Yesterday, J. Michael Gower began his tenure as the university’s new Chief Financial Officer, a post created by President Robert L. Barchi in the wake of the UMDNJ merger. But little has been said about Gower’s history, which is peppered with two separate controversies, including a resignation from a previous post at the University of Vermont. Documents from the school obtained by Muckgers staff members shed greater light on the circumstances surrounding Gower’s resignation and the violations of policy that prompted it.

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When J. Michael Gower, Rutgers’ new Chief Financial officer, was appointed to his post in late August, university officials touted him as an accomplished administrator and asset to the university community. At Yeshiva University in New York just prior to his appointment, he oversaw millions in universitythen recent implementation of a PeopleSoft information management system. The engagement was necessary, according to university officials, to resolve issues with grant and research administration, the school’s financial systems, and other information transition matters the school had been dealing with at the time. In his email to the UVM community, Fogel described Huron as doing “effective and productive work on a mission critical project.”

But the engagement, extensive as it was, soon fell apart. Two years after the UVM entered into contracts with Huron for the company’s consulting services, university administrators discovered that at least three of those contracts had been in direct violation of UVM policy and procedure. Under the supervision of Gower, the school’s Vice President of Finance and Administration at the time, the contracts, originally estimated


2004 and 2008, three were signed by Gower outside of a $30.5 million dollar spending limit set by the Board of Trustees in April 2007 for the Peoplesoft implementation and without Board approval. In addition, the report found that for some of the contracts, the final cost significantly exceeded the initial cost estimated. Other areas of potential concern included:

The existence of control and process-level breakdowns in UVM’s procurement process, including sourcing and contracting of vendors like Huron

The discovery that for four out of six of the contracts, work had begun on the project without an executed contract being in place

A lack of transparency between the school’s Division of Finance & Administration and the Board of Trustees where budget creation and reporting processes were involved

A substantial number of thescholarship in New York City. There, he worked to strengthen the school’s financial foundation as its Vice President for Business Affairs and CFO.

But Gower soon found himself mired in controversy at Yeshiva, too. At the peak the 2008 scandal surrounding disgraced investment advisor Bernie Madoff and his massive Ponzi scheme, Yeshiva announced that it has lost $110 in estimated profits (Madoff had been on the board of trustees at Yeshiva since 1996, and the university had a significant amount of funds invested in his Wall Street firm). Two weeks later the university revised the number, claiming that it had actually only lost $14.5 million. Gower called the profits, which had first been attributed to Madoff’s investing success, “fictitious,” saying that any money the school thought it had earned


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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Best laid plans

And we talked about changing the visit location between the time with Mom and the time with Dad and I was all excited about that.

The next visit.....first with Mom (at McDonald's), then with Dad (possibly at a nearby park).

Except that when the supervisor picked S up, she told me she hadn't been able to reach Dad to confirm the plan, so she wasn't sure how it would actually all play out. 30 minutes into the visit with Mom, I got a call from the supervising person. Dad is "unavailable" for the visit today, she tells me carefully, and asks if I'll be at home 2 hours sooner than originally planned.

"Unavailable" = back in jail. He was out long enough to have one visitRaphael Mechoulam, an Israeli chemist, is best known for his work in the field of cannabis, including helping to isolate and synthesize its active component, called THC. But he is increasingly impatient to see his findings translate into clinical trials.

At the age of 85, he is hopeful the field to which he has devoted his life’s work has reached a possible inflection point. In March, the National Institutes of Health held a neuroscience research summit focused on marijuana and cannabinoids.

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He may be at the peak of his career, but Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic even thought about giving up at one point.

By Stefan Djordjevic/ info@eurohoops.net

In the summer of 2017, Denver Nuggets star player Nikola Jokic decided not to play for the Serbian national team in the upcoming Eurobasket in order to better prepare himself for the upcoming NBA season.

That decision certainly paid off as he improved drastically and paved the way to signing a five-year maximum contract with Denver Nuggets earlier this summer. On the other hand, some fans didn’t take that decision well and blamed him for not helping Serbia in the competition.

Although Jokic had a good amount of support also, some of the negativity reached him and it was enough for the young player to doubtSome players are on the verge of stardom, others are entering a crucial phase of their development and still others are getting their first tastes of full-season ball. With the 2016 season approaching, MiLB.com takes a look at the most intriguing prospects from each MLB organization.

Back and healthy: Jameson Taillon, RHP

After two years of rehab, the second overall pick from the 2010 Draft is ready to pitch again.

The 6-foot-5 right-hander last appeared in a regular-season game in 2013, when he went 5-10 with a 3.73 ERA and 143 strikeouts in 147 1/3 innings between Double-A Altoona and Triple-A Indianapolis. Taillon lost his 2014 season following Tommy John surgery and had his return in 2015 derailed by an inguinal hernia.

Two years away from the mound could be cause for


the year. If he continues to baffle International League hitters, the 22-year-old could give the big league rotation a shot in the arm, much like Gerrit Cole did as a rookie in 2013.

"As far as the raw stuff, it's all there," Pirates director of Minor League operations Larry Broadway said in an interview with MiLB.com. "The fastball's there. The spin, the shape of the breaking ball, that stuff is there. It's the overall consistency of it all."

Full-season debutant: Kevin Newman, SS

Depending on whom you ask, Newman is either a decent player with above-average hitting abilities or a budding superstar. MLB.com is in the latter group, ranking Newman as the Pirates 11th-best prospect.

To his credit, Newman performed well in his first professional season. After a slow start with theshort-season Black Bears, the Arizona University product slashed .306/.376/.367 in 23 games once he was called up to the Class A South Atlantic League. He also had six steals and an 8-to-9 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

The knock on Newman is his lack of a second plus tool to complement his hitting, and the focus often falls on his poor power. That problem likely won't be solved this season -- the California native is ticketed for the Class A Advanced Florida State League, a circuit notorious for suppressing power numbers. Still, the Pirates are pleased with Newman as he is.

"I think he's a very solid defensive player at shortstop," said Broadway. "He moves around. He's got explosive feet, good arm strength. Plus, he's got a head on his shoulders. There's game


awareness, baseball IQ.

"Offensively, he's more gap-to-gap. He's got a good feel for the strike zone, got a good ability to put the barrel on it. And he's got some run tool in there to be able to steal some bases, go first to third, create havoc and create favorable situations for the guys behind him."

Breakout prospect: Yeudy Garcia, RHP

At 23 years old, the Pirates pushed Garcia with a full-season assignment last year -- despite the fact he had never played above the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League -- and the righty passed wih flying colors.

The 6-foot-3, 185-pound hurler posted a 2.10 ERA -- fourth-best in the Minor Leagues -- and finished second in the organization behind Glasnow with 112 strikeouts in 30 appearances (21 starts) for Class A WestVirginia. He stands at No. 18 on the Pirates' prospect rankings.

That could change quickly. Garcia is still a bit raw, but his ability to miss bats gives him a chance to start climbing the ranks. The native of the Dominican Republic struck out 8.1 batters per nine innings last year, and that number only figures to rise as his command and secondary pitches improve to complement a high-90's fastball. Coupled with his maturity, it's not difficult to see Garcia carrying himself to Double-A -- or further -- if he stays hot in the Florida State League.

At the crossroads: Alen Hanson, 2B

Hanson came out of the gates flying last season, batting a scorching .362/.403/.595 in May and being named the International League Player of the Month. That proved to


be the high point of his season. The 23-year-old hit just .215/.275/.314 in the second half.

The native of the Dominican Republic has great speed and natural abilities, but questions linger about the mental aspect of his game. In 2014, Hanson was notoriously benched several games by Altoona manager Carlos Garcia for an apparent lack of hustle. The former shortstop was moved to second base full time after he made 29 errors over 100 contests at shortstop.

Hanson will start the season back in Triple-A. With Neil Walker traded to the Mets and Jung Ho Kang opening the season on the disabled list, there are opportunities available in Pittsburgh's infield. It will just be a matter of whether or not Hanson is able seize them.

More to keep an eye on:Josh Bell will return to Triple-A Indianapolis. The former outfielder has worked hard to improve his defense at first base entering his second full season at the position. ... Austin Meadows remained healthy for all of 2015, but his good fortune ran out earlier this month when he was struck in the face while playing catch and fractured his orbital bone. He is expected to miss at least four weeks to start the year. ... Nick Kingham is looking to make his return from a yearlong absence after Tommy John surgery. When the 24-year-old takes the mound, he'll eventually combine with Taillon, Chad Kuhl, Trevor Williams and Steven Brault to form a blue-chip rotation in Indianapolis. ...Harold Ramirez turned some heads with his performance in the Grapefruit League


This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

Seven-year-old Xavier Beebe didn't know a lot about the governor before he visited Xavier's school for a news conference Tuesday.

But Xavier knew all about reading.

"It's fun to have people read to you," the second-grader said after listening to the state's highest elected official read aloud a picture book about a late-blooming tiger.

