indeed, of the entire West, in this century of unprecedented agony and conflict. The murder of the Tsar and his family is all the more deplorable because, whatever his failings as a monarch, Nicholas II was, by all accounts, a personally decent, generous, humane and honorable man. The Massacre's Place in History The mass slaughter and chaos of the First World War, and the revolutionary upheavals that swept Europe in 1917-1918, brought an end not only to the ancient Romanov dynasty in Russia, but to an entire continental social order. Swept away as well was the Hohenzollern dynasty in Germany, with its stable constitutional monarchy, and the ancient Habsburg dynasty of Austria-Hungary with its multinational central European empire. Europe's leading states shared not only the same Christian andWestern cultural foundations, but most of the continent's reigning monarchs were related by blood. England's King George was, through his mother, a first cousin of Tsar Nicholas, and, through his father, a first cousin of Empress Alexandra. Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm was a first cousin of the German-born Alexandra, and a distant cousin of Nicholas. More than was the case with the monarchies of western Europe, Russia's Tsar personally symbolized his land and nation. Thus, the murder of the last emperor of a dynasty that had ruled Russia for three centuries not only symbolically presaged the Communist mass slaughter that would claim so many Russian lives in the decades that followed, but was symbolic of the Communist effort to kill the soul and spirit of Russia itself. Notes 1.


Edvard Radzinksy, The Last Tsar (New York: Doubleday, 1992), pp. 327, 344-346.; Bill Keller, "Cult of the Last Czar," The New York Times, Nov. 21, 1990. 2. From an April 1935 entry in "Trotsky's Diary in Exile." Quoted in: Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1990), pp. 770, 787.; Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra (New York: 1976), pp. 496-497.; E. Radzinksy, The Last Tsar (New York: Doubleday, 1992), pp. 325-326.; Ronald W. Clark, Lenin (New York: 1988), pp. 349-350. 3. On Wilton and his career in Russia, see: Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), pp. 141-142, 144-146, 151-152, 159, 162, 169, and, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, The File on the Tsar (New York: Harper and Row, 1976), pp. 102-104, 176. 4.AP dispatch from Moscow, Toronto Star, Sept. 26, 1991, p. A2.; Similarly, a 1992 survey found that one-fourth of people in the republics of Belarus (White Russia) and Uzbekistan favored deporting all Jews to a special Jewish region in Russian Siberia. "Survey Finds Anti-Semitism on Rise in Ex-Soviet Lands," Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1992, p. A4. 5. At the turn of the century, Jews made up 4.2 percent of the population of the Russian Empire. Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: 1990), p. 55 (fn.). By comparison, in the United States today, Jews make up less than three percent of the total population (according to the most authoritative estimates). 6. See individual entries in: H. Shukman, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution (Oxford: 1988),


and in: G. Wigoder, ed., Dictionary of Jewish Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991). The prominent Jewish role in Russia's pre-1914 revolutionary underground, and in the early Soviet regime, is likewise confirmed in: Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter, Roots of Radicalism (New York: Oxford, 1982), pp. 92-94. In 1918, the Bolshevik Party's Central Committee had 15 members. German scholar Herman Fehst -- citing published Soviet records -- reported in his useful 1934 study that of six of these 15 were Jews. Herman Fehst, Bolschewismus und Judentum: Das jüdische Element in der Führerschaft des Bolschewismus (Berlin: 1934), pp. 68-72.; Robert Wilton, though, reported that in 1918 the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party had twelve members, of whom nine were of Jewish origin and three were ofRussian ancestry. R. Wilton, The Last Days of the Romanovs (IHR, 1993), p. 185. 7. After years of official suppression, this fact was acknowledged in 1991 in the Moscow weekly Ogonyok. See: Jewish Chronicle (London), July 16, 1991.; See also: Letter by L. Horwitz in The New York Times, Aug. 5, 1992, which cites information from the Russian journal "Native Land Archives."; "Lenin's Lineage?"'Jewish,' Claims Moscow News," Forward (New York City), Feb. 28, 1992, pp. 1, 3.; M. Checinski, Jerusalem Post (weekly international edition), Jan. 26, 1991, p. 9. 8. Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1990), p. 352. 9. Harrison E. Salisbury, Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917 (Doubleday, 1978), p. 475.; William H. Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution (Princeton Univ. Press, 1987), vol. 1,


302, 306.; Alan Moorehead, The Russian Revolution (New York: 1965), pp. 235, 238, 242, 243, 245.; H. Fehst, Bolschewismus und Judentum (Berlin: 1934), pp. 44, 45. 12. H. E. Salisbury, Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917 (1978), p. 479-480.; Dmitri Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991), pp. 27-28, 32.; P. N. Pospelov, ed., Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: A Biography (Moscow: Progress, 1966), pp. 319-320. 13. "Zionism versus Bolshevism: A struggle for the soul of the Jewish people," Illustrated Sunday Herald (London), February 8, 1920. Facsimile reprint in: William Grimstad, The Six Million Reconsidered (1979), p. 124. (At the time this essay was published, Churchill was serving as minister of war and air.) 14. David R. Francis, Russia from the American Embassy (New York: 1921),p. 214. 15. Foreign Relations of the United States -- 1918 -- Russia, Vol. 1 (Washington, DC: 1931), pp. 678-679. 16. American Hebrew (New York), Sept. 1920. Quoted in: Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot (Cambridge, Mass.: 1963), p. 268. 17. C. Jacobson, "Jews in the USSR" in: American Review on the Soviet Union, August 1945, p. 52.; Avtandil Rukhadze, Jews in the USSR: Figures, Facts, Comment (Moscow: Novosti, 1978), pp. 10-11. 18. T. Emmons and B. M. Patenaude, eds., War, Revolution and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1913-1927 (Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1992), pp. 320, 139, 317. 19. Louis Rapoport, Stalin's War Against the Jews (New York: Free Press, 1990), pp. 30, 31, 37. See also pp. 43, 44, 45, 49,


50. 20. Quoted in: Salo Baron, The Russian Jews Under Tsars and Soviets (New York: 1976), pp. 170, 392 (n. 4). 21. The Atlantic, Sept. 1991, p. 14.; In 1919, three-quarters of the Cheka staff in Kiev were Jews, who were careful to spare fellow Jews. By order, the Cheka took few Jewish hostages. R. Pipes, The Russian Revolution (1990), p. 824.; Israeli historian Louis Rapoport also confirms the dominant role played by Jews in the Soviet secret police throughout the 1920s and 1930s. L. Rapoport, Stalin's War Against the Jews (New York: 1990), pp. 30-31, 43-45, 49-50. 22. E. Radzinsky, The Last Tsar (1992), pp. 244, 303-304.; Bill Keller, "Cult of the Last Czar," The New York Times, Nov. 21, 1990.; See also: W. H. Chamberlin, TheRussian Revolution, vol. 2, p. 90. 23. Quoted in: The New Republic, Feb. 5, 1990, pp. 30 ff.; Because of the alleged anti-Semitism of Russophobia, in July 1992 Shafarevich was asked by the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC) to resign as an associate member of that prestigious body. 24. R. Wilton, The Last Days of the Romanovs (1993), p. 148. 25. Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (1990), p. 787.; Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra (New York: 1976), pp. 496-497. 26. An article in a 1907 issue of the respected American journal National Geographic reported on the revolutionary situation brewing in Russia in the years before the First World War: " The revolutionary leaders nearly all belong to the Jewish race, and the most effective revolutionary agency


is the Jewish Bund " W. E. Curtis, "The Revolution in Russia," The National Geographic Magazine, May 1907, pp. 313-314. Piotr Stolypin, probably imperial Russia's greatest statesman, was murdered in 1911 by a Jewish assassin. In 1907, Jews made up about ten percent of Bolshevik party membership. In the Menshevik party, another faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, the Jewish proportion was twice as high. R. Pipes, The Russian Revolution (1990), p. 365.; See also: R. Wilton, The Last Days of the Romanovs (1993), pp. 185-186. 27. Martin Gilbert, Atlas of Jewish History (1977), pp. 71, 74.; In spite of the restrictive "Pale" policy, in 1897 about 315,000 Jews were living outside the Pale, most of them illegally. In 1900 more than 20,000 were living inthe capital of St. Petersburg, and another 9,000 in Moscow. 28. Sonja Margolina, Das Ende der Lügen: Russland und die Juden im 20. Jahrhundert (Berlin: 1992). Quoted in: "Ein ganz heisses Eisen angefasst," Deutsche National-Zeitung (Munich), July 21, 1992, p. 12. 29. Krasnaia Gazetta ("Red Gazette"), September 1, 1918. Quoted in: Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (1990), pp. 820, 912 (n. 88). 30. Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: 1990), p. 820. 31. Contrary to what a number of western historians have for years suggested, Soviet terror and the Gulag camp system did not begin with Stalin. At the end of 1920, Soviet Russia already had 84 concentration camps with approximately 50,000 prisoners. By October 1923 the number had increased to 315 camps with 70,000 inmates. R.


