screening process already targets those with extreme Islamist views via counter-terrorism vetting, which checks for links to radical Islamist groups.

But the president appears to echo opinions of a web of supporters who have warned about the wider "dangers" of Islam and more recently have called for rigorous ideological vetting. His national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, has called fear of Islam "rational" and equates Islam with a political ideology.

One of the most outspoken of these supporters is Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Policy Studies and a leading anti-immigration advocate. Human rights groups have described Gaffney as a conspiracy theorist and Islamophobe, but his views have gained traction in the Trump administration. Trump cited his work during his campaign.

In recent interview with NPR,During the Cold War, she says, "It was people who believed in communism. It's still in our law."

But Meissner points out these ideological tests have not had the desired outcome, because over time, the tests "have proven to be poorly equipped to actually predict what people are going to do." And it gets more complex when the beliefs straddle the line between politics and religion.

Meissner compares Trump supporters' fear of sharia law and their view that it's at odds with the U.S. system with the fears and debates surrounding the candidacy of John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Kennedy was Catholic and his detractors feared that if elected, the American president would be taking orders from the Pope.

"Then, JFK made his well-known statement about his personal faith


which were designed to and did deceive them. It is alleged how said defendants filed false and misleading financial statements for Alamo and General Lloyds with the Board of Insurance Commissioners of Texas on December 31 of each year after 1949, even though said companies were insolvent by December 1951, and how said defendants, as officers and directors of the companies, caused the transactions that resulted in falsification of the financial statements, directed the fraudulent sales of securities, or lent their names in support of the false financial statements.
In Count VII the participation of the defendants is alleged in further detail, including the role of the Group One defendants in controlling the operations of Alamo and General American which resulted in the frauds allegedly practiced upon the purchasersof securities of said companies, the role of General Securities, Inc. and the Southwest Investment Company in the falsification of the financial statements, the part played by James E. Dunne and Charles D. Dunne, doing business as Dunne's Insurance Reports, in issuing false and misleading reports concerning the financial condition of General American, the responsibilities of J. L. Wright as the securities dealer who put the sales force in the field that made the false written and oral communications to plaintiffs, and the position of L. W. Blanchard and W. J. Noad in examining and approving the charter of General American. It is further alleged that certain other defendants, listed as "Group Two defendants" (including George Link, Sr.), either willfully or negligently cooperated with the conspiracy to defraud


of Insurance Commissioners of Texas for approving the charter of General American Casualty Company with full knowledge of the false nature thereof, based upon false information contained in its subscription affidavit and upon an examination which should have revealed the insolvency of General American at the start. It is alleged that Blanchard breached a public duty to plaintiffs and joined in a concert of action or conspiracy with the other Group One defendants, receiving valuable gifts or favors from them, thereby being compromised in the performance of his public duty, and hence willfully assisting the Group One defendants in falsifying the financial statements of the company. The Securities Act only imposes liability for selling a security under Section 77l and for controlling a seller under Section 77o. EvenPlaintiffs contend that this court can adjudicate legal and equitable rights between the receiver and other parties under Texas law without interfering with the possession of property in the hands of the receiver and under jurisdiction of the state court.
The relationship of the receiver and plaintiffs to be assets of General American appears to be as follows: On June 17, 1954, General American was placed in receivership in the 126th District Court, Travis County, Texas. On July 26, 1954, various defendants in this action and the Republic National Bank of Dallas brought suit against the receiver in the nature of an action for declaratory judgment to have declared the validity of a loan transaction in which General American, prior to its receivership, had negotiated and pledged to said


bank some of plaintiffs' notes and deeds of trust in the 131st District Court of Bexar County, Texas. On December 1, 1954, this action was filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Brownsville Division. On December 29, 1955, the receiver filed an action in the receivership court of Travis County seeking to have said notes and deeds of trust cancelled. Between 1955 and 1958 a jurisdictional dispute arose between the Travis and Bexar courts which was settled in a mandamus proceeding before the Supreme Court of Texas in the case of Wheeler, Receiver, General American Casualty Company v. Williams, 312 S.W.2d 221 (Rehearing denied, April 30, 1958). In that case the Supreme Court of Texas held that the Bexar court had prior jurisdiction toE. C. Shoemake, Mary K. Wetzel, individually and as successor in interest of John A. Wetzel, deceased, George Handley and wife, Koala Handley, and Alfred Henry and wife, Lela Henry, said notes and the deeds of trust securing the same are presently held by the Republic National Bank of Dallas, Texas, which was dismissed as a defendant in this action on October 21, 1959. They contend that said bank is a necessary and indispensable party to any action on said notes and deeds of trust and that, because of the absence of said party, the present action should be dismissed insofar as it seeks to cancel and set aside the aforesaid notes and deeds of trust securing the same. Plaintiffs have not countered these contentions.
In the opinion of


The award winning and BAFTA nominated saga continues in The Banner Saga 2. Continue your journey soon after the climactic events of The Banner Saga. The choices you made in the first game will affect who is alive and who is dead in this exciting sequel. As the world continues to crumble around you, only one bastion of hope remains, but getting there will require strong leadership, hard sacrifices, influencing new heroes, and, as always, sound strategy in combat.

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The epic Viking saga continues on – beautifully 2D hand drawn combat sequences and animations are further enhanced with special effects, once again accompanied by an evocative score from Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory

Player choice that continues to drive your narrative – your story continues based on choices made in thewomen, with almost 3,000 women a year in the UK affected.

Since 2008 all girls aged 12 to 13 in the UK have been offered a vaccination to protect them from HPV. The decision not to give it to boys too was heavily criticised at the time.

Now specialists are urging the Department of Health to review its immunisation programme and offer boys the vaccine too, the Independent reports.

They say this would not only ensure both sexes are protected against throat cancer, but it would help reduce the risk of cervical cancer in girls and of other cancers caused by HPV.

Research suggests boys are more prone to get throat cancer from oral sex because the virus is found in higher concentrations in the female genital tract.

Cancer typically takes 20 to


30 years to develop and the rise in HPV-related throat cancer is being seen as the legacy of the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s.

The typical victim has also changed from older patients in lower socio-economic groups who smoked to those who are younger and middle class.

In 2006 Sophie Weisz was given the world's first cervical cancer vaccine. Now experts are saying boys must be immunised too

Experts say oral sex is seen by teenagers as safer than sexual intercourse as carrying no risk of pregnancy or infections.

The Department of Health requested the latest figures from Professor Hisham Mehanna, director of the Institute of Head and Neck Studies in Coventry, who has surveyed the incidence of HPV-related oropharyngeal (throat) cancer in the UK and other countries.

Professor Mehanna said:consumers from unfair terms.  Andrew Pincus, who argued on behalf of AT&T Mobility in Concepcion, described the continued existence of the defense of unconscionability as preventing an "anything goes" approach to the enforcement of arbitration clauses.  Rutledge and Drahozal wrote that the savings clause of §2 of the FAA may be sufficient to prevent the application of unfair arbitration terms, which may make specific legislation banning those terms unnecessary.  Arpan A. Sura and Robert A. DeRise wrote that, after Conecpcion, an argument could be made that courts would be required to enforce egregiously unfair arbitration terms such as those found in Hooters of America, Inc. v. Phillips.

National Arbitration Forum ceases administration of consumer arbitrations

AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion

In March 2006, Vincent and Liza Concepcion filed a


Opinion

Riverview Hospital's Secrets

For many people in the Lower Mainland, Riverview is just the space they have to drive past to get from the Trans-Canada to Coquitlam via Highway 7. But many others know that Riverview is an extraordinary place, a paradise suddenly under the real threat of being paved by the provincial government.

Late in July, Housing Minister Rich Coleman announced a plan to build over 7,000 residences on the Riverview site. They would be a mix of market housing, social housing and residences for the mentally ill.

Reaction was prompt and mostly negative. Coquitlam city councillors objected to the lack of consultation. Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan supported the idea, seeing it as a way to house the Downtown Eastside's homeless.

But largely ignored in the debate was the site itself,a century-old psychiatric hospital that includes both superb architecture and one of the greatest tree collections in North America.

Growing health

When the provincial government created Riverview in 1904, it had two goals: first, to create a treatment facility for the mentally ill; and second, to establish a B.C. provincial botanical garden. Victoria set aside 1000 acres (400 hectares) for these purposes, and began construction of the hospital facilities -- originally called Essondale.

