den than pinned, promenade stick in hand, by a tired old milkman's nag coming apace from the other way upon a narrow street. To one or more horses driven by a coachman of years and experience he did not always object, especially if he did not have to see them ; but to a horse driven by Podington, who had much experience and knowledge regarding mercantile affairs, but was merely an amateur horseman, he most decidedly and strongly objected. Yet he would never have even faintly hinted at his judgement in the matter, lest in hurting his friend's feelings he'd deadly wound himself ; and therefore it was that he had not yet visited the beautiful upland country residence of Mr. Podington.

At last this state of things grewawkward. Mrs. Buller and Mrs. Podington, often with their children, visited each other at their country houses with some frequency, and the threesome enjoyed itself as much as its reduced means allowed ; but the fact remained that either one or the other married lady would inescapably grow wistful at times, which her company would perceive and did regret but could not truly alleviate. Besides, the fact that on these visits the women were never accompanied by their husbands caused more and more gossip among their neighbors, both in the upland country and by the sea ; and so one day in Spring, as the two sat in their city office, where Mr. Podington had just repeated his annual invitation, his friend replied to him thus:

"William, if I


come to see you this summer, will you visit me as well? The thing is beginning to look a little ridiculous, and people are talking about it."

Mr. Podington put his hand to his brow and for a few moments closed his eyes. In his mind he saw a cat-boat upon its side, the sails spread out over the water, and two men, almost entirely immersed in the waves, making efforts to reach the side of the boat. One of these was getting on very well -- that was Buller. The other seemed about to sink, his arms were uselessly waving in the air -- that was himself. But he opened his eyes and looked bravely out of the window ; the insanity of the fancy could not hopein his eye "It is a compact!"

Thus and therefore was born the fourth Buller-Podington Compact, a matter of perhaps even greater momentum than all the other three combined.

Buller was the first to make the promised country visit. He had not mentioned the subject of horses to his friend, but he knew through Mrs. Buller that Podington still continued to be his own driver. She had informed him, however, that at present he was in general driving a big black horse which, in her opinion, was as gentle and reliable as these animals ever became, and she could not imagine how anybody could be afraid of him. Mrs. Podington assured him in a private encounter that indeed in almost a full year the horse had never caused any accident


nor given the slightest hint he has any plans to ; and then, squeezing his hand upon her nude heart, dressed only in her flesh as it was, promised him that should he suffer any harm at all from riding with her husband she'll gladly give herself up, and be his willing slave for a whole week. She closed by adding a loving woman's imprecation that he quit being such a baby. So, when the next morning after his arrival, Mr. Buller was asked by his host if he would like to take a drive, he suppressed a certain rising emotion and said that it would please him more than anything in the world.

When the good black horse had jogged along a pleasant road for half an hourand that train is nearly here. Please stop!"

The imputation that the road was not wide enough for him to turn was too much for Mr. Podington to bear under the circumstances, as he happened to be rather proud of his long recognized ability to turn just such a vehicle in narrow places.

"Turn!" said he; "that's the easiest thing in the world. See; a little to the right, then a back, then a sweep to the left and we will be going the other way." And instantly he began the maneuver in which he was at some point one of Oxford's celebrated masters.

"Oh, Thomas!" cried Buller, half rising in his seat, "that train is almost here!"

"And we are almost --" Mr. Podington was about to say "turned around," but


he stopped. Mr. Buller's exclamations had, to speak frankly, actually made him a little nervous. In his anxiety to turn quickly he had pulled upon his horse's bit with more energy than was actually necessary, or than had ever been his habit. His nervousness was thus communicated to the horse, which had no way to interpret its cause anywhere near truth. The faithful animal, going by frequency rather than meaning, backed with such extraordinary vigour that the hind wheels of the wagon went over a spot of grass on the side of the road and clean into the water. The sudden jolt, joined with his friend's paused speech, gave a new impetus to Mr. Buller's fears.

"You'll upset!" he cried, and, not thinking of what he was about, laidhold of his friend's arm for dear life, like one dangling over an unforgiving precipice, precariously fastened above the open maw of very hell. The horse, startled by this sudden jerk upon his bit, could not help but regard the passing of the train, now thundering suspended on the bridge above, with new eyes. That one salient if ultimately incomprehensible feature of the entire situation, uncommon and unexpected, filtered through the intelligent but ultimately equine brain (for, one must remember, a horse that can count is a remarkable horse, even if an unremarkable mathematician) to drive inescapably the conclusion that something extraordinary was about to happen with that train. Maybe it was about to explode ? Maybe it was finally metamorphizing into its final form ? The horse


road, and the bank was so steep and the earth so soft that it was impossible for the horse to maintain its footing, let alone advance. Back, back they all together slid, until the whole equipage was in the water and the wagon was afloat.

The vehicle now being baptized through the joint efforts of the two friends had nevertheless been originally intended as a road wagon. It had no top, yet the joints of its box-body were tight enough to prevent the water from immediately entering it ; somewhat deeply sunken, it rested upon the water. There was a current in this part of the pond and it drove the wagon downstream, turning it by degrees. The horse was now entirely immersed in the water, with the exceptionof his head and the upper part of his neck ; unable to place hoof upon the bottom it made vigorous and passingly effectual efforts to swim.

Mr. Podington, the reins and whip in his hands, sat horrified and pale ; the accident had been so sudden and for that matter if not exactly incompehensible in any case so difficult to even put in words, he was shaken and perhaps so startled as to almost approach the gates of fright. In any case he stood silent. Mr. Buller, on the other hand, was now lively and alert. The wagon had no sooner floated away from the shore than he felt himself at home. He was upon his favorite element ; water carried no fears for him. He saw that


his friend was perhaps a little ways off from his finest, sharpest shape and thereby judged that he must now step up to such helm as could be had and take charge of the vessel such as it found itself. He stood up and gazed about him.

"Put her across stream!" he shouted; "she can't make headway against this current. Head her to that clump of trees on the other side; the bank is lower there, and we can beach her. Move a little the other way, we must trim boat. Now then, pull on your starboard rein."

In the faint sound of rusting metal the wordless mechanism previously known as Mr. Podington mechanically obeyed, and the horse slightly changed his direction.

"You see," said Buller, "it won't do to sailthe two men stood up in the submerged wagon the water was above their knees. When Podington looked out over the surface of the pond, now so near his face, it seemed like a sheet of water he had never seen before. It was something horrible, threatening to rise and envelop him. He trembled to such a degree he could scarcely keep his footing.

"William," said his companion, "you must sit down; if you don't, you'll tumble overboard and be drowned. There is nothing for you to hold to."

"Sit down," said Podington, gazing blankly at the water around him, "I can't do anything like that!"

At this moment the horse gave a slight start. Having finally touched bottom after his exertions in swimming across the main bed of the stream


with a floating wagon in tow, he had stood for a few moments, his head and neck well above water, his back barely visible beneath the surface, drawing its breath. Having recovered somewhat, he now thought it was time to move on.

At the first step of the horse Mr. Podington began to totter like something about to give under a lot of steam pressure. Instinctively he clutched Buller.

"Sit down!" cried the latter, "or you'll have us both overboard." There was no helping it ; down sat Mr. Podington in the embracing blue, weeping quietly a very short distance, directly into the waterline above the second button of his vest -- likely the shortest trip any tears ever had to travel in this world.

"Ough!" said he after a time.of his pockets, but there was no place to put them anyway, and so he gave them no more consideration. Then bravely getting on his knees in the water, he leaned over the dashboard, almost disappearing from sight. With his disengaged hand Mr. Podington grasped fast at the submerged coat-tails of his friend.

In a few seconds the upper part of Mr. Buller rose from the water. He was dripping and puffing, and Mr. Podington could not but think what a difference it made in the appearance of his friend to have his hair plastered close to his head.

"I got hold of one of them," said the sputtering Buller, "but it was fast to something and I couldn't get it loose."

"Was it thick and wide?" asked Podington.

"Yes," was the


Mr. Buller, who thought they were going to upset; and sometimes they sank into soft mud, horrifying Mr. Podington, who thought they were going to drown. Thus proceeding, they presented an entirely novel sight. At first Mr. Podington held his hands above the water as he drove, but he soon found this awkward, and dropped them to their usual position, so that nothing was visible above the water but the head and neck of a horse and the heads and shoulders of two men, all arranged in such a way as might remind the viewer of a road-borne equipage.

