contrary to the constitution and the statute of autonomy,” Lamela said.

Less than a year ago, Trapero and his officers were hailed as heroes for their handling of the terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in which 14 people were killed and more than 130 injured. Within hours, the Mossos had shot dead five of the perpetrators and arrested the others.

The charges against Trapero relate to events in September and October last year. In September, the Mossos did nothing to intervene when a large crowd kept members of the Spanish civil guard trapped for hours inside a Catalan government office they had been ordered to search. During the incident, several civil guard vehicles were vandalised.

On 1 October, the Mossos were expected to close down polling booths set up inschools for an independence referendum. However, the police only intervened sporadically and, in many cases, only took away ballot boxes if the schools’ occupants gave them up voluntarily.

Spanish civil guards and national police officers then attempted to stop the referendum with force. Images of riot police beating voters and taking away ballot boxes were beamed around the world.

Trapero quit the force in October after being demoted when the Spanish government imposed direct rule on the region. Two other members of the regional police and an official with the regional interior department were also indicted on Thursday.

The charge sheet alleges that “the action plan was known in advance by the people occupying the schools and, knowing the Mossos would not intervene, obstructed police officers who did attempt to carry


Defendant's petition for a writ of error has been granted and the writ of error made a supersedeas. The record is now before us for review.
Between 11:30 P.M. on January 30, 1950, and 12:30 A.M. on January 31, two police officers, Lucian Suprnant and Adolph Kolinski, in response to a radio call, went to 2349 West Fulton Street, in Chicago, where a woman, subsequently identified as Bessie Gates, and described by defendant as his common-law wife, was found lying on the top step leading to the front porch in a pool of blood. Unconscious and bleeding, she was taken to the county hospital where she died on January 31, without having regained consciousness. So far as the record discloses, there were no witnesses to the fatal assault.
Dr. JamesJ. Kearns, coroner's physician, who performed an autopsy on the same day, testified that the body was that of a woman thirty-seven years of age, five feet, three inches tall, weighing about 125 pounds, and that there were four deep cuts in the back of her head on the left side and a fifth cut on the top of the head. Dr. Kearns expressed *63 the opinion that the cause of death was skull fracture and cerebral laceration caused by a sharp instrument.
Defendant, when arrested in February, 1950, and questioned about the assault and killing of Bessie Gates, disclaimed any knowledge of the homicide. On January 13, 1951, immediately following his release from the House of Correction where he had been confined about ten months, he was taken


into custody by police officers Cornelius Carr and Harry A. Smith. He was taken to the police building at 1121 South State Street and from there to the Crime Laboratory where he was given two lie-detector tests. He was then taken downstairs and left alone until the following day.
On January 14, defendant made a confession which was typewritten and signed by him. Those noted on the statement as present were Sergeant James McMahon, detective bureau, Carr, and patrolman Marshall Carroll, detective bureau, typist. On January 15, defendant made and signed another confession described as the re-enactment statement. Listed as present were John Cogan, assistant State's Attorney, Captain Jerome Looney, Twenty-seventh District, Sergeant McMahon, officers Carr and Robert Noonan, homicide detail, detective bureau, H.E. Martin, H.M. Tobias, and H.E.floor of the building at 1121 South State Street where Carr, Smith and two other officers whose names he did not recall were present; that the four men were in and out of the room at the time of the alleged beating and that altogether five were present at different times; that he did not know them but would recognize them if he saw them again; that after all present had interrogated him repeatedly, a hose two inches in diameter and about thirty-six inches long was produced; that he took off his coat and removed his shoes, as directed; that an attempt to handcuff him behind a chair was unsuccessful because his arms were too short; that, in the course of the attempt, he was struck four or


I would say one hundred times;" that he fell down on the floor several times, would move around, and that all four of the officers then kicked and beat him in the back between fifteen and twenty times; that a rib was broken when an officer whom he identified as Smith stood on his stomach; that to his complaint to the officer standing on his rib that he was killing him, the officer replied, "That is what I am going to do;" that he was whipped and hit on the neck with the hose several times, and that Smith booted him with his foot after he was down. He also stated that he "had a bad leg *65 * * * in two places [because of] gangrene;" that,although he so informed them, they continued to strike him on the bad leg, and that he reached the point where he could not stand any more and said, "I will sign anything you want me to sign because you are killing me." Defendant testified that at this juncture Carr came in and made the others stop hitting him; that he was carried into the next room where the questions contained in the first confession were propounded, and that he answered them because he had been beaten and was being beaten to death. Defendant asserted that, prior to the beating, none of his ribs were broken and that afterwards he had broken ribs.
After the statement was signed, defendant said he was taken to the eleventh floor where prisoners


were kept and placed in the first cell; that he could not walk and was left on the floor of the cell; that he was later taken to another cell where he stayed all night on the floor; that the prison doctor came the next morning at which time officer Carr and assistant State's Attorney John Cogan were present; that he was unable to reply to the doctor's inquiry as to where he was hurt; that the doctor taped and bandaged his side and, after he had denied he was a dope addict, gave him a "good size capsule;" that he was then carried back and placed in the cell where he was again visited by Cogan, and that although he refused at first because he was toosick, he finally agreed to go "west to see the State's Attorney" because he felt the air might do him good.
Defendant testified that he was then taken to the Warren Avenue police station and from there a group, consisting of himself, Cogan, officers Carr and Smith and an unidentified officer, and two newspaper reporters, went to 241 Artesian Avenue where he told them that he had obtained the ice pick which he used to kill Bessie Gates; that he had a conversation with one Johnnie Jones there in which he told Jones that he did not kill Bessie Gates but *66 that he had to do something to save his own life; that, from 241 Artesian Avenue, the group went to 2349 Fulton Street; that in the interrogation


which took about twenty minutes, Cogan asked the questions, and that they then returned to Eleventh and State Streets where he signed the re-enactment statement.
On the next day, January 16, defendant stated that he was taken to the felony court, bound over by the grand jury, and then returned to the county jail. He further testified that because of his condition he was removed two days later to the jail hospital where he remained until February 5; that while there Doctor Crane examined him, and that he was under hospital care until March 18.
The evidence adduced by the various medical witnesses will be summarized. Dr. Louis Rose testified that he examined defendant about 8:55 A.M. on January 15, 1951, at the police building; that defendant stated that hisside had been hurt; that because of the tenderness he could not find any fractures upon physical examination, and that he taped his chest and gave him a sedative to relieve the pain. He testified, further, that he asked defendant the cause of injury and that the latter mumbled something which he could not understand. Dr. Robert D. Crane recalled having treated defendant in January, 1951. He testified that his examination revealed a fracture of the eighth rib, and that he strapped his right chest and gave him a sedative to relieve his pain. He added that defendant told him he had received the injury at the police station. According to Dr. Crane, defendant was hospitalized from a week to ten days. Dr. Andrew J. Toman, associated with


the hospital at the House of Correction, and nurse Anna Canonico both testified that the records of that institution showed no treatment given to, or injury befalling, defendant while there.
Officer Carr testified that he did not see anyone strike defendant at any time and, in particular, that he did not *67 see his partner, officer Smith, push him in the face. According to Carr, but two officers were in the room when defendant made his first statement. He further stated that, although defendant did not complain about being sore or that he was injured on January 14, he did tell him the next day, January 15, that a doctor had attended him in the lockup and that he had an injury in the chest, and that, to hisinquiry, defendant explained that when he was brought to his cell a prisoner struck and knocked him down, and was kicking him on the floor when two other prisoners came to his rescue. This version of the origin of defendant's injuries, according to Carr, was given in the presence of officer Smith.
Officers McMahon and Carroll not only denied striking defendant but stated that they did not see anyone else do so at the interrogation on January 14. Officer McMahon added that he was present at the re-enactment on January 15 and at that time defendant was able to walk.
Officer Smith testified that he did not personally question defendant on January 14 and was not present during the interrogation which resulted in the first confession; that he merely passed


