on a substitute bill which would have extended the price control regulation until March 1, 1976, upon the expiration of the price controls August 31, 1975. This bill was forwarded to the President on August 28, 1975, and was vetoed September 9, 1975. Therefore, the price controls without future action would have expired August 31.
During 1975, Congress, the President, and the public were engaged in a well-publicized debate on the future direction of national energy policy. During the course of the legislative process, the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 expired and was extended on two occasions. There is no doubt, and this court so finds, that Congress was acutely aware that there was the possibility of a gap between expiration and reinstatement of the price control lawbe no gap in their coverage. Both Gulf and Citmoco are highly sophisticated corporations with many years experience in the petroleum industry. There is little doubt that the intent of Congress and the FEA as to the retroactive application of any extension of the Regulations was fully known and appreciated by both.
The Regulations lapsed on August 31, 1975, and they were not extended until September 29, 1975, by P.L. 94-99. The statutory language indicates that the extension was intended to apply retroactively to September 1, 1975, covering any hiatus in the application of the Regulations to transactions taking place during that time period.
In that public debate, as in the President's veto message of the August 28 bill, it was clear that the President was committed to removing the


ceiling on price controlled domestic oil. It was equally clear that Congress was committed to the extension of price controls.
In September 1975, Congress passed the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1975 which the President signed on September 29, 1975, more than four weeks after the expiration of the 1973 Act. The statute is as follows:
"An Act to extend the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SHORT TITLE
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1975".
EXTENSION OF MANDATORY ALLOCATION PROGRAM
SEC. 2. Section 4(g)(1) of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 is amended by striking out "August 31, 1975," wherever it appears and inserting in lieuthe EPAA of 1975 effectively reinstated FEA's mandatory price and allocation regulations by passage of the Act and intended them to be retroactively applied to the period between August 31, 1975 and September 29, 1975, the date on which the law was extended by P.L. 94-99.
It is held that the repromulgation of FEA's mandatory price and allocation regulations was not necessary in order to reinstate those regulations after August 31, 1975.
The defendant-counterclaimant is permitted to pay no more than $5.40 per barrel for each barrel of "old" crude oil during the months of September, October, November, and December, 1975. The defendant-counterclaimant is entitled to a refund in the amount of $501,077.89, which amount has been agreed upon in the event the court finds as it has in this


the modern era who were world-renowned people with titles such as eminent monastics or greatly virtuous ones, for when they approached the end of their lives, they suffered from pain till the very end. They did not attain liberation from birth and death, not to mention having control over their own birth and death.

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha IIIhas brought the great dharma of the Tathagatas to the human world, resumed the original teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha, restored Buddhism to how it was when Sakyamuni Buddha was in this world, and even brought about a template by which Buddhists get faster and higher accomplishment through diligent cultivation. Such great dharmas include The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation, initiation into the “Holy Inner-Tantric Jingxing Dharma,” dharma methods of cultivationdharmas that he had learned before and dedicated himself to practicing the profound Buddha-dharmas transmitted by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. His realization advanced by leaps and bounds, and he attained perfect good fortune and wisdom. In 2004, he demonstrated the vajra power of one who has the most extraordinary physical strength in the world. At the Holy Buddha-Bathing Dharma Assembly, as witnessed by many, he lifted the Buddha-bathing lotus tub weighing more than 4,000 pounds to pour water from it. In 2009, in front of many people, he performed a dharma by which his consciousness exited his body and fetched a vajra pill that was a distance away from him. Ultimately, the Dharma King illuminated his mind, saw his original nature, and realized the dharma-body (dharmakaya). The


Silver Box Dharma Discourses, in which he talks about his realizations, are to this day widely distributed in the world.

In 2015, the planning and preparatory committee for the building of the Juexing Temple in Taiwan invited Dharma King Gar Tongstan to serve as the abbot of the temple. In a letter dated July 16, 2016, Dharma King Gar Tongstan wrote to the committee, telling them that he could not serve as the abbot of the temple because he does not have such karmic conditions. (For details, please see “Answer No. 18” in the “Important Replies from Holy Virtuous Ones and Eminent Monastics” issued by the Inquiry Center of WBAH.)

In 2017, a person of holy virtue by the name of Chen Yigu wrote the article I Dare to Guaranteetremendously holy virtue will perform it.”

On September 17th, a metalwork specialist led a team to rush the fabrication of a brass cauldron. On September 18th, Sister Xuan Hui brought sandalwood pieces and charcoals from the residence of Dharma King Gar Tongstan to be burnt during the homa fire-offering. On September 19th, the “Holy Fire-Offering Grand Dharma Assembly” was formally held at the Holy Miracles Temple in the United States.

The “Holy Fire-Offering Dharma” is the king of all dharmas in eliminating karmic hindrances and increasing good fortune. About eighty years ago in Tibet, this dharma was once successfully performed by Master Phapongka and Kangsa Rinpoche. Ever since, both in Tibet and the regions of the Han Chinese, the so-called fire-offering dharma has been something that is merely described in


books or described orally as being a holy dharma practice; that is, there has not been any actual manifestation of holy states during that time. There have only been conventional dharma practices performed through the chanting of rituals.

However, on September 19th at the Holy Fire-Offering Grand Dharma Assembly that was performed by one of tremendously holy virtue at Holy Miracles Temple in the United States, Vajra Maternal Buddha personally arrived in the sky. Her entire tall and enormous blue body emitted light. In an article published on the internet, someone said that they saw Vajra Maternal Buddha flick a finger, sending forth a flash of light from the sky. The fire inside the cauldron then ignited.

However, I have interviewed quite a few people who saw something different. Theysaw that Vajra Maternal Buddha, who was blue, manifested Her appearance in the sky. She was enormous, very tall, and extremely dignified and majestic. Her body and movements changed. A net of fire and lightning swirled around Her entire body. As soon as the fire-ignition guardian finished beseeching Her to ignite the fire, Vajra Maternal Buddha suddenly emitted a flash of light from between Her eyebrows directly into the fire cauldron. In an instant, a raging fire started burning! At that time, only five pieces of sandalwood had been placed inside the fire cauldron. How could such a raging fire possibly ignite in an instant?

Subsequently, the demons captured inside the vajra demon-subduing bowl struggled desperately to escape, trying to shake the bowl to find an exit. Right at


said he was waiting for. On the next day, the Dharma King took a bath, changed his clothes, and entered his dharma practice. In front of his meditation seat, there was a writing desk, brush and ink, paper, and white-out fluid. After writing a letter respectfully bidding farewell to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, the Dharma King immediately went into a sitting meditation and passed away in a state of liberation.

When monastics from different temples heard the news and quickly made their way to the site, they found that right after the Dharma King put down his brush, he passed away in a state of liberation gracefully and completely at ease. At that time, everyone came to realize that the Verses of Respectful Farewell written by Dharma KingIndia is with high values on Humane and
Living with cultural heritages which has been endorsed by all Nation in
different important time's.

In Sri Lanka where Tamil Language speaking
People were killed and termed as "Genocide".

Before to this LTTE was a Group handled
many actions for Tamil Freedom on following Violent actions.
we all Know that few years back LTTE Leader Mr.Prabakharan was killed in
a war in Sri Lanka .But at the same time Prabakharan son was
in Young age was also brutally Killed was identified and People across the
world shed tears on humanity but definitely not on any type attachment on LTTE
is also True.

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place and that's how some people died.

People were chanting Allah's name while others were crying, including children and infants. People fell on the ground seeking help but there was no-one to give them a helping hand. Everybody seemed to be on their own.

It affected some members of our group. I lost my aunt as a result of the stampede and at the moment, two women from our entourage - a mother and her daughter - are still missing.

The Saudi civil defence directorate said the stampede occurred at around 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT) as pilgrims were walking towards the five-storey structure which surrounds the pillars, known as the Jamarat Bridge.

Maj Gen Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry, said the crush occurred when two large groupsnecessary step to take in this war, must also agree that El-Masri has suffered injuries as a result of our country’s mistake and deserves a remedy. Yet, it is also clear from the result reached here that the only sources of that remedy must be the Executive Branch or the Legislative Branch, not the Judicial Branch.

