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April 22 – May 15, 2016Catch Me If You Can

Book by TERRANCE McNALLY Score by MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN

Based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it, Catch Me If You Can
is a high-flying musical adventure about Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., a
teenager who runs away from home in search of the glamorous life. With
nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of
dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor
and a lawyer - living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams.
But Frank's lies catch the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty who
chases Frank to the end...and finds something he never expected.[Physiological Basis of the Improvement of Movement Accuracy with the Use of Stabilographic Training with Biological Feedback].
We studied the physiological parameters of ball hitting by volleyball players in unsupported position and opportunities for their improvement by training with biological feedback. Physiological and biomechanical parameters of a direct attack hit from supported position correlate with biomechanical features ofjump shots. At the same time, the physiological basis of accuracy of shots consists of the improvement of trunk and arm movement coordination in the flight phase, the factors of intramuscular and intermuscular coordination of the hitting arm and the change in the displacement of the center of pressure. The use of computer stabilography training with biological feedback helps to optimize physiological and biomechanical parameters of physical actions in unsupported position, which


Immunocytochemical localization and spatial relation to the adenohypophysis of a somatostatin-like and a corticotropin-releasing factor-like peptide in the brain of four amphibian species.
The distribution of somatostatin (SRIF) - and corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)-like - immunoreactive material was studied in the brain of four amphibian species (Ambystoma mexicanum, Pleurodeles waltlii, Xenopus laevis, Rana ridibunda) by use of immunocytochemistry. A wide network of SRIF-immunoreactive fibers and numerous perikarya were observed in all amphibians examined, with a dense accumulation of nerve endings in the external layer of the median eminence (ELME). In the representatives of the four amphibian species the CRF-like system was more circumscribed. Immunoreactive perikarya were present in the preoptic area, mainly in a ventrobasal position, and in the interpeduncular nucleus. The tract running along the ventral part of thetuber cinereum ends in the ELME facing the rostroventral lobe of the pars distalis that contains corticotrophs. CRF fibers were scarce or absent in the neural lobe. In all species studied in the present work, CRF fibers end in the area of the ELME close to the pituitary lobe containing corticotrophs. This correlation is similar to that reported for the Japanese quail and several teleosts.


all of Aamir's previous films. "I loved the trailer, it's just incredible. I have been saying this since the beginning that this film will be the biggest hit of this year. Aamir Khan is known to set the trend, his Ghajni was the first film to enter 100 crore club, 200 club with 3 Idiots, 300 crore club with PK and the 400 club with Dangal. I think it will happen," he added.

Scheduled to arrive in theatres on December 23, Dangal is a special film not because it comes two years after the commercially successful and awarded film PK, but because Aamir has worked hard on getting the Hariyanvi accent and physical transformation right. He has piled on as many as 22 kilograms to play the weathered Mahavirwill surely see a mass die-off this century; BAU is not an option. Even the mitigation and adaptation pathways discussed and not yet agreed upon at Lima imperil billions. There is an optimism bias built into the way we interpret science. There is uncertainty in climate science but the probability space of error is skewed to the bad side.

In their excellent essay, The Collapse of Western Civilisation, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway fictionally recount, from the viewpoint of a historian way in the future, how climate change wreaked catastrophe in the late 21st century. They point out our convention of statistical significance leads to scientific 'truth' being accepted when there is some 95% confidence. The one in twenty chance, the low probability high consequence event, is ignored. When


Male and Female Stab Each Other, Both Arrested in Atlantic City

Two people have been charged with stabbing each other Saturday morning in Atlantic City.

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Around 8:30 Saturday morning, Atlantic City Police responded to the unit north block of Delancy Place for a report of a male and female that stabbed each other, according to a press release. When they arrived, they found 32-year-old Clifton Holley with a stab wound to the shoulder and 19-year-old Amirah Black with a stab wound to the leg.

Police say Holley and Black were involved in an argument when Black retrieved a knife from the kitchen and stabbed Holley. Holley was able to wrestle the knife away from Black and stabbed her in the leg. Both were taken to ARMC-City with non-life threateningConstantine and Christendom | The Voice 10.12: March 22, 2020

Constantine and Christendom

Perhaps Constantine did have some kind of mystical experience before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge; maybe he was influenced profoundly by his mother Helena; maybe he proved to be a shrewd calculator to achieve personal advantage; maybe they all played a part. Yet Christianity would become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire within a century of Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in 312. Christianity, for all intents and purposes, had now become Christendom; the effects of popularity and political power on the faith remain to this day.

Before 312 the Roman authorities had at best warily tolerated Christianity, and at worst actively persecuted the faith, burning its Scriptures and killing its adherents. Christians had maintained an ambivalent


culminating in the Edict of Thessalonica of 381, enshrining “catholic” Christianity as the state religion, condemning traditional pagan religion and heretical Arianism. “Babylon” was now re-commissioned as a vehicle to promote and advance the “Bride”; the persecuted became the persecutors. “Christendom,” as societies, cultures, or nations professing to espouse Christianity, had been born.

Christendom would soon be rocked by the upheavals surrounding the collapse of the unity of the Roman Empire and the development of the medieval world. The eastern Roman Empire would continue as the Byzantine Empire for another millennium, and sought to fuse the secular power of the Byzantine Emperor with the spiritual purposes of the Orthodox Church: the Emperor would summon and preside over councils and appoint patriarchs, and the church would uphold and promote theempire. The czars of Russia would go on to maintain even greater authority over the Russian Orthodox Church than did the Byzantine Emperors.

In the west political power fragmented into all sorts of small duchies and kingdoms; fealty to the pope and the Roman Catholic Church provided consistency and unity across western Europe for a millennium. The papacy claimed both secular and spiritual power over the kingdoms of Europe, aided by Augustine’s arguments regarding the superiority of the spiritual authorities over secular authorities and the (forged) “Donation of Constantine,” in which Constantine purportedly gave the power over Rome and the western Roman Empire over to the pope. The secular authorities gained credibility and justification for rule from Roman Catholic authorities; Roman Catholicism received not only pride of place in


particular brand of Christianity; in return, the religious authorities would support the state, advocate for its policies, and justify its behaviors.

Christendom’s grip on power would begin to loosen on account of the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century and the success of the American Revolution. States in America began to disestablish “official” churches as the premise of individual right to free expression in religion advanced. Even as various Christian denominations flourished in America on account of its religious “free market,” most in America continued to presume their country to be part of Christendom as a “Christian nation.” It has only been within the past century that the power of Christendom in America and Europe has been significantly weakened on account of Communist revolutions, spiritual disillusionment, the spread of secularism,and the decline in participation in various denominations and churches.

Christendom provided some benefits to the world: much of the philosophical underpinning of modern Western thought derives from the principles of Christianity, especially its emphases on the value of humility, the worth and fundamental equality of each individual, and the importance of charity. Not a few have grown to become faithful Christians in the Lord’s service by starting out with some notion, held consciously or unconsciously, that as an American or as a European they should practice Christianity if they would practice a religion.

And yet Christendom has also hindered the advancement of the purposes of God in the Kingdom of Jesus. Whenever the church is welcomed into the halls of power it has been tempted to compromise the more


RuthAnn (Hughes) Burton, 91, native of Syracuse

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CARTHAGE- RuthAnn (Hughes) Burton, Born in Syracuse, New York on August 6, 1922, RuthAnn (Hughes) Burton was the daughter of William J. and Katherine (Sharkey) Hughes. She graduated from St. Anthony of Padua High School in 1940.

Ruth attended Alfred University where she majored in Ceramic Art. She was a member of Theta Theta Chi sorority and the Ceramic Guild.

A talented artist, Ruth received an award for artwork relating to World War II. Her piece was exhibited in New York City. She later aided the war effort inspecting 50 caliber machine gun parts in Syracuse.

While attending Alfred University, she met and then married Robert H. Burton who died in 2007. They are survived by three children: Robert (Melinda), Thomas (Lauren), and Jean (Lawrence).Ruth also leaves behind a grandson (Charles), three granddaughters (Sydney, Megan, Emily), and many nieces, nephews, and their families.

A top speed skater as a teenager, Ruth had a lifelong passion for sports, including swimming and golf. She enjoyed her late afternoon swims at camp, reading, and following Syracuse and Siena basketball.

Both friendships and family were important to Ruth. Her snappy comments always brought smiles and laughter. To all, she was a true friend who will be remembered fondly and greatly missed.

Calling hours will be Tuesday, July 8, 2014 from 9:00 – 10:30 at the Lundy Funeral Home located at – 500 State St., Carthage, NY 13619.

A Funeral Mass will follow immediately at St. James Catholic Church, Carthage. Burial will be held on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 11:30


Zack Stanton was a House page from 2001–2002. You can find him on Twitter at @zackstanton.

In the middle of October I was sitting on my couch in Washington and heard a familiar name come up on CNN: Dennis Hastert. “Prosecutors have charged Hastert with lying to the FBI about $3.5 million he agreed to pay to… a former student to keep quiet about allegations of sexual abuse dating back to Hastert's time as a high school teacher.” On October 28, after striking a deal with prosecutors, the former speaker of the House pleaded guilty.

