steadily for a few more seconds out the tip of Trents still-hard prick, dribbled down the front of his shaft and into the hair on his tightened ball sac. Finally, Rob withdrew his finger from inside Trent, and Trent took a long, deep breath, leaning back against the wall, exhausted. Rob released Trents dick, and it continued to pulse up and down for a few more seconds, commencing its gradual descent.

Dont take a nap yet, bud...I need your help! asserted Rob. Grab my dick and jack my load out of me, man...I really need to cum bad! Obviously relating to the severity of the moment, Trent reached for Robs throbbing, swollen cock, but Rob grabbed his hand and diverted it to his chest, which had been soaked withTrents hot cum. He rubbed the palm of Trents hand into his own thick white jizz and then charged, OK, man...now do it...slow and firm!

As Trent placed his cum-slicked fist firmly around Robs rock-hard pole, Rob reached his right hand up to his own face. He wiped an abundance of Trents still-warm sperm off of his cheek and onto three fingers, then plunged them into his mouth, licking them off hungrily and relishing the essence of Trents manhood. At the same time, a great clash of thunder sounded outside, and the building shook for a few seconds as it had about an hour before.

Trents strong hand jacked off Robs bulging cock with a slow, steady motion, squeezing the head even tighter on the upstroke and releasing slightly on


the downstroke. With his other hand, Trent collected a long strand of cum hanging from the end of his dick and wiped it onto Robs turgid cockhead. The profuse sweat from Robs chest streamed down onto Trents hand, adding to the lubrication. Yeah, thats it...thats it...thats exactly how I do it...ohhhh, man that feels awesome...just keep it up...dont stop...yeahhhh...! Rob brushed the back of his left hand up and down against the black stubble covering Trents cheek. Then he drew the middle finger of that hand near his nose and took a brief whiff of the inside of Trent.

Within seconds, Robs cum-swollen balls contracted and compressed against his body. He thought they were going to rupture before the white lava could propel its way up through his convulsingspike and out the opening at the top.  Aaauuugh, yeahhhh...!  Rob bellowed as he gripped one of Trents hard trapezius muscles with one hand and, with the other, the flexed biceps on the arm of the hand jerking off his exploding volcano. The first two molten blasts were hurled squarely onto Trents cheek, some of it splashing back onto Robs stomach and blending with Trents seed, which had been deposited there shortly beforehand. Trent pointed the cum-firing pistol downward slightly, rising up off his seat a few inches, and the next five rounds sprayed forcefully onto his neck and the top of his chest, gushing like a flash flood down the valley between his stone pecs. Trent then sat back down and milked the remainder of


Robs pearly semen out the end of his pounding cock. It dripped straight down and collected on Trents softening but still firm cock below. With his hands still grasping Trent, Rob surveyed the deluge of cum he had just shot out all over this Adonis. Then he closed his eyes and replayed the prior few seconds in his mind. Whoaaaa, was that ever hot, man! That felt incredibly good!

Rob opened his eyes after Trent, who had sampled a small amount of the seminal fluid soaking his hand, remarked, Mmm, not bad...yours tastes really sweet...or maybe its mine...hard to tell.

Collapsing next to Trent, Rob leaned back against the wall and laughed. Yeah...thats what Candi and other girlfriends have told me...at least the ones whove tried it. Most of emyou will have your deposit back (CNY20).

In Shanghai , we also used the Maglev, a magnetic levitation train that makes the 30 km between the airport and the city in just 8 minutes.

Summer palace, Beijing

Mutianyu

When to visit China

The size of China means that, at the same time of the year, the weather conditions are very different from zone to zone. We visited China in late April and the weather was great for traveling. Overall, the best times to visit China are Spring (March to May) and Autumn (September to November).

When possible it is advisable not to visit China on national holidays. Many restaurants, shops, and attractions close and the number of Chinese locals traveling increases greatly. The most important holiday is the Chinese New Year and at this


realised that this was a much more important species, and definitely one of the most important species for our understanding of the origin of birds and of their flight." Professor Xu believes the four-winged shape may have been a very important stage in the evolutionary transition from dinosaurs to birds. Details of the latest discoveries have been presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, being held this year at the University of Bristol, UK. The renowned Bristol palaeontologist Michael Benton said the announcement was immensely exciting. "Drawing the tree of life, it's fairly obvious that feathers arose before Archaeopteryx appears in the fossil record," he told BBC News. "Now these fantastic new discoveries by Professor Xu Xing prove that once and forDr. Ingo Schmidt, from Hope, BC, Canada, speaks about the hopeless social democrats of the 1920s and 30s, and offers hope to today’s Marxists and social democrats.
29 minute video – March 2, 2017 – Vancouver, Canada.

The Canadian Society of Friends celebrated their Yearly Meeting with Alastair McIntosh lecturing about the “Colonization of the Mind and the Land” on August 15-22, 2015 in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
40 minute video.

Richard Wilkinson, emeritus professor of epidemiology, Nottingham University, spoke at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada about his book,”The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.” A three part video.


(D'banj song) which premiered on YouTube in 2012.

The song received a nomination for the World Music Award Best Video of the Year and a Channel O Music Video Awards Most Gifted Video of the Year award in 2012. Sesan continues to work with artists in all genres such as Grammy nominated duo Riton and Kah-Lo, and has been acclaimed as one of Nigeria's most respected directors.

Selected videography
Davido – The Sound
Davido ft Meek Mill - Fans Mi
Davido ft Nasty C - Coolest Kids in Africa
Davido ft Rae Sremmurd  - Pere
D'Banj ft Kanye West – Oliver Twist (D'banj song)
D'Banj ft Snoop Dogg – Mr Endowed
D'Banj ft Tiwa Savage – Shake it
Digital Farm Animals ft Nelly – Millionaire
Kahlo ft Riton – Ginger
Mr Eazi  - In the morning
Patoranking ftHighway. It came under the control of a local feudal magnate, the Chopikashvili clan, who were in charge of collecting tolls on travelers in the area in the late 18th century.

After the expansion of the Russian Empire into the Kingdom of Georgia in the early 19th century, the people of the region revolted against Russian rule. However, the local lord Gabriel Chopikashvili, son of Kazi-Beg, remained steadfast in his loyalty to Russia and helped to suppress the revolt. In return, he was promoted to officer in the Russian Army. He adopted the surname Kazbegi, and the village under his control was also frequently referred to as "Kazbegi". In 1917-1918 Stepantsminda was taken by Germany, Turkey and The Whites, bar the last who stayed until 1922.
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the national hospitalization database covering hospital care from the entire French population. The data for all patients admitted with aortic stenosis in France from January 2010 to June 2019 were collected from the national administrative Programme de Médicalisation des Systèmes d\'Information (PMSI) database. Through this program, medical activity is recorded in a database and rendered anonymous. It includes \>98% of the French population (67 million people) from birth (or immigration) to death (or emigration), even if a person changes occupation or retires. This process allows the determination of each hospital\'s budget, in the 1546 French healthcare facilities for both public and private hospitals. Each hospitalization is encoded in a standardized data set, which includes information about the patient (age and sex), hospital, stay (date of admission, date of discharge,The vast and biodiverse Triunfo do Xingu protected area in the Brazilian Amazon lost 22 percent of its forest cover between 2007 and 2018, with figures this year indicating the rate of deforestation is accelerating.

The surge in deforestation, driven largely by cattle ranching, is part of a wider trend of encroachment into protected areas across the Brazilian Amazon under the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro, according to conservationists.

With the widespread clearing slicing up the larger protected area into smaller fragments of forest, human rights advocates worry that it will become increasingly difficult for forest-dependent indigenous communities to survive within it.

The deforestation is likely to have a far-reaching impact on the biodiversity of the region, which is home to countless species of plants and animals not adapted to living


species. It is also home to indigenous groups and traditional peoples, who rely on the forest to survive while preserving their way of life.

The Triunfo do Xingu area has been under state protection for more than a decade, although some land development is legally permitted. In 2006, Pará granted the area a conservation status aimed at preserving its biodiversity and ensuring sustainable use of its natural resources. Under this type of designation, some clearing is allowed on a small part of the territory while the remainder is supposed to be earmarked for environmental preservation.

Yet satellite data from the University of Maryland (UMD) show that Triunfo do Xingu lost around 22 percent of its forest cover between 2007 and 2018, despite its protected status. Preliminary figures for 2019 indicatethe kind of leakage, from outside of the protected areas to inside of the protected areas.”

In Triunfo do Xingu, most of the recent deforestation has been driven by cattle ranching, as farmers convert more land for their livestock. São Félix do Xingu, a municipality of about 125,000 in which about two-thirds of the protected area lies, is the largest cattle-producing municipality in Brazil and is home to nearly 20 times more livestock than people. Some smaller patches of deforestation, mostly in the northern part of the APA, are also the result of mining, logging and land-grabbing, sources say.

The rhetoric of President Jair Bolsonaro seems to have played a role in the deforestation surge in this region, where support for the controversial leader is strong and the yellow football


the makeshift port during a recent visit. From this informal entrance to the protected Triunfo do Xingu area, a web of haphazard dirt roads stretched through the vast territory. Our four-wheel-drive truck snaked through rough, narrow paths dented by gaping holes for hours to reach freshly cleared patches of forest. We passed large swaths of forest burned within the last few weeks and, deep into the territory, encountered a blaze that was actively engulfing virgin forest. The landscape was dotted with the occasional farm or ranch, but, for the most part, the area was deserted.

