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A Baltimore police officer has resigned following a viral video of him repeatedly punching a man identified as 26-year-old DaShawn McGrier.

According to reports, McGrier was moving to leave after police pulled up to where he was hanging out and he noticed an officer that he had a history with and didn’t want any trouble. McGrier was arrested in June for allegedly assaulting the unnamed officer, and his trial was scheduled for later this month. This time around, it was McGrier who was assaulted.

The officer reportedly asked McGrier for his identification and when he refused, the officer hit McGrier repeatedly and pinned him to the ground. McGrier’s attorney Warren Brown said he sustained a “Fractured jaw, two fractured ribs, he lost feeling in his leftwill not charge a Florida man for killing another man in a parking lot after an argument over a parking spot. Surveillance video shows Michael Drejka shot and killed Markeis McGlockton after McGlockton pushed him. Florida’s “stand your ground” law allows people to respond with deadly force with they believe lives are in danger. Protesters gathered at the scene yesterday, demanding justice for McGlockton. Meg Oliver reports.

A 10-year-old boy upset about his dad’s arrest was pinned to the ground by an Athens, Georgia officer, which was shown in a Facebook video that has quickly gained traction.

The video shows the young boy pinned to the ground with his arms held behind his back. The boy seemed scared when asking officers if he was going to jail while they continued


in court that they are still working on a disposition.

Hill and Quincy Homere are accused of killing Chinx after he left a performance at Red Wolf nightclub in Brooklyn on May 17, 2015. The two men followed Chinx and opened fire on his new Porsche Panamera 4, hitting the rapper 15 times and his passenger, Antar Alziadi, twice in the back. Alziadi survived the shooting.

Hill is due back in court on September 12, and he, along with Homere, is facing 25 years to life if convicted of the murder.

The U.S. Justice Department has received “new information” in the murder investigation of Emmett Till, which they have decided to re-open.

This comes nearly 63-years after the brutal and racist murder of Till, who was captured and killed after he wasentire incident, Kovach ignored an emergency call about a road rage incident.

The University of Florida came under fire over the weekend, after recordings taken during the school’s year-end commencement ceremony went viral amongst members of the public who grew outraged over the way they saw some of the Black graduates being treated.

Many of the roughly 10,000 fresh-faced alumni who crossed the Exactech Arena stage at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center on Sunday (May 6), did so in style, with some stopping to pose for awkward selfies, others doing dance moves, skips, and flips, and one gentleman even kneeling down to propose to his girlfriend. There were also several instances in which the ceremony’s marshall got rough while moving to rush exuberant grads off – and in each of


to keep from tipping over due to the way he was rushing him along.

University President Kent Fuchs would later take to Twitter to apologize. He has also contacted each of the alum seen in the videos to express his regrets personally. Fuchs confirms that the marshall is being investigated.oil flowing to the steering cylinder is interposed on the steering-side passage. The other of the hydraulic pumps is connected to a loading-line actuator through a loading-side passage, and a loading operating valve configured to control the flow rate of the operating oil flowing to the loading-line actuator is interposed on the loading-side passage. Further, a priority flow control valve is interposed on the steering-side passage so as to be located upstream of the switching valve. The priority flow control valve is configured to supply, to the loading-side passage, excess operating oil generated when the discharge amount of the pump exceeds the flow rate of the operating oil to be supplied to the steering actuator.


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CLEVELAND -- The details are shocking and hard to believe, but authorities say a woman -- who was believed to weigh around 300 lbs. at the time -- sat on her boyfriend and killed him last summer.On Wednesday, Mia Landingham, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 120 lb. boyfriend, Mikal Middleton-Bey.It happened back in August during an altercation between the couple, who share three children together.During Landingham's sentencing, her boyfriend's family spoke of the pain she has caused their family."I just want to let you know how much you have hurt us by taking Mikal away from us," said Sharon Phillips, the victim's step-mother.Landingham's public defender told the judge there was a long history of domestic abuse betweenhis client and her late boyfriend.He also pointed out she has no prior criminal record.Landingham, then told the judge she was sorry for squashing the father of her children. "I just want to say that I am sincerely sorry about this situation... I wish I could take it back."Judge Carolyn Friedland sentenced her to three years probation and 100 hours community service.Landingham was then immediately released from jail.While Middleton-Bey's family hoped Landingham would eventually be able to take part in her children's lives, they were surprised that she got no additional jail time."So basically you can say that I can go sit on somebody and get probation?" said one of the victim's sister."I feel there wasn't no justice."Landingham faced a maximum of five years behind bars.


What does it mean to be Canadian?

For those who spend years earning their citizenship, it means the world: having a chance at a new life, new opportunities or the chance to reunite with family. For some, it can even mean the difference between life and death.

On July 1, more than 1,800 people will take their oath of citizenship in 42 Canada Day ceremonies across the country.

We asked new Canadians from coast to coast what becoming a citizen means to them.

Emil Cezar Onias — New Glasgow, N.S.

Exactly a week after becoming Canadian, Emil Cezar Onias will be taking in his first Canada Day as a citizen alongside his family as fireworks light up the night sky in rural Nova Scotia.

Onias, originally from the Philippines, has been living in NewGlasgow, N.S., since the fall of 2012. He joined his wife, Chik, who came to the town about an hour and a half north of Halifax in 2011 to take a management job at a local McDonald’s restaurant. As a McDonald’s manager in the Philippines, Chik was told about an opening in the New Glasgow location, applied, and was eventually hired.

Onias said before that, their family had never even thought about living in Canada, let alone Nova Scotia. All he knew about Canada was that it was north of the United States, which meant it was cold.

“At first I felt like ‘are we going to be seeing penguins?’ ” he laughed.

Onias remembers a few “culture shock” moments in his first year, including assuming that everyone who greeted him


for the warmth of the Philippines.

Onias said it was hard on him and Chik as they waited for their two children, Mikaela, 14, and Jamil, 12, to be able to join them, but the family has been together since 2014. They stood united on Monday, June 24, during their official citizenship ceremony in Halifax when they became Canadians.

At first, Onias said it didn’t really “sink in” that he was a citizen, since he’s been in Canada and a permanent resident for years. But that changed once he posted photos of the ceremony on social media, and hundreds of likes and excited comments came rolling in.

Also, having a Canadian passport is a big deal. Onias can now comfortably travel back and forth to the U.S. to visit relatives, whichCanadian household is steeped in South Asian culture, Khan, 33, said there are certain Canadian values, including kindness, loyalty and patriotism, that she has instilled in her three children. Two of her kids, twins, were born here.

“I encourage them to come together and make a difference in their community,” she said.

Not a bad lesson, coming from a woman who holds a masters in public administration and was used to being top of her class at the University of Kotli Azad Jammu & Kashmir in her native land, the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan.

“I was at the top of my program at my university, so I got to serve as a lecturer,” she said of her brief stint teaching before making the bold jump to relocate.

She was also in


obtain his real documents from Libya and prove his identity, but it would take 20 years for him to be able to call himself a Canadian.

After a few years in Canada, Alfrajani said he received a deportation letter. Alfrajani said his lawyer had missed an application deadline, putting his entire future — and even his life — in jeopardy. Alfrajani made a successful appeal to stay on humanitarian grounds, but his legal status in Canada remained in limbo.

He met and married his wife, Christine Alfrajani, in 2004, and she began working to sponsor him so he could gain full citizenship.

Together they built their Canadian dream. Alfrajani started his own moving business to support his growing family — he’s now a parent to four Canadian-born children — all theCanadians get their geek on at a citizenship ceremony that was out of this world

Nellie Evangelista — Calgary

As a nearly two-decade-long journey across the world culminated on Friday with Nellie Evangelista and her family at their citizenship ceremony, Evangelista was thinking about her friends who were still working toward that goal.

Before coming to Calgary in 2015, Evangelista and her husband, Ariel Arzadon, had lived in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia since leaving their home in the Philippines almost 20 years ago. As the couple sat with their children and Arzadon’s mother Friday, patiently waiting for their citizenship ceremony to begin, Evangelista said she was thinking of some of their friends in the UAE who are unable to emigrate to Canada just yet because of health issues.

“We


in 2010.
The key researchers are:

Matthew Sutton (Professor of Health Economics, 2008-date)

Stephen Birch (Professor of Health Economics, 2004-date)

William Whittaker (Research Fellow, 2008-date)

The aim of the research was (and continues to be) to develop the methods
used to estimate the formula for allocating the NHS budget to local health
care commissioning organisations. These econometric methods are applied to
national datasets to derive up-to-date shares of resources for each
organisation that reflect their population size, demographic composition,
morbidity and socio-economic deprivation, and expected input prices. The
main contributions since 2008 have been:

To test the General Labour Market theory and method that underpins
the adjustment for variations in the expected costs of labour (called
the Staff Market Forces Factor), which has been used in the English NHS
funding formula for almost 30 years. The first publication (below)
derived from a commissioned reportthe English Department of Health since 2002. All of
this work has been undertaken in collaboration with researchers from other
UK Universities, with Sutton taking the first or second project
leadership role.

