sushi the following day, man had things changed!”

Bravo has been teaching for over ten years. His specialties were Firearms, Edged Weapon, and Close Quarter Combat and instructed elite military and law enforcement personal. “With tactical training I taught concepts that hopefully someone would never have to use. With the Social Arts the skills I teach help people positively change their life from that moment on and they use every day!”

After meeting Neil Strauss (aka Style) at the Lucky 20 Apprentice Seminar, he was personally invited to join the soon to be formed Stylelife Academy team. Once on board he quickly made a name for himself and soon went from Junior Coach, to Senior Coach, and then to Executive Coach where he managed the entire Stylelife Coaching team. He[/caption]In an interesting case of science fiction becoming a reality, NASA has been testing their SPHERES project over the past few years. The SPHERES project (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) involves spherical satellites about the size of a bowling ball. Used inside the International Space Station, the satellites are used to test autonomous rendezvous and docking maneuvers. Each individual satellite features its own power, propulsion, computers and navigational support systems.

The SPHERES project is the brainchild of David Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Miller was inspired by the floating remote “droid” that Luke Skywalker used to help hone his lightsaber skills in Star Wars. Since 2006, a set of five SPHERES satellites, built by Miller and his students have been onboard the International Space Station.

Since lightsabers are


toppling of legal segregation and the building of a more racially tolerant society. It might even seem odd that King and his associates would have given a featured spot on the program to perhaps the most powerful labor leader in the country—one whom Barry Goldwater, then the leading Republican candidate for president, considered “more dangerous than Soviet Russia.” What was such a controversial white man doing up there?

In 1963, progressive unionists of all races routinely intertwined the goals of civil rights and economic justice. That’s why the official slogan of the day was “For Jobs and Freedom.” Tens of thousands of union members, mostly from the North, crowded together along the Reflecting Pool with civil rights activists who were taking a break from the dangerous work of liberatingThe FAI has confirmed that it has agreed a new deal with Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni.

The FAI has confirmed that it has agreed a new deal with Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni.

Chief executive John Delaney has confirmed the story which appeared on Irish Central on Sunday.

The Italian will continue with Ireland for another two years and will lead the team into the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.

“On behalf of the FAI Board of Management, we are very happy to agree a contract extension with Giovanni Trapattoni and his team of Marco Tardelli and Fausto Rossi,” said Delaney.

“They have done fantastic work with the squad bringing us to qualification for a major tournament for the first time in 10 years, increasing our world ranking to 21st and introducing many new players


(CNN) President Donald Trump's tariff announcement could send a direct signal to workers in the Rust Belt that his policies are looking out for them after decades of manufacturing employment decline.

Jobs in the steel and aluminum industries are concentrated in the Midwest swing stages that delivered Trump the election in 2016, according to census data. Many of these were the states that stunned the country when non-college-educated whites who had voted for President Barack Obama swung toward Trump.

Many mills are in more reliably Republican states.

The US county with the most metal manufacturing employment -- which is mostly composed of steel and aluminum manufacturing -- is Lake County, Indiana . Indiana is home to the nation's largest steel mill, Gary Works, in the city of Gary. The county withthis engram in addition to the Steadfast Engram, which effectively awards players double Bright Engrams for the duration of Festival of the Lost. Players may also purchase Ephemeral Engrams from Tess Everis in the Tower, if they so choose.

Tess will also feature rewards from the Ephemeral Engram on the Bright Dust store throughout the event, for those wishing to purchase specific items directly.

Every Guardian is invited to shoot their way through the masquerade. Festival of the Lost begins on Tuesday, October 16, and concludes at 10 AM PST on Tuesday, November 6.


Boy Meets World fans, meet the best news you’ll hear all day.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel have officially signed on to reprise their roles as Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence in the red-hot Disney Channel pilot Girl Meets World.

RELATED | Girl Meets World: 7 Possible Story Ideas!

The potential sequel series (which TVLine first told you about earlier this month) picks up more than a decade after Boy Meets World ended its ABC run and finds Cory and Topanga happily married and raising their 13-year-old daughter, Riley (from whose point of view the story is told).

The pilot is still in the very early stages of development with Boy Meets World creator and executive producer Michael Jacobs at the helm.

PHOTOS | 20 Actors TVLine ReadersWASHINGTON — President Trump plans to nominate Heather Nauert, the chief State Department spokeswoman, to become his next ambassador to the United Nations as he moves to reshape his team for the final two years of his term, two people familiar with the choice said on Thursday.

Ms. Nauert, a former Fox News anchor who has served as the public face of the State Department since last year, would replace Nikki R. Haley, who is stepping down as ambassador at the end of the year. If confirmed, Ms. Nauert would be one of the most prominent promoters of Mr. Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.

Ms. Nauert had been the favorite after Ms. Haley announced that she would leave the job, but after The Wall Street Journal reported that she was


expected to be given the role, Mr. Trump grew muted about the choice, and administration officials said that she had become less interested in the post.

The president floated other names to associates as possible nominees, including Kelly Craft, the ambassador to Canada; Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany; and John James, a Republican who lost a Senate race last month in Michigan. At one point, Mr. Trump even signaled to Mr. James that the job was likely to go to him, according to one person familiar with the situation.faith basis to believe are reasonably likely to correspond to internet accounts

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The wartime prime minister's dark moods, plus a series of lucky encounters, may have transformed the course of human history, writes John Gray.

Towards the end of his long life, when he was staying in a house lent to him by friends in the south of France, Winston Churchill sent for a young man who was helping him write one of the books with which he occupied his retirement.

Churchill needed the young man as a researcher. But he also valued him as a companion, particularly in the evenings when he would otherwise feel lonely.

One cold night they were sitting before the fire, where pine logs were hissing and spitting as they were burnt away. Churchill watched the blaze in silence. Then he growled: "I know why logs spit. Iknow what it is to be consumed."

Churchill had not one life but several. Each was full of challenge and excitement, and in one of them he changed the history of the world.

Yet there were times when he felt his life had been futile, and the mood of despondency that had sometimes come upon him in his most active years - which, following Samuel Johnson, Churchill called the "black dog" - seems to have been with him in much of his later life.

But in a strange conjunction of events, it may have been this same black dog - together with the intervention of a loyal friend during a few fateful days in early May 1940 - that enabled Churchill to achieve the position from which he could alter the


1940. For Churchill himself, this may have been a matter of fate. Though not a religious believer, he seems to have felt that his life was ruled by a kind of destiny in which he was being prepared for a supreme trial.

Image caption Bracken (left) and Beaverbrook were, arguably, instrumental in securing Churchill's rise to power

So it proved to be, and yet from another point of view his becoming prime minister when he did was the work of chance. Churchill became Britain's leader through the intervention of someone who is now practically forgotten.

Brendan Bracken was a strange, self-invented personality, who achieved success as the publisher of the Financial Times and the Economist and served as Churchill's minister of information during the war. Born in Ireland, Bracken grew upin Australia - where his father was a builder - before migrating to England, where he effaced his modest past and became Churchill's confidant during the inter-war wilderness years.

Bracken hero-worshipped Churchill, and supported him when the world had written him off. But the greatest service Bracken performed was in making it possible for Churchill to take power.

We tend to view the past as if it could not have been otherwise, but for Churchill to replace Neville Chamberlain in 1940 was a highly improbable turn of events. Almost no-one who counted wanted Churchill as leader. The press baron Lord Beaverbrook, who also played a role in securing Churchill the premiership, wrote: "Chamberlain wanted Halifax. Labour wanted Halifax... The Lords wanted Halifax. The King wanted Halifax. And Halifax wanted Halifax."

Beaverbrook


of 9 and 10 May 1940. Beaverbrook liked to dramatise his role, and the accounts left by others conflict in some of their details.

But according to Bracken's biographers, he anticipated that when Chamberlain decided to resign he would arrange a meeting in Downing Street from which Halifax would emerge as next prime minister.

Loyal to Churchill and an enemy of appeasement, Bracken was determined to prevent this outcome. So at about 01:00 on the morning of 9 May, he and Beaverbrook set out to talk to Churchill, eventually finding him brooding alone in one of his clubs.

They warned Churchill of the coming meeting, with Bracken urging Churchill to say nothing if asked whether he would serve under Halifax. In the end, Churchill was persuaded to remain silent.

As Bracken anticipated,a meeting was held at Downing Street later that day, and when the issue of the succession came up Churchill did what he had promised - he said nothing.

After a long pause, Halifax said that his position in the Lords would make it difficult for him to be prime minister. Next morning, news arrived that Hitler had invaded Belgium and Holland, and in the afternoon Churchill went to the palace to tell the King he was forming a government.

Some historians have suggested that Churchill's silence may not have been decisive. If Halifax had become prime minister, they argue, Churchill would still have been in charge of the war.

