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War orphan named 'Precious Pearl' reunites with South Vietnamese soldier who rescued her in '72

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Bao Tran as a young South Vietnamese soldier, left, and showing Kimberly Mitchell how she was given to him during the war in 1972. Photo: Bao Tran / Anh Do

Standing in the battlefield, the young South Vietnamese soldier was getting ready to blow up a bridge before Viet Cong forces could cross when an old man staggered his way, carrying a bundle.

The stranger handed him a conical straw hat. There was a baby inside.

The man said he had found the little girl clutching a dead woman, still trying to nurse.

At home in Albuquerque, Bao Tran looks at a photo album Kimberly Mitchell made for him and his family (Anh Do / LosAngeles Times) Photo: Los Angeles Times

"I can't go on any longer," he said. "Please bring her to safety. She is desperately hungry."

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It was wartime in Vietnam, 1972, and 22-year-old Bao Tran had been trying to focus on just one thing: igniting the My Chanh Bridge. But now he stood frozen, staring at the pale, thin child in stained cotton.

When he asked his commanding officer what to do, the reply was straightforward: "You take care of her."

James Mitchell with Sister Angela Nguyen and the baby, Tran Thi Ngoc Bich (Precious Pearl). Mitchell adopted the infant and brought her to the States in 1972. Photo Kimberly Mitchell. Photo: Kimberly Mitchell

So Tran set off for a nunnery 60 kilometres away. He walked, he rode a bus. When the child began to


whimper, he poured drops of water from his thermos, letting her lick it from his finger.

At the Sacred Heart orphanage in the coastal town of Da Nang, the head sister greeted him at the front door.

"You must fulfill your responsibility," Sister Angela Nguyen told Tran. "You must give her something of yourself. What would you like to call her?"

He gave her his last name, then added: Ngoc Bich.

Precious Pearl.

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A faded photograph was tucked into her luggage as Kimberly Mitchell boarded a plane in 2011, bound for a country where she didn't know the language or the culture.

It was her first trip to Vietnam since she had left as a child, a celebration of turning 40 but also a voyage to unravel the mysteries of her past.

Traveling with threefriends, she had planned to visit the nunnery from her childhood, but the Sacred Heart orphanage, now with peeling paint, had been turned into a retirement home for government workers.

But Mitchell's friends had secretly found the orphanage's new location in Da Nang. It would be a birthday surprise.

They told her they were going to a street market. Instead, they drove past it to a building in the center of town. A nun introduced herself.

"I am Sister Mary," she said. "Consider this your home."

As a novice in 1972, Sister Mary Huong Tran used to come to Sacred Heart on Sundays to care for unclaimed babies. At the time, American officers from a nearby air base would visit, bringing gifts of candy or toys.

The officers delighted in playing with the


taking her time as if searching her own memory. Then, she took out the record books. Flipping the delicate pages, she found baby #899 — Tran Thi Ngoc Bich. Precious Pearl.

"What do you know about your background?" the nun asked.

This much Mitchell knew: In the chaos of war, an Air Force tech sergeant named James Mitchell had witnessed so much destruction, he hoped to be able to offer someone a new life.

One child drew him to her. Precious Pearl. Soon, he would take her to Saigon, fulfilling the paperwork needed for her passport to travel to America in September 1972.

Mitchell and his wife, Lucy, a teacher, would tell their daughter the only thing they ever heard: A man brought the baby to the orphanage and named her PreciousPearl. The sisters never saw the man again.

"I always wondered: What were the conditions that led me to being abandoned?" Kimberly Mitchell said. "Did my birth mother or her family have no choice?"

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Bao Tran longed to return to the orphanage and check on Precious Pearl's progress. But he never could — North Vietnamese forces had turned the war in their favor.

By war's end, in April 1975, Communist victors shipped him to a reeducation camp, jailing him for six years. After his release, Tran, desperate to support his family, latched onto the job of a cyclo driver, barely scraping by.

In 1994, under a US State Department program to resettle former South Vietnamese soldiers, he and his family landed in the United States — heading straight for Albuquerque. Tran remains


there with his wife and two of his three children.

Yet through the decades, he couldn't forget the other child. Whatever happened to Precious Pearl?

Then one day in May 2012, he picked up a free sample of a Vietnamese-language magazine based in New Jersey. In it, he saw an article about a career Navy officer named Kimberly Mitchell and her search into her past.

The story cited the name on her old passport: Precious Pearl.

"I thought: This has to be that baby. Who else could it be?" Tran said. "I had to find a way to tell her she was not abandoned — she was rescued. She didn't have to fear that no one wanted her."

Lacking English, Tran, who spent years working in construction, asked a friend with a brother-in-lawin the Navy to help him find Mitchell. Using the internet and the inside source, they searched for months until they finally found her phone number.

Mitchell thought their calls were all a prank, a hurtful effort to falsely raise her hopes. She refused to respond until one afternoon, she heard a message: "Please, please pick up the phone. We will call back in 20 minutes."

Tran's Navy friend came on the line, translating his story about rescuing Mitchell. Mitchell asked them to send it to her in writing, testing to see if the details would change.

When the letter arrived, Mitchell read it carefully, her emotions welling up. Maybe, she thought, just maybe...

"He sounded very sincere, very determined that I was the child he held," she said.

The pair traded information


for months, matching her adoption date to the time when Tran was a soldier. He told her that by his calculation, she would have been born in late 1971 and indeed, the baby passport she clung to showed her birth month as November 1971.

She told him about her childhood. She had grown up in Wisconsin, where she learned how to milk cows and make cheese on her family's farm. She never thought about whether she was different from those around her.

But when she started grade school, when she found out that she'd been adopted, the questions started.

"I wondered what happened to my birth parents. Did they have other children? Did they have food? How did they feel after I was gone?

"I did not know my birth mother wouldbe gone too."

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Bao Tran, dressed in fatigues, his gray hair covered by a beret, frowned. Then smiled.

A tanned woman with close-cropped curls surged forward. They barely heard the speeches in English and Vietnamese inside the room housing the Vietnamese Association of New Mexico.

Forty-one years after they last met, the two embraced. Tran, 62, cried.

As cameras from the Albuquerque TV station flashed, Mitchell turned to him, saying, "He is my hero."

Again, she put her arms around Tran, and he produced a conical straw hat with a doll belonging to his grandchild. "This is how I found you," he told her.

"I was thinking, 'Why did this man save me?'" Mitchell recalled. "He must have great compassion and love beyond what we could understand."

Tran said: "I always hoped she grew up


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Corn Palace Review Details Released

The Mitchell City Council heard a report on a special review of the procedures followed regarding the operation of the Corn Palace. The report was requested by Mitchell Mayor Ken Tracy and was issued by South Dakota Auditor General Martin Guindon. The report is not considered an official audit of the Corn Palace operation.

It states that internal controls over the concession operations, such as cash collection, reconciliation, and accountability, were not adequately designed or functioning properly to detect errors, fraud, or abuse.

The report listed several areas where lack of proper internal controls were evident, including the fact that only one person, former Director Mark Schilling, handled the counting of cash in the registers and making the deposits. Registers were not balanced out with awas also recommended that proper surveillance be installed in all areas where cash transactions occur, and that the Corn Palace consolidating cash collections to one location.

The report also found some missing documentation from the use of the City credit cards issued to former Director Mark Schilling. Several of those involved charging meals while on trips, which is against City policy. It was also reported that Schilling and staff member Jeri Mickelson received free tickets to the 2013 Academy of Country Music Show supplied by Romeo Entertainment, which is a vendor of the city. Receiving free tickets from a vendor is also against Municipal Policy.


An activist group took the footage, which is prohibited under the court’s rules that forbid cameras and all other electronic devices

A protest group has posted what appears to be the first video of the Supreme Court taken inside the courtroom with the court in session.

The supreme court forbids cameras and all other electronic devices, but members of the protest group 99Rise appear to have shot video on two separate occasions since October.

The more recent footage captures a courtroom protest on Wednesday by a man the court identified as Noah Newkirk of Los Angeles. A 99Rise news release posted online says group co-founder Kai Newkirk was the person who called on the court to overturn its 2010 Citizens United decision. Police hustled him out of the courtroom and chargedAn inmate who reportedly stole a van and escaped from the California Men’s Colony last month has been found.

