is intending to enter the contaminated area soon after the attack when safe to do so. IPE and detection equipment would be used by first-in elements and until the all-clear was given.

Saraqeb

The Saraqeb attack is probably one of the mostly well documented alleged chemical weapon attacks of the conflict. Canisters inside containers filled with white-grey powder were reportedly dropped from a helicopter, landing in two locations, one near a road, where no victims were reported, and the other in the courtyard of a family home. It was reported that immediately after impact, one of the residents entered the courtyard, and collapsed shortly afterwards, later dying. Shortly after the first victim entered the courtyard more members of the family entered, and also fell ill, as did people responding toreported in Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo, where there were again claims of them being dropped from a helicopter, with photographs showing the canister remains covered in white-grey powder.

The same design of canister has also been filmed in a cache of weapons reportedly captured by the Syrian opposition from the Syrian military, and a journalist in Syria has shown the image of the canister to various armed group, many of which have claimed to have seen them in the possession of opposition fighters, claiming to have captured them from the Syrian army.

Another type of grenade, using an identical fuze, was also photographed in Syria , with the photographer being told it was a normal smoke grenade.

There's video footage from the Saraqeb attack showing what's claimed to be the canisters


of the Bobcats, nixed the deal right before it was finalized, which allowed Calderon to remain with the Raptors.

2010–11 season
Calderón was ranked fifth in assists per game (8.9) at the conclusion of the regular season.

2011–12 season
On February 12, 2012, Calderón scored a career high 30 points in a 94–92 loss against the Lakers. Calderón led the league in assists per turnover (4.5) for the third time in five years at the conclusion of the regular season.

Detroit Pistons (2013)
On January 30, 2013, Calderón was traded to the Detroit Pistons in a three-team trade which sent Tayshaun Prince, Austin Daye, and Ed Davis to the Memphis Grizzlies and Rudy Gay and Hamed Haddadi to Toronto. He became the starting point guard for the Pistons, and in just his fourth gamestyle="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers
| 24 || 11 || 12.2 || .416 || .353 || 1.000 || 1.7 || 2.1 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 3.3
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| style="text-align:left;"| Atlanta
| 17 || 2 || 14.5 || .404 || .267 || .875 || 1.9 || 2.2 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 3.6
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| style="text-align:left;"| Cleveland
| 57 || 32 || 16.0 || .503 || .464 || .800 || 1.5 || 2.1 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 4.5
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| style="text-align:left;"| Detroit
| 49 || 0 || 12.9 || .375 || .246 || .818 || 1.2 || 2.3 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 2.3
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"She had everything to live for, and yet she just disappeared." "Now new and alarming questions are being raised about what happened to a young wife and medical student here in New York some 20 years ago." "Two decades later, Kathie Durst is suddenly more than a memory, thanks to a tip from a defendant in an unrelated case." "I had arrested an individual named Timothy Martin." "And Timmy was arrested for several counts of public lewdness." "He was basically exposing himself to women." "He was convicted, and shortly before sentencing, his attorney contacted me and stated that" "Timmy wanted to sit down with me and talk to me about some information he had on an old murder that occurred up here in Northern Westchester." "What he statedparent die when I was young." "And her background?" "Rich, Las Vegas, mobster father." "This happy, little girl was 5 years old when this snapshot was taken." "Her mother had been a tap dancer, but gave it up when she married." "Her father was rich and powerful and doted on his only child." "That little girl today is Susan Berman." "And she's the author of Easy Street." "You grew up to age of 21 not knowing that your dad was a gangster." "How'd you finally find out?" "A friend at UCLA, Jane, asked me if I'd seen a certain crime book that just came out." "And I said, "No."" "And I ran to the store in Los Angeles and looked, and there was my father, described as an


ex-con from Sing Sing who'd kill a man with one hand behind his back." "He was tied in with the so-called" ""Murder Incorporated."" "After all, he was a bank robber at one time, you know." "So..." "She was quite proud of him." "And he was bigger than life." "So, yes, she does, yes, she deified him." "She even had his mug shot framed in the living room." "Something happened when she met Bobby Durst." "It was like "Here's a man as powerful as my father." ""He is connected." ""He has money." ""He can always get out of trouble." "And he needs me."" "And she always used to say, "He needs me."" ""We have a special friendship."" "19 years ago, Robert Durst told police he had driven his wifefrom their country house in South Salem, New York, to this nearby train station, where she boarded the city-bound train, headed for their Manhattan apartment" "and a busy week at medical school." "But no one close to Kathie would see her again." ""The beautiful wife of a wealthy Manhattan real estate developer has disappeared."" ""There has been no trace of sandy-haired Kathleen Durst, 29," ""since January 31, when she returned to her penthouse" ""after a weekend in the country." ""The doorman at 37 Riverside Drive" ""saw her arrive home that Sunday evening and go to her apartment."" "This would not be information gleaned from the police." "We wouldn't give that out." "It's being fed to the newspaper at that time from the Durst side." "When Kathie disappeared, I


the situation." "Mm-hmm." "She was..." "She was loyal." "I think she was a loyal soul to the end." "What was your relationship with Susan Berman over all those years?" "When Kathie disappeared, initially the first several years," "Susan was living, still living in New York." "And I saw her frequently in New York." "Then she moved to Los Angeles." "I went online and I traced Susan Berman from Beekman Place all the way out to Benedict Canyon in California." "I gave the police a map to her door." "And I said, "Whatever you do, interview this woman." ""She knows more than she's saying." ""She's a good friend of Bob's." "Maybe she won't tell you anything, but maybe she will."" "We had a conversation in which I said, "Susan,"I shut her up." "She wrote about mobsters, and she was the daughter of one." "So, when author Susan Berman was found dead of a single gunshot wound to the head at her Benedict Canyon home on Christmas Eve, all of the obvious questions came up." "Mostly "Was it a mob-style hit?"" "We were surprised to learn that Robert Durst was not a suspect in Susan Berman's murder." "The LAPD was looking at mob connections of that murder." "Susan Berman's business manager said that she had been working on television projects about the mob's days in Las Vegas when she was killed." "She did talk to me about something she was working on that I think was not a screenplay." "I think it was a journalism story." "And


so [Steve] Parish went out to the hardware store and got these giant nails and a great big hammer and as soon as everybody was in, he hammered the door shut from the inside ... we didn't have drifters from the other studios coming in to listen. We didn't have people leaving to go screw around elsewhere. We started getting work done." With Fleetwood Mac, Olsen had a hands-on approach, orchestrating the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks and influencing song choice, arrangements and sequencing. He entered the Grateful Dead project with similar expectations, imagining a concept album or song cycle. Olsen said that Davis told him "I need a commercial record out of them." This caused some friction during the sessions as well as with theThe Stena Line Belfast Giants are pleased to announce the re-signing of British forward Craig Peacock for the next 2 years welcoming back another player that was instrumental in the Giants success this past season.

After a brief spell with Frederikshavn in Denmark at the beginning of last year, the 25-year-old forward from Peterborough, England returned to Belfast for his 5th season in teal and contributed 23 goals and 11 assists, helping the Giants to the Elite League Championship.

In his time with the Giants, Peacock has won three major championships, Elite League Titles in 2012 and 2014 as well as the Playoff Championship in 2010.

Craig has become a firm fan favourite, and currently sits 3rd all time in scoring with 251 points in 286 games, with only George Awada


and Colin Shields scoring more points in a Giants jersey.

General Manager Todd Kelman, who was a driving force in bringing Craig Peacock to Belfast in 2009, spoke of his delight in Peacock’s re-signing.

“We signed Peaks when he was just a kid and he has grown into one of the top British players in this league. We are excited to get him back in Belfast where he belongs for at least another 2 years, and we hope to have him here for a long time.”

“He is a natural scorer and has been a part of some big moments in Giants history playing a key role on the Championship teams he has been a part of. I know our fans will be pleased to have him back in Belfast andto run concurrently with the state sentence now being served.  This sentence is imposed under 18 U.S.C. 4208(a)(2).  (Prisoner eligible for parole at such time as the Board of Parole may determine.)

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Following the imposition of the federal sentence, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons designated the Arkansas State Penitentiary as the place of confinement for commencement of service of the federal sentence.  Thus, the federal sentence was served concurrently with the Arkansas sentence.  The State of Arkansas paroled the defendant from his ten-year sentence on June 27, 1975, after White had served a little more than two years of that sentence.  Thereafter, federal authorities transferred White to the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.  While at Leavenworth, White requested and was


rhythms of Kerouac’s writing—indeed, I’d sometimes look into Jack’s great Visions of Cody for inspiration. Wetware was a gift from the muse—insane, mind-boggling, and, in my opinion, a cyberpunk masterpiece.

And later in 1986 we moved to San Jose, California—I’d gotten a job teaching computer science at San Jose Statue University. And in San Jose and I saw Phil again.

The way I found Phil in San Jose involves my friend Dennis Poague. My Wares novel character Sta-Hi, also known as Stahn, also known as Stanley Hilary Mooney, was transreally inspired by a Dennis, occupation freelance mechanic, legal status Blank (like the “Blank Reg” character in Max Headroom), long-term resident of San Jose.

I’d first met Dennis in the mid-seventies when I was teaching college in up-state New York, a stateSan Jose in the summer of 1986, I hadn’t seen Dennis in a few years, and I was a little nervous about it. He phoned up, and asked me to stop by his apartment in downtown San Jose.