Image caption The "black dog" may have prepared Churchill for the desperate struggle against Hitler

But Halifax would have sued for peace


in a speech in the House of Commons in June 1940: "If we fail, then the whole world will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."

Even if we don't think past events were bound to happen as they did, we tend to believe that the larger course of history is shaped by vast, impersonal forces. But for a couple of days in May 1940, the fate of the world turned on the fall of a leaf.

If Bracken hadn't left Australia to reinvent himself as an Englishman and appointed himself as Churchill's faithful protector; if Beaverbrook and Bracken hadn't found Churchill brooding in his club; if Bracken hadn't succeeded in persuading Churchill to remainto adopt a new zoning designation known as "agriculture preservation." Within portions of the impact area to be zoned "agriculture preservation," the agreement provides that "no further development or division of property shall be allowed unless agreed to by both the City and County." Although both the city and county have passed ordinances adopting the agreement itself and the map, the county has not as yet complied with the agreement by passing an ordinance which adopts the specified zoning for the affected land.
The Fund owns land located wholly within the specified area of city impact. A small portion of the Fund's property is in the area which, according to the map, is to be zoned commercial, with the balance of its property being in the agriculture preservation zone.


The record is silent as to how the Fund's land was zoned at the time of the agreement.
In June 1991, the Fund filed a declaratory judgment action against Payette County and the city of Fruitland seeking a judicial determination that the agreement and ordinances relating to Fruitland's area of city impact are invalid by reason of the defendants' noncompliance with statutory procedures established by I.C. § 67-6526, their disregard of open meeting and public hearing requirements of I.C. §§ 67-2342 and 67-6509, and violation of the Fund's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.
Within a few months after this action was initiated, the city filed a motion for summary judgment, and the county filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. The district court granted the defendants' motionsdue to the City's and the County's actions. For example, there is no allegation the City's and the County's actions will increase the Fund's taxes, decrease services available to the Fund, decrease the value of the Fund's property, prevent the Fund from developing its property, or interfere with the Fund's use and enjoyment of its property. . . . The Fund has not shown it is an affected person.
The district court's conclusion is well taken. The Fund has neither alleged nor presented evidence that it has been or will be injured in fact by the actions of the city and county.
The Fund asserts that it is "affected" by the ordinances adopting the impact area agreement, as that word is used in I.C. § 10-1201, because its land will


Revealed: The day Britain's top civil servant rolled naked on the floor ranting about the end of the world

New job: Sir William Armstrong after he joined the Midland Bank in 1975

Britain's top civil servant ‘cracked up’ and lay on a floor at 10 Downing Street talking incoherently in the final days of Ted Heath’s Conservative Government.

According to a new book about No10, Sir William Armstrong, Heath’s Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department and his most senior mandarin, was taken to hospital after telling colleagues the world was coming to an end.

Last night, Whitehall insiders revealed Armstrong had, in fact, been naked while lying on the floor at No10, and that after hospital treatment he was sent by the then Lord Rothschild - a fellow senior civil servantand the world coming to an end.

‘In the middle of this, Gordon Richardson, Governor of the Bank [of England], walked in and “took it all calmly”.

'Robert then took William upstairs and tried to calm him down but he was still fairly mad.’

The book adds: ‘Next day WA summoned a special meeting of all the permanent secretaries and told them all to go home and prepare for Armageddon.

‘He was babbling incoherently. Douglas Allen [Treasury Permanent Secretary] led him away, phoned his wife and the hospital, and WA was taken off to hospital for treatment.

‘Robert phoned Heath, who was out of London, and told him that the head of the civil service had been locked up.

'Heath was not surprised, saying that he “thought William was acting oddly the last time


I saw him”.’

Later, the top mandarin became a life peer as Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead and was chairman of the Midland Bank from 1975 until 1980, when he died.

Downing Street papers released three years ago revealed that Armstrong knew a secret that could have toppled Harold Wilson in 1970.

Lengthy files disclosed how the widow of Michael Halls, Wilson’s Principal Private Secretary at No10, battled for five years for compensation after her husband’s premature death from a heart attack.

Marjorie Halls claimed the stress of dealing with the problems arising from the personal lives of Wilson’s inner circle led to her husband’s death.

In a letter in 1972 to Sir William, Mrs Halls said her husband had enjoyed his job until 1968 when Wilson’s private secretary, Marcia Williams, became pregnant byher lover Walter Terry, a political journalist on the Tory-supporting Daily Express.

Mrs Halls, a senior civil servant in the Lord Chancellor’s Department, wrote: ‘The Prime Minister became so obsessed with the affairs of his personal political staff that it became increasingly difficult for Michael to get him to complete the essential work.’

She claimed the stress of dealing with the ‘bizarre atmosphere’ in Wilson’s ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ cost Mr Halls his life.

Long hours wore him out, he was unable to climb the stairs to the Prime Minister’s study and he died soon after in the spring of 1970.

Mrs Halls served a writ seeking £50,000 damages during the 1974 Election campaign.

But with Harold Wilson back in power for a second term, the case was never settled.


has moved from last in the league to middle of the pack during those games. Well, the D was at least until it regressed at home against Orlando. Now things get tougher with 9-of-11 coming up on the road (and the first home game in that stretch is a Rockets team now finding itself).

8. Celtics (6-4, LW 6). The Celtics have played the toughest schedule in the NBA so far this season. Their offense has been improving, but it’s not yet intimidating — 27th in the NBA for the season but 15th over the last three games. Late in games, Brad Stevens has trusted Marcus Morris over Gordon Hayward, and that’s the right play because Hayward is still struggling to start the season (as we should expect, rememberseason, and the Utah defenders have not mastered getting their feet in the right place and making the play that way. They need to if this team is going to reach its goal of being home for the first round of the playoffs.

18. Pistons (4-5, 10). Detroit has played the fourth easiest schedule in the NBA so far, and as it has gotten tougher the team has dropped five in a row. The problem in the losing streak has been the offense, which is scoring less than a point per possession in those five games. Teams have started to adjust to Blake Griffin having the ball in his hands as a playmaker, and Detroit has yet to counter.

19. Lakers (4-6, LW 21). Magic gave Luke Walton a stern


the conference finals.

This season, the Celtics were the second-worst offense in the NBA coming into Thursday night’s game (just ahead of the team they were playing, the Thunder). The problems were everywhere, but they started with the fact the Celtics just could not knock down shots — they were generating a lot of open looks but hitting them at the lowest rate in the NBA. Boston was not driving the lane or getting to the rim and drawing fouls (and Irving was a big part of that problem). Gordon Hayward has not been his vintage self and players are still adjusting to new roles. We could go on and on, but you get the idea — the Celtics offense was broken and without flow.

That continued in the firstJames B. Holderman

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Holderman was born on January 29, 1936 in Morris, Illinois. He served as the executive director of the Illinois Board of Education, the vice president of the Lily Foundation of Indiana, and the senior vice president of the Academy for Educational Development in Indianapolis.

Presidency at the University of South Carolina (1977-1990)
Holderman was selected to be president of University of South Carolina on June 30, 1977. During Holderman's tenure, the university expanded its honors college, raised the academic standards


I can from life. I intend to spend more time with my family and our gorgeous 10 grandchildren. I am looking forward to racing my historic race car more, playing in our band and tinkering with my growing car collection. Leonie and I are also planning some more adventure travels.

Thanks Robert, for taking the time to answer my questions and congratulations on what you have accomplished in the ten years you have been a member of the National Board; all the best for 2018.

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Since 2003 Ross has run his own business, providing a range of services to the recruitment industry in Australia and New Zealand.

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Our druid got stomped on by a gargoyle while in snake form, and now she has some
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gargoyle wrestled a book from his hands.  Etc.
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U.S.-Russian relations are at one of their lowest points since the end of the Cold War—and there seems to be little appetite for improvement on the part of the Trump administration and Congress.

Egged on by anti-Russia hysteria in many parts of the American media, Congress has imposed new sanctions to penalize Moscow over its alleged meddling in the 2016 election. The sanctions legislation was written in such a way that the president cannot waive its requirements, which all but guarantees that they will remain the law—and an impediment to better relations—for a very long time to come.

Thanks to the many questionable contacts between some members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials, the administration


as they've messed up on the Royals, you'd be audited by the IRS for the next 50 years. If they were as far off on your checking-account balance as they've been on the Royals, your entire living room would have been repossessed.

The Royals have existed in two very different worlds for the past three years.

There is the real world, where life for this team has been pretty darned awesome. And there is the computer world, represented by baseball's three most esteemed projection systems. One is the model devised by Baseball Prospectus co-founder Clay Davenport. A second is the PECOTA system currently utilized at Baseball Prospectus. The third is Dan Szymborski's ZIPS model, which we use here at ESPN.

