Spondylitis in turkeys associated with experimental Pasteurella anatipestifer infection.
Nine previously vaccinated turkeys were inoculated intravenously with Pasteurella anatipestifer, and blood samples were taken periodically to evaluate the potential of chronically infected turkeys to serve as reservoirs of infection for blood-feeding arthropod vectors. Vertebral osteomyelitis (spondylitis), as yet unreported in the literature in association with infection with the organism, was found in the thoracic vertebrae of five out of nine inoculated turkeys, and P. anatipestifer was isolated from the thoracic vertebrae of three of the five. The organism was isolated from the peripheral blood of six turkeys 24 hours postinoculation and from the peripheral blood of one turkey 7 days postinoculation. The organism was also isolated from the heart blood of two birds at necropsy--from one at 21 dayshouses several buildings of IT companies. SEE PHOTOS FROM THE CRASH SITE

The pilots managed to eject from the plane before it crashed. While Negi died at the crash site, Abrol was taken to the nearby HAL hospital where he was declared dead.

“HAL regrets to inform that one upgraded Mirage 2000 aircraft crashed during the customer acceptance flight at HAL airport here today around 10.30 am resulting in loss of lives of two pilots Sqn Ldr Sameer Abrol and Sqn Ldr Siddartha Negi,’’ HAL said in a statement on Friday.

The fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed at the military airport runway near Bengaluru soon after take-off for a training sortie on Friday. (PTI) The fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed at the military airport runway


near Bengaluru soon after take-off for a training sortie on Friday. (PTI)

“Today morning a Mirage 2000 trainer aircraft on an acceptance sortie after upgrade crashed at HAL airport, Bengaluru. Both occupants sustained fatal injuries,” a defence ministry statement said on Friday afternoon.

Doctors at the HAL hospital where Abrol was taken after the crash said he was brought with multiple injuries including severe burns.

A still from a video grab shows smoke rising from the wreckage of the Mirage-2000 fighter aircraft after it crash landed in Bengaluru. (PTI) A still from a video grab shows smoke rising from the wreckage of the Mirage-2000 fighter aircraft after it crash landed in Bengaluru. (PTI)

Negi who is from Dehradun was commissioned into the IAF on June 27, 2009 while Abrol who is fromGhaziabad in UP was commissioned on June 21, 2008. They were flying the second acceptance sortie of the upgraded Mirage 2000 when the crash occurred.

The Mirage 2000 aircraft made by the French firm Dassault Aviation was inducted into the Indian Air Force from 1985 and performed exceedingly well during the Kargil conflict in 1999.

The Mirage 2000 fleet in the IAF is being upgraded under a $ 2.2 billion agreement signed in 2011 to put it in the league of a multi-role combat aircraft.

The crash on Friday was the first one involving an upgraded Mirage 2000 TI aircraft since these fighters began being delivered to the IAF by HAL in 2016

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Around 66 million years ago, a six mile-wide (10km) asteroid smashed into the Earth off Mexico's Yucatan peninsular.

The impact wiped out three quarters of all plant and animal species - including the dinosaurs - triggering mega-tsunami, wildfires, global earthquakes.

But even Armageddon can have a silver lining, according to a new discovery which claims the event proved a turning point for the plants that now dominate vegetation on Earth.

After the impact, fast-growing seasonal species of plants began to take over from evergreens. This is according to a study of 1,000 fossilised plant leaves in North Dakota by the University of Arizona

After the impact, fast-growing seasonal species of plants rapidly began to take over from evergreens.

'If you think about a mass extinction caused by catastrophic event such as a meteoritelasted no more than two to three decades, but that was long enough to wipe out the dinosaurs, flying and swimming reptiles, and many other forms of life. Only the most adaptable survived, leading to the reign of the birds and mammals that continues to this day. Advertisement

Deciduous plants, which grow fast and lose their leaves at some point during the year, were better able to survive the changing conditions of an impact winter, the researchers believe.

Evergreen plants, such as holly, tend to have leaves that are costly to construct but robust and long-lasting. Leaves of deciduous plants are short lived and more cheaply built, but easier to replace.

'There is a spectrum between fast and slow-growing species,' said Dr Blonder. 'There is the 'live fast, die young' strategy


and there is the "slow but steady" strategy.'

The discovery, reported in the online journal Public Library of Science Biology, followed a study of around 1,000 fossilised plant leaves dating back to a 2.2 million-year period spanning the impact event.

All the fossils were collected from a rock formation known as Hell Creek that marks the site of an ancient flood plain in the south of North Dakota.

Analysis of the leaf samples revealed the switch from evergreens to deciduous plants after the meteor struck.

'We measured the mass of a given leaf in relation to its area, which tells us whether the leaf was a chunky, expensive one to make for the plant, or whether it was a more flimsy, cheap one,' said Dr Blonder. 'In other words, how much carbonA complete list of participants in the DCCT/EDIC Research Group is presented in the online Supplementary Appendix of the article published in N Engl J Med 2017;376:1507--1588.

**Funding.** The project was supported in part by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grant number P30DK020572 (Michigan Diabetes Research Center). The DCCT/EDIC has been supported by cooperative agreement grants (1982--1993, 2012--2017, 2017--2022) and contracts (1982--2012) with the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (current grant numbers U01 DK094176 and U01 DK094157) and through support from the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the General Clinical Research Centers Program (1993--2007), and the Clinical Translational Science Center Program (2006--present), Bethesda, MD.

The following


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This morning, the Fairborn Skyhawks of Fairborn, Ohio announced that they had hired Brooklyn Summitt, née Brooklyn Pumroy, to be the school’s new girls’ basketball coach. One of her new assistant coaches will be her husband Tyler Summitt.

You may remember Tyler, son of legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, as the former Marquette assistant coach and former Louisiana Tech head coach who resigned in 2016 after he admitted to having an “inappropriate relationship.” Neither Summitt nor the school clarified exactly what sort of relationship led to Summitt’s resignation, though he divorced his wife shortly after he resigned and he recently married Pumroy, who played for him at both Marquette and Louisiana Tech.

After rumors began swirling in early 2016 that Summitt had impregnated one of the two playersof light. He climbed a hill, and had an assistant climb another hill, both carrying lanterns with closed shutters. He then opened the shutter of his lantern. His assistant opened his own shutter when he saw Galileo's lantern. Galileo then measured the time it took for his assistant's shutter to open. Knowing the time difference, and the distance between the hills, he tried to estimate the speed of light. However, this did not work.[5]

Galileo came to accept the findings of Copernicus, that the Sun was the center of the then-known universe, and not the Earth. Because he promoted this and other ideas, he came to the notice of the Committee of Propaganda, the dreaded Inquisition. The Church taught that the Earth stood still, while everything in the sky


moved around it. The Inquisition ruled that other theories could only be discussed as possibilities, not facts.

Galileo later defended his views in his most famous work, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in 1632. The book was in the form of conversations between three men. The man representing the Church's point of view was called 'Simplicio'. At this, the Inquisition took action. He was arrested and put on trial. They found him "vehemently suspect of heresy". They reminded him of the fate of Giordano Bruno, who had been burnt at the stake for heresy. Bruno's heresy was to believe the Earth went round the Sun, and that there were many other stars. The Inquisition forced Galileo to recant (say he was wrong) under the threat ofexecution, and to withdraw his works from publication. Galileo spent the rest of his life under house arrest.[6][7]

In time, more and more of Galileo's findings were accepted as true. Late in the 20th century, Pope John Paul II called Galileo the "father of modern physics", and made a public apology for how the Church treated him earlier.

Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, Tolemaico et Copernicano. Florence, 1632. The famous 'dialogue between two world systems'.

Discorsi et demonstrazioni mathematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze. (discourses and mathematical demonstrations relating to two new sciences) Leiden 1638. This, on the mathematics of motion, was not such a controversial subject, and was published in Holland, out of the Inquisition's territory.


Rachel, an 18-year-old Columbia University student, descends into the netherworld of runaways and predators to find her sister, Olivia, who has suddenly disappeared.

After getting a job in a strip joint where Olivia worked, then doing private shows in the homes of rich clients, Rachel discovers that Olivia has been abducted by a killer who auctions the deaths of young girls in an eBay of agony.

When she finds Olivia, Rachel becomes the killer’s next target.

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About The Author:

GUSTAVO FLORENTIN was born in Queens, New York, and received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University of New York. He spent a decade in the defense industry, working on the F-14 fighter jet and classified electronic warfare projects.

After the fall of the Soviet Union many thought America wouldn’t need weaponsBlu-ray in early May, it's likely it will start to become available via streaming services later this month. It's possible the movie could continue to be a force at the box office (albeit an admittedly small one) right up to that point.

Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

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Sexual practices, myths and misconceptions among long distance truck drivers in North India.
Long distance truck drivers and helpers constitute a high risk group for human immunodeficiency virus /acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Despite increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS and safe sex practices, they still have a high incidence of new cases of HIV. This study carried out at an ART (anti-retroviral treatment) centre in North India aimed to evaluate the sexual myths and misconceptions prevalent among long distance drivers and helpers. This was a retrospective study carried out at apex ART centre. Data were collected retrospectively from ART records of 129 long distance Truck drivers and 68 helpers. Details of socio-demographic characteristics, contact with commercial sex workers (CSW'S), pattern of condom usage with CSW'S and factors influencing it wereHe left his job at a pharmaceutical company in the capital's Mirpur area one and a half months ago to set up a yaba factory himself.

A chemist and a graduate in chemistry, Jasim Uddin wanted to be rich overnight. But he ended up in jail, as he along with his four accomplices was arrested on Wednesday, detectives said.

The four others are -- Syed Tarikul Islam Sumon, 27, a former colleague of Jasim; Ali Akbar, 28; Zubayer Hossain Jewel, 28; Kirti Azad alias Tutul, 37.

The 32-year-old man from Comilla's Laksham had collected equipment necessary to produce the contraband pills, detectives said, adding that Kirti Azad rented a flat at Mirpur-2 to set up a factory there.

Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police raided the flat


at night and arrested them along with 500 pieces of yaba tablets, and seized yaba-manufacturing equipment and chemicals, said Abdul Baten, joint commissioner (DB) of DMP.

Briefing reporters at the DMP media centre yesterday, the police official said the arrested people had a target to produce 50,000 pieces of yaba tablets per hour.

“But the factory was busted before it could go into production. It was a major attempt to produce yaba in the city,” he said.

Though the contraband pills are smuggled into the country from Myanmar through Teknaf border, drug traders tried several times to set up factories in the capital.

In August 2014, detectives arrested four alleged yaba traders who tried to bring in equipment to set up a factory in the capital's Banasree area. In October 2007, Rabarrested Amin Huda, known as one of the top drug barons in Bangladesh, and busted his factory in Gulshan.

A DB official preferring anonymity told The Daily Star that Jasim, who completed masters in chemistry from a private university in Chittagong, made the whole plan six to seven months ago.

He convinced his trusted former colleague Sumon who managed the three others, said the official.

Jasim collected one of the machines for Tk 3 lakh from a pharmaceutical company in Comilla where he worked until he got a job in Dhaka eight years ago, the official added.

Police said the value of the equipment seized from the flat is worth Tk 10 lakh. The money was given by a businessman whom the police are now looking for. The equipment was made in


Legendary Van Cliburn Returns to Concert Life the Pianist Emerges after a Long `Sabbatical' to Promote His Tour

Article excerpt

Last week, the revered pianist and cultural hero met 200 fans at
the Boston music store as part of a national tour to introduce his
return to the concert stage after a long hiatus.

On the third floor of the Tower Records building, the tall slim
pianist with thick blonde hair - barely graying at the temples -
greeted fans with a gracious "Hello." He also shook hands and
signed autographs, putting either a black Sharpie or a gold-ink pen
to book pages, photos, and record sleeves.

The line of admirers wound around to the back of the store near
the Mozart section; estimated time of arrival to Cliburn: two
hours.

(The pianist reportedly greeted every last fan - something he
wasnot able to do in Minneapolis, where 2,000 people showed up.)

As the cameras and smiles flashed, one couldn't help but notice
his large nimble hands with fingers that seemed as long as an
octave is wide. His blue suit and white shirt were as crisp as any
beginning notes of a concerto.

"He's here to meet his fans, meet the people who care most
about his music, and reintroduce himself to the public. `Cordial'
doesn't even begin to describe him," he says.

David Richardson arrived almost two hours before Mr. Cliburn to
assure a first spot in line.

"I was a bit nervous," Richardson said after meeting the
pianist. "He's, like, my hero." Richardson, 18, a serious student
of piano, added, "I didn't think we'd be able to shake his hand."

Richardson and thousands of other fans who have met


with Cliburn
in seven cities during the past few weeks stand as proof that after
more than a decade "on sabbatical" Cliburn has maintained his
celebrity appeal.

Van Cliburn won the gold medal at the first Tchaikovsky
Competition in Moscow in 1958, at the height of the cold war. …remains immersed
in the same passionate and soulful atmosphere it was formed in, inspiring their
melodic alternative rock sound. They followed up with their first English
language album, Hunting for Happiness,
in 2005, expanding their European audience. Dikta filled every venue and played
every festival in Iceland and opened for The Kooks during their 2010 European
tour before releasing their third album, Get
it Together, through their recent union with German record label Smarten-Up.
Prior to releasing the album in Germany, Get
it Together, also sung in English, reached Platinum in their home country.

Late
in 2011 Dikta’s song “Thank You” and the music video to Dikta’s “Goodbye” were
pre-loaded on the new Blackberry Bold 9900/9930 mobile phones, produced in
around 8 million copies worldwide.

Dikta
shows no signs of slowing down in 2012, releasing their new album, Trust Me,
and winning the People’s


baffling behaviour ultimately led to Felt never quite being accepted within the mainstream. They recorded for Cherry Red records with Classically trained guitarist Maurice Deebank in tow. They later moved to Creation Records, Maurice left, Martin Duffy ( future Primal Scream keyboard man ) joined. They released ten albums and ten singles in ten years. Only a few of which are featured here, because I simply haven't been able to track them all down as yet. They officially formed during 1980 in Birmingham, England.

The debut Felt album sounds so delicate and fragile that even a softly caressed blow from loving lips would cause it to fall down and collapse around your ears. We've the guitar sound of Maurice Deebank, classically trained and sounding not at all Rock Nso gorgeous, so special, so romantic. The singing is good too actually, very affecting. So yes, second song 'The World Is As Soft As Lace' makes me cry all the time. Maurice opens the tune with an utterly distinctive and special guitar pattern. The sound hangs in the air and reaches into your tearducts and gets them moving. Lawrence plays the other guitar, the drums and vocals both sound like they were played in somebodies bathroom. "The softest touch, the gentlest word..." sings lawrence, then the female backing vocals come in and this listeners heart bursts completely. The opening lyrical/vocal section over?? The backing vocals not enough? That guitar pattern that opened the song comes swinging back in to link into the next verse & chorus. The guitar,


this guitar! Just repeats and varies and goes straight through the song and the sound of the thing. I can't explain or describe the sound. Just, so elegant. Lawrence sets down the poetic lyrics, the romantic pleading, pouring out emotionally lyric. He sings of course, his vocals are fragile, beautiful. Gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS song. One of the best.

Ah, so what else is new? Well, 'The World Is As Soft As Lace' is surrounded by two instrumentals that display the sound of early Felt extremely well. Mr Deebank very much to the fore with the guitar. I prefer the short, sad sounding 'Red Indians' to the breezy 'Optimist And The Poet' - that's my personal preference. 'Mexican Bandits' also manages to be breezy, happy sounding. 'Preacher In New England'tracks listening to this, and played both next to each other, shocked... try it yourself and tell me I'm wrong. Max

Lawrence wanted to write short two or three minute pop songs. Maurice wanted to showcase his classically trained guitar skills over long instrumental tracks. Lawrence was the leader of the group and Maurice ended up writing guitar parts for three minute pop songs. It gives the group something interesting though, at this stage. We open with the glittering jangle guitar pop of 'Roman Litter'. Lawrence puts his lyrical skills to the test, intelligent lyrics, slightly self-depreciating, always poetry. His has a slightly peculiar voice, it's full of character, full of stops and starts and often drifts off at the end of sentences when they are sung. It's all


in their own modest terms ) with an instrumental album by a line-up missing their most impressive instrumentalist, departed guitarist Maurice Deebank. Lawrence obviously went all out for GOLD COMMERCIAL POPSTARS HIT PAGE THREE TABLOID GOSSIP CHART TOPPING CRAP SHITTING WANK! Yes, he did! Um....... Releasing an album with neglible commercial appeal after being on the brink of a breakthrough can be seen as being a difficult bugger, or you can simply sit back and admire the guy. A few of the songs here feature keyboard player Martin Duffy heavily, the more beautiful songs are in the old Felt style, and the lack of the tone and magic of Maurice Deebank is overcome, because the songs are fragile, the songs are delicate and just so special, that wordsLady' starts with delicate guitar then bursts into the most impossibly lovely 'ahhhh' backing vocals section. 'Grey Streets' grows and grows upon you and again, Martin Duffy does stellar things with his organ. I got into this argument with a guy in a pub the other day. This is an aside, but its important! This guy was a heavy metal freak. A guitar player, 19 years old. Thought that he looked kind of tough, but even though i'm lovely and one of the least tough people imaginable, I could have easily had him in a fight. He was all hot air, oh yes! Anyway. He was going on. Laying into indie music and saying heavy metal 'players' were clearly the best musicians out there. I said that he


about it is a tangential, related one - namely, that Martin Duffy subsequently joining Primal Scream has to rank as one of the greatest wastes of musical talent in history.

