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The violence in Sudan's western province of Darfur continues into its third year with few signs of abating. Nearly two million people have been displaced and tens of thousands killed in Darfur, where pro-government Arab militiamen called janjaweed are accused of ethnic cleansing against non-Arab ethnic groups. The United States says genocide has been committed in Darfur and is now pressing for a resolution authorizing a new UN peacekeeping force in the region to replace the 7,000 African Union troops there whose UN mandate expires March 31. Separately, little progress has been made toward forming a national-unity government that was supposed to emerge from a peace deal ending the north-south civil war. That deal last year ended a 21-year-old war between the mainly Muslim north and theanimist and Christian south, costing more than 1.5 million lives.

John Prendergast, senior adviser with the International Crisis Group who was in Sudan this past autumn, is highly critical of U.S. and UN Security Council actions to date. But he says a robust international response is still crucial to resolving the conflict there.

What are your thoughts on the request for a UN peacekeeping presence in Darfur?

It's a year or two late. It was quite clear as early as the beginning of 2005 the force that the African Union was deploying under the rules of engagement and the mandate it was given with the little bit of equipment it was provided were simply inadequate to address the enormous insecurity caused by the government of Sudan's counterinsurgency strategy. So a year


begin pressing for a transition to the UN. Principally, for financial reasons and for reasons of policy, the United States was supporting the AU fully and said the AU was the right way to go up until the end of last year. So it's only been the last month or two that the United States began to publicly say we need to have a transition to the UN. And then, to all of a sudden turn around and accuse the UN of dragging its feet—this is one of many, many examples of this administration taking a policy position, seeing that policy crumble in failure, and then pointing fingers at others and blaming others for the failure. Just like the African Union was set up from the beginning toethnic groups] of the opposition [led by two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army and the Justice and Equality Movement], which is why they conducted their counterinsurgency campaign in the manner that they did, why the Bush administration calls it genocide. They went after specific ethnic groups that formed the basis of the rebellion and killed and displaced their civilian supporters. It's the oldest counterinsurgency trick in the book: draining the water to catch the fish.

So the State Department completely underestimated the resolve of the government of Sudan to destroy Darfurian opposition and thought they'd get some kind of quick deal at the negotiation table.

Constantly, there's this accommodation and constructive engagement with the regime officials in Khartoum that attempts to incentivize the path to resolution, which will never


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The winner of the Wii U, which is a basic pack will be announced in October on the Nintendo Life website and the winner will be sent the Wii U on, or shortly after November 30th, the official release date of the Wii U in the UK. There's no harm in entering so make sure to pick up a leaflet during the Eurogamer Expo.


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16 December 2013

Amanuensis Monday: Affidavit by John Fearn, 2nd Lieut

Here is another installment of the transcription of images from William James Townsend Civil War Pension File. This affidavit was provided by John Fearn.

Civil War Pension Affidavit regarding William Townsend
provided by John H Fearn.

State of Ohio, County of Franklin, ss:

In matter of In Pens Claim No 505.430 of William James Townson, late of Co. “K”, 1333rd Regt of Ohio Vols.

Before me a Notary Public in and for said county and state personally came John H Fearn, aged 52 years, whose residence and Post Office address is No 33 South Seventh Street, Columbus Ohio. Who being by me duly sworn according to law states as follows:

I am the same John H Fearn who was 2nd Lieut. In the above CoGap, West Virginia. It was a 50 mile distance in 26 hours during May 1864. The whole regiment was exhausted after the march.

At some point, William Townsend returned back to New Creek and had erysipelas and mumps.

William stayed in New Creek's hospital while his unit moved to City Point, Virginia.

William never returned to service.

Lieut Fearn did not see William until after the they were discharged and then not again until 30 January 1886. He noted that William looked feeble after their discharge.

QUESTIONS

Is it possible to learn more about John H Fearn, and the other officers of this military unit?

Why would Mr. Fearn be willing to attest to William's condition 23 years after event took place if they never saw each other again from the time of discharge? How


to contract in April, down 1.6% year-on-year, but that’s a far cry from the 30% drop recorded in the first three months of this year.

However, that massive first-quarter contraction chiefly reflected a huge bulge in the corresponding period of 2011 as car manufacturers delivered cars that were ordered before a scrapping incentive scheme was phased out at the end of 2010.

April’s–relatively-good showing to a large extent reflected an 8.9% rise in sales at Peugeot Citroen, helped by the launch of its new Peugeot 208 compact.

Fiat will start publishing its sales figures on a monthly basis–brand by brand, region by region–in its latest attempt to convince investors of its global reach.

It’s not surprizing. Today, the Italian car maker revealed car sales in its home market had pulled into theas shown in the Scrying Sphere to scare them away. Go left to the Guild of Shepherds.

Guild of Shepherds

Watch the shepherd sleeping. If you click on the sheep, they will wake him up. This in turn will lead the shepherd to reveal a new draft: SLEEP, which he spins on the sheep. Continue down to the meadows to the left, and enter the nearby hut. Look at the lamb. Fleece will arrive. She will teach you a new draft: HEALING, which fails for her, but which you will later master when your skills are higher. Go outside and make the sheep less visible by spinning the DYEING draft on them to turn them green.

Whoops, the dragon kidnaps you instead of the sheep! Luckily for you, the dragon is


So close I was able to hit his side mirror as he went by. The light had changed at 14th & the traffic had begun clearing, so he gunned it and managed to flee out of the block, down 14th St. It was at this time I grabbed my radio (it was in my bag) and broadcasted a look-out and that I needed help.

Read the rest at A Girl and Her Bike. K.C. says several times on her blog that she's not a superhero just because she has a badge, but frankly, if you have to SAY it …

And it gets even badder of ass. The driver, Mr. Harrison, wasn't just the kind of charming fellow who likes to ram his car into bicyclists. He was the kindin Denver.

Daily doses

The scientists gave 55 people with asthma twice-daily doses of an antibiotic called clarithromycin for six weeks.

About half the volunteers were infected with C. pneumoniae or another bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumoniae - and these people showed clear improvements in lung function.

The researchers believe that C. pneumoniae could play a role in as many as half of all cases of asthma in adults.

However, Dr Margaret Hammerschlag, of the State University of New York, is sceptical.

She found that the bacterium was only present in a minority of children with asthma, and in no adult sufferers at all.

She said: "It probably does play a role sometimes. But it ain't the only player."

Dr Martyn Partridge, chief medical advisor
for the National Asthma Campaign, told BBC News Online: "This is certainly an


John Mostyn (music manager)

John Mostyn is a prominent music industry figure in the West Midlands, most notable for managing The Beat and later, Fine Young Cannibals.

Mostyn discovered Detroit based group Inner City, who under his direction had the hits 'Big Fun' and 'Good Life'.

Arguably, Mostyn's most notable success was with Fine Young Cannibals, whom he managed after The Beat separated. With Mostyn as manager the band enjoyed huge success, including a Billboard number 1 album with their album The Raw And The Cooked, which has been certified Platinum 11 times around the world. The band initially had great difficulty securing a recording contract. As described in an interview with John Mostyn : -
"We'd gone, in three months, from every record company rejecting them to every record company wantingDIGG THIS

Many years ago we went on safari in Kenya. Our guide was a cheerful fellow named Jacob. He was a good driver, because he had to be: the roads we traveled had been built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s, and left untended since. The potholes were so bad that at times we left the road altogether, because the unpaved roadside was smoother than the "pavement." We often crept along at less than 10 miles per hour, bouncing from rut to rut, hole to hole.

I noticed that the windshield of Jacob’s Toyota van was heavily decorated with various licenses. It seemed remarkable that this poor fellow — hardly affluent! — should pay so much tribute to strangers for the "privilege" of driving his van along


roads in deplorable condition due to the indifference of the very people to whom he paid so much! And when his shocks and springs needed replacement, did they contribute to the repair? You know the answer to that.

I was reminded of Jacob recently when I went into a local Chinese restaurant to pick up an order. On the wall opposite the door, no doubt prominently displayed because some "law" required it, were taped various documents. I wrote them down.

State of Missouri: sales license

City of Chesterfield: license

Division of Code Enforcement: certificate of inspection

St. Louis county: license

St. Louis County: health department

Metro-West Fire Protection District: use permit

ServSafe certificate

A triumphant triumvirate of strangers: state, county, and city, had extorted license fees from the owners, no doubt at considerable cost. Who benefited, otherfemoral head. In subluxated hips, the center of the physis is a practical, equivalent, technique. The ossific nucleus is a poor proxy for the center of the head in hip dysplasia. A modification of Mose's technique is the most accurate assessment of the center of the femoral head in both subluxated and dislocated hips. The center of the physis is a practical, reliable, surrogate for the center of the head in subluxated hips without requiring an arthrogram.


Thursday, December 14, 2006

Jimmy Hall: Rendezvous With the Blues

"Rendezvous With The Blues" is a must have in your collection as one of the most definitive records of the genre. Also features Clayton Ivey on piano, former Capricorn session drummer, Bill Stewart, and Dr. Dan Matrazzo on Hammond B-3 organTechnorati Tags: Music | BluesROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK — Plow operators are diligently working from the east and the west to clear the many feet of snow that piled up over the winter on Trail Ridge Road.

Rocky Mountain National Park officials hope the road will be open next Friday, May 22, in time for the Memorial Day weekend, but as always, that depends upon the weather.

“Sunshine makes a big difference in helping plow operators tackle the road,” said Kyle Patterson, spokeswoman for the national park.

