Various sources reported Monday that the Federal Reserve will propose a new set of rules for the mortgage indstry under its HOEPA (Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act) authority at a meeting of the Fed's Board of Governors, set for Tuesday morning.
Chief among the expected changes are new rules limiting the application of prepayment penalties in subprime lending, along with a few other changes that at this point should probably be considered par for the regulatory course: escrowing for taxes and insurance, qualifying at the fully-indexed rate, and limitations on the use of low-doc mortgages among subprime borrowers.
At least one state isn't waiting for the Fed to step in and prohibit prepayment penalties, which have become the lightning rod for consumer criticism of subprime lending: Colorado Gov. Billand its prioritization varies among teachers. While teaching rules is considered "tedious" and "boring" (Marcus), knowledge of rules is considered necessary for top marks on final examinations. Learners are expected to choose a British or American accent and to achieve pronunciation acceptable to the native-speaking "ear" (Mina) and uncharacterized by the L1, unless they can show a special relationship to another English-speaking country. Unlike foreign languages, English is less likely to focus explicitly on listening or strategic interaction with imagined interlocutors.

The comparison of daily life, culture, and history primarily of the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and Norway is emphasized. There is little room for experiences outside English-speaking countries, though these experiences are acknowledged as pedagogically beneficial. Learner awareness of the UK and the US


married for the same reasons everyone else does."

The campaign is a bipartisan effort, Curtin says, complete with fairly bipartisan leadership -- Curtin was three-time deputy campaign manager for Mayor Annise Parker while the Texas chair for Freedom to Marry, Mark McKinnon helped run campaigns for both former President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain. (Fun fact: McKinnon also used to be a Nashville songwriter alongside Kris Kristofferson. Go figure.) McKinnon got involved because he was tired of this being such a political issue, according to Curtin. "[McKinnon] sees this as a generational issue that could ultimately weaken his party," Curtin says.

The organization changed its approach after California passed proposition 8, an amendment to the state constitution that defined marriage as being between one man and one woman,have favored Democrats with their 98 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Super-rich Americans can fund their own campaigns, as former professional wrestling executive Linda McMahon has done, pouring some 22 million dollars into her Senate bid in Connecticut.

Democratic House and Senate candidates have raised a total of 362 million dollars and 229 million dollars, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, against 365 million and 239 million by Republicans.

The number two House Republican, Representative Eric Cantor, has raised the most, with nearly 4.7 million dollars, and leads the pack in candidate-to-candidate donations, according to the center.

Democratic Representative Vic Snyder was at the other end of the scale, raising just 347 dollars — but he is not seeking reelection.

As of last week, Obama had leveraged his personal


2008: Saw action in 38 games with 32
starts ... Hit .258 with 11 runs and two home runs ... Had six
multi-hit games and two multi-RBI games ... Went 2-for-4 with three
runs and two RBI in her first collegiate game ... First collegiate
home run came in a win against Belmont Abbey ... PBC Presidential
Scholar.

High School: Graduated
from Mill Creek High in Hoschton, Ga. ... Went to nationals for the
Home America Falcons for a year and also a year with the Fernandez
Lightening.

Personal: Daughter of Jack
Davis and Mary Jones ... Born June 16, 1989 ... Majoring in
psychology and biology ... Hopes to become a pediatrician or a
child's psychiatrist and have her own practice ... Chose Georgia
College because of the amazing coach, players and beautiful campus
... Lists her favorite movie as Talladegha Nights.Crews

Crews lay new asphalt near the University of Wisconsin-Superior. This year, the city milled and overlaid more than three times as many streets as it did in 2011, along with replacing 129 blocks of sidewalks, and numerous improvements to city parks and trails. (Courtesy of the city of Superior)
Read the article: City steps up infrastructure projects


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WINTER: Matt Prior and Monty Panesar to tour New Zealand with England

24-Jan-2013

Sussex duo Matt Prior and Monty Panesar were today named in the England squad for the three-test series against New Zealand in March, whilst Luke Wright is included in the squad for the three T20 matches early next month.

Chris Woakes is the only player in the squad who was not part of England’s recent Test series against India and is yet to be capped at Test level.

The five players not taking part in the ODI series (Compton, Onions, Panesar, Pietersen, Prior) will arrive in New Zealand for a training camp led by England Team Director Andy Flower ahead of the four-day game against a New Zealand XI.

England last travelled to New Zealand for a Test seriesin 2008, winning the three match series 2-1.

Selectors have made one change to the T20 squad to face New Zealand with Chris Woakes replacing Tim Bresnan who will return to the UK after the current tour of India and consult specialists regarding his right elbow. Bresnan’s availability for the rest of the winter will be determined following medical advice.

Joe Root, Chris Woakes and James Harris have been called into the ODI squad for the three match series against New Zealand next month. Craig Kieswetter will no longer travel to New Zealand with the one day squad with selectors and Craig agreeing that he will instead benefit from a period with Somerset to prepare for the domestic season.

James Taylor will now replace Joe Root as England Lions captain for


On the record ... with Jordan Threloff

Published: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 5:30 a.m. CDT

DeKALB – From the day he was born, Jordan Threloff was slated to be a basketball player.

“My parents put a little mini-hoop in my crib,” the lifelong DeKalb native said. “I’ve always had a natural love for it. That’s more than just being good at it. But being good definitely helps and fuels my love for the game.”

Threloff, whose father played basketball in college and mother played in high school, is a junior center on the Northern Illinois University men’s basketball team this season. This is his first year back in his hometown after transferring from Illinois State, where he spent the last three years.

Growing up, Threloff played football and soccer before focusing his attentionon basketball, an effort which definitely paid off. As a four-year varsity starter, the 2010 DeKalb High School graduate recorded more than 1,500 career points and 1,000 career rebounds, leading the Barbs to back-to-back conference championships his junior and senior years. Among his many honors, he was twice named the Daily Chronicle’s Player of the Year, as well as honorable all-state, all-conference and all-area his junior and senior years.

After receiving many offers, he accepted a scholarship to attend Illinois State. After red-shirting his freshman year, Threloff played two seasons with the Red Birds before transferring to NIU this season so he could be near his mother, who was suffering health problems. She died two months after his move.

Threloff talked hoops last week with MidWeek reporter Doug Oleson.

MidWeek: Where


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Portuguesa de Filosofia welcomes in its pages a plurality of philosophical perspectives, its only requirement being that the work to be published be of superior quality, reveal scholarly integrity, and observe the recommended methodological guidelines for the formal and scientific presentation of texts.

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Terms Related to theYounger Generations” was a grant proposal funded by the USDA to the tune of $149,997.

An upcoming proposal, involving both Stevenson and Peterson, requests $120,000 for "Improving environmental decision making in coastal communities through giving children a voice".

The children don’t have a voice. The adults cynically manipulating them are the only ones who do.

The child soldier of the leftists running the Soviet Union was a boy named Pavlik Morozov who, Communist propaganda claimed, had been killed by his parents for informing on his father. In reality, the boy was murdered by other teens. But the leftist regime massacred most of the dead boy’s family, including his brother, and used his myth to encourage other teens to turn Thunberg.

Child soldiers have their youth, their sense of security and their future


refrain from indulging in politics.

"I would like to urge all the actors to return from the politics. 'Laut aao, politics tumhari manzil nahi hai' (Come back, politics is not your destination). It is only breaking you."

Khan, who it seemed was finding it difficult to speak due to his old age-related illness, sounded especially upset with actor Anupam Kher, who has been named for a Padma Bhushan.

"What has he done except singing praises for (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi," he asked.

"I am not contesting the government's decision of conferring him with the award but the only thing I want to know is the credentials that I lacked for it (the award)," Khan, who termed audiences' love for him the biggest honour, said.

The central government on January 25 announced the listof Padma awardees, and it led to an outcry on the social media over Kher's inclusion in it.

In a tweet that he posted in 2010, he had questioned the authenticity of the Padma awards.

Kher, whose wife Kirron Kher is a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Chandigarh, is of late seen posturing with the Narendra Modi government.

He also led a 'Tolerance March', criticising artistes across the spectrum who indulged in 'Award Wapsi' as a mark of protest against growing intolerance in the country. In fact, Malini Awasthi and Madhur Bhandarkar were also on the forefront of the march with Kher.

Just last year, various actors and directors in B-Town had proposed Khan's name for a Padma Shri award. And back then, he had acknowledged the efforts by his colleagues of


"demanding" the honour for him.

"If the government feels that I have done good work, it will honour me. It's people's love that they are demanding it for me," Khan had told IANS in an interview in September 2015.

On the big screen, the veteran actor was last seen in Fauzia Arshi-directed "Hogaya Dimaagh Ka Dahi".in within the heart of the quiet, tree-lined East Village neighborhood, the bar began as an all-purpose establishment, Miller said: Polish sausage for lunch, dinner parties in the banquet hall and 7 a.m. whiskey shots for factory workers coming off the graveyard shift.

Happy Village was an important meeting place for the neighborhood during an era when the East Village and Ukrainian Village were populated by Eastern European immigrant families, Miller said.

