Tony Abbott says Russia is a "bully" that is threatening global security and has indicated that he may rethink his intention to invite its President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Brisbane this year.

Registering Australia's rejection of Russia's militarism in Ukraine, the Prime Minister endorsed Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper's description of Mr Putin as an "extreme nationalist" and an "imperialist".

"They're very forthright remarks and I think they're perfectly appropriate remarks for the Canadian Prime Minister to make," Mr Abbott said in Ottawa yesterday.

"Let's not minimise the affront to international stability and the affront to the ordinary norms of behaviour between nations which Russia's been responsible for.

"It's bitten off the Crimea. It's obviously interfering in Ukraine and this should stop. This should stop. No country has a rightside of history and humanity" and uphold
the same-sex marriage ban, "I think we go back to the ballot, and I think
there's not another option," she said.

Advocates could be confident of victory, especially if they
employ the strategies of the four state campaigns that recently won on the
issue, Kendell said. She pointed to messaging that those campaigns used related
to helping people "unlearn" homophobia.

Kendell, who served on the executive committee for the
unsuccessful No on Prop 8 campaign in 2008, said she has "no idea"
who would lead another anti-Prop 8 campaign in California.

"I assume that we would pull in leadership both from
the community and people who know campaigns," and possibly grab staffers
from the recent successful efforts.

"We definitely have to make sure there is broad
community engagement," Kendell said. She said NCLR wouldn't be


involved in
the formal structure of the campaign but would help to engage people at the
grassroots level "no mater where they live in the state."

Four years ago, the No on Prop 8 campaign was widely
criticized for not doing enough to include people from the Central Valley and
other areas, among other complaints.

Other advocates appeared to have more general views.

"We're going to take the extraordinary momentum we've
built and immediately turn it into a next wave of wins in 2013, including
wining more states and growing the majority for marriage that creates a climate
for a good ruling from the Supreme Court," said Evan Wolfson, president of
the national group Freedom to Marry.

Asked which state his group would make a move in first, he
said, "I don't want to get into that level of guessing becauseChristie vetoed it. Goldstein
said his group has been questioned about putting same-sex marriage before
voters.

He said while the four states' victories, the election of
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) as the first out LGBT member of the U.S. Senate,
and other wins are cause for celebration, it wouldn't make sense to try to get
a referendum before New Jersey voters.

"Unlike other states that have seen referenda on
marriage equality over the years, New Jersey does not have an initiative-and-referendum
mechanism," he said. "It's like speculating on whether Bruce
Springsteen would perform at a Republican convention in a duet with Clint
Eastwood."

Another concern is money.

"A referendum is also a contest of which side can raise
more millions," Goldstein said.

Whatever happens, Kendell said people should savor the
victories.

Not only did marriage equality win in four states, Kendell
also noted the re-election of President


Barack Obama. She encourages people to
"sit back and take a deep breath and understand what a privilege it is to
be alive" during recent events.

"This will be marked as the moment when we had a huge,
completely unexpected, and cataclysmic shift in the place of LGBT people in
this culture," Kendell said.

Marriages could boost economies, institute says

Paying for campaigns isn't the only way money is related to
same-sex marriage. The Williams Institute, a nationally respected public policy
research organization at the UCLA School of Law, recently released estimates
that the wins in Maine, Maryland, and Washington would generate over $166
million in wedding spending in the first three years.

"This additional spending will be good for business,
boost state and local tax revenues, and create new jobs," said Lee
Badgett, Williams Institute research director, said in a statementall officers, agents, and employees of the Defendant business entities and defendant Kovacs be enjoined and ordered to cooperate fully with the receiver in the performance of such duties or the exercise of such powers.

11
In July of 1980 Kovacs filed his Chapter 11 petition for personal bankruptcy.  The proceedings were converted to straight bankruptcy under Chapter 7 by order of the Bankruptcy Court in September of 1980.  The state of Ohio then sought by motion in the state court to "determine Kovacs' current employment status and income."    681 F.2d at 455.  Kovacs, in turn, moved in the Bankruptcy Court to restrain these state proceedings pursuant to the "automatic stay" of 11 U.S.C. Sec. 362.2

12
The bankruptcy judge concluded that the State sought the


information in state court about Kovacs's current income "as a preliminary to requesting an order from that court which would require that part of debtor's current income be applied" to the receiver's efforts to complete Kovacs's unfulfilled obligation to clean up the industrial wastes from the Chem-Dyne location.  The bankruptcy judge determined that Kovacs was entitled to an automatic stay of the state court proceedings under 11 U.S.C. Sec. 362 (Supp.1979), and accordingly enjoined the state of Ohio on October 31, 1980 from proceeding further in state court in its attempt to levy on Kovacs's post-petition earnings.

13
681 F.2d at 455.

14
It was that 1980 order of the Bankruptcy Court, affirmed by the District Court, which was appealed to this Court in the earlier proceeding.  Concurring with theby legerdemain or linguistic gymnastics.  Kovacs cannot personally clean up the waste he wrongfully released into Ohio waters.  He cannot perform the affirmative obligations properly imposed upon him by the State court except by paying money or transferring over his own financial resources.  The State of Ohio has acknowledged this by its steadfast pursuit of payment as an alternative to personal performance.

29
In the absence of any contention by the State of Ohio in the Bankruptcy Court that the judgment obligation of Kovacs is exempted from discharge under some provision of Sec. 523, a discharge under Sec. 727 is warranted.

30
Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

*
 Honorable Robert M. McRae, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, sitting by


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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Witold PLUTA, Defendant-Appellant.
Docket No. 98-1443.
United States Court of Appeals,Second Circuit.
Argued Feb. 17, 1999.Decided April 28, 1999.

John-Claude Charbonneau, Assistant United States Attorney, Burlington, Vermont (Charles R. Tetzlaff, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, David V. Kirby, Chief, Criminal Division, Burlington, Vermont, on the brief), for Appellee.
Thomas A. Zonay, Rutland, Vermont (Timothy U. Martin, Pratt Vreeland Kennelly & Zonay, Rutland, Vermont, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.
Before:  KEARSE and SACK, Circuit Judges, and McAVOY, Chief District Judge*.
KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

1
Defendant Witold Pluta appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, convicting him, following a jury trial, on two counts of smuggling aliens into the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A), and onecount of conspiring to do so, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, and sentencing him principally to eight months' imprisonment.  On appeal, Pluta contends that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence the statements and Polish passports of the persons he was accused of smuggling;  he also contends that the interpreters who served at his trial were not properly sworn.  Finding no basis for reversal, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

2
The present prosecution began after Pluta, a permanent resident alien of the United States, was detained by customs and immigration officials when he attempted, in suspicious circumstances, to reenter the United States from Canada.  The government's evidence at trial consisted principally of testimony from government agents and from cooperating codefendant Ireneusz Migas.  Taken in


the light most favorable to the government, the evidence at trial revealed the following.

3
In late June 1991, Pluta, who lived in New York City, telephoned his friend Migas, who lived in Montreal, Canada, stating that two Polish women wished to enter the United States.  Migas informed Pluta that it would be difficult for the women to obtain visas from the American consulate in Montreal.  Pluta asked whether Migas knew of someone who could arrange for the women to enter the United States "without having the visa," i.e., "illegally."  (Trial Transcript, March 24, 1992 ("March 24 Tr."), 56.)   Migas responded that he did not know of such a person, but he suggested that the women could cross the border into the United States throughthe woods near a hiking trail called the "Long Trail," which could be approached from the Canadian side of the border and which connected with Highway 105 near Richford, Vermont.

4
A few days later, Migas met one of the women, Anna Wicijewska, at the Montreal airport after Pluta provided him with her name, description, and flight information.  Migas took Wicijewska to the American consulate in Montreal to request a visa for entry into the United States;  officials there informed her that a decision would not be made for at least three weeks.  Pluta and his friend Andrzej Gawlik drove from New York City to Migas's apartment in Montreal, arriving that night.