In Kansas City, it's become a thing to make fun ofback to Lorenzo Cain's scintillating sprint around the bases nine days earlier. Think back to the seemingly impossible run he scored from first base -- on a single -- to turn Game 6 of the ALCS upside-down.

Those are freeze frames in baserunning brilliance that seem to sum up the reasons the Royals won the World Series. But this just in: The reasons the Royals won the World Series and the reasons they defy the projection machines during the season are two very different things.

"If we're talking about the Royals in October, all bets are off," Miller said. "The Royals have been way better in October than we would ever project any team, no matter how good, to be."

But the Royals of April through September are not a team


In 2002-03, 52% of Australia's population growth was from net overseas migration (NOM). The preliminary estimate of net overseas migration was 125,300, while natural increase was 115,200 and total growth was 240,500.

In 2002-03, net permanent movement contributed 43,500 people (35%) to net overseas migration, while net long-term movement contributed 81,800 people (65%). For the first time, components of overseas migration are presented as adjusted figures - see Chapter 6, 'Special Article: Adjustments to Overseas Migration Estimates'.

The method of preliminary distribution of net overseas migration among the states and territories is under review, and for 2002-03, net overseas migration for each state and territory is only available on a preliminary basis.

New South Wales received the largest share of net overseas migration (40%), which exceeded the share of population ofAustralia living there (34%). Queensland had the second largest share of net overseas migration (24%), followed by Victoria (18%), Western Australia (14%) and South Australia (3%). The Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory and Tasmania (less than 1% each) had the smallest shares.

The contribution of net overseas migration to total population growth ranged from 85% in New South Wales to 15% in Tasmania. The Northern Territory's population declined by 310 despite a positive contribution from net overseas migration of 240.

PERMANENT MOVEMENT

Preliminary net permanent movement comprised 43,500 people in 2002-03, 4,900 more than in 2001-02.

There were 93,900 permanent (settler) arrivals in 2002-03, an increase of 11% on the previous year. This number does not include those who arrived on a temporary basis and were subsequently granted permanent residency (these


was 1.2% over the same period.

At 30 June 2002, 7.5% of the Australian population had been born in North-West Europe. Most of these people (5.7% of the Australian population) were born in the United Kingdom. People born in the three Asian regions (South-East Asia, North-East Asia and South and Central Asia) together comprised 5.7% of Australia's population.

Although 63% of the overseas-born population at 30 June 2001 lived in either New South Wales or Victoria, Western Australia had the highest proportion of overseas-born residents in its population (29%). Tasmania had the lowest proportion (11%), and the Northern Territory the second lowest (16%).

INTERSTATE MIGRATION

The number of interstate moves increased by 3.7%, from 384,100 in 2001-02 to 398,500 in 2002-03.

Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria experienced a net gain from interstate migration during2002-03. Queensland's gain of 39,200 persons was an increase of 26% over the preceding year. Net interstate migration for Tasmania was the first net gain in that state for over ten years.

New South Wales had the largest net interstate migration outflow in 2002-03 (-31,800 people). The second highest net outflow was from Northern Territory (-3,400).

In 2002-03, the median age of interstate migrants was 29 years. The Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory received the youngest interstate migrants (both with a median age of 27 years). Tasmania received the oldest interstate migrants (median age 32 years).

MIGRATION AND POPULATION GROWTH

Over the past two decades, Australia's level of NOM has fluctuated substantially. The peak of 157,400 people in 1988-89 resulted in NOM being the main contributor to Australia's population growth


POPULATION FLOWS

Queensland continued to be the most popular destination for Australians moving interstate, receiving the largest number of arrivals during 2002-03 (120,200). New South Wales and Victoria followed with 93,400 and 74,200 arrivals respectively.

Over half of Queensland arrivals during 2002-03 came from New South Wales (53%), followed by Victoria (21%), Western Australia (7%) and South Australia (6%). New South Wales arrivals most commonly came from Queensland (41%), Victoria (26%) and the Australian Capital Territory (12%). Migrants to Victoria came mostly from New South Wales (37%), Queensland (27%), South Australia (12%) and Western Australia (11%), while Western Australia's arrivals were from New South Wales (27%), Victoria (24%), Queensland (22%) and South Australia (11%).

INTERSTATE MOVERS 2002-03

State or territory of departure

State or territory of arrival

NSW

Vic.

Qld

SA

WA

Tas.

NT

ACT

Total arrivals

NSW

. .

24,190

37,957

6,670

7,817

2,615

2,755

11,401

93,405

Vic.

27,570

. .

19,675

9,075

8,329

4,339

2,498

2,718

74,204

Qld

63,921

25,272

. .

7,683

8,938

4,063

6,274

4,095

120,246

SA

7,557

8,332

5,719

. .

3,436

949

3,028

835

29,856

WA

8,343

7,389

6,900

3,373

. .

1,419

2,623

851

30,898

Tas.

4,226

4,362

3,710

1,152

1,737

.5 Curtis Taylor

Curtis Taylor is a player who has all the pieces of the puzzle, it is just a case of putting them together. The exciting half-forward is rated anywhere between the top 10 and second round. There is little doubt he has the capability of turning a match on its head, kicking multiple goals in a short space of time, but it is just that consistency that has not quite developed, to do it on a week-by-week basis. Taylor has quite a few party tricks in his arsenal and in terms of player comparisons, he is not too dissimilar to Jordan De Goey in the way that he can dominate in the air or at ground level and just outsmart and outmuscle his opponent. He has had


one-grab marking makes it very difficult for defenders to spoil. He has multiple ways of conquering goals, both from leading out, dropping back or crumbing a taller forward, and his versatility within the forward 50 has him as one of the most touted forwards in the draft crop.

Taylor has also spent time in the midfield, however as his endurance still needs to improve, he has predominantly done his best work inside 50. His kicking can be hit and miss at times, but his ability to create a scoring opportunity out of nothing in the forward half is what adds to his ability. He backs himself to win one-on-ones against any opponent and is that challenging player to match-up on because he is too nimble for taller players, andtoo strong for smaller defenders. Taylor is the type that will excite fans at the next level due to his ceiling and what he is capable of when he is “on”.

IMPROVEMENTS

Endurance

Consistency

For all of Taylor’s exciting traits, there are still improvements to be made to his game. The first is building his endurance, which is still a working progress. He recorded 20.4 on the Yo-yo test in the pre-season, and spent more time in the forward 50 arc compared to the midfield for this fact. His endurance is another reason why his consistency is an issue, with Taylor floating in and out of games at times. In the final two games of the season against the Geelong Falcons, Taylor had a quiet start in Round 16, before kicking a


couple of late goals in the final term. In the Wild Card Round, Taylor started strongly, but faded out of the game, albeit copping a knock in the final term. It is bridging the gap between his high production and low production games that is the biggest thing for Taylor going forward.

DRAFT PROJECTION: 10-30

SUMMARY

Curtis Taylor is a forward who can pinch hit as a midfielder and win a game off his own boot. He has the X-factor, the vertical leap, the strength overhead or at ground level, and the goal sense to have an impact early on in his AFL career inside 50. He does have to work on his endurance and build into four-quarter games, with some impressive quarters, and some quiet quarters, but he has allPsychological well-being Asian style: the perspective of Thai elders.
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Reeves’cousin, keyboardist George Dukewho died in 2013, was likely a role model in her favouring an open approach to her art. Not only did he release more than 30 solo jazz recordings, but he was famous for his work with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and as a member of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, appearing on such key recordings as 1973’s Over-Nite Sensation and 1974’s Apostrophe.

As anyone who has attended a concert at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts knows, the venueis one of the finest in North America for sound.

There is something about the design of the under-1200 seat venue, its placement of seating and the sight lines, which combineto create a unique and memorable experience.

JoyceProf Joseleo Logdat and Dr Raul Navarro (in red barongs) at the Philippine Independence Day Ball in Canberra.with the Filipino-Australian community leaders and guests. (left) Catching up with former workmates Lyn Nadeska, Mai Ann Lim, Diane Thomson, Rachell Angeles, Fe Buchman and Evy Cummins. Ms Ellen Regalado, Cultural Officer of the Philippine Embassy 2009-2015 with her family at the farewell party in Canberra.