Where he lived wasn’t actually a real apartment, it was simply a small room at the head of a flight of stairs in someone’s house. Wherever Dennis lives there are always four or five half-assembled cars in the driveway and backyard. He was fixing one or several of these cars in return for being allowed to live there. His room was not much larger than a bed; there were shelves on the wall piled with electronic music equipment, cartons of old Heavy Metal magazines, car parts, ragged clothes and hundreds of


Does he seem happy?” “I’ll ask him.”

But Dennis never did talk to Phil. Phil got on his motorcycle and left that house for good, right after I did. I saw him in my rearview mirror, right before I turned onto Route 17. He was all in black, idling on the putt, wearing shades, a greasy old biker, calm with meth. Looked to me like he was headed for South San Jose. He never waved.

A couple of years later, in 1989, Wetware would win me a second Philip K. Dick award.

This award ceremony was at a smallish regional SF con in Tacoma, Washington. It wasn’t like the artists’ loft in New York at all. It was in a windowless hotel ballroom with a dinner of rubber ham and mashedShares in Boohoo have fallen over 40 percent, after the online retailer issued a profit warning on the back of lower-than-expected Christmas sales

Author: Laura French

7 Jan 2015

Shares in London tumbled to 22.25p following news that Boohoo had cut forecasts for 2015 revenues from £157m to £140m, the FT reports. That resulted from a drastic fall in sales growth, from 50 percent in the second quarter of 2014 to 25 percent in the last four months of the year.

The share prices are down from 50p in March 2014 – the month the company first went public and shares initially soared, opening the debut at a record 85p.

Boohoo cited strong competition from retailers offering discounts as partly behind the weak results. “Marketing was increased to stimulate sales, however, the resultant


(it also brought coach Jurgen Klinsmann from Germany).

And as Garrett Oliver of the Brooklyn Brewery writes in his Oxford Companion to Beer, the ideas have traveled both ways.

"Slowly, the influence has crept back in the other direction as well," Oliver says. "Belgian brewers are experimenting with bold hop character, long the signature of the American craft brewing movement."

U.S. brewers are famous for their India Pale Ale, a style defined by hoppiness. We'll resist the urge to compare that quality to a corner kick. Instead, let's call it a general rambunctiousness — particularly along the defensive line. This is a beer with backbone and power, not afraid of its own pungency.

The U.S. lineup of IPAs also knows how to score. From California, the Russian River brewery's Pliny the Elderaroma."

The Americans answer with a rock-solid lineup of stouts that are strong in every sense of the word. From Goose Island comes the Bourbon County Stout, a rich glass of charred darkness. Founders brings the Kentucky Breakfast Stout, whose coffee notes could give you a second-half spark.

The 'X Factor'

The U.S. side has another secret weapon: beating the Belgians at their own game. Consider that American brewers such as California's The Bruery, Wisconsin's New Glarus and New York's Ommegang have excelled at making saisons, sour beers and Belgian-style ales.

In a sign that Tuesday's game could be a close one, the winning Belgian-style tripel at the most recent World Beer Cup was from Delaware's Dominion Brewing. And while Belgium's Rodenbach brewery took gold in the aged sour beer category with


EL SEGUNDO – The Los Angeles Lakers have announced the preseason schedule for the 2018-19 season, along with ticket information. The Lakers will open the six-game preseason slate at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego and will host the Nuggets, Kings, Clippers and Warriors before closing the preseason at the SAP Center in San Jose as guests of Golden State.

Tickets will be available to the public via the links on the schedule starting on May 21. Please find complete ticketing details below.

Below is the complete 2018-19 Los Angeles Lakers preseason schedule.

TICKETS DATE OPPONENT CITY ARENA TIME Buy Tickets September 30 Denver Nuggets San Diego, CA Valley View Casino Center 6:30pm Ticket Exchange October 2 Denver Nuggets Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center 7:30pm Ticket Exchange October 4Sacramento Kings Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center 7:30pm Buy Tickets October 6 Los Angeles Clippers Anaheim, CA Honda Center 7:00pm Buy Tickets October 10 Golden State Warriors Las Vegas, NV T-Mobile Arena 7:30pm Sold By GSW October 12 Golden State Warriors San Jose, CA SAP Center 7:30pm

Individual game tickets for games in San Diego, Anaheim and Las Vegas will go on sale at 10:00 a.m. PT on Monday, May 21, while tickets for the preseason games at STAPLES Center will go on sale later this summer when regular season tickets are available.

You can request group tickets for the preseason games at STAPLES Center by contacting our offices at 310-426-6033 or grouptickets@la-lakers.com.

Tickets for the game in San Diego will be sold at www.axs.com and will be available by phone


Novak Djokovic Addressed The United Nations Today [Video]

by Tom Gainey |

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic spent the early part of his Friday addressing the United Nations in New York. Djokovic’s speech marked the proclamation of International Day of Sport for Development and Peace which will be celebrated on every April 6, the opening day the of first modern Olympic games in 1896.

Novak has been serving as UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia since August of 2011.

It was a real honor to address the UN and be given special privilege to speak on behalf of global family of athletes on this historic day. — Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) August 23, 2013

After the speech he returned to the US pen for a practice session.

Video of his speech:

Two men pulled an 8-foot-long boa constrictor from beneath a vehicle parked outside of a northeastern Pennsylvania medical building.

The Citizens' Voice in Wilkes-Barre reports the men pried the snake from a Mercury Mountaineer's undercarriage Thursday afternoon after one saw it wriggle underneath.

One of the men, herpetologist Cameron English, identified the snake as a red-tailed boa constrictor.

"They told me I better not get in my car," said owner Katie Hauer, who had been inside the Geisinger Kingston medical center in Kingston borough.

Hauer said she was told she may have transported the snake from where she lives to the medical building.

"I'm going to be checking under my car and around my car every single day now," Hauer said.

Rescuers said the snake appeared to be a well-fed pet. It was placed


to Twitter with a similar view: "At least Weiner didn't make his wife come out and gaze lovingly at him."

Ha ha. He's a PR expert! He's not advising Weiner in advance. He's dealing with the facts he's stuck with. This is what the PR man says when the wife isn't there. What did the Democratic consultants say when Silda Spitzer stood by her man?

As the "body woman" to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Huma Abedin is tasked with accompanying the former first lady on diplomatic globetrotting missions.

Weiner, it seems, uses the timing of her foreign affairs to pursue domestic ones online.

For instance, last month, while Abedin and Clinton were in Rome meeting with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Weiner was chatting up Texas nursing student Meagan Broussard.

I wonderwhat conversations Huma is having with Hillary — the world's most famous stander by of her man.

The political power couple met while Abedin was on the campaign trail during Clinton's 2008 White House bid. By 2009, they were engaged....

Didn't Abedin know the kind of man she was marrying? He was 45, and had never married previously. As Hillary's close assistant, she had to be sophisticated about the ways of oversexed, extroverted, narcissistic husbands. What was the marriage supposed to be, anyway? They were conspicuously a glamorous "power couple," for public purposes, but what was he allowed to do in private? What were their understandings? At the press conference yesterday, Weiner said that she asked how he could be so dumb, which made me think what mattered most was


she'll only divorce him if it compromises her goal in marrying him in the first place. Personally, I suspect she only got married so that she could wear an Oscar de la Renta wedding dress and get her picture in Vogue.

Actually I think Althouse has it right when she writes: oversexed, extroverted, narcissistic husbands. A friend of mine was married to a sex addict, and at first said she was flattered by sex four times a day, but as time went on she begin to realize the extent of his addiction, something he hid in the beginning, and realized there was no way she could ever satisfy him. So I am not ready to blame Huma Abedin in this case. But I do blame Weiner for lying, andBy Police1 Staff

NEW YORK — A rookie NYPD officer was met with applause by fellow officers as he made a step toward recovery following a hatchet attack last week.

CBS New York reports 25-year-old Officer Kenneth Healey left the hospital Wednesday with a bandaged head and right hand to transfer to a rehabilitation center for more treatment.

Officer Healey was one of two rookie officers injured after 32-year-old Zale Thompson charged a group of four officers with a hatchet last Thursday. Healey was struck in the head and another officer was slashed in the arm before Thompson was shot to death by police.

Healey suffered a skull fracture in the incident, according to Newsday.

“After running into the emergency room thinking we were going to lose one of our own, today we


by laying out her five tests – she refrained from calling them red lines – that any Brexit deal must meet. To which she might as well have added a sixth – that she reserved the right to add or subtract one or two more as required. In other words, all bets were off.

With that off her chest, the prime minister then went on to give the speech she probably ought to have considered giving before the referendum when she was half-heartedly in favour of remaining in the EU. And certainly before triggering article 50. But better late than never.

After nearly two years in office, it had slowly dawned on her that leaving the EU was a great deal more complicated than she had been led to believe.appeared to be doing was making a desperate plea to the EU for help. She wanted a customs union as long as it wasn’t called a customs union. She was happy with the European court of justice as long as it could be called the British European court of justice. So could the EU just accommodate her a bit and give her everything she wanted? And while they were about it, any ideas for resolving the Irish border problem would be gratefully received.

By now heads were going down in the audience. With a Theresa May speech you feel every one of the 45 long minutes. Sensing she was losing her way, the prime minister went back to her familiar Maybot trademarks. She appears to confuse mindless slogans with


TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have placed a first-round tender on restricted free agent Michael Bennett, according to a league source.

The tender would earn the defensive end approximately $2.7 million in 2012. The high tender means the Bucs would receive a first-round draft pick if another team signs Bennett.

Bennett joined the Bucs in 2009 and has gradually grown into a steady player. He started 10 games last season and produced a career-high four sacks.

