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global community of youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service and innovation. HOBY programs are conducted annually throughout the United States, serving local and international high school students. Learn more from HOBY International.proportions as would be observed for the general population of Australians of this age group ([@b11-arcr-24-4-209]). In other words, participants (at least the men) broadly represented all twins of their age group from the Australian twin panel, showing few significant differences from those twins who did not participate. Twins who participated in the original 1981 Australian twin study who could be located also were included in the 1992 diagnostic interview followup survey. Similar to the research conducted by Schuckit, even when drinking history and alcohol problems reported at the time of the original challenge study were controlled for, people with histories of alcohol dependence at interview followup had significantly lower scores on the alcohol reactivity measure at baseline.

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and in other places are sitting on fairly mature companies that in a normal environment would end up on a public (stock) market and off you go.

"If you look at the numbers, in 2008 there was one IPO of a venturebacked company in Canada. There was one in 2009, one in 2010, and two year-to-date in 2011.

"The industry is funding at the current rate 400 to 600 companies a year. We were funding even more companies before the cash crunch really started to bite - and you've got one to two opportunities to launch the company on the public market."

By contrast, about 30 to 35 Canadian venture-backed companies are sold off each year to big tech giants such as Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Intel - "and a lotIt's a phenomenon that's building out your ecosystem, in a way.

"In Canada we still have this underlying feeling that our competitor is the guy across the street or the Quebec competitor is the guy in Ontario, and the Vancouver competitor is the guy from Alberta," Arsenault said.

He thinks co-operation among companies and among rival venture capitalists - in essence, a group effort - would deepen Canada's footprint in the high-tech sector, as would a sense of urgency.

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not the first time Macron has found himself in hot water after appearing to dismiss the concerns of ordinary people while he pushes reforms aimed at shoring up economic growth.

He once called opponents to his reforms “slackers”, and criticised union protesters for “stirring up trouble” instead of finding new jobs.

His poll ratings have slumped to their lowest levels since his election in May 2017, as tax cuts intended to spur spending, mainly for companies and higher earners, have yet to bear much fruit.Education

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Sharda Mandir is a residential, co-educational, Gujarati-medium primary school situated at our "Bakshi Panch" campus. The school is recognized by the Gujarat State Education Board and follows its prescribed curriculum. Students from local villages and our own foster homes are admitted to the school with the vision of giving them a brighter future. Besides quality education, the school provides its students with lodging, clothing and medical care.

From the headmaster, to class teachers to the hostel warden, every faculty of the school is dedicated to ensure the wellbeing of students in terms of their health and education. Drama classes, music lessons, farming and agriculture education for boys and embroidery for girls are just some highlights of the unique activities that the school undertakes for its students.


Derrick Nnadi Commits To Florida State On National Signing Day

Florida State was at the top of their game throughout much of the 2013 season, and eventually made it to the BCS National Championship, proceeding to defeat Auburn. One of the biggest commitments that they received today was from Derrick Nnadi, a defensive tackle.

The Seminoles will be bringing in several more talented players to join the roster, and at the end of national signing day, Florida State has the third ranked 2014 recruiting class behind Alabama and LSU, respectively. With Jameis Winston returning, the winner of the Heisman award, they are likely to be a force to be reckoned with yet again in 2014.

Derrick Nnadi is a 4-star prospect from Virginia Beach, Virginia. As all of the big collegescontinue to beef up their teams with big time high school stars, Florida State has added another big shot to their roster. Nnadi also had offers from Virginia Tech, Virginia, Ohio State, and Virginia.

It has been rumored for some time that Nnadi would choose Florida State, although Virginia Tech made a strong push for him as well with them wanting to keep him in his home state. He was the No.5 overall prospect in the state of Virginia, and No. 80 overall nationally.

Jimbo Fisher, who led the Florida State Seminoles to an undefeated record that was followed by a national championship win, is excited about a new class of young players that will be arriving in 2014. This afternoon, Fisher said “We hit needs all the way across


fledge around August \[[@CR30]\]. In Israel and its surroundings, the species was once a common resident throughout the mountainous regions. However, during last decades it has been declining steadily; recent surveys by the Israeli Nature Protection Authority (NPA) estimate the current population size to be roughly 250 individuals. Today, most individuals persist in small colonies in gorges in the Judean and Negev deserts in southern Israel, as well as in south-western Jordan, with some immigration to and from the northern parts and other countries \[[@CR31], [@CR32]\].

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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoningclosed down on Wednesday when the licensing agreement Electronic Arts had with Games Workshop ended. A developer who worked on the game says there is a way to preserve its world in a kind of museum-exhibit way, should EA choose to release it.

Andrew Meggs, who was the lead client engineer for Warhammer Online when he was at Mythic Entertainment, says there was an option to run the game without a server in an unreleased, developer-only build of the Warhammer Online client. If EA released this, then fans could run around in the virtual world, explore it and remember the good times.

"There were no login or character selection screens," Meggs wrote on his blog. "There were no NPCs or other players. There was no gameplayThe split between Gall and Spurzheim (1813-1818).
An acerbic footnote in Volume 3 (1818) of the five-volume great work of Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General and of the Brain in Particular with Observations on the Possibility of Understanding the Many Moral and Intellectual Dispositions of Man and Animals by the Configuration of Their Heads, marked the end of the collaboration between Gall, the founder of organologie, and Spurzheim, promoter of phrenology. We discuss the background of this note and the nature of the rift that marked the end of Gall and Spurzheim's collaboration.


Israeli intelligence exposed Russian hackers who used Kaspersky software for breaking in

Israeli intelligence authorities warned their American colleagues that hackers from Russia used anti-virus programs made by Kaspersky Lab to break into computers of U.S. federal agencies.

As The New York Times writes, the hackers used these programs to get access to secret documents of the U.S. National Security Agency.

According to the sources of the newspaper, the Israeli secret services managed to infiltrate the computer network of Kaspersky Lab, and observe how Russian hackers used it to penetrate private and government computers around the world. The Israelis allegedly reported this to their American colleagues 2 years ago. This information ultimately led to a ban on the use of Kaspersky Lab’s programs in all U.S. government institutions.

A few days ago,The Wall Street Journal reported that Russian hackers had stolen classified documents from a personal computer of an employee of the U.S. National Security Agency with the help of Kaspersky‘s antivirus program.

According to The New York Times, Israeli experts followed the activities of Russian hackers who were searching for classified information on U.S. government computers, and forwarded them to Russian intelligence servers. They allegedly provided the U.S. intelligence services with evidence of Russian cyber attacks.


came from Ministry of Education,” Sata was quoted a local newspaper back in 2009.

The pay slip was dated 9th July 2009, from Nyakutwa Middle Basic School, and Nyakutuwa in Chipata District, and was in the name of Madam Thandiwe Chilongo Banda, the former First Lady.

A payslip which Nyasa Times has sourced belonging the former First Lady was still considered an active full time employee and received a net salary of K1, 541,892.74 for July, 2009 years after she stopped working as a teacher. Her employee No. is 11801 while the NRC No. 464544/52/1.

Young First Lady

Thandiwe Banda was last year one the five Africa’s youngest First ladies who at married a man almost twice her age.

Featuring on BBC Network Africa programme, Thandiwe, 39, last year disclosed to BBC’s Veronica     ___________
ROSS, Circuit Judge.

     The United States initiated this action in order to reduce a $250,000
restitution order, entered in a criminal proceeding against appellant
Walter Schroeder in favor of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), into
a civil judgment.   Walter filed a counterclaim against the United States,
claiming he was entitled to a setoff against the restitution order for
amounts he believed the RTC owed him due to his contract with a failed
financial institution, for which the RTC acted as receiver.

     Walter now appeals from the district court's1 order granting the
United States' motion to dismiss the counterclaim and motion for summary
judgment based on the court's conclusion that the United States is not a
proper counterclaim defendant under a contract theory


of recovery.     Jack
Schroeder also appeals from the district court's order denying his motion
to intervene.   We affirm.

     In November 1986, Walter Schroeder entered into an agreement to
purchase Hawkeye Bancorporation Mortgage Company (Hawkeye).    Prior to the
execution of the final draft of the agreement, Walter assigned a one-half
interest in the agreement to his father, Jack Schroeder, in return for
Jack's assistance in financing the acquisition.       In January 1987, the
Schroeders entered into an agreement with The Statesman Group, Inc.
(Statesman Group), whereby the parties agreed to join together to purchase
Hawkeye.   To facilitate the acquisition, Statesman Mortgage Holding Company
(Holding Company) was formed and the stock purchase agreement was assigned
to the Holding Company.  The Holding Company purchased Hawkeye on January
13, 1987, and changed the name to Statesman Mortgage Company (Statesman
Mortgage).    The Statesman Group owned 60% of the stock in the Holding
Company and the Schroeders each

     1
     The Honorable Charles R. Wolle, Chief United States District
Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.