The research programme is ongoing, with recent grants from the Department
of Health to develop formulae for setting budgets for Clinical
Commissioning Groups for hospital and community health services and mental
health services. These more local, non-geographically defined,
commissioning organisations have required development of a Person-Based
Resource Allocation approach.

References to the research

The research was published in leading international peer-reviewed
journals. The project reports, once reviewed and approved by the Secretary
of State for Health's Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation
and its Technical Advisory Group, are published in the Department
of Health's online library of key Resource Allocation Research Papers.

Details of the impact

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(ACRA), supported by a Technical Advisory Group (TAG), makes
recommendations to the Secretary of State for Health on changes to the
funding formula. Based on this formula, the Department of Health issues
annual allocations to local commissioning organisations (PCTs or CCGs).
The Department of Health commissions academic research on behalf of ACRA
to review the existing formulae and propose new needs-based estimates for
each local area. This approach ensures that the formula and the budget
shares for each area that result from it are independently produced and
based on cutting-edge research methods and evidence.

Reach and Significance of the Impact
In their report issued in December 2008, ACRA recommended changes to the
funding formula that included:

adoption of the research team's recommendation to no longer apply the
Staff Market Forces Factor to expenditure on medical staff and the MFF
adjustments calculated byToday, the ACLU releases Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration, an in-depth examination of the private prison industry.The report finds that mass incarceration provides a gigantic windfall for one special interest group – the private prison industry – even as current incarceration levels harm the country as a whole.

While the nation’s unprecedented rate of imprisonment deprives individuals of freedom, wrests loved ones from their families, and drains the resources of governments, communities, and taxpayers, the private prison industry is expanding at an exponential rate, holding ever more people in its prisons and jails, and generating massive profits. Private prisons for adults were virtually non-existent until the early 1980s, but the number of prisoners in private prisons increased by approximately 1,600 percent between 1990 and 2009.In 2010,


circulating among the protesters at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, held that summer at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Eager to prevent the type of bedlam seen in Seattle the ...
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Remember when we were told that the administration of Donald J. Trump posed a pernicious threat to science and medicine? In an attempt to sharpshoot Trump’s most famous scientific claim, one of the world’s leading medical journals just blew off itssuper federal state, they see that the way to achieve this is by the means of flooding European countries with immigrants from Africa. In doing so they break away at the very fundamental axis on which these great nations were built. In effect EU bureaucrats are carrying on the dream of one Richard Von Caudenhove-kalergi – president of the Pan European movement. He ha the ideological view of creating a new world order based on the federation of Nations (European Union). In his delusion Kalergi explained in his book Praktischer idealismus that the future of the United States of Europe would not involve people of the olden Europe. Rather it would be made up of a new race of citizens. Hence the influx of migrants from the African


trypophobia The term first appeared in 2005 from the combination of the Greek words trypo,meaning punching or drilling, and fobos, meaning fear.This is a relatively new phobia has not yet been recognized by official medicine, it appears as a pathological fear of objects clustered holes.

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problems trypophobia also called the fear of open holes, cavities, holes, skin abscesses, and so on.To date, the most famous researchers of the variety of fear considered a scientist from the University of Essex, Jeff Cole and his colleague Arnold Wilkins.They suggested that trypophobia is one of the most common phobias in the land, as at the sight of multiple holes a lot of people uncomfortable, for example, the nervous trembling, itching, nausea, a feeling of discomfort.

After a series of studies and Cole Wilkinsthe piece Radiation Exposures at a Glance.

This does not mean that most of the Exclusion Zone would be considered uninhabitable. In fact, soon after the evacuation, some 200 people decided to disobey the official orders and went back to live in their homes. They have lived there ever since, farming and gathering food in the Exclusion Zone. Their health has been monitored carefully, and despite ingesting foodstuffs grown in the zone, their health has been comparably better than their counterparts remaining in the city. The main concern for ingestion, Cesium-137, turns out not to have a great impact thanks to its long half-life (=low activity) and the fact that it does not accumulate anywhere in the body. In a UN University lecture on health impacts of nuclear accidents,


three decades later, studies on crop cultivation, and observations of animal life and human health effects of people living inside and outside the zone have reached the point that the local authorities have begun talking about opening parts of the zone up for human use once more. BBC Science Correspondent Victoria Gill reports from a meeting in Chernobyl (including a series of photos of the people living and working in the zone) in The end of three-decade experiment:

For the first time since the boundary was drawn, the zone is set to change. Three decades of research have concluded that much of it is safe – for food to be grown and for the land to be developed.

A few decades old photo of the Red Forest with the powerplant in the background (from a study), for a photo from 2012, see copyrighted work here.

The ‘uninhabitability’ of the vast majority of the Zone, then, is of a political and psychological nature. The only areas that could be argued to be deserving of the actual ‘wasteland’ title would be the 4-5 square km of the Red Forest, and the failed reactor building itself (although the other reactors continued running normally and producing electricity until 2000), perhaps along with a few smaller hotspots.

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In 1924, the Democratic National Convention featured non-stop fighting and multiple gaffes.

ByRandy DotingaSeptember 6, 2012

The Democratic National Convention in 1924 included accidental swipes at the South and several very loud sirens. One of its attendees was U.S. Congressman John Nance Garner (pictured at the convention).

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Almost nine decades ago, the Democrats got together in New York City and tore themselves apart.

They fought over civil rights and the Ku Klux Klan. They fought over religion. They fought over legalizing liquor. And they did it for more than two whole weeks while botching everything from the music to the celebratory fire sirens.

The Democratic National Convention of 1924 remains the most destructive of all time. "During its 16 days and 103 ballots, the party virtually committed suicide," writes historian Robert K.Murray.

The players included a future president who'd lose that November, a Catholic governor, a KKK sympathizer and the ultimate nominee, a man who described the chaos, in a bit of understatement, as "a three-ring circus with two stages and a few trapeze acts."

The best and most deliciously readable account of the Mammoth Mess at Madison Square Garden appears in Murray's 1976 book The 103rd Ballot. As the Democrats anoint their nominee in Charlotte tonight, here's a look back at the ultimate height of conventional dysfunction, courtesy of a master historian:

Hey! Let's Insult the South, Part I: When a favorite son from Virginia was nominated, the convention band struck up an awkward selection: "John Brown's Body Lies A-Mouldering in the Grave," a favorite of the North during the Civil


War.

It was not, as you can imagine, a chart-topper in the Old Dominion. The band quickly changed its tune, literally, to "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny."

Hey! Let's Insult the South, Part II: Later, during a discussion about the KKK, the band played "an ancient hymn of hate" of the Union Army called "Marching Through Georgia." This "monumental gaffe" infuriated the Southern delegates, who were less than pleased to be reminded of the work of General Sherman.

The Sound of Flee-Dom: After a man named Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged his fellow Democrats to support Al Smith, the New York governor, the "Garden turned into a cauldron of sound and movement."

That's not unusual at a political convention. But this was: a man had hired a bunch of people to turnKKK, even though nobody actually wanted to come near the issue. This did not go well: "No paradise of human understanding at best, Madison Square Garden now turned into a pit of crouching hates and simmering prejudices."

The vicious KKK debate finally ended in a chaotic two-hour vote that produced the most "prolonged pandemonium in an American political gathering."

"The delegates engaged in fist fights, arguments, name calling, wrestling matches, and brawls, while the galleries howled and stomped their feet." The fighting veered toward a riot that was only averted when 1,000 NYC cops hurried to the scene.

Sit Back, Stay a While: The balloting to choose the nominee went on. And on. And on. Will Rogers complained, as Murray put it, "that New York had invited the delegates as visitors,


not to live there."

One day featured a whopping 19 ballots, the most ever taken on a single day of a major political convention in U.S. history.

Meanwhile, on Independence Day, 20,000 Klansmen and their families met to rally in nearby New Jersey. They built an effigy of Smith, the Catholic governor, and smashed it with baseballs at a nickel for three throws.

This Was No Magic Number: Finally, after 102 ballots, just two candidates remained in the running. One was "an eastern Wall Street lawyer" from West Virginia. The other was, of all things, a "wet anti-Klan southerner."

The lawyer, John W. Davis, got the nomination on the 103rd ballot. He was a compromise and, ultimately, a loser. The incumbent, Calvin Coolidge, would be elected president with 54 percent of thevote. Davis couldn't even reach 30 percent.

Davis would eventually abandon his party and embrace the GOP.