Apart from the rarely heard or seen 'Me And A Monkey On The Moon', this was the last Felt album before Lawrence re-invented himself as 'Denim'. The opening track here is more Jazz Piano instrumental aka 'Train Above The City, beautifully done, if hideously overlong. The second song, 'The Darkest Ending' ( on the CD, at least ) is a little better, incorporating some spooky deep notes into a sparse Jazz influenced atmosphere. But, still no Felt! Luckily, salvation was at hand. We do get an entire side of eight short but nearly always completely wonderful proper Felt songsto enjoy. Some of Lawrence's best lyrics are here, not least on closing 'Don't Die On My Doorstep' but also on the opening 'Apple Boutique'. The keyboards go everywhere, the guitar is simple but melodic jangle, and the vocals are rich in 'up and down' melody. 'Ivory Past' opens with a guitar figure that sounds like the sound of summer - a bass part comes in, Lawrence opens his mouth and poetry comes out. It's such a happy song, and at just over two minutes in length, harking back to The Sixties in terms of pop song structure. 'Until The Fools Get Wise' is slightly less happy and bouncy than the opening two pop songs, but the lyrics are just as well constructed and Lawrence sings as well


in the village to get a clear
picture. Oh well-back to my old Lou Reed albums Dylan? Phil Ochs?

Ben
fireescapetalking@google.comYes, the Greenwich Village references are obvious to many British ears. Lawrence packed up his things and went to live in NYC for a time after Felt finished. Most obviously, his biggest American influence is Dylan (although Kerouac runs a close second, from whom he got the title for the album).

Robert
A minor error in your Felt -- Pictorial Jackson Review, err, review:"Apart from the rarely heard or seen 'Me And A Monkey On The Moon', this was the last Felt album before Lawrence re-invented himself as 'Denim'."Train Above the City was Felt's penultimate album.PJR: Mar 88TATC: Jul 88Great reviews on your site BTW!

Me And A Monkey On The Moon 8½ (dawn for the group. But, for awful promotion and distribution! Song titles such as 'Budgie Jacket' reveal Lawrence love for the 70's, soon to come out in Denim, his next outfit. All I know is that several of the songs here are gorgeous, the first especially. It arrives all so mellow, almost American with the almost slide country guitar, only it isn't, I think. The vocal is spot on, the entire musical backing just oh so dreamy! 'Mobile Shack' shares melodies from the previous album, although the lyric is fun and tongue in cheek. The song is just lots of fun. 'Free' switches moods again, opening with a lovely keyboard pattern and other absolutely gorgeous melodies. 'Budgie Jacket' has non-felt guitars, like normal guitars. It's not the oh


as striking as before. The first ten songs here comprise single A Sides and B Sides. 'Ballad Of The Band' contains lyrics directly related to events in Felt land mentioning song titles and the lyric "oh, and I feel like giving in...." Lucky for us, he didn't hey? 'I Didn't Mean To Hurt You' is a gorgeous ballad, strummed guitars, beautiful keyboard parts and a beautifully poetic set of lyrics. Martin Duffy goes solo for 'Magellan', an astounding two minute Piano instrumental that sounds like it's right in the room with you. The pop side of Felt has been covered by 'I Will Die With My Head In Flames' and it's flip, 'Sandmans On The Rise'. 'The Final Resting Of The Ark' is very quiet and restrained, butcontains a haunting vocal quality. The likes of 'Autumn' and 'There's No Such Thing As Victory' are similarly quiet and restrained, much focus on the lyrical content. 'Be Still' is a cover of a Dennis Wilson Beach Boys song and as beautiful as it ever was. 'Space Blues' is strikingly different from anything else here and hinted at a Felt future in a different guise that eventually became a group called Denim. 'Space Blues' is fantastic by the way.

The five albums Felt recorded through the years 86, 87 and 88 comprised three 'regular' studio albums and two albums of instrumentals. The first four songs on the second CD of this package ( 'Song For William S Harvey' onwards ) are from the first instrumental album. Full band performances


but with emphasis on the keyboard work of Martin Duffy. A more regular Felt arrives with the jaunty 'Grey Streets', the keyboard playing melodies and lines all over the place, guitar less important although still audible and filling out the overall sound. The first great stupendous gem of a song on the second CD arrives with the beautifully poetic and heartbreaking 'A Wave Crashed On Rocks'. Lovely vocals, delicate instrumentation - a work of care, dedication and art. 'She Lives By The Castle' is another highlight, a genuine absolute classic masterpiece, if you will! A lovely guitar part appears after two and half minutes and the lyrics are mysterious story telling fantasy romance. 'Stained Glass Windows In The Sky' is a wonderfully simple slice of Felt pop lastingI'm Against the Eighties

Felt become Denim! Lawrence had a load of 'Back In Denim' badges made up to give to 'the kids' in the event of selling lots of records and becoming famous. He's probably still got a drawer fill of them now, sadly. But, but, BUT! 'Back In Denim' is a triumph from beginning to end. The lack of sales somewhat sapped the enthusiasm of Lawrence, who although went on to produce two further 'Denim' albums, neither came anywhere close to matching the glory of this record. It's a concept album - a tribute to the early Seventies, if you will. A celebration of cheese, of Glam. It works as a touching document, a personal tribute from Lawrence matched to great tunes with added hand-claps for good


when I got it home, I was totally horrified, and bar one or two songs, have remained so to this day. There is something else to consider before I describe some of the music itself. Creation Records ( one time home of Felt ) wanted to re-sign Lawrence on the condition his new music wouldn't be anything like Denim's recent work. Creation folded in the event, and this album appears on West Midland Records, Lawrence's own label imprint. And, does the music sound like 'Denim On Ice' or 'Novelty Rock', those two 'mixed' Denim album projects following the masterful 'Back In Denim'? In places it does, but none of the half dozen Denim type songs are particularly good. Most of the rest of this short, thirty minute projecthad entirely different people, apart from Lawrence himself, of course. 'On The Hot Dog Streets' then is very familiar post-felt fare from Lawrence stylistically, cheap keyboards and glam references - yet done spectacularly well. The songs are great, the lyrics are funny and the entire thing has probably sold ten copies whilst being illegally downloaded about 100,000 times, enough to give Lawrence that long desired, hit record. So, 'Denim Takes Over' becomes 'Lawrence Takes Over' - we're a novelty band. The direction Lawrence took after Felt was brave, daft and stupid in many respects, yet he did create music nobody else was creating. Funny music, funny lyrics, not only nodding back to the early Seventies - but nodding back to one-hit wonders from the Seventies. 'West Brom Blues'


Thousands of supporters of Thailand's prime minister have massed in the capital, as part of a three-day rally countering months of anti-government protests, pledging to deter any move to dismiss Prime Minister Shinawatra Yingluck, who faces a growing list of legal challenges that could bring down her administration.

Up to 20,000 Red Shirts were already gathered by Saturday morning, several hours ahead of the official start of the rally, according to Paradorn Pattanatabut, a security adviser to the premier.

"The authorities expect more than 200,000 Red Shirts to turn out," he told AFP, as supporters of the movement poured into the capital in buses and trucks for what is expected to be their biggest show of strength in the months-long crisis.

Paradorn said the authorities did not expect any clashes withrival anti-government protesters who have been holding daily rallies at a park in the city centre, far from the site of the Red Shirt rallies.

"What we are concerned by is third parties," he said, alluding to unidentified assailants who have launched a series of gun and grenade attacks around the capital in recent months, often targeting opposition protesters.

'Judicial coup'

Thailand has been shaken by more than five months of anti-government protests that snowballed after the ruling party tried to ram an amnesty bill through Parliament that would have allowed Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, to return from self-imposed exile and avoid serving a jail sentence for corruption.

Thaksin, a billionaire former prime minister who now lives in Dubai, was overthrown by the army in a 2006 coup after being accused of


abuse of power.

The struggle pits the mostly poorer, rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother against anti-government protesters from middle class in Bangkok and the south backed by the conservative elite. Yingluck's opposition want her government replaced by an unelected "people's council" of notable worthies before a new election is held.

Although protests targeting Yingluck have dwindled, judicial pressure has been on the rise.

On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court accepted a case against her lodged by 27 senators who say Yingluck abused power when she transferred the national security chief in 2011.

Yingluck has been given 15 days to defend herself before the court. If found guilty, she faces removal from office.

She also faces charges of negligence brought against her by the National Anti-Corruption Commission in connection with a government rice-buyingscheme that has run-up huge losses. She could be impeached if the case is forwarded to the Senate.

Most analysts predict her administration will eventually fall in a ``judicial coup,'' because Thailand's courts and independent state agencies are widely seen as biased against Thaksin's political machine. There are fears that if that happens, violence will follow as Yingluck's backers react.

Earlier this week in the northeastern province of Udon Thani, about 1,000 Red Shirt members took part in a martial arts training that organizers said was intended was aimed at protecting democracy and the elected government.

Twenty-four people have been killed and more than 700 injured since the anti-government protests erupted in late November.


