shortage continued in 2015, only for him to win a surprise call-up as England's third spinner for a Test series against Pakistan in the UAE, his chance coming when Zafar Ansari was injured in the field hours after being selected. Patel got his chance in the final Test, a victory for Pakistan which sealed the series, leaving the media - and the ECB - to agonise over discouraging conditions for English spinners in county cricket.

Never mind: in the county game, his best was yet to come. Patel was at the forefront of Nottinghamshire's excellent season in 2017 in which they regained their First Division place in the Championship at the first attempt and won both limited-overs trophies. His unbeaten 122 against Essex at Chelmsford as Notts pulled offa record 50-over chase in the semi-final was not just a fine innings but wonderful theatre. He took the man-of-the-match award in the T20 final at Edgbaston for his 64 off 42 balls against Birmingham Bears, completing his second run-out of Finals Day for added theatre. He then bemoaned - as was his habit - that England's selectors had not been in touch. Patel won both the PCA's Most Valuable Player award and the Players' Player award - the first recognition for a Notts player since Richard Hadlee 30 years earlier. He had not always had the happiest relationship with England, but the accolade from his fellow professionals was a show of respect that left him "chuffed to bits".

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George Pyne (business executive)

George Pyne (born September 2, 1965) is a global business executive and founder of Bruin Sports Capital, where he serves as CEO. Pyne is also Non-Executive Chairman of Courtside Ventures which specializes in early stage sports, media and technology investments. Previously, Pyne was the President of IMG Sports and Entertainment and a Board Member. Prior to IMG, he was Chief Operating Officer and on the Board of NASCAR.

Early life and education
Pyne grew up in Milford, Massachusetts and after graduating Choate Rosemary Hall, attended Brown University where he played football for the Brown Bears and majored in Political Science. While at Brown, he earned All-Ivy League and All-New England honors and served as the team's captain.

Early career
After graduating from Brown, Pyne worked for his family's realinstitution whose mission is to raise men and women and mold young minds (bahahaha).

Look. We've been down this Petrino dirt road a million times.

He job-hops 10 times in 17 years. He pledges his love and loyalty to Louisville, then meets in an airplane hangar with Auburn officials. He signs a 10-year extension with Louisville, then six months later takes the Falcons' job, then pledges his commitment to the job and the team's owner, Arthur Blank. Then he walks out the next day with three games left in the season to take the Arkansas job, where his next public appearance was doing the "Pig-sooey" chant at a midnight news conference. Arkansas AthleticDirector Jeff Long cackled with delight, only to be pooped on when Petrino fooled around with a subordinate


during his eight-hour interview of Petrino, he recalled the coach's 2007 exit and said, "I told him I didn't like him. I didn't like anything about him."

Yet, he hired him anyway. Why? Because Petrino "looked him in the eye" and said he's changed. Because Petrino's wife vouched for him. Because, "I've been assured I got the new Bobby Petrino."

And his word is as solid as oak. Poison oak.

This isn't about redemption. It's about revenue. This is Faust pushing all of his chips into the middle of the table and asking, "So you're sure we can make it to the college football playoffs?"

Petrino said several times, "Louisville is our home" (echoing words he said before leaving Louisville the first time). He apologized for his previous exit. He talked aboutfamily and his grandchildren. He even choked up, almost on cue.

He referenced his "mistakes" and said, "It's something I'm not going to do again," though it's uncertain which misstep he was referring to.

Jurich: "I know I've been wrong before. But I feel this is his last stop."

In truth, it doesn't matter. This isn't about loyalty, honesty or integrity. It's about wins and dollar signs and selling one's soul to achieve both. But those sound bites wouldn't play as well.

Check out photos of Bobby Petrino's ugly exits from the Falcons and Arkansas.

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To stop the stream of French youths pursuing jihad in Syria, France is preparing to try to tackle terrorism before it starts, by involving schools, parents and local Muslim leaders, The Associated Press has learned.

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The fears resurfaced last week when authorities revealed the discovery near Cannes of three soda cans packed with nails, bolts and explosives plus bomb-making instructions at the apartment of a 23-year-old man who had returned from Syria. Memories are still fresh of a radicalMuslim Frenchman who gunned down children at a Toulouse Jewish school in 2012, after training in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Abraham Lincoln’s papers were acquired by gifts, transfers, deposits, purchases, and reproductions during the years 1901-2013. The Lincoln Papers came to the Library of Congress from Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), who arranged for their organization and care shortly after his father was assassinated on April 14, 1865. At that time, Robert Todd Lincoln had the Lincoln Papers removed to Illinois, where they were first organized under the direction of Judge David Davis of Bloomington, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln's longtime associate. Later, Lincoln’s presidential secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, assisted in the project. In 1874, most of the Lincoln Papers returned to Washington, D.C., and Nicolay and Hay used them in the research and writingof their ten-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: A History (New York, 1890). Robert Todd Lincoln deposited the Lincoln Papers with the Library of Congress in 1919, and deeded them to the Library on January 23, 1923. The deed stipulated that the Lincoln Papers remain sealed until twenty-one years after Robert Todd Lincoln’s death. On July 26, 1947, the Lincoln Papers were officially opened to the public.

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prepared for the Index to the Abraham Lincoln Papers, pp. v-vi (PDF and page view) and subsequently reproduced in the finding aid (PDF and HTML). A version appears on this website as the essay Provenance of the Abraham Lincoln Papers.

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Mark Hadlow (born 1957) is a New Zealand actor and comedian. Hadlow is perhaps best known internationally for the role of Harry in King Kong.

Hadlow’s early film appearances were in serious roles, such as in Beyond Reasonable Doubt, but he is perhaps better known in New Zealand for his comedy roles, particularly in the television sitcom Willy Nilly, and some of the voices for the 1989 Peter Jackson puppet film, Meet the Feebles. He also starred alongside New Zealand Maori comedian, Billy T James in “The Billy T James Show”. Hadlow has also released an audio CD called “Tall Tales”. It consists of classic children’s stories narrated and performed with a Kiwi twist.

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Poverty risk in Leeds revealed

James Reed, Political Editor

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It's a small mundane side quest, but it packs more of a punch than most RPGs have in even their main quests. A lot is crammed into it: the diversity of the sorts of tasks Geralt is asked to embark on, the political climate of the war torn world and how all its small towns are caught in between it is put into a digestible perspective, Geralt's dry


course, in White Orchard. White Orchard is the micro open area that Geralt begins his long journey in searching for his long storied love Yennefer and his surrogate daughter Ciri, who's on the run from the ominous Wild Hunt. White Orchard feels big, too, even just effectively being an elaborate tutorial. There are monster nests to clear out, quests to pick up from billboards, a pub to drink at, people and beasts to fight against in spades. It's a mini-open world designed to provide a glimpse of everything The Witcher 3 has to offer.

"The story in the prologue [before White Orchard] is constructed in such a way to show [everything] visually, using the hero's daughter as an example," CD Projekt Red's story director Marcin Blacha writes to meover email. "During the prologue, it is Ciri who trains to become a witcher. The player can then learn the ways of monster hunting and what techniques witchers use. Then the sentiment the townsfolk have towards witchers. They see Geralt facing ingratitude coming from people whom he protects and even though he gives his best to stay neutral, people will often try to drag him into the politics game."

