increased use of space capabilities for military applications changed how India thinks about its reliance on other countries and private actors in space?

Contemporary wars, from the first Persian Gulf War onward, have been highly technology-dependent, with C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) capabilities playing a key role. India appreciates that reliance on the integration of outer space and cyber capabilities will only increase in future conflicts. Through 2013, India had about 25 satellites, of which 4 were dual-use. The military was relying on those 4 satellites and did not have a dedicated military satellite until August 2013, when the first satellite was launched for the Indian Navy for maritime communications. Until then, India was relying on Inmarsat, a British commercial satellite communication provider. The nextmilitary satellite will serve the Indian Air Force and Indian Army and will likely have a delayed launch this year. Beyond the maritime domain, India has been relying on foreign partners for many other satellite-based communications and data services. For instance, it continues to rely on NASA for deep space communications. India also works a great deal with France to launch its heavy satellites.

What institutional changes has the government made to implement this shift in focus?

Until recently, the scientific and technological bureaucracy had been left to set its own goals and achieve whatever it could. The political leadership has failed to take ownership of this particular domain. The government needs to set goals, requirements, and milestones outlining where India wants to be in 2020 and 2030. The scientific


and surveillance, including over its immediate waters, have been far more significant.

The third important partner has been NASA, with which India has a long history of cooperation, going back to its first launch of a sounding rocket in 1971. However, cooperation was restricted because of the export control regimes and sanctions placed on ISRO and many of its associated institutions following the 1974 and 1998 nuclear tests. This history also explains why India is guarded and secretive about its policies and capabilities. However, after the 2005 U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement, things have begun improving. All ISRO entities have now been removed from the sanctions list, and there is more cooperation at every level. The United States is now talking about bringing India into the global export control regimes,voice on its side. India cannot play that role, but China can. Although China does not have much to gain from Russia in terms of new technologies, Beijing appears willing to see what it can gain through this cooperation. The advanced space cooperation between these two countries sparks a lot of apprehension and wariness in India.

Rajeswari Rajagopalan is Senior Fellow and Head of the Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Prior to this, she spent five years at the National Security Council Secretariat (2003–7), where she was an Assistant Director.

This interview was conducted by Xiaodon Liang, an Intern with the Political and Security Affairs group at NBR.


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In order to solve the above problems and to simplify the whole structure of the heating apparatus, a heating apparatus employing heat pipes instead of the aforementioned cooling liquidas to inform them that other utility and credit card providers charge for these services.

Flu Clinic

SOICS partnered with Sunrise Pharmacy and set up a flu clinic in our Penticton office. Besides providing flu shots, they also took blood pressure and checked blood sugar levels. We continued our health and wellness theme as clients learned the benefits of the vaccination and how important it is to monitor our health. We then took this workshop to the Portuguese club where 21 immigrants benefitted from the experience and information received.

Healthy Lunches

In 2014, the Oliver Healthy Living Coalition (OHLC), as a partner member of the Okanagan-Similkameen Healthy Living Coalition, received an Environmental Scan of the Oliver and Osoyoos area prepared by fourth year students of the Faculty of Management at UBC Okanagan.


concern for students from immigrant families not bringing healthy lunches.

With the help of a Chronic Disease Nurse and a Registered Dietitian from South Okanagan Regional Hospital, we held the second in a series of healthy living workshops, focusing on nutritious foods, reading labels and providing healthy lunch options for school children. They explained and practically demonstrated different methods of preparing healthy food for their school going kids and their families. In the last part of this workshop, participants were encouraged to taste various kinds of new products having great food value that were totally strange/unknown to them.

As with the first workshop, Dietary Guidelines and Exercise, participants asked many questions and expressed an interest in learning more about maintaining healthy lifestyles. Working towards introducing fitness ideas to our clients,“absolutely incompatible” with the priesthood,” Benedict said.

Vatican officials selected four questions to be read by the journalists to the pontiff aboard the plane.

Benedict described his pilgrimage as a journey to meet a “great people and a great church.” He spoke about the American model of religious values within a system of separation of church and state.

From a presidential welcome, to two Masses at baseball stadiums, to a stop for prayer at ground zero in New York, Benedict will get a heavy dose of the American experience.

President Bush planned to make the unusual gesture of greeting him at Andrews Air Force Base — the first time the president has greeted a foreign leader there.

The pope said he will discuss immigration with Bush, including the difficulties of families who are


Benedict on his 81st birthday. Aides say he is in good health.

After making little headway in his efforts to rekindle the faith in his native Europe, the German-born Benedict will be visiting a country where many of the 65 million Catholics are eager to hear what he says.

A poll released Sunday by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University found eight in 10 Catholics are somewhat or very satisfied with his leadership.

Benedict is expected to stress the importance of moral values and take on what he sees are the dangers of moral relativism — that is, that there are no absolute rights and wrongs.

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On the other hand, in the multilayer capacitor disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 62-210612, the layers having a relatively low dielectric constant are arranged on the upper and lower sides of the portion comprising internal electrodes to suppress flashover in the upper and lower sides of the ceramic sintered compact, as described above, but flashover in the side of the ceramic sintered compact cannot be effectively suppressed. In addition, since the layers having a low dielectric constant are simply provided, voltage resistance cannot be improved.Q:

How does adoption affect one's Varna?

Recently, I was having a discussion on what Varnas, Karna and Satyavati should belong to.
We all know Karna was born from Kunti and Surya but was adopted by Adhiratha Nandana. Therefore, he was born as a Kshatriya but was adopted by Suta (product of Brahmin mother and Kshatriya father) parents. Of course, his identity was not known to people.
Satyavati and his twin brother Matsya, on the other hand, was born as the product of King Uparichara Vasu and Adrika, an Apsara cursed by a Brahmana to turn into a fish. She was found by a fisherman (who are generally considered Shudras) who was a subject of Uparichara Vasu incidentally. The fisherman approached the King and narrated the tale of their miraculous


In vivo ultrasound backscattering estimation for tumour diagnosis: an animal study.
In this study the efficacy of a quantitative analysis of backscattered ultrasound for the differential diagnosis of intraocular tumours is tested. The data acquisition was performed with an on-line acquisition and processing system for in vivo work. The backscattering spectra were corrected for the beam effects (diffraction and focussing). The measurements were taken from an animal model (rabbit) in which a Greene's amelanotic melanoma was implanted in the anterior chamber of the eye. The special histologic arrangement of this tumour makes it optimally suited to an assessment of the correlation between histology and backscattering cross section. Various backscattering models were considered theoretically and the choice for a practical testing was motivated on the properties of the observed backscatteringStory highlights Flood waters in St. George are expected to peak around 45 feet

That is below the level of the levee bank protecting the town

Authorities tell residents that they should not return to their homes yet

A thunderstorm warning threatens to hamper the cleanup effort in other Queensland towns

Australian authorities on Tuesday told more than 2,000 residents who had left a town at the mercy of record-breaking flood waters to stay away until the danger had passed.

The swollen Balonne River, which cuts through the heart of the town of St. George in the eastern state of Queensland, reached 13.85 meters (45.4 feet) Tuesday morning and was expected to peak around 14 meters later in the day, said Steve Gollschewski, assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police.

Even at their forecast peak


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The flooding this year has also affected parts of the neighboring state of New South Wales.

According to the police, 222 residents remain in St. George -- out of a total population of about 3,000 -- along with 93 police officers and other emergency staff. The authorities had urged all residents to leave the town.

Dozens of homes in southeastern Queensland have been inundated by the floods and hundreds of people have taken shelter in evacuation centers. Many others have been taken to the state capital, Brisbane.

The army has provided military helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane to assist with search, evacuation and supply efforts.

The cleanup from the flooding in Roma, Mitchell and Charleville -- three towns near St. George -- wasbest known public spaces, Princes Street Gardens. This included negotiations for the widening of Princes Street and the placing of a great number of statues along the edge of the park facing that road.

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He was the son of Robert Morham (1812-1889) Depute City Clerk, and his wife Janet Aird (1808-1883), who lived at 13 Lauder Road, which remained his home for all his life. To avoid confusion he styled himself Robert Morham Jr for much of his early life.

He was educated at Newington Academy and the Royal High School.

