On the surface, the arguments made this week in the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman may have seemed as dull as dishwater.

Defence and Crown lawyers spent days arguing over who searched for what documents and where. Not exactly high drama, even for seasoned observers.

Look closer, however, and you might have seen a number of tantalizing, relevant threads emerging from the legal and political Gordian Knot of Norman's breach-of-trust trial.

The military's former second-in-command stands accused of leaking cabinet secrets to a now-former CBC journalist and an executive at the Quebec shipyard which leased the federal government a temporary supply ship for the navy.

In fact, most of the 12 alleged leaks cited by the Crown involve the Davie shipyard in Levis, Que.

The leasing deal was hammered out on theeve of the 2015 election by the former Conservative government and grudgingly approved by the Liberals weeks after they took power.

Norman's alleged leaks, according to the Crown, were intended to influence the governments of the day toward embracing the Davie lease deal.

This week, however, the court heard in more detail about how the RCMP have not interviewed a number of former Conservative ministers and staffers who were involved in this file — including former defence ministers Jason Kenney and Rob Nicholson and those who worked for them.

Jason Kenney was one of several defence ministers in the Harper era. (CBC)

More curious still is the fact that Crown and federal lawyers — the gatekeepers of the documents being sought by Norman's defence team — have mounted an extraordinary rearguard action


National Defence and even Norman's own direct commander, former chief of the defence staff Tom Lawson.

Privy Council Office analyst Melissa Burke told the RCMP — in a witness transcript included in documents released by the court late last year, which have not been entered in evidence nor tested in court — that the Prime Minister's Office under Harper "very much wanted this to go through."

She cited a briefing note that was signed by Norman only — and not by his boss.

"What that says to me is, the navy was working directly with PMO to try and make this happen," Burke said.

Putting the Norman case in context

Unsealing documents from the Conservative era would not affect the allegation that Norman leaked the results of a Liberal cabinet meeting to JamesCudmore, a CBC journalist at the time, in November 2015.

It would, however, provide important context —and explain the Norman trial's baffling backstory.

There's one final twist to note that might be significant.

The Privy Council Office bureaucrat in charge of the search for government records testified this week they can't find some emails, texts and messages at National Defence — notably those of Conservative political staffers and former ministers.

The contents of dormant email accounts are supposed to be "wiped" after six months, said Patsy Bradley.


was tried before a jury in the Superior Court of Union County on charges of threatening the life of Mrs. Mary Catrone on two occasions and of possession of a pistol without a permit and with intent to use it unlawfully on those occasions. Trial of these charges was completed in one day. The case went to the jury at 11:00 a.m. on the second day. At 2:35 that afternoon the jury *395 reported an impasse and the trial judge delivered a modified Allen charge. At 5:15 p.m., the jury again reported its inability to reach a unanimous verdict and the judge sent the jurors home for the evening. The next morning the judge delivered a second Allen charge. Three and a half hours later the jury againreported that, despite sincere efforts, it was impossible to reach a unanimous decision. Following a lunch recess the judge delivered still a third Allen charge. The jury returned an hour later and, in response to an inquiry from the trial judge, announced unanimous guilty verdicts on four of the six counts. After an instruction pertaining to the remaining counts, the jury deliberated briefly and returned with verdicts on the remaining charges. On appeal, defendant, not having objected at trial to the judge's use of the Allen charges, contended that giving the charge for the third time was plain error. The Appellate Division rejected this contention and affirmed the convictions in a brief, unpublished per curiam opinion.
We turn first to the question of whether the so-called Allen charge as


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*403 The first Allen charge was given to the jury when the jury announced a deadlock a few hours after it had commenced deliberations. The instruction very clearly counseled the dissenting jurors to question the reasonableness of their own judgments, simply because they were not among the majority.[3] The jury resumed its deliberations and several hours later informed the court that "it is virtually impossible to reach a unanimous decision." The judge suspended deliberations until the next day and sent the jury home. On reconvening the jury the next morning, the judge delivered his second supplemental instruction. It repeated the same admonition to the dissenting jurors. The jury again resumed deliberations and approximately three hours later sent a third note stating "this jury has sincerely tried to reachWith help from worms

By: Jyotika Sood

Shekhawati farmers in Rajasthan go organic
It came to them as a small business proposal. About 10,000 farmers in the semi-arid Shekhawati region on the edge of Thar desert turned it into a fortune spinner and have become major organic farmers in Rajasthan.
It was 1994, recalled Om Prakash Sharma, farmer in Korela village near Nawalgarh town. M R Morarka-GDC Rural Research Foundation, a voluntary organisation in Jaipur that promotes organic farming, was doing survey in villages around Nawalgarh for farmers who would want to produce vermicompost.
One had to just cover a corner of their field with straw, leave some earthworms provided by Morarka and dump crop or cattle waste there. Within a few weeks as the manure got ready, the organisation would buy it.


Diversity and spatio-temporal distribution of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in sediments of the Westerschelde estuary.
The diversity and spatio-temporal distribution of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea (AOA) and Bacteria (AOB) were investigated along a salinity gradient in sediments of the Westerschelde estuary. Sediment samples were collected from three sites with different salinities, and at six time points over the year. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA and amoA gene fragments was used to identify the AOA and AOB present. Members of the AOA were mainly belonging to the Crenarchaeota Group 1, which were found at all sites, while members of the genus Nitrosomonas, which were abundant at the brackish sites, and of the genus Nitrosospira, which were present in early spring at the marine sites, were found to be thedominant AOB. Statistical analysis indicated that salinity and temperature were the main factors controlling the diversity and distribution of both AOA and AOB. Variability in net primary production rates was also correlated with species composition of both groups, but changes in the nitrite concentration only to the distribution of the AOA.


Presidential Power

As we drive up the red dirt road towards Madame Sekongo’s house in the north of Ivory Coast, I am filled with anticipation. I have already spoken to her on a crackly Skype call and have heard about the enormous impact she is having in her local community. We pull up outside a large house with a grand gated entrance. As we enter the property I know her immediately, she has an incredible presence and steps towards me and envelopes me in a huge hug like a long lost friend.

Her house is buzzing with activity in preparation for the filming we will be doing the next day, as well as a meeting with the leaders of her farming union “UCOVISA: Grande Productrice de Mais”, roughly translated as‘great female producers of corn’. Immediately I see her why this woman has become the President of a farming union with 18,000 members – she leads with authority and precision and has a very clear idea on exactly what is required. As we sit down to talk she instantly starts explaining the extent of the cooperative: “We do business across West and Central Africa from Ghana to Cameroon and we hope to expand further.”

Jeanne Sekongo’s success is all the more poignant when she explains that she came from a very poor family and was the last child. She describes herself as a clever girl at school but was only able to attend whenever her family could afford it. She explains: “It was very difficult to have a good


life when I was young.”

Jeanne completed her primary education aged 15, when she went straight to work in the sugar plantations. By the age of 18 she was the head of a team at the plantations, her leadership skills already beginning to shine through.

She went on to start her first enterprise when she was 24 years old. She based the idea on her own experiences with access to education. She wanted all young girls to have access to school so set up a woman’s association for agricultural activities. She started out with seven members. This was to become UCOVISA with its 18,000 member, 90% of whom are women. She explains:

“If you don’t go to school at the high level you need to try harder and think about whatPublic misperceptions in 1959 and 1960 that the Soviet Union had opened up a dangerous and growing lead over the United States in the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had fateful consequences beyond influencing an exceedingly close presidential election. What was then labeled “the missile gap” also helped establish patterns in the nuclear arms race that persisted throughout the Cold War and beyond.

For the U.S. public, the missile gap burst forth spectacularly toward the end of the 1950s as a result of two developments in 1957. The first was the successful flight test of the Soviet SS-6 ICBM in August and the Soviet Union’s launch several weeks later of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, by the same rocket type. Both launches represented Soviet technological achievements not


of Soviet ICBM capabilities, were leaked to the press.

The shock of being bested in space by the United States’ superpower rival and the prediction by an independent, blue-ribbon commission of future Soviet strategic advances set the stage for the appearance of the missile gap. A sense of alarm spread, along with a narrative that the Eisenhower administration had been complacent in the face of an acute military threat. Influenced by a combination of inadequate information and partisan political motives, Democratic politicians cultivated the notion that the aging incumbent had been asleep at the switch and that a new team was needed to reinvigorate government and restore U.S. nuclear superiority.