Gov. Gary Herbert joined business leaders at North Salt Lake's Foxboro Elementary for a news conference on Tuesday to highlight a new project aimed at putting 20,200 volunteers into Utah classrooms by the year 2020.

"Our educators both in public and higher education have learned todo more with less, but there comes a point that the business community really, I think, needs to step up and become a better partner," said businessman Mark Bouchard, chair of Prosperity 2020, the Utah business-led movement to improve education that's behind the effort. "We're the benefactor of all their hard work."

Utah schools already have a number of parent and other volunteers. But the idea behind this new program, called Business Promise, is to leverage the power of the business community to help Utah meet a goal of having two-thirds of adults possess postsecondary degrees or certificates by the year 2020. The group also hopes to see 90 percent of elementary students proficient in math and reading.

Herbert said volunteers are a way to improve education in Utah, which


nursing homes, and household cleaning businesses began to exist as paid jobs.

But the cult of domesticity still lingers on in present day. The Bureau of Labor Statistics published data in 2010 showing that women on average spend .72 more hours than men doing household activities and .34 more hours taking care of household members. The data showed than men on average spend 1.15 more hours working than women and also .75 more hours on leisure activities.

The distinction of the core sphere as a noneconomic sector of the economy has its drawbacks. Care work is a term that stands for tasks done in the service of others, and it does not have any direct economic payoff. Nancy Folbre discusses “the care penalty” in her book The Invisible Heart. Shebest player on the field, making the defending Super Bowl champion Giants defense look silly at home in the fourth quarter.

He just came off a blown ACL, he has less than a full NFL season under his belt, but he’s set til 2030. No make that 2040. He is set til 2040 and the Redskins will win the next 27 Superbowls with RG3. It’s only logical.

As a skins fan it’s good to see all the haters coming out and showing their non football knowledge. The skins won the NFC East last season and ranked in the top 5in total offense and number 1 rushing and the haters saying the sins will be at the bottom of the division this season. JEALOUS!!

Ok guys I understand that the field was


photograph taken on July 20, 2003, at the same site showing a U.S. soldier visiting the newly-opened zoo.

Sumner organized zoologists, conservationists, veterinarians, and fellow soldiers to protect the remaining animals and restore the once-massive zoo. That was no easy task, considering they were in a war zone where it was “not unusual to hear nearby explosions and fighting nearby while we worked to stabilize the animals,” Sumner recalled, according to a U.S. Army account of his actions. He had to contend with scattered unexploded ordnance and wandering looters.

Sumner’s team also rescued neglected animals from other small zoos, black market dealers, and the palaces of Saddam Hussein’s family, rounding up 19 lions, two tigers, four mountain bears, and 16 valuable Arabian race horses. The zoo reopened to the publicmen in longyi, dancing and dancing to the music. Unlike the tranquility of the lake and the people of Myanmar that you often see, traditional festivals create an extremely bustling and vibrant scene.

Besides, you will also have the opportunity to enjoy a lunch on the lake or visit the traditional villages such as weaving, tobacco, making silver. Typical souvenirs at Inle Lake include silver fish for luck, cigarettes made entirely from natural materials, silk products made from silk … The crafts here Prices are usually quite expensive and not easy to bargain.

In the south of Ngapali and near the capital Yangon is the coast of Ngwe Saung, also known as the “sea of silver”.

The flight from Yangon arrived only 35 minutes. This is not only an ideal place


and admitted signing the loan application and participating in closing on the house.  He denied filling in the false statements and claimed that his now-deceased son filled out the loan application, telling him:  "Just sign it, daddy, and [I]'ll do the rest."   McDow admitted that he had never dealt with an American Eagle Credit Union and that the Social Security number on the application was not his.

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On cross-examination, McDow admitted that he used a false name and Social Security number while living in California to avoid being arrested, after hearing that the FBI had a warrant out for his arrest in Texas because of the house he bought in 1986.  McDow also admitted giving made-up Social Security numbers to police officers at varioustimes when he was arrested.  McDow said he did this because he wanted to avoid arrest, keep working and support his family.  The government was also allowed to question McDow about his past convictions and arrests for bad checks, burglary/grand theft and being a fugitive from justice.

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Involvement of Sunbelt Savings and Sunbelt Mortgage

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Sunbelt Mortgage was the named lender on the promissory note, deed of trust and related documents signed by McDow.  But the mortgage company--a wholly owned subsidiary of Sunbelt Savings--had to borrow from Sunbelt Savings in order to fund the loan to McDow.  The money used to fund the loan thus came from the federally insured deposits of the mortgage company's corporate parent, Sunbelt Savings.  Barry Johnson, vice-president of Sunbelt Mortgage, testified


under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 408.  We assume from the broad language of McDow's notice of appeal that Count 1 was appealed along with the other three counts, but McDow makes no argument for its reversal.  In any case, the evidence clearly showed that McDow submitted his son's Social Security number in the loan application, falsely representing the number to be his own.  Section 408 has no "federally insured" element;  it requires only the submission of the false number to any person, "with intent to deceive."   A reasonable jury could have inferred that, by submitting his son's number in place of his own, McDow had the intent to deceive.  The jury could also have inferred an intent to deceive from McDow's admissionChild abuse image investigation leads to 660 arrests

More than 650 suspected paedophiles have been arrested as part of a six-month operation targeting people accessing child abuse images online.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said among the 660 were teachers, medical staff, former police officers, a social services worker and scout leader.

More than 400 children have been protected as a result, the agency said.

Child protection experts have praised the arrests but warned they were "the tip of the iceberg".

Jim Gamble, former chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), called for "consistent and persistent investigations of this kind".

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, meanwhile, said: "Somebody who starts looking at pictures on the internet may go on to do something much worse, so this is the kind of operation


that is absolutely vital for our society."

Risk of harm

Arrests were made across the UK, with the majority of those held having had no previous contact with police.

The NCA stressed that none of those arrested was a serving or former MP or member of the government.

Paedophile arrests

660

suspected paedophiles arrested

431

children have been protected

39 suspects were registered sex offenders

833 buildings searched

9,172 devices, including phones and laptops, seized

Source: National Crime Agency

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Examples of those arrested include:

A doctor, who has been charged and remains in custody over images of child abuse

A grandfather who had access to 17 grandchildren, two of whom were allegedly abused by the man. He was taken into custody

A foster carer, who was caring for a 12-year-old, was arrested. He had no previous convictions or allegations of offending

The NCA said 431fear to remain in the minds of those who want to perpetrate this sort of crime as possiblePhil Gormley, NCA deputy director general

The "dark net" refers to content that does not appear in normal search engines and users often use virtual currencies to avoid detection. According to the Internet Watch Foundation, less than 1% of its content is hosted in the UK.

Mr Gormley told BBC News that the NCA would "look at the learning from this operation".

"We've now got the opportunity to understand the methodology, the techniques employed by people who are operating on the internet in this way - and their motivation."

He said the success of the operation had been based on "the coming together of a tactic and technique that works".

He refused to elaborate further, adding:


also a growing trade in swapping and paying for indecent material via organised criminal gangs. Only last month the head of the Virtual Global Taskforce told BBC News it was an "epidemic".

It is clear Operation Notarise is only a small part of the efforts to deal with the problem.

It's really, yet again, a challenge to the internet industry to help us all do more to stamp out these terrible crimesJohn Carr, Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety

Former Ceop chief Mr Gamble told BBC News those arrested were "not people in dirty macs".

"They're the people that sit in doctor's surgeries," he said.

"They're involved in government. They're involved elsewhere in works and civil service and the police and whatever else. We need to make sure that no-one can hide frombe done if we are to stem the sordid trade in these images,Claire Lilley, NSPCC

Chief Constable Simon Bailey, of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the operation marked a turning point in investigating those suspected of paedophilia.

He said it was the first time the NCA had worked with other forces to "come together to target the possession, distribution, sharing of indecent images of children - so it's a really significant event".

But he said that, while there was "a role for law enforcement to play", there was "a bigger role for service providers, for the industry to play in disrupting and preventing" paedophile activity on the internet.

Claire Lilley, head of online safety at the NSPCC said the operation had rescued children from abuse.

But she warned: "Industry has to


she proceeded to travel to the address where the defendant
resided. When she traveled by the home, she noted that the defendant’s
vehicle was not there. At the same time, Officer Jason Marlowe was also on
the lookout for the vehicle in the defendant’s neighborhood. He eventually
stopped the car about one hundred and fifty feet from the residence. The
defendant and a female passenger were inside the vehicle. Once the defendant
was removed from the car, he gave consent for the vehicle to be searched.
Officer Marlow found a lithium battery, fully intact, inside the glove box of the
car.

        Meanwhile, Officer Jarrett, a trained methamphetamine technician, had
also returned to the scene. She approached the house and encountered the
defendant’s brother, Tamra Rasnick, and David Allen. Officer Jarrett asked
thegroup if anyone had been cooking methamphetamine, and they responded
in the negative. She also asked for permission to search the home, which was
given by Rasnick and Allen, who stated that they were staying at the house
while they were repairing it. After entering the home, officers found nothing
in plain view. However, when Officer Jarrett searched the outside perimeter of
the home, she discovered a still smoldering burn pile.

