slashing his wrist and again later in February this year by hanging himself. A month later, in March, he poured kerosene on himself however he was overpowered in time.

“We are questioning his friends and neighbours to verify the reason and his relatives are also in contact with us,” said Pravin Pawar, additional commissioner of police, Thane.

In his statement released on Twitter, Raj Thackeray said he was deeply pained.

“I am deeply pained after learning about the death of Pravin Chougule. He took the extreme step of immolating himself after getting perturbed by the news of ED sending me a notice. This should not have happened. May his soul rest in peace,” the MNS chief said.

Meanwhile, a local MNS leader alleged that the police was under pressure to not linkas smaller student groups working for the first time in Marburg in the second or third four months.

Discussion
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Based on data available from numerous investigations about the outpatient as well as inpatient area of the healthcare system, there is a high need for action and education to further improve the patient safety worldwide.

During the last years, education initiatives for patient safety have increased, however, they still do not fully cover all German speaking countries (see an overview for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland published by Rosentreter (\[[@R51]\]; pp 59-64) based on an evaluation of the course catalogues of the medical faculties as well as transcripts of the annual meetings of the society for medical education until 2015). A more advanced distribution of courses on patient safety in England, Scotland, Northern


the six learning objectives that are not dealt with concern legal questions that are included in other courses.

With regard to the CanMEDS roles, in particular the competences of "collaborator", "medical expert" and "communicator" are taught, which corresponds to the opinion of internists and surgeons concerning the significance of the CanMEDS model and its implementation in the PY education \[[@R93]\].

Conclusion
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The approach of introducing a voluntary patient safety course in the second four months of the practical year dealing with experiences the students have already made in their PY routine turned out to be very positive. It includes the majority of the most important problems of patient safety in 13 course units.

Based on the support by the managing board of the university hospital and the Dean of Studies, we considerChina came in 15th, with just 1.9 percent of the world's spam, according to Sophos.

"All eyes aren't so much on which countries are on the list, but the one which isn't," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.

"China has earned itself a bad reputation in many countries' eyes for being the launchpad of targeted attacks against foreign companies and government networks," he said.

"But at least in the last 12 months they can demonstrate that the proportion of spam relayed by their computers has steadily reduced."

The US, South Korea, Brazil and India together account for over 30 percent of all the spam emails relayed by hacked computers worldwide, added Cluley.

Despite China's improved rankings, Asia accounted for 33.7 percent of spam sent in the first quarter, larger than Europe's


Converse Rubber Shoe Company was created by Marquis Mills Converse in 1908 in Malden, Massachusetts. In 1923, American basketball player Charles "Chuck" Taylor joined a basketball team sponsored by the Converse Company called The Converse All Stars.California, according to people familiar with the talks. Wells Fargo would also take over Wachovia's asset-management and brokerage units.

Unlike Citigroup's original agreement to take over Wachovia's banking assets, in which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. agreed to shoulder potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in toxic loans, the plans being discussed Sunday night don't entail either buyer receiving financial assistance from the U.S. government, according to people briefed on the talks.

The talks ended late Sunday night with no resolution, but were expected to resume Monday morning, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The fact that Citigroup and Wells Fargo are duking it out for Wachovia, which was seen as in perilous condition barely a week ago, ought to be an encouraging sign for the shaky U.S. banking


appear to derail the discussions about splitting up Wachovia, said people familiar with the matter. Regulators and bankers are scrambling to quickly end the drama in part out of concern that if Wachovia remains in limbo when U.S. markets open Monday morning, it could further spook already jittery investors and bank customers.

Regulators seemed to be focusing their powers of persuasion on Citigroup and Wells Fargo, going so far as to often exclude Wachovia from the weekend talks even though Wachovia shareholders would presumably need to bless a sale.

The weekend negotiations were being led by senior Federal Reserve officials. The Treasury Department was also involved, but Secretary Henry Paulson recused himself from the talks because of his ties to Wachovia Chief Executive
Robert Steel,
a former top Treasury official before takingtable, according to people familiar with the matter. The terms of that revamped proposal weren't clear and were delivered before Wells Fargo's surprise offer on Thursday night.

People close to Wachovia confirmed that Citigroup made a newer offer and that it did go before the board. But these people said the offer was still "many dollars" lower than Wells Fargo's bid, that it was not for the whole company, and that Citigroup wanted Wachovia to reassume certain liabilities.

Also, a person close to Wachovia said as late as Thursday that Citigroup was still trying to renegotiate terms that had been agreed to verbally by the banks' two chief executives, Citigroup's
Vikram Pandit
and Wachovia's Mr. Steel, including the ultimate location of the retail-banking operations, severance and certain benefits.

Illustrating the competing interests at


next day, Wachovia and Citigroup entered into their "exclusivity agreement" about a possible acquisition. Wells Fargo and Wachovia entered into a similar agreement the same day.

On Saturday night, Citigroup persuaded a New York state trial-court judge to extend the exclusivity agreement signed by Wachovia and Citigroup until Friday, according to Wachovia lawyer
David Boies.
Lawyers for Citigroup visited the judge, Charles Ramos, at his beach home in Cornwall, Conn., without anyone from Wachovia initially present, according to people familiar with the matter. Toward the end of the meeting, Wachovia's general counsel was allowed to dial in by phone.

Wachovia and Wells Fargo sought to overturn Judge Ramos's ruling. On Sunday, the company went to state appellate court to try to get the order overruled. Wachovia questioned the manner in which JudgeRamos issued the Saturday-night restraining order. A U.S. District Court judge didn't rule on the dispute Sunday but did say both sides had until an Oct. 7 hearing to submit briefs.

On Sunday night, a state appeals-court judge overturned Judge Ramos's ruling extending the duration of the exclusivity agreement. "I believe substantial questions have been raised regarding the authority of Justice Ramos to have issued the order while physically located outside the state of New York," Associate Justice James McGuire said in his ruling.

The exclusivity agreement restricted Wachovia from entering into merger discussions with any other bank. But a provision in the federal financial-system bailout added a wrinkle to the situation, rendering unenforceable certain agreements that restrict merger talks between banks.

The provision was inserted into the rescue legislation last


How to Make the Most of MBA Fairs

The MBA Tour will reach the four corners of the globe in the upcoming months, having separate tours in Asia and India in September, the Middle East and Istanbul in October, and Canada in November. The tour events provide you with great opportunities to meet with school representatives and learn more about the schools. However, fairs also can devolve into mind-numbing circuits of big, crowded halls where you collect shiny brochures that will gather dust and nothing more.

How can you ensure that those few hours are beneficial?

I recently had the opportunity to interview Peter von Loesecke, CEO and Managing Director of The MBA Tour LLC, and am sharing inside tips Peter revealed for making the most of your MBA Fair experience.

HowIssue 31

112 pages of features and articles including: Six Olympic athletes from around the world share what its like to live and train in isolation, CUWBC President Larkin Sayre gives her account of the cancellation of the Boat Race, Emily Spiegel gives her advice on how to come to terms with the loss of an entire rowing season, and Ruth James tells us all how to stay healthy in a pandemic.


BMW driver surrendered on Lap 6, leaving the Single Make Trophy drivers to fight for the outright win.

After that all the action was focused on the fight for the win, with Homola putting pressure on Borkovic, trying to make it a double, and the Serbian defending hard. Despite all the best efforts from Homola, Borkovic was successful in defending the lead and took the flag ahead of the Race 1 winner, with Davit Kajaia conquering another impressive outright podium as well as the win in the TC2T class.

Ronny Jost came fourth outright and third in the SMT class, ahead of TC2 winner Michal Matejovsky’s BMW 320si. Andreas Pfister finished sixth outright ahead of Mladen Lalusic and a charging Dejan Bulatovic, with Ibrahim Okyay ninth outright and second inImage caption Grantham had been living in Bulgaria prior to his death

EastEnders actor Leslie Grantham, best known as the roguish "Dirty" Den Watts in the BBC One soap, has died aged 71.

Grantham had the opening line in the first episode of EastEnders and was at the heart of Walford life until 1989.

He returned in 2003 before leaving for good two years later, following a tabloid scandal.

Tributes have been paid by his EastEnders co-stars. Anita Dobson, who played Den's first wife Angie, said she was "deeply shocked and saddened".

His agent said he died on Friday morning and that a private funeral will be held.

The announcement of his death follows news earlier this week that Grantham had returned to the UK to receive medical treatment.

Image caption His on-screen marriage to


Angie (Anita Dobson) kept viewers gripped

EastEnders executive consultant John Yorke told the BBC: "Everyone at EastEnders is deeply saddened to hear that Leslie has passed away.

"We extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to his family and friends at this extremely difficult time."

Dobson said in a statement: "I loved working with Leslie and I will never forget our time together on EastEnders."

'The chemistry was magic'

Speaking in London this afternoon, the actress said he had been "fun to be around" and "the archetypal charming rogue".