In one sense, the Gaither Report’s findings and the January 1959 joint Senate hearings on missile and space activities merelyled to a necessary and overdue adjustment in the U.S. psyche as a new and unpleasant reality of the nuclear age sank in: The United States had become profoundly vulnerable to foreign attack. However, the press and politicians outside the White House made little effort to discuss root causes or to put the report in perspective. Press characterizations were even less restrained than the language of the report itself. For example, The Washington Post provided its influential readership this description of the report’s contents: “[The report] pictures the Nation moving in frightening course to the status of a second-class power. It shows an America exposed to an almost immediate threat from the missile-bristling Soviet Union. It finds America’s long-term prospect one of cataclysmic peril in the face of


in the nuclear age. Thus, he could say without hyperbole in his Senate floor remarks of February 29, 1960, “For the first time since the War of 1812, foreign enemy forces potentially had become a direct and unmistakable threat to the continental United States, to our homes and to our people.”[4]

The fault in Kennedy’s argument was not so much the inaccurate characterization of the Soviet missile numbers, for the intelligence community had provided him with estimates it later revised downward on the basis of subsequent intelligence collection and analysis. A more serious flaw was that he implied that a new administration somehow could alter the fundamental reality of U.S. nuclear vulnerability, which was not the case. Moreover, his focus on simple side-by-side numerical comparisons was misplaced; the morethat advantage despite the great damage that we know we would suffer if they instigated an attack?”[5]

CIA projections of Soviet ICBM numbers had been falling from initial estimates in late 1957 of 100 by 1960. By early 1960, the CIA was predicting 36 by the end of the year, based on an “orderly” production rate, reaching 100 by mid-1961. The Air Force intelligence estimate for 1960, which was 500 in late 1957, remained higher than that of the CIA throughout this period.[6] The first Soviet ICBM actually went on “combat duty” in January 1960,[7] and only two had been deployed by the end of the year.[8] The first U.S. ICBM, the Atlas D, had achieved operational capability in September 1959.[9]

Soon after the Kennedy administration took office, the missile


gap started officially to evanesce. In a February 1961 press backgrounder on U.S. defense programs, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara admitted that there were “no signs of a Soviet crash effort to build ICBMs” and concluded that “there is no missile gap today.”[10] By the end of 1961, it was clear and acknowledged officially that the United States, not the Soviet Union, held the lead in ICBMs and in most other categories of nuclear weapons as well.

It now is well established that the number of deployed U.S. ICBMs was never lower than the number of deployed Soviet ICBMs during the period of the alleged missile gap. Instead, it was the United States that enjoyed an early lead in ICBMs and maintained it until 1968.[11]

It is impossible to know howof ICBM, the SS-7, contributing to a slower rise in ICBM numbers. It also diverted significant resources from ICBMs into the production of SS-4 medium-range and SS-5 intermediate-range ballistic missiles. These shorter-range missiles could not reach the United States while based in the Soviet Union. Indeed, the later Soviet decision to base SS-4s in Cuba secretly was made in part to redress the overall strategic imbalance that Moscow accurately perceived as the Kennedy administration came into office.

The next decades of the Cold War featured many instances of U.S. actions premised on the worst-case interpretation of future Soviet force deployments. However prudent the inclusion of such estimates in executive branch strategic planning efforts, they regularly were interpreted by congressional overseers and the public at large as predictions of what


was likely to happen. Throughout the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, the United States overestimated Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM) capabilities. Fears in the 1960s that the strategic missile defense system protecting Moscow was the harbinger of a nationwide network turned out to be unfounded. The Reagan-era depictions of Soviet progress in developing exotic directed-energy weapons proved greatly exaggerated.[13]

The virulent impact of worst-case analysis continued into the post-Cold War era. The Rumsfeld Commission’s 1998 report on the foreign ballistic missile threat concluded that several emerging missile states could develop and deploy ICBMs within five years. The 1999 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the ballistic missile threat was less alarmist than Rumsfeld’s report and included “most likely” as well as “could” projections, but it still gave pride of placeyears ago. During the three remaining decades of the Cold War, the United States often sought to close strategic gaps that the Soviet Union was perceived to be opening, only to discover much later that Moscow had been struggling mightily merely to catch up with the technological advances and superior resources of the United States. The rise and fall of the missile gap myth is a cautionary tale, which should continue to inform efforts to achieve more realistic and sober appraisals of the threats faced today.

Greg Thielmann is a senior fellow at the Arms Control Association, where he directs the Realistic Threat Assessments and Responses Project. He previously served as a senior professional staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was a U.S. Foreign Service officer


for 25 years.

ENDNOTES

1. Office of Defense Mobilization, Executive Office of the President, “Deterrence and Survival in the Nuclear Age,” November 7, 1957. For a highly regarded analysis of the report, see David L. Snead, The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1999).

9. Norman Polmar and Robert S. Norris, The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: A History of Weapons and Delivery Systems Since 1945 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009), p. 166.

10. Desmond Ball, Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980) (quoting articles in The Wall Street Journal on February 9, 1961, and The Washington Post on February 7, 1961).

11. Norris and Cochran, “Nuclear Weapons Databook,” p. 18.

12. Edgar M. Bottome, TheVERNAL — Two teenage boys were arrested Thursday after police say they stole a small airplane in rural Uintah County, successfully landing it in Vernal.

The boys, ages 14 and 15, left a group home on the Wasatch Front earlier this week and went to the Jensen area where they stayed with friends, according to the Uintah County Sheriff's Office.

Police say the teens gained access to a tractor, drove it to a private air strip in Jensen and stole a fixed-wing, single engine light sports aircraft. The plane was seen flying very low along U.S. 40 near Gusher, according to the sheriff's office.

Police believe the teens planned to fly back toward the Wasatch Front, but apparently changed their minds and landed at the Vernal Regional Airport, where where they


A woman has revealed how she was gang raped by five 'foreign' men when she left home to pick up a takeaway.

Michelle Pavey, 30, from Radstock, near Bath, was heckled and propositioned for sex by the group who were parked in a silver Mondeo as she went to her local KFC at 4pm.

Ms Pavey, who was wearing tracksuit bottoms and a jacket over her pyjamas, said the car pulled alongside her and she was grabbed - before the assailants ripped off her clothes, held her down and attacked her.

A woman has revealed how she was gang raped by five men when she left home to pick up a takeaway. Michelle Pavey, above, 30, from Radstock, near Bath, was heckled and propositioned for sex by the group who wereparked in a silver Mondeo as she went to her local KFC at 4pm. She was then attacked by the five men

Speaking for the first time about the ordeal, which has so far only seen one man - Afghan asylum seeker Ahadullah Khughiani, 19 - jailed, Ms Pavey, who had gone to pick up dinner for her boyfriend Gareth, a scaffolder, said: '[The car], full of men, slowed down alongside me and [they] started shouting at me in a language I didn't understand.

'I didn't have a clue what they were saying but then one phrase came very clear through the cacophony of voices.

'£10 for all of us?' he yelled in English. '£10 for sex?'

Ms Pavey said she told the men to leave her alone - but they continued


to shout at her.

Scared, she said she put her head down and walked faster, trying to ignore them.

She explained: 'But the car veered into the kerb, stopping alongside me.

Ms Pavey, had gone to pick up dinner for her boyfriend Gareth, a scaffolder, left. She told the five 'foreign' men to leave her alone - but they continued to shout at her. Scared, she said she put her head down and walked faster, trying to ignore them. Ms Pavey begged the men to leave her alone, but they forced her into the car

In 2010, Ms Pavey was forced to face one of her attackers - Afghan asylum seeker Ahadullah Khughiani, 19, who was claiming benefits - at Bristol Crown Court

'I heard the car doors swing open and before Iknew it, three of the men had jumped out of the back seat and dragged me inside.'

Ms Pavey begged the men to leave her alone, but they forced her into the foot well of the car and sped away.

Ms Pavey, who was attacked on November 26, 2009 but has now waived her right to anonymity to encourage other sexual assault victims to report the crimes, said she thought she was going to be killed. About 10 minutes later the car came to a halt and she was dragged outside.

She tried to fight them, but it was no use.

The men dragged her by her ankles. They had driven her to a park - and Ms Pavey could feel grass between her hands.

She said: 'The scene was like something from


a horror movie.'

The gang tore at Ms Pavey's clothes, pulling off her jacket and ripping off her trousers and pyjama bottoms.

She was kicked to the floor and held down by two men by her arms.

Ms Pavey said: 'Pain tore through me as the first man climbed on top of me and brutally raped me.

'I shouted and screamed but nobody heard me.

'The gang were like a pack of wolves, egging each other on as the second man unzipped his trousers and forced himself on me.'

By the time the third man climbed on top of her Ms Pavey said she had given up fighting.

She instead focused on the lights of a church on the horizon in a bid to shut out the horror that happened as each of the mentook their turn to rape her.

Finally, when the fifth man was done, they sped away in their car.

Ms Pavey said: 'Adrenaline had been coursing through my veins but now, as I lay motionless, I realised how cold it was.

The gang tore at Ms Pavey's clothes, pulling off her jacket and ripping off her trousers and pyjama bottoms. She was kicked to the floor and held down by two men by her arms. After the assault she staggered home

'But I couldn't move. I was badly bruised and sore and emotionally, I just couldn't think. I couldn't get my head around what had just happened.

'For half an hour, I lay on the cold grass before I pulled myself up. The monsters had taken my phone, jacket and trousers - but


a hot bath. But no matter how hard I scrubbed, I couldn't wash myself clean.

'I felt their grasping hands all over me and for months and months afterwards, despite countless baths and showers, I felt dirty.'

A couple of weeks later, an officer from the CID called Ms Pavey and told her they had caught one of her attackers, but that the rest were believed to have fled the country.

In 2010, Ms Pavey was forced to face one of her attackers - Afghan asylum seeker Ahadullah Khughiani, 19, who was claiming benefits - at Bristol Crown Court.