The serene and heavily landscaped back patio at Happy Village features a koi pond. Alisa Hauser / Block Club Chicago

Through the years, the neighborhood changed — and so did Happy Village. At one point, the Pilch family stopped serving restaurant-style food and instead introduced a walk-up hot dog stand. Eventually they stopped food service altogether.

For the past 15


in the federal corrections system between 2006 and 2007. Ashley died of self-asphyxiation in a segregation cell at a women’s prison in Kitchener, Oct. 19 2007.

Her repeated moves have been criticized as harmful to her mental health and an impediment to her developing “therapeutic bonds’’ with clinicians trying to assist her.

Smith ended up at Pinel the early hours of April 13, 2007, after being transferred from the Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) in Saskatoon. She was moved out of RPC after becoming unmanageable, and after an investigation was launched when Smith complained that a
correctional supervisor there seriously assaulted her
.

Before RPC, Ashley was at the Nova prison for women in Nova Scotia, where staff, primarily guards, grew weary of always having to attend to her behaviours.

In both instances Smith agreedto the moves.

By May 10, 2007 Ashley was being shipped out of Pinel to another institution. On nearly a daily basis Smith was strapped down or handcuffed at Pinel, due to her continued disruptive or self-harming behaviours, such as tying ligatures around her neck to choke herself, and hiding ligatures in her body cavities, the latter prompting the facility to conduct body cavity searches on her, the inquest heard.

Shortly after arriving at Pinel, Smith was placed in restraints after acting out in her seclusion room. She soon declared that she didn’t like Pinel, and a few days into her stay withdrew her consent to treatment. As a result, Pinel, a secure psychiatric hospital with a separate unit with about a dozen beds for female offenders with mental health


a ban on assault-style weapons. With so much potential popular support to pull from, the party could potentially win, even without presenting a plan that actually reduces gun violence.

After all this, the Liberals could still win a majority, and that is truly stunning.

Think about that for a moment.

The Liberal leader had a blackface hobby until he was 29, broke the law to benefit a private company in Quebec, and now with his brand tarnished, his re-election campaign could win by forcing legal gun owners to pay for Trudeau’s mistakes with their rights.

Welcome to Canada.ANDRE CATRINI

AWARD WINNING COMPOSER & LYRICIST

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BIO

Andre is a composer/lyricist, musical theatre repertoire/audition coach and musical director currently living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is a member of the BMI-Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, the Dramatists Guild, an alumnus of the ASCAP Johnny Mercer Songwriter’s Workshop (plus a proud ASCAP member) and a graduate of the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (CCM). In New York, Andre recently presented a concert of his material, All Because Of You, was part of the York Theatre’s NEO 7 (New, Emerging, Outstanding) Concert, composed original pieces for Broadway Charity Songs in 2013, 2014, and 2015, Muse Match 2 (54 Below) and can be heard regularly throughout many cabaret venues in the city.

Andre


is the proud recipient of the 2014 ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award, given “in recognition for his outstanding talent as a musical theatre composer and lyricist” as well as a 2015 New Voices Project Merit Award.

Andre is presently at work writing the Music & Lyrics for several new musicals. Among them is The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit with playwright Allan Knee (Little Women), which premiered in NYC in December 2015. He has also been represented as the composer for a new dance/theatre piece, The Wolf (book by Joe Calarco) at Theatre Raleigh in North Carolina for the past three seasons.

Previous writing credits include: The Wolf, Timmy the Wizard, Other Women, BLOCKED, Whisper, Love (for which a cast album is available) and concert presentations of All Because OfAGRA: The city police booked a

man under the new

after he pronounced instant divorce just an hour after solemnizing his wedding on Thursday night. The accused,

, was allegedly demanding a

in dowry just after his nikah with a girl from Hariparvat area of the Taj City, say police.

According to police, Nadeem (27) alias Pappan, who hails from

of Rajasthan, came along with a handful of baratis to tie the knot with

(26) of Hariparvat on Thursday night.

"Just an hour after the nikah, where Nadeem had said 'qubool hai' thrice in front of the maulvi and other relatives accepting my sister as his wife, he gave instant talaq just because we failed to provide a car to them," said Ruby’s brother Amir.

"His family members not only insulted us after the wedding, but when


by order of the President in 19525 and endowed with a twofold mission.  Its first major task is shielding the Nation's coded communications from interception by foreign governments.  Its second principal function, implicated by appellant's document request, entails acquisition of information from electromagnetic signals and distillation of that information for assimilation by the intelligence community and national policymakers.  As a part of the latter activity, NSA surreptitiously intercepts international communications by a variety of means.

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In December, 1974, appellant sought access, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, to all records maintained by the Agency on appellant and the philosophy it espouses, as well as records reflecting dissemination of information about appellant to domestic agencies or foreign governments.  Subsequently, appellant's request was enlarged to embraceall references touching on L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the doctrine of Scientology.  NSA's reply was that it had not established any file pertaining either to appellant or Hubbard, and that it had transmitted no information regarding either to the entities specified in the demand.  In March, 1975, appellant enumerated other Scientology organizations with respect to which pertinent records might exist.  NSA again denied possession of any of the data sought.

4
In the course of Freedom of Information Act proceedings against the Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), appellant learned that NSA had at least sixteen documents concerning Scientology, appellant and related organizations.  So advised, and armed with details solicited from CIA, NSA succeeded in locating fifteen of those items in warehouse


are the best because they are ranked 1 in rugby. The All blacks has beaten the best teams like the Wallabies and south Africa also they’ve won most of the games that they had played. The All blacks has never given up. I know the All Blacks have what it takes to win the rugby world cup. The All Blacks are the BEST!!!

The All blacks has the best players in the world right? Richie McCaw is Quite fierce when it come to getting the ball back to their team. Brodie retallick won the player of the year nominees. The All Blacks has the best players because none of them has given. The All Blacks are always alert. The All blacks are very determined. Know do you think theGallente Royal Destroys Local Divine in Freestyle Verse Exchange, Gets Married

Caille, Gallente Prime – Observing a several thousand-year-old tradition, reigning Ensî Beatrice Batteuse of the Ensînate of Central Garoun fulfilled her engagement to Doctor Jeras Alaila in the Palace of the Ensîks.

Ensî Beatrice was widowed in YC115 after her then-husband suffered complications due to an autoimmune disease during a diplomatic trip. Dr Alaila will assume the title of Ensîl Consort, a title indicating a princely husband or wife of a ruling Ensî. The Ensîks of ancient Garoun were subordinate monarchs and princes, usually ruling city-states or provinces of the Garoun Empire. Some of these Ensînates have survived as administrative or ceremonial territorial divisions on Gallente Prime.

In attendance at the wedding were all members of the Ensînate's High Parliament,


the Governor of the Morthane Province, Quafe CEO Poire Viladillet, and Ret Gloriaxx of the Scope's Galactic Hour with Ret Gloriaxx. From farther afield came a delegation each from the Intaki Assembly and Chandeille, plus Sukuuvestaa representative Rauriainen Uetiken.

Family friends and Caille celebrities Jocelin Riccard and Lei Xinyi filled the customary roles as Divine Galâs. They symbolically embodied Vinannai and Onbilulus, members of a regional divine pantheon. Anthropologists suggest the marriage ritual originated in Gallente Prime's Age of the Ancients.

Following custom, each Divine Galâ challenged each of the fiancés to a contest which would prove their commitment. Jocelin, acting as Vinannai, challenged Ensî Beatrice to a freestyle verse exchange with an accompanying background beat. While Jocelin held an advantage due to her professional work in lyric composition forWests Tigers have today announced the termination of Taane Milne from the club.

Milne has had a second contravention under the NRL’s Illicit Drugs Policy, the first contravention occurring at another club and this second infringement occurring at Wests Tigers.

After due process and full consideration, and in collaboration with the NRL’s Illicit Drug Policy guidelines, the club has made the decision to terminate Milne’s playing contract.

His behaviour contradicts the values, behaviours and culture being created at the club.

Wests Tigers have committed to providing Milne with support and counselling during this challenging time.


RiverDaniel Peterson moved to Hood River to work at Full Sail and then pFriem after experience with microbiology at New York’s Brooklyn Brewery. In 2015 he set out to open his own project with a brewery in Hood River and a taproom/restaurant in Portland, originally slated for the Yard development on the east side of the Burnside Bridge. Peterson said he’ll now look for a nearby ground-floor location that will be more accessible to foot traffic.

The Horn Public House & Brewery - Depoe BayChris Jennings, one of the Hillsboro Brew Brothers before leaving to join the team at Alameda, now takes on the role of head brewer at this upcoming coastal establishment. From the owners of Gracie’s Sea Hag comes this 10-barrel, two-floor brewpub that is already openof Portland. After waiting more than a year, he hopes to open the taproom in January while work continues on the brewery. Expect big and sessionable English, German and American styles of beer in a cozy neighborhood pub with an outdoorsman's touch.

Side A Brewing - La GrandeWhen Eastern Oregon University professor Scott McConnell realized that La Grande was the only city in Oregon with a population of more than 7,000 that didn’t have a brewery, he knew he had to do something. Along with two partners, one with brewery experience and the other food and beverage, they are slated to open Side A Brewing in the historic Eastern Oregon Fire Museum this spring.


of the black vote in his five campaigns for mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland.

