Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, also entered appearances for petitioner.
William E. Persina, Atty., Federal Labor Relations Authority, with whom David M. Smith, Sol., Federal Labor Relations Authority, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for respondent.   William R. Tobey, Arthur A. Horowitz, and Richard Zorn, Attys., Federal Labor Relations Authority, Washington, DC, also entered appearances for respondent.
Mark D. Roth, Charles A. Hobbie, and Alexia McCaskill, Washington, DC, entered appearances for intervenor American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO.
Before BUCKLEY, SENTELLE, and RANDOLPH, Circuit Judges.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.
SENTELLE, Circuit Judge:

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In each of these consolidated petitions, a government agency challenges Federal Labor Relations Authority ("FLRA" or "Authority") rulings that it must disclose a "crediting plan," which specifies employment criteria for particular positions, to a unionSS.FRANCE-THE SECOND NORMANDIE?

The SS. France was launched at the Saint Nazaire shipyard on May 11th, 1960. As over a thousand feet of gleaming, pristine new ocean liner slid slowly down the ways, a human tidal wave of something like 100,000 people surged forward, cheering the looming bulk of the immense vessel as she gathered way.

As she kissed the water for the first time, French President Charles De Gaulle took the microphone out of the hand of his wife, Yvonne. Madame De Gaulle had served as godmother to the new ship, christening her with the traditional champagne bottle. From his lofty perch high above the hordes below, the President shouted exultantly to the crowd;

“I have given you a new Normandie!”

That bit of fatuous, self serving bombast would become a


millstone around the metaphorical neck of the last great French liner. Even invoking the hallowed memory of the illustrious Normandie- lost in a tragic fire at New York in February of 1942-was to offer a promise on such a spectacular scale that any ship would have struggled to even begin to meet it.

From Day One, the new SS. France would have to fulfil the nostalgic expectations of an emotional travelling public, and also somehow beat the rising tide of jet air travel. The latter had already secured more than seventy per cent of all Atlantic travellers by the time she made her debut in February of 1962. France would be expected to reach, and then maintain, an almost Olympian level of excellence and luxe, and do so inthe face of the direst set of financial circumstances imaginable. Not only that, but she was expected to do it with all the style, elegance and grace for which the French Line had become an almost century old byword.

No pressure there, then…..

The Normandie at speed on the Atlantic in her late 1930’s heyday

So, how similar was the new challenger to the imperishable legend of her deceased forebear? The France was a few feet longer than the Normandie (in fact, she was the longest liner ever built until the 2004 debut of the Queen Mary 2) and she was faster by a few knots, too. Despite that, there would be no attempt to challenge the SS. United States for the Blue Ribband of The Atlantic. If the Normandie had


been hell bent on achieving that singular honour back in 1935, then the France eschewed even the very idea with a typically Gallic shrug less than three decades later. With the jets flying overhead at more than five hundred miles an hour, the days of thirty knot record ocean crossings looked positively prehistoric by 1962.

Externally, the France was much more of a respectful nod to her predecessor. The great, flared bow and soaring, tapered flanks made her every bit as visually bewitching as the Normandie had ever been, though the cruiser stern was a direct contrast to the knuckled counter stern of the earlier ship. She looked longer, slightly leaner, too. And, partly because of the use of aluminium in constructing her superstructure, the France came in ata little over 66,000 tons, compared to just over 83,000 tons for the Normandie.

Where Normandie had been a three class ship, the France catered to just two; First and Tourist. And, even though she was the lighter ship by a not inconsiderable 17,000 tons, the France could still carry a similar passenger total to Normandie of about 1900 in all, and in very considerable, air conditioned comfort.

Of course, the decor of her public rooms was an epic swerve away from those of the earlier ship. If the Normandie had been a true temple of seagoing Art Deco, then the France was a modern, almost severe exemplar of Sixties styling that verged on the sterile in many places. Plush and luxurious as she was, her overall design aesthetic was


strictly, almost glacially trendy. In terms of decor, she never, ever gained the rave reviews that were showered like confetti on the Normandie in her prime.

Where the Francedid gain wild acclaim-and right from the start at that-was for the sheer excellence and quality of the food and service on board across both classes. The French Line had always enjoyed a stellar reputation in both respects; in fact, the company was widely considered to offer the best hospitality of any of the Atlantic liner fleets. And, in that respect, the France was right up there with every single one of her predecessors, the Normandie included. From first to last, her standards of on board cosseting and catering were simply sublime, and easily the best to be found on anyliner in those last, waning years of regular ocean crossings.

Like the Normandie, the France was a hideously expensive ship to operate. At full speed on the Atlantic, she guzzled the increasingly expensive Bunker C crude oil fuel like so much cheap table wine. By the time of the OPEC oil crisis of 1973 that ultimately doomed her, she was costing the French Line (and, by extension the French taxpayers who stumped up for her) around a million dollars a day just for fuel alone.

At the time, she was still sailing at around eighty per cent passenger occupancy, itself a remarkable achievement, and a telling testament to the sheer excellence and quality of the ship. Despite this, the revenue realised from each trip was still massively overshadowed by her


in the middle of New York harbour, the France would be resurrected after a long, lonely five year lay up in her home port of Le Havre. Brought back to life as the SS. Norway in an unparalleled $118 million dollar refit over the winter and spring of 1979-80, she became the world’s first true mega cruise ship. And against every set of odds in the book, she would become a legend for the second time in her career.

Ironically, one of the things that made the Norway-ex-France so successful was her dramatic interior transformation. All of the chrome, plastic, laminate and veneers that had once erupted across her public rooms was dumped unceremoniously into shore side skips. In their place came a glorious sweep of Art Deco luxethe ‘second Normandie’. She didn’t need to be. The ship had breathtaking panache, and a dazzling, charismatic vibe that was truly all her own. As the Norway (and, indeed, as the France) she was a stunning, sensational statement of intent in her own right. Wrought large in steel, wood and matchless splendour, she was every bit as much of an awe inspiring seagoing cathedral as ever the Normandie was.

And, just like the Normandie, she, too has now become an adored, lost legend. A ship sometimes hyped to the heavens for sure, but one that still has, in her own way, no true equal, either real or imagined. While there is much symbiosis between those two sublime maritime creations, Normandie and France -and, indeed, the reborn Norway- each crafted


Sen. Cory Gardner Cory Scott GardnerCook Political Report shifts Colorado Senate race toward Democrat Overnight Health Care: US coronavirus deaths hit 200,000 | Ginsburg's death puts future of ObamaCare at risk | Federal panel delays vote on initial COVID-19 vaccine distribution The Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting MORE (R-Colo.) said on Sunday that his wife received a graphic text message with video of a beheading shortly after he voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Gardner told Fox News that his wife received the threatening message on Saturday, just hours after the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh in a 50-48 vote.

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The deadline for action on the bill is July 6th, meanwhile the Governor is keeping her options open and putting the bill on a possible veto list. She has met with proponents and opponents of the bill and is weighing her options carefully.

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Third baseman Travis Shaw slugged the first two home runs of his major league career and had four RBIs as the Boston Red Sox overcame another shaky start from Joe Kelly in an 11-7 win over the Tampa...

Relief and questions: Abby Hernandez returns home

Abigail Hernandez, the Conway teen who went missing last October, returned home last Sunday, and for that New Hampshire is both grateful and deeply relieved.

Her disappearance worked its way into the hearts of many Granite Staters who felt for the family and wondered how they would ever deal with a similar situation in their own families.

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The England defender Lucy Bronze has left Manchester City Women to join the European champions, Lyon, after admitting she “needed a new challenge”.

The 25-year-old right-back was nominated on Thursday for Fifa’s women’s player of the year award and is the current Professional Footballers’ Association women’s player of the year.

Now she is heading for the leading club side in Europe, who beat City in the Champions League semi-finals in April, and has signed a three-year contract. The 21-year-old German forward Pauline Bremer moves the opposite way as part of the deal.

Lucy Bronze: ‘Mum will ensure my Portuguesesee the history of these little known places
like Deer Park come alive on the web. Cheers, Trace & Leslie
Pierson

The ball fields were there when the creek ran through the park.
Sometime I will meet you there and show you where it ran. They tore
down Jack Tracy's family home to build Howard School, and I think
that is when the creek was put underground in a pipe.

My grandfather Henry Howard Schueler built your family home on
Orchard Lane in 1917. They moved back to Norwood in 1922. Dad had
many happy memories there. He said that the ground west of the fire
house was a ball field then. My Grandma Schueler and I visited your
folks once and Grandma showed them where she raised chickens in the
upstairs bathroom. There was no running water in 1917.


from 3805 St. Johns Terrace to the catholic school.
Remember business such as Jacksons pharmacy (used to be able to find
"dirty books" there) and that old man used to sell them to
us! Some donut shop which was across the street and 2 doors up from
a deli where we used to have an excuse to miss the first few
minutes of classroom after communion. Also remember there was some
old guy had a gun business across that kindergarden I went to on
Gailbraith rd. near blue ash road where I was able to buy my 1st
handgun either early in high school or late in grade school!!!!!
This is the dirty side of Deer Park! Also remember dances at park
and festivals there and toilets being blown up by m-80's and cherry
bombs. You have a nicehistory page but you should tie it all
together.
Tom Wakim (McNicholas) still lives in your area as does Dennis
Heenan also same street. Those guys can probably fill in stuff. Get
them to remember the stuff.

