N Street picked me up," she said. Waiting for her was a bed, some clothes, a meal — "all the stuff I hadn't had in a long time."

[N Street Village specializes in making connections — and changing lives]

Evelyn relapsed once but recommitted herself to sobriety on the Fourth of July in 1991. She started volunteering with N Street Village and then decided what she really wanted was a job with the charity. After all, she had a lot in common with the clients.

Evelyn joined the staff in 1995. Today she is manager of day services at the N Street Village's flagship location, the Bethany Women's Center on N Street NW between 13th and 14th.

Her job? "Making sure that the ladies have a safe place to come," she said.to benefit this program.”

Keener said the majority of the organization’s costs stem from maintaining the national headquarters in Williamsport, five regional centers — in Connectcut, Georgia, Texas, California, Indiana — a full-time facility in Poland and offices in Hong Kong, Puerto Rico and Canada.

When Little League signed its contract with ESPN in 2007, Keener said, it lowered affiliation fees for the local leagues. He also said Little League pays for 125 criminal background checks for each local league and provides training program for coaches.

“Those are ways we try direct the funds right back to the local programs,” he said.

Little League also pays for travel, lodging and food costs for 16 teams, each of which include 13 players and three coaches. But Stevens, affiliated with the Nashville-based league, said


School for about a year and a half until his second son was born. He then spent about another year and a half as a full-time dad, with his older son in daycare part-time. Kirke then worked at UCS from 1994 to 1997. During that time he became licensed in Vermont as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor and then as a Psychologist – Master.

He also studied hypnotherapy, first at the Milton Erickson Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and completed training at the American Hypnosis Training Academy in Silver Spring, Maryland to become a Nationally Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist.

Kirke moved into private practice in 1997 and then in 2002, he moved into a medical office building with Mount Anthony Primary Care to do integrated care.

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Republicans miscalculated in 2004 when, emboldened by their control of Congress and the White House, they tried to privatize Social Security. Bush barnstormed around the country selling the idea to the public. But within months, fractures were forming in the GOP coalition as Democrats held firm in their opposition. Pelosi and other Democrats worked with advocacy groups to help stop the effort, including the powerful AARP. By the time the Senate held a test vote in March 2005, five Republican senators had pulled out, fearful they would be cast as trying to dismantle a popular program like Social Security.

It was a disaster for Bush and the GOP. Yet it’s the kind of effort some top Republicans


identical to Zimmer's. To quote Philip J. Sampson in 6 Modern Myths about Christianity & Western Civilization, pp. 36-38,

The fact is that during Galileo's lifetime there was insufficient evidence to show that the earth revolves. This is now widely accepted by scholars, some even suggesting that the then-known facts weighed heavily against Galileo.
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Far from being constantly harried by obscurantist priests , he was feted by cardinals, received by Pope Paul V and befriended by the future Pope Urban VIII who, in 1620, wrote an ode in his honor. The historian Georgio de Santillana observed in 1958 that "it has been known for a long time that a major part of the Church intellectuals were on the side of Galileo, while the clearest opposition to him came from secularthe light of Copernican reasoning and in contradiction of earlier authorities. This was contrary to the Council of Trent's admonition (which had been intended for the Reformers) forbidding the interpretation of Scripture against the authority of tradition. But perhaps just as significantly, Galileo alienated his friend Pope Urban VIII.

The dispute between the Church and Galileo was due to his increasingly rude denunciations of anyone who disagreed with him rather than any doctrinal dispute over his new theories. His strongest opponents were not the Church leadership, but his fellow natural philosophers, who had a low view of his theories.

In other words, despite the Church's accomodation to this new theory, in the face of ridicule from the natural philosophers, the history we now learn in school accuses the Church of


Friday, November 16, 2012

Republican Power is White Power

Jon Chait wrote an excellent post the other day on the emerging (or emerged, if you want to be more optimistic about it) Democratic majority. I recommend the whole thing, but this in particular stuck out to me:

What is going on is a change, rooted mainly in demographics, that is
making the traditional conservative formula obsolete. The New Deal
established a positive role for the federal government in taming the
excesses of the market, and the consensus was strong enough that even
Republican presidents didn't challenge it. But the politics of the New
Deal began to fall apart in the mid-sixties over race, when middle-class
whites began to see the Democratic agenda as transferring resources
from people like themselves to undeserving blacks. The political
strength of conservatism, which isnot the same thing as its
intellectual merits, has been its sublimated cultural appeal to white
America. Starting in the mid-sixties, American politics entered a
three-decade-long period of conservative dominance.

The pendulum has been swinging back, in part because "Bill Clinton helped Democrats to undercut the appeal of white backlash
politics by repudiating racially tinged liberal positions on crime and
welfare," essentially making the Democratic Party "safe" for soft racists again, but also because white America generally has been moving leftward along with the rest of the country.

But it's pretty clear that racial (and racist) politics is still a significant driving force in the Republican Party. Just look at what's been going on this week, with Romney blaming Obama's "gifts" to minorities (among others) and Ryan blamingurban (dog-whistle-speak for minorities) voters for their defeat.


At UN Assembly, ministers discuss new push to finance development

Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd session of the General Assembly

23 October 2007  The future of development financing is under discussion at a High-Level United Nations event in New York that has attracted the participation of ministers, central bank governors, government delegates and representatives of business and civil society, meeting to advance a 2002 agreement made in Monterrey, Mexico.

“Progress in implementing the Monterrey Consensus has been mixed,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development, which opened today, referring to the understanding which emerged from the Mexico conference based on developing countries taking primary responsibility for mobilizing domestic resources and developed countries agreeing to promote an environment conducive to this effort.

Many developing andDeveloping countries had little ability to influence financial trends, despite their importance for growth and development.

Perversely, to guard against the volatility of financial flows, developing countries had accumulated large reserves that were transferred back to the deficit country, she said. This had helped to enlarge the net financial outflow from developing to developed countries, which had gone from $533 billion in 2005 to $662 billion in 2006.

The two-day meeting is addressing the six major areas of the Monterrey Consensus: mobilizing domestic financial resources, mobilizing international resources, international trade, international cooperation for development, external debt, and the coherence of the international monetary, financial and trading systems.

The outcome of the current meeting will provide the basis for next year’s Review Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Doha,


Hotel Delfino4 stars in Mestre

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Quick access to Venice, modern service, like our free Wi-Fi coverage throughout the hotel, our excellent restaurant and contemporary style make of Hotel Delfino in Mestre a desirable good-value accommodation option for both business and leisure.

HotelDelfino4 stars in Venice Mestre is located on Corso del Popolo – in the citycenter - 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) away from the train station, just 5 minutes away from the San Giuliano Park, and 10 minutes away from the Marco Polo airport in Tessera and the adjacentthe end result. And the end result is that the bag is resting on the table.

Sacculum suum in mēnsā pōnit.
  He causes his bag to be resting on the table.
  (Or:) He sets his bag on the table.

If you want to indicate motion, you could use a verb like ferō "carry" or jaciō "throw":

Sacculum suum in villam fert.
  He carries his bag into the villa.
Sacculum suum in piscīnam jacit.
  He throws his bag into the fishpond.

A:

The preposition in is one of a number of prepositions in Latin that can take both the accusative case and the ablative case. In the accusative, it can mean into, against, etc. and in the ablative, it can mean either in, at, on, or upon.
The verb pōnō is not


Month: February 2018

The record homelessness crisis – with 63,495 New Yorkers sleeping in city shelters tonight – demands a concerted effort from all levels of government, with a focus on effective prevention and affordable housing solutions. Unfortunately, a damning new investigative report by NY1’s Courtney Gross found that the State’s “prison-to-shelter pipeline” is increasingly fueling record homelessness in New York City. In 2014, about 23 percent of the 9,300 people released from State prisons to New York City went directly into the NYC shelter system. That number and percentage have risen drastically in just three years: In 2017, a full 54 percent of the people released to NYC – 4,122 people – entered the shelter system after leaving State prisons. Gross’ report explains how the instability of homelessnessAmazon is expanding its cloud empire into China.

On Wednesday, after signing an agreement with the Beijing and Ningxia governments, the American internet giant announced that it will soon offer its Amazon Web Services – online services for building and running large software applications – from data centers in Western China.

But unlike in other parts of the world, Amazon will not operate these computing centers on its own. It will offer its new services through local Chinese data center operators and internet service providers such as ChinaNetCenter and SINNET.

This the most practical way, it seems, that the big American web giants can move their cloud services into China. Microsoft uses a similar arrangement in the country, partnering with a local Chinese outfit, 21Vianet, to provide its Windows Azure and


Office 365 cloud services in the region. This means, according to 21Vianet, that the services are subject to Chinese law, not U.S. law.

Amazon declined to discuss its new arrangement in China, but it seems that in partnering with local companies, Amazon can not only satisfy local regulatory and legal requirements, but also avoid having to turn over – under the U.S. Patriot Act – any information uploaded by customers to its Chinese cloud services.