5
On the following day, June 29, 1991, Pluta, Gawlik, and Migas went to the bus station


in Montreal to meet and take to Migas's home the second woman, Katarzyha Dyblik, arriving from Toronto.  The group decided not to wait the three-week period needed for the women to seek visas authorizing their entry into the United States.  On June 30, they placed the women's luggage in the back of Pluta's car;  Migas, in his own car, drove the women, with Pluta and Gawlik following in Pluta's car, to the Long Trail near the United States border.  Migas, who was paid a total of $1,950 by Pluta and Dyblik, then led the women on foot across the border and left them in a parking lot near Highway 105 in Vermont.  Gawlik drove Migas's car into a nearby Canadian town, where Migascould retrieve it later;  Pluta and Gawlik then attempted to drive into the United States at Richford, Vermont.

6
When Pluta and Gawlik presented themselves at the Richford port of entry, a United States Customs Service inspector, noting the large quantity of luggage in the hatchback car, became suspicious when Pluta said he had entered Canada only a "couple of days" earlier and had acquired nothing during his stay.  The inspector ordered a "secondary inspection," during which the luggage was searched by United States Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") Inspector James E. McMillan.  McMillan found that the bags contained women's clothing and personal effects, as well as a number of documents bearing the names Anna Wicijewska and Katarzyha Dyblik, including what appeared to be Polish passports in


their names.  McMillan thereupon alerted United States border patrol agents to be on the lookout for two Polish women who might be attempting illegal entry.

7
In the meantime, Migas, after leaving Wicijewska and Dyblik, walked into Richford, hoping to get a ride back to Canada.  In Richford he was stopped by United States Border Patrol Agent James Backhaus, who had received word of the alert issued by McMillan.  Migas, after being questioned, led Backhaus to the women, who were found hiding in the brush near the parking lot in which Migas had left them.  Backhaus asked the women who they were.  They identified themselves as Anna Wicijewska and Katarzyha Dyblik;  each stated that she was a Polish citizen.

8
To the extent pertinent here, Pluta,asked me if I know any way for them to enter the United States, because they will be in Canada or come into Canada, so the question was how to go about coming from Canada to the United States, being a Polish citizen without the visa to enter to the United States.

17
(March 24 Tr. 54 (emphasis added).)   Whether or not Pluta himself had actual, first-hand knowledge of the women's Polish citizenship, his statement to Migas was evidence of that citizenship.

18
Further, the record established beyond cavil that the two Polish women Pluta discussed with Migas were Wicijewska and Dyblik.  Migas testified that in that first conversation, Pluta told him one of the women would be arriving by airplane in a few days and asked him to


accommodate her at Migas's home until she could enter the United States.  In the same conversation, Pluta said the second woman would be arriving later from Toronto.  In a subsequent conversation, Pluta gave Migas Wicijewska's name, description, and arrival information, and asked Migas to meet Wicijewska's "plane which was coming from Poland."  (March 24 Tr. 57-58.)   Migas proceeded to meet Wicijewska at the airport, take her home with him, and take her to the American Consulate to apply for a United States visa.  Dyblik arrived a day later from Toronto and was met by Migas, Gawlik, and Pluta.  When Migas was shown at trial photographs that Backhaus had taken of Wicijewska and Dyblik following their arrests, Migas identified the women inthe pictures, without objection, as the women he had met in Montreal, taken into his home, and accompanied across the border into the United States at the behest of Pluta while Pluta transported their luggage.

19
There thus could be no genuine question that the two women smuggled into the United States by Migas in collaboration with Pluta were Wicijewska and Dyblik, whom Pluta himself had described as Polish citizens.

20
Pluta's contention, apparently, is that the district court erred in allowing Backhaus to testify that when he found Wicijewska and Dyblik hiding in the brush and inquired as to their citizenship, the women themselves stated that they were Polish citizens.  Rule 804 of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides that statements "concerning the declarant's own birth, adoption, marriage, divorce, legitimacy,


and good faith, but unsuccessful, efforts prior to trial to locate and produce the witness).

21
In the present case, the government's evidence as to the unavailability of Wicijewska and Dyblik, who by the time of Pluta's trial apparently had been ordered deported but were on parole in the custody of a person in Queens, New York, was thin and somewhat vague.  When the issue of unavailability was raised on the second day of trial, March 25, 1992, the Assistant United States Attorney ("AUSA") stated that he had "issued" subpoenas for the women on March 20, but had not served them because "they asked if they could not be served personally, for various reasons...."  (Trial Transcript, March 25, 1992 ("March 25 Tr."), 9.) The AUSA stated:

22
We made arrangementsthe women unavailable within the meaning of Rule 804.  Instead, he ruled that he would not exclude Backhaus's testimony as to the women's statements of their own names and citizenship in light of the testimony already in evidence as to those facts.

27
We too decline to determine whether the evidence showed a government effort that was reasonable.  In accordance with a February 20, 1992 scheduling order, the two-day trial began on Tuesday, March 24.  At the start of trial, the AUSA estimated that presentation of the government's case would require only half a day and informed the court that Wicijewska and Dyblik were "under subpoena."  (March 24 Tr. 4).  According to the AUSA's statements the next day, however, the government did not "issue" the


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UACs refer to illegal aliens under the age of 18.

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There was some “very informal” contact between the advocacy groups and Reddit, said Erik Martin, general manager of the participatory news site. Reddit employees and posters began talking about a blackout after it was proposed by Wikipedia’s Wales, he said.

On Dec. 15, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a markup hearing to debate and amend SOPA. Supporters of the legislation voted down about 20 proposed amendments intended to weaken the bill.

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DANBURY — When 10-year-old Chelsea Phaire feels stressed or upset, she turns to her sketch pad.

She has filled hundreds of pages with drawings of her favorite characters and over the past two years has created 90 graphic novels.

“It’s kind of like therapy,” she said.

Now, she uses art to bring that same peace to children who need it the most..

Chelsea has started her own charity where she collects art supplies and creates kits for children, often in homeless shelters, who have gone through a traumatic experience. She provides art lessons to the kids, too.

Called Chelsea’s Charity, the Pembroke Elementary School student and her family have compiled and donated hundreds art kits to children in Connecticut and New York homeless shelters, as well as a school in El Paso, Texas,MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister assured Kashmiri people living in the Indian-administered part of the divided region that he supports them in their struggle for self-determination.

In his statement Wednesday, Imran Khan condemned New Delhi’s decision Aug. 5 to downgrade Kashmir’s status, as he began celebrations marking Pakistan’s independence day.

Khan is marking the day in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir to express solidarity with Kashmiris on the Indian-controlled side. He will make a speech in the Legislative Assembly to denounce Indian human rights violations in Kashmir.

India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947 when British colonialists left the subcontinent. The next year, they fought the first of two wars over control of Kashmir. It ended with the region divided between them though both claim it entirely.

India has maintained an


Krishna Bairagi played Vidyasagar with a faux receding hairline, a dhoti, a brown shawl and a book

In the massive political row over the vandalism of an Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar statue in clashes at BJP president Amit Shah's rally in Kolkata, the legendary 19th century reformer was seen in the campaign of a BJP candidate today. Or at least, an actor in costume, complete with a faux receding hairline, a dhoti, a brown shawl and a book in one hand.

BJP candidate Anupam Hazra's move to campaign with a Vidyasagar replica was a bold one as passions ran high over the clashes and the vandalism of a beloved symbol of Bengali renaissance. His critics called it a desperate move to counter attacks over the statue desecration.

Actor Krishna Bairagi, who hasrole-played legends for 20 years, said he had received a phone-call last night saying "you have to be Vidyasagar". He obliged and ended up sweating it out with the candidate on the last day of the campaign for the final voting in the national election.

Mr Bairagi was meant to appear for South Kolkata candidate Chandra Bose; his supporters allegedly kept him in a locked room on Thursday morning. "They hijacked my and didn't let me go," he said. Finally, he was "rescued" and taken by the Jadavpur candidate.

For his effort, he made Rs 150. "It used to be my passion, now it is my bread-and-butter," Mr Bairagi told NDTV.