Barry Hartmann - Remember stuff

I grew up on Orchard Lane and I went to Howard then Amity and
recall walking in and getting ice from Woodmont Dairy on my way
home after school. Though my family bought our milk from Valley
Dairy. Golden Cream was the best and so was growing up in Deer
Park in the 50-60 and 70s. Growing up on Orchard lane and all my
close friends went to St. Johns. Webber's grocery store on the
corner of Webster and Blue Ash road right across from Deer Park
Building and Loan was next to Golden Cream and I can recall
playing


baseball where the A&P was built.

There was Gabby's for candy and pop right across from the park.
There was also a restaurant next to Gabby's that is now a hair
salon, I can not recall the name. The car barn had changed the
Crumley Jones & Crumley on the corner of Hegner and Blue Ash road.
Just down the street from Deer park Inn where the men in town
often got their gallon glass jugs filled with beer for the night.

Every one use to walk or ride bikes back then. The park was the
place to be in the summers. Swimming at the toe wash where Smitty
watched over the kids. Playing on Old Betsy Fire Engine, or
basketball or tennis. The play ground mother's use to have ice
cream socials at the old shelter house. Thevolunteer fire
department always had a summer festival which was one of the
things we always looked forward to. They use to empty the
firehouse and set up booths and have rides on the street next to
the old firehouse.

My Dad was the safety service director when we first moved to
Deer Park back in the 1950s. Mom was always involved with either
the PTA or the Play Ground Mothers Club or volunteering to head up
the American Cancer society fund drives. The ladies always planted
new flowers around the city donated by Mr. ward from Ward's
Florist.

The city was very busy and crowded back in those days
with all the baby boomers being born. There seemed to be kids
every where and families use to sit on the front porches in the
summer back them since the houses we


hot. Few people had A/C back
then. Orchard Lane was a tree covered with large Silver Maples as
were most of the streets in Deer Park back then. Most have died
and been cut down. It made for fun playing in the streets since
there was very little car traffic back then. Milk was still
delivered to homes back then and the scrap iron truck use to drive
up and down streets calling for old iron rags etc.

So many old businesses, Bader Hardware, Mike's 5 Barbers, Deer
Park Theater, Strikes & Spares. There was Tom's Club 35, The Four
Gables and Williams Pharmacy. Deer Park Deli is still there.

Deer Park was and is a great place to grown up and raise a
family, back then and now.

Help! Name of pharmacy close to Dipsy Doodle and UDF at
intersectionof Plainfield and Galbraith.....Ritter, Riterers????
Thanks!!!!

Great site for all former and future residents. Did not know the
Camp's; when and where did they live?

I am a former St. John Terrace kid & 1955 St. John grad; married
to Barb Muntel for 50 years and she is also a '55 grad.

Jack Lehr

My mother's family is from deer park. my grandparents were
Margaret and Harry Kuper. they lived on Deer park ave and S.
Berkeley cr. My mother was Roberta Marie Kuper. She was a 1949
graduate of Deer Park H.S.. She passed away in 1982. my uncle was
Richard H. Kuper. he was a world war II vet and worked for the IRS
in Cincinnati he passed away in 1994. He was very active in his
church (St. Johns). I am 48 years old and was only 20


the
following entry ""Glenn's Barbershop". It was right next to the
"Deer Park Del" in the same building. My Great Grandmother lived
upstairs in that same building which was owned by her and her
husband, Eliga "Pop" Connelly, who was also involved in Deer Park
Government. " These are actually my relatives so I'd like to know
who wrote this because I don't think I'm related to the Camps! Thank
you! Melody (Dawson) Wilson

Melody

You have done a fantastic job on the site! I like that the site
was dedicated to Mr and Mrs Camp. They are truly missed as they
were long time customers at my shop in Silverton.

I do have a question about Deer Park. Do you happen to know the
history of the building that stands at the corner of Blue Ash and
Matson? Its the buildingin Deer Park and wanted news
and information about the City and what was happening. This web site has
never represented it's self as anything other than a history and
information web site for Deer Park Oh.

Honoring SFC Gregory
S. Rogers a Fallen Hero

We would like to extend our deepest sympathies
to the family and friends of SFC Gregory Rogers. A 1981 Deer Park
graduate, he was a member of the 101st Airborne Division, on his third
tour of duty in Iraq. SFC Gregory Rogers will be greatly missed.

Visitation for Sgt. Rogers will be on Wednesday night was held in
April, 2006 from 6 p.m.
until 8:30 p.m. at Deer Park High School. A graveside service was Thursday morning at Rose Hill Cemetery in Mason


Will Brexit trigger the UK’s next civil war?

History from 400 years ago predicts a bleak outcome for Brexit

By Alan Crawford / Bloomberg

At the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, Warwick Castle was attacked by soldiers loyal to the king who tried without success to unseat the Parliamentarian forces that held it. While a minor skirmish, the outcome would foreshadow the broader struggle for the country.

Today, the town of Warwick is under siege of another kind, one that might similarly decide where the divided nation is headed after an escalation in the political drama over Brexit.

The UK is witnessing an historic period of upheaval that has invited comparisons with events almost 400 years ago. Parliament has been suspended — illegally, a court in Scotland ruled on Wednesday.The British prime minister is threatening to flout the law to get his way while lawmakers on all sides are in open revolt and Ireland’s future, north and south, is at stake.

Illustration: Yusha

Even the queen has become embroiled in the standoff. Violence is brewing, with scuffles outside Parliament earlier this month and a government document warning of public disorder from food and fuel shortages should the country crash out of the EU without a deal.

Lawmakers last week channeled an event from the run-up to the civil war in the House of Commons to protest the so-called prorogation of the legislature. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, one of the main architects of the vote to leave the EU, has described the present constitutional crisis as the worst since that


power that ultimately led to war and regicide.

In an echo of Brexit’s patchwork of “leave” and “remain” voting areas, the civil war cleaved along the lines of individual towns and cities depending on which way they declared, for Parliament or the King.

Indeed, the political map of the Brexit vote resembles the distribution of support for both sides in the civil war, Stefan Collignon, a professor at the London School of Economics, wrote in March last year.

In Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon was sandwiched between Parliamentarian and Royalist forces, and took in casualties from the war’s first major battle at Edgehill.

Stratford, Shakespeare’s birthplace, is a 20-minute drive to the southwest of Warwick, but a different world in its Brexit outlook. Whereas Warwick and its surroundings are home to workers from the nearbya crisis of parliamentary democracy, with both main parties pushed to extremes and the middle ground erased, eroding willingness to reach consensus. That presents a challenge for politicians like Jack Rankin, selected to contest the Warwick and Leamington constituency for the Conservatives at the next election.

The district was held by the Conservatives for much of the 20th century, falling to Labour in 1997 as the Blair government came to power and has changed hands between the two parties since. Matt Western retook it for Labour in 2017 with a majority of just 1,200 votes.

His pro-European views were reinforced by a previous life as a marketing manager for French carmaker Peugeot in places like Vienna and Paris. Bridging the division “is very hard because both sides of the debate


risk. Warwick University’s vice chancellor Stuart Croft has called Brexit a “disaster” and said that losing access to international research networks could shut the UK out of the science vanguard and risk jobs.

The warnings were not lost on Barry Archer, a maker of clay models used in car industry design who has worked across Europe, most recently for Skoda in the Czech Republic.

He was at a “Stop the Coup” demonstration last week in Coventry, the city whose outskirts include Warwick University’s leafy campus, to protest the proroguing of Parliament. Archer was among the 200 or so who showed up.

His latest job was canceled as a result of the uncertainty over Brexit. His two adult sons feel their future is being settled without their say, with freedom of movementUSAF B-52 OVER SYRIA

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Last April for the first time in 25 years, America has sent B-52 bombers to the Middle East to fight the war on terror: this time, against Da’esh (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq.
The U.S. Air Force based the massive, deadly aircraft at Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

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cooled by the sleeve to minimize melting of frozen confection in those regions of the apparatus caused by exposure to warm air circulating around the dispensing spigot outside of the freezer unit. Of course, any melting of frozen confection anywhere in the apparatus could lead to crystallization problems in the confection if the melted confection is later refrozen.
In another embodiment, the discharge tube includes a first flange connected to the collapsible container at its outlet aperture and a second flange disposed in a passageway formed in the outlet conduit. The effective area of the first flange exposed to frozen confection in the container is larger than the effective area of the second flange exposed to frozen confection in the passageway. The uniform pressure generated in the collapsible containercaused by exclusively eating GM corn. However, the research has been criticised as being of 'no value' by other scientists

Dr Michael Antoniou, a molecular biologist at King’s College, London, and an expert on GM foods, said: ‘It shows an extraordinary number of tumours developing earlier and more aggressively – particularly in female animals. I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts.’

The research was carried out by Caen University in France, and has been peer reviewed by independent scientists to guarantee the experiments were properly conducted and the results are valid.

It is the first to look at the impact of eating a GM diet over a lifetime in rats, which is two years. To date, safety assessments of GM crops have been based on rat feeding trials lasting


90 days.

The corn was genetically modified to withstand spraying with glyphosate, the main chemical in the weedkiller Roundup, developed by Monsanto. The idea is that the corn can be sprayed without being damaged, while weeds are destroyed.

The tests looked at the impact of several scenarios including eating the GM corn (NK603), eating the GM corn sprayed with Roundup, and consuming Roundup at low doses in water.

The results were compared against those for a control group fed a ‘clean’ diet without GM or Roundup.

