valid visas were left in a state of limbo. The Department of Homeland Security initially didn’t interpret the executive order to include green card holders—lawful permanent residents of the United States—from entering the country, but Trump advisor Steve Bannon reportedly instructed DHS that it does.

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The resulting confusion and general evil of such an order has prompted widespread protests in airports and street around the country. It’s been noted that no foreign nationals from the seven countries—Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen—have committed acts of terror on US soil since September 11, 2001. In fact, none of the 9-11 attackers were from any of those countries. It has also been noted widely that the predominantly Muslim countries which are excluded from the ban are nations where Donaldthe Trump administration even before this executive order. Trump’s isolationism has left many allies in the lurch on everything from trade to commitments around defense, including long-understood promises that the US will come to the defense of its allies in the event of war.

All bets seem to be off with the Trump regime, as bigotry seeps through the halls of the White House. Five-year-olds are being detained for hours in airports and teenagers aren’t even allowed to go to space camp. Patriots continue to take to the streets in opposition to a policy that, according to experts, is almost certain to make America not only less safe, but less well off both financially and culturally.


Today's fan luncheon will be held on the concourse of the Alerus Center with a program featuring four coaches and UND football seniors starting at Noon.

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Join University of North Dakota coaches, fans and staff at the UND Fan Luncheon today at noon. Hear from UND coaches and have a great lunch on the Alerus Center Concourse.

Friday's luncheon will feature head football coach Chris Mussman, head men's and women's swimming and diving coach Chris Maiello, head volleyball coach Ashley Hardee and head men's basketball coach Brian Jones. Also in attendance will be many of 17 seniors on the UND football team, who will be recognized and able to share some of their fondest memories from their time on the gridiron.

Everyone is welcomeCaptain Asamoah Gyan is counting on the rising form of his international colleagues at their respective clubs to power Ghanaâ€™s campaign at the 2014 World Cup.

The Black Stars are drawn in a tough group at the World Cup in Brazil where they will be facing heavyweights Germany, Portugal and USA.

Ghana is only making its third appearance at the finals but is aiming to get to at least the semi final stage.

With players like Abdul Majeed Waris, Kwadwo Asamoah, Samuel Inkoom, Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu and Jerry Akaminko all improving their forms at respective clubs captain Asamoah is counting on the surging form of his colleagues to conquer the world in Brazil.

â€œEveryone is doing very well at their clubs and it is very important for us ahead of the World Cup,â€


In the wake of violent clashes in Hong Kong on Sunday, during which a live gunshot was fired for the first time since protests began in early June, Chinese state media used its harshest rhetoric yet to condemn the unrest and warned that Beijing could soon intervene.

The 12th straight weekend of protests in the semiautonomous enclave took a dangerous turn when police deployed water cannons and one officer fired a gun into the air to disperse protesters, who hurled bricks and petrol bombs at officers in the New Territories district of Tsuen Wan.

The Hong Kong government confirmed that six police officers drew their pistols to fend off protesters attacking them, with one of the officers firing a warning shot into the air. At a press conference on Monday,democracy in the former British colony.

Protests have become a common occurrence in the city, and have frequently descended into violent clashes with police, who have been criticized for their use of force. In recent weeks, demonstrators have shut down the city’s subway trains and the international airport with organized rallies.

Fears have risen in recent weeks that Beijing could intervene in the lead-up to its National Day celebration on Oct. 1, marking the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The People’s Liberation Army has a permanent presence in Hong Kong, while there have been reports of China’s paramilitary police force amassing in the nearby city of Shenzhen.

Write to Amy Gunia at amy.gunia@time.com.


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Orange County is the first official project of the Phoenix Group (a top secret group of scientists funded by the president.) Its mission: to create actual places based on the cities, towns and counties of television shows.

Built on a closed set in the hills of Anaheim, Orange County has the distinction of being the first planned community based on the super perfect ideals of the Third RepublicanArmy. Namely the pursuit of larger and larger SUVs and increasing the effectiveness of Bed Bath & Beyond coupon campaigns.

Orange County implements the basic strategy of the Third Republican Army in the following ways.

Make everything affordable. Think as if you were an illegal alien earning less than minimum wage and price everything affordably. Currently minimum wage equatestree lined avenues in Irvine. Try to greet everyone you see with a smile and become involved in other people's lives. They will appreciate you for it.

Orange County has proven to be a tremendous success so far. Already it has produced its own spin off city, Disneyland. Orange County is so perfect though that it is often the target of false criticism. Usually it is from some other county, one NOT based on a hit TV show (snicker, snicker).

In summation, Orange County is an inexpensive, creative and joyous place to live. More places need to be built on the premise of television shows. Also, Los Angeles totally wishes it could be Orange County.

In 1972, during a brief period of Martial Law, President Richard Nixon (who was from Orange


of these special voting powers, both laws only apply to state and national elections, not city or county elections.

In recent developments, County residents have also proposed a new name for Orange County. As there are no surviving Oranges to be found in Orange County anymore, nor orchards to grow them in, the residents have proposed a new, more genuine name for the territory. 'House County', is the leading contender.

'House County', the proposed new name, has been met with anger from local city councils, however, who say the new name is much too honest, much too telling. Tourism might suffer, they feel, by renaming a county to what it actually looks like. Some residents feel this makes no sense, however, since many of the local city councils profited enormouslyfrom tearing down countless orchards to erect cheap housing. The debate rages on.

Orange County has about 30, 32, 35 or 38 (who's counting) incorporated cities and unincorporated towns. Sorry if it's sorta long, but hilarious and so much is true. Not counted on here is Corona, that's in the Inland Empire but a fart's throw away to the Orange County line.


Burl Butler

Burl Butler was the plaintiff in a landmark wrongful death secondhand smoke trial. Mr. Butler was a non-smoking Mississippi barber who was diagnosed with a fatal lung cancer in 1993. Mr. Butler was a nonsmokers. The day he was diagnosed, he imposed a non-smoking policy in his barbershop. Mr. Butler (and his estate after he died) alleged that his lung cancer was caused by his prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke in his barbershop. Before his death in May, 1994, at age 60, Mr. Butler claimed that if he had been informed by tobacco companies that their products could kill non-smokers, he would not have permitted smoking in his barbershop.[1]

Since this was a secondhand smoke case, all of the major tobacco companies were defendants. The case resolved inintelligent and rambunctious classmate
named Susan Rice, had helped lead the
anti-apartheid movement on the Stan-
ford campus. They occupied a building,
campaigned for divestment. Among
McFaul's academic interests was the
range of liberation movements in post-
colonial Africa: Mozambique, Zim-
babwe, and South Africa. How did
McFaul reconcile his desire to study at
Oxford on a Rhodes, the interviewer in-
quired, with the fact that its benefactor,
Cecil Rhodes, had been a pillar of white
supremacy? What would he do with
such "blood money"?
"I will use it to bring down the re-
gime,"McFaul said. In the event, both he
and Rice won the blood money and
went to Oxford.
Over the years, as he developed as a
scholar, McFaul made frequent trips to
Moscow, and, because of his refusal to
stay in the library, some Russian o cials
grew convinced that he was working for
Western intelligence, doing what he
could


to hasten the fall of the Kremlin's
authority.They took his openhearted ac-
tivism to be a cover for cunning.
In 1991, McFaul was in St. Petersburg,
trying to organize a seminar on local gov-
ernment. He found himself doing busi-
ness with a man from the mayor's o ce
named Igor Sechin. He and Sechin took
an immediate liking to each other. It
turned out that, like McFaul, Sechin was
interested in Mozambique. They both
spoke Portuguese. Sechin never actually
said that his familiarity with matters
Mozambican came from having been a
young Soviet intelligence operative in
Maputo, or that he still was a K.G.B.
o cer, but McFaul knew the score. What
he discovered, as they talked, was that
Sechin assumed that McFaul, too, was an
intelligence agent.
It was an encounter with a certain
historical freight: a generation later, when
McFaul became Obama's Ambassador
to Russia, Sechin became thepresident
of Rosneft, Russia's state-owned, hugely
profitable energy conglomerate. He
would also be the most important coun-
sellor to the same man he was working
for way back in 1991: a career intelli-
gence o cer and deputy mayor named
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
On the day McFaul was preparing to
go home, he went to see his academic su-
pervisor in Moscow, Apollon Davidson.
He thanked Davidson and said he'd had
a fantastic time and was hoping to return
in a few months.
"You are never coming back," David-
son said.
McFaul was shocked. There was a
taxi outside idling, waiting to take him
to the airport.
"You came here to do one project," Da-
vidson said, "and you did a lot of other
things---and it isn't going to happen again."
"There is a file on me," McFaul said.
A couple of decades ago, a Rus-
sian friend from perestroika days who


