the 1980s, guided by the various social history methodologies of the 1960s and skeptical of the rigid class analysis of Soviet scholars, Western researchers sought new ways of making sense out of a formation that confounded many of the received notions of labor history. Among the major contributions were William Chase, Workers, Society and the Soviet State: Labor and Life in Moscow, 1918–1929 (Urbana, Ill., 1987); Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin’s Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928–1932 (Cambridge, 1988); Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–1941 (Cambridge, 1988); Donald Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization: The Formation of Modern Soviet Production Relations, 1928–1941 (London, 1986); Gabor Rittersporn, Stalinist Simplifications and Soviet Complications: Social Tensions and Political Conflicts in the USSR, 1933–1953 (Chur, 1991); Vladimir Andrle, Workersin Stalinist Russia: Industrialization and Social Change in a Planned Economy (New York, 1988). The 1994 publication of the essay collection edited by Siegelbaum and Suny, in which many of these authors, along with Moshe Lewin, Diane Koenker, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Victoria Bonnell, Chris Ward, and Daniel Orlovsky, took part, raised difficult questions about the methods and certainties of a materially based labor history. Others, following the methodological leads of Gareth Steadman-Jones and William H. Sewell, stressed the importance of language and suggested that the events of the twentieth century had diminished, if not erased, the historical importance of the working class. It seemed a new agenda had been set, but, by and large, the torch was not picked up, as scholarly interest in labor history waned throughout the


looks at peasants who came to Moscow in the 1930s, became workers, but retained many peasant ways. Of these more recent books, Hoffmann describes the lowest level of happiness with the regime; Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1941 (Ithaca, 1994).

6 In Europe and most of Latin America, soccer leagues are divided into various divisions. Teams that finish at or near the bottom of the elite division are relegated to the next lower division, and teams at or near the top of the next lower division are promoted. This system is followed at the lower divisions as well. Thus a permanently terrible team that always finishes last is not possible in most leagues. The price of poor play is extremely high. On early baseball, see Elliot Gorn andWarren Goldstein, A Brief History of American Sports (New York, 1993), 114–28.

7 On soccer and identity, see Anthony King, “New Directors, Customers and Fans: The Transformation of English Football in the 1990’s,” Sociology of Sport Journal, no. 14 (1997): 236. “[F]ootball fandom is centrally bound up with issues of identity formation. Because fans express their identities and self-understandings through the club, and, therefore, simultaneously define themselves in terms of football, the attachment to the football club is particularly strong.” On the close connections between teams and communities during the origins of soccer, see Bill Murray, Football: A History of the World Game (Aldershot, 1994), 1–50; Christiane Eisenberg, “Football in Germany: Beginnings, 1900–1914,” International Journal of the History of Sport 8, no. 2 (1991): 205–20; Heiner Gillmeister, “The Fate


of Little Franz and Big Franz: The Foundation of Bayern Munich FC,” Soccer and Society 1, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 80–106; Rogan Taylor, Football and Its Fans: Supporters and Their Relations with the Game, 1885–1985 (Leicester, 1992), 3–13; Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History (Oxford, 1989); James Walvin, Football and the Decline of Britain (London, 1986), 44–56; Dave Russell, Football and the English: A Social History of Association Football in England, 1863–1995 (Preston, 1997), 55–67; Charles Korr, West Ham United: The Making of a Football Club (Urbana, Ill., 1986), 1–17; Chris Bethell and David Sullivan, Millwall Football Club, 1885–1939 (Stroud, 1999), 5–8; Pierre Lanfranchi, “Bologna: The Team That Shook the World,” International Journal of the History of Sport 8, no. 3 (December 1991): 336–46; JohnDistinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (Cambridge, Mass., 1984), 214. On Bourdieu, see Susan Brownell, Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People’s Republic (Chicago, 1995), 11.

11 On the anti-somatic bias of the Russian and Soviet intelligentsias, see Irina Bykhovskaia, Homo somatikos: Aksologiia chelovecheskogo tela (Moscow, 2000), 17. On the ignoring of the body in sociology, see Bryan Turner, The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory, 2d edn. (London, 1996), 67. In recent times, much of the credit for placing the body at the center of scholarly concerns belongs to Michel Foucault. On Foucault in the context of the body, sport and politics, see Richard Gruneau, “The Critique of Sport in Modernity: Theorising, Power, Culture and the Politics of


of these figures before the revolution was Petr Lesgaft, who evinced little interest in the politics of the body and less in the traditional problems tackled by the intelligentsia. Nor is there much evidence of intellectuals demonstrating great interest in the work of Lesgaft. Riordan, 47–53.

12 Brownell, Training the Body for China, 11. On body culture, see also Thomas Laqueur and Catherine Gallagher, eds., The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley, Calif., 1987); Henning Eichberg, Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space and Identity, John Bale and Chris Philo, eds. (London, 1998); Mike Featherstone and Bryan S. Turner, eds., The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory (London, 1991); Bourdieu, Distinction, 66–79; Brownell, 12; Karen Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrationsin the Time of Stalin (Bloomington, Ind., 2000), 24, 31–34. For a photographic record of the ways bodies were displayed in the celebrations about which Petrone writes, see A Pageant of Youth (Moscow, 1939).

13 Eric Dunning, “Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and Its Transformations,” in Women, Sport and Culture, Susan Birell and Cheryl Cole, eds. (Urbana, Ill., 1994), 163–79; R. W. Connell, Masculinities: Knowledge, Power and Social Change (Berkeley, Calif., 1995), 56; Holt, Sport and the British, 8; Gale Bederman, Manliness and Civilization (Chicago, 1996), 7. On sport as a marker of modern masculinity, see Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (St. Paul, Minn., 1995), 93; John Hoberman, Sport and Political Ideology (Austin, Tex., 1984), 11. Concerning


class-based versions of masculinity, see Richard Gruneau and David Whitson, Hockey Night in Canada: Sport, Identities and Cultural Politics (Toronto, 1993), 192–96; John Nauright and Timothy Chandler, eds., Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity (London, 1996), 32; Gorn and Goldstein, Brief History of American Sports, 94; Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football (New York, 1979), 175.

23 Joseph Bradley, Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia (Berkeley, Calif., 1985), 4, 56, 139. Seventy percent of the Presnia’s residents were recent migrants from the countryside. The district ranked eighth of seventeen districts in rural emigrants. Most came from provinces west of the city. The presence of the nearby Alexandrovskii railroad station made the Presnia a popular jumping-offpoint for the newly arrived.

29 There has been much debate about Nikolai Starostin’s birth date. Most official sources give 1902 as the year of birth, but unofficial rumors often put the date earlier. In the sentencing document (prigovor) that sent Starostin, his brothers, and several friends to hard labor in the camps, the police give his birth date as 1898. The earlier year makes a number of important moments in Nikolai Starostin’s lifetime more plausible. This is particularly true for the year of his debut in organized soccer for the Russian Gymnastic Society, which took place, as best as can be calculated, in 1916. Here, the difference is significant. Were he born in 1902, his debut would have taken place at the age of fourteen, not likely. On


the other hand, eighteen would be a normal time in life to start play at what then passed for the elite level in Russia. Some of the uncertainty may be due to the fact that Nikolai was born in the family’s native village in Pskov Gubernia, where recordkeeping may have been far less precise than in Moscow, where the rest of the siblings were born. See Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiskii Federatsii (hereafter, GARF), fond 7583, opis’ 60, delo 4105, listy 1–2; Nikolai Starostin, Zvezdy bol’shogo futbola (Moscow, 1967), 67, 140. There were numerous sets of brothers who played soccer in the Presnia. The most famous were the four Kannunikovs, particularly Pavel, and the three Artemevs, especially Ivan.

38 Robert Edelman, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSRThey earn their money, divide it up and go home.”

42 Nikolai Starostin, Futbol skvoz’ gody, 21.

43 Esenin, Moskovskii futbol, 149; Nikolai Starostin, Zvezdy, 84.

44 This was not the case with Ivan Artemev, who left Krasnaia Presnia to join Dinamo in 1923. Various accounts give different reasons for his leaving. Nikolai Starostin, Futbol skvoz’ gody, 141; Gorianov, Ozhivshchie legendy, 179. In his 1986 work, Nikolai Starostin, Moi futbol’nye gody, 11, said he became captain when Artemev left. In 1989, Starostin said he was the captain who did not name Artemev to the side, which was the reason Artemev gave for leaving. My larger point here is to question the accuracy of Starostin’s accounts.

45 The army team had evolved out of the civil war creation known as Vsevobuch. The team


originally was called OPPV. In 1928, it became TsDKA (Tsentral’nyi Dom Krasnoi Armii); Esenin, Moskovskii futbol, 19; Nisenboim and Rasinskii, Ot MKS do Spartaka, 34.

46 Esenin, Moskovskii futbol, 10; Nisenboim and Rasinskii, Ot MKS do Spartaka, 34. The original Krasnaia Presnia stadium was given to the team from the huge Trekhgornaia (formerly Prokhorov) textile works.

48 The idea for a Spartak stadium was first raised at the highest political levels in 1936. The matter went nowhere and was raised again in 1948. See Aksel’ Vartanian, “Stadion dlia Spartaka: Istoriia nachalas’ v 1936 godu,” Sportekspress, July 9, 2001.

50 According to Nikolai Starostin, 15 percent of Promkooperatsiia revenues went to sport once Spartak was established. Nikolai Starostin, interview with the author, Moscow, September 25, 1990. Promkooperatsiia was part of the Ministryagreed to the match less than two weeks before it was scheduled. Rossiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Sotsial’no-Politicheskoi Istorii (hereafter, RGASPI), f.17, op.3, d.974, l.11, December 21, 1935. They refused to permit a return match in Moscow later that year. RGASPI, f.17, op.114, d.606, l.116, May 26, 1936.

