Story highlights The Pope says a "piecemeal third world war" is getting larger

The UN must reassert itself as diplomatic leader, he says

(CNN) Pope Francis said Saturday he worries that rising tensions between the United States and North Korea could lead to a wide military conflict that would wipe out a "large part of humanity."

He called for renewed diplomacy using third-party intermediaries and for the United Nations to take a lead role in de-escalating tensions.

The Pope, while returning to Italy from Egypt, took several questions from reporters and one asked him what he would say to world leaders at this critical moment.

Francis said in Italian that the situation "has heated up too much. I always appeal for a solution through diplomatic means."

The pontiff, who has spoken of a "piecemealDos Amigos Pumping Plant

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We continue having as much fun as possible as we approach the end of the summer. As the sun rose this morning almost 75 campers and a dozen staff marched with me to our two waterfronts for the final Polar Swim of the summer. In tandem kids from both camps stood on the docks, did jumping jacks, and then leapt into the brisk lake water. Afterwards they stopped by the dining hall for a quick warm up of hot chocolate and croissants.


New Orleans jazz landmarks on Rampart Street scrawled with graffiti

Local jazz buffs and preservationists have spent years seeking ways to protect and redevelop a collection of vacant and unimpressive-looking buildings in the 400 block of South Rampart Street that played important roles in the early history of jazz in New Orleans. Now they have a new problem to contend with: giant graffiti that appeared this week on two of the buildings.

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The largest markings, reading "ERASE NORTH," cover the second-floor side wall of a former theater where a young Louis Armstrong once won a talent contest.

Longtime graffiti fighter Fred Radtke said Thursday that he recognizes some of the spray-painted markings as the work of the same vandals who have defaced other some Business District buildings.

He said thevandals used a pressurized container like a fire extinguisher to spray the letters high on the wall, above the roof of an adjoining pizza restaurant.

Radtke's Operation Clean Sweep is offering a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved.

He said he cannot paint over or remove the graffiti without permission from the owners.

The buildings on the lake side of the 400 block of South Rampart might look architecturally undistinguished, but four of them are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and have been declared local historic landmarks.

"There is probably no other block in America with buildings bearing so much significance to the history of our country's great art form, jazz," John Hasse, curator of American music at the Smithsonian Institution, said


last year. "It would be a terrible shame if these structures were allowed to disintegrate. They hold the potential to tell remarkable stories about the culture of New Orleans and the music of America."

Yet the buildings are mostly decrepit and vacant and have been threatened with demolition.

At 401-03 S. Rampart stands the former Eagle Cafe and Saloon, built around 1885, where musicians hung out and legendary jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden played. Upstairs was the Odd Fellows Masonic Ballroom, where the young Armstrong might have performed or heard other early jazz greats.

At 413-15 S. Rampart is the former Iroquois Theater, a vaudeville theater and later a movie house. It was built in the first decade of the 20th century. Armstrong won a talent contest there as a teenager.

At 427-31S. Rampart, built around 1905-1915, is the former tailor shop of the Karnofsky family, Russian Jewish immigrants who became almost surrogate parents to young Armstrong. Their son Morris later opened a music store there called Morris Music, where he sold jazz records. That building also has been defaced with graffiti.

At the Poydras Street end of the block, 445-49 S. Rampart, is the onetime home of the Little Gem Saloon, which featured live music. It was built around 1889.

The New Orleans Jazz Restoration Society, led by Bob Ice and Bob McIntyre, has sought to buy the former Iroquois Theater and Karnofsky store from their owner, the Meraux Foundation, but has been rebuffed.

The society also has made offers for the Little Gem Saloon building, which has been placed on the


list for sale at civil sheriff's auctions several times in recent months but has been withdrawn each time, most recently this week.

The old Eagle Saloon building is controlled by the New Orleans Music Hall of Fame, led by Jerome "PopAgee" Johnson, who bought it from the Meraux Foundation in 2007, partially with city and state money, but there have been no signs of progress on creating the hall of fame he has talked about.

Even if the Ice-McIntyre group or other jazz buffs gain control of the buildings, it is uncertain how they would be redeveloped, although turning them into jazz clubs or museums has been mentioned.Athletics

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The items returned Tuesday were either spontaneously turned over to U.S. authorities or seized by police after investigators noticed them in Christie's and Sotheby's auction catalogues, gallery listings, or as a result of customs searches, court cases or tips. One 17th-century Venetian cannon was seized by Boston border patrol agents as it was being smuggled from Egypt to the U.S. inside construction equipment, police said.

U.S. Ambassador John Phillips joined Italy's carabinieri art police to show off the haul. It included Etruscan vases from the Toledo Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 17th-century botany books from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a manuscript from the 1500s stolen from the Turin archdiocese in 1990 that ended up listed in the University of South Florida's special collections.

Winfieldreported police assertions that many of the objects had allegedly reached the market through "Italian dealers Giacomo Medici and Gianfranco Becchina, both convicted of trafficking in plundered Roman artifacts." You may read more about Medici's activities in the 2007 nonfiction book, The Medici Conspiracy by Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini. (Watson spoke at ARCA's art crime conference in Amelia in 2011).

Here's a link to a 2012 ARCA Blog post by ARCA CEO Lynda Albertson on the 90 formerly looted objects displayed at the Villa Giulia in Rome that had also been returned (with an explanation about the history of the Etruscan black-figure kelps attributed to the Micali painter or his workshop).

This fateful declaration greets visitors at the door to No Longer Art, an exhibit presented by the Salvage


be led by Dr. Christine Mehring, chair of the university’s Art History Department.

The New York Times’ Tom Mashberg is reporting the return of five artworks, originally brought by US servicemen back to the United States after World War II, to the Anhaltische Gemäldegaleriem, in Dessau. Included in the five works is one described as “an unattributed copy of a triple portrait of King Charles I of England, originally painted by Anthony van Dyck in 1636 to help Bernini create a sculpture of the king”. Mashberg reports that this work was stolen from Castle Kronberg outside Frankfurt, and was being returned by:

“Michael R. Holland, a retired house builder from Montana, who said he found them in the safe deposit box of his aunt, Margaret I. Reeb, after her death.A note in the box from Mrs. Reeb, a member of the Women’s Army Corps who had served in Germany, said she bought them there just after the war. Family lore, Mr. Holland said, has it that Mrs. Reeb, who died in 2005 and was a wartime acquaintance of Eleanor Roosevelt, bought the works from American soldiers who approached her in a Nuremberg hotel for some quick cash.”

The story caught my eye because the original painting, which is now in the UK’s Royal Collection has a fascinating story all of its own:

In the early 1630s, King Charles I was busy cementing his place as omnipotent English monarch. He had been crowned King of England in a sumptuous ceremony, and in June 1633 he was likewise crowned King of


Scotland. His queen -- a quiet but persistently devout Catholic -- Henrietta Maria, so memorably portrayed by Van Dyck in such overtly political family portraits as The Great Place and in intimately affectionate portraits such as his Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was carefully trying to strengthen ties between England and Rome, and to prepare the ground for the arrival in London of the first Papal envoy since Henry VIII’s time.

As so often happened during Charles’s reign, the delicate diplomatic dance was executed, in part, by artistic means. In mid 1635, Charles and his queen commissioned Van Eyck, now firmly ensconced as Charles’ favourite painter, to prepare a portrait that they would send to Pope Urban VIII in Rome. Thus would then able the Pope to commission hisown favourite sculptor, Gianlorenzo Bernini (memorably labelled by Robert Hughes as the “marble megaphone of the Renaissance”), to carve a life-size bust of Charles, which the Pope would then give as a gift to Queen Henrietta Maria, symbolizing (so the Pontiff hoped) closer ties and perhaps heralding the ultimate submission of the English Crown to the throne of St Peters.

Drawing inspiration from Lorenzo Lotto’s Portrait of a Man in Three Positions, then in the Royal Collection (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), Van Eyck executed the sublime triple portrait of King Charles, both embodying his character and pensive but unshakeable hope for the future, and giving Bernini everything he needed to create his marble bust.

The Portrait was sent to Rome. Bernini wove his sculptural magic. The result arrived


shivers brought on by the cold would not be mistaken for fearful trembling, Charles was executed, under authority of a Death warrant signed by the 59 men who would become known to history as the Regicides. It is unclear whether the irony of the execution taking place outside The Banqueting House in London, whose ceiling was (and is) adorned by magnificent, and politically powerful, paintings by Rubens commissioned by Charles over a decade earlier, was noted at the time.

Following his death, the Commonwealth set about valuing and selling off “the Late King’s goods” to raise funds for a severely cash-strapped Treasury. And amongst the art works sold during a chaotic, corrupt and ultimately largely unsuccessful asset sale process, was Bernini’s bust. By 1651 it was in a slightlydown-at-the-heel and crowded impromptu dealership owned by one Emmanuel de Critz, one of many that sprung up all over London as the King’s art flooded onto the newly created, and never before seen, open art market. “The King’s head in white marble done by Bernino at Rome” was on display in a cramped house in Austin Friars, with a price tag of £400.

