allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship with a teenage boy.

Fuchs, who is married, apparently sent the 16-year-old student at Bainbridge High School on Bainbridge Island a series of illicit text messages and videos via the social media app SnapChat.

One of the videos, titled 'ForMyBaby!', featured the teacher naked, it is alleged. Fuchs also reportedly took the boy to her home and engaged in a sexual act with him, according to Fox 13.

But she was caught when her husband returned home in February and saw the pair being intimate, it is reported. Shockingly, Fuchs then apparently tried to convince the student to lie to detectives.

She allegedly sent him the message: 'Protect me as best you can. Remember NOTHING COMES OUT EVER! About anything you have been to my houseonly once. Lie like you have NEVER lied before. Try to get your mom to side with you completely and say this was all a misunderstanding!'

Counselor: Tarabelsi (left), who is on paid leave from her role at Medford Vocational Technical High School in Massachusetts, reportedly engaged in a sex act with a student in the facility's parking lot. Right, her home

Site of the incident? The nature of the sex act allegedly performed in the parking lot (above) remains unclear

Despite the warning, the boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - admitted to his mother that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with Fuchs, according to probable cause documents

The teacher, who also allegedly performed an Internet search on how to permanently delete cell phone records, was


sexual relationship with a student - in her case, at a number of sites, including at least one classroom at Molina High School in Dallas

School: The 49-year-old turned herself into Dallas Independent School District police on April 23 after her co-worker alerted officials that she had been in relationship with a teenage student. Above, Molina High School

Another teacher to have been accused of sexual misconduct this week is Jenna Tarabelsi, who allegedly had a relationship with at least one student while working as a school career counselor.

In one incident, Tarabelsi, who is on paid leave from her role at Medford Vocational Technical High School in Massachusetts, reportedly engaged in a sex act with the teen in the facility's parking lot.

However, the nature of the sex act remains unclear,and more details on the pair's 'relationship' are not currently available. Police and the Department of Children and Families are investigating.

They had a relationship with this guidance counselor, they trusted her, to know that she's doing this is despicable Unidentified parent

One parent told MyFoxBoston.com of the allegations: 'They had a relationship with this guidance counselor, they trusted her, to know that she's doing this is despicable.'

Officials told any parents concerned that their child may have been affected to contact the Department of Children and Families.

Tarabelsi's future at school is apparently dependent on the outcome of the ongoing investigation. She has not been charged.

According to the school's website, she holds two Masters degrees - one in counseling and one in teaching.

Texas teacher Mary Todd Lowrance is also accused of


having sexual relationship with a student - in her case at a number of sites, including at least one classroom at Molina High School in Dallas.

The 49-year-old turned herself into Dallas Independent School District police on April 23 after her co-worker alerted officials that she had been in relationship with a 19-year-old boy for months.

On Friday, it was revealed that the student had told police in interviews that he and Lowrance had engaged in sexual relations after the English teacher had started helping him with his school work.

Charged: Other teachers to have hit the headlines this week based on sexual misconduct allegations include Maris Gonzalez (left), 23, who was arrested on Friday after allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a minor at a Texas school, and Emily MichelleRogers (right), 22, a social studies teacher, also from Texas

He told detectives that they first had sexual intercourse in the classroom in late February - and went on to have sex in the classroom 'many times' after that, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

They also had sexual contact in Lowrance's car and at her apartment, police documents state.

'[The boy] said he liked it at first, but it started bothering him and he wanted it to stop. He was afraid to break it off, because he didn't know what she would do, as his teacher,' the documents read.

The teenager eventually opened up to Lowrance's co-worker about their relationship.

Speaking to The Dallas Morning News, Dallas ISD Police Chief Craig Miller said that if the student had been a juvenile, the case


Dallas County jail. She was later released after posting $5,000 and is now awaiting trial for the alleged improper relationship.

Other teachers to have hit the headlines this week based on sexual misconduct allegations include Maris Gonzalez, 23, who was arrested on Friday after allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a minor at a Texas school, and Emily Michelle Rogers, 22, a social studies teacher, also from Texas, who was charged on Thursday with having sexual relations with a student at Christmas.

It is very unsettling and deeply disturbing to have these kinds of charges leveled against a person who was a staff member here Faith Chapel, Bainbridge Island School District Superintendent

One male teacher to have been arrested this week on similar charges is Jason Hodges, 29, who allegedly hadsexual relations with a female student at Waco High School in Waco, Texas.

He is also charged with marijuana possession, officials told the Waco Tribune-Herald.

In relation to middle schools in America, Colorado teacher Katerina Bardos was charged this week with having a long-term sexual relationship with one of her 12-year-old male students.

Bardos, 24, also reportedly gave marijuana to the boy (now aged 13) during the relationship, which started when the alleged victim was in the teacher's sixth-grade class at Brentwood Middle School.

The disgraced teacher is now facing charges of sex assault on a child, sex assault on a child by some one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to 9 News.


... Because it’s amazing and yet truly surprising.
Zambia’s wildlife estate is large and perhaps the largest
in southern Africa. By design the national parks are
established around the water resources. To find the
national parks you only need to seek the water resources.

Zambia is an exceptional safari country. Wildlife safaris
are not confined to one area. The 19 national parks and
34 game management areas that constitute 30 percent of
the country are evenly located. There are 4 national
parks in eastern Zambia, 5 in northern, 4 in central,
3 in southern and 3 in western Zambia.

Before the national parks were established the wild
animals chose where to live. They congregated near water
bodies and rivers. Taking a cue from this the forerunner
to the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) demarcated the
areas around the water resources as sanctuaries for wildlife.

AndZambia is a surprising country... It has 40 percent
of southern Africa’s water resources in its rivers, lakes
and wetlands. The rivers and lakes are evenly distributed
such that there are at least one major water resources in
every region.

Take for instance the Zambezi River. It’s the longest and
largest river in Zambia and it’s Africa’s fourth longest.
The name Zambia is derived from it. The Zambezi covers a
distance of 3,540 kms from its source in northwestern
Zambia to the Indian Ocean where the water is discharged
through many channels.

In western Zambia the river is associated with two national
parks, Sioma Ngwezi and Liuwa Plains. The Zambezi passes
through the Barotse Floodplain the site of the colourful
Kuombaka Ceremony of the Lozi People. Ku-omboka means
moving to higher ground when the Zambezi River plain
floods. And near Livingstone the river forms


a very large
cataract, the world’s largest curtain of falling water
the Victoria Falls.

Upon discovering the falls on November 16, 1855 Dr David
Livingstone named it in honour of Queen Victoria of
England. “Mosi-Oa-Tunya,” as the falls is locally known
means “the smoke that thunders.” Nearby is a small well-
stocked Musi-Oa-Tunya National Park. Further downstream
the river forms Lake Kariba behind a large hydroelectric
dam built near Kariba Gorge. When completed in 1960 this
man-made lake was the largest in the world. It extends
for 280 kms and 40 kms at its widest.

But dotted on either side of Lake Kariba are private game
parks. Down steam of the Zambezi is another national park.
The Lower Zambezi National Park is Zambia’s newest park.
Opposite it is Zimbabwe’s Nana Pool National Park.

The second longest river is Kafue whose source is near the
boundaryof the Copperbelt with Shaba Province of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). Kafue River flows
southeast along the Copperbelt and turns south towards
central Zambia. It enters Busanga Plains which marks the
northern limit of Zambia’s largest game sanctuary, the
Kafue National Park.

From Busanga Floodplains in the north of the park to
Nanzhila Plains in the south the Kafue River passes through
undeveloped country but within the Park. Covering 22,400
sq kms the Kafue National Park is the second largest in the
world only Yellowstone National Park in the USA is larger.
Kafue hosts the largest variety of antelopes including
the endemic Black Lechwe antelopes.

Half way towards the southern limit of the park where the
Kafue River turns eastwards a dam was built to hold Lake
Itezhi-Tezhi. Thereafter the river passes through the Kafue
Flats so named due to the


surrounding low-lying flat land
which experiences seasonal flooding. Lochinvar National
Park is Zambia’s birders paradise and is located South of
the river. In the north is Blue Lagoon National Park.

Downstream the river cascades through the Kafue Gorge where
another water reservoir was created behind the Kafue Gorge
Dam. Zambia’s largest hydroelectric power station is
located here in the bowels of the gorge.

The Luangwa River is the third longest and cuts literally
the Eastern Province off from the rest of Zambia. The river
has its source up in the mountains near the border with
Tanzania in the north. It flows along the bottom of the
Luangwa Valley which is part of the Great East African
Rift Valley. In dry season Luangwa River meanders on the
valley floor forming dynamic ox-bow lakes and lagoons
that keep shifting every year.

The lush vegetation and thedrinking water make the
lagoons great wildlife attractions. The Luangwa River
marks the eastern boundary of one of the best animal
sanctuary in Africa. This is the South Lungwa National
Park with its adjacent North Laungwa National Park, wild
and pristine. Another park, Luambe, smaller and new
between the two parks is being repopulated.

Luangwa is well known for having the largest and widest
variety of wild animals some of which, such as the
Thornicroft giraffes, are only found here. Luangwa River
hosts the largest number of hippos per square km in the
world. The ubiquitous crocodiles include the large Nile
Crocs. Unfortunately, the rhino has been recently poached
to extinction by unlawful hunters. However, Zambia
Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) has started repopulating the
North Luangwa National Park with black rhinos because of
its pristine and wild nature.

The fourth river is Chambeshi River. Its source


is near
the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika. Lake Tanganyika is
Africa’s second largest lake after Lake Victoria of east
Africa and the deepest in the world. The river passes
through the Northern Province and joins the Luapula River
as it leaves Lake Bangweulu.

