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The incident appeared to be the latest "green-on-blue" attack, or strike against coalition members by people dressed in police or army uniforms. Assailants conducting similar subterfuge killed dozens of coalition troops in 2012.

On Friday, a coalition contractor in eastern Afghanistan was killed when people wearing Afghan uniforms turned their weapons against ISAF members, NATO said.

The last coalition soldier killed in a "green-on-blue" attack was a Briton, who was slain on January 7. And in the last similar fatal assault on U.S. troops, two Americans were killed October 25.

The coalition has been working to thwart such insider attacks.

Coalition soldiers arerequired to have a loaded weapon within reach at all times. In addition, the coalition ended training for hundreds of Afghan soldiers last year until the completion of background checks for insurgent links.

Most of the insider attacks are believed to be the result of Afghan soldiers suffering from combat or emotional stress, a Defense Department official told CNN in September after an especially deadly weekend for coalition troops.

Only about 15% of the "green-on-blue" attacks are believed to be the result of insurgent links, and about 10% come from infiltrators not affiliated with the military, the Defense Department official said.

The latest attack comes a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai outraged the ISAF commander by contending there are "ongoing daily talks between Taliban, American and foreigners in Europe and


matched to their musical accompaniment – the vocals come in streams of syllables that match hip hop’s verbosity but not its gracefulness. And vocal and instrumental phrases often don’t end together: for no obvious reason, the vocal lines often end at natural cadence points, then wait for a few beats for the instrumental parts to finish before moving on. The band seems to match the instrumental and vocal parts better in the last half of the album (which was recorded in a different session than the first), but the songs are still dynamically flat.

Worse, neither member of the Fiery Furnaces (brother Matthew and sister Eleanor Friedberger) is a convincing singer: both seem to have severely limited vocal ranges, and neither seems to be trying particularly hard. The backingWWII Journal: Upton man tells story through photographs

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Aug 11, 2014 at 12:01 AM

By Jeff MalachowskiDaily News Staff

For Alfred Consigli, each photo encased under glass and hanging inside the garage, living room and bedroom of his Upton home tells a story of his service during World War II.Behind the lenses of cameras he found in a suitcase while searching a German home for Nazis, Consigli documented his time fighting the enemy in Germany, Austria and Belgium, and the aftermath of World War II.While Consigli traded many of the cameras he found to his fellow soldiers, including dealing two of them for a Thompson submachine gun, he kept two and photographed his own personal history of the war. The pictures range from a photo of him in front of one


of Adolf Hitler’s homes in Berchtesgaden, Germany, to another of him donning his neatly pressed and creased uniform, which he said he was proud to wear."Nobody wanted to take pictures, but I did," said the 90-year-old Consigli, who was drafted into the Army in 1943.One particular photo brings back vivid memories of the horrors of war for Consigli, a sharpshooter on a tank nicknamed Blood-N-Guts. In the distance of the photo lies a burning German tank, a photo Consigli took from the turret of his tank."I can smell the bodies burning right now," said Consigli.Other photos show Nazi prisoners of war marching into a campsite and tanks, including Blood-N-Guts, guarding them, while others depict destroyed German buildings with German citizens walking around as if nothing happened."They were alldressed up," said Consigli, who never married. "They couldn’t admit defeat."While Consigli was a good shot with his camera, he was a sharpshooter with any gun put in front of him.Consigli learned how to shoot as a child in Milford and quickly became a marksman, shooting pennies, ladles and wooden matches propped up on fences."When I was 14 years old I liked guns," said Consigli. "Our neighbor used to leave a ladle on the side of the fence and I’d shoot at it. Our neighbor had a 1936 Chevy sedan parked in the garage and sometimes the bullets were going right through and denting the door. He didn’t say anything about the bullet dents."After being drafted into the Army, Consigli was sent to basic training in Fort Knox,


of World War II are sharp.More than 70 years later, he can still recite word-for-word his orders when he and his battalion landed on Utah Beach in France. Consigli recalls traveling the English countryside where numerous hay bales hid English bombs and also remembers a friendly German woman who fed him soup while he and his fellow soldiers slept in the snow around the tank."I was proud," he said of his serviceConsigli recalls his mother writing letters to him while he was fighting on the front lines. Alfred was not the only one his mother wrote to: seven of his nine brothers fought during World War II. His oldest brother John was in the Air Corps, while Mario was in the Marines, Joseph and Luis served in theArmy and Richard and George were in the Navy."They never talked about the service," he said. "I just found out two years ago John went up in an airplane during the war."All seven brothers survived the war, but the stress of having her seven sons on the front lines took its toll on Consigli’s mother, who died two weeks after Consigli returned home in 1946."She used to worry so much," he said. "She died from worrying."Upon returning home from the war, Consigli moved from Milford to Upton and started his own sandblasting and welding business.Consigli’s age has not slowed him down, as he still does sandblasting work for friends, drives his new truck to car shows and even still shoots targets from time to time, most recently last


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The physician from Guangdong who became the source of the global epidemic through his stay at Hotel M was admitted to a hospital in Hong Kong the day after his arrival in the city. He became progressively more ill and died 10 days later. It is striking that although he was critically ill and intubated on a ventilator in the intensive care unit, only one HCW who attended to him in the emergency department became ill \[[@CR19]\]. The reason for this is likely that Hong Kong hospitals had been on the alert for highly pathogenic avian influenza. In February, there had been a small clusterto a general ward (not a "fever ward") as a case of heart failure, and he remained afebrile until he developed a low-grade temperature after being transferred to the medical intensive care unit for progressive shortness of breath. Two other patients, one visitor and one nurse who had been in the same emergency department area as this patient were infected with SARS. The visitor, a previously healthy 28-year-old woman, died and her husband and son were subsequently infected. In the brief period the index patient was in the general ward, two other patients and the entire shift of nurses working in the ward at the time, who were only wearing N95 masks, were infected. By the time the patient became febrile in the intensive care unit, staff were


After four years of playing in China, Yi Jianlian is back in the United States, specifically in El Segundo at the Lakers' practice facility.

Surrounded by a horde of English- and Chinese-speaking reporters on Friday, the 2007 sixth-overall draft pick worked on his shot before discussing his return to the NBA.

Yi averaged 7.9 points and 4.9 rebounds during his five seasons in the NBA. While overseas, the defensively lacking Chinese League bolstered his pedestrian numbers, as he put up more than 23 points per night in each of his last four seasons with the Guangdong Southern Tigers.

The Heshan native also represented his country at the Olympics, where he averaged the third-most points (20.4) despite China dropping all five of its games. In Rio, he showed off an improved outsidewho can handle James better than fully healthy Iguodala: Kawhi Leonard. Iguodala was 2015 Finals MVP for his efforts on James, and he would have been a frontrunner for 2016 Finals MVP had the Wariors not blown it. Iguodala and James were gold medal teammates at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and they are less than a year apart in age.

But while healthy Iguodala has the combination of size (6-7 with a 6-11 wingspan), strength, athleticism and instincts required to be great on James, he hasn’t been anywhere near his normal self this postseason. He’s dealt with ankle and knee injuries that have both kept him out of the lineup occasionally and limited his ability when he does play.

That’s why this list is so important. Iguodala may


not be able to take his normal role as small forward on the Warriors’ small-ball Death Lineup, meaning someone else will have to step up on the best player in the world.

2. Draymond Green

Green has the most of the physical tools required to be a tough matchup for LeBron. He has great on-ball instincts that make it difficult for faster players to get past him, and he’s one of the few players in the league who might be stronger than James without being a million times slower. In a vacuum, for a single isolation possession, Green probably would be the ideal Warriors defender on James. And after being roasted in the 2015 Finals, he appeared to have more success last year in this matchup.

But this would be playingthis assignment, especially a 180-pound rookie. McCaw has the potential to be an amazing defender, but like Thompson, he does most of that work on opposing guards.

11. James Michael McAdoo

McAdoo actually ended up defending James in a couple Finals games last season. It was simply miserable. He had five fouls in 18 minutes and was roasted several times. Still, he’s a year older now and definitely had a better defensive season this year.

12. Kevon Looney

Looney only played 447 minutes this season, but he actually showed some occasional defensive chops in that time. Still, he’s the youngest player on the Warriors and was dealing with a hip injury, so he may not be available anyway.

13. Ian Clark

Clark is a solid backup for Curry, in that he can run some


Sojourner-Douglass College (S-DC), the University of Maryland, School of Social Work (SSW), and the East Baltimore Community Corporation (EBCC) have established a collaborative academic-community partnership to develop a community-based, family centered approach to reducing infant mortality for residents in East Baltimore. The project's target population is African Americans in Baltimore City and the research is African American driven. The application will focus on using the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and the PRECEDE/PROCEED models as frameworks for engaging the community in the development of an empirically based infant mortality reduction research action plan. These frameworks focus on developing stronger partnerships, using the community strengths, community forums and workshops, and research methods to design a study that meets the needs of the community. Funds are requested for 36 monthsGod has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors. So it was God who sent me here, not you! And he is the one who made me an adviser to Pharaoh—the manager of his entire palace and the governor of all Egypt. - Genesis 45:7-8

This morning I read and reflected on the life of Joseph. A man that struggled to relate to people, was taken from his loving father by his own brothers, sold into slavery, jailed, and wrongly accused of rape. Joseph's story is amazing because after all of this happens to him, he somehow does not lose heart or faith in God.

