simply mailed - several grams of the substance hidden in an envelope is enough for several ounces of the market-ready product.

"It's a tsunami of synthetic drugs," Viktor Ivanov, head of FSKN, Russia's top anti-drugs agency, said in televised remarks in early February.

After reaching a Russian middleman, the chemical is diluted in water or poisonous chemicals such as acetone or brake fluid, and sprayed on herbs such as chamomile. It is sold in small bags for between $5 and $100 depending on the drug's potency and the pushers' marketing skills.

And the effects of "spice" are sometimes worse than heroin addiction - according to a former heroin addict.

"I did not like the high," Roman, a lanky 27-year-old Muscovite recovering from almost three years of heroin addiction, told Al Jazeera describinghis experience of buying and trying spice in early December.

"It's unpredictable, like a roulette - one time you are happy, next time you want to jump out of the window or hide under the bed," he said after a meeting of Addicts Anonymous held in the backyard of a church in uptown Moscow.

Fidgeting in an uncomfortable wooden chair and constantly running his hand through his messy blond hair, he added: "That's the scariest drug I've ever tried."

Yet another epidemic

Russia is home to more than eight million drug addicts, FSKN's Ivanov said - although his agency's rigorous statistics include occasional and one-time drug users as addicts.

In the late 1990s, Afghan heroin flooded Russia via ex-Soviet Central Asia. With a population of 143 million, in 2008, Russia devoured 70 tonnes


of heroin - more than one-fifth of the drug consumed globally - becoming "the single largest national heroin consumer in the world", the UN said.

As authorities fought to cut down the heroin flow, Russians switched to new drugs.

One was "crocodile" - a cheap intravenous opiate made of codeine pills which was named after the scale-like, gangrenous skin lesions it causes. First concocted in Russian prisons, it ravaged Russia in the early 2010s, decimating former heroin addicts. The average life expectancy of a "crocodile" addict was about two years.

But in 2013, the health ministry made codeine pills a prescription-only drug, and "crocodile" died out - along with thousands of addicts. By that time, spice had already mutated into Russia's most dangerous drug.

Recently, Russia's war on drugs got mixed upwith Kremlin's new geopolitical battle.

Blaming the Ukrainians

A triumphant FSKN statement accused Ukrainians, Moscow's new archenemies, of organising a drug cartel and channelling the proceeds to finance Kiev's war against pro-Russian rebels.

FSKN said its forces arrested some 50 mobsters, part of a "transnational criminal community" that kept its money in a bank owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, the billionaire governor of the Dniepropetrovsk region.

The cartel was allegedly active in 30 of Russia's 85 provinces selling the "killer spice", the February 6 statement claimed. An agency official told a national television network the spice trade involved organisers of last year's pro-Western revolt in Ukraine and financed Kiev's war against pro-Moscow separatists.

Kolomoisky's press service was not available to comment on the allegations.

The authors of an "analytical" television show on NTV, a Kremlin-controlled


national broadcaster, claimed in October that Ukrainian authorities were allegedly behind the import of the most dangerous spice strains to Russia.

"Somebody is deliberately trying to poison the young generation in Russia," Sergei Vaganov, head of a rehabilitation centre in the western Siberian city of Surgut, told NTV.

Ineffective ban

On February 3, President Vladimir Putin signed a long-awaited bill banning all possible variations of "spice" and punishing its production and distribution with hefty fines or jail sentences of up to eight years in cases where the drug causes a user's death.

Anti-drug campaigners criticised the law saying spice pushers should be treated like heroin dealers and face stricter punishment such as life in jail.

"This law is an indulgence," Kirill Petrov, an analyst with the City Without Drugs, Russia's most outspoken non-governmentalMANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranked eight on best countries to be a woman, the World Economic Forum (WEF) reported.

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In the latest Global Gender Gap Index report, the Philippines garnered an average score of 7.99.

According to WEF, Iceland remains at the top of the index with a score of 8.58, making its 10th consecutive year to lead the global ranking.

Norway, Sweden, and Finland ranked second, third, and fourth respectively for the best countries to be a woman.

All three countries are Nordic nations, the WEF said. Norway scored an average of 8.35, Sweden got 8.22 average score, while Finland tallied 8.21.

WEF said Nicaragua climbed its way from 62nd back in 2006 to rank fifth for the 2018 index report. Nicaragua was dubbed by the WEF as “one of the


home uninhabitable,” writes Burnett, who works as a climate change officer in the British Virgin Islands.

Irma was the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, and it left a trail of destruction and despair across the Caribbean and Florida. The British Virgin Islands, a territory with a population of 36,000, took a direct hit.

The storm killed four, destroyed businesses, eroded beaches, shredded hillside vegetation, flattened homes and left an untold number of people adrift and sickened from the destruction of water and electricity systems. Maria, another Category 5 hurricane, followed two weeks later, grazing the Virgin Islands but devastating the nearby island of Puerto Rico, which had become a staging ground for its Irma-ravaged neighbors.

The hurricanes of 2017 left no one unscathed in the Caribbean islands itconnection.”

Burnett began writing the book about a month after the hurricane made landfall. She wrote at times in longhand and on many nights she worked by candlelight because many of the homes on the island, including hers, had no power. Many still remain in the dark four months later.

She says was stopped by police many nights for breaking curfew, because she was driving home late from interviews or from the local sewer treatment plant, which had become a refuge because it was one of the few places on the island with power that she could access.

A decade ago, when she first started her work on climate change, many people in the islands didn’t really know what it was or that it had anything to do with them because


The making of the Mystique

FIFTY YEARS after its publication, The Feminine Mystique has been credited with everything from single-handedly sparking the women’s movement to perpetuating an outdated and long-gone stereotype of the American family.

Neither is true, but many of the issues that Betty Friedan’s book raised–such as the role of women and the nuclear family–make The Feminine Mystique worth looking back at today.

Published in 1963, Friedan’s book shone a spotlight on a hidden corner of American society–the dissatisfaction and depression of the suburban housewife. Friedan tore apart the image of the happy homemaker who lived for nothing more than satisfying her husband and children.

The book flew in the face of the advertising images of the day, depicting women with starched aprons and happy smiles, hovering over a gratefuloutrages of being a woman in U.S. society. Things that many women experienced as individuals were now beginning to be seen as a collective experience.

However, Friedan’s choice to focus her book solely on conditions for white, middle-class women meant she missed an opportunity to relate to the everyday struggles that the majority of working-class women, particularly Black women, experienced at home and at work.

Friedan’s focus on suburban housewives was an odd choice, considering her background on the left, in the civil rights movement and the labor movement, and as a writer for pro-union publications. Clearly, this omission of working-class women and their families wasn’t a mistake, but a conscious decision not to take up these questions.

In the end, The Feminine Mystique misses the boat–among the solutions posed in


the end of the book, for example, is the suggestion of hiring someone to help with the housework. Pretty cold comfort to the women workers who were paid–very little, and with few legal rights, I should add–to do domestic labor.

This left Friedan’s book with little to say to the majority of working-class women who tackle the double burden of paid labor in the workplace and unpaid labor at home. However, this isn’t to say that working-class women were unaffected by some of the messages of the book–most of all, Friedan’s descriptions of the effects of the labor women perform in the isolation of the home.

For her informative book A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, historian Stephanie Coontz studied pollsimportant as women come to make up a larger and larger section of a growing low-wage labor force. According to a recent survey of more than 2,000 nannies, housecleaners and caregivers in 14 cities, the median wage was just $6.15 an hour, according to the National Partnership for Women and Families.

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THE WOMEN’S movement that erupted in the decade after Friedan’s book would be more radical than any of the advice dispensed in Friedan’s book. Even the National Organization for Women (NOW), which Friedan helped to found in 1966, initially backed more left-wing demands under the influence of the radicalization of the times.

The 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality, which Friedan is credited with calling


found guilty of inciting discrimination against Dutch Moroccans. Wilders successfully framed this verdict as yet another attempt of the elite to silence him - and thereby hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens.

Despite Wilders' recent successes in the opinion polls, it is important to emphasise that his direct influence on policy making is very limited. With his polarising and strongly stigmatising statements, he has alienated himself from basically all other parties.

About two months ago, the current prime minister and leader of the conservative liberals (VVD), Mark Rutte, was the last leader of a big mainstream party that ruled out collaboration with Wilders in a government coalition.

This might well be one of the reasons why the PVV is doing less well in the polls lately - why vote for aTHE BBC RADIO BALLADS 2006 -2017

The BBC commissioned a new series of Radio Ballads – inspired by the ground-breaking programmes by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker of the 1950s and 60s – in 2005, and the pilot programme, The Song of Steel, was written and produced by John Tams and John Leonard in that year. Jez Lowe was invited to participate in the second programme, The Ballad of The Big Ships, and soon became one of the long-term principal writers for all the subsequent series. There were six programmes in the first series, followed by a one-off, The Ballad of the Miners Strike in 2010, then six programmes to coincide with the London hosting of the Olympic Games in 2012, and then five for The Ballad of The


Great War, starting in 2014. Another “ballad” production, The Ballad of Child Migration, was turned down by the BBC, but was then adopted by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum to coincide with an exhibition they were promoting in 2015, and live performances of this, featuring most of the Radio Ballads team, including Jez, are an on-going project, most recently at the 2017 BBC Folk Awards show. More performances are expected in 2018.