This was nine years after the FBI had barged into my parents’ house, more than a decade after the unsettling things I’d seen on Capitol Hill. It was the final thud of a decline thathad reshaped Congress—and in which I’d played a pivotal role that almost nobody except those FBI agents knew.

Hastert’s speakership had ended in both defeat and scandal. In November 2006, after Democrats retook the house, Hastert announced he'd step down from leadership in the next Congress. He didn’t have much choice in the matter. That fall, a story exploded that likely cost Republicans their House and Senate majority: Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley, it was revealed, had repeatedly made sexual advances to several congressional pages. Hastert, the speaker at the time, had allegedly been told by House colleagues about Foley’s history of messaging teens, and did nothing.

I was a congressional page in 2001 and 2002. During that year, Foley sent sexual instant messages to at least three of my


famously dressed alike—navy blue blazers, charcoal gray pants, white dress shirts, and a thick blue-and-red-striped polyester tie that conjures images of flight attendants on a discount airline in the Reagan era. To others on the Hill, the uniforms act as a marker for quick identification. Within the program, they functioned as something of an equalizer, a reminder that in spite of our differences—children of wealthy scions and immigrants, red-meat conservatives and fire-breathing liberals—there was a oneness; we belonged.

In this June 2006 photo, House pages line up to shake hands with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in the Capitol Rotunda. The Foley scandal exploded less than four months later. | Getty

I knew I wanted to be a page since literally the first time I heard of it, rightaround the time that my seventh-grade love of professional wrestling gave way to an eighth-grade love of politics—I had to get into the page program. I volunteered long hours with my congressman for years to make it a reality. In August 2001, weeks before my junior year of high school, the acceptance letter came in a thick envelope from House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. I had been granted admission to my own personal Hogwarts.

Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., in a July 2003 photo. Foley engaged in sexually explicit instant message exchanges with multiple House pages, a revelation that helped Republicans lose their congressional majority in 2006. | AP Photo

During Labor Day weekend, my parents and I joined a block-long line of 70 incoming pages and their doting parents for


Tuesday, September 11. As our school got out, I made my way to the elevator and noticed a group of pages huddled around the school secretary’s desk. A classmate scurried up to me. “Planes ran into the World Trade Center,” he said. I thought he was lying.

A dozen of us squeezed into the Democratic cloakroom, huddling around the small, 10-inch TV. As we learned the news—two planes in New York, a plane that hit the Pentagon, one plane still unaccounted for—we also heard the terrifying false alarms: reports of a bomb detonated at the State Department, that the National Mall was on fire. Soon, a decision was made: we have to get out of here.

Just then, a deafening alarm clanged to life in the Capitol building. I assumedshape and wore tailored suits. His skin was richly tanned, like the soft leather upholstery on a private jet, and he had an easy demeanor about him, a magnetic friendliness that made it seem like he really cared about you. On the Hill, Foley was known as something of a publicity hog, the guy who bragged about showing celebrities like Julia Roberts and Melanie Griffith around the Capitol, never one to miss a good photo op. His attraction to celebrity was so apparent and distinct that California Rep. Mary Bono—one to know—nicknamed him “Hollywood.”

Most of the members paid no attention to the pages, but there were those who were friendly, who made an effort to get to know “the help.” Mark Foley was one of them. At the


happened to jumpstart my memory.

***

On September 28, 2006, I read a news story that changed my life.

It was a Thursday in early autumn in East Lansing, Michigan, one month into my senior year at Michigan State University. That year, I lived in Emmons Hall, a squat brick-and-glass dormitory from the 1960s, pinned between two busy roads and the gurgling Red Cedar River.

I sat in a standard-issue wooden desk chair, clicking aimlessly on my computer while guzzling another in a long line of Diet Coke cans. On the ABC News website, a headline grabbed my attention: a 16-year-old House page had received vaguely inappropriate emails from Rep. Mark Foley.

The author, top left, with his page class throughout the 2001-2002 semester. “When I visit the Capitol, I get the feelingor victim, not the responsible parties, became the target of attacks. On the evening of October 4, I cold-called the FBI and left a message with the hotline operator explaining who I was, what I knew, and where to contact me. She said they would be in touch.

The next morning, news broke that Joshua, his identity now public knowledge, had hired Stephen Jones. Jones was a high-profile trial attorney, best known for representing Timothy McVeigh during his prosecution for the Oklahoma City bombing. Through mutual friends, I learned that Joshua was searching out whoever gave the transcripts to the media, and wanted to sue for defamation.

That afternoon, my dad called to tell me that FBI agents had paid a visit to our family home, and that they had


the panel, said he should resign by the end of the day.

Democrats had already stood a good chance at retaking the House, and the Senate was close, but within reach. Now, because of the Foley and Hastert maelstrom, it seemed like a foregone conclusion. Newsweek devoted a cover to the Foley scandal, its subhead declaring that the brouhaha “could cost Bush Congress.” It was a cover story for TIME, too, with a close-up of an elephant’s posterior alongside a small, sober headline saying that the scandal “may well spell the end of the Republican revolution.”

***

On the morning of October 7, a long-lost page classmate called me on the phone. We chatted for about two hours, catching up on things, and then he turned serious.

The Foley scandal made nationalheadlines, fueling speculation that the Republican majority might soon come to an end. | TIME, Newsweek

After the page program, he had stayed in Washington as a summer intern. During this time, he said, a member of Congress who had always been friendly to pages invited him to a party at his apartment. “You really need to be there,” the representative insisted.

On the night of the party, my classmate darted through the rain and strode up the steps to the front door. The congressman greeted him and welcomed him inside, taking his wet jacket while he dried off. It was quiet, he noticed. Walking into the living room, he realized why: nobody was there.

Unsure what exactly to do, he sat down on the couch. The congressman, he said, sat


8, 2006, the House Ethics Committee released its 91-page report on the Foley affair, a compelling account detailing those who knew that something was amiss—not necessarily something sexual, but something—with the way Foley interacted with pages. The report makes note of a late-night incident before 2000, when Foley, drunk, tried to enter the page dorm before being turned away by the U.S. Capitol Police officers who guard it. Staffers who worked intensively with the page program later told investigators that they got a “creepy feeling” from Foley.

More importantly, the report detailed the political concerns that colored the actions of elected officials who were aware of wrongdoing.

The ethics report stated that Rep. Rodney Alexander was first contacted by a reporter on the “creepy emails” story in spring 2006. Alexanderplead guilty in a case that involved violating banking law and lying to FBI investigators over an allegation of sexual abuse during Hastert's time as a high school wrestling coach. At right, Hastert, top left, observes a wrestling clinic. | AP Photos

Ultimately, aside from Mark Foley, only one entity was held responsible and punished for the Foley scandal: the page program itself.

***

On August 8, 2011, Speaker Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi sent out a “Dear Colleague” letter to all members of Congress. “Changes in technology have obviated the need for most Page services,” they wrote. “We have jointly directed the Clerk of the House and other House officials to take the steps necessary to conclude the Page Program by August 31, 2011.”

I was stunned. The page program


for Congress, get elected, and relaunch the program. Who is in?” Others suggested a lobbying campaign, or expressed a renewed interest in attending a class reunion.

Ultimately, aside from Mark Foley, only one entity was held responsible and punished for the Foley scandal: the page program itself.

A dozen of us had been planning to meet the following month for a reunion in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to mark 10 years since the September 11 attacks and pay respects to the passengers of United Flight 93, who, as we now know, literally saved our lives with their heroism. Now, we were compelled to pay our respects to the page program that had brought us together. Nobody else in the outside world quite knows what it was like to be page. In thethe first time in nine years. I apologized; he accepted. We talked for hours about Foley—we were, in a sense, two of only three people at the center of this scandal—and we came out with a renewed friendship.

Two former House pages during a 2011 lobbying campaign to save the page program, which was discontinued the following year. | Getty, Tom Williams/Roll Call

The second regret is that the scandal’s furor may have caused the end of the page program. You’ll notice the absence of the pages when you watch the State of the Union. They were never front and center, but always there if you looked to the margins, the tightly-packed scrum of people right next to the door where the president enters—a tangle of kids with outreached arms


State hands back Minmi housing project

THE state government will hand back to Hunter councils planning assessments of a major housing and employment project on the fringe of the city at Minmi.

The state is expected to soon approve rezoning plans for Coal & Allied’s ‘‘Northern Estates’’ project.

The project includes developing 3300 houses on 520 hectares at Minmi next to the freeway link road and 183hectares at nearby Black Hill for employment uses.

Most of this land is in Newcastle, but some falls into Lake Macquarie.

The move relates to the O’Farrell government’s decision in 2011 to scrap the controversial part 3A planning powers and hand some projects back to councils.