Rains that endured throughout last week in Loveland, Fort Collins and other Front Range communities turned to snow at higher elevations. While much fresh snow fell on Longs Peak and the Mummy Range, not much fell on Trail Ridge Road, Patterson said.

Still, the plow operators were dealing with


Across the US, children are being shot to death — in their homes, in their cribs, in playgrounds, and in supermarkets — essentially anywhere they have unsafe access to guns. And 48 children are now being wounded or killed in the US per day, a gun control group has said.

Recently released Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data indicates that child deaths in preventable gun accidents are on the increase, and that gun-related deaths are now the second most common cause of child and teen deaths, with only cars killing more kids than guns in 2013. Typically, the guns involved in these incidents belong to a relative or parent, according to The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which campaigns to prevent gun violence, and released an analysis ofteenage lives in 2013.

These numbers constitutes a 3 percent increase in firearm suicide from the previous year, and a 22 percent jump from 2010.

Teen suicides in general have also risen across the board to become the second leading cause of death among adolescents, the Brady Center said, adding that unsafe access to guns allowed 41 percent of these youths to shoot themselves. The data also notes an overwhelming number — 88 percent — of firearm suicides were perpetrated by white children or teens.

Unintentional shooting deaths in 2013 also rose 15 percent from the previous year, following a slight dip, the group found. These types of deaths are all too common wherever guns are left lying around, the center said. In January, a 5-year-old Missouri boy found his grandfather's


New Mexico, where a month a 3-year-old dug out a handgun from a purse and accidentally fired a single shot, wounding his father and pregnant mother in an Albuquerque motel. Two days before New Year's Day in an Idaho Walmart, a 2-year-old fatally fired a handgun at his mother. And a month earlier, an Oklahoma toddler shot his young mother dead as she changed his baby sister's diaper.

In its report, the Brady Center also found a correlation between higher gun deaths in states with higher gun ownership rates, which included Alaska, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Wyoming. Other states with lower gun ownership rates, such as Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, also had the lowest gun deaths.

"Our research has quite simply shown that more guns equalmore deaths," Adeskavitz said.

America currently has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world, with an average of 89 guns per 100 people, as opposed to countries like Canada (30 guns per 100 people) or Australia (15 per 100), according to data published by The Guardian in 2012.

Previously released statistics also show 112,375 infants, children, and teens were killed by firearms between 1981 and 2010, which is 25,000 more deaths than soldiers killed in the Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars combined, according to the National Association of School Psychologists.


Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald

The Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald is an unincorporated area in the Kassel district in the state of Hesse in Germany. It encompasses an area of  and is thus the second largest village in Hesse by area after the city of Frankfurt. The Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald consists of nearly the whole area of the Reinhardswald. It is administered by the leader of the local forest authority, seated in nearby Reinhardshagen, who is instated by the district and whose duties include taking in taxes, garbage disposal and maintaining the civil registry.

Curiosities
Although the Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald is officially uninhabitated, two people inhabit and operate the Tillyschanze restaurant, next to the observation tower of the same name above the city of Hann. Münden, located in Lower Saxony. The border between the states of Hesseour resolution for 2019 to speak out and to stand up against words and actions which can only destroy or at least damage the future of our nations. Together we can keep North America great.

About the author:

Jim Paddon lives in London, Ontario, Canada and is past president of the Ontario Regional Council of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. He is currently chair of the National Social Justice Committee of the Society in Canada. He is married to his dear wife Pat and they have six daughters and eleven grandchildren. Jim has been a member of the Society since the 1970’s.

Opinions expressed are the author’s own views and do not officially represent those of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.


Family matters: compensable injury and the effect on family.
It is well acknowledged that involvement in injury compensation processes can have a substantial impact on the recovery of the injured person. However, little attention has been given to the social or family consequences of compensable injury. The aims of this study were to better understand both the impact of compensable injury on the family and the role that families play after an injury, throughout the compensation process, and during return to work. Eighteen injured persons and nine family members recruited through three compensation authorities in Victoria (Australia) were interviewed. A thematic analysis was used to identify the role that family played after injury and how family members were affected during the recovery and compensation process. The results highlight thePresident George W Bush has delivered his annual State of the Union address to the American Congress.

He has promised to give the UN Security Council new evidence against Iraq next week - and threatened to use force, if necessary, to disarm Baghdad.

While the US military build-up in the Gulf continues, a frantic round of diplomacy is under way to try to convince the Security Council to back a second resolution authorising force after the report of chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix.

The president's personal approval ratings have "plummeted" in the past two months over the issue of Iraq. And recent US polls reveal that Americans are disenchanted with economic policies.

Newshost: Hello and welcome to this BBC interactive forum, I'm David Eades. The United States President, George W. Bush,


delivered his annual State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday. Mr Bush said Iraq was not disarming and had shown, what he called, "utter contempt" for the United Nations and for the opinion of the world.

He said Secretary of State Colin Powell would ask the United Nations to consider Iraq's defiance on the 5th February when he'd present information and intelligence about illegal weapons programmes, attempts to hide them from UN inspectors and links to terrorist groups. Mr Bush indicated the United States was prepared to act without UN backing to disarm Iraq.

Well joining us to take your many, many questions is the BBC's Washington correspondent Matt Frei, Matt welcome.

Matt Frei: Thank you very much David, welcome to you.

Newshost: Let's get straight on with the questionshas taken on and what we saw last night in the State of the Union address, is someone who's trying to be a reluctant warrior, regarding his foreign policy, while at the same time trying to fix an economy that is no longer stuck in a deep recession but that doesn't seem to be creating jobs, where all confidence seems to have gone out of the stock market.
Now that is a very difficult juggling act and of course always not just in the back of his mind but in the front of his mind is the spectre of his father that haunts him - that's what keeps him up night. President Bush senior won the war against Iraq, although he didn't get rid of Saddam Hussein but he


achieved everything he set out to achieve in foreign policy, he helped to bring down the Berlin Wall and what happens next he loses the election because he took his eye off the economic ball.

That is not what this President wants to happen to him which was why yesterday's speech was very heavily weighted in the first two-thirds not just economic policy but also healthcare, education and a number of domestic issues on which the American public is actually more critical than they are on his foreign policy.

Newshost:
I suppose the question then Matt is, and it's one which Melissa McLain is asking, she's from Charleston, is what effect that speech had - have there been any reports that the President's approval rating has gone up as a resultA longtime special agent in the Department of Homeland Security has filed a salacious discrimination lawsuit, saying he was shoved aside in favor of a woman with ties to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano -- who the suit claims presided over a female "frat-house"-style department that routinely humiliated male staffers.

The lawsuit, filed in May by James T. Hayes Jr., focuses on two Napolitano appointees, Suzanne Barr and Dora Schriro, who joined DHS in February 2009, five months after Hayes was promoted to director of ICE Detention and Removal Operations.

Hayes claims Schriro, who was brought on as a special adviser to Napolitano, was not qualified for the job because she lacked law enforcement experience. Hayes maintained Schriro enjoyed a “long-standing relationship” with Napolitano and soon began assuming his duties.

Hayes was


pushed aside "because of this relationship (with Napolitano) and because he was not female," the suit says.

Schriro previously led the Arizona and Missouri corrections departments. She has since left DHS and now serves as commissioner for the New York City Department of Correction.

The lawsuit also alleges that Barr cultivated a "frat-house type atmosphere" at DHS that "is targeted to humiliate and intimidate male employees."

In one instance, the suit alleges, Barr "moved the entire contents of the offices of three male employees" to the men's bathroom. It also claims she repeatedly used "sexually offensive behavior" -- like "screaming" about an explicit sexual act at a male employee in his hotel room and "covertly" taking a male agent's Blackberry and sending a message to his female supervisor that he "hada crush" on her and "fantasized about her."

The suit also claims Barr held conference calls to discuss excuses for firing Hayes, after Schriro assumed some of his responsibilities. Hayes was later removed from his Washington ICE job and assigned to the New York office. Subsequently, Hayes filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Office -- the suit alleges the department then retaliated against him. This alleged retaliation is the crux of the lawsuit.

After the suit was first reported by blogger Debbie Schlussel, DHS issued a statement knocking down the claims.

"ICE doesn't comment on unfounded claims and will respond to Mr. Hayes' allegations as appropriate through the judicial system," a DHS spokesman said.

A representative for Schriro also issued a statement saying her "selection and service at DHS were


based on the merits. Any suggestion to the contrary is false."

Hayes has held a number of high-ranking assignments at DHS, including his current post as special agent in charge of New York City ICE.

But Hayes lawyer Morris Fischer told FoxNews.com his client considered the transfer to New York to be a demotion. He also called the department's public response Friday to the allegations "offensive."

"The only thing unfounded in this case were the six unfounded misconduct investigations the secretary's staff subjected my client to after he first complained about the discriminatory work environment at ICE," Fischer said.

The suit says that in late 2009, DHS launched or re-opened at least six different misconduct probes against him. Those probes were concluded with a finding they were "without merit," the suit said.

"Onand asked to deliberate on adverse events including unplanned intensive care admissions (maternal or neonatal) and any other adverse event of significant concern to the investigators or clinical staff. The committee will also be convened in the event that the chief investigator (CW) receives a report of an adverse event, due to STan monitoring, from weekly alerts of the published literature. Responses of the DSMC may include cessation of the study or modification of the protocol, which will in turn be re-submitted to the ethics committees.

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design and refine the study protocol. All authors contributed to the overall study design, provided feedback on the drafts of the paper and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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DT is a professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.