The region is struggling with lax enforcement of environmental regulations, said Danilo Antônio Lago, a pastor with the Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) in São Félix do Xingu, an arm of the Catholic Churcha rapid maneuvre. While the operation ultimately failed due to delays among the ground forces, the airborne divisions accomplished most of their missions; this was due in large part to the efforts of the pathfinder forces. A combination of the drop taking place in broad daylight and that the Germans were not expecting an airborne attack allowed the pathfinders to land on target and guide in the rest of the paratroopers to the proper locations. This is especially remarkable considering that the number of pathfinder sticks and the number of men in each stick were reduced to the bare minimum (one per drop zone) for this drop.

Battle of the Bulge
During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the 101st Airborne Division, along with elements of numerous other


"44th Divisional Reconnaissance Squadron (GGBG)". The unit today is about a company-plus strength and maintains very strong affiliation to the Cavalry, Guards and the Airborne fraternity with 100 percent troopers airborne qualified and equipped for mechanized warfare. However the Special Forces (Airborne) units are mainly assigned such tasks as they are specialist in pathfinder operations using HALO/HAHO.

Netherlands
The Netherlands have a pathfinders platoon which was founded in 2007. Since the Netherlands did not have a pathfinders unit before that, they were founded on the Belgian model where they receive their pathfinder courses in Schaffen. The Dutch pathfinders platoon maintains close cooperation with their Belgian counterparts, with joint training facilities and exercises.

Portugal
The Air-Land Pathfinders Company (Companhia de Precursores Aeroterrestres) is a special reconnaissance support unit of the Parachute Troops ofa federal appeals court ruled that it was constitutional to limit demonstrations at the Republican National Convention to areas where they couldn’t be seen or heard by attendees. The convention was held in New York. The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that year had a 1.7 mile “secure zone” around it.


years in question be received some rent from subtenants in his office space in addition to professional fees, interest on bank deposits and income from certain interests in partnerships and corporations.  The tax returns which he made were upon a cash receipts basis.

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During that part of the years here involved ending in March 1946, Elna R. Anderson, his regular secretary, was absent from the office and book records of cash receipts and expenditures used by defendant in making the returns for these four years were not kept, because of difficulty in obtaining competent help and the defendant's not being present to supervise the office activities.  Upon her return, Mrs. Anderson began making entries in the cash books1 and by 1948 had completed this work.  Sheobtained the information for these entries from slips of paper or 'memo' sheets given to her by the defendant.  There was also what defendant called a client's ledger book,2 consisting of two volumes, as well as a trust book or ledger,3 which contained debit and credit entries, the latter representing amounts due to people whose money defendant held in trust.  Defendant had a trust account at the bank.  That account on December 31, 1947, had a balance of about $1,000, while a statement of the balances and the amounts due to persons, according to a statement prepared by defendant based upon the trust ledger, showed a balance due from defendant of some $17,000.  In 1949, defendant explained this situation to Robert A. Inglebright, an


such record.

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Later in the investigation, defendant turned over to Inglebright for inspection the trust ledger, which Inglebright analyzed.  About a week after October 26, 1949, while Inglebright was working on the trust accounts, he visited defendant's office but did not find defendant there.  There had been no previous arrangement with defendant with regard to making books available when he was absent.  The agent asked for the trust ledger and the office girl telephoned to defendant.  She thereupon handed to Inglebright a black ledger book which closely resembled the trust ledger with which he had been working.  It was not the trust ledger, but was a ledger with each page showing an account of a client.  It appeared to cover accounts alphabetically from'M' to 'Z.'  He inquired of the girl whether or not there was another book containing 'A' through 'L.'  She said that there was and she produced it.  It had a gray binder.  Thereafter defendant appeared and, indicating the two books which had been handed to Inglebright, stated that those were not the books he wanted-- that he wanted the trust ledger.  When asked whether these were not accounts receivables, defendant stated that they were, that they were the records of the accounts of clients, and that they could be accounts receivable records.  He answered in the affirmative when asked whether the credit entries in these two books represented receipts from his clients.  He permitted Inglebright to take the two books


Elna R. Anderson, defendant's office was in a continual state of confusion because of lack of secretarial help; he had numerous high school girls for short periods of time; the files were improperly maintained or not maintained at all.  Defendant testified that he gave Inglebright all of the records which were introduced at the trial.

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During a part of the years 1946 and 1947 defendant was not present in his office at all, due to ill health.  In 1944 the defendant began a gradual decline in health, which, in 1947, resulted in a coronary attack.  In October of that year he required medical treatment.  This condition continued through the trial.

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There was also evidence given by defendant's family physician that he could not say whether thiscondition of the defendant had any effect upon his mind insofar as his ability to practice law was concerned, and that defendant 'was perfectly poised on every examination.'  A defense witness who testified that he obtained the services of a physician for defendant in March 1948, while on a trip to Florida with defendant, stated that he 'considered defendant as sharp and astute mentally as he was before.'

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1.  It is not denied that defendant had unreported taxable income in 1944, 1945, 1946 and 1947.  He contends, however, that the evidence does not prove wilfulness or intent to understate his income, which is an essential ingredient of the statute.5

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The key word in this statute is 'wilful.'  It is an essential ingredient of the crime.


Inglebright came into possession of these ledgers.  When confronted with that fact, defendant admitted their existence for the first time and when pressed for an explanation under oath as to why there was a discrepancy between those ledgers and records voluntarily submitted, he refused such a statement upon advice from counsel. The cash receipts journals were made up long after the receipts of the monies therein shown.  They were made by Mrs. Anderson from memoranda on slips of paper handed to her by defendant.  The totals so entered were gross understatements of the totals appearing in the accounts receivable ledgers.

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The jury had before it for consideration the evidence by which defendant sought to explain his incorrect returns.

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Significant facts which the jury could have found oncourt has a right to disturb that verdict.

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2.  Inglebright testified in direct examination by government counsel in regard to the fact that defendant's balance in his trust account at the bank on December 31, 1947, was about $1,000 and that his trust account ledger showed that he owed a balance on trust accounts totalling about $17,000.  When he asked defendant about this situation, he was told that the deficit represented money which defendant had borrowed from trust accounts.  At the time of this conversation defendant was concealing from Inglebright the existence of the accounts receivable ledgers.  He had turned over to Inglebright the trust ledger.  Thus handicapped, Inglebright was attempting to ascertain defendant's income.  While the discrepancy between the trust ledger and


from an adventure.

History of the World – Game Overview

History of the World is an Avalon Hill war game for up to six players. History of the World was originally published in 1991 while the most recent version came out in 2001. Players play through seven epochs, playing different civilizations (“empires”) each time.

The goal is to expand your influence across the map and then hope it sticks. Points are calculated for a player immediately after that player takes their turn and the number of units a player gets is not based on previous accomplishments (but rather is a static number associated with the empire that you are playing for that turn) which gives History of the World a very different feel than many other war-related board games.

TinyWarz 2.0 haslaunched, and I took a spin in this turn-based strategy browser game to see what it is all about. What I brought back are first impressions of the game, along with thoughts on the design and the browser games industry.

Wreckage by Fantasy Flight Games takes place on post-apocalyptic Mad Max-style desert highways. The art and design of the cards and game pieces are superb, readily setting the stage for car combat mayhem despite the game’s threadbare story.

Playing the game with my group did not, however, unlock the fun that its impressive-looking components suggested. Rather it revealed another case of style over substance. Yet it feels like there is some potential within this game, unrealized by the rules, waiting to be released.


One of the jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot has been moved into a solitary cell after tensions with other inmates, Russian prison officials said Friday. A spokesman for the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Perm region in the Ural Mountains where Maria Alyokhina, left, is serving her sentence, said that she was moved on Wednesday at her own request. Other prison officials said, according to Russian news wires, that Ms. Alyokhina made the request because of her perception that prisoners had a negative attitude toward her.

Protesters torched Muslim Brotherhood offices on Friday, state media said, as supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi staged rival rallies across Egypt a day after he assumed sweeping powers.

The offices of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the MuslimThursday, which most commentators are calling a power grab, appear to many as politically tone deaf, strategic folly and classic overreach. He said his assumption of wider powers was meant to get Egypt past its post-Mubarak political sclerosis, but he may well deepen Egypt's political polarization, scare off desperately needed foreign investment and waste Egypt's rising credibility in the region and the world.

Television images of renewed clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and Suez will play into stereotypes that the Middle East is not ready for democracy. They will bolster suspicions inside and outside Egypt that the Muslim Brotherhood cannot be trusted.

I disagree with the skeptics and believe democracy can still be established in Egypt. But Mr. Morsi's moves won't help Egypt make that difficult transition.

"There was a


disease but this is not the remedy," Hassan Nafaa, a liberal political science professor and activist at Cairo University, told Reuters Friday. "We are going towards more polarization between the Islamist front on one hand and all the others on the other. This is a dangerous situation."

Indeed, an alarming dynamic seems to be taking hold in Egypt. Power grabs, brinksmanship and walk-outs are becoming the norm, as a bitter struggle plays out among newly empowered Islamists, vestiges of the Mubarak regime and the country's deeply divided liberals. Political paralysis is the result - with rule by presidential decree, overreach by the judiciary and a deadlocked constitutional assembly. As polarization deepens, desperately needed economic, political and judicial reforms stall.