Lake Bangweulu is Zambia’s largest natural lake which is
surrounded by Africa’s tenth largest wetland, the Bangweulu
Floodplain. The whitest sand beach in Zambia is found on
its lakeshore. Besides other animals the Bangweulu National
Park also hosts the endemic lechwe antelopes that fill its
plains. The rare shoebill stork also comes to roost here.
Kasanka National Park, a popular privately run game park
is within this vicinity.

The Luapula River originates from Lake Bangweulu, Zambia’s
inland sea. On the southern limit a three-and-half-kilometre
long bridge built by the Chinese connects the road from
Lusaka to the one in Luapula Province.has five major rivers, five major lakes and three
wetlands spread almost evenly throughout the country. The
country’s longest river is, of course, the Zambezi River.
The Kafue River is Zambia’s second longest river. Then
there is the Luangwa River in the east. The fourth is
Chambeshi River in northern Zambia. Chambeshi is a
tributary of the Luapula River that gets its water from
Lake Bangweulu, Zambia’s inland sea.

Zambia has 19 national parks surrounded by 34 game
management areas. This is what constitutes Zambia’s
wildlife asset. The 19 national parks are evenly
distributed. In the east are South Laungwa, North
Laungwa, Nyika Plateau and Luemba National Parks.
In northern Zambia are Kasanka, Bangweulu, Nsumbu
and Mweru Wantipa. Central Zambia has Lower Zambezi,
Kafue, Lochinvar and Blue Lagoon. Western Zambia has
Sioma Ngwezi, Liuwa Plains (the wildebeest country)
and West Lunga. In the South is


anteriorly, along the anterolateral margin of the gular scute. Anteriorly the ventral surface is crossed by the seam between the gular and intergular scutes. This seam reaches the median symphyseal line posterior to the anterior margin indicating that the intergular scute was retracted from the anterior margin and the two gular scutes had an anterior midline contact. However this midline contact appears to have been rather short, with a pointed anterior process of the intergular scute intruding deeply between the pair. The posterior end of the epiplastron is damaged but a seam line can be seen clearly curving from the lateral margin of the intergular scute toward the lateral margin of the epiplastron. This seam forms the posterior border of the humeral scute and indicates that the pectoralXu’s case against the hospital, nearly six months after it was filed.

Xu, who works as a freelance editor, said she had also written to a member of China’s parliament, hoping that the issue of reproductive restrictions faced by unmarried women could be raised when the legislature meets in March.

‘Systemic issue’

Xu visited the Beijing Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital at Capital Medical University in November 2018, wanting to freeze her eggs while she focused on her career as a writer on gender issues.

But the doctor asked about her marital status and urged her to have a child instead of freezing her eggs. Upon her second visit, the doctor said she could not go any further in the process.

When asked by Reuters news agency to comment, the hospital declined, saying it


Bittu raises police highhandedness issue in Lok Sabha

Member Parliament from Anandpur Sahib, Ravneet Singh Bittu, on Friday raised the March 4 incident, wherein police had beaten up of Dalit girl in Tarn Taran, in the Lok Sabha during evening zero hour session on Friday.

Member Parliament from Anandpur Sahib, Ravneet Singh Bittu, on Friday raised the March 4 incident, wherein police had beaten up of Dalit girl in Tarn Taran, in the Lok Sabha during evening zero hour session on Friday.

Bittu said it was a sorry state of affairs in Punjab in terms of crimes against women and the state government was least concerned and doing nothing to curb such incidents.

"Even after the Supreme Court took a serious note of Tarn Taran incident by equating it with 'Jalianwala killings',the state government did even bother to listen plight of the girl when some Congress legislatures brought her to the Vidhan Sabha," he said.

He pointed out that Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal were yet to meet the victim."The government was least bothered even as the the girl was getting threats to wtihdraw the complaint against the cops," Bittu said.


"Very occasionally mistakes do happen."

During its broadcast of a report on the ongoing crisis within Syria, the BBC mistakenly showcased a logo from Halo.

Within the background of last Thursday's One O'Clock News, the logo stemming from the UNSC (Halo's United Nations Space Command) was shown while presenter Sophie Raworth talked about the United Nations.

A BBC spokesperson admitted the broadcaster's mistake and offered an apology to viewers:

"BBC News makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all images broadcast, however very occasionally mistakes do happen. Unfortunately an incorrect logo was used during a segment on last week's News at One bulletin and we apologise to viewers for the mistake. "The image was not broadcast in our later bulletins."

Since the blooper, a YouTube clip of the incident surfaced:intellectual property, Indigenous cultural and intellectual property and business law, and is the largest and oldest Indigenous law firm in Australia.

Janke is respected as one of Australia's leading Indigenous lawyers, and is considered an expert and international authority on Indigenous cultural and intellectual property (ICIP) and has written the leading protocols ICIP models for various industries including film, arts, museum and archival sectors.

Janke has served on the boards of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisations and associations, with some of her previous positions including the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (Deputy Chair), Tourism Australia, National Indigenous Television (Chair) and Ngalaya Indigenous Lawyers Association (Chair), as well as at the State Library of NSW. Terri is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and LEADR Mediators.

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the elevator and injuring her foot and ankle. Petitioner neither pleaded nor attempted to prove any specific act of negligence as against either defendant, but relied wholly on the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. Respondents both denied liability and pleaded contributory negligence and unavoidable accident. The Building alternatively sought judgment over against Otis by way of indemnity, alleging that Otis by written contract with the Building had obligated itself to maintain the elevator in a safe and proper condition, and if there was any negligence involved it was solely that of Otis, which had manufactured and installed the elevator in question and thereafter exclusively maintained it.
The jury found that as petitioner entered the elevator it went into a free fall, throwing petitioner to the floor and injuring her;it stopped suddenly and began to bounce up and down violently; that petitioner pulled the emergency switch and the elevator came to a standstill between floors; that petitioner was thrown to the floor of the elevator, resulting in painful injury to her ankle.
The elevator in which petitioner was riding was one of five previously sold and installed by Otis in the Adolphus Tower Building, which is an office building in the City of Dallas. There was in evidence a contract between Adolphus Tower Building and Otis whereby Otis undertook the exclusive responsibility for the maintenance of the elevators and the mechanism operating them. That part of said contract applicable to this case is as follows:
  "OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
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Alaska pot petition has enough signatures to make ballot

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Enough petition signatures have been verified to place an initiative seeking to legalize marijuana on the ballot this summer in Alaska, election officials said Tuesday.

The petition has met all the thresholds necessary to appear on the Aug. 19 primary ballot, the Alaska Division of Elections said.

The lieutenant governor's office said it had verified the signatures from registered voters as of Monday evening. The total of 31,500 was a thousand more than needed, with about 6,000 signatures remaining to be checked.

The office has not yet certified the question for the ballot, but it's expected to do so in the coming weeks.

"It's good news," said Bill Parker, an Anchorage man who was one of and initial sponsor of thecomplex history with marijuana. The state Supreme Court ruled in 1975 than banning home use and possession of small amounts of pot violated the state constitution's right to privacy. The court didn't define what amount of pot was legal to have at home, but the Legislature in 1982 set the amount at less than 4 ounces. That amount was later reduced to one ounce.

In 2006 the Legislature recriminalized possession of marijuana at home. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska challenged the law on privacy grounds and won in Superior Court. The state appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court, which threw out the lower court decision but didn't clarify the conflict with the earlier law.

Organizers have said if passed, the initiative would bring the state back in line


Home Cities Mumbai Shivaji memorial: Nod for 210 m statue, tallest in the world

Shivaji memorial: Nod for 210 m statue, tallest in the world

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial project is estimated to cost Rs 3,600 crore. It is one of the flagship programmes of the BJP-led government in the state with major political implications.

Concept plan of the Shivaji Memorial. Archive

The state government’s plan to increase the height of the proposed Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial in the Arabian Sea from 192 metres to 210 metres, making it the tallest statue in the world, has got the approval of the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA).

After the state government had moved the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to make changes in the environmental clearance granted earlier to accommodate thenew dimensions of the proposed memorial, an MoEF expert panel had sought the recommendations of the MCZMA, besides more information on the project. The MCZMA approval came in a meeting on Monday. Officials from the environment department said the proposal would now be sent to the MoEF for final approval.

An expert panel of the MoEF had in September sought the MCZMA recommendations regarding the proposed changes. The panel had also sought information on whether the ‘reclamation of the island is part of the project or the reclaimed island already exists’, its impact on island ecology, details of disposal of effluents from the desalination plant along with details of the PIL in the Bombay High Court and a case filed in the National Green Tribunal (Western Bench), Pune.

The panel


to be developed with various ancillary facilities like an art museum, amphitheatre and a helipad complex, exhibition gallery, landscaping, open space for viewing and galleries, cafeteria, lavatories, stalls and offices.

The project is one of the flagship programmes of the BJP-led government in the state with major political implications. In December 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone for the memorial by performing the ‘jal-poojan’.

How it compares globally

The state government has increased the height of the proposed Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue to overtake the height of the Spring Temple Buddha in Zhaocun township of Lushan County in Henan, China. The height of the Buddha statue, including the height of the two pedestals, is 208 metres, making it the tallest in the world at present.

The Laykyun SetkyarTwo soldiers were killed in a 30-minute encounter early Sunday between an Army unit and 50 “lawless” members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) allegedly under “rogue” 105th base commander Ameril Umbra Kato in Datu Piang town in Maguindanao province.

Col. Jonathan Ponce, Army’s 6th Infantry Division public information officer, identified the two soldiers as Private First Class Rocky Castillo and Pfc. Arnel Ramos.

The Army division reportedly launched simultaneous attacks in the towns of Datu Piang and Kabuntalan in Maguindanao and in Midsayap town in North Cotabato following reports that Kato was sighted in the area.

Ponce called it a law enforcement operation.

This was reportedly the first major operation launched by the Army’s 6th “Kampilan” Division under its new commanding general, Maj. Gen. Alfredo Cayton.