                                    -2-
owned a 20% share.    The sole asset of the Holding Company was the stock of
Statesman Mortgage.    As part of the overall transaction, the parties also
entered into a buy/sell


agreement relating to their shares of the Holding
Company.

       During 1988, the Statesman Group decided to expand Statesman Mortgage
and, in order to do so, wanted to become the sole owner of the Holding
Company and of Statesman Mortgage.       On December 28, 1988, an agreement was
reached to purchase the Schroeders' interest in the companies.                In two
separate contracts, referred to as deferred compensation agreements, the
Statesman Group agreed to pay the Schroeders $500,000 each, with payments
to be made in yearly installments, for their respective interests in the
companies.

       Following the transfer, a new corporate structure was created, with
the Statesman Group as              -3-
advised the RTC, by way of a letter to Statesman Mortgage, that the sale
of substantially all of the assets of Statesman Mortgage was an event of
default under the terms of their agreements and caused the acceleration of
the payments due thereunder.   They demanded full payment in accordance with
the terms of their agreements.

       During January 1992, in an action unrelated to his dealings with the
Statesman Group or with Statesman Mortgage, Walter Schroeder pled guilty
to one count of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343.         He was
sentenced on October 1, 1992, and was ordered to pay restitution to the
victims


of his actions, including $250,000 to the RTC.    On August 3, 1993,
the RTC filed this action in order to turn the restitution order into a
civil judgment.

       In June 1994, Walter Schroeder filed his answer and counterclaim,
admitting the court-ordered restitution, but claiming he was entitled to
a setoff against the restitution order for amounts he believed the RTC owed
him due to his contract with Statesman Mortgage.         Jack Schroeder also
sought to intervene under Fed. R. Civ. P. 24(b), on the ground that he was
a party to a deferred compensation agreement with Statesman Mortgage
similar to the one alleged by Walter in his counterclaim.       The district
court granted the RTC's motionto dismiss Walter's counterclaim and denied
Jack's motion to intervene.     The court then granted summary judgment in
favor of the RTC, ordering Walter to pay $250,000 to the RTC.

       It is important to note at the outset that Walter Schroeder's claim
is directed against the United States Government on behalf of the RTC in
its corporate capacity and not against the RTC in its capacity as receiver
for the failed Statesman Bank for Savings, a receivership that has long
since been terminated.    In his counterclaim, Walter does not seek payment
from the assets of the failed financial institution, but from the United
States Treasury itself.   This distinction is critical to the resolution of
this


 of   Walter's
counterclaim involve the actions of RTC Corporate -- it was not a party to
the deferred compensation agreements and did not assume the liabilities of
those agreements by "stepping into the shoes" of the failed institution
upon the establishment of the receivership.           Its duties, purpose and
liabilities were separate and distinct from those of the RTC as receiver.
Accordingly, we conclude that the district court properly dismissed
Walter's counterclaim for failing to state a claim upon which relief can
be granted.3

      Because Walter has failed to establish a legal obligation on the part
of the United States for breach of contract, we also reject Walter's
contention that he is entitled to a setoff against the restitution order
accorded thedownward through which melt is conducted at the lower end. The zone of the melt channel receiving the filter cartridge is configured as a cone, at least in the lower third. The tapering connecting piece of the filter cartridge is pressed into the cone by the polymer melt so as to be self-sealing. Uniform flow of the polymer melt with dead spaces eliminated is achieved to the greatest extent possible. A volume displacement component, which is a one-piece component of a supporting tube for the filter medium, is provided at the upper end of the filter cartridge, opposite the lower end of the cone referred to. Despite the resulting reinforcement of the system as a whole, susceptibility to torsional stresses is still present. On the whole, the process


The origins of Michael Conrad's research programs (1964-1979).
This paper summarizes Michael Conrad's academic and professional career from the time he began his Ph.D. studies in 1964 to his appointment at Wayne State University in 1979. It describes the origins of several of his major research interests and presents a personal evaluation of how this early work continues to be of fundamental importance.Life has a great contrast lying with in, like two different dimensions coexisting in the same world,

Existing:Breathe in, breathe out, birth ends with the first breaths taken in a life cursed in sin, confined to toil through time seeking for reason & purpose lost in despair surrounded by darkness and confusion, weighted burdens bared. False hope shaken off in drunken disillusions, its a crime of things, a King answering the whip when it sings tic-toc existing to punch a clock clock the only refuge taken in fifteen minutes of thought, chasing visions of desire for an existence higher. Fire set blaze to passion, now lay dreams Suffocated under the ashes of frustrations pain, labor much for little return poor mans gain; glossy eyes look to the sky searching


left engineering because they did not like the workplace climate, their boss or the culture. One in four left engineering to spend more time with family.

"Some women are leaving because of family issues, but that's not the majority of women who responded to our survey," says Nadya Fouad, UWM Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology.

This is the first systematic study of the engineering field's retention of women, says Fouad. She and co-author Romila Singh, UWM associate professor of business, received input in the form of an online survey on the topic from more than 3,700 women with degrees from 230 universities.

Respondents fall into four groups: those who are currently working as engineers, those who got their degree but never entered the field, those who left the profession more thanUse of habitat resources by scarab dung beetles in an savanna.
In the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, we compared the scarab beetle assemblages in the dung of three wild ungulates (African buffalo, a ruminant foregut fermenter; hippopotamus, nonruminant foregut fermenter; and warthog, nonruminant hindgut fermenter). Dung was collected from two sandy-clay soils with different percentage of coarse sand. We aimed at investigating habitat resource selection by dung beetle species within a savanna natural contest with abundant and diverse food availability. Analyses were performed to detect differences for dung beetle assemblages in abundance, diversity, functional groups. Species richness in the three dung types and in the two soil types was similar. However, warthog dung and sandy-rich soil appeared the preferred habitat resources, in terms of abundance and biomass, while


Autism and the transition to university from the student perspective.
University provides individuals with the opportunity to develop greater independence in living skills and social networks, while also gaining valuable qualifications. Despite a high proportion of autistic individuals aspiring to attend university, many either do not seek or gain entry or drop out prematurely. Although some steps have been taken to develop effective support, a recent review highlighted the scarcity of research into programmes designed to support autistic students transitioning to university. In addition, few studies have examined the views of autistic students themselves. This study investigated the perspectives of autistic students transitioning to university. Three focus groups were conducted with 25 autistic students preparing to start university. Participants were asked about their hopes for starting university, as wellThe Measles/Rubella Immunisation Campaign in Greater Glasgow: a success in collaboration.
The recent UK campaign to immunise schoolchildren against measles and rubella involved, in Greater Glasgow, about 143,000 schoolchildren attending 300 primary, 63 secondary and 54 special schools administered by Strathclyde Regional Council and 21 private schools. The campaign involved a large number of individuals and professional groups, both in education and the health service. Despite-or perhaps because of-the magnitude and complexity of the task, and the very short time available, the campaign was planned and brought to a successful conclusion with a quite remarkable degree of enthusiasm and goodwill. As a result it was possible to immunise 88% of eligible schoolchildren in an area which has 46% of its population living in the most deprived postcode sectors (Carstairs


In a very prompt and specific statement Rudy Fernandez, chief of staff of UM’s President Julio Frenk distanced UM from a recent letter by Andy Gomez, Interim Director at ICCAS since August 15. In the letter widely available in Miami yesterday, Mr. Gomez said that he was meeting with Cuban American leaders about ICCAS’s future, Cuban American Studies at UM, and the search for a permanent director. Gomez said that he would offer activities at ICCAS while the search for the permanent director goes on. Many Cuban Americans were confused by his statements. ICCAS has no staff and is expected to remain closed until a new director is selected.

The statement to America Teve 41 by Rudy Fernandez yesterday leaves no doubts that as President Frenk told Cuban AmericansAmerican community.

On August 15th I was appointed Interim Director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at The University of Miami by President Julio Frenk. After being retired from UM for four years, I am honored as a co-founder of ICCAS to return and assist the President and Provost in this transition period.