AS is a senior lecturer and biostatistician, School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

BS is a research midwife/trial coordinator, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

BWM is a professor, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria.

EC is a consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist, St George's University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

AM is a neonatologist, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

IS is a professor, Dean of Medicine and Head of the Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.

MB is a doctoral student,School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.

SK is a specialist obstetrician and STan medical lead, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

GM is a specialist obstetrician/gynaecologist, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

KH is a professor, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales.

CW is an associate professor and consultant maternal fetal medicine subspecialist, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

This study is funded by the NHMRC project grant 1129648. The NHMRC had no role in the study design and will not have any role during its execution, analyses, interpretation of the data or the decision to publish results.

Not applicable.

All participants will provide written informed consent. This study has been approved by the Women's and Children's Health Network Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/17/WCHN/14).


UPDATE: Authorities have identified the man killed in the blaze. Read the latest update.

NEPTUNE - One person is dead and several people are injured following an overnight fire in Ocean Grove, according to authorities.

The extent of the injuries is unknown, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, which is handling the investigation. Neptune Township police said in a Twitter post that the blaze resulted in "several injuries," but the exact number was unclear.

The three-alarm fire burned the third floor of a three-story apartment building on Broadway around 2 a.m. Thursday morning.

The cause of the fire is not suspicious, according to the prosecutor's office.

Dozens of firefighters and law enforcement officers from multiple fire companies and police departments responded to the fire.

Aftermath: After an epic fire Ocean Grove fire, whatthe rebound.

This was as good as it got for the Togolese International as several minutes later, Adebayor saw red for his poorly mistimed challenge on Santi Cazorla. A man down and 73 minutes still to play, this was a major setback for Tottenham, who had started the game very brightly and almost went two up through Aaron Lennon’s effort.

Wenger vowed before the game Arsenal will finish above their North London rivals, as they’ve done so every year for the past 17 years. Per Mertesacker’s 24th minute equalizer came after amounting pressure by Arsenal. Theo Walcott’s perfectly weighted cross was met firmly by the head of the giant German,who bagged his first goal for Arsenal since his move from Werder Breman last summer.

The Spurs goal continued to be bombarded


information concerning the production of watermelons.

Continental Produce

China leads the race in producing most of the watermelons in the world. It alone provides one-third of the total watermelons in the world, and together with all other Asian nations, the production becomes over 80%. In the top 10 list of the nations producing most watermelons, top two are Asians which represent 70% of total production. Two countries in this list, Egypt and Algeria, are from Africa. Turkey is the only European nation in the list, but even that is subject to its cultural assimilation in Europe as half of the country resides in the Asian portion of Eurasia. Similarly, North America and South America both have one country each in the list with USA and Brazil respectively to round offour top 10 list.

Note: The figures are rounded off and also subject to change

Rank

Country

Production in tonnes

The Big Three

China, Turkey and Iran are the chief three exporters of watermelons all around the world as the other countries in the list usually produce enough to curb the local needs. In fact, countries like Brazil, USA and Russia which are in the list are often prone to importing watermelons in the summer when the demand gets high. One of the most significant facts about these three largest exporters of watermelons is that all three of them have single regions that provide the bulk of their national production. China has Gansu province, Iran has Hamadan province while Turkey has Manavgat District in Antalya.

Uses and Benefits of Watermelons

As described above, watermelons are usually


example, from The Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition (2003):

9.37 Decades. Decades are either spelled out (as long as the century is clear) and lowercased or expressed in numerals. No apostrophe appears between the year and the s.

the nineties

the 1980s and 1990s (or, less formally, the 1980s and '90s)

The Associated Press Stylebook (2002) adopts a rule very similar to Chicago's:

decades Use Arabic figures to indicate decades of history. Use an apostrophe to indicate numerals that are left out; show plural by adding the letter s: the 1890s, the '90s, the Gay '90s, the 1920s, the mid-1930s.

The Oxford Guide to Style (2002), while differing with Chicago and AP on capitalizing the spelled-out decade name (OUP prefers this) and on using abbreviations like '60s (OUP condemns this), agrees with Chicagoa locking member 140 for locking the rotor 130 upon arriving of the head base 110 at a certain position; a solenoid 150 for locking and releasing the locking member 140; and a shifting member 160 for laterally moving in accordance with the actuation of the solenoid 150.
In this mode shifting device, the locking member 140 is locked and released in accordance with the actuation of the solenoid 150, while the head base 110 is carried in accordance with the revolutions of the rotor 130. Thus the normal mode is shifted to the play mode. A guide pin P of the shifting member 160 which is installed at the lower portion of the head base 110 is contacted with branching cams 132 and 134 of the rotor 130


President Donald Trump's son has praised the work of Matteo Nunziati, who used Italian marble to decorate the newly opened Trump Towers in Pune, India.

The Milan-based interior designer decorated every room in the pair of 26-storey residential towers, using only furnishings from Italian brands.

To mark the completion of the project, Donald Trump Jr attended the opening of the second tower, called Tower B.

"Donald Trump Jr has expressed a strong appreciation for the high level of the interior design project, stating that it could be a London or New York project, and the finishes would still be the best residential ones he has ever seen," said a spokesperson for Studio Matteo Nunziati.

Italian marble features heavily in the interiors, from the columns of the grand lobbies through to the floorsof the apartments.

Silk georgette and silver travertine marble covers much of the walls, floors and columns of the reception area, with traditional Indian motifs carved into the stone. Twisting bronze sculptures are scattered throughout the lobby.

Products by Molteni & C, B & B Italia and Fontana Arte are among the furniture pieces chosen.

The design team said it aimed to produce an "atmosphere of cosy and timeless elegance" in the residences.

Modular linen sofas are set against the marble floors to invoke a European style sensibility. Intricate glass chandeliers by Italian brand La Murrina hang over the dining table, which is separated from an open-plan living area by floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors.

A "decorative library" with shelves of wood and glass divides the entrance of each apartment from the main living


area.

On the dedicated podium floor, residents can make use of an outdoor pool with fitness and yoga areas, two massage rooms, a reading area, a business centre and a whole room given over entirely to playing poker.

Each one of the 46 residences occupies an entire floor of the tower, offering over 566 square metres of accommodation.

Related story Around the world in 10 Trump Towers

Indian English-language daily newspaper Business Standard reported that prices for a property in the tower started at 150 million Indian Rupees (£1,653,000).

The residential complex is situated in the Kalyani Nagar district of Pune, a city in the western state of Maharashtra.

The project was developed by Pachshil Realty, which is licensed to use the Trump name.

Work began on the twin towers in 2011, and was completedin 2017. Trump Jr attended the inauguration in late February of 2018.

CNN money reported that a selection of potential buyers were flown to New York to a reception hosted by Trump Jr in January, ahead of the official opening.

The Trump Organization is the holding company for the business ventures of President Trump. Based out of Trump Towers in New York City, it overseas the Trump-branded residential towers, hotels and golf courses around the world.

President Trump still owns the company, but it was put into trust overseen by Trump Jr and his brother, Eric Trump, before he took office in 2017.

The Washington Post reported that there are an estimated 50 properties around the world that bear the Trump name.

Photography by Max Zambelli.


stretching over a period of time up to November 18, 1970, at least 6-8 dates for a preliminary hearing were agreed upon. No hearing was ever held, however, because adjournments were granted at most of the appearances at the Government's behest. At least once in September, 1970, an adjournment was secured at the specific behest of defense counsel. Finally, on November 18, 1970, the Commissioner dismissed the complaint, discharged the defendants, and returned the bail for failure to hold a preliminary hearing. On December 14, 1970, the instant indictment was filed.
The motion to dismiss the indictment is denied for the reason that there has been no showing that the adjournments and resultant delay either prejudiced defendant or denied him any constitutional rights. Defendant was at liberty during theseq."

The facts tending to establish probable cause were contained in the following brief rider:
"Morton Jacobson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: He is a Special Investigator for the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division of the United States Treasury Department and charges and alleges as follows:
(a) He has received information from a reliable informant that on two separate occasions he purchased starter guns from two individuals known to him as Charlie and Rick doing business at Charlie's Army-Navy Store, 152 E. 116th Street, New York, New York, that Charlie and Rick told him that they had more starter guns in stock and that they could supply him with any amount he wanted; and
(b) He personally has examined files maintained by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division of the United


Judge Michael Petrolle declared a mistrial in the case against Kyam Thursday because the jury could not come to a decision after a week of deliberations. The case will be retried with a new jury, Essex County Prosecutor's Office Spokesperson Kathy Carter stated Friday in an email to the Times.

Carter did not know of a date set for the new trial, but Kyam will remain in custody in the meantime, she said.

Kyam, formerly known as Raymond Perry, pleaded not guilty to seven counts including robbery, felony murder in the course of a robbery, possession of a weapon for unlawful use and receiving stolen property. The charges were in connection to the shooting death of Daniel Pritchard in February 2009 at a Claridge Sunoco on Pompton Avenue in Verona.

Therecently-ended trial began April 1, with witness testimony concluding April 15. Following closing arguments by defense and prosecution attorneys, the jury began deliberating Thursday, April 24.

On Tuesday, April 29, members of the jury declared themselves "hopelessly deadlocked."

During closing arguments, Jerome Kearns, a co-attorney defending Kyam, dubbed a key witness in the prosecution's case as a liar.

Kearns described David Fate, Kyam's cousin, as the prosecution's only direct evidence linking Kyam to the murder.

Fate previously pleaded guilty to some of the robbery counts for a jail sentence that could range from 10 to 28 years.