That asking price must have been too high. In May 1660, following the unforeseeable (in 1651) lurch of history that saw Charles II restored to the English Throne following years spent wandering Europe in beggarly exile after his defeat in battle by Oliver Cromwell in September 1651, Charles II set about swiftly and ruthlessly reclaiming his father’s art. In a staggeringly audacious lie, de Critz petitioned


line which may be constituted by grooves cut in the surfaces of the lenses or by a thin, untinted strip of the optical means, produced by the application of a mask in that region during the tinting of the optical means. The spectacles described in this patent also have a device for adjusting the distance between the bridge which carries the lenses and the rest of the frame in order to adjust the distance between the clear line and the golfer's eyes.
A first disadvantage of these known solutions lies in the fact that, in practice, the player cannot focus on a thin, clear or dark line carried by the optical means of the spectacles and thus see it clearly (as, after all, is admitted in the description ofthe U.S. Pat. No. 3,264,002) and this causes discomfort to the person wearing the spectacles.
A further disadvantage of these known solutions lies in the fact that, particularly when the golfer is executing a "drive", he has to arrange himself parallel to an imaginary line linking the ball and the target; as he moves his arms before making the stroke, however, a right-handed player naturally tends to turn his head to the right as he focuses his eyes on the ball so that, as he effects the stroke, the attitude of his body diverges from the imaginary line by an angle which, in practice, varies between 5.degree. and 15.degree..
Since, in the spectacles known from the two patents cited above, the lines carried by the optical means for facilitating the


Qatar Continues To Expand Naval Capabilities

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A Qatari Coasts and Border Security Department boat performs during a local marine exhibition in 2010. Qatar announced this week during DIMDEX it is buying 17 high-speed coast guard boats from Turkey´s Ares Shipyard. (Qatari Interior Ministry)

DOHA — Qatar is three years away from completing a new high-tech naval base as the Arabian Gulf state continues the rapid expansion of its naval capabilities.

The assistant director of the Qatari National Security Shield project, Naval Staff Brig. Tariq Al Obaidli, said that requirements include building a forward naval base with facilities to support special ops forces and air force operations.

Qatar’s huge oil and gas reserves and its reliance on sea trade makes maritime defense of paramount importance to the country, heplaced Carter on probation for three years with a condition he serve 365

days in custody. As a condition of probation, the court issued a protective order requiring

him to stay away from the victim, his girlfriend.

       In July 2015, Carter admitted he violated his probation and waived his right to an

evidentiary hearing. Within days of being released from custody, Carter returned to the

home he shared with the victim and had contact with her. The court revoked probation

and sentenced him to the middle term of three years in state prison.

       Carter appeals. His appointed appellate counsel filed a brief requesting we

independently review the record for error. (See People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436,

441-442.) Having done so and


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on the floor on her back. The defendant was strangling the victim . . . . The defendant

was removed from the victim. She was crying, gasping for air and her hands were

shaking. Her shirt was ripped, exposing her breasts, and there was smeared blood on

various places on her body. A missing piece of the victim's shirt was found nearby."

       After Carter was removed from the residence, a police officer found a rifle with

blood on it and the safety in the fire position, a magazine for the rifle (loaded with one

bullet), a handgun, and an open folding knife stuck into the floor in a bedroom.

       The victim reported she had been drinking during the evening and hadgone to

bed. She said she was awakened by Carter pulling her out of bed by her feet. "He drug

her down the stairs by her feet and punched her in the face . . . . She said he was going to

kill her as he was beating her . . . ."

2      We take the factual background from the probation officers' reports. There was no
preliminary examination since Carter pleaded guilty on the amended felony complaint.
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been residing in the home with the victim since he was released from custody. He

acknowledged he was aware it was a violation of the protective order, but stated, "Where

am I supposed to live. It's my house." He also claimed he was the main caretaker for the

victim and needed to be there to assist with her daily needs.

       At the probation revocation hearing, his attorney represented Carter was only out

of custody for six days when he told the probation officer he had gone to the house to get

his glasses. His counsel noted he had taken an anger management class while in custody

and asked he be given another opportunity for probation. His counsel also noted the

victim did not want the protective order.

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from the closure and the band is moved to a lower position on the neck and is presented from being returned to its, as applied, position. A container has a finish, below external threads which is formed with an inwardly and downwardly tapering side wall which leads to an abrupt, horizontal ledge such that when an indicating band is severed from a closure, on removal, the band falls below the ledge and cannot be returned. The closure is formed with internal threads in the skirt and at the bottom of the skirt a band or ring of about the same external diameter as the cap is formed with frangible bridges joining the band to the skirt. Within the indicating band, an inwardly extending flexible stop ring is formedincludes a base wall and depending peripheral skirt having threads interengaging the threads of the container, and a tamper indicating band attached to the skirt by a plurality of circumferentially spaced frangible bridge members. The tamper indicating band includes a bead for engaging a complementary bead on the container, and a segmented annular flange extending axially upwardly and inwardly from the lower edge of the tamper indicating band towards the base wall of the closure. The annular flange has its free edge formed with a plurality of segments such that the stiffness of the flange is reduced. In addition, the leading end of each segment is cut to a 30.degree. angle. These two features facilitate the application of the closure to the container.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,546,892, there


Lose a Battle, Rape Some Girls

“The next morning as they were breaking camp they were attacked by a war party of Cheyennes led by Chief Medicine Water. John and Lydia German, their son Stephen, and daughters Rebecca Jane and Joanna were killed and scalped. The Indians then took any goods they deemed usable and set the wagon afire. Captured and eventually taken into the Texas Panhandle were Catherine, age seventeen; Sophia, twelve; Julia, seven; and Addie, five. The Germans were victims of the Cheyennes’ retaliation for their losses at the second battle of Adobe Walls on June 27.

After a scouting party from Fort Wallace came upon the scene of the massacre a few days later, the military campaigns against hostile Indians in the Panhandle were intensified. In themeantime, the German girls were subjected to exposure, malnutrition, and occasional maltreatment as their captors traveled southward. Catherine, in particular, recalled instances of gang rape by young “dog soldiers” and indignities at the hands of Cheyenne women, particularly Medicine Water’s obnoxious wife, Mochi (Buffalo Calf Woman). Eventually Julia and Addie were traded to Grey Beard‘s band, who for the most part neglected them. Grey Beard steered his following down the east side of the Llano Estacado, while Medicine Water joined with other groups and moved down the west side, probably crossing at several points into eastern New Mexico.

Is it fun to gang rape?

By November 1874 Grey Beard had set up camp north of McClellan Creek, about ten miles south of the site of present-day Pampa. On the morning


Two November scores lead to award for Jacoby Jones

Posted by Josh Alper on November 29, 2012, 12:54 PM EST

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Signing Jacoby Jones to return kickoffs and punts has worked out very well for the Ravens.

Jones returned a kickoff 105 yards for a touchdown to help the Ravens beat the Raiders in Week 10 and he returned a punt 63 yards for Baltimore’s only touchdown in a 13-10 win over the Steelers the next week. That was good enough to help Baltimore go 4-0 for the month as well as make Jones the AFC special teams player of the month.

The two scores gave Jones three on the season. He returned a kick 108 yards for a score against the Cowboys earlier this season, tying an NFL record for the longestkickoff return in history. His touchdown against the Raiders made him the only player with two kick return touchdowns of 105 or more yards over the course of his career. Jones has seven combined kickoff and punt returns over the course of his career, which he spent in Houston until this season.

A muffed punt in the playoff loss to the Ravens helped stamp his ticket out of town and put him in the rare position of helping the Ravens from two different angles in successive years.


An army doctor treating a heatstroke patient. PHOTO: INP

A man pouring water on his head in Karachi to beat the heat. PHOTO: MOHAMMAD AZEEM/EXPRESS

Men rest in the shade of trees during a heatwave in Karachi on June 23, 2015. PHOTO: AFP

People sleeping on the footpath in Karachi due to frequent power outages. PHOTO: MOHAMMAD NOMAN/EXPRESS

Earlier, medics battled to treat victims after a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.In Karachi, the Met department forecasts maximum temperatures to reach as high as 43 degrees Celsius over the next 24 hours, with chances of rain-thundershower and dust storm during the evening and night.Eight to 10 people have also died in other parts of southern Sindh, senior provincial health official Sabir Memon told AFP earlier. "More than 450 people have diedKarachi on Sunday and 49 Celsius in Turbat, close to the Iranian border.Despite the increasing number of deaths being reported in the provincial capital, neither government officials nor any other organisation has made any arrangements for collecting and collating the data of the death toll.Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued directives to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to immediately take necessary measures to deal with the prevalent situation in Sindh, where the tenacious heat wave continues to claim lives. The NDMA chairman has asked the Karachi corps commander to assist the authority in this regard.On the other hand, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) of Sindh has requested the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Rangers to render all possible services and assistance to alleviate the suffering of the


Israel will hold a lottery starting Saturday night (17 June) to sell 15,000 apartments at reduced prices under a program to help ease starters into the housing market. The move comes amid signs that the rise in house prices in the country is flattening out and has been criticized for having little immediate practical impact.

"I estimate that we're talking about a completion period of between four and five years. All these offers need to pass regulatory processes and so on," said Israel Builders Association Chief Executive Eliav Ben Shimon. He added that many of the apartments will be located in the less desirable 'periphery' while high-demand areas, such as the center of the country will face shortages.

Housing shortages and high prices are a politically explosive topic in Israelout in the housing market with discounts on market prices. Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon

was quoted in Israel's Globes financial newspaper as having said at the announcement of the new lottery on Wednesday (14 June) that to date 10,000 people had won the right to such discounts and more will follow. "The housing market has cooled off because young couples see that it's coming," he said.

