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A US-owned hotel in Japan has been criticised by Japanese authorities after it denied the Cuban ambassador a room over fears it would violate US sanctions on Cuba.

The Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk told Ambassador Carlos Pereria he could not stay last month because it could not accommodate Cuban government guests.

That prompted a Cuban complaint.

Japanese officials in the city have since told the hotel it was illegal to refuse rooms based on nationality.

The Cuban embassy booked the room through a travel agency, which informed the hotel of the guests' identity, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.

However when Mr Pereira arrived in the south-western city on a trip to visit Cubans playing for the city's baseball team he was told he could not stay.

In its subsequent complaint, the Cubanargued that applying US law in Japan encroached on Japan's sovereignty, the Asahi Shimbun said.

But a Hilton representative in the Japanese capital Tokyo told the Kyodo news agency that the firm had to comply with US law because it was based in the US.

In 2006, the Mexican authorities fined a US-owned Sheraton hotel for expelling a 16-person Cuban delegation from a hotel in Mexico City.

In 2007 a Norwegian hotel, the Scandic Edderkoppen, refused to let a delegation of 14 Cuban officials stay as it was part of a chain that had been bought by Hilton since the Cubans last visited.

Then Norwegian deputy foreign minister Raymond Johansen told Reuters that it was "totally unacceptable".

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2016, under a thaw in relations between the US and Cuba during the Obama administration, the US hotel firm Starwood signed a deal to manage two hotels in Cuba. The two hotels were owned by Cuban state enterprises, the New York Times reported.

However the following year President Trump tightened US policy towards Cuba, banning US visitors to the island from spending money in state-run hotels or restaurants linked to Cuba's military.This invention relates to an apparatus for laying lines in an ice rink. Lines of the type generally used in hockey or similar games require a circular line to be laid on the ice surface at a particular location on the rink and also straight lines generally across the ice.
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Bristol Palin may be only 20 years old, but the most famous daughter of Alaska's most famous politician is already releasing a memoir. Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far hit bookshelves Tuesday, and juicy details are already being teased. Palin's divulgence that she was drunk on "girly flavored wine coolers" when she lost her virginity to Levi Johnston already ignited the blogosphere over the weekend. Now, even more details are being shared. Here, five of the most talked-about revelations:

1. Bristol's son has a sibling

While she was dating Johnston, Palin writes that he "cheated on me about as frequently as he sharpened his hockey skates." She finally ended things with Johnston after discovering he had impregnated another girl, and named the child Bentley, "which was her firsthair and makeup" as John McCain's wife and daughter.

3. Cindy McCain offered to be Tripp's godmother

Palin writes that the 2008 GOP presidential nominee's wife "looked like a queen" and held herself "like royalty," according to ABC News. But Cindy McCain's offer to be Tripp's godmother rubbed Palin the wrong way. "I wondered why she wanted any type of guardianship over my child," Palin writes. Certainly, it was a "very strange thing to do," says Dan Amira at New York, "considering they had just recently met."

4. The cast hated Bristol on Dancing With the Stars

Palin has "not-so fond memories" of her stint on the reality TV show, says Sheila Marikar at ABC News, even though she and her partner Mark Ballas finished in third place. Her Dancing castmates "rolled


their eyes when they realized we'd survived to dance another day," writes Palin. After some contestants were voted off, the cast's ire became even less subtle. They "literally would not speak to us or acknowledge our presence."

5. She wanted to take home a baby from Haiti

Thankfully, a good chunk of Palin's memoir is actually devoted to "chronicling her charitable work," says Alex Alvarez at Mediaite. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Palin was visiting a cholera treatment center when she saw a father caring for an 8-month-old boy and six other children. "I could tell by his emotion and urgency that he was trying to give the baby up for a chance at life," she writes. Palin was so moved, in fact, that she offered to take theSan Francisco’s 2015 Art Market

Now in its fifth season, the 2015 Art Market will return to the Festival Pavilion at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center on April 29 – May 03, 2015. This year features a wide assortment of contemporary art from noteworthy national and international galleries.

Art Market San Francisco 2015 is partnering with the de Young and Legion of Honor fine arts museums for this year’s first Benefits Preview Reception on the evening of Wednesday, April 29. Beneficiary ticket buyers will have the pleasure of a first access private preview of the art fair and will enjoy live entertainment at this catered event. Proceeds will benefit the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco’s New Art Acquisitions Fund.

2014’s Art Market saw record breaking sales, city-wide partnerships and over


20,000 visitors in attendance. Art Market Productions is a Brooklyn based production firm owned by Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause who have organized successful national fairs including the Miami Project, Texas Contemporary and the Seattle Art Fair. This year be sure to experience a series of presentations coordinated with the galleries and artists including collector tours, curator talks and special artist presentations by Bay Area curators, collectors and designers. As the Art Market has grown into a major regional event, it reinforces the importance of local involvement in the arts. The Art Market is the colorful place where local creativity overlaps with the international art world. And it doesn’t have to end on May 3rd if you purchase a one of a kind piece to enjoy year round.Author Affiliations: Departments of Pathology (Drs Timms and Horwitz and Messrs Wechsler and Kirkwood), Psychiatry (Drs Dorschner and Tsuang), and Genome Sciences (Drs Girirajan and Eichler and Mr Baker), and Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine (Dr Korvatska), University of Washington School of Medicine, and Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System (Drs Dorschner and Tsuang), Seattle; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (Drs Choi and Roche); and Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College (Dr Girirajan).

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Importance Schizophrenia is a complex genetic disorder demonstrating considerable heritability. Genetic studies have implicated many different genes and pathways, but much of the genetic liability remains unaccounted for. Investigation of genetic forms of schizophrenia will lead to


received September 21, 2012; accepted October 29, 2012.

Published Online: April 3, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.1195

Author Contributions: Drs Horwitz and Tsuang jointly directed this work, had full access to all the data in the study, and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Funding/Support: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Additional material is based on work supported by the Office of Research and Development Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs. Specific funding was provided by a National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Independent Investigator Award (Dr Tsuang), Consortium on the Genetics of Schizophrenia grant R01MH065558 (Dr Tsuang), VA Merit Review (Dr Tsuang), and National Instituteof Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant T32GM007454 (Dr Timms).

Additional Contributions: We thank the subjects and their families who participated in this study and who donated blood samples to the National Institute of Mental Health for genetic research purposes. We thank Eva Crist for technical assistance and Zoran Brkanac, MD, and Wendy Raskind, MD, PhD, for input in initial pedigree selection. Data and biomaterials were collected in 3 projects participating in the National Institute of Mental Health Schizophrenia Genetics Initiative: from 1991 to 1997, principal investigator and coinvestigators were Harvard University (grant U01MH46318): Ming T. Tsuang, MD, PhD, DSc, Stephen Faraone, PhD, and John Pepple, PhD; Washington University, St Louis, Missouri (grant U01MH46276): C. Robert Cloninger, MD, Theodore Reich, MD, and Dragan Svrakic, MD; and Columbia


There has been heavy fighting in Libya outside one of the Gaddafi regime's last strongholds.

Anti-Gaddafi forces have been preparing for an attack on Sirte, Col Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace.

Regime loyalists in the town have been given until 10 September to surrender.

The BBC's Paul Wood was caught up in the fighting close to the front line, about 40 miles east of Sirte and sent this report.acquire 26,000 acres and interest in over 400 producing wells there from Continental Resources.

Corterra officials said at the time the deal created a contiguous position of nearly 70,000 acres for it to explore across Atoka, Coal, Hughes and Pittsburg counties.

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“We have built a premier asset in the liquids-rich portion of the Arkoma Woodford Shale play," Mitchell stated as part of that announcement.

Soon after, it inked a deal with a midstream company to get a natural gas gathering system and natural gas processing plant built to support it and another operator in the play.

Connect Midstream began processing natural gas at its Stanberry plant in Coal County a year ago.

And in November 2018, Corterra was honored as one of The Oklahoman’s Top Workplaces winners.

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Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nirvana. Right now, there is a Foo Fighters song playing on the radio at your local grocery store. They are ubiquitous.

2017 is looking like it will be a huge year for the band. It marks both the 20th anniversary of the Foos’ landmark second album The Colour and The Shape and the release of a spanking new ninth album, Concrete and Gold, which was also announced today. It includes “Run” (see the single’s Grohl-directed video below) and drops on Sept. 15 via Roswell/RCA Records.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, June 29 at 10 a.m. and will likely move quickly, so make yourself some fresh pots and get ready to rock.     "decodeURI|decodeURIComponent|encodeURI|encodeURIComponent|eval|isFinite|" +
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was really through talking with him that we fell in love with DTS. We had this very personal connection."