The prologue, beyond the extended flashback, bleeds into the White Orchard area where Geralt begins his extraordinarily daunting adventure that will take him across multiple large regions. A hundred or so hours later, White Orchard is also where the main storyline ends, with Ciri making a determined choice depending on Geralt's actions over the course of the campaign. (In some


cases, Ciri might not even be there at all and Geralt will be elsewhere, doomed to be sad and alone.)

The extended prologue is perhaps best described by Blacha himself: it's "an entire world in miniature." The tutorial at Kaer Morhen and Geralt's test-open world in White Orchard telegraph every sort of challenge that will pop up across the entire game, from beast hunting to running errands for townsfolk. "It shows all of the problems the player will have to solve later on," Blacha writes. "Just on a smaller scale and it does so by slowly immersing the player into the game world."

Even other developers outside of CD Projekt Red, like famed Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw, point to White Orchard as a highpoint of The Witcher 3.scenario is motivated by love and loss.

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the insured does not comply with the policy's notice provision, regardless of whether the insurer has been prejudiced by the delay. For the reasons stated hereinafter, we reverse the judgments of the lower courts and remand the case to the trial court.

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Fast forward to the 21st century. The pro-Zionist lobby groups and right wing politicians in Europe and the United States have adopted a bizarre definition for “Anti-Semitism”.


A man is fighting for his life after being shot in the head while walking his stepmother's dog through a housing development in The Bronx on Monday.

The 32-year-old was walking through the Sonia Sotomayor Houses on Watson Avenue in Soundview just before 5pm when he was shot once in the head, a police spokesman told Daily Mail Online.

He had been with his cousin and the small dog when the shooter opened fire from inside a building, the New York Daily News reported.

The man was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.

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A man is fighting for his life after being shot in the head while walking through a housing development in The Bronx on Monday

The 32-year-old was walking through the Sonia SotomayorHouses on Watson Avenue in Soundview when he was shot. Above, police at the scene in the aftermath of the shooting

Police discovered shells from a semi-automatic weapon inside the lobby of one of the buildings, the Daily News reports.

'There were two shots. I ran over and he was face up, bleeding,' Peter Torres told the newspaper. 'His head had a hole in it.'

Torres, 58, added: 'You can't even walk your dog during the day around here. It's a damn shame.'

Another witness Mark Matza also said he heard two shots from his window.

He had been with his cousin and his stepmother's dog when the shooter opened fire from inside a building

The shooting occurred at the Sonia Sotomayor Houses development in The Bronx on Monday

'It was shocking,' he told NBC


New York. 'I had to think for a quick second, OK, now summer's here, is it firecrackers? It was clear.'

The victim is from Queens, sources told the Daily News. He has a criminal record, but has never been arrested in The Bronx, they said.

It was not immediately clear if he was the shooter's target.

An NYPD police van is seen at the scene of the shooting in The Bronx on MondayCulture:

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A handsome, headless suit of steel armor flexes its arms while dissolving into sketchy lines at the bottom of the torso. The artist repeated an arm on the right side of the sheet, adding more detail of the elbow covering. Drawing from memory instead of copying exactly all the intricate details of an original, he drew various details on one side only, such as the multiple rows of scrolling on the left shoulder and arm.

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these studies do not match any known figures of men in armor by Paolo Veronese, either as portraits or within larger compositions, scholars suspect that Veronese or an artist close to him worked on this sheet. As in known Veronese drawings, this armor is presented as if it contains a gesturing man rather than as a uninhabited still-life form. The diagonal line of white highlights across the shoulder and stomach also closely correspond to a Veronese portrait of a man in armor. The rather broad, suggestive modeling, with sharper, darker chalk lines for emphasis, resembles other drawings by Veronese. With few other works for comparison, scholars remain hesitant about a firm attribution.

Every effort has been made to accurately determine the rights status of works and their images. PleaseGovernor Gavin Newsom said that Trump's latest move is not only harmful to the environment, but also "Bad for our health. Bad for our economy."

There is no doubt that California's vehicle emissions rules are more stringent than the Trump EPA's rules, which are followed by a dozen other US states that account for more than 40 percent of vehicle sales in the country.

Along with California, District of Columbia, Los Angeles and New York City sued the Transportation Department seeking a court order blocking the determination. The states suing include Michigan, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington State and Massachusetts.

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Markus Haverland holds the chair in Political Science and serves as Director of Studies at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute (The Hague), the European Research Centre for Economic and Financial Governance (Leiden/Delft/Rotterdam), and the Netherlands School of Government.

He has studied political science and public administration at the University of Konstanz and took his doctorate at the University of Utrecht. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence) and a lecturer at the Universities of Nijmegen and Leiden.

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Markus Haverland holds the chair in Political Science and serves as Director of Studies at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology,Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute (The Hague), the European Research Centre for Economic and Financial Governance (Leiden/Delft/Rotterdam), and the Netherlands School of Government.

He has studied political science and public administration at the University of Konstanz and took his doctorate at the University of Utrecht. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence) and a lecturer at the Universities of Nijmegen and Leiden.

His research and teaching interests include EU policy-making, comparative politics and public policy, and research design (in particular explanatory case study designs).

He is currently studying the impact of EU politicisation on EU agenda setting, decision-making, compliance and interest intermediation, both in general and concerning financial and economic regulation.


He is also focusing on improving the rigor of explanatory case studies and teaches (inter)national master classes on this topic.

Markus has published, among other outlets, in European Union Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, and West European Politics. Together with Joachim Blatter he has written the textbook Designing Case Studies. Explanatory Approaches in Small-N Research. Palgrave Macmillan (2014) and he is also one of the editors of Qualitative Research in Political Science, 4 Volumes, The Sage Library of Political Science (2016).

R.A. van der Veer & M. Haverland (2018). Bread and butter or bread and circuses? Politicisation and the European Commission in the European Semester. European Union Politics, 19 (3),of public opinion. ECPR General Conference: Bordeaux (2013, september 4 - 2013, september 7).

M. Haverland, W.J.M. Ruiter & S. Van de Walle (2013). The European Commission’s production of public opinion. Netherlands Institute of Government Annual Conference: Enschede (2013, november 28 - 2013, november 29).

D. Rimkute & M. Haverland (2012). The European Commission’s Usage of Expertise. Results from a survey among expert group members. Sixth Pan-European Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the EU: Tampere Finland (2012, september 13 - 2012, september 15).

M. Haverland & C. Braun (2012). European Integration and Changing Patterns of Interest Representation in the Low Countries. Sixth Pan-European Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the EU: Tampere, Finland (2012, september 13 - 2012, september 15).

M. Haverland (2010). Social policy by regulatory means? Dutch


responses to the financial crisis in the area of capital funded pensions and mortgages. Paper presented at the Workshop 'Never Waste a Good Crisis: The Social Policy Dimension of Regulatory Crisis Management in the EU & US': Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin/London School of Economics and Political Science, Berlin (2010, oktober 19 - 2010, oktober 20).