The program comes together with other government measures to reduce prices, including a mooted tax on third homes and over to deter investors, which is still caught up in the courts and the legislative process.

One prominent critic of government policy on the subject warns that such measures at a time when prices are already showing signs of falling can lead to a rout in


the market. "They take steps to curb the market but if the market is starting to fall, it will exacerbate the fall," says Elli Kraizberg of Barl Ilan university's Graduate School of Business Administration and a co-founder of Israel's Midroog rating agency, which is affiliated with Moody's.

He says that investors are better off staying out of the market, for now, to see where it's going. All signs point to what he calls a "downfall", if not now, then in the near future. The cooling off of the market is mostly driven by the rise in mortgage interest rates, not government policies, he estimates.

But the situation can get critical if the government doesn't change its ways: "Now when you find that the market is starting to fall, to preventa 30 percent fall in the market, they should take steps that are the opposite of what they're doing."

Israel's economy relies heavily on the real estate market, he points out, saying that it represents some 40 percent of wealth in the country and 19 percent of GDP. The banks are well funded at the moment but may face problems if house prices were to drop by more than 25 percent, says Kraizberg.

One researcher, who tracks the housing market and economic and social conditions in Israel, says that the country has to address fundamental problems if it is to solve people's difficulties in finding affordable housing.

"The problems that are causing the housing issue are very highly related to the problems that are causing high rates of income inequality, and


low rates of productivity," says Dan Ben-David of the Shoresh Institution and Tel Aviv University's public policy department.

He estimates that it will take large investments in infrastructure and education to ease the problems. Current government policy is ineffective he says: "They cost the government a lot of money in all kinds of tax benefits and all kinds of subsidies when eventually they end up benefiting the investors anyway."

Follow CNBC International on Twitter and Facebook.the star Algol (Omicron Persei).

Algol consists of two stars that orbit each other. As one moves in front of the other, it blocks the other star’s light, causing it to dim slightly. This is called an eclipsing binary. It can be seen in the sky as the winking eye of Medusa’s head in the Western constellation Perseus.

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Are there any clear records from oral or Indigenous cultures that demonstrate knowledge of variable stars?

Emerging research reveals two Aboriginal traditions from South Australia that show the answer is a clear “yes”.

Nyeeruna and the protective Kambugudha

A Kokatha oral tradition from the Great Victoria Desert tells of Nyeeruna, a vain hunter who comprises the same stars, in the same orientation, as the Greek Orion.

He is in love with the Yugarilya sisters of the


Pleiades, but they are timid and shy away from his advances. Their eldest sister, Kambugudha (the Hyades star cluster), protects her younger sisters.

Nyreeuna creates fire-magic in his right hand (Betelgeuse) to overpower Kambugudha, so he can reach the sisters. She counters this with her own fire magic in her left foot (Aldebaran), which she uses to kick dust into Nyreeuna’s face. This humiliates Nyreeuna and his fire-magic dissipates.

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Nyreeuna is persistent and replenishes his fire-magic again to get to the sisters. Kambugudha cannot generate hers in time, so she calls on Babba (the father dingo) for help. Babba fights Nyeeruna while Kambugudha and the other stars laugh at him, then places a row of dingo pups between them. This causes Nyeeruna much humiliation andhis fire-magic dissipates again.

The story explains the variability of the stars Betelgeuse and Aldebaran. Trevor Leaman and I realised this in 2014, but we did not realise until now that the story also describes the relative periods of these changes.

Betelgeuse varies in brightness by one magnitude every 400 days, while Aldebaran varies by 0.2 magnitudes at irregular periods. The Aboriginal people recognised that Betelgeuse varies faster than Aldebaran, which is why they say that Kambugudha cannot generate her fire-magic in time to counter Nyreeuna.

Waiyungari and breaking sacred law

The second oral tradition comes from the Ngarrindjeri people, south of Adelaide. The story tells of Waiyungari, a young initiate who is covered in red ochre.

He is seen by two women, who find him very attractive. That night, they seduce him,


Retired at 60: why some of Hong Kong’s most renowned scholars find they are no longer wanted at university

Retired at 60: why some of Hong Kong’s most renowned scholars find they are no longer wanted at university

Professor Jim Chi-yung, former chair professor of geography at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), counts himself among the lucky ones in academia because he was allowed to continue working after turning 60.

The prominent urban ecology and tree management expert set a record two years ago for having the biggest class at HKU when 1,018 students signed up for his Nature Conservation for Sustainable Societies course.

Jim, nicknamed “Tree Daddy”, bade a reluctant farewell to HKU in June this year, after turning 65 and spending 37 years there. He had hoped to carrypolicy with people living longer and capable of working longer too.

Jim, now research chair professor of geography and environmental science at Education University, told the Post he was grateful HKU treated him well throughout his career, but said academics were unhappy with the inconsistency in the way extensions past 60 were granted.

“Some academics with outstanding performance are renewed for only one year, while others who are less impressive are granted an extra two years or three,” he said. “That could be fairly arbitrary.”

Critics say Hong Kong is losing academic talent to countries such as Australia and the United States which have no compulsory retirement age, and the trend in other ageing societies is also towards allowing people to work longer.

The retirement age at the University of Science and


the short extension of her teaching contract.

Dr William Cheung Sing-wai wanted to continue as an associate professor in HKU’s electrical and electronic engineering department when he turned 60 last year, but his application to carry on was rejected.

That was despite his being listed among the university’s top 1 per cent of scholars last year in an annual internal search.

Cheung, chairman of HKU’s Academic Staff Association (ASA), was told that others could teach his courses, but his one on advanced-level Satellite Communications has not been offered since he left last year.

He was also told the seven doctoral students under his tutelage would be reassigned to his colleagues, but in the end no one had the expertise to coach them and they had to seek help from scholars at otherof turning 60 at HKU in 2003.

“I inquired about the possibility of an extension,” he told the Post. “I quickly discovered, however, that the process was both complex and lengthy and, again, both insulting and humiliating.

“After serving HKU for over 33 years as the pioneering teacher of marine biology … and participating in discussions and decisions of numerous government committees, I concluded, as a matter of personal pride, that I did not wish to be a part of any such degrading extension of service process.”

He returned to Britain where he kept up his research and interest in marine conservation.

Corlett left HKU in 2008 and went first to the National University of Singapore before joining the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan, where


the appointee’s services.”

An HKU spokeswoman said the main considerations when offering reappointment after 60 were whether it would help the university “meet its strategic needs and funding priorities, and achieve high standards of continued and sustainable academic excellence”.

Provost Tam was at a forum on September 19 when students asked him about the much-criticised policy.

He said the university had to allocate limited resources carefully and needed to bring in new blood and ideas, and was committed to recruit, nurture and retain the best talent. It also had a robust system of peer assessment to gauge individual merit.

Explaining the need for older staff to make way, Tam cited his interest in football.

“I am a keen football player. I used to play forward, but as I get older, I get furtherwillingness that has yet to be surpassed by other nations. When catastrophe strikes, it is the United States that responds; our military is the best in the world, made up of the Americans who get down in the trenches, they bring humanitarian aid, and they also fight tyrannical genocidal enemies, while assisting others to survive and be free.

Where have all the flags gone?

Until recently, citizens of this country, from both parties, lived their patriotism and flew their flag and spoke positively about their country. The passing decades have brought a distinct change in the culture, and genuine expressions of patriotism and respect for our nation and the flag have decreased. Been to some recent sporting event or something similar, and seen how many pay no attention to the


New York City police allegedly sent a black woman to a mental hospital for eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, because they refused to believe she owned a BMW. Kamilah Brock, 32, says she was waiting at a red light in Harlem, New York when police approached her car and quizzed her on why she did not have her hands on the steering wheel.

The African-American banker responded that she was dancing to music, and the police took her into custody on September 12 last year. They released Brock after a few hours and told Brock to come back the next day to collect her car.

But when she returned to pick up her car – a 2003 BMW 325CI – police did not believe thatof her claims that she owned a BMW, worked at a bank and was followed on Twitter by Barack Obama. The only problem? All three of those things were true.

To make matters worse, Brock was sent a $13,000 medical bill after she was released. She has filed a lawsuit against the city, the police and the hospital and is seeking unspecified damages.

The police claimed earlier this summer that Brock had been "acting irrational, she spoke incoherently and inconsistently, and she ran into the middle of traffic on Eighth Ave" during the traffic stop with police. Previously, the NYPD previously only confirmed that Brock was taken into their custody.


Report: Setauket Man Called Queens Hit-and-Run Victim a Terrorist

A 55-year-old Setauket man has been accused of a hate crime after he allegedly ran over a Sikh man in Queens last month and called him a terrorist, according to reports.

The NYPD arrested Joseph Caleca Monday and charged him with attempted murder and assault, both as hate crimes.

Police said in a news release that Caleca was driving a GMC pick-up truck down a Queens street on July 30 and had to stop after the 29-year-old victim exited his parked car, preventing Caleca from passing.

The two men then became involved in an argument, which quickly escalated after Caleca allegedly struck the victim twice with his car. Police said Caleca allegedly ran the victim over with his pick-up truck and dragged himseveral feet before allegedly fleeing the scene.

