Town and wrote daily at the British Museum in Bloomsbury. Architect of the Risorgimento Giuseppe Mazzini had plotted the liberation of Italy in Soho, Bloomsbury, and Clerkenwell. The Franco–Prussian War and its aftermath carried French artists such as Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro across the Channel either as visitors or residents. British self-confidence at this zenith of empire protected exiled revolutionaries and dissidents against demands for extradition, or even just information, from overseas police forces. Not until the Aliens Act of 1905, prompted by press-driven fears of mass Jewish immigration from the Tsarist empire, would the shutters start to fall.

A conscious “cosmopolitan,” a polyglot, and an inveterate border-crosser, who for almost two decades moved between the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain, Van Gogh lived and breathedthe “free movement of people.” (That ideal finally became a pillar of the European Union under the Maastricht Treaty, signed in a Dutch city, in 1992.) Applying to a South London pastor for a position in the church, he pleaded that his “experiences in different countries, of mixing with various people, poor and rich,” as well as his “speaking a number of languages,” should make up for his lack of a seminary education.

He wore this multinational identity with pride—and few visitors will tour the crowded rooms of “Van Gogh and Britain” without sparing a thought for the slow-motion political trainwreck of Brexit. If or when it happens, Brexit will—for Britons and other Europeans alike—bring that hard-won freedom to an official end. Timetabled to begin in the week of


show how the black-and-white illustrations by British artists in weekly papers (above all, the pioneering Graphic, founded in 1869) left an indelible mark both on Van Gogh’s vision and his method. In the early 1880s, living in The Hague, he built up a personal collection of some 2,000 English prints. Their subject matter—the poor, the homeless, marginal people from England’s lower depths, whether dustmen, street vendors, or war veterans—crystalized his belief in the heroism of everyday life. “He wanted to be a working-man artist,” said Jacobi. In other words, a modest artisan who stood squarely with, rather than above, his figures.

Not only magazine but book illustrations lodged in Van Gogh’s visual memory to resurface in later works. A hunched, seated figure depicted by Charles Reinhart in an editionthings are surely the equal of any brush trembling with fever and emotion.” Occasionally, the Tate visitor will wonder if the suggested links between paintings, prints, or books Van Gogh knew in London and his later pictures may owe more to coincidence than cause-and-effect. Often, however, the show makes firm connections visible: as in the receding avenue of alder trees from a 1689 canvas by the Dutch master Meindert Hobbema that Van Gogh saw, and loved, at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Autumnal avenues, their trees stretching away into an unknown future, would often fill his drawings and letters.

In images or words, they signify the “years of pilgrimage” that began in London and never ceased for him. Wherever he lodged, he continued to be one of those


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The president also offered his condolences via telephone to Mr. Foley’s parents, who also praised their son for his life’s work.

Speaking to reporters in front of their New Hampshire home, John and Diane Foley noted his dedication in documenting Syria’s conflict and the plight of ordinary Syrians. “We believe he was a martyr for freedom,” John Foley said.

In the video, the terrorist group said it was beheading James Foley in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes against its positions in northern Iraq.

The White House said earlier this month that the Islamic State is not a threat to Americans — a position deemed


States as well as elsewhere.”

Retired Army Gen. John M. Keane, who is pressing the White House to adopt a broad campaign against the Islamic State, agrees that the terrorist organization of more than 10,000 fighters represents wider threat.

“[The Islamic State] is the new face of al Qaeda and is a threat to U.S. vital interests in the Middle East and a threat to the safety and security of the American people,” Mr. Keane said. “Despite some limited setbacks in northern Iraq, IS maintains the initiative and freedom of movement throughout Iraq and Syria. What the U.S. needs is not just rhetoric condemning this barbarism but a U.S.-led strategy with our allies to first stop IS and then defeat them.”

The Islamic State has perfected the car bomb as ainto northern Iraq and took the large city of Mosul and then moved south toward Baghdad, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had a new perspective.

“Make no mistake, and this country should not make any mistake on this, nor anyone in Congress — ISIL may not appear to be an imminent threat to the United States,” he said. “It is a threat to the United States. It is a threat, a clear threat to our partners in that area, and it is imminent.”

But two weeks ago, Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said no, the Islamic State is not a threat to Americans.

“Right now, their focus is not on attacking the U.S. homeland or attacking our interests here in the United States or abroad,” Mr. Blinken told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

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is a request by the State Department for additional U.S. personnel, and my understanding is that it’s for less than 300 [troops],” the official said.

The Obama administration has placed 849 military personnel in Iraq and tasked them with conducting airstrikes, conducting assessments and providing Iraqi forces with intelligence, Pentagon officials said.

Additionally, the framework for an international coalition to combat the Islamic State began to form Wednesday, when Germany and France said they were willing to help Kurdish fighters battle the militants.

Germany and Italy announced Wednesday that they were prepared to join Britain and France in delivering weapons and other military gear such as helmets and security vests to the Kurdish fighters.

• Ben Wolfgang and Maggie Ybarra contributed to this article, which is based in part on wire servicetribe, named Matamula Mangera, who sent them into rampage as revenge against his own people after being deposed of his post. The tribesmen were so terrified of the man-eating lions that they wouldn’t even dare speaking of them, believing that a simple mention would cause them to appear. They begged to the tribe chief to restore the witch doctor to his post, but he refused. The lions kept attacking and, eventually, took over 1,500 human lives (some say over 2000); the worst lion attack in History, and one of the worst cases of animal attacks ever recorded. Eventually, George Rushby, a famed hunter, decided to put an end to the attacks. He killed 15 lions, and the rest of the pride eventually abandoned the area, finally ending the


nightmare. But, of course, the locals were convinced that the lions left only because the tribe’s chief finally agreed to restore Matamula Mangera to his old job.

9 Two Toed Tom

Two Toed Tom is a rather obscure man-eater, and today it is hard to know which parts of his story are real, and which ones are myth. This huge male American alligator was said to roam the swamps in the border of Alabama and Florida during the 20s. He had lost all but two of the toes in his left “hand”, and left very recognizable tracks on the mud, so he was nicknamed “Two Toed Tom” by the local people. He was said to have lost his toes in an iron trap.

He measured four and a half meters long,explosion, the farmer and his son heard a horrible scream and splashing sounds coming from a nearby pond. They rushed to the place and saw Tom’s bright eyes for a moment before he disappeared under the surface. The screams were later explained when the half eaten remains of the farmer’s young daughter appeared in the shore. It is impossible to know whether this particular story was true or simply a folk tale, but everything seems to indicate that Two Toed Tom was real, and that he continued to roam the swamps of Florida for many years. People would constantly report seeing a huge male gator basking in lake shores, and hearing his roars every morning. They identified him as Tom by the two toed tracks he left in


the sand and the mud. The most amazing part of the story is that, although he was most famous during the 20s, Tom was seemingly still alive during the 80s, when a huge gator lacking two of his toes was reported in the same swamps where he had roamed his entire life. Many hunts for the living legend were organized, but Two Toed Tom was never captured.

8 Kesagake

As I have mentioned in a previous list, the most dangerous wild animal in Japan is usually considered to be the Japanese Giant Hornet, which kills 40 people a year, on average. However, the largest, most powerful land predator in Japan is the Brown Bear, and, perhaps the most brutal bear attack in history took place in the village of Sankebetsu,Hokkaido, in 1915. At the time, Sankebetsu was a pioneer village, with very few people living in a largely wild area. The area was inhabited by brown bears, including a gigantic male known as Kesagake. Kesagake used to visit Sankebetsu to feed on harvested corn; having became a nuisance, he was shot by two villagers and fled to the mountains, injured. The villagers believed that, after being shot, the bear would learn to fear humans and stay away from the crops. They were wrong.