by the door of the room and, at that time, had observed officer Carr alone with the defendant, and that, accordingly, he had neither committed nor witnessed the acts of brutality attributed by defendant to him and his named associates. Officer Carroll corroborated Smith in testifying that he did not see the latter while he was occupied taking the statement. Smith further stated that although he was not present during the re-enactment, he was with defendant on the way to the west side; that en route the latter complained he was hurt; that to Smith's inquiry, he explained, "Well, I was unfortunate to be in the lockup with a couple of fellows I had a little difficulty with in the past," and that several of them beat himup.
A fair summary of the two confessions is that defendant had lived with Bessie Gates as his common-law wife *68 for about a year and a half in 1945 and 1946; that she lived at 2349 West Fulton Street, in Chicago; that he had not seen her for about three weeks when he met her in a tavern about 9:30 P.M. on January 30, 1950; that a friendly conversation ensued and that he, Bessie Gates and Robert Boyd, commonly called "Snuff," departed together; that they went to 220 North Western Avenue for a short time and then separated, defendant going to his home at 241 North Artesian Avenue where he went to bed; that he awakened about 11:00 o'clock, dressed, took an ice pick from a shelf in


the kitchen, placed it in his overcoat pocket and returned to the Western Avenue address last stated; that, as he approached, he saw Bessie Gates walking north on the east side of Western Avenue; that he called to her and when she did not respond but continued walking, he followed her; that she went to the nearby house of a woman named Fannie; that he waited for her on the back porch until she reappeared and then asked her for some money because he was broke; that when she refused, he called her a liar and struck her; that she struck him and that he, in turn, slapped her on the face, seized her by the neck, held her and stabbed her in the left side of herhead with the ice pick about three times, and that he then walked to an alley south of Fulton Street, a short distance away, where he threw the ice pick in an ash heap or rubbish heap, and returned to his home and went to bed. On January 31, defendant went from Chicago to Gary, Indiana, and from there to Dayton, Ohio, arriving on February 1 and remaining until February 6, when he went to the Dayton police department and announced that he was wanted for "jumping a bond in Chicago" and, also, that he might be wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of Bessie Gates.
From defendant's testimony at the preliminary hearing on the admissibility of the statements taken on January 14 and 15, it is


involuntary. Conversely, according to officer Carr and others, the confession was voluntary. Although the three persons named in the confession as present when it was made testified upon the preliminary hearing, defendant testified that four or five officers were present throughout the questioning and during the time he was being beaten. He did not recall the names of all the officers but said that he could identify them if they were brought in, and did identify officer Smith as having been one of the officers who had beaten him up on January 14. A different situation obtains with respect to the second confession or the so-called re-enactment statement made shortly after the first confession. Neither assistant State's Attorney Cogan, who supervised the re-enactment and did the questioning, norout to such an extent as to render further discussion of the admissibility of the confessions unnecessary.
An inescapable duty rested upon the prosecution in the present case to bring in every police officer and every other person connected with taking the statements in order to ascertain whether they were forced by threats and physical violence. With respect to the confession taken on January 14, defendant testified that from four to five officers were present at the time he claims to have been beaten. Of these, the three named as witnesses to the confession testified, denying categorically defendant's version. A fourth, identified as officer Smith, testified that he was not present in the room where the confession was made, and merely passed by in the corridor at one time.


made, did not testify at the hearing upon the question of its admissibility and no explanation was given for the failure of the prosecution to produce them as witnesses. Nor were H.E. Marten and H.M. Tobias, also listed as present at the re-enactment on January 15, called to testify in denial of defendant's account of the re-enactment. The significance of the absence of the five last-named persons is heightened in view of defendant's assertion as to his patently weakened condition. Further, during the re-enactment in which defendant at all times must have been in close proximity to either Cogan or some attendant officer, defendant asserts that he informed Johnnie Jones that he had confessed in order to save his own life. Defendant's testimony with respect to his protesttestimony negating the idea of a sharp-pointed instrument being the murder weapon. The doctor's utilization of "sharp" in the first instance is perfectly compatible with the type of weapon established by the confessions. Thus, the word "sharp" is defined in Webster's New International Dictionary, 2d ed., as "Having a very thin edge or fine point;" and the first synonym listed under the definition is "pointed." Finally, from the record before us, we cannot hold that the nature of the wounds, as described by Doctor Kearns, is such as would render them impossible to have been inflicted by the variety of weapon allegedly used by the defendant.
Complaint is made that an assistant State's Attorney, in his closing argument to the jury, made three prejudicial and inflammatory statements against the


Bandai Namco has released new Digimon World: Next Order information and screenshots, introducing new Digimon (including the brand new Boltbautamon), new story, new dungeons, and more.

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Meicoomon and Maycrackmon

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Network Battles

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Free Post-Launch DLC

After the release of the game, players will be able to enjoy new content thanks to freeAs you travel along the D-Day beaches, particularly along Sword, there really are monuments and memorials every few hundred meters, if not closer. Part of this has to do with the large number of small towns and villages that line what is now Sword Beach, and part to do with the intense fighting that took place that day.

Military and civilian casualties

The fighting took a toll on troops, buildings, and civilians in the area. Many of these memorials list all those killed in battle, which is a good thing in my book. Note the bunker just behind and to the right.

This was (is) a 50mm German anti-tank gun, and this particular one has a nasty history. As you can see, it was protected from direct fire from the sea


Officer, "Blackfive" started this blog upon learning of the valorous sacrifice of a friend that was not reported by the journalist whose life he saved. Email: blackfive AT gmail DOT com

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Mr. Wolf has over 26 years in the Army, Army NG, and USAR. He’s Airborne with 5 years as an NCO, before becoming an officer. Mr. Wolf has had 4 company commands. Signal Corp is his basic branch,and Public Affairs is his functional area. He recently served 22 straight months in Kuwait and Iraq, in Intel, PA, and senior staff of MNF-I. Mr. Wolf is now an IT executive. He is currently working on a book on media and the Iraq war. Functional gearhead.

In Iraq, he received the moniker of Mr. Wolf after the Harvey Kietel character in Pulp Fiction, when "challenges" arose, they called on Mr. Wolf...
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Deebow is a Staff Sergeant and a Military Police Squad Leader in the Army National Guard. In a previous life, he served in the US Navy. He has over 19 years of experience in both the Maritime and Land Warfare; including deployments to Southwest Asia, Thailand, the South Pacific, South America and Egypt. He


has served as a Military Police Team Leader and Protective Services Team Leader and he has served on assignments with the US State Department, US Air Force Security Police, US Army Criminal Investigation Division, and the US Drug Enforcement Administration. He recently spent time in Afghanistan working with, training and fighting alongside Afghan Soldiers and is now focused on putting his 4 year Political Science degree to work by writing about foreign policy, military security policy and politics.

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Uber Pig was an Infantryman from late 1991 until early 1996, serving with Second Ranger Battalion, I Corps, and then 25th Infantry Division. At the time, the Army discriminated against enlisted soldiers who wanted use the "Green to Gold" program to become officers, so he left to attend Stanford University. There, he became expert in detecting, avoiding, and surviving L-shaped ambushes, before dropping out to be as entrepreneurial as he could be. He is now the founder of a software startup serving the insurance and construction industries, and splits time between Lake Tahoe, Boonville, and San Francisco, CA.

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harsh growth conditions such as high temperatures while the new ones are added -- a process that limits the materials with which to make them.

Park's team instead made the films individually. Then they put them into a vacuum, peeled them off and stuck them to one another, like Post-It notes. This allowed the scientists to make films that were connected with weak bonds instead of stronger covalent bonds--interfering less with the perfect surfaces between the layers.

"The films, vertically controlled at the atomic-level, are exceptionally high-quality over entire wafers," said Kibum Kang, a postdoctoral associate who was the first author of the study.

Kan-Heng Lee, a graduate student and co-first author of the study, then tested the films' electrical properties by making them into devices and showed that their functionsFinancial crime hit record levels in 2010, with the Government overtaking the
financial services industry as the main victim, according to the KPMG Fraud
Barometer.