Now the ghost wagon came to a low place in the bottom, and even Mr. Buller shuddered as the water rose to his chin. Podington gave a howling, piercing shriekof horror to make the most accomplished banshee proud. The water stopped, and for a brief moment looked as it was preparing to freeze over. The horse, with high, uplifted head, was obliged to swim. At this moment a boy with a gun came strolling along the road, and hearing Mr. Podington's cry, he cast his eyes over the water. Instinctively he raised his weapon to his shoulder, and then, in an instant, perceiving that the objects he beheld were not aquatic birds, he threw his gun overhead and took to flight, yelling and flailing his arms, his path a succession of elegant arabesque patterns more or less in the approximate direction of the mill.

By good fortune the hollow in the bottom was a narrow one ; once


it was passed the depth of the water monotonically decreased. By and by the back of the horse came into view, then the dashboard became visible, and the bodies as well as the spirits of the two men rapidly rose. Now there was vigorous splashing and tugging, and then a jet black horse, shining as if he had been newly varnished, pulled a dripping wagon containing two well-soaked men upon a shelving shore.

"Oh, I am chilled to the bones!" said Podington.

"I should think so," replied his friend; "if you have got to be wet, it is a great deal pleasanter under the water."

There was a field-road on this side of the pond which Podington well knew, and proceeding along it they came to the bridge and got intoBut be that as it may, he had in any case not forgotten his compact with his friend ; so, in the course of a week upon his return he wrote to Podington, inviting him to spend some days with him. Mr. Podington of course accepted, as he was a man of honor who, in spite of his recent unfortunate water experience, could not break his word, so he duly arrived at Mr. Buller's seaside home at the time appointed.

Early on the morning after his arrival, before the family were up, Mr. Podington went out and strolled down to the edge of the bay. He went specifically to look for Buller's boat. He was well aware that he would be asked to take a sail, and it was


of the horse, who suddenly stopped and gave a start toward the canal. Thereupon, no doubt impressed with a horror of the glaring apparition ever growing in his mind, the poor horse gathered himself up and with a bound dashed forward along the tow-path. The astounded boy gave a shout, but both he and his shout were speedily left behind. The boat of Mr. Buller shot forward as if she had been fired out of the cannon of a larger boat.

The terrified horse sped on as if a red and yellow demon were after him, to gnaw at his very soul and bonemarrow. The boat following close behind bounded, and plunged, and frequently struck the grassy bank of the canal, as if it had no greater aspiration thanby the big cork life-preserver tied under his arms. The motion of the boat was so violent and erratic that he was obliged to hold on to the mast with one arm, and to try to loosen the knot with the other ; but there was a great strain on the rope, and he could do nothing with one hand.

"Cut it! Cut it!" cried Mr. Buller.

Mr. Podington shuffled through his pockets for a while, in a complicated dance with the life preserver apparently bent on blocking all access. Eventually he produced a tiny folding knife, which he nearly lost out of his hand twice while trying to get open with only one hand ; at length he attempted to apply the blade upon the taut tow-line, but if


his rate of progress was anything at all then in all certainty cutting clear through the whole thing would have taken upwards of three weeks -- nor did he seem to always be applying the blade upon the same place on the rope. As hopeless as it proceeded, the matter was laid to rest more definitively in short order, when a particular jerk of the boat so pushed the rope as to fling the little tool clearly out of his hand ; with a barely audible (or perhaps merely imagined) "plop!" it was gone for good.

Mr. Buller was well touched ; his boat was cutting through the water at a rate no vessel of her class had seen since sail-boats were first invented, and bumping against the bankas if trying to learn the finer points of billiards. He forgot he was in a boat; he only knew that for the first time in his life he was in a runaway. He let go the tiller. It was of no use to him.

"William," he cried, "let us jump out the next time we are near enough to shore!"

"Don't do that! Don't do that!" replied Podington. "Don't jump out in a runaway; that is the main way to get hurt. Stick to your seat, my boy; he can't keep this up much longer. He'll lose his wind!"

Mr. Podington was also greatly touched, but not in the exact manner Buller was. He had been in a runaway before, and he could not help thinking how much better a


wagon was than a boat for such an activity. The boat did not really offer nearly enough friction ; the horse would have been long exhausted if any wheels had been involved at all.

"If he were hitched up closer and I had a snaffle-bit and a stout pair of reins," thought he, "I could soon bring him up."

Mr. Buller on the other hand was rapidly losing his composure. The horse seemed to be going faster than ever. The boat bumped harder and harder against the bank, and at one time Buller thought they could actually turn over. Suddenly a thought struck him.

"William," he shouted, "tip that anchor over the side! Throw it in, any way!"

Mr. Podington looked about him, and, almost under his feet, saw the anchor. Hedid not instantly comprehend why Buller wanted it thrown overboard, but this was not a time to ask questions. The difficulties imposed by the life-preserver, and the necessity of holding on with one hand, interfered very much with his getting at the anchor and throwing it over the side, but at last he succeeded, and just as the boat threw up her bow as if she were about to jump on shore, the anchor went out and its line shot after it. There was an irregular trembling of the boat as the anchor struggled along the bottom of the canal; then there was a great shock; the boat ran lightly into the bank and stopped there ; the tow-line was tightened like a string, giving out a one


note dirge, and the horse, jerked back with great violence, came tumbling in a heap upon the ground.

Instantly Mr. Podington was on the shore and running at the top of his speed toward the horse. The astounded animal had scarcely begun to struggle to his feet when Podington rushed upon him, pressed his head back to the ground, and sat upon it.

"Hurrah!" he cried, waving his hat above his head. "Get out, get out at your leisure Buller. He is all right now!"

Presently Mr. Buller approached, somewhat shaken up.

"All right?" he said. "I never thought to call a horse flat in the road with a man seated on his head all right before ; but hold him down 'till we get him loose from whatever's left of myboat. That is the thing to do. William, cast him loose from the boat before you let him up! What will he do when he gets up?"

"Oh. he'll be quiet enough when he gets up," said Podington, patting the horse on the side of his neck. "If you've got a knife you can cut his traces -- I mean that rope -- but no, you needn't. Here comes the boy. We'll settle this business in very short order now."

When the horse was on his feet again, and all connection between the wild animal and the peacible sailboat had been undone, Mr. Podington gazed critically upon his friend.

"Thomas," said he, "you seem to have had a rough time of it. Somewhere you must've lost your hat, and otherwise you


be leaking, but not very badly, and when her mast had been unshipped and everything had been made tight and right on board, she was pulled out of the way of tow-lines and boats, and made fast until she could be sent for from the town.

Mr. Buller and Mr. Podington started upon their trek back home. They had not yet gone very far when they met a party of boys, who, upon seeing them, burst into unseemly laughter.

"Mister," cried one of them, "you needn't be afraid of tumbling into the canal. Why don't you take off your life-preserver and let the other man put it on his head?"

The two friends looked at each other and, after a brief moment could not help joining in the laughter of thein a foundered road-wagon."

The man looked at him fixedly for a second.

"Was you ever caught in quick-sand with your balloon?" he asked.

"Not yet," replied Mr. Buller.

It required ten days to put Mr. Buller's sailboat into proper condition, and for ten days Mr. Podington stayed with his friend, his wife, and his wife. He enjoyed his visit very much. They strolled on the beach, they took long walks in the back country, they fished from the end of a pier, they smoked, they talked, they did it all and they were happy, and content.

"Thomas," said Mr. Podington, on the last evening of his stay, "I have enjoyed myself very much since I have been down here, and now, Thomas, if I were to come down again next summer, would


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The Norton Shores Police Department is investigating a missing person which occurred in late evening hours of April 26, 2013 at the Exxon Mobil gas station located at 1196 E. Sternberg Rd.

At approximately 11:15 pm NSPD officers were dispatched to the gas station on a suspicious activity report. Customers called 911 after entering the store to find no employees present. The employee scheduled to be working, Jessica Heeringa, was not able to be located.

Contact has been made with friends and family of 25 year old Jessica Heeringa but as of April 27, 2013 at 2:00 pm Jessica has not been located.

Jessica is described as a white female, 25 years old, 5’1 tall, approximately 110 lbs., blond shoulder length hair, and blue eyes. Jessica is also known to wearEmerging Talent Alert: Korveil Releases His Latest Song, Feeling Alive, Now Available on All Major Retailers

Singer, songwriter and producer from Chicago, Korveil, proudly releases his latest hot dance record, Feeling Alive. A feel good song that perfectly blends pop vocals and EDM energy, Feeling Alive is bound to become a big hit in the music charts and place Korveil as one of the most promising emerging talents in the music industry.