The company's Chinese services will be available to a small group of businesses in early 2014. This will include local versions of EC2, which provides instant access to processing power, and S3, which provides data storage, and it will mean that Amazon's cloud empire will stretch across ten geographical regions around the globe, with dataThe Vatican has an absolute prohibition on sterilization for the purposes of birth control. The U.S. Catholic bishops consider the procedure "intrinsically immoral," on par with abortion. Yet for years, Genesys Health System, a Catholic medical center near Flint, Mich., allowed doctors delivering babies there to tie the tubes of new mothers who wanted to ensure they never got pregnant again.

Genesys's policy wasn't hard to fathom: Performing a tubal ligation immediately after childbirth is the long-established standard of care, especially if a woman is having a cesarean section. "She's already cut open — her tubes are right there," said Sarah Ward Prager, an associate professor in obstetrics and gynecology and director of family planning at the University of Washington Medical School. Subjecting a new mother to a second


to comply with current Church teaching."

But this much is clear: The Genesys decision is almost certainly a sign of things to come.

In November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to tighten its rules on partnerships and collaborations between Catholic and non-Catholic health care providers. The move has potentially sweeping implications for patients, doctors, and medical providers in thousands of communities from New York to California.

As the new rules are hammered out in the coming year, the policy on tubal ligations will be a central issue. Concern over how some Catholic hospitals have been accommodating secular health care partners that want to continue doing postpartum sterilizations is at the heart of why the Vatican and the American bishops are pushing to revise the Ethical and Religious Directives forCatholic Health Care Services. Those directives govern care at every Catholic-sponsored hospital, clinic, nursing home, and health-care business in the United States. They are also meant to cover the joint operations of merged Catholic and secular health care facilities..

Many women's health advocates worry that a further restriction of tubal ligations could affect not just patients and doctors today but well into the future. "Physicians who receive their training in Catholic institutions are not getting trained in this basic procedure," said Debra Stulberg, an assistant professor in family medicine at the University of Chicago who has studied the role of doctors in Catholic systems. "You are sending them out to provide obstetric and gynecological care without a full set of tools in their toolbox."

Amid the escalating conflicts over reproductive


12 months. "It's not just a convenience thing," said Prager, who is vice chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women. Denying postpartum sterilizations "has very real consequences for entire families," she said.

The discontent among doctors has increased in recent years, as Catholic healthcare has seen explosive growth and partnerships between Catholic and secular providers have become both more common and more complicated. Ten of the 25 largest health systems in the nation — and four of the five largest nonprofit networks —are now Catholic-sponsored.

Doctors often wind up confused and frustrated by the constraints laid out in the Ethical and Religious Directives. The ERDs ban "direct sterilization of either men or women, whether permanent or temporary," but allow "procedures thatthe country — and the local bishops who oversee them —have taken a more flexible attitude. "The Catholic health system says, 'We will have nothing to do with the community hospital if they perform abortions, but since tubal ligations are not so grave ... they can go ahead and do that,'" John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, recently told the National Catholic Register.

In Troy, N.Y., for example, when several Catholic and non-Catholic health systems merged, a separate, secular maternity hospital was established on the second floor of a Catholic hospital to allow doctors to continue providing sterilizations and prescribing birth control. In California, the Catholic Healthcare West system severed some of its ties to the church and changed its name to Dignity Health — all


a biostatistician then earning her doctorate in church-state studies from Baylor University, analyzed patient data from every Catholic hospital in seven states, including California, Texas, Illinois and New Jersey. Her discovery: From 2007 through 2009, nearly half the hospitals had allowed doctors to perform postpartum sterilizations — more than 20,000 procedures in all. "There was a kind of skirting around the ERDs and interpreting them to say that tubal situations in certain situations could be considered indirect sterilization" — for example, if another pregnancy would harm a mother's emotional state— she said.

The findings came as a surprise to many bishops (although not necessarily to conservative Catholics, as this intriguing study uploaded to Wikileaks shows). "There was quite a bit of pressure on the bishops, and some of themdecision."

That view may have some sway as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops works over the next few months to revise the ERDs as they relate to mergers and partnerships. The goal, the USCCB has said, is to incorporate Vatican principles ensuring that Catholic institutions do not "cooperate immorally with the unacceptable procedures conducted in other health care entities with which they may be connected" or "cause scandal" as a result of such collaborations.

In the case of Genesys, however, civil rights groups and women's advocates argue that the hospital's sudden end to tubal ligations is the real scandal. Most obstetricians had admitting privileges only at Genesys, which left them little choice: Perform the sterilization at a later date, risking infection and other side effects, or prescribe a form


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Billie Eilish swept the top categories at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, nabbing album of the year, best new artist, song of the year, record of the year and best pop vocal album.

Other winners included Tyler, the Creator for best rap album, Anderson .Paak for R&B album, Tanya Tucker for country album, Vampire Weekend for alternative album, Cage the Elephant for rock album and The Chemical Brothers for dance/electronic album.

The non-televised portion of the event opened with a moment of silence for former NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash earlier on Sunday. The Grammys also honored late artist Nipsey Hussle, who won multiple posthumous honors.

Alicia Keys returned as host of the televised portion, while Imogen Heap hosted the premiere ceremony.

Theforeman and another card prepared showing the nature of the repairs required.
*255 The box car was 40 feet, 6 inches in length inside; on each side was a 6-foot door. From the door frame to the nearest end of the car inside was 17 feet, 3 inches. The floor was broken so that there was a hole "just inside the door and a little bit to the right," one foot from one of the door frames toward the end of the car. The hole was 12 to 15 inches wide, 18 to 27 inches long. There was nothing to prevent the hole from being seen by anyone who looked in that direction. Both 6-foot doors were wide open. The day of the accident was a clear dry October


The 15-foot band weighed approximately 5 pounds; the short bands "hardly weighed anything." The nearest end or portion of any of the bands from the door of the car was 10 to 12 feet so that all the bands were in an over-all space of 5 to 7 feet; they were not laying flat on the floor but "all doubled up," and bent so that the pile was knee high. The remainder of the floor, 33 to 35 feet in length, was clear of debris. The bands were at one end of the car; the hole 17 to 19 feet away on the other end of the car.
Plaintiff, a forty-six year old woman, had worked two years at defendant's car shop as a laborer and later as acarman's helper and was on October 8, 1945, the day of the accident, employed in interstate commerce. She had cleaned out cars on many prior occasions and was familiar with the work of cleaning out metal bands. Plaintiff knew that every car on the repair track was sent in for some kind of repair. In every case before entering the car she looked at the card on the car to ascertain the repairs required in order to know what to be careful about. Mr. Mathieu, defendant's foreman, directed plaintiff to clean out the car in question. She looked at the card on the side of the car, noted the repairs required, knew the floor was broken but not precisely where the hole was. She climbed a ladder, entered


proceeded walking backwards pulling the band in the direction of the open door, continuing to walk backwards past the open door until her left foot went down through the hole, her right foot following so that she landed violently in a sitting position on the car floor, her left foot resting upon the pipe beneath the floor. At no time, either before she started pulling the metal band or while she was pulling it, did plaintiff look to see where the hole was, or, while walking backwards, to see where she was going either by stopping to look or, while walking, to look over her shoulder. Plaintiff knew the company had a rule which forbade walking backwards, but plaintiff states she was afraid that the other end ofon the floor she first examined the hole.
In rebuttal, just as the case was about to close, plaintiff named five persons who had been assigned with her on previous occasions to clean out such bands from box cars.
Plaintiff's theory of recovery was first based upon the charge of failure to provide a safe place to work. The evidence showed that the customary practice was followed in inspecting the car, placing a card on the side of the car noting the repairs required, shopping it for repairs, later in inspecting the car on the repair track and tagging it accordingly, and in ordering that the car be cleaned out before sending repairmen in to make the repairs. Plaintiff knew every car on the repair tracks was there for repairs.


as Liz and George Cooper, two people who live together and like it.

