presented the Apollo moon missions on Dutch television. Since the 1960s, his broadcasts in collaboration with Chriet Titulaer promoted a great interest in astronomy and space science in the Netherlands. The name was suggested by C. E. Koppeschaar. ||
|-id=136
| 12136 Martinryle || 3045 P-L || Martin Ryle (1918–1984) was a British astrophysicist who developed the aperture synthesis technique of interferometry and constructed large radio telescopes, using them to discover and catalogue numerous radio sources. ||
|-id=137
| 12137 Williefowler || 4004 P-L || William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995) was a nuclear astrophysicist who measured in the laboratory at Caltech the nuclear reactions that occur at lower energies in stars. He also worked on theories of supernovae and early nucleosynthesis. ||
|-id=138
| 12138 Olinwilson || 4053 P-L || Olin C.and of his son Ludwig the Pious. Einhard wrote Vita Karoli Magni, the biography of Charles the Great, one of the most precious books of the early Middle Ages ||
|-id=145
| 12145 Behaim || 4730 P-L || Martin Behaim (1459–1507) was a German merchant, astronomer and cosmographer from Nürnberg. He traveled through Europe and became a Portuguese knight. He developed the earliest terrestrial globe, Erdapfel, or `Earth Apple', with a diameter of about 50 cm ||
|-id=146
| 12146 Ostriker || 6035 P-L || Jeremiah P. Ostriker (born 1937) is an American astrophysicist who has contributed to many fields of theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, including the distribution of baryonic and dark matter and values of cosmological parameters. ||
|-id=147
| 12147 Bramante || 6082 P-L || Donato Bramante (1444–1514) was


12496 Ekholm ||  || Andreas G. Ekholm (1975–2001) was a planetary scientist who contributed to the fields of impact cratering processes, geophysics of icy satellites, and photometry of KBOs and Centaurs. He was also active in humanitarian causes before his premature death in an automobile accident in his native Sweden. ||
|-id=498
| 12498 Dragesco ||  || Jean Dragesco (born 1920) is an accomplished biologist and amateur astronomer. For many years, using various telescopes, he worked in Africa, where he made exquisite high-resolution photographs of the solar system that have inspired many amateur astronomers around the world. ||
|-id=500
| 12500 Desngai ||  || Desmond Ngai (born 1985), an ISEF awardee in 2002 ||
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| 12501 Nord ||  || Ashley Lynne Nord (born 1985), ana fiber, and two large lead spheres, by measuring the angular deflection of the fiber. ||
|-id=729
| 12729 Berger ||  || Hans Berger (1873–1941) was a German medical doctor and professor of neurology and psychiatry in Jena. He invented the electroencephalograph, placing electrical recording equipment on the surface of the skull. ||
|-id=734
| 12734 Haruna ||  || Haruna Takahashi (born 1994), the eldest daughter of Japanese co-discoverer Atsushi Takahashi ||
|-id=738
| 12738 Satoshimiki || 1992 AL || Satoshi Hayakawa (born 1992) and Miki Hayakawa (born 1995) are children of the second discoverer and partners in his observations. ||
|-id=742
| 12742 Delisle ||  || Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768), was a French astronomer who went to Russia, where he founded the observatory of St. Petersburg. His brother, Guillaume


Fine: Trump and oil in trade geopolitics

Daniel Fine | Energy

Unlike 1973, and its oil embargo against the United States, there is no supply threat from the Middle East. Consequently, only a demand unknown moves the price of crude oil. Permian/Delaware has displaced the Middle East as a source and even Mexico imports U.S. production.

This has caused euphoria in Santa Fe among lobbyists who prepare for a new Governor from the Democratic Party.

She will have to decide that the rhetoric of renewable energy is no match for her budget bounty made up of revenue flows from Lea and Eddy Counties. Token demonstrations for higher taxes from oil and gas producers no doubt will occur, but in Santa Fe only the price of oil is the threat that can takeOPEC and Russia to withhold oil production for higher prices. It is also the last chance in supply-demand action for profitable trades and for short-term profits for Southwest shale producers.

This writer forecast 2019 as a downturn in the oil industry as early as April 2017.

Only geopolitical tension mixed with resource wars could interrupt a 2019 sharp decline in prices as once again, since 2014, the world confronts discouraging demand for oil and over-supply.

Look for a price forecast, and more, in this column in the October issue of Energy magazine.

Dr. Daniel Fine is the associate director of New Mexico Tech’s Center for Energy Policy and the State of New Mexico Natural Gas Export Coordinator. The opinions expressed are his own.


to Reform, Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs, Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth and Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulations may be purchased at ISBN: E-ISBN: DOI: / ISSN: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data has been applied for. Printed in the United States

5 Contents Doing Business 2011 is the eighth in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and over time. Regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business are covered: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading acrossof an economy. Its aim is simply to supply business leaders and policy makers with a fact base for informing policy making and to provide open data for research on how business regulations and institutions affect such economic outcomes as productivity, investment, informality, corruption, unemployment and poverty. Through its indicators, Doing Business has tracked changes to business regulation around the world, recording more than 1,500 important improvements since Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, policy makers around the world continue to reform business regulation at the level of the firm, in some areas at an even faster pace than before. These continued efforts prompt questions: What has been the impact? How has business regulation changed around the world and how have the changes affected


Laboris, Alliance of Labor, Employment, Benefits and Pensions Law Firms; KPMG; the Law Society of England and Wales; Lex Mundi, Association of Independent Law Firms; Noronha Advogados; Panalpina; ; Legal Services; Russell Bedford International; SDV International Logistics; and Toboc Inc. The project also benefited throughout the past year from advice and input from governments and policy makers around the world. In particular, the team would like to thank the governments of Burkina Faso, Colombia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Republic of Korea, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal and Rwanda for providing statistical information on the impact of business regulation reforms as well as the more than 60 governments that contributed detailed information on business regulation reforms in 2009/10. This volume is a product ofthe staff of the World Bank Group. The team would like to thank all World Bank Group colleagues from the regional departments and networks for their contributions to this effort. Janamitra Devan Vice President and Head of Network Financial & Private Sector Development The World Bank International Finance Corporation

9 Executive summary FIGURE 1.1 Easing start-up, payment of taxes and trade most popular in 2009/10 Share of economies with at least 1 Doing Business reform making it easier to do business, by topic (%) Starting a business Paying taxes Trading across borders Registering property Dealing with construction permits Doing Business reform Getting by report year credit Closing DB2011 only a business DB2005 DB2011 Enforcing contracts Protecting investors 1 Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, policy


Kenya. 5 After spending 18 months pursuing a trial order for school items from Tesco, one of the largest retail chains in the United Kingdom, Bedi lost out on the chance to become part of its global supply chain. Bedi had everything well planned to meet a delivery date set for July. But the goods were delayed at the port. When they arrived in the United Kingdom in August, it was too late. The back-toschool promotion was over. Changes to regulations and procedures can help improve the overall trade logistics environment, enabling companies like Bedi to capture such growth opportunities. WHAT WERE THE TRENDS IN 2009/10? 84 For policy makers seeking to improve the regulatory environment for business, priorities varied across regions this past year. QUICK RESPONSE TOeasier for local firms to do business. Eighteen of 24 economies reformed business regulations and institutions more than in any other year. The pace of Doing Business reforms had been steadily picking up since 2006, when only a third of the region s economies implemented such reforms. In the past year 75% did (figure 1.2). Emerging-market economies such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam took the lead, easing start-up, permitting and property registration for small and medium-size firms and improving credit information sharing. Hong Kong SAR (China), after seeing the number of bankruptcy petitions rise from 10,918 in 2007 to 15,784 in 2009, is working on a new reorganization procedure. The momentum in the region may continue. Recently leaders of the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization launched an


Business by 25% by Small Pacific island states, which face special challenges, have also been active, getting key support from donors. TRADE FACILITATION POPULAR IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST About half of all trade facilitation reforms in 2009/10 took place in Sub- Saharan Africa (with 9) and the Middle East and North Africa (6). Several were motivated by regional integration. Some of these efforts built on existing initiatives such as the Southern African Customs Union. In East Africa single border controls speeded up crossings between Rwanda and Uganda. Different electronic data systems are still used by customs authorities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. But efforts are under way to create a single interface between these systems. Overall, 27 of 46 Sub-Saharan African economies implemented Doing Business reforms,49 in all. In the Middle East and North Africa 11 of 18 economies implemented business regulation reforms, 22 in all. Six modernized customs procedures and port infrastructure to facilitate trade and align with international standards. These include Bahrain, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS ON THE RISE AROUND THE GLOBE In economies around the world, regardless of location and income level, policy makers adopted technology to make it easier to do business, lower transactions costs and increase transparency. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where 47% of economies implemented business regulation reforms in the past year, 23 of the 25 reforms simplified administrative processes. Many did so by introducing online procedures or synchronizing the operations of different agencies through electronic systems.