In 1854 he was articled to David Rhind and in 1859 transferred to David Bryce, both prominent architects of their day. In 1862 he moved to London to work for William Eden Nesfield. In 1866 he returned to Edinburgh and


An Arkansas History for Young People / Edition 4

Adopted by the State of Arkansas for 2008 Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for middle-level and/or junior-high-school Arkansas-history classes. This fourth edition incorporates new research done after extensive consultations with middle-level and junior-high teachers from across the state,

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Adopted by the State of Arkansas for 2008 Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for middle-level and/or junior-high-school Arkansas-history classes. This fourth edition incorporates new research done after extensive consultations with middle-level and junior-high teachers from across the state, curriculum coordinators, literacy coaches, university professors, and students themselves. It includes a multitude of new features and is nowSimms Northern Rockies Sales Rep Jon Yousko hoists this 17 pound permit caught on a recent trip to the Florida Keys. Jon was fishing with his friend and Keys guide Captain Paul Tejera when they landed the permit. Jon is wearing his usual compliment of Simms gear to fend off the heat and sun. Shown here is his Superlight Shirt and Pant (both with COR3 technology) along with his trusty 6 Panel Short Bill Cap.


How Rwanda's Paul Kagame Exploits U.S. Guilt

Washington's remorse over standing by during the genocide 20 years ago is enabling repression today

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Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, in Brussels on April 2. Mr. Kagame, who led a Tutsi insurgency after the 1994 genocide, was elected to a second term in 2010.
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Howard W. French

Updated April 19, 2014 2:50 p.m. ET

On an early April evening 20 years ago, an airplane carrying the president of Rwanda was mysteriously shot down, and the small Central African country launched itself into a killing spree that would last 100 days. Rwanda's genocide was shocking: close-quarter, hand-to-hand butchery, mostly with machetes and other implements. Some 800,000 people were murdered after members of the country's Tutsi minority were targeted by members of its vast Hutu majority.

As Rwanda has soughtto rebuild from the ashes of the genocide, the U.S. has felt a special obligation to the victims. During the early weeks of the slaughter, when foreign intervention had the best chance of halting the bloodshed, President Bill Clinton's administration carefully avoided designating the crisis a genocide so as to duck involvement. (When President Clinton visited Rwanda in 1998, he said that the U.S. "did not act quickly enough after the killing began.")

But today's Rwanda—led by President Paul Kagame, who rose to power as the head of a Tutsi insurgency driving back the Hutu killers in 1994—no longer follows a simple narrative of victims and perpetrators. The longer the U.S. has been guided by that narrative—atoning, in effect, for shirking global leadership during one of the worst mass


slaughters of the past century—the more it has become complicit in crimes and misdeeds in Rwanda ever since.

A pattern of U.S. indulgence was established in the earliest days of the post-genocide period, when Mr. Kagame was establishing his authority throughout the country. During those first months, Mr. Kagame's army, composed almost entirely of minority Tutsi, conducted its own mass slaughters across Rwanda, rounding up unarmed Hutu civilians by the thousands and machine-gunning them. These acts were documented at the time by international human rights workers and U.N. experts on the ground. The Kagame government has bristled at accusations of human rights abuses, saying it acted on behalf of the victims of the genocide. (The Rwandan government did not respond to repeated requests for comment on this article.)

A seasonedU.N. investigator, Robert Gersony, estimated that as many as 35,000 Hutu were killed in this manner between April and September 1994 in the 28% of the country that his team surveyed. "What we found," an investigator who took part in the survey told me, "was a well-organized, military style operation, with military command and control, and these were military campaign style mass murders." But the U.N. never released the report. Human Rights Watch reported that the U.S. "concurred in this decision, largely to avoid weakening the new Rwandan government."

Many historians of Rwanda say that this set a powerful precedent of impunity for the new Kagame regime—and paved the way for larger crimes.

Mr. Kagame moved to consolidate his power, with U.S. and other foreign aid accounting for virtually all


of the country's budget in 1995. (That figure stands today at 40%, according to the World Bank.) He quickly set about eliminating sources of opposition and criticism throughout Rwanda. Under his rule, independent-minded journalists were jailed or chased into exile. In 1997, Appolos Hakizimana, the editor of a magazine that had criticized the Rwandan military, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen. Rival political leaders (such as Pasteur Bizimungu, the titular but largely powerless president in the late 1990s, and Victoire Ingabire in the last election) were imprisoned; some rival parties have been banned.

Meanwhile, with tacit U.S. support, Mr. Kagame launched a pair of wars against neighboring Zaire (later renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo). The rationale for the first of these conflicts, in 1996, was that Zaire harboredthousands of armed perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide who were bent on revenge. But Mr. Kagame went beyond hunting down genocidaires, and Rwandan intervention in Congo became habit-forming, at a devastating cost in human lives.

The International Rescue Committee estimates that more than five million people have died since 1998 as a result of the wars and campaign of destabilization waged by Mr. Kagame in Congo. Perhaps the most troubling fact of these conflicts has been Rwanda's pursuit of coldblooded ethnic revenge. Congo has repeatedly accused Rwanda of interference in its affairs; Rwanda says Congo's weak government has done too little to root out Hutu extremists who took part in the 1994 genocide.

In 2010, an exhaustive U.N. report on a decade of Rwandan-sponsored conflict in Congo revealed that Mr.


Kagame's forces had carried out a highly targeted campaign against Rwandan and native Congolese Hutu, some of whom had fled to Congo after the genocide. Some experts have put the death toll as high as 300,000 people. The overwhelming majority of these victims, according to the report, were unarmed, including large numbers of women, children and the elderly. (The Rwandan government called the U.N. report "outrageous" and "amateurish.")

As a foreign correspondent at the time, I followed these people as they crossed the enormous breadth of Congo by foot, their numbers dwindling as they came under attack by Rwandan forces and fell from disease. But the U.S. ambassador to Congo at the time, Daniel Howard Simpson, said that humanitarian concern about these refugees was misplaced. "They are the badan image of Rwanda as something new to Africa: a capable, technocratic state dedicated to good governance, a regional financial hub and an Internet-for-all society. "They are extremely adept in speaking a discourse that Westerners want to hear," said Catharine Newbury, a Rwanda specialist at Smith College.

Rwanda remains extremely poor, but it has recently sustained fast growth rates, and health care, longevity, education and gender equality have improved strongly. Still, Mr. Kagame is best seen not as a modernizing technocrat but as an unapologetic autocrat. He bullies his neighbors, rewards his cronies and menaces dissidents.

The U.S. State Department says that it is troubled by what appear to be the politically motivated killings of a number of high-profile Rwandan exiles. When Rwanda's former spy chief was found dead in


looms. "There has to be an uncompromising position on opening up political space in the country and ending the destabilization of the Congo," said Scott Straus, a University of Wisconsin political scientist. "I don't think it will be easy, but more of the same isn't going to work."

Mr. French is a professor at Columbia Journalism School, a former New York TimesNYT0.15% foreign correspondent and the author of "China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa," to be published by Knopf in May.

Professor Reyntjens is quoted as saying that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is "probably the worst war criminal in office today." That is quite a charge, especially given the long-list of criminals holding office today.

If WSJ article by Howard French, and thedocuments. They have established the answer to three basic questions: the French government he actively participated with his elect its diplomats and his army in the preparation of genocide? In his coaching ? A scripts ?

For all people of good faith , the simple reading of Article summary Unacceptable , but certainly imprescriptible " and its links , initially released in August 2008 and we are republishing today leads beyond doubt supposed to meet three times yes to these questions.

Three times , not twice or one ; not the tip of the tongue ; no superficial or blurred manner, but supporting , through evidence and testimony gathered on the spot and even in neighboring Congo , the terrible truth: France has committed genocide , there is barely twenty


years old , participating with his commandos , legionaries , helicopters, jeeps and machine guns, the annihilation of about 800,000 unarmed innocent of all ages in four months. This is a rate greater than that of the Nazis and their industrial extermination of Jews during the entire Second World Conflict .

What frightens most about this is that crime was committed almost without cause, and without the targets of the French Army had never made ??any security threat and even less political or military for France . So many dead, only because a French president , whose activities had already earned him the Frantz during the Occupation , harbored antipathy for Tutsis.