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Volodymyr Zelensky, an actor who's running for president in Ukraine, led in two polls conducted in early February, ahead of the country's presidential election on March 31.

Zelensky, 41, stars in "Servant of the People," a TV show where he plays a teacher who is elected president of Ukraine.

Though Zelensky has no political experience, he has described himself as "very liberal" and said he would speak directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in eastern Ukraine.

A comedian who plays Ukraine's president on TV is running for president in the country and led in two polls conducted earlier this month.

Volodymyr Zelensky, 41, stars in "Servant of the People," a TV show where he plays a history teacher who is elected president of Ukraine after his anti-corruption rant goesviral, NBC News reported.

Zelensky, who has no political experience, had the largest share of support among respondents in a poll conducted earlier this month by Ukraine's Razumkov Center, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency said. The country's presidential election is set for March 31.

The poll found that 17.5% of respondents would vote for Zelensky, while 13.1% would vote for the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko, and 11.5% for former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Another poll from early February, by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, also found higher support for Zelensky than for Poroshenko or Tymoshenko.

Zelensky has described himself as "very liberal," NBC News reported. Bloomberg said he launched his populist campaign on January 1 "to coincide with the president's New Year's address."

Read more: The US Navy has sent another ship into the


Black Sea, where Ukraine is preparing for another Russian attack

Zelensky, also a lawyer and businessman, has a unique approach to campaigning. NBC News said he doesn't hold rallies but sells tickets to comedy gigs in which he parodies his competition and shares "behind-the-scenes campaign videos" on Facebook and YouTube.

If he is elected president, Zelensky will face ongoing tensions with Russia, which annexed Crimea in 2014, as well as a crumbling economy and widespread corruption, NBC News reported. Zelensky has also said he would speak directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in eastern Ukraine.

And Zelensky said in December that wouldn't oppose negotiating with US President Donald Trump, joking that they "are both from the same industry after all," according to NBC News.

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after diplomacy and economic sanctions — and even the latter would be used sparingly.

Rather than using military power in a vain attempt to export democracy by force into countries that are unreceptive to it, as the United States did in Iraq and Libya, Trump said America should promote its values through leading by example.

This is smart, practical policy.

Democracy takes root when people in a country support it, rather than having it shoved down their throats at gunpoint. In only four out of 18 attempts since 1900 has the forcible US export of democracy succeeded.

In contrast, at the end of the Cold War the United States inspired the countries of Eastern and Central Europe to democratize from their communist past.

Both the Bush and Obama administrations tried to impose democracyon other nations — Iraq and Libya, respectively — using military power and nation-building, and we are now stuck bandaging the resulting hemorrhages.

This interventionist approach sparked chaos in the Middle East and allowed the terror group ISIS to fill the vacuum.

Trump sees this reality and is right to commit his presidency to a more restrained, prudent approach to foreign intervention.

Echoing the traditional, less-interventionist US foreign policy that was the norm before the Cold War, Trump affirmed the United States would “not go in search of enemies.” This more restrained foreign policy served the nation well from its birth in the late 1700s to 1947, when it began to police the world.

During this period, the United States had few costly foreign wars — and in the ones that it


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When the forward momentum of the scooter is very high, it may continue forwardly instead of turning with the wheel, and crimp the front wheel in a non-rotating, turned position, typically causing the scooteron the turnable handlebar post above the mounting tube on the front of the body, supporting the handlebar rotatably on the body, and on the mounting sleeve itself. These attachments are preferably tubular sleeves, each of which is longitudinally split or divided on one side for ease of mounting on the post and the mounting sleeve, and each preferably having a snap-locking, channel-shaped xe2x80x9ckeeperxe2x80x9d that fits over outwardly extending ribs along the splits to hold the attachments securely in place. Both of the attachments and keepers may be relatively hard plastic such as polypropylene.
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It is now obvious that increasing inequality, stagnant real incomes of working people and the increasing material fragility of daily life have all played roles in creating a strong sense of dissatisfaction among ordinary people in the rich countries. While even the poor amongst them still continue to be hugely better off than the vast majority of people in the developing world, their own perceptions are quite different, and they increasingly see themselves as the victims of globalisation.

But while this is increasingly recognised, the full extent of recent economic trends is probably less well known. A new


report from the McKinsey Global Institute (“Poorer Than Their Parents? Flat or falling incomes in advanced economies”, July 2016) brings out in detail how the past decade in particular has been significantly worse for many people in the developed world.

The report is based on a study of income distribution data from 25 developed countries; a detailed dataset with more information on 350,000 people from France, Italy and the United States and the UK; and a survey of 6,000 people from France, the United Kingdom and the United States that also checked for perceptions about the evolution of their incomes.

The results are probably not surprising in terms of the basic trends identified, but the sheer extent of the change and the deterioration in incomes still comes as a surprise.In 25 advanced economies, between 65 and 70 percent of households (amounting to around 540- 580 million people) were in segments of the income that experienced flat or falling incomes between 2005 and 2014. By contrast, in the previous period between 1993 and 2005, less than 2 percent (fewer than ten million people) faced flat or falling incomes.

The situation was much worse in particular countries. In Italy, a whopping 97 per cent of the population had stagnant or declining real incomes between 2005 and 2014, while the ratios were 81 per cent for the United States and 70 per cent in the United Kingdom. This refers to market incomes, and it is true that government tax and transfer policies can change the final disposable income of households, in


policies that have resulted in declining wage shares of national income. The report notes that from 1970 to 2014 – with the brief exception of a spike during the 1973–74 oil crisis – the average wage share across the 6 countries studied in depth (United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden) fell by 5 percentage points. In the most extreme case of the United Kingdom, it declined by 13 percentage points. These declines in wage shares occurred despite increases in labour productivity, as the productivity gains were either grabbed by employers or passed on in the form of lower prices to maintain external competitiveness.

Such declining wage shares are commonly seen to be the result of globalisation and technological changes that have led to changing patternsJames McCartney @ The Open Chord

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Following the release of his second album The Blackberry Train in 2016, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter James McCartney is set to tour the US in 2017.

James has built a robust international profile through tirelessly touring the UK, Europe and the US, including a sold out three show residency at The Islington in London. Having gained critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and The Daily News, James toured the US in 2016 playing 44 shows in 25 states in just over 6 weeks.

James released his first full-length album Me in 2013, describing it as an, Intimate, deeply personal, and honest album that would say, This is who I am both musically and personally. Since then, James has remained fiercely dedicated to his


musical vision of melding smart hooks and feral alt-rock with the grandeur and spiritually centeredness of psychedelic music.

The Blackberry Train, engineered by Steve Albini (Nirvana, The Pixies and PJ Harvey), is both a diverse and cohesive album with an eclectic mix of delicately crafted songs. It opens with the jangling rocker, 'Too Hard' which features Dhani Harrison on guitar and vocals and closes with the aptly named folk song 'Peace and Stillness'. The album blends indie-rock, alt-rock, feel-good music, great melodies and catchy hooks. Highlights include the rough-edged and urgently melodic Unicorn', the anthemic 'Peyote Coyote', and the soulful ballad Prayer'. One very personal song is the winsome and reflective Waterfall' which was inspired by memories of his mother.

I like the music to have elements of the avant-garde,doctor's lips in private conversation.
In all medical jurisprudence there are few problems which have deserved and received more concentrated attention than the protection of the personal information which a patient remits to his physician. This relationship "is one of trust and confidence. It is submitted that the best interest of the patient is served in trusting his welfare to the skill and industry of his physician." Regan, Doctor and Patient and the Law, 113 (1956). To foster the best interest of the patient and to insure a climate most favorable to a complete recovery, men of medicine have urged that patients be totally frank in their discussions with their physicians. To encourage the desired candor, men of law have formulated a strong policy of confidentiality to assure patients


of medical confidences gained while attending the patient  when not made in the course of his professional duty  is a plain violation of medical ethics and professional propriety, but the physician-patient privilege statute does not prescribe a rule of conduct for the government of physicians in their general intercourse with society. Therefore, if the physician, disregarding the ethical duty of secrecy, should, in conversation or otherwise, reveal the intimate confidences of the patient, he would not violate the statute however reprehensible his conduct would be. As far as the statute goes, the physician may talk about the ailments of the patient from New York to San Francisco and to every Tom, Dick and Harry on the street or in his club, since the statute merely permitsthe role of vice president of sales for the Americas. Formerly of Cisco, Todd has extensive experience in the video software and encoding industries and will help bring Elemental solutions for unified infrastructure to pay TV operators and other service providers in North and South America.