The botanical garden started in 1911, moving in 1916 to UBC, but Riverview's nursery continued to produce trees and shrubs for B.C. government properties -- including the grounds of the legislature in Victoria.

More importantly, provincial botanist John Davidson began the arboretum, a collection of trees from all the world's temperate zones. His successors carried on, and Riverview now


has an estimated 1,900 trees, including at least 163 species and 113 varieties. Apart from their stunning beauty, the trees are also a valuable gene pool. A recent assessment put the trees' individual worth at over $50 million, but as a collection the arboretum is worth far more than that.

Money grows on trees

The original thousand acres soon began to shrink. About half the site was dedicated to what became Colony Farm, east of Highway 7; it's now a GVRD park. In the 1980s, without public consultation, another 250 acres to the west were removed from the site and turned into the Riverview Heights housing development. A 25-acre sliver was turned into Riverview Forest Park.

So the modern Riverview is only 244 acres (98 hectares), but its value doesn't lieonly in its trees. The buildings on the site date from 1913 to 1955, and many deserve heritage designation as examples of 20th-century B.C. architecture. They range from stately multi-storey hospital facilities to cottages originally designed as staff housing. Set amid broad lawns and groves of gigantic trees, the buildings form a tranquil campus.

Some parts have a cheerfully improvised quality. Finnie's Garden was the creation of Art Finnie, a nurse who in 1951 encouraged patients to make it something of their own. After years of neglect, volunteers are now renewing the garden.

Home for wildlife

Riverview has also become a home for wildlife. Black-tailed deer, black bears, bobcats, coyotes, raccoons and beaver have all been seen on the site. Birdwatchers have identified over 80 species of birds, including three species


of owls.

Local residents have long known the value of the site. The Riverview Horticultural Centre Society leads "tree tours" on Sundays, and takes a leading part in the yearly Treefest. This year's event will be on Sunday, Sept. 23, from 11 a.m to 4 p.m.

The Burke Mountain Naturalists have been advocates for Riverview, and in 2004 produced a superb report on the site and its future http://www.bmn.bc.ca/doc/Riverview2004.pdf.

The city of Coquitlam has also supported the site, and in 2003 published its own report, "For the Future of Riverview." On Monday night, Coquitlam Council unanimously reaffirmed its 2003 resolution calling for preservation of the site.

All these groups understand Riverview, and they also understand how attractive it must be to politicians and land developers. The site's supporters want Riverview to remainby excessive usage on livestock; and by poor sanitation. All this has created a kind of perfect storm for these super-resistant microbes to menace our health.

Way back in 2009, a 59-year-old Swede of Indian origin began visiting a hospital in a small city near Stockholm. The patient, a diabetic male, needed treatment for bed sores and urinary tract infection. He had recently returned from India, where he had developed an abscess in his buttocks and had been hospitalised, first in Ludhiana and later in Delhi. He had undergone a surgery in Delhi, recovered and returned to Sweden.

The development of the abscess wasn't particularly unique. Diabetics are known to be susceptible to it. The bed sores and the urinary tract infection, one could understand, he probably acquired from his


and Friedman hash out the details for their Libertarian “haven”, the Frontier Group investment firm entered the actualization phase with the Utopia. The Frontier Group is an offshoot of the Carlyle Group. It was founded by some of the big names from Carlyle, which was the private equity firm that brought American right-wing oligarchs like former CIA director and former president George Herbert Walker Bush together with billionaire buddies from Saudi Arabia — the Bin Laden family — all of whom profited enormously from the War on Terror launched by their spawn: George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden.

The Frontier Group’s founding director is Frank Carlucci, former chairman of the Carlyle Group from 1989-2005. Frank Carlucci (a.k.a. “Creepy Carlucci” and “Spooky Frank”) is one of America’s fortunate sonssulfuric acid after he was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup which installed Joseph Mobutu, the dictator who embezzled more than any other corrupt African dictator.

“Nothing You Can Posses”, by Jacqueline S. Homan

After his role in destabilizing the Congo, Carlucci transferred to the embassy in Brazil in time for the fascist military coup in 1964. After Brazil, Carlucci went on to become deputy to his old Princeton buddy, Donald Rumsfeld, in the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) under the Nixon administration where Dick Cheney was making his bones. The first thing Carlucci, Rumsfeld, and Cheney did was purge the agency of “subversives” — staff who might be sympathetic to democratic principles. Approximately 25% of the OEO staff was fired. After gutting the OEO, Carlucci was appointed ambassador to Portugal


where he ensured that the Communists who overthrew Portugal’s dictatorship were overthrown themselves by pro-IMF “moderate” socialists. Later, Carlucci returned to DC to a job as the CIA’s second-in-command under the Carter administration.

After the Reagan Revolution in 1981, Carlucci was appointed as Deputy Defense Secretary. In 1983, Carlucci left his cabinet position to head up Sears World Trade, a company involved with shady arms deals and described by Fortune Magazine as a front for CIA and military intelligence operations. After the company’s collapse, Carlucci was rewarded by Reagan with the job of National Security Advisor and Defense Secretary based on his “merit.”

In 1989, Carlucci became chairman of the Carlyle Group and used its prestigious A-list as a lobbying force to get corporate welfare in the form of generouschanged until the 20th century. Events such as the charge of the Light
Brigade had highlighted the fact that birth did not make a man competent. This was further emphasised in the 1914/18 war. The lords lost the right to own a regiment.

The rights of women were advanced in the munitions factories and of men on the battlefields of Europe.

Universal suffrage came soon after the war and while many returned to life as before fewer returned to service.

Things appeared to be going well but unseen the Lords were sitting on their land. They have done nothing to increase their competence but still take their cut
from industry and commerce. Of course theirsis the first slice but not an equal share. 1% of the population own 60% of the land in
Britain.

Too


piping system. The method includes providing an inner pipe having an external perimeter and a center. The method further includes disposing a plurality of transducer elements around the inner pipe. The transducer elements are adapted for providing acoustic energy. The method further includes providing a buffer zone around the plurality of transducer elements. The buffer zone is adapted for concentrating the acoustic energy into the inner pipe""s center by providing an acoustic impedance mismatch.
In one embodiment, the method further includes coating the external perimeter of the inner pipe with an acoustic absorbing material so as to facilitate the absorption of acoustic energy into the inner pipe""s center. In another embodiment, the method further includes providing a slot in the plurality of transducer elements disposed around the inner pipe,[Prevalence and aetiology of respiratory symptoms and affections in adolescent school children in French Polynesia (author's transl)].
All the Tahitian school children from 3rd to final grade were questioned by an auto-questionnaire in May 1979. 93% replied to the questions asked (3,870). The prevalence of upper respiratory infections was increased as well as broncho-pulmonary symptoms (cough or other lung disease) during the year under study when compared to a control group in Metropolitan France. This prevalence was significantly increased both in boys and girls who smoked. The incidence of frequent or chronic cough was most increased in the older pupils, boarders, those followed a technical curriculum and belonging to the lower socio-professional categories. Asthma was very frequent at 11.5%, had an equal sex incidence and was not linked to


WATER PROTECTORS and supporters of the #NoDAPL movement have been rocked by a series of orders and press releases from the Trump administration and the state of North Dakota in recent weeks. The pronouncements appear to set the stage for the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

While some politicians backed by various oil and gas corporations overstated the implications of these announcements, water protectors are also debating what the pronouncements mean and the best way to continue the fight against the pipeline.

Some movement leaders are calling for continuing the struggle by rebuilding the protest camps, but others, including Standing Rock Sioux Chair Dave Archambault II, have called on protesters to stand down and limit the struggle to a legal battle in the federal courts.

Already onwith such conditions as are necessary or appropriate, requests for approvals to construct and operate the DAPL, including easements...and whether to withdraw the Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement in Connection with Dakota Access."

DAPL had been blocked after water protectors, led by Indigenous people, mobilized against them over many months, culminating in a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to order an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before the project could proceed. The EIS didn't kill the project, but put in question whether Energy Transfer Partners, the firm building the pipeline, could secure the necessary permits to finalize construction.

The "easement" referred to in the administration document was rejected because of the inspiring mobilization of water protectors in early December in defiance of a deadline issued


by the government to clear out the protest camps. As a result, Energy Transfer Partners was unable to route the pipeline under Lake Oahe, less than a mile from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and on disputed treaty land.

