to the filing of its final report. The motion to suppress was made by the State Attorney, who was not named in the interim report nor consulted as to the propriety of its filing.
The portion of the interim report sought to be suppressed dealt with the actions and conduct of a circuit judge and three attorneys appointed by him in the handling of the estate of an incompetent  two as curators and one as guardian ad litem. It might be noted that, although the allowance of fees and approval of the curators' administration by the trial judge involved the exercise of his judicial discretion, no interested party has complained, on appeal, that he abused his discretion. It is also noteworthy that one of the curators had, atthe time of the investigation, been appointed a circuit judge and has since, in November 1956, been elected by the people to perform the duties of the office after a full public disclosure of the charges made in the report.
In addition to a factual account of the administration of the incompetent's estate, the report contained the jurors' own personal interpretation of the facts and their *101 views as to the underlying motives of the principals in pursuing the course of conduct detailed in the report. Almost all of their remarks in this respect were derogatory and defamatory. The over-all tone of the report is exemplified by the following excerpt from their "summary":
"As the story unfolded it showed what happens to helpless old people who seek the protection of


Judge ____'s Court `against designing persons'  wanton disregard of the law, and the stripping of the estate of a helpless old man of vast sums of money."
The jurors concluded that "[i]n view of the disregard of the law, in view of the squandering of assets of an estate and the allowance of exorbitant fees, in view of the connivance of the Court and its appointees, and in view of conduct unbecoming Judges and members of the Dade County Bar," the circuit judges in question were "unfit to serve and should resign from office" and the lawyers in question were "unfit to practice law and to perform the functions of officers of the court." They called upon the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar and the Grievanceand advocating the rights of the general public in the principles of personal rights and freedom discussed and pronounced herein. His intervention for such purpose was made in the face of great obstacles and during a tornado of adverse public feeling that was generated by the improper presentment complained of. Unlike Pilate, he did not yield to what appeared at the moment to be the popular side of a controversy but performed his duty according to the dictates of his own conscience, as he had the right to do. Subsequent public events indicate he paid a high price for his devotion to duty. Such courageous public service is worthy of this commendation.
The order of the assigned circuit judge refusing to grant the motion to suppress filed by the


Commerce Bank’s HR programs, which focused on individual development and training for career growth. This, together with his passion for providing opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds to succeed, became the foundation of Milner’s philosophy for human resource management.

After attaining his degree in human resources, Milner set his sights on the Tech Industry in San Francisco. It was there that he saw HR moving the needle on building cultures and making a real impact, something he wanted to be part of. He entered the world of San Francisco HR through a contract role at Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and is now the Head of People Operations at Quid, a data analytics firm that uses proprietary software to search, visualize and analyze text. At Quid, Milner is a strategic andthe remaining scores.

4.6.5. A player starts the season in the highest class in which their classification rating exceeds the point threshold for that class.

• A player who had a classification rating higher than 3936 at the end of the previous season is at least a Semi-Pro player.

• A player who had a classification rating higher than 1968 at the end of the previous season is at least a Division 1 player.

• A player who had a classification rating higher than 984 at the end of the previous season is at least a Division 2 player.

• A player who had a classification rating higher than 492 at the end of the previous season is at least a Division 3 player.

• A player who had a classification rating higher than


than the division they last played in will be seeded into the next event based on their ranking in the division they will be playing.

5.6.4. A team will only include scores from multiple events in their ranking if a minimum number of players are the same from one event to the next. (The minimum number of the same player requirement only applies from event to event, not for the whole season. For example, a team may change eight of 12 players from the 1st to 2nd event, and another eight of 12 players from the 2nd to 3rd event, and count all three events even though there may be no players in common between the 1st and 3rd events.)

5.6.5. At least three players must remain the same fromone event to the next.

5.6.6. If there is a tie in the number of ranking points,

• The team with the highest number of ranking points earned in events in which the team appeared in the finals of events in that division in the current season will be ranked higher.

• If the first tiebreaker fails to break the tie, the team with the highest number of ranking points earned in events in which the team appeared in the semifinals of events in that division in the current season will be ranked higher.

• If the second tiebreaker fails to break the tie, the team with the highest number of ranking points earned in events in which the team appeared in the quarterfinals of events in that division in the current


season will be ranked higher.

• If the third tiebreaker fails to break the tie, the team with the highest margin of victory in matches in the finals of events in that division in the current season will be ranked higher.

• If the fourth tiebreaker fails to break the tie, the team with the highest margin of victory in matches in the semifinals of events in that division in the current season will be ranked higher.

• If the fifth tiebreaker fails to break the tie, the team with the highest margin of victory in matches in the quarterfinals of eventsin that division in the current season will be ranked higher.

• If the sixth tiebreaker fails to break the tie, the team with the highest margin of victory in alltime remaining in games/matches won (total of time remaining in each match won).

• Least time remaining in games/matches lost (total of time elapsed in each match lost).

• Seed into the tournament.

11.5 TOURNAMENT RANKING

(a) Ranks 1-4 decided by final games. Unless a third and fourth place game is not played, in that case the rankings for third and fourth place will be determined by the following,

(b) Team eliminated in the same head-to-head round will continue to be ranked according to their place in the most recent non-head-to-head round.

(c) Prelims are ranked by:

• Number of match points.

• Head-to-head competition amongst the tied teams.

• Margin of victory in all matches in the current round.

• Total points scored in all matches in the current round.

• Greatest time remaining in games/matches won (total


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stand on the argument and which animal they support. In Utah Valley, the majority of the people support the elephant in this nonstop battle. Generally speaking, the citizens of the community and students of UVSC enjoy the conservative views that the elephant's team encourages. In fact, sometimes it's even hard to find a true supporter of the donkey's team here on campus. The donkey's team usually tends to be more popular among the citizens of larger cities where the opinions are stercotypically more liberal. In the United States, the donkey and the elephant share almost an exact split of the followers. This can become a problem when deciding which of the two will be heard. Michelle Cordin, a member of the UVSC B.S.U. program, said that she issuspect in a string of fires set in Utah. County since August 2000; possibly linked to more in Salt Lake County By LAURA CLAY OF THE NETXNEWS STAFF OREM- Utah Valley State College continuing education student David Ricks confessed to Provo Police Tuesday for his involvement in nine arson cases. He was arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant from Juab County and later confessed to the charges during questioning. The fires were set between August and December 2000 along the Wasatch front. While Ricks admitted to setting fires in Utah County, he is also a main suspect in several arson incidents in Salt Lake County, as well. Ricks later allowed authorities to search his home and car where possible evidence linking him to the additional fires was discovered.


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be run, how to spend the money of their supporters, and how to make the world a better place in general. The followers of the animals are asked once every four years to decide where they stand on the argument and which animal they support. In Utah Valley, the majority of the people support the elephant in this nonstop battle. Generally speaking, the citizens of the community and students of UVSC enjoy the conservative views that the elephant's team encourages. In fact, sometimes it's even hard to find a true supporter of the donkey's team here on campus. The donkey's team usually tends to be more popular among the citizens of larger cities where the opinions are stercotypically more liberal. In the United States, the donkey and theJeremy Gilley - Peace man

Tuesday 20 September 2011 09:36 BST

When Jeremy Gilley first began his Peace One Day movement, he and his mates would hold fundraising gigs and poetry readings in west London pubs and town halls for "a couple of hundred quid here and there". Dyslexic and without a single qualification to his name, save "a D in pottery", Gilley "was nailed at school for being thick. I always thought I was really thick," he says. He also thought the project - an attempt to unite every country of the world in a single day each year of peace and non-violence - would last a year at most.

Twelve years on, Gilley has seen the UN unanimously pass Resolution 55/282, which officially designates September 21 as that day


of peace; he's seen thousands of medical workers vaccinate 4.5million children in Afghanistan over successive years as a direct result of a mutual ceasefire on the 21st by both the Western allies and the Taliban; he has visited 76 countries to press his case; and now he is planning the biggest gathering of humans ever recorded, and what he hopes will be the biggest global reduction in violence, as an extraordinary finale to the Olympics next year.