After contacting the police that night and taking DNA tests Ms Pavey was told a couple of weeks later that the police had caught one of her attackers but that the rest werethe Afzal Guru like execution, the court said that there has to be 14 days gap between the communication of rejection of mercy petition to the convict and his family members and actual execution of the death sentence.

The court said these 14 days are necessary for the convict to come to terms with the reality, to make peace with God, to execute his will and also have the opportunity to meet his family members for the last time.

The court clarified that delays needed to be "inordinate" and "inexplicable", but it also said that mental illness such as schizophrenia and the use of solitary confinement could make a convict eligible for a reduced sentence.

"No death row convict can be kept in solitary confinement and it is unconstitutional," it said.

The


country has more than four hundred people on death row but has carried out only three executions in the last decade.

"This is a landmark judgment that will inch India closer to abolishing the death penalty altogether," Asian Centre for Human Rights director Suhas Chakma said.

India would probably continue to execute those prisoners convicted of crimes relating to national security, he said.

"But 90% of the others have been convicted of murder and rape, and these people cannot all be executed," he said.

Human rights lawyer Colin Gonsalves, founder of the Human Rights Law Network, told CNN-IBN: "I can't tell you how overjoyed I am, how happy I am."

The country had an informal eight-year moratorium on executions until November 2012, when it put to death Ajmal Kasab, a gunman from the2008 Mumbai attacks.

Guru, a militant convicted for his role in an attack on Parliament in 2001, was executed in February last year after his appeal for clemency was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Mukherjee, who took office in July 2012, has signalled a hard line on the death penalty by regularly dismissing mercy pleas — unlike his three predecessors.

Highlights:

• Condemned prisoners must be given a chance to meet their family members before execution of death sentence

• Legal aid be provided inside jail to the condemned prisoners

• Death convict and his family members must be informed after his mercy plea is rejected by the President or governor

• There should be atime gap of 14 days between dismissal of his mercy petition and hanging of a convict

• Solitary confinement of a


When a bushing is initially inserted within an annular aperture such as in the manufacture of a transmission pump, an interior surface of the annular aperture is machined to provide a slot for the bushing with the end of the machined surface forming a shoulder. The formed slot is generally longer than the bushing to be inserted. In the initial assembly line operation, for example in automobile part manufactured, it is not difficult with automated assembling apparatus to accurately place the bushing within the longer slot to the proper depth. In the later process of repair by removing the old bushing and inserting a new bushing, it becomes a very difficult task to insert the new bushing to the proper depth within the elongated slot. Generally, such asin the case of an automobile transmission pump, the bushing should not be driven to the end of the elongated slot against the formed shoulder but is inserted to the proper depth when there is some distance between the bushing end and the formed shoulder defined by the slot. Many times the mechanic will insert the new bushing within the slot by driving the bushing as far as it can go to the slot shoulder, sometimes causing the bushing to "roll" on its edges or compress radially inwardly when the edges contact the slot shoulder so that one of the annular edges of the inserted new bushing protrudes inwardly further than it should, creating very serious problems with whatever part the bushing is designed to circumscribe.
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A former Navy sailor who was pardoned by President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE is planning to sue former President Obama and other members of his administration for subjecting him to what he calls unequal protection under the law.

A lawyer for Kristian Saucier, who was pardoned by Trump in March, told Fox News on Monday that he plans to file a lawsuit accusing Obama, former FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDemocrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate Book: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016in newspapers — in Indiana and North Carolina.

Mr. Obama has acknowledged that he has created more than a few of his own problems. In San Francisco last month, he told fund-raisers that government and industry had betrayed small-town voters, who out of bitterness often clung to guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments. Then his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., reappeared, and with his radical political statements stirred more unease among white working-class voters.

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Senator Barack Obama at breakfast with union members in Indiana on Monday.Credit
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But the candidate’s aides seem convinced that Mr. Obama’s problems take root more in image than in a deeper misunderstanding of working-class voters.

Mr. Obama began speaking of his frustration as he stood in the parking lot of a


discuss the content of the information that has been retrieved from the card as this is evidence that could potentially be before the court," said Wolbeck.

Wolbeck said the evidence could be used in the April 15, 2013 trial of Orders, who was charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly swallowing the card from his camera after the accident.

He does not face any other charges. He had been held in custody after the incident until the memory card passed through his system.

Orders' lawyer, Laird Cruickshank, could not be reached for comment.

Late Wednesday, the Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada announced that its own investigation determined human error, not weather or faulty equipment, caused the tragedy.

According to the report, the passenger's harness was not connected to the glider duringtake off, and a "hang-check" was not performed, even though Orders had taken a tandem re-certification course just weeks before.

"The investigation was unable to determine the reason for the omission of the critical pre-launch safety checks," it stated.

The report notes, though, that multiple distractions may have resulted in a breakdown of standard operating procedures.

Bruce Busby, vice-president of the association, said Orders was celebrating his 50th birthday on the day of the tragedy and his daughter was watching.

Godinez-Avila and her boyfriend were also participating in flights at the time.

The association's investigation came to the conclusions after examining the passenger's and pilot's harnesses, the glider and talking to witnesses, said Busby who noted Orders is a member of the association but is currently suspended.

The report didn't include statements from Orders

Following


the accident, Orders issued a statement through Cruickshank, apologizing to Godinez-Avila's family and friends as well as the general public.

He also told reporters in May that he was under "overwhelming stress" after the accident.

Orders said his goal was to give Godinez-Avila an "amazing adventure and lots of smiles, but because he failed in such a major way," he has decided never to return to hang gliding.

Cruickshank said in May the incident was traumatic for his client and difficult to deal with.

Orders is a permanent resident of Canada and has surrendered two regular passports and an emergency passport — for New Zealand, the U.K. and Australia — all of which have expired, Cruickshank said at the time.

Busby said the association will release recommendations so that a similar tragedy doesn'tthe most recent NICE guidelines for sepsis.

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However, Channel 4 Dispatches – airing Monday at 8pm – can exclusively reveal that government penalties also mean that more than a billion pounds has been withheld from English NHS hospital budgets since 2010. This includes: ·.

Trusts currently using the DrDoctor solution include Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals and NHS Frimley Health.

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This post is part of our special coverage Morocco Protests 2011.

Since February 20, 2011, Moroccan activists have been campaigning to demand democratic reforms in their country. The February 20 Movement was born on the Internet and quickly became a mobilizing force on the ground. Across the country, committees affiliated with the movement (or “coordinations”) have been listening to the people and translating their grievances into formal demands and slogans regularly chanted during marches conducted every Sunday.

In an attempt to quell protests, the regime concocted a constitutional reform ostensibly presented as a bid to reduce the powers of the absolute monarchy. The reform was overwhelmingly passed in a referendum held on 1 July. Activists have been protesting against the proposals, which they feel do not go far enough. Theyalso denounce what they say was an unbalanced referendum campaign.

Stamping out pro-democracy?

Beyond the controversy surrounding the draft constitution, observers believe the regime is now trying to stamp out the pro-democracy movement by denying it access to public media and conducting a smear campaign against it.

The movement primarily uses the Internet to explain its position and its ideas. Promotional video campaigns, news releases, press conferences are organized by the movement every now and then in an attempt to communicate with the public and keep the February 20 Movement going and its voice heard. But sometimes it is the personal story of its own militants that impacts the wider public more starkly.

The personal account of Younes Loukili, a young sociologist and supporter of the movement, is a prime example. Younes


أن تحضر معي يوم 20 فبراير، فرفضتُ لظروفها الصحية. والثاني: صديقي الصحفي السعودي نواف القديمي، الذي اتفقنا أن نحضر معا إلى مسيرة الرباط، لكن تخلفت عن الموعد بعد أن استيقظت متأخرا، فهاتفني معاتبا: أفي هذا اليوم يا يونس تستيقظ متأخرا؟!

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رغم ذلك أصررت على موقفي، ولم أحضر منذئذ لأي تظاهرة.

Five months ago I was not supportive of the February 20 Movement, despite my presence that day (February 20, 2011) in the central square of Casablanca as a viewer, concerned with national issues and change, and as someone interested in the scientific observation of events and people. At the time, I was challenged by two people: first, my wife, with whom I discussed the issue at great length. I insisted that Morocco was an exception, because it is conducting genuine26 and a drive motor 27 thereon The drive motor 27 can drive the cradle traction element 26. The cradle traction element 26 can pass through and protrude out of the magnet bore to couple to the cradle 24, thereby to drive the cradle 24 to move.
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of Ireland during the Irish War of Independence. It was the scene of many of the conflict's major actions, such as the Kilmichael and Crossbarry ambushes. It contained a strong Irish Republican Army (IRA) Brigade (the 3rd Cork Brigade) and also a sizeable Protestant population – roughly 16%, some of whom were loyalists and affiliated to a loyalist vigilante group. The local IRA killed fifteen suspected informers from 1919–21, nine Catholics and six Protestants. They responded to the British burning of republican homes by burning those of local loyalists. British intelligence wrote that "many" of their informers in West Cork "were murdered and almost all the remainder suffered grave material loss".