On January 31, one week after Trump's memorandum was issued, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer announced that "the Department of Defense is granting the easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline and Congressional notification is imminent."

THE FIGHT, however, isn't over. For one thing, Cramer's announcement is misleading because the easement has not been granted--yet. While Trump's memorandum calls for expediting the process of granting the easement, Cramer's press release was intentionally misleading, claiming a victory where there wasn't one.

The Army has initiated the steps outlined in the January 24 Presidential Directivethe area to continue the struggle. Short of that, there will be continuing pressure against the project from solidarity efforts such as Seattle's possible divestment from Wells Fargo for supporting DAPL.

As the Trump administration continues its attack on all fronts, we must build on the solidarity and mass mobilization that made the struggle at Standing Rock a beacon for people fighting injustice and corporate power all over the world.

Solidarity and grassroots action pushed the Obama administration and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny the easement in December. In the midst of the demoralizing impact of the Trump election, tens of thousands of people flocked to Standing Rock to not only resist, but dare to win.

Standing Rock has been at the forefront of the climate justice movement. We


including 'Baek Jong-won's Three Great Emperors (a cooking-variety show)' - that people have to wait for hours to taste 'pork cutlet' of the house.
The restaurant has also gained fame as one of the filming locations of the country' popular television series 'Reply 1988.' It opened its doors in 1981. It is now one of the city's most famous eateries. The restaurant evokes patrons' nostalgia of the 1980s with its antique furniture and furnishings.
England King Pork Cutlet no longer serves 'beef cutlet.' It however cooks its pork cutlet the same way that it has been for more than 35 years.

The restaurant only serves two dishes, king pork cutlet and cheese pork cutlet.
Either of the dishes comes with soup, bread (or rice) and salad. The cutlet of the restaurant issecond floor has a wall of LP records of the past pop songs. Seaside Restaurant is still decorated in the style of a gyeongyangsik (literally 'simple Western foods') diner which was frequented by couples on a date.

The restaurant serves pork cutlet, Seaside set menu, Hamburg steak, beef cutlet, and kimchi fried rice (except on weekends and national holidays)
Pork cutlet of this restaurant comes with smoked ham and fried potatoes, which may come as a surprise to some patrons, but it is a tradition of times past when restaurants had to serve plentiful food to less well-off college students, in particular.

As the side dishes of pork cutlet of this restaurant, you are served peanut soup, a salad, boiled rice which is pressed a bit to match the shape of


FILE PHOTO: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaks at the Boston College Chief Executives Club luncheon in Boston, MA, U.S., March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS.N Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein is expected to step down by December, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the bank's plan.

Blankfein, 63, one of the longest-serving CEOs on Wall Street, has led what is viewed as the most powerful U.S. investment bank for nearly 12 years. He has outlasted calls for his departure in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 financial crisis and stayed in the job even as he battled cancer.

Blankfein is likely to be replaced by Goldman President David Solomon, the newspaper reported.

The Wall Street Journal had reported in MarchPolio Vaccine and Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk tests his vaccine on his family

We’ve read about some dramatic, crazy and bizarre self-experiments this month in my series DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENT. Among all these people, there are those who take it upon themselves to solve the major problems in our world. They don’t want recognition, nor do they want the money. All they want is a cure!

Jonas Edward Salk was born on 28thOctober 1914 in New York, USA. He was a medical researcher and a virologist. As a child, Salk did not show any interest in medicine or science for that matter. During an interview with the Academy of Achievement Salk said “As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human,


the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that.”

Just like typical Indian parents, his mother convinced him to become a doctor. He put aside aspirations of becoming a lawyer, and instead concentrated on classes necessary for admission to medical school.

He is the man behind the discovery of the first polio vaccine. Before the mid-1950s, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the world. It was caused by a virus which created annual epidemics. Children were the one who were the most affected.The disease struck indiscriminately. Even U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lost the use of his legs when he was diagnosed to have polio at the age of 39.

In 1947, Salk joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.of the American Medical Association. A nationwide testing of the vaccine was launched in April 1954 with the mass inoculation of school children. The results were breath taking. There was almost an 80% prevention of polio after vaccination. Jonas Salk, the man who was supposed to become a lawyer was praised to the moon. But then when you are praised to the skies, you have to be brought down to the earth. Suddenly, some 200 cases of the disease were caused by the vaccine and 11 people died (Now you know the risks which Salk’s family put themselves in at the time of the initial testing. All testing was halted. People’s hopes were crushed. But then they realised that this was just an aberration. On investigating, they found


that the disease causing vaccine came from one faulty batch from the same drug company.

When news of the vaccine’s success was made public on April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed as a “miracle worker” and the day almost became a national holiday. Around the world, there was a mad rush as everyone wanted to be vaccinated with the miracle drug. Countries like Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, West Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium planned to begin polio immunization campaigns using Salk’s vaccine.

Jonas Salk was a selfless man. His sole purpose in life was to develop a safe and effective vaccine against polio. After discovering the vaccine, he could’ve easily patented it. It was calculated to be worth 7 billion dollars had Salk patented it. Instead when asked whoowned the patent to it, he said “Well, the people I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

Jonas Salk died from heart failure at the age of 80 on June 23, 1995, in La Jolla and was buried at El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego.

FACTS ABOUT POLIO AND THE VACCINE

Polio is an infectious disease caused by the polio virus.

The first clinical description of polio was provided by Michael Underwood, a British physician in 1789.

The first outbreaks appeared in Europe in the early 1800s

It affects mainly children under 5 years of age.

It is a highly contagious disease.

People who don’t show any symptoms can still affect others

The virus affects the muscles that help us breathe and so can cause death by the paralysis of the


In March of 2015, Irvin Mayfield was downright cocky. He had recently opened the New Orleans Jazz Market, a home venue for his New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO).

In an interview with Jennifer Odell of Offbeat, he painted a picture colored with lofty notions and ideals. Waxing poetic, Mayfield boasted that “[o]ur work is about conveying truth, love and beauty.”

Yet as the interview progressed, Mayfield’s words were less high-minded. His words for investigative reporter David Hammer seemed almost petulant.

Here’s the background: Hammer’s reporting for the Times-Picayune had appeared critical of Mayfield after he became the board chairman of the New Orleans Public Library system in 2008. Mayfield had no background in library administration upon assuming the role; in fact, he doesn’t even have a college degree. Hammer appeared skepticalPrimary Navigation

Kathleen Kenyon biography

I m pleased to announce publication of the first full length biography of archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon by Miriam Davis, a historian at Delta State University.

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I'm pleased to announce publication of the first full length biography
of archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon by Miriam Davis, a historian at Delta
State University. Miriam had full access to the Kenyon family's
materials and interviewed dozens of archaeologists on 4 continents for
her work.

The book is published in a series sponsored by the Institute of
Archaeology, University College London, which provided the peer
review. It's also been reviewed by Bill Dever and Tom Holland, among
others (see their comments on our website).

Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure, likely
the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century. In the
first


full-length biography of Kenyon, Miriam Davis recounts not
only her many achievements in the field but also her personal side,
known to very few of her contemporaries. Her public side is a catalog
of major successes: discovering the oldest city at Jericho with its
amazing collection of plastered skulls; untangling the archaeological
complexities of ancient Jerusalem and identifying the original City of
David; participating in the discipline's most famous all-woman
excavation at Great Zimbabwe. Her development (with Sir Mortimer
Wheeler) of stratigraphic trenching methods has been universally
emulated by archaeologists for over half a century. Her private
lifeher childhood as daughter of the director of the British Museum,
her accidental choice of a career in archaeology, her working at
bombed sites in London during the blitz, and her solitary retirement
to Walesare generally unknown. Davis provides a balanced and
illuminating picture ofdidn't help as I thought you said it was Yamantaka himself. Sorry!

Yama Dharmaraja, also known as Kalarupa (Tib: gshin rje chos rgyal; = the Lord of Death, King of the Law), is one of the Dharma protectors of the father class of Anuttarayoga Tantra, in particular for the Vajrabhairava tantras. Although Kalarupa is found in all the Sarma Schools the Gelugpa tradition holds Yama Dharmaraja in special regard as one of the three main Dharma protectors of the School - along with the Six-Arm (Shadbhuja) Mahakala and Vaishravana. These three were the special protectors of Lama Tsongkapa.