Joseph believes he will see God on the other side of darkness. He is restored


While Expressing His Sympathy To The Bereaved, LG Warns of Consequences If Law & Order Is Disrupted

Port Blair, Dec. 10: The death of Punyawathi, 35, a fisher lady on 3rd Dec. 2013 at GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair created a fury among the fishermen community of Andamans. Aggrieved by the death of the community member after a surgery for Appendix, the fishers unable to decide, took law in their hands and tried to damage the govt. property. Later on 4th Dec. 2013 a huge gathering of fishers organised a protest in front of the Directorate of Health Services, A&N Administration and near the Secretariat, demanding compensation of Rs. 5 Lakhs, Job for the daughter of the deceased and a well documented PME by a medical board including doctorsdeceased, Miss. V. Swathi, a student of Class XII in Govt. SSS Haddo (Telugu). The amount will be fixed deposited in her name, as was agreed by the other family members. Late Punyawathi, W/o Joga Rao has three daughters out of which two are married. The eldest daughter Smti. Kumari took the responsibility to look after her sister Swathi till the time she is independent.

The LG also assured that the Administration will look after the schooling of Swathi and once she completes her education, she will be offered a post of DRM. The Lt. Governor further assured that the Administration will also prepare her further to get a permanent job in the Administration but at the same time, he made it clear and loud that there is no


provision under the Administration to provide employment in such cases. The present case in which a post of DRM is offered is purely on sympathetic grounds.

Meanwhile, Lt. Governor AK Singh had interacted with the leaders of the fishers, who had come to Raj Niwas and told them that the enquiry report on the issue and PME has been received. The Administration will be acting on the report received, he said.

While sympathising with the fishermen, the Lt. Governor made it clear that there will be no decision on the basis of ‘agitation’. Such cases are decided on merit basis, he cleared. He also expressed his unhappiness on the incident wherein the aggrieved fishers went to the extent of taking Law in their hands and warned them not to getExisting Member

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SAS ANZ announces skills certification program

SAS Australia and New Zealand has announced the introduction of the SAS ANZ Certification program to formally recognise SAS skills primacy in key areas of business analytics.

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SAS Australia and New Zealand has announced the introduction of the SAS ANZ Certification program to formally recognise SAS skills primacy in key areas of business analytics.

SAS – which is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market – has been in Australia & New Zealand since shortly after the company’s founding in 1976. SAS ANZ customers


More than half of the people who were perpetrators or victims of gun violence in Milwaukee in recent years had elevated blood lead levels as children, according to a study released Friday by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The study of nearly 90,000 residents, conducted at the University's Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, suggests a link between early childhood lead exposure and gun violence in later years.

Lindsay R. Emer, the study's lead author, said it was conducted using public health, education and criminal justice data.

After reviewing the records of 89,129 people who were born in Milwaukee between June 1, 1986, and Dec. 31, 2003, and given blood lead tests before the age of 6, Emer and other researchers found a correlation between elevated blood lead levels and thedown the aisle with one of her meathead suitors. But Zoe Simmons is no bimbo. She’s too smart, too sarcastic, and far too alluring. The more they butt heads—and lock lips—the more Bennett wants her all to himself. And when Zoe drops a real bombshell, Bennett is forced to choose: between the job he’s destined for, or the woman who’s stolen his heart.

Lauren Layne is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen romantic comedies.

A former e-commerce and web marketing manager from Seattle, Lauren relocated to New York City in 2011 to pursue a full-time writing career.

She lives in midtown Manhattan with her high-school sweetheart, where she writes smart romantic comedies with just enough sexy-times to make your mother blush. In LL's ideal world, every stiletto-wearing,


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Hey Guys, over the summer I moved from the city to a home I built in the country.In the city my car was in the garage, now my shop will not be done for probably another 6 months.You guys that live in the country, with my car sitting outside with a tarp over it what are the chances of rodents and snakes making a new home in the car.It may be a dumb question,just curious.

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The varmints should leave it alone because there's not anything appealing to them in a race car (no food, fabric or cloth).Actor Kadian Noble has accused the disgraced producer of sexual assault during the film festival in 2004, violating sex trafficking laws

Harvey Weinstein has been accused of violating sex trafficking laws as an aspiring actor has launched a lawsuit against him.

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Kadian Noble alleges that the disgraced producer invited her to his hotel room during the Cannes film festival in 2004 claiming that he wanted to cast her in a forthcoming movie. She claims that he proceeded to grope her before trapping her in the bathroom and forcing her to perform sexual acts.

Noble’s suit alleges that during the encounter, he told her: “Everything will be taken care of for you if you relax.” The suit is aimed not only


BERLIN (Reuters) - The German military on Wednesday said it had resumed deliveries of weapons to Kurdistan after the government of the northern Iraqi region vowed to ensure the arms did not end up on the black market.

A defense ministry spokesman said Germany had delivered 70 tonnes of weapons, including 1,500 rifles, 100 shoulder-fired rockets and three armored vehicles, to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil on Tuesday.

Germany halted weapons deliveries in January after media reports that some weapons sent to Kurdistan to help it fight Islamic State militants had later been offered for sale on the black market.

An investigation by the Kurdistan government completed earlier this year found that about 30 weapons of over 28,000 delivered by Germany had been sold illegally or lost. Kurdish authorities arrestedCatalana Chicken

Catalana chicken is a dual purpose rare breed which was developed in the district of Catalonia (near Barcelona), Spain. It takes the name from Catalonia and also known as El Prat, Buff Catalana, Catalana del Prat Leonada, or just Prat. Catalana chicken is thought to have been developed over a long period of time using the Castillian chickens with Asian stock during the second half of the 19th century. But is is not clear whether the Asian stock were Cochin China chickens or Cochin chickens. Catalana chickens gained popularity in Argentina and some other Latin American countries. As they are not cold hardy birds, so their popularity is limited to the southern countries. In 1902 they gained international attention during the World’s Fair at Madrid, Spain. Catalana


had to ban a certain commenter from this blog the other day after he approvingly referred to “American citizens who [would] have no problem shooting at the government if they try to take their guns away…” and who said he was “willing to die” in defense of his absolutist reading of the Second Amendment and who said in another forum that he wishes the president of the United States did not have Secret Service protection.

And then yesterday, I ran across these comments from the right-wing Web site Free Republic in reaction to the ...Sunday, March 13, 2011

Is Egypt the Future IndoTurkeZil? So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World

By Pepe Escobar
Three mummies were recently found in an underground temple in Luxor, Egypt. Translated hieroglyphs identified them as the Clash of Civilizations, the End of History, and Islamophobia. They ruled in Western domains into the second decade of the twenty-first century before dying and being embalmed.

That much is settled. Without them, the Middle East is already a new world that must be understood in a new way. For one thing, Egypt, that previously moribund land of “stability” and bosom buddy of whoever was in power in Washington, has been hurled into the Middle East’s New Great Game. The question is: What will be its fate -- and that


1950s in Turkey proved to be a long road. Nonetheless, despite periodic military coups and the continuing political power of the Turkish army, elections were, and remain, free. The Justice and Development Party, or AKP, now at the Turkish helm, was founded in August 2001 by former members of the Refah Party, a much more conservative Islamic group with an ideology similar to that of today’s Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

As the AKP mellowed out, however, the pro-business, pro-European Union wing of the country’s Islamists mixed with various center-right politicians and, in 2002, the AKP finally took power in Ankara. Only then could they begin to slowly undermine the stranglehold of the traditional Istanbul-based secular Turkish elite and the military that had held power since the 1920s.

Yet the AKPdid not dream of dismantling the secular system first installed by Turkey’s founding father Mustapha Kemal Ataturk in 1924. The Turkish civil code he instituted was inspired by Switzerland with citizenship based on secular law. While the country is predominantly Muslim, of course, its people simply would not welcome a system, as in Khomeinist Iran, that is guided by religion.

The AKP should be viewed as the equivalent of the Christian Democrats in Europe after the 1950s -- dynamic, business-oriented conservatives with religious roots. In Egypt, the moderate wing of the Muslim Brotherhood has many similarities to the AKP and looks to it for inspiration. In the new Egypt, it will finally be a legitimate political party and most experts believe that it could garner 25% to 30% of


had the humiliating connotations” described by Frantz Fanon or Edward Said for much of the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.
There are stark differences between Turkey’s road to a military-free democracy in 2002 and the littered path ahead for Egypt’s young demonstrators and nascent political parties. In Turkey the key actors were pro-business Islamists, conservatives, neo-liberals, and right-wing nationalists. In Egypt they are pro-labor Islamists, leftists, liberals, and left-wing nationalists.

The Tahrir Square revolution was essentially unleashed by two youth groups: the April 6 Youth Movement (which was geared towards solidarity with workers on strike), and We Are All Khaled Said (which mobilized against police brutality). Later, they would be joined by Muslim Brotherhood activists and -- crucially -- organized labor, the masses of workers (and theneed to turn to a book, Stratejik Derinlik: Turkiye’nin Uluslararasi Konumu (Strategic Depth: Turkey’s International Position), published in Istanbul in 2001 by Ahmet Davutoglu, then a professor of international relations at the University of Marmara, now Turkey’s Foreign Minister.

