14th state in 1791 and is one of only four states that were previously ‘sovereign states’ before being admitted. The other three being California, Hawaii, and Texas. Vermont was the first to partially abolish slavery and provided a significant number of soldiers in the Civil War.

The Green Mountains run north and south through the middle of the state, with the majority of the land open to agriculture. The origin of the name “Vermont” is uncertain, however likely comes from the French phrase “Les Vertis Monts“, meaning “the Green Mountains”.

The flag of Vermont features the state’s coat of arms and motto. While multiple versions have existed, the current flag, since 1923, displays a pine tree in the middle of the coat of arms to represent the state’s forests. Theand legal counsel of the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), told IPS.

"We tend to focus primarily on full legalisation, regardless of why one smokes," he added. "The primary reason people smoke, 99 percent of them, is because they enjoy getting high. We're not going to eliminate the high number of arrests until we completely legalise marijuana."

In 2006, the group notes, more than 829,000 people were arrested in the United States for marijuana-related offences alone.

National organisations like the Marijuana Policy Project and NORML have both short and long-term strategies to press for continued policy change at the state level.

In the short term, MPP seeks to make New Hampshire the 19th medical marijuana state in the U.S., and to make Vermont the 16th state to decriminalise


Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, according to a list provided to IPS by MPP.

Legislators have already announced their intent to introduce medical marijuana bills in another six states, including Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

In the last Congressional Session, US Reps. Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Ron Paul, a Republican from Texas, introduced legislation to legalise marijuana at the federal level - meaning that states will get to decide their own policies altogether - but it only received 19 additional co-sponsors.

Frank and Paul both retired from the U.S. House at the end of last year. Numerous bills dealing with marijuana policy at the federal level have been introduced over the years.

"We've never had a hearing, or got them out ofgoing to do a ballot initiative there," Morgan Fox, communications director for MPP, told IPS.

In Hawaii, legislation to completely legalise marijuana at the state level has already been introduced in the State House by the House Speaker Joseph Souki.

In Rhode Island, MPP is lobbying the State Legislature to legalise marijuana, which it believes could happen as soon as 2014 or 2015.

A federal court ruling on Jan. 22 against Americans for Safe Access (ASA) presents a minor setback on the issue of federal policy and medical marijuana, but will have no impact on the various state and federal legalisation initiatives from going forward.

ASA had appealed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's refusal to grant its petition to recognise marijuana's medical value and federally reclassify it from a "Schedule 1 substance"


"Ismaili tunnels" the path of development; access to Sinai will only take a few minutes

Sun, May. 5, 2019

CAIRO – 5 May 2019: President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi will inaugurate today a number of mega projects in the Ismailia governorate, headed by the Ismailia tunnels, which fall within five tunnels executed by the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces and a number of Egyptian companies.

The five tunnels are known as the Suez Canal tunnels or the Sinai tunnels. For the first time, access to Sinai takes only a few minutes, through the Ismaili tunnels. The goods and their movement between the east and west of the canal are easier to reach through the Port Said tunnels.

The tunnels of the Suez Canal consist of 5 tunnels, two Ismailia Tunnels which reachthe Sinai back and forth for a period of up to 15 minutes, and the Port Said Tunnel, which links the western cities of the canal to its east, to facilitate the trade movement in the Suez Canal region, and there is also the tunnel of the martyr Ahmed Hamdy.

The Ismailia and Port Said tunnels are one of the largest tunnel projects in the world. They were implemented at a record time, not more than 3 years. It is universally accepted that the implementation of tunnels takes 5-7 years.

The Ismaili tunnels were designed 70 meters below the surface of the earth and 30 meters below the Suez Canal. It also provided 23 emergency rooms on both sides of the tunnel, which is 5820 meters long, each room 250


Festival, May 9th-13th, celebrates Jewish life through music, bringing fresh, cutting-edge performers to the Southeast United States, and highlighting a night of sacred music with a special Shabbat service. Russell is also a former NEXT Community Engagement Fellow; the Fellowship empowered dozens of alumni to create vibrant local communities by hosting events and identifying trends and alumni areas of interest.

2) Jeremy Gillick is the co-founder of Green Chaverim, an upstart project in Berkeley, California that will ignite gardening and farming interest groups in partnership with select area synagogues. The project will offer agricultural workshops to young Jewish adults for whom getting back to the land is a meaningful way to connect with Judaism. Jeremy is a Ph.D. Candidate in Jewish History.

3) Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann, the Founder of Mishkanto the I-beam, and a winch for manipulating a chain with a hook.        U.S. Pat. No. 5,338,147 (Kucharczyk, et al.) a hoist apparatus for cargo compartment, for use in transferring goods into and from a cargo compartment of a vehicle, trailer, container or the like. The hoist apparatus has a first frame having a pair of opposite side members extending in a first horizontal direction, the I-beams each having a vertical web and horizontal upper and lower flanges. The first frame is supported on rollers beneath the roof of the cargo compartment, so as to allow displacement of the first frame in the first horizontal direction between a first, retracted position, in which the first frame is accommodated within the cargo


compartment, and a second, extended position, in which the first frame protrudes from the cargo compartment. A second frame or bridge extends horizontally between the opposite side members of the first frame and is supported on rollers on the first frame for movement along the side members. The second frame has a pair of opposite side members extending transversely to the first horizontal direction, and a hoist carriage is mounted on the second frame, for movement along the side members thereof. At least a major portion of the depths of the second frame and of the hoist carriage are located above the underside of the first frame, so as to counteract obstruction of the headroom within the compartment.        U.S. Pat. No.on the tracks for movement longitudinally thereof. The carrier lies substantially within the plane of the tracks near the top of the space. A hoist boom is pivotally mounted on the carrier adjacent one of the tracks, the boom extending horizontally beneath the carrier and being swingable across the space between the tracks. The boom is also movable with the carrier longitudinally of the frame.        U.S. Pat. No. 4,297,071 (Dunbar) discloses a weight transfer apparatus for a weight handling vehicle having a rear cargo compartment with a bed and side walls. A frame adjacent the sidewalls supports a carriage that moves horizontally along the top of the frame and telescopes out the rearward end of the vehicle. A trolley, supporting a


U-shaped hood, having a pair of hinged hood sections, each supporting upper and lower rollers for engagement respectively with upper and lower surfaces of the ball of the rail. The upper rollers are adjustable, for accommodating different rail weights, the rollers are located wholly within the hood, and the hinged hood sections permit assembly to and removal from the rail.        U.S. Pat. No. 4,221,301 (Walerowski) discloses a crane trolley with a hoist, in which a crane trolley is movable by means of rollers on the lower flange of a runway girder, the crane trolley having a hoist, the latter being inserted in one of the two sides plates of the crane trolley. The load chain of the hoist is guided byincludes an I-section support beam extending between the main airfoil and the slat or flap. The support beam is driven into and out of the main airfoil by a rack and pinion mechanism, the rack being disposed along a lower boom of the beam, the beam being supported for rolling contact with the main airfoil by upper and lower straddle rollers positioned between wing leading edge ribs. Roller tracks extend along upper and lower booms of the beam, with at least one roller track co-extending with the rack adjacent thereto along the beam.        U.S. Pat. No. 5,738,016 (Scott) discloses a light rail and wheel carriage system that includes first and second rail assemblies held in spaced parallel disposition by a plurality


of support members, and cooperating wheel carriage assemblies that mount rail cars onto the rail assemblies. Each rail assembly includes upper and lower elongate tubular rail members, vertically spaced by a vertical flange. In a preferred embodiment, each rail member has a circular configuration, and is bifurcated internally by a received longitudinal edge of the vertical flange. Each wheel carriage assembly includes a carriage frame, first and second elongate pivot shafts, a set of upper and lower rollers, and a compressible strut. In a preferred embodiment, a set of upper and lower rollers is pivotally secured to opposite ends of the first pivot shaft. A second set of upper and lower rollers is also pivotally secured to opposite ends of the second pivot shaft. The compressible strut interconnectstransmit lateral load moments to a narrow vertical member. A vertically-extending torque shaft journalled on the vertical member carries gears on its opposite ends. The gears engage laterally-extending racks spaced widely vertically apart on a rearward carriage, so that lateral load moments apply minimum forces to the racks, and rotation of the torque shaft also serves to laterally position the vertical member and the fork carriage. The rearward carriage may comprise an elevatable, mast-guided laterally-fixed carriage, or an intermediate carriage may be interposed between the vertical member and the laterally-fixed carriage to provide greater lateral load extension. An intermediate carriage, having a roller arrangement insuring adequate support at any lateral load position, is shown. By mounting the truck load wheels on the ends of an axle member, a


By JAKE ELLISON, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Updated 12:38 pm, Wednesday, February 20, 2013

One of a an animated set of three images from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the rover's drill in action on Feb. 8, 2013, or Sol 182, Curiosity's 182nd Martian day of operations. This was the first use of the drill for rock sample collection. The target was a rock called "John Klein," in the Yellowknife Bay region of Gale Crater on Mars. This set of images was obtained by Curiosity's right front Hazard-Avoidance camera on Feb. 8, 2013, or Sol 182. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

One of a an animated set of three images from NASA's Curiosity...

