Wash. rail conductor honored for saving man

Originally published October 2, 2013 at 10:28 am

Updated October 2, 2013 at 2:59 pm

Tacoma Rail conductor Max Chabo stands near the entrance heading into the tunnel at 8th and Cherry in Olympia, Wash., on Tuesday. Chabo dragged a homeless man off the train tracks inside the tunnel last week. The man survived, and Chabo is getting recognized by the state Department of Labor and Industries with a lifesaving award.

On a sunny morning in July last year, a Tacoma Rail train hauling 10 rail cars filled with cargo bound for the Mottman Industrial Park approached the tunnel in downtown Olympia at Cherry Street and Seventh Avenue.

As conductor Max Chabo entered the darkened 1000-foot long tunnel, at first he thought he saw debris onman lay on the tracks.

“I was pumped,” he said.

Chabo said he grabbed the man by his jacket with both hands and pulled him with all his strength. Chabo said a backpack being worn by the man may have cushioned him as Chabo dragged him down the track.

There was not enough room on the sides of the tunnel for the man to be safely dragged to the side – the train still would have hit him, Chabo said.

Chabo estimates he dragged the man 20 feet down the tracks. When Chabo finally stopped, exhausted, the train had stopped too. The man’s legs were directly underneath the front of the train, but he was safe.

“I dragged him until the engine stopped,” he said.

On Wednesday, Sept. 26, Chabo was honored for his


city work crew cleaned debris and discarded hypodermic needles from the tunnel, she added.

In November, 2010, a 22-year-old man lost both of his arms in the same Olympia railroad tunnel when a Tacoma Rail train ran him over as he slept on the tracks.

During a visit to the tunnel on Tuesday, a man was walking through the tunnel from Cherry Street to where it ends near Capitol Lake. A “no trespassing” sign is posted, but frequently ignored.

Chabo said he understands why homeless people would want to enter the tunnel if they have nowhere else to go, because it’s dry and can offer some protection from the elements. But he said being stuck in a railroad tunnel could easily kill someone.

Tacoma Rail trains drive through the tunnel twice athe peaceful protest turned the tide in Tunisia and Egypt.

That pattern has worked in Libya up to a point. Elements of the Libyan military have joined the opposition. But though he is isolated by the world and cornered in Tripoli, Muammar Qaddafi is defended by powerful private army.

Even that army, however, is made up of individuals whose thinking may change as they realize the hopelessness of Qaddafi's endgame.


As the NBA regular season tipped off in the United States and Canada, fans in China were left in the dark, as state television decided against airing the games in the aftermath of a recent controversy stemming from a general manager's tweet supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Chinese fans were unable to watch the defending-champion Toronto Raptors take on the New Orleans Pelicans and the Los Angeles Lakers play the Los Angeles Clippers, according to ESPN.

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CCTV usually has shown the league’s opening night games but pulled the broadcast over the tweet sent by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey earlier this month. The league has been immersed in controversy ever since.

Tencent, the NBA’s streaming partner, reduced itsArsene Wenger's side head to the North West hoping to end a poor run at the Theatre of Dreams.

On Sunday they head to Old Trafford to face their old nemesis Manchester United. The Gunners don’t have the greatest record up there, having not won at the Theatre of Dreams in the league since 2006.

There have also been some horrendous results and performances up there, including a 6-1 defeat in 2001 and the 8-2 demolition in 2011.

This year however, for the first time in a while, Arsenal travel to Manchester higher in the table than their rivals, and face probably the weakest United side since Sir Alex Ferguson retired.

Because of this, the gunners should be confident going into the game, and there are a number of ways they can


go about trying to frustrate and defeat the red devils.

Start fast, Score Early

One of Arsene Wenger’s sides best performances this season was the reverse fixture at the Emirates. The Gunners pressed explosively, and scored three times in the opening twenty minutes.

Two Alexis Sanchez goals, with a Mesut Ozil finish in-between, meant the plan for the rest of the game was simplified; defend as a unit and fight for the clean sheet.

Sanchez scored two stunning goals to shock United earlier this season. Photo: the Guardian

The early goals also meant United would have to come out and play higher up the field to get back into the game, leaving more room for Arsenal to counter attack.

The Gunners have shown in other big matches that they can soak up pressure afterIn United’s clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, he was caught out of position for Diego Costa’s extra time winner.

On the other side, 21-year-old Donald Love only made his debut for the first team in the defeat to Sunderland on the 13th of February, so his lack of Premier League experience is definitely something that Arsenal can exploit.

One of the positions where Arsenal have an abundance of pace and quality is in wide areas, with players such as Sanchez, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain and Joel Campbell. Not forgetting Hector Bellerin at right back, who has 44 Premier League appearances to his name, who could easily cause the young full-backs a large amount of trouble, by getting in behind and making late runs past the wingers.

The game might


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he needed to keep the museum afloat.

He ended up putting signs all over New York announcing a free concert in front
of the museum. He knew that being the summer time, lots of people wouldn't be
able to resist the combination of free music played outdoors on a warm summer
night.

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and after a few minutesOTTAWA – Science Minister Kirsty Duncan has been sworn in to the Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities portfolio, during a ceremony Monday morning at Rideau Hall.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tapped Duncan to take on the additional minister position following Liberal MP Kent Hehr’s resignation from cabinet pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

"I am committed to serving as Minister of Sport and Disabilities, and continuing on my role as Minister of Science. I'm looking forward to serving all the communities and to moving forward on our shared goals and our common interests," Duncan told reporters on Parliament Hill on Sunday.


Penguins adapt to warm climate

A colony of Antarctic penguins could be excused for feeling like climate change's big winners.

A study has found a group of Adelie penguins on Beaufort Island in the Ross Sea, 3500km south of New Zealand, has boosted its numbers as nearby glaciers have receded.

A team of United States and New Zealand-based scientists has used aerial photographs from as far back as 1958 and modern satellite imagery to measure nesting areas and population.

"Population size varied with available habitat, and both increased rapidly since the mid-1980s," the team found. Numbers in the colony increased by 84 per cent as habitat grew by 71 per cent.

Between 1983-2010, habitat grew by 20 per cent as a snow-ice field near the colony retreated more than 500m. The researchers saytheir findings are different to what could be expected in other Adelie penguin habitats, where warm temperatures are causing population decline.

The team found average temperatures at the US's nearby McMurdo Station had increased by one degree Celsius between 1958 and 2010, most of it between 1980-2000.

They said temperatures in the October-December snow melt period had increased 3.2 degrees.

"Our results are in line with predictions that major ice shelves and glaciers will retreat rapidly elsewhere in the Antarctic," the researchers said in the journal PLOS ONE.

An increased prevalence of silverfish, which are eaten by the penguins, could also have contributed to the thriving population.

Fishing for Antarctic toothfish has reduced the competition for silverfish, meaning more food for the penguin colony.


It seems that White Washing movies is not just an American phenomenon.

The Asian Australian community is calling out director Geoff Davis for casting his son Josh as Billy Sing in a new mini-series. Chinese Australian Billy Sing fought at Gallipoli as a sniper and racked 201 confirmed kills. He is a rare historical hero for the Chinese Australian community. And now he’ll be portrayed by a White man.

When asked to respond about the casting gaff, Geoff Davis lamented that he could not find an Asian actor that could fill the role of Billy Sing’s father so instead, he cast veteran Australian actor Tony Bonner for the part.

Asking Tony to play it as Chinese would not only have been racist and demeaning. It was also financially irrelevant — wein the greater metropolitan Detroit area.

Although some departments of the Observer are unionized, the employees in the business office are

not. Complainant Anne Grabda (“Grabda”) and Gregway worked in the business office. This case

concerns whether the Observer violated the NLRA in laying off Complainant Grabda and in

interrogating Gregway and Grabda during discovery for a state-court lawsuit.

       A. 1997 Union Campaign

       During a 1997 union campaign, several employees from the business office met with

representatives from a union that represented the Observer’s editorial department employees. Jean

Podrasky (“Podrasky”), Grabda, and Gregway held meetings of union supporters at their homes.

       The Observer opposed the union campaign. As detailed in the Administrative Law Judge’s

(“ALJ”) decision, the


perception that they supported the union during the 1997

campaign among the business office employees.

       Attorney Mark Heusel (“Heusel”) represented the Observer in the Podrasky and Egnatowski

litigation. In February 2001, Heusel deposed Podrasky. During her deposition, Podrasky listed

several business office employees who were involved in the unsuccessful 1997 union campaign,

including Grabda, Gregway, and Lucy Caulford (“Caulford”). On May 15, 2001, Heusel received

a witness list from counsel for Podrasky and Egnatowski. The witness list included the names of

business office employees, who were potential witnesses. After receiving the witness list, Heusel

sought to interview several business office employees, including Grabda and Gregway.