Canberra Corner by Volet Carolan

Belated Happy 117th Philippine independence Day to all. Canberra was busy with musical concerts, welcome and farewell parties and everything else to celebrate the National Day.On 28 May 2015 the Filipino Community Council of the ACT Inc (FCCACT) welcomed the newly appointed Apostolic Nuncio, His Excellency Archbishop Tito Yllana in a potluck lunch after a concelebrated Mass at the St Peter’s Cathedral


in Manuka in Canberra. I have never seen the cathedral so packed…standing room only at the back. His Excellency hails from Naga City so a couple of Bicolano dishes were featured: laing and Bicol Express. As usual the guests welcomed the traditional photo opportunity and His Excellency kindly obliged and so did Ambassador Belen Anota.A week later, I attended another potluck lunch for the Filipino baritone and pianist who were in their Australian tour who gave us a mini concert singing Some Enchanted Evening, If I Loved You and Aking Inay (this made me sad thinking of my mother who passed away recently). Professor Joseleo Logdat (Baritone) and Dr Raul Navarro (pianist) endeared themselves to the Canberrans with their friendliness and down to earth manners in spite oftheir hectic schedule which included a concert at the Australian High Court, Australian National University and the Vin d’ honneur attended by diplomats to celebrate Kalayaan 2015. Thanks Leo and Raul. Please come back soon.We were also honoured by the performance of Leo and Raul in the Philippine Independence Day Ball on 16 June 2015. 250 guests in their formal and others in traditional Filipino ternos and barong attended the Ball. It was a fun evening, which included performance from Miss Cleo Diana who wowed the audience, Uptown Funk for the FCCACT officers and the traditional Cordillera Dance suite performed by ACT-SCA, Philippine Cultural Society and the Filipino Language School of Canberra. The FCCACT President’s awards for community service were awarded to Mr Alistair Coe, MLA and Jesus


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Literally, apocalypse is from the Greek word "apokalypsis" which means "uncovering" or revelation. But since the Judaeo-Christian narrative from the Bible contains symbolisms that are interpreted to be "signs of the end of the world", people now see the term as referring to the complete final destruction of the world. There is a rise of interest for this genre of literature and film. To prove my point, we can just check out the latest flix which include my favourite film series - Hollywood's XMEN and its latest offering XMEN: Apocalypse. But its creator Stan Lee and even Star Wars' George Lucas may have to share the limelight soon with someone born in Bicol, Philippines and who is now living in Canberra, Australia.

Multi-awardedUSA, Canada, Singapore, France, China, Thailand and the Slovak Republic. She has performed some of her works as theatre, dance and music.Merlinda has a Bachelor of Arts (Summa cum Laude) from Aquinas University of Legazpi and a Master of Arts in Literature (Meritissimus) from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. For ten years she taught Literature and English at Philippine universities before coming to Australia in 1991 on a study grant. She completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong where she taught creative writing for more than twenty years. She continues to dream new stories in Canberra.

'Locust Girl. A Lovesong' was published in Australia by Spinifex Press, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary of publishing this year. The Philippine edition was published by Anvil


Publishing Inc. Copies can be bought in both countries by ordering through local bookstores, or directly in Australia from the Spinifex Press website: http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/Bookstore/Merlinda will be doing a Reading with other Spinifex authors at Collected Works bookstore in Melbourne on 9 July and a Conversation on 'Locust Girl' with her publisher Susan Hawthorne at the Readings Carlton bookshop on 11 July. She will also be participating at the 2016 Canberra Writers Festival on 26-28 August.

For more of Merlinda Bobis, visit her website : www.merlindabobis.com.au

As you can imagine, Canberra was abuzz with non-stop events and activities to celebrate her 103rd birthday. With Enlighten 2016, Balloon Spectacular, Skyfire, Night Noodle Market, locals and visitors alike were in a spin to choose which ones to join. All this in commemoration ofof amazing shots from all over the east coast.

Also in the mix was Seniors Week 2016, a Council on the Aging (COTA) ACT initiative, supported by the ACT Government. COTA compiled a program of around 200 activities that ran from Saturday 12 March to Sunday 20 March. Activities included The Seniors Expo with free bus service for attendees, Walks to the Arboretum, various talks, exhibits and screenings for the target age group. The calendar of events was easily accessible by the launch of their new website, http://cotaact.org.au/news/seniors-week/. While searching for activities, my sister discovered the ‘one night only’ performance by the Blamey St Big Band, featuring Leisa Keen and Tony Haley, at the Canberra Labor Club, Belconnen last Thursday 17 March. The band, named after the street were


they began, also featured other musicians like John Black (keyboard), John Mackey (Sax) and Derek (Noddy) Bassington (Band Leader/Conductor) who all live other lives as University/College professors and lecturers! Everyone on the night enjoyed dancing to Swing music and other classics like ‘Mack the Knife,’ ‘Teach me Tonight’ and ‘Moonlight Serenade.’ With its popularity, this event will undoubtedly be part of next year’s calendar.

Lastly I want to congratulate newlyweds, Mai Ann Lim and Kenneth Sanchez who tied the knot on Saturday 19 March. Blessed by a glorious day of sunshine, the couple were surrounded by the bride’s cousins and close friends as they exchanged vows in Giralang. Fe Buchman and Evy Cummins, were their official witnesses for their special day. A wonderful lunch followed at The Deck athosted by Jo and Dennis Smith of Bruce who made sure he had a chance to explore Canberra at its finest! Bobby, considered almost family brought on from both our fathers’ days in the Philippine Navy, is a hobby photographer. It certainly was a busy short stay to catch up and take snaps to add to daily chronicle of amazing shots from all over the east coast.

Also in the mix was Seniors Week 2016, a Council on the Aging (COTA) ACT initiative, supported by the ACT Government. COTA compiled a program of around 200 activities that ran from Saturday 12 March to Sunday 20 March. Activities included The Seniors Expo with free bus service for attendees, Walks to the Arboretum, various talks, exhibits and screenings for the target


age group. The calendar of events was easily accessible by the launch of their new website, http://cotaact.org.au/news/seniors-week/. While searching for activities, my sister discovered the ‘one night only’ performance by the Blamey St Big Band, featuring Leisa Keen and Tony Haley, at the Canberra Labor Club, Belconnen last Thursday 17 March. The band, named after the street were they began, also featured other musicians like John Black (keyboard), John Mackey (Sax) and Derek (Noddy) Bassington (Band Leader/Conductor) who all live other lives as University/College professors and lecturers! Everyone on the night enjoyed dancing to Swing music and other classics like ‘Mack the Knife,’ ‘Teach me Tonight’ and ‘Moonlight Serenade.’ With its popularity, this event will undoubtedly be part of next year’s calendar.

Lastly I want to congratulate newlyweds, MaiAnn Lim and Kenneth Sanchez who tied the knot on Saturday 19 March. Blessed by a glorious day of sunshine, the couple were surrounded by the bride’s cousins and close friends as they exchanged vows in Giralang. Fe Buchman and Evy Cummins, were their official witnesses for their special day. A wonderful lunch followed at The Deck at Regatta Point. (http://www.thedeckatregattapoint.com.au/). It was an amazing day and the photos say it all!


back. Upon arriving at

McDonald’s, Bishop decided to order water from the drive-thru window.

          As the Cadillac approached the pick-up window of the drive-thru lane, Lockhart

and his friends, who had been waiting in the parking lot for Robertson’s arrival, began to

approach the Cadillac on the passenger side while talking and making gestures as if to

“egg on the people in the car.” Transcript Vol. 1 at 305. As a McDonald’s employee

attempted to hand the water to Bishop, she observed Robertson brandish a gun, point it in

the direction of the approaching group, and open fire.            Lockhart and his group

immediately began retreating from the Cadillac and Bishop drove away while Robertson

continued shooting,seat passenger” and not the driver pulled out a gun and fired shots. Tr. Vol. 1 at 347.

Numerous other witnesses, all of whom were Lockhart’s friends and were present during

the shooting but had been drinking that night, also testified that the front seat passenger

of Bishop’s car was the shooter. One specifically testified that Bishop was the driver,

and another testified that he recognized the car as Bishop’s. Bishop testified on behalf of

the State that the gun used in the shooting belonged to him but that he was driving the car

and Robertson sat in the front passenger seat and was the shooter.

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The Last Bright Spot

Can corporate profits continue to rise?

This year, the otherwise dismal economy has had two real bright spots: a rally in the stock market and rising corporate profits. One of those things is now gone. The question of what will happen with the other remains.

In the last two weeks, the Dow Jones has given up all the gains it had accrued since Jan. 1—and then some, wiping out trillions in equity value. That leaves just one real bright light in the economy: corporate profits. Indeed, during 2010 and 2011, America's companies have made out like bandits. In the first three months of this year—the last quarter for which we have official statistics—profits from current production increased by nearly $50 billion. Both nonfinancial and financial firms haveexpanded their earnings year-on-year. The bounce-back for corporations has proved so robust that their profits accounted for the highest proportion of national income ever recorded in 2010.

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Despite the recent slowdown stateside, signs are that businesses are still running record-high profits. According to an analysis by


Meena. One among them — Vasanti Gawade — was involved in some major incidents in Bastar, he said.

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predators.