With one face and two hands, dark blue in color, the head is that of a buffalo, three round eyes, sharp horns entwined with flame, fierce and angry. Held upraised in the


right hand is a bone stick composed of a fused spine and skull. In the left hand is a coiled lasso. Adorned with a crown of skulls and bone ornaments, he wears a necklace of fifty freshly severed heads. Appearing extremely animate he stands with his right leg bent and the left extended on the back of a buffalo above a human body and lotus seat. He is usually accompanied by his female consort Chamundi who is blue in color, with one face and two hands. A trident is held aloft in the right hand and a skullcup in the left. Both are adorned with wrathful attire, bone ornaments and various skins, completely surrounded by the swirling orange flames of pristine awareness.

There are three forms of Yama Dharmaraja:Morphometric and stereological analysis of the effects of 17 beta-estradiol on the glandular epithelium of the castrated guinea pig lateral prostate.
Upon administration of pharmacological doses of estradiol to castrated guinea pigs, the secretory cells of the lateral prostate underwent hypertrophy which resulted from significant increases in nuclear and cytoplasmic volume. There were quantitative increases in the small highly electron-dense granules and multivesicular bodies when compared with the castrated control. The dramatic increase in the number of highly electron-dense granules probably occurred at the expense of the low electron-dense granules. The average size of the condensing granules and mitochondria decreased significantly after estradiol administration. However, significant increase in the number of mitochondria was detected when compared with the castrated control. Ultrastructural data revealed no significant changes in the absolute


Liverpool have officially put pen to paper on a third summer signing, weeks before the end of the current campaign.

Jurgen Klopp pounced on the chance to sign 16-year old right-back Diego Lattie after Manchester City failed to offer the England youth international a new contract.

According to the Liverpool Echo , Manchester United, Everton and Sunderland were all also interested in signing Lattie, but it was Liverpool that proved to be the most appealing destination.

Liverpool sign talented right-back Diego Lattie - https://t.co/3TmRorNuSe pic.twitter.com/otEmfYFm8B — Empire of the Kop (@empireofthekop) April 26, 2016

The Reds have already made two signings ahead of next season, capturing the signature of Schalke's towering centre-back Joel Matip and Marco Grujic from Red Star Belgrade.

According to the report, Lattie has been on Liverpool's radar for awhile and after officially signing he will go straight into training with Liverpool's under-16 side before joining up with Neil Critchley’s under-18s squad in pre-season.

Liverpool are entering one of the most important weeks of their 15/16 campaign, travelling to Spain to face Villarreal in a Europa League semi-final first-leg on Thursday before travelling to South Wales to face Swansea City on Sunday.

Jurgen Klopp's side will need a win on Sunday in order to keep up the pressure on Arsenal and Manchester City, who currently occupy the Champions League qualification places.


Kurt Nimmo

Infowars

May 21, 2008

Only in neocon America is an unrepentant war criminal allowed to walk around freely and hawk his book. That war criminal is Douglas Feith, Iraq invasion and occupation architect with the blood of a million plug Iraqis on his hands. Feith should be in the docket, not at the National Press Club. At the event, reports Think Progress, Feith “repeated his claim that the faulty intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was an ‘error,’ not a lie. Additionally, he insisted that the U.S. had in fact found ‘a serious WMD threat’ in Iraq,” a complete and utter lie offered by Feith to save his skin and salvage his place in history.

While the failure to find presumed stockpiles of dangerous weapons “was catastrophic toaddition to the OSP lie factory, he established the Office of Strategic Intelligence, which was closed down after creating a furor in Congress because of its purported aim of “providing news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of an effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers,” that is to say it passed off lies, by way of fellow neocon David Wurmser, to people such as Judith Miller, the New York Times columnist and neocon operative in Eleana Benador’s stable, connected at the hip with the American Enterprise Institute, a criminal racket.

But war crimes and the lies designed to facilitate them were apparently not enough. He was questioned by the FBI in relation to the passing by one of his employees of confidential


Pentagon documents to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which in turn passed them to the Israeli Embassy. Once upon a time, such treason was punished at the gallows, but that was before the country went insane. Now such criminals are allowed to walk free and sell books while antiwar activists receive terms in prison, quite normal in a land where black is white, up is down, and war pigs get teaching gigs and lucrative speaking engagements.

It is worse, though. Feith and his firm, Feith & Zell, in cahoots with the Israel-based Zell, Goldberg, & Co., was allowed to create the Fandz International Law Group, a company unabashedly “dealing with issues and opportunities relating to the recently ended war with Iraq … and is assisting regional construction andRelated links

HOLYOKE – Two graduates of Holyoke High School each will get a $1,500 scholarship presented Thursday by Mayor Alex B. Morse and Comcast.

Cody Hodgins and Hugh Lavelle, who graduated in June, were chosen based on their response to this year’s question: “What do you think the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center means for the city of Holyoke, and how do you think this can contribute to Holyoke’s economic revitalization?”

Five colleges, including Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are working with two private firms and the state to build the $165 million computing center for academic research on Bigelow Street. The facility is scheduled to open late this year.

The Annual Comcast Scholarship Awards will be awarded at 11:30 a.m. in the mayor’s office at City Hall.


Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr, has said that he allow his players welcome their wives and girlfriends to visit them in camp on some designated days during the World Cup in Russia.

Speaking while answering a question by a correspondent, Rohr said, “after every game, players will be given a day when they can welcome their families, wives and girlfriends to camp, relax with them and socialise.

“It will help the players psychologically and keep them focused for the task at hand,” Rohr defended.

He said the decision to commence camping in Abuja was to allow players come home and see their families and loved ones. “It will be good for the players to meet with their families after a long European season,” he said.

The team manager said it won’tsee. Especially because it wasn’t so long ago when it looked like he was finished.

A two-time All-Star with Tampa Bay (2006, 2008), Kazmir was a key part of the Rays’ inspirational World Series run in ’08. But based on Tampa Bay’s ever-pressing economic situation, Kazmir was dealt to the Angels in 2009 as he was becoming more expensive.

Disappointing practically from day one in Anaheim, Kazmir went 9-15 with a 5.74 ERA in 28 starts for the Angels in 2010. His velocity decreased, his confidence ebbed and things only got worse from there.

In 2011, the Royals shelled him for five earned runs and five hits in just 1.2 innings in his first start on April 3. The next day, in a move essentially equal to placing him in the


workplace became his backyard at home in Houston. And then, 20 minutes away, Constellation Field, home of the Sugar Land Skeeters. Former big leaguer Gary Gaetti was the manager, Britt Burns the pitching coach, both were pals of Rays pitching coach Jim Hickey, and as far away from the majors as he was, it was perfect.

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“It was an experience,” Kazmir said. “I actually had a lot of fun. There actually were a lot of guys I played with in minor league organizations.

“It was comfortable for me. It was right next to my house. It turned out to be the right situation, a great venue for me to get my feet wet again.”

What happened, he thinks, is that he had gradually gotten away from his mechanics whileon the radar gun.

His mechanics were back. He locked them in. And the comeback now had begun in earnest.

After Puerto Rico, the Indians invited him to camp in 2013 as a non-roster player, and the buzz began almost immediately: Right there in Goodyear, Arizona, the Indians had stumbled upon a find.

With that $24 million contract the Angels wound up paying off, Kazmir, just 27 at the time, could have taken his money and lived happily ever after. One reason he didn’t was because of his parents, Eddie and Debbie.

“When I was out of the game,” he said, “I feel like I let my family down. All of the hard work and sacrifices they put into my career when I was a young kid, going to all of these


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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday kicked-off a detailed interaction with Indian envoys abroad to compare notes on the battle against Covid-19, its impact on India and the road ahead. This is Jaishankar’s second round of meetings with top Indian diplomats abroad.

A recurring theme in his last interaction on March 20 was the status of stranded Indians. He had then asked the envoys to urge Indian nationals to stay put and not panic, and look around to secure medical equipment supplies that India would need back home.

The government’s evacuation plan to bring the stranded Indians home over the next few weeks could figure in Thursday’s interaction with the Indian envoys. Jaishankar has started with envoys from the Asia Pacific region; South-East Asianmode and threatened to push the global economy into a recession.

Diplomacy couldn’t afford to go in lockdown mode. Instead, it went virtual, shifted gears and went into an overdrive, a foreign ministry official told Hindustan Times.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set the template early in the crisis and has been working the phones to scale up India’s diplomatic engagement with the world. That he had also held a video conference with the heads of Indian missions on 30 March was one step in this direction.

