shift in the preferred habitat from LSU to open canopy wetlands (OCW). During the months of July, August, and September similar use of closed canopy wetland (CCW) and mature upland (MU) habitats were observed. During October there was a large shift to MU. Similar trends were seen in the seasonal habitat use at WRR with OCW being preferred in the spring, CCW and MU being preferred in early to late summer, with habitat preferences towards MU in fall. General trends in monthly habitat use for Mountain Road (MR) showed preferences towards early successional upland (ESU) habitats during May and June and ESU and MU habitats during the months of July and August. Habitat use shifted to predominately MU habitats during the months of September and October. Similar trendsabout the value of observing a place from above. They thought…
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▼ In the early days of aviation, particularly after World War I, many geographers wrote about the value of observing a place from above. They thought aerial observations would be a valuable aid to regional studies. This early enthusiasm for observing places from above seems to have followed a similar pattern to the broader field of regional geography. The use of aerial observation declined in popularity among geographers during the mid-twentieth century. The use of aviation as a geographic tool also went through a quantification revolution. Aerial observation became seen primarily as a tool for automatic data gathering by remote sensors. The value of direct observation of the landscape from an aircraft received little attention among geographers after


the quantification revolution of the 1960s and 1970s but the interest has been renewed in the past decade. The purpose of this thesis is to trace the historical uses of aviation, over the past century, as a geographic field method used to gain an aerial perspective. There are many opportunities for geographers or students of geography to either take a flight in an aircraft, to read aerial descriptions, or to analyze photography taken by others while flying over a region. This thesis contends that the study of geography can be enriched by gaining an aerial perspective through flight.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pope, Cynthia;.

Smith, S. R. (2009). Aerial Perspective and Geography: An Historical Look at the Use of Aircraft to Gain a Sense of Place. (Thesis). Central Connecticut State University. Retrievedlonger be alive." J.A. 466.

   Walton also presented the testimony of Dr. Patricia General, a psy-
chiatrist employed to assess Virginia inmates, who assessed Walton
shortly before his scheduled 2003 execution date. Dr. General testi-
fied that Walton never exhibited any type of delusional behavior in
her presence during their three interviews, but he was confused and
largely unable to answer any of her questions during their first ses-
sion. Dr. General’s initial impression was that Walton appeared flor-
idly psychotic, but she did not believe she had a sufficient basis to
prescribe him any medication. In their second interview, Dr. General
asked Walton why he was going to be put to death. Walton responded
that "some people had told him . . . that he had killed some people."
J.A. 311-12. After Dr. General’s third and


Shortly before his second scheduled execution date in May
2003, Walton was transferred to Greensville Correctional Center
where Virginia’s electric chair is located. Allen Glasgow, a rehabilita-
tion counselor at Greensville who conducts intake reviews when con-
demned inmates arrive at the facility, interviewed Walton when he
arrived. Glasgow thought that Walton communicated well during
their meeting, and he did not recall Walton ever using the phrase "I
don’t know. I just don’t know" during the entire intake interview.
During their interview, Glasgow discussed with Walton several docu-
mentary forms: a visitors list, an attorney list, a telephone call list, and
a disposition of final remains designation form. Walton filled out the
visitors list in his own handwriting with names and addresses from
memory. Walton correctly wrote the name of his lawyer on the attor-
ney list, but then indicated thatand be able to see his family. Dr. Mills
believes Walton has a very firm and clear belief in an "afterlife," but
that Walton would prefer to live in prison for the rest of his life rather
than be killed. J. A. 925. In sum, Dr. Mills, who is personally opposed
to the death penalty and would have preferred to find Walton incom-
petent, stated that he clearly believes that Walton understands that he
is in prison for killing three people and that he will be executed as
punishment for these crimes.

   Other evidence presented by Virginia confirms Dr. Mills’ ultimate
opinion that Walton is competent to be executed. For instance, Vir-
ginia presented the testimony of Dr. Arikian, a psychiatrist who has
assessed hundreds of prisoners during his career and who saw Walton
several times more


Walton was "floridly
psychotic" and "had no insight into what was going on around him."
J.A. 304-05 (internal quotation marks omitted). Dr. General further
noted that Walton did not "seem to be concerned with his upcoming
execution date." Id. at 307. During the May meeting, Walton had
stated that he was going to be executed. Dr. General testified:

     I presume that what I had asked him about was, was he
     aware that he was going to be executed, and he said he was
     going to be executed. I further asked him if he knows what
     that means? And he replied, "No." So I further explained
     that it meant that he would be putWalt Disney World Resort Plans Special Entertainment Options for New Year’s Eve

If you're planning on ringing in the New Year at the Walt Disney World Resort there are several celebratory options in the theme parks.

In Epcot, guests can party through the night with a DJ and light show at the Future World Fountain Stage. There will be a smoke-billowing dragon in the China pavilion and Euro-pop and lasers lighting up the Italy pavilion, and a Latin band and a DJ are set to entertain on the America Gardens Stage.

Celebrate New Year's Eve at Epcot!

There will be two showings of IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth on New Year's Eve. The first show is planned for 6 p.m. and the other is at 11:40 p.m. The later show will be followed


by a countdown to the New Years and a pyrotechnic salute.

Guests at the Magic Kingdom can start ringing in the New Year on December 30 with a New Year's Eve eve showing of 'Fantasy in the Sky' fireworks at 11:50 p.m. The fireworks show will also be presented on December 31.

And at Disney's Hollywood Studios guests can enjoy specialty drinks and food during the New Year's Eve celebration. A DJ will be spinning tunes at the Event Stage, and Mulch, Sweat, and Shears is set to take the stage as the clock approaches midnight. The band will be playing a live set during the park's special fireworks display.law says school bonds — which under Proposition 39 require a 55% majority — can’t be approved via a mail-in ballot, which is the only way residents can vote in the Burbank election.

So, Burbank Unified was forced to piggyback on the Los Angeles Community College District election — the lowest turnout election in Burbank — which is already a part of the Los Angeles election.

The school district had submitted four name options for the initiative to the Community College District, which in turn passed the designations on to the city of Los Angeles. The measure name “S” — which stood for “schools” — was the district’s second choice, Applebaum said.

“The ultimate arbiter of what the designation was fell to the city of L.A.,” Applebaum said.


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entities seeking to convert tens of millions in India to the faiths to which they subscribe, and who are unhappy that the liberal visa regime for foreign preachers of hate against Hinduism that was in effect during the UPA period has been abandoned. East Asia has become a viable competitor to Europe and even the US in an expanding number of business segments, and the worry among both blocs is that industry, trade and services in India could potentially eclipse both of them, given the vibrancy of the people of this country, as shown by their prowess in those countries where a colonial culture of governance does not exist the way it continues in India. Examples of such economic warfare include the artificially induced (albeit effective) agitations againstshift in focus of the Narendra Modi government from speeding up development and altering the governance paradigm through innovative use of technology, to fire-fighting of the kind recently witnessed in Kashmir, Gujarat and Haryana, not to mention ongoing tensions concerning the Dalit community. According to individuals familiar with the details of the plan, the slow pace of job creation in the organised sector has created a window for fuelling agitations for reservation in the state sector by communities that are much more prosperous than most others in their location. Thus far, intelligence agencies seem to have ignored the external push that has been given to several such agitations by patrons from afar seeking to derail the India growth story, each for their own reasons. After the Jat, Patidar


which has been assisting in the creation of a multiplicity of “citizens’ human rights groups” active in spreading a perception that only separation from the rest of India will lead to peace and prosperity in Kashmir, when the opposite is the truth. It is expected that Channel 4 in the UK will broadcast a series on Kashmir designed to show the Indian Army in a poor light, despite that force showing tolerance and moderation on a level never attempted by counterparts elsewhere. This is to go on air around the time of the September plenary meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission, which is expected to be attended by nearly four dozen NGOs, several of whom have been specially commissioned by GHQ for the purpose of casting Indiaensuring social unrest in India in the name of caste and job reservations, as well as the potential for induced agitations in multiple sectors such as banking and transport, “Business as Usual” cannot be the norm at the MHA, while officials in the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India need to look beyond the needs of big financial conglomerates in New York and London and focus on job creation through igniting growth sufficient to damp down youth unrest caused by a lack of economic opportunities. Going parallel with such plans are those of terror groups headquartered in Pakistan as well as the Levant that are planning mass terror attacks in India on the Paris and Nice model. The Prime Minister has called for “Naya Soch”. Narendra


Lack of diversity in science and health professions contributes to health disparities. Yet, the number of minority students entering careers in the science and health professions continues to be small, at a time when the gap in health between the races has widened. The Division of International Health of Mount Sinai School of Medicine has created the International Exchange Program for Minority Students. The goal of the Program is to nurture minority students'interests in science and medicine by enhancing their research capacity in a way that validates their unique cultural and linguistic abilities. This is done by providing minority students with intense training and research opportunities in a global health environment that validates the skills and cultural backgrounds that the students already have. This approach focuses on theBrave Hearts: Scotland's heroes of 2018

CHARMAINE LAURIE: BUS DRIVER
It was just another Wednesday and Charmaine Laurie just another driver with the Beast from the East storm on her mind when she turned up for her shift at Lothian Buses on February 28. But by mid-afternoon the 45-year-old mother of two was a hero, having swerved her bus in heavy snow to avoid, by a matter of feet, a Mini which had skidded onto the wrong side of the road in Edinburgh’s high-lying Fairmilehead district. The exact time, if you want it, was 24 minutes and three seconds past one o’clock.

