up and heading back to Hau'oli. Hopefully, he could catch a seaplane back to Kanto within the day, then from there charter either a boat or another seaplane back to Hoenn.

After an hour at the Lavaridge Hot Springs to relax himself and soothe some lingering aches around his right shoulder brought about by exploding Turtonators, Gus found himself navigating his way through Fiery Path. Trotting along beside him was Matilda the Fennekin, out and about on her first excursion out of the farm.

Gus was quiet while walking, thinking deeply about how he wanted to proceed from this point on. Having won his sixth badge from Madam Flannery in a rather intense battle, he knew that he needed only to train two of his Pokemon up to level 50to be eligible for Senior Operative rank. So it was that he was training in Fiery Path, looking to strengthen Aeris and Amber to meet that required quota.

A rumbling to his left alerted him that a nearby side-passage may hold the encounter he was looking for. He turned...

... and walked smack dab into the middle of a sizeable group of four Numel and four Camerupt. He'd thought about retreating, and then Matilda yipped and then bit the smallest Numel on the nose. It let out a cry, and the others began huffing and looking angrily at him. Matilda ran behind him, and Gus sighed and pulled out a Pokeball.

Gus stared, half-horrified and half-amused, at the devastation that Tina had wrought when he had ordered her to use Muddy


Water. Even from a relatively safe distance away, he could feel the heat coming from the almost lahar-like substance that the Vaporeon had pulled out through the ground and sent smashing towards the huddled mass of fiery dromedaries.

Amber had only just managed to ninja-jump out of the way in time, and the Rabbit Pokemon herself was looking at Tina as if seeing her for the first time. Tina, in response, let out a burbling croon, before moving back and nuzzling Gus by the leg.

"That'll do, Tina. That'll do."

When they got back to the ranch, Gus decided, Tina was getting a Frequency pill as soon as possible.

Exiting Fiery Path after chugging down two Lemonades to heal himself, Gus headed out to Route 112, planning to make his way downappointments before him, and so he was not expecting to be able to get his 7th badge any time soon.

In the meantime, he decided to stroll around the Route and get some training in before heading home. A message from MEA-HQ had come through informing him that his new arm was nearing completion, and he planned on going home later in the day to work on manufacturing pills and PokeBots.

As he walked around, a rustling noise caught his attention. He peered through some bushes some ways off the path to see...

... a large gathering of Illumise and Volbeat performing some rather impressive dancing maneuvers.

"Wow. That's really cool to see."

Unfortunately, the bugs seemed to take offense to him disturbing whatever funky dance rituals they were doing, as they began


buzzing angrily and rushing at him.

"Oh shit." Fumbling at his belt, he was surprised when one of his Pokeballs opened. To his horror, it was not one of his stronger girls, but instead Zefyra the Trapinch that popped out. She let out a crooning warble of surprise.

Story Text:Gus walks around Route 120 and 121, seeking to train his Pokemon. At his feet, Matilda the Fennekin is trotting along happily, munching on a twig.

His arm was in the final stages, according to the guys at MEA-Tech labs. Several of his armament requests - plasma saber, plasma cannon, vibroblade, pain ray, coil gun - had all been denied. So far, the only concessions they had made were the built-in tools (electric screwdriver, pneumatic hammer, mini blowtorch) in each finger. Itwas why he had so far been spending most evenings reading up on engineering and mechanics.

"They're daft if they think I'm not going to be tinkering with my own damn arm. I don't even care if I void the warranty."

For today, he was testing out the new Radar modification he'd made to his PokeDex. Following the ping, he turned and walked into a clearing...

... three Masquerain and two Surskit, playing near the river's edge. They saw him, and immediately, the Masquerain began flashing their wing patterns to intimidate him away. Undaunted, he sent out Aeris.

Even as the Ball carrying his new Surskit was sent to the PC, Gus whistled out loud. Aeris finished eating the chunks of Surskit remaining and flew over to him. Gus returned Aeris to


Medical politics: decline in the hegemony of the Australian Medical Association?
The last 15 years have seen the emergence of medical associations challenging the long-standing hegemony of the Australian Medical Association (A.M.A.) in medical politics. The article focuses on the two major groups. The General Practitioners' Society in Australia and the Doctors Reform Society. Each represents the right and the left of an ideological spectrum within medical politics. Each has institutionalised longer term division within the profession which were contained within the A.M.A. so long as the basic principles and structure of Australia's voluntaristic health insurance schemes remained intact. Taken together, they represent a wider critique of the entrenched status and political power of the A.M.A. The article examines briefly the ideology, strategy and impact of each group. ItMagneto (Michael Fassbender) to the dark side as one of his Four Horsemen alongside Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), and Angel (Ben Hardy). James McAvoy loses his hair from the stress of being upstaged by the powers of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and the ever-increasing star-power of Jennifer Lawrence. Director Bryan Singer’s return to the X-fold in 2014 was a triumph, but rushing this out for May 27th invites disaster; can enough time really have been spent on scripting?

Warcraft

Duncan Jones completes the Christopher Nolan career path by moving from Moon to Source Code to Warcraft. June 10th sees Vikings main-man Travis Fimmel daub on blue face-paint as Anduin Lothar. The battle with the Orcs has an interesting cast including Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell, Paula Patton, Dominic Cooper,


Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Great comedy was wrung from Jon viewing writing hit music as a means to fortune and glory, but then affecting drama when music was revealed as the only means by which damaged souls Frank and Clara could truly connect.

(5) Begin Again

Once director John Carney delivered a feel-good movie as Mark Ruffalo’s desperate record executive took a chance on a guerilla recording approach when he discovered British troubadour Keira Knightley performing in a bar. The Ruffalo was on glorious shambling form, and was matched by an exuberant Knightley; who in many scenes seemed to be responding to comic ad-libbing by James Corden as her college friend. Carney was surprisingly subversively structurally, perfectly matched Gregg Alexander’s upbeat music to sunny NYC locations, and stunt-casted wonderfully with Maroonarchetypal good ole boy diagnosed with HIV, who reacted to his terminal diagnosis with total denial before smuggling drugs. Leto matched McConaughey’s transformation as transvestite Rayon, who sought oblivion in heroin, even as he helped Woodroof outwit the FDA via the titular group. This was an extremely moving film powered by Woodroof and Rayon’s friendship, beautifully played from initial loathing to brotherly love.

(1) Boyhood

Director Richard Linklater’s dazzling technical achievement in pulling off a twelve-year shoot was equalled by the finished film’s great heart. The life of Mason Jr (Ellar Coltrane) from age six to eighteen in Texas with mother Patricia Arquette, sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), and weekend dad Mason Sr (Ethan Hawke) was followed in seamless transitions with teasing misdirection and subtle reveals. Child performances that began in


The Banksy mural depicting Steve Jobs at The Jungle in Calais

Migrants in Calais have started charging people to view a mural by elusive street artist Banksy of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

The work depicts Jobs in his trademark black turtleneck jumper carrying an early model of his Apple computer and with a black bin bag slung over his shoulder.

The portrait has appeared on a graffiti-littered concrete wall on the outskirts of The Jungle camp where 6,000 migrants from countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea are based.

The piece has gained such popularity in the area, close to the Port of Calais, that migrants have covered it up with a blanket and are charging people to view it.

One migrant who emerged from a tent beside the concealed artwork said: "If youhaven't got five euros (£3.60) then go away."

The father of Jobs, who died in California in 2011 aged 56 after suffering pancreatic cancer, was from the Syrian city of Homs but emigrated to the US.

In a rare statement to accompany the work, Banksy said: "We're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country's resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant.

"Apple is the world's most profitable company, it pays over 7 billion dollars (£4.6 billion) a year in taxes - and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs."

Authorities in Calais are reportedly planning to shield the life-size portrait, along with two other Banksy works in the northern French port city.

Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart told local newspaper Nord


Littoral that the artwork had a "positive message" and was an opportunity for the city.

In the summer, Banksy's temporary theme park at a derelict lido in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, featured migrant boats in water filled with bodies.

Dismaland, which sold out every day of its five-week run, also included Jimmy Savile, an anarchist training camp and a fire-ravaged Cinderella castle.

After the park closed, the timber and fixtures from the site were transported to Calais to build shelters for people who had fled conflict, persecution and poverty.

PA MediaA nascent oil palm plantation in southeastern Sierra Leone owed by Socfin Agriculture Company, which in March 2011 signed a 50-year lease with the government of Serra Leone. Photo by Felicity Thompson/IRIN.

By Alan Broughton

November 6, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Since the global financial crisis of 2008 and its associated food crisis that sent another 200 million people into malnutrition, there has been a massive grab for land by large corporations around the world. Worst hit has been Africa, where food security is already non-existent for many people. Governments, including the Australian government, welcome this “investment” in agriculture, some bizarrely claiming that food security will be increased.

Estimates vary as to the extent, because there are no accurate records and some deals are confidential, but


the aid agency Oxfam estimates that 227 million hectares in the developing world -- the size of north-western Europe -- has been either sold, leased or licensed to foreign corporations between 2000 and 2011, or is under negotiation. In 2009 alone, 50 million hectares were transferred from farmers to corporations. Some of this land has been purchased while the majority has taken on long-term leases of 25 to 99 years, usually renewable.

