30 years ago, people voted to be in a very different Europe from what we have now. There have, rightly, been many important changes as the European Union has developed and grown in size. But the British people have not had the opportunity to vote on those changes.

"Because of the Speaker's decision, they will be denied the opportunity to decide whether or not they want to stay in the EU.

"Labour and the Conservatives have colluded to prevent the real referendum on Europe taking place. The Conservatives are proposing a vote on the narrow issue of the Lisbon Treaty. Meanwhile, as the events in the Commons show, the Labour Party is terrified of an open debate on the real issue.

"However, the Liberal Democrats have not yet given up hope120, and 180 min after the drink. Participants' dietary intake the day before the OGTT at baseline was recorded, and we asked participants to follow a similar dietary pattern at the end of the study. Glucose was measured with an YSI Biochemistry Analyzer (YSI Inc., Yellow Springs, OH, United States) and insulin by ELISA according to the manufacturer's guidelines (ThermoFisher Scientific); all samples were measured in duplicate. Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) values were obtained through a commercial clinical analysis company (LabCorp, United States). Glycated serum protein (GSP), a shorter measure of glycemic control, was assessed by enzymatic assay using manufacturer's guidelines (Diazyme, Poway, CA, United States). The homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was calculated as described previously using the HOMA2-IR online calculator using fasting glucose and insulin


A new report has leaked information that the Turkish spy agency has over 6,000 operatives in Germany and may reach into neighbouring Austria as well.

According to a new report from German media, the Turkish intelligence service, known at MIT, has over 6,000 operatives in Germany and may play a part in the recent pro-Erdogan sentiment among the Turkish diaspora.

The MIT has even pressured German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere to act against supporters of Imam Fethullah Gülen, the man President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for being behind the failed coup last month. The MIT have allowed Erdogan to keep close ties to the Turkish community in Germany Kronen Zeitung reports.

Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, an expert on intelligence agencies in Germany said: “The activities of the Turkish secret service MIT wereThe country is Argentina, chiefly unknown to most Americans, apart from its creation of the tango . This ignorance on our part is inexcusable, since Argentina resembles an America that went awry.

The next election may determine where America is headed -- to a restoration of its greatness, or to a retreat into the obsolescence of history. Before one casts a vote, an example stands before us of a country that made the wrong choice, warning us what to avoid.

Argentina's statistics are astounding.

Argentina is a little less than half the size of the continental United States, with a climate that runs from polar in the south to tropical in the north. Most of Argentina's land mass is in the subtropical belt, where one finds the pampas -- arguably the


best beef- and grain-growing region on the planet. The warm extended growing season gives Argentina an advantage over our cooler Kansas and Nebraska. There are times when Argentina has exceeded the USA in cattle product exports, and this production has been going on for over a century. Its grain exports are enormous, and much of the planet depends on Argentina for food. This is all the more amazing when one considers that Argentina has only 41 million people, one eighth the population of the United States. In the early 20th century, the ratio vis-à-vis the United States was even smaller, and still the Argentines could outperform us on agricultural exports at times.

Argentina, like the United States, had massive European immigration from 1870 to 1920. Large numbers of Italians,Germans, French, Jews, Welsh, Christian Arabs from Syria and Lebanon, Swiss, Basques, Croats, and Galacians from Northwest Spain settled in. There were even some Irish, English, Poles, Ukrainians, and Scandanavians, though in considerably smaller numbers.

Blacks constitute only 3% of the Argentine genome, and most of those who carry African genes are now partly white through intermarriage. The chief nonwhite minority are the indigenous native Indians, who constitute about 19% of the Argentine genome.

On a genetic level, Argentina may be more "European" than we Americans, though tending more to the Mediterranean than the Nordic. About half the population has traces of Indian blood, but even these often pass for swarthy whites. For all intents and purposes, Argentina, until recently, was a white European country, and boasted of it. The


damage caused by the elites, who would then spend the country into bankruptcy and social disintegration, followed by a military junta that tried to clean up the mess, and that would then reinstall the corrupt elites. This cycle effectively defines Argentina's history.

In the 1930s, during the Depression, the corrupt elite overthrew the socialist President Hipolito Yrigoyen, with the assistance of Standard Oil, to install right-wing strongman José Uriburu. Later, in order to preserve the wealth generated from agricultural exports to the British Empire, the government signed the scandalous Roca-Runciman trade agreement which allowed Britain to dump its goods in Argentina while giving Argentina only a minimal grain export quota. The elite sold out the country to preserve their status. Argentine industry was hammered, and the urban poor destroyed,just to keep a few land barons in money. The government was overthrown by a fascist military coup in 1943, partly out to correct the abuse, only to have one junta leader, Juan Perón, overcompensate and spend the country into bankruptcy with social programs. Though initially right-wing, Perón would later turn out to be a grotesquely socialist strongman who would squander Argentina's enormous postwar wealth so foolishly that it astounded the planet and is still the stuff of legend.

The enormity of the damage can be understood only when one realizes that during World War II, one quarter of the food in Britain came from Argentina on credit. By 1945, the situation had reversed from Argentina's low in 1933, and now Britain was in serious debt to Argentina. Argentina


was swimming in wealth. Argentina was arguably the second-richest nation on the planet, and possibly the first, when one realizes that it had no war debt like the United States. When Perón demanded that Britain pay up, he nearly collapsed the British economy, and Britain had to ask for America to intervene.

A wise Argentine government could have properly encouraged the windfall to be allocated for maximum benefit. Perón set up hospitals and schools for the poor -- which infuriated the ruthless landed elite, who preferred a subservient underclass kept as peons and servants. He properly redressed some of the disparity. He gave women the vote, though with his election-rigging, it was as much a charade as anything, but it made Perón a popular dictator of sorts. He wouldhave won the elections without the rigging; he just preferred landslides. His movie-star wife, Evita, made for good press.

But Perón started spending the war surplus like a drunken sailor. He bought thousands of tractors from the United States that no one needed. He tried to start a jet fighter industry to compete with the United States -- a fiasco of enormous proportions.

Perón purposefully picked unnecessary fights with Britain (He demanded the Falklands back in 1945) and America, upset at Argentina's bullying of neighboring countries.

Perón's most scandalous waste of money was financing an Austrian war refugee, Ronald Richter, who claimed to have come up with a way to harness energy from cold fusion. No one really knows if Richter had a Ph.D., but he convinced Perón, who spent hundreds


of millions of dollars on the idiotic scheme and caused an international panic in 1951, when he announced that Argentina had produced a fusion reaction -- before the USA or Russia. For a month, though skeptical, the world held its breath, worried that some Nazi refugees might actually have pushed an Argentina run by a lunatic Perón to the front of the atomic race. In the end, it turned out to be a fiasco and became a gigantic embarrassment, but not before the Argentine government had once again squandered the national wealth.

Eventually the military, which had initially installed Perón, overthrew him in 1955, after two previous failed attempts to get rid of him, and Perón fled to Spain. He was followed by a series of military and progressivegovernment administrations. The progressives were always threatened with military takeover if they went too far. The military was terrified of a very real underground Peronist movement coming back to power, which Perón was organizing from his exile in Spain. At times, the military overthrew presidents who stepped out of line.

Eventually, civil strife forced Argentina to allow Perón's return in 1973. He soon resumed power. After his death, there followed a government led by his incompetent third wife, Isábel Perón, and another junta, which installed itself to prevent a communist takeover in 1976. The brutal and corrupt junta fell in 1983, after its defeat in the Falklands War. This was followed by a semi-competent government which, saddled with an economic disaster, could not decide if it wanted to be


conservative or interventionist as regarded the economy. Then came the government of Carlos Menem who, claiming to believe in a free economy, sold rich nationalized industries to private companies for a song in deals so corrupt as to be breathtaking. Free spending ruled the day, and Argentina collapsed in 200,1 when the middle class had their life savings wiped out literally overnight, while the rich were allowed to rescue their foreign reserves.

Then came the reign of the left-wing Kirchners, whom the Argentines ruefully call the Clintonistas, after Bill and Hillary -- and the only thing preventing another junta from cleaning up the mess, once again, is that the army was downsized after the Falklands debacle.

An imperious elite which cared nothing for the poor and sold out the countryminor has wearing long beards or face veils.

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BIRMINGHAM, England, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the final push to rid the world of a crippling and potentially fatal disease, Rotary International today announced that it has raised US$90.7 million toward its US$200 Million Challenge, a fundraising effort to end polio worldwide.

Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Jonathan Majiyagbe announced the new figure to an international audience of 18,000 Rotary members at the organization's annual convention in Birmingham. Also present was actress Mia Farrow, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and polio survivor.

"I am extremely grateful and proud to be a part of such an impressive alliance," said Farrow. "I perhaps am more motivated than most people because I had polio myself when I was nine, and it was a real struggle to come through it. And what I saw aroundagreement that will provide US$555 million to the global health initiative within the next three years.

In late 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation originally challenged Rotary members to match a US$100 million grant, dollar-for-dollar. Yet due to Rotary's extraordinary progress despite a faltering global economy, Bill Gates announced an additional challenge in January 2009.

Since 1985, when polio paralyzed more than 350,000 children in 125 countries every year, ending polio has been Rotary's top philanthropic goal. Since then, polio cases have been slashed by 99 percent worldwide, with fewer than 2,000 in 2008, and just four countries remain polio-endemic: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan.

