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When discussing for the Albanian intellectual elite, my friend, the writer Shefki Hysa, unequivocally stated that one of our most prominent intellectuals was and remains Pjeter Arbnori, although he has already died. He never mention the word death, because, in his opinion, Pjeter Arbnori, this versatile erudite, has left behind a work as large and enduring, as due to it he has passed the threshold of immortality. So, for the writer Shefki Hysa, the life and work of the personality Pjeter Arbnori are immortal values in the precious treasure of the Albanian national culture.
Although the current policy is silent on this figure, trying to cover with a sinister veil of forgetfulness, my friend the writer Shefki Hysa smiles with a sort of enigmatic irony that is not knownArbnori, as is the former president of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova – Gandhi of the Balkans! – My friend Shefki Hysa says without hesitation. Don’t you believe?! The intellectuals Arbnori and Rugova are two personalities missionaries model of Peace in the Balkans, just as the Indian Gandhi and the African Mandela worldwide. Tell me about one another intellectual who resembles a little bit with their work in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans, the writer Shefki Hysa insists. And indeed that nobody comes to mind to challenge him and my friend Shefki Hysa, this word’s magician hypnotic with the magic of his speech. Enough to put him in sensibility and Shefki Hysa brings a thousand arguments to defend his thesis: Arbnori – Albanian Mandela of the Balkans.
In January 1992, when


it was newly established Publishing House “Bilal Xhaferri” dissident poet Namik Mane urged his friend Shefki Hysa to be interested in creating any acquaintance with the former political prisoner Pjeter Arbnori. It was rumored that he was a special writer, for the nature of his creativity (it was said that he had written some anti-communist works in prison), althought he had not published anything yet. He had made about 30 years political imprisonment, just as the South African leader Mandela, and now he was one of the main regional leaders of the opposition, Democratic Party. He represented the opposition of Shkodra, but in the intellectual circles was claimed that for the ideas, ideals and skills Pjeter Arbnori could become one of the main leaders of this political force,which may soon come to power.
Shefki Hysa didn’t made the word two his colleague, Namik Mane. He found the opportunity during a cultural activity that the leaders of the Association of the former politically persecuted organized and he became acquainted with Pjeter Arbnori. He listened attentively with his debonair appearance and entirely came alive when he recognized that it was created a publishing house with the name of the dissident writer Bilal Xhaferri, which would exalted not only the values of his work, but all the best values of the Albanian dissident writers. He shortly told that he was recognized with the creative activity and the anti-communist ideas of Bilal Xhaferri in prison and he felt amazed by that extraordinary talent, his bad luck, exile and death abroad.


Then he said that he had also written a little in prison, secretly, with codes. He was even re-sentenced with ten years when they seized the manuscript of a novel with anti-communist ideas. Now he was dealing with a novel he had written in prison. It was still with handwriting and during the evenings he tried to oppress with an old machine of the brand “Olivetti” borrowed to a friend. As soon as he finished it they would sit to discuss.
They agreed to meet soon.
Two months later, on March 31, 1992 Democratic Party won parliamentary elections and took the power. Pjetër Arbnori, deputy of Shkodra, was elected chairman of the Albanian Parliament. Many intellectuals labeled this choice as a good omen for the Albanian culture.
The poet Namik Manereally intuitive man. Sometime, in the mid-60s’s, he was interned together with the dissident Bilal Xhaferri in Hamalle of Durres, after the escape of Bilal he didn’t burn his poems, although he risked of being imprison, but hid them with the idea that there would come a day that will be overturned the communist dictatorship and they would serve as evidence of dissent and as rare value for future generations. And so it happened. Behold, he was now a respected personality even for the fact that he had preserved some of the best creations of Bilal Xhaferri, not only his own.
Not even two weeks had passed from the day when Pjeter Arbnori was elected president of the Assembly of Albania when he announced the publisher Shefki Hysa that


he wanted to have a coffee together. Preferably to meet in Durres, in the beach neighborhood, where he was temporarily housed in one of the apartments of a government residence.
Naturally, former political prisoner was still homeless, without a home of his own in Tirana. The publisher Shefki Hysa decided to deepen the friendship with the writer Arbnori. He discussed even with the poet Namik Mane and left that initially he went to meet him, since he was from Durres and the evening was the most appropriate time for friendly conversation face to face. Namik went two consecutive nights, but didn’t find him. He was said that he came back later. Shefki Hysa then decided to go and to meet him a Sunday, noon. And so he did.
Finally theymet. The writer Shefki Hysa shortly told him about his origin as cham, then he explained the mission of the Publishing House “Bilal Xhaferri” in the service of Albanian and worldwide cultural values. Pjeter Arbnori talked about his life. He told that he was born in Durres on 18 January 1935. He had passed an ordinary childhood. He finished the high school in Shkodra, brilliantly, in 1953. Perhaps for this reason he was allowed to work as a teacher, in Shkodra and Dukagjin, but was soon dismissed from work for political reasons. He finished the military duty and then worked as a laborer in Xhafzotaj and in SMT of Shijak. He entered the University with false documents and for two and a half years he gave the exams


of five years taking the diploma with the motivation excellent in 1960. Since the age of 14 he began taking part in illegal groups against dictatorship. With a group of friends he distributed tracts with anti-communist content. He created a social democratic organization with an anti-communist program, but, in 1961, he was discovered and arrested. It was spring of 1961 when he was condemned to death for activities against the communist state, for agitation and propaganda. Later the death penalty was turned in 25 years imprisonment. Having done 18 years imprisonment he was also sentenced with other 10 years as anti-communist agitator and for the writing of the novel ” The house left half” (Shtëpia e mbetur për gjysmë) and other creations that were discovered by the guards.
Afterleaving the prison, in 1989, a year before the collapse of communist dictatorship and democracy arrival, a period in which was softened somewhat the oppressive ferocity of dictatorship because of economic problems that the country experienced, was forced to enter as a pupil to become a carpenter.
Once the democratic movement began, he took an active part in all demonstrations of Shkodra. With his initiative and of other anti-communist people in Shkodra knocked the bust of Stalini. He attended the first anti-communist movement in Tirana. On December 12, in the tribune of the founder rally of the Democratic Party, in Tirana, he handed Azem Hajdari and Sali Berisha a message from democratic and anti-communist Shkodra. On December 13, 1990 he was one of the main organizers of the anti-communist


demonstration in Shkodra, where was thrown the bust of the dictator Enver Hoxha. For his continuing anti-communist activity he was elected chairman of PD for Shkodra. Later he was also elected as a MP. Without passing the year, there were new elections and he was re-elected MP.
PD won the most seats and it is known that it took the right of the government of the country, for the first time as an anti-communist democratic force, on March 31, 1992. Finally he was believed the task of the Chairman of the Assembly of Albania and the former political prisoner, entered as a leader in the office of former dictator Enver Hoxha, the former leader of the Communist Party. So, the headquarter of former central committee of the APL wasalready turned in headquarter of the Albanian Assembly. And the headquarter was directed by him, a former political prisoner.
Behold, the power of God had brought that he teaches good works in the service of Peace intellectual people, peace missionaries, emphasized Pjeter Arbnori in a moment with an appearance somewhat of a winner. Maybe it was the first time that he was opened so in good faith, as the creator in the eyes of the creator, because instantly he took the look somewhat tired with that voice with delaying tone. Then Pjeter Arbnori, like all creators, with emotion about the fate of his work, spoke for a novel that liked a lot. Its events took place somewhere in Nazi Germany, during the period of Reich the third. They were


events more or less the same with those that had experienced Albanians during the rule of the dictatorial communist regime. So, he treated Nazism and Communism as two parallel world with the same content, regardless the particularities. In essence, were the same dictatorship that ruthlessly suppress any divine and human worth. They were a modern day savagery, the same as the barbarity of ancient barbarians, so not in vain he had titled it “When the Vikings flock” (Kur dynden Vikingët)…
Pjeter Arbnori, after a little thought, said he had deliberately shifted events in Germany, with the thought that even if this work was discovered in prison, the censors didn’t take it and didn’t punish him again. It was enough that he was sentenced for 10 years more for theand glanced the two-three first pages. It was understood since the first lines that it was a work written by a master. It began with a saying of the indian Nehru: “Fascism and communism are brothers”. The publisher Shefki Hysa felt excited as an archaeologist who suddenly discovers a rare fact that affects the course of human history. Instantly he reminded the phrases of some pseudo politicians who had begun to advertise that in Albania there were no genuine dissent. And those who made such statements should be the neo-communist of the post-communist with the desire to reduce and diminish the values of the former politically persecuted as true catalysts that accelerated and brought the collapse of the Albanian communist regime.
On the contrary neo-communists claimed that they set