This includes 63% of all the arable land in Cambodia, 30% of Liberia and 20% of Sierra Leone. Other countries that have lost more than 10% of their agricultural land to foreign investors are Ethiopia, Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines. More than half is in Africa.

There are several reasons for this land grab, none of which willincrease food security in the areas targeted. The most important impetus is for biofuel production, particularly palm oil, soy and corn, as a direct result of mandatory biofuel targets set by European and North American countries for their domestic energy supplies.

The UK is the biggest investor in biofuel production in sub-Saharan Africa, followed by the US, India, Norway and Germany. Land formerly being used by small farmers for their own food needs is converted into plantations and crop monocultures to feed the cars of the industrialised world. Some land is also being used for forestry plantations used to offset carbon emissions in the rich countries.

The second most significant reason for land grabbing is to ensure food security in the country from which the investment comes. Governments of those


combination of biofuels and export food. About 9% is for forestry plantations.

Martin Keulertz of King’s College, London, says that land grabbing is really water grabbing. Most of the land acquisition agreements include free and unlimited water access. Over-irrigation has depleted river and ground water supplies in Australia, China, India, Pakistan, the Middle East and the United States, and corporations are eying Africa where this has so far not happened on such a scale. As corporations take up land they increase pressure on governments to construct huge dams that will displace people and increase water insecurity downstream, as well as affecting the environment.

Examples of land acquisition

The Saudi company Foras International Investment aims by 2016 to produce 7 million tons of rice in Senegal and Mali for export back toSaudi Arabia, on 700,000 hectares of land. This is in countries where people now have insufficient land for their own needs. The land being taken over is not idle land waiting for investment to become productive, it is prime irrigated land already in use. Under the agreement with the Senegal government, the corporation will receive subsidies, and expects an annual rate of return of 35%. Hundreds of thousands of farmers will be affected. Local people are resisting, and are taking court action in Mali to stop it.

The Tanzanian government has agreed to lease 800,000 hectares in western Tanzania to AgriSol Energy, a US company, for 99 years at 200 shillings per hectare per year, plus payment of 500 shillings to the district council. This is equivalent to about


fact that it is an energy company. Under the agreement any disputes will be arbitrated in London by the International Chamber of Commerce.

A further example is located in Río Negro province in Argentina. The Chinese corporation Beidahuang has been given (not sold or leased, given) 23,000 hectares to develop for irrigation farming for 20 years, plus information on a further 234,000 hectares that they might be interested in. The company is exempt from provincial taxes and charges and receives free use of the port, free technical support, free office space, and investment guarantees. The project is for soy production and export to China. There is much local opposition to the project.

Ethiopia has allocated 3.6 million hectares for lease to foreign investors of which deals had been concluded fora significant proportion by 2011. This is “non-utilised land” according to the government, though it is hard to imagine this much quality unused land exists in a country with frequent food shortages. The land is to be used for export crops of sugar cane, cotton and palm oil. Schoneveld estimates that by 2011, 807,000 hectares had been leased for biofuel production. The government has committed to build the infrastructure of roads, telecommunications and electricity.

The US corporation Farm Lands of Guinea Inc. has obtained 100,000 hectares of land in Guinea, West Africa, to produce corn and soy for export and biofuels; it is looking for another 15 million hectares. A South African group has obtained a 30-year lease on 80,000 hectares in the Republic of Congo to be divided


up into 30 farms for South Africans. Atama Plantations, a Malaysian company, has been granted a lease on 470,000 hectares, also in the Congo, of which it has announced 180,000 will be used for oil palms. More than 500,000 hectares in each of the following West African countries has been sold or leased to foreign investors: Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Republic of Congo. Several others are not far behind.

Australia is also a target, though the mechanism and effects are different. In general the acquisitions do not require displacement of people from the land and are less likely to affect food security in Australia. The largest acquisition so far has been Terra Firma Capital, a British firm with 3.2 million hectares (largely from buying outConsolidated Pastoral Company). Second is the Qatar company Hassad Food, with 750,000 hectares of wheat and sheep land, followed by 252,000 hectares taken up by the Alberta Investment Management Company of Canada for forestry and agriculture (from the collapsed Great Southern Plantations). Cubbie Station is another example.

Australian companies are not strongly involved in land acquisitions overseas. An exception is BKK Partners (founded by Peter Costello, former Liberal Party government minister), which has 100,000 hectares in Cambodia for bananas, rice, palm oil, sugar cane and teak (still in the planning stages in January 2012).

The effects

In many African and some Asian and Pacific countries land is not bought and sold but used according to customary rights. Because customary landholders do not have land titles governments can, in most countries, legally


are no longer receiving an education, as it is too expensive. She and her husband were once self-sufficient, but now depend on the goodwill of friends and neighbours and whatever casual labour can be found. Christine is among more than twenty thousand people who claim that they have been evicted from their homes and land in Kiboga district, and nearby Mubende district, to make way for UK-based New Forests Company (NFC) plantations. The Ugandan National Forestry Authority (NFA) granted licences over the plantation areas to NFC in 2005 and authorised the removal of the former residents, which took place by February 2010 in Mubende and between 2006 and July 2010 in Kiboga. The NFA says that the people living there were illegal encroachers on forest land and thatThey seek land with access to water resources, fertile soil, infrastructure, and proximity to markets to facilitate the profitability and viability of their ventures”. Food security is a total myth – hardly any of the land deals are designed to provide food for domestic consumption, as almost all is for export. An example is Mozambique, where approximately 35 per cent of households are chronically food insecure: a mere 32,000 hectares out of the 433,000 approved for agriculture investment between 2007 and 2009 were for food crops, according to Oxfam.

Another factor in government compliance is pressure from the World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and aid organisations, which make the “freeing up” of markets and foreign investment controls a condition for continued foreign aid. The Bill and


air forces to address and minimize the possibility of collateral damage and civilian casualties,” Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Killea, chief of staff for the American task force in charge of operations in Syria and Iraq, told reporters on July 31.

The Pentagon has generally offered up this type in response to questions about civilian casualties. Before admitting to killing two children and wounding two others in Syria in May 2015, American spokespersons largely denied any innocent deaths at all.

“We are unaware of any civilian casualties,” Army

According to the spreadsheet, Central Command has investigated at least 45 separate allegations to some degree. In each instance, CENTCOM has conducted some level of initial review, a credibility review and — sometimes — a full investigation according to the rules outlinedmade that statement, Central Command had just finished reviewing two credible allegations of civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria at the end of December 2014, according to the database. As the admiral made his briefings, American commandos had also reported that Iraqi police trainees might have injured nearby civilians during a drill.

The Pentagon eventually decided that Dutch F-16s were not responsible for two deaths near Fallujah, Iraq. American Vipers might have injured civilians near Tabqa Airfield in Syria. And since the Iraqis were manning the .50-caliber machine guns during the practice session, responsibility for the training accident fell to the Iraqi government.

The American public does not appear to have received any of these updates. And the allegations kept rolling in.

“The coalition’s war against ISIL has inevitably caused civilian


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Marco Feliciano has previously said AIDS is a gay cancer and that Africans are cursed.

The Latin America Bureau reports he stated: “Noah’s curse on his grandson, Canaan, lingers in Africa, therefore leading to all the hunger, diseases, ethnic wars.”

In another comment, he wrote that the “rot of homosexual feelings leads to hatred, crime, rejection”.

Campaigners in Brazil have staged protests and demonstrations over the decision to appoint Mr Feliciano.

A high-profile campaign has collected 450,000 signatures calling for his resignation.

The BBC reports in previous statements, he denied being prejudiced against gay people, but said that he was “against their practices, their promiscuity”.

Mr Feliciano also


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The guys, who just completed a lengthy U.S. tour and will appear on the "Late Show With David Letterman" on May 20, say the video's themes are very much in line with that of the celestial, punk-guitar anthem of a song.

"It's a love song, but with plenty of ambivalence and frustration lurking around the edges," Murray explained. "We figured a good way to illustrate that would be to use that old trope of a guy who gets involved with an alien woman on a foreign world after slaying all her friends. The seeds of disaster are planted right at the beginning for this young couple!"

Captain Kirk would be jealous. She's a total babe, minus, you know, the whole horrifying alien head and cauldron of mysterious, bubbling potions


Record setting 3,132 student archers competed at MoNASP state tournament

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The tenth annual Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program (MoNASP) state tournament held March 23-24 in Branson drew 3,132 student archers in grades 4-12 from a record setting 140 schools across the state. Winning teams and individuals, along with other teams and individuals who had qualifying scores, will go on to compete in the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) tournament in Louisville, Ky., on May 10-12.

MDC’s Education Outreach Coordinator Eric Edwards, who coordinates MoNASP, said this year’s tournament was the largest one ever.

“To put the size of the state tournament in perspective if you laid every arrow end-to-end that was shot at the tournament, they would stretch 111 miles,” Edwards said.

