cavorting with the Misfits and performing with a punk band called Satan’s Cheerleaders during the 1980s when she was in her sixties. At one point Nurmi got into some legal disputes stemming from the rights to Vampira’s image including one lawsuit Nurmi launched against Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson for ripping off her Vampira image, which was dismissed. Despite this, Nurmi’s “Vampira” character continues to endure since she conceived of her over 60 years ago. She was played by Lisa Marie in Tim Burton’s film, Ed Wood.

Somewhat rather underappreciated during her time, Maila Nurmi was lovingly profiled in the 2012 documentary Vampira and Me which featured newly restored kinoscopes of her TV appaearances. Some of the photos that follow (though tame) might be slightly NSFW because, bikinis.

Charles Addams cartoon drawnhow did he disguise the blimp?" "Remember how every time the griffin appeared, it was foggy?" "The blimp generated its own concealing fog bank." "I noticed some of the bottles in Marlon's workshop were marked glycerol." "A chemical used by professional illusionists in fog machines." "I used the fog to hide the blimp then worked the griffin through this handheld animatronics control." "What about when the griffin attacked us in the tower?" "It couldn't have been the same puppet." "It wasn't." "After Whirlen bought the castle, I started renovating the Griffin's Roost." "I discovered Lord O' Flannery had rigged parts of the tower with devices of his own to make superstitious people think a monster lived there." "When trespassers entered the tower they would be driven away by


an overarching brand color story that pairs explosive colors such as Sport Fuschia, Bright Mandarin, Electro Green and Vivid Sky against neutrals for a disruptive look. The 20 Nike athletes in the field will wear this bright color palette against the Wisconsin backdrop of Erin Hills.

Here is a head-to-toe look at what McIlroy and Day will wear on each day of the tournament:

Day will wear the Nike Classic 99 hat in black and white, the Zonal Cooling MM Fly Blade polo in Sport Fuschia, Wolf Grey, Black and Chlorine Blue, the Flex pant and the Nike Lunar Command footwear during each day of the tournament.

Jason Day is not shy when rooting for his adopted hometown team to bring another championship to the state of Ohio. Wearing a NikeLunar Command PE for the first round of The Memorial, the shoe shows his support for the defending champions.

Living in Ohio, Day has become friends with fellow Nike Athlete J.R. Smith who, in addition to being a tremendous athlete on the court, is also a stick on the golf course. Day also gave Smith, who plays to a single digit handicap, a pair of the Lunar Command PE which he will get some good use wearing after he wraps up his season and gets back on the links.

Inspired by Michael Jordan’s feline quickness on the court, the Air Jordan 13 Golf shoe honors MJ’s love for the links by reimagining a true court classic for the course.

Drawing direct inspiration from the Air Jordan XIII basketball shoe, the Air


max orange Lunar Control Vapors as indicated in his Saturday scripting, and that both Rory and Jason Day wore special “PE” shoes during the tournament. Here are some details on them.

Rory McIlroy

This Nike Lunar Control Vapor PE that was created for Rory McIlroy boasts a multi-color iridescent outsole. The unique TPU tread features a protruding series of tooth-like tracks, allowing for maximum traction and continuous engagement with the ground as weight shifts from heel to toe.

Jason Day

This Air Zoom TW71 was designed for Jason Day’s final round in Augusta. The all-black upper matches his head-to-toe black look for the day, while the iridescent gold plate on the outsole and Swoosh were inspired by the medal given to the winner of the tournament.

The Air Zoom TW71 features midfoot lockdownof whale sightings, reducing ship speeds, and changing shipping lanes result in significantly fewer fatal vessel strikes. Still, their depleted population means more must be done to prevent collisions.

When it comes to protecting right whales from entanglement, however, the road is fraught. Despite the efforts of NOAA and the fishing industry, entanglement in fishing gear remains the primary cause of right whale mortality, accounting for 72 percent of diagnosed deaths.

The presence of over 600,000 vertical lines in the migratory path of the right whales means the risk of entanglement is constantly high. An entangled whale is essentially laden with hundreds of pounds of rope and gear, resulting in chronic suffering as the ropes cut deeply into their skin, weighing them down and preventing them from swimming, diving or


The current and future impact of climate change on water availability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya is a great concern, and is important to understand for better planning of water resources. Hydrological models provide insight into different parts of

When parasitic mushroom spores infect the larvae of ghost moths living in Himalayan soil, a thin fingerlike fungus bursts from the head of the dead caterpillar and sets off an annual gold rush in mountain communities.

Policy makers, experts, and practitioners from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) converged at a symposium held on the side lines of the 10th INTECOL International Wetland Conference in Changshu, China, from 19–24 September 2016.

Atmospheric composition in Nepal is changing, notably more rapidly over the last decade due to increasing emission of air pollutants and greenhousegases both inside and outside the country. Air pollution has reached hazardous level in many parts of

Approximately 45 national and international experts on the Upper Indus Basin and media persons will observe glacier monitoring stations, hydrological stations, and weather stations installed by the Pakistan Meteorological Department, Water and Power


Fox Film Chief Stacey Snider Tries to Calm the Troops After Disney Deal

"People are subdued and stunned," said one Fox film executive.

Under normal circumstances, 20th Century Fox Film chairman-CEO Stacey Snider would have been in Washington on Thursday for the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's The Post, the Pentagon Papers drama starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks.

But Snider canceled the trip in order to speak with anxious executives following the official announcement that Disney intends to buy big parts of 21st Century Fox, including the film studio, which includes Fox proper, Fox 2000 and Fox Searchlight. The $52.3 billion acquisition, which must now be approved by regulators, would dramatically alter the Hollywood studio landscape by ending the decades-long rule of the six major studios — Disney, Fox, Paramount,Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. — and reducing the number to five.

Fox's film empire, rocked to the core by news of the proposed marriage, could become a production entity within the Disney stable alongside Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and Pixar, all run by Disney Studios chief Alan Horn, who also oversees Disney's live-action studio and Disney Animation, in addition to its various silos.

Snider, whose future post-merger is in question, convened a series of smaller meetings with staff. On the television side, Peter Rice, president of 21st Century Fox and chairman-CEO of Fox Networks Group, held several town halls.

"People are subdued and stunned," said a staffer attending one of the sessions with Snider, who said she would hold office hours all day if anyone wanted to talk privately. A human


Deadpool.

While the exec didn't discuss the future of specific Fox executives, he said: "I've always been impressed with them as competitors."

One insider said Snider urged the troops to "keep the faith," and that it is business as usual until the merger closes 12 to 18 months from now. "Those are the marching orders," the person said.

Yet if a merger goes through, there are destined to be major layoffs on the marketing and distribution side, since Disney doesn't need redundant operations.

"If you're on the production side, you might be okay," said another Fox insider. "Everyone else, not so much."

At the first of the town hall meetings organized by Rice, employees working across the various television divisions were likewise told the merger approval could take 12 to 18 months, althoughNot only did the powers-that-be like my poetic copy, they also liked my voice-over work and decided to use both in both ads and the fact is… the rest is history! – jo

Johnny Olson was born in Chicago, Illinois on a cold November day in 1970. He found his feet and cut his teeth in the diverse, blue-collared neighborhoods of his hometown. In 1988 he was reborn in California; where he found himself a new title: United States Marine. After surviving a brief, yet violent war (Desert Storm), he hung up his cammies and rifle to instead grab his pen and notepad where he found his passion for writing. In 1998 he found himself in Dallas, Texas, where what was supposed to be a brief stint in the


South turned into a decade and a half…and counting.

In 1999, Johnny, with a couple of other mad cohorts, started Mad Swirl. This project has now evolved into a being all its' own. After wearing too many hats for too many years, he now only wears a few at Mad Swirl: chief editor, webmaster, and host at Mad Swirl's monthly Open Mic night.

Johnny’s work first appeared in print in 1996 in the now defunct Lip Magazine. Since then, his words and images have found their way onto a few online and printed zines thru the years. To name a few: Mad Swirl: Issues I-VI, Haggard and Halloo, 10k Poets, PAO Productions: The Open Mic Project.accepted into the study on a first come, first served basis. One family dropped out of the study after completing only four intervention sessions due to enrollment in an intensive, center-based program; whereas another family completed all 12 intervention sessions, but terminated during follow-up because of serious health issues. Both families\' data were included in analyses when available. Thus, eight out of the nine families originally enrolled completed intervention; whereas seven families completed follow-up.