M. Haverland (2010). Regulatory Corporatism under Pressure? Dutch chemicals policy and the European Union. Paper presented at the NIG Annual Work Conference: Maastricht (2010, november 25 - 2010, november 26).

M. Haverland (2009). Is knowledge (still) power? Small leader states in EU (chemical) policy making. University College London Speakers Series: London, United Kingdom (2009, januari 14).

M. Haverland (2009). Member state lobbying in the EU. Exploring the institutional conditions for producing access goods. NIG Annual Work Conference: Leiden,The Netherlands (2009, november 12 - 2009, november 13).

M. Haverland (2008). Is knowledge (still) power? Small leader states in EU (chemical) policymaking. Fourth Pan-European Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the EU: Riga, Latvia (2008, september 25 - 2008, september 27).


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The question is for real. Can the chirp when locking/unlockingMARION, South Carolina — The gun used to kill Police Officer Randolph Holder in East Harlem is the former service weapon of an ex-South Carolina state trooper who reported it stolen from his car in 2011 — just four months after he got it back following another theft.

A team of NYPD detectives last week traveled to the Palmetto State to interview former lawman Roderick Hughes, who was fired over an unrelated matter, to determine how his pistol wound up in the hands of the career criminal charged with fatally shooting Holder last month.

“One of our own died,” one of the cops told The Post when asked what he was doing down South.

Hughes, 39, joined the South Carolina Highway Patrol in 2003 and was issued the .40-caliber Glock Model


22 on June 6 of that year, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.

The sidearm rode on Hughes’ hip until Dec. 11, 2007, when he turned it in and was issued a .45 GAP Glock Model 37 as part of a department-wide upgrade to the larger-caliber weapon, spokeswoman Sherri Iacobelli said.

The DPS sold its obsolete Model 22s to the Lawmen’s Safety Supply Store in Columbia, SC, and gave troopers the option to buy back their old guns for their personal use, Iacobelli said.

Lawmen’s Safety refused to comment, but law-enforcement sources said Hughes acted on the offer and bought his Model 22 — serial number HP 1193 SC — on Feb. 28, 2008.

In July 2008, records show, Hughes told cops in Mullins, SC, that the gun wasstolen from his unlocked pickup at a repair shop he ran at the time.

The missing weapon was entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database, and it was seized by cops in the nearby city of Florence, SC, during an unrelated drug raid in September 2009, sources said.

Hughes, meanwhile, was suspended from the Highway Patrol on July 8, 2009, pending an investigation linked to his sale of a 1992 Lexus to an ex-con.

He was fired on Oct. 14, 2009, for accepting cash and a used flat-screen TV as payment for the car, even though he owed money on a loan against the vehicle’s title, records show.

Hughes also angrily confronted the car’s buyer, Jamie Summerford, while on duty and in uniform to question him about contacting the lender


over his unpaid loan.

Officials called those actions “unacceptable, unprofessional and embarrassing to the department.”

On June 6, 2011, Hughes went to the Mullins police headquarters and retrieved his Model 22 after signing a receipt, records show.

But on Oct. 12, 2011, he reported it stolen again, this time telling cops in Marion, SC, that the gun was swiped by someone who broke into his truck several blocks from his home.

This time, cops failed to enter the gun in the NCIC, and the next time it showed up on law-enforcement’s radar was Oct. 25, when an NYPD diver fished it out of the murky Harlem River.

Authorities say Tyrone Howard tossed the gun and a 30-round magazine into the water after shooting Holder five days earlier.

Hughes refused to discuss the gun theftsare .020 and therefore, the mean variation of the cutting of the stone from a straight line and from a true square, is but .01 on length of 75 inches up the face, an amount of accuracy equal to most modern opticians’ straight-edges of such a length.”

The modern international engineering firm of Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Menendhall conducted a forensic analysis of the Great Pyramid. Their findings are evaluated in an article published in Civil Engineering.

The pyramid was oriented with its major sides either north-south or east-west. This in itself was a remarkable undertaking, given the accuracy to which it was done, because the Egyptians had to perform the work using astronomical or solar observations – the compass had not yet been invented.

The dimensions of the pyramid are


before the first brick was laid. It had houses, some with indoor plumbing, a granary, baths, an assembly hall and towers all made out of standard size bricks. The streets were about eight to ten feet wide on average, and were built with well-engineered drainage channels.

Mohenjo Daro was divided into two parts; the Citadel was on the upper level and included an elaborate tank called the Great Bath that was made of fine quality brickwork and drains.

The Great Bath was 40 feet long and 8 feet deep, a huge public facility by any standards. A giant granary, a large residential building, and several assembly halls were also on this upper level.

The Great Bath was made watertight by the use of two layers of brick, lime-cement and then finally30, 15, 12, etc., all fractions of the root number.

5. Teotihuacán – Anomalous Technical Evidence

Teotihuacán, in Mexico, is an immense, even overwhelming archaeological site, oriented along a twin axis. In the 1960s a team of archaeologists and surveyors mapped out the entire complex in great detail. The resultant map revealed an urban grid centred around two principal, almost perpendicular, alignments.

Teotihuacán, virtual reconstruction

From the Pyramid of the Moon at the north end, the complex extends south along the Avenue of the Dead beyond the Ciudadela and Great Compound complexes for about 3.2 kilometres. To this north-south axis we must add an east-west alignment that led from a point near the Pyramid of the Sun to a spot of prime astronomical significance on the western horizon.

Anthony Aveni, an astronomer-anthropologist, discovered


that on the day the Sun passes directly overhead in the spring of the Northern Hemisphere (May 18), the Pleiades star cluster makes its first annual predawn appearance. It was at this point on the western horizon that the Pleiades set, and the builders aimed the east-west axis.

Additionally, the Sun also sets at this point on the horizon on August 12 – the anniversary of the beginning of the current Mesoamerican calendar cycle (5th Sun) – determined by a consensus of academic and independent scholars to have begun on August 12, 3114 BCE.

It is very clear Teotihuacán was laid out according to a set of alignments that reflected celestial, geographic, as well as geodetic relationships. Walking along the avenue from one pyramid to another, up the steps tothe top, and surveying the site from a multitude of angles, one is struck by the sense of being in the middle of some vast geometric matrix.

Teotihuacán was the first true urban centre in the Americas. At its peak around 500 CE, it boasted a population of an estimated 200,000. George E. Stuart, archaeologist and the editor of National Geographic magazine sums up our ignorance:

We speak of it with awe, as we do the pyramids of Egypt, but we still know next to nothing about the origins of the Teotihuacános, what language they spoke, how their society was organised, and what caused their decline.2

As for one the most anomalous of artefacts on the planet, in the 1900s archaeologists discovered a sheet of mica in the upper tiers of


the Sun has a subterranean cavity under the middle of the pyramid. A large pyramid with layers of thick mica would be an excellent EMI shield.

Teotihuacán, virtual reconstruction

Its placement in the complex raises questions that we could only answer today after the development of electronic, atomic and space age technologies.

Thick sheets of mica were also found by archaeologists about 400 meters down the avenue from the Sun Pyramid, these precision-cut sheets were of considerable size: 27.5 meters square. They were located under a rock-slab floor of a complex now called “the Mica Temple”.

