habitat work a great deal but
an opportunity came back to go back to Patuxent to work with Walt Crissy and
his brand new deputy a fellow by the name of Dr. Al Guise. Al Guise was the
statistician and one of the most, together they were among the most remarkable
people I've ever met in my life and so, Al Guise came out to visit us in
Minneapolis. Let me back up I missed a step. But going from Aberdeen had an
opportunity to go into Minneapolis to the regional office back in the outfit I left in
Texas and they had a job there that was called assistant regional supervisor
technical and this is chiefly a biological job in a law enforcement outfit which
sounds a little strange but law enforcement officers and game management
agentsIllinois,
crab orchard and Horseshoe lake area but this is a population it's been studied
over the years on this, it's a population that attracts an awful lot of hunting
pressure and wildlife populations tend to react to changes in the environment and
as did the Canada Geese in the Horacan, around the refuge there that farmers
planted more and more corn and geese learned how to capitalize on the corn to
the extent of actually pulling it off, off the stocks. So, geese lingered in
Wisconsin longer and longer periods of time and arrived in Illinois later and later
and of course with more geese around for longer periods of time in Wisconsin the
harvest of those geese kept mounting to the concern of, of, of Illinois and each of
the states had a theoretical goose harvest


and so it
eventually became the division of, of law enforcement and probably Clark Bavin
the Chief was instrumental in that but the, but the professionalism of, of service
enforcement officers became higher I think they were able to spend a much
higher part of their time in true enforcement activities, these have been
complicated by a number of things like I mentioned endangered species act and
sitees and some of the other regulations that gave the Federal government more
authority in terms of wildlife importation and preservation. Likewise, things
changed from the management standpoint. Walt Crissy's migratory bird
population station which I went to work under existed there at Patuxent for I'm
guessing maybe 10 or 12 years and but we knew we saw changes there also
and so eventually the name migratory bird population station was changedto the
office of migratory bird management, it's located in Washington. Although Crissy
was located at Patuxent he spent a great deal of time in Washington in meetings
and things was quite unhandy at least in terms of the Washington people to have
the migratory bird population people out there in the countryside, they wanted
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them in closer. Also some of the legislation had changes, in the of setting
regulations for example. We had to react to, to the impacts of the endangered
species program. There became what is called section seven consultation, that
before we can set up, establish the waterfowl regulations each year. We have to
go into a consultation with their office of endangered species to determine that
none of the actions that we are prosing to do in terms of hunting migratory game
birds had


Walt
Crissy retired the office of migratory, migratory management, bird management
under Dr. John Rogers was, was established and so John’s office was moved
down to the interior building and I stayed at Patuxent as, as his assistant for two
or three years as I recall and eventually moved down to Washington myself and
my job then was Chief of the branch of operations in the office of migratory bird
management and in that job I had I suppose probably two primary
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responsibilities, one was as a supervisor to the flyway representatives, I should
say something about them but these are key people. One assigned to each of
the four flyways, the Atlantic, Mississippi, central and pacific. These are the key
people that represent the Fish and Wildlife Service in migratory bird matters and
including the regulatory matters andhim most was when I was still under Minneapolis
regional office and Dan Jansen had stepped down as regional director and we
understood a new gentlemen by the name of John Gachuck at least he’s new to
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me but not to a lot of other people had been appointed director of the, of the Fish
and Wildlife Service and we had noticed that he was going to be in the
Minneapolis regional office next week, their regional director was Bob Burwell
and Bob sent out a notice that he expected all employees that could possibly
leave their job to spend part of the afternoon with John Gachuck during his visit
and so we of course are anxious to meet the new director and so the meeting
came off and John got up there and he says, folks


week he had, he had the troops one thousand percent
behind him. And John had a remarkable memory of facts and people and places
and at that meeting I, I had the occasion to, after his meeting in Minneapolis I
had the occasion to go up and visit briefly with him, with everyone else in the
regional office and so a few months after that I transferred to Patuxent and
Marilyn and I were unfamiliar with the DC area and everything but there was a
big controversy going on about the location of, is was a super highway or
interstate or something in Virginia and there was a lot of concern about it
because this is going to go through not only an area of very expensive
residences but their civil war trenches along the same sitePHILIPSBURG --St. Maarten will face St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the CONCACAF Boys Under 15 Championship at Raoul Illidge Sports Complex August 8. Kickoff is set for 7:00pm. St. Maarten is in Pool C with Curacao, Antigua and Barbuda and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In pool b are Dominican Republic, Grenada. St. Kitts Nevis and Bonaire. St. Maarten faces Antigua August 9 at 7:00pm and Curacao August 10, also starting at 7:00pm. In Pool A which will play their first round matches at the Raymond Guishard Technical Centre in Anguilla are Cayman Islands, St. Lucia, Anguilla and US Virgin Islands. Four matches will be played on St. Maarten opening day August 8. At 9:30 Dominican Republic faces Grenada. At 3:00pm St. Kitts Nevis takes on Bonaire


the Manchuria’s harsh winter cold. Hence the Yai battery was boldly attempted to be used for telegraphy in the War, resulting in substantial success. Soon after, an extra edition of newspaper reported the success achieved by the Yai battery in the Manchuria’s cold, which revealed the existence of the Yai battery, and subsequently made Yai’s company grow steadily [4,5].

Specifically, Yai established in 1910 the sales division of his company in Kanda-ku, Tokyo, and then built a factory in Asakusa-ku, Tokyo, which grew to the largest in Japan with the annual production volume of more than 200,000 units as of 1921. Unfortunately, however, in September 1923 the Great Kanto Earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck the Kanto Plane, by which all facilities of his company were burnt to ashes. Nevertheless,to devise a high-capacity lead-acid battery, until he succeeded in developing the one of high-capacity 150Ah in 1904, which was set up for the backup power supply in his factory. However, he never dreamed that a total of 400 units of the same products of capacity 150Ah would be ordered at once from the Japanese Navy, which were utilized for telegraphy in the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 [7].

This proven performance exemplified the industrial importance of lead-acid batteries, which further enhanced the refinement of existing manufacturing technologies. In fact, with the rapidly rising demand for lead-acid batteries for use in telephone/telegraph stations, battleships, backup power, etc., he made every effort to tool up production in his factory, until in 1912 he acquired the Japan’s first patent (No.


born in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1863. At the age of 13, he became an apprentice at a watch shop in Tokyo. As already stated, in 1885 he invented a battery-powered clock, for which he attained the Japan’s first patent related to electricity in 1891. Since the battery used in this clock was a wet one with the disadvantage of being unusable in the freeze-up, he began his quest to invent a dry battery. He worked diligently as a hand at a science university laboratory, where he consulted at length with academics on impregnating paraffin in a carbon rod, until he succeeded in devising the first dry battery by finding a sophisticated impregnation method [4,5]. Thus Yai gave birth to the Japanese dry battery industry.
As already statedinto Japan and Shozan Sakuma,
Chapter 2: Meiji Era,
Chapter 3: Taisho Era,
Chapter 4: Showa Era; Prior Period (till the end of World War II),
Chapter 5: Showa Era; Latter Period (after the end of World War II)

This book describes the details of 75 years’ history in 1918-1993 of Yuasa Storage Battery, Co., Ltd., containing 315 pages. The table of contents is as follows:

Chapter 1: From company foundation to the end of War.,
Chapter 2: Postwar devastation and reconstruction,
Chapter 3: Motorization and its induced rapid growth,
Chapter 4: Strategy for international era,
Chapter 5: From high growth to low growth,
Chapter 6: Stepping stone to electronics era,
Chapter 7: Challenge for the 21st Century,
Episodes and Information Materials,
Documents and Chronology

This book summarizes 50 years’ history in 1935-1985 of National Storage Battery, Co., Ltd., containing 134 pages. The


into the apartment. On Saturday, June 9, 2001, at approximately 10:15 p.m., Destiny and her 8-month-old son visited Destiny's mother, Eva Hutcherson. Destiny wanted Parker to move out. She told her mother that having him in her apartment was like having two kids, and she complained that he had taken her car a couple of times. Destiny left her mother's after 11 p.m. to return to her apartment.
Jaime Moten's townhouse was close to Destiny's and catty-cornered from it. Because Moten's apartment was hot on the night of June 9, Moten was sitting on her front porch. Dawn Dixon joined Moten at approximately 11 p.m., and they talked for up to an hour. Moten heard a loud banging noise and then saw the shadow of a person's torso andhands going up and down accompanied by pounding noises. Dixon recognized Parker by his out-of-shape Afro as the person making the shadow. Following the pounding noises, Moten heard a baby crying. The crying lasted for several minutes. After Moten had gone back into her townhouse, she looked out the window and saw Parker open the front door and look out of Destiny's apartment. Later he came out of the apartment 3 or 4 times, moved some bags around and put them in Destiny's car, removed something from her car, perhaps an infant car seat, and took it into the apartment. He said, "I will be back," and, "I love you, too, baby," before getting into the car and driving off. Moten heard no response to Parker's good-bye.
On Monday,