Jez often refers to “the seventy-odd songs I’ve done for the Radio Ballads”, but in fact there’s somewhat less than that, a mere 58 at last count! Some of these songs have been released by Jez commercially, often in re-written or embellished form, but most have not. One or two have been released by others, notably TheUnthanks, who covered the song MONKEY DUNG MAN on an album, a few years ago. One song, OLD HAMMERHEAD, was an older composition used in the shipbuilding programme, and at least three of the songs submitted for inclusion ended up not being used at all. At time of writing, two of the Great war programmes have yet to be broadcast, so it’s not yet known if all the songs written for this series will be included.

The songs for the series, as broadcast, have all been recorded by Andy Seward at his studio in South Yorkshire, with the same team of musicians, including John McCusker, Andy Cutting and latterly Michael McGoldrick. However, Jez actually recorded demos of each song prior to this, and all of these are still in


Senate Democrats vowed to reintroduce it. When the Department of Defense published its three-year strategic plan, it listed the DREAM Act as a way it could replenish its ranks. BORDER DEATHS: Near-record bodies found at Mexican-Ariz. border SHARP DECREASE: Fewer illegal immigrants entering USA IMMIGRATION POLICY: Full coverage on the immigration "If we needed to expand the pool of eligible youth, the (DREAM) initiative would be one of several ways to do it," spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said in an e-mail. Retired Army lieutenant colonel Margaret Stock says a "crisis in military manpower" is looming as the population ages and the economy improves. She says the military struggled to recruit enough people when the economy was booming just a few years ago because people had more employment options. "DREAMwould give us the ability to tap into a huge number of people who grew up in the United States, were educated here, they talk like Americans, they look like Americans and their loyalty lies with America," says Stock, a former West Point professor who teaches political science at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. The act would allow illegal immigrants who met several requirements — 35 or younger, came to the U.S. before turning 16, have lived here at least five years, no criminal record and have earned a high school diploma — to become conditional residents for up to six years. They would be eligible to become permanent residents if they completed two years of college or two years in the military. The Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan


to join the military under the DREAM Act. Born to a single mother in the slums of Brazil, he came to live with relatives in the U.S. at 14. He graduated from high school, got an associate's degree at Miami Dade College and hopes to get a four-year degree and become a high school teacher. He says he wants to repay the country that gave him the opportunity to succeed. "I have friends who would have loved to join the military," says Matos, 24. "I feel that all of us are just trying to serve and contribute to the only country we know and love." Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keepHome » Metro » Environment

THE Urban Ecology and Energy Conservation Forum was held at Tongji University.

The forum was supported by UN Environment, and was given a theme of soil ecology environmental assessment and remediation this year. It served as an online and offline platform for academic exchange, featuring speeches and discussion session by experts, as well as online communication.

During the forum, Director of Soil Science Society of China Luo Yongming introduced studies and trends analysis on soil pollution and remediation in China. Professor Li Fengting, Deputy Dean of UN Environment – Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, talked about soil cleaning and heavy metal reclamation.

China started its soil protection work about two decades ago. Heavy metal has been the major pollutant of China’s soil environment.


Smith graded 61st out of 62 players. So PFF clearly felt Will Smith was by for the most disappointing of the three. Also notable is that Cam Jordan was rated as 3rd in run defense of the 62 graded players, so that's a real positive. Even better he was second in total tackles, and first in "stops". Unfortunately his grade was hurt by poor pass rushing. Overall I think the Saints' DE play was passable with the exception of Will Smith, who could almost not have graded out worse.

DT: Out of 85 graded interior defenders, Akiem Hicks and Brodrick Bunkley ended up tied at 27th. So not bad for either. Tom Johnson wasn't far behind at 39th, and most disappointing was Sedrick Ellis who was 61st. Their bestpass rusher was Johnson who ranked 19th in that category, and their best run stopper was Bunkley who ranked 12 of all 85 graded linemen. Despite never getting a sack, Ellis did get 12th of all graded players in QB Hurries. Overall the production from this position was ok for the Saints. Definitely not great, but adequate.

4-3 OLB: Of 43 linebackers that qualified to make final grading, the Saints only had two in David Hawthorne and Jonathan Vilma. Vilma ended 32nd and Hawthorne ended 36th, so needless to say both were near the bottom and the OLB play for the Saints was largely atrocious.

MLB: Curtis Lofton was the only qualifier and he came in 45th out of 53, which is shockingly low. He was the 2nd worst blitzing


and the 5th worst in coverage, so those were the main reasons why he graded so poorly. He was also 5th in most missed tackles. I think most of us felt like he was the bright spot on the defense this year, but PFF does not agree.

CB: As you could have guessed, the Saints' corners didn't do well this season in the grading. Of 113 graded corners, Jabari Greer graded best at 60th overall. Patrick Robinson was a bad 89th overall, which is higher than I would have expected. Corey White was 100th, and I am floored there were 13 corners that actually did worse. Corey White did grade second best in blitzing, but was also 2nd worst (112th) at defending the run. Quarterbacks completed 77.8% of theirpasses when throwing to Corey White, 3rd worst of 113 players. Patrick Robinson gave up 17.6 yards per completion, 2nd worst of 113 players. P-Rob also gave up 9 touchdown passes, more than anyone. Horrible.

S: Of 88 graded safeties, Roman Harper came in 87th and Malcom Jenkins came in 88th. No joke. Isa Abdul-Quddus came in a middle of the pack 40th. In coverage, Harper was dead last and Jenkins was 4th worst. Against the run, IAQ was 5th worst and Jenkins was 6th worst. Roman Harper gave up 46 receptions, no other safety gave up for than 41. Basically the play on the back end was possibly the worst ever.

My conclusions here is the only play the Saints got that was even passable was from the defensive


line with the exception of Will Smith. After that, the linebacker play and the defensive backfield (basically the back 7) was the worst ever. The safety play in particular was could not possibly be more abysmal.

K: Thomas Morstead was rated as the 7th best kickoff man this year and Garrett Hartley graded as 45th out of 56. Which is kind of whatever, his conversion percentage remains fine.

P: Morstead was rated the #2 punter in the NFL only behind LSU Tiger Donnie Jones of the Houston Texans.

ST: Courtney Roby rated as the 15th best special teamer out of over 1,000 people graded. Awesome for him, and totally deserved. The Saints are crazy if they don't re-sign him. Isa Abdul-Quddus graded poorly and was tied for 3rd in missed tackles.Correction appended.

A handful of oil and gas waste disposal wells with names like "Deep Throat" and "Flower Power" have been linked by seismologists to an increasingly strong earthquake swarm around Oklahoma City.

Their peer-reviewed paper, released Thursday and published in the journal Science, finds that wells with "exceedingly high" injection volumes likely changed underground pressures and triggered earthquakes more than 20 miles away.

The paper focuses on four high-volume wells in southeast Oklahoma City and a seismic swarm that started near the suburb of Jones, Okla., in 2009.

"We view the expanding Jones earthquake swarm as a response to regionally increased pore pressure from fluids injected at the SE OKC wells," the study says.

But New Dominion LLC, the oil producer that owns the four wells, says it operates the wells safely


had appreciated."

The quakes in the Jones swarm have been persistent but small. They've rarely gotten as strong as magnitude 4. But the study warns that the longer the smaller quakes keep spreading, the greater the likelihood that they could rupture a fault capable of a magnitude-6 or -7 quake, which would cause serious damage and possibly casualties.

"The increasing proximity of the earthquake swarm to the Nemaha fault presents a potential hazard for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area," the study said.

Jay Hanas, a professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, shares the concern that the current small earthquakes could lead to a much larger earthquake.

"There's obviously something very sensitive going on in this area," Hanas said.

Beyond the prospect of a big earthquake, the constant shaking has acompared with 1976 to 2007.

It's also a major reason that Oklahoma has had more earthquakes magnitude 3 or higher than California in the last nine months (EnergyWire, May 7).

The four New Dominion wells, the study says, "likely" triggered 20 percent of the earthquakes in the central United States from 2008 to 2013. In that region, there have also been earthquakes linked to injection in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas and Texas.

Wastewater disposal rates have varied across the state in recent years as some companies ramped up recycling, while others developed production methods involving huge amounts of water.

In central Oklahoma, waste fluid disposal volumes nearly doubled from 2004 to 2008, a change that the study says tracks with the increase in earthquakes.

A chunk of that increase is from New Dominion. The


but says Keranen did not consult with the company's geologist.

"At best, these incorrect assumptions are irresponsible," the statement said. It added a hint at legal action, saying the company is withholding further comment while it "consults legal counsel."

The company has been familiar with Keranen's research for years. New Dominion's vice president of exploration, Jean Antonides, has previously dismissed any connection between the company's wells and earthquakes.

Antonides didn't respond to a request for comment when the findings about the four company wells were presented at a conference of seismologists in May (EnergyWire, May 2). But he commented extensively on Keranen's findings that disposal wells farther east from Oklahoma City, where New Dominion is a dominant operator, likely triggered the state's largest recorded earthquake in November 2011 (EnergyWire, July 24,2012).