Pipes, The Russian Revolution (1990), p. 836. 32. Cited by historian Robert Conquest in a review/ article in The New York Review of Books, Sept. 23, 1993, p. 27. 33. The New York Review of Books, Sept. 23, 1993, p. 27. 34. Review/article by Robert Conquest in The New York Review of Books, Sept. 23, 1993, p. 27.; In the "Great Terror" years of 1937-1938 alone, Conquest has calculated, approximately one million were shot by the Soviet secret police, and another two million perished in Soviet camps. R. Conquest, The Great Terror (New York: Oxford, 1990), pp. 485-486.; Conquest has estimated that 13.5 to 14 million people perished in the collectivization ("dekulakization") campaign and forced famine of 1929-1933. R. Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow (New York: Oxford, 1986),pp. 301-307. 35. Russian professor Igor Bestuzhev-Lada, writing in a 1988 issue of the Moscow weekly Nedelya, suggested that during the Stalin era alone (1935-1953), as many as 50 million people were killed, condemned to camps from which they never emerged, or lost their lives as a direct result of the brutal "dekulakization" campaign against the peasantry. "Soviets admit Stalin killed 50 million," The Sunday Times, London, April 17, 1988.; R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, has recently calculated that 61.9 million people were systematically killed by the Soviet Communist regime from 1917 to 1987. R. J. Rummel, Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917 (Transaction, 1990). 36. Because of his revolutionary activities, Lenin was sentenced in 1897 to


three years exile in Siberia. During this period of "punishment," he got married, wrote some 30 works, made extensive use of a well-stocked local library, subscribed to numerous foreign periodicals, kept up a voluminous correspondence with supporters across Europe, and enjoyed numerous sport hunting and ice skating excursions, while all the time receiving a state stipend. See: Ronald W. Clark, Lenin (New York: 1988), pp. 42-57.; P. N. Pospelov, ed., Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: A Biography (Moscow: Progress, 1966), pp. 55-75. 37. R. Pipes, The Russian Revolution (1990), pp. 187-188.; 38. The Nation, June 24, 1991, p. 838. 39. Bill Keller, "Cult of the Last Czar," The New York Times, Nov. 21, 1990. 40. "Nostalgic for Nicholas, Russians Honor Their Last Czar," Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1993.; "Ceremonymarks Russian czar's death," Orange County Register, July 17, 1993. 41. R. Pipes, The Russian Revolution (1990), p. 787. Appendix A striking feature of Mr. Wilton's examination of the tumultuous 1917-1919 period in Russia is his frank treatment of the critically important Jewish role in establishing the Bolshevik regime. The following lists of persons in the Bolshevik Party and Soviet administration during this period, which Wilton compiled on the basis of official reports and original documents, underscore the crucial Jewish role in these bodies. These lists first appeared in the rare French edition of Wilton's book, published in Paris in 1921 under the title Les Derniers Jours des Romanoffs. They did not appear in either the American or British editions of The Last Days of the Romanors published


one Pole, one Armenian, two Russians, eight Latvians, and 23 Jews. "The Council of the People's Commissars [the Soviet .government] numbered two Armenians, three Russians, and 17 Jews. "Ac.cording to data furnished by the Soviet press, out of 556 important functionaries of the Bolshevik state, including the above-mentioned, in 1918-1919 there were: 17 Russians, two Ukrainians, eleven Armenians, 35 Letts [Latvians], 15 Germans, one Hungarian, ten Georgians, three Poles, three Finns, one Czech, one Karaim, and 457 Jews." "If the reader is astonished to find the Jewish hand everywhere in the affair of the assassination of the Russian Imperial family, he must bear in mind the formidable numerical preponderance of Jews in the Soviet administration," Wilton went on to write. Effective governmental power, Wilton continued (on pages 136-138of the same edition) is in the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party. In 1918, he reported, this body had twelve members, of whom nine were of Jewish origin, and three were of Russian ancestry. The nine Jews were: Bronstein (Trotsky), Apfelbaum (Zinoviev), Lurie (Larine), Uritsky, Volodarski, Rosenfeld (Kamenev), Smidovich, Sverdlov (Yankel), and Nakhamkes (Steklov). The three Russians were: Ulyanov (Lenin), Krylenko, and Lunacharsky. "The other Russian Socialist parties are similar in composition," Wilton went on. "Their Central Committees are made up as follows:" Mensheviks (Social Democrats): Eleven members, all of whom are Jewish. Communists of the People: Six members, of whom five are Jews and one is a Russian. Social Revolutionaries (Right Wing): Fifteen members, of whom 13 are Jews and two are Russians (Kerenski, who may


worth 1 Victory Point.

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If the players win,States.  The Attorney General answered the complaint,3 a trial was had, an opinion was filed,4 findings of fact and conclusions of law were stated, and on April 29, 1953, a judgment was entered declaring Shilk to be a national of the United States.  From that judgment this appeal was taken on June 25, 1953.

2
Jurisdiction of the action was conferred on the District Court by 8 U.S.C.A. § 903,5 which provided: 'If any person who claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States is denied such right or privilege by any Department or agency, or executive official thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United States, such person, regardless of whether he is within the United States or


States, and that Shilk was therefore a citizen of the United States under the provisions of § 1993 of Revised Statutes, as amended by § 1 of the Act of May 24, 1934, 48 Stat. 797, 8 U.S.C.A. § 6, and § 201(g) of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1138, 1139, 8 U.S.C.A. § 601(g).  Thus, in effect, the complaint alleged that Shilk was a national as well as a citizen of the United States; for, although all nationals of the United States are not citizens thereof, all citizens thereof are nationals thereof.6

6
The answer denied that Lee Mon Hong was Shilk's father, thus, in effect, denying that Shilk was a citizen or national of the United States.  On the issue thus raised, Shilk hadthe burden of proof,7 which is to say, the burden of proving that Lee Mon Hong was his father.

7
Shilk appeared at the trial and, by his guardian ad litem, introduced evidence8 tending to show that Shilk was born in China; that Lee Mon Hong was Shilk's father; and that Lee Mon Hong was a citizen of the United States at the time of Shilk's birth and had previously resided in the United States; and the District Court so found.

8
The findings were not clearly erroneous.  We therefore accept them as correct9 and conclude, as did the District Court, that Shilk acquired United States nationality at birth.10

9
Judgment affirmed.

1
 The evidence showed that Shilk was born on February 11, 1935, and hence was an infant when the action was instituted


"Baby, I'll Never Let You Go"Precisely one full quarter-century and two days ago, at exactly 21h48, I arrived in Berlin, at the main Bahnhof Zoo station, not knowing what to expect, but certain it would all be played out to a David Bowie soundtrack.

It was the first time I'd ever been outside the UK, let alone to Sin City Central. The Strangers had never done Abroad before, largely through a lack of funds, but also because a rainswept, knobbly-kneed week at Butlins in Pwhelli was reckoned to be miles better than a fortnight in some fancy, lah-di-bloody-dah place called the Costa del Sol, where posh people went to eat foreign muck.

My awe of all things continental meant I spent much of the five-hour journey from Cologne contemplating thefly that had become trapped in my compartment at Helmstedt on the East-West German border. "That's a fly," I remember saying over and over to myself, "that's a real, genuine, honest-to-goodness German fly." To this day, I'm still not sure whether my very first German fly (of the winged variety, anyway) was a nasty Commie, or One of Us, but I remember him with great fondness. He was the first friend I made in Germany.

Sharing the carriage with me and Herr Fliege was a bunch of fellow foreign-language students, like me Berlin-bound to spend a year skiving teaching English. Far more worldly-wise and experienced at this whole travel thing than me, they'd all arranged to be met at the station by a representative from their respective schools, before


grateful to the anonymous, trannie tart-with-a-heart, clad in real fox-fur and killer stilettos, who took pity on the babbling Brit and directed him to the nearest cab-driver who wasn't on the make.

And the rest is my history: I arrived an innocent and returned with a cheeky grin on my face, and a funny way of walking. So the past few days have been this queen's very own Silver Jubilee tour, an unashamedly self-indulgent Nostalgia-Fest. Strolling down the magnificent Unter den Linden, taking in the scent of the lime trees. Stopping off at Kranzler's for Kaffee and Kuchen, or a champagne breakfast at the café where I used to hang out. Checking out my old flat, where I threw my first party, which was gatecrashed by two perfectly pleasanthe is
not fishing, the fisherman repairs and prepares his fishing equipment
which includes hand contact with lead weights.

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fan, run fast, or get bigger tanks which have the screw on covers
although you will quickly get bored replacing the regulator for any
simple solder job. Covers or regulators but not both at the same
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I was born and rasied in a small town in northern Idaho where we had
a lead smelter and a zinc refinery. The smoke caused us to cough all
the way as we walked to school and turned the tips of the blades of
grass to brown.

Years later the whole town became


passed, including a 2017 bill co-sponsored by the Republican senator Cory Gardner and the Democratic senators Michael Bennet and Al Franken. Also in 2017, Senator Jon Tester of Montana introduced legislation that would ban lawmakers from lobbying their former colleagues until five years after leaving office, but it failed to gain traction.

The presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has also called for legislation preventing former Congress members from lobbying.shaft device which includes a compressor and a turbine and which can additionally be provided with a blower arranged in a stagnation air passage. In already known systems, one or more heat exchangers are located in the stagnation air passage and serve to cool compressed air tapped from the engines or from auxiliary units. In already known systems, the compressed air is first cooled in a first heat exchanger in the stagnation air passage, is them compressed in the compressor of the shaft device, is cooled again in a second heat exchanger arranged in the stagnation air passage and is then supplied to a water extractor circuit. The air which has been dehumidified in this manner subsequently flows through the turbine of the shaft device and is then


compressed air. The heat exchanger includes at least one first heat exchange unit and one second heat exchanger unit separate therefrom on the compressed air side of which a respective one is in communication with a respective one of the shaft devices on the compressed air side. The shaft devices have compressors which are in communication on the outlet side with the inlet on the compressed air side of the separate heat exchanger units on the compressed air side. The heat exchanger units each have their own compressed air supply.
A common stagnation air inlet passage and stagnation air outlet passages separate from one another in a mechanical flow aspect are provided for the at least two heat exchanger units.
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How did Iron Man get this?

In Avengers: Endgame, at the end of the final battle:

 Thanos thinks that he has the Stark Infinity Gauntlet and is going to snap, but he has not because Iron Man has.

What I have missed is when did Iron Man take the

 Gauntlet from Thanos?