June 11, Eva Hutcherson heard from her niece that Destiny had not been at work on Sunday or Monday. Eva went to *840 Destiny's apartment. Destiny's car was not there. Eva knocked, but got no answer. She looked in the mail slot and heard a little sound. She testified, "I heard a slight little sound. . . . Sounded almost like a cat meowing." Her daughter did not have a cat. Eva went to the apartment manager's office and called the police.
Officer Ludolph testified that he was dispatched to Destiny's townhouse on June 11 to meet Eva. After a maintenance man let them into the residence, Ludolph went upstairs and found a baby in a crib. He took the child outside to Eva. Destiny's body was found onthe floor in another bedroom.
The apartment was in disarray. There was a telephone in a pan of water in the kitchen sink, piles of clothes and wastebasket contents on the floors, and furnishings strewn about.
Destiny's body was face-up on the floor clothed in pants and a bra with outer clothing around her ankles and pushed up to her neck and armpits. There was a writing tablet on her stomach, a bottle filled with blue liquid in her right hand, a bloody barbell on the floor to her left, a large knife on the floor above her head, and the handle of a large knife sticking out of her neck. Blood was pooled on the floor around her head and spattered on the floor and wall.
A note on the


writing tablet said: "I told that Bitch about fucking with me you know what my is Diana C. I killed the bitch." A documents examiner identified Parker as the person who wrote the note that was found on Destiny's stomach. In a statement to police, Parker said that he wrote the note and put Dainna Counce's name on it.
Parker gave a statement to police. He said that he and Destiny were arguing and that he "snapped." He choked her, struck her with his fist, and hit her on the left side of her face with a barbell. Then he went downstairs, got two knives, and went back upstairs where he stabbed Destiny in the neck with one knife and in the stomach with the other. He took theknife out of her stomach and threw it on the floor near her, placed a St. Ides beer bottle filled with blue liquid in her hand, wrote the note, and put it on her stomach. He gave the baby a bottle and put him to bed. Looking for the keys to Destiny's car, Parker took her jeans off. He found *841 the keys downstairs in the cabinet under the kitchen sink. He tried to make a telephone call, but knocked the phone into the sink when he was unable to complete the call. Parker left town in Destiny's car.
External examination of the body at the autopsy showed that Destiny had crush and tear injuries related to impact on the left side of her face, a stab wound that


went through her neck with the knife still in place, and a stab wound to the front of her abdomen. The cause of death was a combination of the stab wounds and blunt trauma from at least 3 blows to the head.
A blood pattern analyst with the KBI testified that the absence of blood stains on the bottle found in Destiny's hand even though there were stains behind it showed that the bottle was placed in her hand after the blood stains were deposited on the wall. The patterns of blood spatters were consistent with blows being delivered with the barbell, and the presence of several separate patterns of blood spatters on the wall indicated that there had been at least three blows. The placement of the bloodas the camera panned across a room, but the camera seemed to linger for a moment on a photograph of an adult and a baby.
Jaime Moten's townhouse was close to Destiny's and catty-cornered from it. While she was sitting on her front porch talking to Dawn Dixon the night of June 9, Moten heard a loud banging noise, saw a figure through the shade that was moving up and down with accompanying pounding noises, and then heard a baby cry. According to Moten, the baby cried for 2 or 3 minutes and then stopped. Dixon testified that she heard a baby crying "just a little bit."
Parker relies on State v. Donesay, 265 Kan. 60, 959 P.2d 862 (1998). He asserts that Donesay and the present case involve similar


evidentiary issues. Comparison of the two cases, however, reveals little, if any, similarity.
In Donesay, "the only real question was whether the killing of Officer Easter was premeditated." 265 Kan. at 89. Over objection, his widow testified at length about Easter's personality, accomplishments, and their relationship, none of which had "any tendency in reason to prove any material fact." See K.S.A. 60-401(b).
She testified that Easter was very happy, full of life, would light up a room by walking into it, was always smiling, was well-liked and well-respected, was prom king, was named most inspirational player for the wrestling team. She also said that his mother called him "[h]er happy boy." 265 Kan. at 83. She testified that Easter had accepted a position with the Drug Enforcement Administration, she testifiedin detail as to her family and Christmas visits to her parents, and she described their last kiss. 265 Kan. at 84. The court concluded: "It is beyond clear that Mrs. Easter's testimony *843 was irrelevant, prejudicial, and inflammatory." 265 Kan. at 84. The court further stated:
"The purpose of the State's eliciting Mrs. Easter's testimony was not to identify the defendant as the killer, was not to show that he intended to kill Officer Easter, and was not to show premeditation. Her testimony was not intended to show the guilt of the defendant, and it did not. We can only conclude that it was intended to infuriate and inflame the jury against the defendant." 265 Kan. at 89.
As a result, the court concluded that the error could not


and Dixon were called as witnesses because they had first-hand information about either the investigation or the murder. Their references to a baby were incidental to their accounts of the investigation or the crime. In contrast, Mrs. Easter had no first-hand information about the investigation or murder. She testified only about the deceased's personal life.
In Donesay, the court stated that the "admission of evidence in a murder trial regarding the victim's family, . . . which has been intentionally and not incidentally elicited by the prosecuting attorney during the trial, is patently improper and reversible error." 265 Kan. 60, Syl. ¶ 9. In this case, some evidence that Destiny had a baby was incidentally elicited by the prosecutor during the State's presentation of evidence of the murder andchildren and the promises of youth.Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents' respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. He'd left screenwriting and


Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they'd moved into an old house full of character; and they'd started a family. Check, check and check.But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura's, on the coast of Maine, Griffin's chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could thishave happened?That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter's new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.From the Hardcover edition.

Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents


and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents' respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. He'dleft screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they'd moved into an old house full of character; and they'd started a family. Check, check and check.But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura's, on the coast of Maine, Griffin's chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the


the extra day for Joy.

It had been their long- established habit to flee the campus as soon as Griffin taught his last class. Usually, they hopped on the Freedom Trail (his term for I- 95), drove to New York and treated themselves by checking into a good hotel. During the day he would evaluate his small mountain of student portfolios while Joy shopped or otherwise amused herself, and then, evenings, they'd catch up on movies and go to good restaurants. The whole thing reminded him of the early years of their marriage back in L.A. It cost a small fortune, but there was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in—which was how it had worked in L.A.—and it gothim through the portfolios.

This year Kelsey's Cape Cod wedding had royally screwed up their plans, making New York impractical, though he'd been willing to substitute Boston. But Joy, assuming that thanks to the wedding all the usual bets were off, had messed things up further by schedulingmeetings on the day after his last class. "Just go," she said when he expressed his annoyance at the way things were working out. "Have a boys' night out in Boston and I'll meet you on the Cape." He'd squinted at this proposal. Didn't you need more than one to have a boys' night out? Or had Joy meant it to be singular, one boy celebrating his boyness? Was that how she'd understoodthe phrase all her life, as singular? Joy's relationship to


the English language was not without glitches. She was forever mixing metaphors, claiming that something was "a tough line to hoe." Row to hoe? Line to walk? Her sisters, Jane and June, were even worse,and when corrected all three would narrow their eyes dangerously and identically. If they'd had a family motto, it would have been You Know Perfectly Well What I Mean.

In any event his wife's suggestion that he go on without her had seemed less than sincere, which was why he decided to call her bluff. "All right," he said, "that's what I'll do," expecting her to say, Fine, if it means that much to you, I'll reschedule the meetings. But she hadn't said that, even when she saw him packing his bag, and so he'ddiscovered a truth that other men probably knew already— that once you'd packed a bag in front of a woman there was no possibility of unpacking, or of not going and taking the damn bag with you.

Worse, Joy, who preferred to watch movies on DVD rather than in a theater, as they were meant to be seen, had given him a list of films he was forbidden to see without her, and of course these were the only ones worth seeing. He'd spent an hour looking through the restaurant guides provided by the hotel, but couldn't decide on one, or even on what kind of food he wanted. Griffin had no trouble making these sorts of decisions when she was around, but for some reason, when he had


only himself to please, he often couldn't make up his mind. He told himself this was just the result of being married for thirty years, that part of the decision- making process was imagining what his wife would enjoy. Okay, but more and more he found himself stalled, in the middle of whatever room he happened to be standing in, and he realized that...

About the Author-

Richard Russo lives with his wife in Camden, Maine, and in Boston. In 2002 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls.

Reviews-

Russo's middle-aged protagonist, Griffin, confronts his parents' failed marriage, his own troubled marriage, and his unattained ambitions. He never again achieves the joy inherent in his early childhood recollections of summers on Cape Cod. Recounting his parents' academic lives, fraught withintellectual snobbery and combative bickering, Griffin, a screenwriter turned English professor, never ceases to be baffled by their pretentious superiority. Arthur Morey grasps Russo's moments of cynical despair as well as the story's hilarity. His calculated narration develops distinct characters through artful and well-defined emotional pathos. His approach deftly captures Russo's depiction of life's ironies and comedy. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Glenn C. Altschuler, The Boston Globe

"Suffused with Russo's signature comic sensibility, and with insights, by turns tender and tough, about human frailty, forbearance, fortitude, and fervor."

