colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainers

All Trainers in the Eterna Forest will face the player in tag battles, with two of them set to see the player at the same time. They can be fought normally if they are intentionally encountered individually.

Trainer Tips

Trainer Tips!
In forests and caves, there are many
items on the ground that cannot be
seen in the murky darkness.
Take the time to search carefully!

Trivia

Eterna Forest is known within the games as "the place where time stands still". As such, it is impossible to evolve Eevee into either of its time-based evolutions, Espeon and Umbreon. Similarly to Route 217, Eevee will only evolve into Leafeon here, due to the presence of the Moss Rock. Oddly enough, despite still retaining the inability to evolve Eeveetaste of the beverage for the consumer. In a commercial setting such as a restaurant or tavern, the beer is dispensed from a "remote" beer dispensing system.
To transport the beer from the cooler to the point of dispensing, the beer travels through a beer conduit, an insulated bundle of beer lines and coolant lines. The beer is typically propelled by gas pressure applied over the beer in the keg. The keg is said to "kick" as it empties, when the level of the liquid beer falls below the discharge outlet in the keg. When this occurs, a frothy mixture of propellant gas and residual beer are blown out through the beer lines or hoses. When this happens, it causes at best an erratic, unsatisfactory, gassy pour of the


As Hitler launched his invasion of Poland in 1939, he instructed his commanders “to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children of Polish derivation and language.” He assured his staff the world would raise little objection: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

That was a reference to the systematic destruction of the Armenian population by the Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915. World powers had offered little resistance to the slaughter as it occurred. Later, Turkey’s insistent denials made it the “forgotten genocide.”

Turkey, ostensibly an American ally, still refuses to confront its history. The U.S. government also has failed to give the annihilation of the Armenians its due. American administrations have bowed to Turkish pressure and failed to affirm consistently arace extermination is in progress.” The State Department, then preoccupied with World War I, responded with indifference. Ultimately my grandfather decided to appeal to the world’s conscience through a series of speeches.

Eventually a massive aid campaign helped resettle the scattered survivors. But the genocide had exacted an unfathomable toll on the Armenian people—and on my grandfather’s spirits. He returned to the U.S. determined to spend his days helping the survivors, sometimes appearing at Ellis Island as “Uncle Henry” to sponsor refugees who had no one to meet them. And he did something else. He taught his children and his grandchildren the history he had witnessed. The lesson he drew was clear: When principle succumbs to expediency, the inevitable result is tragedy.

That prophecy was realized when Hitler invaded Poland,


the watchful eye of Beijing—and the influx of foreign investment that the Macanese gambling industry took off, driving the economy to grow nearly sevenfold and thrusting the territory into the economic stratosphere. To be sure, a crackdown on officials’ conspicuous consumption—one of the main drivers of the casinos—dented it badly in 2015. Yet while the size of Hong Kong’s economy may have doubled over the past two decades, the economic transformation experienced by Macao since the handover is unique and uniquely linked to the city’s new administration as part of mainland China.

With Macao set to eclipse Qatar as the richest place on Earth per capita sometime next year, it makes sense that Beijing would want to replicate the city’s docile success in Hong Kong, where the edges ofpart that it lies in close contact against the body of the user in the area behind the vaginal opening. Body fluid is thus prevented from running backwards in the furrow between the buttocks of the user and leaking out of the article. Such backward leakage is especially troublesome when the user is lying down. In a corresponding manner, the front part of the raised portion should connect against the body shape of the user in the area in front of the vaginal opening.
In order to connect against the anatomy of the user, the raised portion should be highest at that part of the article which is intended to lie against the vaginal opening of the user. From the highest part, the height should gradually decrease in a


or amended in the future" and stated that the award of pension benefits was made pursuant to the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act. See 10 U.S.C. § 1408. James E. Dixon was awarded "57.5 percent of the disposable, retired or retainer pay" in the divorce proceeding.
At the present time, the debtor receives approximately $400.00 per month as her portion of the monthly benefits payable under her former husband's military pension. When the debtor filed a petition for relief under chapter 7 on October 2, 1997, she claimed her entire interest in the pension as exempt pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/12-1006. In response, the trustee objected that the debtor's interest in the pension of another person is not protected by the Illinois exemption statute. He asserts that thein a throwback homage to the late Saddam Hussein, "elected" by a staggering 96.9% of the votes. One of his first Presidential decrees? The immediate cancellation of El Bernameg. One can only presume that el-Sisi translates into "The Sissy" on account of his morbid fear of satire and comedy and Bassem Youseff's inglorious exit from the world of comedy has deeply troubling connotations for not just the freedom of expression, but a revealing glimpse into life under Egypt's new* regime (*new generalissimo, same junta).

Rather, what I believe deserves just as much attention and reflection is the arrest and eventual release of the Iranian youth behind the "Happy Tehran" video. It had innocuous beginnings. A few Iranian women first simply posted photos of themselves sans the mandatory veil. Then


liberties and theology which is unfortunately all-too-prevalent in large parts of the Muslim world, especially in the Mideast and North Africa. Declaring something "medieval" is usually synonymous with societal and political regression and backwardness. Yet in the Islamic experience, the Middle Ages actually represent the zenith of intellectual development and progress in all disciplines including mathematics, medicine, astronomy, as well as effective jurisprudence and governance.

Sadly, the advent of European colonialism largely throttled all meaningful intellectual developments. With regards to Islamic jurisprudence and governance, colonial authorities largely viewed progress in these fields as potential challenges to its rule. Likewise, foreign subjugation is rarely conducive for vigorous independent thought among the subjugated populations and has resulted in the persistence of "colonial mentalities" well after the various nations of the Muslimworld achieved independence from their colonial masters. Even in the midst of this intellectual decline, the advent of puritanical fundamentalism is an even more recent phenomenon. Indeed just a few generations ago, puritanical fundamentalism simply didn't exist even in places like Saudi Arabia. Now, most of the Middle East is ruled by a range of dictators who, through controlling all meaningful outlets of social, political, artistic, and personal expression, make Putin look like a Siberian teddy bear.

Institutionalized religion can be as restrictive of a force as it has the potential to be liberating one, and far too often state-sponsored religious institutions routinely utilize religious rhetoric to reinforce the former at the expense of the latter. Religious rhetoric can create supremely high stakes, and those who wield the right


outfits. All of these practices often result in forced confessions and recants, imprisonment, torture, and even execution--indeed for countless people living in the Muslim world, the stakes may literally be life or death.

In contrast to such flagrant state abuses, consider the following account of Caliph Abu Bakr:

It is said that once at the time of conquest, a singing girl was brought to al-Muhajir b. Abu Umayya who had been publicly singing satirical poems about Hadrat Abu Bakr. Muhajir got her hand amputated. When the Caliph heard this news, he was shocked and wrote a letter to Muhajir in the following words: " I have learnt that you laid hands on a woman who had hurled abuses on me, and, therefore, got her hand amputated. God has not soughtvengeance even in the case of polytheism, which is a great crime. He has not permitted mutilation even with regard to manifest infidelity. Try to be considerate and sympathetic in your attitude towards others in future. Never mutilate, because it is a grave offence. God purified Islam and the Muslims from rashness and excessive wrath. You are well aware of the fact that those enemies fell into the hands of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) who had been recklessly abusing him; who had turned him out of his home; and who fought against him, but he never permitted their mutilation.

Caliph Abu Bakr's visceral reactionis all the more remarkable as it took place in an age where rulers of empires were seen as divine and


any criticism of the ruler was viewed upon and routinely punished as state treason. In light of this historical context, it is clear that Islam heavily emphases government and personal accountability and robustly protects freedom of expression Islam. No wonder Abu Bakr and the other first four caliphs are still heralded as Caliph ar-Rashidun ("the rightly guided caliphs"), while contemporary rulers of far too many Muslim nations around the world continue to act as tinpot despots and dictators--and the first casualty of their tyranny is invariably freedom of expression.

Standing Up for Those who Cannot: A Religious and Moral Obligation

Principles of compassion, empathy, and unity within the ummah are some of the most fundamental tenets of Islam, as embodied by both the Qur'an and hadith. Two seminal hadiths ontyrant, he was it.

He was (at one point) one of the most powerful and highly respected men in Canada and the virtual Czar of hockey in North America who was eventually exposed as a duplicitous, destructive, and vampiric destroyer of both hockey’s honor and the careers of many of its players both great and small.

Alan Eagleson’s Entrance Into The NHL

‘The Eagle’ started his career in law. Graduating from the University of Toronto, Eagleson began befriending people and players with ties to the NHL. It was in 1967 that he decided to put together the NHLPA after the first one failed in 1959. With the help of Bob Pulford, a former NHL player, Eagleson became the first executive director of the NHLPA.

Eagleson promised (among other things) pension plans and


insurance payments to injured players. As you will later find out, the man said one thing and did the opposite, so long as it was in his favor. He was a conniving businessman with little-to-no regard for the players he represented.

International Tournaments

With all the bad that Eagleson brought with him, he didn’t leave the game of hockey without some good.