A:

He never took the Stark Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos, he just took the Infinity Stones, presumably by using nano technology, and then used an Infinity Gauntlet built into his suit.
The Stark Infinity Gauntlet is still being worn by Thanos but the Infinity Stones are missing from it.

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stamp collector." "Director's office had heard my friend's a stamp collector, too, so... they called him up there to talk to the guy." "[Elevator bell dings]" " Well..." " [Elevator doors open]" "I don't collect stamps." "[Doors close]" "[Refrigerator door closes]" "They're children." "They don't have our life experience yet." "Oh, please." "Bringing their marital spats to the job, going to EST." "They say goodbye to an agent, and they think it's the end of the world." "Gabriel, we can't expect them to..." "Claudia, in my time, there were things worse than the war." "I had a friend..." "Gakov, a decorated officer." "We were close since school." "Then he became an "enemy of the people."" "I had to go to his house and pull him out in frontphysics
as in Chagall's pictures. Modern science of phenomena has its feet on
earth and uses its hands to gather not only correctly observed and
measured facts, but also a great many notions and explanations which
offer our minds real entities; yet it has its head in a mathematical
heaven, populated with various crowds or signs and merely ideal, even
not intuitively thinkable entities.

These ideal entities constructed by the mind are symbols which enable
science to manipulate the world while knowing it as unknown, for then,
in those higher regions where creative imagination is more at work than
classical inductin, science is only intent on translating the
multifarious observable aspects of the world into coherent systems of
signs.

The fact remains that the prime incentive of the scientist is the urge
to know reality. Belief in the existence of the mysterious


personal God whom he
first doubted as required by the way in which nature lends itself to
the rationalization of phenomena operated by science. As he said in an
interview in 1950, far from being an atheist he "believed on the
contrary in a personal God." Such a conviction meant in no way that
the existence of God was supposedly a conclusion established by
science, or a principle of explanation used by it. It meant that the
existence of God is a conclusion philosophically established with
regard to the very possibility of science.

Heisenberg and Oppenheimer are also liberal scientists. And so was, at
least virtually, Max Planck, though it was under the cloak of science
that every bit of philosophizing effort in him was concealed. He
believed in an "all-powerful intelligence which governs the universe,"
but not in a personalmost often be
found in them, but as something accidental, not essential to their cast
of mind; so that, as a matter of fact, there are good grounds to hope
that more and more of them will, in the process of time, free themselves
from it -- when philosophers will become more intent on meditating on
the sciences and learning their languages, and scientists more familiar
with the approach and language of philosophy (each one realizing at the
same time that the language or languages of the others are valid
instruments only for the others' work).

If a liberal scientist undertakes to go beyond the horizons of
science and tackle the philosophical aspects of reality, he too is liable
to yield to the temptation of making the concepts worked out by science
into the very components of his meta-scientific enterprise.


a Prime Cause, itself uncaused, absolutely
exempt from any change for it is absolutely perfect.

In the same manner the second way, which proceeds from Efficient
Causes at work in the world, and the third way, which proceeds from
Contingency and Necessity in things, lead to a Prime Cause without which
all other causes would neither be nor act, and which exists with absolute
necessity, in the infinite transcendence of the very esse subsisting by
itself.

The fourth way proceeds from the Degrees which are in things. It
is a fact that there are degrees of value or perfection in things. But
on the one hand wherever there are degrees it is necessary that there
exist, somewhere, a supreme degree; and on the other hand one thing is
good and another is better, but there can always be another stillat work in that republic of natures which is the
world. But such purpose cannot proceed from the things which compose
the world of matter, and which are devoid of understanding. This purpose
or intention must exist in an intellect on which things depend in their
very essence and natural activities. Thus in the last analysis it is
necessary to recognize the existence of a transcendent Intelligence, the
existing of which is its very intellection, and which is the Cause
of all beings.

I just summarized these ways to God in my own language and in the
briefest possible fashion, leaving aside all particular examples,
accidental to the demonstration, which were part of the imagery provided
to Thomas Aquinas by the physics of his time.

The ways in question pertain to the philosophical order. The notion
of cause has here its


is understood in
the proper philosophical perspective, presupposes the transcendent God as
the prime cause of evolution, -- preserving in existence created things and
the impetus present in them, moving them from above so that superior forms
may emerge from inferior ones, and, when man is to appear at the peak of
the series of vertebrates, intervening in a special way and creating
ex nihilo the spiritual and immortal soul of the first man and of every
individual of the new species. Thus evolution correctly understood offers
us a spectacle whose greatness and universality make the activating
omnipresence of God only more tellingly sensed by our minds.

I do not believe, moreover, that science fosters a particularly
optimistic view of nature. Every progress in evolution is dearly paid
for; miscarried attempts, merciless struggle everywhere. The more detailed
our knowledge of natureDodgers in 2004 and moved to Los Angeles from Boston.

Shielding Homes

Frank McCourt, 57, said at the trial that his wife sought
the agreement because she wanted to shield the homes that were
in her name from liabilities he assumed to acquire the team,
including $330 million in new debt. The couple had held the
homes in Jamie McCourt’s name and businesses in Frank McCourt’s
name before they moved to California.

The agreement was needed to keep their assets separate
under California community property law. Under California law,
creditors of either spouse can seek payment from their shared
assets.

In his tentative ruling, Gordon said there was no evidence
that the couple knowingly gave up the rights they had under
Massachusetts’ equitable distribution law in a divorce. In
Massachusetts, unlike California, divorcing spouses are entitled
to an equal share of the other’s separate


Tolga Tuzun

Tolga Tüzün (Ph.D.) is an electro-acoustic music composer and a performer.

He started taking classical piano lessons at the age of eleven. After receiving his BA in Political Sciences, he studied composition with Pieter Snapper and Marc Wingate and advanced orchestration with Ilhan Usmanbas and Hasan Ucarsu at the Istanbul Technical University, Center for Advanced Music Studies.

During his studies for a Ph.D. in Music Composition at CUNY Graduate Center, he studied composition with David Olan and Tristan Murail in New York, and with Philippe Leroux in Paris. He participated in master classes with Roger Reynolds, Rand Steiger, Edmund Campion, Mara Helmuth, Horacio Vaggione, Hughes Dufourt, Joshua Fineberg and Brian Ferneyhough,

He has given lectures on music theory and electro-acoustic music at international conferences. Between 2003-2005 he taught harmony andcomposition at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. Tolga Tüzün participated in the composition and computer music course at IRCAM during 2005-2006. His compositions have been performed in various cities throughout US and Europe.

Along with his compositional output, he also performs within experimental, jazz and electronic scenes, solo or with other artists. His collaborations include Oğuz Büyükberber, Korhan Erel, Nora Krahl, Ned Mc Gowan, Bob Ostertag, Frank Gratkowski, Nicolas Crosse, Sam Briton, Anıl Eraslan to name a few.

Tolga Tüzün is an associate professor at Istanbul Bilgi University where he teaches composition and electronic music and serves as Head of Department since 2010.


The Companies That Have Dumped Donald Trump The FAA is the latest to distance itself from Trump after his Mexico comments.

 -- It has been less than four weeks since he entered the presidential race, but billionaire Donald Trump has already seen some of his most prominent business relationships go up in smoke following remarks he made about Mexico on the first day of his campaign.

“When Mexico sends its people they aren't sending their best,” Trump said at his announcement event last month from Trump Tower. "They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting."

In light of those comments, several of the business partners Trump has cultivated over theon July 1. "Donald Trump’s remarks were disgusting and offensive, and this hateful language has no place in our city. Trump’s comments do not represent the values of inclusion and openness that define us as New Yorkers. Our Mexican brothers and sisters make up an essential part of this city’s vibrant and diverse community, and we will continue to celebrate and support New Yorkers of every background."

NASCAR

NASCAR hasn't formally severed ties with Trump, but it may be distancing itself from the presidential candidate. Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis, whose company is the title sponsor of NASCAR's Truck Series, said in a letter he wouldn't attend NASCAR's season-ending awards ceremony if it was held at a Trump property. The ceremony was held at the Trump National Doral Miami last


the companies that have left or plan to leave him, Trump said "Macy's, NBC, Serta and NASCAR have all taken the weak and very sad position of being politically correct even though they are wrong in terms of what is good for our country."

ESPN

On July 6, a week after both the PGA and the USGA distanced themselves from Trump's comments, ESPN announced in a statement that it would be moving the upcoming ESPY Celebrity Golf Classic from Trump's National Golf Club to Pelican Hill Golf Club in Los Angeles. This year, ESPN's annual Celebrity Golf Classic will raise funds for the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund - named in memory of ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, who passed away earlier this year.

The Scott Fund, a part of theV Foundation for Cancer Research, provides resources for cancer research with a focus on supporting minority populations, particularly African-Americans and Latinos. "Diversity and inclusion are core values at ESPN and our decision also supports that commitment," the statement said. "We decided it was appropriate to change the venue, and are grateful for the opportunity to stage the event at Pelican Hill at short notice." (ESPN is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, which also owns ABC News).