According to a source, the Bucs have also sent tenders to their two exclusive-rights free agents -- running back LeGarrette Blount and receiver Preston Parker. Each of those tenders is worth $540,000.

The Bucs also placed the right-of-first-refusal tender on offensive lineman DeMar Dotson, a source said. That tender is expected to be aboutthe damage and sprucing up the premises for the purpose of putting the property on the market. During late April or early May, the plaintiffs noticed the "For Sale" sign on Mrs. Dubuc's property and, after obtaining the keys from a neighbor, went through the house. Finding it to their liking, they returned for several more visits, and finally, at a meeting at the Dubucs' new home on May 22, 1975, they agreed to purchase the property from the defendants for the price of twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars. The closing of the sale took place on June 4, 1975, the plaintiffs taking possession on that same day.
During the following winter, in January, 1976, Mr. Crowley discovered that there was water in the workshop portion of the basement of


his new home, which he was using as a storeroom. He also noticed that there were horizontal cracks in several of the workshop walls. A closer examination of those cracks revealed that they had previously been filled with patching cement and painted over. Mr. Crowley thereafter learned that the foundation walls would need extensive repair, and perhaps, even removal and replacement.
Two sharply contrasting versions of the events leading up to the sale evolved at trial. Mr. Crowley, who admitted that he had independently gained some expertise in foundation work since his dealings with Mr. Dubuc, nonetheless asserted that he had never noticed any crack or other visible defect in the foundation in the cellar or the workshop prior to January, 1976. He testified that on one of thevisits he made to the property before agreeing to buy it, Mr. Dubuc had assured him that the foundations of the cellar and the workshop were in good condition.
Mr. Dubuc admitted that the cracks resulted from the water damage to the foundation that occurred during the winter preceding the sale of the home, and also that he had patched those cracks himself. However, *551 he testified that, at the time of Mr. Crowley's first visit to the house, the cracks were plainly visible. According to Mr. Dubuc, when Mr. Crowley subsequently returned for another examination of the house, he came through the workshop and watched Mr. Dubuc as he was patching and painting the foundation surface.

Findings
The Superior Court Justice, sitting as trier of the facts in the jury-waived


for explosives. In recent months hundreds of people have died after car bombers were able to penetrate the security cordon supposed to protect the centre of the Iraqi capital.

Colin Port, the Somerset and Avon Police Chief Constable, personally ordered the investigation. A force spokesman said in a statement: “We are conducting a criminal investigation, and as part of that, a 53-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud by misrepresentation. That man has been released on bail pending further inquiries.

“The force became aware of the existence of a piece of equipment around which there were many concerns, and in the interests of public safety, launched its investigation.

“It was reported to the Chief Constable Colin Port, through his role as the Association of Chief Police Officers’ lead ongenerate more income for my department by doing surgery than I could through research. Clinician-scientists are in general a drag on the finances of an academic department.

Actually, no it didn’t, superstition did. According to this article at theage.com.au (sounds suspiciously close to New Age for my blood):

MOHAMMAD Ponari was, until last month, a typical kid in the impoverished East Java village of Balongsari. Then, quite literally, lightning struck.

The nine-year-old, who had been playing in the rain in his front yard, was hit by the thunderbolt but, to the astonishment of his young friends, he was unharmed.

All the more bizarre, according to an account by his village chief and his family, when he came to, he found a stone the size of an egg on his head, and was


key body in addressing Aboriginal health issues. In 2010, Gallagher was included in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and in 2013 she was appointed to the Order of Australia in recognition of her strong and effective leadership in Aboriginal health.

The Melbourne School of Health Sciences’ new Indigenous Curriculum Framework, Many Ways Learning, will also be launched by Professor Shitij Kapur, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.can fetch thousands of dollars from "murderabilia" collectors.

"We think Manson's worth more than anyone realizes," said Mike Smith, a music agent for a man who claims Manson fathered him during an orgy. "There's a lot of money there."

The hearing seeks to name an attorney to administer Manson's estate on behalf of purported grandson Jason Freeman, who claims to be the rightful next of kin. Court documents show Freeman is the son of the late Charles Manson Jr. and the grandson of Charles Manson and his first wife, Rosalie Willis.

That lineage is disputed by Matt Lentz, a Los Angeles-area musician who goes by the name Matthew Roberts. Lentz was adopted by an Illinois couple as a newborn.

Lentz plans to file a will Monday that Manson purportedly signed in January


2017 and gave to friend and memorabilia collector Ben Gurecki. It names Gurecki as executor and Lentz as beneficiary.

Related: Charles Manson, murderous cult leader, dies at 83

If valid, it could supersede a 2002 will filed in Kern County by longtime Manson pen pal Michael Channels that disinherits Manson's natural born children and names him as executor and heir.

Charles Manson at a parole hearing in 1986. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Attorney Alan Davis, who represents the Freeman bid, said he expects no final decision Monday in part because Judge Clifford Klein would first have to consolidate competing claims.

Lentz wants a DNA test of Manson's remains, which are still being held by theKern County sheriff-coroner, to prove he is kin and Freeman is not.

JoAnne Lentz is among those who think her adopted son looks like Manson and has other similarities.

"Matthew's got long dark hair and he's a musician," she said. "Have you seen a picture of my Matthew? They look alike, but as far as any DNA (test), I don't know."

Matthew Lentz himself questions whether the will he possesses is valid.

"It looks pretty generic, like they got it off the internet or something," he said. "It didn't have the three witnesses that California requires, it only had one."

Related: Charles Manson: Will the myth ever die?

Manson also had a reputed son with Mary Brunner, an early member of his cult. Michael Brunner had no connection with Manson growing up and has


severed ties and made no apparent claim to the estate. He did not return messages seeking comment.

The will filed by Channels purportedly disinherits both Brunner and Charles Manson Jr., who killed himself in 1993 after siring Jason Freeman.

Smith said he fears that Freeman only seeks to profit from his position and could put Manson's remains on display.

Celebrity probate attorney Adam Streisand, who is not involved in the case, said any royalties might instead go to relatives of Manson's victims, though their claims may have lapsed over the years.

Related: What ever happened to the other Manson family cult members?

Royalties from Guns N' Roses 1993 recording of a Manson song, "Look at Your Game, Girl," went to the son of one of his victims under a court order, Streisand said.Manson was also an acquaintance of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson in 1968, and the band recorded a variation of a Manson song under the title "Never Learn Not To Love."

Whomever controls the estate would be able the use Manson's image and have the power to authorize biographies or documentaries.

Freeman refused to say what he would do if he wins the court fight, other than to have the body cremated. He's saving further details for a documentary he's been filming since last year.

His bid is backed by Manson associate John Michael Jones, who said Manson refused to leave a will. Jones dismissed other claims to Manson's body or possessions as frauds.

"They're just looking for 15 minutes of fame," he said.

Freeman said he's waiting for a judge to sort


Jeremy Jacobs, then-Lt. Gov. Tina Smith, Dr. John Noseworthy of the Mayo Clinic, Lisa Clarke, Randy Staver and David Mortenson threw dirt for an outdoor groundbreaking of Discovery Square.

The number of hotel rooms fell from 2,830 in 2014 to 2,703 this year, mostly due to consolidation of existing rooms to create suites as well as some planned closings. There are 943 hotel rooms either under construction or in the planning stages, and those new rooms should help the city meet all demand until at least the mid-2020s.

The report also examined retail and professional office space needs, concluding that existing projects and renovations should meet demand for the next five years.

The $585 million in taxpayer funds authorized for the DMC goes to the city of Rochester to pay formove toward democracy, he immediately began preparing his son Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck to take the throne.

The younger Wangchuck has stayed true to his father’s preference for “gross national happiness” rather than industrial development, keeping with anti-materialist Buddhist tenets central to Bhutanese culture.

The kingdom ended its formal isolation by joining the United Nations in 1971 and allowed foreign correspondents and tourists into the country three years later. But modernization and foreign influence is greatly restricted.

Only 6,000 tourists may visit per year—and only then after paying at least $200 a day for a visa. Television was not introduced until 1999 and citizens must wear national dress in public.

DPT Spokesperson Palden Tshering said, “It is truly amazing. The people have truly made their decision.” The DPT campaigned on a platform


of economic development—an alluring message in a country where some 25 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

The establishment of Tibetan Buddhism in the 9th century A.D. brought many monks to settle in the area now known as Bhutan. The country was united by Tibetan lama Ngawana Namgyal in 1616. He developed a legal code, undermined rival religious circles and established himself as ruler. However, after his death the country plunged into a civil war that lasted about 200 years until Ugyen Wangchuck, the patriarch of the current dynasty, secured power in 1885. He developed closer ties between Bhutan and India under the British Raj, and in 1907, Wangchuck was voted in as hereditary ruler. Three years later, the Treaty of Punakha, signed with the British,ensured that India under Britain would not meddle in Bhutanese domestic affairs if Bhutan would accept U.K. counsel for its foreign dealings. After India’s independence in 1947, the Indian government recognized Bhutan’s sovereignty.

The third king of the Wangchuck line, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck is considered “the father of modern Bhutan.” He made slavery illegal in 1958 and had Bhutan join the United Nations in 1971, formally ending the country’s policy of total isolation. Tourists and the foreign press were first allowed in the country in 1974.

In the early 1990s, the Bhutanese government forced several thousand ethnic Nepali citizens out of the country and into India. They were sent on to Nepal, where many of the refugees dwell in bamboo shacks in the eastern reaches of the country. Although Bhutan


maintains that the Nepalis left voluntarily, one refugee recalls that “the army took all the people from their houses. On the way there were many police. We were forced to sign the document. They snapped our photos. The man told me to smile . . . He wanted to show that I was leaving my country willingly, happily.”