Add Ben Carson to the suspense as well if he has the staying power to last until the Maryland primary on April 26, 2016. The GOP presidential candidate and co-front-runner at this time, though not a native Marylander, spent most of his illustrious medical career as a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He brings a certain meditative appeal to the ballot as well as a formidable but bloviated resume.

Against this backdrop of arithmetical possibilities and ebony-and-ivory matchups, the probable entries for the mayoral seat are a cross-section of existing Baltimore politics flecked with a few repeat performers and pretenders, one pushing the family name to the municipal payroll limits and athe great and near-great in Baltimore for campaign contributions and support for his daughter.

The other white candidate is David L. Warnock, a businessman and former chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee who brings a bulging portfolio of business experience and a reputation for being uniformly regarded as a standout guy who performs many good works through his foundation. A venture capitalist, Warnock, 57, sits on several boards, is a philanthropist and founder of a charter school in West Baltimore. It can be said of Warnock that he puts his money where his mouth is and seeks no attention for it.

Most recognizable among the candidates is former Mayor Sheila Dixon, who was forced to relinquish the job when she was convicted of using gift cards intended for the poor


campaign that at times gave her the appearance of a winner and a giant killer. But in the end she was defeated by Schmoke. O’Malley, as every political hobbyist knows, won three terms as mayor, his first in a three-way race with two blacks—Stokes and Lawrence Bell. As with this mayoral election, the seat was vacant when O’Malley ran.

Baltimore’s black population is currently 69 percent in a city that is losing population and struggling to repair the physical and psychic damage that it suffered in the riots that followed the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. And while primary election voting in the city is traditionally low-to-moderate, the black matriarchy holds the key to the voter base as well as the determining factor in Baltimore elections.It’s been an incredible year for Montalto’s wine team. At the end of the wine show season, Montalto’s winemaking team has amassed an impressive 18 trophies and 30 gold medals. And in a fitting end to one of our most successful seasons ever, the performance of Single Vineyard Tuerong Block Pinot Noir 2017 and Single Vineyard Tuerong Block Chardonnay 2017 at the 2018 Victorian Wine Show provided possibly the biggest thrill of all.

With Montalto scooping six awards in total at the event, including ‘Best Wine of Show’, the two wines from ‘down the hill’ achieved extraordinary results supported by a stellar win for Montalto Pennon Hill Shiraz 2017:

– Best Chardonnay: 2017 Single Vineyard Tuerong Chardonnay

– Best Pinot Noir: 2017 Single Vineyard Tuerong Pinot Noir

– Best White Wine: 2017


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       This is the third appeal in an action that began as a suit by John Wesley Green against
his mother, Edna Green, to enforce a sales contract for her shares in Champs-Elysees, Inc.
(“CEI”). On October 27, 2005, John Wesley Green (hereinafter “Plaintiff”) and his mother
entered into a sales contract for 22,000 shares of stock for the purchase price of $8,000. The
day after entering into the contract, Edna Green attempted to rescind the agreement.
Thereafter, CEI refused to honor the sales contract.


      A. Discovery Submitted in 2006

      Plaintiff contends the trial court erred in denying discovery he submitted to Mark
Green, Edna Green, Art Fourier, and CEI on July 14, 2006.

       In an order entered on August 3, 2011, the trial court denied Plaintiff’s motion to
compel discovery, which had been submitted five years earlier, in 2006, and the court
directed the parties not to issue any additional discovery requests. The court also instructed
the parties not to file any motions on discovery issues without leave of the court.

        The discovery at issue was served upon the Defendants on July 14, 2006; Defendants
apparently did not respond to the discovery. Thereafter,A Michigan high school student claims her teacher assaulted her last week because she was wearing a pin supporting President Trump.

Sadie Earegood, a 16-year-old junior at Mason High in Mason, Michigan, told Fox News on Tuesday that her teacher "aggressively" grabbed her "Women For Trump" pin that was attached to her jacket, saying he "took both hands and unlatched the pin from my jacket and put it upside down on his shirt and said it belongs upside down."

She told Fox 47 the incident took place on Dec. 5 during school hours.

NEW SURVEY FINDS NEARLY HALF OF CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS HEARD ANTI-TRUMP RANTS FROM PROFESSORS

Her family has filed a police report, claiming that the teacher assaulted her, WILX 10 reported.

“He had no right to put his hands on my child


Israel and Hamas Agree to Extend Ceasefire

Israel and the Palestinian Arabs agreed late Wednesday to extend a ceasefire in Gaza for another 72 hours after failing to reach a long term agreement in Cairo-mediated talks, an Egyptian official said, according to AFP.

A previously agreed three-day ceasefire was set to expire on Wednesday at midnight, though Hamas violated it just after 9:00 p.m. when it fired at least one rocket towards the Hof Ashkelon area.U.S. Intentions with the Dawes-Plan Toward Germany (Paperback)

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Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, grade: 1,0, University of Oregon, language: English, abstract: U.S. President Calvin Coolidge used magniloquent words in a message to the Congress, dated only about four months after the implementation of the Dawes-Plan, when he said that the U.S. "desire to see Europe restored which then] may resume its productivity in the increase of industry and its support in the advance of civilization." The Dawes-Plan would be the hopeful prospect for achieving this aim. It would bring peace, the leading principle of all American foreign relations, to Europe. With the Dawes-Plan, the reconstruction of Germany was given priority. In fact, American capital and


initiative was putting Germany once more on the map of international financial relations and eased the reparation conflict, which dominated international relations since the Treaty of Versailles. The economic contacts and corporations between the United States and Germany intensified and the transatlantic transfer of bonds and technologies had a deep impact on German society. But why did the U.S. invest so much in their former wartime enemy? What was the aim of U.S. foreign politics in this time? By examining official documents of the American government, this paper wants to reveal the intentions of the American economic policies with the Dawes-Plan toward Germany.

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of conciliation, but when he spoke in public, his campaign staff seemed
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Dr.
Gianni DeVincenti Hayes is an internationally recognized author of 23
royalty-published books (creative-services.biz and amazon.com) and over
100 articles and short stories in highly circulated and commercial newspapers
and magazines, such as PARADE, US, PEOPLE, REDBOOK, WOMAN'S DAY, MOODY,
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to learn about her religious/patriotic stance. Hayes is also the former
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has a doctorate in writing/comparative literature /humanities, with a
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1 having the most yield (and lowest amount of trimmable fat) and 5 having the least yield (most external fat).
Yield grades are mostly used among meat packers and retailers to get a sense of how much meat they can extract from each carcass.  Consumers very rarely see these grades.

History of USDA Grading
Details can be found here.
The USDA beef grading system was gradually developed in the early 1900s.  The modern system was basically adopted in 1926 and implemented in 1927.  Originally, the intention was to standardize grading across the nation.  One effect was to allow local and regional meat producers to compete with national packers -- by having a term like Prime or Choice to sell at retail, they could compete against the "house brands"The African-American population in Alabama's Black Belt, in the heart of the Deep South, is one of the nation's poorest and carries a disproportionate burden of chronic diseases and health disparities. African American citizens in the Deep South have mortality rates up to twice that of their white counterparts. This stems from higher incidence, prevalence, and mortality from eminently treatable conditions such as diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer. African Americans comprise more than 60% of the population of the Black Belt, a region with 35% of its population living below the U.S. poverty level. As a leading research institution in the Deep South, we feel morally obligated and academically qualified to address this region's significant health disparities. Objectives. We propose the formation of the Regional Deep South Project


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Rajat Tokas is an indian television actor. He achieved recognition by playing the lead role in an Indian television series , "dharti ka veer yodha prithvi raaj chauhan". He played the role of Veer in a "dharam veer"on the newly launched channel, NDTV imagine. He can currently be seen in the new series being aired on STAR Plus, "Tere Liye" as 'Robindo'.

Rajat was born in munirka South Delhi to Ramvir and Pramila Tokas. He was born on 19th July 1991.He studied in the Hope Hall Public School , R.K. Puram, Delhi. Due to his hectic schedule as an actor, he began studying through correspondence. His Father encouraged him to pursue acting as his career. Now he has passed his 12th commerce exams and preparing togo to college.

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Prithviraj is born to his parents after 10 years of long prayer. Although he grows to be a very naughty boy, he is the sharpest of all the princes. He often surprises everyone by his profound thoughts on subjects beyond his young age. He loves his parents very much and also respects Jaichand, Nayantra and Anangpal. Everybody in turn, loves him. As a child, he is indeed the Balkrishna, and as he grows up, he reflects the different faces of Lord Krishna-Murlidhar, Chhaliya, Chakradhar. He and his friend Chander share an equation almost like that of Krishna & Sudama. In his youth, he defeats many enemies but always allows room for kshama or forgiveness. This shows that he never fights in anger or for personal gain,


attention to the presidential election, and the important issues facing us, as a nation, in these troubled times, it turned out that the main issue, to judge by quantity of press coverage, was: groping.

So finally, repelled by the drainage ditch that our political system has become, we turned for escape to an institution that represents all that is pure and wholesome and decent in America today: college football.

That was when we started to have fond memories of the oil spill.