The gigs Gilley puts on nowadays happen at the O2 Arena - Razorlight, Eliza Doolittle, Newton Faulkner, AfroReggae, Youssou N'Dour, Flawless, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), plus the English National Ballet are appearing tomorrow for Peace One Day (POD) as a launch concert for the 2012 Global Truce campaign. Next year Gilley andPOD have two special concerts planned for the Cultural Olympiad, including Sir Elton John at the Olympic Stadium itself. The man who was once tormented at school for his stupidity, incidentally, also counts Jude Law as a great mate and has a baby daughter with partner Emilia Fox.

So what happened? How did one man do all this?

In person Gilley, 41, is slight and informal and a bit touchy-feely with a passing resemblance to a young Bjorn Borg. He speaks quietly but with a kind of intensity verging on anger. As a child, unhappy at school in Southampton, he was a deep thinker who buried himself in the TV news.

"I was concerned and frightened about what was happening in the world. My mum and dad weren't together, and that


creates a bit of tension and makes you think about relationships generally. I was small, and dyslexic, and there was a bit of bullying going on. All those things catapulted together made me try to understand what the news meant."

Partly as an escape, aged 12 he auditioned for the West End musical Bugsy Malone, and wound up getting the lead. Theatre and ballet school followed in London, then a spell at the RSC, where he made many of the contacts that would later prove so useful for POD.

Recently, on one of his many school visits, he was talking to an eight-year-old boy from Newham. "And this boy said to me, 'Your peace day next year won't work. I don't believe it. I can't even walk out of mypostcode area in case I get stabbed' Now, how tragic is that? This is as much about the riots in London as it is about conflict anywhere else in the world. It's about domestic violence and bullying in schools, and that's why it has significance for every single person in London."

Gilley originally conceived the idea of Peace One Day as a film - a documentary charting his almost certainly unsuccessful attempt to get world leaders to take the concept of September 21 seriously. (An International Day of Peace already existed, but had no fixed calendar date and " didn't ask anyone to stop fighting," says Gilley,"which was a pretty fundamental flaw.") He and two friends wrote literally thousands of letters - then someone suggested he write to British


diplomat Sir Kieran Prendergast, one of the UK's leading diplomats. "I worked it with Sir Kieran for a long time until I was finally sat in his office in New York."

Gilley didn't have the money for the flight to the US to see Sir Kieran and with jaw-dropping tenacity phoned British Airways to beg one for free. "BA have flown me many times around the world for free. And not just me, all my team too. Without them, I honestly couldn't have done this."

It took him 18 months of letter-writing and working the corridors of the UN before an eventual meeting with Kofi Annan. But on September 7, 2001 - "the greatest of my life" - he watched as the resolution enshrining the 21st as the International Dayof Peace was passed by the General Assembly. "I sat there alone, with my little camera, and it was a truly wonderful moment. Annan was to give a press conference about the resolution later that week. My crew and I got there at 8am and then, just as we began running the cameras, the first plane hit the World Trade Center " It was September 11. The press conference never happened.

In Gilley's 2008 film The Day After Peace, 9/11 is a pivot. As a direct result he and Jude Law, whom Gilley met through actor Sean Pertwee, found themselves seven years later in Afghanistan, pushing for the ceasefire that allowed the first mass vaccination of children against polio to happen. Far from giving up, the 9/11 attacks made


him "even more determined to succeed, to turn this one day into an institution around the world".

Cynics, however, of whom there are many, find Gilley's use of fashionable faces - Angelina Jolie and Stella McCartney are supporters - particularly irritating. How can those living such gilded lives properly understand the real, complex, nasty world?

But Law was more than just a famous name in Afghanistan, insists Gilley."All the running around, all the meetings, Jude did with me. It was a real game-changer because suddenly everybody was interested."

Gilley has found himself in real danger on occasion, not least in the Democratic Republic of Congo when he came face to face with child soldiers. In Somalia he was hospitalised for three weeks. When I ask what the hardest thing about thethe first time in my life there's something more important than me."

Nowadays Gilley has many important friends, and a recent conversation with the former UN envoy to Afghanistan and special adviser to the Secretary General, Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, has sparked a new touchpaper. "I asked him what he would do to rally people around the world to Peace Day 2012, expecting him to say, lobby governments, talk to leaders Instead he replied, 'Go straight to the social media, Jeremy.' I'm guessing he, like everyone, has learned some lessons from the Arab Spring."

So that is what Gilley will do. Next year, a Facebook and Twitter campaign will begin. He says that in Afghanistan on Peace Day 2007, the UN Department of Safety and Security recorded a 70 per cent


cultural and social) are so limited as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life in the Member State to which they belong.

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As always, I have to thank the amazing Monica McCarty. I don't know what I'd do without you, on so many levels. Thank you also to Kimsand, pulling her with him. Rolling to his back, he pulled her down on top of him, holding her so most of her weight landed on his chest and her bare legs tangled with his._

_With a groan he tore his mouth away from hers, his own breath coming hard and fast. "This is why, okay? This is why I've been such a dick."_

_"What?" In Kate's kiss-addled state, the explanation made no sense._

_"It started last summer, and I knew you were too young. You're still too young—"_

_"I'll be seventeen next month!" Kate protested._

_Tommy gave a helpless chuckle and slid his hands up and down her back. "And you're still jailbait. That should be reason enough for me to keep my hands off." His hand came up to curve around


good news and bad news," Kate said, telling herself the only reason she was disappointed it wasn't Tommy on the other line was because she wanted information, not because after fourteen years his voice still made her stomach do cartwheels. "The good news is that the reward you offered has generated a lot of calls. The bad news is that some of those callers think Tricia has been carried off by Bigfoot."

He let out a guffaw on the other end. "I'm sorry," he said, quickly stifling the laugh. "I guess there are a lot of crazies out there."

Kate gave a weary chuckle. "You have no idea."

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Ajax draws Real, Man City and Dortmund

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cryobank. The in vitro fertilization procedure with the donor sperm resulted in the birth of twins, Jeb and Josh, on June 3, 2001. The couple attempted to conceive again but were unsuccessful. Reyna stated that she was "desperate" for another child, but Forrest only wanted another child if Reyna could conceive naturally. Without Forrest's knowledge or consent, Reyna artificially inseminated herself with donor sperm and, *1254 after multiple attempts, became pregnant. Reyna led Forrest to believe that the child was conceived naturally.
¶ 7. In order to obtain the donor sperm, Reyna used Forrest's name as her physician's name, and she had the sperm shipped to a fictitious plastic-surgery clinic at the couple's home. Reyna paid for the donor sperm with a credit card she had opened in thename of the fictitious plastic-surgery clinic. Upon discovering the credit-card charges, Forrest confronted Reyna, who admitted that she became pregnant through artificial insemination and expressed remorse for deceiving him. At the time Forrest discovered the truth, Reyna was approximately eight-months pregnant. The pregnancy resulted in the birth of Ben on February 4, 2004. Forrest moved out of the marital residence in early 2005, and he returned upon being awarded the marital home in the divorce decree. Forrest testified that he was concerned about the marriage when he discovered the truth about Reyna's second pregnancy, but he was willing to remain in the relationship. Forrest testified that he decided to end the relationship when Reyna began making threats to not let him see the children if her financial demands


were not met.
¶ 8. Since the couple separated, they have been alternating custody of the twins weekly. Forrest has paid all of the financial expenses of the family from the time of the separation until the divorce decree. Forrest was thirty-eight years old, and Reyna was thirty-five years old at the time of the hearing. Forrest is a plastic surgeon and the sole owner of Gulf Coast Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Jackson County, Mississippi. Reyna is a registered nurse. She worked full time after the couple married, but she stayed at home after the children were born. Reyna was working part time as a pediatric nurse at the time of the hearing.