He has also complained that researchers have not asked the company for injection data it is willing to share (EnergyWire, Dec. 3, 2012).

Antonides, a geologist, has authored a paper asserting a link between the Oklahoma earthquakes and changing levels of water in area aquifers caused by sudden rainfall after prolonged drought.

The Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) has also dismissed links between the Jones swarm and drilling activity. In February, OGS issued a statement saying, "A direct link to oil and gas activity ... cannot be established." OGS Director Randy Keller said yesterday that his agency is still evaluating the paper.

Keranen began studying the Jones swarm while she was a professor at the University of Oklahoma, before departing for Cornell last year.

She was also among the first to link the


damaging magnitude-5.7 quake in November 2011 east of Oklahoma City to disposal wells near the epicenter (EnergyWire, April 19, 2012).

She co-authored the study released last week with colleagues from the University of Colorado and Geoff Abers of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

Scientists have known for decades that underground injection of waste fluid -- from drilling or other industrial activities -- can lubricate faults and unleash earthquakes. In addition to dewatering, the hydraulic fracturing techniques that have powered the nation's oil and gas boom also create vast amounts of toxic waste fluid to be disposed of.

Researchers have linked such deep disposal wells to earthquakes in Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio and Texas. In some instances, wells were shut down. But in others, state officials disagreed with the researchers' findings.

Correction:he was stepping down as the job was having an impact on "his role as a husband and father".

The new leader was to be elected at the party’s annual general meeting in February.

But last night, Mr Swann said he was bringing forward his departure date.

“After consultation with family and close colleagues, I have informed the party chairman Lord Empey that the process to select my successor should be brought forward.

“The Ulster Unionist Council will meet on Saturday 9 November at the Hilton hotel in Templepatrick to select a new party leader.”

The UUP has likely moved the date forward because of an imminent Westminster election. Going to the polls with Mr Swann effectively a lame duck leader would be detrimental to the party at a time when the DUP


rider in and spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out whether problems are down to the rider or adapting the bike to the new technical regulations.

There is a further complication among the private teams, and one which is far more serious and far more threatening. The paddock is suffering a spate of sponsorship and team woes, both legal and financial. Forward Racing team boss has been arrested on charges of money laundering and corruption, putting the continued existence of the team at threat. Forward may not make it to the next few races, let alone into next season.

CWM boss Anthony Constantinou is to face trial on charges of sexual assault, and his company is under investigation for fraud and money laundering. The original businessCWM was promoting – CWM FX, a foreign exchange trading platform – has ceased operating, as the exchange platform CWM was selling to its clients was withdrawn by the platform owner. Despite denials by LRC Honda team owner Lucio Cecchinello, there are credible reports that the CWM name and logo will disappear from the bikes and garage before the end of the year, possibly as early as Brno. It is looking increasingly likely that CWM will no longer be sponsoring the team for 2016, making it impossible for LCR to run two bikes, forcing them to cut back down to one.

The Aspar team is also rumored to be in financial difficulty, after losing their Drive M7 sponsorship at the start of the year. Though the logos of Power


a run down of the possible and likely permutations for 2016.

All this uncertainty has made the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha seats two of the most desirable on the grid. The team is well run and (relatively) well financed, and will have the bikes currently being raced by championship leaders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo at their disposal. Both Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro are out of contract at the end of this year, but both look likely to stay. Smith is having an impressive year in MotoGP, and is currently sixth in the championship, tied on points with fifth-placed man Andrea Dovizioso. He is the best-placed satellite rider, and has continued to improve. Smith changed his approach a little this year, working more calmly and quietly with thetalent.

There had been talk last year of Jonas Folger moving up to the Tech 3 squad, but Folger's contract kept him in Moto2 for 2015. Despite winning two races this year, Folger has proven to be extremely inconsistent, not the basis for a good MotoGP rider. The one rider who has caught the eye of MotoGP teams and factories is Alex Rins, but Rins is committed to staying in Moto2 for another year and trying to win a title there. Given his rapid progress this year, that sounds like an entirely achievable prospect.

Smith and Espargaro are not the only riders likely to stay where they are. Cal Crutchlow has already scored a podium for the CWM LCR Honda team, and has adapted to the Honda RC213V very rapidly.


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BEIJING (Reuters) - General Motors Co’s China joint ventures will be able to generate enough new energy vehicle (NEV) sales volume to account for NEV production quotas by 2019 and without the need to buy credits, GM China chief Matt Tsien said on Monday.

Workers inspect Baojun E100 all-electric battery cars at a final assembly plant operated by General Motors Co and its local joint-venture partners in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, November 8, 2017. Picture taken November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Norihiko Shirouzu

China has set stringent production quotas for NEVs which automakers must meet by 2019, a move that is prompting a flurry of electric car deals and new launches of battery electric and plug-in hybrid models as


As parliament again debates the same-sex marriage bill, Dr Ruth Paley, editor of the House of Lords 1660-1832 section takes a look back at parliament, the law, and same-sex marriage…

Despite the controversy that surrounds current discussions about same-sex marriage it is difficult for us in the 21st century to appreciate just how far attitudes to homosexuality have changed over the relatively recent past. In 1953, just 14 years before the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 partially decriminalised homosexual acts between consenting men, the career of promising Labour politician William James Field was ruined when he was convicted of importuning in the urinals of a London tube station. Field’s offence was (according to somewhat shaky and uncorroborated police evidence) to have smiled at young men in neighbouring stalls andto have been seen to ‘look to a young man’s person’.

In the past moral condemnation of homosexuality meant that it was perceived as an offence against God and society. It was thus properly a matter for state intervention. Buggery had always been illegal under church law but in the mid 16th century Parliament made it illegal under statute law as well – and imposed the death penalty on those who were convicted. The law was reformed in 1861 when the Offences Against the Person Act consolidated its provisions but removed the death penalty, substituting life imprisonment or a term of imprisonment of at least ten years instead. Additionally it formalised the offence of indecent assault that had emerged over the previous century. The 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act


was the case of 42 year old sawyer James Allen, killed in a workplace accident in 1829. His workmates had often teased him about his somewhat effeminate voice but being a sawyer was a job that required considerable physical strength and it seems that until Allen’s body was taken to St Thomas’s Hospital and stripped for examination no one had suspected the truth – that James Allen was actually a woman, especially as he (or rather she) had been married for some 20 years. The story became the media sensation of the day. The Allen house was besieged by crowds curious to find out just what Mrs Allen had known about her ‘husband’, some of them even going so far as to claim that if Mr Allen wasa woman, then it followed that Mrs Allen must be a man.

Assisted by the coroner and inquest jury, who clearly found it impossible to believe that the couple were lesbians, Mrs Allen was able to take refuge in conventional gender stereotyping and her position as a ‘virtuous woman’. She explained that she had suspected that her husband was ‘imperfect’ but he was affectionate and hard working. She had (or so she said) never seen or touched him naked and had no idea that he was bandaging his breasts or that his habit of wearing long loose fitting tunics was designed to disguise his figure. The coroner insisted that ‘I am certain Mrs Allen did not find out how she had been imposed on till lately’ and one of


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When Moshe finally descended and destroyed the amulet he asked Aharon to explain what the people had done to him. Moshe recognized that Aharon was not responsible for


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A 59-year-old man was referred to the breast team with a presumed right-sided breast abscess which had not responded to antibiotics. His medical history included epilepsy, hypertension and emphysema for which he takes tegretol and amlodipine.

His mother had breast cancer at 50. He works as a caretaker and lives with his partner. He is an ex-smoker with a 60 pack-year history and minimal alcohol intake.

On examination he had a painful, fluctuant area in the upper outer quadrant of the right chest wall with skin ulceration. It was presumed that this was a simpleScarred by an extramarital affair and weakened by two failed presidential campaigns, Democrat John Edwards is pushing to return to the national political stage by championing an issue he once owned: a crusade to end poverty.

With the 2008 presidential campaign safely over, the Southern populist emerged again this past week, testing the waters in two events that provided him publicity without scrutiny. How he'll make his voice heard is yet to be seen _ he faces fighting for his signature cause outside of elected office, and without many political allies.

"It's probably premature to try and figure out how all of that plays out, but I do know that the work he's done and the beliefs he has for addressing poverty are very important and shouldn't be completely overshadowed,"


said John Moylan, a South Carolina attorney who is a friend of Edwards. "We'll see him continuing that very important work."

In his speeches, Edwards pushed the same themes he did on the campaign trail, speaking about "Two Americas" and an economic divide that requires health care changes and global cooperation to combat. But he avoided questions from reporters, and took only pre-screened questions at a speech in Indiana. A moderator at a debate in California even tried to declare it an off-the-record event.

Edwards had not spoken publicly since early August, when he acknowledged a past affair with a woman hired to produce videos of him as he plotted a presidential bid in 2006. He sought sanctuary in the aftermath, canceling all appearances in what he said was aneffort to avoid distracting Barack Obama's bid for the White House.

Once considered a top pick for a high-profile position in the president-elect's administration, Edwards must try to push his way back into the national political dialogue from the fringe. While Obama praised Edwards in early campaign visits to North Carolina, he distanced himself after Edwards admitted to the affair, never mentioning his name in the campaign's final stops.