In 1972, he spearheaded what would become the greatest international tournament ever created. The Summit Series was the most prolific gathering of NHL and International talent assembled on one sheet of ice.

The Soviet National Hockey Team was something of an enigma. Nobody knew of their strenuous workout regiments, their time spent in military barracks, their rigorous practices 11 months out of the year.

The Canadians thought they’d wipe the SovietsHe was manager and motivator, travel agent and godfather, firebrand and peacemaker. The ’72 series made him a household name.”

Besides the creation of the Summit Series, Eagleson had his 15 seconds of fame during the final game – much to the chagrin of the Soviet military officials.

Atrocious calls were keeping the Canadians in the penalty box and the Soviets on the scoresheet. Alan Eagleson began to raise hell and was being restrained by Soviet officials until the Canadian players stepped in and pulled him away. He was escorted to the Canadian bench where he stayed for the remainder of the game.

Following the highly popular Summit Series, Eagleson and his staff decided to make another international event entitled the Canada Cup – which Canada won four out of the


five times it was held. The biggest game came in the 1987 Canada Cup.

With the game tied 5-5, head coach Mike Keenan sent out Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky, and Dale Hawerchuk with minutes to spare. As the time was ticking down, Lemieux was fed a pass streaking into the zone by Gretzky and netted the series-clinching goal with 1:26 to play.

Eagleson/Orr Saga

Alan Eagleson changed the game of hockey in more ways than one. His most impactful move was becoming the first ever NHL agent. Eagleson didn’t dilly dally with scrubs. He went for the big guns. His first client: Bobby Orr.

Bobby Orr (THW Archives)

Orr signed the first million dollar contract of any NHL player in the history of the game. Revered across North America, Orr spent most ofhis career with Boston. But in his last season with the club, a vicious contract dispute ensued between Eagleson and the Bruins. While Eagleson was telling the media what the Bruins were offering ($295 thousand dollars + 18.5% share of the Boston Bruins), he was telling Orr something completely different.

According to Jake Newman, Eagleson told Bobby Orr that ‘Boston doesn’t want you’. So Bobby Orr went ahead and signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, playing in 26 total games over the next three years. He tried to make a comeback in the 1978-79 season, but only played in six games for the club before retiring for good.

The contract fiasco between Boston and Eagleson would debilitate Orr financially over the next few years. By 1980, he was essentially


bankrupt. Eagleson was the first person to chastise him for spending more than he earned and living life ignoring his financial advice. The 18.5% stock in Boston would’ve served him just fine in the late 70s and more so today.

Needless to say, Orr is still not a fan of Eagleson. But Alan didn’t stop there.

Russ Conway was an editor for The Eagle-Tribune in Massachusetts and began writing in-depth articles about the inner workings of Alan Eagleson which in 1995 he compiled into a book called “Game Misconduct: Alan Eagleson and the Corruption of Hockey”. These pieces led to an investigation in the United States and Canada.

From the five Canada Cup tournaments Eagleson ran, for instance, expenses consumed 70% of the receipts and the players received just eleven centsthe NHLPA, Eagleson was not allowed to practice law any long and his Order Of Canada – the 2nd highest honor bestowed on any Canadian citizen – was stripped from him.

To put the cherry on top, Hall of Famer Brad Park (along with 18 other HOFers) released a statement saying they would resign from the Hall of Fame if Alan Eagleson remained in it. Knowing he would eventually get kicked out of the Hall of Fame, Eagleson resigned himself, further tarnishing his image.

Alan Eagleson was the worst person hockey history has ever seen. Held in such high regard in the early parts of his career, Eagleson was looked at as a savior to the players, the NHL, and international hockey only to turn his back on them and


After leaving Georgia John moved to Nashville, TN where he quickly became a must-see show in the bar scene before taking his show on the road. Averaging more than 200 dates a year, John Rush is making a name for himself in the college campus and club circuit. With a set list that covers more than 600 songs and over 150 different groups, John Rush plays Original and/or Cover depending upon what the audience requests. John has been called a ' Human iPod ' because he can play more than 55 hours of music upon request! John's powerfully dynamic voice makes you feel he's lived every song he sings and John's guitar style is a cross between Stevie Ray Vaughan and Mark Knopfler. John has released 3 CDsto date. His critically acclaimed debut CD, They Don't Know My Name, features two tracks from the soundtrack to the film Autumn and Everything After. John's second CD, Songs From The Road, is a compilation of live recordings. John's third and most recent CD, Always Touring, shows John's talents as a songwriter while highlighting his skills a guitarist and has been called 'A Must Buy CD' and 'A Great Find' by critics. John says, 'I write some songs with some real depth to them, but my goal as a performer is to help people have a good time. If I'm lucky maybe I can make them think a little during the process.' An Interview with John Rush 1. Name? John Rush 2. Birth Day? Sign? July 3rd -


Alabama, John first learned to play guitar at the age of twelve. After playing in jazz and rock bands through high school John went to Athens, Georgia on a classical guitar scholarship to the University of Georgia. After leaving Georgia John moved to Nashville, TN where he quickly became a must-see show in the bar scene before taking his show on the road. Averaging more than 200 dates a year, John Rush is making a name for himself in the college campus and club circuit. With a set list that covers more than 600 songs and over 150 different groups, John Rush plays Original and/or Cover depending upon what the audience requests. John has been called a ' Human iPod ' because he can play more than 55hours of music upon request! John's powerfully dynamic voice makes you feel he's lived every song he sings and John's guitar style is a cross between Stevie Ray Vaughan and Mark Knopfler. John has released 3 CDs to date. His critically acclaimed debut CD, They Don't Know My Name, features two tracks from the soundtrack to the film Autumn and Everything After. John's second CD, Songs From The Road, is a compilation of live recordings. John's third and most recent CD, Always Touring, shows John's talents as a songwriter while highlighting his skills a guitarist and has been called 'A Must Buy CD' and 'A Great Find' by critics. John says, 'I write some songs with some real depth to them, but my goal as a performer is


offer a variety of specific information about the location of highways, roads, railroads, cities, waterways, township and county lines, sections and lakes. The maps also delineate federal and state lands as well as state hunting units and Walk-In Areas.The man initially refused to come out of his home after behaving erratically, but surrendered without injuring anyone or himself.

TPD was responded to the welfare call around 8 a.m. to reports of a man acting erratically near North Pantano road. TPD has confirmed that the man may have been armed while on the roof before he ran into his house.

After arriving on scene, Tucson Police shut down North Pantano Road from 5th through 3rd street from 8 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

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Herediano adds to offense

HEREDIA, Costa Rica - Already atop the Costa Rican Apertura standings and leading its group in the CONCACAF Champions League, Herediano is trying to bolster to its offense.

The club announced Monday that it had acquired Tulio Etchemaite, the second Argentine forward added to its roster in a week.

The 25-year-old Etchemaite began his career at River Plate in 2007, moving to Socio Aguila in Mexico and CD Moron in Argentina before playing last at Aragua FC in Venezuela.

He joins 36-year-old Pais, who was signed on a free transfer on September 10. Herediano is Pais' fourth Costa Rican club in five years, having played for Perez Zeledon, Cartagines and most recently San Carlos.

He scored six goals in 23 games last season for San Carlos, a year afterDecember 1986, making fun of obsessive fans on the highest profile comedy show in America. The same month, Newsweek ran a less than flattering cover story on Star Trek fandom.

An engineering group…

There is some debate over whether Barclay was consciously intended to evoke Star Trek fandom. As Lincoln Geraghty notes in The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture:

He consequently articulates many of the contradictions by which Star Trek fans have come to be understood. Intelligent and creative, yet socially awkward and emotionally erratic, Barclay initially compensates for his supposed inadequacies through a fantasy world in which he imaginatively reshapes existing crew members to boost his self-esteem. He is consequently reprimanded for using their images for his own ends (precisely the activity Jenkins terms as “poaching,”


There are even a small number of nations (such as some Islamic nations in the Middle East) where simply placing bets may be illegal. However, even here a fair number of websites exist that are happy to take bets from players.

Is Sports Betting Available on Mobile Devices?

Just as in the rest of the gaming industry, the trend towards increased use of mobile phones and tablets is quickly taking place among sports bettors as well. In fact, this segment of the industry was one of the first to start offering mobile betting many years ago, and players frequently place their wagers while on the go, sometimes even while attending the very events they plan to bet on.

Is My Favorite Sport Available for Wagering?

Once again, the answer her is yes,Medical Solutions USA, Hoffman Estates, IL). The program accepts as inputs four DICOM images: anterior and ipsilateral planar lymphoscintigrams, and posterior/anterior and ipsilateral CT topograms. Assuming that the central pixel of the image corresponds to the isocenter of the gantry, the distance from the central pixel to the SLN in both the anterior and lateral images can be used to laterally magnify or minify the scintigrams to match the geometries of the topograms and scintigrams for a particular node location. The operator manually marks a desired feature such as an SLN on each of the two orthogonal lymphoscintigrams. The location of the SLN relative to the isocenter in the lateral lymphoscintigram is then used to apply the appropriate lateral magnification factor to the anterior lymphoscintigram. This is because


the degree of distortion of objects in the posterior/anterior topogram is dependent upon the coronal plane in which the object lies. The depth of the SLN in the lateral lymphoscintigram gives the distance of the coronal plane from the isocenter and the appropriate amount of distortion correction can then be applied. A similar process is used to correct the lateral lymphoscintigram. The location of the node in the anterior lymphoscintigram provides the offset of the sagittal plane containing the node relative to the gantry isocenter.