In the next 30 days, PM Modi spoke to leaders of 30 countries.

Had a good discussion with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. We discussed the evolving COVID 19 scenario and agreed to work together to address the challenges in the spirit of


Health Organisation next month when its nominee formally takes over as the director general of the World Health Organisation. Next year, India will also get a spot in the United Nations Security Council as one of the 10 non-permanent members.

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A police officer in the New York town of Liberty issued the ticket to Connecticut resident William Barboza in June 2012. Barboza, then 22, later pleaded guilty and paid by mail, noting his frustration by scrawling the words “fuck your shitty town bitches” on the form. He also crossed out the word “Liberty” and wrote “Tyranny” instead. About four months later he was called back to the town’s court, where he was arrested, handcuffed and briefly jailed.

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the public's perception. On June 8th, just five days before his election as the new Deputy Chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, he filed public data practice requests with seven of Minnesota's counties seeking photocopies of rejected absentee ballots. Mr. Brodkorb filed his two page request with the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Olmsted, Sherburne and Washington, and the cities of Edina, Minnetonka, Orono and Plymouth. The following excerpt contains the request sent to Anoka County: Michael Brobkorb

[Poorly Redacted Address] June 8, 2008 Rachel Smith

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Anoka, MN 55303-2465

Re: Data Practices Request This correspondence is a request for access to public information and data relating to the 2008 general election for United States Senator in your county under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Actwhich absentee ballots can be opened by an election judge falls within the jurisdiction of § 203B.12: 203B.12 ELECTION JUDGES TO RECEIVE AND COUNT BALLOTS. Subd. 4. Placement in container; opening and counting of ballots. The ballot envelopes from return envelopes marked "Accepted" shall be placed by the election judges in a separate absentee ballot container. The container and each ballot envelope may be opened only after the last regular mail delivery by the United States postal service on election day. The ballots shall then be initialed by the election judges in the same manner as ballots delivered by them to voters in person and shall be deposited in the appropriate ballot box. [emphasis added] Source: 203B.12, 2008 Minnesota Statutes via Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes


final judgment. The Franken document totaled 394 pages with 384 pages of exhibits. The first ten pages contained the body of the filing while the remaining 384 pages, of exhibits, were found within a gray three ring binder. The digitization of the exhibit portion was just completed this morning by the Ramsey County Court Administration Office. Prior to purchasing the first ten pages, and then later receiving the exhibits from a Ramsey County Court Administrator, no portion of this document could be publicly accessed without making a physical trip to the Ramsey County Court House. The entire document has been converted to PDF for public consumption below with the highlights excerpted: David L. Lillehaug, being duly sworn, on oath says that he is one of the attorneys forto "grease the joints" of election reporting. He later defended any breach of due process or equal protection on the grounds that the inconsistencies were not intentional or systematic and could therefore not be classified as in bad faith or fraudulent as required within Bush vs. Gore. Elias concluded his presentation by stating that election officials used "the different tools, available to them in the different jurisdictions" to "administer a fair election" within the confines of the law. Mr. Friedberg then returned to the podium for the final fifteen minute stint and made three main assertions before the court adjourned. He first presented the varying processes by which each county voided an invalid ballot, thus potentially creating cases where the voter was registered, but their vote was not


N.W. 12 (Minn. 1913). Dated: May 11, 2009 Source: Respondent's Brief [PDF] The Franken campaign basically took Coleman's argument and added a "no" or a "not" to the beginning and provided the typical supporting legal references. This is by no means unexpected, but it highlights the futility of Coleman's appeal. The Coleman campaign's best case scenario has shifted away from that of winning to that of not-losing; an invalidation seems to be their best case scenario. The Franken campaign is simply attempting to eliminate that possibility. On an interesting side note, the Franken response "contain[ed] 13,998 words" about 200 more than Coleman's first brief, but the Franken campaign chose to use the "Garamond font," instead of Times New Roman as the Coleman campaign used. The Coleman campaign respondedbut I'm sure its in the works.

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The Coleman campaign filed their motion for appeal yesterday, and today the Franken campaign responded with the following requests: Cullen Sheehan and Norm Coleman ("Appellants") have appealed the unanimous decision of the three-judge election contest court ("the District Court"), which, after a seven week trial, affirmed the unanimous Minnesota State Canvassing Board certification that Al Franken ("Respondent") received the highest number of votes in the 2008 general election for the office of United States Senator. Because of the overriding public interest in the expeditious handling and resolution of this historic matter, Respondent respectfully moves for an order that: 1. The record of the District Court proceedings be provided to the Court by


days after service of the opposition brief. 3. Set an Expedited Date for Oral Argument. Respondent respectfully suggests that the Court schedule oral argument now for a date very shortly after the reply brief is submitted. More than five full months have elapsed since the November 4, 2008, general election. More than three months have elapsed since the State Canvassing Board declared the election result and the United States Senate convened to address the nation's urgent business. Yet, unlike every other state in the union, Minnesota stands alone with only a single United States Senator to represent its citizens and respond to their concerns. While Appellants had the right to challenge the State Canvassing Board's decision before three judges and now have the right to appeal the Districtto clarify and reflect these changes.

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A relatively quiet week ensued, after the Election Contest Court's Monday ruling, but a few pertinent if seemingly unrelated events did transpire. I'll cover two events, as reported by the two major Minnesota papers, and present the time frame for Norm Coleman's potential appeal to the MN Supreme Court. Our first event features a meeting between Norm Coleman and the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Editorial Board. The meeting took place on April 16th, and a small portion of the video has been posted online at the Star Tribune website. The excerpt shows Norm Coleman visibly upset over the Star Tribune's conduct, with regard to the allegations of money laundering, in the days directly preceding


a man who appeared to be in his 20s outside, said Peter Panos, police spokesman. The report didn't say who the resident was or whether Coleman was home, Panos said today. The resident then saw the man throw a few more eggs, Panos said. The number of eggs thrown wasn't in the report, he said. The egg thrower wasn't caught, Panos said. Coleman said Wednesday that a young man had bicycled past his home this week and thrown eggs at him. ... Republican Coleman has said he will appeal this week's court ruling that Democrat Al Franken won last year's U.S. Senate race. Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press I don't know if this is particularly important, but it happened, so I'm reporting it. The last line of thecast and properly counted on Election Day and were lost at some point after they were counted on Election Day but before the administrative recount. ... 137. The evidence was sufficient to prove that the absentee ballots of the persons identified in Attachment A were legally cast and wrongfully rejected. 138. The following additions shall be made to the vote totals certified by the Board on January 5, 2009: 111 additional votes for Coleman and 198 additional votes for Franken. Source: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order for Judgment via MNCourts.gov [PDF] Attachment A contains the names and counties of 351 voters, along with a reference to the exhibit or court document in which they were originally presented. A greater majority of the exhibit reference appear


Judgment Dated March 11, 2009 (Mar. 31, 2009), the Court granted summary judgment with respect to the following Petitioners: 3. On March 31, 2009, the Court Issued an Order for Delivery of Ballots to.Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State for Review by the Court. The Petitioners listed above were identified in the Court's March 31, 2009 Order. [List of 36 Voter's Names and County, CSV] 4. On-April 7, 2009, the Court ordered the absentee ballot return envelopes of voters identified in an attached exhibit to be opened and counted by the Office of the Secretary of State in open court and the totals included in the results of the 2008 United States Senate election reported by the Minnesota Secretary of State. With one exception, the ballots oftheologians," Bretzke told USA TODAY. "Nothing could be further from the truth."

Benedict says expanded access to pornography helped fuel the crisis. At about the same time period, Catholic moral theology suffered a collapse that left the church ill-equipped to combat the trend, he added.

"In various seminaries, homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries," writes Benedict, who ceded his reign to Pope Francis six years ago.

The former pope says a series of cover-ups exacerbated the crisis, and that the Vatican was ill-equipped to press for criminal trials for so many cases.

"Why did pedophilia reach such proportions?" Benedict writes. "Ultimately the reason is the absence of God."

Benedict says he was inspired to speak out by a February gathering of


leaders of the world’s bishops’ conferences at the Vatican to discuss the crisis. He said he wanted to contribute to "a new beginning" sought by Francis.

Hundreds of priests, bishops and others in the church have been accused of sexual abuse dating back for decades. Pope Francis, at the February gathering, cited the "scourge" of sexual abuse and said it was the responsibility of church leaders to "confront this evil afflicting the Church and humanity."