MoNASP iscoordinated through the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Conservation Federation of Missouri in partnership with 670 participating schools and numerous supporting organizations throughout the state. More than 185,000 Missouri students in grades 4-12 participate in MoNASP.

“The growth of the Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program has been tremendous over the past couple years and this surge has led students outdoors with their families to participate in this lifetime sport,” said Edwards. “Many local conservation groups and civic organizations are also volunteering to help support MoNASP in their communities. Students are connecting with family members, coaches, and teachers through archery. This connection and confidence gained through archery will spread into other parts of their lives.”

Edwards noted this year’s MoNASP state archery tournament, hosted by MDC and


Zaghari-Ratcliffe was taken to the prison clinic after a blackout on Tuesday, he said. Fellow prisoners called the family saying they were worried about Zaghari-Ratcliffe's condition, he added.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted his support for Zaghari-Ratcliffe, writing: "All our thoughts and prayers with Nazanin and her family today. Unbearable suffering to be apart from daughter with her hopes raised then dashed. We must redouble efforts to find a way to get her home #FreeNazanin."

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained at Tehran's airport in April 2016 while on her way back to the UK from visiting family with her daughter Gabriella, who was then 22 months old.

The Iranian government accused her of working with organizations allegedly attempting to overthrow the regime. She was sentenced to five years in jail andher child was placed in the care of her parents.

Her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, rejected the allegations. In May, Iranian media reported that she was due to face a new trial for "security-related" charges.


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Torres hopes that her candidature will pave the way for other women from minority groups to launch themselves into public life. It’s something she is passionate about; she has worked for five years for non-profit organization LaVOIEdesFemmes, which encourages Muslim women in particular to get involved in all spheres of society.

The mother of three also has several university degrees under her belt — law, education, religious science, anthropology — and has worked for the Quebec chapter of the National Council of Muslims, for the Human and Youth Rights Commission of Quebec and as a teacher and director in public and private daycares. She described herself as “passionate about getting everyone actively involved in society.”

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Transport strike called off

Law enforcers are playing a game of chess at Daulatdia ferry terminal on the second day of the transport strike, which had severed road communication among 21 districts, including Dhaka. Last night, transport owners and workers of 10 districts in Khulna called off their indefinite strike after a meeting with the Rajbari deputy commissioner. The photo was shot yesterday. Photo: Focus BanglaOur Correspondent, Jhenidah

Transport owners and workers of 10 districts of Khulna division called off their indefinite strike last night following a meeting on their demands with Rajbari deputy commissioner.

The decision came from the meeting between the transport owners and workers and the DC of Rajbari, Shahana Bari, at his office in the afternoon.

Inter-district Motor Owners and Workers' Coordination Parishad enforced the strike on


Sunday to press home their six-point demand including an end to extortion, traffic jam and harassment of passengers and motor workers at Daulatdia ferry terminal.

The strike was initially called in Khulna, Jessore, Narail, Magura, Jhenidah, Chuadanga, Meherpur, Kushtia, Bagerhat and Satkhira of Khulna division.

Azizul Alam Mintu, president of Bangladesh Paribahan Sangstha Sramic Samity, confirmed that the strike had been called off on the third day of their protest.

"We have withdrawn the indefinite transport strike after a successful meeting with the Rajbari administration, police and other government officials at Rajbari DC office in the evening," said Mintu, adding that Rajbari district administration had assured them of meeting their six-point demand.

He added that the administration had asked for three days to end extortion and ease traffic jam at Daulatdia ferryMarshalls favorite uncle. Also was Debbie Mathers-Briggs little brother. He also had a big influence on Marshall.
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The Philadelphia Eagles have requested an interview with Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther, according to a report from NFL insider Ian Rapoport. Note that Guenther cannot interview until after the Bengals' game on Sunday.

#Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther will interview with #Browns on Sunday after the game, source said. #Eagles also requested him. — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 7, 2016

This news doesn't come as a surprise. Guenther has already been mentioned as a "sleeper candidate" in the Eagles coaching search. Here's what we wrote about Guenther:

The 44-year-old Guenther is a native of Richboro, Pennsylvania. After coaching Division III Ursinus from 1997 through 2000, Guenther was hired by the Washington Redskins in 2002. He's been with the Bengals as an assistant since 2005. Cincinnati promoted him to defensivedirective 2004/35/EC.

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The regulation was presented by the European Commission on 31 May 2018. It is based on the findings of the Fitness Check evaluation on the reporting and monitoring of EU environment policy which the Commission finalized in June 2017. The Council reached its position on the draft regulation on 7 November 2018.

Negotiations between the Austrian Presidency and the European Parliament started on 15 November 2018 and ended in a provisional agreement on 19 December 2018, which was confirmed by EU ambassadors of member states.

Today's adoption of the regulation by the Council is the final step in the legislative procedure. The legislation will enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the official journal. It will be directly applicable in all member states.


There were two infuriating stories earlier this week in preparation of today’s meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.

The Daily Beast reported that Trump’s aides wanted top NSC Russia expert Fiona Hill in the meeting between the presidents.

According to two White House aides, senior Trump administration officials have pressed for Hill—the National Security Council’s senior director for Europe and Russia and the author of critical psychological biography of Putin—to be in the room during the president’s highly anticipated meeting with Putin. If Hill is there, these officials believe, it will help the White House avoid the perception that the president is too eager to cozy up to the Kremlin. The hope is to avoid a repeat of Trump’s last meeting with top Russian officials, during which he disclosedpart of their story).

Thankfully, the NYT has finally revealed that it was Trump, not Putin, who chose to limit attendees.

Only six people attended the meeting itself: Mr. Trump and his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson; Mr. Putin and his foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov; and two interpreters. The Russians had agitated to include several more staff members in the meeting, but Mr. Trump’s team had insisted that the meeting be kept small to avoid leaks and competing accounts later, according to an administration official with direct knowledge of the carefully choreographed meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity around the matter.

And he did so specifically to avoid leaks about what would transpire.

This means that Trump (personally, given the NYT portrayal) decided to


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Researchers help paralyzed man regain sense of touch through a robotic arm

President Obama fist-bumps the robotic arm of Nathan Copeland during an Oct. 13 tour at the White House Frontiers Conference at the University of Pittsburgh. For the first time in humans, technology allowed Copeland to experience the sensation of touch through a robotic arm that he controls with his brain.

For the first time, a human patient is able to experience the sense of touch through a robotic arm that he controls with his brain.

A team of researchers working with Sliman Bensmaia, associate professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, and led by Robert Gaunt, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh, developed a brain computer interfaceWashington (CNN) Special counsel Robert Mueller is interested in asking President Donald Trump a variety of questions related to the 2016 campaign and people who have figured in Trump's personal life, business interactions and administration, according to a list of questions for Trump obtained and reported on by The New York Times.

The topics, which CNN previously reported can be classified into four main areas, involve questions about Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former FBI Director James Comey, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and any Russian coordination with his presidential campaign, according to The New York Times.

Mueller is leading the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and if there were any ties between Moscow and Trump campaign associates. Trump has repeatedly denied collusion.

Trump's legal team outlined


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Young Ronald Searle and his friends enlisted in the British Royal Engineers at age 19 during World War II. They were stationed in Singapore when the city was captured by the Japanese in February 1942.

Searle and his friends were taken prisoner and shipped to a dense tropical jungle to build the Burma-Siam railroad. They worked at forced labor in sweltering heat, chopping through miles of dense bamboo forests and hacking a path through granite mountains. On a starvation diet of less than 400 calories per day, plagued by insects and disease, victimized by brutal guards, the prisoners began dying like flies. The guards quickly killed


any member of the ragtag group who fell behind. Searle recalled:

My friends and I, we all signed up together. We had grown up together, we went to school together and they all died like that. So few of us came out of it. Basically, all the people we loved and knew and grew up with simply became fertiliser for the nearest bamboo....

Cholera also took a terrible toll on the men, including Searle:

Between bouts of fever I came round one morning to find that the men on each side of me were dead, and as I tried to prop myself up to get away from them, I saw that there was a snake coiled under the bundle on which I had been resting my head.

His captors enforced a harshskin.

Searle resolved that he was going to draw a record of his ordeal. He obssessively began drawing every day on smuggled scraps of paper.

He later described his sketches as "the graffiti of a condemned man, intending to leave a rough witness of his passing through, but who found himself - to his surprise and delight - among the reprieved." Searle could have been severely punished by the guards for his drawings. He sometimes concealed them by rolling them up inside the ubiquitous bamboo and burying them in the ground.

When the railroad was completed, Searle was among the small percentage of prisoners who survived the jungle. He was shipped back to Changi, a horrifically squalid and overcrowded jail in Singapore.

There, the men continued to starve. Searle was especially taken


by a pair of baby kittens at the jail:

Searle fattened them up and on Christmas day, 1944, cooked and ate them.

In August 1945, Searle was released after the war ended and went on to a long, passionate career as a brilliant artist. Thinking back, he said, "Everything goes back to being a prisoner. When I think how fortunate I was to survive that, to lose all one's friends at 19 years old - every day is a treasure. I decided when the war ended that I was going to do something interesting."