       C. Heusel and Gorno’s Interviews

       In August 2001, Human Resources Director Gornoprojects in the past. The album contains six improvised ambient pieces, mastered by Dirk Serries and is released on Overgaauw's imaginary label Longstreet Records.

The music on this album is introspective, contemplative and occasionally dark. The palette of sounds is limited, unusually for a keyboard player, but the sound design is carried out with great taste and with stunning attention to detail. You won't hear typical synthesizer sounds here, but this has the effect of allowing the listener to focus solely on the performances. A great deal of the music's mesmerizing vibe draws on the fact that it is played in real-time. While some other players use multi tracking to layer different shades of sound, Overgaauw chooses to work with interactive live looping, which means sidestepping the usual linear


production and mixing scenario, to give birth to the music as it manifests itself in real time.

"59 airplanes waiting for New York" will be available as a CD in a luxury digisleeve package from the Premonition Factory website and as a digital download from all good online retailers. A promo performance has been scheduled for February 20 with special guest Dirk Serries' Microphonics as support. Premonition Factory will also perform at the Antwerp Live Looping Festival on March 6 and the Ambient-Art festival in Innsbruck, Austria, later this year.

If you're interested in ambient, soundscapes, drones and experimental music, this festival might be something for you. We have a fantastic program for the 2010 edition of this festival. Checkout the festival website for bio's of all the artists. Thanksutilization of opening members forming a part of the mold. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the one-piece block is made interlocking by the use of a socket cavity and channel arrangement formed within the block for capturing therein the enlarged end of a connector member. The connector member is constructed of a high impact plastic having an elongate midsection with enlarged ends. The other end of the connector member is captured in a similar socket cavity and channel arrangement of a neighboring block.
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His obstruction as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee would be historic, and according to legal experts is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Iowans have responded by gathering petition signatures (Why Courts Matter Iowa has gathered more than 7,500), rallying, delivering copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Senator, and taking to Twitter as well, sending a straightforward message with the hashtag: #DoYourJob.

Senator Grassley's Twitter feed is perhaps the most well-known among Senators, because he tweets for himself. And he tweets often. The #DoYourJob tweets appear to be getting through to Senator Grassley, because last night (Monday, March 14) he started using the hashtag #DoingMyJob in response.

Almost immediately, Grassley was sent a number of replies. The bottom line: no one was buying what he was trying to sell.simultaneously, in someone else’s past; and that historical time is not necessarily distributed evenly – there are places in the world that are genuinely not backward but just before.

Your father died when you were six years old. What had his occupation been?

I’m not actually sure what his function was. He was an executive for a very large construction company that built federal infrastructure in the South, much of it military and quite a lot of it to do with the development of the atomic bomb. After the war, they started building the scratch-built suburbs that became much of what the world thought of as the United States in the Sixties.

I went from living on an extraordinarily primitive and isolated rented farm in Tennessee to what had been the


The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has filed charge sheet against 10 persons allegedly belonging to ISIS for attempting to mass-killing devotees at the 400-year-old Shree Mumbreshwar Temple in Mumbra. They hade planned to poison the maha prasad during the Shrimadh Bhagwat Katha organised at the temple in December last year. The 10 terrorists were arrested in January this year by the ATS.

Around 40,000 devotees had consumed the prasad that day.

The charge sheet said that the members of the organisation were inspired by the absconding Radical Islamist preacher, Zakir Naik. The controversial Islamic preacher, Naik is being probed by Indian agencies in terror-related cases since 2016. Zakir Naik had fled the country following the 2016 Dhaka terror attack where the terrorists claimed to be admirers of Naik. He iswanted in India for money laundering, hate speech and other offences of promoting communal hatred.

According to the charge sheet, one of the accused named Talha Potrik was the mastermind behind the purported plan of mass-killing the devotees which were foiled by the Maharashtra ATS, after which they were arrested in January 2019.

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The ATS identified another accused, Abu Hamza as the leader of the group, and said in the charge sheet that the terrorist had conducted blast trials in the hills near Mumbra bypass. Besides these two, the other accused have been identified as Mohsin Khan alias Abu Marya, Atai Waris Abdul Rashid Shaikh alias Mazhar, Mohammad Takky Khan alias Abu Khalid, Mushahed Ul-Islam, Jamman Khutepad alias Abu Kital, Salman Khan alias Abu Ubeda, and Fahad Ansari.


and poison through the ‘Military Science’ channel of Daesh (ISIS) on Telegram.

The ATS also recorded statements of six people who claimed that the accused had tried to radicalise them. However, the agency added IPC section 201(causing disappearance of evidence of offence) to its case after the agency gathered that the accused had deleted their Telegram accounts in an attempt to destroy vital evidence against them.

“Mohsin Khan alias Abu Marya had organised a group, Ummat-E-Mohammaddiya, on social media to share the ideology of Daesh, and only reliable persons with similar thoughts were admitted in the group. Members of the group were in contact with foreign-based handlers. Marya had also attended physical training sessions conducted at a stadium at Kausa-Mumbra to tackle the hardships in the Daesh battlefield. He wasthe Hand will think their missing agents left and died someplace else. Opening credits.

Joy is berating Ward for his jonesing addict bullshit from the night before, (my brother OD’d in 2001, trust me lady, chewing an addict out ain’t gonna help shit), and Ward tells her he’s under control and to back off. Joy storms out when he refuses to tell her who keeps calling him. After she leaves Ward finally takes Harold’s call and Harold needs him. Ward says he’ll be right there.

Colleen is tending to Danny’s wounds and filling him in on the Hand kidnapping the Chemist again. She reiterates her previous position that his accepting the challenge was stupid, and that it sounds like it was rigged from the start. The forced romantic tension again


He tells Ward to get them to Central Park where the police will find them once he’s done destroying any identifiable features. Ward is, understandably, very reluctant to be a part of this, but he nontheless gives in to his dad’s wishes and after loading up his car downs more pills, and I’m still waiting for him to cave in and take the heroin. He drives them to a wooded area and starts talking to one of the corpses as if responding to a conversation, and damn dude be trippin’. He drags the bodies into a pond and gets back in his car. After checking his phone and texting someone, presumably Harold, he drives off.

Colleen wakes up to find Danny staring out the window, finding the city verypeaceful in the morning hours. He awkwardly hints that she took his virginity and that he enjoyed it, and she says some cheesy stuff about him not having to wear any mask of bravado . Later Danny is back at the office and Joy hands him a bullshit apology statement she wants him to read to dig the company out of the pr nightmare he caused by being a decent human being with a shred of compassion. He balks, and Joy gives him a chewing out for not taking his responsibilities seriously, when he sees Madame Gao casually stroll into his office. plays her skeevy head games with him and drips with the condescending arrogance that makes you want to throat punch an elderly woman. She tells him


status update on their drug operations through Rand. They expect to cover the entire Eastern Seaboard in a view months. Danny listens in horror but keeps quiet. Gao gets up to leave but pauses a moment. She leaves anyway, and anny approaches the blonde woman who gave Gao the update. He tells her to leave the company and run. She says they’ll find her. He says he’ll find them first.

Colleen is practicing with the repaired combat dummy and a man at the door teases her about her form. She clearly knows this man, whom she calls Akudo. They hug, and talk about Danny being the Iron Fist. We’re FINALLY given a reason for her until now unexplained attraction to Danny; she already knew about the Iron Fist anddeclined. He checks his bank account and finds it’s been completely emptied out. He tells the driver to stop the car. Meanwhile Danny and Colleen are at the restaurant talking with the Triad, trying to convince them to join the fight. He tells them point blank Gao will kill them within the week, but they fear HIM, If the TRriad fights with him, they can strike a blow. Elsewhere Joy is in her office when they greedy black guy on the board comes in and tells her the board met without her and that she, Ward and Danny were ousted in an emergency vote to keep them from letting Danny interfere in their business plans anymore. Joy is speechless.

The Triad raid a drug lab and lay waste to


as Colleen and Danny make their way deeper into the building trying to find Madame Gao, and instead find the chemist. He’s dying, and mumbles an apology for telling her how to make the heroin. He dies in Danny’s arms after telling him where Gao went, and Danny angrily realizes that it’s a city in China and it’s where his father was going when the plane crashed.

Ward storms into the penthouse to yell at Harold about his emptied accounts, and Harold says he knew about Ward embezzling that money and cut him off to stop him from ruining his plan to free them from the Hand. Ward tells Harold he was happy the day he died, and Harold punches him in the ribs. He tells Ward that hecreated him and he belongs to Harold. He turns his back on Ward to tell him about everything he found on the tablet Danny brought him, and Ward snaps completely and stabs him to death. He disposes of Harold in the same spot he dumped the Hand bodies, and the episode closes with Ward driving his car and lapsing into a creepy as hell slasher smile with a dash of Kubrick stare thrown in.