In that book, Davutoglu looked into a future that seems ever closer to now and placed Turkey at the center of three concentric circles: 1) the Balkans, the Black Sea basin, and the Caucasus; 2) the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean; 3) the Persian Gulf, Africa, and Central Asia. When it came to future areas of influence, even in 2001 he believed that Turkey could potentially claim no less than eight: the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian, Turkic Central Asia, the Persian Gulf, the Middle East


Turkey is hardly the only place to turn to for inspiration. They could, for example, look to Latin America. For the first time in over 500 years, South America is fully democratic. As in Egypt, so in many Latin American countries in the Cold War era, dictatorships were the order of the day and militaries ruled. In Brazil, for instance, the “slow, gradual, and secure” political opening that left a military dictatorship behind took practically a decade.

That implies a lot of patience. The same applies to another model: Indonesia. There, in 1998, Suharto, an aging U.S.-backed dictator 32 years in power, finally resigned only a few days after returning from a visit to, of all places, Cairo. Indonesia then looked a lot like Egypt in February 2011: acabinet of President Yudhoyono, and expects to win no more than 10% of the vote in the 2014 elections.

While Indonesia remains close to the U.S. and is heavily courted by Washington as a counterweight to China, Brazil under the presidency of immensely popular Luis Ignacio “Lula” da Silva charted a far more independent path for itself and, by example, much of Latin America. This process took almost a decade and future historians may see it as at least as significant as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In Eastern Europe, 1989 could be seen, in part, as a chain of rebellions by people yearning to get access to the global market. The Great Arab Revolt, on the other hand, has been an uprising in significant part against the dictatorship


This just in via press release:

The Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC), Friends of Blair Mountain and the West Virginia Labor History Association filed a legal challenge today to reverse the decision by the National Park Service to remove the Blair Mountain Battlefield from the National Register of Historic Places. Filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit alleges that the decision to delist Blair Mountain—the site of a famous 1921 battle in Logan County, West Virginia, involving 10,000 coal miners and law enforcement officials clashing over the right to unionize—was arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to the National Park Service’s own regulations.

In 2006, Dr. Harvard Ayers, an Appalachian State University archeologist and member of the Friends of Blair Mountain, found a total of 15different battlesites within the Blair Mountain Battlefield. “The area contains a number of archaeological sites, many of which have yet to be adequately studied. These sites are in danger of being permanently destroyed unless the Park Service returns Blair Mountain to the National Register,” said Dr. Ayers. “Coal companies have acquired a portion of the battlefield and have shown their willingness to play hardball to keep the site open to surface mining despite the clear historic value of the Blair Mountain Battlesite.”

Blair Mountain is the site of the largest armed insurrection on U.S. soil since the Civil War. A significant event in American labor history, coal miners from the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) fought for days along the Blair Mountain ridgeline for their right to unionize.


“The Battle of Blair Mountain was fought by the UMWA to make a better life for coal miners throughout southern West Virginia—to see their legacy be destroyed is unacceptable,” said Kenny King, a Logan County resident who has been working to save Blair Mountain for the past 20 years.

Named by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in 2006, the fight to save Blair Mountain has been ongoing. The National Park Service first listed Blair Mountain in the National Register on March 30, 2009, without objections from a majority of property owners. By law, a site cannot be listed in the National Register if a majority of owners within the boundaries of the site file notarized objections to the listing.Nine months later, the Park Service, responding to pressure from coal companies eager to strip mine the site altered the list of property owners based on one-sided “corrections” presented by the coal companies, and decided that a small majority objected to listing the site. On this basis, the Park Service removed Blair Mountain Battlefield from the National Register. Sierra Club, OVEC, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation asked the Park Service to reconsider its decision because it did not follow applicable regulations in removing the site, but the agency declined to do so.

“We strongly support the lawsuit because we believe that de-listing Blair Mountain was a mistake that violates federal law,” said Robert Nieweg, director of the Southern Field Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.


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Rumours have been swirling that Academy Award winning actress Lupita Nyong'o could be dating Oscar winner Jared Leto. Although pictures have emerged that suggest the 31-year-old actress could be dating a Somali- Canadian rapper, not the 30 Seconds to Mars rocker. Lupita was pictured arm in arm with rapper K'naan, real name Keinan Abdi Warsame, as she left the Live! TV studios on Monday, which has fueled rumours that the pair could be dating.

Keinan, 36, was supporting the actress after her first Oscar win the evening before, where she scooped Best Supporting Actress award for 12 Years ASlave.Now a successful musician, Somali rapper K’naan had a difficult past, fleeing his native Somlia just as the Civil War was broke traveling to Canada as a refugee when he was 13-years-old. After arriving in the country he became involved in gang culture, and a string of run ins with the law. After establishing himself as a musician K'naan has spoken out at various United Nations event, criticizing the lack of aid made available to Somalia during the Civil War.

In an interview with Radar Online, the Wavin' Flag rapper said he had a tough time growing up in Canada after he moved from Somalia in the 90's, which led him to joining a gang: 'I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily


While the Woolsey Fire raged in Southern California, some state legislators were in Maui on a junket with utility companies and lobbyists.The junket was held at the five star Fairmont Kea Lani hotel. "These 12 legislators have gotten over $630,000 from the three utilities in campaign contributions. Traditionally these trips are paid for by the sponsor. They are comped," said Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog.A report from The New York Times and evidence provided to Eyewitness News by Consumer Watchdog found the utility companies are after a bailout to help them recover from their role in California's wildfires, which could bankrupt them.The annual junket was hosted by a group called the Independent Voter Foundation. Executives from PG&E didn't end up attending because of the Camp Fire,but Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric were there."Customers of these utilities should not pay when the companies themselves fail to modernize their equipment or fail to clear the brush around utility lines," said Court.According to Consumer Watchdog, the utility companies are hoping the California Legislature passes a law where customers would pay for the cost of the fires with higher utility bills.Legislators in attendance included Assembly members Tom Daly, Frank Bigelow, Bill Brough, Jim Cooper, Heath Flora, Jim Frazier, Reggie Jones-Sawyer, Freddie Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio and the Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon, as well as senators Hueso and Cathleen Galgiani, according to the Independent Voter Project, which organized the event.Eyewitness News reached out to all 12 representatives, but did not hear back.Consumer Watchdog has


for asserting" it.  We agree.

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On his 1981 "return," Wright specified no possible reason why providing the information requested would be directly or indirectly incriminating.  In the papers filed in the Tax Court, Wright indicated only that the criminal statutes of the United States are many, that any citizen could be prosecuted criminally under these statutes, and that he stood an especially good chance of prosecution because he was a so-called "tax protester."    Shortly before trial, Wright expanded on these assertions with an affidavit stating that he had been interviewed by two Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service who advised him that he was under criminal investigation.

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At trial, the Commissioner produced as a witness the regional group manager of the Criminal Investigations Division.to – if that’s what it takes, that’s what I’ll do.”

De Cordova is one of six children raised by a single mother in Bristol. Born with nystagmus, an involuntary movement of the eyes causing severe short-sightedness, she studied law at South Bank University and then worked with charities focused on rights for the blind and partially sighted, before setting up the charity South East London Vision in 2014. That year she was elected a Labour councillor in Lambeth, south London, and was already representing disabled workers on behalf of Unite the union. De Cordova was still working for disability charity, the Thomas Pocklington Trust, when she was selected as Labour candidate for Battersea, a seat that had an 8,000 Conservative majority and was considered unwinnable. “My boss said


Historical Perspective: Harvey's epoch-making discovery of the Circulation, its historical antecedents, and some initial consequences on medical practice.
In Harvey's Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus of 1628, we see the mechanisms of the Circulation worked out more or less in full from the results of experimental demonstration, virtually complete but for the direct visual evidence of a link between the minute final terminations and initial branches of the arterial and venous systems, respectively. This would become available only when the capillaries could be seen under the microscope, by Malpighi. Harvey's amazingly modern order of magnitude analysis of volumetric circulatory flow and appreciation of the principle of continuity (mass conservation), his adroit investigational uses of ligatures of varying tightness in elegant flow experiments, and his insightfuldeductions truly explain the movement of the blood in animals. His end was accomplished. So radical was his discovery that early in the 18th century, the illustrious Hermann Boerhaave, professor of medicine at Leyden, declared that nothing that had been written before Harvey was worthy of consideration any more. The conclusions of De Motu Cordis are unassailable and beautiful in their simplicity. Harvey's genius and tireless determination have served physiology and medicine well.


Oxyurichthys petersii

Oxyurichthys petersii, Peters' goby, is a species of ray-finned fish, a goby, from the family Oxudercidae from the Red Sea, it has colonised the eastern Mediterranean Sea by Lessepsian migration through the Suez Canal.

Description
Oxyurichthys petersii is grey-blue in colour marked with blue spots and streaks on the head and the body. It does not have the vertical bars seen in Oxyurichthys papuensis, with which it has been confused. The caudal fin is reddish with a dark edge and there is a dark spot on the caudal peduncle. The pelvic fins are bluish marked with yellow spots and lines and the pectoral fins are yellowish in colour with white spots while the dorsal and anal fins are either transparent or have a reddish hue and have blue lines.Nitish Kumar Biography & Wiki, Weight, Height, Age, Birth date

Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician who has been the Chief Minister of Bihar, a state in eastern India, since 2017. Previously he served as the Chief Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2017; he also served as a minister in the Union Government of India. He belongs to the Janata Dal (United) political party. He endeared himself to Biharis, used to low expectations from previous regimes, when as Chief Minister, his socialist policies bore dividends in appointing more than 100,000 school teachers, ensuring that doctors worked in primary health centers, electrification of villages, paving of roads, cutting female illiteracy by half, turning around a lawless state by cracking down


on criminals and doubling the income of the average Bihari. The cumulative growth rate of GDP of Bihar during his tenure as CM is highest as compared to other states for that period.