I’m not saying that the entire year was ruined by sleaze. It was also ruined by other bad things. This was a year in which journalism was pretty much completely replaced by tweeting. It was a year in which a significant earthquake struck Washington, yet failed to destroy asingle federal agency. It was a year in which the nation was subjected to a seemingly endless barrage of highly publicized pronouncements from Charlie Sheen, a man who, where you have a central nervous system, has a Magic 8-Ball. This was a year in which the cast members of “Jersey Shore” went to Italy and then — in an inexcusable lapse of border security — were allowed to return.

But all of these developments, unfortunate as they were, would not by themselves have made 2011 truly awful. What made it truly awful was the economy, which, for what felt like the 17th straight year, continued to stagger around like a zombie on crack. Nothing seemed to help. President Obama, whose instinctive reaction to pretty much everything that happens, including


of a year, starting with ...

JANUARY

... which sees a change of power in the House of Representatives, as outgoing Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi hands the gavel over to Republican John Boehner, who, in the new spirit of Washington bipartisanship, has it checked for explosives.

In the State of the Union address, President Obama calls on Congress to improve the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. He is interrupted 79 times by applause, and four times by falling chunks of the Capitol ceiling. In other Washington action, Chinese President Hu Jintao is honored at a White House dinner for 225 luminaries, who dine on prime rib accompanied by 17,000 little plastic packets of soy sauce. As the official state gift from the United States, President Obama presents Hu with a six-pack of BudLight, this being the only American product the White House staff can find that is not manufactured in China.

The month’s biggest story is a tragedy in Tucson, where a man opens fire on a meet-and-greet being held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The accused shooter turns out to be a mentally unstable loner with a history of drug use; there is no evidence that his actions had anything to do with uncivil political rhetoric. So naturally the blame for the tragedy is immediately placed on: uncivil political rhetoric. This results in a nationwide spasm of civil political rhetoric lasting about two hours, after which everybody returns to uncivil political rhetoric, which has been the norm in the United States for two centuries.

In Egypt, demonstrators take to the streets


rating for Spain following the discovery that the Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

In domestic news, the renegade Wisconsin Democratic state legislators are finally captured in a late-night raid by the elite Wisconsin State Parliamentarian SWAT team, which knocks down the legislators’ hotel room door using a 200-pound, steel-reinforced edition of Robert’s Rules of Order. The SWAT team then subdues the legislators using what one source describes as “a series of extremely aggressive cloture votes.”

On the national political front, Newt Gingrich, responding to a groundswell of encouragement from the voices in his head, reveals that he is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination. He quickly gains the support of thefact a natural-born U.S. citizen. Under growing pressure to respond, the White House finally releases a certified copy of a long-form birth certificate that appears to prove conclusively that Donald Trump is Belgian. Also, biologically female.

Meanwhile the troubled musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” suffers yet another setback when the actor playing Peter Parker, the young man who develops superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider, is bitten by an actual radioactive spider. Unfortunately, instead of superpowers, he develops a world-class case of diarrhea, which makes for what the show’s producers describe as “some audience unpleasantness during the flying scenes.”

But the month ends on a joyous note as millions of TV viewers around the world watch Prince William and Catherine Middleton, two young people widely hailed for


his candidacy, but winds up withdrawing from the race about midway through his announcement speech when he realizes that his staff has fallen asleep.

Meanwhile, followers of Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping prepare for the Rapture, which Camping has prophesized will occur at 6 p.m. May 21. But the fateful hour comes and goes without incident, except in New York City, where, in yet another setback for the troubled production of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the entire cast is sucked through the theater ceiling, never to be seen again.

As the month draws to a close, a Twitter account belonging to Anthony Weiner — a feisty, ambitious Democratic up-and-comer who managed to get elected to Congress despite looking like a nocturnal rodent that somehow got a full-body wax andto be attacked outside the courtroom and have large clumps of her hair yanked out by outraged prominent TV legal harpy Nancy Grace.

Speaking of drama: In Washington, as the deadline for raising the federal debt limit nears, Congress and the Obama administration work themselves into a frenzy trying to figure out what to do about the fact that the government is spending insanely more money than it actually has. After hours of intense negotiations, several walkouts, countless press releases and of course a nationally televised address by the president, the Democrats and the Republicans are finally able to announce, at the last possible minute, that they have hammered out a historic agreement under which the government will continue to spend insanely more money than it actually has while


front-runners, Bachmann’s candidacy immediately sinks like an anvil in a duck pond.

Abroad, a wave of riots sweeps across England as thousands of protesters take to the streets of London and other major cities to strike a blow against racism and social injustice by stealing consumer electronics and designer sneakers.

As the end of the month nears, a rare 5.8-magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter in Virginia, rattles the East Coast, shaking buildings from South Carolina to Maine but causing little damage, except in New York, where a theatrical set depicting a building topples over onto the cast of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” The producers, determined to escape the bad luck that has haunted the current theater, move the entire production to New Jersey, which unfortunately turns out to beGaddafi steps down and receives an enthusiastic sendoff from his countrymen, who then carry him, amid much festivity, to his retirement freezer.

On the domestic protest front, Occupy Wall Street spreads to many more cities, its initially vague goals now replaced by a clear sense of purpose as occupiers focus on the single issue that is most important to the 99 percent: bathrooms. Some cities seek to shut down the protests, but the occupiers vow to remain until there is a reawakening of the national consciousness. Or, winter.

Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the FBI has uncovered a plot by Iran to commit acts of terror in the United States, including assassinating the Saudi ambassador, bombing the Israeli Embassy, and — most chillingly — providing funding for traveling productions


After the plane makes an emergency landing, the man is removed by federal agents, who confirm that he was carrying not only cranberry sauce, but “enough stuffing to choke a buffalo.”

Abroad, the member nations of the European Union, in a last-ditch effort to avoid an economic meltdown, announce that they are replacing the euro with a new unit of currency, the “pean,” the exchange rate for which will be linked to the phases of the moon. The goal, according to the EU announcement, is “to cause American tourists to become even more confused than they already are.” The plan starts paying dividends immediately as a pair of elderly ladies from Indianapolis purchase two croissants at a Paris cafe for six peans and wind up leaving the equivalent ofmore conservative congressional district in upstate New York.

Gillibrand called the Trump administration's proposed southern border wall "so absurd and hurtful," agreeing with a Native American activist last month who said a wall would cut off "indigenous" people from their land.

Like her fellow 2020 competitors, Gillibrand has raced to the left in a bid to win the nomination, embracing "Medicare for all," a Green New Deal, and strict gun control measures. She has frequently apologized for former conservative views on issues like guns and immigration, calling herself "embarrassed" by them.

However, she's struggled to make headway in polls. Her candidacy has been an afterthought in the large field, despite hailing from the country's second-largest state and positioning herself as the lawmaker who's voted most often against President Donald Trump's nominees.


He entertained congressmen, generals and CIA bigwigs at his 2,338-acre estate in Northern Virginia.

He showered minks on his mistress, whom he called "Wonder Woman." He owned three private planes and bragged that he knew flight attendants on the Concorde by name.

Huge business domain

His preferred habitat was a hall of mirrors. His business empire existed as a cover for espionage, but it also made him a lot of money. He had the advantage of being able to call the IRS and use national security jargon to get the details on a potential customer. And if the IRS questioned his own tax filings, he terminated the discussion by saying he was a CIA agent on a covert mission.

"Being in the CIA was like putting on a magic coat that forevermade him invisible and invincible," Peter Maas wrote in "Manhunt," his 1986 book about Mr. Wilson.

For Mr. Wilson, who died on Sept. 10 in Seattle at 84, the adventure collapsed with his arrest in 1982 on charges of selling Libya 20 tons of powerful explosives.

Over the next two years, he was tried in four federal cases in four different courts, accused, among other things, of smuggling arms and plotting to murder his wife. He was sentenced to a total of 52 years in prison. He served 22 of them, mostly in solitary confinement. Then the dagger of fate took a strange twist.

After studying thousands of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Mr. Wilson and his lawyer went back to court and demolished the government's case.

Mr. Wilson's


sole defense was that he had been working for the CIA, serving his country, when he sold the explosives to Libya. The prosecution's case had rested on an affidavit by the CIA's third-ranking official denying that Mr. Wilson had been working for the agency at the time. An hour after being read the affidavit, a jury found Mr. Wilson guilty.

Two decades later, the evidence Mr. Wilson had collected convinced a federal judge in Houston, Lynn Hughes, that he had in fact been working for the agency and that the CIA had lied.

"Because the government knowingly used false evidence against him and suppressed favorable evidence, his conviction will be vacated," Hughes wrote. He added, "America will not defeat Libyan terrorism by double-crossing a part-time informal government agent."

In 2004, ayear after the judge's ruling, Mr. Wilson was released from Allenwood federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Since then he had lived in Seattle on a monthly Social Security check of $1,080. He died of complications from heart-valve replacement surgery, his nephew Scott Wilson said.

Up until his death, Mr. Wilson was still hoping to persuade two other federal courts to void his convictions on the other charges.