And because, in a French political system worn , giving lately signs of incurable terminal in an apparatusto explain his actions , the official France and the insane attacks or discredits those who report the facts. But politics France is not the only cause , it is followed in its denial by most intellectuals , and much of the main stream media , the most cowardly and agreed to press the democratic world.

At the time of publication of our investigation , strictly no French media did not share our conclusions. Then today, when almost triumphant , our colleagues announced the sentence to 25 years enclose a paraplegic by the French justice for his role in the genocide Hutu captain, actually they not understand that judges sent galleys to a third violin in the orchestra accomplices and allies of France in 1994? And in doing so,


Fort Leavenworth Command and General Staff College, before he invaded Rwanda with regiments of the Ugandan army in October 1990. Kagame ordered his troops on the ground in Rwanda to shoot down the plane carrying the Rwandan and Burundian presidents home from signing a peace agreement in Arusha, Tanzania, then further violated the peace agreement by resuming his advance on Kigali. No one is more to blame for what then happened in Kigali and other parts of Southern Rwanda than Kagame himself. He was also responsible for massacres, mostly massacres of Hutu people, in the North, before he ordered the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents.

So the US is terrible because it didn't intervene when a genocide was happening, now the US is terrible because it isthe Emerging Infections Program (EIP) were analyzed. After the regulation took effect, vaccination rates among Connecticut children aged 6–59 months increased from 67.8% during the 2009–10 influenza season to 84.1% during the 2012–13 season. During the 2012–13 influenza season, among all 11 EIP surveillance sites, Connecticut had the greatest percentage decrease (12%) in the influenza-associated hospitalization rate from 2007–08 among children aged ≤4 years. Additionally, the ratio of the influenza-associated hospitalization rates among children aged ≤4 years to the overall population rate (0.53) was lower than for any other EIP site. Requiring vaccination for child care admission might have helped to increase vaccination rates in Connecticut and reduced serious morbidity from influenza.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices first recommended annual influenza vaccination for children aged 6–23 months in


2004 (1) and for children aged 24–59 months in 2006 (2). In 2012–13, the national vaccination level among children aged 6–59 months was 69.8%, the lowest among vaccines routinely recommended for this age group except for rotavirus and hepatitis A vaccines (3,4). In the United States, 60% of preschool-aged children receive nonparental care each week, and among these children, 60% receive center-based care, which includes child care centers, preschools, and pre-kindergarten programs (5). To protect against outbreaks of disease, all 50 states have legal requirements for specific immunizations for children attending these centers (6). However, only two states, Connecticut and New Jersey, require immunization against influenza. In January 2014, New York City became the first reported municipality to pass a similar requirement.

Connecticut first required that all children aged6–59 months in licensed child care receive at least 1 dose of influenza vaccine by January 1 of each year, beginning September 2010. One year later, the same requirement was made for all children aged 24–59 months who were enrolled in a preschool program.

Data from multiple surveys were used to estimate vaccination rates among children aged 6–59 months in Connecticut. Estimates of influenza vaccination coverage from the National 2009 H1N1 Flu Survey and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for the 2009–10 influenza season (7) and from the National Immunization Survey and BRFSS for the 2012–13 influenza season (3) were used to compare Connecticut's and national influenza vaccination rates before and after implementation of the Connecticut requirement. Data from a survey of all licensed child care facilities in


coverage for influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 was not included.

† 95% confidence interval.

Alternate Text: The figure above shows seasonal influenza vaccination coverage by age group in Connecticut and the United States overall for the 2009-10 and 2012-13 influenza seasons. During 2009-10, before the state required influenza vaccination of children in licensed child care, 67.8% of Connecticut children aged 6-59 months received a vaccination for seasonal influenza. In 2012-13, the vaccination coverage was 84.8%.

* This incidence rate is different from the rate for Connecticut displayed in CDC's FluView at http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluhosprates.html. The rate in this table is based on New Haven County only, whereas the FluView catchment area for Connecticut expanded from one county in 2007–08 to three counties in 2012–13. During the 2012–13 influenza season, New Haven County had 24 casesCounty had 24 cases and 46,626 children aged ≤4 years, and overall had 833 cases and a total population of 862,813, based on the annual county population estimates used in FluView.

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for the afterlife. Women from ancient Greece and the Roman Empire also practiced body hair removal, as pubic hair was considered “uncivilized.”

Anthropologists have suggested that hair removal (including arms, face, and pubic region) was for a multitude of reasons including hygiene (e.g. to avoid pubic lice), aesthetics, fashion, class symbolism, and cultural symbolism.

Interestingly, though it may have been practiced in some Eastern and African cultures, removal of pubic hair was not traditionally found among European Caucasian women.

Furthermore, throughout the following several thousand years, pubic hair grooming was a woman’s decision and removal of it was not widely practiced throughout the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Victorian era all the way until the late 1900s.

Beginning with the 20th century, as arms and legs became more exposed, Gillette introduced the firstoption until almost 13 years later in 2000 when an iconic episode of Sex and City aired and Carrie Bradshaw got a Brazilian.

Now, in the past 20 years with influence of Internet pornography, the porn industry has solidified the image of a hairless woman as the beauty ideal.

Top selling magazines like Maxim, Playboy,and GQ display pornified women that infiltrate our culture while Jenna Jameson has become a household name with her New York Times bestseller How To Make Love Like a Porn Star.

According to one study, approximately 30% of the Internet is taken up by pornography. Porn is a form of sex education in the Western world and the hairless, pre-pubescent look is the look in porn.

Today, hair removal is an ingrained habit, like eyebrow plucking or nail-cutting,


Najib Razak will be going up against old political foes and a record number of candidates.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Getty Images

Amid a fierce political contest, Malaysia will be holding both federal Parliament and state assembly elections on Wednesday. Stakes are high for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is already weathering a multi-billion dollar scandal involving state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). He is going up against a record number of candidates and battles in several states, and the results will determine his political future.

Who's running?

Najib faces tough competition from old political foes — Malaysia's longest-serving, battle-hardened former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who has joined forces with opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim. The latter politician is leading the charge from prison after being thrown into jail forsodomy in 2014 — an incarceration he says was politically motivated. The main players include the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, which is expected to win by a narrow margin, and opposition parties Pakatan Harapan, a coalition led by Mahathir, as well as Parti Islam Se-Malaysia.

Mahathir, who led the country from 1981 to 2003, was once Najib's mentor. Mahathir was mentor to Anwar at one time as well. If their attempt to oust Najib is successful, he reportedly plans to pardon Anwar and hand the role of prime minister down to him. The general election will see a record number of 2,333 candidates, an increase from 1,899 in the 2013 elections.

When is voting?

Campaigning ends on Tuesday. Polling Day, when citizens get to vote, falls on Wednesday. The decision to


set the vote during the middle of the week was seen as discouraging millions of Malaysians living abroad from returning home to vote. However, outraged Malaysians took to social media to offer funding and other services to help people return home to vote. Low voter turnout is expected to favor Najib's coalition. Under the Malaysian electoral system, voters submit two votes: One for state government and another for federal government. In total, 222 parliamentary seats, and 505 state assembly seats in 12 states, will be up for the taking, decided by almost 15 million Malaysians who are eligible to vote. A 13th state, Sarawak, has already held its election.

What are the issues?

The country's rising cost of living is a hot topic, and a Goods and Services Tax (GST)introduced in 2015, as well as the depreciation of the ringgit, have hit many Malaysians. Najib has promised to almost double cash handouts to low-income households. The opposition says it will scrap the GST if it wins. Despite the 1MDB scandal — the fund is being investigated for money-laundering and graft in at least six countries — corruption issues are not expected to hurt Najib's chances. Najib — who was cleared of any criminality by Malaysia's attorney general — and 1MDB have both denied any wrongdoing.