doing business (figure 1.3). Singapore retains the top ranking on the ease of doing business this year, followed by Hong Kong SAR (China), New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Denmark, Canada, Norway, Ireland and Australia (table 1.2). Change continued at the top. Among the top 25 economies, 18 made it even easier to do business this past year. Within the FIGURE 1.3 Which regions have the most businessfriendly environment in Doing Business? OECD high income Eastern Europe & Central Asia East Asia & Pacific Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Source: Doing Business database #1 economy 183 Average ranking on the ease of doing business (1 183)

13 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 group of top 25, Sweden improved the most inthe ease of doing business, rising from 18 to 14 in the rankings. It reduced the minimum capital requirement for business start-up, streamlined property registration and strengthened investor protections by increasing requirements for corporate disclosure and regulating the approval of transactions between interested parties. Economies where it is easy for firms to do business often have advanced e-government initiatives. E-government kicked off in the 1980s, and economies with well-developed systems continue to improve them. Hong Kong SAR (China) and Singapore turned their one-stop shops for building permits into online systems in Denmark just introduced a new computerized land registration system. The United Kingdom recently introduced online filing at commercial courts. Top-ranking economies also often use risk-based systems to focus their resources where they matter most, such as the


a modern inspection system (TC-SCAN) at the border crossing point shared with China. As a result, the time to export fell by 8 days, the time to import by 9 days and the number of documents required for trade by 1. Kazakhstan also increased the legal requirements for disclosure in related-party transactions. Thanks to the amendments to its company law, companies must describe transactions involving conflicts of interest in their annual report. The runner-up this year was Rwanda, followed by Peru, Vietnam, Cape Verde, Tajikistan, Zambia, Hungary, Grenada and Brunei Darussalam. Yearly movements in rankings can provide some indication of changes in an economy s regulatory environment for firms, but they are always relative. An economy s ranking might change because of developments in other economies. Moreover, year-to-yearAND NEVIS ST. LUCIA NEPAL SÃO TOMÉ AND PRINCIPE NETHERLANDS JAPAN CHILE GERMANY Doing business became more difficult 0.1 credit history. In 2007, after 14 years of consultation, a new property rights law came into effect, offering equal protection to public and private property and expanding the range of assets that can be used as collateral. India implemented 18 business regulation reforms in 7 areas. Many focused on technology implementing electronic business registration, electronic filing for taxes, an electronic collateral registry and online submission of customs forms and payments. Changes also occurred at the subnational level. In India, as in other large nations, business regulations can vary among states and cities. While Doing Business focuses on the largest business city in an economy, it complements its national indicators


at least 1 Doing Business reform making it easier to do business by Doing Business report year (%) DB2007 DB DB2009 DB DB2011 DB East Asia & Pacific Eastern Europe & Central Asia OECD high income Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa Note: Several economies have been reclassified to the OECD high-income group and are treated as if part of that group for the full period: the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Slovak Republic from Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2008, and Poland and Slovenia in 2010; and Israel from the Middle East and North Africa in In addition, 15 additional economies were added to the sample between Doing Business 2006 and Doing Business Source: Doing Business database. South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Other promisingin business Women make up more than 50% of the world s population but less than 30% of the labor force in some economies. This represents untapped potential. For policy makers seeking to increase women s participation in the economy, a good place to start is to ensure that institutions and laws are accessible to the types of businesses and jobs women currently hold. Take credit bureaus. With the advent of microfinance institutions in the 1970s, poor women in some parts of the world were able to access credit for the first time. By 2006 more than 3,330 microfinance institutions had reached 133 million clients. Among these clients, 93 million had been in the poorest groups when they took their first loans, and 85% of the poorest were


women. But only 42 of 128 credit bureaus in the world cover microfinance institutions, limiting the ability of their borrowers to build a credit history. A new World Bank Group project, Women, Business and the Law, looks into discrepancies such as these as well as regulations that explicitly differentiate on the basis of gender. 1 A recent analysis of existing literature concludes that aspects of the business regulatory environment are estimated to disproportionately affect women in their decision to become an entrepreneur and their performance in running a formal business. Barriers to women s access to finance might drive their concentration in low-capital-intensive industries, which require less funding but also have less potential for growth and development. One possible barrier is that women may have less physical andbalancing worker protection against employment restrictions in the areas covered by the indicators. In addition, new data are being collected on regulations according to length of job tenure (9 months, 1 year, 5 years and 10 years). The annex on employing workers presents initial findings from this work. INITIATIVES COMPLEMENTING DOING BUSINESS The World Bank Group has introduced additional benchmarking indicator sets that complement the perspectives of Doing Business (box 1.3). The Women, Business and the Law database, launched in March 2010, for the first time provides objective measures of differential treatment based on gender. Investing Across Borders, launched in July 2010, provides measures of business regulations from the perspective of foreign investors. Subnational Doing Business reports, introduced in 2004, provide insights into variations within large economies. Other


version dated September 2013. The revised terms are effective for all loans that are approved on or after July 1, 2014. Countries Ranked by Per Capita

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Carlsen dethroned him as Tata Steel champion. In his first stint at the Candidates Tournament, So lost 3 times and won once. So was also unseated as US Champion. His world rating, which was second in the world last year, is now 9th as of June.“Are we still fighting the War of 1812 every time we cross the border?”

Moderator Michael Bliss’s joke about the occasional hassles Canadians face when visiting the United States set the tone for the debate that unfolded at Koerner Hall Friday night over the resolution “The U.S. has coveted Canada since the War of 1812.”

The evening, which was part of a lecture series run by Luminato, the Royal Ontario Museum, and Heritage Toronto, brought together two seasoned debaters. Speaking for the resolution was political economist Stephen Clarkson, who received a hearty round of applause when Bliss referred to his run for mayor in 1969 and asked if he was considering a comeback. Speaking against was historian Jack Granatstein, whose confident tone and smooth prose contrasted against Clarkson’s slow, seemingly


brought up Sweden as an example of an independently innovative country, an audience member replied that thanks to social problems, Sweden was “a failed state.” That particular speaker proceeded to rant about how the National Energy Program ruined Alberta and about the horrors of multiculturalism. (We barely heard the last of his points, as the audience was busy urging him to shut up.)

Bliss took straw polls of the audience before and after the debate. Before words flew, the audience was evenly split on the resolution. After, there was little question there was a shift over to Clarkson’s position: the U.S., those in the room agreed, really did covet us. Such a shift was unsurprising, given that Granatstein’s defense of the closeness of our relationship tended to reinforce thebutchery. Individual bravery (it takes fortitude to face a naked sword) was paramount. For the Spartans the erotic bond between man and man was supposed to be a guarantee for victory. In its phalanx lover stood next to lover. But in a modern army a homosexual relationship would be destructive to the cohesiveness of a unit.

Whereas in Sparta women were given a tremendous amount of freedom, in Athens maidens and wives were sequestered in the women’s quarters. The wife was cook, bottle washer and birther of babies; period. The wife as mate, we find in the Germanic tribal societies. (Germanic is not identical with German). We women owe a lot to these Germanic tribes.

But neither the militaristic society of Sparta, nor the Good Old Boys Club of Athens


Each edition of the magazine contains exclusive articles, dedicated to the world of television and the latest news about television and film production. The magazine's journalists also conduct interviews with film and show business personalities.

The editors select which information to include in the magazine based, foremost, on the interests of their readers. They are also dedicated to helping the readers find this information easily. As such, Panorama TV has an easy-to-follow format: basic information, television program schedule, entertainment section, contests and crosswords.What a Russian operative's indictment reveals about the Kremlin's attempts to infiltrate American politics and the NRA

The Justice Department on Monday revealed it had arrested prominent Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina over the weekend.

In the unsealed indictment, the department accused Butina of conspiring to infiltrate American political groups and advance the agenda of the Kremlin through her network of high-profile American contacts in politics and media.

The indictment includes the first formal accusation against an American citizen of conspiring with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election — and provides new details about the Russian government's attempts to curry favor among prominent Americans.

In this photo taken on Sunday, April 21, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a


rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia.

The Justice Department on Monday revealed it had arrested prominent Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina over the weekend, accusing her of setting up "back channel" lines of communication with the Kremlin in an operation that spanned from the months before Trump announced his candidacy in 2015 through February 2017, the month after his inauguration.

In the unsealed indictment, the department accused Butina of conspiring to infiltrate U.S. political groups and advance the agenda of the Russian government through her network of high-profile American contacts in politics and media.

The indictment includes the most explicit and detailed accusation to date against a Russian, working with the help of an American citizen, to influence the 2016 presidential election. It alsoprovides new details about the Russian government's attempts to curry favor among prominent Americans.

Notably, the charges are not being made by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing Russia's attempts to meddle in the 2016 election. The investigation was carried out by the FBI's field office in Washington, and Butina is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Justice Department's national security division.

Nonetheless, the timing of the charge is critical. Butina was arrested just two days after Mueller announced charges against 12 Russians for hacking into computers belonging to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton, and just a day before Trump appeared with Putin in Finland and publicly questioned his intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election


last February that Erickson dressed in costume as Rasputin at Butina's birthday party held shortly after the 2016 presidential election.

Butina's Russian supervisor in the indictment, referred to only as a Russian official, has been widely identified as Alexander Torshin, a former Russian senator and longtime supporter of the NRA. Torshin is the deputy head of Russia's central bank, and has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department and linked to organized crime. The FBI has investigated Torshin for using the NRA as a conduit for funds that would help Trump win the presidency, McClatchy reported earlier this year.