PGA

After meeting with Trump on July 6, the PGA of America released a short statement in which it announced it would be seeking a new venue for the 2015 PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Trump simultaneously announced that the decision, which was characterized as being in each party's "best interest," would


us that whatever he said was in the heat of the moment and he did not mean what he said."Cidco anti-encroachment team officials had carried out a drive against four illegal under-construction ground-floor structures and illegal shanties and shops that had come up on the 12.5% reserved plots for project-affected persons in sector 14 and 22 of Kamothe.After the action, the Cidco squad officials were called to the police station by senior inspector Ashok Naik for a meeting with the local MLA. There, Thakur questioned them for their action and issued the murder threat even after the officials explained the action was carried out following legal procedures.Only two weeks left to Double your gift

This story was originally published by the New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Later this week, the Senate is expected to hand over control of the Environmental Protection Agency to environmentalists’ worst nightmare. Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, has spent his career waging legal battles against clean air, climate, and water regulations. He has sued the EPA more than a dozen times, participating in what The New York Times described as “an unprecedented, secretive alliance” with fossil fuel companies to fight Obama-era environmental regulations. He has helped collect millions in political donations from the very industries he will be tasked with regulating. He’s called climate science a “religious belief,” and his official biography even


across outcomes within categories, the project had significant favourable impacts on agriculture, nutrition, education, child health, maternal health, HIV and malaria, and water and sanitation. A third of the targets were met in the project sites. Total on-site spending decreased from US$132 per person in the first half of the project (of which $66 was from the MVP) to $109 per person in the second half of the project (of which $25 was from the MVP). The MVP had favourable impacts on outcomes in all MDG areas, consistent with an integrated rural development approach. The greatest effects were in agriculture and health, suggesting support for the project's emphasis on agriculture and health systems strengthening. The project conclusively met one third of its targets. The Open Society Foundations, theThis Woman Sewed Money Together in Front of H&M to Make You Think About Your Shopping Habits

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January 30, 2014

On January 17, Khmer-American artist Kat Eng sat for eight hours at the entrance of H&M’s flagship store in Times Square. She hunched over a hand-operated sewing machine, stitching together two and two-thirds dollar bills, the daily wage of a garment worker in Cambodia.

Eng said her performance was a direct response to a bloody crackdown of striking Cambodian workers on January 4, in which military police killed four people and wounded dozens more. She writes on her website, “It is an act of solidarity with the women who labor under the boot of multinational corporations and their collapsing industrial machines, women who literally create immense value with their own callused


Royal Caribbean International celebrates the delivery of its newest cruise ship Harmony of the Seas

It Is All Hands (4,200) on Deck Onboard the World’s Largest and Newest Cruise Ship

MIAMI, 2016-May-13 — /Travel PR News/ — Royal Caribbean International today honored the crew and project team of the new Harmony of the Seas at a traditional delivery and flag changing ceremony in Saint Nazaire, France. Following 32 months of construction at the STX France shipyard involving thousands of shipyard employees, sub-contractors and suppliers, the world’s largest and most innovative cruise ship is now home to 2,100 crew members from 77 different nationalities. Joining the festivities in the ship’s signature AquaTheater were Richard Fain, Chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Michael Bayley, President and CEO of Royaland whimsical feast for all the senses

The debut of Broadway’s hit musical Grease in the Royal Theater and spectacular diving shows in the AquaTheater

11,252 works of art showcased throughout the ship and Central Park, a living park in the center of the ship which features a total of 10,587 plants, 48 vine plants and 52 trees, some over 20 feet (6.1 meters) high

VOOM, the fastest internet at sea, available exclusively to Royal Caribbean guests, which allows travelers to seamlessly stay connected, stream their favorite entertainment, video chat and share their adventures with friends and family at home

Harmony of the Seas will homeport in Barcelona, Spain and embark on the first of 34 seven-night sailings in the western Mediterranean on June 7, exploring some of Europe’s most beautiful locations.


In November 2016, Harmony will arrive at her homeport of Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, FL., from where she will offer seven-night eastern and western Caribbean sailings. The newest member of the fleet will join sister-ships Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, sailing from Port Canaveral and Port Everglades respectively, on the east coast of Florida.

Harmony of the Seas is the world’s largest cruise ship with a bold and unexpected lineup of experiences found nowhere else on land or sea. An architectural marvel, Harmony of the Seas combines the distinct seven neighborhood concept that Royal Caribbean’s Oasis class of ships are known for with some of the most modern and groundbreaking amenities. Innovative features include The Ultimate Abyss, a thrilling slide 10 stories high – theMelbourne's tram network will shut down over two days in the coming month as the state's public transport union takes further strike action for a pay rise.

Staff will walk off the job between 10am on 2pm on September 26 – two days before the AFL grand final – and again on October 10.

RTBU State Secretary Luba Grigorovitch. Credit:Paul Jeffers

The Rail, Tram and Bus Union has been at loggerheads with Yarra Trams over the union's demand for a 6 per cent annual pay rise over three years. Yarra Trams is offering a 3 per cent annual rise over four years.

The union is also frustrated at what it says is Yarra Trams' attempt to increase part-time work through shorter shifts and changed rosters.


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Oct 31, 2012) - As the holiday season approaches, many Americans are turning their attention to end-of-the-year giving and acts of charity. Though the opportunities for philanthropy are many, and range from artistic endowments to medical research, a recent article from The Economist highlights a less conventional way to make a difference -- through the financial support of scientific inquiry. The article notes that, recently, "crowdfunded" science has grown in prevalence, a trend that has won the attention -- and the praise -- of scientific philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein.The article from The Economist notes that more traditional avenues for scientific funding have begun to dry up, with grant money growing increasingly difficult to come by. As such, many scientists have turned to more creative methodsfor funding their work -- including enlisting the resources of philanthropists who care about science and discovery.One such philanthropist is Jeffrey Epstein , who has issued a new press statement, affirming the Economist article and offering his personal endorsement of scientific giving, even in small amounts. "Philanthropy in science is a great way to generate needed publicity for important research being done in laboratories around the world," Mr. Epstein says. He speaks from experience. In 2003, Mr. Epstein won recognition when his foundation, The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, established The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University with a $30 million grant. The Program continues to do important work to this day."With relatively small contributions, one can get scientific research into the headlines," he continues. "It also makes


scientific research more accountable to the public." Jeffrey Epstein is also a former member of the NY Academy of Science, a former board member of Rockefeller University, and a current overseer of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Committee at Harvard University.The Economist notes that scientific philanthropy is nearly as old as science itself. As long as there have been inquisitive minds, those minds have sought the support of wealthy donors, using charitable contributions to purchase equipment or to fund expeditions to far-off places. In the age of the Internet, however, a new form of scientific philanthropy has emerged -- crowdfunding. The Internet makes it easy for scientists to set up donations pages and solicit contributions from the general public; even when donors pitch in small amounts, these fundsTrendy Fairy Tattoos Design

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students through an exercise involving a story about a day spent indoors at home. "It's a rainy day and the wind is whirling around outside," she said, describing a scene for her young writers. "What would you do?" Sophie Tobolski, 9, was quick to answer her. "Sleep," she answered. And that was the starting point for these LaSalle students, offering them a place to think about books or games. Adding the marshmallows to flesh out a story. And adding more writing tools for the toolboxes the students will be using for the rest of their lives.Abortion clinics in the State of Maine are reporting a marked increase in the number of New Brunswick women seeking their services since the Morgentaler clinic in Fredericton closed about two months ago.

One clinic in Bangor says New Brunswick women accounted for about half of its dozen abortion appointments last week.

The American providers say they are happy to fill the gap in services and will even provide financial assistance for any New Brunswick women who can't afford the $500 fee, either by dipping into their national network funding or through local donations.

But they are urging premier-designate Brian Gallant to ensure access to abortion services in New Brunswick.

"Abortion is part of a woman's reproductive rights," said Kate Gawler, director of abortion services at the Maine Family Planning clinic in


Center in Bangor, said her organization has seen a "spike" in the number of women coming from New Brunswick in recent months. (CBC) Gallant has said he will convene a group of experts, either those inside the new Liberal government and perhaps some from outside, to identify the barriers to abortion.

Reproductive Justice New Brunswick says it plans to launch a "Days of Inaction Timer" on Tuesday after Gallant's government is sworn in.

Gallant "has the opportunity to create real change, but every day without access the lives of New Brunswickers are put further at risk," Jessi Taylor, a spokesperson for the organization, said in statement.

Ruth Lockhart, co-founder of the Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center in Bangor, and chair of the reproductive rights coalition, said she also worries about theNew Brunswick women in need of services.

"We are seeing a spike in the number of women from New Brunswick," she said.

"So far, and we're new into this piece of it, it's the women with resources who are able to make it here," Lockhart said.

"So my concern is always the women without resources who don't come, who aren't able to come."

'State-by-state battle'

George Hill, the chief executive officer of the Maine Family Planning clinic, said he is "angry, quite frankly" about the situation in New Brunswick.

George Hill, the chief executive officer of the Maine Family Planning clinic, said he is "angry" about the situation regarding access to abortion services in New Brunswick. (CBC) "I thought Morgentaler was a giant in his field. He was brave, persistent. This was his legacy


Paul W. Miller of the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"). Agent Miller informed Muffoletto that he was under investigation for failing to report all of his income on his 1973 through 1975 tax returns. As the interview progressed, "Muffoletto stated that he was becoming ... upset ... and that perhaps he should see his lawyer, Dave Preller, before continuing the interview." Defendant's Hearing Exhibit 1 (Memorandum of Interview, dated February 24, 1977) at 4.
The following day, Muffoletto executed a power of attorney appointing Bernard S. Aiken (an attorney) and Donald B. Greenberg (an accountant) as attorneys-in-fact to represent him before the IRS; the power of attorney was received in the Baltimore office of the IRS on March 4, 1977. Government Hearing Exhibit 4.
On April 18,of counsel and the interview was terminated.
Approximately two weeks later, on September 14, Mierzwicki designated David Preller and George Christian as his attorneys-in-fact to represent him before the IRS. On December 22, during a recorded IRS interview, Mierzwicki acknowledged the receipt of "commissions" from Muffoletto; at this interview, Prochownik learned that David Preller represented Muffoletto in certain civil matters.
On January 20, 1978, Prochownik initiated the formal investigation of Mierzwicki. Subsequently, on March 10, Muffoletto was interviewed by Prochownik; also present were Greenberg, Aiken and Preller. Prochownik conducted a similar interview with Mierzwicki on April 6, at which he was represented by Christian and again acknowledged the receipt of payments from Muffoletto.
On January 2, 1979, Muffoletto was indicted for income tax evasion. Mierzwicki subsequently revoked the power of attorney


of Preller and Christian and designated his current counsel to represent him before the IRS. On March 1, Muffoletto entered into a plea agreement with the government, and he pled guilty pursuant to that agreement on March 13, 1979. On May 10, 1979, Muffoletto was sentenced.
On October 29, 1979, Mierzwicki's current counsel met with representatives of the Tax Division of the Justice Department. At that meeting, the defendant's attorney indicated that Mierzwicki had received far less from Muffoletto than was reported on the defendant's amended returns. Groff Affidavit at 3. The matter of Preller's representation *1334 of both Muffoletto and Mierzwicki was discussed at that time.
On April 12, 1980, Mierzwicki was charged, in a six-count indictment, with violations of 26 U.S.C. §§ 7201 (income tax evasion) and 7206(1)The New York Yankees swooped in Saturday to acquire reigning NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton after he had invoked his no-trade clause to block deals to the Giants and Cardinals. It was a relative bargain for New York with Starlin Castro and second-tier prospects Jorge Guzman and Jose Devers going to Miami.