CMC officials confirmed the information Friday afternoon, also saying the van had been recovered.

David Gray Hall was reportedly found in a park in the southwest area of Los Angeles and taken into custody at 10:55 a.m. on Friday. The vehicle was found nearby, according to prison officials.

Hall is reportedly being taken to the California Institution for Men, a prison in San Bernardino County. State prison officials say his case will be referred to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office for consideration of escape charges.

Hall, 26, was discovered missing Oct 30. during an inmate count.

CMC officials say Hall was a minimum-security inmate who was assigned to work in the


prison garage. He was serving a five-year sentence for second-degree robbery and was scheduled to be released on parole in December 2019.

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Both Reinaldo Arenas and Quentin Crisp were queer writers in the Twentieth Century who wrote extensively about cultural repression and persecution of gays in their writing. In this essay I will explore how each writer came from disparate backgrounds and experiences, yet both writers shared a common experience that in part defined their lives and writing. Both writers extensively explored their sexuality and identity to produce a rich body of work that helped to define gay experience in the Twentieth Century. Although both writers shared similar ideas about sexuality and its relationship to the larger society, their stories manifest in different ways based on their temperaments and conditions to which they were subjected. Both writers fled existences they considered limited or stifling as youth. Both


writers sought to exert their identities as young adults through grand gestures and desperate living. Both faced suppression by the law and imprisonment for who they were, but each writer’s story was uniquely their own. In Arenas’ Before Night Falls and Crisp’s The Naked Civil Servant, each writer documents their life stories and ideas of sexuality against a backdrop of hardship and cultural tension. Arenas started life in rural Cuba, joined the Castro revolution, and finally fell victim to the government’s suppression. Crisp fled what he felt was an oppressively middle class existence to become a gender outlaw in London.

In Quentin Crisp’s memoir The Naked Civil Servant, Crisp explored ideas of a constructed identity against the backdrop of British society in the early to late Twentieth Century. Crisp’sanger enough workers to turnout hundreds of supplementary votes for Obama in these precincts, it will not boost his final percentage at all since it will result in the same number of delegates.

One more note on unions in Nevada comes to us from Politico's Ben Smith, who observes that unions are spending on Obama's behalf in Nevada. You might remember that Obama had blasted his rivals in the run-up to Iowa for relying on "Washington money" and "special interests" among which he was lumping unions. That had sparked a controversy, with Paul Krugman denouncing Obama's use of conservative talking points, but Obama apparently has no problem relying on union expenditures in Nevada.

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Domestic flights in Finland are set to increase in price after an EU decision that means the charges applied to them will have to rise. The EU has ruled that Finavia, the state-owned aviation services company, has to charge the same for domestic Finnish flights and flights within the EU's internal market.

It had previously made similar demands of the Norwegian company Avinor and the Swedish firm Swedavia.

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Dodgers RHP Edwin Jackson on his 20th birthday -- Sept. 9, 2003, vs. the D-backs

Jackson has pitched for 12 different teams during his 15-year MLB career, but it all began back in 2003 with the Dodgers. He pitched well in his debut, allowing one run over six innings of work while earning the win against Arizona. To make his birthday even better, the freshly 20-year-old Jackson outdueled a tall left-hander by the name of Randy Johnson, who took for the loss for the D-backs.

Astros RHP Larry Dierker on his 18th birthday -- Sept. 22, 1964, vs. the Giants

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his 18th birthday. Dierker would go on to have an impressive career in Houston, both as a player and a manager from 1997-2001 -- the Astros retired his No. 49 in 2002. But his first test at the MLB level was facing the Giants as a teenager. And who was on the Giants in 1964? None other than Willie Mays at the peak of his Hall of Fame career.

Sure enough, Dierker managed to strike Mays out looking in the first inning of his debut start. Dierker ended up struggling the rest of the day, only going 2 2/3 innings in the loss, but he'll always have that debut K against the Say Hey Kid.

Twins RHP Gerry Arrigo on his 20th birthday -- June 12, 1961, vs. the RedSox

Arrigo also struggled in his debut game, only going 1 1/3 innings against Boston before handing the ball over to the bullpen. But like Dierker, Arrigo also notched a Hall of Fame strikeout in his first inning of work: A fellow rookie by the name of Carl Yastrzemski.

Cardinals RHP Tom Hughes on his 25th birthday -- Sept. 13, 1959, vs. the Cubs

Hughes spent four seasons in the Cardinals' Minor League system before getting the call up towards the end of the 1959 season. Hughes also had the opportunity to face a future Hall of Famer in his debut game, but his didn't go quite as smoothly: Ernie Banks, in the stretch run of his secnd consecutive MVP campaign, hit an RBI single in the first inning and a


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Reds RHP Dick Robertson on his 22nd birthday -- Sept. 16, 1913, vs. the Phillies

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Sandusky’s conviction was “one of the most profound injustices in the history of American jurisprudence,” Lindsay wrote in a statement, saying he would bring the case to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

The resentencing will likely take place in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, by visiting Judge John Foradora of Jefferson County, who began hearing Sandusky’s post-conviction appeal after the trial judge, John Cleland, recused himself.

Peter Goldberger, a lawyer in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, who specializes in state and federal appeals, said Friday’s ruling stemmed from a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision that it was unconstitutional to require judges to impose mandatory minimum sentences.

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MOSCOW, December 9 (Itar-Tass) — More than 2.3 million people, including one million children, have been inoculated against flue and respiratory diseases in Moscow, a spokesman for the city health department told Itar-Tass on Friday.

“According to the Russian consumer rights protection authority (Rospotrebnadzor), as of December 2, 2011, some 2.368 million people were vaccinated, either at the expense of the budget and employers or at their own expenses,” the spokesman said. Apart from that, about one million children, including more than 600,000 schoolchildren, were inoculated in the autumn vaccination campaign.

In late November, head of the city health department Leonid Pechatnikov said that


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Before considering Collins's points in the order above, we first summarize the facts needed to discuss and dispose of his arguments. In the early morning hours of May 18, 1996, Richard Cox went to Collins's residence, and, for reasons known best to them, they took Collins's twelve-gauge shotgun and proceeded to a trailer court where they rang the doorbell of Charlotte Archer's residence.[1] Archer opted not to open the door when she looked out the window and saw two men with a shotgun outside the door. The men, later identified as Cox and Collins, left the Archer residence after getting no response. Archer said that she heard gunshots moments after the men left. Cox and Collins had gone up the street,knocked on the door of Brandon Sanders's house, where Holly Strickland and her husband were visiting, and when Holly opened the door, the men shot and killed her. Amy Renee Abbott was visiting with Holly at Sanders's, and the two women were in the living room when Holly was shot. Amy said the men shot the gun three times. Amy also said that, during the shooting, she squatted down and fell over, and acted like she was shot. Soon after the shooting at about 3:00 a.m. on May 18, Antonio Milan reported that he saw Collins alone in the parking lot outside a laundromat, and Collins possessed a twelve-gauge shotgun, which had duct tape on its handle. The next day Collins stopped Milan and told Milan that he


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So, Hollywood is making another movie based on a video game and the director is the same director of the meh San Andreas, Brad Peyton. What video game? Why Rampage, the classic kaiju simulator where the goal is to destroy all buildings in the area.

The series has had two classic arcade installments along with a few other console games. The only good console game was the most recent, Rampage: Total Destruction. The idea behind the original 1986 Rampage was to use vertical scrolling to its advantage. At the time, horizontal scrolling was hard to animate on the scale of graphics the originalwas using. With this in mind, the developers thought about being the villains and destroying skyscrapers and other tall buildings. It dawned on them quite fast to use the idea of giant monsters as the characters and as the basis of the game. While I can’t say much about the original (as I have yet to play it), it was good enough to get a sequel in 1997, 11 years later. Rampage: World Tour is a delight to play with all three players at the helm destroying everything in sight. Rampage: Total Destruction is the same way, but with only two players because of the limitations of 3D gaming at the time.