Friday's street protests were relatively small compared to the massive Arabspring demonstrations. But the trend is in the wrong direction.

"President Morsi has used the nearly absolute authority he assumed last August," Nathan Brown warned in an excellent analysis for The Arabist, "to try to put that absolute authority beyond reach, at least on a temporary basis. He may very well succeed."

In a surprising triumph in August, Mr. Morsi abruptly ended the Egyptian military's post-Mubarak rule of the country. After apparently gaining the support of younger military officers, Mr. Morsi forced older, pro-Mubarak officers, led by Field Marshall Muhamad Hussein Tantawi, into retirement. Mr. Morsi then seized sweeping powers.

In one positive sign, he has used his new authority sparingly. Critics who feared an Islamist crackdown were proven wrong. His boldest move was a failed October attempt to remove the


country's unpopular prosecutor general, a Mubarak holdover widely criticized for mounting lenient prosecutions of Mr. Mubarak and other former officials. When the prosecutor, Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, refused to obey Mr. Morsi's order to resign, the new president quickly backed down.

That restraint vanished on Thursday. Mr. Morsi removed the unpopular prosecutor, opened the doors for a re-trial of Mubarak and other officials and granted himself and the country's constitutional assembly immunity from rulings by the country's pro-Mubarak judiciary.

Critics feared pro-Mubarak judges would dissolve the constitutional assembly, just as they had dissolved the country's first democratically elected parliament before Morsi was elected president in June.

In a speech outside the presidential palace on Friday, Mr. Morsi argued that he had seized sweeping powers to preserve the transition to democracy. He promisedthat once full constitutional democracy was established, he would relinquish these powers.

"I am for all Egyptians," Mr. Morsi said, adding that he was working for social and economic stability and the rotation of power. "I will not be biased against any son of Egypt."

Unfortunately, the world has seen this script before. It almost always turns out badly. A destructive dynamic is taking hold in Egypt. The poisonous distrust and conspiracy theories that have handicapped the country's transition to democracy are deepening.

"We're not scared of El Baradei," the official told journalist Lauren E. Bohn, "he has no real support on street, he's Western."

El Baradei and members of the country's liberal opposition have their flaws. They are deeply divided, failed to build strong political organizations and too quickly engaged in


but they are believed to include the United States, the European Union, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Final approval of the $4.8 billion IMF agreement lies with the group's board, due to meet on Dec. 19.

Washington, Brussels and the IMF could set benchmarks for the disbursement of the aid, pegged to democratic reform being implemented in Egypt. But fears of instability in Egypt or Gaza could prompt the international community to turn a blind eye to Mr. Morsi's actions. All of Egypt's key stakeholders - whether Islamists or secular liberals - could be shown that they will pay a price for anti-democratic excess.

The United States funneled billions to Egyptian dictators in the past. The results were grim: poverty, economic stagnation and deep resentment of the United States. If Mr.Morsi - or any Egyptian leader - flouts democracy, Washington has some leverage over them given the billions Egypt still receives in American and international aid.

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Egypt judges slam Morsi over ‘unprecedented attack’

By Agence France-PresseSaturday, November 24, 2012 10:18 EST

Egyptian judges on Saturday slammed a decree by President Mohamed Morsi granting him sweeping powers as “an unprecedented attack” on the judiciary, and courts across two provinces announced a strike.

The constitutional declaration is “an unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings,” the Supreme Judicial Council said after an emergency meeting.

The council, which handles administrative affairs and judicial appointments, called on the president to remove “anything that touches the judiciary” from the declaration.

Meanwhile, the Judges Club of Alexandria announced “the suspension of work in all courts and


but his backers say his move will cut back a turbulent and seeminly endless transition to democracy.

A hard core of opposition activists had spent the night in the iconic protest hub — epicentre of the popular uprising that toppled veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak last year — erecting some 30 tents, an AFP correspondent reported.

But when more demonstrators attempted to join them in the morning, police responded with volleys of tear gas forcing them to retreat into surrounding streets.

By midday, small groups of protesters continued to occupy the square, where traffic in the normally busy thoroughfare was almost brought to a halt.

Opposition-led protests were held in most of Egypt’s major cities on Friday sparking violent clashes in the canal city of Suez and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, whereled international criticism of the Islamist president’s move.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups were also out in strength on Friday in a show of support for the president in his move to prevent the courts dissolving the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly and upper house of parliament as they have already the lower house.

Clashes broke out between the rival supporters in several cities, AFP correspondents and state television reported.

In an address to supporters outside the presidential palace, Morsi insisted that Egypt remained on the path to “freedom and democracy”, despite his move to undercut the judiciary.

“Political stability, social stability and economic stability are what I want and that is what I am working for,” he said.

The president already held both and executive and legislative powers and Thursday’s decree


ruling Islamist party in several cities on Friday during an outpouring of public anger one day after President Mohamed Morsi issued a sweeping decree granting himself broad new powers and putting his decisions above any challenges by the country's courts.

Protesters set fire to the offices of the ruling Freedom and Justice Party in the seaside city of Alexandria, long a stronghold of Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Mr. Morsi was a leader until he resigned to run for president. Party offices also burned in the Suez Canal cities of Port Said, Suez and Ismailia. Activists and bloggers uploaded witness accounts, photographs and video of the protests.

There were reports of running skirmishes between Morsi supporters and opponents in Alexandria, with more than a dozen injured. Thosefights continued after nightfall.

Hit and run fights with some skirmishes between anti-Morsi protesters and MB around the Muslim Brotherhood office in Alexandria. #Nov23

- Mohamed Abdelfattah (@mfatta7) 23 Nov 12

Friday's unrest came at the end of a violent week in downtown Cairo, which has been shaken by several days of clashes between protesters and the police. The current round of fighting began on the one-year anniversary of an epic, dayslong street battle that killed 42 protesters on Mohamed Mahmoud Street and was a turning point in Egypt's transition to democracy.

Those clashes continued into the night on Friday, even as thousands of protesters streamed into nearby Tahrir Square to demonstrate against Mr. Morsi's decree.

One video clip posted on YouTube by the blogger who writes as Kikhote shows thousands of protesters,


sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who had occupied a street just off Tahrir Square, next to the United States Embassy, for more than a year to demand his release from an American prison.

While Mr. Morsi's decree sparked dueling rallies and fueled street clashes, it also provoked fierce debate in online social networks.

Supporters of Mr. Morsi echoed his promises that the decree's sweeping powers were temporary and would lapse after Egypt holds parliamentary elections and writes a constitution. Mr. Morsi has held both executive and legislative power since his election because the military junta that ruled before him dissolved parliament in June.

Gehad el-Haddad, a senior adviser to the Muslim Brotherhood, explained the group's position on Twitter.

All Constitutional Declarations made tonight are void once we have a Parliment and a Constitutioncountry's not so distant past.

@IslamRahman @hahellyer @liamstack Don't know if you remember, but that is how Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak did it: exceptional circumstances

- Khalid Baheyeldin (@kbahey) 22 Nov 12

Al-Masry Al-Youm, one of the country's leading independent daily newspapers, mocked President Morsi as a "temporary dictator."

In addition to expanding his power, Mr. Morsi also used the decree to fire the country's public prosecutor, who was another holdover from the Mubarak regime. He also ordered the retrial of former regime officials, including President Mubarak, who was sentenced in June to 25 years in jail for failing to stop the killing of some 800 protesters in the 18-day Tahrir Square uprising. The same trial found Mr. Mubarak not guilty of corruption during his rule.

New investigations into Mr. Mubarak and his


Likud party meanwhile prepared for a crunch primary Sunday amid signs its popularity was slipping among Israelis who would have preferred a ground invasion of the Hamas-controlled strip.

Tensions on the streets of annexed Arab east Jerusalem remained high a day after angry demonstrators stormed an Israeli police station in a bid to secure the release of a Palestinian woman who tried to stab a border guard.

Israel decided to take out extra precautions by barring Palestinians under 40 from accessing the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem — Islam’s third holiest site — which is also revered by Jews.

“An extensive police force and border guards will also be deployed in sensitive areas around the Old City of Jerusalem,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.

The mosque compound in Jerusalem has been the focushe added.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said the troops were forced to take action after hundreds of Palestinians attacked a border fence in an apparent attempt to take it down.

“The soldiers proceeded to fire warning shots in the air, but the Palestinians continued to close in, and the soldiers then fired at their feet,” the spokeswoman said by telephone.

No rockets were fired in reprisal by Hamas.

The Palestinian emergency services identified the dead man as Abdelhadi Qdeih Anwar, 21. They said he was killed in the southern Gaza village of Khuzaa. Nineteen other Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds.

The first opinion polls assessing the government’s handling of the Gaza conflict in the run-up to a snap general election called for January showed a general sense of disappointment that Israel had accepted the


young daughters 300 yards east, to the small plot of land where he dreams of growing wheat as his father once did.

“It was like someone who was hungry and had a big meal,” Mr. Qudaih said, shortly after touching the border fence for the first time. “Grilled sheep with nuts.”

But around 11 a.m., the moment was interrupted by the sound of gunfire. A spokesman for the Israeli military said soldiers had fired warning shots and then at the feet of some Palestinians who tried to cross the border fence into Israeli territory. Mr. Qudaih’s cousin Anwar Qudaih, 20, was killed, and nine others were wounded, Health Ministry officials here in Gaza said.

