failures had outweighed achievements in the decade-long rule of President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. After the article appeared, the era of Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen was often referred to as the “lost decade.”

For all the concern about North Korea since the nuclear test in mid-February, there have been no concrete signs that China plans to take any action against the North beyond the United Nations sanctions.

Traders in Jilin Province, which abuts North Korea in northeastern China, said there was not a noticeable slowdown of goods passing across the border. It is possible that there will be a crackdown on smugglers, but that has not happened yet, said an official in the Yanbian Prefecture in Jilin Province, where much of the smuggling takes place.

It isfor International Economics in Washington, wrote in a blog post. There are plenty of loopholes for China to exploit if it wanted to, he noted.

The new restrictions against the North, including efforts to block the opening of North Korean banks abroad if they support weapons purchases, are limited by a “credible information” clause, Mr. Noland wrote, which allows a government to say that it lacks the information needed to assess the situation or apply the sanctions.

The support of the sanctions at the United Nations are a fine balancing act by China, said Jia Qingguo, the associate dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University.

China backed the new sanctions in the hope that they would be sufficient to encourage North Korea to return to the negotiating table


out.”

In the four years she has been seeking a wife for her son, Zhao Yong, there have been only a handful of prospects. Even so, when a woman in a green plastic visor paused to scan her sign that day, Ms. Yu put on a bright smile and told of her son’s fine character and good looks. The woman asked: “Does he own an apartment in Beijing?” Ms. Yu’s smile wilted, and the woman moved on.

The New Matchmaking

Three decades of combustive economic growth have reshaped the landscape of marriage in China. A generation ago, China was one of the world’s most equal nations, in both gender and wealth. Most people were poor, and tight controls over housing, employment, travel and family life simplified the search for a suitable$15,000 entrance fee.

Over the last year, I tracked the progress of two matchmaking efforts at the opposite extremes of wealth. Together, they help illuminate the forces reshaping marriage in China.

In one case, Ms. Yu’s migrant son reluctantly agreed to allow his aging mother to make the search for his future wife her all-consuming mission. In the other, Ms. Yang’s richest client at Diamond Love deployed dozens of love hunters to find the most exquisite fair-skinned beauty in the land, even as he fretted about being conned by a bai jin nu, or gold digger.

Between the two extremes is Ms. Yang herself, whose very success as a love hunter has made her the breadwinner in her own family. Despite her growing discomfort with the sexism that permeates the love-hunting


sweetheart to Beijing. They were in love and planned to marry. But her family demanded a bride price — a sort of dowry used in rural China — of $15,000. His family could not afford it, and the relationship ended.

Mr. Zhao threw himself into his work as a driver and salesman. His former girlfriend married and had a baby. He told his mother he had little time to think about marriage.

The strangers in the park, uprooted from their traditional family and hometown networks, shared similar stories, and Ms. Yu found comfort there. Many other parents, she realized, were even more frantic; they had only one child because of China’s policy. (Ms. Yu, as a rural mother, was permitted to have multiple offspring.)

The marriage candidates on offer in theof her patented moves — Ms. Yang came away with her phone number, photograph and a few pertinent details: she was 24, a graduate student and a near-ringer for the TV hostess Zhou Tao.

A Proposal Rejected

One Friday last fall, I met with Yu Jia and her son Zhao Yong at a McDonald’s in western Beijing. Now 39, Mr. Zhao has a youthful, unlined face. Still, he worries that time is passing him by. To save money and to enhance his marriage prospects, he works two jobs simultaneously — one selling microwaves, the other cosmetics — crisscrossing the city on his electric bike. He earns about $1,000 a month, and sometimes adds $80 more by working weekends as a film extra.

It is a respectable income, but hardly enough to


and family backgrounds. His mother, however, had come through, arranging a meeting between him and the daughter of the woman she had met in the marriage market.

Not long after our conversation in McDonald’s, Mr. Zhao met the woman at a coffee shop. It was, he told me later, even more awkward than most first dates. A rural migrant and door-to-door salesman, he struggled to find a shared topic of interest with the woman, a 35-year-old entrepreneur and Beijing native who had arrived driving a BMW sedan.

The lack of chemistry didn’t seem to bother the woman, who told him about her profitable photo business and the three Beijing apartments she owned. Mr. Zhao didn’t find her unattractive, but how was he supposed to respond? Then, even before broaching thecycled into its databases — a process of replenishment paid for by its richest clients.)

The firm subjected the finalists to another round of interviews and psychological evaluations. Barely two months after the search began, Mr. Big received thick dossiers on each of the eight, with detailed information about their families and finances, habits and hobbies, and physical and mental conditions.

Finally, a series of grainy videos landed in his e-mail in-box. The first showed the top three prospects from Chengdu, sitting and standing, walking and talking, smiling and laughing. One of them, a demure 24-year-old with long black hair and black hot pants who seemed poised in front of the camera, was the graduate student whom Ms. Yang had pursued on a hunch at Master Kong Chef’s Table.

Ms. Yang’s


when he was 35, ran a trucking logistics company that folded in 2009. Since then, he hasn’t worked much. With one large bonus, Ms. Yang bought him a Mitsubishi car that he tinkers with. Her occupation has given her a rather jaded view of the prospects for career women like herself. Once she told me half-jokingly: “It’s a good thing I’m already married. I would never stand a chance.”

Mr. Big’s Choice

In June, Mr. Big flew to Chengdu for meetings with the three local finalists. Riding an elevator to the lobby of the Shangri-La Hotel, he fidgeted nervously with the part in his moussed hair. He had invested more than a half-million dollars in the search, and was about to see if the money was well spent.

His final datein Chengdu was with the Zhou Tao look-alike whom Ms. Yang had approached at the noodle restaurant. At first, it seemed a mismatch, and not just because of the 18-year age gap. He knew nearly everything about her — her dating history, her recent acceptance to a graduate school, her father’s lofty government post — while she knew little more than his height and weight. She didn’t even know his name. Diamond Love had told her only that his net worth exceeded $800,000.

The young woman tried to keep things casual by taking him to a local Sichuanese restaurant. But Mr. Big insisted on bringing along a female consultant from Diamond Love and sitting awkwardly off to one side during the meal. According to the consultant, Li Minmin, he


Big called off all other dates with finalists and dispatched his consultant to buy a Gucci handbag for the woman, as a token of affection. Barely a week later, in early July, he flew her to Hainan Island for a vacation at a luxury beachside resort. The two stayed in separate hotel rooms. When they returned, Ms. Li assured me that “the relationship is still pure.”

Ms. Yang was pleased that her love-hunting had hit the mark, but she wished that the courtship would move faster: a $32,000 bonus could make a big difference to her family. After texting and phoning, the couple met again in Beijing and then took a holiday in a mountainous area of western Sichuan Province. In Chengdu, though, he declined to meet the woman’sparents, and instead of joining her at a wedding of her friends, stayed in the hotel.

The couple has not yet decided to marry. But they are still dating exclusively, and Ms. Yang says Mr. Big is serious about marriage. Nobody pays a half-million dollars “just to play around,” she says. “He just needs a little more time.”

YANGON, Myanmar — She endured years of house arrest and was steadfast as her political movement was decimated and her colleagues were tortured. But now, as the leader of Myanmar’s opposition in Parliament, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate, is courting her former jailers.

With Myanmar sloughing off the legacy of five decades of brutal military dictatorship, the country is witnessing a political minuet between the army and Ms. Aung


San Suu Kyi, the human rights champion turned politician who is fighting to keep her disorganized and fractious political party relevant — and her path to the presidency open.

To her critics, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s compromises are tarnishing her status as a near saint.

She has been quiet about the military’s bloody campaign against an armed ethnic minority group and recently went so far as to say she was “very fond” of the military, rattling some of her extremely loyal party members.

The remarks were tied to the army’s role in liberating the country from colonial rule, but the timing, coming as the military was pounding the rebels with airstrikes, rankled supporters who were under military rule for decades.

“To the outside world, nothing has really changed with her; sheare legend: she chose to stay in Myanmar even as her husband was dying abroad, fearing the military leaders who kept her under arrest would not allow her to return to her struggling nation. Her grace under duress helped win her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, which she was only able to pick up last year after the generals decided to begin a shift to democracy.

But the adulation for her has set a particularly high standard, and her stature has intimidated members of her party from challenging her views. Even party members say their National League for Democracy is in disarray — suffering from an array of problems including what one called a “leadership vacuum” in the middle ranks. The party is holding its first-ever national congress


work with them. We cannot have democracy without the involvement of the military.”

The changes in the country have been highly personalized, dependent on a good working relationship between the former general who runs the country, U Thein Sein, and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.

“I think she needs to be credited as a stabilizing force and as someone willing to view former adversaries as partners for the common good,” said David Steinberg, an expert on Myanmar at Georgetown University.

Working with the military is more than a political calculus; it is also in her blood. Her father, Aung San, who was assassinated when she was 2 years old, was the founder of the modern Burmese Army.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi defends her current relationship with the military, saying that shewants to pursue “negotiated compromise” and that retribution will not serve the country well. She argues instead for “restorative justice” — addressing what ails the country instead of meting out punishment for the sins of the past.

But representatives of minority groups say that should not preclude her being more active in trying to achieve national unity. They have criticized her for refusing to spend at least some political capital to help solve the conflict between Kachin rebels and the Myanmar Army, even as it grew particularly bloody in December and January. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi said in January it was not the purview of her committee in Parliament.

Some of her harshest critics say her refusal to take on the military establishment is all about politics, and her


from New Delhi. Though more than eight months have passed since the rape, the victim has yet to see justice. The young woman is not alone in being physically and sexually abused and then forsaken by the law in India; there are thousands of other women whose cases languish in the Indian courts of law for years, if not decades.