Smith, the New York governor, would try for the nomination again in 1928 and get it. But Herbert Hoover would wipe the floor with him.

And FDR? He'd run, and lose, on the 1924 ticket with Davis as a vice presidential candidate. He'd roar back, older and wiser, eight years later and win the White House.

So why bother reading about 1924? It turns out that there's more here than a few amusing and appalling tales. The havoc at the convention represents the era's battle over who gets to enjoy the full benefits of being an American.

"(E)very shade of opinion, every prejudice, every fear, every division which could be found in American society as a


whole was duplicated in Madison Square Garden in 1924...," Murray writes. "Marking the first concerted attempt to reach a political consensus on many of these matters, the Garden convention was a failure."

Still, the convention and its aftermath "provided eloquent testimony to the tenacious belief of the American public in the efficacy of the democratic process and to the Democratic party's persistent search for a workable political consensus."

The Democratic party, strong enough to survive this epic prize fight in Madison Square Garden, would stick around for another 88 years (and counting). And American democracy, no delicate flower, would keep on thriving.Last updated on .From the section Olympics

Organisers say 58% of tickets were sold for the first athletics session at the 56,000-seater Estadio Olimpico

Rio Olympics organisers said they were "not disappointed" by the number of empty seats on show as the athletics events began in the Estadio Olimpico.

They claimed 58% of available tickets for the first session were sold, and 65% for the evening session.

Ticket prices and VIPs not filling their allocations have been cited as reasons for empty seats.

"Without heroes and local athletes the public take longer to fall in love," said Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada.

"But one of the legacies of the Games will be to show Brazilians how spectacular these other sports can be and there will be no problem when Usain Bolt competes on Sunday."

Jamaica's


Bolt, 29, is attempting to win the 'treble treble' of 100m, 200m and 4x100m golds at three successive Olympics.

Andrada said an additional problem in Rio is ticket-holders only wanting see one particular contest in a long session.

BBC Sport's Dan Walker in Brazil

The athletics began on Friday with a world record for Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana in the women's 10,000m, and Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill opening her defence of the heptathlon title she won in London.

However, media outnumbered fans at the start of competition, and by lunchtime the stadium was barely a quarter full.

For the start of the evening session, which featured the likes of Jamaica's two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the stadium was less than a fifth full.

Rio 2016's organising committee has been criticised for the ticket-pricing structure, consideringthe country is in the midst of an economic recession.

It has denied high ticket prices have put Brazilian fans off, while the International Olympic Committee said prices offered to overseas fans were not too high.

Crowds in Rio have been a stark contrast to the packed stands and noisy atmosphere that greeted the athletes at London's Olympic Stadium (above) in 2012

How the other venues fare

Velodrome: There were a few empty seats at the start of the second day of track cycling, but the venue was soon full and numerous Union Flags on display hinted at a big British presence.

Tennis Centre: The crowd for Andy Murray's match was disappointing but Rafael Nadal's quarter-final win against Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci generated the best atmosphere of the week from an almost full stadium.

Equestrian


Centre: The team dressage final failed to attract a large crowd to Deodoro, with the centre less than half full all day.

Carioca Arena 3: It was a similar story for day seven of the fencing competitions, where the men's team final was poorly attended.

Shooting Centre: One of the few places to buck the trend was the Olympic Shooting Centre, where the men's 50m rifle prone final and women's skeet contest saw the stands almost full.

Lagoa Stadium: Rowing also drew a large crowd as a number of medals were decided, with a large British presence noticeable.

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Ever since the Pickering Treaty in 1794 between the federal government and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations, we have either not honored or have simply ignored promises made in good faith by the other side.

It was the same with the Native Americans as it was with the South Vietnamese, the Marsh Arabs in Iraq and many others. Now it’s the Kurds.

Turkey has been trying for decades to rid itself of the possibility of much of the eastern part of the country being absorbed into a “Greater Kurdistan.” And, like presidents before him, Trump has betrayed people who assisted and trusted us.

Darcy Vernier, Marina del Rey

..

To the editor: Tell the parents of yet another American soldier killed in a faraway land that he


Two weeks after her mother died, Rhonda Assoun-Gritten was looking around the 63-year-old woman's Dartmouth, N.S., apartment, opened the drawer of the night table and discovered receipts for three recent prescriptions. Assoun-Gritten didn't recognize the names of the medications, but stuffed the papers in her back pocket.

The death of Sharon Assoun on Feb. 24, 2016, had been shocking not only in its suddenness, but in its unusual nature. While babysitting that night at her son's home, she had gone down to the fridge, her daughter says, and drank a bottle of his illicitly purchased methadone.

When the toxicology report came back six months later, it pointed to the obvious. The amount of methadone, which is used to treat opioid addiction, had been within the lethal range. But the medicalexaminer's report also listed two sedatives in the cause of death. A third was found during toxicology tests.

It turned out that Sharon Assoun had for years been prescribed a class of drugs called benzodiazepines for insomnia and anxiety. On a hunch, her daughter showed the prescription receipts she had retrieved from her mother's home to her own family doctor.

"She put her hands on her head and put her head on the desk," says Assoun-Gritten. "'Rhonda,' she said, 'Your mother was so overmedicated she wouldn't have known, awake or asleep, if she was drinking the methadone."

Sharon Assoun, right, had filled prescriptions for three different benzodiazepines leading up to her death. (Submitted by Rhonda Assoun-Gritten)

Benzodiazepines have been used for nearly six decades to treat seizures, anxiety and insomnia. In 2017,


disorder program at the IWK Health Centre, the Atlantic region's largest children's hospital.

This advertisement for the benzodiazepine oxazepam appeared in a 1967 publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association. (Journal of the American Medical Association)

Benzodiazepines were created in 1955 by chemist Leo Sternbach. Hoffmann-La Roche marketed its first version of the drug in 1960 and launched Valium three years later.

The drugs have a number of advantages. They're effective. They also appeared to be safer than barbiturates, a predecessor used to treat anxiety and insomnia with higher risks for overdose.

But they could still be addictive.

The 1966 Rolling Stones song Mother's Little Helper described "running for the shelter" of a "little yellow pill." By the 1970s, some doctors were raising the alarm. Deep concerns about benzodiazepine-prescribing practices remaintoday.

"I'm as concerned about this as I am about the prescribing of opioids for chronic pain," says Dr. Samuel Hickcox, the physician lead for addictions at the Nova Scotia Health Authority. "I think we're really contributing to a problem, to be frank."

One of the patients he has treated for addiction, he says, has been on benzodiazepines for 58 years, and was prescribed the first one to ever hit the market: Librium.

In Nova Scotia, the prescribing of benzodiazepine and related drugs remains stubbornly above the Canadian average, despite some modest decreases since 2012, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Other Atlantic provinces fare even worse. Newfoundland and Labrador is double the national average. New Brunswick's numbers are even higher.

From 2011 to October 2018, benzodiazepines contributed


who works in addictions," says Hickcox.

Steve Sepulchre and his wife, Heather Holm, on a walk near their home in Martins Point, N.S. (Alex Lynch/CBC)

For Steve Sepulchre, that moment of reckoning came as he writhed on the floor of his psychiatrist's office, begging for diazepam. He had lost his prescription and no one would give him more pills. Afterwards, his wife, Heather Holm, gave him an ultimatum: If he went back on benzodiazepines, their marriage would be over.

"It wasn't even a threat to leave. It was a statement of reality," she says in an interview at the couple's home in Martins Point, N.S. "Because there was no marriage with those drugs. The intimacy of marriage was not complete with those drugs."

Sepulchre's decade-long slide had started in 2001 when hevisited his doctor for insomnia. At the time, he was holding down two jobs, as an aviation regulations consultant for Transport Canada, and teaching French at Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S. He was also being gnawed at by unresolved trauma from childhood.

Different drugs were tried. Later, a psychiatrist prescribed lorazepam, and eventually diazepam.

"The immediate feeling is relief," says Sepulchre, who is now 65. "That's the immediate feeling is welcome relief. It's like, now I can sleep. Huh. Now my problems don't seem so big anymore. Huh. Now I'm getting along easier with the world, the constraints of the world."

Sepulchre says he's found new tranquillity through meditation. (Alex Lynch/CBC)

But as time wore on, the symptoms of anxiety would return. The dosage would rise. The pattern would repeat. His lock


on reality was changing. Technical aspects of his contracts became too hard. It was like the people around him were at the bottom of a swimming pool, their voices distorted by the water.

He was becoming apathetic and withdrawn. His spark was gone. Friends noticed. He would write crazy things to relatives. When it all became too much, he would "freak out," sometimes breaking electronics.