"There was always that look about him that you didn't know what he was going to do next," she told the BBC. "That was his ace in the hole.

"We were both really lucky that we were cast opposite each other," she went on. "The chemistry wasmagic... it just happened."

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Anita Dobson pays tribute

Dobson said she had been intending to visit Grantham in hospital on Friday to say goodbye and tell him "you made TV history".

June Brown, who plays Dot Cotton, said she was "very fond of Leslie and am so sorry that he has gone".

In a statement, she added: "I always enjoyed talking to him, he made me laugh and always had a twinkle in his eye when he said outrageous things.

"He was a wonderful and special actor, witty and very talented. I shall remember him very fondly and with affection."

'Special memories'

Letitia Dean, who played Den's daughter Sharon, released a statement saying "thank you for everything" to Grantham.

She said: "I have very special memories of


working with Leslie and will cherish them always. He and Anita looked after me in my early days and showed me the ropes, always with care and kindness.

"He never failed to make me laugh and I will remember him with love, affection and gratitude forever. See you up there Leslie!"

Gillian Taylforth, who plays Kathy Beale, said she was "deeply saddened" and had "so many happy memories of working with Leslie".

"He was always great fun and we shared many laughs," she wrote, adding that the Christmas episodes in which Grantham appeared "will always be part of EastEnders history".

Grantham rose to fame when he was cast as the landlord of the Queen Vic, the east London public house around which the action in EastEnders revolves.

More than 30 million viewers tunedin to watch a Christmas Day episode in 1986, in which his character handed divorce papers to Angie.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The EastEnders scene watched by 30m viewers

But Grantham's life was not without controversy. In 1966, he was convicted of murdering a German taxi driver while serving as a soldier.

And in 2004 he was revealed to have taken part in webcam sex sessions from his EastEnders dressing room at Elstree Studios.

Shane Richie, who played Alfie Moon, said Grantham had "had his demons" but had nonetheless been "a natural charmer".

"There's no denying he was & will always be @bbceastenders greatest landlord," he wrote on Twitter.

Gripping storylines

Dirty Den was an EastEnders stalwart from its first episode and stayed for four years, despite Grantham having only


signed up for 10 episodes.

Viewers were gripped when he was revealed to be the father of teenager Michelle Fowler's baby and by his apparent canalside death in 1989.

After returning to Albert Square 14 years later, Den was definitively killed off in 2005 and his body buried in the Queen Vic's cellar.

Grantham stayed busy after leaving EastEnders, appearing in pantomimes and stage plays, as well as writing a fantasy novel for children.

He was reported to have been living in Bulgaria before his death, having gone there to appear in a TV series called The English Neighbour.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Leslie Grantham's first scene in The English Neighbour

Tributes have been paid to the actor by other EastEnders cast members, among them Michael Cashman and TracyAnn Oberman.

Cashman, who played Colin Russell in the soap, said Grantham was "a lovely guy", while Oberman, who played Dirty Den's second wife Chrissie, called him "a very very good actor".

Craig Fairbrass, AKA Dan Sullivan, said Grantham had been "a strong role model", while Ricky Norwood - "Fatboy" on the show - hoped he would "rest in peace".

Their sentiments were echoed by Dean Gaffney, who played Robbie Jackson and who described Grantham as "an EastEnders icon".

Other tributes have come from glamour model Linda Lusardi, who said he was "such a character", and the broadcaster Paul Ross, who remembered him as a "talented, kind and very funny man".

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into science courses and curricula. If this controversy arrives at your doorstep, I hope that you will both alert us to the specific issues in your state or school district and be willing to use your position and prestige as a member of the NAS in helping to work locally."

State and university
Kentucky Academy of Science states "...in the strongest and most determined ways possible deplores the decision to substitute "change over time" for "evolution" in the state teaching standards, urges that the original wording be reinstated, and decries any attempt to remove the teaching of basic evolutionary theory..." Adopted by KAS Governing Board November 6, 1999. Passed unanimously by KAS membership November 6, 1999. Unanimously approved again at its annual business meeting on November 11, 2005. The KASin the seminal work of Charles Darwin and has been refined by findings accumulated over 140 years. Some dissenters from this position are proponents of non-scientific explanations of the nature of the universe.  These may include "creation science", "creationism", "intelligent design" or other non-scientific "alternatives to evolution". While we respect the dissenters’ right to express their views, these views are theirs alone and are in no way endorsed by the RASC Ottawa Centre.  It is our collective position that these explanations do not meet the characteristics and rigour of scientific empiricism."
The Royal Society "opposes the misrepresentation of evolution in schools to promote particular religious beliefs" and states "[...]intelligent design has far more in common with a religious belief in creationism than it has with science, which


Jon Stewart took aim at the National Football League on
The Daily Show last night, and it got ugly. He recapped the entire Ray Rice debacle, from the night the Baltimore Ravens running back knocked his then-fiancée Janay Palmer Rice unconscious in an Atlantic City elevator all the way to yesterday's breaking news, and by the time Stewart was done, theres was nothing left to do but pick up the pieces. He took to calling the NFL The League of Exculpatory Gentleman, and started by shitting all over NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's initial decision to suspend Rice two games for knocking out a woman.

"A two-game slap, one for each wrist," Stewart said.

He then went on to mock the NFL's new policy to suspend its woman-beating athletes six games forthe good stuff: yesterday's Associated Press report that a law enforcement official in fact sent the NFL the second video showing the events in the elevator all the way back in April. This would mean that the league had seen Rice knock Palmer unconscious, and and made the informed decision it was a shruggable offense.


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IBM's DSO Rises as Revenue Keeps Falling

Since Virginia Rometty took over the company in early 2012, IBM has lost a quarter of its revenue while undergoing several transformations.

IBM's many advertisements, the visibility of its CEO and high stock price give the impression of a successful company, but a closer look shows otherwise.

In an ominous sign,International Business Machines Corp. is having to wait longer and longer to receive payments even as it attracts fewer and fewer customers, according to a review of the company's annual filings by CreditPulse. Last year, it took an average of 133.57 days, almost four and a half months, for IBM to collect its receivables while revenue declined for the fifth straight year to $79.9 billion.

The combination of a rising days sales outstandingof December 31, 2016, IBM reported $29.2 billion in total accounts receivable, compared to $28.6 billion at the same time the previous year. IBM is financing a large part of its revenue as finance receivables makes up the largest portion, 65%, of the company's total A/R, followed by notes and accounts receivable at 32% and other accounts receivable at 4%. Finance receivables include sales-type leases, direct financing leases and loans, with loans making up the majority, according to company information.

IBM, based in Armonk, New York, was once the world's largest manufacturer of computers, but more recently has moved away from hardware by reinventing itself into a company that offers a combination of software and information technology services. IBM portrays itself as an innovator yet most of its technology


has come via acquisitions. From 2004 to 2008, IBM gobbled up publicly-traded software companies at a rate of almost three per year often paying a premium of seven to 10 times annual revenue. In the last two years, IBM has acquired 29 companies at a cost of $9.5 billion.

Last year, IBM acquired four companies related to cloud video streaming, among them Ustream, Inc. a video streaming company based in San Francisco. Under the leadership of CEO Virginia Rometty, IBM's pattern has been to pick an area of the technology world in which it wants to compete and then go on a buying spree to acquire those companies. Forty-two percent of IBM's 2016 revenue came from technology services & cloud platforms, 25 percent from cognitive solutions and 20 percentfrom consulting services.

Determining exactly what kind of technology to offer seems to be a challenge for IBM as the company has reclassified or renamed its five business segments in each of the past three years. In 2014, IBM's five reporting segments were global technology services, global business services, software, systems and technology and global financing. In 2016, the names of three of those segments had changed to cognitive solutions, technology services & cloud platforms and systems.

In October 2013, following disappointing third-quarter results, Ms. Rometty sent an email to employees reaffirming the company's strategy, but criticized its sales execution particularly in computer hardware, which had declined 23 percent, according to a 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal. "Ours is a pay for performance culture and we must all


detention centre would begin this month. Demolition of the first compounds will begin on 28 May, and all refugees and asylum seekers will be removed by 31 October.

Revealed: year-long campaign to make conditions harsher for Manus refugees Read more

The Guardian revealed on Wednesday that Broadspectrum and Wilson Security have waged a year-long campaign to make the detention centre more inhospitable, in an effort to coerce people to progress through the assessment and resettlement processes and leave the centre, despite acknowledging they would face danger outside.

The four and a half years of the Manus detention centre’s second iteration have been marked by violence, including one asylum seeker being murdered by guards, several deaths, including two because of alleged medical neglect, and regular protests, violent outbreaks and clashes, such asthe rampage on Good Friday during which “drunken soldiers”, according to police, opened fire on the detention centre.

