more names: Vin and Shichigoro. He first pulls out his sai, twirling them around, hitting his opponent with them. He then kicks his opponent in the stomach, uses it as leverage to leap up in mid-air and dive down as his sai transform into a shield and slam on his opponent's back.

Leopard Spear- A powerful jab in the Leopard stance. Strong enough to sear through most metals. Often used to end a chain of attacks.

Meteor Shower- Clancy leaps into the air and spams a rapid fire barrage of ki blasts.

Phoenix Burst- Clancy powers up his Ki in his hands and unleashes it alongside a punch. This combination does combined damage to the target when struck.

Weapon: A strange weapon activated by Clancy's nanomachines.
a pair of giant sai that haveNews Corp's IGN, Shine Group Partner for YouTube Video Game Channel START (Exclusive Q&A)

New slate of broadcast-quality shows will launch in early 2012 focusing on the gaming demographic

As part of YouTube’s new investment in entertainment channels, News Corp-owned IGN Entertainment has partnered with Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Group company Reveille to develop a new slate of broadcast-quality shows aimed at the growing video game demographic. The series, which will range from short-format to television-length, will debut in early 2012 on START, YouTube’s new video game channel produced by IGN.

IGN has attracted over 1 billion views from its current YouTube offerings, but is now taking production to the next step with the intent of seeing some content migrate beyond the Internet. START will launch with new shows like Celebrity Assassin,


Of the 41 states in the union that have a Football Bowl Subdivision team within their borders, none have more than Texas.

For the next 12 days, as teams nationwide dig into preseason drills, USA TODAY Sports’ college football reporters are traversing the state of Texas and visiting each of its one dozen FBS programs. Presenting Two Weeks in Texas …

Day 1: TCU

FORT WORTH — Tracy Syler-Jones knew when she told her son that his grandfather was terminally ill, his impulse would be to come home. As much as Josh Doctson had thrived his first year at the University of Wyoming, maturing in his new surroundings and proving he could play college football despite receiving only two scholarship offers out of high school, Syler-Jones struggled even telling him whathe had a desire to play for TCU,” Syler-Jones said. “I learned over time that was a dream of his, and I think he values it even more because he went away and came back and it had a special place in his heart and he worked hard to get where he is.”

So did Syler-Jones, who is now the vice chancellor for marketing and communications at TCU with an office in the center of campus that allows Doctson to drop by for a hug whenever he wants.

But it wasn’t such a storybook situation back in 2000 when Syler-Jones, then an unemployed mother of two young boys, moved to Texas to be closer to her family and look for a job. She found one in the marketing department at


Ninety-year-old Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles by a leading American research institution, after doubling down on his controversial conclusions linking race and intelligence.

Despite nearly half a century service to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Watson, a world-renowned geneticist, lost all of his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus, Oliver R. Grace Professor Emeritus and Honorary Trustee, for refusing to retract his own scientific conclusions.

In 2007, Watson was suspended from all of his positions held at the New York lab following a scandal centering around his claim about the "inherently gloomy" future of the African continent. “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really,” heBut to bring IQ into the mix is ridiculous beyond belief. IQ is just a number based on culturally limited tests. We need diversity of thought like this! — Pongo bscmscphd (@P0ng0_bscmscphd) January 13, 2019

Watson rose to international scientific fame in 1953 after helping discover DNA's double helix structure with fellow geneticists Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick. In 1962, the team was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.” In 1968 Watson began serving as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, subsequently assuming the roles of president and chancellor, before being suspended and retiring from the research lab in 2007.

Also on rt.com Russian billionaire buys Nobel medal of ostracized DNA


according to the Anti-Defamation League. The Jewish advocacy organization has recorded an 86 percent spike in attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions so far in 2017, as NPR reported on Monday. Globally, a Tel Aviv University report finds, such attacks fell 12 percent in 2016.

Allegations of anti-Semitism and insensitivity have plagued the Trump team, going back to the campaign:

Trump was endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Duke, who ran for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, told NPR in August that "of course" Trump voters were also his supporters.

Trump's first week in office, his administration issued a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day which didn't mention the Jewish people. Initial attempts to explain the omission did not satisfy critics.

In the last few months, the administration had been criticizedfor not responding quickly enough to a recent wave of bomb threats. Asked about the incidents during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February, Trump pointed to his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who are both Jewish. Pressed again on the issue the following day, Trump said he was "the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life."

On April 11, press secretary Sean Spicer fumbled in a briefing while trying to compare Syrian President Bashar Assad to Hitler. Discussing the chemical weapons attack in Syria and the U.S.'s airstrike in retaliation, Spicer said, Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." Millions were in fact gassed to death in Nazi concentration camps. Spicer also referred to the death camps as


The present invention relates to new and useful structures, components and methods for constructing and operating a manually propelled vehicle such as a wheel chair, including (a) structures, components and methods for automatically locking the wheels of the vehicle when the occupant starts to get out of the vehicle, (b) locking components for locking the wheel of the vehicle against movement, and (c) components of the vehicle that are designed to facilitate assembly of those components into the vehicle.
Wheel chairs used to transport persons that are mobility-impaired have been available for over a century. The first wheel chairs were bulky, heavy and difficult to maneuver. In 1932 the first tubular formed frame wheel chair that was lighter and easier to maneuver was introduced by Harry Jennings. Of necessity,Trevor Bauer's last moments in a Cleveland Indians uniform won't soon be forgotten, as he's now on the move to Cincinnati in a strange three-team deal in which the side I like the most belongs to the team that didn't get a major leaguer in return.

The San Diego Padres look like the biggest winners here, though that's assuming Taylor Trammell is the player we saw the past two years and not the guy who has had a disappointing season as a 21-year-old in Double-A this year. Trammell was the 35th overall pick in 2016 but signed well over slot and showed in his first full pro season that his approach at the plate was far more advanced than the typical two-sport high school player's.


wide range of language bindings available (including C, C++, Java, perl, tcl, andpython).The Berkeley Postgres ProjectImplementation of the Postgres DBMS began in 1986. The initial concepts for the system werepresented in The Design of Postgres and the definition of the initial data model appeared in ThePostgres Data Model. The design of the rule system at that time was described in The Designof the Postgres Rules System. The rationale and architecture of the storage manager weredetailed in The Postgres Storage System.Postgres has undergone several major releases since then. The first "demoware" systembecame operational in 1987 and was shown at the 1988 ACM-SIGMOD Conference. Wereleased Version 1, described in The Implementation of Postgres, to a few external users inJune 1989. In response to a critique of the first rule systemsubstrates are provided to surround the center robot. Furthermore, the reversing unit is arranged in a position accessible by the center robot in the processing section.
On one end side of the processing section, an indexer section including a plurality of storing containers that store substrates is provided. The indexer section is provided with a substrate transport robot that takes out a substrate prior to processing from a storing container or stores a substrate after processing in a storing container.
In this configuration, the substrate transport robot takes out a substrate prior to processing from any of the storing containers and delivers the substrate to the center robot and receives a substrate after processing from the center robot to store the substrate to any of the storing containers.
Upon receiving a


substrate reversed by the reversing unit and delivers it to the substrate transport robot. The substrate transport robot stores the processed substrate received from the center robot in a storing container.
In this way, a substrate prior to processing stored in a storing container is reversed by the reversing unit to be subjected to processing (to the back surface of the substrate) in the back surface cleaning unit, then again reversed by the reversing unit, and stored in a storing container as a processed substrate.
In the above-described substrate processing apparatus, during the transport of the substrate among the transport robot, the back surface cleaning unit, and the reversing unit, the center robot holding the substrate rotates around the vertical axis.
Therefore, the time for transporting a substrate depends on therotating angle of the center robot. More specifically, during the transport of a substrate among the transport robot, the back surface cleaning unit, and the reversing unit, as the rotating angle of the center robot increases, the time for transporting the substrate is prolonged.
Here, in the above-described substrate processing apparatus, the reversing unit is provided at the other end side of the processing section. That is to say, the center robot is positioned between the substrate transport robot of the indexer section and the reversing unit.
In this way, the center robot has to rotate during the transport of a substrate between the indexer section and the reversing unit by 180 degrees each before and after the processing. Further, in order to deliver a substrate prior to processing reversed


of his disability.  On review, the Industrial Commission (Commission), with one dissent, affirmed the decision of the arbitrator, and the circuit court of Cook County confirmed the decision of the Commission.  Employer appeals contending
 the decision awarding claimant benefits is against the manifest weight of the evidence and contrary to law.

Claimant worked for employer as a teacher at a school for children with behavioral disorders.  He had been employed in that capacity for some nine years.  Because of their problems, claimant testified the students often acted up and were sometimes violent and hyperactive.  On February 22, 1991, claimant was teaching a class of eleven students ages 13 to 16 years old.  At approximately 12:50 p.m., claimant moved the class to the home economics room.  Two of the studentsbegan fighting over their seats.  Claimant asked one of the students to step out into the hallway with him.  As they were moving out into the hallway, the student kicked out the side window next to the classroom door.  Claimant instructed the student to sit in the hallway and asked the teacher's aide to bring back the classroom's social worker, Mr. Stone.  Mr. Stone and claimant had worked together some seven years.  Claimant testified Stone would meet with his students twice a week and would also be called whenever there were altercations.