Government has put up a


Aydon Castle never fully recovered from numerous battles over
its ownership. Tremendous damage was caused to the castle when it fell into the
hands of the Scots and it was left in ruins by the beginning of the Tudor age. However,
the Carnaby family arrived on the scene and restored it and the castle is now in the
safe keeping of English Heritage.

So striking is Aydon Castle that it was used as
a backdrop in the film Elizabeth, starring Kate Blanchett and Christopher Eccleston.Image caption From 2017, some universities will be allowed to charge over £9,000

Universities in England will be able to increase tuition fees above £9,000 from autumn 2017, if they have high-quality teaching, in plans announced by Universities Minister Jo Johnson.

The proposals will also make it easier for new universities to open.

The plans aim to encourage more competition and better consumer value for students.

Labour's Gordon Marsden warned of "inadequate" controls over a "rapid expansion" in new universities.

The proposals, published in a White Paper called Success as a Knowledge Economy, aim to encourage a wider range of new higher education institutions, by speeding up the process allowing them to award their own degrees.

This could include allowing more private institutions to be given university status.

There are also measures to improve the


of the National Union of Students, said students would be "outraged" at the prospect of tuition fees being increased.

But she welcomed the recognition of the "need for progress on access and widening participations".

Dame Julia Goodfellow, president of Universities UK, warned of the need to protect quality among new institutions.

"It is important also that any new higher education providers awarding their own degrees or calling themselves 'university' meet these same, high standards."

Sally Hunt, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, warned of the "danger of opening up UK higher education to for-profit providers".

'Greater transparency'

Labour's shadow universities minister, Gordon Marsden, warned that it could be "potentially very dangerous" to allow new providers to award degrees too quickly.

"Who would pick up the pieces if it all went wrong?"

But Josh Hardie, CBI deputyto resort to difficult or expensive countermeasures," the report said.

Very often, the companies breached had no firewalls, had ports open to the Internet or used default or easily guessable passwords, said Marc Spitler a Verizon security analyst.

The study found that cybercriminals did not have to work any harder to break into a large organization than into a small one.

Attackers in 2011 generally didn't need new sophisticated tools to break into most organizations, Spitler said.

"We have seen nothing new. Some of the old standbys are continuing to work very well for the people going after information," he said. "Not enough has been done to raise the bar and to force them to spend" significant sums on new tools and exploits.

The most sophistication found by the researchers was in the


shot. He was struck in the leg and was in stable condition, said Richard Carpenter, chancellor of the Lone Star College System.

The shooting took place outside, between the academic building and the library, he said.

A possible fourth victim, a woman with a student ID who was either at or near the shooting, was treated at a hospital for medical problems. According to a federal law enforcement official who received reports from the scene, the fourth person suffered a heart attack.

“I saw two dudes basically get into an altercation and … the dude that shot, he basically got angry and, you know, started shooting the other guy,” she said. “A lot of people heard a lot of shots.”

The Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher educationsigned with Castellarano.

In July 2007, Galabinov joined Bologna but could not break his way into the first team and went out on loan to Giulianova, and then to Giacomense.

Livorno
On 1 February 2011, Galabinov signed with Livorno on a four-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee. He made his Serie B debut on 7 February, in a 0–1 home loss against Vicenza. He appeared in only three league games to the end of the season. In an attempt to earn some playing time, Galabinov spent the 2011–12 season on loan in the Serie C1, where he played for Sorrento and Bassano.

Gubbio (loan)
In July 2012, Galabinov moved to Gubbio. The move was agreed as a one-year loan deal.

Avellino (loan)
On 15 July 2013, newly promoted Serie B side Avellino signed Galabinov on


The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement along with Community Aid and Development Corp. present the Black August Commemoration Kickoff and Chokwe Lumumba Birthday Celebration on Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 6 to 10pm at the Davis Bozeman law office, 4153 Flat Shoals Pkwy, Decatur, GA 30034. Black August has a thirty-five year history of commemorating fallen comrades and embracing the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical training and resistance. This year, we focus on the importance of health and wellness in our struggle and celebrate the birthday of our chairman Chokwe Lumumba. Chokwe Lumumba was a revolutionary activist, attorney, mayor of Jackson MS, and co-founder of NAPO and MXGM. Lumumba passed this year, February 25, 2014.

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Dr. Mutulu Shakur, a member of the New African People’sOrganization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is one of the longest held political prisoners of war in USA federal detention at this time. He has been locked down and kept from his people for over 30 years since his capture on February 11, 1986. He was charged and convicted of freeing our Sister Assata Shakur from prison and master minding a 1981 expropriation of a Brinks armored truck.

Dr. Shakur was set for release on February 10, 2016 but his release never occurred. Just before this date he was informed that he would only be scheduled to get a hearing for parole on April 4, 2016.

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Story highlights U.N. secretary-general commends Panama for its actions

North Korea's foreign ministry says Panama should release the ship and crew

Panama has asked the United Nations to help investigate

Rubio: The U.S. should change Cuba policies in light of "flagrant violation"

North Korea has a message for Panamanian authorities who seized a cargo ship packed with sugar and weapons: Release the boat and let the crew go.

"The Panamanian investigation authorities rashly attacked and detained the captain and crewmen of the ship on the plea of 'drug investigation' and searched its cargo but did not discover any drug," a spokesman for North Korean's Foreign Ministry told state-run KCNA on Wednesday. "Yet, they are justifying their violent action, taking issue with other kind of cargo aboard the ship. This cargo is nothing butKorea for repair 01:15

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Because it is pursuing nuclear weapons, North Korea is banned by the United Nations from importing and exporting most weapons.

A spokesman confirmed that Panama had filed a report with the U.N.'s North Korea sanctions committee. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "commends the action taken by Panama," a spokesman said.

In addition to reaching out to the United Nations, Panama also has asked the United States to help provide technical assistance.

The ship originated from Cuba, and Cuban officials admitted that the weapons on board were theirs.


They described them as "240 metric tons of obsolete defensive weapons" sent to North Korea "to be repaired and returned to Cuba."

The equipment was manufactured in the mid-20th century and included two anti-aircraft missile systems, nine missiles in parts and spares, two MiG-21 jets and 15 motors for this type of airplane, the Cuban foreign ministry said.

The ship's captain -- who allegedly suffered a heart attack and then tried to commit suicide as the cargo was being searched -- and the 35 North Korean crew members have not been charged, but the attorney general's office said they could face charges of threatening national security.

The crew resisted arrest and engaged in a "violent" confrontation, Panama's security minister, Jose Raul Mulino, said Tuesday.

Panama's public ministry ordered the crew's detention, andauthorities have since spoken with crew members about their travel plans. Crew members said the North Korean ship had left Cuba and headed toward Panama, aiming to arrive back in North Korea in 51 days.

The United States and Panama had been tracking the ship as it crossed the Panama Canal to Cuba and then back, two U.S. officials said.

The Panamanians asked the United States for imaging equipment and technicians to fully examine the boat and determine what is on board, according to a U.S. official who declined to be identified because the person was not authorized to speak publicly.

Speculation has surged since Panama announced its find, with some warning that it was a troubling sign of weapons deals between North Korea and Cuba, and others disputing whether any


weapons shipment as a "flagrant violation of multiple United Nations Security Council Resolutions."

"I believe that this revelation, in addition to Cuba's failure to address its abysmal human rights record, should finally prompt the (Obama) administration to re-calibrate its misguided and naive Cuba policy," Rubio wrote. "The administration should immediately reverse its January 2011 decision easing restrictions on people-to-people travel and remittances sent to Cuba; as well as immediately halt granting visas to Cuban government officials."

Forbes.com columnist Gordon Chang told CNN's "Erin Burnett: OutFront" that the boat's cargo was a warning sign that North Korea could be supplying Cuba with weapons.

"This is a country which is just 90 miles away from American shores," he said. "Now, if they can smuggle missile radar into Cuba, you know, God knows whatA FLYING car retailing for $227,000 could be on roads in a matter of months - and customers are already lining up to be the first to get their hands on one, its maker claims.

Just over a week ago, the Terrafugia Transition passed a significant milestone when it was cleared for takeoff by the US National Highway Safety Administration.

It's taken Terrafugia founder Carl Dietrich just five years to realise his dream, with some media outlets reporting that the Transition could now be on US roads by the end of next year.

Last year, the project was headed for trouble after authorities demanded design changes costing Terrafugia somewhere in the order of $18 million.

Fortunately, Mr Dietrich's company then won a $60 million contract with the US Defence Department to develop


made of carbon-fibre and aimed primarily at the US's 600-strong "fly-in" communities.

It can lift off from almost any long straight road and once in the air, has a top speed of 185km/h.

On landing, its wings fold up in 15 seconds, with power then routed to the rear wheels, giving it a top land speed of 100km/h and size dimensions equivalent to a large sedan.

"It's like a little Transformer," Mr Dietrich said.

The Transition will be available to those with a light-aircraft licence and requires as little as 20 hours' training to fly.from Wichita, batted .423 over the week to raise her batting average to .300, third-best on the team. Erin Patterson, freshman from Hutchison, batted .368 in the 11 games. Pitcher Megan Nelson, sophomore from Marysville, had a 1.16 ERA in six complete games, including the shutout of Evangel.

Baker swept St. Marys 9-2 and 4-0 in the Cats last home game of the year. The team will now prepare for the conference tournament on Friday and Saturday in Springfield, Mo.

WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD - Angie Heffner, freshman from Baldwin City, broke her own school record in the pole vault at the Kansas Relays on Saturday. Heffner, who had reached 10-6 twice this season, cleared 10-11.75 at the Relays. She finished 12th. Candace Fortney, senior from El Dorado Springs, Mo.,


scored 3,857 points in the heptathlon at the Relays to finish 10th.