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ACLU National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi delivered a statement at the U.N. Human Rights Council today calling on the U.S. government to provide transparency and accountability in its targeted killing program. While noting that targeted killings may be lawful under some exceptional circumstances, Shamsi emphasized that:

“The United States has cobbled together its own legal framework for targeted killing, with standards that are far less stringent than the law allows. Senior U.S. government officials have claimed self-defense and law of war authority to target and kill suspected terrorists in states with which and in which the United States is not at war, based on largely secret legal criteria, entirely secret evidence, and a secret process.”

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With Hurricane Irma bearing down on the southeastern coast so soon after the devastating onslaught of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, the economic cost of severe weather has been made painfully clear this summer. In the United States, much of this cost is borne by the National Flood Insurance Program, which already owed the Treasury $23 billion before Harvey's landfall. Congress is nonetheless poised to once again temporarily reauthorize the program without any long-term plan for stabilizing its finances.

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George Michael will not face any charges after falling out of a moving car on a motorway.

The 49-year-old singer has escaped a fine for failing to have his seatbelt fastened when he tumbled out of a Range Rover at 70mph on the busy M1 in Hertfordshire, south east England, last month, which led to him spending 13


days in hospital being treated for head injuries.

LONDON (Reuters) - British singer George Michael has received medical treatment after a car crash on Thursday, his publicist said. The 49-year-old former Wham! frontman was being treated for "minor cuts and bruises" after the accident, Michael's spokeswoman said. "George Michael was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a traffic accident yesterday evening, no third party was involved," a spokeswoman said on Friday. "He is being treated for superficial cuts and bruises but is fine." British media reported that the accident occurred just outside London on a motorway during rush hour. ...

George Michael finally has his freedom ... from a British hospital bed ... where he's spent the last 2 weeks recovering from head injuries sustained in a nasty carwreck.Michael's people released a statement on his official website ... saying, "We…

George Michael was almost ''killed'' by a passing motorist when he fell out of his car.

The 49-year-old singer was hospitalised last Thursday (16.05.13) following an accident on the UK's busy M1 motorway, which saw him tumble out of the passenger side of a Range Rover, and driver Ben Quince, 37, had to swerve frantically on the road to avoid running over the star.

George Michael faces police questioning over his car accident last week.

The 49-year-old singer is still being treated in hospital after falling out of the passenger side of a Range Rover on the busy M1 motorway last Thursday (16.05.13) and officers investigating the incident are keen to establish exactly what happened, having already spoken to the


car driver.

The 49-year-old singer is being kept under medical supervision in a specialist trauma centre in London after sustaining head injuries last week when he fell out of a car at 70mph on the M1 motorway in Hertfordshire, England.

The 49-year-old singer was treated for minor injuries following an accident on the M1 last week, and a passing motorist has revealed the 'Careless Whisper' hitmaker was left covered in blood after taking a tumble from a silver Range Rover, which was driving at around 70mph as he tried to close its door properly.

The 49-year-old singer was a passenger in a vehicle travelling on the M1 motorway in England last night (16.05.13) and was left with minor injuries in the collision which occurred at approximately 5:50pm.

George Michael was airlifted toa hospital yesterday after reportedly sustaining a head injury in a single-car accident in England ... but doctors say he's expected to be OK. According to the singer's rep, Michael was a passenger in a Range Rover…

The 'Shoot the Dog' hitmaker is auctioning off a selection of images of pooches owned by himself and other musicians and crew on his 'Symphonica' tour to raise money for the Mayhew Animal Home in London.

The British singer has been forced to cancel his Australian 'Symphonica' tour dates in November as he has decided to receive professional help for ''major anxiety'' following his traumatic battle with pneumonia late last year.


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The Millennium Generation cannot be understood with out additionally understanding of the technology of the twenty first century. This era, greater than any other, has been utterly enveloped in technology. They have likely had their births introduced on the Internet. They have never recognized a time without instantaneous messaging, social media, actual-time games, world interconnection and lots of different marvels caused by technology. In truth, the Millennium Generation cannot start to grasp a time when technology was not a significant part of nearly the whole lot that goes on in the world.

The foremost proponent of exponential progress is the inventor, futurist and visionary Ray Kurzweil, who has documented with quite a fewRepublic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet on the Outer Rim. Taking place in the aftermath of the Rebel victory in the Battle of Endor, players will experience the events that created the massive, battle-scarred landscape of Jakku shown in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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ORIGINAL STORY: Upcoming shooter Star Wars: Battlefront has a 40-player cap, according to a report by the Associated Press.

The AP confirms the yesterday's release date leak of 17th November 2015 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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 Non-violent, peaceful protest accomplished almost all of the changes in Eastern Europe (#23).
 The events of 1989 would be unthinkable without prayer and trust in God (#25).
 The events of 1989 illustrate opportunities for human freedom to cooperate with the plan of God who acts in history (#26).
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Entertainment lawyer Neil Meyer revealed Sheridan's difficulty finding an agent or employment as part of his testimony in the actress'


Arab Soccer in Israel

Soccer may contribute to the integration of Arabs as individuals into Israeli society--but it simultaneously blurs their national identity.

To bring this point home, the median number of residents of settlements represented in the National League in 1997-98 was about 154,000; in the second division, the median was about 50,000; and in the third division, and 29,000. In contrast, the Arab teams represented much smaller settlements: In the 1997-98 season, three Arab teams played in the second division, representing settlements whose residents numbered between 15,000 to 25,000; in the third division, ten settlements were represented, whose median number of residents was about 13,000.

Also, Arab fans' interest in their teams rose during the 1990s in comparison with Jewish fans, demonstrated by the large number of tickets soldby Arab teams relative to Jewish ones.

The success of Arab teams was accompanied by the success of the individual players--more and more Arabs earned positions on Israel's senior teams and even on the national squad. As I explain below, because of the symbolic power of soccer, this multidimensional success confronts the Arab fans with critical questions about identity.

An Arab Presence

Arabs in Israel are socially inferior. This applies to politics, economy, education, and in practically every realm where they compete with Jewish citizens. Soccer, therefore, constitutes a unique subsphere of Israeli public life where Arab citizens have made remarkable achievements.

In any situation of group conflict, it can be said that the empowerment of minorities in the general public sphere is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, such empowerment


has its "subversive" aspect, which is identified with separatist tendencies or an aspiration to construct isolated social conclaves. On the other hand, when this empowerment is achieved within the framework of a state-oriented institution, it reaffirms the legitimacy of the majority's domination and represents the society's integrative tendencies.

The success of minorities in certain sports often turns the sports arena into a key location for the expression of nationalist feelings. For example, during athletic performances, well-known soccer teams bear the flag of their supporters' separate national identities. The Celtic soccer team in Glasgow represents the Irish-Catholic minority in the city, and the Athletic Bilbao team represents the Basque minority in Spain. The Barcelona soccer team represents Spain's Catalonian region, and al-Wahdat--the Palestinian team in Jordan--gives its fans an opportunityspecimens from India, and we thank Vishal Bhave for his help collecting slugs in the Andaman Islands. We thank the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Republic of Indonesia (Ristek-Dikti) for issuing a research permit to BD (Ristek \#134/SIP/FRP/E5/Dit.KI/VI/2017). We also wish to thank the Universitas Malikussaleh, North Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, for being our homebase institution in Indonesia. This work was supported by the Eberly College of Science at the Pennsylvania State University and by a REVSYS (Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics) award to BD from the US National Science Foundation (DEB 1419394).

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally and Mary Kay Place star in the story of a marriage that thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter and getting smashed.

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Islam's tradition of critical thinking, known as ijtihad
(pronounced ij-tee-had). I realize that this word sounds frighteningly
like "jihad" to many non-Arab ears. In fact it comes from the same
root--to struggle. But unlike any notion of violent struggle, ijtihad is all about struggling to reason. In the early centuries of Islam, thanks to the spirit of ijtihad, 135 schools of thought thrived.

Toward the end of the 11th century, the gates of ijtihad
closed for political reasons. The fragile Muslim empire--from Iraq in
the East to Spain in the West--was experiencing a series of internal
convulsions. Dissident denominations were popping up and declaring
their own runaway governments. So the main Muslim leader, known as the
caliph, cracked down politically. Within a few generations, Islam saw
the closing of something else--the


things.

I can find nowhere where Judaism ever refers to the term ijtihad... only in Islam...however it is a good thing, and good to know about, so I am sharing...