United States, District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, El Masri case, Judgment, 12 May 2006.

In 2001, a draft concurrent resolution was put before the US Congress for it to call upon the Government of Japan to “immediately pay reparations to the victims of [sexual enslavement of young women during colonial occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands during the Second World War, known to the world as ‘comfort women’]”.

In 2005, the


– with the Political Branches of government. For this reason as well, the Court should not recognize any federal common law cause of action in this case.

United States, Department of Justice, Statement of Interest of the United States submitted to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, In re: Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation (The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin, et al. v. Dow Chemical Company, et al), 12 January 2005, pp. 42–43.

In 2005, in its second periodic report to the Committee Against Torture, the United States stated that it “continues to hold the view that in addition to monetary compensation, States should take steps to make available other forms of remedial benefits to victims of torture, including medical and psychiatric treatmentone in the back has a helipad with a helicopter just like the one seen in the air on the first picture.

Yet another yellow submarine

Then there's the Scuba Bear boat with yet another yellow submarine. Check it out and beware of the bear. He's on the bridge. Next to the Scuba Bear is this amazing vessel:

Amazing explorer vessel

This one has it all: Moonbuggy, helipad with helicopter, powerful rib, a crane pluse loads of space below deck; There's even another helicopter on board, hidden inside. It's not unlike the one I flew almost a year ago. There's also a Christmas Quest... Go see what it is...

View from a bridge

Finally there's a view over Tradewinds from the bridge of that big coastguard vessel. It's pretty obvious that there's loads of


The hydrogen economy of the future has been tempting researchers for decades with the promise of cheap, abundant, zero emission fuel. Now, finally, hydrogen fuel cells and fuel cell electric vehicles are slipping into the mainstream. That's all well and good, but the hydrogen economy will not be a sustainable one until renewable hydrogen enters the scene.

The problem is that the primary source of hydrogen today is natural gas. The good news is that multiple sources of renewable hydrogen have been identified, and a new report from the organization Energy Independence Now (EIN) provides a good rundown on the emerging options.

The renewable hydrogen challenge

The "Renewable Hydrogen Roadmap" report was produced by EIN in partnership with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and the California Hydrogen Business Council.

The report focuses onmeeting California Governor Jerry Brown's goal of 5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road in California by 2030, and 200 hydrogen stations by 2025.

That's a pretty tall order. California is one of several U.S. states that have been aggressively pursuing the hydrogen economy, but even so its roster of hydrogen fuel stations only adds up to a current list of 35.

Now add the need to produce and transport vast quantities of renewable hydrogen to supply those 200 stations, and you have a real challenge on your hands.

Why hydrogen?

In terms of decarbonizing the California transportation sector, the new EIN report offers several arguments for including renewable hydrogen rather than relying exclusively on battery electric vehicles.

One main benefit cited by EIN is flexibility. The report notes that hydrogen acts as


to produce gas from animal waste. Both lagoon caps and digesters would help reduce local air, water and soil impacts from animal waste, while cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions from dairy operations.

In taking stock of the challenges, though, EIN foresees that a significant increase in public support would be needed to scale up hydrogen production from biogas in California:

...only 13 digesters currently operate in the state, with another three under construction. Today, no dairy digester projects generate hydrogen from biogas in California. The current projects use biogas to generate electricity, or for combined heat and power generation.

NREL calculates that 486,000 tonnes of hydrogen could be generated annually from dairy digesters throughout the US, not including existing systems. Further analysis shows that 8 of the top 14 countiesHistory

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2018
Catholic Workcamps Launch

2017
Celebrating 40 years

In 2017, we celebrate our 40th year creating mission experiences. As we change and grow, one of our core values never changes: our emphasis on spiritual growth. We believe by staying Jesus-centered, the lives of everyone involved, from participants to residents to co-sponsors to summer staff, are transformed.

2015
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2005
Week of Hope Launches

Week of Hope launches as an additional service experience.

2002
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1990
International Missions Officially Launch

International Trips officially kicks off with multiple locations.

1987
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1986
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New record for number of Workcamps in one summer is set.

1982
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1978
First Native American Workcamp

The first Native American workcamp happens on Blackfeet Nation Reservation. To date, at least 26


The number of attempted illegal entries at the southwestern border declined in January, new data from the Department of Homeland Security show, representing both a drop from Obama-era highs and an increase from the exceptional lows during the early days of the Trump administration.

Some 35,822 people attempted to cross the southwestern border in January, composed of 25,980 individuals who were apprehended attempting to cross the border not at an established port of entry, and 9,842 individuals who were denied entry because they lacked the requisite documentation.

That total represents an 11 percent decline from December, when slightly more than 40,000 people attempted to cross the border. However, it is a marked increase as compared against the pronounced lows in the middle of 2017, a year that saw a significantdecline in the rate of attempted border crossings.

Often attributed to the tough-on-immigration rhetoric of President Donald Trump, the so-called Trump Effect saw attempted border crossings drop as low as 15,766 people in April of last year. Rates rose again through the fall and early winter of 2017, but still remained below the highs of President Barack Obama's term. In October of 2016, 66,708 people attempted to cross the border; similarly high rates appear throughout Obama's second term in office, including a record 68,804 in May of 2014.

The attempted border crossings included substantial numbers both family unit migration and unaccompanied minors. In January, approximately 3,200 unaccompanied minors and 5,600 family units attempted to cross not at a port of entry, and 700 unaccompanied minors and 3,500 family units attempted


to cross at a port of entry without meeting the requirements for entry.

The administration has been signaling concern about the rates of unaccompanied minors and family units attempting to cross the border illegally. Customs and Border Patrol "continues to be concerned about steady increase in the flow of unaccompanied children and family units from Central America, as transnational criminal organizations continue to exploit legal and policy loopholes to help illegal aliens gain entry and facilitate their release into the interior of the country," a December report from DHS noted.

These entries represent a particular issue because current law requires the release into the interior of unaccompanied children and family units whom the department apprehends. Unaccompanied children are transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and then placed with legally[Georgian] economy”, said Gakharia.

The Forum was followed by meetings among businessmen where ideas for potential business expansion were discussed.

Georgia’s Economy Minister Giorgi Gakharia delivering his speech at the Business Forum in Istanbul. Photo by Georgia's Ministry of Economy.

Organised by Azerbaijan Export and Investments Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) the fifth Turkey-Azerbaijan-Georgia business forum is an important forum for the boosting of cooperation among businessmen and overall relations between Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.

The three countries are connected by several important regional projects, including the Baku-Supsa, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipelines, the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas line and Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.

Being the top foreign investor of Georgia, Azerbaijan invested some $434 million in the economy of Georgia within the first three quarters of 2016, while Turkey invested $196 million, taking second place.

As for trade turnover between the


Editor's note:On Nov 21, the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark sailed from Zhoushan port in Zhejiang province to help with disaster relief efforts in the Philippines in the wake of a devastating typhoon. China Daily reporter Peng Yining is aboard the vessel to provide regular updates on its progress.

Mark Yoma, 42, squatted beside a small stack of burning garbage in a deserted street in Tacloban, capital of the Philippine province of Leyte.

He had hoped that the dim light cast by the flames would prompt passersby to buy a few bananas, but no one approached him.

Large areas of the Philippines were ravaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan, which made landfall on Nov 8. The death toll stands at 5,200.

As darkness fell in Tacloban, stray dogs and cats ran though thestreets. Electricity has not been restored in many areas of the city.

Yoma said the typhoon destroyed his home, but a few of his banana trees survived. He now relies on donations from international relief agencies, and sells bananas to get a little extra cash.

Help arrived in Tacloban on Sunday afternoon when the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark anchored in Leyte Gulf. By 6 pm, the vessel's medical staff had disembarked by speedboat to begin their work in the devastated city.

With help from the local government, the medics identified a suitable site for a field hospital, and late on Sunday three severely injured locals were transported to the Peace Ark for immediate surgery.

One had a fractured thighbone, another had acute appendicitis and the third had necrosis (a form of


they stayed with a neighbor, but were later transferred to the city's only surviving hospital, where they are recuperating.

