critically on maintenance and operation of the "local
loop," the physical infrastructure by which wire-based tele-

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phone service is provided.  Because the local loop is a natural
monopoly, control over it allowed the Bell System, and then
RBOCs, to control telecommunications access to most homes
and businesses.

     Today the Telecommunications Act of 1996 governs the
obligations of telecommunications carriers such as Ameritech
and SBC.1  The Act imposes on carriers certain duties in-
tended to open telecommunications markets to competition.
The Act's strictest obligations are levied on "incumbent local
exchange carriers" (ILECs), which are those local exchange
carriers (LECs) that were providing a given areaEveryday Spirituality

Trauma of Torture

While reading The Searchers, by Glen Frankel, I had to turn off my Nook. The book depicts the horrors of an Indian raid on early Americans in Texas. Members of the Comanche tribe attacked and tortured a group of settlers. Cynthia Ann Parker was taken captive at the age of nine. She was rescued 24 years later, but wanted to return to her Comanche family.

Attack and torture are phenomena that make my stomach contort and tighten; gagging the humanity of human beings. Yet, professional physicians and surgeons poke or cut off body parts every day. The recipients, and movie stars, who survive are heroic.

I ponder the result of Christ Jesus’ experience as found in 21st Century Science and Health: “The last supreme moment of mockery,


Brittany Horn

The News Journal

Two Wilmington firefighters died last month in a Canby Park house fire.

Firefighters Ardythe Hope and Brad Speakman are being treated for injuries.

Beatriz Fana-Ruiz, 27, has been charged in the case.

The hospital where a Wilmington firefighter is recovering following a deadly Canby Park rowhouse fire said her condition has become more serious.

Firefighter Ardythe Hope was downgraded to critical condition Wednesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania, where she was taken after the Sept. 24 fire.

She had been listed as in critical but stable condition, a more favorable status, earlier in the week.

Hospital spokesman Grant Gegwich said they would not disclose what caused the change or when it occurred. Hospitals under federal law cannot release patient specifics other than their condition.

The hospital considers critical condition asthe families affected, he said.

More information on the tournament can be found on Facebook at "Softball tournament in memory of Lt. Leach and Sr. FF. Fickes."

Wilmington police Chief Bobby Cummings posted about Hope last week, sharing a photo of his sister-in-law and asking for continued support and prayers. He noted in the post that her condition is not easy.

The principal of St. Elizabeth High School, where Hope's daughters attend, also posted photos of the Wilmington Fire Department supporting Hope's children. Shirley Bounds thanked the department for their continued support on Twitter.

Those planning fundraisers to benefit the fire department or the families of those involved in the fatal fire are asked to contact Battalion Chiefs James Jobes or Timothy Perkins at (302) 576-3180 or (302) 576-3123.

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well in its native Finland, it did well internationally and Haaja, along with Black Lion and Canada-based Raven Banner Entertainment, would be working on the sequel.

On August 16, 2019, Haaja announced shooting would begin in September. Due to its international following, it was announced the film would be shot entirely in English and the cast would include original stars Kris Gummerus as Rendel, Tero Selinius as Kurrikka, and Minna Nevanoja as Niina Heikkinen along with Sean Cronin as the film's central villain Smiley; Kaitlin Boye as Fugu, Bruce Payne as Edward Cox, and Jonah Paull. Jessica Wolff is replacing Alina Tomnikov as Marla in the sequel.

The sequel, Rendel 2: Cycle of Revenge, is scheduled for release sometime in 2020.

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 Laitinen, Janne (DecemberAlexis Nunes goes through the latest updates on the coronavirus' impact on football. (2:10)

UEFA has taken the unprecedented step of suspending the Champions League and Europa League following the coronavirus outbreak.

Barcelona against Napoli and Bayern Munich's clash with Chelsea were due to take place next week, but UEFA has now postponed competition. Manchester City vs. Real Madrid and Juventus' match with Lyon were already postponed before Friday's announcement.

Manchester United's second leg Europa League tie with LASK, due to be played on Thursday, also has been postponed, along with all other fixtures in the competition.

UEFA said in a statement: "In the light of developments due to the spread of COVID-19 in Europe and related decisions made by different governments, all UEFA club competitions matches scheduled next week are postponed.

"This


includes the remaining UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg matches scheduled on March 17 and 18, 2020; all UEFA Europa League round of 16 second leg matches scheduled on 19 March 2020; all UEFA Youth League, quarterfinal matches scheduled on March 17 and 18, 2020.

"Further decisions on when these matches take place will be communicated in due course."

UEFA will discuss the postponement of Euro 2020 during an emergency video conference involving all 55 European football associations on Tuesday.

Football matches across Europe have been severely affected, with La Liga suspending competition for two matchdays, Serie A suspended until April 3 and various postponements and matches played behind closed doors across European competitions before the postponement was put in place.

In the Champions League, Borussia Dortmund's match at ParisSaint-Germain took place behind closed doors on Wednesday, although many PSG fans congregated outside the Parc des Princes for the round-of-16 tie that the Ligue 1 side won 3-2 on aggregate.

In the Europa League, Sevilla vs. Roma and Inter Milan vs. Getafe were initially postponed amid the outbreak, while Manchester United's first-leg tie against LASK took place behind closed doors on Thursday before the move came to suspend competition completely.

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The decision comes across widespread disruption across European football. Real Madrid were placed into quarantine, which led to the suspension of La Liga, while Juventus' Daniele Rugani became the most high-profile


footballer to be diagnosed with the virus.

Manchester City vs. Arsenal in the Premier League was called off, with the league later suspending all play until April 3 at the earliest.

Elsewhere, CONMEBOL is asking FIFA to suspend the beginning of World Cup qualifiers scheduled for the end of March. They published on Wednesday a letter with the request to the sport's governing body in the name of members Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. FIFA is yet to reply.

In other sports, the NBA has suspended its league.

Coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has surged around the world in recent months.

The coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more serious respiratory diseases. Flu is caused by a differentof the mass media rather than that of epidemiology.4 In addition, the result was a continuation of distrust on the part of the public and the medical personnel in countries impacted by the pandemic.

At present, internationally underway are discussions on priorities and challenges related to the vaccination system.5 These discussions have included the need and opportunities for the implementation of new vaccination and communication strategies, the inducement of participation by major authorized personnel and the public during the initial stage of decision making, and organization and performance of important activities such as the introduction of new nationwide vaccination programs.6 With a focus on new media and the case of the Zika virus (ZIKV), this study examines the strategies and tasks of health communication in relation to vaccinations.

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him to boast.

Besides, Ricardo Quaresma was his idol. Yet there’s a little twinkle in his eye. He knows. He definitely knows what he’s doing and why the world is so fascinated. After all, as a 17-year-old Vasco da Gama player, wannabe journalists used to wait outside in hopes of talking to him and him alone. His more famous teammates were simply ignored.

A playmaker with incredible speed, his quick feet and technical skill would impress even the harshest critic. Coutinho is the kid with the bright future.

Coveted by so many teams, Inter invested him when the Brazilian was only 16 years old, despite the fact he was not allowed to play for them for another two years.

(Image: Marco Luzzani)

His talent so beguiling, he combined Brazilian flair with European sophisticationand unlike the other boys his age, he yearned for a settled life. Having met and fallen in love very young, he credits his girlfriend, (now his wife, they married on 27th December 2012) for his peace of mind.

However, it’s his family who made him the man he is today. A player who takes his profession seriously, his father alongside his two older, lawyer brothers would sit with him and assess his performances after every match and training session since he was a child.

“My family is the foundation of everything in my life,” admits the playmaker. They advised him, stood by him and devoted their lives to realise the player’s sporting dreams. Asked why he never seems to go out partying with his teammates, drinking and enjoying female


that to run at defenders. His off the ball movements have improved too with the player regularly seen pressing his opponent to win back possession or positioning himself intelligently to interrupt the other team’s passing rhythm.

Is he equipped to play in the Premier League?

Every talented player blessed with pace, technical skill and a grounded personality should be able to make it anywhere.

At Inter, his fitness trainers oversaw a schedule that encouraged muscle growth to make him stronger and better able to compete in Serie A. They managed to do so without compromising his pace and trickery. However, his more muscular physique perhaps explains why the player has suffered with injuries that have hindered his development.