Anupam Hazra, contesting from Jadavpur, said the Vidyasagar statue was broken as part of a "plan" to malign the BJP


using a man revered by every Bengali.

So he justified campaigning with an actor playing Vidyasagar.

"I am trying to show the respect we have for him, my symbolic regards," said the BJP candidate.

On Tuesday evening, clashes broke out at Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata when BJP supporters allegedly attacked protesters holding up "Go Back Amit Shah" posters outside the Vidyasagar College and near Calcutta University.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress claims there is video proof that BJP supporters broke the Vidyasagar bust. The BJP, however, says it was the Trinamool that smashed the statue. "They did it to create a negative image of the party," Mr Hazra said.

Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to install a "grand statue" of Vidyasagar at the same spot.

On May 23, follow NDTVrights and the loss of the devolved decision-making powers it currently has.

The Scottish leg of her tour follows visits to Wales and Northern Ireland on Tuesday in which she met businesses, community and faith leaders, and local politicians, while lawmakers in London continued to criticise her deal.


OAKLAND -- It's official. The Oakland Athletics have announced the signing of Hiroyuki Nakajima. As previously reported, the Japanese-born shortstop will be introduced to the media in Oakland at 2 p.m. and you can see it right here on CSNBayArea.com or Comcast SportsNet California.

The eight-time Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star was signed to a two-year deal with a club option for a third season. He is expected to be the A's starting shortstop, replacing Stephen Drew, who agreed to sign with the Boston Red Sox. Nakajima, 30, hit .311 with 13 home runs, 74 RBI, 52 walks, and a .382 on-base percentage in 136 games in Japan last season.

To make room on the 40-man roster the A's have traded outfielder Collin Cowgill to the New York Mets for minorleague third baseman Jefry Marte. Once regarded as one of the Mets' top prospects in 2009, Marte struggled in 2010 and 2011. The 21-year-old native of the Dominican Republic hit .251 with 20 doubles, three triples, nine homers, and 58 RBI in 129 games for Double-A Birmingham in 2012. He was named an Eastern League Mid-Season All-Star last season.

Cowgill was originally acquired prior to the 2012 season from Arizona as part of the trade that sent Trevor Cahill to the Diamondbacks. He played 28 games with Oakland and hit .269 with one homer and nine RBI.

His most memorable A's moments both came against the Giants. On May 20 in San Francisco, he took out Tim Lincecum at the plate with a head-first slide that led to a 6-2


A's win. On June 22, he injured his ankle diving for a ball hit to left field by Brandon Belt in the ninth inning that ended up giving the Giants a 5-4 victory.

Cowgill, 26, spent most of the season in Triple-A Sacramento, and would have had a tough time cracking the A's roster with outfielders Chris Young, Yoenis Cespedes, Josh Reddick, Coco Crisp, and Seth Smith set to battle for playing time in Oakland.play to Kelvin Benjamin with Sean Smith covering him on the other side. That put the Panthers up 32-24 with 13:26 remaining in the fourth quarter.

Where Hamilton got nervous was the final possession by the Panthers in which they had 1:45 left to try and drive for the tie or the win. They had two completions on that drive, neither of which were given up by Hamilton. The first was to Greg Olsen for 20 yards and it was Hamilton who made the stop.

In total Hamilton held up well under the circumstances. He played 12 snaps and gave up two catches for 19 yards.

Whether he gets the nod again will depend on Amerson, who has been limited in practice all week and is officially questionable for the game.


to run the new task force. He spent 24 years as the district attorney in Birmingham, and successfully fought electronic games that offered $5 gift certificates to winners. In 2006, he won a case in the Alabama Supreme Court that shut down video sweepstakes games at the Birmingham dog track.

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A group of Timaru Girls' High School students placed 750 little yellow rubber ducks around Timaru Boys' High School in the early hours of Monday morning. But the boys never got to see the quacking prank - the ducks were confiscated before school began.

School teachers who foiled a quacker of a prank in Timaru on Monday morning have become Facebook fodder, with some commenting that the joke is on the staff.

A group of Timaru Girls' High School students placed 750 rubber ducks on the grounds of Timaru Boys' High School in the wee hours of Monday morning, ready for a good laugh to start the week.

But instead of leaving them for a quack-up, the ducks were quickly gathered up before the boys arrived, with deputy rector Rod Sparrowconfirming he collected the toys.

Rector Nick McIvor said he did not mind sensible fun but could not see the fun side to this one.

Despite the ducks being cleared, Jo Brodie thought the joke was on McIvor and his flock.

"I think the prank worked. The joke's on the principal and his minions that ran around the school collecting rubber ducks. Well done girls..." she wrote on Facebook.

Pauline Young also supported the prank.

"Harmless fun, surely. With all of today's negativity and pc crap, surely some plastic ducks on a grass area pose no threat or danger to anyone. Well done ladies."

Gerrie Ligtenberg thought it was "sad really when you cannot see the fun in this".

"I think this is a win for the girls. How on earth are you going to


teach boys when you have no sense of humour?"

It is understood other senior staff may also have been involved in removing the ducks.

McIvor said the prank had gone further, with a famous statue on the school grounds also spruced up.

"They also decorated the Jack Lovelock statue with a wig, tiara and clothing," he said.

He was concerned it could prompt retaliatory action between the schools.

In 2014, another group of students plastered underwear and other items along the front of the boys' school.

"We appreciated the apology from the school... it was a mess and we had to clean it up," he said.

When asked on Monday, McIvor did not think he was like the Christmas grinch, pointing out there were other opportunities for the students from both schools to connect.

The prankstergirls had asked for their ducks back and were assured they would be returned later on Monday.

Girls' High principal Sarah Davis said she knew nothing about the incident.

The disappointed pranksters asked not to be identified. They "did not want to burn bridges in their last few days of school".


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transit-oriented development is the type of smart growth that the Westside needs, it is infeasible to build such a project with extensive transit amenities on just four acres of land," he said.

Jay Handal, chairman of the West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council, said the changes represented "a serious, serious victory for the community." By downsizing the project, Casden significantly cut the projected number of new car trips from the development to no more than 3,000 per day, Handal said.

"This agreement will eliminate lawsuits and stalling and actually bring the project to fruition in the very near future," said Handal, one of several neighborhood leaders who took part in the talks with Casden.

Casden West L.A. has been looking to strike a deal before the 15-member City Council undergoes a dramaticchangeover. Next week, six new council members will take office.

Still, one neighborhood leader said she was worried that community groups would not have enough time to understand all of the project's changes.

Hilary Norton, executive director of the group Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic, said she was happy the scaled-back project would produce less traffic but disappointed that fewer amenities would be near the rail station. "It's a shame to lose the opportunity for people to walk and bike and [take a] bus and train to a grocery store and a Target," she said.

Tuesday's announcement comes one week after another developer offered its own concessions in response to heated neighborhood opposition. Millennium Partners agreed to reduce the height of two skyscraper towers planned in Hollywood, taking one from 55


stories to 39 and the second from 45 stories to 35.

Casden's tallest building will be 10 stories, not the previously proposed 17, Lewis said. Other buildings will not exceed six stories, he said.

Casden West L.A. and its principal, Alan Casden, are well known at City Hall. The company contributed $100,000 last year to Villaraigosa's failed campaign to extend a half-cent countywide sales tax by 30 years, and $100,000 in March to the council's unsuccessful bid to hike the city sales tax.

The company also retained former Gov. Gray Davis, now a private lawyer, to represent it in talks with city officials.Isaac Martinez took it in stride when he was shot during Wednesday's deadly Arizona rampage, posting online a series of selfies making light of his brush with death.

Suspect Ryan Giroux was arrested in Mesa following an intense manhunt sparked by a shooting spree that left one person dead and five others injured yesterday morning.

One of the victims was Martinez, a 20-year-old student at the East Valley Institute of Technology who works at the school-operated Bistro 13 restaurant.