Jenny Schultz, sophomore from Sun City, Ariz., finished second in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10:49.49 at the Mule Relays in Warrensburg, Mo., on Friday. Morgan Ouimette, junior from Grandview, took second in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:55.7. Molly Humphries, sophomore from Topeka, finished third in the 400-meter hurdles, Katie Hennes, senior from Topeka, finished fourth in the 800-meter run, and Renee Sudduth, junior from Harveyville, finished fourth in the hammer.

The Wildcats will compete at the UMKC Invitational in Kansas City on Saturday, then host the Heart of America Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships next Friday and Saturday at the Hey/Metzker track.

MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - Jerry Baker, sophomore from Morrowville, set aschool record in the decathlon at the Kansas Relays on Wednesday and Thursday. Baker scored 6,081 points to finish eighth overall. The old record, set in 1972 by Brent Wright, was 5,794 points. Eric Schwarz, junior from Baldwin City, finished eighth in the javelin at the KU Relays with a throw of 186-11.

Kevin Schmidt, junior from Mission, broke two minutes in the 800-meter run at the Mule Relays in Warrensburg, Mo., on Friday. Schmidt finished 13th out of 40 competitors with a time of 1:59.94. Jimmy Gillispie, freshman from Baldwin City, finished eighth in his first 10,000-meter run of the year with a time of 35:09.6.

The Wildcats will compete at the UMKC Invitational in Kansas City on Saturday, then host the Heart of America Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships


next Friday and Saturday at the Hey/Metzker track.

MEN'S TENNIS - Baker defeated Heart of America Athletic Conference rival Lindenwood University 5-1 in a rain-shortened match on Saturday in St. Charles, Mo. The Cats have a 5-1 record and are undefeated in conference play. Baker won all the double matches and also had singles wins by John Henderson, freshman from Oklahoma City, Okla., and Blake Glover, freshman from Baldwin City. Baker swept Benedictine 9-0 at home on Wednesday.

The Wildcats will compete in the conference tournament in Springfield, Mo., on Friday and Saturday. The conference champion will play McKendree College the following weekend, with the winner getting a berth in the NAIA national tournament.first steps the Suy’uk community of Tanjung, West Kalimantan, took toward mapping its indigenous territories.

Inside the Tanjung village hall this April evening, the sense of kinship was thick. Young joked with old. And representatives from the Indonesian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, an NGO, sat in to help facilitate Tanjung with its 20-year development plan. The first step toward this goal was to find traces of the Suy’uk people.

As the 70-year-old Liung turned his thoughts to times past, the hall turned silent. It is as if everyone was hypnotized, spellbound with the anticipation.

“Originally, we were members of the Suy’uk Busang tribe of Sungai Langau of East Kalimantan. Our ancestors travelled a long way to get to the Bawan River in Kapuas Hulu,” Liung said.

And his oral history


explore the Suy’uk River. With the meeting’s oral history as their guide, they headed into the field to find indicators of their past.

The head of village development, P Sabang, took the commanding shaft to lead the trip. He was joined by Dulah, Samad and Thomas, village heads of Gurung Langkung, Roban and Biang respectively. “Is everyone ready,” he asked and after receiving nods, headed down the path to the Muller Mountains. Walking out of Roban hamlet, the eight-man exploration team passed through thick, multispecie tree groves. The Suy’uk River ran clear alongside, adding to the beauty of the panorama.

After two hours of climbing hills, fording the river and honest trudging, the team reached Nanga Baeng, a site hailed as a onetime residence of the Suy’uk people. “Let usIt probably depends on the Aram Association of Retired People's policies. If it was like the modern American equivalent, then his age would qualify him for membership. However, he was a long way from actually retiring (sheloshim umeya - mi yodeya?).
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84 years passed from Rivkah's premonition/prophecy that her two sons would die on the same day (Gen. 27:45) until it actually came true, when Eisav was killed while trying to prevent Yaakov's burial in the Cave of Machpelah (Sotah 13a).

[Her statement was made in the aftermath of Yaakov's receiving the blessings from Yitzchak, which occurred when he was 63 years old (Rashi to Gen. 28:9); he lived to be 147 (ibid. 47:28).]

It is said that one who partakes of the meal at a


Pidyon HaBen is considered as if he fasted 84 fasts (presumably because the first two letters of פדיון = eighty-four). The Arizal reportedly said that one who is present in the house where a Pidyon HaBen takes place is considered as having fasted for 84 days.

Legend has it that a talmid of Rav Schach zt"l once missed shiur because he was attending a Pidyon HaBen of a relative. Rav Schach called him to task, and the fellow excused himself by saying that it is so important that it's like fasting 84 fasts. Rav Schach replied that he could accomplish the same by learning Gemara because after all, "daf" (דף) also has the numerical value of 84! (See here, at end.)Israel is under heavy international pressure to attend a review by a United Nations agency scheduled for Tuesday in Geneva. On Friday, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle sent a personal letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that Israel’s failure to attend the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review would cause the country severe diplomatic damage and Israel’s allies around the world would be hard-pressed to help it.

Israel has boycotted the Geneva-based agency since March 2012. Then Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman severed ties with the council in wake of the agency’s decision to convene an international inquiry into Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Every few years, each UN member state undergoes a UPR, in which the Human Rights Council evaluates its performance in upholding human rights.


European states have agreed to remain silent during discussions convened during the next two years in accordance with Article 7 - a measure that would, in effect, make the discussions meaningless. However, in regard to Israel’s joining WEOG - which would require the unanimous approval of the group’s members - the European states gave only a promise rather than a binding commitment. Israel is demanding a firm commitment on this issue before it agrees to attend Tuesday’s review.

Spain currently holds the presidency of WEOG. On Thursday, its ambassador to the HRC announced that Israel's application to join the regional group would be at the top of its agenda when it convenes early next month.

Immediately after the announcement, a meeting was held between Eviatar Manor, Israel's ambassador to theUN in Geneva, and his counterparts from the United States, Germany, Canada, Britain and France. They made it clear to Manor that they would not go beyond issuing a positive statement until, and unless, Israel reported for its UPR on Tuesday, saying Israel must take the step of attending the review.

In his letter to Netanyahu, Westerwelle expressed a similar sentiment, writing, "Israel's participation in the review will create the best conditions for its being accepted into the Western European and Others Group."


Isaac Julien - Western Union: small boats at ARoS

3 February - 27 May 2018

Isaac Julien opens the first exhibition presented by ARoS in a new series shown in the Focus Gallery in 2018. The series is called Intermezzo and shows art where the perception and appreciation of the works of art is facilitated via other faculties beside vision. Enclosed in a totally blue room, Isaac Julien presents his three screen film installation Western Union: small boats from 2007.

A catalogue will be published for the exhibition, featuring an introductory text by Lise Pennington, senior curator at ARoS, and a peer-reviewed text by Anne Ring Petersen, associate professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.According to sources within the production of the 88th Academy Awards, Chris Rock will be the show’s next host. The decision is expected to be formally announced October 20th.

The Academy initially looked at pairing Rock, who also hosted in 2005, with someone else. After considering Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres and Amy Schumer – and after Schumer turned down the hosting duties – the Oscars are sticking to their typical method of having just one master of ceremonies. A call to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson for comment was not returned.

As you’ll remember, the ceremony last went with two hosts in 2011 (James Franco and Anne Hathaway), and people are still finding ways to make jokes about it to this day. Steve Martin and


before a UCRC hearing officer in February 2014. The commission found that Brown provided more credible firsthand sworn testimony.

It wasn't anything like the water crisis that faced Toledo and the surrounding area in August 2014, but the Village of Oak Harbor was without drinking water Jan. 29.

A computer malfunction that was caused by hardware burning out resulted in a boil advisory for the village. Communication between the village and the Regional Water Treatment Plant was disrupted, causing the treatment center to stop sending water to Oak Harbor.

"Somewhere through the night, Friday morning, we had a computer malfunction. That stopped communication between the village and the regional water plant after the hardware burned out, and the regional water plant didn't see that our water towers were empty," said MayorThe Maine Justice Foundation is dedicated to ensuring access to civil justice for low-income and vulnerable Mainers by providing charitable investment opportunities to individuals, families and organizations as well as grants to support civil legal aid and other related initiatives, education and services. Our belief that "Fairness Matters" drives our mission of supporting the legal advocates who are working on the front lines every day. Read More

The Board of the Maine Justice Foundation has elected Bill Harwood of Verrill Dana as President and elected four new Directors: Grady Burns, Jerroll Crouter, Thaddeus Day and Gerald F. Petruccelli.Read More

The following article ran in Maine Voices in the Maine Sunday Telegram on 6/4/17. The Maine Justice Foundation aims to help protect those who face additional barriers, even within systems to


MoD stalls decision over Royal Yacht

The Ministry of Defence says that it will not consider the process of appointing designers to create a replacement for – Britannia, the Royal Yacht, until a year-long feasibility study has been completed.Category Archives: Classical

Three Decades Of Popol Vuh. In West Germany in the early seventies, a number of groundbreaking bands were formed including one of the most important, innovative and influential bands in the history of German music, Popol Vuh. Over the next three decades Popol Vuh. established a reputation for releasing ambitious and innovative music that influenced the next generation of musicians. This was the case from the release of Popol Vuh’s 1970 debut …

Atomic-Pet Variations. Label: Odin Records. Release Date: ‘22nd’ March 2019. Eighteen years ago, Scandinavian supergroup Atomic was founded by Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo and his fellow countryman and reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist who joined forces with Norwegian pianist Håvard Wiik, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. By then, each musician was a


familiar face in their own country, but …

Michael Naura Quartett-Call. Label: MPS Records. Michael Naura was just six years old, when he first travelled to Berlin with his mother, and began a new life in the city that became his home. It was where Michael Naura studied journalism, philosophy and sociology, and played piano in a number of swing bands. However, by …

Emanative-Earth-Vinyl. Label: Jazzman Records. Three years after the release of their third album The Light Years Of The Darkness in 2015, British jazz collective Emanative return with Earth, a new album of ambitious genre-melting music. It finds Emanative channelling the spirit of Sun Ra, but also drawing inspiration from Floating Point’s unique brand if cinematic …