Public concerns: A GM food protestor dressed as the grim reaper in a field of GM maize crops in Over Compton near Sherborne, Dorset

The researchers found:

Between 50 to 80 per cent of female rats developed large tumours by the beginning of the 24th month, with upto three tumours per animal. Only 30 per cent of the control rats developed tumours

Up to 70 per cent of females died prematurely compared with only 20 per cent in the control group

Tumours in rats of both sexes fed the GM corn were two to three times larger than in the control group

The large tumours appeared in females after seven months, compared to 14 months in the control group. The team said the tumours were ‘deleterious to health due to a very large size’, making it difficult for the rats to breathe and causing digestive problems.

Significantly, the majority of tumours were detectable only after 18 months – meaning they could be discovered only in long-term feeding trials.

The study – led by molecular biologist Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini, a critic


Gammons was a featured writer at The Boston Globe for many years as the main journalist covering the Boston Red Sox. (1969–1975, 1978–1986), or as a national baseball columnist. For many years he was a colleague of other legendary Globe sports writers Will McDonough, Bob Ryan, and Leigh Montville. Between his two stints as a baseball columnist with the Globe, he was lead baseball columnist for Sports Illustrated (1976–78, 1986–90), where he covered baseball, hockey, and college basketball. Gammons also wrote a column for The Sporting News in the 1980s.

Gammons has also authored numerous baseball books, including Beyond the Sixth Game.

In 1988, he joined ESPN, where he served primarily as an in-studio analyst.[1] During the baseball season, he appeared nightly on Baseball Tonight and had regular spots onSportsCenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN Radio. He wrote an Insider column for ESPN.com and also wrote for ESPN The Magazine. The Globe reprinted some of his ESPN columns well into the 1990s. In 2006, Gammons was named as one of two field-level reporters for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, joining Bonnie Bernstein. He held that position through the 2008 season, when he moved exclusively to baseball.

After 20 years with ESPN, on December 8, 2009, Gammons announced that he would leave ESPN to pursue "new challenges" and a "less demanding schedule".[3] Gammons joined the MLB Network and MLB.com as on-air and online analyst. He also works for NESN.[4]

January 9, 2009 was proclaimed Peter Gammons day in the City of Boston. The proclamation was made by Michael Ross, president of the Boston


City Council at the Hot Stove Cool Music Sports Roundtable at Fenway Park. 2010 marked the 10th anniversary of Hot Stove Cool Music, a charitable concert benefiting the Foundation To Be Named Later. At this event, Theo Epstein, Vice President and General Manager of the Boston Red Sox, announced a new scholarship in Gammons' name. The "Peter Gammons - Foundation To Be Named Later Scholarship presented by RISO" enables select Boston Public Schools students to attend college who otherwise might not have the chance.[7]

Peter returned to ESPN on Wednesday, September 20, 2006. He reported from Fenway Park on the 6 P.M. edition of SportsCenter and the 7 P.M. edition of Baseball Tonight. Gammons resumed his regular reporting coverage during the 2007 baseball season.[11]

Gammons has a penchant for indierock and the blues, and is active in the Boston indie rock scene when his other commitments allow him the time; he has been sighted at several Midnight Oil shows, and has mentioned the band in several columns. He is also a fan of Pearl Jam, as he has talked about experiences at concerts as well as previous albums (as heard on various ESPN Radio shows.) With the assistance of a band of Boston musicians and former Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein, Gammons plays a FenderStratocaster and sings at the annual Hot Stove, Cool Music concert event to benefit Theo and Paul Epstein's Foundation To Be Named Later, a charity that raises funds and awareness for non-profit agencies serving disadvantaged youth in the Greater Boston area.

The


Boston Baseball Band wrote a song about Gammons called "Jammin' With Peter Gammons." Gammons founded the Hot Stove Cool Music benefit concert series with sportswriter Jeff Horrigan, Casey Riddles, Debbi Wrobleski, Mindy d'Arbeloff and singer Kay Hanley in December 2000. The fundraiser now takes place twice each year, with one show in January and another in July or August.

Gammons is tightly connected to the Boston rock scene. He even served as minister at the November 2007 marriage of bassist Ed Valauskas (Gravel Pit, the Gentlemen) and singer Jennifer D'Angora (Downbeat 5, the Dents, Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents).

^Gleeman, Aaron (November 1, 2010). "Yadier Molina leads fifth annual "Fielding Bible Awards"". NBCSports.com. Retrieved November 18, 2010. Voted on by a 10-person panel that includes Bill James, Peter Gammons, JoeBRUSSELS — In a bittersweet landmark, European Union leaders on Sunday approved an agreement on Britain's departure next year — the first time a member country will have left the 28-nation bloc.

It took leaders a matter of minutes at a summit in Brussels to endorse a withdrawal agreement that settles Britain's divorce bill, protects the rights of U.K. and EU citizens hit by Brexit and keeps the Irish border open. They also rubber-stamped a 26-page document laying out their aims for future relations after Britain leaves in March.

Barely half an hour after leaders sat down, European President Donald Tusk tweeted: "EU27 has endorsed the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the future EU-UK relations."

British Prime Minister Theresa May, waiting in the wings as the other leaders met, joined


them once they had given the deal the seal of approval to discuss the next steps on the road to Brexit.

May has hailed the deal as the start of a new chapter for Britain, but European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the U.K.'s departure was a tragedy.

"It's a sad day," Juncker said as he arrived.

He told reporters that deal was "the best possible," but the summit "is neither a time of jubilation nor of celebration. It's a sad moment, and it's a tragedy."

The agreement paves the way for Britain's smooth departure from the bloc from the E.U. side, though a bumpy ride still awaits in the U.K.

In a formal statement endorsing the deal, the leaders called on E.U. institutions "to take the necessary steps to ensure that theCongress Weekend". In 2004, the hotel's entertainment director David Slutes started a three-day, three-night live music event known as "HOCO Fest". In 2008, HOCO Fest featured performances by forty live acts including The Meat Puppets, and has gone on to feature many globally renowned musical acts like Andrew W.K., Lil B, Tommy Wright III and Omar Apollo. The festival is centered around showcasing local artists and culture, and brings tourism to Tucson at a historically dead time of year. In 2019, the web magazine CVLT Nation called HOCO Fest "The Best Fest You'll Ever Go To".

Club Congress has four distinctly different bars: The Tap Room, one of Tucson's favorite cowboy watering holes since 1919 - this bar features original drawings by cowboy-artist Pete Martinez, the ceiling boasts a


Supermarkets reject made-in-Ghana goods - Fruit processor

Some fruit juice producers in Ghana have lamented that their products are rejected by some supermarkets and other big shops in the country.

Although they failed to list names of some of the supermarkets complicit in the matter, they said such shops prefer to stock their shops with imported European products.

This comes on the back of a report by the Goldstreet Business newspaper that Ghana imports about US$150 million worth of fruit juice each year, while fruit juice processing factories in the country are said to be collapsing.

The report indicated that, only US$ 40 million worth of juice representing 28 percent of total domestic demand, is produced in the country, while some local producing factories including Coastal Groove in the Central Region, CocoTony Carr did not hesitate when he was asked about his favourite Upton Park memory. His mind went straight back to the May evening in 1999 when his young team of academy products gave Coventry City the thrashing of a lifetime, beating them 6-0 to wrap up a 9-0 aggregate victory in the FA Youth Cup final. “We won the game in real style, a full house,” Carr said. “It was rocking. We won the game quite early and you could sit there and just admire the football.”

Seventeen years down the line, few names from that team roll off the tongue. Adam Newton, a promising right-back, made two substitute appearances for the first team before spending the rest of his career in the lower leagues. Stephen Bywater is


a reserve goalkeeper at Burton Albion. Bertie Brayley, a hotshot striker who scored twice against Coventry, ended up floating around non-league football. All of which goes to show that producing a player who will not only rise to the top but stay there is one of the hardest jobs in football.

Yet while the majority drifted away from West Ham, there were two players who were undoubtedly destined for the big time. It was not long before Joe Cole and Michael Carrick joined Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand in Harry Redknapp’s first team, with Jermain Defoe and Glen Johnson also making their breakthroughs after the turn of the century.

To cut a long story short, relegation, poor management and an ambition-free board meant that those six players would all goon to enjoy bigger and better things away from West Ham United, representing England and winning several major honours in domestic and European competitions, but their success is worth celebrating again now that it has emerged that Carr is leaving the club after 43 years of service. They were his pride and joy and it still hurts him to think that their greatest feats were achieved away from West Ham; the money raised from their sales was a meagre consolation. “The generation that was sold, the crown jewels, was so disappointing,” Carr said.

Carr polished plenty of diamonds down the years and he is part of the fabric of the club. He was West Ham’s academy director until he stepped aside for Terry Westley and took on an ambassadorial


the human resources department instead of senior club officials and an ongoing process could certainly have been handled with greater delicacy.

Carr’s standing with supporters is easy to understand. Having grown up in Bow and attended games as a fan when he was a boy, he joined the club as an associate schoolboy when he was 14 and signed on apprentice terms after leaving school a year later. England had just the won the World Cup and Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters were greeted as heroes at the training ground in Chadwell Heath.

Carr, though, did not make it as a player at West Ham. As a striker, Hurst was in his way, while Roger Byrne and Clyde Best were above him in the pecking order. He movedthe above Order and all existing procedural requirements under NEPA and the APA.”

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Resource Management Plans (RMPs) for BLM field offices in Buffalo, Wyoming and Miles City, Montana, approved in September 2015, kept open 15.4 million acres of public mineral rights on 10.15 million acres of public land (with the remainder of federal mineral rights on private land) for oil and gas drilling and coal mining in the Powder River Basin. The RMPs would have paved the way for an expected 10.2 billion tons of coal to be mined and an expected 18,000 new oil and gas wells to be drilled, including over 6,000 federal wells.