Edwin Paul Wilson was born into a poor farm family in Nampa, Idaho, on May 3, 1928. A member of Future Farmers of America, he had a newspaper route and sometimes supplemented his income by rolling a drunk, Maas wrote in "Manhunt." He shipped out as a seaman before returning to earn a bachelor's degree in industrial management from the University of Portland. He


joined the Marines and served in Korea after the conflict there ended.

Flying home, he fell into a conversation with a passenger, who told him that he might like working for the CIA. The passenger did not identify himself, but Mr. Wilson wrote down a name and a phone number to call. The agency hired him in 1955. His first job was guarding U-2 spy planes.

Covert activities

In 1960, the CIA sent him to Cornell for graduate studies in labor relations, which he put to use against communism in unions around the world. In one assignment, he paid Corsican mobsters to keep leftist dockworkers in line. In another, he released cockroaches in the hotel rooms of Soviet labor delegations.

In 1964, on behalf of the agency, Mr. Wilson started a maritimeconsulting firm so that the CIA could better monitor international shipping. By nudging up costs and skimping on taxes, he multiplied his own income.

Mr. Wilson left the CIA in 1971, at least publicly, to join the Office of Naval Intelligence. Again he formed companies in service of the government and took them with him when he left the government in 1976. He grew rich and lived lavishly.

Several years later, a top CIA official asked Mr. Wilson to go to Libya to keep an eye on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, who was living there. That led to several weapons deals. In one, a Libyan asked him to throw in a few pistols to send to Libyan embassies. One was used to


kill a Libyan dissident in Bonn. "That I feel bad about," Mr. Wilson told the Washington Post in a 2004 interview.

He also arranged for former Green Berets to train Libyan troops, and for airplane and helicopter pilots to work for Libya. There was speculation in news publications that he had contributed to the deaths of a dozen Libyan dissidents around the world. He later maintained that all of his activities had been done to gather information for the CIA.

Unknown to Mr. Wilson, investigators had been building a case against him since 1976, when Kevin Mulcahy, one of his partners, approached the CIA and the FBI with grave doubts about the legality and ethics of Mr. Wilson's business dealings.

Lured by investigators to the Dominican Republic in 1982, Mr. Wilsonwas flown to New York and eventually indicted on various charges in federal courts in Washington, Virginia, New York and Houston. He was tried four times over the next two years.

In Washington, he was acquitted of charges that he had solicited assassins to kill a Libyan dissident. In Virginia, he was convicted of exporting weapons, including the one used in the Bonn killing, and sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $200,000.

The New York case concerned a deal Mr. Wilson had tried to make with a fellow inmate, who was actually a federal informer, to murder two prosecutors, six witnesses and his own wife, the former Barbara Hagen, at $50,000 a head. Prosecutors said he had wanted to avoid paying a settlement in a divorce suit. They


also said he had requested that the killer return her wedding ring to him, preferably attached to her finger.

Convicted in the murder plot, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined $75,000. In Houston, Hughes appointed David Adler to handle Mr. Wilson's petition. Adler had previously worked for the CIA. He said in an interview Friday that the most convincing documents supporting Mr. Wilson's contentions were records of communications among government lawyers clearly deciding to withhold evidence.

Asked why he thought they did it, Adler said, "There was such tremendous pressure to get a conviction."

Civil suit dismissed

One of his last attempts at retribution was a civil suit he filed against seven federal prosecutors and a former CIA official. In 2007, a federal judge dismissed the case onthe ground that all eight had immunity covering their actions.

David Corn, author of "Blond Ghost" (1994), a biography of Theodore Shackley, the CIA boss who had first sent Mr. Wilson to Libya, spoke of the essential paradox in Mr. Wilson's story.

"They framed a guilty man," he told the Washington Post. "I think he's a terrible fellow who got what he deserved, but they did frame him."

Mr. Wilson is survived by his sons, Erik and Karl, and a sister, Leora Pinkston.


Dr. Roberta Bondar “Patterns from Afar – Seeing Through Time and Space”

Thursday November 09, 2017

The world's first neurologist in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar is globally recognized for her pioneering contribution to space medicine research. Aboard the Discovery mission STS-42 in 1992 she conducted experiments in the shuttle's first international microgravity laboratory. A true renaissance woman, Dr. Bondar is also an acclaimed photographer of the environment. She is the author of four best-selling photo essay books featuring her stunning photography of the Earth.

Dr. Bondar will discuss how technology allows us a different insight into how our planet and its life are evolving over time, for we can appreciate things from a new perspective when we are at a distance from them in the time and space.

Her photographic works maybe found in private, corporate and institutional collections in Canada, the U.S. and England. Having seen Earth from the unique perspective of space, her Earth centered pictorial images celebrate the beauty of our natural environment at an intimate level.

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A few hours after the first Tweet, Tim took to Twitter again to reveal that he had now been blocked by Councillor Hawtree – despite not engaging in any further discussion – and so was no longer able to contact him through the site.

But the dispute was picked up by readers and a fellow Argus writer, business reporter John Keenan, with some accusing the councillor of being “anti-free speech”.

Coun Hawtree continued to defend his stance, however, claiming Argus readers frequently made “disgusting” comments below stories, citing one reader who he claimed had suggested that all jobless people should be murdered.

He also said he found the New York Times a better read, directing people to a story about the Mayor seeking a ban on styrofoam.

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This report from The Intercept got rather lost in the shuffle over the past two weeks, but it's no less chilling than it was the first time I read it. It seems that, almost covertly, the FBI has been tracking the infiltration into law enforcement of white-supremacist extremists.

"Federal law enforcement agencies in general — the FBI, the Marshals, the ATF — are aware that extremists have infiltrated state and local law enforcement agencies and that there are people in law enforcement agencies that may be sympathetic to these groups," said Daryl Johnson, who was the lead researcher on the DHS report. Johnson, who now runs DT Analytics, a consulting firm that analyzes domestic


extremism, says the problem has since gotten "a lot more troublesome."

As The Intercept story makes clear, critical to the rise of these groups within law enforcement was the severe backlash by mainstream conservatives to a 2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security that revealed that white-supremacist groups and right-wing domestic terrorist organizations had been recruiting heavily among a number of groups in the country, especially among returning military veterans. Mainstream conservatives went completely bananas and, to her discredit, then-DHS Secretary Donna Shalala killed the report, apologized to various veterans groups, and disbanded the unit within her department that had done the research.

"They stopped doing intel on that, and that was that," Heidi Beirich, who leads the Southern Poverty Law Center's tracking of extremist groups, told The Intercept.From The Bangor Daily News:

She met her mother, Elizabeth, at home, and together they drove immediately to Pen Bay Medical Center. The dead raccoon was retrieved by Borch's dad, who packed it into a Taste of the Wild dog food bag and handed it over to the Maine Warden Service. Hope Animal Control Officer Heidi Blood confirmed Wednesday that the dead raccoon later tested positive for rabies by the Maine Center for Disease Control. "Not to scare people," Blood said, but "when there's one [infected], there's typically another."

The reporter, Alex Acquisto, gets many props for including the precise brand of dog food of the bag used to transport the dead raccoon.

Is it a good day for dinosaur news, IBTUK? It's always a good day for dinosaur news!

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– a new species of pliosaur – has been named Luskhan itilensis, which translates as spirit and master of the Volga River. The large marine creature was a fully grown adult, at roughly 5 metres long from tip to tail. It was found 20 kilometres to the north of the city of Ulyanovsk, in south-western Russia… The reptile was unlike any other advanced pliosaur of its time. The plesiosaurs - a group of marine reptiles including the pliosaurs - were thought to feed primarily on large marine animals and fish. The group included some of the most deadly predators on the planet.

I wouldn't mind going down through history known as The Spirit And Master Of The Volga River. There is some risk, however, that Paul Manafort may haveU.S. goal officially timed at 30 seconds: FIFA

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Clint Dempsey's opening goal for the United States in their 2-1 win over Ghana has been officially timed at 30 seconds, FIFA said on Tuesday.

The goal in the Group G match in Natal on Monday was initially given as 32 seconds and later 29 seconds.

"Thirty seconds - that is what we have been given by our stats team," FIFA spokesperson Delia Fischer told reporters.

The fastest World Cup goal was scored by Hakan Sukur of Turkey after 11 seconds against South Korea in the third-place playoff in 2002.

The three other goals quicker than Dempsey's were scored by Vaclav Masek (16 seconds) for Czechoslovakia against Mexico in 1962, Ernst Lehner for Germany against Austria after 25 seconds in


Ted DeDee, CFE, an IAVM member and president and CEO of the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, was recently named “Medium Company Executive of the Year” by In Business magazine. Here’s a part of why he was honored with the award: Check out the articl

There was a lot of news this past week you may have missed. Here are some headlines that caught our eyes. Baseball Stadiums to Host European Giants in Friendlies —EuroSport.com “Baseball will give way to football at Yankee Stadium on July 30 as Premier League contenders Manchest

There was a lot of news this past week you may have missed. Here are some headlines that caught our eyes. Mark Cuban Wants You to Put Away Your Phone at NBA Games —Bloomberg Businessweek2015, the AIDS virus is running rampant in the ranks of the terror group, at least in the ISIS occupied Syrian city of al-Mayadeen, located in the nation’s eastern desert roughly 35 miles from the Iraqi border.