Searle, now 90, drew distinctive pictures using an old fashioned bamboo pen.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

In 1863, artist Albert Bierstadt and writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow left New York on an expedition into the great American wilderness. Bierstadt dreamedof painting spectacular western landscapes while Ludlow planned to write about them.

The two men also had something to work out between them: Bierstadt was in love with Ludlow's wife, Rosalie.

The men traveled together for nearly nine months. They picked up fresh supplies in Kansas and followed the Overland Trail, working their way through Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and into what would one day become Yosemite National Park.

Nobody knows for sure what the two men discussed around the campfire at night, but things must have gotten a little testy in Colorado when they discovered a beautiful 14,000 foot mountain and Bierstadt named it after Ludlow's wife.

Bierstadt is reputed to be the first man ever to climb Mount Rosalie.

The travelers reached the west coast before winter. They found a


steamer ship in San Francisco that returned them to New York, where Rosalie waited apprehensively.

Both men returned home steadfastly in love with Rosalie. Unfortunately for Ludlow, he also loved hashish (his most famous book was the classic account, The Hasheesh Eater). As drugs took an increasing toll on Ludlow's life, Rosalie turned to Bierstadt for comfort. Ludlow's cousin wrote at the time,

[Ludlow] is a pretty fellow to be cursing poor Rose. Whatever she may have done is no excuse for him and if he had done as he should she never would have been so fond of the attentions of other men. I don't entirely excuse her, but I will stand up for her against him. I have no patience with him.

Ludlow continued to work on his bookabout their expedition while Bierstadt worked on immense paintings of the landscapes he had witnessed. His masterpiece was, "Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie."

In 1866, the year that Bierstadt unveiled his painting of her mountain, Rosalie divorced Ludlow and married Bierstadt. The embittered Ludlow removed every reference to Bierstadt's name from the manuscript of his book.

Bierstadt and Rosalie went on to lead a happy life together. They traveled the world and the successful painter opened studios in London, Paris and Rome. Years later, Bierstadt took Rosalie back to California on the newly built railroad, returning over some of the same ground he had traversed on horseback and by foot as a young artist.

If you look for Mount Rosalie today, you won't find anything resembling Bierstadt's painting. For


one thing, after Rosalie died the Colorado state legislature renamed the mountain for the governor of Colorado, John Evans. (As surely as rain erodes mountains, bureaucrats and politicians will follow in the wake of lovers and pioneers, eroding all romantic gestures and leveling all artistic achievements).

But apart from that, you won't find the mountain because Bierstadt's landscape was largely imagined. He painted accurate studies on site, but then exaggerated and romanticized them back in his studio. He combined waterfalls from one location with cliffs from a second and mountains from a third. For added drama he sometimes inserted fog, mist or dark storm clouds.

In Bierstadt's famous painting, you can see that he envisioned Mount Rosalie as a radiant heaven beckoning from beyond the clouds in the the uppersurprising that Bierstadt began to see her in the mountains, or in the wildflowers or in the moon. I'd wager that both Bierstadt and Ludlow were baying at that moon before their trip was through.

How important are the factual details about the artist's subject? Bierstadt painted Mt. Rosalie more with his heart than his eyes, but that doesn't mean the result was less accurate than the photographs of Rosalie or Mount Evans. Bierstadt's idealized image of Rosalie as a pristine white land of flowing waterfalls may have been more real than the facts about her that have dropped away with time. It may have been more true than Rosalie's own views of her sins from her first marriage.

Contrary to the art critics who faulted Bierstadt for painting landscapes


back in his studio, I think the most important part of his Mt. Rosalie painting-- the part that he painted with his heart-- was created during those long nights on the trail thinking about Rosalie.

Friday, June 11, 2010

In last night's debut, host and judge China Chow (ranked #54 on the Maxim list of the Hot 100 Women of 2001) welcomed a gaggle of artists who will be pitted against each other as they claw for celebrityhood. In the first phase of the competition, Chow told the artists how to create "a successful portrait."

"Chow: show the inner essence of the subject"

Art lover Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex in the City) then exhorted the competitors to "be brave."

But nothing quite compared to the the moment when the oleaginous, double breasted Simonde Pury, described as a "leader in the international art world," purred inappropriately over a nude portrait of a contestant half his age ("I seenk eet loooks vehreee appeeling").

The cumulative effect reminded me of Ambrose Bierce's observation,"So scurvy a crew I do not remember to have discerned in vermiculose conspiracy outside the carcass of a dead horse."

It's not like we didn't smell this state of affairs coming. Mid-way through the 20th century, artist Raphael Soyer looked ruefully over his shoulder at the path fine art had recently taken:

The art world of the 1920s and 1930s was different from today's art world. Art was not the big business it has become today. It did not have the air of glitter and commercialism. Art was less sensational, reputations were not


Patna: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) national president Nitish Kumar on Saturday put to rest speculations and clearly told senior party leaders that the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would continue in Bihar.

In a meeting with party’s national general secretaries, secretaries, state presidents and few other leaders at Bihar Niwas in New Delhi, the Bihar CM was authorised to take political decisions on behalf of the JD(U).

Most of the leaders agreed with Nitish Kumar’s point of view that the alliance with the BJP must continue in Bihar. However, it was made clear that the alliance was limited to Bihar only and the party would continue to expand base in other states.

Party leaders also deliberated upon complex seat-sharing formula for the next Lok Sabha electionsdraft, where protected lists max out at 11 players and the quality of average player drafted presumably will be higher.

Misfits were in and out of those organizations in a blink of an eye. Jody Hull, plucked from the Philadelphia Flyers by the Thrashers in 1999, is a prime example.

Hull’s stay in Atlanta lasted mere weeks. Atlanta “decided to go in a different direction” following training camp, despite telling the 30-year-old winger to put down roots locally.

“We were settled. We had moved into a house,” says Hull, who had a young family of four back then. The team placed him on waivers prior to the regular season. He went unclaimed and played one game for the Thrashers’ IHL affiliate in Orlando before the Flyers reacquired his rights and the


Calgary Flames (twice), the New York Rangers and the Florida Panthers before retiring after the 2006-07 season.

“That’s the business,” he says of the twists and turns.

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For Walker, Brunette and Boughner, the Predators came knocking at an opportune time.

Walker, who had three NHL seasons on his resume, craved a more impactful role within the Vancouver Canucks’ forward group, or elsewhere. A clean slate? No hierarchy? Walker, now co-owner of the OHL’s Guelph Storm and a part-time development coach for the Canucks, did not mind taking a seat on the player carousel.

Brunette, a winger with offensive upside, felt stuck in Washington, splitting his first five years of pro hockey between the ECHL, AHL and the Capitals. Ditto for Boughner, then a defenceman for the Buffalo Sabres.

“Darcy Regier was the GMand steal his Smurfette formula from his magic book. When Gargamel finds this, he casts a spell in the clay needed to make a Smurfette; when the noon sunlight hits anything made with that clay, it will explode. Not knowing this, the Smurflings take the clay and use it to create a female Smurfling named Sassette. Smurfette is very happy to have a friend, but Papa Smurf grounds the Smurflings for doing all of this without permission.

Sassette wanders the village and Grouchy Smurf tells her he hates her because, as a Smurfette, she's a Gargamel creature. The curious Sassette asks who is Gargamel, so Grouchy tells her about the evil wizard, and that his house at the other side of the forest. Sassete goes to Gargamel's house thinking


Security personnel fought demonstrators at sit-in camps in
at least two predominantly Sunni cities. The highest number of casualties
occurred in Hawija. The clashes led to several curfews and road closures across
the country. They also encouraged two ministers to quit
their posts. Overall, at least 111 people were killed and 233 more were
wounded in those clashes and other violence.     I.    Background
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administrator in HISD’s Student Assessment Department for approximately
two years until she was fired in September 2016. In April 2016, DeValentino
was moved to the online assessment team.              The team consisted of
DeValentino, two additional online assessment administrators who were
Hispanic, and their supervisor, Diana Bidulescu, who is Caucasian.
DeValentino and Bidulescu did not get along.
      Just three days after joining the new team, DeValentino filed a formal
complaint against Bidulescu. DeValentino, Bidulescu, and Leng Fritsche, the
assistant superintendent of the Student Assessment Department, met to
discuss DeValentino’s complaint. In May, Bidulescu issued three memoranda
to


Silicon Valley has a new case of "sudden wealth syndrome."

With more IPOs in the offing, from Zynga Inc. to Groupon Inc. to Facebook, the social-media craze has become America's latest supernova of wealth creation, launching a new generation of millionaires and recalling the instant riches of the 1990s dot-com explosion. Terms like sudden wealth syndrome and "affluenza," which had largely vanished from the offices of Palo Alto, Calif., and the cocktail parties of nearby Atherton, are back.

Yet when it comes to investing and spending their fortunes, Silicon Valley's newly rich are likely chart a different course from their predecessors. In the wake of the dot-com bust in 2001, which left many Internet millionaires with massive mortgages and worthless stock, the new tech magnates are likely to take afine. Liner raises three issues on appeal. We will affirm.