Roxanna Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
"Family, family, family is the subject of That Old Cape Magic [with] a complicated skein of plotlines, deep connection to place, and affection for the large cast of characters who blunder and struggle through


real brass nobility as the piece draws to an end. The sense of
music moving forward with unanswerable logic was a Boult speciality during
his leaner youthful and mid-point years. And this is especially true of Pohjola's
Daughter which receives a whipped-up drama of a performance, full of brooding
interjections and sonorities.

So, Boult stands revealed as a fine exponent of the tone poems. The recordings
themselves sound as good, I suspect, as they are going to at the moment. But
you will still have to accept some rather papery sonics and awry balances,
and sometimes orchestral ensemble discipline is lacking the ultimate distinction.

Jonathan WoolfAnd a further perspective from Rob Barnett:-
These recordings first saw the light of day in the year of Sibelius’s
death. Sibelius had died at the age of 92 on 20 September 1957 atA young father and a woman were stabbed in London within 30 minutes last night, as the number murdered in the capital this year hits 59.

The killings come as News Yorkers living in London said they fear the “crazy” violent crime wave overtaking the city. “It’s like home but without the breakdancing,” one said.

The Metropolitan force launched the first murder probe after Raul Nicolaie, 26, was stabbed at his flat in Colindale, north London. He was rushed to hospital but died from the injuries.

A woman, 34, was arrested at the scene and was taken to a north London police station. She and the dead man were known to each other.

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in collision risk and unloading downtime risk.
To reduce risks, prior art systems are known which provide an SPM (Single point Mooring) terminal at a distance of 2000 meters from the FPSO for offloading. Such an arrangement permits weathervaning of the shuttle tanker, eliminates proximity to the FPSO, reduces the cost of collision between the shuttle tanker and the terminal, and minimizes the cost of shuttle tanker assistance.
Such prior art spread moored FPSO offloading systems and methods have provided an independent SPM for a shuttle tanker such as a CALM buoy located a long distance (usually about 2000 meters) from the FPSO in order that a shuttle tanker not contact the FPSO. A flow line, such as a steel pipeline, is run from the FPSO to the CALM buoy.A hose is then run, via a rotatable fluid coupling, to the shuttle tanker which is moored to the CALM buoy by means of a mooring hawser. Fatigue problems (due to constant movement of the sea surface) in the pipe line where it connects to the CALM buoy have been overcome by terminating the pipeline at a submerged Flowline Termination Buoy (FTB). A flexible hose is run from the pipeline end at the FTB to the CALM buoy.
Such prior art systems have provided complete independence of the SPM for the shuttle tanker due to the great distance between the tanker and the FPSO. In other words, the CALM buoy, to which the shuttle tanker is moored, is anchored to the sea floor without any mooring members connected to


Trial was held on September 14th and 15th, 1999 after which a jury found the Defendant guilty as charged.
On September 20, 1999, the State filed a habitual offender bill of information alleging the Defendant to be a third felony offender. On October 6, 1999, a hearing was held, after which, the trial judge found the Defendant to be a third felony offender, designated the arson conviction as a crime of violence and sentenced the Defendant to life imprisonment, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, with credit for time served.
On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial judge erred in admitting into evidence an accusation of an unadjudicated act of arson and that the admission was more prejudicial than probative.
The State alleged that on March 29,1999, at approximately 12:15 a.m., the Defendant threw a homemade gas-bomb (Molotov cocktail) through the dining room window of a neighbor, Wanda Robinson (Robinson), causing a fire at her residence at 533 Emile Avenue, Westwego, Louisiana. Robinson lived at that address with her two children, ages ten and sixteen. The Defendant lived several houses away from Robinson.
Robinson testified that she met the Defendant during Thanksgiving of 1998. Robinson socialized with the Defendant, but did not date him. He frequently visited with her at her house where they watched movies. The Defendant cut Robinson's *847 grass and performed other odd jobs around her house. The Defendant occasionally visited and left Robinson's house at late hours.
At some point, Robinson decided to end all contact with the Defendant. When she told


him of her intentions, the Defendant became very emotional. He began threatening her, calling her constantly on the telephone, hanging up, and making nasty remarks when she left her house. He also left telephone messages for Leroy Busby (Busby), Robinson's fiancee, at Busby's house and called him at work.
On the afternoon of March 29, 1999, Robinson went into front yard to go to her garbage can. Robinson testified that the Defendant was standing across the street. When he saw her, he stated, "Bitch, you are going to get off this street, because I'm going to burn you down." Robinson ignored him, went back inside, locked the door, and told her two children that if they heard a noise to let her know, because Defendant said he was goingto "burn them down."
That evening, Robinson drove to the Defendant's house to talk to the Defendant's son, Eric Thomas (Thomas). She wanted Thomas to ask the Defendant to stop threatening her. The Defendant was present and while they were talking, the Defendant got upset. Busby also went to the Defendant's house when he saw Robinson's car parked there. When Busby arrived, Robinson told him not to come into the house, because the Defendant was in a rage. The Defendant then begged Busby to come into the house because he said he wanted to talk to Busby about some things Busby needed to know about Robinson. Busby then entered into the house only because Defendant begged him. During the discussion, Busby tried to find out how the Defendant obtained


Busby's work number and why the Defendant was calling Busby's house and leaving him messages.
Robinson testified that the Defendant indicated that he wanted to "attack" Busby. At this point, the Defendant, Busby, Robinson, and Thomas were in the front yard. Robinson told Busby that it was time for them to leave, but the Defendant pushed Busby and tried to close the car door on Busby's leg. Thomas intervened, telling the Defendant to leave Busby alone. Robinson and Busby then got into their vehicles and started to drive home. However, the Defendant started running down the street with no shoes on, screaming and hollering, and saying he wanted to talk to Busby, and that he had no weapons on him. Robinson told Busby that they should go inside ofher home because she did not trust the Defendant. She also testified that the Defendant stated, "I'm going to show y'all something." Twenty minutes later, she heard a loud noise in the house and when they came out of the bedroom, the front area of her house was on fire. Although Robinson, her two children, and her fiancee were in the house at the time of the fire, no one was injured. The fire burned the drapes and two dining room tables.
Robinson testified that she started having problems with the Defendant two weeks before the fire. However, she never called the police and did not attempt to get a restraining order against him.
Alicia Johnson (Johnson), testified that on March 29, 1999, the Defendant was living with her, Thomas,


and her children. She stated that on the night of the fire, she and the Defendant got into an argument. The Defendant was angry with her for going to Robinson's house to buy dinner for her and Thomas. The Defendant thought that Johnson was taking Robinson's side in his dispute with Robinson. The conversation got out of hand, so she asked the Defendant to leave her house and she took the keys from him. He left, but came back later, asking to stay for the night. Johnson refused at first, then relented because she did not want him to be on the streets. Thomas then came home, *848 and he and Johnson discussed the situation.
Johnson testified that after her argument with the Defendant, Robinson came to her houseto talk to her and Thomas about the problems she was having with the Defendant. Busby arrived later. Johnson said that the conversation "got out of hand." (R., p. 165). As Busby was leaving her home, the Defendant walked up to Busby's car and pushed the door. Johnson testified that Busby responded by drawing his gun. Thomas and Robinson witnessed this as well. After Busby pulled his gun, the Defendant walked away, but he did not go inside the house. Busby and Robinson then drove home. Johnson stated that Busby was not there to cause trouble, nor did he do anything to provoke the Defendant.
About twenty minutes later, the Defendant left the house heading in the direction of Robinson's house. Johnson asked Thomas to get the Defendant so


he would not cause any trouble. Thomas told Johnson that the two men had a conversation in the car on the way back to the house. Then Thomas went into the bedroom. According to Johnson, the Defendant left the house about fifteen minutes later, but returned within approximately two or three minutes. She said that the Defendant went out of the house a third time, returning in approximately ten minutes. A few minutes later, she received a telephone call from Robinson telling her that her house was on fire. Johnson and Thomas went to Robinson's assistance, leaving the Defendant in the house.
After talking to police officers at the scene of the fire, a police officer returned home with Johnson and Thomas. When they entered the kitchen, Johnson sawthe Defendant standing over the kitchen counter washing his hand with bleach. Johnson also noticed that a Pat O'Brien's glass which had been on her counter was missing. Johnson concluded by stating that before this incident, she had no problems with the Defendant.
Thomas testified that when Robinson came over to the house to talk about her problems with his father, Busby arrived and said that the Defendant was calling Busby's office and leaving messages for Busby to call him. After Robinson and Busby left, the Defendant headed down the street behind them. Thomas went after him and brought the Defendant back in the car. Thomas testified that, in the car, the Defendant told him, "I'll set this m fon fire."
When they got home, the two of them talked