A total of 124 episodes of the program aired from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951. It was initially written by Frank Fox and Bill Davenport, who were the writers for radio's Ozzie and Harriet. The show portrayed the Cugats as a well-to-do banker and his socially prominent wife. That fall, after about ten episodes had been written, Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over – Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer. They subsequently changed the couple's name to Cooper and remade them into a middle-class couple, which they thought average listeners would find more accessible. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the existing role of George'sthree touchdowns to take the lead. Led by running back John Riggins, the Redskins came back to build a 34-21 lead, but the Cowboys scored 2 touchdowns in the final five minutes — including a Staubach touchdown pass to Tony Hill with less than a minute remaining — for an amazing 35-34 victory.  In the week leading up to the game, Cowboys’ defensive end Harvey Martin received a funeral wreath, supposedly sent by the Redskins. He kept it in his locker all week for motivation and after the win, he raced into Washington's locker room, opened the door and heaved it into the room, breaking up a team prayer. Adding insult to injury, the Chicago Bears defeated the St Louis Cardinals 42-6, the Redskins lost the tie


in their overtime drive to secure the Redskins victory.
September 18, 2016 – Both teams came into their Week 2 match-up having lost their season openers.  Dallas started hot, getting a field goal and a touchdown run by rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott on their first two possessions to take a 10-0 lead into the 2nd quarter. The Redskins responded with a Matt Jones touchdown to make it 10-7, and both teams traded field goals to make it 13-10 at halftime. The Redskins opened the second half scoring as Kirk Cousins threw an 11-yard touchdown to Jamison Crowder. Dallas rookie quarterback Dak Prescott responded with a 6-yard touchdown run to help Dallas retake the lead at 20-17. The Redskins got two field goals to make it 23-20 andMetropolitan Manila Development Authority, now led by retired Army general Danilo Lim, has just held what appears to be a trial run of stricter enforcement of the yellow lane rule.

In a video that has since spread all over social media, buses can be seen being corralled into the two rightmost yellow lanes allocated to them on EDSA. The two lanes were actually designated as yellow lanes several years back for the near-inviolable use of city buses, whilst private vehicles were instructed to use the other three or four lanes.

The video itself was posted by Edison “Bong” Nebrija, the MMDA's (relatively) new chief to manage the critical traffic flow on the 23.8 kilometers of EDSA. Like Lim, Nebrija is himself a former military officer and appears to have enforced


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Cameron Hayley will once again be back in the No. 13 ThorSport Racing Toyota in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the team announced Wednesday.

The Calgary, Alberta, Canada native, one of the top contenders for Truck Series rookie of the year last season, finished sixth in the points standings with four top-five and 13 top-10 finishes.

“I’m expecting big things out of my ThorSport Racing team in 2016,” Hayley said in a media release. “Last year was a big learning year for me, whether it was learning the race tracks or learning how to drive these Tundra’s.

“I plan to build on the experience I gainedin my first full-time season, and be a strong contender for victory lane each and every week. I’ll have a new crew chief and team this year, but everyone is hungry to win. I think this can be a championship-contending season for me.”

Hayley’s new crew chief will be Eddie Troconis, who spent the last three seasons as a race engineer at Kyle Busch Motorsports, working with Christopher Bell, Gray Gaulding and Matt Tift in 2015.

Other drivers in the ThorSport stable for 2016 will be two-time Truck Series champ Matt Crafton and newcomers Ben Rhodes and Rico Abreu.

The Camping World Truck Series season kicks off Feb. 19 with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

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Exploring The Real 'Conflict': Science Vs. Naturalism

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Whether it's creationism vs. evolution, miracles vs. magic tricks, or faith vs. fact, religion and science have long been pitted against one another.

But in his latest book, Where the Conflict Really Lies, philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that religion and science share more common ground than you might think. He discusses the book with NPR's Rachel Martin.German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be arriving in New Delhi on Sunday night for a three-day India visit during which the two sides are expected to sign a slew of important bilateral agreements in diverse areas.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted "Namaste" in welcome as German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived here on Sunday night on a three-day visit. "Namaste Chancellor Merkel! Warm welcome to you & the delegation. I look forward to fruitful discussions & strengthening India-Germany ties," tweeted Modi.

Merkel is on an India visit4-6 October. She will be accompanied by a large delegation comprising six cabinet ministers, and businesspersons, and will also be visiting Bengaluru. Modi will also travel to Bengaluru.

Interestingly Merkel is coming to India at a time when her personal stock is at an


all time high in her country in her tenth consecutive year of rule. She is being seen as a serious contender for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her significant contribution in two major European crises – the ongoing deluge of migrants from the troubled Middle East and the Greek financial problems.

Merkel will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday during which issues like trade, investment and increased bilateral cooperation in a number of developmental projects in diverse fields are expected to be discussed intensively.

Chancellor Merkel, who is coming with six cabinet ministers, will co-chair along with PM Modi “Intergovernmental Consultations” on Monday. Significantly, Germany is the only country with which India conducts these bi-annual joint cabinet meetings.

Though India-Germany bilateral trade is currently pegged at around$18 billion, it is nowhere close to its true potential considering that the two sides’ trade history which spans over 500 years – with the first German trading ships arriving in Goa in the 16th century.

Consider some more facts which bring out India’s robust engagement with Germany, Europe’s number one economy. These facts have been flagged by none other than German ambassador in India, Martin Ney.

As many as 1,700 German companies are doing business in India today and are providing jobs to roughly 400,000 Indian employees. The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce is the largest German bi-national Chamber abroad and also the largest Chamber of Commerce in India with over 7,000 German and Indian member companies across many sectors.

India is also the biggest partner of Germany’s development cooperation worldwide.


In 2014, Germany provided 1.3 billion Euros for programmes in the areas of energy, environment and sustainable economic development.

Merkel’s India visit comes six months after PM Modi's visit to Germany in April when the two leaders jointly inaugurated the Hannover Fair where Germany had set the world stage for India as the exclusive partner country.

The increasing warmth in Indo-German relations is reflected in people-to-people contacts also. The number of Indian students at German universities has been rising by 20 percent every year – to about 10,000. Besides, more and more Germans in Germany are taking to yoga and Ayurveda, watch Bollywood movies and attend Holi parties in German cities.

German ambassador Martin Ney set the increasing role of India in global affairs in perspective with the following remarks: “Ibelieve India is in an interesting phase! India is in a crucial phase: It overhauls its economy. It reinvigorates its international engagements in order to harness its full potential as a rising power in a multipolar world. With new self-confidence, India engages its neighbourhood, re-energizes its relations to the wider world and underlines its claim as a future member of the Security Council of a reformed United Nations. India will also be a major voice at the climate summit in December in Paris.”

Germany can help India in a big way in realising its ambitious goals in such diverse areas as cleaning of rivers, upgrading infrastructure, improving air quality of Indian cities, besides lending a crucial helping hand in PM Modi’s pet schemes like Smart Cities, Skill India and


2012 marked the first year I set up a booth at a Comic/Entertainment convention as well as even going to a convention. My first experience was awesome; you couldn’t help but be inspired with that kind of atmosphere (so many amazing artists from big names in the industry to smaller independent ones). The Calgary expo (as my cousin Kristen who volunteered at the con was told to strictly call it, not the Calgary comic con) was my first convention as an independent artist and I was not the only one. My booth neighbor Dany from Lost Droids Art was also selling his amazing art at the con for the first time. Dany was awesome enough to take some time away from painting to answer a few questions andthe adoption of more technologically intensive forms of production, many workers have been forced out of formal sector work and into informal employment.

Growing regulation and taxation may also force people into the informal economy.

The informal economy accounts for about 15 percent of employment in developed countries such as the United States.

Key Terms

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welfare capitalism: Welfare capitalism refers either to the combination of a capitalist economic system with a welfare state or, in the American context, to the


new anthem of our times! – that works at ballad tempo, with both Clayton and Morrison (flugelhorn) catching a bittersweet note of loneliness in their solos. The pair have worked together intermittently since 1989, and Clayton, whose stellar array of credits includes Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Count Basie, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, has been an artist-in-residence at the James Morrison Academy. They and drummer Gordon Rytmeister all blaze on a high-spirited I Love You and the standards are broken up with Clayton's originals (including the attractive bossa I Love You Entrevous). The fine quintet is completed by Brett Hirst and Phil Stack sharing bass duties (the latter starring on Target Practice). -JOHN SHAND

HIP-HOP Tech N9ne ENTERFEAR (Strange) ★★ Tech N9ne's Enterfear album cover. Fear isan emotion that is top of the mind for most people right now, and for gangster rapper Tech N9ne this works in his favour, with the release of his 22nd studio album, Enterfear. Known for his inimitable, quick-flow, thought-provoking lyrics, the 48-year-old artist and label owner's latest is like a glimpse into a parallel universe: one where the scariest thing is Halloween. Things go downhill quickly as N9ne employs clichèd tropes like voicemail recordings and, even worse, rhyming "titties" with "jizzy" on Leave It on the Flo. Underground rap titans Merkules and Scru Face Jean join the veteran on album highlight Phonk, but the hollow ring of sharp-warbling synths cheapen the experience. Label-mate Krizz Kaliko's appearance on middling slow-burners KC Smile, BIB, Smell Good and Suckseed also fail


to impress. There's no doubt that Tech N9ne has something to say, which he's proved throughout his career, although here his signature braggadocio and meditations on violence suffer because of saccharine sound effects. Growing up in the mid-west of the US as a black man, N9ne has a vivid story to tell, but rather than delivering a high-octane thrill ride, he offers a forgettable record.