Chris Lehane, a Democratic consultant who helped former President Bill Clinton through his cheating scandal, suspected Edwards might be able to make a public return in a couple years because the memory of the affair may quickly fade.

"A year in politics is like a dog year," Lehane said. "You're not talking about something that's going to happen in a week or


two weeks or a couple months. This has to be a protracted program with a long-term strategy. But he certainly has the skill sets, the talents and the communication skills to have an effective comeback."

Edwards, who wore a wedding band during his recent appearances, so far has kept his talks limited to policy and current events, giving no hint of the turmoil in his personal life. His speech in Indiana drew strong applause throughout the night. His appearance in California was welcomed by about 1,000 people attending a conference.

There are a number of reasons Edwards might expect people not to show up for his appearance. But he's still a curiosity and still respected for his views by anti-poverty advocates and some voters. Edwards said in Indiana he wouldlike to continue working, inside politics or out of it, for those struggling in poverty.

"He's doing OK," Moylan said. "The family's working through issues, and he's continuing to look at the ways he can continue to fight what's important to him."

In between his 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, Edwards sought that work by helping establish a center on poverty at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also created two nonprofit entities that helped him travel the country speaking on the subject and provided a lifeline for one high school's students to pay for college.

David McLennan, a professor of communication and political science at Peace College in Raleigh who has been following Edwards' return, said it would be "very unlikely" to see Edwards


The Harvard-MIT MD-PhD Program provides an integrated approach to educating physician-scientists to become leaders in American medicine and biomedical research. In this program, students combine medical studies at Harvard Medical School with graduate studies at Harvard or MIT. The program offers students arguably the largest selection of academic laboratories in the world for research training, complemented by outstanding teaching hospitals that are poised to rapidly translate basic discoveries into new clinical applications. Students choose between two medical education curricula: a case based approach that combines small-group teaching and problem-oriented learning with more traditional teaching methods (New Pathway), or a traditional curriculum with an emphasis on quantitative analysis and technology (Health Sciences and Technology). Both curricula include rigorous clinical clerkships at the Harvard teaching hospitals. Students also choose fromamong the four graduate programs in the Division of Medical Sciences at Harvard Medical School, other graduate programs in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and programs in the Graduate Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT. The medical and scientific training components are integrated throughout the program, beginning with a course in the Molecular Biology of Human Disease and a laboratory research rotation that are taken by all MSTP students during the summer before the first academic year. Although not all MD-PhD students are awarded funding at the time of matriculation, the program is designed to include all students at Harvard Medical School who are simultaneously pursuing the MD and PhD degrees. Unfunded students can enter the program at the time of enrollment in a


CARTER, ISAAC (died 1741), printer

Name: Isaac Carter

Date of death: 1741

Spouse: Ann Carter (née Lewis)

Gender: Male

Occupation: printer

Area of activity: Business and Industry; Printing and Publishing

Author: William Llewelyn Davies

A native of Carmarthenshire, he has the honour of having established the first permanent printing press in Wales. This was at Adpar (also called Trefhedyn) in the parish of Llandyfrïog, Cardiganshire, in 1718; as far as is known the first two publications to issue from the press were Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a'i Chynheddfau. At least three other (and larger) works were produced by the Adpar press : Eglurhad o Gatechism Byrraf y Gymanfa, 1719; Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol, 1722; and Y Christion Cyffredin, 1724.

The press was transferred toMILWAUKEE -- Mark Reynolds raised his right index finger in the air as his game-ending RBI single bounced safely past the diving third baseman. The bearded slugger was mobbed at first by smiling teammates pulling on his jersey and patting his head.

Rodriguez had given up a game-tying homer to Mark Teixeira on a 3-2 pitch with two outs in the top of the ninth.

No wonder the Brewers looked like a bunch of giddy Little Leaguers.

"It was great, you come back the next half-inning and do that? That's outstanding," manager Ron Roenicke said.

It was the kind of scrappy victory Roenicke sought with third baseman Aramis Ramirez sidelined by a hamstring injury and outfielder Ryan Braun already on the disabled list with an oblique injury. He also gave another one


a low-and-away changeup from Rodriguez for a homer to right. It was the first run allowed all season by Rodriguez, who blew his first save after 15 straight successful opportunities.

"Sometimes you've got to pick them up because he's been picking us up a lot," Reynolds said.

Reynolds finished 2-for-5, though his game winner came by an unexpected fashion for someone known as a feast-or-famine slugger and hitting .235.

"Great team win; everybody chipping in," Roenicke said.

The Brewers found a way despite two more injury scares.

Star outfielder Carlos Gomez was hit in the left forearm by a pitch from starter David Phelps in the third, causing him to writhe in pain a few seconds. He stayed in the game, and Roenicke said X-rays were negative. Starter Matt Garza limped off afterby injuries. With Ivan Nova (elbow) already out for the season, the Yankees announced before the game that struggling left-hander CC Sabathia would join Pineda (upper back) on the disabled list with a right knee injury.

Prior to the game, the Brewers gave Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter a gold-plated bat and a $10,000 check for his Turn 2 Foundation, which promotes healthy lifestyles among youth. The gifts were presented by Dick Groch, a special assistant to general manager Doug Melvin. Groch was the Yankees scout in 1992 who recommended the team draft Jeter in the first round that year.

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Yankees C John Ryan Murphy groundout to second was overturned to an infield single in the eighth after manager Joe Girardi requested a replay review, which took 53 seconds. ...


Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe by Member States of the Economic Commission for Europe whose territory contains inland waterways, other than those forming a coastal route, which form part of the network of inland waterways of international importance as defined in the European Agreement on Main Inland Waterways of International Importance (AGN), Geneva, 19 January 1996.

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The Agreement applies to the Danube (including the Vienna Danube channel), the March, the Enns and the Traun, as well as their arms, side-channels, ports and branches. The Agreement shall not apply to the following:

1. The New Danube (bypass channel) from the inlet (km 1,938.06) to Weir II (km 1,918.30);

3. Altenwörth barrage weir: the section of the old Danube armthe Rhine are exercised jointly in the framework of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine. Therefore, the provisions of the Agreement ADN and its annexes as well as their amendments must be implemented in the Rhine regulations by the Central Commission in accordance with the above-mentioned Convention. The Member State of the Central Commission undertakes, in this context, to assist in taking the necessary measures for the implementation of this agreement on the Rhine.

Germany

Declaration:

“With reference to Article 14, paragraph 3, sub-paragraph b, of the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways (ADN), the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany declares that the implementation of the Agreement on the Rhine is subject to compliance with the procedures set out in


the statutes of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCR), and its implementation on the Moselle is subject to compliance with the procedures set out in the statutes of the Moselle Commission.”

Luxembourg

Declaration made upon signature and confirmed upon ratification:

[The] Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, on signing this Agreement, declares that the obligations arising therefrom in no way affect the commitments assumed by Luxembourg by virtue of its membership in the European Union.

Netherlands

Declaration:

"With reference to Article 14, paragraph 3, sub b, of the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways, the kingdom of the Netherlands declares that the implementation of the Agreement on the Rhine, Waal and Lek is subject to compliance with the procedures set out in thestatutes of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine."

SwitzerlandDeclaration under article 14, paragraph 3(a):

This Agreement shall not extend to: (a) the Rhine upstream of the highway overpass in Rheinfelden; (b) lakes Constance, Léman, Majeur and Lugano. Declaration under article 14, paragraph 3(b): The implementation of this Agreement on the Rhine downstream of the “Mittlere Rheinbrücke” in Basel is subject to compliance with the procedures set out in the statutes of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine. Accordingly, the provisions of the Agreement and its annexes as well as the ad hoc amendments must be implemented in accordance with the Revised Convention on the Navigation of the Rhine, signed in Mannheim on 17 October 1868 by the Grand Duchy of Baden, Bavaria, France, the


Colombo: Aravinda de Silva could soon take up an advisory role with the Sri Lankan cricket team, as Sri Lanka Cricket is mulling over his name.

SLC is set to rope in the legendary cricketer after its national team suffered humiliating losses in all formats of the game, against India in a recent home tour.

According to Cricbuzz, SLC has managed to convince de Silva to come on board as an advisor, despite the former all-rounder not showing much interest in the role.

This will be the second time that de Silva will be handed the position after he resigned as the national team advisor in May.

Sri Lanka have so far endured torrid time this year. They toured South Africa in January this year, where they suffered a 3-0 clean sweepin Tests and were blanked 5-0 in ODIs. Their next loss came against Bangladesh, who beat them in a one-off Test.

The team suffered yet another embarrassing ODI series loss against Zimbabwe and then they were trashed by India 9-0 across all formats at home.

This has put the Emerald Islanders under pressure in terms of direct qualification for the 2019 World Cup.

De Silva’s first target will be to find an apt replacement for Graham Ford, who resigned from his post as the Sri Lanka coach, in June.

sri lanka is ento become legendary. then the pinnacle of cricket endowed with legends and cricket is no exception and they became legends following the world cu win in 19 something and only the legendary followers of cricket are aware of the details.


City of Sydney's $912,000 bronze bird art installation unveiled

Featuring 67 little bronze bird statues perched at various locations across the CBD, Sydney's newest public art showcase has been released into the wild.