(Lester Thorne) in Colora, Maryland. Mrs. Browning was then at home and signed a written consent to a search of the premises by the officers, which consent was witnessed by one Arlene Weigle, a periodic occupant of the home. Accompanied by Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Weigle, the officers searched the first and second floors. On the second floor they found a locked door which was identified as Ronald Thorne's room. Mrs. Weigle stated that she had shared the room for the night and had accidentally locked the door on her way out of the room that morning. The officers testified that with Mrs. Browning's permission they forced the door open; Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Weigle testified *125 that Mrs. Browning forced it open by bumping up against thedoor.
The officers entered the room, made a search thereof, and seized some evidence of the crimes. Several weeks later they returned on April 11, 1970, finding Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Weigle in the process of moving out of the premises with none of the rooms being locked and all the goods gathered in one room. Mrs. Browning again consented in writing to a search of the premises and the officers took with them certain other items of evidence, but granting Mrs. Weigle permission and authority to remove some items to her home in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. The Maryland State Police then informed the Pennsylvania authorities via teletype as to the items Mrs. Weigle was permitted to remove to Dillsburg. Subsequently, upon request by the Pennsylvania authorities, Mrs. Weigle voluntarily


relinquished those items to them at her home in Dillsburg.
After hearing on defendants' motions to suppress, the court below suppressed "any evidence secured from the room occupied by Ronald Lee Thorne at the Colora, Maryland premises and as to any evidence secured from Mrs. Arlene Weigle at her Dillsburg, Pennsylvania residence". The Commonwealth has appealed.
At the hearing on the motions to suppress, it was established that the lease for the premises in Colora, Maryland was in the names of Faye Browning and Lester Browning (Lester Thorne); that Mrs. Browning, with the exception of the amount of $50.00, had paid the rent from November 1969 to April 1970; that Ronald Thorne paid no rent and made no contribution toward the payment of the rent; that there was no understandingas to how long he was to stay at the home. Mrs. Browning testified: "I was told that they (Ronald and Clarence Thorne) would spend some time there, that they would be there sometimes, sometimes *126 they wouldn't be there." Mrs. Browning also testified that Clarence and Ronald first slept on the couch or on a mattress on the floor; later her four children who had been using two separate bedrooms were placed in one bedroom, and Ronald then began using the bedroom in question. He placed a lock on the bedroom door and told her she shouldn't bother going into it and he would see it was cleaned.
The issue now is whether under these circumstances Mrs. Browning had the right to consent to a search of the


possession of the premises and whose occupancy was solely at the largess of Mrs. Browning, Ronald Thorne could not, by placing a lock on the door of the room permitted to be occupied by him and by demanding privacy, foreclose and prevent Mrs. Browning's dominion over that room of which she was the co-tenant and for which she was paying the rent without any contribution by Ronald Thorne or in fact, without any contribution by his brother Lester Thorne, the co-tenant. The holding in Weaver v. Lane, 382 F. 2d 251 (7th Cir. 1967), is here applicable. In that case the Circuit Court reasoned and held as follows: "The District Court speaks of the petitioner's having `rented' his room in the Carroll home. The respondent *127 disputes thatfinding. The issue becomes important in connection with recovery of clothing petitioner had worn early on the morning of November 18, 1960. Mrs. Carroll granted permission to Detective Garner to search the room which the petitioner had been using. He took possession of bloodstained trousers which were admitted in evidence at the trial. The District Court held that these were illegally seized.
"Mr. Weaver testified that he had been staying with the Carrolls for about a week, on an arrangement that he would stay with them for a few days until he could find a place to rent, that he would leave when he was ready. He stated that he did pay `rent' in that he provided them with a carpet for their living room and that he occasionally


according to her son Simon, had never had any intention of dealing with an architect she couldn't handle.

But she could work with Edward Durrell Stone, who would, in due course, build her a house in Rye, New York. Stone was very much in vogue; he had recently designed the British Embassy in India and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In December 1964 he gave interviews in which he promised that the new white marble 50-story tower he envisaged for the GM Building would pay tribute to the past, as well as to the future. Critics weren't sure they believed him. Ada Louise Huxtable, the _New York Times_ ' architecture critic, wrote that the new building, as far as she could tell, would be a "delicate juggling actin the building. She was born in Bejing and at 14 moved to Hong Kong with her mother, where she worked in a garment factory. She saved enough money to move to England, where she earned an undergraduate degree from Sussex University and a master's in economics at Cambridge. She worked for investment bank Barings, and then Goldman Sachs in New York. She returned to China, where she met a budding developer named Pan Shiyi. They married and, with very different skills and outlooks, they forged a multibillion-dollar development empire.

Fortunes in China are never made without rumors of corruption, and theirs was no exception. Zhang bought the piece of the GM Building amid talk of alleged money laundering.

No one quite knew all the facts, nor did they really


gun control

In his announcement of several executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence, President Obama quoted Jesus. The passage is from the Gospel of John: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

The White House late Monday issued its new gun control rules and moved to regulate anybody who is "engaged" in selling arms, including those who might just sell a handful, a sweeping rewrite of the federal rules covering firearms dealers.

Thepush for a ban on gun possession for certain Social Security beneficiaries was already in the works during the summer, but it is also incorporated into the “mental health” aspect of Obama’s executive gun control.

With Obamacare as the chief exception, most of the President’s legacy is temporary. Even his revisions to Obamacare are subject to deletion with the stroke of a pen by the next President. His Iranian deal could go away. His environmental deal could go away. His education plans, immigration plans, national security plans, energy plans, and most of the rest of his administration can all disappear with the stroke of a pen. Congress is not needed just as the President now has bypassed Congress.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is set to mobilize against President Obama’s


to handle the army's expenditures and to oversee the distribution of spoils. A timetable for the expedition was drafted; Wasif and the army were scheduled to arrive at the frontier outpost of Malatya (the Greek Melitene) on June 15, 862, and were to invade Byzantine territory on July 1. After attacking Byzantine positions throughout the summer, Wasif was to remain at the frontier and launch additional campaigns over the next four years, until he received further instructions from the caliph.

The Campaign
Having completed their preparations for the campaign, Wasif and the army departed for the Byzantine frontier in early 862. Upon arriving at the Syrian side of the frontier zone, they set up camp there in preparation for their incursions into Byzantine territory.

Before Wasif had a chance to'Umar ibn 'Abdallah and 'Ali ibn Yahya.

Notes

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earlier this fall.

The FDA gained the new authority to suspend companies' registrations in a food safety law signed by President Barack Obama in early 2011, and this is the first time the agency has used it. The ability to shut down the company's operations is a step forward in an FDA effort to stem a growing number of widespread outbreaks like the salmonella illnesses linked to the peanut butter, said Michael Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods.

Before the food safety law was enacted, the FDA would have had to go to court to suspend a company's registration.

"We would have had to go to court and build a case," Taylor said, stressing that the burden will now be on the company to prove it is safe.

Sunland had closedwas linked to the salmonella illnesses in September.

In addition to Trader Joe's, Sunland sold hundreds of different peanut products to Target, Safeway, Whole Foods and other large grocery chains. Many of the grocery stores repackaged Sunland products and sold them under their own names.

After the outbreak linked to Sunland and to Trader Joe's, FDA inspectors found samples of salmonella in 28 different locations in the plant, in 13 nut butter samples and in one sample of raw peanuts.

The agency also found improper handling of products, unclean equipment and uncovered trailers of peanuts that were exposed to rain and birds outside the facility.

The FDA said that over the past three years, the company shipped products even though portions of their lots, or daily production runs, tested positive for salmonella


in internal tests. The agency also found that the internal tests failed to find salmonella when it was present.

FDA inspectors found many of the same problems, including employees putting their bare fingers in empty jars before they were filled, open bags of ingredients, unclean equipment and many other violations, in a 2007 inspection. Similar issues were recorded by inspectors in 2009, 2010 and 2011, although government officials didn't take any action or release the results of those inspections until after the illnesses were discovered this year.

In a statement issued earlier this month, Sunland's president and chief executive officer, Jimmie Shearer, denied the company knowingly shipped tainted products.

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Mirror reported that the new round of redundancies will also be largely among middle managers and other back office staff.

The blow to workers comes despite BT ebing expected to announce a near £3.5billion annual profit haul in its results next Thursday.

Chief executive Gavin Patterson will use the event to reveal the next stage in plans to revamp the sprawling group which has suffered a slump in its share price.

The company has been rocked by an accounting scandal in its Italian arm and splashed out billions of pounds buying Premier League and European football rights for its pay TV service.

It also paid £12.5billion for mobile giant EE in 2016.

Analysts expect the company to slash its dividend in a setback to shareholders, including many current and former BT workers.

However, it


A state alcohol regulatory agency provided a $100,000 grant ---- $25,000 more than last year ---- to help local deputies fight underage drinking and alcohol-related crimes, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department announced this week.