The connection continued as the Howards met DTS students at donor events. One group in particular inspired them: international students training for the pastorate. Rosemary said, "Professors would tell us of young students who came to seminary with nothing, or carrying only a suitcase."

As Randy’s work as a vice president for Exxon Mobil took him overseas on business, his parents followed his travels. And in doing so they experienced a growing awareness of the spiritual needs across the world as well as the challenges for DTS’s international students. But they also focused on ministry stateside.

About a decade ago Rosemary and Louis helped plant a new church where they were amongvehicle body, the lower control arm comprising front and rear control links, and a trailing arm disposed in a longitudinal direction with respect to the vehicle body and connecting the front end of the wheel carrier to the vehicle body. When the wheel is aligned such that a toe angle of the wheel becomes xe2x80x9c0xe2x80x9d, the front control link and the trailing arm are aligned such that a longitudinal axis of the front control link of the lower control arm intersects a longitudinal axis of the trailing arm at a wheel center.
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Gumbet is the nearest beach resort to Bodrum which is just two kilometre away or 10 minutes on a Dolmus (local bus service). Originally there was only a beach in Gumbet but today it has grown into a thriving holiday resort for singles, couples, friends and families in its own right.
Gumbet has a central main street which is full of colourful restaurants, bars and entertainment. The nightlife in both Gumbet and nearby Bodrum is considered to be among the best in Turkey with plenty of music and dancing available until the early hours of the morning.


Kaitlyn Krasselt

USA TODAY

The United States is in the middle of the pack for financial literacy among 15-year-old students, according to a recent international study released Wednesday.

Shanghai, China's financial hub, was the leader in financial literacy, according to the report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which surveyed 29,000 students in 18 countries and economies.

The Flemish Community of Belgium wasn't far behind Shanghai, and Estonia rounded out the top three. The United States fell in at No. 9 with an average score of 492 — eight points behind the overall average.

The Slovak Republic, Italy and Colombia found themselves in the bottom three once the results of the two-hour paper test were revealed.

Questions ranged from simple — covering basic financial literacy skills, such as recognizing the purposeobtaining those skills in other ways, through other classes and education.

The U.S. on the other hand has 70% of its students enrolled in schools with financial education programs, yet it falls far behind Shanghai in financial literacy among students. The United States, Davidson says, has the strongest correlation between social background and financial literacy, with those from advantaged backgrounds scoring higher in the assessment.

"The U.S. has about the average number of top-performing students, but at the other end of the spectrum there is a higher percentage of students who are performing below the baseline," Davidson says.

He says the difference is not that there is more social diversity in the U.S. population, but that systems such as the one in Shanghai (a population with roughly the same socio-economic diversity


as the U.S.) are designed to mitigate against the correlation between social background and education levels.

Difficulty in financial literacy is consistent in adulthood, according to the 2013 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey from Harris Interactive. More than 75% of U.S. adults agree they could benefit from additional advice and answers to everyday financial questions from a professional, according to the survey.

Financial literacy among U.S. adults is improving: Only 40% of adults surveyed in 2012 gave themselves a grade of C, D or F on their knowledge of personal finance — down from 65% in 2010. This could, in part, be related to the 2003 establishment of the U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission, which was tasked to develop a national financial education website — MyMoney.gov — and a nationalstrategy on financial education.

Davidson says a high correlation between math and reading scores and financial literacy suggests those countries with higher general literacy rates are likely to do better in understanding finance. And while he says there is a gender gap in financial literacy among adults, it's all but non-existent among the 15-year-old population surveyed by OECD.

The final notable finding, Davidson says, was a strong relationship between perseverance and financial literacy. Students who participated in the survey were asked if they would give up in the face of a difficult financial problem or try to work through it. Those who said they'd give up scored lower.

"That relationship is strongest in the United States out of all countries," Davidson says.

Averages by country in the financial literacy survey:

1. Shanghai-China: 603

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trees weren’t on so there will be a person doing that every night before they go home . . . He will also be in charge of lighting the Menorah. It’s at sunset.”

Although for some, this may echo back to other controversies regarding public displays, this apparent gesture of inclusiveness was welcomed by all members of the governing body. 또한, there is a National Menorah Lighting at the White House every year.

The menorah is used to celebrate the Jewish festival of Hannukah or Chanukah. Also known as the festival of lights, it is an eight-day festival beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev to commemorate the miracle of a one-day supply of oil that lasted eight days and nights when Israelites reclaimed the HolyTemple in Jerusalem after waging battle against and driving out Greek armies in a revolution against assimilation and the suppression of Jewish religion.

A menorah is a linear nine-candle candelabrum in a straight line with the center candle, called the shamash, the only candle higher than the others – all other candles are to be on the same level. The shamash is to be used to light the other eight candles every night one-by-one. After sunset on the first night of Hannukah – the evening of December 24th this year – the candle furthest right of the shamash is lit. The following night, the candle next to the first candle is lit first by the shamash, then the furthest right candle is lit. Every subsequent night, the candles that


host Bears first 2003 home game and other major sports and entertainment events."

The Soldier Field WebCam is accessible by linking to the Chicago Bears web site at www.chicagobears.com. Once there, computer users will be able to link to EarthCam's web site by clicking on the "WebCam Soldier Field" tab in the lower right corner, which features the stadium's historic colonnades.

"We want to give our fans and other interested parties the ability to watch the construction of their new home for Bears football and other entertainment events," said Ted Phillips, Chicago Bears President and CEO. "It is an exciting project we want to share with the community and when it is complete, we will have one of the nation's most advanced and fan friendly sports and entertainment venues."

EarthCam, a"project-to-date" archives to view construction work dating back to March 2002

Click on "best of project archive" to see still photographs of the demolition and construction phases of the project

The Soldier Field WebCam site is expected to be operational until the stadium is completed, which is scheduled for September 28, 2003. The Lakefront Redevelopment Project was approved by the Illinois General Assembly in November 2000. The public-private partnership involves the creation of a modern stadium within the historic façade of Soldier Field. It will also create 2,500 underground parking spaces for year-round use by Museum Campus visitors. In addition, the project will transform 17 acres of crumbling parking lot into 17 acres of new lakefront parkland surrounding the stadium. The $606-million project is funded through a $200-million contribution from


RANCHO MIRAGE – About 1,000 chanting protesters rallied on Sunday outside a California resort where conservative lawmakers and business executives met for a political strategy session hosted by billionaires Charles and David Koch.

About two dozen police officers in riot gear lined up in front of the Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in the upscale desert town of Rancho Mirage to keep the protesters away from the gated entrance.

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At one point, a group of demonstrators blocked the street in front of the resort for nearly an hour before Riverside County sheriff’s deputies moved in and handcuffed about 25 activists who were led away and cited for trespassing.

They were then released at the scene after promising to appear later in court, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.

Another group, some dressed injustice and reconciliation commission, reparations, and a plan for economic and social recovery.

Although the Panel sets a new standard for African leadership in resolving crises on the continent, the strength of this report will ultimately lie in its implementation. Meanwhile, signs of progress across the whole nation are being watched for carefully as Sudan begins a month-long voter registration drive in a key step towards the April 2010 presidential elections, the first democratic elections in 24 years.

The final report of the African Union Panel on Darfur is available here.


The Tapir The Tapir (Tapirus Bairdii) is the largest land mammal of Central America. Known as the “mountain cow” in Belize, they are forest dwellers, active mostly at night as they forage along river banks and forest clearings. The tapir is the national animal of Belize. The tapir has a prehensile, long nose like an elephant or anteater, but is actually related to the horse and rhinoceros. Its general color is dusty brown with a white fringe around the eyes and lips, white tipped ears and occasional white patches of fur on the throat and chest. They feed on grasses, aquatic vegetation, leaves, buds, and fruits of the low-growing shrubs. Its long, flexible upper lip and flat molars are well suited for foraging and swallowing twigs, nuts, andsingle youngster is born after a gestation of about 13 months. All baby tapirs have striped-and-spotted coats for camouflage, and while they appear at first glance to be alike, there are some differences among the patterns of different species.

They are excellent swimmers and also agile climbers, crashing up steep hillsides and river banks with apparent ease.

Although tapirs were once widespread, only four species endured into the modern world: three in Central America and the warmer parts of South America, and one in Southeast Asia. Tapirs are forest animals that love water. They frequently live in dry land forests, tapirs with access to lakes or rivers spend a good deal of time in and under the water, feeding on soft vegetation and taking refuge from predators. Despite being taken


of Inuit. They are also the world’s northernmost people, living closer to the North Pole than any other group. They live far above the arctic circle in Greenland.