The teacher's aide found Stone in another classroom in the middle of a session.  Stone was reluctant to leave the classroom but eventually agreed to do so.  According to the aide, as they approached the home economics


room, Stone became agitated.  According to claimant, Stone came up to him and asked why the incident occurred.  Claimant believed Stone was almost out of control and belligerent.  Stone started pointing his fingers at claimant, and claimant told Stone to get his fingers out of his face.  Claimant testified that by this time he was backed up against the classroom door and Stone's fingers were within inches of his eyes.  Believing he was being attacked, claimant then grabbed Stone's hand and moved him away from his body.  When he released his hands, Stone fell to the floor.  Claimant did not feel that he used excessive force, but rather that Stone fell because he was ill and frail.  Other school personnel arrived ending the encounter between claimant and Stone. Claimant testified he was upset about the situation but such things happen a lot in that school and "you just get used to them."

The following Monday, claimant was summoned to the principal's office and was advised he was being temporarily relieved of his teaching duties and reassigned to the administrative building.  Claimant was suspended for a period of 15 days after which he returned to his classroom and continued in his normal teaching capacities through the end of the school year.  Claimant testified, however, that during this period he became physically ill and developed continuing sinus problems.  His concentration became worse and he was agitated and nervous.  Claimant testified he felt terrible that he had been suspended and removed from his classroom when he was not guilty of


any wrongdoing.  By December 1991, claimant came under the care of Dr. Devine, a psychologist, for help in dealing with his anger.  Claimant was found to have the profile of a paranoid personality disorder.

On March 19, 1992, claimant was involved in another incident at school.  Two of his students began fighting and throwing desks.  Claimant testified he took one of the students to the floor and held onto him in an effort to break up the fight.  The boy was then escorted out of the room.  The principal later removed claimant from the classroom and assigned him once again to the administration building.  According to claimant, the reason for the reassignment stemmed from a complaint filed by the student's parents alleging the child was injured by claimant's actions. Claimant's doctors authorized him off work as of April 25, 1992.  Claimant's psychiatrist, Dr. Mitchell R. Halper, diagnosed claimant as suffering from a major depressive disorder secondary to a post-traumatic stress disorder with a subsequent diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder.  Dr. Halper testified he believed the February 1991 incident was a traumatic episode and a major causative factor leading to claimant's depression and his inability to contain his paranoid disorder.  Claimant's perceived harassment from school personnel and continued court involvement over the incident directly impacted on claimant's emotional health thereby increasing his paranoia.  Dr. Halper acknowledged that claimant had a paranoid personality disorder prior to the February incident, for by definition, such disorders are always present, and that it probably existed since childhood, but was dormant prior to


the February incident.  Because claimant's paranoid personality disorder is now permanent, Dr. Halper testified claimant was not capable of performing any duties as a special education teacher.  According to Dr. Halper, his condition impacts on his ability to perform any work-related activity in that he has difficulty interacting with people.  Claimant now works for Burpee Seed Company putting up displays in various stores.  He is employed as an independent contractor and works approximately 30 hours per week.

Employer presented evidence that during the period from February 1991 to March 1992 claimant was also undergoing a great deal of personal stress.  Claimant learned shortly after the incident that his wife was pregnant, and he was overly concerned about having a child so late in his life.  Claimant was in his40s.  Claimant reported the pregnancy and delivery were quite difficult. Claimant was also suffering from several allergy problems and walking pneumonia during this time, had his wisdom teeth removed and was involved in an automobile accident in which his car was totaled and he sustained physical injuries.  Claimant also went through criminal and disciplinary proceedings pertaining to the February incident.

Employer further introduced the testimony of Stone via the trial transcript from the criminal proceedings as Stone had passed away before the arbitration hearing.  Stone testified that upon arriving at the classroom, claimant was standing by the doorway.  He asked claimant what had happened.  Claimant responded: "It depends upon who you ask and this isn't the time to discuss why it happened."  Stone answered, "I didn't ask you why


it happened.  I asked you what happened."  He then added, "Don't put words in my mouth," following which claimant yelled, "Don't put your fingers in my face."  Stone admitted he was gesturing with his hands as he often did when communicating with others.  He testified he had no intention of touching claimant and was some two to three feet away from him when claimant grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him to the ground.  Stone was afraid claimant was about to come after him again when the custodian stepped in between them.  Claimant was later acquitted of the battery charges against him in relation to this incident.

Other school personnel who witnessed various parts of the incident all testified claimant physically threw Stone to the ground by grabbinghim on the shoulders.  Many of these same witnesses testified that there were times claimant would "fly off the handle" over various things, that claimant often did not participate in class team discussions, that he was known to be verbally aggressive in his interactions with students and staff, and that he kept tape around his desk to keep students away.  The arbitrator found these witnesses not credible because of their dislike of claimant.  The arbitrator further concluded claimant was the nonaggressor in the situation.  And, because the altercation arose out of and in the course of a dispute involving a work-related matter, claimant's psychological injuries arising from the altercation were compensable.  The Commission concluded the altercation with Stone produced the physical contact necessary for a "physical-mental" case and


led to a confrontation with one of the classroom team members, the class' social worker.  Again confrontations over how to handle problem situations were not unusual.  This confrontation, however, led to physical contact on the part of claimant.  Stone, as was his usual manner, was gesturing with his hands while talking to claimant.  Even though claimant had worked with Stone some seven years and reported no history of any prior difficulties with him, claimant believed he was being attacked.  From an objective standpoint, claimant's perception of being attacked was out of the ordinary.  Even if we were to accept claimant's view of the incident, claimant also testified he was able to continue working the rest of the day.  In fact, claimant was able to continue working for anotheryear.  During this time claimant also experienced many stressful events in his life including having to face disciplinary and criminal charges arising out of the February incident.  Claimant did not seek psychiatric help, however, until he was suspended in March 1992 for another incident at school.  It would appear that everything happening in claimant's life is what caused claimant's mental disability and that the February incident was not the major contributory cause of his condition.  Dr. Halper's records place no significance on the actual contact in the development of claimant's condition, but rather focus on claimant's perceived threat from Stone and subsequent harassment by school authorities.  Given our prior rulings and the circumstances as presented, clearly claimant cannot satisfy the mental-mental criteria to justify compensation in this instance.


A. David Lewis has been a comics writer, publisher, and noted academic for over a decade. I first met him in San Diego and devoured his graphic novel Mortal Coils (almost Black Mirror before Black Mirror) and later found The Lone and Level Sands. Since then we’ve occasionally chatted about issues around comics, representation, politics, and religion.

A few months ago, I recommended his webcomic Kismet, Man of Fate, published online through A Wave Blue World. This week, Kismet gets print publication, in a graphic novel that I’ve been eagerly awaiting. David agreed to answer a few questions about the project — a revival of a Golden Age hero, both explicitly and vaguely Muslim, who had a very brief run in 1945 before slipping into the public domain. Whathomosexuality – since the length of the digits would indicate exposure to higher levels of either testosterone or estrogen. Outside of genitalia, digit length (index finger to ring finger) is the only gender identifier until puberty, when hips, breasts and other traits appear.

Their Cup Runneth OverThe Starbucks Coffee at Baylor University is caught between a coffee bean and a grinder after a cup emblazoned with a gay poem sparked an e-mail condemning the display as inappropriate for a Baptist University. Aramark, a food distributor running the Starbucks contacted the Starbucks regional office and the cup was pulled. The decision to remove the cup is said to have been made by Baylor dining services staff. Larry Brumley, a spokesperson at Baylor said, "I think they were trying to be


day in Parkgate Hall, 6-9 Conyngham Road, Dublin 8 from 10.00am to 12.00pm and from 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday to Friday for individuals and families presenting as homeless in the Dublin City Council area.

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The Dublin Region Homeless Executive is provided by Dublin City Council as the lead statutory local authority in the response to homelessness in Dublin and adopts a shared service approach across South Dublin County Council, Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.After 35 days, the U.S. partial government shutdown has concluded temporarily after President Trump and congressional leaders agreed to fund the affected agencies for three weeks while negotiations on a permanent solution continue. The Drudge Report first broke the news after 12:30 p.m. ET.

Temporary Reprieve

A new funding agreement to reopen the U.S. government was announced Friday afternoon, confirming earlier reports from the Drudge Report and The Wall Street Journal. President Trump announced the new spending arrangement in a press conference outside the White House.

CNBC’s Washington correspondent Eamon Javers said preparation for the address mirrored a “full blown presidential announcement.”

The set up in the Rose Garden right now is for a full blown presidential announcement complete with TelePrompTer, etc. Still no official word on timing or topic of the


a new steel barrier along the southern border.

On Saturday, the president proposed to extend protection for some illegal immigrants in the U.S. in exchange for border-security funding that would end the shutdown. However, Democrats outright refused to support any spending measure that includes a steel barrier on the southern border.