The Yankees have made it clear they intend to get under the $197 million luxury tax threshold in 2018, which will reset their tax rate -- the club is currently taxed at the maximum 50 percent -- and save them millions. They've paid luxury tax every year since the system was put in place in 2002. That's a lot of wasted money.

Acquiring the largest contract in the sport -- Stanton is three years into his record 13-year, $325


for Social Security disability benefits on October 19, 1994. AR pp. 16-18. According to the plaintiff, his sister filled out the application for him while he was in the hospital and he signed it with his left hand. AR pp. 163-65.[1] Social Security determined that the plaintiff was disabled as of the date of his stroke, and the plaintiff began collecting disability benefits. When the plaintiff was released from the hospital he also applied for worker's compensation benefits. AR p. 164. The state hearing officer found that the plaintiff was entitled to compensation and medical expenses. However, the plaintiff was not awarded his worker's compensation benefits until the resolution of his employer's appeal of the hearing officer's findings. The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals decision was datedWidow of murder victim seeks mercy for killer from Pa. governor

September 6, 2012

The wife of a murder victim has asked Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett to stop the execution of his killer, a victim of sexual abuse who killed two of his abusers in the 1980s. She submitted a statement supporting a clemency petition that asks for his sentence to be reduced to life without parole.

Lawyers for Terrance Williams says he was abused by five people, before killing two of them when he was in his late teens.

According to Williams’ lawyer, Shawn Nolan, the public defender at Williams’ original trial did not present information about the sexual abuse in court.

Appeals were unsuccessful. Williams, now 46, has an execution date of Oct. 3, and Nolan is asking the governor to


The Syrian conflict continues to provide an uncomfortable window into the minds of the Western establishment, as mainstream media eulogize a dead ‘moderate rebel’ commander despite evidence of his support for Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Abdel Baset Sarout, 27, was wounded last week fighting Syrian government forces, and died on Saturday at a hospital in Turkey. Sarout was quickly eulogized in Western press, with an AP profile highlighting his skills as a junior soccer goalie and calling him the “singer of the revolution,” while downplaying his ties to terrorists.

A Syrian rebel spokesman says a famous soccer goalkeeper who became an icon of the rebellion against President Bashar Assad has died of wounds suffered in a battle https://t.co/ltr88qUYOg — Bloomberg (@business) June 8, 2019

Sarout “became an icon of the rebellion againstA young black man was allegedly sodomised in Paris this month. And that's not the worst of it.

Woman on Nice beach being forced to remove her burkini by armed police on August 23, 2016. (TRT World and Agencies)

Protests erupted in several cities of France after the alleged rape of a 22-year-old black man by police during a routine check in a suburban neighbourhood of Paris.

A surveillance video of the victim's arrest was released. But an internal police investigation found that the officer accused of sodomising the victim with his baton, did so "unintentionally." Later, French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux termed the case a "tragic accident." He then said that the term "accident" was inappropriate.

But this is not one incident — it's one of a broader pattern. Here


are 15 things to know about France's race problem:

1. It's not the first time that France's police have courted controversy. A series of riots in October and November 2005 followed the electrocution of two black youths hiding from police in an electricity substation in a suburb outside Paris. Thousands of vehicles, dozens of buildings and businesses were set on fire during the urban riots.

2. France's stop-and-search policy disproportionately targets non-whites. Within three months of the state of emergency imposed by French President Francois Hollande following the Daesh-claimed Paris attacks in November 2015, the government had ordered 3,289 searches and between 350 and 400 house arrests. As a result of the searches, only five investigations into terrorism-related offenses were launched by the Paris prosecutor's office, according to figures providedby the French Interior Ministry.

But during the same period, Jacques Toubon, the French human rights ombudsperson, received about 40 complaints about the emergency measures that relate to abuses. Complaints included unjustified searches, insufficient evidence, and raids on the wrong addresses.

3. The state of emergency has taken aim at those of North African descent. In a Human Rights Watch report published in February 2016, Toubon said that while policing measures allowed under the state of emergency are not laid out in a way that targets a particular group, "in reality these measures are aimed at a specific movement and at very observant Muslims. That can give rise to a feeling of injustice and of defiance towards public authorities."

France has the largest Muslim population in Europe, which mostly comprises people


abusive house arrests and raids within the first three months of the emergency imposition were documented by The French Collective Against Islamophobia. (CCIF)

6. France is imprisoning its Maghrib-origin population. Even though France's government does not publish statistics on the ethnic or religious makeup of its population, a 2004 study commissioned by the French government showed that Muslims – most of whom hail from immigrant backgrounds – are vastly over-represented in France's prison population.

France's prison population has grown by a third in the past decade, partly due to policies, under conservative governments, of handing down heavy sentences on repeat petty offenders. (TRT World and Agencies)

The imprisonment of Muslims over petty crimes often leads to radicalisation of inmates, who come from communities blighted by poverty and unemployment.

About 60 to 70percent of all inmates in the country's prison system are Muslim, although Muslims make up only about 12 percent of the country's population.

But it's not just the police. Does France have a bigger problem with bigotry?

7. France's very recent past is stained

Algerian protesters were slaughtered by French police on the streets of Paris on October 17, 1961. (The Daily Mail). The 1961 massacre of Algerian immigrants still casts an uneasy shadow over France's large population of North African immigrants. The massacre was widely recorded by historians, who say more than 200 people may have been killed. (TRT World and Agencies)

"On October 17,1961, Algerians who were protesting for independence were killed in a bloody repression. I pay homage to victims fifty-one years later," France's President Francois Hollande said in


2012, while acknowledging the massacre of Algerians.

8. There are reports of rising intolerance in France. A report by the Council of Europe (CoE) in early 2015 had warned that rising intolerance in France had spawned systematic problems with racism and hate speech, threatening ethnic and religious minorities in the country.

9. Racist terminology is frequently used by elected officials. Over the past few years, far-right nationalist movements have gained momentum in Europe. The National Front rose to become the third most powerful party in French politics. Some French politicians have issued racist statements and encouraged xenophobia through their campaigns, slogans and speeches to gain political mileage.

10. An aggressive clampdown law banning headscarves has led to a charged, bigoted, atmosphere. The 2004 law implicitly directed at Muslim women, opened aheated national debate about the place of religion in public life. This debate grew more charged after France passed a 2011 law explicitly banning face veils from all public spaces and more recently when Mayors in several towns imposed a ban on the burkini.

11. Officially, there's been a decrease in the number of racist incidents. But that might not hold water. The French interior ministry released statistics suggesting a decrease in the number of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim incidents during 2016, as compared to previous years.

While the government took credit for the decrease, some commentators also attribute the improvement to the emergency imposed in the country following the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 people and wounded several others.

12. Fall in the number of reported incidents might be


because the number of previous incidents were relatively high. CCIF insists that the decrease is a result of a very high number of incidents and attacks that had taken place in 2015.

13. There was a six-fold increase in Islamophobia after the Paris attacks. The spike occurred within three months of the attacks, according to the National Observatory of Islamophobia, a group linked to the CCIF.

Anti-Muslim graffiti also showed up in many places. (TRT World and Agencies)

14. Women are often the main targets of bigotry. Around 80 percent of anti-Muslim acts in France are committed against women, said the COE report that was based on a September 2014 visit by COE's human rights commissioner. The visit had taken place prior to the Charlie Hebdo and November 2015 attacks inParis.

15. Chinese community in Paris seeks better protection. The Chinese immigrant community in Paris asked for better police protection after a Chinese tailor was beaten to death. The death called new attention to ethnic tensions in the French capital's suburbs in September 2016.

Demonstrators hold signs at a rally of the Chinese community to raise awareness about recent racists attacks in Paris, France, September 4, 2016. (TRT World and Agencies)

"The people here are angry. We can't feel relaxed in the street, and if we don't even get a basic welcome in the police station people start to wonder," protester 31-year-old Wang Yunzhou said. He was participating in a rally attended by 13,000 people in Paris against a crime wave targeting the Chinese community.