58 GARF, f.7576, op.13, d.15, l.1. There were four divisions in all. The lower divisions were larger; Riordan, Sport in Soviet Society, 127. The structure of the league, especially the first division, changed from season to season. By 1938, the first division (called group A) included twenty-six teams; the next year it was reduced to fourteen. The first year, the league was divided into spring and fall seasons, with Dinamo winning in the spring and Spartak in the fall. Thereafter, Dinamo was champion


in 1937 and 1940. Spartak won the league-cup double in 1938 and 1939. The Spartak players divided 10,000 rubles for their victory in 1936. GARF, f.7576, op.13, d.14, l.16.

59 We do not have official and universal attendance figures, but the journalists’ estimates give a good idea of popularity. When Dinamo and Spartak met at the 55,000-place (not seat) Dinamo Stadium, they regularly overflowed what turns out to have been not a mammoth structure. Sovetskii sport, March 26, 1949. Five years ago, the 55,000 bench places were replaced by a mere 36,000 plastic seats. Crowds at Dinamo for the biggest games varied from 60,000 to 90,000. Izvestiia, September 22, 1936, July 9, 1937, September 15, 1938, June 22, 1939; Krasnyi sport, August 25, 1938. The real differences came whenSpartak or Dinamo entertained a weaker provincial team. Games between Traktor Stalingrad and Spartak, for example, could draw between 25,000 and 35,000, depending on weather. Dinamo games in Moscow with the same opponent might draw 20,000 to 25,000. Krasnyi sport, November 19, 1938. The figures are more spotty for games outside the capital, but Spartak appears to have outdrawn Dinamo on the road. Krasnyi sport, August 13, 1938, June 19, 1940.

60 While there was no book-length account of Spartak written in the 1930s, the 1960s and 1970s saw several accounts that discussed pre-war events, among these, Martyn Merzhanov, Igraet Spartak (Moscow, 1963); Konstantin Esenin, Spartak Moskva (Moscow, 1974); as well as a large section of his Moskovskii futbol. See also Romm, Ia boleiu za Spartak.

61 By this phrase,


Basques received $5,000 US from a special Politburo fund for the tour. RGASPI, f.17, op.162, d.21, l.57. Permission for the tour was finally given shortly before the Basques’ arrival. RGASPI, f.17, op.3, d.987, l.131.

81 Soon after the famous triumph over the Basques, Kosarev sent Spartak on a tour of Europe, where they won further glory at the Workers’ Olympiad in Antwerp and at a special tournament connected with the Paris International Exposition. Nikolai Starostin, Futbol skvoz’ gody, 37–40. Starostin makes much of the fact that the referee in the match against the Basques, Kosmachev, an official of the Spartak Society, was banned from the game for his “favoring” of Spartak. Yet Starostin did not mention the ban was temporary, not, as he implied, permanent, nor does he stateand that Serafim had committed suicide, not died at the front. While her assertions may not necessarily be true, they do track well with the Znamenskiis’ accusations of the Starostins.

126 The Starostins were also accused of buying excessive gifts for their wives when in Paris. The presents consisted of twelve French dresses for each wife as well as commodes. The trip to Paris took place in July 1937 and was connected with the Paris International Exposition. The Znamenskiis were also part of the Soviet delegation. TsKhDMO, f.1, op.23, d.1268, l.22.

127 TsKhDMO, f.1, op.23, d.1268, ll.24–25. This practice did, in fact occur, and would come back to haunt Spartak when one of their goalies, Vladislav Zhmelkov, was called back to the army. After it had been discovered that he


had left the service two months earlier than the end of his hitch, he was required to play for TsDKA. Zhmelkov refused the assignment and found himself playing for an army team in faraway Chita. He was sent to the front when the war broke out. While Zhmelkov survived, he was unable to resume his career at the highest level. The deterioration in his game has usually been ascribed to heavy drinking after his professional exile to Chita. Spartak, no. 5 (May 2000): 17.

128 TsKhDMO, f.1, op.23, d.1268, ll.28–31.

129 Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, 85–109. On Kosarev, see E. Dobrovol’skii, “Aleksandr Kosarev,” Sportklub, no. 4 (1998): 34–36; Nikolai Starostin, interview. On Kosarev’s close relationship with Yezhov and his strong support for the terror, see J. Arch GettySpartak star of the 1950s and later coach, along with Gennadii Logofet’, a star of the 1960s, both described Starostin’s constant willingness to regale the team about his Gulag experiences. Logofet’, interview with the author, Moscow, September 5, 2000; Simonian, interview, Moscow, September 7, 2000.

141 Andrei Starostin, Bol’shoi, 200. Starostin went on to say that he and his brothers were sent to “various far-off parts of the country.” He then follows this statement with a brief description of his soccer activities in the Arctic nickel-mining town of Norylsk. Starostin never says he was actually in a camp. Instead, the experience is made to sound like a provincial exile.

147 For accounts that provide an introduction to the richness and limitations of Soviet popular culture, see Richard Stites, Russian Popular


allowing the congregation to assemble amid the coronavirus pandemic in numbers exceeding Gov. Laura Kelly's directive to cap religious and other types of gatherings at a maximum of 10 people. The church is one of two plaintiffs responsible for the federal lawsuit naming only the governor as a defendant.

Harris' sermon focused on analysis of John 3:16 rather than constitutional ramifications of the governor's order wading into the hallowed ground of individual expression and religious liberty.

"You don't have to live discouraged," Harris said from the pulpit, with a plain wood cross centered above him. "You can be encouraged, knowing God loves you."

One-third of the in-church devotees wore face masks during the service, but everyone followed public health guidelines to keep their distance in the pews from people outside theirimmediate families. The unusual setup didn't impede ability of the church’s brothers and sisters to punctuate the sermon with an amen or contribute to singing of hymns.

After ushering worshipers out the door, absent the traditional handshake, Harris declined an interview request. Despite being one of two plaintiffs with First Baptist Church in Dodge City in the lawsuit designed to thwart Kelly's executive order, the pastor was content to deflect media scrutiny to attorneys articulating the First Amendment justification for a church exclusion to the state's plan to limit transmission of COVID-19.

The virus had contributed to the death of 92 Kansans and infected at least 1,849 others by the time Calvary Baptist's faithful exited the wood-and-stone church before noon. As of Saturday, coronavirus outbreaks in Kansas had been linked


two Baptist churches challenging Kelly’s limit on the size of church gatherings. He said initial arguments presented to the court made it likely the plaintiff's attorneys would prevail with a claim the governor's bid to inhibit spread of coronavirus was unconstitutional.

The governor's directive was suspended as it related to the plaintiff churches in Junction City and Dodge City, pending further proceedings.

The federal judge said the executive order signed ahead of Easter Sunday by Kelly to shrink church events to no more than 10 individuals was crafted to "expressly restrict religious activity" while allowing large gatherings at airports, child care centers, hotels, food pantries and retail establishments.

"The court recognizes that the current pandemic presents an unprecedented health crisis in Kansas, and in this country," said Broomes, who was anAfter U.S. deportation, a Honduran mother and daughter's uncertain fate

Gabriel Stargardter and Gustavo Palencia, Of Reuters

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — When 9-year-old Genesis stepped off a plane in Honduras after being deported from the United States, she was excited at the thought of seeing her cousins. For her mother, Victoria Cordova, the homecoming was terrifying: She fears being killed if she does not repay money she owes the wife of a local gang leader.

Cordova had used the money to pay a smuggler to get her and Genesis to the United States. But after a grueling 1,600 mile overland trek, the pair were caught entering Texas in June, sent to a detention center and then flown home this week as part of a U.S. effort to speed up the expulsion of


thousands who entered illegally, many of them children.

Mother and daughter, who had fled rampant violence in Tegucigalpa, returned to a situation even more precarious than the one they had left. Cordova, who is unemployed, does not know how she is going to repay the loan.

Their story is emblematic of a wider problem that has been little reported: threats, debts and despair often lie in wait for migrants deported back to violence-racked Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Deported migrants often become targets of the gangs they tried to escape, and their jobs prospects are grim. They face stigmatization upon return, being lumped in with people deported for more serious offenses than crossing the border illegally.

Genesis, who gave up her friends, her dog and her toys to travel 25 days northwith her mother, sometimes sleeping in mud in pouring rain, was only too glad to be sent back.

"I'm happy to be going because I'm going to see my cousins," Genesis told Reuters after getting off a U.S. charter flight on Monday with 20 other children and 17 women in San Pedro Sula, the city with the highest murder rate in the world.

But the innocent comment belied the reality awaiting her mother in a country where gangs control the crushingly poor neighborhoods many migrants seek to escape.

A $6,000 debt

Thirty-year-old Cordova and Genesis arrived home near midnight. Within hours, she was visited by the wife of an imprisoned local gang lord, who reminded her that she owed her $6,000.

"She told me to pay as soon as possible because she could


get into problems," Cordova said, trying to hide the tears from Genesis as she related their story, surrounded by her large family in a dilapidated corrugated iron home in Tegucigalpa.

"If he [the gang leader] realizes, he could get annoyed with her or with me, and you know what that means — we'll lose our lives."

She must find a job to pay off her debt, worth 21 months of work. Until she lost her job at a local bakery four months before leaving, Cordova earned 6,000 lempiras ($286) a month.