Pressure Mounts

The news on Friday came mere hours after Senator Tim Kaine hinted that a new deal was in the cards. Negotiations have picked up since President Trump vowed to declare a national emergency, which would have allowed him to bypass the budget approval process to fund his security initiative. By declaring a national emergency, the president would be able to divert funds from the Department of Defense to the southern border where a steel barrier could then beChina: contradictions of development

As the Chinese bureaucracy pushes the economy of China more and more along the capitalist road, more contradictions are appearing. The more the economy is integrated into the world market the more it will be prone to all the ups and downs of world capitalism. A serious slowdown on a world scale will have devastating effects.

Zhao Ziang died last month. Just over 15 years ago, Zhao was general secretary of the ruling Chinese “communist” party. When the great student uprising got under way back in 1989 and thousands occupied Tiananmen Square in the capital Beijing, Zhao came down to the square to sympathise with the students, hinting that he would meet their grievances and tried to persuade them to end their protests. The next day


he was put under house arrest by the rest of the Chinese “communist” leaders and the army moved in to crush (literally) the protest.

In the last 15 years, China has been undergoing an economic transformation of global and unprecedented proportions. The Chinese economy is growing at 9-10% a year compared to about 5-6% in the rest of Asia, 1-2% in Japan and Europe and 3% in the US.

China now takes over 7% of world trade. That does not sound too much, but that figure has doubled in just the last few years and, at the current rate, it will double its share again in the next five years. Already, the US, the world’s greatest economic power, is running a huge trade deficit with China, buying $150bn more in$1.5trn a year.

Also the super-imperialist power of the US, with its huge military might and formidable financial biceps, can still keep China in check. The US has close allies in Japan, Taiwan and Korea that are determined to ‘contain’ any Chinese expansion. As Marx and later Trotsky explained, the ex-colonial countries (and China was colonised by Britain, France, Japan and the US) face a huge problem in developing their economy because their growth will threaten the interests of the existing imperial powers.

In the early 19th century, India had built up a significant textile and steel-manufacturing sector, financed by British investors, that began exporting to the UK. But once British industry got under way, the imperial power made sure that India’s rival manufacturers were blocked and eventually destroyed. Only


read the excellent and astounding article written by Heiko Khoo back last December. He shows that it is not just Zhao Ziang who has been under house arrest for last 15 years in the grip of a corrupt, autocratic and militarist clique. The whole of the Chinese masses have been under arrest too.

What provoked the Tiananmen ‘incident’ over 15 years was not just the desire for political freedom, but also a realisation that the ‘capitalist path’ adopted by the Chinese leaders was distorting the economy, widening inequalities and driving corruption. Inflation had been moving up sharply, particularly in the cities, and economic growth and employment had slowed.

As we enter 2005, the Chinese economy seems far from being in that state of crisis. Economic growth is still strong atinto a full-blown crisis. But that is partly because state control and planning have weakened the volatility and anarchy of the capitalist market. With Chinese leaders almost day by day dismantling the state sector and planning controls, they are increasingly exposing their people to the forces of the world market, as they greedily reap the rewards of the profit economy.

China has already joined the World Trade Organisation, the trade body of capitalism. Under the terms of its accession, it has had to open up its economy to foreign investment and in 2008 it must free its currency from state control. Next time the world dives into a recession, China will not escape the impact of any global capitalist crisis as it did in the 1980s and 1990s.


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In the olden days, in kingdom-ised India, a man was known by the amount of cows he had. A woman by the man she had. It was simple.

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New youth group to promote agricultural issues

May 9, 2012

Virginia 4-H, Virginia FFA, and Virginia Farm Bureau Young Farmers have announced the creation of Virginia AGvocates: Youth Advocating for Agriculture. The new program unites youth as one positive voice to produce, promote, and take pride in Virginia’s agriculture through public relations activities.

Virginia AGvocates plans to use its website as an online database for agricultural advocacy. It will supply members with a list of resources including speech templates, tips on writing editorials, pointers on radio and television interviews, and helpful hints on writing press releases.

In addition, scholarship opportunities will be available for youth ages 9 to 19. Scholarship requirements include speeches and essays on topics relating to the future of agriculture in the commonwealth. A series of advocacy training workshopsIndependent to seek 49th District House seat

GOSHEN -- An independent candidate will likely appear on November's ballot for the 49th District seat in the Indiana House. Vince Turner, client relationship manager at Mutual Federal Savings Bank since last year, turned in 800 signatures to Elkhart County voting officials. Some 317 are required to gain ballot access. Prior to his job now, Turner was vice president of development for Bashor Children's Home for nine years, and a sports reporter for the Truth newspaper and radio station WTRC for a combined 21 years. He is running as an independent against Republican Wes Culver, who upset incumbent Rep. John Ulmer, R-Goshen, in the May 6 primary. "I thought the primary campaign got overly personal," Turner said. He lists changing "the tone


of campaigning" as his No. 1 priority. There were negative parts of the primary campaign, but none of them can be blamed on Culver, who wants to run a clean campaign, Elkhart County GOP Chairman Dale Stickel said. "There are people who supported him who did some negative things, but Wes Culver himself did not condone these things and did not finance these things," Stickel said. Culver said Turner's candidacy will change little about his own campaign, and that Turner's statement on an "overly personal" primary campaign is disappointing. "Vince is building his campaign on negative campaigning. He's the one attacking me," Culver said. "My primary (campaign) always talked about records and issues, all while holding my opponent in high regard." If elected, Turner would seek to preventHoward Dean is leaving his role at Democracy for America (DFA), the progressive group he founded told The Hill on Friday as he gears up for another run for Democratic National Committee chairman.

The former Vermont governor founded DFA in 2004, and when he left to helm the DNC from 2005 to 2009, his brother, Jim Dean, took over as chairman in 2005.

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Following his DNC tenure where he oversaw major Democratic gains, Dean returned to DFA to work as a special adviser. He will end that role on Friday.

“Founding DFA was one of the greatest honors of my life and, while I’m stepping back from my role with Democracy for America today, I could not be more proud of the grassroots movement we’ve created together and what they will


Australian state to pump oxygen into rivers as fish die An Australian state government has announced plans to mechanically pump oxygen into lakes and rivers after hundreds of thousands of fish have died in heatwave conditions

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian state government on Tuesday announced plans to mechanically pump oxygen into lakes and rivers after hundreds of thousands of fish have died in heatwave conditions.

Up to a million dead fish were found floating last week in the Darling River in western New South Wales state and the state government announced that 1,800 more rotting fish had since been found in Lake Hume in the state's south.

Minister for Regional Water Niall Blair said 16 battery-powered aerators had been bought and would be placed in various drought-affected waterways after theyNew SAFA Technical Director, Neil Tovey has hailed the Association for keeping the National Teams busy saying this augers well for the future of ‘our football.’Currently, the SAFA U17 Boys national championships are taking place at Nike Centre in Soweto. The tournament kicked off on Tuesday and is scheduled to end on Sunday 12 July 2015.On the same day, the Women U20 national team, Basetsana will play Botswana in a World Cup qualifier first leg at Dobsonville Stadium. The U20 Women’s World Cup will take place in Papua Guinea next year.

The Boys U17 team, Amajimbos have been in camp for the past week in KwaZulu Natal gearing themselves for the World Cup which is scheduled to take place in Chile in October this year while Owen da Gama’s


DONALD Trump was at the centre of fresh outrage yesterday as he claimed that more British Muslims join ISIS than the armed forces.

Donald Trump claims more British Muslims join ISIS than the armed forces

The controversial 69-year-old US Republican presidential candidate also refused to back down in his ongoing verbal spat with British politicians.

Earlier this week he claimed that parts of London were so radicalised that police refused to enter. Scotland Yard refuted the claim but some officers later came forward to confirm their fears of terrorism.

Mr Trump has called for a ban on all Muslims entering the US in the wake of the San Benardino shooting massacre in southern California in which 14 people died at the hands of killers inspired by Islamic extremists.

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British Muslims show solidarity outsideEast London Mosque in Whitechapel against Trump

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, said "the only reason I wouldn't go to certain parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump".

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Donald Trump's comments on Muslims have caused outrage across the world

In Scotland, meanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stripped Mr Trump of his role as business ambassador, and Robert Gordon University revoked an honorary degree.

It sparked a furious reaction from Mr Trump.

The US presidential contender, who owns two major golf courses and plans to spend £200 million in the country, said: "I have done so much for Scotland. If they were going to do this, they should have informed me prior to my major investment."

Despite the controversy, Mr Trump was becoming increasingly popular with American voters.

Polls show his


views are popular with the Republican primary electorate he is courting.

Bloomberg found that 64 per cent of likely Republican primary voters support the Muslim travel ban, compared to 35 per cent overall and 17 per cent among Democrats.

Critics accused Mr Trump of being 'racist', 'grotesque' and even 'more disgusting than Hitler'.

However other people said he was 'right' and described his claims about Isis and the British Army as 'scary.' As he faced worldwide condemnation for his incendiary remarks, Mr Trump said: "I am the least racist person you have ever met."