STANDARD OF REVIEW
¶ 9. Our standard of review in chancery matters is well settled. This CourtReyna shared custody equally during the separation, alternating custody weekly. The chancellor found that this factor did not weigh in favor of either parent.

3. Parenting Skills and Willingness to Provide Child Care
¶ 14. Both parties have good parenting skills and have demonstrated a willingness to provide child care. Reyna has cut back on her work hours to be available for the children, and Forrest has assistance from his mother when he is not able to alter his work schedule to fit the children's needs. Reyna occasionally travels to Troy, Alabama, during her time with the children where they visit family and Conley Freeman, the man she is dating. The chancellor noted that Reyna allows Freeman to spend the night at the marital home while the children were present,


which the chancellor found brought Reyna's moral fitness into question. However, the chancellor found that both parents have exhibited good parenting skills during the separation. Thus, the chancellor found that this factor favored neither party.

4. Employment Responsibilities of the Parents
¶ 15. Forrest works for himself and can adjust his surgery schedule to spend more time with the twins. He works close to their home and school. Forrest testified that another plastic surgeon was joining his practice in the summer of 2007, which would make his employment responsibilities even less demanding.
¶ 16. Reyna works as a pediatric nurse and has limited her work hours to spend more time with the children. Reyna testified her work schedule was flexible. However, the chancellor noted that her schedule was not as flexibleSo.2d 1120, 1121 (Miss.1985)). Reyna admitted that she has allowed the man she is dating to stay overnight in her home while the children are present. The chancellor found that this behavior was not in the best interests of the children, and it did not set a good example for them.
¶ 20. The chancellor also noted that Forrest and Reyna experienced financial difficulty while married because of Reyna's spending habits. Reyna has continued to incur debt. Also, Reyna incurred a large amount of debt attempting to have a third child, and she intentionally hid the debt from Forrest. Reyna had sought help from Forrest's mother to pay some of the credit-card debt. Forrest testified that he was unaware that Reyna had asked for his mother's assistance in paying


accumulated after the entry of the temporary order. However, the chancellor ordered Forrest to be responsible for the debt accumulated during the marriage. Forrest was also ordered to pay for the marital home, and he paid Reyna's and the children's living expenses during the separation.

8. Any Other Factor That Should be Considered
¶ 41. Since the time of the temporary order, Forrest has paid Reyna's living expenses in excess of $80,000 per year. He has paid Reyna $1,500 a month in alimony and $650 a month for groceries. He has done so even though he and Reyna have alternated custody of the twins weekly. Despite this, Reyna has incurred debt.
¶ 42. After considering the foregoing factors, the chancellor determined that the marital estate should be split equally. After dividingThe Great War and Modern Memory Character Descriptions

Sir Douglas Haig - This Scot character attended Clifton College, was very religious, and was the commander of the British forces in World War I.

General Sir George Plumer - This character is a general in the British army and is seen as the intellectual hero of the war for the British forces because this character brought imagination into their plan, and other armies were unable to anticipate their moves.

Edmund Blunden - This child of a London schoolmaster is an author who attended Oxford and who Fussell uses to show examples and quotes throughout The Great War and Modern Memory.

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annual burning activity in Africa. The northern zone covers an area of Sudan, Chad and Ethiopia, while the south includes parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Angola, Tanzania and Mozambique. In Africa, the majority of wildfires are lit because of human land management interventions.

South America and South East Asia also experience widespread wildfires. Intense burning occurs in the heart of South America between August and October each year, largely caused by agricultural land management practices. Sections of the Amazon are burnt as well as large swathes of the Cerrado – the grasslands and savannah ecosystem to the south. Fires are common throughout South East Asia, but are particularly prevalent in Malaysia and Indonesia which both have extensive peat lands that are extremely sensitive to fire.

Calculating wildfireand South East Asia 10 per cent. The remainder of emissions came from boreal and other regions. In addition to CO 2 , wildfires emit 10 per cent of global methane and between 10 and 20 per cent of nitrous oxide each year. Thus they have a significant effect on atmospheric chemistry.

Africa contains 14 per cent of the global population but only produces 3 per cent of fossil fuel emissions. It does, however, emit over half of global carbon from biomass burning as a result of the fires which rage across the continent throughout the year. During the time period from 2001 to 2005, Africa released an average of between 650 and 790 million tonnes of carbon into the air each year.

The tropical forests of South East Asia


do not burn nearly as often as the African savannahs but the presence of combustible peat creates fires that burn almost annually and release higher amounts of carbon into the air than forest and vegetation fires do. In Indonesia in 1997, agricultural forest fires ignited peat lands which smouldered for months, releasing the equivalent of 20 to 40 per cent of worldwide fossil fuel emissions for the year.

Despite the low contributions of Europe and North America to global wildfire carbon emissions, fires can be the main source of pollution for certain regions and time periods. Only a very small part of total emissions from biomass burning comes from continental and Eastern Europe, mostly from Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the Mediterranean states of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy andLondon (CNN) Julian Assange walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 19, 2012 to claim political asylum. He has been there ever since -- a total of 2,230 days -- rarely seeing daylight. But multiple sources say his situation is now untenable and he may soon leave, whether he wants to or not.

The question is: what will happen to Assange as and when he does walk out of his bolt-hole around the corner from Harrods?

According to the indictment document, "The conspirators (...) discussed the release of the stolen documents and the timing of those releases with Organisation 1 to heighten their impact."

Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy Of Ecuador, where he has been living since June 19, 2012.

CNN has established


(his predecessor Rafael Correa granted Assange asylum.) But in a statement last week, the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry said it saw no immediate or long-term solution to the situation.

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in May 2017. Assange, founder of the website WikiLeaks, has been a key figure in major leaks of classified government documents, cables and videos. Hide Caption 1 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange holds a copy of The Guardian newspaper in London on July 26, 2010, a day after WikiLeaks posted more than 90,000 classified documents related to the Afghanistan War. Hide Caption 2 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange attends a seminar at theSwedish Trade Union Confederation in Stockholm on August 14, 2010. Six days later, Swedish prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest based on allegations of sexual assault from two women. Assange has always denied wrongdoing. Hide Caption 3 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange, in London, displays a page from WikiLeaks on October 23, 2010. The day before, WikiLeaks released approximately 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq War. Hide Caption 4 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange and his bodyguards are seen after a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2010. It was the month WikiLeaks began releasing diplomatic cables from US embassies. Hide Caption 5 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange sits behind the tinted window of a police


vehicle in London on December 14, 2010. Assange had turned himself in to London authorities on December 7 and was released on bail and put on house arrest on December 16. In February 2011, a judge ruled in support of Assange's extradition to Sweden. Assange's lawyers filed an appeal. Hide Caption 6 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange In October 2011, a month after WikiLeaks released more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables, Assange speaks to demonstrators from the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Hide Caption 7 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange leaves the High Court in London in December 2011. He was taking his extradition case to the British Supreme Court. Hide Caption 8 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assangeleaves the Supreme Court in February 2012. In May of that year, the court denied his appeal against extradition. Hide Caption 9 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange addresses the media and his supporters from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on August 19, 2012. A few days earlier, Ecuador announced that it had granted asylum to Assange. In his public address, Assange demanded that the United States drop its "witch hunt" against WikiLeaks. Hide Caption 10 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange speaks from a window of the Ecuadorian Embassy in December 2012. Hide Caption 11 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange addresses the Oxford Union Society from the Ecuadorian Embassy in January 2013. Hide Caption 12 of 22


Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange appears with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino on the balcony of the embassy in June 2013. Hide Caption 13 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange speaks during a panel discussion at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2014. Hide Caption 14 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange attends a news conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2014. Hide Caption 15 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange is seen on a video screen in March 2015, during an event on the sideline of a United Nations Human Rights Council session. Hide Caption 16 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange, on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, holds upa United Nations report in February 2016. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said that Assange was being arbitrarily detained by the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hide Caption 17 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange speaks to the media in May 2017, after Swedish prosecutors had dropped their investigation of rape allegations against Assange. But Assange acknowledged he was unlikely to walk out of the embassy any time soon. "The UK has said it will arrest me regardless," he said. "The US CIA Director (Mike) Pompeo and the US attorney general have said that I and other WikiLeaks staff have no ... First Amendment rights, that my arrest and the arrest (of) my other staff is a priority. That is not


acceptable." Hide Caption 18 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange was seen for the first time in months during a hearing via teleconference in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2018. The hearing was then postponed due to translation difficulties. Hide Caption 19 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange A van displays images of Assange and Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who supplied thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday, April 5. A senior Ecuadorian official said no decision has been made to expel Assange from the embassy. According to WikiLeaks tweets, sources had told the organization that Assange could be kicked out of the embassy within "hours to days." Hide Caption 20 of 22 Photos: WikiLeaks founderfact that Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship last December.