We know because watching the whole thing unfold on Frogston Road in the south of the city was van driver Gareth Smith, and he happened to catch it all


managers at the World Cup. “I was relaxed before the draw,” she told The Herald recently, “and I’m relaxed now. It’s going to be tough – but exciting”.

DARREN MCGARVEY: RAPPER, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST
It has been hard to avoid Darren McGarvey this year, not that anyone in their right mind would have wanted to. Given a pulpit or a microphone, he was always ready with pronouncements on politics, society, culture and the state of the nation that were as strident and heartfelt as they were thoughtful and lucid.

There he was putting in a barnstorming performance on Question Time opposite Brian Souter and Tory MP Kwasi Kwarteng. There he was recording a moving TED talk about anger, speaking about his difficult upbringing and the effect it had on him. There hewas hijacking normally tranquil BBC Radio 4 programme Start The Week and turning it into a roiling, boiling torrent of impromptu spoken word genius. There he was publishing Poverty Safari, a ground-breaking book about inequality in the UK which was so Orwellian in tone that it won the 2018 Orwell Prize. (“As I was chairing the judges I had not the slightest doubt Orwell would have given the prize to this book,” said admiring panel chair Andrew Adonis.

“It’s exactly the book that Orwell would have wanted the prize to go to because it so strongly reflects and takes forward his own mode of writing”). And there he was turning the whole thing into a show for the Edinburgh Fringe, and doing what first brought him acclaim in the


first place as a rapper called Loki – getting up on a stage, grabbing an audience by the scruff of the neck and not letting go until they had been captivated, energised, educated and inspired.

DODDIE WEIR: FORMER RUGBY PLAYER AND CHARITY FUNDRAISER
After a stellar career as an international rugby player which encompassed 61 Scotland caps, a British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa and the honour of being described by the great Bill McLaren as charging “like a mad giraffe”, Doddie Weir hung up his boots and retired from the Six Nations scene in 2000. In 2017, however, he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Typically, he chose to reveal the news in June of that year to publicise the annual Global MND Awareness Day, at whichpoint he also announced the setting up of a charity to raise funds for research and to help sufferers. The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation was subsequently launched just over a year ago.

Resplendent in a vivid tartan suit – blue and white for Scotland, yellow and black for his beloved Melrose RFC – Weir became a regular and very visible fixture at Murrayfield during 2018’s Six Nations series and the more recent Autumn Tests, as did the equally vivid My Name’5 Doddie hats and headbands worn by rugby fans. And in November, he inaugurated the Doddie Weir Cup, to be played in perpetuity between Scotland and Wales.

To date the Foundation has raised over £1 million, a sign of the affection in which Weir is held in his homeland. This


blast for Edinburgh-born composer Thea Musgrave. A resident of the US for nearly 50 years now, she returned to her homeland in May (the month of her actual birthday) to attend a celebratory tribute concert of her work by Evelyn Glennie and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and to receive an honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

During the same trip there was also the small matter of the awarding of an Ivor Novello award (she was honoured alongside Ed Sheeran, Stormzy and Shane MacGowan) and a visit to Buckingham Place to meet the Queen and be awarded with the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music. Ahead of her audience she told the Palace she was too old to curtsey though she did present her host with acopy of her 1970 opera Mary Queen of Scots and a hand-written card from a soprano who had sung the lead role. It read: “Respect the Crown”.

Come August, more tributes, this time in the form of two Edinburgh International Festival performances of her work and a further performance at the Proms. And from New York to Stockholm and beyond it was the same story as the world of classical music celebrated the life and career of one of its modern greats.

KEVIN HARPER: FOOTBALL MANAGER/ALBION ROVERS: FOOTBALL CLUB
For anyone who loves the Beautiful Game and hates racism – a group which should include everyone but sadly doesn’t – 2018 is ending on a depressing note. Blame Brexit, blame Tommy Robinson and the rise of the far right, blame some


more fanfare. It was a journey of 180,000 miles that began with an easy cycle across Europe, but started to get tough when she hit Russia. “The traffic,” she said in an interview with Red Bull, “was suddenly horrendous. It was so scary with huge trucks driving so close to me and no hard shoulder. I kept running out of road in which to retreat to."

In the end, she decided that the only option was to cycle through the night instead of the day, and for 1,200 miles she cycled 15 hours ever night.
Also challenging was the cycle across Alaska and Canada which took her through remote areas where she barely saw a person and her biggest fear was bears. “I was absolutely terrified of the bears,” sheno individual has made a bigger impact on that debate than the Scottish BBC journalist Carrie Gracie. She became the poster woman not just for the cause of gender pay equality at the BBC, but for the issue more widely. Gracie triggered a revolution at the BBC when she resigned as BBC China Editor in January over pay inequality, saying in an open letter, “The BBC belongs to you, the licence fee payer. I believe you have a right to know that it is breaking equality law and resisting pressure for a fair and transparent pay structure.”

In that letter she made it clear that she believed that she was well paid, and was not looking for more money, but simply wanted “the BBC to abide by the law


had been at the centre of a food safety scandal. Because 2018 was the year that Errington Cheese, the family business of which she is director, came back, emerging from the darkness that had lurked around it since, in 2016, it was named as the most likely source of an outbreak of E coli food poisoning which tragically killed a three-year-old girl. Back then the cheese it made was seized by South Lanarkshire council and the business seemed finished.

But Errington Cheese fought on, and, after a long legal battle, the company won a judicial review stating that all batches of cheese were safely produced and safe to eat, and was awarded £254,000 compensation from the council. This was a victory, not just for Cairns, who makes her cheesehas already been a long and difficult one – and much of the way, Andi Lavery has been there speaking up not only for himself, but many other victims of abuse by those in the Catholic Church. This year, he finally saw his primary abuser, Father Francis Paul Moore, now aged 82, face justice, and be found guilty of the shocking sexual abuse of three children and sentenced to eight years in prison – after an appeal reduced it from nine years.
Following the original sentencing, Mr Lavery said, “It’s never going to take away the sickening things that have happened He looked me in the eye when he was walking down to the cells and I realised I didn’t fear him anymore. He had nothing but rage towards


the Namibian authorities and of the University of Namibia in facilitating the construction and operation of [H.E.S.S.]{} is gratefully acknowledged, as is the support by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Max Planck Society, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the French Ministry for Research, the CNRS-IN2P3 and the Astroparticle Interdisciplinary Programme of the CNRS, the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the IPNP of the Charles University, the Czech Science Foundation, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the South African Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation, and by the University of Namibia. We appreciate the excellent work of the technical support staff in Berlin, Durham, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Palaiseau, Paris, Saclay, and in Namibia in the construction and operation of theDaniel Alan Maman (born October 25, 1977), professionally known as The Alchemist (or simply Alchemist), is an American record producer, disc jockey (DJ) and rapper from Beverly Hills, California. He began his music career in 1991 in the hip hop ...

Daniel Alan Maman (born October 25, 1977), professionally known as The Alchemist (or simply Alchemist), is an American record producer, disc jockey (DJ) and rapper from Beverly Hills, California. He began his music career in 1991 in the hip hop duo The Whooliganz under the moniker Mudfoot, along with now-actor Scott Caan (whose moniker was "Mad Skillz"). After rising to prominence in the late 1990s, as a close associate of Dilated Peoples and Mobb Deep, he went on to produce for many of hip hop's leading artists in


the 2000s, and has been hailed as one of the genre's leading producers. He is currently working as a DJ with Eminem, and is also signed to his label Shady Records, as an in-house producer.Mexico is set to deport nearly 500 migrants who attempted to storm the southern U.S. border on Sunday.

The country's interior ministry said in a statement that a group was rounded up after it tried to cross the border "violently" and "illegally," according to BBC. The interior ministry added that all those who tried to cross the border would be deported immediately and that the migrants disobeyed the legal migration framework.

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The announcement comes as tensions continue to mount as a band of thousands of Central Americans fleeing violence reach the U.S.-Mexico border.

Video footage showed dozens of people running towards a border fence in the city of Tijuana. The news agency, AFP, also reported that many managed to climb over the first border fence that separates the U.S. from Mexico.

Some


reportedly tried to breach a second border fence, which led to U.S. border agents firing tear gas on a crowd of people.

The news service noted that the breeze carried the tear gas from border agents "hundreds of yards," causing parents to run away with their "choking toddlers."

The incident occurred right after the U.S. suspended pedestrian crossings at the San Ysidro port of entry.

President Trump has repeatedly criticized the band of migrants and has referred to the caravan as an "invasion." He's also threatened to shut down the border completely if Mexico does not hold the migrants while the U.S. processes their asylum claims.Heavily stomps enemies and can hop across spikes and sharp-toothed or spiky enemies.

A Goomba's Shoe is a large, green-colored boot with a wind-up key sticking out of the back of it. It is worn by a Shoe Goomba. It is one of the most uncommon of all the power-ups in all of the Mario franchise, and made its first game appearance in Super Mario Bros. 3, with the latest appearance in Super Mario Maker. The Goomba's Shoe was originally known in English as Kuribo's Shoe, with "Kuribo" being the Japanese name of Goomba left unchanged. The name is localized in the re-releases of Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Game Boy Advance remake, but the item has been called Kuribo's Shoe again in Super Mario All-Stars.