The episode, which happened at the same spot where an antitank missile fired by Palestinians hit anplace for starting.

But that was clearly not the understanding of the hundreds of Gazans who thought that they would have access to the so-called buffer zone, a 1,000-foot-wide strip of land along Gaza’s northern and eastern borders, that had for years been so tantalizingly close, and yet beyond reach. Palestinians flocked to the fence on Thursday and Friday because their leaders said the cease-fire eased what they call Israel’s “siege” on Gaza, including restrictions on movement in the so-called buffer zone, a 1,000-foot strip on Gaza’s eastern and northern borders.

Hamas leaders said that was but one of the quality-of-life improvements that they had won. They also told their people that Israel would ease the three-mile limit on how far fishermen can venture from the coastline and the passage


of people and goods through border crossings.

But an Israeli government official said Friday that since no further talks had taken place, its policies had not changed.

Riad al-Malki, the Palestinian foreign minister, described Friday’s shooting as a clear violation of the agreement that was signed, telling reporters at an unrelated news conference in Rome, “I hope it will be the exception rather than the rule.”

Health Ministry officials in Gaza said Friday that the Palestinian death toll from the fighting had grown to 167, not including Mr. Qudaih, as several people died of the wounds they had sustained in Israeli airstrikes. Six Israelis, two of them soldiers, were killed during the eight days of escalated fighting.

That the killing on Friday did not incite other violence suggests that Hamas, the militantwhich it had occupied since the 1967 war. Human rights organizations say that Israel drops leaflets warning residents to stay out of the area, and that its security forces killed 213 Palestinians near the fence between September 2005 and September 2012, including 154 who were not taking part in hostilities, 17 of them children.

Critics say Israel has classified broad sections of border land as a “no-go zone” in which soldiers are allowed to open fire on anyone who enters, which military officials have strongly denied.

Witnesses, including Hamas police officers, said that about 2,000 people flooded this area of the buffer zone in celebration of the cease-fire on Thursday, and that as many as 500 returned Friday morning starting at 7. The Israeli military spokesman described it as a


Qudaih, who lives in one of the few houses in the area, said that when he heard the shooting, “I took my girls and escaped.” By afternoon, his cousin was buried after a funeral procession featuring the flags of Hamas as well as the rival factions Fatah and Islamic Jihad, an echo of the post-conflict unity on display here at cease-fire celebrations on Thursday.

Sgt. Ahmed Mahmoud of the Hamas police said about 2,000 officers had fanned out along the borders on Friday starting at 9 a.m. “to maintain the security.” In blue camouflage suits and navy jackets, they carried wooden sticks but no guns, which he said was part of the buffer-zone arrangement with Israel.

“Within one hour of the shooting, we controlled the area and all the peopletalks had not begun.

That was clearly not the understanding of the hundreds of Gazans who thought they would have access to a strip of fertile land that had for years been beyond their reach.

Palestinians flocked to the fence Thursday and Friday because their leaders said the cease-fire eased what they call Israel's "siege" on Gaza, including restrictions on movement in the so-called buffer zone, a 1,000-foot strip on Gaza's eastern and northern borders.

Hamas leaders also told their people that Israel would ease restrictions on fishing off the coast and the passage of people and goods through border crossings.

But an Israeli government official said Friday that while Israel had agreed to discuss the issues with the Egyptian sponsors of the cease-fire, its policy had not yet changed.

In the past,


Israeli soldiers routinely opened fire on those who crossed into the buffer zone.

In one incident captured on video Friday, several dozen Palestinians, most of them young men, approached the fence, coming close to a group of Israeli soldiers standing on the other side.

Some Palestinians briefly talked to the soldiers, while others appeared to be taunting them with chants of "God is Great" and "Morsi, Morsi," in praise of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, whose mediation led to the truce.

At one point, a soldier shouted in Hebrew, "Go there, before I shoot you," and pointed away from the fence, toward Gaza. The soldier then dropped to one knee, assuming a firing position.

Eventually, a burst of automatic fire was heard, but it was not clear whether any of the casualties werefrom this incident.

Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said a 20-year-old man was killed and 19 people were wounded by Israeli fire near the border.

Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. observer, said Israeli forces fatally shot Anwar Abdulhadi Qudaih in the head and injured at least 19 other Palestinian civilians in a border area east of Khan Younis.

During the incidents, Hamas security tried to defuse the situation and keep the crowds away from the fence.

Moussa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas official at ongoing negotiations in Cairo, said the violence would have no effect on the cease-fire.

Israel's military said roughly 300 Palestinians approached the security fence at different points, tried to damage it and cross into Israel.

Soldiers fired warning shots in the air, but after the Palestinians refused to move, troops fired


States.

With direct peace talks on hold for more than two years, the Palestinians are seeking to push for their long-promised state by upgrading their status from an observer entity to that of a non-member state.

Israel says the bid is a breach of the 1993 Oslo Accords, intended to pave the way for a full resolution of the conflict creating in the interim the Palestinian Authority, which was to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza until a final deal.

Israel is contemplating retaliating with punitive actions ranging from suspending the transfer of tax and tariff funds it collects for the Palestinians to “toppling” Abbas’s regime, as a foreign ministry policy paper proposed last week.

An official who attends Israeli cabinet meetings said “it’s not worthy that president Abbas didvigorous opposition from the United States.

With direct peace talks on hold for more than two years, the Palestinians are seeking to push for their long-promised state by upgrading their status from an observer entity to that of a non-member state.

Israel says the bid is a breach of the 1993 Oslo Accords, intended to pave the way for a full resolution of the conflict creating in the interim the Palestinian Authority, which was to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza until a final deal.

Israel is contemplating retaliating with punitive actions ranging from suspending the transfer of tax and tariff funds it collects for the Palestinians to “toppling” Abbas’s regime, as a foreign ministry policy paper proposed last week.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Congolese rebels beat back


a government counteroffensive and slowly pushed toward another big city on Friday, while government forces sank deeper into disarray after an army chief was suspended over allegations that he had supplied ammunition to militias and elephant poachers.

For the past week, a group of a few thousand well-disciplined rebel fighters, widely believed to be covertly supported by neighboring Rwanda, has captured a string of towns in eastern Congo, including Goma, a provincial capital, raising serious questions about the stability of this vast and often-troubled country.

Congo’s Army, which has been notoriously corrupt and dysfunctional for decades, has been defeated in just about every recent battle. The government mounted a rare counteroffensive on Thursday on the rebel-held town of Sake, but by dawn on Friday it was clear that the rebelshad repulsed the attack and were continuing their advance south toward Bukavu, one of the biggest cities in eastern Congo.

Many residents here say they hope that negotiations now under way in Uganda will bring an end to the fighting. But the rebels have a long list of demands, and it is not clear if the Congolese government has the will — or the capacity — to deal with them.

On Thursday, the Congolese government announced that it was suspending Gen. Gabriel Amisi, the chief of staff of ground forces, after a United Nations investigative panel found evidence that he ran a criminal network that supplied ammunition to elephant poachers and local militias with a reputation for brutality.

Africa is in the midst of a widespread elephant slaughter, and conservation groups


say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.

According to a report written in 2010 by John Hart, an American scientist and one of the top elephant researchers in Congo, the “Congolese military are implicated in almost all elephant poaching,” making the military “the main perpetrator of illegal elephant killing” in Congo.

The issue of self-determination is the main issue in Catalonia's November 25 regional election, and has emerged as the single theme of the campaign. It has been foisted on the electorate in order to avoid more pressing concerns such as unemployment, education and health, argues a columnist.Lluis Foix

One advantage of this election campaign is that thereslapped her repeatedly, toppling her off her feet, Samar Yazbek was a traitor.

Marching in antigovernment demonstrations was bad enough. But what made this a truly appalling betrayal in the officer’s eyes was the fact that Ms. Yazbek was among the scarce prominent Alawites who had broken publicly with the government.

Starting in earnest in 1970, when Hafez al-Assad grabbed the presidency in a coup, the Alawites, adherents of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, have wrested Syria away from its historical Sunni masters. They could lose everything if the Sunnis reclaimed power.

“You are a black mark on all Alawites,” the officer spat out at one point. He eventually unleashed two muscular goons who dragged Ms. Yazbek through a series of basement torture cells as a dire warning.

In the first, she


terrorist gangs imported from abroad are bent on toppling the government.

Nevertheless, Ms. Yazbek said, “I started to say I was an Alawite and I was with the revolution.”

It was not the first time she had played the contrarian.

Ms. Yazbek, who has the fair complexion of many coastal Syrians, was born into a prominent family whose fortunes had started to recede after her grandfather voluntarily distributed his considerable land to the peasants who worked on it. (A distant relative married Osama bin Laden.)

One of five brothers and three sisters, she ran away from home at 16 and married at 20. She divorced two years later, taking her toddler daughter to Damascus. She was determined to fight for women’s rights, she said, “to combat their status in the Arab world.”

EVENTUALLYshe produced nearly a dozen books, five of them novels, and last month she was given the PEN/Pinter International Writer of Courage award. The authorities banned several. She broke taboos by writing about lesbian love, and used fiction to explore the Alawite experience.

One ambitious novel detailed an affair between an actress and a senior officer, both Alawites and both thinly disguised from real life. Among other plot twists, the two determined that they had been lovers numerous times over the centuries. Alawites believe in reincarnation, unlike most Muslims.

