a couple new pairs, as well," Quenneville said. "They've all played together at some point throughout the year, so there's a lot of familiarity there."

"Duncs and Seabs, we'll likely put those two guys back together. It's been awhile since they've been playing together, but we know that it's a great tandem. They work well together, so we expect that to be solidified." -- Joel Quenneville

Campbell is skating with the team in practice now, but has been ruled out for Sunday's game. That means Byfuglien will likely stay at the blue line rather than shifting back to being a forward -- where he scored three goals against the Predators in six regular-season games.

"You never know," Byfuglien said, when asked if he thought he could wind up in front ofHenry Louis Gates is no stranger to conversations about black identity.

The latest piece of his PBS documentary series -- “Black in Latin America” -- explores the African racial identity in Latin American countries. Gates visits Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic and Haiti probing into the cultural influence on racial classification in the Caribbean and Latin America.

In the episode “Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided,” Gates speaks with Juan Rodriguez from the Dominican Ministry of Culture about a clear aversion within the country to self-identification as black.

Rodriguez explains that he only associated himself with his African heritage after visiting the United States and realizing that his roots lay in Africa not in Spain. Rodriguez asserts that most Dominicans see themselves as “indio” not “black.”

"By the 19th


The Manhattan City Commission unanimously approved an ordinance adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s anti-discrimination policy.

The city held its second reading for a proposed amendment to the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance Tuesday night.

According to Kevin Stilley, Flint Hills Human Rights Project treasurer, a similar ordinance was passed in 2011 but was immediately rescinded.

“A group called Awaken Manhattan got organized, put two new people on the city commission in April and their first order of business was to rescind that ordinance before it went into effect,” said Stilley.

Since then, Katie Jordan of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project spearheaded efforts to get it back after the passage Supreme Court case where same sex marriage was legalized.

“Our city wanted to put sexual orientation into our hiring policy andGroup OKs grant proposals from Sudbury students

Monday

SUDBURY – Robots, a gaga pit, and a library of things are coming soon to town schools, thanks to grant proposals crafted by elementary and middle school students.

For the first time, the Sudbury Education Resource Fund (SERF) allowed students to submit grant ideas up to $1,000 this fall. Nearly 80 grant proposals were received across the district, which includes Nixon, Noyes, Haynes, and Loring elementary schools and Curtis Middle School. The winning proposals -- one from each elementary school and Curtis Middle School -- were announced at each school last week.

"Student submissions reflected creativity and thoughtfulness toward their peers, their community, and the world at large. Through this unique initiative, students were valued as thinkers and empowered to take action, as well


as gained some perspective on a process their own teachers take to bring innovative and enriching ideas to their schools,” said Laura Porter, SERF co-President, in a statement.

At Haynes, a student proposed using the grant money to purchase app-enabled robots. The Sphero Mini Education kit, which includes 16 clear robotic balls with gyroscopes, accelerometers, and LED lights, as well as bumpers, mini traffic cones, bowling pins, construction sets, and activity cards, will help spark creativity through discovery, play, and to add to students' foundation for computer science skills. The kits, accessible to all classes at Haynes, will give students practice controlling the robots with their own commands.

Curtis students wanted SERF to spend the money on bringing a gaga pit to the school. The octagonal pit is a placeprinters can enhance the curriculum while also giving young students early exposure to an advanced tool that will one day be an integral part of their school and work. Some opportunities could include designing and creating interactive maps, creating mock-ups of buildings and structures, and creating new musical instruments or new tools.

At Noyes, over 30 students submitted ideas on how they'd make use of the grant funding. The winning grant, a "Get to Know Your School" scavenger hunt, will give all students a shared appreciation of their school building. The in-house customized scavenger hunt will give students practice with map-reading and team-building skills, as they explore areas in and around their own school.

Since 1991, SERF has funded grants dedicating to improving public education across Sudbury Public Schools and


for ADHD drugs in 2010, up 21% from 2008.The majority of these were for children and teens. However, an ever-increasing percentage was dispensed for patients aged 20 and older – now up to 46% of all ADHD prescriptions.

Stimulant-class medications include methylphenidate (Ritalin, Methylin, Metadate, Daytrana, Focalin, and Concerta), amphetamines (Adderall, Dexedrine, and Vyvanse). Atomoxetine (Strattera), a popular non-stimulant alternative for treatment of ADHD, hasn’t been linked with the side effects attributed to the stimulant class of medications.

In 2011, a report from the Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee noted that cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction and sudden unexplained death were among the top 50 adverse events reported after use of ADHD stimulant medications. One 2009 study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, suggestedmarkedly elevated risks of sudden cardiac death among children taking these prescription drugs. However, other studies failed to clearly establish a relationship to severe cardiovascular complications.

In 2006, concerns about cardiovascular side effects led an FDA advisory committee to propose that a so-called black box warning label concerning sudden death be placed on psychostimulant medications. Some psychostimulants were withdrawn from the market in Canada and the American College of Cardiology recommended considering routine EKGs prior to initiating psychostimulant therapy.

Pemoline, another central nervous system stimulant, was taken off the U.S. market in 2005 after multiple liver toxicity reports.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2007 there were 4.5 million children ages 3-17 with ADHD.Boys were found more than twice as likely to have ADHD: 11% vs. 4% of girls.


2015 New Volunteer Application 2015 *- Required of all persons interacting in any capacity with players in RLL, including, but not limited to, all managers, coaches, board members, field personnel, and other coaches assistants.

2015 Returning Volunteer Application Form *- Required of all persons interacting in any capacity with players in RLL, including, but not limited to, all managers, coaches, board members, field personnel, and other coaches assistants.

2013 Volunteer Application Form *- Form to be completed by every individual who has contact with league players, including managers and coaches, board members, parents assisting in practice, field prep personnel, etc.

Norwalk Parent Consent Letter *- Consent Letter to be signed by the parent/guardian of each player in order to be allowed to participate in athletic activities on City of Norwalk fields.DURHAM, NC - On January 3, Elmer Jose Mejia Guardado, 22, was taken into custody, following a string of armed robberies, which occurred over three North Carolina counties (Durham, Orange and Wake).

Following media coverage of the illegal alien's arrest, Durham County sheriff's investigators received a report that the suspect had also raped a young girl. The complaint came from the victim's parent, according to a Durham County Sheriff's Office press release .

On April 7, following an investigation, Guardado was also charged with the girl's rape.

Guardado has been charged with 11 counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, seven counts of conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon and one count of felony statutory rape of a child.

He is currently being held in the Durham County Detention Center


Rovers Don't Stand in the Way

Gorleston’s sixth clean sheet in the last eight games laid the foundations for another three points in their quest for third.

The Greens were unchanged from their trip to Clacton and there was an early return for Zak Clarke on the bench.

Gorleston started well and within two minutes Christy Finch was racing away from the defender onto a ball into the box when he appeared to be held back by the last defender. It would have been a big call for referee Mr Block so early and he chose to give no foul.Three British divers swept away by powerful currents in the shark-infested Indian Ocean told last night how they fought off an attack by a man-eating Komodo dragon, the world’s largest lizard.

The group were threatened by the 10ft beast as they awaited rescue on a remote Indonesian island.

They escaped its razor-sharp teeth and poisonous saliva, which it spits at victims, by throwing stones until the predatory animal slunk away.

Relief: A komodo dragon, left, and British diver Kathleen Mitchinson, one of five rescued victims, hugs her husband Ernest Lewandowski upon arriving

Relief: A komodo dragon, left, and British diver Kathleen Mitchinson, one of five rescued victims, hugs her husband Ernest Lewandowski upon arriving

In a graphic account of their 45-hour ordeal, dive instructor Kathleen Mitchinson described how they survived on nothing more


Allin and former Royal Marine James Manning

Ordeal: Charlotte Allin and former Royal Marine James Manning

Meanwhile Mr Lewandowski was diving with another group of visitors at the same spot. When his party surfaced, they were picked up first by the dive boat team.

But by the time the boat returned for Ms Mitchinson’s group they had been carried away by a strong current.

After a huge search involving the Indonesian navy and dozens of local fishermen, a rescue boat spotted the missing divers’ inflated orange and red ‘safety sausages’ - brightly coloured flotation devices designed to attract the attention of rescuers.

They were laid out in the shape of a cross on the rocks of Rinca Island, about 20 miles from where they had gone missing.

The divers are believed to have beenin keeping each other going. They worked as a team, which is one of the things that is vitally important.

‘Eventually, when shallow water was available, they swam towards the shore. They were all supporting each other. Anybody who became a weak link was made to have strength. That’s how they survived.

‘They went with the current, which was the only thing they could do. They kept as close to land as possible and when they could make it to land, they did.’

In her element: Charlotte has vital knowledge of the area where they were stranded

In her element: Charlotte has vital knowledge of the area where they were stranded

Ms Mitchinson and Mr Lewandowski, who met while diving in the north of England, have lived in Indonesia for 15 years, the


past seven on the island of Flores, where they run a dive centre and turtle nursery.

Both are originally from Carlisle. Mr Lewandowski, 53, spent most of his life in Scotland before moving to the Far East.

He said: ‘Kath knows the area very well and they managed to survive by eating shellfish off the rocks, like little abalone, and utilising what they had around them - the sort of food you eat in posh restaurants.

‘They were eating them raw, which gave them energy and moisture.’

When rescue came, the large dive boat which spotted the castaways was unable to enter the inlet and a smaller craft was dispatched to pick up them up.