He said he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

He then claimed that in Britain "we have places in Londonunder stressful conditions, which the researchers imposed by adding different concentrations of an antibiotic to the culture. As Opitz explains, stress in the form of the antibiotic activates a specific type of SOS function in the bacteria, which triggers countermeasures and promotes toxin production (while the antibiotic also reduces overall growth rates).

In the absence of the stress induced by the addition of the antibiotic, the sensitive strain, which was present in 100-fold excess over the toxin producer at the outset, usually won out, although stable coexistence of both strains was also observed under these conditions. In cultures containing low levels of the antibiotic, on the other hand, the division of labor within the producer population gave it a decisive advantage, and in the vast majority of cases, it


BNSF opens new Kansas City intermodal facility

First train to arrive at BNSF’s LPKC Intermodal Facility.Logistics Park Kansas City

BNSF opened its new Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC) Intermodal Facility in Edgerton, Kan., to customers, business and elected officials October 17.

LPKC is a more than 1,550-acre master-planned distribution and warehouse development anchored by BNSF's newest intermodal facility, the third such facility to anchor a Logistics Park on BNSF's network.

BNSF's LPKC Intermodal Facility has been designed to accommodate the growing demands of freight rail transportation in the Kansas City region and will initially nearly double BNSF's lift capacity in that market. The Intermodal facility encompasses 433 acres and will have an initial lift capacity of 500,000 truck containers and trailers with the ability to expand to 1.5 million units.

"BNSF greatly appreciatesQ:

Are there good ways to "handicap" Midway?

In the Q&A section of the "rulebook," questions were asked about how to "handicap" the game in favor of either the Japanese or American player. The answers were to increase the "search" capabilities of the Japanese player, and to allow the American player one or two "B-17" (special bomber) attacks a day. I found these changes unsatisfying, because neither Japanese search capabilities nor B-17 attacks seemed to play a part in the real battle.
My "handicaps" include the following:

In favor of the Japanese: Start the game on June 4th rather than June 3rd. This allows Japan to bring three "waves" (out of four) ships on the first turn, with the remaining wave of five ships arriving at 5:00 p.m. the same day, thereby


eliminating the "first day" disadvantage encountered by Japan's first wave. This was a plausible scenario that would be an improvement on the plan that Yamamoto actually followed, and would have been a clear "handicap" in Japan's favor, compared to the game.
In favor of the Americans: Triple (or at least double) Midway's plane complement (to 6 torpedo and 18 dive bomber squadrons in the basic game, add 18 fighter squadrons in the advanced game). This reflects the (superior) airpower actually available to the Americans at the beginning of June 3rd. The game totals were actually available on June 4th, after a day of Japanese bombardment, and were intended to create a "play balance" of both sides having similar number of ships and planes on the first day. But arestoration of the actual status quo ante would have been a "handicap" in favor of the Americans (relative to the game).
Use both changes to create a "matchup" of more Japanese ships vs. more American planes.

Do my "handicaps" improve the game by

following history closely
creating more variety and/or
creating a "good imbalance" of ships versus planes?

Edit: In answer to another question, one poster noted that because of the difference in cultures, the Japanese were more likely to launch "suicide" attacks (one way air attacks that did not have enough fuel for the round trip) than the Americans. While the original rules allow both sides to do this, maybe only the Japanese should have this privilege. Would this be a viable "handicap" that is also historically accurate?

A:

Depending on the


Tuesday, January 31, 2012

When THE LONELY MILE was released last July I ran a chapter a day of the book on my blog for a week to give readers an opportunity to check it out before deciding whether it was something they might want to spend their money on. People seemed to think that was a pretty good idea, so here we go again.

My new release is a supernatural suspense thriller titled PASKAGANKEE, released two days ago in ebook format, at least for now, by StoneGate Ink. Here's the book description featured over at Amazon:

"An isolated village, remote and vulnerable.

A series of brutal murders.

And a vengeful spirit born of tragedy, reawakened after a centuries-old massacre.

Three distinctly different people must come together, racing against time and their own personalbring the child whose existence he had discovered just yesterday—his child—to meet him for the first time.

Stephen was a member of a small group of missionaries traveling up and down the eastern seaboard of this strange, wild country; their mission, to convert the native savages to Christianity and thus save their souls. It was a difficult and dangerous life, nearly impossible at times, but also incredibly rewarding when he was able to make a positive impact on the lives of the people he converted.

It was also a lonely job. The dedicated band of missionaries numbered roughly a dozen; though the exact total was constantly in flux as men joined the group or dropped out, unable to handle the stressful life, difficult travel and unrelenting physical danger. The last


time the missionaries passed through this remote area, working with a tribe located in a small village hard by the Penobscot River, he had met a Native girl, roughly his own age of twenty-two, and had taken refuge in her arms from the constant, crushing loneliness.

That was two years ago. The missionary group spent a couple of months working with the savages and then moved on, converting no one but making what they felt were potential inroads with a small number of the tribe’s more influential members. Unfortunately, the chief, an older savage with a deeply lined face and decades-old battle scars crisscrossing his body, had been unreceptive to the well-intentioned band of young men, eventually dropping all pretense of civility and forcing them to move on underthreat of violence.

Now the men were back in the area, nearing the northernmost portion of their territory, and had decided to pay another visit to the village to see if the situation with the tribe had changed. Perhaps the old chief had died and a new warrior had taken his place, one more receptive to the missionaries’ soul-saving message.

It was during this visit two days ago that Stephen spotted the Native girl walking through the village and signaled her. She had run to him, recognizing him immediately, and in a curious combination of English, French, and the strange Abnaki native tongue, the two had worked out a time and place to meet the following night. She seemed nervous and anxious, glancing around furtively as if fearful of being


observed, and after getting her message across to Stephen, disappeared quickly into the bustle of activity in the village.

At their meeting last night, Stephen received the shock of his young life when he learned he was the father of a now eighteen-month-old baby girl. The Native woman had become pregnant by him and given birth long after the band of missionaries had been forced to move on. She related to Stephen how she had nearly been sacrificed by the tribal elders when they learned she was with child, but had been spared due to her age and the fact that the baby’s father had left the area, never to return. The child would be raised as a Native in the customs and traditions of the Abnaki.

Shocked by thisdevelopment, Stephen knew immediately he could never allow his child to be raised as an Abnaki. The heathen savages refused to permit the introduction of Christianity into the community, and Stephen was well aware of what that meant for his child: suffering in the fires of hell for all eternity. Although he had never met his baby, although he had only known for twenty-four hours that he even had a baby, Stephen realized he must do something to give his little daughter the opportunity to experience eternal salvation.

So he had begged the Native girl for a chance to meet the infant, to see his child if only once, and she reluctantly agreed. Stephen thought how strange it was to have fathered a baby with a savage girl whose


name he didn’t even know. They had tried numerous times two years ago to relate their names to each other, but the language barrier was simply too wide—the savage girl’s name sounded like nothing more than guttural nonsense to Stephen, and he assumed his name sounded the same to her.

Stephen was surprised the Native girl had agreed to his request, as she was clearly suffering tremendous pressure from the village elders. The savages had never expected to see the band of traveling missionaries again, and the Native girl was obviously worried that either she or her baby would suffer some horrible fate Stephen could not comprehend thanks to their return.

All the more reason, Stephen thought, to rescue my child from this primitive land, to give her a chanceat a real life back in England. His parents would be shocked by the baby’s arrival, but he knew they could provide proper care for her until Stephen could return home following his missionary calling and raise her himself.

Now, the night of the promised meeting, Stephen sat perched on a mammoth boulder, body heat leaching away in the freezing cold of the Great Forest. He feared the young mother had changed her mind about allowing him to see his baby. Perhaps the elders had somehow learned of the meeting and were even now holding her captive, forbidding her to leave the village. He hoped not; it would make a bad situation that much worse.

But at last the girl padded silently down the narrow hunting path. On her back


harsh and unforgiving climate by utilizing skills perfected over the course of centuries to overcome the frigid winter temperatures. No, this was something else—the girl was clearly terrified. Stephen was glad he had decided to rescue his child from the clutches of these savages; it seemed obvious to him that something was very wrong.

As he admired the baby—or at least the top of her head—the remainder of the close-knit band of traveling missionaries appeared, stepping out from behind trees, bushes and rocks and surrounding Stephen and the Native girl. He watched tensely as she turned a full three hundred sixty degrees, looking from face to face in terror, understanding instantly she had been tricked, that this late-night meeting was not going to go as planned.

Stephen hated having toambush the frightened Native girl like this, but he could think of no other way to wrest his baby away from clutches of the Abnaki savages. After meeting the girl in this isolated location last night—a good two miles from her village and at least another mile from the missionaries’ camp—and discovering that he was a father, he had requested council with the rest of the group.

The men had been unanimously shocked by Stephen Ames’s admission of having lain with the savage two years ago, but they quickly agreed that action must be taken to remove the innocent child from the heathens, that she be provided the opportunity to grow to adulthood in civilized society. In a strategy session lasting deep into the night, a plan had been


hastily devised. Stephen would meet the Native girl as agreed, and the remainder of the missionaries would show themselves upon her arrival. The resulting show of force, they reasoned, should be sufficient to intimidate the frightened girl into handing over the baby.