After his psychiatrist died, his file was sent to a family doctor in nearby Bridgewater who issued him a blunt assessment. His dosage of benzodiazepines would eventually kill him. A new psychiatrist put him on a tapering program, one of the primary ways to get someone off benzodiazepines.

Two years in, he lost his prescription. It was as if a decade of building tension was uncorked.Images flitted through his mind like banners trailing an airplane: details of meaningless work meetings long forgotten, obsessions from childhood. His heart rate shot up.

Today, he is off all the drugs, including an antidepressant he had also been prescribed. He only takes a small dose of marijuana oil at night to help him sleep. He credits meditation and the support of his wife with saving him. Slowly, incrementally, at times imperceptibly, he says, he's found enough tranquillity to bring himself back in touch with reality.

Oxazepam is one of the benzodiazepines listed in Sharon Assoun's cause of death. (Alex Lynch/CBC)

Concerns about benzodiazepines may date back at least to the Rolling Stones' early days, but the pop culture references hardly end there. The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. called Xanax,


also known as alprazolam, "perhaps the most fashionable drug in 2017's rap scene."

This came after American rapper Lil Peep, who had rapped about using Xanax and posted a video saying he had popped six pills, died of an overdose.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and rapper Post Malone spelled out his drug problems in the lyrics of Better Now, released last year: "I did not believe that it would end, no. Everything came second to the benzo." The California rapper Diego Leanos is even known by the stage name Lil Xan.

Why have benzodiazepines like Valium and Xanax been involved in a large number of Canadian opioid overdose deaths? Zachary Siegel, a journalist and fellow at Northeastern University, breaks down benzos, why they're having a moment in the rap world and what rolethe drug plays in the overall overdose crisis. 23:25

It was also in 2017 that Etches, the IWK addictions doctor, stepped back and realized something startling. The number of youth she was seeing who were abusing opioids was dropping. Xanax had now become her chief concern.

Many of the young people she treats are snorting and injecting the benzodiazepine in amounts far beyond what would be prescribed. They are self-medicating for anxiety and depression, to relax, sleep, escape trauma in their lives. Others want to get high, but then continue to use to deal with the withdrawal.

Dr. Selene Etches is the manager of the concurrent disorder program at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax. (Richard Cuthbertson/CBC)

Tutorials on the internet outline how to lie to a doctor to get a prescription.


and Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists. (Submitted by Rhonda Assoun-Gritten)

At her family doctor's urging, Rhonda Assoun-Gritten launched a complaint with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia against the physician who had been prescribing benzodiazepines to her mother.

An investigation showed Sharon Assoun had long been on oxazepam for anxiety and temazepam to help her sleep. But in the months leading up to her death, she had switched from oxazepam to a similar sedative, clonazepam, and then back again as she dealt with "distress" related to family issues.

Her doctor would later tell the college he instructed Assoun not to take the clonazepam once she returned to her old medication. He said he had counselled her and suggested mental-health treatment to help her deal with her issues. She2 available HPV vaccines, Gardasil (Merck) and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals), have primarily targeted females around 9--18 years of age. In the developed world, the vaccines are often given as part of a broader program of other vaccinations or via targeted school-based programs \[[@JIS407C9]\]. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, preadolescent school girls are not a group routinely targeted by the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), and strategies for delivery of the vaccine therefore need to be explored.

We aimed to compare the coverage achieved by 2 different HPV vaccination strategies in rural and urban schools in Tanzania. Schools were cluster-randomized to receive class-based delivery, in which vaccine was offered to all girls enrolled in school class 6 in 2010, or age-based delivery, in which vaccine was offered to all girls born


May 2010 to document the number of girls born in 1998 (age 12 years in 2010) and enrolled in class 6 (median age, 13 years in 2010). Schools were classified as urban or rural on the basis of government classifications.

We aimed to obtain an estimate of the number of potentially eligible girls for vaccination in these schools. However, although most school heads were cooperative, collection of accurate denominator data was hampered by missing register books, inconsistent data, reluctance to disrupt classes to cross-check numbers, and absence of some classes at some schools. Data on eligible pupils were therefore rechecked on the day of vaccination. Eligible pupils in schools randomized to the age-based delivery strategy were defined as girls born in 1998, whereas eligible pupils in schools randomized toBuried among all those achievements, however, Stamkos also collected his 600th career point on Saturday with the primary assist on Mikhail Sergachev's third period power-play goal to become just the third Lightning player in history to reach that milestone.

He continued his season-opening point streak, pushing it to nine game for a new personal high, bettering the run of eight-straight games with points he went on to start 2012-13.

He tallied a goal and three assists total against the Pens, the four-point night tying a career high for most points in a game.

In the first period, he netted his 113th career power-play goal to pass Vincent Lecavalier (112) for most all-time in Lightning history.

Video: PIT@TBL: Stamkos earns 600th point on Sergachev's PPG

The fact that it came rather quietly speaks to


fun."

Lightning head coach Jon Cooper didn't realize Stamkos was close to the career mark until someone brought it up in the locker room following Saturday's game.

"When you look at, especially he had a four-point effort against the Penguins, how well we played that night, you can't overlook the fact that 600 points is a lot of points in this league," Cooper said. "He's just shy of 600 games, so to play that many games and be above a point per game player, it's one thing to do that in 10 games but to do it in 600 games is pretty impressive. He's deserved this. You've got to be really happy for him, especially for the amount of games he's missed the past few years."

Stamkos has 600 career pointsto cut off the least popular of its four dozen bus lines.

Residents in Pinellas Park, a relatively dense working-class area, and East Lake, a richer area that had a publicly run van service, complained they'd be stranded. So the transportation agency decided to share the cost of Uber rides for anyone traveling those two routes. Earlier this year it started a pilot program where people received a 50 percent discount for rides, with a maximum subsidy per ride of $3, to help riders connect to the transit system.

It quickly became apparent that in areas with few riders, paying for part of a private ride was cheaper than running a bus. The program will cost $40,000 a year, or about a quarter the cost of the two bus lines


to work with transit agencies.

Officials in Centennial, a suburb of Denver, will launch a similar partnership with Lyft later this month, marking the first time a government will pay for Lyft rides using public funds. Through the program, Centennial will pay for Lyft rides to and from a regional rail stop from an area that has previously only been covered by a shuttle bus. The existing service costs the city about $20 per ride, according to Cathy Noon, Centennial's mayor, far more than what it will have to pay for Lyft rides. The city projects it will handle 280 rides per day, or about six times as many rides as it currently handles through the bus service. Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable group founded by Bloomberg LP founder andmajority owner Michael Bloomberg, gave Centennial a grant in 2014 to work on urban innovation.

Around the same time that Pinellas County launched its pilot, nearby Altamonte Springs, Florida, a suburb of Orlando, began paying for 20 percent of any Uber ride within city limits. For rides that ended at regional rail stations, the rate was 25 percent. City officials said Uber keeps them from sharing ridership numbers but that the program has grown quickly. They're working to expand to several neighboring towns soon.

In July, Miami-Dade County, Florida, applied for a $3.5 million federal grant to improve public transportation, $575,000 of which it plans to use to subsidize Uber and Lyft rides to two train stations, hoping that doing so will increase ridership at those stations by 5 percent.


"Ride-sharing companies will mature in the Miami-Dade market but are unlikely to serve low-ridership and low-income neighborhoods without public subsidy," the county said in its application. It is also working to incorporate ride-hailing into its own mobile ticketing application.

Miami-Dade's cooperation with ride-hailing companies coincided with the end of a years-long fight with them over whether to allow Uber and Lyft to operate. Until a few months ago, Uber and Lyft were against the law, and the city handed out violations to drivers as they picked up fares. Carlos Cruz-Casas, assistant director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works, said it was odd to plan the area's future around ride-hailing while also debating whether ride-hailing should be legal at all. "It was a friendly relationship," heArea Transportation Authority agreed to buy 10 vehicles from Bridj, staff them with drivers, and set and collect fares. Unlike the ride-hailing partnerships, which are largely designed to get people to another form of transit, the Bridj program aims to drop people off where they're actually trying to go. Instead of sharing in fares, Bridj takes a service fee for the use of the technology that accepts ride requests and directs the vehicles on ever-changing routes.

The Kansas City government gets to keep more control, and Matthew George, Bridj's chief executive officer, said about three dozen cities have inquired about partnerships since the Kansas City pilot started. The company plans to announce at least four partnerships before the end of the year. George thinks private, on-demand bus lines will


this year’s Leather Market.

Friday, June 11, 2004

(Leather Life column published in Lavender Magazine, Issue #236, June 11, 2004)

“United In Spirit” is the motto of the Minnesota Leather Pride 2004 celebration, and the theme of leather/BDSM spirituality is woven through many of this year’s events.