Newcastle and Lake Macquarie councils criticised the Coal & Allied plans in submissions in 2011 to the NSW Department of Planning and2013 Senate of the Philippines funds controversy

The Senate of the Philippines was stirred in a political controversy over the use of the operating expenses of senators, known as the Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE). A report on the Philippine Daily Inquirer on January 9, 2013, which noted that Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile authorized the release of additional operating expenses of almost PHP 30 million during the Christmas season. The controversy has led to the auditing of the finances of the Senate by the Commission on Audit and abrupt motion to declare the vacancy of the Senate leadership by Enrile himself.

Philippine Daily Inquirer report
A report made by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on January 9, 2013, stated that Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile authorized the dispersal of additional


weight loss programs and to assist in the development of strategies to increase participants' ongoing use of Web-based program features.

We acknowledge the work of Ben Noblet in retrieving the data, Anna Crook and Penelope Jones from SP Health for assistance with managing the data set, and Patrick McElduff for assistance with design and implementation of the statistical analyses. MJ Neve was funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship and a scholarship top-up from SP Health Co Pty Ltd. CE Collins is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Award research fellowship.

MJ Neve received a postgraduate scholarship top-up from SP Health Co. CE Collins has been a consultant dietitian to SP Health Co. PJ Morgan and CE Collins hold an Australian Research Council (ARC)Delaware Eye surgery center.After a couple of close calls (yes, two close calls, this is Route One in the summertime after all), I pulled in the parking lot of the Delaware Eye Institute.I walk to the front desk. I tell them I'm here to pick up Bill Kelly. The woman behind the front desk says to someone in the back "He's here." She doesn't look happy. In fact she wasn't happy at all. I soon found out the reason why. They had been trying to reach me for TWO HOURS!Bill was in the back, distraught. He was crying. I don't want to go too deep into Bill's psyche but he cannot handle any kind of stress. That's why I advised him to quit his job thirty-three years ago


used to it, and my best response is to let myself feel bad and move on. I also try to remember all the people who didn't let rejection get the best of them.

Did you know that director Stephen Spielberg was rejected from his film school of choice, USC, twice? Did you know Thomas Edison failed over 1,000 times before he discovered the lightbulb? Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime but kept on painting. Bethany Hamilton had her arm bitten off by a shark and was back on a surfboard one month later and went on to win first place in the NSSA National Championships. J.K. Rowling kept three years of rejection letters under her bed before Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was acceptedby a publisher.

Last but not least, a little girl from Pakistan named Malala Yousafzai stared death in the face in order to tell the world how important education is for women. She recently won the noble prize for her bravery.

The list goes on and on. I certainly am not comparing myself to any of these extraordinary people, but you never know what you can personally accomplish if you don't keep trying.

They say there is a science behind the hurt of rejection and it goes back to when we were hunters and gatherers and living in tribes. When you were rejected by your tribe, you wouldn't survive and the price was death.

I didn't have quite that much drama, but I do remember those feelings of pretending to fit in


Where Paddy meets Bruce

A 70-minute drive south to Kardamyli on a divine mission to pay tribute to the extraordinary accomplishments of two Englishmen, now departed – Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bruce Chatwin.

Leigh Fermor lived in the area almost 50 years and was given honorary citizenship of the village as well as greater awards by the Greek Government.

Chatwin visited Leigh Fermor and when he died some years later his ashes were scattered at an ancient Greek Orthodox chapel on the steep hillside behind “Paddy’s” rambling, self-designed residence.

What did these two men have in common? Both were born adventurers, renaissance men and writers who travelled and wrote about their travels.

The basic information for the social archaeologists is this:

Patrick Leigh Fermor born February 11, 1915, died June 10, 2011, aged 96.

BruceChatwin born May 13, 1940, died January 18, 1989, aged 48.

Leigh Fermor is regarded as the finest travel writer in the English language of the 20th century (A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water and Mani) and Chatwin’s Patagonia and Songlines are literary masterpieces of place, history, myth and people.

Leigh Fermor requested that he die in his homeland so he flew home on June 9, 2011, and died the next day. He was buried next to his wife, Joan Rayner (nee Ayres-Monsell) daughter of the First Viscount Monsell, in the churchyard at Dumbleton near their family home in Worcestershire.

I scrambled around the overgrown garden admiring the magnificent granite stone residence with its paved courtyard and rockery gardens. I stood on the rooftop deck overlooking the


economists (those saturated with the values of capitalist larceny) and the Western media have managed to create a simple, plausible and easily digestible view of the Greek economic crisis: the Greeks don’t pay taxes.

Oh, and by the way, the Greeks are also bone idle.

The radio shock jocks deliver this bigotry in the course of any mention of the Euro-crisis. The broadsheets and the ABC relay a similar message but they use more sophisticated language.

What about some short history lessons so we know what country we are talking about and who its people are?

In the 20th century the Greek people, living in the “cradle of democracy”, experienced war, civil war, revolution, counter-revolution, dictatorship (twice), economic recession and depression, mass unemployment, starvation and mass migration into the country (twice) andlarge-scale movement out of the country (almost continuous).

At the end of World War Two the country was plunged into a civil war. The British and US Governments supported the right-wing conservatives and monarchists against the popular resistance which had fought the Nazis and the Italian fascists. It was an act of coldblooded betrayal, aka the Truman Doctrine: the Cold War had commenced.

From 1967 until 1974 Greece was ruled by a military dictatorship, the colonels’ junta. During that time parliament, political parties, trade unions, free speech and the free press were either banned or severely restricted. Thousands of political activists from the unions, universities and the arts were arrested. Many were tortured while others were banished to prisons on remote Greek islands.

When the junta was overthrown by an insurrectionary


upsurge of workers and polytechnic students, formal Western democracy was reinstated and the PanHellenic Socialist Party (Pasok) was founded and liberally funded.

Since then Greece, the weakest link in western Europe, has teetered on the verge of national bankruptcy. Stripped of its oil tanker industry (and the invisibles that supported its balance of trade) and with her other smaller industries crushed by the emergence of the single market of the European Union (EU), Greece faced a rising national debt.

ENTER THE BANKS

For the past 30 years the Western banks have gone to the Greeks bearing gifts – in the form of loans worth trillions of dollars. They have financed and refinanced Greece’s national debt several times over and, in the process, put the economy into hock. By the time ofas soon as unencumbered funds became available. The debtor sought and was granted an extension of time within which to file an appeal from that order. The debtor then moved for reconsideration. The Unsecured Creditors' Committee filed a motion on July 31, 1990, to convert the case to a Chapter 7 case. Subsequently, the two retiree authorized representatives, the debtor and the Unsecured Creditors' Committee arrived at a compromise of their competing claims and requested its approval by the bankruptcy court. See Motion filed August 30, 1990. A hearing was held by the bankruptcy court, and on October 11, 1990, it entered an order approving the proposed compromise and vacating in part its June 7, 1990, order in order to allow the implementation of the compromise. These appellants


For many years, Denis Kruglenko treated life as if it were a delicately calibrated performance. A gay man living in Belgorod, Russia, he knew that even appearing to be homosexual could be perilous. He did what he could to conceal his sexual orientation but it never seemed to be enough. Once, he was beaten up for wearing a pair of pink socks.

In 2014, not long after President Vladimir V. Putin signed sweeping anti-gay measures into law, Mr. Kruglenko fled to New York and applied for asylum. He arrived with little English or money, and found a home in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn.

The area, which is filled with Russian-speaking immigrants, offered the comforts of familiar foods, his Slavic language and landlords who accept cash payments. But hethe issue as she told her colleagues that she was raped 20 years ago, tearing up as she shared her personal story and thanking God that she was not impregnated as a result.

"The Republican male majority continues to ignorantly and unnecessarily weigh in on important women's health issues that they know nothing about," said Whitmer, one of four women who serve in Michigan's upper chamber. "As a legislator, a lawyer and a mother of two girls, I think the fact that rape insurance is even being discussed by this body is repulsive."

Other opponents -- male and female -- shared personal stories about miscarriages in their families, questioning how the proposal would impact problematic pregnancies that may require termination or expensive hospital stays.

Rep. Amanda Price, R-Park Township, spoke in


to write it as a short film first and then adapt it to a comic. The film script was set to the music of the ballet piece ‘The Nutcracker’.

Now there’s no music in a comic or graphic novel. So when it came to adapting the film script, the challenge was figuring out how to convey the emotions the music evokes through a combination of words and the visuals. That set the tone for the rest of the stories in the book.

AP2HYC: The stories are very much driven by imagery, sometimes abstract. What was it like working with Lyndon White and Paulina Vassileva and fully realizing this?

Purkayastha: I have worked with both Lyndon and Paulina on a number of projects. Besides being amazing artists, they both have an excellentare seeking a 30-year sentence for the 63-year-old eye doctor, though Melgen is seeking leniency.

Menendez is up for reelection in 2018. He is widely expected to seek another term in office, though he has not made a formal announcement about his plans.

- Updated at 3:14 p.m.


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Clashes rock flashpoint Jerusalem mosque compound

A Palestinian protestor kicks a burning tyre to block a road during clashes with Israeli security forces following a rally at the Qalandia checkpoint, against the rare closure of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the weekend after tense clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces.