On December 9 of 1915, Kesagake showed up again. He entered the house of the Ota family, where the farmer’s wife was alone with a baby she was caring for. The bear attacked the baby, killing him, then went for the woman. She tried to


defend herself by throwing firewood at the beast, but was eventually dragged to the forest by the bear. When people arrived to the, now empty, house, they found the floor and walls covered on blood. Thirty men went to the forest, determined to kill the bear and recover the unfortunate woman’s remains. They found Kesagake and shot him again, but failed to kill him. The animal fled and they found the woman’s partially eaten body buried under the snow, where the bear had stored it for later consumption.

The bear later returned to the Ota family’s farm, and armed guards were sent after him. But this left another village house unprotected, and Kesagake took advantage of this, attacking the Miyoke family’s home and mauling everyone inside. Although some ofthe people managed to escape, two children were killed and so was a pregnant woman, who, according to surviving witnesses, begged for her unborn baby’s life as the huge bear advanced. Of course, it was all in vain; Kesagake killed her, too. When the guards realized their mistake and returned to the Miyoke house, they found the bodies of the two children, the woman and her unborn fetus all laying in the blood covered floor. In only two days, Kesagake had killed six people. The villagers were terrified and most of the guards abandoned their posts out of fear.

A famed bear hunter was informed of the incidents, and he identified the bear as being Kesagake and informed that the bear had actually killed before the Sankebetsu attacks. At


first he refused to participate in the hunt but eventually he joined the group and on December 14, he was the one to finally kill Kesagake. The bear was almost three meters tall and weighed 380 kgs. Human remains were found in his stomach. The horrible incidents didn’t end there; some of the people who had survived the attacks died of their wounds. One of the survivors drowned in a river. The region was soon abandoned by villagers and became a ghost town. Even today, the Sankebetsu incident remains the worst animal attack in the history of Japan, and one of the most brutal of recorded history.

7 The New Jersey Shark

These shark attacks took place in 1916, in a time where little was known about sharks of anykind, and some scientists even claimed that sharks were not dangerous at all. This is one of the very few cases of real “man eating sharks” known, with most shark attacks being isolated incidents. It all happened along the coast of New Jersey; the first victim was a young man named Charles Vansant who was attacked in very shallow water while swimming with a dog; several people, including his family, witnessed the attack, and a lifeguard rushed to rescue the young man. The shark was extremely tenacious and seemingly followed the lifeguard to the shore, disappearing shortly after. The shark’s teeth had severed Vansant’s femoral arteries and one of his legs had been stripped off its flesh; he bled to death before he could be taken to a


hospital. Five days later, another man, Charles Bruder, was attacked by the same shark while swimming away from the shore. At first it was reported by a witness that a red canoe had capsized; in reality, the “red canoe” was a giant stain of Bruder’s blood. The shark had bitten off his legs. He was dragged back to the shore, where the sight of his mangled body seemingly “caused women to faint”, but it was too late; he was dead by the time he got to the beach.

Although sharks had been seen in the area during those few days, scientists who were informed of the attacks claimed that sharks were unlikely to be responsible, and said that the culprit had probably been a killer whale or a seaturtle! The next attacks took place not in the sea, but in a creek near the town of Matawan. Again, people reported seeing a shark in the creek, but they were ignored until, on July 12, an eleven year old boy was attacked while swimming and dragged underwater. Several townspeople rushed to the creek, and a man named Stanley Fisher dove into the water to find the boy’s remains, but he too was attacked by the shark and died of his wounds. The final victim was another young boy barely 30 minutes after the attack on Stanley Fisher. Although he was severely injured, he was the only victim to survive.

On July 14, a young female Great White Shark was captured in the Raritan Bay near the Matawan Creek.


It is said that human remains were found in her stomach. But, although this shark was usually thought to be the man eater, not everyone is convinced. Today, scientists believe that, although the female Great White shark may have been responsible for the first two attacks, the Matawan creek attacks were probably the work of a Bull Shark. Unlike the Great White Shark, the Bull Shark can survive in fresh water, and is an extremely aggressive species, considered by some as even more dangerous than the Great White. Even so, this was the beginning of the Great White Shark’s terrible reputation as a man eater. Once confirmed that the Jersey attacks had been the work of a shark, there was media frenzy and a shark panic “unrivaled insay that the bear was a male and that he had originally abducted a girl as his mate. The girl was rescued by villagers and the bear went into a killing spree as revenge.

Another, more believable version says the bear was a female whose cubs had been killed by humans, and that she became a man-killer to avenge them. However, most experts today believe that the bear was probably injured by humans, and became abnormally aggressive as a result. The bear attacked three dozen people in the Indian state of Mysore. In typical Sloth Bear fashion, it would rip the victim’s face off with its claws and teeth, and those who survived were often left completely disfigured. 12 of the victims died, and three of them were devoured,


something extremely unusual. The bear was eventually killed by Kenneth Anderson, a famed big game hunter, although the beast was very evasive and three hunts had to be arranged before the animal was finally brought down.

5 The Beast of Gevauden

One of the most infamous man-eaters, as well as the most mysterious of all. This beast (some claim there were actually two of them) terrorized the French province of Gevauden from 1764 to 1767. Although often claimed to have been an unusually large wolf, the truth is the Beast was never really identified. It was said to be larger than a wolf, with a reddish coloration and an unbearable smell, as well as teeth bigger than those of a normal wolf. The creature killed its first victim (a youngthe creature’s stomach, Chastel found the remains of its last human victims, confirming the animal as the dreaded man-eater.

4 The Ghost and the Darkness

In 1898, the British started the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya. Over the next nine months, the unfortunate railway workers became the target of two man-eating lions (now known to have been brothers). These lions were huge, measuring over three meters long, and, as is usual among lions from the Tsavo region, they were maneless. At first, the two lions snatched the men from their tents, dragging them to the bush and devouring them at night. But soon they became so fearless, that they wouldn’t even drag their victims away and would start feeding on their flesh just a


few yards from the tents. Their size, ferocity and cunning were so extraordinary that many natives thought that they were not actually lions, but rather demons, or perhaps the reincarnation of ancient local kings trying to repel the British invaders (the belief of dead kings being reborn as lions was once very common in Eastern Africa). The two man-eaters were nicknamed The Ghost and The Darkness, and workers were so afraid of them that they fled by the hundreds out of Tsavo. The railway construction was halted; no one wanted to be the next victim of the “devil lions”.

Eventually, the Chief Engineer in charge of the railway project, John Henry Patterson, decided that the only solution was to kill the man eaters. He was very close to beingthem become actual man-eaters, preferring human flesh over any other food. The deadliest man-eating leopard of all times was the Panar leopard. This male leopard lived in the Kumaon area of India during the early XX century. He was most active in the Panar province, where he killed over 400 people, being the second most prolific man eater in recorded history (after #2 in this list).

It seems that the leopard had been injured by a hunter, and rendered unable to hunt wild animals, so it turned to man-eating to survive. He was finally killed by famous hunter and conservationist, Jim Corbett, in 1910. Although the Panar leopard is the most infamous of all, there were others that were just as feared. The Kahani man-eater, for example, killed over


200 people, and the Rudraprayag man-eater, who stalked and killed pilgrims en route to a Hindu shrine, killed 125 people before he, too, was shot by Jim Corbett. Smaller, more agile and, some say, more cunning than lions or tigers, leopards were considered to be among the deadliest animals in the world by big game hunters. One of them claimed that “if the leopard was the size of a lion, it would be ten times more dangerous”.