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Bloody selfie: When Isaac Martinez, 20, was shot by a suspect in Wednesday's Mesa, Arizona, rampage, the first thing he did was reach for his phone and post a bloody selfie on Snapchat

Viral hit: The culinary student posted another photo from the hospital bed, and a friend later turned


it into a funny meme

Matter-of-fact attitude: Martinez took to Facebook to let his friends know about what happened to him

Blow by blow: The EVIT student detailed the attempted carjacking, which left him wounded in the shoulder

Martinez was on his way to the eatery when Giroux allegedly confronted him in the parking lot and demanded his car.

Martinez refused to hand over his keys, prompting the suspect to shoot him in the shoulder.

Instead of calling 911, a wounded Martinez took to the social media app Snapchat, sharing a photo of himself in a white chef's coat spattered with blood. The caption stated matter of factly: 'I just got shot.'

The Internet-savvy college student did not stop there and continued documenting his harrowing ordeal.

After he was taken to a hospital to betreated for his gunshot wound, he shared another selfie, which shows him lying in bed bear-chested with a white dressing on his bloodied shoulder.

A friend of Martinez’s even turned one of his hospital snapshots into a meme, accessorizing him with a painted-on cigarette and dark sunglasses, along with the caption: 'Thug Life.'

After being released from the hospital, the 20-year-old culinary student offered his 1,200 friends an update on his condition, saying that the bullet struck him from behind and exited out of his collar area.

Suspect caught: Police apprehended Ryan Giroux, 41, who is suspected of killing a man and injuring five others, among them Isaac Martinez. Giroux is an ex-convict with ties to white supremacist prison gangs

First blood: Police say Giroux killed a man and wounded two women


at Tri City Inn at around 8.40am Wednesday

Tanya Ehrig, 27, cries for victims of a shooting as she holds her child Trinity in Mesa Wednesday

'Any higher or lower it coulda hit a artery, or shatter my shoulder blade. It was a miracle hit,' he wrote.

Martinez then proceeded to give a play-by-play of what happened in the parking lot of Bistro 13 shortly before 9am.

The EVIT student explained that when Giroux pulled a gun on him during the attempted carjacking, Martinez started backing away while yelling at passersby to get down on the ground.

After Grioux allegedly carjacked an EVIT teacher and took off from the parking lot in his Honda, Martinez said he noticed police and emergency vehicles down the street, and ran there for help.

‘I was the onlyone injured. Everyone else was unharmed. overall im glad it went the way it did rather than any other way,’ the 20-year-old concluded.

The shooting rampage that gripped the Phoenix suburb of Mesa in terror for nearly four hours was no laughing matter.

Terror in the streets: Giroux then ran across the street to Bistro 13 (pictured) and allegedly shot Isaac Martinez in the shoulder before carjacking an EVIT teacher

Manhunt: A SWAT team was brought in to search for the gunman after he shot two more people at two different apartment buildings

Officials with a K-9 dog are pictured searching for the gunman on South Longmore Road near Adams Elementary School Wednesday

Busted: A SWAT team eventually apprehended Giroux (pictured in a white hazmat suit) after he was spotted standing on a


balcony of a vacant condo

Police say Ryan Giroux, a 41-year-old ex-convict with a history of violence, killed a man and wounded two women at Tri City Inn at around 8.40am Wednesday.

Giroux then ran across the street and allegedly shot Isaac Martinez in the shoulder before carjacking an EVIT teacher.

Police say the man afterwards went to an apartment complex about two miles away, where he broke into a home and shot a man.

A police officer found another man in a neighboring apartment building with multiple gunshot wounds. He was listed in critical condition.

A SWAT team eventually apprehended Giroux, a suspected white supremacist with a lengthy criminal record, after he was spotted standing on a balcony of a vacant condo.fell vacant due to the death of sitting BJP MP and veteran actor Vinod Khanna. Polling for the seat will take place on 11 October and the result will be announced on 15 October.

According to officials of Election Commission (EC), polling for the other seats is likely to take place in due course.

These eight seats include those which fell vacant due to deaths of sitting members, such as BJP leaders Mahant Chand Nath (Alwar) and Sanwar Lal Jat (Ajmer) from Rajasthan, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed from Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, Mohammad Taslimuddin of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) from Araria in Bihar and Sultan Ahmed of Trinamool Congress from Uluberia in West Bengal.

Apart from these, the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat held by Uttar Pradesh


chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Phulpur seat of his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya have also fallen vacant.

The BJP is in power in Rajasthan and is looking for an encore in the assembly elections due next year, while it claimed power in Uttar Pradesh this year following a landslide verdict in its favour. In Jammu and Kashmir, the party is in power as part of a coalition-led by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The electoral battle in West Bengal is also crucial because the BJP is trying to make inroads in the state.

“The result of these Lok Sabha bypolls will be really significant for all the political parties but most for the BJP because it has the highest stakes. There is a growing debate on the state of economyin Akron, Ohio called Studio2091. The show opens on August 20th and runs during the DEVOtional. The special show will feature Mark's framed prints, rugs, and a few fantastic vintage works from his sister's personal collection (4 rubber stamp collages he made in the 70's, an original decal mirror, 2 ceramic sculptures, and some misc vintage DEVO items).

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But what's particularly unnerving about that episode is that it was not the first time that it happened at the bank. In March 2014, the giant lender suffered a similar gaffe after sending 21 billion euros to Macquarie Group as collateral for a derivatives trade.

To be fair, the bank likely suffered little direct financial damage from the "fat-finger" transfers as CEO Christian Sewing dutifully pointed out to investors. What he, however, failed to conscientiously mention was the devastating reputational damage after the bank once again became Wall Street's laughing stock and the billions of dollars that revelation nicked off the bank's valuation in the stock market.

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Deustche Bank says it has significantly improved controls for large-volume payments, though the fact that the "fail-safes" itintroduced after the 2014 episode failed to catch the latest is worrisome. It also underlines how difficult it is for these giant banks to upgrade their legacy IT systems.

DB, though, can take comfort in the fact that fat-finger orders are not a preserve of the bank alone. The largest fat-finger order on record was by another bank, UBS, with the Swiss firm ordering a staggering $3 trillion in bonds from a video game maker.

Another bad one took place in Japan in 2014 by an unknown trader. The 40 defective over-the-counter orders worth 67.78 trillion yen ($617 billion) were luckily detected and canceled before they could be executed.

While many of these rogue trades are flagged before they get filled, a few clunkers do sail through.

In another episode involving the


under a deal expected to be worth over USD 920 million, they said. An Indian crew had set sail with the Akula II class vessel to India in the end of January. After the 'INS Chakra' joins the naval fleet, it would be for the first time in more than two decades that the Indian Navy would have a nuclear attack submarine. This will also propel India in the elite league of six nations operating nuclear submarines. India is also working on development of indigenous nuclear submarines of the 'Arihant' class. The first submarine 'INS Arihant' was launched for sea trials recently and is expected to start operational patrols by the end of this year. The Navy will have three submarines of this class by the end ofthis decade. India already possesses or is in the process of developing a family of nuclear-capable missiles including the Agni series, Prithvi variants, naval missile Dhanush, and submarine-launched Sagarika. Meanwhile, the Navy will commission 'Admiral Gorshkov' aircraft carrier on the Navy Day on December 4 this year in Russia. The aircraft carrier has been under retrofit for the last over five years at Russian facilities and is expected to reach Indian waters only in mid-2013.

the only way to tackle the indian navy - including it's submarines is to place fishing boats imported from Thailand, placed in the indian ocean, and keep the indian sailor men occupied to shot them down like they were the pirates and the enemy.


a-ha receive Royal Order of St. Olav

The three members of a-ha were today appointed Knights First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for their “outstanding musical contribution”.

The invite-only ceremony was held at Gamle Logen in Oslo, and was attended by family, friends and fans.

The ceremony, which was broadcast live online, included music by a string quartet and speeches by Viggo Bondi (bassist in Bridges), Terry Slater (a-ha manager 1983-1994), Trond Giske (Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry) and Anders Flågen (representing the Royal Palace) who presented a-ha with their medals.