"While most of the world is polio-free, this vaccine-preventable disease still threatens children in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East," said Majiyagbe. "And


because polio is a virus that moves from child-to-child, it is capable of re-emerging anywhere in the world if we let down our guard. Rotary is committed to eradicating this disease once and for all."

Polio eradication - which hinges on vaccinating all children under the age of five years - is seen as a model for reaching families worldwide with the necessities needed to improve lives.

"The progress made in some of the most challenging areas of the world proves that with enough commitment and support, we can end polio worldwide," said Rotary International President Dong-Kurn Lee.

As the volunteer arm and top private sector contributor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative - a public private partnership spearheaded by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the US Centres for DiseaseThe first video sees mobster-turned-family man Michael explaining his life to a therapist. He's semi-retired from breaking the law but is still more at home with a gun in his hand.

His children are a handful, his wife may be having an affair. He's looking for an escape - and violence may be the answer.

"I'm rich, I'm miserable," he says. "I'm pretty average for this town."

Franklin's trailer reveals more about his gang life - an existence fuelled by guns, women and running from the law. Amid car chases and helicopter pursuits, Franklin is shown to be a man grown tired of crime.

And then there's Trevor, the larger-than-life psychopath and drug dealer who appears to be in the business simply because he loves it.

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A report on the the February 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting shows no progress in implementing safety measures since the April 20, 1999, Columbine attack.

The Sun-Sentinel published their own report, which examines the use of unarmed security monitors. In lieu of guns, the security personnel had radios, yet two monitors spotted and recognized the gunman before shots were fired yet failed to call a Code Red to lock down campus.

The school had an armed resource officer on campus–Broward Deputy Scot Peterson–but he “remained sheltered [outside the school building] for nearly 48 minutes, watching as other officers enter the building.”

On March 15, 2018, Breitbart News published surveillance video allegedly showing Peterson outside Build 12 while the shooting was carried out inside. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel indicatedthat Peterson arrived at Building 12 roughly 90 seconds after the attack began.

He remained outside as the gunman went on a floor by floor shooting spree, that included stopping to reload five times.

Roughly six minutes after the attack was over, Peterson was still huddled up, sheltering in place outside. He told approaching Coral Springs officers that the gunman was on the second or third floor when, in fact, the gunman had already fled the building. Surveillance video shows the gunman–now unarmed–running across campus and going to Walmart, where he “ordered a drink at Subway.”

He left Walmart and went to McDonald’s, where he remained but a short time.

The commission instigating the Parkland shooting report noted the absence of safety as well, and voted 13-1 to recommend arming teachers at


McCRORY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim November 2013, as “AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH” in North Carolina, and commend its observance to all citizens.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth.Pulmonary and Critical Care In-Service Training Examination Score as a Predictor of Board Certification Examination Performance.
Most trainees in combined pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship programs complete in-service training examinations (ITEs) that test knowledge in both disciplines. Whether ITE scores predict performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease Certification Examination and Critical Care Medicine Certification Examination is unknown. To determine whether pulmonary and critical care medicine ITE scores predict performance on subspecialty board certification examinations independently of trainee demographics, program director competency ratings, fellowship program characteristics, and prior medical knowledge assessments. First- and second-year fellows who were enrolled in the study between 2008 and 2012 completed a questionnaire encompassing demographics and fellowship training characteristics. These data and ITE scores were matched to fellows' subsequent scores


a case study to learn and to further develop our knowledge,” Roivas said in an interview on Wednesday.

The 2007 attacks, which occurred amid tension with Russia, brought government, finance and media websites to a standstill, prompting Estonia to overhaul its defenses in collaboration with experts from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union.

The following year, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence was established in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.

“(Japan) can take the positives out of cyberattacks in terms of learning to defend yourselves,” Roivas said.

In Friday’s talks, Abe and Roivas affirmed their shared desire for the swift conclusion of an economic partnership agreement being negotiated between Japan and the 28-nation European Union, of which Estonia is a member. Roivas called for the signing ofthe free trade pact before the end of this year.

The leaders also vowed to speed up negotiations for a bilateral tax treaty aimed at boosting business cooperation.

In a sign of increasing business ties between the two countries, Roivas met Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani on Wednesday to explore further collaboration with the e-commerce giant.

Abe and Roivas also condemned attempts to force shifts in the geopolitical status quo, including what they called the “illegal annexation” of the Crimea region in eastern Ukraine by Russia in 2014. Their reference to such attempts was also a veiled criticism of China’s increased muscle-flexing in the East China and South China seas.


All this, it is comforting to know, is being led by the climate-change activist Dr David Viner, formerly employed by East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (the focus of the "Climategate" emails scandal), who is most famous for the prediction he made in 2001, that within a few years winter snow would become "a very rare and exciting event". No doubt the climate champions we are funding in the eastern US will have been grateful for our support last week as they tried to explain the several feet of snow across the region which broke records established in the 1880s. What it all has to do with Macbeth or Pride and Prejudice is something of a mystery.the Southern District of New York. The Attorneys General of Arkansas, Kentucky, New York, Oklahoma and Tennessee oppose the motion, as does the New York Commissioner of Taxation and Finance. Certain plaintiffs in the other Southern District of New York action and plaintiffs in the Northern District of Oklahoma action initially opposed the motion; however, at oral argument, these plaintiffs withdrew their opposition to the motion and expressed their support for 1407 centralization in the Southern District of New York.
On the basis of the papers filed and hearing session held, the Panel finds that *1356 Section 1407 centralization would neither the convenience of the parties and witnesses nor further the just and efficient conduct of this litigation. Movants have failed to persuade us that any common questions of


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Lois Hubanks - Area 1

Ms. Lois Hubanks grew up in Denver, Colorado. She majored in Physical Education at Greeley College in Colorardo; now know as Northern Colorado University. Mrs. Hubanks was recruited to the beautiful sunny San Joaquin Valley as a Physical Education teacher at Lemoore High School where she taught for 34 years.

Throughout her 34 years, she started the Girls Gymnastics program, coached Diving, and was head of her department.

She was elected to the Lemoore High School Board in 2002 and inducted into the Lemoore High School Hall of Fame in 2006. She is very active with ALL activities at Lemoore High School and is said that she “bleeds purple and gold”.

Mrs. Lois Hubanks in Lemoore. Both of her children attended and graduatedfrom Lemoore High School. In her spare time, she enjoys her two granddaughters and grandson. She enjoys substitute teaching at the primary level and gardening.

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Jeanne Castadio - Area 2

Jeanne Burrows-Castadio was born in Visalia, CA in 1964 and was raised in Lemoore. She attended Lemoore schools including Lemoore High School which she holds very near and dear to her heart. She is a second generation alumni of Lemoore High School and is second in her family to hold a seat on the board of trustees, as her grandfather Val Burrows was a trustee in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Jeanne has been married to her husband Brian for 32 years and have raised four children together. They are all graduates of Lemoore High.

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is corporate secretary for her family’s business, G.V. Burrows, Inc., and has a wealth of knowledge in making financial decisions, including budgets and purchasing, as well as employment decisions.

As a board member she has volunteered countless hours in fundraising and supporting various student activities including sports dinners, senior exit interviews, proctoring tests, orientation, and Sober Grad.

Jeanne was elected to the Lemoore High School District board of trustee’s in 2012 and again in 2014. She strives to do her best in making the correct decisions for the well-being of the students, staff and faculty of the district as well as for the community of Lemoore.

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Dr. Guadalupe Solis - Board President - Area 3

Dr. Guadalupe Solis has been a long time resident of Lemoore. Presently Dr.Solis is the Deputy Superintendent of Instructional Services for Tulare County Office of Educaiton. He has served as an educator for over forty years mainly in Kings and Tulare counties. His educational roles have been as an elementary and high school teacher, track and cross country Coach, adjunct professor, Lemoore High School Principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent of a school district.

Dr. Solis and his wife raised two children who attended Lemoore Schools. His granchildren currently attend Lemoore Schools. Dr. Solis is committed to the art of teaching and using active pedagogy to grow the minds of all students. "We must challenge our students to dream beyond their potential, work hard and become the next generation of world stewards."

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John Droogh - Board Clerk - Area


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John was born in Lynwood, CA and moved with his family to Lemoore in 1974. He attended high school at Lemoore High and graduated with the class of 1979. He has been serving on the Lemoore Union High School District Board of Trustees since 2013.

John has owned and operated a dairy and farm in Lemoore since 1980. He is a member of the Lemoore FFA Boosters Club, Riverdale Lions Club President, and has coached soccer in the community for more than 20 years. His most recent honor is being selected as Kings County Dairy Family of the year for 2015-16.

He and his wife Collete have four daughters that have all graduated from LHS. His oldest graduated from San Diego State University, go Aztecs. His second daughter from CalPoly, SLO, go Mustangs. His third from University of Califonia Santa Barbara, go Gauchos, and the fourth is attending Washington State University, go Cougs. John will always continue to support Lemoore High School, Go TIGERS!!!

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Jason Orton - Area 5

Jason Orton grew up on a farm in Stratford, California and is one of five generations of his family to have attended Lemoore High School. He attended Fresno State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Leadership and Organizational Studies from Fresno Pacific University. Jason has completed industry training programs at The Ohio State University’s Agricultural Technical Institute and Texas A & M’s Industrial Development program.