is
"still in politics" told him, "I just read
something disturbing about you that
says you are C.I.A." McFaul denied it,
but he could see that his friend was im-
pressed. The file, after all, had been
marked "Sovershenno Sekretno"---
"Top Secret."
"In government, I've seen the power
of getting a file marked 'Top Secret,' "
McFaul said.
In 1996, President Yeltsin was run-
ning for reëlection against Gennady
Zyuganov, the leader of what was left of
the Communist Party. After a few years
in o ce, Yeltsin had soiled his reputation
as a reforming democrat. There was his
strategy of brutal overkill in Chechnya
and the way he empowered, under the
banner of privatization, a small circle of
billionaire oligarchs to soak up Russia's
resources and help run the country.
"Democracy" was roundly known as
dermokratiya---"shitocracy." Yeltsin's ap-
proval numbers plunged to the single
digits. For months, it seemed entirely
possible that Zyuganov,who attacked
the injustices of the Yeltsin regime in
favor of the old ideology, could win. Mc-
Faul, who had established an outpost of
the Carnegie Center in Moscow, had
attracted attention in Yeltsin's circles
by writing an article about how Yeltsin
could win.
Yeltsin was ailing, alcoholic, and often
out of sight. He left his campaign largely
to shadowy figures like his bodyguard,
Aleksandr Korzhakov. In January, Mc-
Faul got a call from "a guy---let's call him
Igor---one of Korzhakov's guys." They
met at the President Hotel, Yeltsin's cam-
paign headquarters. "The people I knew
were on the ninth floor," McFaul said to
me. "He was on the tenth: metal detec-
tors, guys with guns. And he told me, 'I
am intelligence. I work for Korzhakov. I
am in charge of the analytic center.' "
Later that year, Igor asked to meet
with McFaul again. "We need to have


A genetic variant that protects the heart against cardiovascular disease has been discovered by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators.

A genetic variant that protects the heart against cardiovascular disease has been discovered by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators. Reported today (26th May 2017) in Nature Communications, the cardioprotective variant was found in an isolated Greek population, who are known to live long and healthy lives despite having a diet rich in animal fat.

In Mylopotamos, northern Crete the population are unusual as they have a diet that is rich in animal fat and should cause health complications, yet they have good health and live to an old age.

In an attempt to solve the puzzle, scientists made a genetic portrait ofCHARSADDA, Pakistan -- Islamic militants stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and triggering an hours-long gunbattle with security forces in an attack that echoed a horrifying assault by the Taliban a little over a year ago on a nearby army-run school.

The attack began shortly after classes started at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, a town 21 miles outside Peshawar, said Deputy Commissioner Tahir Zafar. The school may have been targeted because it is named for a late secular icon.

The attackers climbed over the back walls of the university and shot at a security guard before making their way to the administration building and the male students' dorms, police official Saeed Khan Wazir said.

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police raced to the scene and exchanged fire with the attackers. The sound of gunfire and explosions echoed across the campus. Troops later cornered the attackers inside two university blocks, killing all four of them, the army said.

Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa, the army spokesman, said 18 students and two teachers were killed. One of the teachers included a chemistry professor who was praised as a hero for shooting back at the attackers and allowing some students to escape.

In a statement on the Malala Fund's social media site, Yousafzai said: "This brutality must be stopped."

"I am heartbroken by the attack on students and staff at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda and strongly condemn this brutal assault," she said. "My prayers are with the families of all the victimsand all those who suffer as a result of extremist violence."

She also called for Pakistani authorities to ensure "that all schools and universities are safe. I urge all people with peace in their hearts to renew their resolve to stand up to terrorism and ignorance, and work together to protect life and learning."

Television footage showed a heavy military presence at the university, with soldiers rushing in and people fleeing. Ambulances raced away, taking the wounded to hospitals.

Botany teacher Mohammad Ishtiaq said he saw five gunmen enter the building he was in and begin firing automatic assault rifles, as students ran in all directions. He said he locked himself inside a second-floor bathroom and then jumped out the window when he saw one of the attackers approaching. He broke


his leg in the fall.

Gov. Sardar Mehtab Abbasi later said the attack was over and that troops were combing nearby areas. Pakistani army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif visited the campus, as well as wounded people in a nearby hospital.

The attack revived painful memories of the Taliban assault on an army-run school in December 2014, in which gunmen killed around 150 people, nearly all of them children.

A Taliban leader, Khalifa Umar Mansoor, claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack in a phone call to The Associated Press from an undisclosed location.

Mansoor, who masterminded the Peshawar school attack, said a four-man Taliban team carried out the latest assault. He said it was in revenge for scores of militants killed by Pakistani security forces in recent months, and that the university was attackedbecause it was "an instrument of the government and army."

However, a spokesman for the main Taliban faction in Pakistan later disowned the group behind Wednesday's attack, describing the assault as "un-Islamic." Mohammad Khurasani said those who carry out such attacks should be tried before an Islamic court.

The conflicting accounts reflect growing divisions among the various Taliban factions that operate along the porous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, which have been in increasing disarray as U.S. drone strikes have eliminated top commanders in recent years.

The absence of the overall leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Fazlullah, who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, means that local commanders often operate independently.

Khurasani said the Taliban "consider the students in non-military institutions the future of our jihad movement" and would not kill potential recruits.


He insisted Mullah Fazlullah had nothing to do with the assault.

Wednesday's assault targeted a school named after Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, nicknamed Bacha Khan, a towering secular figure in Pakistani politics who died in 1988. An ally of Mahatma Gandhi, Khan supported non-violent resistance to British colonialism and opposed the 1947 partition.

His son went on to found the Awami National Party, a secular, leftist movement whose vision for Pakistan is starkly opposed to that of the Taliban and other Islamic militants, who for more than a decade have been fighting to overthrow the government and establish a strict Islamic State.

In a statement released after Wednesday's attack, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "we are determined and resolved in our commitment to wipe out the menace of terrorism fromour homeland."

Pakistan vowed to redouble efforts to combat militants after the Peshawar school attack, lifting a moratorium on the death penalty and intensifying a military offensive in North Waziristan, a tribal region and longtime stronghold of the Taliban and other militants.

Last month, as the country marked the anniversary of the school attack, the military claimed "phenomenal successes" in the war and said it had killed around 3,500 insurgents since launching the operation in 2014.

Militant attacks have declined in Pakistan since the start of the North Waziristan operation. But earlier this week a suicide bomber struck a crowded police checkpoint on the edge of Peshawar, killing 11 people in an attack claimed by the Taliban. Two attacks last week in the southwestern city of Quetta killed 19 people, including


Xiaomi Mi 5 Surfaces On GearBest, Specs & Renders Available

Xiaomi Mi 5 has been one of the most talked about smartphones in the last couple of weeks. Now, the company was expected to announced this smartphone in Q3 2015, but that didn't happen. Xiaomi has opted to wait for the Snapdragon 820 SoC to become available, and their exec recently confirmed that the device won't be announced before the Chinese New Year (February 8th), and that it will, in fact, sport the Snapdragon 820 SoC on the inside. A rumor which surfaced earlier today said that the phone will launch on February 20th, and that it will be available for purchase on February 20th or 21st.

That being said, a listing of the Mi 5 has surfaced on GearBest,For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.

Elizabeth Warren wants to give seniors the same pay raise enjoyed by CEOs—and to raise taxes on some executive pay in the process. The liberal senator from Massachusetts is introducing a bill on Thursday to boost Social Security payments for 2016 with a one-time bump in benefits.