King Jigme Singye Wangchuck said in December 2005 that he would install a parliamentary democracy in 2008, at which moment he would abdicate all power to his son Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. The BBC says that only 6,000 tourists are allowed into Bhutan per year, and that smoking is completely banned.

According to an April 30, 2006, article in Time magazine, Bhutan has no traffic lights and citizens are required to wearthe end of the year.

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Since 2007, Hand Rolling studio based in Moscow is engaged in the SFX design of movies, cartoons and commercials. On the studio portfolio, many fine films from cult Russian directors, as well as a nomination for the TEFI award. During the work on the projects, a unique library of sound effects was recorded and synthesized, which has no analogues.comfortable evaluating fixed income, this may seem prudent. After all, the Barclays Aggregate provides exposure to a large number of fixed income sectors, including: Treasuries, residential mortgage-baked securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, corporates, agencies, et cetera. Sector diversification, however, is only one dimension over which a fixed income portfolio can be diversified. The Barclays Aggregate also provides diversification across maturity and credit quality dimensions.

One could often do much, much worse than a broadly diversified, passively allocated index. That being said, we believe that this approach does not free an investor from ongoing portfolio management responsibilities.

Consider an example from the equity world: in 1989, a globally diversified, market-capitalization weighted equity portfolio would have had a 37.89% weighting to Japanese equities. At that time, Japanese equities had a Shiller PE of


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Dominic Chappell, the serial bankrupt who bought BHS for £1, has been arrested in relation to an unpaid tax bill of about £500,000.

He was arrested on 2 November by HM Revenue and Customs.

HMRC did not confirm the identity of the "49-year-old businessman", but Mr Chappell told ITV News he had been arrested.

The tax related to the profits he made from the department store chain before it collapsed.

Mr Chappell's company, Swiss Rock, was paid at least £1.6m by BHS following his controversial purchase of BHS from Sir Philip Green.

The Guardian reported that Swiss Rock owed £365,000 in VAT and £196,306 in corporation tax.

Speaking about Swiss Rock's tax bill in September, Mr Chappell told the paper: "There was a return that was made in error; they [HMRC]to turn around BHS."

The loss-making chain was bought by Mr Chappell last year. It went into administration in April and the last stores closed in August, with the loss of about 11,000 jobs and leaving a pensions deficit of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Last month MPs backed a call to strip Sir Philip of his knighthood for his role in the collapse of BHS.

The Pensions Regulator has started legal action against Sir Philip, his family's companies and Mr Chappell after failing to reach a deal over the BHS pension fund deficit.

The BBC understands that the regulator wants £350m in redress from Sir Philip, but he was only willing to offer £250m.


to get rid of staff as soon as possible, Monday could bring Lehman-style box carrying scenes to New York and London.

The equities division will bear the brunt of the cataclysm. In fixed income sales and trading, the future may be brighter. - And in fixed income, Deutsche has been doing some big, big hiring this year.

Hire to fire?

Fixed income headhunters say Deutsche has recruited over 30 credit and macro traders in London in 2019. Most are additions to headcount instead of replacement.

Even at this juncture, people are still arriving.

DB's latest recruits are understood to include Campbell Gilbert, the former head of linear rates derivative trading at Mizuho. Gilbert worked at Deutsche Bank for 15 years until 2015 when he left for Mizuho. Now, he's said to be comingback again.

Tanveer Abbas, a former director in high yield special situations trading at HSBC, is also understood to be joining DB soon.

Deutsche has also recruited at least four emerging market credit traders from Nomura in recent weeks. They follow the arrival of traders like Manav Gupta, Sylvain Lebre and Olivier Gazzolo in London, and Bret Corrigan and Drew Meany in New York earlier this year.

"Deutsche has spent a lot of money hiring in 2019," says one London fixed income headhunter. "A lot of these people are on salaries of €500k plus."

One Deutsche Bank macro trader said the bank's fixed income professionals are being reassured that everything will be fine and there will be no changes on Monday. In the restructured bank, credit trading could reign supreme, leading to


Chiefs release DB Menzie, OL Patterson

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Kansas City Chiefs have released former fifth-round draft pick De'Quan Menzi, who spent all of last season on injured reserve, and reserve offensive lineman
Lucas Patterson.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid announced the moves Tuesday, shortly after the Chiefs finished off the first of their voluntary full-squad workouts.

Menzie was a standout defensive back at Alabama, but missed most of the offseason program as a rookie because of a hamstring problem. He wound up on IR and never played in a game.

The Chiefs have turned over much of their offensive line this offseason, drafting Eric Fisher first overall Eric Kush in the sixth round. They also signed several players in free agency to provide depth, ultimately making Patterson expendable.The Ultimate Mandolin Songbook contains multiple versions varying in difficulty of 26 of the most popular songs from bluegrass, jazz, ragtime, rock, pop, gospel, swing and other genres, in both standard notation and mandolin tab. The songs are arranged by Janet Davis to appeal to players of all levels, and the two included CDs feature her performing demos for listening and playing along. Arrangements in the book feature alternate licks, endings, segues and turnarounds for improvising. Picking styles include: tremolo, Monroe style, fiddle style, double stops, crosspicking, triplet style, jazz style and more. The songs are in various tunings and keys, and the lyrics and history are included for each. Songs: Alabama Jubilee ? Autumn Leaves ? The Entertainer ? Great Balls of Fire ? How Great Thou


the connection between the pair of the subscriber lines L1 and L2 and the speech circuit 20, a transistor Tr4 which functions as a driver for switch-controlling the on/off state of the transistor Tr3, and a zener diode D5 which serves to absorb possible overvoltage that could be applied to the subscriber lines L1 and L2.
The diode bridge 40 is composed of four diodes D1, D2, D3 and D4.
The transistor Tr3 is to turn on at an off-the-hook state so as to connect the pair of the subscriber lines L1 and L2 to the speech circuit 20, whereas it turns off at an on-the-hook state so as to disconnect the pair of the subscriber lines L1 and L2 from the speech circuit 20.
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In 1970, Jann Wenner contacted National Lampoon contributing editor Michel Choquette about assembling a supplemental comics section for a special issue of Rolling Stone. Choquette was asked to use his connections in the comics, music, and literary worlds to put together 16 to 24 full-page strips about the state of the ’60s mindset at the dawn of the next decade. Only the more potential contributors that Choquette contacted, the more he found who were interested in participating, until he and Wenner began talking about ditching the magazine supplement and putting out a full-sized book, unlike any comic book that had existed before. But then Wenner bailed on the project, and though Choquette spent much of the next decade looking for another publisher


American underground comics and European albums already were. Besides, Choquette didn’t exert strong editorial standards. He was mainly gathering whatever he could get, from people he couldn’t afford to pay, which means that the quality of the work in The Someday Funnies varies wildly, with stunningly inventive pieces sitting side-by-side with crudely drawn, very-of-its-time political commentary. But the occasional datedness of the book is part of its charm. Choquette was putting this beast together at the same time that Art Spiegelman (one of the book’s contributors) was working on his seminal art-comics anthologies Arcade and Raw. But Choquette was more egalitarian in his approach, reaching out beyond the insular underground comics circles, and filling in a bigger picture of where the world’s collective head was at as thein commercial art, turning work-for-hire assignments into opportunities to express their particular visions of the world. …

Milo Manara became one of the leading lights of Eurocomics almost from the moment he started his career in the early ’70s. The Manara Library: Volume One (Dark Horse) contains one of the artist’s best-known stories: “Indian Summer,” written by Hugo Pratt, which is set in an early America equally inspired by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Italian erotica. Beginning with the rape of a Dutch colonist by two natives, followed immediately by the shooting of said natives by a young man from an exiled, scandalous family, “Indian Summer” proceeds to reveal the tangled history of that scandal, intercut with scenes of a bloody siege and far more masturbation gags and


nude bathing interludes than most American literature classes allow. The other story in Volume One of the Manara Library is a lighter “wandering cowboy” adventure with a melancholy ending, but it sports the same phenomenal Manara linework, with every frayed stitch in the characters’ clothing and every blade of brownish-green grass rendered lovingly. If future volumes are this gorgeous, the Manara Library could stand as one of the prettiest archival projects of this decade. …

Another Eurocomics hero, Tintin creator Georges Prosper Remi (a.k.a. Hergé) becomes the star of his own highly Tintin-esque album, The Adventures Of Hergé (D&Q), co-written by Jose-Louis Bocquet and Jean-Luc Fromental, and drawn by Stanislas Barthélémy. Skimming through the high points of Remi’s life—including his tumultuous romantic affairs and his attempts to keep creatinga yellow M900 parked on the street in Denver – it stopped me in my tracks” and so began his own obsession with the motorcycle that ‘revolutionized the naked bike category’. Alex’s experience as an automotive designer has seen him work for the likes of Porsche, Audi, and VW for the past 15 years. In 2005 he designed the VW GX-3, a 3 wheeled car/motorcycle that gained an overwhelming response from the public but never (as with many groundbreaking concepts) went into production. Alex is also an avid off-roader. Originally hailing from Utah, Colorado he’s always looking for an opportunity to get out in a Jeep or on a trail bike and has even taken part in the 6-day trials in Romania twice.

A few years after that first


required for 3D modeler, Mark Smith, to build the bodywork in Alias. A female mold was milled and the first fiberglass part was pulled. Meanwhile, fabricator, Dennis Hart started constructing the exhaust system and rear subframe in his shop in Ventura. He managed to build equal length headers with a perfectly placed cross over and constant diameter producing an amazing exhaust note. The airbox was eliminated and a super low profile (12 liters) conformal gas tank, also welded by Dennis, was put in its place. The battery and part of the wiring harness were relocated to a tray built under the seat.