2 The Champawat Tigress

During the late XIX century, a Nepalese region close to the Himalayas was terrorized by the most notorious and prolific man-eater of all times. Men, women and children were ambushed in the jungle by the dozens. The attacks were so frequent and so bloody that people started talking aboutdemons, and even punishment from the gods. The responsible was a Bengal tigress who had been shot by a hunter. She had escaped, but the bullet had broken two of her fangs. In constant pain, and rendered unable to hunt her usual prey, the tigress had became adam khor, a man eater.

Soon, the victim count of the tigress reached 200. Hunters were sent to kill the beast, but she was too cunning and was seldom even seen by them. Eventually, the Nepalese government decided that the problema was big enough to send the National Army after the killer cat. Other than the case of the Gevauden beast (see #5), this was probably the only time in History when the army was deemed necessary to deal with a man


eater. But they failed to capture the tigress. She was, however, forced to abandon her territory and she crossed the border to India, to the Champawat region where she continued her depredations. It is said that with every human she killed, she became bolder and more fearless, and eventually, she started attacking in broad daylight and prowling around villages. Men wouldn’t even dare leave their huts to work, for they could hear the roaring of the killer tigress in the forest, waiting for them. But most man eaters share the same fate, and eventually, one man decided to put the reign of the tigress to an end. This man was Jim Corbett, who would (ironically) become one of the first great advocates of tiger conservation.

Corbett would later tellof how he only found the tigress by following the macabre trail of blood and limbs from her latest victim; a teenaged girl. Corbett was a brave man, but even he was horrified at the gruesome sight.

Corbett shot the tigress in 1911. The local people were so relieved and grateful that they actually made Corbett a sadhu, a holy man. By that time, the tigress had killed 436 humans, and these were only the recorded victims, with probably many more who were never reported. She is still the most prolific individual man eater in History. Not only that; she killed more people than even the worst human serial killers (leaving genocide aside). Only one serial killer is said to rival the Champawat tigress; an infamous Hungarian countess named


and keeping him in a safe enclosure, Faye hopes to save human lives as well as the man eater himself, and perhaps use him as breeding stock to help the conservation of the Nile crocodile as well. The enclosure has already been built in the Ruzizi National Park of Burundi, waiting for the capture of the greatest man eater of our times.SHOCKING footage shows a gang of masked thugs destroying a BMW with baseball bats while a terrified little boy was in the back seat yesterday.

The yobs shattered the windows and broke off the side-view mirrors as it drove through a busy road in Blackburn, Lancashire.

2 The yobs battered the side view mirrors and windows in the vicious attack on a busy street in Blackburn, Lancashire Credit: Maa Riya / Facebook

Both the man driving and his five-year-old son were injured in what is believed to be a "targeted attack".

Locals could be heard gasping in disbelief as the five men relentlessly battered the silver motor for at least 30 seconds.

The driver tried to get away from the onslaught but he was boxed in the junction by gridlocked traffic.

At one point,


one of the baseball bat-wielding maniacs appears to stick the weapon through the passenger-side window.

2 Both the man driving and his five-year-old son in the back were injured in what is believed to be a 'targeted attack' Credit: Maa Riya / Facebook

Lancashire Police said: "Police were called at about 6.20pm yesterday to reports that a number of men with weapons were attacking a BMW car in the Queen's Park Road area of the town.

"The driver and his five-year-old son both received minor injuries during the incident which is being treated as a targeted attack.

"One man, aged 19, from Blackburn was later arrested on suspicion of Affray. Enquiries are on-going to locate a number of other men."

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Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks at a New York luncheon celebrating the publication of the new Koren Sacks Siddur (link). R. Shaul Robinson of Lincoln Square Synagogue arranged for me to have a few words with the Chief Rabbi, who said that he has read this blog on occasion(!). He also inscribed my copy of the new siddur.

Let's talk about this siddur. You might recall my review of the British version of the siddur (link). The new Koren-Sacks siddur is by far the best siddur I have ever used and has set a new standard in scholarship, usability and esthetics. This edition has all the benefits of the British siddur with many additional features. These include:

Click hereMichigan State received huge news in advance of Signing Day on Monday night when four-star defensive tackle Craig Evans of Sun Prairie (Wis.) High School reversed an earlier commitment to the University of Wisconsin and instead pledged to Michigan State.

Rivals.com lists Evans as the No. 1 player in Wisconsin, No. 188 in the country and the No. 11 defensive tackle in America.

Evans made a surprise visit to Michigan State a week and a half ago, and followed it up by changing his pledge to the Spartans.

Evans made the commitment via Twitter. In the process, Evans refuted claims that he was turned away by Wisconsin due to academic questions.

Evans' high school coach says Evans has work to do in order to qualify, but he and the Spartan staff expect


State.

Evans is the second player in the MSU class ranked as the No. 1 player in his state, joining the No. 1 player in Pennsylvania ( Montae Nicholson ) as a Spartan verbal. Nicholson withstood a hard charge from Penn State last week to remain with Michigan State

The Spartans hope to reel in a third player ranked No. 1 in his state on Wednesday as Michigan State continues to pursue defensive lineman Malik McDowell . McDowell is ranked the No. 26 player in the country and could become the lone five-star member of the Spartan recruiting class.

The Spartans have not signed more than three Rivals.com four-star recruits in one class since 2010 (Max Bullough, Will Gholston, Isaiah Lewis, Skyler Schofner and Joe Boisture).

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A show cause notice was then issued against Singh this morning, forcing him to quit his post.

Meanwhile, India Today has discovered that while answer sheets from all other schools in Vaishali district were sent to Kaimur and Ara for evaluation, only the ones from Bishun Rai College were sent to Patna's Boys' High School.

The Arts and Science toppers in the Plus Two exam - Ruby Rai and Saurav Shrestha respectively - had taken their examination at Bishun Rai College.

The Special Investigation Team probing the topper scam yesterday raided the school where the answersheets of the candidates from Bishun Rai College are kept.

The prinicipal of the school, according to sources, has claimed that seal of


the envelope in which answersheets of Bishun Rai College was sent to him was already broken.

Five people, including the principal of the GA Inter College, which was the examination center for Bishun Rai College students, have been detained and being interrogated.

The centre superintendent of Patna Boys' High school Viseshwar Yadav has also deen detained by the SIT.

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Mingoia also argues that the admission of prior inconsistent statements of a government witness named Paulsen was prejudicial error and that an instruction to the jury to consider these statements only for impeachment purposes was insufficient to correct the error.

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None of the co-conspirator witnesses for the government mentioned Richman and the court directed his acquittal on the conspiracy count.  He was implicated on the substantive count through the testimony of one Gurney, an assistant treasurer at the Jamaica, Queens, branch of the Marine Midland Grace Trust Company of New York.  Gurney testified that on March 1, 1967, Richman, representing himself to be Edward Orvis, opened an account in the name of Orvis Brothers.  The next day an unidentified person deposited a stolen check in the Orvis Brothers account opened by Richman.  On March 8, 1967, Richman telephoned Gurney and asked him to prepare a check drawn on the Orvis Brothers account made payable to the Amerian Express Company.  Gurney asked


Richman to come in personally to transact this business.  He did so and, after signing the name Edward Orvis on a check which was to be exchanged for the check made payable to the American Express Company, Richman was arrested.

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Richman contends that, while there was evidence to show that he knew the check in question was stolen, no evidence was introduced to establish that he knew it was transported in interstate commerce.  With respect to Mingoia's appeal we found that the jury could infer the existence of a connection with interstate transportation required for a conviction on the conspiracy count from the nature of the conspiracy of which Mingoia was a part.  The case against Richman is even stronger, since for conviction on the substantivematter, and that's the way it is."

