Public Defender Agency from October, 1996 until June 28, 2000. She started in Court 16, which handled D Felony cases. About two years later she was promoted to Court 18, which also handled D Felony Cases, but had a larger case load. In 1998, Ms. Myles held the position of senior paralegal. In the fall of 1999, she was promoted to Court 6, which handled major felonies. There she received a raise in pay in January 2000. DSOF ¶¶ 1-6, and Pl. Responses.[1]
Ms. Myles was transferred from Court 6 to Court 20, another major felony court. The parties dispute the reasons for Ms. Myles' transfer. Laura Iosue was a lawyer who served as a public defender in Court 6. Between April 21 and August 13, *965 1999, Ms.South-East Asia correspondent Rachel Harvey says Mr Lee's retirement is, unquestionably, a key moment in Singapore's political history.

'Clean slate'

In a joint-statement, Mr Lee and Mr Goh said the current prime minister and his team "should have a fresh clean slate".

"The time has come for a younger generation to carry Singapore forward in a more difficult and complex situation," they said.

"After a watershed general election, we have decided to leave the cabinet and have a completely younger team of ministers to connect to and engage with this young generation."

Politics in the tiny but hugely wealthy state have been dominated by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) since independence in 1965.

But in the latest elections, the PAP won only 60% of the vote - down from 67% in 2006 and


that the federal judges in New York alter the transcripts. Even the court of Appeals told them they should stop (US v Ziccetello).

Andrew Ross Sorkin, of the New York Times, was covering Frank Quatrone’s case of First Boston before the same judge. He was also the author of Too Big to Fail. Sorkin came to visit me on this topic of judges changing transcripts and said that Judge Richard Owen was changing the transcripts in Quatrone’s case. I told him I had even written to the SEC and asked why to bother with trials. Just alter the transcript and say I have confessed to even killing JFK and the courts will pass judgment. He told me that Judge Owen was changing the transcripts and he was keeping notesOn behalf of the American people, Melania and I send our warm greetings to Muslims as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

Muslims in the United States joined those around the world during the holy month of Ramadan to focus on acts of faith and charity. Now, as they commemorate Eid with family and friends, they carry on the tradition of helping neighbors and breaking bread with people from all walks of life.

During this holiday, we are reminded of the importance of mercy, compassion, and goodwill. With Muslims around the world, the United States renews our commitment to honor these values.

Eid Mubarak.


Q:

Please explain the ending of S5E5 of The Walking Dead to me

If you haven't seen The Walking Dead S5E5 yet, here's what happens:

 At the end of the episode we see Jim finding his wife and kids dead, and the guy with the mullet (whose name escapes me) comes limping towards him shouting, "Jim!  Jim!!" with a few walkers giving chase.  Jim comes over and kills the walkers, and then Dr. Mullet says to him, "I need to get to DC.  I can save the world." or whatever he says exactly.

 So, if Jim knew Dr. Mullet well enough from the very beginning for the guy to know his name, how did he not know he was lying that whole time?

A:

The character's name is Abraham,not Jim. He heard Eugene yelling "Help, help me" followed by "It's them, get 'em". This may have sounded like "Jim" but according to the subtitles (via Amazon streaming), those are the lines.
After Abraham killed the walkers, he turned and was walking away, in a daze, when Eugene said he was on a very important mission. This is what got Abraham's attention and gave him a sense of purpose.
Remember, this flash back follows Eugene's revelation.

 Eugene had just told the group that he was not a scientist and does not know how to stop the infection and the walkers. Abraham knocked him out then fell on his knees and remembered their first meeting. Abraham had given up and was about to commit suicide. He answered Eugene's call for


help, then appeared to be going back to commit suicide near his dead family, when Eugene's declaration of a mission gave him purpose again.

At the time of the flash back, they were strangers and had never met. So Abraham did not know anything about Eugene at that point.

the attic and reads a spell that activates her and her sisters powers. Phoebe studies the book and informs her sisters that they are witches known as The Charmed Ones.It appears that the death of the Vera sisters mother activates their powers automatically and their Whitelighter brings them the Book of Shadows, informing them that they are witches known as The Charmed Ones.Prue’s powers first activate when she is annoyed. She uses them for the first time at work inadvertently on her boss, something that she doesn’t notice. Her first time noticing her powers is sitting at the bar of a restaurant with Phoebe and getting annoyed that Phoebe insists that she is a witch.It appears that Macy’s first encounter and notice of her powers may come when


she is sitting at bar of a restaurant with a co-worker. No longer does her “sister” upset her which activates her powers….instead a conversation with her co-worker over connecting with her newfound sisters activates her power.Piper discovers her powers at Quake while trying out new dishes. Her boss attempting to taste an unfinished dish causes her to panic and accidentally freeze him with her hands.Mel is sitting in a restaurant with her (girl)friend discussing the craziness of discovering she has a long lost sister. She freezes the room out of nowhere with her mind.Phoebe is riding down the street and has her very first premonition.Maggie is at her sorority house and when coming into contact with various sorority sisters causes her to hear their thoughts.The Halliwell sisters losetheir mother while they are still children with Phoebe still a baby.The Vera sisters lose their mother as adults, having lived a very happy life with Macy having been disconnected from her mother as a child for unknown reasons.It appears that the new sisters will do their major vanquish in some lab? Compared to the original sisters doing their first vanquish together in the attic of their manor, where it all started.It appears that both versions will have the sisters happily walking up to their Manors finally bonded once again. Both started out broken. Prue/Phoebe having their differences while Maggie/Mel have their differences with Macy.-In the 1998 series, the sisters do not start off with their Whitelighter. It takes 14 episodes before they even find out what a


Whitelighter is and Leo doesn't start working with the sisters full time until Season 2. In the 2018 series it appears that the sisters gain their Whitelighter right off the bat. He gives them the 411 on what they are, who they are, and most likely who to save on a week2week basis.-In the 1998 series, it is Prue, the eldest sister who is involved with a cop. In the 2018 series, it is Mel, the middle sister who is involved with a cop. Both characters though are the ones who deal with their anger.-In the 1998 series all the sisters are out of college with Phoebe deciding to return to college in the shows second season. In the 2018 series Maggie is currently in college and seeminglyliving on campus, having gone straight after graduating high school.-The biggest difference between the two series is the missing of Grams. In the 1998 series she was very fundamental in the sisters upbringing and a big influence in the overall familys heritage. In the 2018 series it appears that the new sisters Grandmother will be of less importance due to their mother raising them to adulthood.Source: 1


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Communities
Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):

Belleisle Creek
Bull Moose Hill
East Scotch Settlement
Elm Brook
Hatfield Point
Irish Settlement
Joliffs Brook

Keirsteadville
Long Point
Lower Midland
Midland
Northrups Corner
Pascobac
Searsville

Springfield
Stewarton
The Grant
Upper Belleisle
Upper Midland
West Scotch Settlement

Bodies of water & Islands
This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish
None

Demographics

Population
Population trend

Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:

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Principal Routes

Secondary Routes:

External Routes:
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See also
List of parishes in New Brunswick

References

Category:Parishes of Kings County, New Brunswick


Early capitalism

Two broad trends can be discerned. The shift from the Mediterranean and its hinterlands to the Atlantic seaboard continued, although there was still vigorous entrepreneurial activity in certain Mediterranean regions; Venice stood still, but Marseille and Barcelona prospered. More striking was the growing gap between the economic systems of the east, where capital remained largely locked up in the large estates, and the west, where conditions were more favourable to enterprise. With more widespread adoption of utilitarian criteria for management went a sterner view of the obligation of workers. Respect for the clock, with regular hours and the reduction of holidays for saints’ days (already achieved in Protestant countries), was preparing the way psychologically for the discipline of the factory and mill. Handsome streets and squares ofmerchants’ houses witnessed to the prosperity of Atlantic ports such as Bordeaux, Nantes, and Bristol, which benefited from the reorientation of trade. Above all, Amsterdam and London reflected the mutually beneficial activity of trade and services. From shipbuilding, so demanding in skills and raw materials, a network of suppliers reached back to forests, fields, and forges, where timber, iron, canvas, and rope were first worked. Chandlering, insurance, brokerage, and credit-trading facilitated international dealing and amassing of capital. Fairs had long counteracted the isolation of regional economies: Lyon on the Rhône, Hamburg on the Elbe, and Danzig on the Vistula had become centres of exchange, where sales were facilitated by price lists, auctions, and specialization in certain commodities. Retailing acquired a modern look with shops catering to those who


could afford coffee from Brazil or tobacco from Virginia; unlike earlier retailing, the goods offered for sale were not the products of work carried out on the premises. The dissemination of news was another strand in the pattern. By 1753 the sale of newspapers exceeded seven million: the emphasis was on news, not opinion, and price lists were carried with the news that affected them. Seamen were assisted by the dredging of harbours and improved docks and by more accurate navigational instruments and charts. In 1600 there were 18 lighthouses on or off the shores of Europe; in 1750 there were 82. The state also improved roads and made them safe for travelers; by 1789 France had 7,500 miles of fine roads, built largely by forced labour. By1660 nearly every Dutch city was linked by canals. Following their example, Elector Frederick William in Brandenburg and Peter the Great in Russia linked rivers to facilitate trade. In France Colbert’s plan for the Languedoc canal (completed 1682) involved private as well as state capital. England’s canal builders, notably the duke of Bridgewater, had to find their own resources: consequently, capital was applied to the best effect to serve mines and factories. The general survival of tolls and the resistance of interested parties to their removal imposed constraints on most governments. The abolition of internal customs was therefore a priority for enlightened reformers such as Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot in France and Joseph II in Austria. Germany’s many princes had taken advantage of weak imperial authority to impose the tolls,


which produced revenue at the cost of long-distance trade. Numerous external tariffs remained an obstacle to the growth of trade. Radical action, however, could be dangerous. Turgot’s attempt to liberate the grain trade in France led to shortages, price rises, and his own downfall. The free trade treaty of 1786 of the French foreign minister, the count de Vergennes, also had unfortunate consequences: France was flooded by cheap English textiles, peasant weavers were distressed, and the ground was prepared for the popular risings of 1789.