Social Security payments—for both retirees and people receiving disability insurance—are pegged to inflation, with the government calculating a cost-of-living adjustment, the percentage by which payments increase each year. But in recent years, with the economy still puttering only slowly upward following the recession, inflation has stalled, which has left Social Security recipients with no or minimal annual increases. 2016 is set to be only the


music and piano pieces still extant, as well as some significant chamber works.

Lang apparently ceased composing after the First World War, however, which means her music is idiomatically conservative. The songs are highly attractive nonetheless: tuneful, harmonically delicate, nearly all gently contemplative, and indeed sounding more British than American, an impression deepened by Donald George's surprisingly British English-sounding accent and style. Many of Lang's songs have Scottish or Irish elements, and the lovely Irish Love Song op.22 was in fact one of her most successful works, reportedly running to over 120,000 copies when published.

Twenty-five songs in 48 minutes indicates an inclination towards considerable brevity, and indeed there are only two songs over three minutes. Objections might be raised regarding the artistic value of setting Edward Lear's doggerel toidea of forming the strike force, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the chief spokesman for the police department.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “was instrumental in getting this moving along,” Guglielmi said, adding that Celinez Nunez, the head of the ATF in Chicago, quickly put the strike force together.

It has a big job ahead: The pace of murders in 2017 has continued unabated from last year, which ended with about 760 killings and was the deadliest year in the city in two decades. There were 320 murders in Chicago through Thursday, compared with 322 over the same period of 2016, according to the police department.

Nevertheless, police officials say another new strategy seems to be turning the tide on shootings in several high-crime districts.

Intelligence centers manned with cops and civilian analysts


Lido Advisors, LLC

Lido Advisors is a national wealth advisory firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California with offices throughout the United States. They utilize experience, creativity, and independence to grow, maximize and protect their clients’ assets and legacy. They offer a dedicated team of resources to the development of coordinated wealth planning to provide innovative, creative, and cutting-edge solutions to high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals, families, and charitable organizations across the U.S.

Lido’s advantage lies in a financial and wealth planning process designed to maximize, organize, and optimize your financial life, legacy, and livelihood.Efficacy of computed axial tomography in the evaluation of the involvement of the respiratory tract in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus.
Squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus is endemic in Rio Grande do Sul, the most southern state of Brazil, where the incidence reaches 27 out of 100,000 inhabitants per year. Palliative treatments, surgical or nonsurgical, impose lower mortality and lower costs. The choice of the best treatment for each patient depends on the neoplasia staging, and the local involvement of the tracheobronchial tree by tumor characterizes incurability. Computed axial tomography (CAT) is indicated, but remarkable contradictions were found in the literature. We studied 134 patients, diagnosed with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, who underwent computed tomography and fiberoptic bronchoscopy (gold standard) performed with an uniform technique. An


Brutal Faceslapping

Vicious slaps to the face!

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Sexy blonde Lady Xenia slaps her slave hard with her red leather gloves leaving him bruised and red in the face. Her slave is bound and tied in the chair and defenseless against Lady Xenia's hard slaps to his face. The hot dominatrix gives him hard face busting slaps from every angle leaving him punished and humiliated. She looks stunning in her all leather outfit with her red leather gloves

The skinny slave gets face slapped by the two beauties, Eileen and Milla. The sexy blond and brunette duo give him some hard slaps in his face leaving him battered and red faced. The slave is down on his knees with his black leather mask on as he receives thehard slaps from them. They are merciless slapping him silly with hard blows that leave him with a nice punishment

The tall sexy blonde Helena face slaps her slave until he is red in the face from her hard slaps. She leaves him red in the face from her hard slaps from her white satin gloves. The hard slapping is very brutal and teaches the slave a lesson he'll never forget for trying to sweet talk the sexy Helena. His face is completely red and marked from her slaps.

Mistress Kitty is a sexy blonde mistress that is taking her slave for a walk in the woods when she finds a quite spot and makes him lick her shoes and feet. When he refuses she slaps and kicks him in


the face hard until his face turns red. She then orders him to lick her shoes and feet and again when he disobeys he is punished and gets slapped and kicked over and over again.

Mistresses Emily and Maggie have slender sexy bodies covered in bathing suits as they get into the bathtub with their loser slave. They get their hands nice and wet and they slap him over and over again with their wet palms. With each powerful slap that these mistresses deliver there is another red mark on their loser slaves face. They tell him that he is a loser and humiliate him for being such a loser while slapping him.Souness: Tevez 'a disgrace to football, a bad apple'

Former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness has branded Carlos Tevez “a disgrace to football” after Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini claimed the Argentina striker refused to come on against Bayern Munich.

Tevez, who has frequently agitated for a move away from Eastlands, ended up staying with the club this summer when no suitable buyers came forward and he has been out of the first team since the start of the current campaign, with the likes of Edin Dzeko, Sergio Aguero and Mario Balotelli all ahead of him.

He was again on the bench for the trip to Germany and Mancini has said he declined to go on the pitch when asked.

Tevez’s actions drew a scathing response from the television pundits, with Souness reacting


Duterte said.

“Huwag kang pumasok diyan. Palibhasa ‘di nga abugado ang t****. Kapag may ano magpadala ng imbestigador, at pati siya pumupunta… You have already concluded na mayroong violation dito.”

In a statement after the lower chamber approved the budget cut, Gascon said he was deeply saddened, saying Congress' move was a "whimsical and capricious display of vindictiveness."

"We had hoped that both the Speaker and the House Majority would have been persuaded by reason and necessity to allocate an adequate budget to CHR in order for us to effectively perform our constitutional mandate as an independent office to protect human rights," he said.

During an ambush interview, CHR Commissioner Gwen Pimentel Gana confirmed that House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez told her during their recent meeting that the CHR's budget would be approvedif Gascon stepped down from his post.

"He [Alvarez] just expressed his feelings the same way he said to the public, that he intends to pursue the P1,000 budget for the CHR and, of course, he did mention that if the chair [Gascon] would step down, then probably the budget would be increased or given to the CHR," she said.

Gascon refused to resign and instead thanked the 32 lawmakers who objected to the budget cut.

All is not lost for the CHR, however, as the House’s budget for the CHR in the 2018 proposed budget will still be reconciled with the Senate’s version at the bicameral conference committee.

The Senate Committee on Finance earlier approved the P678 million budget for the CHR.

In the wake of the House of Representatives’ move, Senator


Panfilo Lacson has vowed to push for the approval of the multi-million budget for the CHR.

The CHR is often criticized by Duterte’s allies, including House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, of only allegedly thinking about the rights of suspected criminals.

The CHR, however, said its primary mandate under the Constitution is to watch our for abuses committed by state forces.Tuberculosis trends in the Pacific: 2000-2006.
The objective in this manuscript is to describe the epidemiology of tuberculosis in 19 Pacific Island countries and territories by analysing routine surveillance data from 2000 to 2006. In addition, progress against World Health Organization targets is described. The setting is National Tuberculosis Programmes in 19 Pacific Island countries and territories served by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. The study is a descriptive study of routinely collected surveillance data from 19 Pacific Island countries and territories. In 2006 there were 1585 cases of TB notified in the Pacific region. The case notification rate in the Pacific was 54/100,000 population. Almost half (49%) of all TB notifications were in the subregion of Micronesia, with 42% in Melanesia and 9% in Polynesia. Micronesia had


males. In 2005, the treatment success rate of new sputum smear positive cases in the Pacific was 85%, equivalent to the WHO target. The treatment success rate of sputum smear positive cases rose from 78% in 2000 to 85% in 2005, an increase of 7%. In 2005, 4% of all people with TB died, and of those with sputum smear positive TB, 8% died. In 2005 in Polynesia, 13% of all people with sputum smear positive TB died. Since the year 2000, the rates of TB have increased in the Pacific region, with a relatively large increase in the subregion of Micronesia. Treatment success rates in the same time period have improved and are now at the WHO target of 85%. The conclusion is that to continue toAP

When I noticed earlier today that the younger brother of Giants coach Tom Coughlin recently had died, I added the item to the list of stories to get posted at some point in the near future.

When I noticed tonight the circumstances, the story shot to the top of the stack.