Lord Mayor Clover Moore whipped the covers off the first of two new public art pieces at Macquarie Park this morning.

Starting with one bronze bird behind the Obelisk of Distances, the series of birds created by world famous British artist Tracey Emin stretches to all corners of the city.

Lord Mayor Clover Moore whipped the covers off the first of two new public art pieces at Macquarie Park this morning. (9NEWS) (Supplied)

Called The Distance of Your Heart, the art installation which has cost City of Sydney taxpayers $912,000 is meant to represent how close people are to eachseries of birds have been created by world famous British artist Tracey Emin. (9NEWS) (Supplied)

My Bed - her most famous art installation in 1998 in London - consisted of her own bed with bedroom objects in an abject state.

It gained a lot of media attention after it was revealed the artist had inhabited the bed for a number of days and left it in a depressive state.

Tracey Emin's 1998 artpiece, entitled My Bed. (AAP) (AAP)

It was reported she was inspired by a sexual yet depressive phase in her life where she remained in bed for days without eating or drinking anything but alcohol.

Emin's latest work was supposed to be one of three public art pieces installed by the City of Sydney, alongside the infamous Pavillion and Cloud Arch.

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God in great glory.”11

I had the privilege recently of being in a temple open house with President Russell M. Nelson and his family as he gathered them around the sealing altar and explained to them that everything we do in the Church—every meeting, activity, lesson, and service—is to prepare each of us to come to the temple and kneel at the altar to receive all the Father’s promised blessings for eternity.12

As we feel the blessings of the temple in our own lives, our hearts turn to our families, both living and dead.

Recently, I witnessed a three-generation family participate in baptisms together for their ancestors. Even the grandmother participated—though she had some trepidation about going under the water herself. As she emerged from the water and hugged her husband,she had tears of joy. The grandfather and father then baptized each other and many of the grandchildren. What greater joy could a family experience together? Each temple has a family priority time to allow you as a family to schedule time in the baptistry.

Shortly before his death, President Joseph F. Smith received the vision of the redemption of the dead. He taught that those who are in the spirit world are fully dependent upon the ordinances that we receive on their behalf. The scripture reads, “The dead who repent will be redeemed, through obedience to the ordinances of the house of God.”13 We receive the ordinances in their behalf, but they make and are held accountable for each covenant associated with each ordinance. Surely, the veil is


is to the aged, who have laid behind them many of the burdens of life. The young man needs his place in the temple even more than his father and his grandfather, who are steadied by a life of experience; and the young girl just entering life, needs the spirit, influence and direction that come from participation in the temple ordinances.”17

In many temples, temple presidents are welcoming newly called and endowed missionaries, young men and women, to serve for just a short time as ordinance workers before going to the MTC. These young people are not only blessed to serve, but “they enhance the beauty and spirit for all serving in the temple.”18

I asked a number of young men and women who have served as ordinance workers beforePiskar lies just a few kilometres from the epicentre of the earthquake that hit Nepal on May 12th and the majority of the houses in the village have collapsed. Mission East arrived with humanitarian aid in the form of tarpaulins and hygiene kits shortly before the monsoon set in and mudslides blocked the roads.

In the aftermath of the Nepal earthquakes, the elderly and people with disabilities are some of the most vulnerable. Man Kaji and Maili Maya are some of the beneficiaries of Mission East’s relief efforts. The rebuilding commences after the monsoon.


prescribed commercial medicines. To be sure, the law challenges their monopoly and forces them to restructure their relationship with pharmacies, doctors, and administrators, and their shares of market revenues.

Meanwhile, there is a segment of doctor-merchants who are afraid that revenue they are deriving from their ties to patented drug-marketing networks could decline; these drugs are imported by the monopolistic companies and reach patients at many times more the price in the country of origin, according to reports. The drug monopolies and this segment of doctors have closed ranks in an attempt to sustain the fait accompli that has existed since the two articles in question came into force in 2010.

The Doctors Syndicate in Beirut was enlisted in this effort, given its major influence and ability to affect theof whether to back down and retreat or press ahead with the move.

The arguments used to obstruct the law

In the beginning, the argument of the Doctors Syndicate in Beirut was that it could not adhere to the unified prescription form until Article 42 of the Medical Code of the NSSF is amended. The article in question states, “The NSSF only pays the cost of the medicine and pharmaceutical materials prescripted by doctors contracted by the NSSF.”

The text is subject to various interpretations, but it was practically repealed by the law issued in 2010. The 2010 law states, “Regardless of any text, the pharmacist may disburse to a bearer of a medical prescription a generic medicine not mentioned in the prescription, under conditions (...).”

The NSSF board ignored the arguments


strong and decisive. The former Minister of Health Ali Hassan Khalil was unable to implement the unified prescription form even though he had told the Doctors Syndicate to do so and the form was drafted during his tenure. Current Health Minister Wael Abu Faour is still trying, and is facing massive pressure to retreat. His counterpressure has not pushed the conglomerate to back down. But as a result, the interests of all doctors have been damaged, as Abu Faour resorted to an illegal measure against the doctors when he froze the mechanisms separating payments to doctors from payments to hospitals due on the Ministry of Health, the most important client for doctors and hospitals.

The power of the conglomerate

Some are surprised by the fierce resistance of the conglomerate againstauthorities was nothing new.

In previous years, the source said, the National Bureau for Medicine proposed a project for the rational use of medicine, but pressure brought by importers and the Doctors Syndicate soon forced the ministry to cancel the scheme. The plan could have reduced the total cost of medicines in Lebanon by 30 percent, through direct intervention by the Health Ministry in the import market.

The only success the ministry has achieved in this regard, the source continued, was through the program to improve the cost of (some) medicines for chronic and incurable diseases with support from international organizations like the WHO, which provide the Lebanese government with reasonable prices for some of the medicines.

Why doctors are objecting

Some doctors are afraid of being exposed for the outrageous revenues


of Thrones (Fall 2019, $75.00) The Photography of Game of Thrones (Fall 2019, $75.00), by principal unit photographer Helen Sloan

Game of Thrones: The Costumes (Fall 2019, $75.00) by costume designer Michele Clapton

The Storyboards will be released first and, as a special bonus, Insight has given us four pages of exclusive artwork to reveal. They show a small example of the detail that went not just into the book, but also the preparations for the show from the very beginning. These storyboards are from season one, episode one. And they rule. Click through to see them all.

Page 10 of Game of Thrones: The Storyboards by William Simpson Image : Insight Editions Page 11 of Game of Thrones: The Storyboards by William Simpson Image : Insight Editions Page 12 ofAlbumin localization in the frog hepatocyte during vitellogenesis as revealed by protein A-gold immunocytochemistry.
The protein A-gold immunocytochemical technique was used to localize albumin in the hepatocyte of the normal male American bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, and also in the hepatocyte of this animal 8 days after treatment with estradiol-71 beta. Albumin concentration in plasma also was estimated biochemically. In the normal animal, specific immunolabeling for albumin was present in the intracellular compartments involved in protein secretion, i.e., rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), Golgi apparatus and secretory granules, and also in lysosomes. Density of labeling increased as it progressed along the secretory pathway. In the hepatocyte of the estrogen-treated frog, specific immunolabeling for albumin was also present along the entire secretory pathway and in the lysosomes. Density of labeling over the


The Case Of An Accused Leaker: Politics Or Justice?

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou (right), accompanied by his attorney, John Hundley, leaves federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Jan. 23. Kiriakou, who helped track down and capture a top terrorism suspect, was charged with disclosing classified secrets about his teammates to the media.

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Former CIA official John Kiriakou heads to a Virginia courthouse Friday, where he's expected to plead not guilty. He's the sixth person accused of violating the Espionage Act during the Obama presidency.

Prosecutors say Kiriakou, 47, broke a solemn pledge he took when he joined the CIA in 1990 by sharing information about his former colleagues with reporters at The New York Times and ABC News.

"This is really all about politics and has little to do withand is necessary to a functioning, democratic form of government," says Ken Wainstein, who used to lead the national security division at the Justice Department and is now a partner at the Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft law firm in Washington, D.C.

But he says that goal can conflict with the running of sensitive intelligence operations.

"When you sign on for employment in a national security agency, you promise to maintain confidentiality in what you're doing," Wainstein says, "and you promise that you will not disclose government secrets."

And that, the Justice Department says, is a promise that Kiriakou broke — repeatedly — in his contacts with at least three reporters.

He's accused of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act for sharing the name of an undercover CIA operative.

Prosecution Hurdles

Steve Aftergood, who follows


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More specifically, based on their agonistic behaviour, tolerance, conciliatory behaviour, dominance gradient and kin bias, Thierry \[[@RSPB20150220C26]\] arranged macaque species according to a four-grade scale. The first grade is characterized by unidirectional aggression of dominant animals, with high and severe biting rates, and subordinates generally fleeing or submitting when attacked. The species belonging here are characterized as having a steep dominance hierarchy and a low tolerance level. At the other extreme of the scale, the intensity of aggression and the biting rate are low, and most agonistic interactions are bidirectional, meaning that the victim of aggression protests or counter-attacks. In these species, the dominance gradient is less steep and tolerance is high. Thus, while the asymmetry of contests and the dominance gradient decrease from the first to theParty due to a rank-and-file rebellion. The incident demonstrated him to be a political leader willing to stick by his principles, even with a general election looming.