"We lost everything in the disaster," said Cornejo, "but at least we have each other." As she spoke, the 18-year-old leaned over her sick sister's bed and waved a white paper fan to drive away the mosquitoes.

Hot and humid, the hospital was flooded with patients, who sat on the ward floors or spilled out into the corridors. Hospital chief, Aileen Espina, said that when the typhoon first struck, chest-high water flooded the ground floor, forcing staff to move patients to the second floor. The hospital currently has 181 patients, but medical staff and medicine are urgently needed. "Even in these difficult times the hospital is open, but we need morehelp. I'm glad that the

Lyn Wilo, 30, was attending to her sick and frightened 82-year-old grandmother, who is being treated at the hospital. Wilo said the storm was so strong that cracks appeared in their home, allowing rain and seawater to flood the building.

She helped her grandmother to escape the house and the two women fled to a nearby school. "Thanks to the international aid effort, we now have clean food and water," said Wilo. "But who will help us to repair our houses?"

Song Hongbin is a medical expert aboard the Peace Ark. When he first saw the news of the devastating typhoon on the television, the first thought that entered his mind was, "I can help!"

The 45-year-old expert in infectious diseases at the Academy of Military Medical


Sciences' Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, also participated in the 2010 relief efforts in Haiti. He said the locals warmly welcomed the Chinese medical team, whose careful, professional work soon gained them a good reputation. When the team finished its mission, many local people were sad to see the doctors depart, he said.

"When we were sitting on a bus, ready to leave, a middle-aged man held my hand through the window. He had tears in his eyes," said Song. "In Haiti, I saw the devastating effect natural disasters can have on people's lives and how badly the survivors needed help. The people in the damaged areas of the Philippines also deserve care and help from other countries, including China."

Song said he had been waiting for the callpolice then dragged the father out of the lobby, throwing him onto the curb. The 67-year-old father is said to suffer from heart disease.

The son says his father lost consciousness and started twitching shortly afterwards, according to What’s On Weibo. He also told the Global Times that police kept on beating his parents and threatened to abandon them in the woods with wild animals.

The police eventually put them in a car and dropped them off at the Skogskyrkogården cemetery, a UNESCO World Heritage site in suburban Stockholm seven kilometers away from the hostel.

Mats Ericsson, the chief prosecutor of Stockholm, told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that police dropped the group off at a subway station close to the cemetery. He added that it's standard procedure to take people outside the


President Donald Trump taunted Democrats on Twitter just after Republicans won two closely watched special congressional elections.

After the GOP's Karen Handel and Ralph Norman won their respective races in Georgia and South Carolina on Tuesday night, the president congratulated them in separate tweets. He then hit Democrats for their winless stretch in special elections this year to replace Trump nominees who vacated solidly red seats.

He said that Democrats got nothing for "all the money spent." Jon Ossoff — the Democratic candidate in Georgia — spent at least $22 million on the race while outside Republican groups funneled cash into the election, leading to the most expensive House race ever.

Trump: Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and O!A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post-World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a naval veteran who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.


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The 25C tax credits have been a popular sales tool for residential HVAC contractors since their introduction in 2006. Late last year, Congress extended the credits through 2011, and now many in the industry are wondering if Congress will extend the credits again for 2012.

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More and more NFL players are making their voices heard regarding the recent murder of George Floyd and the societal problems it highlights. For the first time, many of those voices are coming from whiteat Compton Family Ice Arena. St. Cyr finished with 46 saves on the night.

The game would go to a five-minute overtime period to try and decide a winner. Notre Dame recorded seven shots in the overtime frame but couldn’t get any past Denver goaltender Tanner Jaillet.

After neither team scored during the overtime, Denver won a four round shootout by converting two goals to Notre Dame’s one. However, the result will go down nationally as a tie. Notre Dame freshman goaltender Dylan St. Cyr recorded 46 saves while facing 48 shots.

Both teams looked to earn a win the next night in the second game of the series. Denver took a 2-0 lead during the first period and would hold that lead all the way to the third period. Sophomore


the season just a minute into the first period to give the Irish an early 1-0 lead. Sacred Heart responded about six minutes into the second period with a goal of their own to even the score 1-1. Notre Dame responded with a goal of its own just two minutes later as senior forward Dawson Cook recorded his first goal of the season to give the Irish a 2-1 lead.

After the Pioneers evened the score again six minutes later, junior forward Andrew Oglevie continued his hot start by scoring a power play goal, his fourth goal of the season, to once again give the Irish a one goal lead with 2:27 left in the second period.

The Pioneers came out for the third period scoring two goals during theshut the door to a 3-1 victory. Morris recorded 24 saves on 25 shots. Wegwerth finished with two goals on the night, while Peeke recorded two assists during the game.

The Irish will continue their month-long home stand this weekend when they host Nebraska–Omaha at the Compton Family Ice Arena on Thursday and Friday night.


English farmer Ames heard hounds snarling and barking when apples on a certain tree withered before they could be picked. This happened for several days each year.

He had the tree checked by experts and followed their advice. Nothing helped. He never saw the dogs and tried to convince himself that his imagination was working triple time. He only had one dog on the farm.

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Phantom Hounds: Mysterious Withering Apples

One day, Ames was talking to his friend Charles, who was distracted because he heard hounds snarling. Ames was relieved that he also heard them. They walked to the tree and saw a misty figure of a man in black and green riding apparel striking out at invisible hounds,attacked their vicious master under the apple tree and killed him. From then on, its apples withered.

Phantom Hounds: A Solution

Ames talked to his friend, Lieutenant Colonel Lowe, about the happenings and added it seemed he had ghosts on his farm. Lowe was experienced in paranormal phenomena. He suggested the farmer hire a huntsman to call the dogs away from the tree with his horn while the haunting was active.

Ames asked other farmers if they knew a huntsman who treated his dogs well and had good rapport with them. He was referred to one, Perkins, who was skeptical at first and asked Ames of he was sure he wanted him to call the spectral dogs away from the tree. The farmer assured Perkins he was serious.

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ABCs, and spectral hounds, but few of these cryptids have been photographed. The Beast of Dartmoor was photographed by falconer Martin Whitley.

It’s an animal with powerful large front legs, rounded ears, a long tail and a thick bushy coat that was walking near Hound Tor in the moor. The animal was oblivious to the noisy group of school children yards away. Lucinda Reid saw the pictures and believes the beast is her pet Newfoundland dog because, from a distance, the huge canine looks like a mysterious beast.

Sightings of big cats in Britain started in the 1970s. The British Big Cat Society, BBCS, reported that numbers of the big cats in the country is increasing. There were 2,123 sightings in Great Britain between April 2004 and July 2005.

Most ofthe sightings were in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset; some, in Scotland and Wales. Black panthers were the most often seen, followed by brown or tawny pumas and lynxes. Some people said they saw two cats, a panther and a puma, roaming the fields together.

The Beast of Exmoor, stalked the fields of Devonshire England killing livestock in 1983, and killed over 100 sheep. Sightings of the animal go back to the early 1970s when people in Devonshire reported it. Those who saw it believed it was a black panther, which is not native to England. It was photographed, but not killed or caught.

The London Daily Express offered a reward for killing or capturing the beast. Riflemen were sent to the area to try to kill the animal. The attacks


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Mr. Pandit and his new colleagues have been ringing up bank chief executives and others and offering their services. Among the recent recipients of...organic fashion. Back in 1991, when that stretch of Ponce was seedy, a young woman was fatally shot in the face while walking through the store’s parking lot with friends. In 2002, a body was found in a car parked behind the store. By the mid-aughts, “Murder Kroger” had joined the Clermont Lounge in the popular imagination as beloved relics of Atlanta’s grittier past, even notching its own theme song by a local band.

In 2012, when a 20-year-old college student was shot and killed at the entrance to the Ford Factory Lofts next door, the Kroger folks had had enough. In 2014, company officials called a press conference to rechristen the store “BeltLine Kroger.” That effort came spectacularly undone barely five months later when an Alabama man was


Buchanan's father was a teacher in the North Vancouver School District.

"When he got his first entry-level job teaching in the early '60s, my parents bought their house for $15,000. My mother sold that house about two years ago for $2 million," said Buchanan.

"I'd say [the affordability crisis] is fairly critical."