As the body gets accustomed to the changes within, the legs tend to suffermore time to dedicate to his progress.

As for Southampton, the player is very familiar with Mauricio Pochettino who trained him when they were both at Espanyol.

Developing into a key player during his short stint in Spain, many critics went so far as to say the side became too reliant on the playmaker. Coutinho benefited from having a tough coach who demanded he push himself to the limit. Pochettino, after all, is renowned for his work with youth and thus forged a good relationship with the player who appreciated how much time was dedicated to his improvement.

On his return to Italy, the media were quick to point out Coutinho’s renewed confidence and greater understanding of how best to exploit his skills. As such, the newly appointed Southampton manager might


Interview with Mayra Andrade, Coming To Ronnie Scott's Soon

Mayra Andrade has got to be one of the most international singers in the business. Her upbringing took in Cuba, Senegal and Germany, and her music is heavily influenced by Brazil and France (she lives in Paris). That’s not including the most important place of all to Andrade, the Cape Verde Islands, an archipelago that sits off the west coast of Africa and punches way above its weight in music terms.

Cape Verde is Andrade’s proper homeland and her music is deeply anchored in the islands’ many song styles, which are themselves the product of cross-Atlantic seafaring. Cape Verdean music is a hybrid of Cuban and Brazilian dances, European songs, African rhythms and more, and Andrade, one of world music’s biggestBritish leader compares ISIS battle to Cold War

SOUSSE, TUNISIA - JUNE 29: Armed guards patrol Marhaba beach during a visit by British Home Secretary Theresa May at the scene where 38 people were killed on Marhaba beach last Friday, on June 29, Sousse, Tunisia. British Prime Minister David Cameron has said it has emerged that the British death toll in the Tunisian attack will rise above 30. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called the fight against the Islamic State “the struggle of our generation” as Britain grappled with the aftermath of a beach massacre in Tunisia, the worst terrorist attack on British citizens since the London bombings July 7, 2005.

Britain is in a


as well as the military end.”

The rampage was the worst terrorist attack in recent memory in Tunisia, a country that was widely hailed as a success story of the Arab Spring but that has suffered a number of deadly attacks by Islamist extremists.

On Monday, Tunisian officials announced that they had arrested several people accused of helping the lone gunman, who was identified as 23-year-old student Seifeddine Rezgui.

Pictures and videos have surfaced on social media showing scenes of chaos as the black-clad gunman opened fire on his victims. He was later shot dead by police.

Britain’s Scotland Yard has launched an investigation of the attack with more than 600 officers, one of the largest such operations since the London transit bombings.

In Parliament, Cameron announced a national minute of silence tofixing roller, capable of being controlled at a predetermined temperature by use of a heat source such as halogen lump disposed inside thereof, and a pressure roller being urged to press the fixing roller as a pair of rotating rollers. A recording medium is inserted and conveyed between the contacting portion, i.e. so-called nip portion, of the pair of rotating rollers, thereby unfixed toner images are fused and fixed by action of heat and pressure from the pressure roller.
The film-heating-fixing unit is, for example, disclosed in JP-A Nos. 63-313182 and 01-263679. In the film-heating-fixing unit, a heating member, fixed and supported by a support member, is contacted with a recording medium through a heat-resistant thin fixing film, then the fixing film is slid and moved against the heating


New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his intervention in the Lok Sabha on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, credited the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the passage of the bill unanimously by both houses of Parliament.

While he thanked all opposition parties for their support to the bill, he compared the bill to Lord Krishna and said that while GST was ideated by someone, it was made a reality by someone else -- a reference to the fact that it had been conceived by the Congress and its passage was overseen by the NDA.

In Hindu mythology, Krishna is the son of Devaki and is brought up by foster-mother Yashoda.

“It is a true saying that someone gives birth and someone else nurtures. Someone gave birth to Krishnaand someone else made him big but this is also a truth that this is not a victory of any political party or any government. This is a victory of the great traditions of India’s democracy," Modi said in his address to the Lok Sabha during the discussion for consideration and passage of the GST bill.

“This is a victory of all political parties. This is a result of the contributions of past and present governments and I do not think there is a need for debate on who has won and who has lost," he added.

Also Read: GST bill passed by Lok Sabha, action now shifts to states

He went on to talk about the earlier years when he was the chief minister of Gujarat and held several discussions


and Turkic languages. He collected valuable ethnographic information, especially on shamanism. Based on his research, he claimed that the Finnic, Ugric, Samoyed, Turkic, Mongolian and Tungusic languages were all of the same 'Altaic family'. He concluded that the Finns originated in Central Asia (in the Altai Mountains), and far from being a small, isolated people, they were part of a larger polity that included such peoples as the Magyars, Turks, Mongols, and so on. Based on his researches, he championed the ideology of pan-Turanism, the belief in the racial unity and the future greatness of the Ural-Altaic peoples. The concept spread from here to the kindred peoples of the Finns. As Castrén put it:

Castrén was of the opinion that Russia was seeking systematically to prevent all development towardsagenda.
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transmission and distribution losses, stabilize the grid and diversify the electricity mix in the country.

During the first rounds of request for proposals under GET FiT in 2013, Solar/ PV was not included as an eligible technology. This was due to the fact that following a revision of the REFiT policies in 2012 there was no REFIT for Solar/ PV in Uganda. A fixed premium payment methodology as applied for hydro, bagasse and biomass under the GFPPM is therefore not possible for Solar/ PV.

To benefit nevertheless from the framework provided by the GET FiT Programme, ERA and KfW have developed a revised approach that does not only consider the lack of a fixed REFiT, but also benefits from the competition in the market for Solar/ PV and the ongoingLongitudinal comparison of the academic performances of Asian-American and white medical students.
To compare the academic performances of Asian-American medical students--before, during, and after medical school--with those of white students. The 140 Asian-American graduates and 2,269 white graduates from the classes of 1981-1992 at Jefferson Medical College were studied prospectively: data on academic performance, indebtedness, and delayed graduation were analyzed and compared for all the graduates. F-tests, chi-square tests, and regression models were used. The Asian-Americans had statistically significantly higher scores on the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) quantitative subtest and on the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) chemistry, physics, and science problems subtests; the whites had significantly higher scores on the MCAT reading subtest; third-year grade-point averages for required clerkships; and scores on National Board of Medical Examiners Part


advisory board member Suresh Vaghjiani, Managing Director of Global Processing Services (GPS), thanks to his organisation for supporting some of the most exciting PayTech companies deploying first-of-its-kind products globally.

Myles Stephenson, CEO of Modulr and another EPA advisory board member, came a close second on the list, praised by voters for his company’s business payments platform, which is helping to transform B2B payments, enabled by open banking initiatives and imminent PSD2 implementation in Europe.

Other EPA members honoured by the Power 10 included:

Julian Sawyer, COO of Starling Bank, in third

ShacharBialick, CEO of Curve 1 Limited, in fourth place

Andrea Dunlop, CEO of Acquiring and Card Solutions at Paysafe, in fifth

Jonathon Wood, Chief Commercial Officer of Zapp at Vocalink, in eighth place

Robert Courtneidge, Global Head of Cards and Payments at Locke Lord,reported to a black co-employee that Supervisor Talley had referred to him in a racially prejudicial manner calculated to produce resentment.  Petitioner contended that this action, stirring up racial conflict among employees and supervisory personnel required to work for long periods of time in the confined environment of the offshore platform, was sufficient justification for discharging those guilty of such conduct.

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The Administrative Law Judge, after full hearing, concluded that the two were discharged because they had convened the grievance meeting and specifically found that the reason for the discharge was not the reason put forth by petitioner.