With 42 matches down - including the heart-pounding excitement of last night’s historic win for South Africa – attention to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 is growing as the knock-out rounds continue ahead of the March 29 final on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Highest scorers in the intense six-week, 49-match global competition include the likes of Kumar Sangakkara, Brendan Taylor and Ab De Villiers with 496, 433 and 417 runs respectively. From an advanced technology and enhanced fan experience perspective, Tata Sky is


Airport, with transportation for runners provided free of charge from NAB Show hotels.

The inaugural 4K run took place at the IBC Show in Amsterdam and there was so much positive feedback organizers decided to bring it to NAB. The event is co-founded by Elemental Technologies and Ericsson and co-sponsored by Akamai Technologies, Aspera, an IBM company, Dolby Laboratories and Verimatrix, with supporting sponsorship from ChyronHego, DTS and EVS. Newbay Media, TV Technology’s parent company, is a media sponsor.

The IBC run raised more than $23,000 for Oxfam International and organizers are hoping for an even bigger event, commensurate with the size of the show. Proceeds from the run will go to Heifer International, an organization that helps link communities and bring sustainable agriculture and commerce to areas with apast years. With several events planned, it will culminate in a conference on the environment where several guest speakers will give talks in their field. I am very excited to meet previous volunteers, to share experiences with them and to have a good time.

The past week has been spent organising and preparing for the annual Akranes Day of Nations organised by the New Icelanders Foundation. It was fantastic to see the cultural diversity of a population as small as Iceland’s, and to taste the foods from as far afield as India, Hungary, Nigeria and Palestine. The event was a great success. We represented Seeds with information on our work through the summer, and with foods from our countries. I chose to hold a vote with the visiting public


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A judge ruled on Friday that a 23-year-old student can be extradited to the United States for running a website posting links to pirated TV shows and films, despite significant doubts over whether such sites break any UK laws.

The ruling threw Britain's contentious extradition treaty with the US, which critics allege is greatly biased against UK nationals fighting their removal to America, under further scrutiny. It came just hours after a businessman from Kent lost an appeal against the decision that he should be sent for trial in Texas for allegedly plotting to send missile components to Iran.

Richard O'Dwyer, a computing student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces a potential 10-year term in a US jail despite never having been to America or using web servers based in theknew was profiting from pirated material.

At its peak, TVShack was among the 1,800 most visited websites in the world, the court heard, bringing O'Dwyer advertising revenue of £15,000 per month. When US customs agents seized the site in 2010 it was replaced immediately with a slightly different domain name – and the addition on the front page of a rap video called Fuck Tha Police. O'Dwyer, who was bailed, said outside court: "I am obviously disappointed with the judge's decision today. I think I have got faith in the high court for making the right decision."

He said the website had "helped me no end with my studies" and said when he first set it up he "didn't even think it would get that popular, to be honest".

The second


case concerns Christopher Tappin, a 64-year-old golf club president from Orpington. He admits arranging the shipment of batteries that can be used in Hawk air defence missiles, but insists he had no idea about their eventual destination.

His extradition was ordered last February, even though Tappin's lawyers claim he was the victim of a sting by US agents, who told him they would arrange the necessary export licenses.

Tappin, who said he made around £300 from the deal, appealed against the decision. Two high court judges dismissed this on Friday. "Entrapment, as far as I can see, is simply unsustainable on the facts as alleged in the request," their ruling said.

The best known case thrown up by the extradition treaty concerns Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker who has spent yearsfighting his removal to the US.

Opponents of the current arrangements, including many MPs, say the fact US prosecutors do not need to present prima facie evidence to gain extradition makes it too easy for British nationals to be sent over, where they often spend long periods in jail before trial.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has faced criticism for perceived overreach in targeting websites, like TVShack, with no direct US link.

In July the agency's assistant deputy director told the Guardian that ICE would now actively pursue websites similar to TVShack even if their only connection to the US was a website address ending in .com or .net.

Such suffixes are routed through Verisign, an internet infrastructure company based in Virginia, which the agency believes is sufficient to


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Park rangers are warning visitors to Tobyhanna State Park or to the nearby state game lands to call 911 if they see anything metal-looking while walking in the park.

Tobyhanna State Park and the state game lands to the west of the park used to be the site of an artillery range.

It hasn't been used for that since the end of World War II, but there are still live artillery shells inside the park.

That's why a special crew of people come back every year to find the shells andthen detonate them.

Every spring for the past 15 years the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has come to Tobyhanna State Park with metal detectors in hand.

They are not looking for buried treasure but rather buried artillery shells that never exploded.

"During World War I and through World War II, the Army trained here and this was a former artillery range," explained Mary Holmes of the U.S. Corps of Engineers.

Since the late 1990s 2,800 unexploded artillery shells have been found and 300,000 pounds of debris from exploded shells recovered.

Some of the shells have been disarmed, however most of the shells found there are destroyed.

"Last year was one of the biggest years of recovering munitions and debris. Last year they pulled out 1,900 UXO (unexploded ordnance)and around 240,000 pounds of munition


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A kayaker got quite a fright during a trip with colleagues when a seal suddenly emerged from the water and slapped him in the face with an octopus.

The double-whammy was recently captured on a GoPro off the coast of Kaikoura, on New Zealand's South Island.

Kyle Mulinder said he was paddling with several others when the sassy seal appeared out of nowhere.

The group of content creators were out testing their new GoPro HERO7, when fellow peer Taiyo Masuda caught the moment Mr Mulinder was caught between the vicious sea life battle.

'We were just sitting out in the middle of the ocean and then this huge male seal appeared with an octopus and he was thrashing him about for ages,' Mr Mulinder told Yahoo7 News.

The seal dipped back underwater beforeCBS News White House Correspondent Abby D. Phillips received another tape from Omarosa Manigault Newman of a conference call with Katrina Pierson and Lynne Patton, two black Trump aides, and campaign communications director Jason Miller. They are heard allegedly discussing the ‘n’ word incident.

The phantom ‘n’ tape is discussed in Manigault’s new book, Unhinged, published by Simon and Schuster which is owned by CBS.

Omarosa was interviewed on CBS This Morning Tuesday about the latest tape. She said she has been taping right through the campaign to the day the President called her after she was fired. She added she did it because everyone lies in the Trump Campaign. When pressed, Omarosa said everyone lied in the Clinton campaign too.

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Lynne Patton is the first to respond to


promptly do the same before the audio surfaced.

The next morning, I immediately notified senior communications officials and a Trump family member of the same, only to discover the true nature of her departure was termination.

Today, the individual who Omarosa confirmed to me as having played the second-hand audio recording to her last year confirmed that they have no tape, never had possession of a tape, never claimed to have possession of a tape and never played such a tape for Ms. Manigault-Newman.

Tonight, on the MSNBC program, Hardball, Omarosa revealed to the general public what she had told me last December: That former Apprentice producer, Bill Pruitt, was the original source of the “N-word” tape.

Bill Pruitt is a mutual friend.

I just spoke to Bill Pruitt tonight before releasing thisSinclair Jenkins, American Renaissance, May 23, 2018

Martin Bossenbroek, The Boer War, Seven Stories Press, 2018, 464 pp., $24.00.

The Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) was a tragedy — even a “white-on-white crime.” The world’s greatest military power, the British Empire, waged war on a force of 60,000 South African Boer militiamen. Haughty British officers who had won renown fighting the Pathans in the Northwest Frontier or Madhi fanatics in Sudan thought the Boers were a similarly uncouth force that could never defeat a professional British Army. The initial successes of the Boers proved them wrong, and the British should have known better. During the First Boer War of 1880 to 1881, the South African Republic (also known as the Transvaal) and the Orange Free State won the right to self


rule without interference from Cape Town, the base of British operations in South Africa.

As the Dutch historian Martin Bossenbroek explains in The Boer War, the second conflict was largely an attempt by the British to win control over the natural resources of the South African Republic. After the discovery of gold in Witwatersrand in 1885, the city of Johannesburg sprung up almost overnight. It became a boom town right out of the American Wild West, with bordellos and gambling dens. President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic and his fellow Boers despised Johannesburg and the foreigners who were drawn to it by the gold rush. Kruger, Prof. Bossenbroek writes, was a veld-bred farmer who came from the proud Voortrekker and epitomized Old Testament zeal.

Johannesburg reminded Boers ofwhat they had left behind when they trekked out of Cape Colony in 1835. The liberty-loving Boers — a mix of Dutch, Huguenot, German, and Portuguese — resisted when the British first declared the Cape a “protectorate” before soon turning it into a colony. Boers moved eastward into the high veld, defeated several African tribes, and established the two republics — the South African Republic and the Orange Free State — that Britain sought to dominate in the war of 1899.