By contrast, when a young woman was gang raped on a moving bus in New Delhi on Dec. 16, India reeled in horror and masses of protesters took to the streets. It might have been because she embodied in so many ways the aspirations of the new India, or because of the gruesome nature of the act, or because it happened in an urban metropolis, not in the remotewomen’s movement that harks back to the pre-independence movement with protests for social reform in the nineteenth century. The movement has been marked by tragedies that have led to campaigns resulting in new laws: the Mathura rape case of 1972, the protests against the dowry-related death of Tarvinder Kaur, who was burned to death in her marital home in 1979, the protests sparked by the act of sati (where a widow is cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre) by Roop Kanwar in 1987 and the protests against the Bhanwari Devi gang rape in 1992.

The challenges that the feminist movement now faces stem from the vast diversities within India. Feminism within India is divided along class, caste, sexuality and disability, and as parts of India develop at a faster


child deaths in the Usilampatti region, home to about 85,000 people, were whispered about, not totaled.

Often, births were unregistered, conducted by a village midwife who would then also kill unwanted girls. This was done quite openly — and prompted Valli Annamalai, head of the Mother and Child Welfare Project, an initiative of the Tamil Nadu state branch of the nongovernmental Indian Council for Child Welfare, to act.

She started by trying to grasp the size of the problem. Council statistics suggest that, in 1990, there were as many as 200 unaccounted-for infant deaths, all of girls, in this region.

“Girls were considered a burden and a liability in these parts,” she recalled during a recent visit to a council center in the village of Pannaipatti. Raising economic prospects “was thegroup in the village of Lingappanayaganur, tipped off council staff members in good time. “Not only did we prevent the murder,” Ms. Ramraj said, “we also got the family to sign the adoption papers.”

Rathinam, then a 22-year-old field laborer in the hamlet of Kaluthu, recalls the first baby girl she saved, early one Sunday 17 years ago. Rathinam, who like many women here uses only one name, arrived as a village family prepared to feed its newborn girl poisonous milk of oleander. With two other volunteers, Rathinam persuaded the midwife who had delivered the baby to hand her over.

“We took the baby, 10 minutes after birth, still caked in blood and with the umbilical cord wrapped around her, and fled,” Rathinam recalled.

En route to a council center, the


not his father if he needs money for books or school,” said Bharathi, 40, of Poochipatti, who joined a self-help group in 1998. “I make the decisions for my family now and no one lays a finger on me anymore.”

Kalaiselvi Pethusamy, 45, of Rengasamipatti village, joined her village’s group in 2005. At the time, she owned a small parcel of good agricultural land, but had very little skill or knowledge. Over three years, the council trained her in cattle rearing, soil testing, horticulture and floriculture, then sent her for a week to observe a successful poultry and cattle farm in another part of Tamil Nadu.

Most important, she saw how to irrigate barren, drought-prone land that had helped keep the Kallar people, the main inhabitants of Usilampatti, in povertyfor centuries.

Her self-help group helped Kalaiselvi get a loan of 50,000 rupees (about $1000) from a bank. She invested in five goats and today owns 20. Her farm has expanded from one to seven acres; she is repaying the last of her latest 150,000 rupee loan. She sells cow and goat milk and rears poultry. A local radio station invited her to talk of her success.

Ms. Annamalai said that since 2001, no baby has been reported killed or abandoned in the region.

Levimatteo Mathews, who heads an Italian aid association that has been the biggest single donor to the council in Tamil Nadu, said the project had worked “because of its personal touch and its holistic approach” to mother and child needs. Since 1993, more than 1,000 girls from


this region have completed high school with sponsorship.

His group most recently gave furniture for the new community college in Usilampatti, reflecting a shift in focus from babies to adolescents. Last year, 16 young girls trained as hospital nurses, and 19 graduated in garment stitching and design.

By contrast, boys as young as 14 have problems with alcohol and drugs. “Perhaps,” Ms. Kumar told Ms. Annamalai, “it’s time to focus on the boys now.”

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: March 8, 2013

Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article listed the wrong village for P. Arul Jyothi. She is from the village of Meyanampatti, not Meenampatti.

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March 7, 2013

Saying 'Yes' Matters as Much as 'No'

By NILANJANA S. ROYIHT

NEW DELHI — The man who wasMajeediya Madarsa-e-Jadeed, a school catering to a predominantly Muslim community in Seelampur, Iram Mumshad, a teacher, noticed that parents, many of whom worked as day laborers, seemed unaware of how to support their children’s education. To engage parents, the school started incorporating their feedback on children’s behavior at home into school reports, building relationships between teachers and parents, and underlining the importance of parental support.

At Babul Uloom, a public school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in East Delhi, Sajid Hasan realized that his students started school with fewer learning skills than students from wealthier parts of the city — a gap that seemed to increase with each passing month. So Mr. Hasan, a member of the Teach for India program that puts young, highly motivated teachers in


the words of the texts studied in class to the tune of popular songs, then encouraged the students to perform the poems, making classes more fun and giving students added confidence in approaching potentially daunting material.

After it is officially introduced in Delhi, STIR plans to open additional hubs in Mumbai and Bangalore — big ambitions for a program that has just 10 full-time employees, four in Britain and six in India. But Mr. Jeevan has a track record of developing similar programs.

While he was at eBay, he started eBay for Charity, which let buyers and sellers on the auction site donate a portion of the price of items they bought and sold to the nonprofit organization of their choice. The initiative has raised €43 million, or $65 million,involves crowd management on a jaw-dropping scale and despite all the precautions was hit by tragedy last month when a stampede at a train station in Allahabad killed 36 pilgrims who were returning from the festival.

Assorted dreadlocked, naked holy men, priests and self-proclaimed saints from all over the country assembled for the spectacle that offers a rare glimpse of the dizzying range of Indian spiritualism.

Despite the hardships of waking early, plunging into the polluted river water and the relentless crush of the crowds, pilgrims from all over the world described feeling spiritually uplifted and amazed by the scale of the event.

“There is a sense of relief because the festival finally is coming to an end. Most of the pilgrims have returned back home,” said Mishra.

He said the job


god and is seen as the giver and taker of life. In many cases, pilgrims used up all their money to come to the Kumbh Mela, hoping that their prayers could come true.

“People from all walks of life participate in the festival but there is one thing common among all of them — they have a desire to lead a pure life,” said Chandra Bala, a temple priest in Allahabad city.

Ten years ago, Kadom al-Jabouri became the face of the fall of Baghdad. Pictured with a sledgehammer while attempting to demolish the huge statue of Saddam Hussein in the city's Firdos Square, Jabouri's jubilant act of destruction made front pages around the world.

For Tony Blair and President George W Bush, the image was a godsend, encapsulating the delightof a grateful nation that their hated dictator had been ousted. The US networks showed the statue's fall for hours on end.

However, almost exactly a decade later, the "sledgehammer man" – who was helped by a US tank carrier to finally topple the statue – furiously regrets that afternoon and the symbolism of what he was involved in. "I hated Saddam," the 52-year-old owner of a motorcycle spares shop told the Observer. "I dreamed for five years of bringing down that statue, but what has followed has been a bitter disappointment.

"Then we had only one dictator. Now we have hundreds," he says, echoing a popular sentiment in a country mired in political problems and corruption, where killings still occur on an almost daily basis. "Nothing has changed for


the man from those images, the former champion power-lifter who spent 11 years in Abu Ghraib prison under Saddam. Despite his formidable physique, he could only break off chunks of concrete. Even with a rope supplied by the crew of the M-88, the crowd was still not strong enough to shift it. In the end it was the vehicle that pulled it down.Link to video: Saddam Hussein statue toppled in Bagdhad, April 2003

Asked why he had been in prison under Saddam, Jabouri answers only that his crime was "semi-political". He has said in the past that he was sent to jail after complaining that Saddam's son, Uday, had not paid him for fixing his motorbike. Eventually he was released in 1996.

Whatever his subsequent regrets, the day the statuesquare. It was all about revenge for me, for what the regime had done to me, for the years I spent in prison."

The regrets began, he says, two years later under US occupation, which he loathed. Nothing since has changed his mind – not the end of the occupation nor the handover of control to Iraq.

"Under Saddam there was security. There was corruption, but nothing like this. Our lives were protected. And many of the basics like electricity and gas were more affordable. After two years I saw no progress. Then there came the killings, robberies and sectarian violence."

He blames Iraq's politicians and the Americans for what has happened to Iraq. "The Americans began it. And then with the politicians they destroyed the country. Nothing has changed. And


things seem to get worse all the time. There's no future. Not as long as the political parties running the country are in power," he said.Kadom al-Jabouri in Baghdad, 2013 Kadom al-Jabouri in Baghdad 10 years after he attacked Saddam's statue. Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Observer

The "saturation coverage" of the fall of Saddam's statue – according to the most in-depth analysis by the New Yorker's Peter Maass two years ago – "fuelled the perception that the war had been won, and diverted attention from Iraq at precisely the moment that more attention was needed, not less".

The reality, as seen by Jabouri and other Iraqis with the benefit of hindsight, is that the worst times were only beginning, not coming an end.

Ansaru says it has killed seven constructionworkers, including a Briton, kidnapped last month in raid on company camp

Staff and agenciesguardian.co.uk, Saturday 9 March 2013 17.16 GMT

A Nigerian Islamist group claimed it has killed seven kidnapped foreign construction workers, including one Briton.

Ansaru kidnapped seven employees of the Lebanese construction company Setraco a week ago. Three of the workers were Lebanese, while the other four were from Britain, Greece, Italy and the Philippines.