The Dukha of Mongolia

The Dukha people have developed a unique relationship with neighboring reindeer. They use them as a means of transportation over the treacherous terrain they call home.

The Ikpeng of Brazil

The Ikpeng are an indigenous people of Brazil who live in the Xingu indigenous park. They live near the upper Xingu river. In 2010, their population numbered only 459.

A Side Story — The Deciding Factor

We saw the options before us, but making the decision seemed impossible.

As we were going through this dizzying process of identifying a tribe to visit, I went to see my physician, Dr. Netter, to ask aboutmedical preparations for the journey.

I mentioned that one of the potential places to visit was Tanzania, and he began to gush about how that was one of his favorite places on earth. He had been there four times, and told me that on his trip in 2008, he had saved the life of a child… He showed me these photos; I was simply blown away…

He told me that, in his honor, the mother called the child “DOCTOR.”

That was it. How could I ignore this personal connection? At that point, I made the decision to go to Tanzania — possibly even find “DOCTOR.” All I knew was that he was from the Hadzabe, or the Hadza Tribe.

The Hadzabe

We had discovered the Hadza Tribe in our research, and were considering


we met Mustafa.

Meeting Mustafa

Mustafa, a friend of Samson’s, is a member of the Iraku tribe. He grew up in a village a couple miles away from the Hadza area. As a child, he used to herd his family’s cattle in a spot where the Hadza children played, and so he spent much time with them, occasionally staying with them in their encampments.

He developed a fascination with the Hadzabe, and when he grew up, he went to study anthropology at Dar es Salaam University. There, he focussed his research on Hadza culture.

He lived with them for years, studying their customs and lifestyle, and was now one of only a handful of outsiders whom they accepted and who had mastered their language.

We met Mustafa in the middle of nowhere.

After somea group of men sitting below a tree for shade. Just beyond them we saw a group of women playing with their children. A few meters away there was a group of kids, ranging in age from five to ten years old, playing in their own group.

The tribe members greeted us warmly with the Hadza greeting Mu-X-anna.

First Encounter

HanXa, the chief, asked us to sit down and join him under the tree. As soon as he saw me, he remarked on my beard and told me that he wasn’t able to grow such a big one – his just came out as single strands.

He then started poking?fun at us, saying that we looked “soft.”

-Soft? Me?!

Mustafa translated for us, “He says, ‘They cannot chase even a baboon or a monkey.'”

In


Fisherman snatched from river bank and eaten by giant Albino-headed crocodile named MICHAEL JACKSON as his wife looked on in horror

Man, 57, was snatched from the side of Adelaide River, east of Darwin

He had reportedly entered the water to unsnag his fishing line

Albino-headed croc, described as 'one in a million', was shot on Monday

An albino-headed crocodile named Michael Jackson has been held responsible for killing a man at the Adelaide River on Monday afternoon.

A 57-year-old man was attacked and killed by the crocodile in front of his wife while they were fishing at the river, about 60km east of Darwin.

The unusual crocodile, that was shot and killed, was 'one in a million', a tour operator said.

The man was taken when he got into the water to unsnag hisfishing line.

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Half-albino crocodile 'Michael Jackson', who killed a 57-year-old fisherman on Adelaide river, was shot as a result of the attack

Police and rangers scouring the crocodile-infested river by boat on Monday night shot and killed a 4.5m crocodile around 9.30pm and the man's body was recovered later that night.

His wife was treated by paramedics at the scene for shock.

The Adelaide River is well known for its Jumping Croc tours, where boats travel the river and crocodiles jump for meat attached to hooks.

'Michael Jackson was one in a million, and unfortunately being an albino would have been picked on by all the others, its a big pecking order,' said Rob Marchand, owner of Wallaroo Tours, which runs Jumping Croc cruises across the river from where the


man was taken.

The third fatal crocodile attack this year in the ACT has prompted the government to consider crocodile culling, safari hunting and a renewed safety campaign The man was standing on the bank of the river east of Darwin trying to retrieve a fishing hook when he was taken by the crocodile. Signs near where the man was attacked show warnings about fishing near crocodiles He told the ABC on Tuesday that the crocodile had been in that part of the river for several years, and that the crocodiles had been fighting a lot recently, jockeying for position and preparing to breed. He said only the strongest and most aggressive crocodiles reached four metres or longer. 'The croc has only been doing what nature intends it toto eat people a long time before we come along,' he said. The attack is the third this year, after a boy was taken at a billabong at Jabiru in January, and another fisherman was snatched off his boat as he emptied a bucket in a Kakadu River two months ago. A crocodile was also shot on the Tiwi Islands two weeks ago, suspected to have killed a local man who disappeared and has yet to be found. But tests on the organic matter found in its stomach haven't yet produced a conclusive result.

The man in his 50s was standing on the side of the river near the Adelaide River bridge, east of Darwin


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In conclusion, I feel that Alabama is a great, progressive state with multiple opportunities for growth, education, professional satisfaction and recreation.

However, it behooves our government to avoid taking self-defeating actions like declining Medicare funds and passing extremely restrictive abortion legislation.

Dr. Jack Trigg is a lifetime resident of Birmingham who trained at UAB Medical Center and then served his country as a physician at the hospital at Eglin Air Force Base. He engaged in the private practice of medicine from 1964 until 1998.


in the report as Senior Cpl. Danny Silva, Cpl. Thomas Lynch and Cpl. James MacColl, moved into the open, without cover.

The investigative report found that Dellose fired at Jeremy approximately two seconds after initially ordering him to show his hands, creating uncertainty among other officers who, not knowing where the gunfire came from, also turned their weapons on McDole. Read the rest of this entry →

I certainly hope that the DOJ looks into the man who made the 911 call, because it could be pretext to violate John’s civil rights because of his race.

John Crawford’s parents met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on May 19, 2015 (Photo: WLWT TV)

Loretta Lynch will investigate the death of John Crawford III, 22, who was shot last summer as he held anrespect to firearm discharges, in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 14141. On July 9, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, submitted its report to the Honorable Tomas P. Regalado Mayor, City of Miami, Florida, and Chief Police Manuel Orosa, City of Miami Police Department.

Miami Chief of Police, Manuel Orosa

This is the second time that the Department of Justice had cause to investigate the Miami Police Dept. in about a decade. The current investigation commenced on November 16, 2011, after MPD officers fatally shot seven young African-American men during an eight-month period spanning 2010 and 2011.

Like the 2002 investigation, the current investigation also arose during a wave of corruption allegations involving sworn MPD officers and supervisors, including allegations of


Months after a time-traveling mash-up that spanned his incredible career during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Justin Timberlake has hit the road to showcase his polished dance moves and creamy falsetto.

On Sunday night at the American Airlines Center, Timberlake's suave-yet-goofy style and magnetizing moves electrified fans from the floor seats to the rafters. With an expansive, curvy stage that stretched across the floor of the arena, the beloved pop icon didn't stay in one spot long. He sidestepped and glided his way through 2018's "Filthy" the funky, fuzzed-out opener with a trailing group of dancers mirroring his moves. Sharp and graceful, the crooning star hasn't lost his impeccable timing or unwavering energy: If the music was still going, so was he.

His start-stop steps fell into place with thesizzling beat of "SexyBack" and floating swell of "Love Stoned / I Think She Knows," two hits from his biggest album, FutureSex/LoveSounds. Today, Timberlake's biggest challenge is not trying to keep up with the times or reinvent himself: He's created an identity fans are still craving after 20 years in the spotlight. It's how he will match his own appeal.

With the worldwide fame he's achieved through his punchy, pop hooks, stair-stepping falsettos and exhilarating choreography, Timberlake's momentum has kept him in the spotlight. Whether he's joking around with his giggly best friend Jimmy Fallon on Saturday Night Live or on the red carpet with wife and actress Jessica Biel, the singer has become known as a triple threat. This all-encompassing skillset made the concert feel like a performance


that took fans on a colorful, two-hour escapade.

He didn't let the dance-inducing tunes take all the glory. Instead, Timberlake rolled up his sleeves, straightened his tie and got to work. From fleeting moments on the tips of his shoes to popping his way through "Suit & Tie" with a tilting, boomerang mic stand as a dance partner, Timberlake took the crowd to school. But it wasn't just about the fancy footwork. Thousands of fans' voices sang along to the croon-worthy ballad "Mirrors" while his image flooded every curtained screen above the stage, shifting the focus to the harmonized chorus.

He showed some hometown love to the Dallas audience by taking a shot with Dirk Nowitzki, who appeared on the runway with a tray of drinks before the Southern charmof "Drink You Away." Timberlake shared that Nowitzki was at his last show in Dallas and had asked why he didn't end with "Rock Your Body" after the show. Timberlake said he acknowledged the suggestion and countered by asking why Nowitzki didn't have a ring yet. To the crowd's satisfaction, he answered his own question by saying, "And the rest is history."

