report.


was more blunt about it: "You should get your kids vaccinated."

It's good advice that's going unheeded. Officials in California have determined 28 of the 34 documented cases to date involved people who never got their measles shots.

Measles is a highly contagious disease, and it can be fatal. The World Health Organization says approximately 145,700 people died from measles in 2013, mostly children under the age of five. It's also an entirely preventable disease thanks to routine shots, with doses administered at 12 months and again at age four to six. Many anti-vaxxers argue vaccination is a personal choice. It's not. It's a choice that affects society.

Still, the New York Times reported, a "statistically significant" number of American parents started refusing to vaccinate their children in the past 15to the UK when she was 10. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

The 61-year-old moved to the UK in 1968 when she was 10 and has never left. Because she had never applied for a British passport and had no papers proving she had a right to be in the UK, she was classified as an illegal immigrant. Last October, she was sent to the immigration removal centre at Yarl’s Wood in Bedford for a week, and then taken to Heathrow before deportation to Jamaica, a country she had not visited for 50 years and where she has no surviving relatives. The former cook, who used to serve food to MPs in the House of Commons and has 34 years of national insurance contributions, was horrified at the prospect


of being separated from her daughter and granddaughter. A last-minute intervention from her MP and a local charity prevented her removal. After Guardian publicity she has since been given a biometric card, proving she is in the UK legally, but she will have to reapply in 2024 and is already worried about the process. She has had no apology from the Home Office.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anthony Bryan moved to the UK when he was eight. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The 60-year-old has spent a total of three weeks in immigration removal centres over the past two years, despite having lived in the UK for more than half a century. He worked as a painter and decorator and paid taxes for more than 40 years, and helped to bring uphis children and grandchildren in London. He lost his job when Capita wrote to him informing him he had no right to be in the UK, adding that his employer could face a £10,000 fine if it continued to employ him as an “illegal worker”. Last November, police and immigration officials arrived early on a Sunday morning at his home with a battering ram; a plane ticket was booked to take him to Jamaica, the country he left when he was eight and to which he has not returned in the past 52 years. He travelled to the UK on his older brother’s passport in 1965, and had no documents of his own to prove status, so struggled to convince officials he was here legally. After coverage of


his plight in the Guardian, officials have acknowledged he is here legally, but he is still waiting to be issued with a biometric card. He has spent more than £3,000 on legal bills and application fees. He has had no apology from the Home Office.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Renford McIntyre moved to the UK when he was 14. Photograph: David Sillitoe/The Guardian

The 64-year-old is homeless and sleeping on a sofa in an industrial unit in Dudley. He has lived in the UK for almost 50 years since arriving from Jamaica in 1968 at 14, to join his mother who had moved here to work as a nurse. He has worked and paid taxes here for 48 years, as an NHS driver and a delivery man, but in 2014 aeat or dress myself?”

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Braithwaite moved to the UK when was nine. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

The 66-year-old lost the job he loved as a special needs teaching assistant last year after his employers ruled that he was an illegal immigrant, despite the fact that he had lived in the UK for 56 years. He arrived from Barbados with his parents in 1961, aged nine, and has lived here continuously ever since; he assumed he was British. He had been in his primary school job for 15 years when a routine check on his papers revealed that he did not have an up-to-date identity document. He was asked to submit documentary proof that he had the right to live in the UK. He had never applied


for a passport and was unable to prove he was here legitimately. He was devastated to lose his job. Shortly after publicity about the case last week, the Home Office emailed his lawyer to say he had been granted a biometric card.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hubert Howard has been in the UK since he was three. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

The 61-year-old arrived with his mother in the UK aged three from Jamaica and has never lived anywhere else. Because he has insufficient paperwork proving he had a right to be in the UK, he was told he was an illegal immigrant with no right to live here. He lost job with the Peabody Trust, despite the fact that he was a highly regarded employee who had worked for thehousing organisation for more than a decade. His problems first emerged when he wanted urgently to visit his mother in Jamaica when she became ill. He was unable to get a British passport and his mother died without him seeing her. Unable to work, he was also told he was not entitled to benefits because he had no immigration status here. “They messed up my life,” he said. “I had a steady job. It broke my heart losing it. When my mum passed away, I wasn’t there, and I still haven’t been at her graveside.”