-KISH LALA father-of-three who raped a woman in the back of his car while on a trip to the beach has been jailed for six and a half years.

The man (37), who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape and sexual assault on a beach in Dublin on October 29, 2015.

Following a trial in May of this year, a jury found him guilty of the count of rape. The jury disagreed on the count of sexual assault.

Ms Justice Tara Burns sentenced the man to eight years’ imprisonment but suspended the final 18 months of the sentence, on condition he follow all directions of the Probation Service for 18 months post-release.

Ms Justice Burns said that while


said he was a good father.

She said a previous conviction for deception was clearly relevant for understanding his character, as the victim had no idea he had a partner and children until the trial began.

In her victim impact statement, which was read out in court, the victim said she felt like the rape was her fault after it happened. She said she felt worthless and dropped out of college.

The woman said that after the rape she no longer wanted anything inside her, including food. She said that when she had to eat she would make herself sick and she “ran off” every calorie she consumed.

“He was walking around as if nothing had happened and I was suffering,” she told the court. She said that she sold her caras she could not bear to drive it and “just knowing he was in it made me sick”.

I will never be free from what he has done to me.

Detective Garda Karen Griffin told Róisín Lacey SC, prosecuting, that the victim met the man on an online dating website in the Summer of 2015. They met a few times and had consensual sex on a few occasions.

On the day before the rape, the two met and went to the beach in the man's car. While in the car they began to kiss and he made an attempt to open her bra but stopped when she said no repeatedly.

That evening there was a series of text messages exchanged between the two referring to the fact that she had said “no”


to him. She said they would have fun again if they met up but he replied “not if you say no again.”

On the date of the offence, the two again went to the beach in the man's car. They began to kiss in the back of the car and the man again put his hands up her top, but did not stop when she told him no.

He removed the women's jeans and underwear and raped her.

Afterwards the man drove her back to her own car and on the way she texted her friend the word “emergency”. The woman went to her friend's house and she brought her to a garda station to report the crime.

The man has two previous convictions, including a conviction for speeding and a convictionfor deception, for which he received a three-year sentence that was suspended in full. He is a Pakistani national and has been in the country for over a decade.

Det Gda Griffin agreed with Sean Guerin SC, defending, that aside from the rape itself there was no other violence during the rape. She agreed that the man was not a suspect in any other sexual offences.

Mr Guerin said his client had a long work record in the jurisdiction. He submitted a testimonial from his client's brother which said that the man took charge of the family following their father's death and that he paid for the weddings of his three sisters.

He said that the prison sentence would be more difficult for his client to bear due to not having


any family living in Ireland. He submitted that the man was not someone who was at risk of committing future sexual offences and that rehabilitation was a very real prospect for him.

Ms Justice Burns said the aggravating factors in the case were the extremely serious nature of a rape offence, the breach of trust, the profound effect the rape had had on the victim and “his deceptive character” evident by his previous conviction.

She said the mitigating factors were his assuming a father role in his family and offering them financial support, his appearing to be a good father to his children and his excellent work attendance.

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Regulatory and tax advice forthe decision Thursday while speaking in Washington D.C. Questions over legal liability of accidents and the changing role of car insurance for motorists in a driverless-car era have been asked since engineers first plucked the idea of autonomous vehicles from the pages of science fiction and started turning them into reality. But despite the question being posed throughout the auto industry, few have had an answer.Volvo's pledge marks the first concrete step toward one. While the carmaker only represents a small fraction of the U.S. market this move is also a smart business decision, giving Volvo an edge over automakers who don't offer a similar liability shield to customers.In remarks prepared for lawmakers, Samuelsson, pictured above, cautions that autonomous technology will be ready for public deployment soon, and


he urges them to ensure the legal framework for self-driving cars is in place by the time they arrive. Without such laws in place, deployment could be delayed."The U.S. risks losing its leading position due to the lack of federal guidelines for the testing and certification of autonomous vehicles," Samuelsson said. "Europe has suffered to some extend by having a patchwork of rules and regulations. It would be a shame if the U.S. took a similar path."Four U.S. states – California, Nevada, Florida and Michigan – allow for autonomous testing on public roads, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has started to grapple with the process of setting standards that would be consistent across states and issued an advanced notice of public rulemaking on the broader trafficMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A Syrian asylum seeker tells Radio 4's Today that accommodation had cockroaches

Some asylum seekers have been placed in accommodation infested by rats, mice and insects after arriving in the UK, a report by MPs says.

The Home Affairs Committee called the conditions a "disgrace" and said some councils were doing far more than others to take in those in need.

One man said the presence of rats triggered flashbacks of a cell where he was tortured in his home country.

The government said it was committed to "safe, habitable" accommodation.

One contractor said "isolated examples of poor practice" were not a reliable guide to the standards most asylum seekers received.

'Frightened'

The committee looked at the "dispersal" scheme used to place asylum seekers around the


UK.

The report said poor accommodation was the most significant problem identified in the evidence it had received.

Since 2012, housing has been provided to asylum seekers via six regional contracts delivered by Serco, G4S and Clearsprings Ready Homes.

One woman reportedly said: "The rats run up the stairs, and out of the store cupboard into the living room.

"I am frightened for the children... twice they said they were sending pest control - nobody arrived."

Another house was "very dirty".

"The carpet was very smelly and dusty. The kitchen was full of mice; they even ran across the dining table while we were eating," the report said.

A different client reported that "the presence and noise of rats triggered flashbacks, as he shared a cell with rats when he was detained and tortured inhis country of origin".

Image copyright PA Image caption Some residents reported problems with rats

MPs said insects were a more widespread problem than rodents, with one woman stating: "Since we had moved into this house, all of my children had bites on their skin. The GP said that it was due to insect bites."

In another property, a woman had a blanket on the floor, reporting that "the carpet was dirty and smelt of urine when she moved in".

"She had tried hard to wash it, but could not get rid of the smell, so she had had to buy a blanket to cover the floor to put her baby on," the report said.

The report also found applicants were concentrated in a small number of some of the most deprived areas


- placing pressure on local schools and healthcare services - while the voluntary nature of the scheme meant some councils took none.

The committee called for measures to increase participation by councils in the scheme, adding if some continued to fail to sign up, the government should use powers to compel them.

'Affluent areas doing nothing'

Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the committee, said: "The state of accommodation for some asylum seekers and refugees in this country is a disgrace.

"It is completely unfair on those local authorities and communities that have signed up and are now taking many more people, when so many local authorities in more affluent areas are still doing nothing at all."

But David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association's asylum, migration and refugee task group, saidrun the risk of being turned into agricultural labourers," he said, adding that the rubber and palm oil trees are grown on land that is home to thousands of small farmers.

"There's bound to be a spread of manure, the use of fertiliser, pesticides (...) That leads us to wonder about the environmental impacts, especially as studies were carried out hastily."

In the forest around the plantation, villagers grow cassava, root plants, cocoa and bananas. They also "bleed" the scarred bark of wild hevea trees to produce the flow of white latex sap needed for rubber.

The first local plantation dates from World War I, when French bosses wanted rubber to support the war effort, said Dieudonne Minlama, who heads an umbrella organisation grouping some 50 NGOs, unions and other groups


that fight poverty.

Malian migrant rubber plantation workers await for transport to collect them from the Olam factory in Batouri

"The plantations were abandoned and the hevea spread in the forest," he said.

Minlama favours Olam's arrival, saying it is not only creating jobs but, as the plantation develops in time, it will generate other economic activity and revenue.

Ndjimbi, however, said the new plantation has just 5,000 rubber trees that will only mature in eight years, and that "Olam has had to deforest to revive the industry".

'Social contracts'

"We respect the norms," said Olam's Gupta.

He also said his company signed "social contracts" requiring it to buy produce from small farmers, while also bringing them electricity and water supplies and mending bad roads.

Indeed, new wooden houses with sheet metal roofs have been builtin the surrounding villages. Water pumps and solar panels carrying the Olam logo are also legion.

However, some inhabitants are sceptical.

"There's no lack of problems. They built pumps but with more people coming, there is no water anymore. We have to dig wells," one of them explained on condition of anonymity.

Rubber plantation workers board a truck at the Olam factory in Batouri, at the end of their working day

"Olam has spoilt the forest. Sacred wood, totems... I work for Olam, but it was better before," he added, hinting at the almost mystical communion that forest dwellers have shared with their environment for generations.

"There are many Cameroonian, Chadian, Nigerian foreigners, bringing problems of cohabitation," the resident said.

Gupta said that Olam gives priority to hiring locals, who make up 97 percent


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Lincoln University and Linn State Technical College said this morning they will purchase the Jefferson City High School complex and the Simonsen Ninth Grade Center.

LU will buy the high school and Simonsen for $8.39 million, using federal Title III money for the purchase.

An LU news release noted that Title III is “a part of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (and) provides grant funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities for various purposes, including strengthening an institution's physical and academic resources.”