Islam's tradition of critical thinking, known as ijtihad
(pronounced ij-tee-had). I realize that this word sounds frighteningly
like "jihad" to many non-Arab ears. In fact it comes from the same
root--to struggle. But unlike any notion of violent struggle, ijtihad is all about struggling to reason. In the early centuries of Islam, thanks to the spirit of ijtihad, 135 schools of thought thrived.

Toward the end of the 11th century, the gates of ijtihad
closed for political reasons. The fragile Muslim empire--from Iraq in
the East to Spain in the West--was experiencing a series of internal
convulsions. Dissident denominations were popping up and declaring
their own runaway governments.So the main Muslim leader, known as the
caliph, cracked down politically. Within a few generations, Islam saw
the closing of something else--the gates of ijtihad. The 135
schools of thought were whittled down to only four, in which
conservative Sunni teachings reigned. This in turn produced a rigid
reading of the Quran as well as a series of legal opinions known as fatwas
that scholars could no longer overturn or even question, but only
imitate. With some glorious exceptions, that's what Muslim scholars
have been doing to this day--imitating each other's medieval
prejudices, without much introspection. In fact, after the gates of ijtihad
were closed, innovation was deemed a crime. Tolerance took a severe
beating as result. One of the enduring lessons of history is that
whenever an empire becomes insular to "protect" itself, intellectual
decline and cultural intolerance are


Q:

Why, apart from religious reasons, might someone in thirteenth century England give land to a Church?

In 1285 the following grant of land was made:

Be it known that I, Robert son of Alan de Waley have given for the salvation of my soul and of  my ancestors and successors to God and the Blessed Mary and to the lamp of the Church of Waley ... that land called Magna Croke at Drudale in pure and perpetual almo so that Henry de Bethinton, his heirs and assignees may have and hold the said land of God etc rendering annually to God etc one penny on the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary.

The effect of this seems to be that the land became, in effect, the property ofpurchased cocaine and shared it with the seller and Ms. Patillar.  In the winter of 1983, Ms. Patillar purchased cocaine for the defendant, received $700 from him upon delivery which she, in turn, delivered to the seller.  Additionally, an employee of one of defendant's friends testified that defendant offered cocaine to her in 1983.  In April 1985, defendant met Ms. Patillar and a friend at a club in Oklahoma City.  The three went to Ms. Patillar's apartment to share a "rock" (a form of cocaine) defendant had brought from Tulsa.

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The defendant approached Ms. Patillar several times, allegedly to buy cocaine, after she agreed to cooperate with the Government.  In June 1985, at the request of the FBI, Ms. Patillar recorded a telephone call


from the defendant in which she asked him if he could get some cocaine.  He replied that his sources in Tulsa were no longer available.  Apparently Ms. Patillar and the defendant communicated after that but did not meet again for nine months.

5
On March 24, 1986, Ms. Patillar met the defendant at his office.  She was wearing a concealed tape recorder and a body transmitter provided by the FBI.  The two discussed defendant's unavailable sources in Tulsa.  Defendant told Ms. Patillar he had $50;  she told him she could get some money if he had a source for cocaine.  The two then went to an apartment belonging to Edwynna Royal to buy cocaine, but no one was home.  The couple separated,The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is presently undergoing dramatic changes in the sociopolitical domain. The drive to modernise the kingdom and open it to the world is spearheaded by the young and ambitious Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS). He is seen as the mastermind behind Riyadh's strategy to revamp the Saudi economy and limit the power of the clerics over state affairs.

"We are returning to what we were before - a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world," MBS said to international investors in Riyadh in October 2017.

Explaining his ambition to "return" Saudi Arabia to the path of moderate Islam, the crown prince told the Guardian that "what happened in the last 30 years is not Saudi Arabia." He explicitly


known for the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by a group of insurgents whose goal was to overthrow the House of Saud for its perceived corruption and emulation of the West.

On November 20, around 500 armed men, led by Juhayman al-Otaybi, a Saudi Bedouin and former National Guard serviceman, seized the Grand Mosque and proclaimed that his brother-in-law Mohammed al-Qahtani was the Mahdi, or the saviour, who would cleanse the Muslim world of Western corruption.

Although the events of the 1970s indeed affected Saudi Arabia, the country did not become ultraconservative then.

During a two-week siege, hundreds of pilgrims, fighters and members of the Saudi security forces were killed. Following the revolution in Iran earlier the same year, there was a great deal of speculation that the seizureof the Grand Mosque was directed from Tehran, a suspicion that was later dispelled. The self-proclaimed Mahdi, Mohammad al-Qahtani, and the leader of the mosque takeover, al-Otaybi, could not have been inspired by the events in Iran simply because they considered the Shia heretics and their religious ambitions were irrelevant to them.

At the time when the Grand Mosque seizure took place, the Saudi monarchy was facing a spate of instability. Four years earlier, King Faisal (ruled 1964-1975), who had pushed for modernisation of the kingdom, launching the first television broadcast, implementing soicioeconomic reforms and promoting public education (including girls' schools), had been assassinated by one of his nephews. Most of Saudi's religious establishment had not welcomed these modernisation initiatives.

The seizure of the Grand Mosque shook the Kingdom of


Saudi Arabia. And when Ayatollah Khomeini, who had just overseen the passing of an Islamic republic constitution in Iran, blamed the seizure on the US and Israel, and people across the Muslim world listened to him launching deadly protests, the House of Saud was terrified. These were signs that its authority in the Muslim world as the protector of the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina was under threat.

The House of Saud's response to the crisis was to roll back King Faisal's modernisation initiatives and empower the religious authorities. The government began enforcing a strict religious code, the police cracked down on businesses not closing for the five prayers and women were virtually excluded again from public life. The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Preventionof Vice, commonly known as the religious police, visibly benefitted from the injections of government cash and took on a more prominent role in monitoring the lives of ordinary Saudis.

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Although the events of the 1970s indeed affected Saudi Arabia, the country did not become ultraconservative then. Its embrace of rigid interpretations of Islam goes as far back as the 18th century when the Saud family struck a deal with an ultraconservative Islamic scholar.

The Wahhab-Saud pact

Wahhabism, cited as the official Saudi religious doctrine for which the country's leadership has been so vehemently criticised and which MBS is looking to rebrand, is based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792).

Abd al-Wahhab was an Islamic scholar from the Nejd region of the Arabian Peninsula, an avid traveller and the


author of The Book of Unity, which was rejected by most of his contemporaries in Mecca and Medina. Abd al-Wahhab preached returning to the Quran and the Hadith, rejected religious innovation (bidaa) and advocated eliminating practices (such as Sufi rites and veneration of saints) that are not grounded in the Quran. He even accused other Muslims of being infidels for following practices that were, in his opinion, un-Islamic and called for strict adherence to traditional Islamic law (sharia).

There was nothing new in Abd al-Wahhab's teachings which were based on some old ideas and constituted a revival of the Hanbali doctrine in the most ultraconservative form. It was, however, his religious zeal that ultimately drove him close to the Saud family.

MBS's policies are catering to young Saudis, but theyunder Saudi rule. To this day, they legitimise the political power of the House of Saud by approving succession and endorsing the king's decisions. In exchange, the Sheikh family enjoys a privileged position in the state structures and plays a key role in the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Islamic Affairs.

A 'moderate' Saudi Arabia?

The Wahhab-Saud pact survived more than 250 years, guaranteeing religious legitimacy for Saudi power in the Arabian Peninsula. So has its time finally come? Has it run its course and is no longer needed by the House of Saud?

In the past few years, the Saudi authorities have been gradually and cautiously limiting the extent of the Sheikh family's power. In August


2010, for example, the late King Abdullah issued a decree that only state-vetted scholars were allowed to issue fatwas.

Under King Salman, and his son - MBS, more drastic measures have been taken. In April 2016, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice was stripped of arresting powers which curbed its policing functions. In December 2016, the king appointed more moderate clerics to the Council of Senior Scholars, the highest religious body in the country. And in 2017, music concerts were allowed, mixed public events for both genders were held, and cinemas were scheduled to reopen after 35 years.

However, the most monumental shifts are yet to take place in the Saudi power structure. The country's legal system operates within Islamic law, which is theTrippie Hippie

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able to use voice-activated technology to dictate their writing, with the goal of decreasing anxiety and building confidence.

Active Voice, Part II – A grant of $1,211 will provide new technology to the Bexley Middle School Active Voice documentary project, first introduced by Dr. Linda Kelly in 2012 and supported by a BEF grant. The semester-long project has continued with 7th and 8th grade students in Language Arts gifted classes conducting subject research and then creating documentaries that are shown at the Bexley Middle School Film Festival at the Drexel Theater.