He currently is part owner of Orton’s Equipment Company,


a farm equipment business in Stratford that has been in his family for over 110 years.

Jason and his wife Christa have four children. Their oldest is a graduate of LHS and is attending BYU Idaho. Their youngest daughter attends LHS and their son will be attending LHS beginning 2017.

Jason volunteers as an Assistant Scoutmaster with Lemoore Troop 461, Boy Scouts of America and is a member of SHRM of Tulare/Kings Counties.Isolated dinosaur teeth recovered from seven localities near Fuxin (western Liaoning Province, northeastern China) are described. They come from sediments belonging to the Shahai and Fuxin formations, considered to be Aptian to Albian in age. Seven taxa have been recognized. They include the oviraptorosaur Incisivosaurus, dromaeosaurid theropods, Euhelopus-like sauropods, as well as indeterminate nodosaurid, ankylosaurid, iguanodontoid and basal neoceratopsian ornithischians. The Shahai and Fuxin dinosaur faunas show the persistence of some Jehol biota taxa such as the highly specialised Incisivosaurus, basal titanosauriform sauropods, basal neoceratopsians and some dromaeosaurids, and the addition of more derived iguanodontoids and ankylosaurians. The persistence of some dinosaurs of the Jehol Biota into the Shahai and Fuxin formations suggests a long term stability of Liaoning terrestrial environments during the Early Cretaceous. Despite sampling bias


in the areas of El Castellar and Riodeva. The material from the latter consists of the postcranial remains of the axial, pelvic and appendicular skeleton of several different sized specimens related to the genus Dacentrurus. The footprints made by a stegosaurian at El Castellar site reflect a new type of medium gauge trackway: Deltapodus ibericus isp. nov. The presence of these tracks near abundant bones related to Dacentrurus highlights this geological formation as a window through which to examine the systematics, behaviour and palaeoecology of these thyreophoran dinosaurs. Since these fossil bones were discovered next to those of other sauropods and ornithopods (Turiasaurus and Ornithopoda indet.) where there has been virtually no transport of the remains, and since stegosaurian tracks have been found in ichnoassociations with the samegroups, they may have coexisted in the wetlands of restricted tidal environments during the Tithonian–Berriasian. The presence of common (or at least phylogenetically closely related) taxa and ichnotaxa in Western Europe, North America and Africa indicates that sea–level fall episodes may have occurred during which the fauna of each area may have reached the emerged regions of the others during the Late Jurassic.

The holotype of Brachylophosaurus canadensis was collected by C.M. Sternberg in 1936 from the Oldman Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada, with a brief description focusing on the cranium following in 1953. A re-description of the holotype skeleton confirms its position as a hadrosaurine dinosaur exhibiting the following unique combination of characters: paddle-like solid nasal crest; posteriorly elongated prefrontal; only the anterior tip of the lacrimal


expansion of the parasphenoid rostrum, (3) posterior trochlear ridge of the humerus projecting distal to the middle trochlear ridge and conformed as a large, broadly curved surface, (4) convex articular surface for the antitrochanter of the femur, and (5) extremely weak anterior projection of the lateral condyle of the tibiotarsus. The skull of Perudyptes is characterized by deep temporal fossae and an elongate, narrow beak that differs from other reported stem penguins in its short mandibular symphysis. The wing skeleton of Perudyptes preserves a combination of plesiomorphic features also observed in the basal penguin Waimanu and derived features shared with more crownward penguins. Features of the wing optimized as primitive for Sphenisciformes include retention of a discrete dorsal supracondylar tubercle on the humerus and presence of a modestlyprojected pisiform process on the carpometacarpus. Derived features present in Perudyptes and all more crownward penguins, but absent in Waimanu, include a more flattened humerus, development of a trochlea for the tendon of m. scapulotriceps at the distal end of the humerus, and bowing of the anterior face of the carpometacarpus.
A combined molecular and morphological dataset for Spheniciformes was expanded by adding 25 osteological and soft tissue characters as well as 11 taxa. In agreement with previous results, Perudyptes devriesi is identified as one of the most basal members of Sphenisciformes. This analysis also confirms the placement of the middle/late Miocene (~11–13 Ma) fossil Spheniscus muizoni as a member of the Spheniscus clade and places the late Miocene (~10 Ma) Madrynornis mirandus as sister taxon to extant Eudyptes.


in North America and Asia. The split between saurolophines and lambeosaurines occurred in response to vicariance no later than the Late Santonian: the former clade originated in North America, whereas the latter did so in Asia. Saurolophine biogeographical history included a minimum of five dispersal events followed by vicariance. Four of these dispersals were inferred to have occurred from North America to Asia during the Campanian and Early Maastrichtian, whereas a fifth event represented a southward dispersal from North to South America no later than the Late Campanian. The historical biogeography of lambeosaurines was characterized by an early evolution in Asia, with a Campanian dispersal to the European archipelago followed by vicariance. Reconstruction of the ancestral areas for the deepest nodes uniting the more derived lambeosaurines clades ('hypacrosaurs','corythosaurs', and 'parasaurolophs') is ambiguous. The split between North American and Asian clades of 'hypacrosaurs' and 'parasaurolophs' occurred in response to vicariance during the Campanian. The evolutionary history of North American 'hypacrosaurs' and 'parasaurolophs' was characterized by duplication events. The latter also characterized the Late Campanian 'corythosaurs', which remained restricted to North America.

The late Cretaceous hadrosaurids were the most specialized and diverse clade of ornithopod dinosaurs. Parsimony and Bayesian methods were implemented to elucidate the phylogenetic relationships of all hadrosaurid species. Traditional and geometric morphometrics were applied to discover patterns of variation containing phylogenetic information. In total, 286 phylogenetically informative characters (196 cranial and 90 postcranial) were defined and documented: the most extensive character data set ever constructed for hadrosaurid dinosaurs. Of these, 136 characters were used for


the first time in phylogenetic analysis of these ornithopods, and 93 were modified from those of other authors. Parsimony and the Bayesian analysis (using the Mk model without the gamma parameter) confirmed the split of hadrosaurids into Saurolophinae and Lambeosaurinae. Saurolophines included a major clade composed of the Prosaurolophus–Saurolophus and the Kritosaurus–Gryposaurus–Secernosaurus subclades. Edmontosaurus and Shantungosaurus were recovered outside the major clade of saurolophines. The Brachylophosaurus clade was recovered as the most basal clade of saurolophines in the parsimony analysis, whereas following the Bayesian analysis it was recovered as the sister clade to the Kritosaurus–Gryposaurus–Secernosaurus clade. These two analyses resulted in a Lambeosaurinae composed of a succession of Eurasian sister taxa to two major clades: the Parasaurolophus clade and the Hypacrosaurs altispinus–Corythosaurus clade. In contrast, the Bayesian analysisThe municipality of Stavanger in Norway has just received a hyper detailed model of their city in Minecraft. The model will be used to involve children and young people in the future design of the city.

City of Stavanger, Norway – compiled in Minecraft by GeoBoxers. CLICK ON THE IMAGE to move and zoom in the overview.

Central Stavanger is planned to undergo large changes the coming years, and this summer citizens have been invited to give their opinion about the plans through a public hearing. To ensure the engagement and involvement from the city’s youngest inhabitants, the municipality hired GeoBoxers to make a detailed Minecraft model of the central parts of Stavanger.

Stavanger City in Minecraft – this small bay is called Vågen. The new planned buildings are shown in


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Aim: Climate change may cause a fundamental change in the productivity patterns of the North Sea ecosystem with consequences for management. We aim to provide a detailed spatial overview of the past, present and future ecosystem features of the North Sea (with an emphasis on the Nederlands Continentaal Plat (NCP), i.e. the Dutch part of the North Sea) in relationship to climate change. Background Large open waters in the Rhine delta include lake IJssel, the Wadden Sea and the Netherlands Continental Shelf. These waters are vulnerable ecosystems and under substantial pressure. Climate change will have a profound impact on the fluxes of river water (and nutrients and other pollutants) into the Dutch coastal waters. In addition temperature and re-suspension of silt by wind forcing will change. Consequentlyon-site to produce a three dimensional structure.

Generally however it was considered that uptake was poor. Richard Jones, a partner at EC Harris, said, “…for years the industry tried to push modern methods of construction and it never really took off because it required a different approach and at the time the housebuilders didn't need a different approach. They were doing okay the way things were.”

The Barker 33 Group identified a number of barriers to uptake, including; approval delays, regulatory complexity and change, inadequate certification and the training needs of site and professional staff. Dr Ashley Lane, chair of the Barker 33 Group said "The issue is not about the product. It's about skills: logistics and planning and project management, training labour, education."

A study by the NHBCfoundation, published in


June 2016 found that 98% of the organisations had used or considered the use of an MMC approach on at least one of their developments in the previous three years. More than 75% cited a faster build programme and more than 50% suggested there was improved build quality. Ref Modern methods of construction: views from the industry (NF70)

However, the majority of organisations considered themselves 'late adopters' or 'followers' of the volumetric construction, pod and panelised forms of MMC, not 'market leaders'

Neil Smith, Head of Research and Innovation at NHBC said: “This report shows the high hopes invested in MMC, as a means of delivering transformational change to the house-building industry, have not yet been realised on the scale anticipated by its champions. It also illustrates that although cautiousits cinematic cousin, is a trilogy’s middle chapter that ends with its heroes outnumbered, outgunned, and less certain of their victory than they were at the end of the previous installment. Infinity War, if anything, goes darker; not only does the movie end on a cliffhanger that leaves its villain, Thanos, ahead of its army of superheroes, many of the superheroes disintegrate into dust at the snap of the big purple guy’s newly empowered fingers. The movie ends with its villain basking in the glow of a job well-done, and its heroes counting their dead.