Reuters could not independently verify her account of the loan, but if true, it is a typical story told by returnees.

Lauren Heidbrink, an anthropologist at National Louis University in Chicago, said she had studied Guatemalan families who took out loanson their homes to pay smugglers, putting them $7,500 to $10,000 in debt at interest rates as high as 15 percent.

Julio Pineda, a 21-year-old Honduran who was deported from Mexico this spring after failing to reach the United States, said unpaid debts are not tolerated for long.

"They'll give you two or three months, and if you don't find the money, you'll go down," he said as he waited for his brother-in-law to return on a U.S. deportation flight.

Cordova said she spoke to her Honduran coyote, or smuggler, and asked if he would give her the money back. He said no, but that he would be willing to take her north again.

"I said to him, 'No, why would I do that?' So I can be sent back again?'" Cordova


said.

Greeting Cordova and Genesis as they landed, Honduran first lady Ana Garcia de Hernandez acknowledged the security situation in Honduras was still bad. "We've made efforts to improve it, but it's not been enough."

Home for Cordova and her daughter is the 21st of February, a notoriously violent neighborhood, which clings to the hills around the Honduran capital.

Many of the young Hondurans flocking to the border are fleeing gangs like Calle 18 and Mara Salvatrucha formed in the 1980s in the United States by Central American migrants.

"Some of the teenagers who were being recruited by gangs and narcotraficantes are now back in the cross hairs of those people who were wanting to recruit them and maybe now they'll get penalized for having tried to leave," said Luis Zayas, deanof the School of Social Work at the University of Texas.

Later blossoming into international franchises as members were deported back to their native countries, the "maras" run drugs, extort and are constantly in search of new recruits in three of the most violent countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Children fleeing

More than 57,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America have been apprehended at the U.S. border since October.

On the car journey from the airport to their home Monday, Cordova spoke of her fears for the future. Genesis was asleep on her mother's shoulder, wearing the same pink sneakers without laces she had on during their nearly monthlong trip to the U.S. border.

Children not much older than Genesis are at risk from the gangs. Cordova said her nephew Henry was 12 when


the maras tried to recruit him, ordering him to kill someone.

He refused, had to go into hiding, and could not even visit his mother for fear she would be killed. Cordova said he became a thief to survive and is now in the relative safety of prison.

Cordova's neighbor, Javier Gonzalez, 23, was less fortunate. After being forced by gangs to sell drugs in a rival colonia, or neighborhood, the Calle 18 gang there found and killed him.

Psychological scars

Exhausted and stressed, Cordova stopped the car on the three-hour journey home from the airport Monday so that she could vomit on the side of the road. She spent the night lying awake with stomach cramps in the single bed she shares with Genesis.

Five adults and three children live in herhouse, a series of one-room shacks built around a rubble-strewn concrete square. Her painter father, 63, is the only one with a stable income.

Before she left, Genesis spent most of her free time playing hide-and-seek with her 11-year-old cousin Wenzel and their dog Lassie, who they like to dress up in girl clothes.

Genesis says she wants to be a teacher, and often uses one of her few prized possessions, a fake computer tablet, to give mock lessons to younger local girls.

The experience of being deported can have a lasting effect on young people, experts say.

The journey north has left negative memories for Genesis, who laughed nervously when asked about the trip that had forced her to sleep outside in the rain by the U.S. border. "It was cold,


The Cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the GST bill to compensate states for revenue loss for five years on introduction of the uniform nationwide indirect tax regime, as has been suggested by Rajya Sabha Select Committee.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this evening agreed to the recommendation made by the Select Committee on compensation to states to win over support of regional parties like TMC of West Bengal and Odisha's BJD in getting the landmark Constitution Amendment approved by the Upper House where the ruling NDA does not have a majority.

The Cabinet decided that the modalities for levy of 1% tax over and above the GST rate by states as well as the 'band' rate would be finalised while framing the rules, sources said.

TheRajya Sabha Select panel, headed by BJP's Bhupender Yadav, in its report last week suggested GST rate to be no more than 20% and levy of 1% additional tax by states only on actual sales and not on inter-company stock or inventory transfer.

The Constitution Amendment Bill for a Goods and Service Tax (GST), to replace all indirect taxes like excise and sales tax on all products, except alcohol, has already been passed by the Lok Sabha and is pending passage in the Upper House.

The amendment approved by the Cabinet on compensation seeks to give an assurance to states for making up for revenue loss they may suffer in first five years of introduction of GST.

Government plans to roll out GST from April 1, 2016, a very tight schedule


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having someone like Ben there," said the aide. "He’s pretty invested in the issue."

Other experts who will be appearing before the Senate panel on Wednesday include Russell Feingold, the U.S. special envoy for the Great Lakes region and Congo; Roger Meece, former U.S. ambassador to Congo; and Raymond Gilpin, an academic dean at the National Defense University.*

Since 1996, the former Belgian colony has been beset with disease, violence, and malnourishment in a conflict involving ethnic rivalries and a battle for the region’s resources of copper, gold, and diamonds. Just last week, the United Nations mission in Congo, MONUSCO, said more than 70 people had been hacked to death by armed groups in the resource-rich northeastern North Kivu province.

ECI, Affleck’s philanthropic organization, emphasizes direct giving by connecting donors withCongolese nonprofits rather than channeling money into large international NGOs. Affleck also testified on Congo before the House Armed Services Committee in 2012. At the time, he called for the United States to play a greater role in influencing the United Nations’ role in the country. "Without persistent, high-level leadership by the United States, the key players will not come to the table and do their part," he said. "They deserve better than this cycle of violence and upheaval."

*Correction (Feb. 20, 2014): This article originally misspelled the first name of Russell Feingold. His first name is spelled Russell, not Russel. (Return to reading.)


making our country unsafe! Very dangerous and unwise!"

Tigar's ruling stated the administration's new policy of cutting off asylum to immigrants who enter the country illegally appears to run afoul of U.S. law that specifically allows them to do so.

"Whatever the scope of the President’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden," said Tigar, who was nominated by then-President Barack Obama in 2012.

"This was an Obama judge," Trump said Tuesday after a reporter asked him about Tigar's decision.

The statement rejecting Trump's label was surprising coming from Roberts, a President George W. Bush appointee who has been reluctant to respond to Trump's bellicose comments about the judiciary.

Roberts has previously been a target of Trump's criticisms; in 2016, the then-candidate calledthe chief justice a "disaster because of his rulings in favor of the Affordable Care Act.

His statement comes as many legal experts have stressed the need for judicial independence in the Trump era. Others have worried the divisive confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh damaged the court's reputation as being above the political fray.

More: With Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, Trump's poison touch infects the Supreme Court

"I think especially in this time when the rest of the political environment is so divided, every single one of us has an obligation to think about what it is that provides the court with its legitimacy," Justice Elena Kagan said last month.

Wednesday's statement was not the first time Roberts has called a president out. In 2013, Roberts wondered why President Obama continued


that ruling, and the president has suggested breaking up the 9th Circuit, which is the largest appeals court in the U.S.

Its jurisdiction includes nine western states, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands –altogether comprising about 20 percent of the nation's population. And its 29 full-time judges hear more than 12,000 appeals a year – almost twice as many as other appeals courts.

"It just shows everyone how broken and unfair our Court System is when the opposing side in a case (such as DACA) always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts," Trump tweeted in January.

Trump has long railed against judges, justices and courts that have issued rulings against him.

In 2016, Trump questioned the impartiality of Judge Gonzalo Curiel – aU.S.-born federal judge – because of his "Mexican heritage" after Curiel ruled against him in a lawsuit against Trump University

And after a ruling against his travel ban by Judge James Robart, Trump denounced the "ridiculous" opinion of "this so-called judge."

But even one of Trump's own appointees to the highest court in the land has questioned the criticisms. As he sought confirmation last year, Justice Neil Gorsuch told Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., that he found Trump's attacks on judges "demoralizing" and "disheartening."

Contributing: Alan Gomez and Richard Wolf, USA TODAY; The Associated Press


NAMIE, Fukushima Workers repair a damaged home nearby, and about 60 employees busily prepare for the return of former residents in the largely untouched town hall. Not far away, two wild boars stick their snouts in someone’s yard, snuffling for food.

Tamotsu Baba, mayor of Namie town, speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in the town's temporary town office in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Signs of life are returning nearly six years after panicked residents fled radiation spewed by the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, when it was struck by an earthquake and tsunami.

Still, only several hundred of the original 21,500 residents plan to return in the first wave, estimates Hidezo Sato, a former seed merchant who helped draw up aSally Morgan

Sally Morgan was born in Perth, in 1951. She has published books for both adults and children, including her acclaimed autobiography, My Place. She has also established a national reputation as an artist and has works in many private and public collections.


member with the movable platen to thereby enable the pressing member to apply pressure to the movable platen.
The first drive mechanism causes the movable platen to advance/retreat, to thereby open/close the mold at high speed. In the course of advancement of the movable platen (in the course of closing the mold), the movable platen engages the pressing member via the engagement mechanism. As a result, the pressing member and the movable platen advance together. At this time, the clutch mechanism interlocks the pressing member and the movable platen so that pressure can be applied to the movable platen by means of the pressing member. Thus, as soon as the movable platen reaches a predetermined position where closing of the mold ends, the second drive mechanism can start high-pressureoption." Wiegand, 275 Kan. at 847, 69 P.3d 627. As applied in that case, we concluded the district court's failure to consider the nonexistent CISC alternatives did not require us to vacate the sentence.
Applying Wiegand to this case, no CISC alternatives were presented at sentencing. Regardless, under Wiegand the district court was required to consider placement at Labette.
Circumstances have since changed, however. On June 25, 2009, the Department of Corrections issued a "Notice Concerning Cessation of Operations of Labette Correctional Conservation Camps and Suspension of Intensive Substance Abuse Treatment Programming in Kansas Department of Corrections Facilities." 28 Kan. Reg. 1026 (2009). The notice stated in part:
"In regard to the former subject of this Notice, due to lack of appropriated funding for its operation in Fiscal Year 2010, the


NATO enlargement to the East continued in spite of the promises to the contrary given earlier. The instant switch of NATO to hostile rhetoric and to the drawdown of its cooperation with Russia even to the detriment of the West’s own interests, and additional build up of military infrastructure at the Russian borders – made obvious the inability of the alliance to change the genetic code it embedded during the Cold War era.” “The U.S. and EU supported the coup d’etat in Ukraine and reverted to outright justification of any acts by the self-proclaimed Kiev authorities that opted for suppression by force of the part of the Ukranian people that had rejected the attempts to impose the anti-constitutional way of life to the entire country and wanted tonow speaking of all-out war with Russia.

