offseason spree seemed aimed at shoring up.

Standridge and Wolfe would’ve slotted right behind Settsu in terms of workload last season, throwing 160⅔ and 130 innings respectively, and both have what it takes to be successful.

Standridge in particular is a high-level hurler when he gets going, and having spent his first two seasons in Japan, 2007 and 2008, with the Hawks should help ease his transition back to the PL after four seasons in the Central League with the Hanshin Tigers.

“I really enjoyed playing here. I enjoyed the fans, I enjoyed the city and I enjoyed my teammates. I’m really looking forward to spending time with new teammates and some old ones as well,” Standridge said during his introductory news conference in Fukuoka, which was broadcast online the Hawks’USTREAM channel.

Wolfe didn’t set Sapporo ablaze during his tenure with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, but he was steady, something Softbank needed a big dose of last season.

Nakata is more of a puzzle. The former Chunichi Dragons righty hasn’t gone past 100 innings in consecutive seasons since 2007-2008 and his durability might be in question.

His signing also brings to mind Kazuyuki Hoashi, another Kyushu native who came home as a free-agent. In the latter stages of his career with the Seibu Lions, from 2008-2011, Hoashi averaged about 26 appearances and 168 innings per year (he was 40-26 with a 3.17 ERA over that span) before signing with the Hawks for the 2012 season. In two years in Fukuoka, Hoashi has made just 20 appearances, going 8-8 with a


TOULOUSE - Emphasising that each of its A320 family of aircraft has a "Make in India" tag today, Airbus Industrie told Prime Minister Narendra Modi at its huge campus here on Saturday that it will step up its sourcing volume from the country to $2 billion. One of the billboards, in fact, that greeted Prime Minister Modi and his delegation said it all: That the total procurement of Airbus from India stood at $400 million till last year,

covering a host of areas, and would now be enhanced to $2 billion by 2020. "500 percent in five years," India's official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted, as the Indian prime minister was taken around the assembly line of the world's largest commercial aircraft, the giant A380 -- four of which servethe Indian market currently."Amazing visit to Airbus facility. They are very enthusiastic about the 'Make in India' initiative," the prime minister eventually tweeted. He had arrived at the campus straight after landing here from Paris on a Boeing 747-437 aircraft of 1996 vintage.The occasion also saw the Airbus top brass give its assessment on the need for aircraft by Indian carriers. The country, it said, will require as many as 1,291 planes over the next 20 year -- 913 in single-aisle configuration, 322 twin-aisled and 56 large ones. "Every A320 family plane is now partly made in India," read another large billboard, as the prime minister was taken on the tour by a team led by Airbus Group chief executive Tom Enders, who said his group was keen


on forging a stronger industrial bond with India."India already takes centre-stage role in our international activities and we want to even increase its contribution to our products. We support Prime Minister Modi's 'Make in India' call and are ready to manufacture in India -- for India and the world," Enders said.A visibly pleased Modi was informed that the Airbus procurement from India was set to grow further as it planed additional manufacturing and engineering work packages with local firms and accelerate their integration into the group's global supply chain.Such partnership, the group added, will extend to a host of areas such as engineering, pilot training, customer services and maintenance, repair and overhaul capability, or MRO, with Indian partners.In India, the $65-billion Airbus Group already operates two engineering centres:One focused on civil aviation and the other on defence. It also has a research and technology (R&T) centre which together employ over 400 highly qualified people.It claims to be a significant part of the fleets of all major Indian carriers with a market share of well over 70 percent.The group said it counts as partners several Indian firms, notably the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics, Mahindra Group, the Tatas, Wipro, Larsen and Toubro, and Infosys Technologies."The group is also willing to set-up final assembly lines and establish supply chains and related infrastructure for military transport aircraft and helicopters in the country," said an Airbus statement."These would be in full compliance of procurement policies specified by the Indian Ministry of Defence and local foreign direct investment guidelines," it said, adding


that it has submitted a proposal with the Tatas to make C295 aircraft in India to replace the navy's ageing fleet of Avros. "Airbus Helicopters is in discussion with Indian companies to finalise teaming arrangements for helicopter programmes, including the naval utility helicopter, the reconnaissance and surveillance helicopter as well as the naval multi-role helicopter competitions." Space is another area in which the group has active collaborations in India, the group said, as Modi was ready to leave for the campus of French space agency CNES -- but not before a dozen-odd staff of Indian origin wanted photos with Modi, who obliged. The Indian prime minister was in Paris first and then arrived here on Saturday on the first leg of his three-nation visit that will now takeA man walking his dog through a field in Scotland photographed an odd anomaly that some have likened to the legendary Loch Ness Monster lurking on land.

Jimmy Wright says that he encountered the strange sight in the Scottish village of Killearn and quickly snapped a picture before the weird dinosaur-like 'creature' purportedly disappeared.

The alleged witness may have been equally amazed after he posted the photo on social media and saw that it created somewhat of a frenzy among residents of the small village.

According to Wright, observers not only debated the nature of the 'creature' seen in the photo, but also what they should name the oddity.

As such, he's offered to make a donation to charity in the name of the person who comes up with the most popular


almost a year ago.

According to the search warrant, the driver of the torched vehicle, a gray Mazda 3, was involved in a road rage incident near her home June 19, 2012. A day later, while the car was parked in the driveway outside the home, it burst into flames. Investigators discovered an incendiary device inside the car.

A week later, an anonymous female tipster told investigators she believed the driver of the second vehicle in the road rage incident was a woman who worked for the DMV. The tipster accurately described the second vehicle, a blue Chevy pickup with a L.A. Dodgers sticker and "family member" stickers on the rear window.

Investigators used the tip to track down the woman, who told police in an interview earlier this year thator charged and was advised by her lawyer not to comment on the case. She was fired from the DMV in March.

The computer and printer the woman used at the DMV was seized in February as part of the investigation, along with electronic information, the search warrant states.


First Test: South Africa so close to record chase as India hold on

South Africa came up just short of chasing down a world record target of 458 on the fifth day of the first Test against India in Johannesburg.

Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers both scored centuries to guide the Proteas to within touching distance of an incredible win at the Wanderers.

But after de Villiers (103) played on and then du Plessis (134) was run out, South Africa were forced to play more conservatively and batted out the final overs for a draw, finishing on 450-7, just eight runs short of a winning score.

The highest successful fourth innings run chase in Test history remains West Indies' 418 against Australia in Antigua in 2003.

With 127 needed in aminimum 30 overs after tea and with six wickets in hand, an improbable home win was still possible.

De Villiers and du Plessis each pushed on to their centuries and South Africa appeared favourites to win until Du Plessis was run out for 134. Vernon Philander and Dale Steyn left it too late to pursue the 16 runs still needed from the final over.

Resuming on 138-2 in the morning, the home side suffered an early blow when opener Alviro Petersen was bowled by Mohammed Shami off an inside edge without adding to his overnight 76.

Zaheer Khan then had Jacques Kallis lbw for 34 - unluckily, having also inside-edged the ball - to leave South Africa on 197-4. It was Zaheer's 300th wicket in Tests.

Du Plessis and De Villiers ensured


the hosts reached the break without further loss, though, and pressed on through the afternoon session.

Their 50 partnership came up shortly after the restart and both players then reached the landmark individually - Du Plessis from 142 balls with four fours while De Villiers took 84 balls to get there with eight boundaries.

Century stand

De Villiers inside-edged a four to bring up the century stand and the team's 300 soon followed when Du Plessis diverted a vicious lifter from Zaheer past the slips.

By the time tea came around, Du Plessis was on 88 with De Villiers on 71 and the former soon reached three figures with a clip to deep mid-wicket for three off Zaheer.

De Villiers' century - 90 balls quicker than his partner's at 162 balls, with eachmissed with wild hoiks at the third and fourth balls of the last over.

Philander jogged a long single off the next before a bizarre finish saw Steyn, having blocked his way to the end, hoist the final ball down the ground for a huge but meaningless six, the players leaving the field to somewhat harsh booing from the sparse crowd.


the information there is on HPV warts. At my appointment, the doctor confirmed my suspicion and did the first of several procedures to remove them. She also told me that it was not likely I got it from my new partner as the timeline of their appearance was too short.

Afterward, I spent hours on the phone with my mom, crying, and worrying about how to tell my partner. The internet had told me awful things. I read endless horror stories about people who had warts for years without relief, people whose partners rejected them and people who could not find new partners willing to take on a person with a treatable, but not always curable, STI. I thought my life was over, because these voices had told meNEW DELHI: French auto major Renault today reported 26.8 per cent increase in sales at 11,198 units in India in February compared to the year-ago month.

The company's arm, Renault India, had sold 8,834 units in the same month last year.
Over the last few years, Renault has focused on establishing a strong base in India and has become one of the youngest and fastest growing automotive brands in the country, the company said in a statement.