What possible reason could the builders have had for including a layer of mica in any structure? It was obviously not decorative. To add greatly to the growing mystery, the particular mica used was traced tomake a gate.

Puma Punku site, virtual reconstruction

Moving northward near Cuzco, Peru, we find even more large, impressive and mysterious structures. Here we find walls built with complex jigsaw type megalithic blocks similar to the more familiar walls found at nearby Machu Picchu.

Machu Picchu, virtual reconstruction

Some of the megalithic structures contain complex cut-rocks weighing over 100 tons; a few were joined together by bronze clamps. Some of the bronze had obviously been poured in place, a skill not available in pre-Columbian Peru.

Like Sumer, the high Andes is an unlikely location for Stone Age cities, evidence of advanced technologies, and seminal agricultural discoveries. It is well established that the region around Tiahuanco, at 12,500 feet elevation, had been turned into a highly productive agricultural zone.

That was achieved by the building


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Iranian students at UMass hoping the university reverses position on not accepting Iranian nationals in certain programs.

(Diane Lederman/The Republican)

AMHERST — Students at the University of Massachusetts have created a Facebook page dedicated to the reversal of what they are saying is "the unjust implementation of a policy at UMass Amherst to ban Iranian National students."

With a hashtag #weareallumass, the students have issued a statement in response to the UMass decision to stop admitting Iranian national students to specific programs in the College of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences because of a law Congress enacted in 2012.

In the letter on the Facebook page, students posted:

UMass spokesman Edward F. Blaguszewski said Friday that it is not a UMass policy, but the university is and has been following federal law.It came up now because a student had a question and UMass wanted to put the policy in writing, he said.

He said there are currently 48 Iranian nationals at UMass in all kinds of programs.

Michael F. Malone, vice chancellor for research and engagement at UMass, said Friday that UMass officials didn't want to put the policy in place. He said an Iranian student went back to Iran and was unable to get back to the United States because the student's research project was in one of the fields banned from study. He said sometimes students don't decide until after they get to the university here what they want to study, and that initial field of study might have been allowed.

If a student who started work here can't get


rundown of players chosen previously where the Browns are picking.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - In the NFL Draft, there is hope.

The Cleveland Browns have stockpiled picks according to the team's stated rebuilding plan, now in year three under President Mike Holmgren and General Manager Tom Heckert.

Entering Thursday's draft, the Browns have 13 picks -- more than any other team -- and five of the top 100 (Nos. 4, 22, 37, 67 and 100), where future All-Pros have historically been found. (St. Louis and New England also have five of the top 100.)

"We're sitting at [No. 4] right now," Heckert said during a post-season press conference in early January. "It's going to be tough to screw that one up."

Tough, but when playing the inexact and over-analyzed roulette wheel that is theany one draft since the expansion Browns returned in 1999. More swipes at the lottery certainly improve the odds of not screwing up, but the Browns are Exhibit A that the draft is more than a numbers game:

• The Browns also had five of the top 100 picks in 1999, 2000 and 2010.

• They had 13 picks in 2000, too, including No.1 overall.

They grabbed Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown with the top pick, took wide receiver Dennis Northcutt in second round and cornerback Lewis Sanders and tight end Aaron Shea in later rounds.

"You find someone better," former Browns President Carmen Policy said after making Brown the first pick in that draft, "and that man is Superman."

But injuries were his kryptonite. Brown never panned out and, beyond the


yards in a career that lasted just 27 games with three teams.

"Some guys just rise to the occasion," Brandt said.

But when done right, the draft's top 100 has proven to be fertile territory. Three-fourths of the eventual All-Pros drafted in the last 10 years were top 100 picks. The Browns, despite compiling one of the worst records in football, have had only 29 top 100 picks throughout the decade -- mainly because of trades. Only six teams have had fewer.

Meanwhile, New England, despite consistent success on the field, accumulated the second-most top 100 picks (36), again through trades. And the Patriots have found more All-Pros than any other team.

The odds of finding an All-Pro improve dramatically when a team has a top-five pick. However, the Browns, despite allAbout

The Jazz Standard Discovery Program (JSDP) was created in 1997 by James Polsky, founder of Jazz Standard, to foster connection between NYC schoolchildren and the jazz art form. Each week, the club hosts youth from area schools who participate in fun and interactive jazz workshops as part of their musical education. During these workshops, professional musicians perform, share the history of jazz, explain the different jazz styles and open the floor up to student questions.

In addition to these weekly workshops, the program supports the Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra (JYSO), a breeding ground for NYC’s most talented young musicians. Directed by Conductor and Arranger David O’Rourke, the JYSO performs every Sunday afternoon before a live audience of all ages as part of our Jazz for Kids series. In lieu


2011, and Sept. 30, TriMet issued just two citations and 23 exclusions related to excessive noise.

Bricker declined to discuss the free-speech complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court. Boltjes could not be reached for comment.

However, court records show that Bricker challenged her exclusion before a Portland hearings officer.

During that hearing, records show, Boltjes testified that he was checking fares on the platform when an uncooperative man became "loud and abusive."

Bricker said that when she heard the inspector tell the man that he had no First Amendment rights, she was about 30 feet away.

She testified that she raised her voice "enough to be heard" without yelling. Boltjes admitted to telling Bricker that it was "not her place to interject."

He claimed Bricker was loud enough to draw the attentionof about eight other people on the platform that Wednesday evening.

When he walked down the platform to confront Bricker, the uncooperative man ran away. Boltjes started to chase after him, but returned to Bricker and blamed her for the fare evader getting away, she told the hearings officer.

But a blond woman sitting on a bench, she said, applauded her for standing up for free speech. Nearby, a man appeared to be filming her exchange with the inspector, prompting Boltjes to tell him he couldn't do that, Bricker testified.

In fact, TriMet code does not prohibit riders from filming or taking photos at stations or on vehicles as long as it doesn't interfere with operations or create a safety hazard.

Visibly enraged, the 60-year-old inspector prevented Bricker from getting on the


next two trains before writing her a month-long exclusion from the entire system, she testified. Bricker had no prior record of problems on TriMet.

"It was the content of my speech that was objectionable," Bricker testified, "not the volume."

Hearings officer Kimberly Graves wrote that she found the testimony of both sides credible. Yet she upheld the exclusion, saying Bricker was being disruptive enough to prevent Boltjes from doing his job.

Bricker appealed the suspension to Multnomah County Circuit Court, where the case bounced around before a judge recently determined its free-speech questions should be answered in federal court.

The gray areas of TriMet's noise code is only part of why the public should be alarmed by confrontation, Paternoster said. TriMet, he said, needs to do a better job of training workersMIAMI -- Jonathan Jay was born and raised in Miami, barely 10 miles from Marlins Park and 20 minutes from the Boys & Girls Club of Miami-Dade, where he forged his big league dreams as a youngster who went on to become a Christopher Columbus High School and University of Miami Hall of Famer. That's why the D-backs' outfielder didn't hesitate when he had the opportunity to give back by donating $50,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of Miami-Dade during a ceremony before Wednesday's 2-1 win over the Marlins.

"The Boys & Girls Club has been a big instrument, not just in my career, but in my life. A place that allowed me to be safe and hang out when I was a kid," said Jay, whose donation


will grow to a total of $300,000 with six separate contributions.