Last month Washington pledged and delivered 53 million dollars of US taxpayer’s money to provide military aid to the Kiev regime, which is using the ceasefire arranged by Russian President Putin and the OSCE as an opportunity to acquire more sophisticated and deadly weapons and prepare for another barbarous onslaught against civilians in east and southeastern Ukraine, where the massacre of almost 4,000 citizens of East Ukraine and the desperate plight of more than one million refugees followed the “secret” visit to Kiev, (under a false name) of CIA Director John Brennan last April.

But perhaps the most brazen announcement of US/NATO intent to inflict further carnage upon the citizens of East Ukraine , whose rejection of the Nazi infested and Western controlled


regime in Kiev has resulted in Kiev’s campaign of extermination of its dissident Ukrainian citizens, is the return to Kiev this month of the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, Victoria Nuland. Ms. Nuland was made world famous (or world infamous) by her February declaration “Fuck the EU” while, on behalf of her neocon sponsors in Washington, she engineered the destabilization and overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovich, plunging Ukraine into the civil war that holds the potential of engulfing the world in a conflagration which will be known as World War III.

In her October 7, 2014 speech to the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Ms. Nuland boasted: “Ukraine this year has received $290 million in U.S. financial support plus aand military officials of the U.S. government, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom, and the United States and the United Kingdom themselves. In substance, the complaint alleges that all defendants conspired, acted in concert with, and aided and abetted one another in causing or permitting the attacks to be made, with a purpose to assassinate the Libyan head of state, and/or to "terrorize" the civilian population of Libya to the point of revolt against his government. The defendants are, thus, alleged to have violated the criminal and civil laws of several U.S. states, of the United States, certain treaties, and rules of international law.
Jurisdiction is said to be predicated upon various provisions of Title 28 of the U.S. Code, specifically, sections 1331 (federal question); 1346(b) (the


Federal Tort Claims Act); 1350 (the Alien Tort Claims Act); and 1361 (mandamus). Title 18, section 1964 (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act ("RICO")) is also said to confer jurisdiction.
All defendants have moved to dismiss the complaint, and for an award of sanctions.[2]

I.
The British defendants, the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Thatcher, are sought to be held liable because the British government gave permission for U.S. Air Force planes based in Great Britain to depart from and return to their air bases to participate in the mission.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 517 the United States has suggested to the Court the immunity from its jurisdiction of Prime Minister Thatcher as the sitting head of government of a friendly foreign state. The Department of State has made theby the United States. By any definition that description of the United Kingdom's allegedly wrongful conduct constitutes an archetypal act of state. Permission given by the head of government of one sovereign nation, speaking from its seat of government, to allow its territory to be utilized by an ally, at the ally's express request, to mount a military operation against a third power could not possibly be otherwise characterized. The Court concludes that the doctrine stands as an absolute bar to action against the United Kingdom, and it therefore becomes unnecessary to consider the several other jurisdictional objections it has advanced in support of its motion to dismiss.[3]

II.
The United States defendants also contend that this Court is without jurisdiction to entertain the claims against them, the issues presented


named defendants are civilian or military officials of the United States government who are alleged to have planned and/or executed the air strikes ordered by the President. That they did so in their official capacities, and none other, is manifest, and plaintiffs do not allege *322 otherwise. The avowed objective of the operation, irrespective of motive, was to inflict injury upon the Libyan targets which would be "tortious" were it to be judged by any civil law standards. The mission also called upon each participant of every rank to exercise discretion in a myriad of contexts of utmost complexity and gravity, not to mention danger. And each acted, as duty required, in accordance with the orders of the commander-in-chief or a superior officer. In the circumstances presented byvulnerable child population. This proposal is aligned to several Federal and NIH priorities, including the NIMH Strategic Plan, several reports of the Surgeon-General, publications from the Institute of Medicine, and several of the proposed objectives from Healthy People 2020, all of which call for policy action that can reduce and eliminate disparities in mental health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Race/ethnic disparities in access to needed mental health services is a national public health concern, highlighted in several publications from the Institute of Medicine, the Surgeon-General, and Healthy People 2020 objectives. These disparities are especially prevalent among children in the child welfare system, a group with the highest needs for mental health services among child populations, and a group that paradoxically possesses entitlements to Medicaid. Clearly, Medicaid agencies require better


Gays, lesbians and bisexuals still face discrimination in Germany, even though the country's General Law on Equal Treatment (AGG) prohibits it.

Christine Lüders, the head of Germany's Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, commissioned a study late last year to gauge the support for legal equality for homosexual marriage.

Of those surveyed, 83 percent spoke out in favor of same-sex marriage and 95 percent believed it was a good thing that gays and lesbians are legally protected from discrimination.

Read: Germany to rehabilitate gays

Legal partnerships: 'Second-class marriage'

Germany's same-sex couples may enter into a "registered life partnership", also known as "homo marriage", which Lüders described as a "second-class marriage." Germany lags behind other countries in Europe and the rest of the world when it comes to same-sex marriage. "I think it would be good forpoliticians to be as open-minded as the majority of the population with regard to marriage for all," said Lüders in an interview with DW.

A large part (75.8 percent) of the approximately 2,000 people surveyed between October and November 2016 also said they were in favor of allowing same-sex couples to adopt children together. The current laws do not allow it.

Since 2013, however, it has been possible for a gay person to adopt his or her partner's biological child.

Prejudice is still widespread

However, negative attitudes that are still quite widespread. According to the Anti-Discrimination Agency's study almost 20 percent of Germans consider homosexuality to be "unnatural." And almost 40 percent of those who took part in the survey said they found it unpleasant to see men or women showing affection


Küpper, who headed the research team conducting the study, also found that the younger and more educated the interviewees were, the less prejudiced they were against same-sex marriage. Women generally have a more positive view of homosexuality than men. Another factor that plays into attitudes is religion. The more religious people are – be it Jewish, Christian, Hindu or Muslim – the less tolerant they are of homosexuals and bisexuals.

However, a "small but dangerous alliance of religious fundamentalists, right-wing populists and anti-feminist hardliners" are influencing the mood, according to the spokesman of the German Lesbian and Gay Association, Markus Ulrich. He fears that these groups could become more influential in 2017 because the Netherlands, France and Germany are holding elections, and many people fear that populist forces willWeekend will feature several new events, including limited tours of the Bing Concert Hall, panels on the new Integrated Learning Environment (ILEs) science and art programs to be housed in Burbank, and discussions on the new graduation breadth requirements—called Ways of Thinking/Ways of Doing—which the Class of 2017 will pilot.

According to Admit Weekend event coordinator Oswaldo Hasbún ’13, there was a slight increase in the number of registered ProFros over last year’s total. In 2011, The Daily reported 1,190 registered admits.

According to Marcus Alvarez ’16, head House Host (HoHo) for Casa Zapata, by last weekend the Weekend’s coordinators were reportedly in need of 400 more RoHos to accommodate all ProFros. By the end of the weekend that number had reportedly been reduced to about 250 after coordinators and


In the wet heat of an early morning south-east Texas June, I made my way out to the pasture to check on her. My father had told me to make sure she was okay after I finished the milking. He left early for another job - no one was actually able to make a living off a farm in Texas.

"She looks like she might have some trouble," my father had said. I had just turned 14 and felt up to the challenge.

The clean-up was completed; now only this task was left before breakfast. It was that time of the day, in that season in Texas just before the dew had completely lifted from the grass, leaving its trace, soaking in my jeans.

She was down when I arrived. Shedid not try to get up as I approached her the way most do when giving birth. She looked to me as if she knew something. I had seen that look in a cow's eyes before. Cows are stupid except when death is near, in that brief moment before they die. It is as if they finally know something other than grass. This one was aware of herself, of her pain, of the life slipping away inside her.

"She should be showing her calf by now," I thought. "Where is the nose?" She was lying on her left side. I knelt beside her at her rear, along her back so as to avoid being kicked by her. Normally, a cow would get up and move away if she was


and beautiful, and alive.

Life seems to be the rule of nature, its norm.

With the dawning of the early-modern period, we broadened the scope to the universe. It seemed that at the heart of the universe there was only nonliving matter, not even matter at all, but energy moving toward entropy, toward death. And yet even in the vastness of the dead universe, we still hope to find life. Life is what we most want to find on other planets.

Jonas points out that the great surprise to ancient humans was not that there is life in the midst of a dead universe, but that death was even possible. Death was the great riddle in the midst of a living and animated world. Death called for explanation, not life. Jonasnotes, "As early man's practice is embodied in his tools, so his thought is embodied in his tombs which acknowledge and negate death at the same time."