In his decision, Judge Brian Morris of the District of Montana held, “BLM cannot acknowledge that climate change concerns defined, in part, the scope


of the RMP revision while simultaneously foreclosing consideration of alternatives that would reduce the amount of available coal.” He ordered BLM to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement to review climate change impacts and consider options for the amount of coal the government will make available for sale and subsequent mining. The judge also called on BLM to do a better accounting of carbon and methane pollution impacts from coal, oil, and gas, both in the planning area when the resources are developed and also “downstream” when the minerals are ultimately burned in power plants.

The Western Environmental Law Center filed the challenge in federal district court in Great Falls on behalf of the Western Organization of Resource Councils, Montana Environmental Information Center, Powder River Basin Resource Council, NorthernGavin Newsom cruised to an easy victory Tuesday night over John Cox in the race for California governor.

Newsom, 50, channeled opposition to President Trump in the deep-blue state, winning a race that never seemed like a genuine contest.

Newsom fulfilled an ambition that he had been pursuing for nearly a decade. In 2009, he launched a campaign for governor but failed to gain traction in the primary against Jerry Brown. He dropped out and ran for lieutenant governor, an office he has held for the last eight years.

With few formal responsibilities, Newsom served in Brown’s long shadow. He is still best known for his decision, as San Francisco mayor, to issue marriage licenses to gay couples in 2004. In recent years, he has championed ballot initiatives that legalized recreational


marijuana and imposed gun control provisions.

The campaign largely focused on issues like homelessness, housing affordability, and health care. Newsom has pledged to develop 3.5 million new housing units by 2025 — an ambitious target. Newsom has also endorsed a single-payer health care plan for California, though he has sought to play down expectations that such a goal could be met in the near term.

Newsom largely ignored Cox, a Republican who based his campaign largely on an effort to repeal the state’s gas tax increase. Cox was a key supporter of Proposition 6, which would repeal the hike approved by the Legislature last year. In the top-two primary in June, Cox beat former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Republican Assemblyman Travis Allen for the second spot in therace with key support from Trump.

Newsom drew heavy support from the entertainment industry, and in the waning weeks of the race all of the major studios made $14,000-plus contributions to his campaign, an indication of their confidence in his victory.

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ABC aired an ad during Thursday’s Democratic debate that depicted a burning image of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and likened her politics to those that caused the Cambodian genocide. New Faces GOP funded the ad, which features Elizabeth Heng, a Republican who lost a bid for a Fresno-area congressional seat last year. Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter, [...]

At long last, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren were on the same stage. And the result was a long and fairly dull evening. After two


Melissa Darnall could easily look around her family reunions and pick out who had Huntington’s disease (HD). The genetic disorder had affected four of her five aunts and uncles and her father, and the balance problems and shakiness typical of HD were readily apparent in those siblings.

Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by poor muscle coordination, cognitive decline and psychiatric issues, typically with a middle age onset. Though it is rare in the general population, affected parents have a 50 percent chance of passing the disease on to their children.

Darnall was 22 when she took her father in after noticing his disheveled appearance and angry outbursts. He started believing there was a mold or poison in the house that was choking him, and resorted to sleeping inusefulness for thinking our way outside of the binary of Marx or Spinoza.

Of course, in another way, the opposition itself, of economics or politics as the central determinate of theory, is a category mistake, placing two incommensurable fields of research and theorization in opposition to each other. The real opposition then lies elsewhere, something most immediately apparent in the title of Pierre Macherey’s 1979 book, Hegel ou Spinoza. In this work, Macherey contributes to a much more wide-ranging project unfolding at that time in French intellectual life more generally with the aim both to purge modern French philosophy of a Hegelianism that had been ascendant since the late 1920s and 1930s in the work of those following in the footsteps of Jean Wahl, Alexandre Kojève, Jean Hyppolite, and


But what specially attached me to him was the boundless disinterestedness which shone forth from every sentence....To be disinterested in everything, and most of all in love and friendship, was my highest desire, my maxim, my constant practice.7

A second wave of Spinozism occurs in the late nineteenth century, with the elaboration of the philosophical monisms of figures such as Ernst Heinrich Haeckel and Ernst Mach, and influencing in a direct and immediate way such thinkers and activists as the Russian revolutionary, science fiction author, and comrade of Lenin, Alexander Bogdanov.8 Haeckel makes the Spinozan wellspring for his position explicit when he writes in his global bestseller, The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1900):

The first thinker to introduce the purely monistic conception ofsubstance into science and appreciate its profound importance was the great philosopher Baruch Spinoza; his chief work appeared shortly before his death in 1677, just one hundred years before Lavoisier gave empirical proof of the constancy of matter by means of the chemist’s principle instrument, the balance. In his stately pantheistic system the notion of the world (the universe, or the cosmos) is identical with the all-pervading notion of God; it is at one and the same time the purest and most rational monism and the clearest and most abstract monotheism. This universal substance, this “divine nature of the world,” shows us two different aspects of its being, or two fundamental attributes — matter (indefinitely extended substance) and spirit (the all-embracing energy of thought). All the changes which


was in Goethe’s eyes only another proof that the passing of the old régime meant the abrogation of all law and order, and he gave voice to his antagonism to the new democratic principles in the dramas Der Großkophta (1792), Der Bürgergeneral (1793), and in the unfinished fragments Die Aufgeregten and Das Mädchen von Oberkirch.”10 Hegel, on the other hand, and especially the younger Hegel of the Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807), was deeply influenced by not only the French Revolution, but also, as Susan Buck-Morss and others have recently taught us, that taking place in Haiti.11 Indeed, what Macherey sees as the ideologically necessary “misreading” of Spinoza by Hegel (but then might we ask is not Macherey’s misreading of Hegel’s reading itself equally necessary in his own context?)might now be recast as a critical rejoinder to the influential “philosophy of history” that arises from Goethe’s Spinozism.

And with this insight, the later two waves of fin-de-siècle Spinozism appear in a new light as well: not as the second term of a binary opposition, Hegel or Spinoza, but rather the mediating term, or negation, in a three-part dialectic. The negation of the negation of Bogdanov’s Spinozan monism — which Althusser’s one-time student Dominique Lecourt shows is at the root of both later Stalinist Proletcult ideology and the catastrophic agricultural techniques developed by Trofim Lysenko — occurs in the work of Lenin, first in his Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909), and then, even more significantly, in the dialectical fusion of theory and practice presented in The State and Revolution


(1917) — the latter work made possible, as is well known, by Lenin’s meticulous re-reading of Hegel’s Science of Logic undertaken in the fall of 1914 while the revolutionary leader was in exile.12

A similar movement also occurs, I would suggest, in the various significant reconsiderations of Hegel that emerge in the unstable post-Cold War and pre-War on Terror context of the 1990s (the latter being the topic of my most recent book, Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties). This is most explicitly the case in the work of the author of the 2002 essay entitled, “A Plea for Leninist Intolerance,” Slavoj Žižek. In his major work of the late 1990s, The Ticklish Subject, published shortly before the intellectual supernova of Hardt and Negri’scounting, this second immediate is, in the course of the method as a whole, the third term to the first immediate and the mediated. It is also, however, the third term to the first or formal negative and to absolute negativity or the second negative; now as the first negative is already the second term, the term reckoned as third can also be reckoned as fourth, and instead of a triplicity, the abstract form may be taken as a quadruplicity; in this way, the negative or the difference is counted as a duality. The third or fourth is in general the unity of the first and second moments, of the immediate and the mediated.16

Žižek thus means to illustrate the limitations of the two paradigms indicated by the names


Utopian Studies annual meeting, Jameson offered a further reflection on the project of his Archaeologies of the Future (2005), in particular focusing on the “fortunes of Utopia in late capitalism.” In light of his comments from the 2004 Critical Inquiry essay cited earlier, it becomes clear that in the work collected together, Archaeologies represents, in part at least, Jameson’s contribution to the project of the “theorizing of collective subjectivities.” In the Utopian Studies conference essay, Jameson proceeds by outlining a set of oppositions — beginning with the classical structuralist one of synchrony and diachrony, or a systemic and a temporal paradigm, before moving on to what he refers to in Archaeologies as those of the Utopian impulse and the Utopian program, or reform/repair and revolution, or hermeneutics andthereof. Insofar as known, the present invention represents the first such gantry type crane, wherein a working load is transported between two positions on a portion of the gantry to one side of the gantry center support, while a second equal load is transported between two positions by a second trolley on the opposite side of the center support and moved at the same speed to continuously equalize the applied load acting through the gantry on that center support.


Poaching, hunting and habitat loss remain threats to the planet's largest predators, but new research shows the common threat is the global depletion of prey. Screenshot courtesy of Bryan Orford/YouTube

EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A new study has identified the driving force behind the worsening plight of large predators -- the loss of prey species around the world.

In 2014, researchers at Oregon State University found 24 of the planet's 31 largest carnivores -- including bears, cougars, dingoes, lions, lynxes, sea otters and wolves -- are in decline.

More recently, William J. Ripple, an ecologist at Oregon State, set out to identify what factors were most predictive of predator decline. There were the usual suspects: hunting, poaching and habitat loss.