Even before the revolution, she was suggesting that the Assad family’s rule had beggared Alawites. She was used to the ire that that brought her personally, but she was unprepared for the bile suddenly directed at her family after the revolution


began.

Leaflets calling for her death were spread around the coastal Alawite heartland, including in Jableh, her hometown, near Latakia. A teacher yelled at her niece that her aunt was “a whore.”

Ms. Yazbek eventually accepted that her family publicly disowned her for their own preservation. But she could not bear threats against her daughter, now 19, nor the tearful scenes as her frightened child tried to prevent her from going to more demonstrations. But Ms. Yazbek was determined to become a chronicler of the peaceful protest movement. She did so at great risk, playing dumb at times to talk her way past checkpoints, for example.

The book describes fateful confrontations in painful detail.

Early on, a young demonstrator right next to her was shot dead by a government sniper. “I knewnarrow this place is for my soul. I can almost reach my hand outside of it and touch the sky.”

The diary ends in July 2011, when she fled to Paris.

SHE has since sneaked back into northern Syria, however, provoking fights with friends.

“I told her that she was just showing off,” said Rania Samara, her French translator and a friend of two decades. “I asked her what was she trying to prove, that she was still part of the fight, risking her life to respond to people who said she should have stayed?”

Ms. Samara said she called her daily for about 10 days. “I told her that she was crazy, that she should not take the risk, that she had a daughter and that I would not be responsible


that the states will bail them out in a pinch. But experts warn that this symbiotic arrangement might be putting the entire financial system at risk.

When he presented his proposals for taming banks in late September, Peer Steinbrück was once again spoiling for a fight. The Social Democratic candidate for the Chancellery in next year's general election railed against the chase for short-term returns and excesses within the sector and harshly criticized the "market-conforming democracy" in which politics and people's lives had become mere playthings of the financial markets.

Steinbrück's speech lasted half an hour, or a minute for each of the pages of a document he had prepared on the same issue. The paper lists a whole series of suggested regulations, most of which seem entirely sensible. Mostthey enter more and more risky assets into their ledgers. "It's important for the institutes to diversify their assets," says Hans-Peter Burghof, professor of banking at the University of Hohenheim, in southwestern Germany. Burghof also believes that their massive holdings in sovereign bonds are putting the entire financial sector at risk. "If one wants a stable banking system," he concludes, "one cannot abuse it as a vehicle for state financing."

But that's exactly what governments and oversight agencies in Europe are doing. Whenever they formulate new regulations for the banking industry, they always steer clear of dealing with banks' privilege of financing states. Take the following examples:

Capital resources: Plans call for introducing new equity capital regulations for banks in 2013. The rules oblige banks to gradually increase the amount


failed, France pressed ahead by introducing its own tax on financial transactions. The law levies a tax at a rate of a set percentage for each trade of the shares of French companies as well as of certain derivatives. But the French law does not apply to trades involving -- you guessed it -- bonds issued by countries and companies.

Many experts look sceptically on the degree of preferential treatment governments give to such bonds. Early this week, even Jens Weidmann, the president of the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, spoke up and called for a radical change of course. Banks must be more strictly prevented from "exposing themselves to solvency risks of states," he said. He also proposed a solution in the form of a kind of upper limitdebate.

No one – and that includes member states, the media and Europe’s citizens – has any more interest in what it has to say. This is not an assassination, but a suicide orchestrated by Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso – decidedly a calamity for an institution, which, in the not too distant past, was one of the motors of European construction.

Historically, the Commission mobilised all of its resources for battles over the budget: manoeuvering, because it had submitted a proposal, and because it had the means to orient the European Union provided that it succeeded in convincing member states, but also the public opinion that weighs on states, of the validity of its action. This was not an easy task for an institution with fragile legitimacy, and


necessary intermediaries in the bid to reach out to European public opinion.

Delors himself, but also his cabinet chief Pascal Lamy, the commissioners and the directors general of the European Commission, everyone went to work, on and off the record and at press conferences, to explain what was at issue with figures at the ready. It was an incredibly efficient persuasion machine which continued to function under Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi.

This entire field was ploughed over under Barroso. The man has never been a good communicator and is uneasy with the press. However, it was reasonable to conclude that he would wake up for the 2014-2020 financial framework that was to be his political legacy. This has not happened. On the contrary, he has been worse than ever.Parliament, petrified commissioners who are barely able to talk to the media, and general directors stuck in their offices instead of explaining what's at stake in negotiations.

He will lose on both fronts

As a result, member states have been given a free hand to badmouth the Commission proposals (and they have been all too eager to do this) while Herman Van Rompuy was tasked to take on the Commission’s job of finding a compromise, on the basis of the figures supplied by the European executive. Once he took over the negotiations, the Council President did not neglect to communicate with the media. And when he did, he found that there was no one against him.

Instead of being at its centre, the Commission has simply disappeared from the debate. And


are increasingly disdainful of his institution, and in the realm of public opinion which is increasingly indifferent. Hats off to the maestro!

New Setback for European Union as Budget Talks Falter Over Administrative Costs

By JAMES KANTER and ANDREW HIGGINSIHT

BRUSSELS — A summit meeting of European leaders collapsed Friday amid bitter discord over a new budget for the European Union, delivering a further blow to a 27-nation grouping already struggling to contain a debt crisis, social discontent fueled by rising unemployment, and doubts about the long-term viability of the euro currency.

Leaders abandoned efforts to set the shape of a trillion-euro long-term budget and called for a new round of talks early next year to try to reach a deal.

Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, who along with the leaders ofposition of France, but the position of Europe as a whole,” President François Hollande said.

The negotiating marathon over the budget is held every seven years. The focus on hard cash tends to push national interests to the fore and swamp talk of European harmony, a cause for which the Norwegian Nobel Committee last month named the European Union as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The budget, which amounts to about $168 billion per year, goes mostly to subsidize farmers and support regional projects in poorer member states. These policies were originally intended to help bind Europe together and mute the economic discord that in the past fueled bloody wars.

But differences in economic performance and in priorities between member states are huge, pushing them to embrace divergent agendas


in budget talks.

In large measure, this is because what began as an economic bloc comprising six similarly developed market economies in Western Europe is now a 27-member body that includes 10 much poorer Eastern and Central European nations that were part of the socialist bloc.

As well as divisions between east and west, there is also a big gulf between northern countries, especially Germany, and so-called Club Med states in the south like Greece, which, burdened with huge debts, is struggling to keep its economy afloat and avoid social unrest.

“There are still important differences on a number of key issues, especially the overall size of the budget and the fairness of distributions between member states,” José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, told reporters as the summitmeeting broke up on Friday afternoon.

The End of Financial Times Deutschland: Germany Hit by Wave of Newspaper Bankruptcies

For years, Germany had seemed largely immune to the print-media woes washing over the US. In recent weeks, though, the country's newspaper industry has been hit by a pair of high-profile bankrupcies. On Friday, the respected Financial Times Deutschland became the latest victim.

Germany's newspaper market is among the biggest in the world. With 333 titles to choose from, numerous robust local and regional papers among them, the country has long seemed a bastion of stability amid a struggling global print news market.

Those times, however, would seem to be over. On Friday, German publisher Gruner + Jahr announced that it was ceasing publication of the Financial Times Deutschland, the German offshoot of


the influential British financial daily. The final issue of the salmon-colored broadsheet is to appear on December 7, after which some 320 employees will lose their jobs.

"This is not a good day for financial journalism in Germany," one FTD journalist told Reuters on Friday.

The announcement comes after days of speculation that the paper was in trouble, and it also follows several other recent blows to the country's highly diversified print-media landscape. Just last week, the Frankfurter Rundschau, one of Germany's 10 largest dailies, filed for bankruptcy after years of falling subscription numbers and a dwindling print advertising market.

In October, the German news agency DAPD declared bankruptcy just two years after it was founded via a fusion of the Associated Press' German language service and the German wire serviceDDP. Cuts are also forthcoming at the Berlin daily Berliner Zeitung, published by the same company as Frankfurter Rundschau.

Widely Respected

Still, the shutdown of the Financial Times Deutschland does not come as a surprise. Launched in 2000, the paper has never made a profit and has lost an estimated €250 million since then, according to estimates cited in the German media. Last year, the paper lost €10 million ($12.9 million).

During its 12 years in existence, however, the paper became one of Germany's most widely respected financial outlets. In 2008, British publisher Pearson, which publishes the FTD's namesake, sold its 50 percent share to Grüner + Jahr for a reported €15 to €20 million.

"The Financial Times Deutschland was one of the most ambitious journalistic projects of the last decade," said


Julia Jäkel, head of Gruner + Jahr, in a statement released on Friday. "Daily newspapers are under pressure, particularly in the business sector. The FTD has made losses since its founding in 2000. Given that background, we see no way to continue publishing the paper."

Despite the continued dedication of Germans to printed newspapers, which makes Germany the liveliest print market in Europe, the sector has not been immune in recent years to the challenges that printed products are facing in the US and all over the world as an increasing number of readers switch to the Internet for their news. According to Nielsen Media Research, newspaper advertising revenue in Germany plunged by 6 percent in the first 10 months of the year relative to the same time periodin 2011 -- marking the continuation of a long downward trend. Whereas newspapers owned 29 percent of Germany's advertising market in 2000, that number had fallen to 20 percent by 2011, according to the Federation of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV).