As the plotters in 2016 decry the infiltration of the Labour Party by a cabal of red agitators – a dreaded “party within a party,” who Smith himself has compared to parasites using Labour as a “host body” – they forget that this was the same line of attack used by the leadership against Bevan and his supporters. The hysteria with which Bevan was subjected in the press and inside the party has more in common with the experiences of Tony Benn and Corbyn than it does with the favorable treatment Smith receives.

Bevanites in 1950s, like Corbynites in 2016, were defined as


against the 1956 war in Suez — in words that could have been spoken in 2003 over Iraq — Bevan said: “If we are successful in the war, what will that prove? It won’t prove that we are right. It is only the logic of the bully.”

Bevan opposed the British government’s support for the United States’ resolution in the United Nations condemning China as the aggressor in the Korean War, and the imposition of sanctions. Smith has no such pedigree in standing against war. ‘We are making significant inroads in improving what is happening in Iraq,” Smith told a journalist in 2006. “I thought at the time the tradition of the Labour Party and the tradition of left-wing engagement to remove dictators was a noble, valuable tradition, andone that in South Wales, from the Spanish Civil War onwards, we have recognised and played a part in.”

The opinion polls seem to show a runaway victory for Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election. Smith’s Blairite-Bevanism may well be a historical artefact come October 2016. But the battle over Bevan’s legacy matters. In a party whose political identity is often tribalistic, appeals to historical legitimacy grant important authority.

Bevan is one of the great figures of British socialism. His career is marked by revolts against the established order, and defence of grassroots and socialist politics. He would have had little affinity with Owen Smith’s campaign or his brand of “Bevanism.” Smith’s sudden and lackluster conversion to the Left cannot give him credibility. All it reveals is a desperation


Population demographics of American eels Anguilla rostrata in two Arkansas, U.S.A., catchments that drain into the Gulf of Mexico.
The goal of this study was to compare American eel Anguilla rostrata life history in two inland river systems in Arkansas, U.S.A., that ultimately discharge into the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River and the Red-Atchafalaya catchments. From 21 June 2011 to 24 April 2014, 238 yellow-phase A. rostrata were captured in the middle Ouachita River and tributaries using boat electrofishing and 39 in the lower White River using multiple sampling gears. Most of them were caught downstream of dams in both basins (61%). Medium-sized A. rostrata ranging from 225 to 350 mm total length (LT ) were the most abundant size group in the Ouachita River basin, butOregon legislators took a historic leap toward greener, fairer, less expensive cities Sunday by passing the first law of its kind in the United States or Canada: A state-level legalization of so-called “missing middle” housing.

If signed by Gov. Kate Brown in the next month, House Bill 2001 will strike down local bans on duplexes for every low-density residential lot in all cities with more than 10,000 residents and all urban lots in the Portland metro area.

In cities of more than 25,000 and within the Portland metro area, the bill would further legalize triplexes, fourplexes, attached townhomes, and cottage clusters on some lots in all “areas zoned for residential use,” where only single-detached houses are currently allowed.

Or, as some more dramatic headlines have summarized it: The bill bans single-family


to do exactly that, using a sliding scale of size bonuses that lets buildings be slightly larger for each additional home they create, and another bonus if one or more of the homes is offered below market price.)

“Opening up the American Dream”

Smaller, attached homes like duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, attached townhomes, and two-story apartment buildings were legal throughout most cities until the mid 20th century and remain common in cities of every size, but building more of them was gradually banned from most land in most cities during the era of legally enforced segregation and the rise of auto-oriented development.

Those bans have led to cities sharply divided between two relatively expensive housing types: apartments in tall buildings, and houses on large lots.

The situation makes no sense, Marisa Zapata, athe world's most talented players opted for the big contracts the clubs were offering

The average salary will now be £42k-a-week - 1/10th of what ex Chelsea man Oscar earns now

Clubs will also be permitted to acquire a fifth overseas player, an upgrade from the current law which only allows four. However, only four foreign players will be allowed on the pitch at the same time.

In addition, a maximum of 10 million yuan ($1.4 million) has been placed on Chinese players' salaries.

When talking on the new laws that were agreed upon by the authorities on Christmas Day, Chinese Football Association chairman Chen Xuyuan said: 'Our clubs had too much money burned and our professional football has not been run in a sustainable way,' according to state news agency Xinhua.

'If


the Super League's highest earner on £400k-a-week

The Brazilian used to be the key technician in the Chelsea attack playing alongside Eden Hazard and Diego Costa. However, he moved to the CSL in January 2016 for around £60million and now earns £400k-a-week. The highest earner in the league.

Marko Arnautovic (Shanghai SIPG)

Marko Arnautovic now earns a very comfy £280-a-week playing for Shanghai SIPG

Austrian striker Marko Arnautovic was one of the Premier League's 'bad boys' during his time at West Ham United and Stoke City. He now earns a very comfy £280k-a-week at Shanghai SIPG.

Hulk (Shanghai SIPG)

Brazilian winger Hulk is the league's second highest earner on a £320k-a-week contract

The Brazilian midfielder was one of the first superstars to take the plunge and join the CSL back in 2016. He joined fromNow Commenting On:

Indians trade Gomez to Bucs for Minor Leaguer

5/19/12: Jeanmar Gomez shuts down the Marlins for 6 1/3 innings, giving up only three hits and striking out four batters in the win

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CLEVELAND -- With Brett Myers, Trevor Bauer and Scott Kazmir now in the fold, the Indians deemed right-hander Jeanmar Gomez expendable. A week after Cleveland designated Gomez for assignment, the club traded him to Pittsburgh for Minor League outfielder Quincy Latimore.

"It's just numbers," general manager Chris Antonetti said. "We've had to make a series of very difficult roster decisions over the course of the last five to six weeks. When you acquire a lot of players externally that go on your 40-man roster, it forces you to make some difficult


decisions on how you create space for them.

"I still think Jeanmar will have an opportunity to go and be a very effective Major League pitcher. I know he'll get that opportunity now with the Pirates."

Gomez earned a spot in the Tribe's rotation in 2012 after a strong spring, in which he logged a 1.37 ERA in 19 2/3 innings. He pitched in 20 contests (17 starts) for Cleveland last season, posting a 5-8 record and 5.96 ERA.

In parts of three seasons with the Indians, the native of Venezuela, who tossed a perfect game for Double-A Akron in 2009, compiled a 14-16 mark and 5.18 ERA.

Latimore, Pittsburgh's fourth-round selection in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, provides the Indians with some much-desired organizational outfield depth. Latimore batted .252 with 15home runs and 71 RBIs in 126 games for Double-A Altoona last season. He posted nearly identical numbers the previous year for the Curve. As a 21-year-old in 2010, he hit .266 with 19 homers and 100 RBIs for Class A Bradenton.

"He's an outfielder who adds some depth to the upper levels of our system," Antonetti said. "He's a right-handed hitter who's had some power. Our scouts have liked him for a while. We'll get a chance to see him in Spring Training, but hopefully he adds some depth to our system."

Gomez could head to Spring Training with a chance to compete for a spot in Pittsburgh's rotation, as the club's agreement on a two-year deal with Francisco Liriano appears to be in limbo because of an injury


the southpaw recently sustained. The Pirates are set with A.J. Burnett, Wandy Rodriguez and James McDonald occupying three-fifths of their rotation. Kris Johnson, Jeff Locke, Kyle McPherson, Andrew Oliver, Vin Mazzaro and others could vie for a spot as well.

The Indians designated Gomez for assignment last Wednesday to clear roster space for Russ Canzler, whom they reclaimed from Toronto. The Yankees claimed Canzler off waivers a day later.

As things stand, the Indians' rotation projects to feature Justin Masterson, Ubaldo Jimenez and Brett Myers, with Carlos Carrasco, Zach McAllister and Bauer serving as the primary candidates for the final two spots. Corey Kluber, David Huff and Kazmir will also go to camp as rotation possibilities.

Antonetti said that the club feels much better about its rotation depth than it feltWho will stop him now? Donald Trump knows the answer after Lamar Alexander announced Thursday evening that, yeah, the president used taxpayer dollars to extort a foreign government into ratfucking the 2020 election for his personal gain—so what? A couple of Republican senators will vote to hear from eye witnesses to the American president's attack on American democracy, but not enough to actually hear from the witnesses. Mitch McConnell has surely arranged for that. Soon enough, they will vote to acquit him having acknowledged that he did it. And so the Republican Senate will rubber-stamp the president's activities with respect to Ukraine, and offer him a blank check to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, between now and an election in November that we cannot in any


way expect to be free and fair.