Freedom Sings – Cassingham music specialist Diane Goodney will use a $4,350 grant to bring the Freedom Sings program of the Newseum to Bexley elementary and middle school students. The program explores the First Amendment through music and culminatesarticle, the 29-year-old freely acknowledged that he is "still developing" and needs "to work on my striking."

And given that Rosholt was a three-time All-American wrestler at Oklahoma State, his grinding style is in no way unexpected. It's just that he is very, shall we say, committed to the style.

The most action-packed part of Rosholt's game might be his head, which he mashes into his opponent's head as a way of slowly eroding their will to live as they clinch together along the fence. Rosholt has powerful hands (six of his seven stoppage wins came from punches), but generally speaking, they are only a tool that allows him to close distance so that striking need not occur any longer than it must. Once he achieves a dominant position on


choosing to take a knee on every offensive possession until it was time to punt, pinning opponents deep in their own territory time and time again and stopping their forward movement to the point that it eventually got into field-goal range by attrition.

It takes discipline and will, on top of talent. Rosholt has those things. He also clearly has the psychological makeup it takes to impose such a plan, which requires an inability or unwillingness to consider the feelings of the paying public.

So, more power to him. But if his unappealing style continues alongside an insistence that all critics are losers living in their parents' basements, he could quickly become a notably unpopular figure.

As history has shown, that in itself can become a source of marketability. He certainlyBusty Rachel Roxxx pleases horny professor Danny Mountain and makes him cum in herRachel is a brilliant student that had been secretly in love with her new teacher, Mr. Mountain. She's always answering his question about history to impress him and at the same time she keeps flashing him and insinuating. When class is over, Rachel is really determine to show how much she cares about his class and his cock, and she lets him do whatever he wants with her and her little tight pussy.


it started this lawsuit.

B. Defendant's Business

Defendant The Tunnel, Inc. began in the spring of 1986 to renovate at a cost of about $3 million a previously unused train tunnel at 27th Street and 12th Avenue. The renovations included installing a 2,000-square-foot dance floor and state-of-the-art sound and computerized lighting equipment that converted the 740-foot-long tunnel into a night club and discotheque. A trademark search indicated that the proposed name, "Tunnel," was available and defendant has operated under that name at least since January 1987 when plaintiff's application for a preliminary injunction was denied.
Defendant's "Tunnel" can accommodate more than 2,000 patrons in its main room and an additional 400 in its basement. Defendant cultivates an image of glamor, and seeks to attract both those whose names appear on theseeks to attract.
Defendant caters almost exclusively to a gay clientele one night a week  Sunday, which is a "gay night" at many New York City discotheques. Although defendant at one time attempted to attract gay customers on Thursday nights as well, that effort was unsuccessful. According to the testimony at trial, this failure came about because Thursday night was not exclusively or even primarily a "gay night" at defendant's "Tunnel" and gay customers felt uncomfortable in a "mixed" setting. Trial Tr. 154 Defendant has contracted with Steven Cohn, a major and recognized promoter of gay events, to run its Sunday night functions. Cohn maintains various categories of mailing lists, including one for gay events, and regularly sends out about 15,000 invitations to the Sunday night functions at


arguably reflected the callers' belief that they were calling defendant's "Tunnel." These calls were most frequent at the end of December 1987 and the beginning of January 1988, and diminished thereafter. Again, although the bartender told Ader about the calls, he was never told to keep any record of them or to try to determine the identity of the callers and the source of their confusion, if such it was. The same bartender testified also to having told third parties he worked at the "Tunnel," and later being told by them that they had looked for him without success at defendant's establishment. Once more, the identity of these declarants was not disclosed nor was any attempt made to secure their testimony. Trial Tr. 211-16
Finally, one witness called byof benefitting from the pains of others. He won the East Renfrewshire seat in an election caused by the incumbent, Tory Allan Stewart, suffering a nervous breakdown and being hospitalised. His rapid ascent to PPS for the Secretary of State for Scotland came about because Frank Roy was forced to resign following a row over a visit by Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to Scotland.

6/ Having apologised on behalf of politicians for the expenses scandal, it was subsequently revealed that Jim had claimed expenses in excess of £1m between 2001 and 2012 and that he had rented out his own London flat while claiming rent on another property. He also, for a period, designated his East Renfrewshire home as his second home and reclaimed the mortgage payments of £780


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Biography
Born in Warren County, Virginia, Ashby attended Washington and Lee University studying the classics, modern languages and chemistry, and studied medicine at the University of Maryland, from which he graduated with an M.D. in 1873. He practiced as a gynecologist. In 1877, he was one of the founders of the Maryland Medical Journal. He held various positions at the University of Maryland Medical Department, before leaving in 1878. Under Ashby's leadership, the Women's Medical College was established in Baltimore in[Spanish bibliographic production on AIDS. Bibliometric approach].
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(1994) (
Harris II
). We need not repeat those details here. In 1984, following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant was convicted of the murder of Jesse James, Sr., the owner of a tavern on the South Side of Chicago, and the attempted murder of Theresa Woods, who worked as a waitress at the tavern. Defendant also was convicted of one count of aggravated battery and two counts of attempted robbery in connection with this incident, which occurred on February 10, 1983. Defendant received the death penalty for the murder conviction and sentences of imprisonment for the remaining felonies.

During the pendency of his appeal, the United States Supreme Court decided
Batson v. Kentucky
, 476 U.S. 79, 90 L. Ed. 2d 69, 106 S. Ct.second capital sentencing hearing. According to the petition, defense counsel failed to call as a witness former Chicago police officer Phyllis Ham Garth, whose testimony defendant claims would have raised a reasonable doubt as to whether he acted with the mental state required to render him death eligible.

In addition, the amended post-conviction petition alleged that defendant was denied due process of law when the State knowingly presented false aggravation evidence at the second capital sentencing hearing and failed to turn over to defense counsel medical reports that would have shown the evidence to have been false. According to the amended petition, John Szumigala, who testified in aggravation at the hearing, exaggerated the extent of the injuries he suffered as the victim of a 1971 robbery for which defendant


of the allegations in his petition, defendant attached affidavits of the two venire members whose race had not been established at the first
Batson
hearing. Edward Shealy, one of these venirepersons, stated in his affidavit that he is African American, and Christine Riley Brown, the other venireperson, stated that she is Latino-American. Also attached were affidavits of investigators Jonathan Lyon, Appolon Beaudouin, Jr., and Edward Torres, as well as a copy of a Cook County circuit court record, all of which indicated that Brown appeared to be African American. Defendant also attached an affidavit of Michael Levitin, one of his attorneys at the
Batson
 hearing, stating that he had made no strategic decision not to present affidavits or other documentary evidence to establish the race of Shealy orworked for six years as a directory assistance operator for Illinois Bell. With regard to her place of residence, she agreed with the judge when he stated that she lived in “Hyde Park or Kenwood,” which are two neighborhoods in the same vicinity on Chicago’s South Side. Riley had a friend who was a lawyer. She had never spoken to this friend about her philosophies of law or law enforcement. Riley was separated from her husband, who had done auto body work during the time that they were together. Her nephew had been the victim of a crime. He was stabbed “about three months ago” in front of his house on the South Side of Chicago. Riley said “[i]t was a fight,” and she did not know “exactly


February 10, 1983, he was driving west on 63rd Street when, at about 4:15 or 4:25 a.m., he stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of 63rd and South State streets. While he was at the intersection, Johnson noticed a young man on foot who was headed north on State Street. The man, whom Johnson identified as defendant, stopped, turned, and looked back toward 64th Street. He then stepped around the corner, headed east, and stood behind a traffic control box. Johnson said he continued to watch defendant because he felt that there was “something wrong with this guy.” When the light changed, Johnson turned right and headed north on State Street. In his rearview mirror he saw defendant come across 63rd Street, step up onto thefive-ten to six foot, in his twenties, wearing a blue jean jacket [and] blue jeans, [with a] large, bushy Afro-style hairdo.” The Chicago police officers said the man was armed with a small caliber handgun. They then drove away.

Grady testified further that a short time later, at about 4:20 a.m., he and his partner were at the intersection of 63rd and State streets when they saw a man whom Grady identified as defendant running alongside Johnson’s car. The car was moving north on State Street. According to Grady, defendant had a handgun “openly displayed” in his right hand, and his left hand was on the car’s passenger-side door. The Conrail officers turned north onto State Street and pulled in front of Johnson’s car, which by now had stopped


so they returned to that area and parked in the mouth of an alley with the car facing outward toward the street. Defendant told Woods to go to the tavern and get the money, and he warned her that he would kill James if she did not return within three minutes. Woods then ran into the tavern, grabbed paper currency from the cash register, and went back outside. Emerging from the tavern, she noticed that the car had pulled out of the alley and was parked next to the curb. Woods walked to the driver’s side of the car, and defendant, who was still in the front passenger seat next to James, told her to get into the vehicle. James objected, asking why Woods had to get backin the car. Defendant told James to “shut up” and that “he was running this.” According to Woods, defendant then pulled James toward him so they were facing each other, and defendant shot James.