The front wheel is from an early 80’s Kawasaki while the rear is a Harley front that has been widened to accept the big Maxxis DTR-1, RichardOxford University Press brings Quality Program for Indian Students

Quality Education all over the world is necessary for the sustainable development of mankind. And when it comes to education, learning English as a language is as equally important as learning Mathematics or Science at basic levels. Oxford University is one of the foremost universities in the world that provides education in the British English language, which is the most widely followed English language throughout the world.

On 10th January, Valuepoint Academy and the Oxford University Press India announced their partnership in order to provide English language courses to students as a part of the Oxford Quality Programme. This program will run in the Bangalore and Pune coaching centres of Valuepoint Academy.

Paras Bansal, Business Head – Higher Education, Trade and Professional


the Kim dynasty in North Korea have erected a formidable alliance—the centerpiece of which is cooperation on nuclear and ballistic-missile capabilities.

As long ago as 1985, the two countries had already launchedcooperative missile development, with Iran helping to underwrite North Korea's production of 300-kilometer-range Scud-B missiles. Their interaction expanded in the 1990s, when Iran and North Korea began joint development of Iran's Shahab medium-range missile, which is closely based on North Korea's own nuclear-capable No Dong.

Indeed, North Korea’s arsenal is the inspiration behind most of Iran’s ballistic-missile capabilities—including the Shahab 3 and Shahab 4, now in service, and its longer-range Shahab 5 and 6 variants, currently in development. And the collaboration continues today; the two nations are believed to bejointly working on a nuclear-capable missile of intercontinental range.

The IslamicRepublic has also relied on the DPRK for help with its nuclear program. In recent years, North Korea is known to have assisted in fortifying a number of Iranian nuclear facilities against possible preemptive strikes. It has also reportedlydispatched hundreds of nuclear experts to work within the Islamic Republic, as well asproviding Tehran with key nuclear software.

In a public sign of this collusion, a delegation of Iranian scientists was on hand during North Korea's very public February 2013 nuclear test. The Iranian experts are believed to havepaid tens of millions of dollars to the DPRK for a front-row seat to the successful detonation.

But the North Korean-Iranian alliance isn’t merely transactional. At its heart is a shared antipathy toward the West. As Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khameneitold Kim Yong


will also make Tehran, already an important strategic partner, even more indispensable to the cash-strapped regime in Pyongyang.

Iran, for its part, now finds itself in a position to take a page from North Korea’s nuclear playbook. Since the early 1990s, the North has engaged in extensive diplomacy with the international community over its atomic effort, obtaining significant diplomatic and economic benefits as a result. These inducements played an instrumental role in strengthening and stabilizing the Kim regime.

They did not, however, lead Pyongyang to give up its nuclear program. Over time, it has reneged on every single international commitment relating to its nuclear effort, from uranium enrichment to plutonium production to atomic testing. It has done so, moreover, largely without consequence from the international community, which has consistently attemptedthe petals come down on the sides, the interior cabin appears. With a subaquatic 360 degree view, convertible sofa-beds, and topside deck, the Fiorella isn’t so much a boat as it is a navigable floating campsite.

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Yacht Island Design is quite an innovative company with an indelible vision for the future of seafaring. Through their efforts at dreaming up concepts that are truly outside of the conventional modes of maritime construction, Yacht Island Designs has come up with the idea for a new type of watercraft, the, you guessed it, Yacht Island. From the Streets of Monaco (an aircraft carrier sized ship with a Mediterranean Village complete with the famous Grand Prix track) to the Tropical Island Paradise (a ship customized to resemble a South Pacific atoll


out and touched the pants pocket of the individual and discovered a gun.   We granted rehearing en banc, and now hold that the officer's actions were reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

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At about 10:30 one night in July of 1989,1 police officer Jimmy Ellison and his partner were driving toward the intersection of Bonham Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard, a high crime area in Beaumont, Texas, where people often carried weapons and transacted drug deals on the street, and where public drunkenness was a recurrent problem.   As he drove up Bonham Street, officer Ellison saw a man wearing dark clothing standing in the road.   Ellison flashed his bright lights to see the man better and to encourage him to get out ofthe street.   The man turned to step out of the roadway and stumbled as he moved toward the shoulder.   Ellison suspected that he was drunk.   He pulled over, got out of his car, and approached the man to investigate.   Ellison asked the man his name.   He seemed nervous.   When the man did not answer but instead began to back away, Ellison immediately closed the gap and reached out to pat the man's outer clothing.   Ellison's quick move was to see if he had any weapons that could harm him or his partner.   The first place he touched was the man's right front pants pocket, where he felt a firearm.   He


shouted "gun" to his partner and grabbed the man's arm.   Ellison and his partner then put the man up against the patrol car, removed the gun from his pocket, handcuffed him and placed him under arrest.

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The man was later identified as Izeal Rideau, previously convicted of robbery and burglary in Texas state court.   Rideau was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).   Before his trial, he moved to suppress the gun, arguing that Ellison violated his Fourth Amendment rights when he stopped him and patted his pants pocket.   The district court denied the motion to suppress, and a jury convicted Rideau.   A panel of this court reversed Rideau'sthe defendant, Izeal Rideau, was drunk.   In fact, at the suppression hearing (at the close of which the district court denied the motion to suppress the fruits of the search), absolutely no mention was made of intoxication.   Instead, at that hearing Ellison, when asked at what point he decided to detain Rideau and talk to him, said, "After observing him stumble, as he moved out of the street."

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Even if the mention of stumbling3 could be understood as a proxy for intoxication,4 Ellison used it as justification only for the stop, not for the frisk.   But at issue here is the patdown, for, as the majority says and the panel held, there is no dispute that the officers had justification to detain Rideau,


in the street, coupled with his taking two steps backward, gave the officers no reasonable belief that he was armed.   Moreover, absolutely nothing in this record supports a reasonable conclusion that, at the moment he was searched, Rideau was also "dangerous," to either the officers or others.

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The majority also misreads the law regarding "specific and articulable facts."   Emphatically, the Supreme Court in Buie has reiterated its warning in Terry that the officer's belief10 that the suspect is "armed and dangerous" may not be based upon only "a mere inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch.' "  Id. (first internal quotation marks omitted).11

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Yet, such an impermissible "hunch" is the very most that Ellison seems to be describing when he states, "The purpose of [the patdown]the case en banc and fashioning today's ruling, the court has run afoul of the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent and has rendered the Fourth Amendment essentially meaningless in an entire category of ordinary street encounters.   Despite the good intention of the majority to protect our officers on the street, I respectfully dissent.

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 Defendant testified that the encounter occurred between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m.   The arresting officer placed the time at 10:30 p.m

2
 The Court described a frisk in Terry as follows:  " 'The officer must feel with sensitive fingers every portion of the prisoner's body.   A thorough search must be made of the prisoner's arms and armpits, waistline and back, the groin and area about the testicles, and entire surface


thing that you had suspicion about?
A. Compounded with standing in the roadway.
Q. By the time you got up to him, where was he?
A. He was standing on the shoulder in the southwest corner of those two streets.

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 The term "stumble" must be viewed in light of the entire record, for at another point Ellison answered "Yes" to the question whether Rideau's miscue was "[m]ore like a trip as he was walking to the side of the street."

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 The stumbling cannot fairly be read as a surrogate for inebriation, for although, as the majority opinion states, public intoxication is a crime, Ellison answered "No" to the question, "Now, you're not pretending that it's a crime for a person to stumble are you?"

5
 In fact, Rideau was arrested not forStalking Big Black Triangles in the Mojave Desert

In the early 1990’s there were a flurry of reports of a very strange type of aircraft in the skies over some parts of Southern California. These eyewitness reports were primarily, but not exclusively, from the Mojave Desert area and occurred at night. The reports described a somewhat slow moving triangular craft, blotting out the background stars. Some reports included notation of a whirring sound. One or two very interesting reports said the craft appeared pitch up vertically.

Because I had been researching radar facilities around that time, I was considering the possibility that this object people were reporting was perhaps a airship (lighter than air, dirigible) which was functioning as a bistatic radar facility. With normal radar, the transmitter and receiver


so they only took it out to play after dark.)

One of the reports I heard came from a friend of a friend. This individual, and ex-Boeing engineer, was travelling with his wife late in the day through the Southern California desert from Baker to Pahrump. A lovely area, for those of you not familiar with it. Before reaching Shoshone, he observed a large black triangular craft moving from west to east at modest speed, accompanied by what appeared to be a small jet. (I know, there would seem to be a disparity between a jet and a lighter than air craft, but that’s his story). He and his wife pulled over and watched as the two aircraft disappeared off to the east. To the east, is of course,visitation. Reaching what appeared to be the peak, we were not too surprised to see that it was a false summit, with the actual peak being another half mile or so away. The going on this upper portion was surprisingly easy with almost no brush and open rolling terrain, like high tundra, and the view was getting to be pretty good. The view from the peak was excellent. It was pretty much 360 degrees. To the east, Mt. Charleston in Nevada was very clear. To the north, portions of Death Valley were visible. The Sierras could be seen to the northwest. And then there was all that stuff right in front to the south. Actually, what there was in front of us was nothing. Oh, we had a


appeared like. Perhaps it was just one of those “big black triangles” that have been seen lurking around the Mojave at various times at night. Closer yet was what appeared to be a mock airstrip plowed in the desert with a few “parking areas” that had been plowed out from it at right angles. Looking to the northwest, partially obscured by intervening hills, was another interesting sight. There was a straight graded area, wider than a normal road, but seemingly smaller that a landing strip. At intervals, there were dirt strips running off at right angles, ending after several hundred yards in graded open areas. These areas each contained an aircraft. Presumably, this was some sort of targeting arrangement (perhaps just electronic) for aircraft flying through the valley.of City Hall in February. The federal government's WTC health program administrator, Dr. John Howard, has 60 days to weigh in on the committee's decision and decide which cancers will be included in the bill. According to a press release sent on behalf of Winuk Communications by spokesperson Cindy Miller, "The STAC Committee's recommendation is now in the hands of Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, who will decide whether to accept, in whole or in part, the recommendations."