It's tempting to be cynical, to shield yourself with the idea we always knew this would happen, because the craven depravity of Trump's congressional allies has been on show for three years now. But the milestones on the road to autocracy must be acknowledged. On Wednesday, the president's lawyer—the "civil libertarian" Alan Dershowitz—argued on the floor of the United States Senate that, so long as the president declares his re-election to be in the national interest, he is free to do anything to make it happen. He can even undermine the integrity of that election for his own personal gain. Never mind that the traditional purpose of an election is for the public to decide, through VOTING, whether his re-election is ina crooked Foundation, and a crooked University. He is a crook. But he subjected himself to the most scrutiny the world has to offer—and attracted the interest of many different law-enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York—by running for president, and he lived to tell the tale. He survived by winning the only job in America that, according to some absurd decades-old Justice Department legal opinion, makes him immune from prosecution. He cannot afford to lose that immunity. It may be the only way he remains a free man. He will do anything to keep it.

In Dershowitz's world, which apparently is now our world, the president could theoretically declare a state of emergency on Election Day in Democratic strongholds across key swing


states to shut down the polling stations there. He already declared a phony national emergency to seize funds Congress refused to appropriate for his Big, Beautiful Wall, a brazen attack on the Constitution's separation of powers. He's already invited three different nations to attack our democracy: Russia, Ukraine, and China. That was just in public. Who knows what he's doing behind the scenes? He has shady business entanglements with dozens of foreign actors and governments, including, say, Saudi Arabia. He would happily trade favors, in the form of American foreign policy decisions or whatever else, for his own self-preservation.

Perhaps he could just cancel the election entirely. The national interest—his re-election—is at risk! Or at least, that's what Alan Dershowitz said. And that is, in effect, the power thatVideo of an arrest by Raleigh officers went viral after it was posted to Twitter Wednesday and now Raleigh Police Department officials say they're investigating the incident.The video, posted to Twitter and retweeted more than 5,000 times as of 4:30 p.m. showed officers kneeing a driver, pulling him out of his vehicle and repeatedly hitting him during an arrest.The driver in the video, Braily Andres Batista Concepcion, 22, was arrested and charged with DWI, three counts of hit-and-run, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, simple possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.The arrest happened on Navaho Drive Tuesday morning.Officer said around 9:30 a.m. they received a report of a hit-and-run in the 3500 block of Wake Forest Road. According to the report, the suspect had


Back by overwhelming demand, FootballScoop will once again examine the assistant coaching hires that will have the biggest impact on the college football season and the coaching job market in the 2019 season and beyond.

No. 19: Bryan Brown, Louisville

No. 18: Phil Longo, North Carolina

No. 17: Les Koenning, Kansas

No. 16: Andy Avalos, Oregon

No. 15: Joe Cauthen, Houston

No. 14: Bodie Reeder, North Texas

No. 13: Mike MacIntyre, Ole Miss

Who: Andy Ludwig, Utah

Title: Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach

Previous stop: Vanderbilt offensive coordinator (2015-18)

Why he’s important: The last time we saw Utah, the Utes were scoring three points in a loss to Washington in the Pac-12 Championship and 20 in a loss to Northwestern in the Holiday Bowl.

No matter, the Pac-12’s media sees the Utes returning to Santa Clara and bringing the trophy home thisIt was the day before Halloween, October 30, 1938. Henry Brylawski was on his way to pick up his girlfriend at her Adams Morgan apartment in Washington, D.C.

As he turned on his car radio, the 25-year-old law student heard some startling news. A huge meteorite had smashed into a New Jersey farm. New York was under attack by Martians.

"I knew it was a hoax," said Brylawski, now 92.

Others were not so sure. When he reached the apartment, Brylawski found his girlfriend's sister, who was living there, "quaking in her boots," as he puts it. "She thought the news was real," he said.

It was not. What radio listeners heard that night was an adaptation, by Orson Welles's Mercury Theater group, of a science fiction novel written 40 years earlier:


The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells.

However, the radio play, narrated by Orson Welles, had been written and performed to sound like a real news broadcast about an invasion from Mars.

Thousands of people, believing they were under attack by Martians, flooded newspaper offices and radio and police stations with calls, asking how to flee their city or how they should protect themselves from "gas raids." Scores of adults reportedly required medical treatment for shock and hysteria.

The hoax worked, historians say, because the broadcast authentically simulated how radio worked in an emergency.

"Audiences heard their regularly scheduled broadcast interrupted by breaking news," said Michele Hilmes, a communications professor at University of Wisconsin in Madison and author of Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922-1952.

Stations then cut to a live reporter onthe scene of the invasion in New Jersey. "By the end of the first half of the program, the radio studios themselves were under attack," Hilmes said.

Tuning in Late

Orson Welles and his team had previously dramatized novels such as The Count of Monte Cristo and Dracula. The introduction to War of the Worlds broadcast on CBS Radio emphasized that it was based on the H.G. Wells novel.

But many people didn't hear that introduction. They were tuned into a rival network airing the popular Chase and Sanborn Hour program featuring the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy.

Ten minutes into that show, at a time when its star took a break, many listeners dialed into War of the Worlds instead. Having missed the introduction, they found themselves listening


to "the music of Ramon Raquello and his Orchestra," live from New York's Hotel Park Plaza.

Found: Evidence Suggests First Moon Outside Our Solar System Watch: Astronomers may have detected a massive moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. If confirmed, it would be the first known exomoon.

In reality, the orchestra was playing in a CBS studio. The dance music was soon interrupted by a series of increasingly alarming news bulletins. An astronomer, played by Welles, commented on reports that several explosions of "incandescent gas" had been observed on the planet Mars.

Then a news bulletin reported that a "huge flaming object" had struck a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey. A "newscaster" described seeing an alien crawl out of a spacecraft. "Good heavens—something's wriggling out of the shadow,"he reported. "It glistens like wet leather. But that face—it … it is indescribable."

Newspapers vs. Radio

In 1938, with the world on the brink of World War II, audiences were already on razor's edge. The format used in War of the Worlds,with its shrill news bulletins and breathless commentary, echoed the way in which radio had covered the "Munich crisis"—a meeting of European powers that became the prelude to World War II—a month before.

"Welles and his company managed to closely duplicate the style and the feel of those broadcasts in their own program," said Elizabeth McLeod, a journalist and broadcast historian in Rockland, Maine, who specializes in 1930s radio. "Some [listeners] heard only that 'shells were falling' and assumed they were coming from Hitler."

It was also the time during


which science fiction developed as a popular genre. "We were on the brink of scientific discoveries about space," Hilmes said. "Dangers lurked abroad—why not in outer space?"

Panicked listeners packed roads, hid in cellars, and loaded their guns. In one block of Newark, New Jersey, 20 families rushed out of their houses with wet towels over their faces as protection from Martian poison gas, according to a front-page article in the New York Times the next day.

But historians also claim that newspaper accounts over the following week greatly exaggerated the hysteria. There are estimates that about 20 percent of those listening believed it was real. That translates to less than a million people.

At the time, newspapers considered radio an upstart rival. Some in the print press, resentful of theIn January 1997, Ms. Whitman joined Hasbro's Playskool Division as a General Manager, overseeing global management and marketing of two of the world's best-known children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head.

Whitman joined eBay in March 1998, when it had 30 employees[12] and revenues of approximately $4 million; she grew the company to approximately 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue by 2008.[13]

Fortune Magazine repeatedly named her one of the top 5 most powerful women for her success at eBay.[14]

Whitman resigned as CEO of eBay in November 2007, but remained on the Board and as an Advisor to new CEO John Donahoe until late 2008. Ms. Whitman was inducted into the U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2008. "I've said for some time that 10 years is roughly


the right time to stay at the helm at a company like ours," adding that "it's time for new leadership, a new perspective and a new vision." she said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.[15]

Whitman also served on the board of directors of the eBay Foundation, Procter & Gamble, and DreamWorks SKG until early 2009.[7][16] She was appointed to the board of Goldman Sachs in October, 2001 and then resigned in December 2002, amidst controversy when congressional investigators revealed she had received shares in several public offerings managed by Goldman Sachs.[17][18][19] Whitman earned approximately $1.78 million resulting from a practice known as spinning (IPO) whereby executives who did business with Goldman Sachs could reap profits by getting early deals before the public on hot IPOs offeredby the bank.[20]

Political Involvement

Whitman was a supporter of former Bain & Company CEO and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's presidential campaign[21][22] in 2008 and was on his "National Finance Team".[23] She was also listed as Finance co-chair of Romney's exploratory committee.[24] However, after Romney stepped out of the race, and endorsed McCain, Whitman joined John McCain's presidential campaign as a national co-chair.[25]

Whitman has made monetary donations to various candidates and PACs. While these have gone to both Republicans and Democrats, the donations are weighted to Republicans such as Orrin Hatch, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and George Allen.[27] Though Whitman has contributed to a few Democrats, including Senator Barbara Boxer; donating $4,000 to her campaign and serving on the "Friends of Boxer" committee in 2004, she donated more than $225,000.00


during the same period to Republicans, eBay’s PAC and to Americans for a Republican Majority, the PAC of former Rep. Tom DeLay.[28][29] On the whole, Whitman's contributions have been to mostly Republicans (94%) and very limited to Democrats (6%).

2010 Campaign for California Governor

On September 22, 2009, Whitman announced she would run for governor of California in the 2010 election.[30] Her candidacy has been endorsed by high-profile Republicans including Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Condoleezza Rice.[31] If elected, she would become the first female governor of California.