Jay was joined at the ceremony by his parents, Maria and Justo Jay, his wife, Nikki, and their twin daughters, Brooklyn and Berkley, as well as Marlins center fielder Cameron Maybin .

For Jay, the Boys & Girls Club represented the chance to have fun among friends with lessons that would last a lifetime.

"I would go and get there two hours early to play basketball and get a pizza before my baseball game. It was a great place that made both my sister and I feel right at home," Jay said. "I played against [Indians first baseman] Yonder Alonso and [Pirates first baseman] Sean Rodriguez there. There are a lot of guys, in baseball especially, that came from theBoys & Girls Club."

Jay's charitable efforts for the Boys & Girls Club of Miami-Dade also include the Celebrity Bowling Challenge, which takes place every year during the offseason and just celebrated its seventh edition.

"We decided to start this event the year after the World Series and try to get everyone from the area together to have some fun for a good cause, and it's a sold-out event every year," Jay said. "We raised about $100,000 this year, an all-time high."

Alonso and Nationals pitcher Giovany Gonzalez were among this year's attendees. Some D-backs may join in the fun during the next edition as well.

"I heard Daniel Descalso is really good [at bowling]. He's my guy. It's great to have the support of my teammates and my friends," Jay said.

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Blind dissident leaves China

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Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left China for the U.S.
Chen boarded United Airlines flight 88 on Saturday afternoon from Beijing International airport.
Travelers at the airport say they hope Chen's plight will help change the political climate in China.
That climate was put to the test when Chen escaped house arrest last month and sought refuge in the U.S. embassy.
He was being detained for his views against China's one child per family policy and for the country's forced late term abortions and sterilizations.
The situation was a political embarrassment for China and called for delicate diplomacy between the two powerhouses while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was visiting Beijing.
Eventually, a solution was agreed upon-- Chen and his family could travel to the U.S. ona fellowship from New York University.
Chen is due to land at Newark airport in New Jersey on Saturday evening local time.
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1791: French activist Olympia de Gouges publishes Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne (“Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [Female] Citizen”), in which she argues that women are citizens as much as are men. She goes to the guillotine in 1793.

1804: The Napoleonic Code of France considers women—like criminals, children, and the insane—to be legal minors. A woman's husband controls her property and, in the case of divorce, gets the children.

1817: The South African warrior queen Mmanthatisi becomes the leader of the Tlokwa (a southern Sotho group). She plans military strategy and leads the nation to a new homeland in Lesotho.

1862: In Sweden, single women who pay taxes win the right


to vote in municipal elections.

1865: The University of Zürich becomes the first European university to admit women.

1868: In Thailand, Amdang Munan refuses to marry the man her parents picked for her. She prevails upon the king to rule that women may choose their own husbands.

1869: Married women in Britain gain the right to own property.

1872: In Japan, primary education for girls as well as boys is required by law.

1893: Largely through the efforts of suffragist Kate Sheppard, New Zealand becomes the first country to grant women the right to vote.

1905: Mohtaram Eskandari starts the Union of Patriotic Women, Iran's first organization for women. Religious leaders break up the first meeting and burn some of the women alive.

1906: Women in Finland win the right to vote.

1908: The government ofIran institutes a plan to improve women's literacy.

1913: Norwegian women win the right to vote.

1918: Canadian and British women are granted the right to vote, although in Great Britain a woman must be over age 30.

1828: Former slave Isabella van Wagener obtains her freedom and later takes the name Sojourner Truth. She begins to preach against slavery throughout New York and New England. In 1850, she encounters the women’s rights movement and incorporates its cause to hers. In 1851 she delivers her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention to an enthralled audience, cementing her reputation as a dynamic speaker. During the Civil War she supports black volunteer regiments and is received by President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.

1849: Harriet Tubman escapes from


slavery in Maryland to Philadelphia. By the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Tubman will have returned to the South some 19 times and rescued upward of 300 other slaves.

1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most important antislavery novels in America; it sells 300,000 copies in the first year.

1896: The Supreme Court case of Plessey v. Ferguson allows segregation to exist as long as the facilities are “separate but equal.”

1955: The Montgomery, Alabama transportation system employs a segregated system on city buses where African-Americans are required to sit in the back rows of the bus. If all seats are full and a white person comes on the bus, African-Americans are required to give up their seat. Rosa Parks boards the buson December 1, 1955 after a long day of work. After a few stops all seats are full and when the next white person gets on the bus, she is asked to give up her seat. She refuses, is arrested, and placed in jail. African-American community leaders come and pay her bail and soon organize a boycott to challenge the Montgomery transportation segregation laws.

1964: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bans discrimination in employment on the basis of race and sex. At the same time the Act establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate complaints and impose penalties on sex discrimination.

1776: Abigail Adams is the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States and mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S.


Declaration of Sentiments calling for equal treatment of women and men under law and voting rights for women. The catalyst for this convention is the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840 and attended by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The women are forced to sit in the gallery as observers because they were women.

1850: Women are granted the right to own land in a state (Oregon)

1862: In Sweden, single women who pay taxes win the right to vote in municipal elections.

1868: The 14th Amendment is ratified but does not mention women; thus, they are continually denied the status of legal citizenship. However, also in 1868, women lawyers are licensed in the U.S.

1869: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Associationin order to win the constitutional right to vote.

1869: Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and others form the American Woman Suffrage Association, the objective of which is to gain voting rights for women through state constitutional amendments. The two associations will merge in 1890.

1869: Married women in Britain gain the right to own property.

1870: The 15th Amendment is passed enfranchising black men, but not women, with the right to vote.

1893: Colorado becomes the first state to grant women the right to vote and Utah and Idaho follow in 1896.

1906: Women in Finland win the right to vote.

1913: Norwegian women win the right to vote.

1918: Canadian and British women are granted the right to vote; although in Great Britain a woman must be over age 30.

1920: After over seventy years


of struggle, women are finally granted the right to vote as the 19th Amendment is ratified. With most southern states against the Amendment, the vote comes down to the state of Tennessee where it passes by one vote in the Tennessee house. The deciding vote is cast by Representative Harry Burn who carried in his pocket a letter from his mother encouraging him to vote for women’s suffrage.

1776: Abigail Adams is the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States and mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president. John and Abigail enjoy a long and spirited relationship with extended periods of written correspondence while John is away on government business. In reference to his work on the Declaration of Independence, she writes toremind him that women “will not hold ourselves bound by laws which we have no voice.”

1817: The South African warrior queen Mmanthatisi becomes the leader of the Tlokwa (a southern Sotho group). She plans military strategy and leads the nation to a new homeland in Lesotho.

1916: Jeanette Rankin becomes the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress, when most states don’t grant women the right to vote. She runs for Congress as a progressive Republican and wins serving one term, then unsuccessfully ran for the Senate. After a twenty year hiatus, working for anti-war organizations, Rankin successfully runs again for the House in 1940. She follows her conscience and votes against U.S. entry into World War II, as she had done in the previous war. She does


not run for reelection, instead choosing to devote the rest of her life to promoting peace in the United States and abroad.

1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Frances Perkins secretary of labor, and she becomes the first American female cabinet member.