On 17 May 2014 he resigned, owning responsibility for his party’s poor performance in the 2014 general elections, and was succeeded by Jitan Ram Manjhi. However, he returned to office in February 2015 following political crisis in Bihar and won the state elections of November 2015. He was elected as the national president of his party on 10 April 2016. In the upcoming election of 2019 many politicians including Lalu Yadav, Tejaswi Yadav and others had proposed him for the Prime Ministerial post in India although he has denied such aspirations. He resigned again on 26July 2017 as Chief Minister of Bihar over differences with the coalition partner RJD due to naming of Tejaswi Yadav, the deputy CM and Lalu’s son in an FIR by the CBI. Hours later, he joined the NDA coalition which had thus far been the opposition, and secured a majority in the assembly, taking the Chief Ministership once again on the very next day.


Coat Of Arms, who had earlier finished second in the Futurity Stakes and fourth in the Group One National Stakes.

That give some real substance to the form and Burrows will be disappointed if this Derby entry fails to go one better.

It is no surprise to see Hugo Palmer step up in trip with Left Alone in the second division of the Rewards4Racing Fillies’ Novice Median Auction Stakes.

Third on her debut over six furlongs at Yarmouth, in which she was doing her best work close home, she ran a similar race last time out, powering through the line to claim second at Kempton.

That was also over six, behind a nice one of John Gosden’s, but she will surely be suited by the extra furlong this time.

In the first division,Palmer’s High Seas is also worth noting given she reared on leaving the stalls last time out, which meant she did well to eventually finish fourth. Harry Dunlop was thrilled with the debut effort of Knight To Behold in the Haynes, Hanson & Clark at Newbury and will be disappointed should he fail to build on it in the British EBF Racing UK Novice Stakes.

Beaten a nose by Palmer’s White Mocha, who had the benefit of experience, he failed by the narrowest of margins to get the verdict.

While this race has attracted, on paper at least, some very nice individuals, Knight To Behold should be wiser for his first effort.

Another trainer who rarely has his newcomers fit to burst first time out is Luca Cumani, so the debut


of his Coolongolook was all the more meritorious.

He reappears in the first division of the 32Red/British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes at Kempton having finished third behind Peter Chapple-Hyam’s Just Brilliant.

Scotchtown makes his chasing debut in the Richard Davis Memorial Chase at Worcester and he looks like being a smart novice.

He made giant strides over hurdles last season but might need softer ground to be seen at his absolute best.

Charlie Longsdon’s Forth Bridge will know more than he did on his debut over fences in the Call Star Sports On 08000 521321 Beginners’ Chase at Sedgefield.The US Department of State spokesperson Jen Psaki promised to take her pink Russian “Ushanka” hat to the White House where she will start working at a new position next week.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Psaki received the hat as a gift from the Russian delegation during the Syrian talks in January 2014. Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov received then two large potatoes from US Secretary of State John Kerry.

“I have my pink hat at home, it’s coming with me to the White House,” Psaki told journalists at her final press briefing on Wednesday.

Psaki noted that the most memorable moment during her time in the State Department with respect to Russia was working on reaching the deal on the chemical weapons arsenal in Syria.

“That was something that came together over


the course of a week or ten days,” she said.

“It was something we worked closely with the teams on and clearly now a 100 percent of declared chemical weapons are out of Syria so that was certainly a successful outcome of our collaboration together,” Psaki explained.

Psaki added that she is hopeful Russia and the United States will reach a successful outcome on the Iran nuclear program talks.

Psaki, who is expecting a baby, is joining the White House as Communications Director. She was a travelling Press Secretary for US President Barack Obama during his first presidential campaign.The year was 1995. We still used a blender to mix margaritas and milkshakes, not green smoothies. “Warrior 1” was not yet standard American English. I was wobbling through my first-ever yoga class.

The teacher continued her driving metaphors. In the exercise room at the YMCA, she guided us into a seated twist and suggested we imagine looking over our shoulder to park a car. This was before a screen in the dashboard told you where the rear bumper is.

The teacher seemed old to me, confident. Now I’ve reached the age I estimate her to have been, mid-forties. She had medium-length dark brown hair, creamy skin and a mischievous look in her eyes. I trusted her and did what she said. When she placed us in viparita karani, with


said.

Trump will attend the “Three Seas” summit - so named because several of its members surround the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas - before the Group of 20 leading economies meet in Germany, where he is slated to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time.

Among the aims of the Three Seas project is to expand regional energy infrastructure, including LNG import terminals and gas pipelines. Members of the initiative include Poland, Austria, Hungary and Russia’s neighbors Latvia and Estonia.

Trump’s presence will give the project a lift, said James Jones, a former NATO Supreme Allied Commander.

Increased U.S. gas exports to the region would help weaken the impact of Russia using energy as a weapon or bargaining chip, said Jones.

“I think the United States can show itself asthe advantage in Europe due to its proximity and pipeline connections.

“Europe is going to be the great competitive arena between Russian gas and LNG,” said Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning oil historian and vice-chairman with IHS Markit analysis firm.

NORD STREAM

Europeans will be watching to see whether Trump clarifies his administration’s position on a new pipeline to pump Russian gas to Germany, known as Nord Stream 2.

The U.S. Senate in June passed a package of sanctions on Russia, including provisions to penalize Western firms involved in the pipeline. The new sanctions have stalled in the House of Representatives.

The U.S. State Department has lobbied against the pipeline as a potential supply chokepoint that would make Europe more vulnerable to disruptions.

The threat of sanctions adds to tensions between Washington and Berlin.


Historical information: Haruo Aoki, Nez Perce scholar, was born on April 1st, 1930 in Kunsan, Japan (now South Korea). He attended Hiroshima University from 1949 – 1953, where he completed an undergraduate degree in English; then in 1953 he received a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to Lost Angeles to complete a Masters Degree in English at UCLA. In 1958, Aoki moved to Berkeley to begin a PhD in Linguistics, working with graduate advisor Murray B. Emeneau and dissertation advisor William F. Shipley. He began working on Nez Perce when Mary Haas, who was department chair at the time, came to his office and asked whether he was interested in working on the language, and he said yes. Aoki began his fieldwork on Nez Perce in the summers of1960-1961 under the auspices of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. He then continued to do fieldwork intermittently in 1962 to 1964 between visits to Japan to teach in a Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 with a dissertation entitled "Nez Perce Grammar" and continued to work on Nez Perce oral narratives up until 1972, publishing a book entitled "Nez Perce Texts" in 1979. In 1989, under a National Science Foundation grant, he co-authored "Nez Perce Oral Narratives" with Deward E. Walker, a publication containing transcriptions of Nez Perce texts with interlinear and free translations. In 1994, he published a comprehensive dictionary on the language entitled "Nez Perce Dictionary", and in 2014 published


recorded by Sven Liljeblad and Deward E. Walker in 1966-1967. The primary consultants for these texts were Agnes Moses, Sam Watters, and Elizabeth P. Wilson. In addition to original work on Nez Perce, a range of other materials related to Aoki’s professional activities, personal life, and linguistic interests are also included in the collection. Of biographical relevance, the collection includes Aoki’s autobiography, correspondence relating to some of Aoki’s professional activities, and papers Aoki wrote on non-linguistic topics, specifically English and English literature and critical writing concerning Japanese cultural heritage (in Japanese). As well, the collection includes a large amount of material that was gathered from outside sources such as museums, societies, and libraries by Aoki throughout his research on various language families. These obtained materials include: papers, photocopiesof notebooks, and historical documents on Nez Perce and other Sahaptian languages; primary materials on Molalla; Edward Sapir’s Takelma note cards; and materials concerning comparative work on Na-Dene and Sino-Tibetan. Finally, the collection includes Aoki’s work on a previously undescribed Nagasaki dialect of Japanese, including a set of notebooks and a research manuscript.

Description: Photocopy of an essay on linguistic diversity in the Pacific Northwest and possible higher-order groupings of language families. Original undated.

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: Leo Joachim Frachtenberg. Linguistic problems in Oregon and Washington, Frachtenberg.002, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2766

Description: Photocopy of two Molala legends entitled "Stealing of fire" and "Coyote and spirit people", with grammatical notes. The dialect of Molala is listed as Waiilatpuan.


bus to the other end of the diffusion. In an LDMOS transistor structure, this debiasing effect is of great concern because of the importance of the critical voltage Vgs. As the source voltage increases along the metal run, the voltage Vgs is reduced. As a result, in areas farther from the source pad there is nonuniform operation. As the source potential rises for a given gate voltage Vg, Vgs drops, the transistor segments receive less drive, and the overall device Rdson increases. The non-uniform current distribution due to non-uniform operation of the sections of the LDMOS device also leads to safe operating area problems, in the form of reducing the safe operating area of the device. In a condition where the gate voltage Vg is low, these problemsa 59-56 setback at Saint Louis last weekend. The Rebs led by 16 points (32-16) in the first half and by a 34-21 margin at halftime. But the Billikens responded in the second half for a three-point victory.