      Liner and his wife Dayna lived in Burleson and had six-week-old twins, Mya and

Tye. While Dayna took Mya, the baby girl, to her mother’s place of work to “show her

off,” Liner, who was unemployed at the time, stayed home at their apartment with Tye,

the baby boy. When Tye stopped breathing, Liner ran next door to call 9-1-1 for help,
and Burleson police, fire, and ambulance came. Liner initially said that Tye had choked

on formula.

        At the hospital, testing showed that Tye had brain hemorrhaging without

external signs of injury. Liner then told Dayna that Tye had rolled off the couch onto

the carpeted floor. When Dayna told Liner that


      of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, he commits or
        attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the
        death of an individual.
               …
               A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to a
        result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably
        certain to cause the result.

       Yreka Miners baseball preview: Miners hopeful for another strong season

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Mar 2, 2013 at 4:11 PMMar 2, 2013 at 4:16 PM

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After earning a Northern Athletic League title and making it to the Northern Section Division 2 championship game last season, Yreka Miner head coach Jason Freitas believes this year's team has the potential to achieve similar results.The Miners open the 2013 campaign today at a two-day tournament at Fothill High School in Padro Cedro. Yreka will face St. Helena at 11 a.m.During practice on Wednesday, Freitas said he and the coaching staff have worked closely with the 16 members of the varsity team to "try to get all the little things down," and were working on the fundamentals before the season begins. "The guys are ready to compete,"


Freitas said. In 2012, Yreka went 22-10 overall and 10-2 in the NAL.Back this year for the Miners is senior Christan Charles, who was named NAL MVP last season. He finished 2012 with a .407 batting average and had four home runs, 27 runs, 29 RBI's and 16 stolen bases. As a pitcher he finished the season 6-2 overall with a 1.60 ERA and 84 strikeouts. This year it is a good news, bad news situation with Charles.The bad news is that at the end of last season, he injured his throwing shoulder and found out in January he tore his labrum and can not pitch this year. He elected to wait on surgery until after the season. The good new is his hitting has not been compromisedand he will DH and on occasion play first base, Freitas said.Although Charles is certainly disappointed he can't pitch this season, Freitas said he is a consummate team player and is focused on helping the team any way he can. Freitas said that Charles, who he considers one of the best hitters he has had in his time as coach at YHS will be a key to the Miner offensive attack this year. "He wants to do what he can to help us," Freitas said,While the Miners lost some key players, including pitcher Russell Sweet, who now pitches for the College of Idaho, Freitas said the team has retained several key players and are bringing up a number of talented players that were on the junior varsity squad


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8. Aplets & Cotlets

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Aplets & Cotlets are a fruity version of Turkish Delight—nuts in jellied apple and apricot juice, coated lightly with powdered sugar. They originated at Liberty Orchards in Washington state. They're difficult to find in stores outside the West Coast, but it's possible to buy them online. Some people prefer the Cotlets because they're tangier.

9. Melty Bar

This candy is another Wisconsin favorite made in the town of Oshkosh. It's chocolate with chocolate on top—whipped chocolate surrounded by a milk chocolate exterior. Did we say chocolate enough times? The company's website calls it "The aristocrat of candy bars."

10. Nut Goodie

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These treats hail from Minnesota. When it was first marketed in 1912, it cost 5 cents.tie in restyled front and rear bumpers for a more flowing profile. Available LED taillights add a premium touch.

New front and rear silver skid plate garnishes on most models, new wheel designs and a standard shark fin antenna on all grades further accent the freshened look of the 2016 RAV4. Capping the restyle in high style are three additions to the color palette: Silver Sky Metallic, Black Currant Metallic and Electric Storm Blue.

The new SE features sport-tuned suspension, 18-inch alloy wheels and paddle shifters for the six-speed automatic transmission. While providing a more dynamic and responsive driving experience, the RAV4 SE shows off its sporty attitude with LED headlights and taillights and exclusive bumper and lower grill design. Its most distinctive exterior feature is the S-Code paint design,


Blazers open spring drills with a new coach

The opening day of spring drils was the first practice for new head coach David Dean.

The Blazer offensive coordinator promoted to head coach almost two months ago when Chris Hatcher was hired at Georgia Southern.

Like Hatcher, Dean also practicing early in the morning to accomodate the class schedule of his players.

VSU returns alot of players from last year's team with 20 starters back.

The new faces are on the coaching staff and there will be adjustment period for both players and coaches this spring.

Dean said "Today was a feeling out period. it was tough mostly for the defense because they pretty much have a whole new staff with the exception of the defensive line. New schemes, new practice procedures and different thingswhich players are exposed. Clearly such a move would require a monumental shift in the ethos of the game. However, banning hits to the head would curtail the misconception that the NHL is defined by violence. More important, it would emphasize that players must respect each other as moral beings, first and foremost.

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Awareness of vulnerability in the NHL is not new. In 2008 the NHL Players Association called for a ban on hits to the head, citing player safety. The NHLPA referred to unsuspecting players who are in vulnerable positions, and whose heads are intentionally and recklessly targeted. After some horrific shoulder- and elbow-to-head hits in the 2009-2010 season, league officials altered rules to minimize blindside hits to the head. Although these and other modifications are


welcome, the danger of headshots has not gone away, as confirmed by the Gryba hit. Player vulnerability in the NHL continues to be exploited, and mars the game needlessly.

But what does vulnerability mean? People are vulnerable when they are open to being wounded or attacked. They are vulnerable when they lack a certain level of control, are exposed to contingencies, their individualism is threatened, and they recognize their frailties and rely on the protection of others.

In a sport context, undercutting a basketball player in the air, even when there is no intent to harm, is ethically unjustifiable because the airborne player gives up a certain amount of control, is exposed to potential injury and is at the mercy of their opponents for protection. North American football acknowledged playerice, are cynical and offensive.

NHL hockey is one of the most fast-paced, dynamic collision team sports in the world, and is difficult to officiate. But hits to the head, even unwittingly, must be completely removed from the game. Banning headshots in the NHL would acknowledge that player vulnerability, just like human vulnerability generally, requires that we often must rely on the protection of others. Such a ban would make sure that targeting the head is not included in the repertoire of skills that players bring to the game. It would make a significant impact on the consciousness of players, altering the way they play and improving the NHL brand of hockey. And it would also have a trickle-down effect so such hits are not taught to youngsters.

Finally, a


sing in the Dapper Dans of Harmony, based in Caldwell, as well as East Coast Sound, a chorus of 35-and-under which draws membership from NJ, NY, and PA. “Gimme Four” is greatly involved in youth outreach and music education through barbershop singing and coaching. Last year they were one of the teaching quartets for the High Point Harmony Explosion Youth Festival here in Sussex County. They have achieved great success in barbershop contests, finishing second in the Mid-Atlantic District and 16th internationally. They were featured at the legendary Rainbow Room in NYC alongside James Langton’s NY All-Star Band in 2015, and have continued to sing with the Big Band appearing on The Intrepid, at the Algonquin Arts Theater, and at the Cutting Room in NYC this past year.Czech and Slovak Championships were held simultaneously.

They were held in Trenčín, Slovakia from 14–16 December 2007.

Medal summary

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Competition notes
The senior compulsory dance was the Yankee Polka. The junior compulsory dance was the Cha-Cha Congelado.

Senior results

Men

Ladies

Ice dancing

Slovak junior results
The 2008 Slovak Junior Championships () were held from 16–17 February 2008 in Zimny stadion O.Nepelu hala II. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, and pair skating on the junior level. The junior ice dancing event was held in December 2007.

Junior men

Junior ladies

Junior pairs results

Junior ice dancing

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Sidewalk-Jumping Driver Claims Children He Hurt Were “Reckless”

This fall, 90-year-old Edward Nelson lost control of his vehicle, jumped the curb, and pinned two six-year-old twins against a wall with his BMW SUV in Menlo Park, California.

One of the twin brothers suffered a broken arm. The other was hospitalized in critical condition; he wasn’t released from the hospital until five weeks and multiple surgeries later. A third brother, 9 years old, was also injured in the collision.

Perhaps you would expect Nelson to be ashamed? Beg the family for forgiveness? Not so much.

In response to a lawsuit from the family, Nelson’s attorney has accused the boys of “reckless, careless and negligent” behavior. According to The Almanac, the family is seeking damages from Nelson, a retired attorney, for the injuries andSam Mbah is the co-author, with I. E. Igariwey, of African Anarchism, originally published in 1997. In that book, Mbah and Igariwey argued for an anarchist alternative in Africa. I have included excerpts from African Anarchism in Volume Three of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. Last year, Mbah gave an interview in which he discusses the prospects for anarchism, and a “African Spring,” in Nigeria, where he remains active. Below, I reproduce some excerpts from the interview, in which Mbah discusses power and corruption in Nigeria, the negative role of established religion, the weakness of civil society and trade union organizations, the role of the oil industry, environmental degradation, deindustrialization and the need for continuing support from people outside of Nigeria.