Last week, President Frenk and Provost Jeffrey Duerk met with members of the Cuban-American community to discuss the future of Cuban and Cuban-American studies at the University of Miami. President Frenk and the meeting attendees engaged in a very fruitful and constructive discussion centered around the shared aspiration to strengthen the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at UM into a center for scholarly excellence within the University’s academic mission focused on research, teaching


and community service.

President Frenk announced at the meeting that the search for the next director, headed by Provost Jeffrey Duerk will commence immediately. The University will develop a mechanism for the Cuban-American community to provide input on this important search. In the meantime, I have started meeting with a number of Cuban community leaders seeking their opinion on the future of ICCAS. While the search for a permanent director is underway, President Frenk made it very clear that no policy changes or additional hiring will take place at ICCAS. President Frenk also assured the attendees at the meeting, that the University will not establish any Institutional agreements with the Cuban Government, including its universities.

In my role as Interim Director of ICCAS, I will advise the provost on theAmerican Studies, the University has made the following decisions:

UM will not enter into any agreements with the current government of Cuba and its Universities;

UM will maintain and strengthen the Institute on Cuba and Cuban American Studies;

UM will begin the search for the permanent director immediately, under the responsibility of the University Provost -not the interim director;

UM will allow the Cuban American community to have input on the selection of a permanent director for the Institute;

UM will not hire any staff or faculty, nor change any policy of the Institute until a permanent director is appointed.

These decisions are win-win solutions that will help the University take the leadership of Cuba studies in the US with support from its host community.

Over a month ago news broke over allegations that University


of Miami’s new President, Dr. Julio Frenk, made the decision to close the Institute on Cuba and Cuban American Studies and dismiss its long-time Director, with the ulterior motive of following a more pro-Castro line. The University denied the allegations but appointed an interim director who was engaged with cruises to Cuba promoting business opportunities with the Regime. The interim director also indicated he would “restore” the “academic integrity” of ICCAS, and would be involved in selecting its permanent director, further adding fuel to the speculation that ICCAS would either be dissolved or change into a pro-regime institution.

Many community organizations wrote letters or issued press releases or called the University with their concerns. We, at the Inspire America Foundation immediately contacted the University and began a series ofFACE (Facts About Cuban Exiles), the Presidents of the Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506 and of Operation Pedro Pan Historical Committee, and Cuban Americans in leadership positions in business, journalism, and other fields. Inspire America Foundation was represented by Diego Suarez and Marcell Felipe.

The group discussed how Cuban Americans came to Miami, a small town, and contributed to the creation of one the most desirable’s cities on earth and the University of Miami in particular. The group discussed the horrors that Cuba has endured and continues to endure at the hands of the worst dictatorship ever seen in our hemisphere, and how that dictatorship specifically targets US academic institutions.

Particularly important to the solutions were UM Trustees Manny Kadre, President of MBB Auto Group, and Enrique Falla, now a


retired executive and philanthropist, but once a member of an advanced CIA infiltration team. Also key was the intervention of Diego Suarez. Mr. Suarez was a one of the founders of Jorge Mas Canosa’s Cuban American National Foundation and is now a founding member of the IAF’s Advisory Board. Ultimately, however, it was the decision of President Julio Frenk, who, with the assistance of Rudy Fernandez and Jackie Menendez, helped turn the page and allow everyone to focus on the future of the University and of ICCAS.

17 leaders of the local Cuban-American community to discuss the future of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS), and to address circulating rumors that falsely report UM will be shutting down ICCAS.

Community members, as well as Student Government President AdrianNuñez and Federación de Estudiantes Cubanos President Kristine Reynardus, met with Frenk and other senior administrators for an invitation-only conversation. Nuñez and Reynardus were at the meeting to present the student perspective on the academic future of the institute.

Press were not allowed to cover the event in order to give attendees the privacy to freely express themselves, university spokesperson Megan Ondrizek said.

According to a statement released by the university following the meeting, Frenk reassured the 17 leaders that UM will not establish “any institutional agreements with the current Cuban government, including its universities.”

The ICCAS issue, the first public clash between the new president and the community, grew throughout the summer after former ICCAS director Jaime Suchlicki left the university. Suchlicki, who has a large base of support in


the Cuban exile community in Miami, is reported to have said he resigned due to disagreements with the direction in which the university was steering Cuban studies. The university holds he retired after 50 years of service to UM.

The controversy unfolded parallel to evolving Cuban policies. The organization Facts About Cuban Exiles (FACE) wrote an open letter to President Frenk in July, calling for him to ensure the continuation of ICCAS at Casa Bacardí, where the center is historically located, and realistic views of Cuba after Fidel Castro’s death.

The letter also implied a difference of values with interim director, former Assistant Provost Andy Gomez, who began on Tuesday.

“The reality is that we are not in a post-Castro Cuba, as the Castro dynasty still holds power and will continuethe University.

President Frenk and the meeting attendees engaged in a fruitful and constructive discussion, centered around the shared aspiration to strengthen the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami into a center for scholarly excellence within the University’s academic mission focused on research, teaching and service.

The University of Miami announced that the search for the next director, headed by UM Provost Jeffrey Duerk, will commence immediately. We will develop a mechanism for the Cuban-American community to provide input on this important search. While the search for a permanent director is underway, no policy changes or hiring will take place at the Institute.

President Frenk also assured the attendees that the University will not establish any institutional agreements with the current Cuban government, including its universities.

The


University of Miami shares a strong history with Cuba. Cuban-Americans have helped build the University of Miami into a top-tier research institution and helped define the identity of Miami itself. The University will continue to serve its community as an invaluable resource for those interested in the Cuban experience, Cuba’s history and its future.

As a global university, the University of Miami is committed to being a leader in the field of Cuban studiesD. from the University of Utah, as well as B. A. in English literature and an M.A. in American history, also from that institution.

Professional organizations
Madsen served as vice chair of the Utah State Board of History from 1993 to 2001.  She was the president of the Mormon History Association from 1989 to 1990.  She was president of the Utah Women's History Association from 1979 to 1980, having spent the previous two years as president elect.  She has also been a member of the Coalition for Western Women's History, the Western Association of Women Historians and the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession.

Madsen has also served on the editorial committee for the Journal of the John Whitmer Historical Association.

Recognition
BYU has a Carol Cornwall Madsen


that cites Madsen multiple times
2006 MHA awards listing
Madsen's vita

External links
 Carol Cornwall Madsen at the Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database

 Goodreads listing for Madsen

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Category:Latter Day Saints from Utah(L-R) Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg react on stage during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio.

"This is a strategic move to try to lower the temperature around Medicare for All plans," said Robert Blendon, a Harvard University public health professor who studies public opinion.

It may make Warren's proposal appear more digestible to both voters and Democratic members of Congress skeptical of a single-payer system.

Some observers saw Warren's Medicare for All transition plan, released just five days before the debate, as an acknowledgment of political realities. The measure calls for passage of one bill to set up a Medicare for All option within her first 100 days in office, followed


King County Elections 2015 - a Gun Owner's Guide

King County 2015 election season was supposed to be a sleepy affair. Held in an off year for national politics, with no big money, big media attention, and your typical red meat issues, this was supposed to be very boring.

Then, suddenly, Tim Burgess came up with his ill-conceived gun tax law proposal, and, at least for the gun owners, everything changed.

This is not just Seattle's internal business, of course. The proposed tax law would double the price of the most popular sporting ammunition, dramatically increase the prices on guns, and run the very few Seattle gun stores out of town. This is the most radical gun regulation in the country and, if enacted, would serve as a blueprint for otherIn September 1984, the widely read punk zine Maximum Rocknroll published its review of Victim in Pain, the debut album by the New York City band Agnostic Front.

"I'm approaching this band with caution," the reviewer warned. "Unfortunately, much of the narrow-mindedness, fanatical nationalism, and violence that has destroyed the New York punk scene seems to have revolved around AGNOSTIC FRONT."

The author of that review was Maximum Rocknroll founder and editor Tim Yohannan, a 40-something ex-Yippie who thought that punk music should march in lockstep with left-wing politics. As Ray Farrell, a punk veteran who worked at the independent record label SST (run by Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn), told Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, "there was an ideological development at Maximum RockNRoll, making everything


move towards a Socialist bent."

In effect, Yohannan appointed himself as the grand inquisitor of the punk rock thought police, scouring the scene for any signs of deviation from the left-wing script. "If it's just 'good sounding' music you want," he admonished readers in the March 1985 issue, "then punk is no alternative at all. For me, what makes punk different is the intelligence and commitment behind it."