Apart from its product offensive strategy to drive volumes in India, Renault is also substantially increasing its sales and network reach here and achieved a target of 270 dealership network nationwide at the end of 2016, it added.


secured and unsecured claims against the bankruptcy estate for the amount of unpaid federal income taxes, penalties and interest for the taxable years 1983 through 1987.
The Gidleys commenced an adversary proceeding in Bankruptcy Court to determine the dischargeability of their federal income tax liabilities for the years 1983, 1984 and 1986. The Gidleys also requested that the Bankruptcy Court determine the value and extent of the tax liens of the United States. The IRS filed notices of federal tax liens securing the federal tax liabilities for 1983, 1984, and 1986. In its answer to the Gidleys' adversary proceeding complaint, the IRS admitted that the Gidleys' federal income tax liabilities for the taxable years 1983 and 1984 were dischargeable. However, the IRS maintained that the Gidleys' tax liability forwhen the Gidleys' 1986 tax return was last due.
The Gidleys' 1986 income tax return was initially due on April 15, 1987. However, the IRS contends that the Gidleys filed an automatic extension which provided the Gidleys with an additional four months until August 15, 1987 to file their 1986 income tax return. The Gidleys maintain that they did not file an automatic extension. Both sides presented evidence at the Gidleys' adversary proceeding in support of their contentions.
This case turns on the credibility of the witnesses who testified during the adversary proceeding. The court defers to the opportunity of the bankruptcy court to judge the credibility of the witnesses and concludes that, based on the evidence presented during the Gidleys' adversary proceeding, the Bankruptcy Court was not clearly erroneous


Police on Saturday identified the woman who was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and prompted officials to close part of a concourse on Friday as 53-year-old Hope L. Webber.

Phoenix police responded to Terminal 4 at around 5 p.m. Friday after receiving reports that Webber was not allowed to board an airplane and "became angry," spokesperson Sgt. Mercedes Fortune said.

Webber made statements to airline personnel that prompted Phoenix Bomb Squad to respond, though it is unclear what those statements were. The airplane was deboarded and a section of the concourse was closed off for a short time, Fortune said.

Officials determined the area was safe and airport operations resumed in the terminal "a short time later," Fortune said.

Webber was booked for false emergency reporting, a class 1 misdemeanor,know…” He was finally getting the appreciation he deserved, and this season, everyone agrees United have been at their best when Carrick has been in the team.

On one level, I’d love to see Carrick finally establish himself as a key player for England. The idea of him as the serene linchpin at the centre of the team for Euro 2016 is a nice thought, but as a United fan, I’m far more concerned about what Carrick can continue to contribute to the club in the twilight of his career.

International games deprive players of time to rest, and the long flights plus the intense media pressure take their toll on players. As United fan /u/dugness pointed out on a Reddit discussion about players prolonging their club careers by retiring


from international football:

Scholes retired from international football at the tender age of 29, mainly because he wasn’t getting the chance to play in his best position, but United reaped the rewards – he finally retired as a Man Utd player (for the second time) at the age of 38, and he was still bossing games till the end.

Giggs retired from international football at the age of 33, and continued playing for United for another 7 years, making his final appearance as a 40-year-old – a quite incredible achievement playing in midfield at the highest level of the game.

And Bryan Robson retired at 34 – the same age as Carrick now. He went on to play for us another 3 years, before moving to Middlesborough and eventually retiring agedExternal spinal skeletal fixation combination with percutaneous injury vertebra bone grafting in the treatment of thoracolumbar fractures.
A technical report of thoracolumbar fractures managed by percutaneous external pedicular fixation and intracorporeal bone grafting. To develop a new technique by combining simplified percutaneous external pedicular fixator with intracorporeal bone grafting to treat thoracolumbar fractures and assess its technical safety and clinical efficacy. For surgical treatment of thoracolumbar fractures, the classical techniques are beneficial in decompression, restoration, fixation, and graft fusion, but they are also hugely invasive procedures. The earlier external spinal fixation procedures are good at indirect restoration, decompression, and elastic fixation of spinal fracture. However, they are limited by remains of a large external frame and inability of vertebral reconstruct. Therefore, the minimally invasive techniques combining simplified percutaneous external


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The path to Howick Primary
School was once a muddy
one, but 50 years on, it has paved
the way to a bright, promising
future for thousands of students.
Its roots began in the Howick
District High School (now Howick
Intermediate School), once the
only local school in the district,
before branching out to its current
location on Willoughby Avenue in
1964.
Now led by its ninth principal
Leyette Callister, the school has
seen a great many children pass
through its doors including
successful figures such asDr
Lance O'Sullivan, 2014's New
Zealander of the Year, actress Sara
Wiseman and teacher Murray
Burton, currently Elim Christian
College principal and New
Zealander of the Year 2009.
Times have certainly changed
since the school's inception. The
original Principal's 'Log Book'
shows a detailed account of daily
comings and goings at school. On
the first day at the Willoughby Ave
site, the principal, Mr B F
Shepherd, wrote that the children
had been placed in new classes
and were working quietly by
9.20am.
Teachers "reported for duty" the
day before school was to open
and half of them were new to the
school -- quite a change from the
present 'teacher-only' days and
preparation in the weeks before
school starts.
The school has the largest school
grounds in the district and is one
of the biggest in Auckland. As a
result, maintenance is a big job. To
try and keep costs down the
school resorted to a ride-on
lawnmower


allowing for two lanes of traffic on a  deck. The bridge, originally painted silver, was repainted deep green in 1983, and repaired in 1999. In 2005, the Missouri Department of Transportation again rehabbed and repainted the bridge, replacing the green color of the bridge with gray. The bridge is 2,286.4 feet (697 m) in length. The span over the main channel of the Mississippi River is 418.5 feet (128 m) in length.

In 2013, MoDOT heightened restrictions on oversized loads on the bridge, citing its age and width. Pull-off areas were constructed, and all wide/oversized loads were required to pull over and call the Louisiana police department for an escort. In 2014, a legal weight limit of 40 tons was put into place and the speed limit wasreduced to 30 mph, due to accelerated deterioration. Until its replacement bridge opened, MoDOT affirmed that the bridge was safe to travel so long as motorists complied with the posted weight and speed limits.

Replacement

In 2015, MoDOT and IDOT were jointly awarded a federal TIGER grant to replace the bridgereduce the cost to each state and Illinois committed its share. In 2016, MoDOT announced inclusion of funding for its portion of the bridge replacement cost in its draft five-year plan. The new bridge opened on August 3, 2019, and retained the name of the old span. The old bridge will be demolished in late 2019.

See also

 List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

References

General references
 Missouri Department of Transportation. "Champ Clark Bridge". 2005. Retrieved January 30,


Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Although the Volkswagen was equipped with seat belts, defendant intends to prove that plaintiff was not wearing a belt at the time of the accident. The plaintiff suffered multiple injuries rendering him a paraplegic.
In his complaint, plaintiff alleges defects and negligence in the design, manufacture, and assembly of the Volkswagen. It appears that plaintiff is now proceeding upon two distinct theories. The first theory, related to the cause of the accident itself, asserts that two bolts and lock nuts connecting the flexible coupling assembly of the steering mechanism failed, fell out, or were never present. The second theory, *1370 dealing with the strength of the Volkswagen roof, does not concern the cause of the accident itself, but relates to the purported cause of30 || 12.5 || 0.9 || 1.3 || 2.5 || align=center|
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Apple's iTunes 11 now available for download

Finally

Apple made the announcement via its iTunes page Thursday, confirming an earlier report that the music would indeed rain down on us in a matter of hours.

The new tune turner was due out before the end of the month, and the Nov. 29 seems to be just about as close to the end as Cupertino could cut it.

Originally slated for an October release, Apple held off on breaking out the new 'Tunes to "get it right." It looks like the fruity folk finally got the service where it needed to be.

New look, new feel

Apple is calling iTunes 11 "a redesigned player," something we've never seen or used before.

New library views that facilitate smarter, more intuitive searches and a new MiniPlayer that's jammedSacramento Republic FC announced Tuesday the return of in-season signings Daniel Trickett-Smith and Christian Chaney from this past campaign. Their 2017 signings are pending league and federation approval.

Trickett-Smith originally signed with Republic FC on May 19, right before Sacramento played his former club, the Liverpool FC U21s, in a pair of friendly matches. Trickett-Smith made 14 appearances for Republic FC, including eight USL appearances. He scored two goals, including one against his former team, and added an assist.

“Dan showed us last season that he can do almost anything with the ball at his feet,” Republic FC Head Coach and Technical Director Paul Buckle said. “He is a very exciting player and we have high hopes that the 2017 season will be a successful one for Dan.”

A Fresno native,


Chaney joined Republic FC on Aug. 12 after playing with the Fresno Fuego during the 2016 Premier Development League season. Chaney was the top-rated prospect in the PDL as rated by USLPDL.com. He scored 13 goals and added an assist in 12 PDL matches last season with the Fuego. Chaney was the PDL’s second leading scorer in 2016.

Before playing with the Fuego, Chaney was a former All-American at Fresno City College. He appeared in Republic FC’s final match of the season against CD Guadalajara on Oct. 5, coming on as a substitute and playing 35 minutes.

“Christian is a player that joined us at the end of the season,” said Buckle. “He is of good age, a young player that is strong, powerful and can score goals. He hasthemselves quite well looked after when they return to the surface. If they're unsuccessful, well, did THEY have retrieval insurance?

In Ptolus, the Delver's Guild is an organisation that supports adventurers exploring the wonders underneath the city. Whatever your party likes to do in the city, they probably will have at least occasional dealings with the Guild. However, during the development of the Ptolus: City by the Spire sourcebook, The Delver's Guild was also a website where author Monte Cook shared a series of articles designed to fit into the city with those who were interested in the project. This work is a collection of those articles.

The Introduction: Welcome, Delvers covers the actual organisation in Ptolus. It describes their offices and the people the party are likely to meet


Likewise, the bits that take the party into the city are also fully integrated into the storyline. With a spot of planar travel thrown in, a series of actions to seal up the complex again (if that's what the party decide to do), and scope for follow-up adventures this is certainly worth a look, particularly if your group likes the more intelligent sort of dungeon delve that goes beyond killing all the monsters and stealing their stuff.