Protesters demanding Prime Minister Najib Razak's resignation during a rally in Kuala Lumpur. Getty Images

"The big issue is cost of living — other issues like corruption are secondary to Malaysians' bread and butter," said Rashaad Ali, research analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School


[Presentation by the GRECO group of the French adaptation of a cognitive assessment scale used in Alzheimer type dementia].
A consensus group on cognitive evaluation in clinical research, the GRECO, carried out a French adaptation of the American ADAS. This "unique and consensual" version answers the purposes of the original version, taking into account the constraints and customs of the French language. After presenting the ADAS-cog rating scale, the principles underlying its design, and its various items, a review of the literature is proposed. This review deals with the ADAS as a diagnosis and assessment tool to evaluate both spontaneous evolution of dementia of Alzheimer's type and drug efficacy in clinical trials.Lightning flashes above Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela more than anywhere else on earth and does so for a stunning 297 days of the year. Second place goes to Kahuzi-Biéga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A new study of satellite data spanning 16 years shows that cloud-to-ground lightning and intracloud lightning occur most frequently over complex terrain—notably the foothills of rugged mountain regions, especially if a big, warm lake lies nearby (insets below). Ironically, the leading U.S. spot is not rugged, but a flat corner of the Everglades near Orangetree, Fla. Africa is home to the most hotspots—283 of the top 500—followed by Asia (with 87), South America, North America and Australia (colored dots on main map). Above land, thunderstorms are most prevalent during the


have been in all of the breakout sessions because I know that I missed some inspiring presentations and interactions. In addition to memorable keynote presentations by Alan Berube, Ray Boshara, Nicol Turner-Lee and Bill Strickland, I was particularly inspired by the innovative solutions implemented by Swamp Gravy, The East Initiative and The Cornerstone Corporation for Shared Equity. They are great examples of how community development operates in different places and at different levels of influence.

Alan Berube with The Brookings Institution and Ray Boshara with New America Foundation work at the national level to influence policy.

Nicol Turner-Lee has been part of One Economy Corp., a grassroots organization that has become a global power, delivering technology and information to the homes of low-income people.

Bill Strickland has taken the simple ideaof using the arts to inspire people and created a template for career training and business incubation in low-income communities.

The EAST initiative, started in rural Arkansas, was an eye-opening example of how a visionary approach to educating students can motivate them to achieve amazing things.

Swamp Gravy is a performance group that has used folk performances to reinvigorate an entire community in rural Georgia.

Finally, Cornerstone Corporation for Shared Equity has created a renter's equity program in Cincinnati that allows renters to build equity, while increasing the property owner's bottom line, creating a win-win for both groups.

These groups and individuals were powerful motivators because they used innovative ideas to create significant change in disadvantaged communities. I encourage everyone to visit the Exploring Innovation web site or look up these groups


ties, increasing tools that professionals have to work with and, of course, inspiring all of us to keep working toward a better future.

Howard McAuliffe is a graduate of the master's program in Urban Planning and Real Estate Development with a concentration in Community Development at St. Louis University. He was one of several student volunteers at the conference.ALSO: Railways eliminates all unmanned level crossings from 4 zones

Indian Railways used 16 heavy duty excavators, 3 heavy duty cranes, 5 tippers (truck), 1,000 sand bags, four hydra machines, heavy weight jacks and 300 workforce for the project.

"Just after starting of the block, the track was removed with the help of cranes, earthwork started from both sides. Simultaneously the shifting of boxes and base plate were done. After reaching the center, the surface preparation was carried out and base slabs and pre-fabricated boxes were placed using heavy-duty cranes," said a railway official describing the effort.

"The activity of earthwork for starting the placement of boxes took one hour; for placement of 20 boxes, for placing of base slabs after surface preparation and linking of tracks, it took 1.5 hours


and MRI contribute more towards the revenue of diagnostic imaging services as they are more expensive.

On the basis of end user, the market is segmented into Diagnostic Imaging Centre’s, Hospital & Clinics and Others. The hospital segment is anticipated to hold the maximum market share during the forecast period owing to factors such as ability to handle a high patient volume and better access to updated and technological advanced equipment.

Diagnostic Imaging Services Market by Region

On the basis of region, the global diagnostic imaging market has been segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Rest of World (ROW). North America holds the major share of the global market. The market in this region is expected to be fuelled by factors such as rising prevalence of chronic diseases, awarenessa power that was planning for the return of the Imam Mahdi - whom Shi`ites believe was a descendent of the Prophet who went into hiding 1,000 years ago and will return to establish global Islamic rule before the end of the world.

"How do you have a dialogue with this (Iran)?" Mohammed said in clips of the interview posted on social media.

"Its (Iran`s) logic is that the Imam Mahdi will come and they must prepare the fertile environment for the arrival of the awaited Mahdi and they must control the Muslim world."

Under Iran`s Constitution since the 1979 revolution, the country`s supreme leader is the earthly representative of the Imam until his return.

Asked to respond to reports that after two years of war and Saudi`s military intervention the Houthis,


PORT Adelaide would sack Jake King on the spot for continuing to socialise with former Bandidos boss Toby Mitchell if the Tigers forward was a Power player, Port chairman David Koch says. Koch's comments follow AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou's statement on Thursday that Richmond should reconsider its stance that King was free to associate with whoever he wanted in his own time, arguing King was risking the Tigers' reputation and putting himself in a vulnerable position through his friendship with Mitchell. Sunrise about how Port would have dealt with King after he was caught socialising with Mitchell three times in the past seven months, Koch did not pull any punches on Friday morning when speaking on his Channel Seven breakfast showabout how Port would have dealt witha vulnerable position."

King first tested his club's patience when he invited Mitchell into the club's rooms following the Tigers' round 20 win over the Brisbane Lions at the MCG last season.

At the time Demetriou said the forward's decision was "pretty stupid", expressing concern people of certain backgrounds had the potential to "infiltrate" the code.

Richmond, meanwhile, went on to warn its entire playing list not to associate with criminals in any way.

It did not, however, have "hard and fast rules" about who players could associate with.

King was then seen socialising with Mitchell at a women's lingerie American football game in December, with Richmond expressing its disappointment.

"Who Jake mixes with in his own time and in his own private capacity, that's up to him and they're the choices he makes,"


FULL STEAM AHEAD: Fall River ship had a whale of a tale

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Nov 30, 2013 at 12:01 AMNov 30, 2013 at 12:39 PM

Last month, the topic of this column was the merchant marine and the numerous categories of merchant ships. One category that played a major part in area history is whaling ships. Although New Bedford normally comes to mind when the subject of whaling comes up, an event occurred with a Fall River whaler that I would have thought fictional had I not read about it in court documents. The Holder Borden was a whaling ship named after a prominent Fall River manufacturer. In November of 1842, she departed Fall River for the South Seas and Pacific Ocean to hunt whales. After successful hunts, the Holder Borden experienceda disastrous ending. The story of her crew and their survival is an extraordinary event not only in whaling, but in nautical history.

Phil Hudner

Last month, the topic of this column was the merchant marine and the numerous categories of merchant ships. One category that played a major part in area history is whaling ships. Although New Bedford normally comes to mind when the subject of whaling comes up, an event occurred with a Fall River whaler that I would have thought fictional had I not read about it in court documents. The Holder Borden was a whaling ship named after a prominent Fall River manufacturer. In November of 1842, she departed Fall River for the South Seas and Pacific Ocean to hunt whales. After successful hunts, the Holder


to remove the chronometer, charts, and other navigational instruments, along with bedding to be placed in the boats. While the ship remained on an even keel, the crew worked feverishly removing everything possible from between decks in anticipation of the ship falling on its side.

During this time, the captain was considering building another vessel from remnants of the Holder Borden as the only means of escape and survival. The crew was able to place on the deck approximately a thousand feet of pitch-pine plank. With the approach of sunset, the crew went to the island to spend the night.

The next morning, a mate and seaman were assigned to search for water. Eventually, they found potable water by digging near the center of the island. When the rest ofthe crew returned to the ship they found her resting on a shelving rock with only about 3 feet of her port side above water. To their dismay, the ship had rolled over, throwing what was on the deck into the water. They were able to retrieve four light spars, two coils of rigging, and two sails.

Because they had saved only a few provisions, they had to retrieve the remaining provisions on the ship even though deep under water. For three days they attempted to raise the casks with a hoist and hooks, but the casks wouldn’t budge. It was then decided to cut a hole through both decks to the lower deck. The only tool they has was a whaling spade. Crew members rotated in cutting the


hole which, after thirty six hours, was finally large enough to remove a cask. Five days later, they were able to remove three barrels of bread, thirty barrels of salted provisions, and two hundred casks of oil.