Johnson said he has spoken with Ryan and offered his support.

"He's still the coach of the New York Jets," the owner said.

Ryan's twin brother, Rob, who is Cleveland's defensive coordinator, refused to get dragged into the Jets' latest drama.

"That's a personal thing with Rex," he said. "Whatever happened, happened. I don't think any of us have wings on."

Johnson disagrees with the perception that the Jets have racked up an "inordinate" number of headline-grabbing distractions this season, something some fans and media have attributed to Ryan's brash personality.

"I don't think it's loosey-goosey and I don't think we lack discipline," Johnson said. "You can't win the number of games we've won, even with a rookie quarterback (last season) with a loosey-goosey anything. We are


It's not called because it's not done very often."

Alosi, the Jets' strength and conditioning coach, was initially suspended by the team without pay for the rest of the season, including the playoffs, and fined an additional $25,000. The team suspended him indefinitely two days later when it learned Alosi was responsible for ordering inactive players to form a sideline wall.

Johnson, who spoke to Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and apologized, hasn't decided what to do with Alosi.

"Indefinitely is a pretty long time," Johnson said. "We're focused on the season, not really the season, but we're focused on the Chicago Bears at this point. In football, that's about as far as you can go."

Johnson also called New England owner Bob Kraft to apologize after Jets special teams coordinator Mike Westhoffsaid the Patriots also use the wall tactic.

"Our job is not to insult another team, particularly from a coach or owner's standpoint," Johnson said. "That's not what we're here to do."

After a series of high-profile moves in the offseason, when the team brought in LaDainian Tomlinson, Jason Taylor and Antonio Cromartie, things really heated up in the summer when the Jets became reality-TV stars on HBO's "Hard Knocks."

Ryan's foul language drew the ire of many, including former Indianapolis coach Tony Dungy, and all the boasts about being "soon-to-be champs" rubbed other teams the wrong way.

September brought an investigation by the league after reporter Ines Sainz, of TV Azteca, said she felt uncomfortable in the team's locker room. As a result, the NFL developed a workplace conduct program, underwritten


These female frogs are the first of their kind to croon to their guys

Birds, fish, and even humans have shattered barriers when it comes to mating rituals, from which partner initiates the courting to which one picks up the check at a fancy restaurant. But things are a bit simpler for frogs, as males and females stick to clearly defined roles: Males serenade the females, and females pick their favorite males to mate. Now, a new study suggests that the smooth guardian frog of Borneo (Limnonectes palavanensis) is an exception to that rule. During the mating season, the female frogs sing to the males in an attempt to win them over—a reversal of the normal process. In fact, if you see a single frog surrounded by a bunchWe often teach or preach based on a single passage, parable, or even chapter of scripture. But I LOVE hearing the voice of David Suchet (who played Hercule Poirot for 25 years of drama) read the Holy Bible in the NIV-UK version, and found myself listening to the Book of 1 Samuel as Mr. Suchet narrated.

In Chapter 24 we see King Saul, maddened with jealousy and fear, seeking the life of David. While David and his men hide in a cave stronghold, Saul (leading his men) enters the cave to answer a call of nature, and David has his perfect opportunity to dispatch this enemy. He refrains, not to bloody his hands in revenge against the Lord’s anointed king. To hear the encounter and its conclusion (which takes


Nabal, protecting his staff and his goods in the wilderness, preserving them from any loss. He sends messengers with blessings and courteous words, and asks for such provisions as Nabal might spare for David and his troops.

Nabal, both named and acting the fool by nature, not only refuses succor, but rebuffs the messengers with deep insults and contempt for David. David seems cut to the quick, and resolves to redeem his honor and pride by killing every male of Nabal’s holdings. Fortunately, Nabal’s servants have overheard the initial insulting encounter, report all this to Abigail the mistress of the household, Nabal’s wife, who has provisions prepared and travels to David with words of service and apology, along with praise for the God of Israel and David as His15-year-old Palestinian Boy Medically Neglected after Israeli Abuse

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy sustained a broken hand and heavy bruising after being assaulted and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in the Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.

Fadi Rafat al-Issawi was detained last Sunday when two undercover Israeli police officers in civilian clothing stopped to ask him and his friend Mustafa Abu al-Hummus for directions, after which the officers assaulted the two minors and detained them for allegedly throwing rocks, according to a member of the village’s monitoring committee Muhammad Abu al-Hummus.

Fadi’s mother told Ma’an he suffered from medical negligence while in Israeli police custody, and was only taken to hospital at 11 p.m. despite being arrested in the afternoon, and despite suffering from apparent fractures, bruising, and pain.

She added


that the family was also prevented from visiting Fadi when they arrived at the hospital an hour later.

Israeli police did not provide him with painkillers or antibiotics as doctors had recommended, according to Fadi’s mother, and they ignored his treatment during the three days he spent at Jerusalem’s Russian Compound police station and detention center.

She added that Fadi’s family took him to a hospital after he was released, where his cast had to be redone, and doctors said his hand might need to undergo surgery. Doctors also revealed that Fadi sustained a fracture in his nose and an infection in his mouth after being hit in the face.

We call on the israeli government to release the 440 palestinian children languishing in prison remember the worlding is watching yourof the instrument, saying: “It’s not an instrument that can be sold… on the corner.”

Pantin, the suburb where the theft took place, is part of the troubled Seine-Saint-Denis area on the outskirts of Paris, which has become known for its heavily migrant-background population, increasing levels of crime, and frequent riots.

Last December, the charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced the creation of an orientation centre for migrant youth in Pantin.

Safety, especially for women, in both the Paris suburbs and the northern part of the city itself has become a hot topic in France. Last year, the publicly-owned courier Chronopost announced it would not be delivering to certain areas within Seine-Saint-Denis because of potential danger to their employees and risk of theft.

There are as many as 777 random attacks across


Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin regrets endorsing Hillary and is open to backing Trump in 2020

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Show Caption Hide Caption New 2020 poll has Trump gaining on Democrats A new poll has President Trump not only gaining on Democrats, but doing better than in the 2016 election. Veuer's Chandra Lanier has the story.

West Virginia's Sen. Joe Manchin is one of the most vulnerable Democratic senators heading into the 2018 midterms and, unlike most members of his party, he is running as someone willing to work with, rather than obstruct, President Donald Trump.

Manchin, whose state voted for Trump by more than 40 percentage points, told Politico he regretted backing Hillary Clinton in 2016 and said he wouldn't rule out endorsing the president in the 2020 election overwhomever his Democratic opponent turns out to be.

"I’m open to supporting the person who I think is best for my country and my state," Manchin said. "If his policies are best, I’ll be right there."

Manchin said, "Washington Democrats are making it more difficult for me to be a West Virginia Democrat" and he wishes he had not backed Clinton against Trump. During the campaign, Clinton said as president she would put coal miners and coal companies out of business.

Manchin, whose state has long relied on coal jobs, almost pulled his support for Clinton after that remark, he told Politico. But he stuck with her.

"It was a mistake. It was a mistake politically," Manchin said of supporting Clinton. But, she had promised $20 billion of investment in his state.

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Kidiaba stars in Mazembe Super Cup win

Veteran goalkeeper Muteba Kidiaba starred as FIFA Club World Cup runners-up TP Mazembe from Congo DR collected a seventh African title today. Kidiaba saved a shootout kick against FUS Rabat from Morocco in southern Congolese city Lubumbashi and then converted a penalty to give his team a 9-8 victory after the one-off CAF Super Cup match finished goalless.