Manus Island’s notorious Chauka confinement section, a series of shipping containers arranged as an isolation unit about 400 metres from the rest of the detention centre, has been closed after consistent reports of violence and inhumane treatment.

But newly revealed documents shed light on the treatment of the refugees who were forcibly taken there, and detail injuries suffered.

While in Chauka, X was instructed to sit on the (dirt) floor. When his brother was carried in 15 minutes later, X thought he was dead and became agitated. The security guards reportedly responded by bashing and pushing X, tearing his shirt in the process. X was reportedly then forced to the floor and his


hands tied tight behind his back which hurt his shoulder and still causes pain. Around 15h00 X having had a brace placed around his neck, was brought to IHMS with his brother, indications from IHMS are that X’s wrenched shoulder is an injury consistent with having been restrained.

According to staff guidelines, refugees and asylum seekers taken to Chauka could be held incommunicado – in solitary confinement and without the right to a phone call – for up to 48 hours.

Reports of assaults by staff members on refugees, and by refugees on staff members, are common, the documents show.

A series of complaints detail refugees being restrained in handcuffs and then beaten by staff, while allegedly being racially abused.

During unrest in the centre in January 2015, a report by detentionown behaviour as a consequence.

Those held within the Manus Island detention centre, and independent rights organisations that have assessed it, say it has all the hallmarks of a prison environment.

It remains – despite the reforms that made it a partially “open” centre – a militarised, violent place.

The past several months have been marked by riots, mainly over food and restrictions on movement. Up to 50 refugees have been involved in fighting with security staff and have alleged they are deliberately provoked into violence.

On several occasions all security staff have had to abandon the detention centre and retreat to the outside.

Armed police, who opened fire on detainees during the riots of 2014, are regularly brought in to deal with “non-compliant” detainees, who are usually taken to Lorengau jail and


held for several days, before – usually – being fined and released.

On Good Friday, after a dispute about the use of a naval base soccer field near the detention centre, a mob of PNG naval personnel ran riot, trying to storm the detention centre, and shot at refugees and staff hiding inside accommodation blocks. There were reports that a PNG navy vehicle tried to ram the centre’s gates.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest The detention centre on Manus Island, shown in a still from the 2016 Australian documentary Chasing Asylum

While refugees are regularly arrested, expatriate detention centre staff never are, to the ongoing chagrin of those they detain and their PNG colleagues.

It is a source of underlying, but significant, tension that only local staff members – two Manus locals – wereThe Barefoot feeder

How to make a Nyjer or thistle seed feeder

Charles Barefoot and his handmade bluebird nest boxes

Charles A. Barefoot Sr., a member of EnergyUnited who lives in Davidson County, is known for making nest boxes to house Eastern bluebirds. He gives them to people locally on request and asks payment only for materials and shipping. In February he began giving out some 200 bluebird boxes.

The completed thistle feeder

A native of Columbus County, Mr. Barefoot, 86, is retired after a professional career designing and producing electronic medical devices.

He has a new project that he described to Carolina Country.

"Each year I hang several thistle seed [Nyjer seed] feeders in my back yard for the goldfinches and other small birds. Some time ago I purchased a feeder that cost $20.


The Pliocene marine megafauna extinction and its impact on functional diversity.
The end of the Pliocene marked the beginning of a period of great climatic variability and sea-level oscillations. Here, based on a new analysis of the fossil record, we identify a previously unrecognized extinction event among marine megafauna (mammals, seabirds, turtles and sharks) during this time, with extinction rates three times higher than in the rest of the Cenozoic, and with 36% of Pliocene genera failing to survive into the Pleistocene. To gauge the potential consequences of this event for ecosystem functioning, we evaluate its impacts on functional diversity, focusing on the 86% of the megafauna genera that are associated with coastal habitats. Seven (14%) coastal functional entities (unique trait combinations) disappeared, along with 17% of functional richnesstheir situation and defending their right to development.

The connection between poverty and climate change was also made by Administer Gina McCarthy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during her January meeting with Vatican officials, as did the fifth assessment report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The archbishop cited statistics that estimate 600 million people will face malnutrition as a result of climate change, with particularly high rates in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, he said that the estimated 1 billion people worldwide living in urban slums, fragile hillsides and flood-prone river banks -- all areas vulnerable rising sea levels and storm surges -- have “the human right to adequate housing.”

Tomasi’s address comes as the latest strong statement from the Vatican on the issue of


it’s no coincidence that µTorrent shares the same values and vision with another super representative candidate, BitTorrent.

In the hope of being elected as a super representative, µTorrent will participate in the election to promote and further the value of decentralizing the internet.

To further qualify its bid to become a super representative, µTorrent already runs an extensive infrastructure to support its massive worldwide user base. It has servers housed in multiple state of art data centers around the world with disaster recovery centers in Los Angeles and Iceland. Its team is comprised of some of the original custodians of BitTorrent and are still active in the open source community to enhance the legacy of the decentralized protocol.

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Undrafted out of Central Florida in 2014, he spent a brief period with the Tennessee Titans practice squad before being released in 2015. After that, he spent time with the Orlando Predators and Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League.

Before the Packers gave him a call in March of 2017, McCray was working at a hotel as a bellboy in Orlando. He conquered the odds by making the 53-man roster.

He made his first start in Week 2 against the Atlanta Falcons, filling in for injured right tackle Bryan Bulaga. Make no mistake about it, he certainly had his struggles. However, as games came and went, McCray evolved right in front of us.

He spent time at every position except


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An identification period from December 31, 2011 to December 31, 2013 was used to identify the first record of use of an ODMT (index date) via prescription or chart notation. The total observation period of the study was from December 31, 2010 to June 30, 2014. Eligible patients were ≥18 years of age on the index date, had at least one record of a physician-prescribed ODMT during the identification period of the study, had at least one visit to the site neurology practice in the 12 months before the index date (pre-index period, baseline visit; anytime between December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2012), and had at leastAJ Burnett MLB Baseball (MLB Auth)

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CHANTILLY, Va. — Despite a strong public endorsement of NASA’s efforts to return humans to the moon as a step towards Mars, a series of recommendations approved by the National Space Council Aug. 20 highlight concerns about the agency’s plans to do so.

The council, at its sixth public meeting since being reconstituted two years ago, did not discuss the recommendations when presented by Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the council, at the end of the two-hour meeting. Pence, citing schedule constraints, only briefly described the recommendations and asked council members to endorse them. Members did so unanimously and without debate.

The council released the recommendations late Aug. 20, which are primarily in three areas: exploration and international cooperation, commercial space and industrial base issues, and NASA acquisition andA letter he wrote on Canty School overcrowding while in Congress might prove embarrassing to Mayor Rahm Emanuel. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ted Cox

CITY HALL — A 10-year-old letter written by then-U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel asking the city to expand a Northwest Side elementary school surfaced this week when it was read aloud at Wednesday's Chicago Board of Education meeting.

Frank Paolucci, a member of Canty Elementary School's Local School Council, read the letter aloud to the board during the public comment session.

The letter, addressed to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan when he was the CPS chief executive officer, called Canty, 3740 N. Panama St., "a top priority among Chicago Public Schools for the construction of an addition to accommodate its expanding number of students."

Only when Paolucci was finished reading


the letter did he reveal it was written by none other than Emanuel, then representing the 5th District, which stretches through Dunning, where the school is located.

"The situation at Canty has not improved," Paolucci concluded, and called on the board and CPS to heed the mayor and expand Canty.

Emanuel's letter said school enrollment had grown from 364 in 1991 to 577 in 2004. According to Paolucci, the school now has a capacity of 479, but an enrollment of 828.

"And it continues to grow year after year," he said Thursday.

According to CPS, Canty's utilization rate is 150 percent, making it among the most overcrowded, if you just count the main school building. But if you factor in its modular building, which has eight classrooms, the school's adjusted utilization rateis 108 percent, giving it a rating of "efficient." That's fairly typical of schools in the area, Paolucci said. The school's 20th-day enrollment was 812.

"The situation has gotten dramatically worse in 10 years," Paolucci said.

The mayor was traveling to Washington Thursday, but his press office released this statement:

"Addressing school overcrowding is an important part of the work we are doing to modernize the district, and it is why the mayor and CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett have already relieved overcrowding at 33 schools across the city, have invested over $1 billion in capital improvements to local schools and continue to seek out available funds to improve the quality of learning facilities in every neighborhood throughout our city."

Paolucci said he was recently speaking at the school with Principal Lucja Mirowska-Kopec


Nato air attack on Pakistani troops was self-defence, says senior western official

US-Pakistan relations strained further after attack allegedly kills up to 28 and prompts ban on Nato trucks crossing Afghan border

Nato trucks at the Pakistani border town of Torkham bound for Afghanistan: a senior western official claims an attack by Nato aircraft on Pakistani troops that allegedly killed as many as 28 soldiers was an act of self-defence. Photograph: Qazi Rauf/AP

An attack by Nato aircraft on Pakistani troops that allegedly killed as many as 28 soldiers and looks set to further poison relations between the US and Pakistan was an act of self-defence, a senior western official has claimed.