One important development was the adoption in western Europe of the existing Italian practice of using bills of exchange as negotiable instruments; it was legalized in Holland in 1651 and in England in 1704. Bankers who bought bills, at a discount to cover risk,thereby released credit that would otherwise have been immobilized. The other aspect of the financial revolution was the growth of banking facilities. In 1660 there had been little advance in a century, since princes and magnates, after raising money too easily, had reneged on debts and damaged the fragile system. Great houses, such as the Fuggers, had been ruined. The high interest rates demanded by survivors contributed to the recession of the 17th century. There were some municipal institutions, such as the Bank of Hamburg and the great Bank of Amsterdam, which played a crucial part in Dutch economic growth by bringing order to the currency and facilitating transfers. They provided the model for the Bank of England, which was founded in 1694 as a private company and


was soon to have a relationship of mutual dependence with the state. The first state bank was that founded in Sweden in 1656; to provide a substitute for Sweden’s copper currency, it issued the first bank notes. Overproduced and not properly secured, they soon lost value. Law’s ambitious scheme for a royal bank in France foundered in 1720 because it was linked to his Louisiana company and its inflated prospects. After its failure tax farmers resumed their hold over state finance, and as a result interest rates remained higher than those of Britain because there was no secure central agency of investment. Law’s opponents were shortsighted: in Britain, where a central bank was successful, a large expansion of private banking also took place.

Meanwhile silver, everywhere the basic unitof value, remained in short supply. One-sided trade with the east meant a continuous drain. Insufficient silver was mined; declining imports from the New World did not affect only Spain. Governments tried to prevent the clipping of coins and so revalued. The deficiency remained, providing evidence for mercantilist policies. Negotiable paper in one form or other went some way to meet the shortage of specie. Stock exchanges, commercial in their original function, dealt increasingly in government stocks. Joint-stock companies became a common device for attracting money and spreading risk. By the mid-18th century the operations of commerce, manufacturing, and public finance were linked in one general system; a military defeat or economic setback affecting credit in one area might undermine confidence throughout the entire investing community.


SARVER, Pa. — July 17, 2012
Tony Stewart owner/driver of the #14 Chevrolet for Stewart Haas Racing in the Sprint Cup Series, finished first place in the second feature at the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars event held at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, PA. This is Stewart’s second career World of Outlaws victory.
Craig Dollansky driver of the #7 Big Game Motorsports car finished first in the first feature, and 16th in the second feature. He claimed the 21st annual Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup Presented by GottaRace.com.
In the third feature, local favorite Danny Holtgaver charged from the back to pass more cars then any other driver combined in any of the features.

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Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE (D-Mass.) are gaining on former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenPelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Hillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns Fox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio MORE's lead in New Hampshire, according toa new Suffolk University-Boston Globe poll.

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Texas is the new purple:

Via The Hill's Reid Wilson, "For a quarter century, Texas Republicans have run a ruby-red state, building a conservative bastion where government is limited. Now, the mounting tensions of racially motivated rhetoric, a polarizing president and Republican infighting have rocked Texas's political leadership to its core. And the state may soon face a tipping point brought on by shifting coalitions of voters who want change, in Austin and Washington." http://bit.ly/2OGuzNT

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Achilles Point lies at the eastern end of Tamaki Drive and was named after the New Zealand crewed Achilles which, along with other allied vessels, tried to defeat the legendary German cruiser Graf Spee in 1939. This headland was previously known as Te Pane o Horoiwi, named after Horoiwi who arrived on the Tainui waka (canoe). For more images of Achilles Point click on Archived Pages or go to Aotearoa Cam for a weekly update on images in and around Auckland

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Sukhumi and Tbilisi commemorate war-related anniversaries

Commemoration of the 22 year anniversary from the Abkhazian War. Heroes Square, Tbilisi (Defense Ministry)

As the question of political status of Abkhazia remains a major challenge to peace and security in the region, the two societies commemorate the events of 1993 in radically different manners.

As twenty-two years have passed since the end of the war in Abkhazia, the two societies marked the anniversary of the events of September 1993 in ways informed by radically different historical narratives.

‘The Fall of Sokhumi’

27 September is remembered in Georgia as the anniversary of the fall of Sokhumi. It marks the extrajudicial execution of pro-Georgian members of Abkhazia’s government and an ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by local Abkhaz and foreign fighters. It also remains a tragic symbolfor the war itself and the loss of territory.

The official commemorations included wreath-laying at the Heroes’ Memorial in Tbilisi. In his speech speaker of parliament Davit Usupashvili mentioned that the government is working on restoring Georgia’s territorial integrity and that the struggle won’t require blood to be shed. Minister of defence Tinatin Khidasheli and chief of staff Vakhtang Kapanadze visited the Vashlijvari Brotherhood Cemetery where symbolic graves of fighters who died in the war are located.

A concert of singer Niko Nadirashvili was held on the Freedom Square in Tbilisi. Many news outlets published pieces on the history of the war and memoirs by public figures.

Some social network users posted pictures of themselves holding a piece of paper with phrase me sokhumeli var (‘I’m from Sokhumi’) written on it.


Another often-seen slogan was chven davbrundebit (‘We will return’).

‘The Liberation Day’

Although 27 September is an important day in Abkhaz historiography being known as the Day of Liberation of Sukhum, more attention is usually paid to 30 September. The day is known in Abkhazia as either the Day of Victory in the Patriotic War of Abkhazia’s Nation or the Liberation Day. It is usually commemorated with pomp and ceremony; a variety of events took place in Abkhazia’s major cities, including art and photo exhibitions, ceremonies of laying wreaths at war memorials, a military parade, an open-air play with elements of military reconstruction called Aiaairaatourykh (‘The History of the Victory’), and a concert of South Ossetian state ensemble Simd.

According to news outlet Sputnik Apsny, up to seven hundred school pupilstook part in a march called ‘Immortal Regiment’ in which the children carried portraits of war heroes.

An official delegation from the Pacific state of Nauru including speaker of parliament Ludwig Derangadage Scotty arrived in Sukhum to take part in the commemorations. Nauru is one of the handful UN members who recognised Abkhazia’s independence.

The Abkhazian media was dominated by reports on the commemorative events as well as profiles of people who fell victim to the war, opinion pieces, and interviews with war veterans and public figures.

A video called Itabupatynchrazy (‘Thank You for Peace’) was published by mobile company A-Mobail and widely shared in social networks. The video features children listing their family members who died during the war, which is followed by a series thank-yous for peace, freedom, and


victory.

Incompatible views on history

The turbulent times of Soviet demise saw the Georgian government forces enter Abkhazia in August, 1992 as a reaction to the declaration of independence by Abkhaz members of the local parliament in July. The armed phase of the conflict claimed many victims on both sides and set its long-lasting stamp on Abkhazia’s infrastructure. The conflict also resulted in ethnic cleansing and flight of ethnic Georgians from the territory of Abkhazia causing a major humanitarian crisis in the country, the effects of which can still be felt today.

Both the Georgian government and the Abkhazian de facto government failed to address the issue of war crimes committed by both sides during the conflict. Many Georgian observers point out the destructive role of Russia in conflict settlement, whilePRESS

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The torque limiter uses screw meshing for a part of a power transmission route and utilizes an excessive axial force that occurs at the screw meshing portion, owing to the excessive torque when the compressor seizes (refer to Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2003-206950, for example). Because this torque limiter system utilizes friction for cutoff, however, it involves the problem that the operation torque of the torque limiter changes with the passage of time because the coefficient of friction changes due to corrosion of the friction surface, as a contact surface, and the adhesion of grease.
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Obsidian is volcanic glass, also known as dragonglass. Children of the forest make weapons out of dragonglass, including daggers and arrowheads. Dragonglass weapons are one of the few weaknesses of the Others. An Other that Samwell Tarly attacks by an obsidian blade dies almost instantaneously.had published over 20 books and writings promoting a more enlightened way of thinking. Growing up in the Languedoc region of what is now France before moving to Lyons. He was also ahead of his times in that he was very much a “rationalist”, and against the superstitions and cries of heresy of The Church.