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While it does appear that Bodin and Reeves reported to the black employee that he had been referred to by the supervisor in a racially derogatory manner, the ALJ concluded from


weights of the buckets. Because of product buildup and other well-known problems, the tare weights of the weighing buckets may change over a number of weighing cycles. In order to compensate for dynamic changes in the tare weights of the weighing buckets, new tare weights must be periodically calculated.
Until now, to accomplish a tare weight calculation, the weighing buckets emptied during the last weighing cycle were identified and one of the buckets was not refilled in the following cycle. By not refilling this emptied weighing bucket, its weight in the next cycle would accurately represent its tare weight. Accordingly, the weight measured in the next cycle for the empty bucket was stored by the microprocessor-based control circuitry as the bucket's updated tare weight. In order to help insurethe tare weights of all the buckets were periodically updated, prior systems typically kept track of the elapsed time since the last updating of the tare weight for each bucket. The system chooses the bucket whose tare weight should be updated in the next weighing cycle by identifying the bucket with the longest elapsed time.
Although the foregoing method adequately updated the tare weights of the weighing buckets, it unfortunately reduced the possible weight combinations in the tare weight cycle since a lesser number of combinations of buckets were available whose net weights could be combined to give a total weight within the desired range. In general, the unavailability of one bucket during each weighing cycle reduced the number of possible combinations by one half. Consequently, a significant degree


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Italian village aims to survive Maya prophecy(AFP, December 15, 2012)

Cisternino - With its whitewashed homes and olive tree groves, Cisternino could be any other town in southern Italy but with one big distinction -- it may be the only place to be spared when the world ends. Some of the residents in the town of a few thousand souls believe they will survive the

December 21 apocalypse prophesied by the Mayas.

Even if the world does not self-destruct next week, town authorities are pleased about the influx of curious tourists that the prophecy has brought.

An Indian guru known as Babaji set up a community in the remote part of the Puglia region in the heel of Italy's boot at the end of the 1970s.

While his current whereaboutsare not known -- followers say he might have been reincarnated -- Babaji is reported to have told his devotees that Cisternino "will become an island" when the world comes to an end, persuading many to move there.

"We don't know what will happen on December 21, but we are ready for anything," said Carmen Sisto, deputy head of the Babaji community.

Devotees are preparing a series of "Days for Information, Sharing, Celebration, Training and Meditation" between December 19 and 26.

The aim is: "Completing the great cycle and beginning new times".

On December 21 itself, the community will gather for a "special meditation for the good of the planet".

Cisternino mayor Donato Baccaro is delighted with the attention his town is receiving.

"I'm happy they are talking about us around the world of


EUGENE, Ore. -- A new WinCo Foods may go into a building on Chad Drive that was left vacant when Shopko closed earlier this year, a source tells KEZI 9 News.

Shopko filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February. The Wisconsin-based grocer later announced it would close 200 stores, including the location at 2815 Chad Drive.

KEZI 9 News contacted WinCo Foods, but they have yet to confirm any plans.

However, city officials confirmed Wednesday night that WinCo has met with the city to discuss the possibility of using the space.

Also, a manager at a local business shared messages from WinCo. The company said that its current strategy is to target closed Shopkos as potential new locations.

Sources said that Boise-based development company TAIT & Associates has expressed interest in the Chadthe 6-issue miniseries, the Tattooed Man is considered a hero for the first time in his life. At first, it's a welcome change, but things go from bad to worse when he finds his body covered in unfamiliar tattoos with lives of their own. Publisher: DC

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In 2012, 140 Northeastern York School District students tookhas been flirting with the Muslim Brotherhood, the progenitor of many terrorist organizations whose goals are to eradicate Israel and rot the legal and cultural innards of the U.S. in preparation of converting it into an Islamic “republic.” He wishes it to have a role in establishing a new government in Egypt. This is in demonstrated conformance to the deference he pays to tyrants and authoritarians.

The Grand Dhimmis of Europe are awakening and conceding that multiculturalism has been a prescription for cultural and political suicide. Unfortunately, they are acting under the influence of the political double aneurysm of collectivism and statism.

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I blame much of this dithering on Islam being "one of the world's great religions" -- i.e., it's been around for centuries with so many fools in


its following that it's too big to be designated a "cult" -- since even the marginally supernaturalist being reluctant to denounce anything involving a "god". The Nazi's atavistic Nordic-god-ridden "cultural" component was superseded by its political and miltaristic ambitions, but even then Chamberlain is said to have insisted that it was "Nazi ideology" he opposed, not "Nazism". One hopes this was not based on an attraction to Hitler Youth in lederhosen because it's hard to understand what the hell he meant unless he was enamored of the self-less "socialist" aspect and trying to ignore the Sieg Heiling and Nuremberg rallies and Kristalnachts.

I'm sure that in the UK, as here in the US, it has been relatively easy to ignore much of the beheadings, murders of non-Muslims, stonings, abusean American accent. Today, in Egypt, the educated professionals, lawyers, doctors and others, as well as Trade Unions, went on strike and joined the protesters.

AP is reporting that Mubarek has resigned. You said, "This is not an Islamic revolution. It's a revolution for freedom."

Here's what one of the "freedom" loving protesters proclaimed when he heard the news: "Finally we are free," said Safwan Abou Stat, a 60-year-old in the crowd of protesters at the palace. "From now on anyone who is going to rule will know that these people are great."

"Not only do they speak English, they often speak it with an American accent."

That is a concrete-bound argument. By that logic, our current administration, Senate, and Obama's press harem are pro-freedom. Sudanese men have cell phones and text,


In the weeks following the execution of Clayton Lockett, the Oklahoma death row inmate whose botched lethal injection triggered a statewide moratorium on executions, lawmakers there began rethinking their approach to capital punishment. Among the people they called on to help was Michael Copeland.

Copeland is a criminal justice professor at East Central University, a public school with about 6,000 students in Ada, Okla. From 2010 to 2013, he was the director of the anti-fraud unit at the Oklahoma Insurance Department. Before that, he was an assistant attorney general for the Republic of Palau, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Copeland is not a doctor. He has no medical training. But what he does have is a close relationship with Oklahoma legislators, some of whom he’s knownpositions. There are none. Every woman who wishes to enter politics may do so. Every woman who wishes to become a CEO is most welcome to enter the business of her choice and through ambition, sacrifice and talent, achieve her ultimate goal. For every man who has become a CEO there are a hundred who had the same goal but failed. Was it sexism or bias which prevented these men from achieving success?

Why do so many women like Claire Rogers cherry pick statistics? She demands equal representation of women in government and management but not in ditch digging and bricklaying. No mention of the alarming workplace death gap. She has no concerns about the domination of the education system by women-an incredibly powerful platform for brainwashing our youth


the result of just one of several civil and criminal prosecutions underway against PT Kallista Alam and four other oil palm companies with concessions in Tripa, namely PT Surya Panen Subur II, PT Dua Perkasa Lestari, PT Gelora Sawita Makmur, and PT Cemerlang Abadi.

“Each faces the possibility of serious financial consequences as a result of their illegal clearance, burning, and drainage of Tripa’s unique peat swamp ecosystem. Some of the company directors and members of senior management also risk prison terms in cases against them for their actions on the ground,” said Walhi.

Endangered Species

There are only about 6,500 orangutans remaining in Sumatra, and one of the densest populations is in Tripa.

Up to 100 orangutans are thought to have perished in forest clearing and peat burning in Tripa, andoil is now also being used to make biofuel, the production of which actually increases greenhouse gas emissions.

As recently as the 1960s, 82 percent of Indonesia was covered with tropical rainforests, but the country now has one of the fastest deforestation rates in the world.

Between 1990 and 2005, Indonesia lost more than 28 million hectares of forest, including 21.7 hectares of virgin forest. It is estimated that, from 2000 to 2010, about 1.125 million hectares were lost.

Aceh has the most forest cover of any province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, but has lost more than a third of its forests in the past 20 years.

According to a report published in 2007 by the United Nations Environment Programme, palm oil plantations are currently the leading cause of rainforest


sites within the Leuser Ecosystem, in East Aceh and Aceh Tamiang.

There are statistics showing that 36,000 hectares of the ecosystem were deforested from 2005 to 2009. Data analysed by the Leuser Ecosystem Management Agency showed that, in early 2005, 1.982 million hectares of land in the ecosystem was covered by forest. In 2009, there were 1.946 million hectares of forest left.

It has been alleged that PT Kallista Alam started clearing the Tripa peat forest and planting oil palms well before their permit was issued.

It has been stated in testimony during criminal proceedings that the company’s site permit expired in February 2011 and was not extended by the regent of Nagan Raya because the site in question is located within Leuser Ecosystem.

The prosecutors say this means the company neverwritten in such a way that the person who cast the spell would only need to insert the name of the person being targeted — sort of like an ancient "Mad Libs." [In Photos: Two Ancient Curses Discovered in Italy]

Researchers date the two spells to the third century A.D., but the names of the ancient spell writers are unknown. The spells are written in Greek, a language widely used in Egypt at the time.

Archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt discovered the spells in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, more than 100 years ago, among a haul of hundreds of thousands of papyri. Over the past century, scientists have gradually studied and translated the papyri. Many of them are now owned by the Egypt Exploration Society and are housed and studied at


the University of Oxford in England.

Maltomini is part of a larger group of editors and contributors from multiple institutions who analyzed and translated the most recent batch of these magical texts, which will be published in an upcoming volume of "The Oxyrhynchus Papyri," a series a books devoted to publishing the papyri from Oxyrhynchus.

A love spell

The deciphered love spell invokes several gnostic gods. (Gnosticism was an ancient religion that incorporated elements of Christianity.) It says that the spell caster should burn a series of offerings in the bathhouse (the names of the offerings didn't survive degradation) and write a spell on the bathhouse's walls, which Maltominitranslated as follows:

"I adjure you, earth and waters, by the demon who dwells on you and (I adjure) the fortune of this bathso that, as you blaze and burn and flame, so burn her (the woman targeted)whom (the mother of the woman targeted) bore, until she comes to me…”

Then, the spell names several gods and magical words. It goes on to say, "Holy names, inflame in this way and burn the heart of her…" until she falls in love with the person casting the spell.

Animal droppings and magic

This papyrus holds a spell that aims to force a man to do whatever the person who cast the spell wants. (Image credit: © the Imaging Papyri Project, University of Oxford & Egypt Exploration Society )

The text of the other deciphered spell calls for the person casting it to engrave onto a small copper plaque a series of magical words, including the phrase


translated as "subject to me the (name of the) man, whom (the name of the man's mother) bore…" and then to stitch the plaque onto something the man wears, such as a sandal.

The spell, if successful, was supposed to force the manto do whatever the spell caster wanted,the ancient text says.

On the back of that papyrus is a list of recipes that use droppings from animals to treat a wide range of conditions, including headaches and leprosy. Some of the recipes simply say that they help "promote pleasure." One recipe says that a combination of honey and droppings from a bittern bird, used in a way that isn't specified, will "promote pleasure," according tothe ancient text.

Follow us @livescience, Facebook& Google+. Original article on Live Science.the State to file a belated response to Appellant's alibi notice and to present evidence on that subject;
3. alleged denial of Appellant's right to a speedy trial; and
4. alleged improper sentencing.
The facts adduced at trial show that at approximately 9:30 p.m. on January 9, 1980, an Indiana State Policeman found the dead body of seventy-six year old Lois Graham in the kitchen of her home in Lapel, Indiana, following a call from a concerned neighbor. A carving fork was protruding from her sternum, she had been stabbed numerous times in her chest and abdomen, the phone wires at the home had been cut, the back door had been padlocked and Miss Graham's green 1953 Ford sedan was gone. Earlier that same day, a boy with an elderly woman


passenger drove up to the drive-in window of the First Savings and Loan Bank in downtown Anderson in a car meeting the description of Miss Graham's automobile. The teenage boy told the teller that the elderly woman wanted to withdraw $5,000.00. The teller directed them to the bank's main office across the street. The teller never looked at the savings book presented and did not know Miss Graham or the young man. At the bank's main office, a young man accompanied by an older woman asked to withdraw $10,000.00 from the account of Lois Graham. The boy was not permitted to withdraw that amount but was allowed to withdraw $2,000.00 from Miss Graham's account. Between 11:00 and 11:15 a.m., a car meeting the same description and occupants meetingthe same description as noted by people in the First Savings and Loan Bank stopped at a drive-in window of the Edgewood auto branch of the Anderson Banking Company. The elderly woman there withdrew $300.00 from Miss Lois Graham's savings account. The teller handling this transaction was shown a photographic lineup but did not select Appellant's picture. Another employee, however, selected Appellant's picture from the same lineup. The evidence further shows that Appellant went to the Indianapolis International Airport during the evening of January 9, 1980, where Miss Graham's car was recovered the following day. Appellant subsequently was arrested by local police in Moab, Utah.
On January 15, 1980, a probation officer visited Appellant in jail in Utah and encouraged Appellant to sign a consent form for his voluntary


Although Appellant was a legal ward of the Howard County Welfare Department at the time of the incident, he actually resided with his grandmother and father. His father therefore was a custodial parent and Appellant's contention to the contrary is without merit. Although there was evidence that Appellant's relationship with his father was often strained if not hostile, the evidence was not sufficient to show that Appellant's father had an interest adverse to Appellant. Witnesses who testified at trial about the relationship had counseled Appellant and formed their opinion by speaking only with him. Some of them had never met Mr. Graham while others had met him only casually. Officer Appleby, however, testified that he observed the conduct of both Appellant and his father prior to and duringCounty Jail. Before any questioning commenced, Appellant and his father read the rights waiver form and signed it. Appellant indicated that he understood the waiver document. Officer Appleby subsequently advised Appellant and Mr. Graham that he would give them the opportunity to privately discuss the matter before interrogation. After Appellant conferred with his father for a few minutes, he informed Appleby that he was ready to give a statement. An additional waiver of rights form was signed by both Appellant and Mr. Graham. Appellant requested that his statement be given outside the presence of his father and his father accordingly left the room. Appellant then gave a statement in which he fully confessed to the murder, robbery and theft. There is, therefore, sufficient evidence to indicate that Appellant


Bank described the youth as approximately 19 or 20 years old wearing a striped toboggan hat. A teller at the bank specifically identified Appellant as the youth who accompanied Miss Graham to the bank. It subsequently was determined that Appellant possessed a striped toboggan hat. In addition, the officers at the crime scene observed distinctive footprints. It was determined that Appellant possessed a pair of tennis shoes which bore the same unusual pattern on the soles. On the evening of January 9, 1980, officers recovered Miss Graham's vehicle at the Indianapolis International Airport and discovered that Appellant had purchased an airline ticket and flown to Chicago. Officer Appleby further testified that the man who delivered milk to Miss Graham observed on the afternoon of January 9, 1980, thatinterrogation, Officer Appleby determined that he inadvertently had failed to permit Appellant and his father to confer privately prior to the first interrogation which he thought would make the first confession inadmissible. Officer Appleby explained this situation to Appellant and his father and again gave them their Miranda rights and again received from them a written waiver of rights. Appellant and his father were permitted to confer privately at that point. After doing so, Appellant informed the officer that he was ready to give his statement. Prior to the second interrogation, an additional waiver of rights form was signed by both Appellant and his father. This fact situation does not support Appellant in his contention that the second statement was inadmissible because of the circumstances surrounding the taking


In the instant case, Appellant was arrested in Utah on January 14 and returned to Indiana on January 19, 1980. On January 22, 1980, he was at least twice advised of his Miranda rights and each time signed waiver forms. He was taken before a magistrate on that same day. The delay between his arrest and his confession, therefore, was not such that it contributed to his confession or was unreasonable. Appellant first had to be removed from Utah and transferred back to Indiana. Care was taken to advise Appellant of his rights and to have his father present with him. Each time Appellant was advised of his rights, both he and his father signed a waiver and indicated that they understood their rights. There is no showingconfession on the basis that he was illegally extradited from Utah to Indiana and makes no showing that his confession was a product of his alleged illegal extradition. The record shows and Appellant does not deny that he voluntarily consented to his return and was advised of his constitutional rights and signed waivers on several occasions before he gave his confession. He gives no indication that his consent or confession was induced by fear, force, or promises; he does not show his confession in any way related to the manner in which he left Utah and came to Indiana. The trial court properly rejected this argument.

(G)
Finally, Appellant claims that the trial court erred by admitting his confession into evidence before there was sufficient evidence of a corpus delicti


be rescheduled to allow a court-appointed psychiatrist additional time to examine Appellant. The State's continuance motion was granted over objection on April 13, 1981, and on April 24, the trial court set Appellant's trial for June 15, 1981. Appellant objected to the June 15 date on April 29, but his objection was overruled on May 6, 1981. Appellant filed his motion for discharge on June 11, 1981, which was denied. Appellant's trial commenced on June 15, 1981.
*9 When a defendant in a criminal case claims an insanity defense, it is imperative that psychiatrists be appointed to examine him. The delays in the instant case were necessarily occasioned by Appellant's insanity plea and by the resulting psychiatric examinations. Appellant therefore may not claim that his right to a speedyProbation trial

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WITNESS: O'BRIEN GESTURED AT STATE HOUSE, DERIDED "PIGS"

Former Probation Commissioner John O'Brien at one point appeared "frustrated" discussing which applicants should be moved along in the hiring process, a former probation personnel official testified Tuesday during O'Brien's ongoing trial in federal court. "They're a bunch of pigs. It's never enough," O'Brien said, according to Janet Mucci, the former human resources chief, who said O'Brien was "pointing to the State House." O'Brien and two of his former deputies are on trial for allegedly rigging the hiring process to shuttle jobs to people with the backing of state lawmakers and others.