The first appearance


the end of the level is reached, though, Mario will lose the Goomba's Shoe. In the original Japanese version, a hit will also cause Mario to shrink to Small Mario in addition to losing the shoe. However, if the player was already small, Mario will only lose the shoe, as in the international versions of the games.

In several of the unused levels of Super Mario Bros. 3, Goomba's Shoes can be found and used.

In the original version and the SNES remake, on the rare occasion that Mario should be wearing the Tanooki Suit, entering a Goomba's Shoe allows the normally stationary Statue Mario to become mobile, while retaining invincibility.[1]
However, this ability was fixed in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 so when attempting to enter Goomba's3

Suzuki Satoru began changing his gear. As he opened the ring section of his inventory, his eyes lingered on the Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown.

However, it was only for a moment.

He would be fighting today’s battle personally, going to the frontlines as a guildmaster, so he needed to be certain of victory. If it did not aid him, then he needed to set it aside, even if it was the ring that symbolized the guild.

WIthout any hesitation, Suzuki Satoru exchanged his rings for ones which would be most effective during the coming battle with Cure Elim, according to his analysis.

He placed the ten rings in front of himself and used a cash item. After that, he put them on, one after the other.

With that, the rings registered to


him were now these ten rings -- the rings that would be most effective in the battle against Cure Elim. In fact, the cash item that he had just used was one that could change the rings registered to his fingers, and Suzuki Satoru only had two of them. Perhaps using such a precious item was a foolish decision, but dying because he had held it in reserve would be a total waste. Therefore, the most important thing was to prioritize his ability to win in the upcoming battle.

FInally, he put on a pair of leather gloves. It was not a magic item; he had put it on to hide the rings he was wearing.

It would seem Dragons had the ability to detect treasure.

While he did not knowThey had suffered minor setbacks countless times in the past. It was not like they had not experienced things like going to PK others and getting PKed in turn. But the guild had never suffered a defeat that had been big enough to shake it. From that point of view, if they could get back up again, it was not a true defeat.

He returned the staff into his inventory and took out the World-Class Item he usually equipped and put it on. Now, he had the protection of the world.

If Cure Elim could use the same abilities as the Brightness Dragon Lord -- namely, Wild Magic -- then he would be powerless against it without this item.

That was the end of his preparations.

Suzuki Satoru looked toward the fortress


he had created. Should he say something to Keno before beginning his battle against Cure Elim?

And then, Suzuki Satoru shook his head.

There was nothing to be said.

Nothing at all.

All that he had to do was win and safely return to her side.

The other matter was more important.

Suzuki Satoru sent a [Message], and gave directions in conjunction with that item that could play the voices of his friends from the guild as it told the time.

After finishing this preparation work, he followed his previous route back into the mountains.

He could have greatly shortened his journey by casting [Fly] or a teleportation spell, but he did not do so. Part of it was because he wanted to match up with the time, let his mana regenerate and various other reasons,but it was also because Suzuki Satoru was still a little afraid.

In the past, he had fought under the assumption that he could escape, and he had set up many methods of escape for himself.

This time, however, he could not flee.

Unlike the game YGGDRASIL, this was a battle that concerned Suzuki Satoru’s life.

“I’ve only fought the Brightness Dragon Lord once, I still haven’t gotten used to this.”

Suzuki Satoru stopped and looked at his bony white hands.

Was he imagining things, or were they trembling?

“...I’m scared.”

He had made up his mind once and for all just now, he had been determined to fight for a guild member, and yet he had ended up like this.

Suzuki Satoru could not help laughing at himself.

“Alright… [Breath Ward].”

“[Fly].”

“[Dragonbane].”

“[Bless of Magic Caster].”

“[Infinity Wall].”

“[Life Essence].”

“[Mana Essence].”

“[Greater


Full Potential].”

“[Freedom].”

“[See Through].”

“[Paranormal Intuition].”

“[Greater Resistance].”

“[Mantle of Chaos].”

“[Indomitability].”

“[Sensor Boost].”

“[Greater Luck].”

“[Magic Boost].”

“[Draconic Power].”

“[Greater Hardening].”

“[Heavenly Aura].”

“[Absorption].”

“[Venerate Up].”

“[Resistance From Natural Weapons].”

“[Greater Magic Shield].”

He stacked layer after layer of buffs on himself.

叠了好几层的Buff。

His undead detection told him that Cure Elim had not moved during this time.

不死者探知告诉他，这段期间裘亚伊里穆没有动静。

Suzuki Satoru felt a little uneasy. Had he underestimated the Dragon Lord?

铃木悟感到有些不安。会不会太小看龙王了呢。

Could this all be a trap? Had his opponent seen through all his actions beforehand and made preparations to definitely kill him? Had he just left the Big Ball of Undeath there and fled somewhere else long ago?

会不会这些全都是陷阱，自己的行动早就被看穿，对方已经做好了确实击杀自己的准备呢？会不

会只将不死者球球留在这里，本体早已逃往别处了呢？

His uneasiness grew and grew. It was as though he was trying to give himself a reason to run away.

不安的要因源源不绝。彷佛只是为了制造逃跑的理由。

Suzuki Satoru could not help snorting in laughter.

铃木悟不禁哼笑道。

He laughed at his weak self.

对着软弱的自己。

Suzuki Satoru fixed his eyes forward, raised his right foot,A profile of Henry B. Plant published in 1925 in a Florida magazine. This profile was the second in a series called "The Ten Greatest Men of Florida," which the magazine described as a reader-requested series on the "men who had done the most toward the progress and development of Florida."

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from his frame.

WR Chris Godwin: Godwin surpassed every expectation scouts had of him. He was faster then expected, timing in the low 4.4s in the 40, produced 19 reps on the bench press, and ran a very swift four seconds flat in the short shuttle. He then looked terrific during the pass-catching workout, running crisp routes and catching everything thrown in his direction. I graded Godwin as a potential third-round choice entering the Combine, but he'll now move up into the draft's initial 60 selections.

WR Zay Jones: One of the stars from the Senior Bowl, Jones kept up the positive momentum in his pre-draft process Saturday. His time of 4.45 seconds in the 40-yard dash was better than expected, and his marks of 11'2" in the broad jump,4.01 seconds in the short shuttle, and 11.17 seconds in the long shuttle ranked in the top five of the receiver group. The 6-2, 201-pound Jones ran sharp routes during position drills and looks headed for the second round.

TE Bucky Hodges: The overgrown college receiver looked every bit an NFL tight end. He timed 4.58 seconds in the 40 after tipping the scales at 257 pounds, touched 39 inches in the vertical jump, and then reached 11'2" in the broad jump, a Combine record for tight ends. He looked smooth and natural during pass-catching drills and has assured himself a spot in the second round.

QB Deshaun Watson: Watson looked the best of any quarterback on the turf of Lucas Oil Stadium. He was accurate with his short passes


and threw a number of deep outs that were right on target. His timing with brand new receivers was impressive. Watson displayed solid ball speed on the long throws, quelling the criticism of those who claimed he did not have an NFL arm.

WR Robert Davis: Davis was one of the most impressive receivers during Saturday's workout. He was stamped as a reliable, big-bodied pass catcher, but the athleticism Davis displayed caught NFL teams by surprise. Measuring just under 6-3 and 219 pounds, his marks included 4.43 seconds in the 40, 41 inches in the vertical jump, 11'4" in the broad jump, and 19 reps on the bench press. His marks in the vertical and broad jump, as well as the bench press, were some of the best ofthe day from the receiver group.

WR Amara Darboh: Darboh's testing numbers were solid, not spectacular, and included a 40 time under 4.45 seconds, a broad jump of 10'4" as well as 18 reps on the bench press. He stood out during pass-catching drills, as Darboh looked much better running routes at the Combine than he did during the Senior Bowl. He also caught the ball cleanly and made a number of difficult receptions.

WR Kenny Golladay: Entering the Combine, Golladay was stamped as a slow possession receiver by scouts. They are now rethinking that opinion. He was a tenth faster in the 40 than expected (4.5 seconds), reached 10 feet even in the broad jump, and looked flawless during position drills. Golladay has secured himself as a late-round choice.

Note:


of my very first 365 photos.

It was one of those really hot summer days - we needed to cool off

Walking after the rain to the mailbox we ran into friends who were also wearing colorful wellies. I had to take this photo!

The youngest wanted to wade around the pool like her sister, but could not reach the bottom, so big sister scooped her up and carried her around.

Books had been read, prayers said and the bedroom light had been turned off, the littlest though still had her flashlight in hand and I had no photo of the day yet. Another chance to practice low light photography.

The sidewalk near our neighbors house has these beautiful flowers my youngest is always trying to pick. On this day after a rainshower,to watch birds.

This was one of the first times we brought them to horse racing. Dad and eldest were trying to focus on whether their horse won, youngest was just excited about the finish line.

She has wanted to crimp her hair like her cousin. Her hair looked so fabulous I grabbed a fan and tilted it up towards her to add movement. She has the hair I always wanted growing up.