Kentucky had a scare in its most recent non-conference outing Wednesday night. Perhaps the Wildcats were looking ahead to SEC play.

Kentucky had its worst shooting game of the season but held off Houston 77-70 Wednesday night at Rupp Arena to survive its final tuneup before heading to Oxford.

The Wildcats never trailed and won their seventh game in a row. But they couldn't pull away from the Cougars despite building an early 10-0 lead.

Abernethy said the Rebels have to step up in every area if they want to make a run in


SEC play.

"We've got to play extremely hard," said the Rebels' assists leader with 68 on the season as well as scoring 9.3 points per game. "We have to take care of all the little things. Games are won and lost over things like that. And we have to put together two good halves every game."

That's been a problem for the Rebels much of this season. No better example of that than their last game when they played very well in the first half but couldn't finish.

Abernethy said coming from Big Ten country as a kid growing up, he's learned a lot about SEC basketball during his time at Ole Miss. With Florida winning the national title last season and LSU also participating in the Final Four, the leagueANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A Canadian college student has pleaded guilty to smuggling or attempting to smuggle thousands of turtles from southeastern Michigan, more than a year after he was caught at a border crossing with 51 snappers taped to his body.

Kai Xu ordered turtles online and would travel to the U.S. to ship them to China or return with them to Canada.

Xu pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Ann Arbor. He's a 27-year-old student at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.

In September 2014, Xu was caught with turtles taped to his body in plastic. It's illegal to export wildlife from the U.S. without a license from the government.

Xu faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison although his sentence won't be that high.


an astonishingly difficult movie to watch , the last temptation of = christ may be scorsese's most important film , and yet his most = impossibly abstract as well .
scorsese presents the life of jesus = christ , through nikos kazantzakis' novel , which details the life of = christ from approximately 20 until the day of crucifixtion .
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jesus goes = on to live a life as a man , as a carpenter , and does not die on the = cross .
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keitel , although his accent is a problem , is = passionately brilliant , fighting through language to bring the character = to life .
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scorsese frames his movie in a = harsh tone , leaving the impression that jesus truly is a man who is = having human frailties .
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schrader uses modern-day new york english to tell the story , along = with new york words , new york mannerisms , and new york slang speech .Nine months ago, scenes of 1,700 captured soldiers being marched through the streets of Tikrit became a defining emblem of the Isis takeover of northern Iraq. On Tuesday, the whereabouts of the hundreds of men who had been missing ever since finally became clear as rescuers began excavating eight mass graves, not far from where the soldiers were captured.

The burial sites appear to confirm fears that all of those still missing have been killed. The atrocity is thought to be one of the worst of its kind since Isis forces began their rampage, vowing to destroy Baghdad’s Shia-led government.

The few soldiers who managed to escape during the carnage in Iraq’s fourth city had spoken at the time of Shia soldiers being separated from Sunnis and the latter being


freed. The Shias among them were shown no mercy and their ordeal became a rallying call in the battle to take back Tikrit, which was led by a group of Shia militias, along with the Iraqi military, and ended this week with Isis suffering its most significant defeat yet.

Forensic specialists arrived early on Tuesday at the sites near the Camp Speicher military base from where the men were seized in early June 2014. Until Tikrit was declared retaken late last week, the location of the graves had been widely known, but only two of them were in areas not controlled by the terror group.

Some of the gravediggers were colleagues of the missing men, while others were family members

The Guardian visited one mass grave on a barren hilltop overlookingthe east of the now ravaged city in late March. The stench of death wafted from the hard-packed soil and a militia checkpoint on a nearby road regularly moved to avoid winds turning the fumes their way.

Around 40 soldiers were thought to have been dumped there. Scores more were dumped in each of the other six to eight sites that have now been partially excavated. Some of the diggers were colleagues of the missing men, while others were family members. There were reports of soldiers and relatives collapsing after believing they had recognised their dead colleagues or kin.

Isis had brutally publicised the deaths of some of the men, whom they forced to lie in the dirt before killing them, expecting the gruesome scenes to spark fear among communities


an admittedly tiny sample -- just five pastors, all Protestants -- of clergy who tell their congregations one thing, but secretly believe another.

"One of the things that was striking was how much like gays of the 1950s these pastors are," Dennett said. "In most cases, Linda was the first person these pastors had ever discussed this with. They were very lonely."

Dennett and LaScola state upfront that they themselves are not believers; indeed, Dennett is at the forefront of the "New Atheist" movement. His book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, tried to explain the human search for the divine as a part of basic evolutionary survival.

Yet the two remain "sympathetic and fascinated" observers of faith, intrigued by the idea of active clergy who "don't believe whatmany of their parishioners think they believe and think they ought to believe."

The five respondents all have master's-level seminary education; three were from liberal denominations and two were from more conservative, evangelical traditions.

Defining the blurry line between "belief" and "non-belief" was a challenge, Dennett and LaScola wrote. Two ministers felt they had crossed a self-defined line, saying they no longer deserved to be called believers. Three said that while they may not believe in a supernatural god, yet they believe in something.

"Wes," a United Methodist minister, said he now sees God as "a kind of poetry written by human beings." He distinguished himself from an atheist by acknowledging that the word God "has value in some contexts."

One key point on the road to unbelief was scholarly studies of


leaders nor congregations seem much interested in the depth and specifics of a clergyperson's faith -- and for good reason.

"When a congregation is searching for new pastor, they are much more interested in pastoral skills, a way with people, inspiring sermons.

They tend not to give the candidate the third degree about theology," Dennett said. And the last thing a bishop wants to hear is that "one of the front line preachers is teetering on the edge of default," the pair wrote.

The Rev. Patrick Malloy, an Episcopal priest and professor of liturgy at General Theological Seminary in New York, agreed that "search committees do not give applicants the 'third degree,"' yet said "that does not mean they are indifferent to the applicant's faith."

Malloy said he knows a number ofAn Australian National University law student who insisted on including comment on Australia's "inhumane" refugee policies in a proposed profile piece was told she would no longer appear in a marketing booklet for fear of upsetting the federal government.

Odette Shenfield, from Melbourne, was one of three students in the ANU College of Law to receive three awards, including the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department and Australian Government Solicitor Prize, at the college's 2017 prize ceremony.

Odette Shenfield, a highly-awarded law student, was removed from an ANU marketing catalogue because she wanted to make a statement on refugees. Credit:Jamila Toderas

The awards came on top of a University Medal and the prestigious Tillyard Prize, awarded in part for her refugee advocacy.

Initially reluctant to appear in marketing materials, the 24-year-old figured she could use


refraction through the lens, the light through the optical axis directly images on the center of the image without refraction. The incident light with an incident angle θ will image on the film along the dotted line if not refracted, with a distance rRef to the center of the film: rRef=f×tan(θ), wherein f is a distance between the focus of the lens and the film. In fact, the incident light with an incident angle θ will be refracted through lens, the refracted light will be mapped onto the film with a distance rReal to the center of the film, a function relationship between rReal and θ as rReal=F(θ), and the function is called as a mapping curve of the lens. The mapping parameters of the lens can beFREE CONFIDENTIAL CONSULTATION

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The recent holiday weekend saw plenty of fireworks, family get-togethers and parties throughout Michigan. But, as with many other popular holidays, many of our Michigan readers may have noticed another common aspect of these times of the years: incre… Read moreSource: Ann Arbor Journal, "Fourth of July drunk driving crackdown underway," July 5, 2014


that took place in the NYC General Assembly before September 17, and then again during the early days of the occupation. Many people—myself included, though I was there to observe as a reporter—first arrived with some preconceived agenda about what needed to be done given the current political situation and how the occupation should do it: abolish corporate personhood, or enact a Tobin tax, or (as crasser signs would say) “Eat the Rich.” They complained that the anarchists, along with assorted autonomists, libertarian socialists and so forth, were hijacking the movement’s progress by bogging it down in process. But, after a while, after enough long meetings, they started to come around.

For some who were experiencing it for the first time, the General Assembly became a cathartic opportunity toCPS plan includes money for Obama school, annexes to relieve crowding

Chicago Public Schools today released a proposed $423-million capital plan that nearly triples what the district proposed this time last year in spending to upgrade its schools, including building the new Barack Obama College Prep and an annex for the ove

Chicago Public Schools today released a proposed $423-million capital plan that nearly triples what the district proposed this time last year in spending to upgrade its schools, including building the new Barack Obama College Prep and an annex for the ove

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Chicago Public Schools today released a proposed $423-million capital plan that is nearly triple what the district proposed this time last year in spending to upgrade its schools. This year’s projects include building the new


Suicide Prevention for School Communities: An Educational Initiative for Student Safety.
A knowledge gap exists in school communities regarding suicide prevention and means reduction education. The article highlights two core interrelated topics: school nurse engagement in dialogue with students' families and the implementation of an innovative, community-based suicide prevention educational program at a suburban public school district. The authors provide an overview of the public health problem of suicide for students, current student challenges, role of the school nurse in suicide prevention, and a key gap in current school nursing practice. At the request of the school counselors and principal, an innovative suicide prevention educational program was initiated as a community-based project at a large suburban public school district in Texas. The two overarching goals for this community-based collaborationWinnie and Fussel from FusselCat. Each of the three cats has its own characteristics to achieve what they want to achieve.