After the magnification factor has been applied, the program generates two new image series: a series of laterally stretched lymphoscintigrams and a series of CT topograms with NM modality tags. In cases where several nodes are visible and widely scattered, the scintigram can beTeens who volunteered reduced their heart disease risk, study says

People who volunteer are often known to say they get more out of the experience than those who are being helped. A study in Canada concurs that that may be true: Researchers say that high school students who volunteered improved their own health.

The researchers recruited and assessed 106 10th graders from western Canada. Half were assigned to volunteer weekly with elementary school children for two months. At the end of that time, the high school students showed significantly lower markers for cardiovascular disease risk, including body mass index and cholesterol levels when compared with students in a control group.

An interesting effect the researchers reported was that the teenagers who increased the most in empathy and altruistic behaviors, and who


When I hear the phrase “on the edge,” the irresistible image is the proverbial lemmings marching resolutely to the cliff.

For the first time in history, humans are now poised to destroy the prospects for decent existence, and much of life. The rate of species destruction today is at about the level of 65 million years ago, when a major catastrophe, probably a huge asteroid, ended the age of the dinosaurs, opening the way for mammals to proliferate. The difference is that today we are the asteroid, and the way will very likely be opened to beetles and bacteria when we have done our work.

Geologists break up the history of the planet into eras of relative stability. The Pleistocene, lasting several million years, was following by the Holocene aboutdisaster. In the lead are the most oppressed segments of the global population, those considered to be the most backward and primitive: the indigenous societies of the world, from First Nations in Canada, to aboriginals in Australia, to tribal people in India, and many others. In countries with influential indigenous populations, like Bolivia and Ecuador, there is by now legislative recognition of rights of nature. The government of Ecuador actually proposed to leave their supplies of oil in the ground, where they should be, if the rich countries would provide them development aid amounting to a small fraction of what they would sacrifice by not exploiting their oil resources. The rich countries refused.

While indigenous people are trying to avert the disaster, in sharp contrast, the race toward the


Bradford will appeal against the Football Association's decision to boot them out of the FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player in their second-round tie against Brentford last Friday.

The Bantams did not receive written permission for Curtis Good, on loan from Newcastle, to play in the competition by the 12pm deadline on the day of the fixture, which ended 1-1 at Valley Parade. The FA announced they had expelled City from the competition earlier on Friday and gave them until 5pm to launch an appeal.

Bradford announced in a statement: "Bradford City Football Club can confirm that they will be appealing the FA's decision to expel the club from this season's FA Cup competition. This process will take place throughout the forthcoming week. The club will report any furtherinformation to its supporters when applicable."

Should the appeal prove unsuccessful, Brentford will progress to the third round to play Bury or Southend. Bradford admitted the error was "of an administrative technical nature" and have apologised to their fans.

An earlier statement read: "The nature of the charge is the playing of one of our loan players deemed ineligible due to the late submission for permission for him to play. Bradford City Football Club is very sorry to have to report such a matter and apologises to our fans.

"The error was of an administrative technical nature and not one to intentionally break competition rules.

"We presented a case of mitigation to the FA on Thursday, December 6, however the FA panel chose to enforce the full powers of its jurisdiction and


have removed the club from the FA Cup competition."

Brentford chief executive Mark Devlin admitted he had sympathy with Bradford and would have preferred to have advanced in the competition on the pitch.

He told Sky Sports News: "It is not a satisfactory way to progress, we would much rather prefer to progress by winning a match but the FA have made their decision and that's it really."

Pending their appeal, Bradford are the only side left in three domestic cup competitions and face Barclays Premier League giants Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup on Tuesday.Dortmund down Bayern after Bundesliga ref drama

19 November 2011 07:46

Borussia Dortmund blew the German league title race wide open with a 1-0 win at leaders Bayern Munich, but the attempted suicide of a Bundesliga referee over-shadowed Saturday's matches.

German league referee Babak Rafati, 41, was discovered in the bathtub of his hotel room in Cologne by his assistant referees early on Saturday afternoon having tried to commit suicide by cutting open his veins.

Theo Zwanziger, president of the German Football Federation (DFB), confirmed Rafati's condition is stable and he is out of danger while praising the three assistant referees whose actions had undoubtedly saved their colleague's life.

"It is an extraordinary situation, when one of our top referees makes a suicide attempt," said Zwanziger.

"I have to say, the three assistant referees


saved Babak's life."

Rafati is now being treated in an intensive care unit, two years after Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke took his life two years ago after battling with depression for several years.

The German league match Rafati should have officiated between Cologne and Mainz was called off 40 minutes before kick-off and will be replayed.

On Saturday night, defending champions Dortmund cut Bayern's lead at the top of the Bundesliga to just two points when Germany star Mario Goetze scored the winner at Munich's Allianz Arena in a tense game.

The win is a huge confidence boost for Dortmund who take on Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Dortmund claim second only by virtue of goal difference after Borussia Moenchengladbach Marco Reus scored a hat-trick in the5-0 hammering of Werder Bremen to join Borussia on 26 points with Bayern on 28.

Like Goetze, Reus is one of Germany's rising stars and his three goals left him with seven in his last three league games and 10 from 13 Bundesliga matches this season.

Premier League side Manchester City and Bayern are just two of the teams interested in signing the rising star.

Venezuela midfielder Juan Arango and Patrick Herrmann added the other two goals as Bremen, who drop to fifth in the table, were well beaten.

Schalke moved up to fourth after Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, twice, Germany Under-21 captain Lewis Holtby and Raul scored in the 4-0 win over Nuremberg.

The Royal Blues were without both Peru forward Jefferson Farfan and Germany defender Benedikt Hoewedes, who both picked up


DAC Keynote: Gregg Lowe

Gregg Lowe of Freescale gave the first of the keynotes at DAC 2013. He says that the Internet of Things will create several challenges such as power efficiency that have to be overcome...

On the first day of the Design Automation Conference 2013, the keynotes were given by people from Texas. Gregg Lowe followed a vision talk by Wally Rhines, who spent the first half of his career in Texas as well. Wally talked about the impact of the Internet of Things on both the semiconductor and EDA industries.

Gregg started off by welcoming everyone to Austin before diving into the topic of the Internet of Things (IoT). Other terms that it goes by include connected intelligence, ubiquitous computing, machine-to-machine communications. He compared these to the movieIoT because of their wide scope of products and that they want to work together with their customers and EDA companies to address some of these issues.

Gregg Lowe is President and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor. He joined Freescale from Texas Instruments, where he was Senior Vice President for analog. Gregg has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. He later received the university's Career Achievement Award to recognize his accomplishments in the community and within the semiconductor industry. He graduated from the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University. Gregg serves on the Board of Trustees for the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

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doubt, Monday’s protests—often in open defiance of Russian authorities, who in many cities refused to give permits to hold them—were the most geographically widespread in all of Russian history: eight people, including five minors, were detained in the sleepy southern resort town of Yeysk (population 88,000), and nine people were detained five thousand miles across the country, in Blagoveshchensk, on the border with China. In all, more than 1,700 people were thrown in jail—nearly half of them in Moscow—the single largest wave of arrests in many decades. In Moscow, some of the detainees had to spend the night on benches in a police courtyard because there was no room for them inside the precinct. On the other hand, this means that enough people took to the streets onRussia declared itself a sovereign state. No one knew what this meant: Russia was the largest and most powerful constituent republic of the USSR and the seat of imperial power, so it was unclear how it could secede from the empire. But exactly one year later, on June 12, 1991, Russians elected Boris Yeltsin, a Communist Party functionary gone rogue, to be their president. A couple of months after that, the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia became, indeed, a sovereign state, and June 12 became its new national holiday. Satarov, meanwhile, became one of Yeltsin’s closest advisers.

There were months, perhaps even a couple of years, of great optimism. The wisdom to which Satarov, among others, subscribed was that people shaped by the Soviet regime—those conditioned to live in fear—would


He also dethroned the oligarchs and installed his own clan, instituting the regime of a mafia state. After a dozen years of this, a critical number of Russians seemed to grow fed up with the daily experience of corruption and the routine mockery of the remaining rituals of democracy. In December 2011, following rigged parliamentary elections, the country erupted in protest. Hundreds of thousands came out in nearly a hundred cities across the country. People of all ages and socioeconomic classes took part in the demonstrations, but the public face of those protests were white-collar workers in their twenties. Perhaps they were the generation Russia had been waiting for.

In response, the government cracked down. As soon as Putin was inaugurated for his third term as president, he introducedaccusing them of being “foreign agents.” All but a couple of tiny independent media outlets have been forced to shut down. And the organizers and leaders of the 2011-2012 protests are either in exile (like former chess champion Garry Kasparov), in jail (like radical organizer Sergei Udaltsov), or dead (like politician Boris Nemtsov).