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Nathaniel Clyne has dealt Manchester United a blow by indicating he could sign a new contract at Southampton.

United are in the market for a right-back this summer and England international Clyne, out of contract next year, was identified as a potential target along with Everton's Seamus Coleman and Barcelona's Dani Alves.

But since Clyne switched agents earlier this month Southampton have become increasingly confident the 24-year-old would remain at St Mary's next season.

And when Clyne, who rejected United to join Southampton in 2012, was asked about whether his club career could have a detrimental impact on his first-team status at international level,he appeared to be unconcerned.

"As long as you're playing well for your club and you're doing ever so well in the Premier League then, yeah, you'll get a chance, regardless of whether you're in a top team or not," he told Sky Sports News.

"But Southampton's pushing up, so why can't we be a top team?"

Southampton finished a credible seventh, despite seeing coach Mauricio Pochettino leave for Tottenham and a raft of first-teamers follow, including United left-back Luke Shaw.

The club appeared to be getting impatient with Clyne over contract talks and the former Crystal Palace defender only said last month he was 'ambitious' and determined to play in the Champions League.

David Moyes was prepared to lodge a bid for Seamus Coleman last summer, however his sacking scuppered those plans


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because of threats he made at school that got him into serious trouble.

“He got arrested on the school bus” for the threats, said Mr. Gainey, who added that he was on the bus himself when it happened. He recalled Mr. Betts being a freshman or sophomore at the time. Mr. Gainey did not remember the specifics of the threats but said that Mr. Betts had to leave school for the rest of that year. When he returned, “the threat thing followed him, and people didn’t want to hang out with him.”

The suspect’s family home was searched.

BELLBROOK, Ohio — The police searched a house in a quiet suburb southeast of Dayton early Sunday morning, where the man identified by the officials as the gunman lived with his parents.

The housecluster is linked through each of their individual connections to water in that very moment:

Kala: Swimming in the Positano ocean

Wolfgang: Drinking vodka at a bar

Riley & Will: Cooking up liquid heroin

Sun: Sweating in solitary confinement

Capheus: Carrying a large jug of water

Nomi: Hand-washing laundry with Neets

Lito: Taking a dip in his now-fixed hot tub

-Towards the end of the scene, Kala and Wolfgang (as they tend to do often) branch off from the rest of the cluster in order to have a moment to themselves once again. See how often they separate from the cluster here [x]

-These two have been linked many times in the past in relation to water: Both Kala & Wolfgang had water surrounding their first biological birth (Kala was born during a downpour and Wolfgang had


shot they ever filmed was used as the very first shot of the new season.

Scene 2:

-Amanita is working at City Lights, which is the same bookstore in San Francisco that she has worked at since before she ever even met Nomi. She is reading a book about psychic links which covers stories of magic, witchcraft, ghosts and conspiracy theories (sure sounds like my kind of book!) This shows the audience that she has been researching the sensate bond as much as possible, trying to arm herself with as much other-worldly knowledge as she can. Amanita has never questioned Nomi & her situation but instead has taken the entire scenario on as her own (I like to think of her as the honorary 9th member of the cluster). Shebecause she originally put them out on herself. She ran away from the hospital in Season 1 when Dr. Metzger tried to perform the neural graft procedure (lobotomy) on her. (After passing out at the Pride Parade because of the eye contact/connection she made with Jonas, the hospital gave her a brain scan and BPO was notified that she was sensate). Whispers almost caught her at Grace’s apartment in Season 1 as well but, with the help of the cluster, she escaped from that too. She also discovered Niles Bulger, the lobotomized sensate that Whispers jumped into to kill Dr. Metzger in Season 1 (Nomi even coins the phrase “Bulger’d” for sensates who have had the procedure done). Because she found out first hand what Whispers & BPO


has ever really wanted… and yea, fucking kill me now.

-Kala is shopping in Positano. As soon as she sees Wolfgang, her face lights up. She is obviously excited that he has appeared since it has probably been a few weeks with barely any contact between them since he massacred his family. He thinks she deserves better and he wants her to be happy so he’s been avoiding her. Instead of facing the situation, he drops his head with a look of defeat then turns and walks away. Kala’s face drops as well, disappointed that he is avoiding her once again. Oh, the fucking angst with these two I swear!

Scene 5:

-We are introduced to Toby Onwumere as the new Capheus by a meta introduction. Jela & Capheus discuss how(which turns out to be Amsterdam). While sleeping, Will is connecting to Angelica and is reliving one of her past memories. Because she is his sensate mother and he & the cluster have a special bond with her, he is actually able to interact with her during these memories even though she’s dead; mostly because of his deep connection to her sense experience with heroin. He sees her in a green, wooded forest area at first but then is transported to the abandoned church in Chicago, where she killed herself. They are shooting up heroin together and she asks him “You were a cop?” He responds by saying “I am a cop.” It is very important to remember that Will never loses sight of this throughout the entire


day. He reveals that he has known Capheus since he was 10 years old and he knows for a fact that mixed martial arts is not one of his skills so he wants to know how he defeated the Superpower gang on his own. This is when Capheus finally reveals his sensate bond to Jela. He does not tell him about the cluster in particular but he tells him about the spirit of Jean-Claude-Korean-Lady, explaining his connection to Sun. They talk about how both of their fathers were murdered and that they have that, along with many other things including their birthday, in common. I really love their friendship because Jela is an unconditional friend just like Dani, Amanita, Bug, Felix, Diego & Hernando. Plus, this scene isanother blocker pill. Jonas hints that he may have done this on purpose, allowing just enough time for Will to see this moment and discover that the little girl standing next to him is actually his daughter. Maybe this was an attempt to humanize himself in the eyes of Will Gorski, to no avail. The little girl has a British accent, meaning she was raised in England and has probably resided there her whole life.

-Jonas says that Whispers fancies himself quite the family man because he loves pretending to be “one of them” (sapien). Will is hiding in the corner of Whispers’ mind, waiting for him to make a mistake and collecting intel like the good cop that he is and Jonas says he is most certainly not


Everyone who was connected to her before her death is also able to tap into the psycellium and access memories of her as well (Jonas & Whispers included, and this is also why Will can still see Sara Patrell sometimes) but the connection isn’t as strong as the one Angelica has with her children, especially Will. I suspect the reason he is so close to her might have something to do with the fact that she was in Chicago, lived in Chicago, worked for BPO in Chicago, died in Chicago; and Will was always close by. When she awakened the cluster in Season 1, she was literally a few hundred feet away from Will in the abandoned church as his sensate genes were changing from dormant to active.During the rebirth, he even makes Diego pull up in the back alley of the church where Angelica first appeared to him. Little did he know that she was just inside the building, on the other side of the wall from where he stood. Later on in the season we learn (from Lila) that connections run deeper if you are physically close in proximity to one another in real life, so the connection between Will & Angelica has been strong from the get-go. When she rebirthed the cluster, the psycellium exploded out of her and spread to the others on a global scale but Will was the closest in proximity and probably the first one it reached. Plus, the fact that he is doing the same drug she


be found. In their place are 3 intimidating men wearing suits who have obviously been hired by Joong-Ki (he sure does like to hire other people to do his dirty work, huh?) Sun immediately knows something is wrong. She starts looking around the room, observing the reactions of the 3 men. When she asks where her attorney is, the thug sitting in the chair responds that regrettably, he has chosen to “retire” from practice and that “he will be missed”. Mr. Lee looked to be in his late 20′s. No one is retiring that young. It makes me think that they either killed him or hurt him badly. Damn you, Joong-Ki! All the man wanted was to follow the law he believed in.

-When the thug tells Sun thatwould have suggested it a long time ago. They might be weary of the decision now, but it sure does end up working out in the long run!

-Capheus is on his way home when he sees Silas Kabaka’s SUV, along with his suit-wearing hired men, standing outside of the home he shares with his mother.

-Kala gets a first look at her brand new swimming pool and we hear her real estate agent say “It just puts me in the mood!” Kala immediately imagines Wolfgang swimming naked and her face lights up. I guess it puts her in the mood too, huh?!