After receiving the medals, Morten spoke on behalf of the band. Here is a translation of his speech:
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Japan Softens Stance On 2040 Nuclear Power Phase Out Policy

In a reversal of a policy announced just last week, the Japanese government has stopped short of declaring 2040 the deadline for ending all nuclear power production in the country.

It is widely believed that pressure from business groups, who opposed the original plan based on the potential economic damage it might cause, led to the change.

Instead of a hard deadline, the government said it would “take into consideration” the original goal and promised to “engage in debate with local governments and international society and to gain public understanding” of Japan´s nuclear energy goals, according to a resolution from cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

The original plan passed last week envisioned the phasing out of Japan´s nuclear reactors


that currently generate about 30% of the country´s total electricity. To make up the difference, the Japanese had planned on the tripling of energy generated from renewable sources. Meanwhile, the country said it would continue to be a top importer of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas. The country will also take steps to conserve energy and reduce its waste, according to the plan.

"This is a strategy to create a new future," a policy statement released on Friday said. "It is not pie in the sky. It is a practical strategy."

The announcement, which had its roots in an announcement made by Naoto Kan during the Fukushima disaster, generated mounting opposition from within Japan´s economic sectors. On Tuesday, the chairmen of prominent Japanese business associations called arare press conference to voice their resistance to the plan. On Wednesday, that same group praised the shift in policy.

The policy change accompanied the opening of a new nuclear power regulatory agency after the old agency had to be scrapped amid criticisms of corruption and cronyism. The new agency has already come under criticism because Shunichi Tanaka, the head of a five-person committee that would set nuclear policy, had a heavy hand in building a strong nuclear industry, leading many to believe the new agency will be as dysfunctional as the last.

Currently, many of the country´s nuclear reactors sit idle after they were shut down during the Fukushima disaster. As pro-business parties call for a restart of the reactors, public opposition over safety concerns has kept them off-line.


Many communities surrounding these reactors have also been advocating their return to use as they benefit from government subsidies and incentives.

Several economic factors could prevent the more permanent shuttering of idled reactors. Doing so would set back power companies $56 billion in losses and make at least four of the utilities insolvent, according to the government´s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy. The tightly regulated and competition-free nature of the Japanese power industry means if power companies go bankrupt, there will not be any existing entities to fill the void.

Despite economic and safety concerns, the removal of reactors from the Japanese landscape remains popular with the public. Most polls show that the Japanese people would like to completely eliminate the use of nuclear power in the future.

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Barrington's Blue Heron Cafe kicked off preparations for its longtime donation of Thanksgiving meals to those less fortunate, with volunteers peeling 300 pounds of potatoes Tuesday.

Addie Saliu's establishment, tucked behind a motel at 405 W. Northwest Highway, has been delivering the holiday feast to the homes of families and individuals in need for the past 16 years. About 400 meals with turkey and the trimmings will be delivered by volunteers Thursday to towns including Barrington, Palatine, Wauconda and Carpentersville.

Roughly 100 volunteers will work on the Thanksgiving feast. In addition to the 300 pounds of potatoes, the crew will work with about 60 turkeys and handle many other duties.

Saliu said he hosted seniors from the Greencastle of Barrington apartments during the


something."

Ruthie Scherer of Barrington said she's volunteered for the past eight years. She spoke highly of Saliu and what he started.

"He has a warm heart," Scherer said near where tables were set up for the potato peeling in the middle of the cozy cafe. "Very generous. And just an all-around great guy. He does a lot for the community."

Barrington resident Kelly Wise said her three children had a good experience when they delivered the Thanksgiving meals a couple of years ago. She was happy to be peeling the Idaho and sweet potatoes Tuesday.

"People are slowly learning that this is an opportunity in so many ways to volunteer," Wise said. "I think more and more people are taking advantage of that and jumping in and helping out."

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The 1894 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as a member of the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) during the 1894 college football season. In its second season under head coach Harry Orman Robinson, the team compiled a 4–3 record (2–1 against WIUFA championship) and tied with Nebraska for the conference championship.

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It was no surprise that the United Conservative Party dominated northern Alberta ridings in Tuesday's election, including stealing the seats of three NDP cabinet ministers.

In one of the biggest upsets, the NDP's former minister of agriculture and forestry, Oneil Carlier, lost his seat in Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland. With 98 per cent of the polls counted, the UCP's Shane Getson had 13,684 votes, while Carlier trailed with 4,883.

The NDP also lost the battle in Peace Country, where two incumbents from different parties were vying for a single riding.

The redistribution of Alberta's ridings created Central Peace-Notley, pitting the UCP's Todd Loewen, who had been elected the Wildrose MLA for Grande Prairie-Smoky in 2015, against the NDP's Marg McCuaig-Boyd, the 2015 victor in the Dunvegan-Central-Peace-Notley riding.

With 95 per cent of theand minister of children's services and status of women, was projected to lose to the UCP's Pat Rehn.

With 96 per cent of the polls counted, Rehn, who worked in construction and in the sawmill industry, was ahead by 14 per cent.

Laila Goodridge was declared the winner of Fort McMurray-Lac la Biche over the NDP’s Jane Stroud. (Jamie Malbeuf/CBC)

Both of the ridings in Fort McMurray were called early as the UCP candidates quickly widened their leads.

Laila Goodridge was declared the winner of Fort McMurray-Lac la Biche over the NDP's Jane Stroud, a three-time Wood Buffalo councillor.

Goodridge was the incumbent, having won the seat in a byelection after the electoral boundaries were redrawn to form it out of Fort McMurray-Conklin, the riding of former MLA and Wildrose Party leader Brian


nation."

"We just want a common sense government that's going to provide a fiscal responsibility."

In Peace River, the UCP's Dan Williams took the seat away from NDP incumbent Debbie Jabbour. Actor Dakota House was also running in the riding for the Alberta Party and came in third.

With files from Jamie MalbeufCooley and Dubose were dismissed from the team for a violation of team rules, while Jones missed the first seven games because of academics. Also, the Bucs will be without senior forward Lukas Poderis for the remainder of the year because of a left foot injury.

Also in the field are Ole Miss, Miami, San Diego State, Indiana State, San Francisco and Hawaii. The Wildcats are scheduled to face either the host Warriors or Hurricanes on Sunday, have Monday off and then resume on Christmas Day against an opponent to be determined.

Should the 'Cats and No. 18 Aztecs (9-1) both advance to the finals, that could give UA another quality nonconference opponent. Steve Fisher's squad has won nine straight games since dropping its season opener to Syracuse.

SDSU knocked off


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Over 40% of all petroleum products and 50% of all organic chemicals are dependent upon catalysts for their commercial production. The widespread use of catalysts in organic processes is largely due to their amenability to continuous processes with decreased labor costs. Oftentimes, higher purity and greater uniformity of product also result from the choice of catalysts.
Catalytic reactions are of two general types; homogenousProfessor Robert Francis Leslie Logan, known to his colleagues as Bob, was professor of Organization of Health Care System at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He chaired Department of Community medicine when I studied LSHTM in 1981/1982 as postgraduate student. Professor Logan was an innovative teacher and very communicative person. Concerned that students might lack real life experience when the Masters degree was shortened from two years to one, he introduced a "field service attachment" in which students addressed a practical problem in a district health authority ([@ref1]).

Professor Logan was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland in 1917, during the First World War. He qualified in medicine from Queen's University, Belfast, where he won several medals and prizes but still found time to gain Blues in


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Professor Logan's initiative brought together students from different courses to work in teams to address real problems overseas, such as the health impact of a new dam. Committed to interdisciplinary working since his days in Liverpool, Logan appointed staff to teach a range of social sciences, providing the basisfor what would become the UK's first Health Services Research Unit, and strengthened links with the London School of Economics ([@ref1], [@ref2]).