Craig Armstrong-Sun On You-Vinyl. Label: Decca. Over the past twenty years,Glasgow born Craig Armstrong has been one of the hardest working British composers and is the man many top film directors call when they’re looking for a score to their latest movie. This includes fellow Glaswegian Peter Mullan and Baz Luhrmann, who Craig Armstrong …

Craig Armstrong-Sun On You. Label: Decca. Over the past twenty years, Glasgow born Craig Armstrong has been one of the hardest working British composers and is the man many top film directors call when they’re looking for a score to their latest movie. This includes fellow Glaswegian Peter Mullan and Baz Luhrmann, who Craig Armstrong …

The Popol Vuh Story In West Germany in the early seventies, a number of groundbreaking bands were formed including one of the most important, innovative and influential bands in


the history of German music, Popol Vuh. Over the next three decades Popol Vuh. established a reputation for releasing ambitious and innovative music that influenced the next generation of musicians. This was the case from the release of Popol Vuh’s 1970 debut album …

Arve Henriksen-The Height Of The Reeds. Label: Rune Grammofon. Originally, The Height Of The Reeds’ project was commissioned by the city of Hull, to celebrate the city being chosen as Britain´s cultural capital in 2017. This was only port of the story behind The Height Of The Reeds. It’s a culturally important commission that celebrates …

David Axelrod-Songs Of Experience. Label: Now Again Records. By 1968, composer, musicians and producer David Axelrod was just about to embark upon a solo career after nine years working inthe music industry. Buoyed by the experimental climate of popular music, David Axelrod wrote and recorded what was akin to a suite-like tone poem that …

Skadedyr-Musikk! Label: Hubro Music. Release Date: ’27th’ of July 2018. Over the last few years, some of the most ambitious and innovative new music being released in Europe, has been in Norway, which has a vibrant and thriving musical community. However, this didn’t happen overnight, and instead, it took years for Norway to become home …

David Axelrod-Songs Of Innocence. Label: Now Again Records. By the time David Axelrod began work on his debut album Songs Of Innocence in 1968, the thirty-seven year arranger, composer, drummer and producer old had enjoyed a chequered career. He had started off as a boxer, before changing direction


seventeen short movements lasting just over an hour. It was reinterpreted and recreated with care and accuracy by Håkon Stene and Kristine Tjøgersen, who …

The Best Nordic Wave Releases Of 2017-Part 4. Motorpsycho-The Tower. Label: Rune Grammofon. When Motorpsycho released The Tower in 2017, it marked the debut of Tomas Järmyr, who became Motorpsycho’s fourth drummer in the band’s twenty-eight year history. He played his part in the creative birth of creative rebirth of Motorpsycho, and ensured that their vintage …

Klaus Schulze-Ballet 1 and 2 and Ballet 3 and 4. Label: MIG Music. By the winter of 2000, Berlin School pioneer Klaus Schulze was fifty-three, and had already been making music for thirty-one years. He had achieved a lot over during a career that had already spanned fourdecades, and was regarded as one of …

Yasuaki Shimizu-Music For Commercials: Made To Measure Volume 12. Label: Crammed Discs. Thirty years ago, in 1987, Marc Hollander’s label, Crammed Discs, released an album that went on become one of their most sought after releases. This was Yasuaki Shimizu’s Music For Commercials, which featured a total of twenty-four tracks. Twenty-three of them were short …

Ólafur Arnalds-Eulogy For Evolution. Label: Erased Tapes Records. When most people reach the age of thirty, it’s a time when they take stock, and reflect on what they’ve achieved so far. When composer, multi-instrumentalist and BAFTA-award- winning producer Ólafur Arnalds looked back at the first thirty years of his life, there was much to celebrate. He …


the sum of reported paid hours by the total number of production or nonsupervisory workers in the industry. Learn more about average weekly hours in "On the decline in average weekly hours worked" by Katie Kirkland, Monthly Labor Review, July 2000.

Self-employment in the United States
Trends in self-employment by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, including both the unincorporated and the incorporated self-employed, as well as data on paid employees who work for the self-employed.Luís de Meneses, 3rd Count of Ericeira

D. Luís de Meneses, 3rd Count of Ericeira (22 July 1632 — 26 May 1690) was a Portuguese nobleman and military man.

Biography
He was the second son of D. Henrique de Meneses, 5th Lord of Louriçal and D. Margarida de Lima, daughter of João Gonçalves de Ataíde, 5th Count of Atouguia,

He was commander of São Cipriano de Angueira (St Cyprian), São Martinho de Frazão (St Martin) and São Bartolomeu da Covilhã (St Bartholomew) he was also commander the Order of Christ.

He was eight years old when the Portuguese Restoration War started in 1640, he served under the eldest son of King John IV, Theodosius of Braganza who was later Prince of Brazil; during the war, he was artillery general and later a member


statements during the negotiations for the merger.  He emphasizes the representations in the flamboyant 1971 report concerning the condition of the Economy Linen Service, an industrial laundering subsidiary in Detroit, Michigan.  The report recited that a five month strike had been resolved in April of 1971, and that with the completion of a major equipment installation program resulting in operational efficiency in production capacity, substantial gains in the operations from these modernized facilities were anticipated.

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By reference to the financial statements in the annual reports of the fiscal years 1971 and 1972, appellees presented proof tending to show that significant losses were incurred at the Detroit laundry facility in the fiscal year 1971 while negotiations for the merger were underway; that such losses were not disclosed untilROBERT DAVEY, JR.

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Robert "Gus" Davey, Jr., 65 of Midlothian, VA passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, Midlothian, VA. He was a lifelong truck driver and a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran.

The son of the late Robert and Clara (Decker) Davey, Sr. he was born on May 28, 1950 in Port Jervis, NY. He was married to the late Elizabeth Davey.

Survivors include two brothers: George Davey and his wife, Ellen of Honesdale, PA and Timothy Davey and his wife, Sue of Midlothian, VA; two sisters: Roberta Williams and her husband, Jerry and Wilma Williams, both of Matamoras, PA; two step daughters: Mary Lou Jetter of Newtown, PA, Donna DeGroat of Milford, PA; grandson, Robert DeGroat of West Chester, PA; granddaughter, Avery Snarponis of Newtown,


PA; great granddaughter, Aubrey DeGroat of West Chester, PA, and his aunt, Frances Barada of Port Jervis, NY. He was predeceased by his brother, Frank Davey.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 9th at the United Methodist Church, 209 Avenue H, Matamoras, PA with Rev. Lora Villinger officiating. Burial will take place in Milford Cemetery at the convenience of the family.The Cubs officially activated Baez on Friday, optioning infielder Munenori Kawasaki to Triple-A Iowa. If Baez has his way, he will not only learn his way around, but make sure he is here to stay. The 23-year-old is coming off the 15-day disabled list after he suffered a left thumb contusion. He hit .267 with a home run in his four-game rehab stint with Iowa.

Baez, who hit .289 with six doubles, a home run and four RBIs in 28 games with the Cubs last season, said he hopes this is the year he establishes himself in Chicago.

"This is a game that is all about making adjustments," Baez said. "These last couple years have been up and down. Hopefully this year, with everything that I learned, I get everything


turnovers at all ends of the floor. If the defense is unable to effectively create traps and pressure the offense into unforced errors, the press loses its effectiveness.

Related Jevon Carter wins NABC Defensive Player of the Year

The Mountaineers, who have led the nation in steals per game for the past three seasons, rely on their press to help them win games. Jevon Carter has been near the top of the nation in steals per game and won Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.This week we have maybe the hottest Chinese girl on the planet chilling with us here in Miami. Her name is Alina Li and she wants to fuck some random dudes. So We put her in the bus and went around Miami looking for some dudes to fuck that wet pussy good. We found one dude who just got off a plane at the airport. He was coming to go see his family, but we showed him a better reason to come here. We found one guy walking to the store for a pack of cigarettes and then we kidnapped another guy who was walking to his homeboys crib. Alina was ready to put it down for her country.


   commenced within three years from the day the cause of action
        accrued.

              Under this chapter an action may be brought in a district
        court of the United States, in the district of the residence of the
        defendant, or in which the cause of action arose, or in which the
        defendant shall be doing business at the time of commencing such
        action. The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States under
      designer clothes, dwarfed and dehumanised by their possessions, as if ownership has gone into reverse. A girl's head barely emerges from the haul of Chanel, Dior and Hermes shopping bags she has piled on her vast bed. It's captioned "shoppy shoppy" and "#goldrush", but a photograph whose purpose is to illustrate plenty seems instead to depict a void. She's alone with her bags and her image in the mirror, in a scene that seems saturated with despair.

Perhaps I'm projecting my prejudices. But an impressive body of psychological research seems to support these feelings. It suggests that materialism, a trait that can afflict both rich and poor, and which the researchers define as "a value system that is preoccupied with possessions and the social image they project", is both


one side, and self-acceptance, fellow feeling and belonging on the other. They were then given a standard diagnostic test to identify mental health problems. At the ages of both 18 and 30, materialistic people were more susceptible to disorders. But if in that period they became less materialistic, they became happier.

In another study, the psychologists followed Icelanders weathering their country's economic collapse. Some people became more focused on materialism, in the hope of regaining lost ground. Others responded by becoming less interested in money and turning their attention to family and community life. The first group reported lower levels of wellbeing, the second group higher levels.

These studies, while suggestive, demonstrate only correlation. But the researchers then put a group of adolescents through a church programme designed to steerOur People

Profile: Courtney, Erin, and Megan Nesbit

When David Nesbit decided to coach his oldest daughter Courtney some 20 years ago in softball, little did he know that the sport would become a big part of everyday life for the family in Acworth, Ga. Growing up to play "travel" softball nationwide, Courtney's sisters Erin and Megan followed in their older sibling's footsteps, with all three eventually playing in the Amateur Softball Association's Gold National Championships.