1934: Florence Ellinwood Allen becomes first woman on US Court of Appeals.

1940: Margaret Chase Smith is elected to fill her late husband's seat in the U.S. Congress; she becomes the first woman to serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

1949: Argentinian Eva Perón founds the Peronista Feminist Party.

1958: The British House of Lords admits its first female members.

1961: Eleanor Roosevelt is appointed to chair the Commission on the Status of Women by John F. Kennedy.

1964: Patsy Takemoto Mink, of Hawaii, is the first Asian-American woman elected toCongress. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 24 years.

1975: Ella Grasso, from Connecticut, becomes the first woman governor to be re-elected.

1977: President Carter names Graciela Olivarez, a Hispanic lawyer, the Director of Community Services Administrations. Olivarez is the former chair of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF).

1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain.

1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. As an associate justice, O’Connor becomes the crucial swing vote for many cases where the Court is split along ideological lines.

1981: President Reagan nominates Jeane Kirkpatrick as the first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

1988: Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister of Pakistan.


She is the first woman leader of a Muslim country in modern history.

1990: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is elected president of Nicaragua. She is Central America's first female president.

1993: President Bill Clinton appoints Janet Reno to serve as the first woman U.S. Attorney General.

1997: Nominated by President Bill Clinton, Madeleine K. Albright becomes first woman U.S. Secretary of State. Before that, she served as U.N. Ambassador.

2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the only First Lady ever elected to the United States Senate.

2001: President Bush nominates Linda Chavez to Secretary of Labor, making her the first Hispanic woman to be nominated to a United States Cabinet position.

2005: Condoleezza Rice becomes the first African-American woman appointed Secretary of State.

2007: Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House ofRepresentatives.

1784: Hanna Adams is the first American woman to support herself by writing.

1791: French activist Olympia de Gouges publishes Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne (“Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [Female] Citizen”), in which she argues that women are citizens as much as are men. She goes to the guillotine in 1793.

1819: Emma Hart Willard writes her "Plan for Improving Female Education," which calls for a publicly funded educational institution for women. In 1821, she opens a school in Troy, NY with the tax funds from the city.

1826: The first public high schools for girls open in New York City and Boston.

1833: Oberlin College in Ohio opens as the first co-educational college in the U.S.

1838: Mount Holyoke College is established


in Massachusetts as first college for women.

1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Women doctors are permitted to legally practice medicine for the first time.

1850: The Female (later Women's) Medical College is founded in Pennsylvania.

1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most important antislavery novels in America; it sells 300,000 copies in the first year.

1863: Mary Edwards Walker becomes a surgeon for the Union army in the American Civil War. In 1865 she receives a Congressional Medal of Honor. It is revoked shortly before her death and then reawarded posthumously.

1865: The University of Zürich becomes the first European university to admit women.

1908: The government of Iran institutes a plan to improve women's literacy.

1919: Architect JuliaMorgan designs several buildings for the University of California, Berkley, and later becomes William Randolph Hearst’s chief architect. She designs the Los Angeles Examiner Building and the Hearst Castle.

1921: American novelist Edith Wharton becomes the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel Age of Innocence.

1931: Jane Addams receives the Nobel Prize for Peace.

1972: Title IX of the Education Amendments bans sex discrimination in public schools resulting in the substantial increased enrollment of women in athletic programs and professional schools

1974: The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy becomes the first U.S. service academy to enroll women.

1981: Chinese American Maya Lin wins a public design competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while still an undergraduate architecture student at Yale University.

1993: France Anne Córdova becomes the first


What is Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan

The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was initiated in the year 1999 by the then government. The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was also known as the Total Sanitation Campaign. The prime focus of the scheme was to improve the sanitation conditions in the rural regions of the county. The focus primarily was to give more momentum and to motivate the households of rural to construct better latrine provisions and to encourage them to use to prevent open defecation. The highlight of the Nirmal Bharat Yojana was that this was a program the focused on community led strategies that were demanded by the people themselves for a total sanitation drive to establish a safer and a cleaner environment. Not only households but village schools and communities and Anganwadiof waste, there is also on improvement in the quality as well as awareness among the population of rural India that would directly help in the betterment of the Nation.

Objectives of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan

The main objectives of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan are as follows:

Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan aims to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas of the country.

Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan aims to accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to achieve the vision of Nirmal Bharat by 2022 with all gram Panchayats in the country attaining Nirmal status.

Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan aims to motivate communities and Panchayati Raj Institutions promoting sustainable sanitation facilities through awareness creation and health education.

Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan aims to cover the remaining schools not covered under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan


condition of the households, community shared spaces along with schools where they work together for a cleaner and safer environmental conditions. The demands of the community are to be met with mechanisms of alternative delivery. The provisions especially for the construction of latrines would not only be focused on the below poverty line houses but also to where there is a requirement for the collective improvement and the betterment of the community as a whole. Apart from the general cleanliness and proper waste disposal procedures, the program also focuses on the availability of water in the Gram Panchayats of the respective rural locales. The program seeks to involve the Panchayati Raj institutions along with various cooperative institutions, ASHA, Non-Governmental Organizations, Women groups, Anganwadi Workers and other Self HelpGroups for achieving its objectives.

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Implementation and fund

The Union Budget of 2013-14 has an allocation of a total amount of Rs. 4260 crore exclusicely for Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. Herein is also included the sum of Rs. 426 crore for the North-East region of India along with Sikkim for the year 2013-14. The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan is directly dependent on the Gram Panchayat for its implementation. The proposal of the project thathighlights specific requirements of the targeted rural locales is given from the district to which the State Government consolidates it. This consolidated report is forwarded to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation of the Central Government as a state plan. The initiation of the actions under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan is to


be accomplished not at a go but in phases that include various start-up activities. The program itself is flexible as the target households of a rural setting can choose their desired structures of latrines. The benefit is that it further allows for greater flexibility to the poorest of the poor the opportunity for the betterment of their housing infrastructure based on their financial capability. The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan seeks to work in synergy with the participation of other organizations. Each Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan project would be implemented exclusively as a district project. The states and the Union Territories are expected to present the plans for their respective regions that would eventually be presented to the Central Government after the process of consolidating the plans by the State Governmentsare accomplished.

Benefits of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme

The benefits of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme are tremendous. Apart from the construction of latrines and the improvement of infrastructure to successfully tackle solid and liquid wastes, this scheme also aims to educate and inform the population of the rural population about sustainable and environment friendly living that would eventually improve the quality of the people, the households that they live in and the community in total. However, apart from these, there has been an award established for the different Panchayati Raj Institutions. The award is called the Nirmal Gram Puraskar and was initiated in the year 2005 under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. This award is presented to the different Panchayati Raj Institutions to honour their achievement of acquiring full sanitation


in their respective areas where the villages have been open defecation free and environmentally clean. Such villages are classified as ‘Nirmal Gram’ villages where all the households, schools and Anganwadis have proper functioning latrines and are open defecation free along with the general awareness in the community with regards to the importance of maintaining both personal and community hygiene for an environmentally clean locality.