Rashed Mian has been covering local news for the Long Island Press since 2011. He graduated from Hofstra University in 2010 where he studied print journalism. Rashed, the staff's multimedia reporter, covers daily news for the web, shoots/edits feature videos and writes about civil liberties. He loves Afghan food and sports. Rashed is also a caffeine freak. Email: rmian@longislandpress.com. Twitter: rashedmian


“Kenyans in China: Rescue us from hell”.

Photos and videos of people sleeping on the floor on open streets have also been a topic of discussion on TV stations and local media platforms across Africa.

African migrants sleeping on the streets

Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives met with the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, tweeting about it with the caption:

“Today, I met with the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria on the disturbing allegation of ill-treatment of Nigerian citizens in China. I showed him the video clip that had made rounds. He promised to look into it and get back to my office by Tuesday.

READ MORE: How Ghana’s president became a world favourite with his coronavirus quote

Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement addressed the situation saying China has “inAP

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There are Democrats who enjoy NASCAR. Jews and atheists and women, too.

You wouldn't know it lately, not after several events this season, including the invocation before Saturday night's race at Texas Motor Speedway. Duck Commander founder Phil Robertson used the address to pray "that we put a Jesus man in the White House" and noted that "alright Texas, we got here via Bibles and guns."

Robertson, a star of "Duck Dynasty," has publicly voiced his support for Ted Cruz in the presidential race. His son, Willie, has endorsed GOP front-runner Donald Trump, and the family has always been vocal with its conservative beliefs. It shouldn't have been a surprise when Robertson used his time on stage to push an agenda.

Yet in many ways it was


because NASCAR has tried for the last several years to present itself as a sport that embraces diversity, that no longer tolerates many of the racial stereotypes so often associated with the sport.

Last year, NASCAR chairman Brian France took a strong stance against the presence of Confederate flags at race tracks and said he would do everything in his legal power to prevent them from being displayed. It was a progressive move and unusual.

Sports are supposed to be entertainment, after all, and most fans don't tune in expecting or wanting to see soapbox speeches. It's why the stick-and-ball leagues try to stay neutral. When they do embrace America, it's done in safe ways such as the singing of "God Bless America" or recognizing military personnel. The logos forMajor League Baseball, the NBA and the NFL are all red, white and blue, and league leaders tend to avoid politics and polarizing positions in an effort not to offend fans who don't share their views.

NASCAR has always been the exception.

The France family, which owns the series, has long welcomed political candidates at their events and has a history of making public endorsements. NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. endorsed George Wallace for president. Brian France last month endorsed Trump, and even recruited a handful of drivers to attend a Trump rally in Georgia.

The Trump endorsement was met with significant backlash and France said he was disappointed that his record on promoting diversity had suddenly been called into question. He has spent at least the last decade trying to


help his family business shed its image as a sport for intolerant rednecks, but there is no away around it: His Trump endorsement put those efforts at risk.

Then came the Robertson commentary on Saturday night, which Texas Motor Speedway officials said Monday they did not know was coming.

The Robertsons and Duck Dynasty had a three-year sponsorship agreement with the speedway, and the contract allowed the family to fill all honorary roles however they chose. The Robertsons even had a lesser-known family member sing a cringe-worthy version of the national anthem, but Will Robertson's vocals were the least of NASCAR's problems after the stump speech from the family patriarch.

His stance, coupled with France's endorsement of Trump, presents a confusing picture of what NASCAR represents.

There are many who oppose theis in fact a caricature: While the Green leadership, including their presidential candidate, Eva Joly, have been vociferous in their criticism of Israel’s policies in the occupied territories and have supported the boycott of products made there, never have they questioned the integrity and security of Israel. On the contrary: They argue, in good faith, that Israel’s current policies undermine these very same objectives.

Of course, Prasquier is free to doubt their sincerity. Yet, his choice of extremisms to be feared is particularly telling in light of the showing made by Marine Le Pen of the Front National. After her powerful third-place finish in the first round of the April 22 election, Sarkozy pulled out all the stops in his effort to rally the Front National voters to his


majority voted for Sarkozy, just as they did in 2007. This is hardly surprising: Ever since 1981, when French Jews voted overwhelmingly for François Mitterrand, they have moved steadily to the right. With the impact of the second intifada on French politics, a rash of anti-Semitic crimes and the growing prominence of the culturally conservative Sephardic community, this shift has simply grown more pronounced. Just as the Republican Party holds greater credibility among American voters when it comes to issues of security, Sarkozy had persuaded many French Jewish voters that his party alone would guarantee their safety and well-being.

Now that Sarkozy has lost the race does not mean that he has lost this particular argument — at least for French Jews. Hollande must find a way to applypresident has the authority to issue a pardon.

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Hours after the verdict, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Azaria to be pardoned, plunging into the raging political debate that has divided the country and putting himself at odds with the military. On his Facebook page, Netanyahu wrote: “I support granting Elor Azaria a pardon.” He also urged the public to support the army and its commanders.

Azaria, an army medic, was caught on video in March fatally shooting the wounded Palestinian who had stabbed a soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. The Palestinian, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, was lying on the ground and already unarmed when Azaria shot him in the head.

In delivering the verdict, which lasted nearly three hours, Col. Maya Heller,


he was embraced by a few dozen relatives and friends. But as the verdict was delivered, he stared gloomily ahead, and tensions quickly boiled over in the cramped, crowded courtroom.

Members of Azaria’s family clapped sarcastically as the decision was delivered, some screaming “Our hero!” A female relative was kicked out of the courtroom for screaming at the judges, and a second woman stormed out, shouting, “Disgusting leftists.”

After the judges walked out, Azaria’s mother, Oshra, screamed, “You should be ashamed of yourselves.” Azaria tried to comfort her and calm her as she wailed. Another family member whipped his jacket at a female reporter, missing his target and instead hitting another relative.

Hundreds of the soldier’s supporters, many of them young religious men wearing skullcaps, gathered outside the military court inTeenagers. At times tantalizing with their on-field potential, at others frustrating with their youthful mistakes. While they’re certainly prone to inconsistency, there are quite a few teens in MLS who are providing plenty of hope for the future of their clubs.

Here are the top five from the 2017 season who will surely have people talking in the year to come:

Perhaps the best teen in all of MLS, the New York Red Bulls’ Adams was excellent in 2017. The 18-year-old midfielder/defender emerged as a solid option in central midfield and one of the best right wing backs in the league this season, starting 24 regular season games and all three playoff matches for head coach Jesse Marsch.

"I literally can envision him in playing in any of the 10 spots.


Maybe not goalkeeper." -Jesse Marsch said, smiling, about Tyler Adams#RBNY — New York Red Bulls (@NewYorkRedBulls) November 8, 2017

The Red Bulls’ Homegrown starred with the US Under-20s at the FIFA U-20 World Cup, and got his first shot with the USMNT in their friendly at Portugal in November. Barring something catastrophic, it’ll likely be the first of many call-ups for Adams. He’s got the juice to be one of the best players in MLS and one of the top options in the US pool for years to come.

Already a full Venezuelan international and signed to a deal with Manchester City, Herrera is the only teenager in MLS who can realistically claim to be ahead of Adams. The 19-year-old box-to-box midfielder beat out Andrea Pirlo for a starting jobin NYCFC’s midfield about two months into the season and never looked back, sandwiching 14 starts around a Bronze Ball-winning performance at the U-20 World Cup.

A bulldog in defense and a smooth player in possession, it looks like Herrera will return to the Bronx in 2018 on (perhaps) another loan from Manchester City. If he is back, he should be a huge asset for Patrick Vieira and NYCFC.

Just one part of Real Salt Lake’s promising young core, Acosta locked down the club’s starting left back spot over the second half of the season. Like Adams and Herrera, the Honduran-born US youth international’s overall appearance total (he made 17, with 16 starts) was cut into by the U-20 World Cup, but he started seven of the club’s eight final


hopefully we start seeing some of that form in MLS.

Tabla’s year started on a promising note, but took a bit of a step back after the 18-year-old started making noise about wanting out of Montreal. He made only five appearances after the start of August, though he did record two goals and two assists in 21 overall regular season appearances for the Impact. He clearly has plenty of talent and has reportedly caught the eye of several big European clubs. If he’s to make a dent at that level, however, he’ll have to do more with his potential in 2018.extending an invitation Tuesday for it to set up a representative office in Washington, though the overture stopped short of formal U.S. recognition.

Military Plus Political Pressure

The international community has stepped up both the air campaign and diplomatic efforts against the regime in a bid to break a virtual stalemate between the rebels in the east and Gadhafi, who maintains a stranglehold on most of the west.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told journalists traveling with him Tuesday in Herat, Afghanistan, that he hopes a "solution" will soon come to end the fighting in Libya.

"We are trying to protect the citizens and the population against attacks, and to that end, we have taken out a significant amount of Gadhafi's military capacity," Fogh Rasmussen said. "I feel confident that this


combination ... of high military pressure and real political pressure will eventually lead to the collapse of the regime."

Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded in the NATO strikes that targeted what he said were buildings used by volunteer units of the Libyan army.

NATO said in a statement the precision-guided strikes hit a vehicle storage facility that had been used in "attacks on civilians." It was not immediately clear whether the facility was the only target hit in the barrage. Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound, which includes a number of military facilities, has been pounded repeatedly by NATO strikes.