The planned visit by a Jewish group including ultra-nationalist politicians was to have taken place a week after the attempted assassination of one of its leading activists by a Palestinian gunman prompted Israel to close the site, which is holy to both Jews and Muslims.

"Dozens of masked protesters threw stones and firecrackers at security forces who then entered the Temple Mount and pushed the demonstrators inside the (Al-Aqsa) mosque," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said, using the Hebrewterm for the compound.

In a rare move, police entered "several metres (yards)" inside the mosque to remove blockages set up by the protesters in order to lock them inside, she said, indicating it was not the first time.

The clashes erupted with protesters hurling stones and firecrackers after police opened the Mughrabi Gate to visitors. The gate, which lies at the southwestern corner of the plaza, is the only entrance to the compound for non-Muslims.

Police then entered the plaza and the protesters fled inside the mosque, where they had set up obstacles to prevent anyone from shutting the doors and locking them inside - a regular occurrence when clashes erupt at the site.

"In light of the serious confrontation and the escalation in actions by the rioters, in order to


prevent continued harm to the police and to remove the obstacles in front of the doors and on the ground, the force entered several metres inside, and managed to close the mosque's doors with the rioters inside," the spokeswoman said.

The compound was then reopened to visitors, although the protesters remained locked inside the mosque, she added.

The clashes quickly spread into the alleys of the surrounding Old City, an AFP correspondent reported.

Near Lions' Gate, one of the seven entrances to the walled Old City, Israeli police fired tear gas and percussion grenades to disperse a large crowd of angry Palestinians.

Dozens of children on their way to school were caught up in the police action, the correspondent reported.

The clashes took place as tensions soared over demands by Jewish hardliners toThe Cyprus Health Services Promotion Board is reportedly disturbed by the appointment of a Turkish Cypriot health official on the Global Healthcare Travel Council, following questions by Edek party MP Kostis Efstathiou.

Turkish Cypriot Ahmet Savaşan was elected Vice President of the GHTC back in April, an international forum in the healthcare travel industry.

Constantine Constantinides from Greece was elected Secretary General of the organisaion and he will also be spearheading an initiative to develop and administer an Assessment and Rating System and Awards Scheme to be handed out next year.

Edek MP Kostis Efstathiou is asking questions as to why Greece did not block the election of a Turkish Cypriot official to one of the senior executive positions within the organisation

Edek MP Kostis Efstathiou is asking questions as to why


Greece did not block the election of a Turkish Cypriot official to one of the senior executive positions within the organisation.

GHTC is involved with matters related to Healthcare Travel, working to raise awareness of Healthcare Travel as one of the world’s largest industries, supporting 100 million jobs and generating 12 per cent of world GDP.

But GHTC is not an official international body, says Christos Petsides, Secretary General Cyprus Health Services Promotion Board.

Petsides, who says GHTC is neither legally nor globally recognised, made a proposal for the entire Cypriot Board to leave the organisation unless Turkish Cypriots representing northern Cyprus are asked to leave.incorporated into public and private facilities, the limitations of prior art bulb technologies often will adversely impact building occupants. As just one example, in one school the use of full-spectrum lamps in eight experimental classrooms decreased anxiety, depression, and inattention in students with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). The connection between lighting and learning has been conclusively established by numerous additional studies. Mark Schneider, with the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, declares that ability to perform requires “clean air, good light, and a quiet, comfortable, and safe learning environment.” Unfortunately, the flaws in much of the existing lighting have been made worse as buildings have become bigger. The foregoing references to schools will be understood to be generally applicable to commercial and manufacturing environments as well, making even the


resources affects every industry, including both tenants and building owners. In many instances facility design has been limited to selection of very simple or basic switches, and thermostats, and particular lights, all fixed at the time of design, construction or installation.
A third very important area associated with building management is security. Continuing to use a school as but one example of a public building, a one-room country school fifty years ago was made up of one teacher who knew well the small number of pupils. Security consisted of a simple padlock on a wooden door. The several windows on one side of the room provided light. They were locked but almost never broken into, for nothing of major value, even during the Depression, enticed potential thieves.
Architecture changed asthe years passed. Buildings were enlarged as school populations increased. Students started to conceal books, outerwear, valuables, and occasionally even weapons in enclosed lockers. Indoor lighting was required. Eventually as society became more hazardous, security had to be provided in many schools in the form of personnel who were required to patrol both outside and inside schools in order to provide a measure of safety.
In many public buildings, including schools, modern security presently screens a building's occupants to ensure that they belong or have proper authorization to enter the building. Security must also check for weapons, drugs, and even explosives. Thus, modern security personnel are often responsible for property as well as people. As the types of potential perils increase, so does the need for personnel, to process


key when selecting individual icons. That way you won't have to use a different key in each view.

Once you've highlighted multiple icons, you can manipulate them all at once. For example, you can drag them en masse to another folder or disk by dragging any _one_ of the highlighted icons. All other highlighted icons go along for the ride. This technique is especially useful when you want to back up a bunch of files by dragging them onto a different disk, delete them all by dragging them to the Trash, and so on. When multiple icons are selected, the commands in the File and Edit menus—like Duplicate, Open, and Make Alias—apply to all of them simultaneously.

##### Tip

Don't forget that you can instantly highlight all the files in a_launchd_. Here and there, you'll see some other interesting relationships: For example, the Dock launches DashboardClient.

  * **My Processes.** This list shows only the programs that pertain to _your_ world, your login. There are still plenty of unfamiliar items, but they're all running to serve _your_ account.

  * **System Processes.** These are the processes run by _root_ —that is, opened by macOS itself.

  * **Other User Processes.** Here's a list of all _other_ processes—"owned" by neither root nor you. Here you might see the processes being run by another account holder, for example (using fast user switching), or people who have connected to this Mac from across a network or the Internet.

  * **Active Processes, Inactive Processes.** Active processes are the ones that are


other words, this feature may have the smallest pages-to-significance ratio in this entire book. Doesn't take long to explain it, but it could bring the parents of Mac addicts a lot of peace.

##### Tip

When time limits have been applied, your little rug rats can now check to see how much time they have left to goof off on the Mac before your digital iron fist slams down. When they click the menu-bar clock (where it now says the current time), a menu appears, complete with a readout that says, for example, "Parental Controls: Time Remaining 1:29." Good parenting comes in many forms.

###### Figure 13-6. If this account holder tries to log in outside the time limits you specify here, she'll encounter only a box that says "Computer timein macOS. Java programs run fine in all Mac web browsers.

# Keyboard control panel

You can make exactly the same kinds of settings—and more—on the Keyboard pane of System Preferences.

# Logging in

The multiple-accounts feature of macOS is extremely similar to that of Windows. In each case, you can, if you wish, create a requirement to log in with a name and password before using the computer. This arrangement keeps separate the documents, email, and settings of each person who uses the computer. Chapter 13 tells all.

# Mail control panel

MacOS comes with its own email program (described in Chapter 18); all of its settings are contained within the program.

# Maximize button

On the Mac, clicking the Zoom button (the green   in the upper-left corner of a window) does something


British Prime Minister Theresa May said the attack that killed 22 people in Manchester on Monday evening was "among the worst terrorism we have experienced in the United Kingdom," adding that police believed they knew the identity of the suicide bomber.

The man behind the explosion that shook the Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert, aimed to cause "maximum carnage" by detonating his bomb outside one of the exits, May said. She condemned the "cold calculation" shown by the targeting of children and young people.

Read: World leaders condemn Manchester attack

"All acts of terrorism are cowardy attacks on the innocent people, but this attack stands out for its appalling sick cowardice," the prime minister said.

May paid tribute to the response by emergency services, as well as to members ofthe public who helped look after those caught up in the attack.

"While we experienced the worst of humanity in Manchester last night, we also saw the best," the prime minister said.

Read: Manchester and the world show solidarity with concert attack victims

May said that a number of those being treated in hospital were suffering from "life-threatening injuries."

Britain's Queen Elizabeth expressed her deepest sympathy for those affected by the attack, which she described as an "act of barbarity."

"The whole nation has been shocked by the death and injury in Manchester last night of so many people, adults and children, who had just been enjoying a concert," said the queen in a statement.

Read: From Madrid to Manchester - a timeline of terror in Europe

Earlier, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reacted to


the "terrible incident" on Twitter, saying his "thoughts were with all those affected." He later posted a longer statement.

Political leaders spoke on Tuesday and had agreed to suspend their election campaigns "until further notice” following the attacks. National elections are scheduled in Britain for June 8.

Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the blast in Manchester was "a barbaric attack, deliberately targeting some of the most vulnerable in our society - young people and children out at a pop concert."

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham made a statement on Tuesday morning, saying the citzens of Manchester had experienced the "darkest of nights" and were "waking up to the most difficult of dawns."