For many years after he retired from LSHTM, prof Logan attended events at LSHTM and took great interest in the careers of his students. Prof Logan was awarded the school's honorary fellowship in its centenary year, and he was one of six most influential person at the LSHTM, which names are recorded on the mramor's wall in the foyer of the School theatre, that included names of the former US president Jimmy Carter and Sir Donald Achesson, one of fathers of modern Social medicine, as academic discipline in U.K., together with prof Robert Logan.

Logan's scientific and academic work attracted international attention and researchers at Johns Hopkins invited


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Luther’s move was part of a backlash against increasing corruption and in particular the highly profitable sale of indulgences, promoted as fast-track tickets to heaven. Luther declared that when it came to “justification” – avoiding hell, and gaining admission to heaven – salvation was a matter between an individual and God.

Swiftly translated into German and other European languages, Luther’s ideas spread across the continent within weeks, triggering religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval.

In recent decades there has been a slow rapprochement between the Catholic and Protestant traditions, with greater cooperation and dialogue, encouraged by Pope Francis, although there are still pockets of sectarianism. Last year, leaders of the Catholic and main Protestant churches in Germany issued a joint text


A Spanish woman who moved to the UK eight years ago, and who has now settled in Fife with her family, has spoken of the ongoing uncertainties surrounding Brexit and the impact it is having on their lives – including concerns about the “worst racism” she ever witnessed.

Auxi Sousa, 31, who lives in Cardenden with her husband Victor and children Hugo, 7, and Fabio, 3, told The Courier that she and her family were now “fully integrated” into their community and their UK-born children, who hold Spanish passports, are completely settled here.

However, with six months to go until Brexit, the worker at Amazon in Dunfermline, who is also studying for an HND in Accountancy at Fife College, said she and her husband – who works in a GlenrothesSukumaran with Samitha, her son Amal in Palakkad. (Express Photo) Sukumaran with Samitha, her son Amal in Palakkad. (Express Photo)

ELEVEN YEARS ago, he hacked his uncle to death in a fit of rage following a dispute over erecting a mobile tower near their adjoining homes. Today, his life is all about giving a life.

Earlier this year, A Sukumaran, a resident of Pattambi in Kerala’s Palakkad district, donated one of his kidneys to a woman, after a failed attempt at an earlier donation led to the state amending its organ donation law. Then, he mobilised money to help the ill wife of a former fellow prisoner who had died after being released from jail. Today, he is all set to marry her, and adopt her four-year-old son.

“I wanted to


do something to atone,” says the 47-year-old former welder who now sells lottery tickets in Pattambi.

His life has come a full circle, Sukumaran says, since that day in 2007 when he attacked his uncle over what he describes as a “trivial matter”. “The moment my uncle Vasu’s blood fell on me, I felt guilty. I called the police and waited till they came,” he says.

The Palakkad district sessions court sentenced Sukumaran to life imprisonment on October 28, 2010. Lodged in the Kannur central jail, he says he could not forget the family he had “orphaned” — his uncle had wife, two sons and a daughter.

Then, in December 2014, he came across a newspaper report in jail about a couple, Arya Maharshi and Simi from Thrissur, who had donatedhis letter to the then Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala. His request was referred to the Law Department which, in July 2015, decided that there was no hurdle to prevent a convict from donating organs. A year later, a government order was issued to this effect.

In the meantime, Sukumaran had moved the Kerala High Court against his sentence. In October 2015, the High Court commuted his life term to ten years of imprisonment and transferred him to the open jail in Thiruvananthapuram. There, citing his good conduct, Sukumaran was released in July 2017.

“Although I had fought for a prisoner’s right to donate organs, I could not do so while in jail. After being released, I went to Santhi Medical Information Centre in Guruvayur, which


helps people who need kidney transplants,” says Sukumaran.

The centre helped him reach Princy Thankachan, 21, of Kollam who had been undergoing dialysis for five years. Money for the surgery was raised through crowd-funding and the transplant was done five months ago.

Meanwhile, Sukumaran says, he had got estranged from his wife and two children while in jail. In 2013, he had transferred the eight cents of land that he owned to his wife so that she could pledge the property to source money for their daughter’s marriage. “I attended the marriage while I was in prison. Later, a dispute over financial matters distanced me from the family. By the time I was released, the separation was complete,” he says.

After his release, Sukumaran started living in a lodge at Pattambi,President Donald Trump wants to put his stamp on welfare reform.

Trump said at a recent a Cabinet meeting that he wants to tackle welfare reform after concluding work on the tax overhaul he is seeking by the end of the year. He said changes were "desperately needed in our country" and that his administration would soon offer plans.

For now, the president has not offered details.

Changing the welfare system was one of the defining issues of President Bill Clinton's presidency, starting with a campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." The effort continued with a bitter policy fight and produced an overhaul law that remains hotly debated 20 years later.


Astralis have won the fifth season of the Esports Championship Series (ECS) after defeating Liquid 2-0 in the grand final, in London.

Mirage, the first map, was Liquid's pick, but anyone watching the first half would have thought otherwise, as the North American side were dismantled during the early stages of the game. It took Liquid ten rounds and two tactical pauses to finally get something going as Astralis' defence was simply impregnable.

After taking just two rounds, Liquid instantly put Astralis' economy in a very difficult situation. The North Americans were almost caught off-guard in an anti-eco, but Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken saved the day for his team with a 1v3 clutch. The Danes then put their foot down, winning two of the final three rounds of the halfto secure a commanding 11-4 lead.

More misery was to come for Liquid, who lost a 2v1 and then a 4v2, which propelled Astralis into a 15-4 lead. The game looked to be done and dusted, but Liquid's players showed great composure and clawed their way back into the game.

Astralis repeat their title from ECS Season 2

With Twistzz and Keith "NAF" Markovic in stunning form, Liquid won many close situations and took the game all the way to the 30th round, but then Nicolai "device" Reedtz denied the overtime with a decisive 1v1 on the B site to give Astralis the lead in the series.

Map two, Dust2, began with Astralis taking the pistol but then losing the next round following a straight B push from Liquid in a force


buy. The North American side rode their momentum to a 6-1 lead, forcing the Europeans to call a tactical timeout.

Shortly after the pause, Astralis got their second round on the board, only to get instantly reset following a 1v3 clutch from Epitacio "TACO" de Melo. Liquid remained in the driving seat and brought their lead to 10-2, but Astralis tightened up their defence and bagged the final three rounds of the half to keep their hopes alive.

Liquid lost all four pistol rounds in the series

Now on the offensive side, Astralis bagged a chaotic pistol round thanks to three quick kills from Emil "Magisk" Reif on B, taking advantage of a massive blunder from NAF. That was the start of a phenomenal run from the Danish team, who wonclaimed that their material for the album sounded like a bit like Whitney Houston, I nearly spat out my coffee, but it turns out they were completely right.

Clashing funky Kashif-nodding production with fidgety oddness and edgy, restless innovation – and even slotting in a My Bloody Valentine-style moment ‘Lostmyhead’, just for the heck of it – it’s a ridiculous epic of a pop record, and a completely fearless one. And when the video for ‘The Sound’ listed vicious criticism around the band (“Terrible high-pitched vocals”; “Punch-your-TV obnoxious”; “Unconvincing emo lyrics”), it was a bold challenge with the ambition to prove the naysayers wrong . The 1975 proved everyone wrong.

Matty Healy is also the most interesting frontman in music right now. He might come out with endless clangers (he


control his temperament, repeated personal misjudgments, and boorish remarks underscore that Donald Trump 'the candidate' versus 'the man' is a chasm too great to bridge to attract any voters beyond his constituency."

But it backfired. Via an announcement on its website, Arab News declared that it would no longer publish articles by Bowen.

"The reason behind this decision is the columnist insisting that this newspaper deletes previous articles dating back prior to the recent US election where he was in favour of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton," said the news site.

"Mr Bowen also insinuated — verbally and in writing — that he will seek the support of influential friends and contacts to help remove the articles.

"Arab News possesses all correspondence relating to this matter and its position is that such aSend this page to someone via email

OSLO, April 25 (Reuters) – The Arctic‘s quickening thaw is melting the permafrost under buildings and roads from Siberia to Alaska, raising world sea levels and disrupting temperature patterns further south, an international study said on Tuesday.