"We thought it was the day of judgment," said 45-year-old Fathallah Salem, who had rushed his 75-year-old mother to the hospital after she sufferedshock. He said his home trembled and the youngest of his seven children screamed in terror at the sound of the rolling blasts.

Avoiding A Quagmire

The U.S. launched the international air campaign on March 19 after the United Nations authorized "all necessary measures" to protect civilians following Gadhafi's brutal suppression of the popular uprising against his rule. NATO, which has taken over the airstrikes, says it has been doing its best to minimize the risk of collateral damage.

Critics argue that NATO has overstepped its mandate and is trying to bring about Gadhafi's ouster.

In a letter to Congress on Friday, the White House said the U.S. is "no longer in the lead" of the NATO mission. If any country is in the lead, it's France. The country was the first


to bomb Gadhafi's troops, two months ago, and now it's raising the stakes again by sending attack helicopters to the region. The helicopters should allow more precise airstrikes, but they're also more vulnerable to ground fire, which risks drawing the alliance into closer combat with Libyan forces.

Even the French are nervous about getting into a military quagmire: On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told the French Parliament that the mission in Libya would not last longer than "a few months."

Rebel Recognition

As the alliance has escalated and widened the scope of its strikes over the past weeks, many countries have moved to build closer ties with the rebel movement.

Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh announced Tuesday that his country had recognized the rebels' National Transitional Council as the legitimate representativeof the Libyan people and would soon name a permanent envoy in Benghazi, the de facto rebel capital.

Several other countries, including France and Italy, have recognized the rebel administration, while the United States, European Union and others have established a diplomatic presence in Benghazi.

Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, said he had extended an invitation on Obama's behalf to the rebels to establish a representative office in Washington, a move he called "an important milestone in our relationship with the National Transitional Council."

But he stopped short of formal recognition because of what he called the council's temporary nature, saying its "job is to go out of business as soon as possible." Council members stress they will represent Libyans only until Gadhafi can be


'Fifth Column'

Rebels now control the populated coastal strip in the country's east and the western port city of Misrata, which Gadhafi's forces have besieged for months. They also control pockets in Libya's western Nafusa mountain range.

In Benghazi, nerves are fraying. Tuesday morning, children in the street near the rebels' headquarters were chattering about a shooting they had just witnessed.

A merchant — who was afraid to give his name — also saw the attack.

"I saw a guy standing there close to the media center in the courthouse, firing at people," he said. "Why, I don't know. The man shot and injured two people outside the rebels' offices, before he himself was shot and taken away."

The motive for the shooting is unknown, but Salwa el-Deghali, a member of the NationalIt's still kind of hard to believe thatis really coming back. While shows have returned from the dead before --, for instance --'s Netflix-assisted resurrection is undiscovered country. Netflix has already become the current version of the "Maybe a different channel will rescue it" chant thrown out by grieving fans of every canceled show. Now, over six years after's third season aired its finale, the show is set to premiere 10 new episodes on Netflix sometime in 2013. But not if you live outside the United States.The bad news was broken by Steve Swasey, Netflix's vice president of Corporate Communications. According to Canada's National Post , Swasey said that " the return ofexclusively on Netflix will be in the U.S. only." So if you're a non-U.S.fan who's been


MaJiKer

Matthew Ker,  known by his stage name MaJiKer, is a British songwriter-producer and performer. He resides in London and works internationally, having lived for many years in Paris, France.

Music career

Collaborations

MaJiKer has worked extensively as a songwriter-producer and live performer, with a special interest in vocal production and co-writing material.

After graduating from Dartington College of Arts, MaJiKer produced the double platinum-selling album Le Fil with French singer/songwriter Camille and the pair collaborated again when producing and co-writing its platinum-selling follow-up Music Hole. He performed on stage with Camille on her international tour for Le Fil during 2005–2006 and was musical director and performer on the Music Hole tour in 2008-2009. MaJiKer also co-wrote songs with Camille for her albums Ilo Veyou (2011) and Ouï (2017). His work withspend the next few days seeing as much Gaudí genius as I could.

"A Nut, or a Genius?"

Barcelona has become Gaudí's city, which is ironic since Gaudí didn’t start out as the city’s cultural icon. Far from it: for a long time his only real supporter was the very-rich Eusebi Güell. It was only much later that the city, and Gaudí's critics, finally began to understand what he was doing.

Park Güell -Just look at his Park Güell (named after you know who), just a short walk from Casa Batlló, up on el Carmel hill: everything in the park … flows -- like the concrete he used had been trapped, mid-liquid, as it cascaded down toward the city. Benches are part of fountains which are part of walls which are


to when his Park Güell was finished: the men are dapper in their black suits and high waistcoats, the women are splendid in their flowing skirts and elaborate hats, and the streets flow with horses (because automobile hasn’t been invented yet).

Sure, green is on everyone’s lips today, but Gaudí was creating mad masterpieces of organic shapes, living forms, and natural contours starting in 1883; Park Güell was finished in 1907.

One more stop, one more building -- even though Gaudí has grown lots more in Barcelona. Believe me, though, this one is worth the wait.

By the time he began working on the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, Gaudí was a legend but by his 40th year of working on it, both Barcelona and Gaudí had fallen on hardand great-grandparents would have.

When the Spanish flu struck the world in 1918, one leading physician, a former president of the American Medical Association, thought he was seeing the end of civilization. It was a reasonable conclusion. The virus rampaged throughout the world, leaving morgues overstuffed with bodies. In 1917, the year before the flu hit, life expectancy in the U.S. was 51 years. In 1918, it was 39 years—a drop that was due almost entirely to the flu. Worldwide, 100 million or more may have died from the Spanish flu, including 20 million in India alone.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880311,00.html

To put this in the proper perspective, I'll also post (a few days later) a paragraph fromTheNew York Times. Note lower estimate of 1918 deaths as well as progress in treatment.

Even in 1918,


the one Geoff and Nora's friend owns. A rare treat--but Michael would have chosen the Felton Road Pinot Noir even if the Pomerol had been a tenth of the price.

We then headed next door for dinner at a Kurdish restaurant. Cuisine was very similar to that at Turkish places near us in Southwark, but the flatbread--produced on an iron griddle installed near the front window--was exceptional, especially when stuffed with soft cheese or spinach and onion.

How lucky we are that Angel station is a straight shot on the Northern Line from Borough--in particular me, since the Islington Waitrose and Sainsbury are the best-stocked supermarkets I can get to & from with the least lugging of heavy bags up and down steps.

23 April 2009

I never intend to wade intoif not a chemical man, at little more than 40 already treated variously for Addison's disease, thyroid deficiency, gastric and urinary ailments, venereal disease, high cholesterol, allergies, asthma, lumbar vertebral collapse, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, which resulted in his being forced to wear a back brace (and which contributed to his death because it held him rigid and left him incapable of ducking the second shot, to his head). Cortisone puffed his jowls, and Addison's was evident in a permanent tan with a yellow tinge. Kennedy swallowed pills until "his blood simmered with chemicals", and was shot up with enough drugs, including testosterone, for Mercurio to speculate (unlike Kennedy's official doctors) on whether the severe hormonal dysfunction was responsible for his extraordinary libido and satyriasis.

He famously told Harold Macmillan


that if he went without a woman for three days he got terrible headaches. He therefore learned early in life to read women's availability. As president, a hectic political schedule and back spasm excused him the "drag of foreplay". Sexual agility was not on offer; possession and dismissal being uppermost in his mind, a call to a legion of women to perform their patriotic duty. Mercurio speculates only briefly about what it might have been like to be on the receiving end of such attention. Sex was the subject's golf, he notes drily: "a couple of quick holes, getting around as quickly as possible".

Treating his subject in diagnostic terms, Mercurio - a doctor and author of the hospital drama Bodies, one of the best British TV shows ofrecent years - suggests that the sexual career, instead of being a sidebar, was the key, and that the fate of the free world was determined by a maverick rather than "the juggernaut of conventional morality" that he publicly espoused. Mercurio presents JFK as a liberal hero, rather than a hypocrite, just the man for those times, a fascinating synthesis of surrogate motive and political vision, driven by the double standards now evident in TV shows such as Mad Men and even The Sopranos (whose central marriage was always very Kennedy-like in terms of what the wife chose not to know and the husband not to tell).

JFK has been fictionalised by James Ellroy and DM Thomas, among others, but not with material that hovers on the edge of


straight-faced farce. Cross-cut with major public events, and somewhat lazily illustrated with long quotes from Kennedy's political speeches, the book's parallel track shows life and career as controlled exercises in stage-management. Failure threatened exposure, which would have led to the shameless being shamed. With hindsight, there were plenty of clues to the real state of things: Kennedy's explosive bowel, which interfered with his duties, and ensuing embarrassing toilet sessions; his serial womanising matched by his wife's compensatory, uncontrolled spending; the two of them being shot up with speedball cocktails by a quack known as Dr Feelgood, who accompanied them unofficially on their state visit to France and whose regimen helps to explain why in photographs they look, well, so out of it, while managing, just, to appear focusedfor the camera.