His writings were eventually translated from Latin to French and released under the title About Hail and Thunder (De Grandine et Tonitruis). Indeed, the translator of these writings – thought by some to be Antoine Pericaud Sr. – would state that his work “deserves the honor of being translated” as his work tells us “the mores and customs of the first half of the ninth century”. And did so “better than those of any


What is perhaps interesting here is that one of the earliest recorded examples of crop circles dates back to the year that Agobald writes about above. These were found in a sixteenth century woodcutting that depicted “the devil mowing patterns in a field”. What’s more, the date was, according to a BBC report, was the year 815.

In fact, according to more of his writings, it was a widely held belief at the time that the “form of crops that had been flattened” by these strange visitors was a form of “ransom”.

It is also interesting that the person seemingly responsible for these strange patterns appearing in the crops of ninth-century French farmers is the Devil. We, like many researchers, have asked before if such legendary entities as the Devilhis son, Earconbert. One of his daughters, Earcongota, who the writing describes as a “most virtuous virgin”, would “serve God” in a monastery in the “country of the Franks” (in what is now Faremoutiers in the region of Brie in modern-day France).

According to the writing, many great “miracles” were performed by the King of Kent’s daughter. However, it was upon her death when a truly bizarre incident occurred. She was aware of her impending fate, and “let others know her death was at hand”.

She would claim to have seen a “band of men, clothed in white” who had come to carry her back home to Kent. Whether this was a premonition or not is open to debate. However, upon her death, those present at the monastery claimed to


these “ships” were prevalent over Lyons, and no doubt other parts of France.

We should consider that similar accounts can be found in the writings of the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the as for as the very early days of the pilgrims’ arrival in what we know today as the United States.

While there is no doubt that such accounts may have simply traveled around as the people of Europe moved from one location or another through the many conflicts of Europe, and then once more when many of those Europeans made their way to the New World. Might it be, though, that such accounts are found scattered around the world from various eras due to nothing more than the fact that that is what was seen by the localfrom the exterior of the sensing element into the interior of the first measured gas chamber 11.
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According our friend Sam Irwin's book (mentioned elsewhere), ' 'Crawfish' was first used by 'eccentric Constantine when he was working in the Ohio River basin near Kentucky. The word 'crayfish,' based on the French word ecrivesse, was popularized by the English biologist T.H.Huxley in his 1880 tome entitled _The Crayfish;An Introduction to the Study of Zoology_" But you will see rerences to "crawfish' in the early XX Century. Waverly Root uses both "cray" and "Craw" in his _Food of France_. More "scientific" and :formal" publications tended to use "crayfish, in my experience.Home Daily News Who is Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney…

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Who is Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney general?

Photo of Matthew G. Whitaker from his Twitter page.

Updated: After Jeff Sessions' Wednesday resignation, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Matthew G. Whitaker would be stepping in to replace him as U.S. attorney general in an acting capacity.

Whitaker, 49, had been serving as chief of staff to Sessions since October 2017, CBS reports.

Whitaker previously served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa from 2004 to 2009 and ran for the U.S. Senate in the Republican primary in 2014. He came in fourth. He also acted as chair for Sam Clovis’s campaign for Iowa state treasurer in 2014, the Washington Post reports. Clovis went on to


said he is a “steady hand that will provide good leadership and judgment, and will ensure that the United States Department of Justice upholds the highest standards of the rule of law,” KCRG reports. The television station reports that about 100 people protested Whitaker in Iowa City.

In an interview Whitaker gave the blog Caffeinated Thoughts in 2014 when he was running for the Senate, he gave his opinion on the role of the courts and opined that Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided.

“The courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branches of government,” Whitaker told the interviewer. “We have unfortunately off loaded many of our tough public policy issues onto the court and they’ve decided them. Unelected judges are deciding many of the issuesgood.” The Washington, D.C., nonprofit’s website lists its current executive director as attorney Kendra Arnold, and no other employees are listed.

Whitaker has also been a managing partner of the Des Moines-based law firm Whitaker Hagenow & Gustoff. Now called Hagenow & Gustoff, Whitaker’s biography is still up on the website and says his “areas of concentration include criminal defense and government investigations, immigration, fraud, corporate and transactional, internal corporate investigations, and commercial litigation.”

According to the law firm biography, Whitaker played in the 1991 Rose Bowl as a tight end on the University of Iowa football team, and was awarded the university’s Big Ten Medal of Honor in 1992. He has worked for the law firms Briggs & Morgan in Minnesota and Finely Alt Smith in Iowa, and served


as corporate counsel for the Supervalu grocery company from 1998 to 2001.

In 2014, Whitaker joined the advisory board of a patent company, World Patent Marketing, which billed itself as “offering high-quality and affordable patent services to inventors.”

“As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first class organization,” said Whitaker in a press release at the time.

The company ran into legal trouble in March 2017 when the Federal Trade Commission brought fraud charges against it. The FTC said that World Patent Marketing had “bilked” consumers out of millions of dollars.

In a stipulated order from the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida filed in May 2018, World Patent Marketing was ordered to pay more than $25 million and banned from providing any innovation promotion services. Whitakerof pay was $48.64. The

Department issued two orders assessing overpayments. The first, dated July 17, 2012,

assessed an overpayment of $189.34 for the period from December 1,2009, through

December 7,2011. The second, dated July 18, 2012, assessed an overpayment of

$229.50 for the period from July 20, 2011, through May 23, 2012. Mr. Ramos appealed

all three orders to the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals (the Board).

      At the Board hearing, Mr. Ramos was asked about his children. He gave two

different birth dates for his unnamed son and identified the birth date of only one

daughter. Regarding his wages, Mr. Ramos testified he was making $1,500 to $1,600

per month prior to his injury and worked for all but two weeks of each year. For the first

time, Mr. Ramos


testimony belied his position that he is a full time worker with three

dependent children." Clerk's Papers (CP) at 125. Mr. Ramos appealed.

                                       ANALYSIS

      The issue is whether the superior court erred in affirming the Department's

orders assessing overpayments and setting Mr. Ramos' gross monthly wage at $48.64.

He contends his unrefuted, specific testimony detailing his employment under two

additional names during 2008-2009 contradicts the court's decision.

      "Our review of a superior court's decision is limited to examining the Board

record to determine whether substantialMarvel unveiled its July variant cover theme at C2E2 this past weekend, and the pictures definitely tell a story. As a follow-up to March's "Women of Power" covers, which highlighted the strength of Marvel's heroic women, the July covers are dubbed "Mighty Men of Marvel." While "covers with men on them" might seem like an unremarkable theme, given that it describes most Marvel covers already, it's clear from the art released thus far that the concept was meant to be more bold than that --- but it's equally clear that Marvel missed its target.

Several of the covers suggest that this was meant to be a "sexy guys of Marvel" beefcake theme month; something Marvel editor Tom Brevoort once questioned the demand for. It's a fun idea, and showcasing


strategy, was adopted (State Council [@CR32])

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By 1988, 22 HIV/AIDS cases had been reported on the mainland, mostly among foreigners, Chinese residents returning from overseas, or locals who had received imported blood products that were contaminated. This spurred the Chinese Government to take action, issuing a series of early policies focused mainly on preventing the virus from entering the country, whether carried by infected individuals or by contaminated blood products. Foreign students, researchers, business people, and others visiting China on 12-month visas had to submit to an HIV test within 1 month of entering the country. Foreigners already residing in China for more than 12 months were required to provide health certificates that specified HIV status. HIV testing was set up at major border crossingshighly lucrative market. Interest in growing profits eclipsed concerns for quality and safety, and the health of donors and recipients was compromised when equipment became contaminated and tens of thousands became infected with HIV. The outbreak became one of the worst tragedies of the global HIV pandemic (Sun et al. [@CR34]; Wu et al. [@CR39]).

In response to the crisis, blood collection stations were shut down within several weeks nationwide, and in 1996, China's Blood Donation Law was drafted. Enacted in 1998, the most important component of the law was the prohibition of blood donation outside nationally regulated blood collection facilities. However, the law also emphasized that blood donation must be voluntary, and donors may not be compensated (Standing Committee of the National People's Congress [@CR24]). Since the enactment


got arrested early this morning for smacking a dude with her car on the way into the parking lot of a club in New York's Meatpacking District.…

Police arrested a 47-year-old man at Nick Knight's SHOWstudio for trying to sell an unusual prop: this giant stuffed Bengal tiger, which was once a prop for an Alexander McQueen shoot. The tiger, an endangered species, lacked papers. [Daily Mail]

Atten-hut! The Fall/Winter 2010 Burberry Prorsum show today in London was armed and dangerous. On the runway: Military looks sharp enough to slice mess hall meatloaf. In the crowd? Lots of names, sweetie. Names.