Despite reports of younger viewers bursting into tears, this twist (expected by some comics devotees, but not general audiences) leaves most Avengers fans breathless with a combination of exhilaration, surprise, and anticipation. (Reviews have


play at the park
unsupervised, Gainey was interrogated, arrested and handcuffed in front
of her son, and transported to the local jail where she was physically
searched, fingerprinted, photographed and held for seven hours and then
forced to pay almost $4000 in bond in order to return to her family.
Gainey’s family and friends were subsequently questioned by the Dept. of
Child Services. Gainey now faces a third-degree criminal felony charge
that carries with it a fine of up to $5,000 and 5 years in jail.

For Denise Stewart, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time,
whether or not she had done anything wrong, was sufficient to get her
arrested.

The 48-year-old New York grandmother was dragged half-naked out of
her apartment and handcuffed after police mistakenly raided her home
when responding to a domestic disturbance call. AlthoughLouisiana’s Story Is More Than Shale

Oil patch activity in north Louisiana with its many aging oil and gas fields has long been overshadowed by E&P action in the southern part of the state.

After all, Cajun country is a region where often-big deep finds in the many hydrocarbon-rich deposits, particularly the Miocene, attract considerable attention – and investment capital.

Leave it to one of the sexy shale plays to shake up the status quo.

Once the attention-grabbing Haynesville shale gas play came into being in the northwestern part of the state, old was new again and the area became a kind of beacon to oil patch players who came running, seemingly toting bags of greenbacks.

Suddenly, south Louisiana appeared to be so yesterday.

Nonsense, according to many in-the-know folks who continue to view


John Lithgow's excellent portrayal of Winston Churchill.

However as a stickler for detail in this period stuff I was disappointed with the last episode (spoiler alert) which centred around the Profumo affair and in particular the arrest and trial of Stephen Ward. At the end of the trial the judge announces an adjournment for sentencing and a gavel slams down for dramatic effect. British judges don't and never have used gavels. Then as Ward lay dead from suicide in his flat the telephone rings unanswered and the scene moves to a thoughtful Queen at Buckingham Palace still with an unanswered telephone ringing but with the singular American ring tone instead of the double ring from a British phone.
It fucking annoys me that such details are missed. Anyway, otherwise anenjoyed it, superb performances from Claire Foy and Matt Smith as Mr.& Mrs. Queen and a special mention to John Lithgow's excellent portrayal of Winston Churchill.

However as a stickler for detail in this period stuff I was disappointed with the last episode (spoiler alert) which centred around the Profumo affair and in particular the arrest and trial of Stephen Ward. At the end of the trial the judge announces an adjournment for sentencing and a gavel slams down for dramatic effect. British judges don't and never have used gavels. Then as Ward lay dead from suicide in his flat the telephone rings unanswered and the scene moves to a thoughtful Queen at Buckingham Palace still with an unanswered telephone ringing but with the singular American ring tone instead


in the Trump thread, but here's his words in context-

Unknown: "She used to be great, she's still very beautiful."

Trump: "I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married."

Unknown: "That's huge news there."

Trump: "No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I'll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look."

Bush:in the Trump thread, but here's his words in context-

Unknown: "She used to be great, she's still very beautiful."

Trump: "I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married."

Unknown: "That's huge news there."

Trump: "No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I'll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look."

Bush:


with a death grip by the one-eyed.

WTF are you talking about? Are you really denying he said it?

Did he say the words "grab them by the pussy"? Yes he did. The question is what the surrounding words were and the context. Did he say that he likes to grab women by the pussy or that he ever has done so? No he did not.

Well, jeepers, mister, this really belongs in the Trump thread, but here's his words in context-

Unknown: "She used to be great, she's still very beautiful."

Trump: "I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married."

Unknown: "That's huge news there."

Trump: "No, no, Nancy. No180. He's telling two stories to amuse Billy Bush. In the first one, he spent money and time on a woman he wanted to impress and got nowhere. It's a self deprecating story. The way he describes himself in the second story is immediately undercut by his actions when he meets the woman he is joking about.

If one wants to claim he is being straightforwardly honest about how he goes around grabbing pussies, why does he not act like that when he actually meets the woman he is joking about even when she makes it clear she is prepared to accept quite a bit of sexual forwardness from Billy Bush?

If one wants to claim he is being straightforwardly honest about how he goes around grabbing pussies, why does


In 1962, 58 African-American 3- and 4-year-olds, all from poor families and likely candidates for failure in school, enrolled in Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Mich. This was a novel venture, and parents clamored to sign their children up. Louise Derman-Sparks, who taught there, told me she “fell in love with the kids. They were so excited, so intelligent, so curious.” Because the demand could not be satisfied, 65 applicants were turned away. They became the control group in an experiment that confirmed the importance of a child’s first years.

Researchers who tracked these children say this experience shaped their lives. Those in preschool were more likely to graduate from high school and attend college. As adults, more have held down jobs, and owned a home and a car. Fewerreplace it with a new creature that would have assumed responsibility for the entire county including the four cities that have their own recreation programs funded by those cities' residents. That law was fundamentally flawed, and one of the biggest problems was that it gave no input to the four cities involved in such a significant change.

Five years later, a plan slipped through the state Legislature that would allow the county to dissolve the Recreation District and transfer its assets to Greenville County. That plan was quickly approved by the Recreation District Commission and then this week it sailed through Greenville County Council despite opposition during a public hearing and some dissent on the County Council. Again, the four cities were not involved.

Now it is time to involve


and the cities that are part of this county. Families looking for a place to move often take into account amenities such as safe parks that provide for fun places to play and exercise. Companies also consider such features when looking for a place to set up shop.

Four cities chose not to be part of the Greenville County Recreation District. Greenville and Greer opted out when the district was formed in 1968, and Simpsonville and Mauldin parted company in the late 1990s because the poorly funded Rec District was not meeting their needs.

Each of these cities has parks that serve their residents and many others from outside the city limits. Those city residents pay their share for Falls Park, Heritage Park and other amenities.

Eichor and other city leadersTyrone Clancy, 39, died suddenly on April 12th at his home in Riva, MD. Ty was the devoted father of Daphne, age 10, and the beloved son of Martin and Mary Dee Clancy. He was pre-deceased last year ...

Geraldine Wojciechowski, born June 20, 1941, passed away on April 21 at her home in Crownsville. A Funeral Mass will be held on Friday April 27 at 10am at Our Lady of the Fields Catholic Church, 1070 ...

Tempie Bernice Massey, 93 of Gambrills, MD died April 17,2018 at the Glen Burnie Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Elizabethton, TN, Tempie retired from the State of MD, after many years as a ...

Nancy Myers Coccia passed away on April 5, 2018 at age 86. She was born on June 2, 1931


to grow in the streets of Cairo. The minister called for “a meeting of national unity for the love of Egypt to bring together partners of the country in the presence of the president of the republic.”

The move came hours after Egypt’s finance minister announced a one-month delay to a vital $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan to the country.

Egyptians from all fields, including politicians, artists and athletes were invited to take part in the talks, three days ahead of a referendum on the government’s disputed draft constitution.

Egypt’s main opposition coalition said it would meet on Wednesday morning to decide whether to attend the talks, a leading politician in the National Salvation Front, Hamdeen Sabahy, told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.

'ATMOSPHERE MORE FESTIVE THAN TENSE'

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         v.

EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., AS GOVERNOR, ETC.,
et al.

                   Defendants and Respondents.

         Esteban Nunez--the son of Fabian Nunez, the former Speaker of the California
State Assembly--aided in the killing of Luis Santos, the only son of Frederico and Kathy
Santos, during a knife attack on October 4, 2008. The attack, initiated by Esteban Nunez
and his acquaintances on Santos


man in the shoulder. We set forth the facts surrounding the knife attack by
Esteban Nunez and the others in more detail in a moment.
       Esteban Nunez was subsequently charged with the murder of Luis Santos and
assault with a deadly weapon as to each of the two men he personally stabbed, among
other offenses.
       Pursuant to a plea agreement entered into on the eve of trial, Esteban Nunez
pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Luis Santos and pleaded guilty
to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon arising from his having personally stabbed
the other two young men. In June 2010, he was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison.
       Oninto a fight with someone
and Garcia punched the male in the face and Nunez punched him in the back of the head,
knocking him to the ground.
       Nunez and friends left the apartment around 2:00 a.m., punctured some car tires,
and started an unprovoked fight with unarmed victims they encountered near the campus
arena. Victim Luis Santos was stabbed in the heart and died at the scene. Nunez

                                             4
personally inflicted great bodily injury by stabbing victim Henderson in the stomach and
back.


be undercut or diminished by the
granting of rights and privileges to prisoners that are not required by any provision of the
United States Constitution or by the laws of this State to be granted to any person
incarcerated in a penal or other custodial facility in this State as a punishment or
correction for the commission of a crime. [¶] . . . Victims of crime are entitled to finality
in their criminal cases. Lengthy appeals and other post-judgment proceedings that
challenge criminal convictions, frequent and difficult parole hearings that threaten to
release criminal offenders, and the ongoing threat that the sentences of criminal
wrongdoers will be reduced, prolong the suffering of crime victims for many years after
the crimes themselves have been perpetrated. This prolonged suffering of crime victims
and their families must come to an  Defendants discuss the effect of the new statute (§ 4805) requiring notice before
commutations, and plaintiffs respond in their reply briefs. After Schwarzenegger
commuted Nunez’s sentence, the Legislature in 2011 enacted section 4805 providing:
“(a) At least 10 days before the Governor acts upon an application for a commutation of
sentence, written notice of the intention to apply therefor, signed by the person applying,
shall be served upon the district attorney of the county where the conviction was had, and
proof, by affidavit, of the service shall be presented to the Governor. [¶] (b) The district
attorney may submit a written recommendation to the Governor for or against
commutation of sentence. [¶] (c) The district attorney shall make reasonable efforts to
notify the victim or victims of the crime or crimes related to the application


Little Holiday Cheer For IKEA Workers

It is often said that Canada is like the United States run by Scandinavians. But in the realm of labor relations, one iconic Swedish company, IKEA, is behaving in a very un-Scandinavian manner in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, British Columbia (BC). Instead of practicing the labor-management cooperation that dominates in Sweden, IKEA has embraced the hardball antiunion practices that are far more commonplace in the United States.