This year Minnesota Leather Pride is spread over ten days, commencing on Friday, June 18 and climaxing on Sunday, June 27, which is also the final day of the Twin Cities GLBT Pride Celebration.

Scheduled to appear at Leather Pride events this year are noted local and national leather/BDSM activist/educators including Cleo Dubois and Fakir Musafar, bullwhip expert Robert Dante, dominatrix Amanda Wildefyre and, from London, International Mr. Leather 2003 John Pendal.

The many events being presented this year have required months of planning by the Minnesotaof the feedstock to move at a subparticle level with respect to the rest of the mass and exit openings provided in the perimeter of, for example, a spinning head. The centrifugal force created in the spinning head flings the flowing feedstock material outwardly from the head so that it reforms with a changed structure. The force required to separate and discharge flowable feedstock is only the centrifugal force created by the spinning head. The flash heat process is one process for producing the amorphous matrix resulting from this invention.
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temperatures used for the flash flow technique permit the use of heat sensitive sweeteners such as aspartame in the matrix product. Similarly, many other types of heat-sensitive ingredients, both comestible and pharmaceutical, can likewise be used without degradation during processing.
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opaque windows. Individual disks or rules are then cut out of the film material to generate timing disks or timing rules, respectively.
Known timing devices utilize an arrangement whereby the transmitter is placed on one side of the timing structure and the receiver is placed on the other side of the timing structure to capture the light as it passes through the disk. This arrangement has been known to cause a number of problems, including: a requirement for a complex electro-mechanical apparatus, increased mechanical stress caused by oscillating loads, a larger footprint size for the timing device, and dirt forming on the timing structure, thereby preventing light from passing efficiently through the structure.The Syrian regime intensified and expanded its ground operations on Thursday in the Bayırbucak Turkmen area, which began three days ago in Latakia.Regime forces expanded their operations with the support of Russian airstrikes and conducted simultaneous attacks on the Fırınlık, Acısı, and Avanlı regions in the Turkmen Mountain area, which are under the control of moderate opposition forces, witnesses told Anadolu Agency.The attacks reportedly targeted Turkmen villages and Turkmen positions. Bombs were also seen from areas close to the Turkish side of the border.There have been reports of many casualties from the attacks, while the sound of explosions coming from the region were heard in the border town of Yayladağı in Turkey's Hatay province.Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu condemned the attacks on Friday. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, "Bayırbucak


Turkmens have been living in that region for many centuries. We condemn the attacks. No one can legitimize the attacks against the Arab and Turkmen populations in the region," Davutoğlu said. He also said that the Russian ambassador was summoned over the attacks on Turkmen areas in Syria.Regime troops launched a ground offensive into the southern villages of Gimam three days ago.Speaking to Daily Sabah, Tarık Sulo, vice chairman of the Syrian Turkmen National Movement Party, criticized some media outlets that reported that the attacks are not targeting civilians or Turkmens."The severity and danger of the attacks on Turkmen Mountain can even be seen from Turkey's Yayladağı district [in Hatay]. If they do not believe that, we can also take them to the Turkmen Mountain region," Sulo said."Here,the danger and severity of the sorties are a matter of concern. While previously there were two or three sorties, now this number has increased to hundreds of sorties by Russian and Assad regime airstrikes," he added.Sulo stressed the significance of the strategy behind the attacks: "During the G20 Leaders Summit, there were important decisions against Assad. Assad wants to capture new areas and move forward to counter-attack these decisions. Moreover, Assad moves into areas cleared of DAESH terrorists along Turkey's Syrian border, which is, in a way, another counter-attack against the plans to create a safe-zone on the Turkish border."Sulo added that, geopolitically, the Turkmen Mountain region is of importance for Assad's ambition to widen Alawaite influence, as well as the Democratic Union Party's (PYD) aim to


open up to the Mediterranean Sea. "The attacks are worrisome for the future of the Turkmen population in the area," he said.Sabah daily columnist Hilal Kaplan wrote in her column on Thursday: "Since yesterday, we have been receiving disastrous news from the Turkmen Mountain region, which has 27 Turkmen villages. There are concerns about the lives of more than 80,000 Turkmens. Russia has been shooting indiscriminately. Sebbiha militias and their affiliates are moving forward. The last Turkmen homeland in Syria is being invaded."Kaplan added that despite the humanitarian disaster and invasion by the Assad and Russian forces, the international community and media continues to ignore the situation. She added: "In the coming days, the Syrian Democratic Forces, joined by the YPG [People's Protection Unit] and Assad forces, willattempt to conduct attacks on Jarablus and execute demographic engineering by exiling the Turkmen population in that region," and that there must steps taken to stop the attacks.Russia on Wednesday had also started bombing Raqqa, DAESH's self-proclaimed capital, with the aim of punishing the terrorist organization for downing a Russian jetliner over Egypt, which killed all 224 people onboard. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, currently in the Mediterranean, to start cooperating with the French military in operations in Syria, which had started a heavy intensive following the deadly attack in Paris.However, activists on social media claimed that the airstrikes were targeting civilians as well since DAESH was using civilian areas to hide. Reportedly, Russia also bombed Idlib and Aleppo where dozens


of civilians died in the last two days. Activists warned that a new wave of refugees cold occur unless the attacks distinguish militants from civilians.The Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, a Syrian opposition group, claimed that a Russian warplane targeted Idlib province's village of Benin using a white phosphorous bomb, which killed civilians. Several photos were shared on social media as well as some news agencies, showing civilian casualties.Russia began air operations in Syria on Sept. 30 after receiving parliamentary approval. The Kremlin claimed the airstrikes, which followed a military buildup in Syria, aimed to support the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a long-standing Russian ally, against DAESH. However, Turkey and the West have accused Russia of targeting moderate fighters opposed to Assad, many of which are supportedTraining at Arise Computers in Faridabad

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Unexpected natural death secondary to intra-abdominal bleeding: report of one idiopathic spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage case.
A 39-year-old woman was found dead at home. She was single, foreign national, chronic alcoholic, and had given shelter to a compatriot for three days. This man found the deceased in her bed, after a night of heavy drinking. The emergency medical team observed numerous recent blue ecchymoses of the upper limbs. Because of the unclear circumstances, a medicolegal autopsy was ordered by the public prosecutor. Massive hemoperitoneum was diagnosed with no visible internal traumatic injury. Autopsy revealed hepatic and pancreatic abnormalities secondary to chronic alcoholism, which were confirmed by pathological study. The source of the hemoperitoneum was not identified despite careful visceral and vascular examination. The authors concluded that death was secondary toStudy of the dog population and the rabies control activities in the Mirigama area of Sri Lanka.
The national health authorities of Sri Lanka have adopted a combined strategy of rabies vaccination and stray dog removal to control endemic dog rabies. Despite the control efforts, an increase of animal and human rabies cases has occurred since 1994. As a consequence, a project to evaluate the national rabies control program has been started and a study focussing on the dog population and rabies control activities in a limited area of Mirigama was conducted. Information on canine abundance and the accessibility of dogs for rabies vaccination was obtained by a household survey, vaccination of dogs against rabies at several vaccination points, collar-marking, and transect line recapture. The number of unvaccinated dogs


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ROSCOSMOS. PROGRESS MS-04 SITUATION

December 1, 2016, Soyuz-U launch vehicle (LV) with cargo spacecraft Progress MS-04 was launched from the BAIKONUR Space Center. The LV flight was normal until 382-d seconds. After 382 seconds of flight the receiving Progress MS-04 telemetry data was stopped. Radar stations did not detect the cargo vehicle Progress MS-04 on the calculated orbit.

According to preliminary information, the contingency took place at an altitude of about 190 km over remote and unpopulated mountainous area of the Republic of Tyva. The most of cargo spacecraft fragments burned in the dense atmosphere. The State Commission is conducting analysis of the current contingency. The loss of the cargo ship will not affect the normal operations of the ISS and the life of the station crew.Arguably the two biggest names in the sport, Montverde Academy and Oak Hill Academy have combined for four national titles (as recognized by MaxPreps) since 2012.

The meeting will take place at Berkeley Prep in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 2, 2019 as part of the annual ARS/Rescue Rooter National Hoopfest. Haddock confirmed the development via Facebook. Proceeds from the game will benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Montverde Academy is coming off a 35-0 campaign that ended with a final No. 1 national ranking. Oak Hill Academy went 44-2 and finished the season ranked No. 3.

The two teams last met in the Dick's Nationals championship game (now known as GEICO Nationals) in 2015, a 70-61 win for Montverde Academy in the final high school game for Ben Simmons.

Montverde Academy also


beat Oak Hill Academy at the postseason event in 2013 and 2014, giving Kevin Boyle a 3-0 record against Steve Smith since taking over the program in 2011. The two teams have not met in the regular season.