Following the woodsy theme of the tour and his newest album, Timberlake and his backup singers sat around an actual campfire for acoustic covers and a few quieter numbers like "Flannel" and "Until the End of Time." Quick to get back on his feet, the star moved through his endless array of hits: the menacing swirl of "What Goes Around ... /... Comes Around" and the softer,


Knit-Wise at the spinning workshop. There was just the three of us, Diane from Southport who brought with her just the prettiest wheel I have seen in a long time and Rachel who came all the way over from Wakefield as a birthday present from her friend Debbie.

After dealing with the Ormskirk one way system for forty five minutes Debbie finally found somewhere to park and we were pleased that she'd stuck with it and hadn't turned on her heel and got straight back over the border back to Yorkshire. Rachel took to spinning very quickly, although it feels like you're the slowest spinner in the west when you're a beginner, Rachel really did well and by the end of the day had two skeins, only equaled byRural/urban disparities in access to the National Diabetes Prevention Program.
Residents of rural communities generally have limited access to preventive health services such as lifestyle programs for weight management. In 2009, the U.S. Congress authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to partner with local community organizations to disseminate the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), an evidence-based lifestyle intervention for weight management. Given that the National DPP (NDPP) was designed to broaden nationwide access to weight-loss treatment for adults at high risk for developing diabetes, the present study examined the implementation of the NDPP in rural and urban counties across the USA. The names and locations of NDPP community partnership sites were collected from the CDC website and cross-referenced with the U.S. Census Bureau's classification of counties as


the company firing another employee who had also left the church.
The district court granted Forestwood summary judgment on all claims. We AFFIRM the district court's grant of summary judgment on the claims of unlawful discharge and retaliation. Finding the district court improperly excluded certain evidence as inadmissible hearsay, however, we REVERSE the grant of summary judgment on the failure-to-hire claim and REMAND for further proceedings.

I. Background
Forestwood is a family-owned business in Hildale, Utah, that manufactures and installs wooden cabinetry. Fischer worked at Forestwood full-time from 1987 until July 2000. He served many roles during that time; working first as a shopworker, then as an installer, and finally as a salesman. When Fischer's tenure ended, he was the company's top cabinet salesman. While Fischer was employed by Forestwood, hishalf-brother, Marvin, managed the company, and his father, Erwin, served as its president. Another half-brother, David, was also employed by the company.
*977 Forestwood's management (including Marvin and Erwin) were closely involved with the FLDS, whose principal congregation was located in Hildale. The company had given cash donations to the FLDS in the past. Since at least 1999, the company refused to hire or interview anyone who was not a member of the FLDS church. At the time Fischer filed his complaint with the EEOC, only one employee  out of seventy total employees  was not a member of the church.
From 1991 through 2000, Fischer worked closely with John Musser, who prepared cabinet patterns for Forestwood. Musser, like Fischer, was a member of the FLDS church during most


of that time. In August or September 1999, Musser and his wife decided to leave the FLDS and become members of the LDS church. They moved 24 miles up the road from Hildale to Hurricane because they felt uncomfortable continuing to live among FLDS members. For the next year, Musser continued to work for Forestwood because he derived a substantial portion of his income from this employment.
About the time Musser left the FLDS church, Fischer publicly criticized the church and began skipping church functions. As a result, his co-workers sometimes heckled him. Fischer also claimed anonymous notes expressing concern about his faith were left on his car's windshield and in his message box at work. He felt increasingly uncomfortable at Forestwood. In the spring of 2000, he wasformally expelled from the FLDS church.
On July 16, 2000, Warren Jeffs (counselor, son, and heir to FLDS prophet and leader Rulon Jeffs) delivered a sermon urging FLDS members to stop supporting apostates through their business relationships. Jeffs believed funds from those relationships were being used to fight the church. He urged members to "[b]e kind to everyone, but leave apostates alone," and called upon the membership to "stop helping our enemies fight against us." R., Vol. I at 115-20.
A short time later, Fischer met with his half-brothers Marvin and David. At that meeting, Marvin informed Fischer that he planned to fire Musser. Fischer objected to this termination, arguing firing Musser would constitute religious discrimination and would "be over the top of me." Marvin responded by saying "if that's


the way it's got to be." R., Vol. II at 372. Fischer interpreted Marvin's statement as indicating he was fired. Soon after this exchange, however, Marvin asked Fischer to reconsider leaving the company. Fischer did not accept this proposal. Instead, he asked if he could have time to finish up his current projects. Marvin agreed and Fischer left the company a short time later.
In November 2000, Fischer sought reinstatement with the company. He approached his father, Erwin, who was president of the company. Fischer surreptitiously taped two of the conversations. In the first conversation, he pushed hard for reinstatement, but his father held back, claiming someone else had already taken over Fischer's previous duties. Erwin ended the conversation by saying he would discuss the issue with the companyfrom the MSRB Staff. From the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), we
have Tom Selman (who will also be participating
in the Self-Regulation panel), Angela Goelzer,
Matthew Shimkus, Malcolm Northam and Cindy
Friedlander. The MSRB and FINRA, as you well
know, play critical roles in regulating professionals
who operate in the municipal market and their
assistance has been invaluable. Also attending
today's event are colleagues from the Government
Accountability Office, which has been tasked
with studying various aspects of the municipal
securities market pursuant to the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act. And, among those participating as panelists
are several highly knowledgeable federal,
state and local officials — John J. Cross,
III, Associate Tax Legislative Counsel, at
the Department of the Treasury, Nancy K. Kopp,
Treasurer of the State of Maryland; and Tim
Firestine, Chief Administrative Officer of
Montgomery County, Maryland.
STRUCTURE OF TODAY'S HEARING AND OTHER LOGISTICS
We


The website BabyCentre UK has revealed that, rising 27 places from last year, the name Muhammad has topped the list of the top 100 boys’ names of 2014 (when alternate spellings such as Mohammed are included).

It is closely followed by Oliver and Jack, but royal names have fallen in popularity, with George actually declining in popularity since the birth of Prince George to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last year.

Sarah Redshaw, managing editor of BabyCentre, told The Times: “Kate and William have a lot of attention and parents don’t want to always be asked if they named their baby after Prince George.”

Data shows a rising trend in Arabic names, with Omar, Ali, and Ibrahim appearing in the chart, and Nur jumping straight to number 29 in theThe impact of illicit drug market changes on health agency operations in Sydney, Australia.
At the end of 2000, in Sydney, Australia, there was a dramatic reduction in heroin availability. This study examines how health agencies treating clients for drug and alcohol related issues were able to respond to the changes that took place in their clients and their treatment needs. Key informant interviews were conducted with 48 staff from a wide range of health services in Sydney to provide the data for a thematic analysis. Changes experienced by health agencies included changed patterns of drug use in their clients, increased aggressive incidents, changed numbers of clients accessing treatment services, and a need for more assistance from outside agencies. A strong evidence base for a range of drug treatment


A Kurdish source told Sputnik that Syrian militants conduct an offensive to the north of Afrin in the Aleppo province with the support of the Turkish army.

"I can say that the Turkish troops and militants they support have advanced for one kilometer toward Syrian territory in Afrin's north. The advance is supported by the Turkish army's artillery" the source told Sputnik on Saturday.

According to the source, the Turkish artillery has been shelling Kurdish settlements near Afrin for 6 days

The Ahrar al-Sham radical Islamist group, according to the source, are using the situation by attempts to seize strategic heights near the settlements on the outskirts of Afrin.

The city of Afrin located in the north of the province of Aleppo, which is mostly inhabited by the Kurds, is located nearthe Syrian-Turkish border and 20 kilometers from the border town of Azaz, which is controlled by terrorists.

In March, Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) General command spokesperson told Sputnik that continuous shelling of villages in Syria's Afrin by the Turkish military resulted in ten civilian casualties.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said one of the branches of the Russian reconciliation center will be established in Syria's Aleppo province in order to prevent violations of the cessation of hostilities in the region of contact between Kurdish militias and Turkey-supported rebel formations.


quantitative basis, Morel and collaborators used the number of patents granted in the United States as a measure of the innovative capacity of a country when at least one inventor was from that country, which was correlated to the economic strength of the country based on economic and demographic criteria \[[@pntd.0006469.ref002]\]. They designed a new indicator (number of patents normalized per GDP and per capita for each country) that made it possible to expand from Mashelkar's vision of quadrants into rankings. Through this analysis, several countries that were allocated to the lower-right quadrant, which were not considered to have high income economies according to World Bank definitions, appeared among the top performers. The findings became the basis for the development of the concept of *Innovative Developing Countries* (IDCs)the first position, replaced by China;

-   Japan retained the second position;

-   The Russian Federation and Turkey are now in the list;

-   Thailand, Argentina and Indonesia were removed from the list;

-   Brazil and South Africa each lost 3 positions;

-   India leads the ranking when (i) the original 2005 methodology is updated to USPTO 2015 or (ii) only the subset of patents related to medicines is considered.