in motion with their wisdom the mechanism of the decomposition of dictatorial system. So, they claimed that they collapsed communism not the dissent… They were the thought and the movement of the Albanian dissidence.
However the publisher Shefki Hysa, while carrying on his hands the manuscript of Pjeter Arbnori work and while watching with the eyes of the mind how his youth was vanished in prisons, turning into this old gray beard and fallen hair man that was in front of him, thought otherwise. Here was the vivid model of the Albanian Dissident, Pjeter Arbnori.
So, it had existed, was rooted at the tired intellectuals in the province, at the individuals rebelled in the spirit through towns and outlying villages, to the internees, prisoners and all the non-satisfied, that theregime had denied the possibility of self-expression. He was at Bilal Xhaferri and Vilson Blloshmet, poets who paid fiercely their rebellion against the dictatorship…
Exactly, with the publication of their works, works as the one he had in hand, Shefki Hysa publisher would give a blow to the pseudo- politicians trends that together with the Albanian national wealth unjustly wanted to take also her dissidence.
The book “When the Vikings flock” (Kur dynden Vikingët) of the writer Pjeter Arbnori was published in August of 1992. The writer Shefki Hysa was in the role of editor, publisher, also wrote the foreword for the novel. Pjeter, graciously acknowledged all the comments and suggestions, he also made the processing of the material as the editor required and the novel was really a surprise


for Albanian readers. The only thing that the author adamantly asked was the presentation on the cover of the book of the black broken cross of the Nazi grafted with the five-pointed red star of communism, which was realized according to his imagination and the appearance was really impressive. The book was published with a circulation of fifteen thousand copies and was welcomed by many readers. The writer Pjeter Arbnori felt delighted as a naive child in front of the book. He touched it and shed tears. It was his first publication and he was not young, but 57 years old. Of course he would feel excited with all those he had passed in life. He was so human with that behavior that with that longing he ignoredhis own position as a senior politician. He could have been hold heavy shade with a cold mask of bureaucrat in his face, but not. He was man, great Man.
Seeing the very friendly relations with that complex personality the publisher Shefki Hysa, as never before felt proud for the commitment toward the work of this man. Deep himself seemed to have performed a sacrifice in one of the holy temples of God, in church or in mosque, a sacrifice for which he believed would not go awry. Sublime sacrifice.
He was proud that he had also written a preface with the whole soul, felt as if it was one of his creations. He wrote:
Once you read the title of the book “When the Vikings flock” (Kur dynden Vikingët) of


are the consequences of flock?
Such questions harass awhile, but are quickly forgotten in a very emotional reading in front of that strange space that unfolds alive among the eyes, as the tempting and inviting shores of the Odyssey’s sirens or as the magic islands of Circe whereupon experiences only anxiety, pain, revolt and horror for that human ugliness that occupies the path. So, this piece extract from the preface shows that the writer Shefki Hysa has seen into with a sense of artist in the magical world of the work of the creator Pjeter Arbnori – Albanian Mandela of the Balkans, as he often called him in the conversations with his friends. The politician Pjeter Arbnori appeared simple and ready in the eyes of the friends, ready torespond with sacrifices to the sacrifices that they made for him. He honored and respected very much the writer Shefki Hysa. He suspended or hastened the end of each official meeting when the secretary announced that in the office lobby was the writer Shefki Hysa. He went himself to the lobby and took him as an old friend, although he was almost twice older. He expected him the first than any MP or staff official of the Assembly. They talked long and advised each other particularly for the development of literature and for the Albanian and world culture problems.In 1994 the publisher Shefki Hysa prepared for publication another book of the creator Arbnori. It was the novel “Beauty with the shade” (Bukuroshja me hijen). This was also a


and work the purity of light, when many other writers, though they lived in the light, the darkness of dictatorship took place in their lives. Pjeter Arbnori will have his place in our literature. He as a tireless hunter will surely continue the search of such pearls in the painful seas of creativity for the pleasure of those who know the value of miracles. And the future will reward him, engraving his name in the memory of time. Those were what Shefki Hysa wrote for the work of his friend. Notice how he characterizes, the myth Pjeter Arbnori, with a magical ability to recreate the freedom even there where its presence may not be perceived, in a notorious prison like the prison of Burrel, spawned of the uniqueferocity of the former Albanian communist dictatorship.
The journalist Shefki Hysa, as head of the Chameria Cultural Community, asked the politician Pjeter Arbnori to go for a visit in the town of Konispol, neglected by the government of former communist dictatorship and he immediately accepted. It is known that Konispol is the northen province of Chameria remained within the Albanian border, the only area that symbolizes the Cham culture and traditions in Albania. And the back was deliberately turned to the economic development of this region. Konispol City was deliberately left in limbo, without funds of investments for roads and public works. It was treated as a backward commune, instead of being a developed municipality, as it had even the earlier traditions. The Mayor and the residents of Konispol


welcomed the writer Pjeter Arbnori as a king. The general high school “Bido Sejko” organized the discussion of his creativity and turned that day into a holiday with music and dance. It was tabled a rare lunch with Cham traditional dishes and the politician Pjeter Arbnori was delighted by that reception. He didn’t know how to thank the organizers and especially the writer Shefki Hysa. In 1993 the journalist Shefki Hysa, together with a group of intellectuals, friends of Cham ideal, created the Community Cultural of Chameria (Cultural Association “Bilal Xhaferri”). One of the main objectives of this organization was the return of the bones of the dissident writer Bilal Xhaferri in Albania, who had died in the USA. To accomplish this mission successfully without bureaucratic hurdles ofthe Albanian state, Shefki Hysa thought to seek help from the politician Pjeter Arbnori. And so he did. After he discussed and got the word of the politician, he put the mind at work. He came up with the idea to quickly raise a commission. As committee chairman he proposed the writer Pjeter Arbnori, president of the Presidium of the National Assembly. After this action he drew up a financial project for submission to the Ministry of Culture. Pjeter Arbnori, as chairman of the committee for the ceremonial of the return at home of the bones of the dissident writer Bilal Xhaferri, naturally signed the project. Ministry of Culture agreed to fund. The main newspapers published the news under the title “will return home the bones of Bilal


Xhaferri” and with the content: “The President of the Republic, Mr. Sali Berisha, at the request of Publishing House” Bilal Xhaferri “and the Cultural Community of Chameria, has decided that the Albanian state will return home the bones of the prominent dissident writer Bilal Xhaferri, exiled and died in the USA, a refugee from the former dictatorship. Following consultations between institutions charged by the President and with the relevant personalities, was approved the Organizing Committee for the ceremonial of the return home of the bones, decoration and re-burials of the anti communist writer Bilal Xhaferri. The journalist Shefki Hysa, once funding was secured, he went in the USA, to arrange in Chicago the ceremonial of the exhumation, to return in Albania and rebury the bones, with all thehonors, as it belonged to the outstanding figure of Bilal Xhaferri. This was truly an unprecedented victory for Chams. Finally they were making one of their missions a reality. On May 3, 1995, President of the Republic, Sali Berisha, decreed the decoration of Bilal Xhaferri with the medal “Martyr of Democracy” (Martir i Demokracisë)… Three days later, on May 6, 1995, after many vicissitudes that passed in Chicago, the USA, the journalist Shefki Hysa, president of the Cultural Community of Chameria, brought in Albania the bones of Bilal Xhaferri. In Tirana a splendid ceremony was organized which was attended, under the direction of Pjeter Arbnori, all the highest state authorities, politicians, writers, artists, journalists, leaders of nongovernmental organizations, friends and colleagues and relatives. The ceremonial was organized in


the International Center of Culture. Tirana, the capital, the place from where the dissident writer had been expelled from the former dictatorship, had now sat the black and red flag at half. Finally, the tomorrow on May 7, 1995, the bones of the deceased Bilal Xhaferri were buried in Saranda. The echo of this activity, largely reflected by the Albanian Radio Television, the Albanian and foreign press, went throughout all the areas where the Albanian fellow were, in Kosovo, Macedonia and all over the world and once showed again the Cham’s children knew to keep up their ideal. The writer Pjeter Arbnori appreciated very much the tireless work of his friend, the journalist Shefki Hysa, not only in conversations with intellectual elites, but also in formal settings andin the press. After the end of the ceremonial, in the closing meeting with members of Cultural Community of Chameria: artists, journalists, writers and intellectuals of other fields, Pjeter Arbnori addressed the auditor:
“Dear friends of the deceased Bilal Xhaferri!”I express not as Chairman of the Presidency of the Assembly, but as your friend, as contemporary and inmate of great people as Bilal Xhaferri, the poet, prose writer and prominent dissident publicist, as Mr. Shefki Hysa qualifies him, so dedicated to the mission he has set himself for the exaltation of this brilliant figure that communist dictatorship tried to undo and threw away in the oblivion bin, as it did with many other patriots, as it did with Pjetër Arbnori. I express as honorary member of the Cultural Association