A message was posted on an Islamist website on Saturday that claimed Ansaru members killed the hostages after journalists saw British warplanes in Bauchi, northern Nigeria.

"As a result of this operation, the seven hostages were killed," the group said in the statement. It said a video of the killings would be posted online. An online image accompanying the posting appeared to show a gunman


standing over dead bodies.

The Foreign Office said it was urgently investigating the claims.

Ansaru previously issued a short statement in which it said its fighters kidnapped the foreigners on 16 February from a construction company's camp at Jama'are, a town about 125 miles north of Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi state.

During the operation gunmen attacked a local prison and burned police trucks, authorities said. They then blew up a back fence at the construction firm's compound and took over, killing a guard in the process, witnesses and police said.

The gunmen appeared to be organised and knew who they wanted to target, abducting the foreigners quickly while leaving the Nigerian household staff members unharmed, a witness said.

In January 2013, Ansaru declared itself a splinter group independent from Boko Haram, thenorth's main terrorist group, analysts have said. Boko Haram, which means "western education is sacrilege", has launched a guerrilla campaign of bombings and shootings across Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north. It has been blamed for at least 792 killings last year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

Britain previously linked Ansaru to the May 2011 kidnapping of Christopher McManus, who was abducted with Italian Franco Lamolinara from a home in Kebbi state. The men were held for months before their captors killed them in March 2012 during a failed Nigerian military raid backed up by British special forces in Sokoto, the main city in north-west Nigeria.


CONCLUSION ............................................................. 196

This case, in its journey to and from the Court of Appeals, and in the trial before me, has raised important questions concerning the extraterritorial application of American criminal antitrust laws to a foreign corporation. The United States indicted a Japanese corporation, Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. ("NPI"), alleging that NPI's predecessor, Jujo Paper Company, Ltd. ("Jujo"), conspired with other Japanese manufacturers to fix the price of thermal fax paper for export into the United States in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1.
The charges were first dismissed by the trial court,[1] reinstated by the First Circuit,[2] then tried before me for over six weeks.[3] While the basic jurisdictional issue  whether criminal antitrust charges could be lodged against a Japanese corporation basedits co-conspirators participated in a price-fixing conspiracy involving the sale of thermal facsimile paper ("fax paper") sold in the United States and Canada ("North America").
NPI moved to dismiss. It alleged that if the conduct occurred at all, it took place entirely in Japan and as such American criminal antitrust laws could not be extraterritorially applied. The government contested both NPI's characterization of the facts  that the conduct at issue took place completely within Japan  and its characterization of the law  the limited nature of American jurisdiction. The government maintained that the case involved a horizontal conspiracy amongst NPI and other manufacturers which it conceded took place on Japanese soil, and, in effect, a vertical conspiracy between those manufacturers and the trading houses which sold their


product on American soil. The Japanese conspiracy alone, the government maintained, was supportable under Hartford Fire Ins. Co. v. California, 509 U.S. 764, 113 S.Ct. 2891, 125 L.Ed.2d 612 (1993), because of its intended and likely impact on American trade. The allegations that United States trading houses took steps to implement the scheme vitiated any concern about the extraterritorial application of American law.
*178 The District Court dismissed. As to the allegation of illegal conduct within the United States, the Court held that the government failed to adequately plead a vertical conspiracy between American trading houses and the Japanese manufacturers with whom they were affiliated. See United States v. Nippon Paper Indus. Co., 944 F.Supp. 55, 63 (D.Mass.1996). As to the actions of the Japanese manufacturers, the Court dismissedunable to demonstrate to any rational trier of fact beyond a reasonable doubt that the conspiracy continued through November 15, 1990. And, with regard to the third element, the government did not present sufficient evidence that the conspiracy, even if it continued to exist on November 15, 1990, still had a substantial effect on commerce in the United States at that time.

IV. THE FACTS ADDUCED AT TRIAL

A. Background

The centerpiece of the government's case was a meeting that was held on March 30, 1990, attended by representatives of ten paper companies that manufacture thermal fax paper imported into the United States. They included Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co. Ltd. ("KSK"), Mitsubishi Paper Mills ("MPM"), Oji Paper Company ("Oji"), Honshu Paper Company ("Honshu") and Jujo/NPI. The meeting had been called to


deal with a threat by an American paper company to charge these Japanese manufacturers with "dumping" paper in the American market, or selling their products at a price below their fair value to the detriment of a domestic industry.[11]
The Japanese manufacturers made up perhaps thirty percent of the market for thermal fax paper; the American companies, seventy percent. Virtually all witnesses agreed that throughout 1990 there was a substantial downward pressure on prices because of an oversupply of thermal fax paper. Indeed, the entire product line was facing strong competition from "plain paper" fax machines.
The stakes were high: If the dumping charges were proved, the imports of the offending companies would be subject to a tariff. Given the size of their market share, the weakness of the product,American market. And that, the government alleged, is just what they did: The Japanese companies illegally agreed to raise the price at which they sold thermal fax paper to $20.00 per hundred square meters.
Implementation, however, was not easy. None of these manufacturing companies had sales divisions in the United States charged with importing the product. Each manufacturer would sell the paper outright to a Japanese trading company. The Japanese trading company, after marking up the product, would then sell it outright to a trading company on United States soil. The United States trading companies, after adding their own markups, would sell the product to converters, companies that would convert the thermal fax rolls into the particular sizes the customers ordered.
However complicated the implementation, the government proved overt acts


meeting was the patchwork quilt of prices that resulted. There were no across-the-board increases; most prices continued to decline. In any event, there was no evidence of Jujo's participation. In a time line presented to the jury, NPI attempted to show that after each critical price-fixing event alleged by the government, Jujo lowered its prices. Whatever public face Jujo may have presented to other Japanese competitors was belied by its actions.
Finally, by November 15, 1990, the government can show neither the continuation of the conspiracy nor its continued "substantial effect" on American commerce. Oversupply of thermal fax paper, the pressures driving down prices, coupled with the strength of the American competitors create a paradox in the core of the government's case: If there had been a conspiracy tofix prices in March of 1990, and prices were raised or even stabilized, that conspirator would immediately lose customers, market share and in short order, any impact on the American market. If, recognizing that, a conspirator jumped ship at the first opportunity, abandoning all efforts to increase or stabilize prices, then it would have abandoned the conspiracy.
Indeed, the record reflects that both happened. Some companies, like Honshu, may well have tried to raise prices or at least hold the line. By November of 1990  they lost substantial numbers of their American customers. Others, like Jujo and Oji, continued to lower prices  ignoring whatever representations they had made in March. By mid 1990 a price competition resumed  as to those still in the market  that


The report was prepared by Mr. Funabashi of Honshu, a thermal fax paper manufacturer and one of the attendees of the March 30, 1990 meeting. Written the next morning, it described who attended: Honshu, KSK, MPM, Oji, and Jujo along with five other companies. According to the government's translation, the document states that "agreement and approval was obtained from each company to revise prices as given below." The new price for the North American market was to be $20.00/100m2, to be implemented in May 1990. This was the government's smoking gun.
The government buttressed the document through the testimony of other "downstream" witnesses  the employees of Japanese and American trading companies "ordered" to implement a price increase, the telexes and faxes between those trading companies, and other messagessent between manufacturers and the trading companies.
NPI responds that the government's evidence is insufficient for several reasons. First, Mr. Funabashi's report is squarely contradicted by the only testimony offered at trial of someone present at that meeting. Mr. Hinoki, also of Honshu, who was the government's star witness,[18] denied that any of the manufacturers at that meeting agreed either to increase or to stabilize prices, and indeed, did not recall what if anything was said about price increases in the United States.[19]
Second, there is no evidence, according to NPI, that the meeting consisted of anything other than mid-to-lower level employees who discussed, without the authority to bind their respective companies, the threat of an anti-dumping action by competitors in the U.S. Indeed, Mr. Hinoki testified not only that


of forwarding Mr. Funabashi's report to his boss and his colleague in the United States, along with his own attached report in the second instance, surely permit the inference that Mr. Hinoki thought in 1990 *187 that an agreement to fix prices had been struck.[23]
What was happening at Honshu immediately following the meeting was mirrored by what was happening at MPM. Mr. Oba of Mitsubishi Corporation ("MC"), the Japanese trading house responsible for sales of thermal fax paper manufactured by MPM, testified that he was summoned by Mr. Ishigaki of MPM to come to MPM's office so that Mr. Ishigaki could explain to Mr. Oba the details of a recent manufacturers' meeting. Mr. Ishigaki too was a named attendee at the February 1 meeting; MPM was also representedat the meetings on February 6 and March 30. Mr. Ishigaki related to Mr. Oba that the manufacturers had agreed at their recent meeting to increase prices for the sale of thermal fax paper to the United States and other markets. According to Mr. Oba, Mr. Ishigaki said that the manufacturers "fixed the price by territory." Mr. Ishigaki then instructed Mr. Oba to have MC implement the new price scheme starting from April or May of 1990.
With regard to the claim that the representatives at the March 30 meeting did not have the authority to bind their respective corporations, the government responds that Mr. Hinoki's actions belie that claim as well. When Messrs. Hinoki and Funabashi visited Mr. Sato at Mitsui (Honshu's and Jujo's Japanese trading house), they