Framing our actions

For the ancients, then, the general rule, the theoretical universal, was life. Death was a particular fact in need of reconciliation with the truth of life in the world. For us the general rule, and the theoretical universal is that all is dead, and life is the particular fact in need of reconciliation with the theoretical stance.

I wonder to what extent these different frames shape how we live today. Surely if we think the rule is death, that the world is dead, it affects the way we behave toward it.

Since the vast majority of the universe is dead, does preventing


kind of magical and mythical form of thought, a kind of religious and mysterious approach to life, born in premodern confusion. And yet, certainly in biological thought, a new mode of thinking has been born. Life is beginning to be seen as an emergent property of matter. Perhaps there is more to the world than just dead matter; perhaps the world cannot fit into our concepts without exceeding them. Perhaps ancient panvitalism, panpyschism and panentheism are not so far from the truth. Perhaps life is the norm.

Soaked in my own sweat, and with water mixed with blood, I was overwhelmed with exhaustion and sadness in assisting in the birth of that dead calf. I pulled the dead calf to its mother's head. Like all cows, she licked theafterbirth from her calf, the living instinct being so very strong.

I knelt down beside her, stroking her head and she bellowed as if outraged at her offspring's death, and at her own dying. I picked up her heavy head and laid it in my lap. I stroked her head as she died. I wailed with righteous anger against death that day. I would not let it have the final word, and I refuse to believe that death has the first word of the world.

After some thirty years, it seems to me that the excess that is the life of the world overwhelms our capacity to frame it with death, and that grace already saturates all that there is.

Jeffrey Bishop is the author of The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power,


controllable range of the focus servo mechanism.
In this known apparatus, the spindle motor is secured to an up-down block, and turntable and cartridge positioning member are secured to the up-down block. When the up-down block is moved upward, a lower surface of the cartridge is supported by projections of the cartridge positioning member and an optical disk installed within the cartridge is supported on the turntable. The disk is firmly secured onto the turntable by means of a permanent magnet. The up-down is block is moved up and down by a cum mechanism including a cum gear and a up-down motor for rotating the cum gear by means of a gear box, a cum surface of said cum gear being engaged with a roller arranged rotatably on ato be performed in relation to a position of a movable portion including the up-down block, turntable, cartridge positioning member and spindle motor, but in the known apparatus the position of the movable member could not be detected precisely and it is no more possible to perform the focus control precisely.
Further, in the known disk driving device, substantial parts of the device including the up-down block, spindle motor, turntable and cartridge positioning member are moved up and down, and thus a relatively heavy load is applied to the up-down motor. Therefore, the up-down motor is liable to be large. Moreover, during the focus control, not only the turntable, but also the up-down block and spindle motor are moved up and down, the projections of the cartridge positioning member


The Other House Book Review Summary

Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Other House

After the matriarch of a rich family dies soon after childbirth, the well-intentioned promise she extracts from her husband not to marry again so long as their daughter is alive leads to tragedy for everyone involved. Julia and Tony Bream are rich and in love. They are one of two wealthy families, along with the Beevers, whose estates lie side by side and who share ownership of a successful bank. But after giving birth to their daughter, Effie, Julia takes ill and it's clear she is going to die. Julia is haunted by memories of her own horrible stepmother, and so before she dies she makes Tony promise not to remarry during Effie's lifetime.

Meanwhile, Julia's friendRose Armiage has been entertaining a marriage proposal from a man named Dennis Vidal, who works in Asia as a merchant clerk. Rose always appeared to have an overly affectionate attachment to not just Julia, but Tony as well, and Julia's death causes her to abruptly cancel any marital plans with Dennis. Dennis, devastated, leaves the country and tries to forget about Rose.

Life goes on for the Breams and Beevers and the action jumps ahead several years. During this time, something appears to have been brewing between Tony and Rose, but it never gets very far – and no one gives it much credence -- because of Julia's still-binding promise. There are also other rivals for Tony's affections, most notably Jean Martle, a cousin of the Beevers. But


of course this is all purely theoretical so long as Effie remains alive.

Things reach a head, though, at Effie's fourth birthday party. During the party, everyone gets involved in the marital prospects of a young man in the Beever household, who has just inherited a sizable portion of the Beever/Bream bank. In the excitement, Tony and the rest of the extended Bream family lose track of little Effie. The family doctor, Rammage, then comes in with horrific news: Effie has been found dead in the nearby river. This is a shock and nobody quite knows what to do. An even greater shock comes when Tony announces that he is the killer.

This is too much to be believed. Rather than go to the police, they all begin interrogating andand from the UE on the UE's established bearer(s).
In another example, a wireless communication system may support handover of a UE from one cell to another. For instance, when a first base station is serving a UE and the UE detects sufficiently strong coverage from a cell of a second base station, the UE may send a report to the first base station indicating the detected coverage identifier of the cell of the second base station. The first base station may in turn determine if applicable handover thresholds are met. If so, the first base station may engage in handover signaling via an interface with the second base station to orchestrate handover of the UE to the reported cell.


Call for PM to resign as women's minister

THE new head of Diversity Council Australia says more must be done to address a "deficit of women in leadership" in the federal parliament while suggesting Tony Abbott should begin by removing himself as the minister for women.

Lisa Annese, who will begin her tenure as the council's CEO at the beginning of next month, says debate over gender equality and the need for more women in senior roles, and in the parliament more generally, had waned after Mr Abbott came to power.

While the gender debate came to the fore during the term of former prime minister Julia Gillard, culminating in her "misogyny speech" in reaction to perceived sexism from the then opposition leader, Ms Annese said public discourse had since revertedthe fact that 51 per cent of the population is female."

"In any other context, you would think that disproportionate ratio was a bit alarming."

Ms Annese also criticised Mr Abbott's decision to appoint himself as the minister for women, despite having talented women at his disposal, such as the West Australian senator Michaelia Cash, who she described as "a bit of a dynamo".

"My personal view would be that the minister for women should be a woman and we actually have a fabulous minister assisting Tony Abbott in Senator Michaelia Cash," she said.

The comments came as the Greens on Thursday called for Mr Abbott to step down as the minister for women after controversy on Wednesday when the prime minister winked and smiled while taking a radio talkback call from


depraved killers in its first two seasons, so setting up one in a way that justifies a six-episode hunt for him is a huge feat.

It’s remarkable how “Hannibal” has been able to pull all this off in a way that’s radically different from the first half of this season. We mentioned this in our review of the third season, but for the first half of this season, “Hannibal” was a more grandiose, operatic show than it had ever been, content to do arty character studies in Italy before bringing things to an explosive (and straight-up disturbing) finale.

The series took a risk, and it paid off in a way that was both deeply upsetting to watch but emotionally cathartic, giving viewers the release they were looking for but in"It's hard to imagine a better way to affect more people, to influence their thinking on a subject," saidProfessor Tucker Balch, who's the first atGeorgia Tech to videotape his lectures, then post them online.

More than 30 other top universities, including Stanford, Duke and Princeton, have already signed on.

"I'm normally used to teaching in front of 20 to 100 students," Prof. Balch said."Now I look into a camera and pretend that they're there."

More than 46,000 students registered for his class, that's more than twice the entire student enrollment at Tech.

"They are high school students in rural Georgia. They are college students in India. They are rural teachers in Bangladesh," said Rich DeMillo, Director of Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities. "They are people that wouldn't normally have access


sprouts from the roots of early Christianity and Judaism and, thus, shares its Abrahamic roots.

Christian scholars, as they call themselves, other than a few Jesuit friends with a good sense of humor, are a pack of morons.

Until you begin to consider the realities of what was real and what was not, from the 3rd century through the 15th century, era by era, you will never see how far the west had fallen.

We are still fighting that war, just as the wars of the 1990s in the Balkans came from World War 2, or from the Balkan wars of the 1920s or even centuries earlier with the Ottoman conquest of the region.

If you want to understand the real history, read Siljander and his book, A Deadly Misunderstanding. Being dumbNEW YORK -- Baseball agent Scott Boras says loans by his company totaling about $70,000 to a Dominican prospect complied with players' association rules.

Boras' company made the loans to shortstop Edward Salcedo in stages from late 2007 through 2009. The player was initially represented by Boras, left for another agent and then returned to Boras. Union regulations in effect at the time prohibited loans if they were made to induce a player to be represented by that agent.

Boras negotiated a minor league contract for Salcedo with the Cleveland Indians in February 2008 that included a $2.9 million signing bonus. That deal fell through when Salcedo couldn't obtain a visa because of a lack of documents confirming his identify.

Salcedo then switched to a new agent, Edgar Mercedes, and signed


the impression she was actually playing the piano. There is no doubt that it was her singing. (That has to be a first, on any Met Site, I would guess.) Then she strips slowely and climbes on the piano. (To have been that piano!!!!) While she staid within the Met limits her body movement had to be on of the sexiest things I have ever seen on Met. (And I have been a member for years.) Here body positions like the back arch were unbelievable. Her playfulness emerged at the end while playing with dress, great stuff. The she broke the fourth wall and spoke directly to us, WOW. And finally Sailor, yes she is one of your Ukrainian girls, who speaks very good English. Get her aI seriously doubt she's keeping up her piano chops. I believe someone else was playing on the soundtrack. Don't know what the music was, but Emily definitely was not holding the sheet music for it. The music on the page looked to be much faster and more difficult than that on the soundtrack.