Wolves, which are protected by the Endangered Species Act, numbered less than 1,000 by 1974 in the Lower 48. But the population has rebounded to 3,000 in the Midwest, and populations have been established in the West and Southwest.

The wolf's survival is assured and the goals of the federal wolf recovery plan have essentially been met. Yet the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a proposal pending that would pave the way for reintroducing wolves in the Northeast.

In Maine, though, it's not just a question of whether to restore the wolf, but which species would be the right one.

One of the study's goals was to search museums in the United States and Europe for specimens of wolves that once lived in New England.

Some smaller wolves, such as theThe largest union representing federal public service workers is filing a complaint against the government for missing a collective agreement deadline, likely because of ongoing issues with the Phoenix pay system.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it will file the complaint with the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board Wednesday. The Treasury Board has already admitted it will not meet the latest deadline to pay three years worth of back pay under four collective agreements as well as increase wages.

The new agreements were signed June 14, 2017 with a 150-day implementation deadline.

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Greg McGillis, PSAC regional executive vice-president for the National Capital region says many public servants were depending on the back pay set out in the collective agreement. (CBC News)

McGillis believes the


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MA Interim Show Exhibits Work of 72 Students

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Last Thursday saw the opening of ‘You’re the reason our kids are ugly’, this year’s MA Interim Show. The exhibition which took place over three days showcased the developing work of 72 talented first year students from our MA Art and Science, MA Fine Art and MA Photography courses.
The evening was a great success with guests ranging from artist John Stezaker, visitors from The Hague: Aparajita Dutta Head of International Affairs Royal Academy of Art and Nineke van Beers, Head of Marketing and Recruitment at the Royal Academy of Art.
View the image gallery here to see more of the student’s work from the show.
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Seahaven FM was the third of four community radio stations that were awarded licences in East Sussex in the second round of Ofcom's distribution of community licences, the others being 107 Meridian FM (launched March 2010), Uckfield FM (Launched July 2010) and Rye FM which hoped to launch in late 2011 but decided not to go ahead.   Radio Reverb in Brighton islocated in urban areas in north Texas.  The mortgages received were for more expensive properties located throughout the state and primarily in non-urban areas.  The average net worth of the mortgagors in the mortgages received was 40% higher than in the mortgages traded off.  Also, the later performance of the two mortgage packages differed substantially.

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“People like us, people in rural New York, we are not people who respond to this part of American culture,” Mr. Benjamin said.

The criticism of Mr. Delgado has thrust historically fraught topics of race and identity into the forefront of an election that was already slated to be one of the most competitive in this November’s midterm elections. Mr. Delgado, who is black, said he believed the attack on his lyrics is an attempt to “otherize” him, particularly because he’s trying to become the first nonwhite candidate to represent the area in Congress. A poll commissioned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently showed him leading Mr. Faso.

New York’s 19th Congressional District voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but went for President Trump in 2016.About 83 percent of the voters in the 19th are white, making it among the whitest congressional districts in the country.

[Here’s what’s coming up next on the primary calendar.]

The songs he recorded include frequent use of the racial epithet and a few references to sexual acts. Mr. Delgado said his words were appropriate considering the context of his art at the time. He also cited contemporary rap artists such as Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and Lauryn Hill as inspirations for his political outreach, since much of their music focuses on giving voice to those who are typically unheard.

“It was different contexts, different tactics, but same desires and same outcomes,” Mr. Delgado said of his old music. “Issues like income inequality, issues like gender equality, issues like the pollution


The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, at the recommendation of Supervisor Don Knabe, extended the expiration of a reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of whoever raped and robbed a legally blind, 82-year-old woman in Norwalk early in the morning of May 1.

Despite physical evidence, including DNA and a composite sketch of the suspect, sheriff’s deputies have not been able to track down the rapist.

The reward, which would have expired Aug. 17, will now be available until at least Nov. 15.planet in the original photo, fixed the light reflecting on the ship and then I added a stock earth photo, of which I got from hdwallpapers.in . I cut out the logo from a scratched surface stock that i got from wojtar-stock , and custom made the 3D bevel using another part of the scratched stock. Same process was repeated for the sub heading.Now comes the tedious part, as the movie poster credits had to be done indvidually in order to look like an actual series of credits on a real movie poster. Rows 1 and 2 had was done line by line, while 3 and 4 was done topic to topic. Finally, company logos and info was added.


would not listen, though. He never would.

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Fritz thought back to before he was zapped by that crazy scientist with all the cans into a faerie Gruslen. It was weird; it was like he had all his memories from before, but couldn't remember what his 'shell' at the time was. That was how Fritz saw the appearance of a neopet; useful for recognizing people, but it didn't tell you much about the inside. He'd heard some things about Jeran...

Something Fritz did remember was a little assembly robopetpet he had been friends with before he met Binklu. A little girl Gio who liked to call herself Hug, as she saw herself as someone whose job it was to keep the workplace happy and bright. Fritz almost laughed at the thoughtof watching Hug work on cheering up Binklu, but then the idea suddenly didn't seem so silly. Fritz was desperate; Binklu had spent ages almost alone in a dark room wallowing in all the sadness Dr. Sloth had caused all those years ago, and blaming it on his owner who had no idea why or where Binklu had run off to. Fritz made a snap decision, opened the curtain a fraction, and flew outside.

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Fritz was lucky to find that Hug was still a Gio, and still worked on the Virtupets Space Station. Hug's life had changed somewhat; Hug now worked with a robot Uni named Dewth. She was proud, confident, and happily humming in strange computerised tune as Hug and her owner mined. Fritz had never much liked


Virtupets Station, as Dr. Sloth's base, but he knew that Hug and Dewth would be neutral if not anti-Sloth. The robots were surprisingly anti-Sloth, in fact.

When Hug recognized Fritz, they hugged and talked about things, and Dewth got everyone some Neocola. As Dewth went back for a second round, Fritz and Hug chatted and planned, thinking about how to help Binklu. When Dewth came back, she interrupted loudly, which Fritz could already tell was unlike her.

"A-HERHERHEHEM-uh..." she paused, "this fell out of the machine when I ordered us some Neocola."

No extra explanation was needed.

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"Hey, Binklu! BINKLU!" Fritz zoomed up to the window of their room at the Neolodge. He'd been gone more than a day, but he was sure his news would make up for that. "HEY, Binklu,really helpful!" shrieked Fritz.

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The trio were on their way to the space station in quite a comfy little pod. It was much nicer than flying there and back the first time, thought Fritz. Hug was hugging Dewth as they caught some sleep on the journal and snored robotic snores. Fritz found it strangely comforting and also found himself drifting off into a peaceful sleep....

Meanwhile....

Binklu was staggering around the space station demanding to see Dr. Sloth, demanding that Dr. Sloth face him and explain how he could give the potion to Binklu's owner all those years ago. Binklu did not see his owner from back then standing just a little way away, adopting a Grundo. She watched curiously for a while before she recognized Binklu, even though he looked


Young teachers are caught up in a possible strike in Oakland, California, that's giving new life to the long-simmering tension between traditional public schools and the education reform program Teach for America.

The push by career educators for better pay and conditions is clashing with the influx of temporary teachers who lack formal training but promise new energy and innovation.

The issue also has surfaced in teacher walkouts in Los Angeles and Denver.

It came to a head this week when hundreds of Teach for America alumni criticized the educator placement program for suggesting corps members who strike in Oakland would lose thousands of dollars promised to them at the end of their two-year service commitment.

Teach for America said there was a misunderstanding on the guidance it provided about the possibleMaloof. Section 17 undertakes to do justice between the bankrupt and special creditors. Section 14 (Comp. St. § 9598), relating to bar of discharges, does justice between the bankrupt and the law, and the denial of a discharge thereunder is in the nature of a penalty on the bankrupt for conduct which is supposed to show him unworthy of the grace of a discharge. The acts which bar a discharge are in general the personal acts of the bankrupt and some of them crimes, and may not be committed by the unauthorized acts of agents.
This seems to be implied in the rulings in this Circuit as to the fraudulent act of a copartner not prejudicing an innocent member of the firm as respects the latter's discharge. Hardie v.


JAKARTA: Radicalism has spread to almost all provinces in Indonesia and the country's military is beefing up security in its Sulawesi border area amid the ongoing siege in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, the Indonesian military (TNI) said.

"Almost in all Indonesian provinces, except for Papua, there are IS sleeper cells," TNI chief General Gatot Nurmantyo said in a speech during a forum attended by media chiefs on Monday night.

Members of sleeper cells have been radicalised but remain inactive. They may resort to action when there is a trigger, the military warned.

Army major general Ganip Warsito, a territorial military commander overseeing Sulawesi and the border with the Philippines, said such citizens may be open to harbouring any escaping IS fighters from the Philippines if any of them evermanaged to cross over to Indonesia.