But Ripple and his research partners identified a simpler --(This story originally appeared in on Aug 08, 2015)

KOLKATA: A student was beaten to death in a college in Sabang, West Midnapore, by alleged Trinamool Congress supporters when he refused to follow their diktat to felicitate a state minister on Friday morning. The murder is a fall-out of Trinamool muscle-flexing to gain control of campuses across Bengal, prompting the Left Front and Congress to call for statewide protests on Saturday.CM Mamata Banerjee joined the chorus of condemnation but said Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) wasn't involved. She blamed Chhatra Parishad (CP), student wing of Congress, for locking up the principal. Education minister Partha Chatterjee said he was "shocked and pained" but called the victim, Krishna Prasad Jana, an outsider and wondered what he was doing in the college.Around 1.30pm,


TMCP supporters and outsiders barged into Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya, where CP controls the students' union. Shouting "TMCP zindabad", they entered the union room and demanded that all CP supporters come out to greet Trinamool minister Soumen Mahapatra , who was touring flood-hit Sabang.CP supporters opposed this. Krishna was among the most vocal. "Why should we go just because your minister is visiting our area?" Krishna told TMCP members. Some youths armed with sticks and iron rods pounced on Krishna and dragged him out. He was beaten in front of the library, as students watched in horror.Soumen Ganguly and Saugam Sen of CP tried to save Krishna but they were beaten, too. Some TMCP men allegedly locked the union room from outside and continued bludgeoning Krishna.When he started bleedingfrom his head, nose and mouth, the attackers fled. CP supporters scrambled to take Krishna to hospital but a college teacher refused to lend them his car, Sen alleged. They put Krishna on a bike and took him to hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.Mamata Banerjee blamed Congress for blocking access to the victim. "From what I have heard, the union room was locked from inside while the principal was locked in his office from outside. A clash broke out inside the union room and there was no way the principal could get out to prevent the attackers from beating the victim," Mamata said.


of Guangdong and in Shanghai; two former Orthodox churches in Shanghai are currently in a process of being returned to the church but no activities are currently held inside them.

In March 2018, the Chinese Orthodox church acquired the government's approval to prepare new priests in Russian theological seminaries.

The Orthodox Church operates relatively freely in Hong Kong, where there are two parishes: St Luke's Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Eastern Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia under the Ecumenical Patriarchate) and the Russian Orthodox parish of Saints Peter and Paul under the Moscow Patriarchate. There is also a presence in Taiwan (where Archimandrite Jonah George Mourtos leads a mission church).

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Although many of them have adopted Tibetan Buddhism, the Evenks of both the Russian Federation and China are aA Guide for Cardinian Clerics

Clerics in Cardinia are slightly different than those found in other settings. The gods rarely take an active hand in the affairs of mortals, and give their faithful little guidance. Cardinians are largely left alone to interpret their own meaning and doctrine. Except Shik. Shik has plans and tries to guide her followers to achieve her goals.

Faith and the gods, while important to many Cardinians, is not a strong driving force in the world. Clerics with a patron Deity are free to invent and interperet their own guiding principles, and regularly do.

Some churches still remain from the Age of Champions, where the gods did regularly walk the land, but they are rare. The most organized church is that of Farrok, who instructed his faithful


to build great libraries and share knowledge with any who seek it.

The information below outlines briefly the current understanding of each god, but is by no means authoritative.

Deities

Deity

Alignment

Domains

Vurk

Neutral

Creation (life), Spontaneity (Trickery), Nature

Sonah

Neutral

Destruction (Death), Time (Knowledge), Grave

Varuna

Neutral Good

Magic (Knowledge), Craft (Knowledge), Forge

Auruhm

Lawful Neutral

Light, Tradition (Knowledge), War

Shik

Neutral Evil

Darkness (Trickery), Innovation (Trickery), War

Farrok

Neutral

Secrets (Knowledge), Knowledge, Trickery

Khya

Chaotic Neutral

Creation (Life), Tempest, Trickery

Vurk

Domains Creation (Life), Spontaneity (Trickery), Nature

Vurk is the god of creation. He made the planes, the world, the first elves, and the mortals. He is thought to be kind hearted and fatherly. Artists, performers, and farmers are common among his followers. Vurk is married to Sonah and is the father of Varuna, Auruhm, and Shik.

Sonah

Domains Destruction (Death), Time (Knowledge), Grave

Sonah is the goddess of time and death. She is why there ismotion and decay. Sonah watches over the dead and shepherds them to where they need to go. She is often described as stern and practical.

Varuna

Domains Magic (Knowledge), Craft (Knowledge), Forge

Sometimes called the First Daughter, Varuna loves mortals. She gave them magic and technology. She is warm and generous and generally the most well liked of the gods. Craftsmen, farmers, and wizards are her most faithful believers. She is the mother of Farrok.

Auruhm

Domains Light, Tradition (Knowledge), War

The twin brother of Shik. Auruhm taught mortals the concepts of honor, loyalty, and bravery. He created the Warforged, Aasimar, and Celestials, to wage war against the followers of Shik. Paladins and Knights most commonly follow Auruhm. Auruhm is the father of Khya.

Shik

Domains Darkness (Trickery), Innovation (Trickery), War

The twin sister of Auruhm. She


her no more favor than any of the other gods. When she was a child her mother gave her the power of creation which she had stolen from Vurk. Khya used that to create weather, The Deep (a cavernous underground region), the Ways (small pocket dimensions), many aquatic humanoids, Duregar, and Deep Gnomes. Vurk was so impressed by her creations he allowed her to keep part of his power to use as she saw fit.

The First Elves

The First Elves were created along with the world and are immune to the effects of time. They do not age or take injury. Most mortals (including animals and non-humanoids) were born from them. They are cherished dearly by Vurk and Sonah, though the remaining gods prefer the mortals.

Mortals

Because most mortal racesTitle

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Spring 2008

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Road construction in the Amazon has greatly impacted its floral and faunal inhabitants. The opening of a new road in a previously isolated region exposes its populations to the economy for the first time, and to the possibility of enriching themselves through the extraction of their products. Unfortunately, this exchange of goods results in the aculturization of indigenous groups, and in the loss of their unique culture. The migration that the roads near indigenous communities encourages increases access to education and sources of work, but results in a nearly complete destruction of these communities’ social fiber. Economic and cultural exchanges also affect the health level of indigenous communities and urban zones, since roads bring


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Although numerous studies of preschoolers report robust associations between performance on tests of executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM), a lack of developmentally appropriate tasks so far has limited research on these cognitive skills in younger children. Here, we present new batteries of EF and ToM tasks that were administered to 140 two-year-olds from predominantly disadvantaged families, with analyses based on 129 children. Our results showed a strong association between EF and ToM, which remained significant when effects of verbal ability were controlled. Individual differences in EF and ToM were also examined in relation to both distal family factors (social disadvantage, number of siblings) and proximal family factors (quality of child's relationships with parents


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Rhodes is a surname, with other spellings Rhoades, Rhoads, Roads and Roades. It is also linked to the variant spelling Rohde, and the origins are thought to come from a town or village in Germany, near the city of Lübeck. This was not an unusual social situation — surnames were adopted as a...felony punishable by up to 1ﾽ years in prison. He was sentenced March 20, 2012, to six months of home arrest, three years probation and 24 hours of community service.

He was accused of soliciting his employee, Steven Combs, 48, of Cleveland, to set fire to an outbuilding in Montville Township owned by a friend.

Labriola didn’t deny Combs set the barn ablaze in May 2012, according to court records, but said he didn’t ask Combs to do it.

Combs was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty in October 2011 to arson, a fourth-degree felony. Combs later was convicted of aggravated murder in an unrelated case out of Cuyahoga County and was sentenced to life in prison.

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The same day the court of appeals remanded Labriola’s case, it upheld the conviction of a 48-year-old Brunswick man sentenced in March 2009 to 55 years to life in prison on 69 charges involving sexual crimes against at least three children younger than 13.

Tibor C. Sebestyen, formerly of Paul Drive, pleaded guilty in January 2009 to 21 counts of rape — 17 against children under age 13 — which are first-degree felonies. He also was convicted of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony, and 47 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, second-degree felonies.

Sebestyen fell under police suspicion in 2008 when a girl reported abuse to a hospital.

Police reported they searched his home, where he lived with his wife and twoEarly expression of acetylcholinesterase activity in functionally distinct neurons of the zebrafish.
The first expression and distribution of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity was studied among a distinct population of early neurons in embryonic zebrafish by using histochemical and retrograde labeling techniques. AChE first appeared in the nervous system in the primary motoneurons of the rostral spinal cord when the embryo had nine somites, approximately 14 hours postfertilization. Subsequent expression of AChE activity in the spinal cord proceeded in a rostral-to-caudal sequence. Cranial neurons expressed AChE activity shortly after it appeared in the rostral spinal cord. Several hours later, near the end of the first day, primary neurons in the hind-brain and spinal cord all contained AChE, including sensory neurons, reticulospinal interneurons, and primary motoneurons. AChE activity was also detected in


An Alabama man is asking a judge for mercy after pleading guilty to hiring a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hitman to murder his black neighbor.

Defense attorneys for Allen Wayne Morgan told U.S. District Judge Karon Bowdre that their client — a veteran of over 175 combat missions in Iraq who struggled with post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and drug addiction — should not spend more than five years in prison. Judge Bowdre referred the matter to a government expert, who will review the report on Morgan’s mental health submitted by the defense.

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On August 29, 2013, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Morgan at an Econo Lodge in Oxford, Alabama. He thought he was speaking with the KKK hitman he had hired to kill his neighbor, Clifford Maurice Mosley,a black man he believed had raped his wife.

He allegedly told an undercover agent that “I want this man hung from a tree like he is an animal. I want his penis cut off and I want him cut. You’re a hunting man right? I want him hung from a tree and gutted.”