The stylist who allegedly walked out on Mark Fast's show says it wasn't because the models were too "fat" - but because they were too fat to walk right! "Thehotels. Rita, who lives with her American mother, played by Layla Sheir, meets an Egyptian fisherman, Sleem, who she immediately falls in love with. The feeling is reciprocated and the two young lovers get married despite their parent’s disapproval.

The parents explain to their children that the cultural and traditional differences will definitely lead to a failed marriage.

The couple soon discover that their parents were right and as many couples do, they try to get rid of the problem by bringing a child into the world.

Consequently, the problems get bigger until one day, Rita surprises her husband by kidnapping her child and running to the US, leaving her husband a heartbroken and miserable man.

Hisham Sleem, who plays the husband, expressed his admiration for the role saying “despite the fact


MS Fiona Elizabeth Driscoll
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Frazier Moore

New York: A veteran Fox executive who used her company email account to plan aid for loved ones of the missing Malaysian airplane's passengers has been fired.

Darlene Tipton, who was vice-president of standards and practices for the Fox Cable Networks Group, said on Saturday she had wanted to arrange swift financial aid to families and other loved ones, sparing them lengthy court fights. She said she began by emailing Sarah Bajc, an American whose boyfriend, Philip Wood, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and who has made frequent TV appearances since the plane's March 8 disappearance.

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Fox spokesman Scott Grogin said Ms Tipton's "conduct and communications" violated company policy. Citing privacy concerns, he declined to discuss particulars, but he said,


a writer and producer.

He said the idea for the fundraising effort stemmed from his Los Angeles hospital stay last month, shortly after the plane disappeared. He said that while he was under medication he had hallucinations of being with the plane's passengers and the power of his visions spurred him and his wife to try to help.

"She wanted to do it because it could be done," he said. "So why not try?"

The investigation into what happened to Flight 370, a Boeing 777 that was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, continued on Saturday with searches of a patch of the Indian Ocean seabed.attention towards the city. Dubai now has offices of, approximately, every big multinational company due to the business opportunity provided by the city. Moreover, strategical location of the city works in its favor, which is ideal for a business.

Destination Singapore
Singapore is a heaven of pleasure for most tourists with a perfectly competent tourism industry and hospitality chains serving customers to their very best. Singapore hotels offer a plethora of experience for tourists with all kinds of temperament and the hotels totally support and encourage the tourism industry.

Ocean View at Best Western Monterey Beach Resort
Have you ever wondered for a place where the land, sky and seas meet? A place considered an aquarium because of its best sea preservation? Monterey in California, USA is the place to be. They


cited the example of the previous Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government's decision to rename the Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra as Atal Seva Kendra to say that the saffron party will have to repent for changing names of the existing government schemes. He said the Congress government in Rajasthan has decided to go back to the original name.

"They changed the name of Seva Kendra to Atal Seva Kendra whereas in the entire country, in all the states, it has been Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra. The kind of thinking they have had of changing names, they have left no stone unturned in doing so. They have changed every scheme's name, Ashok Gehlot said.

Ashok Gehlot also said that changing the names of the existing schemes gives rise to animosity and vitiates theconnected with or incidental to, the implementation of the provisions of this act’.

In December 2017, the Constitutional Council nominated the names of seven persons to the OMP, having selected them from over 100 applications and the 2018 Budget allocated Rs 1.4 billion for the OMP.

The OMP is one of the four big transitional justice mechanisms proposed by the government, o0thers being an office to handle reparations, a truth commission and a judicial mechanism to address allegations of wartime abuses.

According to the last Paranagama Commission appointed to investigate into missing persons; close to 19,000 persons have been confirmed to have gone missing during the three decade war. The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has recorded 12,000 cases of enforced disappearances related to the Janatha Vimukthi Perumuna


events!

JUNE 20, 2018 : EXPLORE OUTDOORSThe outdoors has so much to offer! Learn about Missouri fish, birds, parks, camping and more from state and local experts.

JULY 18, 2018 : FITNESS IS FUNSponsored by the ARC (Activity & Recreation Center)July is Parks and Rec Month. Come out to learn and experience some exciting ways to stay fit and active!

AUGUST 15, 2018 : AROUND THE WORLDDancing, crafts, games, and other arts from countries from all over the world will be on display. Talented artists from various cultures will share aspects of their homeland on this night.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 : CREATIVE KIDSSponsored by the Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs & the Missouri Arts CouncilLet the kids show their creative and artistic side. Hands-on kid friendly art activities, musical performances, theater andShanghai Disney to get approved land in July

Disney opened a theme park in Hong Kong in 2005 and now has offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

Land approved for Shanghai Disney will be transferred over to the project in July, with 97 percent of residents already relocated, said local authorities Wednesday.

Shanghai Disney's first phase project, including a theme park and supporting facilities, will span four square km with the theme park covering one square km, said Jiang Liang, head of Pudong New District where Shanghai Disney will be sited.

The project would take five to six years to finish, Huang said.

Over 2,000 households and 297 companies have to be relocated to make way for the first phase of construction.

"The planed investment is 25 billion yuan (3.66 billion U.S. dollars), but


the project is expected to draw hundreds of billions in related investment," said Huang.

The project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission on Nov. 23, 2009.

Disney opened a theme park in Hong Kong in 2005 and now has offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.Culture Street

Books

Illustrators bring to life picture books creating a fantastical world for children to immerse themselves in. In this video you can watch Simon Prescott as he creates the main character in his latest picture book, from rough sketch to finished art.

Simon uses traditional mediums such as pencil, pen and watercolour. By using lighting and perspective he creates drama and atmosphere in his work, along with a healthy dose of humour.

Marvin and Marigold is a delightful new series about two mice who live next door to each other. In Marvin and Marigold:The Big Sneeze, Marvin gets a cold and Marigold has to find a cure to save her mouse house. Simon Prescott and author Mark Carthew are now hard at work on the seond book in this series.


of eternal Indian wisdom since ages unknown inspiring the entire human race," said Trivedi. The BJP leader mocked Rahul's current 'mental status' and said it would have changed much before had he read teachings of the Bhagwad Gita earlier. "It is unfortunate that until now he had no time to look into these books. Even if he would have got time to study the literature of his own party's stalwart in freedom struggle; Bal Gangadhar Tilak's Gita Rahasya, or various statements of Mahatma Gandhi on Gita, then he would not have been in the mental status he is in today," said the BJP spokesperson. (ANI)The 5th album for Sao Paulo Underground with Rob Mazurek, bringing Brazilian drummer/percussionist Mauricio Takata and keyboardist Guilherem Granado together with the Chicago cornetist, also on keys, and here with Swiss/Brazilian transplant Thomas Rohrer on winds.

"With their breathtaking fifth album Cantos Invisiveis, the multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-everything Sao Paulo Underground sounds more confident and intrepid than ever, with a glorious program of music evoking lost haunts, enduring love, and the sheer delirious joy of making music together.

In many ways the music on Cantos Invisiveis is a celebration of camaraderie and the spaces that allow love and friendship to unfurl. Alchemical aural conspirators for some 10 years, the group has developed its own approach to structure, with slippery forms, unabashedly beautiful melodies and lapidary textures laced with disquieting electronica beats


and stutter-stepping improvisation. Rather than evoke a particular time and place, the music inhabits multiple planes simultaneously as "a projection of sound that celebrates as well as mourns past, present and future times," Mazurek says. "The vocal quality of this particular music shouts and hollers for love and compassion, the joy andsorrows of life. It's a street parade for everybody."

The experience of listening to Cantos Invisiveis often feels like stepping through the fourth wall, as if you're in the room with the guys, watching the instrumental conversations unfold in real time. The production enhances the intimacy, creating space to enter the music rather than building a protective shell. It's a communion that can only develop "as a result of a lot of beautiful time spent together working onmusic and ideas and then travelling together playing throughout the world," Takara says. "I think there's a certain atmosphere that only living and spending time together bring, and the record captures that beautifully.

These singular players create music unlike any other ensemble in Sao Paulo Underground, which expands into realms seen and unseen on Cantos Invisiveis. The title translates from Portuguese as "invisible corners" or "invisible songs" or "disappearing corners or songs." This music evokes the elusive nature of these songs, "the way we make our music, always masking it in some kind of way, a disappearing through layering and sound manipulation," Mazurek says. "The songs kind of disappear in a way like a cloud of pink in the sky. We create atmospheres that cause form and melody to


Canadian Actress Olivia Cheng is everything that you would expect her to be, and then some. A total badass babe, she shines in Netflix series Marco Polo, where she co-stars alongside Lorenzo Richelmy (Marco) as Mei Lin, an alluring concubine and deadly assassin in Song Dynasty China. This breakout role proves intense, letting her range of talent show through an assortment of stages — pride, vengeance, seduction and survival. Born in Edmonton, Alberta and now settled in Vancouver, BC, Olivia is the latest participant in our Text Interview series, where VIVA's editor catches up over the latest details on acting, travel and personal life.In the 58th minute on Saturday, an injured Nick Rimando walked off the field at Rio Tinto Stadium to considerable applause from Real Salt Lake fans.