One of a an animated set of three images from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the rover's drill in action on Feb. 8, 2013, orSol 182, Curiosity's 182nd Martian day of operations. This was the first use of the drill for rock sample collection. The target was a rock called "John Klein," in the Yellowknife Bay region of Gale Crater on Mars. This set of images was obtained by Curiosity's right front Hazard-Avoidance camera on Feb. 8, 2013, or Sol 182. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

One of a an animated set of three images from NASA's Curiosity...

One of a an animated set of three images from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the rover's drill in action on Feb. 8, 2013, or Sol 182, Curiosity's 182nd Martian day of operations. This was the first use of the drill for rock sample collection. The target was a rock called "John Klein," in the Yellowknife Bay region of


Gale Crater on Mars. This set of images was obtained by Curiosity's right front Hazard-Avoidance camera on Feb. 8, 2013, or Sol 182. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

One of a an animated set of three images from NASA's Curiosity...

This image released by NASA on Saturday Feb. 9, 2013 shows a fresh drill hole, center, made by the Curiosity rover on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 next to an earlier test hole. Curiosity has completed its first drill into a Martian rock, a huge milestone since landing in an ancient crater in August 2012.

Photo: AP

This image released by NASA on Saturday Feb. 9, 2013 shows a fresh...

This rectangular version of a self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013). The rover is positioned at a patch of flat outcrop called "John Klein," which was selected as the site for the first rock-drilling activities by Curiosity. The self-portrait was acquired to document the drilling site. The rover's robotic arm is not visible in the mosaic. MAHLI, which took the component images for this mosaic, is mounted on a turret at the end of the arm. Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic's component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images or portions of images used in the mosaic. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, developed, built and operates MAHLI. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,


Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project and the mission's Curiosity rover for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Image Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Photo: NASA

This rectangular version of a self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover...

As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity neared the ninth anniversary of its landing on Mars, the rover was working in the 'Matijevic Hill' area seen in this view from Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam). Opportunity landed Jan. 24, 2004, PST (Jan. 25 UTC). The landing site was about 12 miles (19 kilometers), straight-line distance, or about 22 miles (35.5 kilometers) driving-route distance, from this location on the western rim of Endeavour Crater. Matijevic Hill is an area within the "CapeYork" segment of Endeavour's rim where clay minerals have been detected from orbit. This view is centered northwestward, toward the crest of Cape York. It extends more than 210 degrees from left to right. The field of view encompasses most of the terrain traversed by Opportunity during a "walkabout" in October and November 2012 to scout which features to spend time examining more intensely. Two of the features investigated at Matijevic Hill are "Copper Cliff," the dark outcrop in the left center of the image, and "Whitewater Lake," the bright outcrop on the far right.

Photo: NASA

As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity neared the ninth...

''Veins in 'Sheepbed' Outcrop'' This image of an outcrop at the "Sheepbed" locality, taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover with its right Mast Camera (Mastcam),


of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The mission's Curiosity rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''At Edge of 'Yellowknife Bay,' Sol 130'' In a shallow depression...

''Hello, MAHLI'' This image shows the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Curiosity rover, with the Martian landscape in the background. The image was taken by Curiosity's Mast Camera on the 32nd Martian day, or sol, of operations on the surface.

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Hello, MAHLI'' This image shows the Mars Hand Lens Imager...

''MAHLI's First Night Imaging of Martian Rock, White Lighting'' This image of a Martian rock illuminated by white-light LEDs (light emitting diodes) is part of the first set of nighttime images taken by the Marsis named "Jake Matijevic" in commemoration of influential Mars-rover engineer Jacob Matijevic (1947-2012).

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Curiosity's Rock-Contact Science Begins'' This image shows the...

''Wall of Gale Crater'' This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows part of the wall of Gale Crater, the location on Mars where the rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012. This is part of a larger, high-resolution color mosaic made from images obtained by Curiosity's Mast Camera.

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Wall of Gale Crater'' This color image from NASA's Curiosity...

'''Snake River' Rock Feature Viewed by Curiosity Mars Rover'' The sinuous rock feature in the lower center of this mosaic of images recorded by the NASA Mars rover Curiosity is called "Snake River." The images in the mosaic were taken by Curiosity's Navigation Camera during the 133rd Martian day, or sol,


of the rover's mission on Mars (Dec. 20, 2012).

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

'''Snake River' Rock Feature Viewed by Curiosity Mars Rover'' The...

''End of Curiosity's Extended Arm, Full-Resolution'' This full-resolution image from NASA's Curiosity shows the turret of tools at the end of the rover's extended robotic arm on Aug. 20, 2012. The Navigation Camera captured this view.

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''End of Curiosity's Extended Arm, Full-Resolution'' This...

''Focusing the 34-millimeter Mastcam'' This image is from a series of test images to calibrate the 34-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover. It was taken on Aug. 23, 2012 and looks south-southwest from the rover's landing site. The gravelly area around Curiosity's landing site is visible in the foreground. Farther away, about a third of the way up from the bottom of the image, the terrain fallsoff into a depression (a swale). Beyond the swale, in the middle of the image, is the boulder-strewn, red-brown rim of a moderately-sized impact crater. Farther off in the distance, there are dark dunes and then the layered rock at the base of Mount Sharp. Some haze obscures the view, but the top ridge, depicted in this image, is 10 miles away.

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Focusing the 34-millimeter Mastcam'' This image is from a series...

'Layers at the Base of Mount Sharp' A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this image from NASA's Curiosity rover. The image shows the base of Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual science destination. This image is a portion of a larger image taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mast Camera on Aug. 23,


through Curiosity's Sieve'' This image shows fine sand from Mars that was filtered by NASA's Curiosity rover as part of its first "decontamination" exercise. These particles passed through a sample-processing sieve that is porous only to particles less than 0.006 inches (150 microns) across. The view from the rover's Mast Camera looks into the portion box and "throat" of the Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis (CHIMRA) tool on the end of the rover's arm.

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Sand Filtered through Curiosity's Sieve'' This image shows fine...

''Small Debris on the Ground Beside Curiosity'' This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a small bright object on the ground beside the rover at the "Rocknest" site. The rover team assessed this objectas debris from the spacecraft, possibly from the events of landing on Mars. The image was taken during the mission's 65th Martian day, or sol (Oct. 11, 2012).

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Small Debris on the Ground Beside Curiosity'' This image from...

''Panoramic View From 'Rocknest' Position of Curiosity Mars Rover'' This panorama is a mosaic of images taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on the NASA Mars rover Curiosity while the rover was working at a site called "Rocknest" in October and November 2012.

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Panoramic View From 'Rocknest' Position of Curiosity Mars Rover''...

''Rock 'Burwash' Near Curiosity, Sol 82'' This focus-merge image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a rock called "Burwash." The rock has a coating of dust on it. The coarser,


visible grains are windblown sand. The focus merge combines portions of eight images taken with the camera held in one position while the MAHLI focus mechanism moved for each of the eight exposures to capture features at different distances in focus. The images were taken during the mission's 82nd sol, or Martian day (Oct. 29, 2012).

Photo: Caltech/MSSS

''Rock 'Burwash' Near Curiosity, Sol 82'' This focus-merge image...

This image provided by NASA shows the late-afternoon shadow cast by the Mars rover Opportunity at Endeavour Crater. The six-wheel rover landed on Mars in January 2004 and is still going strong.

However, in the press release announcing a “teleconference” that can be viewed above starting at noon, the agency says tantalizingly: “The Mars Science Laboratory project and its Curiosity rover are investigating whether conditionsLATEST CHAPTERS

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Lagos — Fifteen dead bodies were yesterday recovered from the rubble of a five-storey building that collapsed at Ikate in the Lekki area of Lagos at 4.30 a.m. during a thunderstorm.

Eleven persons were rescued alive from the building and were taken to the intensive health care centre of the Lagos General Hospital.

At press time yesterday, many persons were still reportedly trapped under the collapsed structure as some said they could still hear people calling for help from under the debris.

Among those who died in the incident were a middle-aged woman and her infant son. Both of them were brought out of the rubble about 4.00 p.m. The woman was clutching her child when rescuers stumbled on their dead bodies. She had her cloth wrapped around her child toprotect him from debris from the decking of the house.

At 7.00 a.m. when rescue work began at the scene, one body was recovered while four survivors were brought out from the debris. By 7.50 a.m., two more bodies were brought out dead, while the number of survivors remained at four.

Around 8.10a.m,, combined team of rescuers brought out another dead body and one more rescued person, while another survivor was rescued at about 10.15am.

But by 3.40p.m., the death toll had risen to 11, while at 4.00p.m,, the body of the middle-aged woman clutching her dead infant son was brought out amid tears by onlookers. At exactly 4.30pm, two other persons were brought out alive but before they could be taken to the standby ambulance, they breathed their last.

Ibrahim Farinloye,


Public Relations Officer of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in the South West Region confirmed the incident. He said, "A five-storey building collapsed on Tuesday morning at Chisco Bus Stop, opposite Oando Filling Station, Lekki Phase One, Lagos. Six trapped victims have been rescued alive, while four dead bodies have been recovered from under the debris."

Emergency workers from NEMA, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Federal and State Fire Services and the Police were still carrying out rescue duties at the site as at press time.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Dolapo Badmos who also confirmed the incident to Daily Trust, said that although rescue operation was on-going, a total of ten dead bodies had been recovered from the site.