After that meeting had broken up, however, Stephen had learned from his closest friend that the missionary leaders convened a second session, one to which Stephen Ames had not been invited. They suspected separating the child from her mother might not be so easy and knew they might require a second, more forceful plan, to be utilized in the event the young savage resisted. That was all the information Stephen had been able to pry out of his associate but was more than enough to cause himgrave concern.

Now, as Stephen watched with his heart in his throat, the young girl turned on her heel and began hurrying as quickly as she was able with a sleeping baby on her back down the narrow hunting path. She found her passage blocked almost immediately by two of the missionaries. They approached her with their hands held out, palms up, in identical gestures of supplication, speaking to her calmly, telling her she had nothing to fear. Stephen knew she did not understand and could see things were spiraling quickly out of control.

He rushed up from behind, hoping to avert disaster, but as he did the rest of the group closed in on her as well and now she had nowhere to go, nowhere to run. The young


mother tried to shoulder her way past the man nearest her as Stephen reached for her elbow and missed. The missionary shoved her roughly, and she tumbled into the forest ringing the path. Stephen shouted and the man grabbed for the baby and that was when all hell broke loose.

***

Abnaki war cries pierced the air as savages seemingly materialized out of nowhere, rushing to protect their tribal member. They moved quickly and within seconds had fully surrounded the missionaries. One warrior struck the man who had pushed the girl, hitting him in the face with his fist. Blood spurted and bone cracked and the man fell to the ground with an anguished cry.

This seemed to panic the missionaries, and one of them pulled a strange-looking silver cylindrical devicefrom the pocket of his long overcoat, pointing it at the Abnaki warrior who had rushed to the girl’s defense. Fire erupted from the end of the cylinder and a frighteningly loud boom shook the woods as the side of the warrior’s face disappeared in a pink and grey stew of blood, bone and tissue. The warrior dropped to the ground and lay still.

Immediately bows were drawn and arrows launched by the Abnaki tribal members and knives and hatchets appeared. More silver cylinders were drawn out of more missionary pockets, belching more fire; the awful booming noises crashed through the forest and men on both sides of the conflict fell.

***

Stephen screamed and tumbled to the ground as he was struck in the shoulder by a hatchet thrown from


he knew not where. He had known the missionary group would be armed; they always carried weapons when dealing with savages, but they had never before been forced to use them against this particular tribe.

His left arm felt numb and his hand tingled violently; he knew he was badly injured. Blood covered his shoulder and ran down his chest in a great wave. He looked for the Native girl, the mother of his child, but could not find her. Smoke from the missionaries’ guns hung thickly in the air, obscuring the moonlight and casting the scene in an eerie nightmarish hue. Screams rent the night, whether from missionaries or tribesmen Stephen could not tell.

His vision began to narrow; he found himself peering down a long tunnel and soonthe black edges of that tunnel began squeezing his vision into a steadily shrinking circle. The screaming and the cries of anguish now seemed to originate from a point much farther away than they had previously, although Stephen knew that was not possible. He was lying in the middle of the battle zone. He guessed he was dying and wished he could hold his baby daughter just once.

Then nothing.

***

Stephen Ames opened his eyes. He was still lying on the frozen ground of New England in November. He felt incredibly, bone-chillingly cold, colder than he ever had in his entire life. He was surprised he was not dead and wondered how long he had been lying in the forest unconscious. He attempted to stand up and only then realized


he could not move. Stephen knew that unless someone helped him, and soon, he was going to die. He was surprised to discover the prospect didn’t frighten him.

Moving his head, which seemed to be the only part of his body he could convince to work properly, Stephen scanned as much of the area as he could see. Bodies littered the forest, some of them Abnaki tribal warriors and some of them missionaries; men Stephen had lived and worked with for the past three years. A few of them were moaning softly, but most lay unspeaking and unmoving. Stephen suspected the majority of them were dead. Blood was everywhere, congealing on every surface, more blood than Stephen would ever have imagined possible.

His most pressing thought—his only clear thought, really—wasfor his baby. Was she still near? He didn’t think so. None of the bodies he could see on the ground appeared to be those of women; although he knew he could not see all of the dead. He hoped fervently that the Native girl and his child had somehow escaped the carnage, as unlikely as that seemed.

Motion in his peripheral vision caused Stephen to peer down the hunting path. The smoke from the gunfire had by now cleared, and the moon shone brightly in the frigid November sky. Struggling up the path was an elderly Abnaki tribesman. Stephen had never before seen the man and that was strange; until now he thought he had met everyone in the small tribal village at least once. The man looked


older than anyone Stephen had ever seen—ancient even. Lines etched his face which was haggard and drawn. Tears rolled down his cheeks. He took slow, measured steps and remained utterly silent as he reached the scene of the bloody conflict.

The old tribesman’s arms were laden with strange-looking items like roots and cloth sacks filled with what Stephen could not imagine. At last the man reached a point roughly in the center of the carnage and set all his accoutrements on the ground in a neat pile. He still had not said a word as far as Stephen could tell.

Stephen thought briefly about crying out and alerting the ancient Native to his presence. He knew that by doing so, he would probably seal his fate. The man would certainlykill him after what had been done to his fellow Abnaki tribal members. But Stephen didn’t care if the man killed him; he decided he would welcome death after this tragic night had gone so horribly wrong, but he was curious as to what the old man was doing all by himself in the middle of the night in this place that reeked of treachery and death and destruction.

He remained quiet and watched the scene unfold. The elderly Abnaki sat cross-legged on the cold, hard ground, arranging his materials in a tight semicircle. It appeared to Stephen that the man was chanting under his breath—his lips were moving but Stephen could hear nothing.

Stephen knew enough about the customs of the Abnaki and about Natives in general to know


the elderly man was performing some sacred ritual. He was a tribal medicine man, an individual possessed of incredible power and mysticism. His voice was now intelligible to Stephen, strengthening in volume as he continued to chant. He mixed ingredients into a great bowl placed on the ground in front of him. The man added water to the mixture and stirred slowly for a long time, staring into the distance and chanting. Tendrils of steam rose lazily from the bowl, clearly apparent in the bright moonlight, despite the fact there was no fire beneath it.

Eventually the elderly Native stood, moving ever so slowly, and walked among the bodies littering the forest floor. He stopped at each of the Abnaki dead, smearing some of the mixture on the foreheadsof the men and ignoring the missionary dead.

Stephen’s vision began to waver and he knew he would soon be joining his fellow missionaries in whatever afterlife awaited them in the wake of this disaster. He hoped God understood he had not planned this slaughter and prayed he would still be permitted entrance into heaven. He prayed also that his daughter, the baby he had met just once, was alive; although he knew that was unlikely in the extreme.

As the ancient Abnaki medicine man padded silently among the Native bodies, performing his mysterious ritual, Stephen Ames slipped into unconsciousness for the last time. The freezing cold vanished and the world went black, and Stephen was grateful there was no pain.

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Tomorrow I'll feature Chapter One. PASKAGANKEE is available for now


at Amazon...

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Jake Bishop is a two-time loser, a B&E specialist who is down to his last shot at life. One more conviction and he'll be sent away for good as part of Michigan's three strikes and you're out habitual offender law, or The Bitch, as it's known to the cons.

But Jake has no intention of ever seeing the inside of a prison cell again. He learned a trade - hairdressing - while on the inside and discovered he's got a talent for it. Using hard work and a little luck, Jake turns his newly discovered talent into steady employment and eventually the opportunity to open his own shop.

Jake is determined to turn his life around, and he's doing it. His wife is pregnant with theirfirst child, his shop will be opening in just a few weeks. Things couldn't be going better.

Until he receives a call from his from his old prison cellmate, Walker Joy, that is. Walker is fresh out of the can, and Jake owes Walker big-time, thanks to an incident that occurred in prison. The ex-con is planning a big score. He needs Jake's help and has come to collect on the debt.

One last job.

And that's how it starts. Things go rapidly downhill from there for Jake Bishop, who is forced to walk a razor-thin line he hoped never to walk again, knowing that getting caught would mean the end of his family, his freedom, his life.

I finished reading THE BITCH last night and haven't stopped thinking about it since.


winner for excellence in short mystery fiction as well as a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee, my work has been featured in Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Shroud Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Morpheus Tales, Twisted Dreams, Mysterical-E and many others, as well as the print anthologies INTRIGUE, TEN FOR TEN and NORTHERN HAUNTS.
I am a fan of Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Lee Child, Tom Piccirilli, Dave Zeltserman and Vincent Zandri, among many others.while Johnson is Majority Leader in the Senate, segregation hits the national consciousness. His long-standing support for the poor and downtrodden suddenly coincides with a recognition that many of those are not only black; but are poor and downtrodden because of being black. At that moment the driven, ambitious, and yes, racist, Senator from Texas steps up to the challenge; confronts one of his own demons; and conquers it. He remakes himself  as a Civil Rights Champion.
It seems appropriate to note here that, as President, Johnson was uniquely qualified in a manner that few of his predecessors, and none of his successors to date, have been: as a former Majority Leader of the Senate, Johnson understood the legislative process far better than most presidents. Johnson had


perfected that craft in what his contemporaries termed "the full Johnson" (or alternatively "the Treatment"):

flattery, deals, pressure, threats — delivered at all hours in manners ranging from lofty to crude

Further

As Richard Russell, the South’s leader in the Senate during the 1960s, put it to a friend a few days after Kennedy’s assassination: “You know, we could have beaten John Kennedy on civil rights, but not Lyndon Johnson.”