As reported, an estimated 16 Islamic State members have contracted AIDS from two infected Moroccan women, who have since fled to Turkey for fear of the very real possibility of being executed. In what could be described as killing two birds with one stone, the ISIS honchos brainstormed a solution to simultaneously check the spread…


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Some children at a Gatineau elementary school are about to get a taste of what recess used to be like before administrators cracked down on practically any form of rough, physical fun.

The Commission scolaire des Draveurs plans to set up a "roughhousing" zone at L'école du Cheval-Blanc following March break.

The initiative, already in place in other Quebec schools, will allow children to engage in physical outdoor play.

Valerie Dionne, mother of two students at L'ecole du Cheval-Blanc and chair of the school council, told Ottawa Morning host Robyn Bresnahan she applauds the move.

Valerie Dionne is a parent at L'ecole Chevalier-Blance, she chairs the governing board there and the parent council for the Commission scolaires des Draveurs. She supports the roughhousing pilot project the school will put in place forUPDATED: Dec. 14, 2018, 5:43 AM – A court has dismissed the criminal case against Andre McGee. The family of the cheerleader is still pursuing a civil lawsuit against the coach and the college. His lawyers say the case will go to trial next year.

NAVARRO (CBS 11 NEWS) – A North Texas college, known for its incredible cheer program, is being sued by a former cheerleader. The now 20-year-old says he was drugged and sexually assaulted by an assistant coach. “Living in fear is… probably the hardest part,” he said. “Just the images, the memories, you can never shake them.”

He enrolled at Navarro College in 2015 hoping to win a national cheerleading championship. He and his family met Andre McGee the very first day. “Everybody said, ‘Oh you’re


hold up the newspaper. This is the Syracuse newspaper. You see "One out, two left in battle for 23rd."

It's the 23rd district and the Republican Party's endorsed candidate, Dede Scozzafava yesterday withdrew from the race. You endorsed her. She was the party's nominee. But she withdrew from the race after Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Alaska, the current governor of Minnesota, two people who might want to run for president some day, and other conservatives jumped in and said she's not good enough, she's not pure enough to be a Republican.

Can you be the speaker of the House, can your party survive in this part of the country if things like this happen?

BOEHNER: Well this is a pretty unusual situation. You had seven county chairmenwho chose Dede to be our nominee. And clearly, she would be on the left side of our party, a conservative decided to leave the Republican Party and sign up on the conservative party ticket, which is allowed in New York.

And what's happened over the last several weeks is her numbers have continued to slide. Hoffman, Doug Hoffman, the conservative party candidate, his numbers continue to grow. And so Dede yesterday decided to withdraw from the race. This is a pretty unusual circumstance.

BOEHNER: That we see in New York.

KING: But does it not send a signal? Your friend and former House speaker, Republican Newt Gingrich, said, if this happened, it would be a purge of the Republican Party.

This is what Chris Van Hollen -- obviously, he's a Democrat


and your colleague in the House. He's chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He says, "The far-right tea-bag party is leading the Republican Party around by the nose."

BOEHNER: Now, listen, we accept moderates in our party and we want moderates in our party. We cover a wide range of Americans. I've -- I was at the tea party in Bakersfield, California on April 15th. I answered questions in front of 18,000 tea-party people, Labor Day weekend in West Chester, Ohio. I've worked with these people. And what they're concerned about is the growing size of government. They want someone who's really going to actively reduce spending and reduce control here in Washington. They're scared to death.

And in this particular case, they think that Mr. Hoffman was adivided into two equal-sized compartments. In the middle of the apparatus, a removable wall was designed. Both compartments were colored white but differently striped black (vertical vs. horizontal). To provide the tactile difference between the compartments, one of the compartments had a smooth floor, while the other one had a nylon white mesh floor.

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Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered at a Tel Aviv square calling for Benjamin Netanyahu to be replaced as the prime minister in national elections scheduled to be held on March 17.

Police gave no official figures, but Israeli media said that about 30,000 people attended the rally on Saturday, which was held under the banner "Israel wants a change."

The rally's keynote speaker was Meir Dagan, a former Mossad chief, who recently criticised Netanyahu's conduct and called him "the person who has caused the greatest strategic damage to Israel".

"Bibi, you've failed, go home," the demonstrators chanted, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.

Opinion polls show Netanyahu's right-wing Likud running neck-and-neck with rival Isaac Herzog, head of the centre-left Zionist Union, linked to the Labour party.

Netanyahu, seeking a fourth termin office, is seen as having a slight advantage of more parliamentary allies with whom to form a coalition government.

Latest polls have both Zionist Union and Likud winning 23 of the Knesset's seats.

Israel's interests

Netanyahu has focused his campaign on security issues and the Iranian nuclear programme, and the demonstration organisers appeared to be challenging him on his home turf by featuring Dagan as the headline speaker.

"For six years, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu has been serving as prime minister. Now it has been six years in which Israel has never been more stuck," Dagan said, accusing Netanyahu of failing in dealing with Iran and forfeiting Israel's interests for the sake of his own political survival by not pushing for a peace deal with the Palestinians.

"In six years he has not


lead one real move to change the region and to create a better future."

US-led international talks are under way to persuade Iran to restrain its nuclear programme in exchange for relief from sanctions that have crippled its economy.

Netanyahu drew strong criticism from the administration of Barack Obama and in Israel for a speech he gave at the US Congress on Tuesday where he criticised the emerging deal.

His opponents said he had damaged Israel's strategic alliance with the US.reaching speeds of up to 320 km/h, and new standards of excellence.

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'Copper' shines a light on 1860s New York

Donal Logue, as Gen. Brendan Donovan, joins the cast of BBC America's "Copper" in season two.

BBC America's visceral New York drama "Copper" may be set in 1865, but showrunner Tom Kelly says we still haven't resolved all the issues its characters were trying to sort out.

"It's a tableau of New York at that time," he says. "The war is about to end, and we're finding out just what kind of city it's going to be going forward. But so many of the things they're talking about, we're still grappling with 150 years later."

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One of the reasons Kelly was brought in for the second season, which launches Sunday night at 10, was to shift the show's focus from weekly crime dramas to"longer character arcs."

By happy coincidence, three of them just happened to be right there waiting.

There's the appropriately named Dr. Matthew Freeman (Ato Essandoh), a black doctor who has settled in New York with his wife, Sarah (Tessa Thompson).

The fact that Sarah's brother was lynched in the draft riots of 1863 serves as a stark reminder that racial justice was a goal, not a reality.

Robert Morehouse (Kyle Schmid) is a wealthy heir who was wounded in the war.

"Morehouse was the kind of rich kid who used to go 'downtown' just to piss his father off," says Kelly. "But serving in the war, he [discovered] other classes were people, too, and it's changed the way he looks at everything.

"He's also a representative of a class that's wondering if maybe its


time hasn't already started to pass."

Kyle Schmid, who plays the wealthy Robert Morehouse, and Anastasia Griffith

The third focal-point character is Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones), one of those working-class people Morehouse met in the war. Back home in New York, Corcoran is the "copper" of the show's title.

"He's a policeman of his day," says Kelly, a novelist who previously worked on CBS' "Blue Bloods." "You see a little bit of forensics, but basically police work then meant beating someone until they told you what you wanted to hear."

That said, Kelly sees Corcoran as "basically a good man. Given the choice, he will do the decent, humane thing. His problem is that sometimes none of the choices are very appealing."

In the show's larger arc, Corcoran is the Irishimmigrant who becamea cop because he wants to help serve the cause of justice, but also because it's a job no other ethnic group wanted.

"This story is about how Corcoran becomes an American," says Kelly. "He got off the boat and the first thing he hears is, 'You're not one of us.' And he says, 'F--- you, yes, I am.' "

What's also critical to the broader story this season, says Kelly, is the introduction of Donal Logue as Gen. Brendan Donovan, a Tammany Hall ward leader who thinks there's great untapped power in the oppressed masses and sets out to harness it.

"He gets to New York, and he sees a battle for the whole original idea of America being fought in the streets," says Kelly. "He's offering an ode to


Bernard R. "Barney" Gritz

Bernard R. "Barney" Gritz, age 94 of Buffalo
and formerly of Waverly, died Thursday, Dec. 9, 1999, at the Buffalo Hospital.

Barney was born June 1, 1905, in Glasgow, Mont., the son
of Martin and Anna (Marsolek) Gritz.

On Oct. 14, 1926, Barney was joined in holy marriage to
Elizabeth "Betty" Tuckenhagen at the Church of St. Mary,Waverly.

Barney was employed for many years at Berkner Milling,
Waverly. He was also a faithful member of the Church of St. Francis, Buffalo.

He is survived by his wife Betty; brothers, Francis "Fritz"
Gritz of Waverly and LeRoy "Hans" (Joan) Gritz of San Diego, Calif.;
sisters, Luella Eckelberry and Lillian "Billie" (Ray) Ruzicka,
all of Winsted; nieces, nephews, many other relatives and friends.

Barney was preceded in death by his parents, Martin and
Anna Gritz; brothers, George Gritz and Raphael"Nooks" Gritz;
and by his sisters, Anastasia "Dude" Schermann and Frances "Babe"
Gritz.