She WAS playing, before singing. The playing after that that we heard was all recorded. It could have been a recording of her, but until MA releases credits for their vids, I'm afraid we'll never know.


Opinião do álbum

Besides the usual Third World crusty-trance that's only to be expected by an act recording for Planet Dog, Timeshard come up with several interesting innovations on their second album for the label. Integrating everything from psychedelic acid lines to drum'n'bass breakbeats, tracks like "Magnetic Storm" and "Dream Messages" prove the best of the lot.

Biografia

Formado em: 1989 em Liverpool, England

Gênero: Eletrônica

Anos em atividade: '90s

Gobber, Psi and Steve were friends in Liverpool, when they decided to form Timeshard in the late '80s as an experiment with first loops and found sounds at their home studio. The trio began organizing free local parties and became known as the area's first "live acid-house band." Gradually, the live show expanded outwards and across Great Britain, while their sound gained elements ofCorculum inexpectatum

Corculum inexpectatum is a minute species of deepwater cockle, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae.

References
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It is a university that prides itself on being a forum for debate about social injustice and inequality. The London School of Economics was founded by Fabian socialists at the end of the 19th century: they believed education was key to liberating society from social ills.

I’m a Deliveroo rider. Collective action is the only way we’ll get a fair deal | Callum Cant Read more

Last week I was due to attend a debate at the LSE on the expansion of secondary moderns (which is what selection in education really means). At the request of cleaners on strike over their terms and conditions, I withdrew at the last minute. And here is the perverse truth: speakers with good salaries (myself included) will turn up at this prestigious institution toI'll check with the local cops." "Victims number two and number five," "Henry Rains and Cece Smith." "They're both patrons of the Valley Car Wash." "Now, Rains got into a yelling match with one of the workers there." "Two weeks later, he's killed by a rifle shot." "What was the fight about?" "He accused the worker of taking money out of his car, started getting loud with him, so the car wash manager had to call the cops, but Rains split before they got there." " So who did he accuse?" " Calvin Oates." "Five years ago, he's thrown out of a bar." "Comes back, fires a handgun out the front window from a moving car." "Car wash have links to any of the other victims?" "Still working


city manager for Bellhaven." "He said that two years ago, a neighborhood submitted a petition for a light at a blind intersection, and Krager was in charge of overseeing the traffic budget." "And she turned down the petition." "So she wasn't actually involved in an accident herself." "Somebody might blame her for causing one." "All right." "So an accident happened six months after Krager denied a request to have a traffic light put at this intersection." "Three people in two vehicles." "One person survived:" "Brennon Sommers." "His wife, the driver of the other vehicle died at the scene." "And Sommers suffered a head injury." "Anger and impulse control problems." "He's lost his job, he's living on disability." "He's been arrested twice since the accident, although the charges wereThe party’s primary faction, led by a man named Prakash Singh Badal, is the
dominant political power in Punjab. (Badal was appointed Chief Minister of Punjab in
1997.) Singh worked for a splinter faction called Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)—also
known as the Mann faction—named after Simranjit Singh Mann, who advocated for the
establishment of a Sikh homeland. Because they advocate for an independent Sikh state
and criticize the treatment of Sikhs by Indian authorities, Mann faction members have
faced harassment from both the Badal faction and the police.

         In Singh’s asylum application and in his testimony before an immigration judge,
he described three incidents of past harm. First, in November 2011, he suffered “very
minor injuries” when he and a few other members of the Mann faction were


hit with
batons by police while disrupting a political rally at the Golden Temple, a holy shrine
for Sikhs in the city of Amritsar. Second, in February 2012, he and other members of the
Mann faction were chased by a small group of Badal adherents while putting up posters
for a political rally in a nearby Punjabi city. Finally, in June 2014, after unsuccessfully
attempting to flee to the United States, he was attacked at a political rally at the Golden
Temple by unidentifiable people wielding wooden sticks. Singh was arrested, detained
in a cell for four to seven hours, and suffered “minor injuries” for which he received
treatment at a hospital. He then relocated safely within India, leaving Amritsar for
another village in Punjab, where he hid for a month.

      And even if the June 2014 beating did rise to that level,
she added, Singh had not shown the requisite nexus between the harm he allegedly
experienced and his political opinion: he testified only that unidentified people beat
him with wooden sticks and that the police who arrested him did not refer to his
political affiliation or indicate an aversion to it. As for his claim of fearing future
persecution, the IJ found his fear objectively unreasonable because he had not shown
that he would be singled out for persecution, given his minor injuries and the “isolated
and unrelated” nature of the alleged incidents. Further, Singh already had twice
relocated safely within India and because of his low political profile and his partial
university education, it was reasonable to expect him to do so again. The IJ


  That

evening, Simpson, Harris, and two of Harris's co-workers drank

beer and smoked cocaine in the motel room.   According to Simpson,

     * Pursuant to Code § 17.1-413, this opinion is not
designated for publication.
Harris seemed agitated that evening.    Although she did not recall

arguing, Simpson testified that she and Harris had a court case

scheduled the next day which had created stress.   Sometime after

Harris's co-workers departed, Harris assaulted Simpson.   He first

threw a plastic container at her without being verbally or

physically provoked.   He then punched her in the eye and attempted

to strangle her.   When they struggled into the hallway of the

motel, Harris repeatedly kicked Simpson in the head.   Simpson fled

and telephoned the police.

    When asked what the status of their relationship was at the

time of the incident, Simpson testified that she and Harris "had

been living together."   She testified that they were "[j]ust

boyfriend and girlfriend," that they had been so for three years,

and that they were not engaged.    Simpson also testified she was

living at the motel because she could not live with her mother.

     The jury convicted Harris of assault and battery against a

household member for a third or subsequent conviction and fixed

his punishment at one year in prison.    The judge sentenced

Harris to one year of imprisonment.


giving a their careers a head start.

The students have all developed as designers in many different ways this year. Amy Goodyer has been involved in every aspect of running a successful design agency at Proctor and Stevenson. Hayley Fortune developed her editorial design skills with BBC Magazines. Tom Nation contributed to a range of successful creative solutions at Hive. Luke Fisher gained all round design and print knowledge at Kolor Skemes. James Bond combined his design skills with animation at Aardman. Lawrence Elliott and Amy Stone joined forces to work on a variety of projects under the freelance banner of Squeeze. Martin Jakeway, Ross Harrington and Adam Hastings made huge progress in the setting up and running of their design studio in Bristol  Drink Tea Eat Biscuits.half of Week 8, overtaking RB Mikel Leshoure (leg). Leshoure had nine carries and three receptions through two quarters, but gave way to Bell in the second half. Leshoure had just one touch the rest of the way, while Bell racked up seven carries and four receptions for 58 total yards. "Leshoure really wasn't an injury situation," head coach Jim Schwartz explained. "Joique was doing some good things for us, and we were rotating our backs through." RB Kevin Smith was also back in the mix at running back. He was used primarily as a blocker on the 12 snaps he played, but also had a seven-yard reception and a one-yard run. Bell said ball security was a focus for him in practice after he fumbled the week


prior. "I came out this week in practice with the sole focus of ball security, ball security, ball security," Bell said.

Detroit Lions RB Joique Bell's role has expanded as the season has progressed and he's continued to make plays. Bell has emerged as a receiving threat for the team; he is fourth among all NFL running backs with 178 receiving yards this season. Bell has averaged almost 22 offensive snaps per game over the last four weeks and has carried the ball 19 times and caught 13 passes. His ability to break tackles and get tough yards is one of the things the coaches like about his game. He can get yards on his own. Bell's increased role has coincided with a limited one for RB Kevin Smith,a space, from now, until sometime later.

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY is hosting Marla, Christof, Chloë, Yannick and their stuff in the gallery for our second unofficial summer residency. As of August 8, the artists have moved their materials into all of the gallery spaces, and are making new work collaboratively in situ.

The exhibition will be on view from SEPTEMBER 6 to OCTOBER 28. The opening reception will occur on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 beginning at 6 p. The artists will be present. For more information, please visit our Facebook event page.

When & Where

Katzman Contemporary
86 Miller Street
Toronto,
ON M6N 2Z9
Canada

Wednesday, 4 October 2017 from 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM (EDT)

Organizer

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY

Katzman Contemporary is a commercial gallery in Toronto, Ontario and is the new iteration of the former Katzman Kamen Gallery and the original


A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty and was sentenced for smothering his girlfriend to death after he tried and failed to kill her by deliberately crashing into a guardrail.

Prosecutors said Benjamin Klinger, 21, suffocated Samantha "Sammi" Heller, 17, after he attempted to kill her by crashing his car going more than 100 mph. Via Lancaster Online:

Assistant District Attorney Christine Wilson told the court that on the morning of Dec. 4, 2012, Klinger, of Elizabethtown, was speeding westbound on Route 283, west of Strickler Road, when he crashed a 1986 Toyota Celica into the end of a guardrail at an estimated speed of 115 mph. Investigators found no evidence of braking. [...] A motorist, who came upon the crash and called 911, told investigators he saw Klinger sitting on aface-down Heller beside the car. A recording of the 911 call picked up a woman's moans, according to preliminary hearing testimony.

According to the arrest affidavit, Klinger was sitting on Heller's head when police arrived on the scene.