So: "Why did Johnson champion the Civil Rights movement from 1957 on?"
Because it was the defining issue of his time; and, to be recognized as the great man that he aspired to be and saw himself as, one had to not only be on the right side; one had to be a champion of the right side.

A:

LBJ was a complexfigure. He is described as having "uncommon ambition", easily discarding considerations such as ideology for the sake of advancing his career. As a Texas congressman and then Senator, his voting in favour of segregation is completely in line with the political climate of the time and place. Seizing on the nation's grief and support for completing JFK's legacy, he may have seen the Civil Rights act as a political tool to shore up support for his own agenda.
And yet he has long been motivated, probably by his deep religiosity, to help the disadvantaged, such as the poor, but also including African Americans. This aspect he shared with his mentor FDR. For example, as president he launched a series of legislation under the War on Poverty moniker. It's possible


that his support for Civil Rights fell along these lines.
But it's important to note that he was most likely racist. He would sometimes refer to the Civil Rights bill as the "nigger bill". He was a product of his time and place. Nevertheless, it's hard to deny that the Civil Rights Act would not have passed if not for his tremendous efforts. Perhaps the best anecdote that illustrates his hypocrisy between ambition and compassion: after the passage of the act, his main concern was that he "delivered the South to the Republican party".

A:

LBJ didn't flip. He was racist and only use the Civil Rights Act to further his power and his party's political power. LBJ said to Richard Russell, a fellow Democratic Senator from Georgia:

These Negroes, they're gettingthe St. Louis area Moneytown offered a variety of financial services to its customers and disbursed food stamps to eligible individuals.  In October of 1975 an extensive shortage of funds was discovered with regard to the food stamp operation of Moneytown.  A subsequent investigation indicated that certain monthly reports submitted by Moneytown had listed numerous bank deposits which had not in fact been made.  The indictment involved in this appeal was later returned, charging that by submitting the reports the defendant had knowingly and willfully made a false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of a federal agency.

4
The federal food stamp program is administered through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  The USDA contracts with each state for the disbursement of food


stamps.  In Missouri the Division of Family Services is the state agency responsible for administering the food stamp program.  The Division of Family Services accomplishes the disbursement of food stamps by contracting private businesses such as Moneytown to serve as food stamp vendors.

5
Moneytown's function as a vendor included disbursing food stamps to individual purchasers in return for "Authorization to Purchase" (ATP) cards and a designated amount of money.  The ATP cards were issued to persons eligible to receive food stamps, and indicated the number of stamps to which the recipient was entitled as well as the amount of cash which the recipient was required to pay for the stamps.  In addition to actually disbursing the stamps, Moneytown was responsible for a number of bookkeepingcards and cash received each day.  A monthly report tabulating the daily totals was to be completed on a form denominated "FNS 250."  In addition, the FNS 250 form was to include a listing of all deposits made to the Federal Reserve Bank by the vendor for the month.  All ATP cards received by Moneytown were returned to the state office, computer tabulated and later reconciled against the figures listed on Moneytown's FNS 250 forms.  The FNS 250 form was the monthly accountability form eventually sent to the Food and Nutrition Service in Washington, D. C., for auditing purposes.

7
During the early stages of Moneytown's operation as a food stamp vendor numerous errors became apparent in the FNS 250's submitted by Moneytown when the forms


were checked against the ATP card totals compiled at the state headquarters.  It also became apparent that Moneytown was not in compliance with the time requirements for deposit of funds collected in return for stamps issued.  Due to the fact that Moneytown's system of bookkeeping was leading to inaccuracies in the information listed in the records of its food stamp operation, representatives of the Missouri Division of Family Services went to the Moneytown office each month after May 1975 to assist in the preparation of the FNS 250 forms.  In each instance the state employees would prepare a tabulation based on Moneytown's weekly submission of accumulated FS 20 reports, and would go to Moneytown's office at the end of the month to aid Moneytown employeeswith the preparation of the FNS 250 form.

8
The FNS 250 forms filed by Moneytown for the months of May through September 1975 contained the statements which formed the basis of the indictment in this case.  It is undisputed that the FNS 250 forms filed by Moneytown for those months listed deposits to the Federal Reserve Bank in amounts which reflected the amount of cash received by Moneytown as determined by the number of stamps disbursed and the ATP cards receiving during the period.  It is likewise undisputed that the computer records of deposits actually made to the Federal Reserve Bank from June through September 1975 listed no deposits from Moneytown.

9
The indictment against Lanier charged him with falsely stating the amount of deposits on the FNS 250's


for the months of May, June, July, August and September 1975.  The forms for May and June were signed by state employees after preparation by them, and the defendant was acquitted on Counts I and II, which were based on those forms.  Lanier signed the FNS 250's for July, August and September after being requested to do so by employees of the Missouri Division of Family Services.  Guilty verdicts were returned on Counts III, IV and V, based on those forms.

10
II. Sufficiency of the Evidence.

11
The defendant's first major contention is that the government's evidence was insufficient to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and that his motion for acquittal, made at the close of the government's case and again at the conclusion ofadded).  The record here shows that Lanier took an active part in operating the business and knew about and participated in the fraud on the government.  See United States v. Bass, supra.  We therefore conclude that the defendant was properly charged in his individual capacity under the statute.3

14
Defendant next argues that proof was insufficient that he made the false statements or caused them to be made because the figures on the FNS 250 forms were compiled by the state officials, and his signature alone was insufficient evidence that he made the statements.  However, ample evidence established that the defendant knew of the deposit requirements and that he knew that the deposits listed on the forms had not been made.  There was direct testimony


by the witness Vivian Parker, a former employee of Moneytown, that Lanier had given her directions to make false reports of deposits and to forge false money orders to corroborate those reports.

15
Vivian Parker provided the key testimony establishing the defendant's individual complicity in the crime.  After May 1975 she was the Moneytown employee responsible for compilation of the required reports for the food stamp operation.  Parker testified that Lanier told her to figure the totals as required for completion of the forms and to prepare copies of money orders reflecting the amounts which should be deposited each day.  She was never to actually deposit the funds without permission from the defendant, however.  Furthermore, when the state officials came to the Moneytown offices at theend of the month to supervise completion of the FNS 250 forms she was to show them the bogus money order copies when asked about deposits.

16
Parker testified that the defendant told her in May 1975 that a $500,000 float had to be maintained at the United Missouri Bank of Ferguson and that under no circumstances were deposits to be made without his knowledge.  Parker also testified that when she informed the defendant in June 1975 that no deposits had been made for May and June of that year he said: "The federal government must be farther behind than I expected.  They must be at least 60 days behind instead of 30 in auditing."

17
We find that the testimony of witness Parker, if credited by the jury, was


government introduced insufficient evidence that the deposit figures listed on the FNS 250's were false.  He urges that in accordance with instructions of state personnel, the deposit figures listed on the FNS 250's were only bookkeeping entries, intended to reflect the total receipts of the vending operation rather than deposits actually made to the Federal Reserve Bank.  Defendant urges that the deposit totals corresponded to the correct totals figured at the state office after tabulation of the ATP cards and therefore the deposit figures cannot be said to be false.  In connection with this argument, Lanier also asserts that since the FNS 250 forms did not label the deposits listed as deposits to a given bank, and in view of the state employees' acquiescence inadequately examine the documentary evidence relevant to the case.  The defendant further contends that because of the lack of adequate time for trial preparation, he was unable to interview a number of witnesses who could have aided his defense.  In support of this contention the defendant urges that, due to publicity surrounding the case and the government's repeated references at trial to the $1,000,000 missing from the food stamp funds collected by Moneytown, the real issue in the jury's mind was the implication that he had stolen the money.  Therefore, he argues, his inability to fully examine the financial records of Moneytown and explain where the money had gone was highly prejudicial.  We are not convinced that the time allowed by the trial court


was inadequate for the defendant to fully examine Moneytown's financial records.  Furthermore, even if the defendant had been able to explain fully where the funds had actually gone, the FNS 250 forms which formed the basis for the indictment would be no less false with regard to the deposits listed.  Our examination of the record indicates that the government's references to the amount of money missing, or the amount misstated on Moneytown's FNS 250 forms, were relevant to negate the defendant's contention that he merely made a good faith mistake as to the amount of money deposited and was totally unaware that deposits were not being made.

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About Ayurveda

Ayurveda is India's contribution to humanity in its search for health care, well being and longevity. This wonderful treatise on human health is considered as the 'fifth Veda' narrated directly by God to great sages of the ancient past. It mellowed with the evolution of Indian civilisation tracing its origin to 'Atharva Veda' the oldest work of philosophy and science in the history of mankind.