Mr Lewandowski said: ‘When I received news over the radio, I was ecstatic. I just wanted to hearof the creatures live, there have been eight serious incidents since 1980.

In the most recent - the first fatal attack on a human in 33 years - an eight-year-old boy died after he was mauled by a 10ft long, 15st dragon in 2007.

He was tossed around like a rag doll and savaged by the lizard’s razor-sharp teeth as it tried to snap his neck just as it would other prey.

Even if the boy had survived the attack, he would have died of blood poisoning from the 50 virulently toxic species of bacteria contained in the dragon’s saliva.


Bare Chested Man Involved In Fracas In Ely Had Consumed Cocktail Of Medication and Alcohol

PUBLISHED: 17:44 19 June 2009 | UPDATED: 10:56 04 May 2010

DEPRESSED Rhys Chapman had consumed a cocktail of prescription medication and alcohol before he got involved in a fracas in Ely s Market Street in the early hours of the morning. The event was recorded on CCTV, and on Thursday city magistrates watched foo

DEPRESSED Rhys Chapman had consumed a cocktail of prescription medication and alcohol before he got involved in a fracas in Ely's Market Street in the early hours of the morning.

The event was recorded on CCTV, and on Thursday city magistrates watched footage of people fighting in the road, and saw bare chested Chapman out on the street in the melee.

During theincident Chapman was attacked, and then he "snapped," kicking a man in the head and body.

Chapman, of Main Street, Witchford, admitted committing an offence of affray on June 6.

Twenty-year-old Chapman had been waiting for a taxi at 2am when a fight broke out involving three or four girls and a man, solicitor Nick Davies told Ely magistrates.

Reading a statement from Chapman, he said: "The girls attacked me, and a group of males joined in, knocking me to the ground. I got away, I was shocked and stunned."

Chapman claims he was later attacked by a male, but that incident was not shown on CCTV footage.

"I ran up to him and grabbed him, after a scuffle we both fell to the ground. I got up and kicked him twice, once


making contact with his head, and secondly making contact with his body," said Chapman's statement.

Mr Davies said Chapman had his shirt ripped off him after retreating up an alleyway, and he had tried to separate various parties during the fracas.

Chapman takes medication for his depression, and hopes to go to university later this year.

"He deeply regrets his actions. He drank alcohol that night, he should not drink with his medication," added Mr Davies. "He was assaulted a number of times before he assaulted anyone, there as a significant degree of provocation before he snapped."World

He is also accused of "sexual assault without intercourse, of a particularly risky nature" in relation to the 14 interior and exterior stab wounds investigators found to Ms Wall's genitals, prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen told the court. Members of the court were shown a drawing of the multiple stabs to Wall's torso. On 11 August, Madsen responded on the radio on his submarine and said he would return to Refshaleøen on the outskirts of Copenhagen after being off the radar during the night.

In a ceremony at the White House, Trump signed separate proclamations imposing a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports. Shares of Nucor , U.S. Steel and AK Steel lifted the S&P 1500 steel index. Several major trading partners have


Tuesday, Air India had said it would operate flights with all-women crew to various global and domestic destinations, including NY and Singapore. On Women's Day, the cabin crew will welcome women passengers with flowers and candies. "All women-crew flights will take off from Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Mangalore, Mumbai and Delhi on Thursday", the no-frills airline said in a release today.

In a unique case given rise by Trump's relentless use of Twitter to communicate to the American public, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said she was not ready to decide whether people have a right to complain, protest and insult in the comments section of his Twitter feed.a City of Fresno police officer against the City of Fresno ("CITY") and several individual members of the City of Fresno Police Department. Michael Neveu ("Plaintiff') brings a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and under two California state "whistleblower" statutes. Defendants CITY OF FRESNO, JERRY DYER, MICHAEL GUTHRIE, GREG GARNER, DARREL FIFIELD, MARTY WEST, and ROGER ENMARK ("Defendants") move to dismiss Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint. (Doc. 33, Def.'s Mem.). Plaintiff opposes the motion. (Doc. 27, Pl.'s Opp.).

II. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Plaintiff filed his original Complaint on November 11, 2004.[1] (Doc. 1, Compl.). Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint against the same defendants on December 17, 2004. (Doc. 19, First Am. Compl.). The defendants named in the First Amended Complaint moved to dismiss on January 18, 2005. (Doc.


a news reporter during the 2016 presidential election.

McCabe has said he tried to answer questions about the incident truthfully and clarified his responses when he thought he had been misunderstood.

McCabe has endured years of criticism by President Donald Trump after playing a key role in the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia in the 2016 election.

McCabe has said those attacks are part of an effort to undermine law enforcement and intelligence professionals. He has sued the Justice Department, arguing that he was fired for political reasons.conceived in 2007, when story producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins first developed the idea of two new Mitchell sisters, Ronnie and Roxy (Rita Simons). Ronnie was intended to come across as the more detached and icy sister and a hidden secret was first alluded to eight months after their introduction, when Roxy made a veiled reference to Ronnie's child and a physical fight ensued. Several months later, off-set episodes shot in Weymouth and dubbed "Mitchell Week" were aired, during which the audience were introduced to Ronnie and Roxy's father Archie (Larry Lamb), and learned that Ronnie had given a child up for adoption. Treadwell-Collins explained that it was necessary to introduce Danielle shortly after this revelation, but in such a manner that she would arrive "under the audience's radar", to


Rome -- The former secretary to defrocked American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has released excerpts from private and confidential correspondence among top Vatican leaders which reveal details of restrictions placed on McCarrick by the Holy See following allegations of sexual misconduct. The communications reveal the extent to which the restrictions were known among senior church leaders – and particularly by his successor Cardinal Donald Wuerl – but not enforced.

That lack of enforcement meant McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington D.C., was allowed to continue traveling on behalf of the Holy See despite limitations implemented as part of the church punishment.

The personal letters and emails include correspondence between McCarrick and other senior church figures, including cardinals, the Vatican's Secretary of State and Pope Francis.

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"Iwould be part of the cover-up if I simply kept that correspondence to myself," Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo told CBS News regarding his decision to release the excerpts of letters in his report on Tuesday.

Figueiredo, a long-time consultant to CBS News, chose to go public with the private correspondence on the 25th anniversary of the date he was ordained to the priesthood by McCarrick. Figueiredo served as McCarrick's personal secretary in Newark from September 1994 to June 1995, and assisted McCarrick during his frequent visits to Rome, where Figueiredo served as a spiritual advisor to the North American College, an American seminary.

In the 11-page document, available online, the Monsignor writes that, "after long consideration, I have made the decision to place in the public domain some of the correspondence


and other information related to McCarrick that I possess in my many years of service to him."

Figueiredo says in his report that as a "priest ordained by… McCarrick and one who served him closely, I reflect often upon how much damage to the physical, psychological and spiritual lives of so many might have been avoided had the restrictions been made public and enforced as soon as they were imposed."

"Trying for months"

Figueiredo writes that his decision "to release letters to the public follow attempts since September 2018 to share, discuss and make these public through the Holy See and other Church leaders."

"I've been trying for months to share this correspondence with church leaders," Figueiredo said in an on-camera interview with CBS News. He said he was urged by PopeFrancis' call for transparency, adding "he's saying: make it public, report it."

Figueiredo shared nearly two dozen of the letters and emails, which date from 2008 to 2017, with CBS News and the Catholic website Crux for review.

When asked about what change could result from releasing the documents, he said, "we're talking about future cases… perhaps there are other bishops out there who have had restrictions imposed on them. This is why this needs to come out."

The restrictions

The existence of Vatican restrictions on McCarrick was first made public in the August 2018 testimony by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. In his own 11-page dossier, the former papal ambassador to the United States charged that Pope Benedict XVI sanctioned McCarrick, and that Pope Francis lifted the sanctions in 2013 despite Viganò


having personally informed Francis about the allegations against McCarrick and the restrictions on him imposed by Benedict.

Viganò also said that Cardinal Wuerl – McCarrick's successor in Washington D.C. who has also since resigned – knew about the penalties but chose to ignore them.

The Vatican has acknowledged the existence of restrictions on McCarrick, but has provided few details.

Pope Francis refused to respond to Vigano's allegations until Tuesday, when he denied having knowledge of McCarrick's misdeeds in an interview he gave to Mexican television.

"I knew nothing about McCarrick, naturally, nothing" he said. But he also said he didn't remember whether Vigano had spoken to him about McCarrick.

"I don't remember if he spoke to me about this, whether it's true or not. I have no idea," the pope said.

One of theexcerpts released by Figueiredo is from an August 25, 2008 letter that McCarrick sent to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, then the Vatican Ambassador or "Nuncio" to the United States. In it, McCarrick refers to receiving a letter from Cardinal Re (then head of the Congregation for Bishops) detailing the restrictions imposed upon him by the Vatican.

Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick speaks during a news conference with senators and national religious leaders at the U.S. Capitol, on Dec 8, 2015 in Washington, D.C. McCarrick was defrocked by the Church in 2019 over alleged sexual abuse. Getty

McCarrick says the two major points of Re's letter are "the cancelling of all public appearances and the changes of residence." He also vows to quickly resign from the many positions he holds inside the Vatican and


the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, among others, suggesting that this was another of Re's requirements.