        Based upon her experience, the materials she saw in the burn pile
appeared to be of the type used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. She
discovered coffee filters, four bottles which were melted down, measuring
cups, lithium strips, a Walden-D allergy congestion pill box, blister packs, and
plastic bags. She testified that the used lithium strips were consistent with
coming


from the type of battery found in the defendant’s car. Officer Jarrett
was also able to determine that one of the plastic bottles had been used as a
“gas generator,” which is classified as drug paraphernalia, to make
methamphetamine and that, based upon her training, the process began no
more than twelve hours previously. In the area, she also found tubing which
tested positive for methamphetamine. Finally, in the burn pile, she discovered
an AT&T telephone bill addressed to the defendant at that location. All the
people present were detained for questioning after the discovery.

       Based upon that discovery, Officer Jarrett returned to the inside of the
house. In the trash can, she found a container of Morton salt, pseudoephedrine

                The Petitioner testified that the backyard of the house was “fairly private” and
surrounded by weeds. He said he told trial counsel that his codefendants were working on
the house and denied telling counsel the codefendants rented the house from his mother.

        On cross-examination, the Petitioner testified that the State made a plea offer on the
day of the preliminary hearing and that he rejected it. The Petitioner did not know if trial
counsel spoke to him about the offer the day before the preliminary hearing. He said that he
saw the discovery file before the preliminary hearing and that the State possessed his criminal
record and photographs of the house. The Petitioner stated that counsel had represented him
on previous charges


was on
probation at the time of the trial and that he thought the plea offer included a provision that
the three-year sentence would run concurrently with the remainder of his previous sentence.

         On redirect examination, the Petitioner testified that he never received a notice to seek
enhanced punishment, that he did not know he faced twelve to twenty years if convicted after
a trial, that he did not know he could be sentenced to thirty years, and that this knowledge
would have changed his consideration of the plea offers. The Petitioner said that he spoke to
another attorney whose clients received three years’ probation and that the Petitioner
assumed his sentence would be similar.
         The Petitioner testified thatbefore the trial.
He said, though, he did not receive a notice to seek enhanced punishment until after he “went
to the Supreme Court.” On further redirect examination, when asked how well he could read
and write, the Petitioner said, “Not real well.” The Petitioner stated that counsel never
reviewed the discovery materials or explained them to him. He said that the reason he
appealed his convictions was because he never received a notice to seek enhanced
punishment. The Petitioner stated that he was present at the sentencing hearing and that no
one reviewed with him his prior convictions contained in the presentence report.

       Two written plea offers were received as exhibits. The first, dated June 2, 2009,
offered four years consecutive to “any priors,” with a $2000 fine, or


the
Petitioner had also been staying there and that they were all repairing the house. Officer
Jarrett said that other officers had gone to the house previously and had contact with the
Petitioner, that the officers stated a woman had been in the house with the Petitioner, and that
she did not know if the officers saw codefendant Rasnick or codefendant Allen.

       Officer Jarrett testified that she searched the house and did not find any evidence. She
said that she walked into a side yard next to the house and found a burn pile about ten feet
from the steps. She said that after searching the burn pile, she searched the house again, and
that she recovered methamphetamine precursors inside and outside the house.

     Griese new security blanket

Tuesday's signing could be a good deal for a snake-bit QB--and team, writes Don Pierson

March 22, 2006|By Don Pierson.

Brian Griese is a definite upgrade for the Bears. Jeff Blake won't agree, but Griese is a better veteran backup to Rex Grossman and Kyle Orton. He is more accurate and has a higher career passer efficiency rating than Blake. At 31, Griese is also four years younger.

Blake was a stopgap, a definite upgrade over Jonathan Quinn.

Griese's career passer rating and accuracy are slightly better than the numbers for Brad Johnson, the quarterback he replaced in Tampa Bay. The Bears struck out in a lukewarm attempt to add Johnson last year.

Griese is a lot better than Jay Fiedler and also four years younger than Kurt Warner, two


other upgrade candidates from last off-season.

Griese doesn't have as much upside as Josh McCown, the 26-year-old who chose Detroit, or maybe Patrick Ramsey, the 27-year-old Washington traded to the New York Jets, but his numbers surpass both. Griese is four years younger and also has a better record than Gus Frerotte, who chose St. Louis.

Aaron Brooks and Joey Harrington, kicked out of New Orleans and Detroit, couldn't have accepted the role the Bears desire and Griese has outperformed both. Jeff Garcia, off to Philadelphia, is washed up. Jon Kitna, also signed by Detroit, can't stand up to Griese's record.

Griese is neither Drew Brees nor Daunte Culpepper, the top two quarterbacks to change teams this off-season. But the Bears claim they weren't looking for a starter.

Amazingly, Brian Griese's lifetimeaccuracy and passer efficiency and touchdown-to-interception ratio are all better than his dad's and Bob Griese is in the Hall of Fame. If Brian could throw to Paul Warfield and hand off to Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Mercury Morris, maybe he would win Super Bowls, too.

That's the thing about Brian Griese. Bears' general manager Jerry Angelo believes most teams these days win not so much because of their quarterbacks but because their quarterbacks can manage the people around them.

For Brian, that didn't happen in Denver, where he had the poor fortune of beginning his career as John Elway's successor. It didn't happen in his one season under coach Dave Wannstedt in Miami, where he got hurt and never could escape his dad's shadow, let alone Dan Marino's.


It didn't happen in his two years in Tampa where his statistics were better than his health or the team's record as he tried to follow the Super Bowl-winning Johnson.

At Michigan, Griese had to share playing time with Scott Dreisbach.

In Chicago, Griese may have to back up Grossman and maybe even Orton, but he follows no one. This could be a break for him and for the Bears.Youth Joyfully Join in Pro-Life Rallies

At a press conference shortly before the march, several members of Silent No More spoke about the emotional, physical and psychological effects of having had abortions.

Karen Bodle, of Harrisburg, Pa., said she had an abortion after she became pregnant at 18 from her first sexual encounter.

"For years, I was pro-choice because I thought I had to justify my own choice," she said. "I lived with chronic depression and spent six weeks in a mental hospital with nervous breakdown because of the fear that I would not have any children. It took over two years to recover my ability to think and act normally." Joyce Zounis of Colorado talked about the physical damage to her body from having seven abortions over 11 years.

"The warning


most cited "contemporary" examples that point to Jesus' existence are the writings of two Roman historians: Josephus and Tacitus. Here's the problem: It's all hearsay. Neither Josephus nor Tacitus ever lived during Jesus time, so even if their mentions of Jesus was real and not a forgery (which is suspected due to the context in which the Jesus phrases were inserted into their work), it is obvious they never knew Jesus and were only reporting something they heard. Josephus supposedly wrote of Jesus in his published work, "Antiquities of the Jews" around 94AD. That's 60 years after Jesus died! Most scholars, even Christians, recognize that Josephus' work was probably forged by later Christians to include the Jesus reference, but it's still moot because he wasn't a contemporary. Thesame thing goes for Tacitus, who was born in 56AD, at least 20 years after Jesus supposedly died.

The bottom line is: nobody who was alive during Jesus time ever wrote of him or knew him. There are records that have survived from the time period when he was around in Rome, but nothing about Jesus. This would be expected if he was just an ordinary person, but not someone who was going around performing miracles, being worshipped as the savior, rabble rousing and then being crucified and later raised from the dead! The fact that nobody at the time knew anything about this is very unusual.

For more information and details about who "should have noticed", look at A Silence That Screams.

This article is primarily written and administered by


inapplicable to save the defective affidavits in this case. We reverse the suppression of the evidence.

I.
On November 19, 1984, based on the affidavit of Denver Detective Larry Subia, Denver County Judge Samuel M. Kirbens issued two warrants to search two residences owned by John Pannebaker. The warrants were based on information Detectives Subia and Martinez received from a first-time, confidential informant. The informant related that John Pannebaker was growing marihuana for illegal sale from two residences in Boulder County. The informant was familiar with the apparent use and sales methods of marihuana because the informant had used marihuana in the past. The informant stated that Pannebaker lived in one of the residences and rented out the other. Further, the informant was inside both residences within the "recent past"and observed marihuana plants growing in what Pannebaker termed the "genesis root system." According to the informant, the growing rooms in the houses were constantly lit with special sunlights. The informant also related that the marihuana growing room was on the second level of the residence which Pannebaker rented and in the attic space of the residence in which Pannebaker lived. At the rented residence, the informant stated that all the windows in the second level growing room were covered with a dark window covering. This was to keep the room warm and to prevent anybody from looking inside. The informant provided a full description of both houses and noted that the residence in which Pannebaker lived did not have an address on the outside of the house.