Kearns told the jury they should consider the hundreds of years of prison time Fate faced for the crimes he was accused of before he made a deal with prosecutors, as previously reported in the Times.

Assistant


but Kyam will remain in custody in the meantime, she said.

Kyam, formerly known as Raymond Perry, pleaded not guilty to seven counts including robbery, felony murder in the course of a robbery, possession of a weapon for unlawful use and receiving stolen property. The charges were in connection to the shooting death of Daniel Pritchard in February 2009 at a Claridge Sunoco on Pompton Avenue in Verona.

The recently-ended trial began April 1, with witness testimony concluding April 15. Following closing arguments by defense and prosecution attorneys, the jury began deliberating Thursday, April 24.

On Tuesday, April 29, members of the jury declared themselves "hopelessly deadlocked."

During closing arguments, Jerome Kearns, a co-attorney defending Kyam, dubbed a key witness in the prosecution's case as a liar.

Kearns described David Fate, Kyam's cousin,Porvenir, Uruguay

Porvenir or Pueblo Porvenir is a village in the Paysandú Department of western Uruguay.

Location
It is located south of Route 90 and northeast of Route 3, about  from the department capital city of Paysandú. It is an enclave within the populated rural area known as Chacras de Paysandú (Ranches of Paysandú), which is peripheral to the city.

History
On 17 July 1903, it was declared a "Pueblo" (village) named "Colonia Porvenir" by the Act of Ley Nº 2.855.

Population
In 2011 Porvenir had a population of 1,159.

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay

References

External links
INE map of Porvenir

Category:Populated places in the Paysandú Department


to atherosclerosis requiring celiac and SMA angioplasty and stenting, hypertension, dyslipidemia, chronic smoking, anal squamous cell carcinoma, bilateral cataract surgeries, history of breast cancer, osteoarthritis, and a remote appendectomy.

She had a two-stage procedure. She first underwent a left carotid-subclavian transposition, which she tolerated well. Three months later, she returned to the hospital to have her aneurysm treated. Following a midline laparotomy and isolation of the abdominal aorta, a right ilioceliac bypass was done with a 6-mm PETE graft, and the celiac trunk ostium was ligated. Given the small iliac arteries, a 10-mm PETE graft was sewn end to side to the right common iliac artery as a conduit.

The first stent graft, a Cook Zenith Alpha (ZTA-PT 32-155), was deployed in zone 2, covering the origin of the leftMain Content

Nikki Giovanni's book on The New York Times Best-Seller List

BLACKSBURG, Va., Feb. 20, 2006 – “Rosa,” the highly acclaimed book written by Virginia Tech’s University Distinguished Professor of English Nikki Giovanni, climbed to as high as number three in The New York Times Children’s Book List.

“Rosa,” published by Henry Holt and Company and vibrantly illustrated by Bryan Collier, tells the story of Rosa Parks, a seamstress from Montgomery, Ala., who refused to give up her seat on a bus. Her action sparked protests and ignited the Civil Rights Movement.

Giovanni’s book has been well received by the media, librarians, and parents. “Rosa” has won the Coretta Scott King award for best illustration and also earned a Caldecott Honor

What they’re saying about “Rosa”

The TIME magazine bonus section in December


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REGION: Long Island

GOVERNMENT BODY: New York State Senate

YEAR: 2018

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Philip Boyle

State Senate

In his decades-long career in public office, Philip Boyle’s passion for the environment and its protection has been evident. Elected to the State Senate in 2012 and having formerly served as the Assemblymember for District 8 from 1994 to 2012, Boyle has used his platform to better the communities we inhabit and leave a thriving wildlife for generations to come.

In 2017 Boyle received an 88% on NYLCV’s State Environmental Scorecard and has only continued his momentum. In the past session alone, Boyle sponsored upwards of 10 key pieces of legislation, some of which includes requiring landowners be notified of a petroleum discharge (S617), forbidding child products from being sold if they contain the organohalogenflame retardant (S8227), and mandating the transfer of land to the Oak Brush Plain State Preserve (S5804). Boyle has also proven to be a champion of wildlife protection by sponsoring numerous bills that make any kind of wildlife killing competitions illegal, allows the Department of Environmental Conservation the authority to manage sharks and white flounder, and establishes regulations regarding the confinement of animals for food producing purposes.

Additionally, Boyle has been a tremendous supporter of offshore wind and other renewable energy sources as he has written letters, attended rallies, and spoken before legislative and business forums about the issue. He has also been a long-time advocate for sustainability and has worked with groups such as Vision Long Island to advance Transit-Oriented Development in Long Island, transforming numerous communities. Moreover,


and the American Oil Company from 1961 through the first quarter of 1966 building filling stations and that such employment did not qualify as a pension credit.
In count II, Meehan charges the Laborer's Union International of North America (Union) with breaching its duty of fair representation by failing adequately to represent his position before the Board of Trustees of the fund. In addition, he alleges that the union president, Thomas Kelly, participated in the incorrect decision of the fund.
Plaintiff argues that the actions of the fund and the other defendants violate the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, which established the Pension Fund. Accordingly, he cites section 301 of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185, as the jurisdictional basis for this suit.
The Pension Fund, Localfunds established for the welfare of employees. In Alvares v. Erickson, supra, members of a Seattle area local of the Plumbers and Pipe-fitters Union brought suit against the trustees of the Washington State Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry Health and Welfare Trust (State Welfare Trust), a joint labor-management trust organized under 29 U.S.C. § 186(c) and pursuant to statewide bargaining between unions and employers in the plumbing and pipefitting industry. The local to which plaintiffs belonged had withdrawn from the statewide bargaining unit and created a new and independent bargaining unit limited to the Seattle area. Pursuant to the withdrawal, the Seattle area local set up a Seattle Area Welfare Trust and, thereafter, demanded from the trustees of the State Welfare Trust a pro rata share of certain uncommitted


or operation of the funds, such as an employer's failure to make required payments to the fund, employees' rights to the continued receipt of pension funds in the event of a plant closing, entitlement of laid-off workers to early retirement benefits under the pension agreement, actions against trustees for diversion of trust funds, and actions against employers for the arbitrary and capricious administration of employer-administered pension plans.
The instant complaint does not involve allegations of this nature. Plaintiff simply complains of the denial to him of pension benefits, even though he allegedly meets the qualifications for such benefits. The following excerpt from plaintiff's complaint is illustrative:
13. Under the provisions of Defendant Pension Funds Regulation, Plaintiff, THOMAS MEEHAN, is qualified for a full, normal pension under the terms of theby a letter dated March 13, 1974, and attached as Exhibit "D" rejected the Plaintiff's claim for a normal pension under the Fund. Said rejection was based on the trustees decision, that although Plaintiff worked in the construction industry, and was required to pay union dues to maintain his job while building certain gas stations for Standard Oil, that said period of employment did not qualify him for pension credit. Rejection stated in pertinent part:
. . . The period 1937 through 1960, you were employed by Standard Oil Company and during the period 1961 through the first quarter of 1966 you were employed by the American Oil Company. Work you performed while an employee of the Standard Oil Company and the American Oil Company does not qualify as


a pension credit . . ."
14. The plaintiff took an appeal from the Board's decision which was denied by letter dated June 26, 1974, and attached as Exhibit "B".
These allegations clearly pertain solely to the day-to-day administration of the fund and would be properly aired in a state court action by plaintiff against the fund trustees to compel pension payments. In Hancock v. Pension Fund, supra, the court held that it had jurisdiction over plaintiff's suit challenging the provision of a retirement plan which was interpreted by the fund trustees to exclude all service beyond 20 years in computing benefits upon early retirement. Since plaintiff had 34 years of service when he took early retirement, he argued that the additional 14 years should also be included in theSen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his wife were accosted at a restaurant in Washington, DC, on Monday night after several protestors criticized his support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

As Cruz and his wife Heidi began leaving the restaurant, hecklers chanted "we believe survivors," in reference to the allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.

Cruz described Kavanaugh as "unquestionably qualified" for the Supreme Court earlier in September, but he admitted on Friday that the recent allegations were severe enough to warrant a closer look.

"The allegations she's raised are serious, and they deserve to be treated with respect," Cruz said during a debate with Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke on Friday, in reference to Christine Blasey Ford's claim.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his wife were accosted at a restaurant in Washington,


DC, on Monday night after several protesters criticized his support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court.

As Cruz and his wife, Heidi, began leaving the restaurant, hecklers referred to the sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh and chanted "we believe survivors."

"Beto is way hotter than you, dude," one of the hecklers said at one point, in reference to Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke, his opponent in the midterm elections.

"God bless you," Cruz said.

"God bless you too," a heckler shouted back.

—Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) September 25, 2018

—Smash Racism DC (@SmashRacismDC) September 25, 2018

Kavanaugh's nomination has become a contentious issue after at least two women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct that they said happened in the 1980s. Kavanaugh categorically denied the allegations and saidhe would testify to "defend my integrity."

Cruz, like the majority of Republican lawmakers, has supported Kavanaugh's nomination. Although Cruz described Kavanaugh as "unquestionably qualified" during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier in September, he admitted that the allegations were severe enough to warrant a closer look.

"The allegations ... are serious, and they deserve to be treated with respect," Cruz said during a debate with O'Rourke on Friday.

Voting for Kavanaugh's confirmation was delayed after he and Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist and professor who accused him of sexually assaulting her at a house party during high school, agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Thursday.