Burnham condemned the "evil act" that took place at the concert, but said "today it will be business as usual,be. And as demand for his comic talents has grown, balancing the resulting opportunities with his day job has proved more challenging. Such are the hazards of juggling the roles of anchor and semi-pro wiseacre that the necktie he removed as we sat down for supper—a purple number, bordering on the foppish—had earlier that day been the source of mild controversy: To buy time for his appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show, which tapes in the late afternoon, Williams had prerecorded the headlines segment that opens his 6:30 newscast earlier than usual, then, on his way back to the newsroom from Fallon’s studio, spilled soda on himself, requiring a tie change before the live newscast began. Eagle-eyed viewers noticed the switcheroo, prompting Williams to put up a blog post


one who remains relevant. Though his career in comedy may have started by happenstance, Williams has managed to stay in the conversation because he can speak in the vernacular of his new competition.

Contrast Williams with his rival Katie Couric, who is preparing a possible exit from CBS’s anchor desk when her contract expires in June. David Letterman had Couric on the Late Show recently and ribbed her about her rumored departure. “Once you take that anchor chair, that’s what you do,” he said, suggesting that the job is still the pinnacle of a career. “Really?” replied Couric, clearly unconvinced.

For Couric, the move from the Today show to the Evening News ultimately brought a net loss in prestige. Despite her successes—she was among the first to bewilder Sarah Palinto a health club together.”

It helps that Williams is a student of the form. Fey accuses him of having “a nerdy obsession with comedy,” the kind you typically find among comedians. Williams confesses that while he dreamed of being Cronkite as a kid, he stayed up to watch Carson every night he was allowed to. He pored over the work of Pryor and Kinison. He sent away for Saturday Night Live tickets after watching the premiere episode. (He got them and attended a season-two episode that, according to Williams, Lorne Michaels still considers one of the worst nights in the show’s 36-year run. Broderick Crawford hosted.)

Williams told me he occasionally marks up 30 Rock scripts because the material they want him to do is too risqué. Fey confirmed


that she gets notes from the anchor—with suggestions on how to improve the jokes.

The body of work Williams has written as well as performed is small but accomplished. Back in 2007, when he hosted SNL, he was a full partner in drafting his opening monologue. Then in his third year in the anchor’s chair, Williams was concerned that hosting the show might diminish his journalistic stature. That week, Williams moderated a debate in Philadelphia for Democratic hopefuls on Tuesday night, typically a writing night for SNL. Afterward, he got in a car and went directly to Seth Meyers’s office in New York, where they got started on his monologue around 2 a.m. Together, they took Williams’s ambivalence and turned it into material. “I would like to point outthat at this very moment, we all have something in common,” Williams told the studio audience on Saturday night. “Each one of us, myself included, is thinking, Now, is this really a good idea?” It was, and Williams was a hit—in no small part, Meyers notes, thanks to his experience reading the news, which gave him a poise onstage that guest hosts often lack. (Think January Jones, visibly struggling to read her cue cards.)

One of Williams’s most-beloved performances, at least among New Yorkers, was a bit entirely of his own composition. It came at the end of the winter, while Williams was taking part in a panel discussion on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The panelists were debating the top media story of 2010, offering up the predictable hosannas for


worries, as he did in the run-up to his SNL appearance, that his comic work might damage his reputation as a journalist, he still places the broadcast ahead of all else. The evening I met him for dinner, he proudly showed me his weather-beaten backpack, a North Face stuffed to its ballistic-nylon gills. Inside is everything he needs to report from anywhere in the world: laptop, passport, titanium flashlight. He carries it with him at all times, in case news breaks and he has to get on a plane to cover it. Having hefted the bag at Williams’s enthusiastic invitation—and having watched a brawny member of The Four Seasons wait staff struggle to do the same after Williams asked him to join the fun—I can confirm that itThe cartoon the NZ Herald sacked Malcolm Evans for

In the wake of the protest held outside the Batsheva Dance Company performance in Wellington on Saturday night, supporters of Israel have vigorously denied the claim that Israel is an apartheid state. Are they right?

First the background.

Batsheva is an Israeli dance company which is a “cultural ambassador” for Israel. It is largely funded by the Israeli Ministry of Culture & Sport, the City of Tel Aviv and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs who praise the troupe as “ambassadors of Israeli culture”. As such it is part of a wider propaganda strategy by Israel – called Brand Israel – to try to rebrand this controversial state as a liberal democracy where the arts flourish as a way to deflect hostility


A hastily built Sars isolation facility went into operation outside Beijing today, as China reported 11 more people had died from the virus and a further 176 were infected.

The surge in new cases - with 100 people being infected every day in the capital alone over the last week - has taken the country's death toll to 181 and the number of infections to 3,799.

In Hong Kong, hospital authorities today announced eight more deaths and 11 new infections, bringing the local death toll to 170 and the cumulative cases to 1,611.

The latest figures emerged as Chinese health chiefs admitted they had no idea when the virus would be brought under control.

Liang Wannian, deputy director general of Beijing municipal health bureau, told a news conference the pneumonia-like disease hasis hard to say when because we don't know a lot about the disease," he said.

The Chinese capital has suffered more than any other city in the world. At least 91 people have died of Sars and more than 1,640 have been infected.

In the country as a whole, Sars has claimed 170 lives and infected more than 3,600 since it emerged in the southern province of Guangdong late last year. Authorities have been forced to shut down schools for 1.7 million students, and close cinemas, karaoke bars and other public places

Authorities in Shanghai have detained 132 people who were protesting about being forced from their homes, after the city imposed a ban on large gatherings to prevent the spread of Sars.

In Hong Kong, health officials said some patients


released from hospitals after they were thought to have recovered continued to carry the Sars virus, and some have suffered relapses.

"We warn them not to have close contact with family members, like no kissing, no hugging," said Dr. Joseph Sung, head of the department of medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The World Health Organization said China was facing a critical period. "The next few months will prove crucial in the attempt to contain Sars worldwide, which now greatly depends on whether the disease can be controlled in China," the WHO said in a statement on its website.

Doctors say immediately isolating Sars patients is key to preventing its spread and quick treatment may help patients survive.

The Xiaotangshan hospital in northern Beijing, boasting at least 90 million yuanIn this type of printing apparatus, a sheet entrance and exit port for entrance and exit of a statement sheet and a passbook entrance and exit port for entrance and exit of a passbook are disposed up and down on the front side. The statement sheet inserted from the sheet entrance and exit port is conveyed to a print section along a sheet conveyance path, and the passbook inserted from the passbook entrance and exit port is conveyed to the print section along a passbook conveyance path.
The statement sheet or the passbook conveyed to the print section is printed by a dot head (serial head). The printed statement sheet or passbook is reversely sent and is sent out from the sheet entrance and exit port or the passbook


entrance and exit port (see, for example, JP-A-2003-176065).
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The one end side of the head movement path is an area where the dot head speeds up the movement speed, a halfway part is a constant speed area where it moves at constant speed, and the other end side is an area where the movement speed is slowed down.
When the dot head prints in the speed-up area or theslow-down area, a printed character is expanded or contracted, and accordingly, printing is performed in the constant speed area.
As stated above, since the dot head prints in the constant speed area, there is a problem that a statement sheet wider than the constant speed area (printing area) can not be printed.
Incidentally, when the constant speed area (printing area) of the dot head is made close to the whole width of the apparatus body, the wide statement sheet can be printed.
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a low resolution, there is a problem that the print of the statement sheet is soiled.
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That is, the statement sheet is printed by the thermal head, and then is discharged from the sheet conveyance path through the passbook conveyance path.
However, in this method, since the dot head is positioned at the downstream side of the statement sheet in the conveyance direction, when the passbook is printed by the dot head, the discharge of the statement sheet is delayedSeptember," Piniella said of Soto, the MVP of the Pacific Coast League. "He can pop the ball. He throws relatively well and at the same time, he's caught all these pitchers, including way back when in Spring Training.

"We're comfortable with him. We'll see. He's young, and we know it. Arizona is playing a lot of young people."

Kendall has played in 1,682 big league games, while Soto has been in 30. The veteran has worked with the rookie the past month.

"Geo has had a good month, and he'll be doing this for a long time," Kendall said. "It's all about winning."

But isn't he hurt?

"I'm not hurt," said Kendall, whom the Cubs acquired July 16 from Oakland. "Everybody wants to play. If you don't want to play, you're in the


wrong business. We'll see what happens. He'll be fine."

Kendall has been impressed by the young catcher.

"Geo wants to win," Kendall said. "That's the main part about it to me. He's somebody who wants to learn, he wants to take it to another level. This is a fun part of the year."

Former Cubs pitcher Mike Harkey, who was the pitching coach at Triple-A Iowa and worked with Soto, thinks the youngster is ready.

"From his time in April to now, I think he's 100 times more polished," Harkey said. "He had some issues earlier about what it is he thought he was supposed to do, as opposed to what he was supposed to go out and do.