The 34-year-old dreadlocked goalkeeper put off retirement last year to help Mazembe reach the world final by stunning Internacional of Brazil 2-0 and has attracted a cult following for his habit of celebrating by using his bottom to bounce along the surface.

Each club scored four of five mandatory spot kicks before a capacity 35,000 Kenya Stadium crowd that included Confederation ofAfrican Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou. Mazembe and FUS converted four penalties each after the contest went to sudden death and with the score 8-8, Kidiaba took charge to ensure the 'Crows' collected the $75,000 winners' cheque.

The Congolese have won the CAF Champions League four times, the Super Cup twice and the now defunct CAF Cup Winners Cup once since the club was formed 72 years ago by Benedictine monks.

It was the first time they needed penalties to collect African silverware as star-less FUS proved stubborn, well-organised opponents in the annual clash of Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup title holders.

The Congolese won the territorial and possession battles in each half, but apart from a 31st-minute Mbenza Bedi header that rebounded off the foot of a post, rarely


threatened to break the deadlock in an often scrappy game. This was a far cry from last October when Mazembe slammed five unanswered goals past Tunisian giants Esperance in the first leg of the Champions League decider and triumphed 6-1 on aggregate.

While DR Congo clubs have been successful in two of three Super Cup games, the Moroccan record is poor with Raja Casablanca winning and losing, Wydad Casablanca failing twice and FAR Rabat and FUS once each. Al-Ahly of Egypt hold the record with four victories followed by Cairo neighbours Zamalek with three and Enyimba of Nigeria and Etoile Sahel of Tunisia have lifted the trophy twice each.paragraph 175 is a documentary film that chronicles the lives of several men who were arrested by the Nazis for homosexuality under paragraph 175 ( the law ), the sodomy provision of the german penal code, dating back to 1871. between 1933 and 1945, 100,000 men were arrested under paragraph 175. some were imprisoned, others were sent to concentration camps. only about 4,000 survived. in 2000, fewer than ten of these men were known to be living. five come forward in the documentary to tell their stories for the first time, considered to be among the last untold stories of the third reich.

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The 2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1890 to 1955. Raised as coastal defence artillery, it later served as field artillery in Mesopotamia during the First World War and in the Battle of France and Second Battle of El Alamein during the Second World War. Its successor units later operated as medium artillery in North West Europe, and as jungle artillery in Burma. Postwar, it became an anti-aircraft unit.

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hand, can provide a meta-analysis of the field without being confined to a specific trade or practice. To rephrase Euthyphro's definition in terms of records management, records are those documents that are identified by all the scholars in the field. Unlike gods, access to the thoughts of academics is slightly more accessible. Therefore, finding consensus among scholars should provide us with a working definition of a record. David Bearman is a recognized scholar as an information strategist in the fields of archives and museums. He served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Information Resources Management at the Smithsonian Institution and founding partner of Archives & Museum Informatics in Toronto. He has developed national information systems, policies, and standards for several countries. His scholarship in the fieldof the context of its creation. The consensus, largely developed since 1990, is that...Records are evidence of transactions (relationships of acts), means of action and information about acts (Bearman & Trant, 1997, para. 9). Bearman stresses the evidence of transaction as an accepted definition of records. Gregory S. Hunter is a professor in the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University and president of Hunter Information Management Services, Inc. He is both a certified records manager and a certified archivist. He served as principle archivist and records manager on the grant to build an electronic records archive for the National Archives and Records Administration and is co-inventor of four patents in the area of digital preservation. His research is largely focused in the area


conveys information. In this particular chapter, Hunter is speaking to the profusion of records in an electronic as opposed to a paper environment. Moreover, he is concerned with archival records in particular. While he senses a shift in roles for archivist in terms of the record life cycle, he concurs with Bearman that records are defined as evidence of a transaction. Luciani Duranti is Chair and Professor of Archival Studies in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. She has published extensively in the field of records management theory, specializing in accuracy, reliability, authenticity, authentication, and preservation. She also serves as director of the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPares) project. This research is focused on theArchive and Information studies at University College London. Currently, he serves on the board of ICARUS, the International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research and User Studies. His research is focused on the relationships between individuals, records, and organizations. With his focus on records within the context of relationships, Yeo defines records as "persistent representations of activities, created by participants or observers or their authorized proxies" (Yeo, 2007, p. 342). While this definition says nothing of transaction, evidence, or authenticity, this representational definition of records is flexible enough to include those criteria without making them necessary to the definition. Yeo summarizes this point of view when he writes, ...[to] emphasize only evidence or information is limiting... undervaluing the complexity of records. Emphasis on evidence is often intended


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Job protection • Continued health insurance • Protection from discrimination or retaliationWilliam Hastings joined the Army in 1942 to beat the draft. After training in the Army Air Corps and serving in the vehicle squadron - teaching recruits how to drive equipment - all through Texas, he was shipped off to England. That's where he met Joyce.

Joyce joined the British Army at age 16. During the Blitz, the Germans hit her mother and father's home. Her then 3-year-old brother was deafened by the explosion and has not heard a word since. Her family lost its house.

"We had flatbed lorrys, and we had guns on them. If we did not have enough men to run the guns, they would put the girls on them," Joyce said. "We shot at the airplanes. What we hit, we don't know. ... I feel


that we were a big help in that situation."

Just after Joyce had passed her badge for signal corps, she met William at St. Anne's Church. William was with the chaplain when Joyce's grandmother invited the two of them to tea.

"The rest is history," Joyce said.

By December 1943, William and Joyce were married, and soon after Joyce was pregnant. Joyce retired as a first private.

Meanwhile, both their military careers would bring them to brush shoulders with famous figures and places. Joyce was in the Army with Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth, who was in the motor vehicle squad. They were even in the same barracks.

William was on the general's staff at Normandy and then traveled through France. Much of the time, he and the others weren't even sure of theirlocation. But they knew one thing: "We were in the combat zone."

When the war ended, he was in Bastogne, Belgium.

Then the celebrations began, and the Hastings wouldn't miss them.

At work, William declined an offer to go to Japan to stay with his family, and landed a job in the American Embassy in England, where General Eisenhower came in. William, then a sergeant, was even asked to unveil a sign in Hastings, England, for a new bar, "The GI." He kept a postcard of the sign in his wallet for decades.

After the war, he became part of the Strategic Air Command, watching for flying saucers, which was a big secret at the time. He went on to serve in Korea and Vietnam before retiring in 1966. He was in


the reserves until 1972. After that, he served as a deputy sheriff and as a constable before Joyce finally told him it was time to really retire.

She started working for the Muscular Dystrophy Association once her children were old enough. With that organization, she claims she cared for more than 500 patients and even worked with Jerry Lewis on a telethon in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Famous interactions and big military careers aside, William and Joyce now have a new milestone to look forward to: their 70th wedding anniversary on Dec. 16, 2013. And from all accounts, it's one well-earned.at the EH greatly exceeded that of the other sites. At the EH, rates of denitrification were highest in June, whereas in the middle of the estuary and at the mouth rates peaked in October. Lowest rates of denitrification at all three sites were observed in December. Our earlier studies of the Colne ([@B12]) and the Great Ouse ([@B48]) had shown highest denitrification rates during late spring/summer and lowest denitrification activity during the winter.

The separation of the EH from sites lower down the estuary was not as pronounced when it came to DNRA. Rates of DNRA at the EH and middle sites were similar, and DNRA at the middle estuary site was, in fact, greater than at the EH in four out of six months (October and February).


Board hearing before an Acting Veterans Law Judge (AVLJ) at the RO in Muskogee, Oklahoma.  A transcript of the hearing has been associated with the claims file.  However, the individual who conducted the hearing is no longer employed by the Board.  The Veteran was afforded the opportunity for a hearing before another VLJ, but did not request such a hearing.  As such, the Veteran's claim will be considered on the evidence of record.