Assange's situation is also a dilemma for the British government, aware that he inspires both passionate support and visceral animosity.

Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan told the House of Commons last month: "We would like the assurance that if he were to step out of the embassy he will be treated humanely and properly. The first priority would be to look after his health, which we think is deteriorating."

On that issue, Assange's lawyers and Ecuadorean officials agree. Robinson says "the situation is untenable. His health is being irreparably damaged...This case cannot go on much longer."

Assange's isolation deepened in March. His access to the internet and phone was cut off -- in part because Ecuadorean officials said he had violated an agreement


about Assange's future.

The irony is that Assange fears extradition to a country whose President proclaimed himself a big fan of WikiLeaks when running for office. Donald Trump mentioned WikiLeak's hacking of Hillary Clinton's emails more than 100 times in the last month of the 2016 election campaign. At one point he said: "I'll tell you this Wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it."

He even went so far as to say: " I love WikiLeaks ."

Trump's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and the US Justice Department appear to think very differently. They believe Julian Assange should be brought in front of a US court. When he was Director of the CIA, Pompeo said: " We can no longer allow Assange and hisin the United States and is signing up members in Latin America, Australia, and Asia. But — for better or for worse — history has delivered a borderless EU, with some programs worth preserving. The Left must defend this absence of borders, these climate change policies, even the Erasmus program, which gives young Europeans the opportunity to mingle in a borderless educational system. Turning against these splendid artifacts of an otherwise regressive European Union would contradict the Left’s core principles.

DiEM25’s Progressive Agenda for Europe Progressives must fight to re-politicize and re-democratize decision-making. Donald Trump in the United States, right-wing Brexiters in Britain, and Le Pen in France all rose up in the wake of an economic crisis caused by a twin crisis: the disaster of financialization and the


Q:

Rijksmuseum vs Louvre vs Uffizi Gallery

How would you describe in laymen terms to somebody what the differences is between the Rijksmuseum vs Louvre vs Uffizi Gallery?
How would you classify the type of content inside the museum?

A:

Uffizi Gallery is an art gallery, mostly focused on italian art and with a special focus on Renaissance. I can't find the number of objects in the exposition, but it's probably the smallest of the three.
The Rijksmuseum is both an art, a craft and an history museum, meaning that its display of about 8000 objects include both works of arts (paintings, sculptures) and objects of historical importance. And it's a slightly more geared toward Dutch art and history, obviously.
Finally, the Louvre is a huge art, craft and history museum (I mean, really huge:are needed in small amounts to build healthy cells and to provide for proper cell respiration. The absence of healthy oils damages cellular respiration and contributes to cancer formation. He has developed a blend of oils, which provide what the body needs to provide for proper cellular respiration. Also, most Americans are deficient in certain minerals. He uses supplements to provide for these deficiencies. Finally he uses a combination of herbs that are similar to Essiac Tea (described later) to assist with cleansing and detoxification of the body. He presents thoroughly researched evidence that fish oil may not be the best source of omega 3 oils. This makes his research somewhat controversial for some people. His book, The Hidden Story of Cancer, provides extensive scientific documentation of all


doctors in the US who successfully treated cancer with Laetrile, but they were required to discontinue the practice, because they were using cancer treatments that were not approved by the US FDA. Some of these doctors moved to Mexico so that they could continue treating patients.

Antineoplaston therapy

Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, a physician in Houston Texas, developed his antineoplaston therapy in the 1970s. He used it to cure many types of cancer until he became too successful. His treatment has a high rate of success with no side effects. It is now used to cure one of the most difficult forms of brain cancer.

Dr. Burzynski has been involved in a battle with the US FDA for several decades in the attempt to get this treatment approved for cancer treatment. TheTreatment – Alternative Cancer Treatments

Hoxsey Therapy

Hoxsey Therapy is a mixture of herbs which cures cancer. It began to be sold in 1920s by Mr. Harry Hoxsey. Mr. Hoxsey said that the treatment came from his great-grandfather, who observed a horse with a tumor on its leg cure itself by grazing upon certain wild plants. John Hoxsey gathered these herbs and mixed them with other folk remedies that were used for cancer. The therapy aims to restore physiological normalcy to a disturbed metabolism throughout the body, and to help detoxify the consequences of cancer. At one point, Mr. Harry Hoxsey had 17 clinics located in the United States. He was shut down by the US FDA. A clinic now exists in Mexico.

The Hoxsey Biomedical Center

Vitamin D Therapy

Most people who


a pre-engineered metal building, including a standing seam roof. GLOBAL completed its work on the project, but sometime thereafter went out of business.
The project was substantially completed by August 1996.[2] On November 25, 1996, HARVEST's pastor wrote a letter to CENTURY complaining of leaks in the roof and advising that the building had leaked from the day it was built. Thereafter, numerous attempts were made to repair the roof. In September of 2002, HARVEST wrote a letter to CENTURY demanding replacement of the roof with a new roof which would not leak. CENTURY advised CONARK of this demand.
*919 CONARK reported the claim to ST. PAUL. ST. PAUL retained HAAG Engineering to inspect the roof. HAAG Engineering advised that the roof was incorrectly installed. (A copy of the HAAGEngineering report, dated May 13, 2003, is attached as Exhibit E to Def.'s Statement of Undisputed Facts.) On June 9, 2003, ST. PAUL sent a letter to CONARK denying coverage for the defects and deficiencies in the roof, but leaving open the question of possible coverage for damaged ceiling tile and other peripheral damage caused by the leaking roof.
In July 2003, CONARK settled the claims of CENTURY against CONARK in connection with the roof for the sum of $93,450.
On February 3, 2004, CONARK filed the present action in federal court against ST. PAUL seeking reimbursement of the $93,450, with interest, attorney's fees, and costs. ST. PAUL contends there is no coverage under the policy.
On September 14, 2004, ST. PAUL filed a Third-Party Complaint against Mid-Continent Casualty Company ("MID-CONTINENT")


1998)(damage caused by faulty workmanship was "expected" and therefore not caused by an "occurrence" as defined in CGL policy; defects were "expected" by the contractor, irrespective of whether the actual work was performed by the contractor or one of its subcontractors).
Combined studies will no longer be offered as a degree option by the University of Manchester. The course will be phased out, allowing this year’s new undergraduates to complete their final year, but no candidates will be admitted in 2011/12.

The course allowed students to study in two separate and otherwise unrelated academic areas. The first year of the course featured a mandatory volunteering project, where students raised money and awareness for charities in Manchester both nationally and internationally.

Students were not informed about the possibility of the course being withdrawn until the decision was finalised. In the final weeks of the last academic year, students were shown around the potential location for a new combined studies common room, and encouraged to give their feedback.

In July, new and returning students


were sent a letter informing them that “following a review of the programme by the Faculty of Humanities[…] Combined Studies will admit its final cohort of first year students in 2010.

An estimated 5,000 students from Manchester’s universities and colleges marched through the city centre last week. Lecturers, parents, and local politicians joined students in bringing Oxford Road to a standstill.