Families represented middle-class status, all with established Internet connections from their homes and a laptop or computer and web-camera already available for participation. All but one parent was married and were Caucasian with the exception of one Hispanic parent. Out of the nine children, only one was female, and all families lived in various states


including California, North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, and Pennsylvania. All families had very little access to additional early intervention services, generally involving only one hour each of speech and occupational therapy per week. One child had been receiving up to 13 hours per-week of intervention delivered in the family\'s home for three months prior to starting the study. His parents and in-home therapist were extremely concerned about the child\'s lack of progress and had ceased participation with the prior intervention at the start of the study. Children\'s average age at the beginning of treatment was 28.89 months (SD = 7.64, range 16 to 38 months). Six children were diagnosed with autism and 3 were diagnosed with PDD-NOS as assessed by licensed professionals in the families\' community. These evaluations alsoaddressed by the end of the study, all eight parents felt reassured and perceived the distance coaching as informative and as valuable as live in-home or center-based sessions delivered by professionals. Six parents identified the video examples on the DVD as more useful teaching aids than the reading handouts; whereas the other three parents noted that weekly video conferencing plus DVD learning model was interactive, helpful, and easier to use than first anticipated. All parents described some degree of frustration when using the video conferencing program, such as the Internet connection freezing in mid-conversation or the audio or web-camera not working when first connecting with the therapist; however, they thought the therapist quickly helped them resolve the problems. Interestingly, parents did not mention having to move the laptop


al. \[[@B51]\], which demonstrated that parents approached fidelity approximately halfway through the center-based program and maintained their skills throughout the same follow-up period. The fact that parents were successful in learning similar content at a distance may support the use of telehealth for making services more accessible to families without necessarily compromising the quality of intervention to be taught.

As parents\' fidelity improved, their interaction styles also changed with increased ratings of attentiveness, responsiveness, sensitivity, and enthusiasm to their children\'s needs and communicative behaviors. It was encouraging that telehealth did not disrupt or interfere with parents\' style of relating to or caring for their children and supports earlier work that children\'s developmental outcomes are closely tied to parenting behaviors \[[@B29]\]. Parents also reported high satisfaction with the DVD learningchildren\'s joint engagement, social interest, and shared positive affect increased over time in concert with parental behaviors. Children appeared to relate to their parents as social partners, constructing mutually enjoyable activities rather than maintaining interest only in the objects used during play. These ratings appeared moderately correlated with the gains in words and imitation over time, supporting parents\' ability to create teachable moments at home.

Finally, parents reported substantial growth in their children\'s development, noting comprehension and use of language and gestures as the primary gains. It is important to mention that all child changes occurred relative to stable baseline measures of behavior over time and without direct intervention or coaching from the therapist suggests the feasibility of telehealth delivery for improving parent and child behaviors in a short


Cab Driver Ill Informed For Banning Guide Dog

Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from the Muslim News, United Kingdom, November 24, 2006: www.muslimnews.co.uk

A senior Muslim scholar has said mini-cab driver Abdul Rasheed Majekodunmi, who refused to allow a guide dog in his car because it would breach Islamic law, was "ill-informed" about Islam.

Last month, Majekodunmi was fined 200 pounds and told to pay 1,200 for costs under the Disability Discrimination Act for refusing to carry out the booking.

He picked up Jane Vernon, a legal officer at the RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind), in west London. She later said the incident in October 2005 made her feel like "a second-class citizen."

Chair of the inter faith relations committee of the Muslim Council of Britain Shaykh Ibrahim Mogranot as good against right-handed hitters (a 150-point differential in opponent batting average and over 300 point differential in On-base plus slugging (OPS)). Diekman improved his control, which made him a presumptive member of the 2014 bullpen, as he was one of 2013's "lone bright spots" for the otherwise dismal Phillies' bullpen. Ultimately, he did make the Phillies' opening day roster as a member of the bullpen.

Early in the season, Diekman emerged as a reliable reliever in the Phillies' bullpen, and was used extensively by manager Ryne Sandberg. As the season progressed, Diekman was more successful against left-handed hitters than right-handed hitters, but was used against both in a variety of situations. On September 1, 2014, Diekman was one of four pitchers who combined for a no-hitter in


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Walk the Line

A young Johnny Cash, growing up in Depression-era Arkansas, loves listening to music on the radio with his older brother, Jack. The boys’ sharecropper dad, whose days consist of hard toil in the cotton fields, doesn’t see the point of music at all, though. And he clearly favors Jack. So when Jack is accidentally killed, the grief-stricken father indirectly blames Johnny.

Johnny grows up and joins the Air Force, where he teaches himself to play guitar and begins to write songs of heartache and despair. He marries a girl he barely knows, Vivian,and moves to Memphis, Tenn., to make his mark in music. It’s a fertile time to be in that city. Along with other up-and-coming musicians creating a new sound—including Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison—Johnny signs a contract with Sun Records and becomes a music star. The price? A relentless touring schedule that leads Cash to start popping pills just to keep up. All that time away from home also starts to put a strain on his marriage.

That strain sets the stage for what happens when he meets June Carter (of the legendary Carter Family gospel singers). There’s an instant attraction between the two, but she’s just coming out of a bad divorce, and he’s still married to Vivian. Commercial success and a growing


successful, several scenes show groupies coming backstage to meet him, and in one instance Johnny kisses the girl as the camera cuts away, implying that sex is to follow. Johnny’s wife complains that fan mail from girls is “obscene” and often contains pictures of them in their bathing suits.

Johnny tries to kiss June at her hotel room door, and there’s considerable sexual tension between them over the course of their 10 years of touring together. They finally end up in bed together with him in a T-shirt and her in a camisole. (Incidentally, for years they insisted that they never slept together while touring. But as this film was being written, they finally confessed that they gave in to temptation that one time in Las Vegas.)

Violent Content

While highon amphetamines Johnny tears up his dressing room in a fit of rage. An argument with Vivian turns physical, with her slapping at him; he pins her to the ground and shouts into her face and seems ready to strike her before his children’s cries stop him. June angrily throws empty beer bottles at Johnny and band mates.

June’s dad threatens a drug dealer with a shotgun. We see Johnny’s brother dying in bed wrapped in bloody bandages. Johnny watches a movie that features a fight scene in Folsom Prison. One of the band members constructs a homemade bomb as a prank, and he blows a limb off a tree with it. In a drunken rage Johnny drives a tractor into a lake. In a flashback, Johnny and Jack’s


dad threatens to beat them if they don’t turn off the radio and go to bed.

Crude or Profane Language

One f-word. Two s-words. And a handful of other, milder crudities. God's and Jesus’ names are abused once each. A musician contemptuously refers to “n-gger” music.

Drug and Alcohol Content

Johnny became addicted to uppers and downers fairly early in his musical career. In fact, the movie implies that Elvis introduced him to amphetamines. There are many scenes of Johnny drinking beer and washing down pills with beer or booze. His fellow musicians drink prodigiously, too, and we see the aftermath of an all-night drinking party, with smashed beer bottles and drunken musicians.

Johnny sneaks into Mexico to buy drugs and is arrested for possession upon crossing back into the States. (In reelof the car was enough – the sun burned down onto our skin, the wind hot, and the shade absent. The silence is deafening – the air seems to press in on you and not a sound can be heard. The salt flats glow bright white in the distance, with the foreground made up of brown rocks complete with streaks of pinks and yellows and greens, with traces of blue and purple. It’s a bizzarre landscape, and thoroughly captivating.

Travelling from Death Valley to Yosemite is an ear-popping experience in itself, climbing from 200ft below sea level to 10,000ft above it through desert roads and mountain tracks. As you ascend the landscape changes, gradually becoming more green and noticeably cooler until you reach Yosemite, a glorious oasis of trees,


the larger Appalachian Mountain chain which runs from Newfoundland in Canada through to central Alabama. We drove up to Clingman’s Dome, the highest point in the park at over 6500ft, offering incredible views of the Smokies – the blue hues of the mountain tops stretching for miles all around. The Appalachian Trail, described in hilarious detail by Bill Bryson in his book ‘A Walk in the Woods‘, crosses Clingman’s Dome, making it the highest point of the trail between Maine and Georgia. We actually went up twice – the first day was so foggy that you couldn’t really see further than your hand. The following morning we had another go, and wow, was it worth it! The greenery of the foreground gave way to blue as the moutainsofficers, and even a live proposal of marriage at a seemingly random point. After every single pitch, music was blasted out; sometimes the famous ‘Ballpark Organ music’, other times chart hits, and some details of the batter or pitcher appeared on the big screen. The sun was low, casting long shadows of the players across the field, and as the light faded behind the now glowing Coca-Cola sign, so too did the warmth. A strong, cold wind blew through the open bleachers and we snuggled together stubbornly drinking our iced lemonade for as long as we could bear it. We gave up at around 9.30pm (the Red Sox were losing anyway, apparently). It was marvellous fun and a great experience. I recommend it.

2. A Self-guided ‘Freedom Trail’ exploration

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floors up. Whilst the view here isn’t famous like the New York skyline, it’s still very beautiful and well worth a look.

6. Visit the Old State House

The Old State House was built in 1713 and housed the early government of the Colonial communities, and was where the Declaration of Independence was read in public for the first time in Massachussets. You can see all kinds of historical artifacts from history, ranging from clothes worn by John Hancock (a prominent Patriot of the American Revolution) to tea from the Boston Tea Party (see below for more details). The building itself stands in contrast with the modern architecture that has developed around it, and when we visited, it glowed in the afternoon sunshine.