Butina's attorney Robert Driscoll said the charges were "overblown" in a written statement, pointing to Butina's 4.0 GPA at American University and noting that Butina had cooperated with the Senate IntelligenceCommittee and offered to sit for an interview with Mueller, who, he said, has not expressed interest. Driscoll said Butina had offered repeatedly to cooperate with the Department of Justice as well, but it had chosen to arrest her without notice.

The NRA did not respond to a request for comment, and Erickson could not immediately be reached by CNBC. In a statement posted to Twitter, the Russian embassy in Washington wrote, "We are in contact with the US authorities and demand from them consular access to the Russian citizen in order to protect her legitimate rights"

How Butina allegedly infiltrated the NRA

Helson writes in his affidavit that Butina and the Russian official developed relationships with American politicians to establish "back channel" lines of communication.

"These lines could be used by


the Russian Federation to penetrate the U.S. National decision-making apparatus to advance the agenda of the Russian Federation," the affidavit reads.

Butina reportedly regularly met with both the Russian official and the U.S. person to "develop the contours" of the Russian influence operation, according to the affidavit.

In March 2015, Butina proposed a project, code-named "Diplomacy," that sought to leverage the central role of the NRA in the politics of a "major U.S. political party." That party, which is referenced multiple times in the affidavit, appears to be the Republican Party.

Butina wrote in her email to the U.S. person that a major U.S. political party would likely obtain political control after the 2016 elections. She requested $125,000 to participate in "all upcoming major conferences" of the major political party.

In aas an attempt to get Putin to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in 2017.

Putin did not end up attending the breakfast. According to a 2016 email, Butina believed there were a number of conditions that would have to be met, including a personal invitation from the U.S. president.

In a September 2016 email, Butina wrote to two American contacts suggesting scheduling a dinner in early October, a month before the U.S. election. She wrote that it was time to build a team of Russia advisors for the new president.

Erickson wrote back to say that he had been "involved in securing a VERY private line of communication between the Kremlin and key POLITICAL PARTY 1 leaders through, of all conduits, the [GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION]."

Butina's indictment was largely overshadowed on Monday


by Trump's summit with Putin, though some critics of the president heralded the charges as further evidence of Russian meddling presented while Trump was meeting the Russian leader.

Sen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, connected the indictment to the Treasury Department's announcement on Monday that nonprofits would no longer be required to disclose the names of their donors to the IRS in their annual filings.

"Trump’s Treasury Department made it easier for anonymous foreign donors to funnel dark money into nonprofits the same day a Russian national linked to the NRA was arrested for attempting to influence our elections,” Wyden said. “It’s the latest attempt by Secretary Mnuchin and Donald Trump to eliminate transparency and keep officials and lawmakers from following the money."projects due to his position as a member of the Senate Banking and Intelligence Committees.

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Because Tomblin lacked the financial assets to forward these plans, he involved two Texas bankers, Leo Ladoucer and Danny Gonzalez, as potential financiers for the ventures.  To secure their cooperation in his plans, Tomblin promised Ladoucer and Gonzalez that he would exercise his political influence with Senator Hecht's office to gain assistance in bypassing the regular channels involved in obtaining the approval of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board ("FHLBB") for their takeover of Suburban Savings Association ("Suburban").

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Tomblin, Ladoucer, and Gonzalez attempted to accomplish their goals, however, by promising Glen Mauldin, Senator Hecht's administrative assistant and campaign treasurer, a $50,000 campaign contribution, paying Mauldin's expenses for a trip to Texas, and promising him


notes;  instead, he suggested that Ladoucer and Gonzalez should obtain a waiver from the FHLBB so that they could make more loans.3  Tomblin offered to use his influence with Senator Hecht to facilitate a meeting between Ladoucer, Gonzalez, and Danny Wall, chairman of the FHLBB.4

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Ladoucer and Gonzalez also desired access to Chairman Wall because of the manner in which they had acquired a substantial interest in Suburban.5  The Texas Savings and Loan Department had notified Ladoucer and Gonzalez that they could not exercise the control they had acquired until they received approval for the change of control from the FHLBB.  Because their acquisition of Suburban stock had been illegal, their application for control would not survive a regular review by the FHLBB.  AbsentLabour get in they will inevitably disappoint those younger voters. Given the absurdity of Labour promises and of their bad maths they might have been disappointed to the point of never voting again.

The Tories have to learn from this debacle. First, don't put the party in the hands of someone so catastrophically bad at campaigning. Chauncey was appalling at giving broadcast interviews and no good in the debates, but he was good at talking to people who agree with him at rallies. It gave his campaign momentum.

The Tories on the other hand got more or less every part of this campaign wrong. They kept their best performers out of the spotlight preferring May who was terrible at it. They got the policy offer wrong and abandoned core voters


SSINGAPORE - Singapore retained its top spot as Asia's favourite business expansion destination, according to a UOB survey.

One third, or 32 per cent, of the 2,500 business leaders surveyed said they would choose the Republic as the market to expand into in the next three to five years.

Coming in second was Japan (29 per cent), followed by Vietnam (28 per cent). China was 9th placed with 22 per cent.

The Asian Enterprise Survey was first conducted in 2014 and is now in its second edition. It polled mid-cap companies in six markets - China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

The poll also found that China continues to be the top expansion destination for Singapore companies, similar to 2014 findings. Of the 300 Singapore companies surveyed, 56 per centJurassic Park: Raptor I is "the official continuation of the hit movie!" as Topps comics called it. It is the first part of the Raptor series. It came with 3 William Stout trading cards.

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Story

The story starts after the events of the movie Jurassic Park at Isla Nublar. Everyone who survived the Isla Nublar Incident, except Ellie and Alan, has returned to the main land. Ian Malcolm is in hospital, and John Hammond, Tim, and Lex have returned to Hammond's estate.

Because InGen was an American corporation the US Army, under the command of General West, has arrived at island to take care of the situation. The dinosaur expert of the army is Dr. Jeremiah Fischer, a somewhat arrogant man in black clothes, he already had a reputation in


paleontology before Dr. Grant was born.

The aim of the operation is to get the animals back behind the fences, kill all the Velociraptors, search for eggs, and run scientific tests on the animals.

The army manages to track down the Tyrannosaurus rex (that saved Grant, Ellie and the children in the film) and to surround it with tanks. But the T. rex beats the tanks away. Grant and Ellie use themselves as bait, when the animal is ready to attack them she is hit by two tranquilizers and falls unconscious.

After that there is an argument between Alan, General West and Dr. Fischer. Grant believes that whoever shot the tyrannosaur, shot her with one too many tranquilizers and that a stimulant should be administered. When Alan hears the news thatno Raptor eggs were found in their pen he insists that they should look for nests outside the pen. He thinks that the raptors were smart enough to break out of their pen. General West and Dr. Fischer make it clear that they are not willing to listen and therefore Grant and Ellie go to search for nests themselves.

Grant drives to the westcoast of the island. He thinks it is the perfect spot for raptors to nest, as it is far away from the human settlements in the east and there are lots of caves that are hidden by the tide. It is a beautiful place, and Ellie wishes that her and Alan could finally spend some time together.

Ellie and Grant find a cave and enter it. In


the cave, the two discover George Lawala, a black hunter who claims that he's the best there is. Lawala informs them that he has been hired to capture dinosaurs from the island. Immediately there is a fight between Grant and Lawala, they run further into the cave and find a raptor mother with five children. Grant, Sattler and Lawala quickly flee outside.

The raptor attacks Lawala but he is able to kill her. Ellie and Grant have lost their weapons but Alan still wants to return to the cave to prevent George Lawala from taking the animals to the main land. When they return to take cave, George throws a net over them; he anticipated their return.

Grant and Ellie are able to break free, but in the end theyare both knocked unconscious. When they awake they, and the five baby raptors, are captured in plastic bags that are pulled by Lawala's boat.

The story continued in Jurassic Park: Raptor II.

Chronology

It is unclear precisely when the story takes place, a text box says: ... three days later! This can be three days after the last scene in the movie, in which case Grant and Ellie left the island; or it can be the third day after they arrived at the island, in which case they (contrary to the movie) have stayed on the island. However, Grant mentions that they had left Jurassic Park. But because West hired Fischer as an advisor and does not take the advise of Alan or Ellie it is unlikely the army would have


taken Grant or Ellie by design. Ellie also states that she and Alan had no time together since they arrived at Jurassic Park, that would be unlikely if they were on the main land for three days.

Trivia

The raptor-egg-seeking plot is an allusion to an event in the first novel. In the novel, after the system in back online and the power is restored, Grant urges everyone to seek the nests of the raptors. And they find a nest in a cave near the sea.

According to most maps of the movie version of Isla Nublar most human settlements (like the Visitor Center) were located on the western side of the island. The comics and movies have thus different versions of the island.

CrewLewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.

Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at


the age of 32 Lewis returned to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.

In 1956, he married the American writer Joy Gresham, 17 years his junior, who died four years later of cancer at the age of 45.