of the “Mission – Bilal Xhaferri” the writer Shefki Hysa felt as proud and anxious. He didn’t know how to reward his friend, Pjetër Arbnori, the generous help he gave. The publication of another book seemed a little, very little, although Pjetër assured him that as every Albanian patriot, he had his own obligations for Chameria. However Shefki Hysa had as a pledge in the heart the inability to restore the honor. So was he… In 1996, Pjetër Arbnori had ready for publication the novel “Whirlpool” (Vorbulla). The publisher Shefki Hysa took it, edited, prepared for print and sent it to the printing press. It was one of the most voluminous works of the author, over four hundred pages, one of the most accomplished. The novel “Whirlpool” (Vorbulla)came from the press in January of 1997, with a circulation of ten thousand copies. It is known that 1997 was one of the most turbulent and vicious years for Albania, however “Whirlpool” (Vorbulla) was welcomed. This work was liked by the readers perhaps by the fact that it described the historical whirlpool that often interlock Albanian life, just as the political-economical whirlpool that had caught by the throat Albania in that year of mourning. Here’s how the pen of the writer Shefki Hysa characterized this work. “It is said that the world was born from chaos, that light was born from darkness. But it cannot be accepted that life arose from death. Life is the world full of light. Life is constantly risked by death, as well


fire re-lit by its ash, but Albanian fervid through wars, from the barbarians’ invasions and the Empire of West and East, is reborn from his ashes. The Albanian hero is reborn so many times by the death that fell on his head. Israelis, biblical persecuted, through the waves of humanity history survived. They were again persecuted, almost up to extermination, by the Nazi. Mankind did homage to Israeli pain. Albanian pain, rather, is turned back. Albanians had to reappear as many times from the ruins of empires. He has rediscovered himself, as archaeologists discover ancient statues after the excavation extremely fatiguing. Empire after empires have collapsed on the head of the Albanian and he is revamped, giddily, with wounds, through empire dawn and could resist heroically, from onedeath to the other, from one circle of hell to another, while he reborn again back. Such heroes embody the novel “Whirlpool” (Vorbulla) of the writer Pjetër Arbnori. Heroes reborn from the whirlpool of human hell. After reading the “Whirlpool” (Vorbulla) everyone can say that Arbnori has artistically recreated a historical reality detached by the dawn whirlpool of the period after Prizreni League. However, despite the hue and the unique originality of the events and episodes that are confessed in the work, its heroes recall the resistance fighter of all Albanian millennia, even the hero reborn from the era of communist hell. So, “Whirlpool” (Vorbulla) is a cut of Albanian millennia history, regardless the time position it is experienced, is a synthesis of the turbulence of the past


and future, imitation as well as artistic generalization. A work created in unusual circumstances, born like a swirl of light in the darkness of prisons, with unusual characters, which resemble, more or less their creator. Arbnori was reborn from hell, being miraculously escaped by the death’s shackles. The red hell devoured many victims, as the unfortunate characters of tales that, to get rich or to have the Beauty of Earth for wife, take that “way in which you go and never return”. On the contrary, Arbnori, through this way ended in “Hereafter” of communist prisons. He survived all the horrors of the circles of hell and finally found the path of return loaded with victory and with all those treasures – his literary work, among them the novelthe battery terminal 130 grows large. Consequently, a battery post 140 can easily be fitted into the adaptor fitting portion 133 in the above condition.
After the battery post 140 is fitted into the adaptor fitting portion 133, the cam lever 132 is turned laterally toward the pair of folded-back pieces 134 and 135 as shown in FIG. 20B whereby to make the cam portion 32a press the peripheral face of the battery post 140. Then a counterforce resulting from the pressing force of the cam portion 132a causes the inner peripheral face of the adaptor fitting portion 133 of the battery terminal 130 to be pressed against the peripheral face of the battery post 140. Consequently, the frictional force between the inner peripheral face of the adaptor fitting


portion 133 and the outer peripheral face of the battery post 140 connects the battery terminal 130 to the battery post 140 electrically and mechanically.
In case where the cam lever 132 is uprighted in the above condition, on the other hand, the battery terminal 130 can be removed from battery post 140 in one touching because the pressing force of the cam portion 32a toward the battery post 140 is released.
Therefore, with this battery terminal 130, the battery terminal 130 can easily be attached to and detached from the battery post 140 through the operation of uprighting and turning the cam lever 132 laterally in one touching.
However, because a dimension X between outer faces of the folded-back pieces 134 and 135 for pivotally supporting the cam lever 132adapter, having a cylindrical body which is screwed onto the battery post, and a flange portion formed on a top portion of the cylindrical body to be clamped by a screwing tool;
a terminal body, including a substantially U-shaped adaptor fitting portion which accommodates the adapter screwed on the battery post therein, and a seat portion on which the electric wire terminal is fixed; and
a lever, including a cam portion and supported on the terminal body so as to be pivotable between a first position and a second position,
wherein a space in which the flange portion is capable of passing through is secured inside of the adaptor fitting portion when the lever is in the first position;
wherein the cam portion is abutted against an outer periphery of the cylindrical


constantly be controlled, which also results in improving contact reliability.
Preferably, the engagement member includes a recessed portion formed on one of the terminal body and the lever, and a convex portion engaged with the recessed portion formed on the other of the terminal body and the lever.
In this configuration, in case where the operating lever is moved with force greater than the predetermined degree, the provisional holding resulting from the engagement between the convex and recessed portions is released and the operating lever is freely made pivotal. Moreover, clicking is felt at the time of their engagement to have the provisional holding confirmed thereby.
According to the present invention, there is also provided a battery terminal structure for connecting a terminal provided with an electric wire with a studwhen the lever is in the first position; and
wherein the cam portion is abutted against an outer periphery of the cylindrical body of the adaptor so that the adaptor is retained between the cam portion and an inner face of the adaptor fitting portion, when the lever is in the second position.
In this configuration, since the overlap margin at the time the cam portion is pressed against the battery post adaptor is absorbed by the elastic member, force to be applied when the lever is pivoted can be minimized. Moreover, unnatural force is prevented from being applied to the peripheral face of the battery post adaptor and the battery terminal itself. The contact load is also stabilized and contact reliability is improved as the press-contact force of the


Highly Profitable Scheme Prostituted Foreign Nationals and South Florida Residents

Miguel A. Hernandez, 50, of Miami Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for operating a prostitution enterprise that profited from the prostitution of multiple women, including both foreign nationals and Miami-area residents, for his financial gain.

Hernandez pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke of the Southern District of Florida on May 11, 2016, to four counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to promote an unlawful activity and four counts of importing and attempting to import an alien for prostitution purposes.

According to documents filed in the case and evidence presented in court, Hernandez began operating a highly profitable prostitution enterprise known as “International Playmates” from a hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2010.Hernandez and others, including his brother and co-defendant, Eduardo Hernandez, recruited many of the women who worked for him from other countries, including Spain, Colombia, Venezuela and other Central and Latin American countries. To facilitate the operation, Hernandez and his associates reserved and paid for plane tickets for foreign nationals to enter the United States, completed immigration paperwork, coached foreign nationals on what to say to customs officials when entering the United States and picked foreign nationals up at the airport. Hernandez openly advertised his business on the Internet and deposited the cash proceeds into multiple bank accounts.

As part of Hernandez’s enterprise, he engaged numerous individuals in the scheme, including overseas recruiters to identify more women; drivers to transport women to dates with prostitution clients; a website technician


enterprise on May 3, 2016, and was sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment last week.

The case was investigated by HSI and DSS, with assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Olivia S. Choe and Jonathan Kobrinski of the Southern District of Florida and Trial Attorney Matthew T. Grady of the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.

The Southern District of Florida is one of six Phase I Pilot Anti-Trafficking Coordination Teams (ACTeams) convened through an interagency collaboration of the Departments of Justice, Labor and Homeland Security to develop high-impact federal human trafficking investigations and prosecutions involving forced labor, international sex trafficking and sex trafficking of adults by force, fraud and coercion.A member of the Afghan bomb disposal unit approaches a suicide attacker after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province. (REUTERS)

An Afghan bomb disposal expert defied all the training manuals and safety protocols to take life into his own hands.

He bravely defused this suicide bomber's explosive vest, with it still attached to the man.

Security forces captured the suicide bomber in Jalalabad before he could blow himself up, tying up the man to stop him detonating the device.