7. The Old South Meeting House

The Old SouthMeeting House was built in 1729 by the Puritans, and was used for public meetings as well as worship. Long story short, in 1773 the British Government introduced the Tea Act, which allowed the East India Company to ship tea to the Colonies and only allowed certain Loyalist merchants to sell it, with added tax (it is more complicated than this, of course, but this is a blog post!). Increasingly angry meetings were held in the Old South Meeting House between the Loyalists and Patriots, leading to some pretty dire events including the Boston Massacre. A meeting held on December 16th 1773 failed to reach a compromise, and resulted in the Boston Tea Party – the destruction of a shipload of tea in Boston Harbor. It was this


friend can hear you loud and clear on the other end. You’re not allowed to take photos, so this one is from the people at Focus Lighting who revamped the lighting system at the attraction:

Photo Credit: Ryan Fischer, Focus Lighting, www.focuslighting.com

9. Visit the Bunker Hill Monument

The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first battle of the Revolutionary War in 1775 and whilst the Brits won this one, the Colonials put up a great fight and showed what they were made of. The monument is in the Charlestown District, the oldest district of Boston. The pavements are cobbled in places, and the houses closely packed together, painted in bright pastels with American flags flying from many of them. The sound of the breeze gently moving the trees above uspeople of New York; the workers in their suits grabbing a bite and reading the New York Times, the kids shrieking in delight at their phones and munching fries, the homeless people sheltering from the rain and chatting with outreach workers. It was bustling and noisy and chaotic and wonderful.

LESSON: Eating in a restaurant with table service is great, but most definitely not necessary. Sit amongst the natives. Listen to their conversation. Watch through that small window you have into the life of someone who’s experiences are so different to yours.

3. Central Park

On my last trip, in May 2015, New York was HOT. Central Park was awash with bright greens under the bluest of blue skies, wispy cloud floating quietly by. There were hundreds of people in shorts


headphones and a vest/trouser combo showing off a toned physique, he was performing to music only he could hear, flicking his head up and raising his arms to an imagined audience. He was full of passion, using all the available space to twirl and dance around the rink, genuinely very good, but clearly showing off. Occasionally, he would come to our edge of the rink, lean up the wall, and engage in the kind of ‘Broadway Musical Number’ breathing where the whole chest and shoulders move up and down.

‘Street’ was sporting an oversized royal blue football jersey paired with baggy jeans. He alternated between speed skating up the straights, then gliding around the corners, arms outstretched with flare and poise. This was his one and only move, buthe executed it with style.

‘Dr. Who’ was an older gentleman wearing a beige three quarter length trench coat, undone with the belt flapping as he moved. Halfway through dinner he removed his coat, revealing a tweed jacket, a black shirt and a red silky waistcoast, a fedora completing his look. His style was Sinatra-esque, and he treated us to a personal show of pirouettes and pivots, regularly embellishing by lifting his hat above his head, then spinning it back on with a flick of the elbow. He moved about the ice like a gentleman romancing a lady, even if he did take out the occasional kid in the process.

We spent 2 hours eating that lunch and cherished every minute, laughing at the unexpected theatre that played out before


66 history. We really wanted a go on the steam train that leaves Williams once a day for the Grand Canyon, but time was against us.

After Williams, the Route 66 is synonymous with I-40, so off we went until we reached the huge arc of old road north of the interstate that leads to the town of Seligman. And this is where the modern story of Route 66 all began.

In 1987, Angel Delgadillo – who was born in Seligman in 1927 and witnessed of the rise and fall of Route 66 – set up the Historic Route 66 Association whose sole aim is to sign and preserve the Old Road. Since then, Associations have started in all 8 states along the route, and Angel has become something ofcapital of New Mexico. There were virtually no tourists on this train. It was all local people heading off to work, school or college. We met Pete, a grandfather who had taken care of his granddaughter as if she were his own for years – he was so proud of her – and he had some stories to tell. He was one of those people who had been everywhere and done everything, yet was really down to earth and humble, and so so friendly. He couldn’t help us enough and gave us a running commentary of the history and culture on our way up to Santa Fe.

And the train company have got it right! It was $10 each return. That’s less than £6! The time on the train


boutique shops selling pricy art and clothing. The architecture is a real mixture of Spanish/European styles and the traditional Adobe structures of the Native Americans. The church pictured above is the San Miguel Chapel, apparently the oldest church in the United States with its adobe walls constructed in the 1600s. There are many lovely restaurants to choose from and you can sit outside in the ambient temperatures well into late September.

7. Explore Albuquerque Old Town

Much like Santa Fe, the Old Town district is very Spanish in style, yet with a Native American twist. Radiating out from the central Plaza (where live music is played from a very European looking bandstand), it is a very relaxing environment to shop, have an ice-cream or a meal and watch the worldgo by. Albuquerque itself is the most populated city in New Mexico and is made up of several different districts. I would suggest trying to get a hotel as near to Route 66/Old Town as you can – travel is easy by car, but the roads are BUSY! Pop down to Old Town in the evening – the shops are open until around 8pm and it’s very peaceful there away from the hustle and bustle of the newer parts of town.

8. Have brunch at the 66 Diner in Albuquerque

This was the BEST diner we ate at. The food was great, but it was the atmosphere that made it for us. There were people queuing when we arrived at 11am (it opens later on a weekend) and with good


was an international litigator and corporate attorney practicing cross-border mergers and acquisitions at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the top ranked litigation firm in the country. Oliver Wright holds dual Master and Doctor of Law degrees in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School, where he graduated with honors and was Editor of the Cornell Law Review. He was class major valedictorian at UCLA, where he graduated summa cum laude, phi beta kappa with a BA in Communications Studies.By Kamal Taha ,AFP AMMAN, Jordan -- Defying death threats, an Iraqi television comedian is fighting the Islamic State group with biting satire aimed at lifting the aura of fear that is one of the jihadists' strongest weapons. Two men with fake ...

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One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projectsSgt. Michael Trevino, personal security detail, non-comissioned officer, 172nd Infantry Brigade, utilizes a foot bridge to cross a swollen river outside of the village of Marzak while locals wash clothing on the far bank. Marzak has historically been a stronghold for the insurgency over the past decade until the Afghan and U.S forces took advantage of the winter months to establish a local police force at the request of the elders and secure the village from foreign fighters who transit the area during the fighting season.

The Army is updating the counterinsurgency field manual developed by Gen. David Petraeus that has served as the basis for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The current version of the field manual incorporates lessons learned from Western nations’ experiences with colonial insurgencies and outlines


version on the experience of Western nations in the colonial sphere, he said.

“The new document shows no indication of shedding that particular bias, and instead seeks to add the additional bias of very tactical lessons from our experiences in support of a larger war on terrorism,” Jones said.

Insurgencies can range from a revolution, such as the one in Syria, to separatist movements, such as the Kurds in Iraq, to a resistance, like the one being waged by the largely apolitical people of Afghanistan to the large foreign military presence in their country, he said.

Distinctions need to be made to find the clearest solutions to a particular insurgency, he said.

“When success without strategic understanding for how or why that success occurred led us to simply transplant the entire programThe EUVAC-NET survey: national pertussis surveillance systems in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland.
A questionnaire was mailed out to member states of the European Union (EU) plus Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland, to inquire about the type of information routinely recorded in national pertussis surveillance systems. Information was requested on surveillance methods, type of information recorded for cases of pertussis, vaccination schedule, type of vaccine used, and methods for estimating vaccination coverage. Local surveillance methods, vaccination strategies, and methods to estimate vaccination coverage were found to differ widely across the participating countries. The results of the questionnaire survey show, however, that there are comparable subsets of variables common to many countries. Future activities of the EUVAC-NET project will include defining the homogeneous elements in national systems and to


Friday, Jan 29–Bay Island Could Get Boost From Channel Dredging Work

OCEAN CITY – In what could be a win-win situation for all involved, a plan is in place to dredge a navigational channel at the entrance to a West Ocean City marina and deposit the sand on nearby Skimmer Island, just north of the Route 50 bridge, in an effort to restore critical nesting habitat for a handful of threatened bird species.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is currently seeking public comment on various aspects of the proposal to dredge the entry channel to Homer’s Hideaway Marina, also widely known as the Ocean City Fishing Center, near the Inlet just south of the bridge, and deposit the dredged material on Skimmer Island. The marina’s channel needs tobe dredged annually and for years, the material has been deposited at Homer Gudelsky Park, also known as Stinky Beach, but the park cannot accept any more sand at this time, causing DNR officials to seek another spoil site to deposit the dredged material.

Meanwhile, just to the north of the Harry Kelley Bridge, is Skimmer Island, a narrow, crescent-shaped spit of land that serves as a temporary home and nesting place for several species of colonial nesting birds over the decades. Two species in particular, Black Skimmers and Royal Terns, have seen their traditional nesting places in the coastal areas of Maryland decline rapidly in recent years and are in danger of disappearing from the state’s ecological landscape.

For example, in 1985, as many as 300 pairs of Black


Skimmers nested and reproduced in various locations in coastal Maryland, but for the past few years, the number is down to less than 25 pairs with dismal to no reproductive success. Similar figures bear out for other species including Royal Terns and Common Terns, among others.

Part of the problem locally is the decline of natural islands and spits of lands in the coastal bays suitable for bird nesting. Most of the islands in the bay naturally migrate from year to year with sand removed from one side and deposited on the other, but a variety of natural and man-made factors have changed the equation.