City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan has proposed a solution lab to develop creative approaches to the housing crisis. (lindabuchananformayor.com)

At a council meeting on Feb. 4, she submitted a motion to develop a North Shore housing solutions lab, where she would bring numerous members from the community together to develop innovative options to tackle the lack of affordable housing.

It would include the North Shore's municipal governments, the provincial and federal government, as well as B.C. Housing, the schooldistrict and Capilano University, among others.

She said having everyone at the table provides a much clearer image of the issues and challenges at hand.

To fund the solutions lab, the city has applied to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for an innovation grant.

She said all levels of income earners should be able to afford to live in the city where they serve.

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management, is now betting big on future growth in the region, with the opening of its first Dubai office and a listing on the NASDAQ Dubai bourse. It is now looking to take advantage of exponential growth in the Islamic bonds market, as well growing inflows of capital from the Middle East towards the British capital.

Its success, today, however is a far cry from 2006, when its founder sat down with the intention of creating “the pre-eminent Islamic bank in London”.

“We started off with a blank piece of paper with just ‘BLME’ on it,” recalls founder and CEO Humphrey Percy.

One of the lender’s first points of order, he says, was that it was not going to go out and hire seasoned Islamic bankers, of which there is somethingMore than 64,000 people are in Australia illegally after overstaying work and tourist visas, with the federal government estimating as many as 12,000 have been here for more than 20 years.

New figures from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection show temporary visitor visas are the mostly likely to be abused in Australia, while Malaysian nationals made up the largest group of unlawful non-citizens in the country last financial year.

More than 64,000 people are believed to have over stayed visas in Australia Credit:iStock

There were nearly 10,000 Malaysians recorded as having overstayed visas in 2016-17, along with about 6500 Chinese nationals and 5170 from the United States.

Countries outside the top 15 most likely to overstay represented nearly 18,000 in the category. About 3700 UK nationals overstayed, ahead of 2780


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The infractions also involve the Seattle-based company's seafood processing plant at Wrangell in Southeast Alaska, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.

At both facilities, Trident exceeded the one-acre limit on seafood processing waste piles it can discard into the water under its permits, the agency said.

The mounds of bones and other fish parts that seafood processors release into the ocean can carpet the seafloor like a gelatinous goo, suffocating life by depleting oxygen in the water, the agency has said.

Trident also did not adequately grind up the fish tissue and other waste, releasing parts


larger than half an inch into the water, according to a complaint filed by the federal government on Feb. 9 in U.S. District Court for western Washington.

The agreement between Trident, the EPA and the Justice Department was filed in the federal court that same day. Joe Plesha, chief legal officer for Trident, signed the agreement.

In an earlier settlement announced by the EPA in 2011, Trident agreed to pay a $2.5 million penalty and spend as much as $40 million on construction and research to prevent future Clean Water Act violations.

Those water pollution violations occurred between 2005 and 2010 at the company's Alaska plants, most notably at the Akutan site where the pile of fish waste was the size of 38 football fields, the EPA said.

As for the SandSaturday, February 6, 2010

Did you know that Vancouver Olympics is about to start in a week? I didn't, as I don't have TV any more.

Did you know that one of the venues sits right next to the park (Hastings Park, Wikipedia makes no mention of this) where, during World War II, the Canadian government forcibly relocated the Japanese Canadians from their coastal homes (many of them were fishermen) and put them in exhibition halls and horse stables?

Pacific Coliseum, which will host figure skating events, sits right next to that park, and the top contenders for gold medals for both men's and women's figure skating are Japanese.

Here's an article in Yomiuri Shinbun, one in the series for the coming Olympics. In Japan, both summer and winter Olympics are major,


popular events. Japanese athletes increasingly compete on the top, world-class level in many sports, and the winter Olympics figure skating is one of them.

Olympics Figure Skating Venue Sits Next to Former Japanese Concentration Camp Site(Shoichi Yamashita, 2/6/2010 Yomiuri Shinbun; my partial translation, original is in Japanese)Winter Olympics will start in a week in Vancouver. Few people know that, right next to the building that will host figure skating, in which top Japanese skaters are competing for medals, there was a concentration camp for Japanese Canadians during World War II.

10 kilometers east from the center of Vancouver stands "Pacific Coliseum" in a large park. It is a venue for figure skating and short tracks ice skating.

According to the archive at the city library, 8,000 Japanese living on the pacificcoast side of Vancouver were interned for a half year in 1942, in pavilions and horse stables in the park. Many Japanese in Vancouver at that time were fishermen, and the Canadian government was afraid that they would collaborate with the imperial Japan providing the detailed information on coastlines. The government seized their fishing boats and houses, and forced them on a bus.

Mary Ohara, 80-year-old Canadian-born Nisei, was one of them. The police came to her house one day, and ordered the family to leave the house within 24 hours. They were allowed to carry one suitcase. She left with her parents and siblings. Obediently, because they were taught not to resist the government and the police, lest they became a shame onto the Japanese.

In the camp, a


horse stable was the living quarters for women and children. Ms. Ohara had to endure the smell of horse manure by laying down the cushion stuffed with straw on the concrete floor. Only privacy they had was a blanket between the double-deck bunk beds. Freedom was restricted. Ms. Ohara remembers watching white children playing in the park, from behind the fence.

Japanese Canadians were later moved further east, and couldn't come back to Vancouver until after the war. The Canadian government formally apologized in 1988.

In "multicultural" Canada, increasing number of Japanese are marrying out. People who knows the hardship of Issei and Nisei have decreased. Ms. Ohara's son and daughter are no exception. Ms. Ohara, who spent 8 years in Japan after the war and then came back toCanada, says she doesn't hold hard feelings toward Canada, and she will cheer for both Canada and Japan in the Olympics.

Starting in 1942, the Canadian government forcibly moved 22,000 Japanese Canadians in British Columbia from the coastal region to 100-mile inland. They were initially housed in a concentration camp in this park. They were allowed to come back to Vancouver after the war, but since all their belongings had been taken away by the government, many went back to Japan.

[And I remember the irony of irony... It was Japanese American soldiers who liberated a Nazi concentration camp in Dahau, while their families were still "interned" back in the United States.]

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and perception.

Much like ads for branded goods.

The most recent buildup in the Middle East does indicate something may be up. Since Obama seems to be on a rampage beating up on nation's top banks, Supreme Court judges, Americans who oppose his policies (half the country), GOP, Reuters, Toyota, Ken Lewis, it's about time he ventures outside the border for a fresh target.

To be sure, if John McCain had been elected as president, he would have bombed Iran long time ago, as he merrily sang. (Sort of.)

The market is not believing the government numbers today. January unemployment number "unexpectedly" dropped to 9.7%, but the country lost another 20,000 jobs at the same time.

Yeah right.

The latest adjustment to the Birth/Death model added over 1 million job lost on top ofconsidering increased auction of TIPS, including a second reopening of 10-year TIPS. This would result in six 10-year TIPS in a year. In 2009, there were four 10-year TIPS auctions.

The amount of Treasury notes and bonds issued has been stable at $200 billion per month. (See the chart here.)

The Treasury Department keeps two sets of books - one done by cash method, and the other by accrual method like everyone else. It is disingenuous of the policymakers to wring hands and plead that they need additional $1.9 trillion to get by this year, when they should know, by accrual method, that they will have used all that up by the end of February. This February.

And the stock market is acting accordingly, at least for today. Dow Jones Industrial


Average is down over 245 points (or 2.4%), to 10,025, threatening to break down below 10,000.

Hedge fund manager Jeff Matthews says the government policies and programs are weighing down on the economy. Uncertainty and direct fear, he says, over what the government might do (so far it's "Let's tax everything and let's spend everything and more.")

He talks about a friend of his, who runs a small manufacturing companies. He told Matthews that he is not going to higher anyone in the U.S. any more when Matthews asked him about implication of health care reform.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The ex-Morgan Stanley banker and ex-PPT member Kevin Warsh, a Fed Governor, wants a system that lets insolvent firm fail, but at the same time wants more control for the Federal Reservehigh. With non-union manufacturing plants in Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Indiana, Toyota made the most popular and most highly regarded vehicles in the U.S. Rivals GM and Chrysler were imploding, and the president stepped in with massive taxpayer cash infusions and took over these companies as joint ventures between the federal government and the UAW.