In the full letter, McCarrick tells the nuncio that to cancel all appearances, as well to move suddenly to a monastery, would "probably raise a red flag in the media." McCarrick hints that the Vatican hierarchy had an interest in keeping the accusations against him quiet. The move, he tells Sambi, "would give rise to the news that I was being 'sidelined' by Rome for cause, and the resulting publicity would be precisely what Cardinal Re is hoping to avoid."

The letter does not prove that Pope Benedict was aware of the restrictions, though it suggests that he was. McCarrick says in the letter that even though he doesn't understand the restrictions, "Iam ready to accept the Holy Father's will in my regard."

Cardinal Donald Wuerl

The letter to Sambi suggests knowledge and participation on the part of Cardinal Wuerl, who was Archbishop of Washington D.C. from 2006 to 2018, when he resigned amid accusations that he mishandled sex abuse cases.

McCarrick notes that he shared Cardinal Re's letter outlining the restrictions with "my Archbishop" (who was Wuerl). He offers possibilities for his relocation arrived at, "after consultation with Archbishop Wuerl, whose help and understanding is, as always, a great help and fraternal support to me."

Wuerl has denied having any knowledge of restrictions placed upon McCarrick, and said he was unaware of any accusations or rumors against him. However, in a January 2019 letter, he said he had indeed been informed of an


accusation against McCarrick in 2004, but had suffered a "lapse of memory."

"Lack of judgement"

McCarrick acknowledges his own "unfortunate lack of judgement" in the draft of a September 2008 letter to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then the Vatican Secretary of State. In that confidential letter, which Figueiredo translated into Italian, McCarrick writes how he had "shared a bed…" with priests and seminarians "on occasion when the Diocesan Summer House was overcrowded," but says nothing improper took place.

McCarrick adds: "In no case were there minors involved, but men in their twenties and thirties." In the letter, McCarrick makes the claim that he "never had sexual relations with anyone, man, woman or child, nor have I ever sought such acts."

In the same letter, McCarrick says the accusations against him are untrue, madeup by enemies in the church offended by some of his positions.

Continued travel

The restrictions placed on McCarrick appear not to have been strictly enforced under the papacies of either Pope Benedict or Pope Francis.

Despite an express ban on travelling to Rome, McCarrick writes to Figueiredo in June of 2009, a mere 10 months after that ban was put in place: "I'm coming to Rome" for a meeting. Then in April of 2010, he apparently met Pope Benedict. In an email to Figueiredo, he says: "You know how special yesterday was for me… seeing the Holy Father after more than two years."

McCarrick's travels appear to have taken him across the world. In a 2012 email to Figueiredo, McCarrick says he has "started the journeying again. I was in Doha


last week and go to Ireland… and following that… I begin one of my longest trips – Beirut, Jordan, Egypt, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Hong Kong… before I start again in the Holy Land and Belarus."

A 2013 letter from then-U.S. President Barack Obama to then-Pope Benedict mentions McCarrick's offer, "to carry a message to you on my behalf."

The excerpts released by Figueiredo suggest McCarrick's travels increased following the 2013 election of Pope Francis, on official church business, with the express knowledge and approval of Vatican officials.

One example: in November 2014, he writes to Figueiredo: "I will see you in Rome next month… I leave for China on Thursday the 27th… I am sure that (Secretary of State) Cardinal Parolin would see me since he is involved with myChina trip."

In letters written between 2013 and 2017, McCarrick also kept Pope Francis apprised of his travels.

"I have been traveling a good deal, perhaps more than I should during these last few weeks… Cyprus… the Balkans… the Middle East, both in Lebanon and in the Holy Land," he writes to Francis in November of 2013. Following Pope Francis' visit to the United States in 2015, McCarrick writes to the pope, "you greeted me so cheerfully in Washington as an adjunct member of the foreign service."

Why publish it now?

"I think (the correspondence) shows very clearly that in fact McCarrick was not only not stopped – but in a real sense continued his activity to an ever-greater degree," Figueiredo told CBS News.

Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo is interviewed by CBS News in


Rome, Italy, May 27, 2019. CBS

Figueiredo portrays himself as a victim of the church hierarchy's "abuse of authority and cover up."

Late last year, he was temporarily suspended by CBS News following a DWI accident in Great Britain. He is currently in treatment for alcohol addiction. He said last summer's revelations about McCarrick – his mentor and "spiritual father" – drove him back to alcoholism, but that he takes full responsibility for his actions.

"Pope Francis himself says that those who have suffered abuse of any kind turn to addiction," he told CBS News. "It indicates quite clearly that I was not helped by the cover up."

Figueiredo acknowledged that he could draw fire for releasing the letters, but said, "Pope Francis himself has asked all of the church to beidentified as Detric McGowan, was a subject in a long-term U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) investigation and was arrested on Tuesday, the same day the story about his massive cookie purchase went viral.

An indictment issued last week said McGowan, also known as “Fat,” is one of several suspects in an ongoing drug investigation. It says he and 10 other people allegedly conspired to import drugs from Mexico in late 2018. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says authorities are still searching for one of the suspects.

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the club, with all the ladies, did an excellent job hosting the event. It was all very professional and it all went off without a hitch.

From left are candidates Javier Gonzalez, Rosa Palomino, Ken Russell, Mike Simpson, Teresa Sarnoff, Williams Armbrister, Grace Solares, Lorry Woods and Seth Sklarey; in red at the end is emcee for the evening, Jackie Nespral from NBC6.

While I thought there were certain front runners yesterday, each has their own fans, at least that's what I got from the audience, so front runners are shifting. Friends in the audience would come up to me throughout the night and tell me who they liked or asked me the name of the person speaking at the moment. Mike Simpson had quite a few fans at theWashington (CNN) The Obama administration is publicly handing Donald Trump a gift as he prepares to enter the White House: a degraded ISIS. The question is what the President-elect will do with it.

The US has said that US-led airstrikes have killed up to 75% of ISIS fighters and 180 of its leaders, assessing that the international anti- ISIS coalition has choked the group's ability to recruit foreigner fighters, undermined its propaganda efforts and helped Iraqi forces retake territory.

Pentagon officials say a lot of work against ISIS remains, work that Trump has signaled he would tackle with a more intense military approach -- characterized by his campaign pledge to "bomb the s--- out of them."

Analysts warn, though, that the Trump administration will have to consider a broader set of


of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center, based in London. The Obama administration has used rhetoric that stressed inclusiveness and an acceptance of Islam -- an ideological counter to ISIS efforts to make Muslims feel disenfranchised, Henman said.

Even under the current approach, though, the US has seen lone wolf attacks by people claiming affiliation with ISIS in San Bernardino, California, and Orlando, Florida.

In contrast to Obama, Trump and his national security advisor have said that fear of Muslims is rational and floated the idea of banning Muslim immigration to the US. That rhetoric plays into ISIS recruitment efforts, Henman said.

In terms of the "demographic in the US that is at risk of being more disenfranchised, made to feel less welcome, made to feel more segregated and hated inAmerica, you're potentially going to have a bigger pool of people willing or more susceptible to the message of radicalization and recruitment that the Islamist State is advancing," Henman contended.

For now, within Syria and Iraq, the US is painting a picture of progress against ISIS, also known as ISIL.

Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, told reporters Wednesday that the story of anti-ISIS efforts has changed radically since 2014, when the Iraqi army was on the run and the US was focused on "helping our partners halt ISIL's relentless onslaught."

In 2016, Townsend said, "our campaign is all about the counter-offensive, liberating terrain and the population in Iraq and Syria from the clutches of ISIL's brutal control."

But even after coalition-backed Syrian and Iraqi troops


as of nationalism.

Who designed the American Flag?

According to popular tales, the first American flag was sewed by Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress who was an acquaintance of George Washington. In May 1776, so the tale goes, General Washington and 2 people from the Continental Congress visited Ross at her upholstery store and also showed her a rough design of the flag. Although Washington initially preferred using a star with six points, Ross supported for a five-pointed star, which could be reduced with just one quick snip of the scissors, as well as the gentlemen were won over. Unfortunately, historians have actually not had the ability to validate this variation of events.

In 1777, the Continental Congress passed an act that gave our nation an official flag. In those days,first thirteen British colonies that stated freedom from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and also ended up being the very first states in the United States. A blue rectangle in the canton shows 50 little, white stars standing for each state. The stars are arranged in 9 horizontal rows offset of each other. This blue area of the flag is called the Union.

The meaning of the Flag, as stated by Washington: “We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, dividing it by white stripes, therefore revealing that we have actually separated from her, and also the white stripes shall drop to posterity standing for Liberty.”

It incarnates for all mankind the spirit of freedom and the wonderful ideal of human freedom; not the freedom of


unrestraint or the liberty of license, but an one-of-a-kind principle of equal opportunity permanently, liberty and the search of happiness, protected by the stern and soaring principles of task, of integrity and of justice, and also attainable by obedience to self-imposed regulations.

Two times informed tales of national honor and also magnificence collection thickly about it. It bears witness to the tremendous development of our national borders, the growth of our natural resources, and the splendid framework of our civilization. It prophesises the triumph of preferred government, of public as well as religious freedom and of nationwide righteousness throughout the globe.

Why is the American Flag important to American community?

The American flag is extremely important since it represents the independent federal government as defined under the United States Constitution. Includein that, it also stands for the history, ideas as well as values of its people. As a democratic nation, its people comply with all-important values such as liberty, justice and also equal rights. Additionally, the flag likewise represents the different achievements of the country along with the pride of its people.

This nationwide icon advises people, not only in the Rhode Island state, but throughout the whole USA regarding the various important elements of the Declaration of Independence. It is a complex icon, which means the liberty and also rights of Americans. Drifting from the soaring pinnacle of American idealism, it is a sign of withstanding hope.