For example, when Skimmer Island was first surveyed in 1998, it measured 7.1 acres. In 2003, it had been reduced to 5.6 acres, and in2007, it was down to just 3.9 acres, or roughly half the size it was a decade earlier. In the most recent survey last year, Skimmer Island was down to just 2.7 acres and the coastal storms in October and November reduced it further.

On the one hand, a new site is needed to deposit dredged material from the channel at the entrance to the Ocean City Fishing Center, while nearby is a critical bird nesting habitat starving for new sand. If the complex approval process can be worked out, moving the dredged material from the fishing center channel and depositing it on Skimmer Island could present a practical, economical and ecological solution.

“It should be a win-win situation for everybody, but it has to go through a tough permit


on the east side of the Boardwalk is hanging in the balance this week with the heirs to the property preparing an appeal and the city claiming the site for the public good. Situated on the east side of the Boardwalk at South Division Street, the… Read more »

BERLIN – Plans for a bike path along the railroad tracks in Berlin are expected to move forward following approval of a design proposal. On Monday the Berlin Town Council approved a design and engineering proposal for the Berlin Bikeways Project from Davis, Bowen & Friedel (DBF). Dave Engelhart, the town’s planning director, said all… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Surfers Healing returned to the beaches of Ocean City this week for a day-long surfing camp that gives children withthe winning marker belonging to ex-Springfield Falcon Ryan Vesce. Mytischi was without the services of Lightning prospect Denis Kazionov, who was cut loose by the team earlier this month. No word, as of yet, on where the younger Kazionov brother will land.


Melanic moth frequencies in Yorkshire, an old English industrial hot spot.
A survey has been carried out in Leeds, England, in the west Yorkshire industrial heartland, and in neighboring York, surrounded by agriculture, of melanic frequency in the moth species Biston betularia, Odontoptera bidentata, and Apamea crenata. All show a decline in melanics in the postindustrial environment, the first over almost the full range from nearly 100% to less that 10%, the others to smaller extents. Changes in several species over as great a magnitude and as wide an area must result from selection. The results are compared with others along a transect through northern England. The onset of response is progressively later from west to east. The rate of decline is lower at the extremes of the transectBurn Risk Prompts the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and The Holmes Group to Expand Recall of Slow Cookers to 2.6 Million Units

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The CPSC, in cooperation with The Holmes Group of Milford, Massachusetts, has announced the recall of approximately 2.6 million Rival® Slow Cookers manufactured in China. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately.

The handles on the base of the slow cookers can break, posing a risk of burns from hot contents spilling onto consumers. These Rival® Slow Cookers, sold from January 1999 through May 2002, were previously recalled for the same hazard. The recall has now been expanded to include all units manufactured before September 2004. CPSC has received a total of 126 reports of handles breaking, including 33 reports of consumers who


of the well.
After a well is drilled to a desired depth, relatively large diameter pipe known as casing is typically installed within a well and then cemented in place. As casing is installed in a well, it is frequently beneficial to rotate and/or reciprocate such casing within said well. After the casing is installed, cementing is performed by pumping a predetermined volume of cement slurry into the well using high-pressure pumps. The cement slurry is typically pumped down the inner bore of the casing, out the distal end of the casing, and around the outer surface of the casing.
After a predetermined volume of cement is pumped, a plug or wiper assembly is typically pumped down the inner bore of the casing using drilling mud or other fluid inorder to fully displace the cement from the inner bore of the casing. In this manner, cement slurry leaves the inner bore of the casing and enters the annular space existing between the outer surface of the casing and the inner surface of the wellbore. After such cement becomes hard, it should beneficially secure the casing in place and form a fluid seal to prevent fluid flow along the outer surface of the casing.
In many conventional cementing operations, an apparatus known as a float collar or float assembly is frequently utilized at or near the bottom (distal) end of the casing string. In most cases, the float assembly comprises a short length of casing or other tubular housing equipped with a check valve assembly. Such check-valve assembly permits


the cement slurry to flow out the distal end of the casing, but prevents back-flow of the heavier cement slurry into the inner bore of the casing when pumping stops.
Devices known as “centralizers” are also frequently used in connection with the installation and cementing of casing in wells. Such centralizers are often mounted on casing strings in order to center such casing strings in a well and obtain a uniformly thick cement sheath around the outer surface of the casing. Different types of centralizers have been used, and casing centralization is generally well known to those having skill in the art. Centralization of a casing string near its bottom end, in particular around the float equipment, is frequently considered especially important to securing a uniform cement sheath and,Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works This book is intended for anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and economists who teach development studies or gender studies, to use in the classroom, for upper-division undergraduate or Master’s level courses. It offers a synthesis and interpretation of relevant topics, theories and empirical findings. The book is multi-disciplinary. The book is published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, January 2004. The 2nd edition will be out in Fall 2014. Available on amazon.com.

Academic Articles (In reverse chronological order of publication. Note, many links here are to pre-published working paper versions of the papers. Published versions may vary. Please consult the published version.)

“Community based targeting for social safety nets” (with Jonathan Conning of Williams College). A survey of the literature on decentralizing welfare programs and


in the right of any foreign or domestic corporation by the holder or holders of less than five per centum of the outstanding shares of any class of such corporation's stock or voting trust certificates, unless the shares or voting trust certificates held by such holder or holders have a market value in excess of fifty thousand dollars, the corporation in whose right such action is brought shall be entitled at any stage of the proceedings before final judgment to require the plaintiff or plaintiffs to give security for the reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, which may be incurred by it in connection with such action and by the other parties defendant in connection therewith for which it may become subject pursuant to section sixty-four of this chapter,share.
After the motion for security was made, the plaintiff served an amended complaint in which she states that she "brings this action respectively on behalf of herself and all other stockholders of The Mengel Company similarly situated". She alleges that she has owned her stock since July 31, 1947. The amended complaint charges that the corporation in October 1949 permitted the individual defendant, Voit, to exercise an option to purchase 10,000 shares of the corporation's stock at $10 a share in a manner contrary to the option expressly authorized by the stockholders at a special meeting held on February 27, 1945; that the terms of the option called for its exercise by December 31, 1949 and contemplated the payment of cash for the stock; that in effect the


The French government yesterday initiated moves to protect crisis-ridden Société Générale from a foreign takeover as shares in France's second-largest bank rose steeply on rumours of a pending merger with a domestic rival.

Playing the "economic patriotism" card, the prime minister, François Fillon, said: "The government is determined that SocGen remains a great French bank, a player in globalisation." He added that ministers would not allow the bank to be prey to "hostile raids by other companies".

Political observers said President Nicolas Sarkozy was trying to engineer an all-French merger behind the scenes to prevent what one of his closest advisers has called "the very substance of France's economy" being put at risk.

SocGen, facing losses of €4.9bn (£3.7bn) due to rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel, had lost half its value sinceJune last year, and was worth €34bn. But its stock rose 10% on speculation that BNP Paribas would launch a bid at €92 a share.

BNP, which made an abortive bid for SocGen in 1999, refused to comment. But sources said the idea of an imminent bid was "fantasist" as others suggested BNP, prodded by Sarkozy, could be contemplating a takeover in the medium term. SocGen insiders insist that now, in the throes of a crisis, is the wrong time for a merger and this could take place only under political duress.

Analysts have linked BNP with SocGen's retail business and Crédit Agricole with its investment banking division, now severely damaged by Kerviel's €50bn gamble on stock futures. Others say a merger with BNP would mean thousands of job losses


they should change the captain," said Christine Lagarde, the finance minister.

It is widely thought that Philippe Citerne, co-chief executive, and Jean-Pierre Mustier, investment banking head, are so implicated by the evident lack of controls on traders such as Kerviel that neither could succeed Bouton. An outsider from within France's politico-commercial elite is viewed as the obvious solution.

Lagarde has summoned Christian Noyer, governor of the Bank of France, and Michel Prada, chairman of the AMF, the French financial markets authority, for an update on their investigations into how the SocGen scandal erupted.

Noyer, who chairs the banking commission, the main regulator, and Prada will be questioned by the French senate's financial committee this morning and are due to present their report to Lagarde on Monday. Fillon said he would immediatelypublish its findings in full.

Separately, the AMF said it had begun a formal inquiry into allegations of insider trading at SocGen before the bank disclosed its losses last Thursday. Both Adam, the minority shareholders' lobby, and lawyers acting for 100 small investors had called for investigations into share dealings by Robert Day, an American director on the SocGen board, which amounted to almost €100m on January 9 and 10.

The bank reiterated that neither Day nor any other person had knowledge of the losses when they sold their shares.

Kerviel's defence

Jérôme Kerviel, the 31-year-old rogue trader, has accused his superiors at SocGen of deliberately "turning a blind eye" to his mammoth operations in equity derivatives trading and of being part of a culture of fear.

Transcripts of his interrogation, carried out


last weekend by the "brigade financière" and published last night by Le Monde and MediaPart on their websites, are a fresh blow to SocGen as Kerviel claims he was allowed to proceed as long as he made money.