The Ascendency of Online

When it comes to circulation, falling numbers have likewise become the norm. In the last decade, paid circulation of German dailies has fallen by a fifth, from 23.7 million copies in 2001 to 18.4 million in 2012, according to the BDZV -- a fall roughly equivalent to that seen in the US. Circulation of the Financial Times Deutschland, however, fell even faster. Between the third quarter of 2006 and the third quarter of this year, subscriptions dropped from 62,000 to 42,000. The total circulation during that


develop a web-based business model that was able to finance the kind of journalism we practice."

PARIS — The nation’s leading conservative newspaper ousted its top editor, apparently hoping to ingratiate itself with the new government. A cultural magazine brought in a new editor as well, opting for the partner of a newly minted government minister. The man she replaced took a job working for the new president. The springtime election of François Hollande, the first French president from the left in 17 years, has brought about a shuffling of the news media ranks, along with a host of potential conflicts of interest.

Coverage has shifted too. Much of the news media, which largely lean left, used to revel in denouncing Mr. Hollande’s predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, but now many journalistsnew president.

The news and culture magazine Les inRockuptibles hired as its new top editor Audrey Pulvar, a radio and television personality who was also the partner of Arnaud Montebourg, a government minister and a prominent member of the Socialist Party.

Mr. Pulvar recently announced the end of her relationship with Mr. Montebourg, but other such relationships have continued. Valérie Trierweiler, Mr. Hollande’s current partner, began an affair with him while reporting on him in the early 2000s, when he was a member of the National Assembly. She grudgingly passed on a television news job this fall and stayed at the magazine Paris Match as a critic.

Ms. Pulvar replaced David Kessler, who left to join Mr. Hollande as an adviser. Also, a legal affairs reporter at Europe 1 radio became


the spokesman for the justice ministry. A political reporter at Les Échos, a leading French financial newspaper, joined the prime minister’s press office.

The public media have gone through postelection changes too. In October, Mr. Hollande named a new director for the country’s international radio and television news networks, RFI and France 24. He has pledged to reform the law that allowed him to make that appointment, but not until next year. The directors of Radio France and France Télévisions, both appointed by Mr. Sarkozy, are expected to be replaced. The current law, which makes the naming of public media chiefs a presidential prerogative, was introduced by Mr. Sarkozy in 2009. At the time, commentators called the measure a power grab. Mr. Sarkozy said it was meant to removerecent official statistics indicate that its prisons had an occupancy rate of 110 percent, amounting to a surplus of 1,413 prisoners. The total number of inmates rose to 12,344 at the end of June from 11,099 in 2009.

In terms of overcrowding, Portugal ranks 13 out of 56 countries in greater Europe, including central Asian states like Azerbaijan, according to a study by the U.K.-based International Center for Prison Studies.

For his part, Mr. Alves works at the Custóias prison, which is built for 700 inmates. In the two months to mid-October, the number of prisoners there rose from 800 to 1,034, he said.

Mr. Rebelo, the other union leader, accused the government of manipulating statistics to play down the overcrowding problem. In Mr. Rebelo’s prison, Sintra, the number of inmates


only too well. He was released this year after 18 years in jail, spent in five different prisons for crimes that included homicide, drug trafficking and theft.

Mr. Santos said he spent his last year sharing a two-person cell with five other inmates. In September, inmates staged a strike to denounce beatings by guards, as well as worsening food and sanitary conditions, including having to share cells with inmates diagnosed with infectious diseases.

Former inmates claim basic items like shampoo and detergents, previously distributed for free, must now be bought, with guards in turn overcharging inmates and pocketing the difference. “In a crisis, corruption takes whatever little money is available out of the system,” Mr. Santos said.

Portugal’s prison guards insist the country’s economic crisis has made their situation even moreof Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats reached agreement late on Thursday on an Energy Bill to be published next week.

In a compromise, the coalition partners agreed to delay until 2016 a decision on cutting emissions from the power sector by 2030, but their move was heavily criticised by environmental campaigners.

The negotiations have been characterised as a battleground between finance minister George Osborne, who favours energy generated by gas-powered plants and the Lib Dems, who want clean energy sources such as renewables and nuclear.

Osborne believes the use of gas will keep bills down, while the Lib Dems — the junior partners in the coalition — want gas phased out of the energy system.

An estimated £110 billion (136 billion euros, $175 billion) is needed in the


this metal in the subcontinent,” he said.

Bodies were first laid to rest in open graves, fenced in by wooden railings. Then the graves were re-opened and the bones partially burnt before the graves were sealed and a burial mound built.

Men were buried with high quality flasks, bowls and cooking pots, and women with semi-precious beads, bronze hairpins, and spindles.

Taliban insurgents led by cleric Maulana Fazlullah terrorised the Swat valley from 2007 to 2009, beheading opponents and burning down girls’ schools as part of their determination to implement a harsh brand of Islamic law.

An army offensive in 2009 claimed to have defeated the insurgency, but isolated attacks continue.

In October, the Taliban shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai in the head in Mingora, the main town of Swat, in a case thatnational park (called Banco National Park) which spreads over 3,750 hectares located in the northern part of the municipality of Attécoubé. The climate is tropical with two rainy seasons separated from each other by a dry season. The major rainy season is from April to July and the shorter from October to November. The major dry season starts from December to March and a short one occurs from August to September \[[@R4], [@R12]\]. The annual average rainfall is between 1,300 and 1,600 mm. According to SODEXAM (Ivorian firm for the Development and Exploitation of Meteorological Parameters), the mean annual temperature is around 26.5 °C. The annual relative humidity is between 78% and 88%.

The container terminal of the autonomous Port of Abidjan, located in the municipality of Port Bouet, was one


BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s military has promoted an army general who fought Vietnam in a brief border war in 1979, the Defence Ministry said, part of a broad reshuffle expected as part of this autumn’s Communist Party congress.

FILE PHOTO - China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Gen. Li Zuocheng, center, speaks during a meeting with U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, not shown, at the Bayi Building in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Schiefelbein/Pool

In a brief statement late on Saturday, the ministry named army commander Li Zuocheng, 63, as the new chief of the Joint Staff Department of the People’s Liberation Army, replacing Fang Fenghui. It is not clear if Li also remains army commander.

The ministry did not directly announce Li’s promotion, simply identifying him withhis new title during a meeting with Pakistan army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.

It did not say what had happened to Fang, who turns 67 next year and is likely to retire.

The move comes as President Xi Jinping oversees an ambitious military modernization program, including adding new aircraft carriers and developing stealth fighters, and taking a more assertive stance in the disputed East and South China Seas.

Li was last year subject to a glowing profile in the official Beijing Daily that described his time fighting the Vietnamese, showing black-and-white pictures of him, aged 26 at the time, in a trench and pointing out positions on a map.

The state-run Global Times said on Sunday that Li had been wounded in the war but performed


UK industry reacts to Parker's plea for change

The British film industry is waiting on more detail from Alan Parker, the UK director and chairman of strategy body the Film Council, after he unveiled a blueprint for curing Britain of its 'little England' syndrome, partly by providing tax breaks for local and foreign distributors which invest in British film.

In a far reaching speech this week to the industry, Parker called for the existing production-focused tax breaks for British films - which expire in 2005 - to be replaced with a new distribution-led tax break.

Although no details have been given, it is understood these could take the form of factoring p&a costs into the production costs of a film to take advantage of the existing sale and leaseback deal orby encouraging foreign distributors, including the US majors, to set up joint venture companies in the UK to invest in British films.

"Direct subsidy solely to production will never, ever form the basis of a successful film industry - even if we double, triple or quadruple the money presently on offer," said Parker, director of Angela's Ashes and the upcoming The Life Of David Gale. "We need a tax break that gives incentives to distributors - both strong independents and American studios - to invest in and acquire British films."

He added: "We need distribution-led companies to carve out a British share of the $60bn world market."

Although most people Screen International talked to praised Parker's spirited and comprehensive approach, his focus on an increased investment in training and the need


for a more distribution-led industry, many found the devil to be in the details.

Distributors are sceptical about the effectiveness of tax incentives for a sector driven by market forces: "Tax breaks, in whatever form, are not really enough," says Zygi Kamasa, co-managing director of Helkon SK, which scored a box office hit this year with Bend It Like Beckham. "If a film's any good, we're already in a position to buy it and spend the appropriate amount of p&a on it. It would only encourage me to spend more p&a on marginal films, not invest more in British films."

Exhibitors were equally cautious about the impact of subsidising the release of British films. "Odeon selects which films it plays according to commercial merit," said Richard Segal, chief executive ofsaid Thomas, singled out by Parker as a "shining example" of a British producer as studio "mogul". "At the moment you can get 14% [of your budget] from it. That's serious money."

"The tax breaks have made all the difference in terms of making a film and keeping control of the film," said Barnaby Thompson of Fragile Films, whose credits include SpiceWorld, An Ideal Husband and The Importance Of Being Earnest. "But if the cost of p&a were factored into a sale and leaseback deal, that would make real difference."

However, producers and distributors were united behind Parker and the Film Council's aggressive moves to persuade the Government that the UK's broadcasters should be forced to invest in an increased number of British films.

"What would have the biggest impact on


head of BBC Films commented: "Although I'm not in favour of quotas for broadcasters, what we need is for the other broadcasters to get involved in British production."