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In their original article Morel and collaborators addressed the innovative capacity of IDCs in health by analyzing patents that included the words "drug", "vaccine", or "pharmaceutical" in the abstract. It was observed that the rate of patenting was relatively constant during the first half of the 1990s, but accelerated


the number of papers they published on the epidemics and their betweenness centrality measures. In the Ebola 2015 network only industrialized countries and their organizations played a relevant role. In contrast, the Zika 2016 network showed two Brazilian institutions, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the University of São Paulo (USP) among the top 5. Brazil as a country---an IDC---had the 2nd strongest betweenness centrality, behind the US but ahead of the three OECD countries, France, UK and Italy.

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Each node represents one country and two countries were considered connected if their authors shared the authorship of a paper. The thickness of links indicates the frequency of collaboration between two nodes. Bigger sizes and warmer colors indicate high betweenness centrality. Upper part: countries publishing on\[[@pntd.0006469.ref049], [@pntd.0006469.ref050]\].

Several international initiatives were created and implemented in order to compensate for this "neglect" from funding agencies or pharmaceutical companies. One of the first was the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical diseases (TDR), launched in 1975 and hosted at the World Health Organization in Geneva. In 2000 the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals was accompanied by the creation of several Partnerships for Product Development (PDPs) such as Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), the Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development (TB Alliance), the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DND*i*).

An important outcome of this global mobilization was the recognition that NTDs have poverty-promoting features and other socioeconomic consequences; in


on the point of throwing up. The car twists around hair pin bends, cliff side meanders until finally we reach a little town, andthe place where the oldest human settlements of central Italy were discovered, dating back to neo-Paleolithic times, only 80,000 or so years before Jesus was born.

The square around which the town is built is aglow with winter sun, and empty apart from the bench where a squad of oldies tend to gather (but not speak). Christmas has managed to invade, but in a rather awkward fashion with snowmen made out of plastic cups jarring with the baked yellow ochre of the traditional farmaciaand chapel. The combined scent of cheese, blood & boar bristle wafts across the square from the local macelleria.

Vincenzo, who bears a semblanceMonuments to the Executed of Destroyed Villages

Families and local communities after the Second World War constructed monuments to all the destroyed villages in order to preserve the memory of the executed civilians.

Operation "Kalavryta" was organized by the 117th Jager Division on December 1943 (December 5,1943 until December 14,1943). The result was the destruction of two monasteries (Monastery of Megalo Spilaio and Monastery of Agia Lavra), most of villages around Kalavryta city and the Kalavryta itself, moreover 696 Greek civilians (men and boys over the age of 12) were executed. Monuments to the Executed were created after the World War II to all the destroyed villages in the province of Kalavryta, in order to preserve the memory of the executed civilians.

Monument to the Executed of Zachlorou village. Zachlorou was


destroyed on December 8, 1943 during the Operation "Kalavryta" by German occupation forces. Seventeen (17) men were executed and six (6) men survived the execution.

Monument to the Executed of Rogoi village, which was destroyed on December 8, 1943 during the Operation "Kalavryta" by German occupation forces. Sixty six (66) men and boys were executed and five (5) survived from the massacre.

Monument to the Executed of Kerpini village. The village was destroyed on December 8, 1943, during the Operation "Kalavryta" by German occupation forces. Thirty-nine (39) men and boys were executed and three (3) survived the execution.

Monument to the Executed of Mega Spilaio Monastery which was destroyed on December 8, 1943, during the Operation "Kalavryta" by German occupation forces. Twenty-five (25) monks and civilians were executed.

Monument to the Executedof Kerpini station. Near the village Kerpini exists until today a railway station. During the Operation "Kalavryta" on December 9, 1943 the German occupation forces executed four (4) men.

Monument to the Executed of Souvardo - Vrachni villages. During the Operation "Kalavryta" both villages were destroyed by German occupation forces. Ten (10) men were executed on December 9, 1943.

Monument to the Executed of Priolithos village. During the Operation "Kalavryta", Priolithos village was destroyed by German occupation forces. Five (5) men were executed on December 10, 1943.

Monument to the Executed of Kalavryta. The city of Kalavryta destroyed during the Operation "Kalavryta" by German occupation forces. On December 13, 1943 four hundred sixty five (465) men and boys were executed and thirteen (13) men survived the execution.

Monument to the Executed of


Skepasto village. During the Operation "Kalavryta" Skepasto village was destroyed by German occupation forces. Three men (3) were executed on December 13, 1943.

The monastery of Agia Laura was destroyed during the Operation "Kalavryta" by German occupation forces on December 14, 1943. At the entrance of the monastery,five (5) monks were executed.

Monument to the Executed of Kleitoria village. Kleitoria was the last village which was destroyed during the Operation "Kalavryta" by German occupation forces on December 14, 1943. Fifteen (15) men were executed and one (1) survived the execution.

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The story featured may in some cases have been created by an independent third party and may not always represent the views ofcurrently located in a complex in Edgartown that includes the historic Thomas Cooke house on the corner of School and Cooke streets, has been planning a move to West Tisbury since 2002 when its board decided more room was needed for its artifacts.

The museum acquired two acres of land in West Tisbury in 2003, situated between Polly Hill and the Agricultural Society — two organizations with which the museum collaborates.

It also recently purchased a 150-year-old dairy barn from the town of Shirley for $1, intending to use it as part of a new structure. Some of the timber from the building is already at the West Tisbury site, with the rest due to arrive in the next few weeks.

Despite all this, Mr. Scott’s idea may have come at


“With a new property you have issues to do with roads, sewage etc,” he said.

The reuse committee was established in 2000 while construction on the new school was still in progress, to explore new possibilities for the 1920s brick building. Since then selectmen have heard plans to house the town library, the council on aging, a new performing arts center and the school superintendent’s office — all of which are now delayed or abandoned.

The museum officially got its start in 1923 when the Dukes County Historical Society was formed to preserve scrimshaw and other knickknacks of maritime history. It existed in various residents’ houses for decades before the society bought the Thomas Cooke house in the 1950s.

“It seems to be an idea that’s going to get a goodText Search:

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Seventh Day
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Novel VIII

[Voice:
neifile
]

[
001
]
A husband
grows jealous of his wife, and discovers that she has warning of her lover's approach by a
piece of
pack-thread, which she ties to her great toe a nights. While he is pursuing her lover,
she puts another woman in bed in her place. The husband, finding her there, beats her, and
cuts off her hair. He then
goes and calls his wife's brothers, who, holding his accusation to be false, give him a
rating.

[Voice:
author
]

[
002
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Rare indeed was deemed by
common consent the subtlety shewn by Madonna Beatrice in the beguilement of her husband,
and all affirmed that the terror of Anichino must have been prodigious, when, the lady
still keeping fast hold of him, he had heard her say that he had made suit of love to
her. However, Filomena being silent, the


had long courted her: [
006
]
and she being grown pretty familiar with him,
and using, perchance, too little discretion, for she affected him extremely, it so befell
that Arriguccio, whether it was that he detected somewhat, or howsoever, waxed of all men
the most jealous, and gave up going abroad, and changed his way of life altogether, and
made it his sole care to watch over his wife, insomuch that he never allowed himself a
wink of sleep until he had seen her to bed: which occasioned the lady the most grievous
dumps, because 'twas on no wise possible for her to be with her Ruberto. [
007
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So,
casting about in many ways how she might contrive to meet him, and
being thereto not a little plied by Ruberto himself, she bethought her at last of the
following expedient:to wit, her room fronting the street, and Arriguccio, as she had
often observed, being very hard put to it to get him to sleep, but thereafter sleeping
very soundly, she resolved to arrange with Ruberto that he should come to the front door
about midnight, whereupon she would get her down, and open the door, and stay some time
with him while her husband was in his deep sleep. [
008
]
And that she might have
tidings of his arrival, yet so as that none else might wot aught thereof, she adopted the
device of lowering a pack-thread from the bedroom window on such wise that, while with one
end it should all but touch the ground, it should traverse the floor of the room, until it
reached the bed, and then be brought under the clothes,


Arriguccio, for all he was a
merchant, was a man of spirit, and of thews and sinews; and being
come to the door, he opened it by no means gingerly, as the lady was wont; whereby
Ruberto, who was in waiting, surmised the truth, to wit, that 'twas Arriguccio by whom the
door was opened. Wherefore he forthwith took to flight, followed by
Arriguccio. [
015
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But at length, when he had run a long way, as Arriguccio gave not
up the pursuit, he being also armed, drew his sword, and faced about; and so they fell to,
Arriguccio attacking, and Ruberto defending himself.