The crew cut more holes in the decks and was able to retrieve more provisions and an additional 600 barrels of oil. A total of 1,400 barrels of oil had been retrieved from the ship. In good weather, six to 12 barrels of oil could be floated to the island. Planks reaching 100 feet were placed on the soft sand, enabling the crew to roll the barrels of oil and provisions on to the island and stack them.

Six days after the Holder Borden hit the reef, the captain assigned a carpenter andthree crewmen to construct a schooner from remains of the wreckage. Without tools, they improvised wherever they could. They made two saws from iron hoops, enabling them to saw larger timbers. By splitting these planks and with the ship’s spars, they were able to construct flooring. They took the ship’s try-pot, a metal pot used on whalers, and were able to steam the planks for the new vessel. They had managed to save the ship’s bellows and half a cask of sea coal, which they used for blacksmithing. They created several coal pits, and using wood from the wreck, created a forge for making axes and other tools.

After constructing the new vessel over several months, they made oakum and caulked the schooner inside and out. They made sails


from the ship’s canvas. Finally, the vessel was completed, and was named The Hope. They began the launching one early morning, hampered by the soft sand, finishing by late afternoon. After loading provisions and water, the crew set sail, having been stranded on this island for five months. Eleven men remained to look after the oil, with assurances by the captain that he would return. Twenty three days later they reached Oahu, Hawaii.

The captain purchased the brig Delaware for the return to the island with the eleven men and oil. The brig was paid for by Nathan Durfee, one of the owners of the Holder Borden. After rescuing the eleven men and retrieving the remaining oil, the captain returned to Oahu only to learn The Hope was unsuitableis open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Phil Hudner retired from Bank of America and lives in Westport, where he was a member of the Planning Board. He currently serves as a trustee of the Marine Museum.

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unveiled at the opening of CMC's new headquarters in Shropshire, where the new building was opened by former Formula One Grand Prix world champion, John Surtees OBE. The car itself was unveiled by Norman Dewis - Jaguar's legendary test driver.

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Jaeger-LeCoultre honors the winners of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup

Jaeger-LeCoultre honors the winners of Jaeger-LeCoultre gold cup.

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A man who evaded over £300,000 excise duty has been ordered to pay £216,500 within six months.

A man from Middlesbrough has been ordered to pay over £200,000 within six months after he evaded more than £300,000 excise duty on cigarettes and alcohol.

Joseph Paul Honeyman was jailed in October last year after HM Revenue and Customs seized 984,500 cigarettes, 710 kilograms of rolling tobacco and 499 litres of vodka on which £309,698 excise duty and VAT hadn't been paid.

He has now been ordered to pay £216,500 within six months or face a further 30 months jail time on top of his 14 months which he was sentenced to in October, after he appeared in Teeside Crown Court today.

Diane Donnelly, assistant


director of criminal investigation, HMRC, said "Honeyman was out to line his own pockets and went to jail for his crimes, but our action does not stop there.

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Officers from HMRC caught Honeyman when they visited his home in April 2011. On his premises, they found the said items in a professionally displayed cabinet.

At the time, Honeyman's car was parked on his neighbours drive. He claimed that he owned the house but that a man named Steve rented it. Honeyman late claimed a man called Tony rented it.

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The smallest school in the European Union is in Arkoi — a small island in the Dodecanese in Greece — and has only one student.

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Guest post by Tim.Dreamt Monday 9 Feb: On holiday with family and cats.
Staying in beachside house. Sea levels rise overnight due to some kind of
lunar/tidal anomaly. Woke to find house surrounded by water. Outside orca
frolic and chase stingrays. Seems very menacing to me but children delighted
and determined to jump in water to join in fun. I frantically run around
stopping one from leaping out window into sea, only for another to escape and
find new way to jump into water. Pedro (cat) somehow leaps into water too and
also in danger of being eaten by orca.

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(1927) and ran


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Beside family members, Mike Kubeisy of Simi Valley displays the citation he received from the Los Angeles Police Department for rescuing victims of the Northridge earthquake including an LAPD officer and his future wife, Tricia.

Nineteen years after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday honored a man who helped rescue five people, including a police officer trapped in his apartment, after the temblor.

Michael Kubeisy, 53, received a certificate of appreciation during the Police Commission meeting to honor his bravery in the immediate aftermath of the quake, which struck at 4:31 a.m. Jan. 17, 1994, killing nearly 60 people, injuring thousands and causing around $20 billion in damage.

"Your bravery and quick thinking on that historic day


saved several lives and you are to be commended for this unbelievable act of humanity and courage," Commission President Andrea Sheridan Ordin said. "You are and will always be considered a hero by the city of Los Angeles. On behalf of the men and women of the Los Angeles Police Department, we truly thank you."

Kubeisy, now a still photographer for the CBS television show "NCIS," rushed to help neighbors in his approximately 150-unit, three-story Northridge Meadows apartment building, the first floor of which partially collapsed.

After bridging a nearly three-foot crevice that opened up in his own apartment, Kubeisy first assisted an elderly neighbor down a chain ladder, then moved to the door of LAPD officer Joseph Jordan and his wife, he told City News Service. The door wassealed shut, but Kubeisy could hear Jordan and his wife were OK.

He eventually pried the door open, and he blew out a candle the couple was burning - a major hazard given a gas leak caused by the quake.

Kubeisy and Jordan would go on to help other neighbors.

"And that was the last time I saw him," Kubeisy said.

Jordan died of a heart attack in 1996, according to the LAPD. He was honored in the days after the quake by then-President Bill Clinton, but "the LAPD has never properly thanked Mike for rescuing Officer Jordan," according to the department.

Kubeisy shrugged off the honor.

"The only reason I'm agreeing to go through with this - it's not for me - I want my teenage boys to see firsthand that when you


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Information about eligibility criteria for the Earthquake Emergency Response Fund and how to apply can be found on the Creative New Zealand website.

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Skhumbuzo Khumalo, 24, fled her home country in fear of her life after suffering a violent attack at the hands of police.

Male homosexuality is illegal in Zimbabwe, and though female homosexuality is not a crime, the LGBT community faces violence and regular clamp-downs encouraged by President Mugabe.

After fleeing to the UK and claiming asylum in 2014, Ms Khumalo spent weeks at a detention centre. She narrowly avoided deportation back to Zimbabwe, and was granted asylum in June 2015.

However, speaking to asylum groups Fixers, Ms Khumalo opened up about the shocking lengths she had to go to to ‘prove’ her sexuality.

She said: “Clearly just by looking at


membership in Guaranteed Foods permitting the defendants to purchase food and other nonfood items, including appliances. The second cause of action in plaintiff's petition involved the balance allegedly due on a contract with plaintiff for the purchase of food products, which were subsequently delivered and allegedly consumed by the defendants.
The facts relevant to this appeal, as revealed in the record, indicate that on February 7, 1977, a representative of Guaranteed Foods arrived at the home of the defendants pursuant to a prearranged appointment. The ensuing interview, which lasted approximately 2½ hours that evening, was continued the following night, February 8, 1977, at which time available food purchase plans were discussed. Testimony in the record reveals that, in presenting the food plans to the Risons, the representative of Guaranteedassignees of the contracts, that no further payments would be made as they were not obligated to Guaranteed Foods.
The action came on for trial before the judge of the county court of York County, sitting without a jury, on February 8, 1979. In its decree, the court found in favor of the defendants and against the plaintiff on the first cause of action involving the membership agreement and dismissed that cause of action. In so doing, the court also found that the notice of cancellation given by Rison to Guaranteed Foods was valid and that the membership contract between Guaranteed Foods and the Risons was void (without specifying the reason for doing so). As to the second cause of action, involving the contract for the purchase of food


Following the announcement of Final Fantasy XII's release date, another announcement related to the title was made at Square Enix's weekend extravaganza. This time, the company debuted the game's theme song, "Kiss Me Good-bye," which was composed by the famous Nobuo Uematsu and performed by a relatively unknown musician named Angela Aki.

"We finished mixing the theme song about one or two weeks ago. It's one of my favorites so far. I've been playing it over and over while driving in my car," Uematsu said. The composer also added that the lyrics are in English because the language was suited to the atmosphere of the game and it would appeal to the overseas market.