According to the Kabul-based official, a joint US-Afghan force operating in the mountainous Afghan frontier province of Kunar was theInternational Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said it was "highly likely" that aircraft which had been called into the area to provide "close air support" to troops on the ground was responsible for causing casualties among the Pakistani soldiers.

For their part, a statement by the Pakistani military claimed that it was they who were attacked first, forcing them to respond to Nato's "aggression with all available weapons".

According to Pakistani officials the 40 or so soldiers stationed at the outposts were asleep at the time of the attack. Government officials said the two border posts that were attacked had recently been established to try to stop insurgents who use bases in Afghanistan to attack Pakistan from crossing the border and launching attacks.

The Obama administration promised a full investigation. Hillary Clinton,


the US secretary of state, and Leon Panetta, the defence secretary, issued a joint statement saying they had each spoken to their Pakistani counterparts to express their condolences for the loss of life.

Pakistan was blunt that the killings represented a serious setback for the two countries' tattered alliance. The prime minister's office said the foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, told Clinton on Sunday that the attack was unacceptable, showed complete disregard for human life and had sparked rage within Pakistan.

The vagueness of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is one potential, and relatively innocent, explanation for the incident. Drawn up by the British Raj in 1893, there is little agreement on where the so-called Durand Line actually falls, meaning troops from either side of the border can wanderinto the neighbouring country without realising it. One senior military official said that, in places, rival maps have discrepancies of "multiples of kilometres – sometimes as much as five kilometres".

Much of the fighting in Afghanistan is conducted by guerrillas based a short distance inside Pakistan. Nato forces are not allowed to cross the border and militants sometimes fire artillery and rockets across the line from locations close to Pakistani army posts.

And yet both sides have worked hard to try and minimise any confusion. The attack happened just a day after John Allen, the US commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, met with Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the Pakistani army chief, to discuss enhanced co-operation on the border.

But a more troubling explanation would be that insurgents in the area were


special forces who raided deep inside Pakistani territory and killed Osama bin Laden.

More recently the US has accused Pakistan of backing a militant group who launched a 20-hour attack on the US embassy in Kabul.

Washington believes Pakistan continues to support the Taliban, a movement it publicly backed in the 1990s, in order to have influence in Afghanistan. But at the same time as supporting the enemies of the US, Pakistan remains crucial to the military mission in Afghanistan.

John Allen was quick to release a statement saying the incident had his "highest personal attention".

"My most sincere and personal heartfelt condolences go out to the families and loved ones of any members of Pakistan security forces who may have been killed or injured," he said.

Islamabad reacted with fury to thedown of the border to Nato traffic has happened in the past during periods of Pakistani displeasure with Afghanistan and its foreign backers.

A similar incident last year in which two Pakistani troops were killed led to the closure of one of Nato's supply routes for ten days.

However, in recent years the alliance has opened up alternative supply routes through Central Asia, reducing its reliance on the route through Pakistan.


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Kuwait

Kuwaiti/kuːˈweɪt/ (Arabic:دولة الكويتDawlat al-Kuwait), officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in Western Asia. Situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, it shares borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. As of 2014, Kuwait has a population of 4.2 million people; 1.3 million are Kuwaitis and 2.9 million are expatriates.

Oil reserves were discovered in 1938. From 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization. In the 1980s, Kuwait experienced a period of geopolitical instability and an economic crisis following the stock market crash. In 1990, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. The Iraqi occupation came to an end in 1991 after military intervention by United States-led forces. Atthe end of the war, there were extensive efforts to revive the economy and rebuild national infrastructure.

History

Early history

In 1613, the town of Kuwait was founded in modern-day Kuwait City. In 1716, the Bani Utubs settled in Kuwait. At the time of the arrival of the Utubs, Kuwait was inhabited by a few fishermen and primarily functioned as a fishing village. In the eighteenth century, Kuwait prospered and rapidly became the principal commercial center for the transit of goods between India, Muscat, Baghdad and Arabia. By the mid 1700s, Kuwait had already established itself as the major trading route from the Persian Gulf to Aleppo.

During the Persian siege of Basra in 1775–1779, Iraqi merchants took refuge in Kuwait and were partly instrumental in the expansion of Kuwait's boat-building and


expatriates.

Oil reserves were discovered in 1938. From 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization. In the 1980s, Kuwait experienced a period of geopolitical instability and an economic crisis following the stock market crash. In 1990, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. The Iraqi occupation came to an end in 1991 after military intervention by United States-led forces. At the end of the war, there were extensive efforts to revive the economy and rebuild national infrastructure.

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KuwaitAirways has dismissed reports it had imposed a ban on several nationalities to board its flights and transit through KuwaitInternational Airport. “The company would like to clarify that what was published on social networking sites about the ban on the travel of a number of nationalities onboard of Kuwait AirwaysIn 1995, an archaeological excavation under the Wheelwright’s Shop of Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent discovered that 167 timbers from a warship had been recycled as floor joists. Many of the great wooden ships of the British Navy during the Age of Sail in the 18th and early 19th centuries had been built at Chatham, most famously Admiral Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory, but it came as a surprise to find a ship had returned the favor and built part of the dockyard.

The wine-glass shape of the beams is characteristic of a sailing warship’s hull, and the quantity of timber indicated that it had come from a second- or third-rate ship of the line. There were carpenters’ marks on some of the beams which were identifiable as the signatures


of workers at the Chatham Royal Dockyard, some of whom had left the same marks on timber in the hull of HMS Victory. It was clear from the historical layers that the floor was not original to the Wheelwright’s Shop when it was first built in the 1780s, but rather was installed during major alterations to the space done in the 1830s. A key clue was the curve to some of the timbers, indicative of the “round bow” design by naval architect Robert Seppings who was promoted to master shipwright at Chatham in 1804 after the success of his round bow and stern innovations.

So historians were looking for a second- or third-rate ship of the line built at Chatham between 1750 and 1775, repaired at Chatham and thusstill in sailing form in 1804, then broken up in time for reuse in the early 1830s. It took them 17 years to conclusively identify it, but there’s only one ship that fits all the clues: it was HMS Namur, a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line that saw an extraordinary amount of action at some of Britain’s most important sea battles between her launch in 1756 and her dismantling in 1833.

The Seven Years War started in 1756, and the Namur played a major role at the Siege of Fort Louisbourg in 1758, which opened the rest of Canada to British attack; the Battle of Lagos in 1759, which kneecapped France’s planned invasion of England; and the Capture of Havana in 1762, which ended Spanish naval dominance in


the West Indies. Namur also fought against the Spanish and French during the American War of Independence, defeating the former at the Second Relief of Gibraltar on April 4th, 1781, then whupping the latter at the Battle of the Saintes almost exactly a year later. Even though she was getting on in years by then, HMS Namur still fought valiantly against the French in the Napoleonic Wars, including at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797 and in Strachan’s cleanup action after Trafalgar in 1805.

All told, Namur put in an exceptional 47 years of active service in the Royal Navy and 28 more on guard duty. Most ships from this period had a working life of around 20 years. In 1805 she had her decks shaved down,leaving her a 74-gun ship, and in 1807 was deployed to the east coast of England on harbor service at the Nore, a sandbank in the Thames Estuary which was once the scene of a spectacular kicking of England’s ass by the Dutch. There she remained until her honorable demise in 1833.

As much as it seems the European powers did nothing but fight on sea and land during this period, it was actually rare for any given ship to see a battle at all. The Namur saw nine, of which seven were of decisive importance in establishing and maintaining Britain’s command of the oceans.

As if that weren’t enough of a claim to fame, HMS Namur was also home to two figures known to history for reasons beyond only


their naval roles. Between 1811 and 1814, HMS Namur was captained by one Charles Austen, future Rear Admiral and brother of novelist Jane Austen. She wove the naval experiences of Charles and their elder brother Francis, future Admiral of the Fleet, into several of her works, including Mansfield Park and my personal favorite, Persuasion, her last novel wherein naval officers are central characters and society’s reaction to the new prominence of the navy a central theme.

Olaudah Equiano, former slave, merchant and author of the first slave narrative, worked on board the Namur in 1759 during the Battle of Lagos. He was a boy of around 14 and had been enslaved since he was kidnapped at 11 years of age. His owner in 1759 was Michael Henry Pascal, the4th lieutenant on HMS Namur. Pascal put Equiano to work as a powder monkey, a dangerous job that entailed carrying gunpowder from the magazine to the gunners. Children were assigned to the task because they were small and could hide behind the gunwale when enemy sharpshooters aimed for them.