As explained by Steve Politi of the Newark Star-Ledger, 63-year-old John Coughlin tripped and fell after Sunday’s game between the Broncos and the Giants. John Coughlin had arrived at his Hackensack apartment, and he had just paid his cab fare. He suffered a head injury and brain swelling.

The next morning, Tom Coughlin learned that his brother was on life support.

Two days later, Coughlin was back at work.

Via defensive lineman Justin Tuck, Tom Coughlin told the players “that time on


Photographer Paul Nelson spends the majority of his time shooting commercial work for big name clients like MAC Cosmetics or Target. But when the flow of work began to slow to a trickle over the past couple of years, he embarked on a personal project that he hoped would remind him why he loved photography.

Thus was born Aviary. Shot in partnership with Springbook Nature Center, the photo series captures beautiful studio-style portraits of birds taking flight as they’re released back into the wild.

The series represents a balancing act between the advertising style of shooting — with its crisp white backgrounds and often highly controlled final product — and the unpredictability of photographing birds as they take flight.

Minnesota Original got a chance to see Nelson in action. Here’s theirA human rights activist holds a poster as she pickets the Russian President's Administration building in Moscow, March 10. 2016. The poster reads: Find those, who are guilty.

Reporters from Sweden, Norway and Russia have been taken to hospital after being attacked on the Chechen border. According to preliminary reports, the journalists were removed from their vehicle by their assailants and beaten up by men with possible links to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

A group of journalists and human rights activists traveling on the Kavkaz federal motorway in Russia’s restive North Caucasus region have been beaten up by gunmen, Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, one of Russia’s leading human rights organizations, told Interfax on March 9.

The incident occurred on the administrative border between Chechnya


on fire," the website of the Russian presidential council on development of civil society and human rights cited Kalyapin as saying.

Eight people were injured in the incident, and four of them were taken to hospital, including Norwegian reporter Øystein Windstad of the Oslo daily Ny Tid, journalists from Sweden and Russia, and a driver who is a resident of Ingushetia.

"They have received medical care, and they are now undergoing a medical examination. They are all in a stable condition," Kalyapin told Interfax, adding that the most badly-injured was the Norwegian reporter.

"He had his teeth knocked out, he was beaten with a bat, he suffered stab wounds. It is also the strongest psychological shock," Kalyapin said.

"A female Swedish journalist suffered as well. Our press secretary Ivan Zhiltsov had hisnose broken," he added.

The rights activists also filed a complaint with law enforcement agencies over an attack on their headquarters in Karabulak, Ingushetia, in the evening of March 9. (Dmitry Utukin, a member of the Committee against Torture, reported an attack on the human rights activists' headquarters in his account on Twitter.)

Dmitry Utukin: An armed man is trying to kick out the door from inside our flat in Yandara (Ingushetia). https://t.co/Rt9UFTgtQW — X Soviet (@XSovietNews) March 9, 2016

Kalyapin believes that those responsible for the attack could be the same individuals who attacked an office belonging to human rights campaigners in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in June 2015.

The Kremlin has responded to the incident by calling the attack on the reporters “absolutely outrageous.”

"This is absolutely unacceptable, and we


hope that the republic's law enforcement agencies will take the most effective measures to search for and find those guilty of this attack in order to properly ensure the security of both human rights activists and media representatives – both these and others, in the future," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on March 10.

Johann Bihr, a representative of Reporters without Borders, told Russian business daily Kommersant that "loud statements from the head of Chechnya against his critics" had preceded the incidents involving journalists and representatives of the Committee against Torture.

In turn, Alvi Karimov, press secretary for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, told Interfax that "Bihr's claims demonstrate that he is not aware of the situation and does not possess reliable information, which is why he says absurd thingsThe research was an attempt to establish if, by studying particular physical characteristics normally associated with 'race', if it was possible to determine the genetic background of a person. The results appear in today's issue of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr Sergio Pena and colleagues used a set of genetic markers to test how closely physical 'race-determining' traits correlated with ancestry in Brazil. They chose Brazil as their target population because the country has a long history of inter-ethnic mixing between European, African and Native American lineages.

The group isolated three samples of populations considered representative of the major founding groups of Brazil: Portugal, Africa and Native Americans.

"We wanted to ascertain to what degree the colour of a Brazilian individual was predictive of the degree


of genomic African ancestry," Pena wrote.

The first test group consisted of 173 people living in a rural community who were classified as 'white', 'black' or 'intermediate' based on arm skin pigmentation, hair colour and nose and lip shape. The second consisted of 200 men living in major metropolitan areas of Brazil who classed themselves as 'white', or Caucasian.

The researchers used a genetic marker that distinguishes between people from Portugal and those from Africa. The number of times the African marker appeared was reflected in an African Ancestry Index (AAI) for each person. These AAI values can reliably distinguish between Europeans and Africans.

People who looked 'black' might have expected to score a higher AAI. But in the populations tested, there was little difference in AAI values between groups -sure the online purchase in never troubled, it's too uncomplicated and bonehead- friendly as well as it keeps your personal privacy, the only challenging stage is to select a trusted as well as genuine online drug store which supplies great discounts as well as likewise is protected and also has a great comments from the customers. Right here is a short regarding making an on-line purchase from an on the internet drug store.
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Ralph Nader, the activist and former Green Party presidential candidate, condemned President Donald Trump's team Thursday, saying that many of his appointees are violating their oaths of office and failing to enforce laws in the best interests of the American people.

He made the comments on MSNBC's "The Beat" with host Ari Melber. He was particularly critical of Environment Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has been under fire for a series of scandals that continue to emerge and that many believe may soon force his ouster. But he was also critical of other administration officials, such as Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Nade said. "This is the deepest form of corruption and shutting down of law enforcement agencies.”

Headded that the members of Trump's Cabinet who violate their oaths of office are "serial impeachment candidates," though the Republican Senate is unlikely to act to stop them.

"They are flouting congressionally passed laws, violating them, by subverting them, shutting down enforcement, harassing civil servant investigators, and raising money from the very crooks they're supposed to be prosecuting and putting in jail," Nader continued. "These are high-level, government-installed crooks. And I say that clinically. They're violating their oaths of office to enforce the laws of the land."

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Garfinkl was irretrievably broken. Respondent, wife, answered denying that the marriage was irretrievably broken stating that with help and proper guidance, the marriage could be saved, and requesting that the dissolution proceedings be continued for a period of three months in order that the parties may attempt reconciliation. She counter-petitioned for temporary alimony to sustain herself during the pendency of the proceedings which request was subsequently denied after hearing by order of the trial judge entered April 22, 1974.
By order entered November 27, 1973, the trial court set the cause for trial for the week of January 7, 1974. However, because Nathaniel Garfinkl was taken seriously ill and upon his motion for continuance to that effect, the cause was reset for trial for the week of April 22,1974. Subsequently, respondent-wife moved for a continuance of the trial since she had become hospitalized and would not be able to appear for trial of the cause. The trial was then reset for the week of September 5, 1974.
The cause came on for hearing on September 13, 1974, with respondent being absent because of her illness although represented at the hearing by her counsel. Since the proceedings could not be completed on that date, the court continued the hearing. Acknowledging the need for the appointment of a commissioner to take the wife's deposition in New York because of her illness, the trial judge announced at the September *472 13th hearing that a commissioner would be appointed.
The continued hearing was had on Tuesday, October 8, 1974, at which time


the wife's deposition had not been taken. At the commencement of the hearing counsel for respondent advised the court that they were going to New York Friday to take Mrs. Garfinkl's testimony and that of her physician. Upon motion of respondent-wife for appointment of a commissioner to take the aforedescribed depositions to be used at the trial, the trial judge entered order filed for record October 9, 1974, appointing a commissioner to take the wife's deposition on October 11.
At the opening of the continued hearing, the trial judge expressed his intent to enter a partial judgment of dissolution in the cause, as follows:
"THE COURT: You know, at the last hearing I was almost inclined to grant a partial judgment in this case and grant him a divorce, andare rising and chemical sites are in the path.

What does this mean for toxic spills like those that happened in Texas during Hurricane Harvey and released lye from chemicals plants? Floods also cause emergency disasters like benzene escaping from Ohio refineries and phosphoric acid leaking from Florida fertilizer plants.