-Just as Wolfgang is about to unlock the door to his apartment, he notices that the toothpick he has been leaving in the door frame has fallen to


the ground. Someone has entered his apartment and to Felix’s surprise, Wolfie draws his gun. He immediately transports himself to Kala, which is something he always tends to do when he thinks his life is in danger. With the both of them thinking about each other at the same exact time, they unintentionally commence a “visit”. Kala sees him appear, then walks away with a look of sadness, catching herself fantasizing about him once again.

-Riley gets a knock on the safe house door. She opens it to find a woman who she seems to know, holding a bag around her shoulder.

-Sun, who is still in solitary confinement, gets a visit from Min-Jung. “There is a story you put three men in the hospital.” - - - “It ismen after him, Volker’s men, and they immediately begin to shoot. They kill Fischer right in front of them then turn their guns on Wolfie & Felix as they run off into a nearby parking lot under the hail of bullets. Volker has officially given up on recruiting Wolfgang to the Western Kingdom. Rather than live under the constant fear of Wolfie & his undeniable badassary, he has decided to take the easy way out by trying to kill him instead. He presents a potential threat to his rise to power and Vo


storm in from the Atlantic.

Meteorologist, Dean Hall, warned: "We could see close to 80mph, possibly even higher miles per hour in exposed areas in the far north of the country."

Our first named storm of the season, #StormAli, will bring strong winds and heavy rain across Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland during Wednesday https://t.co/H3Pa76S3qw pic.twitter.com/l4lQ1x5yQB - Met Office (@metoffice) September 18, 2018

Despite Autumn not officially kicking off until next week, the autumnal conditions come after commuters in Scotland and northern England were faced with the remnants of Storm Helene which was downgraded from hurricane force.

Advertwhiz kid joined Mensa International at the age of 4 and began taking classes at ARC when he was 7. Abraham’s 9-year-old sister Tiara is on a similarly prodigious path: She’s also a member of Mensa and started taking college classes at age 7, too.

Their mother Taji told KCRA that “even in kindergarten [Tanishq] was pretty ahead, a few years ahead – and then it just went from there.”

Next up for Abraham: getting his M.D. He told KCRA that he wants to become a doctor and medical researcher and, eventually, the president of the United States. He echoed these plans on Twitter on Wednesday, adding that he hopes to earn a Nobel Prize along the way.

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was considered to be pandemic by the CDC as of August 2006. Today, sexual intercourse and needle exchange are the two main causes of HIV transmission. Understanding the health problem while also creating prevention programs to promote safe sex and safe needle exchange-programs are challenging issues in every country impacted by the epidemic.

In South and Central America, the epidemic has evolved in recent years. The total number of people living with HIV continued to grow to an estimated 1.4 million in 2009 and about 92,000 new HIV infections were reported during the same year \[[@B4]\]. Ecuador is a middle-income country with health issues related to poverty, low education levels, gender inequality, religious restrictions and race discrimination. The first case of HIV/AIDS in Ecuador was reported in 1984 by2011 UNAIDS Report, the effectiveness of an HIV intervention program is strongly related to improved knowledge and practice of preventive measures relating to HIV and sexually transmitted infections in the general adult population as well as in youth and vulnerable population sub-groups \[[@B11]\]. The present study used the original version of the Family Health International questionnaire. All subsequent versions of this questionnaire developed after 2000 maintained the same basic concepts and included modifications based mainly on local additions rather than altering significantly the established questions.

Clearly the proportion of workers with a lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS in this study was high: 46.6% for transmission of the disease and 32% for prevention measures, respectively. Only 35.7% of the participants answered all five questions correctly. Risk factors were almost the


to outside world. Pichincha is the province of the capital, Quito, and a central commercial city in Latin America. Finally, the Azuay province with its capital, Cuenca, is more remote and close to the Amazonian region of the country, less exposed to HIV/AIDS progression. Thus, the three selected provinces should give a fairly good, although not perfect, picture of the country. Finally as already mentioned the working sectors considered in this study assemble the largest number of companies in Ecuador and also employ the greatest number of workers.

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The present cross-sectional study based on a stratified cluster sample of company workers demonstrates for the first time a major lack of HIV/AIDS knowledge in occupational settings in Ecuador. This is influenced negatively by factors such as older age, male gender,and approved the final manuscript.

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Maria del Carmen Cabezas, MD, is a PhD student at the University of Liège (Liège, Belgium) and a researcher at the School of Medicine of Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador; her expertise is in HIV prevention programs.

Marco Fornasini, MD, PhD in epidemiology is a full time professor and researcher at Universidad de las Americas, Quito, Ecuador; his expertise is in chronic diseases and infectious diseases.

Nadia Dardenne, MSc in mathematics, is a biostatistician in the department of medical informatics and biostatistics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Teresa Borja, PhD in Psychology is a full time professor and researcher at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador; her expertise is in sexology and HIV.

Adelin Albert, PhD in Statistics, is professor and head of the department


a strong driver and Shane and Michael have had 18 months together to work on that,'' Howard said.

"The captain and the vice-captain have got to sort their issues out. And if Michael wants to raise that as a greater issue, then he can come forward.''

In one of the most dramatic days in Australian cricket history, coach Mickey Arthur dropped a bombshell on the team yesterday by dumping Watson, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson and Usman Khawaja.

Watson's future is now in limbo after the Australian vice-captain quit the tour of India and is considering retiring from international cricket.

During a stop-over in Singapore this evening, Watson spoke briefly with Channel Nine, confirming he had not been sent home but rather "was going home to see my wife who's having a baby".

Howardaddressed the sackings this afternoon, saying the quartet's failure to respond to a peer review of the side's dismal performance in the second Test was the latest in a list of misdemeanours by the Australian players.

He said this was Cricket Australia's "line in the sand" and that the player had received plenty of warnings.

"We have been dealing with small issues ... You can only get your last chance so many times," Howard said.

"This is the straw that broke the camel’s back. At some stage unfortunately you’ve got to make a call.

"There were plenty of warnings."

Howard would not go into detail about what the other player indiscretions were but said CA would not take a situation as "trivial as this in isolation" and deal such a harsh punishment to


displayed in the NRL and AFL.

"Cricket is still stuck in the 1960s," Zammit said on 2GB this morning. "I dare a young rugby league player to say `I forgot' (to do my homework). Hell and damnation would come down on their heads."

"(But) cricket is different, you're pushing against the ocean. (Professional cricketers) have been taught from a very young age they are special.

"The entire cricket universe is soft in the belly compared to other sports."

'There are more important things in my life'

Watson had hinted in January he might have to go home early for the birth but has been left gutted by the circumstances surrounding his axing - to the point where he is now contemplating walking away from the game.

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"Pain in the Ed" is the 6th episode of Season 4 and the 83rd episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Ed is taking up the violin and must practice. Unfortunately, he stinks and Eddy hates the music so much that he tries to find a way to get rid of Ed's new violin, but he must do so without letting Sarah or Jimmy know.

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For once, Eddy's newest scheme is not about scoring money. Instead, he wants to gain some social points. In his twisted mind, however, this is akin to simply claiming that he's entered puberty, so with Edd's help he glues some carpet to his armpits for fake body hair. He then approaches Jonny and Plank, but Jonny simply asks if Eddy's


it and goes inside. After a while, he stands up and goes into his room. Inside, he spies a familiar hat poking over his chair. When he rushes over and turns it around, he finds Edd hiding from Ed's awful playing. Before the two can argue, Ed arrives and starts practicing again. At this point, Eddy becomes fed up and decides to go and get rid of the violin once and for all. Edd tries to stop him, but Eddy marches outside, grabs Ed's violin, and throws it out into the street. Edd tries to go after the violin, but stops when he sees Jimmy and Sarah moving towards Eddy's room, carrying the violin.

Eddy is petting Ed, saying that it's nice to not have to listen to theis Jonny blindly runs into the gum, which stretches and then snaps back, sending him flying backwards, straight into the jack-in-the-box, which pops open and sends Jonny upwards. When he comes down, he lands in a pressure-device which sets off a multitude of contraptions inside the statue, which send a bowling ball on a guided path intended to destroy the violin. As all this goes on, Edd surreptitiously feeds Wilfred a grease-coated magnet. Eddy watches, nearly overcome with glee, as the ball streaks downwards–until Wilfred walks past the music stand, tugging it along with him. Ed, needing to practice, follows the stand, leaving the ball to crash down, destroying nothing but itself and some pavement.