As previously reported, Final Fantasy XII will be released in Japan on March 16. A NorthIn late June, one of the more surreal moments of any Donald Trump rally happened onstage in South Carolina. And it was all because the president was handed a printout of an article on the conservative website Breitbart.

“Veteran filmmaker David Lynch believes President Donald Trump could be remembered as one of the greatest presidents in American history because of the way he has shaken up the political establishment—and because of what I've done!” Trump declared, drawing from a Breitbart story on the Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet auteur’s views.

The article Trump was reading was actually an aggregation of an interview Lynch had given to The Guardian. And it was so heavily taken out of context that, shortly thereafter, Lynch felt compelled to release a statement telling the president:


is important enough to share through his social media.”

The alliance of Trump and Breitbart may seem wholly natural—the former being the ideal political avatar for the latter’s nationalistic worldview and antagonism toward immigrants.

But, in reality, the two sides have been out of sync since Trump entered the White House. Early in the Trump presidency, there was a sharp, extended drop-off in the president’s public promotion of the website—some of which occurred during a period when senior officials such as White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Staff Secretary Rob Porter actively tried to impose new restrictions on the paper flow to Trump’s desk.

That paper control included screening out Breitbart articles and certain, sometimes fringe, right-wing content. According to a New York Times report in September oflast year, Kelly had “thinned out his package of printouts so much that Mr. Trump plaintively asked a friend recently where The Daily Caller and Breitbart were.”

A search of the tweets Trump has posted since his inauguration early last year pulls up the aforementioned tweets, and just three other Breitbart posts: just one in January, and two in 2017 (late June, and late March). By contrast, Trump tweeted Breitbart stories over two dozen times in 2016 alone. On June 23, 2016, he tweeted out Breitbart articles three times in a single day of the presidential campaign.

For Breitbart itself, the Trump era has been a mixed bag. The site, once run by the president’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, has been unapologetically pro-Trump for years. It served as one


payments. The rentier class and FIRE sector – Finance, Insurance and Real Estate – have long succeeded in depicting themselves as part of a productive economy. Yet for centuries, these sectors were recognized as being parasitic.
Now with the United States losing some 10 million jobs in just the past two weeks and the world awash in debt, the total world gross domestic product is $90 trillion. The public and private debt is a mind-boggling $260 trillion. The pandemic has given this parasitic sector yet another, even more vicious opportunity to exploit and devour humanity.

As our guest puts it, the recently passed Trump “Bank and Landlord Relief” bill, mistakenly named the Coronavirus bill, starts by providing banks with an even larger giveaway of wealth than they received from Obamawanted to prevent the economy from falling apart. They wanted to prevent the citizenry – the taxpayers and cultivators on the land – from falling into debt to an oligarchy that would use their money to overthrow the rulers and take over society, financial-style.

Religion tends to reflect the leadership of society, although it tends to begin as a moral reform movement. The leadership in the third millennium, second millennium and even the first millennium BC could not afford an oligarchy impoverishing the rest of society. If an oligarchy did that, society would fall apart. But gradually as Aristotle pointed out, every democracy turns into an oligarchy, and so do palace economies. The oligarchy in turn tends to our takeover religion. In Judaism, Jesus accused the Pharisees of loving


Kevin Avram, Unsung Hero

Posted on May 08, 2019

How a small-town Prairie boy had an enormous impact on the grassroots, free market movement in Western Canada

By Peter Holle

“Kevin’s work as an effective grassroots thought entrepreneur was recognized by the pro-freedom Atlas Network, which has assisted the start up of free market thinktanks around the world.”

Canada has many unspoken public policy heroes. These quiet change agents are responsible for persuading government to make the course corrections that have kept Canada on track as a relatively sophisticated modern market economy. Often under the radar, they are oblivious to the self-indulgent prattling of the chattering classes in the media, academia and government.

One such invisible hero is Kevin Avram, whose trail of life activities has made Canada, and particularly western Canada a muchbetter place. Avram was instrumental in creating important organizations that promoted the interests of the average citizen and the taxpayer, and also helped defend the property rights of entrepreneurial farmers and landowners against major corporate players and governments.

I first met this small-town guy from Rouleau, Saskatchewan in the late 1980s. As a young policy analyst in the Devine government, I was involved in the history shaking privatizations of crown corporations and government services. Predictably, these were controversial policies that upset the comfy status quo of all the interest groups that benefitted from what is now widely seen as third-world style government ownership of the economy. Hello, government unions and their handmaiden left-leaning academics and politicians.

Out of nowhere, our clipping service began picking up highly articulate letters to the


editors that pointed out how these crowns were a burden to taxpayers and fixtures of the past. I tracked the letters down to Kevin Avram, who soon sat down with me and announced he was starting the Saskatchewan Association of Taxpayers. It was modelled on some of the citizen taxpayer groups he had been observing in the USA. He signed me up as the first member, and the rest is history.

Avram had learned how to sell memberships for an organization of free enterprise farmers using commissioned sales agents. He brought the formula to what eventually exploded into several provincial taxpayers’ organizations which eventually merged into the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

That organization was the catalyst for a major wave of citizen and taxpayer anger. Waves of taxpayer association rallies, incombination with the rise of the Reform Party, set the Ottawa spending establishment on its head and culminated with the unprecedented federal spending cuts under Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his Finance Minister Paul Martin. Today, these cuts are widely heralded as critically important reforms that set the stage for the booming Canadian economy in the early 2000s. In Manitoba, the organization managed to get its model balanced budget legislation passed.

Avram lost control of the organization in a dispute with his hand-picked board of directors. However, he went on as a serial start-up entrepreneur forming several other organizations that continued the bottom up, grassroots ethic of local citizen control, as well as fighting against big government control of the economy.

His work at the Prairie Centre targeted the end


published by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. His columns have appeared in dozens of newspapers, including the National Post and The Wall Street Journal. He has a master’s of business administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of classical liberals.Core A - Administrative Core The administrative core provides financial and administrative oversight to all the projects and cores of this project. It also provides interaction with the University of Miami administration and outside organizations. It is responsible for oversight of the research directions of the Udall center as well, through the executive and advisory committees. It also oversees the educational, mentoring and community interaction aspects of the Udall Center, and maintains the Udall Center website.


worked as an ophthalmologist in a shared
       practice. Narveen was a stay-at-home mother for the parties’ one child. She earned master’s
       degrees in literature and English from a school in India in 1970, but Prem and his family
       discouraged her from further pursuing her education. In 1990 Narveen purchased a banquet
       center called the Moline Commercial Club (Club). Narveen operated the banquet center along
       with a nonprofit agency referred to as “the Institute” and an art gallery called the Phoenix. The
       Club has operated at a loss every year since 1990.
¶4     2012 he took a $213,000 distribution from his IRA. His financial advisor testified that Prem
       takes a $10,000 withdrawal from his IRA every month for living expenses. Otherwise, his
       income is $6,500 a month from social security benefits and income from his rental properties.
¶ 14        Narveen testified that since filing her financial affidavit, her mortgage lenders foreclosed
       on her residence and her condo. In order to rescue her properties from foreclosure, she took out
       a loan of $396,000 from a private lender in May 2013. The terms of the loan note required that,


testified that
       since maintenance had been reduced to $1,500, she had taken distributions from her retirement
       account, reducing it from $209,000 to $2,500. She used the withdrawals to pay back taxes on
       her properties and for living expenses. She testified that at least $31,000 went to pay for
       expenses for the Club. Most of the remainder of the withdrawals went to pay three years of
       unpaid real estate taxes on her three properties. Narveen testified that she paid $75,000 in back
       taxes on the Club and $10,000 for the condo.
¶ 16 status was reinstated, she could apply for grants
       to fund the Institute and pay herself a salary. Narveen testified that she had been considering
       selling the Club. She received one offer to buy, but the buyer planned to demolish the building
       and build a parking structure. Narveen declined because the Club is an historic building and

                                                     -5-


the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and New York University, which has added three chapters since 2006 and more than doubled the number of sisters, to 570.

“It’s the same kind of coaching I do on Wall Street,” Ms. von Sperling says.