Photo by: Steven Ryan

Tip-off for the last meeting between Montverde Academy and Oak Hill Academy, which took place at Madison Square Garden to close out the 2015 season.period (t1 to t2) during the period from time t2 to t3.
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During the period from time t3 to t4, the comparators CMP1 and CMP3 retrieve the input voltage VIN. In the period from time t4 to t5, the comparator CMP1 compares the


Netflix, Warner Bros. in licensing agreement

January 7, 2013, 11:19AM

01/07/2013

BURBANK — Online video company Netflix and Warner Bros. Television Group have signed a licensing deal that gives Netflix members access to prior seasons of certain television shows produced by Warner Bros.

The shows include "Revolution," ''Longmire" and "The Following." The deal includes eight Warner Bros. shows and potential future shows.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"This unprecedented agreement brings to Netflix members earlier and more exclusively than ever before complete previous seasons of some of the most prominent and successful shows on network and cable television," Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer, said in a statement on Monday.

Last month Netflix Inc. landed the U.S. rights to show Disney movies shortly after they leave theaters. Financial terms of that agreementalso were not disclosed.

BURBANK — Online video company Netflix and Warner Bros. Television Group have signed a licensing deal that gives Netflix members access to prior seasons of certain television shows produced by Warner Bros.

The shows include "Revolution," ''Longmire" and "The Following." The deal includes eight Warner Bros. shows and potential future shows.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"This unprecedented agreement brings to Netflix members earlier and more exclusively than ever before complete previous seasons of some of the most prominent and successful shows on network and cable television," Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer, said in a statement on Monday.

Last month Netflix Inc. landed the U.S. rights to show Disney movies shortly after they leave theaters. Financial terms of that agreement also were not disclosed.

Netflix, based


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Leroy "Lee" Heikkila, 67, died Feb. 28 at Great Bend Regional Hospital. He was born May 8, 1945, at Superior, Wis., to Eino and Alice (Humann) Heikkila. He married Cecilia Ross Sept. 1, 1996, at Great Bend. He was a drug and alcohol addictions counselor at Dream Inc. and worked in construction and painting.

CANYON, Texas - Margie Helen (Bragg) Cooper, 85, died Feb. 27 in Amarillo Texas. Born on Dec. 20, 1927 in Goodman, Mo., she was the daughter of Lena Juliet (Rush) Bragg and August Clifton Bragg. On Sept. 15, 1945 she married Richard D. Cooper in Neosho, Mo. He preceded her in death on Jan. 30, 1977. A resident of Hoisington from 1947 to 2012, moving to Canyon, Texas, she worked asoffice manager for Dr. Merle Fieser and Dr. Keith Wolfenbarger for 25 years before retiring in 1995. Margie was known by many as "Granny." She enjoyed working in her garden ...

Arlon M. Postlethwaite, 83, died Feb. 25 at Cherry Village Nursing Home in Great Bend. Born Feb. 24, 1930 in Minneapolis, he was the son of Richard Arlon and Edna Laura (Meredith) Postlethwaite. On Aug. 13, 1950, he married Eleanora Maier in Susank. A resident of Great Bend since 1952, coming from Hoisington, he was a longtime service manager for Marmie Motors in Great Bend. He enjoyed coin collecting and car restoration.

Doris L. Kisner, 95, died Feb. 23 at Cherry Village Nursing Home in Great Bend. Born Jan. 30, 1918 in Hardy, Ark., she was the daughter of


Marion and Charity (Sears) Richardson. In 1935 she married Forrest Ferguson in Hardy, Ark. She later married Earl Hilliard and Al Kisner. A resident of Great Bend since 1957, coming from Hoisington, she was a homemaker and a clerk at various department stores. She was a seamstress making many dolls and quilts.If Enda Can Lie to a Girl of 14, How Can Any of Us Trust Him?

THE family of a 14-year-old girl with a severe disability have lashed Enda Kenny for promising the teenager there would be no cuts during his February campaign trail.

Joanne O'Riordan, 15, from Millstreet in Cork, suffers total amelia, a rare condition which meant she was born with no limbs.

Miss O'Riordan asked the Taoiseach in February, during his campaign in Cork, if he would be making cuts to the Disability Allowance and was told in no uncertain terms by Mr Kenny, that this would not happen.

Her brother Stephen O'Riordan, 27, broke down on Today With Pat Kenny show on RTE radio yesterday when he 'He has gone and reneged on it' talked of the 'betrayal


at some of these workouts than I am._

I didn't feel like I belonged in the same room as the top CrossFitters, and I sure didn't want to be that rookie guy walking up to them and introducing myself by saying, "I've watched you on TV!"

Then, on Friday morning my dad called to inform me that I was on the front page of the Games website. Because of the interviews I had done since winning the Southeast Regional, I knew that no matter how much I wished I could, I was not going to be able to quietly sneak into the Games. I've always much preferred pursuing the target instead of wearing one, and I was nervous because that was not going to be the case in my firstlost; I had wanted to wait until Hillary and I were alone to tell her. But our family and friends were divided up into men's and women's rooms at the Games hotel, so I hadn't had a chance to tell Hillary.

When Hillary asked her question at dinner, I had to fess up in front of everyone, and she was none too pleased I had lost my ring.

I couldn't put this one on Dan. And even though I tried, I wasn't successful at pinning the blame on Darren, either.

My crazy dad had been trying to find me a replacement band before Hillary found out, although I promise that if he had found one, I would have told her anyway. I ordered a new ring immediately the next day and,


Record number of people in West Suffolk starting apprenticeships

Mark Beaumont

Skills minister Matthew Hancock has today welcomed statistics that show a record number of people in West Suffolk started apprenticeship in 2011/12.

In the last financial year, 990 people started an apprenticeship in West Suffolk.

It also shows the number of apprenticeship starts in the first quarter of 2012/13 from in April to June – 270 people started apprenticeships.

Mr Hancock, MP for West Suffolk said: “As Minister for Skills I want everyone, especially school leavers, to consider the opportunities an apprenticeship can offer. “The record levels of apprenticeships is fantastic news and it is always satisfying to see the work we are doing across the country producing such encouraging results here in Suffolk.

“When I meet apprentices across the country they never
393 F.Supp.2d 1106 (2005)
UNITED STATES of America., Plaintiff,
v.
Jose LOPEZ-LOPEZ, Defendant.
No. CR 04-2209 JB.
United States District Court, D. New Mexico.
July 15, 2005.
David Iglesias, United States Attorney, Norman Cairns, Assistant United States Attorneys, Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff.
William E. Parnall, Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
BROWNING, District Judge.
THIS MATTER comes before the Court on the Letter from William E. Parnall to the Honorable James Browning (dated March 16, 2005). The Court did not receive this letter until March 30, 2005. The Court held a sentencing hearing on March 31, 2005. The primary issue is whether, under the Guidelines, Defendant Jose Lopez-Lopez' prior felony conviction for aggravated assault in Arizona in 1997 constitutes a crime of violence and whether a 16-level increase is applicable. Because the Court concludes that the prior


makes an accurate Guidelines calculation, the Court takes the Guidelines sentence into account with the other facts in 18 U.S.C. § 3553. Here, the parties got one of the factors, albeit it an advisory factor, wrong.
At the sentencing hearing, after revoking the plea agreement, Lopez-Lopez represented to Court that he wishes to withdraw his plea of guilty. See Transcript of Hearing at 18:3-14 (taken March 31, 2005). The United States conceded that Lopez-Lopez had the ability to withdraw his plea after the rejection of the plea agreement by the Court. See id.
IT IS ORDERED that the plea agreement between the United States and Defendant Jose Lopez-Lopez entered into on December 16, 2004, is rejected and the Defendant's plea is withdrawn.
NOTES
[1]  The Court notes that, in his Response,obstacles; this plan includes the Integrated National Healthcare Project.

Prince Saud Bin Abdul Mohsin delivered a speech to welcome HE and his delegation at the beginning of the press conference, highlighting the great improvements in the Kingdom’s healthcare sectors and projects, and praising the latest royal decree from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Crown Prince which added significantly to the healthcare budget. HH also stressed that Hail needs such health projects to improve healthcare in the region. He noted that Hail Specialist Hospital with a 500-bed capacity as well as other health projects are under construction and will be opening soon.

HE Minister of Health thanked HH Prince Saud for his gracious reception and hospitality, confirming that his visit is the result of our leaders’ dedication and


commitment to upgrading the quality of the Kingdom’s healthcare services. HE also added that the Ministry is working to implement all approved health projects. HE then gave a presentation about new healthcare projects in the region, developing the infrastructure of King Khalid Hospital, the overall state of health services, and the need for future health projects in the Hail region.