Agnostic Front quickly became one of Yohannan's primary targets. As he asserted in one 1984 issue, "the N.Y. Skins apparently have embraced the British National Front's racist and nationalist attitudes." Yohannan rarely missed the opportunity to depict the band's members as the equivalent of goose-stepping goons.

Now one of those band members, Agnostic Front singer Roger Miret, is out with a gripping newmemoir that tells his side of the story.

"A writer for this crappy but influential fanzine, Maximumrocknroll, started talking shit about us and calling us a bunch of fascist skinheads," Miret writes in My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grits, Guts & Glory (co-written with Jon Wiederhorn). "The crazy thing about Timmy calling me a fascist is that I was an immigrant Latino kid dating a Jewish girl, and she never accused me of being a Nazi sympathizer."

Born in Cuba in 1964, Miret came to the U.S. as a young child after his parents fled the Castro regime. He grew up rough in "the slums of New Jersey towns like Passaic and Paterson." From there he found his way to Manhattan, where the loud, fast sounds of bands like the Stimulators,


example, was a harsh attack on the welfare state. Sample lyric: "Uncle Sam takes half my pay so you can live for free."

Miret didn't write those lyrics. He outsourced the job to Peter Steele, the leader of the Brooklyn metal act Carnivore, who would later go on to fame as the frontman for goth-rockers Type O Negative. But Miret stands firmly behind the sentiment. "I was a minority kid whose mom was on welfare and I saw all the time how other people in our neighborhood abused the system," he writes in My Riot. "Public assistance was designed to help people better their lives and move on, not to enable the families that used it. Those are the people the song was aimed at."

Miret and his bandmates alsobelieve me."

The freakout over Agnostic Front's politically incorrect punk came to a head when Miret, Stigma, and bassist Rob Kabula agreed to be interviewed for Maximum Rocknroll's January 1985 issue by punker Dave Scott.

Scott sent his questions by mail and the band mailed back their answers. But Yohannan thought the interview was too friendly, so he sent a batch of his own questions, focusing on the "disturbing aspects to these nice guys' philosophies" and "their admittedly nationalistic outlook." Miret, Stigma, and Kabula replied again.

Yohannan then edited the whole correspondence together, littering the Q&A with a final round of his own commentary. He literally gave himself the last word on his most contentious exchanges with the band.

It was an ugly and heavy-handed piece of work. Yohannan revealed his own


intellectual insecurities by doing everything in his power to stack the deck in his favor. He clearly did not trust his own subscribers to read the original interviews and then make up their minds for themselves. Even left-wing punks were embarrassed by his performance.

Regrettably, echoes of Yohannan's approach can still be heard today. When Tony Rettman's great oral history, NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990, was published in 2014, New Yorker critic Kelefa Sanneh took a cheap shot at Agnostic Front that came straight from the Maximum Rocknroll playbook. "Agnostic Front all but dared listeners to assume the worst, and Yohannan wasn't the only one who did," Sanneh wrote. "Agnostic Front shows attracted a certain number of white-power partisans, and the band occasionally had to pause, mid-set, to censureFlorida. Much like Agnostic Front, the members of Murphy's Law had had their names dragged through the mud by Maximum Rocknroll back in the 1980s.

I saw a whole lot of neo-Nazi boneheads at that show. What happened? The members of Murphy's Law got into a massive fight with the racists and sent several of them to the hospital. Then the band finished playing its set. In the pages of My Riot, Miret recounts similar anti-fascist exploits at Agnostic Front shows. New York hardcore may not have been sufficiently left-wing for the likes of Maximum Rocknroll, but that didn't stop New York hardcore musicians from being antifa before antifa was cool.

Today Agnostic Front's debut album is justly recognized as a genre landmark. When Victim in Pain turned 25 in


2009, The Village Voice said it "deserves to be ranked within a stage dive's distance of Velvet Underground and Ramones classics on any list of important and influential New York records."

Speaking of the Ramones, their guitarist, Johnny Ramone, liked to describe himself as a "Nixon Republican." According to the scolds at Maximum Rocknroll, that means Johnny fails the punk rock ideological purity test. But if a founding member and principal songwriter for one of the greatest punk bands of all time can't pass the test, doesn't that prove that the test itself is total bullshit?links

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act (DMCA). This in spite of vociferous and wide-spread opposition in the country, and especially in the academic and internet communities, which realized immediately that their liberties would be radically curtailed if the bill passed. The House followed on overwhelmingly supporting the passage of this onerous and draconian bill, which benefitted only the richest and most powerful corporations in the US. In hindsight this was only a small taste of what was to come.

The communities where I participated were outraged by the passage of the DMCA, and I shared deeply in that outrage. Congress had finally demonstrated what many of us had long feared, that they were no longer a representative body but rather a tool of corporate power and wealth, and it was clear to many ofA survey of stakeholder organisations on the proposed new European chemicals policy.
In February 2001, the European Commission published a White Paper proposing that a single new system of chemical regulation should be applied throughout the Member States of the European Union. The proposed Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) system was to include both new and existing chemicals, with the aim of ensuring that sufficient pertinent data were made available to enable human health and the environment to be protected. The policy was founded on the principle of sustainable industrial development, and ambitiously attempted to incorporate the needs and views of key stakeholder organisations, such as industry, trade associations, consumer groups, environmentalists, animal welfarists and Member State governments. During the period between the publication of the White


Paper and the on-line publication of consultation documents, as part of a public consultation exercise, in May 2003, many of these key stakeholder organisations produced material in support of or critical of the White Paper, either in part or as a whole. In this paper, we have attempted to review this extensive material and to present it in the context of the current chemical regulatory system that the REACH system will replace. Emphasis is placed on the impact of the new policy on the number of animals used in the testing regimes within the REACH system and the inclusion of alternative methods into the legislation. Although supportive of the overriding aims of the new policy, FRAME believes that the fundamental concept of a risk-free environment is flawed, andhope" that the world can achieve a 2-degree goal, currently an aspirational goal at the center of ongoing international talks for a new global agreement, Edenhofer said.

The report summary, released Sunday, is tied to one of three main volumes that form the centerpiece of the IPCC's periodic review of climate science, the implications the science holds for vulnerability to change and for adaptation measures, as well as the efforts needed and costs associated with reducing emissions. The full report from Working Group III, which runs more than 1,000 pages, is set for release April 15.

At the root of the challenge greenhouse-gas emissions pose rest population growth and economic growth with fossil fuels as the primary energy sources, the authors write.

The rising demand for energy from a growing population


with rising economic aspirations has led to an explosion in emissions, particularly during the past decade.

Greenhouse-gas emissions, dominated by carbon dioxide, grew at an average rate of about 400 million tons a year between 1970 and 2000. From 2001 to 2010, the rate more than doubled to 1 billion tons a year. The increase came despite an increase in the number of efforts from local to regional efforts to curb emissions. And it overwhelmed progress the global economy had been making to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases it emitted per unit of gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic activity.

In its report, released last September, the IPCC's Working Group I noted that since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, humans have pumped 515 billion tons ofa solid path toward the 2-degree goal "is technologically viable," says Leon Clarke, a coordinating lead author for one of the report's chapters and a senior scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute based at the University of Maryland at College Park. The institute is a collaboration between the university and the US Energy Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.

"A mixed portfolio that matches the character of a particular country or particular region is certainly possible," he says.

But "equally important is this notion of addressing a range of factors that are more societal, political, and geopolitical," he says, and not just in rich countries.

Countries tagged as developing or as emerging economies "often have a totally different set of priorities, and often, climate change is not


of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and on to talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima at the end of the year and in Paris at the end of 2015, the report issued Sunday "is certainly a good wake-up call to the scale of global action that is required," says Kelly Levin, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute in Washington who focuses on helping developing countries set up and maintain records of emissions reductions.

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In particular, the meeting in Paris aims to wrap up a new global climate treaty that would take force in 2020.

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Being a baseball fan sometimes feel like just rooting for laundry, as Jerry Seinfeld once derisively put it. The routine heartbreak of watching your favorite players leave your favorite team and wear alien uniforms is an agonizing rite of passage. Even in the days before free agency, teams regularly sent their best players packing, often for no nobler reason than cost savings. (Like how Cleveland got cursed for chucking away Rocky Colavito.)

In the history of baseball, just 50 Hall of Famers played their whole careers with one team. (That link lists the 47 who were in the Hall as of 2010. Since then, Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell and Barry Larkin have joined their ranks.)