A suicide attacker lies on the ground after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province June 30, 2013. Afghan security forces captured a would-be suicide attacker before he blew himself up in Jalalabad. (REUTERS)

Covered from head to foot in padded protective gear, the soldier then disarmed the bomb while it was strapped


to the man’s chest.

For Hollywood fans, the Afghan National Army soldier will bring back memories of the blockbuster film ‘The Hurt Locker’ – about a bomb disposal expert.

After successfully disabling the device, the suspect was loaded into a truck.

Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers approach a suicide attacker after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province. (REUTERS)

Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers carry a would-be suicide attacker after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province. Afghan security forces captured a would-be suicide attacker before he blew himself up in Jalalabad. (REUTERS)

Pakistani Hazara community people collect evidence at the suicide attack site in Quetta. (AFP)

Pakistani rescuers and residents gather at the suicide attack site in Quetta. A suicide bomber today tried to blow up a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's southwesternOffers luxury private tours of Italy with a local guide leading the tour at all times. Tours are all-inclusive, with "Boutique" or luxury accommodation. Insight into gourmet food and wines of Italy, as well as listing of Italian UNESCO heritage sites.

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White House today,” FDD is credited, even by its opponents, as being among Washington’s most effective proponents of neoconservative ideas. In the estimation of Trita Parsi, the author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy, “FDD certainly punches above its weight.”

Over the past several years, FDD had helped lead the opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear agreement, and is currently spearheading a push to wage economic warfare not only against Iran, but also against European countries too should they decide to part from the Trump administration’s policy on Iran.

Punching Above Its Weight

In his 2015 profile of the group, journalist and author John Judis explained that in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the formerNew York Times correspondent turned neoconservative publicist, Clifford May, rebranded a small pro-Israel nonprofit called EMET (which is Hebrew for “truth”) into FDD, which, according to its mission, “promotes informed debate about policies and positions that most effectively end the scourge of international terrorism.”

May, who served as Republican National Committee communications director from 1997 to 2001, was recruited to head the new organization by Jack Kemp, the former GOP congressman and vice-presidential nominee. Current Issue View our current issue

In its early years, FDD boasted board members from both parties, including Kemp, Democratic senators Frank Lautenberg and Chuck Schumer, Congressman Eliot Engel, and Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile. But, according to Judis, by 2008 the Democrats bailed once FDD’s new advocacy arm, Defense of Democracies, started running ads


national security leaders,” which was headed from 2009 to 2014 by none other than former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka (whose profile has since been removed from the FDD website).

Part of the reason for FDD’s recent success is that it has, unlike many other think tanks and groups, been able to retain access to the White House.

Its recipe for success, according to Trita Parsi, is that FDD “has not uttered a word of criticism of Trump and his policies—and it is a price they seem willing to pay in order to influence Trump.”

An early example of FDD’s potential influence in Trump’s Washington was an event the group held last October at the St. Regis hotel on 16th St. that featured then–CIA director (now Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo andTincry

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Catherine Breillat, based on the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

Cinematography:

Giorgos Arvanitis

U.S. Distributor:

IFC Films

Subtitles:

English subtitled French

Director Catherine Breillat is known for her racy and sometimes sexually explicit movies, many of which deal with themes of female empowerment. She has built a reputation in France as a woman for whom no subject is taboo. Her films have depicted full nudity, hardcore experiences (intercourse, fellatio, etc.), and other activities avoided by non-porn filmmakers. Breillat delights in shocking audiences, but perhaps the biggest surprise in store for viewers of The Last Mistress is how relatively tame it is. A costume drama free of many of the director's trademark excesses, this is a study of how sexual obsession can overpower true love. Perhaps it's the lack of sex or perhaps it's the incessant,banal chattering of the characters, but this movie is more likely to inspire sleep than interest. Breillat has done something I never expected from her: made a boring film.

The story unfolds in 19th century France and, if nothing else, Breillat has gotten the period details right. The costumes and settings are as finely detailed as in movies made on much larger budgets. The Last Mistress focuses on a love triangle between libertine Ryno de Marginy (Fu'ad Ait Aatou); his loving but sheltered wife, Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida); and his mistress of ten years, Vellini (Asia Argento). Despite having broken off his liaison with Vellini to marry Hermangarde and, irrespective of his love for his young wife, Ryno finds himself being drawn inexorably back to his lover. With pieces of


the tale related via flashbacks as Ryno relates his history with Vellini to Hermangarde's grandmother, this tortured story of love and lust is all The Last Mistress has to offer. And, while the themes are potentially compelling, the manner in which Breillat conveys them is not.

The material seems better suited to Breillat's countryman, Eric Rohmer, than to her. She does not have the same knack for writing dialogue or directing the actors delivering it. Since there is much talking throughout The Last Mistress, this becomes a detriment. Unless the dialogue is brilliantly written, it needs to be delivered by well-developed characters, and that is one area where The Last Mistress is lacking. With the exception of Vellini, who occasionally shows flashes of three-dimensionality, the men and women populatingthis movie are as thin and smooth-textured as paper. Roxane Mesquida, who has appeared in previous Breillat films, is a beautiful woman but has never shown much depth as an actress. Fu'ad Ait Aatou shows all the ability of a young Keanu Reeves. His expression is the visual equivalent of a monotone. Asia Argento brings some vivacity to Vellini, but one wouldn't expect less of such a colorful performer.

By the time the movie reaches its second half, Breillat decides it's time to get her actors naked. So, although there is no flesh during the first half, there's enough from the midpoint to the end to allow us to dismiss notions that the director has turned into a Puritan. Nevertheless, the sex scenes are subdued by her standards. This


Feigl lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated from the Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunst, Gent. His work has been shown internationally at various exhibitions including the National Art Museum of China, Galeria de Arte do SESI Sao Paulo, Artplay Moscow, A+B Contemporary Italy, 0gms Sofia, Verbeke Foundation Belgium, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Self Surface Stuttgart, Black Door Istanbul and several institutes in the Netherlands such as Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, MU, DordtYart, Het Nieuwe Instituut, W139, Arti et Amicitea and Fons Welters. He has curated several exhibitions and has been a part of De ServiceGarage and founding member of Kafana.

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Moving parts tend to break down, they wear, they give way, they destroy themselves, they do not do what you want them to– a speech that was never delivered – and then went on to speak mainly of Gandhi’s early years in South Africa and his views on caste.

She raised the question of how Gandhi came to be called a Mahatma despite never having renounced caste and whether he began with the compassion and egalitarian instincts of a saint or they came to him along the way. “How could a privileged-caste Bania (Gandhi) claim that he, in his own person, represented forty five million Indian untouchables unless he believed he actually was a Mahatma? Mahatmahood provided Gandhi with an amplitude that was not available to ordinary mortals. It allowed him to use his inner voice affectively, effectively and often,” she said, further adding that it permitted him to contradict himself


form a lip. The lip of the outer bearing cup may be formed to retain rolling elements within the bearing cup.
In another aspect of the invention, the limitations of the prior art are overcome by providing a method of forming a bearing cup having an inner bearing cup and an outer bearing cup. The method includes cutting first and second sheet metal sections into first and second sheet metal blanks. The first and second sheet metal blanks are then drawn to form a double walled bearing cup including an inner bearing cup corresponding to the first sheet metal blank and an outer bearing cup corresponding to the second sheet metal blank. A lip is formed from the outer bearing cup and extends beyond a top portion of theMidafternoon Tesha is Life, our Hayatta, the trigram of thunder. Sundown Ramsha is Man, our Anush, the trigram of Lake. Sitara, Lilya, and Anpia are the Trigram of Heaven, the supernal sephiroth, and the Deep, our Pira. Tziphra and Tlata are the Light, Shitaya and Tesha are the Power, and Ramsha and Shlama are the Wisdom.

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still our favorite on the market. It's got a crisp, sharp display, a solid refresh rate and most importantly its e-ink display is easy on the eyes. That's an important contrast for people tempted to use their iPad primarily as an ebook reader: Apple's LCD screen is going to wear out some people's eyeballs. The Kindle may be one-dimensional, but its price reflects that: At $260 it's about half the cheapest iPad's cost, and a lifetime of 3G connectivity is included in that fee. Throw in a full week's worth of battery on a single charge, and the Kindle starts to look pretty appealing for the literary set.

Secret Weapon: Being different. Going the straight black-and-white book route, and being the best at that particular game, will win someOne of the enduring legends is that Concordia, Kansas is named after Concordia, Missouri, even though there are no apparent family connections between the two communities. The Wikipedia page for Concordia, KS (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia,_Kansas) includes the following sentence:
“The name "Concordia" was chosen because a member of the early group of promoters ("Cap" Snyder) had once lived in Concordia, Missouri.”
This exact statement is replicated on numerous websites.

