I Kissed a Girl.

In the Inappropriate and Politically Incorrect Book Covers Department we have two contestants this month.

The Runner-Up is:

Now what's that invitation for, again?

And the winner is:

The Batman pictured in the act of actually busting Catwoman. Check out the look on his face and contrast it with the one on hers! He looks like he's had a belt from the utility, and she looks like the cat that got the cream....

I couldn't stand it. Some of the images in the above graphic novel (which is reviewed on this blog were too precious to let go without a parody. Seriously, look at these! Has the Comic Code been abandoned?!

Robert Culp, talking to Peter Falk - who actually only has one eye (the other is glass), has the nerveThe smooth-talking scoundrel strikes back! Marvel and Lucasfilm announced today that Lando Calrissian — puffer pig collector, Cloud City administrator, and Rebel hero — will star in his own limited series. Lando #1, from creators Charles Soule (Death of Wolverine, Inhuman, She-Hulk) and Alex Maleev (Daredevil, Spider-Woman, Moon Knight), hits stores in July, and finds Lando embarking on his greatest caper ever.

“Is Lando Calrissian the coolest character in all of Star Wars? Depends on who you ask, probably. But if you ask me, the answer is yes, and I plan to prove it with this story,” says series writer Soule.

In Marvel’s Lando, developed closely with Lucasfilm, the titular character — in the days before he became a hero, but still with Lobot at his side — looks to


of his four competitors, Lorie Masters, Edward "Smitty" Smith, Karl Racine, and Lateefah Williams. However, the poll also found that 57% of the electorate was undecided.

Zukerberg finished fourth behind Karl Racine, who won with 37% of the vote.

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Category:Hamilton College (New York) alumniRelying on input from a panel of Catholic leaders in religious education, the Educational Testing Service designed a series of surveys on Catholic religious education, or catechesis. The surveys sought to answer questions in the following areas: the desired outcomes of catechesis; the effectiveness of programs in fostering these outcomes; the problems and issues facing catechetical leaders; the important characteristics of religious education/catechesis today; the use of video technology; and steps to improve the enterprise. This data file contains the Survey of Diocesan Leaders, which was completed by persons in leadership roles in youth ministry, catechesis and religious education at the diocesan level.

A random sample of 4,000 parishes, from the universe of 17,963 parishes in the United States, was selected in phase one of the study. Questionnaires were


send a random sample of adult/households in the parish (following detailed steps for drawing this sample) to the Educational Testing Service; and distribute surveys to the pastor, director of religious education, and the elementary school principal (in parishes with schools).

The content of the surveys varied by sample. Given below is a list of the topics that were repeated across surveys.

Notes:Randomly sampled adult parishioners and exemplary adult parishioners received the same survey.The emphasis in this study was on program effectiveness. The assumption that guided this study was that answers to questions about programs can best be found in parishes that are strong in their program offerings. Thus, the sample used was by design biased in favor of more active parishes. The parishes in the sample response group were indeedMcIntire in 2005 after a dispute over stolen drugs and money. McIntire's body has not been found.

On Monday, Judge Thomas E. Olsen heard testimony from another member of the group, Edwin "Beans" Kelly, who pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the case in 2011. Prosecutors agreed not to seek more severe charges in exchange for his testimony.

Defense attorney Michael Ventrella, representing Caiby, and David Skutnik, representing Stavish, both tried to pin blame for McIntire's death on one another.

"David Skutnik and I get along great. We are often on the same side, but this time we are not," Ventrella said outside the courtroom.

In late 2009, locked up on theft charges, Stavish told police that she had seen Kelly, Caiby and another man, who is still at large, beat McIntire,


one of their customers. She said she then heard them fire the shots that allegedly killed him.

Stavish told police how the group drove McIntire's work van back to his business in Chestnuthill Township, then drove to Luzerne County to dispose of his remains.

But investigators said when they looked into those charges, Kelly told them that Stavish had played a role. Kelly told detectives that Stavish injected McIntire with a "hot shot" of cocaine and bleach. When that injection wasn't effective, they injected him again. After that, the group couldn't find a pulse, Kelly said.

Stavish initially denied, but eventually confessed to police that she had injected McIntire, state police Cpl. Shawn M. Williams said.

Kelly also said that Caiby had orchestrated the killing. Throughout the incident, Kelly said, Caiby toteda hunting rifle while ordering the others in the group to participate in the beating and murder.

Kelly said Caiby wanted to get revenge on McIntire for stealing from Kelly and Caiby's drug business. Kelly said that during a party McIntire and Stavish drugged him and stole $1,500 and an ounce of crack cocaine that he hid in his prosthetic leg.

"It was (Caiby's) stuff, I was just a middleman," Kelly said.

At the time of the theft, Kelly said he and Caiby — known as "Frank and Beans" — were cocaine dealers serving a large number of customers from Kelly's home on Rainbow Lakes Drive near Scotrun.

McEntire and Stavish were customers, and Stavish was working as a prostitute for Caiby, Kelly said.


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Davidson is recognized as the founder of agricultural engineering. He was a rural Nebraska native and a 1904 mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Nebraska. He arrived in Ames in 1905 to take a position as associate professor-in-charge of agricultural engineering. Davidson is credited with giving farm mechanics professional status, developing the four-year agricultural engineering program that was first in the nation. The program he developed at Iowa State also set the pattern for programs later adopted by nearly all United States and Canadian institutions offering degrees in agricultural engineering. In 1907, he was the creative force behind the formation of the American Society ofAgricultural Engineers (ASAE) and was elected as the first ASAE president, further promoting the profession of agricultural engineering. Davidson joined the University of California faculty in 1915, but returned to Iowa State in 1919 as head of agricultural engineering. He retired from administrative duties in 1946 and from the faculty in 1956.

Fast fact: In 1975, the Agricultural Engineering Building was renamed Davidson Hall in honor of the department's founder. In 2008, fundraising is underway to construct a new building to house the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.


More and More People Feed Only on Sunshine

One of the first people to feed only on the rays of the sun, is the 64-year-old engineer from India Hira Ratan Manek. A few years ago, the world's press called great attention to the man who lives without eating.

The only thing the Indian puts in his mouth is boiled water. The fact that he really eats nothing has been confirmed many times over by different teams of scientists from around the world.

They observed the engineer for one year during which he ate nothing. In Russia the most famous woman who feeds on the sun is Zinaida Baranova. After losing all her loved ones, she gave up spiritually and began suffering from illnesses.

Once out of her heavy mental state, Zinaida becamea vegetarian and followed an amplification of spiritual practices. That's when she decided to live entirely on solar energy.

She is convinced that this is an experiment of higher powers. For ten years, she has eaten nothing and has no worries of being tempted with eating anything delicious. She cannot smell food, though otherwise she perceives the aromas of everything else.

According to the Russian, invisible forces have shut down her taste receptors. She went to get tested and found out that her body had become forty years younger.

Russian physiologists believe that Baranova passed into a new level of existence - vibration. But conventional medicine is unable to confirm it.

According to some theories, in this state, every organ in the body creates a vibrational twin, which charges the the other


of matter and antimatter. In the last case it might be even not excluded that the total baryonic number of the universe is zero.

In the frameworks of the SCM the first option is accepted, which has a strong support from the baryogenesis theory, whose basic principles have been formulated by Sakharov almost half a century ago [@sakharov]. In all known scenarios of baryogenesis an excess of baryons over antibaryons was generated at very (or rather) high temperatures, while at the subsequent cosmological expansion and cooling down the baryon-to-photon ratio (\[beta\]) stayed approximately constant, up to the entropy release by the massive particle annihilation.

In the universe with an excess of baryons a chance for antibaryons to survive was negligibly small, though in the early universe there were almost equal numberand became father to Zeus, Hera, Poseidon and Hades." "This may indicate a connection to the Goa'uld Sokar." "Cronus is the most influential of the System Lords." "It was he who originally banished Sokar." "He was also a mortal enemy of Apophis." "Maybe that's why the System Lords didn't join in Apophis' attack on Earth." "The System Lords reluctantly banded together... ..against outside threats like the Asgard and the Reetou." "However, they still battle amongst themselves for their own domains." "The second Goa'uld representative we're expecting is... ..Yu." " Me?" " Yu is the name of the Goa'uld." "Ah." "Sorry." "Also known as Yu the Great." "He was not a god per se,... ..but may have been one of China's earliest emperors." "Legend says he had great mythic


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Of the 13 osteopaths interviewed, four were female and nine were male. Their ages ranged from 26 to 58 years. The number of years in osteopathic practice ranged from two to 38 years, with an average of 10.5 years. There was no consistency about the time in practice before sustaining an injury: three participants were injured during their first two years of practice, five had been in practice between five and 10 years before sustaining their injury, four had been in practice more than 10 years, and one participant had been in practice more than 20 years before injury.