Fraud committed by company managers was the fastest growing area, up 30pc in value to £441m against the previous year. Tax fraud, money laundering and complex cases involving new technology all increased in the year. According to KPMG many of the cases were directly linked to the tight economic conditions.

Hitesh Patel, KPMG forensic partner, said: "Government agencies, like commercial businesses, have been increasingly vulnerable to the threat of fraud. In a year of austerity measures implemented by Government, tax increases, rising unemployment, and significant structural change it is hardly surprising that the long fingers of the fraudster have reached into the public purse."

The total number of


under Labour, many fraud squads were either disbanded or demoted from 1997 to 2010.

However, one area where the corporate world seems to have had some success tackling financial crime is in mortgage fraud. Although instances of mortgage fraud were rife in the first half of the year they plummeted from July to December, the total number of cases dropping from 21 to 13 between the first and second half of the year.

One of the largest cases to appear in the KPMG Fraud Barometer involves alleged fraudster Michael Richards, 48. The businessman stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest direct tax frauds in UK history.

Although the case has yet to reach trial Mr Richards is accused of making fraudulent bids worth £103m in tax breaks on research intoas the atmospheric window and several
other features (H2O, CH4), are noticeable. These
radiatively active gases, also called greenhouse gases, absorb only a small
fraction of solar energy, but they are very effective in absorbing as well as
emitting longwave radiation. Their net effect is to reduce the amount of
radiative energy emitted to space and to increase the radiative energy
provided to the surface-troposphere system. The fundamental reason for the
existence of the "greenhouse effect" is that the temperature decreases with
altitude in the troposphere. Radiatively active gases as well as clouds
absorb the radiation emitted by the warmer surface, while their emission of
radiation to space occurs at colder atmospheric temperatures. The trapping of
the radiation by radiatively active molecules produces an increase in the
surface temperature of about 33 degrees Celsius (assuming no change in albedo
when atmosphere


EA artist, Simryn Gill at the Venice Biennale

Posted by EAMag Editor on July 22nd, 2013

“Every two years over 300,000 visitors flock to the Venice Biennale to look at art by the world’s leading artists. It’s commonly known as the art Olympics – as much for the endurance required to get around the 89 exhibitions and 47 satellite events, as its historical focus on national representation.

Australia has been sending artists to the Venice Biennale, the oldest, largest and most prestigious international art exhibition of its kind, since the 1950s. And this year Sydney-based artist Simryn Gill has been chosen to exhibit in the Australian Pavilion, which is soon to undergo a $6million makeover funded by the Government and private philanthropists, including Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett, Malcolm and Lucya track record he is working to change, but one that has already cost him and other Jamaicans.

Sources confirmed to Goal that Premier League sides and made multi-million dollar offers for Blake this past summer after his outstanding CONCACAF Gold Cup showing. Unfortunately for Blake and the interested clubs, the deals fell apart because Blake doesn't qualify for a U.K. work permit. The main reason for Blake's inability to secure a work permit? 's low FIFA ranking.

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Players who play regularly for national teams ranked in the top 50 of FIFA's rankings qualify for work permits to play in automatically. Jamaica is ranked 61st and hasn't been in the top 50 in more than a decade. That reality has made it impossible for Jamaican players to make moves


the Year Damani Ralph knows all too well about the problem presented by Jamaica's low ranking, and the work permit hurdle it has created. Ralph is now a player agent who represents several Jamaicans in MLS, including Lawrence, and he sees an opportunity for those players to make the move to Europe — if the Reggae Boyz can climb into the top 50, and maintain that place long enough to meet the requirements for an automatic work permit for their players.

"Obviously there's a certain value put on players in MLS when it comes to moving them and there's only a few markets that can afford the transfer fees," Ralph told Goal. "There's been a couple of times where there's been interest, but with the inability to get thework permit they haven't materialized.

"The hope is we can play consistently well for a 12-month period, and we can break into the top 50," Ralph added. "Then you'd see a couple of different options for a couple of guys."

Jamaican players had long enjoyed a good track record of success in England, but things changed in the summer of 2015, when U.K. work permit restrictions tightened. Suddenly instead of needing to be a regular player for a team in the top 70 of FIFA's rankings, the minimum threshold was the top 50.

Jamaican midfielder Rodolph Austin was the first high-profile Jamaican player affected. He had played three seasons for Championship side , but he had his application for a work permit renewal rejected, halting a planned move to . Austin


wound up having to leave England altogether, eventually settling with Danish club Brondby. This past summer Austin signed with Danish side Esbjerg.

Now, England has become off-limits for native Jamaican players, a cruel development given the ties that bind England and Jamaica, an island colonized and ruled by England for more than 300 years before gaining its independence in 1962.

Those deep ties can be seen throughout the English game, where a who's who of English players with Jamaican bloodlines permeate throughout the Premier League. From Jamaican-born England international Raheem Sterling to the likes of Kyle Walker, Chris Smalling, Daniel Sturridge and Danny Rose, there are a plethora of players in England with Jamaican roots, a lineage that also helped produce the likes of past England legends John Barnes andIan Wright.

Unfortunately, the U.K. work permit regulations have put up a virtual wall for the Reggae Boyz, who can no longer play in the country where so many past Jamaican greats plied their trade — players such as current Jamaica coach Theodore Whitmore, Ricardo Gardner and Ian Goodison, who were all key fixtures on Jamaica's 1998 World Cup team.

Jamaica's national team did its part to climb up the rankings this summer when it defeated on the way to the Gold Cup final, where the Reggae Boyz lost to the United States. Blake's heroics in goal helped lead the charge through the tournament, while Lawrence's stunning free-kick winner to beat Mexico helped Jamaica climb 19 spots to 57. The September rankings had Jamaica down four spots to 61st.

It won't


be easy climbing into the top 50 in the near future, especially without World Cup qualifiers to gain points or a World Cup to play in next year, but Jamaica's recent success has helped draw attention from other leagues as well. While England may not be an option in the near future, players like Blake should have more teams expressing interest from other European leagues. With Blake set to enter the final year of his MLS contract in 2018, the line of European clubs interested in the reigning MLS Goalkeeper of the Year should only grow.

As for England, Blake, Lawrence and their Reggae Boyz teammates will continue to fight to turn things around for the Jamaican national team, and hopefully one day reopen the door to England.

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Wikimedia Director Sue Gardner shows 11 packs of printer paper: the equivalent volume of content produced by students in the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative.

Campus Ambassadors in Washington, D.C.

The Public Policy Initiative was a pilot project, run by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2010–11, to explore the use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education. Professors at public policy programs in universities in the United States participated, assigning their students to improve articles on the English language Wikipedia. The Foundation provided lesson plans, and coordinated with the Wikipedia volunteer community to provide Wikipedia Ambassadors, who served as mentors for the first-time Wikipedians.

See Public Policy Initiative Learning Points for a comprehensive report on the learnings from the pilot program.

Wikipedia Ambassadors

As part of the Initiative, the Wikimedia Foundation trained Wikipediaof our undertakings with this project is to create a report that describes how our Initiative has changed the public policy articles on the English Wikipedia. Amy Roth, the Public Policy Initiative's research analyst, has been working on a Public Policy Initiative Evaluation and Research plan. We are assessing the quality of the public policy articles on Wikipedia at several points throughout the Initiative to track changes to the article quality.

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Participants

A full list of Fall 2010 participants, including professors, Online Ambassadors, and Campus Ambassadors, is available here. See the Spring 2011 participants in action at WikiProject United States Public Policy.

Advisory Board

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Harry Potter masterclass

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Macworld staff
, | 07 Feb 03

Harry Potter is to be the focus of Electronic Arts' Digit 3D-effects masterclass at VideoForum 2003 next week.

The company has confirmed that its best-selling PlayStation 2 game Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will be the focus of its masterclass on Thursday 13 February at Wembley Exhibition Centre. The company will discuss its techniques for character rigging and animation, as well as for lighting and rendering.

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Kindergym is a fantastic movement program for children 0-5 years, designed to develop the whole child socially, emotionally, cognitivelyif these inauspicious developments are not tempered, stopped or reversed, Iran would be experiencing an ominous trend or phenomenon called deindustrialization, President Rouhani’s and his economic team’s good intensions notwithstanding.