During the mid-1800s there were several Snyder families living in Freedom Township, MO. However, the census records do not show any Snyders that would match this family. However, their migration as detailed in a biography below was between census years.

I checked various Kansas histories to see if this story was documented in one of them. In general, one does not see many positive


references to Missouri in the older Kansas history books. This is probably a result of the long-standing animosity between the two states resulting from the border wars during the Civil War era. (Some people feel that the bitter sports rivalries between schools from the two states is a continuation of this hostility.)

Frank Blackmar’s Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, Vol I, 1913 gives the following account:
“At a convention in Aug., 1869, at Saunders' sawmill, a half mile below the site of the proposed city, it was suggested that the delegates visit the site. This was done, the settlers from the south side of the river, who were in the majority, approved and H. C. Snyder called it Concordia.”

On page 154 of E.F. Hollibaugh’s Biographical history of Cloud County,Kansas, 1903, the following twist on the story is given:
“The convention met in August, 1869, at Captain Sanders' saw mill, standing on the left bank of the river, half a mile below the town site. The delegates from the south side being a majority rode over the site and approved of it. To H.C. Snyder was voted the honor of naming the to-be great city, and this he did by saying, "In view of the harmony and unanimity prevailing, I name the future city 'Concordia,' " and the name was thereupon unaninously[sic] approved.”

In another section of this book, Hollibaugh notes that H.C. Snyder had also been the one of the founders of Glasco, KS several years earlier and served as its postmaster for a short while. Although he


had named Concordia, it is not clear if he lived there. He spent his later years in Glasco.

Hollibaugh also gives a relatively detailed description of the Snyder family in his biography of H.C.’s wife Phoebe, who apparently was still living when the book was written.
“Mrs. Snyder was married to Captain H. C. Snyder in Frankfort, Indiana, December 24, 1854. He first enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Indiana Infantry, and was commissioned lieutenant of that company. In his second enlistment he was promoted to captain of the Eighth Indiana Cavalry. He was wounded twice and disabled for a short period each time, but served all through the war. When he entered the service Captain and Mrs. Snyder owned a residence and were living at Austin, Indiana, but during his absenceMrs. Snyder had traded the property and moved on to a farm. They sold the farm in 1866 and emigrated overland to Kansas with their family of five children. They were preceded by H. H. Spaulding, who wrote back telling his Indiana friends of the beautiful valley he had found, the "Eden of the world," its natural resources and great possibilities, which resulted in Captain Snyder and five other men with their families seeking homes on the boundless prairies of Kansas. Of this little company of emigrants Mrs. Snyder and her children are the only ones living in the community. A part of the band sought other places of residence, some became disheartened and returned to their former homes and some have gone to the unknown realms of


the "great beyond." Captain Snyder homesteaded land one-half mile west of Glasco, now owned by Garrett Davidson, but still known as the Captain Snyder farm.”

Note that there is no mention of Missouri in this account. So did he actually live in Concordia, MO as the legend contends? There is a gap between when the family left Indiana and when they are known to have been living in Kansas. It is possible that they did stop in Missouri as they moved west. Whether they lived in the Concordia area for a short while or possibly stayed with relatives is a matter of speculation. However, the time period does fit with the time that Concordia, Missouri was first named. It is interesting that he realized that the name “Concordia” stoodfor harmony, the reasoning used by Pastor Biltz for the naming of Concordia, MO. So, at least, he may have been familiar with Concordia, MO and intrigued by the name.

Another story about the naming of Concordia, KS was recently brought to my attention. This was in a reprint of a Concordian article first published in 1906. (See below.)

According to this story, Cap. Henry C. Snyder, who is credited with the naming of Concordia, KS, was involved in Civil War action in the Concordia, MO area. As was pointed out in the article, there were no battles in the area other than the bushwhacker raids. The only two battles in Lafayette Co. were both in Lexington. Neither of them were Union victories.

Records of the Thirty-ninth Indiana Infantry and the


the derby match-up. The goal was scored by Tom Elliott, who was sent-off just days earlier against Kidderminster, as this time he made the headlines for the right reasons by finishing in style past Dan Jezeph. It was after that goal that the Boro really let loose, though, as in the 18 minutes that followed they racked up three more goals to secure the three points.

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The first was scored by Jordan Nicholson as he finished off a Daniel Nti cross with a controlled close-range finish. Nicholson then turned creator himself moments later as he sent a cross-cum-shot goalwards from outside the box, an effort that Ashley Chambers got the smallest of touches to as he pushed it home to make it three. Tamworth were rocking at thisstage and Chambers took advantage of that to make it four before half-hour had even been played, the former Grimsby man smashing home an unstoppable effort to put the icing on the cake for the Boro. The goal was met by chants of ‘you’re getting sacked in the morning’ from the Tamworth fans as the Boro poured more pressure on the Lambs boss. With the game in the bag understandably that pace dropped from the home side after the break and they were punished for it.

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It took the Lambs until the 71 minute to punish them, and even then it was an own goal that did the damage, as after being the better team since the restart the Lambs got their reward when a Darryl Knights cross


Lots of loud noises make for an unnerving experience--the sound of roaring ATVs and helicopters fill the air, along with heavy rock music.

Exiting the Fright Yard takes you into the Studios and the entrance to Castle Vampyr. The vampire-themed hosue has a very convincing set design--gothic-style architecture on the soundstage makes it look like you're inside an ancient castle. This is also where you'll see the now popular vampire dance club scene, as well as some great flying vampire effects. Many of these elements make Vampyr one of the more popular houses this year. At midnight, while most houses sported a fifteen or thirty minute wait, Vampyr held an hour.

Horror Nights Nightmares revisits HHNs past in a documentary style before taking you to meet the icons, including TheDirector, Jack, The Caretaker and Eddie. This house was both convincingly scary and interesting, especially to see all these characters from years past in one place. The house seems a little short, but there are still plenty of scares.

The dead end along the Embarcadero humorously enough marks the entrance to Deadtropolis, a zombie-themed haunted house in the vein of Resident Evil or 28 Days Later. A strange virus has been unleashed upon the city, bringing the dead to life. This is an instance where the pre-house queue video was more disturbing and scary than the actual house itself. One of the major highlights of Deadtropolis is the vomiting zombie which reportedly actually smells of vomit. Otherwise, you'll hardly smell the stench.

Midway of the Bizarre and the Festival of


the Dead Parade act like one big scare zone. Although the Midway appears rather small in size, the scareactors and the themeing are both done well. The parade floats are stored here in the midway and at parade time, one entrance/exit of the scarezone is closes to bring the floats out for the parade. They head up the main road, past the Mummy and down to the lagoon where the floats take a right. They follow the road to Mel's 'Die-In' then take a right to go back to the Midway. Red, silver and gold beads are thrown from the floats, along with red HHN14 coins.

Ghost Town was our longest wait of the evening at 45 minutes. Upon entering the soundstage, the detail and design of the abandonedperson or thing resembling or complementing another

  craven: Cowardly

  credulity: Willingness to behave or trust too readily

  cronyism: The practice of favoring one's friends, especially in political appointments

  cursory: Hasty, superficial, as of a review of something

  dearth: An inadequate supply; scarcity; lack

  decorum: Orderliness and good taste in manners

  deleterious: Hurtful, morally or physically

  delineate: To represent by sketch or diagram

  depravity: The state of being morally bad or evil

  deride: To ridicule; to make fun of

  derision: Ridicule

  derivative: Something obtained from a source

  desultory: Aimless; haphazard

  diatribe: Bitter or malicious criticism

  didactic: Pertaining to teaching

  dilatory: Causing delay

  disconcert: To disturb the composure of

  discretion: The power


common denominator is 30.

Multiplying fractions

To multiply fractions, you just go straight across, multiplying the numerators with each other and the denominators with each other.

  Always check whether you can cancel out common factors between a numerator and a denominator before you begin multiplying in order to avoid dealing with big, awkward numbers and having to reduce fractions at the end. Canceling in advance just makes the numbers smaller and easier to work with.

For example, in these fractions, both the 6 and the 9 are divisible by 3. You can cancel those 3s from the numerator and denominator before multiplying the fractions.

In this next example, the 4 and the 8 reduce (both are divisible by 4), and the 15 and the 5 reduce (both are divisible by 5),answering a few sample questions at the end.

Exploring Lines and Angles

The fundamental components of many geometric shapes are lines and angles, so before tackling shapes, wrap your brain around lines and angles.

  Don't put blind trust in drawings that accompany questions. For example, an image may appear to contain a right angle, but if the right-angle box is missing and the question doesn't specify it as a right angle, you can't assume it is. In addition, images may not be drawn to scale, so when a question presents an image, look for numbers in the question or on the figure that specify dimensions. Two sides of a triangle, for example, may appear to be equal when one is actually slightly longer than the other. Remember: If the


be 5. Likewise, if the hypotenuse is 5 and the length of one side is 4, the other side must be 3.