The Boer War is a wonderful throwback to the days of heroic history. First published in Dutch in 2012 and only recently translated into English, it divides the story into three parts. The first sets the scene with an account of South African politics and economics. The chief


character is Cecil Rhodes, the brilliant mining magnate who established the colony of Rhodesia and envisioned all of South Africa as a British confederation. The Boers stood in the way of this Cape-to-Cairo vision.

The second part is about the war. It is filled with tales of battle, commando raids, and guerrilla warfare, and takes as its main character the former British Army officer and war correspondent Winston Churchill. Prof. Bossenbroek provides details about the divisions within the British Army (mainly between officers from the “Indian” vs. “the African” services) and about divisions within the Boer camp.

The final section deals with the guerrilla phase of the war. When the British could not decisively defeat the highly mobile and well-armed Boer commandos, they put Boer women and children in concentrationcamps so as to deprive the men of the support they needed. These filthy, disease-ridden camps became the great scandal of the early 20th century; today it is thought that some 26,000 inmates died. Despite this cruelty, some Boers fought alongside the British during the First World War.

It is easy for Americans to identify with the Boers. Like the whites of North America, they are an ethnic hodgepodge, united by their Christian faith and shared experiences in the wilderness. In 1899, they wanted to be left alone in their republics; millions of white Americans feel the same way today.

Britain justified meddling in Boer affairs because of the non-Boer immigrants — mostly British — who rushed into the Transvaal during the gold rush. By the late 1890s, the Uitlanders,


as the Afrikaners called them, were a majority in the cities of the Transvaal. Before long, these economic immigrants demanded voting rights and legal protection, but the South African Republic would not treat them like Boer citizens. Uitlanders then organized political action committees and even tried sabotage. In 1895, in one of the most disgraceful episodes in British imperial history, Cecil Rhodes tried to foment an Uitlander revolt that would give the British an excuse the come to the rescue of their persecuted citizens and take over the goldfields. The Jameson Raid of 1895 failed to stir up the expected rebellion, but was a sign of how seriously the British coveted South African resources.

Today, Mexico justifies agitating for anti-white, pro-Hispanic causes by claiming it is protecting its citizens.Africa has spiraled into a chaos of corruption, rape, and murder. The commandos of 1900 could have predicted the consequences of black rule.

The Boer War makes for grim reading, but the conflict it describes was fought in an age of true manliness. Readers will be moved by the audacity and courage of both the British and the Boers.

It is terrible that the great British Empire that conquered Africa and India and established Singapore and Hong Kong arrayed its forces against the tiny but resolute republics of the Boers. These two people should never have fought each other. The Boer War is yet another warning to our people: European brotherhood and the future of the West are far more important than any temporary conflict or disagreement.


In Europe, the European Network of Smoke-free Hospitals (ENSH) has developed an European Code that sets guidelines for the establishment of smoke-free policies in hospitals since 2000 \[[@B9]\]. Furthermore, the ENSH has developed standards and supportive instruments to assist hospitals\' efforts towards the attainment of a comprehensive smoke-free policy \[[@B5],[@B10]\].

The Catalan Network of Smoke-free Hospitals has used the ENSH model to promote smoke-free hospitals in Catalonia, Spain \[[@B5]\]. The national government of Spain passed a new tobacco control law that came into force the first of January 2006 \[[@B11]\]. Smoking was banned in all enclosed public places and workplaces, including health care facilities \[[@B12]\]. Smoking in care centres was already prohibited under both national and regional previous legislation in Catalonia \[[@B13]\], although smoking rooms and smoking areas withinin 2005, 32 (74.4%) satisfied this criterion, and were included in the study. The baseline survey was run in April 2005, six months before implementing the law, and the second one a year and four months after its implementation in April 2007.

The degree of implementation of the Smoke-free Hospitals Project was analysed by means of the Self-Audit Questionnaire (SAQ) of the European Network for Smoke-free Hospitals. The SAQ enables hospitals to monitor and review their own progress towards the achievement of a written smoke-free policy that ensures the attainment of a totally smoke-free environment. The SAQ is also a tool to acknowledge and reward continuous improvement by facilitating hospitals to categorize their progress. This instrument was developed to analyse the extent to which tobacco control measures are complied


billion people aged 35 years or older are affected by near-vision impairment due to uncorrected presbyopia. The interval improvement (in terms of a reduction in prevalence of distance vision impairment) since 1990 and 2010, after accounting for population growth and ageing, suggests that investments made in the alleviation of vision impairment during this period have reaped considerable dividends. Such dividends would include improvements in quality of life, and large economic benefits as people work rather than living with unnecessary disability. Yet the growth and change in age structure of the world's population is causing a substantial increase in the number of people with blindness and vision impairment, which appears to be accelerating. This finding highlights the need to scale up our current efforts at global, regional, and countryand then continuing by 5-year age bands until a final age band of older than 80 years. Observations that covered wider age bands were incorporated by population-weighted averaging. For example, for a study reporting prevalence for ages 35–44 years, the model's predicted estimates for 35–39 years and 40–44 years were averaged on the basis of the appropriate country-year population distribution, and this average was then linked to the observed prevalence.

To estimate the prevalence of near vision impairment due to uncorrected presbyopia (functional presbyopia), we included studies in which presbyopia was defined as presenting near vision worse than N6 or N8 at 40 cm, regardless of distance refractive status. For broad estimates of vision impairment, including both distance and near presenting impairment, we only included data from people whose


blindness and moderate and severe vision impairment to mild, moderate, and severe vision impairment ( appendix 1 ), and applied the logistic regressions to each sampled prediction drawn from the Bayesian posterior, thus obtaining a set of samples of mild, moderate, and severe vision impairment by country–year–age–sex group. To obtain global and regional estimates, we calculated the means and the tenth and 90th percentiles of the posterior uncertainty intervals for each country prediction, age, and sex, then we combined these, weighting each country prediction by its population in the relevant age–sex category. We also reported age-standardised estimates using the WHO reference population,and the raw numbers of people with vision impairment by category. We calculated trends of age-standardised vision impairment by world region, with UIs, by calculating the differenceprevalence occurred in North Africa and the Middle East and south Asia (≥0·7 percentage points), and in the same two regions plus the GBD super-region of southeast Asia, east Asia, and Oceania for moderate and severe vision impairment (all experienced declines of at least 1·3 percentage points).

The age-standardised prevalence of blindness in older adults was highest, exceeding 7% in Afghanistan, then Ethiopia, Yemen, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger ( appendix 2 ). The highest age-standardised prevalence of moderate and severe vision impairment, which exceeded 21% in the older adult population, was in Afghanistan, Nepal, Eritrea, Turkey, Laos, Pakistan, and Myanmar ( appendix 2 ).

More women than men had vision impairment. When controlling for age, within the constraints of residual confounding due to longer survival of women and hence over-representation


61 new studies reporting distance vision impairment to the Global Vision Database, the dataset that underpins these analyses. Several principal investigators have contributed more disaggregated data than was available in their previous publications, which have been added to the Global Vision Database. Additionally, the expansion of Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness population-based eye surveys and the recently created online repository for these data have been a valuable contribution and resource for the Global Vision Database. Most studies that were newly added originated from east Asia, south Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and east sub-Saharan Africa, whereas only a few new studies came from high-income North America, Latin America, Europe, and Australasia. In view of all available data, gaps are still present for central and southern Sub-SaharanDeputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference on efforts to reduce transnational crime at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia on October 15, 2018 in Washington, DC. Jeff Sessions said he designated five groups, including Hezbollah and MS-13, as transnational criminal organizations to be targeted. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Rosenstein Agrees to Testify Before House Committee

House lawmakers leading the Judiciary–Oversight task force scheduled an Oct. 24 interview with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to a press release from Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)

Rosenstein, under oath, will answer questions from the committee, which expects to release a transcript of the proceeding once it is vetted by the Intelligence Community to protect classified information.

“The interview will be conducted in a secure setting so all


prior to the cancellation, The Washington Post published an article that backed the allegations that Rosenstein discussed recording the president. The Post article is based on a leak from the same joint committee that Rosenstein was scheduled to testify before.

According to the leak, the source of which isn’t named, former FBI general counsel James Baker told lawmakers in a closed-door interview that he learned of Rosenstein’s proposal to record the president second-hand and believed that Rosenstein was serious about the suggestion.