Prosecutors described a pattern of abuse over a two year period that Heller endured, despite concerns from her family. Heller's mother Sandy McFalls, addressed the court at the sentencing:

McFalls, in her statement, described Heller as a happy, charismatic and loving daughter who was excited about veterinary assistant studies at Lancaster Career and Technology Center. All that changed when she met Klinger, McFalls said. McFalls said her daughter withdrew from family and friends, started failing classes and became disrespectful. "We began to do everything we could to keep Sammi away from Ben," she


exploitation of a minor as an accomplice after he

persuaded his girl friend to engage in sexual activity with a minor while he watched via a Yahoo!

chat room " webcam."               Perkins had     a prior " strike"       offense for first degree child rape, and he

agreed to plead guilty as charged and to accept an exceptional sentence so that he could avoid
trial   on an amended " second strike"              charge.   His plea agreement stated that the indeterminate

sentencing      provisions       in RCWformed on the back gate oxide film 53. On the back gate electrode 55 is deposited an interlayer insulating film (SOI2 film) 57 on which a poly-Si film (not shown) is formed. Then, the poly-Si film is planarized by polishing, and a supporting substrate (B substrate) 60 is bonded with the planarized surface of the poly-Si film.
The A substrate is polished from the back surface side using the back gate oxide film 53 as a stopper (this is called selective polishing), to prepare a semiconductor substrate (SOI substrate) having the SOI layer 50, in which the back gate electrode 55 is buried.
A sacrifice oxide film (not shown) is formed by sacrifice oxidation on the surface of the SOI layer 50 exposed by the above selective polishing. The sacrifice


oxidation is performed to recover the surface state of the SOI layer 50 coarsened by selective polishing.
On both the sacrifice oxide film and the back gate oxide film 53 is provided a silicon nitride film (oxidation preventive film, not shown) positioned on the SOI active layer 50.
Next, by selectively oxidizing the back gate electrode 55 using the silicon nitride film (oxidation preventive film) as a mask, a thick oxide film 71 is formed on the back gate electrode 55. At this time, the back gate electrode 55 is oxidized through an oxide film grown from the back gate oxide film 53 by sacrifice oxidation. Then, both the silicon nitride film and the sacrifice oxide film are removed, to expose the surface of the SOI layer 50.
A front gateoxide film 61 is formed on the surface of the SOI layer 50, and a front gate electrode 75 is formed on both the front gate oxide film 61 and the thick oxide film 71. The step is followed by formation of a LDD (Lightly Doped Drain) region, a LDD-spacer (SOI2), and a diffusion layer.
Then, an interlayer insulating film 81 is formed on both the thick oxide film 71 and the front gate electrode 75. In both the interlayer dielectric film 81 and the thick oxide film 71 are formed contact holes in which tungsten (W) plugs 77 are buried. And, aluminum (Al) interconnections 79 are formed on both the W plugs 77 and the interlayer insulating film 81. In this state, one Al interconnection 79 is connected


to the front gate electrode 75 through one W plug 77 and the other Al interconnection 79 is connected to the back gate electrode 55 through the other W plug 77.
The above-described fabrication process is characterized by forming the oxidation preventive mask on a portion of the SOI region and selectively oxidizing the back gate electrode 55, thereby making it possible to suppress a parasitic capacitance from being increased in the field area at a portion in which the front gate 75 is superimposed on the back gate electrode 55.
However, in the case where the back gate electrode 55 in the field area is entirely oxidized as described above, as shown in FIG. 26A, upon formation of the first contact, the connection hole in which the W pluga partial region of the structure.
According to the present invention, there is also provided a semiconductor device including: a SOI substrate having a SOI layer, in which a structure made from a semiconductor material is buried; a thick oxide film formed on the structure by selectively oxidizing the structure using as a mask an oxidation preventive film formed both on the SOI layer and on a region in which a contact reaching the structure is to be formed; an interlayer dielectric film formed on the structure, the SOI layer and the thick oxide film; and a plurality of connection holes formed in the interlayer insulating film and including at least a connection hole positioned on the region in which the contact is to be formed.
In the semiconductor device


Monday, October 30, 2006

With his inspired, gutty performance last night leading the Dallas Cowboys to a come-from-behind, surprisingly decisive road victory over the Carolina Panthers, 35-14, all QB Tony Romo did was save a season, reenergize a coach and quite possibly resurrect a franchise that as little as six days ago seemed headed for another disappointing campaign. In what some were calling a desperation move, Bill Parcells replaced his starting QB for the last year and a half with the untested, undrafted four-year reserve from Eastern Illinois, and now those same doubters are probably hailing the beginning of the Tony Romo Era.

John Madden said Romo's mobility and quick release are reminiscent of Joe Montana, others cited Brett Favre for their similar gunslinger approach to the game. In agame and a half, Romo has thrown for 497 yards and 3 TDs, completing 38-61 passes against the Giants and Panthers, two of the more formidable defensive units in the NFL. Last night he aced his first career start and helped Dallas set a franchise record with 25 points in the fourth quarter.

There is nothing that energizes a team and a franchise more than getting good play out of a young QB. And Romo's performance last night, bringing his team methodically back from a 14-0 deficit in front of a hostile crowd, showing arm strength, touch, poise and the ability to make something out of nothing with his legs, cannot be overestimated. The proof was in the suddenly animated Parcells at the end of the game -- backslapping


Tony Romo and the rest of "my kids," playfully joking with "The Player," planting kisses on his guys, and just looking like there's nowhere else he'd rather be. Such was the spark Romo provided to the entire Dallas sidelines.

The Dallas defense turned nasty and stingy after Carolina jumped out to its first quarter 14-0 lead, shutting them out over the final three quarters and holding the Panthers to a paltry 204 yards of total offense, led by outstanding efforts by LB Greg Ellis and CBs Terence Newman and Anthony Henry. (see boxscore). The beleaguered offensive line turned in a solid showing, keeping Romo clean for most of his 36 attempts, and opening up nice lanes in the running game, which churned out 141 yards and 3 TDs betweenJulius Jones and Marion Barber on 33 carries. WR Terrell Owens was terrific, turning in his first 100-yard receiving game as a Cowboy, while TE Jason Witten ultimately may be the biggest beneficiary down the line of Romo's quick reads, hauling in 6 passes for 80 yards and a TD.Considering the quality of opponent and overall circumstances, it was easily the Cowboys' most impressive game of the season, and maybe going back three or four seasons -- in other words, the entire Parcells era in Dallas. There was no denying it was the most noteworthy performance, given what was at stake and who was doing the staking at QB.

Now, Julius Jones may be my favorite player in all of football, but you simply cannot ignore Marion Barber and


have to find out ways to get him the ball. Barber runs with a passion and authority you don't see every day, and on his two TDs he simply wouldn't be denied. Barber could start for more than a few teams, but the Cowboys will hang on to him for as long as they can. It is a good problem to have -- two running backs who can get the job done. It's obvious Bill knows running backs, plucking Jones (currently 6th in the NFL in rushing with 616 yards) in the second round of the 2004 draft after trading out of the first round, then stealing Barber a year later in the fourth round.

But the story of the night was 26-year-old Tony Romo, who shares a birthdaydeep out, the deep slant. He made a terrific play where he stepped sideways in the pocket, avoiding a rusher, then firing a rope around 25 yards downfield. But he made big plays all night, doggedly overcoming at least three first down passes called back on offensive penalties. He rarely forced anything into tight spaces like he did last week against the Giants, and the one pick he threw probably should not have been an interception at all, with both Madden and Michaels expressing doubt that the CB had possession of the ball before going out of bounds.

The whole team seemed to rally around the upgraded play at the QB position. You cannot overestimate the effect it has on a game when a quarterback can make a play


most discouraging defeats in Cowboys regular season history against the Giants on MNF, the team, the franchise and the coach have rarely had more reason for optimism. And judging by his wide grin of satisfaction on display at the end of last night's game, it looks like the Big Tuna isn't going anywhere for a long, long while. From the looks of Parcells after we clinched the win last night, he's simply having too much fun to quit now.

Good timing yesterday as The New York Times Sunday sports supplement, Play, featured Bill Parcells on the cover. The well written, in-depth story followed Parcells around for one week (before the week two Washington game), giving me a new appreciation for what drives Parcells. As writer Michael Lewis succintly capturedthan me?”I must say that I have rarely been prouder to be a Cowboys fan, nor can I remember being as optimistic and upbeat about the team's future, with the possible exception of the early '90s Jimmy Johnson era. There's not a day that goes by that Dallas Cowboys fans shouldn't cross their fingers and hope Parcells sticks around Dallas for a long, long time. His latest discovery, Tony Romo, shows he may still have that magic touch and may know a little something about football after all.

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The World Series just finished between the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers was notable for its lack of juice. I mean, that series could have gone on for another two weeks and not provide any memorable moments. It just goes


Frankford Friends Meeting House

Frankford (Preparative) Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its oldest parts having been built in 1775–1776, it is significant as the oldest surviving meeting house in Philadelphia.

Located at the corner of Unity and Waln Streets, it is now used also as a community center.

The Friends meeting
The Quaker meeting here was known from its establishment by the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in 1683 as "Tacony" (after a nearby creek), then as "Oxford" (after the township in which it lay), then as "Frankford", then as "Unity" (to distinguish it from another Frankford meeting nearby on Orthodox Street). It is affiliated with the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

The historic building
The original portion of the Frankford Preparative Friends Meeting House was builtThe night started with Rajon Rondo being honored with a trophy for his selection to the NBA’s All Defensive Team last season and ended with his fifth regular season career triple-double. Rondo was just one of the great players tonight for Boston as the Celtics hold off Amar’e Stoudemire and the New York Knicks for a 105-101 win.