This adventure, designed to be run in the Ptolus: City by the Spire campaign setting, tells the tale of one of the darkest nights in the city's history, and lands the party right in the thick of the action. There's something for everyone here with investigation, intrigue, action and dungeon exploration allan independent city-state in its own right. The current Commissar is well-liked. Coming from a military background he has troops ready to defend the city and an impressive array of advisors drawn from the more martially-minded residents. He also pays attention to the City Council, having elevated its importance in the scheme of things. Law and order are maintained by a City Watch, who have a mission to keep the peace. There's plenty of detail on both governance and law enforcement, useful if your adventuring tastes run to intrigue or criminal activities. The city also boasts a fire brigade and other groups who gather information and keep the peace.

Next, the city's economy is discussed. There's an Imperial currency that everyone is supposed to use, but Ptolus is renowed


comforts of wealth, the trappings of which obscure the extreme inequality all around the members of the Wilson family and their friends, as depicted through the Tethered, who live in meandering underground tunnels, feed on raw rabbits, and literally have no voice.

To watch "Ready or Not" or "Us" is, in some ways, to see thematic parallels with other colossally excellent horror or horror-adjacent movies, including Peele's 2017 movie "Get Out," which takes aim at white limousine liberals, and South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's 2019 thriller "Parasite," which offers a chilling and at times devastating portrait of class conflict.

Horror films provide a vehicle through which to express the rip-roaring blend of emotions Gillett mentioned, as these tales act as a permission to address frustratingly rigid realities, such as theyawning gap between the rich and the poor.

Part of storytelling's power is that you have a captive audience, Peele told the New York Times in 2017, after the release of "Get Out." You can smuggle themes into screams.

In 2019, this mode of screaming seems all the more necessary.


particularly by less educated, middle-aged white Americans. Recent discussions of rising death rates among this cohort have suggested an “undiagnosed pathology” among people who feel “left behind”.

Perhaps most insidiously, discussions of urban poverty and disorder often use the narrative of across-the-board decline to explain very specific, entrenched forms of inequality and injustice. From the deaths of African-American men at the hands of police in Chicago, Ferguson and elsewhere, to the water crisis in Flint, there is abundant evidence of structural violence and neglect, and of the undervaluing of black lives.

A sense of an ending

This civic crisis is mirrored by political sclerosis. Poisonous ideological division has not only brought Washington to a standstill, but gripped the body politic more broadly. There are limited options to remedy problems of accountabilityDon't be obtuse, get to know Dr. Seuss: Bet you didn't know these things about the author

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Show Caption Hide Caption Benedict Cumberbatch is happy to play Dr. Seuss' 'brilliant' Grinch USA TODAY spoke with Benedict Cumberbatch about channeling Dr. Seuss' "brilliant" Grinch.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was called Ted as a boy but would one day be known to the world as Dr. Seuss, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. His father, Theodor Robert Geisel, who co-owned a brewery, often took young Ted to the city zoo. Perhaps inspired by these visits, Ted – with the encouragement of his mother, Henrietta – drew animal caricatures on his bedroom walls.

Dr. Seuss produced some 66 books in all, counting those he wrote but didn’t illustrate,


those he co-authored or wrote under a pseudonym, and those that were published posthumously. He is the world’s best-selling children’s author, and according to some sources either the ninth or 11th most popular fiction writer of any kind in history. His books, which have been translated into 30 languages, have sold somewhere between 500 million and 650 million copies.

Variously hailed as the American Poet Laureate of Nonsense and the Modern Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss has brought pleasure to (and encouraged reading comprehension in) four generations of children around the world. But not everything about him was family-friendly. Here are some surprising facts about this prolific author and illustrator.

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1.

His grandfather was a partner in the Kalmbach & Geisel brewery, known familiarly as "Come Back and Guzzle," which later morphed into the Springfield Brewing Co., one of the largest such operations in New England.

2.

Former President Theodore Roosevelt once humiliated him on stage, exclaiming "What's this boy doing here?" instead of giving him the award for selling war bonds that he was expecting.

3.

His first published work was a parody of Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!," composed as a plaint about the difficulty of Latin class for his high school newspaper.

4.

He wrote a minstrel show called "Chicopee Surprised" as a fundraiser for a school trip, and he performed in it in blackface.

5.

He was fired from the college humor magazine at Dartmouth College for drinking gin


with friends in his dorm room – during Prohibition!

Life prescriptions from the Doctor: Dr. Seuss quotes for every college moment

6.

"Seuss" is pronounced "zoice" in German, but Geisel preferred to rhyme it with "Goose," as in Mother Goose.

7.

He wasn't really a doctor. He began using the honorific in an attempt to mollify his father, who had wanted him to study medicine.

8.

"Oh, the places you'll go!", which became the title of his last book (published in 1990), was a Dartmouth catchphrase in the 1920s.

9.

He was voted "Least Likely to Succeed" by Casque & Gauntlet, the senior society to which he belonged at Dartmouth.

10.

He attended Oxford University in 1926, pursuing a master's degree in English, but he left after less than a year.

11.

Helen Palmer, a fellow student at Oxford who wasto become his first wife, encouraged him to give up the academic world to concentrate on his art.

12.

He and Helen were unable to have children, but he sometimes pretended humorously to have offspring, with names like Chrysanthemum-Pearl, Wickersham, Miggles and Boo-boo.

13.

His first published cartoon appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1927.

14.

In 1929, he drew a four-panel cartoon for the satirical weekly Judge that included a blatantly racist image, complete with the N-word.

15.

When it ran into financial difficulties, Judge began paying him in merchandise, including 100 cartons of shaving cream on one occasion and 13 gross of nail clippers on another.

16.

He was subsequently hired to create ads by the makers of Flit, a DDT-laced bug spray produced by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey.

17.

He created a


slogan for the bug spray – "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" – that became an oft-quoted slogan of the day a la "Where's the Beef?"

18.

Some of his Flit ads featured more racist imagery, of both blacks and Middle Easterners.

More: Dr. Seuss's political cartoons re-emerge amid criticism of Donald Trump

19.

He later rejected racism, drawing cartoons such as one featuring Uncle Sam wielding a Flit-like spray to blow the "Racial Prejudice Bug" out of the heads of white citizens.

20.

Working for another Standard Oil subsidiary, which produced Essomarine boat fuel, he became "Admiral-in-Chief" of the so-called Seuss Navy, an outfit made up for promotional purposes.

21.

He began writing and drawing children's books because it was one of the few genres not forbidden by his ad contracts.

22.

His first published children's book, "And to ThinkThat I Saw it on Mulberry Street," was rejected by publishers 27 times before it went to press in 1937.

23.

In 1939, he published a book for adults called "The Seven Lady Godivas," full of cartoon nudes. It didn't sell well, and he went back to children's books.

24.

During World War II, he enlisted in the Army and co-wrote some 27 humorous instructional cartoons featuring a hapless Army recruit called Private Snafu.

25.

He might have invented the word "nerd," which appears in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo" – though the derivation is disputed.

26.

He wrote a fantasy movie about an evil piano teacher, "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.," released in 1953.

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27.

Helen, who was in frail health, committed suicide


after Geisel had an affair with a friend's wife, Audrey Dimond – who was to become the second Mrs. Geisel.

28.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of the fact that his stories have inspired feature films and TV specials.

More Seuss: 'The Grinch' Benedict Cumberbatch gets cranky about Christmas sweaters, standards on repeat

29.

His license plate read "GRINCH," a reference to one of his most famous books, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

30.

He was a heavy smoker until the early 1980s and died of oral cancer – though not until 1991, when he was 87.

Methodology

To unearth little-known facts about Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, 24/7 Wall St. consulted the Springfield Museums’ Seuss in Springfield website, Penguin Random House’s Seussville website, the website of the New England HistoricalThe gold coins and the earring were found between two stones in the side of a well in a house in a neighbourhood that dates back some 900 years, during the Abbasid and Fatimid periods.

Gold coins and an earring uncovered at an excavation site in Israel's Caesarea. (AFP)

Caesarea:

Rare gold coins and a golden earring have been discovered in the ancient Mediterranean port of Caesarea in northern Israel -- possibly left and never recovered as Crusaders conquered the area 900 years ago.

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the find on Monday of a small bronze pot holding 24 gold coins and the earring.

According to the authority, it was found between two stones in the side of a well in a house in a neighbourhood that dates back some 900 years,


during the Abbasid and Fatimid periods.

The directors of the excavation, the IAA's Peter Gendelman and Mohammed Hatar, said the coins in the cache date to the end of the 11th century.

That makes it possible "to link the treasure to the Crusader conquest of the city in the year 1101, one of the most dramatic events in the medieval history of the city", an IAA statement said.

"According to contemporary written sources, most of the inhabitants of Caesarea were massacred by the army of Baldwin I (1100-1118), king of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem," it added.

"It is reasonable to assume that the treasure's owner and his family perished in the massacre or were sold into slavery, and therefore were not able to retrieve their gold."

IAA coin expert Robert Kool said"one or two of these gold coins were the equivalent of the annual salary of a simple farmer, so it seems that whoever deposited the cache was at least well-to-do or involved in commerce".

Caesarea was constructed in the first century BC by King Herod at a time that Judea was part of the Roman empire.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)


- Regarding Triple H's comments on the live Steve Austin interview about having no beef or issues with CM Punk, most people within WWE that are talking do not believe he was telling the truth.