Republicans suspected the involvement of a local "Loyalists civil wing" in the killing of two republicans, the CoffeyThis is no longer the FBI of Efrem Zimbalist Jr, who played FBI inspector Lewis Erskine, a squeaky clean and honorable agent, in the popular TV series from the 1960s and 70s. Instead we have a cast of deplorables in the modern-day soap opera called the FBI, including former directors Mueller and Comey. And senior leaders well known by name to American Thinker readers, but never mentioned on network or cable news -- Wray, Strzok, Priestap, Baker, McCabe, and Page.

The FBI’s mission is, “To protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.” How is that working out lately? Seems they are doing the opposite. Protecting its own corrupt players and undermining the Constitution by illegally disrupting the peaceful transition of power between presidential administrations.

Who


their employers. Uniforms typically ensured that no random visitor to the well-to-do household could mistake servant for master. As disliked as they were by the servants in the big country house, uniforms were a particular hot button with the maids employed by the middle class. After all, who did Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class think they were?

Edwardian servants were to be nearly invisible to his lordship and his family while keeping a household operational, coming and going by their own doors (often disguised as part of the wall or as bookshelves). However, the upstairs domestic servants like butlers and ladies’ maids had refined manners and a strong sense of propriety, were often more literate than the village working class, and had a knowledge of current events from beingUFC women's strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk has been busy recently. In addition to touring the country and visiting top MMA gyms along the way, she recently completed filming of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) season 23. She'll be one coach and her nemesis, Claudia Gadelha, will be the other.

While the filming lead to some tense moments (more on that in a moment), Jedrzejczyk has very few reasons not to smile these days.

"It was nice," the champion said of the filming of TUF for Fox Sports 1 on Monday during an appearance on The MMA Hour. "Very good experience. I'm very happy about that I was part of. I used to do the same reality show in Poland. Little bit different. Small production, but was more for TV, for people


course, last day I had enough. Claudia, she just talk too much. It was enough. She didn't get into my head. I was the adult and she was the kid. I was just...I got enough," she continued. "So I say a few words to her. I did some things. That's all. The rest I'm going to do in Vegas July 8."

"We could hang out together, but she doesn't like me," the champion continued. "Because I'm the best. I'm champion. Of course, she's dreaming about, but she knows that she never gonna be a champ."

While Jedrzejczyk appears intently focused on upcoming showdown opposite Gadelha, she's also dreaming big. Namely, becoming the first woman to win titles in two different weight classes in the UFC. Unless she goes to bantamweight,existence of these suicidal intrusions in a clinical setting. "Miss A. 37 years of age, continuously had thoughts and images about killing herself during the last 4 years. She had vivid images of herself jumping in front of a train, seeing her body lying disfiguredly alongside the tracks, thoughts and visions of her funeral, and the sadness of her parents. Immediately thereafter she had thoughts and images of herself slaying her wrists and bleeding to death, followed by vivid fantasies of herself hanging from a rope. She tried intensively to stop these images, but she could not stop it, and she could not sleep at all. She was exhausted and hated herself. She said that she actually did not want to kill herself, but because of the obsessive


nature of her intrusions, she finally wanted to escape her consciousness and requested assisted suicide. She tried all medications and other treatments made available to her by the clinic where she was under mental health care treatment. She was then treated with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) intervention aimed at obsessive rumination and repetitive imaginations (worry postponement and exposure) and which contributed significantly to her recovery. The total time of suicidal intrusive rumination was reduced from 20 h a day to 45 min a day and Miss. A. withdrew her request for assisted suicide. More information about this real-life story can be found in Kerkhof and Van Luijn, Suicidepreventie in de praktijk.*\[[@B36-ijerph-14-00714]\]* *(pp. 104--107)*"

There has been extensive research on intrusions. Evidence shows that the majority of the population in athe rampage was over, five people were dead, including the gunman, and at least 10 were wounded.

The violence began just before 8 a.m., when officers received reports of a “man down” on Bobcat Lane near Fawn Lane. Johnston said the gunman killed a man and a female neighbor he had an ongoing feud with. The gunman had been arrested for attacking the woman during a dispute in January, Johnston said.

He said the gunman’s dispute with neighbors may have sparked the violence.

“I think the motive of getting even with his neighbors and when it went that far — he just went on a rampage,” Johnston speculated.

(Sources: Google Earth, Mapzen, OpenStreetMap )

Authorities described a chaotic scene in which the gunman in a stolen car appeared to pick targets at random


in the rural Northern California county.

Johnston would not disclose the names of the gunman or victims, pending notification of next of kin. But in a phone interview Tuesday night with the Los Angeles Times, the sister of the gunman confirmed his identity as Kevin Janson Neal, 44.

Sheridan Orr, of North Carolina, said her brother had a history of mental illness and episodes of rage.

“There are certain people that do not need guns, and my brother was clearly one of them,” she said.

Orr said that her brother had long struggled with mental illness and that he would get paranoid and speak of government conspiracies. She said he was also known to have sudden episodes of unwarranted anger.

“It’s like he had been possessed and he would often not remember orlocal elementary school about two miles from where the rampage began. At one point, officials said, the shooter returned to Bobcat Lane with the truck, but crashed it and then carjacked a sedan and continued his assault.

In between the two locations, authorities said the gunman drove down the street firing at random houses and cars and even shot at a mother taking her son to school who drove past him.

“She was transporting her children to school, driving down the road, passed by the [gunman’s] vehicle and he opened fire on them without provocation or warning,” Johnston said.

The boy, who was sitting in the back seat, was expected to survive. His mother, however, suffered “very life-threatening” injuries, Johnston said.

School had not started and students at Rancho Tehama Elementary were


still in the playground when staffers first heard the shots ring out, said Richard Fitzpatrick, superintendent of the Corning Union Elementary School District at an afternoon news conference.

“The bell had not rang, roll had not been taken, when the shots were heard,” he said.

Staffers immediately began to lock down the campus, rushing students into classrooms and under desks when the suspect came around the corner toward the school.

The suspect crashed through the front gates of the school in a white pickup truck traveling at high speed, Fitzpatrick said.

The man came out of the truck with a semiautomatic rifle, ran into the center of the school’s quad and began firing at windows and walls as staffers, including the school’s custodian, rushed students into classrooms.

One student was shot in atransferred to other hospitals.

“We have assembled our resources, including staff and specialists, and are working closely with local facilities and agencies to help during this time,” Dignity Health said in a statement.

Nearby residents and business owners said they heard at least 100 gunshots.

“I thought this only happens to places like L.A. or New York,” Jose Garcia, owner of La Fortune Convenience, told the Los Angeles Times.

Coy Ferreira, a parent at the school, told KRCR-TV that he heard a series of gunshots through a classroom window and saw one young boy shot in the foot and chest and a second student shot in the arm. Both were alert and conscious, he said.

Gov. Jerry Brown released a statement expressing shock at the violence.

“Anne and I are saddened to hear about


Food and Tech: Solution to Preventing and Reducing Food Waste

By Alissa Link

What’s the scope of the problem?

Food waste represents a direct drain on resources at both the micro and macro levels, with producers utilizing labor, water and energy to produce food that will never be consumed and households spending money on food they never eat. For some estimates of how much food is wasted both in the U.S. and globally, see article one.

One quarter of the water used in agriculture is spent on wasted food. Food production also has significant environmental consequences including carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and food waste is the largest contributor by volume to landfills. While redirecting wasted food can help address food insecurity, preventing that food from being wasted in the first placediscount. Inspired by online CSA models (see Part 2, Feeding an Urban Population), these companies use web-based technology to run their operations, eliminating the need for a brick-and-mortar store, which helps them keep costs down and streamline their interactions with customers. Imperfect Produce is in the San Francisco Bay area (with plans to expand to Los Angeles), and Hungry Harvest operates in the Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia areas. Misfits Market currently delivers to all zip codes in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, and Ohio

As a prime example of social entrepreneurship, Hungry Harvest uses their profit from each produce box to subsidize or donate one to three pounds of fresh produce to public schools located in food deserts. As


Monday, July 14, 2014

The Vertical Set and Carolina's Pass Protection

One of the biggest offensive changes of 2013 went fully unnoticed, with
a single blip against Buffalo its only real telltale sign.

Carolina, like essentially the whole league, used a kick-slide technique
with their tackles, a modestly reacting set of steps designed to push
the contain rusher outward. It's the essence of what makes a passing
pocket. It's stanrard.

And yet, last year, Carolina's tackles went to the Vertical Set. It's
a staple of many spread type teams, and certainly more reactive - it
resets the line of scrimmage to, if I were to guess, about as far as the
OT is willing to retreat , where he anchors and strikes the defender.
The rusher, on the other hand, has less time to react, can't get his
hands on thepoint, North Queensland Bulk Ports has approvals in place to start work, including dumping in the marine park.

The State Government, under pressure from the tourism industry, would rather dumping take place on land to relieve pressure from UNESCO which is looking at listing the World Heritage-listed Reef in danger due to environmental degradation.

It is understood the Government also wants the project started before legal action takes place. Three tourism industry and conservation groups have challenged port approvals.

Mr Seeney has said if his plan was approved, state land at the port which is part of the Caley Valley would be ready to receive spoil when dredging began in March.


HOUSTON – Apartment developer The Dinerstein Cos. has submitted plans to the city for a 40-story residential tower called Vantage in Uptown.