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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he oncehad on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.

Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through


the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath theeven though, in the Kesavananda Bharati case (1973), minority rights were held to be the part of basic structure of the Constitution.

In the last one year, a new trend has emerged in the Supreme Court. Smaller benches now do not hesitate to overrule larger benches’ decisions. Increasingly, judicial discipline is losing its charm. In the latest judgment on minority rights, a two-judge bench of Justice U.U. Lalit and Justice Arun Mishra upheld the West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education Act, 1994, and the West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008, both of which take away the autonomy of madrasas in the State. The appointment of teachers in these theological institutions shall now be made by a board nominated by the government.

Rights under Article 30

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August 1943. At the time of their appointments, a civil service regulation was in effect under which all appointments as attorneys were to be limited to the duration of the war plus six months, and persons so appointed were not to acquire a classified (competitive) civil service status. On May 29, 1947, petitioners and eighteen other attorneys in the Department were notified *280 that, because of a reduction in force compelled by lack of funds, they would be separated from service on June 30 following. Nonveteran attorneys with the equivalent of classified status were to be retained. The selection was made on the basis of civil service retention-preference regulationsunder § 12which plainly required that nonveterans with classified status or its equivalent be given a higher retention priority thanveterans without.
Plaintiffs appealed to the Commission, which subsequently found that their separation was in accord with the statute and regulations. Meanwhile, however, they instituted these actions in the District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging first that they had acquired a classified status, and hence were entitled under the regulations to a retention priority over nonveterans; second, that in any event, the statute gave veterans an absolute retention priority regardless of status, and that Commission regulations to the contrary were invalid.
While these actions were pending, the Department came into additional funds, and several attorneys not reached for separation resigned voluntarily or transferred. The Department then rehired nine of the attorneys previously separated, the first of whom took office on October 27, 1947. Some of the attorneys rehired


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by Juliette Tafreschi — February 06, 2015

Marketing director Jens Höllein has left Mustang Group on his own request in orderto take up new challenges. Höllein joined the company in October 2011 and has been responsible for the new communicative approach and corporate identity of the brand Mustang.Taittinger is one of the few Champagne houses still owned and managed by the family whose name appears on the label. Made from a blend of the three classic champagne grape varieties, the high proportion of Chardonnay in the mixture produces a light style with the emphasis on elegance and finesse.


Transport and Tourism in Bulgaria

Original publication: September 2017
Author: Beata TUSZYŃSKA, Seconded National Expert
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This overview of the transport and tourism sectorsin Bulgaria was prepared to provide information for the mission of the Transport and Tourism Committee to the country between 18 and 20 September 2017

Introduction

Bulgaria is located in the south-eastern part of the Balkan mountains. The north of the country is dominated by the vast lowlands of the Danube Plain with the river Danube defining the border with neighboring Romania. By contrast, highlands and elevated plains cover most of the southern part of the country.

Bulgaria neighbors with five countries: Romania in the north, Serbia and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in the west, Greece and Turkey in the south, whileto EUR 424 million, which represented 0.99% of the country’s Gross National Income (GNI). At the same time, Bulgaria received EUR 2,730 million from the EU’s budget, equivalent of 6.38% of the country’s GNI. From 1 January 2018, Bulgaria will take over from Estonia the six-month presidency in the European Council.

In Bulgaria, transport by road remains the predominant mode for both passengers and freight. This share is particularly high in passenger transport where transportation by car as well as by buses and coaches had a cumulative 96% market share in 2014. As far as freight transport is concerned, more sustainable modes of transport such as rail and inland waterways jointly achieved 44% market share in the same year.

The timeliness of shipments has declined between 2014 and 2016, with


Bulgaria now ranking second to last in the EU. In addition, the analysis of the World Bank Logistics Performance Index (LPI) shows that Bulgaria is the least performing Member State and 72 out of total 160 states compared by the World Bank in 2016.

Although Bulgaria managed to improve its road mortality rate by almost 9% between 2010 and 2016, the pace of changes was clearly below the EU average of 18.7% over the same period. As result, the country was ranked last among the EU Member States, with 99 deaths per million inhabitants (or a total of 708 fatalities) in 2016, which nearly doubled the EU average of 51.

The system of ports in Bulgaria consists of sea and river ports. There are two seaports along the Black Seacoast that constitute part of the TEN-T network: Varna (comprehensive) and Burgas (core), and a total of six inland ports located along the Danube River, with the ports in Russe and Vidin included in the core TEN-T network.

There are two multimodal TEN-T Core Network Corridors (CNC) that cross Bulgaria.

Bulgaria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth remained robust in 2016 at 3.4%, however the country’s economy is expected to grow at a slightly slower pace in the following two years.

The two summer months (July and August) accounted for 46% of total nights spent (25,186 thousand nights) in Bulgarian tourist accommodation in 2016. At 6.5, the country was among the three Member States with the highest seasonal deviation (after Croatia and Greece) in the same year.

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Engineering and design of vehicles for long distance road transport of livestock: the example of cattle transport in northern Australia.
The author outlines the design of road vehicles for the long distance transport of livestock, mainly cattle, which are used in the tropical and sub-Mediterranean climatic regions of Australia and which have been engineered to meet animal welfare principles. Over 50% of journeys exceed 500 km. Journeys of 2 000 to 3 000 km do occur and involve the resting of animals once or twice during the journey. Specialised vehicles, known as 'road trains', are employed and these consist of multiple trailers with multi-deck containers or stock crates for animals, which are hauled by a prime mover or tractor. The starting point for design is safety for both peoplecancer-focused organizations) and highly productive in terms of cancer research. The participating faculty are selected on the basis of the cancer focus and quality of their research programs, their record of productive interactions with other cancer investigators, and their experience in training postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral students. The Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Trainees are chosen competitively according to the cancer focus and quality of their proposed research project, their past academic and research performance, their future potential as independent investigators, and their commitment to a career in cancer research. The Cancer Biology Training Program has benefited greatly from a recent expansion of cancer research at Columbia University Medical Center. This expansion was driven by the opening in 2005 of the Irving Cancer Research Center, a new 300,000 square-foot 10-story


SAN FRANCISCO — A California free-speech group wants to force China to end Internet censorship and remove barriers to American e-commerce companies hoping to do business in China.

In a presentation Monday to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington, the San Rafael, Calif.-based California First Amendment Coalition argued that China's blatant and sophisticated censorship of the Internet violates China's obligations under the World Trade Organization.

The nonprofit group wants the U.S. Trade Representative to file a petition with the WTO alleging that China has breached agreements that WTO members must adhere to. China became a member of the WTO in 2001.

The WTO has never addressed whether e-commerce and Internet access are covered by the organization's bylaws — but activists say the CFAC initiative could become a testcase.

According to CFAC attorneys, WTO agreements give members "rights of market access" for bilateral trade — but many electronic retailers cannot have fully operable Web sites for Chinese consumers because of government censorship.

"China's censorship of the Internet, while fundamentally an issue of free speech and individual liberty, is also a significant barrier to U.S.-China commerce and, therefore, very much a trade issue," said Peter Scheer, executive director of San Rafael, Calif.-based CFAC.

China's government uses software to root out offensive keywords and block blacklisted Web sites. Government censors, known as Net nannies, surf the Web looking for pornography, subversive political content or other illegal material.

China — which has 162 million Web users — is among a handful of countries that have extensive filters for political sites. Iran, Myanmar, Syria,


The band Amaranthe are currently on tour, presenting their new album. Here is the interview of Morten and Johan we met at Petit Bain. Hello Morten & Johan, and thank you for granting me this interview! For the webzine DansTonMetal WHO WRITES THE LYRICS AND THE MUSIC OF AMARANTHE SONGS ? Morten : It’s Jake and Elize who are writing the songs, and then we kind of exchange files, and then we kind of have opinions about certain aspects of the songs, and then we kind of rehearse the songs individually…

After the album MASSIVE ADDICTIVE released in 2014, the Swedish / Danish of AMARANTHE be back with a new album called « MAXIMALISM » in stores on 21/10/2016. Amaranth have a style of their own that we coulddescribe as « melodic metal », the group varied with different musical themes (électro, pop, heavy metal …). The jacket design is dark which refers to the metal side of the group, the logo it’s very personal. « Maximize » we set the tone from the first listen and stroke is one hangs either hate it, knowing that…

AMARANTHE DROP « THAT SONG » NEW STUDIO ALBUM MAXIMALISM DUE OUT OCTOBER 21 VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS AMARANTHE, the cutting edge rock band with the triple lead vocal attack, have dropped « That Song » from their upcoming album Maximalism, out October 21 via Spinefarm. Listen and preorder the album . http://smarturl.it/AM_MAXIMALISM « The time has come to unveil ‘That Song’ to the world, » said guitarist Olof Morck. « Showcasing


Q:

Why did Guru come back to life?