Whitman is widely considered the GOP front-runner and is competitive in a likely race against Jerry Brown.[32][33]

Whitman has committed to only three major areas in her campaign: job creation, reduced state government spending, and reform of the state's K-12 educational system. She hasof 2006, to study potential economic implications.[38] At the state GOP Convention in March, Whitman described California Republican Governor Schwarzenegger's climate change bill as a "job-killer".[39]

Whitman's voting record was called to task by The Sacramento Bee who reported that Whitman voted infrequently according to her voting records in California.[40][41] Records uncovered by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt countered the claims of the Sacramento Bee and resulted in the infamous interview with editor Amy Chance.[42] Whitman has described her voting record as "atrocious," apologized,[41] and states that she is happy to discuss the matter.[43]

Whitman supported California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which reversed the In re Marriage Cases of 2008 which granted homosexual couples the right to marry in California, but she said that the same-sex marriages that took place


into the Metro Centre. What I was not prepared for was a member of the team’s community relations crew, whose (very effective) strategy for working the crowd involved stripping during the stoppages in play.

Children vie for a t-shirt from the Halifax Mooseheads’ Home Game Stripper. He’s great at working the crowd, and definitely worth the price of admission.

He began the night wearing a white Mooseheads jersey, which quickly wound up tied around his waist. Following the slow-mo removal of that first layer, he started peeling off team t-shirts and flinging them into the crowd (sometimes as many as seven in one go). When he was down to the last shirt, he’d downshift to leading cheers until he had a chance to restock. In between bouts of shirt tossing,he demonstrated an impressive range of dance moves and a seemingly endless supply of energy.

Make no mistake, the principle attraction at a Q game is the hockey. The league is located in Canada, after all, a place where hockey is to be taken seriously and CHL scores scroll on the national sports news tickers. While junior leagues exist in the US, for most Caps fans the closest corollary to the CHL in the US is arguably ECHL, though the CHL has a wider range of talent and many of their arenas are closer in size to Hershey’s Giant Center than Reading’s Sovereign Center. It fosters games filled with beautiful breakaways and full-out line brawls, NHL stars in the making and kids just looking to pay for University at


the end of their Junior careers. There are local boys and those learning a new language in their billets (Halifax’s RW Martin Frk, for example, hails from the Czech Republic, but due to the geographical divisions within the CHL, most players remain within a province or two of home). The league struggles with the dilemma of player safety and customer entertainment, and most recently one of their branches was rocked by scandal relating to player recruitment.

Halifax has come a long way from an average home attendance of 5331 in the 2010-11 season (they’ve already passed that year’s total number of games with an attendance of 8500+, and they’ve only hosted five matches this season (averaging 7,791). Both smaller crowds were on weeknights). While a winning record has definitelybeen a factor in that, a crowd crew with a healthy sense of humour and a willingness to think outside the box can also be worth their weight in gold when it comes to courting the fan.

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M. Richter

Em is a fan of hockey first and individual teams second, with geographical ties that cross the NHL. She was born in the Midwest, raised along the East Coast, and graduated from a university in Western Canada. A firm believer in context above all else, and a card-carrying on-ice official with USA Hockey, she splits her time between the big picture and the details.
When not covering the AHL and ECHL for Caps Outsider, her photography can be found on Behance and Flickr. She also occasionally chimes in about the Hershey Bears


Police are combing through surveillance video after a lighting fixture was stolen from White Horse Bowling in Simcoe.The bowling alley on Davis Street East has provided Norfolk OPP with surveillance footage from around 9 p.m. Thursday. It shows an individual taking down a disco light inside the building.Police are reviewing the video in an effort to identify the individual responsible.Impaired charge following crashA Norfolk man was charged last week following a collision on the west side of Simcoe.A 35-year-old Tillsonburg man was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Hillcrest Road and the Queensway West when a pickup truck came up from behind and struck the rear of his vehicle.Following an investigation, Norfolk OPP charged a 52-year-old Norfolk man with impaired driving, operating a motor vehicleepisode! Listen on your favorite podcast player.

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The Associated Press

Published Friday, November 25, 2005

TALLAHASSEE -- The Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities in Florida, would be elected instead of appointed by the governor under a bill that Attorney General Charlie Crist is suggesting legislators pass next year.

Crist, who is also seeking the Republican nomination for governor, called Wednesday for legislation that would have voters elect the five commissioners to four year terms.

Crist, who has fought the PSC over recent increases in phone rates and electric bills, also called for commissioners to be subject to the same ethics laws that govern elected public officials.

The PSC was elected until the late 1970s, when the Legislature made it an appointed body. Lawmakers said when arguing for the switch that the utilities


planning sessions and an agreement as to the part to be played by each, robbed the Queens branch of the National Bank of North America, at gun point, and got away with a little over $5,000.  Although Brown, with Fisher, made a preliminary survey of the bank and recommended it as an easy one to rob, Brown remained at the apartment where the final planning took place, and he was still there when the others returned from the bank with the stolen money from which they paid him $100 for his assistance in the enterprise.  Mobley was soon apprehended by the police and, after having been properly warned, gave an oral confession in which he named as participants only Brooks, Trusty and Earl and one otherrespective appeals.  They are: first, that the trial court erred in not charging the jury, as requested and again during its deliberations when the jury sent for the testimony of Agent Jones who had taken Mobley's confession, that the confession was evidence only as to Mobley and not as to Fisher or Brown, even though such an instruction was given at the time the confession was received in evidence; second, that their cross-examination of Brooks was unduly limited by the court; and third, that the trial court erred in refusing to admit into evidence a letter which Brooks wrote from prison (during the pendency of the case) which allegedly furnished extrinsic evidence of his motive to testify falsely.  Mobley's claims are in essence the same as


not use Mobley's confession to convict either Fisher or Brown.  The appellants complain that the Government in summation sought to use Mobley's confession "to corroborate" Brooks' testimony.  See Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 490-491, 83 S.Ct. 407, 9 L.Ed.2d 441 (1963).  Counsel for Fisher and Brown, for the purpose of showing bias, had argued that Brooks was responsible for apprehending and bringing to trial Fisher, Mobley and Brown.  In replying to this, the prosecutor pointed out that it was Mobley who first revealed the participation of Brooks, Trusty and Earl in the robbery; and, because Brooks' testimony as to Trusty, Earl, Mobley and himself was consistent with what Mobley had said about them, the jury should consider credible what Brooks testified150 times-and to testify about the particular instances.  The trial court refused to permit the parties to get into what it considered would be a retrial of the Chemical Bank case otherwise unrelated to the one on trial.  They also sought to bring out that Brooks, who was 16, was highly motivated to lie in the Government's favor in the present case because as a juvenile he could only be confined six years whereas if he were prosecuted as an adult he could be imprisoned for 50 years.  While at one point Brooks testified he feared having to spend 50 years in jail, an objection to defense counsel's efforts to reiterate the comparative penalties was sustained and Brooks' testimony was limited to disclosing that his


This invention relates generally to an elevated rail transportation system, and more particularly to a switching arrangement provided for such a system.
In my prior U.S. Pat. No. 4,000,702 an elevated rail transportation system is disclosed as including a track in the form of a continuous box beam having, in one embodiment, rails on the top and opposing side surfaces thereof for the support of elongated rail vehicles extending outwardly of opposite sides and having wheel means engaging the rails. The box beam is supported along spaced columns, and the rail vehicles are adapted for travel in the same or opposite directions along the track. Problems are, however, envisioned when switching or diverting the rail vehicle from a main line to a station, a spur, or a branch linein November.

Charles William Nelson, 31, faces a maximum penalty of six years in prison but could also get no jail time. Sentencing was scheduled for July 31 by Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland.

"While we are disappointed with the verdict, we respect our system of justice, " said Sen. Nelson and his wife, Grace, in a statement issued in Washington. "And we love our son and support him during this difficult time in his life."

Jurors deliberated just a few hours Wednesday before returning the verdict. A misdemeanor charge of public intoxication was thrown out by Strickland, who said no evidence was introduced to support it.

The incident took place a few hours after a party to celebrate the Nov. 7 victory by Sen. Nelson, a Democrat, over Republican Katharine


Harris.

Police say the younger Nelson was trying to carry a woman who had passed out on a sidewalk and pushed an officer after he was ordered to put her down. The senator's son was pepper-sprayed and handcuffed by police.

The younger Nelson, who declined comment after the verdict was announced, did not testify in his own defense. But his lawyers argued to the jury that Nelson did not recognize the person he pushed was a police officer because he was wearing a bicycle patrol uniform rather than a standard uniform.[Accidents due to lepidoptera with special reference to Lonomia sp].
Human poisoning by Lepidoptera (butterflies, caterpillars and moths) has been known to physicians since old times. In the last few years, several factors have been causative of a great number of contacts between different stages of these insects and humans, occasionally with epidemic features. Species of medical interest in Argentina are those related to Megalopygidae, Saturniidae, Hemileucidae, Arctiidae, Notodentidae and Eucliedae families. Among all the species involved, it is important to describe the pathology produced by contact with Lonomia obliqua caterpillar (Saturniidae). The caterpillar Lonomia has several enzymes with procoagulant and fibrinolytic activities, acting on various components of the hemostatic system inducing hemorrhage that can lead to death. In the South of Brazil during the last years caterpillars of