It was the first match Rimando was substituted out since before the 2010 season, and any time the longtime No. 1 has to exit, it's cause for concern.

Prior to the substitution, Rimando gave up two goals to Atlanta United. Both were initiated from him playing the ball out of the back -- a hallmark of RSL's style of play for years, something Rimando's normally thrived at compared to just about any contemporary in MLS. But entrusting the 'keeper to get the ball in a safe spot is a risky endeavor, and Rimando fell short on each of the goals conceded.

The first was more


blatant, and Atlanta duly capitalized on the turnover in their final third:

The second one was compounded by Rimando rushing forward to try and cut off the angle for Atlanta, only for the visitors to have two players on the break, making the goal itself a formality.

The problem lies in that this isn't the first poor outing by Rimando this season: He also coughed up a couple howlers, including a mistake playing out of the back, in a 4-2 loss to Minnesota United on April 1.

Whether one element of Rimando's game, playing out of the back, isn't quite there right now, or something more definitive is occurring, that's impossible to say ... yet. Maybe this is just an early-season blip. It could prove simply a bad run across afew games, something that happens to pretty much everyone at some point, 'keepers especially.

But Rimando is 37. He's had a phenomenal career, and given his age and experience -- he is the all-time appearances and minutes leader in MLS, after all -- his run might be winding down. We know he's much closer to the end of his career than the beginning, and we'll have to see how much time, if any, he'll be out because of the injury. Routine mistakes have never been part of Rimando's package, and it seems unlikely he'll continue on if he can't continue to be "The Wall of the Wasatch".

The obituary on Rimando's tenure will come only at the end, and on his terms. He deserves that. But we might have reached


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Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Irish Times

One side permanently accepts the fact of life that is independence, even if it does have nothing whatever to do with the familial, social, economic or cultural reality, that last stretching from high letters and the theatre to football and horse-racing (in all of which fields England has significantly closer links to all parts of Ireland than to any part of Scotland).

The other side permanently accepts the fact of life that is partition, and which is also the sheer tininess of the number of people who can now so much as imagine life in any other terms.

One side acknowledges the vast contribution of the Irish to an Empire atthe figures to whom the Queen was required by the etiquette of these things to pau tribute had no such identity. The oft-involked Protestant pioneers regarded their own Protestant, "Saxon" nation as the only one on the island, with full national rights accordingly, while viewing the Gaels and Catholics as their contemporary and correspondent, Thomas Jefferson, viewed the Red Indians or his own slaves.

We all know about Dev, and in fact that wave of Republicanism was very much founded in and directed from the United States, by men who had never set eyes on Ireland. Even into much more recent times, exactly what connection with Ireland did all those IRA men late of the US Marines and what not really have? What did they really know about the


place? And exactly how pure were their bloodlines, that they would have satisfied the IRA/Sinn Fein rank and file if they had actually been born in Ireland?

Why, only in the last few weeks, none other than the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has been telling his Boston audience that he found Irish-Americanism both dangerous and incomprehensible, and that so did everyone else in the Old Country.

Well, of Irish-Americanism is Fenianism. His Grace's horror and incomprehension are apparent in Dublin this week, as they were in Northern Ireland when the green vote once again swung behind the totally compromised, and now even pro-Visit, Sinn Fein, without a "dissident" in sight.

The imposed fantasies of New York Hispanics, wandering Polish aristocrats and old US Marines with a couple of Irish great-great-grandparents areto the European polecat, which was also called a fitch, fitchet or fitchew.

Native only to Canada and the northern United States, the long-tailed forest dwellers saw their numbers dwindle due to fur trapping and logging. Fishers are a member of the Mustelidae family that also includes wolverines, badgers, otters and minks.

"They're larger than people realize," said corresponding author David Green. "They can be the size of a large house cat, and they're really interesting critters."

Fishers climb trees like a cat but are able, thanks to hind feet that can rotate almost 180 degrees, to climb down headfirst. That trick helps them kill porcupines by attacking the quilled animal's non-quilled head from above.

Green and colleagues spent eight years studying fishers and other predators in a 179-square-mile region on the


Leon Johnson and Williams  were armed with pistols and a shotgun. When the group neared the neighborhood where Lewis resided, *295 they saw Lawanda King, Lewis' girlfriend and the cousin of William Johnson. The men asked her to ascertain whether Lewis was at home. While appellant William Johnson and McLaughlin remained in the car, appellants Ronald Williams and Leon Johnson, along with Conyers and Brown, alighted from the vehicle and stationed themselves in an advantageous position near the apartment building in which Lewis resided. King then returned, reporting that Lewis was not at home but that Earl Saunders was alone in his apartment in a building across the street. As King approached the adjacent apartment building, Conyers and appellant Leon Johnson followed her from a distance. Whenshe opened the door to Earl Saunders' apartment, Conyers and Leon Johnson pushed past her and fired their weapons at Saunders, fatally wounding him. The two gunmen then ran back to the awaiting car, as did Brown and appellant Williams, where they joined appellant William Johnson and McLaughlin and made good their escape.
In the early morning of December 30, 1978, the Metropolitan Police Department investigated a report of gunshots in Southeast Washington. An officer discovered Earl Saunders kneeling on the floor with his torso on the bed, shot in the head and back but still breathing. Saunders was taken to Greater Southeast Community Hospital and pronounced dead. The cause of death was later determined to be both the shotgun wound in the back of his head and multiple


gunshot wounds in his upper trunk.
On May 16, 1979, Joseph McLaughlin gave a statement to Detective Warren Donald detailing his involvement in the crime. The government later agreed not to prosecute McLaughlin in exchange for his testimony at trial. On May 17, 1979, Michael Conyers gave a statement to Detective Donald specifying his involvement in the crime. Conyers, who had been indicted for first-degree murder while armed and felony murder, was subsequently permitted to plead guilty to second-degree murder while armed and first-degree burglary while armed. His sentence was deferred until after his testimony at appellants' trial. On May 22, 1979, Carrington Brown gave Detective Donald a statement describing his involvement in the crime. He later pleaded guilty to manslaughter while armed in exchange for his testimony atappellants' trial.
None of the appellants testified at the trial. Carlos Johnson, testifying on behalf of his brother, appellant William Johnson, stated that he did not recognize the Saunders brothers as the "crap" game robbers and had never mentioned the circumstances of his injury, or Lewis Saunders, to William. All three appellants presented character witnesses attesting to their reputations as law abiding, peaceful and nonviolent citizens.

II
During cross-examination, Joseph McLaughlin was questioned about the details of the plea bargain he made with the government. McLaughlin testified that following his arrest, a police officer told him he could be charged as an accessory to first-degree murder. He further testified that he realized if he were charged with another crime, his parole for a prior conviction might be revoked, resulting in his


the government in which he agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder while armed and first-degree burglary while armed in exchange for dismissal of the first-degree murder charge. His sentencing was deferred until after he testified in the case against appellants. Conyers also stated he was aware that if incarcerated as an adult, he must serve a sentence of twenty years before becoming eligible for parole, but that if he were sentenced under the provisions of FYCA he might receive probation and, even if he served time, might have his criminal record expunged. The determination of whether he would be sentenced as an adult or under FYCA would not be made until after his testimony in this case.
Finally, Carrington Brown was cross-examined as to his plea arrangement. Hetestified that he was indicted by a grand jury of first-degree murder, first-degree felony murder and burglary while armed. He told the jurors that at the time of his arrest police officers revealed that they knew he was involved in the crime. Brown acknowledged that on January 28, 1980, he agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter and testify at appellants' trial in exchange for the government's dismissing all other charges. Brown also testified that he knew first-degree murder carried a minimum sentence of twenty years without parole, whereas manslaughter carried no mandatory sentence. He stated that this knowledge contributed to his decision to plead guilty to manslaughter. Brown had not been sentenced at the time of his testimony and he felt both the decision whether he would be


at trial. Appellants and their associates, armed and attempting to avenge the shooting by the Saunders, had first positioned themselves outside the residence of Lewis Saunders but, after discovering that he was not at home, rushed directly across the street into Earl Saunders' residence and shot him to death. The assertion that a predicate crime was unidentified must fail on this record. William Johnson and Ronald Williams were part of a group of persons arrayed outside Lewis' residence, prepared to kill him. When this armed band turned and charged directly across the street into Earl's apartment, with fatal consequences, the resulting murder was the natural and probable consequence *299 of appellants' prior preparation to kill Lewis. See Hackney v. United States, 389 A.2d 1336, 1342 (D.C.1978), cert. denied,a depressed patch. Two of the three lesions demonstrated extreme cellularity which the investigators postulated explained the typical sinking in of the biopsy punch into the lesion. However, the third atrophic dermatofibroma, on the breast of a 46-year-old woman, showed pathologic changes of a typical fibrous dermatofibroma \[[@CR16]\].