The money, from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, will support awareness and enforcement activities in communities patrolled by the sheriff's department, including Vista, San Marcos, Encinitas, and unincorporated areas in North County, the sheriff's department said.

Last fiscal year, the state agency provided a $75,000 grant to the department. During that time, from July 2011 to June 2012, deputies wrote 235 citations and made 5,945 arrests for alcohol-related crimes across the county, the department said.fly very high .
the story opens on halloween eve , better known as devil's night .
wilmington-as-detroit is in flames and the police are tending to at least * one * murder : young rock-musician-turned-pavement-artist eric draven ( lee ) , found on a sidewalk six-stories below the apartment he was thrown from .
the cops are also upstairs , administering aid to his fiance who was assaulted and raped and not necessarily in that order .
she dies , the perps .
escape , and , exactly one year later , draven rises from the grave to wreak revenge .
sound familiar ?
unlike charles bronson , whose only known superpower involves an inability to refrain from filming death wish sequels , lee's character has supernatural


impression as a long-haired mr . big whose collection of ancient-swords makes him seem like he walked into the film from the trailer to highlander iii .
there can be only one .
finally , there's brandon lee , son of bruce lee , and a 28-year-old rising-star who was fatally shot during shooting .
lee had four films to his name-- kung fu : the movie , laser mission , showdown in little toyko , and rapid fire-- and the crow would've been a nice feather in his belt and that's about it .
there's nothing great from him here-- just a good performance that owes as much to presence as ability .
when the echo of that gunshot finally fades , watching the crow should proveHow fickle is the finger of popularity in the rock world. In
1984, San Francisco-based Huey Lewis & The News were riding the
crest of hipdom with their third release
Sports, sharing the spotlight with such artists as Michael
Jackson, Prince and Bruce Springsteen. Nowadays, Jackson holds onto
the dream he is still the "King Of Pop," there technically is no
more Prince (having changed his name to the symbol), Springsteen no
longer is a mega star and has turned into the Dylan of the '90s.
But while the sales may no longer be there, Huey Lewis & The
News have basically stayed the same.

What was it about these guys who worshipped the doo-wop style of
the '50s? What made them top the airwaves with cuts like "I Want A
New Drug," "The Heart Of Rock & Roll" and


"Heart And Soul"?
Simple: they took a no-bullshit, no Spandex-and-leather approach to
their music and presented it the way it should be. Most of all,
they believed in it - something I don't think you can say many
bands do these days.

And though it peaked 14 years ago,
Sports still maintains a fresh sound - the tunes have hardly
aged, and are still enjoyable to listen to.
(Editor's note: Since this review was written, a re-mastered
version with bonus tracks has been released.)

Having first cut his teeth with the local band Clover (trivia:
what band did Lewis back up in the late '70s? Answer: Thin Lizzy),
Lewis was an experienced veteran of the rock scene.After The News'
debut album met with consumer apathy, they came back strong to get
the public's attention with
Picture This (spawning two hits, "Workin' For ALivin'" and
"Do You Believe In Love").The band was obviously primed to hit big
- and they smashed into the mainstream with the first single from
Sports, "Heart And Soul."

But this wasn't your typical rock band. While they had a
competent guitarist in Chris Hayes, the solos often went to
saxophonist Johnny Colla - "The Heart Of Rock & Roll" showed
off his talents on the reeds. With a backbone of Mario Cipollina on
bass, Bill Gibson on drums and Sean Hopper on keyboards, Lewis was
freed up to be not only the frontman of the group but also the
personality of the band. His roles in videos from this album, such
as for that of "I Want A New Drug," were in no small part a main
reason why this band did so well. With MTV still in


its infancy,
the group was ready to take advantage of the new medium and use it
to their advantage. And, truth be told, Lewis was very much a
"pretty boy," though this worked to the advantage of the band. Here
was a "ladies' man" who could actually do more than pose - kind of
like the antithesis of Lucky Vanous.

But if the music wasn't as strong as it is, this band would have
been another trivia question on the lines of Rockwell. You still
occasionally hear "The Heart Of Rock & Roll" and "Heart And
Soul" on the radio. Their doo-wop tribute, "If This Is It," stays
true to the style of the artists of the past, while "Walking On A
Thin Line" has The News carving out their own style and sound
unlike anything they had done prior.UFC Fighter Summit Day 1 Summary

Day one of the 2012 UFC Fighter Summit is in the books and there was plenty to talk about after an eventful day in Las Vegas.

Almost every fighter under the Zuffa family will be attending the summit between today and tomorrow’s sessions where they will cover any number of topics including social networking, medical information and many other varied subjects.

The Twitter world was filled on Monday with recaps creatively done by the fighters in attendance at the UFC Fighter Summit with some new things learned and some things worth poking some fun at.

The biggest news to come out of the UFC Fighter Summit thus far was the extension of the UFC fighter insurance to cover pre-existing conditions.

At last year’s summit, the UFC first


hashtag. It was a colorful joke aimed at the former UFC heavyweight champion for a certain disposition he seems to carry in a lot of pictures.

On Monday, Castillo’s infamous hashtag was mentioned during the seminar on how to use Twitter, and Mir just happened to be a few feet away.

“#FrankMirFace was referenced in the Twitter portion of the Fighter Summit and Frank Mir is in the house,” wrote Castillo. “I’m (expletive).”

Luckily for Castillo even Frank Mir has a sense of humor and the two later posed for a picture together that Castillo posted on his Instagram (another useful social networking tool for fighters).

Low light of the UFC Fighter Summit Day 1:

Unfortunately that honor goes to the final speaker of the day according to many of the UFC fightersoffices of Defenders; a chapel, a "fellowship room" and auditorium for residents of the building.
First floor: Lobby and shops. Four shops were leased in 1972 as a restaurant, a pharmacy, a beauty parlor, and a gift shop, grossing $10,600.00 in rentals per year. Two more shops were to be rented when remodeling was complete.
Basement: Mechanical equipment of the building; printing and mailing facilities for a magazine and other publications of Defenders.
The application for relief filed with the board of tax appeals asked for exemption of the entire building for the year 1972 and subsequent years. Subsequently Defenders filed a new application for 1974 and 1975, so we are here concerned only with 1972 and 1973.
The hearing before the board of tax appeals was largely devoted to Defenders' efforts


Had the legislature intended such a procedure to be followed it surely would have so provided.
Our neighboring state of Missouri found such a statutory void persuasive on the issue over a century ago in Wyman v. City of St. Louis, 17 Mo. 335 (1852). There the top two floors of a four-story building were used as a school, while the first floor contained stores and the second was used partly for the school and partly as a concert hall for hire. The owner sought to enjoin the collection of half the taxes on the basis of the one-half of the building used for school purposes. The court first commented on the incongruity which results "when religion and learning are mingled with trading and trafficking  with fiddling andsinging." It went on to observe:
"... Equality is equity, and when one claims an exemption from a burden to which all others are subject, and whose freedom will increase their load, he must clearly show himself in the situation which entitles him to the exemption claimed. This is not a case in which different owners are possessed of different floors of the same house. There is but one owner for the entire building, and it is in his power to control the uses to which it shall be subject. If the use of a part of a building, as a school house, will exempt it from taxation, then, it being a school house, it should not be sold for the nonpayment *185 of taxes. Indeed it cannot be.


Some marine species more vulnerable to climate change than others

Certain marine species will fare much worse than others as they become more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, a new UBC study has found.

After analyzing the biological characteristics of 1,074 marine fish and shellfish, the study identified 294 species that are most at-risk due to climate change by 2050. Species most at-risk include the Eastern Australian salmon, yellowbar angelfish, toli shad, sohal surgeonfish and spotted grouper.

“We hope that this study will highlight the marine species that are most in need of management and conservation actions under climate change,” said William Cheung, associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and director of science for the Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program.

As part of the study,takes to reproduce, and specific habitat requirements such as needing kelp or coral reef to survive.

“Eastern Australian salmon is highly vulnerable because their distribution is limited to shallow coastal and estuarine waters in southern Australia and New Zealand,” said Miranda Jones, the study’s lead author, who was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries when the study was underway. “The species lives in habitats that are exposed to large changes in ocean conditions and have limited scope to avoid these changes.”

In Canada, sockeye salmon, along with the alewife, Pacific bonito, and sharks such as the porbeagle and thresher, are identified as at risk to climate change impacts. In contrast, some species such as the Pacific sanddab, blue crab and Pacific sandlance have less vulnerable


biological characteristics and live in areas that are relatively less affected by climate change.

The study “Using fuzzy logic to determine the vulnerability of marine species to climate change” was published today in Global Change Biology.

This research was funded by the Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

Background

The researchers used “fuzzy logic” to develop this database. Fuzzy logic allows reasoning and drawing conclusions based on the best available expert and scientific knowledge, even with incomplete or uncertain information. Such fuzzy logic approaches have been applied to study marine biodiversity conservation and fisheries management.