We went to a pumpkin patch early and beat the crowds. She didn't want to wear her wellie boots anymore and pulled them off and proceeded to stamp in the straw. I sent this to my local paper (Ireland) who featured it in their photo competition.

They both asked to be Annie for Halloween.

We packed an evening picnic to


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    On a Thursday afternoon in November 2015, a light snow was falling outside the windows of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, despite the relatively warm weather, and Julian Assange was inside, sitting at his computer and pondering the upcoming 2016 presidential election in the United States.

In little more than a year, WikiLeaks would be engulfed in a scandal over how it came to publish internal emails that damaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and the extent to which it worked with Russian hackers or Donald Trump’s campaign to do so. But in the fall of 2015, Trump was polling at less than 30 percent among Republican voters, neck-and-neck with neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Assange spoke freely about why WikiLeaks wanted Clinton and the Democrats to lose the election.

“We believe


show of solidarity.

Satter continued to post negative tweets about WikiLeaks after promoting his story. “Bog him down. Get him to show statements of his bias,” Assange wrote, encouraging his supporters to start trolling. (Satter declined to comment for this article.)

WikiLeaks has faced charges of anti-Semitism before. In 2013, former WikiLeaks volunteer James Ball explained that he left the group over what he said was Assange’s close relationship with the Holocaust denier Israel Shamir; among other things, Ball alleged that Assange gave Shamir early access to the cache of U.S. State Department cables. Former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg raised similar concerns about Shamir. Assange has downplayed WikiLeaks’ relationship with Shamir and denied giving him cable access.

In July 2016, a month before calling Satter a rat in the private Twittergroup, WikiLeaks was criticized for posting a tweet suggesting that its critics were Jewish, again making use of the “echoes.”

An account in the London Review of Books by the would-be ghostwriter of Assange’s autobiography, Andrew O’Hagan, said that, amid preparations for the book in 2011, Assange had “uttered, late at night … many sexist or anti-Semitic remarks,” of which O’Hagan retained transcripts.

“The Accusation Industry Is Highly Profitable”

For years, Sweden had tried to extradite Assange from the United Kingdom in order to question him about allegations of rape and molestation. As of May 2017, Sweden is no longer seeking his extradition, and, according to emails obtained by The Guardian, tried to drop extradition proceedings against him beginning in 2013, but were discouraged from doing so by prosecutors in the


various agreements she had made in order to gain access to WikiLeaks, a claim that Poitras has denied.

“Risk” also featured Jacob Appelbaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and former employee of the nonprofit that publishes the Tor anonymity software. Beginning in June 2016, members of the Tor community came forward with accusations of rape and sexual assault against Appelbaum. The Tor Project confirmed that the sexual misconduct allegations were credible, and Appelbaum resigned, though he has denied all of the allegations and no criminal charges have been filed.

Poitras re-edited her film to address the charges and include references to WikiLeaks’ role in the 2016 election. The final version of “Risk” was released in May 2017. In it, Poitras discloses that she and Appelbaum had “been involved briefly in 2014” andResults

Kaori O’Connor is an anthropologist at University College London (UCL), UK. Holding degrees in anthropology from Reed College, Oxford University and UCL, she has written widely on the anthropology of food, won the prestigious Sophie Coe Prize for Food History in 2009 and is a frequent media commentator. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

...I myself feel that there is nothing more delightful than when the festive mood reigns in the hearts of all the people and the banqueters listen to a minstrel from their seats in the hall, while the tables before them are laden with bread...

Kaori O’Connor is an anthropologist at University College London (UCL), UK. Holding degrees in anthropology from Reed College, Oxford University and UCL, she has written widely on the


associated with young males inexperienced in canoeing.

Cheerleading

The primary cause of increased incidence of catastrophic injuries to cheerleaders is the "evolution of cheerleading to a gymnastic-like activity". It is the leading cause of catastrophic injuries to females, representing over 65% of the catastrophic injuries occurring in high school and college female athletes in the United States.

High-risk activities include the construction of pyramids, which result in several catastrophic injuries each year, the 'basket toss', and tumbling, all of which are usually performed over hard surfaces. Cheerleader pyramids are banned in Minnesota and North Dakota.

Other causes include inadequate supervision, poorly trained coaches, and the equipment used.

Fishing
In the Ontario study, fishing resulted in 126 catastrophic injuries, of which 117 were fatal, 110 from drowning. Of these, 119 events were associated with males,engineering "involved modifying the environment to create safer surroundings", such as maintaining playing fields or improving the design of equipment.

Response
Sports organizations, leagues, and associations have integrated a catastrophic injury plan as part of their emergency action and emergency management plans, and have also changed rules to prevent or reduce the incidence of catastrophic injuries. Such plans include a notification system, which may be used to contact the family of the injured athlete, athletic coordinators, officials, legal and risk management offices, and institutional insurance carriers. It may also include the formation of a catastrophic injury team, which may include athletic directors, head athletic trainer, team physicians, legal counsel, and media relations.

In 1985, the National Collegiate Athletic Association created an insurance plan for member institutions to provide benefits for student


Attack on Titan' Screenwriter Explains Season 3 Changes

Attack On Titans Season Third is starting off with lots of bang as fan noticed that much the third season dramatically changed from the writer from Hajime Isayama' with Original Managa Story. it also been mentioned with little before where the screen writer for the anime clear that why changes were made. The writer of Original manga Story Yasuko Kobyashi explain on why the series sets up the uprising arc of the series much more explosive way than in the Original.

The team wanted to include that of certain amount of action scenes in season premier in set of tone for the rest of the season which was actually creator Hajime Isayama convenience moving events is going to create some clear narrativeover her body and that she screamed for at least fifteen minutes.
Miss Mason's testimony disclosed that she had run away many times and had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital after taking an overdose of medication. She was hospitalized sometime before the alleged rape. She told her doctors that she was a liar and liked to make things up. The dockmaster, whose boat was five feet away at the time of the offense, testified that he was home on his boat and heard no unusual noises. His wife and another resident of the marina also testified they heard nothing unusual.
Defendant's first issue on appeal questions the testimony at trial of Dr. Phillips, Miss Mason's psychiatrist. The doctor testified that Miss Mason told him she had been raped, and


state called as a witness a crime laboratory technician, who testified that the blood could have been either the blood of Melinda Mason or of the defendant, Mark Holliday. In response, defendant called the custodian of records at Hialeah Hospital as a witness to testify that defendant Holliday had been treated for a chronic duodenal ulcer. Although the state stipulated to the authenticity of the records, it objected on the ground they were not relevant. The court sustained the state's objection, holding that although the medical records disclosed defendant would continue to bleed subsequent to his discharge from the hospital in 1977, that evidence was inadmissible absent proof that the bleeding continued until the time of the alleged rape.
The trial court erred in ruling that defendant's medical problemKALAMAZOO, MI – The Western Michigan University hockey program announced Friday it has added a pair of defenseman to the incoming class of freshmen.

Western Michigan signed Taylor Fleming, a Waconia, Minn. native, and Thomas Nitsche, of Charlotte, N.C. and both will join the team in Kalamazoo this fall.

The 5-foot-10, 180-pound Fleming, who has a right-handed shot, played two seasons with the Fargo Force in the United States Hockey League with a breakout season this year. He was an assistant captain and recorded 30 points (12 goals, 18 assists) in 63 regular-season games.

Fleming, who was committed to Air Force, but rescinded his verbal commitment in the spring, added eight points in the Clark Cup Playoffs as he helped the Force reach the USHL Championship series. Fleming joins his Fargo


WMU signee, will not join the Broncos this season. Stoykewych is believed to be an early-to-mid-round pick in this year’s NHL Draft.

WMU will need leaders on the blue line as DeKeyser and Witkowski wore captain's letters and were the unquestioned top blue liners.

Murray said goalie Sam Bloomberg, who joined the team as a walk-on third goalie last season, will remain on the roster this season to back up Frank Slubowski and Lukas Hafner.

"He's worked his tail off and he deserves to stay, so he's going to stay," Murray said of Bloomberg, who played for the WMU club team before joining the Broncos last year.

On the offensive side, Mike McCarron (6-5, 230) highlights the group of incoming players as he is believed to be a first round pick in2007. In October 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Ampligen NDA was filed. In December 2009, the FDA issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) refusing Hemispherx's new drug application for rintatolimod's treatment of CFS. The FDA concluded that the two RCTs "did not provide credible evidence of efficacy."  The agency recommended a minimum of one additional six-month, 300-patient study, and rodent carcinogenicity studies.

Rintatolimod is administered intravenously. It is generally administered twice weekly for periods of one year or longer. Two toxicology studies had been completed as of 2007, which established the safety of intranasal and intramucosal methods of Ampligen administration as a vaccine immunostimulant. Hemispherx has conducted research on a by mouth versions of rintatolimod using nucleic acid technology related to rintatolimod.

References

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up to the venue. He was told that if he went to say hi to the fans “there would be problems” and the party would “definitely be shut down.” So he was forced to hang out on the stoop, waiting for information. And he did, while hanging with his fans on Facebook Live for almost half an hour. This was a tremendous outreach, something reminiscent of Claude Von Stroke’s efforts to deal with delays in opening the same venue for the DirtyBird BBQ in 2015. He sat there, fielding venue requests (shout out to whoever recommended Twilo), staving off a mental breakdown, and genuinely being pissed the fuck off that this happened.