It came as a surprise that a higher-up like Triple H talked about how RAW should go back to 2 hours and most people in the company agree with that.

On a related note, Triple H mentioned during his interview with Michael Cole today that he heard his interview with Austin had 40% more viewers than Vince McMahon's interview with Austin.

Source: F4WOnlineNeither rain, sleet, snow, nor hail will stop Chinese Apple fans from getting their hands on the new iPhone 5.

Outside the company's biggest store in Asia, located in the popular shopping district of Wangfujing in the Chinese capital of Beijing, security was standing by as customers braved snow flurries and freezing temperatures to be one of the first in China to buy the latest version of the popular Apple handset. "I've always wanted to buy an iPhone 5," one early morning customer told reporters. "So I think it's worth it."

China is the largest market for Apple outside the U.S. In its last fiscal year, Apple generated about 23 billion dollars in revenues from the country and Apple products are seen as more than just gadgets in China —


they're status symbols. The country, which is the world's largest smartphone market, is also key to Apple's future growth.

"I feel happy and exhilarated to be one of the first to own the phone in China," new iPhone 5 owner Wang Zhiqiang said inside the store. Chinese people are willing to pay roughly $840 for a 16GB iPhone 5 — 30 percent more than in the U.S. — despite the average income in China being significantly lower than in America.

Those high prices, however, could also hurt Apple. According to IDC, Apple's ranking in the China market, where Samsung and Lenovo are top sellers, slipped to sixth in the July-September period. A crop of Chinese companies such as Yulong, which sells smartphones under the name of Coolpad, and Xiaomi areWest Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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The White House’s budget blueprint seeks to revive spending for a hotly contested facility in Nevada that would store the nation’s nuclear waste. President Donald Trump is asking Congress to approve $120 million in spending to restart licensing activity at the Yucca Mountain repository and fund an interim storage program. That would allow development at the remote site located about 100 miles from Las Vegas to start up again. Most Nevadans oppose the plan, which would consolidate the U.S. nuclear waste load currently spread across the country in their state. The project has essentially been on ice since 2010, when then-President Barack Obama suspended licensing for the Yucca Mountain facility.

It is estimated that North Korea now has 10 nuclear weapons, up


from six or eight in 2013. This increase is in contrast to an overall decrease in the number of nuclear weapons worldwide. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) an independent resource on global security, has estimated that the number has fallen by almost a third, from 22,600 in 2010 to around 15,395 last year. That said, SIPRI also states that both the US and Russia are going through extensive modernising programmes for their remaining weapons.

Scientists are testing how 20 million people would react to a nuclear attack in New York City. Experts at the Center for Social Complexity in Virginia have been awarded a $450,000 (£363,000) grant to study the aftermath of a blast in the Big Apple. The money is being used to develop a computerelection and its annexation of Crimea.

However, Indonesia's trade minister said the sanctions could be good news for his country as Russia is forced to seek new markets to import from.

Indonesia and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding to exchange 11 Russian-made Sukhoi fighters for key commodities in Moscow early August.

It was not announced Saturday in what form payment would be made.

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straightforward than that. It’s a song of parting, like Ae Fond Kiss, to which I return again and again, but this time there’s one word which signals that the circumstances are different: Polentransport. That single word tells the whole story.

And here’s the story:

The song was written by Ilse Weber (née Herlinger), born in Moravia in what is now the Czech Republic. As a Jew she was taken, after the Nazis invaded, to Terzin with her husband Willi and her son Tommy, from their home in Prague. An older son, Hanus, had been sent to Sweden via a kindertransport, and escaped the war altogether.

Weber had been a children’s author in Prague before the war, as well as a musician, and the two things come together in the naked simplicityof her words and music in this song and in others she wrote while in Terzin, one of which, Wiegala, was a lullaby.

In 1944 her husband was to be transported to Auschwitz (the Polentransport mentioned in the song) and Weber volunteered herself and Tommy to accompany him, so as to keep the family together. Instead, on arrival at Auschwitz, Tommy and Ilse were immediately separated from Willi, and gassed. Willi lived on for 30 years. Hanus, meanwhile, lived in Stockholm as a journalist, not far from the place where Anne Sofie von Otter grew up, the daughter of a Swedish nobleman and diplomat.

Her story is so incredible I’ll leave it to Norman Lebrecht to tell it here. In short, her father heard the confession on a train of


1. Gender mainstreaming in EU external relations (
- Before the vote
Libor Rouček
rapporteur. - Mr President, the EU and its Member States have committed themselves to pursuing gender equality and women's empowerment as one of the key priorities of the international agenda.
Yet, closer inspection reveals that the practical implementation of gender mainstreaming in the EU's external policies is still weak. For instance, only eight of the 27 Member States have adopted national action plans on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
Furthermore, women are still seriously underrepresented in high-level posts in the Commission and the Council. In fact, there is not a single female EU special representative at the moment. For this reason, the report stresses that the EU needs to fully implement its commitments in this field.period in this case, the claimant has had two primary doctors. While in the Kansas City area, the claimant's primary physician was Donna Beeson, M.D. At present, the claimant lives in Wichita and her primary physician is Susan Wiebe, M.D. In October 2005, Dr. Wiebe completed evaluations of the claimant's mental and physical abilities. Dr. Beeson completed the evaluations in November 2005. Both doctors indicated the claimant had no significant mental problems or limitations. Both doctors also indicated, however, the claimant had significant physical limitations. In assessing the claimant, Dr. Beeson emphasized the claimant's osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease, and degenerative changes in her lumbar spine. Dr. Wiebe emphasized the claimant's obesity and degenerative joint disease in the knees as well as weakness in her left upper extremity. In


(CNN) - Pope Francis on Tuesday called for big changes in the Roman Catholic Church - including at the very top - saying the church needs to rethink rules and customs that are no longer widely understood or effective for evangelizing.

"I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security," the Pope said in a major new statement.

"I do not want a Church concerned with being at the center and then ends by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures," Francis added.

The Pope's address, called an "apostolic exhortation," is part mission statement, part pep talk for the world's 1.5 billiona spirit of joy and compassion in the church, scolding Catholic "sourpusses" who hunt down rule-breakers and calling out a "tomb psychology" that "slowly transforms Christians into mummies in a museum."

"An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral!" the Pope said.

Officially known in Latin as "Evangelii Gaudium" (The Joy of the Gospel), the 85-page statement released on Tuesday is the first official document written entirely by Pope Francis. (An earlier document was co-written by Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.)

Although Francis sprinkles the statement with citations of previous popes and Catholic luminaries like St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine, the new pontiff makes a bold call for the church to rethink even long-held traditions.

"In her ongoing discernment, the Church can also


and to focus more on spreading the Gospel, especially to the poor and marginalized.

In a section of "Evangelii" entitled "some challenges to today's world," he sharply criticized what he called an "idolatry of money" and "the inequality that spawns violence."

The Pope also blasted "trickle-down economics," saying the theory "expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power."

“Meanwhile,” Francis said, “the excluded are still waiting.”

But the bulk of Francis' statement addresses the church, which, he said, should not be afraid to "get its shoes soiled by the mud of the street."

The Pope also hinted that he wants to see an end to the so-called "wafer wars," in which Catholic politicians who support abortion rights are denied Holy Communion. His comments could also be takenas another sign that he plans to reform church rules that prevent divorced Catholics from receiving the Eucharist.

"Everyone can share in some way in the life of the Church; everyone can be part of the community, nor should the doors of the sacraments be closed for simply any reason," Francis said.

"The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak."

Even so, Francis reiterated the church's stand against abortion, defending it against critics who call such arguments "ideological, obscurantist and conservative."

"Precisely because this involves the internal consistency of our message about the value of the human person, the Church cannot be expected to change her position on this question," Francis said.

The Pope also


the "only one" who knows what his "real views are" !! Bravo!!

November 26, 2013 at 2:13 pm |

Dyslexic doG

go back over his public positions and statements for the 30 years before he was pope you tool! Not me judging. Just pointing out that the real pope believes something different than what this Vatican PR campaign is professing.

November 26, 2013 at 2:16 pm |

children of Israel

The Pope refuses to bow down to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And our Father I AM chose Jacob as his chosen people. Who names are written on the gates of the kingdom, the new Jerusalem? Revelation 7:4 the children of Israel, Jacob blood lineage – Ezekiel 48:31 and Revelation 21:12

November 26, 2013 at 2:09 pm |

Dyslexic doG

why post a quote from– anyone can do that. Actions speak louder than words.

November 26, 2013 at 2:08 pm |

Jeff6187

I love this man!

November 26, 2013 at 2:07 pm |

satch99

"Francis repeats his calls for Catholics to stop "obsessing" about culture war issues and enforcing church rules, and to focus more on spreading the Gospel, especially to the poor and marginalized."

...ahh yes, sell your snake oil to the least educated. These type of people have the best chance of buying into your BS!

November 26, 2013 at 2:07 pm |

BO

Praise da Lawd and pass the beer. We've got gay and lots of abortions coming up for the Catholics.

November 26, 2013 at 2:06 pm |

Doc Vestibule

Pope Strangelove
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RU486

November 26, 2013 at 2:08 pm |

Lionly Lamb

I'm grateful to


2013 at 2:15 pm |

Mike J

It is refreshing to contrast those like the Pope who are trying to better a situation, even if only as an individual versus those like, say Sarah Palin, who are purely critics that create nothing, only critique.

November 26, 2013 at 2:04 pm |

fattdaddy

you are equating Palin to the Pope?