Source: TRTWorld and agencies


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Essays
 Skice za portrete (Sketches for Portraits) A collection of essays and conversations with colleagues and friends, American and international authors ranging from Joseph Brodsky to Bret Easton Ellis.
 Knjizevnost prestupa (Literuture of Transgression) First published in English as a series of essays in James Joyce Quarterly and European Studies Journal, then as doctoral dissertation ( The Fall of Hyperbaton: Parodic and Revisionary Strategies in Bely, Joyce, and Mann,...)
 Prozor u žadu, Prosveta 1994. A book of travel essays about travels through Thailand,The number of adults affected by asthma in the United States has grown dramatically in the past two decades and asthma now affects 14 million adults. Control of asthma is inadequate for many of them, leading to substantial morbidity and economic burden. The primary goal of our proposal is to develop and assess the value of a home-based education and support intervention called HomeBASE (Home-Based Asthma Support and Education) for reducing asthma morbidity among low-income, ethnically diverse adults with asthma ages 18-65. The value of an in-home intervention, while effective among children with asthma and theoretically appealing, has not been assessed among adults. Specifically, the project will test the hypothesis that community health workers providing education and support for self-management of asthma, assessment of the home for environmental


include (1) ensuring community participation in study design, implementation, evaluation and dissemination and (2) and disseminating protocols and tools for program replication should HomeBASE prove successful. The proposal was initiated by and is sponsored by the King County Asthma Forum, the local asthma coalition. It has been developed through existing collaborative relationships among partners who are members of the HomeBASE Steering Committee: people with asthma, private sector clinics and hospitals, community clinics, the local public hospital, the local health department, community-based organizations and the University of Washington. The Community Advisory Group, consisting of people with asthma, has advised on proposal development.In order to promote research in coal technology, energy, and environmental engineering, seven state-of-the-art research laboratories, built at a cost of Rs182 million, were inaugurated by Punjab Minister for Higher Education Syed Raza Ali Gillani at Punjab University Centre for Coal Technology on Wednesday.The labs are equipped with the latest research gadgets worth Rs140 million.Addressing the ceremony, the minister claimed that the government had overcome the energy crisis which the country had been facing since 2013 “as per the commitment to the people”.He added that there was a need to utilise indigenous resources so that Pakistan could benefit from coal power.The minister said that some neighbouring countries were worried by the rapid development in Pakistan. He added students would bring the country forward and must serve the nation


should be calling for Murguia's head as well. But since one is a woman and the other a man do people look at it differently?

Hey, when Billy got impeached, why did he and Hilly get to stay on at the White House using up the Charmin, eating like royalty, hitting the wet bar at will, and just all-round costing taxpayers while carrying on like they owned the damn place?

Because, "Super Dave" and @ 5:21, CLINTON WAS NEVER IMPEACHED! NOR WAS NIXON! NOR WAS JOHNSON!

In all three instances, a "Bill Of Impeachment" was introduced, something roughly equivalent to an Indictment in a Legal Case.

Then, after the House of Representatives vote to act on the Bill, an "Impeachment Trial" is held. If the Officeholder is found guilty, THEN THEY ARElane; Thursday, August 08, 2013, TKC reported an incident involving KCK’s Lady M. In this case, Lady M said she was the victim. The entire court case was a perfect example of the JUST-US league in full force (a league in which Lady M is a card carrying member). The full capabilities of the Unified Crooks were in full force. The party was dragged through the court system, jobs were lost, a record for life was tagged around the neck of yet another citizen of KCK who decided not to kiss the ring of the locally connected high and mighty family member.

While dishing out the daily financial beating from the Unified Crooks to most hardworking tax payers in KCK, it’s perfectly acceptable for the self-righteous group (the chosen


Horace McMahon

Horace McMahon (May 17, 1906 – August 17, 1971) was an American actor. He was one of Hollywood's favorite heavies.

McMahon began his acting career on Broadway, then appeared in many films and television series. In 1962, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the series Naked City (1958–1963).

Early years
McMahon was born in South Norwalk, Connecticut. He became interested in acting when he was a student at Fordham University School of Law.

Career
In his early career he mostly played thugs or jailbirds, but in 1949 he starred in his most acclaimed role, as Lieutenant Monaghan in the drama play Detective Story and in 1951 he reprised his character in Paramount Pictures' film version Detective Story, alongside Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker.

McMahon also starred on television,A British mother has been arrested in south-west France over the death of a five-month-old baby.

The baby is believed to have suffocated at a holiday house in Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle near the Spanish border, the BBC's Hugh Schofield said.

The family involved were believed to be a British couple and their two sons, aged five months and three, he said.

The father got up early on Saturday and returned to the bedroom later to find the baby dead, prosecutors told AFP.

According to French media reports, an autopsy is due to be carried out in the next few days at Bordeaux.

A spokeswoman for the UK Foreign Office said: "We are in contact with local authorities following the arrest of a British national in the south of France."


Services

Bank 'no power' on top London homes

The governor of the Bank of England has admitted it is powerless to control soaring prices of prime property in London.

Mark Carney played down fears of a bubble in the wider market, dismissing suggestions that the coalition's controversial Help to Buy scheme was having a significant effect.

But the governor made clear that when it came to the boom in the most desirable areas of the capital, which many blame for stoking prices elsewhere, the Bank could do little more than "watch".

"The top end of London is driven by cash buyers," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show. "It's driven in many cases by foreign buyers.

"We as the central bank can't influence that. We change underwriting standards - it doesn't matter, there's notcountry", and the wider market was seeing an "adjustment from very low levels".

Prices relative to income were still below their peak "even in the hottest parts".

"But we have to be very conscious and we are very conscious of the history, the economic history in Britain, and there is a history of boom and subsequent bust in the housing market," he said.

"That's one of the reasons why the Bank of England has been given additional powers and one of the reasons, as of last November, we started to use those powers.

"So we've tightened up on underwriting standards, we've tightened up on capital standards, we've taken away special stimulus programmes that existed before."

In November the Bank and the Treasury announced that financial institutions would no longer be able to use


were an avid birder and were dropped unaware into this scene, you would know this was the island of Pohnpei, because the Pohnpei lorikeet lives here and nowhere else. There was something magical in that, something so specific to place, very much like the stories we would hear in the coming days.

Eventually Leinson and I said goodbye to the chief. I had promised Bill that I would join him for dinner and _sakau_ that evening in Kolonia. Sunday, in the early afternoon, I would meet Leinson back in Enpein.

"I will ask some people about stories," he said.

"How will I find you?" I asked, as he didn't have a computer or cell phone, or even a land line. He waved his hands in the air. "It's a small village.Human Costs of War and Violence

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For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat, reports Cord Jefferson January 27, 2011 on www.good.ir. Excluding accidents and illness, 462 soldiers died in combat, while 468 committed suicide. Veterans who, after serving, suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are also at high risk. The study showed that 47 percent of veterans with PTSD had thoughts of suicide before they found help. The internal anguish a soldier experiences after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can be far more severe than that experienced during live external combat.

More than 2 million troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Those who do return often suffer from


physical, psychological, and cognitive trauma. More than 40 per 100,000 men from the ages of 20 to 24 take their lives each year. Some deaths, which are not part of these statistics, are due to driving while under the influence of alcohol consumed due to depression. In 2008, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were 75 percent more likely to die in a car accident and 148 percent more likely to die in a motorcycle accident. By making the calculations of 40 per 100,000 per year the numbers of veteran suicides reaches into the tens of thousands nationwide since the beginning of the 9/11 wars.

In 2009, there were 381 military personnel suicides , a number that also exceeded the number of combat deaths. While the military has acknowledged an increaseunder this program. When the program was challenged in a New York City court, the judge refused to rule, saying, “there are circumstances in which the executive’s decision to kill U.S. citizens overseas is constitutionally committed to the political branches and judicially unreviewable.”
A moral, ethical, and legal analysis of assassinations seems to be significantly lacking inside corporate media. The unquestioned announcement that the Obama administration has authorized assassinations of supposed terrorists, including US citizens, was on the front page of the Washington Post, January 27, 2010, by Dana Priest (4)

“After the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush gave the CIA, and later the military, authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out terrorist actions against the United States


In addition, the extrajudicial execution of U.S. citizens by the United States government also violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution mandating that no person “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

There is no corporate media-drawn correlation between the US policy of presidential assassinations and the on-ground troop engagement in outrageous human rights violations, which was made public when the German magazine Der Spiegel released images of smiling US soldiers kneeling next to naked children they had just massacred. The soldiers not only took the village children’s lives but also ripped out their teeth and fingertips to keep as keepsakes along with pictures of themselves holding the dead bodies up by their hair. Jeremy Morlock one of the soldiers in thatgroup who participated in these incidents has agreed to negotiate his declaration against his colleagues and superiors, to reduce his sentence for the murders. This group of soldiers referred to themselves as “Team Death.”

Luke Mogelson from the New York Times covered the trial of Jeremy Morlock May 1, 2011: (6)

In a military courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash., 22-year-old Jeremy Morlock confessed to participating in the premeditated murder of Mullah Allah Dad, as well as the murders of two other Afghan civilians. In exchange for his agreement to testify against four other soldiers charged in the crimes, including the supposed ringleader, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, the government reduced Morlock’s mandatory life sentence to 24 years, with the possibility of parole after approximately 8. The rest of


that country.

Concern is being voiced by groups such as the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, which monitor the military use of DU anti-tank and bunker-penetrating shells.

As of late March, 2011, the US has not introduced its A-10 Thunderbolts, known also as Warthogs, into the Libyan campaign, probably because these sub-sonic, straight-wing craft, while heavily armored, are vulnerable to shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles which Libyan forces are known to possess in large numbers. Once the air-control situation is improved by continued bombardment, however, these specialized ground-attack aircraft will probably be added to the attacking forces. The A-10 has a particularly large automatic cannon, which fires an unusually large 30 mm shell. These shells are often fitted with solid uranium projectiles.

American Military Creating An Environmental Disaster In Afghan Countryside

American Militaryhe did, Bishop.”

“But your Great-uncle Tom is still alive in Atlanta.”