Tom Hurndall, a Manchester Metropolitan University student, was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper in April 2003. Hurndall was a photographer, and a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an organisation that use non-violent protest against the Israeli military in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.[Two anomalous muscles of a forearm revealed by ulnar nerve compressions, a Double Crush syndrome].
This article describes the concomitant presence of two anomalous muscles on a left forearm in a 40-year-old man. The anconeus epitrochlearis muscle was responsible for a cubital tunnel syndrome and the unusual origin of the flexor digiti minimi brevis muscle was responsible for a compartment syndrome with ulnar nerve compression at the level of Guyon's canal during effort diagnosed by MRI. Resection of these muscles relieved the symptoms and allowed the patient to return to work.


on the obtained results, showing their progress and thereby trying to motivate the children. Both children training with JM as well as those training with MT were encouraged to complete four sessions a week by their teachers, as well as the undergraduate students. They were provided training time and a quiet place to train by their teacher during school days. Furthermore, they were provided with training schedules stating the days and the time on which they were supposed to train. Children were given no further rewards or incentives. Both teachers and undergraduate students looked for motivational or technical problems occurring during training. These problems were reported to the corresponding author who attempted to solve the issues. Motivational issues most commonly arose when training or assessment times were plannedHitler, electronic copies of The Book of Jihad and issues of Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine. A 2006 photo showed Young seated in traditional Islamic garb, holding a gun across his lap.

The obstruction counts stem from lies that Young told federal agents about a close associate who he believed had traveled to Syria to join ISIS. He also sent a text message meant to mislead investigators into thinking that his friend went to Turkey instead of Syria. The associate was a government informant, and Young tried to give him gift card codes to help ISIS recruit new members from the West.

Young’s friends also included radical Islamists — some of whom were later sentenced to long prison terms for plotting terror attacks and providing support to Al Qaeda and Somalia’s


Nicole Maines, a transgender activist, knows firsthand the devastating consequences that can result when schools don't allow trans kids to use the bathroom matching their gender identity.

When she was in fifth grade at a public school in Maine, she was banned from using the girls' bathroom and forced to use a separate staff bathroom.

In a recent TEDx talk, Maines, who is now a college freshman, shared how the discrimination she faced at school affected her ability to feel normal and comfortable in her own skin.

"Acceptance at home is fundamental yes, but frankly it's just not enough," she said. "Trans youth, like most young people, spend the majority of their time at school. If you spent Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 being told that you weren't okay,that you were wrong, how are you meant to think otherwise?"

Maines identified as a girl from a very early age, and her family accepted her as such. But in one important sense, her school did not.

On Friday, the Obama administration called on school districts around the country to allow transgender students to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity.

"Schools have a responsibility to provide a safe and nondiscriminatory environment for all students, including transgender students," the guidance read, in part. "A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so."

For Maines, her school's insistence that she use a different bathroom than the other kids had long-lasting ramifications. She and


her twin brother left the school. Her family moved. She spent the next few years in a form of hiding, as she feared to tell her new schoolmates about her past.

"I didn't have any sleepovers and I didn't visit any friends," she said. "I was like a ghost."

Her family filed a discrimination lawsuit and in 2014, she made history when Maine’s Supreme Court ruled that officials from the public school violated state anti-discrimination law by not allowing her to use the girls’ bathroom. It was the first time that a state court ruled it unlawful to deny transgender students access to the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

A book about Maines' life, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Ellis Nutt, was released last year.

Maines concluded herWhat to Know The notebook was found on Ahmad Rahami when he was captured

Law enforcement officials describe it as rambling and disjointed with "jihadist-style" writings

There was also praise for Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born al-Qaida cleric killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011

A small notebook found on suspected New York and New Jersey bomber Ahmad Rahami when he was captured praised the American al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and included "jihadist-type" writings, law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation tell NBC News.

The notebook, described by one official as "a hodge podge, a rambling, disconnected, choppy series of references to past events," also mentioned the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, where a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist killed 13 people and injured 30 others. (It did not, however, mention


the Boston Marathon bombings, as some sources initially suggested.)

There was also mention of a former top ISIS propadandist, the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee said Wednesday.

"It's clear from this journal that Mr. Rahami was receiving inspiration form the ISIS spokesman," Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) said.

A senior law enforcement official initially said a note was found attached to a pressure cooker bomb left on 27th Street that did not explode. Later, though, investigators said it was a notebook, and it was found in Rahami's possession when he was captured Monday following a shootout in Linden, New Jersey.

Two Linden police officers were wounded in the shootout with Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized citizen born in Afghanistan. They are expected to make full recoveries, and both cops have been releasedfrom the hospital.

Officer Angel Padilla, a 15-year veteran of the department, was likely saved by his bulletproof vest. Officer Peter Hammer, a 22-year veteran of the department, was struck in the head by a bullet fragment, the injury still visible and his emotions raw as he was wheeled out of University Hospital in Newark to applause from fellow officers.

"I feel like I was shot in the head. I'm just glad to be alive, glad to be home," he told NBC 4 as he went home to recuperate, accompanied by a motorcade.

Police Chief Jonathan Parham said he was proud of the officers and they in turn were proud to be Linden police officers.

Rahami, who was shot 10 times, remains hospitalized. He has been charged with five counts of attempted


murder of a law enforcement officer, and is expected to face federal charges related to bombs that exploded at the site of a Marine 5k race in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and in Chelsea.

Federal officials say surveillance video shows a man believed to be Rahami at the scene of the Chelsea explosion and also at the 27th Street scene where the second pressure cooker device was left. Additional details about the contents of the note weren't immediately available.

Rahami allegedly built four explosive devices, federal investigators said Tuesday. They allege he planted two pressure cooker bombs in New York City, the one on 23rd Street that exploded and the one on 27th Street that didn't, and a device made of three pipe bombs in a trash bin in Seasidewatchlist or on the NYPD's radar prior to Saturday's attack. The devices were made with commonly available materials that can be bought without raising law-enforcement suspicions, authorities say. The same kind of cellphone was used as a trigger on at least three of the devices, and the phones were all bought at the same New Jersey discount store. Fingerprints led to Rahami, officials said.

The devices weren't all the same though, federal investigators tell NBC News. The New Jersey pipe bomb contained black powder as the explosive, while the pressure cooker that went off on 23rd Street contained a mixture of ammonium nitrate (or fertilizer) and aluminum powder. It also contained ball bearings and BBs to act as shrapnel, and was placed inside a nylon bag with a zipper.

Nearly


3XN has unveiled its design for a multipurpose sports arena with a green roof that will merge into the landscape of Munich's Olympic park.

Danish architecture office 3XN is working with German landscape and urban planning firm Latz + Partner to design the 11,500-seater arena, which will become home to the city's basketball and ice hockey teams.

A green roof will cover the oval structure, which will be built on the site of the former Olympic cycling track stadium that was designed by German architect Günther Behnisch for the 1972 Summer Olympics.

"During the design process, we continually thought about the park's original design and asked ourselves how Günter Behnisch would have approached the task," said Jan Ammundsen, head of design at 3XN

"It was important to us to create a flexible,multipurpose arena with a strong identity while respecting the history and vision of the original Olympic park and fitting in quite naturally. We want to create the perfect backdrop for a fantastic fan experience."

The arena, which is owned by Red Bull Stadion München, will be home to the German ice hockey champions Munich Red Bulls and basketball champions FC Bayern Munich.

Related story Copenhagen arena by 3XN has an undulating wooden facade that rises up above entrances

Vertical lamella's will ring the facade, swooping upwards to frame a glass-panelled entrance. 3XN has also wrapped a large sporting and cultural arena in Copenhagen in timber fins, and plans to cover Bergen's new ice hockey arena in curving louvres.

In addition to the arena, three more ice rinks will be built as training


facilities next to the main building.

These will be sunk underground and covered with landscaping to create a hill covered with paths and trees to blends in with the existing park.

"The sports venues at the heart of the Olympic Park form an extraordinary ensemble and hence demanded a sensitive planning approach to the new sports arena," added Christine Strobl, mayor of Munich.

"The new sports arena will integrate harmoniously with the existing park landscape, while its structured facade and roof greening will create elegant highlights."