The entire interview can be found


groups engage in all forms of criminality and banditry as well, which do not in any way serve the interests of ordinary Niger Deltans. And that is condemnable, but it does not in any way vitiate the original sin that pushed them into further sin…

Before the advent of colonialism, our people were mostly African religionists, who worship our small gods – gods of thunder, gods of river, and such other gods. With the coming of colonialism, the two main global religions – Islam and Christianity – became a predominant force in the lives of Nigerians.

The rivalry and competition between the two religions has tended to play down the fact that not all Nigerians are Christians or Muslims. Even in the North-central, you are talking about pagan tribes andusing religion to manipulate the ordinary people into fighting for the political positions and beliefs of the elite…

We must continue to engage, even with those in power, in some form of call to account. And we must devise more realistic ways of being relevant in society and trying to make a difference in our respective communities and in society at large…

Military rule stultified the development of trade unionism in the country. They were able to do this by invoking primordial sentiments, religion, tribalism and issues of regionalism as well, to divide and rule, to manipulate workers. Depending on which government was in power. The trade union movement in Nigeria – towards the dying days of military rule – tried to regain its voice, started calling major national strikes,


failure of banks in Nigeria, which took place in the late 1990s, the junior workers in the banks are beginning to organize again. But they’re no longer as effective. So basically, what you have as unions in Nigeria, are basically the civil servants. And you will agree with me that the industrial experience is based in industrial workplaces, not in offices. Not in air-conditioned offices and white-collar tables.

So the state of union activities today in Nigeria is deplorable. And most union leaders see their positions from the point of view of their career. They think of their career first and foremost, before anything else. It is one of the key factors that affected the last nation-wide protests, in the sense that the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congresslong ago, has been a victim of state high-handedness. He came out to organize workers, to protest against non-implementation of the minimum wage. The minimum wage was a national policy of the PDP government, and a national minimum wage act was passed by both chambers of the national assembly. All the states in the country were now obliged to implement the minimum wage, to bring it into practice in their respective states. But the governor here in Enugu refused to implement it. Or decided that he was going to delay the terms of implementation. And when Osmond and one or two of his comrades tried to organize the workers, to sensitize them on resisting this harassment by the government, he was incarcerated. It is instructive to note that


while Osmond was trying to mobilize the workers, the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress here was collaborating with the state government and negotiating away the rights of workers to organize. Ultimately he paid the price by being sent to jail and being tried on trumped up charges. It was not until the later part of January this year [2012] that he was released. Based essentially on the protests mounted by Amnesty International. And today he still faces a criminal charge which is as ridiculous as anything can be. This underlines the threats faced by those who struggle to create a new society in our kind of environment…

People in the metropolitan world can assist us by trying to help us build capacity. You see, the civil society groupsby Post Office employees, who were in breach of duty to take adequate protection against the accident.

Lord Pearce cited the case of The Wagon Mound which held that a person is not liable if the accident is of a different type than the type which was foreseen by the person. It would be unjust to check each and every details of the foreseeability test too minutely when the case deals with things that can be allurement to children leads to an accident and hard to foresee the exact way in which the accident may take place.

In sum, all the judges allowed the boy's appeal. The decision was followed in Jolley v Sutton London Borough Council,

(For a similar case arising under US law, see Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad,


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This episode was published 3 days ago, available until 1:30pm on 16 Oct 2020.A good education combines learning practical skills and knowledge with abstract and creative thinking. According to The New York Times’ Tamal Lewin, tertiary education may be focusing too much on the practical side to the detriment of the skills learned from the creative side.

At Stanford this month, Jeremy Dean showed graduate students how to use Rap Genius to teach the classics in the digital age. Image source: NYTimes.com

STANFORD, Calif. — On Stanford University’s sprawling campus, where a long palm-lined drive leads to manicured quads, humanities professors produce highly regarded scholarship on Renaissance French literature and the philosophy of language.

They have generous compensation, stunning surroundings and access to the latest technology and techniques of scholarship. The only thing they lack is students: Some 45 percent of the faculty members


announced that it was closing its sparsely populated degree programs in German, philosophy, and world languages and culture.

At elite universities, such departments are safe but wary. Harvard had a 20 percent decline in humanities majors over the last decade, a recent report found, and most students who say they intend to major in humanities end up in other fields. So the university is looking to reshape its first-year humanities courses to sustain student interest.

Princeton, in an effort to recruit more humanities students, offers a program for high school students with a strong demonstrated interest in humanities — an idea Stanford, too, adopted last year.

“Both inside the humanities and outside, people feel that the intellectual firepower in the universities is in the sciences, that the important issues that peopleof all sorts care about, like inequality and climate change, are being addressed not in the English departments,” said Andrew Delbanco, a Columbia University professor who writes about higher education.

The future of the humanities has been a hot topic this year, both in academia and the high-culture media. Some commentators sounded the alarm based on federal data showing that nationally, the percentage of humanities majors hovers around 7 percent — half the 14 percent share in 1970. As others quickly pointed out, that decline occurred between 1970, the high point, and 1985, not in recent years.

Still, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences issued a report this spring noting the decreased funding for humanities and calling for new initiatives to ensure that they are not neglected amid the


Llewellyn, a graduate student in English at Stanford, at a workshop on a database analysis of 18th-century novels. Image source: NYTimes.com

Meanwhile, since the recession — probably because of the recession — there has been a profound shift toward viewing college education as a vocational training ground.

“College is increasingly being defined narrowly as job preparation, not as something designed to educate the whole person,” said Pauline Yu, president of the American Council of Learned Societies.

While humanities majors often have trouble landing their first job, their professors say that over the long term, employers highly value their critical thinking skills.

Parents, even more than students, often focus single-mindedly on employment. Jill Lepore, the chairwoman of Harvard’s history and literature program, tells of one young woman who came to her home, quiterecently named as Utah Teacher of the Year, shares her thoughts about her profession and the principles and institutions involved in it.

NORTH SALT LAKE — Foxboro Elementary School teacher Allison Riddle started her week like many others, working with students in her fifth-grade class and preparing for parent-teacher conferences.

There was little out of the ordinary, considering that on Oct. 4 she was named Utah’s Teacher of the Year, an honor that includes a check for $10,000, an interactive Smart Board for her classroom, a laptop computer, a $250 Visa gift card and a future meeting with the president of the United States.

“The kids are excited. They are very excited about the Smart Board,” Riddle said. “I feel kind of silly, actually. There are so many good teachers. There


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unanswered questions as to whether they were urged by the White House, which outsourced its Comey response to the Republican National Committee and the president’s personal lawyer.

Trump Jr. has certainly been willing to go on the attack for his father before.

He crisscrossed the United States during last year’s election, doing hundreds of interviews on Fox News and local conservative outlets. He attacked “Crooked Hillary,” his father’s derogatory nickname for opponent Hillary Clinton, and delivered a well-received speech at the Republican National Convention.

That moment sparked speculation about his political future. But while Trump Jr. told The Associated Press this spring that he would not, as had been rumored, be a candidate for governor of New York, he left the door open for a political run down the road.

“Maybe someday,”right, quickly drew condemnation and was denounced by the candy company.

A few days later, Trump Jr. linked to a news article posted on the conservative news site Breitbart that suggested Muslim men are a menace to Western women and posted a doctored image of himself, his father and several prominent Trump allies next to Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character whose image has been used by white supremacists.

This week, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump announced that their company is launching a new hotel chain inspired by their travels with their father’s campaign. The Trump Organization is calling the new mid-market chain “American Idea” and said it will start with three hotels in Mississippi.


VIOLENT CRIMINAL STOMPED ON VICTIM’S FACE

Victim(s):

Thanh Lam, female, 44, 5/22/69, Coral Springs (HOSPITALIZED)

Suspect(s):

unidentified male (surveillance video available)

Description of Incident:

Broward Sheriff’s Office robbery detectives are searching for the violent assailant who stomped repeatedly on the head of a woman Wednesday morning during a robbery, leaving her unconscious and bloody on the floor of the Pompano Beach coin laundry she owns with her husband.

The victim, 44-year-old Thanh Lam of Coral Springs, is recovering at Broward Health North, though her injuries are severe.