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For about seven days, she tried on me endless kinds of sexual positions... She even had a special room filled with chains and stuff used for BDSM... I served her and pleased her, and did my best to satisfy her sexual apetite, that was unbelievable... She never spoke to me, only when it comes to giving orders, the whole time was sex, eating, swimming, punishment and then sex...The last two days she concentrated on screwing my asshole with a dildo, the more I begged her to be mercifull, the more she fucked me there... I was her true sexual slave...

Beforeagain, she moved them towards the restroom...

I walked there hoping that my juices wouldn't drop on the floor! She followed me, and after she locked the door behind her, she came to me and pushed me to the wall, and pulled up my t-shirt and savagely sucked and licked my large breasts... I closed my eyes and raised my head in pleasure and pain and, before I was going to cum, she stopped and pushed me to kneel on the floor and made me suck her sweet perfumed pussy till she orgasmed, and on the floor, I rubbed myself to ecstacy, while she fixed herself on the mirror, and then left without telling me a word...

I came back to my seat, and she sat in the same place,


her cloths... She made me fix myself on the chair, and fucked me with it hardly, doggie-style, spanking my ass-cheeks... I was going to fall down, but she always held me with my hair! And after I lost counting my orgasms, she sat on the bed, took the fruit salad from my breakfest, and made me lick and eat them on her small but sexy breasts... After that, she ordered me to pour honey on her asshole sothat I can lick them there, too. Then, when she came rocking the bed, she put her cloths on telling me that every morning I must prepare myself for her...

" Yes ma'am." was my only answer...

I spent a couple of weeks there, and I was screwed night and day, either byit introduces his daughter, Ellie. It also ends with a spectacular inventory issue featuring Scott Koblish impersonating Rob Liefeld to answer an important question about Wade Wilson's past. (No feet appear in the comic at all.) A couple of unfortunate decisions made Deadpool: Original Sin the weakest trade of the series; primarily, the plotting is jumbled. Too much of the story revolves around a wacky team-up with a time-lost Dazzler, whose personality barely goes beyond the many disco-related jokes made at her expense. Her presence killed a lot of momentum of the Deadpool/Shiklah relationship. Even Duggan and Posehn realized that they had messed up since Dazzler is returned to her era off-panel.

While I appreciated the skills of the artists on Deadpool, I never paid much attention the series'


regular penciler, Mike Hawthorne, until Original Sin saw him temporarily replaced. John Lucas is a good artist in his own right, but his style doesn't fit in with Hawthorne's or Koblish's; his characters are too exaggerated and the panels feel too dark and cluttered. I was relieved to learn that Hawthorne and Koblish are returning for the relaunch of the book as part of the strategy of changing nothing about this awesome creative team. In particular, Koblish deserves an extra kudos for drawing issue #40 as a coloring book, assisted by Val Staples doing a purposefully sloppy coloring job to make it look half-filled-in.

Back to Axis, one of my biggest complaints about the affected heroes and villains was the inconsistency of how the Inversion affected them. The villainsthat Emily Preston spent trapped as the second voice in Deadpool's head, as well as his combination and separation from Madcap. I'm reminded of the classic Batman: Going Sane in which the Joker gets cured by seemingly killing Batman, or when the Martian Manhunter tampered with both his brain and the Joker's in Grant Morrison's JLA. Deadpool's issues have always been part of his brain, both in the physical sense and in the composition of his thoughts and memories. The writers have essentially established that there are extra "slots" for other personalities that are jockeying to take the wheel. Perhaps Steve Rogers will end up in Wade's head after his elderly body dies ... or maybe this could be the path to Wolverine's resurrection.

Duggan and Posehn use Deadpool's


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Fans have discovered what appears to be the backstory to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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"Hylians pass stories of a destined time long past where multiple races lived and worked together in harmony. The Sheikah Tribe's blue aura breathed through the land and this mutual prosperity continued until a cataclysmic disaster stuck. The Hero and the Princess attempted to seal the terror which became known as the Calamity Ganon. Divine beasts awoke from four directions and deployed a mechanical army which made the King and his people fearful. They fractured Ganon's power and sealed him but the Sheikah were banished from the land ever since"

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regular data on them.

Staudinger's team says its report represents the first comprehensive assessment of this important forage fish in the Northwest Atlantic, though similar efforts have been carried out in the Pacific Northwest and Europe. In the Atlantic, sand lance are observed to be a significant food source for the federally endangered Roseate tern, Atlantic sturgeon and cod, Harbor and Grey seals and Minke and Humpback whales. "This paper is a call to our peers and colleagues that there is a big gap in knowledge, and to bring more attention to these species as unmanaged forage fish," says Staudinger.

To begin to address this need, she, Linda Welch of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Dave Wiley of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary led their colleagues from15 state and federal agencies, academic institutions and nonprofits in a 2017 workshop. The goal was to synthesize available data on the life history, behavior, distribution, feeding ecology, threats and vulnerabilities and ecosystem services role of sand lance in the northwest Atlantic. Wiley says "Sand lance are a key ingredient in the sanctuary's productivity. The more we know and understand about this forage fish the better equipped we will be to conserve and protect marine species that depend on this critical food source."

In addition to UMass Amherst's Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, the work was supported by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA/Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Boston University and others.

Overall, they report that 72 regional predators including 45 fish species, two squids,


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‘Muse of Fire’ Gives Eyewitness Accounts of War

By John J. KruzelAmerican Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2007  “Muse of Fire,” a film that debuted here last night, uses American troops’ eyewitness accounts and private journals to bring to life the tragedy, pain, horror, death and even the hope and optimism of war.

The documentary, shown at the National Archives, is a frank account of life on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan.

“I wanted to show servicemembers who have sacrificed so much for us, not only to humanize them, but to show how they grew personally and how they turned into writers,” film director Lawrence Bridges said at the debut.

Operation Homecoming, a National Endowment for the Arts literary program, served as Bridges’ inspiration. The program broughtfor the course for Forte, as his personal life has been leading him through a series of men who treat women badly, though none nearly as badly as the Thursday Night Slasher. Forte lives on the fringes of the investigation run by his old friend Sonny Ng until elements of Forte’s case and life dovetail with the Slasher investigation, leading to Forte discovering more about the crimes—and himself—than he wanted to know.

The Man in the Window

"...we see him getting rougher, tougher and darker book by book. There are multiple twists in the end, two cool sidekicks, good action scenes and some pretty nifty Chanderlisms in this book, adding up to a perfect PI read"--Sons of Spade blog

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Nick Forte 2)

It's a kind


of authorial magic that The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of works as a tribute and as a story, and that neither aspect interferes in the least with the other… I can imagine this book finding its way into a class on writing crime fiction as an example of how to pay tribute to one's predecessors while at the same time writing a story that can stand on its own. It's an impressive accomplishment.--- Peter Rozovsky, Detectives Beyond Borders, December 18, 2014

About Me

Two of my Nick Forte Private investigator novels (A SMALL SACRIFICE and THE MAN IN THE WINDOW) received nominations for Shamus Awards. I also write a series of police procedurals set in the economically depressed town of Penns River PA, published by Down & Out Books.Republican Greg Gianforte prepares to go onstage at a hotel ballroom to thank supporters after winning Montana's sole congressional seat Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Bozeman, Mont. In his speech, Gianforte apologized for a altercation at his campaign headquarters with a reporter on the eve of the special election. The altercation led to a misdemeanor assault citation. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

Republican Greg Gianforte prepares to go onstage at a hotel ballroom to thank supporters after winning Montana's sole congressional seat Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Bozeman, Mont. In his speech, Gianforte apologized for a altercation at his campaign headquarters with a reporter on the eve of the special election. The altercation led to a misdemeanor assault citation. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on the


Justin Meram found inspiration for Saturday night's performance in a most unusual place-the bottom of an old toiletry bag.

The Crew SC winger decided to take a different travel kit with him to Mapfre Stadium for the match against the San Jose Earthquakes. What Meram discovered inside unleashed memories that triggered many emotions.

Justin Meram found inspiration for Saturday night�s performance in a most unusual place�the bottom of an old toiletry bag.

The Crew SC winger decided to take a different travel kit with him to Mapfre Stadium for the match against the San Jose Earthquakes. What Meram discovered inside unleashed memories that triggered many emotions. It was a black �KU� armband players had worn to honor their late teammate Kirk Urso, who died four years ago of cardiac arrest atmatch his club could not afford to lose. He sent a lovely cross to Ethan Finlay for the game�s first goal in the 32 nd minute. He capped the victory by converting a penalty kick in the 84 th minute, enabling an announced crowd of 20,031 to exhale after so many late-game disappointments in Mapfre.

The Crew won at home for the first time since May 28. It had gone 0-1-6 in that stretch to tumble down the standings.

Meram is a team leader and a spiritual person. He felt surrounded Urso�s presence in the venue.

�He was with us today, I firmly believe that,� Meram said.

Urso has been in the thoughts of Crew players for weeks. The fourth anniversary of his passing was observed Aug. 5. Urso had collapsed at


a local bar. An autopsy revealed he had suffered from arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare genetic heart condition.

The team and Crew community were gutted by his loss. The club established a Kirk Urso Memorial Fund.

�He was that rookie with the goofiness and charm,� Meram recalled. �It was incredible he won a starting spot as a rookie. He came in taking all of our free kicks. He was like our (Designated Player). He was just an incredible guy.�

The Urso family remains close to the team and attends several Crew games a season. It witnessed the side break its 10-game winless streak on Aug. 20 in New England.