Morgan is also alleged to have told the agent that he had recently confronted Mosley outside his house, firing several shots in his direction, but that he did not intend to kill him that day because there would be witnesses. He also said that he was certain Mosley had raped his wife, because when confronted, he did not attempt to stand his ground or reason with him.

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4 Chinese students are Rhodes Scholars Updated: 2015-12-15 11:28 By Hezi Jiang in New York(China Daily USA)

Zhang Chunying, one of the four Chinese mainland winners of the Rhodes Scholarships. She is studying for a master's in journalism at Columbia University. Provided to China Daily

For the first time ever, Rhodes Scholarships have been awarded to students from the Chinese mainland.

The four Chinese winners, who will begin their studies at Oxford in the fall of 2016, are: Ren Naying, a LGBT activist from Tsinghua University; Zhang Wanyu, a legal-aid volunteer focusing on factory workers who have suffered workplace injuries, with an emphasis on those afflicted by silicosis; Gong Chenzhuo, a world traveler who volunteered as teacher in rural China and the third world and currently works for the United Nationsin Tanzania; and Zhang Chunying, an aspiring journalist who has interned with Reuters and the New York Times in Shanghai, exploring topics from labor disputes to corruption.

"'Thank you,' I kept saying 'Thank you.' I responded to everything he said with 'Thank you,'" Zhang Chunying, 23, described the phone call she got telling her about the award at 3:14 pm on Dec 6 in her home in Nanjing. "The whole time I was thinking about how I could record the call, but failed to do so."

Currently pursuing a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University, Zhang had flown back to China for the final round of interviews for award, which describes itself as "perhaps the most prestigious scholarship" in the world. Former US president Bill Clinton was a Rhodes


Scholar.

Sixteen finalists, chosen from hundreds of applicants, attended the last round of interviews in Shanghai, and Zhang remembered feeling that every competitor she met at the finalists' dinner banquet on Dec 4 was better than herself.

"Everyone deeply cares about society and many are very focused on a cause and everyone speaks great English," said Zhang, who thought her English would stand out, but it was not the case.

The nine-person selection committee included Charles Conn, global CEO of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarships; Li Yinuo, head of the China region at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; American writer and journalist James Fallows; Chinese angel investor Xu Xiaoping; and Chinese basketball legend Yao Ming.

During the dinner and the formal interview on the following day, the judges posedunexpected questions. Zhang was asked: What do you think of New York City? What will you tell the press if you win? What is human nature?

Applicants to the Rhodes Scholarship are judged on four criteria: literary and scholastic attainments; energy to use one's talents to the fullest; truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; and moral force of character and instincts to lead and take an interest in one's fellow beings.

Zhang said she shared her stories with vivid detail and even got emotional at times during the interviews. She told China Daily that it might have been her "storytelling" and "truthfulness" that won her the place.

"Who got the scholarship is not the most important thing. A lot of it


AJ Maddah (right) isn't planning on going anywhere despite Big Day Out sell-off. Credit:Marco Del Grande A "JV" is a joint venture. In the Triple J interview, Maddah, speaking frequently of "we" in relation to the ownership of and planning for the festival, confirmed he no longer owned shares in the Big Day Out, but said he retained a right to buy back his half share at some point in the future. He explained that he put capital into the company when he bought in to make sure BDO "didn’t fall over” but, as he needed capital for his separate Soundwave festival, was allowed by a “gracious” C3 Presents to withdraw capital, which he suggested may have been around $400,000. However, he had the option to buy backto offer? Let's not forget Maddah forges considerable power in the Australia music industry: last August he topped the Australasian Music Industry Directory's Power 50 list. But he didn't get there just because of his successful track record as Soundwave promoter or because he can win an argument at 50 paces - although he can do that too. Crucially, Maddah owns Billy Hyde Stage Systems: “Australia’s Leading Backline Hire Company”, which he quietly purchased in 2012 after then-company Allans Billy Hyde collapsed, reputedly owing $40 million. 'Backline' means amplifiers and instruments, the term coming from the days that an imaginary line was drawn on stage, with the PA (public address) system, microphones, speakers and mixing desk considered 'frontline' and everything else behind it 'backline'. Typically touring bands don't


tax hikes.

He followed that up with a series of interviews with eight local TV stations, outlining the impact of the sequester in dire terms in such areas as employment and social services.

Yet, all the while, Obama has failed to reach out to the two men who could best help him out of the mess — House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. After weeks of no contact at all, the president finally called the two men on Thursday, but there is little indication that the conversation led to any meaningful conclusion.

By Friday, the White House continued with its dire warnings, with Jay Carney, the spokesman, telling reporters that there is very little flexibility in how to roll out automatic spending cuts slated to take effecton March 1 because of the way the sequester law is written.

The president also has dispatched Cabinet members across the country to deliver the administration’s message to the people, said Politico. And Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan testified about the cuts before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Senior administration and Cabinet members are trumping up the worst-case scenarios at every turn.

On Friday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stood with Carney and told reporters $1 billion in cuts affected his department with the FAA bearing the brunt. That means major airports in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York would see cancelled flights and delays of 90 minutes or more. There would be a ripple effect on other airports too, including


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Juki – music producer/remixer, vocalist, keyboardist and DJ, born and bred in Estonia, now settled in London. Juki has always been involved in music some way or another. She developed her interest in music production at an age of 16 and recently established Juks Records to release all the work she’s been doing over the years, individually and also in collaboration with other artists from around the world as a vocalist, producer, songwriter or sound engineer. Juki’s musical interest revolves around everything with a touch of soul, funk, jazz and hip hop while house music being the main genre of her production.
Juki spins around London regularly and her past gigs include venues like Ministry of Sound, Lightbox, 93 Feet East, Cafe 1001, Aquum, Inigo, Gigalum, Zigfrid von Underbelly,Eight large sections of Styrofoam are adrift at sea — and there's no plan to recover them.

The abandoned floats broke loose from a pipe used for drilling operations, following an incident earlier this month that has suspended Shell Canada's search for oil off Nova Scotia's coast.

"Until such time as the board is satisfied that operations can proceed safely, drilling will remain suspended," said Kathleen Funke, spokesperson for the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB).

On March 5, weather conditions deteriorated near Shell Canada's newest exploratory well — named Cheshire — approximately 225 kilometres off the coast.

Crews aboard the Stena IceMAX drill ship disconnected a roughly 2,000-metre pipe from the subsea well head and began moving the pipe away. (Kongsberg Maritime AS)

Crews aboard the Stena IceMAX drill ship disconnected a


roughly 2,000-metre pipe from the subsea well head and began moving the pipe away.

In the high seas, the long pipe — called a riser by offshore industry officials — broke loose from the ship.

Beneath the surface, the well's blowout preventer had already engaged and the riser had been flushed with water, so no oil or drilling fluid escaped.

However, the riser is still currently lying on the ocean floor.

After the riser sank, Shell workers noticed nine "buoyancy modules" bobbing on the surface, a spokesperson for the CNSOPB confirmed Monday afternoon. The board is responsible for overseeing exploratory and resource recovery operations off the coast, on behalf of the federal and provincial governments.

'Significant effort to retrieve' buoyancy modules

The buoyancy modules are mostly Styrofoam with some plastic components. They are designedGuard issued a notice to mariners, warning about the floating segments. Each measures a few metres long.

Both the CNSOPB and Shell Canada say the logistics of the search are making it too risky to continue. Each day, ocean currents expand the size of the search area and push it further out to sea. The warning to mariners has also now been lifted.

Officials say, over time, the Styrofoam sections will "weather". That's how the industry describes the Styrofoam breaking down in ocean currents.

Facts about Shell Canada's Nova Scotia operation:

Exploratory wells approved in October 2015.

Cheshire well is the first of two.

7,532 metres: Goal depth for Cheshire well.

6,700 metres: Depth reached by March 5.

Nine buoyancy modules initially afloat.

One module recovered.

Shell Canada has been investigating how the riser broke loose from the


from defendant's bill of exceptions No. 1, the only bill of exceptions attempted to be filed purporting to incorporate the evidence adduced at the trial of defendant as part of the record in this case, Walter Thurmond, a duly elected constable of Washington District, Boone County, about seven o'clock in the evening, on the last day of May, 1954, was attempting to locate, for the purpose of arrest, a man named Baldwin, for whom the constable then held a warrant. While parked on or along a public highway, the constable observed a truck approaching, which he testified looked similar to the truck which Baldwin was supposed to be driving. The constable "flagged" the truck, but the driver thereof failed to stop, and the constable, in his own automobile,followed the truck for some distance, until he was delayed by another automobile parked in the road. After the moving of the parked automobile, the constable continued for a short distance in the direction the truck had traveled, where he met the defendant, and Newell Hager, walking on the highway. The constable, then in uniform and known to the defendant to be an officer, stopped his automobile, opened the door, and asked defendant his name. Defendant refused to give his name, an argument ensued, and, after the constable had placed defendant under arrest, or had attempted to do so, a fight ensued between the constable and defendant, Hager interfering on behalf of defendant, which resulted in injuries to the officer and to defendant. Defendant escaped arrest by the


by reducing the shares going to general creditors, and the share of the trust which the bankrupt will ultimately receive will increase.