It is the indicator made visible of the strong spirit that has brought liberty as well as success to the peoples of


The Turkish spoken in the Ottoman Empire (called Ottoman Turkish) used a modified version of the Arabic alphabet . In 1928 however, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , as a part of his efforts to modernize Turkey, illegalized the Arabic alphabet, replacing it with a modified version of the Latin alphabet.

Classification Turkish is a member of the Turkish family of languages, which includes Balkan Gagauz Turkish , Gagauz , and Khorosani Turkish in addition to Turkish. The Turkish family is a subgroup of the Southern Turkic languages , which is a member of the Altaic language family .
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Bien d'autres interprètes jouèrent à quatre mains, quai aux Fleurs : Aldo Ciccolini, Jean-Joël Barbier, François-Joël Thiollier, Monique Haas... Il y


de convulsions créatrices, des périodes de Friska, comme dans les rhapsodies. D'autres, au contraire, ont des rythmes qui s'allongent, les événements sont moins précipités, dilués dans un espace de temps beaucoup plus grand.

Tout cela ressemble, en un sens, à la discontinuité lisztienne, qui va représenter le temps nouveau, inégal, irrégulier, de l'inspiration. Il faudrait emprunter des exemples à toutes les musiques de Liszt, surtout aux mélodies qui sont particulièrement discontinues, et même le sublime _Psaume XIII_ – le Psaume de la confiance, l'une des œuvres les plus colossales et les plus sublimes du XIXe siècle, peut-être le chef-d'œuvre de Liszt – est coupé de longs silences étranges, de longues intermittences, et ce décousu trouve sa justification dans un genre que Liszt a beaucoup aimé, qu'il a quelquefois pratiqué,Find Us Online:

Norfolk State University Names Athletes of the Year

Norfolk State seniors Kiara Howell and Deon King were named the University’s Female Athlete and Male Athlete of the Year, respectively, at the athletics department’s annual all-sports awards ceremony.

Howell, a senior from Chesapeake, Virginia, is in her fourth year on the Spartan women’s track and field team. Howell was named the MEAC Co-Most Outstanding Field Athlete at the MEAC Indoor Championships in February after placing second in both the shot put and weight throw events, earning NSU 16 points at the championship. She has also won the Most Outstanding Field Athlete award at all three MEAC Outdoor Championship meets in which she has competed. Howell is currently ranked among the top six in the MEAC in the four outdoor


throwing events: the shot put, discus, hammer and javelin.

King, a senior linebacker from Reston, Virginia, became NSU’s first-ever Division I FCS consensus first-team All-American in 2015 after leading all of Division I in tackles, with 163. The three-time All-MEAC linebacker was also named the winner of the 2015 Buck Buchanan Award, given annually to the top defensive player in the FCS. King also had 11 tackles for loss, three sacks, one interception and one forced fumble in 2015. King was a three-time MEAC Defensive Player of the Week award winner in 2015 and played in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl all-star game in January.

Sophomore softball second baseman Seana Moriarty and junior baseball first baseman Brian Beard (both of Chesapeake, Virginia) were named the NSU Female and Male Scholar AthletesTORONTO

Have post-secondary campuses — and society in general — gone crazy with rabid political correctness?

Christine Van Geyn of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Chad Hallman of Students in Support of Free Speech and Toronto Sun columnist Anthony Furey addressed that question in the wake of the Prof. Jordan Peterson controversy at the University of Toronto Thursday.

Peterson, a U of T psychology prof, exploded into the greater public consciousness in late September following the release of an online video in which he railed against political correctness and Bill C-16, legislation that would amend laws to protect gender identity and expression from discrimination.

The three speakers at the event organized by Generation Screwed, a student-based organization affiliated with the CTF, warned of the elimination of free speech, discussion, and debate, and of


Zinaida Voronina

Zinaida Voronina, born Zinaida Borisovna Druzhinina (also Druginina), (; 10 December 1947, in Yoshkar-Ola, Mari ASSR – 17 March 2001) was a Soviet gymnast who competed at the European, World, and Olympic level from the mid-1960s to early 1970s.

Voronina's major debut came at the 1966 World Championships in Dortmund, Germany. There she won a bronze medal on the floor exercise, receiving the highest individual score of any gymnast at those games (9.933). She trained with Vladimir Shelkovnikov.

She went on to win several individual medals over the next four years, most notably at the 1968 Summer Olympics where she won the individual all-around silver behind Věra Čáslavská. At the same games, she became Olympic champion in the team competition.

Around the time of the 1968 games, she married OlympicTallent (surname)

Tallent is the surname of the following people
Claire Tallent (born 1981), Australian racewalker
Elizabeth Tallent (born 1954), American fiction writer, academic, and essayist
Garry Tallent (born 1949), American musician and record producer
Jared Tallent (born 1984), Australian race walker, husband of Claire, brother of Rachel
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withdraw as attorney of record for Plaintiffs. At that time, trial was set for July of 2008. Plaintiffs' current counsel filed a Notice of Appearance on June 9, 2008. On June 20, 2008 Plaintiffs filed a motion seeking to increase the ad damnum in their complaint to four million dollars due to alleged medical problems caused by alleged exposure to mold.
During discovery, Defendants sought to depose Helen Lilly, Kim Amanns' grandmother. On August 21, 2007 Plaintiffs filed a motion to quash the subpoena alleging that Ms. Lilly was unable to be deposed as she "is 91 years of age, in failing health and is believed to suffer from mild dementia." Defendants later discovered that the real property at issue in the subject suit was deeded to Kim Amannsby Ms. Lilly, but was not deeded to Ty Amanns. Pence and East TN Gas moved to strike the claims of Ty Amanns with regard to alleged damages to the house.
In July of 2008, Ms. Lilly executed a Correction Warranty Deed which states, in pertinent part:

*93 THIS CONVEYANCE IS BEING MADE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDING THE NAME OF TY AMANNS, HUSBAND OF KIMBERLY S. AMANNS, AS A GRANTEE WHICH NAME WAS ERRONEOUSLY OMITTED IN THE WARRANTY DEED DATED 4 JANUARY 1995, OF RECORD IN BOOK 1168, PAGE 789, IN THE REGISTER'S OFFICE FOR ANDERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE. IT IS THE INTENT OF THIS CONVEYANCE TO RELATE BACK AND TAKE AFFECT [sic] FROM THE DATE OF THE ORIGINAL DEED DATED 4 JANUARY 1995.
Pence and East TN Gas then sought


Ms. Lilly had dementia but instead only that it was "believed" that she did to be, charitably put, unpersuasive. Despite this claimed belief, they also "believed" Ms. Lilly to be competent to execute a new deed on the property from Ms. Lilly to Ty Amanns in response to the motion of Pence and East TN Gas to dismiss his claims as to the alleged damages to the house.
The record on appeal also reveals that Plaintiffs on multiple occasions represented that photographs of the personalty for which they claimed damages had been destroyed *101 up until the Trial Court ruled that they would not be allowed to present evidence of the cost of the replacement items as their measure of damages, and they were facing a motion for sanctionsdue to spoliation. The record further reveals that although Plaintiffs claim to have been surprised when they discovered the hundreds of pages of photographs, they were aware that these photographs existed and had not forgotten their existence as shown by the affidavit of Ty Amanns filed on February 27, 2009 which states: "It was apparent to us at that point that the photographs in the possession of Attorney Holbert had not been physically turned over through Robert Pryor, Jr. to Mr. Ellis." The photographs to which Mr. Amanns refers in his affidavit are the photographs which Plaintiffs in their responses to discovery propounded in the Chancery Court suit represented were in the possession of their attorney, who at that time was Attorney Holbert.
There are several important points which


Film (1976). Cine Artists. Directed by Ralph Nelson. Written by Anita Doohan, Jack W Thomas, based on a story by Thomas. Cast includes Barbara Carrera, Rock Hudson, Diane Ladd and Roddy McDowall. 105 minutes. Colour.

In this variation on the Frankenstein theme, an overreaching Scientist (Hudson), while experimenting on a premature foetus with a growth hormone, creates in weeks a fully developed 25-year-old woman (Carrera). She has a virtually blank mind, and the scientist, like Pygmalion, moulds her personality and introduces her into society. The result is an intelligent but morally crippled creature whom he ultimately destroys. Despite its modern hardware, the film is really a reworking of the old Gothic theme – as in the German silent films Homunculus (1916) and Alraune (1928) – about the basic evilso.
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      The Ammermans acquired their property on June 28, 1986, and the

Shaffers acquired their property, which adjoins the Ammermans’ along a

north-south boundary, on June 11, 1998. At the time Frederic Ammerman

purchased his property, he was shown by his predecessor in title, a

Mr. Allison, a one-inch rebar located in the western corner of the boundary

between the Ammerman and Shaffer properties. Allison indicated that this

marked the property line which ran east out to the street (“the Allison line”).

When the Shaffers moved into their property, Frederic Ammerman showed

the rebar to Christopher Shaffer and motioned where the property line ran.

(Notes of testimony, 3/5/12 at 123-124.)         In the ensuing years, the

Ammermans took care of the small, sloped strip demarcated


gripped a city left shaken by the brazen crime. Officials declined to release further details, including the 15-year-old suspect's name.

The 15-year-old suspect faces charges in Essex County Family Court. A family court judge this morning denied a request from the Star-Ledger to attend the proceedings, saying that if the name is made public he could face retaliation while in custody at the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center.