General Ganip told reporters that security has been stepped up in anticipation of either the Philippines military clinching victory against the local militants or losing the battle in Marawi.

"If the Philippines wins, Indonesia would get a spill-over effect from the retreating militants, but if the Philippines loses, Mindanao would be a strong regional IS base that threatens Indonesia among others," he said.

This has prompted the Indonesian military to set up more military bases, locally known as Kodim, in the outlying areas on the border, he added.

Gen Ganip said intelligence and territorial defence operations around the border with the Philippines has not given any indication of any militant having crossed over and that the Indonesian military is striving to keep it that way.

Indonesian troops


were previously stationed in only three islands on the border with the Philippines. As part of the stepped-up security, reinforcement was sent to all other islands in the area deemed to have the potential to be used in escape routes.

"All islands that are potential targets for infiltration, we have sent troops there. Those islands include Matutuang and Kawio," Gen Ganip said.

But since the border areas with the Philippines are traditional trading routes, escaping militants may attempt to cross over to Indonesia with the help of rogue merchants. Gen Ganip said the military is working to prevent this from happening. – The Straits TimesWizards couldn't match Hawks Game 4 tenacity

Numbers may not tell the whole story of a game. Looking at the box score from Game 4 of the Washington Wizards-Atlanta Hawks first round series, it looked like the game was a neck-and-neck affair. Atlanta held a slight lead in several categories, but there were no eye-popping statistics. The Hawks outrebounded Washington by three, with the difference coming on the offensive glass. Washington committed slightly more turnovers, but the difference was only two. The two teams shot similarly (42 percent for Washington and 44 percent for Atlanta). The two teams shot similarly from deep, with Washington going 11-for-32, and Atlanta shooting 12-of-31.

But the Hawks took a halftime lead and never fell behind again. They emerged victorious, 111-101.

John Wall and Bradley Beal


vocal leader for Washington through this postseason run, he hasn’t been able to match Paul Millsap in the past two games. Morris called Millsap a “crybaby” after Game 3, and it seems like Millsap has let his play do the talking.

In games three and four, Millsap scored 29 and 19 respectively, while pulling down 14 and nine rebounds. Morris has scored a combined 18 points on an inefficient 7-of-24 shooting, while only pulling down six and four rebounds against Atlanta. The intensity Morris showed in games one, and two wasn’t there when the series traveled south to Atlanta.

Millsap scored ten of his 19 points in the fourth quarter. He looked absolutely unstoppable, grabbing offensive boards and simply outworking the Wizards in the low post. One play, in particular,Wizards comeback attempt, and that showed in the final score, and throughout the game.

Game 5 Awaits

The series will move back to Washington for Game 5. In order for Washington gain the advantage in the series, their frontcourt needs to step up. Despite Gortat’s strong rebounding game, he scored only two points compared to Dwight Howard’s 16. Markieff Morris will also need to have a bounce back game. Millsap has essentially had his way with Morris, and he will need to be stopped after leading Atlanta to victory in games three and four.

They’ll also need to push the pace. In their games one and two victories, Washington thrived generating turnovers and running the floor for easy baskets. The Wizards saw a major uptick in their transition baskets in the


varying number of current hit songs by other artists until the late 1970s.) The magazine was quite impressed with this project. "Mathis may have been recording for 17 years, but this newest work is magical. His clean, sweetly flowing voice is married perfectly to so many fine and outstanding songs that one wonders why they weren't presented to him in the first place. He makes them all come alive." They also appreciated the arrangements here. "There is a fine, gossamer feeling to D'Arneill Pershing's charts which makes the music more than merely commercially romantic."

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Side one
 "Killing Me Softly with Her Song" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) – 5:18
 "Aubrey" (David Gates) – 3:37
 "And I Love You So" (Don McLean) – 3:26
 "Break Up to Make Up" (ThomOne of Russia's richest women has died alongside her father after their private plane crashed in Germany.

Natalia Fileva, 55, and Valery Karachev were killed on Sunday when their plane fell from the sky as they were flying from France to Egelsbach in Germany.

Also killed was their pilot, named in Russian media as Andrey Dikun. Sources told Russian media that the pair were travelling for medical treatment, but did not give more details.

Two more people are believed to have died in a collision with a police vehicle which was responding to the scene.

Airline tycoon Natalia Fileva (pictured), the co-owner of Russian carrier S7, was on board a six-seater plane which crashed and exploded near Frankfurt on Sunday

Also killed in the fireball crash were Fileva's father Valery Karachev and their


pilot Andrey Dikun, sources told Russian media (pictured, the plane wreckage)

Police said the six-seater Epic-LT private plane took off in France and was on its way to the central German town of Egelsbach.

It crashed and burned in an asparagus field near Erzhausen, six miles south of Frankfurt, at around 3.30pm.

The tragedy was compounded when a police car carrying two officers to the crash site collided with two further vehicles on the way.

The second vehicle, an Opel car, was carrying two young people who died in the crash while the police officers were seriously injured.

The victims of the car accident were a 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, police said.

Fileva became known as the 'Iron Lady' of the air industry after amassing a personal fortune of £460million after shefounded airline S7 with her husband.

The company, based in Siberia, is Russia's second-largest behind state flag-carrier Aeroflot.

She eschewed the flamboyance of some Russian multi-millionaires after an extraordinary rise from Young Communist activist in Soviet times to Moscow's fourth richest woman.

Her husband and business partner ex-pilot Vladislav Filev, 55, has been called the Russian Elon Musk but she strove to keep her family out of the limelight as she conquered the male-dominated aviation industry in her country.

The couple had four children, one adopted, including two adult girls, say reports.

Fileva was on her way from Cannes to Egelsbach for medical treatment when her plane came down in an asparagus field and burst into flames around 3.30pm on Sunday

An official with Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), the company in charge of air traffic


this tragedy are not known.'

The company added that the air disaster would be investigated by an international commission along with Russian air safety authorities.

The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) has launched an investigation into the accident.

Fileva and her husband gained control of the ailing Siberia Airlines company in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse and built it in to an international carrier which for a decade had been part of the OneWorld Alliance alongside American Airlines, British Airways and Japan Airlines.

In December she had a public blast at official corruption in Russia implying bureaucrats were bribe-takers.

'They don't do business, they are not real people,' she said scornfully.

'You are talking about fighting corruption.

Emergency services work among burnt out debris of a small aircraft on a fieldnear the small airport of Egelsbach following the crash in Germany on Sunday

The remains of a police car which crashed into another vehicle near Frankfurt, on the way to the scene of a plane crash in which a Russian millionaire died

'And I want to ask where they get money for their suits and shoes?

'Everyone of them has a suit which costs at least $1000 (USD).'

Fileva had been an activist in the Komsomol - or Young Communists - in the Soviet era.

She trained as a radio mechanic in her native Novosibirsk before getting a second degree in industrial management.

The couple were seen as a highly successful husband and wife business team.

Leading business journalist Renata Yambayeva, said Fileva was 'a true aviator and a real woman'.

'I knew her from the


In Rostov-on-Don, during an interrogation at the trial, Abdurakhman Usmanov, a native of Dagestan, accused of aiding and abetting militants in Syria, claimed that he had signed the protocol with his confession dated with a back date as a result of torture and threats. The defence requested to appoint an examination to determine the date of signing of the protocol, but the court dismissed the motion.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Abdurakhman Usmanov's case is being considered at the North-Caucasian District Military Court. According to investigators, in the summer of 2014, the defendant left for Syria and entered the terrorist training centre of the "Islamic State" (IS) (banned in Russia), and until October 2015, he guarded the positions of militants, collected money for widows and children ofmilitants, and hired advocates and bribed law enforcers in Turkey to help detained terrorists.

Abdurakhman Usmanov told the court that after he denied the law enforcers' proposal to participate in identification of persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities and aiding and abetting terrorism, he was repeatedly subjected to torture. According to the defendant, on January 6, 2016, he opened his veins and was brought to hospital.

Abdurakhman Usmanov noted that several times he went on hunger strike with a demand to stop falsifying the criminal case against him. Besides, according to him, he refused to cooperate with the investigators and give evidence.

The defendant said that in late October 2016, the case was closed, and after that, he was again tortured. According to him, on November 3, 2016, law enforcers


demanded from him to sign a new version of the interrogation protocol dated December 10, 2015, and they threatened him in case of his refusal to throw drugs to his civil wife and put her in prison.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

The bankruptcy manager has assured that in October, after the sale of underground courses, money will appear to pay off the wage debts to former workers of the "Kingcoal" Company, Tatiana Avachova, a member of the protest group, said at a picket in Gukovo. The picketers noted that this was not the first such promise.