Eddy is confused by this turn of events. Soon enough, Edd starts moralizing on


admits to spoiling the plan to destroy Ed's violin, Wilfred and the music stand vanish. However, just a second before Edd grabbed the violin from Ed, they were there.

Eddy hasn't gone through puberty yet in this episode, but in "X Marks the Ed" he was shown getting a gigantic zit on his head, a sign of puberty (something that Edd even pointed out as part of maturing). It is possible that Eddy hasn't gone through getting armpit and body hair yet.

When Edd, gives Ed's violin back to him, he says "I'm sure you'll agree that Niccolo Paganini is no sissy, Eddy." This is a reference to Niccolò Paganini, who was an Italian musician and composer who played the violin, viola, and guitar.

When Edd is lamenting his destruction ofthe violin, he says the violin will "no longer play the brilliance of Chopin". However, Frédéric Chopin was a pianist and his works were written solely for piano.

Jonny and Plank were the only characters that actually liked Ed's violin playing.


Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” is one of the best known pieces of fiction from the Vietnam War. Millions of copies of the 20-page story are in print, and it has been read by book lovers, veterans, patients in doctors’ waiting rooms, passengers on buses and, I would bet, prisoners in jail.

The mechanics of the story are uncomplicated. A 17-member American platoon is on patrol in bush Vietnam. One of the men is shot and killed after wandering off to pee. The young lieutenant in command blames himself. He and the platoon are changed forever.

The plot, while shocking, is not what makes the story memorable. Soldiers are shot in stories just as they are in real war zones. The things they carried into this fictional war zone,129 men survived.

The death of the men was established for certain by the mid-1850s with the assistance of Inuit villagers who had encountered sailors, weak and starving, after they abandoned their ships and were attempting to make their way over the ice to the Canadian mainland. The sunken Terror and Erebus (named for a Greek god of darkness and shadow) were located several years ago, remarkably well preserved under the cold water of the Arctic.

There has been a widespread belief since the 1850s that the men of the expedition who survived the longest became cannibals. This is now accepted as a certainty.

It is an oddity of history that the Franklin Expedition and the Donner Party of California, both of which shocked the Victorian conscience with cannibalism, were contemporaneous.


in their presence. But nobody is going to read the expedition's copy of "The Vicar of Wakefield," not even the museum curator. It's no longer literature but an objectification of a tragedy.

Sir John Franklin was an experienced sailor, administrator and Arctic explorer. He had been to Alaska’s North Slope in 1826, leading a group of British sailors up the Mackenzie River in Canada. In fact, he named Prudhoe Bay -- after an English baron. He and his men represented the best the British navy had to offer. They were trained, scientifically inclined, curious, careful.

Yet they all died. By the end, probably 1848, these formerly disciplined officers and men had descended into madness.

The search for Franklin was as extensive as any mustered anywhere before 1860. An American, Elisha Kentparties and their foreign backers – the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran – are frightened of the explosive advance of the Islamic State. US Secretary of State John Kerry told the US Security Council on Friday that there is room for everybody “including Iran” in an anti-IS coalition.

President Obama was much criticised for admitting that he had no strategy to cope with IS and, despite his address to the nation on 10 September, he still does not have one. Assuming he is not going to send a large US land army to the region, he lacks a credible and effective local partner in either Syria or Iraq with the necessary military force to take advantage of air strikes, even if they are intensified in Iraq and extended


to Syria.

Mr Obama won the assent of the House of Representatives last week to train and equip moderate rebels in Syria who are supposedly going to fight both Assad and IS. This is essentially a PR operation, since IS forces 30 miles from Aleppo are poised to move against the last rebel strongholds, while the Syrian army is close to regaining control of the city itself.

Likewise in Iraq, air strikes can only do so much. The government in Baghdad and the Iraqi army are still Shia-dominated and, however much the Sunni in Iraq dislike IS, they are even more frightened of its opponents. The US will try to split Sunni tribes and neighbourhoods away from the fundamentalists as it did in 2007, but there were then 150,000 USin an increasingly vulnerable position …. Each has self-serving reasons to suspend military operations to confront the looming jihadist threat from the east.”

The Syrian army suffered heavy defeats at the hands of IS in July and August, though these were little reported in the West. Mr Sayigh cites figures of 1,100 government soldiers dead in July alone. It has long been clear that the army was short of combat troops and could only fight one front at a time. Mr Assad appears to have calculated that the rise of IS would be to his political advantage because most of the world would prefer him to the fundamentalists. But he underestimated the military strength of IS since they captured Mosul on 10 June.

No truce is likely to happen unless


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The Airone had a deep sided, hexagonal cross-section fuselage, entirely plywood skinned. Its pilot sat in a small, deep cockpit, head against the front of the pedestal and partly protected from the airstream by the upper fuselage panels, which both lifted off for entry.  There was a conventional single skid undercarriage under the forward fuselage aft to the wingautomatically make you a Final Four team, but I'm excited and have high hopes for the season.

And I think UNM will be picked 3rd in the Mountain West this year, behind UNLV and San Diego State. Also really hoping that Steve Alford can pull a minor miracle and sign Aaron Gordon for the 2013 class. I'm pretty sure he's one of Arizona's top priorities (maybe THE priority), as well.

Hopefully we schedule UNM in the near future now that Olson has retired. In the Pit, preferably.

GuyInTucson

08-20-2012, 01:30 PM

Very impressive......against who?

They've been playing exhibition ball in the Bahamas and he has taken in the system very well. He knows his assignments and already has a grasp of the playbook. Neither Josiah Turner or Momo Jones could do that and each


it was a great game." One of my favorite memories of camping at Coachella last year. I hope we do well last year, but we lost to the French national team in an exhibition, so I'm not sure this is going to be nearly as good as last year.

GuyInTucson

08-23-2012, 01:21 PM

And I think UNM will be picked 3rd in the Mountain West this year, behind UNLV and San Diego State. Also really hoping that Steve Alford can pull a minor miracle and sign Aaron Gordon for the 2013 class. I'm pretty sure he's one of Arizona's top priorities (maybe THE priority), as well.

He's not going to Arizona or UNM.

HotHamWater

08-23-2012, 02:25 PM

He's not going to Arizona or UNM.

I've always thought Washington was the leader. Who the fuck knows, though.little hope for that. He has a good relationship with Steve Alford and the rest of the coaching staff, I guess he likes the opportunity that UNM gave to his brother, and he would definitely be the focal point of the entire team right away. He can get to the NBA from UNM, so that shouldn't be a big factor. He'll get to the NBA, and probably be a high draft pick, wherever he goes.

But, yeah, I'm expecting Washington until proven otherwise.

I was told over the weekend that Arizona is back in the picture with Gordon but it is currently 60/40 in favor of UW.

I'm happy to see both of my teams (San Diego St. and UCLA) with pre-season rankings. Though for UCLA between the NCAA investigation (that's


the association.

In a statement, the NCAA wrote, "The university required the student-athlete to miss 10 percent of the season (three games) and repay approximately $1,600 in impermissible benefits. The NCAA agreed the actions taken by the university were sufficient. Because Muhammad has already sat out three games, he is now eligible to compete."

Minutes after the announcement, Muhammad tweeted through his Twitter account @phenom15balla, "#FREE".

In addition to what the NCAA has called other "pending issues," the association has spent more than a year investigation three unofficial recruiting visits Muhammad made to two schools – North Carolina and Duke – that were paid for by North Carolina-based financial adviser Ben Lincoln.

The Muhammads have claimed that Lincoln has been a family friend for five years. And Muhammad's attorney, Robert Orr, contendsthat Lincoln sought approval from the NCAA before paying for Muhammad's travel and lodging.

Orr also said that Muhammad had no knowledge of who paid for the trips and that his father, Ron Holmes, completed all requisite paperwork related to Lincoln paying for the recruiting visits.