With total revenues of $36 billion in 2012, IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer and one of its most recognizable retail brands. The company operates in 44 countries and has 139,000 employees. IKEA, which enjoys a good relationship with unions in Northern Europe, is a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), an internationaleffort to encourage corporations to adopt socially responsible practices that prohibit companies from interfering with workers’ freedom of association. IKEA’s internal code of conduct incorporates Conventions 87 and 98 – on freedom of association and the right of collective bargaining – of the International Labor Organization. But IKEA’s respect for workers’ rights in Northern Europe and its commitment on paper to international labor standards has not influenced the conduct of its senior management in Richmond.

For the past six months, 350 workers have been locked out of the Richmond store – the oldest IKEA store in North America, which opened in 1976 – that is one of only two unionized IKEA outlets in Canada. (The other unionized IKEA store is in Montreal). After the company demanded sweeping concessions in


pay and benefits, including the introduction of a two-tier wage structure – stating that it must bring labor costs in line with those of other IKEA stores and significantly improve the store’s productivity – workers overwhelmingly rejected the concessions several times. IKEA management claims that the dispute is a strike by the workers, who are members of the Teamsters union, and not a lockout. After seven months of one of the longest ongoing labor disputes in British Columbia, only 35 employees have returned to work, while more than 300 others face ongoing economic hardship.

The Americanization of Canadian Labor Relations

Canada has stronger legal protections for workers’ rights than the United States and the “small differences” in labor policy clearly matter. Union density is 31 percent in Canada, compared with12 percent in the United States, and it has fallen only slightly since the late 1990s, while US union density has declined steadily. Unionization and a more developed welfare state means, for example, that service sector workers in Vancouver are likely to enjoy a significantly higher standard of living than their counterparts south of the border in Seattle. But provincial law in BC still provides employers with considerable freedom to fight unionization, and IKEA management has taken full advantage of the loopholes in the law.

IKEA’s hardball tactics in BC may reflect a creeping Americanization of labor-management relations in Canada. Management has adopted several US-style anti-union tactics: It has hired replacement workers to do the jobs of locked-out employees; recruited the services of a well-known, antiunion law firm to


conduct its adversarial campaign; and encouraged retail employees who might want to return to work to contact the Canadian Labour Watch Association, a conservative organization that promotes antiunion legislation. While it enjoyed a cooperative relationship with its BC workers until 2007, IKEA has now gone on the offensive, showing no willingness to compromise or engage in good-faith negotiations.

Employer lockouts are an increasingly common offensive tactic in the United States. Recent high-profile lockouts include those at the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Sotheby’s and the New York City Opera, as well as lengthy lockouts at American Crystal Sugar and Cooper Tire. While lockouts constitute an increasing proportion of work stoppages in the United States – where strikes have plummeted to historic low levels – they are still relativelyuncommon in Canada. By adopting hardball antiunion tactics, which have long been the norm in US labor relations, IKEA’s Canadian management has behaved in a manner that violates both international labor standards and its own code of conduct. Like that of several others in the developed world, the Canadian labor relations system is increasingly being challenged not by militant workers, but by militant managers.

IKEA’s Global Labor Problem

The Richmond IKEA dispute has attracted international attention. Two global union federations, the International Transport Federation (ITF) and Union Network International (UNI), are coordinating support for the BC workers. An international delegation from Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States visited workers in Richmond in November, and Richmond workers and North American union officials have traveled to Sweden to meet with


unions, politicians, media and company representatives in IKEA’s home country. Workers from around the globe have protested IKEA’s antiunion behavior. In December, transportation, ports and maritime unions in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, UK, Belgium, Australia, Japan and the United States held actions in support of the BC workers.

Nor is the Richmond dispute simply a little local difficulty. In the past year, IKEA has been accused of committing labor-rights violations in the United States, Russia, Czech Republic, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Turkey and France. In June, IKEA employees in a dozen countries participated in protests against poor labor conditions and management violations of freedom of association. Turkey, where legal protections for labor rights are among the weakest in the OECD, stands out as an exceptional case: Management has driven outactivists, paid members to resign from the union and subjected employees to a barrage of antiunion propaganda. In Holland and Belgium, IKEA has been accused of promoting “social dumping” in trucking by exploiting cheap and precarious labor from Bulgaria and Slovakia. In the United States, IKEA supplier Swedwood has fought aggressively against unionization for warehouse and supply-chain workers, while in a case that has provoked widespread outrage, IKEA managers in France have spied on both employees and customers.

Upholding IKEA Values

IKEA is practicing a clear double standard. It respects the rights of its workers in Northern Europe, but violates labor rights in Canada and elsewhere. It is a signatory to the UN Global Compact and incorporates the ILO’s core conventions into its company code of conduct, but fails to


on workers’ rights.

John Logan is Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. Between 2000-2009 he taught in the school of management at the London School of Economics and Political Science.District Attorney Neal Pinkston on Thursday afternoon released a scathing report on Hamilton County School failures to address serious problems of hazing and bullying.

The 23-page report was especially critical of former Supt. Rick Smith, who resigned in the aftermath of an incident at a cabin in Gatlinburg in which four freshman members of the boys basketball team were assaulted with pool cues. One, who was critically injured, has filed a federal lawsuit against the county schools.

Dr. Kirk Kelly, interim superintendent, said after the report was released, "As superintendent my top priority is ensuring the safety of all 43,000 students in our Hamilton County public schools.

"Late this afternoon, District Attorney Neil Pinkston released a report detailing his findings about the incident that occurred last December. We are in the


the team was allowed to go anyway by principal Jim Jarvis. The DA said principal Jarvis was not cooperative with the investigation. He is no longer at OHS.

DA Pinkston said after reports of the Gatlinburg incident that his office began an investigation and began to receive hundreds of complaints "of being ignored, or worse, being intentionally refused attention by school personnel across the board, from the classroom to the central office."

Of the Gatlinburg trip it says the players were left alone for several hours while the coaches went "grocery shopping." It says the freshman players were not only poked in the rectum with the pool cue, but were also beaten with the stick.

It says, "The lack of supervision continued even after the coaches were aware of the seriousnessof the attacks." It says coach Andre Montgomery told the players not to tell anyone about the incident and that the coach's wife failed to preserve evidence at the scene.

The district attorney said Montgomery "attempted to grossly minimize the situation." He said the freshman who was seriously injured was first going to be sent home, then he collapsed and had to be taken back to the hospital. It says the incident would not have been reported to authorities except for medical personnel at the hospital notifying police.

It says, "At no time did anyone with Ooltewah High School or the Hamilton County school system notify the police, Juvenile Court, or the state Department of Children's Services, as is required by law. Yet during a January press conference Supt. Rick


action to learn the details of the attacks or take the lead in HCDE's response to the attacks. , , Further, Mr. Smith failed to make a sincere effort to contact any of the parents of the victims or other players on the trip. He also failed to create and foster an open line of communication with the family of the hospitalized player."

The report found that freshmen on the OHS varsity basketball team were subjected to repeated assaults under the guise of "hazing." It says several parents complained in October 2015 about the hazing, but nothing was done.

It says the "pervasive predatory attitude among athletes at OHS still exists." One of the victims of the January assaults, now a sophomore at a private school, recently called his motherfor granted. I wonder if you knew that someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you.

I am also currently working on a separate family tree trying to link my Great Great Grandfather Silas Josiah Lee to the famous Lee Family of Virginia. The Lee family of Virginia are related to George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Benijamin Harrison, Queen Elizabeth and their family lines. You may view this tree by clicking on family trees then click on the drop down box in the top right hand corner of the family tree and choose "Lee Family of Virginia". My Great Great Grandfather was born in Prince William County, Virginia. At one time the famous Lee family owned most of this area. I am about 90 percent sure


1957, there was one episode overlooked in the brilliant celebrations; she was given an oil painting--no more than a copy, of a copy, of a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller. But it was of her American ancestor, Augustine Warner II, and it adds a surprising face to the immense collection of portraits of the Queen's forbears whose roots were otherwise still in Britain or Europe.