The alleged loner, labelled a "fraudulent genius" and "demon hacker" by the bank's executives, was released on bail late on Monday after being charged with the lesser offences of breach of trust and forgery - and appeared to have gone to ground yesterday.

"I can't believe that my superiors were unaware of the amounts I was committing, it's impossible to generate such profits with small positions," he told the police after giving himself up on Saturday.

He claimed to have made a "profit" of €1.4bn (£1bn) by the end of 2007 but tohave taken steps to conceal this and instead declare one of €55m in the hope of winning a €600,000 bonus. "As long as we are winning and that's not too obvious, that it fits in, one says nothing," he added.

Kerviel, who insisted his techniques of concealment were "not at all sophisticated" and should have been picked up by correct controls, sums up the bank's culture as "Not seen, not taken. If taken, you're hanged."

SocGen said it had improved its controls after being alerted to a "fishy" trade by Eurex, the derivatives market, in November 2007 and caught Kerviel out this month.


was in reality, as the Trial Examiner found, a closed union. Its constitution and by-laws provided that by a two-thirds vote of the "General Body" the "books of this Union shall remain closed" to new members with the exception that under certain conditions "one legitimate male issue" of a member could be admitted to membership.

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A new agreement was executed by the parties on October 25, 1948. By its terms the union was the exclusive bargaining representative for all of the employees engaged in the delivery and handling of the newspapers, etc. Wage increases were provided for. The union agreed to furnish all necessary employees. Respondent agreed to employ only members of the union thirty days from the effective date of the agreement and that any new employees aftercontract dated January 2, 1946, and the Supplementary Agreements dated August 22, 1946, and October 9, 1947."

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Ostensibly, under the 1946 agreement and its supplements, there existed a closed shop in favor of a union which was the bargaining agent solely for its own members. In fact there was a majority of non-union employees who had no bargaining agent at all. At the time the 1946 contract was entered into, a closed shop was not contrary to the Act if consonant with the proviso to Section 8(3). That proviso allowed a closed shop to an unassisted union which represented a majority of employees at the time the employment agreement was executed. There is no actual statement in the stipulation of facts that on the date of the 1946 contract


of the employer is assumed to be of no account and if whether discrimination occurred be judged entirely from the facts, it still remains true, as conceded, that the non-union employees were unable to join the union. Salerno is the only one of the four complainants who testified that the retroactive pay affected his desire to join. His evidence was not very satisfactory. He definitely indicated that he was not anxious to join the union and showed familiarity with the requirements for membership in it when he testified, "All I know that they did take in was sons." Two others of the four were not interested in becoming members. The third had been rejected by the union prior to the retroactive pay question arising.

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Unquestionably there was a differenceHow The World Of Private Investigation Has Changed

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with journalist Ronen Bergman who is Ronen Bergman is a contributing writer for The New York Times and the national security senior correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth about the new world of private investigation firms such as Black Cube, that are employed by law firms representing people such as Harvey Weinstein. It was revealed that Weinstein used big time private investigators to find disparaging information about his accusers as well as prevent publication of stories about himself.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

The latest bombshell story about Harvey Weinstein is all about big-time private investigators digging for dirt on his accusers. Ronan Farrow writes in The New Yorker about how Weinstein tried to prevent publication of stories about him, stories which have


led to dozens of allegations of sexual harassment and, in some cases, rape.

Farrow told NPR's Morning Edition today that Weinstein hired several international corporate intelligence firms. One of them called Black Cube describes itself as a select group of veterans from the Israeli elite intelligence units. Here's how Farrow described that operation.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

RONAN FARROW: In Black Cube's case, that included human intelligence tactics targeting women, targeting journalists, showing up in their lives using fake identities, using fake companies as a front. This was detailed. This was aggressive. And according to the women I spoke to, this was terrifying.

SIEGEL: We're going to talk now with Ronen Bergman, who is an Israeli journalist. He writes for the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth as well as for The New Yorkoperations, spreading of information about someone and also trying to prevent information from being published or even trying to get down Internet sites or publications over the Internet that are harmful to their clients.

SIEGEL: The story in The New Yorker relates an incident in which a woman who evidently works for Black Cube used a fake name, represented herself as working for a fake investment company. She claimed to be launching an initiative to combat discrimination against women in the workplace. And she tried to befriend an accuser of Weinstein's and was evidently gathering information about her for Weinstein, working through Weinstein's lawyer. Does that sound like this kind of work to you? And does it sound like a private investigator or more like an intelligence agent?

BERGMAN: Well,


Television ads for Radio X featuring host Chris Moyles bumping into people as he walked down the street have been cleared following 106 complaints that they were offensive, irresponsible and unsuitable for children.

The two ads showed Moyles bumping into a man holding a coffee and a paramedic pushing someone on a stretcher, and knocking a cake out of a woman's hand before he walked through a wall of the Radio X studio building.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said 87 viewers complained that the ad encouraged and condoned anti-social and violent behaviour, and others believed it was inappropriate for children to watch.

Radio X owner This is Global said the ad was a parody of The Verve's video for its song "Bittersweet Symphony", which it believed would be recognisable tothe majority of viewers.

Chris Moyles whacked straight on the head with a pint at Courteeners

They added that the ads were "a humorous play on Chris Moyles' reputation" and his resolve to get back to radio broadcasting.

Global said the ad was subject to an ex-children restriction and was therefore scheduled away from children's programmes.

The ASA noted the ad used "Bittersweet Symphony" as its soundtrack but thought some viewers were still unlikely to recognise the parody element of the ad.

But it said the scenario was likely to be seen as surreal and far removed from the mix of people many were likely to encounter when walking down a street.

The ASA said: "We acknowledged that his actions in the ad were likely to be seen as unpleasant, but we considered that


Author George R.R. Martin has posted comments regarding last night’s controversial episode of Game of Thrones.

Martin discussed the wedding night of Ramsay Snow, and how the events of the television series differ from the events that transpired in the books, posted to his Live Journal account:

Let me reiterate what I have said before.

How many children did Scarlett O'Hara have? Three, in the novel. One, in the movie. None, in real life: she was a fictional character, she never existed. The show is the show, the books are the books; two different tellings of the same story.

There have been differences between the novels and the television show since the first episode of season one. And for just as long, I have been talking about the butterfly effect. Small changespermanent magnetization antiparallel to the y direction each. The individual magnetoresistive devices 702a, 702b, 704a, 704b are connected, as indicted in FIG. 7, wherein the first and second bridge circuits 702 and 704 are connected to each other in parallel and further connected between a supply voltage and a ground potential.
During the operation of the magnetoresistive sensor arrangement 700 of FIG. 7, the first bridge circuit 702 provides an output signal VX between the two center taps of the first bridge circuit, wherein the second bridge circuit 704 provides an output signal VY between the two center taps of the second magnetoresistive bridge circuit. The connection of the magnetoresistive devices 702a,b and 704a,b described with reference to FIG. 7 allows for the detection of an external, rotating magnetic


of a transverse medullary hemisection taken at the rostrocaudal level of the drug injections, which corresponds to the rostrocaudal level of the preBötC. Each dot represents the location of the fluorescent dye spot used to mark the site of drug injection. Histological examination of brain sections revealed that the AOAA injections sites were within the approximate boundaries of the preBötC. Injection sites were ventral and caudal to compact division of the nucleus ambiguus, ventral to the semi compact division of nucleus ambiguus, at the level of the lateral loop of the principal nucleus of the inferior olivary nucleus and \~800 μm caudal to the caudal margin of the facial nucleus. Injections sites were also located at the rostrocaudal level of the ventral respiratory column where NK1 receptor immunolabelingChildren's first dental visit: attitudes and practices of US pediatricans and family physicians.
The aim of the present study was to survey the recommendations and practices regarding the first dental visit by young children, as reported by family physicians and pediatricians in the United States. A representative sample of family physicians and pediatricians was surveyed in the year 2000. The initial survey was mailed out to 1,500 family physicians and 1,000 pediatricians who were selected from the AMA Masterfile. After the first mailing, 3 follow-up questionnaires and a postcard reminder were mailed to the nonresponders within a period of 3 months. The questionnaire described case scenarios of 2, 12-month-old children, one with low caries-risk and the other at high risk with noticeable cavitation of the maxillary front teeth. The


with two aides, and shot – no, not by Gadhafi loyalists, but by the rebels, who claimed he was a “double agent” and a “traitor.” Oddly enough – or, perhaps, not so oddly – his “mysterious” death was prematurely announced by the rebel media outlet al-Bawaba a few days before it actually happened: Younes denied he was dead, but his fate was apparently sealed from that point. A few days later he was arrested and detained, and shortly after that he really was dead. While the NTC denies it had anything to do with it, and now even claim the judges who issued the arrest warrant had no authority to do so, what happened is clear enough: the real rebel leadership – not the NTC Potemkin village ofa 1969 military coup, the treatment he handed out to the Libyan royal family is quite different from what he and his family can expect at the hands of the NATO-crats and their rebel proxies. King Idris was in Turkey at the time, and was sentenced to death by the “People’s Revolutionary Court” in absentia, but the Crown Prince, who was left behind with the rest of the Libyan royals, was merely placed under house arrest. As one pro-royalist account reports:

“In 1984 Qaddafi released the Royal Family from house arrest and tossed them onto the street. The family lived for a period in a cabin on a public beach. Crown Prince Sayyid Hassan, suffering from poor health, was allowed to travel with most of the family to London


             Facts and Procedural History

[¶2.]        Clint Bowyer is a professional race car driver who races for Michael

Waltrip Racing in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series. Bowyer resides in North Carolina

and travels to various states to compete in NASCAR events. Bowyer is also a

motorcycle enthusiast and has attended the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South

Dakota, on several occasions. Kustom Cycles, Inc., owned by Brian Klock, is a

South Dakota corporation operating in Mitchell, South Dakota. Kustom Cycles

specializes in designing motorcycle parts and the customization of motorcycles.