The project is planned for 1.5 acres owned by locally based Class A Investors Post Oak. The land is at the northeast corner of Post Oak Blvd. and San Felipe Rd.

The podium-style tower will feature two floors of retail, seven floors of parking (including two underground), an indoor and outdoor amenity deck on the seventh floor, and 32 stories of residential space.Londonist

This Artist Captures London's Characterful Shopfronts - Before Gentrification Sweeps Them Away

Urban landscape artist Michelle Heron captures the characterful shopfronts of yesterday's London — sometimes only just in time, before gentrification sweeps them away.

A.Cooke Pie, Mash, Liquor & Eels, Goldhawk Road

The traditional pie, mash, liquor and eels business was founded in 1899 and had been based in Goldhawk Road, London since 1934, but was forced to shut after being served a compulsory purchase order as part of the development of the nearby market and surrounding area. The cafe features in The Who's Mod classic film Quadrophenia.

Arthur's Cafe, Dalston

From a series of paintings depicting fast disappearing old London shops. The Guardian waxed lyrical about this greasy spoon, run by local legend, Arthur Woodham. Unfortunately since then, he has passed


away. It was in his will that the business closed upon his death — and so it was.

Bearly Trading, Penge

Not barely trading but closed, for almost two decades on Penge High Street. I got quite emotional painting this one seeing those abandoned teddy bears and a rocking horse through the window. The story goes that when the owner passed away, the family wanted to keep the shop as a memorial. It's starting to show signs of decay with a boarded up window and stock inside slowly being removed.

The Opticians, Penge

I thought it seemed fitting to paint this one after painting its neighbour Bearly Trading. It's probably been closed for over 20 years but there are still glasses in the window and occasionally they are moved around or getswapped for similar 1980s looking frames. A fascinating shop suspended in time, while the surrounding high street moves on.

Coin~Op, Brixton

From a series of paintings depicting uniquely beautiful London shops. This particular painting is of a laundrette on Brixton Hill which has now changed its facade with a less striking plastic awning. In recent years I have seen neighbourhoods change and lose much of their individuality and charm to modern development.

David Greig, Brixton

David Greig was the supermarket chain founded by the Greig family of Hornsey, north London. The David Greig chain was a rival to Sainsbury's having been established in 1870. The first store opened in Brixton and eventually expanded across London and the south east and dominated Brixton including this one on Coldharbour Lane.

By the 1960s there were


in Fitzrovia, an affluent area of central London, on the corner of Warren Street and Conway Street. The Grade II listed building was built in 1793 still retains much of its original signage (although you can see it's starting to fade) and its rich blue tiles (cira 1916). One

of my only paintings to depict human life (shadow inside). Before supermarkets came along, London became home to many Welshmen who set up dairy businesses due to hard times in Wales. Cows were even kept on premises in central London and many dairies were located close to Marylebone Station which links it to

Paddington station and the West. Until quite recently, many early morning trains were in fact called 'milk trains'! By 1900 it is estimated that half of all dairiesin the capital were Welsh. Unfortunately none exist now in

London. but J Evans lives on as a fetching coffee shop.

Manze's Meat Pies, Deptford High Street

An institution that happily lives on, despite being somewhat under threat (many other pie and mash establishments have disappeared from London recently.

Marine Ices, Camden

An iconic ice cream shop in Camden. It has since relocated with a new facade since the previous building was demolished. Marine Ices has been trading since 1931 and was opened by Italian Gaetano Mansi. The same family who brought Manze's Pie and Mash shops to London. In fact the surname Manze's is incorrectly spelt and was originally Mansi.

Parkview Hairdressers, Kennington

This barbershop in Kennington used to have peeling paint on its facade (as pictured) but has recently

had a face lift and


paint job.

The Dublin Castle, Camden

The Dublin Castle is a pub in Camden famous for its live music. It opened in 1856 and originally served the Irish community and Irish engineers working on the nearby railways. It gained prominence in the late 1970s when Madness (known at the time as The Camden Invaders) performed a residency there which helped to establish their career. It became a popular venue in the 90s for Britpop bands such as Blur, and Amy Winehouse performed regularly — also helping serve drinks at the bar. I've enjoyed a few great nights there watching up and coming bands and it's nice to see that something good has survived the gentrification of Camden Town.

William Gee Ltd

I chose to paint Dalston icon William Gee Ltd as itstood directly opposite a previous painting I made of Arthur's Cafe. The shop is in an area of London that has seen a huge amount of gentrification yet it is still standing. The shopfront takes you back to a different era; the haberdashery was established in 1906 and is the lead

stockist of fabric trimmings and haberdashery products in the UK. I chose the long, low shadows to add a sense of depth and emotion. It always looks like the shop is closed from the outside and I wanted to capture that with the dark, moody palette. The painting was exhibited at the 157th Society of Women Artist's annual exhibition in

2018 at the Mall Galleries in London.

Launderette, Sydenham

Very much alive and kicking, this bright launderette feels like a throwback


technology, and art. . One of those machinists was a spinning top maker named Richard Stadler.

Where as I tend to characterize myself as someone with no formal training, who came to machining in pursuit of making sculpture, or "art for art sake. Rich grew up surrounded by machine tools and has worked for his family machine shop since he was 13 years old. He has manufactured custom parts for all manner of equipment for many decades. and fits the ideal of a formally trained craftsman who has started to branch out into more artistic avenues of expression.

To this end, Rich has been making some of the most beautiful machined objects I have ever encountered (additional examples above). His tops have attracted an incredibly large following and are highlySources say Apple, Comcast, WarnerMedia and Sony Pictures Entertainment, among others, are still in the mix to land Abrams’ Bad Robot.

The ongoing battle over packaging fees and affiliate production between the Writers Guild of America and Association of Talent Agents has slowed one of the industry's biggest talent pursuits: the quest to land an overall deal with prolific producer J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot banner. Abrams and Bad Robot have stopped working with longtime agency CAA in all areas (save for directing). That has impacted the dealmaking process as Bad Robot had been taking meetings all over town for a potential new place to call home. With CAA no longer leading the charge, the process has slowed considerably, though one source familiar with the negotiations notes the


fish currently swimming in the overall deal waters. Multiple studios and streamers at least kicked the tires on a possible rich pact with the super-producer. Netflix, Apple, Amazon and fellow media behemoths WarnerMedia, Comcast and Sony were among those who met or explored a deal with Bad Robot in the past few months. Abrams and Bad Robot execs, including head of television Ben Stephenson, took meetings all over town as they considered moving their overall deal from Warner Bros. TV, where the company behind Fringe has been based since 2006.right to a fair and impartial trial and his right to counsel. The record reveals that the defendant was arrested on September 13, 1964, indicted for murder on December 13, 1964, and arraigned on December 15, 1964, before the *190 Chief Justice. On the latter date the defendant told the court he did not want the Public Defender to represent him. The Public Defender informed the court that he believed the defendant's counsel was Tom Kilroy and the defendant said that while he had no money to retain a lawyer he thought his sister would employ Mr. Kilroy. The court informed the defendant that if Mr. Kilroy wished to represent him he would vacate the appointment of the Public Defender and the cause was assigned to Judge Dahl


purpose of a Bill of Particulars is to provide for "more particular averments in order to enable the defendant to understand the nature of the charges against him or to prepare his defense." People v. Sims, 393 Ill. 238, 241, 66 NE2d 86. The record shows that the State filed a Bill of Particulars as follows: "The date of the occurrence was between August 24, 1964, and September 7, 1964." and "The place of the occurrence was in the vicinity of the intersection of Naperville Road and Spaulding Road in Hanover Township, Cook County, Illinois." At the pretrial hearing held on January 6, 1965, the Public Defender orally requested more particular information. He pointed out that the indictment alleged a crime on September 7, 1964, and the Billof Particulars stated the date of the occurrence was between August *193 24, 1964, and September 7, 1964, and he wanted a more specific date from the State. The prosecutor replied that he had previously informed the court that to the best of his knowledge the death could have occurred during the span of time listed in the Bill of Particulars and he was unable to fix any further particularity. The motion for a further Bill of Particulars was denied. The granting or denying of a Bill of Particulars rests in the sound discretion of the court and after reviewing the evidence which we shall discuss later, we cannot say that the court abused its discretion. People v. Gray, 251 Ill. 431, 96 NE 268.
The defendant next contends


on the back of his head. The two police officers testified that the decomposed body of White was found on September 7, 1964, on the East side of Naperville Road near Spaulding Avenue in Cook County.
Mrs. Lo Turco testified that she met the defendant in July of 1964, while she was separated from her husband, and they lived together in an apartment. Subsequently, on August 1, 1964, they moved to 3753 Windsor where Mrs. Swiech, the defendant's sister, lived in an apartment just below them. In the latter part of August she said she saw Charles White, who had a needle and part *194 of a tube inserted in his right arm, in Mrs. Swiech's apartment and the defendant told his sister to take care of White whohad just escaped from the Cook County Hospital. White then lived in defendant's apartment for three days until the defendant found a room for him at 1717-1719 Humboldt Boulevard. She testified that several days later she accompanied the defendant and White to a tavern called "The Spot" and when the defendant went next door to get a bottle of vodka for Henry Mayberry, the bartender, White told her he could go for her and she should leave the defendant and go with him. She also testified that the next morning she told the defendant that White made a pass at her and he said he would take care of it and she would hear about it.
Mrs. Lo Turco further testified that several days later, which was the beginning