and then Thomas got ready for bed. Thomas and Johnson then heard the house alarm go off signifying that the door to the outside had been opened. The Defendant went out for a minute and returned. The door then opened a second time. Thomas said the Defendant went out again, returning no more than a minute later. Thomas did not see the Defendant exit or enter the home during that time.
About twenty minutes later, Robinson called to tell them that her house was on fire. When Thomas and Johnson left to go to Robinson's house, the Defendant remained at home. At the fire scene, Johnson and Thomas met with police officers, who returned with Thomas and Johnson to their house. When they entered the kitchen, Thomas saw theDefendant standing over the sink washing his hands. He did not see him pour bleach onto his hands, but he smelled the chemical. Thomas said that the smell was not present in the house before they left to go to the fire scene. Thomas also saw matches and a sock on the table when they returned home. He stated that the matches and the sock were not on the table when he and Johnson left to go to Robinson's home. In addition, Johnson told Thomas that her Pat O'Brien's glass was missing. Thomas last saw the Pat O'Brien's glass earlier on the day of the incident. Thomas testified that the Defendant has a missing finger and limited capacity in his left hand due to an injury.
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Chaisson, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (JPSO) patrolman, testified that he responded to the fire. At the scene, he spoke to Robinson. After going to the Thomas and Johnson home with the couple, he collected a sock and matches from the kitchen table. The sock appeared to match the burnt sock found at the fire scene, which involved in the arson investigation. He identified the sock and matches in a photograph. Patrolman Chaisson also identified a photograph of the kitchen showing a bottle of bleach, which the Patrolman considered significant because the Defendant's son advised him that his father had washed his hands with bleach. Patrolman Chaisson identified a gas can obtained from the laundry room in the Thomas house that contained approximately a couple of inches or½gallon of gasoline. He testified that it is unusual to find gasoline in a wash area because of the clothing and other combustible materials. The Patrolman also identified a broken Pat O'Brien's glass that was found in the fire debris. Patrolman Chaisson took statements from Thomas and Johnson, which they both signed.
Patrolman Chaisson stated that the Defendant was initially detained because he was a possible suspect. He was released when they discovered that there were no witnesses. As the investigation proceeded, the burned sock and pieces of a Pat O'Brien's glass were recovered from the scene of the fire. Then the Defendant's son informed the police officers that a similar sock and matches were on the table when he arrived home after the fire, but were not there


before he left. In addition, the investigation further disclosed that Johnson owned a Pat O'Brien's glass that had been on the Thomas' and Johnson's kitchen table earlier, but was missing when the couple returned to the house. As a result, approximately an hour after the police began investigating the fire, the Defendant was arrested by Patrolman Chaisson.
Thomas Lowe (Lowe) was qualified as an expert in the field of arson investigation. He has been an investigator for the Jefferson Parish Fire Department Arson Unit for fourteen and one-half years. Lowe testified that the fire started after a Molotov cocktail, made with gasoline, was thrown or dropped through the front window of the dining room. Lowe collected the physical evidence at the scene, including a burnt sock matching a sockthat was found on the kitchen table at Thomas' house and pieces of a Pat O'Brien's glass. He stated that a paraffin test could have been performed on the Defendant to determine whether he had gasoline on his hands. However, it was not performed because the JPSO's arson investigator responsible for doing the test was unavailable at the time.
Daniel Waguespack (Waguespack), a forensic scientist employed by the JPSO in the crime laboratory, was qualified as an expert in the field of trace analysis. Waguespack performed an analysis for the presence of any accelerate in the samples provided to him. He tested specimen number one, which was a sealed metal can that contained pieces of burned cloth. Waguespack testified that the material yielded positive results for weathered gasoline, which


means that the gasoline has either been evaporated or burned, as opposed to gasoline from a pump. He also tested specimen number two, which was a metal can that contained some pieces of broken glass. Waguespack testified that he did not find any accelerate in the material in the can, but that was usual because, if there had been accelerate in the can, it could have either evaporated or been washed out. Waguespack also tested specimen number three, which was a small test tube containing an amber colored liquid, which he identified as gasoline.
The State also presented evidence of a similar crime over the objection of the Defendant. Thomas stated that in November of 1986, he lived in Bridge City in an apartment. One night when his Aunt*850 Laverne was babysitting him, he was awoken and told that the house was on fire and that they had to get out quickly. Thomas, his aunt, and his sister, who needed a wheelchair because she has cerebral palsy, were in the house that night.
Juanita Thomas Bradley (Bradley), Thomas' mother, testified that the Defendant is Thomas' father. In November of 1986, she was living in an apartment complex with her son and her daughter, when someone threw a Molotov cocktail through her bedroom window. She stated that everything caught fire. At the time of the incident, her daughter, her son, and her sister, Laverne, were in the apartment, but no one was injured. Bradley was interviewed by the police after the fire. She told the police that she


thought the Defendant had set it because she had been having problems with him. However, no one saw the Defendant set the fire. About two months after the fire, Bradley told Thomas that she thought the Defendant had set the fire. Three years later, the Defendant was trying to resume his relationship with Bradley. At that time, he confessed to her that he set the fire and said that he was sorry. Bradley did not report this to the police after the Defendant's admission because she wanted to move on with her life. However, Bradley trusted the Defendant enough to allow Thomas to live with him when Thomas was in the tenth grade.
The Defendant's sole issue on appeal is that the admission of the evidence was more prejudicialrelationship with the Defendant, he became angry and threatened to "burn her down." After Robinson's unsuccessful attempt to resolve the dispute, the Defendant, who had been drinking, followed Robinson and Busby on foot toward Robinson's house. THOMAS went after him in his car. During the drive back to their house, the Defendant told THOMAS, "I'll set this mfon fire." When Thomas and Johnson were getting ready for bed, they heard the front door open twice. Not long after the door opened the second time, Robinson called Thomas told him her house was on fire.
After returning home from the fire scene, Thomas and Johnson saw the Defendant leaning over the kitchen sink washing his hands. Johnson saw the Defendant use bleach. Thomas smelled the chemical. The couple also observed


matches and a sock on the kitchen table that were not there before they left. In addition, Johnson noticed that her Pat O'Brien's glass, which had been on the counter, was now missing.
The fire at Robinson's home was started when a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window. The bomb was made with a Pat O'Brien's glass filled with gasoline and a sock. The partially burnt sock at Robinson's home appeared to match the sock on the kitchen table at the Thomas' home.
Based on the evidence, disregarding the prior arson accusation, we conclude that the State met its burden of proving that the Defendant committed the instant offense. Thus, we find that the admission of the prior arson did not unfairly prejudice the Defendant.
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On February 7, 2019 Mayor de Blasio released his $92.2 billion Preliminary Budget for City Fiscal Year 2020, which begins July 1, 2019.

The Preliminary Budget proposes investments in Fair Fares reduced-price Metrocards; 3-K expansion, strategies to reduce and address childhood exposure to lead; expanded healthcare to NYC residents; implicit bias training for city agency workers; and the Summer Youth Employment Program. On the other hand, the City’s Budget once again fails to fund summer programs for over 34,000 middle school students; does not address salary parity for teachers and staff in community-based early childhood programs; would eliminate Bridging the Gap, a program that added MSWs to schools with high rates


yourself.

Under the new regime we will see fewer trade mark practioners qualify as patent attorneys due to the new academic qualification requirement.

Non-resident attorneys

There is no residency requirement for New Zealand patent attorneys. The New Zealand Patent Attorney Register shows that there are New Zealand patent attorneys resident not only in New Zealand but Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Most of these patent attorneys are New Zealand citizens who have worked for a patent attorney firm in New Zealand for the requisite 3 years before heading overseas.

There is no proposal to introduce a residency requirement in the new regime. However, there is a need to ensure that patent attorneys are properly trained by patent attorneys in Australia or New Zealand. ItPalestinian youth in the Gaza Strip make up the biggest segment of society, with more than half of the 1.5 million population under 18 years of age.

Trapped in a blockaded strip of land with one of the highest densities in the world at 3,881 persons per square kilometres, Gaza's young population is growing at a fast rate, while opportunities for this segment of society have been dwindling to nothing over the years.

According to the latest UNRWA census for 2007 released in January 2010, the youth segment in all of the Occupied Palestinian Territories aged between 15 and 24 grew by 37 per cent in the last decade, nearly 7 percentage points faster than the population as a whole. In Gaza alone, the youth segment grew by more than


7 percentage points faster.

"This had, and will have, important ramifications for OPT social and political development," the census authors argue, citing above average unemployment rates faced by youth.

The rapid growth of the youth segment has exacerbated the unemployment problem as it was also partly responsible for an even more rapid growth of the working age population (15 to 64 years). Combined with constrained employment growth due to the prolonged economic crisis, the growth of the youth segment in Gaza produced unprecedented levels of unemployment and poverty, making job creation even more of a priority. In fact, according to the same study, more than 76,000 jobs will be required each year in Gaza, alongside 67,000 in the West Bank. To put the scale of the challenge into perspective, thenumber of employed persons in Gaza in 2008 decreased by 27,000.

Since September 2000, the labour market as well as all other services sectors started deteriorating, where it can be noticed that participation rate in the labour force in 2004 decreased to 20.9 per cent among youth 10-24 years compared with 25.1 per cent in 2000 in Gaza according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

The blockade in the last years, and the disastrous effect of the war on Gaza in

the January 2009 Operation Cast Lead, have led many enterprises and industries out of business. The fishing industry, for example, has been crippled with the the 3nautical mile limit in which they can venture with their boats, forcing thousands of fishermen out of the job.