At 16:52 in the FB Live video, when Kaskade mentions conspiracy theories, he may not know thatEpisode 1: NYC Prep Preview Special

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is another archaeological site. It is near the village of Jamalkeerio 2 kilometers from Rohri Canal and 10 kilometers south side from Nawabshah.

Events
The H.M KHOJA Annual Flower Show was introduced by H.M Khoja in 1954 at Khoja Garden. The event is celebrated for 3 to 4 days. It was first organized under the chairmanship of Madam Faryal Talpur in the first tenure of district Nazim Nawabshah and was organized by Khalid Hussain Channa Distt: Naib Nazim e Ala'a, and D.C.O. Nawabshah Abdul Razaque Qureshi.
It was also organised under the social, educational writer and worker Mr. Muhammad Saleh Billoo when he restarted the Annual Flower Show from February 1988.

Notable people

 Asif Ali Zardari, ex-president and first president from Zardari Tribe
 Hakim Ali Zardari, known as Rais Hakim Ali Khan,The last Indian king of the British Raj who went from being a fast car-loving playboy to a penniless pauper has died at the age of 94.

Brajraj Mahapatra once lived a life of luxury as the Raja of Tigiria in eastern India.

But by the end of his life he was relying on the kindness of villagers to bring him rice and lentils as he battled poverty - and insisted 'I don't regret a thing'.

The last Indian king of the British Raj who went from being a fast car-loving playboy to a penniless pauper has died at the age of 94

Previous life: Mahapatra used to live of life of luxury in his palace with 30 servants but was living in a hut in his final years

When he came to


the throne in 1943 he was living in a palace with 30 servants and became known for his lavish lifestyle and had a fleet of 25 vintage cars.

But Indian independence had a dramatic effect on his way of life and he lost his state's tax revenues.

Instead he was given a privy purse of £130 pounds a year which did not support his glamorous outgoings.

And in 1960 he sold his palace to the government for the equivalent of £900 - insisting that it should be turned into a school.

In 1975, the late prime minister Indira Gandhi withdrew the last remaining royal privileges and he lost his annual income.

The former Raja, who was born in 1921, left his hometown to live with his brother, although in 1987 he returned toTigiria.

Mahapatra (pictured two years ago) came to the throne in 1943 and was famous for his love of cars which included jeeps and Chevrolets

In 1975, the late prime minister Indira Gandhi withdrew the last remaining royal privileges and Mahapatra lost his annual income

The conditions inside his hut are a far cry from his playboy days when he used to enjoy luxury alcohol and cigarettes

He built a hut and started living in the small abode on his own. In 2013 it was reported that his wife was living just a kilometre away, but that the two have not met for decades.

It was a far cry from his once hedonistic lifestyle. The Daily Telegraph reports how he revealed his decadent way of life in an interview with the Indian Express


in 2013.

He is quoted as saying: 'I would often visit Calcutta with my friend, the former king of Puri, and stay at the Majestic and Great Eastern Hotel there.

'I would drink to my heart’s content and have a good time. I liked Black Label, White Label and smoked 999 and State Express 555 brand of cigarettes. If a new car model came to the market, I had to buy it. I owned 25 cars and jeeps, including a Roadmaster, Chevrolet and a Packard. We had 30 servants.'

He was also said to be keen on big game hunting and claimed that he had shot 13 tigers and 28 leopards.

The Telegraph reports that his heavily forested kingdom was the smallest princely state in India.

Just a few of his remaining possessionshang off a makeshift bamboo rail inside the former king of Tigira's small hut

He built a hut and started living in the small abode on his own. In 2013 it was reported that his wife was living just a kilometre away, but that the two have not met for decades

Rulers built and maintained schools and were said to be lenient when it came to law and order.

Despite living in poverty, he revealed two years ago that he was not pining for his former life.

He told the Indian Express : 'Then I was the king. Now I am a pauper. But I have no regrets whatsoever.

'Do you think I would have been living so long if I were unhappy?'

Braraj Mahapatra died on November 30 and is survived by two


daughters and three sons while another daughter predeceased him.

CARS, HORSES AND HUNTING: THE LAVISH LIFESTYLE OF AN INDIAN KING He was the fast-living Indian king who loved luxury cars, big game hunting and had a penchant for expensive cigarettes and alcohol. But while his lavish lifestyle became the stuff of legend in his Kingdom of Tigiria, eastern India, he was also know for his generosity - dispersing the fee he received for writing in magazines to the poor in his communities. Born in October 1921, Brajraj Khyatriya Birabara Champati Singh Mahapatra - to give him his full name - went on to take a diploma from Rajkumar College in Raipur in 1940. He married a princess of Sonepur, with whom he had six children but the pair laterseparated. Mahapatra came to the throne in 1943 and was famous for his love of cars which included jeeps and Chevrolets. There were more than 500 semi-autonomous princely states across colonial India. They were each permitted to keep hereditary rulers on the condition that they accepted the supremacy of the British monarchy. His ancestors had claimed Tigiria in 1246AD and it went on to become the smallest princely state in India at just 45 square miles. In 1947 Mahapatra merged his kingdom into the new republic amid intense pressure from the new government. He revealed in 2013 that he had signed the documents under the instructions of one of India's founding fathers, Vallabhbhai Patel. Indian independence had a dramatic effect on his way of life and he lost


his state's tax revenue. He was given a privy purse of £130 pounds a year which did not support his glamorous outgoings. In 1960 he sold his palace to the government for the equivalent of £900 - insisting that it should be turned into a school. Fifteen years later prime minister Indira Gandhi withdrew the last remaining royal privileges and he lost his annual income. He returned to Tigiria and built a hut and started living in the small abode on his own. Mahapatra died on November 30. Advertisement

were buried on waste ground in Skerray Street “to create a permanent place of memory and a future place of archaeology”.

Ivett had also identified the site for another project – a community centre, or “urban sanctuary”, constructed from beer cans, 500 tyres, 12 shipping containers, 300 pallets and straw bales.

The scheme secured National Lottery, Glasgow City Council and Scottish Government funding. Love Milton received almost £500,000 from taxpayers, mostly via the Scottish Government and its Climate Challenge Fund.

Further grants of £2.2million were also received. But the plan was mothballed when the council wanted £350,000 for the derelict land.

Ivett also created an outdoor “eco” classroom at Miltonbank Primary school in the area. It was made from a shipping container and junk. Work began in 2011 and it took four


Figure 1. This series of satellite images shows the Wilkins Ice Shelf as it began to break up. The large image is from March 6; the images at right, from top to bottom, are from February 28, February 29, and March 8. NSIDC processed these images from the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, which flies on NASA's Earth Observing System Aqua and Terra satellites. —Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center/NASA Figure 2. During the break-up, the Wilkins Ice Shelf broke into a sky-blue pattern of exposed deep glacial ice. This true-color image of the Wilkins Ice Shelf was taken by MODIS on March 6, 2008. —Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center/NASA Figure 3. This image shows a high-resolution, enhanced-color image of the Wilkins IceShelf in Antarctica on March 8, 2008. Narrow iceberg blocks (150 meters wide, or 492 feet) crumbled into house-sized rubble. Taiwan's Formosat-2 satellite acquired this image. —Credit: Left, National Snow and Ice Data Center; right, National Snow and Ice Data Center/courtesy Cheng-Chien Liu, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan and Taiwan's National Space Organization (NSPO); processed at Earth Dynamic System Research Center at NCKU, Taiwan.

This is a joint press release from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder; the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), based in the United Kingdom; and the Earth Dynamic System Research Center at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) inTaiwan.

Satellite imagery from the National Snow and


Scambos said, "The Wilkins disintegration won't raise sea level because it already floats in the ocean, and few glaciers flow into it. However, the collapse underscores that the Wilkins region has experienced an intense melt season. Regional sea ice has all but vanished, leaving the ice shelf exposed to the action of waves."

With Antarctica's summer melt season drawing to a close, scientists do not expect the Wilkins to further disintegrate in the next several months. "This unusual show is over for this season," Scambos said. "But come January, we'll be watching to see if the Wilkins continues to fall apart."

Real-time collaboration

Images from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and data from ICESat showed that the ice shelf was in a state of collapse in March. Scambos then alertedSPIRIT OF THE OPEN 17.4: Lindsay Morris

No Excuses CrossFit member Lindsay Morris performs a snatch during the CrossFit Open.

Each year at the CrossFit Games, they honor someone with the Spirit of the Games award. This honor goes to the ‘athlete who embodies the spirit of the sport.’

Each week during the 2017 CrossFit Open, No Excuses CrossFit will recognize a member it feels represented the Spirit of the Games. This week’s honor goes to …

Lindsay Morris has had to remind herself each week during the Open to check her ego. It hasn’t been easy, but through her willingness to do the Scaled division it has kept the Open fun for her this year. That was evident during 17.4 when she crushed the first round of the workout and accomplished


Ted Cruz has outraged his critics—again. Working with his frequent allies in the Tea Party caucus of the House of Representatives, Cruz scuttled a compromise bill on immigration last week. The bill would have increased funding for efforts to stop and reverse the recent surge in illegal border crossings from Mexico, but it contained no new provision for deporting illegal immigrants already in the United States. So, in response to pressure from Cruz and his allies, the House passed a much tougher bill—one that would, if enacted, make it easier to deport the so-called DREAMers, people who were brought into this country illegally by their parents, through no choice of their own, and who have lived their entire lives as Americans.