"Why is Toyota singled out for SUA? A Consumer Reports study indicated that, for the model year 2008, there were 52 complaints filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration against Toyota for SUA, representing 41 percent of all such complaints even though Toyota had just 18 percent of the U.S. market.

"However, the same Consumer Reports study relates that GM and Chrysler also were the subject of SUA complaints to the NHTSA, but


vehicle, nor even the financial health of that company – but the very existence of a free competitive vehicle market in the U.S."

Contiuing on the theme of "Everything is alright now", let's go to today's Bloomberg article. It's about Paul Volcker, who many people secretly, and some openly, hoped would replace Ben Bernanke and return to the Federal Reserve as the chairman. He would clean up the Fed, the greedy banksters, he would know what to do, unlike Bernanke.

So much for that. Volcker and Bernanke are of the same mind when it comes to the Federal Reserve and the Fed's regulatory power over the nation's financial industry. Volcker probably wouldn't have done any differently than Bernanke.

"Volcker, who headed the Fed from 1979 to 1987, met current chairman Benlegal authority in helping to rescue Bear Stearns Cos.

"When he next appeared before the club, on Jan. 14, Volcker devoted much of his speech to a pitch for the Fed to retain a role as a financial supervisor. His comments came a day after Bernanke sent an 11-page paper making the same argument to members of the Senate Banking Committee. "

For Volcker, it's "the Federal Reserve above all".

"That anger -- and the threat it poses to the central bank’s independence -- may have convinced Volcker to step up his support of Bernanke and the Fed, said former Fed economist David Jones, president of Denver-based DMJ Advisors and author of four books on the central bank.

"“His dedication to the principle of central banking independence has no limits,” added Neal


Soss, who served as Volcker’s assistant from 1981 to 1983 and is now chief economist for Credit Suisse Holdings USA Inc. in New York.

"Volcker endorsed giving the Fed the power to guard against risks to the financial system as a whole in an opinion article in the New York Times on Jan. 30. "

""When the president hugs you in front of every member of the US Senate and every member of the House, that's a signal that you still have the power," one Senate staffer told us.

"Others on Capitol Hill we spoke to agreed.

""It was a clear message that the perception from the Volcker announcement was wrong. Geithner is still in Obama's inner circle," another staffer said.

"The hug that changed the perception on Capitol Hill was preceded andfollowed by administration members talking to reporters and bloggers behind the scenes, saying the symbolism of the Volcker press conference had been misinterpreted. That message has now sunk in.

"At least in the eyes of many lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill, Geithner is back."

Earlier this morning, I went to Yahoo Finance as I always do every morning and read the news by Reuters about the 2011 federal budget proposed by Obama, "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class" written by Terri Cullen on February 1, 2010.

When I checked back later, the article was gone. Instead of the article, I get a Yahoo search page. Drudge Report's headline says "Reuters pulls tax story".

What's going on?

It turns out the Obama White House put the pressure on Reuters to withdraw the story


United States are proving to be very problematic, as they deal with high-profile tax fraud.

"She warned the actions of UBS in the United States would threaten all of the bank's activities if its licence were to be revoked in the United States.

"While Switzerland and the US had negotiated an agreement, under which UBS would hand over information on some 4,500 account holders to the IRS, a Swiss court ruling earlier this month has put the deal in doubt.

"Meanwhile, the president of the Swiss confederation Doris Leuthard has warned foreign governments not to pay for illegally obtained information regarding holders of Swiss savings accounts.

"Ms Leuthard made her remarks after the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine said an informant had offered to sell the data of 1,500 account holders to thestronger. Borrowing costs would fall. The North-South gap in competitiveness could be bridged with less disruption for both sides.

"To be sure, Germany is happily placed in the current EMU system. By compressing wages for a decade it has stolen a march on EMU. Critics unfairly call this a beggar-thy-neighbour policy. It is simply the way Lutheran society operates, in deep contrast to the way Latin society operates – a cultural clash that should have given pause for thought before Europe's elites launched headlong into their adventure. " [Emphasis is mine.]

Not all countries are equal, after all, and there is such a thing as cultural difference. (Duh.)

The EMU, or European Monetary Union, is one big moral hazard where fiscally prudent countries in the north end up subsidizing the profligate


both counts. Fresh loans for Greece can achieve nothing useful at this stage. Greece already has a public debt hurtling towards 138pc of GDP by 2012 (Standard & Poor's). It is already in a debt compound spiral. The EU elites have yet to acknowledge that Greece and much of Club Med need gifts – not loans – akin to transfers paid to East Germany after unification, or North Italian perma-subsidies to the Mezzogiorno. "

The article concludes with these sentences:

"EMU architects were warned in the early 1990s that monetary union would prove unworkable as constructed. They scoffed, sure that any crisis could be exploited to force the pace of economic union. Commission chief Romano Prodi later admitted as much. "The euro will oblige us to introduce a new setOklahoma Secretary of State James Williamson announced Monday that a bid to include a recreational marijuana initiative in November’s election has failed to qualify for the ballot. As required by law, the secretary of state’s office reported to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma on the petition drive to place State Question 797 on the ballot. The initiative would have legalized the recreational use and sale of cannabis in the state.

Activists for Green the Vote turned in a total of 102,814 valid signatures from the petition drive, according to the report. That number is far short of the 123,725 that were needed to successfully place the measure on the ballot.

In late July, Green the Vote reported that it had collected more than 132,000 signatures, and was in the midst


and Tom Carroll scored a late debut goal, the damage had already been done.

The visitors had conceded just one goal in their previous five Championship games but they were made to pay for some sloppy first-half defending.

The Tykes had Derby on the back foot from the off and it needed a magnificent reflex save from Frank Fielding to keep out Jim McNulty's header from an inviting Michael Tonge corner nine minutes in.

But Keith Hill's side were in front just a minute later when a slick four-man move resulted in Done beating Fielding with a measured finish.

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New details from Kurt Volker's closed-door interview indicate Bill Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, was deeply conflicted about whether to take the job because of concerns about Rudy Giuliani's shadow involvement.

Why it matters: The testimony by Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, earlier this month may help the president in the sense that it paints Giuliani, not President Trump, as the mastermind behind a campaign to get foreign leaders to investigate the Biden family and Burisma, according to sources with direct knowledge of his testimony.Sale rank which can be a number between 1 and 1 million, captures item’s popularity in a certain category, and the higher the number the less the product is selling and the less the number, the more the product is selling.

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Storyline: Love and Honour (2006) Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty, dutiful and loyal wife Kayo. He has come to find his position in a castle as a food-taster for a feudal lord to be boring and pointless, and talks about opening a kendo school open to boys of all castes where he can teach the use of the sword. Before he can act on his dream he becomes ill with a fever after tasting some sashimi made from shell fish, but an investigation reveals that the poisoning was not due to a human conspiracy, but a poor choice of food out of season. After three days he awakes but findsthat the toxin from the food has blinded him. Kayo is summoned by Shinnojo's family to explain how the couple will survive. His uncle laments that he no longer knows anybody with influence in the castle, and asks Kayo if she knows of anybody. She relates how Toya Shimada, the chief duty officer in the castle and a samurai of high rank, offered to help and they tell her to act upon his offer of assistance. A message from the castle brings the good news that Shinnojo's stipend of rice will remain the same, and for life but his aunt tells him that Kayo was seen with another man. He has Tohuhei, his faithful servant, follow her. Kayo notices that she is being followed, and although Tokuhei offers


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ATLANTIC FUNDING CORPORATION;
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Appeal from the United States District Court
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Before NIEMEYER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and
HOWARD, United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

_________________________________________________________________

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

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COUNSEL

ARGUED: James


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She was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. PETC Bulgarian region Rupite. Vangelia Pandev Dimitrova interest in politics was not accidental.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vanga

She was born on the territory of modern Macedonia - a country that was the apple of discord for years among Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. Her homeland experienced two world wars, in which the Bulgarians and Serbs fought in the various camps.