In the old days, before the dawn of free agency in 1975-76, a player hadno control over where he played. When his team tendered him a contract, he had three options: he could accept it, he could hold out for more money, or he could retire. Baseball’s reserve clause prohibited a player from going to another team without his current team’s permission, and Major League Baseball’s monopoly meant that there was no other league worth playing in.

Many great players, like Ted Williams, Stan Musial and Joe DiMaggio, spent their whole careers in one place. But they had scarcely more say over their fates than Billy Williams, still revered by fans of the Cubs — who traded him to Oakland after 15 years of a Hall of Fame career. Or Dizzy Trout, who spent 14 years in Detroit before being traded to the


Red Sox for a package including Walt Dropo and Johnny Pesky.

But as rare as it is for a player to remain in a single place from his first summer to his last, the practice has not quite disappeared. Just as with magic marks like the 3,000-hit club and the 300-win club, every naysayer who has clucked that the list will never grow longer has been proven wrong. There are almost certainly a few players in the majors right now who will retire before ever darkening a rival club’s doorstep. One may be Yadier Molina, who just signed a three-year, $60-million contact extension that will take him through his 38th birthday in 2020.

Who might join him?

First, for comparison, I looked at now-inactive players from 1980 to 2016 to seeYount in 1974; Guidry in 1975; Gantner and McGregor in 1976; and Trammell, Whitaker, and Soto in 1977. But all played their whole careers with the same team and played at least 1,500 games after 1980, so they met my arbitrary threshold for players in the recent past.)

So, over the past four decades or so, there are a couple of dozen players who had prominent careers spent entirely in one place.

I then looked at the active pitchers and hitters in baseball this year, and restricted my list to the men who have been with a single team and have played at least a thousand games or thrown a thousand innings.

These are they:

Pitchers Player IP Tm Signed thru Age at contract end Felix Hernandez 2426.7 SEA 2019 33 years,


bevy of popular Android games including Asphalt 6, The Sims 3 and Tetris, and Sony Ericsson promises a library of 50 additional titles available at launch from 20 publishing partners. Some games ported from existing smartphone platforms (like Reckless Racing) will have bonus content on Xperia Play, too. Local area multiplayer gaming is a go, as you'll be able to host a WiFi hotspot on one device and join the game with another. It's launching in March, and will be available on Verizon (a US timed exclusive) in "early spring," suggesting that we'll see the European launch before it hits the States. Update: Press release, full, gigantic spec sheet and loads of video after the break!

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February 13, 2011, Barcelona,new life simulation experience to fans of the franchise. We look forward to watching consumers interact with our great games in new ways through the Xperia PLAY."

Gameloft, Michel Guillemot, President:"We are pleased to partner with Sony Ericsson to offer a catalogue of 10 of our best-selling games at launch of the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY," said Michel Guillemot, President of Gameloft. "My vision since the creation of Gameloft was to turn video games into a true mass market form of entertainment. This vision is realized with the launch of Xperia PLAY, which combines a perfect smartphone for daily use as well as a real game controller to provide the best gaming experience ever seen on a mobile phone. Gameloft will support the launch with more than 20 titles


think so. Sony Ericsson today announced that its new Xperia™ PLAY, the world's first PlayStation Certified smartphone, will be available on the Verizon Wireless Network in the Spring 2011.

"This Spring, expect to see a lot of people with their heads down and thumbs up," said Peter Farmer, Head of Marketing for North America, Sony Ericsson. "Xperia™ PLAY combined with the power of the Verizon Wireless network gives you everything you need in a smartphone and the one thing you want – the ultimate gaming experience."

Xperia™ PLAY is powered by the latest version of the Android platform (Gingerbread version 2.3) – and is PlayStation certified, which ensures an optimized gaming experience featuring content from the PlayStation Suite. Xperia™ PLAY will provide a best-in-class gaming experience right out of thebox with many of the most popular games pre-loaded, including Asphalt Adrenaline 6, Bruce Lee, Star Battalion, The Sims 3, and Tetris. More than 50 additional titles from top franchises at leading game publishers will be available for purchase at launch.

"Working with Sony Ericsson to bring the world's first PlayStation Certified smartphone to the nation's most reliable network builds on our commitment to deliver the best mobile gaming and entertainment experience to our customers," said Jeff Dietel, vice president-marketing for Verizon Wireless.

According to the Entertainment Software Association's 2010 consumer survey, in the United States:

67 percent of households play computer or video games42 percent of heads of households report they play games on wireless devices, up from 20 percent in 2002The average game player age is 34 and 40


Sinistar is an arcade game released by Williams in 1982. It belongs to a class of video games called twitch games. Sinistar was developed by Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger, Noah Falstein, RJ Mical and Richard Witt. The title is also a pun on the word "sinister." The player pilots a lone spacecraft, and must create "Sinibombs" by shooting at drifting planetoids and catching the crystals that are thereby released. Sinibombs are needed to defeat the game boss, Sinistar, an animated spacecraft with a demonic skull face. Sinistar does not exist at the start of the game, and is continuously under construction by enemy worker ships. Though time is crucial, attempting to mine too quickly will destroy a planetoid without releasing any crystals. Enemy worker ships are also gatheringcrystals (often stealing them from the player) which they use to construct the Sinistar. Enemy warrior ships can directly attack the player's ship. The player is given a head-start before the enemy ships have enough crystals to begin construction. Game ends when the player's ships are all destroyed. Once the Sinistar is completely formed, a digitized voice (recorded by radio personality John Doremus and played through an HC-55516 CVSD decoder) makes various threatening pronouncements, including "Beware, I live!," "I hunger, coward!," "I am Sinistar!," "Run! Run! Run!," "Beware, coward!", "I hunger!," "Run, coward!," and various loud roaring sounds. The Sinistar has no weapon attacks, but if it contacts the player's ship while it darts about the playfield, the player's ship will be "eaten" and destroyed. A total of


Toward the Chemistry of Becoming Body

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In my opinion, it would be a good thing to organize the special conference or symposium: “Toward the chemistry of becoming body.” In the framework of this forum one might discuss the modern design of complex matter chemistry and find ways to this field of chemical sciences, beginning at primary school.

Dear colleagues.
In the year 2005, IUPAC launched a Project with the remit
To assemble, collate and disseminate information about the scope of the newly-emerging discipline of materials chemistry, leading to an authoritative definition of the subject within the family of chemical sciences.
The working group of the Project suggested [1]: “Materials chemistry comprises the application of chemistry to the design, synthesis, characterization, processing, understanding and utilization of materials, particularly those with useful, or potentially useful,Hug Point Park Stagecoach

Hug Point Park Stagecoach, A wagon and team cross Hug Point around the turn of the 20th century. The road, which is still there, was chipped into the rocky headland so wagons, stagecoaches and cars would not have to drive out into the surf to get around the point.
Hug Point State Recreation Site is a state park on the northern Oregon Coast in the U.S. state of Oregon. Administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, the park is open to the public and is fee-free. Amenities at the park, which is 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Cannon Beach along U.S. Route 101, include picnicking, fishing, and a Pacific Ocean beach.

Hug Point, the cape for which it is named, lies in the park.

Late 19th


century stagecoaches that used the beach as a highway “had to ‘hug’ this particular point even at low tide to get around it”, hence the name Hug Point.

The primitive roadbed was chipped into the head by unknown persons around the turn of the 20th century to facilitate access to Arch Cape, which at the time was accessible only by driving a horse-drawn or motorized vehicle on the beach. This sometimes necessitated driving directly into the surf — an inconvenience in a stagecoach or wagon, but a real hazard in motorcars, which were far easier to get stuck and were disabled and immobilized by relatively small waves. A persistent rumor claims that the roadbed was made by a man whose brand-new Maxwell car got stuck and was submerged bythe incoming tide in the 1920s; however, photographic evidence shows the road was there well before 1920, and Oregon popular historian Ralph Friedman interviewed a stage driver who remembered using it before World War I.

The 43-acre (17 ha) park has a large parking area, public restrooms, and a sloping walkway to the beach. Erosion has formed caves in sandstone cliffs along the headland’s south side, which is also the site of a seasonal waterfall. The Oregon Coast Trail passes though the park along the beach.