General Manager of LASEMA, Michael Akindele,vindicate his statutory rights under the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"), 29 U.S.C. Sec. 151 et seq.    Immediately after his suspension, and then again after his discharge, Grosso filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or the "Board"), alleging that Woodlawn had suspended him because he had engaged in protected concerted activities under section 7 of the NLRA.  These charges caused the NLRB to issue complaints against Woodlawn, which were consolidated for hearing.  The hearing commenced on July 9, 1990, before Administrative Law Judge James F. Morton (the "ALJ").

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On September 24, 1990, Woodlawn moved to stay the two arbitration proceedings pending a final determination in the consolidated NLRB case.  At that time, after seven days before


China is aware that its coal is running out and that it needs new sources of energy. The rest of the world blunders along on the assumption that fossil fuels will remain plentiful.

Guest essay by David Archibald

At a conference on coal gasification in Colorado Springs on 12th October, the lead speaker was Dr Yong-Wang Li of Synfuels China. The third slide of his presentation contained this statement:

That includes coal. There are people being born in China today who will see the end of coal. This agrees with my own analysis which has China having burnt through half of its coal endowment by 2025:

Coal production in China is relatively opaque. Last month the E.I.A. revised its estimate of Chinese energy consumption from coal by 14%. Despite China’s agreements withcharges against him, if he's able to comprehend the penalties involved with these charges, if he's capable of behaving himself in court and if he's able to testify relevantly.

Boatwright was arrested in July for an unrelated drug charge. However, a warrant was issued for his arrest for first-degree murder while he was in police custody.

Boatwright is accused of being one of the two armed men who robbed XXXTENTACION outside of the Riva Motorsports on June 18th.

We'll continue to keep you updated on more information pertaining to XXXTENTACION's murder trial.


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One of the most dramatic stories from the night of the Grenfell Tower blaze - that a baby was thrown from a window and caught - probably never happened, a BBC investigation has concluded.

The news was reported in the media right across the UK and the world.

But neither the police nor ambulance service have a record of the event, and experts have questioned whether it is scientifically possible.

No witnesses quoted at the time were willing to be interviewed on camera.

The report, by BBC Newsnight, found the first reference to the story can be traced back to 10:08 on 14 June while firefighters were still battling the blaze.

Image caption It was one of the few good news stories out of Grenfell Tower that awful night inJune

The Press Association tweeted an interview with a woman named Samira Lamrani.

She told them that she had witnessed a woman on the "ninth or 10th floor" throwing a baby from a window and that the child was caught by a man below.

The quotes were picked up by news organisations across the UK, including by the BBC.

Newsnight contacted Ms Lamrani but she declined to be interviewed. "My memory of that night is fading… I don't want to talk about it," she said.

Another witness quoted at the time was the broadcaster and architect George Clarke who told Newsnight on the day of the fire that he saw a man catch "a kid" thrown out of the window from the eighth floor.

When we contacted him for this report, he told us


he did not wish to make any comment on the matter at all. "It's such a contentious issue and I think it's so hurtful to so many people," he said.

Image caption The news was first reported in this tweet from a journalist with a video of a witness at the scene

On the 16 June, two days after the fire, a dramatic account of a similar sounding incident appeared in The Sun newspaper. It was subsequently picked up by many other news organisations.

The story features photographs of a man holding a young girl. The Sun names him as "Pat" and says the picture was taken just after he had caught the girl, aged 4, who the newspaper said had been dropped from the fourth floor.

However, we tracked down thegive us an on-camera interview.

One local resident, Jody Martin, has a theory about where the baby story originated. He arrived at the scene of the fire at about the same time as the first fire crews, just after 01:00.

Image caption Jody Martin saw a woman holding a child outside a window to give it air

He says his attention was drawn to activity on the third or fourth floor.

"There was an African-Caribbean lady with her baby and she was leaning out the window," he says. "It was more like a toddler. And there was smoke just billowing out behind us, so obviously she was just trying to get oxygen. So she was at the lowest point of the ledge, you know right down low, top half of her torso


9-year-old sneaks on plane from Minneapolis to Las Vegas

A 9-year-old boy snuck onto a plane from Minneapolis to Las Vegas.

A 9-year-old boy passed through security at MSP airport without a ticket and made it all the way to Las Vegas.Credit: MSP Airport / Facebook

In a scene straight out of "Home Alone," a 9-year-old boy from Minneapolis boarded an airplane at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport and took a trip to Las Vegas, reports KARE.

The boy managed to pass through three levels of security at the airport on Thursday: the TSA, the gate agents and the flight crew. Yet, after reviewing the security footage, airport officials admitted that it appeared the boy did not have a boarding pass. He boarded Delta Flight 1651 and made it halfway to Las Vegasbefore flight attendants realized he was not on the unattended minors list, reports CBS Minnesota.

When police went to his parents' home, they said they "hadn't seen much of him today," and his family said they believed he ran away, according to CBS. Airport officials told KARE that the boy was at the airport on Wednesday, as well, when he took a stranger's bag, ordered food at a restaurant and left the bag while he "went to the bathroom." He did not return to pay for his meal.

An airport spokesperson told KARE that Las Vegas police, Hennepin County police and the boy's parents are working together to bring him back to the Twin Cities. A TSA spokesperson also told CBS that the agency has been understaffed because of the


Celebrating accomplishments

This week I am celebrating accomplishments of my first vending experience at the Belfast Hook In by 207 Creatives.

Needle felted pin cushions

Hand dyed wool bundles

Managing fears has been something that has come up from time to time in my life. Last weekend was one of them, and I made it through without a hitch.

I have had to give speeches in front of a graduation crowd – twice – and I came out on the other side smiling and proud. Being an introvert has its advantages and certainly, disadvantages. I was a vendor at the Belfast Hook In last Saturday, as well as a co-cordinator, and it was fine – fun in fact. Managing fears and coming out ahead feels like a great success for an introvert likeUnai Emery reveals what Sir Alex Ferguson told him about winning Europa League

Unai Emery reveals what Sir Alex Ferguson told him about winning Europa League

Arsenal manager, Unai Emery, has revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson once teased him about Europa League success with Sevilla and asked if he wouldn’t rather win the Champions League instead.

Emery won the Europa League three times in a row while in Seville between 2014 and 2016.

During that run, the Spaniard attended UEFA’s Elite Coaches Forum in Nyon, Switzerland and Manchester United legend Ferguson couldn’t help but have some fun with the Spaniard.

In an interview on Soccer AM, Emery said: “One day we were in Nyon for the coaches meeting and I was defending a lot the Europa League, and he – Ferguson – asked


mosaic-like painting technique, Mr. Close turns the 42nd president into a pixelated clown.

Mr. Obama has much better luck with his similarly high-profile portraitist. Mr. Wiley, born in Los Angeles in 1977, gained a following in the early 2000s with his crisp, glossy, life-size paintings of young African-American men dressed in hip-hop styles, but depicted in the old-master manner of European royal portraits. More recently he has expanded his repertoire to include female subjects, as well as models from Brazil, India, Nigeria and Senegal, creating the collective image of a global black aristocracy.

In an imposingly scaled painting — just over seven feet tall — the artist presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not solooks like ground cover. From the greenery sprout flowers that have symbolic meaning for the sitter. African blue lilies represent Kenya, his father’s birthplace; jasmine stands for Hawaii, where Mr. Obama himself was born; chrysanthemums, the official flower of Chicago, reference the city where his political career began, and where he met his wife.

Mrs. Obama’s choice of Ms. Sherald as an artist was an enterprising one. Ms. Sherald, who was born in Columbus, Ga., in 1973 and lives in Baltimore, is just beginning to move into the national spotlight after putting her career on hold for some years to deal with a family health crisis, and one of her own. (She had a heart transplant at 39.) Production-wise, she and Mr. Wiley operate quite differently. He runs the


element, is recognizable as Acura emblematic, but beyond that and the LEDs the design is bland and breaks no new ground. The same could perhaps be said of the German troika that dominates the class, but if the Teutons are familiar from one generation to the next, that familiarity includes a big helping of prestige.

Model Lineup
Acura RLX ($48,450) is offered in one model augmented by four option packages. RLX comes standard with leather trim and automatic climate control.
Walkaround
Acura RLX is bigger than the old RL. It's longer than the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, BMW 5 Series and Audi A6, and it's wider than all but the E-Class. The Acura rides on a slightly shorter wheelbase, however.

The Acura engineering team cites gains in body shell rigidity, thanks to extensive use ofhot stamped high strength steel in selected areas, and in the finished product conveys a sense of praiseworthy solidity.

An aluminum hood, doors and decklid save about 76 pounds in the body-in-white. However, with curb weights that range from 3933 to almost 4000 pounds, the RLX is generally heavier than the three German sedans.

The 2014 RLX sports a new double wishbone suspension system up front, and a new multilink arrangement at the rear designed, of course, to accommodate P-AWS.

There's also a new capless fueling system, a la the technique pioneered by Ford. When it functions properly (i.e., no leakage), as was the case on our test car, this feature eliminates the ugly sight of a forgotten fuel cap flapping in the breeze, eventually to detach itself entirely. It's easy


NRL: Foran admits knock-on

A sheepish Kieran Foran has conceded he did knock the ball forward in the build-up to Manly's controversial fourth try in Friday's 22-12 NRL semi-final win over North Queensland.