Mr. Anthony Wagner, Richmond Herald, was the first to trace this remarkable link with colonial Virginia, that relates Queen Elizabeth, through a Bowes-Lyon marriage, back to both George Washington and General Robert E. Lee. Augustine Warner I, born in England or Wales, in 1611, and who emigrated to Virginia when he was 39, was the ancestor of all three of them, through the marriagesof his son and daughter. As Mr. Wagner wrote at the time of his research; "It is somewhat ironical that among Washington's nearest of kin now living, should be numbered the Queen of Great Britain".

The first Augustine Warner must have been a gentleman of some importance; he used the arms of an English family--now difficult to identify--and he left England in the first year of Oliver Cromwell's "reign", no doubt to satisfy his beliefs, and to save his fortune. When he arrived in Virginia he built a fine house on an arm of the Severn, that flows into the York river and then into Chesapeake Bay, where the first English emigrants had sailed, in 1607, and formed the tragic settlement of Jamestown. There were dangers still, but Augustine


Warner prospered; he became a Colonel of the Militia, a Justice, and a Burgess in the General Assembly. He sent his only son, also Augustine, back to England to be educated at the Merchant Taylor's School, for it was the habit with these southerners to cling to their Englishness, while the emigrants to the northern states tried to mould a separate American character, and forget the land of their nativity.

Augustine II also became a public man; when he returned to Virginia, with his smattering of English education, he prospered and was elected Burgess for Gloucester County, then Speaker to the House. He was a gallant ancestor for any family tree, with more vigour and will than the faint copy of the Kneller portrait reveals. As soon as NathanielBacon began his armed rebellion against the royal governor, in 1676, Warner led troops against him, in the King's name. There is a record of him returning to Warner Hall after the rebellion was quelled: he was described as "a rather thorough Royalist . . . an honest, worthy Person and most Loyall sufferer by the Late Rebells; who was plundered as much as any, and yet speakes as little of his losses, tho' they were very greate".

General Robert E. Lee

Augustine Warner II, had a sister, Sarah, who married Lawrence Townley, and they were the ancestors of General Robert E. Lee. Augustine himself married Mildred Reade, daughter of a neighbour. She also was a person of character, worthy to be the ancestress of both Queen Elizabeth II and


George Washington. When Augustine died in 1681, his widow, with her daughters to defend, kept her husband's arms and ammunition and refused to give them up until they were taken from her, by force.

The name Warner disappears from the story: the only memorials to Augustine I and Augustine II are an early Victorian mansion, still called Warner Hall, built on the site of their mid-seventeenth century house--and the little graveyard near by. I went there, the winter before last, and scraped the snow from the flat tomb stones so that I could read the names, and the dates of their birth and death.

George Washington

The interest moves to the daughters of Augustine II, and his widow, who had the care of them when her husband died. The eldest, namedMildred, after her mother, married Lawrence Washington and was grandmother of the first President of the United States of America. Mary was married to John Smith, of Purton, another fine plantation nearby. They are the branch of the tree that interests us most because it is from them that we trace the way, through the Bowes-Lyon family, to the present Queen.

The life of these 17th Century planters on the Tidewater of Virginia was comfortable and almost elegant. There was still danger from a2 chance savage arrow, for the Indians were not yet all subdued. But the houses of the prosperous settlers from England were set in splendid gardens; they were furnished with libraries and treasures brought across the Atlantic and served by numerous negro slaves. Many of the


houses remain, in 20th Century Virginia, alienated from the less tranquil Yankee north and preferring the ghosts of what was, to the realism of the rest of America.

Mary Warner, married to John Smith, remained in Virginia, but their daughter, Mildred, brought the blood back to England; she was the wife of Robert Porteus, another Virginian planter and a member of "His Majesty's Council or Upper House or Legislature in that Province". His house on the Tidewater had the nice name of Newbottle. Robert Porteus was married in 1700 and he stayed in Virginia until 1720, long enough for Mildred to present him with the first of his big brood of nineteen children.

Changes in Virginia

By 1720, the pattern of life in this part of Virginia had changed. From theearly vicissitudes of the Jamestown colony had emerged a small landed aristocracy, of families like the Warners, the Smiths and the ancestors of Robert Porteus. But the hinterland was now being opened up by hordes of new settlers, and there were three times as many negroes as there had been at the beginning of the century. Small farmers and planters interfered with the patriarchal pattern in which Robert Porteus had been brought up, so he decided to emigrate to England, with his family, "quitting a situation so perfectly independent and comfortable" so that his children could have "better instruction" at English schools.

Robert Porteus settled with his family, first at York and then at Ripon. He was buried in the south aisle of the Cathedral and his white marble


memorial, high on the wall, tells us, in an amiable flow of words, the details of his life. We read,

Near this Place are deposited the Remains of ROBERT PORTEUS ESQR. a native of Virginia, & a Member of His Majesty's Council or upper House of Legislature in that Province. From thence he removed to England, and resided first at York, afterwards in this town, where he died August 8, 1758, Aged 79 years.

Duchess of Marlborough

With the return of Robert Porteus a new theme came into the history of the relationship between Virginia and England. He was an absentee landlord and the victim of "negligence or dishonesty" on the part of his agents who sent him, as he complained, "little more than a fourth part of what ought tohave been his real income". But he remained in England and when his first wife died, he was married again, to another Virginian--Elizabeth Jennings, said to be distantly related to Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough. They produced a second family, including one remarkable son--the eighteenth of the brood of nineteen. He was Beilby Porteus, the scholar and poet who became Bishop of Leicester and then, in 1787, Bishop of London. The vigorous blood enlivened by the generations in Virginia had not become pale: Beilby Porteus was a belligerent leader in the ecclesiastical changes of his time; he was an ardent evangelist, a supporter of Sunday schools, and was strong-willed enough to turn against the source of his family fortunes in his fight to abolish slavery.

The Bowes-Lyon Family

The important


son, who belongs to the theme of this story, leading to the Bowes-Lyon family, had been born in Virginia in 1705. He was named Robert, after his father, and he also went into the Church, but more modestly than his younger half-brother.

We walk near the Cambridgeshire-Bedfordshire border for the next scene in the story: from Potton, three miles to the parish of Cockayne Hatley.

Robert Porteus had been admitted to Cambridge University in 1725; in 1736, when he was thirty-one years old, he married Judith, daughter of Thomas Cockayne, whose family had been lords of the manor for 300 years. The story loses its colonial flavour and becomes quietly English. Within the park of Thomas Cockayne was the little church of St. John the Baptist, with its Flemish carvings,to which Robert Porteus was appointed rector.

From then, through four modest generations, we come to the marriage of importance. The Reverend Robert Porteus had named his daughter Mildred, in memory of Virginia, and she married Robert Hodgson of Congleton, in the County of Chester. Their daughter, Frances Dora, married Claude Lyon-Bowes--later Bowes-Lyon--13th Earl of Strathmore, in 1853.

Thus we come, through nine generations, from Augustine Warner, rejecting England in Cromwell's time, to his descendant, married to Lord Strathmore when Queen Victoria had been on the throne for sixteen years. The Queen's notions about the marriages of her children were to change soon after this; there came a time when, disgusted by the jealousies and intrigues of princes in Europe, she encouraged a different fate for her family, she wrote


that "Money without goodness or affection was useless" and that "a young lady of the nobility, well brought up," was far better as a wife for one of her sons than "an unsuitable princess".

The pattern of alliance was being formed, quietly: in 1855, the 14th Earl of Strathmore was born and in 1881, he married a daughter of the Rev. Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinek. They were the parents of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother whose marriage to the Duke of York, in 1923, inspire the monarchy with a power of character and graciousness that has enriched it into our own time.

CENTER/SCOTT CEMETERY

Center Cemetery, in Liberty Township, is one long ago abandoned. The earliest date on a stone is February 27, 1854 and the latest July 11, 1887. Peopleliving within the mile do not know of its existence. A grove of trees, in the center of the section is the only evidence to any traveler on the four roads which bound the section that there is a cemetery there. The Atlas of 1877 refers to it as the "old cemetery on the James Scott Farm."

A road east and west, passed thru the middle of this section many years ago but has long since been closed and there is now no ingress to the cemetery. I walked over the plowed ground and thru two fields of tall corn before reaching it.

As one would expect, tall trees, vines and some grass make locomotion difficult. The markers are fallen or broken and many may be hid by the fallen


vegetation of the years.

The Center Christian Church is at some distance from this cemetery. A deed to this plot of land was made to this church and they are still the owners of it. The Grant County Deed Book, P pp. 254 reads as follows:

"that James Scott and his wife Annis Scott of Grant County Indiana in consideration of the Christian love & feelings toward the human family generally, have granted, bargained, donated and set apart for public use as a burying ground to inter any and every person that has not forfeited the laws of their God and Country and the further consideration of one dollar to us paid by Dugan Wall, Elwood Arnett, Marmaduke Mendenhall and John Harrold trustees of the Christian Church - Deer Creek,Grant Co., Indiana, and to their successors in office as trustees of said church forever the following tract or parcel of land" then follows a description of the tract. This is signed by James Scott and his wife Annis Scott. William Neal, Surveyor May 1, 1856.