Threat of Indebtedness and Loss of Sovereignty

The Rouhani administration has shown atnotwihstanding notwithstanding inancial elite, strong tendency to external borrowing for financing its spending needs: to pay for its imports of goods and services, or for its domestic outlays. This tendency to debt financing threatens to burden Iran with unsustainable debt a la Greece, or other south/east European countries.

Soon after the formal implementation of the nuclear deal on 16 January 2016, the president took a trip to Europe in which he embarked on a shopping spree of big-item purchases and the signing of a number of business contracts that


not military, strength.

While free trade has almost always been the bible of the economically strong, self-righteously preached to the weaker trading partners, the fact is that, historically, all of the now industrialized countries initially adopted the protectionist strategies of Mercantilism to jump-start their economic development. They became champions of free trade only after becoming competitive or dominant in global markets by virtue of earlier policies of Mercantilism/protectionism. This includes the UK, the US, France, Germany, Japan, and South Korea.

Free Trade vs. Smart Trade: Static vs. Dynamic Advantages—the Case of the UK

Before achieving international market superiority in the second half of the eighteenth century, the UK diligently shunned free trade doctrine. It relied heavily on Mercantilist policies for economic gains in global markets. This meant that the British governmentplayed an active role in mobilizing and channeling both domestic and external economic resources toward industrialization and development of the country. Colonial policies of territorial conquest and transfer of their economic resources to England was a major part of the Mercantilist theory of industrialization. So were the strict policies of protection of British industries against their international rivals, especially against the Dutch manufacturers who were at the time more efficient than the British.

More than two centuries of Mercantilist policies helped England achieve international economic superiority by the second half of the eighteenth century. International industrial superiority, combined with the disproportionately high cost of maintaining a gigantic colonial apparatus, led many of the leading British elite to suggest in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries an alternative to


Mercantilism in pursuit of international economic gains.

That alternative view (which was most effectively expounded by a number of well-respected economic thinkers of the time such as Josiah Tucker, Adam Smith and David Ricardo) maintained that Britain’s ability to dominate international markets by virtue of its competitive market forces made Mercantilist policies, as well as most of its colonial military and administrative apparatus, superfluous.

The question the British manufacturers and their political representatives in the Parliament were grappling with at this time was how to end Mercantilist policies and the formal colonial ties, and cut its enormous costs, without disturbing the existing pattern of trade specialization that England had methodically established as result of two centuries of successful Mercantilist policies. The essence of that pattern of trade specialization, also calledindependence, England had already achieved economic superiority and competitive edge in international markets. Thus as England was gradually abandoning the Mercantilist principles of trade and development in favor of the free trade doctrine, the United States was invoking those principles in pursuit of its own economic development and nation-state building objectives. Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) and Friedrich List offered the strongest policy and theoretical arguments against the emerging doctrine of economic liberalism, which, incidentally, had just received a new publicity boost by the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

Hamilton set out to prove that the laissez-faire doctrine, promoted at the time by the technologically stronger European countries, was inappropriate for the fledgling, non-competitive U.S. economy. Instead, he invoked the major Mercantilist arguments in support of


economic team are sometimes criticized as West-oriented or Euro-centric. The real problem, however, is not so much that they are West-centric, but that they are West-centric in a misplaced, inappropriate and mistaken way: Instead of drawing logical lessons from these highly educational experiences, which means following trade and development strategies of the presently more developed countries in their earlier stages of industrialization, the Rouhani administration follows their strategies of today, of mature or advanced capitalism. In other words, instead of pursuing the strategic or Mercantilist paradigm of trade and development, they follow the paradigm of free trade and economic liberalism.

Iran’s economy is severely anemic, and the overwhelming majority of its citizens are under tremendous financial distress. Sadly, though, economic doctors of the country tend to insist on issuingleading run-scorers, it means this England team have consigned Australia to two defeats without ever firing fully.

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Bankruptcy Judge.
Commencing on December 2, 2001 (the "Petition Date"), and from time to time continuing thereafter, Enron Corp. ("Enron") and its affiliates, (collectively, and together with Enron, the "Debtors") filed voluntary petitions for relief under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code"). On July 15, 2004, the Court entered an Order (the "Confirmation Order") confirming the Debtors' Supplemental Modified Fifth Amended Joint Plan of Affiliated Debtors (the "Plan") in these cases. The Plan became effective on November 17, 2004 (the *67 "Effective Date") and the Debtors emerged from chapter 11 as reorganized debtors (the "Reorganized Debtors"). Effective March 1, 2007, Enron changed its name to Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. Thereafter, on April 4, 2007, an order was entered, authorizing the change ofthe caption of the Reorganized Debtors' cases.
The following provides certain background facts relevant to the dispute regarding approval of the proposed Amended Schedule S to the Plan Supplement ("Amended Schedule 5"). Amended Schedule S lists the instruments and types of claims that, as described in Exhibit "L" of the Plan, are purportedly entitled to the benefits of subordination provisions contained in certain subordinated notes and loans. Within the indentures and loan agreements pursuant to which the subordinated notes and loans were issued, the holders of those notes or loans agreed to contractually subordinate their claims against the Debtors to claims of "Senior Indebtedness" as defined in the specific subordination agreements. The subordinated notes and loans include (1) the 8.25% subordinated debentures with $104,563,109 outstanding as of the Petition


Capital Resources, L.P. Preferred Securities, Series A and the Enron Capital LLC 8% Cumulative Guaranteed Monthly Income Preferred Securities ("MIPS").

FACTS
Pursuant to the terms of the Plan and Confirmation Order, the Reorganized Debtors were to file a schedule listing the instruments and types of claims described in Exhibit "L" to the Plan that are entitled to the benefits of subordination according to the provisions of the subordinated notes and loans. By notice of presentment dated July 29, 2005, the Reorganized Debtors submitted Amended Schedule S for approval by the Court. On August 22, 2005, The Baupost Group L.L.C. ("Baupost") and Abrams Capital, LLC ("Abrams," and with Baupost, collectively, the "Objecting Parties"), submitted a limited objection (the "Objection") to the approval of the Amended Schedule S. The Objecting Parties, holdersbenefit from the subordination provisions contained in the TOPRS Indentures and the 1993 and 1994 Loan Agreements.
Enron Equity Corp. ("EEC") holds the claims (the "EEC Claims") that are the second category of Intercompany Claims. The EEC Claims arise from three promissory notes that Enron executed in favor of EEC (collectively, the "EEC Notes"). Two of the EEC Notes were issued on December 30, 1994. The third was issued on April 5, 1996. Prior to the Petition Date, EEC entered into warrants that granted EEC the rights to purchase the EEC Notes. As of the Petition Date, Enron owed EEC approximately $107 million. Enron, directly and indirectly through a subsidiary, held 100% of the common equity of EEC. EEC sold preferred stock with the right to elect directors of