By By Walter McDaniel Jun 16, 2014 in Internet Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced those who would limit information on the Internet. The event took place at a meeting with some of the largest Russian Internet companies. The endorsement of Putin is quite important for a topic like this. His career has seen him rise to the top ranks of Russian power on multiple occasions and he is still on top. He is a polarizing figure, and no one has the poor sense to ignore him. It was also pointed out though that the government would retain power over criminal matters on the Internet. This was probably a bid by Putin to make it clear where he believes the real power over the Internet lies. Not allthese companies wanted more power to monitor and restrict customers.The endorsement of Putin is quite important for a topic like this. His career has seen him rise to the top ranks of Russian power on multiple occasions and he is still on top. He is a polarizing figure, and no one has the poor sense to ignore him.It was also pointed out though that the government would retain power over criminal matters on the Internet. This was probably a bid by Putin to make it clear where he believes the real power over the Internet lies.Not all hope is lost for those in the industry though. The Russian president expressed interest in helping companies that believe they have a special benefit to the company. As with many parts


Acquired hemophilia, meningioma, and diphenylhydantoin therapy.
A patient is reported in whom a meningioma of the lateral one-third of the sphenoid ridge was completely removed and long-term prophylaxis for seizures with diphenylhydantoin was prescribed. One and a half years later, a powerful inhibitor developed that specifically neutralized Factor VIII, the antihemophilic factor, and caused an acquired state of hemophilia. The 4-month hemorrhagic disorder was characterized initially by painless hematuria and later by intracerebral and extradural hematomas at the operative site of the previously excised meningioma. Despite the transfusion of massive quantities of concentrates of clotting factors, and the surgical evacuation of the recurrent hematomas on two occasions, the localized bleeding could not be staunched and the patient died. The types of inhibitors that cause acquired hemophilia and their modesEllie Mae reported an increased number of closed loans on its Encompass platform despite ongoing shortages in the housing market.

With 721,000 loan applications closed during the second quarter that's an increase of 6 percent year over year.

"What we may be seeing is a move from a sellers market to more of a buyers market as we go forward over the next couple of quarters," Jonathan Corr, president and CEO of Ellie Mae, the cloud-based mortgage company, told CNBC.

"What's been holding things back is inventory," he said Friday on "Closing Bell."

In fact, higher prices and increased demand have been pushing some potential buyers out of the market. In June, sales of both existing and new homes fell. Meanwhile, weekly mortgage applications continue to plummet as well. On Wednesday, the


I spent the time around the July 4th weekend at the IT building a major bank in Jersey City assiting in the "going-live" of their .com website on DB2 after moving their core internet application away from Oracle. Needless to say there were the usual...third motion for rehearing. We now withdraw our corrected opinion of February 8, 2001, and issue this corrected opinion, affirming in part and reversing and rendering in part.

Background
When Katherine Barnhart died in 1975, her will provided that the bulk of her estate was to pass to a trust (the "Article IV Trust"). Barnhart's two children, appellant Susan Lee, and her brother, appellee Ronald Lee, were each entitled to one-sixth of the income from the Article IV Trust, and so much of the remaining two-thirds as necessary for their health, support and maintenance, considering the "availability of funds from other sources." The remaining income was to go into separate trusts for each of the grandchildren (the "Article V Trusts"). The Article V Trusts were to distribute income to the


never occurred.
During 1990-91, appellee considered developing the remaining Westheimer property into a residential subdivision to be called "Knollwood Trails." The development never received a loan and was ultimately abandoned. By 1991, appellee had spent more than $700,000 on Knollwood.
In April 1994, K-Mart bought a 21 acre parcel of the Westheimer tract for $8 million. The trial court ordered that these sale proceeds along with other estate assets be transferred to the Article IV trust. A year later, appellee funded the Article V trust.
Susan Lee brought suit individually and as trustee of the Article V Trust for the benefit of her daughter, Susan Gibson, and derivatively on behalf of the Article IV Trust and the Estate. Her daughter, Susan Gibson, was also a named plaintiff. Although the original suitthe estate taxes and not paid himself a fee, the estate would have saved only $85,000 in interest on the IRS debt. Bardnell had no opinion of the reasonableness of appellee's fee.
Milton L. Schultz, an accountant who performed work for the estate, testified that deducting the executor fee and other administration expenses was his idea. Schultz added that he believed the fee was reasonable in light of the size of the estate and the difficulties of administration, including the lack of liquidity. Schultz characterized appellee's administration and ability to pay the taxes and preserve the bulk of the estate as "nothing short of genius."
We find that the evidence supporting the jury's finding is not so weak that the finding is clearly wrong and manifestly unjust. Based on the


This weird French horse is everywhere and no one knew where it came from!

Well, BuzzFeed France was able to get a copy of the original book the picture came from, which is called L'imagerie du poney et du cheval or Images of Ponies and Horses. It was published by a company called Fleurus. It was part of a collection of children's books.

Fleurus

The book was published in 1998 and it's sold about 20,000 copies every year and it was even rereleased in France in 2013. AND NO ONE EVER MENTIONED HOW FUCKING WEIRD IT IS. The publisher told BuzzFeed that no one ever even sent a letter about it.

"Obviously, we never wanted to shock our readers with that drawing," a Fleurus spokesperson told BuzzFeed.

"We publish educational books and makeThe 'Streaming Killed the Video Star' Infographic is Telling

The challenge of Internet streaming to the film and television world is outlined in the 'Streaming Killed the Video Star' infographic by Column Five and Wistia. The chart uses the 2011 Nielson Cross-Platform report to show where film and TV enthusiasts are now getting their fix, and which demographics are staying true to the traditional tube. Unsurprisingly, it seems that 18 to 24-year-olds use online streaming the most out of any age group to watch their favorite videos. They also spend the most time viewing video content on cellphones.

What I found to be most shocking in the 'Streaming Killed the Video Star' infographic is the news that from May 2010 to May 2011, the amount of total streams increased by


and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me,   to a Philadelphia Chemical Lab for testing.

            On June 18, 2013, Officer Stevens returned to the 600
     block of Lippincott Street with the CI who was again provided
     with $20.00 in pre-recorded buy money, and instructed to
     proceed to 634 East Lippincott Street. The CI encountered
     Appellant on the steps of the property and handed him the buy
     money at which time Appellant entered the property. Appellant
     returned a short while later and handed the CI small items. The
     CI then returned to Officer Stevens and


handed him two white
     cap vials containing crack cocaine, which the officer placed on a
     property receipt which were once again sent to the Chemical Lab
     for testing.

            On June 21, 2013, after securing a search warrant, Officer
     Stevens returned to 634 Lippincott Street to execute the warrant
     with other officers. During the execution of the search warrant,
     police arrested Appellant who was in the residence’s living room
     along with another male. Police seized drug paraphernalia, a
     digital scale, unused plastic jars and bags, numerousnew and
     used packets from inside the residence, and U.S. currency.
     Police also seized a key to the residence and U.S. currency from
     Appellant as well as a photograph of Appellant from inside the
     residence.

           In his defense, Appellant entered evidence by way of
     stipulation indicating that he had been employed as a human
     resource generalist by Databank IMX from 2012 until June 21,
     2013, the day he was arrested[,] and that he was paid $16.50
     an hour.


Days after 23-year-old Sahil, a first-year college student, lost his life after being beaten in north Delhi's Jafrabad, reportedly because of a dispute over using a lane, his family has claimed that he was killed as the accused mistook him "to be a Muslim".

The police, however, say the incident is not communal, and have arrested two on the charge of murder.

On the one hand, Sahil's mother, Sangeeta, said that he had gone to help his friend's brother, who had reportedly got into a scuffle with someone named Sanjay Chandrabhan and his minor son, late on Friday, 30 August.(NHI) would put a stop to this practice. Speaking at a press briefing in Pretoria, the minister, who has been at the helm since 2009 after succeeding Barbara Hogan, announced that his department was now inviting the public to comment on his proposed Medical Schemes Amendment Act and the NHI Bill, which has been approved by the cabinet.

In his proposed amendments, Motsoaledi called for the phasing out of medical aid co-payments and prescribed minimum benefits as well as "unequal and unfair" benefit options offered by schemes, among other things.

On average, a comprehensive medical aid cover costs middle-income households anything between R1 000 and R4 000 a month.

The World Health Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have also revealed that only 10% of South Africans can


health system exists among people,” Motsoaledi said.

He said the current “deep-seated problems” in the private health sector were flagged by the National Development Plan (NDP).

He said the NDP urged all South Africans to deal with problems such as the high cost of private healthcare and the poor quality of care in the public healthcare system.

The Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa (BHF) said it supported the proposed amendments. The BHF represents 45 medical aid schemes in the country.

“As an industry representative body we support the intention and action aimed at ensuring that the greater population of the country receives quality healthcare,” its chairperson Dr Ali Hamdulay said.