More and more scientific reports claim that flooding will worsen in the USA as a result of global climate change, rising sea levels, as well as increased hurricanes and coastal storms.

New FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) maps feature updates on flood insurance rates. This story describes the results and actions to take based on this knowledge in areas around New Orleans, Louisiana.

And on the other side of the country, there are flood advisories in effect for Oahu, Hawai’i. The National


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The only known white lions in history, Temba and Tombi, have been captured by Chris McBride, a zoologist and wildlife expert, and put into a protective enclosure in the Timbavati private nature reserve in the Transvaal, South Africa.

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The only known white lions in history, Temba and Tombi, have been captured by Chris McBride, a zoologist and wildlife expert, and put into a protective enclosure in the Timbavati private nature reserve in the Transvaal, South Africa. Mr. McBride has described his action as the only route for the survival of the two lions.

Mr. McBride had sought permission from the local wildlife authority to bring the cubs into safekeeping. As soon as the order was obtained, he led a team to capture them using tranquilliser darts. The cubs are


now safe at Timbavati and will remain there until a permanent refuge is selected for them.

SYNOPSIS: The wildlife expert had been tracking, observing and photographing the white lions since their birth two years ago but had kept their existence secret from all but a few trusted confidants until he was assured of their survival. Eight months ago, he discovered that their father had disappeared, presumably dead. He observed that serious social disorder was taking place in the pride to which Temba and Tombi belonged and that a new male had asserted leadership. The two white lions then became outcasts. The chances for their survival in the bush became slim. According to the wildlife expert, they would have starved as nomads without a pride because their white colour makesRobuchon is one of the few who made
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this guidance is flawed. It is based more on cultural and personal bias, rather than on a view of Gurbani. Furthermore, the guidance issued is contrary to Sikh teachings.

This statement is not in the spirit of his appointment, which is to promote Sikhi values and principles and to issue guidance and statements that are rooted in Sikhi. We invite the Jathedar Sahib to issue a clarification of his original statement, explaining what Sikh principles and teachings he draws on to reach his conclusion.

The Jathedar has been heavily criticised in the past for making ill-judged comments ... the case of the Delhi rape victim in December 2012, being one such example.

We remain optimistic that, this most basic of human rights, will be recognised by the larger Sikh community.

Sarbat isupwards of $1 million in potential salary from his off-field mistakes over the five years he didn't play in the NRL, Wicks has since turned his life around completely and has been one of Parramatta coach Brad Arthur's shining lights this season.

It was best demonstrated when Wicks chased down Newcastle halfback Tyrone Roberts in the final minute of the game to prevent any chance of Newcastle scoring a last-gasp win, where he was mobbed by his fellow teammates in yellow who were quick to celebrate his clutch tackle.

"It was fitting for me that Danny made that last tackle at the end of the game to force the error," Wicks's coach Brad Arthur said post-game.

"That's how important and how much it meant to him [to play up here]."

A modest


Wicks however refused to take any credit for his efforts in producing the tackle on a runaway Roberts, even as he battled a punctured lip wound which required stitches following the game.

After making 113 metres and 30 tackles against the Knights, Wicks was able to celebrate his re-signing accordingly – which occurred less than two weeks ago – with the Eels snapping up their two-game losing streak.

By labelling it his "second and last chance in the NRL", Wicks said the Eels won't have any regrets over choosing to exercise the prop's second-year option in his contract because, quite frankly, he won't allow them the opportunity.

"I have a family I'm responsible for now. I don't have so much of a point to prove other than to just do mysaid court, makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law.

Findings of Fact.
I. That Peter J. Engberg, above named, is the duly appointed, qualified, and acting guardian of the estate of Ernest L. Martin, incompetent, and that letters of guardianship upon said estate were duly issued to him on January 25, 1928, by the probate court in and for the county of Chisago and state of Minnesota.
II. That defendant, the First National Bank of Rush City, a corporation (hereinafter called the Bank), is a national banking association under the laws of the United States of America.
III. That plaintiff, Ernest L. Martin, was duly adjudged incompetent by said probate court of Chisago county on December 9, 1919, and was duly committed to the State Hospital for the Insane


at Rochester in said state, and was later transferred to the United States Hospital for Disabled Veterans at St. Cloud, Minn., where he is now in confinement.
IV. That thereafter, and on the 7th day of April, 1920, one G. M. Ericson was appointed special guardian of the estate of said Ernest L. Martin, incompetent, by the probate court aforesaid, and during all the times hereinafter mentioned, and until January 4, 1928, said G. M. Ericson having qualified as such guardian continued to act as such, and to have custody and possession of the estate, property, and money of said incompetent, and at the time of his appointment as special guardian of plaintiff's estate, said G. M. Ericson was a stockholder and director, and the cashier of said defendantBank, and was later made a vice president of said Bank, and during all of the time that said G. M. Ericson was acting as special guardian of plaintiff's estate, and in possession of the same and plaintiff's property and money, said G. M. Ericson was the principal managing officer of defendant Bank, and was directly and solely in charge of the affairs and daily business of said Bank.
V. That subsequent to his appointment as such special guardian, the said Ericson opened an account with said Bank for the deposit therein of plaintiff's money and credits, his account being known and designated on the records of said Bank as an account with "Estate of Ernest L. Martin, Incompetent." That of the money and credits coming into the hands


of Ericson in his capacity as special guardian of plaintiff's estate, being the property of plaintiff, the sum of $7,843.64 was paid by the government of the United States to plaintiff on account of a compensable injury suffered by him while in the army and service of the United States, and the sum of $4,600 was paid by the government of the United States to plaintiff on account of his policy of insurance with said government. That all of the payments made to plaintiff by the government of the United States and coming into the hands of said Ericson as special guardian were made by check drawn on the Treasurer of the United States and deposited by the said Ericson in said Bank and credited to said trustduring all the times herein mentioned, the said G. M. Ericson was stockholder and director of said Land Company and its principal manager and executive officer. That the said Land Company was also a depositor of said Bank and carried a checking account therein to which deposits were credited from time to time in favor of said Land Company.
VIII. That said G. M. Ericson was also a depositor in said Bank in his individual capacity and carried a checking account therein during all the times herein mentioned.
IX. That both Ericson and the Land Company during the times herein mentioned were in financial straits, and during this period Ericson habitually made overdrafts on his checking account. Such overdrafts were customarily permitted by said Bank, and the Bank customarily and


$1,500 and by credit slip credited the Land Company's account in the amount so drawn. Thereafter a large number of withdrawals were made by Ericson from the plaintiff's account and deposited in his personal account to cover his overdrafts or to increase the funds in his own personal account. A considerable number of withdrawals and deposits were made by debit and credit slips, but the use of debit slips in connection with withdrawals from plaintiff's account was not limited to misappropriation of the funds in the estate. Many legitimate claims against this estate were paid by this method; that is, Ericson would draw a debit slip against the estate funds and pay a legitimate bill with cash of the Bank and thereafter credit the cash account with theamount debited against plaintiff's account.
XI. That in the latter part of 1925, the Land Company was in dire financial circumstances and had no funds with which to pay checks drawn on its account in the defendant Bank. That for some period of time in the years 1925 and 1926, checks of the Land Company aggregating $418 drawn on the defendant Bank were carried as cash items by the bookkeeper at the suggestion of said Ericson, and then on March 2, 1926, with the intent on his part and on the part of the Land Company to misappropriate the same, Ericson ordered the bookkeeper to charge these checks to the account of the plaintiff herein and thereafter such charge was accordingly made.
XII. That between May 10, 1921, and May