Der Digge never demands when he wants something. He sits perfectly still in front of his bowl and hypnotizes it until something he wants is filled in. When he wants to be cuddled, he sits down quietly next to his owners and waits.

Winnie is quite different. She demands intrusive and unresting.

Fussel the third cat in the group never demands. She shows her owners clearly what, when and where she wants something. However, it is not related to food or treats, but rather to a brushing session.

If I now take our three cats – Charlie, Sammy and Tiffy – into count, it is obvious that even by this relatively


in this action were engaged in selfless, dedicated charitable activity. They gave of their time and themselves to assist those in need. They received no personal gain other than the satisfaction derived from their charitable endeavors.
The compassionate federal government, and particularly the well-known, warmhearted Internal Revenue Service, has chosen to reward them with personal liability for the nonpayment of withholding taxes. In addition to the primary claim for the substantial taxes due, plaintiffs have been required to incur and to pay substantial amounts for legal fees to reverse the liability imposed upon them for such taxes.
On September 15, 1980 a delegate of the Secretary of the Treasury made assessments, pursuant to Section 6672 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and issued notices of assessments to, and madedemands for payment upon William Hildebrand, Heman Adams and Martin Bressler. These assessments resulted from the alleged nonpayment of withholding taxes by the Friends of Clinton Hill (FCH) for a period in the 1970's when it was operating a neighborhood health center, a community center, and a day care center in Newark. Plaintiffs are three suburbanites who were members of FCH, a tax-exempt charitable corporation. They participated in the organization, devoting time, money, and business expertise, out of a desire to help the community improve its quality of life.
The IRS has assessed plaintiffs Hildebrand and Adams the sum of $55,081.25 each for withholding taxes purportedly unpaid for the third and fourth quarters of 1973, all of 1974, and the first three quarters of 1975. Plaintiff Bressler has been


201, Federal Rules of Evidence, limits the use of judicial notice to adjudicative facts that are either generally known within the territorial jurisdiction of this court, or are capable of accurate and ready determination by references to sources whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned. The dynamics of decision-making of the FCH fits neither of these requirements.
The government submits that these plaintiffs were officers of the corporation. From May 1973 until October 1974 Bressler was Vice President, Adams was Treasurer, and Hildebrand was Secretary. From October 1974 until October 1975 Bressler was Assistant Treasurer and Adams was Secretary. A person who holds these corporate offices, with the authority to make disbursements, is presumptively a "responsible person" for purposes of section 6672. Bolding v. United States, 565 F.2d 663, 670"CBS This Morning: Saturday" co-host Jeff Glor.

"I mean, it's not a racetrack in a warehouse. It's not an indoor environment. It's nature," Bowen responded.

Olivia Nish, the first female driver in her family's three generations of racing at Bonneville, hit 155 mph on her first run, before spinning out while attempting to hit 180 mph on run number two.

She plans to be back for many more, despite the controversy. "It is disappointing to see," she said. "But we just make the best of what we have and drive, right?"


system or a multimeter. The transparencies were measured with a spectrometer with an integrating sphere, with a plain glass substrate used as the reference.

Strips of copper tape were applied on two ends of each electrode. To investigate the effects of current flow through the electrodes, a direct current (DC) power supply was used to pass a constant current across the electrodes. The current was conducted until the electrodes failed, which we define as the point when the DC power supply reached its maximum of 30 V and thus could no longer maintain the constant current. The voltage across the electrodes and the surface temperature were monitored continuously throughout the experiment using computer data collection. For the temperature measurement, a flat leaf-style thermocouple was used. The electrodes were soon afterwardsextended by a day not because the Egyptian people overran the election booths but because the booths were so quiet. The extra day was to “encourage” voters to participate in the “democratic celebration” in various ways – threats, curses, humiliation, and calls from the minarets. To give the elections a veneer of legitimacy, at least 25 million voters were required – the same number as those who turned out in the last elections which raised up the Islamic representative, Mohammed Morsi, before he was removed and arrested.

Some 62% voted in the elections which brought Morsi to power. In the current elections, despite the extra day, initial estimates put voter turnout at no more than 40%. The blatant intervention of the Elections Committee in the voting process cast a


dark shadow over the elections’ legitimacy. The low turnout was a resounding slap in the face to all those who took part in the military coup which brought down the first democratically-elected president in Egypt’s history.

On 30 June 2013, the army and Mubarak supporters exploited the people’s frustration and anger towards the Muslim Brotherhood. They took advantage of the Tamaroud movement, led by the youth who participated in the revolution, to get millions out into the streets. They called this wave of demonstrations the “second revolution.” Already by 3 July, Sisi had removed the elected president and appointed a puppet government. He then published a “road map” towards a new constitution whose main aim was to legitimize the coup. This constitution enabled the army to govern, ostensibly untilelections could be held – elections in which Sisi, having no serious contender since the Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed, was expected an easy victory.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the liberals cozy up to the army

The low turnout does not necessarily mark a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood, which called for an election boycott. Above all, it reflects the anger and loathing towards the political movements and parties which are responsible for the terrible conditions in Egypt since the revolution of 25 January 2011 which brought down Mubarak’s regime.

The Brotherhood’s behavior during the revolution led to their isolation, which enabled them to be outlawed. Instead of building an alliance with the revolutionary youth who initiated the uprising and sacrificed themselves in its name, the Brotherhood preferred to move closer to


as opposed to constitutional legitimacy, an opportunity arose to get rid of Morsi. Thus the Left and the liberals gave their backing to the military coup, which led the way to elections marred by the murderous suppression of dissent.

The elimination of the Brotherhood was the common aim of the army, Mubarak supporters, the Left and the liberals. The opening volley was the dispersal of the “tent city” set up by Morsi supporters in Rabaa al-Adawiyah square, together with the massacre of over 1,000 citizens. Thousands of Brotherhood members and leaders were imprisoned, including Morsi, Parliament Speaker Saad al-Katatni, and the spiritual leader Mohammed Badie. In unprecedented staged trials, 600 people were sentenced to death. Since then, despite the oppression, Brotherhood demonstrations have been ceaseless, and Egypt has notknown a single day of peace. Moreover, terror attacks from the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis group in the Sinai Peninsula and around the country have added to Egypt’s chaos.

The army turns against the liberals

The new regime was not satisfied with merely suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood. Every voice of protest or criticism against the regime was cut down mercilessly, just as in the days of Mubarak. A group of intellectuals and activists, who had played an important role in bringing down Mubarak, severely criticized the acts of the army, which closed down the Islamic newspapers and recruited the private and state media to its own cause. As the protest grew, all those demanding democracy and the end of army intervention in politics were accused of supporting terror and the Muslim


Brotherhood, which had been outlawed.

As expected, the regime legislated against demonstrations, which only increased democrats’ opposition, especially the April 6 movement. When this movement took to the streets to protest, its leaders including Ahmed Maher were sentenced to three years behind bars for the crime of participating in illegal demonstrations. Since then, thousands of youth have been imprisoned, including those who have no connection to the Brotherhood, and some 50 of them have died during torture. The new regime has lost all legitimacy, both at home and abroad. The Obama administration continues to finance the army, but public opinion in the US and leading media outlets are leveling harsh criticism against the military coup and General Sisi.

The behavior of the Left and the liberals in the elections isevidence of their political bankruptcy and the lack of a secular, democratic alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood and the army. The Liberal Salvation Front which supported the military coup is divided between supporters of Sisi and supporters of Hamdeen Sabahi. At the head of the Sisi supporters are the Wafd Party and the Tagamoa parties, at the center of which is the Communist Party. Sabahi was the candidate of the Left and the liberals in the 2012 elections. Unfortunately, these parties decided to give a democratic fig-leaf to the current election farce. Even Trotskyists and Marxists supported Sabahi, claiming that Sisi must be weakened. Only one small but significant group of public figures, intellectuals and politicians called for boycotting the elections.

The low turnout was no doubt a surprise


By refraining from going to the ballot the Egyptian people have refused to grant Sisi the legitimacy he craved or a green light to continue his hounding of the Muslin Brotherhood. Sisi presented no platform. When asked what he would bring the Egyptian people, he replied, “ma fish” – in other words, I have nothing to give – and was paid in the same coin by the Egyptian people at the ballot. The people demand democracy and social justice, and they will not receive such rights from the army. The Egyptians have a clear message: the army must return to the barracks, the Muslim Brotherhood must be allowed to return to politics, and the Left and the liberals must quit their alliance with the army and join theBrotherhood to bring back the democratic regime.

The sin of the Brotherhood and the liberal parties was to join up with the army to overcome its opponents, and thus the revolution was lost. Egyptian society and its economy will not flourish again if the political forces fail to unite to set up a broad democratic regime. In Tunisia, the Muslim Brotherhood together with other civil and secular streams agreed on a constitution. The election results in Egypt show that this is what the Egyptian people want too.


Image copyright Sina Weibo Image caption The topic page for the Panama Papers hashtag on Sina Weibo appeared to have been censored by Monday afternoon with at least 481 discussions blocked

China appears to be censoring social media posts on the Panama Papers document leak which has named several members of China's elite, including President Xi Jinping's brother-in-law.