Other senior Trump's administration officials have been heckled at public restaurants. In June, Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was confronted at


components are housed in a vacuum environment to prevent contamination and dispersion of the ion beam. The beam line components may include a series of electrodes to extract the ions from the source chamber, a mass analyzer configured with a particular magnetic field such that only the ions with a desired mass-to-charge ratio travel through the analyzer, and a corrector magnet to provide a ribbon beam which is directed to the platen orthogonally with respect to the ion beam to implant the ions into the target substrate. The ions lose energy when they collide with electrons and nuclei in the substrate and come to rest at a desired depth within the substrate based on the acceleration energy. The depth of implantation into the substrate is based on the- scenes that were not shot on 65mm IMAX film, about 25% of the film
 Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
 Christopher Robin (2018) - some scenes
 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) - some scenes
Tenet (2020) - scenes that were not shot on 65mm IMAX film.

See also
 70 mm film
 Cinerama
 Super Technirama 70
 Todd-AO
 Ultra Panavision 70

References

External links
 American Widescreen Museum section on Super Panavision 70

Category:Motion picture film formats
Category:Panavision
Category:70 mm film


the school curriculum.

Respect

Kindness

Resilience

Communication

Self esteem

Compassion

Independence

Tolerance

Perseverance

British Values

The DfE have recently reinforced the need “to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.”

The Government set out its definition of British values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy, and these values have been reiterated this year (2015). At Blakeley these values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways.

Democracy

At Blakeley Heath we teach the children about the importance of democracy from an early age. Each year the children decide upon their class charter and the rights associated with these. All the children contribute to the drawing up of the charter.

Children have many opportunities fortheir voices to be heard. We have a school council which meets regularly to discuss issues raised in class council meetings. The council has its own budget and is able to genuinely effect change within the school. Two council members for each class are voted in by their class.

The Rule of Law

The importance of Laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced throughout regular school days, as well as when dealing with behaviour and through school assemblies. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken. Visits from authorities such as the Police and Fire Service help reinforce this message.

Individual Liberty

Within


with its whirring and opening and closing flaps and panels — he was enrapt. The idea that a car could "open" blew his little mind. And when I took him out on the road, the wind and noise and big, open sky made the most mundane trip feel like Disneyland.

Look at that picture up there. That's one happy fucking kid. He was so thrilled with the sensation of wind blowing all around him that I thought he was going to explode into a ball of rainbow light and candy. Look at this face here:

When was the last time you felt like that? Just knowing that you have the power to give another human being you love that sensation is like being King Dad of The Boss' Republic ofvendredi 11 janvier 2013

THE NEW QUEBEC LIBERAL PARTY...

by Bernard Bujold (LeStudio1.com) -While Jean Charest announced his new role as a lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault, and just days before the beginning of the five public debates between candidates for his succession to take place on 13, 20 and 27 January and 2 February, respectively, in Montreal, Quebec, Gatineau and Rimouski, the journalist Patrick Lagacé of La Presse published a summary of his dinner with three Liberal candidates in the race.
Recall that the Liberal convention will be held at Verdun on 16 and 17 of March.
There is much to be expected once a new leader in office, that the Liberals will want to quickly overthrow the current government of Pauline Marois and trigger a general election in Quebec. To be


Hi.
I'm John Tomasi.
Welcome to Brown's
Constitution Day 2016.
This is a Janus-style event.
And our prompt question
for our conversation today
is, should free speech be
limited on college campuses?
Constitution Day is a result
of a federal mandate passed
in 2004 which requires that
all universities that receive
federal funding hold events
on constitutional issues
on or around September 17, the
day on which the Constitution
was signed.
It was, alas, an
unfunded mandate.
But we're very fortunate to
have a donor who's been helping,
a foundational donor
giving foundational support
to the Political Theory
Project and especially
to the Janus Forum that's
sponsoring this evening's
event.
The donor is the Lacey
and Larkin Frontera Fund.
It's a very unusual fund.
The fund was created by
two journalists, Mike Lacey
and Jim Larkin.
In 2007, Larkin and
Lacey were each arrested
in their homes late
at night in a dispute
over journalistic freedom
with a well-known sheriff
of the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Larkin and Lacey
sued the county.
And1915
statement of the American
Association of University
Professors on academic freedom
and tenure; an essay by the
French philosopher Jacques
Derrida, who
described university
education and academic life as,
quote, "an economy of waste."
And I think that's just
perfect, an economy of waste.
But my favorite in this
list of predecessors
to which I wish to
join my own name now
is Michael Oakeshott, a mid-20th
century British theorist
of philosophy in politics.
And in an essay, again titled
"The Idea of a University,"
Oakeshott says this.
"A university is a place where
the student has the opportunity
of education and
conversation with teachers
and fellow students, and
where the student is not
encouraged to confuse education
with training for a profession,
or to confuse education with
learning the tricks of a trade,
or with preparation for future
particular service in society,
or with the
acquisition of a kind
of moral and intellectual
outfit to see him through life."
These are not the
purposes of


a university,
according to Oakeshott.
Instead, he says, "a
university has something else
to offer the undergraduate."
And that is what he calls
the gift of an interval, that
is a time between.
"Here is an opportunity,"
says Oakeshott,
"to put aside the
allegiances of youth
without the necessity of at once
acquiring new loyalties to take
their place.
Here is a break"-- I am still
reading from his essay--
"in the tyrannical cause
of irreparable events"--
that is of events that once
taken then predict the future
in some way-- "that
is inevitable.
Here is a period in which
to look around the world
and upon oneself without the
sense of an enemy at one's back
and without the
insistent pressure
to make up one's mind."
That's what he sees
the university as.
He sees it, in effect, as what
has been sometimes derisively
called an ivory tower.
But that's what I believe the
university is and should be,
an ivory tower.
And that's theteaching
for social justice.
No, no, you teach to teach.
You don't teach
for social justice.
It's a debasement both of
teaching and of social justice.
So now standing up
for truth and justice
is, of course, a
good thing to do,
but it is not an
academic good thing
to do because it is
not part of the job
description of academics.
The moment academic work
is made instrumental
to some other supposedly
more noble project,
like the furthering
of freedom of speech,
and the moment academic freedom
is understood as the freedom
to pursue that noble
project, the academy
has become an appendage
to something else
and is nothing in and of itself.
The best statement of this
that I've ever seen in action
was something said by the
provost at the University
of Wisconsin just before
the United States invaded
Iraq in 2003.
Many students at the
University of Wisconsin
were demonstrating in
front of the building
in which the provost's
office was housed.
And he came


out.
And, of course, they
were demonstrating.
And what they wanted
the university to do
was to take a position
against the impending war.
The provost came out and
said only the following.
The University of Wisconsin
does not have a foreign policy.
And that is absolutely
letter perfect.
Neither does it have
an agricultural policy
or an aesthetic policy
or a sports policy.
It's not a Red Sox university.
So it does not have
a foreign policy.
Now, unfortunately, many
people in the university,
including administrators,
don't quite see this point.
And one of them who
doesn't see this point
is your president,
President Paxson,
who, in a September 5 op-ed
in the Washington Post,
said the following.
"Freedom of expression
is an essential component
of academic freedom."
Freedom of expression is
an essential component
of academic freedom.
That is false for reasons that
I will give you in a moment,
although it is the same
falsehood being [INAUDIBLE]
by 150 professors
at the University
of Chicago, several of
them oldmaintain its independence in
the face of hostile incursion,
the invaders of the
citadel have usually
been situated on the outside--
the church in the 19th century,
trustees at the beginning
of the 20th century,
industries that wanted to bend
the academy to their mercantile
purposes, donors and
founders, state legislators,
ambitious governors, and
crusading senators like Joseph
McCarthy.
But now, in 2016,
the invading force,
the force invading
and performing
a takeover attempt
at the university,
is made up of students,
who, like their predecessors
in the 1960s, are ready
to mount the barricades
and plant their flags.
However, there is a difference,
and an important one,
between student insurgents
either of the '60s
or of the present
day and others who
want to make the groves of
academe bear alien fruit.
Those others, for the most
part, are after power--
I know that's what's
on the next page
if I can only turn the
next page-- seek only
to wield power.
Students, and this is
all to their


US Cities With the Most Skyscrapers

New York and Chicago have the most skyscrapers of anywhere in the United States.

New York has the most skyscrapers in the United States.

If a building has over 40 or 50 floors, or is over 328 feet tall, it is considered a skyscraper. Most skyscrapers have a steel
framework with non-structural outer walls. Below are the US cities with the most skyscrapers. The quoted figures refer to the number of skyscrapers
standing at 490 feet tall and higher.

Which City in the United States Has the Most Skyscrapers?

New York City – 257 Skyscrapers

New York City has the highest number of skyscrapers in the US with 257 buildings towering above 490 feet. The city had an estimated population of 8,537,673 in 2016, making it the highest populated cityin the US. The One World Trade Centre, built in 2013, is the tallest building in New York with 104 floors and standing at 1,776 feet tall. The Empire State Building ranks second at 1,250 feet tall with 102 stories. The building was built in 1931 and is located on Fifth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan. The Bank of America Tower is the third tallest building in New York at 1,200 feet. The building was completed in 2009 and has 55 floors.