Linn State Tech will pay $1,711,365 to buy the Nichols Career Center.

Both purchases “are contingent on the construction of new facilities by the Jefferson City Public Schools,” the two higher education schools said.

Details of the purchases were announced


inclusion as equals alongside cis-gendered men and women in society.

About the European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups

The European Forum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Christian Groups is an ecumenical association of LGBT Christian groups in Europe. The European Forum aims to achieve equality and inclusion for LGBT+ people within and through Christian churches and other religious bodies and multilateral organisations. With around 40 member groups from more than 20 countries in Europe, the European Forum works for freedom of religion for LGBT people, for human rights, for the dignity of LGBT people and for an affirmative discourse on human sexuality. The European Forum is a member of the Council of Europe since July 2016.the world, past and present, into various language families. English belongs to a family of languages called the Indo-European Language Family, which includes Greek, French, Russian, Hindi, German, Irish, and many other tongues of Europe and Asia.

In its long history, the word "mother" has always meant what it means today. The farthest back it has been traced as an English word is to about 500 AD, the very beginnings of English itself: in Anglo-Saxon times the word was "moder" or "modor" or "moddor" (the use of the "th" in English instead of the original "d" probably dates back to the 1500s). It had been brought over to England by the Anglo-Saxons from northern Europe, where similar words existed in other Germanic languages; these words have become the modern


"oldmother" never made it into modern English because in the Middle Ages, after the Norman invasion of England, French culture was all the rage. The French prefix "grand," derived from a Latin word for "big" or "great" and used in the French word "grand-mère," was adopted into English. So, the resulting word "grandmother" is a blend of two words with very different histories: "grand" from medieval French and Latin, and "mother" from Old English and Germanic.

So, that's the etymological perspective on "mother" and "grandmother." Another way to distinguish the two concepts is through personal experience and observation. What's your mother like, or what are other mothers you know like? What's your grandmother like, or what are other grandmothers you know like? What's the difference between your mother andfind a complete annotated bibliography at the end of this kit (and there are other bibliographies at the end of the other activity kits that are part of the Something to Remember Me By Legacy Project). Picture books are an art form that can be used with all ages, toddlers to teenagers. For teenagers and adults, a picture book is often a concise, compelling vehicle to introduce topics, motivate discussion, and stimulate further thought and investigation.

Suggested picture books with family themes appear below. After reading a book, fill in the "What's Family? Book Review" sheet. Doing a book review and discussing books enables children to systematically explore many different themes related to family and develop a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of family. To complete the book


for example, is in his late seventies and greatly enjoys drawing and painting. He recently took some watercolor painting classes and is getting quite good!

Laurie McGaw is the illustrator and portrait artist who created the illustrations in A Little Something. The illustrations in the book are actually watercolor "portraits" of a real family. Can you see a family resemblance in the illustrations? Laurie did a search for models to find three generations from one family she could use for the book. She chose grandmother Maureen Viegener; her 7-year-old granddaughter Melissa Tratt (for the young granddaughter in the book); her 11-year-old granddaughter Sarah Tratt (for the slightly older granddaughter); and her daughter Mary Anne Tratt (for the grown-up granddaughter). Laurie took rolls and rolls and rolls of photographs ofthe real people, and then used the photographs to create the illustrations.

Before you start drawing, familiarize yourself with the general rules of thumb for standard facial proportions:

The eyes are halfway between the top of the head and the chin.

The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin.

The mouth is halfway between the nose and the chin.

The corners of the mouth line up with the centers of the eyes.

The top of the ears line up with the center of the eyes.

The bottom of the ears line up with the bottom of the nose.

These standard proportions will help you place facial features and find their orientation. But keep in mind that these are only general guidelines. Even very small differences in a person's nose or eyes,


center the mouth (which is the general shape of an elongated, pointy football, with two bumps on the top and one on the bottom, and a subtle line across the middle).

Next, draw some light vertical lines on each side of the oval. Draw four, equally-spaced vertical lines between those two lines to divide the space into five equal parts. The eyes fall in columns 2 and 4. The nose falls in column 3. The corners of the mouth line up with the centers of the eyes.

Draw in the ears by aligning the tops with the center of the eyes and the bottoms with the bottom of the nose.

Some additional tips on adding detail to the face:

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is reason to be cautious when prescribing antidepressants in pregnancy, and one has to weigh the pros and cons of using an antidepressant on an individual basis, he told Medscape Psychiatry.

"If these promising findings are confirmed, it would be good to have another option to complement the focused forms of psychotherapy which are currently used for antenatal depression," he added.

The study was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The study authors and Dr. Thase have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

In the 1992 presidential
campaign, Bill Clinton was a heavy underdog to popular incumbent George H. W.
Bush. Bush was considered unbeatable due to foreign policy successes including
the end of the Cold War and routing Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. But
Bushs approval ratings, which had beenin the 90 percent range, began to dip as
his campaign ignored the economic recession. Clintons campaign manager James
Carvilles now famous campaign slogan, "Its the economy stupid," helped turn
the tide and Bill Clinton became the forty-second American president.

Just like George Bushs 1992
presidential campaign, todays medical community continues to promote the
medical myths associated with cholesterol while ignoring the real cause of
cardiovascular disease, inflammation.

Conventional opinion and
current medical dogma holds that low cholesterol, especially low LDL
cholesterol, reduces the risk and incidence of heart disease and stroke. This
belief is so entrenched in the medical community that the FDA now approves drugs
to prevent heart disease, as it did with Zetia and Vytorin, solely on the
evidence that they lower LDL cholesterol levels. Zetia has never been proven to
reduce heart attacks, strokes or death. Statin drugs


help reduce the risk of
heart attack and stroke for those whove already had a cardiac event (one
percent over placebo) but fail to reduce death in women, the elderly, men over
the age of 47, and in men without cardiovascular risk factors.

A 2006 study in The
Archives of Internal Medicine looked at seven trials of statin use in
nearly 43,000 patients, mostly middle-aged men without heart disease. In that
review, statins didnt lower mortality.

Nor did they in a study known
as Prosper, published in The Lancet in 2002, which studied statin use
in people seventy and older. Nor did they in a 2004 review in The Journal of
the American Medical Association, which looked at thirteen studies of
nearly 20,000 women, both healthy and with established heart disease.

Despite a growing voice of
reason, which became even louder afterthe recently released Enhance study, the
cholesterol zealots continue to view cardiovascular disease with tunnel vision.
This myopic vision fuels the cholesterol drug war which rages on as each
pharmaceutical company seeks to gain economic gain in the 40 billion dollar a
year lipid lowering drug market.

In an attempt to take on the
cholesterol Goliath, Pfizers Lipitor (10 billion dollars in sales annually),
Merck and Schering-Plough combined their cholesterol lowering drugs, Zocor and
Zetia, to form the "super drug" known as Vytorin. Vytorins goal was to lower
LDL cholesterol more than either drug could alone. Zetia lowers blood
cholesterol by blocking the absorption of dietary cholesterol from the
intestines. Zetia used alone is modestly effective in lowering LDL cholesterol
by approximately 17 percent. Zocor alone lowers LDL levels by 36 percentsimilar
to Lipitor.

The hope was that by lowering
LDL to dramatically


to it.

For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, include chiropractic care inside the Olympic Village Polyclinic, a multi-disciplinary facility offering comprehensive healthcare and medical services.

While DCs have historically been included on the Olympic medical staff, this years events mark the first time that DCs from the host country will be treating athletes and officials from around the world directly inside the Polyclinic.

This is an historic event not only for the chiropractic profession, but also the athletes who will now have access to the care that will help them prepare their bodies for competition, states Michael Reed, DC, MS, DACBSP, and team USAs medical director (USOC). These athletes train hard and endure significant physical demands. Sports-focused DCs, alongwith other members of the sports medicine team, are specially skilled to assist them in reaching peak performance.

Chiropractic care has experienced several major moments in Olympic history, dating back to Leroy Perry, DC, who provided chiropractic care to athletes representing Antigua during the 1976 Games in Montreal, Canada. During the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, NY, George Goodheart, DC, became the first official chiropractor appointed to the U.S. team.

With each subsequent Olympic Games and Pan American Games, the U.S. teams  along with a growing number of other national teams  have included at least one doctor of chiropractic on their medical staff.

Inclusion inside the Polyclinic is another major milestone for the chiropractic profession, and we are grateful to the host city of Vancouver, the head


of medical services at the Polyclinic, Jack Taunton, MD, and to Robert Armitage, DC, who helped make this possible, says USOC Director of Sports Medicine Clinics, Bill Moreau, DC, DACBSP.