Sororities are emerging in surprising force at campuses not usually associated with the Greek tradition. Students raised on Facebook and fears about post-college careers view sororities as the ultimate social network and an extension of the community service begun in high school. Nationwide, membership is up, growing a bit more than 15 percent from 2008 to 2011, to 285,543 undergraduates, according to the National Panhellenic Conference, which represents 26 old-line sororities.

Twenty-eight percent of female undergraduates at George Washington University last semester were Greek, about double that in 2006; atIslamophobia on the rise in Germany: study

BERLIN (Reuters) - Islamophobia has risen markedly in Germany, a study published on Wednesday showed, underscoring the tensions simmering in German society after more than one million migrants, mostly Muslims, arrived last year.

Every second respondent in the study of 2,420 people said they sometimes felt like a foreigner in their own country due to the many Muslims here, up from 43 percent in 2014 and 30.2 percent in 2009.

The number of people who believe Muslims should be forbidden from coming to Germany has also risen, the study showed, and now stands at just above 40 percent, up from about a fifth in 2009.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Leipzig in co-operation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation, the Rosa-Luxemburg


Foundation and the Otto-Brenner foundation.

The influx of migrants has fueled support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that wants to ban minarets and the burqa and has described Islam as incompatible with the German constitution.

The number of attacks on refugee shelters has also risen.

Supporters of the AfD were most likely to favor stopping Muslims from coming to Germany while Green voters were most likely to disagree with the statement that Muslims made them feel like foreigners, the survey found.

On Monday German President Joachim Gauck warned against demonizing Muslims and against polarization along religious and ethnic lines in German society when he joined a Ramadan dinner in Berlin.

Germany is home to nearly four million Muslims, about five percent of the total population. Many of the longer establishedThe Northwest Chicago Historical Society will host a seminar on Monday designed to help you uncover your house's secrets. View Full Caption Northwest Chicago Historical Society

DUNNING — The Northwest Chicago Historical Society will host a seminar Monday designed to help you uncover your house's secrets.

Chicago house historian Grace DuMelle will teach attendees how to research their house's history including how to find out who lived in your home before you, what architectural style it is and when improvements were done to the house.

DuMelle is president of Heartland Historical Research Service and has been a professional researcher for 20 years. She is the author of "Finding Your Chicago Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide to Family History in the City and Cook County."

The free event, co-sponsored by the Greater Avondale Chamber


By Rob Moseley

Editor, GoDucks.com

Venue: Moshofsky Center

Format: Shells

After a day off Monday, the Oregon football team reconvened for Alamo Bowl practices Tuesday, with more of an eye toward the matchup with Texas Christian on Jan. 2.

A scout team was designated, for the offense and defense to run plays against. And the workout included some” teach” periods, for offense, defense and special teams, to begin installing schemes for the matchup with the Horned Frogs.

The special teams periods, for the kickoff return and punt return units, allowed more time for the quarterbacks to go to one end of the Moshofsky Center and do position drills. Those were conducted under the direction of their interim position coach, graduate assistant Nate Costa , the former Oregon quarterback who is coaching the QBs inin the end zone, but Arrion Springs slapped the ball out before the catch could be completed. Later, Adams had a prototypical moment, slipping out of the pocket to his left and buying time for Carrington to get open for a long completion. … The offensive line started well in pass-rush drills, with nice reps for Tyrell Crosby against Tui Talia, Matt Hegarty against Rex Manu, Tyler Johnstone against DeForest Buckner and Jake Pisarcik against Canton Kaumatule. In the second drill run for young guys, Calvin Throckmorton won reps against Jonah Moi and Gus Cumberlander.

Other observations: With the scout team designated, that meant Mahalak in the No. 2 jersey of TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin, Bieber in No. 9 as all-America receiver Josh Doctson and Cumberlander as the Horned


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Comparative Aspects of Pre- and Postnatal Development of the Male Reproductive System.
This review describes pre- and postnatal development of the male reproductive system in humans and laboratory animals, and highlights species differences in the timing and control of hormonal and morphologic events. Major differences are that the fetal testis is dependent on gonadotropins in humans, but is independent of such in rats; humans have an extended postnatal quiescent period, whereas rats exhibit no quiescence; and events such as secretion by the prostate and seminal vesicles, testicular descent, and the appearance of spermatogonia are all prenatal events in humans, but are postnatal events in rats. Major differences in the timing of the developmental sequence between rats and humans include: gonocyte transformation period (rat: postnatal day 0-9; human: includes gestationalThe newspaper reported that Bogut was wearing his reversible practice jersey with the blue side out—reserved for the team’s starters—during the morning’s shootaround at Air Canada Centre.

Andrew Bogut, sidelined by a nagging left ankle injury, has played in only four games for the Golden State Warriors this season. (AP Photo)

Multiple unidentified sources cited by the Mercury News said Bogut is planning to give it ago.

However, Warriors coach Mark Jackson maintained his stance that Bogut would come back when he is ready.

Bogut and the team haven’t discussed his recovery since the news in late November that April surgery on his left ankle included a microfracture procedure.

Acquired in March in the blockbuster trade that sent Monta Ellis to the Milwaukee Bucks, Bogut has played only 73 minutes this season, totaling


Al Qaeda unit claims mortar attack that disrupted north Mali poll

This content was published on July 30, 2018 12:17 PMJul 30, 2018 - 12:17

By Tim Cocks

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's franchise in the Sahara has claimed a multiple mortar attack on a village in northern Mali during Sunday's election that disrupted voting, the SITE Intelligence Group said.

During voting militants fired 10 mortar rounds in the village of Aguelhok in the northern region of Kidal. One exploded about 100 metres (yards) from a polling station, causing voting to be temporarily suspended.

In a statement picked up by SITE, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), an umbrella group for al Qaeda-linked militants in the Sahara, claimed credit for attacking French and U.N. mission forces in Aguelhok during the Malian elections.

"This bombardment...inMali is a clear message from us to France and its pawns in the country that the war between us will not end," the statement said.

"Everyone knows that the winner in this election is only a pawn in the hands of France and the countries of the Cross."

Vote counting was under way on Monday, the day after a presidential election in which President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is seeking a second term despite worsening insecurity since he took power five years ago.

The election mostly took place peacefully across the largely desert nation, but there were pockets where insecurity was so bad that no voting could take place at all. The Ministry of Territory said overnight that 644 polling stations out of about 23,000 had been unable to function.

Islamist militants


are seen as the biggest threat to Western interests in the Sahara and semi-arid Sahel just to the south of it. They have hit several foreign targets in Mali and its neighbours and kidnapped scores of Westerners.

It had been feared the militants, who see democracy as contrary to Islam, would try to disrupt the polls.

Security has been high on the agenda for voters, especially where in the north and centre of the country where the jihadists operate. Keita's main rival, Soumaila Cisse, has pledged to restore peace across Mali.

(The story was refiled to clarify in paragraph 3 that the attack took place during, not before, the election)waterfalls.

Yosemite recently participated in the last major event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Yosemite Grant, the law signed by President Lincoln on June 30, 1864, that protected Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias.

The event was held on Sunday, September 28th, at the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento, California, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation accepting the Yosemite Grant signed by then California Governor Frederick Low.

From fall 2013 through the end of this year, the park will have participated in over 200 Anniversary events.

Unrelated thought worth quoting:“The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline.” – Steve Smith

About Mr Half Dome - Rick Deutsch

Mr Half Dome. Has written the only half dome hiking guide, One Best Hike: Yosemite's


WASHINGTON — The Interior Department said Friday that the greater sage grouse, a dweller of the high plains of the American West, was facing extinction but would not be designated an endangered species for now.

Yet the decision in essence reverses a 2004 determination by the Bush administration that the sage grouse did not need protection, a decision that a federal court later ruled was tainted by political tampering with the Interior Department’s scientific conclusions.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, a conservative Democrat from a Colorado ranching family, sought to carve a middle course between conservationists who wanted ironclad protections for the ground-hugging bird and industry interests and landowners who sought the ability to locate mines, wells, windmills and power lines in areas where the grouse roam.

Mr. Salazar said that scientistsMilitary Warheads as a Source of Nuclear Fuel

(Updated February 2017)

Weapons-grade uranium and plutonium surplus to military requirements in the USA and Russia is being made available for use as civil fuel.

Weapons-grade uranium is highly enriched, to over 90% U-235 (the fissile isotope). Weapons-grade plutonium has over 93% Pu-239 and can be used, like reactor-grade plutonium, in fuel for electricity production.