Benedict pledged at his surprise 2013 resignation to remain “hidden from the world” and not get involved in church issues. The Vatican had no immediate comment on the letter, but it didn't sit well with many Catholics.

John Thavis, a former Catholic News Service reporter and author of "The Vatican Diaries," said Benedict's letter was neitheraccurate nor helpful.

"It illustrates why Benedict's initial decision to retire to a life of silence was a prudent one," Thavis told USA TODAY. "When a retired pope issues statements on these kinds of issues, it undercuts the efforts of the current pope."

Andrew Chesnut, chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, said the letter can only serve to further divide the church's liberals and conservatives at a time when Francis has been calling for unity.

"It's a myopic and reductionist critique that erroneously assumes systemic sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy didn't exist prior to the 1960s," Chesnut said. "It also ignores the fact that the sexual revolution of the 1960s was largely a Western European and American phenomenon when even by the late 1960s, the majority of Catholics were


in the Global South, especially Africa and Latin America, where systemic abuse is even more acute due to less oversight."

Brian Flanagan, associate professor of theology at Marymount University, called the letter "embarrassing."

"The idea that ecclesial abuse of children was a result of the 1960s, a supposed collapse of moral theology, and 'conciliarity' is an embarrassingly wrong explanation for the systemic abuse of children and its cover-up," he said.

David Gibson, director of Fordham University's Center on Religion and Culture and a Catholic convert, described Benedict's opus as "deeply problematic and damaging at a crucial time" when the church is trying to heal.

Gibson, on Twitter, said that contrary to Benedict's claims, many abusers are outwardly devout and conservative, and that abuse has occurred "forever" and in very devout regions, notThis invention relates to food packaging components made of semi-rigid synthetic thermoplastic resins and, in greater particularity, to supporting and retaining members commonly included within plastic film wrapped packages of greasy and moist foodstuffs such as sliced bacon, ham and luncheon meats. Conventionally, consumer-sized, film wrapped packages of sliced bacon, ham slices, sliced luncheon meats and the like contain a semi-rigid supporting member or backing board on which the meat product rests within the outer film wrapper. In some cases, this interior supporting member comprises a plurality of hingedly connected panels, one or more of which may extend to partially cover the foodstuff, as is often the case in bacon packaging, or the panel assembly may be arranged to surround the food product as a band, as in


the packaging of frankfurters. On the other hand, sliced ham, for example, is normally supported on a flat single panel backing board within the outer film wrapper. The constructions of this invention are equally applicable to use as interior supporting and retaining members to be incorporated within film wrapped, consumer sized units of bacon, ham, sliced luncheon meats, frankfurters and similar moist, greasy foods, whether in the form of flat, planar backing boards, as two or three panel folders or as bands. For simplicity in the following description, the invention is discussed in terms of an interior supportive packaging component of bacon packages and is referred to therein as a backing board. It is intended that this term shall include simple planar support members, two or three panelwater from the packaged product to the backing board, which may occasionally leave the product short in weight and in potential violation of federal or state food regulations. Furthermore, recent regulations relating to the packaging of sliced bacon have frequently led to the cutting of apertures in the backing board for exposure of a major portion of the back side of a bacon slice to the inspection of the shopper. Such apertures have further weakened the backing board structure and made it appear excessively flimsy.


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Tribes and Bands of Arkansas

The following list of tribes is compiled from the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico[1], by Frederick Webb Hodge, and The Indian Tribes of North America[2], by John R. Swanton, as well as others.

The Caddo Indians were farmers, ceded land and removed to Texas then removed to Indian Territory-Oklahoma

Reservations

From the mid-1800s, the official policy of the United States government toward the American Indian was to confine each tribe to a specific parcel of land called a reservation. Agencies were established on or near each reservation. A government representative, usually called an agent (or superintendent) was assigned to each agency. Their duties included maintaining the peace, making payments to the Native Americans based on the stipulations of the treaties with each tribe, and providinga means of communication between the native population and the federal government.

Sometimes, a single agency had jurisdiction over more than one reservation. And sometimes, if the tribal population and land area required it, an agency may have included sub-agencies.

The boundaries of reservations, over time, have changed. Usually, that means the reservations have been reduced in size. Sometimes, especially during the later policy of "termination," the official status of reservations was ended altogether.

The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America[3], the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America[4], and other sources. Those reservations named in bold are current federally-recognized reservations, with their associated agency and tribe(s). Others have historically been associated with the state or are not currently


recognized by the federal government. There are no current federally-recognized reservations in Arkansas.

Agencies

Agencies and subagencies were created as administrative offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its predecessors. Their purpose was (and is) to manage Indian affairs with the tribes, to enforce policies, and to assist in maintaining the peace. The names and location of these agencies may have changed, but their purpose remained basically the same. Many of the records of genealogical value were created by these offices.

The following list of agencies that have operated or now exist in Arkansas has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs...[5], Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians[6], and others.

A brief history of each agency and an explanation of the availability of atleast some records for each are listed on the page for the agency.

Superintendency

The Arkansas Superintendency was created in 1819, under the the Secretary of War until 1824 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established. The superintendency was disolved and the Cherokee Choctaw, Quapaw and other tribes living in the area west of Arkansas were placed in the new Western Superintendency.

↑ National Atlas of the United States of America -- Federal Lands and Indian Reservations Available online.

↑ Isaacs. Katherine M., editor. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. U.S. Data Sourcebook, Volume 11 Appendices, Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations, Appendix E, Indian Reservations. Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991.

↑ Hill, Edward E. (comp.). Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to


American Indians. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981. (FHL book 970.1 H551g.)

Bibliography

American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998.

Hill, Edward E. (comp.). Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981.

Historical Sketches for Jurisdictional and Subject Headings Used for the Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880. National Archives Microcopy T1105.

Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C.:Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethonology, Bulletin #30 1907. Available online.

Isaacs. Katherine M., editor. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. U.S. Data Sourcebook, Volume 11 Appendices,Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations, Appendix E, Indian Reservations. Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991.

National Atlas of the United States of America -- Federal Lands and Indian Reservations Available online.

Preliminary Inventory No. 163: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Services. Available online

Swanton John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #145 Available online.


and committee discussion touched on whether more nurses are needed in schools. The committee approved a Do Pass recommendation.

Waivers for School Districts
Rep. Reginald Murdock presented HB1377 that would allow school districts the same waivers granted to open-enrollment charter schools that draw from their districts. Murdock, several superintendents, and a school board president from eastern Arkansas testified that some of the policies waived for charter schools have penalized schools districts competing for the same students. During the lengthy and often animated discussion, proponents and opponents agreed the depth of the public conversation was important and overdue. The bill received a Do Pass recommendation in a close vote. Keep an eye out for more information from OEP on this interesting topic!

Limiting PARCC
Rep. Mark Lowery introduced HB1241 that would eliminate thePartnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test in June 2015. Representatives of the Arkansas School Counselors Association (ArSCA) spoke in favor of the bill and shared results of a school counselor survey that cited technology difficulties and the need for more teachers in classrooms during testing. The Arkansas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (AASCD) and Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families (AACF) spoke against the bill, saying the Governor’s common core task force should be allowed to conduct its work before any assessment options are eliminated. The committee voted a Do Pass recommendation, and the bill moves to the House of Representatives.

This morning the Senate education committee passed bills related to school consolidation and athletic competition between home school and public school teams.

School


Food Habits

American crows are omnivores and will eat almost anything. During the breeding season, American crows consume insects and their larvae, worms, fruits, grains, and nuts. They actively hunt and prey on small animals such as frogs, mice, and young rabbits, though they more likely to scavenge carrion such as roadkill. They also are significant nest predators, preying on the eggs and nestlings of smaller songbirds. In the fall and winter they eat more nuts, such as walnuts and acorns. On rare occasions, American crows will eat from bird feeders put out by humans. Crows often take advantage of human garbage.

American crows store food items such as meat and nuts in short-term caches. Caches are hiding places that are scattered around, rather than in one place. They mayMANILA, Philippines - The P1.29 billion in Distribution Acceleration Plan (DAP) funds that the University of the Philippines (UP) system received in 2012 allowed the university to embark on infrastructure and development projects that would further its academic excellence.

UP vice president for public affairs Prospero de Vera said the DAP-funded projects are either finished or in various stages of completion.