EEC to, among others, John Hancock Life Insurance Company ("John Hancock"). Pursuant to the terms of a settlement approved by the Court (the "EEC Settlement") between the Reorganized Debtors and John Hancock and other holders of preferred-stock in 2004, (1) the EEC Claims were allowed in the amount of approximately $107 million (as scheduled in `Amended Schedule S), and (2) the EEC Claims were assigned to John Hancock and others. The Objecting Parties oppose the inclusion of the EEC claims on the list of claims entitled to benefits of subordination under the 1993 and 1994 Loan Agreements.
Enron Finance Partners, LLC (the "EFP") holds the claims (the "EFP Claims") in the third category of Intercompany Claims. The EFP Claims include (1) a claim against Enron (the "EFP Class 4claims on the list of claims entitled to the benefit of subordination under the 1987 Indenture, the TOPRS Indentures and the 1993 and 1994 Loan Agreements.
In addition, the Objecting Parties oppose the inclusion, of the LOC Claims on the list of claims benefiting from the subordination provisions of the 1987 Indenture and TOPRS Indentures. While all of the LOC Claims can be referenced together as one group for the purposes of this motion, they involve claims resulting from a number of reimbursement contracts between Enron and various letter of credit issuers. Certain of such claims (the "Chase LOC Claims") are held by Chase, and Bayerische Hypo-Und Vereinsbank AG ("HVB") holds certain others (the "HVB LOC Claims").
In part, the Chase LOC Claims arise from a $500 million Letter of


in the Chase Opposition and adopt Chase's arguments. American Express Bank Ltd. a holder `of the EEC Claims, joins in the Chase Opposition and adopts Chase's arguments. John Hancock, a holder of the EEC Claims, filed its opposition to the relief sought in the Objection. In addition, certain other LOC Claims' holders, including Farallon, HVB, and ABN AMRO Bank N.V. ("ABN") also filed opposition to the relief sought in the Objection. In its opposition, ABN, a LOC Claims' holder involved in the Syndicated LC Facility Reimbursement Agreement and a 1995 Master Letter of Credit and Reimbursement Agreement between Enron and ABN, incorporates all of the arguments raised, by the other LOC Claims' holders, including Chase. Farallon, also a holder of certain LOC Claims stemming from Master Letter ofCredit and Reimbursement Agreements between Enron and the Bank of America, and between Enron and the SunTrust Bank, incorporates all of the arguments raised by Chase and other LOC Claims' holders.
The disputed master reimbursement agreements between Enron and the issuers provide that Enron's reimbursement obligations in connection with letter-of-credit transactions are senior to Enron's obligations arising from the 1987 Indenture, the TOPRS Indentures and the 1993 and 1994 Loan Agreement. At oral argument held on October, 20, 2005 (the "Hearing"), the Reorganized Debtors characterized the instant matter as being essentially an inter-creditor dispute and asserted that the result of that dispute will have no impact on the funds available for distribution. Accordingly, the Reorganized Debtors stated that they would remain neutral concerning the instant controversy. However, they reserved


is "characterized by limited liability, management by members or managers, and limitations on ownership transfer." BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY (8th ed.2004). Limited liability companies are authorized by statute in certain states.[3]Id. As defined in New York Limited Liability Company Law § 102, a limited' liability company is "an unincorporated organization of one or more persons having limited liability for the contractual obligations and other liabilities of the business . . . other than a partnership or trust, formed and existing under . . . the laws of this state. New York Limited Liability Company Law § 102(m). A limited liability company "combines the limited liability feature available to the shareholders of a corporation . . . with the pass-through income taxation available to the partners of a general' orof EFP, Class C  the third class of the membership interests. Pursuant to section 7.01 under the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of EFP (the "EFP Agreement"), upon the occurrence of any one of a number of events, including any credit rating downgrade of Enron by credit agencies, Enron, as a Class A member, had the right to select, appoint and remove the director acting as its representative on the board. Chase, as a Class C member, had the same right. However, pursuant to that section, Chase was entitled to elect two of the three directors to the board.
Because credit agencies had downgraded Enron's credit rating, Chase was entitled to exercise its voting right to elect two of three directors. Therefore, its voting shares


were included in the count of total voting shares of EFP and Enron did not own all of the voting shares as required under the "Subsidiary" definition. The Choctaw/Zephyrus Settlement resulted in the redemption and cancellation of Class C voting shares causing a change in the ownership composition of voting shares of EFP. Pursuant to the settlement, upon the redemption of Class C, all rights and obligations in connection with Class C were terminated. In addition, the board members appointed by former Class C shareholders were deemed to have resigned.
The Objecting Parties concede that as a result of actions taken after the downgrade, prior to the settlement, EFP was not a "Subsidiary" under the 1987 Indenture. However, they contend that EFP was a "Subsidiary" after the settlement and,obligation of the subordinated noteholders to the senior creditors arises when they are entitled to receive payment, it is at that time that they are obligated, under the indenture, to forgo receipt of any payments in favor of the holders of Senior Indebtedness. The effective date of the Plan was the earliest date at which distributions could be made to creditors and, therefore, the Court will determine whether a company was a Subsidiary as of that date.
The structure of the Choctaw/Zephyrus Settlement caused the redemption and cancellation of the shares controlled by Chase resulting in Enron and its affiliates acquiring all of the voting power. Thus, at the effective date of the Plan, because Enron and its affiliates had all of the voting power, EFP was a Subsidiary


and the Choctaw Lenders exercised control of Cherokee through Choctaw, and Cherokee was dissolved as of February 21, 2003. At all relevant times through Cherokee's dissolution, certain entities not affiliated with Enron had voting power to elect directors to the board. The Choctacv/Zephyrus Settlement, pursuant to which the Cherokee Claim was allowed, provided that Cherokee's assets were to be liquidated, and any directors appointed by Chase on behalf of Choctaw were deemed to have resigned from the board of Cherokee.
The Objecting Parties contend that because neither the EFP Notes nor the Cherokee Note were sold, the claims based upon those notes do not constitute Senior Indebtedness under the TOPRS Indentures. The Objecting Parties concede that the Cherokee Note and the EFP Notes are evidenced by promissory notes, however,must be applied, and the holders of the notes that are the subject of Cherokee Claim and the EFP Claims are not contractually entitled to benefit from the subordination provisions under the TOPRS Indentures.

The 1993 and 1994 Loan Agreements
As part of a transaction to issue the MIPS preferred securities, on November 15, 1993, Enron and Enron Capital Resources L.P. ("Enron Capital"), its affiliate, entered into the 1993 Loan Agreement, which was a loan from the affiliate to Enron. Under that agreement Enron guaranteed payment of dividends on preferred shares and Enron Capital agreed to loan Enron a sum of money. On August 3, 1994, Enron and Enron Capital entered into the 1994 Loan Agreement, which agreement contained terms substantially similar to that in the 1993 Loan Agreement. In


Q:

Who is the naked lady in Big fish?

I have just finished watching Big Fish (2003). It is a really great movie but left me puzzled over the significance of The Naked Lady.
Spectre was a real town, Jenifer lived there and Edward also reconstructed that town. He might have only made things up like putting the shoes on wire etc. But here my Question is who was the naked lady in that lake Edward saw while his first stay in Spectre and tried to save her from snake bite, and what was her role or significance in the movie, even if she was one of the fantasy story of Edward? She was also shown in the movie while Edward's car drowns in the thunderstorm water in the story Jennifertells Will  and then again in the end while Edward died in the river. Just after watching naked lady first time, Edward see Jennifer (as a baby) who seem to know something about her.

A:

Who is the River woman1?
Dialogue with Jenny suggests that she's not really a "woman", but rather a sort of hallucination; Jenny's dialogue suggests that "she" represents something the observer wants, but can't have:

Jenny (matter-of-factly) It's not a woman, it's a fish. No one ever catches her.
Given the day he's had so far, Edward isn't inclined to follow up on the issue. He starts to wade back to the bank.
Jenny (cont'd) Fish looks diff'rent to diff'rent people. My daddy said it looked like the coon dog he had when he was a kid, back


from the dead.
Big Fish (2003)

The idea of the "uncatchable lady fish" crops up a few times throughout the movie, most often in connection with Edward's wife Sandra; in his death scene, Edward himself draws a comparison between the two women:

But one face is missing from the crowd -- Sandra. Will turns to see she's already standing in the river beside them.
The reflection of the light off the water gives Sandra an unearthly glow. She's more tranquil and more beautiful than we've ever seen her.
Edward My girl in the river.
Big Fish (2003)

What does the River Woman represent?
It varies, depending on when she appears. In his blog John August, who wrote the screenplay, says that in Spectre she represents Edward's sexual awakening (emphasis mine):

Spectre is supposed to be a lotworn and escaped the Rage it is a difficult and at times near fatal thing to do.