of September, she saw White and the defendant conversing in the latter's sister's apartment in the afternoon. She said the next morning about 4:30 a.m. the defendant came in their apartment and said, "Baby, I did it ... I took care of it.... You'll read it in the papers." She related that the defendant kept watching television and reading newspapers. She said he told her several days later that, "[H]e wanted me to see on television what he has done for me to believe. He said, `You didn't believe me, baby. I want to show it to you.'" She testified further he said, "We planned a place where we're going to drop him. We're going to drive the car, and we're going to urinate, ... we stopped tourinate. As he went and had it out, I shot him in the back of the neck. And that's the way he died, with the thing in his hand."
Henry Mayberry testified that he presently was serving a term in the County Jail for an armed robbery conviction. He said he met the defendant in August of 1964, when he was a bartender at a tavern called "The Spot." He testified that the defendant and Charles White came to the tavern on several occasions and in the latter *195 part of August the two of them were there with Mrs. Lo Turco. On that occasion he had asked the defendant to get him a bottle of vodka and that he returned with it in five minutes. He testified further


that in the latter part of August or the early part of September, 1964, the defendant and White were drinking in the tavern for about five hours and that after the tavern was closed the three of them went for a ride in his car. He said that before they left he drank about one pint of vodka himself. He said he didn't know exactly where they went but it was some place west. He said after driving thirty or forty minutes they stopped to relieve themselves, White and the defendant got out and then he heard two gunshots. He said he was starting to get out when the defendant got back in the car and said "Let's go ... let's get out of here." He testified thatwhen he asked about White, the defendant replied, "That's what happens to people who talk too much," and then the two of them drove back to Chicago.
On cross-examination he said he had been on a drinking spree for several weeks before the occurrence and on the day in question he had quite a lot to drink. He testified that he heard no argument between White and the defendant at The Spot and they were on friendly terms. When he heard the first shot he said he thought a car had backfired, but when he heard the second shot he knew it wasn't the car. He said he didn't know where they stopped, that they had been on the tollway, but hadn't gone too far. He said after the


September. According to the calendar the first Monday in September was September 7th. It is clear from the record and the jury could find from all the evidence that the Monday referred to by Mrs. Lo Turco was Monday, August 31st and the early morning hours of September 1st, which was consistent with Mayberry's testimony. It is also urged that the testimony of the two chief witnesses created a serious doubt as to the truth of their stories, in that Mayberry's testimony is utterly improbable and impeached by inconsistent statements and his long criminal record and his intoxication at the time of the crime; and that Mrs. Lo Turco's testimony was impeached by its improbability, inconsistency, exaggeration, her bias and unstable personality. We note that the jury had2018 brings two new Omnibuses for Grant Morrison's DC superhero work, collecting his Seven Soldiers series of series on one oversized volume, and his Batman run in another even bigger volume.

Seven Soldiers by Grant Morrison Omnibus

Grant Morrison, J.H. Williams III (Illustrated by), Ryan Sook (Illustrated by), Cameron Stewart (Illustrated by) On sale 21st August, $75, 792 pages Grant Morrison's epic and ambitious SEVEN SOLDIERS saga is collected here in its entirety for the first time ever! SEVEN SOLDIERS is an epic tale of life, death, triumph and redemption that explores the nature of heroism and sacrifice. Featuring seven heroes: the Shining Knight, the Guardian, Zatanna, Bulleteer, Frankenstein, Mister Miracle and Klarion the Witch Boy. Independently, each of these characters is featured in a story that redefines their purpose


Morrison Omnibus Vol. 1

Grant Morrison, Andy Kubert (Illustrated by), Tony Daniel (Illustrated by)

10 July 2018 $125.00, 1000 pages The New York Times bestselling tales of Batman by Grant Morrison are now collected in their entirety in this oversize omnibus edition! One of the greatest storytellers of his generation, Grant Morrison's arrival onto the Dark Knight was one of the most hyped debuts in industry history. This collection includes time-spanning epic graphic novels featuring the cataclysmic events of FINAL CRISIS and the introduction of Batman's son, Damian Wayne! These blockbuster stories featured a deconstruction of super hero comics like never before, with challenging, thought-provoking takes on the modern, four-color icons.

The issues inside aren't yet listed but I would expect that first appearance of Damian Wayne in Batman #655 –the outer sleeve. A buffering member (8) is engaged in the pocket formed on both sides of the notch (7). A bellows (9) surrounds the cylindrical area of the inner sleeve (6). One side of the bellows (9) is attached to the surface between the bent area of the outer sleeve and the buffering member. The other side of the bellowS is attached to the surface of the inner sleeve. The bending center (C) is formed approximately at the center of the overlapping area. The buffering members and the bellows are designed to absorb axial displacement and bending displacement. Typically, axial displacement is caused by vibration of the engine or impact due to road conditions. Bending displacement is generally caused when the axis of the inner sleeve and


and the inner sleeve below the bent area. When a sudden strong stress requiring large displacement is imposed, the inner sleeve (6) has to strike either the tip of the bent area or the outer sleeve. As a consequence, the area experiencing the collision become weak, causing shape deformation of the part or a hole in the structure. Moreover, the process of corrosion is accelerated because of the high temperature of the exhaust gas passing inside of the sleeves.
In addition, in the prior art, bellows (9) is easily damaged by impacts of the tip of bent area, resulting in a significantly shortened lifetime of the structure. Because the applicable range of motion of the prior art coupler is limited, a different size coupler was needed each different automobileStudents joining the Singapore Management University (SMU) from August will need overseas experience to graduate, the university said yesterday.

This could include exchange programmes, internships, cultural exchanges and immersions, among other kinds of programmes.

Professor Lim Kian Guan, SMU's Vice-Provost for undergraduate matters, said: "Global traction and understanding underpins success in careers in today's globally connected environment. To have global exposure from the vantage of a university education is invaluable for international networking and global vision."

The university has an average cohort size of about 2,000 students each year.

Year 4 economics undergraduate Terri Tan, 23, went on three overseas trips with SMU, including a community service stint in Cambodia in 2015, and a four-month student exchange programme in the Netherlands last year.

She said the experience has taught her to think more


critically.

"I also think of ways I can improve based on what I experienced overseas... And I learnt to be independent, which has made me more confident when presenting my ideas."

Mr Darius Tan, 22, who will be entering SMU's School of Law in August, said he is keen to take part in a semester-long exchange programme. Being in a country for about six months would also allow him to make friends and experience the local culture better, he added.

To ensure no one misses out on such opportunities due to financial constraints, SMU said it has a range of university-funded and donor-supported assistance schemes that needy students can tap.

SMU joins the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) in making overseas experience a graduation requirement. SUSS introduced the requirement in 2014.

Meanwhile,the National Research Foundation's (NRF) Marine Science Research and Development Programme is offering undergraduates from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University the chance to go on fully funded overseas programmes on marine sciences.

They include exchange programmes, research opportunities and internships.

The overseas programme awards are co-funded by the NRF and the science faculties of the two universities, and will start in July, said NUS Professor Peter Ng, who is the director of the programme.

"We want to get students excited about marine science. The experience will then hopefully get them started on a research career in marine sciences and build national capabilities in this domain," said Prof Ng.

Singapore Human Resources Institute president Erman Tan said overseas experience could help students learn to be independent and proactive


The teams with the two best records in baseball, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, open a four-game series Thursday, with both teams suffering through significant injures.

The teams with the two best records in baseball, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, open a four-game series Thursday, with both teams suffering through significant injures.

The teams with the two best records in Major League Baseball — the Boston Red Sox at 75-34 and New York Yankees at 68-38, putting them 5 1/2 games behind Boston in the American League East — bring their historic rivalry to Boston on Thursday for the opening contest of a crucial four-game set that could go a long way toward determining which of the two dominant franchises wins the division, andwill make his return on Wednesday of next week, when Boston travels to Toronto to face the Blue Jays. But the 29-year-old who started his third consecutive All-Star Game this year will not see the mound against the Yankees.

To find out how to watch a free live stream of the New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox Thursday Major League Baseball rivalry clash in Boston, see the streaming information at the bottom of this article. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time at 37,700-seat Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, or 4 p.m. Pacific Time.

For the Yankees, 26-year-old slugger Aaron Judge will not only miss the four-game duel in Boston, but is expected to miss the next three weeks, according to the New York Times, thanks


Macklemore ""Can't Hold Us" Featured In "Jobs" Movie Trailer" Video

Stream Macklemore ""Can't Hold Us" Featured In "Jobs" Movie Trailer" Video, the latest video from Macklemore, which dropped on Friday, June 21st, 2013. Macklemore's odds keep getting better with each new leak, and Macklemore ""Can't Hold Us" Featured In "Jobs" Movie Trailer" Video will undoubtedly improve his chances of winning. It's a worthy addition to a respectable catalogue that has seen a lot of growth since Macklemore debuted in this game. We're looking forward to the follow-up.