Equiano’s autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, published in 1789, was a smash hit and played a pivotal role in the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807. He describes his experiences aboard the Namur in chapters three and four, with the Battle of Lagos featured in the latter.

This series of accomplishments, impressive though they may be, could not keep HMS Namur from returning to her birthplace


for Horatio Hornblower, C.S. Forester’s fictional naval hero. In 1786, when Gordon was 14 years old (he had already been in the navy for three years by then, believe it or not), he served on HMS Namur as a midshipman. He saw action aboard the Namur at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797. It’s possible that he felt a sentimental attachment to the old bucket and saw to it that she would continue to sustain the Royal Navy in a new position: namely, as a floor.

Doubtless Gordon would have been proud to see that floor become the centerpiece of a multi-million dollar redevelopment of the Historic Dockyard Chatham which, in addition to creating a new visitor center and a Command of the Oceans gallery detailing theParanoid prognosis

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NDTV India’s Ravish Kumar has been a unusual phenomenon in TV news, forging his own brand of journalism, combining melodramatic rants with the missionary zeal to expose a great deal that the ordinary Indian endures on a daily basis. He is possibly the only anchor around whose ventures into mofussil India are not confined to elections and droughts, but driven by the need to keep exposing institutional decay. Hats off to him for that.

The melodrama in his journalism has been building up since the advent of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its troll army, and has


Hibs eye Barnsley defender Adam Jackson

Last updated : 08 May 2019 By Steve Forbes

The 24-year-old is out-of-contract in the summer, meaning the Hibees could sign the former Middlesbrough youth on a pre-contract deal now.

Jackson was spotted at last month's Edinburgh derby, and is thought to have held talks with Hibs boss Paul Heckingbottom while in Edinburgh.

Heckingbottom was the manager who took Jackson to Oakwell, and the Scottish Sun claim Jackson would be keen to link up with his former gaffer again at Easter Road.

Jackson only made 10 appearances for the Oakwell outfit as they were promoted from English League One last season, however manager Daniel Stendal has said he would like to keep his squad intact if he can.

Jackson has also previously had loan spells with Hartlepool, Halifaxthe club continues to gain recognition, having amassed over 1,000 likes since joining Facebook in March this year. The group has also rallied support from international NGO Mises Institute Hispano, which has provided the activists with an assortment of Spanish-language digital content.

This progress has prompted the Castro regime to identify club members as enemies of the regime, a condemnation that infers virtual expulsion from society. According to Suarez, club members branded as activists are informally banned from employment on the island, and are ostracized by neighbors who fear guilt by association.

In anticipation of state repression, club members posted photos of their state-issued identification cards on their group Facebook page. As club co-founder Nelson Chartrand pointed out to the PanAm Post during an interview in August 2014, “We post


the IDs for safety reasons. In other words, this turns us into public persons and forces the government to restrain any measure against us.”

Despite these self-insurance policies, club members have still faced violence for their advocacy of a free society in Cuba. In June, members Vladimir Ortiz Suárez and Ernesto Tamayo Guerra suffered a beating on the streets of Havana while peacefully protesting low workers’ salaries and the scarcity of essential foods. The regime imprisoned the two young men for their activism, during which time Ortiz and Tamayo allege the police beat them again.

In their 2013 Annual Report, released in April this year, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) blacklisted Cuba as the Western Hemisphere’s most egregious violator of human rights. Similarly, Freedom House gave Cuba theDuring their 21-year existence, the Baltimore Ravens have been beaten by 30 of the other 31 franchises in the NFL.

The only team that has failed to upend the Ravens: the Cowboys, who play host to Baltimore on Sunday. The Ravens are 4-0 against the Cowboys, and each victory has been a significant one for Baltimore.

In 2000, the Ravens shut out Troy Aikman and the Cowboys, 27-0, for their fourth shutout of the season. The Baltimore Sun headline said it all: Big D runs into bigger 'D.'

In 2004, Baltimore routed Dallas again, beating the Cowboys, 30-10 behind Kyle Boller's two touchdown passes. The Ravens improved to 7-3, their best start in team history.

In 2008, the Ravens ruined the farewell party by knocking off the Cowboys in the final game


at Texas Stadium. In the final four minutes, Willis McGahee ran 77 yards for a touchdown and Le'Ron McClain broke free for an 82-yard score.

In 2012, Baltimore edged Dallas, 31-29, in what became a costly victory. Ray Lewis tore his triceps, an injury many believed would be season-ending. Three months later, Lewis returned for his "last ride" and helped the Ravens to their second Super Bowl title.

Coach John Harbaugh was asked whether he would mention to his players that the Cowboys are the only team never to beat the Ravens.

"No, probably not," Harbaugh said. "Is that true? How many games have there been?"

Harbaugh was informed that the Ravens have won all four meetings with Dallas.

"Does that count in this year’s standings?," Harbaugh asked with a smile. "Does thatof every run defense so far this season.

WR Cole Beasley: He leads the Cowboys in catches and has four touchdown catches. He is a mismatch for just about any defense. His top trait is his quickness. He can create separation early in a route, creating easier throws for Prescott. If teams want to pay extra attention to Dez Bryant, then Beasley can hurt defenses, especially on third down.

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DE DeMarcus Lawrence: He led the Cowboys in sacks last season with eight, and missed the first four games this season because of a suspension. He had his first sack of the season last week against Pittsburgh, and had a big tackle for loss as well. Lawrence gets his sacks in bunches. He had a sack in two playoff games in


2014. He had a sack in seven straight games last season. The Cowboys hope he is about to start another hot streak, because they need to get more out of their pass rush.

CB Brandon Carr: After lining up exclusively at left cornerback in his first four years with the Cowboys, he was moved to the right side this season and has flourished. He has one interception, but he has been a much more physical presence than in year’s past and playing with confidence. He has been in position to make plays and mostly made them. Speedy receivers give him some trouble, but he has been a sure tackler when a receiver has made a catch in front of him.

FS Byron Jones: He has focused all of his attentionat safety this season after splitting time between cornerback and safety a year ago as a rookie. He has been what the Cowboys had hoped with his ability to play the deep balls. He has been a good tackler as well. He is still looking for his first interception, but he is in the right spots. His ability to play cornerback, however, might help this week if Orlando Scandrick can’t play. Jones was a slot cornerback last season and has a good feel for leverage and help playing inside.


The federal government will award the entire $4.9 million of the first round of its OER funding pilot to a STEM-focused open textbook project out of the University of California, Davis, the Department of Education confirmed this week to “Inside Digital Learning.”

The terms of the grant required applicants to submit on behalf of a consortium. Aside from UC Davis, the winning project includes 11 institutions: three four-year institutions in the Midwest, one community college in Maryland and seven community colleges in California.

Institutions Participating in the Winning Project University of California, Davis (lead)

Hope College

Saint Mary's College

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Prince George's Community College

Contra Costa College

Diablo Valley College

Los Medanos College

Sacramento City College

American River College

Cosumnes River College

Folsom Lake College

According to the abstract submitted by the applicant, UC Davis’s project willeducation programs; their commitment to integrating advanced technology to support improved pedagogy; and their aggressive implementation plan to help faculty at other institutions adopt the use of OERs in their own classrooms," Hill wrote in an email.

Congress included in March approximately $4.9 million for OER funding in its fiscal year 2018 budget. The Department of Education issued in August a call for proposals that encompassed several institutions and emphasized a focus on high-enrollment courses and career/technical fields. The agency was prepared to offer the grant to between one and three projects, following a few weeks last month of sorting applications with the help of peer reviewers solicited by the department.

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an application in time.

MJ Bishop, director of the Maryland system's center for academic innovation, had hoped the grant money could further energize existing OER efforts by helping establish a statewide network. Her proposal included collaboration with Quality Matters, which hopes to eventually create standards for faculty creation of OER materials. But she told “Inside Digital Learning” in August that her team was struggling with the application because of the rapidly approaching deadline and some onerous requirements.

Although she was applying on behalf of a system, she had to identify one of the system’s members as the “lead institution” on the project, which meant she had to have additional conversations with her team to determine which institution was the best fit for the artificial distinction.

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United Continental addressed remarks by Virgin founder Richard Branson over what he called an airfare war for the West Coast between United and Virgin America. "Any time a competitor comes into your market and they lower fares to stimulate demand, we're going to match those fares," said John Rainey, the executive vice president and CFO of United Continental. "And to the extent that demand has increased, we're going to increase supply."

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United Airlines may use some of its $4.4 billion in cash to help purchase new aircraft, said Chief Financial Officer John Rainey. United could pay for 25 aircraft entering its fleet this year with a mixture of cash and financing, which helps the airline rely less on debt financing.

John Rainey, chief financial officer of United


Airlines, said the Boeing 777-300ER could make sense for the carrier. "One thing that you could see is that we could consolidate all of the 747 flying in one area, and that would have a cascading effect with the 777-300ER in other markets and the 787 somewhere else," Rainey said.