Two-thirds of the participants reported sustaining more than one injury, with three reporting three or more individual WRMIs. These participants were encouraged in the interview to discuss the injurydiscussed the frustration and distress they felt because the effects of WRMI forced them to abandon the sports and other activities that were central to their well-being. This included interacting and connecting with family and friends and involvement in activities such as yoga, martial arts, gym work, and sports such as swimming and rock climbing. Participant No. 13 said, "it generally decreases my ability to interact at home and enjoy life generally," whereas Participant No. 9 explained how the injury impacted his social life, stating, "I was unable to connect with friends at the time". Participant No. 1 explained the flow-on effects of injury:"*The biggest impact is not being able to participate in sports, and for that reason I have lost a lot of general fitness and tone


Harvard Medical School affiliated institutions: BIDMC, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. The DF/HCC interactions have greatly enhanced the opportunities for translational research across all the participating institutions, facilitating the successful competition for SPORE grants focused on Breast, Skin, Renal, Prostate, Ovarian, and Lung Cancers and Myeloma and the development of many investigator- initiated research protocols. These translational research projects are forming the basis several proposed and future cooperative group trials or related correlative science efforts. BIDMC has been a main member institution of ECOG ince 1997 and is very committed to clinical cancer research. BIDCC investigators have accrued almost 700 patients per year to over 150 therapeutic and nontherapeutic includingSunday, June 29, 2003

Scanderbeg is a Frank Frazetta survivor. He is a blood-drinker and a meat eater; the prehistoric warrior that crowds pay to see. He bites the ears off his opponents like Mike Tyson; he vomits down their throats and tears their tracheae out with his teeth. He’s from 1000 AD!! What do you expect?

Hanuman is just Bootsy Collins. Because he has the banana peel.

How complicated is Perkin Warbeck? He is a Richard Scarry character. He is the screw-up farmer’s assistant. He is Madeleine made flesh. He is a smoker in secret. He has numerous patrons in several countries and will be a lot of fun. He is just a sunflower. OK?

Ivan III is serious, because his father was blinded by Dmitri Shemyaka. He is a smelly,


Count Vrana, Tanush Thopia).

Perkin and arch-enemy Baldak Borisievich are stranded in the primeval forest as the sun sets. They have eaten their last fish, and are scavenging for mushrooms and owl scat. There are howling, starving wolves encircling, and vultures wheeling overhead, etc etc. They stumble across the snow-covered body of Scanderbeg, sleeping off a 2-week bender. There is a family of birds living in his enormous nostrils, and a yozhik in his trousers. The stranded foreigners recoil in existential fear and horror as they experience the withering blasts of Scanderbeg's morning breath. The birds drop from the air and writhe as their carbonized feathers are reduced to cinders. Barvat lovingly wraps the birds in muslin. The biryozi crackle with flame and there is the steady sound ofIs It Just The Weather?

If the housing market continues to slow and interest rates rise, a state economist predicts job growth in Connecticut will slow this year and in 2015.

The state departments of Labor and Economic and Community Development said in a report Monday that the state added 19,000 jobs between the end of 2009 and late 2011. That accelerated to nearly 31,000 between late 2011 and the end of 2013. But the forecast says job growth will slow to fewer than 20,000 new jobs from the end of 2013 to late 2015.

“Given the pick-up in U.S. job growth in April, the U.S. economy may very well bounce back in the second quarter from the harsh winter,” Daniel Kennedy, a senior economist, wrote in the monthly report.

But looking


29 July 2017

Waiting for Israel’s next northern storm
IN 2012, a bus used by the Syrian rebels was driving close to the Israeli border on the Golan. As Golan resident Thierry Laskart watched, artillery shells began to fall. First on one side, then the other. Then the Syrian regime gunner found his mark. It is one of many memories Laskart has over the years of watching the Syrian war unfold on his doorstep.

Tensions still high between Israel and Jordan
Friday, 56 members of the Jordanian parliament signed a petition calling to expel Israeli ambassador Einat Schlein and to bring back Jordanian ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat. The topic is meant to be discussed in parliament on Sunday. With 195 seats in the Jordanian parliament the number of signatures mean thatsaid that the US will “take all necessary steps to ensure the security of the American homeland.” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said…that China and Russia “bear unique responsibility” for the growing threat posed by North Korea.

Sri Lanka signs deal on Hambantota port with China
Sri Lanka has signed a $1.1bn (£837m) deal with China for the control and development of the southern deep-sea port of Hambantota. The deal had been delayed by several months over concerns that the port could be used by the Chinese military. The government has given assurances that China will run only commercial operations from the port, on the main shipping route between Asia and Europe.

Rio de Janeiro begins deploying 10,000 troops to fight crime surge
The Brazilian armed forces have begun deploying 10,000


troops in the state of Rio de Janeiro to help the fight against organised crime. On Friday trucks rolled through Rio as 8,500 soldiers were mobilised. They will be joined by police and highway patrol officers. Violence has been on the rise in Rio since the end of the Olympics nearly a year ago.

Jerusalem holy site measures fail to halt clashes
Israeli forces and Palestinians have clashed in East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and Gaza after weeks of friction over a Jerusalem holy site. Violence erupted on the outskirts of Jerusalem’s Old City and across the occupied West Bank after the end of Muslim Friday prayers. Two Palestinians were reported killed by troops – one an alleged assailant in the West Bank, the other in Gaza.

Trump Ousts Chiefof Staff Priebus, Installs Ret. Gen. Kelly
President Donald Trump on Friday removed his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and tapped Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly for the job…White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci attacked Priebus in profane terms in an interview on Thursday, predicted he would soon be out of a job, and pledged to crack down on leaks that Scaramucci suspected had come from Priebus.

US, South Korea Fire Missiles in Response to North Korea Ballistic Missile Launch
U.S. and Republic of Korea militaries fired missiles into South Korean territorial waters in direct response to North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile launch Friday. A statement from Eighth United States Army said the joint, live-fire exercise utilized the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and the Republic of Korea Hyunmoo Missile II.

Anti-Israel


Giants Win Second World Series in Three Years

On October 9, Reds starter Homer Bailey was no-hitting the San Francisco Giants in the sixth inning, with the Reds holding a 2-0 series lead at home. The Giants came back and won that game and the next two. On October 19, the Cardinals, up 3-1 on the Giants, had runners on second and third with nobody out in the second inning of a scoreless game, ready to break the game open and clinch a trip to the World Series. The Giants won that game ... and then their next six, culminating in a 4-3 win last night over the Detroit Tigers to sweep the 2012 World Series. At least the Tigers finally scored some runs last night; before a Miguelby fellowshipsfrom the US National Science Foundation, the Japan Society forthe Promotion of Science, CIES, and the SSRC. Among herprofessional activities, she has been a visiting scholar at theUniversity of Tokyo and at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and wasthe Frederick Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design atthe University of Louisville. The author of three books anddozens of articles in professional and academic journals,Buntrock is currently working on a book provisionally titled"Untapped Social and Economic Opportunities in JapaneseArchitecture."


Obama's Labor Day Proclamation Praises Workers,
But Masks the Harsh Realities They Must Endure

By Harry Kelber

Since 1894, after Labor Day became a federal holiday, there have been annual celebrations by unions of the economic and social contributions of working people to our economy and society. There usually are many parades, picnics, speeches and special events to honor past generations of leaders and their achievements.

President Barack Obama, following the tradition established by former President Grover Cleveland, issued a Labor Day Proclamation that began: "Every day hard-working men and women across America prove that even in difficult times, our country is still home to the most creative, dynamic and talented workers in the world. . .these men and women hold the power of the Nation in their hands." (Have workers becomeWASHINGTONHardly a week goes by that I dont come into contact with an illegal immigrant somewhere in Washington, D.C. And this is by no means the area with the largest concentration of such immigrants in the United States. The stories are always compelling.

A few weeks ago, Rosita, a Bolivian in her late 40s, told me how on her journey to the United States, she was raped in Guatemala and swindled in Mexico, and how she had to cross the desert into this country after losing a brother who was killed because he refused to pay the coyote a larger fee than had originally been agreed. She then went through a health ordeal and was forced to have a hysterectomy in a low-cost clinic that helps immigrants. The operation


went horribly wrong and she spent six months fighting for her life. Her two sons are in Bolivia, where she plans to return when she saves enough money to pay her debts. She works 12 hours a day, seven days a week, cleaning houses, doing errands for third parties, and baby-sitting. In what way am I a criminal? she asked me.

Of course, she has broken U.S. immigration laws. But she is, like 12 million other illegal immigrants, the victim of a gross illusionthe illusion that the laws of supply and demand can be obliterated by an act of political will. Humankind cannot bear very much reality, wrote T.S. Eliot in one of his quartets. He might have been talking about immigration in the 21st century.

The latest agreement betweenthe White House and a bipartisan group of legislators notwithstanding, the emotional obfuscation that has replaced sensible thinking regarding this issue continues to make it very hard to expect a reasonable immigration bill in the middle of a presidential campaign.

Not even totalitarian societies have been able to root out social realities deemed undesirablehence the pervasive alcoholism in Russia during the Soviet period. Whenever there is a disconnect between the law and reality, reality finds ways of making the law irrelevant. During most of the 300 years of its colonial era, Spain tried to impose draconian monopoly conditions on commerce in Spanish America. The result was that smuggling accounted for two-thirds of all trade in the colonies. Today, a number of Latin American constitutions make Catholicism the official church,


country where half a million immigrants come in illegally every year because the million that come in legally are not enough to match the high demand for foreign workers on the part of American businesses, who can seriously maintain that the immigration debate is mostly a debate between law-abiding Americans and law-breaking aliens?