He said that the key initiatives of UP president Alfredo Pascual got the biggest share at P431.9 million. It was allocated to the implementation of the electronic interconnection of all UP campuses, rehabilitation of Quezon Hall, and implementation of the long-awaited faculty and staff housing project.

“Among the UP campuses nationwide, UP Diliman received the second biggest share at P321.75 million,” De Vera said.

Listed as priority projects for UP Diliman


are renovations, building extensions and infrastructure completion, notably the National Science Complex to the tune of P116.359 million.

De Vera said the UP Manila-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) accounted for the third largest slice of the DAP pie valued at P140.58 million.

It was earmarked for the purchase of sophisticated equipment, including an MRI and CT scan machines.

UP Cebu is also getting a massive infrastructure makeover costing P111.87 million. It will expand its library, modernize the science laboratories and improve laboratory equipment.

UP Manila got more than P95 million that went to the renovation and upgrading of its Pharmacology and Toxicology facilities, as well as the laboratories for the National Institutes of Health.blood-alcohol tests. She also contends there was insufficient evidence to support three of the charges.
Construed in favor of the verdict, the evidence shows that late in the morning of Saturday, May 31, 2003, Daniel picked up her two children and a neighbor child, seven-year-old Johnny Troutman, from Troutman's home. On their way to the store, Daniel lost control of her van and veered across oncoming traffic, off the road, and into a tree. She claimed a tire had a blowout, and there was evidence that some of the tires were in poor condition. In response to an emergency call, paramedics took all four of the van's occupants to Coffee Regional Medical Center. Troutman died as a result of the accident. An autopsy revealed that he had sustained lethal


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Flooding along the Mississippi River continues to dominate headlines, as Mississippi and Louisiana brace for record water levels. The river has already reached a record 58 feet in Natchez, Mississippi, and is expected to crest there at 64 feet on May 21, while Louisiana officials nervously consider whether to open the Morganza spillway, which would lower the river by several feet, but also deluge thousands of homes and businesses. Cities farther upstream, though, aren't letting days of flooding get in the way of events: Memphis is even going ahead with a World Championship BBQ competition.Sky Sport for a week, and none of the trainers have seen him since the party.Jackie gets a call from Cheo.She feels numb, wants to walk away, but she can’t because she has to stay strong for her trainers.

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Next week.Another team building session, with Rebecca throwing a glass of water at Jesse.I guess there really is tension between them.Drama!

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alleging that they were full-time students and officers in the student government at Kent State University in Ohio, filed this action[1] in the District Court on behalf of themselves and all other students on October 15, 1970. The essence of the complaint is that, during a period of civil disorder on and around the University campus in May 1970, the National Guard, called by the Governor of Ohio to preserve civil order and protect public property, violated students' rights of speech and assembly and caused injury to a number of students and death to several, and that the actions of the National Guard were without legal justification. They sought injunctive relief against the Governor to restrain him in the future from prematurely ordering National Guard troops to dutyto assure compliance with whatever training and operations procedures may be approved by that court. Respondents press for a remedial decree of this scope, even assuming that the recently adopted changes are deemed acceptable after an evidentiary hearing by the court. Continued judicial surveillance to assure compliance with the changed standards is what respondents demand.
In relying on the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, respondents seem to overlook the explicit command of Art. I, § 8, cl. 16, which vests in Congress the power:
"To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia


according to the discipline prescribed by Congress." (Emphasis added.)
The majority opinion in the Court of Appeals does not mention this very relevant provision of the Constitution. Yet that provision is explicit that the Congress shall have the responsibility for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia (now the National Guard), with certain responsibilities being reserved to the respective States. Congress has enacted appropriate legislation pursuant to Art. I, § 8, cl. 16,[10] and has also authorized the President *7 as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces to prescribe regulations governing organization and discipline of the National Guard.[11] The Guard is an essential reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, available with regular forces in time of war. The Guard also may be federalized inLittle Known Facts About Arborist Warrawong.

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extensive career on Broadway alone qualifies her as a living legend. She is represented this season (so far) withAn Enemy of the People, Dead Accountsand Golden Boy.

Beginning with the ill-fated musical The Red Shoesin 1993, hardly a season has gone by without her working being a part of things. She has some 47 Broadway productions to her credit, including several productions each for the Roundabout Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Lincoln Center Theatre.

Her many accolades include 8 Drama desk nominations and 1 win, and 10 Tony Award nominations and 5 wins: Awake and Sing!, The Coast of Utopia (all 3 parts!), The Light in the Piazza, South Pacificand most recently, The Royal Family.

2006: Best Costumes in a Play: Awake and Sing!

2007: Best Costumes in a Play: TheCoast of Utopia (I - III)

2005: Best Costumes in a Musical: The Light in the Piazza

2010: Best Costumes in a Musical: South Pacific

2011: Best Costumes in a Play: The Royal Family

Here are just a few of the other fine costumes she's designed over the years:

1997: Triumph of Love

2005: Little Women, Doubt, In My Life

2008 - Cry-Baby

2010: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

2011: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

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Louisiana Tech will not play in a bowl game this season after finishing 9-3 and turning down an invitation to play in the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl, a source told ESPN.

"Louisiana Tech was offered a bid Saturday to play Louisiana-Monroe," an Independence Bowl official told ESPN. "They turned it down."

Athletic director Bruce Van De Velde told The Associated Press that Independence Bowl organizers offered a spot in their game on Saturday afternoon, but the Bulldogs had other possible options still available to them. Van De Velde said he asked the Independence Bowl for more time to make a decision, but was told by game organizers that they could not wait.

"Nobody turned a bowl bid down," he said. "We asked for more time to vet two other opportunities thatbigger and better job in their mind?" he wrote.

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The Bulldogs finished third in the Western Athletic Conference, which has only one bowl tie-in. That went to champion Utah State. San Jose State, which finished second, will play in the Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman.

Louisiana Tech is leaving the WAC to join Conference USA, which has five bowl tie-ins, next season. The WAC will no longer sponsor football after this season.

"Under no circumstances did I ever think there was any possibility at all that we would not play in a bowl game," coach Sonny Dykes said in a statement. "It is a shame that our nationally recognized team and its 31 seniors have to end the season this way."

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This R13 application requests support for a conference entitled 2012 International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health to be held at Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront Hotel on May 15-18, 2012. This conference is sponsored by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM), which currently represents 46 academic health centers in the U.S. and Canada with programs focusing on education, research and clinical delivery of complementary therapies and models of integrative medicine. The site host for the conference is the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), a member of CAHCIM. OHSU is also a member of the unique group of institutions within Portland, the Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine, which include schools of acupuncture and oriental medicine, chiropractic, naturopathic medicine, as well as an allopathic medicalschool. This research conference is meant to showcase by way of keynote and plenary presentations, posters, symposia and workshops, original scientific research involving complementary and integrative medical therapies. Basic science investigators, clinical and health service researchers will present original research and moderate panel presentations selected through a peer-review process. Leaders in the field will be invited to provide keynote addresses and to moderate concurrent research presentations. The planning for the conference is overseen by the Organizing Committee, composed of the chairs of six committees (Program, Scientific Review, Finance, Fundraising, Communications, and Local Logistics, with liaison to the Consortium's Executive and Steering Committees). The chairs and members of the committees are leaders from the conventional and complementary medical research communities of the United States, Canada and Europe, including funded


system, as well as project manager and system designer, and he remains committed to installing the fourth camera when the town is ready. DSMF ¶¶ 15-16. While Mr. Mays "did not keep time sheets, etc. since this was a fixed cost project," in response to one of Plaintiff's interrogatories"state when you installed the three of four cameras" he maintains that "Manset town dock camera, upper Southwest Harbor town dock camera and third camera located on Coast Guard tower overlooking lower town dock [were] commenced August 2006 and completed by August 2007." PRDSMF Ex. 24 ¶ 2A. He also says that he will "continue to provide training, maintenance and repair of the camera systems at no further expense to the Town on an as-needed basis." PRDSMF Ex. 24 ¶"doing his best in his capacity as a volunteer fire chief to cobble together the grant application." Defs.' Mot. at 2.
The Defendants further dispute any connection between the addendum and the Mermaid Marine invoice by explaining that Mr. Mays, as a member of the "small, supportive coastal community" dedicated to making the project work, "stepped forward and committed to project completion within the limits of the approved grant." Defs.' Mot. at 2. The Defendants go on to assert that Mr. Mays did not knowingly commit fraud as required by the statute, but that he "committed to complete all aspects of the camera project" and that "this was his intent when he drafted [the invoice] in May 2006 and remains his intent today." Defs.' Mot. at 3.
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six more wounded during fierce gun battles with the troops mainly in Mullikandal, Minnaniranchan and Marattikannaddi areas in Mannar.