Orr told USA TODAY Sports that the NCAA has requested thousands of pages of documents, including years worth of bank records and credit card statements. He said that Muhammad conducted two interviews with NCAA enforcement staff and that Holmes and Muhammad's mother, Faye Muhammad, interviewed with enforcement officials in early November.

"It is worse than an IRS audit," Orr told USA TODAY Sports in a telephone interview Thursday. "You at least have rights with the IRS audit. I'm waiting for the press to realize that


that would warrant further investigation, according to two college coaches familiar with Muhammad's recruitment. Some schools softened their recruitment or backed off almost entirely.
For UCLA, Muhammad, who played for Bishop Gorman High in Las Vegas, represents the crown jewel of a sterling recruiting class assembled to help lift coach Ben Howland's program back to national prominence. Greg Anthony, a college basketball analyst for CBS Sports who was born and raised in Las Vegas, told USA TODAY Sports that Muhammad is a "once-in-a-generation talent."

The following is the full NCAA statement:

The NCAA and UCLA have resolved the eligibility case of Shabazz Muhammad. UCLA acknowledged amateurism violations occurred and asked the NCAA on Friday afternoon to reinstate Muhammad. The university required the student-athlete to miss 10 percent of the season (threebut also a share of the revenues those players generate.

As the civil rights historian Taylor Branch put it in his landmark analysis of the NCAA, “the real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves.” Those players are treated as worse than mere commodities — because at least commodities are given a financial value. They are treated as indentured servants, who do not get their fair share of the revenues and who can be discarded if they dare get hurt doing a job for the very school that refuses to guarantee them a full college education.

Kevin Ware was a heavily recruited basketball prospect. So, along with hoping that he fully recovers from


receivers remained within measurement range during the performance of each task. A sampling rate of 30 Hz was used.

Measurements were made only for the dominant (right) leg. Four receivers were attached to the leg on the foot, lower leg, thigh, and sacrum. These receivers were positioned away from areas with a large proportion of soft tissue to minimize errors in receiver position due to soft tissue movement.[@bib0245] The foot receiver was positioned on the lateral-dorsal surface of the foot. The lower leg receiver was positioned on the lateral side of the leg, one third of the way down from the knee joint. The thigh receiver was positioned on the lateral side of the leg, one third of the way up from the knee joint. The sacrum receiver was attachedwhich the average maximum knee flexion angle exceeded 110°. Average maximum knee flexion exceeded 140° during trunk rotation during crouching and getting out of the bath with the dominant foot. Therefore, these movements require more knee flexion than needed for walking, climbing stairs, or standing up. In addition, there were 15 movements in which the average maximum hip flexion angle exceeded 80°. Average maximum hip flexion was around 100° while getting out of the bath with the dominant foot and rotating the trunk during crouching. For the ankle, dorsiflexion exceeded 26° (the amount of dorsiflexion required for climbing stairs) while getting out of the bath with the dominant foot and rotating the trunk during crouching.

Since the study participants were young adults in their early twenties, the present results


School in Sacramento in 1978. He passed the bar examination in 1980, but the Committee refused to certify him pending an investigation into his moral character. After completing its investigation, the Committee concluded in 1982 that Pacheco "did not possess the good moral character required by the Business and Professions Code sections 6060 and 6062 and rule X of the Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in California." Pacheco unsuccessfully petitioned this court for review of the Committee's 1982 decision not to certify him.
In 1984 Pacheco reapplied for admission to practice law, as permitted under rule X, section 104, subdivision (a) of the Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in California.[1] Pursuant to rule X, section 104, subdivisions (a) and (b), the Committee convened a hearing panel inone by a medical doctor. By stipulation with the principal referee, five persons who submitted letters on Pacheco's behalf were permitted to testify as "a reasonable sampling" of the support for Pacheco's application. This testimony substantially paralleled the information supplied in the letters. Accordingly, and in the interest of brevity, we summarize that information as follows: Pacheco is intelligent, conscientious, and honest. He is a good investigator. He has devoted numerous pro bono investigative hours to minority clients. Generally speaking he is held in high regard by the attorneys and judges who know him and who are familiar with his work. If in the past he had any deficiencies in his moral character, he has overcome them.
In addition to furnishing numerous character references, Pacheco testified that he has


custody on behalf of the child's father. Brady set up a meeting with Buckey, the mother's attorney (who was also her sister), at which the child was present. When Buckey and the child emerged from the meeting, Pacheco and three other individuals, including the child's father, surrounded her and the child. After a struggle, Buckey surrendered custody of the child to the father.
Pacheco testified that only the father touched Buckey. Buckey, on the other hand, testified that Pacheco restrained her arm from behind, causing her to surrender the child. Buckey's husband, also present during the incident, testified that Pacheco restrained his wife's arm. The panel found that "the method used in what apparently was a legal retaking ... was inconsistent with the ethical and professional qualities of ahis employer, an attorney. Prior to the incident, the attorney contacted the Sacramento County District Attorney's office to confirm the legality of the proposed taking, and to put the office on notice. The attorney then instructed Pacheco as to how Pacheco could assist him. Although the attorney ultimately received an angry letter from the mother's attorney, with a copy sent to the State Bar, the bar initiated no disciplinary proceedings against the attorney who developed the child recovery plan. Second, the father had a valid and enforceable court order. Third, the mother's attorney admitted at Pacheco's 1985 hearing that her client was in violation of the Canadian court order, and that no California court order existed allowing her or the child's mother to interfere with the father's custody


persons unaware of Pacheco's prior misconduct. Clearly, the letter inviting recommendations fails to inform the references of the Committee's specific 1982 findings.
Significantly, however, when asked on vigorous, pointed cross-examination whether the Committee's 1982 findings changed their recommendations of Pacheco, the witnesses without exception adhered to their recommendations, often bolstering their praise with additional facts in support of Pacheco's moral character. The witnesses' support of Pacheco after having been apprised of the 1982 findings serves to enhance the validity of their recommendations.
The witnesses who testified on Pacheco's behalf or who submitted letters of recommendation all had known Pacheco for a number of years. They were familiar with his work and had occasion to observe his moral character. Pacheco's letter to them at least made it clear, if they didnotice to Pacheco describing the scope of the 1985 hearing stated that the focus would be on events subsequent to Pacheco's 1982 hearing. Prior to the hearing in 1985, the principal referee informed Pacheco that "direct evidence will not be taken from second parties" regarding the Committee's 1982 findings. When the panel *1055 ultimately issued its findings in January 1986, the panel noted that it had considered the 1982 findings, but did not elaborate, and instead focused on the three incidents involving Pacheco which took place since 1982. Pacheco then appealed the panel's recommendation to the full Committee. In June 1986, the Committee provided Pacheco with a two-hour hearing.
Despite the Committee's professed concern in 1985 with Pacheco's post-1982 conduct, the Committee's 1986 findings and conclusion painted a much


misconduct on the basis that a thorough inquiry was required to properly evaluate Pacheco's claim of rehabilitation. Nevertheless, we are troubled by three considerations.
First, it is clear from the hearing transcript that both Pacheco and his attorney were caught woefully off-guard by the Committee's questioning. In the present case, the Committee hearing was for the purpose of reviewing the hearing panel's decision. The hearing panel's notice of hearing, the hearing itself, and the panel's findings consistently emphasized that the critical issue to be considered was Pacheco's post-1982 conduct. When the hearing panel recommended against certification and Pacheco appealed that decision, he was justified in believing that the Committee, too, would focus on his post-1982 conduct.
*1056 Second, by questioning Pacheco on the facts underlying the 1982 findings, the CommitteeIn Late Antiquity the city of Side had a much shorter, strategic line of defences built within its original line of Hellenic walls. These new defences incorporated the theatre as part of the defensive line. The triumphal arch attached to the theatre also became part of the defences and the arch's aperture was significantly reduced. The new defences were built primarily of spolia looted from derelict or abandoned buildings in and around the city. The clearest evidence of spolia use in the walls can be seen in the use of column drums usually included to add strength to the walls by tying the two outer faces together. The last image, in the background, behind the building covered in scaffolding (The temple of Tyche), shows the late antique part


of the wall in front of the theatre.