The Cowboys were fuming after Foran rose above Johnathan Thurston to palm the ball forwards before Michael Oldfield got the final touch for a vital 63rd-minute four-pointer.

Foran claimed after the match when quizzed by reporters that he didn't touch the ball, but having seen the incident on television, Foran said he can now see that he did knock-on.

After several reviews of the incident, video referees Steve Clark and Paul Simpkins awarded a try, only for referees bosses Stuart Raper and Bill Harrigan to confirm the decision was incorrect 24 hours later.

The pair have since been stood downfor this weekend's preliminary finals matches, between Melbourne and Manly on Friday and Canterbury and South Sydney on Saturday.

Foran maintains, he was confident at the time that he didn't touch the ball.

"In the heat of the moment I didn't think I touched it, and that is what I said after the game," Foran said.

"But they've obviously reviewed it and it's turned out differently."

Foran said he understood the furore the situation has created, but said it shouldn't overshadow a very strong performance that saw the premiers move one step away from a second successive grand final appearance.

"It was a fairly big decision, it's finals footy and you want to see referees get those decisions right, so I am not really surprised it has dragged on," he said.

"There were a


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3:28 pm IST Congress MLAs resigning because of their inactivity: Javadekar In the wake of the political crisis in Karnataka, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday hit out at Congress saying their MLAs are resigning as they are losing the plot because of their inactivity. Speaking atteams win, or don’t win.

In 2011 the Vancouver Canucks lost the 2011 Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins, and fans trashed parts of the city, causing millions of dollars of damage.

Here are five US cities which rioted after sporting championships.

Detroit – 1984 and 1990

This was the iconic picture of the Detroit 1984 World Series riot when Tigers fans trashed the city (Picture: AP)

When Detroit’s basketball team the Pistons won the 1990 basketball championship eight people died in the rioting which followed the celebrations.

The final game win was quickly followed by gunfire, stabbings and fighting. Police arrested 35 people and that was before fans started looting shops and overturning emergency vehicles.

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Four people were killed, three children, when a


crazed driver mowed down fans celebrating in the city’s East Side. Two pedestrians, one a four-year-old boy were killed ‘during street celebrations’, a 21-year-old fell off a roof and died and a 19-year-old man was killed when someone fired a gun at revellers.

In 1984 the city also rioted when its baseball team The Tigers won the World Series one person was killed, there were nine reported rapes and 80 people were injured.

Millions of dollars of damage was caused, police were attacked and cars were overturned.

Boston – 2004, 2007 and 2013

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After being starved of success for decades when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series after 86 years fans riotedafter the winning game and the celebration parade. They had also rioted the week before after defeating the New York Yankees, which left one fan dead when police started firing pepper into crowds of fans.

When the Red Sox won the World Series won again three years later there was yet more rioting, fans hurled rocks at police in riot gear, smashed shops windows and lighting fires. Police made 37 arrests and authorities promised lessons had been learnt.

In 2013 another Red Sox win sparked riots when unruly fans flipped cars, fought police and scaled lampposts near the Red Sox iconic Fenway Park ground.

Some folks posed atop an overturned car outside of Fenway Park.(Jessica Rinaldi For The Boston Globe) pic.twitter.com/UU7ZVAlkn5 — Andrew Ba Tran (@abtran) October 31, 2013

Chicago – 1991,


1992 and 1993

Chicago Bulls fans trashed taxis throughout the city in 1992 (Picture: NBC)

Michael Jordan’s brilliance leading the Chicago Bulls to multiple basketball championships in the 1990s had a downside, the Windy city rioted nearly every time they won.

The worst outbreak of civil disorder was after the team’s third consecutive championship in June 1993 when two people died. A woman standing on her balcony was shot and killed by a stray bullet and a man was pulled from his car at an intersection and shot to death.

Nearly 700 were arrested as fans and police fought pitch battles. There was ‘random gunfire’ heard across the city when the Bulls beat the Phoenix Suns.

After rioting in 1991 and 1992 (1,000 arrests, $10million dollars damage) the authorities decided to flood thecity with police officers in 1993 but this did not stop the rioting.

However, the city might have learnt its lesson. When the city’s baseball team The Cubs won their first World Series since 1908 over a million people turned out to be one of the biggest congregations of humans in history, and it passed of peacefully.

The Chicago Cubs victory parade of 2016 was the seventh largest gathering in human history. pic.twitter.com/yM7wtgS1Fg — Did You Know? (@Know) November 18, 2016

Denver – 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001

Denver Broncos fans riot after their first ever Super Bowl victory in 1998 (Picture: CBS)

The Mile High city’s worst ever riot happened after NFL team Broncos won their first Super Bowl in January 1998, when over 10,000 fans went on a rampage.

Drunken fans overturned cars,


looted and vandalised buildings in the city. Damages ran into millions of dollars. A year later after another victory 1,000 Broncos fans rioted in a smaller scale disturbance.

Icy Hockey fans also rioted when The Avalanche won their first Stanley Cup in 1996 and again in 2001 when they won their second when 63 fans were arrested.

Cleveland – 1974

The 1974 10 cent beer riot in Cleveland (Picture: ESPN)

Now, other cities including Los Angeles, Baltimore and San Francisco need to get honourable mentions for rioting fans. However, the final city in our five is Cleveland, mainly because of how an incredibly stupid idea by the baseball team The Indians led to the riot.

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He drove the speed limit. He kept his car in good repair. Instead of shorts or T-shirts, he wore Ralph Lauren dress shirts.

For years before he was fatally shot by a Dallas police officer who says she mistook him for a burglar in his own home, Botham Shem Jean had gone out of his way to avoid even routine encounters with the police, his mother, Allison Jean, said during a visit to New York City on Thursday with her lawyer, Lee Merritt.

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“I always told him, ‘Why do you have to beKarachi is the capital of the province of Sindh, the most populous city in Pakistan and among the biggest in the world. Bordering the Arabian Sea, it is home to more than 21 million people.

Here football is the opiate of the people. It comes as no surprise that Hajra Khan first played outside her home with other children, keeping goal in a net chalked out against a neighbouring wall. However, it was not until she was 14, preoccupied with basketball and track and field, that her mother came across football tryouts in the local Sunday paper and told her to give it a shot.

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finishes her degree in international relations from the London School of Economics, she is dreaming of creating an NGO to combat the stigma of mental illness among professional athletes and starting an academy to provide girls with direction from a younger age.

Hajra Khan representing Pakistan in 2014. Photograph: No credit

We speak just after she has returned home from giving her first TED talk in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, focused on athletes and mental health. She opened up about her clinical depression in an attempt to destigmatise mental illness among professional athletes.

“When an athlete gets physically injured, there’s doctors, physiotherapists, everyone’s trying to work on their recovery so the player can get back on the field as fit as possible, but when it comes to their health issues, the treatmentfarm will mean that these drugs won't work when we humans need them, because in theory, the more an antibiotic is given to animals, the more quickly bacteria will adapt and become resistant to it.

Here's an example: A few months ago, a patient was going through chemotherapy at the National Institutes of Health near Washington, D.C. He came down with a terrible case of diarrhea. "He constantly needed to be rehydrated. We moved him to the ICU for a little bit of monitoring for a while," says Elise O'Connell, a physician in training at the NIH, who was caring for the patient.

Tests revealed that the man was infected with campylobacter, a bacteria that you usually pick up from contaminated chicken or turkey. This seemed odd, until the physicians


for him.

ELISE O'CONNELL: He constantly needed rehydrating. He was actually moved him to the ICU for a little bit of monitoring for a while.

CHARLES: They discovered that the man was infected with Campylobacter bacteria. Usually you get that from contaminated chicken meat. Then the doctors realized that this patient's family had brought in some food from home and another member of the family who'd eaten that dish also had gotten sick for a couple of days.

O'CONNELL: And so, we started him on an antibiotic called Azithromycin.

CHARLES: At first the patient got better and then he got worse again. The Azithromycin was not working. O'Connell switched to a different antibiotic and that one did work.

So, why didn't Azithromycin work? Maybe because on a farm somewhere, chicken were getting treatedfeature prominently in their plans for next season.

Manchester United are thought to be among the front-runners having made a failed attempt to sign him last summer. David de Gea revealed earlier this week that he had been trying to persuade Fabregas to join him at Old Trafford and with Louis van Gaal being handed funds to overhaul the squad, Fabregas would make a stellar addition to his midfield.

Manchester City will also be keen on signing such a world class talent whilst a return to former club Arsenal cannot be ruled out. Arsene Wenger has a habit of signing former players, with Mathieu Flamini, Sol Campbell, Thierry Henry and Jens Lehmann all returning for second spells at the club.