Lewis died three years after his wife, as the result of renal failure. His death came one week before his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was minimal, as he died on 22 November 1963 – the same day that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the same day another famous author died, Aldous Huxley.the electric image signal into the optical image utilizing a liquid crystal television technique, has been developed and rapidly is becoming the generally used optical exposure system.
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chain as purchased parts and materials account for over 60% of the cost of finished goods (John, Chandra, Tim 2008). For retail companies within the supply chain this percentage can be as high as 90% (John, Chandra, Tim 2008).

Gerald, Sam (2007) state that purchase there exists a general tendency of pushing added value towards outsourcing. Although in the majority of companies this tendency causes the share of material costs and external services to increase, purchasing departments are still largely operations as traditional mid-size order department and not as modern procurement management units (Gerald, Sam, 2007). Therefore the potential of optimizing the purchasing system and hence improving the profit margins is often neglected (Gerald, Sam, 2007). Now many companies are precisely in procurement via in the internet that therespecifications.

Serviceability. The maintainability and ease of fixing.

Aesthetics. The look, smell, feel, and sound.

Perceived quality. The image in the eyes of the customer (Lysons et al, 2006).

6.2 The Benefits of TQM

TQM is a practical but strategic approach to running an organization that focuses the need of its client or customers (Edward, 2002). TQM is not a set of slogans, but a deliberate and systematic approach to achieving in appropriate levels of quality in a consistent fashion that meet or exceed the needs and wants of its customer (Edward, 2002). The success of TQM strategic is depends on a genuine commitment to quality to each organizational. The benefits claimed for TQM include:

Improved customer or client satisfaction.

Enhance productivity.

Reduced product led time.

Improved customer service and delivery times.

Reduced work-in-progress.

Reduced waste and inventory with


constituted the bulk of the sport medicine supply budget (Richard, 2005). Although some of the suppliers will have to be reordered throughout the year, careful planning will allow the athletic trainer to place only one major supply orders for entire year (Richard, 2005). This method will strengthen the athletic trainer's negotiating position because of the discount normally of associated with quality purchasing (Richard, 2005).

Although negotiation on the price of a supply, item of equipment, or service is common, athletic should also consider on other areas in which they can realize cost saving through negotiation (Richard, 2005). Furthermore, the athletic trainer also negotiate the way in which the goods will be supplied, their quality, shipping costs, and support after the purchase (Richard, 2005).

The following five elements can be negotiated

Vegans across the region can rejoice that Millennium is returning this week in the former Box & Bells space in Rockridge. The beloved, high-end, vegan eatery thrived for 21 years, first on McAllister and then on Geary Street, before being forced to close a month ago, but chef chef Eric Tucker and partner and general manager Alison Bagby vowed to reopen in the East Bay and launched a highly successful Kickstarter to help them do so. They landed on the basically turnkey Box & Bells space, cleaned any remaining animal grease off the griddles, put up a new sign, and they'll be making their Oakland debut on Thursday, June 4, as Inside Scoop reports.

As they announce on their revamped website, "After some very incredible years in our location


“The knockout Michael Bisping suffered against Henderson at UFC 100 has followed him for the past seven years. Using that as motivation, he continued his campaign, showing improvements in his game and beating some of the best in the sport. At the end of May this year, Bisping realised his dream of becoming the champion. Now, in his first defence he returns home to Manchester and has the opportunity to even the score against a man that has become one of the most decorated and respected athletes in the sport. Will Michael be able to put the loss behind him and send Henderson into retirement, or will the ‘H-Bomb’ silence the Bisping fans one more time?”A drunk Russian diplomat rammed his car into a bike and then a police barricade, and assaulted a Delhi Police constable in the early hours of Wednesday.

The incident took place at about 1:30 am in Delhi's Moti Bagh, ANI news agency reported.

The Russian diplomat, whom some reports identified as first secretary in the Russian Embassy Dmitry Kryukov, rear-ended his car into a bike and then slammed it into a police barricade.

When he was stopped by the police, he allegedly punched a Delhi constable.

One of the bikers was taken to the hospital with injuries, while the Russian diplomat himself was seen bleeding from his nose.

"He was so intoxicated that he could not control the car and he was practically unconscious. He was driving really fast and was unable to


Ali who were badly influencing his policies. Responding to media queries, the AML President said that he would hold a meeting with PAT Chairman Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri today to streamline their final course of action. He said that he would try his level best to convince PTI and PAT chiefs to join hands to make Azadi March a success.To a question, he said that Federal Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was the resident of Rawalpindi and he has best in his knowledge that was going to happen in next days.Hurricane Florence strikes the Carolinas

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WASHINGTON (KTVU) - In yet another controversy surround the President's Twitter feed- President Trump is under fire for retweeting an edited GIF that shows him hitting Hillary Clinton in the back of the head with a golf ball.


statement read. (Cambridge is an independent company in the United States that was spun out of SCL.)

According to one source, a trove of Facebook users' personal data was visible on Cambridge's internal databases in 2017.

And yet, following Facebook's announcement Friday night, sources close to Cambridge confirmed to WIRED that this data was still accessible as recently as last year. According to one source, a trove of Facebook users' personal data was visible on Cambridge's internal databases in 2017, despite SCL's current denial and past promises to both Cambridge employees and Facebook that it had all been deleted in 2015. The data included Facebook IDs, and responses to personality surveys that had been administered by Kogan in 2015. Another source close to the company recalled seeing a database calledwith information until their backs are against the wall.' Jonathan Albright, Columbia University

Nix also became a key figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, after news broke that he had contacted representatives for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the run-up to the election, seeking information about hacked emails Wikileaks had received. Nix has confirmed initiating this contact. This apparently prompted the Trump campaign to issue a statement seemingly designed to distance the campaign from Cambridge Analytica, a firm which had already amassed doubters and critics even before the 2016 election. Long before Cambridge even began working with the Trump campaign, Republican strategists accused the company of inflating its capabilities.

Now, it appears even Cambridge is working to place rhetorical distance between Nix and the company's


work in United States elections. In a statement provided to The New York Times, the company said Nix “never had any strategic or operational role” in an American election.

The chaos has led to a mass exodus from the company's nascent US political team. Nearly all of the staff that worked in the Trump campaign's San Antonio digital office are no longer at Cambridge, and sources say its political business within the United States has dwindled. Once feared by Republican digital firms as a threat to their business and by Democrats as a threat to democracy, Cambridge has steadily ceded influence since its 2016 highs.

"The defanging of Cambridge is about just colossal fuckups over and over," one source close to Cambridge said.

Losing Facebook as an advertising platform, the sourceMore than a quarter of all U.S. teenagers think violent behavior is at least sometimes acceptable, and one in five say they behaved violently toward another person in the past year, according to a new poll.

Most said self-defense (87 percent) or helping a friend (73 percent) were acceptable justifications for violence. But 34 percent said revenge was a sufficient motivation. The poll was conducted by Opinion Research for the school-support organization Junior Achievement and the tax and consulting firm Deloitte, LLC.

More than three-fourths of the respondents who said violence is acceptable also consider themselves ethically prepared to enter the work force. That sticks in the craw of David W. Miller, director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative and a professor of business ethics at Princeton University.

In


accompanying the poll results.

"Employers will have their hands full if a quarter of teens grow up still willing to resort to violence and other unethical behavior when it comes to making decisions about how to settle differences, protect their interests or get ahead," said Miller, who is also author of "God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement (Oxford University Press, 2006).

There are potential problems with Miller's take on the poll, however.

Teens lie

First, polls can be greatly skewed based on how questions are framed and by how honestly people respond. Adults are known to lie through their teeth in sex surveys, for example. In one Web-based survey, women claimed on average 8.6 lifetime sexual partners. The men claimed 31.9. Some researchers doubt thoseA thrilling 30-ball 55 by Aviwe Mgijima helped the World Sports Betting Cape Cobras consolidate their position at the top of the CSA T20 Challenge table with a narrow three-wicket win over the Multiply Titans at Eurolux Boland Park in Paarl on Wednesday.

The right-hander struck three sixes and three fours for his best career score in a high-scoring affair that saw the 182 for three set by the defending champions chased down with seven balls to spare.

The home side had briefly lost top position earlier in the evening when the Warriors thumped the bizhub Highveld Lions, but regained their spot with a composed victory that put them two points clear with two round-robin games remaining.

They had won the toss and put the Titans into bat but Mark Boucher’s


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October 31, 2017 By Chelsea T.

Those in Minneapolis are celebrating the coldest Halloween since 2006 and with the weather only going to get colder in the next few months, the city's firefighters decided to take matters into their own hands.

Minneapolis Fire Local 82 raised money to purchase coats for schools throughout the metro as part of the Operation Warm Coats for Kids Program. The department has supported the program for the past five years and on Tuesday morning, hundreds of students at Anderson United Community School were fitted for their new coats.

According to CBS Minnesota, most of the students at Anderson United live in poverty and have never received a brand new coat before. Mark Lakosky, president of Minneapolis1.

"This is an incredible victory for consumers," said Liberal MPP Arthur Potts, who introduced the legislation after hearing numerous complaints from Air Miles collectors about its expiry policy.