Late Antique portion of the city walls on the south west edge of the Lower Agora on the acropolis. Much like many other Late Antique defences these fortifications are made up of significant amounts of spolia that was robbed from nearby dilapidated or ruined buildings. These walls were likely built as the city contracted in Late Antiquity.

The most northerly fortified section of the acropolis of Pergamum immediately north of the Temple of Trajan. Within this part of the fortifications lie several warehouses or arsenals believed to be for the storage of provisions, weapons and ammunition. Excavations have recovered significant numbers and varying sizes of stone shot for catapults.Zimbabwe's former vice president is due to return home to be sworn in as president after the resignation of Robert Mugabe.

Emmerson Mnangagwa was sacked two weeks ago by Mr Mugabe - a move that plunged the country into a political crisis and eventually led to the dictator's resignation after 37 years in power.

One of Mr Mnangagwa's assistants, Larry Mavhima said: "Comrade Mnangagwa is coming back today."

He was expected to land in Zimbabwe at 4pm UK time and be sworn in on Friday, according to the country's state broadcaster.

Wild celebrations continued on the streets of Zimbabwe overnight, with people dancing and singing following Mr Mugabe's departure.

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Image: The end of Mugabe's reign sparked parties in the streets

"Welcome to the new Zimbabwe!" people chanted


outside the Harare conference centre where MPs had earlier met to start impeachment proceedings.

"This is the best day of my life," said one man, as people celebrated on cars and crowded round tanks to shake hands with the soldiers lauded for their role in getting rid of the reviled leader.

"We didn't fight the 1980 war but we fought the 2017 war and we are happy that Mugabe is gone and he's gone for good. Happy new Zimbabwe," said another Harare resident.

Zimbabweans in other countries also celebrated the downfall of their long-time leader.

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Image: Zimbabweans living in Johannesburg, South Africa, also celebrated

A crowd gathered outside the country's embassy in London, with people jumping up and down, waving flags and talking of "national joy" anda new hope.

Zimbabweans living in South Africa took to the streets of Johannesburg and some were pictured burning shirts of the ruling ZANU-PF party.

Mr Mugabe announced his resignation with immediate effect on Tuesday afternoon.

The 93-year-old said he had chosen to step down "to ensure a smooth, peaceful and non-violent transfer of power", and that he had made the decision voluntarily.

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'I nearly collapsed through excitement'

The African Union (AU) also welcomed the decision, saying the people had expressed their will for a "peaceful transfer of power."

AU commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat said he welcomed "the decision by President Robert Mugabe to step down from his position as Head of State following a lifetime of service to the Zimbabwean nation".

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start for all Zimbabweans and foster peace and unity."

Earlier this month, Mr Mugabe sparked the political crisis which ended his dictatorship by sacking Mr Mnangagwa - paving the way for his wife Grace to succeed him.

Military chiefs reacted by taking control of the capital, seizing the state broadcaster and placing Mr Mugabe under house arrest.

The ruler initially refused to stand down and told Zimbabweans in a televised address they must "learn to forgive".

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Image: 1980: Mr Mugabe and then UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher meet the year Rhodesia became Zimbabwe Image: 1979: Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) leader Joshua Nkomo at the Lancaster House talks that led to the end of colonial rule Image: 1980: MrMugabe, then newly elected as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, holds a press conference in his garden Image: 1982: Mr Mugabe visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace with his first wife, Sally Image: 1984: Mr Mugabe addressing a crowd at Harare stadium - a year after suppressing an armed rebellion in Ndebeleland Image: 1984: He was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Harare, an institution he would later be chancellor of Image: 1986: Mr Mugabe leaves the scene of the African National Congress (ANC) offices that were bombed days earlier by a South African commando Image: 1986: Cuban president Fidel Castro (C) shares a laugh with Zimbabwean president Canaan Banana (R) and then prime minister Mr Mugabe (L) Image: 1988: Mr Mugabe speaks to the press at


the United Nations, about the Africa Prize for Leadership Image: 1993: Chinese president Jiang Zemin (L) welcomes Mr Mugabe (R) with a Chinese honour guard during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Image: 1996: Robert and Grace Mugabe married in a ceremony attended by 6,000 guests Image: The couple became known for their outfits. She was nicknamed 'First Shopper' and 'Gucci Grace' Image: 2005: Mr Mugabe was sometimes seen asleep in public in later years, such as here at an African Union meeting, but friends insisted he remained sharp of mind Image: Mr Mugabe addresses a rally in Sanyati, November 2005, on the eve of the senatorial elections Image: 2017: With his time in office drawing to a close, Mr Mugabe wasseen negotiating with generals. Pic: Herald newspaper /

But he was forced to face impeachment proceedings amid claims he allowed his wife "to usurp constitutional power" and had been seen "sleeping in cabinet and international meetings" - bringing "horror and shame" to Zimbabweans.

It is not clear what Robert and Grace Mugabe will do now.

Mr Mugabe had ruled Zimbabwe since 1980 and his departure leaves the Queen as the world's oldest head of state.

Under his presidency, the southern African country's economy collapsed and unemployment rose to more than 90%.

The 93-year-old has been accused of a range of human rights abuses, including denying food aid to areas supporting the opposition.


The projected results for the new European Parliament show significant losses for the two main groups, the centre-right European People’s Party and the centre-left Socialists and Democrats.

They remain the largest groups but have lost their traditional majority in the European Parliament.

The Greens and Liberal groups have made gains, as well as the right-wing nationalist and populist groups.

The results for individual countries below are a mixture of projected and official figures, and are subject to change as more results are declared. Parties may also change which European party group they belong to.

Results in maps and charts

How the story unfolded

Detailed results from the UKISIS module in Madhya Pradesh: Sinister plot busted

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Sultan Armar died in the month of March 2014 while battling in Kobane in Syria. Armar the emir of the Ansar-ul-Tawhid a recruiting wing of the ISIS for India and the sub-continent had played a major role not just in recruiting the youth, but investigations have shown that he had even managed to set up a module in India.

A module that was busted in a joint operation by the Madhya Pradesh police and the intelligence bureau has found that a group of five youth were appointed for the job. Their role including both recruitments and also carrying out terror strikes holding the ISIS banner.

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The Ratlam module of the ISIS

Headed by a person


called Irfaan Khan, this module was set up for the ISIS and had planned on carrying out attacks in India. Khan in several conversations that he had with Armar prior to the latter's death was heard seeking advise on various factors that included preparation of explosives to recruitments.

Khan along with four others were picked up and questioned by the police and the IB and their interrogation led to several startling details. During the course of the investigation they said that they were planning on staging a couple of attacks.

The idea behind carrying out attacks was to announce the arrival of the ISIS in India. They had also sourced materials to prepare the explosives and also took the name of Armar with whom they had discussed the plan.

A newArmar comes into the picture

While the module in India and also the other recruitments for the ISIS were carried out by Sultan Armar, today after his death his brother Shafi Armar has come into the picture.

Shafi Armar who goes by the alias Yusuf hails from Bhatkal. After the death of Sultan, investigators have found that Shafi has been in charge of the ISIS operations in India. These youth from Ratlam have been in touch with Shafi and going by the investigations he was the one in charge of setting up of this module.

Shafi's name had first cropped up a couple of years back during the investigations into the operations of the Indian Mujahideen. Like his brother, Sultan he too was part of the IM, but then following the


big split in the outfit, they moved towards the ISIS.

Shafi who hails from Bhatkal in Karnataka has been operating from out of India. IB officials suspect that he could be in the Gulf or may have moved to Syria after the death of his brother. Currently he is in charge of the Ansar-ul-Tawhid which was earlier headed by his brother.

The busting of the module

The busting of the module at Ratlam throws open two points. The first is that this is probably the first of the dedicated modules of the ISIS in India. Secondly it also goes on to show that these youth were not just into recruitments, but wanted to stage attacks in the name of the ISIS.

The ISIS has treaded slowly where its India operations is concerned.The ISIS has primarily focused on recruitments with an intention of building up their Afghanistan module which is called the Al-Khorasan. However this is for the first time that one is witnessing an ISIS plot to carry out attacks in India.