It is at this level that college softball coaches heavily recruit players, and it is here that Mississippi State coaches first discovered the Nesbits. When the elder Courtney was approached by Bulldog recruiters, she said all she knew about Mississippi State was "that they played Georgia."

"All three of us were recruited by both large and


small colleges, and we knew we wanted to play in the SEC," said the former MSU first baseman, a four-time All SEC Academic team member and current Bulldog Club graduate assistant.

The sisters all agreed that Mississippi State has been just the right mix for them.

"This has been a really good choice because it's a big school with a small town atmosphere," said MSU shortstop Erin, a two-time All SEC Academic team member and MSU softball's "Rookie of the Year" during her freshman season.

While younger sister Megan grew up thinking that 5 a.m. workouts and afternoon practices were just part of the family routine, she says she doesn't want to just be in the shadow of her older siblings as she begins her first season as first baseman forthe Bulldogs.

She plans to prove herself on and off the field. An elementary education major, Megan wants to become a kindergarten or first grade teacher to "make a positive impact and have some influence on kids this age that are so creative and fun." Courtney is working toward a master's degree in special education and Erin has dreams of working in journalism and foreign missions.

And David Nesbit isn't finished raising talented softball players who are smart, independent thinkers. He still has 16-year-old Morgan and 9-year-old Mallori making their way to the top in sports and life.


Chris Johnson, 29

Financial Analyst at Genworth Financial

Chris Johnson and Kaleb have spent several years together in Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

At 17, Chris Johnson was itching to join the army. Instead of taking the summer off and spending it with friends after his junior year in high school, he enlisted. He can’t explain it.

“I struggle with that one,” he says.

After basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., in the Virginia Army National Guard, he graduated and enrolled at James Madison University. In 2005 he was deployed to Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

“We got mortared or rocketed more than 300 times while we were there,” he says.

He survived in one piece and landed a job at CarMax. He joined Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Richmond where he met Kaleb, aboy who lives with his mother, twin sister and older brother in a trailer park. Kaleb, now 13, was shy and struggled in school.

“If you take him out to eat, he was kind of scared to ask for a simple refill of a drink,” Johnson says. “And now he’s totally different.”

Johnson, now a financial analyst at Genworth, also is working on his master’s degree in business administration at the University of Richmond, where he and a small group of veterans organized a 5-kilkometer run in March to benefit widows of fallen soldiers.

Last school year, he picked up another little brother, Xavier, who’s 8, and joined the nonprofit’s board. He was named the 2010 Big Brother of the Year.

He finds that it’s the little things, the little moments. Xavier


While the United States under Attorney General Jeff Sessions is mulling the possibility of stepping up federal enforcement of legalized states, Canada is set to roll-out full legalization of marijuana, including recreational marijuana, by the Summer of 2018.

Currently, the nation allows medical marijuana growth and dispensaries, with approximately 40 dispensaries peppering the country. Those with medical cards are also able to grow limited supplies.

This next step would allow anyone over the age of 18 to legally imbibe and would cut down on enforcement from Canadian police who are regularly engaging in raids and seizures of illegally-grown marijuana.

Some are concerned that the legislation may not go through, considering Trudeau’s reluctance to sign legislation decriminalizing the plant. While some expected this to be a logical first step in legalizing, TrudeauMark Dambly Elected Board Of Trustees Chair, Matt Schuyler Vice Chair

Penn State’s Board of Trustees met Thursday and Friday at Penn State Harrisburg for its bi-monthly meeting and annual summer commonwealth campus visit. The Board elected elected Chair Mark Dambly and Vice Chair Matt Schuyler to lead for the 2017-2018 year.

Dambly is a business and industry trustee who served as vice chair of the Board last year after a close election against gubernatorial appointee student trustee Allie Goldstein. He has served on the Board since 2010 and was approved for a new term in May.

Gubernatorial appointee Bob Capretto challenged Dambly for the position, but Dambly ultimately prevailed with 21 votes over Capretto’s 12, despite personal controversy that appeared in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Dambly was asked


to live a very productive life, both personally and professionally.”

Schuyler is an at-large trustee first elected to the Board in July 2015. His Penn State service includes membership on the Board of Visitors of the Smeal College of Business, the College of Information Sciences and Technology, and on the School of Hospitality Management Advisory Board. He was also honored with an Alumni Fellow Award from the Penn State Alumni Association in 2013.

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Elissa is a junior public relations major and the managing editor of Onward State. She is from Punxsutawney, PA [insert corny Bill Murray joke here] and considers herself an expert on all things ice cream. Send questions and comments via e-mail ([email protected]) and follow her on Twitter (@ElissaKHill) for more corny jokes.President Donald Trump, the first Republican presidential nominee to win Pennsylvania since 1988, defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by fewer than 45,000 votes. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images 2020 elections Embattled GOP chief in Pennsylvania presents plan to save Trump in 2020

More than two months after suffering devastating losses up and down the ballot in the midterm election, the leader of Pennsylvania’s Republican Party huddled privately with President Trump’s re-election campaign Thursday to deliver his plan to stop the bleeding in 2020.

The meeting, the first of its kind since the GOP lost a raft of Senate, House, gubernatorial and state legislative races in Pennsylvania, took place against the backdrop of a messy power struggle in the state party as well as a government shutdown that has dragged down Trump's approval


helm. DiGiorgio's allies have argued that he helped maintain majorities in the state General Assembly, and did as a good a job as he could in a poor year for Republicans across the country.

Trump’s reelection team expects to huddle with other state party chairs in the weeks ahead to sketch out their 2020 plans. Thursday’s summit with the Pennsylvania GOP was the first such meeting this year, underscoring the importance of the state to Trump’s reelection efforts.

Trump, the first Republican presidential nominee to win Pennsylvania since 1988, defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by fewer than 45,000 votes.

About eight people attended the Thursday meeting, including Chris Carr, political director of Trump's 2020 campaign; senior campaign aide Bill Stepien; and a Republican National Committee official, according to a person familiar withVoices of VA Research Podcast Series

Researcher examines if religion can cure feelings of guilt in Veterans with PTSD

Mike Richman of VA Research Communications interviews Dr. Harold Koenig, head of the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health at Duke University in North Carolina. Koenig is one of the top proponents in the research community for using religion as a therapy for Veterans with PTSD. He's aligning this approach with former service members who are victims of moral injury, which is essentially a conflict with one's personal code of morality. Koenig discusses his extensive work on moral injury, which is gaining recognition in VA.


Earlier this week, Deadline revealed that New Line Cinema would be revisiting the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. Rather than adapting one of his many novels or stories, director James Strong will be helming a film about the author himself, which has the potential to give viewers an entirely new way of looking at the works that he’s most famous for.

Middle Earth is described as following Tolkien’s "early life and love affair with Edith Bratt," as well as his service to the British Army during the First World War. The film, to be written by Angus Fletcher, is reportedly based on years of archival research on Tolkien’s life.

Tolkien had a challenging upbringing. Born in South Africa in 1892, he and his family moved to England when he was achild, where he attended primary school and formed a close bond with three other boys: Robert Gilson, Geoffrey Smith, and Christopher Wiseman. Calling themselves the Tea Club and Barrovian Society, they told stories to one another, and were a major influence in encouraging Tolkien as he began to develop the earliest seeds of what would eventually become his larger Middle-earth mythos.

Tolkien’s friends were crucial to the earliest seeds of Middle-earth

When World War I broke out in 1914, Gilson, Smith and Wiseman joined the Army. Tolkien did not join the war effort right away. Coming from a desperately poor background, he opted to finish his studies at Oxford before joining as an officer, his only path to a respectable career.

The war was not kind to the TCBS. Gilson died


in July 1916, while Tolkien contracted Trench Fever later that fall. In November, an artillery shell wounded Smith, who passed away after gangrene set in.

These deaths had a profound effect on Tolkien during some of his most formative years. He had been writing small fragments of his fantasy world, and he began incorporating elements of his wartime experience and his love life into the larger fabric of Middle-earth. It’s not all tragic, though: Tolkien’s own courtship and eventual marriage to Edith Bratt formed a major foundation for Middle-earth.

After Tolkien’s first novel, The Hobbit, became a major success, he began working on a sequel, which grew into Lord of the Rings. The novels channeled a feeling of loss common throughout post-war Europe. An entire generation of young men hadand civilizations, now left to rot.

While understanding the history behind it isn't necessarily crucial to the enjoyment of the story, it does provide some context that enriches the text. And Middle Earth would tell a dramatic story in its own right: that of a man coming to terms with the losses he and his generation experienced during one of the most terrible episodes of human history.


directly solicit such bids.) The solicitation stated that "the Government may reject an offer as nonresponsive it if is materially unbalanced as to the prices for the basic requirement and the option quantities." Tr. 116. Each bid was to contain prices in proportion to costs. No preproposal conferences were held.
In response to its solicitation the Navy Supply Center received ten offers. On August 14, 1986, all ten offerors were advised by telephone to provide their "best and final" proposals by August 20. The results from the ten bidding companies were as follows:

                                    Canada’s gold bittersweet for Staal

Carolina Hurricane Eric Staal celebrates after scoring the tying goal during the third period against the Columbus Blue Jackets at the PNC Arena in Raleigh. cseward@newsobserver.com

Carolina Hurricane Eric Staal celebrates after scoring the tying goal during the third period against the Columbus Blue Jackets at the PNC Arena in Raleigh. cseward@newsobserver.com

Eric Staal was up early Sunday and watching. He had to watch, even if it did hurt a bit.

Canada was playing for another gold medal. With a 3-0 victory over Sweden in Sochi, the Canadians successfully defended the gold they won in Vancouver in 2010.

Staal was a member of Team Canada four years ago and hoped to be on it in Sochi. That didn't happen but the Canes captain said he was happy for


his home country and the Canadians -- many of them friends -- who played and won.