About the Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program

The Nereus Program, a collaboration between the Nippon Foundation and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of BritishAndrew Luck

Quarterback • Colts

2018 Projections

Passing

Rushing

Cmp

Att

Yds

TD

Int

Yds

TD

281

443

3315

24

12

299

4

Boom

From 2012-14, Luck was a rising star -- both in fantasy and in real football. He was selected No. 1 overall by the Colts in the 2012 NFL draft. He started all 48 games during his first three seasons. Luck posted solid numbers in his first two seasons but took things to another level in 2014, when he led the league with 41 touchdown passes and was third with 4,761 passing yards. As the 2015 season approached, many pundits ranked Luck as the No. 1 QB in fantasy football.

Bust

And it’s been pretty much downhill from there. He injured his shoulder on Sept. 27, 2015, against Tennessee. He played through the injury but suffered a season-ending lacerated kidney during a Week Nine game against Denver.


He returned in 2016, but the shoulder continued to nag him. He had a decent season, throwing for 4,214 yards and 31 TDs, but could not shake the shoulder issues. Finally, in January 2017 -- a full 16 months after he initially injured the shoulder -- Luck underwent a procedure to fix a torn labrum in his right shoulder. The Colts announced the procedure was a success and that he’d be ready for the 2017 opener. Luck did not throw in the 2017 offseason, but he was activated just prior to the season opener. He tried to rejoin the team in October but felt soreness and had to shut it down after just four practices. He was placed on season-ending injured reserve in November of 2017. As weKamila Vodičková

Kamila Vodičková (born December 19, 1972 in Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech women's basketball player. She played for the North American WNBA's Seattle Storm and Phoenix Mercury.  She represented Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

WNBA career

The Storm made her the first draft choice of the franchise, a move that caused Vodičková some initial concern. However, after being quickly embraced by the Seattle fans, the redubbed "Vodka" became the centerpiece of the offense, with Edna Campbell as the outside threat. The team did not improve from its initial poor showings until Vodičková got a running mate inside, Australian Lauren Jackson.

In the 2004 season, Vodičková was faced with a tough choice, as her home country's Olympic team demanded that she skip the WNBA season if she wanted to


play in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Vodičková refused to go home, and the decision proved prescient, as the Storm ran to a championship that year.

The salary-capped Storm lost three of its marquee players after the championship, with Vodičková going to the Phoenix Mercury. Despite strong play from Vodičková, Penny Taylor, Anna DeForge, Maria Stepanova, and Diana Taurasi, the Mercury missed the playoffs in 2005.

After the Mercury narrowly missed the playoffs again in 2006, announced she was expecting a child and will be on maternity leave during the entire 2007 WNBA season.

International career
Vodičková has been known to be a dominant player in the Czech circuit. In 2005, she played for the Dynamo in the Russian super league.

Vital statistics
Position: Forward/Center
Height: 6 ft. 4 in. / 1.93 m
College: Czech Republic
Team(s):Phoenix Mercury, Seattlewere made with the aid of a Hirst type volumetric trap (Hirst, 1952), which worked uninterruptedly during a 3-year period (2008-2010) according to the methodology proposed by the Spanish Aerobiology Network, the REA. Cannabis pollen was present in the atmosphere of Tetouan mainly from early April to late August, a period in which about 95% of the annual counts were registered. The highest levels were detected in June and July, with concentrations more or less evenly distributed throughout the day with slight increases of 5% between 12:00 and 16:00 h. The strong association between skin test reactivity, respiratory symptoms, and pollination period found by other authors, together with the levels registered, suggests that Cannabis pollen could be a clinically important aeroallergen for sensitive patients. On the other hand,


MICHAEL Clarke is poised to accept a lucrative pay day in this year's Indian Premier League only weeks before Australia's Ashes campaign begins in England.

The Australian captain is set to feature in the seven-week tournament in April and May after being listed in the IPL's February 3 auction to be held in Chennai.

His manager, James Erskine, said on Wednesday it was likely Clarke would play in the world's richest Twenty20 competition. ''It's not 100 per cent yet, but it's a possibility,'' Erskine said. ''I think that's what he's thinking.''

The IPL is a potential spanner in the works for Australian team management, which is busy planning its assault on India next month and then England.

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The IPL tournament starts on April 3 - only a week after the fourth Testagainst India winds up in Delhi - and the IPL final on May 26 falls 13 days before Australia starts its pre-Ashes campaign in England at the ICC Champions Trophy.

The first Test, at Trent Bridge, starts on July 10.

Clarke, the world's most prolific batsman, is paramount to Australia's prospects in the Ashes, but while the runs have continued to flow from his bat at record-breaking levels this summer, his fitness has been a concern.

His extensive time in the middle left him battling continued hamstring soreness and he withdrew from Wednesday's fifth one-dayer against Sri Lanka with a twisted ankle. If he does not use the IPL window to rest, he stands to have almost no time off between now and the conclusion of the tour of England -


the first leg of back-to-back Ashes series this year.

Clarke made his IPL debut last year on a one-year contract with Pune Warriors.

Cricket Australia is unable to prevent players appearing in the IPL as it falls during an official ''leave'' period. Other Ashes candidates with existing IPL deals and likely to play in the tournament include Shane Watson, Matthew Wade, Ben Hilfenhaus, James Pattinson and Mitchell Johnson.

But CA will be delighted that fast bowler Mitchell Starc has turned down offers of up to $1 million in an effort to be fresh for the five-Test tour of England.

The player of the tournament with the title-winning Sydney Sixers at the Twenty20 Champions League in South Africa last October, Starc is considered hot property by IPL franchises and his sparkling form withthe bat has only increased his appeal.

It is believed he could have earned between $750,000 and $1 million if he had entered the IPL auction, with two franchises in particular understood to have been eager to secure the paceman.

There has been continued interest in Starc in the lead-up to the auction but he has knocked back the offers because of the cluttered schedule, planning instead to join the IPL next year.

''Obviously, after the Champions League that [the Sixers] won, Mitch became hot property,'' Starc's manager, Andrew Fraser said. ''We sat down and spoke about it and agreed that in the long-term interests of his career it was best not to play.

''His body needs a rest, and if he takes that four to six weeks off and has a


rest, then it's going to make him really fresh for [the England] tour. If he doesn't take a rest, he's pretty well not going to have had a break for two years. It wasn't a hard decision.''

Amid concern over injuries and CA's handling of players, Starc has been the high-performance team's best example of success. He has performed well in all three formats for his country since his Test debut against New Zealand in Brisbane in December 2011.Further fall in Scottish unemployment figures Published duration 17 August 2016

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Unemployment in Scotland has fallen, with the number of people in employment rising by a record level, according to the latest figures.

The labour market data showed that unemployment fell by 26,000 between April and June to stand at 143,000.

The Scottish unemployment rate is now 5.2%, which is above the rate of 4.9% for the UK as a whole.

Employment in Scotland increased by 51,000 over the same period, and now stands at 2,629,000.

This was the highest quarterly rise since records began - although the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which publishes the figures, said this was largely due to "an estimate in the previous period much lower than other recent estimates, with the underlying pattern mostly flat".

Analysis

By


Angara project is being personally managed by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

The Angara family’s modular design is aimed at allowing the rockets to launch from the same pad, either at Plesetsk in northern Russia or the new Vostochny space center in the country’s far east. The new rockets are aimed at reducing Moscow’s dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in neighboring Kazakhstan to launch heavy payloads to orbit.Two of the three Commission-hired witnesses testified today -- Peter
Bradford and George Sterzinger.  While Bradford did nothing to really help
or hurt our cause, Sterzinger was amazingly helpful.  He practically
endorsed Enron's proposal.  He noted that it was the best design to elicit
strong conservation response by, as he put it, "grabbing hold of some of the
usage and making it responsive to the manipulation of the market."  The idea
was that customers would respond to the high prices which, are the product
of market manipulation, by reducing usage.  He focused alot on the
decremenatal usage credit and the incentive it would provide to conserve.
He proposed an alternative manner of funding in that the rebate would be
flowed back to customers as a bill reduction over an extended period of
time.


Dianne Feinstein on Gun Control

Democratic Sr Senator (CA)

Gun lobby has too much power in Washington

Q: Which special interests in Washington have too much power?

Dianne Feinstein: Guns. I wrote the assault weapons ban that was the law of the land for a decade.
Now the National Rifle Association essentially has a stranglehold on Congress. I also believe the big oil companies enjoy outsize influence and protection in Washington.

Children kill children with guns, 13 times every day

The consuming passion of Dianne Feinstein's tenure in the Senate has been gun control. It is a passion that has been burned into her over many years of personal experiences with the brutal consequences of firearms. "We now have something happening in the
US that has never happened before," Feinstein says grimly. "That is, children killingdate, time, and duration of a gun show not later than 30 days before the commencement of such show and verifies the identity of each vendor at the gun show.