of a Price-Fixing Conspiracy

The evidence that Jujo joined the conspiracy is somewhat weaker, but still not so weak that a jury could not reasonably find beyond a reasonable doubt that NPI was guilty of having joined the conspiracy, at least at its inception.
The government starts its case referring to two observations in the report of Mr. Funabashi. First, he reports that Jujo was not only at the meeting of ten manufacturers on March 30, 1990, but at the preliminary meeting, held an hour before the main meeting, which Mr. Funabashi described as a meeting of "the five major companies." It would be odd for Jujo to be a "major company" and yet to play a passive or spectator's role. Second, Mr. Funabashi reports that all of the companiesin attendance at the main meeting agreed to and approved the collective price revision scheme.[24]
In addition, the government points out that Jujo was a host for the earlier February meetings, raising the inference that it had a leading role in the formation of the conspiracy. In addition, the government points to a memorandum from Mr. Sato of Mitsui's to Mitsui's offices in the United States, where Jujo's thermal fax paper was distributed, which describes Jujo, based on what Messrs. Hinoki and Funabashi told him, as "the group leader" of the March 30, 1990 meeting.
In a similar vein, the government cites a correspondence faxed by Mr. Ito of Mitsubishi International Corporation, MPM's American trading house in New York, to MC in Tokyo on April 9, 1990. In this document,


and later, a reasonable fact finder looking only at prices, would be obliged to conclude that the conspiracy had evaporated. Jujo's prices continued to fall. KSK's and Oji's prices dropped from $19.00 in March 1990 to $15.01 in December 1990, while Mitsubishi's prices to one customer dropped from $18.30 in August, to $16.68 in December. One government witness admitted that there was a "price war" among all the thermal paper manufacturers beginning July 20, 1990, and lasting through the fall. Another characterized the 1990 market as "wickedly competitive," prices were going "down, down, down." Indeed, by mid 1990, prices were so low that Appleton was still threatening the manufacturers' including Jujo  with an anti-dumping petition.[26] Oji, in particular, was regularly undercutting its competitors. Competitors knew what eachrequirement that the government show substantial effects by showing a substantial connection to the United States market.
I instructed the jury on this "per se plus" test by saying that substantial effects could be shown in any of the following ways:
 whether the volume of commerce affected by the conspiracy was substantial;
 whether the share of the market allegedly impacted by alleged conspiracy was substantial;
 whether the conspiracy as a whole substantially lessened competition in the thermal fax paper market.
The government claims that it made sufficient proof of all three. I will acknowledge that the government carried its burden with regard to substantial effects on either of the first two prongs but only around the time the conspiracy allegedly was formed, i.e. around the end of March, 1990. It


presented sufficient evidence that Jujo had approximately $6 million in sales in the United States at the start of the alleged conspiracy, and that the Japanese thermal fax paper manufacturers as a whole had approximately thirty percent of the market at the time.[29]
The problem with the government's position is that the evidence indicates that the Japanese share of the market collapsed during 1990. Witness after witness testified to the fact that any company that did raise its prices lost market share at a precipitous rate. The pattern of prices suggested that by mid 1990, most abandoned the enterprise. Even so, document after document suggested that the market for Japanese thermal fax paper, not too robust at the beginning of 1990, was virtually extinguished by the end of theyear. McCall of DaiEi reports that Japanese competitors had become an "insignificant" force in the market place. Appleton and KSP, the American companies continued to aggressively compete with one another, and, although they had captured so much of the market, continued to threaten anti-dumping petitions in order to drive out any of the remaining Japanese manufacturers left standing. The American companies plainly had the capacity to supply the entire demand for thermal fax paper by the fall of 1990. The Japanese conspiracy  if anything remained by November of 1990  could hardly have had a "substantial effect" on American commerce.
It should be emphasized that a substantial effect on United States commerce cannot simply be assumed to continue because it once existed. There is no reason to treat


of a setup in all of this by the American companies seeking not just to eliminate their Japanese rival's competitive edge, but to eliminate their Japanese rivals entirely. One of the attendees at the March 30, 1990, meeting, KSK, was the parent company of Kanzaki Specialty Papers (KSP), an American company. (KSP was considered to be an American corporation for anti-dumping purposes.) Hirosuke Fukuda, a KSP vice president, testified that he used KSK to get information about Japanese prices; KSK in turn directed its American company, KSP, to join with Appleton and threaten to file an anti-dumping petition. That, in turn, would force the Japanese companies to raise their prices and push them out of the market.
[13]  For example, Mr. Ito of MIC (the American trading house)to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, as well as in August of 1990.
[27]  A telex sent from DaiEi Papers, New Jersey, to DaiEi, San Francisco, simply reports a thermal paper manufacturer's meeting at which MPM reported Appleton's threat to file an anti-dumping petition Oji and Daio. The tone of this report and its content is wholly different from the March 30 Funabashi memorandum. Likewise, a fax between Mitsui trading houses, confirms that what was happening was not the lock-step participation in a price-fixing conspiracy, but rather a company struggling to discount prices while avoiding dumping charges. The only evidence the government has for the fall of 1990 is that there was continued talk among manufacturers about a threatened anti-dumping petition, which is hardly


NEW YORK -- New York Mets clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels admitted betting on baseball, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Samuels made the admission to an investigator for Major League Baseball in the last few weeks, the person said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

"He admitted betting on baseball on at least one occasion," the person said.

Samuels' bet on baseball first was reported by the New York Daily News.

MLB believes most of Samuels' alleged gambling involved NFL games, the person said.

The team said Thursday that Samuels had been suspended but did not say why. A law enforcement source told ESPNNewYork.com that Samuels is part of an NYPD gambling investigation headed by Queens DA Richard Brown's office.

A second person, also speaking on conditionThursday, November 27, 2014

Pope Francis “God lives in cities. We must go and look for him and..."

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged bishops and pastoral care workers to take up the challenge of bringing the Gospel into big cities with a profound change of attitude and renewed committment.
In a message to participants of the International Pastoral Congress on the World's Big Cities, held in Barcelona this week, the Pope issued an encouragement to reflect creatively on the way they face the task of evangelization in great urban centers that are in increasing expansion, and in which everyone needs to feel the closeness and mercy of God.
Delivering his message to a group of Cardinals and bishops from big cities across the world whom he received in audience on Thursday


of God that may be dispersed or mixed up: they ask to be “revealed and not constructed”.
Regarding the issue of religiosity Francis said it differs enormously in the five continents, and he pointed out that the Church in Latin America and in the Caribbean has recognized its strength that comes above all from poor majorities.
God – he said – continues to talk to us today through the poor. And he said large cities today are inhabited by numerous migrants and poor people who come from rural areas, from other continents, with other cultures. “They are pilgrims of life in search of ‘salvation’, who often find the force to go forward and to struggle thanks to a simple and profound experience of faith in God” the Pope said. So,that to be dealt with in a very serious way and that’s what the BBC is currently doing.”

Speaking to reporters on Monday, he said he thought a decision was “about 24 hours away”.

Clarkson, alongside co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond, was scheduled to take part in four live Top Gear shows in Norway this week, but it was announced on Sunday they had been postponed.

On the same day, Clarkson described his week as “turbulent” and claimed he was joking when he appeared to criticise BBC bosses during an expletive-laden rant at a charity event.

The presenter had appeared to suggest he may be sacked from the BBC2 show and criticised the corporation’s executives.

Clarkson said that he was told off by his lawyer after his on-stage speech at a charity


gala in north London was captured on video.

But he said in the Sunday Times that it had all been in good humour, writing: “It was all meant in jest and anyway it worked.

“By being brief, controversial and a bit sweary I woke the room up and the auction prize I was offering – one last lap of the Top Gear test track – raised 100,000.”

Clarkson had told those gathered at the charity event: “To be in the audience of Top Gear there was an 18-year waiting list. You know the BBC has fucked themselves, and so who gives a fuck?

“It was a great show and they fucked it up.”

He is reported to be considering new shows, including a programme about a novice trying to run a farm.

Clarkson tweetedstudy released by the Kaiser Foundation ranks Alabama as second in terms of the percentage of uninsured adults who still do not qualify for health coverage under either Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act. They do, however, qualify to pay that big fat fine if they don’t sign up for the Affordable Care Act anyway.

Reporters say that since he was first-elected in 2008, President Obama has played about 150-full-rounds of golf, while George W. Bush only played 24 through his ENTIRE two terms. To be fair to President Obama, George Bush used to toss his clubs and leave when his first shot didn't make it through the windmill.

Bessemer loses one of it’s more upscale businesses – the flea market in Brighton burned down last night. Merchandise losses total


Jan Whitaker's Consumer Society

Alice Foote MacDougall's 1920s chain of New York City coffee shops (called "coffee" shops to attract men) made her almost a household name. It didn't hurt that she used a professional publicist to get her into the papers and magazines constantly.

By 1923 Clara Ellis' Miss Ellis Tea Shop in Chicago, established in 1910, had made the former office manager one of the most successful business women in the country. In 1929 her 84-year old mother served as corporate VP.

Around 1907 Charlotte Duncan rented an old one-room shack on the beach in Ogunquit, Maine. She painted the Dutch door bright green and added an old-fashioned brass latch and Colonial knocker. Inside she filled display shelves with small antiques she had collected in Europe. Decades later, amuch bigger Whistling Oyster was still going strong and still using the green and white color scheme.

When Ida L. Freese took a 21-year lease on the old Vanderbilt mansion at 379 Fifth Avenue in New York City in April of 1914, she acquired a site for her fourth tea room. She had already made a smashing success with her first three: The Colonia, The Vanity Fair, and another inside the O'Neill department store.

Grace E. Smith made it big in the cafeteria field. After graduating from Wooster College in 1908 she managed a YWCA lunch room. In 1916 she shocked her family by opening her first cafeteria in Toledo, Ohio. (They thought the restaurant business was too low-class for a college graduate.) She became the first woman president of


the National Restaurant Association in 1940.