The Gunners are also understood to have first option on the


would not surprise many if he moved on again this summer. Chelsea are one of many clubs reportedly keen to bring him in. He has been ruled out of the World Cup with a knee injury. Getty Images 3/21 Toni Kroos One player who's been creating transfer rumours for a while is Toni Kroos. The German has been linked with a move to Manchester United as his contract talks with Bayern Munich stall. Whether Kroos is simply exploiting United's need for midfield improvements simply to improve his Bayern contract remains to be seen. His superb goals against Arsenal at the Emirates the last two years running highlight just what a talent the Germany international is. GETTY IMAGES 4/21 Victor Valdes For some reason Victor Valdes wants to leavemidfielder, with Manchester United one of those reportedly ready to stump up the cash. GETTY IMAGES 19/21 Josip Drmic There could be a battle on Merseyside between Liverpool and Everton for this young striker. The 21-year-old is currently playing for Nürnberg in the Bundesliga, and having already scored a couple of goals for Switzerland at international level, is a rising star. GETTY IMAGES 20/21 Yann M'Vila The France international has for so long been linked with a move to the Premier League that it's almost as if he's here already. But he's not, he's in Russia with Rubin Kazan. But that might not be the case after this summer for the 23-year-old with Liverpool in particular linked with the defensive midfielder. GETTY IMAGES 21/21 Fernando Torres They might


Radamel Falcao The Colombian surprised many with his move to Monaco last season but it would not surprise many if he moved on again this summer. Chelsea are one of many clubs reportedly keen to bring him in. He has been ruled out of the World Cup with a knee injury. Getty Images 3/21 Toni Kroos One player who's been creating transfer rumours for a while is Toni Kroos. The German has been linked with a move to Manchester United as his contract talks with Bayern Munich stall. Whether Kroos is simply exploiting United's need for midfield improvements simply to improve his Bayern contract remains to be seen. His superb goals against Arsenal at the Emirates the last two years running highlight just what a talent the Germanybracing itself for a flurry of activity in that particular position, Coentrao could be one man in line for a move. Particularly as he has struggled for appearances at Real Madrid this term. 7/21 Mario Balotelli Why always linked with transfers? For one reason or another, Super Mario is one man constantly in the transfer spotlight with a potential reuniting with former boss Jose Mourinho at Chelsea being mooted by some while other reports suggesting he has been offered to Arsenal for £30m. 8/21 Arturo Vidal The self-styled 'best in the world' in his role, has had a great season with Juventus and consequently finds himself in the sights of Real Madrid and Manchester United United according to reports. A good World Cup with Chile will only boost


on his way. Fees in the region of £37m have been mooted for the defensive midfielder, with Manchester United one of those reportedly ready to stump up the cash. GETTY IMAGES 19/21 Josip Drmic There could be a battle on Merseyside between Liverpool and Everton for this young striker. The 21-year-old is currently playing for Nürnberg in the Bundesliga, and having already scored a couple of goals for Switzerland at international level, is a rising star. GETTY IMAGES 20/21 Yann M'Vila The France international has for so long been linked with a move to the Premier League that it's almost as if he's here already. But he's not, he's in Russia with Rubin Kazan. But that might not be the case after this summer for the 23-year-old withLiverpool in particular linked with the defensive midfielder. GETTY IMAGES 21/21 Fernando Torres They might have paid £50m for him, but Torres' days at Chelsea look numbered. Jose Mourinho has done anything but offer a ringing endorsement for the Spaniard and with the Blues linked with just about every striker going, Torres should move on. Despite his problems in front of goal, there won't be a shortage of suitors. Inter Milan have been linked as have his former club Atletico Madrid. Getty Images

Reports suggest Fabregas has a £30m release clause.

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2014, New York agreed to broad reforms to scale back its use of solitary, including banning its use for juveniles and pregnant women. Under the deal, the state will also impose sentencing guidelines for all prisoners, for the first time with a maximum time limit.

Inmates sentenced to solitary in Colorado spend an average of 23 months there, and are often released directly from "ad seg" to the streets. In 2013, Tom Clements, the head of the corrections department who had worked to reform the practice, was murdered at his home by a former inmate who’d recently been released from solitary. In February, Clements’ successor Rick Raemisch spent a night in solitary, and said in a recent New York Times op-ed that he was committed to continuing those reforms."...[D]oing anything less would be both counterproductive and inhumane," he wrote.

Bobby Dellelo was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the shooting death of Boston detective George Holmes in 1963. He escaped from prison and was recaptured and sentenced to time in solitary, where he spent more than five concurrent years in a cell he would later describe as "12 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 10 feet high." He was confined alone in his cell for a minimum of 23 hours a day but was allowed a radio and television, which he claimed would talk to him. "Static wasn’t just static," he told the Boston Globe. "It was speaking a language. It was speaking to me."

An estimated 25 percent of the population at Tamms Correctional


harm" and violates the 8th Amendment. He also ordered that inmates should not be held in administrative segregation for longer than 72 hours for non-punitive reasons.

Thomas Silverstein has been held in solitary confinement since he stabbed prison guard Merle Clutts to death at Marion State Penitentiary in 1983. The murder, which Silverstein plotted for months, helped lead to a prison-wide lockdown that would become the foundation for modern high-security facilities. Silverstein has since been transferred to ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison in Colorado, where he is serving life without parole for killing Clutts and two prison inmates years earlier.

Herman Wallace was serving a 50-year sentence for armed robbery when he was convicted, along with fellow inmate Albert Woodfox, for the murder of a prison guard at theLouisiana State Penitentiary in 1972. They maintained their innocence and with another African-American inmate, they became known as the "Angola Three." Wallace spent 41 years in solitary confinement. In 2013 his conviction was overturned on the grounds that he’d been denied a fair trial and was released. He died three days later. Woodfox’s conviction has also been overturned but the government is fighting to reinstate it. Woodfox is now in his 42nd year in solitary.


been referred to the Channel project, which is run by the Home Office and Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) and designed to stop vulnerable people being drawn in to extremism.
A total of 2,653 referrals, of both adults and children, have been made since the scheme was launched in the wake of the July 7 suicide attacks in 2005.
Those reporting individuals include teachers, parents, youth workers, neighbours and even bin men.
The majority of referrals involved concerns over vulnerability to Islamist extremism but almost 400 cases involved far right radicalisation."

"A national police unit that uses undercover officers to spy on political groups is currently monitoring almost 9,000 people it has deemed "domestic extremists". The National Domestic Extremism Unit is using surveillance techniques to monitor campaigners who are listed onthe secret database, details of which have been disclosed to the Guardian after a freedom of information request.

A total of 8,931 individuals "have their own record" on a database kept by the unit, for which the Metropolitan police is the lead force. It currently uses surveillance techniques, including undercover police, paid informants and intercepts, against political campaigners from across the spectrum...."

"...On Monday the Guardian carried a story that British intelligence had spied on delegates at two G20 summits, those chaired by Gordon Brown in 2009. Laptops and mobile phones had been hacked, and internet cafes installed and bugged. With many of the same heads of government gathering for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, the story was, to put it mildly, sensational.
The source was the American whistleblower, Edward


Snowden, whose revelations about the US National Security Agency had been running in the Guardian and Washington Post for a week. It was initially hinted at by other British media but was covered by a D-notice (warning against publishing anything that could damage national security) from the government."Report by Simon Jenkins

"...Officials said Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (Tide) on the request of the CIA.

The database contains as many as 745,000 entries, and individuals on that list are not necessarily on the so-called terrorist watch list."

Source: The Times, ‘Champions’ to seek out university extremists', 25th May

"A network of civilian counter-terrorism officials who will gather information on the risk of extremism at each university has been installed for the first time.
The co-ordinators, all ofseparate databases.
However, she failed to mention that substantial additional sums — amounting to more than £1 billion over three years — had already been allocated to GCHQ for its MTI programme.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said Smith’s announcement appeared to be a 'smokescreen'.
'We opposed the big brother database because it gave the state direct access to everybody’s communications. But this network of black boxes achieves the same thing via the back door,' Chakrabarti said.
Informed sources have revealed that a £200m contract has been awarded to Lockheed Martin, the American defence giant.
A second contract has been given to Detica, the British IT firm which has close ties to the intelligence agencies. "

"MI5 used some astonishing new weapons in its action against suspected terrorists in the north of England last


week.
Playing a leading role were teams of women who kept an eye on the suspects during the long investigation into what is believed to be the biggest campaign plotted by Al Qaeda since the London bombings.
Created by the Security Service’s A4 surveillance division, the teams were tested for the first time in the operation, code-named Pathway
....They worked in two groups: one, made up of 72 elderly women, the other, young mothers with babies in prams.
Both had undergone a crash course in surveillance techniques...."

"The Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT), a 200-strong Home Office unit created 18 months ago, has said in meetings it wants to 'flood the internet' with 'positive' interpretations of Islam. It plans to train government-approved groups in search engine optimisation techniques, which it's hoped willcouncil and even quango can access this telephone and internet data, given a judge's clearance. What will they use it for? To investigate everything from treason to flytipping. Might it also be used to find out who has been tipping off a journalist on a local paper about the misdeeds of local councillors? That's the concern.

Intelligence & Security Committee Annual report 2007-2008, March 2009"In July 2007....the Prime Minister outlined plans for a National Security Forum, consisting of businesses, academics, community groups, and military and security experts. The aim of the new forum is to:...harness a much wider range of expertise and experience from outside government, and to help us plan for the furure....[The forum will] advise... the National Security Committee
In July 2008, the Prime Miniser announced that the


practice.
This scheme identifies individuals that may be vulnerable to getting swept up in violent extremism and refers them toward multi-agency support.
Since it started in April 2007, the two pilot sites in London and the North West have received over 100 referrals. We are going to expand this further and the aim is that by the end of the financial year, we will bring the total number of sites up to approximately 25 operating across 12 police forces"..

"A database to track and store the international travel records of millions of people is being compiled by the Government.