JUDGE REJECTS MISTRIAL SOUGHT OVER ANSWERING TAPES

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between witnesses would merit some action by the judge in the probation trial, defense attorney John Amabile spent Monday morning accusing former probation official Ed Dalton of holding resentments against one of the defendants, not knowing a basic aspect of court procedure and having a hot temper. "I have a temper," said Dalton, recalling that after John O'Brien, the former commissioner, told him he would not be promoted to deputy commissioner he "had a frank and honest discussion" with O'Brien. During the talk, Dalton testified, he used a curse word and O'Brien conceded that the job had gone to Fran Wall, now a key prosecution witness, because Wall was O'Brien's friend. Dalton said he was unaware of what witness sequestration means and said he discussed the "logistics" ofthe trial with Ellen Slaney, a former probation official and friend, during her multi-day testimony, and with Richard O'Neil, another former probation official and friend who testified, and Ronald Corbett, who became acting probation commissioner after O'Brien was ousted in 2010. "Sir, how long have you worked for the Trial Court?" asked Amabile. Dalton said more than 30 years. Amabile said, "And you want to claim you don't know what a witness sequestration order is?" Dalton said, "No the specifics of that term." Witnesses are generally barred from discussing the case with one another, and after learning that Dalton discussed aspects of the trial with other witnesses, defense attorneys have pushed for a mistrial. Amabile also accused Dalton of describing former Chief Justice of Administration and Management John


purchase methamphetamine from a known seller. When the informant met with

the seller, the seller explained that he or she did not then possess the methamphetamine

and asked the informant to journey to a location near the Border Tavern in west Walla

Walla. The seller stated that he or she would rendezvous with his or her supplier at the

location and procure methamphetamine to sell to the confidential informant. When law

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enforcement officers arrived at the Border Tavern area to observe the drug transaction,

they eyed a2005 black Chevy Malibu with plate AWN-4415 occupied only by a female

driver. Officers peered as the seller entered the Malibu, promptly exited the car, and

delivered methamphetamine to the confidential informant. Officers later showed a

picture of Megan Lares-Storms to the informant. The informant could not definitely

identify Lares-Storms as the lady pictured in the photograph, but the informant “felt”

that the photographed person drove the black Chevy Malibu to the location of the

methamphetamine sale. Clerk’s Papers (CP) at 36.

       More than a month later and on March 30, 2016, Detective Steve Harris saw the

black Chevy Malibu with Washington license plate AWN-4415 parked on Chestnut

Street near a Walla Walla residence. Detective Harris then confirmed with police

dispatch that the Department of Corrections had issued a warrant for


sun roof of a vehicle. Later, when

responding to a call reporting a man with a gun, a law enforcement officer waited for

backup outside the house. Hartzell arrived in a sports utility vehicle. The officer noticed a

bullet hole through the passenger door of the vehicle. A canine officer later arrived with

his dog in order to look for the gun that shot the bullet through the passenger side door of

the vehicle. The dog jumped on the car and sniffed the passenger door. The dog then

wandered down the road and found a semiautomatic handgun one hundred yards distant.

                                 trustee in turn made the first two interest payments to the bondholders.  In April 1974, ASECo defaulted, and Phenix National Bank failed to make the third interest payment.  The bank compiled a list of the names and addresses of persons holding the bonds at that time.  After receiving the consent of 70% of all known bondholders, the bank foreclosed and sold the ASECo facilities.  Eventually the bank paid 37% of the face amount of the bonds to the 131 known bondholders.

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On May 16, 1975, Bishop filed suit against Hamilton, Sklar, Sklar's law firm, Phenix National Bank, and numerous others, alleging that the defendants violated, inter alia, section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 78j(b), and the Securities and Exchange


intervention of right after final judgment.  The would-be intervenors in Railroad Trainmen, by contrast, were not parties and could not appeal from the final judgment;  thus they were entitled to appeal immediately the denial of their motion to intervene.  Habshey likens himself to the intervenor in Stringfellow because he is a member of the putative class.  He argues that because he was in some sense a party to the action, he could not have obtained immediate appellate review of the denial of his motion.

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To accept Habshey's argument, we would have to conclude that Habshey, an unnamed member of a putative class, is a party who could obtain appellate review of a final judgment on the merits binding only the individual, named plaintiff.  Weas to the circumstances of Bishop's purchase of the bonds.  As a result, no one living could establish the truth of Bishop's allegations, that he had relied on the integrity of the undeveloped market in making his decision to purchase the bonds, and that he was willing to accept any marketable risk.

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Fourth, the district court found that Shores was an inadequate class representative.  See Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(a)(4).  In support of this conclusion, the district court repeated its doubts that Shores would be able to establish the truth of Bishop's allegations.  The court further determined that Shores' role as executor of Bishop's estate placed him in potential conflict with other members of the class, because Bishop's will placed Shores under an obligation to wind up Bishop's


these bonds were traded was undeveloped, and nothing suggested that ownership of the bonds was drastically deconcentrated during the six months before the first interest payment became due.  On the facts of this case, a demonstration that the class of bondholders as of the first interest payment was numerous probably sufficed to establish that the class of purchasers was numerous as well.

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The district court erred in refusing to certify the class on the ground that Shores could not prove Bishop's allegations.  As we noted in Kirkpatrick, 827 F.2d at 723, an assessment of a plaintiff's likelihood of success on the merits is an improper basis for deciding the propriety of class certification.  Furthermore, Shores' inability to establish the circumstances surrounding Bishop's purchase of the bondsalas, here we are, stuck with never-ending appeals processes over fake classes and pointless scandals concerning the damn YouTube page of a UCF kicker, while the real problems that plague college campuses and college sports go ignored by the one body with the sway, money, and connections (minus its top administration, the NCAA and all its useless councils are literally made up by folks from member schools) to actually make a difference.

Anyway, SMU seems to be in a good place now, or at least a better one than what they were just a couple years ago—I know, I know, that’s been said multiple times during the reigns of the five head coaches the Mustangs have had since the cancelled season, but in Chad Morris, the SMU brass seem


TCU that ended in a 56-36 loss. The Mustangs spread it out on offense, with quarterback Ben Hicks currently running the show. The sophomore entered the season after having started 11 games last year as a rookie; he was decent in his freshman year, tossing 19 scores to 15 picks and completing 55.5 percent of his passes. Going into the fall, it was expected that Wisconsin transfer D.J. Gillins would challenge him for the opening, but a toe injury has kept Gillins on the sideline.

Regardless of who’s taking the snaps, SMU can rely on its incredible receiving corps, headlined by a 1-2 punch that could be cut-and-paste into any Power Five’s starting lineup. Courtland Sutton is a professional receiver trapped in the college game—the 6-foot-4 man-child was theLOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A man's body was found inside a refrigerator in a South Los Angeles apartment Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Authorities said a maintenance crew discovered the body while cleaning out what they thought was an empty apartment in the 600 block of W. 57th Street around 10 a.m.Investigators said there was an eviction notice on the door of the second floor unit of the fourplex building.Police said the man appears to be in his 40s and they believe he lived in the apartment.Detectives said the man was not shot or stabbed, but did have other injuries they're investigating.Officials are trying to determine how the man died and how long his body was in the refrigerator.Police have confirmed they're treating the case as


Don't Take China at Face Value

Last week we had a call from someone whom we hadn’t spoken with in some years: an intelligent young man, a brilliant computer specialist, with a keen interest in international affairs. He was particularly interested in Falun Gong persecutions in China.

He had several Chinese friends associated with the Chinese human rights group located in California. There he met a bright Chinese girl whom he later married.

Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers and officers line up outside the Great Hall of the People earlier this month.
(Getty Images)

Incidentally, before my wife started typing up my writings — I wrote them in longhand. Alan Freed, a dear friend of ours and a priest, typed up my columns.

He also performed the marriage ceremony of those two young people.

Shortlyavail. I stopped speaking to them and would not pick up the phone.

Quite unexpectedly, two years ago we had a call from this former friend of ours then living in China, who was visiting his mother in New York.

My wife had a brief, formal conversation with him, and he said that things were going well. He had a well-paid job with a small Chinese company and learned to speak Chinese — fluent enough to communicate with his Chinese co-workers.

Last week we heard from him again. He said that he and his family are back in the United States. The company he worked for in China went out of business.

They are expecting a third child.

He asked my wife if there is anything he could do for me — for


example, doing some research on China. Because, he said, he now knows the country so much better.

It was a very long conversation. I heard my wife passionately arguing with him when at the other end he was saying that we don’t understand that country, that it is now the most peaceful country in the world because the Chinese military is not engaged in any military conflict.

Things have changed there, he went on to say. The pro-human rights wing of the Communist Party is taking over: Falun Gong people are no longer persecuted. The blind human rights activist and his family are on their way to the United States, and more: The Chinese communists are downsizing their army.

Actually they would keep only a tiny army well equipped with theyears in the political spotlight as a tandem with Bill. She is considered “dishonest” by a majority of Americans, and the mudslinging is only set to intensify as she heads into a brutal showdown with Donald Trump.

And yet, as the 2016 primary race draws to a close, Clinton stands at the threshold of the White House, set to make history as the first woman to carry the colors of a major US political party in the presidential race.

Hillary Diane Rodham was born October 26, 1947 and raised in a middle-class household in Chicago suburb Park Ridge.

She adored her mother Dorothy but described her father Hugh Rodham, born from Welsh immigrants, as a stubborn and rigid taskmaster.

He imposed his work ethic on young Hillary, but also his frugality. She


still puts uneaten olives back in the jar and is loath to waste anything, she wrote in her 2003 autobiography, “Living History.”

Clinton shared her father’s Republican convictions in adolescence, as well as his thunderous laugh. The family is Methodist, and to this day Hillary remains in the church.

Since her school days, she chased success, earning honors and accolades that could fill a bookcase.

From age 13, she took odd jobs to help finance her studies. Smart and ambitious, Hillary was admitted in 1965 to Wellesley, an elite women’s college near Harvard where she was eventually elected president of her class.

It was the social tumult of the sixties, and Clinton’s eyes were opened to the struggle for civil rights, the explosive debate over Vietnam and the fight for gender equality.

Whenshe was accepted in 1969 at prestigious Yale Law School, she met Bill Clinton, the “Viking” from Arkansas who would change the course of her life.

After working for the Children’s Defense Fund, and a period in Washington in 1974 on the commission investigating the Watergate scandal, she gave in and joined Bill in Arkansas.

He was soon elected Arkansas governor and Hillary Rodham joined a prestigious law firm, eventually becoming its first female partner. Chelsea, their only child, was born in 1980.

Political first lady

She soon dropped her maiden name and became Hillary Clinton, first lady of Arkansas and then the nation after her husband’s White House election victory in 1992.

Her assertive style contrasted with that of her predecessors. She played an active political role, symbolized by the location of


her office in the West Wing.

Her relations with lawmakers and journalists quickly soured, particularly over her efforts to reform the health care system, a role bestowed on her by her president husband. Republicans branded her a radical feminist.

She suffered intense humiliation when news of Bill’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky surfaced in 1998. But her popularity has never been higher than the 67-percent approval rating she enjoyed in December 1998, according to a Gallup poll at the time.

Solo career

Pressured by friends and associates in Hillaryland, the first lady launched herself into politics, winning a US Senate seat for New York in 2000.

She laid low during the 2004 presidential race, but four years later she entered the fray to challenge fellow senator Barack Obama, who savaged hervote supporting the Iraq war.

Clinton chose to run on her experience, refusing to campaign on gender. But Americans opted instead on the 40-something political neophyte Obama, bringing hope of change after eight years of George W. Bush.

After a detente with his party rival, Obama appointed Clinton secretary of state.

Her critics argue she can claim no major diplomatic successes, and Republicans accused her of incompetence over a 2012 militant attack on the US mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left the US ambassador and three other Americans dead.

Her use of a personal email account instead of an official government one has proved a crippling scandal for her, fueling suspicions that the Clintons see themselves as above the law.

But her four globe-trotting years in the post also cemented


Vatican leaks scandal: Five go on trial in Holy See Published duration 24 November 2015

image copyright Reuters image caption Journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi (L) and Emiliano Fittipaldi wrote about allegations of the misuse of charitable and other funds

Five people, including two investigative journalists and a Spanish priest, have gone on trial in the Vatican over the leaking and publication of secret documents.

The journalists, who recently published books about financial waste and wrongdoing at the Vatican, accused the Holy See of attacking press freedom.

If convicted, all five could be jailed for up to eight years.

The Vatican says the writers tried to put pressure on its staff.

Spanish priest Msgr Angelo Lucio Vallejo Balda and public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui were part of a special reform commission set up by Pope Francisto tackle the Vatican's financial holdings and propose reforms to improve cash flow to the poor.

image copyright Reuters image caption From left to right: Gianluigi Nuzzi, Emiliano Fittipaldi, Francesca Chaouqui and Msgr Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda

The priest's secretary Nicola Maio has also been accused.

The journalists, Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi, bitterly criticised the Vatican's decision to put them on trial for publishing their books, Avarice and Merchants in the Temple.

Mr Nuzzi condemned the trial as "Kafkaesque and absurd", complaining that he had not been given a chance to read the indictment and had only met his court-appointed lawyer shortly before proceedings began.

Risky trial - by Caroline Wyatt, BBC religious affairs correspondent, Rome

The danger of this trial for the Vatican is that it will make it look vengeful and


press freedom, unlike the laws of the Holy See.

And with a "holy year of mercy" starting this December, the Vatican also risks looking rather less than merciful when its dirty laundry is aired in public.

The court rejected an attempt by Mr Fittipaldi to have the case thrown out on the grounds that the case against him was unclear.

What he was accused of doing would not be considered criminal in Italy, Mr Nuzzi argued. "Publishing news is protected by the Italian constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and the universal declaration of human rights," he said.

Much of Vatican criminal law dates back to an 1889 Italian penal code but a law criminalising the leaking of documents was introduced in 2013 in the wake of an earlier scandal involvingthe papal butler, dubbed Vat leaks.

image copyright AFP image caption Two of those charged were members of a commission set up by Pope Francis

Media groups have urged the Vatican to drop the charges, along with international security body, the OSCE.

However, the Vatican prosecutor said it was not publishing freedom that was on trial but the journalists' "illicit behaviour".

The Vatican says the two books give a "partial and tendentious" version of events.

In Avarice, Emiliano Fittipaldi says "crazy" sums were spent on business class flights and furniture. Gianluigi Nuzzi's Merchants in the Temple describes a pattern of financial mismanagement and greed at the heart of the Vatican.


At a February 5 meeting of the Justice and Development Party, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc delivered a blistering critique of Iran's policy of support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite the Syrian government's bloody crackdown on opposition strongholds.

"I am addressing the Islamic Republic of Iran: I do not know if you are worthy of being called Islamic," Arinc said, according to the Anatolia state news agency. "Have you said a single thing about what is happening in Syria?"

This tone represents quite a change from 2009, when Turkish President Abdullah Gül was among the first world leaders to congratulate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad on his contested reelection, or in 2010, when Ankara put its relationship with Washington on the line by voting against Iran sanctions in the UnitedNations Security Council.

News coverage also comes with a sharper edge. The Turkish press has increasingly started running articles that cast suspicions on Iran's intentions in the region and in Turkey, with some recent reports and columns suggesting that the Revolutionary Guards were planning attacks inside Turkey and that Iran is smuggling weapons through the country to Syria.

Hugh Pope, Turkey project director for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, and one of the authors of a report on Iran and Turkey to be released on February 23, believes that Ankara's more critical stance toward Iran indicates that "[t]he more hawkish faction in Ankara, the kind that thinks Iran is crossing the line in Syria and Iraq, is becoming more pronounced . . ."