And yet, these arguments would never persuade a politician such as Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., because he fears his constituents would never forgive him. The result is a colossal ideological inconsistency. Conservatismand Tancredo calls himself a quintessential conservativehas always been pro immigration. From Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish philosopher and politician considered the father of conservative thinking, to Ronald Reagan, who had no qualms with the word amnesty when millions of immigrants were legalized under his watchthe film one at a time and re-displays these on a video monitor. In particular, this conventional picture image input apparatus uses the new standard film known as the Advanced Photo System where the developed film is stored by being wound lengthwise in the cartridge. The picture images of the developed film wound and stored in the cartridge are read by loading the film cartridge into a loading unit. However, in Laid-Open Japanese Patent Publication 7-240874 there is no disclosure of any mechanical apparatus structure necessary to the picture image input apparatus. Further, there are several problems that must be resolved.
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Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in 20th century USA. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas Nevada (unknown author, no title, no page, letter code C). But his family moved around a lot while he was a kid (Bastin, J.D.). He eventually ended up in the Bay Area California alone and spent his first two years there homeless (unknown author, no title, n.p., letter code D). He grew up with only his mom and loved her very much. He even wrote a song called Dear Mama to his mom and thanked her for how she tried her best at raising him.

His public career started


imitators now, there will definitely be a lot in the future.

One of the reasons he was so influential is because he showed his real self to the world through interviews, music videos, movies, his music, and his poetry. He showed his views on the world unlike most other rap artists. Another reason is because people liked his views and liked his non-racial ways. People liked the way he sung about real subjects. Not like the others who sing about nothing much, and then get all the money they can. Also his unique style of mixing new sounds for a new beat really separated his music from others. He didn’t use traditional beats that people get tired of. He added a twist to rap and hip-hop music all together.Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union

Glasgow Warriors captain Al Kellock has been left out of new Scotland coach Vern Cotter's first squad, which includes six uncapped players.

Fellow Warriors forwards Gordon Reid, Alex Allan and Kevin Bryce are in the 43-man party for the summer tour.

Glasgow fly-half Finn Russell, Edinburgh scrum-half Grayson Hart and London Irish open-side Blair Cowan are the other uncapped players.

Scotland will face United States, Canada, Argentina and South Africa.

Cotter was named last year as the replacement for Scott Johnson, who has become director of rugby, but had to complete his contract with French Top 14 club Clermont Auvergne. before taking charge.

The New Zealander's first Scotland selection is split into two squads, one for the matches against USA and Canada and the second for


the games in the southern hemisphere.

quote We've included a mix of the battle-hardened and promising new talent and it will be good to see how players step up to tough and different challenges

Cotter said: "I'm very much looking forward to starting work with the Scotland players as we begin our 16-match countdown to the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.

"Working with Scott Johnson and the national coaches, we've selected, effectively, two squads for our itinerary this summer taking into account Glasgow Warriors' pursuit of Pro12 silverware and the fact that our match against South Africa falls outwith the IRB Regulation 9 window."

The second squad is therefore more heavily weighted towards players from Glasgow and Edinburgh, which are directly under control of Scottish Rugby, as clubs elsewhere are notduty-bound to release players for that final match of the tour.

"We've included a mix of the battle-hardened and promising new talent and it will be good to see how players step up to tough and different challenges at the end of a long domestic campaign," added Cotter.

Hooker Bryce is a particularly surprise choice after having only made two substitutes appearances previously in professional rugby.

Edinburgh duo Jack Cuthbert and Matt Scott, Glasgow forward Ryan Wilson and Bristol flanker Ross Rennie would have been included for the tour but for injury.

Kellock will lead Glasgow in the Pro12 final against Leinster

Meanwhile, other unnamed players were left out because they have chosen to undergo surgery, according to the SRU.

Some absentees are the result of their likely involvement in the sevens competition at


the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July, with Scotland due to name their squad on Wednesday.

Both Nick De Luca and Richie Vernon, who were called up for the recent Glasgow Sevens, are absent from the tour squad.

Glasgow forward Ryan Grant and Edinburgh pair Matt Scott and Greig Tonks all miss out despite featuring in the Six Nations squad earlier this year.

Kellock was not available for that competition with an arm injury and has returned to lead Glasgow to the Pro12 final, but there is no place in the tour squad for the 32-year-old who has 56 caps.

Another notable absentee is 33-year-old, 59-times capped prop Euan Murray, who was recently released by Worcester.

Nine players are named in both tour squads - forwards Reid, Pat MacArthur, Kevin Bryce, MorayLow, Geoff Cross and Grant Gilchrist and backs Alex Dunbar, Sean Maitland and Stuart Hogg.

Cotter will consider the captaincy when preparations begin for the North American leg of the tour next week.

Scotland begin the summer campaign against the USA in Houston on 7 June.

They will then attempt to make it three Test wins out of four against Canada when the nations meet seven days later in Toronto.

The Scots fly south to Cordoba for a match on 20 June, looking to make it four wins on the trot in Argentina.

Their final game is in South Africa against the world's second-highest ranked team, the Springboks, in the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on 28 June.

Scotland squad v USA and Canada

Forwards: Alex Allan (Glasgow Warriors), Johnnie Beattie (Montpellier), Kelly


Brown (Saracens), Kevin Bryce (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Cowan, Geoff Cross (both London Irish), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Richie Gray (Castres), Jim Hamilton (Montpellier), Scott Lawson (Newcastle Falcons), Kieran Low (London Irish), Moray Low (Exeter Chiefs), Pat MacArthur (Glasgow Warriors), Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors), Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan), Kyle Traynor (Bristol).

Backs: Chris Cusiter (Sale Sharks), Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors), Max Evans (Castres), Tom Heathcote (Bath), Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw (Gloucester), Sean Lamont, Sean Maitland, Finn Russell (all Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Taylor (Saracens), Tim Visser (Edinburgh).

Scotland squad v Argentina and South Africa

Forwards: Kevin Bryce (Glasgow Warriors), Geoff Cross (London Irish), David Denton, Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford (all Edinburgh), Chris Fusaro (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Jonny Gray, Rob Harley (both Glasgow Warriors), Moray Low (Exeter Chiefs), Pat MacArthur, Gordon ReidLos Angeles and was passing through the area on his way home. Watson said he has been in Pittsburgh for more than a month and sleeps “wherever he can locate somewhere comfortable to rest his head,” according to police spokeswoman Diane Richard.

The Dalai Lama, Mick Jagger and John F. Kennedy all have slept in the suite.

Not many places are more comfortable than the presidential suite, which has 1,300 square feet of space in the parlor area and 300 to 500 square feet of space in each of its three bedrooms. The suite includes a dining room, a full kitchenette, a wet bar and a sitting room. The master bedroom features a king-sized bed draped with a gathered gold fabric canopy.

It wasn't clear how Watson got into the suite


and has 597 rooms, including 38 suites, according to the website. Police said the presidential suite is on the 16th floor. The owner of the William Penn is Omni Hotels and Resorts of Irving, Texas.

Movie stars, musicians and world leaders have stayed in the hotel. During the G-20 Summit in 2009, President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stayed there at the same time.

Hotel lore has it that every president since Theodore Roosevelt has at least visited the hotel, Omni officials have said.

Staff writer Aaron Aupperlee contributed to this report. Bobby Kerlik is a Trib Total Media staff writer. Reach him at 412-320-7886 or bkerlik@tribweb.com.

You are solely responsible for your comments and by using TribLive.com you agree toOrganization due to its rapid propagation. Brazil has been of a particular focus given the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio ([@j_hukin-2016-0005_ref_004]; [@j_hukin-2016-0005_ref_011]). Pau Gasol, an NBA basketball player previously enrolled in a medical school before pursuing a sports career, is considering not attending the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 due to Zika disease. He pointed out that athletes needed more information before taking a decision because their health is at risk ([@j_hukin-2016-0005_ref_007]). Serena Williams, the top-ranked female tennis player in the world, has also voiced concerns about the Zika virus and plans to take multiple precautions while taking part in the Games ([@j_hukin-2016-0005_ref_008]).

Zika disease is caused by a ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus, specifically, Aedes mosquito-borne flavivirus. It is an undifferentiated systemic febrile illness and


At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
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10Ronan Farrow shared the Pulitzer for public service for his coverage of Harvey Weinstein in The New Yorker | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Pulitzer Prizes honor reporting on Trump-Russia, sexual misconduct scandals The New York Times and Washington Post each won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

WASHINGTON — The New York Times and Washington Post each won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on Monday, capping off a newsroom battle last year for scoops on links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, the focus of an ongoing special counsel investigation into the 2016 election.

Another dominant story of 2017, the global reckoning over sexual misconduct across industries, was also a major theme of this year’s awards. The Times and the New Yorker, whose separate, groundbreaking reports on


disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein opened the floodgates last fall, shared the public service prize. The Times’ Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey led their paper’s coverage, while Ronan Farrow’s work for the New Yorker was honored.

The Post nabbed the investigative award for its in-depth reporting on accusations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore, who lost his Senate bid in Alabama amid the controversy.

The staffs of the Arizona Republic and USA Today Network won the explanatory award for an ambitious project on Trump’s proposed wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, a nine-month investigation that included dozens of reporters and photographers. The staff of The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California won the breaking news prize for its coverage of wildfires, and the Cincinnati Enquirer took home the local award forCommission, and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, which stated that all companies and individuals are banned from raising funds through token sales. Also, they stated that all Chinese financial institutions should refrain from doing business that relates to the trading of ICO tokens. Finally, companies and individuals that have raised funds through initial coin offerings should return all funds to investors.