The frigid region’s shift to warmer and wetter conditions, resulting in melting ice around the region, may cost the world economy trillions of dollars this century, it estimated.

The report by 90 scientists, including United States experts, urged governments with interests in the Arctic to cut greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. President Donald Trump doubts that human activities, led by use of fossil fuels, are the main driver of climate change.

READ MORE: Here’s why thinning Arctic ice could mean trouble for the whole food chain

“The Arctic is warming


warmest since records began in 1900. Sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, which shrank to a record low in 2012, could disappear in summers by the 2030s, earlier than many earlier projections, it said.

Accelerating melt

“The Arctic is continuing to melt, and it’s going faster than expected in 2011,” Lars-Otto Reiersen, head of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) which prepared the report, told Reuters.

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Among signs of harm, thawing permafrost has triggered more landslides at Russia’s Bovanenkovo gas field in Siberia. Rare warmth and spring floods closed the highway to Alaska’s North Slope oilfields for three weeks in 2015.

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2:31 One of the ten largest icebergs is poised to break away from Antarcticaon safe working practices. Such information and education tasks are often delegated to occupational health experts.
The information and education include the following aspects:
The workers have a right to know and get continuously information and training on hazards related to their own work and the workplace.
Confidential health information of an individual worker is subject to special legislation and practices and to informed consent.

Maintaining preparedness for first aid and participation in emergency preparedness

The Basic Occupational Health Services personnel need to be able to provide first aid and train the workplace personnel in first aid activities.
The role of Basic Occupational Health Services in first aid and emergency preparedness:
Providing first aid services at the workplace when appropriate
Introducing and training first aid practices to workers and supervisors
Maintaining and periodically inspecting the first


to the workers. The record-keeping obligations are:
General health record if the workers are treated as patients or health service clients
Data on surveyed, detected and measured occupational exposures and risk assessments which have been made
Statistics on occupational diseases and injuries
Data on health examinations
Documents on proposals for preventive and control measures

There is no trade-off between health and productivity at work. A virtuous circle can be established: improved conditions of work will lead to a healthier work force, which will lead to improved productivity, and hence to the opportunity to create a still healthier, more productive workplace. The idea of providing basic occupational health services deserved special attention, as it would provide countries with a practical tool for identifying priorities and pooling scarce resources to develop an integrative and effective occupationalCaterham given dispensation by F1 Commission to use 2014 car next season

Caterham have been given dispensation by the F1 Commission to use their 2014 car next season should a buyer be found for the team.

The Leafield-based team are currently in administration and missed the United States and Brazilian GPs, only returning to the grid in Abu Dhabi thanks to crowdfunding.

The decision to allow Caterham to continue in 2015 with this year’s car means any potential buyer would not have to worry about paying to build and develop a new car, particularly with pre-season testing just two months away.

With the decision to be ratified by this week's meeting of the World Motorsport Council in Doha, it would allow a new owner to at least be in F1 with a


we conclude that Holderness's conviction for disposal of hazardous waste in violation of a material condition cannot stand, as there is no condition in the permit for the Storey facility which unambiguously limits disposal to waste generated at Storey.

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* Heuer and Holderness were high level management employees at Hi-Shear Technology Corporation, Inc., a propellant manufacturer, which had facilities in Saugus, California and Torrance, California.2  When Hi-Shear moved its manufacturing facility from Saugus to Storey County, Nevada, Holderness became the manager of the Storey facility.  As part of his duties, Holderness applied for a permit from the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP)3 for the disposal of explosive hazardous waste generated during Hi-Shear's manufacture of propellants.  The application was rejected, but NDEP on February 16, 1988issued a temporary permit to dispose of hazardous waste by open-burning at the Storey facility in order to minimize the risk of harm from prolonged storage.4  Although Holderness was aware that he did not have a permit which allowed the storage or disposal at Storey of waste from the Saugus facility, he burned waste transported from Saugus in the burn pit at Storey.  Heuer, the vice-president of operations in charge of Hi-Shear's shipping and receiving department, directed the transport of this waste from Saugus to Storey in Spring 1988.

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NDEP conducted an unannounced inspection of the Storey facility on June 9, 1988.  While on the premises, the inspection team was told by an employee that Hi-Shear had transported hazardous waste from California to Storey.  NDEP


rescinded Hi-Shear's temporary permit and formally notified Hi-Shear of numerous alleged violations.  As part of an attempt to have the permit reinstated, Holderness directed the creation of a backdated bill of lading for the waste transported from Saugus.  This bill of lading, which was typed in July 1988 and dated April 27, 1988, contained a false entry which described M119 propellant waste material as a "gross sample."   Heuer signed the bill of lading, and Holderness submitted it to NDEP.

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Holderness and Heuer were each indicted on one count of making a false statement within the jurisdiction of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 and 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2.  Heuer was also indicted on one count ofthat the history of Holderness's efforts to get permission to burn waste propellant was premised on the mutual understanding of NDEP and Hi-Shear that only waste generated at the Storey facility was to be burned.  It further argues that the existence of this material limitation on the scope of the permit was uncontradicted, based on Holderness's admission that he knew Hi-Shear had no permit to allow the disposal of Saugus waste in the burn pit at Storey.  The government thus posits that the course of dealings between a permit applicant and regulatory authorities may serve to imply a condition into an RCRA permit.

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Assuming that the evidence shows that Holderness knew he had no permit for disposal of waste not generated at Storey, and that the history


material is waste is also a requirement for conviction under Sec. 6928(d)(2)(A).8

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Holderness contends that because the hazardous propellant transported from Saugus was a sample not intended for disposal, he was unaware that the material was waste.  However, there is sufficient evidence that the propellant was intended for disposal, and of Holderness's awareness of this fact.  The Saugus material was stored in a waste bunker at Storey and was not labelled as a "sample" until after NDEP rescinded Hi-Shear's temporary permit and raised questions about the materials transported from Saugus.  Holderness also told a maintenance supervisor that propellant which Holderness had selected for disposal at Storey had come from Saugus.  In addition, Holderness described the item "M119 WASTE" from a handwritten inventory as "M 119waste to be destroyed at Hi-Shear's Storey facility.  The bill of lading dated April 27, 1988 was presented to Heuer for his signature in July 1988 by the vice-president of human resources, William O'Dell, who had typed the document.  When O'Dell presented the bill of the lading to Heuer for his signature, Heuer said that "he'd take care of it."

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Heuer contends that his acquittal on charges of knowingly transporting a shipment of hazardous waste without a manifest is inconsistent with his conviction under Sec. 1001 for falsifying a document regarding the contents of the same shipment.  However, consistency in jury verdicts is not required when considering the sufficiency of evidence.  Johnson, 804 F.2d at 1083.  "The fact that a jury verdict of guilty


Cadet’s Attorney Says Patti Labelle Had Bodyguard Beat Cadet

September 16, 2014

Soul singer Patti LaBelle arrives at the federal courthouse for jury selection Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Houston. A former West Point cadet is suing LaBelle saying she ordered her bodyguards to beat him up as he waited for a ride home outside a Houston airport terminal in 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

An attorney for an ex-West Point cadet told jurors Tuesday that veteran R&B singer Patti LaBelle ordered her bodyguard to beat up the cadet as he waited for a ride home outside a Houston airport terminal, resulting in a brain injury that forced him to drop out of the military academy.

The lawsuit against LaBelle alleges the cadet, Richard King, was waiting for his family to pick himup outside one of the terminals at Bush Intercontinental Airport in March 2011, when LaBelle’s bodyguard and two others attacked him. King had just arrived in Houston, his hometown, while on spring break from West Point.

The trial is expected to last about a week. LaBelle, who was in court Tuesday, was expected to testify.

John Raley, one of King’s lawyers, told jurors his client had a blood alcohol level of 0.28, more than three times the legal limit for driving. But Raley said King was not driving and was not a danger to anyone.

Raley said King was minding his own business outside the airport terminal when he was attacked without provocation by the 400-pound Holmes, as well as by Edwards and Harris.