The arena currently has no name, but fans are being encouraged to enter a naming competition using the hashtag #NameGameOn. It is set to open on the in summer 2021.on March 26, 1945, at 9:30 a. m., at the intersection of Sixth and Folsom Streets in San Francisco. Sixth Street runs generally north and south, and Folsom Street east and west. Plaintiff testified that he was walking north on the east side of Sixth Street; that he paused at the southeast corner of Sixth and Folsom for the electrically-operated traffic signal to change; that when the signal changed to "Go" he went straight ahead in the marked pedestrian lane; that he looked straight ahead but not to the left or right; that as he crossed a large truck to his left was going in the same direction up Sixth, at the same speed he was walking, and that it afforded him protection; that when he was hit


he was crossing the north streetcar track on Folsom; that after being hit he was picked up from the north streetcar track but had been knocked off the pedestrian lane by defendant's car; that the car hit him on his left side and that he did not see it until it was right by him and did not observe its speed. There was no truck parked on the north side of Folsom, extending into the pedestrian lane, but there was one parked "by" the lane.
 Defendant directly contradicts plaintiff's version of the accident. He testified (by deposition, as he was then in the Navy) that he was driving south on the west side of Sixth and stopped at the northerly line of Folsom for the signal to change.A truck and trailer going west on Folsom had stopped close to the double line marking the center of Folsom Street. When the light changed in his favor, defendant made a left turn (not prohibited at this intersection) in front of the stopped truck and continued east on Folsom on the south side of that street; that as he passed this truck plaintiff, whom defendant claimed was walking in a southerly direction, stepped out from the rear of that truck and into the left front fender of defendant's car. Defendant saw plaintiff just before he hit him and plaintiff was then *777 about 45 or 50 feet to the east of the pedestrian lane. It was not raining and the streets were dry. (Plaintiff testified that it was


raining.)
 [1] Defendant claims that plaintiff was crossing Folsom from north to south at a point 45 to 50 feet easterly and down Folsom from the Sixth Street pedestrian crossing, and at that point plaintiff stepped out from behind a truck and trailer and was hit while south of the center line of Folsom. Plaintiff's claim is that he was going north in the Sixth Street pedestrian lane, and was hit while on the north side of the center line of Folsom. Other evidence in the case supports plaintiff's claim rather than that of defendant. Officer Colligan, who talked to defendant at the scene of the accident, testified from his report made at the time, that defendant told him that plaintiff was walking from the south to thedid support plaintiff's theory.
 It is true that plaintiff was a difficult witness and on occasion contradicted himself, but he did not contradict himself upon the important phases of his testimony, such as his position in the crosswalk and the place where he was hit. Some of his difficulty on the stand may have been due to his age. He was 79 at the time of the accident and 80 at the time of the trial, and in view of the testimony of the only disinterested witnesses called, plaintiff's testimony stands up better than that of defendant.
 [2] Defendant briefly, but without stressing the point, suggests the possibility of plaintiff being guilty of contributory negligence because of his testimony that after he received the "Go" signal and started


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       I. Strange Land of “Volcanoes” and “Shining Mountains”           1
      II.and first appears on the
Greenhow Map of 1840.

In spite of past efforts by water power advocates to “improve” it by a
dam, Yellowstone Lake remains just as it was when first discovered by
John Colter, the original “Lake Eustis” of the Clark Map of 1810.
Jackson Lake, however, was enlarged by a dam built in 1916 by the Bureau
of Reclamation. This lake is identifiable with the “Lake Biddle” of the
Clark Map of 1810, the “Teton Lake” of Warren A. Ferris, and the “Lewis
Lake” referred to frequently by another trapper, Joseph L. Meek. There
is today a tributary of the Upper Snake known as Lewis River, heading in
a Lewis Lake within the confines of Yellowstone National Park, neither
of which are to be confused with the historic “Lewis River” and “Lewis
Lake.”


other data which appear on William
Clark’s “Map of the West,” published in 1814, presumably based on a
conversation of 1810 at St. Louis, whither the trapper-explorer returned
after hair-raising adventures with the Blackfeet in the Three Forks
country. Inevitably, in view of the topographical errors and distortions
of the Clark map, Colter’s precise route is subject to wide differences
of opinion.

A composite of theories offered by Hiram M. Chittenden, Stallo Vinton,
Charles Lindsay, and Burton Harris, to mention only four qualified
scholars who have undertaken to hypothecate Colter’s route, is that
Colter ascended the Bighorn, followed up the Shoshone River to near
present Cody, went south along the foot of the Absaroka Mountains, up
Wind River to Union Pass, into Jackson’s Hole, thence probably across
Teton Pass into Pierre’s Hole, thence north via Conant Pass to the west
shore ofgoing was already being trapped by other
companies.” (This strongly suggests that somebody, probably Rocky
Mountain men, were trapping in Jackson’s Hole prior to the rendezvous.)
Returning to the Platte River, they met “O’Felon” and Moses “Black”
Harris, two other independent traders, with whom they proceeded by way
of Teton Pass to the rendezvous, where they arrived on July 4.

The experienced William Sublette, one-time partner, had contracted with
the Rocky Mountain Fur Company to supply trade goods, and to take out
the beaver hides. With Robert Campbell he set out for St. Louis in May
1832 with over 100 men. At Independence he picked up a band of eighteen
green New Englanders under Nathaniel J. Wyeth, an ambitious young man
who had hopes of succeeding, where John Jacob Astor had failed, in
establishing a fur-trading empire in Oregon. At


Company agents, followed the
Bear River route westward. The fur trappers were left in the mountains
with Drips, Fontenelle, and Bridger. Says Osborne Russell:

  Mr. Bridger’s party, as usual, was destined for the Blackfoot country.
  It contained most of the American trappers and amounted to sixty men.
  I started with a party of fifteen trappers and two camp keepers,
  ordered by Mr. Bridger to proceed to the Yellowstone Lake and there
  await his arrival with the rest of the party.

Russell entered Jackson’s Hole by way of the upper Green and Gros Ventre
rivers, followed the Snake River north to Jackson Lake, and on August 7
started up Buffalo Fork, to reach Two Ocean Pass. On August 13, he
camped at the inlet of Yellowstone Lake, and on thewas drawn, De Smet explains as
follows in a letter dated July 1, 1857, to officials of the Department
of the Interior:

  When I was at the council ground in 1851, on the Platte River, at the
  mouth of the Horse creek, I was requested by Colonel Mitchell
  [superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis] to make a map of the
  whole Indian country, relating particularly to the Upper Missouri, the
  waters of the upper Platte, east of the Rocky mountains and of the
  headwaters of the Columbia and its tributaries west of these
  mountains. In compliance with this request I drew up the map from
  scraps then in my possession. The map, so prepared, was seemingly
  approved and made use


        _Early Western Travels_, 32 vols. (Cleveland, 1904-1907), V.
  Burpee, Lawrence J. (ed.), _Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine
          to the Yellowstone, 1805_ (Ottawa, 1910).
  Carter, Clarence E. (ed.), _Territorial Papers of the United States_
          (Washington, 1934), XIII, _Territory of Louisiana-Missouri,
          1803-1806_ (1948).
  Chittenden, Hiram M., _The American Fur Trade of the Far West_, 2
          vols., ed. by Stallo Vinton (New York, 1936).
  Chittenden, Hiram M. and Richardson, Albert T., _Life, Letters and
        Thursday, October 28, 2010

Navy Not Exempt From Sonar Restrictions, Judge Rules

Andrew Dalton in Los AngelesAssociated Press

February 6, 2008

The Navy cannot be exempted from a sonar ban off Southern California, a federal judge ruled.

President George Bush signed a waiver in January exempting the Navy and its anti-submarine warfare exercises from a preliminary injunction that created the no-sonar zone. The Navy's attorneys argued in court last week that the president was within his legal rights.

"It's an excellent decision," said Joel Reynolds, attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is spearheading the legal fight. "It reinstates the proper balance between national security and environmental protection."