Unsurprisingly, the cryptocurrency market reacted very badly to this news and major cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), and litecoin (LTC) dropped by five to 15 percent within hours after the news broke. Given the size of China’s Bitcoin community and its influence on the market, crypto investors saw large, red numbers on CoinMarkCap as panic selling took place in a wide range of coins.

The digital tokens


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Cases had also been recorded of prisoners being tied up and beaten to death.
In their haste to put police on the streets to counter the brutal insurgency, Iraqi and US authorities had enlisted men trained under Saddam Hussein's regime and versed in torture and abuse, the officials told The Times.

They said recruits were also being drawn from the ranks of outlawed Shia militias.

Counter-insurgencies are rarely clean fights, but Iraq's dirty war is being waged under the noses of US and British troops, whose mission is to end the abuses of the former dictatorship.

Instead, they appear to have turned a


blind eye to the constant reports of torture from Iraq's prisons.

Among the worst offenders cited are the Interior Ministry police commandos, a force made up largely of former army officers and special forces soldiers drawn from the ranks of Saddam's dissolved army. They are seen as the most effective tool the coalition has in fighting the insurgency. "It's a gruesome situation we are in," one Iraqi official said. "You have to understand the situation when the special commandos were formed last August.

"They were taking on an awful lot of people in a great hurry. Many of them were people who served in Saddam's forces."

The Human Rights Ministry official in charge of monitoring Iraq's prisons, Saad Sultan, said commandos were responsible for random arrests, hanging people from ceilings andbeating them, attaching electrodes to ears, hands, feet and genitals, and holding hot irons to flesh.

"Two months ago I could go into a prison and more than 50 per cent of the people had been ill-treated," Mr Sultan said.

IRAQI security forces, set up by US and British troops, tortured detainees by pulling out their fingernails, burning them with hot irons or giving them electric shocks, Iraqi officials claimed.

Cases had also been recorded of prisoners being tied up and beaten to death.
In their haste to put police on the streets to counter the brutal insurgency, Iraqi and US authorities had enlisted men trained under Saddam Hussein's regime and versed in torture and abuse, the officials told The Times.

They said recruits were also being drawn from the ranks of outlawed


Shia militias.

Counter-insurgencies are rarely clean fights, but Iraq's dirty war is being waged under the noses of US and British troops, whose mission is to end the abuses of the former dictatorship.

Instead, they appear to have turned a blind eye to the constant reports of torture from Iraq's prisons.

Among the worst offenders cited are the Interior Ministry police commandos, a force made up largely of former army officers and special forces soldiers drawn from the ranks of Saddam's dissolved army. They are seen as the most effective tool the coalition has in fighting the insurgency. "It's a gruesome situation we are in," one Iraqi official said. "You have to understand the situation when the special commandos were formed last August.

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5 Points On The Trump Admin’s Crusade For Medicaid Work Requirements

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The Trump administration released guidelines Thursday morning for states seeking to impose work requirements on their Medicaid population—a move expected to reduce Medicaid enrollment by hundreds of thousandsthat the majority were already working, but many “face difficulty documenting their work hours for purposes of compliance,” while work requirements in federal housing assistance resulted in “no increase in average hours worked.”

Trump supporters will be among those hardest hit

The governors most likely to seek Medicaid waivers to implement work requirements represent states that Trump won in 2016. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, southern states already have the lowest percentage of Medicaid recipients who are currently employed, making more people in those Trump-supporting states at risk of losing benefits under the new rule.

Rural families, who overwhelmingly supported President Trump, are also especially vulnerable. According to a report from Georgetown University in 2017, nearly half of children living in rural areas are covered by Medicaid, versus 38 percent


coverage, which this is an effort to do.”

Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein)
Alice Ollstein is a reporter at Talking Points Memo, covering national politics. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been reporting in DC ever since, covering the Supreme Court, Congress and national elections for TV, radio, print, and online outlets. Her work has aired on Free Speech Radio News, All Things Considered, Channel News Asia, and Telesur, and her writing has been published by The Atlantic, La Opinión, and The Hill Rag. She was elected in 2016 as an at-large board member of the DC Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Alice grew up in Santa Monica, California and began working for local newspapers in her early teens.BANGKOK (Reuters) - A former Thai palace medical adviser was jailed for five and a half years for insulting the monarchy and other charges on Friday, a day after another disgraced aide to the new king was charged in a separate case.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn has made numerous changes in the palace since ascending the throne in December following the death of his father, with punishments for some of those who have fallen from grace.

Former Air Vice Marshal Chitpong Thongkum pleaded guilty to royal defamation and four other charges on Friday and was convicted by a military court, said Sutin Sappuang, chief of the police Crime Suppression Division.

Chitpong’s sentence was halved from 11 years because of his guilty plea, Sutin told Reuters. He did not detail the specific charges.

Chitpong,


who had served as a medical adviser to the king when he was crown prince, was fired last month and stripped of military ranks and royal decorations.

At the time, the government said his offences included claiming ties with the king for personal gain, disclosing the king’s medical records, behaving in ways which the king did not trust and causing “severe damage” while on duty.

The country’s strict lese-majesty law makes it a crime to defame, insult or threaten the king, queen, heir to the throne or regent. Each offence is punishable with a jail term of up to 15 years.

There has been a substantial rise in the number of lese-majesty prosecutions since the death of former King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October.

Another prominent former palace aide, Jumpol Manmai, who washis writing. For accurate firearms information in a story, Larry gets it right.

I always love reading the books in the beginning of an author's career. It allows one to chart the progress of how an author develops, and from what I read in Monster Hunter Vendetta, Mr. Correia is maturing quite nicely as an author.The book flows quite nicely without any kind of scenes that slow the plot down. Even when introducing new characters or information about a character, the author makes it so the action moves right along.

Mr, Correia is not afraid to turn accepted fantasy norms on their ear, as witnessed by the trailer park elves introduced in Monster Hunter International. In Vendetta, he has taken a cherished part of fantasy and twisted them in such


great.

The organization that leads the fight against those infringements is the Second Amendment Foundation. They, along with Civil Rights attorney Alan Gura have been kicking ass and chewing bubble gum. And they are all out of bubble gum.

Contrary to what other national organizations would have you believe, it was the SAF and Alan Gura that led the charge in McDonald v Chicago. It is the SAF that has filed for strict scrutiny in Nordyke en banc. It is the SAF that has filed suit against North Carolina in regards to disarming peaceably armed citizens during declared states of emergency. It is the SAF in concert with many fine state gun rights organizations that are challenging in court, the constitutionality of many gun laws.

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A deal was struck and the gentleman was sentenced to time served (about 24 hours) and released.Everything was fine at the time. The young man is free and attends college to earn a degree. He applies for a job that requires a security clearance with the accompanying background check, a most thorough background check. With nary a hiccup, the gentleman is granted the job and is most productive.

In further looking into his denial to purchase a firearm, the paperwork that the court filed to prove he was not a convicted felon so long ago, had been mis-marked and was now causing him grief. It was eventually straightened out and the gentleman's good name was restored. He went on to purchase that second firearm and now owns many more.

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Braben tells me," and I got an Acorn Atom and spent time and actually got a game up and running where I had four different spacecraft--all of which made it into Elite--and you could fly them around, and it was called Fighter. But it had the same problems as the other games. Once you have a certain opponent and you beat them, the next opponent has to be harder. You end up with a very tight game loop that just doesn't go anywhere. It has to become preposterously difficult to have enough longevity."

What Braben and co-creator Ian Bell came up with instead was one of the first truly open-world games. You could spend all your time in Elite trading, diving into the game's deep economic and political systemand eventually we had it."

After Elite's 1984 release on the BBC Micro, it was ported to nearly every popular '80s game platform around, including the ZX Spectrum, Apple II, and Nintendo Entertainment System. Braben would go on to form Frontier Developments, a studio that has created games such as Elite's sequel, Frontier: Elite II, as well as more modern games like Kinectimals and LostWinds. But it's Elite that stands out as Braben's greatest gaming achievement.

"The main impact Elite had wasn't in space games" says Braben, "but in games generally Prior to Elite, publishers were very narrow about what games they would sell, because they knew what sold, which is a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. It was after [the release of Elite that] we saw a lot of games


showing disused gas chambers. The Germans finished their work at Treblinka in 1943 and bulldozed the camp. To cover their tracks, they went so far as to plant crops and build a farmhouse on the leveled ground.

Eyewitness accounts from survivors and captured guards brought the true story to light: One camp at Treblinka was primarily a forced-labor facility. Another camp was designed specifically for herding thousands of victims at a time into one side of a "bathhouse," where they were gassed to death with carbon monoxide exhaust from tank engines. The bodies were taken out the other side for mass burial, and later cremation.

The first dig in decades

After the war, Treblinka was turned into a memorial. Out of respect for the victims, no excavation was allowed there. Thatis, until Sturdy Colls and her colleagues won approval from Polish authorities as well as Jewish religious leaders to conduct a limited dig.