Air Miles made headlines last week when it decided to scrap its five-year expiry rule for miles for collectors' right across the country.

The program's owner, Toronto-based LoyaltyOne, cited the Ontario legislation as a major factor in making its cross-Canada decision.

Air Miles cancelled its rewards policy days before the Ontario government passed a bill making it illegal for loyalty programs to allow points to expire based on the passage of time. (CBC)

Industry experts speculate other affected companies may also end up cancelling their expiry policy nationwide. That's because of the challenges they would face by exempting only Ontario collectors.

"I think they'll make


it blanket, Canada-wide," predicts rewards expert, Patrick Sojka

"Why go through the hassle and heartache of trying to run almost two separate programs?" says the founder of Calgary-based resource site Rewards Canada.

Starbucks to nix expiry policy

Once the legislation is enforced, Starbucks customers — at least in Ontario — will no longer have to worry about their rewards points, known as stars, expiring.

Currently, people who collect stars have six months to use them before they vanish.

CBC News asked the U.S. coffeehouse giant how it will deal with its expiry rule and returning to Ontario customers any points they lost since October.

Starbucks Canada confirmed it will have to change the rules. The company will offer further details "in the coming weeks/months," said spokeswoman Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick in an email.

She didn't say ifimmunoperoxidase technique. Label was found in several discrete brain nuclei primarily on the side ipsilateral to the side of stimulation. In the medulla labelled nuclei were found in the nucleus tractus solitarius, area postrema, rostral and caudal ventrolateral medulla, nucleus ambiguus and medullary reticular formation. In the pons labelled neurons were found in the lateral and ventrolateral parabrachial nucleus, locus coeruleus, pontine reticular field and A5 region. In the forebrain labelled nuclei were observed in the peri- and paraventricular hypothalamus, supraoptic nucleus, subfornical organ, preoptic area, central nucleus of the amygdala, median preoptic area, horizontal limb of the diagonal band, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and islands of Calleja. In control animals moderate amounts of label were present in the supraoptic nucleus and periventricular hypothalamus bilaterally. These


During the brief heyday of Southern California’s turf removal rebate program, 17 Orange County country clubs, cities and homeowners associations got rebate checks of more than $100,000 for tearing out turf and replacing it with drought-tolerant plants, according to records.

The country clubs were part of a flood of rebate applications from homeowners and businesses that drained several hundred million dollars from the Metropolitan Water District’s reserves in a matter of months, leading the district to institute caps on maximum rebates and, eventually, shut down the program for lack of funds.

The six-figure payouts – in the county’s largest payout, one country club got $1.9 million – were funded largely by unexpectedly high water sales in recent years and came in the form of bills collected from homeowners, businesses andpublic agencies from Los Angeles to Santa Ana to San Diego.

The turf removal rebate program was lauded as a way to get Southern California unhooked from its water addiction. Lawns suck up vastly more water than what water officials dub “California-friendly” landscapes of succulents, desert plants and native shrubs, and replacing them was seen as key to surviving the current, four-year drought.

Though the program existed for years, interest in the program skyrocketed after Gov. Jerry Brown declared California was in a state of drought in January 2014.

And it made a major splash in early 2015 – a trajectory that correlates with the severity of the drought, the public’s awareness of it and the amount of money available for those willing to sacrifice their yards.

In 2010, when the program


handful of Orange County country clubs and golf courses wrangled payouts of hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange for ripping out hundreds of thousands of square feet of turf.

A few homeowners also collected outsize payments: more than 25 Orange County homeowners received checks for more than $10,000 each.

PAYMENTS CAPPED

In May, officials instituted caps of 25,000 square feet per year for businesses and 3,000 square feet total for residences.

The nearly $1.9 million payout for El Niguel Country Club, with its lush golf course tucked in a Laguna Niguel valley featuring more than 7,000 yards of terrain, three lakes and a rambling creek, was by far the highest rebate in Orange County. It accounted for more than 10 percent of the rebate money paid out to county homeowners and4 Bedroom House in Bedfordview

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The leafy suburb Bedfordview is one of the closest suburbs of Johannesburg to the OR Tambo Airport (other than Edenvale), so for business people dipping into the city only briefly, Bedfordview is an ideal location. Bedfordview provides easy access to Johannesburg, Sandton and the East Rand. Bedfordview is located in the hub of South Africa's financial, manufacturing, marketing and storage facilities. Colleges, universities and excellent schools are all within easy reach.

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is home to a number of shopping malls, including Bedford Centre, Bedford Squareplus the vibrant and recently upgraded Eastgate Shopping Mall with its myriad shops, entertainment venues and excellent restaurants. Tasha's, Bem Bom as well as a new Doppio Zero are the leaders in coffee and restaurants, followed by Rodizios, and Vinni's all in close proximity. Bedfordview offers many family recreational activities such as rowing clubs, walking trails and picnic areas. There are numerous sporting facilities and most religious denominations are represented. In addition Bedfordview is still a vibrant caf culture, and a quick drive through its leafy streets on a Saturday morning will reveal a health conscious, family-orientated demographic with an appreciation for high-end fashion and sports cars Ferraris, McLaren's and Bugagtis are the order of theInternational Urology Journal Club via Twitter: 12-month experience.
Online journal clubs have increasingly been utilised to overcome the limitations of the traditional journal club. However, to date, no reported online journal club is available for international participation. To present a 12-mo experience from the International Urology Journal Club, the world's first international journal club using Twitter, an online micro-blogging platform, and to demonstrate the viability and sustainability of such a journal club. #urojc is an asynchronous 48-h monthly journal club moderated by the Twitter account @iurojc. The open invitation discussions focussed on papers typically published within the previous 2-4 wk. Data were obtained via third-party Twitter analysis services. Outcomes analysed included number of total and new users, number of tweets, and qualitative analysis of the relevance of tweets. Analysis


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From the perspective of the peer support workers we had appointed and trained, their family is the foundation of their world, although they remarked that prejudice begins at home ('the biggest prejudice is within the family'). Grace (54 years of age, female and married) stated that her family life is 'turbulent'. She said she was often abused by her husband, who said 'that I'm too ugly, that I'm the worst of everything' and that she herself thought the members of the research team were 'crazy' for having selected her as a peer support worker. She asked us, 'How come you could believe in us? Nobody believes in us; everybody fears us.' Grace believed she was not a person, after hearing such harsh remarks fromLONDON — The lawmaker tasked with being British Prime Minister Theresa May's Parliamentary enforcer keeps a tarantula in a glass tank on his office desk to help "persuade people to vote with the government."

Conservative MP Gavin Williamson named his pet Cronus after the Greek god who castrated his father with a sickle and ate his children.

Have you met my little friend? Gavin Williamson leaves the residence of British Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street in London after being appointed in July. Dominic Lipinski / PA Wire/Press Association Images

The government's chief whip has reared the one-year-old arachnid since it was a spiderling and says he has "paternal" feelings toward it, similar to the "love and care" he extends to all of his fellow members of Parliament.

Williamson, 40,


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"The Collapse of Blue Max Racing"

Posted by nascarman on September 5, 2018

Viewed 3262 times Tweet It's a familiar story, a team wins the Cup championship and shuts down a year later. Shocking and rare, the most recent occurance before Furniture Row Racing's closure was that of Blue Max Racing; 1989 Champions, closed at the end of 1990.

Blue Max Racing was formed by famed drag racer, Raymond Beadle. The 1979-1981 NHRA Funny Car champion wanted to expand his race team in mid-1982. At the same time he wanted to enter NASCAR, M.C. Anderson wanted out. Anderson's driver in 1982 was Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough, who at that point in his career only wanted to race a part-time schedule. Allegedly, Anderson badly wanted to race fora championship but Cale had no interest. After seven years in NASCAR and disappointed with Yarborough's reluctance, Anderson sold his team to Beadle.

Beadle had a grand vision of owning teams in three series and packaging sponsorship for all three. After being turned down by Coors, Beadle signed a deal with Old Milwaukee Beer to sponsor his drag racing team, a Cup team, and a sprint car team. He hired Tim Richmond to race in NASCAR and Sammy Swindell to drive his sprint cars.

During Blue Max's first three years in NASCAR, Richmond won twice and never finished higher than 10th in points. Richmond left for Hendrick Motorsports in 1986 and Blue Max hired Rusty Wallace. Unlike Richmond, Wallace was very knowledgable about setting up cars and the team's performance


improved. In 1988, Blue Max came 24 points from winning the championship.

While the team went through 1989 as championship contenders, things began to fall apart. Privately it was rumored that Rusty wasn't getting paid on time and he wanted to leave. While he was in the 3rd year of a four year contract, not getting the money he was promised perhaps meant the contract could be broken.

Wallace and Beadle in early 1989 (Racing Photo Archives/Getty Images)

Leading up to the All Star race in May, Wallace tried to kill his departure rumors in a press conference. "I've been hearing and reading all this stuff about me leaving to go here and there and do all kinds of crazy things. It's time to put these rumors to rest.

"I'm happy withRusty agreed to stay with Blue Max for 1990, the final year of his contract.