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "feels personally


burned by the Iranians . . . " Pope commented. "Erdoğan likes to have wins and the risks he took for Iran did not pay off, either in the US or Iran."

But the two sides' mutual wariness is not always consistent. An Iranian general earlier threatened a retaliatory strike if Turkey hosted a North Atlantic Treaty Organization missile radar, but, nonetheless, Tehran has also proposed Istanbul as a possible site for another round of talks about Iran's nuclear research program.

Much of the Turkish-Iranian sparring is done instead via proxies. In Iraq, Turkey's neighbor to the south, Ankara's support for the Sunni Iraqiya alliance resulted in a falling out with Iranian-backed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has since gone on to accuse Ankara of "interfering" in Iraq's internal affairs.

"Thereis quite a strong and growing rivalry between the two countries inside of Iraq, and it stems from having genuinely different interests," said Sean Kane, a former UN official in Iraq and the author of a 2011 report on Turkish-Iranian competition in Iraq for the United States Institute of Peace.

"For Turkey, having a strong Iraq has historically been a bulwark against Kurdish separatism and Iranian adventurism. Iran looks at all of this very differently. A strong Iraq is a rival, and historically has been a hard security threat."


the resurgence of a terror tactic adopted by paramilitaries during the Troubles.

Four suspected explosive devices were discovered at Army careers offices in Oxford, Brighton, Canterbury and the Queensmere shopping centre in Slough.

Packets were also sent to military careers offices in Aldershot in Hampshire, Reading in Berkshire and Chatham in Kent.

One of the devices was sent to the seat of the power-sharing Executive at Stormont Castle in Belfast, addressed to the Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers.

Another bomb was delivered to the offices of the Public Prosecution Service in Londonderry, while two explosive packages - one addressed to then PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott and the other to one of his senior commanders - were intercepted at Royal Mail offices in Belfast and Lisburn.C. Malcolm Cochran, IV

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For more than 25 years, Mike Cochran has focused his practice on the litigation and trial of complex business and other civil disputes. He is a skilled advocate who has represented a wide variety of clients, ranging from multinational and publicly traded companies to local Delaware businesses and institutions. His clients have also included directors, officers and members of Delaware entities, state and local governments, prominent public figures, estates and individuals.

Mike has substantial experience in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Delaware Superior Court and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Recently, he has been engaged in a series of cases involving complex trade secret and restrictive covenant


claims. Mike has litigated a wide range of other, complex business disputes, injury and death claims, civil rights claims, and many more.

Honored with several awards for his work on behalf of Delaware’s abused and neglected children, Mike is committed to pro bono work and serves as chair of the firm’s Pro Bono and Community Service Committee. He also heads the Litigation Department’s Commercial and Business Litigation Group.

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a precedent-setting opinion on attorney-client privilege issues in the context of joint parent and subsidiary representations.

Hale v. City of Wilmington: Representation of the City of Wilmington and its police officers in a highly publicized civil rights case filed in the Delaware District Court, involving complex constitutional claims arising from the death of an individual as he was being taken into police custody.

Occupy Delaware v. City of Wilmington: Representation of the City of Wilmington in the defense of civil rights claims brought in the Delaware Court of Chancery by the ACLU on behalf of Occupy Delaware, over the occupation of Peter Spencer Plaza in the City of Wilmington.

Frontier Oil Corp. v. Holly Oil Corp: Representation of petroleum refiner in claims brought in the Delaware Court of Chancery arising frommerger, resulting in Delaware Supreme Court decisions further defining the fiduciary duties of directors under Delaware law.

Special Board Committees: Representation of a special litigation committee formed to investigate stock option vesting and related claims arising from the failed merger of two multinational telecommunications companies; representation of other special committees formed to investigate claims of misconduct by corporate officers and directors.

Harden and City of Wilmington v. Christina School District: Representation of the City of Wilmington and individual plaintiffs in a Delaware Chancery Court case that resulted in the issuance of an injunction preventing school district from closing its elementary schools in the City of Wilmington.

Keefe Commissary Network, LLC v. The Delaware Department of Correction: Representation of commissary and financial services contractor in bid dispute with the Delaware Department of


medicine that had different effects on different people and even different effects with the same person from session to session? This variability contraindicated psychedelics as a take-home prescription medicine and even as an in-session adjuvant. Doctors were used to medicines that anyone could take anywhere at anytime with fairly predictable effects. Being unprepared to see set and setting as two powerful co-causes of the drugs, it is no wonder that doctors and researchers found psychedelics confusing,

The Curse of the Sixties

Added to that, in the 60s and 70s, psychedelics, especially LSD, were associated in the public mind with social turmoil, antiwar demonstrations, black power and civil rights, gays beginning to come out, the ecology movement, women’s equality, hippiedom, weird clothing and music, sexual openness, and anything else people disapprovedpolitically based positions and hardened social attitudes.

In contrast to their mid-Twentieth Century forebears, ironically, by the end of the Twentieth Century, most new psychiatrists had begun to use psychoactive drugs as the treatments of choice, turning around the historically hostile psychiatric profession. As legal psychoactive drugs became the psychiatric norm, “talking cures” and extended psychotherapeutic interactions with professionals, had become professionally déclassé, so day-long psychedelic sessions faced an unlevel professional field too.

So that leaves us now with professional assumptions and lingering social-political policies that are derived from the attitudes of more than a generation ago. In the Twenty-first Century, however, research is again opening up as the chapters by Sessa, Goldsmith, Fadiman, and others in this book demonstrate. But these contrasting perspectives are aggravated by contradictory opinions about


treatments, advances in the neurosciences may lead to whole new sources of mindapps as described in the chapter “Mindapps and the Neurosingularity” below. Psychedelics are so powerful that for many of the 26 million experienced people in the U.S. (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2010) the singlestate view of the mind looked naïve. Millions of others with experiences with other mindapps agreed. They all realized there was more to their minds than the simple default states.

Multistate Is the New Normal.

People are curious about their minds, they like to explore them. They enjoy a variety of mindbody states, and many states contain useful skills, others entertaining perspectives, still others new ideas and insights. This chapter looks largely at the last. In their daily lives if not consciously,groups in South America and agreements between the União do Vegetal and the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration, international ayahuasca scholar Beatriz Labate spots an “institutionalization project”. This includes bureaucratization of records, administrative organizations, and establishing leadership roles. Among other manifestations, are forming a canon of spiritual processes, codification of lyrics and melodies, the regulation of cultivating, obtaining, and cooking the sacramental tea. The Amazonian UDV, she reports, “is creating a school that will teach courses to its members on growing and handling the species that constitute ayahuasca; the school will supply written curriculum and offer diplomas at completion” (2012). As her subtitle hints, “The UDV–DEA Agreement and the Limits of Freedom of Religion,” when the substance of religion switches from beliefs to experiences, from groups to individuals,


beyond the limitations of their original times. Freedom of the Press applies to news media that couldn’t even be dreamed of on Dec. 15, 1791, when The Bill was ratified. Who knows how many new American and imported churches are protected by the Freedom of Religion? New groups organize and assemble to discuss and promote ideas even via the Internet. The Right to Bear Arms now includes more than the right to carry the muskets and pirate-type pistols of the late eighteenth century. Thanks to these extended freedoms, ideas, facts, and opinions that were unknown to the founders are commonplace today, and the free and open marketplace of ideas is an ideal we still strive for. In his introduction to The Marketplace of Ideas, Menand succinctly presents thisMenand’s standards, then current psychedelic drug policy is anti-American, anti-democratic, and anti-knowledge. Will policy experts figure out a way to broaden Menand’s ideal to include psychedelic ideas and thinking processes?

Just as Constitutional protections extend to new kinds of news media, churches, groups, communication, and products and services, they should also extend to new ideas, to ways to produce them, to their open dissemination, and to evidence for and against both new and existing ideas. Certainly, these extensions meet the original intent of the founders as much as TV and the Mormon Church. In addition to ideas, psychedelics provide additional thinking processes that reside their mindbody states. Just as print, speech, religion, and assembly carried ideas in the Eighteenth Century, psychedelics carry them today in the Twenty-first. The blanket


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 50 Alabama men's tennis team opens up the 2018 SEC Men's Tournament against in-state rival Auburn on Wednesday, April 25 at 4 p.m. CT at the Alabama Tennis Stadium. The Crimson Tide is hosting the SEC Tournament for the first time since 2006.