The Veteran's claims were previously before the Board in March 2012 and May 2014.  Following completion of the requested development, supplemental statements of the case were issued in November 2012 and November 2014.  The claims were returned to the Board.  Service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder has beenservice treatment records, reports of post-service treatment, and the Veteran's own statements in support of his claims. The Veteran was afforded a VA examination responsive to the claims for service connection of bilateral hearing loss disability and tinnitus.  McClendon v. Nicholson, 20 Vet. App. 79 (2006).  The opinion was conducted by a medical professional, following thorough examination of the Veteran, solicitation of history, and review of the claims file.  The Board has reviewed the examination report, and finds that it is adequate for the purpose of deciding the issues on appeal.

The Board also observes that the AVLJ that presided over the Veteran's June 2011 hearing, clarified the issues on appeal and explained the concept of service connection claims, as well as explained the


the level of the dark current in the OB pixel is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2010-16128. In this patent application publication, a hydrogen diffusion preventing film is formed between a hydrogen supply film and a light blocking member in the OB pixel. The hydrogen diffusion preventing film prevents outward diffusion of hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen supply film. Thereby, sufficient hydrogen is supplied to a surface of a photoelectric conversion element of the OB pixel and a gate insulating layer.— they are manufactured, assembled, and distributed entirely by robots. This revolution in production has allowed all of us to lead lives of comparative luxury, with toys undreamt of by nineteenth-century kings.

The Panic: Once the machine is released, it will chomp up everything in its path – plants, animals, even the bodies of fallen soldiers.

THE PANIC: In April, a Swedish worker was nearly killed by a factory robot while attempting to perform maintenance on it. He thought that the robot — a machine used for lifting heavy rocks — was turned off, until it grabbed his head and attempted to crush him with its pincer-like robot arms. He managed to fight it off, but only after suffering four broken ribs and a number of bruises. Can armies of


to the Moon: the rocket stage weighs around two tons, while the Moon weighs in at a slightly heftier 73,477,000,000,000,000,000 tons. And, while it is a violation of international law to put nuclear weapons in space, there‘s no law against crashing a spacecraft into a celestial body. It‘s been standard practice for almost fifty years, from the early days of space exploration in the 1960s, to last June, when Japan‘s Kaguya probe ended its life with a bang.

#1 – Flesh Eating Robots

THE TECHNOLOGY: Cyclone Power Technologies‘ “Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot,” or EATR, a steam-powered robot developed under a grant from the Pentagon and intended for use by the military.

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Hewlett-Packard Co. executives have been busy plotting out and presenting their new roadmap to corporate users over the past few weeks as the company's merger with Compaq Computer Corp. becomes reality. Here are some of the announcements the new HP has made:

Servers

HP will become the master brand for all server products, but will keep product families representing both companies;

Before the merger, HP and Compaq both had IA-32 server offerings: the Compaq ProLiant and the HP Netserver (and more recently under the new name of HP Server). Moving forward, the ProLiant servers will be HP's IA-32 server offering. They will be named HP ProLiant servers. (The ProLiant Essentials software offerings will also move forward.);

HP and Compaq have both been selling Intel Itanium Processor Family servers. By the release ofWater is pumped from Brookport back into the Ohio River during flooding in 2011.PHOTO:Jim Hall

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Brookport Levee Among Those in Danger of Failing

By AP

NEW ORLEANS -

Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, inspectors are finding hundreds of levees - including the one in Brookport IL - in danger of failing in the US.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hasn't yet rated about 40 percent of levees in the country, but of those it has inspected, some 326 are found to be in urgent need of repair.

Those levees cover more than 2,000 miles and are in every region and in cities and towns, such as Washington, D.C., Sacramento, Calif., and Brookport, IL.

The Associated Press requested, under the Freedom of Information Act, details on why certain levees were judged unacceptable and how many


people would be affected in a flood. The Corps wouldn't give that information on grounds that it could heighten risks of terrorism and sabotage.

Local governments are responsible for upgrading unacceptable levees and some local officials say that the Corps is exaggerating the dangers.

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina's rain and storm surge toppled levees in New Orleans and tore up the Gulf Coast, leaving 1,800 people dead.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers on Wednesday that a member of an Egyptian militant group labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization was vetted by three U.S. agencies before visiting the White House.

Napolitano said the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Secret Service all thoroughly examined the Egyptian man, Hani Nour Eldin, before his visit to Washington, D.C., where he met with members of Congress and senior administration officials.

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Eldin is a member of the Gama’a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group, which has been designated by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization. But Eldin was also recently elected as a member of Egypt’s parliament in the Islamic Group’s political offshoot, the Building and Development Party.Napolitano, at a hearing on Wednesday, echoed


modification of the Dryden multiple shield sun visor includes an additional visor to protect the driver's left side view from light rays.
Other sun visors which have been disclosed by the prior art (without significant acceptance) include U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,403,937 by Quaine, 3,428,360 by Honor, and 3,589,663 by Vance. The Quaine sun visor device differs from conventional sun visors in that it relies upon a continuous horizontal guide member mounted above the windshield and side windows. The guide member extends from above the driver's side window, across the windshield to the rear of the occupant's side window. A pair of pivotally mounted sun visors fitted with a pair of track following members for each visor slideably engages onto guide track member for tracking. The visors may be individuallyaddition to location and history, the inn boasts the world’s largest key collection and a photograph collection that includes signed portraits of presidents, celebrities, writers, inventors and more.

Rock climbing and mountaineering opportunities include Lumpy Ridge,[85] Hallett Peak, and Longs Peak, the highest peak in the park, with the easiest route being the Keyhole Route. This 8 mi (13 km) one-way climb has an elevation gain of 4,850 ft (1,480 m). The vast east face, including the area known as The Diamond, is home to many classic big wall rock climbing routes. Many of the highest peaks have technical ice and rock routes on them, ranging from short scrambles to long multi-pitch climbs.[86]

The first stopping point as you come up Trail Ridge Road, you’ll find the main parking point


climbs to Lawn Lake and Crystal Lake, one of the parks deepest lakes, in the alpine ecosystem and along the course of the Roaring River. The river shows the massive damage caused by a dam failure in 1982 that claimed the lives of three campers. The trail is a strenuous snowshoe hike in the winter.[42] Ypsilon Lake Trail leads to its namesake as well as Chipmunk Lake, with views of Longs Peak, while traversing pine forests with grouseberry and bearberry bushes. The trail also offers views of the canyon gouged out by rampaging water that broke loose from Lawn Lake Dam in 1982. Visible is the south face of Ypsilon Mountain, with its Y shaped gash rising sharply from the shoreline.[42]is associated with the extraction cavity for extracting the mixture and is preferably disposed for extracting the mixture from below the extraction cavity. A linkage is operatively associated with the support members for moving the members relative to each other between the open and closed positions.
The linkage preferably comprises an operation lever pivotally connected to the second support member at a lever pivot axis,. The linkage also has a traction arm pivotally connected to the first support member at a traction pivot axis. The traction arm is connected to the operation lever at a connection pivot axis for controlling opening and closing movement of the support members between the open and closed positions upon movement of the operation lever. The lever is disposed on the same side of