The informant then provided detailed guidance on how to reach that residence.
On November 15, 1984, Detectives Subia and Martinez and the informant drove to the residences to verify the information. Both houses matched the description provided by the informant. The detectives observed the windows on the second level of the rented residence to be covered with black plastic and reflector covering. The detectives noticed that one of several U.S. postal mail boxes contained the name John Pannebaker. Detective Subia looked in the mailbox and found unopened mail addressed to John A. Pannebaker.
At the residence in which Pannebaker was residing, the detectives observed a small, silver car which was parked in a detached carport. Both the car and house descriptions were as the informant had earlier related.
Detectives Martinez andconfidential informant, information was available to show that the informant had been in the house within the last thirty days.
Detective Hall then presented his affidavit, incorporating the Denver warrants and Detective Subia's affidavit, to Boulder County Judge Torke on November 21, 1984. The Hall affidavit contained additional information of further independent corroborative observations and research.
Detective Carolyn Roberts of the Boulder County Sheriff's Department checked the Boulder County Assessor's records for residences owned by John A. Pannebaker. The records on file showed John Pannebaker to be the owner of both residences in question.
Detective Hall also included in his affidavit information relayed by the informant through Detective Subia that a large portion of the first house, as well as the attached portion of the second house, was being utilized for


literature describing indoor marihuana growing methods, and bags of marihuana. At the residence of John Pannebaker, officers found 260 marihuana plants and seedlings "fed from... automatically controlled timers that controlled ventilation, light, and the nutrition flow." Officers also found a dismantled "genesis root system."
The district court suppressed all evidence seized from both of the defendant's houses. It concluded that the assertion in Detective Subia's affidavit as to "recent past" was too vague to permit a magistrate to conclude that there was probable cause to believe the house contained marihuana. The court further concluded that the sentence in the Hall affidavit that the confidential informant "had been in the residence of Mr. Pannebaker within the last month, and saw the marihuana growning [sic]," failed to establish the affiant's basisdescriptions and geographic settings of both houses, the type of car Pannebaker drove, the physical description of Pannebaker himself, and the ownership of both houses by Pannebaker. Further police investigation showed that Pannebaker had a previous criminal record with regard to marihuana.
Of particular import to the time concern expressed by the trial court was the black plastic that the informant had stated would be covering the second floor windows of the rented residence in order to create a climate control for the plants and to prevent others from looking into the windows. The existence of the black plastic is strong corroboration that the information received from the confidential informant was not stale. First, the black plastic corroborates the confidential informant's statement that it was used for climate control


12 to 30, he saw close to 4,000 movies and critiqued them all on index cards, which he still has.) With three hits in a row—The Last Picture Show (which made a star of Cybill Shepherd, who became Bogdanovich’s partner for seven years), What’s Up, Doc?, and *Paper Moon—*he became one of the new, young Hollywood elite in the 1970s. All the while, he continued seeking out the illustrious Old Guard—among them, Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, George Cukor, and Howard Hawks—to promote their work and learn from them all he could.

But Mr. Bogdanovich, like one of his heroes, Orson Welles, became another example of the American Dream gone wrong, wunderkind success washed up. His early hits, he candidly admitted, were followed by three failures in a row,Roma sporting director Gianluca Petrachi wants to reinforce the Giallorossi in January when the transfer window opens. Corriere della Sera reports that two of the potential targets he has his eye on for January include Everton’s Moise Kean and Napoli right-back Elseid Hysaj. Reportedly, after encountering problems in England, Petrachi could make an attempt for the young striker by offering a loan with an option to buy. Meanwhile, the track leading to Hysaj is a difficult one following the injury to Kévin Malcuit, but he remains a profile that Petrachi is monitoring.

John Solano The Editor of RomaPress, John has been covering Italian football as a freelance journalist for over 10 years and has appeared in various publications including ASRoma.com, ESPN, The Liverpool Echo, and more.


be changed. Yes, to preserve history, but also to create an economic engine for people in the area again.

Now plans for the nearby area include a new Everton FC stadium (the fifth such plan in my lifetime, but I remain an optimist – you have to be as an Evertonian) new port terminals bringing parts of the docks back to life, a slow-to-progress ‘Docklands-lite’ plan called Liverpool Waters, with the usual flats and offices, as well as the further redevelopment of the now partially refurbished Stanley Dock, described as “the biggest adaptive re-use challenge in Europe” in a Heritage England article.

Stanley Dock complex (Kenn Taylor)

Perhaps the most interesting change though has been in the streets between Stanley Dock and the city centre. The cheap land, large ex-industrial spaces,as well as further development of the city centre, has attracted several arts and music spaces including Make Liverpool, Invisible Wind Factory, Drop the Dumbulls and more. The City Council has subsequently developed a Single Regeneration Framework for this area, named Ten Streets because, well, it’s ten streets from Saltney Street to Oil Street. The SRF envisages the further development of this area as a creative district. The involvement of the local authority and external planning consultants has provoked understandable scepticism in some quarters and the usual cries of gentrification. However, the situation with Ten Streets deserves unpicking further. While there have been some negative impacts of gentrification in Merseyside, the area faces far more fundamental challenges than that. While it has come a long way, the economy


my dad who’d trained as a railway fitter just north of Stanley Dock at Bankhall workshops, before they, like so much else, closed as the dock system and related industry shrank from the late 1960s onwards. My mum’s family too had lived in this area on Boundary Street before they were re-housed to Norris Green. My parents were older than some and remembered Merseyside in the post-war boom era. I inherited their sense of the essential tragedy of the area’s subsequent economic decline and of the terrible impact it had on people and the area’s culture. That more things could have been done to mitigate it. As well as a hope, desire, need, that one day things would improve and not be in such decay. That there wouldsimilar places before, including other parts of Liverpool, this combination of interesting old buildings, few neighbours, especially of an evening, and cheap rents brought creative people into the area.

Industry in Ten Streets area (Kenn Taylor)

One of them was Kazimier, which first emerged when some artists who’d moved to the city took over an abandoned night club in the centre. ‘The Conti’, once a haunt of Liverpool’s 80s footballers, was turned into a new independent venue called The Kazimier, where I had some of the best nights of my life. Their organisation grew to become much more than that, as its Director Liam Naughton explains: “We’re hands on artists. Pursing some ideological goals in output. A lot of those are to do with placemaking, showmaking, running venues and being


which was named by the planners as ‘Baltic Triangle’ because it was, well, a triangle of land near the Baltic Fleet pub. Prior to that it was known as the ‘Waterfront Industrial Area’. I used to walk through it to my job in a call centre further down the docks when it was still very much a quiet, declining industrial area of small factories and depots. In fact, prior to its new creative status, Baltic was considered as being designated a ‘managed prostitution zone’ by the city.

It’s important to note, as Baltic’s development has sometimes been written about as ‘wholly organic’ that in fact, it was both deliberately planned as a new creative district and that also there was also scepticism from many in the creative scene thatit would work. ‘You can’t plan something like this!’ was the mantra. Some of the first creative outfits to move to Baltic were publicly funded outfits such as Liverpool Biennial, who were encouraged to go there. Importantly though, the Baltic Creative CIC was set up around the same time with funding from the now defunct Northwest Development Agency. This created studio space that crucially was directly owned and controlled by a Community Interest Company committed to creative industries and reinvesting any surplus generated in the area and supporting creative industries. This along with other studio space held by the likes of Elevator, led the development of Baltic as a creative district with others, notably venues like 24 Kitchen Street and Constellations, following.

Northern Lights complex, Baltic Triangle (Kenn Taylor)

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But in general, I think they’re doing well. They’re doing a lot, considering how terribly resourced they are.”

This is echoed by Joel Hansen, Editor of Scottie Press, which has been a north Liverpool community newspaper for decades, as he details: “The Scottie Press is Britain’s longest running community newspaper, been going for 47 years. The paper was created directly from unthoughtful city planning almost. In the 1970s, the second Mersey Tunnel was essentially built through the last remaining community in Scotland Road. As a sort of protest against any further city planning destroying communities, the Scottie Press was created to unite locals, unite neighbourhoods and give a voice back to the working-class people who lived in those areas.”

Joel Hansen, Scottie Press (Kevin Crooks)

Once again with Ten Streets andthe UK or the broadsheets. In fact, if Eldonian gets written about at all its often framed in contempt from the small coterie of quite privileged, London-based men who dominate such discourse: ‘The community rejected the visions in glorious concrete of architects, planners and theorists and built instead average looking houses with gardens. How bland. How dare they’ sums up usually how it goes.

Leeds-Liverpool Canal, Vauxhall (Kenn Taylor)

As a result, positive lessons to be learned from urban development in Liverpool, which also built the first ever Council housing and had some of the first housing associations amongst a range of other urban innovations, are often ignored by the wider country and world. Crucial in the lessons being learned with Baltic Triangle and Ten Streets is that, if given


big ideas.”