[¶3.]        Klock and Bowyer first encountered each other at a NASCAR race in

Daytona, Florida, in 2008. Later that fall, around November 9,      Several communications relevant to this case occurred after the

meeting in Phoenix. On November 11, 2008, and January 5, 2009, Phillips sent

pictures of the 1949 Mercury to Kustom Cycles in order to assist Kustom Cycles in

rendering concept images for the proposed customization. On January 2, 2009,

Bowyer purchased a 2009 Harley Davidson motorcycle from a dealership in

Mankato, Minnesota. Bowyer then contacted Kustom Cycles and requested that

Kustom Cycles pick up the motorcycle and transport it to Mitchell for

customization. Several days later, on January 9, 2009, Casey Bowyer—Clint

Bowyer’s brother and alleged agent—contacted Kustom Cycles to approve its

concept images of the proposed customization. Kustom Cycles first delivered the

motorcycle to Bowyer at his home in North Carolina on February 15, 2009.

Apparently Bowyer was not satisfied, and Kustom Cycles


returned the motorcycle

to Mitchell for additional modifications. Over one month later, on March 25, 2009,

Casey Bowyer contacted Kustom Cycles and requested pictures of the customized

motorcycle. On April 17, 2009, Kustom Cycles delivered the motorcycle, for a

second time, to Bowyer in North Carolina.

[¶5.]        Meanwhile, Bowyer provided a number of services to Kustom Cycles.

Bowyer arranged special access for Klock and his guests at a NASCAR race in

Daytona, where they met and spoke with Bowyer. At that time, Bowyer also gained

access to the track for Klock, who recorded himself riding the motorcycle onto the

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track for use in promotional materials. Bowyer also attended a four-hour photo

shoot and granted Kustom Cycles permission to use his name and image for

promotional purposes. 1 After Bowyer provided these services, and almost eight

months after Kustom Cycles completed delivery of the motorcycle to Bowyer,

Kustom Cycles sent Bowyer a bill for the work in the amount of $30,788.45. Bowyer

refused to pay the bill, insisting that Klock proposed—and Bowyer performed—

compensation in the form of the promotions, endorsements, and special access to

NASCAR events that Bowyer previously provided.

[¶6.]         On November 12, 2010, Casey Bowyer participated in a telephone

conference with Kustom Cycles in an effort to resolve the billing dispute. This

discussion was unsuccessful, and on


November 23, 2011, Kustom Cycles filed a

complaint against Bowyer in South Dakota for payment of the bill. Bowyer moved

the circuit court to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction on February 26, 2013.

The circuit court heard arguments on the motion on November 26, 2013. The

circuit judge announced his decision to rule against Bowyer at the hearing and

entered the order denying the motion on January 14, 2014. Although neither party

presented evidence at the hearing, the circuit judge entered findings of fact and

conclusions of law based on the parties’ written submissions. Bowyer filed a

petition for discretionary appeal from the circuit court’s order, which this Court

granted by order of April 4, 2014.

1.      Bowyer’s name and image apparently later appeared on several industry
     are viewed in a light most

favorable to Kustom Cycles. The only such communication mentioned in the

Complaint is that Bowyer requested that Kustom Cycles arrange transportation for

the motorcycle Bowyer purchased in Mankato. 4 However, Klock alleged several

4.       Although the Complaint claims this request occurred on November 11, 2008,
         this date is contradicted by the Affidavit of Brian Klock, which claims this
         conversation occurred sometime after January 2, 2009—the date Bowyer
         actually purchased the motorcycle.


jumped to 4th after a large buyback program, even with the stock jumping 100% this year. This makes the stock one of the more perplexing entries into the list as an addition usually coincides with a stock decline.

The list lost two stocks after Aetna and DirecTV dropped from the top ten. Don't feel too bad for these stocks as each one still yields more than 15%. Aetna in fact has a higher yield now, but the higher yield from Seagate pushed it off the list.

The list had one major move as AstraZeneca dropped down to 10th following smaller buybacks in Q2 over those in 2011.

Conclusion

While investors continue to slam on the buyback component of this model (see comments section from previous articles), the top ten net payout yieldflagrant mundanity isn't totally out of keeping with the show itself. Part of Doctor Who's attraction lies in its imaginative potential: it's held a sense of wonder, awe and terror for generations - not bad for a show whose most enduring enemy resembles a slow-moving bin. "It is this relationship between the domestic and the epic," says Capaldi of what appeals to him about the programme. "The sense that there's a bridge, that a hand can be extended, and you can step from the Earth, from the supermarket car park, into the Andromeda nebulae or whatever." He pauses for a second. "And I love monsters. Everybody loves monsters."

These days, Doctor Who is big business, reaching way beyond its real-life surroundings. Distributed to more than 200 territories worldwide, it's


a global brand, and ranks as BBC America's highest-rated show. It's also relentlessly chewed over by the media. Few things better demonstrate the newsification of pop culture than the slow dissemination of Who-based information we've had over recent months: trailers teased within an inch of their lives; security-breach stories unfolding over days; every cast and crew soundbite on the new series mulled over as if the future of the human race really did depend on it. Who news is entertainment in itself: last August, the announcement about the casting of the 12th Doctor was spun into a TV special, hosted by Zoë Ball and watched by more than 6 million viewers. Capaldi's identity was such a valuable and anticipated secret that he admits he was chauffeured around pre-broadcastwith a blanket over his head.

Capaldi's Doctor in pensive mode. Photograph: Adrian Rogers/BBC/Adrian Rogers

For someone as established and respected as Capaldi, you get the feeling this kind of build-up – and the potential for freefall – is not ideal. On approach, he looks a bit like the ageing rock star he might have been (he was famously in punk band the Dreamboys with US chatshow host Craig Ferguson in his youth), wiry in dark glasses and heavy boots. But once he sits down, his hands, which he's contorting anxiously around the slots in the tabletop, give away at least some discomfort.

If he's nervous, that's unsurprising. The pressure doesn't just come from being the face of a powerful franchise; for someone like Capaldi, becoming the Doctor has added layers


of significance. Like David Tennant before him, and showrunner Steven Moffat (who wrote Doctor Who fan fiction), it's well known that Capaldi was once Doctor Who mad. As a teenager he inundated the production team with fan mail. In the live TV announcement, he was presented with a letter his 15-year-old self wrote to the Radio Times praising its Doctor Who coverage, which Capaldi sheepishly referred to as "the full anorak". Even today during our conversation there are moments when he seems more like the trivia-addled president of a Doctor Who fan club than the actual Doctor himself, talking about the red-lined coat and Pertwee-esque pose in the promotional pictures, and the token William Hartnell lapel-hold he did on the live show ("They applauded for too long. Iuniverse has always lent itself to fandom. For many, there's also a strong emotional attachment to the programme that stems from childhood. It's a nostalgia Capaldi himself embraces, putting it in a bracket with "the Beatles and Sunday Night At The London Palladium, and school milk and bronchitis, and smog and little S-buckled belts". However, there is a risk that heritage can also end up as baggage; reboot blurring into tribute. "I thought: 'This is going to be like Stars In Their Eyes,'" he remembers of the live show. "Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be… Doctor Who!"

Although there's little danger of Capaldi resembling a middle-aged man living out his teenage delusions amid a cloud of dry ice, the new Doctor is still going to need to commandeer the


part for himself. His casting marks a departure from Tennant and Matt Smith's bouncy young Doctors, which might be a risk considering Doctor Who relies on new generations of devotion. That aside, for many people just knowing such a charismatic actor will be playing the Doctor is enough to make the show an exciting prospect again. In some eyes, the larger story arcs of the past few series were running out of steam, but now the majority of loose strands – including the mystery surrounding companion Clara's multiple selves – seem to have been tied up. Combined with the assembly of past and present Doctors in the recent 50th-anniversary episode, there's an added sense of rebirth about the new series.

Capaldi himself is conscientiously vague about where he'll betaking his Doctor, saying only that he "struggles through all the wreckage to find himself". In light of the opening episode, that seems like an understatement. Freshly regenerated, his Doctor ambles round Victorian London wild-eyed in a nightshirt, insulting people while struggling to make sense of himself and his surroundings, like a sort of wise-cracking King Lear. There are moments of comedy, but there are some unsettling undertones if you choose to look for them. On the Doctor's other characteristics, though, Capaldi is evasive, admitting only that he's "a slightly more mysterious figure".