The joint committee limited the number of lawmakers who could attend the Baker interview. The Democrats notified only members of the judiciary committee, with members of the government oversight committee only learning of the interview after it took place. The Republicans limited attendance to three members of eachcommittee. Gaetz learned of the interview only after it occurred.

Aside from questions about the alleged plan to record Trump, Goodlatte and Gowdy are expected to quiz Rosenstein on matters related to the investigation of the Trump campaign.

On Oct. 16, Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, refused to testify and invoked his constitutional protections against self-incrimination.

Fusion GPS commissioned and disseminated the infamous Steele dossier, which consists of unverified claims about Trump. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for the dossier, which was then used by the FBI as a pretext to spy on former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

The committee has also conducted a follow-up with Baker and heard from former Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr, in


he has since been fired from that role. He also taught at Suzuki earlier this year as part of a long-term occasional assignment with the Peel District School Board.

He declined to comment on the accusations against him, but did say his appearance at the St. Roch practices was strictly as a U of T coach and recruiter. He is now teaching at Glenforest Secondary School.

An article from canadafootballchat.com on Oct. 5 listed Gallimore as a defensive coach with Suzuki.

However, Crabbe says Gallimore’s involvement with the team was “almost nothing.” Anyone who wants to watch a ROPSSAA football game on the sidelines has to be on a game sheet for liability purposes, which is why Gallimore is listed, even though Crabbe claims his role was minimal.

“He hasn’t been toa practice, game, team event, anything like that in well over a month,” said Crabbe, adding the team had no knowledge of him going to the St. Roch practices.

“At the very most, he attended maybe three practices in September to check up on guys and talk to players.”

Suzuki won the ROPSSAA senior tier II championship last year and stepped up to play in the tier I division this year.

The win against St. Roch would have given them a 3-2-1 record to set up a playoff game against top-ranked St. Marcellinus on Thursday, Nov. 9. St. Roch (5-1) had clinched a playoff spot before their game against Suzuki and has a semi final scheduled against visiting Lorne Park on Thursday.

Since Monday, there have been many players, faculty and parents


enrolled in Uganda and Tanzania, using a stratified, multistage sampling design with five strata in each country (one municipality, two district towns, two rural areas). Consenting adults were interviewed using an adapted version of the WHO STEPS questionnaire (WHO 2008) about their disease history and treatment seeking behaviours with regards to selected non communicable diseases and HIV infection, after which they were physically examined to determine the prevalence of these conditions and of CD risk factors.

For the health facility survey, a quantitative cross-sectional study of a representative sample of public and not-for-profit health facilities in urban and rural Uganda and Tanzania, including a total of eight hospitals, and 20 middle and 24 small sized health facilities, was carried out using an adapted version of the WHO SARA instrumentnamely: residents of study area, people who were knowledgeable about CDs based on their personal experience with CDs, including those who had suffered or cared for people with CDs, or who knew people with CDs. Similarly, the initial set of FGD participant names in Uganda was obtained through local council leaders, who again represent the lowest administrative unit. The Ugandan social science team asked the local council leader to identify the people who were residents in their areas. All the participants for the FGDs were to be persons aged 18 years or above. For IDIs, 116 participants were selected through simple random sampling from the population survey participants, and this sample included 46 individuals with and 70 without CDs. Few of the affected participants had more than one


guides. For Uganda, these guides were translated into Luganda while for Tanzania they were translated into Kiswahili. These are the languages spoken and understood by the majority of the people in the study areas.

Contact information of eligible IDI participants was obtained from the database established by the population survey. Community leaders together with population survey interviewers acting as tracers helped social scientists to identify the physical address (streets and households) of selected participants. They were contacted, and appointments for IDIs or FGDs given to consenting participants.

To facilitate coding and analysis of data, all audio files with IDIs and FGDs were transcribed and translated from Kiswahili or Luganda to English. The translated texts were thematically coded using NVivo 9 Software (QSR International, Doncaster Victoria, Australia) to manage the coding.choices.

Most of the participants from IDIs and FGDs who reported that they were aware of their CD status were those suffering from \`hypertension'. This finding reflects data collected during the population survey, which indicated that hypertension was by far the most prevalent CD in both countries, with rates of about 23% in Uganda and 17% in Tanzania within the study populations\[[@pone.0142194.ref047], [@pone.0142194.ref048]\]. However, of 46 IDI participants, who had been diagnosed with a CD and had been notified about their CD status during the population survey (which had taken place about three months before the interview), 20 (43%) did not mention having received this information when interviewed during the IDI. This discrepancy was strongest amongst participants with stigmatized conditions such as HIV and those who had earlier reported


to construct a bridge, improve a campground, build a "helispot" for helicopter landings, and relocate sections of trail in the Entiat Ranger District of the Wenatchee National Forest. This controversial project would allow off-road vehicles ("ORVs")specifically, motorcyclesto access an area of the Lower Mad River Trail from Maverick Saddle in the first week of June, rather than in the third or fourth week. It would also result in the continued increase of motorized traffic throughout the numerous ORV trail systems connected in one way or another to the Mad River system.
At present, ORVs cannot cross the Mad River at the Maverick Saddle ford in early June due to high water. As a result, the area is only easily accessible from Maverick Saddle during that period to hikers whoRiver project is physically connected to another project currently in the EA phase, the Goose-Maverick ORV Tie Trail project. The Goose-Maverick project proposes to create an ORV bypass trail connecting the Mad River trail system to the nearby Goose Creek trail system. Goose-Maverick is merely the most recent incarnation of a project that was derailed by previous NEPA litigation, with one significant difference: parts of it have now been shifted into the Mad River Project.
In 1997, the Forest Service distributed an EA for the first incarnation of the Goose-Maverick ORV Tie Trail project. (AR at 1900-2016). The project contained substantially the same trail design as that envisioned by the current Goose-Maverick ORV Tie Trail EA, except that it also included the Maverick Saddle Bridge. (See AR at 3320-87).
On


the basis of the 1997 EA for the Goose-Maverick project, the Forest Service entered a Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact ("FONSI") and notice of decision to proceed with the tie-trail project, including the Maverick Saddle Bridge. (AR at 2041-56). Soon after the entry of the 1997 EA, and following a failed administrative appeal, the plaintiffs in the case now before the Courtaccompanied by a number of other environmental groupsfiled suit under the APA to enjoin the completion of the Goose-Maverick project as: (1) an abuse of agency discretion; (2) arbitrary and capricious; and (3) a violation of NEPA.
According to the plaintiffs, the agency had performed an inadequate study of the impacts of the project on non-motorized users and area wildlife. Plaintiffs also argued that thehad demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable injury combined with a probability of success on the merits with respect to the question of whether the Forest Service's reliance on the February 1997 EA violated NEPA. According to the Court, "the Forest Service acted arbitrarily or capriciously by (1) failing to address the cumulative environmental impacts on the ORV trail system of this Project and two other proposals tied to the ORV trail system, and (2) failing to consider the Project's effect of wildlife outside of the narrowly defined `project area.'" Id. at 1196.
Following Judge Rothstein's ruling, the agency stipulated that it would withdraw approval of the Goose-Maverick ORV Tie Trail project, and that there was "no longer an active dispute between the parties concerning the subject matter of the


lawsuit." Accordingly, the case was dismissed. (Dkt.# 18, Ex. A).
After the dismissal of North Cascades Conservation Council, the Forest Service returned to work on the Goose-Maverick project. However, it shifted the disputed Maverick Saddle bridge proposal (among the most contentious aspects of the first lawsuit) from the Goose-Maverick ORV Tie Trail project to the more innocuous Mad River Trail Project, which contained elements that would actually reduce the environmental impacts of ORVs. (See AR at 2935) (Mad River EA).
In 2003, the Forest Service also completed two new Biological Assessments addressing the impact of the Mad River Trail project on endangered, threatened, and sensitive species. The first Biological Assessment examined the impact of the proposed project on terrestrial species. (AR at 2619-37). The second addressed key fish species in2004, the agency entered a FONSI based on the Mad River Trail Project EA. According to the Forest Service, ORV use in the area has not resulted in significant impacts to the environment. On the basis of the Biological Assessments, the Forest Service also concluded that the project's combined components at worst "may affect, but are not likely to adversely affect," any threatened, endangered, or sensitive species. (AR at 3526-27) (FONSI).
Questioning the conclusions of the FONSI, plaintiffs filed an administrative appeal with the agency seeking reconsideration of the project, but were denied. (Dkt.# 14, Ex. 10). This lawsuit followed. Plaintiffs allege that the Forest Service has failed to analyze the effects of the Mad River Trail Project on the human environment adequately to satisfy NEPA, and is violating