John Rainey, the chief financial officer of United Continental Holdings, says owning a fleet of aircraft made by one manufacturer saves money. "It helps from a maintenance perspective. It helps from a scheduling perspective," Rainey said. The carrier flies aircraft from Boeing and Airbus.

In a statement to U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, Virgin Atlantic said a proposed joint venture between American Airlines and British Airways would hurt competition on trans-Atlantic routes. "Airlines everywhere are struggling withFirst annual MVY Radio Night Out for Nonprofits

On Saturday, March 23, the Island community is invited to the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs for the first annual MVY Radio Night Out for Nonprofits. According to a press release, the radio station is holding an off-season party to celebrate the organizations and the people who care for and support the Island community.

WMVY will provide free food, and there will be live music from Joanne Cassidy with Mike Benjamin, and Phil Darosa and Friends. The releases states, “This event is an opportunity for Islanders to interact with the people behind many of the important local organizations who are doing good work on the Vineyard.”

To give Islanders a chance to learn about the many services and organizations available to them, all


A New Hotel Ad Shows a Gay Couple in Bed and People Are Pissed

A new hotel ad features a gay couple on vacation, and the mere representation of that concept was enough to send some people into a fit of rage.

Specifically, anti-LGBT group known as the American Family Association took up a campaign against the advertiser, Hilton, for its black-and-white photo as part of a full-page ad featured in Travel + Leisure magazine. The image shows two men (clothed, by the way) snuggling in bed, as vacationing couples do, along with the copy, "Stop Clicking Around," a mildly charged slogan meant to suggest the brand's hotel portfolio is superior and offers the best prices through its website.

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Over a decade ago, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) passed regulations concerning the proper handling of refrigerants (Clean Air Act, Section 608). These regulations and the required exam have dramatically changed the way refrigerants are sold.

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criteria for the admission of observers – these states must “recognize Arctic States’ sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the Arctic,” which the UK had done.

The Foreign Office said in 2013 that it will “support and respect the sovereign rights of the Arctic States to exercise jurisdiction over their territory.” The Arctic Council was established in 1991 to overcome the Cold War-era hostility between nations of the high north.

However, it seems that the specter of the Cold War is alive and well, at least in Williamson’s mind.

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RPA pay tribute to the retiring Rob Hawkins

The Rugby Players’ Association (RPA) has today paid tribute to the retiring RPA Player Representative for Newcastle Falcons, Rob Hawkins.

The 33-year-old will retire from professional rugby at the end of the 2015/16 season to focus on a post-rugby career with the Police after joining as a Special Constable in November last year.

The Taunton born hooker, who signed with Newcastle at the start of 2014/15 season, has enjoyed successful spells with Bath Rugby (2003-2011), Leicester Tigers (2011-2014) and Newcastle (2014-2016).

A member of the Leicester Tigers team which clinched the Aviva Premiership title in 2012/13, Rob will retire from the game with over 130 top flight appearances to his name.

He said: “I’m in a very fortunate position to be able to retire oncompanies, which have access to huge sums of capital and could refit their sprawling networks to carry television, are at present barred from the cable industry.

From the beginning, the National Cable Television Association has tried to fight restraints with a delicate and often cagey minuet.

It quietly supported a standard requiring the presence of six broadcast channels, but it adamantly fought and defeated an additional test requiring that cable companies sign up no more than half the potential subscribers in its market.

But that was precisely the standard deemed most important by consumer groups and local government officials, who have faced a deluge of complaints from their communities about rising cable prices.


Ministry. He served as a diplomat in France, until 1983 to the embassy's secretary and adviser to the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations in 1991. He later returned to France, appointed as adviser at the Syrian embassy in Paris in 1997. He was also appointed as the Syrian ambassador to Indonesia in 1998 and as director of the International Organizations Department at the Syrian Foreign Ministry in 2002.

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Jafaari is married with three children. He is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Persian.

Books
 The Lobbies in the U.S.A (Damascus 1983)
 The Syrian Foreign Affairs 1946–1982 (Damascus 1986)
 The United Nations and the New World Order (Damascus 1994)
 Moslem High Priests of the Far East "Historical Saga on the Way Islamby Shiban Ganju

We had assembled outside Lucknow to train ‘master trainers’. They had travelled from their villages, one to two hundred miles away, for a six day education in health care. Women outnumbered men in this group of thirty five. We believed, on their return, they would become health trainers in their native villages.

Today was the fifth day. We had an open interactive session, where the trainees got to express their thoughts freely. They had already bonded with each other; camaraderie flourished from giggles and side chatter. Inhibitions had eased.

Puja, a small woman sitting near the window, stood and said she had just composed a poem, which she wanted to recite. The group shouted a noise of approval. She began. She had captured the essence of maternal and


to it. My husband has supported me.”

The group cheered – men a little louder than the women – for this empowerment in action!

The attitude of these people had changed since the program started about two years ago. An internal transformation was happening. Personal responsibility for health was seeping into their awareness , which was an assurance for good health but not a guarantee. They could still lose the war, just when they were about to win the battle. They were vulnerable to external forces of socio-politics of man and nature. Unknown to them and beyond their control, people of the world, who had already “progressed” were collectively already destroying their future. The bellowing industrial carbon dioxide had already made the planet into a hot green house and punchedsouthwest monsoon will diminish and the life sustaining water downpour from the skies may disappear from India in 150 years.

The heat of it all made me dream of cool Alaska, where I was supposed to go on a planned trip a day later. I took off from scorching Lucknow the next day and after 48 hours of flights, airports transits and a boat ride, I was amidst the icy glaciers. In a short time, I had traversed oceans and continents over more than half the globe – from flat land to undulating hills, from prickly heat to cool breeze, from parched farms to a foggy ocean. From Lucknow to Alaska – it was surreal. And here I was: confronting a ‘sky scrapper’ of ice on the northern point


Young Utah BMX racer is on a fast track to success

South Jordan • The 13-year-old is first girl from Utah to claim national titles.

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Sophia Foresta set an ambitious goal for herself last year: The 13-year-old South Jordan resident aimed to be the best BMX rider in her age group in the country.

She did it  and more. Sophia also claimed the national overall top amateur girl's title for 2012, accumulating more points for wins against more competitors than any other female BMX racer in the nation. Sophia is the first female BMXer in UtahI haven't seen even in boys. ... She is super gifted, and she works very hard."

And the best may be yet to come, they say.

Sophia hopped on her first BMX bike when she was 6-years-old, after watching her younger brother Joey race at Rad Canyon BMX, a Salt Lake County facility located in South Jordan.

"I remember watching how everybody was going so fast and everybody was having so much fun, and I loved riding my bike around the neighborhood, so I thought I would try it," Sophia says.

Yep, it was as fun as it looked.

BMX racers compete on a serpentine dirt track that includes banks, hills and jumps. There are up to eight racers on a track at a time; from start to finish, a race takes just


35 to 45 seconds.

"I just enjoyed BMX so much," she says. "It was so much fun to do something unique rather than something everybody hears about all the time."

When BMX was added as an Olympic sport, debuting in 2008 at the Beijing Games, that clinched it for Sophia.

"I've always wanted to be in the Olympics, [but] I didn't know what sport I wanted to go for," she says. "When BMX became a sport in the Olympics, that was one of the happiest times and it was super cool to know that would be my opportunity to go."

If she achieves that dream, Sophia won't be the first Olympic caliber BMX racer from Utah. Arielle Martin of Cedar Hills just missed a spot on Team USA in 2008 after crashingin the quarter finals of the World Championships in Taiwan. Martin, 28, made the team four years later; she was set to compete in London last summer, but she was severely injured in her final practice session at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. The good news? Martin is back training, competing and placing in races.

Sophia won't be eligible to train as a junior development rider until she is 15; BMXers can turn pro at age 19  the same age they are eligible to qualify for the Olympics.

"Everything is in place for her, and she is definitely good enough," said Kelly, who spent 12 years as a BMX racer before switching to downhill. "It is a few years away before she starts getting ready,


but she's on the right track."

Meantime, Sophia continues to train with Kelly and his son Cody, a downhill mountain bike racer, on their backyard BMX track. She and her brother, who now races downhill and has won multiple national championships in his age group, workout four days a week; her routine includes lifting weights to build leg and upper body strength and aerobic fitness, in addition to practice sessions at Rad Canyon and on Kelly's track.

Sophia is "definitely the most committed racer we know as far as training, diet and preparedness," said Will Ridd, owner of Lake Town Bicycles in West Jordan and her first sponsor.

Spencer describes Sophia as a role model for younger girls  a dedicated racer and an amazing personality, the combination of traits GTRelated Links

The Air Force has dropped a recommendation to discharge a senior airman at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., who had accused three superiors of sexual harassment and assault.