  Because this is a ratio, the sides can be in any multiple of these numbers, such as 6:8:10 (2 × 3:4:5), 9:12:15 (3 × 3:4:5), or 27:36:45 (9 × 3:4:5).

5:12:13

If one side of a right triangle is 5 and another side is 12, then the hypotenuse must be 13. Likewise, if you know the hypotenuse is 13 and one of the sides is 5, then the other side must be 12.

  Because you're dealing with a ratio, the sides can be in any multiple of these numbers, such as 10:24:26 (2 × 5:12:13), 15:36:39 (3 × 5:12:13), or 50:120:130 (10 × 5:12:13).

s:s:s

This ratio isthan that, as the following sections reveal.

  A set is a collection of numbers, values, or objects that are related in some way; a set's members are listed between curly braces, like this: {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}. An empty set, also referred to as a null set, is a set with nothing in it, and is noted as such by the symbol  :  . If something is a member of a set, it's tagged with the [ symbol, which stands for "is an element of." If it's tagged with , it's not an element of the set. If the [ is backwards, it means "contains as an element," so if 3 [ A, then  .

Set relationships: Dealing with unions, intersections, and subsets

Sometimes sets


It's more like business writing, so avoid off-color language, slang, and inappropriate humor. Creativity, done well, will be rewarded, but be appropriate.

Writing the Issue Essay

In the Analyze an Issue task, the GRE gives you an issue statement and asks you to introduce and then support your position on that issue. The format is like this:

Directions: Write an essay in response to the following statement in which you discuss the extent that you agree or disagree with the statement. Explain your reasoning in a clear, well-organized essay that supports your position. Consider both sides of the issue when developing your response.

"Today's cheap, mass-produced goods lack the precision and quality of yesterday's hand-built, carefully crafted products."

Where do you begin? What do they want? Only 29 minutes left! Getting started isbreaks, you'll be sitting still for hours. Though your stamina may be good (because you practiced), you still want to stay hydrated, eat a power bar, and walk around every now and then to keep your mind clear. Don't plan on studying during your breaks, though — the review of any GRE-prep materials during breaks is strictly forbidden.

  Pack some water bottles and power bars to keep in a locker for your breaks. You won't have time to go grab something. Don't drink too much water, though — you can't pause the test to run to the restroom.

Worrying about the Past Questions or Sections

When skipping a question or marking it for further review, let it go until the end of the section so you can focus on


of their gourds, but they're
heartfelt love songs, all about a girl who left him. On some, he's angry at
her, and on some, he's doing his standard "I'm awesome" thing.

But, as you can imagine, most rappers don't do a concept album all about the
girl who broke his heart.

~~~
mrtron
The additional point that maxklein made was this was coming off one of the
best softcore, pop rap albums of all time. It sold something like a million in
a week, and then was huge worldwide.

He could have made another album like Graduation and sold 10 times the records
808 did. If you want to gain some respect for Kanye, go download the
Graduation album and listen to it start to finish. Not only is it great, but
it is very introspective and self-critical.

~~~
sachinag
Absolutely - the dude'sSlaven Bilic says West Ham are finally starting to feel at home at the London Stadium.

The Hammers' last match at the former Olympic Stadium, the 2-1 EFL Cup win over Chelsea, was overshadowed by crowd trouble.

But prior to those ugly scenes at the end, a thrilling London derby had been played out amid an atmosphere to rival that of their old Upton Park ground.

West Ham are back at home against Stoke on Saturday and Bilic hopes the stadium will be rocking once again.

"It was a great atmosphere," said the Hammers boss.

"Don't get me wrong, what happened at the end was unacceptable and awful, but during the game it was a derby, a cup game, under the lights.

"We felt really great and also because of that atmosphere we played


Similar to trends both globally and in the United States, the burden of obesity and diabetes in New York City (NYC) is projected to increase - possibly to overwhelming proportions. Our large primary care health system on the West Side of Manhattan (St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center) has been delivering primary care to a large population, a large proportion of which are minorities at high risk for type 2 diabetes. We have assembled a strong research team including diabetes and obesity clinical research leaders, clinicians with strong community service record and lead public health epidemiologists in New York City. A uniform electronic medical records system (EMR) is being implemented in the next 2 years, in phases, into our primary care practices. The same EMR has been implemented inRex Ryan has had many ups and downs as head coach of the Jets since taking the job in 2009, including some memorable games against Bill Belichick and the Patriots. However, Ryan could end up on the hot seat if he can’t reverse the recent slide of his team, which has missed the playoffs the last two seasons.

In a game featuring Sanchez’s Butt Fumble, New England scores three times in 52 seconds in another blowout over their rival.

Ryan’s motivational tactics target Belichick

Ryan once told his players that he was going to punch Belichick in the face at midfield, LaDainian Tomlinson revealed on NFL Network Tuesday night.

Tomlinson spent his final two seasons (2010-11) with the Jets, and was asked what was the craziest thing Ryan said to the team


because of the payout over 10 years, city property officials said. But the company is now OK with the plan because it has secured a new development partner in Edenshaw Developments, said planning, property and development director John Kiernan.

"They had some concerns, originally, about nine months ago, about it not being a lump-sum payment," Kiernan said. "In fact, they get more money over a 10-year period by amortizing it out."

Executive policy committee voted 6-1 to approve the grant. It still needs to be approved by council next week.

St. Vital Coun. Brian Mayes voted against the grant because he said he's concerned city planners are mistaken in their contention infill development in downtown Winnipeg comes with fewer costs than developments in other areas of the city.

"Frankly, there's some peopleWHITTIER, Calif. (KABC) -- A high school student and his 28-year-old brother were arrested after the teenager threatened to open fire at a campus in Whittier and authorities found a massive cache of firearms and ammunition at their home, authorities announced Wednesday.The investigation began after the 17-year-old suspect was asked to remove his headphones and made the threat against El Camino High School, a school official said.Robert Jacobsen, the in-house counsel for Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District, said the student was upset by the request made by a teacher to take his headphones off in class and made the threatening comment Friday outside the classroom.Jacobsen said the comment was overheard by Marino Chavez, a school safety officer. The student continued making threats, telling Chavez that he would


carry out the shooting in three weeks, according to Jacobsen. The student later said he was joking, Jacobsen said."I'm not a hero. I'm just doing my job every day. You can't be saying things on school campuses, especially with what's going on around the country," Chavez said.Deputies were called, and an investigation resulted in finding a collection of weapons and ballistic evidence at the student's home, Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said at a Wednesday news conference.Detectives obtained a search warrant for the residence, where they discovered two AR-15 rifles, 90 ammunition magazines and two handguns, the sheriff said, adding that one of the assault rifles was unregistered.The student's older brother, Army veteran Daniel Eriberto Barcenas, claimed ownership of the weapons, McDonnell said. He was arrested onmultiple charges including: possession of an assault weapon, import of a high-capacity magazine, failure to register a handgun and criminal storage of firearms.Barcenas was booked into the Norwalk sheriff's station and held in lieu of $35,000.The teenager was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats. His name was not released because he is a minor.The weapons "were readily available to him," the sheriff said of the younger suspect. They also said he had ammunition and loaded magazines in his room. There was even a handgun in the hallway of the home.Parents, teachers and students said they were afraid to be on campus."This is our school. This is where we come to learn. This is the one spot where every student should feel safe there," student Fernando Aguilera said.The


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Dressing up a little girl is always fun for special occasions. After picking out a pretty dress, there are countlessphotograph at night, enabling the objects to emerge from the darkness, where it is said magic begins.”

Hannant has a particular interest in ceremonies and items of supernatural significance. Her previous book documented British folk customs “rooted in cycles of nature: dramatizing the wheel of the year with costumed processions, fire rituals, mumming plays and traditional dances that mark seasonal change.”

Atlas Obscura has a selection of Hannant’s images of magical objects.

Mummified cats.

Baphomet, a goat-headed deity who is said to possess both male and female attributes, and who is also represented by the goat pentagram symbol.

A Moon Talisman that belonged to Gerald Gardner, an English Wiccan regarded as the father of a mid 20th-century witchcraft revival.

A dried mandrake root, part of a plant traditionally used to make potions and ointments.

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Obama Intel Team Intel

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The Obama administration’s intelligence team is taking shape. So far, we've got the names of five people tapped for the transition team.

Top of the list from our intelligence community source is John Brennan, an early supporter of Obama's and one of his foreign policy advisors. Brennan's resume stands rock solid. He was director of the National Counterterrorism Center and is the chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a Washington advocacy group for the intelligence community.