Alabama shut out Auburn earlier this year in Tuscaloosa, as the Tide defeated the Tigers 4-0 on March 18 at the Alabama Tennis Stadium.

Junior Mazen Osama ranks as the No. 18 singles player in the country, with a 12-7 record, including six wins over national-ranked opponents. Sophomore Edson Ortiz leads the team with in the spring with a 16-5 record, while sophomore Alexey Nesterov is second on the squad with a 15-7 mark.

In doubles, Osama and partner Ortiz moved up sevenMinistry of Science, Research and Economy and the Austrian Science Fund; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; the Brazilian Funding Agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP); the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Colombian Funding Agency (COLCIENCIAS); the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, and the Croatian Science Foundation; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ecuador; the Ministry of Education and Research, Estonian Research Council via IUT23-4 and IUT23-6 and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de


New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016, Plan de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación 2013-2017 del Principado de Asturias and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER);the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority; the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Ukraine; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the US Department of Energy, and the US National Science Foundation.

Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract No. 675440 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the


7th beginning 6:30 p.m. at the Hamilton Stage Theatre, 360 Hamilton Street, in Rahway.

The film is being presented as part of Chairman Bergen's UC HERO initiative for 2016, which assists Veterans. The movie has been called "gripping, wrenching, and persuasive" by the Village Voice and "a film every American should see" by the Star Ledger. The Military Times said it is "generating Oscar buzz." The documentary is currently being shown at film festivals around the country, and is scheduled for theatrical release in early October. It won "Best Documentary at the GI Film Festival in DC, and the "Impact Award" at the Illuminate Festival. Source: www.nj.com

Miles Teller as Adam Schumann in "Thank You For Your Service" (2017) directed by Jason Hall.Professor Colin Whisterfield, now a deeply troubled astrophysicist at the nearby Jodrell Bank radio telescope observatory, combs the cosmos looking for Susan, who disappeared at the end of "The Moon of Gomrath".

With no memory of Susan's disappearance or indeed of anything before he was 13, Colin visits a psychiatrist, Meg, who tries to help him uncover his lost secrets.

The modern story is intertwined with that of The Watcher, a mysterious pre-historic man, who must find "the woman" to prevent the world from ending.

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"Boneland" is described as a novel for adults, though magic is in the air. It is published in the UK 30 August by Fourth Estate.

Alan Garner, 77, answered questions about the conclusion to


Dom Christian de Chergé was one of the Trappist monks killed by extremists at the Monastery of Notre Dame of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, in 1996, by terrorists identifying themselves as the "Armed Islamic Groups." (Their story was told in the film "Of Gods and Men.") Dom Christian and the other Trappist martyrs knew that by remaining in Tibhirine, in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the country who also faced terrorism and violence, they might be called upon to offer their lives. This is in stark contrast to the terrible plight of those who died in Paris yesterday, whose lives were taken from them forcibly. But Dom Christian's testament is a profound meditation on suffering, death and reconciliation, which may help as we reflect on thePilot's Progress

November 1, 1980

With the publication of his second novel, it beings to become clear that Douglas Terman has a formula all his own. The first ingredient is a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, and he varies the outcome from one book to the next. The first novel, the very successful "First Strike," the war was averted at the last minute, against overwhelming odds. In "Free Flight," the war has happened and nobody has really won, although there are Russians among the semi-bandit "security forces," which are clamping an iron rule on what remains of the United States. The world seems headed back toward some kind of feudalism, not the unified empire that the Russians imagined when they launched their missiles.

The second ingredient


in both books is a hero who is rather undistinguished except for his experience in air combat, which turns out to have no value in relation to the atomic war but considerable value for the hero's own survival. In both novels, the hero is confronted and clearly defeated by the bad guys, but then he gets his hands on a small aircraft, escapes in it north to Canada, runs into some further complications and finally manages to start life anew. In "First Strike," the hero managed to escape in a small propeller plane from the Caribbean to Canada although he was pursued by a flock of MIG jets from Cuba. In "Free Flight," the feat is less spectacular: an escape from Vermont to Canada, pursued by a fewhope) highly improbable.

The hero of "First Strike" has the curious name of Brian Loss -- a last name that is obviously symbolic and highly appropriate. When he is not piloting a plane, Loss is something like a seagull on land -- awkward and a little comic. When he discovers that the Russians have corrupted and manipulated a presidential candidate to trick the U.S. into unilateral disarmament, he makes almost every possible mistake in his attempt to thwart their machinations -- until the last moment when he makes one spectacularly right decision and saves the world from nuclear holocaust. Several times, he is saved from death -- which would be the logical and richly earned result of his folly -- only because the author needs to keep him around


for the end. The book has a happy ending only because Douglas Terman and his publishers thought it should, not out of any inner necessity.

While the ingredients of "Free Flight" are strikingly similar, the tight structure and convincing flow of the narrative show Terman's considerable growth as a novelist. His hero, Gregory Mallen, is a much more competent human being, and his success (a rather ambiguous success -- and that's a plus) is derived directly from his skills, which he employs credibly in a situation that has been made believable. The characters are much less numerous and more carefully drawn -- well-rounded individuals, not stereotypes, so that one really comes to care about what happens to them.

Most important of all are the long flight scenes which serve asa centerpiece in each book. In "First Strike," the flight scene seems to be stuck in because Terman has a lot of experience as a pilot and writes about it knowingly and well. There is a bit of suspense because Loss seems to be running out of gas over the Atlantic, but then it just peters out when he discovers that he was closer to his destination that he had expected.

In "Free Flight," the central flight scene is the most essential part of the plot, carefully prepared and motivated and written with a smoooth, polished skill that makes the reader forget it is more than 60 pages long and wish it could be even longer.

"First Strike" was a slightly bumpy training flight that showed considerable promise but a


Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that terrorism would be on the rise in Europe if Western leaders help to destabilize the two countries, but no one listened. As a result, Libya and Syria have been plunged into chaos and now Europe has to grapple with a string of gruesome terrorist attacks.

The latest assault took place on Tuesday as three coordinated bombings rocked the Belgian capital of Brussels, which hosts the headquarters of several international institutions, including the European Union, NATO and the Benelux.

Daesh took responsibility for the attack that claimed 31 lives. The brutal terrorist group was also behind the night of terror in Paris on November 13, a series of coordinated terrorist acts that left 130 people killed.

© REUTERS / YorickJansens Broken windows of the terminal at Brussels national airport are seen during a ceremony following bomb attacks in Brussels metro and Belgium's National airport of Zaventem, Belgium, March 23, 2016

Evidently, Gaddafi, Assad and others, who shared their concerns, could not predict specific attacks, but they understood regional trends and their implications.

Several months before his death, Colonel Gaddafi warned that unified and stable Libya was the only thing that prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants and terrorists posing as refugees from flooding Europe. "Libya plays a role in security in the Mediterranean," he told the Paris-based France 24 television channel.

© AP Photo / Gregorio Borgia A rubber boat loaded of migrants is seen during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coasts, Italy,


Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Nevertheless, France, several other NATO members and other countries went ahead with the military intervention. The country has been plagued by deadly violence ever since. One of the latest developments has seen Daesh gain a foothold in the divided nation.

In 2013, when Western leaders were contemplating sending weapons to Syrian rebels, Bashar al-Assad warned that it was a dangerous scenario to explore. Access to additional weapons would not only strengthen terrorists in Syria, but also result in "the direct export of terrorism to Europe," he argued.

"If the Europeans deliver weapons, the backyard of Europe will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for it," he said.

In early 2015, Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, Gaddafi's cousin and former intelligence official, predicted that a terrorist act, comparable toLos Angeles, CA (APRIL 26, 2011) Despite the fact that nearly one-third of American households have a firearm, studies show that having a gun in the home poses a household a greater health risk than a potential benefit. A new study released in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (published by SAGE) examined scientific research on both sides of the debate to put hard numbers to this on-going discussion.

Author David Hemenway studied the various risks of having a gun in the home, including accidents, suicide, homicide, and intimidation. Additionally, the benefits of having a firearm in a household were also examined and those benefits included deterrence, and thwarting crimes (self-defense). From this in-depth look, it was concluded that homes with guns were not safer or deter more crime


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