King later dropped out of West Point because


he said.

Bracken also suggested that King’s career at West Point was ended not by his injuries but by a previous history of poor academic performance.

The first witness for King, a security expert, testified via a video deposition that Holmes’ response as a bodyguard was aggressive and inappropriate. Testimony was to resume Wednesday.

After the incident, Holmes and Harris were charged with misdemeanor assault. The charge against Harris was later dismissed, while Holmes was acquitted in November.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.

LaBelle’s singing career has spanned more than four decades and includes several hit records and two Grammy Awards.board for an amount and then stops before an end or both ends of the board are reached.
When making a stop dado cut, after having made a first pass and after having reset the fixture so as to displace the router and router bit further away from the fence, the new cutting position of the router bit will interfere with the wood. It will not be possible to place the router fully down into the fixture without having to remove some of the remaining wood from the dado cut. In order to accomplish this, a further changing of router bits (to a new bit that can cut on its bottom) in order to penetrate the wood will likely be required. The wood will then need to be penetrated


limitations of your self, your game, your world. There was something of that unearthly quality in Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian racing driver. Ellen MacArthur, the British sailor, has it too.

Waugh has the gift of reducing complex matters to simple ones: he sees without prejudice how best to exploit the opposition's weakness, how best to deploy his own strengths. The approach, cold-blooded, scientific, is that of a general, rather than a character in Sir Thomas Malory.

Waugh has conducted his cricketing campaigns in a mood of dispassionate ferocity. He famously remarked that sledging was "mental disintegration"; but that is not so much the aim of Waugh's sledging as of Waugh's cricket. The batting, bowling and fielding of his teams have all had the aim of causing mental disintegration: a momenta different type of ball. Simon Hughes, still operating as a bowler, asked the plaintive question: "What about intimidatory batting?" Under Waugh, Australia's batting has become the most intimidating aspect of modern cricket. The Australian batsmen seek to frighten opponents every bit as much as the fast-bowling quartet of the 1980s West Indians. They all act the same way, and they're all coming to get you.

Waugh's Australia bat with Waugh's dispassionate ferocity. They bat as a team, with personal glory very much a secondary matter. And above all, they bat fast. In 2001, Australia scored at 3.77 runs an over: breathtakingly fast by traditional standards. In 2002, Australia scored their Test runs at a rate of 3.99 an over. Only once in history has a team scored faster


through a whole year - in 1910, Australia scored their runs at 4.47 every six balls, and there were far fewer Tests then. By comparison, England's run-rate in 2002 was 3.37 - and that was England's fastest rate in almost a century. Other nations are following the Australian lead, but they're not as good at it yet.

South Africa, once dour, now bat at a significantly faster tempo: the first thing they did in 2003 was to score 445 in a day against Pakistan. The sea-change in Michael Vaughan of England over the past year was in tempo. Speed is not an accident. It is a tactic. It can't be done without very good players, but it is not the direct result of having good players. It is theSweden’s central bank asks the Bank for Foreign Settlements (BIS) to host the digital currency innovation hub.

The Riksbank began developing its central digital currency bank (CBDC) last month.

In order for the hub to be located in Sweden, the lender needs to take some steps to co-finance the operation, the central bank said.

Accordingly, the Riksbank has proposed amending the Sveriges Riksbank Act, asking the Swedish Parliament to allow funding the activities of foreign organizations.

In addition, the central bank has asked approval from the Parliament to co-finance these activities for a term of five years and at a maximum cost of 30 million Swedish kronas ($3.1 million) a year if the BIS plans to establish a hub in Sweden.

Hub allows improvement of global payment

In 2019, the BIS has developed the


John Harris

John is a seasoned investor, operating executive and corporate director with significant experience founding, funding and developing early-stage life sciences and technology companies.

Prior to co-founding JAZZ Venture Partners, John was the founder, President and CEO of NeuroVista, a Seattle-based medical device company pioneering new technologies for the management and treatment of epilepsy. NeuroVista was acquired by Cyberonics in 2013 (NASDAQ: CYBX). John was also a founder and the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Northstar Neuroscience, which went public in 2006 (NASDAQ: NSTR) and was subsequently acquired by St. Jude Medial (NYSE: STJ). Prior to founding Northstar, he was a founder of Heartstream, a company that revolutionized the treatment of sudden cardiac arrest with uniquely designed external defibrillators that remain the market leader and canbe found in airports, airplanes, stadiums, public buildings and many other locations. Heartstream went public in 1996, was subsequently acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ).

John is also a cofounder of ClearFlow, MDI Partners, and VenX, and has held board positions with Setpoint Medical, Mirador Biomedical, ExoLabs and Norfil Manufacturing.

John holds a BS in industrial engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.


One step forward, one step back – The Golf Club 2 review

Games have been relying on user-created content for years now with games like LittleBigPlanet and Super Mario Maker making a killing off the concept. When The Golf Club released in 2014, its unique means of generating created courses made it clear that the franchise was heading in a different direction than the traditional PGA games. Instead of grabbing the PGA license, developers HB Studios were focusing on building a unique world filled with wild user creations. At the time, it worked, but there was still a lot to be desired when it came to replayability. In The Golf Club 2, HB Studios attempt to rectify that con by adding a form of career mode, online societies, andMar 13, 2009

Big applause for hypocrisy

By Jawed Naqvi

Today, it has less to do with organised religion and is more about the music and revelry that goes back to the 19th century court of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Muslim king of Oudh. There are a dozen religious legends to explain the festival but a more convincing one is that it celebrates the changing of a season. Perhaps the most popular Holi song is the one filmed on a Muslim actress in the 1950’s movie Mother India. A Muslim director made the film and it missed the Oscar by a whisker. The song’s lyricist, music composer and singer were Muslims though until very recently it was not required to underline that fact. Indians were more unselfconsciously secular then. ‘Holi


According to recent reports, the United States has denied a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Javed Zarif, thus preventing him from addressing the United Nations in New York later this week. Despite the inevitable hyperbolic reactions we are likely to witness among the press, it is our port of entry, and the United States has every right to deny admittance to any individual for a host of reasons.

The Trump Administration was correct in thwarting Zarif’s propagandized pity tour. In fact, merely hours after Qassam Soleimani’s death, the Iranian regime was already lobbying the UN to condemn the targeted killing of the Quds Force leader, referring to the action as an “assassination” and “gross violation” of international law, while alleging that Trump’s economic sanctions against the regime amounted toCoat of Paint" on this album... "Shiver Me Timbers", "Fumblin' with the Blues", "Depot Depot" are great... the whole album is great!

I dig all the songs on this album... reminds me of Youngstown, Ohio in the early 80's when I was running around town with friends, listening to live music, playing harp, partying with friends and having fun... times were simpler back then.


environment, and to the health and well-being of people everywhere.

Pioneering work at the California Regional Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis(http://www.ucdavis.edu/) is bringing a new understanding of the relationship between air pollution, common allergies and asthma.

The research, largely funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences(http://www.niehs.nih.gov), a part of the National Institutes of Health(http://www.nih.gov) , shows for the first time that occasional exposure to the air pollutant ozone (the main substance in smog) can change how the lungs of young rhesus monkeys develop, and can lead to a disease similar to childhood asthma in humans.

"We have the first real monkey model of human asthma here," says Dallas Hyde, co-investigator and interim director of the CRPRC. "What we are seeing is quite disturbing, as we would nothave assumed these levels (of ozone) would change lung development".

Asthma affects nearly 15 million people in the United States, one-third of them children under 18. "Asthma does seem to be increasing," says Jesse Joad, another member of the team, who runs the pediatric asthma program at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. "It is a very common disease, mostly treated in primary care," she says.

Although a direct link between ozone pollution and childhood asthma has yet to be proven, Joad has noticed that when air quality goes down, admissions with severe asthma go up. "We had a really bad week of admissions in mid-September," she says, "when there were high ozone days at the beginning of the week." Children admitted to the clinic are often from inner-city