Woods attempted to run away from the car. As she was running she heard another gunshot and tripped and fell. She landed on her left side and rolled over onto her back. When she looked up, she saw defendant standing over her with the gun. Defendant said, “You bitch.” Woods raised her hand to protect herself, pleading with him not to shoot, and rolled over onto her stomach. Woods heard another shot and then lay motionless, pretending to be dead. A short time later she heard footsteps running from the scene. Woods got up, saw


that James was still alive, and noticed that the car had crashed into the window of a nearby storefront. She then ran into the tavern and called the police. It was then that she noticed she had been shot. The wound was in her right shoulder.

Also testifying at trial was Chicago police detective Geraldine Perry, who gave a somewhat different account of the incident. According to Perry, who spoke to Woods at Billings Hospital the day of the incident, Woods told Perry that when she emerged from the tavern with the money, she saw the car moving down the street and saw “some movement in the front seat of the car.” As Woods watched, she saw the car crash into the storefront. Woods did not tell Perry thatshe approached the driver’s side of the car or that she heard any words spoken by James or defendant.

At defendant’s second sentencing hearing, Woods gave essentially the same testimony that she gave at trial. She stated that when she emerged from the tavern with the money, the car in which Jesse James, Sr., and defendant were seated had already moved out of the alley and was parked next to the curb. Woods did not see the car moving, nor did she see the two persons in the front seat struggling. Woods also did not see the car go up over the curb and crash into the storefront window. It was not until after she had been shot that she noticed the car “had moved up into the building.”

In


order to impeach this testimony by Woods, the defense called Detective Perry, who also gave essentially the same testimony that she gave at trial. According to Perry, Woods said that when she emerged from the tavern, she observed the car moving slowly along the street, and she saw movement of the two persons in the front seat. Woods also told Perry that she saw the car go up over the curb and crash into the storefront window.

During argument in the first phase of the sentencing hearing, defense counsel referred to this testimony by Perry and stated:

“[It] suggests that there was a struggle going on in the car and that is certainly corroborated by the fact that the car rolled forward and crashed into a window. It contradicts anythe vehicle rolled forward when the driver lost control.”
Harris II
, 164 Ill. 2d at 349. In addition, we stated:

“Other evidence established that the shooting was not accidental. The defendant initially threatened to kill James and Woods because, he said, he had ‘nothing to lose.’ When Woods reentered the tavern to obtain money, the defendant said that he would kill James if she did not return shortly. When Woods came back to the car, the defendant rejected James’ plea that Woods be allowed to go, saying that he was ‘running this.’ After James was shot, the defendant straddled Woods, said to her, ‘You bitch,’ and shot her at close range.”
Harris II
, 164 Ill. 2d at 349.

At the conclusion of the second sentencing hearing, the circuit court judge


and two others grabbed him and dragged him under the bridge. The group robbed him of $40, a watch, two rings, and a coat. Defendant then punched Szumigala in the stomach several more times. At about this time, one of the other young men in the group told defendant that they had what they wanted and should leave. According to Szumigala, defendant replied: “No. I’m going to kill this guy.” Defendant then slammed Szumigala’s head into a brick wall, kicked him in the right eye, and kicked him again in the nose and forehead. Another member of the group rolled Szumigala over and said, “He’s dead.” Szumigala then “played dead” until he was sure the group was gone. He was subsequently taken to the hospital.

Szumigala said his handshim from pursuing his chosen career as a costume and set designer. Szumigala added that, since the incident, he has suffered recurring, “almost violent” headaches, as well as chronic dislocation of his right shoulder. In addition, he lost “a great deal of dental work on the right side of [his] face.” According to Szumigala, his teeth had to be wired following the beating. He also stated that he has difficulty reading for more than half an hour at a time because of pressure on his eyes.

Defense counsel attempted to impeach Szumigala with his 1971 testimony at trial in the robbery case. Szumigala was asked whether, during that testimony, he had stated that one of the young men who attacked him had said he was going to kill him.


Szumigala answered that he had said that. However, the State stipulated that such a statement did not appear in the transcript of the 1971 testimony.

The State introduced into evidence a certified statement of defendant’s conviction in the Szumigala robbery, as well as a certified statement of his conviction for a 1970 burglary for which he was sentenced to five years’ probation. Also introduced were certified statements of defendant’s convictions in two armed robberies.

Defendant himself made a statement on his own behalf during the sentencing hearing. He essentially denied having committed the present offenses, assuring the court repeatedly that he was not a violent person. On cross-examination, defendant was questioned about the 1971 robbery of John Szumigala. Defendant acknowledged that he was present at the scene on the nightOur Mission

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—Journal of America's Military Past

“This book, previously available only to Japanese readers, is an essential source for understanding the origins of Japan’s post?World War II defense forces and their role in United States-Japan security cooperation.”

—Roger Dingman, author of Deciphering the Rising Sun

“This memoir is an important record of Japanese-American military diplomacy that has oddly been available only in Japanese. The United States got the foundation for an army, but Kowalski,


who was deeply involved in this process, argues that American and Japanese officials sacrificed long-term interests for short-term gain. This topic is still a controversial one on both sides of the Pacific and Robert Eldridge has provided an enormous service in making this English translation available.”

—Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, associate professor, U.S. Naval War College, and author of Allies against the Rising Sun

Col. Frank Kowalski served as the Chief of Staff of the American military advisory group that helped establish the National Police Reserve, the predecessor to the Japan Self-Defense Forces during its first two years of existence. His work provides a detailed account of the manning, logistics, and personalities involved in standing up—on short notice—of a force of approximately 75,000, while sharing insights about the diplomatic, political, legal,and constitutional challenges his headquarters and his Japanese counterparts faced in rearming Japan in the wake of the sudden outbreak of the Korean War. Published in Japanese in 1969, this is the first English version of this edition, and includes a biographic section about Kowalski.

Col. Frank Kowalski, USA, and member of Congress from Connecticut, died in 1974. He was Chief Military Governor in Kyoto, Japan, 1948-49 and Deputy Chief of Civil Affairs in Japan 1950-52. Robert Eldridge is as the deputy assistant chief of staff for Marine Corps Installations Pacific. He is the co-editor and translator of Fighting Spirit.


of yet another busy week ( where is the time going ? )

A week of dance for K that ended on a huge high last night as we watched her dance her way through an amazing ballet routine, tap dance with such grace and style, recreate the "Waterloo" scene from Mama Mia ( her teacher for the week, worked on the film ) and an incredible finale from Chicago, that made me see how very grown up she has become suddenly, holding her own with a group made up mostly of 17 year olds.

She was wonderful and we all are so very proud.

Am I the only one longing for Autumn to blow in ?

I was reminded ( as if I need to be ) of my Autumn loveat HES FES, the better I feel !How we survived ... booking into a Premier Inn down the road and spending time with good friends.Would we go again ... NO.

So the last couple of weeks have been Swine Flu filled for atleast a couple of us at a time !Still, there was some fun had ... O loves harvesting from the garden, his joy at discovering potatoes is a delight, he holds each one up for us to see, beaming with pride.

K has been very busy with a week long Summer Music School.Her performance at the end of week concert, playing drums for the first time, blew us all away, fantastic.This week is drama at Lincoln Drill Hall and next week is dance with a team from London's


Jeremiah 10:10; Matthew 3:16–17; 28:19).

3. Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, shed His Blood on Calvary as a vicarious substitute, was buried, rose again bodily, and ascended to the Father according to the Scriptures (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18–25; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Hebrews 4:15).

4. Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity, very God, coexistent with the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit is the chief agent in regeneration, the chief convictor of sin, and the chief comforter of the believer. Simultaneous with regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the body of Christ. It is the privilege and duty of all the saved to beKABUL - An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban.A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, his severed head placed near his body to send a warning to police, said provincial governor spokesman Jawid Faisal.The brother of the boy, neither of whom were named by officials, was a member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a US-trained militia charged with making Afghans in Taliban strongholds, like Kandahar, feel more secure, Faisal said."It's a Taliban warning to the ALP and to others who support the government," Faisal said of the killing, which happened in


Kandahar's Panjwai district.Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf denied the group was involved.Separately, a 6-year-old girl was beheaded in eastern Kapisa province on Thursday, said provincial police chief Abdul Hamed."We are not sure if she was beheaded by her family or the Taliban, but we know the Taliban control the area," Hamed said of the killing in Jalukhil village. He added that he could not send investigators to the area out of fears for their safety.The murders follow the shooting or beheading of 17 young revelers attending a party in southern Helmand province this week, which officials said was the work of the Taliban, a charge the group also denied.That massacre raised fresh concerns about Taliban leaders' grip on their scattered fighters, amid on-again, off-again peace moves by the groupDETROIT -- The Indians will play the remaining 31 games in the regular season without the services of third baseman Jose Ramirez.