Blue Lanterns: Hope

Created by the outcast Guardians Ganthet and Sayd the Blue Lantern light is one of Hope, something that was much needed during the Blackest Night, and a light that will help guide many in the Brightest Day. The Blue Lantern power rings have different abilities in different scenarios. When next to a Green Lantern ring the Blue rings have the abilities to heal wounds, charge the Green Lantern ring to near double its normal charging abilities. It also has adverse effects on the rings from the opposite side of the emotional like draining the Yellow rings powers, revering the effects of the Red Lantern rings, and stopping the draining power


of the Orange Lantern rings.
At the end of Blackest Night Saint Walker is the Guardian of the Blue light of Hope due to Sayd’s deal with Larfleeze and Ganthet becoming a Green lantern. The question is will all really be well for the Blue Lanterns?

Indigo Tribe: Compassion

Very little is known about the origin of the Indigo Tribe, from Blackest Night it is learned that their leader goes by the name Indigo-1 and it seems her second in command is an Indigo Tribe member named Munk. The powers of the Indigo ring beyond the default Lantern flight and protective field as well as force the compassion out of people, as well as force compassion into those that feel none. The indigo rings are also capable of utilizing the abilitiesthe emotions, and killed all who felt. The Black Lanterns took the husks of the dead, and the memories those brains still held and brought them back in torturous fashion to defeat all that was light. Only the Lantern Corps and the white light were able to bring William Hand back to life, and defeat Nekron for the time being.

White Lantern Corps: Life

In the beginning there was one light, the white light and it gave life to all the other emotional spectrum’s. When all seemed loss the white light came into play first absorbed by Sinestro, and then by the entirety of those that had been resurrected by Nekron (Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Oliver Queen, Clark Kent, Diana Prince, Bart Allen, Connor Kent and more) and that power


Revealing that they know every word Manafort changed in a recently published op-ed, prosecutors for the special counsel argued Friday that the former Trump campaign chairman's attempt to mount a public relations campaign to defend himself while under house arrest "raises serious concerns about his trustworthiness."

Prosecutors are now pushing for him to remain confined to his home after they discovered he was heavily involved in the drafting of an opinion piece about his involvement in Ukrainian politics. They say the op-ed was part of a public effort Manafort was trying to orchestrate that would have violated a judge's order to refrain from trying his case in the press.

In court papers earlier this week, Mueller's office had accused Manafort of ghostwriting the op-ed with a colleague who they saidhad ties to Russian intelligence.

Manafort Indictment: The Fallout

The White House says recent indictments from the Mueller Investigation have nothing to do with the president, his campaign or alleged collusion with Russia. Tracie Potts reports.

(Published Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017)

Manafort's attorneys had argued that Manafort had only edited the piece after receiving it from a former Ukrainian public official whom he knew through his consulting work in Ukraine. They also said Manafort hadn't violated the judge's order and was exercising his free speech rights to defend himself.

On Friday, prosecutors revealed that they knew nearly every detail of that editing process.

Writing in Microsoft Word, Manafort changed several sections of the essay, going line-by-line for over 30 minutes on the night of Nov. 29, court papers show.

Each change was tracked in the


document, which prosecutors later compared to talking points Manafort drafted last year to respond to news reports about his consulting work in Ukraine. They found they mirrored his edits, and appeared to show he had a "public relations campaign" in mind to help his case.

Prosecutors learned of the effort last week, and earlier this week, they received assurances from Manafort's attorney that the op-ed wouldn't be published.

Nevertheless, the op-ed was published Thursday in an English-language newspaper in Ukraine under the byline of Oleg Voloshyn, a former Ukrainian official.

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(Published Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018)

In addition to the op-ed, prosecutors also detailed that they have amassed hundreds of thousands


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Rush Limbaugh is ashamed of the United States. At least that's what the outspoken conservative political commentator said on his radio show Thursday, according to the New York Daily News.After President Obama warned that the "sequester" spending cuts in March ...

Rush Limbaugh is ashamed of the United States. At least that's what the outspoken conservative political commentator said on his radio show Thursday, according to the New York Daily News.

After President Obama warned that the "sequester" spending cuts in March would lead to drastic cutbacks, Limbaugh expressed his frustrations. "I can't help but think that we are all being played for a bunch of fools, a bunch of suckers on this sequester business," he said.


MINSK, July 25. /TASS/. Doctors describe the condition of the Belarusian diplomat who underwent surgery after sustaining several gunshot wounds in an attack in Ankara as serious, Belarusian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Anatoly Glaz informed TASS on Thursday.

Belarusian diplomat taken to hospital after being attacked in Ankara — newspaper

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On Wednesday, Demiroren News Agency reported that minister counsellor of the Belarusian Embassy in Turkey Alexander Poganshev had been attacked presumably by his neighbor who committed suicide immediately after the attack. The incident took place in Ankara’s Cankaya district, home to many government institutions and foreign diplomatic missions.reasonable doubt.
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He and a colleague had been attempting to stop a vehicle using a tyre-puncturing "stinger" device at 02:10 BST, police said.

Fellow officers tried to save PC Phillips' life but he died shortly after arriving at hospital.

image copyright Billy Griffiths/PA image caption PC Phillip's widow Jen and his daughters left flowers close to where he was struck by the car

image copyright Billy Griffiths/PA image caption Friends and family of the officer paid tribute to him during a press conference at Merseyside Police headquarters

On Wednesday PC Phillips' widow, Jen, and their daughters, Abigail, seven, and Sophie, three, laid flowers at the side of the road.

Later, friends and family, including sisters Hannah


Whieldon and Kate Phillips, paid tribute to him at a press conference organised by Merseyside Police.

On Wednesday evening, hundreds of people turned out to pay their respects to the officer at a candlelit vigil at New Brighton's Fort Perch Rock, Wirral.

A book of condolence is to be opened at Liverpool Town Hall on Thursday for the public to leave messages of sympathy.The following doctrinal statement is the basic spiritual foundation for this ministry, and the same shall not be amended or deleted, except by vote or written consent of all the Board of Directors of Rise Again Outreach, Inc.

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

We believe in the present ministry of the


The plane caught fire on landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport. (Representational)

An airliner caught fire on landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Tuesday but all 100 passengers were evacuated without injury, the head of Iran's emergency department said on state television.

Pir-Hossein Kolivand said the fire broke out after the aircraft's landing gear did not open properly, and was later brought under control.

The airplane was a Fokker 100 belonging to Iran Air, the Fars news agency reported.

The pilot was not able to open the back wheels of the plane and circled the airport attempting to open all the wheels before landing the plane on its body, according to Fars.Hoover - A new "Collector's Edition" DVD. Enjoy a special presentation of the critically acclaimed motion picture starring Academy AwardŽ winning actor Ernest Borgnine in one of his best performances to date. Also featurin... more &raquog Cartha "Deke" Deloach, the Assistant to the FBI Director and now Chairman of the Hoover Foundation. This provocative film dares to tell the truth about J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. An inspiring and historical journey which has never been told before about one of America's greatest icons and how one man shaped the FBI.


Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Board of Trustees

November 15 , 2006

Board Meeting Summary

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

THIS SUMMARY IS NOT THE OFFICIAL MINUTES OF THE MEETING

FY 2008-2009 Biennial Budget Request and FY 2007 Capital Budget Request
The Board of Trustees is committed to providing high-quality, accessible education at all Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. The Board strongly urges the state of Minnesota to support the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities fiscal year 2008-2009 biennial budget request as illustrated in Table 2 (below) and FY2007 capital budget request in Attachment A.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' Board of Trustees approves the final fiscal year 2008-2009 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities biennial operating budget request and the fiscal year 2007 capital budget request for transmittal to theComic Book Corner: The physics of superheroes

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Professor James Kakalios of the University of Minnesota applied real world physics to the fictional situations of comics in his 2005 book. The book later got an expanded version in 2009 under the title The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition in 2009. In both, he featured well-known characters like Spider-Man and Storm from Marvel and other comics with an aspect of science, discussing the difference and similarities of their application. While the book is mostly text, it includes a number of illustrations and panels from various comics. Though there are much covered, the terminology


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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (simplified Chinese: 花木兰; traditional Chinese: 花木蘭; pinyin: Huā Mùlán), also known as Mulan: Legendary Warrior, is a 2009 Chinese film starring Zhao Wei as the titular protagonist. The director, Jingle Ma, has explained that this film is vastly different from the 1998 Walt Disney animated film and adheres more to his imagination.Zhao Wei was cast by Ma as Hua Mulan over actresses Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, and Liu Yifei, who were reportedly also considered for the main role.