She has always been recognized as one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century due to the precision with which predicted earlier many of the great events of the world. She was known in the region as the "Nostradamus of the Balkans".
Vanga Bulgarian Bulgaria World

Vanga started making predictions when she was 16. She helped her father find a sheepstolen from the flock. She gave a detailed description of the yard where the animal was hidden by thieves. Her powers of foreseeing took shape after she turned 30.

Many a politician has visited Vanga. Adolf Hitler called her one day. He left his house looking rather upset.

Vanga died in 1996, and the expected number of major global shocks, such as the 2004 tsunami or the attack on the Twin Towers. And now, the last time omen seems to begin to be fulfilled:
Baba according to Yang, 2016 will be the year that "Muslims are attacking Europe."

Yang Baba prophesied that in 2018 China will be the first "super power" in the world, taking the lead already worn the US and,

she added in the same year the spacecraft will discover "a


new form of energy" in the planet Venus.

But this is not the end of the story, the great seer even said that everything starts to deteriorate in the US, and that "African American" president will "last" acting president of the country the north. "African American" President will be the last president of the United States acting

"Vangelia Pandev Dimitrova predicted the attacks on the World Trade Center,

When in 1989 he said: "Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. Wolves will howl in the bush, and innocent blood will be gushing." (1989) was as expected. World Trade Center towers in New York collapsed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The WTC towers were dubbed "Twins" or terrorists drove passenger planes "Brothers."- "The Birds" - steel towers. "Bush" obviously refers to the name of the current president of the United States of America.

She also predicted a devastating tsunami in 2004, which hit the Thai coast, "Big wave will cover a large coast with people and villages, where everything disappears under water."
Result image for a devastated land
She also said that in 2023 at the Earth's orbit will change what the "poles melt" and set fire to the "Middle East"

The old woman says: "The Great War Islamic" will begin in Syria completed the full control in Rome in 2043.

It was also found that it will not set final caliphate and Europe "cease to exist" to become the continent "almost empty" and "wasteland devoid of any form of life."

One of the most


shocking predictions was established in 1980. blind old woman said. "At the turn of the century, in August 1999 or 2000, Kursk will be covered with water, and the whole world will be weeping over it" prediction does not make sense then.

Twenty years later, he had made a terrible sense. Russian nuclear submarine were killed in an accident in August 2000 the city was named sub Kursk, which in no way can be covered with water.

Among the many predictions, there are some quite exotic, such as ensuring that the alien will help man to live under water in 2130

or a possible war on Mars in 3005.

Finally, perhaps the most fantastic even the most apocalyptic:

Vanga assured that there will be no survivors on Earth, about 3797.

Here we leave alist of predictions for the coming years:

What do you think?

Vanga settled in Bulgaria Petrich in 1930, where he predicted the beginning of World War II. Her fame quickly throughout Bulgaria, and one day it was visited by King Boris III. Vanga warned the king against the participation of Bulgaria in the war. Bulgarian politicians did not listen: the country joined Hitler, and was among the defeated. It was not until the post-war patronage of the Soviet Union, who saved Bulgaria from the territorial dismemberment. Bulgarian politicians, who visited Vanga, news of the prophetess with their counterparts from other countries. As a result, Vanga became known throughout the world.

The list of events, which so accurately predicted, is truly impressive.
King Boris III visited it again in 1942 and 1943. blind


woman (she was in her thirties then) told the king that he would die on 28 August 1943.
In February 1943 he told the king that she had seen the red flag over the palace. Her predictions came true. King Boris III died on August 28, and the red flag was raised above Sofia in the autumn of 1944 years.
Bulgaria became a socialist country. In socialist Bulgaria, where Vanga spent most of his life, people treated clairvoyants and mystics usually negatively. The Communists believed that Vanga was spreading superstitions, distracting people from the construction of socialism.
In the fall of 1952, the prophetess found herself in trouble when she said that Joseph Stalin would go to the grave. Vanga was jailed as a result of this prophecy, though not forlong. The prophecy came true - a Soviet general really died. The death of Stalin did not save the prophetess from political persecution, though.
The fact that Vanga was coming from Macedonia (Yugoslavia) was haunting the minds of the Bulgarian special services. Bulgaria was a very tense relations with Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia, which gave the Bulgarian Secret Service reason to believe that the prophetess was an agent of western neighbor.

In the 1970s, the Bulgarian special services continued to collect compromising materials against Vanga. They searched her home once he found 90,000 Levs, which was a huge amount of money for a socialist country.

Vanga was sent to the prison, but was described in reports as an underdeveloped and impudent woman. The former high-ranking officials in the country, who defended


Vanga non-existent position as a "civil servant". Her life took a turn due to the efforts made by the daughter of the then Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov, Lyudmila Zhivkov. Lyudmila was interested in the esoteric teachings and visited the prophetess repeatedly.

Ludmila enjoyed great popularity in the country. She has created a very warm friendship with Vanga herself. At the beginning of 1979 Vanga that Ludmilla Zhivkov killed in a car accident. Special forces tried to prevent the tragedy, but it did not help. Zhivkov survived a car accident, but died two years later. In 1987, when Todor Zhivkov was still ruling the country,
Vanga predicted big changes for the nation to come. She said that Bulgaria will soon have another leader, a distinguished scientist, who was not a supporterof the doctrine of Lenin.

In 1992, Bulgarian philosopher Zhelyu Zhelev came to power in the country. The socialist system in Bulgaria fell and the country has continued its development in compliance with the European Union and NATO. Vanga predicted was the most important political events taking place around the world.
She predicted the entry of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, Indian Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv, the fall of the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua and many other historical events.

Nowadays, many Russians wonder whether the prophecy Vanga about Russia is about to come true one day or not. In 1979, during her meeting with the writer Valentin Sidorov, Vanga said: "Everything will thaw, as if ice, only one remain untouched -


The family of a 20-year-old Brampton man who killed himself while under suicide watch plans to sue the hospital where he died for $12.5 million.

Prashant Tiwari died by suicide at Brampton Civic Hospital last year, 10 days after he was placed under around-the-clock supervision as a suicide risk. His family says the hospital failed to check on him regularly, and he found the means in that time to end his life.

Prashant's father Rakesh Tiwari says he now plans to sue the hospital and six staff for the wrongful death of his son. This comes after Rakesh’s request for an official inquest by the chief coroner of Ontario was refused last year.

Family lawyer Michael Smitiuch says Prashant's death is indicative of a "systemic" problem in Canadian hospitals, that stemsfrom current training, protocols and procedures.

"Rakesh took his son to the hospital because he was hurting himself," Smitiuch told CTV's Canada AM on Wednesday. "He thought the hospital was a safe haven, and it wasn't."

The Tiwari family is also hoping to raise awareness about mental illness, Smitiuch said.

Prashant struggled with suicidal thoughts and was hospitalized after he cut himself with a knife last summer. Ten days after he was placed under suicide watch, Prashant was found dead in the shower area of the hospital. He had hung himself with the help of a chair.

"The understanding was that Prashant would be provided with supervision every 15 minutes. That was the protocol," Smitiuch said.

"For over two-and-a-half hours he was left unsupervised in a shower area" Smitiuch added. "In that shower


area, he was provided with a chair."

That chair "should not have been there," according to chief psychiatrist Dr. David Koczerginski of the William Osler Health Group, the organization that runs Brampton Civic Hospital.

"Any chair that would be in the shower would be an error, a mistake," Koczerginski told CTV's W5 in an interview last year.

The Koczerginski interview was part of a W5 investigation that uncovered hundreds of suicide deaths in hospitals across Canada, spanning a ten-year period.

Smitiuch says those numbers are part of the reason the Tiwari family is pushing for an official inquest from Ontario's top coroner. The Office of the Chief Coroner previously declined to conduct an inquest, but the Tiwari family is hoping it will reconsider.