Ramirez underwent surgery Monday to have the hamate bone removed from his right hand and will miss the next five to seven weeks. The Indians regular season ends on Sept. 29. If they qualify for the postseason, perhaps Ramirez can help, but it appears his regular season has come to an end.

In the first inning Saturday, Ramirez swung at a 2-0 pitch against Kansas City and grimmaced in pain. He was removed from the game and an MRI revealed the break. He underwent surgery Monday in New York. Hand specialist Dr. Thomas Graham performed the surgery.

The Indians will fill in at third base with rookie Yu Chang


The vast majority of Americans probably had no idea that the US even had military troops participating in combat missions in Africa before the incident in Niger in the beginning of October that left four American soldiers dead. But now the Trump administration is already planning to escalate lethal military operations in the country where the attack occurred – all with little debate.

Donald Trump has been involved in a bizarre public feud with the families of the fallen soldiers, which has dominated headlines and cable television for weeks. But there has been far less pointed questions about why the US military is fighting in Niger at all, and yet it seems likely that there’s about to be more US military presence in the country that will only makematters worse.

Timeline How the controversy over Trump's condolence call unfolded Show Hide

Soldiers killed in Niger Four US army special forces troops and five soldiers from Niger die in an ambush during a joint patrol in the south-west of the country. The row begins Asked why he has not spoken about the incident, Trump discusses his calls to bereaved families, saying: “If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls – a lot of them didn’t make calls.” Trump drags White House chief of staff John Kelly into the developing row, saying: “You could ask Gen Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?”, a reference to the death of Kelly's son in Afghanistan. Trump phones the widow of Sgt La David Johnson


view that the Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed in 2001 for the war in Afghanistan, can be used to fight all sorts of wars throughout the world more than 16 years later.

US special forces deaths in Niger lift veil on shadow war against Islamists in Sahel Read more

Niger is the perfect illustration of the US’s permanent war posture around the world, where special forces fight various militants with little or no public scrutiny and no congressional authorization. The Obama administration announced in 2013 that they were sending 100 troops to Niger as “support for intelligence collection” with French troops in the region. By this year, that number had ballooned to 800, with almost no media attention before the deaths of the soldiers.

The White House routinelyanyone who had never seen a koala would surly agree that Sergeant Tucker looked just like one. His arms and legs were adorably too stumpy for his chubby core. He had deep brown eyes, and a warm aura which was often mistaken for a pleasant coat of plushy gray fur. Much like a koala, Tucker screamed himself to sleep every night.

In another epoch Tucker may have founded one of the gentler religions. One of the few that in no way revolved around stabbing people for any reason. His quiet, thoughtful nature would have served as a mirror to the inner compassion which glows deep in soul of all beings. He may have journeyed to mountain caves to contemplate the nature of happiness, empathy, and life. Generations after him


Senior National Security Agency official Rob Joyce said Thursday that he believes China is violating a 2015 agreement with the U.S. to end cyber economic espionage.

Then-President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a deal at the time to stop conducting cyber-enabled intellectual property theft. However, Joyce said at the Aspen Institute's Cyber Summit on Thursday that it "is clear they are well beyond the bounds of the agreement today that was forged between our two countries."

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Joyce, who served in the chief cybersecurity position in the White House before returning to the NSA in April, said he didn’t think reaching the agreement instead of imposing such sanctions against China at the time was a bad idea, noting that it had “a marked effect on how the Chinese wereFrom Project to Program: Tupange's Experience with Scaling Up Family Planning Interventions in Urban Kenya.
This paper describes how the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative in Kenya, the Tupange Project (2010-2015), successfully applied the ExpandNet approach to sustainably scale up family planning interventions, first in Machakos and Kakamega, and subsequently also in its three core cities, Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa. This new focus meant shifting from a "project" to a "program" approach, which required paying attention to government leadership and ownership, limiting external inputs, institutionalizing interventions in existing structures and emphasizing sustainability. The paper also highlights the project's efforts to prepare for the future scale up of Tupange's interventions in other counties to support continuing and improved access to family planning services in the new context of devolution (decentralization) in


West Liberty-Salem FFA students received several accolades at the state FFA Convention.

Mallary Caudill was elected to the office of state FFA Sentinel. The Ohio FFA officer team consists of six state FFA officers: state president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, reporter, sentinel and five vice presidents at large. The purpose of the Ohio FFA officer program is to provide effective leadership for the Ohio FFA Association. This can best be met by providing a motivational program for the membership and by being an instructional and developmental program for the state officers. Additionally, this program provides a public relations source for agricultural education and the FFA, a resource for teachers, and a positive image through a connection with individuals in agricultural education related organizations.

Kaeley Lattimer and Emily Heater received theirstate FFA Degrees. Naomi Williams, Kaeley Lattimer and Adayln Caudill were awarded gold ratings on their officer books. The gold rating is the highest award given.

The General Livestock judging team of Adayln Caudill, Mallary Caudill, Cooper Havens and Kayleigh Metz placed 8th in the state Livestock Judging Contest. They qualified to compete at The Stockman in Indiana a national contest.


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The Canadian Armed Forces has found no evidence of mistreatment of detainees by its U.S. Coast Guard partners during joint anti-smuggling operations on the high-seas following an internal investigation.

In June, The Current's Kristin Nelson and The Investigative Fund's Seth Wessler investigated the CAF's involvement in the joint operation known as Operation Caribbe.

Their documentary revealed that Canadian ships were involved in the interception of 38 alleged or convicted smugglers in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, who were eventually locked up in the U.S.

Several of those detainees told The Current they were insufficiently fed, were not told where they would be taken and were not allowed to contact attorneys, family members or consulates. Their accounts were corroborated by members of the U.S. Coast Guard and forensic psychologistCynthia Boyd, who interviewed several of the men and concluded that some exhibited symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Current's investigation followed a New York Times expose written by Wessler, which found that suspected smugglers were allegedly shackled by their ankles to the decks of ships and left there for weeks.

Following publication of the allegations of mistreatment from detainees, a Canadian naval officer spent 20 days this summer aboard a U.S. Coast Guard boat to get a "first-hand view of how they conduct the operation."

"We're quite confident — having done all of this work — that those allegations aren't founded, and in fact, the treatment of the detainees is quite perfectly reasonable, legal and ethical," said Rear-Admiral Brian Santarpia, chief of staff operations at the Canadian Joint Operations Command.

Santarpia


said they found no evidence of the alleged mistreatment that critics suggested may have violated international human rights obligations.

Canada's navy examined the U.S. Coast Guard's overall treatment of detainees, but it couldn't say if it looked into specific allegations made by detainees who were interviewed for the joint investigative story.

Rear-Admiral Brian Santarpia said the Canadian Armed Forces took reports of detainee mistreatment aboard U.S. Coast Guard vessels very seriously, but were reassured that the U.S. is acting 'legally and ethically' following a recent review. (Corporal Mélani Girard/Canadian Forces Support Unit)

The full breadth of the CAF investigation will not be made public, as it was conducted "for internal purposes," Santarpia told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.

Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada, said that is cause for concern.

"Idid not feel we received clear answers that give confidence that those allegations have been resolved."

'Those allegations aren't founded'

Santarpia said Canada's military took the allegations made in press reports "very seriously" and "began to work with the Coast Guard so that we could get a better view and a better understanding."

Following the fact-finding mission aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship, Santarpia questioned the testimony provided to the media by U.S. Coast Guard members whose names were kept confidential in the investigative reports.

This drug boat intervention, which was part of Operation Caribbe, was carried out in November 2015 with the help of the Canadian vessel HMCS Whitehorse. (Cpl. Brent Kenny/Department of National Defence)

Statements given to The Current about detainee abuse were corroborated by multiple members of the U.S. Coast


days."

Since 2010, 18 detainees were transferred onto Canadian vessels during five of 19 total expeditions, according to the CAF.

These detainees were transferred into Canadian ships for short periods "just to make sure they were safe," Santarpia said. Canadians' roles on the missions are usually kept to accompanying Coast Guard vessels when suspected smugglers are "in danger at sea," he said.