The one exception is Alexei Navalny, a forty-one-year-old lawyer who has turned a blog about government corruption into a popular movement. Like other visible anti-Putin activists, Navalny has been pressured to leave the country and has repeatedly been brought to trial on trumped-up charges. In 2013 a court sentenced him to four and a half years in a prison colony for supposed fraud, and thousands of people took to the streets in Moscow; Navalny was released


the next day, his sentence suspended. The state has jailed his brother, Oleg Navalny—taking him hostage—but Alexei Navalny has continued to investigate powerful Russians.

This is what ignited the recent protests. On March 2, Navalny released his most recent and explosive report, exposing in damning detail prime minister Dmitry Medvedev’s expansive estates and extravagant sneaker collection. The video version of the report has now been viewed more than 22 million times. In late March, Navalny was able to bring thousands of people into the streets in anti-corruption protests. And then he called for even larger protests on the June 12 anniversary.

Navalny has been attacked physically for his activism. Last month, he lost most of the vision in one eye after an assailant threw acid in his face. This occurredsoon after Navalny announced an audacious plan to challenge Putin in the 2018 presidential election.

Still, Navalny seems to have found the key both to staying alive and out of prison and to getting people into the streets. Indeed, it is his ability to mobilize protesters that has kept him out of prison: the regime fears mass protest. Navalny’s single-minded focus on corruption allows him to avoid more controversial issues such as the war in Ukraine, and to appeal to a maximum number of Russians directly: corruption affects everyone, all the time. It was Navalny who called for the protests on June 12. In Moscow, he got a boost from the city administration, which is pursuing a giant urban-renewal project that will cost tens of thousands of Muscovites their


homes. This, too, is corruption: Muscovites are convinced that the mayor and his circle will personally benefit from turning city lands over to developers.

The people who came out this week still represent only a tiny fraction of the population; in the absence of independent media and with civil society in shambles, they are unlikely to turn themselves into a durable political movement. Many of those who joined the protests five years ago are no longer in the streets. Some of them have surely been scared away by the threat of arrest. Others have simply given up. Still others are conformists who will always join a crowd—it’s just that the giant crowds five years ago, when as many as 100,000 people took to the streets in Moscow at once,of an indictment.

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The first count of the indictment charged that the appellant, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, procured Georgios Modestou Kostatos to commit perjury in a hearing conducted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service on February 14, 1952.  The second count charges that the defendant procured Eleftherios Sitaras, of Baltimore, Maryland, to commit perjury in a hearing conducted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service on June 16, 1952.  Both hearings were in Baltimore, Maryland, and were held in connection with a deportation proceeding against Kostatos, the perjurer named in the first count.

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On October 12, 1951, Georgios Modestou Kostatos, a native of Greece and a Greek citizen, arrived at the Port of Baltimore as a crewman on the S. S. Santa Irene.  When the ship


left Baltimore the next day, Kostatos was not aboard and, ten days later, on October 23, 1951, he was arrested on a warrant charging that 'at the time of entry, he was an immigrant not in possession of a valid immigration visa'.  Kostatos appeared at a deportation hearing on February 14, 1952, to show cause why he should not be deported.  The defendant entered a formal appearance in the case as counsel for Kostatos, and the defense against deportation was that Kostatos was an American citizen and not an immigrant.  John V. Carney, a Deportation Examiner, was the presiding officer and administered the oath to the witness Kostatos.

8
When questioned by the defendant, as his counsel, Kostatos claimed that his real name was John George Sitarasand that he was the son of Georgios and Maria Spanos Sitaras; that he was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1919; that he was baptized in Philadelphia in 1920; that when he was four or five years old, his parents sent him to Greece because he was sick, and that he grew up in Greece, reared by his grandfather there.  In explaining his reason for using the name 'Kostatos' as a crewman, he stated that he had to show a military discharge to get employment on the ship.  He asserted that he had had no military service and that he used the papers of a friend named Kostatos.  Following his testimony, the hearing was adjourned.

9
The hearings were resumed in Philadelphia on April 24, 1952, before


a different Deportation Examiner, the purpose of that hearing being the taking of depositions of certain people who resided in Pennsylvania and who appeared in Philadelphia as witnesses for Kostatos.

10
On June 16, 1952, a third hearing was held in Baltimore, at which the same John V. Carney presided and administered the oaths, his formal title this time being that of 'Hearing Officer'.  The defendant called as a witness Eleftherios Sitaras, also known as Louis Sitaras.1  This witness testified that he was an American citizen but that he was born in Greece, where he lived until he was eleven years old.  He said that, while in Greece, he attended school with Kostatos and he gave testimony to bolster his identification of Kostatos as John Sitaras.

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The indictmenthere was returned on August 21, 1956.  Previously, the defendant and five others, including Kostatos and Sitaras (of Pennsylvania), were indicted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and charged in two counts with conspiring to make false, fictitious and fraudulent statements to officers of the INS, and with conspiring to defraud the United States and the INS for the purpose of preventing the deportation of Georgios Kostatos.

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Another indictment against the defendant in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charged him with subornation of perjury in connection with testimony of witnesses, including Louis Sitaras (of Pennsylvania), at the Philadelphia hearing.  The defendant, after the trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Epnnsylvania, was convicted upon his plea of nolo contendere on the first


count of the conspiracy indictment, sentenced to pay a fine and to imprisonment for two months.  On motion of the United States Attorney, the second count of the conspiracy indictment and the indictment charging subornation of perjury were dismissed.

13
At the trial of the defendant in the Maryland District Court, Kostatos repudiated his former statements and admitted his identity, testifying that he was born in Greece and that the defendant had told him to claim to be John George Sitaras.  The evidence disclosed that John George Sitaras, an American citizen, had been dead for several years, a fact known to the defendant.

14
One of the questions for determination here arises because of the lower court's refusal to dismiss the Maryland indictment, the defendant urging that a trial onthe Maryland indictment would place defendant Petite in double jeopardy because of the prior proceedings in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  Chief Judge Thomsen, of the District Court of Maryland, rendered his well-considered and able decision, United States, v. Petite, 147 F.Supp. 791, 794, holding that 'No double jeopardy has been shown'.  We approve the decision as reported.

15
In asserting that the District Court erred in denying the claim of double jeopardy, counsel for the defendant point to several decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States involving double jeopardy, including Pereira v. United States, 1954, 347 U.S. 1, 74 S.Ct. 358, 98 L.Ed. 435; United States v. Bayer, 1947, 331 U.S. 532,


the immigration laws at some length.  The Immigration Act of 1917 was a comprehensive statute which revised and codified all previous laws respecting the immigration, exclusion and deportation of aliens.  The Secretary of Labor, aided by the Commissioner General of Immigration,3 administered the Act, and the latter, under the direction of the former, was vested with broad powers in the formulation of rules and regulations.  Section 234 declared 'That the Commissioner General of Immigration shall perform all his duties under the direction of the Secretary of Labor.  Under such direction he shall have charge of the administration of all laws relating to the immigration of aliens into the United States, and shall have the control, direction, and supervision of all officers, clerks, and employeesNot only did Kostatos and Eleftherios Sitaras themselves admit their perjury, but the manifest of the S. S. Santa Irene was convincing evidence that Kostatos was a Greek seaman and not an American.  In addition, the Government fully established by the testimony of one Mike Sitaras, a witness who had refused to join the scheme and who did not testify at any of the hearings, that the real John George Sitaras, the man whose identity Kostatos assumed, had been dead for almost thirty years.  As to the procurement of the perjury, the testimony of Kostatos was, of itself, sufficient to convict.  In addition, it was bolstered and corroborated by the witness, Mike Sitaras, who testified that he was requested by the defendant to join in


defense theory and argument that neither the deportation hearing of February 14, 1952, nor June 16, 1952, was a proper 'judicial proceeding' and that the oath was not taken before a competent tribunal in a case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered.  Having reached a decision contrary to this theory, these alleged errors need no further discussion.

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The defendant charges other errors in the admission and exclusion of evidence which were noted in his brief but not emphasized in oral argument.  However, they have been reviewed and considered and, perceiving no prejudicial error, we deem it unnecessary to burden this already lengthy opinion with additional comments.

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For the reasons stated herein, the conviction of the defendant on two counts ofof himself in front of the poster at a movie theater as well obtain written statements from two living witnesses that he was indeed there. His consecutive best is seven screenings in one day; to avoid boredom, Ruppel tried to pick out little stuff in the background of scenes.

"So there's one particular scene in the movie where in the background there's a calendar. And it says June of 1995. And then later on in that particular day, there's a full moon. So at the end, I just Googled when there was a full moon in June of 1995. And it came out to be Tuesday, June 13th of 1995," he added.