"Domesticating the Restaurant"A chapter in From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies, University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

Note the cupboard, rather sparsely furnished in this case.

In my essay I write about the women who ran restaurants in the teens and 1920s and the kind of ideas they had about what a restaurant should be like. Many of them had studied home economics and felt they had a mission to civilize the restaurant. Keep in mind that many middle class people distrusted restaurants at the time and considered them dirty and unpleasant. They viewed them as "the tail end of the saloon," meaning that their patrons were more interesed in drinking than eating.

The women I focus on were not the first to run restaurants (legionsof women had operated eating places, often with their husbands), but they were highly educated -- in a field where many had not finished high school. They considered themselves reformers, and they used the middle-class home as their standard of how things should be done.

Their restaurants often stressed a homelike theme -- through the food they served, the way they furnished their dining spaces, and even in customs like putting flowers on the table, hanging curtains at windows, and giving free second helpings. Needless to say, their kitchens were squeaky clean.

Tea sandwiches

Their food ranged from simple dishes such as casseroles and rice pudding to fancier things such as tea sandwiches and tomato aspics.

The feminine look carried a wee bit too far?

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A round-the-world tour of major department stores


Queen Ingrid and her daughters

Their mother loved dance and music, her children have inherited her passion and that shared devotion to the arts all came together as the daughters of Ingrid of Denmark presented awards that carries her name in Copenhagen. Queen Margrethe II, Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Benedikte shared the duties as they handed over the Queen Ingrid Music Grants in the Danish capital on October 26th.The pulp is discharged from the tower by the discharge means to the blow tank, where the steam still present in the pulp is separated therefrom into the upper part of the blow tank. From the blow tank the pulp is discharged by the discharge pump. The steam separated to the upper part of the blow tank is further conveyed to the condenser, where the heat still present in the steam is recovered, thereby generating condensation water.
The process described hereinabove, however, involves some drawbacks:
Firstly, a great portion of steam is condensed in the pulp, so the pulp consistency is no longer the same it was when the pulp left the pump. PA1 Secondly, the pulp pressure in the steam feeding means has to be limited to approx. 9-10


Bengaluru FC Reserves retain the BDFA Super Division League title

Bengaluru FC ‘B’ won the BDFA Super Division League title for a second year in a row after defeating Ozone FC in their final league match of the season.

Second placed Kickstart FC won their final league game against MEG & C FC comfortably as well, but they needed BFC ‘B’ to either lose or draw to clinch the George Hoover Trophy. In the end they ended up only a point behind Bengaluru FC and remained unbeaten for the duration of the season.

In the first of the two matches on the final day of the season, Bengaluru FC were up against last years’ second placed team Ozone FC. But Ozone FC are sixth in the league this season and didn’tlook convincing over the course – especially going forward.

Suresh Singh Wangjam who made an appearance in the senior team’s win over FC Goa a day ago looked at ease in the Reserves side and helped them take the lead in the 31st minute. A swift counter-attack from an Ozone FC corner saw Suresh Singh being released into space on the left side. The midfielder ran the the length of the goal, cut back against the defender marking him and eased the ball past the keeper.

A second goal came eight minutes later in the 39th minute with Advait Shinde and Edmund Lalrindika combining and carrying the ball from midfield with Edmund finding the back of the net. This was Edmund’s ninth goal of the Super Div campaign. The Blues


scored a third in the second half (76′) after Naorem Roshan was brought down in the box. Ajay Chhetri stepped up to seal the win amidst chants of “Who needs Sunil, we have Ajay!”

Kickstart FC were up against MEG & C FC in the second match of the day. Although they played with the knowledge that the Blues had already sealed the title, they hammered four goals past MEG & C FC. Some belters and expert finishing by Nikhil and Sudheer who contributed with a brace each.

BDFA Super Division League Table 2019-20

Bengaluru FC ‘B’ lost their first game of the 2019-20 season to ASC & C FC. Since that setback, they have been solid and won almost of their matches except for their draw against contenders Kickstart FC.

Coachcounty officials have come up to her saying they were preparing to read the initiative.

“What it means to me is that the same people who thought that they could ignore us a few months ago are now saying that we have power to make change,” Saucedo said.

April Workshop

On Saturday, April 7, the organization led a training event for members and volunteers at the United Congressional Christian Church from noon to 2 p.m. The workshop was created to celebrate the group’s efforts since February and encourage everyone through the final weeks of April.

Attorney and honorary member Eric Kirk began participating with Centro del Pueblo after seeing members Saucedo and Emely Velez in action at a county board meeting last summer. Kirk helped draft the sanctuary proposal and has collected


among the public television network’s highest-rated programs.

For almost three decades, PBS has presented this night of remembrance dedicated to the country’s men and women in uniform, their families at home and all those who have given their lives for our country. Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise, who has co-hosted the concert for the past eleven years, will present a 75th anniversary salute to the Doolittle Raiders, the aviators who changed the course of World War II in the Pacific.

The all-star line-up for the event includes: General Colin L. Powell USA (Ret.); Renée Fleming; Vanessa Williams; Scotty McCreery; John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting; John Ortiz; Christopher Jackson; Ana Ortiz; Ronan Tynan; and Russell Watson, in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top pops conductor JackEverly. Additional performers to be announced.

The program is a co-production of Michael Colbert of Capital Concerts and WETA, Washington, D.C. Executive Producer Michael Colbert has assembled an award-winning production team that features the top Hollywood talent behind some of television’s most prestigious entertainment awards shows including the Grammy Awards, Country Music Awards, Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live and more.

On the eve of the close of the 2017 legislative session, the House today approved 194 bills that address a wide range of issues, including the state budget, affordable housing, homelessness, kupuna care, taxation, agriculture, invasive species, and the environment.

The House also approved the State Budget which now goes to Governor David Ige for his signature.

HB100 HD1SD1 CD1, the State Budget appropriates $14.1 billion in total operating funds for fiscal


motorcycles and motor scooters on shoulder lanes, as determined by the department, in times of traffic congestion.

HB115 HD1 SD1 CD1, Requires each county with a population of more than 500,000 to take ownership and jurisdiction over all disputed roads under certain circumstances. Defines disputed roads.

HB957 HD1 SD2 CD1, authorizes the Department of Education to borrow moneys interest-free from the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Loan Program for heat abatement measures at public schools.

MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

HB942 HD1 SD1 CD1, authorizes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to commission an artist to design and build a monument to honor and commemorate Filipino veterans of World War II, with all costs to be expended from the Works of Art Special Fund.

HB1420 HD1 SD1 CD1, appropriates funds for burial grants forin June 2012 in Las Vegas.

The decision spurred a call by the manager of both fighters, Bob Arum, for a review by Nevada state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto. She said she found nothing illegal or criminal in the scoring.

State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer said Wednesday he respected Ross’ decision to take time off and appreciated her more than 20 years of service to boxing.

Ross, a retired casino surveillance official and mechanical designer, said she has been scoring fights for 22 years and estimated that she had judged more than 30 previous championship bouts.


and other damages.
The Morgans retained Benner as counsel because the Morgans believed that their neighbors (the "Forsts") were violating restrictive covenants in the neighborhood by clearing trees in order to build a house. Benner advised the Morgans to file a lawsuit and a preliminary injunction. On April 11, 1991, Benner filed a "Complaint for Damages and Injunction" and a temporary restraining order against the Forsts and the developer. On May 20, 1991, the court granted the preliminary injunction and in its findings of fact stated that it appeared probable that the Morgans would prevail in the trial on the merits of this matter. The Morgans were ordered to post a $20,000 bond, which was secured by their house. The case was moved to a Madison County court whichruled on April 24, 1992, that the Morgans failed to meet their burden of demonstrating their entitlement to injunctive relief. The court dissolved the preliminary injunction and dismissed the Morgans' claims against the Forsts. On July 22, 1992, the Madison County court held that all claims, including those against the developer, were involuntarily dismissed, stating that the only remaining issue before the court was a request by the Forsts for damages. Following a hearing on damages, the court issued a judgment in favor of the Forsts and against the Morgans in the amount of $53,556.00 for various costs incurred by the Forsts as a result of the Morgans' preliminary injunction.
In Indiana, statutes of limitation are favored because they afford security against stale claims and promote the peace and


in themselves can have anything like the impact – they lack the force of Haw’s brave, exhausted vigil.

Haw died in office. He abandoned his megaphone and his placards in 2011 to be operated on for the lung cancer that swiftly killed him. Did his dogged, sacrificial fight change anything? Do any protests have an effect? They create a sense of solidarity: if anything good has come out of the current political situations in Britain and the US, it is that small differences can be more easily forgotten as you march against the big problems. The pleasure in this can provide a necessary source of strength to people who might go on to participate in more targeted forms of activism.

Looking back on the Aldermaston march, the science fiction writerthe Integrative Medicine Working Group at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Her previous work on acupuncture for menopause was published in a high-impact internal medicine journal. She has appeared on radio and on national television. Carolyn continues to work as a clinician alongside her research work, and is on a journey to find the best way to combine a career and family. She moved in early 2016 from Melbourne to the Northern Beaches of Sydney with her husband and two young children, and enjoys running, high-intensity-interval training, goal-setting, and the occasional eating of cupcakes.


A leaked memo from current Clinton campaign chair John Podesta to a handful of liberal billionaires in late 2007 lays out the longterm progressive strategy to dominate American politics by creating an “echo chamber” to control public discourse and changing American demographics to make them more “advantageous.”

The memo, found in one of thousands of Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks, underscores just how involved “big money” is in the inner workings of the political left.

Equally important, it lays bare what has been a largely successful effort by progressives to control public discourse, change American demographics and divide the electorate by categories such as race, gender and age.