Kennedy's marriage and his wife's instability, plus relations with Frank Sinatra and his affair with Marilyn Monroe, are treated with clinical insight, but notables are missing, particularly his brother Robert (which is a surprise, given that he took on Monroe after Jack had dumped her). Mercurio knows that any obsession, however fascinating, risks becoming tedious; and despite his best efforts to present Kennedy in a forgiving light, the man remains less than the sum of his parts - smart enough to know there was a void in the centre of his life but incapable of transcending the monomaniacal intensity that gripped him. Seen through his predatory, telescoped eye, all women were reduced to the sum of his prescriptions. Mary Meyer, especially, here relegated to a cameo,


deserves more, being more interesting than her lover - a woman of independent spirit who smoked dope (noted) and took LSD with Timothy Leary (not noted), and came closest to destabilising the philanderer's equilibrium. She was later murdered under bizarre circumstances, and her diary, detailing their affair, threatened briefly, until it was confiscated, to become a political hot potato.

Mercurio's thesis includes the interesting speculation that Kennedy was saved by his assassination, being already a doubly marked man. According to his doctors, he didn't have long to live, and if disease hadn't finished him scandal would: the FBI had an extensive dossier on his sexual peccadilloes and, following the Profumo affair in England, he was no longer safe from the press. Scandal had become a new and powerful marketforce, and Kennedy knew he was next.

My mother, who died at the age of 81 from a condition called vascular dementia, could not remember the beginning of a short sentence by the time she was approaching its conclusion, which more or less eliminated from her diminishing world the pleasures of conversation. In the last weeks of her life, the part of her brain that controlled language began to malfunction and she started to speak in weird phrases which, if you listened to them carefully enough, were made up of words and syllables from both English and Yiddish, her first language, which during the long years of her illness she appeared to have completely forgotten.

Her last full, coherent, grammatically intact message to the world was uttered to my sister:


"I like your earrings." Her last words to me as mother to daughter, the person she knew to be her daughter and not merely someone she knew she knew, had been stated a few months earlier: "I don't like your hair."

But before she became immobilised by incontinence and other terrible afflictions, the one activity in which my mother was still capable of participating, heart and soul, with a fully functioning mind, was shopping for clothes. She would wander along the street crying and moaning, with me gripping her arm for fear she would fall into the traffic. Her own fate was terrible to her, and she knew it. Then we would get to the small clothing section of the Upper Street [Islington] branch of Marks & Spencer andher identity re-formed; she was a human being once again, capable of assessing the quality of knits and whether this season's hemlines were flattering on her small frame. The shopper's soul-shout, "I want!", raced through her bloodstream. Once, I pointed out that M&S had introduced a delivery service for certain postcodes. "Oh, yeah?" she said. "And you'll pay through the nose for it." But a second or two later she was grasping my arm and asking had I seen the sign that announced that M&S now delivered to certain postcodes.

I took her to buy an outfit for my sister's wedding. As soon as she had ascended the escalator she seized on a Ralph Lauren skirt and Jaeger blouse. She scurried around the store holding fabrics together, "because I've


got to match the navy". She cried and stamped her foot when the blouse was too big in the collar, revealing her ruined neck. I understood for the first time that she always wore a little scarf not because her old bones were cold, but because she understood the feminine arts of concealment, how to cover and flatter. She had no intention of being mutton dressed as lamb.

The outfit, which I paid for, cost a bomb. In the taxi back to the home where my sister and I had incarcerated her against her will when she was considered no longer able to function alone, she held her shopping bags with a radiant face, looked at me, eyes milky with innocence and bewilderment. "How are we related?" she asked.

Mymother shopped because shopping was what she did and what she was good at. She had an unerring capacity to enter any store and pick out the most expensive item in it; she had a fantastic eye. Even though she almost never had the money to buy the best thing in the shop, she knew what the best thing was, and following on from that, the calculations you needed to make in order to get as close to it as possible: such as when the sales started, or where you could get really good copies, or which secondhand shops had the kind of stock she was looking for.

She had, in other words, taste. And she learned her taste from a variety of sources, such as reading magazines and


the way we understand it now. It involved the single revolutionary and emancipatory act of middle-class women with disposable income being able to leave the house. Before this, the goods, or the people who made them, came to the house, either the tailors and seamstresses or the pedlars who sold door-to-door to the poor.

The first known use of the word shopping is recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary: "Ladies are said to go a Shoping, when, in the Forenoon, sick of themselves, they order the Coach, and driving from Shop to Shop." In Fanny Burney's novel, Evelina, published in 1778, the eponymous heroine, newly arrived in London, writes a letter home: "We have been a-shopping, as Mrs Mirvan calls it", which indicates that the term is new toEvelina, a girl from the provinces. The earliest example of "shopping" without the preceding "a-" is recorded in Burney's journals, from 1782: "They spent at one shopping £20 in Gauzes two or three years ago!"

The shopping that Burney's female characters did was at small drapers' shops, in London, Bath or market towns. The history of shopping as a modern activity begins in the 19th century, with the industrial revolution, mass manufacture, and the development of the department store or grand magasin. Shopping was attacked not because of consumerist materialism, but because it emancipated both the shopper and the sales girls, releasing them from the physical drudgery of domestic service and placing them into close proximity with nice things: perfumes and scarves instead of coal scuttles and chamber pots.


as possible, where they keep the shirts (preferably on the ground floor, as close as possible to the door so he doesn't get lost). He sees shirts. He sees a shirt in his size. Initially bewildered by the vexing choice on offer, dizzied and blinded by excess, he panics slightly, until, stabbing a finger, he says, "That one." The shirt is taken to the cash till; he hands over money. He expects the price of a shirt to be stable across ranges, across designers, across quality of fabric. A shirt is a shirt. How much can a shirt cost? The shirt is placed in a bag. The transaction has ceased. He leaves the shop hurriedly. Shopping is over. Possibly he will return home with the shirt, his wifeto her existence, and, third, a discussion of this "mini révolution" from a French online newsletter.

Granny takes a trip

Fanny Karst is bringing grey power to the catwalk. For five years, the 24-year-old Frenchwoman has been dreaming of making clothes for 70-year-old women. First at St Martin's, from which she graduated in fashion print two years ago; then in Paris, at the Galerie Crèvecoeur; now at Chittleborough & Morgan, the Savile Row tailor where, for the past 12 months, she has been learning to cut.

The oldest model in the Old Ladies' Rebellion is 80, the youngest 60. They all have white hair, variously chignoned, bobbed or bunned. One of them strolls with a silver-topped walking stick; they all look tremendous. Karst's clothes are so good that you are drawn


not to the fabric but to the woman.

These femmes - few of them professional models, most of them friends of the designer - appear completely at ease, never commandeered by their garments. In a cramped W1 basement, they suggest that they've just slipped on something lovely in order to saunter out on to a Mediterranean terrace.

Karst works in washed silk, which she splashes with digital prints. There is one dark green dress, tied at the waist; the rest are in a subdued French palette of dove grey, silver, white, navy, black - shades of moon and mercury.

Her shapes are beguilingly simple. There's one fringed miniskirt, one pair of cropped trousers. The others are silken shifts which seem to drop straight from the shoulder. They whisper over hips andto run you need flat shoes."

Karst leaves them to their own devices on the catwalk: one smiles, one twirls, one puts a hand on her hip. They all have a good-humoured nonchalance, though Karst says they are occasionally "a bit too disobedient". None of them ever becomes what Karst dreads in a model: "Just a hanger."

There are jokes in here: cheeky, colourful epaulettes which alight like birds of paradise on monochrome shoulders; one T-shirt (worn underneath a silver bomber jacket) that says: "Not at your age"; another that proclaims: "Let's begin at the end". The jokes are part of the passion.

Karst's interest in the elderly started when she was a teenager. She looked at her grandmother and decided that she looked better every year. It has been fuelled


Dubai rather than New York. Its largest shopping mall is in Beijing, and its biggest Ferris wheel in Singapore. Once-mighty General Motors is suspended in a limbo between bail-out and bankruptcy; and the “war on terror” has demonstrated the limits of American military might.

But in one area America is going from strength to strength—the incarceration of its population. America has less than 5% of the world’s people but almost 25% of its prisoners. It imprisons 756 people per 100,000 residents, a rate nearly five times the world average. About one in every 31 adults is either in prison or on parole. Black men have a one-in-three chance of being imprisoned at some point in their lives. “A Leviathan unmatched in human history”, is how Glenn Loury, professor ofWebb is no ordinary politician. He packed several distinguished careers into his life before becoming a senator—as a marine in Vietnam, a lawyer, a much-published author and secretary of the navy in the Reagan administration. And he is not a man to back down from a fight: one of his best books, “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America”, celebrates the martial virtues of the clan to which he is proud to belong.

Some signs suggest that the tide is turning in Mr Webb’s direction. Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003. Barack Obama’s Justice Department has hinted that it wants to do something about the disparity in sentencing between blacks and whites for drug crimes. Support for both the death penalty and the war on drugs


source of constant crisis.)

Fake news operations are closely aligned with the experienced incentives of the Facebook economy — more closely, perhaps, than most of the organizations that are identifying them. Their removal will be an improvement. The outrage at their mere existence, and at their promotion on a platform with the stated goal of connecting the world, will have been justified.pits, just to name some?

btw Raikkonen with this "top speed" was passed left right and centre on the monza pit straight, surely because the renault engine is so powerful.