Stanley Dock complex (Kenn Taylor)

Beyond the Ten: Vauxhall, Everton and Kirkdale

The focus of the discussion and plans of Ten Streets have been the former warehouses and factories adjacent to the docks. While some people do live in the immediate area, it’s always been principally industrial. Not far away though are residential districts that once relied on this area for their economic life. Vauxhall, Everton and Kirkdale are amongst the most historic districts of Liverpool, some of the most deprived parts of the UK and at the heart of where the idea of Scouse culture was born. These areas have faced challenges with poverty since the industrial revolution and growth of the low wage, insecure work culture that dominated this part of the city of docks, processing plants,with the SRF, these things could make Ten Streets a potential model for other places dealing with the now well-established cycle of post-industrial to creative. If successful, it could attract artists being displaced from elsewhere, helping the city grow. The Ten Streets area being vibrant could help the larger developments nearby attract residents and other forms of business whilst keeping this area protected. While in turn such larger developments will help drive infrastructure improvements in the area beyond the scope and scale of Ten Streets.

Another paradigm needs to be considered though. Time and time again areas like this around the world have redeveloped, for the most part by creative people from middle and upper class backgrounds moving into them, but often they have ended up being cut off


The War On Men has advanced into the political domain, with Roy Moore being accused of groping.

Moore is the GOP candidate for the Alabama Senate seat left empty by Jeff Sessions' ascent to U.S. Attorney General, that seat to be filled by a special election December 12th. When Moore was fighting the primary back in September I described him as "a gem of pure Americana."

Roy Moore won that primary, so he's been running, and polling well, against the Democrat, a colorless Leftist.

Then a woman showed up claiming Moore had fondled her in 1979, when he was 32 and she was 14. Three other women then emerged from the undergrowth claiming Moore had come on at them too thirty-something years ago, when they were aged 16, 17, and 18.

Forcourt of law; but the guy has a point in that Roy Moore has been nationally famous since the early 1990s, when as a judge he hung a plaque of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. If these women had a beef against Moore, they've waited a suspiciously long time to air it.

A poll this week, after the accusations came out, showed Moore's support down but still competitive. Personally, I hope he stays the course, and I hope he wins in December.


Force India hoping for a better show in Sepang

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After having garnered just a point from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Sahara Force India team is eyeing a better performance in the second race of the 2012 Formula One season in Sepang on Sunday.

Paul Di Resta, who managed to pick up a point for Force India by finishing in the 10th spot in Melbourne, said the upcoming Malaysian Grand Prix would be an interesting one as it is considered as one of the toughest races of the year.

"Sepang will be a tough fitness test and I'll see how well the work over the winter has prepared me," he said.

"It's up there alongside Singapore as one of the toughest races of the year, simply because ofapplication for

asylum and withholding of removal. The asylum office did not refer Djokovic’s case to

the Immigration Court until 2004, when a notice to appear was issued. At an immigration

hearing, Djokovic conceded, through counsel, that he is removable for being present here

without being admitted or paroled. In addition to asylum and withholding of removal,

Djokovic sought relief under the Convention Against Torture.

       In support of his applications for relief from removal, Djokovic testified that he

was summoned for military duty in 1998. A captain told him that he would be sent to

Kosovo. Djokovic told the captain that he would report for duty but then fled. Djokovic,

who testified that he is Albanian, objected to serving in the military because it was

sending soldiers to Kosovo to kill


Albanians. Djokovic lived with his aunt for two

months. During this time, the military police looked for him at his parents’ house. The

police took his parents to a military base and questioned them about his whereabouts.

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be arrested and harmed if he returned to Serbia-Montenegro because he did notJERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage Middle East peace talks, sources close to the negotiations said on Monday.

The sources, who spoke as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders, said under the proposed arrangement that Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy analyst caught spying for Israel in the 1980s, could be released by mid-April.

In addition, Israel would go ahead with a promised release of a fourth group of Palestinians, among the 104 it pledged to free in a deal that led to the renewal of peace talks last July. Another group of jailed Palestinians would also go free - and


was widely interpreted as the latest embarrassment for the US president by a long-time mid-east US ally.

And then, a few months later, just as the new Saudi KJng Salman arrived in the US for his first trip since assuming the throne in January (and rented out all 222 rooms at the Washington D.C. Four Seasons hotel), something unexpected happened: Saudi Arabia gave its blessings for the Iran deal. This is what Deutsche Welle reported on Friday:

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Friday that President Barack Obama had assured the Saudi king that the deal agreed in July with Iran prevents Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, includes inspections of military and suspected sites and has a provision for re-imposing sanctions should Iran violate the agreement. Al-Jubeir said thatunveiled a giant raft of investment and partnership potential opportunities in sectors including oil and gas, civil infrastructure, and banking as part of a 21st century vision of the cooperation between the two long-term allies, sources told Al Arabiya News on Saturday. The vision was presented by Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman, who also heads the kingdom’s economic and development council.

The list of proposals includes the kingdom’s state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco rolling out new projects in refining, distribution and support over a five-year period. Mining was also mentioned as a “promising” sector, with plans to work with U.S. companies to extract vast deposits of phosphate, bauxite and silica. In the healthcare sector, Saudi authorities seeking to double the clinical capacity in the


next five years are slated to work with U.S. health insurers to set in place a new national program. Foreign direct investment - which so far has been a rarity in the kingdom - is also mentioned as being among the plans, with major U.S. retailers expected to be invited to set up shop.

Who will benefit the most from all of this? Why the US again:

U.S. banks and finance firms are also to be invited to enter Saudi, with retail and commercial institutions mentioned by sources. American lenders are also suggested to tap in to the kingdom’s lucrative mortgage market. With the Saudi government ramping up investment in free zones, roads, and communication networks, the kingdom will soon “aim to employ and rely completely on U.S. construction companies,”Recommended Games

Why Is Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Finally Leaving?

After rumors of his departure popped up last summer, including rumors that he would take the Yahoo CEO job before Marissa Mayer took it, Hulu chief Jason Kilar, the Silicon Valley star who fought bitterly with the media conglomerates he helped make relevant online, finally announced his departure in a post Friday afternoon on the company's blog. CTO Rich Tom, who has worked with Kilar for over five years, will also be leaving the six-year-old streaming media cooperative with him sometime this quarter.

It's remains unclear why, exactly, Kilar has decided to go. The company reported a 65 percent increase in sales last quarter and a doubling of its user base, so it doesn't sound like he's leaving for self-preservation's sake.


teacher for reporting sexual abuse of a student to the government.

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In 2014, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati ordered its 2,000 teachers regardless of religion to sign a "detailed morality clause" that critics say focuses on "pelvic issues." The new contracts forbids teachers from living together, having sex outside of marriage, using in-vitro fertilization or surrogacy, exhibiting a gay "lifestyle" or any speech expressing support for these things.

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Category:2012 inthe sound of the buzzer/whistle the first student in each line runs to the first cone and does 6 SandBell squats.
2. After doing 6 SandBell squats they run to the second cone and does 6 Around the Clocks.
3. Each student completes 6 repetitions at each cone. When the first student moves from the first cone to the second cone, the next student in line runs to the first cone and begins the first exercise.
4. After students do 6 SandBell Slams at the last cone, they run back to the first cone and get back in line.
5. The first line to have all students complete the exercises and run back to their starting cone wins!

Grand Slam Wave Relay

Set-Up: For the Grand Slam Wave Relay you need 2 cones. Arrange


one cone at one end of the gym and the second cone in the middle of the gym. Depending on how many students are in the class, put a pile of SandBells (one for each student) next to the first cone.

*The Grand Slam Wave Relay works better with small groups of 4-6 students. If students are divided into groups, make sure to indicate the cones each group should run back and forth to.

Directions:
1. The first student takes a SandBell and runs to the cone in the middle of the gym, does two SandBell burpees, runs back to the first cone and hands the SandBell to the next student.
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More than 1M gallons of partially treated sewage released into Lake Champlain

More than 1 million gallons of partially treated sewage was released into Lake Champlain last weekend.The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's Watershed Management program posted public notification about the release online.According to the notification, the partially treated sewage was released from Burlington's main wastewater treatment facility.An exact amount of sewage released was not reported.It happened last Friday morning and continued into last Saturday afternoon.The release was attributed to rain and snow melt, which increased flows at the treatment facility and "pushed solids out of the process."The result was that more than 1 million gallons of sewage was not fully disinfected.The sewage release


resulted in a lake E.coli level of 800 bacteria colonies per 100 milliliters. In Vermont and New York, the acceptable level of E.coli colonies is 235 per 100 milliliters.Download the MyNBC5 app | Like MyNBC5 on Facebook

More than 1 million gallons of partially treated sewage was released into Lake Champlain last weekend.

The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's Watershed Management program posted public notification about the release online.

According to the notification, the partially treated sewage was released from Burlington's main wastewater treatment facility.

An exact amount of sewage released was not reported.

It happened last Friday morning and continued into last Saturday afternoon.

The release was attributed to rain and snow melt, which increased flows at the treatment facility and "pushed solids out of the process."