November 26, 2013 at 2:11 pm |

Knucklehead

"....dive in feet first." Hmmm....when you dive, you dive head first. Otherwise it's just a jump. So just what is the Pope saying here?

November 26, 2013 at 2:00 pm |

Mike J

He's saying, "don't dwell on the irrelevant."

November 26, 2013 at 2:06 pm |

Youtube - Neil DeGrasse Tyson rebukes Richard Dawkins

Good grief – enough with the cryptographic messaging. It's straight-forward.

November 26, 2013 at 2:06 pm |

Doc Vestibule

Just go back totwo Masters". Matthew 6,24.

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top movie of the night by earning its fourth Oscar for Visual Effects, a much deserved win – although my heart also wanted Harry Potter to snag its first Academy Award. Which reminds me, The Wolfman won for best makeup. And I thought it was an abomination how this movie gets to flaunt an Academy Award and the whole Harry Potter series has none. Having said that, Deathly Hallows Part 2 better bring it at next year’s Oscars!

Speaking of Harry Potter, there was a funny segment as well about how “musicals” have been an important part of the business this part year. The segment comprised of dialogue parts from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, The Social Network and Twilight, among other movies, transformed intoIt’s 2018 and we really should not be fighting against one another over religious differences, but a video that is going viral Saturday (Dec 8) shows the uglier side of Singapore as a Christian lady and a Taoist are seen arguing over a religious processing.

In the video which has garnered more than 29,000 views as of press time, a middle-aged woman is seen confronting a group of Taoists who are involved in their own religious processing at a void deck of a public flat.

The video, uploaded by SG Chinese Club on Facebook, shows the group accusing her of “coming to us first” as she tries to assert that the group is reportedly “cursing her”.

The group then brings up “racism” as a way to accuse her of being intolerant


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Gail has spent the last 13 years living in the best of both worlds, with weekdays in the New York City fashion district and weekends at her farm and quilt shop, Ladyfingers Sewing Studio, in the heart of the historic Oley Valley of Pennsylvania. This continuous change of scenery has produced a style that shines through her work as a fabric and quilt designer, shop owner, quilting instructor and former marketing director of Andover Fabrics. Gails work has been featured in countless publications, and she has appeared on QNNtv and Fons & Porter's "Love of Quilting."Melatonin and the circadian clock in mink: effects of daily injections of melatonin on circadian rhythm of locomotor activity and autoradiographic localization of melatonin binding sites.
The present study examines a putative effect of exogenous melatonin on the circadian organization of the mink. Two approaches were used to determine first whether entrainment of free-running rhythms of locomotor activity in constant darkness can be obtained by daily melatonin injections, thus demonstrating a control of melatonin on the clock generating circadian rhythms, the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus. Entrainment was never obtained in the 8 vehicle-injected females and 7 out of the 8 melatonin injected-ones. In 3 females free-running in constant darkness, a phase advance followed by a few days of transient effect was observed when melatonin injections coincided with the


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KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”) is a Swiss entity. Member firms of the KPMG network of independent firms are affiliated with KPMG International. KPMG International provides no client services. No member firm has any authority to obligate or bind KPMG International or any other member firm vis-à-vis third parties, nor does KPMG International have anybank robbery (Count 3), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (b) & (d).  Upon this appeal from the resulting conviction and 17-year sentence, Estremera claims several reversible errors.  We affirm.

2
The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the government, discloses a bank-robbery scenario duplicating what has in recent years become all too common in New York City and vicinity.  On February 9, 1973, four armed men, Oscar Lee Washington, Victor Cumberbatch, Pedro Mario Monges, and a person later identified as the defendant Raul Estremera, entered a Bronx branch of the First National City Bank.  Surprising the bank guard and other personnel, the men ordered all those in the bank to lie on the floor while the bank manager, James Bolla, led Monges


and Washington to the cash drawers, from which the two looted $25,321.75.  Cumberbatch meanwhile beat the assistant bank manager, Albert Randall, with his submachine gun and proceeded to rob him of his valuables.  Similarly Estremera removed a wallet from the bank guard, Rodolfo Romero, who was then lying face down on the floor, and then relieved Romero of his watch, at which point Romero turned and looked directly at Estremera's face, now just inches away.  Most of this was recorded on bank surveillance cameras, which were activated within a short time after the robbery began.  Approximately 44 photographs of the robbery in progress were later introduced at trial.

3
The robbers departed in two automobiles, driving to a spot some six blocks from the bank, wherethey entered a red Ford van and another vehicle.  Leroy Irvin, a resident of the street, observed the change in cars and noted the license number of the van, which belonged to Alberto Estremera, appellant's brother.

4
On February 15, police officials in Brooklyn located the Ford van and arrested Washington as he entered the vehicle.  Later during the afternoon, the police arrested Alberto Estremera at a Brooklyn address where they also uncovered weapons and contraband currency.  Appellant, aware of these two arrests, asked two friends, Frank Negron and Wayne Barrett, for assistance in avoiding capture, seeking a place to stay, money, and a pair of clear eyeglasses.  His friends provided Estremera with an apartment and placed an order for the desired spectacles.  On the


same date, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation exhibited to Rodolfo Romero a spread of six photographs, including that of defendant but not including a picture of his brother Alberto, who looked somewhat like appellant.  The bank guard immediately identified appellant as one of the bank robbers.  The agents also presented the same series of photographs to Kenneth Jackson, the head teller at the bank, who was in the building's basement during the robbery.  From a vantage point near the basement stairs Jackson had been able to observe the person later identified by him as Estremera from a distance of less than 15 feet.  Both selected defendant's picture from the photographic array.

5
The February 15, 1973, arrest of Alberto Estremera had been accompanied bya search of his apartment.  Upon challenge to its legality, the government agreed not to employ the fruits of the search and concomitant seizures.  On February 26, 1973, the government consented to the dismissal of its case against Alberto,1 who had been briefly represented in connection with a bail application by Jesse Berman, Esq., the same attorney who was later to appear on behalf of Raul in this case.  On March 3, 1973, the government filed its first indictment against appellant and Washington.  A superseding indictment adding Monges and Cumberbatch as defendants followed on April 12, 1973.2 Appellant failed to appear for arraignment on either occasion and bench warrants were issued.  The government was unaware of his whereabouts until January 30, 1974, when


He appealed to the Federal Court of Appeals in Canada, which on October 30, 1974, dismissed the deportation proceedings, ruling that since Estremera's sole conviction in the United States was for a misdemeanor he was not deportable as an undesirable alien.  On the very next day, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York requested that Canadian authorities detain appellant pending extradition.  On November 15, 1974, a Canadian Federal Court Judge issued an order for his extradition which became effective on January 3, 1975, following exhaustion of Estremera's appeals.

7
Returned to the United States on January 6, 1975, appellant was brought to New York City and arraigned.  At the trial, which followed in May 1975, the government rested its case principally upon thebank surveillance photographs, the identification of appellant by James Bolla, the bank manager, and Rodolfo Romero, the bank guard, both of whom testified, and testimony by Frank Negron regarding appellant's post-robbery request for help in avoiding capture.  The court excluded as irrelevant testimony of one Ruben Matias that shortly prior to the robbery appellant had transported guns and ammunition from California to New York where they were unloaded with the help of Washington and Cumberbatch and that appellant had shortly thereafter alluded to 'planning to do another job in New York.'

8
Appellant did not take the stand.  However, the defense sought to cast doubt upon the identification of appellant by offering evidence to the effect that the robber probably was appellant's look-alike brother, Alberto.  Appellant's attorney,


Jesse Berman, Esq., who had also been Alberto's attorney when he previously had been arrested for the robbery, undertook shortly before trial to discredit the identifications of appellant as the robber by inducing Alberto to dress in an outfit similar to that worn by the robber in the bank's surveillance photos (including coveralls, construction helmet and gloves), and to pose for several photographs in Berman's office, photographs that depicted Alberto in substantially the same postures and attitudes as those of the person appearing in the bank photos.  On March 14, 1975, Berman showed to Kenneth Jackson, the bank teller, a photographic array consisting solely of photos of Alberto.  Not surprisingly, in view of the similarity in appearance of the brothers and the passage of some twoyears since the robbery, Jackson identified Alberto as the robber and endorsed the back of the pictures accordingly.  At trial, however, when asked to select among a series of photographs that included one of Alberto and the February 15, 1973, array used by the FBI, which contained appellant's likeness, Jackson selected defendant as the individual most closely resembling the robber.

9
At trial Bolla, the bank manager, a government witness, identified appellant and testified that a few weeks earlier he had selected appellant's photograph as that of one of the robbers from a photographic spread shown to him by appellant's attorney, Berman.  Berman took the witness stand at trial and testified that on March 14, 1975, he had shown Bolla a photographic spread containing Alberto's picture, but not


when the government initiated steps for extradition.  He argues, however, that the delay of nine months in requesting extradition following appellant's January 1974 arrest in Canada and encompassing the pendency of the deportation proceedings should bar prosecution.  In effect, he contends that the government's decision to defer extradition until deportation failed cannot qualify as 'diligent' or as 'reasonable efforts to obtain the presence of the defendant for trial' as mandated by Rule 5(f).  We disagree.