The suspect is not the individual picked out of a photo array Monday by the attack's lone survivor, 19-year-old Natasha Aeriel, according to sources. Police began eyeing that suspect after lifting a finger print off a beer bottle found at the crime scene. The print was entered into a State Police database, which indicated a match to someone with a criminal record,the sources said.

The massacre unfolded around 11:30 Saturday night, when Aeriel, her brother and two friends drove to a playground behind Mount Vernon School in Newark's Ivy Hill section to drink, eat and listen to music, authorities said.

When they arrived, there were two men at the playground already. But soon afterward, two or three additional men showed up, and the friends started to panic. They exchanged text messages on their cell phones saying they ought to leave, according to police.

But before they could leave, the men approached the four friends and announced a robbery, police said.

Aeriel was shot first, through the face, and left near some aluminum bleachers. The other three -- her brother, Terrance Aeriel, Iofemi Hightower and Dashon Harvey -- were walked to a school wall,


Dying Light Gets a Standalone Expansion Next Year, Definitely Not a PUBG Mode

Techland's Dying Light is a quality zombie-bashing simulator with a big open world. Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is this year's sleeper hit, coming out of nowhere on Steam Early Access to dominate the sales and 'most played' charts. Someone at Techland has been playing PUBG.

Next year Dying Light will receive a new expansion, Bad Blood, which is going to be a battle royale mode. The base game already has all the elements required in place, bar one – PvP. Dying Light had co-op multiplayer, and even a Left 4 Dead-inspired mode where players could control powerful zombies in other players' worlds, but the core of battle royale is players killing players. It remains to be seen whetherSectors of the U.S. labor movement are throwing their weight behind an International Women’s Day call for mass actions to protest the gendered violence wrought by neoliberalism, from workplace harassment to environmental destruction to the gutting of welfare systems.

Timed for Wednesday, March 8, the global day of action was “organized by and for women who have been marginalized and silenced by decades of neoliberalism directed towards working women, women of color, Native women, disabled women, immigrant women, Muslim women, lesbian, queer and trans women,” according to the International Women's Strike, which describes itself as a grassroots movement.

The mobilizations also have the backing of the organizers of the January 21 Women’s March, the largest inaugural protest in U.S. history. While Women’s March organizers have termed March 8 “a day


without women,” actions will include rallies, protests, direct actions and teach-ins, in addition to a more traditional work stoppage. Similar actions are slated to sweep nearly 30 countries, from Mexico to Bolivia to Russia.

Tithi Bhattacharya, who is active with the U.S. arm of the International Women’s Strike, is a longtime activist for Palestinian justice, a professor of South Asian History and the director of Global Studies at Purdue University. She told AlterNet, “We knew very well when we used the word ‘strike’ that women (and men) in the vast majority of workplaces will not be able to go on strike. How could they? Union density is currently at its lowest in this country. Moreover, even where unions exist, they usually carry no-strike clauses in their contracts. A vastthese kinds of mass protests are sorely needed in the United States, and that labor’s participation is often driven by the rank and file. “It’s important to see labor use its power to move protests further and go from demonstrations to strikes,” Peter Lamphere, a member of MORE-UFT and a teacher in New York City, told AlterNet. “We’ve seen that already in the immigrant community and with New York City taxi workers.”

On February 16, thousands of people across the United States walked off the job, shut down their stores and restaurants and stayed home from school to participate in an immigrant strike against the deportation policies of the Trump administration. The strike was accompanied by mass protests in cities and towns across the country, including Chicago, Raleigh, Austin


Deputy head of human rights organisation, who became ill after being detained by security officials, convicted by court in Tehran

A prominent Iranian human rights activist who was taken seriously ill after being detained by the authorities has been sentenced to 11 years in jail.

Narges Mohammadi, 39, the deputy head of Iran's Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC), a rights organisation presided over by the Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, was picked up last year by security officials who raided her house in middle of the night without a warrant for her arrest.

She was taken to Tehran's Evin prison where she was kept in solitary confinement but was released after a month and taken to hospital.

Mohammadi, a mother of two and winner of the 2009 Alexander Langer award forher human rights activities, has since developed an undiagnosed epilepsy-like disease which causes her to lose control over her muscles temporarily during the day.

It emerged on Tuesday that a court in Tehran has now convicted her on three charges: acting against the national security, membership of the DHRC and propaganda against the regime, for which she has received an 11-year sentence in total.

"I'm not involved in politics, I'm only a human rights activist," Mohammadi said by phone from Tehran. "I was informed of the 11-year sentence through my lawyers, who were given an unprecedented 23-page judgment issued by the court in which they repeatedly likened my human rights activities to attempts to topple the regime."

Mohammadi, who is also a member of Iran's National Peace Council, said she would


appeal against the sentence.

In March, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a US-based non-governmental organisation, reported that security forces had stolen Mohammadi's medical records from the hospital. Her husband, Taghi Rahmani, a political activist, has spent a third of his life in jail.

Ebadi said Mohammadi's conviction showed Iran's judiciary was manipulated by intelligence and security officials.

"Whilst in jail, Mohammadi was threatened by her interrogator that she would be given at least 10 years if she did not cease her activities and now we see that the interrogator's prediction has come true," she said.

The British Foreign Office called on the Iranian government to overturn her "harsh" sentence . "[Her conviction] is another sad example of the Iranian authorities' attempts to silence brave human rights defenders," the FCOsaid. "She has done nothing but work for a human rights NGO under difficult circumstances to fight for the legitimate rights of the Iranian people."

Amnesty International also reacted with outrage to Mohammadi's conviction. "The verdict claims that Narges Mohammadi is a liar and has tarnished the image of Iran," said Drewery Dyke, Amnesty's researcher on Iran. "However, this latest verdict regrettably does exactly that by showing what Iran's judiciary thinks of the government's so-called commitment to uphold human rights in the country and indeed exactly how it deals with those advocating international human rights standards."

According to Amnesty, Mohammadi has campaigned for an end to death penalty for those convicted under the age of 18, for which she has long been targeted by the authorities.

Other human rights activists in


motor, for example, or a fan. The housing is provided with means for securing the housing to either the rotor of a motor or to a fan, whereby, after abutting the end of the elongated screw against the end of the shaft, the screw is rotated causing the housing, with the securing means, to be translated along the screw, in a direction away from the shaft, which housing thereby carries along with it the rotor of the motor or the fan on the shaft to which the securing means had been applied. The securing means takes the form of a plurality of rotatable gripping bolts that are used for gripping the outer surface of a rotor of a motor, or the like, while, for removing a fan, orthe like, from a shaft, a plurality of hooked arms are provided with an end of each hooked arm being removably received in a hole of the housing, with the other end "hooking" a rear surface-portion of the fan, whereby the respective rotor or fan, or the like, may be pulled off the shaft according to the method above-described. However, the hooked arms of this patent suffer from the serious disadvantage of falling out from their insertion-hole in the housing. Thus, the tool of the patent is also provided with retaining clips for holding the hooked arms in place, so they do not fall out and become lost, and so they do not interfere with the use of the securing bolts when pulling off a rotor of a


News Tonight devoted the most time to talking about the economy of the three broadcasts: 18 seconds. Fill-in anchor and weekend host Tom Llamas reported:

And news tonight about the American economy. The U.S. Adding 136,000 jobs since September; unemployment falling to 3.5 percent, the lowest in 50 years. The report, of course, helping boost the stock market. The Dow gaining 372 points today, closing at 26,573.

Instead of covering the historically low unemployment, NBC Nightly News viewers were subjected to more hyperbolic commentary from Meet the Press host Chuck Todd; just one night after he declared that “a national nightmare is upon us.”

Brought on for analysis at the end of their impeachment coverage, the self-righteous NBC News political director picked up where he left off; accusing President Trump ofreaction from those close to the dead was very different.

At a UK safari park, three chimps gathered around another, elder female of the group as she neared death. Pansy was more than 50 years old, and had been slowing down for some time. For days before her death, the group was very quiet, and paid her lots of attention. Just before she died, the group continually groomed and caressed her, which researchers think was partly to test for signs of life. When she died, the group left, but her adult daughter came back, and spent the night with the body.

The next day the keepers removed the corpse, and the other chimps remained subdued. For a number of days they avoided sleeping on the platform where she died —


a new album, Philosophy. He referred to a track, "Oceans", as one of his first songs that is from his perspective. For the album he created his own record label: Philosophical Records, with all of his recorded material due to be released under it. To continue with Philosophy, Lee released "Black Sheep" in early 2018, to present his thoughts on the current state of the popular music industry. "Cursed" was released a month later, which focused on the perspective of a person with schizophrenia.

"With You" and "I Belong to You" were released on the same day. "With You" surrounds the love a parent feels for their child, and "I Belong to You" is about romantic love; Lee states in its official music video on YouTube, that it isteach the subject. Instead, the instructor, in the classroom setting, works with the group to solve problems.

Practicing for muscle memory

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot -albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”. Well, came


Dispassion is the total cure of the soul, the experience of the heavenly state of total liberty, power and happiness. The correct way to be.

It is the aim of this medical science which is Orthodoxy.

The firmament has the stars for its beauty, and dispassion has the virtues for its adornments; for by dispassion I mean no other than the interior heaven of the mind, which regards the tricks of the demons as mere toys.