Imposes recordkeeping requirements on gun show operators and criminal penalties for failure to register as a gun show operator and maintain required records. Increases criminal penalties for serious recordkeeping violations and violations of criminal background check requirements. Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to hire additional investigators to carry out inspections of gun shows.

Ban large-capacity ammunition.

to prohibit the transfer or possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, except for its lawful possession within the United States on or before the date of this Act's enactment; and

the importation or bringing into the


A new paper by the University of Delaware’s Holly Michael and Mahfuzur Khan and colleagues, out today in Nature Communications, reveals that overpumping of groundwater in Dhaka, Bangladesh, may have unforeseen consequences for citizens living in communities outside the city center.

With a population of over 15 million people, Dhaka — the capital of Bangladesh — is considered a mega-city and shares many of the water management problems common to other major cities.

While efforts are made to sustain water quantity and quality in city water supplies, Dhaka pumping has caused groundwater levels to drop more than 200 feet over the last 50 years and these levels continue to decline at a rate of up to 9 feet per year.

An often-overlooked consequence of these actions in mega-cities is the associatedare studying.

In their study, Michael and her colleagues modeled the geology of Dhaka using detailed subsurface measurements, and then applied strong pumping mechanism to the model to mimic the current Dhaka pumping.

The researchers found that when there is strong pumping and heterogeneity in the underground sediments like those found in a Delta – it affects the overall hydrology of the area.

“Essentially, the pumping causes faster groundwater flow than normal because it quickly draws the water into massive city pumps deep in the aquifer. This hydrologic change can force shallow groundwater, where arsenic is found, to migrate downward at a much faster rate, even outside of the city where the pumps are located,” said Michael, who has studied groundwater issues in Bangladesh since 2004.

But what is heterogeneity?

Aquifers, Michael explained,


(University of Dhaka), Benjamin C. Bostick (Columbia University), Brian J. Mailloux (Barnard College), Anwar Zahid, (Columbia University and Bangladesh Water Development Board) Rajib H. Mozumder and Alexander van Geen (Columbia University) and Charles Harvey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

This work was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and by the DENIN Environmental Fellowship program.Hancock's legislation would require approval by voters if it passes the Legislature.

Taxpayers have paid $4 billion for the 13 executions performed since 1978, according to the report, putting the cost of each execution at $308 million.

Despite the cost, victims' advocate Marc Klaas said he disagrees with Hancock's plan.

Klaas' daughter Polly was kidnapped from her bedroom during a slumber party in 1993. Her case became a lightening rod for stricter sentencing, which led to California's Three Strikes law.

The case did not impact the state's death penalty laws. Richard Allen Davis was found guilty of murdering Klaas and was sentenced to death in 1996. He remains on death row.

"There's a guy who kidnapped raped and murdered my 12-year-old daughter who was sentenced to death per the laws of California and


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Late last night a photo began circulating ’round Twitter which showed a wild new jersey design for the Colorado Avalanche, later reports would peg this as the uniform the Avs would wear during the 2020 Stadium Series game at Air Force Academy against the Los Angeles Kings.

Yes Kings fans, you can go ahead and start imagining what your uniform will look like.

By the time morning broke, we had a new photo out there which shows the full uniform — jersey, pants, socks.

The photo shows a blue and burgundy jersey with a white stripe going through the middle resembling both a mountain peak and the letter “A”. This pattern continues on the sleeves as a straight line with the top half of the jerseyA minister in the Polish government has backed the idea of building a "Polocaust" museum dedicated to the non-Jews who died in Poland during World War II.

Deputy Minister of Culture Jarosław Sellin said "this terrible fate" deserved to be shown to the world.

"I believe that the story of the fate of Poles during the Second World War ... deserves such a story," he said during a Tuesday appearance on Poland's Radio One.

Sellin was being interviewed to promote a plan to expand an existing museum in Poland – dedicated to Poles who saved Jews during World War II – to have a branch in Manhattan, "because this is the city where the most Jews in the world live." The goal, he said, is for "this story to be close


to this community."

But Sellin was also asked to respond to the "Polocaust" museum proposed yesterday by an influential columnist and political consultant, Marek Kochan, as a way to respond to the outpouring of public criticism of a law enacted last week that criminalizes blaming Poland for the Holocaust.

"The State of Israel has succeeded in imposing a narrative reducing the victims of the war to the victims of the Holocaust. And yet no death resulting from criminal intentions is better or worse than another," Kochan wrote in the Rzeczpospolita newspaper.

Kochan, who has advised politicians including the chairman of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, wrote: "Every state has the right to its own historical policy, Israel has it, Poland has it. The Polocaust is not the Holocaust. It issomething different, but also threatening the existence of an entire nation. Polish victims also have the right to be commemorated."

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The main gate entering Auschwitz death camp.

Six million people were killed in Poland during World War II – about half are estimated to have been Jews and the rest ethnic Poles and members of other groups.

Many Poles feel that their plight during the war — in which both Hitler and Stalin wanted to destroy the Polish state — has been ignored. They also feel that calling camps like Auschwitz "Polish death camps", which were built by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, unfairly implicates Poland in the death of Jews, which led to the new Holocaust law being passed.

More than 6,000 Poles risked a


death sentence to save Jews, and they are honored at a memorial in Israel as well.

Critics of Poland's new Holocaust law say it could silence discussion of the multiple incidents during the war when Poles committed riots against Jews or otherwise collaborated with Nazi genocide. The new law has been condemned by the Israeli and US governments, Jewish groups, and historians.

The diplomatic fallout continued over the weekend when the country's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki suggested there were also "Jewish perpetrators" during the conflict, and there has been a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in Poland.

Kochan acknowledged naming his proposed museum after the "Polocaust" would be controversial, but he used an entry on Urban Dictionary to claim the term had been in use since at least 2012.

He also said theLast weekend I paid a visit to Alloway for the Alloway 1759 celebrations and events to commemorate Robert Burns. There were lots of activities including haggis hurling, live music and some great theatre as well.

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But I loved the live music from Bags of Rock a band who played lots of Scottish songs fusing the modern with the traditional in quite a contemporary way.

The sight of a young gentleman with a dyed pink mohican and a kilt belting out Flower of Scotland in treble time on an electric guitar flanked by two bagpipers playing in different octaves in unision was quite a sight and while purists may have been a bit taken aback by it


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The city said restoration work was suspended over the winter and picked back up in mid April.

"I wouldn't have let them tear it up if I had known that they weren't going to fix it," said Linda Sullenger.

She's fed up with the lack of progress on Herrick Road. Unable to reach anyone by phone at City Hall, she's approaching the anniversary of her sidewalk filled with gravel.

It's not just her house she's concerned about. Sullenger pointed out a sidewalk in front of a house at the end of her street that was removed last fall.

The barricade put in place at the time is still standing.

She wants that corner addressed, fearing it poses a safety risk to the kids in the neighborhood.

"They ride their bikes all the


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We used a national-representative sample from the Chilean version of the International Survey of Children Well-Being (ISCWeB), conducted in 2012. Due to the availability of variables and the scarcity of research in this population, we focused on hostile sexism. We expect to find the same results formerly reported, as stereotypes are formed during the early childhood, even before the possibility to think and reflect about them ([@B19]).

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20 countries, whose aim is to collect data for improving children's well-being ([@B15]). The survey has three versions for 8-, 10-, and 12-year-old children, which correspond with third, fifth, and seventh grades, respectively. These versions contain a similar core questionnaire, but differ in the metrics used for the youngest children (8-year-old), and in inclusion of additional variables for the 10- and 12-year-old versions. The differences between these latter versions are related to the presence of a few items mainly related to money, which were asked to 12-year-old children, but not to 10-year-old children. The rest of the core questionnaires were the same for these two age groups, both in the item phrasing and the metrics. In addition, each local research team developed further measures according to their interests.In Chile, different variables about gender roles and relationships were included in the 10- and 12-year-old versions, so we decided to use them for this article. All the variables used for this research were the same for both versions.

The sample was representative of the three main regions of the country (Metropolitana, Valparaíso, and Biobío), which contain above the 70% of the Chilean population. The design was a stratified and multi-staged sample ([@B74]). In each region, schools were randomly selected according to stratums defined by their status. Next, in each school third, fifth, and seventh grade classes were randomly selected to participate in the study. Finally, all the students present in the classroom took part in the study. The questionnaire was briefly introduced by a monitor and students completed


first century AD grower, whose detailed guide to winemaking was relied on until the 17th century.

"We have found that Roman techniques were more or less in use in Sicily up until a few decades ago, showing how advanced the Romans were," said Indelicato. "I discovered a two-pointed hoe at my family house on Mount Etna recently that was identical to one we found during a Roman excavation."

What has changed are the types of grape varieties, which have intermingled over the centuries. "Columella mentions 50 types but we can only speculate on the modern-day equivalents," said Indelicato, who is planting a local variety, Nerello Mascalese.