During the Namek Saga of Dragon Ball Z, the first wish to Porunga was to bring Piccolo back, next was teleport him to Namek but before the third wish could be granted Guru died making the Namekian Dragonballs useless.
After Freeza sets Namek to explode the Dragonballs bad been collected on earth (now that Kami was back) and the wish made to Shenron was to "Bring back everyone who had been killed by Freeza". after this the Namekian Dragonballs come back and Dende uses the final wish to teleport everyone except Freeza and Goku to earth.
what i don't get is how Guru was resurrected when the wish to Shenron was to bring everyone Freeza had killed back to life, why was Guru brought1997-98 to 2007-08. His career high came at age 34 when he played 78 games in 2006-07. From 1995-96, his first full season as a No. 1 goalie, until 2010-11, when at 38 his playing time began to decline, he played 86 percent of games with the New Jersey Devils – 90 percent if you remove 2008-09, the only season he sustained a major injury.

Advancements in training and nutrition have made this bump possible. When Nemish began working in the league in 1998, the focus was on strength, not rest. Since then, teams have been taking recovery much more seriously, tracking metrics like sweat rates and energy expenditure. “The shift has been from my side of the profession to more of the recovery end,” Nemish said. “We have


more of a team approach from medical professionals on board and are able to track and implement strategies to get (goalies) recovered. As a result, it ends up possibly having goalies play more and being hurt less frequently.” Grant Fuhr holds the record for most games played by a goalie. In 1995-96, at 33 years old and after logging just 17 games the season before, he played 79 games for the St. Louis Blues. He might’ve played them all had it not been for a late season knee injury. It was a remarkable run, especially given his new coach’s well-known reputation for having a short leash on his goalies – it was Fuhr’s first year in St. Louis and Mike Keenan’s as well. Fuhr had no idea whatStaff Sgt. Patricia King is the first openly transgender infantry soldier as well as the first enlisted female infantry soldier in U.S. military history. And after 19 years serving her country, she is angry.

“This is the defense of the indefensible,” she said of the Defense Department’s March 12 memo outlining a new policy regarding transgender military service.

The policy allows currently serving transgender troops and service members who have already received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to continue to serve in their preferred gender. But after April 12, when the policy goes into effect, no one with gender dysphoria who is taking hormones or has transitioned will be allowed to enlist.

Further, any currently serving troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria after April 12 will have to serve in their sex


reaching out. He's reached out certainly more than any president in modern history," said Representative Jim Cooper, a conservative Tennessee Democrat who voted against the bill.

"You'll gradually see the leadership being more inclusive and bipartisan, but Barack is leading the way. . . . It might not succeed on the first engagement, but it will pay off in the future."

The bill, which includes new funding for food stamps, digital health records, and new energy technologies, among many other provisions, will move on to the Senate, where it could grow to more than $1 trillion by the time it comes up for a likely vote next week. Legislators remained optimistic that a final version of the legislation could reach the White House by the time Congress plans to adjournball as well as he did the first time."

Chicago pitchers walked 10 batters in the game, including two free passes with the bases loaded.

"It was a long afternoon," Piniella said. "It ended very exciting. [Buck] Coats made a heck of a throw from left field."

Coats threw out pinch-runner Charles Thomas at home for the final out.

"I knew I had to get rid of it quick because he was fast," Coats said. "I tried to make an accurate throw, and it turned out for the best."

It was one of the few strikes in the game. Left-handers Scott Eyre and Will Ohman walked two batters each in their outings.

"There's nothing to be concerned about," Piniella said of the walks by the veterans, "but it's something you need to be improve


to the extent that the Property is either the Debtor's separate property, or is subject to the Debtor's sole or joint management, it is by definition now part of the bankruptcy estate.
Mrs. Kim does not strongly contend with this statement of basic bankruptcy law. However, she claims the right to assert her Texas homestead exemption in property which the Bankruptcy Code makes property of the estate.

The Bankruptcy Code Determines Exemptions
The first of Ann Kim's several arguments is essentially that Texas law controls her entitlement to a homestead exemption which is not affected by Mr. Kim's bankruptcy filing, or the limitations placed on Mr. Kim's homestead by virtue of his prepetition activities. However, it is the federal Bankruptcy law and not Texas state law that ultimately controls.
"A fundamental componentregion, 300 - 1000 AD. The Tiwanaku Empire was one of the most important South American civilizations prior to the Inca Empire. After dominating the region for 500 years, the Tiwanaku Empire ended abruptly between 1000 - 1100 AD, following a drying of the region, as measured by ice accumulation in the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru.

֍ Collapse #7. The Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture in the Southwest U.S. in the 11th - 12th centuries AD. Beginning in 1150 AD, North America experienced a 300-year drought called the Great Drought.

֍ Collapse #8. The Khmer Empire based in Angkor, Cambodia, 802 - 1431 AD. The Khmer Empire ruled Southeast Asia for intense decades-long droughts interspersed with intense monsoons in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that, in combination with other factors, contributed


to the empire's demise.

֍ Collapse #9. The Ming Dynasty in China, 1368 - 1644 AD. China's Ming Dynasty--one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history--collapsed at a time when the most severe drought in the region in over 4000 years was occurring, according to sediments from Lake Huguang Maar analyzed in a 2007 article in Nature by Yancheva et al.

In this image, we see Kurdish Syrian girls among destroyed buildings in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane on March 22, 2015. Image credit: Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images.

֍ Collapse #10. Modern Syria. Syria's devastating civil war that began in March 2011 has killed over 300,000 people, displaced at least 7.6 million, and created an additional 4.2 million refugees. While the causes of the warare complex, a key contributing factor was the nation's devastating drought that began in 1998. The drought brought Syria's most severe set of crop failures in recorded history, which forced millions of people to migrate from rural areas into cities, where conflict erupted. This drought was almost certainly Syria's worst in the past 500 years (98% chance), and likely the worst for at least the past 900 years (89% chance), according to a 2016 tree ring study by Cook et al., "Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years." Human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases were "a key attributable factor" in the drying up of wintertime precipitation in the Mediterranean region, including Syria, in recent decades, as discussed in a NOAA press release that accompanied a


the first major transformation humanity had paused — the transition foraging to farming. Spreading out from the Middle East, this wave of change took peoples used to hunt and forage wherever they pleased and tied them down, hoe in hand, to sedentary — but oh so lucrative — farms and fields.

Around 7,600 years ago, however, the revolution paused — no new agricultural settlements seemed to pop up in Southeastern Europe around the time, existing communities declined, and the progress of civilization as a whole came to a standstill. Up until now, we didn’t have any inkling as to why this happened, but new research from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and the University of Toronto sheds some light on this mysterioustheir respective pole, thereby increasind drought conditions in highly populated areas and a large percentage of hitherto arable terrain.

SNIPPET from the February 2, 2016 article, "The mystery of the expanding tropics", by Olive Heffernan

As Earth's dry zones shift rapidly polewards, researchers are scrambling to figure out the cause — and consequences.

One spring day in 2004, Qiang Fu was poring over atmospheric data collected from satellites when he noticed an unusual and seemingly inexplicable pattern. In two belts on either side of the equator, the lower atmosphere was warming more than anywhere else on Earth. Fu, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, was puzzled.

It wasn't until a year later that he realized what he had discovered: evidence of a rapid expansion of the tropics, the


region that encircles Earth's waist like a green belt. The heart of the tropics is lush, but the northern and southern edges are dry. And these parched borders are growing — expanding into the subtropics and pushing them towards the poles.

Tropical forest lossesoutpace UN estimates

Cities that currently sit just outside the tropics could soon be smack in the middle of the dry tropical edge. That's bad news for places like San Diego, California. “A shift of just one degree of latitude in southern California — that's enough to have a huge impact on those communities in terms of how much rain they will get,” explains climate modeller Thomas Reichler of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Elsewhere, there is evidence that tropical expansion is affecting the ocean.pesticides, daylight, or even soil — but they look absolutely delicious.

Various vegetables which were harvested from the EDEN-ISS greenhouse at the Neumayer-Station III on Antarctica. Image credits: DLR

Germany’s southernmost workplace, the Neumayer-Station III, has harvested the first crop of Antarctic vegetables. Biologists report that they’ve successfully grown 3.6 kilograms (8 pounds) of salad greens, 18 cucumbers and 70 radishes grown inside a high-tech greenhouse, as temperatures around the research station were plummeting to -20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit).

The plants were grown without soil, in a closed-water circle. No outside lighting was used — instead, researchers optimized and used an LED system. The carbon dioxide cycle was also closely monitored.

While this is a solid crop already, researchers are expecting much more in the future. The German Aerospace Center DLR,


be inferred (though they are clearly widespread, with there being at least 138 in just West Antarctica, as noted above).

Mount Erebus Image by NSF/Josh Landis

The 4 active mainland volcanoes are: Mount Berlin; Mount Hampton; Mount Melbourne; and Mount Kauffman — three stratovolcanoes and a caldera. On the surrounding islands, there are a fair number of active and large volcanoes as well, including Mount Erebus and Deception Island, both of which have been relatively active in recent history. Other island volcanoes known to be active are: Penguin Island; Buckle Island; Lindenberg Island; and Paulet Island.

The area around West Antarctica is also known to be home to numerous underwater volcanoes — some of which are located in relatively shallow areas.

Evidence for high levels of relatively “active” volcanoes in the regionJohn Lithgow, Interstellar takes on a very real consequence of climate inaction, though it offers up an untenable solution.