The first-female led movie in the MCU, Captain Marvel surpassed $400 million at the North American box office


Corks are used as stoppers for a variety of bottles and containers. The corks are generally inserted into the opening of the neck of the bottle until the cork is flush with the top of the opening of the bottle.
Corkscrews have long been used to remove cork stoppers. In its simplest form, a corkscrew generally includes a spiral-shaped stainless steel element having a point at one end and a handle at the other end. The operator inserts the pointed end of the corkscrew into the cork and rotates the handle while applying force until the spiral-shaped element of the corkscrew has completely penetrated the cork. The operator then pulls upwardly on the handle while holding the bottle down to remove the cork.
The popularity of wine has spawned variationsof the above described, basic corkscrew. One such variation, popularly known as the "Ah So" (TM), substitutes two thin, parallel flattened prongs for the basic spiral-shaped element. The pointed ends of the metallic prongs are positioned between the inside neck of the bottle and the cork and the "Ah So" is gently rocked back and forth with downwardly applied pressure until the two prongs have moved downwardly between the sides of the bottle and the cork. The user then twists the handle, while pulling upwardly, and the cork is thereby removed between the two prongs.
Other prior art corkscrews include pressurized devices designed to remove the corks with air or gas pressure, and machine-based, lever driven corkscrews.
Improper storage of wine bottles may cause the corks to become dry and


According to Radio New Zealand , they are annoyed with Hawaiian Airlines because they were unable to choose their own seats on the flight from Hawaii to Pago Pago, with the airline citing a rise in average passenger weight and a need to distribute the load evenly around the aircraft on that route. One of the complainants, Avamua Dave Haleck, says the new rule is discriminatory and an injustice, because it only applies to flights between Honolulu and the American Samoan capital.disagreed with his political agenda. He was an elitist, judging everyone to the right of him as little more than an ignorant rube who don’t know any better. His movies come across more like propaganda than art. He had an agenda, and he was never hesitant to throw money and vial words to achieve it. And I really grew tired of his—and other Hollywood elites—diatribes against us from behind every glitzy awards podium, reminding us idiots of all the evils of the world caused by, well, us.

Recently, sexual harassment accusations against Weinstein flew across cyberspace, gaining steam and picking up momentum—a snowball evolving into an avalanche. Only God knows how many more women might come forward. The liberal media were slow to cover the charges, but the conservative


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Sisters aren't visiting kin

Largo's ties with Tosayamada, Japan, have weakened. Would a sister city in Mexico make more sense?

By SHANNON TAN
Published November 22, 2004

LARGO - It's lunchtime at Largo High School - time for aspecial meeting of the Japanese Friendship Club.

Thirty-eight students crowd into a classroom, facing a brightly-colored batik flag depicting a fierce samurai. Largo Lions Club members George Feaster and Anne Scofield talk about their recent trip to Tosayamada, Japan for the 35th anniversary of the sister-city agreement with Largo and Tosayamada's 50th anniversary.

They show photographs, and present principal Jeffrey Haynes with a package of Japanese books and a too-small blue Japanese robe. They pass around crunchy sweet potato fries for the students to sample.

The sister-city agreement started 35 years ago, Feaster tells the students, when two Lions Club district governors met at a meeting. They decided that the Largo club would be affiliated with its counterpart in Tosayamada. That agreement was extended to the city.

"It's quite a deal," said


Feaster, who's been to Tosayamada six times.

Feaster and Scofield renewed the sister-city agreement this summer in a formal ceremony before 300 Japanese officials at the new Kochi University of Technology.

But no Largo officials were present. Travel expenses for the trip, which takes place every 10 years, were cut from this year's budget.

In 1994, it cost $4,223 for Commissioners Harriet Crozier and Jean Halvorsen to travel to Tosayamada for the 25th anniversary of the sister city relationship.

In the past, City Manager Steve Stanton said Largo residents have criticized the city for budgeting money for travel expenses to Japan, questioning how much benefit taxpayers derive from the exchange.

The city used to budget money for the program every year. But while other sister-city programs draw overseas tourists, create business opportunities andspur economic development, Largo's benefits are largely those of friendship and cultural exchange.

"For us to send them oranges, and them to send us knives, we ran into all sorts of problems - quotas, taxes, import fees," said Feaster. Instead, he said, they're "importing friendship."

Feaster says that Tosayamada residents have traveled here to visit and play golf. One of his friends in Japan even named a coffee shop the "Largo Cafe," featuring mementos from Largo. A Tosayamada doctor was so impressed by Sun Coast Hospital he replicated it in his own city and sent Feaster a plane ticket to attend the hospital's dedication ceremony.

But Stanton wonders if it would make more sense to establish relationships with countries with stronger ties to immigrant-rich Florida, such as Mexico, or places involved


in conflict with the United States.

"I think the question all cities are asking is, "Is it time to broaden these cultural exchanges to cities other than Japan?"' Stanton said.

Sister city affiliations between the United States and other countries started after World War II, becoming a national initiative when President Dwight Eisenhower proposed a "People-to-People" program in 1956.

By involving groups in citizen diplomacy, Eisenhower hoped to reduce the chance of future world conflicts.

Florida is the second most active sister city participant behind California. Fifty Florida municipalities have 134 sister cities in 49 countries throughout the world. Participating communities pay annual membership dues ranging from $135 to $1,730, depending on population.

Programs such as the one in Chicago, which maintains some 22 sister cities, a director and several staff members, havetaken off. Cities search for sister cities on the Web site, www.sister-cities.org: Cortazar, Mexico, for example, is looking for a U.S. sister.

Largo used to be more active in the program, paying about $12,000 to accommodate Tosayamada officials during its 30-year sister-city relationship celebration. A Tosayamada drum troupe even forked out $47,000 to ship a two-ton drum from Japan to Largo for a 1989 festival.

Tosayamada officials plan on attending Largo's centennial celebrations in June. Teachers there have asked Scofield if they can send their children here to practice English. Residents could visit Largo, a city with which they're familiar, instead of going to Disney World, Scofield said.

"It's an opportunity for our town - which is the city of progress - to have a more global feeling and be connected


to other parts of the world, not just Pinellas County," she said.

Perhaps the biggest benefit for Largo has been educational.

Several Largo High students and teacher Deborah Pettingill have traveled to Tosayamada, raising money for their own travel expenses. They frequently exchange e-mails and gifts, and are trying to learn Japanese.

"It really broadens their horizons," said Pettingill, who's also hosted students from Tosayamada. "They really come back with a different view of the world. They learn how to survive not knowing the language, learn to communicate in ways other than talking."

A Largo High graduate who is studying Japanese in college and plans to teach English in Japan helped found the Japanese Friendship Club.

Only four students were members when the club first started, Pettingill said. "Now it's just gangbusters."friend who faces embezzlement charges, Park said last week she would be willing to step down in the face of weekly mass protests that have seen millions take to the streets of Seoul and other cities.

But the opposition says Park’s offer, which put the manner and timing of her resignation in the hands of parliament, is an effort to buy time and avoid impeachment.

If passed, the motion would go to the Constitutional Court for approval – a process that could take up to six months.

The ruling party has called on Park to stand down voluntarily in April, allowing a presidential election to be held in June – six months ahead of schedule.

Party officials have given her a week to accept the timeline or face impeachment.

The scandal engulfing Park’s


Humanity in all its unoriginal glory is laid out in the fascinating work of Hans Eijkebloom

Text Ananda Pellerin

The unexceptional is what fascinates Dutch photographer Hans Eijkebloom. Over the past forty years he has taken thousands of photos of people on the street, his camera slung around his neck and shutter hidden in his pocket. Before this, for an early series, he asked women to describe their ideal man, and then fashioned himself in self-portraits to fit the descriptions. In another series, he appeared in the background of ten newspaper stories across ten days, whether at accident scenes or other press-worthy events. Since the 1970s he has taken the lens off himself and focused it instead on other people, and in so doing has created nothing short of ananthropological record of contemporary life, culminating in his current project, People of the Twenty-first Century. Using repetition to show difference, he has snapped hundreds of photos a month from 1992 to 2013, now amassed in the newly published volume. The title is a reference to the great series of portraits published by August Sander in the early 1920s, People of the Twentieth-Century, which shows various individuals at their work or in domestic situations. Eijkelboom says, “It was the decision of the publishers to reference that beautiful work. At first I thought it was pretentious.” But now, he says, he believes more in the title, and his snaps of ordinary people, taken in high-traffic shopping areas, offer an insight into how identity has been fashioned over the past twenty


in the minds of people around you on the basis of very small things they know about you, and then, from that detail, they create a whole story. After some years, I became more interested in society as a whole." On choosing cities...