"To sweeten up their wine, which could be vinegary, the Romans added honey and water to it," he said. "They made better stuff for noblesThe big linen sale is a part of the grand sale which starts 1st December and ends at New Year. Mostly Home Decor section or category, including best sheet sets, luxurious sheets, towel sets and bedding sets are on big sale. The best big sale on bed linen 2017 Lelaan.com caters, sheet sets , towels and bedding accessories. The Big sale on bed linen signifies that ...

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Mosquitoes have four stages to their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. During the first three stages, they live entirely in water. During the larva stage, they feed on algae and other microorganisms and must frequently bob to the surface of the water to get air. During the pupa stage, they do not eat, but do sit at the surface and breath air through two smalltubes. At the end of the pupal stage, the mosquitoes transform into adult mosquitoes and, after crawling to a dry place to rest and dry off, leave the water.

DEET was created in 1940s by the United States Army; they were seeking to make a bug repellent for soldiers. It was first used as a pesticide and later used by soldiers as a repellent in 1946. It was released for civilian use in 1957.

A repellent mixture with only a 23.8% concentration of DEET will protect the wearer for about five hours; 100% concentration of DEET has been found to be effective for about 12 hours. DEET works by confusing the mosquito’s sensors so that they can’t zero in on the location of the compounds stimulating their sensors, such as


Story highlights In 2015, the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands blamed Muslims for chaos in Europe

Hoekstra, the new ambassador, zeroed-in on the Netherlands during the remarks

Hoekstra is now apologizing for the comments, after initially denying he ever said them

(CNN) The new US Ambassador to the Netherlands is apologizing for "certain remarks" he made in 2015 suggesting that the Netherlands was in chaos because of Muslims.

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra lied twice to a Dutch news crew about his 2015 comments, calling it "fake news." But on Saturday, he admitted that he "made certain remarks in 2015 and regret the exchange during the Nieuwsuur interview," and apologized.

Please see my comments regarding recent interview. Thank you. Pete pic.twitter.com/gxQOcZ8Duk — Pete Hoekstra (@petehoekstra) December 23, 2017

"For the last 17 years I've beenRodrigo Thomas set out quickly in an effort to beat the rain, reaching 39/0. But Mother Nature had the last laugh when the heavens opened at the end of the fourth over. The game was abandoned just six balls before an official result could be declared. It was tough on Canada who were well ahead on DLS, but the points were shared.

In the afternoon game, rain again played a major part. It all started routinely enough with the USA skittling the Cayman Islands for 89, but the Americans’ chase was to cause more than a few puzzled looks.

They were creeping along at such a snail’s pace that they fell behind the DLS target at the five over mark that would have constituted an official result had it been


over. Rawlins had been watchful but suddenly upped the pace whacking five sixes to reach 49 off 31 balls. His innings took Bermuda to 106 before he perished to Troy Taylor trying for one more big shot, but the damage had been done. Kamau Leverock (28 not out off 24) and Deunte Darrell saw Bermuda home to a comfortable 6 wicket win.

49 runs 💪

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Bermuda went to the top of the Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier Americas table with victory over Cayman Islands, thanks in no small part to this blistering knock from @SussexCCC's Delray Rawlins 👏 pic.twitter.com/wdQa2QiW6q — T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) August 21, 2019

The afternoon saw USA and Canada match up in the latest installment of what is the oldest international rivalry in22nd August

The fourth day was scheduled to be at the NSC, but on Weds the ICC had announced that due to concerns that the pitch was not of international quality, all remaining games in the tournament would move to White Hill.

The first game was Cayman v Canada. Cayman batted first, and once again struggled to post a competitive total. Canada took regular wickets, Saad Bin Zafar the chief weapon with 3-8 as the Caymanians finished on 91/7.

Cayman once again burst out of the block with the ball. After seven balls, Canada’s scorecard read 0/2 with Morris and Kevin Ebanks snaring Cheema and Thomas respectively. That was the last of Cayman’s fun, with Dhailwal and Kumar chasing down the total in just 12 overs. Dhaliwal finished with a second


successive fifty and a second successive man-of-the-match award.

The afternoon game was the big one, a game on which the fate of the tournament was to hang. With Canada on 7 points, Bermuda 5 and the USA just 2, a Bermuda win would see both the hosts and Canada heading to the Emirates website to book their flights to Dubai.

Fray struck first blood for Bermuda, winning the toss and inserting the Americans. In the second over, Monank Patel lobbed a simple catch to Delray Rawlins off the bowling of Malachi Jones – the only remaining member of Bermuda’s 2007 World Cup team and the bowler of the ball that resulted in that Dwayne Leverock catch! Sluggo’s nephew Kamau helped Bermuda get their second wicket in the next over hereon blasted a six straight back over Walsh’s head off the second ball of the 19th over. After a well run two the next ball and a dot ball off the fourth, he got the big levers out again on the fifth and smashed it into the sightscreen behind the bowler for another six and victory for Bermuda.

ICYMI: Bermuda clinched a four-wicket victory over USA to secure their berth at the @ICC Men's #T20WorldCup Global Qualifier in UAE 👏

Watch how they did it in the HIGHLIGHTS ⬇ pic.twitter.com/8TxOfigjr2 — T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) August 23, 2019

The celebrations among the team and fans were wild and joyous, and matched only in intensity by the looks of shock and despair on the faces of the Americans, who have worn their


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The election was a re-match between the same two candidates from 1989, when Dinkins had narrowly defeated Giuliani to win the mayoralty.

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The White House on Monday will issue the outlines of a budget proposal to federal agencies, a document that has largely been drafted by Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, the official said.

The budget outline will also call for spending cuts to several federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency.

The announcement will come a day before Trump's joint congressional address on Tuesday, where he is expected to lay out his agenda and legislative priorities.

The New York Times first reported the


details of the budget outline.

The announcement will come a day before Trump's first joint congressional address on Tuesday, when he is expected to lay out his agenda, legislative priorities and budget proposals in greater detail.

Trump is first expected to address the budget outline when he meets at the White House on Monday with governors from around the country.

The broad strokes of the budget proposal described Sunday to CNN are in keeping with Trump's policy proposals during the campaign, when he called for substantial hikes to military spending and vowed to protect Social Security and Medicare.

The proposed cuts to agencies like the EPA also do not come as a surprise. Trump often railed against what he described as the agency's burdensome regulations and has vowed to slash regulations throughoutthe federal government, a plan he has argued would be an even bigger boon to US businesses than a tax cut -- which he also hopes to deliver on. His pick to lead the EPA, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, is a climate change skeptic who waged legal battles against the agency in his previous role.


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Trolley extension route to UC San Diego selected

The San Diego Association of Governments' (SANDAG) board selected a route for the future extension of the San Diego Trolley from the Old Town Transit Center to the University of California, San Diego and University Towne Centre.

In a unanimous vote, the Board approved a recommendation to select Light Rail Transit Alternative 1, which would extend trolley service north from Old Town Transit Center along the existing rail corridor just east of I-5, cross over I-5 south of Nobel Drive continuing to serve UCSD, then cross to the east side of I-5 at or near Voigt Drive and head south along Genesee Avenue to a transit center at University Towne Centre.

Over the last several months, SANDAG received public input on three potential


funds for the project from the Federal Transit Administration. Construction could begin as soon as 2013, and the line could be in operation as soon as 2015.

Economic development within one-half mile of the system has been stimulated by ridership that has exceeded original projections. Valley Metro began compiling development activity since construction started in 2005 as part of an economic development database.

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The SundayTimes reported about Autism Rocks, charity board has added two new trustee members to the team. Pete and Will Best will serve on the board that helps raise donations for the charity event. Sanjay Shah CEO of Solo Capital and the owner and founder of Autism Rocks, is excited to bring them on board. They brothers both have years of experience in the finance and music industry, which are two fundamental features that the board needs. Shah has known the two for many years, as they were friends during his college university days. He is certain that they will bring what the foundation needs to continue to thrive and exhibit success across the world.

Pete Best has many years in the


finance business that he will bring to the table for Autism Rocks. Pete and Shah are excited to develop the charity further and continue with the donations to help with awareness and research. Will Best has many years of experience in the music industry. He originally started his career there and will bring much anticipated business to the future of Autism Rocks.

Shah’s passion for the neurological condition began when his youngest son was diagnosed with Autism in 2011. He was two years old at the time and Shah wanted to be able to do as much as possible to help him. That’s when he got the idea to start Autism Rocks after a conversation with Snoop Dogg. Shah had been in the music industry before, and Snoop Doggurged him to get back into it. Autism Rocks according to clobalcitizen concentrates on working with musicians who perform invite only concerts for the cause to help aid in donations for the charity event. He worked hard to launch charity in 2014 and has been working with artists ever since. He hopes to be able to help raise awareness in the communities and help those to be more aware of the causes and conditions.

Shah was an accountant for many years before he opened his own brokerage business called Solo Capital. Shah could not determine on companycheckUK how successful Solo Capital would be when he first started the company. He formed it into a proprietary trading and consulting firm that has an estimated net worth of $280 million and