"We've had a lot of conversations as far as what he perceived as hisin right field in place of Floyd. ... Tickets for a potential National League Championship Series will go on sale Thursday via the Internet at cubs.com and by telephone through Tickets.com. ... Tyler Colvin, the Cubs' No. 1 Draft pick in 2006, will play for Team USA later this month in Taiwan. He took one week off after the Minor League season ended to go fishing, but is working out at the team's facility in Mesa, Ariz., now. Watching the Cubs in the postseason is exciting. "I got to play with all the guys for a little bit, and now I get to watch them and cheer for them with a little more conviction since I know each one of them," said Colvin, who met many of the


players in Spring Training. "It's nice to see where they're at and where they can go." ... The Cubs went 6-3 against left-handed starters in September and were 9-5 dating back to Aug. 16. They lost eight of 10 against lefties from July 4-Aug. 15. ... Mark Prior, who has been rehabbing his right shoulder in San Diego, joined the team on Wednesday as well.

On deck: Ted Lilly (15-8, 3.83 ERA) will face Arizona's Davis (13-12, 4.25 ERA) in Game 2 of the National League Division Series on Thursday. First pitch is scheduled for 9:07 p.m. CT, and the game will be broadcast on TBS.

Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.Last week was not the finest in Andrés Iniesta's career: after a poor display by him and his team-mates, Barcelona suffered a disastrous exit from the Champions League in Rome. He was, unsurprisingly, clearly affected by the ignominious defeat (but was nevertheless one of the few players to face the media post-match).

Iniesta's representatives busy clinching CSL move

A graduate of Barça's youth academy, Iniesta was desperate to win the Champions League and end his Blaugrana career in style - for as the Catalans were being dumped out of Europe, Iniesta's representatives were busy sealing his summer move to China. The club's bosses are aware of the midfielder's plans, as are his first-team colleagues, with the 33-year-old set to wait until after the Copa del Rey final - which sees


the holders face Sevilla on Saturday - to announce his departure.

Identity of Chinese side remains under wraps...

With Iniesta's camp citing confidentiality clauses, it remains unknown which team are to take the Spain international to the Chinese Super League. As many as four clubs submitted significant financial offers for the World Cup winner, who is expected to sign a three-year contract. The switch is thought to include an agreement for his management team to organise a series of children's football camps, furthering both his and his new employers' global presence.

As part of the package put together to lure Iniesta to the Asian nation, it also understood that his club-to-be are to acquire the Chinese distribution rights to his brand of wines, Bodega Iniesta.

Iniesta Barcelona

Midfielder

SpainSunday, September 26, 2010

Son Skull - S/T LP

Holy shit! The Son Skull LP is awesome. Another Olympia project on the Perennial Death label (along with HPP and White Boss) Oly is doin thangs. I had seen Son Skull a handful of times and was pulled in by the energy but never particularly grasped by the music. Now that I have the recordings its all I've been listening to, even moreso than the HPP release (which was my previous favorite and most spun). The lp starts off with two blistering punk tracks "Stand on the Shore" and "Laura"; both have the quintessential hardcore punk breakdown a'la minor threat that gets your blood boiling but are just dirty, gritty, and gnarly. The last two tracks on the A side move


negative rating than he gets for his policy positions. Six in 10, including 40% of Republicans, complain that he tweets too much.

The findings reinforce the exasperation among Trump allies in Congress and elsewhere that the president's own actions are complicating and undermining his potential standing, and in the process weakening his political clout and ability to get things done.

"He's kept all those campaign promises," Georgiann Johnson, 41, a stay-at-home mom and Trump supporter from Springfield, Ill., said approvingly in a follow-up interview. Times are good for her and her family, now in the process of buying their first home. "I'm way more optimistic about the economy now than I was a year ago," she said.

But Linda Shaw, 63, a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson whothe housing crisis and financial meltdown in 2008 spiraled into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

'It's so high school'

Good news on the economy typically boosts a president's popularity. But the feeling that good times are returning doesn't seem to be rebounding to the benefit of Trump, though 55% of Americans credit him with showing leadership during his first six weeks in office. Even one in five Democrats say he's shown leadership.

On policy, Americans are split straight down the middle: 46% approve of Trump's policies; 46% disapprove.

On personality, though, there is a broad and negative consensus. By 60% to 30%, those polled disapprove of Trump's temperament, and 59% say he tweets too often.

"I think he's trying to do the best he can, but he better quit that


tweeting," cautions Ray DeHart, 74, a retiree and one-time Democrat from Hillsville, Va., who counts himself as a strong supporter of the president. "It just gives the news media more fuel to fan the fires, as the old saying goes."

"It's so high school, or junior high school," scoffs Rosa Ledesma, 55, from California's San Fernando Valley.

Just 28% describe his tweets as a good way for him to communicate directly with Americans. One of them was Johnson. "First it was radio and then television and then YouTube," she shrugs. "He's just taking it one more step."

The controversies the president provokes and the battles he wages in 140-character bursts — against everyone from former president Barack Obama to U.S. intelligence agencies to Arnold Schwarzenegger — have defied political norms, distractedfrom policy initiatives and contributed to the public's questions about Trump's temperament.

"If Trump continues to tweet, he should tweet about the economy," says David Paleologos, director of the Political Research Center at Suffolk University. "He began with November tweets about how to save taxpayer money on federal purchases and announcing daily moves by companies to relocate plants in America. That served him well. But recently he has veered off tweeting about issues the public disagrees with him on, and that is an opportunity cost preventing him from higher poll points."

Debate over DREAMers

The bottom line: Trump continues to hold the 46% of the electorate who voted for him on Election Day, but he has failed so far to expand in any meaningful way his support to those who didn't.

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—More than 160 juveniles are on the death row in Iran, says an Amnesty International report, believing the true numbers could be higher.Said Boumedouha, deputy director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Program said “despite some juvenile justice reforms, Iran continues to lag behind the rest of the world, maintaining laws that permit girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to be sentenced to death.”Iran has executed at least 73 individuals under the age of 18 between 2005 and 2015, says the organization.The report, titled ‘Growing Up on Death Row: The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders in Iran’ reveals that the true numbers are likely to be much higher as Iranian authorities often shroud information about the use ofThe seasonal abundance of adult ixodid ticks on Merino sheep in the south-western Orange Free State.
With the exception of October, when no collections were made, adult ticks were collected at weekly intervals from February 1986 to January 1987 from 20 randomly selected sheep out of a flock of 60. Ixodes rubicundus was the most abundant tick and was present from April to September with a peak during May. Hyalomma marginatum rufipes was the next most numerous tick. It was recovered throughout the year with peak burdens being recorded from November to April. Small numbers of a Rhipicephalus sp. (near R. pravus) were also collected. These exhibited a major peak during February and a minor peak during August. A dipping programme to prevent the paralysis caused by I. rubicundus


of its flag, its British Union Jack, and its hopeful allusion to Canada all date it in the first months of the Revolution, probably in mid-1775. This would make it one of the earliest rattlesnake symbols, but others may have been earlier. Another rattlesnake flag was adopted by the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, which had been raised in 1775. It was recruited throughout the colony, but the leading authority writes that “frontier areas had a disproportionately heavy representation.” Its second battalion came mostly from Lancaster, Cumberland, Northumberland, York, and Westmoreland counties and drew largely from North British and Ulster families. … After the fighting began in 1775, the serpent became a rattlesnake and its symbolism changed in many ways. The serpent had been a generic European creature; the rattlesnakewas an American species, unique to the New World. The European serpent had looked very weak and desperately wounded, even on the edge of death; the American rattlesnake was strong, healthy, and dangerous. His fangs were bared, his rattles were erect, and he was tightly coiled and ready to strike. Most important, the European serpent was an emblem of unity; the American rattlesnake became a symbol of liberty. To observers from other cultures, it seemed a strange choice for a sacred emblem. Not many people have chosen to represent their most cherished principle as a poisonous reptile … The solitary rattlesnake symbolized liberty of a special kind. The motto summarized it in a sentence “Don’t tread on me.” This was the only early American emblem of liberty and


freedom to be cast in the first person singular. Here was an image of personal liberty, very different from the collective symbols of belonging that were widely used in New England but much like other backcountry expressions of liberty. The leading example was Patrick Henry’s famous cry: “Give me liberty!” It also warned the world, “Leave me alone, let me be, keep your distance, don’t tread on my turf.” This was an idea that had a strong appeal to settlers in the American backcountry, and especially to the settlers who came from the borders of North Britain. These people came from northern Ireland, the marshes of Wales, the Scottish lowlands, and the six northern counties of England. They differed in ethnicity and religion but shared a common historyand culture that had developed in the borderlands …”

Give ME Liberty. Leave ME alone.

Such was the Backcountry’s ideal of liberty: the rattlesnake warning the meddling outsider to f*** off, not some big brained abstract nonsense no one ever read anyway.

The “liberty” that the Backcountry was fighting for in the American Revolution had nothing to do with classical liberalism, modern liberalism, True Conservatism or libertarianism. It was a clannish version of liberty that had organically grown out of the Scots-Irish historical experience before it was transplanted from Ulster and Scotland to Appalachia. In fact, these people left Great Britain exactly as liberalism was triumphing there under the Georgians in the early 18th century.