Highly-enriched uranium from weapons stockpiles has been displacing some 8850 tonnes of U3O8 production from mines each year, and met about 13% to 19% of world reactor requirements through to 2013.

For more than five decades, concern has centred on the possibility that uranium intended for commercial nuclear power might be diverted for use in weapons. This gave way to a focus on the role of military uranium as a


spent fuel is not suitable for weapons manufacture.

Megatons to Megawatts, the Russian HEU deal

Commitments by the USA and Russia to convert nuclear weapons into fuel for electricity production was known as the Megatons to Megawatts program.

Surplus weapons-grade HEU resulting from the various disarmament agreements led in 1993 to an agreement between the US and Russian governments. Under this Russia would convert 500 tonnes of HEU from warheads and military stockpiles (equivalent to around 20,000 bombs) to LEU to be bought by the USA for use in civil nuclear reactors.

In 1994, a US$13 billion implementing contract was signed between the US Enrichment Corporation (now USEC Inc) and Russia's Techsnabexport (Tenex) as executive agents for the US and Russian governments. USEC purchased 500 tonnes of weapons-grade HEU over 20 yearsreactors. The LEU is transferred to shipping cylinders and sent to a collection point in St. Petersburg, Russia. USEC took possession of the material there and shipped it to the USA where it was included in USEC’s inventory for delivery to customers.

It was essentially an enrichment deal totalling about 90 million SWU. About 150,000 t of natural uranium was exchanged for the LEU, of which 112,000 t sold on the market under the terms of the 1999 feed agreement and 38,000 t sent to Russia. This is equivalent to an average of 8850 t/yr of U3O8 from mines over the 20 years. In the latter years it supplied about 13% of world uranium demand.

Overall the blending down of 500 tonnes of Russian HEU resulted in about 14,446 tonnes


of LEU over 20 years. This is equivalent to about 150,000 tonnes of natural U (177,000 t U3O8), about 2.5 times annual world demand.

In 1999 a supplementary agreement addressed what should happen to the uranium feed from mines, against which the blended down LEU was supplied to customers. See section below on the 1999 Agreement.

The last of the 500 tonnes of HEU was downblended in August 2013 by Russia’s ElectroChemical Plant (ECP) at Zelenogorsk and shipped in November. Other plants involved in the project were Urals Electrochemical Combine at Novouralsk, Siberian Chemical Combine at Seversk, Angarsk Electrolysis & Chemical Combine, and PA Mayak at Ozersk. The whole deal is equivalent to 20,000 nuclear warheads and 89 million SWU. According to Tenex, total revenue was US$17 billion, including hardcurrency gains and the cost of natural uranium component.

Russia has other military HEU which it may blend down for its own use, using simply depleted uranium (giving a satisfactory grade of LEU for use in Russian reactors).

US HEU disposition

For its part, the US government initially declared just over 174 tonnes of HEU (of various enrichments) to be surplus from military stockpiles. Of this, USEC took delivery of 14.2 tonnes in the form of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) containing around 75% U-235, and 50 tonnes as uranium oxide or metal containing around 40% U-235. Downblending of the UF6 was completed in 1998, to produce 387 tonnes of LEU. Some 13.5 tonnes of the HEU oxide or metal had been processed by September 2001 to produce 140.3 tonnes of LEU. In


2004 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a licence for downblending 33 tonnes HEU by Nuclear Fuel Services in Tennessee and in 2005 the first delivery was made to a TVA power plant.

DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)* in 2005 announced plans to remove a further 200 tonnes of HEU from military stockpiles. Of this, 160 tonnes was retained for naval propulsion, thus postponing the need for building a new uranium high-enrichment facility for at least 50 years. An additional 20 tonnes was reserved for space missions and for research reactors. The final 20 tonnes was to be downblended to LEU for research reactors, power generation and for 17 tonnes, the new reliable fuel supply initiative (see below).

* Established by Congress in 2000, NNSA is a separately organized agencywithin the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, reliability and performance of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad.

Also in 2005, NNSA said that it was committing about 40 tonnes of off-specification HEU (with elevated levels of U-236) to the Blended Low-Enriched Uranium (BLEU) program. This material would be used by TVA. In 2008 NNSA was negotiating with TVA to release a further 21 tonnes of HEU under the program, which would yield about 250 tonnes of


LEU, some of which might be sold to other utilities.

In mid-2007 the NNSA awarded contracts to Nuclear Fuel Services and Wesdyne International to downblend 17.4 tonnes of HEU from dismantled warheads to be part of a new international fuel reserve. NFS downblended the material in Tennessee to yield some 290 tonnes of LEU (4.95% U-235) by early 2012. Wesdyne, the prime contractor, is then storing 230 tonnes of the LEU at the Westinghouse fuel fabrication plant in South Carolina to be available for the American Assured Fuel Supply (AFS) program. It will take about 60 tonnes as payment in kind, to be sold on the market over a three to four year period. This first batch of LEU will be available for use in civilian reactors by nationsthere. In 2009 Rosatom said that its portion of the natural uranium feed to date – worth US$ 2.7 billion – had been received in Russia.

1999 Market Agreement re natural uranium feed to USEC

After years of stalled negotiations on this matter, a major agreement was approved early in 1999 by the US and Russian governments. It involved 163,000 tonnes of natural U3O8 feed to be supplied over the remaining 15 years of the US-Russian HEU agreement.

Cameco, Cogema (now Areva), and Nukem signed the commercial agreement with Tenex of Russia, giving them "exclusive options to purchase" 118,000 tonnes of this (nominally 70%), leaving the remainder "available to Tenex". One important stipulation was that stockpiles, each of some 26,000 tonnes U3O8, would be held by both Russian and US governments


policy. The USA agreed to allow the Russian plutonium to be used in BN-600 and BN-800 fast neutron reactors, and the timeline stretched to 2018. However, the G7 funding was not available on this basis and Russia is funding most of the program, with the USA contributing $400 million. The 68 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium in both countries is equivalent to about 12,000 tonnes of natural uranium.

In 2011 an amending protocol to the 2000 agreement came into force, confirming the Russian use of fast reactors and specifying a weapons plutonium disposition rate of 1.3 t/yr in each country from 2018. However, after the Russian MOX plant had been built and the US project stalled, Russia unilaterally cancelled the agreement in October 2016. A bill was introduced to Russia’sThe program was based at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute and involved the US company Lightbridge Corporation (formerly Thorium Power) and US government funding to design fuel for Russian VVER-1000 reactors.

Whereas normal fuel uses enriched uranium oxide throughout the fuel assembly, the new design has a demountable centre portion and blanket arrangement, with plutonium-zirconium metal fuel rods in the centre and uranium-thorium oxide pellets in conventional fuel rods around it*. The Th-232 in the blanket captures neutrons to become U-233, which is fissile – as is the core Pu-239. Blanket material remains in the reactor for nine years but the centre portion is burned for only three years (as in a normal VVER). Design of the seed fuel rods in the centre portion draws on extensive experience of Russian navy


Abbott's desire for revenge are no longer to be rewarded.

The idea of some sort of communal action by bishops does speak to the deepest desire of many if not most US Catholics: that leaders of the US Church might finally take responsibility for their actions, and demonstrate that the pastoral needs of their people and the Church are more important than their own status or position.

Ignore the masters who think they control the game. If Essendon is a broken, wounded club it's because it tried too hard to play the game of the corporate masters. It took a corporate approach to manufacturing success, and when it broke the rules they followed the corporate playbook: lawyers and PR experts. Sound familiar?

In the 1980s, the international solidarity movement for NicaraguaU.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials

(Reuters) – The United States declared Venezuela a national security threat on Monday and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the worst bilateral diplomatic dispute since socialist President Nicolas Maduro took office in 2013.

U.S. President Barack Obama signed and issued the executive order, which senior administration officials said did not target Venezuela’s energy sector or broader economy. But the move stokes tensions between Washington and Caracas just as U.S. relations with Cuba, a longtime U.S. foe in Latin America and key ally to Venezuela, are set to be normalized.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced the sanctions as an attempt to topple his government. At the end of a thundering two-hour speech, Maduro said he would seek