Author: Southern California University of Health SciencesSource: Southern California University of Health Sciences. February 24, 2010.Copyright: Southern California University of Health Sciences 2010

A recent survey involving 963 college students indicates the college lifestyle is strongly associated with back pain. Of those surveyed, 38 percent or almost 4 in 10 students reported having suffered from back pain within the previous school year. Interestingly, the strongest associations with back pain in college students were the students either feeling chronically fatigued or being in an emotionally abusive relationship. Thus, survey findings indicated psychosocial factors were highly associated with a students likelihood ofsuffering from back pain.

The most recent research (Neck Pain Task Force Report of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010, a study sanctioned by the United Nations and the World Health Organization) indicates neck manipulation is a safe and effective form of health care, according to Matt Pagano, DC, chiropractic profession spokesperson.

Respected researcher and epidemiologist J. David Cassidy, DC, PhD, DrMedSc, testified as a key witness last week at the hearings on informed consent before the Connecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiners in Hartford, Conn. Speaking as an expert witness and consultant to the International Chiropractors Association (ICA)and with the support of all chiropractic organizations involved in the process, including the American Chiropractic Association, Association of Chiropractic Colleges, Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, Life West, New York College of Chiropractic, Parker


it could continue to provide services to Medicaid recipients in Indiana. Additionally, in May, after the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, the US federal agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid sided with Planned Parenthood.

Indiana was the first state to attempt to shut down Planned Parenthood by denying the organization Medicaid funds. But since then, lawmakers in other states—including Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Kansas, and North Carolina—have also tried to use this tactic. According to the AP, if the Supreme Court decides to hear one of these other laws, Indiana could submit an amicus brief to revive its legal argument?. To see what happens when a state successfully defunds family planning clinics, look no further than Texas, where the ever-enterprising Republican Governor Rick Perry is squeezing Planned ParenthoodAsian pachyderm named Jumbo joined the show in 1882.

Employes were told the sad news Saturday night in Orlando.

The circus will perform 30 more times. Besides the show on Long Island, there will be one in Brooklyn. Other stops on its last tour include Atlanta, Washington, Philadelphia and Boston.

With its exotic animals and death-defying acrobats, the big top had been a huge draw from the mid-1800s to the mid 1900s.

Phineas Taylor Barnum had made a traveling spectacle of animals and human oddities popular, while the five Ringling brothers performed juggling acts and skits. Eventually, they merged and the modern circus was born.

Its clowns, acrobats, horseback riders — along with their animals — were transported across the country in special cars on extra long trains.

New York staged its own yearly


family bought the circus in 1967, the show was just under three hours. Today, it’s 2 hours and 7 minutes, with the longest segment — a tiger act — clocking in at 12 minutes. “Try getting a 3- or 4-year-old today to sit for 12 minutes,” Feld said.

Feld and his daughter Juliette Feld, the company’s chief operating officer, acknowledged another reality that led to the closing, and it was the one thing that initially drew millions to the show: the animals.

In May of 2016 the company removed the elephants from the shows and sent them to live on a conservation farm in Central Florida.

In 2014, Feld Entertainment won $25.2 million in settlements from groups including the Humane Society, ending a 14-year fight over allegations that circus employees mistreatednon-profit corporation, organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut and with its principal place of business in Hartford, Connecticut, providing legal services to low income persons in the Hartford area. In 1977 the Corporation provided $310,000 of the $550,000 budget of NLS, including $58,250 for the Farmworker Division.
On November 28, 1977, the Regional Director of the Corporation informed NLS of a preliminary decision to deny the application for refunding of the Farmworker Division. The Regional Director noted that prior to 1975 nearly 10,000 migrant workers had come from Puerto Rico to Connecticut annually to pick tobacco, and that with the 1975 decision of the tobacco growers to cease recruiting Puerto Rican migrant farm workers, this influx has been "virtually shut off."[1] NLS sought administrative review of


this preliminary denial. See 45 C.F.R. § 1606.7. A hearing examiner was designated, and a hearing was held in April, 1978. On September 1, 1978, the hearing examiner submitted to the President of the Corporation proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, and a memorandum opinion. The examiner concluded that there were 7,000 migrant workers and dependents in the area served by the NLS Farmworker Division and that the Corporation had a policy of funding migrant worker programs only where the service area included at least 10,000 migrant workers and dependents. However, the examiner concluded that the Corporation had violated 42 U.S. C.A. § 2996g(e) by failing to publish in the Federal Register its policies concerning funding of migrant worker programs. He identified two or three policies thatrequired prior publication. In his memorandum opinion, he referred to the Corporation's decision to use migrant worker funds only for services to migrant workers, and the decision to fund only programs serving more than 10,000 migrant workers. In his conclusions of law (no. 6), he also referred *1151 to the need for publication of the Corporation's definition of "migrant." He concluded that the lack of publication of these policies rendered them an "ineffectual" basis for the denial of NLS's request for refunding (no. 5). He recommended that the 1978 application of NLS's Farmworker Division be funded (Examiner's opinion 1).
Pursuant to 45 C.F.R. § 1606.15, the President of the Corporation issued his final determination on October 19, 1978. He concluded that policies affecting the decision-making process of the Corporation's


to the hearing, but in any event had full opportunity at the hearing to present whatever evidence it had to show that it was entitled to refunding in accordance with the Corporation's criteria. Having heard all the evidence, the examiner concluded that there are approximately 7,000 migrants and dependents within the service area of NLS's Farmworker Division. Throughout the period of the hearing and continuing until after the President of the Corporation made his final determination, NLS continued to be funded. There is thus no basis to conclude that NLS has been adversely affected by lack of publication of the criteria for funding migrant worker programs. Accordingly, there is no basis under § 552 for a judgment requiring the Corporation to fund NLS's Farmworker Division.
However, plaintiff is entitledScene and Heard: Scene's News Blog

Platform Beer to Open Brewery and Taproom in Columbus

Despite launching a short 18 months ago, Platform Beer Co. continues to grow and expand its operations at an astonishing pace. The Ohio City-based brewery owned by Justin Carson and Paul Benner debuted with a wee 3-barrel system in the summer of 2014. Six months later the team upgraded to its current 10-barrel system, supported by a battery of new 15-barrel fermentation and conditioning tanks. The team took a major leap forward when they purchased the former Leisy Brewery, a 120,000-square-foot complex that already is cranking out a tremendous quantity of beer in cans and kegs.

Up until now, all that beer has been going to quench the thirst of the Greater Cleveland market. But with


Trump in Asia: Region poised for change as new era dawns

January 24, 2017

President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump in Asia: Region poised for change as new era dawns

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Trump has threatened to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 45 percent and upended four decades of diplomatic protocol by taking a phone call from President Tsai Ing-wen of self-governing Taiwan.

By: AP | Beijing | Updated: January 24, 2017 7:31 am

President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitolin Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

People across Asia are poised for a potentially dramatic change in relations with Washington under President Donald Trump after decades with the United States as a major military and economic presence. The clues Trump has given about his foreign policy are a break with former President Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia,” which re-emphasized American engagement in the region.

In one of his first actions in office, Trump withdrew the United States from the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement being negotiated by Washington and 11 Pacific Rim countries. He has talked about requiring allies Japan and South Korea to pay more for U.S. troops stationed on their soil.

Trump has threatened to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 45 percent and upended


Killer Adam Gallagher 'too dangerous' to come to court Published duration 15 June 2017

image copyright Graeme Hart image caption The court heard that Adam Gallagher posed a clear risk to the normal operation of the court

A killer considered to be too dangerous to appear in court has been sentenced over a live video link.

Adam Gallagher, who is serving a life sentence, had a concurrent sentence of 326 days imposed after he admitted damaging cells at Perth Prison.

Gallagher was jailed for life for the murder of a young Czech fruit picker in Arbroath 11 years ago.

The 29-year-old's video link appearance at Perth Sheriff Court is believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland.

Gallagher told the court he had only trashed the cells because he was irate atthe Scottish Prison Service's failure to give him anger management classes.

After speaking briefly to confirm his identity and that he could hear proceedings from the courtroom, Gallagher said: "I have been asking for a programme within the prison establishment for the last seven years, with nothing coming to fruition."

'Short fuse'

Solicitor Kevin McCarron, defending, said: "Other than drawing attention to himself and publicising his plight within the SPS, there is no rhyme nor reason to it.

"He has got a particularly short fuse. He hasn't been able to access course work. It can fairly be said he has been a difficult prisoner for the SPS to manage. His record reflects that.

"He has anger management issues and longstanding issues with the SPS in relation to his programme needs. He has been


trying to get onto an anger management course to deal with that."

Fiscal depute John Malpass told the court that Gallagher caused £2,240 of damage to a cell in April last year and £1,907 of damage to another two months later.

His colleague, Nicola Gillespie, previously told the court: "The accused is serving a life sentence and is considered to be extremely dangerous. He poses a clear risk to the normal operation of the court."

Gallagher admitted wilfully or recklessly destroying cells at maximum security Perth Prison, including a segregation unit, on 21 April and 13 June 2016.