By October 1989, Wallace was leading the points standings and trying to win his first championship. At the end of the month, Rusty announced a four-year personal contract with Miller Brewing Company to sponsor his racing through 1993 no matter where he drove. Despite Rusty publicly teasing teasing he might stay at Blue Max in 1991, it was obvious at the time that he would take Miller with him to another team.

Wallace's 1990 Pontiac (ISC Archives/Getty Images)

Despite the off-track drama, Wallace and Blue Max won six races in 1989 and won the Winston Cup Championship by 12 points. In his final year at the team, Wallace won twice and finished sixth in points. With


his driver and sponsor both leaving at the end of 1990, Beadle saw this as an opportunity to retire from racing and sell the team. Most of Blue Max Racing became the foundation for Roger Penske's NASCAR team while many parts were sold at auction.

Maybe there are clear similarities between Furniture Row and Blue Max. Both owners came into NASCAR, reached the top, and left when problems mounted up. And perhaps there's a bit of irony that Brad Keselowski won at Darlington in a throwback to Blue Max's last car just two days before Furniture Row collapsed.

References:

*Greg Fielden 40 Years of Stock Car Racing

*Siano, Joe. "Wallace A Million Dollar Man." New York Times. December 11, 1989.

*"Wallace Wins 2nd Straight NASCAR Race." UPI. August 20, 1989.

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A week after the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, the Nationals have signed 17 of their draft picks, including first round pick Drew Storen, a right-handed relief pitcher out of Stanford University. Of the 16 picks signed yesterday, the Nationals picked up seven right-handed pitchers, two southpaws, three outfielders, two shortstops, one third baseman and one catcher.

Here are some of the highlights from the players signed:

Trevor Holder (Third round, University of Georgia): This pick by the Nationals stunned some draft experts with their third round selection. Trevor Holder, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound right-handed pitcher and recent Georgia graduate, had been drafted in the tenth round last year by the Florida Marlins. After going 7-5 with


Desert in California. In Japan he was a member of the Komadai Tomakomai team that won the prestigious 2005 Japanese High School Baseball Championship, a nationwide tournament which is the second most popular baseball event in Japan, behind the Japan Series (the Japanese league championship). This past season, Washiya stole 17 bases and batted .274 with three home runs and 24 RBI.

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Charlie Brooks is an award-winning fiction author who has been writing for publication since high school. His earliest publications included articles in the gaming magazines Dragon and Shadis. In 2006 he released his first novel (under the name Charlie Martin), the fantasy epic Shadowslayers. That was followed up in 2008 by the sci-fi thriller Reality Check. Greystone Valley marks his third novel and his first young adult story.

Charlie is a two-time quarter-finalist in the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Awards and a recipient of multiple short story awards. His story “Fantasy as you Like It” won the Chaffin Award for Fiction in 2006, and his tale “Eight-Bit Heaven” won the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award in 2011. He has also produced several short


nonfiction works, including articles in the gaming magazine Knights of the Dinner Table and an ongoing blog at BabyCenter.com.

Charlie is a lifelong resident of Vermont, having been born and raised in the town of St. Johnsbury. He received an English degree at the University of Vermont, where he met his future wife Sarah. In 2008 he changed his name to Charlie Brooks in honor of the man who raised him. He now lives in St. Albans, Vermont with Sarah and their son Quentin.First Look: Lady Gaga in ‘Simpsons’ Season Finale

Lady Gaga and eighteen of her jaw-dropping, produce-inspired outfits are coming to 'The Simpson's" twenty-third season finale. And what brings the eclectic mega-star to small town Springfield (wherever that is)? Gaga is on a mission to help snap "social outcast" Lisa Simpson out of her funk, by letting know the eight-year-old know she was "born this way."

Gaga, playing her whacky self, tries to convince Lisa that conformity is not the answer, through the power of song. Though according to Gaga, empowering Lisa is just one facet of her role. "I play a little bit of a slut. The apple doesn't fall far from my artistic tree," said the "Poker Face" singer.

Gaga joins a long and illustrious list of "Simpsons" musical guest


stars, including Sting, Michael Jackson, Ringo Starr and Tony Bennett, with whom Gaga collaborated on a rendition of "Lady and the Tramp," for his album, "Duets II."

Will Gaga turn Lisa into one of her "monsters?" Tune into the May 20th finale, titled "Lisa Goes Gaga" to find out!Entertainment

Eek-A-Mouse is a free man

VETERAN artiste Eek-A-Mouse was released from a North Carolina prison in July.

The Outer Banks Sentinel newspaper reports that the singjay, whose real name is Ripton Joseph Hylton, was released for time served in a plea agreement reached by his attorney, Phillip Hayes, and assistant District Attorney Lauren Arizaga.

Eek-A-Mouse was scheduled to appear in the Dare County Superior Court on July 8 to face felony rape, felony kidnapping, felony cocaine and misdemeanour marijuana charges.

But in the plea agreement settled on July 1 in Camden County Superior Court, Hylton pleaded "no contest" to two misdemeanour charges -- assault on a female and attempted crime against nature.

He was sentenced to 75 days' imprisonment for the first offence and "given credit for 75 days spent in confinement prior


to the date of this judgment as a result of this charge". Sentenced to 45 days on the second charge, he was "given credit for 45 days spent in confinement prior to the date of this Judgment as a result of this charge".

The 55-year-old Eek-A-Mouse is best known for the songs Wa Do Dem and Ganja Smuggling. He was arrested in Kill Devil Hills on August 16, 2008 and charged with forcible sexual assault, possession of cocaine, kidnapping and possession of less than half-an-ounce of marijuana.

He had performed at the Port O'Call venue on August 15 and allegedly assaulted a 23-year-old woman at 1:30 am on August 16 at the Colony IV Motel in Kill Devil Hills.

The Kill Devil Hills Police Department said the kidnapping charge stemmed fromthe victim allegedly being held against her will. The victim was a former Dare County resident, who was visiting the area.

Released on $52,000 secured bond, Eek-A-Mouse left the United States and did not show up for a court date in 2010.

Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett issued a warrant for his arrest with a $1-million bond for failing to appear. He was found in Paraguay last November without a proper visa, deported and later extradited from Florida to North Carolina to stand trial on the rape, kidnapping and drug charges.

Eek-A-Mouse had faced as much as 20 years in prison if convicted of the felony charges.


We continue to work on repairs to the electrical cable providing power to cooling systems in the five affected buildings. The latest status report indicates that cooling will not be restored until tomorrow evening at the earliest.

Critical business normally provided in the impacted buildings will continue to be offered, but may be relocated to cooler locations. Signage will be posted in those circumstances. Department heads in the affected buildings can encourage staff to work at other locations on campus, if possible to meet operational needs. In cases where operations cannot be relocated, strategies such as job rotation could be implemented to ensure staff remain as cool as possible.

Affected Buildings:

Architecture Building

Azrieli Theatre

Azrieli Pavilion

Tory Building

University Centre

Affected areas are to be guided by the University Policy Closing Due to Indoor Temperaturechaired by North Carolina Democratic activist Ed Turlington.

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Early campaign
As Edwards had been building support essentially since his election to the Senate, he led the initial campaign fundraising, amassing over $7 million during the first quarter of 2003 – more than half of which came from individuals associated with the legal profession, particularly Edwards' fellow trial lawyers, their families, and employees.

Edwards' "stump speech" spoke of two Americas, with one composed of the wealthy and privileged, and the other of the hard-working common man, causing the media to often characterize Edwards as a populist.

First nominating contests
Edwards struggled to gain substantial support, but his poll numbers began to rise steadily weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Edwards had a surprising second-place finish with the support of 32% of delegates, behind only


NICS system. During the same year, the number of law enforcement officers shot and killed in the line of duty fell by 40 percent. That great news is part of a broader trend. Violent crime against private citizens also fell in 2013.

-And to also keep things in perspective, 18 people were shot last weekend in Chicago and three of them died from their injuries. That makes 343 people shot and killed, 2003 shot and wounded, for a total of 2346 people shot so far this year in the gun-control city of Chicago. No one with a concealed carry permit has been charged with one of the shootings.

-Some Ohio School Boards are not as bright as others. A school district in Logan County discussed placing guns in schools forto the grand jury’s decision on Monday, quite a number of residents of the St. Louis area were purchasing firearms to protect themselves from the expected civil unrest. Many of these new gun owners were new to firearms and to firearms safety and had no training. 26 year old Becca Campbell and her boyfriend were a couple of these new gun owners. Sadly, Becca is now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. While driving with her boyfriend on Friday night, she started waving the pistol around in the car and muzzled her boyfriend. This startled him and caused him to swerve the car. He ended up rear-ending another car and she ended up shooting herself in the head. She died later at a local hospital. Police are conducting


a month ago.

-Two robbers approached their chosen victim at sundown in Birmingham, Alabama. They told the victim to give up his valuables. The victim was armed, and he shot one of the robbers. Both robbers fled the scene. Police later found the wounded man and transported him to a local medical center for treatment. Birmingham Police do not expect to charge the intended victim.