At 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, a regular customer walked into the Sunnyside Coin Laundry and found Lam on the floor. He soon realized her assailant was still there, in a small closet behind the victim. The tall, slim criminal told the customer he had a gun and said not torequires azeotropic distillation with water followed by a number of crystallization steps to improve the purity of the final product. In addition, an object of the process is to obtain the mono-alkylated product in as great a yeild as possible. Inasmuch as the amount of di-alkylated product which is formed during the reaction is present in an inordinant amount, it is necessary to separate the two compounds in order to provide an effective antioxidant compound. The separation step which may be necessary therefore entails an additional operating procedure as well as requiring additional equipment, all of which adds to the overall cost of the process, thereby reducing the return on the finished product.
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Journalists Outraged As It Is Confirmed The
FBI/DOJ Has Been Spying On Them Just As The Site Stated All Along

May 16. 2013

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

First the IRS scandal, now this (IRS
Says Sorry For Targeting Conservatives As Obama Denies All Knowledge Of
Misconduct). Many journalists are angry today at confirmation
Obama’s Department of Justice, headed up by Attorney General Eric
Holder and the FBI, led (more like misled) by Robert S. Mueller, has
been illegally spying on journalists, among them those at the Associated
Press. This constitutes an egregious abuse of power. The Judiciary
Report has been proven correct again in another scandal the site and
its affiliate Sound Off Column broke first in 2006, regarding the
FBI/DOJ spying on journalists:

FBI
Reproved For Spying On Journalists: "According to DOJ
Inspector General, Glenn A. Fine's testimony in Congress this week,the
FBI, headed by psycho, Robert S. Mueller, has been spying on
journalists and bloggers in America, in violation of the U.S.
Constitution, as the Judiciary Report and its sister site, The Sound
Off Column, have stated for years" ).

FBI
To Be Called Before Congress Over Spying: As I
accurately told my readers in December 2006 which was confirmed in
March 2007, the FBI has been spying on Americans and US residents, via
abusing the Patriot Act to unlawfully read emails, scan bank accounts,
check people's credit and wiretap citizens' phones – actions
inherently illegal in the United States. Even more recently, I wrote
again on July 24, 2008, that President George Bush "Spied on
American citizens and residents whenever he felt like, via illegal
wiretapping, email snooping and scanning bank accounts
(FBI)."

It was revealed this week, the FBI and its parent


while recovering from an aneurysm I had in 2008. The next
thing I knew, the FBI raided the aforementioned lawyer's office and
Jackson Memorial Hospital, arresting people, stating he was soliciting clients
illegally and using information he obtained via bribing someone at
Jackson Memorial Hospital. This lawyer had been doing this for a while,
yet it wasn't until my family discussed it over the phone that the FBI
opened a case and raided the lawyer and hospital.

In another incident, I began complaining about Gibson Guitars to my
dad over the phone. I'd called Gibson about a potential deal and they
stated they have a program for new artists, know who I am (which
surprised me at the time) and I am eligible for said program, which
would include a spot on their website and opening for Lenny Kravitzbehind me was
unreal.

I was speaking to an adviser at a Christian church for guidance on a
spiritual matter that I did not want recorded on the unconstitutionally
placed wiretap, but so determined is the FBI about mining my emails and
calls for scoops and tips, they followed me to the payphone.

In another incident, I was in my front yard gardening and a federal
agent in a suit walked right up to me (also known as trespassing) and
began questioning me about what my future plans are. It was during the
time I began discussing with my dad the option of moving, due to the
criminal harassment and invasion of privacy from Madonna’s Kabbalah
cult. The wiretap picked it up and the next thing I knew, a federal
agent was on my lawn questioning me about my future


Abdi Guled, The Associated Press

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's new president on Thursday declared the country a war zone and replaced its military and intelligence chiefs while instructing the army to prepare a new offensive against al-Shabab extremists.

The shakeup is an attempt to improve the worsening security situation as the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab steps up deadly bombings in the capital since President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was elected in February. A car bomb blast on Wednesday at a Mogadishu restaurant killed at least seven people.

The Somali-American president wore a military uniform as he declared the new offensive and offered young extremists a chance to surrender.

"We tell the young, brainwashed al-Shabab fighters that they have a 60-days deadline to lay down the arms with which they use to kill their people andcome to us," Mohamed said. "We shall welcome them with open arms."

He said the government will focus on the security of the capital first, then the rest of the country.

The changes come roughly a week after the Trump administration approved greater U.S. military authority to pursue al-Shabab in Somalia, including more aggressive airstrikes as parts of southern Somalia will be considered areas of active hostilities.

Thursday's announcement is seen as an attempt by Mohamed to consolidate power in this long-chaotic horn of Africa nation. He also replaced the country's police chief and Mogadishu's mayor.

Al-Shabab has denounced the new president as an "apostate" and warned Somalis against supporting him. The group has been pushed out of the capital and other major urban areas in Somalia by national and African Union


multinational forces, but it continues to carry out deadly bombings and attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere. Targets have included hotels, military checkpoints and the presidential palace.

Somalia's security forces are under pressure to improve as they will assume responsibility for defending the country once the 22,000-strong AU force leaves by the end of 2020.

Al-Shabab is just one of the challenges facing the new government, which despite hundreds of millions of dollars of support from the international community still struggles to expand its authority beyond the capital and other selected areas.

Drought threatens about half of Somalia's population of 12 million, the United Nations has said, and hijackings of cargo ships off the country's coast in recent weeks have signalled a return to piracy on one of the world's most criticalshipping routes. Somalia also is called the world's most corrupt nation by Transparency International.

Mohamed Ahmed Jimale was named the new chief of defence forces of the Somali National Army, replacing Maj. Gen. Mohamed Adan Ahmed. Abdullahi Mohamed Ali was appointed as the national intelligence agency chief, replacing Abdullahi Mohamud Gafow. Ali has held the position in the past. Gen. Abdihakim Said was appointed as police chief, replacing Gen. Mohamed Sheikh Hassan.


Bragging Rights rules and to vote for other matchups, click here. Our next matchup mirrors real life, as two teams that will meet on the hardcourt at the Final Four in Houston this weekend also meet for the chance to move the hypothetical Final Four in the Bragging Rights challenge.

Team synopsis: Things have changed a bit for UConn since their Sweet 16 win. Rudy Gay was lost to shoulder surgery and will miss the rest of the season, which by our rules makes him ineligible. Tough break for the Huskies, who are now down two starters in Gay and Caron Butler. Fortunately, Charlie V is a capable player, who like Ben Gordon is probably even better in a playground environment like this. Plus, Villanueva gives the team aThe people might think they like you now, but Alex knows it won't last. Just look at you, Allegra, you're nothing. Your family are nothing to him. And sooner or later they'll be nothing to the people—just a rather embarrassing thorn.'

Allegra stood there, trying to bite back her fury, trying to remember the Allegra of old who could think of a smart retort, the Allegra who was Bobby Jackson's daughter, who would turn around and just give her a black eye.

'The people won't blame him a bit for the way he carries on.' It was unfortunate that at that moment Chantelle chose to wander out of a side door and go through her handbag, coughing a bit, before lighting up a cigarette. 'Now, Anna...' Belinda gave a slightly


charges, leaving the rabbit in need of a new home, fast. The Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue contacted Jacksonville Animal Services in order to have Fuzzy Pants released to the rescue, which was "better equipped to handle a rabbit emergency due to our experience and medical connections," Lisa Walkup, one of the rescue's founders, told The Dodo.

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

Both founders, Jennifer MacBeth and Walkup, took a six-hour trip from Naples, Florida, to Jacksonville just to pick Fuzzy Pants up. She was then dropped off at BluePearl Veterinary Partners hospital in Tampa, where she received an in-depth examination from the rescue's exotic animals veterinarian.

Fuzzy Pants and Jennifer MacBeth | Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

"We got [Fuzzy Pants] tucked in for the night with food and treats, kissedbun goodbye and we drove back to Naples same day," Walkup said. "It was a very long, emotional day, but we are so very happy to be able to help this little warrior."

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

Fuzzy Pants was diagnosed with two pelvis fractures and had surgery to remove the upper tip of her broken thighbone, according to a press release from the hospital. "Otherwise, Fuzzy Pants would have suffered lifelong pain around the fractures," the press release reads. "Connective tissue around the area where the bone was removed will allow Fuzzy Pants' leg to move virtually normally, and without the pain."

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

After she was cleared post-surgery, Fuzzy Pants went home with MacBeth, who is now acting as her foster until she recovers from her


operation. "She is very sweet and craves affection," Walkup said. "[She] snuggles under your hand and closes her eyes. She knows she is safe." Not only did Fuzzy Pants come home to the most adorably decorated room and enclosure ...

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

... but she's been showered with presents, from stuffed animals to food, from supporters all over the country who have been touched by her story.

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue

The rescue hopes to get Fuzzy Pants adopted out to a new forever family once she's 100 percent healed. But in the meanwhile, she's living quite the pampered life - and it's exactly what this little warrior deserves after everything she's been through.

Southwest Florida Houseof Music with Paramore. These performances have all been booked for a series of smaller venues across the U.S., including stops at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Ga. (April 27), Boston’s Wang Theatre (May 5), New York’s Beacon Theatre (May 6), Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Theatre (May 11), Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas (May 19), and San Diego’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre (May 22). Indie rock group Copeland will open almost all the upcoming Paramore concerts, the last of which will take place on May 25 in Portland, Ore.

The 2013 release “Paramore” marked a big milestone for the rock band. It was not only the group’s first album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, but also it was the first studio effort to drop after


Train Pavilion in Concord, Calif., has the honors of hosting the final show on Aug. 17. Note that Paramore will not be present at Monumentour stops on July 13, 27, and Aug. 15.

In the meantime, fans still have an opportunity to join Hayley Williams and Co. in a unique interactive experience when the inaugural PARAHOY! Cruise sets sail from March 7-11. The trip will depart from Miami and features special guests Tegan and Sara, a Q&A with Paramore, activities, contests, and more.