The same applies to jobs


in the agriculture sector where thousands of metres of land bordering with Israel are out of reach given the daily shootings from Israeli soldiers, not to mention the wholesome destruction of trees and farmed land in the Israeli army's weekly incursions.

The blockade has also made it next to impossible for Gazan youth to leave to study in the West Bank, and even harder to go abroad. This situation is indicative of a total segregation of Gazan from West Bank youth, in which young people from both sides are growing up totally cut off from each other and oblivious to the realities of their own compatriots.

Figures from Birzeit University in Ramallah show how the situation has been getting progressively worse for students from Gaza over the last 10 years.In 2000, a total of 350 students from Gaza at the Birzeit campus were deported. By 2005 there were only 35 Gaza students at Birzeit. Today there are none. In a 2006 ruling, the Israeli High Court forbade Palestinians from accessing Bethlehem University , accepting the argument used by the Israeli state that once they were given permits to leave they would ahve become "information carriers".

The ban applies also to Gaza residents accepted to study at Israeli academic instutions, but there is no hope of studying abroad since the Rafah crossing has also been closed almost completely since June 2007. At the time, 722 Palestinian unversity students studying abroad were trapped in Gaza, together with another 2,000 enrolled in foreign schools. According to Right to Education Campaign, they


in the Strip. Since 9 April, 2008, the Israeli blockade on fuel supply to the Gaza strip has paralysed 50% of the educational sector, as half the students at all levels of education are unable to reach their schools and universities.

Needless to say, the closure and the ensuing economic and social situation in Gaza reflect themselves in all aspects and sectors of daily life - from leisure time to marriage, from an ingrained conservatism to a bleak outlook for the future.

Although slightly dated, a specific youth survey carried out in 2003 by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics sheds light on trends and lifestyles of young Palestinians.

As the authors put it, "the impact of Israeli measures imposed on the Palestinian Territory affected all aspects of youth life, wherethey went on trips abroad, while 2 per cent said they went on trips inside the country.

Beyond the present situation of young people, it is the upcoming generation of children that seems to be most worrying. A whole generation of Palestinians will have never got out of the besieged strip, never interacted with foreigners or even met Israelis except as enemy soldiers intent on killing and destruction, with psychologists reporting an alarming rise in violent behaviour and disrespect to their parents and toward authority in general.

A study published by the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme months after Operation Cast Lead shows that just under 50% of children aged 6-17, who were exposed to the last war that lasted 23 days and claimed the lives of around 1,400 Palestinians,


think "often" or "almost always" of seeking revenge on whoever is responsible for the death of close people.

According to the same study, in the last war, 50% of children lost a close relative or friend, 54% witnessed assassination of people by rockets. Over 90% heard the shelling of their area by Israeli artillery and the sonic sounds of jetfighters, and an equal amount witnessed shelling on the ground and saw mutilated bodies on TV.

As many as 69% of children were forced to flee their home during the war, and a staggering 99% said they did not feel safe at home and felt neither the family nor anyone else could protect them.

As the UNRWA head in Gaza, John Ging, repeatedly put it when trying to explain the radicalisation ofGREENBERG, IRVING (Yitz; 1933– ), U.S. rabbi, author, and educator. Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, Greenberg attended Yeshiva High School in Brooklyn and from there he attended the Yeshiva Bais Yosef, from which he received ordination as an Orthodox rabbi in 1953. At the same time he attended Brooklyn College, where he received a B.A. in history. He went on to obtain his M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University. In 1959 he began teaching American history at Yeshiva University where he was among the first to introduce the teaching of Holocaust studies into a university curriculum. From 1965 to 1972 he was the communal rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center while he also taught at CCNY (1965–72). Shortly thereafter, he founded the organization


that would later come to be known as the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and served as its director from 1974 to 1997.

In 1975, along with Elie Wiesel, Greenberg founded the Holocaust memorial organization Zachor. In 1979 he was invited to serve as director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust and participated in the development of the initial recommendations for a center that later became the United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem. Twenty years later, from 2000 to 2002, he served as chairman of the museum's governing body, although his tenure was marred by controversy and internal dissension. From 1998 he also served as president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, whose aim is to create and enrich the cultural and institutional life of American Jewry.

Rabbi Greenberg'sthoughts and ideas have been disseminated through four decades of teaching and writing often in pamphlets and other popular articles. He has lectured in every American city with a fair-sized Jewish community and published his work in almost all major Jewish publications. He is the co-editor of a pioneering work, Confronting the Holocaust. Greenberg is also the author of The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays (1988) and Living the Image of God: Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World (1998), which presents his teachings on a wide range of subjects, including those central to his redemptive covenant theology.

Greenberg writes of the shattering of the covenant in the Holocaust. Following Elie Wiesel and Jacob Gladstein, he suggests a deep theological humility: "No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that


would not be credible in the presence of burning children." He states that the authority of the covenant was broken in the Holocaust, but the Jewish people, released from its obligations, chose voluntarily to renew it again. Greenberg writes, "We are in the age of the renewal of the covenant. God is no longer in a position to command, but the Jewish people are so in love with the dream of redemption that it volunteered to carry out the mission."

Greenberg is known for his thoughts on the issue of pluralism in Jewish life. His widely publicized essay "Will There Be One Jewish People in the Year 2000?" catapulted the issue of Jewish unity to the forefront of American Jewish concerns. He has often been accused of being theemail that Ashley Christensen's Poole'side Pies is now open 7 days a week, from 5 pm until 11 pm. Pizza every day? It doesn't get better than that.

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Reader J. Norris shared with us that with a fresh coat of paint and a new sign above the door, Moe's Original Bar B Que looks poised to open in the former Blu Seafood building at 2002 Hillsborough Rd. in Durham, just west of Ninth Street and elbow-to-elbow with Vin Rouge. Moe's sprung up in Tuscaloosa in the late 1980s, and now has about 60 locations - mostly in the Southeast, but as far-flung as Maine, California and Mexico City. Looks like probably counter service, with a menu featuring pork, chicken, turkey, ribs, shrimp and catfish.


drink and are $69.

October 5th is the second annual Festa Italiana Raleigh from 12 to 8 p.m. It is a celebration of Italian culture, wine and food! Location: 609 Tucker St (corner of Tucker and North Boylan). Get all the details here.

St. Ann Church in Clayton will host their 11th International Food Festival on Oct. 5 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. featuring foods from 20 countries prepared by parishioners. The family friendly event also includes live international entertainment on stage, children’s games and a silent auction. Admission and parking are free.

Also on Oct. 5, Big Boss Brewing Company will host the 9th Annual Casktoberfest, a mashup of old world beer cultures where European style festival traditions collide and the brewery is transformed into a traditional beer hallschool nutrition managers to develop new, delicious, and "school food"-compliant recipes for school lunch, are hosting their 2nd annual Durham Bowls Food Fest on Oct. 12 at the Scrap Exchange in Durham. Tickets ($6 and $3) include a tasting of each of the 10 new recipes, a chance to vote for the People's Choice award, live music, lots of great organizations tabling, and more. It's super fun, and people leave full!

On Tuesday, October 15 Katie Parla is traveling to Coronato in Carrboro for a special collaborative pizza party with chef-owner Teddy Diggs. Parla is a Rome-based food and beverage educator and journalist who came out with a cookbook earlier this year, "Food of the Italian South." In her book, 85 authentic recipes and 100 stunning photographs capture the


chefs, food artisans, sommeliers, baristas, brewers, educators, distillers, cookbook authors and industry luminaries from across the Southeast to celebrate culinary excellence and sustainability in food and drink.

Triangle Oktoberfest, a two-day beer, food and music festival celebrating German culture and benefiting local and international charities, will hold its 6th annual event on Friday, October 18, from 5 to 10 p.m., and Saturday, October 19, from noon to 9 p.m. at Cary's Koka Booth Amphitheatre. The festival is organized by Apex Sunrise and Cary MacGregor Rotary Clubs in collaboration with the Town of Cary.

On Wednesday, October 23rd, Walter Magazine will host Taste of the Wild in Transfer Co's brand new event space honoring the outdoors with a locally-sourced dinner. Locals Oyster Bar and Longleaf Swine BBQ are joined by Fullsteamis currently a Ph.D. student and research fellow at the Secure AI and Autonomy Lab and Open Cloud Institute of University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, TX, USA. Arun received the Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India, in 2013 and the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA in 2016. He was a recipient of the UTSA Brain Health Consortium Graduate Student Seed Grant in 2020 for his work in behavior analytics for children with neurotypical disabilities. He is a member of the IEEE, and IEEE Eta Kappa Nu honor society. Arun’s research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, computer


vision, distributed and parallel computing, cloud computing, and computer architecture.