A Mass of Christian Burial was at noon on Saturday, Dec.
11 at the Church of St. Francis, Buffalo. The Rev. Charles L. Froehle was
the celebrant and interment followed at the Lakeview Cemetery.

Friends called at The Peterson Chapel, Buffalo, on Friday,
Dec. 10 from 4 to 8 p.m., with a prayer service at 7:30 p.m.

James Hessel, Don Smith, James Groskreutz, Raymond Bayerl,
Everett Boehlke and Lawrence "Pete" Gagnon served as the casket
bearers.


like Oprah, but I don't love her like some people do. I enjoy her show and I think she has some good things to offer, and I wish she'd bring back her Book Club. That being said, I chose her because she's warm, articulate, and intelligent, and she'd had a lot going on in her life and somehow, she managed to persevere and rise above everything. That's admirable to me. I'd ask her how she got the motivation to train for a marathon and how she did it. Then I want to know more about the Hermes store incident, the best tip she ever got from her never-ending parade of experts, which celebrity is the most genuine, and oh yes, the question on everyone's mind: is TomKat forI expected that day she would say her usual, "I'm fine, you?" And then I would say I was fine and we'd move on with the day. Except that particular day, she said, "I'm getting a divorce." I stopped flat in my six-inch heels and I swear, my mouth was stuck in an O-shape for about five minutes.

"I'm sorry?" I said when I managed to get my jaw to work again.

"Don't be," Polly said, "I'm doing great." And her lips curled up into a smile, and then there was a little bit of tooth, and some crinkles at the edges of her eyes.

Over the next few weeks, Polly underwent this massive transformation. She got highlights, lost weight, bought a new wardrobe, and was thoroughly enjoying herself. At one


point, she bought herself a huge bouquet of roses and put them on her desk "because I deserve them" and she didn't mean it in a pity party sort of way either.

Polly's behavior threw me. For some reason, I was under the impression that when one was divorcing, it was supposed to a be 'traumatic hide under the bedcovers and eat chocolate all day and wail on the phone to sympathetic girlfriends' experience until the pieces of one's heart managed to stitch themselves back into place.

Losing someone you care deeply about is never easy, but whatever other differences Polly and I had, I always admired how she allowed herself to only feel sorry for herself for about 30 seconds and then she got up and involved in herthe exceptional quality and variety of slave types, other clans have started to engage in a steady trade Clan Shakkyllz. On occasion, Shakkyllz will trade their 'exotic' slave breeds with other clans who have locally unavailable offerings. It was through such a trade that the clan came into possession of a sizable population of Gnoblars, from the far off Ore Kingdoms. Whilst initially quite taken with the strange little creatures, in hindsight the Clan leadership determined that the Gnoblars were an exceptionally a bad investment. All the more so as the last of their Elven stock was exchanged for the little runts. Condemnation was swift and the chieftain who brokered the deal soon found himself locked within the slave pens he used to call his own! Never surviving


survive long under the Skaven's lash, nor provide much in the way of adequate nourishment (even to the slave stock). Worse yet, many of the Warbands of Mordheim will flee the city if faced with the undead. This has resulted in an ironic twist, as the Dead-things are considered as little more than mere vermin to be exterminated in the eyes of the Clan.

Perhaps fancifully, Clan Shakkyllz aspires to be a Great Clan with its own seat on the Council of Thirteen. Though its doubtful that this goal will ever reach fruition. As with al minor clans, the threat of being sundered from within or by another, more powerful Warlord Clan, is omnipresent. In its favor, Clan Shakkyllz has already survived a vicious cycle of successions amongst itsReformed Christian Church in Lug

2009. marked the completion of the reconstruction of the building, the interior of the Christian Reformed Church in Lugu, built in 1475th. In the mid-16th century Mihajlo Starin, Baranja famous reformer, changed almost all Catholics over Calvinism and there are the documents in which he claims that more than seven years, Calvinisam was preached among the Turkish rule. Historical Park arranged arround the local church, with informations about the past of the village, and most of the people of religious life, the people who were devoted to important reform movement beyond the borders of present Croatia. The area in front of the church adorns the monument (of locals killed in the Second World War), with the inscription “Slurry Jussan” – “In the Footsteps of


TheGunBlog.ca — Toronto Mayor John Tory officially asked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ban and confiscate all handguns and all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns from all federally licensed gun owners across the country.

In case a handgun ban fails, Tory requested new federal laws to “create gun repositories” where licensed firearm owners across the country would be forced to store all their rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers.

City Council requested the federal government to strengthen Bill C-71 by “prohibiting the availability, sale, possession and use of handguns, assault rifles and semi-automatic firearms in Canada,” Tory said in his letter to Trudeau dated Aug. 3 and shared today on Twitter. (Read the full letter below.)

The other measures aimed at the more than 2 million men and women with federal firearmTopics

Cary Grant is generally considered the best screen actor of all time. But he was nominated just twice in his long career, and he never won. Oscar nominators saluted him for the dramas "Penny Serenade" and "None But the Lonely Heart." Those are hardly the best-remembered titles in a career that includes the classics "Bringing Up Baby" (a flop in 1938), "The Philadelphia Story" (James Stewart won best actor), "His Girl Friday," "Notorious" and "North by Northwest." Grant made acting look effortless and subtle. The academy prefers a showier variety of acting exemplified by Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack...

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of the city feels a million miles away. The warm water filling the homemade, cement-walled basin makes me feel so...

At HBO's party after the 72nd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, the pool area of the Beverly Hilton was draped in blue fabric bearing a Romanesque pattern, rippling in the wind. A-listers mingled under lush palm fronds flanked by a lavish dinner buffet on...Agreement on referendum on independence between Cameron and Salmond

Agreement between the United Kingdom Government and the Scottish Government on a referendum on independence for Scotland.

The United Kingdom Government and the Scottish Government have agreed to work together to ensure that a referendum on Scottish independence can take place.

The governments have agreed that the referendum should:

have a clear legal base;

be legislated for by the Scottish Parliament:

be conducted so as to command the confidence of parliaments, government and people; and

deliver a fair test and decisive expression of the views of people in Scotland and a result that everyone will respect.

The governments have agreed to promote an Order in Council under Section 30 of the Scotland Act 1998 in the United Kingdom and Scottish Parliaments to allow a single question referendum


في سورية، بين الحنين وأمل الرجوع، يثابرون في عملهم لخلق كيانهم الخاص بهم بعيداً عن ما يعايشونه يومياً من مشاكل وهموم يُثقلهم بها وضعهم كلاجئين في بيروت.

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“Street Music”: A film by Orwa Al Meqdad

Street Music takes us on a journey through the world of music, youth and freedom, from Damascus to the streets of Beirut, its Syrian director Orwa Al Meqdad using this short film to introduce us to lives and characters that shatter the stereotypical images of Syrians in Lebanon that are peddled by the populist media.

Forced to flee their homeland Syria by events following the revolution, three young musicians and a female singer met in Beirut and decided to form their little group of buskers. The home of a friend was the only placepeople believe the Government does not understand the financial strains they face.

The impact on children of the economic downturn and austerity measures was underlined by an analysis that concluded that the number of under-18s living in households below minimum income standards would increase by 690,000 between 2010 and 2015. The definitions of acceptable living standards are drawn up by the respected charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Today’s report said 460,000 children would be pushed below those levels by the increase in VAT and cuts to tax credits, 170,000 by sluggish wage growth and 80,000 by the curbs on public sector pay. Just 20,000 would be raised above the minimum level by the new Universal Credit system, which begins to come into force in October.

The TUC, which commissioned the research


a plot of land on the west side of the Jerusalem ceasefire line near the capital’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood leased starting in 1989 for the purpose of housing an embassy. However the plot, known as the Allenby Baracks, is controversial due to its disputed ownership.

Trump’s signing the waiver, the White House said, is to avoid funds being frozen to the State Department required by a Congressional mandate if the embassy is not relocated.

Under the law, if the waiver is not signed, then at the beginning of the next fiscal year, 50 percent of the funds earmarked to the State Department specifically for “Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad” would be withheld until the United States Embassy in Jerusalem had officially opened.

“The president will sign the waiver in orderFive 747 jets will lap the Tasman Sea seven times each in order to bring the AC/DC mega-show to town.

The jets between them will carry 62 containers from Melbourne to Auckland, from where they will be put on a train to bring to Wellington in time for Saturday night's gig at Westpac Stadium.

Set up of the gig takes a crew of 82 fulltime crew members plus 204 New Zealand crew up to six days.

This tour, Rock or Bust, is the band's 23rd world tour in the past 40 years and will pass though 21 countries.

When the set was put into Wellington's stadium it would probably be the biggest stage ever in the venue, co-promoter Ian Magan said.

The front of the grassed area – Arena A – was close


to selling out and it was expected about 35,000 fans would turn out on Saturday night.

With the large stage, that would be about capacity.

This will be the band's third visit to Wellington.

There was the first visit in November, 1991 at Athletic Park where two people were stabbed and 54 arrested yet the band itself got a glowing review.

The rockers returned to Wellington in January, 2010, when 60,000 people saw them over two nights at Westpac Stadium. There were no stabbings, many bared breasts, and fewer arrests than in 1991.Tom Hanks sends new espresso machine to White House press corps The star has sent other machines in the past.