-A similar thing happened in New Orleans. An armed robber demanded that his victim turn over his valuables. The victim handed over his cell phone. The 22 year old robber, Samuel Sims, demanded more. That is when the intended victim drew his concealed carry firearm and shot Sims in the chest. Sims ran away and told a nearby resident that HE was the victim ofa robbery. Police and paramedics arrived and figured out the truth. Sims was taken to the hospital. The intended victim is cooperating with police, and we does not face charges for his self-defense shooting.

-An early morning home invasion in rural Orange County, Indiana started when the two homeowners heard someone enter their home. They moved their mother into a back room, and then one of the brothers went to investigate. The intruder started a fight. the second brother walked in to find the intruder wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a bandana over his face and holding a knife. The intruder was hitting his brother. That is when the second brother shot the intruder. 23-year-old Jacob Grimes died at the scene.

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answered the door. The couple was beaten, and tied up. The thugs ransacked the house looking for valuables. The couple was able to free themselves when the robbers left them unguarded for a moment. They retreated to their bedroom, locked the door, and retrieved a firearm. A pair of the home invaders tried to force their way into the bedroom and one of the robbers was shot and killed. Taijon Voorhees, 19, was found dead after being dumped by the others. Police arrested ninteen year old Duprea Wilson, and a 17 year old. Both face 12 felony charges including 2nd Deg murder.

–When Ronnie Green, 74, of Rosedale, CA heard his female neighbor scream Friday evening, he armed himself and went to help. He came across Greg Miller, 51,who had been stalking the woman. Miller threatened Mr. Green with a knife and then kicked the elderly man in the chest. Mr. Green then shot the stalker in the foot. Kern County Sheriff’s deputies found Miller after he crashed his car. Miller was jailed after being treated for his gunshot wound. He was charged with stalking, elder abuse, battery, and making criminal threats. Green faces no charges for his self-defense shooting.

-A man came into the South Main Internet Café in Salisbury, North Carolina armed with a gun. He ordered everyone to get on the ground. He then pointed the handgun in the teller’s face and demanded money from the till. The female teller dropped the money tray onto the ground and had to bend down to get


the cash and stack it on the counter. The robber put his gun on the counter while attempting to stuff the cash in his clothing. That is when the female teller grabbed the robber’s gun, pointed it at him and fired. She missed. The man ran off and has not been found. More than a half dozen people were inside the café when the attempted armed robbery happened. No one was hurt.

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Are we, as 2nd Amendment supporters, insane. Are they, as gun-grabbers, insane. You know how they say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.it is frigid cold here in North Carolina. It was 14 deg. here this morning.

Rachel- In spite of the cold weather, I truly enjoyed the Battle Road pistol course that my friends Mark and Mike taught for my group of friends. Seven of us spent two days at the Battle Road range training together, and it was time well spent. It’s been too long since I actually attended a full pistol course, and it was very good to devote concentrated time to personal improvement.

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The 16 gun stores in Los Angeles would be required to digitally report ammunition sale records to the city under a proposed ordinance backed Friday by the Los Angeles City Council’s Public Safety Committee. The rationale behind the ordinance is that it


will result in arrest, aggressive persecution of

knife owners, over 60,000 to date)

Philadelphia, PA (all knives are illegal to carry except when actually in use on the job)

– We discussed the layoffs at the Remington Arms factory in Ilion, New York last week. The New York Daily News is reporting that Remington CEO George Kollitides told New York officials in a recent letter that one of the major reasons that they expanded in Huntsville, Alabama was because of “state policies affecting use of our product.” – in other words, because of the New York SAFE Act which forbids the sales of AR-15s made at the Ilion plant in New York State. The Cuomo administration denies the SAFE Act had any impact saying that Remington is consolidating operations from aroundit’s protected behavior under the Louisiana Constitution, and they would very likely win and, at that point, they would strike down that law.”

–A lawsuit was filed Friday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Attorney General Eric Holder and BATFE Director B. Todd Jones seeking to invalidate the Hughes Amendment. The Hughes Amendment ban the transfer or possession of any machine gun made after May 1986. Ryan Watson and the Watson Family Gun Trust are seeking the injunction. A similar action in Texas was filed on October 30 in the case of Hollis v. Holder. This latest action differs from the first in that Watson is subject to an actual taking resulting from actions performed under authorization of the Bureau of Alcohol,


we report the passing of Anita Ingrao on Thursday from breast cancer. Anita was a producer, along with her fiancee Kris Koenig, of the 2nd Amendment documentary film “Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire.” The memorial service will be held for her on Monday in Chico, California. We knew Anita from her work in the right of self-defense. She also loved the stars. She and Kris produced a film “400 Years of the Telescope”, and together, they ran observatories. Contributions are suggested in lieu of flowers to the Anita Ingrao Memorial Fund at the North Valley Community Foundation to benefit the Chico Community Observatory. www.nvcf.org

–The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission turned down a proposal to ban lead-based ammunition. By a 5-1 vote, the Commission members rejected a petition presentedowner was home.. and the homeowner was armed. Homeowner Howard Murphy shot 39 year old Kocho Long when the intruder moved to attack him. Long was shot in the leg and caught by police a block away. Long was transported to Eskenazi Hospital and remains in stable condition.

-A Milwaukee woman was attacked in the afternoon and only a few blocks from a local police station. Even though the police were nearby, they were still too far away to help her. She helped herself. A robber approached the 36 year old woman and demanded her purse and valuables. The robber drew a gun, and so did the intended victim. She fired several times, but apparently missed. The police were looking for the man who ran from the crime scene.

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in August as work continued to grow at Remingtons new plant in Alabama. These latest layoffs came a week after election day.

15-Speaking of the wrong hands, a guy called in a tip to the police.. and then the cops shot him by mistake. Now that hurts. The Vancouver police were conducting a manhunt on Halloween morning as they looked for 59 year old John Kendall. Kendall was involved with a shooting earlier the day. A citizen called 911 to report a suspicious car. The caller had the suspicious car in sight and waited for law enforcement. Officers arrived to see the caller get out of his vehicle and walk towards the back of his vehicle. The cops then opened fire on the innocent man, shooting him in thedays. However, any of the judges on the 9th circuit court of appeals could ask for an en-banc review during the next 21 days. Rob might apply in a month.

21- There is more news for the California Attorney General, and this next story was sent in by listener Anthony. . Four California gun dealers filed a federal lawsuit against her because California law violates their First Amendment civil rights. Stephen Lindley heads the California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms, and he is named as a co-defendant. The Tracy Rifle and Pistol shooting range was cited by the Cal. Department of Justice for having pictures of three handguns visible through their window. The California Penal Code section, written in 1923, bans gun stores from putting up signs advertising


that hunting over a baited trap if you dog is tied on a lead, and a bear tries to eat the dog?

-Four masked people broke in through the front door of this Atlanta home. The couple and their children complied. Three thieves took valuables upstairs while the adults and one of their children were held in the basement. The husband attacked the robber when the robber put his hands on his wife and pulled her clothes down. The homeowner said, “I realized he wasn’t holding the gun firmly. He wasn’t holding it strong. So I was waiting for a time when I could attack.” During the fight the gun went off and shot the robber in the leg. The gunman ran out through the front door but stoppedand Parks.

–Saira Blair, age 18, becomes the youngest elected state representative in the nation. She was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican. Saira is a freshman at West Virginia University and won the election with 62% of the vote. She ran on a pro-gun platform, was rated A-Q by the NRA, and was endorsed by the West Virginia Citizen’s Defense League. She didn’t mince words in her support of the Second Amendment – “ I believe in protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty. It’s time that we stopped treating our citizens like terrorists and terrorist like citizens. Simply stated, firearms allow our law abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families. Our constitutional right shall not be infringed!”

-There is hope, even in


New Jersey. The Franklin Revolver and Rifle Association held its 26th Women & Guns class. 23 women came to learn firearms safety and practice with handguns. The club provided volunteer coaches, range safety, and the use of the shooting range. Ammunition, targets and refreshments were paid for by a grant from the NRA.

Franklin Borough native and National Pistol Champion John Heller gave a one-hour lecture on firearms safety and basic pistol marksmanship. Each student shot 60 rounds during the half day event. Dawn Siek of Stockholm, New Jersey won top honors in the electronic illuminated red dot sighting category by scoring 95 and 97 out of a possible 100 points. Her coach for the day was Mark Jenkins

In the open sights classification, Virginia Tomala of Wantage earned “topThe Democrats have six.

Rob- Anyone want to take bets on whether the US Senate will pass concealed carry reciprocity, or are Republicans all talk and no vote? John Cornyn authored the Senate bill earlier this year.

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-Vermont is a blue state controlled by Democrat legislators. That was true last week, and it remains true after this last election. The good news is that a few of the anti-rights legislators were voted out of office. Democrat Vermont state Representative Linda Waite-Simpson used to represent Essex Junction. She said she would support mandatory universal background checks in Vermont. She was also the largest recipient of money from anti-rights groups like Gun Sense Vermont. Linda Waite-Simpson lost. Human rights advocates can also claim victory in the lieutenant governor’s race, where progressive Dean


a firearm in the home.