The result was that more than 1Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Release Blitz: Fixing Fate by Anna Brooks

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Mellie Jamison is afraid of the world after her security and innocence were stolen as a teen. Now in her early twenties, she’s content with her secluded lifestyle and her cat... at least, that's what she tells herself. When a grandfather she never met leaves her an abandoned house, she has no choice but to set out on a journey she never wanted to take.

Smith Porter was living his dream until he was forced to give up his job as a police officer and return home to take over the family business. He’s now alone in the world, merely surviving on memories and emotionless attachments. So when his old partner calls in a favor, Smith agrees to flip the


Two female officers were injured after being attacked by a machete-wielding man near the police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi, the authorities said.

The perpetrator, who could be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar," was shot by a third officer on site, the RTL radio station claims, citing local police.

The attacker was taken to hospital in a critical condition, but later died of his injuries, RTBF reported.

2 policières blessées par machette devant hôtel de police par auteur criant Allah Ouhakbar. Individu abattu mais vivant #PoliceCharleroi — Police Charleroi (@PoliceCharleroi) 6 August 2016

Witnesses said they heard gunshots near the Charleroi police station at around 16:00 local time on Saturday.

Coups de feu sur #Charleroi à la tour bleue pic.twitter.com/o7bdyj76S8 — Mathieu Dbs (@MathieuDbs) 6 August 2016

The injuries received by one ofTea Party group appears to be the rule rather than the exception on Syria. "I haven't seen grass-roots response this huge since that first opposition to TARP," says Matt Kibbe, the president of FreedomWorks, which recently urged lawmakers to oppose intervention in Syria. How did we get here?

In Congress, the libertarian faction of the GOP has been gaining ground since George W. Bush left office and former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) became a prominent voice, now represented most vocally by Paul's son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Along with opposing taxes, regulation, and government generally, the libertarian Republicans tend to be wary about intervening abroad.

The first sign that a real alliance of "progressive anti-war Democrats and isolationist Tea Party libertarians" was actually materializing, says Greg Sargent at The Washington


Space Shuttle History

A modern marvel of engineering, the invention of the space shuttle changed America's space program forever. Take a journey through the incredible science of aerospace engineering and the shuttle's history.

Space Shuttle History

A modern marvel of engineering, the invention of the space shuttle changed America's space program forever. Take a journey through the incredible science of aerospace engineering and the shuttle's history.

For over two decades the space shuttle has been the flagship of America’s space program. From its home base in Cape Canaveral, Florida…A fleet of shuttles has carried mankind into space.Aboard these orbiting craft crews test new technologies, conduct research and launch and repair orbiting satellites and other craft.

The space shuttle is an engineering marvel. And it marked a change in America’s space program, replacing rocketswith a plane-like, reusable orbiter…That glides home for a landing.

Getting the shuttle into orbit requires a lot of power. Twin booster rockets burn solid fuel and create 7 million pounds of thrust, together with the shuttle’s main engines…

Propelling the ship to the heavens at over 17,000 miles an hour.

The space shuttle Columbia was the first to liftoff on April 12, 1981, successfully putting the spacecraft through its paces. From there, missions rapidly grew in scope, and crews expanded to include people from all walks of life.

In 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space… and Guion Bluford, the first African American.

Inside the shuttle’s ESA Spacelab module an array of scientific experiments have been conducted by payload and mission specialists. In extremely low gravity, they have extended


our knowledge into the effects of space flight on the human body, the creation of new metals and alloys, and solar phenomenon.

Over the years the spacecrafts have been work horses, taking satellites and other valuable payload into orbit. In 1990 space shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope which ushered in a new era of space imaging and astronomical research.

Astronauts have also worked outside the shuttle using a robotic arm and even performing space walks to make repairs, like replacing Hubble’s faulty mirror. And the shuttle aided in the construction of the International Space Station, ferrying modules into space.

But the triumph of the shuttle program hasn’t been without its own share of tragedy.

Aboard the craft was Christa McAuliffe, a high-school teacher and the first private citizen sent intospace as part of the U.S. space program.

The shuttle program again met with disaster in 2003, when the shuttle Columbia burned up on re-entry, losing a crew of seven.

Since then NASA has taken steps to ensure the safety and viability of the shuttle program. After a two and a half year hiatus, the shuttle program returned to space with the orbiter Discovery…and today continues its commitment to space exploration.

Space Shuttle History

A modern marvel of engineering, the invention of the space shuttle changed America's space program forever. Take a journey through the incredible science of aerospace engineering and the shuttle's history.


Dad who became taxi driver to find missing girl finds her

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Dad who became taxi driver to find missing girl finds her

CHENGDU, China – A small scar on the forehead. A habit of feeling nauseous when she cried. These are traits that a woman named Kang Ying and a child named Qifeng shared—helping to prove the two are one and the same.

The BBC reports on the 24-year search for Qifeng, who disappeared from her parents’ roadside fruit stand in Chengdu city in January 1994; she was just 3.

Wang Mingqing and wife Liu Dengying spent more than two decades searching fortheir girl, through newspaper ads and online posts. They remained in Chengdu, hoping it would increase the chances that Qifeng would find them, and in 2015, Wang began driving for the Uber-like Didi Chuxing and spreading the word.

His car contained information about his search, passengers were given information about his daughter, and the South China Morning Post reports he asked riders to post about his search on social media.

Then, a break, by way of a police sketch artist. The artist heard about the search and offered to create an age progression drawing showing what an adult Qifeng might look like—and, in a province far to the north, Kang Ying saw it and thought it looked a whole lot like her.

She reached out to Yang in mid-March, per Global


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The man who created the 'Storm Area 51' Facebook event says he was contacted by the FBI after jokingly calling on alien enthusiasts to raid the classified military base in Nevada.

Matty Roberts said he initially created the 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us' event in June as a joke but it quickly went viral.

More than two million people have since responded to the event and said they plan to attend next month.

Roberts said he was contacted by the FBI last week about his creation.

Matty Roberts said he initially created the 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us' Facebook event back in June as a joke but it quickly went viral

'The FBI showed up at 10am and contacted my mom, and she calls meVegas.

It was founded in 1955 as a test site for the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane.

Since then, however, it has become the subject of numerous UFO sightings and has become inextricably linked in the public's mind with captive aliens and government conspiracies.

Famous machines developed there include the U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter.

A convenience store named the Area 51 Alien Center is seen along U.S. highway 95 in Nevada near the highly-classified military base

Many conspiracy theorists claim the base has been used to research an alleged crashed alien spacecraft at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

What takes place inside the heavy-duty fence at Area 51 has remained a mystery to anyone without high-level security clearance, save for a few photos taken illegally by curious conspiracy


theorists.

In 2013 the US government admitted that the base is a secret intelligence hub when the CIA released an official history of the U-2 and OXCART projects, along with aerial photos of the site.

The facility experienced a rare security breach in January when an unidentified male sped through a checkpoint at the entrance.

Guards and Nye County police chased him at high-speed for about eight miles before he came to a stop and exited his vehicle.

He began advancing toward officers with an 'unknown cylindrical object' in hand and did not heed verbal warnings to stop, so security officials were forced to open fire.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.sitting room which features a floor to ceiling stone fireplace with inset wood burning stove. This room has a beamed ceiling and access via multi-paned internal doors out to the UPVC double glazed conservatory which was added a few years ago. The conservatory has a polycarbonate roof and tiled floor with a pleasant aspect overlooking the side gardens. The formal dining room is dual aspect with the dining area leading through to an additional kitchen area which was created for the vendors relatives who stay in the property. The kitchen area is equipped with a wide range of units to include an electric fan oven and gas hob. This room could be tailored to suit a wide variety of buyers. The existing main kitchen also has an extensive


range of units and a side door leading out to the garden.

On the first floor the property has three large double bedrooms with the master bedroom suite being dual aspect. All of the bedrooms have extensive views either towards Bodmin Moor or the rugged North Cornish Coastline. This floor also has a family bathroom/WC fitted with a matching three piece suite and a separate shower room/WC serving this level. From the landing which has a feature stone wall a door leads up to the second floor where there are a further two well-proportioned attic bedrooms (with some restricted headroom) roof windows and a separate shower room. In one of the attic bedrooms there was previously a small kitchen area and many of the power points remain to createwell enclosed and productive with a wide range of fruit trees and a vegetable plot area. There is an additional side garden area which again is mature, level and well enclosed. We understand this area has in the past benefited from outline planning permission for a two bedroom holiday chalet. This consent has now lapsed.

Hillcrest is situated in the village of Hallworthy which has a Public House, Shop and Filling Station. In the nearby villages of Warbstow, Canworthy Water and Otterham Station further amenities include a County Primary School, Village Stores and Parish Church. Hallworthy is situated between Launceston and Camelford both of which have a wide range of shopping, commercial, educational and recreational facilities. The rugged North Cornish Coastline is within 8 miles and offers miles of


FILE PHOTO: Christian Scherer, Airbus Chief Commercial Officer, speaks during a news conference for the delivery of the first Fiji Airways A350 XWB airliner at the aircraft builder's headquarters of Airbus in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Airbus AIR.PA sees enough demand for its wide-bodied A330neo passenger jet to keep production stable, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer told Reuters on Wednesday.