NYC Meeting 2007 (Final Draft)(4) by Peter Hasson on Scribd

The memo went out to several major Clinton donors, including George Soros, Peter Lewis,mid-century Hispanics will be one-quarter of the U.S. population (at which point or shortly thereafter, the United States will become a majority-minority nation).”

The memo makes clear that progressives should make concerted efforts to lock down both millennials and women as reliable progressive voters

While the memo does stress the electoral importance of African-Americans, it also describes them as the “most reliable bloc in the Democratic camp.”

Andy Stern and Anne Berger, then the president and secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are listed as co-authors on the memo, alongside Podesta.

On October 2, 2007 — after the meeting would have taken place — Podesta’s executive assistant emailed the memo to Stan Greenberg, head of Democratic polling firm Democracy Corps.

The memo does include a couple legal caveats. It notes that


TUCSON, Ariz. - Early today a man was bitten by a rabid skunk.

According to Arizona Game and Fish, the man was raking leaves outside his house when the skunk came up and bit him on the ankle.

The man was taken in for rabies testing and treatment.

The incident occurred at the man's residence just outside of Catalina State Park.

This year there have been 4 cases in Cochise County, 3 in Santa Cruz County, and 2 in Pima County reported rabies occurrences.

People are advised not to touch suspected rabid animals alive or dead. Dead animals can still spread rabies.

Those who have come in contact or bitten by a possible rabid animal is instructed to get tested for rabies to receive proper treatment.

Anyone can call 623-236-7201 if rabies is suspected.

For moreBio:Poison Ivy (Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley) is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillainess who is primarily an enemy of Batman. Created by Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff, she first appeared in Batman #181 (June 1966).

Poison Ivy is depicted as one of the world's most prominent eco-terrorists. She is obsessed with plants, botany, and environmentalism. She uses toxins from plants and mind controlling pheromones for her criminal activities, which are usually aimed at protecting the natural environment. Fellow villain Harley Quinn became her recurring partner-in-crime and possibly her only human friend. She has proven to be one of Batman's more powerful foes, being one of the few members of his Rogues Gallery to display anything close to superpowers. Pamela Isley a.k.a. Poison Ivy has been portrayed as a


love interest for Batman in some comics. In one comic, Ivy was robbing a charity gala Bruce Wayne was attending. Ivy's first kiss was poison, the second its antidote. When they first meet, Ivy's toxic lips planted a seed of toxic rapture in Bruce. But when she later kissed a dying Dark Knight, Ivy unknowingly cured her intended victim and established a budding romantic tension between them.

Creator Robert Kanigher modeled Poison Ivy after Bettie Page, giving her the same haircut and Southern drawl as Page. In her first appearances in 1966, no origin was developed; she was merely a temptress. When she first arrived in Gotham City, her costume was a one-piece, strapless green bathing suit, covered with leaves. Leaves also formed her bracelets, necklace and crown. Shewore green high heels and yellow-green nylon stockings with leaves painted on them. These particulars changed somewhat when she re-appeared.

Poison Ivy was promoted after the rise of feminism pointed out the need for a greater number of more independent female villains in the series. She was also used to replace the increasingly sympathetic Catwoman as a clearly antagonistic female supervillain foil for Batman, and then made further appearances in the Batman comic book series and in Suicide Squad. The second, retconned origin story provided for her by Neil Gaiman in the late 1980s linked her to Swamp Thing and his original Black Orchid as a human-plant hybrid. She has since appeared in starring roles in Gotham City Sirens and Birds of Prey.

In the 1997 film, Batman & Robin,


she was portrayed by Uma Thurman. Poison Ivy has been featured in the television series, Batman: The Animated Series and The Batman, brought to life by voice actresses Diane Pershing and Piera Coppola respectively. She is significantly younger on The Batman than in any of her other incarnations – a teenager in fact, who nevertheless proves to be one of the most powerful criminals in the world.

IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Poison Ivy as #64. She was ranked 21st in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.An Environmental Protection Agency panel of independent scientists has recommended the agency revise its conclusions in a major study released last year that minimized the potential hazards hydraulic fracturing poses to drinking water.

The panel, known as the Science Advisory Board (SAB), issued on Thursday its nearly yearlong analysis of a June 2015 draft EPA report on fracking and water. In a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy that accompanied the analysis, the panel said the report's core findings "that seek to draw national-level conclusions regarding the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources" were "inconsistent with the observations, data and levels of uncertainty" detailed in the study.

"Of particular concern," the panel stated, was the 2015 report's overarching conclusion that fracking has not led to "widespread, systemic impacts


to modify or eliminate its topline finding of 'no widespread, systemic impacts' to groundwater from fracking," it wrote.

The EPA said it would weigh the SAB's recommendations and that it aimed to publish the final report before the end of the year. "EPA will use the SAB's final comments and suggestions, along with relevant literature published since the release of the draft assessment, and public comments received by the agency, to revise and finalize the assessment," spokeswoman Melissa Harrison said in an email.

Environmentalists welcomed the SAB's assessment of the draft study and said they hoped it would lead to changes in the report's conclusions.

"The EPA failed the public with its misleading and controversial line, dismissing fracking's impacts on drinking water and sacrificing public health and welfare along the way,"said Hugh MacMillan, senior researcher at Food & Water Watch. "We are calling on the EPA to act quickly on the recommendations from the EPA SAB and be clear about fracking's impacts on drinking water resources."

The SAB's report criticized the draft study on a range of fronts. In particular, the panel said that the EPA erred by not focusing more on the local consequences of hydraulic fracturing. "Local-level impacts, when they occur, have the potential to be severe," the panel wrote.

The EPA should have more thoroughly discussed its own investigations into residents' complaints of water contamination in Dimock, Pa., Parker County, Texas and Pavillion, Wyo., the panel said. In both cases, EPA scientists and consultants had found early evidence of contamination, but the agency ended the investigations before


The Powerpuff Girls - Horn Sweet Horn

Synopsis

Third and final night of free outdoor film series at the Long Center Terrace

Fun starts at 6PM
Parade, screening and more starts at 8PM.

Before the broadcast debut of the newly re-imagined series this Spring, Cartoon Network will take over the Long Center in Austin and host a fun-filled event under the stars to celebrate the premiere of The Powerpuff Girls! Join Cartoon Network and be amongst the first in the world to see episodes from the new series, along with fun, food, and surprises galore.

*Event will be moved to Dell Hall at the Long Center in case of weather cancellation. Please check SXSW.com for all updates.

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60minby the Colonial Office, under Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, to establish British order and to transform the newly established Colony of British Columbia (1858–66) into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest west" and "found a second England on the shores of the Pacific". Lytton desired to send to the colony "representatives of the best of British culture, not just a police force": he sought men who possessed "courtesy, high breeding and urbane knowledge of the world" and he decided to send Moody, whom the Government considered to be the archetypal "English gentleman and British Officer" at the head of the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, which was created by an Act of the British Parliament on 2 August 1858. The Engineers were believed to exemplify the qualities sought by


a band of Yankee Rowdies defying the law! Every peaceable citizen frightened out of his wits!—Summons & warrants laughed to scorn! A Magistrate seized while on the Bench, & brought to the Rebel's camp, tried, condemned, & heavily fined! A man shot dead shortly before! Such a tale to welcome me at the close of a day of great enjoyment."

He enjoyed a warm reception for his success that he describes thus: "They gave me a Salute, firing off their loaded Revolvers over my head—Pleasant—Balls whistling over one's head! as a compliment! Suppose a hand had dropped by accident!  I stood up, & raised my cap & thanked them in the Queen's name for their loyal reception of me".

The foundation of New Westminster
In British Columbia, Moody "wanted toby insufficient funds, which, together with the continuous opposition of Douglas, "made it impossible for [Moody's] design to be fulfilled".

The feud between Moody and Governor James Douglas
Throughout his tenure in British Columbia, Richard Clement Moody was engaged in a bitter feud with Sir James Douglas, Governor of Vancouver Island, whose jurisdiction overlapped with his own. Moody's position as Chief Commissioner and Lieutenant-Governor was one of "higher prestige [and] lesser authority" than that of Douglas, despite Moody's vastly superior social position in the eyes of the Engineers and the British Government: Moody had been selected by Lord Lytton due to his possession of the quality of the "archetypal English gentleman and British Officer", his family was "eminently respectable": he was the son of Colonel Thomas Moody (1779-1849), one of


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Button worn by supporters of woman suffrage.

The ten stars represent the number of states in which women had full suffrage at the time it was made -- Wyoming (1869), Colorado (1893), Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), California (1911), Kansas, Oregon and Arizona (all 1912), and Montana (1914).

“Votes for Women” was one of the most popular and recognizable slogans used by members of the woman’s suffrage movement.The Canadian basketball movement has spread like a wildfire throughout the last year, with Toronto native Anthony Bennett going No. 1 overall in the 2013 NBA Draft and Canadian star Andrew Wiggins being the consensus No. 1 prospect in the 2013 class across the recruiting spectrum.

Furthermore, Syracuse freshman point guard Tyler Ennis looks to be a potential lottery pick in the 2014 NBA Draft—along with Wiggins. But the pipeline is far from hitting its peak, with 2016 point guard Jamal Murray leading a fresh wave of Canadian talent that is waiting to hit the spotlight. Murray is a member of the CIA Bounce, a Toronto-area AAU program run by Tony McIntyre (Ennis’ father). Wiggins and Ennis were CIA Bounce products as well.

Murray has already gained recognition as one


Expert panel: VET in crisis

It is time that we recognise that a new model of vocational education is needed in Australia. The current social settlement between VET and society is not working and VET is in crisis.