[Peyman Najafirad (Paul Rad)]{} received the PhD. degree in electrical and computer engineering on cyber analytics from the University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA. He is the founder and director of the Secure AI and Autonomy Lab, and an Associate Professor with the information systems and cyber security (ISCS) from University of Texas at San Antonio. He has received his first B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology in Computer Engineering in 1994, his 1st master in artificial intelligence from the Tehran Polytechnic, the 2nd master in computer science from the University of Texas at San Antonio (Magna Cum Laude) in December 1999, and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University ofTexas at San Antonio. He was a recipient of the Most Outstanding Graduate Student in the College of Engineering, 2016, Achieving Rackspace Innovation Mentor Program Award for establishing Rackspace patent community board structure and mentoring employees, 2012, Achieving Dell Corporation Company Excellence (ACE) Award in Austin for exceptional performance and innovative product research and development contributions, 2007, and Dell Inventor Milestone Award, Top 3 Dell Inventor of the year, 2005.He holds 15 U.S. patents on cyber infrastructure, cloud computing, and big data analytics with over 300 product citations by top fortune 500 leading technology companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Amazon Technologies, HP, and VMware. He has advised over 200 companies on cloud computing and data analytics with over 50 keynote presentations. He serves on the advisory


Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, was seriously hurt in the Israeli occupation forces' assault on the Freedom Flotilla at dawn Monday, Israeli media reported. The Israeli public radio said that the confrontation in the sea killed 19 solidarity activists, most of them from Turkey and wounded about 60 others.

Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy leader of the Islamic movement, charged Israel with attempting to assassinate Sheikh Salah, making use of the attack on the flotilla as an excuse. The Israeli army used live bullets and teargas bombs in the attack on the ships carrying hundreds of solidarity activists and thousands of tons of medical aid and other relief material to the besieged people of Gaza Strip.Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox (b. 1961) became famous for playing the role of Alex P. Keaton on the television series Family Ties. He later starred in Teen Wolf and the Back to the Future trilogy before returning to television with Spin City. Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991, he has now turned his attention from acting to activism.


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(CNN)Sparks flew between CNN's Chris Cuomo and White House national security aide Sebastian Gorka Monday over whether or not President Donald Trump's morning tweets on the "travel ban" matter.

Gorka said Trump may call the executive order anything he wants because he's President.

"There are no games," he said on "New Day." "The President can call it whatever he likes because he has the constitutional authority to control whoever comes into the country, Chris. That's his job."

"The Constitution, tradition, precedence and administrative law give him that right," he continued. "If he wants to call it a ban, he's the President, he's the chief officer of this administration, and he has every right to do that."said, 'If you don't like it, get the * out.'"

Dr. Phil questions Diana about what she calls her "viper tongue." And, Diana admits she has a serious eating problem of her own.

Robert explains that his mother weighed over 500 pounds at the time of her obesity-related death in 2003. He says that for the last three years of her life, she was bedridden and required round-the-clock care, and Diana had to quit her job to take care of her. "This was a 24/7 operation, and Diana was in the middle of it," he says. "I'm afraid that I'm heading down that same path," Robert confides.

"You don't want to be her invalid, but you know that's where you're headed, right?" Dr. Phil says to Robert.

"I'm scared as hell —


I'm not going to lie," Robert says. "It just seems nothing is working."

Dr. Phil reviews a long list of Robert's excuses for why he is overweight, including his dislike of gyms, his complaints about various diets and his insistence that he comes from a "bigger" family. "Give me a 'Wow,'" he says. "You have to ask yourself, 'What is wrong with me that I’m letting this happen to me?'" Dr. Phil continues. "You're not doing everything you can."

Dr. Phil introduces Dr. Travis Stork, co-host of the Emmy Award-wining show The Doctors and author of The Doctors Diet. They review some of Robert's medical problems, which include diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis, sleep apnea and a bad back. "Every single one of those medical problems can bethen I have, like, two separate stomachs. It's ridiculous." Rose adds that because of her weight, she hasn't seen a certain body part, which that she calls her "Suzie," in seven years. "I think I do have an obsession with food," Rose admits. But she insists that she's ready to make a change and start eating healthier in order to get her weight — and her life — back on track.

Dr. Phil reviews a list of some of Rose’s excuses for her dieting failures, including poor willpower and the fact that she's a "Southern girl," who needs to have rice or bread with every meal. He also mentions some of Rose's favorite foods, which she admits include maple syrup sandwiches, fried bologna and ham sandwiches and Big Macs


with extra cheese.

Rose explains that she has lost weight in the past but says that she likes quick results and easily becomes discouraged. She recalls that she participated in a weight loss challenge for a radio show and lost 22 pounds. "I worked out five days a week. I had yogurt. I stopped all the starch — everything," she says. But when she found out that she didn't win the contest, Rose says she gave up on dieting — and went straight back to the fast food. "I went across the street to McDonald's and got a Number 1 with extra cheese, two apple pies and large fries," she confesses. "I got so sick off the fat, I thought I had to go to the emergency room."

Dr. Philare entertaining for some but are hurting too many people," he said, referring to congressional Republicans.

Republican leaders have accused the president of exaggerating the impacts of the automatic cuts, and of spending more time sounding the alarm than trying to work with members of Congress to reach a deal. The sticking point remains taxes, with neither side showing any willingness to compromise on a new balance of spending cuts and revenue increases to avert the sequester.

Said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, "For 16 months, the president's been traveling all over the country holding rallies instead of sitting down with Senate leaders in order to try to forge an agreement over there in order to move the bill."

Obama today disavowed politics in his posturing. But even as he claimed


place to pave way for a meeting with FIFA scheduled on the same day. The Electoral Board shall advice on way forward in due course,” the statement from the Board Secretary, Irene Tindi declared.

On Wednesday, the board released the new dates for vetting and representatives from six branches were right in time for the activity that was to start at 1400 hours only to be stranded with no official communication coming from the Board.

The Board chaired by lawyer Donald Kipkorir has been criticized of failing to exercise its duties with reports claiming split between members that has led to the postponement of national elections thrice.

Another rescheduling is in the offing even as Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Arts and Culture Dr. Hassan Wario assured football stakeholders the polls willGupta family wedding scandal triggers political row: report

Durban: A controversial wedding in an Indian-origin family in South Africa has
allegedly created a rift between President Jacob Zuma and African
National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe, a media report
said.

The wedding in the influential Gupta family got hit by controversy when a chartered aircraft carrying guests from India landed at an air force base at Waterkloof near Pretoria on April 30.

The aircraft incident was the final straw for Mr Mantashe, who has allegedly been privately expressing concern that the family was wielding too much influence in the South African government and ANC affairs, the Independent Online reported quoting unnamed sources.

Mr Mantashe's supporters had also come out in support of ANC vice-president Cyril Ramaphosa to take over as party president in 2017, fearing


some of Mr Zuma's allies would try to block Mr Ramaphosa from taking over.

The bride in the wedding was Vega Gupta, daughter of Achla Gupta, the only sister to the politically-connected Gupta brothers - Ajay, Atul and Rajesh - and the groom was India-born Aakash Jahajgarhia.

The Guptas own the New Age newspaper and Sahara Computers and are known to be close to President Zuma.

The private aircraft - an A330-200 belonging to Indian carrier Jet Airways - landing on the air force base had sparked outrage within various sections as it broke various rules and protocol.

Five senior officials, including the country's chief of state protocol, have since been suspended and an inquiry ordered into the incident.

According to the report, the incident had also created divisions within cabinet ministers, whichwas why most of the invited ministers did not attend the grand wedding in the Palace of the Lost City, a five-star resort at Sun City on May 2.

Mr Mantashe, however, declined to comment on the issue on Sunday.

"I don't deal with bureaucrats in government. I do not know who these ANC leaders are and I can't talk to an imagined person," he was quoted as saying.

ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu dismissed all such reports of rift between the president and the ANC secretary general, saying such information is being peddled by people trying to sow divisions among ANC leaders.

Meanwhile, the Gupta family has expressed apologies for the aircraft incident and several other controversies surrounding the wedding. (Read)

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to Brigadier Industries, each brother was involved in other profitable business ventures. The Hutchinson plaintiffs are comprised of the mother, wives, and children of the three brothers. All were residents of the state of Georgia at the time suit was filed.
2. The Moorhead Plaintiffs. A fourth passenger on the plane, Harold Brinson Moorhead (decedent of Ruth Henderson Moorhead), was the attorney for Brigadier Industries and the Hutchinson family. The Moorhead plaintiffs are comprised of the parents, wife, and children of Harold Brinson Moorhead. None were permanent residents of the state of Texas at the time this suit was filed.
3. The Baker-McNeill Plaintiffs. The fifth occupant of the plane, Raymond Dean Baker (decedent of Rose Marie Baker McNeill) was the plane's pilot. In addition to work as a corporatepilot, Raymond Baker also owned and operated a construction business. The Baker-McNeill plaintiffs consist of his wife and his three children. None were residents of the state of Texas at the time their complaint was filed.
4. Defendant Mitsubishi. The aircraft involved in the crash was manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft International, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under Texas law. The plaintiffs alleged that the aircraft was defectively designed and unreasonably dangerous, and sought to prove Mitsubishi strictly liable for the crash. Just prior to the start of the trial, however, all three groups of plaintiffs settled with Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi remains a defendant in these findings and conclusions solely to determine the right to contribution or setoff of the remaining defendants.
5. Defendant United States of America. Charles Montoya, an