HE clarified that a permanent task force has been formed to study the implementation of Hail Specialist Hospital 200-bed capacity, including obstacles faced and actions needed based on Integrated National Healthcare Project standards. Implementation will be carried out in Al Ha'et – Baqa'a as well as a Mental Health Hospital, Moukq Hospital, Al Ghazalah Hospital, Al Ha'et Hospital and Al Shenan Hospital, as well as some hospitals with aCrypto Utopia?" _The New York Times,_ February 4, 2018.

 Douglas Rushkoff, "Survival of the Richest," _Medium,_ July 5, 2018.

 Rosa de Ferari, "The Silent Massacre: Chronic Kidney Disease in Central American Sugarcane Workers," _Panoramas,_ University of Pittsburgh, November 14, 2017.

 Jean Baudrillard, _America_ (Verso, 2010), 112–113.

 Tyler Cowen, _Average is Over_ (Plume, 2013).

 Nellie Bowles, "San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch," _The New York Times,_ July 31, 2018.

 Lewis Thomas, _Late Night,_ 168.

PART VI

 C. D. Wright, _Cooling Time_ (Copper Canyon, 2005), 10.

 Christopher Alexander, _The Timeless Way of Building_ (Oxford University Press, 1979), 8.

PART VII

 Dahr Jamail, _The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption_ (The New Press, 2019), 218–219.

 Barbara Tuchman, _A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous


The book and the film it inspired brought fame and fortune to left tackles across the NFL. But the game has evolved, with right tackle becoming just as important—if not more so—on the front five

Eleven years ago, Michael Lewis, the smartest writer in America, wrote perhaps the smartest football book of its generation: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. Through the story of Michael Oher, Lewis argued that left tackle was a football team’s second most important player because of the way he protected its most important player, the quarterback. This became conventional wisdom, and since 2004 left tackle has been the second-highest-paid position in football.

But with football’s constant evolution, conventional wisdom inevitably reaches the point of becoming flawed. The question is: When it comes to theA black gym owner in Detroit said racial profiling led police in Grosse Pointe Woods to falsely accuse him of robbing a bank more than a year ago, and he's still fighting the smear on his reputation.

Mike Fox spoke to the Free Press an hour before his lawyers filed a lawsuit Friday in Wayne County Circuit Court, demanding damages from Grosse Pointe Woods police and its public safety director for sending a SWAT team to his fitness studio to make the arrest, then jailing him for 48 hours.

Yet, a lawyer for the east-side suburb of Detroit said that because the bank robbery was never solved, Fox must remain labeled "a person of interest," even though law-enforcement experts in facial identification could not confirm his identity as the robber..

Fox


said he was standing at the counter of Detroit Thrive, his busy workout studio in Detroit just over a mile from Grosse Pointe Woods, in April 2018 when his stunned clients saw four officers surround him in riot gear, brandishing weapons and leading a German shepherd police dog, as shown on his firm's surveillance video.

It seems the Grosse Pointe Woods police got a tip that Fox might be a bad guy. A day earlier, a black man with a similar build robbed the Chemical Bank branch in Grosse Pointe Woods. Shortly after, the public safety department in the upscale Detroit suburb — whose residents are 89.6 % white and 4.9% black, according to the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) — released a description of the suspect: “African-Americanwhere he'd illegally parked overnight in front of his own house, then failed to pay, and late fees accrued. When Fox was arrested, "as soon as my wife found out, she went over and paid" the $130 debt, he said.

After his arrest, Fox was made to wear an orange jump suit and reside in a cell with a toilet, the use of which was visible to employees passing by, he said, something he found "personally degrading."

A robber's strange ear

At that time, public safety officers of Grosse Pointe Woods shot photos of Fox. They submitted them alongside the surveillance views of the bank robber to crime analysts at the Detroit Police Department and the Michigan State Police, Morris said.

"They could not say it was the same person," so Fox


was released, Morris said.

Perhaps one reason the analysts realized they weren't looking at the same person is that, as a plastic surgeon has told Fox's lawyers, the bank's surveillance photo reveals something unusual about the man seen standing at the teller's window demanding money. He has a strange-looking ear, a condition that doctors call a lop ear deformity. Fox has normal ears.

So Fox was released after two days in the police lockup — far too long, his lawyers argue.

"At the very least, he should've been able to post bond and be released immediately," said attorney Peter Alle, who is representing Fox.

"Instead, they held him for 48 hours, like this was a felony arrest. Remember, the pretext for taking him in was an unpaid parking ticket," Alle said.

Before hisarrest, Fox had been active in coaching youth football, baseball and lacrosse teams in Harper Woods, the Grosse Pointes and Detroit, he said. Fox has trophies of appreciation on display at his business. All of that went on hold, and as word of his arrest spread, he lost clients. At school, "one kid addressed my son as he was leaving, ‘Hey, n----- bank robber.’ Can you believe that?" he said.

It's the loss of Fox's standing in the community that "really hurts," said Gerald Evelyn, another lawyer handling his case. Fox is one more example in the long history of white people falsely accusing black people in criminal cases, sometimes intentionally but often through sheer mistakes in identity, Evelyn said.

"We've tried to resolve this. We've indicated that, for Mr.


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PHOENIX -- The mayor of Huntsville, Ala., is the honorable Tommy Battle, elected in 2008 and re-elected last August with 81 percent of the vote. Battle must have been surprised last spring when he visited the local baseball team and was approached by shortstop-turned-outfielder Josh Prince, who shook the mayor's hand and asked a strange question.

"Would you like to meet the Mayor?"

Battle was game.

So he walked over and shook Hunter Morris' hand.

"Hunter was such a goodwill ambassador for our area," Battlesaid. "I was happy to share the name with him."

***

The Double-A Huntsville Stars had barely chalked the foul lines at old Joe Davis Stadium when Morris was nicknamed "The Mayor." It was a nod to his local roots, his campaign-ready smile and his politician's knack for working the autograph line.

Morris was Huntsville born and bred, a five-year varsity letterwinner at Grissom High who played college ball 200 miles down the road at Auburn. The Brewers made Morris a fourth-round Draft pick in 2010 and he rose fast, making it to Huntsville for four games at the end of 2011 and a season-opening assignment for 2012.

For Morris, it meant literally going home. He lived with his wife and 2-year-old son in the same house to which his own parents


had brought baby Hunter home from the hospital. Six months later, the Morrises moved into a new home across the street.

So Morris was the Stars' most popular player before hitting the first of his 28 home runs, before he batted .303, drove in 113 runs and became the team's first league MVP since Corey Hart in 2003. Manager Darnell Coles could see what was coming -- Morris was about to be the face of a team that needed all the free advertising it could get, and there would be interview requests, school and hospital visits, baseball clinics and hundreds and hundreds of autographs.

Coles called Morris into the manager's office early in the year to make sure he was ready.

"He's an exceptional young man," Coles said. "He knew thereballpark by 1 p.m. to start prepping for the game. Brewers infield coordinator Bob Miscik had conceived a plan before the season to improve Morris' defense, so Morris was worked daily by Coles, a 14-year Major Leaguer who played all over the diamond. For the first week, Coles said he would go to Morris and say, "Let's go." After that, it was Morris knocking on the manager's door.

• Batting practice, followed by some face time. Alex Cohen, the team's radio voice, said a mixture of family, friends and fans would line up next to the dugout every day for a hello, a photo or an autograph. Then Cacic would lead Morris out to a private party area, where the Stars hosted birthday parties that came with a visit


from a player. Morris was always the No. 1 pick.

• Finally, game time. This was often the best part of Morris' day. He was an easy pick for Brewers Minor League Player of the Year.

• Postgame. Before he showered and tied up the day's loose ends, Morris would bid Tripp and wife Macie goodnight -- if Tripp wasn't busy with something else. He became an unofficial team mascot, so popular the Stars featured him on a bobblehead doll with Dad.

Sleep, and repeat.

Another day in the life of The Mayor. The "real" Mayor took note.

"He was much more involved than we've seen in the past from other players," Battle said. "Maybe it was because he knew the people, because he was from here. But you knew he was goingJoe Davis Stadium, vs. .280 and .504 on the road.

"I found that to be pretty phenomenal," Cohen said. "I'm sure there were times he was happy to get out on the road for a while to sort of get away from it all. But if that was the case, he didn't show it. His play didn't suffer. His attitude didn't suffer."

Scooter Gennett, who played next to Morris at second base, knows the challenge of playing in front of friends and family.

Gennett's family moved to Sarasota, Fla., when he was 10 years old and he visited neighboring Bradenton in 2011 while playing for the Brewers' Florida State League affiliate. Gennett had three singles in 17 at-bats during a four-game series -- and finished the year with a .300 average.

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Megan Stefanski needed a win Sunday.