Amount of races: 20 (record)Amount of different race winners: 8Amount of different podium finishers: 13Amount of different Grand Prix winners from the start of the season: 7 (record)Amount of world champions on the grid: 6 (record)


headquarters in Manhattan since 1988.  In December 1996, Brown, through her attorney, filed a Notice of Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC").  In this charge, she claimed that despite repeated requests to be promoted, Coach had refused to promote her and had instead promoted dozens of non-minority employees and "scarcely any" minorities.  She also claimed that one of her co-employees at Coach told her that she looked "black like a real nigger" when she returned from a vacation, a comment for which the employee was not sanctioned, and that she was routinely excluded from business meetings and holiday parties held by her department.

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In January 1997, Brown filed a complaint in the district court asserting claims under Title VII, the Age DiscriminationAugust of 1996, [she] has repeatedly requested a promotion."   Specifically, Brown contended that in August 1995 and August 1996 she requested a promotion during her annual evaluation.  According to the second amended complaint, during her employment with Coach she was qualified for promotion to "[d]ozens to hundreds" of open positions including "secretary," "administrative assistant" and "human resources assistant."   Brown asserted that she was told repeatedly by supervisors that she was "too valuable in her current position to promote."Brown alleged that she was told by her supervisors that Coach "seeks to hire and promote people who have a 'Coach look'--the examples to whom her supervisors referred were young non-minority persons."   Further, Brown alleged that one of her supervisors made several discriminatory remarks


about minorities.  The second amended complaint also made allegations which were not asserted in the original EEOC charge regarding Coach's employment practices toward minorities as a whole.  Brown points to EEOC statistics which show a low proportion of minority employees in management positions at Coach.  Thus, Brown claims that Coach's hiring and promotion practices have a discriminatory impact on minorities.

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Coach moved to dismiss the second amended complaint again arguing that Brown had failed to state a prima facie case because she failed to "indicate whether there was any open position at Coach for which she was qualified, she applied and was rejected, and which was given to another person."

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The district court granted Coach's motion to dismiss, dismissing the second amended complaint with prejudice.  Thethe overall percentage of minority employees at Coach headquarters dropped from 30% to 11%, while in 1995 the New York City retail trade employed almost 25% minority employees.  Further, the complaint contends that Coach did not employ any minority managers in its headquarters location from 1990-1994 and then in 1995 reported three minority managers.

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Brown does not connect these general statistics to any Coach policy.  Although Brown asserts that Coach's training and promotion policies deliberately keep minorities from being promoted, those alleged policies seem utterly disconnected from the fact that the overall percentage of minority employees as a whole at Coach dropped between 1990 and 1995 and is less than the percentage of minorities in the retail industry as a whole.  The statistics shed no light


she did not know about unposted positions.  Metal Service is "distinguished" because the plaintiffs followed the company's procedures for applying for jobs, but the reasonableness of the plaintiffs' application efforts was determined after all the evidence was presented at trial, not at the pleading stage as the Court does with respect to Brown.  Holsey is "distinguished" because a company representative testified that talking with a supervisor was one way of expressing interest in a promotion, but Brown's complaint alleges that she requested promotions during annual performance reviews by supervisors.  Paxton is "distinguished" because the plaintiff did not hear about the unposted position until it was filled, but that is precisely the reasonable inference from Brown's complaint, at least until some discovery shows that she hadREMEMBER – buy an Advance Ticket to avoid disappointment.ADVANCE TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE at http://fringejazz.com/get-tickets.htmlTickets are also available at the weekly gigs and at TREBLEROCK Guitar Shop, 52 The Mall in Clifton Village, Bristol BS8 4JG. Treblerock is open all day Mon - Sat.

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I walked out of the lab with two vials of my own blood in a zip lock baggie with a hazardous label on it.

At FedEx, I grabbed the smallest box they had and stood awkwardly in line with my box and ziplock trying to look normal, while the woman at the counter struggled mightily to get the address of the man standing at the head of the line, correct. It took a long time. And she was very frazzled. It was my intention to be very nice to her in the first instant of our interaction so that she would want to help me figure this out.

To be fair, I was nice to her for about a couple seconds before her face started looking all


Foreign currency deposits held at foreign central banks and the Bank for International Settlements, securities issued by foreign governments, foreign currency mutual funds, and foreign currency loans (loans by U.S. dollar funds-supplying operations against pooled collateral and loans pursuant to the special rules for the U.S. dollar lending arrangement to enhance the fund-provisioning measure to support strengthening the foundations for economic growth conducted through the loan support program).

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Deposits held at agents that conduct operations relating to treasury funds and Japanese government securities on behalf of the Bank of Japan. These deposits are reserved for such operations.

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Deposits held by foreign central banks and others.

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Includes miscellaneous liabilities and current income (net accumulated profits). For reports from April to around mid-May, net income for the previous fiscal year before appropriation isis more reliable and cost-effective, according to Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle who serves as executive chairman and chief technology officer of the company. Oracle is aiming to overtake rivals with the new technology.

An Oracle employee told Caixin that he was contacted by the human resources department shortly after the conference call about the layoffs. The person said the company offered a severance package based on length of service and asked employees to sign termination agreements by May 22.

According to market data provider Canalys, Oracle lagged behind the world’s cloud computing giants in 2018 global market share. Amazon Web Services was the top player with 31.7% of the market, followed by Microsoft, Google, Alibaba Cloud, and IBM.

In the fiscal third quarter that ended Feb. 28, Oracle


for any key depression.
The depressing unit, driven by the driving unit, includes a plurality of air cylinders, in which each air cylinder communicates with the buffer unit through a hose to utilize the buffer unit as a buffer mechanism for the key-depressing operation. Further, each of the air cylinders has a pressure chamber which is formed in a cylinder and links to the buffer unit by means of the hose, and a depressing head in the form of a piston with a piston rod extending outside the air cylinder for depressing the key.
When in operation, the driving unit drives the depressing unit and the air cylinders to move reciprocally up and down at a constant displacement. During the up and down movement, the depressing head can press the15 months of submission.Neha Manpuria, analyst with JP Morgan , in a report released in January had said, "Growth in the US has been affected by the lag in new product launches. While the trend so far has been tepid, any pickup in ANDA approvals would be a key driver for growth in the near term."


hinges of this type on the spacecraft with their rotation axes correctly aligned so the appendages do not bind during deployment. Conventional precision hinges also tend to have extremely tight mechanical tolerances in order to minimize any free-play, making them even more expensive to manufacture, and also causing high rotational friction levels. Finally, conventional rigid hinges are highly susceptible to damage, since their precision mechanisms often cannot handle high launch load stresses.
FIG. 1 depicts a conventional deployment hinge, in a state where the hinge has fully deployed an appendage. Specifically, conventional deployment hinge 101 is permanently mounted on satellite 102, and appendage 104 has been deployed by fully opening deploying conventional deployment hinge 101, so that appendage 104 rests against satellite 102. The arrows depicted at the center"Frankenstorm" Hurricane Sandy approaches East Coast

It's being called the storm of a lifetime

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Hurricane Sandy becomes a hybrid weather monster some call "Frankenstorm," it will smack the East Coast harder and wider than last year's damaging Irene, forecasters said Friday.

The brunt of the weather mayhem will be concentrated where the hurricane comes ashore early Tuesday, but there will be hundreds of miles of steady, strong and damaging winds and rain for the entire East Coast region for several days, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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The hurricane has killed at least 20 people in the Caribbean, and it just left the Bahamas. It is expected to move north just off the Eastern Seaboard.

As of Friday morning, federal forecasters were looking


closer at the Delaware shore as the spot it will turn inland and merge with a wintry storm front. But there is a lot of room for error in the forecast, and the storm could turn into shore closer to New York and New Jersey, bringing the worst weather there.

Wherever Sandy comes ashore, that area will get 10 inches of rain and extreme storm surges, Louis Uccellini, NOAA's environmental prediction director, said in a Friday news conference. Other areas not directly on Sandy's entry path will still get 4 to 8 inches of rain, maybe more, he said. Up to 2 feet of snow should fall on West Virginia, with lighter snow in parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania, regardless of where Sandy first hits.

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A wide swath of theEast measuring several hundreds of miles will get persistent gale-force winds in the 50 mph area, with some areas closer to storm landfall getting closer to 70 mph, said James Franklin, forecast chief for the National Hurricane Center.

"It's going to be a long-lasting event, two to three days of impact for a lot of people," Franklin said. "Wind damage, widespread power outages, heavy rainfall, inland flooding, and somebody is going to get a significant surge event."

That storm surge will only be magnified by the full moon this weekend to make it a "dangerous period," Uccellini said.

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Last year's Hurricane Irene was a minimal hurricane that caused widespread damage as it moved north along the coast after making landfall in North Carolina. With catastrophic inland flooding in New Jersey, Massachusetts


in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., about 60 miles south of New York City.

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"We're taking them out as fast as we can," said marina employee Jim Martin.

Atlantic City's casinos made contingency plans in case they have to close, as they did for three days last year when Tropical Storm Irene approached.

Eastern states that saw outages that lasted for days after last year's freak Halloween snowstorm and Hurricane Irene are already pressuring power companies to be more ready this time.

Jersey Central Power & Light, which was criticized for its response to Irene, notified employees to be ready for extended shifts. In Pennsylvania, PPL Corp. spokesman Michael Wood said, "We're in a much better place this year."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday said the city was striking a tone ofI was quite taken by the idea of Pandemic Express when it was announced last year. It's a multiplayer survival game that has a group of 30 people attempting to escape a zombie apocalypse, the twist being that one of them—unbeknownst to the rest—is already infected, granting them powerful abilities, unlimited respawns, and a burning hunger for brains. Cue a running fight to the last train out and a final stand by whoever's left alive, and it sounds like a pretty good time to me.