"My book of street photography, Paris-New York-Shanghai, is based in those cities, because I thought, Paris is the capital of the old world, New York is the capital of the new world and Shanghai is the capital of the future. But at the moment it’s impossible to work in certain cities, for example in Amsterdam, because 80% of the people on the Dam Square are tourists, and my work is not about tourists. It’s the same problem in London on Oxford Street. At this moment ISaturday, February 24, 2007

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“In Vino Veritas”

Drew Goren, a gifted photographer and friend, passed away on December 19th, 2006. His death was a heavy blow to everything true and honest in this world. Looking at his work, you can see that his subjects were relaxed and at ease…which is part of what made him great. The other part is harder to define. He had an eye for the intangible, and managed to use existing light to incredible effect. Even when shooting in a dark and dingy


barroom or at an ill lit club, he would manage to capture images which not only had good exposure but captured the soul of a situation, room, person, or moment.
Before Drew employed his DIY philosophy to photography, he offcially got his start in the music industry when he began working for Fat Wreck Chords in San Francisco. In 1999 he moved to New York to work at an internet startup, Fastmusic.com. He later went on to work for College Music Journal where he soon became art director and began taking many of their photos himself. After only a short time of taking pictures he created an impressive porfolio of photos of some of the most iconic artists in music of our day, such as Radiohead, Sonic Youth, andModest Mouse. In addition, his personal and documentry portraits of friends and family, were magical, especially those of his beautiful daughter, Nina, who was undoubtedly his favorite subject.
In March of 2005, the unimaginable news that Drew had stage IV cancer at the young age of thirtyone came as a huge shock to everyone who loved him. Yet, still Drew would continue on to work through the last year and half, almost harder then ever. He often squeezed photo shoots inbetween chemo sessions. And although it began to get painful for him to even walk his subjects were never even aware of his disease; he always preferred they not make allowances. Drew worked because he loved photography, not because he had to. Photography gave meaning to Drew's life in


how we should spend, what we should value and what we should think at the expense of our own mental and emotional health and well-being.
He believed in standing by his friends and family. He would not sacrifice any other person for himself; rather he would offer himself as a sacrifice first.
He had true empathy for his fellow humans and felt deep feelings of guilt and repentance when he felt he had made a mistake, which he was all too ready to admit even when others would easily forgive the transgression.
He was a truly humble man, although his talents were many and might lead some to fall into the trap of arrogance; he carried his gifts with grace and unselfishness. He would sacrifice himself for the good of othersout of a deep feeling and empathy for the less fortunate.
He was not one to ask for help or to burden others with his care. He did not ask for help, financial or otherwise, during his illness, but instead he continued working to the best of his abilities to provide for his family.
We never held any kind of fundraiser to help pay for his care, although the idea was often talked about among his friends. He was a private person, and had his pride, and did not wish to make a public appeal for sympathy. He did receive the best medical care and was not limited by finances with regard to his treatment, thank God. Everyone here feels that loss tremendously, and I myself feel a void which


Elderly woman robbed on porch

A man who has been seen in the neighborhood around the 200 block of North Governors Avenue is a suspect in an afternoon robbery.

The incident took place at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, said Dover Police Department spokesman Cpl. Mark Hoffman.

The victim, a 71-year-old woman, said she was sitting on her porch when the man came up to her, demanding her money and personal belongings. The woman refused, but the suspect grabbed her blue leather purse and ran away.

The purse contained cash and numerous personal items, Hoffman said.

The suspect was described as tall and thin black man in his 20s, wearing a blue hat and gray hooded sweatshirt.

The victim said she had seen the man in her neighborhood, but did not know who he was.

Anyone withRecently a story appeared on the BBC that attracted a lot of attention. The report was on the use of spinal cord stimulation to treat Parkinson’s patients with severe gait impairments. Though the procedure has only been tried in a small number of people for a relatively short period of time, the team working on it at Western University in London, Canada has had some very promising preliminary results.

Leading the team is Prof. Mandar Jog, the director of the Movement Disorders Centre in London, Ontario and Professor of Neurology at Western University. Coincidentally I met Prof. Jog for the first time about a week before this story broke and had already arranged to come visit him in his lab to learn more about his work. After seeing the


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Freed Taliban Commander Tells Relative He'll Fight Americans Again

One of the five Taliban leaders freed from Guantanamo Bay in return for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release has pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan, according to a fellow militant and a relative.

Noori pushed to return to Afghanistan after learning that the U.S. had provided written assurances that no country would arrest any of the five freed for a year as long as they lived peacefully, one of his relatives told NBC News by telephone from Afghanistan.

... Noori's relative admitted he was having some health issues, but denied he was suffering from any mental disorders.

... The Taliban commander in Quetta said he was in touch with his men in Qatar and they decided not toTanja Masson-Zwaan, LLM (Netherlands)

Tanja Masson-Zwaan is Deputy Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University, where she teaches in the advanced Masters programme (LLM) in air and space law and she is President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL). Tanja carries out research and gives lectures on space law all over the world, advises national and international bodies on matters relating to space law, and attends the sessions of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS).

She is, inter alia, board member of the Netherlands Space Society, advisory board member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), and was on the founding board of Women in Aerospace Europe.

"I was proud to be Dutch when I first heard


story of the Holocaust that took place in Europe in the 1940s. This book gives you an idea of what it was like to live through a sad part of history, but tells the story in a gentle way with a hopeful ending.

Lupe, Flapjack, and Elirio work in an auto shop, and they love what they do. Lupe is a mechanic, while Flapjack cleans the cars, and Elirio is a detail artist. They also live in outer space, and are an impala, octopus, and mosquito, respectively. They would like to own their own garage, but they don’t even have enough money for a car of their own. That all changes when they find a car competition that promises a carload of cash. The three find a beat upgroup, using regular trains, express trains, and walking through the streets of New York City. As we go on the journey with them, we learn about how the subway was constructed, and other fun facts about the largest city in the United States. Each page and illustration has so much detail; you can spend plenty of time just looking at the different people and sights. The illustrator also has a fun story about how he researched the subway before he drew the pictures, and includes himself in most of the pages for an extra hide and seek activity while you’re reading. Check this book out for an adventure in another part of the country!

Jackson Greene is known for a couple of things: his blazer jacket and red tie,


& Jens Borgstroem for FS98
Adapted to CFS1 and repainted by: Edmundo Abad
Converted to CFS1 and repainted as DHC-6 300s #942 in red/black high visibility painting.

In 1969, the De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 series (long nose) was introduced. Both aircraft performance and payload were improved by fitting more powerful PT6A-270 engines. This was a 680 hp (510 kW) engine that was flat-rated to 620 hp (460 kW) for use in the Series 300 Twin Otter. The Series 300 proved to be the most successful variant by far, with 614 Series 300 aircraft and their sub-variants (Series 310 for United Kingdom operators, Series 320 for Australian operators, etc.) sold before production ended in 1988.
The Chilean Air force operate the Twin Otter since the sixties, mainly in southern territories asa better HALE than the US: TheUnited Arab Emirates, Slovenia, Malta, Maldives, Costa Rica, Chile & Cuba. Our HALE is equal to that of China.

When I was off to college my family decided to adopt a cat. My younger brother fell in love with the “runt” of the litter. She was a small tortoise shell and he named her Kit Kat. When she was full grown she outgrew her “runt” status and reached 13 lbs. in her prime (the average female cat is in the 10 – 11 lb. range).

When she was several years old the family was living in Montgomery AL and took a week-long vacation. They decided to board Kit Kat with the one of the local vets whose office was located several miles away and


the required route crossed two controlled access freeways. As was his custom dad asked a neighbor to look after the house and gave him the phone number where the family would be staying. He asked the neighbor to call if anything were to occur.

Two days into the vacation his neighbor called and informed him that his cat was hanging around the front door. Dad called the vet and confirmed that Kit Kat had escaped. When he contacted the neighbor and explained what happened his neighbor offered to return Kit Kat to the vet and dad thanked him. Another two days passed and the neighbor called my dad again, Kit Kat was back! He offered to put out food and water for the cat until the family would returnWisconsin medical board targets pediatrician who molested Scouts

Confidential files

A file created by the Boy Scouts of America in 1987 details what scouting officials in Milwaukee reported regarding allegations that Dr. Thomas Kowalski "made sexual advances" toward teen boys at a camp.

A file created by the Boy Scouts of America in 1987 details what scouting officials in Milwaukee reported regarding allegations that Dr. Thomas Kowalski "made sexual advances" toward teen boys at a camp.

Wisconsin's medical examining board has launched an investigation into a prominent Milwaukee pediatrician who practiced for years after he admitted to the Boy Scouts of America that he had molested two boys in 1987.

Dr. Thomas Kowalski was expelled from the Boy Scouts that year after saying he had masturbated while fondling two teens under his care


at a Wisconsin Scout camp where he was serving as a volunteer doctor. The allegations were detailed in one of hundreds of confidential files on suspected sexual abusers reviewed by The Times in recent months.

The files are used as a blacklist to keep suspected molesters out of Scouting.

At the time, Scouting officials reported the abuse to law enforcement, but Kowalski's victims chose not to press criminal charges, the file shows.

Scouting officials used a connection to keep the story out of the media, and Kowalski continued to work with children for the next 14 years until he retired in 2001.

In an interview with The Times in September, Kowalski, now 75, admitted the abuse but said it had never happened again. "Had that been publicized, I would have been outof business, reputation destroyed, and I don't know how I would have faced people at church," he said.

After the Times story was published, local media outlets contacted the state's medical examining board. "This is absolutely shocking," board Chairman Sheldon Wasserman told The Times on Tuesday. "I've directed our prosecutors to start an immediate investigation."

Possible disciplinary action includes the revocation of Kowalski's medical license, which remains active. The medical board was apparently never contacted by Scouting officials or law enforcement in the 1980s.