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The trustee in bankruptcy objected to the claim, but the referee allowed it as provable, apparently concluding that the notes reflected bona fide debts rather than anticipatory distributions of the bankrupt's share of the trust estate.2  However, the referee subordinated the Bank's claim to those of the other creditors.  The referee justified his exercise of his general equitable powers on the rationale that it was unfair that the spendthrift trust should insulate the bankrupt's beneficial interest in the trust from the general creditors but that the trust should share with the creditors in the bankrupt's other assets, thereafter distributing assets in an equivalent amount towas insufficient because it showed only that his license had been revoked "in the first degree," without providing any explanation as to the meaning of this designation. Similarly, he claims that the "to convict" instruction was defective because it merely required the jury to find that his *563 license had been revoked "in the first degree." We agree.
¶ 16 The Court of Appeals concluded, and the State argues here, that a "person who has his license revoked in the first degree is an habitual traffic offender as a matter of law." Smith, 122 Wash.App. at 703, 94 P.3d 1014.[6] An accused can be convicted of first degree driving with a revoked license only if his license has been revoked due to a finding that he is an habitual


Hernandez arrived at Old Trafford this summer from Guadalajara. He made a goalscoring substitute appearance in the Community Shield victory over Chelsea at the weekend and has generally impressed throughout his short time with his
new club.

And what Scholes has seen of the 22-year-old has had him reminiscing about former team-mate Solskjaer.

"He looks like an out-and-out goalscorer,'' said Scholes. "That's not to say he can't play outside the box as well, because when the ball comes up to him his touch is good as well. But he's a threat in behind defenders, and hopefully he'll score a lot of goals this year.

"People say he's like Ole, and I thought that the first time I saw him in training. We did a finishing session and everything was in the bottomcorner. He scores whenever he gets a chance. He comes on and looks lively. He's adapted to the pace of the game already.

"He's capable of scoring goals and if he's anything like Ole, we'll take that.''

"He looks sharp. He likes the ball played in behind the defence, he has pace and has scored already, which will be great for his confidence,'' he said. "He seems like he's enjoying himself, he speaks English well and that's helped
him to settle more quickly. It's like he's been here for three years.''


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Austria Vienna's Holland to realise Champions League dream

James Holland suggests he has reached the pinnacle of club football with Austria Vienna.

The 24-year old Australian midfielder was a key part of the Austrian Bundesliga champions' qualification for Europe's premier club competition which culminated in a 3-2 loss to Croatia's Dinamo Zagreb during the week (Vienna won 4-3 on aggregate).

Holland has been dreaming of this day since his football career started and he was absolutely thrilled with outcome thus far.

"It's dream come true, it is the pinnacle of club football so it is something you grow up watching and something that I have always had the ambition of being in," Holland said.

"After the game it was a relief as we were under the pump quite a bit andis seen as significant, ahead of the Lok Sabha poll results next week.

"KCR (as Rao is popularly known as) is very firm that the federal front should be in the driver's seat and run the government," Khan told PTI.

In case the front falls short of numbers to form the government, the option of the Congress supporting it from outside would be explored, he said.

"But, the government would be of the federal front and Congress will have to extend support from outside. We are very firm that regional parties should be in the driver's seat. The prime minister's post should go to one of the constituents of the federal front. The prime ministerial candidate will be a consensus candidate from among the constituents (of the federal front)", Khan said.

"We


Varun Bahar | Photo Credit: YouTube

Key Highlights The singer had posted a song on YouTube saying those who did not chant Lord Ram's name should be sent to the cemetery Known for his vulgar and often provocative songs on his YouTube channel, he will be produced in the court later Bahar’s three-minute-song sparked outrage for encouraging mob lynching of minority communities

Lucknow: Bhojpuri singer Varun Upadhyay has been arrested for singing a song, "Jo na bole Jai Shri Ram, usko bhejo Kabristan,”. The singer had uploaded this song on a channel on YouTube.

An FIR has been registered against Varun Upadhyay and three others have been arrested.

The singer had posted a song on YouTube saying those who did not chant Lord Ram's name should be sent to the cemetery. Hewas arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district on Friday.

Known for his vulgar and often provocative songs on his YouTube channel, he will be produced in the court later today. After the song went viral several FIRs had been registered against him.

Bahar’s three-minute-song sparked outrage for encouraging mob lynching of minority communities.

Speaking to media about Bahar’s arrest, SSP Lucknow Kalanidhi Naithani said the cops were alerted by the cyber cell of Lucknow about the provocative video doing rounds on social media and on YouTube channel owned by Rajesh Verma. Verma, along with Mukesh Pandey, were involved in composing the song with Bahar.

After facing backlash from all quarters, Bahar appealed all the right-wing groups like Bajrang Dal and Hindu Yuva Vahini for help.

He also expressed regret saying that he sang


que arreglar un poquitín para ponerlo a la moda. Sabes, vi un estilo nuevo anoche que creo que me favorecería. ¿Viste el capítulo de anoche de _Los ricos también lloran?_ Bueno, ¿te fijaste en el vestido que lucía la mamá?

La Llorona. Qué nombre tan extraño para un arroyo tan hermoso. Pero así le decían a ese arroyo que pasaba por detrás de la casa. Aunque nadie podía decir si la mujer había llorado de coraje o de dolor. Los de ahí sólo sabían que el arroyo que uno cruzaba camino a San Antonio y luego otra vez al volver se llamaba _Woman Hollering Creek_ , el arroyo de la Llorona, un nombre que nadie de estos lugares ponía en duda, mucho menos entendía. _Pues, allá de los indios,Spatial assessment of air resources in China from 2013 to 2017.
The concept of air resource management originated in the United States and subsequently became the foundation of most air quality control programs in developed countries. However, little is known about its validity and quantitative assessment methods in regional atmospheric environment management. The aim of this study was to construct an air resource endowment (ARE) index and apply it in a case study for assessing the distribution of ARE across mainland China from 2013 to 2017. The quantification of the ARE index includes two terms: the atmospheric diffusion coefficient (A value) and self-purification ability (B value), which can be calculated via Weather Research and Forecasting modeling (WRF-CALMET). The results indicated that about 15% of China's land area enjoys high


The War on Christianity

Sunday, on the eve of All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1, 2010, the faithful gathered at the Assyrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad.

As Father Wassim Sabih finished the mass, eight al-Qaeda stormed in, began shooting and forced him to the floor. As the priest pleaded that his parishioners be spared, they executed him and began their mission of mass murder.

When security forces broke in, the killers threw grenades to finish off the surviving Christians and detonated explosive-laden vests to kill the police. The toll was 46 parishioners and two priests killed, 78 others wounded, many in critical condition after losing limbs.

Within 48 hours, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia issued a bulletin: “All Christian centers, organizations and institutions, leaders and followers, are legitimate targets forthe (holy warriors).”

It was the worst massacre of Christians yet. For Assyrian Catholics known as Chaldeans, whose ancestors were converted by St. Thomas the Apostle, the U.S. war of liberation has been seven years of hell.

Estimates of the number of Christians in Iraq in 2003 vary from 800,000 to 1.5 million. But hundreds of thousands have fled since the invasion. Seven of the 14 churches in Baghdad have closed, and two-thirds of the city’s 500,000 Christians are gone.

While Saddam Hussein, a secularist, had protected religious minorities, Muslim vigilantes — Shia, Sunni and Kurd, as well as al-Qaeda — have attacked the Christians who have endured kidnappings, pillage, rapes, beheadings and assassinations.

And what has happened to this Christian community, which had lived peacefully alongside Muslim neighbors for centuries, must


no longer tossed to the lions in the Roman Colosseum, believers are routinely murdered, imprisoned, tortured and beaten. Churches, businesses and homes are regularly destroyed. The opportunity to meet for worship and prayer is blocked. There is real persecution rather than the cultural hostility often denounced as ‘persecution’ in America.”

America remains the most Christianized of the Western nations. Yet, the protests of the White House, State Department and major media over the eradication of Christianity in the Middle East is muted.

Where is the outrage? What happened to the America whose president, with a British prime minister in Placentia Bay, on the eve of war sang with his sailors, “Onward Christian Soldiers”?

Are we so wary of offending Muslim sensibilities or inflaming Muslim rage we cannot denounce the pogroms perpetratedrepresentative country, and when Iran occupied our embassy with the fall of the Shah it was no different than them invading the U.S.) and Iraq warred with each other.

In 1991 in what was a clearly regional dispute between Iraq and Kuwait George Bush Sr. decided to throw the full weight of the U.S. military against what was basically our former ally Hussein in large part on behalf of his oil masters, Saudi Arabia. And thus was Al Quedda born, in response to the U.S. presence on Saudi soil.

U.S. chaplains at the time were required to cover-up any cross or star-of-david to prevent ‘offending’ our ‘hosts.’

In order to validate it all later, George W. Bush then used the excuse of Hussein having WMDs to oust him from power and


The last men on the Moon. 's Astronaut Eugene Cernan walks on the Moon. Commander of the mission and last man on the moon Gene Cernan said after leaving the surface of moon, looking back at Earth that "Man had to know that there was a Creator"nine missions and a world that was your playground. Playing in the world was itself the reward.

Ahead of the 11th main entry in the series, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, releasing this week, we tracked down nine people who worked on the original game and talked to them about how it all began. What follows, in their own words, is a story about discovering a concept with near-infinite potential and then struggling to realize even a fraction of it.

Redefining a genre is no mean feat, and doing it before you know the technology you have to work with is harder still.

Prince of Persia: Assassins

Fresh from a holiday break after shipping the critically-acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Patrice Désilets and six other senior staff at Ubisoft Montreal got


had to come up with guidelines and rules to make sure that player would still have fun just to move around the city the way he wanted.