Chicago – 119 Skyscrapers

Chicago has 1,315 tall buildings. 44 of these buildings are above 600 feet tall and 119 are over 490 feet tall. Willis Tower, previously named Sears Tower, is the tallest building in the city standing at 1,451 feet tall. The Tower has 110 floors and was


built in 1974; it was the tallest building in the US up to May 2013 when the One World Trade Centre took over. Trump International Hotel and Tower is the second tallest building in the city at 1,171 feet tall with 98 floors. The hotel tower is located on Wabash Avenue, Chicago and was completed and opened in 2009. The building is the fourth tallest in the US. Aon Centre is the third tallest building in Chicago; completed in 1974 the building stands at 1,136 feet tall and has 83 floors. Chicago is home to four of the tallest ten buildings in the US. Chicago City is considered the birthplace of the skyscraper, as the first skyscraper in the world was built in the city.

Miami – 45 Skyscrapers

Miamihas more than 300 high-rise buildings with 45 of them rising over 490 feet tall. Panorama Tower is the tallest building in Miami standing at 868 feet tall, and it is set to be completed in 2018. Burdine’s department store was the first high-rise building in Miami with six floors. The department store was completed in 1912. The Federal Aviation Administration in Miami has set a height limit of about 1,010 feet for high-rise buildings in the city. The height limit on buildings in downtown Miami was set as the city is close to the Miami International Airport. The Four Seasons Hotel Miami is the second tallest building at 789 feet tall. The hotel had 70 floors and was completed in 2003. The southeast Financial Centre comes third


at 764 feet. The building was completed in 1984 and has 764 floors.

What City in the World Has the Most Skyscrapers?

Hong Kong has the highest number of skyscrapers in the world, followed by New York and Dubai. Five of the top 10 cities with the tallest buildings in the world are in China.The latest in the occasional Pentagon statements on civilian deaths in the air war in Iraq and Syria has claimed 54 civilians slain between March 31 and October 22, continuing the trend of official figures being massively lower than those reported in the media.

This puts the official death toll at 173 civilians for the entire air war, which is far short of estimates from most groups, which put the death toll far higher over the course of the conflict. Amnesty International put the figure at around 300, and others have suggested it was in excess of 500. The Pentagon often declines to investigate reports of civilian deaths, arguing that they are “not credible.”

Even when they do finally manage to get the killings into their reports, the tolls are


often dramatically lower than the evidence suggests. A July 18 airstrike north of the Syrian city of Manbij, for instance, was finally included in the report this time around, with “up to 24” killed.

There were several reports with different death tolls in the incident, with the lowest figure from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reported 56 civilians killed. Other groups in the area suggested as many as 200 were killed.

It’s noteworthy that the Pentagon finally confirmed the killings at all, however, since in their previous report in early November they didn’t mention Manbij at all, even though that report was supposed to be all-inclusive covering the period of time which included July.Skywatchers in Alaska, the Hawaiian islands and the western part of North America will have the best view of the rare "Super Blue Blood Moon" in the early morning of Jan. 31.

This spectacular lunar event features the second full moon of the month, also known as a Blue Moon. The event will coincide with a total lunar eclipse, which is often referred to as a "blood moon" because the moon turns a reddish or copper color when it passes through Earth's shadow.

What's more, the Jan. 31 full moon occurs during perigee — the moon's closest approach to Earth in a single orbit, which means that its diameter will appear about 7 percent larger and 14 percent brighter than usual, making it a supermoon. This is the first time


moonrise in the morning, according to the NASA statement.

Specifically, skywatchers on the West Coast of the United States will see the lunar eclipse begin at 3:48 a.m. PST. Totality will start around 4:51 a.m. PST and last until 6:05 a.m. PST. Viewers in this area will experience the lunar eclipse from start to finish, as long as it isn't a cloudy morning, according to the statement.

Stages of the total lunar eclipse Jan. 31, 2018. All times are PST. (Image credit: NASA)

For viewers in New York, Washington and other areas of the U.S. East Coast, the window of opportunity to see the lunar eclipse won't be as large.

"Unfortunately, eclipse viewing will be more challenging in the Eastern Time zone," Johnston said in the statement. "The eclipse begins at 5:51Chris Davies has lost his seat - and a by-election will be held in Brecon and Radnorshire after a recall petition was successful.

Following a count held at County Hall, Llandrindod Wells on Friday, June 21, it was announced 10,005 people had signed the recall petition, above the threshold of 10 per cent required to force a by-election.

In total 19 per cent of the electorate signed the petition.

The recall petition was triggered following Chris Davies MP's conviction for falsifying expenses claims earlier this year.

Powys County Council chief executive, Dr Caroline Turner posts the result of the Chris Davies recall petition at County Hall in Llandrindod Wells. Picture: Mike Sheridan/County Times

Davies had been fined £1,500 and ordered to carry out 50 hours of community service for submitting two false expenses


invoices for landscape photographs to decorate his new office, at Southwark Crown Court in central London.

The 51-year-old was told he had committed "two very serious offences" which were "absolutely intended to deceive" when he appeared before magistrates last month to admit two charges of attempting to provide false or misleading information for an allowance claim.

The two charges related to the period when Davies was setting up his constituency office following the 2015 snap general election.

He had contacted a photographer in his constituency and bought nine images from him to decorate and display in his constituency office, using his own money to pay the £700 for them initially.

There were two budgets available to him, the Start Up Costs Budget - for office furniture and IT equipment - and theOffice Costs Budget, both of which he could claim the full amount from.

He then created two fake invoices, so the £700 cost could be split between the two budgets - £450 to the Start Up and £250 for the other.

However, Davies was not entitled to split the costs across two budgets, and said any claims had to be accompanied by genuine invoices.

Davies served as a councillor in Powys before he was elected as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 2015 general election, beating incumbent Liberal Democrat Roger Williams with the seat's largest majority since 1983.

He served as parliamentary private secretary to the Wales Office from January to July 2018.

Before entering politics, he worked as a rural auctioneer, an estate agent and also managed a mixed veterinary practice


Being the economic-planning body of China locally known as The National Development and Reform Commission, its aim is to probe practices by a number of carmakers in order to find out if they are inflating the prices of their spare parts. These would include Mercedes, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Audi, and Japanese carmakers.

The Chinese located Audi announced the previous month that it is slashing off its prices by as much as 38 percent. Mercedes, on the other hand, is cutting off prices at an average of 15 percent which shall take effect in September.

"The timing is a bit confusing. It may be because the cut hasn't met the authorities' expectations," Analyst Han Weiqi of CSC International Holdings commented.

According to reports, the investigating officers arrived at the Mercedes Benzoffice at 10 am Shanghai local time. While the security guards have attempted to stop them, they managed to successfully enter the building. From 10 am, they stayed until 9 pm. During that whole time, they questioned staff members and checked all the computers for data.

Daimler expressed that they cooperated well enough during the raid. "We confirm that we are assisting the authorities in their investigation," company spokesman Senol Bayrak said.

At least nine anti-monopoly investigating officers visited the Mercedes Benz office based in the western suburb of Shanghai. The office is made up of a service center and a dealership with a showroom. Several employees in the showroom said that they did not know anything about the investigation. However, a security guard said that the office had been


visited by the investigation team for two consecutive days.

"They were here all day yesterday and three or four hours this morning," the guard said.

Beijing has been investigating several claims that foreign car manufacturers are overpricing their products in China. The car manufacturers responded by dropping their product prices. Mercedes has already dropped their spare parts' prices twice within the last few months.

A number of foreign companies have already been targeted by the Chinese government this year. One of them is Microsoft which had endured raids from anti-trust investigators in its offices found in four Chinese cities. Steven Cao of Edelman, an American public relations firm, had been detained as part of the government's campaign on anti-corruption.

Mercedes is the third biggest maker of luxury cars in the world. AfterPennsylvania Boxing Coach Adopts 2 Poverty-Stricken Brothers Jack Mook took in the two boys after they stopped coming to practice.

 -- A Pittsburgh police narcotics detective who served in the Gulf War is now the adopted father of two boys whom he saw needed help.

Jack Mook was a coach at Steel City Boxing, a gym inside a decommissioned Pittsburgh firehouse, two years ago when he met Josh and Jessee, two brothers who were living in a foster home at the time.

“They looked pale,” Mook told ABC News. “Josh had bags under his eyes.”

When the brothers stopped coming to boxing practice, Mook became concerned and tracked them down.

He discovered they were living in a poverty-stricken existence that had spiraled into a nightmare, with no place to sleep, no parenting


"extremely serious."[8]
We remanded the case to the superior court for an evidentiary hearing on these issues.