The intelligence centre will store names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details for all 250 million journeys made in and out of the UK each year.
The computerised patternof police state'. "

"...On December 14, the British PM flew to Islamabad to announce a £6m 'pact against terror', saying he wanted to 'remove the chain' that led from the mountains of Pakistan to the streets of Britain. A significant part of the funding was intended for the Sig [Special Investigation Group] currently a tight-knit cell of 37 full-time specialists that was to be expanded into a 300-strong force with an investigation division, an armed wing, an intelligence department and a research section. In return, Britain asked for access to the Sig's raw data and captured extremists who might illuminate British plots".

"...The wholesale collection and storage of all our email, internet and mobile phone records would allow the Government to know more than it has ever known about


West Belfast, the number of experienced special branch officers has halved".

"Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to announce an extra 300 police will be moved into fighting terrorism and radicalisation within communities...In a speech, Ms Smith is expected to say new jobs will include working with communities and existing police, complementing the work of neighbourhood teams...She said the 300 jobs would include 'new roles' - such as training others, briefing on where radicalism might be happening, identifying people at risk of radicalisation, working with colleges, prisons and schools and make links to mosques". In other media coverage of the speech, The Guardian (17th April 2008) noted that the Home Secretary "also disclosed that the joint terrorism analysis centre, which monitors the terrorist threat, is setting up a prevent unitprison and 474 local authorities as well as the security and intelligence agencies. A total of 253,557 requests for such information were made in the last nine months of 2006, the latest figures available reveal.

The figure compares with almost 450,000 such requests made over the previous 15-month period.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said last night: "It beggars belief that in a nine-month period, based on these figures, the entire City of Westminster could have had their phones tapped ..."

"The essence of a secret service used to be secrecy, including of its methods and achievements. Otherwise it is just a branch of the police. In the early days of "avowal" in the 1980s, the heads of MI5 and MI6 would invite journalists to tell them how to go about


2,000,'Mr Evans said...due to a flow of new extremist recruits and 'improved coverage of extremist communities' by MI5.

Speaking more generally, he said the UK's greatest security threat continued to be al-Qaida, which was conducting a 'deliberate campaign against the United Kingdom' and there was 'no sign of it reducing...there is no doubt now that al-Qaida in Iraq aspires to promote terrorist attacks outside Iraq...Mr Evans also confirmed that MI5's new Northern Ireland headquarters would open soon. He described it as part of the service's 'UK-wide counter terrorism network'. By 2011, MI5 expects to have 4,000 staff, and 25% of them will work outside MI5's London headquarters".

"Thousands of police officers on the beat in areas with large Pakistani communities — such as Birmingham, Leeds and London — will bewe did then. We have developed new techniques, new sources, new relationships".

At the Labour conference in Manchester in September, Mr Reid announced a fundamental review of the counter-terrorist police and security services' ability to tackle the new security threat. He said he wanted a seamless approach to what had become a seamless threat. He is not thinking of merging MI5 and MI6.

The chancellor is clearly thinking of bringing together budgets from the Home Office, the intelligence services and the Ministry of Defence. He has pointed out that the security budget has been nearly doubled in the past few years to £2bn. Others put the budget closer to £1.4bn.

"Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist unit and special branch have merged into a 1,500-strong counter-terrorism command, known as SO15, headed by the current


Picture is being done by MI5 officers based at new regional stations with the help of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham. Four centres: Scotland, the north-west, north-east and midlands are up and running. A further four, in the south-west, Wales, the east and the south-east will be operational by year's end".

First posted on Salaam in June 2006

The main players in the domestic security regime are MI5, GCHQ and two specialist units within the police, Special Branch (SB) and the Met's Anti-Terrorism unit, SO13. MI5 and GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters) report to the Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary respectively, while SBs form part of the structure of the police constabularies and report to a chief constable. There are currently a total of 53 SBs across the country.MI5's brief is to only investigate individuals and organizations that pose 'a threat to national security', while Special Branch's remit are 'threats to public order'. There were turf wars with the police in the late 1990s when MI5 argued that its expertise in surveillance, covert searches and agent-handling was well-suited for tackling organised crime. This has been settled with the Special Branch now regarded as the 'executive partner' of MI5.
The budget of MI5 is an official secret and information is only published for the combined agencies - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. However the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget speeches offer clues. In April 2002 he stated that "since September 11th we have made provision of 50 million pounds for our domestic security responsibilities". A year later he


thus a limited capacity to absorb new staff. The former in particular has a tradition of drawing from certain public schools and Oxbridge colleges, relying on the tutor network. It is likely that many of the criticisms on management style raised by David Shaylor, the MI5 whistle-blower, have by now been quietly implemented. He has described the climate in the 1990s, "for reasons that appear to be outdated, MI5 models itself on the culture of the home Civil Service, except that it is the culture of the Civil Service before the reforms which began in the late 1980s. MI5 does not explain this to its new recruits during the recruitment process. If I had known this, I probably would not have joined the Service as I had neverWest Midlands and north-west England "(6) . The same reporter a year later wrote that "MI5's resources are to be beefed up with a new Special Reconnaissance Regiment which women are being encouraged to join. Its role may reflect the army's 14th Intelligence Company, which operated in Northern Ireland" (7).

In July 2005, Vikram Dodd in The Guardian reported a similar mirror development in the Special Branch: "special intelligence units are being planned across Britain to monitor Muslims so the authorities can collect 'community by community' knowledge…to be known as Muslim Contact Units and staffed by Special Branch Officers….will have language skills and seek detailed knowledge of the dynamic of Islamic communities in their areas" (8).

Details of a Contact Unit have been provided by Tayside Police in Scotland: "The


force's Special Branch Community Contact Unit (SBCCU) was set up last October [2005] on a trial basis as a new way of combating the terror menace. Now, having received glowing praise for the unit's first six months of operation, Tayside Police have been convinced of the benefits of maintaining it permanently. The project, which is unique in Scotland, aims to gather intelligence from community sources, including education chiefs and community leaders, on any potential troublemakers….Tayside Police prepared a report on the results of the pilot scheme, which it shared with forces in Scotland and England. DCS McCashey said that despite projects of this nature already existing in England, Tayside's success has attracted officers from south of the border wishing to witness the project's work first-hand" (9). Assuming asupport team of 4 per SBCCU and about 25 established across the UK, this would require about 100 personnel, with a total cost of say £7 million per annum.

Other funds would have been allocated to intense surveillance activities. The Intelligence and Security Committee's 'Report into the London Terrorist Attacks on July 7 2005' notes, "intensive 'round the clock' coverage of a single target can require up to *** Security Service surveillance staff out of a total of around *** surveillance staff, and around *** organisation staff….in 2001, at around the time of 9/11, the Securty Service knew of approximately 250 primary investigative targets in the UK. By July 2004 this had risen to over 500, of which only about *** could be investigated, and only *** intensively. By


July 2005 the number of primary investigative targets in the UK has risen to around 800, only about ***% of which the Service was able to cover"(10). Writing in the Daily Telegraph (14th September 2005), Philip Johnston's view was that "hundreds of terror suspects are under surveillance". Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent at the Sunday Telegraph has suggested that the figure has now risen from 800: he writes, that the MI5 "fears silent army of 1,200 biding its time in the suburbs" (11).

Perhaps of a total of 1200, about 20 are under intense surveillance, 100 under fairly tight observation while the rest - and buildings such as mosques and bookshops - subject to a tier 3 type of observation. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of 'experts' wishing to eggwhile the lower level observation a couple. This might require about 5000 staff, sourced from recruitment, long-term secondment and short-term redeployment within the police forces. With a cost of £40,000 per head, this suggests a total ball-park cost of around £200 million, a fair chuck of the new monies allocated.

Assuming a total allocation of £250 million, after the SBCU and surveillance allocations, the balance left over is about £40 million. However funding is also needed for informers, sting operations and IT projects.

Writing in the Guardian in February 2004, Alan Travis and Richard Norton-Taylor noted, "MI5 has been seeking informants in the Muslim community through messages on the internet in Arabic" (15) . The Forest Gate shooting and raid on the home of an Islamic scholar in Dewsbury in


June 2006 have also highlighted their role.

The Northern Ireland experience is that key informants can command incredible rates - the trial of David Rupert in June 2003 revealed that he had been paid £700,000 to infiltrate dissident Republican groups (Financial Times, 19 June 2003). Torrens Knight, according to Rosie Boycott and Owen Bowcott, "allegedly received a £50,000 'salary'; he was an Ulster police informant. The work of the agent Stakeknife is also well-documented - the informant who rose to become second-in-command of the IRA's internal security unit(16) . More recently, Denis Donaldson was in the headlines: he led a double life as an IRA hero while also serving British intelligence for 20 years. Some Irish nationalists now remember their surprise at the ease with which Donaldson would passthe security services. Who is to stop the odd informant from settling old scores or creating other mischief? The pre-dawn raid on the family home of Abdul Kahar in Forest Gate took place after an informant told MI5 that he had seen a home-made chemical device there. Ben Leapman and Adam Lusher, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, reveal that "there were claims that the informant had a grudge against the brothers"(24) . In the mind of Iain Duncan Smith MP, the raid on Maulana Yaqub Qasimi's home in Dewsbury "raised the concern among some in the intelligence community that Islamic extremists were using disinformation to sow discord and to bring the police into disrepute"(25) . Mr Duncan Smith's real message is 'beware double-agents' - the flow of information


and misinformation is now a two-way street!
The Northern Ireland experience was that the approach to an informant was often made while a person was reaching the end of a prison sentence. Other vulnerable individuals may be those held because of deportation orders or visa irregularities.