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Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan repackaged as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by the NDA

The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan has been repackaged by the NDA government led by PM Modi as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and it happens to be one of their flagship schemes. Adding to the objectives of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan seeks to clean up the streets, roads and infrastructureWednesday, 14 June 2017

Spotlight: LOST AND FOUND SISTERS by Jill Shalvis

From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes her first women's fiction novel—an unforgettable story of friendship, love, family, and sisterhood—perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Susan Mallery, and Kristan Higgins. Order your copy today!

They say life can change in an instant…

After losing her sister in a devastating car accident, chef Quinn Weller is finally getting her life back on track. She appears to have it all: a loving family, a dream job in one of L.A.'s hottest eateries, and a gorgeous boyfriend dying to slip an engagement ring on her finger. So why does she feel so empty, like she's looking for a missing piece she can't find?

The answer comes when a lawyer tracks down Quinn


and reveals a bombshell secret and a mysterious inheritance that only she can claim. This shocking revelation washes over Quinn like a tidal wave. Her whole life has been a lie.

On impulse, Quinn gives up her job, home, and boyfriend. She heads up the coast to the small hometown of Wildstone, California, which is just a few hours north, but feels worlds apart from Los Angeles. Though she doesn't quite fit in right away, she can't help but be drawn to the town’s simple pleasures…and the handsome, dark-haired stranger who offers friendship with no questions asked.

As Quinn settles into Wildstone, she discovers there's another surprise in store for her. The inheritance isn't a house or money, but rather something earth shattering, something that will make her question everythingher
feels, but apparently she could still appreciate a nice ass.

Good to know.

Five minutes later there was a simple, firm knock at her
door. She opened it and stood back to let him in, but he remained on his side
of the doorway, toolbox in hand.

“I’m Mick Hennessey,” he said.

Great, but she had no time for introduction. Bug in her tub! “Nice to formally meet
you, Mick, but…” She pointed to the bathroom.

With a mock salute, he ambled in there.

Quinn remained right where she was, counting off the seconds
while she heard nothing. “Did you get him?” she finally called out.

“The bug?” he asked.

“No, the president of the United States! Yes, the bug!”

The only response was the sound of the toilet flushing and
she panicked. “You squished him first, right?”

Mick stuck his head out


areas has been assisted by AMTS buses. The organization had to bear losses in earlier years, by following the service-oriented attitude, but it has resulted in speedy development of the city.

The organization has adopted a service-oriented approach, and the following matters have benefited the society:

 night and morning service for textile workers
 special routes from Government Colonies to secretariate and new civil hospital
 special concession rates for children and students
 free pass scheme for the blind
 concessional pass for professional and medical post-graduate students

The transport service became popular among citizens as well as tourists visiting the city during last 7 years, because the arrangement of two modern coaches facilitated city tours, specially engaged tours, religious places tours, picnic tours for students at discounted rates and also a bus-facilitythe Transport Committee and Municipal Corporation from the very inception. The organization has adopted a service-oriented attitude, so one should not consider it as a firm or a company, but as a service organization. AMTS is a voluntary service managed by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.

Upgrading

AMTS will begin upgrading the red buses carrying local passengers in Ahmedabad and these red buses are different compared to the previous generation of red buses. The new environmentally-friendly buses will run on compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel and are similar to the local low-floor buses of Delhi. Some of the new features in these buses are:
Low floor buses with sliding door at both sides
Comfortable fiber seat. Latest handle, steering and dashboard
33-passenger capacity, 60 can stand at one time
Four LCD screens in each bus
GPS connectivity


... for Destruction and in 2009 his Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War against the West. This is the analysis that informs the strategic 'thinking' in The Field of Fight. Iran, we are told, has been waging war against the United States 'for nearly forty years', 'has long supported al Qaeda' and the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa were 'in large part Iranian operations'. The anti-American global alliance of which Iran is the lynchpin includes both 'ISIS and al Qaeda' and the consequences if the United States were to be defeated would be horrendous. Remember, Flynn has already expressed the opinion that this alliance are winning! Americans would find themselves living ...

... , not just what appeared in today's broadcasts or papers but what happenedthe Left in Indonesia that brought Suharto to power and saw over half a ...

... that Burgess went to Russia for reasons of Cold War espionage.’ 'No foundation' is not the same as 'no truth', and Biswell provides a moment of unintentional comedy in the following passage: 4 Andrew Biswell, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, (London: Picador, 2006) p.236 'When I asked a former diplomat from the Russian embassy about the possibility that Burgess was secretly employed by British intelligence, he told me that a volubly indiscreet drunk such as Burgess, who also happened to be married to a suicidal alcoholic, would have been solidly at the bottom of the list when it came to recruiting potential secret agents, in spite of his considerable linguistic talents.’ 5


The ...

... were, to say the least, ill-chosen and unwise. At a time when accusations of anti-Semitism are being used as a stick with which to beat the Left, he played into the hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media waiting for an opportunity to attack, Livingstone unwittingly but still inexcusably provided them with one. With the exception of his assertion that Hitler's supposed descent into madness was responsible for the Holocaust, his remarks were true. But the dynamic of the Holocaust ...

... 'unlawfully detained'. He's an odd-looking fellow, and hasn'tone department – songwriting.

George Michael was a ground-breaker, which perhaps hasn’t always been recognised. He really was so much more than a fantastic singer, songwriter and charismatic performer. Let’s reflect on this for a moment:

He wrote Careless Whisper at the age of 17

Was one-half of the biggest selling band of the 1980s

As one-half of Wham! was the first western band to play in China

Sold more than 100 Million records worldwide

His debut solo album Faith sold more than 20 Million copies

Won 4 Ivor Novello Awards

Won 3 Brit Awards

2 Grammy Awards

He supported the 1980s Miners strike and spoke out against Thatcher

He was quick to understand and comment on the Bush and Blair relationship

He came out in perhaps the most extraordinary way ever recorded – during a police sting in a


incidents, George was simply making memories for us and instilling some talking points to keep him alive in addition to his ever-lasting music. To his credit, he was always keen to utilise these events, send himself up and use the controversy as a platform to still entertain people. Quite an extraordinary gift and sense of will. Appearances on Comic Relief, Catherine Tate Show, Extras and Little Britain are hilarious examples.

I would have loved to have met John Lennon, but he was shot dead when I was 11. I always believed that one day the opportunity may present itself for me to meet George Michael but alas it now can never be so. At least I had the great pleasure of seeing him perform live on several occasions. Inthe Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, he demonstrated to the world just what a truly extraordinary and amazing performer he was. He could hold his own against anybody once he graced that stage.

As a young kid, I always wanted to grow up to be a part of music myself. The Beatles and Elvis were my first influence but with those greats, I’ve always needed to look back in order to recognise their impact as I was never part of their generation. When the music of George Michael came along he was the only other significant inspiration to me, but what was great was he was contemporary so I could always grow with him and look forward to the next chapter. Like The Beatles, the music of George


mostly on various authoring/writers websites since 2003 and have had a few short stories published in anthologies. I’ve been blogging on and off for about 15 years and have been writing at my current blog for about 5. In 2011 one of my posts was shared by Ricky Gervais on his website which came at a time when I was close to giving it all up but that single event encouraged me to keep trying and later that same year I had a go at NaNoWriMo which I completed successfully which was no easy task.