"They've been pretty sound the last couple of games," Staal said. "They didn't give up a lot the whole tournament. It was pretty evident they were the best team throughout."

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After winning in Vancouver, Staal joined the Canes in Toronto. He had the gold medal handy, allowing teammates and others to handle it, try it on.

"It's a great accomplishment," he said. "That group (in Sochi) really came together and got better as the tournament went on and they were rewarded with a huge win."

As for his emotions Sunday, Staal said, "I think any player in my position, there's going to be disappointment you're not part of that team. But I thinkCadillac is a brand under repair. Cynics paint a faded marque in existential peril. Optimists see light on the horizon.

The crown jewel of the General Motors empire is pulling up stakes from its Manhattan headquarters to return to the safe confines of Detroit after its four-year experiment in the big city. This followed GM firing the brand's top executive just a few months prior. The entire lineup is under review, as the future of the current flagship CT6 sedan is in doubt when it ceases production at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant in June after barely three years on sale. The new strategy is to make Cadillac GM's "lead electric vehicle brand," and it will get the first vehicle from the automaker's new BEV3 platform, which will produce a family


axle provides torque vectoring. AWD is standard on Sport, optional on Luxury. So although the XT6 won't do Moab, it will tackle the road to the cottage.

To stand on its own, it had to have presence. With the XT6 riding 9.3 inches longer and 2.3 inches wider than the XT5, Smith said it was one of the first times he was asked to make a vehicle taller. All this adds weight, but after much debate it was deemed vital. And although Cadillacs have been notorious for splitting industry-standard vehicle segments in the past, the XT6 sits in the heart of the segment dimensionally.

Designed and engineered in Detroit as a global vehicle, the XT6 had to have its own look and character. Once designers had a clear picture ofthe target buyer, they dropped the gigantic wheels, whereupon the sketches flowed easily. XT6 is the first vehicle from scratch to adopt the softer, simpler look of the Escala concept sedan from 2016—a divergence from years of hard edges—but it retains signatures such as the vertical light arrangements. The new look resonated in customer clinics, and clay models were sent to China for input.

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Cadillac designers placed emphasis on a roomy interior. All three rows had to be comfortable. In China this is often a multigenerational purchase, designed for parents in the front row, children in the second, and grandparents in the back—so the XT6 comes with a choice of two captain's chairs or a middle bench that seats three.

This seating arrangement necessitates rerouting air vents,


Protein synthesis by the ribosome directly couples genotype to phenotype in the cell, and its regulation is central to cellular physiology. Although many steps of translation have diverged since the last common ancestor, translation initiation and ribosome recycling remain intimately coupled in both bacteria and humans. These coupled events in the translation cycle are the focus of the present application. Our understanding of the molecular mechanism of protein synthesis has undergone a revolution in the last decade, built on rapid advances in the structural biology of the ribosome. High-resolution structures are now available for the entire ribosome in both bacteria and eukaryotes, and of the large ribosomal subunit in archaea. However, important questions relating to dynamic events in translation remain unanswered due to the challenge of isolating structuralYo Tambien

Yo Tambien (1889–1896) was an American Thoroughbred racing filly bred in California by Theodore Winters, a breeder and major landholder from the Washoe Valley in Nevada who was sometimes called "Black T" due to his huge, black, T-shaped moustache.

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Theodore Winters was one of the foremost horsemen who founded Thoroughbred racing and breeding in California.  Winters had gone west because of the California Gold Rush.  Once there, he made his money as a businessman and by dealing in gold mining stock.  Besides owning a huge spread near the present town of Winters in Yolo County, California, called Rancho del Arroyo, he owned another California farm on the banks of the Sacramento River near Sacramento called Rancho del Rio.  On Rancho del Rio, he


Rose Clancy is a much respected, high energy musician playing fiddle, mandolin and banjo at concerts and festivals throughout the Northeast while sharing the stage with some of the greatest traditional performers.

Clancy’s unique fiddle style embraces, Northern Irish, Scottish, and some French Canadian influences. She plays with The Clancy Tradition, and runs a high level sessions at The Squire, Chatham MA.

A graduate of the violin making program at North Bennet Street School in Boston, Clancy founded and runs The Chatham Fiddle Company housed in a newly renovated brick building on Main Street. The Chatham Fiddle Company offers intimate in-house Concerts, instrument repair, rentals, sales and private music lessons.were uninjured. It was unclear how many people were in the Cessna.

Both planes had departed from Eagle’s Nest Airport to participate in the Pacific Coast Dream Machines, an annual festival at Half Moon Bay Airport that features a variety of planes, motorcycles and cars. Both planes left Half Moon Bay, about 20 miles south of San Francisco, and were on their return flight.

FAA records indicate the Sea Fury, a vintage British fighter plane, is registered to Sanders Aeronautics Inc. in Ione. A man who answered the phone at the company’s listed number declined to comment.

Sanders Aeronautics’ website said the family-run company specializes in aircraft restoration, and brothers Dennis and Brian Sanders are avid air racers.


Janet Wood Reno (born July 21, 1938) served as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001.[1] She was nominated by PresidentBill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11, 1993. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.

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Early life and career

Reno was born in Miami, Florida. Reno's mother, Jane Wallace (née Wood), raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News.[2] Her father, Henry Olaf Reno (original surname Rasmussen), was an emigrant fromDenmark, who, for 43 years, was a police reporter for the Miami Herald.[2] Janet Reno has three younger siblings: Mark, Robert (a writer; 1939-2012), and Maggy Hurchalla.

Reno attended public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida,where she was a debating champion and was valedictorian at Coral Gables High School. In 1956, Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board. After Cornell, Reno enrolled at Harvard University Law School and graduated in 1963. From 1963 to 1971 Reno worked as an attorney for two Miami law firms. She was named staff director of the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives in 1971. She helped revise the Florida court system. In 1973, she accepted a position with the Dade County State Attorney's Office. She worked for the Judiciary Circuit, and left the state attorney's office in 1976 to become a partner in a private


law firm.[3]

State Attorney

In 1978, Reno was appointed State Attorney for Dade County (now called Miami-Dade County). She was elected to the Office of State Attorney in November 1978 and was returned to office by the voters four more times. In addition to her official duties, she worked actively in many civic organizations including the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug Free Community and the Beacon Council, which was formed to address Miami-Dade's economic development. During her tenure as state attorney, Reno began what the PBS series Frontline described as a "crusade" against accused child abusers.[4] An editorial in the St. Petersburg Times argued:

"Reno's reputation as a state attorney, the foundation for her eight years as the nation's attorney general and her [2002] candidacy for governor of Florida,was built in significant part by her aggressive prosecution of three sensational child abuse cases in Miami-Dade County. She pioneered a controversial technique for eliciting intimate details from young children and inspired passage of a law allowing them to testify by closed-circuit television, out of the possibly intimidating presence of their suspected molesters."[5]

Several of those prosecuted by Reno were either acquitted or later released by appellate judges. One defendant, "a 14-year-old boy, was acquitted after his attorneys discredited the children's persistent interrogations by a psychologist who called herself the 'yucky secrets doctor.' Another was freed by a federal appeals court after 12 years in prison."[5]

Country Walk

In 1984, Frank Fuster, the owner of the Country Walk Babysitting Service, in a suburb of Miami, Florida, was found guilty of 14


innocent, she was innocent and that she was coerced by Reno and others into denouncing her husband. She said she was kept naked in a suicide watch cell and given cold showers and that Reno visited her late at night in pursuit of her confession and damning testimony."[5] Reno, then a candidate for Governor of Florida, refused to discuss her role in the case, leading one editorial to claim that she was "stonewalling."[5]

Bobby Fijnje

In 1989, as Florida state attorney, Janet Reno pressed adult charges against a 13-year-old youth, Bobby Fijnje, accused of sexually molesting 21 children in his care during Presbyterian church services. The charges were driven by the testimony of children interviewed by mental health professionals using techniques later discredited as a contemporary version of witch hunts.[9][10]and child psychologists so as to drastically reduce the chances of conflicting testimony and charges of contamination that can and will raise reasonable doubt.'[13]

While Clinton could steer a middle ground between his Democratic supporters and the RepublicanCongress on monetary issues, Reno's job was at the center of a variety of intractable cultural conflicts. This made her a lightning rod for criticism of the Clinton Administration from activists,[who?] who often denounced the federal government as a threat to their fundamental freedoms.[citation needed]

At the Justice Department

The 51 day Waco siege standoff and resulting 76 deaths—the Branch Davidians—in Waco, Texas. (The standoff began on 28 February 2013, twelve days before Reno was installed as Attorney-General.)

Reno in congressional testimony stated that she authorized the FBI assault on the Branch Davidians because of


reports that Militia groups were en route to Waco during the standoff "either to help [Branch Davidian leader David] Koresh or to attack him."[14]

Leak to the news media regarding Richard Jewell that led to the widespread and incorrect presumption of his guilt in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. She later apologized, saying "I'm very sorry it happened. I think we owe him an apology. I regret the leak."[15]

The government's unsuccessful defense of the Communications Decency Act, which culminated in the Supreme Court decision Reno v. ACLU.

Identification of the correct suspect (Eric Rudolph) in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and other bombings, who remained a fugitive throughout her tenure. Rudolph was apprehended in 2003 and pleaded guilty to the attacks.

The armed seizure of six-year-old Elián González and his returnto his father, who eventually took him home to Cuba; Elián's mother and stepfather had died in a dangerous trip by sea, and though his U.S. relatives had lost custody to his father in court, local officials did not enforce the ruling. Reno made the decision to remove Elián González from the house of a relative and instructed law enforcement officials to determine the best time to obtain the boy.

Post-political life

Reno ran for Governor of Florida in 2002, but lost in the Democratic primary to Bill McBride 44% to 44.4%. Voting problems arose in the election, and she did not concede defeat until a week later.[18] She has since retired from public service but frequently makes guest appearances for Democratic and other political causes.