An example is the case of Imam Shafiqur Rehman from Oldham, Lancashire. He was brought before a special immigration tribunal - the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) - in August 1999 to consider a demand for his deportation by the Home Secretary on national security grounds. The hearing was attended by two MI5 officers. The Times (17 August 1999) reported: "Witness J was head of the MI5 group that monitored terrorism on the Indian subcontinent. Witness A was in charge of investigations into Islamicextremists from the area operating in the United Kingdom". The charge against the imam was that he had raised cash and organised young British Muslim recruits for the Markaz Dawa al-Irshad (MDI). Witness A stated that a substantial percentage of cash raised by Mr Rehman's group went to fund a jihad in Kashmir. Mr Rehman and his supporters had done nothing in this case but he was "regularly involved in jihad training. We are concerned at the potential threat to national security". However an underlying concern during Imam Shafiq's hearing was his allegation that he had been approached to serve as an informer by the MI5 in 1997 and had refused. A third MI5 officer at the hearing, Witness I according to The Times report, admitted that in


According to Ukraine's president official website, Poroshenko dismissed Ihor Kolomoiskyi from the post of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Governor.

KIEV (Sputnik) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on the dismissal of Ihor Kolomoiskyi from the post of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Governor during a meeting with the Ukrainian oligarch, a statement released on the president's official website on Wednesday says.

Kolomoiskyi, who is one of Ukraine's wealthiest oligarchs, went to the office of state-owned oil company UkrTransNafta last week with a group of armed men, in an attempt to forcefully reappoint the firm's dismissed manager, Oleksandr Lazorko.

Following the incident, Poroshenko issued a decree reproaching Kolomoiskyi "for violating the rules of professional ethics."

"We have to ensure peace, stability and tranquility. The Dnipropetrovsk Region must remain a bastion of Ukraine in the east[and] defend the citizens' peace and quiet," Poroshenko said as quoted in the statement.

According to Ukraine's president, Zaporizhia Regional State Administration head Valentin Reznichenko will now be appointed acting Dnipropetrovsk Regional Governor.

On Monday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that Kiev will "do its job" and actively work against the political crisis scenario supported by oligarchs.

Kolomoiskyi's appearance at the UkrTransNafta office came after the decision of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) to amend legislation on joint stock companies, reducing the oligarch's share in the enterprise and depriving him of crucial influence in the voting process.

Kolomoiskyi has reportedly accumulated an estimated wealth of around $6 billion. He is believed to sponsor a number of Ukrainian armed groups, including volunteer battalions that have committed human rights violations in the southeast


of the country, where they have been fighting against independence supporters alongside Kiev forces.

Ihor Kolomoiskyi was appointed Dnipropetrovsk Regional Governor after last year's coup in Ukraine by then-acting president Oleksandr Turchynov, who is currently the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council's secretary.Afghanistan: In Kabul, a deceptive calm follows attacks

An Afghan policeman walks over the dead body of an insurgent on Sept. 14, 2011 inside the building where Taliban fighters attacked the most heavily protected part of Kabul the day before.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The sun was shining and the streets were filled with schoolchildren on Wednesday morning — boys in blue shirts chased each other around, little girls in black dresses and white headscarves made their demure way to class. One crossed in front of our car, her hands full of an enormous ice cream cone.

It would be difficult to guess that a couple of miles away, the battle was still raging at a construction site on Abdul Haq Square, overlooking the U.S. Embassy. The embassy had been the main


connection to Haqqanis.

Pakistan, which receives billions in U.S. assistance every year, denies links with terrorist groups, but it has resisted taking on the Haqqanis, who are believed to be sheltering in Pakistan’s border area.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed that the attacks would not deter Afghans from continuing to take on responsibility for their own security.

"By carrying out such attacks terrorists cannot stop the transition of security from international to Afghan forces," Karzai said in a statement.

With the United States engaged in a drawdown of the more than 100,000 troops it has in Afghanistan, and other nations, such as Canada and the Netherlands, all but gone already, there is a major emphasis on the ANSF taking on the task of protecting the population.

Seven areas, including Kabul, have already “transitioned”motivating and inspiring. Hanadi’s consistently positive attitude and passion for writing shine through both her professional demeanour and within her work. She has been the backbone behind numerous team building activities, which in turn have created a close-knit team and warm work environment. I would highly recommend Hanadi as a hardworking and talented addition to any workplace.

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I hired Hanadi for a digital content enrichment project that included digital content copywriting, sourcing relevant content and creating rich webpages for businesses throughout New Zealand. She delivered the creativity and accuracy required for this role. Hanadi soon set herself apart as an achiever. Her writing skills were excellent and she assisted in copywriting tasks outside of the project based on her impressive writing style. I would recommend Hanadi for her absolute commitment to the project goal, her valuable contribution to a team environment and a pleasant, pro-active nature which definitely contributed to the successof the Yellow content enrichment project.

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Hanadi has worked with us as an Editor during 2013. Her projects required her to generate content for, proof read and edit children's course books and get them ready for printing. During her association with us, we found her to be sincere, honest, and diligent in her responsibilities. She was a dedicated employee with a professional attitude and excellent knowledge of her work. I recommend her wholeheartedly.

Ms. Falki is the kind of student whose scholastic abilities leave an impression on an instructor. She has strong written communication skills, and can clearly express her thoughts in writing. She can apply her own independent and criticalthinking to the ideas presented in a variety of text genres: news, factual reports, critical essays, poetry and novels. Possessing a fine sense of humour, Ms. Falki is a delight to have in class.

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As the Communications Lead for P3 Foundation across the year of 2014, under our Marketing and Communications department, Hanadi carried the responsibility of writing content for a variety of contexts, ranging from web pages to proposals, as well as proofreading content on behalf of other volunteers. In this capacity, Hanadi demonstrated sound writing skills as well as the capacity to produce quality copy targeted at particular audiences and for particular purposes. Her dedication to her role and passion for the cause has been unwavering, and she has been a steady source of inspiration for all around her. As her manager, I do not hesitate to recommend Hanadi – she would be a valuable addition to any team.Donald Trump's campaign manager said some members of Congress who refused to support the Republican candidate after the release of a tape of him making lewd statements about women have sexually harassed women themselves.

Kellyanne Conway spoke with MSNBC's Chris Matthews following Sunday's presidential debate. In the debate, Trump said he had never grabbed women by the "pussy" — a claim he made in 2005 to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush. Trump on Sunday characterized the comment as "locker room talk."

Following the release of the tape, a laundry list of Republicans rebuked Trump or announced they were formally revoking their support. On Sunday night, Conway reiterated that Trump respected woman — and added that those who were criticizing him were hypocrites.

"I would talk to some of the members of Congress


out there," Conway said. "When I was younger and prettier, them rubbing up against girls, sticking their tongues down women's throats uninvited who didn't like it."

"Some of them them, by the way, are on the list of people who won't support Donald Trump, because they all ride around on their high horse," she continued.

Matthews pressed her about the 2005 Trump tape and asked if Trump had ever grabbed a woman as he had described. Conway said the tape was just talk.

"I've asked him if he was talking about his own personal experience, and he said no," she said.(also known as “Bloody Mary”).

Henry’s first marriage was also his longest, lasting from 1509 until 1533.

Desperate for a son, Henry sought an annulment, claiming that the marriage was invalid because Catherine had been married to Arthur. When the pope refused, Henry broke with the Catholic Church, declared himself head of the church in England, and arranged for his own annulment.

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Anne Boleyn, already pregnant, married Henry in 1533. They had been having an affair while she served as one of Queen Catherine’s ladies in waiting.[7]

Anne, too, had just one child, another daughter, who would become the famous queen Elizabeth I.

After several miscarriages, Henry decided to end this marriage, too, on the pretext that Anne was having an affair with another man.

Anne was tried for treason and beheaded in 1536.

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Jane


Seymour finally gave Henry a son. Like Anne, she had been a lady-in-waiting who caught the king’s eye.[8]

In 1537, she gave birth to Edward, who would reign only briefly before his early death.

Jane Seymour died just days after giving birth, plunging the king into grief.

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Anne of Cleves came from Germany to enter into a brokered diplomatic marriage in 1540. Henry found her unattractive. What was even worse, the diplomatic situation shifted and made the marriage less advantageous.[9]

Anne of Cleves co-operated in arranging the annulment of the marriage. She outlived Henry by a decade, dying at her castle in 1557.

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Catherine Howard was yet another doomed lady-in-waiting. At the age of just nineteen, she married Henry only days after his previous marriage was annulled in 1540.[10]

Catherine Howard was Anne Boleyn’sfirst cousin, and she shared her fate. She was caught having an affair with Thomas Culpepper and was beheaded for treason in 1542.

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Katherine Parr was Henry VIII’s last wife but only the second to outlive him. They married in 1543, just four years before the king’s death.[11]

Learned and pious, Katherine sought to reinforce the Protestant Reformation.

Katherine was the first woman and Queen of England to publish a book under her own name. She would publish another after the death of King Henry.

She remarried after his death to Sir Thomas Seymour; uncle to King Edward VI.