And so he is truly dispassionate, and is recognized as dispassionate, who has made his flesh incorruptible, who has raised his mind above creatures and has subdued all his senses to it, and who keeps his soul in the presence of the Lord, ever reaching out to Him even beyond his strength. Some say, moreover,Faith groups spread word on health care

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From left, the Rev. Sally Jo Snyder of the United Methodist Church, the Rev. J. Sumitta Hudson of the Buddhist Society of Pittsburgh and the Rev. Eric McIntosh of St. James Episcopal Church converse during a December forum on the faith community's role in helping the uninsured gain access to health care at Temple Sinai in Squirrel Hill.

Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette

From left, Rev. J. Sumitta Hudson, Rev. Erin McIntosh, the Rev. Frederick White of the United Kingdom Fellowship and Rabbi James Gibson of Temple Sinai converse during the Pray for Pennsylvania forum in Squirrel Hill.

By Peter Smith / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Rev. Jeff Tindall of Carnegie Presbyterian Church said he has agonized with parishioners who have needed health care and


Consumer Health Coalition.

Religious groups large and small are hosting speakers and putting people in touch with those who can help with enrollment.

At Carnegie Presbyterian, Ms. McGee talked with individuals, set up appointments and referred them to navigators.

"I was excited that there was a minister who was concerned about his congregation and wanted to provide assistance," she said.

And in some cases, those getting the help are the religious leaders themselves.

The Rev. Mary Ann Strader, executive pastor at the small nondenominational church, Kingdom Life Fellowship, had tried to enroll online in October but ran up against the roadblocks that plagued the early days of the HealthCare.gov website.

Her church hosted a representative late last year from Enroll America. That organization is trying to get people signed up for health coverage. Therepresentative spoke during the service, talked to individuals afterward and followed up with an email, letting people know of an informational session at a local library branch.

There, Rev. Strader got the help she needed to obtain health insurance for the first time since the 1990s.

"It helped our people. It helped me," said Rev. Strader -- who had gone without insurance partly due to its cost and partly due to a spiritual decision to rely on God for her health. She signed up after the ACA made it mandatory.

Divergent religious views

When religion and the ACA come up, it's usually in the context of opposition.

Religious-affiliated organizations -- such as the Roman Catholic dioceses of Pittsburgh and Erie and the Christian-affiliated Geneva College in Beaver Falls -- have filed well-publicized lawsuits


administration toward expanding Medicaid," Rev. Snyder said. "It impacts the people we are supposed to be identifying with."

Other clergy also called for advocating for expanded access to health care.

"People of faith have to be publicly visible," said Rabbi James Gibson of Temple Sinai, which recently hosted a Pray for Pennsylvania forum with Christian and Buddhist clergy in conjunction with the group Enroll America, a coalition of health-care sector organizations promoting the implementation of the ACA. "Where we choose to be, where we choose not to be" are crucial in setting priorities, he said.

Covering the vulnerable

Among those encouraged by the effort at Carnegie Presbyterian Church was Gina May of Bridgeville. She had gone to the hospital earlier in 2013 with gall bladder problems and was referred to a surgeonto have it removed. But "as soon as they found out I didn't have insurance, they said there was nothing they could do."

So she had two more trips to the emergency room, "The third time it was so bad, I hadn't eaten in four days," she said. "They finally admitted me" and did the surgery. But her lack of coverage meant a longer and more painful wait for it.

At Mount Ararat Baptist Church in Larimer, more than 5,000 attendees saw a recent video presentation on the ACA, with many meeting afterward with representatives of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, the health-care arm of the Service Employees International Union, to learn more about enrolling.

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation, working with several other local foundations, has provided a series of mini-grants to neighborhood


ABOUT THIS ALBUM

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In a labor of love, celebrated folk/rock artists Rex Fowler of Aztec Two-Step and Tom Dean of Devonsquare have teamed up with Tom’s former band mate Alana MacDonald and a host of talented musicians who provide backing on acoustic and electric guitars, bass, cello, violin, mandolin, accordion, chromatic harmonica and percussion.

WFUV and Satellite Radio DJ Pete Fornatale wrote: “With these intelligent heartfelt renditions of Lennon’s best known songs, The John Lennon Song Project ranks right up there with the very best Lennon interpreters ever.”

The arrangements on this offering are simple, well thought out, and hauntingly gorgeous. The beautiful harmonies woven between delicate acoustic guitar arrangements are a loving tribute to John Lennon. The addition of Alana's fantastic vocals and instrument work, as well as theWASHINGTON – At least 33 active-duty service members, including one pregnant woman, have contracted the Zika virus while serving overseas, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

Six family members of service members have also contracted the virus outside of the continental United States, said Army Maj. Roger Cabiness, a spokesman for the Defense Department. Those numbers were current as of Friday.

The virus has spread through much of Latin America and the Caribbean since its outbreak in Brazil in May 2015. Its connections to pregnancy defects, confirmed by scientists at the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have led the World Health Organization to declare it a global emergency. The Defense Department has taken steps to monitor and control the populations of mosquitos capable of carrying the virus, which are


who cited privacy laws.

There have been at least 1,650 cases of Zika in the United States, according to the CDC. The vast majority have been transmitted outside the continental United States, though some transmissions have occurred through sexual contact with someone who contracted it while traveling.

However, Florida health officials have determined mosquitoes in a small area of Miami have spread the virus to at least four people, according to the CDC. The Associated Press, citing Florida Gov. Rick Scott, reported Monday up to 14 people had contracted Zika through local mosquitoes in Miami.

There are several DOD installations in and around Miami, but no mosquitos on any of those bases or any others in the United States have tested positive for Zika.shooting of a 9-year-old boy.Daniel McGill, 26, was charged with elevated aggravated assault, punishable by up to 30 years in prison, and aggravated assault, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. He faces additional felony charges of assault on an officer and reckless conduct with a weapon, both punishable by up to five years in prison.Police said McGill shot his nephew Gavin Gilmore on May 19 with a pellet gun while shooting at squirrels. The pellet lodged in the front of Gilmore's brain.

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PULASKI, Va. — In May 2009, Sam French hit bottom, once again. A relative found him face down in his carport “talking gibberish,” according to court records. He later told medical personnel that he had been conversing with a bear in his


backyard and hearing voices. His family figured he had gone off his medication for bipolar disorder, and a judge ordered him involuntarily committed — the fourth time in five years he had been hospitalized by court order.

Ten months later, he appeared in General District Court — the body that handles small claims and traffic infractions — to ask a judge to restore his gun rights. After a brief hearing, in which Mr. French’s lengthy history of relapses never came up, he walked out with an order reinstating his right to possess firearms.

This shouldn't happen to anyone. No one who is shot, whether killed or just injured, is free when they are the victims of gun violence. Minnesota is supposed to be one of the safest states in thescarecrows guarding the burned and blasted fields of America’s broken dreams. Thanks Bush!

Last week, Gov. Tom Corbett approved the expansion of the Castle Doctrine, which allows citizens to use deadly force against an attacker at any place where they have a legal right to be. It also limits civil liability for people who act within the guidelines.

Before, the use of deadly force was not justifiable if the person could safely retreat, except when the threat was made inside his or her home or business.

Every member of the state Legislature who represents Luzerne County voted for the bill except for state Rep. Phyllis Mundy, D-Kingston. She called the law a "defense attorney's dream" and predicted violent criminals will try to use it in court.

"As far as I'm concerned, this


took hostages

Chris Clark / AP

A man who claimed his daughter was inside a house where three bodies were found collapses in the street Thursday in Grand Rapids, Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The suspect wanted in the deaths of seven people, including two children, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after an hours-long standoff, Michigan police said late Thursday night.

Hours earlier, dozens of police officers with guns drawn descended on a Grand Rapids neighborhood and cornered the suspect in a home.
Police said that after a high-speed pursuit, the suspect crashed his vehicle, ran and broke into a home and took what was intially reported to be two people hostage. One hostage, a 53-year-old woman, was released, but police later said two hostages remained inside the house.
GrandRapids Police Chief Kevin Belk said police were communicating with the man, identified as 34-year-old Rodrick Shonte Dantzler. During negotiations to end the standoff, a gunshot was heard. Belk said Dantzler died from a self-inflicted wound. Belk told reporters that the two hostages were safe, but were being evaluated by medical personnel.
Mayor George Heartwell described the saga as "a rolling rampage" that included gunbattles with police in the heart of downtown Grand Rapids that left a squad car shot up.
"This is so uncharacteristic of Grand Rapids. We are all stunned about it," Heartwell said in a telephone interview.Chase begins The manhunt began after four people were found dead in one Grand Rapids home and three were found in another across town. A 10-year-old girl was reported dead in


a home in the 2400 block of Plainfield Avenue Northeast, the Grand Rapids Press reported, and a child was dead in a home in the 1200 block of Brynell Court Northeast. One of the victims was Dantzler's daughter, another was his ex-girlfriend, the Press reported.
The suspect led officers on a chase that tore through the city's downtown.
At one point, the suspect crossed a wide grassy median on the interstate and drove the wrong way down the highway while more than a dozen squad cars pursued him. The highway remained closed hours later. Witnesses told NBC station WOOD of Grand Rapids that shots were fired from the vehicle at police during the chase.
Two other people were hit, but their wounds were not considered life-threatening. Some of the gunshots struckthe windshield of a police cruiser in downtown Grand Rapids. No officers were hurt, Belk said.
The suspect abandoned his car on I-96 and ran into the woods near Soft Water Lake and Rickman Avenue, then broke into the home.'Domestic issues' A friend told reporters that the killings stemmed "from domestic issues" and a neighbor said Dantzler had recently separated from his wife.
The home where Dantzler was believed to have taken hostages is a short distance from the Brynell Court house, where the four bodies where found earlier Thursday.
Lisa Schenden lives with her husband and their children two blocks from that home. Schenden said the homeowners are a couple whose daughter has a daughter with the suspect.
Schenden said she did not hear the shooting but did see the suspect


and his daughter drive up to the house earlier in the day.
"Just last night, my kids went over there swimming, and I went over with them," she said.
Sandra Powney lives across the street from one of the homes where the shootings happened and said she had seen Dantzler at the ranch house, where a couple had lived for more than 20 years with two adult daughters.
Powney said she had been at home all day and did not realize anyone had been killed until police converged on the cul-de-sac in the midafternoon.
"For a while we couldn't come outside," she said. "They didn't know if there was someone still inside the house."
A few miles away, neighbors said police converged on Dantzler's home after the shootings.
Chelsea Snoderly told the Press thatDantzler was "really quiet, down-to-earth.”