“Yes, that’s absolutely true.”

Before he was finished, Bishop Hardt had not only correctly identified the names and ages of about 15 Mays relatives, but he also knew precisely where they lived and what they were up to.

I walked away feeling like the woman at the well who told her friends that Jesus had revealed everything she’d ever done.

Over the years, Bishop Hardt would tell me many stories about Atlanta. He would visit us at Northaven UMC for worship now and then. He seemed proud of what we were doing there and that I had become a United Methodist minister.

This was because John Wesley Hardt knew the whole story. The whole story of how I ever became a United


Methodist minister. As I said, like the woman at the well …

Family Mystery Solved

Sometime later, we made a date to get together, and he told me more stories of Atlanta and details of the Mays family. He remembered the Mays Supercash Grocery Store, which my grandfather Sam and his older brother Abe had taken over from their father, Samuel “Ches” Mays.

It had been something of a mystery as to how my grandfather, the second boy born in the family, got the name Sam and not his older brother, Abe.

Bishop Hardt knew. And, as I said, told the story of how I got to be a United Methodist minister.

To hear Bishop Hardt tell it, Ches Mays, my great-grandfather, was the hard-living owner of the town bar.

One day, Ches decidedfor never telling me.

She got quiet.

Then it hit me why she’d never told me. Because Abe’s story ends in tragedy.

By all accounts, Abe, who was mayor of Atlanta for awhile, was a gregarious, larger-than-life guy. But he and Sam were being audited by the IRS. There were rumors, later confirmed by Bishop Hardt, that the audit was a maneuver by political rivals, designed to bring scorn and embarrassment to the Mayses.

Although the IRS audit was resolved, Abe took it hard and committed suicide in the early 1960s, around the time I was born. The grocery store closed by the time I was 6 or 7.

Which is why, despite Ches Mays’ conversion that changed the course of his family, it sort of feels like the end of the story


heard, to cousins I never see.

Then hours later, I hear that Bishop Hardt had died.

Surreal.

We took the picture at the top of this article at the end of the night.

Ches Mays’ life was hard. Abe Mays’ life ended harshly.

But you can draw a straight line between the story that Bishop John Wesley Hardt told me and the fortunes of every single person in this family picture. We are where we are today because of the events in that story John Wesley Hardt remembered and passed on to us. Or rather, the story he gave back to us.

For this, I will be eternally grateful for the life of John Wesley Hardt.

The Rev. Eric Folkerth is pastor of Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas.unusual because dust clouds typically obscure the basin floor. Indeed, this region seems to be covered by a thick blanket of dust.

The larger of the two craters is about 25 km across. A flow of material appears to have been transported from the top left of the scene and into the crater. Zooming in to the smooth mound and the area immediately around it reveals interesting textures that likely resulted from this flow.

Flow features are also seen outside of the craters, and in particular, at the center left of the image near the top of the frame. Material also seems to have cascaded from the larger crater’s rim and into a neighboring smaller crater, at the far left of the image.

The morphology of many features in the Hellas


In 2006, Italian author and journalist Roberto Saviano published Gomorrah, an exposé of the organised crime network Camorra; since then he has had to live under police protection. The book was adapted for the big screen in 2008 and for TV in 2014. Other works include ZeroZeroZero, an investigation into the cocaine trade; his new novel, The Piranhas, a story about children’s gangs in Naples, is published on 20 September by Picador.

How did you get the idea for this novel?

It was such a powerful news story: children who suddenly became mafia leaders. Mafias have always employed muschilli – little mosquitoes – in minor roles. But for a few years, in Naples, kids aged between 10 and 19 were in charge: they decided the drug deals, the money laundering,Image copyright Getty Images

Legislation key to US President Barack Obama's trade agenda has been approved by the US Senate, just two weeks after it appeared to have failed.

The bill known as the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), or more commonly "fast-track", makes it easier for presidents to negotiate trade deals.

Supporters see it as critical to the success of a 12-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The 60-38 vote was the product of rare Republican-White House collaboration.

The bill now awaits Mr Obama's signature.

The authority means that Congress may only vote up or down on finalised trade agreements, not amend them.

The Obama administration and many business organisations say the legislation is necessary so that trade negotiators can win lower trade barriers for US-made goods on international markets.

This fast-track bill


Times

The Bridgewater is a couch design that's primarily informal and certainly comfy. This design is the darling of numerous a designer because you can use it to create a casual, pleasant room. Bridgewater couches are versatile, depending on the furniture you select. Completed in a neutral material, this style of sofa doesnt contend with additional factors in the room which may be much more dramatic, such as artwork or any other large features. Much more formal material will yield a more stately type of couch. Numerous characteristics differentiate Bridgewater couches: Typically they have low arms along with a higher back, which plays a role in the casual look. Most also have a customized dress that hides the legs and loose cushions for the chair and back. This specificby those who lived at least 2 years longer. It also focused on how those purchases changed over time. The results reveal increased trends in old people's purchases of medicines in an era when community care arrangements have become considerably commoner in Finland. Purchases of medicine were studied for the 2 years prior to death among those who died (decedents) at the age of 70 or older in the years 2002, 2006 and 2011, and for the same period among old people who lived for at least 2 years after 2002, 2006 and 2011 (survivors). The detailed research questions were as follows: (1) How did the proportions of purchasers and the types of medicine purchased differ between decedents and survivors? (2) How did these differences change between the years 2002, 2006


COCTEL study design, see Forma ([@CR11]).

In this study, the groups of decedents for the years 2002, 2006 and 2011 were compared with the groups of survivors for each year. In the original COCTEL data, the number of decedents and survivors was 29,337 in 2002, 32,140 in 2006 and 34,036 in 2011. Community-dwelling people were identified among these and selected for this study, since purchases of medicines by people living in institutions are not registered. The identification was made using data from the Care Register for Healthcare and the Care Register for Social Welfare (both maintained by the National Institute for Health and Welfare), which are linked to each person in the COCTEL data. First, as the register data do not explicitly count days at home, old people whoalso his career.

Kalayjian, the chief resident at a hospital in New Jersey three years ago, has since dedicated himself professionally to making others fit. By February or March, the Palisades resident will open a practice in Tappan.

And there’s humor in the site he has chosen.

“I wanted the formerly obese weight-loss doctor to change the previous chocolate store into a weight-loss practice,” he said.

Early heavy years

Kalayjian, who lost 80 pounds in a year without exercise by severely restricting his intake of carbohydrates and limiting the hours he ate, wasn’t a guy who’d never had a weight problem and suddenly found himself fat.

He was 5-foot-6 and 200 pounds at the start of high school. By the end, he was 5-10 and the same 200.

At 15, he decided to lose weight


to help himself. And he decided to study medicine after high school to help his family. Many members were obese — some suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure.

He ran cross-country his senior year at Tappan Zee (class of 2001), and that, along with other exercise, helped keep his weight down. But he links his actual high school weight drop more to a diet he now scoffs at as unhealthy and unsustainable.

Kalayjian fasted for a month, then followed a super strict vegan diet.

“(I was) kind of anorexic,” he said

But after high school, he stopped exercising and returned to previous eating habits, which he defends to some extent as mirroring recommendations. He consumed oatmeal, rice, whole grains and lots of fruit.

He also did this around six times a day.

Kalayjianold. Moreover, just 8% was more than five years old—an amount in line with what would typically be held in reserve for add-on acquisitions or follow-on investments.

Investors found plenty of debt available to ride in tandem with their equity stakes. Particularly strong was the market for speculative debt, including leveraged buyouts (LBOs), motivated by the search for higher yield. Spreads on leveraged loans and high-yield bonds spiked early in the year but quickly returned to their new normal lows as markets stabilized. And as another sign of the hunt for yield, the majority of leveraged loans continued to be covenant lite. Limited restrictions on the debt-service capabilities of the borrower showed that plenty of investors were willing to trade away traditional debt protections in order to gain extra


rate is heavily influenced by bilateral trade.

Cross-pollination investing. The organizations inside PE firms often compartmentalize along lines of industry, sector or geography, with little collaboration or communication across the lines. Yet some firms have bet on success begetting success, taking investment theses that work well in one geography or market and playing them out in other areas.

Actis, for example, has made multiple investments in education across different regions. In 2008, it acquired Ambow Education in China, then listed Ambow on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010. Another Chinese deal emerged in 2011 when Actis bought EIC, the largest firm in the Chinese overseas education counseling market. Based on these initial investments, Actis took its expertise to Brazil. There, in 2012, it spent $102 million to take aundermanaged asset during a down cycle of the aluminum market, having identified potential savings of €50 million in operating expenses in diligence. To capture the savings, Apollo undertook a deep transformation project to improve Constellium’s cost base, with an emphasis on procurement. At the time of acquisition, Constellium’s purchasing operated in silos, with each business unit having its own purchasing team and with very limited bulk purchasing. Apollo identified the major cost reduction opportunities by purchasing category, set cost reduction targets and measured progress, and it redesigned the purchasing organization while developing a new performance-oriented culture. By 2013, the aluminum market h


Courtois: If Bale wasn't committed he wouldn't have played so well on Saturday Real Madrid vs PSG Sure of the Welshman's desire to play

Thibaut Courtois has no doubts about Gareth Bale's commitment to Real Madrid.

The Welshman caused a stir with his antics during the recent international break, but the Madrid goalkeeper is confident that the No.11 is focused on the job at hand for his club, just as much as he is with his country.

"He loves his country," Courtois told the press ahead of the Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain.

"That's not a problem.

"I know Gareth and he's 100 percent committed every day.

"He's a professional and he takes care of himself. We saw how he played when he came on on Saturday.

"He almost scored and if he wasn't"Car bomb defused in County Fermanagh on Sat 23rd March.