the EA's statement of purpose and need. (Dkt. # 18-1 at 19).
The EA examined four alternatives. The first was the so-called "no action" alternative, or the status quo. The second included relocation of certain trail segments on the Lower Mad River Trail out of the flood plain, construction of the Maverick Saddle Bridge, and one phase of improvements at Pine Flats campground. The third was substantially the same as the second, but proposed a hardening of the ford at Maverick Saddle rather than the construction of a bridge. The final, "preferred," alternative included all the components of alternative two, with an additional phase of campground improvements at Pine Flats. All of the alternatives included construction of a helispot, use of concrete grid blocks for trail hardening, and removalBAs) has yet been done for the entire ORV trail system. While those BAs prepared and incorporated by reference in the Mad River EA are certainly sufficient under this standard, they look only at the incremental impacts of the Mad River Trail Project on key sensitive species, and then only in the narrowly defined project area.
The report takes the Courtand the publicto a general level of analysis, and then stops, proposing further study. As plaintiffs point out, however, the Forest Service does not incorporate any mandates for actual, system-wide wildlife studies into the Mad River decision. Rather, the agency proposes to construct the Mad River Trail Project, as well as the Goose-Maverick ORV Tie-Trail project and then, at most, apply the "adaptive management strategies," put forward by the


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Armenian girl he
would like to add to his harem there are many ways he may go about
getting her. The way of Husein Pasha was to bluntly ask her father
to sell or give her to him, with a veiled threat that if the father
refused he would be persecuted. To make the sale of the girl legal
and give the Mutassarif the right to make her his concubine it was
necessary only for him to persuade or compel her to forswear Christ and
become Mohammedan.

Three times Husein Pasha had asked my father to give me to him. Three
times my father had defied his anger and refused. The Pasha was afraid
to punish us, as my father was wealthy, and through his friendship with
the British Consul at Harpout, Mr. Stevens, had obtained protection of
the Vali,Father Rhoupen pressed me close to his breast and began to
speak.

“The way is clear, my child. The answer has come. Trust in Jesus Christ
and He will save you as He deems best. It were better that you should
die, if need be, or suffer even worse than death, than by your example
lead others to forswear their faith in the Saviour. Go back to your
father and mother and comfort them, but obey them.”

All that day and the next messengers rode back and forth between
Harpout and our city, bringing the latest scraps of news from Van.
We were filled with joy when we heard the Armenians had barricaded
themselves and were fighting back, but we dreaded the consequences. No
one slept that night in our city. All day and all night Father Rhoupen
and his


a few pennies.

On the second day after the proclamation, which was our Sunday, the
soldiers visited all the houses. They walked in without knocking. They
pretended to be looking for guns and revolvers, but what they took was
our silver and gold spoons and vases.

That afternoon a company of horsemen rode past our house. We ran to
the window and saw they were Aghja Daghi Kurds, the crudest of all the
tribes. At their head rode the famous Musa Bey, the chieftain who, a
few years before, had waylaid Dr. Raynolds and Dr. Knapp, the famous
American missionaries, and had robbed them and left them tied together
on the road.

The Kurds rode to the palace of Husein Pasha. In a little while they
rode away again, and some of the Pasha’s soldiers rode with them. That
meant, weand sticks against the armed soldiers.

But the zaptiehs who accompanied the party surrounded the base of the
cliffs and kept the women from escaping. Then the Kasab Tabouri killed
men until there were not enough left to resist them. Scores of men
feigned death among the bodies of their friends, and thus escaped with
their lives.

Part of the soldiers then scaled the cliffs to where the women were
huddled. They took babies from the arms of mothers and threw them over
the cliffs to comrades below, who caught as many as they could on their
bayonets. When babies and little girls were all disposed of this way,
the soldiers amused themselves awhile making women jump over--prodding
them with bayonets, or beating them with gun barrels until the women,
in desperation, jumped to save themselves. As they rolled down


take her to the Kaimakam that
she might ask his protection for me. To this the soldiers agreed, and I
was left alone in the house.

When Miss McLaine returned she was crying. The soldiers returned with
her. The Kaimakam had said I must rejoin the exiles, but that I might
be taken to a house where a large company of women who had embraced
Mohammedanism were confined, with their children. This company, the
mayor said, was to be protected until they reached a place selected by
the government.

So Miss McLaine could do nothing more. She kissed me, and the soldiers
led me away to the house where the apostasized women with their
children were quartered.

These apostasized Armenians were nearly all women from small cities
between Malatia and Sivas. None of them really had given up
Christianity, but they thoughtand hunt for me,
and that I must have money or they would take me off and kill me. They
came to me a few hours later, and I gave them the three liras, and they
kept their promise and did not molest me again.

The party of refugees I had joined was from Erzeroum and the little
cities in that district. My heart leaped with joy when I saw among
them a few Armenian men. It was the first time I had seen men of my
people for so long, and I was so happy for the women whose husbands
and fathers could still be with them. When I was led up to this party
by the zaptiehs the first women to see me held out their arms to me.
They thought I was one of the


intended to put a part of them in Moslem
schools at Erzeroum, so they could have them for sale when they were a
little older. The others the hanums would keep as servants or to sell
at once to friends among rich Turks.

The hanums descended from their arabas and asked our zaptiehs if
there were any very pretty girl children among us. The zaptiehs did
not approve of losing girl children to these Turkish wives, who, they
thought, would take them without paying for them. So they said there
were none. But one of the hanums saw a little girl holding onto her
mother, and insisted upon having her brought to her. When she looked at
the little girl closely she saw she was pretty, and commanded one of
the soldiers to take her into her carriage.

The child’swith our safety, and walked away. We
spent the night sitting on the ground, for we were bound in such a way
we could not lie down. The Kurds looked at us curiously as they walked
around us, and often one of them would kick us to make us turn our
faces toward him. But otherwise they did not molest us.

CHAPTER XIII

OLD VARTABED AND THE SHEPHERD’S CALL

Early in the morning we were taken into the city, tied across horses
which were led just behind the group of chiefs who followed Sheikh
Zilan, himself. Inside the city four horsemen led our horses into one
of the low quarters of the city. Here we were given into the keeping
of a cruel looking Kurd, whom I was soon to know was Bekran Agha, the
notorious slave dealer of Moush.

Ten


Washington Post will only raise the volume on the questions about how the NRA managed its considerable resources.

Documents indicate that the National Rifle Association planned to purchase a luxury mansion in the Dallas area last year for the use of chief executive Wayne LaPierre, according to two people familiar with the records. The discussions about the roughly $6 million purchase, which was not completed, are now under scrutiny by New York investigators. The transaction was slated to be made through a corporate entity that received a wire of tens of thousands of dollars from the NRA in 2018, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. The New York attorney general’s office is now examining the plan for an NRA-financedactivities what is an article in essay writing apa format writing lowering the drinking age essay introduction what is a research paper and how to write it how to write a 100 day business planDifferent business plans argumentative essay lesson plans college fraction homework syracuse university mfa creative writing classes, apa formatting of a research paper. In fact, unreflective thinkers are largely unaware of thinking as such, hence fail to recognize thinking as involving concepts, assumptions, inferences, implications, points of view, etc. When studying math, they clarify and analyze mathematical goals and problems.

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A few weeks ago, I co-chaired a session at the Society for Historical Archaeology 45th annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. The session covered the research currently being conducted at Historic St. Mary’s City, spanning four centuries, three countries, and various topics. Mine was, unsurprisingly, a look at the 19th century and the transition from slavery to freedom for the black laborers who worked on the plantation. From what I could gather, the session and paper were well received. The highlight was definitely listening to Garry Wheeler Stone, the first director of Historic St. Mary’s City and an archaeological legend, discuss our papers. It was an honor to hear him talk.

In particular, my post looks at emancipation as a process that occurs over time, not as aMCALLEN, TX – A
federal jury in McAllen,
Texas, has convicted Edgar Hinojosa, aka EWOK,
of Brownsville, Texas, on both counts as charged
in relation to a cocaine trafficking conspiracy,
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special
Agent in Charge Javier
F. Peña and
United States Attorney
Kenneth Magidson announced today. After three
days of trial and approximately four hours
of deliberations, the jury convicted Hinojosa,
35, of conspiracy as well as possession with
intent to distribute more than 20 kilograms
of cocaine.

Hinojosa was charged in an indictment returned
on March 7, 2012. While he was the only defendant
named in the indictment, Hinojosa had been
implicated by a number of other defendants
in other indictments, five of whom testified
for the government at trial.