Bank by way of overdrafts, and the Bank knowingly received trust funds on that date for unlawful purposes. That notwithstanding the breach of trust committed by its agent and the knowledge thereof by the Bank on said date, the said Bank permitted said Ericson to remain in full charge of said Bank and to remain as custodian of said trust funds, and thereafter received from the said trust funds the sum of $2,330.62 to apply on indebtedness due it from the said Ericson and the said Land Company.
XV. That during all the times herein mentioned, the said Ericson was financially embarrassed and frequently overdrew his account with the Bank, all of which was known to the Bank, and on several occasions during this period, the bank examiners inlong time have been insolvent, and no part of the funds so embezzled by the said Ericson, as hereinbefore stated, has been returned to or received by the plaintiff. That the defendant Bank became insolvent on June 4, 1927, and on said date the Comptroller of the Currency appointed a receiver of said Bank and ever since that time has been and now is in receivership.
XVIII. That plaintiff never filed any claim with the receiver before the commencement of this suit, but defendant at no time recognized the validity of plaintiff's claim, and any demand or presentation of a formal claim to the defendant or its receiver would have been an idle procedure.
XIX. That on account of the facts hereinbefore stated, the defendant is liable to the plaintiff


all moneys diverted and misappropriated by Ericson on and after February 4, 1922, which is the date that the first overdraft was paid with trust funds. This date marks the time when the Bank became aware of the perfidy of its cashier and it became in possession of information as to his breach of trust which required it to protect its incompetent depositor from further loss.
The Bank knew that plaintiff's account consisted of trust funds. This account was carried as the "Estate of Ernest L. Martin" for nearly six years. The character of this account and the way in which it was carried gave to the Bank sufficient notice to indicate that these funds did not belong to Ericson. The Bank knew, or should have known, that thehad a perfect right to maintain an account with the Bank as guardian even though he was sole manager and executive officer of the Bank. In disbursing the funds of the estate he would act as representative of himself and not of the Bank. When an officer of a bank deals with the bank on his own account, the knowledge of the officer is not generally imputed to the bank.
The Bank had a right to rely on the presumption that as a fiduciary Ericson would act lawfully and within the scope of his authority. A banking institution should not be required to supervise and scrutinize the various withdrawals made by a depositor that has an account in a trust capacity. The exigencies of modern banking business would justify


rule: "That knowledge of an agent, actually concealed from his principal, while the agent is dealing with the principal on his own account, is not to be imputed to the principal, even though the agent, assuming to act as such, did whatever was done on the part of the principal in the transaction with himself, if disclosure of the matter concealed would have had a tendency to defeat his purposes." Bank of Overton v. Thompson (C. C. A.) 118 F. 798, 801. The principle contended for by the defendant is not applicable to the facts of this case. On February 4, 1922, Ericson, within the scope of his authority as the sole manager and executive officer and the only official representing the Bank in the transaction, accepted andretained trust funds to pay indebtedness due the Bank by the way of an overdraft. Thereby the act of Ericson became the act of the Bank and the knowledge of Ericson became the knowledge of the Bank.
The Bank was apparently a one man institution. The directors left the entire management of the Bank to Ericson. They paid very little attention to its affairs and evidently permitted Ericson to carry on his scheme to defraud for a period of four years without any other official being personally cognizant of his duplicity. The use of debit and credit slips by Ericson in disbursing funds on this account is indicative of his control. The directors, however, had received direct information that Ericson was in financial straits, and that he was frequently


overdrawn in his account. Ericson's conduct in this regard must have been quite flagrant to cause the bank examiners in their several reports to refer to his habit of overdrawing his account. It would seem that any reasonable supervision on the part of the officials of the Bank would have disclosed the misuse of trust funds. The other employees of the Bank were evidently dominated by Ericson and knowingly assisted him in the diversion of trust funds. It was the bookkeeper on Ericson's order that made the various bank entries regarding the transfer of trust funds and the charge of $418 of Land Company's checks to plaintiff's account.
The Bank was put on its guard when this account was opened. It knew that Ericson was not the owner ofthese funds. A guardian does not have title to his ward's funds. He is merely the custodian thereof. Notwithstanding this knowledge and its duty to its depositor, the plaintiff herein, the Bank placed Ericson in complete charge of the banking institution and permitted him to be the only bank official that was connected with the handling of this trust account for a period of four years.
Overdrafts as a practical matter are loans from a bank to a depositor. The loans of Ericson and the Land Company were repaid with trust funds. The Bank received and retained the benefits of Ericson's acts in taking care of the various overdrafts and cannot not now be heard to say that it accepts the acts of its cashier in part but not


in their entirety. If it accepts the advantages of the acts, it also must accept the disadvantages. It was neither Ericson, the guardian, nor Ericson, the individual, that acted on February *846 4, 1922, when the overdraft of $597.65 was repaid to the Bank by the use of a debit slip of $700 on plaintiff's account. It was neither Ericson, the individual, nor Ericson, the guardian, that provided for the payment of $418 of Land Company's checks with the funds of the plaintiff. The act of Ericson in applying trust funds to the payment of overdrafts was the act of Ericson, the cashier. It thereby became the act of the Bank, and the Bank thereby received actual knowledge and positive information of the breach of the trust. Insteadof taking steps to protect the funds intrusted to its care, it became a privy to the defalcation. It participated in the fruits of Ericson's peculations and permitted him to remain in full charge of its banking institution. It will be presumed to have known that debit slips were being used by its cashier to divert trust funds through unauthorized channels. The act of Ericson in proceeding to transfer trust funds by way of debit and credit slips was scarcely the act of an ordinary depositor that had custody of trust funds. The Bank permitted Ericson to continue as cashier notwithstanding its attention had been called by the bank examiners to the frequent overdrafts and when it knew that such overdrafts were being paid with trust funds. It


name. He drew checks and placed them to the credit of his own and his brother's account, which were at the time heavily overdrawn. In reversing the decision of the lower court, the court held that the bank could not disclaim knowledge of the fact that these sums paid on overdrafts did not belong to the debtors, and stated: "Cases may arise in which the knowledge of its sole executive should not be impressed upon the corporation, but the plain facts in this case forbid the bank such immunity. The accounts of Leps and his brother had become heavily overdrawn. These overdrafts constituted debts due the bank. Admitting as true the contention of the bank that the bank paid the checks in question, and then plaintiff's treasurer stolefrom the plaintiff the money obtained therewith  these facts do not exculpate the bank. In settlement of the overdrafts, the bank's cashier accepted this so-called stolen money which he knew was not the money of Leps or his brother, but which he knew was money embezzled from the Orchard Company. It was to the interest of the bank to have these overdrafts adjusted; but the bank may not close its eyes to the fact that these payments were made with money which the debtors had no right to use and its cashier no right to receive. In attempting to avail itself of the acts of its cashier to its advantage, the bank becomes subject to those to its disadvantage. * * *"
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he being its treasurer, with his own, by depositing the same in his personal account. He thereafter checked out thousands of dollars and turned the same over to the bank to pay his debts to the bank. In turn he took defendant's warrants which were carried in the bank's note pouch as assets and exhibited them to the school officers as vouchers for his disbursements. There were many irregular transactions wherein he was the sole representative of the bank. Under the rule stated, the bank must be held chargeable with his knowledge  he knew all.
"The court found as a fact that when the bank closed, Smith's account therein was overdrawn, and an amount therein, rightfully belonging to defendant and exceeding the sum of all the orders involved,such trustee or guardian."
In the case of Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Farmers' Bank, supra, the court speaking through Judge Booth, approved the language used in the Bischoff v. Yorkville Bank, supra. The Bischoff Case concerned the peculations of one Poggenburg. He was an executor of an estate and deposited the funds of the estate to his individual account by checks drawn upon another bank. The checks that were deposited were signed by him in the name of the estate. Later on he paid from such deposits, which consisted wholly of trust funds, a personal indebtedness to the bank of deposit. The bank was held liable not only for the sum so paid but also for subsequent withdrawals. The statement in the Bischoff Case which was


approved in the Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Farmers' Bank, supra, reads as follows:
"A bank does not become privy to a misappropriation by merely paying or honoring the checks of a depositor drawn upon his individual account in which there are, in the knowledge of the bank, credits created by deposits of trust funds. The law does not require the bank, under such facts, to assume the hazard of correctly reading in each check the purpose of the drawer, or, being ignorant of the purpose, to dishonor the check. The presumption is, and after the deposits are made remains until annulled by adequate notice or knowledge, that the depositor would preserve or lawfully apply the trust funds. The contract, arising by implication of law, from aMADISON, Wis. - When new defensive line coach Charlie Partridge joined the UW coaching staff last spring, he accepted a major challenge with his new role. After losing Nick Hayden to graduation, and the rest of the line to injuries, many were worried about how the line would perform in 2008. However, five games into the season, Partridge has his defensive line playing at an extremely high level.