The House bill has no chance of becominglaw. The Democrat-controlled Senate would not approve it, and President Obama has vowed to veto it in any case. But Cruz has again succeeded in defining the position of the Republican Party on a major national issue. That he has done so in just his second year in the Senate—where he ranks ninety-first in seniority—is testimony to his extraordinary influence. (I Profiled Cruz in the magazine, in June.)

Once again, Cruz found himself at odds with the Republican establishment, personified by John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for President. McCain has often pressed for a middle position on immigration, and as a leader of the Gang of Eight, last year, he crafted a compromise bill that would create a path to citizenship for millions of people now illegally in


Teenage Boy Comically Remakes Female Celebrity Fashion Looks

New Zealand high school student Liam Martin has created quite the buzz with his Instagram account (@waverider_), where he has currently amassed over 1.5 million followers due to his humorous recreation of memes, and more popularly and recently, fashion photographs of female celebrities (and the occasional cartoon). He’s creatively recreated images of Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Tyra Banks, Lorde, Iggy Azalea, and Taylor Swift – it seems he grabs whatever is available around him that resembles celebrity clothing and accessories and constructs his own comically similar versions of high fashion. Much of Martin’s comedy emerges from the facial expressions he gives the camera and the energy he exudes in each photo. Martin says, “I’m very weird and open. I  On February 18, 2014, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of

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alleging that, on February 7, 2014, Pirela Pirela “did knowingly possess, use, and

attempt to use a document prescribed by statute and regulation for entry into the

United States, that is, a United States visa, which the defendant knew was

procured by means of a false claim and false statement, and to have been

otherwise procured by fraud, and unlawfully obtained[.]” (emphasis added).

      The parties stipulated to the following relevant facts, as well as the exhibits

offered in support of the United States of America’s (“the Government’s”) case.

Pirela Pirela is a citizen and national of Venezuela with no legal status in the

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or crime, even though the subject of a pardon, amnesty, or other similar action?”

On January 12, 2011, the United States Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, issued

Pirela Pirela a B1/B2, or non-immigrant, visa, with an expiration date of January

10, 2021.

       On February 7, 2014, Pirela Pirela arrived at Miami International Airport

(“MIA”), from Maracaibo, Venezuela, and presented his Venezuelan passports and

B1/B2 visa to United States Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers for

examination and entry into the United States.1 Pirela Pirela was referred to a

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Last year’s Canadian KMb Forum was also another successful interdisciplinary conference with attendees from a mix of sectors including health, academia, children & youth services, workplace safety, environment, addictions & mental health, education, disability services, business, agriculture, and childhood development. The theme of the 2015 Canadian KMb


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I have some important news to share, and I wanted you to hear it from me: Today, I am announcing my intention to run for re-election to the United States Senate in 2018. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) May 21, 2018

Sanders’ campaign said the campaign will launch next month with rallies throughout the state of Vermont. He has served in the Senate since 2006, and before that in the House of Representatives from 1990.

Sanders, 76, was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. He has not indicated what his plans are for 2020, though his supporters are trying to draft him to run again for president. Sanders was the first Jewish presidential candidate to win nominating contests in a major party.

Sanders has repeatedlyParliamentary assembly debate on alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states[12/01/2006]

A debate on alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states will be held today at 10 a.m. by the Parliamentary Assembly. On this occasion, the Assembly rapporteur, Dick Marty (Switzerland, ALDE) is due to make his interim assessment in an information memorandum that will be published online at 9 a.m. He will also give a press conference at 12.15. The debate and the press conference will be broadcast live. During the week the Assembly will also debate the need for international condemnation of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes and human rights violations in the Chechen Republic.
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Sosa blasts No. 600 off former team

Sosa blasts No. 600 off former team

ARLINGTON -- Sammy Sosa joined exclusive company on Wednesday night, placing himself among the Mount Rushmore of power hitters when he hit the 600th home run of his distinguished career.

He also did it with a flair for the dramatic, delivering the long-anticipated home run against his former team in front of 37,564 fans in the Rangers' 7-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

Sosa, with 12 on the season, joins Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only players with 600 career home runs in Major League history.

"Not bad for a guy from the Dominican Republic," Sosa said. "It's a great opportunity and a great feeling towith a slider and Sosa went the other way with it, hitting it high and deep over the right-center-field wall. The prized baseball landed in the Rangers bullpen 395 feet away from home plate and was retrieved by reliever Akinori Otsuka.

"I knew I had hit it with the good part of the bat," Sosa said.

"It was a cutter, I just left it up in the zone, and he put a good swing on it," explained Marquis, who used a sinker to get Sosa to ground out in his previous at-bat. "I went away from my strength [in the fifth], and he made me pay for it."

Sosa, after doing his trademark "home run hop," ran around the bases to a standing ovation, and he was mobbed at home plate


by his teammates. He walked to the dugout but emerged twice for curtain calls and his other trademark: the heart-tapping salutes that he gave several times to the crowd.

It was the biggest individual moment at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington since Rafael Palmeiro hit his 500th home run on May 11, 2003. The only other comparable moment was Kenny Rogers' perfect game on July 28, 1994.

"To hit it at home in front of the Texas fans was great," Sosa said. "Now I can go home, relax and concentrate on baseball."

One of the heart-tap salutes was directed toward the Cubs dugout.

"I respect the Cubs as the other team," Sosa said. "That's how I show my respect to them."

Sosa's wife Sonia, sons Sammy Jr. and Michael and daughters Keysha and Kenia,his agent Adam Katz and other family and friends, were all at the game sitting in a private box.

"This one is pretty big because I didn't know if I was going to come back to baseball," Sosa said. "I took a year off and I might have been home by now. But I kept working and I kept fighting and there were a lot of people who kept supporting me. Now we get a chance to celebrate 600."

Sosa, who sat out all of last season, was the oldest of the five to reach 600. He is 38 years and 222 days old, just a little older than Mays, who hit his at 38 years and 139 days. It was his first home run against the Cubs, and he


has now gone deep against every Major League franchise.

"It couldn't have happened to a better guy, especially when some people wrote him off," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "We saw he had something left in him, and he's been a model citizen and a model teammate. He's worked his tail off, and he deserves everything that's going to come along with hitting No. 600."

Sosa isn't finished. He'll likely get Thursday off to enjoy the moment. Then he'll go back to work on Friday against the Houston Astros, and he's made it clear that he won't be satisfied with 600 home runs.

When asked how long he'll keep going, Sosa looked at Rangers general manager Jon Daniels and said, "It just depends on how many years that J.D. signs me."

ThenEach atom at a lattice point is then shared equally between eight adjacent cubes, and the unit cell therefore contains in total one atom ( × 8).The body-centered cubic system (cI) has one lattice point in the center of the unit cell in addition to the eight corner points. It has a net total of 2 lattice points per unit cell ( × 8 + 1).The face-centered cubic system (cF) has lattice points on the faces of the cube, that each gives exactly one half contribution, in addition to the corner lattice points, giving a total of 4 lattice points per unit cell ( × 8 from the corners plus  × 6 from the faces). Each sphere in a cF lattice has coordination number 12. Coordination number is the number of nearest neighbours of a central


of the 1994 amendment agreed with the amendment's supporters that the amendment, as written, would require strict scrutiny of firearms laws. It was this shared understanding of the legal substance of the 1994 amendment that engendered the lengthy legislative debates concerning the wisdom of the proposed amendmentand, more particularly, the amendment's likely effect on Alaska's existing firearms laws.
The opponents of the amendment feared that, under strict scrutiny, many of Alaska's existing firearms laws would be declared unconstitutional in whole or in part. For this reason, they repeatedly proposed supplemental language that would have re-affirmed the legislature's authority to enact "reasonable" firearms regulations, or that would have re-affirmed the pre-existing "sliding scale" test for the constitutionality of firearms laws. The opponents of the amendment also proposed supplemental language thatthis standard of scrutiny.[21]
Neither Senator Leman nor any other member of the State Affairs Committee expressed disagreement with the remarks of Senators Donley and Taylor on this subject. In other words, the apparent understanding and intent of the Senate State Affairs Committee was that the constitutional amendment proposed in Joint Resolution No. 39 would require the courts to apply a "compelling state interest" or "strict scrutiny" standard when adjudicating the constitutionality of laws regulating the possession or use of firearms.
After Joint Resolution No. 39 was released by the Senate State Affairs Committee, it next went to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee considered Joint Resolution No. 39 at a hearing on February 4, 1994.[22]
At this February 4th hearing, the battle lines were drawn by the proponents of


intent was adopted by the full Senate on a vote of 16 to 3.[60] The Senate then passed Joint Resolution No. 39 by the same vote (16 to 3).[61]