Watch the trailer for the upcoming movie about Steve Jobs, "Jobs," above, which features Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' huge single "Can't Hold Us." The movie hits theaters on August 16th.Dave was asking about a route to access the Byward Market from the eastern edge of Sandy Hill. The Market is a challenge to get to by bike from the east and south due to the flow of heavy crosstown traffic coming off the Queensway down Nicholas Street, Rideau Street and King Edward Avenue, heading towards the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge. This includes a steady flow of transport trucks. Streets that traverse this heavy traffic artery leading into the market are less than stellar for cyclists. There are plans to introduce a safer pedestrian access along Nicholas Street between Besserer and Rideau Street. How this pans out in providing a safe access route for cyclists into the market remains to be seen. Until then, the safest approach into the heart


Street. Vehicules heading down this stretch of Charlotte tend to speed as they rush from Laurier to Rideau Street, so I waited for a generous gap in traffic. Fortunately it’s a short block.

Stewart is a quiet one way heading west, with a bike lane!

I then turned north on Chapel Street which led to traffic lights across Rideau Street. Chapel dead-ends just before reaching Beausoleil Drive, except for bicycles.

I turned left onto Beausoleil, which makes a big curve before ending at traffic lights that help get across busy St Patrick Street. There’s an opening in the fence on the other side of the intersection that provides cyclists access to St Andrew Street.

St Andrew is a quiet residential street that curls west to a traffic light with a bike lanethat gets you across King Edward Avenue. On the opposite side of King Edward only cyclists and pedestrians can access St Andrew at this point, which continues westwardly.

Traffic along St Andrew remains calm, thanks to a few ‘No Enter-Bicycles Excepted’ signs along the way to Parent Avenue. I then turned south on Parent, a relatively calm street, that brought me to the south end of the parking garage, one block away from the centre of the market.

There are hanging bike racks on the north exterior wall of the parking garage that are accessible throughout the year. There are also some seasonal racks along the sidewalk, as well as racks just inside the entrance to the garage.

On the way back I headed east on Guiges Avenue to Cumberland St,


of June owed city governments a sum of more than $841,000. The largest invoice came from the president's El Paso, Texas, rally from earlier this year, in which city officials billed the campaign more than $470,000.

The Secret Service does not reimburse local governments for assistance during campaign events because it is not funded to do so, a spokesman told NBC News in June.

The brouhaha took place amid the backdrop of a new Minneapolis Police Department policy, announced last week, which prevents off-duty officers from wearing their official uniforms at political rallies or when publicly endorsing candidates. Ahead of the president's Minnesota rally, the local police union is showing its support for Trump by selling red "Cops for Trump" shirts after the city implemented that policy

Speaking with Fox Newstraditional public schools as part of our human capital strategy to economic development - Heather Boushey, President of the Center for Equitable Growth, has been a constant present in our early meetings and helped shape her thinking on the underpinning of policies that lead to equitable growth - Katie Porter, who is a law professor at UC Irvine and was the Independent Monitor of banks for the California Mortgage Settlement met with her and gave her great insight into what the fallout from the housing crises looked like from the ground up - Eduardo Padron of Miami Dade College came to talk to her about college opportunity, as did Heather McGhee, President of Demos - She also has been very interested in and has been reading materials from


In 1922, two brothers who had immigrated from Greece, Nick and Jim Pappas, founded the Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue.

It quickly became one of Berkeley’s most beloved businesses. During the Great Depression, the Pappas brothers extended credit to hundreds of families who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford food and wrote off thousands of dollars of unpaid bills.

In 1974, the business passed to Jim’s son, Nick. It’s a terrific store and a pillar of the community, a place were the local high school kids have traditionally gotten their first jobs. But in the early morning of July 27, somebody smashed the plate glass windows in front.

Within hours, an organization in Florida called “Bite Back,” which claims to support animal rights, posted pictures of the broken windows onhome, down to the individual appliance. Smart grids would monitor the consumption of each appliance and be capable of turning them off if the power is needed elsewhere.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Britain Curbing Airport Growth to Aid Climate

By Elizabeth Rosenthal

July 1, 2010

In a bold if lonely environmental stand, Britain’s coalition government has set out to curb the growth of what has been called “binge flying” by refusing to build new runways around London to accommodate more planes.

Citing the high levels of greenhouse gas emissions from aviation, Prime Minister David Cameron, a Conservative, abruptly canceled longstanding plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport in May, just days after his election; he said he would also refuse to approve new runways at Gatwick and Stansted, London’s second-string airports.

The government


have sometimes been modified or canceled because of concerns about noise or ground-level pollution. But Peder Jensen, a transportation specialist at the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, said that as far as he knew, Britain “is the only country that had made a conscious decision based on climate considerations.”

Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports and a major connection point for destinations in Europe, South Asia and the Middle East, is already notorious for its flight delays and endless lines. It is the only airport of its size with just two runways; Paris-Charles de Gaulle has four and O’Hare has seven.

So even though the Conservative Party had been expressing growing reservations about the planned expansion since 2008, many businessmen were shocked when Mr. Cameron canceled the plan afterAmerican industry to step up.

By Keith Bradsher

New York Times

January 30, 2010

TIANJIN, China - China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.

China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.

These efforts to dominate the global manufacture of renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China.

“Most of the energy


of assimilating advanced technologies of foreign countries.‘ Re-innovation’, whether by the state or by other local businesses, is a fact of life in today’s China’” (emphasis added). SeeTestimony of the Honorable Dave McCurdy, President and CEO, Electronic Industries Alliance, before the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission Hearing on China‘s Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and the Dangers of the Movement of Counterfeited and Pirated Goods into the United States at p. 4 (June 7 - 8, 2006).

509 “Just like the United States and Japan before it, China is using all the usual means – licensing, theft, piracy, intimidation, spies, and cooperation – to get the technology it needs. China has also adopted a system of joint venture, an old and established tool for securing foreign intellectual property,of the Movement o f Counterfeited and Pirated Goods into the United States supra, at pp. 1 and 4.

512 “The foreign investor puts up the capital, patents, copyrights, trademarks, know-how, and overseas distribution. In most circumstances, the local Chinese partner keeps half the equity in the new enterprise. Any improvements in technology and any new patents, trademarks, or copyrights developed in China by the joint venture belong to the new enterprise. In exchange, China contributes an unlimited supply of low-wage, competent, compliant workers. The foreign corporations are allowed to serve their markets from Chinese-based factories that operate under the most limited public regulation of labor, production, pollution, and health and safety standards. Products from these ventures are often banned in China, leaving that market to state or locally-owned


no markets in China” (italicized emphasis in original) (boldface emphasis added). See Testimony of the Honorable Dave McCurdy, President and CEO, Electronic Industries Alliance, before the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission Hearing on China’s Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and the Dangers of the Movement of Counterfeited and Pirated Goods into the United States at pp. 3 -4, supra.

515 See Pat Choate, HOT PROPERTY: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization,, at p. 174.

516 “China offers more than an enormous pool of cheap labor light manufacturing. It has a large pool of engineers and technicians available for more advanced work, many educated in the United States. The Chinese Academy of Engineering reports that as of the late 1990‘s China had more than 2.1 million trainedDing published a study of historical carbon emission statistics from various nations around the world and drew this unremarkable correlation: the more energy a nation generated by burning fossil fuels, the more rapidly its economy grew. Being a politician as well as a scientist — he is vice chairman of the communist-run Democratic Alliance — he grasped its propaganda value.

Mr. Ding now purports to be upset that "developed nations" of the West, after emitting carbon gases into the atmosphere for over a century, suddenly insist that poor "developing" nations — including China — now share the burden of mitigating "predicted dire consequences" of global warming. He deduces that the secret motive for the climate controversy among the Western powers "is to restrain the growth of the developing nations


position at Copenhagen: China demanded that the United States, Europe and Japan cut carbon emissions immediately and continue reductions over the next 40 years, while China — and any other "developing" country — may continue to increase emissions until such time as they reach the total 150-year "per capita aggregate" that the Western citizens — both dead and alive — have enjoyed thus far.

All this illuminates the broader propaganda and competitive trade aspects of China's climate change strategy. Given the deep skepticism of the Chinese Academy of Science's top climatologist and the prominence accorded his views in the Academy's publications, it is clear that no one in the Chinese Politburo is truly anxious about the climatic consequences of global warming.

This is not to say China intends to ignorethe issue. Far from it. China intends to keep on gaming the Kyoto Protocol's "Clean Development Mechanism" (CDM) scheme under which the wealthy nations pay the "developing" nations, including China, for reductions in predicted growth of carbon emissions. China is already the biggest beneficiary of the CDM's carbon credits. Yet Beijing is adamant that the developed countries refrain from "carbon taxes" on their imports of China's "high-carbon" manufactured goods.

The Chinese government is also eager to dominate world markets for alternative energy technologies like wind power, solar panels and high-power batteries by subsidizing Chinese factories that are in competition with German, Japanese, Spanish and American producers. And at Copenhagen, the United States apparently agreed to help raise $100 billion over the next decade to help "developing countries" — apparently


For these reasons, it is easy to discern China's fingerprints all over the international climate change fiasco.

• John J. Tkacik Jr., a retired Foreign Service officer, was chief of China analysis in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research during the Clinton administration.