The player numbers haven't been great, though (to put it mildly), and so publisher Tinybuild is taking another run at it by making the game free to play. Under the new system, players will earn "stars" by playing matches that can be spent on


ventricle. The mitral valve annulus can form a D-shaped, oval, or otherwise out-of-round cross-sectional shape having major and minor axes. The anterior leaflet can be larger than the posterior leaflet, forming a generally C-shaped boundary between the abutting free edges of the leaflets when they are closed together.
When operating properly, the anterior leaflet and the posterior leaflet function together as a one-way valve to allow blood to flow only from the left atrium to the left ventricle. The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins. When the muscles of the left atrium contract and the left ventricle dilates, the oxygenated blood that is collected in the left atrium flows into the left ventricle. When the muscles of the left atrium relax and the muscles of theansari brothers. The Court ordered a CBI inquiry in May 2006.

Ansari was accused of ordering the killing and was placed in Agra jail in 2010. He remains there as of April 2014 but the trial has yet to take place. Another person alleged to have been involved in the murder - Afroz, also known as Chunnu Pehlwan - was arrested in June 2014 and placed in judicial custody.

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The NFL has moved Sunday's game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Miami Dolphins to Week 11, when the teams were scheduled to share a bye week, due to concerns about the potential impact of Hurricane Irma.

The Bucs confirmed the news on their Twitter account:

Jon Erdman of the Weather Channel reported the path of Hurricane Irma, which intensified into a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic Ocean, remains unsettled. While some projections have it staying east of Florida, others suggest it could make a direct impact on the Miami area over the weekend and into Monday.

"If Irma's center tracks toward the center of the forecast path this weekend, an intense eyewall strike on South Florida would occur, with potentially devastating, destructive winds, in addition to life-threateningstorm surge flooding and torrential rainfall," Erdman wrote.

Although safety of the players, their families and residents is the most important factor, the scheduling decision will force both the Dolphins and Bucs to play 16 consecutive weeks due to the sudden "bye week."

In addition, Miami must now open the regular season with road games against the Los Angeles Chargers (Sept. 17) and New York Jets (Sept. 24) before taking on the New Orleans Saints Oct. 1 in a "home game" at Wembley Stadium in London, England.

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They won't play their first game at Hard Rock Stadium until Oct. 8 when they take on the Tennessee Titans.

On Tuesday, Barry Jackson and Adam H. Beasley of the Miami Herald provided comments about the situation from quarterback


Jay Cutler, who lamented the possibility of a lost bye week.

"It would be tough," he said. "It would be tough. Guys kind of need that bye week to get healthy and push through the second half of the season. This is the latest bye week I ever had. It's not an ideal situation not to have a bye for us."

Meanwhile, Tampa Bay will now play its first game of the regular season Sept. 17 when it welcomes the Chicago Bears to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Playing Miami in Week 11 will also create a stretch of three straight road games for the Bucs, with trips to Atlanta and Green Bay to follow the Dolphins game.Nine of 10 Malian women suffer genital mutilation

BAMAKO, Feb 22 (Reuters) More than 90 percent of Malian women have suffered genital mutilation, a European parliamentarian told a conference calling for an end to the potentially fatal practice.

Mali, which signed the Maputo Protocol last year calling for states to ban and punish female genital mutilation, plans to outlaw the custom.

''Here in Mali, despite a long fight, mutilation affects more than 90 percent of women,'' Emma Bonina, a member of the European parliament and founder of the No Peace Without Justice non-governmental organisation, told the 200-strong conference yesterday.

''The government and the parliament are leaning towards putting into practice the Maputo protocol and a law banning excision.'' Mali, a Muslim nation in Africa's arid Sahel belt, is one of the world's


poorest nations with more than 90 percent of the population living on less than 2 dollar a day.

One presentation at the two-day conference cited a 2001 survey, which showed that 75 percent of Malian women said they were in favour of excision.

''A law without awareness campaigns on the ground ... would present weaknesses which would dangerously undermine the fight,'' said Diallo M'bodji Sene, Mali's minister for the promotion of women, children and families.

The UN children's agency UNICEF said last year an estimated three million girls and women are mutilated or cut each year on the African continent, in a custom traditionally believed to bestow status and honour.

However it can disfigure, cause psychological damage and sometimes kill.

The practice, also known as female circumcision, usually involves cutting off the clitorisreactive airways disease ("RADs") or aggravated preexisting respiratory conditions. Proceeding on theories of negligent failure to warn and strict products liability, Fuller alleged that the Stainshield product label was inadequate in that it failed to warn users that the product was a respiratory irritant, that he relied upon and followed the label instructions regarding safe use of the product, and that his injury was foreseeable by the defendants and could have been prevented by a warning label that instructs users of the product to wear a filter mask.
The complaint was filed in February 1992 and some discovery was conducted. In November of 1992, all three appellees moved to dismiss Fuller's action on grounds of forum non conveniens; the trial court denied the motion, and appellees appealed on December


11, 1992. This court affirmed the denial of the motion in a memorandum opinion and judgment issued on September 27, 1994. Thereafter, the trial court entered a scheduling order, which was later modified with a deadline for completion of discovery by August 14, 1995. On August 1, Fuller mailed notices requesting that corporate designees of appellees DuPont and ChemSpec be produced to give depositions on August 10 and 14, respectively. The object of the depositions was to obtain basic information about ChemSpec's and DuPont's involvement with and knowledge of the research, development and testing of Stainshield and its chemical components.
Appellees ChemSpec and DuPont objected to Fuller's noticing depositions at such a late date, complaining that, inter alia, the information sought included a "broad and detailed array of topics"and biological warfare (see also Japan’s Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem And Torture In Wartime Asia by Mark Felton).
It was called the Kempeitai. There was also a navy branch called the Tokubetsu Keisatsutai. In addition, the Tokubetsu Koutou Keisatsu conducted domestic criminal investigation of civilians suspected of being anti-war or dangerous and counter-espionage functions, and punished perceived offenders with torture.
However, all three were abolished by the Allied Powers in 1945, so it is not possible that Furuya Rei was a member, since he is only 29 years old in the Meitantei Conan series. Japan does not have a post-WWII secret service. It is likely that what is being translated as "Japanese secret police" is either 1) the Kouanchousachou a.k.a. the Public Security Intelligence Agency established under the Ministry of Justice


in 1952, which "is tasked with internal security and espionage against threats to Japanese national security" and "has ties to several foreign intelligence as security agencies, including the CIA, FBI, MI6, and Mossad, with several PSIA agents having been invited to train with the CIA under its Intelligence Analysis Course," or 2) one of the types of special police in Japan.

girl's hair, which was that heart-wrenchingly beautiful color of carroty-red that is not replicated anywhere else in nature. Her hair was simply, perfectly, by Grace, a mechanism for the Sun to make itself manifest and to show its beauty; without that hair, that color, at that moment, on that girl, at that corner, the Sun could never have been all that it was born to be, and the Sun knew it and I knew it and we were both awed by it.

And there, sitting at the red light, surrounded by the city, headed for the Teddy Roosevelt bridge, there, I was -- and best of all, knew myself to be -- in the presence of The Kore, in the sunlight, on the day of Osara. Not, symbolically, not


be blessed.But then, how could it be any other way?Love,Terri in Joburg, at Rushing Dark Water

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"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."to post-Zionism but now also to Jewish history. That such an article is given prominence in an Israeli daily newspaper with a wide Internet English readership reflects adversely on us all.The author, Eli Gat, is a Holocaust survivor who in 2009 privately published a shoddy book called Not Just Another Holocaust describing his sufferings and alluding to the revisionist nonsense incorporated in his current article. His book was completely ignored and very few people would have even heard his name untilpublished his article.In his article Gat dishonors the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and diminishes its historical and symbolic significance. He insists that there were fewer than 700 ghetto fighters and that the revolt lasted a mere two days, after which time many fighters fled. Gat has


approach was its vitriolic campaign against the IDF, in which it published numerous examples of alleged war crimes committed by individual soldiers. These allegations were subsequently proven to be unfounded, but only after the damage had been done: the stories were reproduced on the front pages of the major media outlets throughout the world, fermenting the hostile climate which paved the way for the notorious Goldstone Report.There are a number ofjournalists who are often indistinguishable from Palestinian propagandists.For example, in April this year, after an incident in which a three-year-old Israeli girl was critically wounded when a car driven by her mother was struck by a stone, Amira Haas, notorious for her pro-Palestinian bias, justified the act by stating, “Throwing stones is the hereditary right and duty ofHouse may ponder Senate surface transport bill

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday suggested the House majority might consider the Senate version of a surface transportation bill, following the collapse of support (even among many Republicans) for the $260 billion House version.

The Senate's version of a five-year renewal is deemed by many, including those in the rail industry, as more evenly applied to various surface transport modes, including rail, as opposed to the House version, which focused on highways and auto-related items almost exclusively.

Rail industry interests blanketed congressional offices Thursday as part of Railroad Day on Capitol Hill, in a coordinated effort to highlight freight and passenger rail's viability and importance to the nation's infrastructure and transport flexibility. Numerous groups, including the Railway Supply Institute and