�I love them,� Meram said. �We want them to know better days are coming and that he�ll always be part of thisthe early 1990s, though her mother did not publicly acknowledge her as the column's co-writer until 2000. Jeanne worked as the writer, while Pauline edited. While Pauline remained at home, Jeanne would manage the office and their paid staff. Mother and daughter were listed as the writers after a December 12, 2000, letter to readers. A photo of the two was affixed to each column. Beginning on July 22, 2002 Jeanne was attributed as the only writer,
adding "Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips" at the bottom of each column. Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, the distributor of the column, said: "Over the past couple of years, Pauline Phillips hasn't had


her senior year she attended Washburn High School in Minneapolis. Phillips enjoyed the school, saying, "I loved it. I was never the most popular girl in the class. I never aspired to be. But I did make very nice friends." In college, she majored in English and anthropology, and studied anthropology at the University of Colorado and UCLA though she did not work in the field. She attempted interior design but ultimately decided it was unsatisfactory.

Phillips' aunt, Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer—Pauline's twin sister and the final columnist of the Ask Ann Landers advice column—died in June 2002. In addition to penning a tribute column, Phillips read a poem about her aunt on Larry King Live. In an interview with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 2001, Lederer said: "JeanneHungary’s Islamic community calls on court to investigate decree banning burka

Christian Keszthelyi

The Hungarian Islamic Community has asked the Constitutional Court to investigate a local government decree passed in the border town Ásotthalom that bans practices of the Muslim faith there, according to news portal index.hu. The community believes the measure is against the constitution.

Ásotthalom passed a decree banning the public practice of the Muslim faith – such as wearing a burka or building a mosque – as well as behavior that does not conform with the concept that the male-female relationship is the basis of families, according to reports last week.

“The Hungarian Islamic Community has been shocked about rising xenophobia in Hungary, as well as Islamophobia, which has reached its peak with the government decree of Ásotthalom,” the


Peace Now Settlement Watch: Settlers' Residence Being Prepared in a Hebron Military Compound

Renovations are currently taking place in the military compound of "Plugat Hamitkanim" in Hebron, in
order to prepare the area for the residence of settlers.

This area, which used to serve as Hebron's central bus station, was seized through a military
order during the 80's. By law, and according to a High Court verdict from 1979, it is forbidden to seize lands
for military needs and then use them for the purpose of settlements.

Having residential housing in a military base also contradicts the principle of distinction
between civilians and combatants, and constitutes a clear violation of International Humanitarian
Law. Thus, the plan is to deduct a portion of the land seized for military purposes and allocate it for the
purpose of a settlement.While the seizure order will be lifted, this constitutes a bending of the law mentioned
above for the benefit of settlers.

This portion of the land used to be under Jewish ownership prior to 1948 and was leased to the Hebron
municipality by the Jordanians. The status of Hebron municipality is of protected tenancy and therefore, until now,
the Israeli legal opinion was that the land cannot be taken from the municipality other than in the pretext of
military use.

In addition, allocating lands belonged to Jews before 1948 to settlers is practically an implementation
of the "right of return" for Jews only and on the expense of the protected Palestinians tenants.

In a letter to the Defense Minister and to the Head of the Civil Administration, Peace now
demanded to prevent the establishment of this New


settlement in Hebron.

Peace Now: What is happening in Hebron is a clear bending of the law, according to which a land seized for
military purposes cannot be used for the purpose of settlement. The Israeli government continues to find new ways
to accommodate the extreme settlers in the city of Hebron, where the occupation is the most apparent and most
severe. If the military necessity is no longer there, the land must be returned to its owners and the protected
lease agreement with the Hebron municipality must be renewed.

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During the 1980s the base of "Plugat Hamitkanim" was established in the location of the old central bus station at
the heart of Hebron. Prior to the seizure order, the land was owned partly by Palestinian individuals and partly by
Jewish individuals from before 1948, whoseland was leased to the Hebron Municipality by the Jordanians and then by
the Israelis through the Custodian's Office.

The expropriation of the land was done through a seizure order which was not issued in writing but rather given
orally. In the early 1990s settlers moved into the compound against the law, and following Peace Now's petition to
the High Court (6492/08), a written seizure order was issued on June 24, 2009, defining the lands seized for
military purposes.

In the past few weeks renovations are taking place in the military compound of "Plugat Hamitkanim." From
information obtained by Peace Now, it appears that the reason for the renovations is the move of settlers into the
compound. So far foundations were laid, the fence surrounding the compound was moved and additional structures were
brought in. Soldiers that


used to live in the structures of the old bus station recently evacuated these and moved
to the new structures mentioned above. The now empty old structures, which are currently included in the seizure
order, are meant, as far as we know, to house settlers in the near future. The plan, as it appears, is to deduct
this portion of the land from the military order in order to allow the entry of settlers to the area and to allow
them to plan bigger construction on the land.

The deduction is necessary as settling in lands seized for military purposes is illegal based on the precedential
High Court verdict of Alon More in 1979. Furthermore, settling inside the base would constitute a violation of
International Humanitarian Law's principle of distinction between civilians and combatants.

In aletter sent on August 16, 2016 to the Defense Minister, the Head of the Civil Administration and the Legal
Advisor of the Civil Administration on West Bank issues, Peace Now demanded to prevent the entry of settlers to the
area. What is happening in Hebron is a clear bending of the law, according to which a land seized for military
purposes cannot be used for the purpose of settlement. The land in question was seized through a military seizure
order, and now the seizure order is being lifted only from the particular area that settlers intend to enter. Even
if the military necessity is no longer there, but exists on the portion of the lands that used to be owned by
Palestinian individuals, the lifting of a seizure order is supposed to lead to


Measure with a Tape

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

Then the Crane

Was caught in the Rain

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

And the Beaver
Was afraid he had a Fever

But the Goat
Said:

"It's nothing but his Throat!"

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

And the Pig
Danced a Jig

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

Then the Stork
Gave a Philosophic Talk

Till the Hippopotami
Said: "Ask no further 'What am I?'"

While the Elephant
Said something quite irrelevant

And the Goose--
Well,

the Goose _was_ a Goose

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

And the Mouse

Built himself a little House

Where the Cat

Sat down beside the Mat

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

And the Whale

Told a very long Tale

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

And the Owl
Was a funny old Fowl

And the Fox

Put them all in the Stocks

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

But Johnny Crow
He let them go

And they all sat down
to their dinner in a row

In Johnny Crow's Garden.

"GOOD-BYE!"

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JOHNNY CROW'Sin the host defence against baculovirus infection by interfering in the viral life cycle. In order for successful viral replication to occur, the baculovirus needs to control host molting and pupation in infected larvae. Host metamorphosis is regulated by two hormones: ecdysone, which causes molting, and JH, which allows larval molting but prevents pupation. Host insects may respond to AcMNPV infection by increasing JH trafficking, which could explain the activation of JH carrier genes by heat-inactivated AcMNPV. Live AcMNPV counteracts this measure by suppressing gene activation, thereby controlling host molting and pupation to be more favourable for the viral replication cycle.

Host ecdysone levels have been reported to be controlled by viral ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase (EGT). Viral EGT functions to block molting and pupation in infected insect larvae by inactivating


In this highly imaginative, delightfully absurdist comedy from visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos (DOGTOOTH), Colin Farrell stars as David, a man who has just been dumped by his wife. To make matters worse, David lives in a society where single people have 45 days to find true love, or else they are turned into the animal of their choice and released into the woods. After several romantic misadventures, David decides to make a daring escape to abandon this world and ultimately joins up with a rebel faction known as the Loners, a group founded on a complete rejection of romance. But once there David meets an enigmatic stranger (Rachel Weisz) who stirs up unexpected and strong feelings within him.

Early 18th-century England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, ducka Greek woman and mathematician, astronomer and philosopher bravely struggling to save the wisdom of classical antiquity in the midst of religious war. Filming took place on the island of Malta, where production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas re-created large parts of the city on location, further extended with the help of computer-generated imagery. The construction of the main set employed almost 400 people, and was the largest ever built on the island.


GLENDORA, Calif. - Bobby Cottrell, Drew Austin and John Marottek each claimed 2018 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series
Championships this past weekend at the California Hot Rod Reunion presented by the Automobile Club
of Southern California at Auto Club Famoso Raceway. The three joined Mendy Fry who had already
locked up her championship, along with nine other racers to clinch championships at the season
ending event.

Cottrell had all but clinched the Nostalgia Funny Car championship coming into the weekend, then
did so by qualifying for the 16-car funny car field. The Whittier, Calif., racer, driving for Bucky
Austin, won three events this year on his way to the title. Cottrell fell to event winner Jason
Rupert in the semifinals as Rupert went on to beat out Rian Konno in the Funny Car final with the
quickestfunny car run of the event at 5.634 seconds.

Drew Austin and Marottek not only clinched championships in A/Fuel and Jr. Fuel respectively, but
they won the event as did Fry in Nostalgia Top Fuel. Austin beat Wayne Ramay in the A/Fuel final
which moved him ahead of Kin Bates for the championship. The two have been locked in a battle all
season. Marottek clinch early in the weekend, then beat out Don Enriquez in the final posting a
6.997, 155.96 mph victory lap for his third win of the year.

Fry, who was on a victory lap all weekend, qualified No. 1 then marched through the field and
knocked out Rick McGee in the final with a 5.610, 259.36 mph lap. The win was Fry's third of the
season in four final rounds.

Robert Johnson also