And since, almost all the medicines are of herbal origin, they do not have any side effects. Ayurveda flourished at a time when all the science branches, we now practice, were in their rudiments. Physicians the world over now consider Ayurveda as a system of treatment embedded in nature that couples medication and recognised lifestyle. In the modern era, where most of thewas pipe-dreaming and was talking up the bids. Rahul has been proved right with the winning bid very close to his estimate. Rahul, having raked up all the moolah on behalf of the BCCI now needs to deliver better cricket. He needs to support the Indian Eves who almost won the World Cup. He needs to do far more for cricket in the hinterland. Uday Shankar has his task cut out simply in making sure his bid actually makes money for Star. Shankar has the unique advantage of now having 100 days of cricket at his command. He can take Indian media to a newer high. Both Johri and Shankar are well experienced media men. They just need to make sure the future of Indian cricket is about


fun, family and fervor for the game. The financials eventually will right themselves.

(Sandeep Goyal is a die-hard cricket fan. He brings the wisdom of many years of also being involved in the business of media rights to his writings in this Blog.)April.

“It is a matter of concern that through its lack of cooperation Burundi has prevented implementation of this Council’s resolution and the mandated work of the group of experts,” she said.

Burundi has been gripped by violence since early 2015 when President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would seek a third term, widely seen as a breach of the constitution.

Subsequent clashes between security forces and rebels left hundreds dead and forced about half a million to flee, reviving memories of the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda, which has a similar ethnic mix.

Gilmore welcomed criticism of Burundi by European diplomats at the council, which she said showed “the inappropriateness, the unacceptability of this paralysis”.

Burundian Ambassador Renovat Tabu said the departure of the U.N. team had been spun to cast his government


of the fall's most confounding disappointments.

The drama, starring Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as brothers and opponents in a mixed martial arts tournament, received rave reviews and an A grade from audience-tracker Cinemascore (meaning people loved it). Nevertheless, it's so far only grossed a paltry $13 million in North America.

For that, you can probably blame the subject matter and the marketing, which emphasized the MMA connection -- as opposed to the relationships. That in turn repelled potential moviegoers, especially women. (Popular as it may be in some circles, the UFC has a long way to go before attaining the mainstream acceptance of, say, boxing.)

Likewise, critical acclaim did little to help the long-term fortunes of Drive, which has been largely rejected by audiences.

Although it opened well, it has plungedCategory: Recipe

We arrived from the airport by cab and checked in to the Hearth Hotel, on Via Santamaura, right next to the Vatican museum gate. A good spot and very handy by foot and Metro to the rest of the city.

Pines of the Jainiculum

A walk about took us to Saint Peter’s Square, and then up to the nearby Jainiculum (Gianicolo) in order to unlock the first of many Respighi achievements, Pini di Roma: III. I pini del Gianicolo. It is one of several hills around Rome, and mostly a public park, with many sculptures and busts of historical Italian figures dotted about.

Later in the afternoon we wandered into Trastevere district, which has lots of art shops and restaurants on either side of old cobbled Roman streets. Along the


way we entered Santa Maria in Trastevere, a Roman basilica dating back to the fourth century A.D. Its beautiful gilded ceilings and Cavallini mosaics are a stunning sight.

Gilded ceiling of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

Mosaics by Cavallini in the Santa Maria in Trastevere.

Trevi Fountain.

The next day we went on a guided tour around the Colosseum and Roman Forum, and another around the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain (Respighi achievement unlocked, Fontane di Roma: III. La fontana di Trevi al meriggio) and the Pantheon. A big full day, but thoroughly worth it.

The Colosseum, from the Metro station.

The ancient Romans had figured out how to make strong concrete (opus cæmenticium) using volcanic ash. Unlike the modern technique of using gravel aggregate and pouring it into place, they used it more likea mortar, to lay bigger bits of baked clay bricks or rubble together. The Colosseum was built using brick and concrete around 110 A.D. and must have been a beautiful spectacle in brilliant white travertine, and festooned with many marble sculptures and reliefs.

Whilst it did fall into disuse after the fall of the Roman Empire, its current dilapidated state is mostly due to its deliberate dismantling over the following thousand years by builders, who raided its marble statues and outer cladding blocks in order to build other Roman buildings, including much of what is now Vatican City.

The Pantheon dome from inside.

The Pantheon is the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, built in 120 A.D. with a diameter of 43 metres. It was built using pumice as the


aggregate towards the top, to reduce the load on the lower structure.

It is truly remarkable that, despite the Italian peninsula being prone to large earthquakes similar to New Zealand, these buildings are still standing after two thousand years.

The Lombardi Propileo Cesanese, a good IGT red from the Lazio region.

Along the way we observed that in Rome at least, road rules are mostly optional, and most cars seem to be fitted with broken indicator bulbs. Drivers do stop for pedestrians though, which was a relief. Just around the corner from the hotel was a great restaurant where we could use our colourful Euro beer vouchers to buy great Italian food and local wine, including a Lazio Cesanese called Propileo, which has been somewhat hard to track down since. Inevitably,The majority of Icelandic female settlers came from the British Isles

Results of reasearch on the origin of the settlers of the North Atlantic islands

Reykjavik 2. february, 2001 – For the last three years, deCODE genetics and Oxford University have been collaborating on one of the biggest research projects ever on the origins of a whole nation. The team, lead by Mr. Agnar Helgason is now publishing it´s third paper on the subject in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

According to the study, which was based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA, only 37% of the female settlers of Iceland orginated from the Nordic countries but 62% from the British Isles. Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from mother to child and therefor most Icelanders can trace the genotypes of their


mitochondria the females, back to the settlers who came to Iceland in the ninth and tenth century. the genotypes of 467 Icelanders was compared to genotypes of 1019 people from Scotland and Ireland. The study was also aimed at retrieving knowledge on the origin of populations of other North Atlantic islands. The main results are that genotypes of Nordic origins have a frequency of 35% at Orkney islands but only 11% on Southern island and 12% on the Scottish island of Skye.

The first results from this study was published in American Journal of Human Genetics early last year. That article described research done on mitochondrial DNA which showed that more than half of the female settlers of Iceland had their ancestral roots in the British Isles.

The second milestonewas published in the same journal last September. The genotypes of maleY chromosomes were compared in Icelanders, Skandinavians and inhabitants of the British Isles. The Y chromosome only exists in males and therefor most Icelandic males can trace the ancestry of their Y chromosome genotypes back to the male founders. Those results showed that 80% of the male settlers originated from Norway and other Scandinavian countries, but only 19% to the British Isles.

Taken together these results suggest that the settlers of Iceland were by and largly Nordic males and british women.

In addition to Agnar Helgason, Kari Stefansson , Sigrun Sigurdardottir and Jeff Gulcher worked on the research at deCODE genetics. It was done in collaboration between deCODE and Hprofessor Ryk Ward from Oxford University and in parts in


its simplest form, countries like the United States with large current account deficits consume too much in comparison to what they produce, and countries like China with persistent current account surpluses are consuming too little in comparison with production. Especially if the economy in question is large enough, its domestic condition can have negative implications for the international system.

Particularly in the mid-2000s, China was running a large and growing current account surplus with the world. For example, its current account surplus in 2006 was $232 billion USD, about 8 percent of GDP. One of several culprits behind this lack of balance was the value of the Chinese currency on the international market. The exchange rate in China is determined by the government. Normally, when a currency floats onscore during the Bush years was at best mixed. But after years of apparent indifference, Bush embraced the issue of climate change in 2006, perhaps under the influence of his new Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, a lifelong environmentalist. In December 2006 the United States engaged all of the major net importers of fossil fuels in Asia in a forum on energy security and the environment. Significantly, Beijing hosted that initial meeting of the Five-Country Energy Ministerial. The meeting, which I attended as a representative from the State Department, promoted market-based approaches to energy pricing, sought to reduce government subsidies of energy that served to increase carbon consumption, encouraged the creation of more robust petroleum reserves (but cautioned against using them for purposes other than remedying massive


proposed, outstripping China's already ambitious government plan. Once the large sunk costs for building the plants are paid, it will be economically and politically harder to stop using them, despite the terrible global implications. In a very depressing article, Greenpeace research predicts that the growth in CO2 emissions from increasing Chinese SNG will likely outstrip in only one year the entire U.S. commitment to reduce emissions from now until 2020 and will nearly match the EU's own commitment on that score. More to the point, perhaps, the research suggests that the new emissions from SNG will far outstrip the global benefits of China's rather active campaign to limit coal burning in many provinces. That coal control campaign is, predictably, aimed more at reducing ground-level fine particulate pollution than

No stranger to courting a little controversy, Ai Weiwei has received more than mixed reviews for his latest art project in which he had hundreds of actors and socialites at Berlin’s annual Cinema for Peace gala wrap themselves up in refugee jackets of gold to help raise awareness for the Syrian refugee crisis.