Note: Upon further investigation, I have found there were actually two Christian Churches. The following information comes from the "Grant County Atlas of 1877" and information from the present records of the Center Christian Church. I also have a copy of the deed listed above. "In about the year 1850, the Christian Church (New Light) built a church in Section 28, and organized a lively congregation; but of later years a number of the leading members moved to other localities, and the church


has been discontinued. Rev. Cain Mullen was pastor. The second Christian Church was started in 1874. The cemetery was given to the first one. None of the records I have examined so far have given a clue how the second church inherited the cemetery, however in about 1920 the second church (from their own records) relinquished ownership of the cemetery to the township. From the Atlas of 1877, I found the following about the second Christian Church; The Church of Christ organized a church at Center School House in 1874, with a membership of thirteen; they now have a membership of seventy-five. They have a church edifice of the capacity to seat 400 persons, valued at $1600. The church is in a flourishing condition, and has a Sabbathschool established at the place of worship. Rev. F. M. Collins is pastor or evangelist; William H. Ayers and William I. Millner, Elders; John Herrald, Cyrus W. Gibson, Jasper Wilson and William Jones, Deacons." This is the same Center Christian Church in existance today. (2000) Actually I believe the first one was called Christian Church (New Lights) of Deer Creek, not Center as was written by the DAR above. Investigation to find the name of the McCombs whose stone is in this cemetery brought this information from Miss Cornelia McCombs of Fairmount who is his grand daughter, "my grandfather is buried in the Scott Cemetery. His given name was John Young McCombs. I am not sure that grandfather was in the War of 1812, but think he was


Liberty Twp. Grant County, Indiana. Leave Marion on State Road 9 South and go to county road 800 S. turn right or west and go to 200 W. The cemetery is in the middle of the mile between 800 and 900 S. - 100 and 200 W. It was a very long walk back to the cemetery, but is was worth the effort. If you plan on visiting this cemetery you should get permission from the owner of the land surrounding it. The Center Christian Church has long since been abandoned and I don't know who the proper owner of this cemetery is now. Many of the old abandoned cemeteries are in the hands of the township trustees. I did notice while I was back there that somethe cemetery and crossed over toward the east on the north side of the creek that crosses 100 W.

EMPLOYEE OF CLAY MINE WOUNDED IN ABDOMEN—SHOT BY GUARD AT BRAZIL PRESSED BRICK PLANT—MISTAKEN FOR A STRIKER

"Brazil, Ind., Dec 13, 1916.—David Howard Keller, age forty-five, an employee of the Hydraulic Press Brick Company, was shot through the abdomen last night by a man named Archibald, of St. Louis, Mo., a guard employed by the hydraulic company during the clay workers strike. Keller, in company with Elmer Rooney and a man named Bagley, employees at the plant in the daytime, had been drinking last night, police say, and went to the coal and clay mine of the company. Officials of the company say the men had no business in the yard


at night. They turned on an electric pump at the mine and a volt meter in the power house showed the pump was running.

"The guard knew at once that some one was in the mine and supposed it to be strikers intending to commit violence. Hearing the men down in the mine, he called to them to come out. There was no response. Archard, the guard, saw the glitter of a rifle barrel carried by one of the men and fired into the darkness of the mine. The bullet struck Keller in the abdomen. The other two men then called to the guard not to shoot again. When it was learned that Keller was seriously wounded Archard ran away and has not been seen since, the heavy snowwhich fell covering up his tracks. Keller lives near the plant, and has a wife and seven children. The men declare that they did not go into the mine for the purpose of committing violence, but merely to see the electric pump run."

Source: The Indianapolis News, 13 Dec 1917, p. 8.

Two days later (15 Dec), the newspaper reported that Keller had died and that Archard had not yet been found.

FAMILY BIBLE OF NATHAN and LEAH MOONPub. by the Bible Ass'n of Friends in America, Philadelphia, 1847

The bible is in the possession of the late Carl Brookshire Family.MARRIAGES:

Nathan B. Moon and Leah S. Harrold Wedlock Day was on 1 day 4 month 1847Nathan Moon and Mary Ann Haisley were married the 19th day of the 12th month 1866Adison Scott


30 January 1960 by Mrs. Paul J. Kilday, wife of Representative Kilday of Texas and commissioned on 4 February 1961; Comdr. A. M. Sackett in command. The John King was ordered as DD-953, reclassified as DDG-953 on August 16, 1956 and reclassified as DDG-3 on June 26, 1957. John King participated in blockade duties during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.

Following shakedown training out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, John King carried out weapons tests on the East Coast before arriving Norfolk 7 September 1961 for regular duty. One of a new class of guided missile destroyers, she featured latest hull design with all-aluminum superstructure and mounted the very latest in modern armament and electronic equipment. Departing 27 November 1961, the ship cruised to England and Northern Europeuntil 1 January 1962, when she sailed from Dublin for the Mediterranean. There, John King joined the 6th Fleet in its constant role of peacekeeping in this troubled region. After her return to Norfolk, Virginia in April, the ship conducted missile firing exercises and training in the Caribbean. She arrived Washington 10 July 1962 for a 4 day stay, entertaining a group of Senators and Congressmen as well as Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth.

Following additional exercises, John King entered Norfolk Navy Yard 11 October 1962. Soon afterward, the introduction of offensive missiles into Cuba precipitated a crisis; and, as Navy ships placed a quarantine around the island, the ship quickly finished her repairs and joined the blockade 6 November. After the crisis eased, the ship remained in


the Caribbean operating with the Navy's newest and biggest carrier, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise (CVN-65). She returned to Norfolk 8 December 1962.

John King departed for her second Mediterranean cruise 6 February 1963. After visiting various ports on 6th Fleet maneuvers, she steamed to Kiel, Germany, 23 June 1963, then returned to Norfolk 17 July 1963. The next twelve months were spent on training and readiness exercises off the Virginia Capes and in the Caribbean, including a week at the Anti-submarine Warfare School, Key West, Florida, in April 1964.

The destroyer sailed for the Mediterranean Sea once more 3 August 1964 and joined the 6th Fleet 16 August near the strife-torn island of Cyprus. She remained in the Mediterranean until the end of 1964.

John King returned to Norfolk 29 Januaryand operated along the East Coast until sailing for the "Med" 14 October. Following 4 months of operations with the 6th Fleet, she returned to Norfolk 7 March 1966. In the summer she visited the Mediterranean and recrossed the Atlantic on NATO Exercise "Straight Laced." Back at homeport in the fall she operated out of Norfolk until sailing for another 6th Fleet deployment 10 January 1967. Her movements were concentrated in the Western Mediterranean until she sailed for home 11 May. Arriving Norfolk on the 19th, John King entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard 27 June 1967 for an overhaul to prepare for future service.

John King was decommissioned on 30 March 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 January 1993 and sold for scrap on 10 February


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Four Houston police officers received criticismfacilities, including a café bar overlooking the river, a learning studio, a 100-seat auditorium and shop. The building's brutalist design is not universally popular with local people.

Collection
The Hepworth Wakefield's  of purpose-built gallery space houses 44 plaster and aluminum working models donated by Dame Barbara Hepworth's family and temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.  Items from Wakefield's art collection which spans the 16th century to the present day are on display, including works by Henry Moore, who was born in Castleford in the Wakefield district, Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash, Jacob Epstein, Walter Sickert, Anthony Caro, Ivon Hitchens, LS Lowry, and David Hockney.

The gallery is a partner of Plus Tate, a project aimed at increasing public access to the national collection of British and international modern


and fled. She was last seen heading east on foot.

No one was hurt.

The employee described the robber as a white female, perhaps 30 to 40 years old, about five-foot-seven with a medium build.

At the time of the crime, she was wearing a dark-coloured coat with the hood pulled over her head, black tights, purple gloves, and red running shoes with white trimmed soles.The Switchback Diaries: The Wild Mouse

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The "newest" of the Blackpool Pleasure Beach woodies, the Wild Mouse opened in 1958.

It remains one of my favourite coaster rides of all time.

The original design of the ride was German, but in the 1960s a third level was added, built by the Pleasure Beach team from plans owned by the Canadian Valere brothers who had had much success with a similar ride in California.

The track is approximately 1266 feet long but this ride delivers in thrills what it lacks in length.

Without doubt it remains one of the wildest rides anywhere on this planet as witnessed by this couple first hand in the YouTube video below!


Charnel - take an aging academic institute, mixed with the creepy clichés of the early 1900s, add a few wily British professors working late in the night, and you have yourself the perfect recipe for a science experiment gone wrong. Having unleashed a ferocious horror of the darkness, the surviving inhabitants of Charnel University must gather their courage and work together if they intend to survive the night. Charnel is a fast-paced, first-person multiplayer game that plays with the concept of light and darkness as territory and integrates unique horror elements into its gameplay. The human team must stay vigilant and keep the lights in the building switched on if they intend to survive the stealthy attacks of the individual beast roaming the premises. The beast, strong inseason," Monaghan said of his character. "His plan succeeded. He destroyed Gotham. He marooned it. He created his maze and his image and all this stuff, which is rare for any villain to succeed. So I think that he's enjoying that he's king of the roost and he's sort of working within the shadows with a lot of respect and he's sort of the big boogeyman in the city right now. I think he's enjoying that and it's giving him a sense of ego and hubris. He has got a girlfriend now and he's more successful than he's ever been. I think that that level of success is also causing him to lose his sense of equilibrium a little bit. He's a bit more manic and unstable than


Norfolk gang made £300k from selling sick dogs and puppies Published duration 25 June 2019

image copyright RSPCA image caption Dogs were kept in cages and in dark sheds, the RSPCA said

A gang made £300,000 from selling sick or dying dogs and puppies they claimed had been bred in a family environment.