"There has to be better training in terms of supervision,"When I was first told of Peter Clines', my curiosity was piqued by its premise. And now, thanks to the folks at Broadway Paperbacks, here's an excerpt from the book. For more info about this title: Canada Here's the blurb:Enjoy!---------------------------Katie had been on the walls of the Mount for two hours, leaning against the Earth, when St. George dropped out of the sky wearing a leather flight jacket.She held out a fist without looking up and he rapped his knuckles against hers. They didn’t speak for six minutes, and she used the time to finish cleaning her rifle. Half the reason she volunteered for the walls was so she didn’t have to talk to people, and he knew it. She finished with the weapon, reloaded it, and adjusted


sure.”She gave him a weak salute. St. George took a few running steps along the rubbery tar paper and hurled himself back into the air. He sailed away along the wall, heading for the gate a few blocks east.Katie settled back against the oversized globe and watched the stumblers below. The trendy ex had managed to turn. Its shoulder dragged against the wall, and every other step sent its face swinging at the concrete again as it clicked and clacked down the sidewalk.“Living the Hollywood dream,” she sighed, and shouldered her weapon again.***They say you never forget your first time.It’d been about three months since the Incident at the lab. “Incident” was how they kept referring to it in the news and in the therapy sessions, and theword had been beaten into my head by constant use. There’d been a lot of publicity around me at first as the sole survivor of the explosion, but the news quickly shifted to focus on the twelve people who had died and the scandal of poor chemical storage. Of course, who could blame the University for not designing their building to resist a meteor strike?Of the twelve victims, seven took a few hours to die. One took a whole day. There was a lot in the papers regarding the wave of chemicals we’d been exposed to. Things that could poison you, twist your body chemistry, or taint your blood. Even corrupt your DNA, according to some people. I also read lots of articles about that meteorite and the


Civil society organisations, social innovation and health research in Europe.
European Union strategies and programmes identify research and innovation as a critical dimension for future economic and social development. While European research policy emphasizes support for industry, the health field includes not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs) providing social innovation. Yet, the perspectives of CSOs towards health research in Europe are not well understood. STEPS (Strengthening Engagement in Public Health Research) was funded by the European Commission's Science in Society research programme. Within the study, we interviewed by telephone respondents of 13 European health CSOs, which represented collectively local and national organizations. Research was valued positively by the respondents. Health CSOs did not seek to do research themselves, but recognized the opportunity of funds in this field and welcomed thepossibility of collaborating in research, of using the results from research and of providing input to research agendas. Links between research and users provides knowledge for the public and improves impacts on policy. Research and evaluation can help in demonstrating the benefit of innovative activities, and give support and legitimacy. However, the cultures of, and incentives for, researchers and health CSOs are different, and collaboration requires building trust, a shared language and for the power relations and objectives to match. Health CSOs contribute social innovation in organising services and activities such as advocacy that cannot be satisfactorily met by industry. Engaging CSOs in research and innovation will strengthen the European Research Area.


Beloved Sisters

Who knew? According to the film "Beloved Sisters," directed with minute attention to detail by Dominik Graf, the German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller not only married Charlotte von Lengefeld, but also was more or less a husband to her older sister Caroline, as well.

The film all but confesses to being speculative in nature -- only one document relevant to the threesome survives, the wooden (and often extraneous) narration informs us -- but the very thought of such an arrangement in the late 1700s, and in German high society, carries an irresistibly juicy allure.

If only this movie knew how to squeeze that juice.

It's not that drama or sex are lacking; Schiller, played by the handsome Florian Stetter, is as charming as he is brilliant. His heart isas capacious as his mind, so it doesn't feel impossible or even unlikely that he might fall in love with two young women at once. Schiller himself embraces both his creative genius and his polyamorous ardor; writing to his editor from Weimar, where he's been exiled, he inquires, "Will you forgive me if a I return without any masterpieces, but with two flames in my heart?"

Ah, Weimar, scene of the crime of love. It's as though the film (and history) is leaning eagerly toward the inter-war period that finds Weimar take on a glow of sensual licentiousness, libidinousness both healthy and suspect. It's in Weimar that another exile also dwells: Charlotte von Lengefeld has been dispatched by her widowed mother to serve her godmother there, the idea being


that she will find her way to court and, once there, secure her marriage to a suitably wealthy and prominent man, thereby lifting her family out of financial straits. Older sister Carline (Hannah Herzsprung) is already married to a well-off husband, and even though she's miserable in the marriage (to the point that Charlotte teases her with a tall tale about a society woman who fakes her own death in order to escape with a more exciting lover) she takes satisfaction in knowing that she's done her part to rescue her family.

But there's more going on between the sisters. It seems they have made a sacred pact -- at the base of a waterfall, and by the name of the river spirit, which surely makes this a sacredit happens -- can only help him here; the film makes much... characteristically too much... of the first meeting between the men.) When Schiller gains a professorship, it means moving away and splitting up the arrangement, but the prospect of a reunion some distant day in Weimar beckons to all concerned.

"Beloved Sisters" feels like an especially sumptuous made-for-TV project that's been cut down from, say, six hours to its theatrical running time of three. It also feels like it should have been sheared a bit more -- to two hours max -- with more emphasis on clarity of action and plot. The film dwells on cute romantic trivia such as the three young lovers sending letters in code (with the girls' frantic mother, played by Claudia Messner in


to be a faculty meeting, for example, with the meeting promptly invaded by the sisters; or, later on, a fragile truce between the sisters being shattered right along with dishes from their impoverished mother's service) act to dispel any notion of serious artistry. This is a film that would have benefited from being less glossy and more tawdry, intent as it seems to be on melodrama. Its entertainment value drowns in a three-hour narrative muddle even as its historical value never rises to the level of the credible.

Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Assistant Arts Editor. He also reviews theater for WBUR. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, andKarofsky sees his locker has been vandalized, and later, that his Facebook wall is covered in hateful messages. In a haunting, vivid montage cut over Blaine singing Young and Giant's "Cough Syrup," we see the one-time bully himself dress in his best suit and prepare to hang himself in his closet. Devastating ... Thankfully, his father found him in time, and he survived. But still, it was stunning news for the New Directions to hear, especially Kurt who worried that it was partially his fault, as he had been blowing Karofsky off repeatedly since their meeting.

In a way, I'm actually not at all that surprised that the writers went there, because bullying and homophobia -- especially through Facebook and other social media -- is so prevalent and current


not as available as you're used to. In third world
countries, electricity goes off periodically, specially in places where there
are wars.

When I was young (and living in the middle east) I heard a joke where 3 men:
an American, an Arab, and an African were asked the question: what's your
opinion about electricity going off? The American says: does electricity go
off? The African says: what's electricity? The Arab says: what's an opinion?