Baby oil

He trashed light fittings, wall sockets, a spy glass and fixed furniture during the sprees while he was serving a minimum 15-year sentence for murder.

Gallagher has a long history of disruptive behaviour sincebeing jailed for the murder of Marek Smrz in 2006

He has been convicted of nine separate prison-based offences - including assault, vandalism and setting fire to cells. He is about to move to HMP Glenochil.

Last year, Perth Sheriff Court heard how Gallagher had slathered himself in baby oil to stop riot staff getting hold of him to transfer him to another jail.

He stripped to his boxer shorts and covered himself in oil so he was too slippery for the officers to catch. He "rolled about" with G4S staff during the fracas and one of the security team moving him was so frightened he fainted.

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Studying abroad is usually touted as an important experience for undergraduate students. But last fall, ACU's Dr. Garry Bailey decided to take a group of graduate students to Turkey to study gender conflict firsthand.

Our students got to meet these great women who are doing wonderful things in countries where women are often oppressed. We had opportunities to visit with people who knew very intimately the problems of gender conflict.

Bailey, associate professor and academic director of the Duncum Center for Conflict Resolution, said he got his inspiration for the program after visiting with a speaker from last year's ACU Peace Conference about attending a meeting in Turkey.

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When I spotted the early reports on Twitter, I trembled and shouted out the news to my wife and older son, who now have a special affinity with the city through me. My thoughts immediately turned to my brother and sister-in-law, and to many other relatives and friends in the city whose safety was suddenly in peril. The early moments were most harrowing. Even unconfirmed and dubious rumors can raise alarm bells after panic has set in. Fortunately, I received the all clear from most family members and friends very quickly.

In those early moments, I was most concerned about the wife of one of my closest friends, who has run the Boston Marathon a number of times and was running again yesterday. Again fortunately, and probably


because she is such an accomplished runner, she had finished the race and my friend and their two young children had departed the finish line area a short time before the two explosions went off.

Speaking with my brother and listening to Boston radio in the hours after the explosions was especially frightening. Numerous radio callers provided reports of literally dozens of blacked out Chevrolet Suburbans driving into the city and of state and city police cars everywhere. Confusion and shock prevailed. Having heard some alarming rumors, my brother was understandably wary of getting on the T (Boston’s public transit system) and waited until my sister-in-law could collect him before heading home from his office just over the Charles River in Cambridge. Reports of other devices being defused andof a separate, possibly related incident at the JFK Library in Dorchester then emerged.

While I monitored Boston media reports of the explosions in their immediate aftermath, I subsequently switched to Irish media coverage. I’m glad I did. For the Irish coverage, and the solidarity with my city that was so pervasive in it, provided a sense of comfort in an otherwise distressing time. Most all media reports reflected the high regard that Irish people have for Boston. Both in traditional and social media, journalists and other commentators did not hide their myriad Boston connections. They noted the special kinship between the Irish people and the most Irish city in the US. They expressed relief on hearing that family and friends were safe.

Perhaps most poignantly, on Morning Ireland, the


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But it was on that half-moon road that I should have been now, if my order to have a horse meet me at the Halfway stables I had built at the beginning of it had not been forgotten or disregarded by some one at La Chance.

Getting drenched to the skin with lake water was no rattling good exchange for riding home on a fresh horse that felt like a warm stove under me, but a five-mile short cut across the apex of the road and lake triangle


was better than walking twenty-two miles along the side of it on my own legs—which was the only choice I had had in the matter.

I was obliged to get home, for reasons of my own; but when I walked in on Billy Jones, the foreman at the Halfway stables, that afternoon, after months of absence and road-making, there was not even a team horse in his stables, let alone my own saddle mare. There was not a soul about the place, either, but Billy himself, blandly idle and sprawling over a grubby old newspaper in front of the stove in his shack.

His welcome was heartening, but his intelligence was not. No one had told him a word about me or my mare, he informed me profanely; also thatto explain to Billy Jones that I had been making a fool of myself elsewhere, doing a solid week of hospital nursing over a filthy boy I had found on my just-finished road the morning I had really left Caraquet. From the look of him I guessed he had got hurt cutting down a tree and not getting out of the way in time, though he was past telling me that or anything else. But I had also guessed where he lived, by the dirt on him, and was ass enough to carry him home to the squalid, half-French, half-Indian village the Caraquet people called Skunk's Misery.

It lay in the bush, in a slanting line between Caraquet and Lac Tremblant: a nest of thriftless evil stuck in a


used Lac Tremblant, and the foreman of the Halfway stables cast a glance on me. "If it was me, I'd walk," he remarked drily. "But take your choice. The lake's a short cut right enough, only I wouldn't say where to—in my crazy old birchbark this kind of a blowing-up evening!"

That, and a few more things he said as he squinted a weather-wise eye on the lake, came back to me as I fought his old canoe through the water. And fighting it was, mind you, for the spray hid the rocks I knew, and the wind shoved me back on the ones I didn't know. Also the canoe was leaking till she was dead logy, and the gusts were so fierce I could not stop paddling tothat was dry because it was inside my shirt; bailed the unnecessary water out of the canoe and the immediate neighborhood of my legs; and, without meaning to, turned a casual eye on the shore at my right hand.

It might have been because I was tired, but that shore struck me as if I had never seen it before; and on a November evening it was not an inviting prospect. Bush and bush, and more bush, grew down to the very verge of the water in a mass that spoke of heavy swamp and no landing. Behind that, I knew, was rising land, country rock, and again swamp and more swamp,—and all of it harsh, ugly, and inhospitable. But the queer thought that came over me was that


the house there would be the neglected living room with the smelly stove, and Wilbraham walking up and down there as usual; and Dudley Wilbraham's conversation would bring any man back to his senses, even if he needed it worse than I did. I opened the shack door and went in,—and in the bare passage I jerked up taut.

The living room faced me,—and there was no stove in it. And no Wilbraham, walking up and down and talking to himself. There was a glowing, blazing log fire in a stone fireplace that must have been built while I was away; and, sitting alone before it, exactly as I had always thought of her, was my dream girl,—that I had meant to hunt the world for to welcome mehome!

CHAPTER II

MY DREAM: AND DUDLEY'S GIRL

All I could do was to stand in the living room doorway and stare at her.

There she sat by the fire, in a short blue skirt that showed her little feet in blue stockings and buckled shoes, and a blue sweater whose rolling collar fell away from the column of her soft throat. And she was just exactly what I had known she would be! There was a gold crest to every exquisite, warm wave of her bronze hair; her level eyebrows were about five shades darker, and her curled-up eye-lashes darker still, where she sat with her head bent over some sort of sewing. And even before she looked up and I saw her eyes, the beauty of her caught me at


my heart. I had never thought even my dream girl could be as lovely as she was. But there was more to her face than beauty. It was so young and sweet and gay, and—when you looked hard at her—so sad, that I forgot I ought either to speak up or go away. Of who she was or how she came to be at La Chance, I had no earthly clue. I knew, of course, that it was she who had met me at the landing, and common sense told me she had taken me for some one else: but I had no desire to say so, or to go away either. And suddenly she looked up and saw me.

Whoever she was she had good nerves, for shethe girl in the living room must have come out with Marcia; but it knocked me silly to see Marcia herself at La Chance. I had known Marcia Wilbraham, as I had known Dudley, ever since I wore blue serge knickerbockers trimmed with white braid. She never went anywhere with Dudley. She had money of her own, and she spent it on Horse Show horses, and traveling around to show them. But here she stood in front of me, in a forsaken backwoods mine that I should not have expected even Dudley himself to stay at if I had not known his reasons.

"I don't wonder you say 'well,'" Marcia returned crisply. She was good-looking in a big way, if you did not mind brown eyes that were too


to you, and I may as well do it now!" She pushed me into the office where Dudley did his accounts—which was his name for sitting drinking all day, and never speaking to any one—and shut the door. "Look here, Nicky, if you're thinking that girl is a friend of mine, she isn't! I don't know one thing about her. Except that this summer I had reason to oblige Dudley, and one day he came to me—you know he was in New York for nearly two months——"

I nodded. I had not cared where he was, so that he was away from La Chance, where he and old Thompson would drive a tunnel just where I knew it was useless.

"Well, he came to me in the first of August,and said he was going to marry a girl called Paulette Brown,—and he wanted me to bring her out here! Why he didn't marry her straight off and bring her out here himself, I don't know; he only hummed and hawed when I asked him. But anyhow, I met Paulette Brown, for the first time, at the station, when we started up here—she and I and Dudley. And she puzzled me from the second we got into the Pullman, and I saw her pull off the two veils she'd worn around her head in the station! And she puzzles me worse now."

"Why?" I might have been puzzled myself, remembering Paulette Brown's speech to me in the dark, but it was none of Marcia's business.