#cinemaforpeace Berlin A photo posted by Ai Weiwei (@aiww) on Feb 15, 2016 at 11:18am PST

A photo posted by Ai Weiwei (@aiww) on Jan 25, 2016 at 1:23am PST

Among the big names in attendance was Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron, who attended the gala to support her charity, the African Outreach Project, which helps African youth keep themselves safe from HIV/AIDS.Theron had arrived in a glamorous black Dior gown . After presenting the Nelson Mandela Award


for The Most Valuable Movie of the Year to Beasts of No Nation, she too covered herself in gold foil to support Ai.Gala attendees put on the gold jackets during the presentation of the Refugee Award for A Syrian Love Story, a documentary about a couple who were separated fleeing from a Syrian prison. On stage was German actress Katja Riemann and the family featured in the film.“Syrians do not want to be refugees. They want to live freely in their country,” the mother said in Arabic with her son at her side. Riemann then told the audience to look for a gift under their seat, which turned out to be a gold foil cape representing those that kept refugees warm on the shores of Lesbos.

A photo postedIt was hardly a secret, but Mississauga councillor Bonnie Crombie made it official Tuesday morning: She will try to fill the sizeable void being left by legendary Mayor Hazel McCallion.

Crombie registered for the mayoral race at Mississauga City Hall, promising three key things. “My platform is: how we move; grow responsibly; and how we thrive.”

Crombie, a former one term MP for Mississauga, joined council in 2011 after winning a by-election following her defeat in the federal election.

Her main challenger in the race is former city councillor, MPP and MP Steve Mahoney.

After Mahoney registered last week, Crombie, long rumoured to covet the mayor's seat, said he did not represent the “Mississauga of today.”

Mahoney countered with his own shot, suggesting Crombie spends all her time promoting herself instead of formulating


video accompaniment apparatus (called a "karaoke" apparatus) displays song lyrics on a monitor while reproducing a musical accompaniment corresponding to the song, whereby users can sing along with the accompaniment by reading the displayed lyrics. Recently, such music video accompaniment apparatuses have been widely distributed, having been placed in music room establishments and in the home as well. Thus far, a laser disk (LD) karaoke apparatus using a laser disk, a computer karaoke apparatus using a semiconductor memory, and a CDG or CDEG karaoke apparatus using the graphics capability of a compact disk have been introduced.
Using a laser disk player, the LD karaoke apparatus reproduces a video signal, an audio signal and a character signal which have been recorded on the LD and displays the reproduced signals oncareer by signing a three-year deal with Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles.
On October 4, 2009, Galuvao played for Parramatta in the 2009 NRL Grand Final defeat by Melbourne.  In 2010, Melbourne were subsequently stripped of the premiership they won against Parramatta for major and deliberate breaches of the salary cap.

Despite being concussed in a pre-season match, Galuvao made his debut for Manly against his old club Parramatta in round 2 of the 2010 NRL season. Galuvao won a second premiership as part of Manly's victorious 2011 NRL Grand Final squad. He, along with Shane Rodney have played in the same premiership team twice, Rodney having been a teammate of Galuvao's in Penrith's victorious 2003 NRL Grand Final squad. In 2013, after suffering a season-ending injury, Galuvao announced his retirement.

Career


Hilarious ! Taylor Mead Kevin Bartelme lives in New York City and for various reasons wants as little known about his life or whereabouts as possible, however, he is available for book readings and signings.

Sentenced to death for killing a man in a gunfight, hot-tempered gunslinger Ryan O'Rourke heads south to seek refuge in Mexico where, deep in the Huaqui Mountains, he encounters both his worst enemy and his ultimate destiny. Original.

I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun." 'The first few pages of this book made me laugh so much I dropped it on my month-old baby... Holidays in Hell is a splendid read.' Evening Standard

Demeter in Paris by Meghan O'Rourke You can only miss someone when they are present to you. The Isle of theweight, she did not just look like she shed some pounds. She looked like she had a complete makeover. Dyeing her hair blonde and playing around with makeup, the former 600-pounder looked nothing like her overweight self. One particular picture, taken during her brother’s wedding, was so well received in social media that many My 600-lb Life fans stated that she could easily be a model now.

As revealed in Amber’s public Facebook profile recently, however, her transformation, as remarkable as it has been, is actually not over yet. In a recent conversation with one of her social media followers, Amber revealed that she had not undergone any skin surgery to date. According to Amber, she is still living with excess skin from her weight loss.

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The first time I saw Prince live, I didn’t really want to go.

It was 2004, and the Musicology tour was hitting Los Angeles. The show had received plenty of press — the in-the-round stage setup, the fact that Prince was giving out CDs of the album along with tickets — but it wasn't something I was really keeping tabs on. I knew Prince's hits, of course, and his virtuosity was legend, but I didn't consider myself a fan. But somehow, one of my good friends ended up with 10th row tickets the day of the show, and after my boss heard I had the chance to go, she basically told me I could rush down to Staples Center, or get fired.

A couple of hours later, I understood why.

DescribingI knew that Prince was the most incredible guitar player I’d ever seen.

Anybody that had seem him live already knew.

Prince didn't play during the Super Bowl; the Super Bowl played around him

In one performance, Prince had transformed me from someone who knew him more for his name changes and odd outbursts into one that recognized him as one of our most vital living artists at the time. While his numerous albums after that point were largely hit or miss, his towering presence as a performer only grew. In 2007, he braved a rainy stage to unleash what, in my mind, is the best Super Bowl halftime show we’ve ever seen, turning what is largely a drudgery of desperate commercialism and overdone stage design into something unforgettable. If you


guests, costume changes — and even more importantly, encores than ran later into the night. One night, those of us that stayed long after the house lights came on were treated to Prince in a yellow jumpsuit performing another song for the crowd. On the night of Stevie Wonder’s birthday, the older performer showed up for a rendition of "Superstition," with Prince playing bass in the background, grinning from ear to ear.

Even at 52 his energy was boundless; his features seemingly frozen in time, Dorian Grey-style. I may have missed his early career, back when he toured clubs and was fond of breaking out the splits, but I did have the chance to see him many times — and I think it’s safe to say that age wasKobe Bryant Likes 'Smash Mouth Old School Basketball' Because It's 'Much Less Physical'

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Los Angeles Daily News

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CHICAGO -- For once, Kobe Bryant emerged from the trainer's room into an interview session delving into little about his recovery.

After all, Bryant had spoken four days ago in Boston about how he's rehabbing his fractured left leg performing bike drills and won't receive an MRI until early February. So instead, Bryant dished on a wide-range of topics ranging from his refusal to play in the 2016 Olympics, why he doesn't feel deserving for an All-Star nod and his wish for the NBA to return to the rugged style it employed in the 1980's.

But first things first. Bryant said his return remains "up in the air," but


Team USA in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero, hoped he could convince Bryant to compete for his third consecutive gold medal. Bryant immediately vowed he won't return after winning gold in the 2012 London games. Despite signing a two-year extension worth $48.5 million that will keep him under contract through the 2015-16 season, Bryant held firm.

"I'll go and spectate," Bryant said. "I'd rather watch Pau (Gasol) win another silver" with the Spanish national team.

Bryant also didn't sound thrilled about playing in the 2014 NBA All-Star game Feb. 16 in New Orleans even if he heals in time. After averaging 13.8 points on 42.5 percent shooting, 6.3 assists and 5.7 turnovers through six games, Bryant suggested he doesn't deserve his 16th All-Star appearance. The final returns onbeing a flagrant foul."

Bryant also advocated abolishing the "one-and-done" rule that requires players to attend at least one year of college before going to the NBA. Bryant, Kevin Garnett and LeBron James jumped from high school to the NBA before the rule was implemented in 2005.

"It seems like the system doesn't really teach the players anything when you go to college," Bryant said. "I'm always a firm believer of us being able to make our decisions, especially as it pertains to going out, working and having a job."

That's why Bryant said he will stay involved with basketball "in some capacity" whenever he retires, though he didn't sound interested in working in sports media.

Injury update

Lakers forward Xavier Henry will have the bone bruise in his right knee reevalauted on


representatives from the Heritage Foundation or Federalist Society who helped pick Kavanaugh and could offer a more positive evaluation, were conspicuously absent.

Moreover, three elected officials were interviewed: Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and, appearing across two different shows, Democratic Senator and likely presidential candidate Cory Booker from New Jersey.

Booker described himself as “sort of stunned at the way this has all played out,” and would later appear along with Warren at a protest against Kavanaugh on the steps of the Supreme Court. Not a single Republican lawmaker appeared during the four different segments.

Rounding out the cast of progressive speakers were a slate of former Democratic staffers and journalists. Former Democrat aides Adam Jentleson (for Harry Reid) and Ron Klain (for Barackannounced that he will be retiring from his position officially November 4th, 2016. A retirement party was held at the center October 31st at The Center. After a brief “time-out,” Frank plans to pursue projects in his area of expertise as a self-employed contractor.

Mr. Gibson started his career path in manufacturing, working in management for companies such as Millington Plastics, U-Brand Plastics, Baja Boats and Hydraulic Inc. Prior to formally joining the OSU-AEC, The Center contracted with him through Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center Adult Education where he was employed from 1997 – 2002. Mr. Gibson also held assignments with the Ohio Department of Development – Ohio Industrial Training Program as an area representative, and as a business and industry consultant for Tri-Rivers Adult Education.

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