Senior Airman Ciera Bridges, who had been facing discharge under other than honorable conditions, was featured in an Oct. 7 recent Air Force Times report on three airmen who claim they were retaliated against after accusing superiors of assault and harassment. Bridges was cited repeatedly for minor misconduct after she began making complaints against superiors for the harassment, which she said began soon after she arrived at Nellis in November 2009 and persisted for nearly three years.

Bridges alleged her chain of command retaliated against her by issuing letters of counseling and reprimands instead of handling the problems. In January, she


learned she had been recommended for the discharge, which she appealed.

Bridges sought the help of advocacy organization Protect Our Defenders, which learned Wednesday the discharge has been dropped.

Bridges “is thankful for the resolution on the discharge and elated to have the opportunity to remain in the Air Force,” her defense counsel, Capt. Trae Patterson, said in a statement. “But the emotional scars from years of harassment and assault, as well as nearly 10 months of stress and fearing for her Air Force career, along with being subjugated as an outcast, remain.”

Patterson said his client still wants to see her three alleged perpetrators held accountable. Two of the airmen remain in the Air Force, including a staff sergeant Bridges accused of grabbing her in a dark office, forcing herWebsite of Muzaffargarh

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Muzaffargarh, it's people, it's culture and many other information.
This page was developed especially as an information page for Muzaffargarh,
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Description of Muzaffargarh

District Muzaffar Garh
lies in the form of strip between the river Chenab and Indus, which
passes along the Eastern and Western boundaries respectively of the
district and form a triangle at Alipur tehsil of the district. The
district is bounded on the North by newly created district Layyah, on
the South by Bahawalpur and Rahimyar Khan districts across the river


Chenab. Districts Multan and Khanewal are on the Eastern side of
district Muzaffargarh, across the river Chenab. District Jhang also
touches on North-East. While Dera Gahzi Khan and Rajanpur districts
lie on the Western side across the river Indus.

District Muzaffargarh is spread over an area of 8,249 square
kilometers
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Whitewashing History

The Guardian has an article by Sunny Singh that asks why Christopher Nolan's film Dunkirk only shows white soldiers fighting and dying. In fact, the article explains, there were many Indians as well as Asians and Africans recruited from the British empire who fought there too. The French army also contained many North Africans.

How would knowing this change change modern day attitudes toward immigrants? That's the basic question the article asks.

This jumped out at me because I recently read (and posted about) Amitav Ghosh's novel The Glass Palace which also focuses on how Indian troops were vital to the British army in Asia, yet they never got credit (or blame.) One Indian soldier to another after a Japanese surprise attack in Malaya, from that


their lives, safety and prosperity are results of non-British sacrifices? In a deeply divided, fearful Britain, Nolan’s directorial choices succeed as a Brexiteer costume fantasy, but they fail to tell the story of Operation Dynamo, the war, and Britain. More importantly, they fail us all, as people and a nation."

Steve, coming into a country to settle, one has much to learn. One of these efforts requires trying to get 'under the skin' of what makes someone patriotic in their understanding of pivotal moments in a country's history.

The evacuation of Dunkirk is most certainly one of these 'soul of place' moments and it cannot be discussed without strong emotion here.

That said, I looked in to the facts of service records for what British Empire called 'colonial' units, some whichwere 'coloured'. Those military units were there at Dunkirk, but not in large numbers due to this being first response in what became a much-longer, much-larger war. Logistics worked against large-scale movement of foreign regiments as there was the looming threat of global war necessitating use of 'colonial' troops in action against aggression in those colonies.

That certainly became the case.

But to deal with the director's choices in this film, of not taking into account the many French regiments that were conscripted from North Africa, this is where the film's focus on the English soldier, could appear to be racist.

But it may not be, if we look at this as a film of the British take on its fight -- that nationalistic venture into the myth of place and


pride in history.

I will end by inserting this helpful submission on the film itself, from a film chat stream. Clifton (below) gives things some thought, to the effects of the film and its 'home fires' imaginings.

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Clifton Sutherland

I agree with Publius. There is no denying that colonial troops played a pivotal and noteworthy role in the war, and that they were at Dunkirk to boot. But, given the narrative constraints of the story Nolan was trying to tell, tied with the relative accuracy of character portrayal in respects to the average British soldier, the story was meant to focus on that specific aspect, not the diversity of soldiers there, nor the tactics or politics or the german side- all sorts of narratives were not utilized, in order for thewill always beat a good little ’un. Maybe that’s why many of our greatest and most radical football thinkers have had to ply their trade abroad.

Take Jimmy Hogan, who has rightly been described as a prophet without honour in his own country.

Tommy Docherty and Ron Atkinson have both described the Burnley-born coach as the biggest influence on their career. Yet when Hogan died in 1974 he was unmourned by the English soccer establishment.

That’s because he did most of his work in Europe, where he is revered as a pioneer. His methods influenced the Hungary team which twice humbled England in the 1950s. Even though it was their choice to ignore his skills, many at the FA saw him as a traitor.

Like so many great coaches, Hogan was nothing


special as a player. He began his career in The Netherlands, and then moved to Austria. When the First World War began he was interned but allowed to coach at MTK Budapest. He also worked in Switzerland, Germany and France.

Whereas English clubs put the emphasis on stamina, Hogan believed in ball mastery. He had no time for the belief that players should train without a ball during so that they would be hungrier for it on a Saturday.

Hogan was teaching what would become known as total football in the 1970s. The Europeans were eager to learn from him, but whenever he worked in Britain his ideas were met with indifference.

Helmut Schoen, who managed West Germany to World Cup success in 1974, called Hogan a shining example for thebecoming the American Illusion”, and “instead of realizing its founders’ admirable commitments, today’s United States has proved itself to be exceptional in far more problematic ways that are shockingly at odds with its immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights”. These are some of the main findings Mr. Alston released in December 2017, after a two-week fact-finding mission to the U.S. His final report will be available in Spring 2018 and will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in June 2018.

Today’s America is indeed a far cry from the model of Constitutional Republic the Founding Fathers dreamed of and brought forth. On July 4, 1900, the representatives of the Democratic party of the United States assembled in National Convention, on the Anniversary


was known to have played an essential part in writing the Truman Doctrine whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. The Doctrine then became the foundation of U.S. foreign policy, and led to the establishment, on 4 April 1949, of NATO, a military alliance that is still in effect today with 29 member states. Acheson is also known for having said in 1962 that “Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role”.

Perhaps the same can be said today of the United States in light of the Trump administration’s incoherent, if not chaotic foreign policy. Paradoxically, the use of the slogan “Make America great again” during the 2016 presidential campaign only reinforces this claim, since the phrase—which hasbeen regularly used by both Republican and Democrat politicians following its first coinage by Ronald Reagan in 1980—is a distant cousin of the “Make Britain Great Again” slogan which dates back to the 19th century, when it was used by the British Conservative politician Disraeli. Clearly, both the old British version and its modern American equivalent refer to the notion of a lost “greatness”, or one to regain.

According to The American Conservative , since the early 2000’s there has been an ongoing conversation among scholars, policymakers, and members of the broader American foreign policy establishment about whether U.S. power is in decline. But the question actually extends back to the 1980s, with the publication of Yale historian Paul Kennedy’s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and


other important books on the subject by scholars David Calleo and Robert Gilpin. Even though the controversy surrounding decline dissipated when the Soviet Union imploded and Japan’s economic bubble burst, it “remained dormant through the ‘unipolar moment’ of the 1990s but was rekindled with China’s rapid great-power emergence in the early 2000’s”, and the resulting shift of world geopolitical and economic power from West to East.

If we are to believe French historian Pierre Melandri, however, the issue of American decline started well before the publication of Paul Kennedy’s immensely successful book in 1987, the very year when, for the first time since 1917, the U.S. lost its status as the largest creditor nation in the world. As early as 1973, he indicated, a Japanese Prime Minister had alreadythe demise of the American empire but great danger for what used to be known as the American republic”.

In 2011, a blogger by the name of Danios reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which revealed that since the United States was founded in 1776, it has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars, and the only time the U.S. went five years without war (1935-40) was during the isolationist period of the Great Depression!

Away from the blogosphere, an editorial of The New York Times asserted that the United States has been at war continuously since the attacks of 9/11 and now has just


over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories. It concluded that “Senators who balk at paying for health care and the basic diplomatic missions of the State Department approved a $700 billion defense budget for 2017-18, far more than Mr. Trump even requested. Whether this largess will continue is unclear. But the larger question involves the American public and how many new military adventures, if any, it is prepared to tolerate”.

In the same vein, Richard N. Haas, the president of the Council of Foreign Relations—often described as the U.S. most influential foreign policy think tank—argued in his best-selling book that the rules, the policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course in a worldinterests; focuses chiefly on international terrorism—the least of the challenges to the present world order (…) then the collapse of the world order, with all that entails, may not be far off”.