After her tenure as attorney


general and her unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, Reno tours the country giving speeches on topics relating to the criminal justice system. For example, on March 31, 2006, she spoke at a criminology conference held at the University of Pennsylvania. At this conference, she stated that she believes that the education system in the United States needs to be improved, as there is a link between the quality of education and the crime rate. She also believes that too much money has been diverted away from the juvenile court system and believes that the government should find some way to make the juvenile courts work effectively so as to prevent problems in troubled children and adolescents before these problems are exacerbated by the time these adolescents reach adulthood.[19][20]

Reno is alsocurating a compilation of old-time American songs performed by contemporary artists called the Song of America.[23]

Reno also serves on the board of directors for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization which assists prisoners, who could be exonerated through DNA testing.[24]

In March 2008, Reno received the Council on Litigation Management's[25] Professionalism Award, which recognizes and commemorates an individual who has demonstrated the unique ability to lead others by example in the highest standard of their profession.

On April 17, 2009, Reno was awarded the Justice Award by the American Judicature Society.[26]Eric Holder, Attorney General under the Obama Administration, presented Reno the award. Seth Andersen, Executive Vice President of AJS said the award recognizes "her commitment to improving our systems of justice and educating Americans about our great common enterprise –


to ensure equality under the law."[27] The award is the highest given by the AJS, and recognizes significant contributions toward improvements in the administration of justice within the United States.

^ abCollins, Glen (December 14, 1986). "Nightmare in Country Walk". New York Times. Retrieved July 1, 2008. Mr. Fuster was convicted of molesting the children entrusted to his wife's care in their home in the middle-class Dade County suburb of Country Walk, a planned development that was intended to be an idyllic refuge from the anxieties of urban Miami.Best Embarrassing Stories

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"Stand up straight and put your hands on top of your head" came the voice again. "Officer Johnson is going to check your breasts to ensure nothing is hidden there."

This was getting worse and worse; not only was she totally naked in front of these people; now she was going to be touched and there was nothing she could do. Gillian felt so powerless; yet her hands were on her head and her fingers interlocked to ensure they did not slip inadvertently. Officer Johnson came up to her side so quietly that she did not hear him and she jumped as he touched her. His touch was gentle but firm as he felt the contours of each breast and then lifted them one


by one to the limit of their upward travel. Gillian had always been slightly embarrassed about her breasts. Not only were they decidedly on the large side of normal, her nipples were of the inverted type and when relaxed they offered no particular profile; however, when erect they exhibited very long and stiff teats and they were very easily excited. Indeed, on reflection, it was tantamount to a miracle that the situation in which she found herself, naked in a chilly room in front of two strangers, had not already caused the reaction, and now with her breasts being minutely and indeed manually examined, the effect was highly noticeable; she was becoming more and more erect and there was nothing she could do to stop both officers beingfully aware of her apparent arousal. The examination concluded as suddenly as it had begun and without being told, Gillian again placed her hands at her sides.

"Nearly through now, Miss," said a kindly male voice. Officer Johnson had spoken for the first time since he had come into the room, but almost before the words were spoken the sharp voice of the woman cut in:

"Lay on your back on the table, spread your legs as far apart as possible and using the tips of your fingers expose in sequence each fold of flesh to Officer Johnson so that he can confirm the absence of contraband."

This was too much for Gillian and she exclaimed "No" in a haunted scared voice which also seemed to echo around the room, but


one look was enough to confirm that the choice was to expose the innermost secret parts of her anatomy herself, or to have Officer Johnson do it for her. She almost felt it would be less invasive if he were to perform the function; at least it would not be she who was actually exposing herself, but even at this point she still had some vestiges of modesty and she could not bring herself to accept another's hands touching that most intimate part of her being.

Slowly she moved to the table and turned to face Officer Johnson for the first time. By so doing she was also facing the door through which she had entered, as it seemed, so long ago. The temptation to run was only arrestedby the knowledge that there were a multitude of people, normal, fully clothed people, out there and by the fact that there was no handle on the door. Gillian lifted herself up onto the steel surface of the table and breathed in sharply as the cold metal touched her thighs for the first time. She eased herself backwards along its length and when she judged that she had gone far enough lay back onto this metal 'bed'. She lay there for a few moments accustoming herself to the cold hardness beneath her and then she began to open her legs. She had only ever had one lover and everything she and George had done had been accomplished under the sheets with the light off. Even her doctor covered


as much as possible when she attended for the essential examinations required of the female sex, and of course her doctor was a woman. Now for the first time ever she was spreading her legs for a man under bright lights without even her pubic hair to cover her. How she cursed her lifelong friend Jennifer who had suggested the razor as an aid to cleanliness and the avoidance of embarrassment when wearing swimwear. Avoidance of embarrassment, how ironic!

She had opened herself as far as possible and now she was required to open her most secret place and reveal its secrets to Officer Johnson. Her legs seemed immobile, fixed in this faintly ridiculous position and as her fingers parted her lips to reveal clitoris and vagina, they tooseemed frozen into immobility. Just as she was exposed to the greatest possible extent, the unthinkable happened, the door opened, the very door she had been thinking about moments, or was it hours, and a burly man stepped into the room. He nodded to officer Johnson and walked over to the woman to whisper something to her, but from Gillian's point of view the only thing which drew her attention was the door itself. Here she was with open legs and everything exposed to the gaze of anyone who looked her way. The door had been left fully open!

Gillian couldn't move, she couldn't speak, her throat was dry and her muscles in spasm shocked not only into silence but also immobility all she could do was watch as


more and more people became aware of the naked brazen young woman who seemed intent on showing all she had, to everyone. Eventually the noise of the comments being made outside caused Officer Johnson to realize the position and to shut the door. In reality he should have reacted more quickly, but in common with the observers outside, his attention had been firmly fixed on the beautiful young woman on the table and more specifically on those parts of herself which she was displaying so openly.

The shutting of the door had two effects. Firstly, Gillian regained the use of her limbs, whereupon she removed her hands and closed her legs rapidly, and shortly afterwards began to weep softly to herself. Secondly, Gillian was handed back her clothes andtold to dress, that her baggage would be returned immediately and that she was free to go. Gillian did not need to be told twice and without any hesitation she pulled on her skirt and blouse and put on her shoes. As she slipped on the second of the pair, a fourth officer came into the room carrying her bags. Gillian took them without a word and departed immediately as Officer Johnson opened the door for her to go.

The walk through the arrivals hall was torture for Gillian as it seemed that everyone was looking at her and pointing her out as the woman on the table with her legs apart. In fact this was not the case at all, her face had been largely obscured by her


ample bosom and, in any case, the attention of most of the onlookers had been focused at a somewhat lower level.

Gillian walked on looking for a driver with a card on which would be her name, but none was to be found. Gillian walked out of the airport and stepped into a cab giving the address of her next appointment as the destination, because she was now very late for her appointment and the hotel could be found later. Tardiness was never wise when meeting people of the background of her contacts and tardy she certainly was, despite her every effort to organize the trip properly.

The Airbus landed smoothly with only the slightest bump and taxied along the interminable peri track towards the terminal building. It had beena long flight and Gillian Grey was pleased it was coming to an end. Her appointment was some four hours hence and she was looking forward to a shower and a rest before she had to dress and find a taxi.

The plane slowed and eventually came to rest, and immediately there was a mad scramble with people pushing and crowding, collecting their belongings from the overhead lockers and from under the seats, ready to rush clear of the aircraft and into the baggage hall. Gillian sat quietly in her window seat and waited. There seemed no point in joining the throng and she wondered if so many people could really be traveling long haul with only hand baggage, for that seemed to be the only reason to try


to beat the crowd. Surely if there were cases to collect, they would all meet again in the hall to await their luggage, and anyway she hated crowds pushing and shoving. Apart from the unpleasantness of being so close to so many strangers, she always seemed to be the one to get pinched or groped in such circumstances; so she sat and waited.

The doors were opened in due course and the throng almost charged down the corridor with almost everyone following the 'Baggage Collection' signs. Gillian was almost the last person to leave the plane, and as she walked sedately after the crowd she smiled at her good sense. Collecting a trolley on route, Gillian arrived at belt number 3 just as it began to move and withinfive minutes she was walking towards customs and the arrivals hall. She turned automatically down the green channel and was just wondering how she would identify her driver when the lone customs officer motioned her over to the table. Gillian was not an experienced traveler and apart from a brief check over at the x-ray machine on a previous flight she had never had any contact with the airport officials.

The lady customs officer politely asked if she could examine the contents of Gillian's luggage and the two cases were lifted onto the steel topped table provided for the purpose. Gillian was shortly feeling very embarrassed as the contents of her bags were spread out on public display, especially as while the officer was examining her carefully sealed bag


of washing, a crowd of adolescent boys passing by were treated to a comprehensive look at her underwear. The effect was made still more complicated by the fact that she was now acutely aware of her own current lack of undergarments, a decision she had made that morning while dressing when she found that her stock of clean clothing was seriously diminished leaving her with Hobson's choice in terms of her outer clothing and only a marginally more generous one in terms of underwear, i.e. to chose day old panties and bra, or to go without. She had chosen the latter because on a long flight it is only natural to perspire when sitting still for a very prolonged period, and being scrupulously clean in her personal habitsGillian did not want to risk the embarrassment of any possibility of body odor in the confined space on the plane. She was therefore standing with her most intimate apparel on public display dressed in a skirt which was far too short for comfort and a blouse which, although perfectly opaque, did little to hide her braless state from passers by.

The customs officer seemed to be taking an extraordinarily long time to check her cases and she wondered what could be the cause. The officer then looked up at Gillian and asked her to come into another room. Gillian was pleased to comply with the request, not least because her personal effects would no longer be exhibited to all and sundry. She followed the officer and was led