The name of the paratrooper, Mikhail Bezelt, who, according to the official data, blew himself up on a mine in Chechnya, hasappeared in the list of Donbass casualties. On the whole, the version of the contractor's death during exercises looks plausible, but it's strange that the exercise area had not been inspected by sappers, the law enforcers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The detention of a witch in Chechnya and the report shown by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company), where she was criticized by a doctor from the Centre for Islamic Medicine, was treated by some social networks commentators as a return to Middle Ages. Their opponents have supported the persecution of sorcerers in the republic.


on visual or tactile signals.  They may become disoriented when visual cues are sparse (as in wide-open spaces) or overwhelming (as in crowds). Likewise, they may be confused by sloping or irregular surfaces. In a virtual reality study, agoraphobics showed impaired processing of changing audiovisual data in comparison with subjects without agoraphobia.

Substance induced
Chronic use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills such as benzodiazepines has been linked to onset of agoraphobia. In 10 patients who had developed agoraphobia during benzodiazepine dependence, symptoms abated within the first year of assisted withdrawal. Similarly, alcohol use disorders are associated with panic with or without agoraphobia; this association may be due to the long-term effects of alcohol consumption causing a distortion in brain chemistry. Tobacco smoking has also been associated with the developmentInterview by Grace Williams

In this interview with Chiara, one of the co-founders of the Pique Resilience Project (PRP), and her mother, Denise (aka “Marie Verite”), the founder of 4thWaveNow, the two women tell the story of Chiara’s temporary trans identification and how this inspired the creation of 4thWaveNow. They talk about what life was like for both mother and daughter during the teenage years when Chiara believed she was a man, and Chiara describes the influences that eventually led to her desistance.

For several years now, 4thWaveNow has been administered and edited by a small, dedicated group of parents; it’s no longer a one-woman show. In the meantime, Chiara has gone her own way, recently joining forces with three other detransitioned women — Dagny, Helena, and Jesse — to


more conflicted about. At the time, it seemed to me that she was being inducted into a cult: the obsessive nature of her wanting “the two Ts” (testosterone and top surgery), scripted language, and a seeming refusal to examine or explore what might be underlying this (as well as a general refusal to talk to me about much of anything) resulted in my feeling desperate to know what was going on inside her, and to try to keep her safe in any way I could. Besides the rumination on being trans 24-7, her grades had dropped from As and Bs to Ds and Fs, she nearly dropped out of high school, she had drifted away from all the friends who had previously been important to her, and totallyCan we blame this crazy weather on El Niño?Floods in South America and England, spring temperatures in Europe, tornadoes in the US - of all these weather phenomena, only the ones in the southern hemisphere can be linked to El Niño.

Floods in South America and England, spring temperatures in Europe, tornadoes in the US – of all these weather phenomena, only the ones in the southern hemisphere can be linked to El Niño. Parts of England are flooded after torrential rainfall, and also in southern America more than 150.000 people had to leave their homes after floods. In the US, a tornado claims 43 lives, and in Ethiopia people are starving as a result of a draught.At the same time, we are expecting unusually mild temperatures at the


North Pole – just above the freezing point. This is about 40 degrees warmer than usual at this time of year and – at least during the day – almost as warm as southern California in the middle of the night. There, temperatures dropped to as low as 4 degrees Celsius (the low 50s Fahrenheit) just recently.Looks like the weather has gone nuts? Be that as it may, when looking for a scapegoat, the usual suspect El Niño may be the wrong choice.What is El Niño?El Niño, Spanish for "the boy," is a name that Peruvian fishermen gave a weather phenomenon that returns every couple years. The name is a reference to the birth of Jesus, because El Niño always comes around Christmas time and lasts for aboutone year.The last time it came was in the winter of 2009/2010. In such an El Niño year, the general weather pattern changes. Cold and warm currents in the Pacific – especially along the South American Coast – can change, disappear or reverse themselves. The consequences can be felt in other parts of the globe.El Niño can trigger natural disasters, such as heavy rainfall in some areas and droughts in others. Jerome Lecou, climate expert of the French weather service Meteo France estimates that this year could be the strongest El Niño for about the last hundred years.El Niño is to blame for conditions in South America, Indonesia and AustraliaExperts agree: The floods in Argentina and Paraguay can clearly be linked to El Niño. "We see a definite


weather in the U.S. Europe and at the North PoleWhat about the other parts of the world? Often, the extreme weather in the southern US is being mentioned in one breath with El Niño. But that is not justified, meteorologist Friedrich says: "The tornadoes in the US, the floods in England and the mild temperatures in parts of Central Europe have no substantial link to El Niño. Those are aberrations from the large scale weather pattern in the northern hemisphere. And those lead to such individual extreme weather events."The reason for that is a change in the route of the jet stream – corridors of strong winds that travel around the globe roughly at the cruising altitude of long distance airplanes – 10.000 meters or 30.000 feet."Those jetand lesbians. He offers several reasons for the shift, including gentrification, changing attitudes among gays and lesbians, and growing acceptance of same-sex couples. The study also identifies new demographic trends, including unexpected clusters of same-sex parents around desirable schools in traditionally straight neighbourhoods and the emergence of districts for LGBT people of colour. The findings also show that same-sex households exist in a record-high 93 per cent of U.S. counties.


natural disasters, political instability, terrorism and other man made follies. Price is indeed relative to demand, however, when we add vices of men into this simple economic model, convoluted picture arises. OPEC boasts biggest control on world’s largest provable reserves, and from time to time, tinkering of oil productions by OPEC causes price fluctuations.

Seven years ago, a prominent geologist, Dr. Colin Campbell published a book, titled “The Coming Oil Crisis”. Dr. Campbell has a distinguished career in the oil industry, worked as a consultant to the International Energy Agency based in France. Though his book was published in 1997 with no mention on recent developments of tar sands and heavy oil in Canada and Venezuela, still the book provides a striking imagery for the last three decades’ volatiledoes become a serious problem when the mentors of the academic institutions, the respected professors completely ignore their professional oaths to uphold the neutrality in their dissemination of lights of learning for their innocent disciples.

For that matter when we are talking about this, the issue of appointing the lucrative posts of Vice Chancellors in various Universities must be non political. Each time a new government takes over, the old VC and important administrative staff in various academic institutions in Bangladesh are shown the red card, the pink slip or a long Salaam while they are escorted toward the exit door. The new favorites replace the old posts with the full backing of the ruling party to wage the propaganda war, to "fix" the ideologies "fabricated" by the opposing


to refer white group as the group of purity. In 1987 the white group, composed of Dhaka University’s teachers, arranged a meeting under the leadership of Sirazul Islam, and Dr. Azad was one of the main speakers in that meeting. He had participated in the Senate Election under the same white party, and once he had performed his duty as the warden of international dormitory.

He did not actively participate in the white party for long, and neither did he join in another faction. Instead, as a truth seeker, this academician delved entirely into writing for his self-development of social thoughts and freethinking. He became the bearer of free, independent and greed-less pen. That pen would become a threat for his life; this premonition was there for many years.Political parties and various related groups who misuse religion demanded the banning of his writings. Several threats to his life cropped up more than once, and at last, that threat became the truth in his life.

In his writings, dark or darkness related issues used to emerge in roundabout way. He tried to elucidate dark as the fundamentalists, the anti-democratic forces who are against the progress and the progressives. To him, darkness represented all forms of activities in contrast to the betterment of humanity. His stance against the dark was always consistent, constant and resolute. Like many other Bangladeshi writers, by writing against darkness, he did not get involved with other similar detrimental or less murky politics. Consequently, though there might be different opinions on the intensity of his


conducting the parliament following the rules of business. To the people of Bangladesh, these two main leaders promised to strengthen democracy.

Just aftermath of the announcement of election 2001 result, these two major political parties forgot all these past promises. On one side the strikes, and on the other side the autocratic way of running the parliament and the nation, these two venomous political processes swallowed the nation. It didn’t take long for the same old conflict ridden imageries to return as they were just after the fall of Ershad government. Once again, for the Awami League, it became way more urgent to face BNP in battles than resisting the Jamaat or communalism infested politics. And for BNP, it became essential taking vengeance against Awami League. For this reasonyears ago, Plato depicted the life of Greek philosopher Socrates, who was executed for his non-customary views, and there are other plenty of examples in history where writers, truth seekers and freethinkers were deemed as the threat to the powerful, and thus destroyed. Dr. Humayun Azad knew this prickly truth. But fear of dangers, constant threats coming through his home telephone, or the forewarning from a parliamentarian did not stop him expressing his views. He knew, a writer may die for the pursuance of truth, upholding freethinking, contradicting mendacious dogmatic notions defended by the tenacious traditionalists, but the refreshing ideas, the thoughts of freedom and liberty cannot be suppressed in the end.