Most significantly, in June 2017, a Pentagon study was released and caused rivers of ink to flow, both in the U.S. and overseas. It is worth noting that the commissioning and preparation of this report began in June 2016, six months before the end of the Obama administration, and was completed in April 2017, four months into the Trump administration. It required and involved extensive consultations with officials across the Pentagon and a handful of American think-tanks of a somewhat neoconservative persuasion.

Among the report’s most stunning conclusions are : “the status quo that was hatched and nurtured


has become “easier to get, harder to use and easier to lose”. It no longer buys as much as it did in the past, and battles to get it are yielding diminishing returns. As a result, power is spreading, and long-established, big players are increasingly being challenged by newer and smaller ones. It is shifting “from brawn to brains, from north to south and west to east, from old corporate behemoths to agile start-ups, from entrenched dictators to people in town squares and cyberspace”. In reality, Naím insists, power is decaying. One of the most convincing arguments he gives to demonstrate how the exercise of power has changed is in the realm of armed conflicts. Adapting a Churchillian turn of phrase, Naím says that “never in the fieldthe overwhelming evidence that today’s world is, in fact, a world of mixtures, of migrations and of crossings over, of boundaries traversed. One of the major crises affecting countries like France, Britain and the U.S. has been brought about by the realization, now dawning everywhere, that no culture or society is purely one thing. Sizeable minorities, North Africans in France, the African Caribbean, and Indian populations in Britain, Asian and African elements in this country (i.e. America), dispute the idea that civilization, that prided themselves on being homogeneous can continue to do so. There are no insulated cultures or civilizations. Any attempt made to separate them into the watertight compartments alleged by Huntington and his ilk does damage to their variety, their diversity, their sheer complexity of elements,


Roemer, a 62-year-old lawyer whose house in Berkeley has a giant Clinton sign on the fence around the front yard, and another just inside the front door.

People don’t love her. They don’t give her the benefit of the doubt. But I do. Sarah Gill, 79

Visitors to the house, like those who gathered there on a recent night for phone banking, encounter a veritable shrine to Clinton – a table loaded with campaign signs, pins, a photo of Clinton with Obama – plus several bottles of pinot noir. The grapes were grown on the farm Roemer owns with her husband in the Anderson Valley, and the homemade labels say “bottled in 2008 ... elected in 2016,” with portraits of George Washington and Clinton side by side.

While Roemer served burritosThe race is one of five events whose contracts ran out this year, and there was a growing belief that it would lose it slot.

F1 owners Liberty Media have been clear that the calendar would likely remain at 21 races next season and the addition of new grands prix in the Netherlands and Vietnam meant two current races would lose out.

With Italian officials having said earlier this year that they had sorted financial matters with F1, and Britain having announced a new deal, it was thought that Mexico would beat Spain and Germany to taking the final available slot.

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While the situation did not look positive for Spain, it is understood that discussions have moved on and a


routine on October 26, 2017. Detective Thorla
spotted a package with a suspicious combination of characteristics. It had
been shipped to the “source” state of California; it was addressed from
Michael Hodges to Christopher Smith; it was a new FedEx box, sealed
with more tape than necessary; the shipment appeared to have been paid
by cash; it was shipped priority overnight; and it required no signature
upon delivery.

   The detective removed the parcel from the sorting line and placed it
with other packages for K9 Hogan to examine. When K9 Hogan examined
each of them, he indicated that the Hodges–Smith parcel had a narcotic
odor. Detective Thorla then took the parcel to another area and placed it
with similarly sized packages. K9 Hogan examined that group of
packages and again indicated the Hodges–Smith parcel had a narcotic
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Animated Engines

Wankel Engine

The Wankel rotary engine is a fascinating beast that features a very clever rearrangement of the four elements of the Otto cycle. It was developed by Felix Wankel in the 1950s.1

In the Wankel, a triangular rotor incorporating a central ring gear is driven around a fixed pinion within an oblong chamber.

Intake

The fuel/air mixture is drawn in the intake port during this phase of the rotation.

Compression

The mixture is compressed here.

Power

The mixture burns here, driving the rotor around.

Exhaust

And the exhaust is expelled here.

The rotary motion is transferred to the drive shaft by an eccentric wheel (illustrated in blue) that rides in a matching bearing in the rotor. The drive shaft rotates once during every power stroke instead of twice as in the Otto cycle.

The Wankel promised higher power     Q. What was the name of the school back on July 22, 2013?
                 A. Ryerson.”
¶7       Officer Ruggiero, a Chicago police officer, testified that at about 10 a.m. on July 22, 2013,
     he was conducting surveillance of the alley at 634 North Ridgeway Avenue. Officer Ruggiero
     assisted in detaining Hardman. Officer Ruggiero testified that, in July 2013, he was part of the
     “Area North Saturation Team,” assigned to the eleventh district. Officer Ruggiero testified that
     he had been an officer in the eleventh district for seven


worked in the eleventh district for seven years, that he
       was a patrol officer there, and that he had made “numerous arrests in that area.” Officer
       Ruggiero described the area where the offense occurred as residential and said that it took
       place “right next to a school called Ryerson Elementary School at that time.” Officer Ruggiero

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       not necessary. Under section 407(c), whether people were coming and going, taking their kids
       to school, is irrelevant to the building’s status as a school. 720 ILCS 570/407(c) (West 2012)
       (“[T]he time of day, time of year and whether classes were currently in session at the time of
       the offense [are] irrelevant.”).
¶ 41       Officer Harmon testified that he had worked in the eleventh district for nine years, that he
       was familiar with the area where the offense occurred, including the schools near that location,
       and that the school


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A comparative examination of changing patterns of ownership and control of the mass media in light of globalization, technological change, government policy, market restructuring and corporate consolidation.

This course seeks to introduce students to the political economy of media as a distinctive approach within communication, media, and cultural studies for studying contemporary media markets, systems, and industries. Surveying some of the different theories, schools, and debates that have dominated political economy in general and the political economy of media in particular, we will consider how media practices, policy, and governance at all levels — local, regional, national, global — are structured and bounded by powerful economic and political imperatives. Students will also consider alternatives and challenges to existing configurations of mass media, in public broadcasting, alternative and communityThe Myrtles Plantation was built in 1796 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, and has a long history of ghostly phenomena. Perhaps its most famous undead resident is a supposed former slave named Chloe, who, legend has it, accidentally poisoned the children of the house's owner; although there are no historical records to support this claim. Despite this, many other tales of paranormal activity have been told about the plantation, and visitors flock to it in order to investigate its reputedly haunted grounds for themselves.


As dementia forces former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to withdraw from public life, she joins millions of Americans coping with brain changes that strike women more often than men.

"Some time ago, doctors diagnosed me with the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease," O'Connor, 88, wrote Tuesday in a letter addressed to the public.

"While the final chapter of my life with dementia may be trying, nothing has diminished my gratitude and deep appreciation for the countless blessings in my life."

O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, wrote that she wanted to be open about the changes in her health "while I am still able." Her husband, John O'Connor, lived with Alzheimer's for almost 20 years until his death in 2009.

"We commend JusticeO'Connor for bravely sharing her diagnosis and increasing awareness about this devastating disease," the Alzheimer's Association said in a statement. "Justice O'Connor has been an advocate for caregivers and people living with the disease."

The Alzheimer’s Association predicts the prevalence of Alzheimer's could triple by 2050. It currently impacts about 5.7 million Americans and remains the sixth leading cause of death, killing more people each year than breast cancer and prostrate cancer combined.

Alzheimer's actually starts in the brain 20 to 30 years before the first symptom of memory loss, said Dr. Richard Isaacson, who runs the country's first Alzheimer's prevention clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

If you are a woman, you have a greater probability of developing Alzheimer's than a man: women make up two-thirds of Alzheimer's cases.

The reason


going into this study is focused on those ideas, which seem so obviously wrong. But I am glad it is done. William Gamson and teams of undergraduates made a list of all of the ‘challenging organizations’ they could find — came up with between 500 and 600 between 1800 and 1945, of which they did a sample of 53. Their focus:

The central issues concern the permeability of the political arena by new participants and how their success or failure is influenced by their strategy and organization. (22)

I am almost as interested in the groups they excluded — this in itself says so much about narrow ideas of citizenship in a pluralist society and who is excluded from that:

We also exclude groups whose members are neither American citizens norThe Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature. It was created to celebrate the 81 years of discerning, thoughtful criticism Kirkus Reviews has contributed to both the publishing industry and readers at large. Books that earned the Kirkus Star with publication dates between November 1, 2014, and October 31, 2015, are automatically nominated for the 2015 Kirkus Prize, and the winners will be selected on October 23, 2015, by an esteemed panel composed of nationally respected writers and highly regarded booksellers, librarians and Kirkus critics.

Mention superheroes and people immediately recall the costumed marvels they've seen in the visual media of film, TV, graphic novels and comics. It's