After learning that the charges had been dropped, Scouting officials turned to the publisher of a local newspaper who served on their board to keep the allegations out of the media. The publisher "is aware of the situation but apparently will not be passing the information to


his editors," the Scouting official wrote, according to the file.

Last Friday, the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal identified the publisher as Warren "Bud" Heyse, former president of Journal Communications, which published the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel at the time. Heyse died in 2008.codefendant, who took the stand and offered an alibi defense. On cross-examination, the prosecutor asked the codefendant whether he had told the arresting officer, the arraignment Judge, the Assistant District Attorney, or anyone at the District Attorney's office, "what happened" when he was arrested. The prosecutor pressed the codefendant about whether he had asserted to anyone that he did not "commit the crime." The Trial Judge sustained defendants' objections and cautioned the jury about this impermissible line of inquiry. The prosecutor, stating that he did not "understand the relevance" of the objections, persisted. After the Trial Judge firmly admonished the prosecutor and explained the ruling, defendant-appellant and his codefendant made a motion for a mistrial on the ground that the prosecutor's questions violated their Fifth Amendment rights (see,


It is a testament to the stunning skill and professionalism of the design team on Villa Gauggiole, that one can quite imagine a noisy Italian farming family squeezed around the table of the kitchen and huddled together in front of the hearth, yet feel enveloped in luxury and peaceful calm in the house′s latest incarnation.

Villa Gauggiole, Tuscany

The Property

Spread across three buildings, and nestled among the Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco Estate’s vineyards, Villa Gauggiole once housed a farmer whose job it would have been to tend the land it overlooks, and his family.

Textiles, antiques and one-off pieces by local craftsmen, respecting local methods and traditions, are fluently brought together to create a homely space. Today, stylishly restored, yet preserving its history in the stone walls and wooden-beamed ceilings, uphave serious disabilities.

But these changes did not apply to Northern Ireland, which at that time had its own parliament. Abortion remains illegal unless a woman's life is at risk, or there is a serious risk to her mental or physical health.

Abnormalities of the fetus considered fatal, as well as rape and incest, are not circumstances in which abortions are allowed.

Northern Ireland is also the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage is not legal.

A law that allowed same-sex marriage to be legalised in England and Wales came into force in July 2014, and Scotland also legalised it that year.

In the Republic of Ireland, a referendum in 2015 voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

And another referendum last year voted to make abortion legal in all circumstances up to the


first 12 weeks of pregnancy. It can be later in cases of fatal abnormalities affecting the fetus - or where the mother's life is at risk.

What do people in Northern Ireland want?

Last October, an Amnesty International-commissioned poll said two-thirds of people in Northern Ireland felt it was time MPs in Westminster changed the abortion laws, given there was no government in Northern Ireland.

Amnesty International has consistently campaigned for a change in the abortion law in Northern Ireland.

That poll also suggested that 65% of people thought that having an abortion should not be a crime.

A study published last year suggested that over time the public in Northern Ireland has changed its views on both same-sex marriage and abortion.

According to that report, in 1998 a majority of people thought same-sexrelationships were always wrong, but this had gone down to 27% by 2013.

In 2016, more than 80% thought an abortion should be allowed where a fetus had a fatal abnormality - in 1998 that figure was around 50%.

But these are still very divisive issues. While the current changes were being debated in Westminster, a letter was circulated at Catholic church services across Northern Ireland, calling for the decision on abortion to be reversed.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A referendum in Ireland approved changes to the country's abortion laws

Those behind it said more than 16,000 people had signed the letter including Arlene Foster, the leader of the socially-conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

In November 2015, a majority in the Northern Ireland Assembly - which has the power to decide


laws on social issues - voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage for the first time. But the move was blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) using a veto mechanism and legal challenges have not succeeded.

On abortion, a majority of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2016 voted against changing the law.

However, the other main political party in Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, now supports moves to allow more access to abortion. It also supports legalising same-sex marriage.

What did MPs do at Westminster?

MPs were debating a bill about keeping public services running in Northern Ireland as there is no functioning government there.

It has been without a government or assembly since January 2017, when the two parties who were sharing power - the DUP and Sinn Féin - split indensity of toner background deposition. Another disadvantage of conductive developing systems is their tendency to create an airborne toner cloud which contaminates the machine components thereby necessitating frequent cleaning. The latter problem is known in the art as "toner dusting."
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540 F.Supp. 125 (1982)
Charles LORD
v.
Joseph LEHMAN, Secretary of the Navy, Department of the Navy and W. Dean Pfeiffer, Executive Director, Department of the Navy, Board for Correction of Naval Records.
Civ. A. No. 81-2781.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
June 9, 1982.
*126 Mark A. Kaufman, Delaware County Legal Assistance Ass'n, Darby, Pa., for plaintiff.
Thomas J. McBride, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION
LUONGO, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff, Charles Lord, brought this action pursuant to § 702 of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 702, seeking judicial review of his undesirable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. Named as defendants are Joseph Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, and W. Dean Pfeiffer, Executive Director of the Board for Correction of Naval Records (BCNR). Jurisdiction over this action is pursuant toconducted a hearing on Lord's application on January 18, 1980. Lord, who was represented by his present counsel, appeared and testified at this hearing. After considering the testimony, Lord's service record, and a "list of contentions of law, fact and discretion to be answered in the board's determination of law, fact and discretion" submitted by Lord's counsel, the NDRB, finding that none of Lord's contentions were valid, denied Lord's application for an upgrade of his discharge. (Exhibit A to Complaint at 33) The NDRB concluded that
[t]he type of the applicant's discharge should not be changed because the nature of the offense which resulted in the applicant's civil conviction possesses a degree of aggravation and constitutes moral turpitude which warrants characterization of the applicant's separation as under other than


authorities be issued an undesirable discharge. The BCNR correctly noted that Lord's undesirable discharge was authorized by the fact of his conviction. The BCNR did not view Lord's prior service record as supporting his continued service or an upgrading of his discharge since it specifically found that Lord was awarded nonjudicial punishment "for failure to be at appointed place for duty and disobedience of orders." The Board also considered the mitigating circumstances set forth by Lord "such as ... recruiter connivance, service record, youth and immaturity, and processing of the discharge" but found that these did not outweigh the serious nature of his civilian offense. (Exhibit B at 40). Thus the BCNR decision provides an ample explanation as to why the BCNR decided not to exercise its discretionof a grain of rice.

Investment amid Brexit worries

Alphabet's business unit Verily Life Sciences (VLS) and Britain's biggest drugmaker together pledged 640 million euros ($715 million) towards the joint venture over the next seven years.

GSK will hold 55 percent and VLS the remaining 45 percent of the new company, which will be based in Stevenage north of London. A second research hub will be in San Franciso.

Only last week, GSK had announced they would open three new drug factories on home soil.

Amid economic concerns in the wake of the Brexit vote, the United Kingdom's Business Minister Greg Clark called the investment "a clear vote of confidence in Britain."

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interest in the seized property, the Court concludes that such a procedure is necessary. Accordingly, the government is ordered to submit by Friday, September 12, 2008 evidence sufficient to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that Defendant Pavel Lazarenko has an interest in the funds seized in this case. A hearing on Lazarenko's interestin which only the government is permitted to participate will be held on Friday, September 26, 2008.

BACKGROUND
The forfeiture dispute now before the Court arose out of the conviction of former Ukranian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko. The evidence at Lazarenko's criminal trial established that Lazarenko used his political powerfirst as a regional governor and later as prime minister of Ukraineto extort millions of dollars from local businesses operated by businessman Peter Kiritchenko. Over the years,Kiritchenko paid Lazarenko approximately $30 million, or half of all Kiritchenko's profits. Lazarenko initially received the extortion payments in four Swiss accounts, but by 1994 Lazarenko began to transfer his money to various institutions in an effort to hide the source of the funds.
By January 1997, Lazarenko believed his dismissal as Prime Minister to be imminent. Around the same time, Lazarenko and Kiritchenko learned that Eurofed an offshore bank domiciled in Antigua was for sale, and agreed to buy it. Lazarenko opened his own personal account at Eurofed, and in August of 1997, Lazarenko and Kiritchenko purchased a 67% interest in the bank.
By mid-1997, Lazarenko had been dismissed as Prime Minister and was under investigation in the Ukraine. Concerned that his Swiss bank accounts might be frozen, Lazarenko


closed the accounts worth over $100 millionand used the funds to open an account at Banque SCS Alliance in the Bahamas. In addition, Lazarenko made two wire transfers to Eurofed correspondent accounts in San Francisco at the Pacific Bank and Commercial Bank.[1] According to the government's theory, Lazarenko laundered his funds through at least five and as many as eight different accounts before approximately $1,379,000 in proceeds from Lazarenko's criminal operations ended up in Eurofed correspondent account # W71-223433 at Bank of America in San Francisco. See Tonna Decl. Exh. 15. The government also contends that Lazarenko's proceeds were deposited into another Eurofed correspondent account, Bank of America account #W71-224464, which held $327,317.85 in funds, and 923,000 Ukranian bonds.
In the fall of 1999, Antiguan governmental authorities began aninvestigation of Eurofed for alleged money-laundering activities, and froze Eurofed's assets on October 29, 1999. On November 15, 1999, Eurofed was put into receivership and an Antiguan court appointed two PricewaterhouseCoopers partners as joint receivers, and later joint liquidators, and ordered them to liquidate the bank.
In May of 2000, the United States government indicted Lazarenko on thirtythree counts. See Indictment (Docket # 1). The indictment contained a forfeiture count with general language requesting forfeiture of "all property, real and personal, involved" in the alleged money laundering offenses "or any property traceable to such property," including but not limited to, real property located in Novate and all funds in a Bank Boston Robertson Stephens account valued at approximately $266,307.20. See id. at ¶¶ 30-33. In June of 2004, a