"Because I know I've seen


been out shooting this afternoon. We've only just come in."

But I was not thinking about supper. The Wilbrahams had been out, and Paulette Brown, left alone, had taken her chance to speak to some one. That she had happened to mistake her man and spoken to me made no difference in the fact, and it came too aptly on Marcia's suspicions about her. But "My good heavens, I won't care what she did," I thought fiercely. My dream girl's eyes were honest, if they were deep blue lakes a man might drown his soul in, too. If she were Dudley's twice over I was going to stand by her, because by all my dreams of her she was more mine. "I haven't time, or chances, to be watchingnew man. His name's Macartney, and he's been here two weeks."

It was news to me, if it was also an example of the way Dudley Wilbraham ran his mine. But before I could speak Marcia nodded significantly down the passage to the living room door. I had been looking into the room myself, as you do at the lighted stage in a theatre, and I had seen only one thing in it: my dream girl—whose name might or might not be Paulette Brown, whom Dudley Wilbraham had more right to than I had—sitting by the fire as I had left her, that fire I had dreamed I should come home to, just myself alone, and talking to Dudley. But Marcia had been looking at something else, and now


my gaze followed hers.

A tall, lean, hard, capable-looking man stood on the other side of the fire. He was taking no share in the conversation between Dudley and the girl who had only lived in my dreams till to-night. He was watching the living room door, quite palpably, and it struck me abruptly that I had not far to seek for Marcia Wilbraham's reason for staying the winter at La Chance. But I might have taken more interest in that and in Macartney, the new mine superintendent, too, if the girl sitting by the fire had not seen Marcia in the doorway and risen to her feet.

For she floated up, effortlessly, unconsciously, to the very tips of her toes, and stood so—like Pavlova!

CHAPTER III

DUDLEY'S MINE: AND DUDLEY'S GOLD

Iand if the living room had been reformed nothing else had—and I sat down in silence and ate. At least I shovelled food into my famished stomach. My attention was elsewhere.

Paulette Brown sat beside Dudley. She was just twice as pretty as I had realized, even when the first sight of her struck me dumb. Her eyes were as dark as indigo, in the lamplight, and a marvellous rose color flitted in her cheeks as she spoke or was silent. She had wonderful hands, too, slim and white, without a sign of a bone at the wrists; but I had a curious feeling that they were the very strongest hands I had ever seen on a girl. Remembering Dudley, it hurt me to look at her; and suddenly


something else hurt me worse, that I had been a fool not to have thought of before. Macartney, the mine superintendent, was new there; I knew no more of him than I did of Paulette Brown—not so much, perhaps, thanks to Marcia—and it came over me that he might have been the man for whom she had taken me to-night, and that it was he she had crept out into the dark to speak to in secret. I looked at him over my coffee cup, and there was something about him I did not like.

He was a tall man, very capable-looking, as I said; extremely fair and rather handsome, with hard, grayish eyes that looked straight at you when he spoke. He had a charming laugh—yet when hethe acceptance of the obvious fact that there were other girls in the world than Paulette Brown. I told myself I was too dead tired to care. I stumbled to my window to open it—Charliet's lamp had burned out while I was at supper and the room was stifling—and a sudden queer sense that some one or something was under my window made me stand there without raising it. And there was some thing, anyway. The windows in the shack were about a yard above the ground. There was a glimpse of the moon through the wind-tortured clouds, now on the rough clearing, now on the thick spruces round the edge of it,—for my window looked on the bush, not toward the bunk house and the mine. And


would be good to the girl, according to his lights. But, all the same, I decided to stay at La Chance. I saw Dudley was brimming over with something secret, and I hoped to heaven it was not his engagement, and that I should not have to stand my own thoughts of a girl translated into Dudley's. But he did not mention her. He hooked his fat wrist into my elbow and trotted me down to the mine.

It was an amateur sort of mine, as you may have gathered. Dudley had no use for expert assistance or for advice. And it was a simple looking place. The shore of Lac Tremblant there ran back flat to a hill, a quarter of a mile from the water, with asolid rock face like a cliff. Along that cliff face came first Dudley's shack, then Thompson's tunnel, then—a good way farther down—the bunk house, the mill, and a shanty Dudley called the assay office. But I stared at a new hole in the cliff, farther down even than the assay office.

"Why, you've driven a new tunnel," I exclaimed.

"Yes, my young son," said Dudley; and then he burst out with things. Macartney had run that new tunnel as soon as he came and struck quartz that was solid for heaven knew how far, and carrying thick, free gold that assayed incredibly to the ton. The La Chance mine, whose name had been more truth than poetry—for when I made fifty miles of road that cost like the devil, to


haul in machinery and a mill it was pitch and toss if we should ever need it—had turned out a certainty while I was away.

I stood silent. It meant plenty to me, who had only a trifle in the thing, but I was the only soul in the world who knew what it meant to Dudley. Stocks, carelessness, but chiefly bull-headed extravagance, had run through every cent he had, and La Chance had saved him from having to live on Marcia's charity,—if she had any. There was no fear, either, of his being interfered with in the bonanza he had struck; for leaving out my infinitesimal share, Dudley was sole owner,—and he had bought a thousand acres mining concession from the Government for ten dollars an acre, whichas I did, that he wasn't the man for the place. Macartney struck that vein first go off, and that was recommendation enough for me. But here's Thompson's, if you want to see it!" He extracted a folded letter from a case.

It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably. And once and for all I dismissed all idea that it could have been Macartney who was tangled up with Paulette Brown. Old Thompson's friends were not that sort, and he vouched for knowing Macartney all his life. He was a well-known man, according to Thompson, with a long string of letters after his name. Thompson had come on him by accident, and sent him up at once, before he


tunnel mouth, there was no shelter over the ore platform at the mill. This year the snow was late, but there was no counting on that. And I blinked as I went out of the white November sunshine into Macartney's new tunnel, and the candlelight of his humming stope. One glance around told me Dudley was right, and the man knew his business; and it was the same over at the mill. It seemed to me superintendent was a mild name for Macartney, and general manager would have fitted better. But I said nothing, for Dudley considered he was general manager himself. Another thing that pleased me about the new man was that he seemed to be doing nothing, till you saw how his men jumped for him,to get it out of my head I turned to Dudley, fussing round and talking about tailings. And one omission in all he and Macartney had shown me hopped up in my head. "Where's your gold?" I demanded.

"That's one thing we don't keep loose on the doorsteps," Macartney returned drily, and I rather liked him for it, since he knew nothing of my share in the mine.

But Dudley snapped at him: "Why can't you say it's in the house—in my office? Stretton's going to take it into Caraquet; there's no sense in making a mystery to him. Come on, Stretton, and have a look at it now!" He stuck his fat little arm through mine, and we went back to the house by the back door and Charliet's


me, and"—he gave a shove at the office door that seemed to have stuck,—"and Miss Brown!"

But I was speechless where I stood behind him. There was the bare office; Dudley's locked desk; Dudley's safe against the wall. And turning away from the safe, in her blue sweater and blue skirt and stockings and little buckled shoes, was my dream girl!

Something in my heart turned over as I looked at her. It was not that she had started, for she had not. She just stood in front of us, poised and serene, and some sort of a letter she had been writing lay half finished on Dudley's desk. But something totally outside me told me she had been writing no letter while we were out; that she knew thecombination of the safe; had opened it; had but just shut it; and—that she had been doing something to the boxes of gold inside it.

There was nothing in her face to say so, though, and my thought never struck Dudley. He gave her a nod and a patronizing: "Well, nice girl," without the least surprise at seeing her there. But I had seen a pin dot of blue sealing wax on the glimpse of white blouse that showed through the open front of her sweater, and something else. I stooped, while Dudley was fussing with the lock of his desk, and picked up a curious little gold seal that lay on the floor by the safe.

Whether I meant to speak of it or not I don't know; for


he announced in a sober interval that we required a double shift of men and the mill to crush day and night, instead of stopping at dark,—besides a cyanide plant and a man to run it.

But Macartney unexpectedly jibbed at the idea. He returned bluntly that he could attend to the cyanide business himself, when it was really needed; while as to extra men he could not watch a night shift at the plates as well as a day one, and he would have to be pretty sure of the honesty of his new amalgam man before he started in to get one. Also—and it struck me as a sentiment I had never heard from a mine superintendent before—that if we sent out for men half of thosethem watching me, like lynxes, whenever they were off shift. I never saw either of them speak to Miss Brown, but I got a good growing idea it was just Collins she had meant to interview the night she spoke to me: and it fitted in well enough with my doubts about her and Dudley's gold, for I would have put no gold stealing past Collins. As for Paulette Brown herself, I could see no earthly sense in Marcia's silly statement that "she was afraid for her life—or Dudley's." She was afraid of Dudley, I could see that; for she shrank from him quite often. But on the other hand, I saw her follow him into his office one night, when he was fit for no girl to