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The uncontroverted evidence demonstrates that as of January 1974, both American liaison agent Edward McShane and Canadian immigration officials reasonably believed on the basis of experience that defendant was properly subject to deportation from Canada and that normally deportation would be the least protracted or cumbersome remedy employed in such circumstancesin view of Estremera's use of an alias to gain entry into Canada, his prior American conviction, his arrest in Canada, and the pending charges against him in New York.  The deportation proceedings progressed expeditiously and smoothly, as indicated by the Canadian immigration court's April 1, 1974, finding of deportability, until the Canadian Federal Court dismissed the case, roughly nine months after it was commenced, because the prior conviction was for a misdemeanor.  Under the circumstances, the fact that the prosecutors, along with Canadian immigration officials and the highest Canadian immigration tribunal, proved to be mistaken in their reliance on deportation hardly establishes that the government acted unreasonably or without diligence in following this timeproven course, see United States v. Oliver, 523 F.2d 253 (2d Cir.


United States, 367 U.S. 364, 369, 81 S.Ct. 1523, 1527, 6 L.Ed.2d 901 (1961), deliberately provoked him to move for a mistrial, which was at first granted by the court but then vacated when the defendant insisted on proceeding with the trial, resulting in a guilty verdict.  First a few words about the background.

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Prior to and during the trial appellant's counsel had, in his zeal to obtain an acquittal, engaged in conduct raising doubts regarding his understanding of his professional responsibility.  Despite the obvious conflict of interest between the brothers Alberto and Raul, each of whom had been successively arrested for the robbery, Berman sought to disprove the identification of Raul, his present client, by implicating Alberto, his former client, whom he induced to pose fori.e., whether appellant had been in New York shortly prior to the time of the robbery.  On cross-examination Negron had testified that he had not seen appellant for about two weeks prior to February 15, 1973 (the robbery occurred on February 9, 1973), but when asked whether appellant 'was not in New York?' he answered 'I figure he probably was.'  This testimony was excluded by the court on the ground that it was getting into the area of speculation.  Nonetheless, in his summation appellant's counsel repeatedly advised the jury that Negron had testified that appellant had not been in New York for at least two weeks prior to February 15.3 Furthermore, without any evidentiary basis defense counsel portrayed appellant as a peaceful member of the


when Estremera first moved for a pretrial line-up.

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The problem raised by the government's photographic array is that, although permissible, it was not as scrupulously fair to appellant as it might have been had it included a likeness of his look-alike brother, Alberto.  On February 15, 1973, when the FBI photos were shown to the eyewitnesses, Alberto, whose red van had been used by the robbers to flee the bank, was arrested and photographed as a suspect.  Although 11 days later he was released for reasons unclear from the record, the fact that two years later one witness (Jackson) identified Alberto, albeit on the basis of defense's impermissibly suggestive spread5 indicates that the government would have been better advised upon obtaining Alberto's photo (presumably a matter of1 of the indictment and were each sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.  Cumberbatch still awaits trial

3
 In his summation Berman stated:
'Frank (Negron) told us that Raul was not in New York for at least two weeks prior to February 15, the day that Frank saw him.'  (Transcript p. 411).
'Frank (Negron) said that he hadn't been in New York for at least two weeks before.'  (Transcript p. 412).
'The evidence shows you, our evidence and theirs, shows you why it is not Raul Estremera.  Raul Estremera has pleaded not guilty and he denies being the bank robber.  He was out of town when the bank robbery happened.  The draft board letter reached him in Utah on either February 9 or 10th, 1973.
'Frank (Negron) told


Belgium put the United States under immense pressure in the first half in Salvador, and midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was often at the center of the action. De Bruyne immediately became an Internet sensation, as many fans were introduced to the former Chelsea player for the first time.

As usual, the Internet was not kind.

What is Kevin De Bruyne still doing up?! its way past his bed time. — Ben (@benseg11) July 1, 2014

De Bruyne is like the evil kid in an American Pie movie — netw3rk (@netw3rk) July 1, 2014

Kevin De Bruyne looks surprisingly happy after missing that sitter. pic.twitter.com/O2o4IpikMi — Sunday League Footy (@SundayChants) July 1, 2014

Man, De Bruyne's U8 team is laughing right now. — Richard Whittall (@RWhittall) July 1, 2014

Kevin de Bruyne is 9 yearssynthesis of complex natural glycoconjugates, landomycins and jadomycins. In 2013, he joined the Toste group as a postdoctoral fellow, and his research is focused on the development of asymmetric fluorination reactions using chiral anion phase-transfer catalysis.

Tao Wu obtained his B.Sc. from Beijing Normal University, where he conducted organometallic chemistry research on nickel-catalyzed C--O activation under the supervision of Prof. Zhangjie Shi (Peking University). He then worked with Prof. Guosheng Liu at SIOC to pursue a Ph.D. degree starting in 2007. His graduate work mainly focused on palladium-catalyzed difunctionalization of alkenes. In 2013, he joined the Toste group as a postdoctoral researcher and is conducting research in the area of asymmetric catalysis using chiral anions.

Robert J. Phipps obtained his undergraduate degree from Imperial College, London, in 2006 before moving


to the University of Cambridge where he completed his Ph.D. studies with Prof. Matthew Gaunt in 2010 on the development of copper-catalyzed arylation. He spent two years working with Prof. F. Dean Toste at UC Berkeley on asymmetric fluorination as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2013, he returned to Cambridge where he will commence independent research from 2014 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

F. Dean Toste obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry (1993) and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (1995) from the University of Toronto. He then moved to Stanford University where he completed his Ph.D. in 2000 under the guidance Professor Barry Trost. After a postdoctoral appointment with Professor Robert Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology, he took a position as an Assistant Professorof Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. In 2006, he was promoted to Associate Professor, and Professor of Chemistry in 2009. Professor Toste's honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), the Cope Scholar (2006), E. J. Corey Award (2008), and Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2015) Awards from the American Chemical Society, BASF (2007) and Mitsui (2014) Catalysis Awards, the Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS) Award (2007) and Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2008) from IUPAC, the Merck Award (2010) from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Mukaiyama Award (2011) from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan.

X.Y. and T.W. are grateful to SIOC, Zhejiang Medicine, and Pharmaron for postdoctoral fellowship support. R.J.P. is grateful to the European Commission for


Though flawed and inadequate in key ways, the safety net will now lack major structural gaps it just had. When conservatives warn that Obamacare will turn the United States into a European welfare state, they're being histrionic, but they're not being entirely disingenuous.

The extraordinary but ultimately failed efforts Republicans undertook in 2011 and 2012 to win back Congress and the White House -- the direct assault on public sector unions, systematic disenfranchisement of minority voters, legislative sabotage on Capitol Hill -- are perhaps best thought of as rearguard actions to prevent Obamacare from ever taking effect. To keep America from becoming Europe.

Obama's reelection was Game Over. GOP leaders understood this, even if rank-and-file Republicans and millions of Republican voters remain in denial about it.

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But just because the Americanwelfare state no longer lacks the linchpin of a healthcare guarantee doesn't mean the programs that compose it will lumber along in their current forms unchanged. In other words, the grueling ideological struggle over the shape and generosity of U.S. social programs will continue for years to come.

Enter a snarky, unconventional but ultimately innocuous Rolling Stone article by Jesse Myerson. In it, he proposes five reforms that are pretty far-reaching relative to the country's existing social and economic regime, and would in fact dramatically alter the balance of economic and political power in America.

When you strip away the comedic framing, though, they're a fairly straightforward mix of progressive and radical-centrist reforms. (See Matt Yglesias for a complete breakdown.)

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But conservatives went absolutely apeshit. So severe was the apoplexy that


Chris Brammer –

Eastern European football fans have long pondered what a Soviet national team (Sbornaya) would have looked like, had the Socialist camp not collapsed in the early 1990s. A 1990s team consisting of a young and bright Andrey Arshavin supporting Ukrainian figurehead Andriy Shevchenko would surely be a team that would live long in the hearts of football hipsters everywhere.

If the Iron Curtain had not come down, would fewer young Eastern European talents have found their way into the ranks of Western European clubs? How would the domestic scene look if foreign national rulings had remained in place? What if Luka Modrić had never left Yugoslavia?

This is the world we will attempt to explore. Using the popular video game Football Manager 2016, and the brilliant Iron CurtainDatabase, we give ourselves the task of being the national team manager of the Soviet Union, operating in a world in which the Cold War never ended.

Football Manager – The Back in the USSR Database

The database itself is a fantastic creation which sees the reintroduction of the Soviet, Yugoslavian, and East German league systems, along with a unified Czechoslovakia competition. There are also radical changes to the majority of the teams within the former Socialist bloc to any previous names and logos. I have some experience with it already, having used it for my FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Blog.

The database also radically changes the structure of the leagues, with an “only three foreign players” ruling put in place in the Soviet Union, and just one foreign player for the


Yugoslavian Prva Liga. The vast majority of foreign players are gone, and start the game as free agents.

In their place, players from the club’s academy and “Soviet Nationals” who have been returned to their home clubs or (in the case of players who have Soviet citizenship, but didn’t grow up in their home country) have been placed in clubs where they potentially would have gone through the ranks—one example is Henrikh Mkhitaryan who is returned to Shakhtar Donetsk.

The transfer kitty of each club is limited, meaning that clubs look first and foremost to develop talent, rather than big star name signings. Something that (you’d hope) could only benefit the national team.

World Cup 2018 in the Football Manager alternative universe

Ours will be a story of the journey to World(a semi-final defeat to England) in the European Championships in France, feels the time is right to move on. Finding a replacement is tough, especially after such a good tournament, but one name stands out above all, Valery Gazzaev.