The connection pivot axis is preferably movable towards and away from the support pivot axis.
In the preferred embodiment, the support members have a front oriented in a direction extending from the support pivot axis toward the extraction cavity, and a rear oriented in an opposite direction from the front. The operation lever comprises a handle configured for operation and manipulation by a user for opening and closing the support members, with the handle being disposed in front of the extraction cavity with the support members in the closed position. The handle is disposed above the extraction cavity in with the support members in the open position, and the linkage is configured such that the handle rotates around the extraction cavity during movement of the support members between theopen and closed positions. The handle is also preferably disposed in a plane extending between the extraction cavity and the support pivot with the support members in the open position. The extraction cavity has a center, and the traction and lever pivot axes are disposed behind the center of the extraction cavity.
At least one of the support members preferably includes a linkage portion that is connected to the linkage, a cavity portion defining part of the cavity in the closed position, and a spherical joint rotationally connecting the cavity portion to the linkage portion for enabling the cavity portion to rotate for receiving the substance and aligning against the other of the support members in the closed position. One of the support members also is preferably fixed against


rotation.
A heater disposed upstream of the liquid intake is configured for heating the liquid, which preferably comprises water. The preferred lever comprises first and second levers pivotably connected to the second support portion at the lever pivot axis, and the traction arm comprises first and second traction arms pivotally connected to the first support member at a traction pivot axis and to the first and second levers, respectively, at the traction pivot axis.
In an embodiment of the device, a cavity portion cooperates with the first support member to define an extraction cavity therebetween with the support members in the closed position. The cavity is configured for receiving the substance with the support members in the open position. Additionally, a spherical joint rotationally connects the cavity portion to secondRoyal Mail is holding its first ever trial of electric tricycles, powered by a combination of solar, battery, pedal and brake technology – paving way for postal workers to deliver letters and parcels in a more environmentally-friendly way.

The postal service company plans to trial eight e-trikes in Stratford, east London, Cambridge and Sutton Coldfield in the next few weeks.

The trial will last for six months before the company decides whether to expand the trikes more widely across the UK.

The Italian-made tricycles will be capable of carrying letters, cards and most parcels, on roads and some cycle paths.

Furthermore, the trikes’ pedals are assisted by a battery-operated motor that is recharged by mains power, aided by solar panels on the trike.

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Little is known about biochemical mechanisms associated with the normal psychomotor development of children. Many factors of the fetal environment likely interfere with these mechanisms. A prospective cohort study is essential to explain the implications of certain disturbances of biochemical nature during gestation on the later development of the nervous system. The study that we undertook with the maternity hospital Robert Debré had several objectives. The first was to examine, on an epidemiological scale, the possible role of the monoaminergic systems and the ATPases activity during the perinatal period on the later cognitive development of the child. The second was to study the influence of environmental in utero exposure on these mechanisms and consequently on the later psychomotor performancesan amazed cow-herder came and took the children home with him. Thus they were saved, and when they were grown up, they set upon Tarchetius and overcame him. Plutarch concludes with a contrast between Promathion's version of Romulus' birth and that of the more credible Fabius Pictor which he describes in a detailed narrative and lends support to.

Conception of Servius Tullius
Dionysius of Halicarnassus recounts a local story regarding the birth of king Servius Tullius. In it, a phallus rose from the hearth of Vesta in Numa's palace, and Ocresia was the first to see it. She immediately informed the king and queen. King Tarquinius, upon hearing this, was astonished; but Tanaquil, whose knowledge of divination was well-known, told him it was a blessing that a birth by the


Cardiovascular disease prevention.
Cardiovascular diseases remain the first killer in the Western countries. Equivalent contributions of prevention initiatives, pharmaceutical developments and technological improvements have led to an important success in the reduction of mortality related to cardiovascular diseases in some of the countries of the Western world. However, increase in life expectance, incomplete adherence to guidelines, difficulties in convincing governments and the population to support and adhere to prevention measures make that the burden of cardiovascular diseases is still extremely high. This review gives a restricted summary of the most important prevention guidelines supported by the European Society of Cardiology. It also illustrates the still very incomplete adherence to these guidelines in the different European countries as published in the EUROASPIRE surveys.warned to prepare to be transferred to Ireland, and in April 1917 for service on the Western Front, but in the event never left England.  It was eventually disbanded in March 1919.

History
In accordance with the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c.9) which brought the Territorial Force into being, the TF was intended to be a home defence force for service during wartime and members could not be compelled to serve outside the country. However, on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, many members volunteered for Imperial Service.  Therefore, TF units were split into 1st Line (liable for overseas service) and 2nd Line (home service for those unable or unwilling to serve overseas) units.  2nd Line units performed the home


A Russian and an American wrestler were set to square off for the
Olympic Gold Medal. Before the final match, the American wrestler's
trainer came to him and said, "now, don't forget all the research we've done on this Russian. He's
never lost a match because of this 'Pretzel' hold he has, whatever
you do don't let him get you in this hold! If he does, you're
finished!"

The wrestler nodded in acknowledgment.

As the match started, the American and the Russian circled each
other several times, looking for an opening. All of a sudden, the
Russian lunged forward, grabbing the American and wrapping him up in the dreaded pretzel hold.

A sigh of disappointment arose from the crowd and the trainer buried
his face in his hands, for he knew all was lost. He couldn't watch
the inevitable happen.Suddenly, there was a scream, then a cheer from the crowd and the trainer
raised his eyes just in time to watch the Russian go flying up in
the air. His back hit the mat with a thud and the American collapsed on top of him making the pin and winning the
match.

The trainer was astounded. When he finally got the American wrestler
alone, he asked, "how did you ever get out of that hold? No one has
ever done it before!"

The wrestler answered,"well, I was ready to give up when he got me
in that hold but at the last moment, I opened my eyes and saw this
pair of testicles right in front of my face. I had nothing to lose so with my last
ounce of strength I stretched out my neck and


$500 million, including the $100 million investment from the unidentified customer.

In a separate statement later on Friday, the Japanese company said another consortium member, Hong Kong-based activist investor Oasis Management, has decided to invest $150 million to $180 million. The investment is dependent on conditions including no major cuts in orders from a main customer.

The total investment from Harvest, Apple, and Oasis will be still short of Japan Display's $743 million target. The company said it is in talks with other potential investors to join the deal.

The Asahi newspaper first reported on Apple's planned investment on Thursday, sending Japan Display shares up as much as 32 percent. On Friday, the stock was flat.

Japan Display had been pursuing a bailout deal with a Chinese-Taiwanese consortium, but the suitors repeatedlyand companions are legitimate stars in the making. But since being inserted into the lineup in week 8, Bryant's numbers can compete with any of them - and that's despite being a fourth round pick. Remember, most of us expected a complete redshirt year due to his lack of refinement. What he did instead, providing his team with a lethal deep threat along with an increasingly diverse short and intermediate game that was on display in the Ravens game, played no small part in turning his offense into one of the league's best. His work ethic has been praised by multiple writers now, and the seemingly limitless ceiling has me legitimately excited about 2015.

The Return of Bell

Let's get the obvious out of the way: Le'Veon Bell's absence had


a huge effect on this game. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the less obvious aspects of his game that make him great. On Saturday, perhaps even more than his rushing and receiving ability, those skills were sorely missed. Ben Tate fumbled on the first possession, leading to the Ravens completely disrespecting the running game for the remainder of the contest. Baltimore's pass rush hit home again and again, while the Steelers were uncommonly bad on third down.

But here's the good news: the loss gives Bell plenty of time to heal his hyperextended knee. I'm not a medical expert by any means, but having him return at any point during the playoffs would have had me at the edge of my seat for entire games, worryinghe'd make it worse by coming back too early. Now, he has an entire offseason to retrain his leg to the same strength and agility as before the injury, meaning we'll see a fully healthy and lethal Le'Veon Bell come September.