April of 2006, Judge Jenkins ruled that Eurofed could not assert its interest in the funds and bonds until the court conducted the "ancillary proceeding" designated for adjudication of third party interests. See 21 U.S.C. § 853(n).[2] Eurofed appealed and the Ninth Circuit affirmed, concluding that "an ancillary proceeding constitutes the only avenue for a third party claiming an interest in seized property." United States v. Lazarenko, 476 F.3d 642, 648 (9th Cir.2007).
Three days after ruling that Eurofed could not intervene directly in the criminal proceeding, Judge Jenkins filed a Preliminary Order of Forfeiture, forfeiting all of Lazarenko's light, title, and interest in the two Bank of America accounts to the United States. See Preliminary Order of Forfeiture (Docket # 947). After concluding that the government had establishedhas "superior title" to the Bank of America accounts either because such assets were never owned by Lazarenko or because some of the funds relate only to counts on which there were acquittals. See id.
Eurofed and the United States then filed cross-motions for summary judgment. In their motion, Eurofed reasserts the three arguments rejected by Judge Jenkinsstatute of limitations, res judicata, and act of state doctrineand contends that the government has failed to prove a sufficient factual connection between Lazarenko's criminal conduct and the forfeited funds. In its opposition, the government argues that the law of the case doctrine precludes Eurofed from prevailing on the three arguments already rejected by Judge Jenkins, and that Eurofed's argument exceeds the scope of an ancillary proceeding under 21 U.S.C. § 853(n).
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Once upon a time I wrote a short story. It’s about a midlife woman who found her heart on the lounge room floor. Neglected and hidden amongst a pile of art books. She hadn’t even realised it had gone missing. Her first impulse was to hide the thing. So she wrapped her heart carefully and put it under her bed. This was where she kept those special private things.

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Almost a quarter of new cars registered in 2014 were white, the highest proportion since records began and up from less than 1% a decade ago.

Figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show that white was the most popular colour for new cars registered in the UK in 2014 for the second year running. Of the 2,476,435 new cars registered in 2014, 22.2% were white – representing the highest proportion of white cars registered in any year since records began in 1996.

The colour’s record-breaking popularity follows a strong upturn in the uptake of white cars, over the past decade. In 2010, white cars accounted for just under


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White became the UK’s most popular choice in 2013, but for many years it was one of the least-favoured choices of car colour.

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California pension politics heating up

SAN FRANCISCO Big changes may be in store for public pension funds in California, where prominent public officials are increasingly anxious about their growing burden on government finances.

At the state level, Attorney General Jerry Brown, a Democrat, says he would consider overhauling public pensions if elected governor in November. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger -- in has last term -- says state pension finances are in crisis.

He has even conditioned signing a state budget on lawmakers agreeing to overhaul the system to reduce its cost to the state's government.

With that demand, Schwarzenegger has put one of the state government's most important long-term fiscal challenges front and center at a time when Californians are acutely aware of how recession, financial and property market slumps, skittish consumersand high unemployment have slashed the state's revenue and sent its overall finances reeling.

Key mayors are likewise concerned about pensions.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, for instance, says the pension system of the second largest U.S. city is not sustainable, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is backing a measure on his city's June ballot that would shift more of the funding of San Francisco's pension fund onto city employees.

In an interview with Reuters on Friday, Mayor Chuck Reed said San Jose -- California's third largest city and the biggest city in Silicon Valley -- faces a daunting challenge from its pension funds.

"In our next fiscal year our pension obligations will be $200 million, compared to our general fund revenue of about $700 million -- and it's going up


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BRUSSELS The European Commission may reduce reporting requirements for derivatives trading in Europe, in an effort to cut costs for financial services, the financial services commissioner said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors' claims of market-rigging.

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At Indiana State, when alumni discuss their college football team, it isn't always a happy conversation. The Sycamores have been ranked in the Football Championship Subdivision Top 25 for five weeks, they beat Missouri State on Saturday with a field goal in the final seconds, and in Mike Perish they have one of the most prolific quarterbacks in program history -- but when some Indiana State alumni talk about football, it's not to relish these greatest of times.

It's to ponder the end of times.

As in, Indiana State without college football.

Can you imagine? ISU alumni can and are, in conversations with each other and with the alumni association and with the athletics director -- and even with me. Multiple Indiana State alumni have emailed, asking me to findout if the situation is as dire as they fear: that college football is at risk in Terre Haute.

So I asked the athletics director at Indiana State, Ron Prettyman. And I asked the school's chief financial officer, Diann McKee, university treasurer and vice president of business affairs and finance. I asked them what alumni are asking of me and of each other: Is Indiana State nearing the day when it has to decide on the financial viability of its football program?

Said Prettyman, the AD: "Lots of decisions are out of my hands. The president, the trustees, they make decisions in the best interest of the university. I make decisions in the best interest of the athletic department. I'm battling for football and the entire athletic department every day."

Said


than 5,000 people attended the game Saturday. But there are bigger issues facing Indiana State and the rest of college football's great unwashed, its financially vulnerable -- the Football Championship Subdivision.

The biggest issue is what's happening around college football, and complicating that issue is that nobody is exactly sure what is happening around college football. The top five conferences of the Football Bowl Subdivision sought and won autonomy, putting the rest of Division I (including Ball State) at their mercy as the biggest, richest schools propose new legislation in December.

"I'm not making any sweeping statements about (the future of the football program)," says Prettyman, an outspoken critic nationally of Power Five autonomy, "but along with the school president and the vice president of finance, right now we feelreach FCS schools like Indiana State.

If college football players are legally empowered to unionize, coupled with "God only knows exactly what (legislative) craziness could prevail," as the Power Five AD told me, the ramifications for a school with a budget as small as Indiana State's – ISU ranks No. 162 of the 230 Division I schools surveyed by USA Today – are financially devastating. Add to that a 90-year-old money pit of a stadium located off campus? Financially unviable.

"The litigation could have a tremendous impact on college athletics," says McKee, "and not just at Indiana State."

And so alumni, the ones who know enough to know what is happening and to fear what could happen next, are talking. To each other, to the AD, and even to me. This


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Native Instruments announces half-price Thanksgiving sale

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Berlin, November 14, 2018 Native Instruments today launched their Thanksgiving sales special for 2018. From November 14 until December 2, 175 Native Instruments products are available at 50% off their original price. This offer is a great opportunity for producers to save on recent releases TRAKTOR PRO 3 and KONTAKT 6, best-sellers such as SESSION GUITARIST: ELECTRIC SUNBURST, or premium instruments such as the SYMPHONY SERIES COLLECTION.

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In 2018, Native Instruments launched Sounds.com, a market-leading online subscription platform for loops and samples that also creates new revenue and promotion opportunities for individuals, brands, and business across the music industry. Along with recent acquisitions of Metapop and The Loop Loft, these three online platforms further enhance NI’s ecosystem for music creation and community.

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the southern part of the state, especially around the Dothan metropolitan area in the southeast. Strange generally polls best around Birmingham, in the central part of the state. Meanwhile, Brooks has struggled to get traction outside of his home congressional district around Huntsville in the north.

If Brooks misses out on the runoff, he will have McConnell, in part, to thank. McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund has run a ton negative ads against him. If Strange finishes in third place, it would demonstrate how toxic McConnell is with the Republican base right now — and perhaps signal that Trump’s sway has diminished as well.

Polling for the Republican runoff is limited, but whoever emerges as the nominee would be a heavy favorite in the December general election. No Democrat has wonsomeone famous.

Some polls show Robert Kennedy Jr., who is unrelated to the famous Kennedy clan and was a political unknown before this race started, leading the Democratic field.

Uncertainty in the Alabama Democratic Senate primary Public polling for the 2017 Alabama Democratic Senate primary END DATE POLLSTER DOUG JONES ROBERT KENNEDY JR. Aug. 12 Emerson College 40% 23% Aug. 9 Strategy Research 30 40 July 24 Strategy Research 28 49 Average 33 37

Although there isn’t any reliable polling yet for the general election, Democrats probably need their primary voters to choose Doug Jones, not Kennedy, for the party to have any shot in December. Jones is a former U.S. Attorney and was recently endorsed by former Vice President Joe Biden. Unlike Kennedy, who, bizarrely, refuses to discuss his current