Rajon Rondo was all over the court Friday night both offensively and defensively. He finished the night with 10 points, 10 rebounds, and an astonishing 24 assists, a new single game career high for him. The assists were just four shy of the 28 that Celtics’ legend Bob Cousy set back in the 1958-59 season. Rondo still humbly said that he played one of his worst halves as a member of


the Celtics.

However, Rondo was not the only star of a great Boston team. It’s tough to pick the player of the game for the Celtics with six different players scoring in double figures, and two of those players having double-doubles. Let’s start with the two other guys who had those double-doubles.

Green Machines

Kevin Garnett looked about five years younger Friday with his 24 points and 10 rebounds. Those numbers may have been a bit higher if Garnett had not fouled out of the game with about four minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. It was great to see Garnett keeping up the pace on the floor and using his aggressiveness to score and box out for rebounds. Both those aspects of his game were missing many times last yearalso fouled out of the game late into the fourth quarter. Marquis Daniels was clutch for the Green with a block in the final seconds of the game to seal the win for Boston. He may not have the scoring numbers that Davis has had, but Daniels is also proving quietly that he intends to have a better second year in Boston. The bench was also without center Jermaine O’Neal, who was inactive with injury.

Empire State of Mind

Now just because the Celtics played so well, it doesn’t mean that the New York Knicks were necessarily that bad. They would get put down for a while, but never gave up tonight as they climbed back into the game time and time again. The new-look Knicks were lead by their


new star, Amar’e Stoudemire.

After a slow start to the game, Stoudemire erupted in the second half and finished the night with 27 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 blocked shots. Among the rest of the starters, only Raymond Felton (17 points, 6 assists) and Landry Fields (10 points, 10 rebounds) were effective for New York.

The New York bench made a case for itself tonight between Wilson Chandler and Toney Douglas. Chandler, who most would expect to start, had 19 points in 33 minutes of playing time off of the bench. Douglas also added 12 points of his own.

New York should not be taken so lightly anymore in the Atlantic Division, and could even be a playoff threat this year. With Stoudemire in town, the Knicks are afor contraception

A bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care. The Congress finds as follows:

Healthy People 2010 sets forth a reduction of unintended pregnancies as an important health objective to achieve over the first decade of the new century.

Although the CDC included family planning in its published list of the Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the 20th Century, the US still has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancies among industrialized nations.

Each year, 3,000,000 pregnancies, nearly half of all pregnancies, in the US are unintended, and nearly half of unintended pregnancies end in abortion.

In 2004, 34,400,000 women, half of all women of reproductive age, were in need of contraceptive services, and


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Mapping to Mobilize (M2M)

Mapping to Mobilize (M2M) is a multi-platform project that puts the power of new technologies into the hands of low-income and youth of color, enabling them to map, track, and improve the health of their own communities – and then share their stories of change with each other, with decision-makers and with the world.

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Developed through a partnership between the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational and Environmental Design (I-SEEED) and UC Berkeley School of Information’s Local Ground, Mapping to Mobilize (M2M) connects youth’s enchantment, fascination, and engagement with digital and mobile technology to their lived knowledge of their neighborhoods in order to transform their own lives as well as the health of their communities while connecting to STEM skills and college and careerChurchill Offices

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This scheme proposes 900m² of contemporary offices for employees on the edge of the River Avon flood plain. The building was to be the company headquarters for Ringwood based national retirement housing developer Churchill.

A conscious decision was made not to ape the rather tired 1990’s commercial style of the original building and rather to develop a design that responded more directly to the amazing views across the Avon floodplain – a SSSI on account of the huge range of wildfowl that migrate to and from it. The planners were very keen that it should have a low visual impact from the floodplain – so the original concept was a bird watching hide – although this became a little diluted when the clients asked


Lauren Salzman. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/REX/Shutterstock

A key suspect in the major NXIVM case has pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy and admitted that she kept a woman as a slave.

The New York Post reports that Lauren Salzman, the daughter of NXIVM president and co-founder Nancy Salzman, made the plea last week in an unannounced court hearing. Per the Post, she made a number of shocking admissions: She first revealed that from March 2010 to April 2012, she had “knowingly and intentionally harbored” an unnamed woman in a locked room and threatened to deport her to Mexico when she “did not complete labor requested by [herself] and others.” Salzman also admitted to being a member of DOS, a sorority within NXIVM that allegedly brands women with founder Keith Raniere’sall loved to watch. He was energetic and sweet but could also be intense.

At school, when I was nine and Tom was seven, I saw him throw something at a ruffian in my year. The ruffian started to chase Tom, and I was terrified of what would happen. But Tom fixed him with such a powerful glare – a standoff – that he left Tom alone. I later learned that Tom had been provoked by the boy, and I've never forgotten how brave he was. From then on I knew he could handle himself. Naturally it bothered me that Tom was picked on – he was small, Chilean-looking, a bit different. He came out at 12, which is young but testament to how at ease and honest he's


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The
Hasallas have two daughters, Gentiana, who was granted asylum in 1998, and Aida,
who is presently seeking asylum but whose claim has been remanded to the Board.1

       Besnik Hasalla was imprisoned from 1982 to 1986 by the Communist
government in Albania because of his political beliefs and activities. During those
years he was required to perform hard labor. He was also physically abused and
denied contact with his family. Although he had been trained as an economist,
Besnik only found work as a driver after leaving prison. When Communist rule
ended in 1991, both Besnik and Floresha became active in the Democratic Party. The
Democratic Party came to power nationally in 1992, and Besnik was named
commissioner of a land redistribution board. The Socialist Party controlled the local
government in Peqinwhere the Hasallas lived, however, and it won national control
in late 1997.

       The Hasallas' claims for relief focus principally on several incidents in 1995,
1997, and 1998. In 1995 they received threats against their daughters and their home
if Besnik did not end his involvement with the Democratic Party. Besnik took steps
to ensure the safety of his family, and the threats were not carried out. In April 1997
Besnik had a public argument with a member of the Socialist Party. Several days
later he was shot in the arm by a masked man who called him by name and yelled
"dog" at him. During this period Aida Hasalla was being repeatedly harassed and
threatened by a Muslim group called the Loyals of Allah who disapproved of her
western dress


and makeup. One of them pointed a gun at Aida in late 1997 and said
that someday Allah would punish her. After that incident Aida and Floresha went to

      1
        The Board in turn has remanded her case to the IJ to determine whether she
is eligible for adjustment of status. A final order of removal is apparently no longer
pending in her case.

                                         -2-
stay with Besnik's mother in Kosovo. In July 1998 three men broke into the Hasalla
homeand asked Besnik where his wife and daughter were, tied him to a chair, and
beat him. Besnik and Floresha decided to flee to the United States.

       Besnik and Floresha Hasalla arrived in the United States on October 18 and
December 6, 1998, respectively. Besnik Hasalla filed an application for asylum and
withholding of removal and included Floresha as a derivative applicant. They were
issued notices to appear May 5, 2000 and charged with entering the United States
without valid entry documents. The Hasallas conceded removability and renewed
their application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention.
Their December 5, 2000 hearing before the IJ included testimony by Besnik and Aida
Hasalla and a tender of testimony on behalf of Floresha.

      The


IJ reviewed the testimony and evidence in the record and found the
Hasallas credible. The IJ found that Besnik's arrest and incarceration under the
Communist regime in Albania evidenced past persecution on account of political
opinion, but that conditions in the country had changed and the Communist Party was
no longer in control. The Democratic Party was in power from 1992 to December
1997, and the Socialist Party controlled the government from December 1997 through
the December 2000 hearing. The IJ observed, "These are clearly not the same
Governments, with the same political philosophy that were in power at the time the
respondent was incarcerated from 1982 to 1986. . . . the country conditions are
fundamentally changed." The IJ concluded from the evidence that Besnik Hasalla
had not met his burden of demonstrating a well founded fearThe claim that
Besnik had been shot in the arm in April 1997 because of an argument with a
Socialist Party member also had to be considered "with a certain degree of
skepticism." The IJ found that Besnik had not established a cause and effect
relationship between the two events, for there was no evidence from which to find
that the assailant was the same person with whom Besnik had a dispute or that he was
shot on account of his political opinion. The IJ found that the 1998 intrusion into
Besnik's house was an isolated incident. Although the government had not prevented
the intrusion, Besnik had not shown that it was unwilling to protect him. The IJ
stated that "the asylum laws are not meant to remedy every government deficiency"
and that the circumstances did not "make


(8th Cir. 2001). The IJ also found that Besnik had not shown that
the 1997 shooting resulted from his argument with a Socialist Party member several
days earlier. Besnik could not identify who shot him or the motive, and he admitted
that just about everyone "had a weapon in their hands."

       The IJ could reasonably conclude based on the evidence in the record that these
incidents were unrelated and not on account of Besnik's political opinion. In the 1998
Addendum to the Profile of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions, the State
Department reported that "Democratic Party members were indeed the victims of
numerous attacks and murders, but in Albania's general atmosphere of lawlessness
and lax law enforcement, neither culprits nor motives were ever found or confirmed
for most of these crimes."founded fear of
persecution during the period when the Socialist Party was in power. Although some
former Communist members became active in the Socialist Party, the IJ found that
Besnik had not been politically involved "in such a way that he has attracted the
attention of [the Socialist] government, or its supporters." There is nothing in the
State Department reports that indicate that the Socialist Party routinely arrests, jails,
or persecutes members of the Democratic Party.

      The Hasallas allege that the 1998 incident in which men from the Loyals of
Allah broke into their home must have been motivated by either politics or religion
and that an asylum applicant is not obliged to show conclusively why persecution has
occurred or may occur, citing In re S- P-, 21 I. & N. Dec.