Paramore Books Additional 2013 Tour Dates

It has been a big year for the alternative rockers behind Paramore. Fronted by leading lady Hayley Williams, the group released a self-titled album in April 2013, which was the first since founding members Josh and Zac Farro departed from the band.Story highlights Sophisticated spyware is infiltrating Iranian computers, experts say

"Flame" has been found in other countries in the Middle East and Africa

The malware appears designed to spy on users

Iranian government claims it's found a fix for the virus

A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyber-espionage operation.

The malware, discovered by Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, is an espionage toolkit that has been infecting targeted systems in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, the West Bank and other places in the Middle East and North Africa for at least two years.

Dubbed "Flame" by Kaspersky, the malicious code dwarfs Stuxnet -- the groundbreaking infrastructure-sabotaging malware that is believed to have wreaked havoc


and DuQu are believed to have been created.

Gostev says that because of its size and complexity, complete analysis of the code may take years.

"It took us half-a-year to analyze Stuxnet," he said. "This is 20 times more complicated. It will take us 10 years to fully understand everything."

Kaspersky discovered the malware about two weeks ago after the United Nations International Telecommunications Union asked the lab to look into reports in April that computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry and the Iranian National Oil Co. had been hit with malware that was stealing and deleting information from the systems. The malware was named alternatively in news articles as "Wiper" and "Viper," a discrepancy that may be due to a translation mixup.

Kaspersky researchers searched through their reporting archive, whichwith a 6-megabyte component, which contains about a half-dozen other compressed modules inside. The main component extracts, decompresses and decrypts these modules and writes them to various locations on disk. The number of modules in an infection depends on what the attackers want to do on a particular machine.

Once the modules are unpacked and loaded, the malware connects to one of about 80 command-and-control domains to deliver information about the infected machine to the attackers and await further instruction from them. The malware contains a hardcoded list of about five domains, but also has an updatable list, to which the attackers can add new domains if these others have been taken down or abandoned.

While the malware awaits further instruction, the various modules in it might take screenshots and


sniff the network. The screenshot module grabs desktop images every 15 seconds when a high-value communication application is being used, such as instant messaging or Outlook, and once every 60 seconds when other applications are being used.

Although the Flame toolkit does not appear to have been written by the same programmers who wrote Stuxnet and DuQu, it does share a few interesting things with Stuxnet.

Stuxnet is believed to have been written through a partnership between Israel and the United States, and was first launched in June 2009. It is widely believed to have been designed to sabotage centrifuges used in Iran's uranium enrichment program. DuQu was an espionage tool discovered on machines in Iran, Sudan, and elsewhere in 2011 that was designed to steal documents and other databy the attackers, perhaps in an attempt to thwart researchers from determining when they were created.

"Whoever created it was careful to mess up the compilation dates in every single module," Gostev said. "The modules appear to have been compiled in 1994 and 1995, but they're using code that was only released in 2010."

The malware has no kill date, though the operators have the ability to send a kill module to it if needed. The kill module, named browse32, searches for every trace of the malware on the system, including stored files full of screenshots and data stolen by the malware, and eliminates them, picking up any breadcrumbs that might be left behind.

"When the kill module is activated, there's nothing left whatsoever," Gostev said.


Mykonos and in New York, SK could not fend off the challenge of Liquid in the semi-finals. On both occasions, the chosen maps were exactly the same: Cobblestone, Inferno and Overpass.

But before thinking about facing the North Americans, SK will have to beat Heroic in the group opener. In a best-of-one match, mistakes will be deadly, but the two-time Major winners will still be heavily favoured going into the game.

SK will have to bring their A-game to Atlanta

If they move past the Danes, FalleN and co. will take on the winner of the match between Astralis and Liquid. Looking at SK's recent history, both the Danes and the North Americans should be tough to overcome, even though FalleN's men seem to have an edge in best-of-one matches againstLukas "gla1ve" Rossander's team, having won three of the last four single-map encounters between the two sides. In terms of the Liquid match-up, SK will need felps and TACO to step up their individual performances if they expect to beat the in-form North Americans.

The fact that the opening and the winners' matches are best-of-ones could help SK secure the first place in the group. However, if they meet Astralis or Liquid in best-of-three series, and considering their recent history against these two sides, the Brazilians will have a very hard time to make it out of the group.

Offline placings in the last three months 5th-6th ESL One New York 2017 ESL One New York 2017 5th-8th DreamHack Masters Malmö DreamHack Masters Malmö 3rd-4th PGL Major Krakow

PGL Major Krakow

Astralis


will be eager to make the ELEAGUE Premier playoffs following two unsuccessful campaigns at DreamHack Masters Malmö and at ESL One New York, the latter being the first event where they were sent packing in the groups since bringing gla1ve to the fold.

With their first match in Atlanta pitting them against Liquid, to whom they lost in New York in a thrilling three-map group decider, Astralis will have to approach their opening match with maximum caution and hope for Kjaerbye to rise to the occasion after he cut a frustrating figure in the "Big Apple".

gla1ve will be looking for a way to bring out the best of Kjaerbye

If gla1ve's squad lose the opener, they will take solace from the fact that they are very likely to meet Heroicin the elimination match - in which case they should have the upper hand. In case of a decider match against SK, Astralis will be hoping for a repeat performance of the PGL Major Krakow quarter-final match against the Brazilians - a test they passed with flying colors.

All things considered, it matters little who Astralis' opponents will be. The Danes have not lifted a trophy in a while now, and another failure at this point is simply not an option for them.

Offline placings in the past three months 2nd ESL One New York 2017 ESL One New York 2017 2nd ESG Tour Mykonos 2017

ESG Tour Mykonos 2017 5th-8th ESL One Cologne 2017

ESL One Cologne 2017 9th-11th PGL Major Krakow Main Qualifier PGL Major Krakow Main Qualifier

Lately, Liquid have


been one of the strongest North American teams, if not the strongest, especially if we take a look at some of the opponents that they have had to beat on LAN in recent times.

Although the North Americans might not be considered the favourites heading into the event, the truth is that they have what it takes to top the group. After all, they have a solid map pool to work with, and Twistzz and EliGE have both been able to step up individually, even when some of the other team members struggle to contribute.

At the moment, ELiGE and Twistzz are one of the best duos

Liquid will be boosted by their recent track record against SK, whom they beat in the semi-finals in Mykonos and New York. At theESL event, the North American squad lost to Astralis in the group opener, only to take revenge on the Danes in the group's decider. Now, in Atlanta, stanislaw's men will once again lock horns with gla1ve's side - a match that could clearly go either way.

If Liquid fail to win their opening match, they will be heavily favoured against Heroic, should Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer's men fall at the hands of SK. Twistzz and EliGE have been the driving force behind Liquid's red-hot streak, but another player could also play a key role in the team's campaign: nitr0, who will be keen to to deliver after putting in below-average ratings at his last three offline events.

Offline placings in the past three months 7th-8th ESG Tour Mykonos 2017

ESG Tour Mykonos


2017 2nd DreamHack Open Atlanta

DreamHack Open Atlanta 3rd-4th

DreamHack Open Valencia

DreamHack Open Valencia 12th-14th ESL One Cologne 2017

ESL One Cologne 2017

After finishing 3rd-4th back at IEM Katowice 2017, Heroic were regarded as one of the most promising squads to emerge in Europe. Since then, however, the Danish team has struggled for form at LAN events, especially against higher ranked teams.

Coming into Atlanta, Heroic are considered underdogs, not only because of their ranking placement (16th), but also because of their recent LAN results - with the deep finishes at the DreamHack Open stops in Atlanta in Valencia, two lower-tier events, doing little to aid their cause.

Heroic will have to be audacious if they want to surprise in Atlanta

In Mykonos, Heroic went out after just two matches, having been trounced byCompany relying on high-quality products has early achieved ISO2001 quality management system certification in 2008.

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History of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society.
The Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society is a group of over 100 pediatric heart surgeons representing 72 institutions that specialize in the treatment of patients with congenital heart defects. The Society began in 1972 and incorporated as a not-for-profit charitable organization in 2004. It has become the face and voice of congenital heart surgery in North America. In 1985, the Society established a data center for multicenter clinical research studies to encourage congenital heart professionals to participate in improving outcomes for our patients. The goals of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society are to stimulate the study of congenital cardiac physiology, pathology, and management options which are instantiated in data collection, multi-institutional studies, and scientific meetings. Honest and open discussion of problems with possiblecase out of US courts.

But the court's liberal judges indicated they may support the parents' ability to sue based on the death occurring in an area where both the US and Mexico share legal responsibilities.

Agent Mesa was on a bicycle patrol between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, when he shot and killed the Mexican boy.

Sergio was among a group at a cement culvert by an 18ft (5.4 metres) high border fence when Agent Mesa tried to apprehend them.

The officer caught one of the boys while two others on the Mexican side ran and hid behind a pillar.

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The teenager's family said he was just playing with friends.

But the Justice Department said the officer