The history of the 1994 constitutional amendment in the Alaska House of Representatives
Following the Senate's approval of Joint Resolution No. 39 and the accompanying letter of intent, Joint Resolution No. 39 was sent to the House.
Even with Senator Donley's letter of intent, the Department of Law and its allies continued to believe that the Senate's proposed constitutional amendment would, in fact, endanger many of Alaska's existing firearms laws, including the laws regulating the possession of firearms by non-violent felons. And in the House Judiciary Committee, these proponents of a more limited constitutional amendment initially won a victory with the supportof the chair of the committee, Representative Brian Porter.
The House Judiciary Committee held hearings on Senate Joint Resolution No. 39 on *580 April 16 and 18, 1994.[62] In anticipation of these hearings, the Committee drafted a substitute bill to try to address the Department of Law's concerns about the breadth of the Senate version.
This substitute bill (which had already been circulated in draft form when the first committee hearing was held on April 16th[63]) retained the Senate's proposed amendment to Article I, Section 19, but added the word "unreasonably". In other words, the newly proposed sentence read: "The individual right to keep and bear arms shall not be unreasonably denied or infringed by the State or a political subdivision of the State." (Emphasis added) The Committee Substitute also


believed the new restriction on speech was narrowly tailored to a compelling state interest.
For these reasons, I conclude that the Gibson decision contains a flawed and mistaken analysis of the legislative intent behind the 1994 constitutional amendment.
Our decision in Gibson is also based on a simplistic and legally mistaken view of the statements in the 1994 election pamphlet.
When a constitutional amendment (or any other ballot measure) is submitted to the voters of Alaska, the supporters and opponents of the measure are given the opportunity to submit statements (i.e., explanations of why they support or oppose the measure) for inclusion in the statewide election pamphlet. In Gibson, we relied on the election pamphlet statement submitted by the supporters of the 1994 amendment as our basis for interpreting the amendmentgun rights, such as having to go through a metal detector at a courthouse."
While this dissent was being finalized, a follow-up article appeared. This article reported that Representative Kelly had secured 10 co-sponsors for his measure and that, on April 16, 2009, the measure was approved by the Alaska House of Representatives on a 32-7 vote.[108]
We must take account of this widespread opposition to firearms laws when we attempt to ascertain the motives of the voters who approved the 1994 amendment to Article I, Section 19 of our state constitution.
Undoubtedly, the opponents of the 1994 amendment were trying to dissuade citizens from voting for the amendment when, in their election pamphlet statement, they warned that people should "be prepared for unannounced consequences", and that "laws which now protect


history of the 1994 amendment clearly shows that the intent of the amendment was to alter Alaska constitutional law by requiring that all firearms laws be narrowly tailored to a compelling state interest. The people who drafted the position statements for the 1994 election pamphlet had no authority to change the meaning of the amendment.
Regardless of how the election pamphlet position statements were worded, the intent and effect of the proposed constitutional amendment remained the same. That is, the 1994 amendment continued to embody the change in constitutional lawthe new requirement of strict scrutiny of firearms lawsthat the legislature intended when the legislature approved the amendment and submitted it to the voters.
Even if we were to assume that all of the people who voted for the amendment believedpamphlet statement in support of the 1994 amendment predicted that Alaska's firearms laws would survive the proposed change in the constitution, and because a majority of Alaskans then voted in favor of the amendment, this Court concluded that the amendment embodied a guarantee that all of Alaska's then-existing firearms laws would remain constitutional after its passage.
As I have explained, this is completely at odds with the legislative history of the 1994 amendment. During the legislature's consideration of the proposed constitutional amendment, both houses explicitly and repeatedly rejected language that would have guaranteed the constitutionality of Alaska's existing firearms laws.
In other words, before the legislature approved the proposed amendment and presented it to the voters, the legislature made sure that the amendment did not contain a provision guaranteeing the


firearms laws, and the legislature repeatedly rejected attempts to include a guarantee for Alaska's existing firearms laws. In Gibson, this Court disregarded the legislature's intentions and instead interpreted the 1994 amendment in accordance with one of the partisan descriptions in the election pamphlet. This was legal error.

Conclusion
For the reasons explained here, I conclude that Gibson was wrongly decided. Gibson was badly researched, and its reasoning is flawed.
I take no pride in saying this, for I was one of the judges who joined the Court's decision in Gibson. But I now perceive that the conclusion we reached in Gibson is wrong.
The 1994 amendment to Article I, Section 19 was not intended to preserve Alaska's existing firearms laws. In fact, the legislature repeatedly rejected language that would have expressly guaranteedthe Anchorage Daily News. In the print edition of the paper, the article appeared on April 17, 2009 (page A-4) and was entitled "House OKs exemption for Alaska-made guns". In the online edition of the paper, the article was published on the evening of April 16, 2009 and was entitled "Bill `exempts' Alaska from gun regulation". The online version of the article is available at www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/762363.html.

The two versions of the article contain substantially different texts. According to the online article (which contains the fuller description), Representative Kelly's bill purports to exempt all guns and ammunition manufactured and kept within Alaska from federal firearms regulation. Representative Kelly is reported to have stated that the bill was intended to allow Alaskans to "reclaim rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment", and


According to the Bristol Post, Leeds United have joined Rangers in the race for signing West Bromwich Albion starlet Tyler Roberts, whose contract is set to expire at the end of the current campaign.

Leeds’ chief of staff, Thomas Christiansen, is looking to boost his attacking line, and after unsuccessful attempts to sign Orlando City striker Cyle Larin and Groningen forward Mimoun Mahi, the 19-year-old prodigy might be the right choice for the ‘Whites’.

Roberts is not willing to extend his current contract with the Baggies and is already free to negotiate with other clubs over a summer move.

But, Leeds may push for the youngster already this January, as they desperately need a player to replace unconvincing Pierre-Michel Lasogga and Jay-Roy Grot.

However, the Championship side will have to beat theas a "political committee." Bambenek seized on statements that the blog was out to "elect Democrats" and that it contributed at least the equivalent of $1,000 per year (in hosting fees and salaries) toward this goal. Thus, in his view, DailyKos was a political committee.

"Can a political committee avoid campaign regulations by simply organizing in the form of a blog?" he asked. "Surely not."

The FEC disagreed with this line of reasoning. The Commission tossed the complaint because it found that DailyKos was eligible for the "media exemption" to these kinds of campaign finance rules. Back in 2006, the FEC announced that it would not generally regulate blogs, and it also made clear that the media exemption set up in 1974 explicitly applied to online publications. Blog posts don't


count as contributions to a candidate unless the blog in question is "owned by a political party, committee, or candidate" (regardless of earlier FUD from an FEC Commissioner).

DailyKos was understandably pleased with the decision. According to their reading of the law, "if you're doing news, commentary or editorial, and you're not owned/controlled by a political candidate, party or committee, you're exempt." The situation for bloggers is similar to that of newspapers, which can also endorse candidates without being political entities for purposes of the law.

Bloggers against Bono

The Commission also rejected a second complaint against another blogger who worked to defeat California Representative Mary Bono back in 2006. The complaint, filed by Bono's counsel, charged that the blogger in question had engaged in "fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority" andentrepreneur, who has worked in media for more than 20 years as a writer, editor and producer. She has appeared as a featured guest on Today show, Nightline, CNN, Sirius XM Radio and more, and she has been a speaker at events at the United Nations, the Women of Power Summit, New York University, Spelman College, Howard University, Columbia University, The National Association of Black Journalists and the Essence Music Festival, to name a few. She now shares her expertise as a storyteller and coaches women on how to effectively communicate their stories with passion, confidence and ease.

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Podcast listenership is growing by tens of millions every year, up from 47 million in 2015 to 67 million in 2017 in the U.S., as listeners take to the platform and enjoy getting quality information on the go. Though the scope of podcasts continues to expand, the field is still dominated by men, with 87 of the top 100 podcasts being hosted by men, while only 13 are hosted by women. This presents a unique opportunity for women to make their mark in the booming industry! Elayne Fluker knows the power of podcasts firsthand. As host of the Support is Sexy podcast featuring inspiring women entrepreneurs around the world five days a week,of Finance has held a series of record breaking auctions this year after a dearth last autumn when the ministry had to cancel several auctions because of the lack of demand.

Demand from foreign investors for the OFZ, the Ministry of Finance workhorse bond, has turned into something of a barometer of foreign investors’ sentiment towards the Russian market. OFZs were hot at the start of last year when most bond investors were overweight, but following the April 6 round of sanctions sentiment cooled and there was a RUB500bn sell off; the share of foreign investors in OFZs fell from a record 34% in April to finish the year at about 25%. However, since the start of this year the share of foreigners in OFZs has been creeping up


are due to be considered by the US Congress in the first half of this year and could target more Russian companies as well as the sovereign bonds, investors clearly feel the danger of really painful new sanctions is fading.

The most painful part of last year’s April sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his Rusal aluminium producer have been dropped and in the last week Deripaska said he was in talks with the US Treasury Department (USTD) about dropping sanctions on his carmaker GAZ as part of renewed joint venture negotiations with Germany’s Volkswagen.

Finally bond investors were further buoyed by the milder than expected inflation feed through from a hike in the VAT rates implemented at the start of this year. While no one expects a rateHope-Blairstown Road, running through wooded areas with some farms and homes. The route reaches an interchange with I-80 and winds north through more rural areas, coming to a junction with CR 608. CR 521 enters Blairstown Township and crosses over the abandoned Lackawanna Cutoff railroad line near the Blairstown station. Further north, the route intersects CR 607 before reaching the Route 94 junction and turns west to form a concurrency with that route. The road crosses Paulins Kill and comes into the community of Blairstown, where CR 521 splits from Route 94 at an intersection with CR 602. At this point, CR 521 heads northeast on Stillwater Road, passing a few businesses. The route enters wooded residential areas before coming into Hardwick Township at the CR 601 intersection.