None of us are immortal. But freethinkers like Dr. Humayun Azad knows that we are all part


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Picked up by all the big boys in the scene. Gabriel and DresdenDuring the third season of the Tamil Bigg Boss TV show that was aired on Saturday night, a contestant casually admitted to molesting women on the bus. The revelation was met with a cheer from the audience. Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, who hosts the show, normalized rape culture as he failed to condemn the brazen admission.

Singer Chinmayi Sripaada retweeted a video clip showing this. The video soon went viral as Twitter users expressed their outrage.

A Tamil channel aired a man proudly proclaiming he used the Public Bus Transport system to molest/grope women – to cheers from the audience. And this is a joke. To the audience. To the women clapping. To the molester. Damn. https://t.co/kaL7PMDw4u — Chinmayi Sripaada (@Chinmayi) July 27, 2019

Kamal Haasan was trying to resolve a fight


between two contestants Cheran and Meera. Meera had earlier accused him of manhandling and using violence during a task.

As seen in the video clip, Kamal later went on to explain the trouble involved in boarding a busy public bus. He said, “To travel on a busy bus is a big hassle. While there are people who are rushing to reach office on time, there are those who get in just to touch women inappropriately.”

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Listening to this one of the contestants, Saravanan, raised his hands up and admitted to doing the same. Haasan initially thought that Saravanan meant that he used to beat up such molesters. Saravanan quickly interrupted him and admitted that during his college days he used to board the public bus just inorder tomolest women.

This was received by a round of applause from the audience. To which Kamal Haasan says in Tamil, “He (Saravanan) has gone beyond all that and is now become pure and holy”.

As reported by India Today, Saravanan justified his actions by saying “It was long back, when I was in college”. Kamal Haasan’s spokesperson has said that the actor was being sarcastic.

Kamal Haasan is also the chief of the political party Makkal Needhi Maiam. He was caught in a controversy earlier for saying that “Independent India’s first terrorist was a Hindu and it was Nathuram Godse”.


When the Gallants and Murrays of Indian Mountain stopped getting along, a giant, stinking mound of manure suddenly grew between them.

It came from the Murrays' beef cattle and was piled high along the Gallants' property just to make them miserable, Judge George Rideout says in a recent ruling in the dispute between the two Westmorland County families.

No wonder Rideout began his Court of Queen's Bench decision with these words: "When neighbours fight, nothing good results."

David Gallant bought his property northwest of Moncton from Lee and Shirley Murray in 2001. Gallant said he didn't know the Murrays had a cattle farm then, but the couple seemed to be good neighbours.

"We got along really well," Gallant said.

Until November 2013, that is, when Murray dumped what Gallant called, "a mountain ofthe Murrays, alleging they committed nuisance, trespass and harassment and claiming damages.

Rideout ruled in the Gallants' favour.

"I have little doubt these activities were initiated by the Murrays and designed to inflict fear, nuisance and harassment against the Gallants," the judge wrote.

Gallant describes the wall of cattle manure as, "fresh, unseasoned, wet and raw.' His neighbours, Lee and Shirley Murray, were fined more than $17,000 for leaving the manure beside, and in some places on, the Gallants' property. (David Gallant) "In my opinion, based on the evidence before the court, the manure was placed where it was for only one purpose, to make Mr. and Mrs. Gallant's lives miserable."

For their deeds, the Murrays must pay $17,689.12 in damages and court costs.

The Murrays were also ordered to keep their animals


Qiang children in the Black Tiger Village may not get the chance to grow up wtih the shaman culture. More than 30,000 Qiang died in the earthquake, threatening their way of life.

By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY

Earthquake-devastated culture fights for survival in China

By Calum MacLeodUSA TODAYJuly 15, 2008

BLACK TIGER VILLAGE, China — Ren Yongqing adjusts his goatskin vest, twists his necklace of animal tusks and teeth and chants an ancient prayer for peace to return to his mountain village shattered by the massive earthquake two months ago.

Ren, 83, is one of only a few dozen shamans, or holy men, left among the Qiang, an ethnic minority in China that has its own language, no written text and relies on elders to hand down its ancient traditions through chants andstorytelling. "After the earthquake, I worry that we will not be able to pass on the shibi (shaman) culture, and the Qiang culture," says Ren, sitting in a makeshift house he now shares with 15 family members.

More than 30,000 Qiang died in the earthquake — almost half of the 69,000 people killed, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. The Qiang, known in China as the "people in the clouds," lost about 10% of their population.

Now, the atheistic, communist Chinese government that once hounded and humiliated shamans such as Ren is considering an unusual effort to save the Qiang (che-yang; rhymes with rang).

The Chinese Cabinet, or State Council, is weighing whether to establish a "cultural protection region" for the Qiang, the vice minister of culture, Zhou Heping, told


Xinhua. The government would rebuild Qiang villages in four counties, preserve relics, give "Qiang cultural masters" more opportunities to resume traditions and festivals and produce videotapes in the Qiang language.

The government's move to preserve the Qiang culture contrasts sharply with Beijing's sometimes violent crackdowns recently against Tibetans and the Uighur ethnic minority, who widely resent Chinese rule. However, the Qiang, one of 55 ethnic minorities officially recognized in a country that is 92% Han Chinese, are small in number and have no separatist ambitions that threaten party rulers.

After the earthquake, the government was widely lauded for its quick response to rescue people and provide aid in hard-hit southwestern China. The disaster occurred at a time when the government's actions are under particular scrutiny in the weeks preceding theBeijing Olympics, which begin Aug. 8.

"We must not suffer the fate of Indians in America, as their culture has disappeared. There is still time for us," says Yang Chenli, a Qiang native and cultural bureau director of Mao County, which includes Black Tiger Village. Yang believes at least 4,000 locals died in the quake.

"The shamans have the most comprehensive knowledge of Qiang language and traditions," he says. "We need them to teach the younger generation."

Yang credits the resources the government is devoting to the region. "Even Premier Wen Jiabao has been stressing how we must protect the intangible culture" of the Qiang people, he says.

Sun Hongkai, a language professor who first researched the Qiang for the government in the 1950s, says the moves to preserve the Qiang after


the Qiang culture. Within a couple of generations, the language will be gone."

The government's move to preserve the Qiang culture contrasts sharply with Beijing's sometimes violent crackdowns recently against Tibetans and the Uighur ethnic minority, who widely resent Chinese rule. However, the Qiang, one of 55 ethnic minorities officially recognized in a country that is 92% Han Chinese, are small in number and have no separatist ambitions that threaten party rulers.

After the earthquake, the government was widely lauded for its quick response to rescue people and provide aid in hard-hit southwestern China. The disaster occurred at a time when the government's actions are under particular scrutiny in the weeks preceding the Beijing Olympics, which begin Aug. 8.

"We must not suffer the fate of Indians in America, as theirculture has disappeared. There is still time for us," says Yang Chenli, a Qiang native and cultural bureau director of Mao County, which includes Black Tiger Village. Yang believes at least 4,000 locals died in the quake.

"The shamans have the most comprehensive knowledge of Qiang language and traditions," he says. "We need them to teach the younger generation."

Yang credits the resources the government is devoting to the region. "Even Premier Wen Jiabao has been stressing how we must protect the intangible culture" of the Qiang people, he says.

July 15- In the mountain village of Black Tiger, deep in Sichuan Province, China, a Qiang Shaman shows the trappings of his rituals.

BEIJING, July 8 -- The May 12 earthquake had a disastrous affect on traditional folk cultures in Southwest China.


Temples and buildings of the Qiang people, and other ethnic groups, were damaged by the massive quake.

The Ministry of Culture has drawn up an action plan to rebuild cultural facilities in the disaster-affected areas. Vice Cultural Minister Zhou Heping said urgent relief material and donations have been sent to prominent representatives of folk cultures.

While accessing the damage done to the areas, local governments are already planning to build museums and schools to pass on the precious knowledge.

At a May 30 meeting by the State Nationalities Affairs Commission, some 30 cultural experts discussed the challenges in preserving and revitalizing the ancient Qiang culture.

An exhibition of Qiang cultural relics will be held in Beijing later this year and more books about the Qiang's history and folk customs are planned tobe published.

A Qiang woman tidies up quilts dug out from the ruins of her village, destroyed by the earthquake

(Image: Beijing Review)

A Disappearing Culture

4th July 2008BEIJING REVIEW

With 3,000 years of history behind them and only 300,000 of them left in the world, China's Qiang ethnic group is a nationality with an interesting, yet little-known culture.

That culture came into the light recently with the opening of a new exhibition at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities of Beijing called Qiang Culture in the Earthquake-hit Areas of Sichuan Province.

It has attracted particularly large crowds because Beichuan, the only Qiang autonomous county in China, was shaken severely by the earthquake in Sichuan on May 12.

The exhibition, which opened on June 14, presents more than 100 items related with the Qiang culture, including utensils,