During the first two minutes of the briefing Baker was advised no less than five times that most of the convective thundershower activity associated with a front which had passed through Texas would be to the south of his flight path. He was told, for example, that he would probably see "a mess of stuff" out of his right window as he headed east, but that "hopefully" he would be north of it.
5. Baker was told, however, that there was a chance of precipitation, in the form of rainshowers or thunderstorms, along the Texas portion of his flight. He was advised, for example, that there was "a lot of precip[itation] throughout the whole area," which apparently referred to the area around Texarkana, including the site of the crash.The briefer told him that the Gregg County, Texas vicinity was reporting two tenths coverage of thunderstorms and rainshowers. Baker was warned of the potential need to use his onboard weather radar to deviate around precipitation. By doing this, the briefer assured Baker that he could "probably get around most anything" he needed to avoid, and he added that at flight level 210 (21,000' mean sea level), which was Baker's proposed altitude, he would "probably be on top of most everything except the cirrus clouds."
6. Near the end of the briefing, Baker twice asked for and received confirmation of what had been told to him five times previously  that "most of the activity's to the south," but the briefer warned that he might "see the tail end


the ground in a steep nose down attitude, spinning rapidly to the right as it fell out of the clouds and into their view. One witness stated that the nose of the aircraft was not bobbing up and down, but remained fixed "like an arrow." The aircraft struck the ground in a wooded area, and was destroyed by the force of the impact and an intense post-crash fire.
12. All potential causes of the crash were carefully considered and most were eliminated. The only remaining potential causes consist of the liability allegations against the three defendants in this case.

No Governmental Negligence
Following Mitsubishi's settlement, the plaintiffs focused on the actions of the weather briefer as the primary cause of the crash. As an agent for the government, negligence on thethe freezing level. He was an experienced pilot, trained to recognize hazardous weather conditions, including different types of clouds with varying degrees of icing potential. He knew that if he encountered precipitation in freezing temperatures, he could accumulate ice on his aircraft.
16. Once Baker was in the air, he could not rely on the failure of the briefer to mention the word "ice" in the weather briefing. When he reached 21,000 feet, his outside air temperature gauge, part of a pilot's normal instrument scan, would have confirmed the subfreezing temperatures outside his plane. All witnesses at trial, from meteorologists to pilots to FAA investigators, agreed that in clouds above the freezing level, there always is a potential for ice. Record at 101, 200, 553, 563, 577, and 651.


from a different direction leads to the same conclusion. The two most credible meteorologists who testified, Harold Taft and William Haggard, both concluded that N233MA was in the midst of saturated clouds with the capability of producing moderate icing. Both conceded that N233MA did not encounter any heavy rain, but convincingly testified that moderate icing can be produced even in clouds which are not producing precipitation detectable by radar.[7]
c. The conclusion that ice caused the deceleration and contributed to the crash, although already sufficiently established, was buttressed by the conclusions of Gregory Salottolo. Salottolo was the NTSB meteorologist who compiled factual data for the Board concerning the weather conditions at the time of the crash. See supra note 4. He was the only disinterested meteorologist who testified. Hethis crash: (1) Baker should not have entered the cloud responsible for his icing encounter; (2) once in it, he waited too long before trying to get out of it; and (3) he mismanaged the flight controls after the plane stalled, and this mismanagement caused a spin from which the plane never recovered.

An Imprudent Decision and a Delayed Reaction
30. Baker reported level at 21,000 feet at 4:41 p.m. His rapid deceleration, indicating an accumulation of ice, began five minutes later, at 4:46 p.m. Baker had been in and out of clouds during his climb, and was out of clouds at 4:41 p.m. when he reported at 21,000 feet. The clouds encountered during his climb gave him an accurate idea of cloud coverage. At 4:41, in an opening between


clouds, he must have seen ahead of him the cloud which would occasion his encounter with ice, and must have seen that its top reached 23,000 feet. Record at 601.
31. At this point Baker could no longer rely solely on his weather briefing. He could not ignore the weather conditions he saw around him and ahead of him. Spaulding, 455 F.2d at 227. He knew he was above the freezing level, and knew that he could encounter ice in the cloud ahead of him. See supra Finding No. 16. He had four choices: deviate around the cloud, return to Dallas or some other airport, descend below the freezing level, or proceed into the cloud. Only the last alternative involved a risk of ice, and Baker knew this riskwhen he chose it.
32. The plane began to lose speed at 4:46, meaning ice had already accumulated to a dangerous level. The accumulation must have started prior to the time it reached the point of slowing the plane.
33. In a small plane like the MU-2, the pilot can easily see ice accumulating on his wings. At sometime shortly before 4:46 p.m., therefore, Baker knew he was picking up ice.
34. Only speculation exists concerning the actions Baker took during the first five minutes following his discovery of ice. Presumably he used his deicing boots, which under normal conditions will keep wings 90-95% free of ice. Record at 641. Perhaps the boots did not operate correctly, perhaps they were operated incorrectly by Baker, or perhaps ice on other leading edges


accumulated too rapidly. Whatever the reason, the plane continued to lose velocity, proving it still was collecting ice.
35. The evidence conclusively established that at 4:50 p.m., Baker requested a climb. This is the only documented measure he took to escape the ice. It came four to five minutes after the icing started.
36. Under stress, with a mind racing, four to five minutes can seem like an eternity. During this time Baker could have descended or turned back, but he did neither. Presumably he relied on deicer boots all that time, despite seeing that ice was still accumulating on his plane.

Mismanaged Stall
37. At 4:50 Baker was cleared to climb to 23,000 feet. He attempted the climb, but after one minute he had lost another 25 knots in actual airon a preponderance of the credible testimony, the Court believes it is more likely that the spin was caused by Baker's mishandling of the flight controls.
40. Bernard Coogan, a pilot with over 23,000 hours flying experience, convincingly testified that the ultimate spin had to be induced by pilot input.[9] Richard Kemper, a pilot with over 8,000 hours, concurred with Coogan and concluded that the spin was induced by misuse of the flight controls. According to Coogan, one of the most likely causes was Baker's inability to fully depress the rudder pedal, an essential spin recovery maneuver. Jerry Drennan, an instructor at Flight Safety International, testified that because of his short stature, Baker had trouble fully depressing the rudder. He advised Baker to place the seat in its full


of the pilot's breaches of duty. By deliberately flying into a potential icing situation, delaying for four to five minutes before trying to escape from accumulating ice, and then failing to properly manage a resultant stall, a crash was the normal, natural and probable result.
44. As an actual cause of a foreseeable result, the pilot's breaches of duty constituted a proximate cause of the crash of N233MA.
45. Assuming for argument's sake that the weather briefer breached a duty which actually caused this crash, the pilot's negligence constituted an intervening cause which severs any governmental liability. The briefer could not foresee Baker's negligence. See supra Finding No. 28(b). The briefer's failure to repeat a forecast for icing and his statement that most of the weather was to the southMitsubishi, confirmed Baker's inadequacies as an IFR pilot, and vouched for Flight Safety International's reputation. Record at 657-662.
48. As a result of Aguero's observations, Baker was not certified as successfully completing his refresher training. According to Charles Patrick, another employee at Flight Safety International, Baker was offered additional free time in order to successfully complete the course. This occurs with 7 to 8% of all pilots. To the best of Patrick's recollection, Raymond Baker is the only pilot to have ever refused the additional time. Record at 697.

Product Defect
49. As later facts demonstrate, the opening to the pressure tube in the Pitot system on N233MA froze just prior to the time the plane leveled off at flight level 210. The pressure inside the tube was trapped, and eventually


dangerous.
55. The defective system, identified as the PH506, came with the plane when manufactured and sold. Maintenance records reflect the PH506 system was never repaired or replaced, making it more likely than not that it was in the same condition at the time of the crash as when it was made and sold.
56. The faulty Pitot system misled Baker, leading him to believe he could execute a climb. But for the Pitot system he would not have tried to climb, and but for the climb, he would not have stalled. As such, the defective product contributed to, and was a producing cause of, the crash of N233MA.

Comparison of Causation
57. Based on a preponderance of the evidence, the Court finds that the three defendants caused the plaintiffs' injuries into age 70 for all four of the victims.
10. The parents of decedent Moorhead were considered in awarding Loss of Companionship and Advice damages. No separate similar award was made for Gloria Hutchinson, mother of the Hutchinson decedents, since she had assigned all her claims to their widows and children. Her damages were included proportionally in their awards.
11. No loss of support damages were awarded to any of the surviving adult children or the parents of decedent Moorhead. There was no evidence presented of any financial support received by these beneficiaries beyond the intangible pecuniary loss factors considered.
12. The loss of support damages for the two decedents who left minor children, Thomas and William "Bob" Hutchinson, were divided evenly between the children and the surviving spouse. The children's


one half was then divided equally among the three.
13. James A. Hutchinson and Henry W. Hutchinson are sons of decedent William "Bob" Hutchinson by prior marriages. Neither lived with his father. Their loss of companionship and nurture damages are therefore lower than those of their half brother, who was living with his *405 father and his father's surviving spouse at the time of the crash.
14. The final figures obtained for all damages were reduced by 40% to reflect the causation of the settling defendant, Mitsubishi. This left the Baker plaintiffs with no recoverable damages, since all the remaining fault was placed on the pilot.
15. The following Damages Table lists the award for each item of compensable damages for each beneficiary. Loss of support damages were based upon theSEARCH PRODUCT

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Were he banned, it might have been forThe stockpiling and deployment of advanced weapons systems directed against Iran started in the immediate wake of the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq. From the outset, these war plans were led by the US, in liaison with NATO and Israel.

Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of “the road map to war”. US military sources intimated that an aerial attack on Iran could involve a large scale deployment comparable to the US “shock and awe” bombing raids on Iraq in March 2003:

“American air strikes on Iran would vastly exceed the scope of the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osiraq nuclear center in Iraq, and would more resemble the opening days of the 2003 air campaign against Iraq.(See


and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing–that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack–but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.” (Philip Giraldi, Deep Background,The American Conservative August 2005)

The Military Road Map: “First Iraq, then Iran”

The decision to target Iran under TIRANNT was part of the broader process of military planning and sequencing of military operations. Already under the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had formulated “inmore. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. (See Secret 2001 Pentagon Plan to Attack Lebanon, Global Research, July 23, 2006)

The Role of Israel

There has been much debate regarding the role of Israel in initiating an attack against Iran.

Israel is part of a military alliance. Tel Aviv is not a prime mover. It does not have a separate and distinct military agenda.

Israel is integrated into the “war plan for major combat operations” against Iran formulated in 2006 by US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). In the context of large scale military operations, an uncoordinated unilateral military action by one coalition partner, namely Israel, is from


Air Blast bomb (MOAB) was categorized “as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed” with the the largest yield in the US conventional arsenal. The MOAB was tested in early March 2003 before being deployed to the Iraq war theater. According to US military sources, The Joint Chiefs of Staff had advised the government of Saddam Hussein prior to launching the 2003 that the “mother of all bombs” was to be used against Iraq. (There were unconfirmed reports that it had been used in Iraq).

The US Department of Defence has confirmed in October 2009 that it intends to use the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) against Iran. The MOAB is said to be ”ideally suited to hit deeply buried nuclear facilities such as Natanz or Qom in Iran”against Iraq. The Iran operation is slated to use the most advanced weapons systems in support of its aerial attacks. In all likelihood, new weapons systems will be tested.

The 2000 Project of the New American Century (PNAC) document entitled Rebuilding American Defenses, outlined the mandate of the US military in terms of large scale theater wars, to be waged simultaneously in different regions of the World:

“Fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars”.

This formulation is tantamount to a global war of conquest by a single imperial superpower. The PNAC document also called for the transformation of U.S. forces to exploit the “revolution in military affairs”, namely the implementation of “war made possible through new technologies”. (See Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding Americas Defenses Washington DC,


are already overstretched in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Would these forces be able to cope if Iranian ground forces were to enter the existing battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan? The potential of the Resistance movement to US and allied occupation would inevitably be affected.

Iranian ground forces are of the order of 700,000 of which 130,000 are professional soldiers, 220,000 are conscripts and 350,000 are reservists. (See Islamic Republic of Iran Army — Wikipedia). There are 18,000 personnel in Iran’s Navy and 52,000 in the air force. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, “the Revolutionary Guards has an estimated 125,000 personnel in five branches: Its own Navy, Air Force, and Ground Forces; and the Quds Force (Special Forces).” According to the CISS, Iran’s Basij paramilitary volunteer forcecontrolled by the Revolutionary Guards “has an estimated 90,000 active-duty full-time uniformed members, 300,000 reservists, and a total of 11 million men that can be mobilized if need be” (Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran — Wikipedia), In other words, Iran can mobilize up to half a million regular troops and several million militia. Its Quds special forces are already operating inside Iraq.

US Military and Allied Facilties Surrounding Iran

For several years now Iran has been conducting its own war drills and exercises. While its Air force has weaknesses, its intermediate and long-range missiles are fully operational. Iran’s military is in a state of readiness. Iranian troop concentrations are currently within a few kilometers of the Iraqi and Afghan borders, and within proximity of Kuwait. The Iranian


Navy is deployed in the Persian Gulf within proximity of US and allied military facilities in the United Arab Emirates.

It is worth noting that in response to Iran’s military build-up, the US has been transferring large amounts of weapons to its non-NATO allies in the Persian Gulf including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

While Iran’s advanced weapons do not measure up to those of the US and NATO, Iranian forces would be in a position to inflict substantial losses to coalition forces in a conventional war theater, on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan. Iranian ground troops and tanks in December 2009 crossed the border into Iraq without being confronted or challenged by allied forces and occupied a disputed territory in the East Maysan oil field.

Even in the event ofthe State and its officials must be also be challenged.

This war can be prevented if people forcefully confront their governments, pressure their elected representatives, organize at the local level in towns, villages and municipalities, spread the word, inform their fellow citizens as to the implications of a nuclear war, initiate debate and discussion within the armed forces.

The holding of mass demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough. What is required is the development of a broad and well organized grassroots antiwar network which challenges the structures of power and authority.

What is required is a mass movement of people which forcefully challenges the legitimacy of war, a global people’s movement which criminalizes war.

Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the University of Ottawa and Director


of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal. He is the author of The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and America’s “War on Terrorism” (2005). He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages. he can be reached at the globalresearch.ca website

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Recently, in the current month of April–a month in which Steve Nash has missed all eight games–as the regular season came down the home stretch, Blake boosted his level of play even more and averaged 12.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists.

Moreover, in the two games since Kobe Bryant’s injury–which were also the last two games of the regular season and had a profound impact on whether the Lakers missed or made the playoffs (and also on which seed they placed)–Blake has established himself as the player


for use in soliciting advertising for the 1961 convention daily. This brochure was entitled "What Kind of an Editor are You" and included a photographic reproduction in reduced size of pages two and three of the September 26, 1960 issue of plaintiff's and defendant's convention newspapers inviting comparison and addressing to the prospective advertiser a list of questions such as: "Which one carries more pictures?" and "Which one carries more on-the-spot convention news?" Plaintiff characterizes these questions as unfair, misleading and actionable disparagement of plaintiff's newspaper.

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The September 26, 1960 issue of plaintiff's newspaper from which pages two and three were copied bore a notice on page three thereof in a boxed-off section at the left of center, in the lower portion of the page as follows:

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"DAILY OFFICE APPLIANCES" NSOEA Convention Edition

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The top of the front page of the Plaintiff's newspaper carries, in large and prominent type, the designation, "Daily Office Appliances" directly followed by the further designation, below and in much smaller type, "NSOEA Convention Edition." Succeeding pages of the newspaper published by the Plaintiff carry at the top only the designation "Daily Office Appliances".

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Arkansas wrapped up an aggressive execution schedule Thursday, putting to death its fourth inmate in eight days.

Kenneth Williams, 38, received a lethal injection Thursday night at the Cummins Unit prison at Varner for the death of a former deputy warden killed after Williams escaped from prison in 1999. At the time of his escape in a 500—gallon barrel of hog slop, Williams was less than three weeks into a life term for the death of a college cheerleader.

Arkansas had scheduled eight executions over an 11day period before one of its lethal injection drugs expires at the end of April, the most in such a compressed period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Among the four lethal injections was Monday’s first double execution innew stash.

Williams was sentenced to death for killing Cecil Boren after escaping from the Cummins Unit prison in a barrel holding a mishmash of kitchen scraps. He left the prison where the execution chamber is located in another part of the facility less than three weeks into a life prison term for killing University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff cheerleader Dominique Hurd in 1998. At the conclusion of that trial, he had taunted the young woman’s family by turning to them after the sentence was announced and saying “You thought I was going to die, didn’t you?”

After jumping from the barrel, he sneaked along a tree line until reaching Boren’s house. He killed Boren, stole guns and Boren’s truck and then drove away to Missouri. There, he crashed


the sick.

Yet, it was during an encounter with those who were hungry that the trajectory of his life changed. And because of it, so too would the lives of numerous others. Let me explain.

After volunteering in a soup kitchen for several months, Joe began to recognize the individuals coming through his line. He became so familiar with those he was serving that he knew what they liked to eat, what they didn’t care for, and was even able to call them by their first name.

But Joe's inflection point came when he looked up from a large tub of soup he was serving, looked past the gentleman in front of him, and noticed the length of the line stacked behind him. He understood he and his fellow volunteers werestruggle for much longer. He was in remission, and had a tenuous relationship with hope. The cancer would, eventually, come back and then end his life in May of last year.

The word remission comes up one time in the interview, in the context of saying that he’s posted on Facebook saying that he is in the state of remission, and that he can give talks and readings, if anyone wants to get in touch with him. There was something very tender and heartbreaking in that statement. Here is one of the greatest living poets, recipient of a fucking Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Guggenheim fellow, son of poetry royalty, subtlest and most brutal portrayer of spiritual suffering, reaching out for work through his personal social media page. The desperation