B. Proceedings On Remand
An initial evidentiary hearing took place on March 24, 2010 in Kotzebue before Superior Court Judge Ethan L. Windahl, who was sitting pro tem. Hunter's witness was unavailable, so the court rescheduled the hearing for April 1, 2010.
At the April hearing, after Hunter's witness testified that both Hunter and Conwell were good parents, Hunter then testified on her own behalf by reading from a prepared statement. She stated that while she was more than willing to work with Conwell, "he does not appear to have any desire to work with me." Regarding Walker's alleged verbal abuse of the boys, Hunter described the original incident that prompted the welfare check, butconceded that she "[didn't] know if the verbal abuse is still going on."
Hunter also testified that she "continue[s] to have problems with the telephone visitation," and then spent several minutes reading from a log of dates and times when she called Conwell's house but was unable to visit satisfactorily with the boys. Hunter testified that there was a three-week period between March 3 and March 21, 2010 when Conwell took the children on vacation to Hawaii and Hunter had no contact information and was unable to reach the boys. Hunter also testified that generally when she does reach the boys they are distracted by television or video games. She also stated "[t]he supreme court was extremely strong about letting [Conwell] know that [it was] concerned with the contact,


had to buy all the tickets, and if I didn't [Conwell] told me that he wasn't going to send me the kids.... I just feel like he's trying to keep them away from me."[9]
On cross-examination by Conwell's attorney, Hunter conceded that she has had all of her physical visitation with the boys, though Hunter again noted that she had paid for the boys' travel herself, and she also emphasized that telephonic visitation has not been consistent. But Hunter admitted that she "didn't keep track of the days" that she did speak to the boys, only those days on which she encountered problems.
Hunter also conceded that she had no knowledge that anyone was abusing the boys "because I'm not there," and confirmed that she willingly let the boys goout of town for no more than three days at a time, that his employer knows he has children, and that he has kept records of his occasional day trips to the villages. Conwell explained that his normal work schedule is 8 to 5 Monday through Friday, he is on call at other times but has not been called once since he started work, and he is usually home for dinner with the boys, who have a "very structured time schedule." Conwell testified that on the rare occasions he is out of town, his girlfriend Walker cares for the boys: Walker lives in his home and has been in a relationship with Conwell since 2005, and the boys are familiar with her. He stated that there is "no


"shy away from phones when [he is] working in the telephone community." He also conceded that when Hunter calls outside of her court-ordered time, he does not "have a tendency of calling back."
Finally, Conwell testified that the boys have a structured life and are doing well at school and that their best interests are served by being in his custody.
On cross-examination by Hunter, Conwell denied having stated that he noticed that Walker "mistreated" the boys, but admitted that he did not use a calling card to call Hunter while on vacation with the boys in Hawaii. When asked by Hunter why he did not "turn the TV off during [her] visitation," Conwell replied that "only one child can talk at a time," and if one boy is onin their classes at school.
Having heard this testimony, the superior court was "not convinced that there are significant anger management and behavioral issues, other than perhaps during a transitional period." This finding is supported by the record.

3. Conwell's work and travel schedule
Conwell testified that he had been employed by OTZ Telephone for "three to four" years, and that although the "vast majority of [his] work is taken care of in Kotzebue," every "once in a great while" he is "called out for a day trip" which tends to be within 90 miles of Kotzebue. Conwell testified that since this job started he has been out of town for no more than three days at a time; his employer knows he has children, and he has kept records of


attempt made to return my calls." The record also contains a third 2008 affidavit by Hunter in which she stated that Conwell claimed that he "does not have to allow the children to speak with her" and that "he has all the power," and that he had "acted upon his threats" by changing his telephone number, failing to answer the telephone, and failing to return her telephone messages.
The superior court heard detailed testimony from Hunter recounting dates and times when she was unable to reach the boys in early 2010. Hunter also testified that when she does reach the boys they often are distracted by television or video games.
Conwell concedes that Hunter missed seven scheduled telephone calls during the months of January and February 2010, as well asISLAMABAD – Taliban militants collaborated with Islamic State commanders in a brazen attack on Saturday that killed more than 50 civilians and Afghan police officers in northern Afghanistan, local officials reported.

This new cooperation between the two brutal terrorist groups – which are usually adversaries and have fought turf battles in the past – could create serious trouble for the already struggling U.S-backed Kabul government.

Several local residents confirmed that some 600 insurgents, both Taliban and ISIS fighters, had overrun Mirza Olang village in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul.

Sharif Aminyar, the district governor of Sayad, said 50 people were killed, including women, children and 18 local Afghan police officers. Most of those killed were members of the ethnic Shia Hazara community.

“It was joint operation from ISIS and Taliban,” Aminyar said.


sides had steadily risen since an NPA fighter died in a clash with Army soldiers in North Cotabato two weeks ago.

At least six soldiers were killed last week in separate guerrilla attacks in Mindanao and Luzon, including three whose bodies were found riddled with bullets after they were abducted by the rebels.

On Monday, an alleged NPA regional supply officer, Glenn Ramos, was killed in Davao City when he reportedly fought soldiers and policemen out to arrest him on attempted homicide charges.

On Tuesday, just hours before the government announced its “all-out war,” a soldier was killed in a clash with suspected rebels in Capiz province.

Lorenzana said the military would focus on the “armed component” of the rebel movement, not the “peace-loving” supporters such as farmers. —WITH REPORTS FROM JHESSETSpeaking to the BBC during a visit to Vietnam, Carter said the US would "continue to do what we have done for seven decades since World War II ended - by being the pivotal military power in the region, which we are and will continue to be," adding that "nothing will stop US military operations at all."

The statements come amid rising tensions between Washington over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The US accuses China of creating islands that could be used as airstrips in the Spratly Islands and has vowed to continue sending military aircraft and ships to the tense region to protect navigation right.

Washington has repeatedly called on Beijing and others to end reclamation projects in the disputed waters. Beijing, however, rejects those demands, saying


it is exercising its sovereignty and using the controversial outposts to fulfill international responsibilities.

In a DW interview, Ernest Bower, the Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, talks about the US interests in the region, its stance on the dispute, and why it rejects a new area of Chinese dominance in Asia.

Bower: 'Washington believes that if China is allowed to bully its neighbors and define a new area of geopolitical dominance, it will destabilize Asia and the world'

DW: Defense Secretary Ashton Carter recently said the US will continue to play a "pivotal" role in Asia in the future. What does Carter mean by this?

Ernest Z. Bower: Secretary Carter is signaling that the United States is politically, financially and strategically committed andcountries?

The US does not have any territorial or maritime claims in the South China Sea. There are six disputants - Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea Runway China is expanding the construction of its facilities on Fiery Cross Reef. Provided by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), this June 28, 2015 photo reveals Beijing has nearly completed a 3,000 meter (9,800-foot) airstrip, long enough to accommodate most Chinese military aircraft. Two helipads, up to 10 satellite communications antennas, and one possible radar tower are also visible.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea Expansion Reclamation on Fiery Cross Reef, which lies on the west side of the Spratly Islands, began in August of 2014 and its principal landmass was finished by


November. Dredgers have created a land mass that spans the entire existing reef and is approximately 3,000 meters long and 200-300 meters wide.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea Facilities This picture taken last November shows construction work being carried out on Fiery Cross Reef. The reef reportedly already houses a helicopter landing pad, a 300-meter-long wharf, a harbor large enough to dock military tankers, barracks and artillery emplacements.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea South Johnson Reef This reef was one of the first facilities to finish principal land reclamation. This recent picture shows that a radar tower is nearing completion at the north end of the land mass. According to AMTI, a new large multi-level military facility has been built in the center of the island.Up to six surveillance towers are being constructed alongside four possible weapons towers.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea A naval base? Beginning in early 2015, Mischief Reef - also located in the Spratlys - has undergone extensive reclamation activity. Experts say that the recent widening of the southern entrance to the reef, coupled with sightings of Chinese navy vessels, may suggest a future role for the reclaimed reef as a naval base. Taken on March 17, this image shows a chain of small land formations at the reef.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea From reef to island Significant construction on Gaven Reef began in 2014, with a total of 114,000 square meters of land already created. Satellite pictures show just how fast construction has progressed on


the reef. A new artificial island was created between March (left) and August (right) 2014.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea Troop garrison According to AMTI, China has had a troop garrison on Gaven Reef since 2003, which has included a large supply platform where ships can dock. Experts say a new main square building in the reef appears to be an anti-aircraft tower.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea A standardized process As seen in this image, the basic process of expanding these features involves dredging sand from the seafloor and dumping it onto the reefs. The structure is raised above the high water line, hiding the status of the bank or reef beneath. The sand is then smoothed out and workers surround the island with aconcrete barrier to protect against erosion and storm surge, and begin construction.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea 'Historic rights' China claims most of the potentially energy-rich waterway, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The US Pacific Fleet commander recently said China was "creating a great wall of sand" in the South China Sea, causing serious concerns about its territorial intentions. Beijing argues it is asserting its so-called "historic rights" to maritime resources in the area.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea Territorial disputes The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also have overlapping claims, which have led to territorial disputes in the area. Last summer, China's deployment of a massive oil rig in waters also claimed by Hanoi escalated tensions in the region,


sparking a standoff at sea and violent anti-Chinese demonstrations in Vietnam.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea US concerns Washington is concerned China's efforts carry a military dimension that could undermine the US' naval and economic power in the Pacific, and has weighed sending warships and surveillance aircraft within 12 nautical miles of the new artificial islands. Washington has repeatedly called on Beijing and others to end reclamation projects in the disputed waters, but Beijing rejects those demands.

Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea Ecological impact The Philippines filed a formal plea at the UN last year, challenging Beijing's territorial claims. Manila said China's reclamation activities are causing "irreversible and widespread damage to the biodiversity and ecological balance of the South China Sea." It also claimed that thethe world stage as a global power that it is in its interests to use the rule of law to pursue its interests. Washington believes that if China is allowed to bully its neighbors and define a new area of geopolitical dominance, it will destabilize Asia and the world.

How does the US view the China's actions and policy in the South China Sea?

The US understands that China has legitimate concerns about its claims in the South China Sea. It also knows that China feels it was distracted by its internal challenges for decades while its neighbors moved ahead with energy development in the South China Sea.

Therefore, it made a very large claim, the 9-dash line, in 2009, in part as a legal strategy to slow down its neighbors


Nevada County attorneys present same-sex marriage programs

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Jennifer L. Wilkerson (certified specialist in estate planning, trusts and probate) and Joseph Bell (certified specialist in family law) will present a two-part program on same-sex relationships and marriage on June 24 and July 22, at 7 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains hall at 246 South Church St., Grass Valley. The public is invited.