A die-hard Lions fan, Megan would often join her father, Donnie "Yooperman" Stefanski, as he tailgated at every Detroit Lions home game for more than 25 years. They'd wake at 2 a.m. on Sundays, making the five-hour trek to Detroit from their Upper Peninsula home in Goetzville, arriving at Eastern Market for tailgating at 7 a.m. and sometimes not returning home until 11:30 p.m.

On Sunday, Megan woke up and made the drive without her dad. The Yooperman died Sept. 3 at 61 years old, leaving behind a loving family and a crowd of Honolulu blue and silver-outfitted mourners.

While Megan wasn't at every game her father attended those 25 years, Lions football was a cornerstone of her relationship with her father for decades.

"I gotto miss a day of first grade because Joe Montana was playing at the Silverdome, and (my dad) said that it was more important than what I was going to learn in first grade that day," Megan said.

A U.P. native and former Chippewa County Road Commission employee, Donnie owned a bar in Goetzville called Yooperman (after his affectionately-given nickname). He'd gained recognition from fellow fans and the Lions for his tailgating dedication; he hadn't missed a home game since he got season tickets in 1993.

Sunday's game was all about Donnie. Tailgaters wore Yooperman shirts and carried beers plastered with Yooperman labels; the riotous crowd stopped for several seconds to honor Donnie with a moment of silence.

Everyone hoped for a Lions win just a little more than usual, and


the Lions pulled through, narrowly beating out the L.A. Chargers for their first season win.

Megan was on the field Sunday as the Lions honored Donnie too, playing a Yooperman tribute video on the jumbotron before the 1 p.m. kickoff.

While Donnie's intense football devotion shown through Sunday, he was more than an avid Lions fan; he was a business owner and a generous family man. He had three children with his wife, JoAnne, and four grandchildren who he adored.

"He was the best of us, and to have a guy like that be taken from us so quickly is devastating," said Hans Steiniger, founder of the Tailgating Hall of Fame. "He was about building relationships, so he would drive all this way to support his team, but not just that.It was to build relationships with the fans who also came out to support this team, and that's evident when you see all the people that are coming out for him today."

Donnie organized a yearly charity to benefit the Hospice of the EUP, and gave to the local fire department. Yooperman's Bar and Grill, aside from being a Lions shrine, was a sanctuary where Donnie and his family offered community and home-cooked meals.

"He did things in a quiet way, like a Yooper would do," said Ron "Crackman" Crachiola, Donnie's tailgate partner and longtime friend. "Donnie was simple. He loved cutting wood, plowing snow, spending time with the family."

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While Megan was the only immediate family member at Sunday's tailgate, Donnie's fellow tailgaters


were his family too. Several drove up to the U.P. for his funeral, honoring him with a casket-side shot of his favorite whiskey, McMaster's.

"You get to know people down here and they become your family — your football family," Megan said. "It's pretty special."

The football family passed around a bottle of McMaster's Sunday too, chanting "Yoop, Yoop, Yoop!" and partaking in "the three-step method," a Yooperman tradition. Crachiola stood on a platform above the crowd, leading them as they took a shot of McMaster's, a sip of beer, then the rest of their shot, then another sip of beer.

Crachiola wasn't necessarily a lifelong friend of Donnie's; they met because of tailgating, forming what Crachiola calls "a special bond." After Crachiola saw a news story about Donnie years ago,he knew he had to be friends with the Yooperman.

"I thought, I had to meet this man, and I hunted him down," said Crachiola, who's been on the Lions tailgating scene since the '90s. "I hunted him, I was like a dog sniffing...and I found him, and it was a special bond, me and him. And we'd been tight ever since."

Since he met Donnie, Crachiola hasn't been to a home tailgate without him. The two bought a decommissioned shuttle bus from the Lions several years ago that's now a Sunday mainstay in the Eastern Market parking lot.

Crachiola and Donnie owned their corner of Eastern Market every Sunday, merging with other groups over the years to take over a chunk of the parking lot. For Mark Mullins, who couldn't


make it to Donnie's funeral because he was in the hospital, Sunday's tailgate was closure, a moment to remember a friend.

"Donnie's wit was ridiculous," Mullins said. "He was so funny. He had the driest sense of humor and real slow delivery, but what a character. It still doesn't seem real."

Mullins, who met Donnie a little more than 10 years ago through Crachiola, is a Lions legend in his own right. Every year, Mullins and his daughter Mandie dress as pilgrims for the Lions' Thanksgiving Day game; Sunday, Mullins just wore his black pilgrim hat.

The tailgate family Donnie formed meant that when he and Mullins became friends, Mandie and Megan did do. The two were side by side much of Sunday, navigating the tailgate through teary eyes.

"There's no wordsabout whether the Lions won or lost. He was a true diehard — nothing stood between him and the game, even when the game was a tough loss. In 2016, Donnie missed his granddaughter's baptism for game day.

"I'll back (the Lions) till the day I join the Yoop up there, and I know that Donnie felt the same way," Crachiola said.

Nothing stood between Donnie and game day this Sunday either.

"He's with us in heart and spirit — he'll be with us the whole season," Crachiola said. "You never know about life... when it's your time it's your time. I've got to believe the good Lord was looking for a leader and Donnie was chosen, and he's up there in the big stadium, looking down."


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School authorities said two fifth-grade boys planned to use the weapons to lure another student outside the school and kill her “because she was really annoying.”

The boys last week confessed to plans to harm an additional six students at the school.

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It was December of 1987 when Japanese designer Hironobu Sakaguchi released what he believed would be his final game. Sakaguchi, working under the game company Square, was frustrated with Square's lack of direction and felt that focusing on something different for the popular Nintendo Famicom would help in revitalizing his passion for making games.

Sakaguchi came up with an idea, an RPG inspired by the likes of Dragon Quest from Enix, The Legend of Zelda from Nintendo, and the Ultima series from Origin’s. The game would be a free-forming RPG in the same vein as Dragon Quest, and for Sakaguchi, it would be his swan song if this game, named Final Fantasy, failed to impress audiences.

“The name ‘Final Fantasy’ was a display of my feeling thatfor their company years down the road.

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Sakaguchi worked with a team of seven staff members to create Final Fantasy. Many of their names, such as Akitoshi Kawazu, Nobuo Uematsu and Yoshitika Amano, would become synonymous with the Final Fantasy series for their contributions to the games mechanics, music, and character design, respectively.

Final Fantasy was one of the first major “hybrid games” in role-playing, incorporating many elements from Western role-playing games into its design, while transforming them into something new: the use of character classes for customizing a party, enemy weaknesses to different elements, and multiple dungeons to traverse for treasures and high level boss fights.

What Sakaguchi and his team added were an overarching plot to their game, the emphasis on exploration through a massive overworld, a revamped menu-based


combat system, and a level up mechanic that allowed players to track their characters progression with ease. These combined elements made Final Fantasy wholly distinct from the now growing role-playing game market in Japan, and would later become the gold standard for all subsequent role-playing games to follow, both East and West.

While role-playing games were thriving with new innovations in Japan, by the 1990’s, RPGs in the West were in heavy decline. Many titles imported for the consoles, like Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star and Secret of Mana became the new standard for role-playing games. Their use of in-depth storylines and character development, turn-based gameplay through menus, impressive graphics and impressive depth of gameplay elements all contributed to their popularity. All of these elements were the results of anevolution of Japanese role-playing design started by Dragon Quest and made popular by Final Fantasy, which arguably reached its zenith point in the year 2000.

Most western role-playing games were following the Wizardry style throughout the 1990’s, being primarily turn-based dungeon crawls over story-driven experiences. While stories and dialogue were present in many of these games, it was often a secondary part of the title before gameplay, being a linear experience with some instances of choice mixed in. After the release of Wizardry and Ultima in the early 1980’s, many Western role-playing games became the forefront of technological advances for computers, birthing what is sometimes known as the “CRPG," or computer role-playing game. There were very few attempts at making a console-based role-playing game at the time, with some


rare exceptions such as Dragonstomper for the Atari 2600.

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Most CRPG companies would be as well-known as the Japanese developers, including Interplay, New World Computing, and Strategic Simulations Inc., or SSI. While Ultima and Wizardry were still the top-selling game series on the market during the 1980s, several titles began to challenge both series for dominance. The Bards Tale, Might and Magic, and Pool of Radiance would see major success, offering their own spins on the genre and jump-starting several franchises in the process.

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All of the above games were criticized as role-playing games in the West upon release. Notable problems included a poor user interface, unusual gameplay mechanics, bad graphics or lack of depth found in most other CRPGs at the time. Essentially, they deviated too much from the winning formula. Even Quest for Glory was considered more of an adventure-game than a true RPG and much like Times of Lore, was relegated to “novice-level” status rather quickly.

This stagnation led to the major decline of the CRPG market. As reviewer Mark Walker