"Target was hotel hosting G8 summit in June.

"Photos are of mortar bomb deployed in Belfast on March 15.

"Target was News Barnsley PSNI station Belfast."

The coded statement ends: "Oglaigh Na hEireann (ONH) Belfast."

By specifically referring to the hotel where Barack Obama, David Cameron, Vladimir Putin, François Hollande and the other leaders of the world's most powerful nations are staying, ONH has raised the security stakes before the G8 meeting on 17 June.

The five-star Lough Erne complex in Enniskillen, opened in 2007, is located on a 600-acre peninsula between Castle Hume Lough and Lower Lough Erne. Security was already expected to be tight for the visit of presidents and prime ministers to Fermanagh.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has recently


itself the new IRA, claimed in Monday's statement that the Lough Erne hotel complex was the target.

Both ONH and the new IRA have been attempting to intensify their attacks on the security forces, mainly the PSNI, and other strategic targets in recent weeks. Earlier this month two men were arrested after police intercepted a van carrying four mortar bombs which were primed and ready to fire at a police station in Derry city. In the same month a mortar device similar to the one in the photograph sent to the Guardian was found close to New Barnsley police station on the loyalist side of the sectarian dividing line in west Belfast.

Another ONH terror attack this month using a booby trap bomb that was to be triggered by aINTRODUCTION
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A 21-year-old man was admitted with a 24-hour history of right iliac fossa abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. There was no history of diarrhoea or weight loss, and no family history of inflammatory bowel disease. He described a one-year history of right iliac fossa pain, colicky in nature, lasting for three to four days at a time and recurring every three months. This was his second hospital admission, the first episode settling with conservative management. On retrospective questioning he denied any symptoms suggestive of carcinoid syndrome.

On examination he was apyrexic with rebound tenderness in


Javier Hernandez and Giovani dos Santos are both on Mexico's preliminary squad. Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images

Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio named El Tri's 40-player preliminary squad list for this summer's Copa America in the United States on Monday, with no real surprises jumping out.

Veteran Rafa Marquez's place had been in some doubt after a less-than-impressive season with Atlas, but the former Barcelona player has made the first cut, with the final 23-player squad set to be announced on May 20.

All of Mexico's most prominent Europe-based players are involved, including Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez, Carlos Vela and Guillermo Ochoa, although there was no place for Olympiakos striker Alan Pulido.

LA Galaxy forward Giovani dos Santos hasn't featured yet for El Tri under Osorio and hasn't played a game for Mexico since lastsummer's Gold Cup, but he was included by the Colombian.

Of those eligible as under-23 players for the Olympics in August, Raul Lopez (Chivas), Carlos Salcedo (Chivas), Rodolfo Pizarro (Pachuca), Orbelin Pineda (Pachuca), Jesus "Tecatito" Corona (Porto) and Hirving Lozano (Pachuca) will be available should Osorio decide to pick them for the Copa America.

Mexico is in Group C of the Copa America Centenario, alongside Jamaica, Uruguay and Venezuela. The squad opens its campaign against Uruguay in Phoenix on June 5.

Here is Mexico's preliminary 40-player squad in full:

Goalkeepers: Alfredo Talavera (Toluca), Jesus Corona (Cruz Azul), Guillermo Ochoa (Malaga), Alejandro Palacios (Pumas), Jonathan Orozco (Monterrey)

Defenders: Paul Aguilar (Club America), Israel Jimenez (Tigres), Raul Lopez (Chivas), Nestor Araujo (Santos Laguna), Diego Reyes (Porto), Hector Moreno (PSV) Yasser Corona (Queretaro), Carlos Salcedo (Chivas),


Jorge Torres Nilo (Tigres), Jose Rivas (Tigres), Miguel Layun (Porto), Rafa Marquez (Atlas)

Midfielders: Jesus Molina (Santos Laguna), Jose Juan Vazquez (Leon), Jesus Duenas (Tigres), Rodolfo Pizarro (Pachuca), Andres Guardado (PSV), Jonathan dos Santos (Villarreal), Hector Herrera (Porto), Elias Hernandez (Leon), Carlos Pena (Chivas), Marco Fabian (Eintracht Frankfurt), Jurgen Damm (Tigres), Hirving Lozano (Pachuca), Orbelin Pineda (Chivas), Isaac Brizuela (Chivas), Javier Aquino (Tigres), Candido Ramirez (Monterrey)

Forwards: Carlos Vela (Real Sociedad), Giovani dos Santos (L.A. Galaxy), Javier Hernandez (Bayer Leverkusen), Raul Jimenez (Benfica), Oribe Peralta (Club America), Eduardo Herrera (Pumas), Jesus Corona (Porto)actual Scholastic Assessment Test scores and Grade Point Averages would be obtained did not affect the accuracy of self-report. In addition, later participants significantly over-reported their scores, and significantly more women than men and more first-year than senior-year subjects participated in the early group.


The discovery of the world's oldest biological colour could help explain why it took 4 billion years for animal life to form on Earth.

International research led by the Australian National University (ANU) has resulted in the discovery of a 1.1-billion-year-old colour — the oldest in geological record.

It is more than 500 million years older than previous pigment discoveries and was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The molecular fossils were originally green, but range from blood red to deep purple in their concentrated form, and are bright pink when diluted.

The molecular fossils were originally green and are bright pink when diluted. ( Supplied: ANU )

They were extracted from rocks that were discovered buried deep beneath the Sahara Desert in Africa and were taken frommarine black shales of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania.

The rocks were crushed in powder before extracting molecules from them with organic solvents to produce oil.

The oil they found was pink.

How can this be the world's oldest colour?

Everything has a colour and colours go back to the beginning of time.

What these researchers have found is the oldest physical colour — a biological pigment. It is a molecule that had a biological colour more than a billion years ago and still has one today.\

One of the researchers said it was like finding dinosaur fossils that still kept the colour of the animal.

"Imagine you would find fossilised dinosaur skin that after 100 million years was still iridescent green or blue," Jochen Brocks, an earth scientist at ANU, said.

"Then you really would


using a "unique" combination of incentives, regulation and market forces.

"We're using probably all the tools in the toolbox to address the problem," she says.

She recently visited Europe to examine its system. Many acknowledge it is far from perfect. The price of carbon credits dropped to virtually nothing after the EU handed them out far too generously, critics say.

"Europe will admit that in their trial period the market collapsed - we went to find out why, to avoid the same mistakes," she says.

Applying pressure

While California's law has yet to be implemented fully, it is already being used as a template for nationwide action that American environmentalists hope will turn their country from a laggard on climate change, to a leader.

Fabian Nunez, the speaker of California's state parliament, says thatglobal warming

Fabian Nunez

speaker of California's state parliament

The speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has pulled together a raft of different measures, being considered by 11 different congressional committees, under the banner of "energy independence".

Many of the measures - which include new energy efficiency standards for appliances, increased use of ethanol to power vehicles, and long-term financial incentives for renewable power - tie in with President Bush's call to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

But they are also explicitly presented as a way of combating climate change, in language - "requiring federal government operations to be carbon-neutral by 2050", for instance - that could not have emerged from the White House or the previous Republican-led Congress.

Senator Barbara Boxer has taken over the Environment and Public Works Committee


from Republican James Inhofe, who memorably declared global warming to be "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people".

She has approved efforts by two senators to produce a bill, along the lines of California's AB32 law, which would introduce a greenhouse gas emissions cap and trade system nationwide.

It is expected within months.

President Bush has recently changed tack on climate change, saying in May that he wanted America to be part of a global deal, and inviting the world's heaviest emitters for talks.

The move was welcomed by some, including Britain's leader at the time, Tony Blair, as a significant change of attitude.

Environmentalists, however, said it was a "delaying tactic", and that the US would only make a real impact on climate change when there was a change atDe la Rosa not sure of Sauber seat for Valencia(GMM) Pedro de la Rosa has revealed he has "no idea" if he will be called up by Sauber to race on the streets of Valencia this weekend.

The veteran Spaniard, who is McLaren's reserve driver, was called up at the last minute in Canada almost two weeks ago when Sauber regular Sergio Perez fell ill after Friday morning practice.

Sauber managing director Monisha Kaltenborn this week then said that although Mexican rookie Perez, 21, is now fully recovered from his Monaco qualifying crash, 40-year-old de la Rosa is once again on standby.

"I am being constantly asked if I'm going to race in this (European) grand prix, and actually I don't have the faintest idea," said de la Rosa on Wednesday.

"I


levels of government" are pushing to end France's three-year hiatus since Magny Cours stopped hosting its annual event.

We reported on June 7 that the most likely venue for a reinstated French grand prix is Paul Ricard at Le Castellet, a circuit with close links to F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.

At the same time, the Journal du Dimanche said French PM Francois Fillon has appointed countryman and Renault team boss Eric Boullier to help with the efforts to organize the event.

"It's true that I have put together a team," the L'Equipe sports daily quoted Fillon as having told the Var Matin newspaper on Tuesday.

"It (the team) is led in particular by one of my former colleagues Gilles Dufeigneux, working with the French motor sport federation, the FIA and alsoEric Boullier and the director of Le Castellet, Gerard Neveu," confirmed the prime minister.

The last grand prix at Le Castellet, which has since been redeveloped as the Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track, was won by Alain Prost in 1990 before the French event moved to Magny Cours.

Paul Ricard location

Button to mark 200th grand prix in Hungary(GMM) Jenson Button intends to celebrate his 200th grand prix next month in Hungary, the scene of his first formula one race win in 2006.

F1's official website lists the 2009 world champion as having "entered" 198 grands prix, meaning his double centenary could technically be marked at his home event at Silverstone.

But the typical practice is for the sport to only count grands prix that drivers actually start.

Button, 31, did not start