 -- Tom Hanks has a unique way of expressing his gratitude to the reporters covering the Trump administration: On Thursday, the White House press corps received a brand new espresso machine from the star.

This is not the first time Hanks has sent an espresso machine to journalists covering the White House. In fact, the trend dates back to 2004.

The gift was accompanied by a typewritten note, in true Tom Hanks fashion -- the actor is a typewriter enthusiast.

"Keep up the good fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way," the note reads. "Especially for the Truth part."


Laser-based spectroscopic technique for fast and reliable measurements of lifetimes of atomic metastable states in combustive situations.
A technique for a fast and reliable determination of the lifetime of atomic metastable states in combustive situations, based on the laser-enhanced ionization technique, is developed. The typical time required for a determination of the lifetime of an atomic metastable state in a given local position in a combustive situation ranges from some seconds to a minute (depending on the signal-to-noise ratio). The lifetime of the lowest metastable state in Au in an acetylene-air flame, which is used as the pilot metastable state in this paper, was found to vary over one order of magnitude (between 600 ns and 8.8 micros), depending on the local stoichiometric conditions in the probe volume (which,(PORTLAND, ORE.) – On Wednesday, February 7 a young woman from Oregon, Rhyan Leigh Smith, 26, of Warm Springs pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to two counts of assault with the intent to commit murder and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

The announcement was made by the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oregon in a statement.

According to court documents in the case:

“In the early morning hours of March 16, 2016, Smith returned to a house she had periodically resided in with five of her family members, said the AG’s office statement. “At approximately 8:00 a.m., Smith retrieved a pistol she had taken from the owner without permission. Smith conversed briefly with a family member in doorway


of the family member’s bedroom before shooting him five times. A second family member heard the gunshots and tried to stop Smith, but Smith shot her multiple times. Both victims suffered life-threatening injuries.”

The Warm Springs Police Department and the FBI responded to the house and found Smith hiding in sagebrush near the house with an AR-15 assault rifle. Investigators later found a camouflage rifle bag with multiple AR-15 magazines, loose ammunition and a 9mm pistol in a vehicle at the house.

Smith faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 21, 2018 before United States Chief District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman.

The case was investigated by the FBI and the Warm Springs Police Department and

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July 30 Season Resumes with Seeding Games

August 15-16: Play-In Games

August 17: NBA Playoffs Begin

August 31: Conference Semifinals Begin

September 15: Conference Finals Begin

September 30: NBA Finals Begin

October 13: Last Possible Finals Date

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date for all other players to report to their teams (no earlier than 11 a.m. local time)

September 27: Training Camps open for all other teams

October 1: NBA preseason begins

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January 5 : 10-day contracts may now be signed

January 10: All contracts are guaranteed for the rest of the NBA season

February 17-19: NBA All-Star 2017 (New Orleans, LA)

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March 1: Playoff Eligibility Waiver Deadline

April 12-15: Portsmouth Invitational Tournament (Portsmouth, VA)

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Maycrimes while having a firearm, participating in a criminal gang and firing a gun from a motor vehicle. He also was found guilty of having a weapon as a convicted felon and of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

According to testimony at trial, two women and three men were driving from the Labelle section of Steubenville to Pleasant Heights on July 2 and drove past Johnson's vehicle on the Lawson Avenue bridge. Johnson turned his vehicle around and followed the other vehicle.

The vehicle with five occupants parked on Orchard Avenue, where two of the men got out. Johnson got out of his vehicle, pulled out an assault rifle and fired 17 shots at the men, according to Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin. She said shots


were returned by one person in the Hampton vehicle, with rounds striking the windshield of Johnson's vehicle.

Hanlin's office offered 12 years in prison to resolve all the cases if Johnson pleaded guilty. He rejected the plea offer and told Bruzzese he wanted to go to trial. Bruzzese told Hanlin and Johnson's defense attorney, Steven Stickles, to attempt to work out a deal on the other two pending trials prior to sentencing Monday.

Hanlin said Johnson had gang tattoos on his body and also sent text messages that included gang language. She said two people in the car Johnson was shooting at were members of a rival gang in the city.

Stickles said Johnson maintains his innocence and will appeal the verdict. He declined any further comment because of the pending"Bueter" Surname

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Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "Bueter" ranked #59,611 in frequency out of
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317 people, or approximately 1 in every 850,985
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semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate; a first transistor formed in a first region of the substrate, the transistor having a first doped region formed in the first region, a second doped region formed in the first region and a control electrode formed between the first and second doped regions; a second transistor formed in a second region of the substrate, the second transistor having a third doped region formed in the second region, a fourth doped region formed in the second region and a control electrode formed between the third and fourth doped regions, wherein the first doped region is coupled for providing an output voltage, the fourth doped region is coupled for receiving a source voltage and the second and third electrode are connected to each otherduring a separate ASEAN-China dialogue on Wednesday.

A joint statement to be issued by ASEAN foreign ministers was also held up as countries wrangled over whether to include a reference to recent spats over the resource-rich area pitting China against Vietnam and the Philippines.

“ASEAN foreign ministers are having an emergency meeting to resolve the wording on the South China Sea in the joint statement,” one Asian diplomat told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity on Wednesday.

The islands lie in rich fishing grounds and are thought to contain valuable mineral reserves. Tokyo recognises a private Japanese family as their owner and the city government has said it plans to buy them.

It is the third time recently that China has clashed with its immediate neighbours over disputed territory and the


Philippine and Chinese ships over Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop in the South China Sea.

This came as Beijing invited bids for exploration of oil blocks in waters claimed by Vietnam, which sparked protests on the streets of Hanoi.

China’s assertiveness in the resource-rich South China Sea is seen by analysts as pushing anxious neighbouring countries closer to the United States.

The islands at the centre of Wednesday’s dispute triggered a diplomatic crisis in late 2010 when Japan arrested a Chinese trawlerman who rammed his vessel into two Japanese patrol boats.

Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, earlier arrived in Cambodia to press for closer relations with ASEAN as part of Washington’s strategy of “pivoting” towards Asia to challenge China’s influence.

A US official said on condition of anonymity that the friction between Chinaare today.1

Congress hastily voted to approve Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s $700 billion bank bailout plan on October 3, 2008, after a tumultuous week in which the Dow fell dangerously near the critical 10,000 level. The market, however, was not assuaged. The Dow proceeded to break through not only 10,000 but then 9,000 and 8,000, closing at 8,451 on Friday, October 10. The week was called the worst in U.S. stock market history.

On Monday, October 13, the market staged a comeback the likes of which had not been seen since 1933, rising a full 11% in one day. This happened after the government announced a plan to buy equity interests in key banks, partially nationalizing them; and the Federal Reserve led a push to flood the global financial system


Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s. In 1932, President Hoover set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) as a federally-owned bank that would bail out commercial banks by extending loans to them, much as the privately-owned Federal Reserve is doing today. But like today, Hoover’s plan failed. The banks did not need more loans; they were already drowning in debt. They needed customers with money to spend and to invest. President Roosevelt used Hoover’s new government-owned lending facility to extend loans where they were needed most – for housing, agriculture and industry. Many new federal agencies were set up and funded by the RFC, including the HOLC (Home Owners Loan Corporation) and Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association, which was then a government-owned agency). In the 1940s, theThe United States is not keen on pursuing a separate free trade agreement (FTA) deal with Britain if it leaves the European Union, the US trade representative, Michael Froman, claimed on Wednesday in comments almost certainly orchestrated by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as part of “Project Fear”. The US is Britain’s biggest export market after the EU, buying more than $54 billion (£35 billion) in goods from the UK in 2014. The US is also the biggest foreign direct investor in the UK and similarly the UK is the biggest foreign direct investor in the US. Both countries are long term advocates of free trade at the WTO and it is in their vital interests to maintain open trading arrangements…

Michael Froman is quoted as saying “We’re not


of personal principle as we will see…and the consequences can be tragic. It is difficult to overstate the high price – both financially and emotionally – of defending intellectual property and priority, yet this surcharge on success is inevitably demanded of inventors, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. The list of such examples is varied and fascinating, stretching far back in recorded history. Gaileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, and Michael Faraday, three of the greatest physicists of all time were each affected by priority controversies during their careers – especially Newton, as we shall see. In the realms of engineering and business, Thomas Edison, Howard Armstrong (radio’s greatest inventor/engineer), Robert Noyce (of integrated circuit fame), and Steve Jobs of Apple Computer were all enveloped by priority controversies and patent battles. Evenfascination at the prospect of manned flight coupled with a single-minded, driven determination to do whatever it takes to accomplish their dream of flying. The two brothers constitute the very best examples of self-made men… engineers and flyers, in their case. Their accomplishments are so thoroughly documented as to seem unassailable and safe from thieves who would steal in the courts of patent law, yet it was not quite that simple. It never is. Author McCullough paints a clear picture on his pages of just how technically challenging their task actually was. What also emerges is the sad turn of events their triumph became once the airplane was designed, tested, documented, and patented. Wilbur Wright, the brilliant engineering mind for whom no technical challenge seemed too large, died