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"There are some questions that can only be answered by archaeology," Sturdy Colls explained. "As we enter, unfortunately, an age without survivors, archaeology can provide much more new evidence."

Archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls and her colleagues excavate a trench at the Treblinka concentration camp in Poland during a dig that was documented for "Treblinka: Hitler's Killing Machine" on the Smithsonian Channel. Smithsonian Channel

Over the course of six years, the archaeologists developed computerized maps of the area using aerial photography, GPS technology, ground-penetrating radar and a laser-scanning technology


where she is a Professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in wireless communication networks. She was a recipient of the 2017 Technical Recognition Award from the IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee, and several best paper awards from IEEE conferences. She was the Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair of the IEEE VTC 2016 Fall and 2017 Fall, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007$-$2013), and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2008$-$2011). Dr. Zhuang is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. She is an Elected Member of the Board of Governors and VP Publications of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

[^1]: Omar Alhussein and Weihua Zhuang are with the Department of Electrical and Computerallowed to draw scarce
conservation resources away from other, less charismatic orchids (or indeed,
other kinds of plant) – genuine species that are in truth far more deserving of
conservation.

So there are ethical considerations as well as scientific
ones?

Absolutely. This fact was brought home to me most vividly
when studying orchids on a small island in the Aegean. The mayor of one of the towns
on the island offered me attractive 'inducements' if I were to state publicly
that the bee orchids in his district were species unique to his island! Clearly,
he had become aware that orchids in general, and bee orchids in particular, are
a significant draw for spring tourism, as orchids attract the same kind of obsessive
attention as birds. Box-ticking enthusiasts like many kinds of birds or orchids
to be recognised and named by taxonomists


The next ICALEPCS conference will take place in October 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona is one of the largest European metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. It was founded over 2000 years ago and since then it has been the traditional gateway to Spain. In Barcelona, diverse cultures (Greek, Phoenician, Iberian, Roman, Jewish, Arab, Christian) flourished and came to enrich its heritage. Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain. In just over two decades since it hosted the 1992 Olympic Games, Barcelona has completely transformed its range of facilities and attractions. It has done so by displaying a dynamic character and pioneering spirit, which are palpable in its new urban and architectural layout. The city enjoys mild climatic conditions, and offers the visitorOn Jan. 12, 1967, James Bedford, a psychology professor at Glendale College in California who had just died of cancer, took his first step toward coming back to life. On that day, the professor became the first person ever frozen in cryonic suspension, embedded in liquid nitrogen at minus-321 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bedford was neither the first, nor the last, to attempt the impossible — beating death at its own game, according to Michael Shermer’s book “Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia” (Henry Holt), out Jan. 9.

With scientific advancements exploding at an exponential pace, some believe the Grim Reaper could soon be out of business.

Here are three ways scientists are striving for immortality that are getting so close to success that they would amaze


Members of the Board of Supervisory Directors

Chair of the Board of Supervisory Directors:

Peter Altmaier

Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

Deputy Chair:

Olaf Scholz

Federal Minister of Finance

Further members are:

Doris Ahnen

Minister of Finance of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

Sören Bartol

Member of the German Bundestag

Dr André Berghegger

Member of the German Bundestag

Dr Holger Bingmann

President of the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA) (retired)

Volker Bouffier

Minister President of the State of Hesse

Ingeborg Esser

Managing Director of the Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies (GdW)

Robert Feiger

Chair of the German Trade Union Construction-Agriculture-Environment (IG Bau)

Albert Füracker

State Minister at the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and for Regional Identity

Verena Göppert

Permanent Deputy of the Executive Director of the Association of German Cities

Olav Gutting

Member of the German Bundestag

Dr Louis Hagen

CEO of Münchener Hypothekenbank eG

Reinhold Hilbers

Minister ofFinance of the State of Lower Saxony

Reiner Hoffmann

Chair of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB)

Gerhard Hofmann

Member of the Board of Managing Directors of the National Association of German Cooperative Banks (BVR)

Dr Bruno Hollnagel

Member of the German Bundestag

Johannes Kahrs

Member of the German Bundestag (retired)

Alois Karl

Member of the German Bundestag

Julia Klöckner

Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture

Andrea Kocsis

Deputy Chair of ver.di - United Services Trade Union

Stefan Körzell

Member of the Executive Board of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB)

Dr Joachim Lang

CEO and Director General of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)

Heiko Maas

Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs

Dr Gerd Müller

Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development

Dr Hans-Walter Peters

President of the Federal Association of German Banks (BdB)

Prof Dr Johannes-Jörg Riegler

President of the Federal Association of Public Banks Germany (VÖB) (retired)

Joachim Rukwied

President of the


German Farmers' Association (DBV)

Andreas Scheuer

Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

Helmut Schleweis

President of the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV)

Svenja Schulze

Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Holger Schwannecke

Secretary General of the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts and Small Business (ZDH)

Edith Sitzmann

Minister of Finance of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg

Peter Strobel

Minister of Finance and European Affairs of the State of Saarland

Heike Taubert

Minister of Finance of the Free State of Thuringia

Michael Theurer

Member of the German Bundestag

Dr Martin Wansleben

Chief Executive of the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK)

As of August 2020IS came with a hit list, left Syria town in a trail of blood

This Saturday, Oct 21, 2017 frame grab from video, shows a body covered with a blanket in the street of Qaryatayn, a town in central Syria which was recaptured from Islamic State group militants on Saturday. The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in Qaryatayn, activists said Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. (AP Photo)

This Saturday, Oct 21, 2017 frame grab from video, shows a body covered with a blanket in the street of Qaryatayn, a town in central Syria which was recaptured from Islamic State group militants on Saturday. The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State


group, have been discovered in Qaryatayn, activists said Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. (AP Photo)

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State militants came into the Syrian town with a hit list. By the time they left three weeks later, more than 70 civilians had been killed — shot or beheaded, their bodies dumped in farms and ditches.

The apparent revenge killings in the town of Qaryatayn underscore the ability of the extremists to inflict heavy losses even when they’re in retreat — and portend more violence as they fight to hang on to their last strongholds in Syria.

News of the gruesome slayings began to emerge late Sunday, after IS militants were driven out by advancing government troops.

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Terrified residents said they watched the slaughter from their windows or in the streets.

One formerresident said his surviving family members walked for miles to find cell phone coverage so they could tell him of the deaths of his uncle, two cousins and a fourth relative. Another uncle remains missing.

“They came into town with a hit list,” said Abdullah AbdulKarim, adding that 35 of the 50 militants who overran the town late last month were originally from Qaryatayn. He said the militants accused many of their victims of collaborating with the government but many others were also caught in the revenge killing.

“Our curse is from within us,” he said, speaking to The Associated Press from northern Syria, where he fled years ago.

Once a predominantly Christian town known for its ancient monastery, Qaryatayn has changed hands between IS and the Syrian government several times


at least 12 killed by government forces on suspicion of aiding the IS militants.

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AbdulKarim and Mohamed Hassan, an activist who runs the Palmyra Network News, put the death toll at 75 civilians, saying many more remain unaccounted for.

“It seems it was mostly revenge,” Hassan said.

Another activist network, the Palmyra Coordination Committee, released the names of 67 civilians who were confirmed killed and said the number was likely to rise. It said at least 35 of the dead were found dumped inside a ditch.

Talal Barazi, the governor of Homs province, said IS “terrorized” residents for three weeks, adding that most of the dead were townspeople who were government employees or were affiliated with Syria’s ruling Baath party.

He said at least 13 residents remained missing and six bodies had notbeen identified.

IS militants relied on Qaryatayn’s strategic location to defend another of their bastions, the historic city of Palmyra. With Russian backing, Syrian government troops regained control of Qaryatayn in April 2016. But IS, facing major setbacks in Syria and Iraq, launched a new offensive on the town in late September and recaptured it.

AbdulKarim said during the three weeks that IS controlled the town, the militants went door to door looking for people they accused of collaborating with the Syrian government.

He said his uncle, who was a local mayor, and two cousins were shot after they were taken to an undisclosed location.

“They took people to show them bodies dumped in an open area to let them know they were killed, but also to terrorize the public,” AbdulKarim said.


He said the extremists barred residents from burying their dead.

He said the advancing government troops also killed civilians, but residents were too afraid to report the government killings.

AbdulKarim and the Observatory said the militants took Qaryatayn’s police chief, his wife and other security personnel as hostages to negotiate their exit after government troops encircled the town. About 200 militants evacuated the town, before government forces marched in, they said.

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Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.Introduction
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The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is comprised of nerves, enclosed bundles of long fibres or axons and neurons, which connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body (Saladin, [@b38]). The primary function of the PNS is to allow for movement, sensation and changes in behaviour to be undertaken in response to external or internal stimuli. Peripheral nerves in the lower limb are composed of sensory, motor and sympathetic fibres. The sciatic nerve, situated in the posterior compartment of the leg, is the largest nerve beginning in the lower back and runs down towards the lower limb. Its function consists of providing motor innervation to the muscles of the posterior aspect of the thigh and those of the leg and foot, and sensory innervation to the


But seriously, it’s also serves an important ecological purpose and as a bonus gives us an appreciation of just how wild and untamed much of our heavily populated coastal area used to be.