Next on the list was retired Army Maj. Gen. Bob Harding, former director of operations at the Defense Intelligence Agency and deputy to the Army's Chief of Intelligence. He is now head of his own firm, Harding Security Associates.

Women figure prominently on the Obama list. Jami Miscik,is being touted as the co-leader -- with Brennan -- of the intel transition team. The former deputy director for intelligence at CIA, she is now global head of sovereign risk at Lehman Brothers. Miscik led the agency's analysts when they produced the infamous National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Saddam Hussein's Iraq probably possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Another woman, Jennifer Sims, is on the list. Sims was the State Department's first coordinator for intelligence resources (1998-2001) and planning and is now Georgetown University's highly regarded director of intelligence studies. Before working at the State Department, Sims was a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee and an aide to former Sen. John Danforth (R-Mo.).

The last name we've got is that of Caryn Wagner, budget


In what could possibly be the last court case of its kind, a former Nazi concentration camp guard is on trial in Hamburg.

Bruno Dey, who joined the SS in his teens, covered his face on his recent arrival at court in a wheelchair, on the third day of a 23-day trial, scheduled to run until late February. As a result of the ages of those involved, each trial day is limited to two hours a day and there are a maximum of two trial days per week.

Facing 5,230 counts of accessory to murder, Dey claimed in a statement he had no knowledge of the mass murders under way at the Stutthof concentration camp, despite admitting seeing prisoners led into the gas chambers, hearing their screams and noting therattling of the steel door.

The case is one of the last of its kind, not least because those old enough to have been actively involved are now nonagenarians.

East of Danzig in Poland, Stutthof was built by Germany in 1939 and was first used as the main collection point for Jews and non-Jewish Poles removed from the city.

When Dey was posted there from mid-1944, tens of thousands of Jews from ghettos being cleared by the Nazis in the Baltics as well as from Auschwitz, and thousands of Polish civilians swept up in the brutal suppression of the Warsaw uprising, were crammed into the camp.

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Ultimately, more than 60,000 people were killed at Stutthof, by shooting, starvation or lethal injections of petrol or phenol directly into their hearts. Others were forced outside in winter without clothes until they died of exposure, or were sent to the gas chambers.

Around three dozenfade out due to old age so that matters could be taken into the hands of a younger generation with no such burden,” Niwinski says.

The former German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof (KFP/AFP via Getty) (KFP/AFP via Getty Images)

The establishment, in 1958, in Germany of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (the main agency responsible for investigating war crimes during Nazi rule) was a key step, but “apparently even they were hindered for years by people with a certain past within their ranks”.

Niwinski, a most unassuming hero, has his own reasons for taking on the case. His grandfather, with whom he shares a name, was part of the Polish resistance during the war. “After the capitulation of the army, he


enlisted in and became an officer of the Polish home army and fought the Germans until the end of the war.”

The reward for such courage was persecution by the Communist government after the war. He was blacklisted, he says, and struggled to find work, ultimately becoming a celebrated circus strongman and an interesting enough subject to warrant a documentary film prior to his death in 1995. The grandson and namesake of the great circus performer feels he is honouring his ancestor by ensuring those of his generation are able to have their voices heard in court.

At a time when Holocaust denial is on the rise and survivors are dying out, cases like this can have a significant symbolic value. Revenge does not seem to be on the mindsthe serious problems on Deep Tunnel. Neither the institute nor the GAO fabricated the 10 deaths, dozens of disabling injuries and 192 federal safety violations recorded for this project.

Second, Mr. Backe, as a supplier of equipment to contractors, is hardly qualified to render informed judgments on Deep Tunnel safety problems. As a supplier, he certainly has not gone underground where most of the violations and problems have taken place. Surely, Mr. Backe is inclined to further ingratiate himself with the contractors he serves, a consideration that may have motivated his letter to The Tribune.

We do agree with Mr. Backe that an impartial study of the district`s record is welcome. The district, however, has avoided seeking such a study. Indeed, it did seek a study by an organization with


a collection of plastic cards that owed more than I have and a balance that was anything but.

The breeze danced in my window, spun me around, tickled the nose of one boy, then the other, and flew out toward the man that stood there waiting. He smiled beneath a skin taut with sun and a layer of sweat much heavier than mine. His glance fell down, past the cardboard sign in his hands, to the grass beneath his feet and the child that sat quietly upon it. The breeze rolled from father to son and the smile went with it.

“Why is that boy there?” asked my youngest son from his spot in the backseat. His window was down, too, and his words were loud and carried on theLucian Clinciu

Lucian Clinciu (b. January 1, 1971) from Zărneşti is a Romanian ski mountaineer.

Selected results
 2004:
 7th, World Championship relay race (together with Silviu Manea, Péter Károly and Ionuţ Găliţeanu)
 2005:
 8th, European Championship relay race (together with Silviu Manea, Rareş Manea and Ionuţ Găliţeanu)

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[A case of acute water intoxication showing triphasic waves on EEG].
We reported a case of acute water intoxication from compulsive water-drinking, who showed triphasic waves on EEG. The patient was a 50-year-old man who had been undergoing medical treatment in a mental hospital since he was suffering from schizophrenia diagnosed at the age of 35. He had sometimes had a tendency to drink a large amount of water since 45 years old. He began to drink water compulsively since three days ago. He vomited just after he drank excessive water with his mouth directly to the tap for several minutes, and soon fell into loss of consciousness. He was transmitted to our hospital because of acute consciousness disturbance on the next day. On neurological examination, he was profoundlyoften available electronically. Apart from the additional annual reports that were acquired by collections specialists in various disciplines, the Western Libraries often received them as gifts from individual donors. As well, the staff in the Johnston Library often sought collections that were offered by other libraries. Over the years we were fortunate to receive many annual reports from the Union Gas Library. As well, we took many corporate reports from the Innis Library at McMaster University and from the Turchin Library at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane.

This annual cumulation of financial statements of the companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange was produced by the Assistant Secretary of the Exchange, W.R Houston. Since there was no index to the collection and no way of knowing


of this 1918 article in the Irving National Bank publication – “Broadening the Vision of the American Business Man”.

Some of them show up for sale on commercial web sites, sought by collectors and for other reasons. Dennison (noted above) produced paper products and one fan of their magazine noted “What a thrill to read the ideas and suggestions they provide for planning and decorating for vintage holidays such as Halloween and Thanksgiving. Their ideas are very reminiscent of how many families still lived in the late 40's and early 50's.”

There were also company magazines that were intended simply for the employees. The Kresge News during the 1940s served to keep employees aware of colleagues who had gone off to fight in World War II. In 1925 the NationalIndustrial Conference Board estimated there were over 350 such publications. In 1953, they produced another study which is available in our collection. See: Employee Magazines and Newspapers.

Some of the general interest company magazines were widely circulated to huge audiences. According to Riley, the circulation of Philip Morris Magazine was reportedly “greater than that of Time, Newsweek,U.S. News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal combined.” (see: Corporate Magazines of the United States,, ed. by Sam G. Riley). Canadians are very familiar with a popular company magazine – The Beaver - which was started in the 1920s by the Hudson Bay Company (the magazine was acquired by Canada’s National Historical Society and is now called Canada’s History).

Although Canada had a popular company magazine in The Beaver, we have


not found much specifically about Canadian “house organs”. In 1940 William L. Craig, an undergraduate student at the Business School here at the University of Western Ontario wrote a short B.A. thesis called Company Publications. In it he discusses the characteristics of such publications, how frequently they were issued and the processes used to produce them. In a long appendix, he provides some useful information about almost 100 company magazines published in Canada around 1940. This thesis is available in the collection of the Western Libraries.