The first program, presented by Wilkerson on June 24, is Estate Planning for Couples.

The second program, presented by Bell on July 22, is Same Sex Marriage: Evolution and Revolution in Family Law.

More complex versions of both programs were originally presented to members of the Nevada County Bar Association at the 16th annual Family Law Update, sponsored by the bar and the Nevada County SuperiorCourt, on April 10.

Both programs address the everyday impacts and evolving rights questions now common for same-sex couples after decisions by the California Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court on “gay marriage” issues last year.

On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic rulings in the companion cases of United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry.

With these two decisions, the court removed the final differences between the legal statuses of California’s same-sex couples (formerly limited to domestic partnerships) and couples in civil marriages.

The Windsor case determined that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which was enacted by Congress in 1996, is unconstitutional.

The court concluded that DOMA’s illegal purpose was to treat same-sex unions as “second class marriages for the purposes of federal


an Op Ed piece in The Wall Street Journal about the restaurant industry, written by the couple that publishes the Zagat restaurant guides, which took exactly this line. Rather than coming home after work to cook, the Zagats suggested, “people would be better off staying an extra hour in the office doing what they do well, and letting bargain restaurants do what they do best.”

Here in a nutshell is the classic argument for the division of labor, which, as Adam Smith and countless others have pointed out, has given us many of the blessings of civilization. It is what allows me to make a living sitting at this screen writing, while others grow my food, sew my clothes, and supply the energy that lights and heats my house.those dedicated to medieval worlds will, at one point play out the confrontation in a full scale battlefield. In Tolkien we find this specially in the battles for Minas Tirith and Helms deep. In Martin almost everywhere, from the battle in King’s Landing, to the “salves uprising”, all the way through the fight Tyrion has to endure at the end of the first book to impress his father.

This is where the first differences start. The attention to detail is different in each author. Even though Tolkien tends to be very descriptive, some parts of the fight remain very vague. Here, we find the efforts of our heroes, as they charge valiantly into battle and kill orcs to the left and the right. In Martin, however, we find that


those deeds were what marked a person and what made them noteworthy. No commoner could aspire to achieve the recognition the epic heroes had. In Tolkien, those heroes were very clear: Aragorn, Theodén, even the strong Eowyn.

Martin, on the other hand, is part of a generation in which the epicness is overshadowed by realism. There are no real knights in shining armour, and those who believe they are, are overridden by personal flaws and mistakes. At the end, even the great hero dies in the most dire circumstances, not achieving their ideals as they imagined. We also have to remember that Martin, in an interview with Dragon a few years back, spoke for his love of historical roleplaying, in which the consistency of his characters was more importantinfluence the germanic people had in the territory of the British Isles. Early in the Middle Ages Danish, Anglo and Saxon conquerors entered the territory and formed kingdoms, from which many of the cultural ways of the people and their words came from. Specially strong was the influence if Normands during the Battle of Hastings (1066 a.C.) which reconfigured the whole political map on the islands. Although the celtic element was not forgotten, the legends often got a germanic overhaul. This explains much of the story elements that appear in the legend, alongside its christian tones: the Round Table, the warrior’s code of honor and the need of showing prowess in battle and wisdom, which reflects the main traits of Woden (Odin, Wotan, Oden, etc.).

Also, if we want


to understand Tolkien’s grand work, we have to see what he studied: although he knew the Arthurian Legends, he is more known for his essay Beowulf and His Critics and a recent edition his son, Christopher, edited. This last book is a scholarly work on a translation of The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, which is a legend of a germanic hero. It even starts with mentioning the genesis of the gods, Wotan included.

His biggest strength, after all were the germanic languages. Even the Tolkien Professor in one of his classes mentioned that it is rumored that Tolkien entered into his classrooms reciting a vast piece of one of the sagas, in a supposed attempt to scare off students and thus getting less essays at the end ofContents

The organization's name is a portmanteau of Space and Navy, therefore making the word Spacy. It was established after 1999 by the successor to the modern United Nations in order to defend Earth from a possible attack by hostile aliens. However, from 1999 to 2008 the U.N. Spacy was also involved in the Unification Wars, fighting against a human Anti-U.N. faction opposed to the formation of the worldwide U.N. government. A year later the U.N. Spacy was involved in the subsequent Space War I, defending Earth from an hostile extraterrestrial race called the Zentradi.[1]
At the time of the Zentradi invasion, the U.N. Spacy's assets included military bases on Earth, the Moon and Mars, squadrons of variable fighters and other mecha, several capital ships in orbit and the repaired


SDF-1 Macross on South Ataria Island, the flagship of the United Nations Spacy.[2][3]

See also: Macross Parodies and Pop Culture References
The term "Spacy" (宇宙軍,Uchū Gun?, lit. "space military" or "space army") was coined by the show's creators as a portmanteau of "space" and the suffix "-y" to be analogous to the words army (陸軍,Riku Gun?, lit. "land military" or "land army") and navy (海軍,Kai Gun?, lit. "maritime military" or "maritime army"). This word has been subsequently used in sci-fi media outside of the Macross franchise.

↑Mecha Data. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes. AnimEigo (2001-12-21). Retrieved on 2009-04-28. “After a mysterious alien spaceship crash-landed on Earth in 1999, a worldwide consortium of researchers began to study and reverse-engineer it. The effort led to the ten-year reconstruction of the shipinto the flagship of the new United Nations Spacy.”

↑Character Notes. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes. AnimEigo (2001-12-21). Retrieved on 2009-05-12. “Bruno J. Global rose through the ranks of the United Nations Forces thanks to his exploits during the Unification Wars. He helmed ships ranging from a naval submarine and space destroyer to the flagship of the infant Spacy: the Macross fortress.”


was made to create homogeneity within the category but the highest heterogeneity between the categories. The categories also formed the themes. Item pool was formed on the basis of the consequences and attributes of treatment adherence in combat PTSD.

### Item reduction

First, 56 items were designed based on the findings obtained from the first phase of this study. Then, 26 items were selected as the first draft of the questionnaire by a panel of experts which included a psychiatric nurse, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and two experts of qualitative studies.

### Validation

#### Face and content validities

To evaluate face validity, ten patients were individually interviewed and their comments regarding the complexity, clarity, and the ambiguity of the items were used to modify the contents. To assess content validity, ten experts ontreatment contribution (five item), and purposefulness and responsibility (six item). Not only was the convergent and divergent of the first-order CFA not confirmed, but the convergent validity in the second-order CFA was also fulfilled. All items were rated on a Likert scale from 1 (not at all) to 5 (always), with minimum and maximum scores of 17 and 85, respectively. The higher the score, the greater was the degree of treatment adherence. Internal consistency correlation coefficient of the questionnaire was excellent. The minimal detectable change of the questionnaire was 9.753 and its SEM was 3.630. Consequently, the final version of Treatment Adherence Questionnaire for Iranian war veterans with combat-related PTSD may be applied as a valid and reliable questionnaire for measuring treatment adherence in these patients.

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knew why these tree-dwellers come down from the canopy to relieve themselves.

"We hypothesized that this behavior sustains an ecosystem in the fur of sloths, which confers cryptic nutritional benefits to sloths," the researchers wrote in their journal article.

Pauli and colleagues captured two-toed and three-toed sloths near San José, Costa Rica, and counted the number of moths, as well as the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and algae in each animal's fur. The team also collected digested material from the sloths' forestomachs, where food collects right after it's swallowed, to see whether it matched algae in the fur, which would indicate the sloths were consuming it.

The researchers found more moths in the fur of three-toed sloths than in that of their two-toed relatives. In addition, the team found larger amountsof inorganic nitrogen and algae in the fur of the three-toed sloths. The algae in the sloths' forestomachs also matched that found in their fur.

When the sloths relieve themselves, their insect tenants lay eggs in the dung, which later hatch and fly up to recolonize the sloths. Fungi in the sloths' environment may be decomposing dead moths, fostering the growth of algae. Or, the moths may be directly transferring nutrients from the sloth dung to their fur, where algae can grow.

The sloths consume the algae, which is rich in fatty compounds and gives them energy. In addition to being a tasty nutritional supplement, the algae may serve as camouflage against predators from above, such as the Harpy Eagle.

The symbiotic relationship among sloths, moths and algae could explain why


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Ricoh UK opens print training facility at HMP Onley

Ricoh UK, a leading provider in IT and document services to businesses, offers new digital training academy to get offenders back into work

Ricoh UK, London, 4 April 2017 – Ricoh today announces the launch of its partnership with HMP Onley to help prisoners acquire the necessary skills to re-enter the workplace.

Ricoh UK has been committed to a responsible work ethos for many years, with CEO Phil Keoghan sitting on the tactical leadership team of both The Prince’s Trust and Business in the Community (BITC).

The company has been actively recruiting ex-offenders since 2013, as well as providing employability workshops to various prisons and volunteering days whereby Ricoh UK employees work with prisoners on areas within the prison, such as the allotments,in order to break down the communication barrier and learn from each other’s skills and experience.

Through Business in the Community, Ricoh UK has established a partnership with HMP Onley to work with inmates who are nearing the end of their sentences.

Ricoh UK has responded by setting up the Ricoh UK Digital Training Academy within HMP Onley. This facility will train prisoners on the aspects of technical printing and engineering with a view to offering them a work placement a year prior to release. If successful candidates will be offered a full-time role within the business upon release. They will also complete various externally recognised qualifications in maths, English and customer service. All of which will make them more attractive to employers upon release.

Phil Keoghan, CEO of Ricoh UK