The state bought the land for the Park from private developers during the Great Depression. Its miles of trails and many of its structures were built by African-American Civilian Conservation Corps workers who, as if trudging through the swamps and dealing with the aforementioned slithery reptiles, chiggers, ticks, indigenous plants and itchy vines was not enough, were prohibited from using the very park they’d shaped until it was integrated during the early 1960s. (In one of its many regrettable moments in modern history, Virginia very nearly got rid of all of its state parks during theRelated Items

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But in the last few weeks, the level of vitriol aimed at the so-called chamber of sober second thought has reached new heights.

Liberal Sen. Maria Chaput said her inbox has been flooded.

"They are saying nasty things," said Chaput. "I'm not mad. I'm very sad."

As the upper chamber steers itself through another rapid-infested river, with questions swirling around improper living or travel expense claims by four senators, Chaput said the tension is thick and the emotions high.

"I'm not sure the Senate will be able to get out of this," she said. Support for Canada's Senate is not high. Four in 10 Canadians want major reforms, including the introduction of elections for senators.

One-third of Canadians simply want it abolished, and that number has grown in recent years.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad


Wall, long a proponent of Senate reform, seems to agree, saying late last week it was time to abolish it.

The official Opposition NDP has wanted it abolished for years.

The Senate has done some great work in its time, often delving more deeply into topics than time and politics will allow their colleagues in the House of Commons.

Recently, that has included an in-depth look at the discrepancy between U.S. and Canadian retail prices. The study led to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's decision to cut tariffs on certain items as a test to see if that would bring Canadian prices closer to those of products on American store shelves.

A 2012 Senate study on native education is helping direct a government initiative to overhaul the reserve school system.

Other studies on anNew Release Feature: Jannette Fuller's TRANSGRESSION!

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Agent Yagil faces the fight of his
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of perseverance and patience he has.

Seventeen-year-old Amber Reynolds is looking for some freedom and independence
from her rigid lifestyle. Going behind her parents’ back, she takes a part-time job at the renowned inn
located within Ambrosial Acres.

As Agent Yagil watches over Amber, he discovers things are not what they seem.
Despite its wondrous beauty, Ambrosial Acres hides a dark and supernatural
secret.

Between Amber’s new coworker crushes, her menacing
stalker, a mysterious online stranger, and


Or she would faint before she had a chance to do either
of those things.

Curious to know what she was really
looking at, I turned around. It was a chart—a very visual one—of the
reproductive system. Of course, out of all the classes we could be in, we had
to be inside Sex Ed.

Bleck!

***

Hallelujah!
After five classes, second period lunch, and several bathroom breaks, the last
bell of the day finally buzzed. She raced to the parking lot and cranked up her
Jeep. Once she left the school grounds she sped all the way to Coppice Lane.
She slammed on the brakes and whipped the wheel to the left. I, on the other
hand, continued to go straight, heading for a group of laurels. Oomph!

I better get a promotion for
this.

I peeled my face off the tree andspit out a few leaves, then
followed her down the road for another mile. She came to a halt in front of the
wrought iron gates. Cherubim statutes, crisscrossing their swords, towered
above them. A metal sign—right above their heads—said WELCOME TO AMBROSIAL
ACRES.

The gates swung open and the Jeep crept through.

A tall man with a brawny physique walked out in the middle of the
road. His long, jet-black hair blew behind him as he threw a hand up, signaling
her to stop.

“Welcome. I’m Micah…the groundskeeper.” He studied her for a brief
moment, and then continued, “If you’re here to visit the Inn, then proceed down
this road until you reach the four-way intersection. Follow the sign that says
SOUTH. When you arrive, you’ll see a wooded parking lot.”

“Thanks.” Amber smiled timidly.

He eyeballed the Jeep as she


drove away, his blue eyes glinting
immensely. With a man like that guarding the front entrance, intruders didn’t stand
a chance.

Almond blossoms with pink petals lined either side of the road. A
group of men worked in the vibrant green fields lying right behind them. Some
were pushing wheelbarrows while the others raked up leaves. They waved at Amber
as she drove by.

A young man with safety glasses, holding a leaf blower, looked up
and grinned in my direction. My nerves became unsettled.

Can he see me?

But then he pulled his gaze away, blowing grass and flower petals
everywhere. Okay, that made the second
time today when I questioned the invisibility function of my suit. I better
have it checked out by one of the celestial tailors—just in case.

She arrived at the four-way intersection. The wooden signs onAnother busy weekend of action in the Airtricity League. Here's the main take-aways.

1) There's nothing like scoring seven goals to cheer up supporters

Rovers came into the week after 5 successive draws and with only one win this season. They hadn't scored more than once in those 5 games. They exploded on Friday night with a seven goal haul against Bray Wanderers in Tallaght. Just the pick-me-up Rovers fans needed ahead of the Setanta Cup semi final with Cork on Tuesday and the big game away to Derry City next Friday.

2) Derry City are probably Sligo's biggest challengers this season

Even though Dundlak continue to disappoint at home (yet to win this season), Friday was still a game between the sides in 2nd and 3rd place in the league. Derry


came from a goal behind to win 3-1 with another 2 goals for Rory Patterson. Only the goal scoring exploits of Player of the Month Anthony Elding is keeping Patterson somewhat out of the spotlight

3) Sligo Rovers know how to do professional wins now

Not for the first time this season. Sligo Rovers weren't firing on all cylinders, and they were still far too good for Cork City in yesterday's live TV game. Helped by a couple of mistakes, Sligo pounced and equalled Cork's Premier Division record of 8 wins from the start of the season. Pats stopped that run in 1998 and went on to win the league. Sligo look a better bet for league honours this year. They know how to unwind after a game too, asin World Football.

That's the box score from Cobh Ramblers' win last night at home to the previously unbeaten Mervue United. 8 goals, 3 red cards, 4 penalties (one missed). Conor Meade's 4 goals last night bring him to 9 for the season (in only 6 games). Cobh Ramblers fans are certainly getting value for money on their return to the League of Ireland. Their previous two home games have seen them beat Wexford Youths 5-0 and lose 3-4 to Longford Town. They're averaging an astonishing 6.66 goals per game in St Colmans.

Lots of midweek action this week in League and Setanta Cup. We'll keep you updated with all the big stories.


hinge (103) is attached to a bracket (106) welded firmly to the rear floor panel (104). In these designs, any impact force exerted on seat back (101) is transferred from the center hinge (103) to the rear floor panel (104). Ultimately, the rear floor panel (104) absorbs this impact force, and it becomes difficult to further improve rigidity and strength of the structure.
The center hinge (103) is mounted to the rear floor panel (104) as a single unit, and is a large item. Thus, it is difficult to position the center hinge in the correct alignment during assembly. Correctly positioning these parts requires many man hours, resulting in reduced manufacturing efficiency. Even if a setting jig is used, the setting position of the center hinge is essentially in“difficulties in interpreting” what a no means.

Abdul from Iraq forced sex with a 14-year-old girl in his own apartment on October 4, 2016 in Gothenburg. He threatened the girl to spread offensive images and movies to her brother if she did not meet him, and then had intercourse with her.

The judgment states that Abdul knew that the girl was under 15 years because she told him when she had a relationship in spring 2016. At the hearing, a witness told me that Abdul asked her if she knew how old the girl was before they joined together.

According to the judgment, Abdul sent a snapshot of the plaintiff as he had taken one of the gangs and threatened to spread the picture to the girl’s family if she did


A conversation with Dale Recinella, Correctional Chaplain on Florida's Death Row.

By Davide Dionisi

How does a successful Wall Street lawyer, Notre Dame Law School graduate, and owner of a Miami Bay penthouse, leave everything in order to offer spiritual assistance to people sentenced to death in Florida prisons, the second largest Death Row in the United States, after California? We wanted to find out more about his personal story, his commitment to abolishing the death penalty, his book, "When we visit Jesus in prison" (ACTA Publications, Chicago), and why prisoners call him their “Brother”. So we organized a meeting at Rome’s Rebibbia Prison, where we interviewed him.

From Abruzzo to the American dream

Dale Recinella doesn’t immediately reveal his Italian Abruzzi origins, or the fact he is the son of immigrantsfrom Castel Di Sangro. Instead, he offers us his business card complete with personal details and a brief description of his activities as a "lay chaplain”. His wife, Susan, accompanies him in his ministry, assisting families of prisoners held in U.S. penitentiaries. When we mention his book, Dale tells us he wanted to dedicate it to the thousands of men and women God has allowed him to serve in prison, and to the hundreds of volunteers who have supported him during his 30 years of service.

Before embarking on that mission of service, Dale perfectly embodied the American dream. He was earning a lot of money, he led a fast-paced life, and went through several marriages – until illness forced him to stop and reflect. He asked God for


another chance. And he got it. That was the turning point.

The story of Sacco and Vanzetti

Our first question is: "Why Death Row?". He hesitates a moment before answering, and then explains how his parents were affected by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian-born Americans who were accused of murdering a guard during an armed robbery in 1920. Both men died on the electric chair on 23 August 1927 in the Charlestown State Prison in Massachusetts. Dale says his parents were shocked by the execution… and that’s how he was inspired to take care of people on Death Row.

The people on Death Row

Dale’s voice changes when he describes what “taking care of people on Death Row” entails. His mood becomes darker as he outlines the details ofthe whole six weeks, so I cover the five or six weeks and then his pastor comes for the last two days”.