During the trial, which began on Wednesday,
the government presented photos, financial
documents and a short video all illustrating
evidence of Hinojosa’s illegal activities.
Testimony was further offered by


law enforcement
officers with several agencies involved in
the case.

Hinojosa was a former bodyguard for Hector
Manuel Sauceda- Gamboa, aka KARIS, a now deceased
Gulf Cartel plaza boss in Reynosa, Mexico.
Evidence at trial demonstrated Hinojosa operated
a narcotics trafficking organization responsible
for transporting multi-ton quantities of cocaine
from Brownsville to Houston. His organization
was also responsible for transporting millions
of dollars of drug proceeds from Houston to
the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros, Mexico.

Previously released on bond, Hinojosa fled
and did not appear in court for the third
day of trial on Friday. He is considered a
fugitive and a warrant remains outstanding
for his arrest. Anyone with information as
to his whereabouts is asked to contact the
FBI at 956-546-6922. At sentencing, he faces
a minimum of 10 years and up to life in prison
as well as a $4 million fine.learn." TV host admires its backlit touchscreen and thinks it has great opportunities for reading, playing games and sharing photos.

Some time ago Oprah has been promoting Amazon Kindle on TV, and once the sales of this device were boosted so strong the company had problems with keeping up with demand. When she has been speaking about iPad she also mentioned Kindle in the past tense, like she "HAD a Kindle". But later her spokesperson said she still uses both devices.

Oprah's Book Club may be viewed in iBookstore for iPad, and its books may be purchased for a standard fee.

Monte Vista Christian School in California has purchased sixty Apple iPads for use in its classrooms. The devices were introduces last Thursday to those of the students who will participate


The cathode catalyst interacts with the cathode gas and the reaction intermediates to catalyze the conversion of the cathode gas to the chemical product of the fuel cell reaction.
The chemical product of the fuel cell reaction flows through a gas diffusion layer to the channels of a flow field plate (e.g., the cathode flow field plate). The chemical product then flows along the channels of the flow field plate toward the outlet region of the flow field plate.
The electrolyte provides a barrier to the flow of the electrons and gases from one side of the membrane electrode assembly to the other side of the membrane electrode assembly. However, the electrolyte allows ionic reaction intermediates to flow from the anode side of the membrane electrode assembly to the cathodewas coming off a difficult, injury-shortened 2017-18 campaign. The 14-year veteran underwent surgery to repair a damaged tendon in his left foot during that season as well as arthroscopic surgery to fix a torn meniscus in the offseason. In all, Weber didn't play a single game of hockey for 346 days.

The Sicamous, BC native admitted it was a challenging period for him and his family.

"There were a lot of ups and downs. It's been frustrating, it's been hard, it's been grueling, but we're here. I'm excited right now to get going," Weber explained right before making his return. "Sitting and waiting. If it happened during the summer that'd be different, but watching the guys going to battle every night for 24 games and not being able to help


them was tough."

Weber finally played his first game as captain of the Canadiens on November 27 against the Carolina Hurricanes. His comeback was largely good news for the Canadiens' backend, especially on the penalty kill.

In the 24 games without Weber, the Habs allowed 19 shorthanded goals for a 79% penalty kill. With the veteran back in the lineup, Montreal allowed just 29 shorthanded goals in 58 games, upping their P.K. effectiveness to 81.9%.

Video: NYR@MTL: Weber unloads one-timer past Georgiev

According to the head coach, the captain's return allowed several of his players to move back into a more comfortable role.

"It certainly alleviates the pressure on several players, because it has a domino effect. Shea is our number-one defenseman," mentioned Claude Julien ahead of Weber's first game back. "It meansless responsibility for some. That also allows us to put other guys in a better position to succeed."

Montreal's team stats also showed signs of improvement with Weber back in the lineup. Before his return, the Canadiens' goal differential (goals for:goals against) stood at minus-7, but shot up to plus-17 in the 58 games with the captain on the ice.

Video: NYI@MTL: Weber hammers slap shot past Greiss

Weber's impact on the team's on-ice performance is simply priceless, say his teammates.

"He brings with him a winning attitude. He creates the culture within the group. He's won at different levels, and he knows what it takes. He's a competitive guy. He's one of the best players in our game for a reason," outlined alternate captain Brendan Gallagher as Weber's return approached. "He's


managed to have an impact on our team off the ice all season. Now that he's back in the lineup, we'll be able to see his impact on the ice and it's for sure going to be a big energy boost for us."

Weber finished the 2018-19 season with 14 goals and 33 points in 58 games. He scored his 200th career goal on March 8, making him the only active defenseman in the NHL defenseman to reach the mark. Weber is also just one goal away from his 100th power play marker.

Video: MTL@ANA: Weber blasts home 200th NHL goal

With his injury woes seemingly behind him, the blue-liner is now looking to focus on his summer training regimen so that he can come back even stronger in the fall.

"It'send of the coverage period.  Coverage for Sunbeam under the first policy in this case
began January 29, 1992.  Upon learning that Sunbeam was a "combinable" risk with ASC because
Solomon wholly owned both companies, the Facility required ASC to apply for coverage or the
Facility would cancel Sunbeam's policy.  ASC applied and, on February 21, 1992, was added as an
insured through an endorsement on the first policy issued to Sunbeam.  The two companies renewed
coverage under the second policy for the year beginning January 29, 1993.  The Facility canceled the
second policy on June 8, 1993, for nonpayment of premiums and failure to make required reports.
	The district court found that appellants owed the Facility for unpaid premiums on
these policies, less an offset due for a refund of


a hybrid form of public address where
civic issues such were packaged to fit seamlessly
into the commercialized streetscape.

A typical DAM! campaign was comprised of 5,000
posters wheatpasted over the course of one month.
Neighborhoods were targeted for both the volume and
diversity of pedestrian traffic as well as their
long histories as sites for graphic intervention
and public discourse. As corporations and activists
battled for the ever-dwindling public space in New
York City, DAM! turned to other modes of propaganda
(lightboxes, catalogs, matchbooks, buttons and
stickers to name but a few) and distribution (the
US Postal Service, the Internet and by hand).

Carrie Moyer is a painter,
designer and writer. Her paintings have been
exhibited widely in both the US and Europe. During
the 1990s, she designed seminal agitprop campaigns
for the Lesbian Avengers, the Irish Lesbian and Gay
Organization, and the New York CityGay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project. She is a contributing writer
for such publications as Modern Painters, Art in
America and the Brooklyn Rail. Moyer is Assistant
Professor of Painting at the Rhode Island School of
Design. She is represented by CANADA. For more information,
visit carriemoyer.com

Sue Schaffner is photographer and
publishes under the alias Girl Ray. Her work includes
portraits of featured media personalities for
magazines. Her photos have appeared in Men’s
Health, People, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune,
Esquire, and Wired. Getty Images and
Corbis license her stock photography library
internationally. In addition to being an artist
consultant in the Creative Capital Foundation
Professional Development Program, she is
currently developing a camera review website,
MyFavoriteCameras.com. She
works out of her studio in the Gowanus Studio Space in
Brooklyn, NY.

“Their efforts are effectual reminders that k.d.
lang is not the only lesbian in the world.”
Collier Schorr, ArtForum

“Culture jamming and identity


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Chancellor Angela Merkel is at a defining point in her fourth term as German leader amid opposition from her political allies over migration. Her sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) from the Bavarian region, is against Merkel's stance on migration. The allied party wants German police to prevent refugees, who are already registered as asylum seekers in other European countries, to enter Germany. However, Merkel blocked the proposal last week, starting a spat with her interior minister and chairman of the CSU, Horst Seehofer. The clash has escalated into a power struggle between Merkel's party (CDU) and the CSU, which have long been key allies. Together, both parties call themselves The Union and agreed that the CSU operates in Bavaria, whilePenn State University requests support for an Exploratory Center on the Health and Functioning of Older Rural Populations. This Center,named the Center on Aging and Health in Rural America (CAHRA),will promote interdisciplinary research on: (1) The effects of individual socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, community attributes, migration, and formal institutional and social support networks of rural elderly on their physical health and psychological well-being; (2) The effects of demographic change in rural populations on the organization of health care services nonmetropolitan counties; (3) The impact of the ongoing reorganization of health car services in the U.S. on the delivery of adequate and appropriate acute- and long-term care in nonmetropolitan counties; and (4) The effects of characteristics of individual communities, support networks, and health care providers on the effective utilization