With some airlines seen unlikely to take delivery of all the jets they have ordered, there has been speculation Airbus would have to trim production of the latest version of its most profitable long-range jet despite a recent flurry of new sales.

"Considering the demand I see on the A330neo I see no need to cut production levels," Scherer told Reuters on theWhodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

If Ed McBain does not hold the record for sheer numbers of books in a mystery series, I can't imagine who does. Fiddlers, is (by my count) the 55th installment in the 87th Precinct series. For almost 50 years, McBain, who died in July, entertained his readers with perhaps the finest police procedural novels of modern times. By turns ribald, gritty and cynical, this last novel in the famous...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

January's Tip of the Ice Pick Award goes to veteran crime novelist and reigning King of the Police Procedurals Ed McBain for his hilarious and diabolical The Frumious Bandersnatch. Hip-hop diva Tamar Valparaiso is poised on the edge of superstardom. Her controversial new video, a rape-fantasy piece entitled "Frumious Bandersnatch" is set


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Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Terminally hip tabloid journalist Jimmy Gage returns for an encore performance in Robert Ferrigno's fast-paced Scavenger Hunt. Introduced in the 2001 novel Flinch, Gage was faced with the dreadful prospect that his successful surgeon brother might well be a serial killer. In his latest outing, Gage investigates the death of Garrett Walsh, a renegade Hollywood director, a one-time boy...

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<B>McBain's 87th Precinct is back</B> For nigh on half a century, Ed McBain has been cranking out tales of the 87th Precinct. Located in an indeterminate eastern seaboard metropolis (which bears more than a passing resemblance to New York City), the 87th runs the full gamut of crime: prostitution, theft, terrorismOregon State coach Mike Riley said he was self-conscious about having an Oregon state police escort at home and away football games – was he really that important? – but he became a believer after the Beavers knocked off No. 1-ranked USC in 2008.

Delirious fans at Reser Stadium stormed the field so quickly, surrounding Riley and many of his players, he wasn’t sure if there were any escape routes to the locker room.

The State troopers charged with protecting Riley and his team did their job. Coaches and players survived the mass celebration with nothing more than a few bumps and bruises.

“One of the only games where I actually got nervous (about the crowd),’’ said Riley as No. 15 OSU prepared for its Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl game against


policy because of the tax cuts. John Ryding of RDQ calls corporate tax cuts "the jewel in the crown of the tax plan" and says they will boost capital spending and productivity. But Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors says, "The sugar high from tax cuts may make 2018 look good but it will likely hasten the onset of the next recession."

That's a minority view. With tax cuts on the way, and better recent growth numbers, respondents look for year-over-year GDP to accelerate to near 3 percent in 2018 and 2019, (2.85 percent to be exact for both years) and inflation to only tick up to 2.5 percent by 2019.

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Phuensum Tshogpa party, Thinley is regarded as a sincere politician who is trusted by Bhutan’s small Christian minority. He became the prime minister in April 2008 following the first democratic election after Bhutan’s fourth king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, abdicated power in 2006 to pave the way toward democracy.

Until Bhutan became a constitutional monarchy in 2008, the practice of Christianity was believed to be banned in the country. The constitution now grants the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion to all citizens. It also states that the king is the protector of all religions.

Thus far, the Religious Organisations Act of 2007 has recognized only Buddhist and Hindu organizations. As a result, no church building or Christian bookstore has been allowed in the country, nor can Christians engagebomb blast did not happen because of any internal feud of church members that was previously suspected,” Akhteruzzaman said. “The magnitude of the blast indicates different motives. Apparently, it seems that they found Christians as their enemy for whatever they were doing against Islam. But the exact motive will come out soon.”

The late archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, Michael Rosario, had said after the blast that there was no report of any communal tension in that area.

The initial investigation faltered under the previous Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led Islamic alliance in power from 2001 to 2006 but was revived after a landslide victory of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance government in December 2008. The chief priest of Baniarchar Catholic Church, the Rev. Jacob Gobbi, had urged


insecurity” prevails among Christians of Kandhamal district, which saw a major anti-Christian bloodbath in 2008.

The team, consisting of local attorney Nicholas Barla and another identified only as Brother Marcus, along with rights activists Jugal Kishore Ranjit and Ajay Kumar Singh, visited four villages in three blocks of Kandhamal on Nov. 5.

In Bodimunda village in Tikabali, the team met a pastor who said he has been closely watched since Hindu extremists forced him to become a Hindu. The pastor, whose name the report withheld for security reasons, said he had to convert to Hinduism in 2008 “to save his old mother, who could not have escaped the violence as she was not in a position to walk.”

He is still closely watched in an effort to prevent him from returningto Christianity. While the attorneys and activists were still at the pastor’s house, a man who identified himself as from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS, India’s most influential Hindu nationalist conglomerate) came to inquire about his visitors. The pastor felt compelled to tell them that they were “bank officials.”

In the same village, Hindu nationalists have also imposed a de facto ban on any private or public vehicle to ferry Christians or their belongings, said the report.

The team met the family of a paralyzed Christian, Bamadev Pradhan, whom auto-rickshaw drivers refused to take to a hospital when he recently ran a high fever. Eventually a Christian driver took him to the only hospital in Tikabali, around eight kilometers (nearly five miles) from his village of Bodimunda, but as the


of the house of a Christian.

In the house of a Christian in Keredi village in Phulbani Block, the team found a picture of a Hindu god. The resident, who was not identified in the report, explained that he had to display it in order to protect his family from harm.

The team found pictures of Hindu gods also in the house of a Christian in Gandapadar village in the Minia area, Phiringia Block. A woman in the house told the team that local Hindu nationalists had given her pictures of Hindu gods for worship.

“We have kept them, as they often come to check whether we have reconverted to Christianity,” she said.

Almost all Christians the team met complained that the local administration had done little to protect them and suspectedthat officials colluded with area Hindu nationalists.

Released on Nov. 8, the report asserts that Christians have been barred from taking water from a government well in Dakanaju village, under G. Udayagiri police jurisdiction in Tikabali Block. The village head, Sachindra Pradhan, has promised to take action “at the earliest,” it added.

Violence in Kandhamal and some other districts of Orissa state followed the assassination of Hindu nationalist leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati on Aug. 23, 2008. The rampage killed over 100 people and burned 4,640 houses, 252 churches and 13 educational institutions, according to estimates by human rights groups.

The spate of attacks began a day after Saraswati’s killing when Hindu nationalist groups blamed Christians for his murder, although Maoists (extreme Marxists) active in the district claimed responsibility for it.

John Dayal,


a Christian activist in Delhi, told Compass that “the apparatus of 2008 remains undisturbed.” The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was part of the ruling state alliance with the regional Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party at the time of the violence. Although the BJD broke up with the BJP in 2009, blaming it for the violence, the former cannot be excused, said Dayal.

“While the BJP is mainly to be blamed, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is not entirely innocent,” Dayal said. “Not just that he allowed the BJP and RSS cadres to run amok when they were part of his government, turning a blind eye to their very visible anti-Christian activities, but he was his own home [interior] minister and cannot really shirk command responsibility for the carnagetogether with his BJP ministerial colleagues and senior officers.”

Kandhamal district Magistrate Krishan Kumar, who was on a tour at press time, could not be contacted for comment despite repeated attempts.

Of the 648,201 people in Kandhamal district, 117,950 are Christian, mostly Dalit (formerly “untouchables” in the caste hierarchy in Hindu societies), according to the 2001 Census. Hindus, mainly tribal people and numbering 527,757, form the majority.

After months of evading his pursuers, they finally caught up with him.

Voice of the Martyrs Canada confirms that on August 21, Islamic militants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia found Mohamed Ali Garas, a prominent Somali church leader and convert from Islam, and beat him severely, reports MNN.

Five years ago, Garas fled his Somali homeland. VOMC’s Greg Musselman says Garas he sought refuge in Ethiopia because


church in Jejalen Jaya sub-district earlier this year as an example.

A neighbor of the church confessed to The Jakarta Post that local clerics had asked him and other residents to sign a petition against constructing the HKBP church building and threatened not to pray at their funerals if they failed to cooperate; the majority of his neighbors signed the document under duress.

Under a 2006 Joint Ministerial Decree (SKB), at least 60 local residents must approve the establishment of a house of worship, whether a mosque or a church. The congregation must also have at least 90 members and obtain letters of recommendation from the local interfaith communication forum (FKUB) and religious affairs office before gaining final approval from district officials.