The Navy last week wrapped up a training exercise by the carrier strike group of the USS Abraham Lincoln in which sonar was used. There are


located their plants and facilities in politically important congressional districts. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and others have made spending on national defense into America’s biggest jobs program.

So we keep spending billions on Cold War weapons systems like nuclear attack submarines, aircraft carriers, and manned combat fighters that pump up the bottom lines of defense contractors but have nothing to do with 21st-century combat.

For example, the Pentagon says it wants to buy fewer F-35 joint strike fighter planes than had been planned – the single-engine fighter has been plagued by cost overruns and technical glitches – but the contractors and their friends on Capitol Hill promise a fight.

The absence of a budget deal on Capitol Hill is supposed to trigger an automatic across-the-board ten-year cut in the defense budget ofWalking on Ice (ongoing) exhibit

This past summer Nazli Ozerdem (Brown-RISD Dual Degree '14) and Matt Block (Brown '13) were awarded a Brown International Scholars Program fellowship to go to Iceland and conduct research for their collaborative audio-visual exhibition. Their research consisted of two different components. They worked with local artists and learned their approaches to music and art, and documented Iceland's natural phenomena such as glaciers, geysers, boiling mud pots, and geothermal vents. The theme behind this collaboration is the use of landscape and traditional elements of Icelandic culture to generate a contemporary work. Their goal was to create a space that unifies visual art and music that will serve as a symbol for the cross-cultural relationships that they established during their time in Iceland. They hope that


this multi-sensory understanding of Icelandic culture will create a place for their community to engage with art that found its roots in Iceland and its continued growth at Brown and RISD.

The music composed by Matt Block consists of four pieces based on Icelandic folk themes, and it will be performed live on April 6 at the opening. These works convey a story of discovery and growth. The compositions are orchestrated for a ten-piece ensemble that includes flute, bass clarinet, alto/soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet/flugelhorn, violin, cello, bass, piano, and percussion. In addition to the acoustic music, there is sound design for the space primarily generated from natural found sounds.

The visual work by Nazli Ozerdem consists of large-scale drawings and digital photographs of the Icelandic landscape.The drawings integrate patternsfrom traditional Icelandic objects from museums such as the Icelandic Museum of National History, the Arbaer Museum, and the Open-Air Folk Museum. Nazli allowed each drawing to grow and change organically and worked with the existing photographs instead of working against them.


analysis was modified substantially by Commission personnel in 1982. Only 12 of the 28 SKAPs identified in the 1981 job analysis were included in the 1982 job analysis and were the subject of testing in the 1982 promotional procedure. Among those SKAPs deleted in 1982 was the second most-heavily weighted SKAP, that is, supervisory ability.[21] Of the 12 SKAPs included in the 1982 job analysis, two, knowledges and reading comprehension, were tested for in the 1982 written exam. The 10 remaining SKAPs were measured by the promotional appraisal and/or the oral exam. Additionally, the weightings of the three test components were substantially altered in 1982. In explaining the reweighting, the Commission stated:
Some of the factors [SKAPs] rated or assessed in 1981 were deleted from the 1982 examination. Basedno mention of any inquiry as to whether the sergeant's job, and the work behaviors or job components associated therewith, changed somewhat between 1979 and 1982. Cf. Vanguard I, supra at 740. Further, and of much greater concern, are the unexplained modifications made by the Commission in 1982 in connection with the 1982 use of the 1981 job analysis. The 1982 Validation Report states that "[s]ome of the factors rated or assessed in 1981 were deleted from the 1982 examination." 1982 Validation Report, supra, at 2. In fact, of the 28 SKAPs measured in 1981, only twelve were tested for in the 1982 promotional procedure. Among the SKAPs eliminated in 1982 was supervisory ability, which was deemed to be the second most important SKAP in the 1981 job


follows: A candidate's scaled written exam score (weighted 40%) was combined with his promotional appraisal score (weighted 30%). On the basis of that composite score, the top 95 candidates were administered the oral examination (weighted 30%). Thus, a cutoff score was established after two parts of the procedure were administered. That cutoff score was not a score which indicated a candidate's ability to perform the job but was simply the composite score of the 95th candidate at that stage of the procedure. After the oral exam was scored, the 95 candidates were placed on the eligibility list in order of their rank. The rankings were derived by adding a candidate's weighted, scaled score on each of the three promotional procedure components. Although each candidate was not ranked solely1136 (4th Cir.1973).
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Use of racially preferential quotas in promotions should be avoided as remedy for racial discrimination in employment.
The City of Detroit is commended for its desire to eradicate racial discrimination in its police department and to increase the number of blacks in its force. However, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights deplores the city's use of a racial quota in its promotion of sergeants as one of the methods for achieving its laudable objectives.
The Detroit Police Department engaged in pervasive discrimination against blacks from at least 1943 to the 1970s in all phases of its operations. In 1974, the city voluntarily adopted an affirmative action plan, which alters the method whereby sergeants are promoted to lieutenants. Prior to 1974, candidates for promotion who


Boris Johnson backs DUP in demanding backstop is scrapped

Boris Johnson speaking during the DUP annual conference at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Belfast.

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Boris Johnson joined with senior Democratic Unionists to demand the scrapping of the Irish border backstop at a party conference dominated by the draft Brexit deal.

The former foreign secretary, who was guest speaker at the annual DUP gathering in Belfast, also stressed the need for the Tories to protect their faltering confidence and supply agreement with the Northern Ireland party amid ongoing Brexit uncertainty.

Boris Johnson and DUP Party leader Arlene Foster during the DUP annual conference at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Belfast.

Addressing the DUP faithful, Mr Johnson echoed calls from party leader Arlene Foster andWelcome to The GEO Group, Inc.

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SAP—SAP reported a 15 percent decline in quarterly profit, as its expenses rose, although operating profit for the business software company did rise slightly.

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information technology in support of research and education related to improving the health of minority and disadvantaged populations. The proposed support will strengthen and build upon the activities and resources of three highly productive infrastructure components of the University: the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Informatics Research Core, the King/Drew Health Sciences Library, and the Drew Learning Resource Center, including the recently funded National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) Research & Educational Advancement Center for Health Disparities (REACH). REACH provides enhanced institutional infrastructure and programming for faculty development and the student Medical Thesis program, with an emphasis on health disparities research. The OAC will leverage the software, hardware, and personnel resources of each of these components to integrate synergistic planning, development, and implementation ofof high school sports in the state.

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Local Physician Honoured with Award of Excellence

Published on Thu, 11/29/2018 - 14:44

[Timmins], ON – Timmins and District Hospital is proud to inform the public that Dr. Lynne Schwertfeger, a local Family Medicine physician and physician at Timmins and District Hospital has been awarded the Award of Excellence by the Ontario College of Family Physicians in November 2018.

The Award of Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions pertaining to the specialty of family medicine; patient care, community service, hospital or health-care institutions, teaching, research, Ontario College of Family Physicians (OFPC) activities and other elements of the academic discipline of family medicine. The award recipient is selected through a nomination process and Dr. Schwertfeger was nominated by Hospital staff and Hospice Centre patients’ families. Specifically, Dr. Schwertfeger was recognized for hermuch needed wonderful peaceful space for our community. I’d also like to thank the team of nurses, Hospital staff, and patient families who nominated me for this award as they make this important work enjoyable. Comfortable and peaceful end of life care for all hospice residents and their families is what we strive to achieve even if only for a very short time”.

Dr. Schwertfeger was presented her award at the 2018 OCFP Installation and Awards ceremony on November 14, 2018 in Toronto during the Family Medicine Forum hosted by the Canadian College of Family Physicians.