– In the barely news category, a federal judge says he meant what he said. U.S. District Judge Frederick Scullin had earlier issued his decision in the case of Palmer versus DC. He said the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home (was) unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny. The district asked for reconsideration, and this week, the judge said no. There are strong indications the District understood Judge Scullin very well, but the district has slow walked the required legislation since July. That opinion is shared by a firearms instructor who was also a plaintiff in the Palmer case. George Lyon complaining about the high cost of applying for certification. The course takes 16 hourstaken into custody and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Dept refused to identify him.

–When Thomas Lopez, 74, answered his apartment door in Dallas Wednesday, he was confronted by two men who forced their way in and demanded money. One of the men, Saeid Ardestani, 56,(Sah-Eed R-duh-stan-e) held his hand in his pocket like he was armed and threatening to shoot the homeowner. Mr. Lopez was armed, and drew his pistol and shot Ardestani (R-duh-stan-e). Both intruders fled. Ardestani was found critically wounded at a nearby gas station after his accomplice and their getaway driver dumped him and called 9-1-1. He died later at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Mr. Lopez was questioned and released.

–An elderly, disabled man in Martinsburg, West Virginia was the victim of home invasion on Friday night. Two


men kicked in his door around 11pm. In response, the homeowner grabbed his gun hoping to scare off the intruders. When Ronald Stotler tried to grab the homeowner’s gun, he was shot in the chest and collapsed. The other accomplice then fled. Stotler was taken to Berkeley Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

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The night of November 9 – 10 will mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the infamous Night of Broken Glass, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership reminds its supporters by resurrecting an essay from the 60th anniversary of the obscene precursor to genocide.you’d think we were making it up. Unfortunately, we aren’t. That is exactly what Heather Hodges did and she is now going to serve three years in a Texas prison as a result. It seems she was mad at her boyfriend and wanted to get even. Initiatially, the son was expelled and then spent several days in a juvenile detention facility until Hodges confessed to investigators under intense questioning. The judge who sentenced her said she was “evil”. The boy is now living with his mother in Louisiana.

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–A senior at Radnor High School in Philadelphia Pennsylvania was arrested after she wrote a detailed plan to murder her classmates and a teacher. She wrote that she wanted to be the first female mass murderer. She also wrote how much


she admired the two murderers at the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. She carefully described how she could kill several students and one of her teachers at the high school. Quote “.. imagine the power.. the bullets leaving the gun with a loud bang, piercing kids around me, the way they collapse, their blood splattering the floor… the screams.” School staff found her notebook and called police. The girl was arrested and will be charged as a juvenile for making terroristic threats. She has a history of mental illness. She had no access to weapons at school or at home.

-We interviewed Brian Aitken in our last episode and reported the injustice he received from the New Jersey court system. This next news item is from Mililani,reported similar results. The New York Rifle and Pistol Association had good success with its endorsed candidates. From one end of the state to the other, over a dozen anti-rights candidates were defeated by pro-rights candidates. The New York Rifle na Pistol Association was disappointed that the Republican Governor’s association did so little to support Rob Astorino for governor.

These next election results did not involve heavy anti-rights funding, but the message is clear. Anti-rights incumbent Pat Quinn lost to Bruce Rauner for the Illinois governor’s race.

In Texas, Tea Party favorite Konni Burton won Senate District 10. That is the Fort Worth district held by Democrat and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis since 2009. Burton ran against Libby Willis. Willis was hand-picked by Wendy Davis to replace her. That didn’t


a burglar trying to climb through her bedroom window. The burglar was found on the ground outside the bedroom and was taken to the hospital where he later died. The occupant warned the intruder she had a gun and to go away but he kept coming. The occupant fired a warning shot into the wall and he kept coming. Finally, she shot him twice and he stopped.

Comment – Warning shots are not a wise thing to do but I’m glad it turned OK for this woman.

–An attempted robbery led to an exchange of gunfire in south St. Louis, Missouri. Two men with handguns announced a robbery at Elicia’s Pizza just after midnight. One robber held the owner at gunpoint while the other cleaned out the cash register. Theowner, who has a concealed carry permit, was able to get to his own gun and exchanged shots with the robbers causing them to flee. One robber collapsed outside of the pizza place having been shot in the leg and buttocks. He was later taken to a hospital and listed in stable condition. The other man got away. Police recovered one robber’s gun and the stolen money at the scene.

-Some homeless people are armed. Eric Harris and Juan Agriel were in separate cars in the parking lot of a Miami-Dade County Winn-Dixie store when Juan Agriel pulled out a tire iron and began to smash up Harris’ car. 48 year old Harris drew his firearm and shot Agriel. Harris then took his phone and summoned police. Agriel was


transported to a hospital and died shortly thereafter. Harris was taken in for questioning and were released early the next morning.

–An Antioch, Tennessee homeowner and his wife were watching morning TV when an armed, masked man forced his way into the house and demanded money. The couple complied and then the robber, Johnathan Corke, 26, demanded more. While the robber was occupied with his wife, the homeowner retrieved his .45 pistol. Corke then raised his pistol towards the homeowner who shot him several times. Corke was taken to Vanderbilt University Hospital where he died. Corke had charges of armed burglary and theft pending at the time of his death. No charges will be filed against the homeowner.

We have the links to each of our news and defensive gundid not lock open. The knife owner is a sculptor who uses a knife for his work. The knife owner was arrested, handcuffed, booked, and placed in a holding cell like a common criminal. The knife owner fought the charges. With the help of an expert witness in court, the knife owner proved his knife was legal. The District Attorney voluntarily dismissed the case. Now the city owes the knife owner for legal fees.

-Here is some good news. Gallup conducted a poll in early October. They found that the support for gun control has fallen considerably in the last two years. Today, 47 percent of Americans favor stricter gun laws. 38 percent want the laws left as they are. 14 percent of us want gun laws removed. The


know how you feel.

-One more story from a gun control paradise. As a DC Metro police was investigating a suspicious person while on patrol early Friday morning, he was ambushed by the guy who was wielding a double-bit axe. The axe-wielder embedded the axe in the driver’s side window of the cop car. The officer then exited his car and struggled with the man but he got away. The officer suffered a dislocated shoulder and injured knee in the struggle.

Comment – I guess DC politicians will be calling for axe control to go along with their gun control.

“There are still times I awake in the middle of the night with my heart pounding in my chest at the slightest sound. To me, the bump in the night iscommuted, rather than being pardoned and expunged. That means Brian is a convicted felon and can not vote or own firearms. A family court judge said he is not a fit father because of his conviction. Brian described his experience in his book “The Blue Tent Sky” The book was the conservative book of the month and is available in hardcover and as an e-book.

Brian worked for the Foundation for Economic Education. He also was given a “Sammie” award by the Samuel Adams Alliance for outstanding citizen leadership. Brian, welcome back to the polite society podcast.

–An Omaha homeowner confronted Lee Harvey as he tried to break-in at 2am on Wednesday morning. The homeowner shot Harvey once in the chest. He collapsed a few blocks away and was taken


to Creighton University Medical Center where he died. Harvey was the third home-invader killed in Omaha in recent months. While the homeowner was questioned by police detectives after the incident, they said it was obvious that Harvey had tried to break-in by the damage he caused to the front door. Harvey had prior convictions for criminal trespass. No charges are pending against the homeowner.

–A Vicksburg, Mississippi mother and her 17 year old daughter were the victims of an armed home before sunrise on Monday morning. They were held at gunpoint and robbed of their wallets. As the home invader was leaving, the 17 year old daughter was able to free herself and grab a firearm. It was then that the home invader came back for a second time.He and the girl exchanged gunfire which made him leave for good. Neither the girl nor the robber were injured. Police have found the empty wallets but are still on the lookout for the home invader.
Rob- comment- would someone please make sure those two women get firearms training.

-We reported on this DGU very briefly on Wednesday but now have more info. Two women tried to burglarize a house in Walden on Lake Houston, an upscale Harris County, Texas neighborhood. After driving to the area in a stolen car, they threw rocks to break a window in the front of a home. As they were reaching in to unlock the front door, the homeowner shot them in the upper torso with a shotgun. Both had to be airlifted to


an area hospital with life changing injuries. The elder of the two said to be in her mid-20s suffered a spinal cord injury and is expected to paralyzed for life while the 17 year old may lose an arm. Harris County Police are calling this an unusual incident as it involved two female suspects and the neighborhood is usually very quiet.

–71 year old Ronnie Lummus and his wife were leaving a Dallas, TX Aldi’s grocery store Tuesday night when 36 year old Mike Angel Carmillio approached them and grabbed Mrs. Lummus’ necklace off her neck. Carmillio then pushed her down and continued trying to rob her. It was then that Mr. Lummus drew his legally carried concealed handgun and started shooting at Carmillio. Carmillio then ran to hishave been several robberies on the south side of Houston this month. A homeowner heard the glass breaking at 3AM as a man came through the back window of his house. The homeowner retrieved his firearm and found the intruder standing in his kitchen. The homeowner shot and killed the intruder. The homeowner was uninjured as was his wheelchair bound father who also lives in the home. It is hard to call this a cold burglary since there were four cars parked in the driveway and front yard at the time of the breakin. This was the second Houston-area home invasion in which a burglar was shot this week.

-This report is from your area of the country, Rob. A 30-year-old woman from the Lincoln Park area of San