She said he walked his dog and was fond of his pet.
She told the reporter that the suspect had separated from his wife and saddened by the recent developments.
“I really didn’t want to push it,” Snoderly told the newspaper.
Sonia Bergers said Dantzler lived in the home with a woman she assumed was his wife and their daughter, a girl who appeared to be about 10 years old.
"We've talked with the person they assumed did the shootings," Mary Lahuis said. "You would see him going up and down the street — and you'd hear him going up and down the street."

Rumors of shots being fired on the Ben Franklin Parkway during the Fourth of July fireworks Monday night sent hundreds of people stampeding down the


Christine Ann Moretz died at the scene after being shot Tuesday at Physicians Regional Medical Center in Naples. Her estranged husband, 54-year-old Jeffrey Moretz was airlifted to another hospital for treatment.

Court records show the couple was in foreclosure and in the process of divorcing. Jeffrey Moretz had been charged in 2009 with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after firing a gun in his home, but the charge was later dropped.

You see, that's how they do it. They make sure they kill the woman and then only wound themselves.

And that's how Florida's lax gun laws treat gun crime, they drop the charges so the maniac can continue to be a "lawful gun owner." We wouldn't want to infringe upon his rights, now would we?

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Oswegoman accused of staging the deaths of his wife and children to look like a murder-suicide spent an hour at a Plainfield shooting range the night before the murders, Will County court records show.

Newly released documents show Christopher Vaughn spent a half-hour at Mega Sports, a gun store and shooting range on U.S. 30 near Renwick Road, according to story published by the Sun-Times Media. The gun he allegedly used to shoot targets at the range was the same one found beneath his wife's feet on the day of the shooting, June 14, 2007, the story said.

A commenter named Grandpa Mike had this observation.

Am I the only one that sees an uncalled for inference to Mega Sports as somehow abetting his behavior the day after using their facilities


loaded gun at a senior center in Suisun City and said he was "going on assignment" was shot and killed by a police officer, authorities said Thursday.

Bernardo Ararao was shot in the chest by a Suisun City police officer about 11:25 a.m. Wednesday after he refused to drop a 9mm handgun, police Lt. Tim Mattos said. The gun turned out to be loaded, he said.

The incident began when Ararao rode his bicycle to the Suisun City Senior Center on Merganser Drive while dressed in camouflage, police said. He showed a woman a gun and told her he was "going on assignment," prompting her to call 911, Mattos said.

An officer repeatedly ordered Ararao to drop his gun, but he refused and was shot, police said. He was pronounced deada gun that he later used to kill a Clark County deputy sheriff pleaded guilty this morning to two felonies.

Maria Blessing, 56, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and complicity to having weapons under disability. Clark County Common Pleas Judge Douglas M. Rastatter said he will sentence her on July 18. Under a plea agreement, the maximum sentence Blessing could receive is five years, said Clark County Prosecutor Andy Wilson.

Blessing had been, for at least 20 years, the live-in girlfriend of Michael Ferryman.

Ferryman, who had a history of mental illness and had once been found criminally insane and spent time in mental hospitals, shot and killed Clark County Deputy Suzanne Waughtel Hopper and shot and wounded German Township police officer Jeremy Blum on Jan. 1.

The way it is now,


is possible to be. So much for the LIFE, liberty and pursuit of happiness of the victims. It's not like he threatened people .....oh wait, he did.

Gunman kills wife, her twin, mother-in-law, ex-wife

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man suspected of killing four people, including his wife and ex-wife, killed himself Sunday after leading police on a chase back to the scene of three of the slayings, authorities said.

Kenneth Myers, 46, was driving his dead ex-wife's car when deputies began chasing him early Sunday morning, Aiken County Sheriff's Capt. Charles Barranco said.
Officers fired several shots at Myers as he tried to ram their cruisers before the chase ended back at the home where deputies found three people dead around 6 p.m. Saturday. Myers then apparently shot himself.
Aiken County Coroner Timreport, Cord arrived at the couple's Jean Street apartment to take away his belongings at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Inside were Jaggon, two other adults — identified as Kyla Cord and Osnique Smarts — and seven children, ranging in age from 1 to 12 years old.

She told people she was going to kill him. She said she'd injure herself in order to claim self-defense. But the best part is this.

As Cord searched, Jaggon took a .380-caliber handgun from under her pillow and shot him, according to the report.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Authorities say a shooting in a rural area outside Philadelphia has left two people dead and three others injured, and a manhunt is under way for the killer.
Police were sent to Douglass Township in Montgomery


County late Saturday after reports of a shooting.
First Assistant District Attorney Kevin R. Steele told multiple news outlets that a child and an adult were slain and three other people were injured and hospitalized. Their conditions weren't immediately known.
Steele says all the victims appear to be from the same family. He says no suspect in in custody, and police don't have a description of the shooter.
The shooting took place about 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

Fortunately, Lambeau Field officials will have ample time to interpret the law for the new Wisconsin concealed gun law that should be passed this October. Green Bay police aren't aware of how the law impacts their ability to prevent fans from entering the stadium with a handgun.

The NFL prohibits fans from carrying guns intoother states with lax gun laws? Are folks permitted to carry concealed at sporting events in say Florida or Arizona?

I would think the fanaticism of some sports fans is even worse when mixed with guns than your general bar and drinking environment. At huge sporting events some of those sports nuts might also be CCW permit holders and some of them might decide to drink a few beers, you know, bad-rules-be-damned and all that.

Mayor Sam Adams said Friday that the mistaken use of lethal rounds instead of beanbag rounds in a Thursday officer-involved shooting was "a tragic mistake" and he wished a speedy recovery to the man who was shot.

Chief Michael Reese the incident was "a terrible tragedy." He said he spoke with the officer involved last night


"The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization".
Timeline of desaster

196 CE (fall of Emperor Commodus): Military gains power over the choice of the Emperor.
235-284 CE: Empire ruled by a succession of Military rulers, most of which are short-lived and assassinated and deposed after a short rule. Diocletian's reforms reorganize the empire into a pre-feudal state with multiple (four) Emperors residing in locations distributed across the empire and therefore able to respond to local rebellions more swiftly. The reforms provide some stability, but the power remains with the warlords.
260 CE: Rome abandons the Northern parts (right bank of the Rhine) of the province Germania superior.
Starting in 381 CE: Persecutions of pagans by Theodosius (especially after 389 CE). This is not the first religious persecution in Roman history, butthe ones before targeted small minority groups (Christians). The one under Theodosius was the first large scale one that was essentially run by a minority group (Christians) against the pagan majority (still a majority at the time). Earlier persecutions of pagans by Christians (from 337 CE under Constans II, later under Gratian I and Valentinian II) were relatively moderate, limited to prohibiting certain activities and jobs for pagans and tolerating violence against pagans by Christian mobs (see below).
406 CE: Fall of the Rhine limes. Germanic tribes devastate large parts of Gaul and Iberia and establish independent chiefdoms (kingdoms) within the borders of the Empire. The authorities attempt to make arrangements for a peaceful coexistence and to integrate the newly arrived into the military forces of the Empire to


repel subsequent waves of incursions.
410 CE: Olympius's fuckup leads to the sack of Rome by the Alaric's Visigoths. The Visigoths were at this point not a tribe, but a band of Germanic tribesmen, runaway slaves, and unemployed mercenaries. This was entirely preventable and a result of Roman political infighting. Alaric was the commander of a group of Gothic mercenaries. He was in imperial service, then declared an enemy of the state, and when he then invaded Italy, the Roman side was unable to efficiently conduct negotiations with him or to organize an effective defense. After several years back and forth, he sacked Rome. The Western Roman Empire never recovered, the military organization was practically gone, the Western Roman army after this is more similar to the marauding bandsof mercenaries than to the organized force it was in earlier times.
Early 400s CE: The empire abandons Britannia. There was no enemy force taking Britannia, although it was under attack and asked the emperor for help. He replied that they were on their own. It was not immediately conquered and retained Roman characteristics for the next 1-2 centuries.
Early 400s - 476 CE: A series of weak Western Roman Emperors, controlled by mercenary leaders who were mostly (but not all) Germanic tribesmen: Stilicho, Ricimer, Odoacer, Aetius, Orestes.
Mid 400s CE: Rom abandons Pannonia, Noricum, and other provinces.
476 CE: Western Rome returns the imperial authority to the Eastern Roman emperor. Eastern Rome does not politically control the Western empire. There are Roman remnant states throughout Western Rome that have not


been taken by Germanic conquerors (Soissons, Mauretania). Eastern Rome attempts to conquer the Western parts of the Empire under Justinian, but the attempt largely fails (except for Africa), possibly because of the plague of Justinian.
630s CE: The Islamic caliphate conquers most of the Eastern Roman empire (the Levante, subsequently all of Northern Africa, and, still later, most of the Mediterranean islands). They proceed to besiege the Eastern Roman capital, Eastern Rome frequently has to ask the Bulgars for help.