[Voice:
neifile
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[
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Now when Arriguccio undid the
bedroom door, the lady awoke, and finding the pack-thread cut loose from her toe, saw at a
glance that her trick was discovered; and hearing Arriguccio running after Ruberto, she
forthwith gotup, foreboding what the result was like to be, and called her maid, who was
entirely in her confidence:
whom she so plied with her obsecrations that at last she got her into bed in her room,
beseeching her not to say who she was, but to bear patiently all the blows that Arriguccio
might give her; and she would so reward her that she should have no reason to complain.
[
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Then, extinguishing the light that was in the room, forth she hied her, and
having found a convenient hiding-place in the house, awaited the turn of
events. [
018
]
Now Arriguccio and Ruberto being hotly engaged in the street, the
neighbours, roused by the din of the combat, got up and launched their curses upon
them. Wherefore
Arriguccio, fearing lest he should be recognized, drew off before he had


that her husband was gone,
than she opened the door of the bedroom, rekindled the light, and finding her maid all
bruises and tears, did what she could to comfort her, and carried her back to her own
room, where, causing her to be privily waited on and tended, she helped her so liberally
from Arriguccio's own store, that she confessed herself content. [
023
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The maid thus
bestowed in her room, the lady presently hied her back to her own, which she set all in
neat and trim order, remaking the bed, so that it might
appear as if it had not been slept in, relighting the lamp, and dressing
and tiring herself, until she looked as if she had not been abed that
night; then, taking with her a lighted lamp and some work, she sat herdown at the head of
the stairs, and began sewing, while she waited to see how the affair would end.

[Voice:
neifile
]

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Arriguccio meanwhile had hied him with all speed straight from the house to that of his
wife's brothers, where by dint of much knocking he made himself heard, and was
admitted. The lady's
three brothers, and her mother, being informed that 'twas Arriguccio, got up, and having
set lights a burning, came to him and asked him on what errand he was come there at that
hour, and alone. [
025
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Whereupon Arriguccio, beginning with the discovery of the
pack-thread attached to his lady's great toe, gave them the whole narrative of
his discoveries and doings down to the very end; and to clinch the whole matter, he put in
their hands the locks which he had cut, as he


believed, from his wife's head, adding that
'twas now for them to come for her and deal with her on such wise as they might deem their
honour required, seeing that he would nevermore have her in his house. [
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believing what he told them, the lady's brothers were very wroth with her, and having
provided themselves with lighted torches, set out with Arriguccio, and hied them to his
house with intent to scorn her, [
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while their mother followed, weeping and
beseeching now one, now another, not to credit these matters so hastily, until they had
seen or heard somewhat more thereof; for that the husband might have some other reason to
be wroth with her, and having ill-treated her, might have trumped up this charge by way of
exculpation, adding that, if true, 'twas passing strange,merchant, as he calls himself, and as such would fain have
credit, and who ought to be more temperate than a religious, and more continent than a
girl, lets scarce an evening pass but he goes a boozing in the taverns, and consorting
with this or the other woman of the town; and 'tis for me to await his return
until midnight or sometimes until matins, even as you now find me. [
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that, being thoroughly well drunk, he got him to bed with one of these wantons, and,
awaking, found the packthread on her foot, and afterwards did actually perform all these
brave exploits of which he speaks, and in the end came back to her, and
beat her, and cut her hair off, and being not yet quite recovered from his debauch,
believed,


Girl, 13, Stabbed to Death in West Bank as She Slept Was US National, Officials Say The teen was stabbed in her sleep by a 17-year-old Palestinian.

 -- A 13-year-old U.S. national was stabbed to death, as she slept, by a 17-year-old Palestinian in a West Bank settlement in what officials were describing as an "outrageous terrorist attack," according to the U.S. State Department.

The teen, identified by the State Department as Hallel Ariel, was killed Thursday after the Palestinian youth broke into her home in a West Bank settlement, said U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby.

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the outrageous terrorist attack this morning in the West Bank where a 13-year-old girl, Hallel Ariel, was stabbed to death in her home," he said. "Thisbrutal act of terrorism is simply unconscionable. We extend our deepest condolences to her family. We also understand another individual who was responding to the attack was wounded by the attacker. We extend our hopes for a quick and full recovery."

The teen's murders received global condemnation, and was described as a terrorist attack by many nations.

"There can be no justification for such acts of terror," the European Union said in a statement. "The European Union extends its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the victim."

Britain's ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey, tweeted, "Condemn today's horrific terrorist attack. Can be no possible justification for murder of 13 year old girl in her bed."

The French embassy in Israel tweeted, "FR condemns heinous murder of Israeli teenager in #KiryatArba, deeply


worried about ongoing violent & terrorist acts."

Dave Sharma, Australia's ambassador to Israel, tweeted, "Thoughts are with family of 13yo girl Hallel Ariel, z''l, brutally stabbed to death in terror attack whilst sleeping. Horrific and barbaric."

The Palestinian teen, identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as Mohammed Tarayreh, from the nearby village of Bani Naim, was shot and killed by securiy guards after the incident, which is the latest in a nine-month wave of violence.

"The horrifying murder of a young girl in her bed underscores the bloodlust and inhumanity of the incitement-driven terrorists that we are facing," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after an emergency meeting with his Defense Minister.

The home is in Kiryat Arba, a hard-line Jewish settlement located near the Palestinian city of Hebron, which has beenThere was a war over this thing (see image) – the little padlock in the bottom left-hand corner of the web browser; and more importantly – the technology behind it. On one side at this war were the Cypherpunks: these were people who wanted to see this information and technology spread widely, the wanted to proliferate this throughout the world, so that may people could use it. And on the other side at this war were the eavesdroppers– these were people who wanted to prevent the spread of this information and stifle the use of this technology. And so the lines were drawn, and on the Cypherpunks’ side you had people like Matt Blaze, Philip Zimmermann, Ian Goldberg and Timothy May – the heroes of my teenage years.


"You gave me everything," Lindsay Burgess told Corey Ziraldo when the two met in an emotional reunion at the Bufffalo, N.Y., hospital where Burgess is recovering.

Burgess and her fiancé, Rich Waggoner, both of Park Hills near St. Louis, were hiking in the Devil's Hole area of Niagara Falls' Whirlpool State Park in New York around 1 p.m. Monday when she tried to reach down and touch the swirling waters below one of the world's most powerful waterfalls.

"I just wanted to touch the beauty," Burgess told ABC News. Instead, she slipped on rocks on the shore, which caused her to fall into the rapids.

The churning waters sucked her in and whisked her away.

"It was like somebody pulled me in," she said. "I just remember one leg sliding down."

The watersthat pulled Burgess in are 10 times more powerful than the rapids that carved the Grand Canyon out West, so fierce that nothing floats in the water, much less survives.

"It feels literally like a tornado underwater," Burgess recalled. "It was like trying to tread water in a tornado."

For Burgess' fiance watching on the shore, it was sheer terror.

"I just felt like I love her so much and to have her ripped out of my life, I was horrified," Waggoner said.

It was then that Ziraldo, aided by his quick-thinking crew and the eagle-eyed tourists aboard the Whirlpool Jet Tours boat he was captaining, came to Burgess' rescue.

Just as Burgess fell into the river, the tour boat passed by and saw a body in the water. Crew members quickly took


action, led by Ziraldo.

"I was able to drive the boat immediately to where she was being held by the current," Ziraldo said.

Ziraldo and his crew pulled Burgess out of the water. She had been under water for about a minute before she resurfaced and the tour boat spotted her. The boat crew gave her CPR and transported her to the shore, where she was met by emergency officials. They took her to nearby Mount Saint Mary's Hospital for evaluation before being transferred to Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo for further testing.

Burgess entered the hospital on a respirator, with doctors unsure whether she would survive.

She has since been moved out of the intensive care unit and is breathing and talking on her own, enough to say a heartfeltJosef von Sternberg's Metrograph

Long celebrated but too often difficult to see, Anatahan, Josef von Sternberg’s final film, reemerges in a new 2K restoration from Kino Lorber — and what a strange and still-radical swan song it remains.