This presentation will consider:

Why VET is in crisis – the connection between competencies and markets

The links between vocational education and the labour market in shaping (shaky) transitions

What a ‘policy rich’ vocational education policy would look like

Qualifications, capabilities and vocational streams

The institutional conditions that are needed to sustain a strong vocational education system – the role of TAFE as anchor institutions

Professor Leesa Wheelahan is the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Leesa has published widely on lifelong learning, tertiary educationthe Monarchy of France and institute a Republic, but was quick to restore order when the French Revolution spiraled out of control. The nobles of Provence had resisted the expansion of the Bourbons for a century and had their own Aristocracy of Gallo-Roman stock and culture.

d'Espinassy married Lady Marie Guillaume de Tholomé de Fontanelle, who was the only child of the Marquis de Fontanelle thus starting the d'Espinassy de Fontanelle branch of the d'Espinassy family. Their eldest son inherited the Marquisate of Fontanelle and title of Marquis.

When he was exiled from France he was known as the Exiled French Regicide.

His sons married into the Royal House of Essex of England, after meeting daughters of Arthur Algernon Capell the 6th Earl of Essex at a ball in Brussels the


Karthikeyan "confident" of Super GT seat after test

Former Formula 1 driver Narain Karthikeyan says he is "confident" of securing a 2019 Super GT seat after completing a successful test at the Sepang International Circuit this month.

Karthikeyan drove a Honda NSX-GT for Nakajima Racing, the Satoru Nakajima-led squad with which he has raced in Super Formula for the last two seasons, and was among a small handful of drivers to dip in the 1m49s.

He completed hundreds of laps of the Malaysian venue across four days and was joined by Formula 2 race winner Tadasuke Makino and GT300 driver Hiroki Otsu for the second half of the test.

Bertrand Baguette, who has been a part of Nakajima’s Super GT team since 2014, also got some running.

All four drivers are thought toEllen gets fed up and decides to walk home from the drive-in. Meanwhile, Little Pete switches the drive-in movie for home video footage of Endless Mike as a baby, embarrassing him in front of everyone there.

Older Pete chases after Ellen and apologizes, asking her if, in the spirit of Daylight Saving, she can forget what a jerk he was the last hour and if they can go back to being friends. She agrees and kisses him on the cheek.

Endless Mike chases younger Pete so far that the two end up crossing time zones, leaving Pete to time travel again. The event is eventually immortalized in the making of a slidey pen that features the chase.

How to Celebrate It: Most people just turn their clocks back before they go


90210, eat a special meal of egg foo young, and Burt would sing a special song.

Young Jimmy’s favorite holiday was always Arbor Day though, when his dad would dress up like Papa Woody, “the mystical, gift-giving wizard of the forest” who pitches his tent “deep in the bush.” Papa Woody would bring a bunch of magical trees inside the Chance home and load them up with candy and toys from the dollar store. Then, the family would then all settle down to watch 90210 and enjoy a delicious dinner of warm maple syrup soup before Burt sang a special song.

There is one problem with the Chance’s Arbor Day celebration—the trees Jimmy finds are pulled from the ground after traditional Arbor Day revelers plant them. The family then leavesBaugh, Sammy

Baugh, Sammy (Samuel Adrian Baugh), 1914–2008, American football player, b. near Temple, Tex. The first great passer in the game, Slingin' Sam played for Texas Christian Univ. (1934–36) and the Washington Redskins (1937–52), helping the latter win two National Football League championships. An excellent punter and defensive back as well, he led the NFL in passing, punting, and interceptions in 1943, and was a six-time All-Pro. When Baugh retired, he held most of the NFL's passing records. He subsequently coached college and professional football teams.


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beach almost synonymous with Monet, who repeatedly returned to paint these famous pierced cliffs, especially in the 1880s (this is explored at length in the Met's catalog).

Monet was not the first-- Courbet was there in the 1860s, joined by his American pal Whistler and his gorgeous Irish girlfriend Joanna Hiffernan. Matisse had Monet's color and Courbet's sensuality in mind when he painted a series of images of dead fish on the rocky strand.

Looking closely at the image, it's really odd: there is an assemblage of fish and shellfish on a bed of seaweed: a green langoustine and an eel are the easiest to spot. Like most of Monet's later paintings, Matisse's fish painting eschews
the messy human uses of the beach, presenting only a fish still life,
leaved up outof the water onto a neat mat of seaweed. Part landscape,
part still-life, this is an image of the intertidal zone-- where flint
rocks, fallen from the limestone cliffs, form the beach, and where the
sea rises and falls, leaving seaweed and other deposits on the beach
with one tide, and whisking them back with another.

As Robert Herbert's excellent book on Monet showed, this beach, so often painted as an empty, sublime expanse, was right in front of a busy boardwalk that was up against a town packed with hotels, casinos, summer villas, restaurants and shops.

Summer tourists, fishermen, boats, laundresses washing tourists' clothing and hotel linens all vied for space on the beach. At this point, as John Gillis points out, the boardwalk divided the people who worked on the beach (and


their boats, seaweed, fish, etc) from those who were at the beach.

But, in this painting, Matisse's beach is covered in fish. The human life is absent.

Thinking about the oddity of dead fish as "actors" in a landscape, or as features of a landscape, I remembered a very strange Dutch painting that I had seen in New Orleans over a year ago.

This is a collaborative painting (one of many of this type), by Willem Ormea (-1673) and Abraham Willaerts (1577-1664). Ormea, a still-life painter, did the fish and Willaerts, a marine painter, the landscape. The Dutch were quite proud of their maritime prowess, as well as their mastery of nature in reclaiming so much of their watery landscape for agriculture. Ormea and Willaerts produced many dead fish landscapes-- aquick search found the examples below. These paintings all seem to bring together a spectacular harvest of the sea with the industriousness of a worked coastline. Many of the fish poses and types repeat: the contorted bodies, the open mouths, the shiny rigor mortis. They seem impossibly large, beached and blotting out the beach. Close up and huge they dwarf the human activity in the middle ground and distance.

Of course, there are many examples of fish in still life paintings: Chardin comes to mind in particular, and the many great market paintings of the northern painters like Snyders and Aertsen.

In the 1860s and 70s, Bazille and Manet produced some of the most seductive images of fish, hearkening back to the Dutch masters:

And Manet also made some lovely sketches


Infected Mushroom Talks Their Live Show, Touring, and More During Miami Music Week

Infected Mushroom are legends in the electronic music scene, having spent almost 20 years experimenting with electronic music genres and as a live band. They've not slowed down, only kept the pace steady, and they arrived in Miami for Miami Music Week to party and show people a great time. We sat down with Duvdev, who spoke about a number of topics, including their forthcoming Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 3 release (as well as forthcoming material), how the electronic scene has grown in Miami, their current tour schedule, and their live show. Get to know a little bit more about one of the electronic music scene's pillars, Infected Mushroom.Imageepoch CEO Ryoei Mikage held a meeting to discuss whether they will release Time and Eternity: Toki Towa in the United States. Namco Bandai will publish Time and Eternity in Japan as a PlayStation 3 title. Earlier, Imageepoch signed a deal with NIS America to release their titles in the West.

Mikage didn’t tweet the result of the meeting, but he did say he was happy to see all of the responses from fans outside of Japan about the idea of releasing Time and Eternity: Toki Towa overseas.


It was heralded as a game-changer for the fledgling National Women’s Soccer League: A&E Networks, a major media company with deep pockets, was investing a 25 percent stake in the league and would broadcast its games nationally on Lifetime. The TV deal, signed in 2017, was supposed to last for three years, but on Wednesday, the NWSL abruptly announced the deal was coming to an end one year early.

Less than two months before the start of the NWSL’s seventh season, the league’s broadcast partner and key investor are gone. In a World Cup year, when the league should be preparing to capitalize on an inevitable boost in interest, the NWSL is instead looking to find a new broadcast partner.

It sure doesn’t look good for the NWSL. But isBillie Holiday never received any formal instruction as a singer. Her beginning, like much of her short life was a study in tragedy and sorrow. At twelve years of age, she was already working in a brothel. Her singing at that time evolved simply as a way of earning some extra money from the customers. By 1930 she had been jailed for prostitution but after her release, she began singing in smaller clubs and venues where she caught the attention of producer and blues/jazz enthusiast John Hammond. She was just eighteen years old and beautiful.

It soon became extremely evident that Billie Holiday was not only unique, she had a natural gift; even though she often lacked the vocabulary to try and explain her own talent, to articulate exactly


how she was able to interpret the music, she was clearly a genius. She viewed her own voice as an instrument – a horn specifically – and this is precisely the kind of tonality that she was capable of. Not only was she able to convey heart wrenching emotion but as well she knew instinctively how to subtly alter the weight of a syllable to best suit her purpose. Improvising was a big part of Billie’s technique and as a jazz musician she understood its significance; in fact, she claimed that she literally wasn’t capable of singing the same song, the same way more than once. Although not as well known, she was also co-wrote God Bless the Child, Lady Sings the Blues and many others.

John Hammond introducedBillie to Benny Goodman and through him came a series of other jazz friendships that would help to launch her career. She also began working with the wonderful and quirky saxophonist Lester Young. Lester Young and Billie Holiday had chemistry right from the start and it was Young who first coined the nickname of “Lady Day.” She called him “Prez” as in President. Lester Young took ‘in jokes’ to a whole new level and created his own (often extremely clever) vocabulary so that only his close friends knew what he was talking about. But in musical matters, he was Billie’s other half – anticipating and responding to her phrasing and seamlessly improvising right along with her. Billie and Lester did a number of small jazz sessions together that


are considered classic sets now – The Very Thought of You or Fine and Mellow are among the best of many bests. Lester remained her closest musical colleague but sadly, to me at least, they were never involved romantically.