BadgerBlitz.com caught up with the new position coach Wednesday following practice. The following is a question and answer with Partridge.

Five game into the season, how do you feel the defensive line has progressed especially through the losses and tough times?

Partridge: Well the thing that I'm most proud of, while we've had two heartbreaking losses in a row, without question is their


finger toward 30 targets, randomly presented at one of the three possible positions (10 targets in the center, 10 on the right, 10 on the left), with visible pointing (only first and eleventh session). Note that in visible pointing, the arm movement was performed below the top face of the box, but the index finger was visible at the final stage of pointing. Afterward, LN patients were required to point with their right index finger toward 30 new targets, which were again randomly presented at one of the three possible positions (10 targets in the center, 10 on the right, 10 on the left). The pointing movement was now performed entirely below the top face of the box, so that the index finger was not visible at anyMARC LEPINE: CRIMINAL OR FOLK HERO?
Most folk heroes started out as criminals, so they say. In 1989, it was clear to most people what Marc Lepine was: a criminal and a mass murderer. Twenty years later, it has changed: it is far from clear now. The simple fact that his name has not been forgotten and that his visibility, dare we say popularity, has increased, says a lot not only about the man but about the general public and its perceptions.

Monday, August 10, 2009

GEORGE SODINI: A SLOPPY JOB, BUT VALID REASONS

So, George Sodini, the Health Club gunman, went on a rampage over sexual rejection on August 4th, 2009. Three women were shot and killed while in an exercise class at the LA Fitness Center in Bridgeville. Before opening


fire on the aerobics class, George wrote about feeling lonely and rejected (characteristics that put him in the company of other mass killers whose isolation helped create a murderous cocktail). Sodini's deadly rampage at a suburban Pittsburgh health club shares threads with other massacres analyzed by psychiatrists and legal experts, who say the line between lonely and homicidal remains hard to place. "These people get into a very self-centered, self-aggrandizing psychotic path, that enables them to finally get the attention they crave".

The 48-year-old Sodini fatally shot himself after killing three women and wounding nine others attending a weekly Latin dance aerobic class. He produced three guns, firing indiscriminately after shutting off the lights. Police says Sodini didn't know his victims. His 4,000 words blog is a monthslong diarylamenting his wrongful rejection by American women and talking of his plans. In his Web diary, he wrote that his anger stemmed from unfulfilled desires. This is typical of such type of killing. The perpetrator wants everyone to understand and appreciate why he did it. In his mind, to kill other people and not just himself, sends a broader message. Many mass murderers feel rejected by a "pseudo community" that exists only in their minds. Chronic failures with women, these isolated loners "divert their masculinity into destructive episodes that make them significant and larger than life". And it works, then in the end: they end up really LARGER THAN LIFE.

And now the critique. Three handguns is too much to bring to a massacre (it is overkill), only three


Real Ease To Super Cup Win

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to ensure a successful Wales homecoming for his teammate Gareth Bale as Real Madrid comfortably won the UEFA Super Cup against Sevilla in Cardiff.

The former Manchester United star struck in each half to secure a 2-0 win and underline Madrid's dominance of a game they controlled throughout.

The Spanish giants thrilled a capacity 33,500 crowd at Cardiff City Stadium with their all-singing, all-dancing game, and Sevilla's players were often reduced to a spectating role.

Bale, who joined Real from Tottenham in a world record 86 million-pound deal last summer, also stamped his class on proceedings, delivering a precision cross from which Ronaldo scored the opener.

And when the Portuguese pounced again early in the second period, there was no way back forEuropa League title holders Sevilla as the 2014 Champions League winners showcased their enviable quality.

Real boss Carlo Ancelotti paraded his awe-inspiring wealth of playing talent, with major summer signings James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos joining Bale and Ronaldo in a team captained by goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

James and Kroos both had their moments, with the electric passing speed of the Colombia international a regular highlight, while Bale's former Spurs colleague Luka Modric worked tirelessly in midfield.

Although the Spanish domestic season does not start for almost another fortnight, Real already look in ominous form, suggesting they will not only challenge for another European crown but also seriously threaten Atletico Madrid's reign as La Liga champions.

Prematch talk about the Sevilla side revolved around a player not involved -- left-back Alberto Moreno


-- who is thought to be on the verge of joining Liverpool, with Sevilla manager Unai Emery seemingly resigned to that outcome.

Real predictably monopolised possession in the early stages, but Bale's first involvement almost saw him put through by Ronaldo. He appeared to be brought down on the edge of Sevilla's penalty area, yet referee Mark Clattenburg waved play on.

Bale then saw a shot deflected narrowly wide as pressure began to mount, and when Ronaldo was sent crashing to the turf, Clattenburg this time gave a free kick that Ronaldo dipped just over the bar.

Casillas was not called into action until the 20th minute, and he had to be alert at his near post to block a Vitolo shot as Sevilla displayed a counter-attacking hunger after being penneddeep inside their own half.

It was a let-off for the underdogs, but Ronaldo was not to be denied 15 minutes before the break, finishing from close range for his 17th goal in 10 appearances against Sevilla after Bale's inch-perfect cross created an easy opening.

Sevilla could have few complaints, having played second fiddle for long periods as Real's masterful exhibition of passing meant they enjoyed prolonged periods of control.

Casillas was pressed into his second save of the game as half-time approached, deflecting a Daniel Carrico effort high and wide, but Real had no further scares in securing a 1-0 interval advantage.

And Ronaldo stamped a defnitive mark on proceedings just four minutes after the break when he rifled a powerful left-footed shot into the corner of Beto's net to double


talk of needing to win her own mandate. Purists will say she is absolutely right about that.

What’s more, May is on the record as having said there would be no snap election under her leadership anyway. She said it on 30 June at the Royal United Service Institute in the speech that launched her bid to succeed Cameron. It’s there in black and white. She said it because she meant it, and in part because the markets needed to hear her say it so soon after the Brexit vote. Anyone who thinks that May is the kind of politician who says something so important without meaning it underestimates her, as many do.

Nevertheless, May cannot wholly ignore the political and journalistic culture that she currently commands. Already, in theearly weeks, there has been plenty of speculation about an early election, including yesterday in the Times by the no longer quite as influential as he was Tim Montgomerie. Labour’s leadership contest has partly been triggered by the fear of just such a snap poll.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Harold Wilson in 1970, the year he called an early general election – and lost. Photograph: PA

That talk is going to grow louder this autumn. Unless May utterly quashes the speculation, it will be the rumbling descant to the Tory conference in Birmingham in October.

True, that speculation will mainly come from the press, many of whom still don’t get it about May. The idea that a prime minister who takes over in mid-term is somehow illegitimate without a fresh mandate is


2011, the prime minister no longer has the power to call a general election off his or her own bat. If May wanted to call an early election she would therefore face daunting parliamentary and political hurdles before she could do so.

Voters know when an election is appropriate. Harold Wilson and Ted Heath both fell foul of that instinct

To comply with the act, she would have to ensure that two-thirds of MPs, 433 of the current 650, supported her. Even supposing that all 330 Tories did so, she would still need Labour votes. Yet why should Labour MPs become willing martyrs in an election that by definition the Tories thought they would win handsomely?

The only alternative allowed by the act is for the government to contrive to losethe wealthy and their struggles.

Neo Yokio doesn’t quite do the work of unpacking how the pursuit of material objects and social status emotionally stunts its characters. Kaz Kaan suffers emotional setbacks and learns lessons about chasing status, but at the end of the day he’s still drinking Chateau Lafitte in a cafe on the upper floors of a submerged World Trade Center (which in this universe was never destroyed). There are no poor people in their lives, nor any middle class, and Kaz’s loss of social status is framed by the show as just as bad as the plight of the hypothetical working class. The only person we see in the show who seems to come from a impoverished background is pop star Sailor Pellegrino from North Cackalacka.


Goya. A small word, but one that contains multitudes. It is one of those mythic beasts, the “untranslatables,” the foreign words that supposedly lack any equivalent in English. Lists of them spread virally online. Someone may have shared one with you on social media: it might have included utepils, sgrìob and saudade—of which more later. But for now, let us examine goya.