The Timmins and District Hospital (TADH) is a level C, fully accredited community, referral and teaching hospital serving the residents of the City of Timmins and Cochrane District as well as the adjoining areas


punk and assorted classic rock elements, Ours constructs a driving, thriving sound with guitar, bass and drum and lyrics that engage on a literary level without surrendering its gutter soul. Songwriter Jimmy Gnecco's upfront vocals form the centerpiece of each track on Precious (Dreamworks), swooping from stratosphere to a low rumble while he lets the red stuff freely flow. Sound textures range from the edgy, dissonant rawk of the opener, "Kill the Band," to the more delicate introspection of ballads like "Places" and "Broken." Though the production represents the state of the art in cold, calculated perfection, old-school harmonics and growling guitars warm up the proceedings considerably.

The songs ebb with melancholy and wrestle with common rock themes, among them death, betrayal and alienation. Gnecco's soul-searching and social commentaryoccasionally descend into melodrama, but he delivers it all with such earnestness and panache that it's tough to bust him for it.

"Leaves" hooks with chiming six-strings and a sing-along chorus as Gnecco laments the loss of community and trust. It's social commentary that manages the exacting task of achieving significance without sounding trite or preachy -- even when the singer's doing his best to sound a little (but not too much) like a cross between Jeff Buckley and Bono. In "If Flowers Turn," the songwriter wistfully assumes the mantle of the sacrificial lamb and invokes memento mori against a shimmering backdrop of guitar-laced pop beauty.

Oh yeah, and that cover of "Femme Fatale?" Next to the original, unexceptional and predictably anemic . But not bad.


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Pundits may be declaring the culture wars over, but conservative Christians are donning their battle gear and rushing back to the front lines. In recent months, a coalition of conservative evangelical organizations has been pursuing an aggressive voter mobilization campaign that involves a combination of high-tech tools, briefings for pastors, and rallies simulcast to mega-churches around the country.

The goal of these gatherings is to drum up outrage over recent political skirmishes, including the Hobby Lobby lawsuit, and to persuade believers that their religious freedoms are under attack by ungodly forces. During one recent event, which was shown in churches across the nation, speakers likened the situation of US churchgoers to Christiansto compare their membership rosters with voter rolls, so they can better guide their flock to the polls.) The Family Research Council and Texas-based Vision America, which played a key role in the summit, then began hosting policy briefings for pastors and staging lavishly produced voter mobilization events that were broadcast live to churches and groups across the country.

In September, the two organizations hosted an event called Star Spangled Sunday, ostensibly to celebrate the 200th anniversary of our national anthem. A parade of prominent conservatives, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, took the stage to warn that Americans’ religious freedoms were under siege. The faithful were also shown a video presentation from Hobby Lobby president Steve Green, who spoke about his successful legal


faith.”

“In the Middle East they use the sword, and here they use silence. But in both ways, the voices of Christians are lost.”

Two weeks after Star Spangled Sunday, the Family Research Council and Vision America Action joined a coalition of organizations, including Concerned Women for America and Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, to sponsor the Value Voters Summit. Religious liberty was also front and center at this annual Washington confab. In mid-October, the same coalition joined United in Purpose to host another simulcast, called iPledge Sunday. The event, which was shown in churches across the country, featured more breathless warnings about the supposed crackdown on religious freedoms. Retiring Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) argued in a pretaped interview that religious persecution around the world is at the “highestidentity theft protection to those job applicants whose Social Security Number may have been compromised.

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plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in Rheinberg, Germany in May, 2018.
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For this thing was borrowed.”6 Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he indicated to him the place. Then he cut off a piece of wood, and he threw it in. And the iron floated up.7 And he said, “Take it.” And he extended his hand, and took it.8 Now the king of Syria was fighting against Israel, and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “In this and that place, let us set up an ambush.”9 And so the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: “Take care not to pass by that place. For the Syrians are there in ambush.”10 And so the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God had told him, andImage: Poliisi

A court in central Finland has handed down a 20-month suspended prison sentence to a berry firm owner convicted of trafficking 26 people from Thailand to pick berries in Finnish forests. He was also convicted of fraud and violations of waste management laws.

The prosecutor said in court that the plaintiffs had to work 15-hour days, and much of their earnings went to pay off debts accrued from their journey to Finland. The pickers were accommodated in trailers and shipping containers, which also hosted their sanitary and food preparation facilities.

Court orders compensation, legal costs

In addition to his suspended jail term, the owner has been banned from serving as a company director for three years and ordered to pay a total of 200,000 euros in compensation to the 26


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materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)

Methane is the simplest hydrocarbon, with the chemical formula CH4. In chemical terms, it is classified as an alkane. At ordinary temperatures and pressures, it is a gas. It is a minor constituent of the Earth's atmosphere, but it is the main component of natural gas and biogas. Large quantities of methane have been found in sediments on the ocean floor, where it is trapped in cage-like ice crystals known as methane clathrates. Methane is widely used as a fuel, but it is also a starting material for the synthesis of other compounds. In nature, it plays an important role as a "greenhouse gas"—a gas that helps trap the Earth's heat, preventingthe heat from escaping into space.

Occurrence and production

The Earth's mantle is the main reservoir of methane, and large quantities of this gas have been found in geological deposits known as natural gas fields. It occurs in association with other hydrocarbons and sometimes also helium and nitrogen. In general, natural gas is present in sediments buried deeper and at higher temperatures than those that contain petroleum. Natural gas fields are currently the main source from which methane is extracted for human use.

Methane can also be extracted from coal deposits. It is the main component of the firedamp of coal mines. It is also emitted by mud volcanoes that are connected to deep geological faults.

Biogas, produced by wetlands and landfills, is another source of methane. Biogas is a mixture of


are built on or near landfills, methane off-gas can penetrate the building interior and expose occupants to significant levels of methane. Some buildings have specially engineered recovery systems below their basements, to actively capture such fugitive off-gas and vent it away from the building.

Methane in the Earth's atmosphere

Early Earth's atmosphere

Methane concentrations graph

Scientists think that early in the Earth's history—about 3.5 billion years ago—there was one thousand times as much methane in the atmosphere as there is now. The earliest methane was released into the atmosphere by volcanic activity. In addition, ancient bacteria contributed to the methane concentration by converting hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methane and water. Oxygen did not become a major part of the atmosphere until photosynthetic organisms emerged later in Earth's history. In the absenceEbola: Mapping the outbreak Published duration 14 January 2016

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014, and rapidly became the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976.

In fact, the epidemic killed five times more than all other known Ebola outbreaks combined.

More than 21 months on from the first confirmed case recorded on 23 March 2014, 11,315 people have been reported as having died from the disease in six countries; Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the US and Mali.

The total number of reported cases is about 28,637.

But on 13 January, 2016, the World Health Organisation declared the last of the countries affected, Liberia, to be Ebola-free.

The World Health Organization (WHO) admits the figures are underestimates, given the difficulty collecting the data.

There needs


to be 42 days without any new cases for a country to be declared Ebola-free.

The outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal were declared officially over by the WHO in October 2014. Sierra Leone and Guinea both had much larger outbreaks and it took a little longer. Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free on 7 November 2015, Guinea followed in December.

Liberia has been the worst-hit, with more than 4,800 dead and 10,672 becoming infected. The WHO said that at the peak of transmission, during August and September 2014, Liberia was reporting between 300 and 400 new cases every week.

The epidemic seemed to abate and the outbreak in Liberia was declared over on 9 May 2015 - only to re-emerge seven weeks later when a 17-year-old man died from the disease andmore cases were reported. The same happened in September, which is why the latest declaration of Liberia being Ebola-free, while welcome, should be treated with caution, say correspondents.

The WHO has warned that West Africa may see flare-ups of the virus.

How the virus spread

In March, hospital staff alerted Guinea's Ministry of Health and then medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). They reported a mysterious disease in the south-eastern regions of Gueckedou, Macenta, Nzerekore, and Kissidougou.

It caused fever, diarrhoea and vomiting. It also had a high death rate. Of the first 86 cases, 59 people died.

The WHO later confirmed the disease as Ebola.

Ebola death toll

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Ebola outbreak: Key stories

Disease spreads

The Gueckedou prefecture in Guinea, where the outbreak started, is a major regional trading centre and, by the end of