Removing the prince

With the basic concept down, the Ubisoft Montreal team saw no need to keep the prince around. But it still had to seek approval from Ubisoft’s upper management that this was the right thing to do.

Nicolas Cantin

(pre-production art director, art director for cinematics) For the first year in all the documents and everything it was called Prince of Persia: Next-gen. After maybe a year of working on that, before having a greenlight, when we presented it in [Ubisoft executives in] Paris, we never mentioned the name Prince of Persia. It was all about assassins. Our main reference was the bookto be a whole new kind of prince, with a more believable athleticism and a characterization inspired by history — his identity shaped by the secret order of assassins he was born into. Defining exactly how he looked and moved and behaved, however, was a slow process.

Luc Tremblay

(gameplay and behavior programmer) When I joined the team there were already two engineers working on the main character. One of them was working on the fight system, and the other one was working on the navigation. So the free running. So when I joined the project, it was one simple character — like the ancestor of Altaïr — doing basic stuff on the ground, but doing it very impressively, like walking correctly with no foot sliding and stuff like that.


SEC nomination signals Obama’s tougher approach to Wall Street

The woman who prosecuted Mafia boss John Gotti is about to take over the policing of Wall Street.

Barack Obama is expected to nominate former star government prosecutor Mary Jo White to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as the regulator attempts to dodge criticism that it has been soft on Wall Street.

White spent nearly a decade as the US attorney for the southern district of New York – the first, and so far only, woman to be named to the post. Among many high-profile cases, she oversaw the prosecution of Gotti, the mafia boss, as well as the individuals responsible for the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing.

She would become the first prosecutor to lead the SEC in its 80-yearhistory.

White is also a former director of the Nasdaq stock exchange. While she made her name prosecuting crime bosses, white collar criminals and terrorists, she is now a partner at attorneys Debevoise and Plimpton, where she leads the white-collar criminal defence practice. She helped defend Bank of America’s former boss Ken Lewis against civil suits that followed the bank’s disastrous expansions during the financial crisis.

The president was expected to announce White’s nomination during a ceremony in the State dining room on Thursday.

At the same event, Obama was to renominate Richard Cordray to serve as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray, too, is another former government prosecutor. As attorney general of Ohio he pursued lawsuits against some of the US’s largest financial institutions, including AIG and Bank


our associates."

As food companies decide how and whether to weigh in, some brands are finding that speaking up for immigrants and inclusion is good for business.

"This is a very important time and we really want to be part of this conversation," says Sepanta Bagherpour, director of marketing at Nando's Peri-Peri, a chicken restaurant chain. (He's South African.) The company is currently promoting its Everyone Is Welcome campaign.

Nando's has 38 restaurants in the U.S. and 1,200 internationally. When I walked by one of the Washington, D.C., locations, I noticed a big, bold sign in the storefront window that read:

"Nando's Peri-Peri is an immigrant employing, gay loving, Muslim respecting, racism opposing, equal paying, multi-cultural restaurant."

Bagherpour says the Nando's brand — which began in South Africa in the waning days ofapartheid — is built on social commentary. And he says this campaign has been good for business. The company says that traffic and sales have jumped compared to the same time last year.

But taking sides in this national conversation has its risks.

"We've definitely seen push back," says Russell Street Deli's Ben Hall. After he was featured in a national business story on the sanctuary restaurant movement, he was slammed on social media.

There were comments such as: "I'll never ever eat in your restaurant," and "I only want my food [to be] made by an American."

Hall says he was taken aback, but he realizes this conversation elicits strong feelings on both sides. And, in the end, despite the negative comments on social media, his deli has been more crowded


Huddersfield have fought off late interest from St Helens to secure the signature of Manly utility Tom Symonds.

League Express revealed on Monday how the Saints had made a late play to hijack the Giants’ bid to land the signature of the 27-year-old, following reports emerging from Australia last week that Symonds was bound for Super League.

But TotalRL understands that the Giants have got the deal done, and with terms agreed between player and club, the Giants are now waiting on a visa to get Symonds through the door and confirmed as a Huddersfield player.

Symonds could arrive as soon as the next few weeks as the Giants look to strengthen their squad ahead of the upcoming Super 8s.

Their next game is this Sunday, a vital clash in their bidwalked past the building and had actually glanced at it.

I looked at him, he was one that I hadn't seen before, which was strange; this was a small city and there weren't that many vampires around. It had been several months since I had seen one that I hadn't come across at least once before. Kind of weird too, but I didn't dwell on that. Instead, I took time studying him; trying to see if I could recognize some of his features. He was partially in the darkness, due to the streetlight being several feet away from him, but my eye sight is better than most humans, so I was able to see him pretty well with the minimum amount of light available.

He had dark hair, either black


or brown, it was too dark to tell for sure, but I guessed it was either black or a very dark brown color. His eyes were just as dark as his hair, not that I was surprised, it wasn't very often that I came across a vampire who had any eye color besides black, dark blue or brown. Everything about them was usually dark, most of the time it was a clear indicator of their personality, which was also dark and foreboding.

I moved my head down to study the rest of him, taking a moment to look him up and down, seeming to size him up in my mind; he was wearing normal clothes, heavy set of work boots, dark blue jeans and a short sleeved button upextent of the first seven eigenfunctions. As in the uncorrelated cases, the well minima very nearly coincide with the peak of the eigenfunctions. The first three minima, in order, correspond to the first three eigenfunctions, but after that the order is not the same. The discrepancy in ordering is not very significant, however, since both the minimum values and the eigenvalues are very close to one another, as indicated in Table \[tb:corr1d\].

![A correlated potential and the corresponding effective potential with its seven lowest minima marked. On the top left is the original correlated potential, on the top right the corresponding effective potential. On the bottom are the first seven eigenfunctions with the color giving the order as indicated by the inset. A rectangle is superimposed on each eigenfunction. The


National Women’s Soccer League announces 2014 Houston Dash schedule

The National Women’s Soccer League announced the 2014 league schedule on Friday, including the Houston Dash’s 24-game slate for its inaugural season.

The Dash open their season against Portland Thorns FC on Saturday, April 12 at BBVA Compass Stadium in the first-ever match for the newest NWSL franchise. Portland, 2013 NWSL Champions, features U.S. women’s national team stars Alex Morgan, Tobin Heath and Rachel Van Hollebeke (née Buehler) as well as Canada women’s national team all-time leading scorer Christine Sinclair.

The 12-game BBVA Compass Stadium home schedule will see all eight NWSL teams visit Houston at least once, with Portland (April 12 and May 14), FC Kansas City (May 3 and June 14), the Western New York Flash (June 11 and July5), and the Washington Spirit (June 28 and July 17) visiting twice.

The 2014 home schedule includes six Saturday dates, three Wednesday matches, two Friday games and one Thursday match. The Dash home slate concludes on August 9 against Sky Blue FC, with the regular season coming to end on August 17 against the Boston Breakers at Harvard Stadium.

With the introduction of the Dash, the NWSL has expanded their schedule to 24 games per team, with every team playing each other three times in the regular season.

Single game tickets are not yet available, but fans can purchase tickets to all home games via Dash season tickets, with 5-game plans also available. Full-season ticket packages start at $168, with partial season ticket packages starting at $65. To purchase a package


9-month-old wasn't adding up, even on their combined $3,800 monthly salaries.

Hit with an unexpected house fire that "cost" him $250, he was already in debt before he'd even paid for everything on his budget, including day care.

His takeaway: "To live nice, it's gonna cost a lot of money, especially if you have a kid."

Events like Mad City Money, created by the Credit Union National Association, are designed to help students learn those hard lessons before they leave home.

"There's been a proliferation of these role-playing games. It's part of a change in financial education," said Karen Anderson, chair of the California JumpStart Coalition, an association of groups that provide financial literacy programs for K-12 students.

She said a number of organizations – Junior Achievement, banks and credit unions, the CaliforniaCouncil on Economic Education, for example – are using these types of role-playing tools to engage teens.

World Cup Soccer and the National Football League team up with Visa to offer money-minded video games. Other finance games: "Road Trip to Savings" and "Ed's Bank." www.practicalmoneyskills.com

The Mint

Money advice for all ages, includes how-tos for parents on talking money with kids, ages 2 to 22. Co-sponsored by Northwestern Mutual Foundation and the National Council on Economic Education. www.themint.org

Department of Education

The California site links to more than 40 free money programs for teachers, parents and students, grades K-12. www.cde.ca.gov (Search for "Financial Literacy")

More games

The Journal of Extension lists other financial simulation games: www.joe.org (search for "games").

Editor's note: In a resource box on page D5 with Claudia Buck's personal finance column on Sunday


Crossing new bridges: the process of adaptation and psychological distress of Russian immigrants in Israel.
Between the end of 1989 and June 1992, 380,152 Russian Jews left the former Soviet Union for Israel, swelling Israel's Jewish population by nearly 10%. Absorbing great waves of immigrants was not new to Israel. Since its establishment in 1948 and the enactment of its Law of Return, large population groups from dozens of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds had immigrated into the country. In 1992 Israel's Jewish population totaled 4,242,500. Of that number, 360,949 had been born in Asian countries, 458,009 in Africa, 1,252,131 in Europe, and 184,317 in America and Oceana.Archibald Little (politician)

Archibald Little (January 12, 1837April 14, 1922) was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Norfolk North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1903 to 1904.

He was born in Mayfield, Chinguacousy Township, Peel County, Upper Canada, the son of William Little. In 1868, he married Louisa McCool. He was a merchant in Waterford and chairman of the High School board. He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1922.

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