Why did Rome ever fall?
You could argue that Rome fell centuries earlier with the decline of the republic that gave rise to the empire. Disregarding this and focusing on the crisis around the 5th century, there are several possible and probable causes that potentially interacted. For each of those, thereare scholars who argue/have argued in favor of it

Rise of Christianity in the 4th century
Collapse of political stability in the 3rd century.
Environmental aspects, changes in climate (cooling in Northern and Western Europe, if I remember correctly)
Epidemics
"Barbarian" incursions: These had happened since the beginning of the Empire, but in 406 there was one that the Empire failed to repel in contrast to each one before that.
Economic decline because of depletion of natural resources
Economic decline because of a negative foreign trade balance. This lead to a substantial outflow of money in the form of precious metals from the empire (primarily to India) and to successive debasements of silver and gold coin purity starting with Nero, but continuing whenever the Empire was running low on funds.

It should be noted that


affect our community negatively.

5. Please name a certain event in which you were proud of how the sheriff’s department handled the situation and tell us why.

In 2013, Grand County and the Fraser Valley hosted the Snowball Music Festival. This was a new and challenging event to the county and tasked law enforcement and emergency services. Due to the possible increase in criminal activity, traffic issues, and drug and medical related incidents, this event required extensive preparation, planning, and deployment. Law enforcement officers from the Fraser-Winter Park Police Department, Granby Police Department, Kremmling Police Department, Grand County Sheriff’s Office, and Colorado State Patrol, in addition to Grand County EMS and East Grand Fire worked this event. In the eyes of emergency services, despite the negativity associated with this typeA Gitmo parade yesterday in DC.Protesters dressed as prisoners from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay march past the U.S. Capitol (rear) during a demonstration in Washington, January 11, 2007. (Reuters)

Caged Gitmo.A demonstrator holds a sign during the International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo protest, in New York January 11, 2007. Anti-war and human rights groups demonstrated in Manhattan and around the country to close the U.S.-run prison in Guantanamo Bay on the fifth anniversary since the U.S. first transferred men to the prison. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

So, how might the Taliban thank the lovely protesters if they ever would get out?We have a pretty good idea…(10 seconds)

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of an optical scanning system, whereby a latent image corresponding to the image data is formed on the latent image carrier. After the latent image is developed into a toner image, the resultant toner image is transferred to a sheet such as a transfer sheet, plain paper sheet or copy sheet. As stated in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2002-296531 (hereinafter referred to as “Patent Document 1”), the optical scanning system heretofore known to the art employs a polygon mirror as a light deflector.
In the first conventional apparatus, the photosensitive member as the latent image carrier is rotated at a constant speed in a predetermined direction (subscan direction). A light beam emitted from a light source such as a semiconductor laser is shaped into a collimated beam ofconventional apparatus in terms of the apparatus costs and the downsizing thereof because the polygon mirror is shared. Similarly to the second conventional apparatus, however, the third conventional apparatus requires the provision of the same number of light sources as the color components. Thus, the third conventional apparatus still has a room for improvement in terms of the downsizing of the apparatus and such.
For the purpose of achieving a higher monochromatic printing speed than a color printing speed, the third conventional apparatus has an arrangement wherein the light beams from the light sources are arranged in close adjacency to one another and on a line along the subscan direction (direction substantially perpendicular to the main scan direction of the light beams). Furthermore, an additional light path switching portion


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In fact, 18 Pipeline scholars are off to college this fall at schools such as M.I.T., Yale University, Trinity College, Cornell University, and Syracuse University. What’s more, three scholars will be enrolled at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at the City College of New York and one plans to continue undergraduate studies in the BS-BA/MD program at Hofstra University. This year’s Pipeline Program includes


Trump takes US inconsistency on human rights to new heights

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The United States has never been especially consistent in raising human rights, but President Donald Trump's administration, with its kid-glove treatment of Saudi Arabia, has sent a message clearer than ever before -- allies need not worry about criticism.

Since journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, President Donald Trump has cast doubt on widespread reports that the writer was killed and praised the kingdom for launching its own investigation.

Both Trump and Secretary of Statethe pretense completely and they've made it clear that the primary interest is American sovereignty and America's short-term economic and security concerns," Margon said.

- 'Openly embracing dictators' -

Rob Berschinski, who worked on human rights in the Obama administration and is now senior vice president for policy at Human Rights First, said that Trump's message was even more unsettling in that he has embraced leaders with dire records on how they treat their citizens, such as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"From trying to eliminate funding for foreign assistance aimed at promoting democracy and human rights, to openly embracing dictators, to calling journalists 'enemies of the state,' President Trump has made clear that he believes that there is no benefit to the United States in being seen as a


force for good in the world," Berschinski said.

One of the few areas on which the administration has aggressively supported human rights is religious freedom, an issue dear to Vice President Mike Pence and conservative Christians who are politically crucial to Trump.

Trump placed sanctions on Turkey over its detention of an American pastor, Andrew Brunson, who was welcomed to the White House after his release last week. But the United States has spoken little of religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, whose rulers impose an austere form of Islam and prohibit the public practice of other faiths.

The lower focus on human rights is no spontaneous shift. Near the start of the Trump administration, the State Department's then director of policy planning Brian Hook wrote a leaked memo saying that theon a near-daily basis attacks Iran over its treatment of its citizens and also takes the clerical regime to task over its military involvements around the Middle East.

The United States even recently denounced Iran's record on the environment -- a curious focus for an administration not known for its interest in conservation.

As relations sour with China, largely over trade, the United States has also opened a new front by denouncing China over its sweeping detentions of Uighur Muslims and other religious minorities.

But human rights have taken a backburner when it comes to North Korea, improving relations with which Trump considers a signature foreign policy triumph.

Rights groups consider North Korea one if not the most draconian regime in the word, with a 2014 UN study finding that Pyongyang imprisons


80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners in four large camps where they face deliberate starvation.

While an annual human rights report at the State Department continues to document North Korea's record, Pompeo has made clear that he is only focusing on the state's nuclear, missile and other military programs in his diplomacy with Kim Jong Un, who met Trump for a landmark summit in June.

Richard Haass, the president of the influential Council on Foreign Relations, recently tweeted: "At some point an amoral foreign policy becomes an immoral foreign policy.the Prescription Drug Price Relief Act, in November.

The flurry of bills suggests that the powerful pharmaceutical industry will be a major populist target during the Democratic presidential primary and possibly the general election, as millions of Americans struggle with rising health care costs.

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and a BB while recording 5 Ks. Raymond Jeffords, 2 IP, and Joseph Krebs, 1.1 IP both went unscored on in relief.

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Is this just a good streak early in the season or has BJ Szymanski turned the corner? He has a hit in all 9 AAgames so far this year; 13 for 33 with 5 extra base hits & 1.109 OPS. However, his bb/k rate is a really high 0/13.

Greg,
Its good to see that Szymanski is hitting well, but its not going to continue if he keeps striking out 38% of the time he steps to the plate. That number is beyond ridiculous. He has been incredibly lucky with his balls in play falling in. Unless he cuts down on the strikeouts big time, he will struggle to hit .250.

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Magic number for the Cardinals and Royals as of 9/25/15

For the first time since 1985, the Royals have clinched a Division title. The Royals are the Central Division champs after beating the Seattle Mariners 10-4. The Minnesota Twins lost at home to Cleveland 6-3, earlier on Thursday night to pave the way for the Royals to notch their 7th division championship.

Now the focus shifts to home field advantage throughout the playoffs. To do so, the Royals must hold off the Toronto Blue Jays. Entering play on Friday, with ten games left to the play, K.C. holds a two-game edge over Toronto

Royals magic number to clinch home field advantage — 9

Royals 89-63
Toronto 87-65

The Cardinals won their fifth straight, a 7-3 victory over Milwaukee and lowered the number by onePHOTO GALLERY

PCLG/PILG conducted a Seminar-Workshop on Good Barangay Governance for National Transformation last September 21-22, 2012, attended by Barangay Captains from Mabinay, Negros Oriental, Rio Tuba, Palawan, and Muntinlupa City, held at the Pimentel Center, Admin Building, University of Makati.


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European Portuguese Beginners 2A online course is a continuation of the European Portuguese forand employees of the colonial administration in August 1862 in the Cape Peninsula (McGhee, [@CIT0054]). In the Natal Colony, European missionaries used soccer to lure Zulu men into attending mission schools (Alegi, [@CIT0002]). After South Africa officially became the Union of South Africa (1910), many black African men started migrating to urban areas and soccer\'s popularity grew. It was very inexpensive and relatively easy to learn to play. It was a leisure activity for men attempting to establish lives with unfamiliar people in unfamiliar locations. British settlers used it to form bonds with other immigrants to the Cape Peninsula (Carton, [@CIT0014]). Alegi (Alegi, [@CIT0001]) recounts that soccer was 'transformed into a sphere of action where expressions of African modernity could be forged, tested, and negotiated' during the early