Hundreds of posts on networks such as Sina Weibo and Wechat on the topic have been deleted since Monday morning.

The leaked papers, from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, reveal how the rich have used tax havens.

They mention Deng Jiagui, who is married to Mr Xi's older sister.

An investigative report by Bloomberg News in 2012 suggested that Deng and his wife had hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate, share holdings andon Monday morning, sharing Chinese translations of details of the story, including information on Mr Deng.

A hashtag created on the topic quickly trended.

Checks by the BBC found that by the end of the day many of those posts had disappeared, with at least 481 discussions deleted from the hashtag's Weibo topic page, and other posts shared on Wechat also deleted.

The website Freeweibo.com, which actively tracks censorship on Weibo, listed "Panama" as the second-most censored term on the network. The top censored term was controversial Hong Kong movie "Ten Years".

Image copyright Freeweibo.com Image caption The website Freeweibo which tracks deleted content said the second most censored topic was "Panama"

Besides Mr Deng, several other individuals among China's elite were also named in the papers.

They include Li Xiaolin, the daughter of


former premier Li Peng, and Jasmine Li, the granddaughter of former high-ranking official Jia Qinglin.

Li Xiaolin owned an offshore company, Cofic Investments Ltd, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, while Jasmine Li received an offshore company as a teenager, ICIJ said.

The two women did not respond to requests from the ICIJ for comment. Charles-Andre Junod, a lawyer who was a director for Cofic Investments, declined to comment but said he had always respected relevant laws.

China's Communist officials are discouraged from profiting from their ruling positions, and their family members are not supposed to profit from their ties, according to the Party's constitution.

Mr Xi has been conducting a sweeping crackdown on corruption since he took power as president in 2012, arresting hundreds of thousands of officials.

Panama Papers - taxBefore the
English had made their first permanent settlements in America
their ingenious merchant adventurers had combined with this
developed institution their well-tested device of a joint stock
or common capital contributed in shares, and so paved the way for
its most extensive application, in the domain of business.(1*)
From the founding of Jamestown to the days of the Revolution,
successive shiploads of British subjects brought with them larger
and larger familiarity with the corporation, -- for plantation
and town organization, for charitable, religious, or literary
foundations, for trading and local business purposes. The
institution was well matured in England during the American
colonial period.

However, there is a great many more sites that describe colonial distrust of the corporation from the beginning.

British Crown Corporations began operating in North America with the start of European settlement. These Crown Corporations, also known


protected trade by Crown corporations
over that of local colonial merchants. In direct protest against Parliament's tax protections that subsidized the East India Company, colonists
organized an act of civil disobedience that came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. In that one act of property destruction, colonists destroyed the
equivalent of one million dollars of the Company's property.

When American colonists declared independence from England in 1776, they also freed themselves from control by English corporations that
extracted their wealth and dominated trade. After fighting a revolution to end this exploitation, our country’s founders retained a healthy fear of
corporate power and wisely limited corporations exclusively to a business role. Corporations were forbidden from attempting to influence elections,
public policy, and other realms of civic society.
Initially, the privilege of incorporation was granted selectivelyto enable activities that benefited the public, such as construction of roads or
canals. Enabling shareholders to profit was seen as a means to that end. The states also imposed conditions (some of which remain on the books, though
unused) like these*:

Here is some history on the creation of the corporation. This article is also fairly neutral, although at first it sounds anti-corporate, as you read
further the authors opinion does have considerable admiration for the entity.

On 8 June, a Scottish banker named Alexander Fordyce shorted the collapsing Company’s shares in the London markets. But a momentary
bounce-back in the stock ruined his plans, and he skipped town leaving £550,000 in debt. Much of this was owed to the Ayr Bank, which imploded. In
less than three weeks, another 30 banks collapsed across


Europe, bringing trade to a standstill.....
...
If this sounds eerily familiar, it shouldn’t. The year was 1772, exactly 239 years ago today, the apogee of power for the corporation as a business
construct. The company was the British East India company (EIC). The bubble that burst was the East India Bubble. Between the founding of the EIC in
1600 and the post-subprime world of 2011, the idea of the corporation was born, matured, over-extended, reined-in, refined, patched, updated,
over-extended again, propped-up and finally widely declared to be obsolete. Between 2011 and 2100, it will decline — hopefully gracefully — into a
well-behaved retiree on the economic scene.

Many I have debated on the issue of corporate control have argued that only government can violate our liberties, but that is not true at all.
Corporations wereU.S. capitalism. The freedom of individuals to privately own property, start a business, and own the means of production is a basic
tenet of U.S. government, and communism opposes this arrangement. However, there have been, are, and probably always will be communists in the United
States.

The acknowledged aim of socialism is to take the means of production out of the hands of the capitalist class and place them into the hands of the
workers. This aim is sometimes spoken of as public ownership, sometimes as common ownership of the production apparatus. There is, however, a marked
and fundamental difference....

....Common ownership is the right of disposal by the workers themselves; the working class itself — taken in the widest sense of all that partake in
really productive work, including employees, farmers, scientists — is


successful
examples.

What we have seen so far is that a corporation is a form of government, as it was originally created for colonization, a capitalistic entity, and a
communistic entity, which mainly serves as a legal entity which shields people working behind the mask from the consequences of their actions.

Here is a quote from the last l link in the Op that puts things into perspective.

The second thing to understand about the evolution of the corporation is that the apogee of power did not coincide with the apogee of reach. In
the 1780s, only a small fraction of humanity was employed by corporations, but corporations were shaping the destinies of empires. In the centuries
that followed the crash of 1772, the power of the corporation was curtailed significantly, but in terms ofsheer reach, they continued to grow, until
by around 1980, a significant fraction of humanity was effectively being governed by corporations.

A corporation is a from of government that owns the means of production.

A corporation is a from of government that owns the means of production.

That would be communism.

A corporation is not a form of government. I have explained what corporations are.

Communism is not government ownership of the means of production, that is state-capialism. Communism is not a form of government either, it is an
economic system.

Corporation

The most common form of business organization, and one which is chartered by a state and given many legal rights as an entity separate from its
owners. This form of business is characterized by the limited liability of its owners, the issuance of shares of easily


Visual learning in the hyperacuity range in adults.
We investigated the amount, speed, and specificity of the learning of new visual tasks in adult humans using stereoscopic depth perception and vernier discrimination as the sensitive probes for learning. The results of psychophysical experiments in untrained adult observers indicate two phases of highly specific perceptual learning in humans: a fast phase and a slower one. Both types of learning might take place relatively "early" during pattern recognition in the visual cortex, since learning was very specific, without transfer between different stimulus orientations.Sediment Quantity and Quality in Three Impoundments in Massachusetts

Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4013

By Marc J. Zimmerman and Robert F. Breault

ABSTRACT

As part of a study with an overriding goal of providing information that would assist State and Federal agencies in developing screening protocols for managing sediments impounded behind dams that are potential candidates for removal, the U.S Geological Survey determined sediment quantity and quality at three locations: one on the French River and two on Yokum Brook, a tributary to the west branch of the Westfield River. Data collected with a global positioning system, a geographic information system, and sediment-thickness data aided in the creation of sediment maps and the calculation of sediment volumes at Perryville Pond on the French River in Webster, Massachusetts, and at the Silk Mill and


Trends in Fellow Education Research Among Obstetric and Gynecologic Subspecialties.
To evaluate the frequency at which fellow education-related abstracts are presented at national meetings and compare presentation rates before and after the accreditation transition. This cross-sectional study evaluated abstracts from the five most recent national meetings of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS), and the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) and Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO). Three independent reviewers assessed abstracts for education-specific content. Abstracts were included if two or greater reviewers identified them as related to fellow education. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Fourteen thousand six hundred thirty abstracts were presented atapply to join the EU - including membership of the Schengen Zone (Umm, we'll talk about the Euro...).

"Mayor Sadiq, wouldn't you prefer to be President Sadiq? Make it happen!"

Suggesting a second independence referendum on Friday, Scottish First Minister said she said: "I have also spoken this morning with Sadiq Khan and he is clear that he shares this objective for London, so there is clear common cause between us."

As his petition gained steam, O'Malley tweeted the growing momentum was "ridiculous" and acknowledged that media were now covering his "petition that will definitely work".

Prof Tony Travers, from The London School of Economics, told the BBC the referendum results showed the stark difference between London's politics and the rest of the country, adding the mayor could argue he needs more


elevation is one of the most frequently performed regenerative procedures in dental implantology. Based on the principle of elevation of the basal sinus mucosa, it enables the insertion of a matrix, promoting bone regeneration in the subsequent healing process ([@B4],[@B5]) Tatum ([@B5]) subsequently designed a sinus lift via a lateral approach with osteotomy of the vestibular cortical bone, as the space gained after raising the membrane was occupied by a filling material that would maintain a virtual space during the process of bone regeneration. In terms of bone graft materials, autogenous bone unreservedly represented the gold standard a few years ago. Nevertheless, in the last years good results have also been achieved by bone substitute materials, particularly when the height of the residual bone is moderately or extensivelyEmperor: Battle for Dune

Emperor is the second Dune game developed by both Westwood Studios and Intelligent Games. Westwood broke new ground with Emperor and went 3D, it was their first true 3D RTS. Other advancements included a new type of campaign mode which let you play online in groups of up to 3 players. Emperor is a sequel to Dune2 & Dune 2000 including an entirely new storyline created by Westwood.