Defensive Line Development

Show of hands: Who thought the Steelers were in for a long night when the Ravens ran for 37 yards and a touchdown on their first scoring drive to go up 7-3? The long night part was true, but it certainly wasn't because of the run defense. Despite having the lead for most of the game, Baltimore only ran for 49 total yards. It's not like they didn't try, either; their 25 attempts (to 30 drop backs) means they averaged less than 2.0 yards per carry.


the other side of the ball: redshirted at the beginning of the year, his steady game-to-game improvement paired with his impressive athleticism saw him become an unquestioned starter during his rookie year. Behind them, young Dan McCullers is starting to see significant snaps as well, and making them count. If football is still won in the trenches, the Steelers should have plenty of optimism that this team can be even better on the inside in 2015.

A Defensive Playmaker

I'll be the first to admit that Ryan Shazier's rookie season wasn't what I hoped it would be. It was easy to get excited about him during training camp and pre-season, when he continuously made the kind of "splash plays" this defense had been missing over the last couple of years.in 2015 and become a consistent playmaker.

A New Batch?

When Ben Roethlisberger appeared to injure his head and had to be taken out for evaluation during a desperate fourth quarter comeback attempt, most of us were sure the game was over. In came Bruce Gradkowski for a 3rd and 21, and immediately made two plays that had the Steelers sitting with a 1st and 10 on the Baltimore 14 yard line. Improbably, there was hope! Of course, Roethisberger re-entered and promptly threw the game-ending pick.

But even that disappointment couldn't take away the positives Gradkowski brought during those two plays, playing with poise and an understanding with his receivers that's not often seen from a backup QB having to enter the game on short notice. File this one under way


to secure funding for a similar initiative for Métis people in the provinces. 2. National First Nations and Inuit organizations and the major funding departments should be invited to appoint members to First Nations and Inuit National Steering Committees. These Committees will be responsible for the general supervision of the development of the regional cohort studies for their respective communities. 3. Regional (usually provincial) First Nations and Inuit political organizations should be invited to submit letters of intent indicating their interest in developing the longitudinal survey on behalf of all communities in their respective regions. 4. Regional organizations should be asked to propose a research group with which they wish to collaborate in the development of the survey. Research groups should be approved by the national steering committees.spiral cracks on tree trunks. They vary in size from a few feet to the entire length of the trunk. These are usually caused by wind, lightening, or frost and occur in all species; however, they are observed most frequently on beech because of the smooth, thin, susceptible bark. Sometimes the seam will fold inward, forming a smoothly turned pattern like a carefully tucked blanket. At other times, it will remain opened like a knife wound.

Burls are round to semi-round or elongate swellings of the trunk. They range in size from a few inches to several feet in length. Some are of unknown origin, but most are caused by either insect or fungi infestations. Fantastically shaped burls on birch trees in the higher elevations of the mountains lend


an eerie touch to that often fog-shrouded landscape.

For awhile during World War II – when the European wood traditionally used to make briar pipes was not available – burls on the roots of laurel and rhododendron in boggy places in the southern Appalachians were “grubbed up” as a substitute. The center of the industry in Western North Carolina was around Hendersonville and Brevard, as well as Sparta. Another spot was the White Oak Stamp in Clay Country. An old road near Chunky Gal Mountain is still known as “the old burl road.”

Butt scars are triangular-shaped openings at the base of trees commonly caused by fire or logging injuries. Sycamores are often inflicted with butt scars, resulting in large openings that livestock and even humans have been reputed toApple Pay is coming to Canada, and by the looks of it Canadian banks are keen to avoid the mistakes made by U.S. banks during the initial roll-out of the mobile payment service last year.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Canada's Big Six banks are negotiating with Apple Inc. about a potential launch of the service in November, but are stuck on issues related to fees and security.

The report also said that the banks have formed a consortium to deal with security issues and also give them greater leverage in their negotiations with Apple.

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In a statement, Royal Bank of Canada said it would not comment on rumours or speculation: "At this time Apple Pay is available in the U.S. only. Apple has not yet


announced plans for Apple Pay for the Canadian market."

Toronto-Dominion Bank provided a similar response.

Apple Pay gives customers the option of paying for items using credit and debit cards stored on their iPhones and Apple watches, making it a key technology for banks to attract new customers and hold on to existing ones.

But a recent report in the New York Times suggested that U.S. banks, desperate to satisfy consumer demand for Apple Pay, essentially rolled over to the company's demands prior to the service's launch in the United States.

As a result, the banks failed to insist on better fraud detection processes.

"Some bank executives acknowledged that they were were so scared of Apple that they didn't speak up," wrote New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin. "The banks didn't pressIndia to play China in football friendly after 21 years

India and China have faced each other 17 times -- all on Indian soil -- with the last being 21 years ago in the Nehru Cup in Kochi in 1997.

Reported by: PTI, New Delhi [ Published on: July 20, 2018 19:57 IST ]

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Indian football team during a match

The Indian football team will play against China for the first time in 21 years, and the first time away from home, in an international friendly in October, continuing its preparation for the prestigious Asian Cup next year.

The All India Football Federation today confirmed the development. The AFC Asian Cup will be held in the UAE from January 5 to February 1.

The 97th-ranked Indian team will travel to Beijing


to play against the 75th ranked China during the October 8-16 FIFA window.

Though the date for the friendly will be decided in coming days, AIFF has proposed October 13 as its preferred match day.

India and China have faced each other 17 times -- all on Indian soil -- with the last being 21 years ago in the Nehru Cup in Kochi in 1997.

As per AIFF general secretary Kushal Das, India could also play against Saudi Arabia, another higher ranked team from the continent.

Indian captain Sunil Chhetri has time and again stressed the need to play against stronger and higher-ranked opponents. The talismanic striker guided the team to a title triumph in a four-nation tournament in Mumbai earlier this year. It remains to be seen if the Indian playerswill be taking on a full-strength China team.

Recently, the India U-16 national team visited China for an invitational four-nation tournament, which also included U-16 Thailand and U-16 DPR Korea.

The October friendly assumes huge importance as it will set the pace for India's preparatory process for the AFC Asian Cup in January.

Terming the occasion as 'historic', AIFF general secretary Kushal Das said: "China and India are today being seen as the two fastest emerging football markets, globally. We are happy to have come to the conclusion of our month long discussion with the Chinese FA, and I thank our marketing partners FSDL for their involvement and cooperation.

"The opportunity presents us with an opportunity not just break the two-decade deadlock, but also provides us a chance to revive the neighbouring


Asia’s New Geopolitics Takes Shape Around India, Japan, and Australia

New configurations in Asian geopolitics are emerging thick and fast. Last month saw the initiative of a new trilateral involving India, Japan, and Australia when Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar met his Australian counterpart and the Japanese vice foreign minister. Japan will also be a part of bilateral India-U.S. annual naval exercises–the Malabar–slated to be held over the next few months. Though Japan has participated in these exercises in the past as well, this will be only the second time when Japan will join these exercises in the geostrategically critical Indian Ocean region.

There is a growing convergence in the region now that the strategic framework of the Indo-Pacific remains the best way forward to manage the rapidly shifting contoursties with Tokyo and Canberra are now viewed as vital by Delhi.

China’s increasing diplomatic and economic influence, coupled with domestic nationalistic demands, has led to an adjustment of its military power and the adoption of a bolder and more proactive foreign policy. From China’s unilateral decision in 2013 to extend its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over a contested maritime area in the East China Sea overlapping with the already existing Japanese ADIZ to announcing new fishing regulations for Hainan province in January 2014 to ensure that all foreign vessels need fishing permits from Hainan authorities to operate in more than half of South China Sea, the list of assertive moves has been growing in recent years. China’s land reclamation work in the Spratly Islands has been the