I visited Iraq in 2000; practically everyone had an electricity generator at
home. I had to learn how to operate it and refill it with gas.

~~~
nochiel
"The African says: what's electricity?"

That should read "The Africa says, ' _What_ electricity?'"

We certainly know what electricity is; we've heard of it and understand its
usefulness; we even use it almost daily. However, as you aptly noted,for motorsport, and did not worry much about the risks when was a young man competing at the highest level in rally driving.“I reached a stage in life where I realized that I wanted to pay more attention to what I could put back into a world that had given me so much,” his book reads.Todt said during the press conference that he incidentally confronted serious injuries situations, where he was surrounded by the best doctors, and then he felt that [the doctors] were giving so much of themselves, and that he wanted to give something back.Todt was elected as the head of Ferrari’s Formula 1, which won 14 world titles, and now he is the President of the FIA, the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), where he


set a priority of addressing road safety as part of its agenda once he assumed the position.The 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden Wednesday, where around 1,700 delegates from 140 countries are attending to share successes and lessons from implementation of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.not a socially demanding position.

There are female locksmiths in several parts of the world. There is one in Russia, one in North Carolina, one in England, one in California, and one in Rhode Island. There are very few documented in history, and the ones who are have low profiles. One of the few and most highly-esteemed women who have made history as a locksmith is Billie Boyd. She is noted as the first female locksmith in the Corps. Also chosen to be an official lockmaster and the second female for such a position in the Corps is Bernadette LeBleu. Both women can attest to the hurdles of having to prove themselves in a male dominated field. Women lock pickers enjoy the challenge and attend the conventions and events,


The Croatian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has issued an Ordinance for the creation of an Intersectoral Coordination Mechanism for the Control of Antimicrobial Resistance (ISKRA). ISKRA applies state-of-the-art methods of development of surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use and promotion of rational usage of antimicrobials as agreed in the European Community.One of the tasks of ISKRA is to facilitate the rational usage of antimicrobials through national evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Multidisciplinary working groups have developed national clinical practice guidelines applying the AGREE methodology. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MHSW) has invited representatives from professional societies and from relevant institutions to participate in the national clinical guideline programme. The programme, started as part of the Matra project, has become an integral part ofThe US Justice Department said on Tuesday that it would pursue the extradition of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer, arrested in Canada in December on allegations that she participated in a conspiracy to defraud banks.

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou faces accusations in the United States that she misrepresented her company's links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran, despite sanctions.

The US statement came the day after a report that Canada's ambassador to the US said the Canadian government was told that Washington planned to proceed.

The ambassador, David MacNaughton, told The Globe and Mail on Monday that he had voiced Canadian resentment about the dispute that ended in Meng's arrest. China later detained two Canadians and imposed the death penalty on a third.

"We will continue


to pursue the extradition of defendant Ms Meng Wanzhou, and will meet all deadlines set by the US/Canada Extradition Treaty," Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for the US Department of Justice, said in a statement.

"We greatly appreciate Canada's continuing support of our mutual efforts to enforce the rule of law."

Meng is Huawei's chief financial officer and the daughter of its founder, Ren Zhengfei. Huawei has close ties to China's military and is considered one of the country's most successful international enterprises, operating in the high-tech sphere where China hopes to establish dominance.

Earlier on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying demanded that the US drop the extradition request.

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Chunying said Meng's case was out of the ordinary and Canada's extradition treaty with the US infringed on the "safety and legitimaterights and interest of Chinese citizens".

Hua's remarks came after more than 100 academics and former diplomats signed a letter calling on China to release the two detained Canadians.

The letter signed by academics and former diplomats said the arrests of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor would lead to "less dialogue and greater distrust, and undermine efforts to manage disagreements and identify common ground. Both China and the rest of the world will be worse off as a result".

More than 20 diplomats from seven countries and more than 100 scholars and academics from 19 countries signed.

Meng is living under house arrest in her Vancouver mansion while her case is under deliberation. Kovrig and Spavor are being held in Chinese jails and have yet to be


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Category:New South Wales places listed on the defunct Register of the National EstateThe Washingtonian. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Oxford American, Lucky Peach,The Daily Beast and Men’s Health, among others, and he has been selected four times for inclusion in the Best Food Writing anthologies.

He is the author of The Wild Vine,
a literary exploration of two entwined mysteries: an obscure grape that
rose to prominence, only to disappear, and its present-day evangelist, a
foul-mouthed transgendered multi-millionaire vintner on an obsessive
quest to restore the legend of an antebellum southern doctor.

Todd previously taught writing and literature at American University and Howard University. At Howard, he was also the editorial advisor to The Illtop Journal, Chris Rock’s humor magazine modeled after the Harvard Lampoon.

Can’t wait a week to talk to Todd? Follow him on Twitter for dining reports, tips, and


contract to Tokyo-based Fillmore Far East Inc group. Her 2-year contract will see the release of a Japanese debut Single in August 2010.

Acting career
In January 2008, she made her debut into the Malay entertainment scene by playing the lead role in the Malay tele-movie Bezanya Cinta.

Hannah was invited in October 2008 by film director Afdlin Shauki to play the lead female role as an undercover interpol agent in his My Spy.

Honors and charity work
At the same time, her 2009 I’ll Be Home For Christmas Christmas saw the largest gift collection in a day for the underprivileged children in local orphanages around the Klang Valley, totaling up to more than 650 gifts worth over RM15,000. For the concert, Hannah invited friends from the industry to perform and be partwith Dickie, and Katy and Sage were on her other side. I spotted Ellie in the stands as well, sitting with the beautiful people, but I did my best to ignore her as I walked up the bleachers.

I sat next to Heinous. He kept standing and pulling up his shirt to expose his nipple every time the goalie looked over. "Yeah, baby," he said. "Watch it. You're under my nipple power. Oh, yeah. Can't stop looking over, can you?"

At halftime, people wandered around to get sodas and flirt. Dickie and Sunny were having a tickle war. Heinous bragged about how he should get a varsity letter, since his nipple had scored our only goal. I watched the players from my old high school eat orange slices while being


helping me remember things, and for never forgetting my birthday. Dickie and Heinous, for letting me borrow their nicknames. Ellen Landers, for inspiring me to take the writer's path. Justin Jesty, for Japanese translation help and ongoing friendship.

Hundreds of students in schools I visited for giving me title advice (I like _Syzygy,_ too).

My family, for always supporting me. (No, I wasn't like James in high school. Really.) And my daughters, Addison and Cailin (who was born while I was finishing this) for waking me up early in the morning and reminding me of what's important.

Finally, I want to thank the faculty, students, and staff at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy — the school that changed my life.
**TODD MITCHELL** is the author of the middle-grade novel _The TraitorFollow Us

Daily Caller Reporter Dodges Photo Hazing

Back in July when The Daily Caller‘s Matthew Boyle was a budding reporter, he caught flack from his colleague Jeff Poor for using a TV appearance still as his Twitter profile picture. Poor said using a screen shot for a photo “seems douchey.”

Poor changed his own profile picture to a photo of Boyle in a fake tuxedo and vowed to leave it unchanged until Boyle swapped his own out for one less “douchey.”

Eventually both parties changed their photos and professional, uniform photos for all staff was mandated by The Daily Caller. But many of the writers do not use the new ones as Twitter profile pictures. They use a variety of pictures, including, ahem, the alleged “douchey” TV appearances.

Since then, two other


a regional ally against Iran.

Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, has been in political turmoil since a protest movement led by majority Shi'ite Muslims erupted in February 2011 during a tide of revolts against governments across the Arab world. Bahrain accuses Shi'ite power Iran of encouraging the unrest.

The sentences, originally handed down by a military court in June 2011 and upheld by a civilian court in September last year, range from five years in prison to life sentences.

"This verdict is final, there are no more appeals possible, it is the last stage of litigation," lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi told Reuters by telephone from Manama.

Twenty uprising leaders had been sentenced but only 13 filed appeals. The remaining seven men had been tried in absentia because they were outof the country or in hiding, Jishi said.

Bahrain's main opposition Al Wefaq condemned the decision. "These judgments confirmed the rulings issued before by the military court which were condemned by the whole world. I think it is accurate to call these rulings political persecution," Wefaq leader Sheikh Ali Salman told Reuters.

"It confirms that the Bahrain regime is refusing to take its chances to reform and seems to be deepening its own human rights crisis," said Brian Dooley, director of the Human Rights Defenders Program at U.S.-based group Human Rights First.

The men who received life sentences - 25 years in Bahrain - included rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and opposition leader Hassan Mushaimaa, who has advocated turning the kingdom of Bahrain into a republic.

Ibrahim Sharif, leader of the opposition Waad


party and the only Sunni among those convicted in the case, is serving a five-year sentence.

The hearing was attended by a number of foreign diplomats, Jishi said, highlighting fears that the outcome could have an impact on unrest in the island kingdom.

Several protesters gathered in front of the court on Monday in support of the uprising leaders, Wefaq said via Twitter.

ACCUSED SAY THEY WANTED ONLY DEMOCRATIC REFORM

The Sunni Muslim ruling Al Khalifa family, backed by troops from Saudi Arabia and police from the United Arab Emirates, put down the uprising with martial law. Thousands were arrested and military trials were conducted during the martial law period.

Washington has called on its ally to talk to the opposition, but unrest has continued. Police and demonstrators clash almost daily and eachside blames the other for the violence.

The main charges the convicted men faced were "forming a terrorist group with intent to overthrow the system of government", as well as collaboration with a foreign state.

The men deny all charges, saying they wanted only democratic reform in the Gulf Arab monarchy.

In September, a prosecution official said six of the men were guilty of having "intelligence contact" with Iran and its Lebanese Shi'ite militant ally Hezbollah.

The protest leaders are viewed by some Bahrainis as popular heroes whose release could reinvigorate the democracy movement, which demands parliamentary powers to legislate and form governments. Bahraini Shi'ites say they face discrimination, a charge the government denies.

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