The memories that never go away...

Dale goes on to tell us some of the stories he knows he will never forget: "Because I get so close to the man in assisting him in preparation to be killed, all of them are in my heart. But a couple of them had special situations. For example, one had three daughters in their twenties that Susan was caring for. They were extremely distraught that their father was going to be killed, and also it was highly likely that he was innocent”. The next story is so painful, Dale has to stop now and then to catch his breath. "He was


Puerto Rican and widely believed to be innocent. His lethal injection was botched. I watched him writhe in agony for half an hour as he died”. An autopsy later revealed that the injection poison had ruptured his veins and ended up in his arms. This caused internal chemical burns and he didn’t die. Instead, he must have felt as if he was drowning or suffocating. He twisted and turned so much that he broke the straps holding him down on the cot. In the end, they had to tie his head. "When I was driving home from the execution, I called my wife and I told her on the phone: I just watched a man be tortured to death”.

The meeting with Pope Francis

Our interview with Dale Recinella concludesThe genesis of Anna Lytical

Anna Lytical with a Google Chrome-inspired eye. Anna Lytical

"A few years ago, I was feeling kind of lost in New York City, a city I'd grown up in and, at one point, felt so connected to," Jacobson said in an interview with Business Insider. "One way I'd felt connected to New York was through performances."

Around the same time, he began re-watching "RuPaul's Drag Race" and consequently attending drag shows in the city.

"There's something about it that really drew me in," Jacobson said. "I saw a place where I'd get to have a queer, LGBT audience, and get to do whatever I wanted."

And so Anna Lytical was conceived.

Anna Lytical appeared in around 10 performances, first doing traditional drag acts, à la lip sync, but then


beginning to mix in skills Jacobson acquired through his day job as an engineer.

On Halloween at one of Anna Lytical's haunts, Pieces gay bar in Greenwich Village, Anna Lytical did a performance mashing up "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and the song "Blue" by Marina and the Diamonds. Anna Lytical made a blue dress with an explosive baking soda and vinegar mix that would inflate the outfit when she removed her belt, just like the Willy Wonka character of Violet Beauregarde, who physically swells into a giant blueberry when she eats a three-course dinner chewing gum with a blueberry pie dessert.

Anna Lytical eventually went on hiatus, as Jacobson found drag competitions to be physically taxing — before even hitting the stage, it takes two hours for Anna Lyticalthe rest of the world, especially the Palestinians. You must also stop trying to remake yourself in the mold of white men…or else you will suffer and learn the same lesson which they have learned and will learn. Live in peace and dignity, not in death and the ruin of all around you.

Monday, June 07, 2010

David Saucedo is a leader in the Tea Party movement hailing from Waco, Texas. He is a performer and is currently on a national tour with the Tea Party Express, taking the message of their party across the country. In an effort to understand the Tea Party movement and gain some clarity about their beliefs, I approached Mr. Saucedo and asked to interview him. Having agreed, I submitted several questions to Mr. Saucedo


Poland judiciary reforms: PM Morawiecki says he can fix row with EU Published duration 10 January 2018

image copyright EPA image caption Mr Morawiecki (left) says he can convince Brussels that the reforms are necessary

Poland's new PM Mateusz Morawiecki has said his country's dispute with the European Commission over judicial reform is just a "misunderstanding".

Mr Morawiecki said with "dialogue" he could convince Brussels that Poland was forming its first independent judiciary since the post-war communist era.

The European Union has warned that the reforms threaten the rule of law and has launched disciplinary measures.

Poland's government has said that the new laws are needed to curb corruption.

Speaking in Warsaw on Wednesday, Mr Morawiecki said he believed that dialogue with the European Commission would lead to "mutual understanding and de-escalation".

"I generally believeDecember, the EU launched unprecedented disciplinary measures against Poland and the Commission has given Warsaw three months to negotiate a solution.

The Commission has asked Warsaw to:

Not apply a lower retirement age to current judges

Remove the discretionary power of the president to prolong the mandate of Supreme Court judges

Remove the new retirement regime for judges, including the discretionary powers of the Minister of Justice

Restore the independence and legitimacy of the Constitutional Tribunal

On Tuesday, Mr Morawiecki sacked Poland's Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz and Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski as part of a major cabinet reshuffle in a bid to mend ties with the country's EU partners.

"We don't want to be a dogmatic, doctrinaire or extremist government," he said, following a meeting with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Vice-President Frans Timmermans.


the occupation.”

AFSC has been financed by Soros’s Open Society Foundations as well as the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.

Tides is a central funding hub that distributes donor funds to far-left organizations. Indeed, Tides is one of the nation’s biggest funders of progressive organizations.

AFSC helped lead the campaign demanding divestment from Hewlett Packard and Sodastream due to the companies’ Israel branches.

AFSC works hand in hand with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which is notorious for its anti-Israel crusade on college campuses, where the group peddles the BDS movement. AFSC and SJP are both featured on Israel’s list of six banned U.S.-based BDS-promoting organizations.

Students for Justice in Palestine, in turn, receives legal help for its work from an organization called Palestine Legal. Palestine Legal was created for the express purpose ofstates around the country.”

During the latest gubernatorial race in Florida, Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum came under fire for his deep ties to Dream Defenders, a radical group that is active in promoting BDS. Breitbart News reported that Dream Defenders organized a flash mob in Israel to officially endorse the BDS movement against the Jewish state. Dream Defenders founder Phillip Agnew is a graduate of the youth training program at the George Soros-financed People for the American Way, a program led at the time of Agnew’s attendance by Gillum himself.

Dream Defenders’ January 2015 delegation and flash mob in Israel to officially endorse BDS was also led by Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Soros-funded Black Lives Matter, and Charlene Carruthers, national director of the Black Youth Project 100. The Black


into the air stream forced through the inspiratory hose of the ventilator circuit. In present practice, to engage the nebulizer to the ventilator circuit, the inspiratory hose is disconnected from the ventilator, a T connector is used to reconnect the inspiratory hose to the ventilator, and a tapered male end of a nebulizer is inserted into the remaining port of the T connector. The nebulizer contains a reservoir for prescribed medications, which are atomized using breathable gas from a separate connection. The medication mist flows from the nebulizer into the inspiratory air stream for the duration of the medication dose. Upon completion of the therapy, the T connector is then removed from the inspiratory side of the circuit. Patients receive medications in this manner from one to twelveDeviant Bodies reveals that the "normal," "healthy" body is a fiction of science. Modern life sciences, medicine, and the popular perceptions they create have not merely observed and reported, they have constructed bodies: the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body.

Deviant Bodies reveals that the "normal," "healthy" body is a fiction of science. Modern life sciences, medicine, and the popular perceptions they create have not merely observed and reported, they have constructed bodies: the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body.


a manager to run the Overlook Café at Falls Park for at least the next five years.

City officials previously recommended Rhonda Milstead, who operated the café under a short-term concession contract during the annual Winter Wonderland celebration, to manage the café.

Councilors unanimously approved the contract Tuesday.

Under the proposed five-year agreement, the city receives 10 percent of gross receipts, and the café is “professionally run, with family-oriented food service,” which would include private rentals and catering events. In addition, the city would pay the utilities at the café.

In the past, beer and wine availability was restricted to private groups and events at the café, said Dave Fischer, assistant director of Parks and Recreation.

The consultant and vendor selection team both recommended that availability be expanded, but not be the focusEntries in 'website' (1)

After its initial announcement back in July, Steel Media has now launched its brand-new PC games industry website, PCGamesInsider.biz, together with its new PC Connects event, which launches at the ...

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Deirdre Shesgreen

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — After another embarrassing primary loss and growing ridicule from fellow Republicans, John Kasich’s top campaign advisers told a group of Washington lobbyists and donors Wednesday the Ohio governor still could snag the GOP nomination at a contested convention in July.

Bob Rusbuldt, an insurance industry lobbyist and major Kasich supporter, said the message of the closed-door meeting was twofold: first, no candidate will go into the Republican National Convention in July with a majority of the delegates; and second, “anything can happen” at a contested convention.

The Washington meeting came on the heels of a withering loss in Wisconsin — a state Kasich had seen as fertile ground for him but where he finished a distant third, securing 14 percent of the vote. And it cameamid increasingly vocal calls for Kasich to drop out, mostly from his rivals, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and New York businessman Donald Trump.

Kasich did not attend the Washington meeting, as it unfolded just hours before he was scheduled to give his State of the State address back home. Reporters were barred from the building, so it was difficult to determine how many people attended.

Rusbuldt said it was aimed at wooing former supporters of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who both dropped out of the race earlier this year. “We have a bunch of former Bush and Rubio types that are looking for a home and we’re looking to provide them a home,” he said.

But another attendee, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.,


housing focused on anything from art and music to business and agriculture.

They moved into the Setagaya Ward house about a year ago. They meet up once or twice a week to exchange information, projecting their findings on a wall.

“I’ve learned lots of things and experienced the fun of programming,” said a 22-year-old student who lives there. He received a job offer from an information technology company after moving in.

Via the colish website, seven foreigners and two Japanese came to live collectively in a house in Chiyoda Ward to learn languages from each other. The use of English is banned once a week, as is the use of Japanese.