He, however, warned the private sector that it was not immune to the proposals made and that it had an equalown niche in a patriarchal society, just like these fabulous five.

Miss Havisham (Great Expectations, Charles Dickens) is one of Dickens’s most memorable fictional characters. While she is often seen as a character with negative shades or as a woman suffering from mental illness, Miss Havisham is a feminist. She has a reason for her eccentric ways, having been fooled by a man who she had loved and trusted. The tragedy of her life, as well as the negative effect she has on Estella, is a criticism of the narrow expectations and restricted role of women in the Victorian society. But like a true feminist, Miss Havisham doesn’t accept the wrong done to her meekly. An equal to her male counterparts in terms of financial clout and influence, Miss


Havisham wreaks havoc on the very society that wronged her through Estella, ensuring she manipulates all the power in her equation with society.

Miss Jane Marple (Various, Agatha Christie) fits the old spinster stereotype to a T, while spinning the nosy, judgemental old lady trope right on its head. The ease with which she observes the people in her tiny village, deftly identifying character traits and using that in-depth knowledge of human nature and its frailties to pick up on clues and intrigue, makes her a uniquely feminist character at a time fictional detectives were mostly men. What’s more, Miss Marple is not a pushover despite her gentle demeanour and genteel manners. She tackles blustering policemen and hardened criminals with equal élan and ensures criminals who cross her pathgets their due punishment.

Mrs. Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf) appears to have lived an unsatisfying traditional role, having married Richard, reared children, and having hosted parties all her life. What makes her character interesting is her conflicting viewpoints on love – she cherishes her pure love for Sally Seton and their strong bond, which was initially forged over rejecting the ideals of marriage in a dynamic that Mrs. Dalloway feels, can only exist between women. While Clarissa experiences one ecstatic moment in her kiss with Sally, her attitude toward marriage at the beginning of the novel reiterates her inability to break free from the social restrictions imposed on women. While Clarissa is unwilling to explore her unorthodox sexuality and is unable to let go of the socially sanctioned


security of a stable marriage, she definitely has the makings of a social outsider.

Mrs. Moore (Passage to India, E. M. Forster) offers an alternative voice to the intolerance of the British Colony in Chandrapore. Hers is a calm influence, a voice of reason and tolerance–an insider but one who represents a different viewpoint, a different set of values. She states she is tired a life serving her children, answering their questions, and is frustrated with the increasing physical limitations she experiences. Unlike women of her generation, she does not want to be venerated or to be seen as the respected voice of experience. A strong woman, who has her own set of values and is not afraid to voice them, Mrs. Moore is definitely a feminist in anexperience in managing corporate and internal communications for companies across diverse industries, including non-profit organizations. She is the co-founder of Mission Arogya and Arogya HomeCare and has recently relocated from the US to India to channel her skills towards social entrepreneurship to increase awareness and reduce disparity in public health.She also writes poetry, some of which have been published in reputed international journals.

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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed charges on Monday against a former chairman of state-run Canara Bank and others over allegations that the officials helped a company defraud the bank of about $10.5 million taken in loans over four years ago.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a softer tone towards the West on Monday after winning his biggest ever


election victory, saying he had no desire for an arms race and would do everything he could to resolve differences with other countries.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Drivers for app-based cab aggregators Uber and Ola started an indefinite strike across India on Monday, demanding extra pay as a surge in the number of cabs on the two platforms, coupled with cutbacks in incentive payments, have stung drivers.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States has raised concerns about the functioning of the World Trade Organisation and asked for reforms, WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo said on Monday, as global trade tensions increased.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The world's financial leaders were seeking on Monday to clearly endorse free trade and renounce protectionism amid concern that U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium andlooming actions against China could trigger a trade war that would hurt global growth.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union agreed on Monday to a transition period to avoid a "cliff edge" Brexit next year -- though only after London accepted a potential solution for Northern Ireland's land border that may face stiff opposition at home.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister won further support from the European Union and NATO on Monday over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent as he denounced Moscow's denials of involvement as "increasingly absurd".

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg faced calls on Monday from U.S. and European lawmakers to explain how a consultancy that worked on President Donald Trump's election campaign gained access to data on


50 million Facebook users.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China elevated a key confidante of President Xi Jinping to one of the top positions in government on Monday as Beijing cracks down on riskier financing and a debt build-up that may pose systemic risks to the world's second-largest economy.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars of the hit television series "Sex and the City," announced on Monday she would run for governor of New York, challenging incumbent Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Film star Daryl Hannah returned to the red carpet with her debut as a feature film director and said the odds are stacked against women taking prominent roles in the film industry.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The president ofthe Academy of Motion Pictures, the body that hands out the Oscars, is being investigated for sexual misconduct, Hollywood trade publications reported on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A law firm representing U.S. President Donald Trump and the corporation that paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 in what she called hush money over an alleged affair with Trump said in a court filing that it was seeking at least $20 million in damages for multiple violations of a nondisclosure agreement.

(Reuters) - Indian actor Irrfan Khan, whose roles in Hollywood films such as "Slumdog Millionaire", "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Life of Pi" have brought him fame, has been diagnosed with a tumor and is traveling overseas for treatment, he said on Friday.

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MALE (Reuters) - Police in Maldives arrested at least 139 opposition protesters, its spokesman said on Saturday, as they attempted to defy orders under the state of emergency and march into the high security zone in capital Male.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan officials said on Thursday they had lifted a ban on Facebook after discussions with the social network, a week after blocking access on the grounds it was being used to fuel communal violence.

KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban car bomb killed at least three people and wounded two in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday in an apparent attack on a foreign contractor company that came despite a further tightening in security across the city, officials said.

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Daddy lessons : This right here is one of the most outstanding song on the album, and I dare say her career. She practically threw away her play book and went left field with this one. Like IWomen Leading Local Governments

A first-ever conference for women elected to New York State's
County & City

November 12-13, 2004

Some of our Elected Attendees

Front Row Left to Right: The Hon. Wanda F. Willingham, Albany County Legislator; The Hon. Esther Leadley, Genesee County Legislator; The Hon. Lois Bronz, Westchester County Legislator; The Hon. Joyce Melfi, City of Olean Councilwoman; The Hon. Gladys Santiago, City of Rochester Councilwoman; The Hon. Harriett Cornell, Rockland County Legislator; The Hon. Bethaida Gonzalez, City of Syracuse Councilwoman; The Hon. Kathy Luz Herrera, Tompkins County Legislator.

Back Row Left to Right: The Hon. Deborah Flood, Yates County Legislator; The Hon. Susan Myers, Allegany County Legislator; The Hon. Carolyn Peterson, City of Ithaca Mayor; The Honorable Shawn Morris, City of Albany Councilwoman; The Hon. Vivian Viloria-Fisher, Suffolk County Legislator; The


Hon. Susan Fieszli, City of Courtland Councilwoman; The Hon. Linda Witte, Cattaraugus County Legislator; The Hon. Leslyn McBean-Clairborne, Tompkins County Legislator; The Hon. Carolyn McLaughlin, City of Albany Councilwoman.

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How Women Govern, Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Ph.D

Dr. Duerst-Lahti is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Beloit College, where she teaches American Politics and Gender Politics. She has also served as President of the Women's Caucus for Political Science. In 1995, she edited Gender Power, Leadership and Governance. Dr. Duerst-Lahti discussed how women may change politics and government.
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Creating a Better World for Women & their Families, Jody Heymann, M.D., Ph.D

Safe at Home: Working Against Domestic Violence, Ruth Brandwein, Ph.D

Safe in the World: The Environment and Women's Health,Lois Gibbs

Ms. Gibbs, director of the Center for Health, the Environment and Justice, is an environmental activist who discovered in 1979 that the 20,000 tons of toxic waste buried in her Love Canal neighborhood threatened the health of her family and neighbors. In 1998, she won the Heinz Award for the Environment for demonstrating the importance of citizen activists in protecting both the health of their communities and the environment as a whole.Center for Health, the Environment and Justice

Leaders Networking Reception at the George Eastman House

Participants drafted a plan to improve the lives to New York women and their families. The Local Action Plan will also shape the future work of the Women Leading Local Governments initiative. The plan became available in early 2005.


could theoretically be. In other ways, it’s nothing like television.