Coleman and Capaldi in a scene from the top secret new series. Photograph: Adrian Rogers/BBC/Adrian Rogers

If he is overly careful not to impinge on his Doctor's mystique by doing something like answer a question, that's understandable,


Question of the Day

Have you been impacted by the government shutdown?

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Athletics have acquired left-hander Eury De La Rosa from the Arizona Diamondbacks for cash.

Oakland made the announcement Thursday, the latest trade in another offseason full of them for general manager Billy Beane.

The A’s designated right-hander Fernando Rodriguez for assignment to clear room on the 40-man roster. Right-hander Jorge De Leon, who was designated for assignment Dec. 9, has been released.

De La Rosa, 24, began the 2014 season with Triple-A Reno and posted a 2.52 ERA in 36 relief appearances before being called up by Arizona July 5. He then went 2-0 with a 2.95 ERA in 25 games for the Diamondbacks. He allowed only two home runs in 36 2-3 innings.pilots had had to shoot down four Serbian jets.

The lone plane stayed clear of the no-fly zone, avoiding any hostile action by me.

After about an hour of combat air patrol, we began to run low on fuel. The F-16 uses an enormous amount of fuel—a mixture of kerosene and gasoline, about 10,000 pounds for every hour and a half of flying. That's the same as a car getting two or three miles to the gallon. Following Wilbur's lead, I headed back over the Adriatic to meet our specially equipped Boeing 707 plane. This was our airborne gas station. While I "parked" on the tanker's wing, Wilbur took a position directly under the fuselage of the 707. As we all flew at the same speed, Wilbur flipped a toggle


television personality and has been the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! since 1984. He has led almost 8,000 episodes of Jeopardy.

Is The White House is refusing to hand the US House of Representative Oversight Committee documents that the panel has requested in its probe into the administration's security clearance process for Ken and Barbie Doll?

How did they qualify for this important status and what have they done for #WeThePeople in their key roles? Finally, who will clear up this serious mess?

In the business world, nepotism is the practice of showing favoritism toward one's family members or friends. Has POTUS been granting favors or jobs to his relatives, without regard to merit?

Robert Mueller is a real American Hero who has served our great nation in war aswell as in peace and without any reservation, for probes associated with #TumpRussia lying, cheating and embracing the enemies of the United States of America.

Robert Swan Mueller III is not only an American Hero but an attorney and current Special Counsel of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and related matters. Mueller served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 2001 to 2013, according to Wikipedia.

POTUS speeches have come and go, but long tirades about the failures of the government are beginning to sound the alarm.
Words like invective, polemic, denunciation, rant, broadside, attack, harangue, verbal onslaught are just some descriptions.

A series of powerful tornadoes killed dozens of Americans over the weekend. Then a coastal storm system will bring heavy


block of Weavertown Road. He was turned over to Lebanon County juvenile authorities.

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By investigating birth place, birth date, and gender of importantA group of high school students from College Station is honoring the fallen and injured Bryan firefighters from the Knights of Columbus fire by hosting a blood drive.

Wednesday Health Occupation Students of America members at A&M Consolidated High School held their annual blood drive and this year the students decided to dedicate their efforts to Lieutenants Greg Pickard, Eric Wallace, and injured firefighters Ricky Mantey, Jr. and Mitch Moran - each injured during the fire which broke out Friday, February 15th on Groesbeck St.

Organizers say the blood collected is staying in the Brazos Valley and will go to supplying the St. Joseph Health System.

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I grew up in Massachusetts, and I know ballot monkey mischief when I see it. Kemp did himself no favors by refusing to meet with the Lawyers' Committee prior to the committee's filing the lawsuit. But, once it was filed, Kemp assumed the Outraged Innocent posture favored by public officials who find their integrity under attack.

It was much the same story from Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp who was in Savannah Thursday afternoon. Kemp told News 3 "We never got the forms at the Secretary of State's office.They were all given to the county offices and the counties have worked through the applications so there is no missing 40,000 applications. They've all been processed. Many of those were duplicates. Others werenot complete therefore they are not going to be in the system," Kemp said.

The county officials say the forms were sent to Kemp, who says his office never got them, and around and around we go. This is the way the new Jim Crow works -- subtly, through bureaucratic shenanigans rather than tobacco-dripping scorn, and it is deeply embedded at this point in conservative -- and, therefore, Republican -- politics, and it has been ever since "all these minority voters" got together and helped elect the black guy twice. On Tuesday, Kris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, and the father and chief advocate of the restrictions that make up the new Jim Crow, dropped by the Heritage Foundation to defend his work.

"Voter fraud exists and it's everywhere,"


judges around the country. The press is becoming more skeptical. Hell, Kris Kobach might even lose his campaign for re-election, as Kansas seems poised to bum-rush out of office the conservative fantasts who've wrecked that state in so many different ways.

Since his Kansas restrictions took effect last year, fully 16 percent of people seeking to register for the first time - currently more than 22,000 people - have had their applications delayed because they have not produced proof of citizenship, according to Mr. Kobach's office. His Democratic challenger, Jean Schodorf, called this a modern poll tax and a national disgrace. "Are you proud of the Kansas we have today," she said at the candidates' forum, "or like most of us are you embarrassed?"

And then there's Judge Richard Posner,the conservative jurist who wrote the 2007 decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board. upholding an Indiana voter-ID law, a case that is widely reckoned to have opened the floodgates for the laws presently mottling elections around the country. While Posner insists that he is not recanting his decision in that case, he has admitted he was wrong, and he has grown ferocious in his opposition to the kind of laws that Crawford made possible. This past week, in his dissenting opinion in a case involving the Wisconsin voter-ID law, Posner took a flamethrower to the shabby legal rationale that cloaks what amounts to an organized campaign of ratfking in office.

-"Some of the 'evidence' of voter-impersonation fraud is downright goofy, if not paranoid, such as the nonexistent


Derek Hagan and the Raiders have had an on again, off again relationship a couple times the past two seasons. He was in camp with the Raiders in 2011 and spent the first half of the season with the team. He was cut two weeks after the team acquired Carson Palmer in a trade because Hue Jackson wanted to give Palmer a familiar target - TJ Houshmandzadeh.

The Raiders and their new regime re-signed Hagan again prior to last season. This time he stayed through the entire season. He was a pretty reliable target for the Raiders and their depleted and overall unreliable receiving corps. He played in 14 games with 2 starts and caught 20 passes for 259 yards -- his best numbers since his second NFL seasondivesting pursuant to social concerns rather than solely in the economic best interests of the plan participants.
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UN Dispatch Podcast: Securing the Peace in Mali

The French have made impressive gains on the battlefield in northern Mali, but now comes the hard part. Counter-insurgency and post conflict stabilization are monumentally difficult tasks that Mali, the French and the international community must get right if they are to secure the peace. With me to discuss the challenges ahead is Ambassador James Dobbins of RAND. Ambassador Dobbins has served in various capacities in post-conflict situations, from Afghanistan to the Balkans.

I much appreciated his insights on what the international community can do to make sure Mali makes it through this difficult period. Have a listen.

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Two books referenced in the podcast:

James Dobbins et al., America’s Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq, RAND Corporation (MR-1753), 2005

James Dobbins et al., Theof Palestine".

"Hamas considers the establishment of a Palestinian state, sovereign and complete, on the basis of the June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital and the provision for all the refugees to return to their homeland is an agreeable form that has won a consensus among all the movement members," Meshaal said.

The document also falls short of accepting the two-state solution that is assumed to be the end product of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).

It also clarifies that Hamas' fight is with the "Zionist project", not with the religion of Judaism, making a distinction between those who believe in Judaism and "Zionist Israeli citizens who occupy Palestinian lands".

It also sidesteps language in the group's original charter that affirms its connections to


the Muslim Brotherhood, and says that Hamas is a fully independent organisation.

Analysts said the release of the document appears to be an attempt by Hamas to seem more pragmatic and help it to avoid international isolation.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Mohammad Abu Saada, a professor at Gaza's al-Azhar University, called the new document a bid to "accommodate Egyptian conditions and calm Egyptian fears" regarding Hamas connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt has classified as a "terror" group since democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi was ousted in a 2013 military coup.

While in the 1988 charter Hamas affirmed its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood by mentioning it six times, the new document asserted Hamas strict Palestinian credentials as a "liberation movement" that uses Islam as its main ideological component.

READ MORE:Hamas' political document: What to expect

"Hamas is trying to walk a fine line between its hardliners and its own moderates," said Abu Saada of al-Azhar University.

"In one way, the moderates can say they accepted a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, but the hardliners can still say they are not recognising Israel."

Azzam Tamimi, author of "Hamas: A History from Within", told Al Jazeera that while Hamas leaders were unlikely to say so, the new document would "practically" replace the group's old charter.

"They would prefer to say that the old charter expressed Hamas in 1988, and that now, Hamas is a different organisation. It has different insight and understanding of the conflict and that today's document is what speaks for Hamas today."

Crippling blockade

Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip since


2007, after winning elections and forcefully pushing its Fatah rivals out. Since then, Gaza has suffered three major Israeli assaults, whick killed more than 3,500 Palestinians, and a crippling 10-year-long siege.