The Russian singer Vitas also has a role in this film and helped publicize the film by providing a song titled Beneath the Glory for the film score.

In450 A.D., the ruling Chinese dynasty is under constant threat from the Rouran tribes. The Chinese army conducts a nationwide draft. A retired soldier named Hua Hu insists on enlisting again to serve his country. Mulan (Zhao Wei), his young daughter, is quite intelligent and skilled in various martial arts. But because she is a woman, she cannot enlist. Mulan tricks her father, steals his armor and weapon, disguises herself as a boy and enters the Wei army in her father's place.


LAS VEGAS -- For better or worse, the wickedness of the fight game tends to show itself in waves. Just ask Anthony Pettis. A little over a year ago, Pettis was the guy in the UFC lightweight division. The guy on the Wheaties boxes. The guy with the portfolio that oozed star potential. The guy who looked good in gold. But then came his back-to-back losses -- a first for an otherwise brilliant career -- and suddenly Pettis was just another guy, one among many gifted but incomplete talents jockeying for space within the sport's most crowded division.

In retrospect, Pettis knew after the second of those losses -- a listless decision against Eddie Alvarez -- that something had to change. In a game where creativity is king, nineon him. The difference this time though is that after his loss to Rafael dos Anjos, Pettis committed nearly all of his efforts to retooling his worst attributes, while ignoring what made him so successful in the first place.

He did not make that mistake again, and now hints of the swagger that made him a living video game character have returned just as strong as they were the night he captured UFC gold.

"The key is that pressure," Pettis says. "I felt uncomfortable sparring and that's how I feel in the Octagon. Most fights aren't comfortable where you're like, 'oh, this is easy'. It's an uncomfortable feeling where this guy has good moments, I have good moments -- but that's how it was when I sparred. It was good.

"I'm


Mayor Steve Bach hopes to use $8.8 million in city reserve funds to mitigate flooding that could occur in Camp and South Douglas creeks on the Westside, as well as in North Douglas Creek through northern Colorado Springs.

City Stormwater Engineering Manager Tim Mitros (far right) explains to a full house in the Great Hall at Glen Eyrie April 11 about the potential flooding issues facing the Pleasant Valley neighborhood this year.

Westside Pioneer photo

His proposal for a supplemental appropriation is part of a request for $10 million in flood-safety improvements that will go before City Council at its April 22 meeting. Bach and his chief of staff, Laura Neumann, spoke at a media briefing April 17.
The urgency stems from last summer's Waldo Canyon Fire, whose burn areas have wipedon repairing deteriorated concrete in the lined channel east of 30th Street and south of Garden of the Gods Road. As a continuation of past repair work, this project could get under way in time to allow the city to “secure the area for the summer,” she
said at the briefing.
The tentative plan for Camp Creek is to build a “detention basin” north of Gateway Road in the Garden of the Gods. This could take the shape of a berm that would be built across the channel, letting normal flows through but holding back water if it “got up to a 50-year storm,” explained City Stormwater
Engineering Manager Tim Mitros in a separate interview.

Capt. Carl Miller of the city's Office of Emergency Management (left) answers a question after a meeting


ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Blues President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced today the Blues have recalled forward Chris Thorburn from the club's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the San Antonio Rampage.

In addition, the Blues assigned defenseman Niko Mikkola to the Rampage.in 2013. In the same period, the frequency of flunitrazepam in drugged drivers decreased from 16.6% in 2004 to 3.2% in 2013. The number of clonazepam prescriptions decreased, while the number of seized tablets containing clonazepam increased considerably from 2004 to 2013. For the last 10 years, a significant increase in the illegal use of clonazepam has been seen, now replacing flunitrazepam as the most used illegal benzodiazepine in Norway.


Beer Calendar: Send Summer Off at Prost, Westfax and Alpine Dog

Two breweries will open their doors for the first time this week on opposite ends of the greater Denver metro area, one in Littleton and one in Boulder.

Lariat Lodge Brewing, which was founded in Evergreen in 2015, has turned on the lights at its second outpost, this one at 12684 West Indore Place, in Littleton's Ken Caryl neighborhood. The huge, 18,000-square-foot brewpub has a twenty-barrel brewing system and a full food menu very similar to the Evergreen spot.

Unnamed Beer Company, located at 2907 55th Street, is the first new brewery to open in Boulder in a couple of years. Unnamed says on its website that it's woman-owned and has a penchant for art — everything from street arttap Ale Satan, a coffee honey brown ale that was brewed in support of the Satanic Temple Colorado, an organization with a complex set of beliefs that boil down to this: "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will." Counterintuitive? Maybe. You'll have to Google it like we did and make up your own mind. A portion of the proceeds from each pint of Ale Satan sold at the release, which lasts from 1 to 8 p.m., will be donated to the Satanic Temple to help fund its upcoming projects.

It's another Hazy Sunday at River North Brewery's Washington Street location. This month's variation


play music and the G Wagon Denver will have food.

Friday, September 6Tivoli Brewing celebrates its sixth anniversary from 5 to 10 p.m. with a party featuring live music from Velvet Compass and Guerrilla Fanfare, Oktoberfest stein-holding contests, Gelande Quaffing and other beer games, Tivoli beers on the quad and other fun. Tickets are available at eventbrite.com.

Saturday, September 7 With the openings of Flytco Brewing and Empourium Brewing on Tennyson Street in northwest Denver, the strip is now packed with five breweries. Four of them will participate in the Tennyson Street Brewery Crawl and Silent Auction from 2 to 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 and include one beer at each brewery on the tour, a dinner buffet at the end from local restaurants, and a silent auction. The crawlAscariasis is a common problem, with approximately one-fourth of the world population infected \[[@CR1]\]. The majority of infections occur in the developing countries of Asia and Latin America \[[@CR2]\]. Ascariasis refers to infestation by the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides. Humans become infested after ingesting material contaminated with embryonated eggs from faeces of an infected individual. The eggs hatch to larvae in the small intestine under the influence of gastric secretions. The larvae then penetrate the intestinal mucosa and are transported haematogenously to the lungs. The worm then matures in the alveoli and then travels up the bronchi and trachea only to be swallowed again. Once in the intestine, they mature to adult worms. They then mate and produce eggs. The eggs are then excreted along with faeces and are


to demonstrate consistent and

sustained improvement in the core competencies. Ms. Soupir accompanied

Mr. Rangel on his sales calls in November 2007 and January 2008, and sent him

memos listing ways in which he could improve. In a February 2008 memo,

Ms. Soupir told Mr. Rangel his improvements were inconsistent and she listed the

improvements he needed to make in his selling skills, product knowledge, and

territory management.

      Mr. Rangel’s overall performance was rated as “Below” at his year-end

performance review for 2007. The review summary stated that Mr. Rangel had not

demonstrated consistent performance in the areas of selling skills, product

knowledge, and territory management. Id. at 198. Mr. Rangel was placed on a final

written plan (FWP) in May 2008, for “continuous and significant gaps between the

minimum expectations of the jobSo for instance, a town might be able to acquire a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP), designed to protect soldiers against roadside bombs and worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, for two or three grand. Radley Balko found towns with as few as 3,900 residents that had acquired an MRAP.

In the past, all that firepower has usually been directed at individuals — the person suspected of selling drugs who’s sitting at his kitchen table when a SWAT team made up of local cops, fancying itself Seal Team Six taking down Osama bin Laden, comes barrelling through the wall. But in Ferguson, a militarized police force was unleashed on an entire community.