American Brendan Harvey, 21, a third-year student at Waseda University, moved in after finding a homestay with a woman in herin the agreement signed in June.

The Liberty Magazine reported after the historic Trump-Kim summit in Singapore last June that Kim has admitted defeat, but Trump made it seem as if both parties had met as equals. The final plan is to advance denuclearization negotiations while protecting the Kim regime. North Korea will aspire to become a prosperous and globally recognized country like Singapore.

Trump decided to protect the Kim regime because North Korean denuclearization would be impossible if the Kim regime were to suddenly collapse at the hands of North Korea’s conservatives.

North Korea has long been sacrificing economic progress for nuclear and missile developments, so obviously if the leaders suddenly decide to abandon their nuclear project, the conservatives in the military and political sphere may initiate a coup d’etat.

Kim


Three men and a teenage boy have been rescued from rough seas in Torres Strait, after their boat capsized and left them stranded on a channel marker overnight.

The group was winched to safety by a rescue helicopter on Monday morning, more than 16 hours after they set off from Seisia Wharf on Cape York.

Police said they had been travelling home to Moa Island on Sunday when their five-metre boat capsized while refuelling about 5:30pm.

The group was reported missing later that night, sparking an overnight search involving a fixed-wing aircraft and a vessel.

It's believed the vessel flipped over during the refuelling process. ( Supplied: Queensland Police Service )

Water police found the men, aged 51, 38 and 21, along with a 16-year-old boy, about 900 metres from their boat incollection. Tables and topics included WWII and Korean War era rifles, mines, and uniforms.

Sgt. 1st Class Barber is an amateur collector that has accumulated over 500 pieces of authentic military history. He has been participating and leading this event for several years with the help of Staff Sgt. Bickal. His teaching skills are utilized and his passion for military history is apparent during his briefs. The two of them did an outstanding job and have again made Delta proud of their efforts and accomplishment.


Leadership: by the pros, for the novice.
Leadership, communication, motivation and conflict resolution strategies shared during Leadership Day gave new meaning to these theoretical concepts. Leadership Day proved to be an effective teaching strategy for socializing our nursing leadership students into the real world of today's nursing. This united effort between leaders in practice and leaders in education enhanced the success of this proactive approach. The presenters' personification of nursing leadership and management concepts, as well as the descriptions of specific "how to" strategies, provided a valuable ingredient for reinforcing the theoretical concepts. Leadership Day was so successful that we began making plans immediately to expand the event to include all senior nursing students the following year.Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes again! An illegal immigrant at Western Washington University was elected to student government, but because the position is considered employment by the public university, she cannot accept the position.

University officials had urged her to receive Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) approval before she ran for the position, but she decided not to do so . . . because Trump.

The Blaze reports:

Ana Ramirez recently became the first undocumented student elected to Western Washington University’s Student Board of Directors, KING-TV reported.

“I literally cried,” the 19-year-old Ramirez told the station at the Bellingham campus Wednesday. “I knew a lot of other people would be proud of me so that made me happy.”

But her tears of joy were soon wiped away when the school told Ramirez she


Story highlights Auburn police make arrest, file murder charge

Jakell Mitchell, 18, was a freshman football player

He sat out this season to gain weight and prepare for 2015

He was a good receiver and runner, the Auburn Tigers said

Police have arrested Markale Deandra Hart, 22, in connection with the shooting death of a freshman Auburn University football player, the Auburn Police Division said in a news release Sunday.

The Camp Hill man is being charged with murder in the death of 18-year-old Jakell Mitchell of Opelika, Alabama, police say.

"An investigation into the shooting was immediately initiated by the Auburn Police Division and as a result, Hart was developed as a suspect," the statement said. "Auburn Detectives traveled to Dadeville and with the assistance of the Tallapoosa County Sheriff Department and Jacksona careful review of the briefs and record, we reverse and remand this case for a new trial.

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FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Around 11:45 p.m. on March 17, 2003, Mr. Davis pulled into a Go-Mart parking lot in Sissonville, West Virginia, to purchase gas for his vehicle. Mr. Davis had two companions with him, Todd Robins and Matt Hensley. Mr. Davis attempted to put gas in his vehicle but the pump was not turned on. Mr. Davis yelled to Mr. Hensley as he walked toward the store, "Tell them to turn the f____ing pumps on, please." At the time that Mr. Davis yelled, three other patrons were present, Eddie Lattea, his son Michael Lattea, and Donald Shaffer. The events that occurred after Mr. Davis yelled to Mr. Hensley were contested


at trial.[1]
Either Eddie or Michael yelled out to Mr. Davis that "You have to pay for it first you dumb mother f____."[2] Heated words were thereafter exchanged between Mr. Davis and Michael or Eddie. According to the testimony of Mr. Davis, he was attacked by Eddie, Michael and Donald. Mr. Davis procured a knife in an attempt to defend himself. During the altercation, Mr. Davis stabbed Eddie once in the back. Mr. Davis also stabbed Michael twice in the chest and twice in the head. Michael died as a result of the wounds.
Mr. Davis was subsequently indicted for murder in the first degree and malicious wounding. The trial began on December 6, 2004, and was conducted before a jury. Mr. Davis testified during the trial and explained hisJustice, dissenting:

(Filed July 25, 2007)
Yet again, the Majority of this Court has chosen to usurp the discretion bestowed upon a trial court by our prior jurisprudence and to substitute its own judgment to obtain a predetermined result. In so doing, the Majority once more looks to foreign jurisdictions to create the supposed precedential support upon which it now relies. Not only is such foreign law inapplicable to the facts of this case, the Majority's result is plainly contrary to the established law of this State. Being unable to countenance this contrivance in our law, I dissent.
I agree with the dissenting opinion filed herein by Justice Maynard  the plain error doctrine was improperly invoked by the Majority in this matter. Of the West Virginia cases relied upon by


Today’s equivalent crew of the mega-wealthy build remarkably intangible things like tech and electronic platforms, while a grifter of a president opts for the only new infrastructure in sight, a great wall to nowhere.

In Twain’s epoch, the U.S. was emerging from the Civil War. Opportunists were rising from the ashes of the nation’s battered soul. Land speculation, government lobbying, and shady deals soon converged to create an unequal society of the first order (at least until now). Soon after their novel came out, a series of recessions ravaged the country, followed by a 1907 financial panic in New York City caused by a speculator-led copper-market scam.

From the late 1890s on, the most powerful banker on the planet, J.P. Morgan, was called upon multiple times to bail out acountry on the economic edge. In 1907, Treasury Secretary George Cortelyou provided him with $25 million in bailout money at the request of President Theodore Roosevelt to stabilize Wall Street and calm frantic citizens trying to withdraw their deposits from banks around the country. And this Morgan did -- by helping his friends and their companies, while skimming money off the top himself. As for the most troubled banks holding the savings of ordinary people? Well, they folded. (Shades of the 2007-2008 meltdown and bailout anyone?)

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The leading bankers who had received that bounty from the government went on to cause the Crash of 1929. Not surprisingly, much speculation and fraud preceded it. In those years, the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald caught the era’s spirit of grotesque inequality in


$140 million (in today's dollars) in loans. Not a bad way for a “businessman” to begin building the empire (of bankruptcies) that became the platform for a presidential campaign that oozed into actually running the country. Trump did it, in other words, the old-fashioned way -- through inheritance.

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In his megalomaniacal zeal to declare a national emergency at the southern border, that gilded millionaire-turned-billionaire-turned-president provides but one of many examples of a long record of abusing power. Unfortunately, in this country, few people consider record inequality (which is still growing) as another kind of abuse of power, another kind of great wall, in this case keeping not Central Americans but most U.S. citizens out.

The Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank that dictates the cost of money and that sustainedIn May of 2001 a popular online auction website banned the sale of items deemed offensive, including true crime memorabilia. It would be almost four years for crime related auctions to once again hit the world wide web. Created in January 2005 by Tod Bohannon and currently operated by William Harder, Murder Auction was the first website of its kind offering a unique assortment of letters, paintings, and hobby craft items created primarily by American serial killers from a number of dealers. It wasn't long before Murder Auction became the focus of world media, bringing into the spot light a hobby virtually unknown to the general public. Despite sharp criticism from victim advocacy groups and numerous spin-off sites that spawned in its wake, Murder Auction is the world's


Mariam and Edna were just two of millions of children trapped in domestic slavery. Their tragic stories inspired me to write a novel targeting a practice that is rife in the country

One day, when my daughter was eight, I asked her to help me unload the dishwasher. She moaned, dragged her feet and pleaded for Haribo in exchange for this simple task. I asked her if she knew how lucky she was and told her that, in many homes in Nigeria, girls as young as her were forced to do chores all day, every day. They were not allowed to go to school, or eat at the table, or watch TV. She was amazed. Looking into her face, the horror of what was considered so normal during mychildhood really hit me. It was child slavery – and it continues today. It was for these forgotten girls, trapped in domestic slavery, that I wrote my debut novel, The Girl With the Louding Voice.

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the number of working children under the age of 14 in Nigeria is estimated to be as high as 15 million, but due to the nature of the problem it is almost impossible to land on an accurate number. A large proportion of these children are young girls, who work as “house girls”: domestic servants who are often underage and forced against their will into this kind of work. Many of them never see their “wages”, as they are paid directly to agents or family members.

I was