The next study, by Beer et al. in 1991, of 15 atrophic dermatofibromas revealed similar features in all of the tumors: at low magnification, there was acanthosis and papillomatosis of the epidermis, depression of the central surface and thinning of the dermis; however, the extent of dermal thinning was not quantified. Epidermal changes similar to those noted in common fibrous dermatofibromas---follicular differentiation (five cases), sebaceous differentiation (four cases) and basal cell carcinoma-like changes (three cases)---were also present. All of the tumors


as a relatively well-demarcated, light brown, intracutaneous nodule. The left thigh lesion measured 23 × 15 mm; there was a 11 × 8-mm crateriform depression in the center of the lesion. The Verhoeff-Van Gieson stain showed greatly decreased or complete disappearance of the elastic fibers in the atrophic area of the lesional dermis; however, a dense presence of elastic fibers was observed around the medium-sized vessels in the lesional lower dermis \[[@CR18]\].

Ohnishi et al. also evaluated eight non-atrophic dermatofibromas: three cellular benign fibrous histiocytomas, three histiocytic cellular variants and two intermediate types. In comparison to the presence of elastic fibers in the marginal areas, the fibers were completely absent in the three fibrous dermatofibromas and reduced by 20--30% in one of the five other dermatofibromas. Only one of the eight dermatofibromas showed elasticand tumor cutis (each in five patients), nevus (in four patients), dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (in three patients), and squamous cell carcinoma in situ, atrophoderma and morphea (each in two patients) were the other diagnoses suggested more than once.

The pathologic differential diagnosis of atrophic dermatofibroma included dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans in some of the patients. However, the use of immunohistochemical staining with factor XIIIa and CD34 aided in establishing the correct diagnosis. The atrophic dermatofibromas were usually factor XIIIa-positive and CD34-negative.

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The etiology of dermatofibromas remains to be definitively established. Some investigators favor that dermatofibromas are a reactive process. About a fifth of the patients with cellular benign dermatofibromas have a history of trauma (such as an insect bite) or injection at the site of the lesion. However, most dermatofibromas develop spontaneously


\[[@CR4]\].

Other researchers suggest a neoplastic process for the development of dermatofibromas. Clonal markers---implying a monoclonal pattern---in the cells of dermatofibromas have been identified \[[@CR4]\].

A heterogenous pathogenesis of dermatofibromas has also been entertained. This would include both a reactive process and a neoplastic process within the individual lesion. A fibroblastic proliferation of the fibrous portion would compose the reactive component, and a histiocytic proliferation would account for the neoplastic component \[[@CR4]\].

The etiology of atrophic dermatofibromas may be similar to that of non-atrophic dermatofibromas. Both variants of dermatofibroma are more common in women. However, a history of trauma or injection is always absent in patients with atrophic dermatofibromas.

There is also a difference in lesion location. Cellular benign dermatofibromas most commonly occur on the legs. In contrast, atrophic dermatofibromas most frequentlyAllan Tucker was re-elected as the faculty representative on the board. Their terms will go through March 31, 2020.

The USA Foundation holds an endowment that benefits the 15,002-student university. The 21-member foundation board is not controlled by the school.


Culinary Olympics warm-up was a feast -- for the eyes

August 25, 1996|By ROB KASPER

TO AN EATER it looked like a glorious feast. Plates of roasted vegetables were gorgeous. Slices of salmon were arranged in provocative angles. And there were rows of desserts, ready to slide down your gullet.

But this was not a banquet to be ravaged by fork-carrying hordes. This was a feast for the eye. It was a warm-up for the team of chefs from Maryland who are competing in the 1996 Culinary Olympics Sept. 8-12 in Berlin, Germany. The practice session was held at Hillendale Country Club in a room overlooking the rolling countryside of Baltimore County. There was some food available for eating, but the stars of the evening were plates of food designed tobe viewed, not chewed.

Those of us with supper on our minds saw temptation when we looked at these plates, but master chefs Hartmut Handke of Columbus, Ohio, and Gunther Heiland of Philadelphia saw imperfections. These two chefs had come to Baltimore at the invitation of Rudy Speckamp, owner of Rudys' 2900 restaurant in Finksburg and captain of the Maryland team. Like Speckamp, Handke and Heiland had competed in prior Olympics.

To prepare the Maryland team members for their trip to Berlin, these veterans critiqued their food. Dishes that ordinary eaters would look at and say "Wow!" were viewed by the judicial trio as needing work.

The slices of eggplant in an eggplant terrine made by John Rocca, executive chef of the Chestnut Ridge Country Club, for

instance, were not all the


same thickness. At the Olympics, only perfect vegetables win.

The provocative slices of salmon terrine made by Tony Talucci, chef at Hillendale Country Club, had a problem with their sweet-potato trim. The trim was too wide and took away from the elegance of the dish, the veteran chefs said. And that inviting pumpkin-cream creation, whipped up by Marshall Rosenthal of the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, had a bubble in its coating. At the Culinary Olympics, there are no bubbles.

So it went with the work of other team members: Chris Jorcin of the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Susan Notter of the International School of Confectionery, Adolf Rehm of Rehm Catering, Bill Lay of Atlantic Foods and Steve Magan of the Wye River Conference Center.

The trio of judges found things to praise,but they found more flaws that needed to be fixed, imperfections that the judges in Berlin would pounce on.

In conversations with some members of the Maryland team, I got an inkling of how the Culinary Olympics work, and why chefs compete in them.

The chefs' competition has some similarities with the recently completed Atlanta Olympics. Both draw competitors from around the globe. Both award gold, silver and bronze medals. Both have team as well as individual competitions.

A major difference is that in the Culinary Olympics several gold medals can be awarded in one area of competition. For example, the Maryland team could win a gold medal in the cold-food competition, and so could a Texas team, and so could any team that scores more than 36 points out of


improve the appearance of the corn he used in one of his dishes.

The payoff for all this work is professional prestige. "A medal in the Culinary Olympics is the highest honor a chef can have," Rocca said.

Talucci added that he, like most of the chefs on the Maryland team, already has won trophies in American culinary contests. "But the competition in international contests is much different, much more intense," he said.

Speckamp put the Culinary Olympics in perspective for me. It could be argued, he said, whether or not the chefs who win in Berlin are the world's best chefs. But there is little dispute, he said, that winners of the Culinary Olympics are the world's most disciplined and best-organized chefs.the Taupo Volcanic Zone of the North Island from a geothermal site near Lake Rotoiti (Tikitere) in the north west and Kawerau in north east to just south of Tokaanu, near Turangi at the southern end of Lake Taupo. These are the plants referred here to *Kunzea tenuicaulis*.

[@B2]; p. 322) had also recognised this, and sought to rectify what he considered to be a genuine geographic mistake in Simpson's protologue, by his statement that Simpson's type locality was in fact 'Rainbow Mountain near Waiotapu'. However, because Allan's opinion cannot be matched with any supporting statement or evidence from Simpson, we simply cannot be certain where Simpson's type (based on Norman Pott's garden specimens) really came from. Further, the only specimen that I can unequivocally say is labelled by


Plains just north of Kaihere, and within the foothills of the Hapuakohe Range. South of there *Kunzea linearis* is known only from a single, highly disjunct collection made by A. P. Druce (CHR 132842) from near Mt Kupukore, in the northern Wairarapa. Although I have seen no other specimens from the southern half of the North Island, I accept this record, because the collector A.P. \[Tony\] Druce, was a well known, cautious botanical explorer not prone to making labelling errors, and with a critical eye for the unusual ([@B5]). Also, at the time of that specimen's collection in May 1965, Druce was unfamiliar with *Kunzea linearis* (he had labelled his specimen '*Leptospermum ericoides*'). In fact it was not until May 1987, 22 years later that he made hisAllergy to pizza: an uncommon and multifaceted allergy.
The involvement of the Italian "pizza" in the wide and variegate field of food allergy is certainly uncommon. This simple Italian dish consists of a breadlike crust covered by a spiced preparation of cheese and tomatoes and baked. Italian pizza found its origin in Napoli and only in recent years has become a very popular food in the rest of Italy and elsewhere. In the beginning, it was the food of the poor, but was made with natural foods, but nowadays has been enriched by a number of ingredients and flavourings, thus multiplying the risk of allergic reactions.


AVB confident Gareth Bale will stay

Andre Villas-Boas has said it is 'impossible' that Tottenham will lure Hulk to White Hart Lane this summer.

Villas-Boas is a huge admirer of Hulk, having worked with him at Porto, and reports have claimed he wants to bring the Brazilian in to bolster a Tottenham attack that is a little thin on numbers.

Tottenham's push for Champions League qualification has been underpinned by the goals of Gareth Bale, as the combined strikes of Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor come in five short of Bale's total of 19, and it is an area Villas-Boas wants to strengthen.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- After fracturing his right wrist in a freak collision last year, Derrek Lee spent most of the 2006 season trying to recover from the injury and missed his fair share of games in the meantime.

There were questions as to how Lee would rebound from the injury this season, and Lee himself admits he was at times concerned.