So much of this understanding of web video was already present in the works of Homestarrunner.com, the first online provider of TV-like content to see significant crossover success. At the height of the site’s cultural cachet—roughly 2002 to 2005—the programs it offered, particularly its popular Strong Bad Emails series, made appearances in mainstream press publications like Entertainment Weekly. They were referenced on Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s series finale. News of them spread far and wide on the Internet, mentions of Trogdor The Burninator and The Cheat turning into a kind of lingua franca of Internet cool for those in the know. They turned up in video games both on the series’ site and produced by other companies. And thisfor how the web series that evolved from it rarely—if ever—trafficked in irony. Created in 1996 by Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel (the latter of whom went on to direct films like Compliance), The Homestar Runner Enters The Strongest Man In The World Contest existed primarily as a goof that was handed out to friends and likely would have been forgotten by many. But toward that decade’s end, Chapman and his brother, Matt Chapman, began to get into Flash animation, seeing possibilities for how it could be used to create short Internet cartoons. Up until that point, web video largely consisted of low-production-value live-action series underwritten by corporate sponsors and the occasional dancing-baby oddity, but Flash provided a platform flexible enough to work on the rudimentary broadband and


up in ridiculous costumes for the yearly Halloween episode. Couple those appealing visuals with the well-defined characters and sneakily amusing scripts, and the two had a recipe for Internet success.

Homestar Runner also showed something vital to the continued success of any serialized program: a willingness to evolve and adapt. Though Homestar Runner was the character whose name the website bore, the breakout character was unquestionably Strong Bad, who was a force of unrepentant id, his gruff voice (provided, as with almost all voices in the program, by Matt Chapman) and unusual appearance such an achievement that Matt Chapman intentionally reprised them for The Aquabats! Super Show!when he worked on that program. Though the site got some attention before Strong Bad began his long series of email responses—all toviewers who wrote in to prompt his responses—it was with the launch of his emails that the site truly took off. Indeed, the emails would eventually prove so popular they would be collected and published on DVD, something few web series then or since have seen happen.

Any given email episode encapsulated the site’s relationship to its audience. Strong Bad was an antagonist, someone who would mock an email sender’s name or poor spelling, but he always did so in an affectionate manner. He was a playful bad guy, somebody who might have once hoped to win a Strongest Man In The World competition via cheating (hence giving his animal-like companion its name) but had now settled down in the series’ weird, pseudo-suburban universe to gripe about his neighbors


and make fun of the stuff that crossed his computer screen. The email series became so popular not just because of Strong Bad but also because it allowed for the kind of instant interaction the Internet was so known for. It wasn’t TV, not precisely, with its remove and officiousness. It was something altogether different, where one might write in to a show and legitimately change its direction. Indeed, many of Homestar Runner’s most popular characters and even whole spin-off series emerged from particular Strong Bad emails.

Throughout the series, there was always the sense the Chapmans knew exactly what they were parodying, lending the series an affection that played well after a stream of overly ironic cartoons meant to capitalize on the ground opened up by The SimpsonsInternet creators to gain access to the wider, wilder world of pop culture, but they’ve arguably had the best track record at capitalizing on their initial success. They made music videos with They Might Be Giants and Of Montreal, under their filmmaking moniker The Brothers Chaps. They eventually scored a development deal with Disney, and Matt Chapman has lent his flair for good-hearted, goofy writing and the occasional voice performance to a number of the best kids shows of the era, including Aquabats and the terrific Disney Channel series Gravity Falls.

All of this came at the expense of their original success. Homestarrunner.com is still active today, and the store—which provided the sole funding for the project, as the Chapmans refused to take advertising dollars and do to this


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Coffee Coffee Everywhere and Not a Drop...

The emergence of coffee as America’s favorite beverage is
purported to have been instigated by the unfair taxes imposed by the English
government on American colonists in the late 18th Century. The
Boston Tea Party is one of many iconic events that set the stage for revolution
and brought an end to the dominance of Indian black tea as ritual morning,
midday and evening beverage of recent arrivals to the North American continent.

So how did this replacement activity actually happen? How
did it occur that now, over
1400 million cups of coffee are drunk around the world each day?

In
1793, coffee was still mainly consumed for medicinal purposes and was too
expensive for everyday use.

“New
York's first coffee roaster opened on Pearl Street, selling wholesale beans to
taverns and hotels,which led to an abundance of coffee businesses along the
East River ports. Since coffee importers lacked appropriate communication tools
and were at the mercy of the bean-toting ships' arrivals, most of this early
consumer-grade green coffee (which would eventually be roasted) was months old,
gaining unattractive qualities from the musty and damp wooden ships….

“[T]he
Coffee Exchange of New York began regulating traffic in 1882, creating coffee
standards and influencing the quality available to consumers. Through the
progression of wooden to steam-powered ships, to paper packaging, advancements
in roasting technology and selling coffee based on its taste instead of by
sight, coffee
morphed into a beverage which could be accessible to those outside the wealthy
class and still taste good.”

By the 1900s, coffee was a preferred drink for the wealthy urban
dwellers, because it was still too expensive for the


Actress Olivia Munn is one of six women that have accused director Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct. She originally alluded to this abuse, however, way back in 2010, in her book Suck It, Wonder Woman! The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek.

Munn accused Ratner of masturbating in front of her as she delivered him food, though not by name. The director retaliated by saying they participated in consensual sex acts, claiming that he “banged her a few times.” Ratner later apologized and admitted to lying about these claims.

Back before this information was known about Ratner and Munn – and years before other women came out and alleged that the director had abused them – progressive commentators The Young Turks took on the actress’s allegation during a 2011 segment referencingA Short History of Hydrogen Sulfide

Early last year, reports began to emerge in the Southeastern United States of a strange illness. Homeowners reported nosebleeds, sinus irritation and respiratory problems that appeared to be associated with corrosion of copper pipes and air conditioner coils in their houses.

The culprit seems to be drywall imported from China and possibly contaminated with strontium sulfide, an unstable salt that releases hydrogen sulfide on exposure to moisture. It was used widely in the housing boom of 2004–2007, and in the rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when domestic suppliers could not keep up with the demand. The Consumer Products Safety Commission is now investigating whether sulfide gases given off by the drywall, including hydrogen sulfide, are to blame. The Florida Department of Health


in human embryos to prevent diseases before birth — changes that would be passed down from generation to generation.

Making history

Madeux’s treatment was to have happened a week earlier, but a small glitch prevented it.

He and his fiancée returned to Arizona, but nearly didn’t make it back to Oakland in time for the second attempt because their Sunday flight was cancelled and no others were available until Monday, after the treatment was to take place.

Scrambling, they finally got a flight to Monterey, California, and a car service took them just over 160 kilometres north to Oakland.

On Monday he had the three-hour infusion, surrounded by half a dozen doctors, nurses and others wearing head-to-toe protective garb to lower the risk of giving him any germs. His doctor, Harmatz, spent theMeet Joel Ybe, senior scientist at the School of Public Health and the IU Bloomington’s Indiana CTSI navigator

Solving crystal structures. Creating new devices. Teaching himself X-ray crystallography. As a scientist, Joel Ybe has always loved solving problems — something he has found equally rewarding in his unique role at Indiana University Bloomington, where he uses his scientific training to connect researchers with resources, support and services available through the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.

Ybe is the IU Bloomington campus navigator for the Indiana CTSI, a National Institutes of Health-funded research institute that aims to improve health in the state through research. Housed at the IU School of Medicine, the Indiana CTSI is a statewide collaboration among Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame.

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pillar.

However, its origin has until now been one of the field’s greatest conundrums.

Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, said: ‘Today we take it for granted that the concept of zero is used across the globe and is a key building block of the digital world.

But the creation of zero as a number in its own right, which evolved from the placeholder dot symbol found in the Bakhshali manuscript, was one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of mathematics.‘We now know that it was as early as the 3rd century that mathematicians in India planted the seed of the idea that would later become so fundamental to the modern world.

Each week, this page is updated with a gallery from a recent photo shootCricket Australia chief James Sutherland has blasted David Warner as "despicable" for punching England's Joe Root.

Last Updated: 14/06/13 9:29pm

James Sutherland: Warner attack was 'despicable'

Warner has issued a public apology for punching Root in the face at the Walkabout pub in central Birmingham in the early hours of Sunday morning.

He has been banned from playing by the Australian management until the first Ashes Test and fined £7000.

Sutherland says Warner is highly unlikely to play in the first Test at Trent Bridge but is lucky to still be on the tour. And the CA chief also says questions need to be asked the rest of the team - particularly those present at the incident.

Sutherland, speaking to a news conference in Australia, said: "Warner's specific indiscretion is entirely inappropriate, there is