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The 63-year-old arrived in London from Jamaica as a teenager in 1973, to join his mother who was working here as


a nurse. Albert Thompson, not his real name, has been here 44 years, working and paying taxes as a mechanic, until he became ill with cancer and had to stop work. Official suspicion about his immigration status led to him being evicted last summer, and he was homeless for three weeks, before a charity housed him. When he arrived for his first radiotherapy session last November he was told that unless he could prove he was eligible for free NHS treatment he would have to pay £54,000 for the care. He is unable to pay and is still not receiving prostate cancer treatment, and is profoundly worried about his health. “I’m very angry with the government. I’m here legally, but they’re asking me to prove I’m British,” hesaid. He is also dismayed by his treatment at the hands of the NHS. “It feels like they are leaving me to die.”

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sarah O’Connor moved to the UK at the age of six. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The 57-year-old moved to Britain from Jamaica 51 years ago when she was six, and has lived here ever since. She was challenged by the benefits agency to prove she was here legally last summer, after losing the job in the computer shop where she had worked for 16 years. Although she has successfully interviewed for several new jobs, the employers have had to withdraw their offers when they discovered she has no passport. Unable to get work and told she is not eligible for benefits, she had to


sell her car and was facing bankruptcy in March. She attended primary and secondary school in the UK, paid taxes, held a driving licence, was married for 17 years to someone British and has four British children, so she was devastated when her immigration status was questioned. After publication of the story last month, the Home Office promised to waive the fees usually charged for a biometric card application.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elwaldo Romeo moved to the UK at the age of four. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The 63-year-old received a letter from the Home Office in February telling him he was in the UK illegally – despite the fact he has been here for 59 years, since moving from Antigua at the age of four, with his mother whoPolice investigate scare at Vista Lane daycare

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – According to a report from the Clarksville Police Department, an arson attempt was reported Tuesday, June 25 at a daycare at 1531 Vista Lane.

One of the employees told police when she arrived around 9 a.m., the front door was unlocked and she smelled gasoline. A screen had also been removed from a window.

The employee contacted the owner, and police arrived shortly after to investigate. Both front doors and two rooms were unlocked, and gasoline had been poured on the floor and several items in each area. Police found a piece of newspaper in the bathroom sink.

Police were unable to obtain fingerprints from the scene. No further information is available at this time.


Amiri Baraka was described by the FBI as 'the person who will probably emerge as the leader of the pan-African movement in the United States'. Photograph: Julian C. Wilson/AP

Like the 1960s black power movement of which he was a figurehead, Amiri Baraka, who died on Thursday aged 79, is widely condemned in America as a promoter of black supremacy, zealotry and violence. The reality is less straightforward. Baraka embodied the tragic contradictions of a movement that was far more complex than its sensationalized historical image suggests.

In common with his idol, who was born Malcolm Little, and who became the small-time pimp and burglar "Detroit Red" before re-emerging as Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka was a master of self-reinvention. Indeed, Baraka went even further than Malcolm in his rituals ofpersonal and political metamorphosis.

First he was Everett Leroy Jones, born in 1934 to a middle-class black family in Newark, New Jersey. Then he was LeRoi Jones, a precocious bohemian poet who fraternised with Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso during the late 1950s in New York's downtown avant-garde arts scene.

By 1968 he was Imamu Amiri Baraka, one of the most prominent black power leaders in the United States, whose "Swahilized" name was intended to signal a complete rejection of white culture. And from 1975, he was Chairman Amiri Baraka, this time the leader of the Revolutionary Communist League, a Maoist sect that rejected racial dogma and stood for economic and racial equality through the overthrow of capitalism and imperialism.

To most of the American media, however, his image remained freeze-framed


as the Afro-wearing black power militant of the late sixties and early seventies, the "snarling laureate of Negro revolt", as Time magazine called him in 1967.

What complicates the media's picture – and what historians have only recently begun to reconstruct – is that behind the surface image of angry "hate whitey" spokesmen preaching violent retribution, black power was a movement posing a number of acute questions about the failures of American society, and offering some creative answers.

There was a reckless, grandstanding streak to many of black power's most visible leaders and publicists, Baraka among them. Scornful of the image of respectability crafted by civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King and Roy Wilkins, black power's figureheads often revelled in a politics of threat and insult.

Some taunted theirperceived opponents with viciously homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks, not least Baraka himself ("I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got / the hitler syndrome figured", he wrote in one notorious poem of the mid-sixties). But away from the public eye there was another side to black power, and to Baraka himself.

For activists in cities like Newark, black power was not the sinister yet ultimately empty slogan it was so widely presumed to be. Black power meant using the concentration of black people in urban areas to take control of the local institutions that affected their lives: the school boards, welfare agencies and city halls. Baraka and his black power organisation, the Committee for Unified Newark, were instrumental in registering and mobilizing black and Puerto Rican voters in 1970