Gazzaev has some experience with the national team—he took the position of head coach during a brief stint in 2002-03, before returning to CSKA Moscow—but the opportunity to manage the nation is not something easily turned down, especially with the talented players in the squad.

The headline players are the three attacking midfielders, Andriy Yarmolenko, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, and Yevhen Konoplyanka, although it is a multi-talented squad, if not a little bit unbalanced in terms of age. This will be the first challenge for Gazzaev, as his talented squad’s last hurrah will


could use you. With your training and experience... don't discount it. You hear me?"

"I hear you," Klara Yana said.

She knew Dela Savene was trying to give her back some of that hope she'd come in with, when she'd thought her ama had been part of a growing change to their oppressed role in society. But she didn't feel anything resembling hope anymore. She felt hollowed out and betrayed. Everything she'd believed for the past ten cycles, about her ama, her country...

_Why do this for them, when they treat women like they do?_ Even Blackwood's seventeen cycle-old brother had seen it, and he was actively working with Cu Zanthus. _How could I have been so blind?_

"What's this?" Dela Savene touched the back of Klara Yana's scalp. "This needs stitches.She looked up and gasped.

Vo Hina stood over her. The top of her misty head was seared black, and the smell of burning was overpowering. She'd _blocked_ the lightning bolt – surely one that would have taken Klara Yana's life.

Third time. This was the third time she'd saved her life. _Because she came for you. Saved you, when everyone else who ever shrouded ended up dead._ Klara Yana gazed up at her and felt her throat tightening with a gamut of emotions. Ten cycles she'd lived without her ama, and she'd known only a scant handful of people since who cared whether she lived or died. And now one of them – her own guardian from another realm, never mind whatever else she was – would be gone


to be sensible. The only thing remotely Gothic about Germany today is the guttural language and a few choice typefaces that you might still just find on remote railway stations. But aside from my excursions into the semiotics of heavy metal (which may be too much for aficionados), Goth fashion, a penchant for wearing black and strange hairdos certainly count. Western youth appears to have a secure enthusiasm for the Goth as a symbol of teenage rebellion and as a secure depository for teenage anxiety. I take a (very brief) look at a dating website for German Goth youth, which features lots of ridiculously huge boots and moody looks. It understandably makes me feel a bit peculiar, but I still want to go to that festival in Leipzig.

Itinhabited by derelicts. Travelling incognito, with a staff and a basic knowledge of trigonometry, he could calculate height by the length of a shadow; Brunelleschi hence began to reconstitute notions of order and proportion of ancient times, almost working archaeologically amid the long-plundered remains, excavating and measuring things right at his feet.

Brunelleschi also pondered the beauties of the eye as he formulated the rules of perspective via a curious little handheld device. Previously it was widely held that the eyes were like ray guns, outward sensors, and that whatever you saw was real. If you saw goblins, there were goblins. What Brunelleschi understood was that the eyes were passive receptors, that light travelled in straight lines and behaved mathematically. Goblins were an illusion.

Photograph 5 Our wedding at the


This detached villa is available for long term rent, unfurnished, in the delightful village of Tala in Paphos. The location is a quiet and peaceful residential area on the outskirts of Tala and enjoys sea and inland views. The garden contains the private 8x4m swimming pool and there is private off-street parking via a gated drive. The living area is open-plan design with a dining area, an open hearth fire place and patio doors to the covered patio and garden. The spacious kitchen features an oven, hob and extractor and ample cupboard space. There is a guest w.c. on the ground floor. Stairs lead to the first floor and the three double bedrooms all with fitted wardrobes and two with access to the upper veranda with lovely sea     in the Court of Common Pleas of Montour County
              Criminal Division at No(s): CP-47-CR-000003-2007

BEFORE:      SHOGAN, OTT, and STRASSBURGER,* JJ.

MEMORANDUM BY STRASSBURGER, J.:          FILED JUNE 08, 2016

        Dylan L. Mattern (Appellant) appeals from the November 2, 2015

order that dismissed his petition for writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

        On January 30, 2007, Appellant pled guilty to aggravated indecent

assault for sexually abusing a fifteen-year-old girl.    On June 23, 2007,

Appellant was sentenced to four to ten years of incarceration and, after a

hearing,


Robert Fisk: At a supposed vote in his favour of 90.24 per cent, Abdul Aziz Bouteflika, the 72-year-old Algerian leader, anointed himself President for an unprecedented – and quite possibly unconstitutional – third term yesterday, provoking riots in the Berber region of Kabilye east of Algiers and the scepticism of all but the entire Arab world."Good girl" Disney star Miley Cyrus is certainly giving herself a new title to viewers and fans. With her new release of "We Can't Stop," she made a crazy music video "twerking" and "grinding," and everyone was stunned to see Disney's Hannah Montana in action.

It got worse at her performance on the MTV Video Music Awards. She was shaking it on stage in a very inappropriate outfit and constantly sticking her tongue out. How could anyone even focus on the singing when her actions were so out of control?

Why is it that Ms. Cyrus is going so crazy? It seemed as if she had everything going for herself. She had a prior engagement to actor Liam Hemsworth that was called off shortly after. She changed her whole style.


traditions and cafés provides the hosts and viewers alike with a creative approach and unique insight into foreign cultures.

With over 50 million television viewers across the Middle East and North Africa, the award-winning Peeta Planet is the region’s first and most-viewed hybrid TV-web (or “social TV”) travel show.

Peeta Planet, Qabeela New Media and UTURN Entertainment are united in their commitment to build a high-quality entertainment industry in the GCC , and in their shared interest in producing alternative media content by Arabs for Arabs.

About PEETA PLANET:
Peeta Planet is an award-winning, groundbreaking, hybrid TV-web (“social TV”) travel show. that does things a bit differently. This involves avoiding tourist attractions and guidebooks, opting instead for a more authentic experience, exploring and encouraging social travel and discovering the cities through thelens and know-how of the locals. Peeta Planet is produced and hosted by kandourah-clad Emirati brothers Mohamed and Peyman Parham Al Awadhi, and directed by the half a million strong “Peeta Pilots”, steering the show on social media from around the globe. Peeta Planet is broadcasted by Dubai One TV, and produced in partnership with the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Group, and Google.

About QABEELA NEW MEDIA:
Qabeela New Media is a UAE-based production company founded by Emirati brothers Mohamed and Peyman Parham Al Awadhi. Peeta Planet is their first television production.


Tunnel Through Time

Tunnel Through Time is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Paul W. Fairman under American science fiction and fantasy author Lester Del Rey's byline. It is a children's time travel adventure.

Plot summary
The novel tells the story of a teen named Bob Miller whose scientist father, Sam Miller,  has invented a "time ring," a circular device that allows time travel. Bob and his friend Pete travel through time in search of Pete's father ("Doc Tom," a paleontologist) who has disappeared while traveling alone. Beginning in the Mesozoic Era (Tom's planned destination), the story depicts various adventures while the travelers jump from point to point in Earth's prehistory in search of the missing scientist, and their attempt to get home again.

Literary significance and reception
This book wasReduced productivity of Culex pipiens and Cx. restuans (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes in parking area catch basins in the northeast Chicago metropolitan area.
From June to September, 2016, 100 catch basins in eight parking areas were monitored weekly for the presence of mosquito pupae in the operational area of the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District (NSMAD) located just north of Chicago, IL, U.S.A. Weekly results from these basins were compared to weekly samples taken from residential street catch basins, the most common type of catch basin treated seasonally by the NSMAD with larvicides. Over the 17 study weeks, residential street basins had a mean rate of productivity (pupae per basin-visit) 12 times that of parking area catch basins. The two parking area sites with the highest mean rate of productivity


356 F.Supp. 1063 (1973)
Anthony P. DiGIACOMO and Ann M. DiGiacomo, his wife, Plaintiffs,
v.
The DIAMOND STATE TELEPHONE COMPANY, Defendant, and The United States of America, Defendant.
Civ. A. No. 4606.
United States District Court, D. Delaware.
April 3, 1973.
*1064 William C. Bradley, Jr., Wilmington, Del., for plaintiffs.
Hugh Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for defendant Diamond State Telephone Co.
Ralph F. Keil, U. S. Atty., and Richard D. Levin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., for defendant United States.

MEMORANDUM
STEEL, District Judge:
Anthony P. DiGiacomo and his wife, Ann M. DiGiacomo, have brought a civil action against the Diamond State Telephone Company to enjoin, temporarily and permanently, the threatened termination under 18 U.S.C. § 1084(d) of telephone service at 625 North Lincoln Street, Wilmington, Delaware. The United States of America has intervened as a defendant. Jurisdiction exists underand others at 625 North Lincoln Street and 1900 West Seventh Street, Wilmington, Delaware. The request was stated to be based upon information that the telephone facilities had been used by the subscriber and other persons for the purpose of transmitting and receiving gambling information in interstate commermerce in violation of the Federal and State of Delaware laws, and if the service was not terminated, it would continue to be so used.
By letter dated March 1, 1973, E. P. Bissell, III, the District Manager of the telephone company, advised Robert DiGiacomo that at the request of the United States Attorney, the telephone company was obliged to discontinue the service. The letter stated:
"The U. S. Attorney reports that he has reasonable grounds to believe that telephone facilities at this


the future.

The side were helped by the crowd who were brilliant on the night.

They stepped up to the mark and when they needed them the most, they did not let Liverpool down.

It is just a pity that on most match-days we don’t have that atmosphere. It’s not just at Anfield either, it is up and down the country.

But on Thursday night the Kop and the rest of the crowd were fantastic. The crowd was the man-of-the-match.