On Thursday, Rand Paul wrote an excellent op-ed in Time magazine on both the militarization of law


Last week, two years into her term, Teresa Sullivan was removed as president of the University of Virginia. Helen Dragas, rector of the University's Board of Visitors-what most states call a Board of Regents-explained the situation with a brief statement, "The Board believes that in the rapidly changing and highly pressurized external environment in both health care and in academia, the University needs to remain at the forefront of change." Of course, this explained nothing about the decision to remove Sullivan, who by all accounts was succeeding as president of the university. Questions about her dismissal turned to outrage when it was revealed that Dragas had pushed this under the cover of darkness, with little deliberation, false pretenses, and the exclusion of other board members. Indeed, the Boardnever actually met to dismiss Sullivan. Rather, Dragas forced her to resign with the message that she had enough votes to oust her.

This weekend, outrage grew louder when a mistaken e-mail revealed the degree to which this was literally a coup d'état engineered by Dragas and a handful of wealthy donors, with support from members of the business school. Yesterday, 2,000 people-including faculty, administrators, and John T. Casteen, former president of U.Va-gathered on the steps of the Rotunda, the historic center of the University, to protest the decision and pressure the Board of Visitors into reversing its decision.

Reporters in Charlottesville and at the Washington Post have done a great job of covering the scandal, and you should read their work for a fuller picture of what's going on


at the University of Virginia. What they found is that-far from incompetence or mismanagement-Sullivan's sin was that she acted as a university administrator and not as a business person. As reported by the Post, one of the complaints was that she refused to cut "obscure" and low-revenue programs like Classics and German, and rejected a plan to bring online education to the university. In general, her opponents felt that she was too incremental, too ensconced in academic culture, and too unwilling to bring top-down, corporate-style governance to the university. And so, in the quest for dramatic "change," Dragas had her removed.

For as much as this has been described as "remarkable" and "unprecedented," I can't help but see it as the microcosm of a dynamic playing out in our7,000 clubs. Due to the initial increase in clubs, the federation created preliminary rounds beginning with the 1919–20 season. The following season, they added a second preliminary round. As of today, the competition contains eight regional rounds with some regions containing as much as ten.

The first Coupe de France victors were Olympique de Pantin who defeated FC Lyon 3–0 at the Stade de la Légion Saint-Michel in Paris in front of 2,000 spectators. The following year, the competition was shifted to the Parc des Princes and drew 10,000 supporters to the final that saw CASG Paris defeat Olympique de Paris 3–2. The competition alternated between many stadiums during its early years playing at the Stade Pershing from 1920–1924 before switching to the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes. The


MOUNTAIN BIKE PRESS

The third round of the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup Series takes place at Mankele MTB Park near Mbombela, Mpumalanga, from 25-26 April. This is the first event of the season where the cross-country (XCO) and downhill (DHI) races will take place at the same venue on the same weekend and promises thrilling action and entertainment for riders and spectators alike.

The UCI Cat 1 XCO event is sure to attract SA’s top riders once again to continue their point’s momentum three races into the series, while Junior competitors will be competing in an event that forms part of the UCI Junior World Series.

eam RECM rider James Reid is ready to race one of his favourite tracks at the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup Series, which takesplace at Mankele MTB Park near Mbombela, Mpumalanga, from 25-26 April. Photo: Evan Rothman

Team RECM rider James Reid is eager to see what next weekend holds, especially after the excitement at the Pietermaritzburg MTB Festival at Cascades earlier this month. Reid competed in the UCI HC Cat XCO race on Saturday 4 April, and had spectators on the edge of their seats. Being part of the first breakaway of three and the first Elite Male over the finish line after the first lap, things were looking promising for Reid, until a shoe mishap occurred quite early on in the race, which pushed him back into fifth place. “Ah, I mean of course, the shoe thing wasn’t ideal at all, but I had a good time out there,” he


title in Oman in February, and winning the DUTOIT Tankwa Trek in the Western Cape soon after with teammate, Erik Kleinhans. He also claimed the silver medal at the Stihl SA XCO #2 this year at Voortrekker Monument in Gauteng, coming in just behind Matthys Beukes.

Reid rides this weekend together with his RECM team in the Ashburton National MTB Series in Clarens - the first time this year that the team will be competing in the same race. After round 3 of the SA MTB Cup Series, it’s off to Rwanda for Reid for the African Continental Champs, and the World Cup in Czech Republic and Germany later on in May.

Entries for the 2015 Stihl SA MTB Cup Series #3 are open for the XCO and DHI events.Click here to enter. Entries close on Tuesday 21 April 2015. Late entries will be accepted at registration with a nominal fee of R50.

Cycling South Africa

Cycling South Africa is the governing body of cycling in South Africa and is a member of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). It is affiliated to the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) as well as the Department of Sport & Recreation. Cycling South Africa regulates the five major disciplines within the sport, both amateur and professional, which include: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking, BMX Biking, Track Cycling and Para-Cycling. Cycling South Africa’s “2020 Vision” strategy, to cater for both the elite cyclist as well as the everyday two- and three-wheel lovers, contributes to the organisation being a dynamic, successful and highly


A sight for sore eyes, or an eyesore site?

There's a lot of primping and preening going on around St. Paul in preparation for the Republican National Convention, but there's some things that a little makeup just can't cover.

Seven or so stories of crumbling concrete, for instance.

The historic Head House at St. Paul's Upper Landing, despite a decade of good intentions (and a "most endangered building" designation in 2003), is still an abandoned relic. It's sitting right in front of some of the city's newest riverfront condos, too.

This summer, the city took bids for a $2 million renovation that will revive the 1917 building's history: it was the first grain terminal operated in the U.S. by an agricultural cooperative. The low-slung "sack house" at the foot of the toweris slated to become a park facility and trail building.

The Sack House was supposed to be a restaurant, but apparently no one could crack that dang risk-of-an-obliterating-flood nut that comes with being a former barge terminal.

Anyway, work on that won't start for another month or so, so the city's going to dress the place up a little -- again. Planning and Economic Development spokeswoman Natalie Fedie said they're going to put a giant banner with a rendering of the project on the side of the Head House.

"It'll give people some idea of what the final product might look like," Fedie said.

It'll replace the one that Upper Landing developer Centex Homes put up years ago to, you know, give people an idea of the final product, and that the


Update: Since this story was published New Matilda has been contacted by Deborah Robinson, who said she had not been aware of the submission and that the Q Society was yet to make its formal submission to the Inquiry.

“I have no idea how it ended up on the parliamentary website because we certainly didn’t send it in,” she said.

She did not dispute that the petition itself was put together by the Q Society, and when asked further questions, including whether another member of the Society could have sent it in, she hung up.

The submission, which had been vetted by the parliamentary committee before publication, is no longer available on the parliamentary website. An Administrative Officer working for the committee said they could not currently reveal the name ofa full-circle approach to educational gardening, provides a basic introduction to growing produce in an outdoor garden, and...

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Federal agents in Michigan have nabbed the top human trafficker on the Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Most Wanted List, officials said Wednesday.

The U.S. Marshals arrested Darrick Bell, 50, at the Econo Lodge, a motel in Monroe, Michigan, an ICE official told the media, according to Fox News.

NEW: U.S. Marshals say they have nabbed Darrick Bell, 50, aka Tone or Ghost, wanted in connection with a human trafficking operation at the notorious, now-demolished Victory Inn on Michigan Ave. at the Detroit/Dearborn border. — Maryann Struman (@mastruman) August 1, 2019

The suspect, known as Tone or Ghost, was in possession of $12,000 in cash and cocaine, federal officers reported. A woman was also arrested at the same time.

An ICE spokesman said that Bell was linked to a raid in 2017treatment systems that transform waste into fuel and fertilizer for Kenyan communities. In Nairobi, typhoid fever is a common problem due to the lack of toilet facilities. In the rainy season, human waste contaminates the Mathare River where many Kenyans bathe and wash. Ecotact has developed a low-cost pay-per-use toilet for installation in the slums of Mathare. The toilets cost pennies to use and provide additional employment for maintenance and service. In addition, the company has also created the Ikotoilet – a small building that offers toilets as well as clean showers, and clothes washing facilities.

Manna Energy received $200,000 for its water treatment plants for schools in rural Rwanda. Access to clean drinking water is extremely limited in Rwanda. In addition, many schools burn limited wood resources to