What inspired you to write your book about Bilston Football Club?

I was interested in reading it. In 2012 I was given a copy of the history of Darlaston Town Football Club and was fascinatedto see that a local, grass roots club had been around so long and achieved so much. I wondered if other local non league clubs had history books and found that very few actually did. As someone who enjoys writing and loves football it didn’t take long for the idea to take root.

So what is the book about?

The book is a season by season record of achievements, starting in 1894-95 running up until the end of the 2014-15 season. It covers all 121 years excluding the breaks for the two World Wars and details league and cup achievements, notable former players who went on to or came from bigger teams, important and interesting events andmany team photos and newspaper clippings. I’m particularly proud of the FA Cup proper


section which covers the greatest achievements in the clubs history. I was also fortunate to discover all of the clubs league results from 1985 to 2015 as well as complete post war records for the FA Cup, FA Trophy and FA Vase.

How did you go about designing your book cover?

I was fortunate on one visit to Queen Street to get a nice photo of the main stand myself so I used that for the back cover. The front cover was sent to me by an American lady who’s family had emigrated from the UK decades ago. Her great grandfather had played for Bilston in 1900-01 when they won six trophies, their best ever haul in a season, and it’s a shot of the team from that year withCancer community, so please do read on…

Biography

Joseph A. Pinto is the horror author of two published books including the poignant novella Dusk and Summer as well numerous short stories; his most recent works can be found in Midnight Echo magazine and Sirens Call Publications. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association as well the co-founder of Pen of the Damned, a collective of angst and horror driven writers. Indulge in his unique voice on his personal blog JosephPinto. com and PenofTheDamned.com. Join his pancreatic cancer advocacy efforts at ‘Purple Hope’ (endpancan.com). You can follow him on Twitter @JosephAPinto. Joseph hails from New Jersey where he lives with his wife and young daughter.

Interview for Joe Pinto

Martin: Tell me a bit about your writing to date including any


pancreatic cancer on Purple Hope as well.

Martin: Your book covers are great, who designed them?

Thank you. The cover for Dusk and Summer is an actual photograph shot by Nina D’Arcangela. Her talent and enthusiasm are endless! Nina came up with the vision of a live beach shot, incorporating my actual silhouette into the cover. She believed it would lend a wonderful personal touch – the feel of experiencing my book as opposed to just reading. We scoured the beach for hours, searching for just the right spot. Finally, Nina nailed the money shot; it was among one of the very last photos taken that day.

Ironically, the location of our photo shoot – Long Branch, New Jersey – was struck by Hurricane Sandy not long thereafter. The entire JerseyBelton Lions Club turns 75

Belton’s Lions Club celebrated their 75th anniversary Tuesday night at Cathedral Oaks. The event highlighted a variety of members and featured a Lions Club Show and services the club has provided for decades. It also was the start of a new UMHB Crusader Campus Lions Club, with students sworn in.
The original charter of the Belton Lions’ Club was on display, and Mike Butler, the past Lions Club International Director, was the guest speaker.
“The original founders were a variety of business leaders in the community, a Lions Club President Robert Jones, said. “The unemployment rate back in 1939 was 17.2 percent, and a stamp cost $0.03.”
Jones read a proclamation by the City of Belton and pointed out that Roy Potts, Joe Pirtle and Joe Smith


Neurilemmoma of the first branch of the lateral plantar nerve causing tarsal tunnel syndrome.
In this article, the authors report a case of tarsal tunnel syndrome caused by neurilemmoma of the first branch of the lateral plantar nerve, with symptom resolved after excision. A 42-year-old man presented with left medial heel pain radiating to the lateral sole for 6 months. On examination, there was positive Tinel sign over the medial heel with pain radiating to the lateral sole. Ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the presence of a 1-cm neurogenic tumor inside the tarsal tunnel. Intraoperatively, a 1-cm neurilemmoma was found at the first branch of the lateral plantar nerve inside the tarsal tunnel. The lesion was excised completely with preservation of its fascicle. The symptom resolved completely afterAbout Ted

From Kirkland Lake to South Detroit

A Lifetime of Production and Heart

Ted Lindsay was born on July 29, 1925 in Renfrew, Ontario, and from birth, he seemed destined to be a hockey player. His father, Bert, played professional hockey as a goaltender for several teams in the National Hockey Association and for a pair of NHL teams before retiring after the 1918-19 season. When the Great Depression hit in 1929, the Lindsay family moved north from Renfrew to Kirkland Lake, Ontario so Bert could work in the gold mines. It was in Kirkland Lake that Ted grew up, went to school and began to develop the hockey skills that would ultimately lead him to his career as a star player in the NHL.

Ted received his first pair of


skates from a childhood neighbor. While the skates were much too large, the discomfort was no match for his zeal to be on the ice. By the time Bert came up with enough money to buy a proper pair for his son, Ted was already hooked on the thrill of backyard rinks and frozen ponds. Hockey quickly became his childhood passion. Ted was involved in the game in Kirkland Lake up until 1942 when he helped lead his hometown juvenile team to an Ontario Minor Hockey Association provincial title. The following year, Ted, accompanied by another future NHL player in teammate Gus Mortson, went to play junior hockey in Toronto for the St. Michael’s Majors. It was during his time with the Majors that Carson Cooper, the chiefscout for Detroit, approached Ted for the first time and expressed interest in making him a Red Wing.

Before reaching the professional ranks, Ted was added to an Oshawa Generals lineup that would capture the 1944 Memorial Cup — emblematic of major junior hockey supremacy in Canada. That championship would be the final chapter in Ted’s amateur hockey career, as he earned a spot on the Red Wing’s lineup at the age of 19 the following season. He spent the next 13 seasons as a left winger for Detroit, helping to build the team into an NHL powerhouse.

From 1944-45 to 1956-57, Ted was part of the Red Wings team that won four Stanley Cups and boasted “The Production Line,” the top line in the league. “Terrible Ted” served as


a fiery contributor to the line, along with Gordie Howe and Sid Abel, and he filled up scoresheets with goals and assists while playing a tough, physical brand of hockey. For his play in the 1949-50 season, Ted was crowned the Art Ross Trophy winner as the league’s leading scorer with 78 points in 69 games.

Ted only stood 5’8″ and weighed 168 pounds in his playing days, but despite being small in stature, he gave nothing away. He fought for his space on the ice and for his teammates. His on-ice skirmishes are the stuff of hockey legend. During his first 13 seasons wearing the “Winged Wheel,” Ted scored 321 goals and had 403 assists while being named a first-team All-Star eight times. The final season of hisThe head of one of the west’s largest Buddhist groups has stepped down while allegations of sexual assault and misconduct are investigated.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, the leader of the Shambhala Buddhist community – an organisation with more than 200 meditation centres globally – will “step back from his administrative and teaching responsibilities”, a statement said.

He resigned after the publication of a report on sexual misconduct within the group, which included stories from women who claim he sexually assaulted them. The report, by a leadership coach and active member of the US Shambhala community, Andrea Winn, also claims Shambhala International ignored the issue.

It includes stories claiming the sakyong – which translates as king, emperor or governor – sexually assaulted women when drunk and used kusung (volunteers who assist him) “to