I never felt Liverpool had the squad to go on and win the Europa League. It is a really tough competition to go and win.

But now Liverpool must treat every league game like a cup final in order to secure a place in Europe for next season.

Kevin Friend got it wrong in Leaguecables, the Post reported Tuesday that the State Department had provided about six million dollars to opposition groups since 2006, when U.S.-Syrian relations were at their lowest ebb under former president George W. Bush.

Much of the money has reportedly been spent on Barada TV, a satellite network run by Syrian expatriates allegedly linked to the Movement for Justice and Development (MJD), described in one cable as a “moderate Islamist organisation that eschews any ideological agenda aside from ending the Asad regime through democratic reform.”

Despite Obama’s official policy of engaging Damascus, Barada TV began broadcasting in April 2009 and recently ramped up its operations and now broadcasts 24 hours a day, although various sources said it was virtually unknown within Syria.

In his remarks Tuesday, Toner insisted that U.S. support


asked him to go. Goodman readily agreed. “We liked each other, and I was a bit disappointed and a bit envious when he told me before the end of the training that he had to leave early with [James] Chaney. There was some kind of emergency and the CORE leader at Meridian, Michael Schwerner, decided that the three of them should skip the final days of training and return to Meridian” (45).

By the end of the training session, when the young freedom workers were boarding the bus for Mississippi, rumors were circulating that three volunteers were missing; their bodies would be found over a month later, cast into a muddy dam near the site of the murder (109). The grim reality of the triumvirate – torture, lynching anda long-range revolutionary aspect, but of all the things I was involved with, Head Start provided the most immediately palpable results in bettering the condition of the people then and there” (188).

Dann left Mississippi to return to UCLA for the fall semester in 1965 (200). He would go back to Mississippi in June 2000 for a reunion of those who had worked together in 1964-65, and who had embraced the SNCC anthem adapted from a song popular in 1964, “Keep on Pushing,” and changed by Fannie Lou Hammer to “Keep on keeping on” (157). Jim Dann, John Harris and Karen Koonan drove together from the Memphis airport, passed Winona, Mississippi, where Fannie Lou Hamer “had been savagely beaten thirty-years earlier” (204), and arrived at the Holiday Inn in


Indianola.

Black hotel clerks kindly greeted us in a place they never would have been allowed inside in 1965. We got directions to the B. B. King concert that was to be in a park near Main Street, not far from the Indianola jail. . . . The crowd was totally integrated and white sat next to black, both cheering King and his music. I would encounter many other changes in the weekend, but this integrated crowd, who loved B. B. King so much, was the biggest surprise of the reunion. My mind went back to his concerts at the all-black Club Ebony where he bought us chicken dinners. (205)

The next day they visited the jail in Drew, where Dann and others had been repeatedly incarcerated for civil disobedienceand simply as the result of police harassment. In 2000, it was “dilapidated and overgrown with weeds.” In Ruleville, “the new black mayor” greeted them, and they visited the memorial gravesite of Fannie Lou Hamer (205).

Jim Dann does not present himself as a hero, or even as having been courageous. Rather he portrays himself as a young person who was committed to working with others, some of those who were whites and blacks from other parts of the United States, who would spend some months in Mississippi trying to bring about change; and others who were African-Americans living a life steeped in the oppression of the segregated South. It is indeed in the lived lives of the ordinary people, recounted in this memoir, who lived out the lyrics


should not take solace from the finding that 65 percent of the war-related violent deaths were from non-Americans. It is not just that women were victimized by us (or rather our coalition) more than by others, but also consider that America initiated the social and political forces that resulted in all of the half million deaths-a tally that Saddam Hussein at his worst would have envied and that would put him in a category of mass murderers second only to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.

It is also highly likely that the 460,000 deaths are an undercount. The baseline death rate was the 26 month period just before the US invasion in March 2001; that was a death rate already elevated by the effects on the Iraqi infrastructure fromfor him for five years; and testifying against him before the Senate intelligence committee in 1991, I believe that I have some warnings about the author as well as the leading lights of the mainstream media, such as David Brooks of the Times and Walter Pincus of the Post, who believe that Gates made major contributions to the national security policy of the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth.

There are several things that need to be understood regarding Gates’ career at the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, and the Department of Defense. First of all, Gates has been a sycophant in all of his leadership positions, catering to the policy interests of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcraft at the NSC; William Casey at


the CIA; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. Gates catered to the right-wing ideology of Bill Casey in the 1980s, playing a major role in the politicization of intelligence and dangerously crossing the line of policy advocacy in private memoranda to the CIA director. For the most part, Gates has been a windsock when it came to policy decisions and typically supported his masters.

Second, Gates has never demonstrated the integrity that his important positions have demanded. As a result, when he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be CIA director, Senate intelligence committee chairman David Boren (D/OK) told him that the committee did not believe his denials of knowledge of Iran-Contra. Before Gates.

removed his name from the nomination process, there was considerable laughter inthe hearing room when Gates referred to Casey as a model CIA director and stated that he would have resigned from the CIA if had known about the “off-the-shelf” capability to run the Iran-Contra operation out of the NSC.

Gates was nominated a second time by President George H.W.Bush in 1991 and attracted more negative votes from the Senate (thirty-one) that all directors of central intelligence in the history of the CIA. I testified against his confirmation at that time, and I lobbied against his appointment as Secretary of Defense in 2006 to replace Donald Rumsfeld. The day after the committee approved Gates’s appointment, the Post’s legendary cartoonist, Herblock, pictured the CIA headquarters building with a big banner proclaiming, “Now under old management.” I encountered many key Senate staffers


studies center of Al-Quds University, in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City on 1 October 2013, to prevent a press conference by the Coalition for Jerusalem.

The following sign-on statement from Palestinian and other Arab-American scholars and writers comes in the wake of theAmerican Studies Association(ASA) vote to endorse the academic boycott of Israeli institutions, and the backlash against it by anti-Palestinian groups.

Statement of Support for the American Studies Association

We, the undersigned Palestinian and other Arab-American scholars and writers as well as Arab scholars in the United States affirm our strong solidarity with the American Studies Association’s position in favor of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions

We also condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the expressions of hate and intimidation to which ASA members are being subjected, tactics that are illegalof this form of struggle was demonstrated during the South African struggle for freedom, justice and equality and is now being demonstrated by the Palestinian-led BDS movement, which represents all major political and civil society forces within and beyond Palestine.

We welcome ASA’s stand as an affirmation of the decades of groundwork laid by earlier generations of Arab American scholars in the study of the impact of the US-Israeli alliance in the Middle East and the United States. For many years Arab American scholars as well as Arab scholars in the US have worked in isolation and those tackling this issue have faced a grueling combination of anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and various levels of censorship with little or no support from most professional organizations.

By broadening the possibility for critical


Assistant Prof., Brown University.

Ali Abunimah.

Samer Alatout, Associate Professor.

Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan.

Paul Amar, University of California Santa Barbara.

Sam Bahour, Co-editor, Homeland: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians and political pundit at ePalestine.com

Riham Barghouti, Teacher, NYC and Founding Member, Adalah-NY

Moustafa Bayoumi, Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Hatem Bazian, University of California Berkeley and American Muslims for Palestine.

On 10 December, thousands of students at the University of Michigan woke up to find mock eviction notices posted to their dormitory rooms.

The notices were a direct action carried out by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), aimed at presenting the truth about Israeli housing demolitions in occupied Palestine.

The goal of the action was to engage the campus community, students and faculty alike, in a discussion about our complicitynature, bubbles break. The popping of the speculative bubble brought about the stock market crash of 1929.

The crash and ensuing Depression afflicted what we have seen was a highly vulnerable economy. Because the economy had by the 1920s become industrially mature, growth no longer depended upon the breakneck expansion of the capital goods sector, but was now, and for the first time, fuelled by the production and consumption of consumer durable goods like refrigerators, radios, vacuum cleaners and, most importantly, automobiles. Consumption replaced investment as the driver of economic growth. (4) Robust growth would now require high wages.

With wages stagnant, working-class households’ ability to sustain the consumer durables boom became dependent, as it would again from the mid-1970s onward, on unsustainable household debt levels. Supplementing income-based purchasing power


with credit had been a fact of life since the late nineteenth century, but the debt increments increased especially rapidly during the 1920s. The proportion of total retail sales financed by credit increased from 10 percent in 1910 to 15 percent in 1927 to 50 percent in 1929.When working-class purchasing power and household debt approached their limit by 1926-1927, the rate of growth of consumer purchases began to decline. Key growth markets like autos and construction became saturated and excess productive capacity became conspicuous. Production fell and profits were directed to financial speculation and bubble creation. The stock market and the economy responded accordingly. The Great Depression was at the door.

A comparable dynamic was in effect during the period preceding September 2008. From the mid-1970s to the yearbefore the housing bubble began to leak, 2005, the gap between productivity growth and flat wages grew wider and wider. As in the 1920s, national income shifted steadily and increasingly to the top. Inequality approximating that of the 1920s grew. 1928 and 2007 were the highest inequality years since 1900. (Each year, not coincidentally, was followed by a major meltdown.) Workers once again resorted to debt to maintain living standards. The ratio of outstanding consumer debt to disposable income had more than doubled, from 62 percent in 1975 to 127.2 percent in 2005. Since 1995 the debt burden, measured by the percentage of household income pledged to debt service, had become increasingly concentrated in the lower three income quintiles. Financial speculation, which had accelerated since the mid-1970s, took