After giving birth to her only child, christened Lady Mary (after her royal stepsister), Katherine died five days later on September 5th, 1548.

Katherine's tomb at Sudeley Castle, which features an elaborate effigy, is the


before that date.

However, for a pre-2005 common-law marriage to be valid, the partners must have jointly uttered words constituting an oral contract of marriage. They had to express their mutual desire to be husband and wife.

To Miller's misfortune, there is no evidence such words were exchanged during the 22 years she and Brown were a couple, Solano found.

He noted that Miller and Brown began a romantic relationship in May 1994 and within months were living together. In 1995, while Brown was still legally married to someone else, Miller gave birth to their only child.

The two eventually began introducing themselves as spouses, until in 2016 Miller filed for divorce.

That's when the importance of that piece of paper kicked in. County President Judge Jason J. Legg dismissed Miller's divorce complaint,finding she had provided no proof that she was wed to Brown in any legally recognized manner.

Legg rejected Miller's argument that a document Brown had signed listing her as his wife to obtain health insurance coverage from his employer, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, provided evidence of matrimony.

The county judge reached the same conclusion when Miller provided a consent of spouse form she signed so Brown could withdraw some of his retirement benefits, and when she pointed out that the couple had stated they were married in filing their federal tax return in 2015.

Brown testified that he identified Miller as his wife only to get the health insurance coverage. He said he asked Miller to marry him several times over the course of their relationship, but she refused.

Miller


Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (20 February 1773 – 28 December 1848) was an English nobleman.

Harley was the son of John Harley (dean of Windsor) and Roach Vaughan.  Edward succeeded to the titles and estates (including the Harley family seat at Brampton Bryan) of his father's elder brother Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer on the 4th Earl's death without issue in 1790.

In 1803 Henry Bickersteth became the Earl's medical attendant whilst the Earl was on a tour of Italy, staying with him until 1805. Edward became Bickersteth's friend and patron and in 1835 Bickersteth married the earl's eldest daughter. In 1804 Edward sold the Ewyas Lacy tithes by auction. He commissionedrecite poems and texts, memorize complicated formulas, and do dozens of practice tests — just like the millions of high schoolers who dedicate months or even years to preparation.

In 2003, Wang took the gaokao, but she never received a college admission letter. Thinking she had failed, Wang decided to join the workforce. In the years that followed, she got married, became a mother, and ran a copy shop with her husband.

Wang’s quiet life was disrupted in 2015. When she tried to apply for a bank loan, she was repeatedly rejected because the information she provided was found to be in error. She had filled out her education background as “high school,” but according to government records, she had received a diploma from a vocational school.

According to news reports,


Antithesis by Gordon H. Clark

ANTITHESIS. See also Irrationalism. Antithesis as a term in modern discussions almost always has an Hegelian background. For Hegel truth resided in concepts rather than in propositions. Therefore his philosophy is a system of concepts.

The first concept, because it is the most universal, is Being. Plants and stones are qualified beings; pure, universal Being has no qualities. It is neither living nor inanimate, red nor blue, heavy or any other predicate. Therefore it is Nothing.

Being was the thesis; Nothing is the antithesis, obtained by the dialectic process of analyzing the thesis. By Aristotelian logic the process should end here in the mutual exclusiveness of contradictions. But Hegel adds a synthesis in which the contradictories are reconciled, elevated, or preserved (aufgehoben). In this case, sinceLions golf finishes ninth at SBU Inviational

Oct 04, 2011

Bolivar, Mo. -- The Missouri Southern golf team improved its team total by three strokes today and finished in ninth place overall at the 2011 Southwest Baptist Invitational held at Silo Ridge Country Club in Bolivar.

Freshman Adam Johnson led the Lions as he shot a 75 in round one and a 77 in round two to finish with a two-day 152, good enough for 23rd overall. Senior Jared Essary finished with a two-day total of 155, while sophomore Ryan Russell had a 158. Sophomore Jamie Newman and junior Fabian Oechsle had two-day totals of 162 and 172.

The Lions will be back in action on October 17 and 18, playing at the Missouri Golf Association Regional Preview hosted at Jefferson City


latter was originally recorded by George Jones on his 1990 album You Oughta Be Here with Me, and by Kenny Rogers on his 1993 album If Only My Heart Had a Voice. Due to the closure of Giant Records in 2001, Shelton was transferred to the Nashville division of Giant's parent label, Warner Bros. Records, which promoted and distributed the second and third singles.

Critical reception
Maria Konicki Dinoia of Allmusic rated the album four stars out of five, saying, "This impressive ten-song compilation is an earnest debut full of lots of promise and originality" and citing the presence of Bobby Braddock cowrites.

Track listing

Personnel
Compiled from liner notes.

Musicians
Bobby Braddock – synthesizer strings
Alison Brown – 5-string banjo
Chad Cromwell – drums
Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro
Shannon Forrest – drums,amatören (The big amateur) 1958 Radio Shows edit 1946 Föreningen för flugighetens främjande (The society for promotion of flyism ) 1949 Jakten på Johan Blöth (The hunt for John Wet) "Blöth" is an older form of the word "blöt meaning wet 1950 Herr. Many asked him to write this kind of song and he did, without expressing his own opinion. It came with a vinyl album with the same name, and is really hard to find today. Later, when called to do his military service, his foot condition kept him out of active duty, and he was given an administrative role.

Ramel was a singer, pianist, vaudeville artist, author and a novelty song composer. Förflerade Lingonben edit Increased Lingonberry legs 1992 This is a longer edition of Lingonben with


some well-known and less well known unknown songs. He also has some 'eternity-friends' and an 'eternity-dog' called Missräkningen (The miscalculation). While he almost exclusively worked in Swedish language, he has written at least one song in English, "The Sukiyaki Syndrome about a visit to a Japanese restaurant, and others with a brief English introduction such as "Birth of the Gammeldans ". (Renewed Povel-chat, now with music!) 2006 and spring 2007 Povel à la carte Filmography Selected examples edit I dur och skur (A pun on the expression 'I ur och skur meaning 'through all kinds of weather' and more or less corresponding to the English expression. This book has sections, called corners. His father, Karl Ramel, was a lawyer.minimally invasive incision technique compared with the currently used double-and single-incision techniques in terms of the associated morbidity and nerve injury are needed.

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The experiment was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Anatomy at Ningbo University and Southern Medical University in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association). Informed consent was obtained from the families who participated in the donation program at Southern Medical University and Ningbo University. This study was approved by the Ethics.

Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of the School of Medicine of Ningbo University. The cadaver legs were donated to the anatomy laboratory of the Medical School of Southern Medical University and Ningbo University. Sixty-eight legs from 34 cadavers were analyzed anatomically with respect to the relationship between Henry's knot


and the plantar nerves in feet without obvious deformity or evidence of previous surgery and dissection. The cadavers' mean age was 65.2 (range from 14 to 82) years. Thirty-eight feet were from 19 male cadavers, and thirty feet were from 15 female cadavers; the cadavers were embalmed with a mixture of ethanol, formaldehyde, glycerin, phenol and parachlorometaxylenol. The cadavers were subsequently fixed by immersion in a formalin solution for at least 1 year. The popliteal arteries were dissected, and red latex was manually injected under physiological pressure with a syringe until the skin of the toe became red. The latex was allowed to cure overnight at room temperature.

The skin, superficial fascia, and plantar aponeurosis were removed. The dissection was performed under a dissection microscope to meticulously delineate thebranches of the posterior tibial artery and tibial nerve. Then, the muscles of the flexor digitorum brevis, flexor hallucis brevis, abductor hallucis and lumbricals were meticulously removed. The posterior tibial tendon, FDL tendon, and FHL tendon were identified and exposed.

The navicular tubercle, sustentaculum tali and first interphalangeal joint were marked on the medial foot. The FHL and FDL tendons were dissected and exposed in their course from the point of the musculotendinous junction to their distal insertion. The FHL and FDL tendons were exposed at the level of Henry's knot. Any cross-attachments between the FHL and FDL tendons were identified, counted and classified. The functional insertion of the interconnections of the FHL to the FDL was analyzed. Tension was manually applied to the FDL and FHL tendons individually


until adequate exposure of the posterior tibial nerve ramifying in the medial and lateral plantar branches was achieved. The branches of the posterior tibial artery were identified by injecting red latex. To distinguish the arteries from the nerves, all nerves were sprayed with lead nitrate and potassium dichromate and became yellow.

The nerves were carefully assessed to identify any neurological injury that occurred during the FHL harvest with different incisions. The distance between the tendons and the medial and lateral plantar nerves at Henry's knot was measured in millimeters using a slide gauge. We also measured the external diameters of all arteries and observed the anastomoses between the arteries. This area was photographed in all specimens using a digital camera (Nikon D-80). The anatomical features of Henry's knot andThe foundation announced in a news release Wednesday that it will grant four Missouri food banks a total of $200,000. The grant comes from an emergency fund that is used when there is severe food shortage in the area.

“It was a gift from God,” said food bank director Peggy Kirkpatrick. “A blessing and answer to prayer. ... We were not expecting this.”

Kirkpatrick said she was told by the Missouri Foundation for Health that the agency had money it wished to disperse before the end of the year. The food bank has received grants from the foundation in the past but those were competitive.

The foundation was established in 2000 and has given more than $265 million in awards and grants. It serves the city of St. Louis and 84