Prof. Ding, a Quaternary geologist, was born in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1957. He graduated in 1982 from the Department of Geology, Zhejiang University, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the CAS Institute of Geology (the predecessor of today's CAS Institute of Geology and Geophysics, IGGCAS) in 1988. Prof. Ding served as director of IGGCAS from 2000 to 2007. He was elected a CAS Member in 2005, and Chairman of the Chinese National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (CNC-IGBP) in 2008.

For the past twodecades, Prof. DING focused his research on the Quaternary climate change and associated forcing mechanisms, and made a systematic observation and pedostratigraphic correlation of the loess sequences over the Chinese Loess Plateau, laying a fundamental basis for later studies. For the first time he established a 2.6-Ma orbital timescale of stacked grain-size record for Chinese loess that is highly compatible with marine isotope record. He found that the East-Asian winter monsoon intensity registered in the loess grain-size was in phase with Milankovitch cycles, particularly the 100 ka eccentricity cycle, and that the winter monsoon intensity is closely related to global ice volume changes. His achievements and many innovative results have been published in numerous highly-ranked international journals and are widely cited. He has also contributed to textbooks that


the talks as a puppet of China; one of a number of countries that relieves the Chinese delegation of having to fight its battles in open sessions. It was a perfect stitch-up. China gutted the deal behind the scenes, and then left its proxies to savage it in public.

Here's what actually went on late last Friday night, as heads of state from two dozen countries met behind closed doors. Obama was at the table for several hours, sitting between Gordon Brown and the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi. The Danish prime minister chaired, and on his right sat Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the UN. Probably only about 50 or 60 people, including the heads of state, were in the room. I was attached to one of the delegations,whose head of state was also present for most of the time.

What I saw was profoundly shocking. The Chinese premier, Wen Jinbao, did not deign to attend the meetings personally, instead sending a second-tier official in the country's foreign ministry to sit opposite Obama himself. The diplomatic snub was obvious and brutal, as was the practical implication: several times during the session, the world's most powerful heads of state were forced to wait around as the Chinese delegate went off to make telephone calls to his "superiors".

Shifting the blame

To those who would blame Obama and rich countries in general, know this: it was China's representative who insisted that industrialised country targets, previously agreed as an 80% cut by 2050, be taken out of the deal. "Why can't we


even mention our own targets?" demanded a furious Angela Merkel. Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, was annoyed enough to bang his microphone. Brazil's representative too pointed out the illogicality of China's position. Why should rich countries not announce even this unilateral cut? The Chinese delegate said no, and I watched, aghast, as Merkel threw up her hands in despair and conceded the point. Now we know why – because China bet, correctly, that Obama would get the blame for the Copenhagen accord's lack of ambition.

China, backed at times by India, then proceeded to take out all the numbers that mattered. A 2020 peaking year in global emissions, essential to restrain temperatures to 2C, was removed and replaced by woolly language suggesting that emissions should peak "as soon aspossible". The long-term target, of global 50% cuts by 2050, was also excised. No one else, perhaps with the exceptions of India and Saudi Arabia, wanted this to happen. I am certain that had the Chinese not been in the room, we would have left Copenhagen with a deal that had environmentalists popping champagne corks popping in every corner of the world.

Strong position

So how did China manage to pull off this coup? First, it was in an extremely strong negotiating position. China didn't need a deal. As one developing country foreign minister said to me: "The Athenians had nothing to offer to the Spartans." On the other hand, western leaders in particular – but also presidents Lula of Brazil, Zuma of South Africa, Calderón of Mexico and many


I have felt in a long time. After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away.

Meet ITSSD Advisory Board Member Sorin Straja, PhD.

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To determine if the quality of prescreening discussions has changed following release of the United States Preventive Services Task Force statement against prostate cancer screening. This cross-sectional study used the 2012 and 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys. Respondents were categorized based on the year in which they responded to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey. Quality of prescreening discussion was operationalized as having discussed only advantages, only disadvantages, both advantages and disadvantages, or neither. Race/ethnicity, education level, income, insurance status, and having a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level actually drawn after prescreening counseling served as confounders in our multivariate analysis. Among 217,053 men in the analytic


Story highlights McGinniss wrote "Fatal Vision," "The Selling of the President 1968"

"Fatal Vision" chronicled the murder case of Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald

"Selling of the President" charted Richard Nixon's presidential run

Author Joe McGinniss, who chronicled the murder case of former Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald in the 1983 book "Fatal Vision," has died, his lawyer said Monday. He was 71.

McGinniss died Monday afternoon at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, said friend and attorney Dennis Holahan. He had been battling prostate cancer for two years.

He also wrote the 1969 bestseller "The Selling of the President 1968," a close look at the marketing and campaigning of presidential candidate Richard Nixon.

McGinniss had fly-on-the-wall access for Nixon's victorious run. Nixon had learned his lesson from his 1960 loss to JohnF. Kennedy. In '68, he put together a team of advisers to mold his television image, including 1960s TV hit "Laugh-In" head writer Paul Keyes, former CBS executive Frank Shakespeare, ad man Harry Treleaven and a producer named Roger Ailes, who had been working for former big-band singer Mike Douglas' daytime talk-variety show. (Ailes is now head of Fox News Channel.)

Together, Nixon's team played to the candidate's strengths and minimized his weaknesses ("Avoid closeups," wrote Treleaven in one memo).

Today, the book's details may seem old hat -- but still make for revealing reading.

In 2012, McGinniss, critcized by MacDonald supporters who said he betrayed the doctor, told CNN that he embedded with the defense team because he thought it would be fascinating to see how the lawyers and accused


handled a high-profile murder case.

MacDonald was convicted of stabbing his pregnant wife and two young daughters to death at their home on a North Carolina military base.

"I learned everything from the first time in court. I didn't have my mind made up," McGinniss said.

MacDonald has steadfastly maintained his innocence.

McGinniss also made news when he moved next door to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2010 and wrote "The Rogue." Palin theatened to sue, saying the book was "a series of lies and rumors presented as fact."

He wrote 12 books in all, according to his website

According to publisher Simon & Schuster, McGinniss lived in Massachusetts with his wife, Nancy Doherty, an editor and writer. He had five children -- including author Joe McGinniss Jr. -- and seven grandchildren.from the Mallah Farms, securing Castello Complex and expanding the zone of control along the strategic Castello Highway.

This will allow the Syrian army to develop momentum along the Castello Highway from north and from south, cutting off the militant units in Bani Zeid and Youth Housing from the main militant forces. The Kurdish YPG will likely use this in order to capture Youth Housing and help the Syrian army to push militants from Bani Zeid. Strategically, this move sets the full siege on the militant-controlled areas of Aleppo city.

Syrian and Russian warplanes have conducted a series of air raids against the ISIS terorrist group near the cities of Palmyra and Deir Ezzor in Syria. Syrian fighter jets bobmbed ISIS targets east of Palmyra and at Arak region, destroying


Symbiosis Law School, Pune hosts Australian University students under its 'Study India' Programme

Symbiosis Law School, Pune believes in global exchange of knowledge, cultural dissemination and intellectual capacity building. In its endeavour to achieve this objective Symbiosis Law School, Pune under the aegis of Symbiosis International University undertakes to strengthen ties with various Universities around the world. 25th January 2014 witnessed the culmination of one of its efforts in the form of a visit of a contingent of 15 students from Flinders University, South Australia to participate in an academic and cultural exercise under the 'Study India' Programme. The contingent was headed by Prof. David Bamford, Associate Head (International), Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law, Flinders University Adelaide, South Australia.

Seven day visit of the Australian contingent from 25th ofKhan Palace and the Chaturshringi temple on Sunday. They learnt about the Indian culture and had insights into the lives of Freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and the Indian freedom struggle. In the lectures arranged for them they learnt about Civil litigation, Dispute resolution in India, Contemporary dimensions of Human Rights and Gender Justice, Family law in India, Intellectual property Rights, Cyber Crimes and Jurisdiction etc. They also attended a lecture on Warli painting and polished their creative side. They learnt about the Warli tribe, their origin and customs. They thoroughly enjoyed the class and made beautiful pieces of Warli art.

During a field trip, they visited the Commissioner's office and a police station in Pune, interacted with the Commissioner and learnt about the Crime


trends and the Police force in India. With the help of Adarsh Mitra Mandal they visited a rehabilitation centre and learnt about the measures taken for the rehabilitation of prisoners and the support provided to their families and children.

The programme reached its zenith with the cultural evening organised by the students of Symbiosis Law School, Pune on 31st of Jan 14 showcasing the glimpse of rich Indian culture. It was a unique and enlightened experience for all of them.

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AllICANN's exiting CEO has stunned internet governance experts by fronting a new Chinese government initiative to expand its view of how the internet should be run.

On the last day of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, the conference organizers unexpectedly announced they had set up a new "high-level advisory committee" that would guide the agenda of future conferences and "contribute ideas for the development of the Internet."

The committee has already had its first meeting, the organizers stated, naming ICANN's Fadi Chehade and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma as its founders and noting that it had "invited 31 leading Internet figures from governments, enterprises, academic institutions, and technological communities to be members of the first high-level advisory committee."

Those "figures" have not been named but we understand they include government representatives