Khan who was heading the module had sourced chemicals to be used in the explosives. It was this trail which led to the police nabbing him in the month of April 2014. His questioning led the police to pick up his 4 accomplices.

At first it was not known to which module these persons belonged. However after investigations it was found that all of them subscribed to the ISIS and had planned on carrying out attacks in Madhya Pradesh.


A Tennessee couple is suing Sumner County for $500,000 after their 8-year-old autistic son was put in a straight jacket and arrested after an outburst at school.

Colton Granito, who is on the autism spectrum, had a meltdown at school last February, when he hit his teacher. Instead of following the crisis management plan that was in place, the school called the police. Colton, 8, was arrested and charged with assault. He was placed in a jail cell.

Colton is now 9-years-old and attending a different school, and his parents are suing the county for $500,000.

There's two sides to every story, of course. The police refused to comment because they said that they haven't been served with a lawsuit yet.

However, as the parent of an 8-year-old with high-functioning autism, Ilighthouse was designed by George Meade, a Civil War general most famous for defeating Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. It opened in 1857 but within 20 years the beach had eroded to such an extent that the water was only 75 feet away from the base. Jetties were added until the beach was built back out, but a large iron anchor sits at the old waterline, either as a reminder or a threat.

A little more than two years ago, when I was an intern at a now shuttered website called The Awl, I went out to Atlantic City to cover the Trump Taj Mahal’s last weekend before it closed for good. My first night there I met a woman named Juliana Lykins who told me


the country. Five casinos shut down in two years, and the day after the 2016 election the city was taken over by the state in order to avoid default. Oliver Cooke, an economics professor at nearby Stockton University, has referred to the past 10 years as Atlantic City’s “lost decade.”

The shuttered casinos — windowless basements filled with slot machines — were perfect for a lab.

For the first time in a while things are looking up. Last year violent crime and property crime were down 36 percent since 2017 according to the Atlantic City Police Department, and the boardwalk was markedly busier this past summer. The only place Trump’s name still appears in the city is on an old mural in the bus station, and the shuttered Trump TajMahal reopened as a Hard Rock Café in June. Come hell or high water, it is always sort of 2005 in South Jersey (a lot of Simple Plan on the radio) and the Hard Rock is designed to capitalize on that. In place of the Taj Mahal’s famous chandelier is a giant guitar, and what was once a jewelry store has been reborn as a shrine to Boomers called the “Rock Vault.” A Kramer Pacer, painted in the style of acid-wash jeans, hangs on the wall. bon jovi, it says. new jersey. As far as I could tell the only holdover from the Trump Taj was a sandwich chain called White House Subs, although improbably enough that does not seem to be a nod to the president. When


maybe a couple years ahead of its time. Climate change hadn’t settled into the national consciousness yet, and in the confusion of casino closings and the 2016 election Green’s plan failed to gain traction with local politicians and eventually died off.

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In the early 1950s, two writers for the New York Daily Mirror named Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer published a book of all-American gossip (communists! grift!) called U.S.A. Confidential. New Jersey did not fare well. “There is no such place as New Jersey,” they wrote. “It is a breeding bed, playground and refuse dump for New York and Philadelphia and a refuge for their criminals. It is a highway between the two great cities. Few who use it ever stop off or look behind its billboards. If theythe city wants to be, he had trouble answering. We were standing at the top of the lighthouse now, overlooking the Absecon Inlet — once called Graveyard Inlet because of the frequency of shipwrecks — and the small section of the boardwalk that was destroyed in Sandy. “I remember in January of ’76 I went to a meeting with the local press corps and one of the city commissioners was the speaker,” Heneghan said. “He was an older guy who had been a member of the governor’s cabinet and had been state commissioner of banking. This was before casinos and he was kind of bemoaning how quiet things were in Atlantic City. He said when he was a kid, Atlantic City was a place to go to with


report estimating that humanity had managed to destroy 60 percent of wildlife since 1970. In November, the deadliest wildfires in a century swept across California. This January, Science released a report that showed oceans were warming 40 percent faster than previously believed. In Atlantic City, a man by the name of David Dichter began petitioning lawmakers to take action. Dichter grew up in Atlantic City and served overseas as a Marine Corps officer and a foreign service officer before retiring. “I think I came back,” he said, “with a pretty good understanding of how screwed up the environment really was.”

Sea level rise did not happen gradually at the end of the last ice age, but rather in fits and spurts with brief periods of stasis … Things couldmillion in debt as of June 2018. The first climate conference took place the weekend of January 25th at the Claridge Hotel, and Dichter has been speaking with David Green about the way things might progress, but it’s been slow going so far. Atlantic City is, for lack of a better term, behaving like Atlantic City. In December, the mayor, Frank Gilliam, was arrested after getting into a fight outside of a casino. (Asked by a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer if he was still mayor, Gilliam replied, “Today.”) A few weeks later he was being investigated by the FBI.

What seems to be lacking at this point is grassroots community involvement. “[The city] should invite the people that organized themselves in Staten Island [after Hurricane Sandy] for the


The DNA of ancient kelp has revealed Dunedin could be at risk from a large earthquake.

Photo: Dave Craw

New research from the University of Otago showed that a quake similar in size to the 2016 Kaikōura quake, hit southern New Zealand about 1000 years ago.

Scientists said the pre-historic rupture of the Akatore Fault - just south of Dunedin - uplifted a large-stretch of the southeastern coast by two to three metres.

The size of the quake has in part been revealed by the work of PhD student, Elahe Parvizi who compared the DNA of modern kelp from the uplifted coast, with ancient kelp from either side of the raised region.

"We were astonished to find a modern DNA footprint of the ancient quake, with a clear genetic difference between kelp inthe uplifted zone, versus stable populations outside the uplift zone," Miss Parvizi said.

The Marsden-funded research team, led by geologist Dave Craw, and biologist Jon Waters, combined geological and genetic data to assess the impacts of the ancient quake.

Professor Craw said the old Akatore earthquake would have been similar in magnitude to the 2016 Kaikōura quake, with tens of kilometres of rocky coast affected, and the old shore lifted out of the water, well beyond the reach of the waves.

Professor Waters said the Akatore Fault remained a bigger threat to Dunedin than the Alpine Fault, which runs the length of the South Island.

He said the discovery made through the kelp DNA was an exciting breakthrough in understanding the destructive power of an ancient earthquake.

"For us it's a new way


F1 Commission agrees new 2010 points and double diffuser ban for 2011

The F1 Commission has agreed on a second new points system for F1, amending the proposal they made in December.

A win will still be worth 25 points and the value of a second place finish has been slightly reduced – but the value of other lower-placed finished has been increased.

The Commission has also decided to make drivers who qualify in the top ten start the race on the same tyre as they qualified on, which they hope will “introduce a further element of strategy” and “improve the show”.

Revised points system

The revised F1 points system increases the points difference between winning and finishing second from five to seven, which the FIA hopes will “further encourage the ‘race tobeside him on a yellow ATV and put a metal object, believed to be a gun, to his head, and took his cell phone.

Officers spotted the pickup truck with the ATV in the back. The driver and Walker denied any involvement in the hit-and-run or the robbery. But the victim was able to identify Walker as the man he saw driving recklessly, who hit his vehicle.

Another ATV driver arrested this week is now in the Metro Jail. Walter Moss is facing 6 charges, including aggravated assault.

Moss is accused of hitting Police Sgt. John Bourque last Saturday during a mass ATV ride down Broadway in Nashville. Bourque said he was trying to hang on to avoid getting run over, as Moss went faster. Bourque was thrown from the bike


The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes in the Bondowoso Regency of East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name “Gunung Merapi” means “mountain of fire” in the Indonesian language (api being “fire”); Mount Merapi in central Java and Marapi in Sumatra have the same etymology.

West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acidic crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The work is paid well considering the cost of living in the area, but is very onerous. Workers earn around Rp50,000 – 75,000 ($5.50-$8.30) per day and once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks about three kilometers to the nearby Paltuding Valley to get paid.

Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones run east-west across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has a diameter of 722 metres (2,369 ft) and a surface area of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).

The lake is recognised as the largest highly acidic crater lake in the world. It is also a source for the river Banyupahit, resulting in highly