"The question is whether this change will do anything to try and lift the blockade, or anything to get this struggling economy back on its feet," said Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Gaza City.

Israeli officials rejected the document before it was made official, calling it an attempt by Hamas to trick the world into believing it was becoming a more moderate group.

"Hamas is attempting to fool the world but it will not succeed," said David Keyes, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

The document's release comes just days ahead of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoudthe first Czechoslovak Republic, lectured at the University of Chicago in 1902 and 1907 and returned to the city in May 1918 to rally its Czech and Slovak community in support of an independent Czechoslovak state. Znaniecki was part of this milieu. By 1918, exiled nationalists were lobbying for the Austrian empire's dismemberment under the banner of the Wilsonian principle of "national self-determination." Znaniecki himself triumphantly returned in 1920 to the new Polish nation-state, where he occupied the first Polish chair in sociology at the University of Pozna .

_The Polish Peasant_ was a product of this revolutionary nationalist context. Not surprisingly, it depicts the Polish immigrant community as both unified and homogeneous. Yet there was no Polish state when it was researched and written. The Republic of Poland


common for young men and women to attempt to avoid unwanted arranged marriages by fleeing to America, an escape route that disappeared once America closed its gates. A young man "sometimes broke with his father over a girl, told him to keep his old homestead or give it to the next oldest son, and went to America," he recalled. "Today, with America's 'Welcome!' sign down, that is almost out of the question. The young man usually suppresses his romantic feelings and marries sensibly."

Other women emigrated in order to circumvent the financial transactions that accompanied marriage. Pauline Reimer left Galicia for the United States at the age of seventeen. "At home they give you money when you get married. If you got more money, you get a better husband.friends who were willing to support him. After the _Anschluss_ , he applied for asylum in Czechoslovakia, but his application was rejected. "Not only does he not speak the state language, but his behavior and appearance suggest that he would be an ungrateful guest in our state. He is a typical unscrupulous merchant-Jew," advised the Czech consul in Vienna. Eisler was eventually deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt, where he perished on April 7, 1943.

With the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland on October 1, 1938, the refugee crisis darkened. More than 160,000 Jews, socialists, and Communists fled or were expelled from the Sudetenland to the Czech interior in 1938. These refugees were almost all Czechoslovak citizens, but they garnered little sympathy from the Czech government. Following the dismemberment of


liberation, thousands of Jewish refugees also trekked back to Eastern Europe to search for surviving relatives and reclaim their property. They did not typically receive a warm welcome. Neighbors who had appropriated Jewish homes, furniture, and businesses often had no intention of returning the loot. A June 1946 pogrom in Kielce, Poland, left 40 Jews dead and many more wounded, hastening the flight of at least 200,000 Jews. Ironically, most of the survivors found temporary refuge in the American zone of occupied Germany, from which they hoped to get to Palestine.

Other East Europeans refused to return home for personal or political reasons. Some had collaborated with the Nazi regime and were afraid of being tried as traitors. Simply being taken prisoner by the Wehrmacht was seen as anBy Press Release

The largest global sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced ONE: DAWN OF HEROES, set for Friday, 2 August. The Mall of Asia Arena in Manila will play host to another electrifying evening of world-class martial arts action. Once again, the world’s greatest martial arts athletes will descend upon the ONE Championship global stage to showcase their incredible skills. In the main event, reigning ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion Jonathan “The General” Haggerty of the United Kingdom will defend his title against Rodtang “Iron Man” Jitmuangnon of Thailand.

Ticket information for ONE: DAWN OF HEROES is available at www.onefc.com.

Haggerty is already an accomplished martial artist despite his relative youth. He began training in Muay Thai at the age of 7 under


the watchful eye of his father, John, who was himself an active competitor.

Haggerty quickly racked up multiple accolades in the sport of Muay Thai as an amateur becoming a three-time English Champion, three-time British Champion, and winning a European title as well. As a professional, he has dominated almost everyone he has faced to date, winning almost all of his bouts via knockout while facing the sport’s elite.

Last May in Jakarta, Haggerty captured the ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Championship after a stunning performance, upsetting former titleholder Sam-A Gaiyanghadao. He is now set to defend his title against Rodtang Jitmuangnon.

Like many Thai warriors before him, two-time Omnoi Stadium Muay Thai World Champion Rodtang started training at a young age when he was just 7 years old. He hadhis first professional Muay Thai bout at the age of 10.

Rodtang initially trained at a small camp in his hometown of Pattalung, but soon began traveling to the famed Jitmuangnon Camp in Bangkok in pursuit of better training. He would make the move permanent in order to train full-time and pursue his dreams of becoming a World Champion.

Rodtang was highly successful, compiling over 250 wins by the time he turned 21, and he even won the prestigious Omnoi Stadium World Title twice.

Seeking redemption, multiple-time World Champion Eddie “The Underground King” Alvarez of the United States returns to action against former ONE Lightweight World Champion Eduard “Landslide” Folayang of the Philippines.

A four-time Lightweight World Champion, Alvarez is not just an incredibly exciting martial artist – he is also the


only man in history to have claimed World Titles in both of North America’s leading promotions. Now that he is on the global stage, he is intent on cementing his status as an all-time great by capturing the ONE Lightweight World Championship to become the first man to conquer the three largest organizations on the planet.

He hit a stumbling block in his ONE Championship debut however, when he ran into Russian knockout artist Timofey Nastyukhin. Now Alvarez is on the comeback trail, and will need to defeat Filipino icon Folayang if he hopes to reinvigorate his chances at the ONE World Title.

Folayang, on the other hand, is the former ONE Lightweight World Champion. Born in Baguio City, he joined the Philippines Wushu Team, and won several gold medalsto become a national hero. “Landslide” then transitioned to mixed martial arts under the instruction of Mark Sangiao at Team Lakay, and captured a Filipino Welterweight Championship in his June 2007 debut. Folayang made his promotional debut in the main event of ONE Championship’s inaugural show in September 2011.

Five years later, he returned to Singapore to capture the ONE Lightweight World Title, defeating the legendary Shinya Aoki. After losing the title, and then regaining it once more, Folayang defended the belt last March in a rematch with the Japanese warrior. The Filipino unfortunately fell via first round submission.

Up next for Folayang is perhaps the most difficult test of his career in the form of lightweight great Alvarez.

In a ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-final round, American sensation Demetrious


“Mighty Mouse” Johnson takes on Tatsumitsu “The Sweeper” Wada of Japan.

A 12-time Flyweight World Champion, Johnson is widely considered one of the greatest pound-for-pound mixed martial artists of all time. In 2018, after completely dominating the highly-competitive North American scene with a record-setting run of 11 World Title defenses, Johnson decided to make ONE Championship his new home as part of a landmark deal.

Johnson made his ONE Championship debut last March when he took on Yuya Wakamatsu. “Mighty Mouse” overcame a spirited effort from his opponent to win by submission in the second round, advancing to the tournament semi-finals. Now, another Japanese warrior in Wada awaits.

Wada started his training with karate at his father’s insistence, and he later added judo to his growing skill set in high schoolbefore taking second place in a state tournament.

Wada was inspired to train to compete in mixed martial arts after watching some events on television, and he began training at the famed Yoshida Dojo after relocating to Tokyo in search of better training.

Nicknamed “The Sweeper,” he went a stellar 11-1 while twice capturing the Flyweight World Title in Japan’s DEEP organization and took an eight-bout winning streak into his ONE Championship debut. In his most recent outing, Wada overcame a spirited effort from Cuba’s Gustavo Balart, advancing to the semi-final round of the tournament to face Johnson.

In another ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-final bout, the Philippines’ Danny “The King” Kingad goes up against former ONE World Champion Kairat “The Kazakh” Akhmetov of Kazakhstan.

Kingad is from Sadanga in the


Mountain Province, but he went to school in Baguio. He began training in wushu at the famed Team Lakay in 2012, and went on to win gold medals in several local tournaments. Inspired by the success of his esteemed teammates such as former ONE Lightweight World Champion Eduard Folayang, he then turned his attention to the cage. Kingad made a successful start to his professional career in 2014, debuting with ONE Championship on the way to an impressive 8-0 record.

This earned him a shot at the ONE Flyweight World Championship against Adriano Moraes, but the Igorot warrior unfortunately failed in his first bid at World Title glory. Now, “The King” is back on the title hunt, but will have to get past former champion Akhmetov in order toclinch a tournament finals berth.

Akhmetov is a three-time National Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion in Kazakhstan. He also took to taekwondo, winning a regional championship.

In May 2010, he started his professional cage career in perfect fashion, taking the Eastern European scene by storm and winning his first 22 bouts. He then signed with ONE Championship in November 2015, with his first bout in the organization being against ONE Flyweight World Championship Adriano Moraes for the coveted belt. After five grueling rounds, Akhmetov won the title via split decision in a thrilling affair and reached the pinnacle of his career. He then lost the title in an immediate rematch with Moraes two years later, after a lengthy recovery period from a debilitating back injury.

Akhmetov now has the chance to make his