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small doses. It was Hahnemann's conviction that the more minute the dose, the more potent. Compounds are frequently diluted to one decillionth (i.e., a millionth of a millionth of a millionth, etc., up to ten of these millionths) of a single grain. One homeopath proved 1,349 symptoms from a dose of one decillionth of a grain of common table salt. Such dilution is like letting a drop of medicine fall into the Pacific, mixing thoroughly, then taking a spoonful. Hahnemann believed that as the drug became less "material" it gained "spiritual" curative powers, and in many cases recommended diluting until not a single molecule of the original substance remained! This produced remedies of extremely high potency. Moreover, the doctor believed, the full effect of such medicine may notMonday, October 4, 2010

The U.S. is stepping up efforts to gain more influence in Asia-Pacific through participation in more regional institutions and negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. U.S. foreign policy seeks to shape the future of the region in an attempt to dominate economic, political and security issues.

There are concerns over the rise of trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific by U.S. competitors that could greatly affect its interests. The TPP is seen by many as a key component of America’s trade strategy for further engagement in the region. A U.S. government fact sheet describes the TPP as a, “potential platform for economic integration across the Asia Pacific region. The United States will engage with an initial group of seven like-minded countries, Singapore, Chile, New Zealand,


Another month, another all time high in Americans' confidence in the US economy.

In its latest, January report, Gallup found that Americans' confidence in the U.S. economy averaged +11, the highest monthly average in Gallup's nine-year trend. Some of January's three-day averages also marked new highs in Gallup's tracking since 2008. The index peaked at +19 for the Jan. 21-23 three-day average after President Donald Trump's inauguration and shortly before the Dow Jones industrial average hit a new high.

January's +11 score marks the third consecutive month the index has been in positive territory. This is a new feat for an index that has had mostly negative monthly measures since its inception, except for January and February 2015. Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: howUkraine insists on Russia's full implementation of the Minsk agreements and proposes to include the issue of Crimea in the Minsk process.

"It would be great if the issue of the Crimea occupation became a part of the Minsk negotiation process, which is, unfortunately, not the case. The next time the Minsk accords are discussed, and we are convinced that they must be fully implemented by Russia, we will use an opportunity and include the issue of Crimea occupation in the Minsk negotiations," Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Kyslytsia said at a special meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the fifth anniversary of Crimea occupation, an Ukrinform correspondent reported from New York.

On March 15, the UN Security Council discussed the situation in the temporarily


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Published:09:10Updated:10:46Tuesday 14 February 2017

The NHS is facing its biggest shake up in a generation with nearly 20 hospitals marked for closure and care from cradle to grave put through a wholesale overhaul to plug a £22bn black hole in health service funding, an investigation by this newspaper can reveal.

An analysis of the 44 regional blueprints drawn up by health service leaders to remodel the NHS in England - in a process which critics complain has largely bypassed patients - has revealed for the first time the extent of the cuts and drastic changes in the delivery of care that the Government wants to achieve by March 2021.

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Until their recent release, the plans were a closely guarded secret with health chiefs instructing managersthis. When the Everett Junior College moved to its present location in the late 1950s, it started out with seven buildings fronting on Wetmore Avenue.

It wasn’t until 1999, when the college built Shuksan Hall, that the school began its steady march down the hill toward north Broadway.

“At the time I started there the college really hadn’t grown much for some years,” said Charlie Earl, who served as the college’s president from 1999 to 2006.

During his tenure, the school began laying the groundwork for growth.

Since 1999, EvCC has spent $180 million on new construction, including the buildings abutting north Broadway: the student fitness center and Liberty Hall, which houses the school’s health sciences program.

All the while, the school administration, working with the city of Everett, saw potential for what


a growing college could do for the neighborhood.

The other big catalyst was the hospital and its need of acreage at the hospital campus to expand, he said.

The school’s athletics center was at the time on 13th Street next to the hospital. The hospital, in turn, owned the College Plaza shopping center on Broadway.

In 2008, a deal was struck to trade the parcels, with a bit more cash flowing toward the college.

That gave the school an additional 17 acres and allowed it to build out the campus to the east and eventually across Broadway.

A timely boost in state spending allowed Everett Community College to erect new buildings along Broadway and give the rest of its campus a face-lift.

“We thought that that was all part of the North Everett commercialbased on etchings from the 18th century and conjecture. A new chamber was constructed out of concrete and a tunnel extended into the cists. Today, it is possible for visitors to the site to enter the tomb and to see the engraved stones.

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involvement.

Developers reported working with stakeholders in different ways. Some established stakeholder groups from the outset or included stakeholders in the development team, so that they were involved in decisions about the overall intervention development endeavour for the duration of the process. Others consulted one or more groups of stakeholders episodically during the development of the intervention. Poleshuck et al. \[[@CR50]\] did both. They convened an executive committee of researchers, representatives of the target population, and service providers to guide and oversee the intervention development endeavour throughout the process. This group then convened a community advisory board made up of survivors of violence (members of the target population), health professionals, academics, and policymakers to contribute to the design and content of their intervention. In this example, the executive groupSouth L.A. is in the midst of a years-long revitalization: empty lots have become community gardens, and intricate murals beckon neighbors with inspiring messages of hope. L.A.-based artist Evol, aka Samir Arghandwall, painted one such elaborate piece featuring the faces of four women at 3834 South Harvard Blvd. It has been up for years without incident, but recently someone complained, and now the L.A. Department of Building and Safety wants it gone.

Evol graduated from Cal Arts and has shown pieces in local galleries including Petra Gallerie and Known Gallery. As a way of giving back to the city, he covers select walls from Santa Monica to Downtown Los Angeles with stunning portraiture. His style is unique and dreamy with transcendental qualities and his palette vibrant. Each work is


The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga is facing growing pressure from students to remove a controversial campus preacher following a similarly divisive arrest.

Last week, 24-year-old student Cole Montalvo was forced to the ground by police and arrested for attempting to ride his bike through a sectioned-off area set aside for a campus preacher named Angela Cummings.

Over the last few weeks, Cummings has been using an area on the UTC campus to open-air preach to anyone passing by. She has called students “adulterers,” “sinners,” and more, causing many to petition the university to remove her from the premises.

Student anger with the preacher reached a new high with Montalvo’s arrest, which also raised questions about police behavior after video surfaced that seemed to suggest mace was sprayed in his face. Soon aftercountry requires enduring protected speech with which we disagree," UTC chancellor Steve Angle said in a statement.

On Monday, students attempted to stop Cummings from preaching by gathering in the space she typically uses, but she continued to preach beside them, protected by campus security. On Tuesday, a barricade was set up by police for her return.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education agreed with the school administration on the situation, telling the Huffington Post that UTC can enforce neutral limits on the time and place Cummings speaks but not much more.

According to her YouTube page, Cummings has been preaching in public since 2001.


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Ken Osborn of Prospect, carries "Pete" the penguin as he takes part in a polar plunge which was held to benefit two charities named for two victims of the Newtown tragedy, at Southport Beach in Southport, Conn. on Saturday January 12, 2013. Money raised goes to the Grace McDonnell Memorial Fund and the Glenn Atkinson Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Ken Osborn of Prospect, carries "Pete" the penguin as he takes part in a polar plunge which was held to benefit two charities named for two victims of the Newtown tragedy, at Southport Beach in Southport, Conn. on Saturday January 12, 2013. Money raised goes to the Grace McDonnell Memorial Fund and the Glenn Atkinson Memorial Scholarship Fund.North Korean workers abroad have been ordered to stay put and not contact any foreigners in an apparent effort by the North Korean government to stave off their defections, the U.S.-based Radio Free Asia reported Sunday.

"The North Korean government has ordered workers dispatched overseas and employees residing abroad not to leave their assigned workplaces and residences, as well as not directly contacting foreigners other than the locals," the RFA said in its recent report, citing North Korean sources.

The North Korean government is keeping especially keen watch on its workers in China and Southeast Asian countries, whom the country dispatched for the national task of earning dollars.

The workers in the regions were told, through North Korean Embassies there, not to contact South Koreans, as well as Americans and other


Westerners, according to the RFA report.

The recent government order appears to be aimed at tightening the government's control of North Korean workers living overseas amid a growth of defections, as well as the recently reported abduction of a North Korean doctor in Libya.

Earlier this year, North Korean sources said that North Korea is dealing with a growing number of defections by overseas workers, who are under severe pressure to meet their monthly dollar-earning quotas.

In May, a North Korean doctor and his wife were reported to have been abducted by an armed Islamic group in Libya.

More than 50,000 North Koreans are currently working overseas to earn foreign currencies for the North Korean government, according to a human rights report submitted to the United Nations last month by Marzuki Darusman,Protesters in Washington, D.C. on Sunday objecting to the Trump regime’s new ban on visitors and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

An Australian teen was denied a visa to attend space camp in the United States today. The 15-year-old, Pouya Ghadirian, was born in Australia but his parents are from Iran, giving him dual citizenship. The visa denial is believed to be the first for an Australian citizen under the Trump regime’s so-called Muslim ban, interpreted by many legal scholars to be grossly unconstitutional.

The high school junior was planning to visit the US with other classmates this upcoming March. The teenager’s trip was to include visits to Orlando, Washington, D.C., and the Space and Rocket Center in Alabama. The Alabama space camp is