But with the All-Star Game returning to the West Coast and being played not too far from his hometown of Sacramento, Lee set a goal for himself this spring. And that was to get back to this year's event.

"To have a chance to play in the All-Star Game in front


like he was completely scuffling," Lee said. "He's caught fire now, and he's carrying us. When you've got a guy in the leadoff spot who can make it 1-0 right away or get on base with a single and steal, it's a huge threat. We're on his back, and he's been fun to watch."

Soriano admits that it took a period of adjustment for him at first in Chicago. And though the first few months weren't the easiest, Soriano couldn't be happier with how he feels about his game heading into his sixth All-Star appearance.

"I feel very good about where I am now," Soriano said. "The first month and a half I was not as comfortable because it was a new city, new contract and new teammates. But nowAnastasy (Gribanovsky) of Kishinev

Metropolitan Anastasy (Gribanovsky) of Kishinev and Khotin (1873-1965) was a hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, a prolific writer and theologian, and the second First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

In the world Aleksandr Alekseyevich Gribanovsky, he was born August 6, 1873, in Bratki village, Borisoglebsky district of Tambov province, Russia to Priest Aleksey and his wife Anna (nee Karmazina).

After completing the Tambov Religious School and then the Theological Seminary, he enrolled in the Moscow Theological Academy, then under the rectorship of Archimandrite Anthony (Khrapovitsky), the future Metropolitan and First Hierarch of the ROCOR. After completing the Academy, in April 1898, he was tonsured a monk by Bishop Alexander of Tambov with the name Anastasy for St Anastasy of Sinai. On April


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Terrence and Shannon met at their workplace, Metropolis Fremantle, in January 2013. What started as a purely platonic relationship, that consisted of TimeZone adventures and Nando's feasts, slowly turned into something more. Terrence took the time to court Shannon before formally asking her to become his girlfriend.

Terrence formally asked Shannon to become his girlfriend on Monday 5th May 2013. Shannon and Terrence spent their first year of their relationship enjoying fun dates, working together and all-nighters with their friendship group.

A month after celebrating their first anniversary, they both made the decision to commit their lives to Christ, and began serving in Church. During that time they made the commitment that they would be together forever, and began working towards the next step.

Terrence proposed to Shannon on Friday19th December 2014, in Kings Park, Perth. This location was Shannon's dream proposal spot. He created a "scavenger hunt" that included their close friends and family, clues, love notes, balloons, a guitar player, photography and videography. With the final clue being the ring, the elated newly engaged couple celebrated under the gazebo.

Quickly the wedding began progressing, with the date announced for Saturday 2nd January 2016. With the assistance of Shannon's parents, Darren and Jenelle Hultgren, and Terrence's mother, Julianne Vidler, the pair will be wed at their church, Christian City Church Crawley by their ministers, Nathan and Chanelle Clifford.

Terrence and Shannon both consider themselves blessed to have found their counterpart. Their passion for Christ, and each other has formed a solid foundation for their future. Currently, they are


ninth century, but the base unit of currency remained the copper coin. Learn about the Four Great Inventions of the Ancient Chinese

First Issued

The People’s Republic of China officially first issued the Renminbi (RMB) in December 1948.

The People’s Bank of China

The People’s Bank of China (Zhongguo Renmin Yinhang in Chinese) has exclusive authority to issue and print currency.

Exchange Rate

In 1989, the Reminbi had an exchange rate of 13.5 RMB (CNY) to 1 USD (US dollar) on the market. Today, RMB has the current rate as of 8.59 Chinese Yuan to 1 GBP dollar approx (Feb 2017)

Hong Kong and Macau

Reminbi (RMB) is the legal tender in mainland China, but not in Hong Kong and Macau. The special administrative regions of Hong Kong use the Hong Kong Dollar, and Macau useallowed by the fire department. The unusual was that there were no chairs. The school was having a blood drive and all the extra chairs were down at the drive. When I complained about no where to sit, one of the librarians told me there was plenty of floor space. Funny, but I've never seen him sitting on the floor to work. When I complained to the APO's secretary, she told me "Improvise, this school is too crowded. Tell the kids to sit on the floor so you can have a chair." This, from a woman, who actually has her own desk and chair. I would never tell a kid, or anyone else for that matter to sit on the floor. I told her I would improvise in


bred cats, and I currently own two myself,'' he wrote Friday in an e-mail to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "I am not a cat hater. I did not want the animals to suffer.''

The incident happened Sept. 21, and several students still on the grounds for after-school activities heard the shots.

"There were parents who felt, apparently some rather strongly, that there were concerns about the safety of their children,'' said Joseph Flynn, an attorney for the South Koochiching/Rainy River School District. "The district's position is that safety was not compromised.''

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Great news for every school. They are getting approximately $20,000 each for faculty furniture, copier machines and service contracts. Unfortunately, in my school, the only place to put furniture is in the halls. Every other space istaken up for classroom space. The copy machine in my department's office hasn't worked for over a month. Maybe now it can finally be fixed.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Principal Suit must not be too busy these days. He just sent Mr. Shorts a letter addressing his school attire. It seems that the only thing Principal Suit is really concerned with is appearances. The fact that Mr. Shorts is one of the best teachers in the school never enters into the picture. It doesn't matter that the kids in Mr. Shorts' classes are actually learning or that they enjoy the class. It matters that Mr. Shorts will not conform to the image that Principal Suit has in mind of the way a teacher should dress. One of the new television


live in an affluent Long Island suburb. His teacher has much smaller classes and is able to keep in close contact with his mom. He has computers available to use, both in school and at home. Tutoring is easily accessible in his school. There is an online site, "School Island", where kids work on problems at home and submit work to teacher via internet. His family's affluence affords him the luxury of private tutors in math and English. Mill's should get real. Our schools cannot compete with this.

The article ended with a note saying that failure to increase graduation rates to 52% can lead to loss of federal money and more state control. What I would like to know is how less money and more control is goingmake up the work they missed and attend.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

A few years ago my department had two teaching fellows. Both of them wore suits and ties every day. They looked good. They looked successful. They could have been cover boys for GQ. But, there were two major problems with them. Number 1, they could not teach and number 2, they could not control the kids in their classes. Their classrooms were regular three ring circuses. Luckily, even Principal Suit realized that the suit alone does not make the teacher and these two teaching fellows are no longer teaching. Interestingly though, we had a young man in our department who was an excellent teacher. His only problem was he didn't like to wear ties, let alone suits. It


when he has never even factored an expression or heard of the term factor. When I told him he had to go to tutoring to catch up, I was told he goes 1 - 9 with no lunch and this doesn't count afternoon school. He has no time. Unfortunately, I don't see a way out of this for the poor kid and feel he is doomed to fail yet again.

Teacher Trainer Suit is holding court in the Teacher's Cafeteria. Teacher Trainer is sitting with her little laptop computer, looking all smug and sophisticated and dispensing advice to all who will listen. Teacher Trainer Suit was a teacher of a certain subject where the classes were very small before she retired. Although I am sure she was a mastertime, and while 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally last year, the number of Internet users paying for digital music only increased by 8 million in 2008.

NPD saw all demographics pulling back on CD purchases, but the most significant groups were teenagers and those over 50.

The primary reason for cutting down on CD purchases was a simple slashing of entertainment budgets across all demographics. Cheaper prices for digital albums also affected consumers' thinking about physical CD prices (which suddenly seem more expensive), but the pick-and-chose nature of buying individual songs and instant delivery also provided a boost for digital downloads.

Gaming also helped to steal attention away from music, as the industry experienced record billion-dollar growth in 2007 and 2008.

As CD sales continue their nosedive into oblivion and the


worldwide recession takes hold, the companies that used to make physical media are feeling the effects. Last week, laid-off workers in a French Sony media plant effectively held boss Serge Foucher and head of Human Resources Roland Bentz hostage overnight by blocking the factory doors. The employees, who made tapes and other recordable media, were upset over the terms of their severance package (they would only get thousands of euros in relocation assistance and up to a year of severance pay, which was apparently offensive to their "dignity"). The executives were allowed to leave the building after agreeing to restart talks over the terms.

Not all news is grim

One trend that may finally be going mainstream is music streaming services. NPD's report notes that awareness and usage of Pandoradoubled year-over-year to 18 percent of Internet users. Social network music streaming is also on the rise, as usage rose from 15 to 19 percent year-over-year. Nearly half of US teens are "engaging with music on social networks" now, so new revenue opportunities like premium account memberships and advertising are following.

Finally, NPD's report notes that "the music industry now has to redouble efforts to intercept and engage these listeners" in order to harness new revenue options like "upselling music, videos, concert tickets, and related merchandise." This is an idea that MySpace Music launched with last September, as the service offers merchandise like band t-shirts and Amazon goods when users purchase DRM-free MP3s.

The music industry is certainly experiencing a tough transition into the digital realm, but there's still money


to made off of recorded music. The iTunes Store reached a digital music milestone in 2008 by passing Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US. There are now 36 million digital music customers, and digital music downloads now account for 33 percent of all music tracks purchased in the US.