Cranes arrive at a coal excavation site in Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam. Photo courtesy of Nguoi Lao Dong

Vietnam's minister of natural resources admitted at a meeting Tuesday that half the excavation permits handed out since 2011 were issued improperly, causing legislators to question if corruption was the major reason why.

Nguyen Minh Quang, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, said that among 957 excavations given licenses since July 2011 when he was appointed to his post, 103 were issued by unauthorized agencies, while 52 went to companies that were not registered for the job, and 37 were in areas where mining activities had yet to be approved.

He said there were other violations as well.

Quang passed the buck to local authorities, saying that most illegal licenses had beenissued by them.

"The ministry's units provided only some of them, but I do not feel comfortable naming names."

As members of the country's legislature mentioned Quang as playing a major role in the situation, he continued to blame local authorities.

"I accept part of the responsibility, but the government should also ask city/provincial leaders to beef up their surveillance."

He asked the PM to censure 14 provinces with the most violations, including nine central provinces, and four southern ones.

As legislators questioned whether bribery and corruption were responsible for so many violations, Quang said they should ask city/provincial leaders.

Nguyen Sinh Hung, the house speaker, said he believed the answer was yes, and that Quang should know that better than anyone.

Hung expressed frustration about the lack of management on the ministry's part, and


food, sleep, engagement with others, and learning and practicing new skills— but I leave that for another time. Meanwhile, time to go walk about. Join me?

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Updates from the NIOSH Centers of Excellence

The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW)external icon

CPH-NEW Co-Director Laura Punnett gave two TWH presentations at the 31st International Congress of Occupational Health in Seoul, Korea (May 31–June 5): “Employee participation as a systems approach to intervention planning: The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW)” and “Use of resident handling equipment by nursing aides in long-term care: Associationseach. The aim of the Program is to expand OHWC’s portfolio of effective intervention research that integrates occupational safety and well-being.

In May, OHWC Director, Dr. Kent Anger delivered a keynote speech on Total Worker Health at the National Occupational Research Agenda Symposiumpdf iconexternal icon, sponsored by the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) and the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH). Dr. Anger also traveled to Seoul, South Korea, to attend the 31st International Congress on Occupational Healthexternal icon, where he chaired the session on Integration of Health Protection and Health Promotion as Total Worker Health®: Perspectives From Across the Globe, in addition to presenting Well-Being as an Essential Element of Total Worker Health and Empirical Research on Integrated Health Protection and Health Promotion


Interventions.

Dede Montgomery, Senior Research Associate and Outreach and Education Lead for OHWC, recently returned from spending 2 weeks in Thailand, where she shared her industrial hygiene and Total Worker Health expertise with OHSU’s Global Southeast Asiaexternal icon program. Dede also participated in a roundtable on Total Worker Health at the American Industrial Hygiene Association Conferenceexternal icon in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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We are pleased to announce six new Total Worker Health Affiliates!

ISSA—The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Associationexternal icon: As the leading trade association for the cleaning industry worldwide, ISSA is committed to helping its members change the way the world views cleaning. ISSA promotes the vision that cleaning is an investment in human health, the environment, and an improved bottom line. ISSA memberssupply cleaning products and services to institutional, industrial, and commercial facilities that enhance the quality of the indoor environment for the benefit of workers and other occupants. ISSA serves as a resource for knowledge and standards regarding professional business practices and for making the scientific connection between cleaning and health.

Laborers’ Health & Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA)external icon: This joint labor–management trust fund was founded by the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), representing more than 500,000 working men and women in a variety of occupations throughout the United States and Canada, and its signatory contractors. LHSFNA conducts research, develops policy, provides technical support, and disseminates information to LIUNA members, health and welfare funds, and LIUNA’s signatory contractors. Besides focusing on safety on job sites, LHSFNA


research, and consults on the development of workplace health and safety standards, programs and policies. The program has also launched the Healthy Jobs Initiative, which creates a broader, more holistic, and comprehensive approach to worker health and safety issues and highlights the contribution of work to overall well-being and health.

University of Georgiaexternal icon: The Workplace Health Group in the College of Public Health of the University of Georgia has worked with the idea of integration for more than 20 years. The group emphasizes the interrelationship of healthy people, healthy places (environments), and productivity. It recently received a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to research and implement workplace chronic disease self-management programs.

University of North Carolina (UNC)external icon: Through its established NC Occupational Safety and HealthEducation and Research Center, UNC has been a leader in occupational safety and health research and continues to innovate through its efforts in Total Worker Health. The university actively conducts outreach with its own employees and local partners and will be conducting research as part of the CDC-funded Coordinating Center for Workplace Health Research Network (CCWHRN). UNC is building workforce capacity by developing a competency-based curriculum for an academic certificate program for Total Worker Health, modeled after an integrated approach in the Occupational Health Nursing program curriculum. New professionals skilled in the integration of health protection and health promotion will be trained through the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center (UN OSERC).

Western Kentucky University (WKU)external icon: WKU is advancing an integrated approach to worker


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This newsletter is published quarterly via email by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Total Worker Health® Program to inform members of the public health community, as well as interested members of the general public, of program-related news, new publications, and updates on existing activities and initiatives.I arrived in September with the belief that I was equipped to tackle any disagreements, based on cultural difference, which might arise during my time at Cass Business School.

The workshops organised by Cass at the start of the academic year focused on how to address disagreements students may have with peers as a result of differing cultural backgrounds. On a number of occasions, I questioned the efficacy of these workshops which encouraged introspection. Frankly, such questioning was naive. During my first term at Cass, I not only discovered my shortcomings, I had to constantly re- evaluate my fundamental values in order combat them. Prior to attending Cass, I had never worked so intimately, over a prolonged period of time, with a small group of international students. It became


On Tuesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood in front of a live TV camera and told a sobbing teenage girl that she couldn't stay in Germany.

The 13-year-old girl had, years earlier, fled a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon with her family. They settled in the German city of Rostock where, four years later, she ended up as one of several local teenagers on a TV program called "Good Life in Germany," meeting Angela Merkel.

"I have goals like everyone else," she explained in fluent German to a visibly shocked Merkel. "I want to go to university, that’s a goal I want to achieve."

But instead, she explained, she faces deportation along with the rest of her family. It was terribly difficult, she said in a shaky voice, to see othersof the auction is only the tip of the iceberg, and a small part of the Kerala tea bungle. Though the state accounts for just 10 per cent of the country's acreage under tea, it traces its roots back no fewer than 127 years.

Now, says Jemes Mackil, secretary of the Association of planters of Kerala: "We would have migrated if we could." More explicit was an appraisal by the United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) which said of Kerala tea, "Had it not been for the land-based nature of the tea industry and the perishable nature of the green leaf which has to be necessarily processed in the region in which it is grown, the possibility of a movement of the tea industry away from Kerala could


with, wrestle with the impulse to continue his schooling versus working on his entrepreneurial idea, and deal with legal challenges and roadblocks thrown his way by established interests. What sets it apart is the unique nature of his work.

Wilson’s story takes some interesting turns, such as trips to Europe and California where he meets with everyone from left-wing anarchists in the Occupy movement to a club of neoreactionaries led by Mencius Moldbug. This shows that the project to allow everyone to be armed regardless of government laws on the matter changes the political calculus across the entire spectrum, thus making him a person of interest to people of a wide range of political views.

The book is a valiant effort in creative writing and storytelling, but its subtitle ofNews

Lehigh one of three to win NSF award for International Materials Institute

Lehigh has received a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an international research center supporting research into new uses for glass.

The International Materials Institute (IMI) for New Functionality in Glasses, a collaboration between Lehigh and Penn State University, will receive $3,250,000 over the five-year lifetime of the grant, which is renewable. Additional funds will be provided by Lehigh.

Himanshu Jain, the Diamond Chair Professor of materials science and engineering at Lehigh and principal investigator in the grant, says the new IMI will open up more opportunities for students and faculty at Lehigh and Penn State to do glass-related research, both here and at collaborating universities around the world.

The award will enable the two


universities to offer more courses, create educational programs by world leaders in glass research, and host annual conferences on glass.

More than 30 universities or consortiums of universities applied to NSF this year for IMI grants. Three IMIs were awarded, including Lehigh's, an IMI at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an IMI representing a consortium of six universities - California, Princeton, Chicago, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rutgers, Florida State - and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The Lehigh IMI represents an outgrowth of Jain's 25 years of glass-related research and his collaborations with researchers in Germany, Greece, India, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic.

Glass's unique properties make it useful for many modern applications, says Jain. Because it can transmit light signals for hundreds of miles, it isto maintain its lead in the field. In the past 25 years, of all the papers on glass research published in technical journals, the percentage with an American author listed first has fallen steadily, says Jain.

"By comparison," he says, "the fraction of research conducted in Europe and Asia has remained stable or increased slightly. Other countries, like Brazil, which had negligible [research programs] two decades ago, now have vibrant programs, relatively speaking."

In addition to exploring new uses for glass by pooling the talents of glass researchers, says Jain, the Lehigh IMI will seek to educate a new generation of glass experts and to attract under-represented groups to the field.

One of the IMI's first acts will be to invite Rui Almeida, a professor in the department of engineering materials