Sternberg dramatizes a real-life incident that found a band of Japanese soldiers stuck on the eponymous island for seven years at the tail end of World War II and beyond, re-creating the setting in a Japanese studio without bothering to cloak its artificiality. Further adding to the alienation is Sternberg’s decision to leave the wholly Japanese dialogue — delivered by Kabuki-trained native Japanese actors — untranslated. But the director’s own English-language voiceover narration gives the film a documentary-like flavor that clashes with the stylization. The result is a film full of fascinating


Schlemmer will continue to remain faithful to its Upper Bavarian roots and, at the same time, become an even more globally operating technology partner for the automotive industry and other growth industries”, Josef Minster said.

About Schlemmer The Schlemmer Group is a global technology expert, which has focused on the development and production of highly specialised synthetics solutions. Building on 60 years of experience in cable protection, the group of companies headquartered in Poing, Upper Bavaria has become one of the leading and most comprehensive value added providers, supporting its clients as an intelligent consulting and service partner. In addition to the core Automotive business area, the Schlemmer Group also pursues activities in a wide range of other sectors with its Industry and Appliances business areas. Over 60 sitesNewsOK Log In

Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale watches her team warm up during practice for a first-round game of the women's NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 22, 2013, in Columbus, Ohio. Oklahoma will play Central Michigan on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) ORG XMIT: OHJL101


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vanish away that is right and you have to
fucking understand that whether there be tongues
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ever speak in tongues Jesus never spoke in
tongues Jesus's apostles fucking so called
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the book of Acts by the way was it Luke? wasn't
Luke fucking one of um one of fucking whats
his faces? Paul the Saul's fucking men huh eh
yeah just think about all this shit Jesus never
fucking spoke in tongues Jesus told people
that would speak in tongues they would speak
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U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., arrived in the halls of Congress in January 2009 on a full head of steam as the U.S. economy plummeted into the depths of the Great Recession.

With a missionary's zeal, Himes, who represents the Fourth District that includes most of Fairfield and some of New Haven counties, put his background on Wall Street -- 12 years with Goldman Sachs -- to work as a majority member of the House Financial Services Committee. Soon he found himself playing a key role in crafting the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act's language that for the first time brought the high-flying derivatives market under a measure of regulatory control.

That all came screeching to a halt in the 2010 election, when Republicans built on frustration with President Barack Obama andWashington to gain advantages unavailable to Main Street businesses. Hensarling indicts the government for "picking winners and losers." All of America's chief competitors overseas benefit from favorable financing deals available through their own governments' credit agencies. Failure to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, whose charter expires Sept. 30, would amount to "unilateral disarmament" in the face of competition from China, France, Korea and a host of others, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in an open letter to Congress last month.

"This is a jobs issue," said Christopher Wenk, the chamber's senior director for international policy. "When I talk to state and local chambers, they scratch their heads that this is even controversial."

But Hensarling is unfazed. "I didn't come to Washington to be loved and I haven't been disappointed," he


of the 2008 financial crisis.

Lowering risk

But some of their functions would be vested in Ginnie Mae -- the Government National Mortgage Association, which is a HUD entity serving as guarantor of pools of federally insured loans. Risk to taxpayers would be lowered, though not entirely eliminated.

By contrast, Hensarling's PATH Act (Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act) would close Fannie and Freddie and take taxpayers out of the risk loop altogether. The bill relies on market incentives and lowered barriers for private capital to expand its mortgage loan business, while preserving the Federal Housing Administration's "countercyclical" role, as well as its mission to help first-time homebuyers or those with low-to-moderate incomes.

In pushing his agenda, Hensarling finds himself on uncertain political terrain. An ambitious sixth-term lawmaker who considered competing fora House leadership position after former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary bid, Hensarling might lose all hope of advancement if he compromises.

On the other hand, House Republican leadership earlier this year usurped his role in flood-insurance legislation and forged a compromise with Democrats after homeowners squawked that the Hensarling-backed 2012 bill had forced rates to skyrocket.

"All I know to do is wake up and put a smile on my face and fight for free enterprise," Hensarling said. "I'm privileged to have this position in Washington, but I'm not going to shut up."

Himes said he believes Hensarling is capable of finding a middle ground.

"I've worked with Jeb on some budget issues, and my gut is that at some point he does act as the statesman and


Ollas Mattsson knocked out during the quarterfinals, more and more pressure has fallen on the Swedish blue line. Englund has been the team’s answer to it all. He’s had good exit passes, good battle in the corners and has played the physical style that’s been required of him in some tight games.

Kaapo Kahkonen, Team Finland

Kahkonen was hardly used in the round robin stage and stepped into the game cold against Canada to help Finland to a victory. He allowed two goals on 24 shots there and then just a single goal on 22 shots against Sweden. Overall in the tournament he has a .919 save percentage and has become a key to Finnish success with a .935 save percentage in the elimination stage.

The Swedes were able to slowminor, putting them down two skaters for a full two minutes. Nedeljkovic answered the bell, making a couple of brilliant saves that kept the game within reach.

Ivan Provorov, Team Russia

Provorov has been a standout throughout the tournament, and Monday’s game was no exception. He was winning 50/50 board battles and showed that his battle level is something from another planet. Even if he lost a scrum, the smooth-skating Russian never gave up on the puck and won it back many times. He’s going to be a special talent when he joins the Philadelphia Flyers.

Yegor Korshkov, Team Russia

I mentioned it above, but Korshkov’s game-winning goal was a thing of beauty. He held Werenski off the puck in the corner and powered his way to the net, jamming it past


Nedeljkovic. It was a great goal and just one of many great plays Korshkov made during the game. He was easily Russia’s best player on the night, sending them to the gold medal game for the fourth time in the last six tournaments.

Kirill Kaprizov, Team Russia

Kaprizov had a play similar to Korshkov’s goal early in the first. He absolutely dominated Werenski in the corner, moving up and down the boards with his back to Werenski, protecting the puck. He got an angle on the U.S. captain and then drove the net. Kaprizov didn’t score on Monday, but he was making an offensive impact early when Russia was on its heels and maintained his position as an impact player as the tables tilted in Russia’s favor.

Kaprizov finished the gamewith a team-leading nine shots, six of which he took in the first period. Despite just having one goal and three points through six games, the 18-year-old KHL winger has 18 shots, tied for 13th most in the tournament.

Sonny Milano, Team USA

The U.S. looked a little flat, but if you’re picking out some players that were effective, it was the Sonny Milano, Anders Bjork, Christian Dvorak line. The top line for the U.S. had been the real threat the whole tournament, but the Russians effectively shut them down until the last 10 minutes of play. Any time Auston Matthews touched the puck he had little space to work with.

This trio was one of the only lines to get any pressure going late in the first and into the


second period. That pressure included the Christian Dvorak goal, the only U.S. goal of the game. It came when Milano made a play down the boards, blowing past the Russian defense — whose bad gap control made Milano look like Sergei Fedorov — and he dished to the netfront where both Bjork and Dvorak had set up.

They had planted themselves in the dirty area in front of the net, where the U.S. has been particularly impressive the whole tournament. Russia countered by placing two players in front of the net the rest of the game and stopping the U.S. from getting in on rebounds and banging one home.

William Lagesson, Team Sweden

Lagesson had a small task on Monday: Shut down the tournament’s best line. It’s a line featuring threeFaustin-Archange_Touadéra

Faustin-Archange Touadéra

Touadéra was born in Bangui; his family was originally from Damara, to the north of Bangui. He received his secondary education at the Barthelemy Boganda College in Bangui before attending the University of Bangui and the University of Abidjan. He earned a PhD in pure mathematics at the Lille University of Science and Technology (Lille I) in France and another PhD, also in pure mathematics, at the University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon in 2004. In 1987 he became assistant lecturer of mathematics at the University of Bangui and was vice-dean of the University's Facility of Science from 1989 to 1992. In the latter year he became director of the teachers' training college. He joined the Inter-State Committee for the Standardisation of Mathematics Programs in the French-speaking


countries and the Indian Ocean (CIEHPM) in 1999, serving as the President of the Committee from 2001 to 2003. He became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bangui in May 2004.