After all, there’s still no Planet B.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Living in a Louisiana bayou community called “the Bathtub,” six-year-old Hush Puppy (youngest-ever Best Actress Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis) can’t get the prehistoric aurochs her teacher tells her will be released from melting ice caps off her mind – even as the world in front of her crumbles and cowers, the victim of powerful storms, failing levees, and familial health problems.

While the film’s setting is technically fictional, it was inspired by several very real fishing villages in Southern Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish. These small, isolated wetland communities are threatened by climate-driven erosion, extreme weather, and rising sea levels. Most notable among


Berlin is missing its CO2 emissions targets, and the government is rejecting a perfectly good law that could help make up the shortfall, according to the activists behind a petition aimed at making the German capital better for cyclists.

The initiative "Volksentscheid Fahrrad" ("bicycle referendum") is trying to collect enough signatures to force a referendum on a new law that would bring in an array of alterations to the city, including making dangerous crossings safer for cyclists, developing a 350-kilometer (220-mile) network of bike lanes throughout the city, and 200,000 extra parking spaces.

But in a statement released on Monday, the initiative accused Berlin's Mayor Michael Müller of stalling the petition and actively continuing the city's car-centered transport policy, despite being on course to its target of reducing carbon emissionsin
that house ten days; I almost know, now, that he stops long nowhere, the
past six or eight months, but is restless and has to keep moving. I
understand that feeling! and I know what it is to feel it. He still
uses the name he had registered when I came so near catching him nine
months ago--"James Walker"; doubtless the same he adopted when he fled
from Silver Gulch. An unpretending man, and has small taste for fancy
names. I recognized the hand easily, through its slight disguise. A
square man, and not good at shams and pretenses.

They said he was just gone, on a journey; left no address; didn't say
where he was going; looked frightened when asked to leave his address;
had no baggage but a cheap valise; carried it off on foot--a "stingy


Area youth participate in Round 'Em Up Bible Camp

HILLSDALE — A number of area youth participated in the Round 'Em Up Bible Camp Wednesday afternoon at the grandstands of the world's most popular fair.

The camp is put on by Western Days Ministries out of Allegan and Adrian who aim to teach bible lessons through cowboy style.

While some youth enjoyed panning for gold, others tried their hands at roping and riding a "bull" while learning about God's word.

The camp ran from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and was followed by the Ronnie Sowle Memorial Bull Riding event and a concert by Tommy Brandt, an award winning country music artist who uses his music talents as a Christian outreach in his latest tour titled "Cowboy Outreach America."

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his own party's supporters. In July 2018, a warrant for Correa's arrest was issued after facing 29 charges for corruption, for acts allegedly performed while he was in office.

Due to increased borrowing by Correa's administration, which he had used to fund his welfare projects, as well as the 2010s oil glut, public debt tripled in a five-year period and with Ecuador eventually coming to use of the Central Bank of Ecuador's reserves for funds. In total, Ecuador was left $64 billion in debt and was losing $10 billion annually. On 21 August 2018, Moreno announced economic austerity measures to reduce public spending and deficit. Moreno stated that the measures aimed to save $1 billion and included a reduction of fuel subsidies, eliminating subsidies for gasoline and diesel, andauditor's office.

Return of fuel subsidies
During the late-night hours of 13 October, the Ecuadorian government and CONAIE reached an agreement during a televised negotiation. Both parties agreed to collaborate on new economic measures to combat overspending and debt. The government agreed to end the austerity measures at the center of the controversy and the protesters in turn agreed to end the two-week-long series of demonstrations. President Moreno agreed to withdraw Decree 883, an IMF-backed plan that caused a significant rise in fuel costs.

Following the announcement of the deal, demonstrators were seen celebrating in Quito. After occupying the city center for weeks during the demonstrations, the protesters conducted a community clean-up project, traditionally known as minga, as they left the area. While they returned makeshift barricades they had constructed


plate is typically part of a carburetor in older engine designs, or in a so-called throttle body in more modern engines with fuel injection systems. The position of the throttle plate is a primary input in controlling engine power output. The pumping effect of the engine cylinders draw air across the throttle plate which results in a vacuum condition in the intake manifold. In other words, a pressure less than atmospheric is created. A large diaphragm in the booster unit is mechanically connected with the brake's master cylinder piston. The vacuum air pressure is applied to both sides of the diaphragm. When the brake pedal is depressed by the driver, atmospheric air is allowed to enter the booster cavity on one side of the diaphragm. This creates aCanadian Tee Times for 118th U.S. Amateur Championship

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 118th U.S. Amateur Championship, Monday (Aug. 13) and Tuesday (Aug. 14), at 7,075-yard, par-71 Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links and at 6,995-yard, par-72 Spyglass Hill Golf Course, in Pebble Beach, Calif.

The U.S. Amateur consists of 36 holes of stroke play on Aug. 13 and 14, after which the 312-player field will be reduced to the low 64 scorers. There will be six rounds of match play, starting Aug. 15. The quarterfinals and semifinals are slated for Friday, Aug. 17 and Saturday, Aug. 18, respectively. The championship is scheduled to conclude with a


City's Facebook event page, more than 161 bicyclists were registered for the event. Monday's bike tour was focused on "public art."

About Detroit Bike City

Detroit Bike City is an organization dedicated to promoting cycling in the City of Detroit. Through weekly rides, tours, bike-in theater, and events/shows; Detroit Bike City is continually contributing to the growth of bicycle culture in the City with a goal to further bicycling not only as a health initiative, but also to help improve Detroit's image in order to repopulate it.they have to make ends meet. In order to survive, they have to go into sex work to keep body and soul together.”

Violence is also a byproduct of the oil industry. She noted the Nigerian government has become more militarized to counter activism against the oil companies. This military intervention by the government has forced the youth to take up arms to fight back against the government and oil companies. The result, she said is increased violence.

“This violence between all these forces – the government, [oil] companies and the armed youth—has also created a situation of insecurity particularly for the women,” said Ms. Okon. “A lot of women have experienced sexual violence. A lot of women have been killed. A lot of women have been harassed.”

The March 28


Review of How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism (2011), a collection of essays by Britain’s veteran Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, tracing the history of Marxism as a belief-system and arguing for its continued relevance in the light of the current crisis of global capitalism.

The city of Trier, in Germany just over the border from Luxembourg, once seat of an archbishopric and later part of Prussia and subsequently, the former West Germany, enjoys the curious distinction of still boasting a Karl-Marx-Strasse, thanks to the circumstance that the founder of Marxism was born there in 1818. The same city is also the former capital of the Western Roman Empire and imperial seat of Constantine, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. The stones of Trierserve as a reminder of the life and death of belief-systems, and interrogate the thoughtful visitor as to whether the once seemingly impregnable system of Marxism has any more life left in it today than the old pagan religion.

Certainly, eleven years into the twenty-first century, it might seem difficult to imagine a less fashionable theme to consecrate a long and appreciative volume to than Marxism. However, if anyone can get away with it, it has to be Eric Hobsbawm, who, publishing this book at the ripe age of 93, occupies the unassailable position of the English-speaking world’s foremost Marxist historian, and, having unreconstructedly stuck to his Marxist guns in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union, has the necessary credentials and weight to offer the world


a study of this nature.

Hobsbawm, the product of hybridated identities (born in Alexandria of Jewish-Germanic origins, long since resident in Britain) and author of such essential historical works as The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital and Industry and Empire, now presents what he calls “a set of studies in the history of Marxism” (399) – sixteen chapters encompassing multiple aspects of the thought of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels and their Italian successor Antonio Gramsci, and of the history of Marxism as an intellectual and political movement and its changing fortunes up to the present. Most of the texts have been published before, though not necessarily in English, but Hobsbawm has carried out a systematic revising and updating exercise on his pre-existing material, with a care andskill that allows the whole thing to be read as a logical sequence.

The previously published material takes various forms. Some pieces appeared in the first place as introductions to works by Marx (the Grundrisse), Engels (The Condition of the Working Class in England) or both (The Communist Manifesto). The two chapters on Gramsci reprise earlier introductory material, in the case of the second originally in Italian. Three chapters on the reception of Marxism were originally published in Italian as part of a multi-author historical conspectus of Marxism; a further three chapters are excerpted from a book published by Hobsbawm in Britain in 1982, The History of Marxism. The first and penultimate chapters are largely new; the closing chapter, “Marx and the Labour Movement: the Long Century”, is based


a hyper-wired South Korea and an all but IT-dead (and ten times less prosperous) North Korea. Indeed, one of the harshest challenges today to anyone still calling themselves a Marxist may be to ask whether, in whatever circumstances, the old Soviet Union could have invented the Internet (which, despite its Pentagon origins, none will deny escaped the grip of the Western state apparatus with remarkable speed …)

The question, then, is whether the Marxist world-view, with its currently ill-regarded baggage of scientific rationalism and attachment to a much-derided logic of coherent narration, has anything to offer to the twenty-first century. Certainly, Hobsbawm offers a compelling accumulation of historical evidence for the validity of Marxist perspectives. His defence, at the beginning and end of his book, of Marxism’s relevance tothat can be made anymore for male-only recreational sites is just kind of past its day.”

Soon after Bubba Watson won the Masters tournament at the all-male Augusta last month, Jennifer Tyrrell was removed as a leader of her local Tiger Scout troop in Ohio, not because she is a woman, but because she is a lesbian.

Tyrell, who lives with her partner and their four children, allowed her seven-year-old son to join the Scouts in Bridgeport, a small town across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia. After she was drafted to lead her son’s pack, she told parents at their first meeting about her sexual orientation.

The Ohio River Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America told her last month that she had to resign because of her