The basics behind the story is that the Emperor has been assassinated in the year 10190 and his throne has been left vacant. Because of this the Atreides, Ordos, and Harkonnen have once again returned to "Battle for Dune" except this time the battle will also be taken to the homeplanets of each of the three Houses. There


Glenn Beck was in top form yesterday, anticipating Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts by launching into yet another tirade about the Monstrous Evil Known As Progressivism. This one was flat-out eliminationist, describing progressives variously as objects fit only for extermination, including diseases and monsters:

Beck: Progressives were lurking like a virus, waiting for their chance to suck all of the blood out of the Democratic neck. They were looking for the opening to infect the system. And once they were inside that system, I warned in 2004, the Democrats -- it will be a battle to the end of your party to get them out. ... What we are talking about is an ideological movement that has set its sights on the destruction of the Constitution and the fundamental← Sidebar

Shock upsets are rare occurrences in the world of pro tennis, where top players seldom surrender a centimeter of their hard-earned territory. In this feature, pro players talk about memories of their major upsets…

Scott Draper: “I played Thomas Muster in Rome. He was the King of Clay, number two in the world, defending champion. And I just went out there, I don’t know, I just had a great day where I committed to what I was trying to do and I beat him in three and a quarter hours. He went to the hospital after the match. It was one of those matches where I played unbelievable.”

When asked precisely when did he first feel it would be a special day, Draper answered: “Well, it was more of


zoonotic disease management. In the Quebec health system, public health responsibilities, including Lyme disease prevention, are shared between provincial and regional public authorities. The Ministry of Health and Social Services, supported by the National Institute of Public Health in Quebec, is the provincial authority and first level responsible for applying provincial public health programs in collaboration with regional authorities \[[@B38]\]. Each of the 18 administrative regions of the province has their own Health and Social Services Agency. No province-wide program for Lyme disease management currently exists due to the fact that the disease is presently only concentrated in the southern part of Quebec and has affected only a few regions. This article aims to present the context, goals, methods and results from a study of the use ofof three external experts in Lyme surveillance were consulted.

Individual weighting of all criteria was done by each stakeholder under two different scenarios (step 7). The first scenario described the current epidemiological situation of Lyme disease in Quebec (referred to as "emergence scenario"). The second scenario described a hypothetical substantial increase in the annual number of human cases of Lyme disease in Quebec, coupled with more intensive media coverage and public awareness (referred to as "epidemic scenario"). Each stakeholder was asked to create model-specific weighting schemes based on the stakeholder's perceived importance of criteria for decision-making in line with their organisational affiliation. This was done by first distributing 100 points among the criteria categories and then re-distributing the category specific points to all criteria within each category. A tool


on June 16, 1954, Civil No. 33432.  This prior application sought relief on a ground not asserted in the present petition.  However, included in the file on the prior proceeding is a certified copy of an order of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas discharging a writ of habeas corpus granted petitioner while he was confined at Leavenworth Penitentiary.  It appears from this order that the Kansas court conducted a full hearing respecting the regularity and propriety of petitioner's court-martial.  The Kansas court states in the order that:
"It is petitioner's contention that he was not given a fair and impartial trial, that evidence favorable to him was criminally repressed by the prosecution, and that he was convicted by means ofThe critically-acclaimed Marvel's Spider-Man continues to pull new fans into its web a year after its PlayStation 4 release. Now you can further explore the nuances and finer details of the game’s story with the release of Marvel's Spider-Man Script Book hardcover, which features the script of the game, at your local comic shop on January 29, 2020, and everywhere books are sold on February 11, 2020.

This isn’t the Spider-Man you’ve met or ever seen before, and this 240-page hardcover will give you insight to how Insomniac Games, PlayStation, and Marvel Games brought the experience Peter Parker, as well as Marvel's New York and its residents, to life in Marvel's Spider-Man.

With the upcoming release of Marvel's Spider-Man Script Book, go behind-the-scenes of the smash hit video game sensation


with the complete script to Marvel's Spider-Man by Jon Paquette, Christos Gage, and Benjamin Arfmann—together with a stunning gallery of artwork from the production process! The life of Peter Parker and that of his ever-amazing alter ego are about to collide in major fashion in this all-new take on the world of the wall-crawler, filled with fan-favorite characters—including Mary Jane, Aunt May, Norman Osborn, Otto Octavius and Miles Morales—spun into an unexpected web of drama, spectacle and classic action in the Mighty Marvel Manner! When Spidey finally removes the Kingpin of Crime from the mean streets of the Big Apple, how will the mysterious Mister Negative's ascent to power bring Peter's two worlds crashing together? Learn how the words and the world of a blockbuster hit video game He competed again in the same race the following year with Carlo Capone in a Lancia 037 Tre Gazzelle. After a long successful season and a duel with Toivonen and his Porsche, the Italians eventually won the European Championship. After Perissinot’s accident, Cresto was Bettega’s co-driver for two races qualifying for the World Championship. In 1985, he raced again with Zanussi for Lancia.

In 1986 Cresto was Henri Toivonen's co-driver in a Lancia Delta S4. After a strong start to the season, including a win in the Rally Monte Carlo, Toivonen and Cresto were the favourites for the World Championship title. Racingoing into the Tour de Corse with a 1:42 lead, they crashed during the eighteenth stage of the rally. Their Lancia went off the side of the


It was then that she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against the District of Columbia that has been litigated for the past 27 years. The length may set a record for the court system in the nation’s capital and is likely among the most protracted in the history of American jurisprudence.Bryant, a 59-year-old who once worked in a typing pool for the District’s Department of Corrections, accused her former supervisor of denying her a promotion because she rebuffed his advances. In 1992, the director of the city’s now-defunct Department of Human Rights and Minority Business Development ruled in her favor.

by Georgene HuangOriginally published: May 30, 2017Publisher: Forbes.com The great Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “Sunlight...is the best of disinfectants.” This metaphor for the natural and desirablea person's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetic information, or age.

by Emil GuillermoOriginally published: May 29, 2017Publisher: DiverseEducation.com Two weeks ago, I was in Arlington, Va., giving an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month speech at the national headquarters of the Army National Guard.Who else is mandated by law to celebrate diversity at the workplace like those within the federal government?But at the Army National Guard, it’s more than lip service because over there people seem to know diversity is an essential part of its core mission. And, on top of that, they know it really works.

by KAROL RUTKOWSKIOriginally published: May 30, 2017Publisher: SATprnews.comLeading-edge diversity and ethnicity reporting tool launched by New Zealand business ChampionsForty-four of New Zealand’s leading private and publicly-listed companies have voluntarily committed to


a new diversity reporting framework that heralds a huge commitment to change, and one that will enable a new generation of diverse leaders to drive New Zealand’s future economic growth and social prosperity.In an international capacity, the reporting framework is at the forefront of reporting. It has been, developed by Champions for Change, on gender and ethnicity representation within the workforce and across boards, with a spotlight on leadership pipelines.

by Charlotte Rogers Originally published: May 30, 2017Publisher: MarketingWeek.com Over the past year, employers from every section of society have been redoubling their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion. Brands across the UK are successfully breaking down the barriers around gender, ethnicity, disability and sexuality. However, for the most part their efforts have stopped short of promoting neurodiversity.Neurodiverse conditionswomen on their boards and in their C-suites.“No, we’re not making enough progress – we need to be moving much faster,” says Jennifer Reynolds, president and CEO of Women in Capital Markets, a nationwide network that advocates for women in this part of the financial sector.

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by Zongile NhlapoOriginally published: May 29,2017Publisher: Huffingtonpost.com According to the World Economic Forum's 2016 Global Gender Gap Index, South Africa ranks 15th out of 145 countries in terms of closing the pay gap between women and men. And by developing country standards, this is not bad at all. But while this is progress, the disparities are still glaringly high:

31 percent of South African companies have no female representation in senior leadership roles;

22 percent of board directors are women, but only


Sally Yates’ dismissal as interim attorney general to IBM workers organizing against their employer’s support of Donald Trump. In the early days of the Trump administration, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance’s strike against the Muslim ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport stood out as an impressive act of resistance and solidarity. And even before Trump’s election, Colin Kaepernick, then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, sparked a national discussion when he refused to stand during the national anthem in protest of racism against African-Americans and other people of color.Protests against the administration are building quickly, with diverse groups organizing mass protests against the administration’s policies. This month, on May Day—otherwise known as International Workers’ Day—thousands of workers across the country took to the streets tochallenge Trump’s draconian and unconstitutional immigration policies. In all likelihood, political activity at work will only increase throughout the Trump administration, all of which begs the question: How protected are workers who talk politics on the job?

In this momentous Canada 150 year, the Government of Canada is proud to support Canadian Multiculturalism Day celebrations taking place in Montréal, Vancouver and Toronto on June 27. These lively festivities are part of Celebrate Canada days 2017.

The Government of Canada provided Les FrancoFolies de Montréal with funding of $400,000 to organize activities for Canadian Multiculturalism Day. Financial support of $230,000 was granted to Harbourfront Centre for the celebrations in Toronto. Finally, $200,000 was awarded to the Canada Place Corporation for Multiculturalism Day in Vancouver.

The funding provided to these three organizations for