About ten years later an article about company magazines in Canadian Business, called them “Canada’s Most Influential Publications”. The article begins this way: “Issuing from editorial offices which may be cubbyholes in the tool room to luxurious suites in the executive quarters, areabout company magazines we offer the following sources. One can start with Corporate Magazines of the United States,, ed. By Sam G. Riley which offers very detailed profiles for 52 such publications and short descriptions of 232 more. See also: Griffiths, John. “Exploring Corporate Culture: The Potential of Company Magazines for Business Historians,” Business Archives: Sources and History, Vol. 78, 1999, pp.27-37. In 1950, the Baker Library at Harvard displayed many of the company publications in their holdings and the result is House Organswhich is available in the Western Libraries In 2008 the journal Management and Organizational History, devoted an entire issue to the subject and most of the articles are listed here:

When the call for these papers went out, here were some of the suggested guidelines which


can serve to show how company magazines can be studied:

Submitted papers might consider, but are not limited to, the following issues:

company journals as part of a wide-ranging system of "soft" supervision which facilitate the internalization of corporate control mechanisms by employees

the changing uses of mediated communication (magazines, bulletins, newspapers) by organizations in an attempt to foster and manipulate organizational culture

how magazines have been used by organizations over time to negotiate their internal and external boundaries in order to manage their relationships with various stakeholder groups

the position of company magazines within the debate of the "crisis of control" in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century corporation

company journals as a response to the challenges of growth of industries in scale and scope

company journals as a source for historians and management theorists forin the mortgage it holds, the Debtor lost the right to reinstate the mortgage, which admittedly is in default, and, it should be granted relief from the automatic stay and permitted to foreclose its mortgage. The relevant facts as they appear from the record are indeed without dispute and are as follows:
Home Savings is a holder of two mortgages on real property currently owned by Real Pro Financial Services, Inc. (Debtor), located in Redington Beach and Largo, Florida, respectively. The original owner of these two properties and the original mortgagee named in the mortgages is Paul J. George (George), who was the principal and the sole stockholder of the Debtor. The Debtor's schedules indicate that George transferred his stock in Real Pro Group, Inc. to a corporation controlled


by his wife. In September 1988, George executed a quitclaim deed and conveyed the two properties to the Debtor. Shortly thereafter, in November 1989, the Debtor filed its Chapter 11 Petition for reorganization.
Based on the foregoing undisputed facts, Home Savings asserts that it is entitled to relief from the automatic stay (with respect to the mortgage it holds on two parcels of property) because upon the execution of the quitclaim deed by George to the Debtor accelerated the entire indebtedness which became due by virtue of the due-on-sale, therefore, the mortgage no longer can be reinstated by this Debtor and unless he is paid in full the accelerated balance.
It should be noted at the outset that the argument advanced by counsel for Home Savings represents a non sequitur.part in an obvious scheme to keep the mortgagee in the dark and thus to avoid any acceleration due to the due-on-sale clause. Also in Green, the property subject to a mortgage with a due-on-sale clause was transferred to joint Chapter 13 debtors prior to their filing for such relief. The original mortgagor on the property sought the mortgagee's consent to transfer and assign the mortgage premises to the debtors. The mortgagee did not allow such. Thereafter, the original mortgagor and the debtors did indeed effect a transfer, but purposely failed to record the same. The bank sought relief from stay and was awarded *219 the same for several reasons which distinguished the case from the instant case.
Thus, it is evident that any reliance by Home Savings on


Residents of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area were greeted with ominous dark clouds early this morning that opened up with torrential downpours.

Morning commuters were stalled by washed out roads, limited visibility, and flooded Metro stations across the District, northern Virginia, and western Maryland. Many were stranded on street corners and subway stations as their phones erupted with emergency warnings of flash flooding. Soaked Twitter users shared some of the most shocking images of the morning rain's impact, including a Pentagon parking lot completely underwater and flooding in the basement of the White House.

Though the rain is predicted to taper off by early afternoon, early reporting suggests that Monday's deluge has been a record rain event for the area.

3.3 inches of rain in ONE HOUR at Reagan National -something to help her stand out. Just a handful of weeks ago, her life had been different. Erin had felt like she had it all—a great boyfriend, her swim team spot, and excellent college prospects. But that was before she gained viral fame for an embarrassing and hardly life-ending incident. Now, everything is different.

Erin’s time in New Zealand opens her eyes to a lot of things. Erin is extremely privileged and totally unimpressed with her host family, their home, and really all of Christchurch. Her parents, both lawyers, have always been very intense and focused on Erin’s success and her future. Her mother lives for to-do lists and goal-setting. She wants Erin to use her time in New Zealand not to sightsee but to focus on being exceptional


slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’sin words but in the power of her words—is a rough road for Xiomara, but it’s also one filled with wonder, joy, and revelations.Powered by Xiomara’s strong but vulnerable voice, this intense, poignant, and extraordinary novel is a must for all collections.

Publisher’s description

An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.

At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies.

With everything her parents


Her struggles as a first generation American teenager and as someone living in poverty are just as complex and well-drawn as she is. However, once I realized the part mental health would play in her story, I wanted more from it: I wanted it woven in throughout, instead of just kind of dropped in, and explored more fully. The plot suffers a bit from being overstuffed—not that she can’t have multiple things happening in her life at once (friends issues, grieving her sister, her first real boyfriend, mental health stuff, a trip to Mexico)—I kept wanting Julia to either really hone in on the mystery with her sister OR explore her grief and hopes for her own life more fully, something to make the plot feel tighter tobe happy.

In an emotionally taut novel that is equal parts literary and commercial, with a richly diverse cast of characters, readers will relish in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and be completely swept up in the turmoil of two girls fighting for their lives.

Meet Cindy L. Rodriguez

Cindy L. Rodriguez is a former journalist turned public school teacher and fiction writer. She has degrees from UConn and CCSU and has worked as a reporter at The Hartford Courant and researcher at The Boston Globe. She and her daughter live in Connecticut, where she teaches middle school reading and college-level composition. Her debut contemporary YA novel, When Reason Breaks, released with Bloomsbury Children’s Books on 2/10/2015. She is a founder of Latin@s in Kid Lit and a member of the


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Clannad is an Irish musical group, from Gweedore, County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as being folk music, new age, and Celtic. Clannad are MÃ¡ire NÃ BhraonÃ¡in, CiarÃ¡n Brennan, PÃ³l Brennan, Noel Duggan and PÃ¡draig Duggan. Eithne NÃ BhraonÃ¡in (Enya Brennan), MÃ¡ire's sister, used to be a member of the group in the early Eighties. The band won a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best New Age Album.

Clannad, whose name is taken from an Clannas Dobhar meaning the family from Dore, was formed by the Brennan family in 1970. MÃ¡ire, CiarÃ¡n and PÃ³l Brennan joined uncles Noel and PÃ¡draig Duggan and began performing in their father Leo's tavern. MÃ¡ire's sister, Enya, joined the band in 1979 and left three years laterMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption President Obama says he wants to ''review'' the NSA's operations

The US Senate's intelligence committee has announced a major review of the country's surveillance operations.

The committee's chair, Diane Feinstein, said eavesdropping on leaders of friendly nations was wrong.

She said the White House had told her such surveillance would stop, but a senior administration official told the BBC there was no policy change so far.

Senior US intelligence agency officials are to testify before the House of Representatives later on Tuesday.

Correspondents say pressure is growing on the White House to explain why President Barack Obama apparently did not know about the extent of the intelligence gathering operations.

Mr Obama has spoken publicly of his intent to probe spying activities amid claims of eavesdropping


Feinstein said the White House had told her that all surveillance of leaders of countries friendly to the US would stop.

However, the BBC's North America editor Mark Mardell says a senior administration official has told the BBC this is not accurate - and that while there have been individual changes - there have not been policy changes, such as terminating intelligence gathering aimed at allies.

Intelligence officials testifying Officials appearing before the House of Representatives intelligence committee on 29 Oct: James Clapper , director of National Intelligence

, director of National Intelligence James Cole , deputy attorney general, US justice department

, deputy attorney general, US justice department Gen Keith Alexander , director of National Security Agency (NSA)

, director of National Security Agency (NSA) Chris Inglis, deputy director of the NSA

Earlier,official saying the Obama government was considering ending spying on allied heads of state.

The official said a final decision had still to be made, as the internal review was under way.

Spying pact

Earlier on Monday, representatives from the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs spoke to members of the US Congress about the alleged US spying on European leaders and citizens.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption What do people in Spain make of news 60 million calls were tracked?

The European delegation was reportedly unhappy with the "stock" responses from US officials on the issue.

'Five Eyes' agreement Initially a top-secret deal signed between the US and UK in March 1946

It committed both nations to sharing communications intelligence, continuing the practices of WWII

Later referred


to as the "UKUSA Agreement", it formed the basis for intelligence co-operation

The agreement was later extended to cover Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Other countries also reported to have joined the community

The full text of the initial agreement was released by Britain's National Archives in 2005 US goes nuclear in spy wars Why should we have a right to privacy?

Their visit coincided with reports that the US had monitored 60 million Spanish telephone calls in a month and asked the Japanese government to help it monitor fibre-optic cables carrying personal data through Japan, to the Asia-Pacific region.

According to Spain's El Mundo newspaper, the NSA tracked tens of millions of phone calls, texts and emails of Spanish citizens in December 2012 and January 2013.

The Japanese news agency Kyodo said Japanrefused the NSA's request, citing legal restriction and staff shortages.

Mrs Merkel is also sending German intelligence officials to Washington.

The allegations of US surveillance on international allies stem from documents leaked by fugitive ex-US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, now living in Russia.

The US has had a "no spying pact", known as Five Eyes, with Britain since just after World War II, with Australia, New Zealand and Canada later joining.