Convincing customers to buy complete albums, though, now relies on overall album quality, not on forcing people to buy full CDs—and that means overall industry revenues may not recover to the levels seen during the CD boom years anytime soon.

Convincing customers to buy complete albums, though, now relies on overall album quality, not on forcing people to buy full CDs—and that means overall industry revenues may not recover to the levels seen during the CDBowman rancher dies in cattle-related accident in southwest ND

AMIDON, N.D. — A Bowman man died Monday following a cattle-related accident on a ranch here in Slope County.

Stanley Pope, 81, was pronounced dead at the scene after a head of cattle turned on him as he and his son were attempting to transport it at the family’s TP Ranch near Amidon around 8:30 a.m. Monday, Slope County Sheriff Pat Lorge said.

Leaving behind three sons, a daughter, one grandchild and two great-grandchildren, Stanley passed away a few months short of he and his wife Joan’s 60th wedding anniversary in September.

“I’m just numb right now,” Joan said Tuesday. “They were moving a cow and she decided to go after our son and him. The cow caught him in the leg, threw


had appealed the assessments, approved by Santa Clara County property owners in 2001, claiming they did not meet Prop. 218's requirement that the assessment must provide for a specific benefit to property owners, rather than general benefits that could be enjoyed by the public at large.

The court's ruling says that under Santa Clara's open space assessment, "the special benefits conferred are enhanced recreational opportunities, protection of views and scenery, improved and protected water quality, etc., all of which confer benefits upon property ..."

Tim Bittle, director of legal affairs for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, called the ruling horrible and said the group would ask the state Supreme Court to review it. The Jarvis group had backed Prop. 218 to limit local governments' ability to increase taxes, but Bittleof business leaders, labor unions, environmentalists, park officials and politicians. The opponents claimed the assessment violated Prop. 218, but proponents said Thursday the court ruling vindicated them.

"This court ruling kind of clears the air, and this method should be looked at again as a potential funding measure to take care of the county's need to maintain open space and natural lands," said Ron Brown, executive director of Save Mount Diablo, a conservation group.

Kris Hunt, executive director of the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, had not yet read, but the ruling but said the Contra Costa measure differed from Santa Clara's in several ways, including the provision that called for some of the money raised to be disbursed to cities or park districts that would decide the projects to fund.

She


shout if another child starts talking about their memories of what happened on the day a disturbed young man shot his way into their school.

The long game for advocates of gun violence prevention, Murphy said, was to make state laws across the country reflect state laws in Connecticut, including universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons.

Murphy said that if Democrats win both the White House and the Senate in November, he expects to see the filibuster, which was responsible for the defeat of background check legislation in the Senate, either ended or “substantially amended”.The Goldwater Rule: Perspectives From, and Implications for, Psychological Science.
When, if ever, should psychological scientists be permitted to offer professional opinions concerning the mental health of public figures they have never directly examined? This contentious question, which attracted widespread public attention during the 1964 U.S. presidential election involving Barry Goldwater, received renewed scrutiny during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, when many mental health professionals raised pointed questions concerning the psychiatric status of Donald Trump. Although the Goldwater Rule prohibits psychiatrists from offering diagnostic opinions on individuals they have never examined, no comparable rule exists for psychologists. We contend that, owing largely to the Goldwater Rule's origins in psychiatry, a substantial body of psychological research on assessment and clinical judgment, including work on the questionable validity of


Paul Ryan made his big speech at the Republican National Convention last night, and ThinkProgress summed it up best: "An energetic, post-factual speech by Ryan." Time and again, Ryan mislead, misspoke, and made "Demonstrably Misleading Assertions".

If you're interested in the politics of it, he's also been attacked on style – Mother Jones' Kevin Drum recalled Harrison Ford's famous snipe to George Lucas, "you can type this shit, but you sure can't say it" – and doubtless, his "John Galtesque" evocation of the mythical grey, socialist hellhole of Obama's America will win over some. But if Ryan gets away with some of what he said, political discourse in the United States has a lot to answer for.

The most egregious of Ryan's statements was an attack on Obama for failingto scrap them. And more generally, the blame for the fear of a US default in the Summer of 2010 lies exclusively with the Republicans, who engineered the debt ceiling show-down.

Ryan also attacked Obama for not acting on the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles commission, a bi-partisan body, on which Ryan sat, formed to examine the national debt. Obama didn't do a whole lot with the recommendations – but only Ryan actively voted against the report.

If he can't avoid misleading even in the areas where he claims special competence, Ryan certainly isn't going to be a stickler for accuracy in the broader debate. A lightning round-up of various "facts", checked:

Ryan said the stimulus "cost $831 billion – the largest one-time expenditure ever by our federal government." As Ezra Klein


aren't helped by the law are medical device manufacturers, who are subject to a new tax. But there are just over 5,000 of them in the US – rather fewer than a million.

Ryan opened his speech by attacking Obama for the negativity of his campaign, and then proceeded to spend the next half hour doing nothing but attack Obama – largely for things he didn't actually do. It signifies a candidacy, and a presidential race, which has fully embraced the post-truth age. Don't believe me? Even Fox News have called Ryan's speech deceiving, concluding:filled with intriguing mysteries, and the characters follow some intriguing growth patterns. Starting off as emotionless dolls, the awakening of their demon forms also sets off growing emotions, and the reasons behind these events is teased throughout the narrative. The atmosphere is creepy and gruesome and the music is a driving, guitar-heavy set from Shoji Meguro. While the battles are harder than your standard RPG, they are on the easier end for a Shin Megami Tensei game, making it a fine introduction for new fans.

What you might hate: DDS is a PS2 game, and the seams show in graphical fidelity and control. The style is strong throughout, offsetting the weakness some, but you’re still playing a game from 2 generations back. Some have criticized the game’s repetitiveness, though


to...wonderful light in the living room....good stove and everything you need to cook with!
I Have just joined this site and am very excited about meeting new people....But the house has rented since 2005 and a variety of people have stayed and enjoyed themselves.

One young woman rented the house for her family as she was getting married in SMA.
There is a writers group from Santa Barbara that rents the house every year.
A friend of a friend who lives in London rented the house one year over Xmas and had her family and friends join her....the house ,having five bedrooms and 7 beds is great for a group. But also two people can rent the house and just use the main floor which consists of bedroom. (email hidden) and livinghad a marvelous time! Kate is an excellent host and made our stay very comfortable. We will definitely be back at Casa Grande!

Kate has been more than a host, it was like arrive to an aunt's house. We really enjoyed our chats with her. Her delightful mexican style house is just the beginning of a dive in the beautiful colors of San Miguel de Allende.

I stayed with Kate a few days before my whole family came to town for a reunion. Kate was awesome enough to rent out her whole house! And it is a huge house. She went above and beyond, changing all the linens, spending all day cleaning, extending our check out, just to make room for my family. She let us stay for only one


night (we were on a tight budget) despite the amount of work it took. She even let my mom and I stay in her personal bedroom to make room for a potential extra cousin who invited himself last minute.

Everyone slept well and utilized the living room to play checkers in the morning, and her huge kitchen to make breakfast and catch up after a long night of family reunion craziness downtown. All the cousins and aunts had plenty of parking, and accommodations never felt tight.

I can't say enough great things about Kate, her home, her hospitality, and the area her home is located! Definitely stay with her if you are in SMA.

My mother and I stayed with Kate for a few days, but really it was like stayingwith a friend. First off, her house is gorgeous, the photos do not do the place justice. The light pours in every morning, upstairs the kitchen is welcoming and warm, the rooftop was a peaceful place to drink my morning coffee and nightly wine, but my room was so comfortable I could have easily stayed there all day!

Kate also went above and beyond to accommodate us, we each got to have our own room b/c no one else was staying at the house. She was super sweet to my dog. She had many tips for food and things to visit outside the "city" center. Also snacks and coffee were ready in the morning just as my stomach began to grumble.

The one thing that folks might ask about is


The Washington County Board of Supervisors have set a bid date as part of their meeting yesterday morning. David Patterson with the Secondary Roads Department says this date being set is for two projects. The first is a combined project for road work being completed on 270th Street and Quince Avenue southeast of Washington.

The other is for work on 330th Street east of Redwood Avenue to Eichelberger Facilities. These projects are related to bonding work completed earlier in the year.

The bid date has been set for August 2nd at 9:00 am and will be awarded during their meeting at 9:30 that morning.State officials announced Monday morning the addition of more than 6,000 acres to the Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail State Park.

The land – a 6,229-acre parcel known as the Lone Star property – will support wildlife habitat, native ecology and additional public recreation opportunities, according to a Monday morning news release from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

"Our award-winning state parks are a source of pride for all Tennesseans, and this acquisition shows our commitment to preserving Tennessee's extraordinary natural resources," reads a statement from Gov. Bill Lee in the release. "This acquisition will enhance a Tennessee treasure, the Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail State Park, and we are pleased to collaborate with partners inside and outside of government to make this happen."

Conserving Lone Star was a