Touadéra was appointed Prime Minister by President François Bozizé on 22 January2008, following the resignation of Élie Doté. His government, composed of 29 members—four ministers of state, 17 ministers, and seven minister delegates, along with himself—was appointed on 28 January.or promises" for her testimony. Additionally, the prosecutor stated that he was under no duty to disclose the incident because he knew of no evidence favorable to the accused.
The trial court found no prosecutorial misconduct and denied an adjournment of the trial, suggesting that Wesley's deposition could be taken later  the day after the completion of jury selection. The State moved to prevent the defense from questioning Wesley about the charges pending against her. The court did not limit the parameters of the deposition but stated that he would consider the State's motion in limine after the deposition was taken.
Two days later, after Wesley had been examined and cross-examined at trial, defense counsel again sought to revisit the court's ruling concerning the murder charge. He acknowledged that


agreed to testify against Francis at his second trial. In return, the State agreed that if her conviction were overturned on appeal, the State would then allow her to plead guilty to third degree murder and receive a ten-year sentence. Duncan's conviction and sentence were affirmed; therefore, the "agreement" could not be implemented.
The prosecutor in Francis' case then entered into an agreement with Duncan's attorney whereby the prosecutor would file a Rule 3.850 motion seeking relief for Duncan on the grounds that by testifying truthfully at Francis' third trial, she would be entitled to the benefit of the original agreement, a plea to third degree murder and a ten-year sentence. The State's nondisclosure of this agreement to defense counsel was clearly, and was conceded by the State totrial that she was serving a life sentence without parole for twenty-five years for the murder of Walters, and that she had agreed to testify for the State against Francis in return for either a new trial or plea to a lesser offense. She testified she was scheduled for resentencing on the matter a few days after Francis' trial. She testified she had not been pardoned, but "could get one." Francis' counsel argued in his closing statement that she might receive a lesser sentence at her hearing. Although he did not know that the State had been substantially involved in attempting to obtain a reduced sentence for the witness, he fully explored with the witness that she hoped to obtain a reduced sentence or "pardon." The record was


he had no significant history of prior criminal activity.[8] Two employees of the facility where Francis was confined testified about his good behavior while in prison. Rochester Jordan, a corrections and rehabilitation officer, described Francis as a "rather well-behaved inmate" who helped maintain order and peace and informed prison guards of imminent danger. Michael Dave Smith, a counselor in the same facility, testified that he considered Francis to be a "role model" who often played mediator in the cell by preventing problems. The trial judge found that the mitigating factors and strong recommendation of the jury did not outweigh the significant and strong aggravating factors.
Francis argues that the record before the jury contained enough mitigating circumstances to justify the jury's basis for life recommendation. The court finds thiscrime, and although the record reflects that Duncan went to the store with Moore to purchase tape for Francis to quiet the victim, it is also clear that she did so under direct orders from Francis. Although the jury was aware that Duncan, who had already been convicted of first degree murder in this case, was attempting to obtain a reduced sentence (see IB of this opinion), a review of the record demonstrates that Duncan was less culpable than Francis in the homicide incident.
This court rejects the argument that the jury's recommendation of life could reasonably have been based on the disparate treatment of Francis and Duncan. "For a jury recommendation of life to be reasonable, based on lenient treatment accorded an accomplice, the jury must have been


"During special tactical drills, the servicemen of the engineering and aerodrome service of the Leningrad Air Force and Air Defense Army constructed a heliport on the Gogland Island in the Gulf of Finland," the press office said.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 7. /TASS/. Army engineers have built a new military heliport on the Gogland Island in the Gulf of Finland, the press office of Russia’s Western Military District reported on Wednesday.

A Mi-26 helicopter delivered a set of metallic aerodrome plates, and also the required special equipment to the Island. The constructed heliport includes five helipads and the necessary infrastructure: a command and control post, a weather station, a fueling center, a maintenance post and special lighting.

The new heliport will be able to receive all types of transport and combat helicoptersoperational in Russia’s Western Military District. The crews of army aviation of the Leningrad Air Force and Air Defense Army performed training landings and take-offs from the new heliport, the District’s press office said.

As the press office of the Western Military District told TASS, the military intends to use the heliport on a permanent basis.


Viktor Markin

Viktor Fyodorovich Markin () (born 23 February 1957 in the village of Oktyabrsky, Ust-Tarksky District, Novosibirsk Oblast) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

After graduating from a secondary school he went to Novosibirsk, where he entered the Faculty of Pediatrics of the Institute of Medicine.  Markin started athletics only at age 19 in the athletics section by the institute, coached by Aleksandr Bukhasheyev.  He remained quite unknown until the Moscow Olympic Games.

On 27 April 1980, in Sochi, Markin ran a new personal best in the one lap event of 46.96 seconds. In early July Markin ran 45.34 at the Central Lenin Stadium. In the Olympic final on July 30, Markin was only fifth at the halfway marksignal. The officer was a Brown fan, according to a Pro Football Hall of Fame account of the story, and promised not to reveal the radio secret to anyone.

The Browns first used the wired helmet in an exhibition game against Detroit and immediately attracted the suspicion of the Lion coaching staff, which noticed Brown wasn’t using his rotating-guard system. Shortly after halftime, a Lion coach noticed the partially hidden transmitter sitting behind a wooden light post on the sideline.

That spawned copycat efforts around the league to use radios linking coaches and quarterbacks. None worked as well as the Browns’ system. It all came to a halt when Bert Bell, then commissioner of the NFL, banned the use of the device.

Coaches still had to communicate with each other, though,


"I love Mississippi State University," Cohen said. "As a student, later as a coach, and now with this fantastic opportunity to lead MSU's athletics program, this was always where I wanted to be. I am profoundly grateful for the chance to lead the totality of MSU athletics as I have tried to lead MSU's baseball program – in daily and dogged pursuit of championships at the highest level."

Cohen, 50, has spent over two decades coaching college baseball and has been the head baseball coach at MSU since 2009. In July, he was given the title of Associate Athletic Director, broadening his role in the MSU Athletic Department. Cohen's promotion to athletic director comes after a national search by the university.

Cohen will take over an athletic department that hasrecently achieved new heights in athletic, academic, facility and fundraising accomplishments. As athletic director, Cohen is charged with providing leadership, management and administration for the university's athletic programs. He will report to the university president.

"This is a great day for us and I can't tell you how much your support means to us." -Cohen#HailState

"We conducted an exhaustive national search and in that process interviewed some of the nation's very top athletic department administrators," Keenum said. "But after reviewing those outstanding candidates, it became clear to me that John Cohen's undeniable record of aggressively pursuing championships both as an MSU player and head coach positioned him best to continue the dynamic legacy of growth and accomplishment that MSU athletics has enjoyed in recent years. John understands that trajectory and


has been an integral part of it – and he can move the Bulldog family forward united."

A Tuscaloosa, Alabama native and MSU alumnus, Cohen has been a head coach in the SEC for 12 years. His teams have been successful both on the field and in the classroom. At MSU, he has led the Bulldogs to a College World Series finals appearance, an SEC regular season championship and an SEC Tournament championship. Since 2009, MSU baseball has had 133 players selected to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, including three straight SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year winners from 2013-15.

"I'm fortunate to know our MSU coaches as friends and colleagues, and to know many of our athletes in all sports," Cohen said. "While baseball has been a huge partof my life, my passion for seeing MSU athletics thrive and win extends to all sports. As associate director of athletics, I've been a significant part of planning the future of MSU Athletics and I believe I can hit the ground running in advancing that agenda. I'm grateful to Dr. Keenum and the Bulldog stakeholders who advised him for allowing me to embrace these new and critical responsibilities."

As a baseball player at MSU, Cohen was instramental on the Bulldogs' 1989 SEC championship team and 1990 College World Series team. He graduated from MSU with a degree in English in 1990 and received a master's degree in sports management from the University of Missouri in 1994. After a six-year stint with Missouri as a graduate assistant and assistant coach,


Cohen was the head coach at Northwestern State University from 1998-2001. Cohen spent two seasons as an assistant baseball coach at the University of Florida before becoming the head coach at the University of Kentucky in 2004, a position he held for four seasons before returning to his alma mater.

While winning 284 games as a head coach at MSU, Cohen has demonstrated the ability to develop players and coaches. During his tenure, 135 MSU baseball players have been selected in the Major League Baseball Draft. Two of his assistant coaches at MSU have gone on to head coaching positions at SEC programs.

Cohen has also worked closely with athletic department personnel to promote all facets of the baseball program and raise money for a new state-of-the-art stadium. Eight ofthe university's top 10 all-time marks in baseball season ticket sales have come during Cohen's tenure, including a school record of 5,874 in 2014. He has been a staunch supporter of MSU's men's and women's athletic programs and has been a valuable resource for the entire athletic department during his time at MSU, earning him the associate athletic director title in July. Now slated to become athletic director, Cohen said he is excited for the opportunity to oversee the continued success of all of MSU's athletic programs.

Cohen and his wife, Nelle, are active members of the Starkville community. The couple has two daughters, Jordan Baker and Avery Lawson.

Greg Sankey, Southeastern Conference Commissioner
"Congratulations to Mississippi State University and President Keenum on their selection of John Cohen as the Bulldogs'