The Canadian military has not committed to a permanent monitoring role aboard U.S. Coast Guard vessels, but Santarpia said they will "periodically assure ourselves that we're still at the same high level of confidence we have today."

Michael Byers, a professor of international law at the University of British Columbia, suggested that "the generals and admirals probably don't have influence over what happens on U.S. Coast Guard cutters when thereisn't a Canadian observer on board, and they badly want to keep cooperating with the Americans in these operations."

Canada has helped intercept dozens of suspected smugglers whom the U.S. Coast Guard has detained over the past three years, (Submitted by Oscar Alvia Anchundia)

Last week, Canada was one of 130 countries to sign the the non-binding declaration, called the "Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem," tabled by the U.S. at the United Nations. This means the joint anti-smuggling operations are set to continue on the high-seas.

Canada's next deployment as part of Operation Caribbe is scheduled for later this month. Three naval vessels and two CP-140 Aurora aircraft are earmarked to be part of the deployment, according to the Canadian Forces' public affairs officer Capt. Valérie Lanouette.

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SAN LUIS OBISPO — California authorities have arrested a Central Coast man for allegedly sending letters saying he was going to shoot minorities moving into his neighborhood.

San Luis Obispo police say 62-year-old Richard Orcutt was taken into custody early Sunday and a search of his home found several handguns, rifles, shotguns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

A police statement says an arrest warrant for Orcutt was issued after detectives investigated letters sent to property managers and homeowners in the area.

Orcutt was booked into the San Luis Obispo County Jail for investigation of criminal threats and hate crimes. Bail was set at $500,000.

It is unclear if he has an attorney. There was no telephone listing for Orcutt in San Luis Obispo or the surrounding area.A former federal immigration court judge charges the government manipulates statistics to minimize the percentage of illegal aliens who don't show up for their court dates.

Mark Metcalf, who served in appointed positions in the Justice and Defense Departments during the George W. Bush administration, wrote in a backgrounder for the Center for Immigration Studies that never in 22 years of reporting has the Executive Office for Immigration Review "squared with Congress and given an accurate description of failures to appear."

Metcalf, a judge on the Miami Immigration Court from 2005 to 2008, said that since 1996, the office has dramatically understated FTA (Failure to Appear) rates in its annual reports.

In 2017, the immigration office stated the FTA rate for all cases was 28 percent, "never mentioning this number includes


34 percent. In 2009, EOIR proudly declared failures to appear came in at 11 percent and noted it was the lowest number in five years. The real number was 26 percent. From 2010 to 2014, the same dynamic is present: actual FTA rates significantly exceeded those EOIR reported to Congress."

He wrote: "EOIR's misleading failure to appear rates leave Congress and the public ignorant of both dysfunction in the courtroom and risks that too often end badly. One fact stands out above all the rest: Aliens flee court in greater numbers now than they did before September 11, 2001. From 1996 through 2000, 34 percent of all aliens free before trial – 251,309 out of 730,453 – disappeared. After 9/11, these numbers climbed. From 2002 through 2017, 39 percentHonesty:Academic integrity is the foundation of the academic community. Because each student has the primary responsibility for being academically honest, students are advised to read and understand all sections of this policy relating to standards of conduct and academic life. Park University students and faculty members are encouraged to take advantage of the University resources available for learning about academic honesty (www.park.edu/current or http://www.park.edu/faculty/).from Park University 2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog Page 92

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resulting in reduced veneer production per block peeled. It should be noted that the length of press cycle time, veneer moisture content and glue type are all factors in veneer compression losses.
A discussion of compression losses is presented in an article entitled "Compression of Douglas Fir Veneer During Pressing" in Volume L11, Nos. 4 and 5 of a magazine titled THE TIMBERMAN. A further discussion is found in a report entitled "Compression Losses In Hot Pressed Plywood" published in August 1982 by the Forest Research Laboratory, School of Forestry, Oregon State University at Corvallis, Oregon.
Efforts to reduce compression losses, in addition to including multi-step plywood presses, have included mechanisms actuated by the thrust platen of a press which mechanisms limit compression to a percentage of the original thicknessThree Israelite Psalms in an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus

By Karel van der Toorn

It is one of the most spectacular discoveries in ancient Near Eastern studies of recent years – an Egyptian papyrus from the mid-fourth century BCE containing three psalms that originated in the Kingdom of Israel before the fall of Samaria (722 BCE). They provide a unique insight into the beliefs and practices of the early Israelites.

Early image of Papyrus Amherst 63, Column 11. Image courtesy K. van der Toorn.

Recent image of Papyrus Amherst 63, Column 11. Image courtesy K. van der Toorn.

The scribes of the scroll used Egyptian Demotic script to write texts in the Aramaic language. The Israelite psalms are also in Aramaic, though several irregularities show they were originally in Hebrew. One of them bears


a close resemblance to Psalm 20. The two others are completely new to us. They stand side by side in the papyrus, connected by a common theme.

These songs were to be sung at the autumn harvest festival and the God they invoke is called Yaho or Adonay. There are references to sacrifices of lambs and sheep, bowls filled with wine, and music of lyres and flutes. On the day of the New Moon there is a solemn banquet for the God and his worshippers during which Yaho determines destinies for the year to come. “The Merciful One exalts the great, Yaho humiliates the lowly one.” The psalms celebrate his kingship over all the other gods. In combination, these various elements point to a setting in the New Yearfestival—the historical antecedent of Rosh Hashanah. Several stories from the Bible have their setting in the harvest festival at the beginning of the New Year. Thanks to an Egyptian papyrus, scholars now have access to some of the songs that belonged to that occasion.

Understanding these texts has taken over a century. The three Israelite psalms are part of a collection of traditional Aramaic texts. The papyrus scroll has 23 columns and contains about 35 separate compositions. Some of them cover almost 100 lines, others consist of no more than five lines. Because the Aramaic texts were written in the Demotic script, experts classified the scroll initially as an Egyptian papyrus. After Lord Amherst of Hackney acquired the text in the 1890s, Egyptologists tried in vain to break its


code. Papyrus Amherst 63 was a particular mystery. It took the collaboration of an Aramaic scholar and a Demotic specialist to solve the riddle.

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney DL, JP (25 April 1835 – 16 January 1909) (Wikimedia Commons)

The Amherst papyri: being an account of the Egyptian papyri in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A. at Didlington Hall, Norfolk. London : B. Quaritch, 1899. (Archive.org)

A few lines in translation were published in the 1940s. Almost forty years later, Aramaic and Demotic scholars discovered the Aramaic version of Psalm 20 and published other portions of the papyrus. But until very recently there was no scholarly edition of the complete text. That situation has now changed. Today anyone who is interested canlook at the photographs of the papyrus, its transliteration and translation, plus a commentary. The text provides an entry into a vanished world. It contains the literary heritage of three communities that had once lived together but now seem worlds apart.

K. van der Toorn, Papyrus Amherst 63. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2018.

Papyrus Amherst 63 is divided in sections. The first section is devoted to texts from an Aramean community from Babylonia, worshippers of Nanay and Nabu. The second section contains texts from Syrian Arameans that came from Hamath; their religion is focused on the god Bethel. The third section is Samarian and contains the three Israelite psalms. They refer to Yaho as “our Bull,” which is entirely in line with the North-Israelite practice of venerating Yaho in the form of


a young bull (the “Golden Calf”). To judge by the shape of the Demotic characters of the text, the papyrus dates from the mid-fourth century BCE.

From Aramaic texts from a century earlier, we know about the existence of several Aramaic speaking communities in southern Egypt. At Aswan and Elephantine—known at the time under the names Syene and Yeb—there were two Aramean communities, and a Jewish one. The Arameans had separate temples for Nabu and Banit, on the one hand, and Bethel and the Queen of Heaven, on the other. At Elephantine there were Jews, living around the Temple of Yaho. Assyrian and Babylonian texts show that Banit is another name of Nanay. The consort of Bethel (the Queen of Heaven) was presumably Anat, known as Anat-Bethel or Anat-Yahoamong the Jews of Egypt. Arameans and Jews served in Egypt as soldiers. In a land-for-service system, they were ultimately responsible for the defense of Persian interests on the southern frontier of Egypt.

Map showing location of Elephantine (DailyMail.com)

Reconstruction of the Judaean temple, after a drawing by Stephen Rosenberg, “The Jewish Temple at Elephantine,” Near Eastern Archaeology 67 (2004): 4.

Papyrus Amherst 63 is the literary heritage of these Aramean and Jewish communities. But they did not meet in Egypt for the first time. During much of the 7th century BCE, they had lived together in the caravan city that later became known by the name of Palmyra. The fourth section of the Amherst papyrus contains traditions that go back to the time spent in Palmyra. This Syrian city on