It said that four government troops were wounded during these clashes.

There was no immediate reaction from the rebels regarding these fresh attacks.

Over 4,000 people have been killed since Dec 26 due to upsurge violence in the country.

Independent verification of the battlefront casualties is not possible because journalists are barred from visiting the area.very welcome treat. The school offers many enjoyable activities in a safe and caring environment.

On Saturday, 8th July, the Provincial Grand Master of Valencia, Right Worshipful Brother, Michael Shilan, visited the school to see it for himself. First he met the Director of the School, Sr Juan Carlos Ortuño, then had a tour of the many facilities. He was impressed by the love and care that was shown to all the children, and the many facilities, sports and educational facilities available. He was particularly impressed by the fact that Sr Ortuño had built the entire site himself over the past sixteen years.

It is situated near Guadalest and covers more than 11,000 square meters and is surrounded by the tallest mountains in Alicante. There is accommodation for up to


eighty children at a time, fifty in log cabins and another thirty in tents. At the time of the visit over fifty children were in residence. The children, whose ages range from 8 to 14 years old, have a huge range of activities in which to participate. There are two adventure zones in the lower part of the camp with a huge wooden climbing frame and wall; there is also a shooting gallery with four lanes. Close by is a pine forest with many tracks through it, which also encompasses several suspension bridges through the treetops. There is also a three hundred square metre illuminated area for team games.

There are also many sporting activities available including archery, climbing at the specially built climbing school just four hundred metresRussian and Ukrainian military forces continued their stand-off in several military bases across the Crimean in Ukraine again, and diplomatic tensions grew across the globe as the crisis deepened.

Families of those Ukrainian soldiers trapped inside bases today started to arrive at the gates of the stand-off to see their loved ones, and voice their protest on Russia's growing military incursion into their region.

Europe Editor James Mates reports.

Ukrainian military sources say they have been told to surrender, and two Ukrainian warships say they have been given a deadline by which to do so, or face being stormed by Russian soldiers intent on seizing the ships.

So far, the military commanders have refused to leave their bases, despite the threats, but there are concerns over how long the bases can last,


surrounded and outnumbered as they are by the full strength of the Russian army.

Ukrainian defence ministry spokesman Maksim Prauta said four Russian navy ships were blocking a Ukrainian anti-submarine warship, as well as a command ship in Sevastopol's harbour.

Russian Navy ship entered the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on March 2. Credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner

Tonight, Ukrainian border guards claimed that Russian forces had seized control of the border guard checkpoint on the Ukrainian side of the ferry crossing between Crimea and Russia, and had brought truckloads of soldiers by ferry.

Read: Russia 'seizes control of Crimea border checkpoint'

Ukrainian servicemen and women gather at the gates of their military unit, in Lyubimovka, southwest of Simferopol, in the Crimea. Credit: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

This appears to corroborate comments made by Ukraine's acting president, whoearlier today said the numbers of Russian soldiers inside the Crimea "keeps growing", and repeated his appeal to the Kremlin to "stop aggression and piracy."

Ukraine: Size of Russian forces in Crimea 'keeps growing'

Ukraine'a ambassador to the UN told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that Russia has deployed around 16,000 troops from Russian territory into Crimea since February 24.

Tomorrow Nato will hold an emergency meeting on the crisis, at the request of Poland, as it felt under threat from the crisis.

European leaders will also hold an emergency meeting this Thursday to discuss ways to de-escalate the crisis, and discuss the possibility of sanctions.

The meetings come as President Obama said Russia had violated international law through its military intervention, and warned that the incursion would be costly


as the US government warned it will look at a serious of economic and diplomatic sanctions.

Read: Obama says Russia has violated international law in Ukraine

Prime Minister David Cameron, who spoke to Obama over the weekend, said Russia must de-escalate the situation, or face "costs and consequences."

Read: Cameron: Russian must de-escalate crisis or face 'costs'

However, snapped government documents appear to reveal that "costs" would not include actual sanctions.

The document was seen on the way into Downing Street today. Credit: @Politicalpics

A document seen being taken into Downing Street today seemed to outline the government's strategy to provide Ukraine with an alternative gas supply, should Russia cut theirs off, and that the government would "discourage any discussion of contingency military preparations" and would not support trade sanctions, or measures that may"close London's financial centre to the Russians."

More: Snapped document reveals UK strategy for Ukraine

Russia robustly defended its actions and position throughout the day, and this evening, Moscow's UN envoy said Ukraine's ousted leader Viktor Yanukovich sent a letter to Russian President Vladmir Putin requesting military assistance to restore law and order to the country.

Read: Yanukovich 'asked Russian to use forces to establish peace'

Putin did not make any comment on the crisis himself, but instead supervised a Russian military show of strength in an airfield near St Petersburg.

Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu Credit: Reuters

Accompanied by his defence minister and various state-run news agencies, he spent the day inspecting the spectacle of the Russian military might he commands.

Putin supervises Russian military 'live fire exercise'


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Millions of Americans celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, remembering the legacy left by the iconic civil rights advocate. One Duluth business decided to use the civic holiday dedicated King to use what many are calling questionable marketing.

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most important figures in twentieth century America, which makes it odd that he's yet to receive the cinematic bio-pic treatment. Now it looks like Oliver Stone will bring his story to the big screen, with 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' star Jamie Foxx playing the famous civil rights leader.

Giving a day of commemoration to one of the world's most instrumental civil rights leaders whose peaceful words and deeds contributed to a whole new understanding of equality and brotherhood seems likeThe consumer marketplace is flooded with a lively assortment of smart wearable electronics that do everything from monitor vital signs, fitness or sun exposure to play music, charge other electronics or even purify the air around you — all wirelessly.

Now, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers has created the world’s fastest stretchable, wearable integrated circuits, an advance that could drive the Internet of Things and a much more connected, high-speed wireless world.

Led by Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, the Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison, the researchers published details of these powerful, highly efficient integrated circuits today, May 27, 2016, in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

The advance is a platform for manufacturers seeking to expand the capabilities


Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday referred lawyer Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick — one of the women who accused now-Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of misconduct during his confirmation proceedings — to the Department of Justice for a criminal probe, alleging that they made "materially false" statements to Grassley's committee as it investigated the allegations.

Swetnick said in a September affidavit that Kavanaugh attended a 1982 house party during which she says she was gang raped — an accusation Kavanaugh vehemently denied and said was from the "Twilight Zone." Grassley said he is asking the Justice Department to look into whether Swetnick and Avenatti potentially conspired to give materially false statements to Congress and obstruct a congressional investigation.

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"The committee's investigation hasinvolved communicating with numerous individuals claiming to have relevant information," Grassley wrote in a letter to Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray. "While many of those individuals have provided the committee information in good faith, it unfortunately appears some have not."

The committee, in a news release, said the "obvious, subsequent contradictions" from Avenatti, as well as the "suspicious timing of the allegations," warrants a federal investigation.

In a separate statement, Grassley also said knowingly misleading congressional investigators is "unfair to my colleagues, the nominees" and other witnesses as a waste of resources for "destructive reasons."

Avenatti responded to the news of the criminal referral on Twitter, calling it "ironic" that Grassley is "now interested in investigations." He appeared to be speaking on behalf of himself and


of the manuscript.

Project support was provided in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 81171590, 31302077 and 81572019), the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Grant No. SKLVEB2013KFKT005), a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) in the year of 2014, the Starting Foundation for Talents of Xuzhou Medical College (Grant No. 53591317), the Science Foundation of Xuzhou Medical College (Grant Nos. 2014KJ08 and 2014KJ10). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
appointed. On appeal, Pleitez argues that he
was unconstitutionally deprived of the effective assistance of counsel during a
critical stage of trial proceedings. Because we find that the acceptance of an
addendum to a PSR recommending a more onerous restitution award
constitutes a critical stage, we VACATE and REMAND.
                              I. BACKGROUND
      On August 7, 2015, Pleitez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in sex
trafficking of children by force, fraud, or coercion. He agreed as part of his plea
agreement to waive the right to appeal his conviction and sentence but
reserved the right to raise claims of ineffective assistance of