Billie enjoyed a great deal of musical success in her life and sang briefly both with Count Basie’s orchestra and Artie Shaw. She also broke new ground at a time when it was not yet typical for a black musician to be fronting a white band; similarly, her haunting song Strange Fruit which dealt with racism and was very controversial for the time quickly became a classic. Bizarrely, many of the people requesting this song in clubs somehow missed the underlying message.

Billie’s struggle with heroin addiction and subsequent imprisonment forpossession in 1947 caused her career to halt for a while. The rest of her life was a slow and steady decline, painful to watch and her voice never recovered from the years of abuse she had put her body through. Although some people say she sang with even more emotion at this time in her life – and certainly she could still sometimes pull off some remarkable performances – the media was now more interested in watching her unravel. Billie Holiday died in 1959 at only 44.


Thus, when it came to light that a monk lying on his death bed had  stolen three gold pieces, Gregory, as a remedial punishment, forced the monk to die alone, then threw his body and coins on a manure heap to rot with a condemnation, "Take your money with you to perdition". Gregory believed that punishment of sins can begin, even in this life before death. However, in time, after the monk's death, Gregory had 30 Masses offered for the man to assist his soul before the final judgment.

Eventually, Pope Pelagius II ordained Gregory a deacon and solicited his help in trying to heal the schism of the Three Chapters in northern Italy. However, this schism was not healed until well after Gregory was gone.

Gregory had aEutychius of Constantinople, who had recently published a treatise, now lost, on the General Resurrection. Eutychius maintained that the resurrected body "will be more subtle than air, and no longer palpable". Gregory opposed with the palpability of the risen Christ in . As the dispute could not be settled, the Byzantine emperor, Tiberius II Constantine, undertook to arbitrate. He decided in favor of palpability and ordered Eutychius' book to be burned. Shortly after both Gregory and Eutychius became ill; Gregory recovered, but Eutychius died on 5 April 582, at age 70. On his deathbed Eutychius recanted impalpability and Gregory dropped the matter. Tiberius also died a few months after Eutychius.

Papacy

Gregory was more inclined to remain retired into the monastic lifestyle of contemplation. In texts of all genres, especially


The subject was most common in the 15th and 16th centuries, and reflected growing emphasis on the Real Presence, and after the Protestant Reformation was an assertion of the doctrine against Protestant theology.

Famous quotes and anecdotes

 Non Angli, sed angeli, si forent Christiani.– "They are not Angles, but angels, if they were Christian". Aphorism, summarizing words reported to have been spoken by Gregory when he first encountered pale-skinned English boys at a slave market, sparking his dispatch of St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to convert the English, according to Bede. He said: "Well named, for they have angelic faces and ought to be co-heirs with the angels in heaven." Discovering that their province was Deira, he went on to add that they would be rescued de ira,Though I do see Mr. Reeve as the ultimate live action Superman, I would have to go with the Smallville Superman simply because of the Lois Lane that I would be paired with. Keep Margot Kidder away from me!!!
The only thing that would worry me about being Smallville's Superman would be fighting the urge to commit incest with his extremely hot cousin.

I thought Margot was hot,I'd like her as my Lois Lane as she was then!

I thought Margot was hot,I'd like her as my Lois Lane as she was then!

It's the crazy (/knowledge of future crazy).

In 1996, She disappeared for four days, having become a street person. She was found in a back yard by a homeowner and was taken by Los Angeles police to a medical centre


This sympathy did not extend to the Party though. In this regard, he was similar to many other Wehrmacht soldiers, who, with encouragement from Hitler, erroneously believed the army to be the most important element of the regime. Rommel showed particular resentment towards the SA and later, the SS, for their brutality and absorption of resources and personnel.

The historian Alaric Searle recasts Rommel's early involvement with the Nazi regime, including his role as a liaison between Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht. Young's biography had described Rommel's role in strictly military terms and alluded to a falling out between him and the Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach on ideological grounds. In fact, Rommel had twice proposed a plan that would have subordinated Hitler Youth to the army, removingthe cornerstone of this plan. Nor did Rommel realise that Hitler saw no conflict of interest between Germany and the maritime power Great Britain, which he hoped to make an ally." He also had only a week's warning before the launch of Case White at the start of 1943. Messenger argues that Rommel's attitude towards Hitler changed only after the Allied invasion of Normandy, when Rommel came to realise that the war could not be won.

Historian Thomas Vogel opines that Rommel was not a Nazi, if one uses the definition the Nazis themselves used, considering that although he did everything in his power to make his country strong again, he showed no support towards the racial policies or other aspects of the regime.

Operational and strategic level commander

British military


Also, according to Hanley, if Rommel stood still, his enemy's strength would accumulate while his own, depending on an uncertain supply line, would diminish, thus he needed the British stocks of supply to deal with his logistical problems.

Daniel Allen Butler writes that if Rommel was not a formally trained strategist, he developed himself into one, becoming able to grasp strategic opportunities that others missed. Starting as a compulsive commander who imperiled his own command, and his superiors' plans in Africa, he realized that his opponent's army was the main objective and not the mere holding of territory. Butler writes that it was unfair to blame Rommel considering that he had been kept ignorant of Operation Barbarossa. Butler also questions the need to obey his superiors' higher strategy, consideringthat Rommel had told him in Normandy, just a few days before the plot, that Hitler and his entourage would have to be killed, if there was any chance for Germany to bring the war to a satisfactory end. Summarising the most recent findings on Rommel's role in the 20 July plot, Peter Lieb concludes that:

[Rommel] did not play any role in the operational preparations for the plot against Hitler and we do not know which post he was supposed to assume after a successful coup. Hence, the Field-Marshal was definitely not part of the most inner circle of the 20 July plotters. At the same time, however, he was more than just a mere sympathiser and paid for this with his life. He consequently deserves a firm


down on his demand that Mexico pay for the border wall. They chatted by phone the next day.

Trump proposed a 20% import tax and said it could pay for the border wall. It might cost you.

He also floated the idea of bringing back torture, then deferred to his Defense secretary, who opposes the practice as illegal and ineffective.

Friday, Jan. 27

Trump signed an executive order that would block all refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days, and added travel restrictions from Muslim countries.

Nieto who? Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with a world leader ended up being with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Make way for military changes. Trump ordered the Pentagon to review the nation’s military from top to bottom.

Abortion opponents held their 44th annual march in Washington, D.C. ViceTwo Australian provinces have declared states of emergency as more than 120 bushfires are expected to grow, putting schools and homes in the Sydney suburbs at risk.

Three people have died and thousands have been displaced by the blazes so far as they approach population hubs across the east coast.

In New South Wales (NSW) fires have ravaged almost a million hectares of land while destroying 150 homes, and nine houses have been burnt to the ground in Queensland.

Now officials have declared a state of emergency in both of the highly populated states amid concerns that high temperatures around Sydney on Tuesday could bring renewed danger.

Gladys Berejiklian, head of the NSW state government, said: “The catastrophic weather conditions mean that things can change very quickly.”

She said that the last time


a state of emergency was declared in the region was in 2013, when extensive blazes tore through the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney.

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She added: “Everybody has to be on alert no matter where you are and everybody has to assume the worst. We cannot allow complacency to creep in.”

Nearly 500 schools are expected to be closed in the suburbs of Sydney and across New South Wales on Tuesday


by ice melt, they said.

A research team from the University of Edinburgh analyzed hundreds of satellite photographs of the ice margin along the West Antarctic coast captured by NASA, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the European Space Agency (ESA). The study has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

They found that ice has been retreating consistently along almost the entire coastline of Antarctica’s Bellingshausen Sea since satellite records began.

“We knew that ice had been retreating from this region recently but now, thanks to a wealth of freely available satellite data, we know this has been occurring pervasively along the coastline for almost half a century,” said Frazer Christie, a PhD student in the University of Edinburgh’s School ofSouth Africa’s black rhino were of the southwestern D.b. bicornis subspecies, while Namibia had 1,750. This is the subspecies of black rhino that was hunted and permitted. No more than one or two rhino a year, white and black rhino combined, have been poached in Namibia from 2009 through September of 2012, while South Africa has had 122, 333, 448 and 425 poached during the same period. (The populations in both countries are still substantially increasing.) Namibia has been developing a security strategy to increase protection of its elephants and rhinos. There is little doubt that an increase in the revenue from hunting of black rhino due to the entry of the US safari hunting market will boost security measures and local incentives. The greater revenue can go


shut down a newspaper for publishing unofficial data on exchange rates. According to President John Magufuli, the central bank has previously licensed too many bureaus and some of them have broken the laws.

Since the start of the year, the Tanzanian shilling has been broadly stable. In April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that the true value of the currency is broadly in line with fundamentals. However, IMF has warned of serious weaknesses in official data. There are indications of a slower pace of economic activity contrary to what is being reported by the government.

When the foreign exchange bureaus were closed in February, the bulk of foreign currency trading was handled by commercial banks. About $10 million are traded daily in the commercial banks because of the reducedindividuals will not be interested to attend the event. The closer the venue is to local transport links, the more guests you can expect because it is easier for them to get there.

Organizers of Woodstock 50 promises that the event will still take place even if it has lost the venue and producer. The event is supposed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 iconic event and was scheduled to take place from August 16 to 18 at Watkins Glen International, a racetrack in New York. Watkins Gen International confirmed that it will no longer host Woodstock.

Less than an hour after WGI made the announcement, CID Entertainment, the festival producer also made an announcement that it will no longer be involved in Woodstock 50 in any capacity.