Observe how the three versions of Southern liberty lack a sense of universal equality: the Carolina’s Chivalry’s


clamped between two narrow jaws at the forward end of the blade holder which are positioned one exactly above the other. The upper jaw consists of a loose part which can be inserted into a recess in the holder and which is restrained from sideways movement. That upper part is arranged to be fixed in its position in the recess exclusively through the clamping effect created between the jaws and the clamped cutting insert. This clamping effect is brought about by the cutting forces which act on the cutting insert, which are taken up entirely by the jaws. Furthermore the upper jaw has an abutment for the rear surface of the cutting insert, whereby the cutting insert is clamped by pressing the cutting insert inwards into the insertof the report and “reflect on the state of the fundamental cornerstone of prosperity delivery at home.”

South Africa has been ranked the most prosperous country in the African continent followed by Botswana and Morocco

Ghana with poor economic rating is on number 9, though doing well in entrepreneurship and opportunity.

The study found that some African countries are much better at creating prosperity than others, and this is disproportionate to the amount of wealth they have.

Researchers gave the example of Rwanda, which despite having a third of the wealth of oil-rich Angola, has been far more successful at creating a prosperous society and is the most improved country since 2009 rising 10 ranks within Africa .

War-torn Central African Republic (CAR) is the least prosperous country in Africa, whose best rank


in the sub-indexes was in personal freedom.

Chad and Burundi also join CAR in the least prosperous countries in Africa. Others being the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, oil –rich Angola, Liberia, Guinea, Togo and Zimbabwe.

Despite Africa enjoying high growth rates – averaging 5.5% in the last decade alone- the continent has been outpaced in prosperity delivery when compared to other developing countries in Europe and Asia, the survey revealed.

In addition, the continent has also been outpaced in other key targets. For example, in 1990, the number of people living below US$1.90 in East Asia was 60.6%, whilst in Sub-Saharan Africa, it was 56.8%. By 2012, this figure was 42.7% in Sub-Saharan and 7.2% in East Asia.

This is reflected in the Prosperity Index where the median rank for Sub-SaharanTurkish newspaper Hürriyet reported Monday that Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated, in a cabinet meeting attended by President Erdogan, that the Israeli and Turkish governments were nearing a reconciliation agreement.

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He added that "Israel and Turkey will publish a statement about this in the coming days."

The two countries have been negotiating fervently for the past few months, attempting to put behind them the enmity they've shared since the Mavi Marmara incident in mid-2010. Two weeks ago, a spokesperson for Turkish ruling party AKP spoke positively of the talks, but clarified that the sides had not yet reached an agreement.

Turkish President Racep Tayyip Erdogan. Nearing an agreement? (Photo: AP)

Current Mossad Director Yossi Cohen was spotted traveling to Turkey in January, while he was still serving


as a national security consultant, alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu's advisor for Turkish affairs Yossi Ciechanover. The two reportedly met with the Director Gerneral of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, coming to an understanding on several issues.

Another piece of evidence for the upcoming normalization of relations can be found in a recent meeting between Turkish President Erdogan and a delegation of 20 Jewish-American leaders at his Ankara palace. The delegation was led by Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Malcom Hoenlein, an associate of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Malcom Hoenlein. Headed a delegation to Turkey. (Photo: Amit Shabi, Yedioth Ahronoth)

It seems that some of the only topics still in dispute are the demands Turkey has made regarding the naval blockade of Gaza, andfor the next 90 days, until they find a full-time replacement for Skipper.

Skipper joined the Disney-owned network in 1997. He became president of ESPN in 2012.

Skipper's exit comes after a rocky year for the sports network.

Just last week, a bombshell report described ESPN's culture as one of hostility and sexual misconduct toward women.

The report by The Boston Globe specifically named several men employed by or affiliated with ESPN as being subjects of harassment complaints.

Interviews conducted by the Globe with roughly two dozen current and former employees portrayed a “locker room culture,” where men regularly made unwanted sexual advances to female colleagues, gave unsolicited shoulder rubs and rated women based on their looks.

The network laid off 150 employees in November, just months after letting go 100 employees in April,


including several veterans like Ed Werder, Trent Dilfer and Danny Kanell.

ESPN came under fire in August after they pulled an announcer from a college football game named Robert Lee because his name is similar to that of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

The network also faced heat after suspending Jemele Hill in October after she violated the company's social media guidelines twice for calling on Twitter for people to boycott advertisers over the NFL protests and for calling President Trump a "white supremacist."

ESPN also cancelled "Barstool Van Talk" in October after one episode amid outcry over the Barstool's brand's commentary on women.abeyance direct benefit transfers in cooking gas subsidy - one of the biggest showcases for UID-based payment system in the wake of ground level implementation challenges.

Is it the end of the road for Aadhaar?

Optimists dismissed it as just another setback for the Nandan Nilekani led-Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), but a 360-degree view of the project reveals the shaky grounds on which it currently stands.

A petition questioning the rationale for making Aadhaar mandatory for government services has turned into a full-fledged argument on the need for the unique identity number, with the very fundamentals of the project being questioned in the Supreme Court.

The court's interim order that no one should suffer for not having the number has also dampened the government's enthusiasm for the direct benefits transfer


the spectrum issue subsequently. "Any change in the world has always been resisted like this, so it's nothing unusual."

Is it the end of the road for Aadhaar?

The project has been constantly under fire since its very inception, more from inside the government than outside.

While the Planning Commission - of which UIDAI is an attached body - was the first to raise objections about administrative matters, the project entered into a fierce battle with the Union home ministry's Registrar General of India - which is creating a National Population Registrar - on the issue of collecting biometrics.

Then headed by P Chidambaram, the home ministry had also raised security concerns over UIDAI's enrolment process. The two entered into a compromise later to resolve the matter.

Is it the end of theroad for Aadhaar?

"It was the government which did not allow UID to work," says a former UIDAI official, adding that the opposition was due to the fact that Aadhaar was turning into a huge cleansing agent in the government (direct transfer of subsidies to Aadhaar-liked accounts would have minimised the leakage in welfare payments apart from bringing transparency in government functioning). The official who is saddened by the decision on DBT in cooking gas says that he is still "optimistic" as the government is in an "election mode" and doesn't want to antagonise anybody. However, "the project is irreversible now with almost 600 million residents enrolled."

In late 2012, the government decided to roll out DBT on a war footing where the subsidy money would directly go into the


Aadhaar-linked bank accounts of the intended beneficiaries.

That was perhaps the only time when the project seemed to have solid backing from the Congress as well as from most wings of the government.

However, issues with ground-level implementation and the subsequent Supreme Court order sapped DBT of its initial momentum. Some bureaucrats attribute the issues that UIDAI has faced to the "hurry" in which the project was implemented.

Is it the end of the road for Aadhaar?

Another former official says the correct way for the government to roll-out direct transfers was to ensure significant saturation of Aadhaar first in an area and then link it with welfare payments.

"Without that, public resentment had to be there," the official says, adding that even though Aadhaar has a lot of potential, the DBT schemeare using it for authentication services. The number is now expected to see another spurt.

The Reserve Bank of India has also recently asked banks to put in place the infrastructure required to make sure that Aadhaar-based biometrics can be used as an additional factor of authentication for card transactions.

Is it the end of the road for Aadhaar?

After the initial resistance, banks have largely accepted Aadhaar for proof of identity and address, and some have also begun to launch applications based on its payment gateway and authentication services. However, they have protested against the latest Reserve Bank of India directive.

Praveen Chakravarty, former head of investment banking at Anand Rathi who worked with UIDAI in the area of financial services, says that banks are opposing the move as it will


functional hallux limitus, that is believed to affect a majority of the population. To treat functional hallux limitus I created an improved shoe sole design which permits the first metatarsal to better achieve plantarflex relative to the great toe and remaining metatarsal heads. As explained in my aforesaid '195 patent, plantarflex allows for the extension of the human great toe during human gate cycle in an efficient fashion. More particularly in accordance with my prior '195 patent, I created a human shoe sole having an area of reduced support underlying substantially only the location of the first metatarsal head of the wearer's foot. As described in my '195 patent, providing an area of reduced support substantially only under the head of the first metatarsal encourages eversion and plantarflexionof the first metatarsal head as weight shifts from the heel to the first ray. Thus the normal functioning of the foot for plantarflexion and supination is encouraged with beneficial results for improved walking comfort and shock absorption on subsequent heel contact. Following my discovery millions of pairs of shoes have been manufactured with foot beds having an area of reduced support underlying substantially only the location of the first metatarsal head of the wearer's foot, to encourage plantarflexion of the first metatarsal head.


Tesla dubs its stations the “fastest charging station on the planet,” allowing drivers to get a half charge in about 20 minutes. That’s about 16 times faster than other charging stations. The company will have 27 stations set up by the end of this summer and plans to have 98 percent of the U.S. population covered by 2015.