Jacob Murphy, Michael Rushmer and Zoe Rushmer kept some of the 74 animals in cages, dark sheds and a caravan in temperatures up to 30C (86F), Norwich Crown Court heard.

The Norfolk gang admitted conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation.

Judge Andrew Shaw described it "as callous and mean-spirited a fraud as I have come across for some time".

Murphy, 27, and Michael Rushmer, also 27, were each jailed for 42 months, while Zoe Rushmer, 26, was given a two-yearsuspended sentence. They were all banned from keeping animals for life.

'Puppy factory'

The RSPCA, which brought the case, said the animals were kept in "disgusting conditions" at the farm in Thurlton. It removed 74 dogs, some of which were pregnant and had 20 puppies.

Some of the animals suffered from the potentially fatal parvovirus but were were advertised as being healthy, socialised and treated for worms and fleas.

Dogs had an average price of £675 and the defendants made £300,000 from the fraud, though they claimed it was nearer £150,000, prosecutor Hazel Stevens said.

She described how when one of the premises was raided in 2017, dogs were found in cages, some in "pitch-dark sheds with no access to light" and others "in a caravan at temperatures of up to 30C".

Mitigating, Andrew


Oliver said Michael Rushmer was a cocaine user and "foolishly" bought dogs from travellers, which introduced parvovirus to the farm.

image copyright Michael Rushmer image caption Michael Rushmer was described in court as the "deputy"

At sentencing, Judge Shaw described Murphy, who admitted three animal welfare offences, as the "ringleader", while Michael Rushmer was "[Murphy's] deputy if not his equal".

The latter also admitted 10 animal welfare offences, offending while on bail, and operating a pet shop and breeding establishment without a licence.

Zoe Rushmer, the judge said, was "the legitimate face of your brother's and partner's criminal enterprise" who "even lent (her) own children to the affair... to lend a veneer of respectability".

The mother of four was remorseful and admitted four animal welfare offences, the court heard.

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20   asserted claims under the Employee Retirement Income
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The Marines of the HECU are specially trained to deal with a variety of indoor combat situations, particularly involving a dangerous environment and unconventional enemies. Members of HECU are trained by drill instructors Dwight T. Barnes and Sharpe, and train at bases guarded and staffed by members of the Military Police. The Marines are often referred to as "grunts" by fans of the game and also as such by Black Ops Operators in the game.

With the Black Ops, they are part of a "dangerous and very efficient clean-up crew" sent to Black Mesa in case of emergency, and are supposed to work in concert with the Black Mesa Security Force in these cases.[6]

In the Half-Life Audio Script, the HECU Marines are described as follows: Human military units sent


having already been weakened by the Xen creatures. The HECU soon took control of Black Mesa's central command areas and issued orders over the public address system for the facility's remaining personnel to cooperate and submit to interrogation. The troops began fortifying key surface areas with sandbags, mounted machine guns, and fixed artillery. Although there were few of them, there were also some snipers, one of which shot at and fatally wounded a security guard.

The tide soon turned against the HECU, though, as the Xen aliens continued teleporting into Black Mesa in overwhelming numbers. Surviving facility personnel lent their help to Dr. Gordon Freeman, who was able to sneak and fight his way across the facility despite all the HECU's actions, being responsible for many casualties on theirside. Freeman quickly became a priority target of the troops. Their anger toward him was exemplified by several sets of graffiti seen in the "On A Rail" chapter of the game, which read "YORE DEAD FREEMAN" [sic], "SURRENDER FREEMEN" [sic], "DIE, FREEMAN" [sic], the latter of which is accompanied by 1 or 2 tripmines. Also in the same chapter two Marines can be heard talking about Freeman and their proposed revenge for killing so many of their friends, ignoring the irony of what they themselves had been doing. Their conversation also hints that the Marines mistakenly believe Freeman (and by extension, the whole Black Mesa Science Team) intended to cause the Resonance Cascade.

The full conversation is as follows:

"So, who is this guy, Freeman?"

"They say he was at Ground


Zero."

"Science Team? You think he was responsible, sabotage, maybe?"

"Yeah, maybe. But one thing for sure is he's been killing my buddies."

"Oh yeah, he'll pay. He will definitely pay."

As the battle raged on, the Xen aliens began to gain the advantage and the HECU, which was sustaining appalling casualties, was evacuated as aerial bombardments tore into the facility. The evacuation was woefully incomplete, however, leaving many Marines behind in the facility (in blatant violation of the policy never to leave another Marine behind) in the unenviable position of being caught amongst the forces of the Black Ops, the Xen aliens, the newly-arrived Race X creatures, and a still active Freeman.

Still, the HECU was aware of this happening to some degree, as a soldier was able to send one lastradio transmission to any stragglers underground.

During Gordon Freeman's run to the satellite array and the later return trip, Gordon makes his way through an HECU camp in the shipping yards which consists of multiple weapon emplacements, troops in towers, a command tent, and a pit dug for burning dead Vortigaunts.

In the original Half-Life game, the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit was simply referred to as "the military" or "soldiers". In the expansion Opposing Force, the protagonist, Corporal Adrian Shephard, is one of those men, and during the opening titles that display his personal info, his training is listed as "USMC Special Forces" and his current assignment is listed as the "Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, Santego Military Base, Arizona". Many new models are included, notably two precise classes: the Engineer,


assigned to cut open sealed doors using a welding torch, and the Medic.

Opposing Force takes place several hours after the initial resonance cascade. Adrian Shephard, is knocked unconscious when his Osprey transport is shot down by Xen forces, and wakes up several hours later in the Black Mesa Infirmary. Shephard regains consciousness just in time to witness the HECU begin to pull out all of its troops. However, he is prevented from leaving when the mysterious G-Man seals him in the facility. Shephard is forced to continue deeper into Black Mesa, where he encounters and takes charge of the remnants of HECU who have also been left behind during the evacuation. Shephard and his men find themselves combating not only the aliens from Xen, but also the newlyarrived "Race X" aliens and a group of government Black Ops assassins who have recently been dispatched to the facility, who appear to have orders to eliminate any remaining HECU Marines as well as to destroy Black Mesa with a nuclear device.

The Hazardous Environment Combat Unit also appears to have access to more advanced military technology than their regular counterparts, as the Marines wear Powered Combat Vests (PCVs) and employ automated HECU Sentry Guns.

Furthermore, in both games, the troops are deployed in Osprey aircraft, which at the time of the game's production, had not yet gone beyond Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) and low-rate production with the United States Marine Corps.

In Blue Shift, the HECU is first seen in the chapter Duty Calls, where two soldiers are seen


dumping security guard corpses above Sector G's Drainage Canal. They are prominently seen in the next chapter, Captive Freight, where they are swarming the Freight Yard, have trapped Rosenberg and many other scientists in containers, and fatally wounded Harold. In the next chapters, Power Struggle and A Leap of Faith, set in and under the Section A-17 Prototype Labs, they do everything they can to stop Barney, Rosenberg, Simmons and Walter from escaping the facility by teleportation, but they ultimately fail.

In Decay, the HECU is first seen in the Level 3 Dormitories, during the chapter Domestic Violence. A dying security guard warns the players that they are everywhere. Gina and Colette continue through the level, seeing the aftermath of the HECU's invasion. They eventually get to the Library,which they have to clean up from the soldiers so that they can bring a security guard to Dr. Keller. The HECU is seen in the next chapter, Code Green, in the Black Mesa Air Control. There many are offloaded by an Osprey and attack Gina and Colette while they attempt to enter the clearance codes given by the security guard picked up in the Level 3 Dormitories. They are seen again in the next chapter, Crossfire, in the sewers under the Gamma Labs, where they guard the Displacement Beacon Focus Emitter. They are finally seen in the bonus chapter, Xen Attacks, in the underground parking lot located under the Ordinance Storage Facility where R-4913 and X-8973 must retrieve the Xen crystal samples.

The Hazardous Environment Combat Unit troops,


they're attacked while performing melee attacks they will either hesitate for few seconds before kicking again, retreat or open fire at point blank.

Chuck Jones designed the original models, while Stephen Bahl designed the new classes (Medic, Engineer) and variations for Opposing Force, as well as all the HD models. For Opposing Force, Gearbox's purpose was to improve upon what Valve had created with new versions/classes, since a lot of the game was with soldiers.[3][4]

The HECU was also to feature robots among its ranks, such as the Robot Grunt. It can be found in the Half-Life SDK. A bronze-colored version was reused for Half-Life Deathmatch. The grunts were also used for the censored German Version of the game, replacing all the soldiers.

Originally, the HECU soldiers were to either talkindecipherable gibberish, or not speak at all (with exception of pain, death, and idle sounds) as indicated by their voice in many videos, especially from Half-Life Preliminary Findings, the leaked Half-Life Alpha, and by the unused "makesquad" sound from Half-Life: Day One. However, the word "Medic" was spoken clearly even in early versions.

While the squad leaders often wear berets in-game, Marines in real life do not.

The German version of Half-Life, due to some censorship issues, features robots instead of the human HECU grunts. They still use the original English Radio chatter and will also call for a medic when wounded.

Also, they will talk in a robotic voice with robotic terms in scripted scenes but have normal human voices in the scripted scenes in Blue Shift except for the