The Woodburn station is close to the Woodburn Elmer’s, about 30 minutes south of Portland. Meanwhile, the Burlington station is located 70 miles north of Seattle, and 75 miles south of Vancouver, B.C. The Centralia station is 85 miles south of Seattle, and 90 miles north of Portland.

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check deception, and in July of 2010, Mother pled guilty to three Counts of purchasing

more than three grams of a precursor in a week. Prior to the factfinding hearing in this

cause, Mother was again arrested on charges of purchasing too many precursors.

       In August 2010, Mother moved to Vincennes, Indiana to be close to her mother.

At first, DCS considered conducting visits in Vincennes but decided against it because

Mother had received threats from people she knew. At one point, someone had knocked

the windows out of Mother’s trailer, and at another point someone had threatened to set

fire to the


trailer. Consequently, Mother was responsible for obtaining transportation to

attend visitations back in Lawrence County, but she could not do so. As a result, Mother

missed 18 of 22 visits between August 2010 and January 2011. However, she used her

mother’s car to make trips to various cities during the same time period.

       On August 10, 2010, DCS filed petitions for the involuntary termination of

Mother’s rights to R.C. and S.C. On September 7, 2011, the trial court conducted an

initial hearing on the petitions and appointed a court appointed special advocate for R.C.

and S.C. On January 4 and 5, 2011, the trial court conducted an evidentiary hearing on

the termination petitions and took the matter under advisement at the conclusion of the

hearing. On March 28, 2011, the    16. Between August of 2010 and the date of the termination hearing,
      twenty-two (220 visits were scheduled for Mother to visit her children. Of
      those, Mother canceled eighteen (18) visits and completed (4). Mother
      testified that she didn’t have transportation but admitted that she used her
      mother’s car for trips to various other cities during that time period.

      17. Amanda Thatcher [(Thatcher)] testified that she took over as Family
      Case Manager in November 2010 after Pam Kiser was promoted to
      Director of the DCS Program in Martin County. Thatcher


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Carl and Anna sold the business to their daughter Charlene and husband Gary Weitzel, who operated it for nearly 50 years until selling in 2018 to Matthew and Terry Patrick.

A little known fact is that from 1952-1957 the Litschgis leased the bakery to Matt and Ivan Perkins, who went on the found Perkins Pancake House in Silverton in 1958, that grew to become a 350 store half a billion dollar national chain.

I wish Matthew and Terry the best in their new ownership, and in keeping local goetta prices down with their bulk pinhead oats!


children were not discriminated against. The reason so few immigrant children attended gymnasium was poor reading skills. After allowing for reading competency, children from immigrant families were as likely as children from native German families to attend gymnasium.

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More than one thousand world-class authors and hundreds of thousands of festival-goers participated in the annual event. The event hosted book signings, author readings, discussions and seminars, live music, parades, demonstrations, spoken poetry, and writing workshops.

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Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Quinn, Clint Eastwood, Dorothy Dandridge, Mala Powers, Yul Brynner, Patricia Neal, Sterling Hayden, Jack Palance, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, Paula Strasberg, Guy Gillette, and Lloyd and  Dorothy Bridges. In the television programme Inside the Actors Studio, noted actors such as Johnny Depp and Anthony Hopkins have cited Chekhov's book as highly influential on their acting.  Beatrice Straight also thanked Chekhov in her acceptance speech after winning her Oscar for her performance in Network (1976).

Chekhov's description of his acting technique, On the Technique of Acting, was written in 1942. When reissued in 1991 it had additional material by Chekhov estate executor Mala Powers; an abridged version appeared under the title To the Actor in 1953, with a preface by Yul Brynner, and reissued inRadical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in decades for a country beset by extremist guerrilla attacks.

Nigeria's police, military, domestic spy service and presidency remained silent over the killings of the construction company workers, kidnapped Feb. 16 from northern Bauchi state. The government's silence only led to more questions about the nation's continued inability to halt attacks that have seen hundreds killed in shootings, church bombings and an attack on the United Nations.

The latest victims were four Lebanese and one citizen apiece from Britain, Greece and Italy.

Britain and Italy said all seven of those taken from the Setrapo construction company compound had died at the hands of Ansaru, a previously little-known splinter group of the


Islamic sect Boko Haram. Greece also confirmed one of its citizens was killed, while Lebanese authorities didn't immediately comment.

"It's an atrocious act of terrorism, against which the Italian government expresses its firmest condemnation, and which has no explanation, if not that of barbarous and blind violence," a statement from Italy's foreign ministry read. Italy also flatly denied a claim by Ansaru that the hostages were killed before or during a military operation by Nigerian and British forces, saying there was "no military intervention aimed at freeing the hostages."

Italian Premier Mario Monti identified the slain Italian hostage as Silvano Trevisan and promised Rome would use "every effort" to stop the killers. British Foreign Secretary William Hague called the killings "an act of cold-blooded murder" and identified the U.K. victimas Brendan Vaughn.

Guard killed during kidnapping

A statement from Greece's foreign ministry said authorities had already informed the hostage's family.

"We note that the terrorists never communicated or formulated demands to release the hostages," the statement read, which also denied any military raid took place.

Ansaru issued a short statement Saturday saying its fighters kidnapped the foreigners from the construction company's camp at Jama'are, a town about 200 kilometres north of Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi state. In the attack, gunmen first assaulted a local prison and burned police trucks, authorities said. Then the attackers blew up a back fence at the construction company's compound and took over, killing a guard in the process, witnesses and police said.

Local officials in Nigeria initially identified one of the hostages as a Filipino, something


the Philippines government later denied.

The gunmen appeared to be organized and knew who they wanted to target, leaving the Nigerian household staff at the residence unharmed, while quickly abducting the foreigners, a witness said.

In an online statement Saturday claiming the killings, Ansaru said it killed the hostages in part because of local Nigerian journalists reporting on the arrival of British military aircraft to Bauchi. However, Ansaru's statement cited local news articles that instead said the airplanes were spotted at the international airport in Abuja, the nation's central capital about 290 kilometres southwest.

The U.K. Defence Ministry said Sunday the planes it flew to Abuja ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. Nigerian soldiers have been sent to Mali to help French forces and Malian troops battle Islamic extremiststhere. The British military said it also transported Ghanaian soldiers to Mali the same way.

The ministry declined to comment further. Ansaru had said it believed the planes were part of a Nigerian and British rescue mission for the abducted hostages.

Worst in decades

The U.K. has offered military support in the past in Nigeria to free hostages. In March 2012, its special forces backed a failed Nigerian military raid to free Christopher McManus, who had been abducted months earlier with Italian Franco Lamolinara from a home in Kebbi state. Both hostages were killed in that rescue attempt.

"I am grateful to the Nigerian government for their unstinting help and co-operation," Hague said in a statement, without addressing the claim that the U.K. had launched a rescue effort.

In its statement Saturday, Ansaru


also blamed the killings on a pledge by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to do "everything possible" to free the hostages. Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati didn't respond to requests for comment Sunday.

While Nigerian authorities have yet to comment publicly about Ansaru's claim, it comes as the nation's security forces remain unable to stop the guerrilla campaign of bombings, shootings and kidnappings across the country's north. The majority of those attacks have been blamed on Boko Haram, an amorphous group that grew out of the remains of a sect that sparked a riot and a security crackdown in Nigeria in 2009 in which about 700 people killed.

Boko Haram has hit international targets before, including an August 2011 car bombing of the UN office in Abuja that killed 25 people andwounded more than 100 others. An online video also purportedly claims that Boko Haram is currently holding hostage a family of seven French tourists who were abducted from neighbouring Cameroon in late February. The group is blamed for killing at least 792 people last year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

Ansaru, which analysts believe split from Boko Haram in January 2012, seems to be focusing much more on Western targets. Analysts say it has closer links to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and cares more about international issues, as opposed to Boko Haram's largely local grievances. But much remains unknown about Ansaru, which so far has communicated through short, sometimes muddled online statements.

The hostage killings appear to be the worst in decades targeting foreigners working in Nigeria,


an oil-rich nation that's a major crude supplier to the U.S. Most kidnappings in the country's southern oil delta see foreigners released after companies pay ransoms. The latest kidnappings in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north, however, have seen the hostages killed either by their captors or in military raids to free them, suggesting a new level of danger for expatriate workers there.

The worst violence targeting foreign workers previously in the country's history came during its 1960s civil war. In May 1969, forces with the breakaway Republic of Biafra raided a Nigerian oil field, killing 10 Italian oil workers and a Jordanian. Eighteen other foreign workers taken by Biafran soldiers faced the death penalty, but later were pardoned and released.Bill Clinton: Antiwar?

The former president calls the war in Iraq a "big mistake."

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It's yet unclear as to how effective President Bush's recent attempts to defend his Iraq policy, fend off Democratic criticism and boost his dismal poll numbers will be in the long run, but one thing seems certain: It can't get any easier when a high-profile supporter of the war calls the conflict in Iraq "a big mistake."

Yep, that's coming from former President Bill Clinton speaking to a group of Arab students in Dubai. "The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country," he said.

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Up until now Clinton has been a