Urdu speakers know the meaning of goya in their bones; for the rest of us it is a mystery. When a native son or daughter of Pakistan hears it, whole worlds are conjured—scenes of tales told around a fire as the smoke rises into the crisp air of the Hindu Kush, of being dandled on a grandmother’s knee, of being told a cautionary tale by a villageGiant Bombcast 583: "Under the Top!"

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It will rival the ANC's Women's League which is currently the only political party with a women's branch.

African feminism will be on the agenda of the soon to be formed Economic Freedom Fighters women's command.

The party says the new wing will not stray away from its current constituency, which focuses on black workers' rights. The red berets' Lee-Anne Mathys said it would take a while to carefully position the women's movement in the current South African context.

"We need to properly position feminism in the context of African feminism and then break it down to South African feminism, what's working for our black women," Mathys explained.

The ANC is currently the only political party with a women's wing with its ANC Women's League. The league, chaired by the Minister SocialDevelopment Bathabile Dlamini, has been in existence for over 50 decades under the mother body.

It was not until 1948 that the women were formally allowed to be a part of the ANC, but for a long time they were only deployed in catering and mobilisation. The league was formed from the Bantu Women`s League (BWL) which was chaired by struggle stalwart, Charlotte Maxeke. The BWL was mostly involved in passive resistance and concentrated on the fight against passes for black women.

"We also want to make sure that it doesn't become another women's section of playing kitchen politics in a political party," Mathys said.

Reflecting on the role of women in the EFF, party member Simamkele Dlakuva, published by News24, criticized the party for dragging its feet in an alleged


rape incident.

Two EFF student leaders (current and former) were accused of rape at the University of Cape Town, leading to the suspension of only one of the accused from the institution's student body.

She also goes on to mention how black women candidates at the university were harassed by men within the party on social media.

"Again, there have been no disciplinary action taken against these men, how are these inactions a demonstration of a commitment to anti-sexism by the EFF," she laments. "Why are toxic forms of masculinity allowed to flourish within the party without any cost?"

She says while there is a fair representation of black women in leadership positions as in the North West province with over 60 percent of female counsellors, the party needs to move "beyondAfter Anne Frank” by Ivna Bruk, presented by Gary Goldschneider.Berthe Meijer (b. April 21, 1938) survived the horrors of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She and her family were close friends with the Anne Frank family in Amsterdam. Berthe and Anne met again shortly before the latter’s death in the horror camp, where Anne told the little kids a fairy-tale to keep their courage up. Had Anne lived she might have pursued a similar career to Berthe as a Dutch journalist. Berthe’s book, entitled Life After Anne Frank is a testament to her strength and courage in not only surviving but learning how to live, helped by her work with eminent Dutch psychiatrist and renowned novelist Hans Keilson. In her book Berthe asks the question: is it possible to lead


a normal life after such a traumatic childhood? She relates her experiences with exceptional clarity and objectivity, but must constantly deal with holes in her memory, created by her childhood traumas. We present here the first public reading of excerpts from the English translation of her book done by her husband Gary Goldschneider. Berthe passed away on July 10, 2012 from ovarian cancer.

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Dance and music performance Notes from the UnderworldNamiko Gahier-Ogawa, French-Japanese director-choreographer, and renowned concert pianist-composer Gary Goldschneider present a contemporary live dance, theater and piano performance, Notes from the Underworld.
We always go back to the mythsbecause they are universal, containing timeless truths about mankind.
Based on the seasonal myth of Persephone abducted by Pluto into the Underworld, Notes from the Underworld develops another view of the Greek tale, in which a contemporary heroine decides to explore her psyche, on her own will, going deeper down into labyrinthian caverns and sinuous waters, in an attempt to discover the sacred dimension of life.
The obscurities of Pluto’s Underworld kingdom reveal all fears but also give birth to light.
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Short conference “The Meaning of Key: Redefining Western Music” by Gary GoldschneiderGary Goldschneider (b.


May 22, 1939) is the author the bestselling book The Secret Language of Birthdays, which presents his theory of Personology. Also a concert pianist, composer and music professor, Gary has evolved a new theory of music interpretation according to the use of the major and minor keys of Western classical music. By studying in depth the classical music literature, much in the same way he studied many thousands of human personalities to extract his Personology theory, he was able to derive characteristics of the 12 major and 12 minor keys as they were used by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and other master composers. Thus they become a guide to the classical performer as to how these works could be interpreted. In his lecture-demonstration he will not only outline thefully starting in January. "The year is going to be spent making a new record, a new record that will come out in 2021, the beginning of 2021, and then we're looking at 18 months of touring again," said Forge. "Next year is going to be, at least from a touring point of view, off. But there's going to be a lot of other things happening, so be sure that you're going to see plenty from Ghost next year."

Forge recently stated that he has "maybe 50 ideas" for the next album, but so far only has a demo of one track, preferring to wait until January to dig in.

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first stop. Here you can get a map of the various loookout points offering the best views of Gariwerd. Before driving up the long and winding mountain road though, there’s a couple more stops you need to do.

First is a visit to the Brambuk the National Park and Cultural Centre. The area around Gariwerd has been home to the Djab Wurrung and the Jardwadjali tribe of Aboriginal Australians. The Brambuk cultural center preserves the history culture of is indegenous people in the centre through various exhibits. A must-watch before heading up the mountains are the two films shown at the centre’s Dreaming Theatre.

The ‘Gariwerd Creation Story’ depicts the Aboriginal legend of Tchingal the giant emu and War the crow and the formation of the Grampians/Gariwerd mountains.

‘Gariwerd a CulturalLandscape’ illustrates the geology, flora and fauna, Aboriginal and European history and the various uses of the Grampians.

The two films gives you a better understanding (and hopefully, better appreciation) of the area. The AU$5 (adult) ticket is for both movies. The Dreaming Theatre is not just a theatre; there are displays and models on each side of the room, and giant emu. The giant emu was enough to freak out two adults (me and my sister). Imagine how my niece reacted while the movie was playing, and the emu’s red eyes started glowing. My niece didn’t want to finish the movie anymore, so I was left alone inside the small theatre with the giant emu. Luckily, the lights remained off during the 2nd movie.

With the giant emu behind


caravan park was definitely much…rugged as our previous accomodation. Then again, there was a huge price discrepancy as well. Nevertheless, after a long day on the road, it was a welcome respite.

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A country’s tourism industry can be best marketed by the natives and citizens who have learnt and appreciated all there is to see in specific areas like National Parks, cities, mountains and other various tourist attractions.

In Uganda however, until recently, it has been hard for locals to market tourism since it had been conceived as something meant for only foreigners (Read whites).

Just a handful of Ugandans have actually taken a step to visit National Parks, Lakes and other tourist sites in the country despite the fact that tourism remains among the top contributors to Uganda’s revenue.

In a move to woo Ugandans to embrace domestic tourism, following the World Tourism Day celebrations that were held in Mbarara, players in the private


sector launched the Uganda Travel Month, a campaign that rallies Ugandans to visit different Tourist sites in the country, at a subsidized price.

People line up to board buses before departure at Garden City Mall on Saturday

The campaign was further boosted by the launch of the MTN Uganda Guide App, a mobile application that provides a traveller with details of the different tourist sites in Uganda, different places that offer meals and accommodation among others.

The App also has details of the six different trips that will be taken during the whole campaign.

Currently, only two trips have been completed, one to Queen Elizabeth National Park and the most recent one to Murchison Falls National Park.

I was part of the group that went to Murchison Falls on the weekend of October8th to 9th. The group consisted of businessmen, public servants, tour operators among many other different professionals. There was also a team of Travel writers in the country which included yours truly.

We set off from one of Kampala’s biggest shopping centers, Garden City Mall on Saturday and drove through the smooth roads amid the chilly morning weather. It’s a five hours drive from Kampala up to the Park entry gate, thanks to the good roads.

Women headed to their work places in Kalerwe, Kampala on Saturday morning

At the entry gate, we were required to register before entering the park and being a large number, the exercise took us some time.

The sun was shining bright and the place was so hot that beans of perspiration started forming on people’s skins.


in the middle of the Park. It is bisected by the Nile and we have to wait for two hours for the ferry to take us across.

Boat Ride on the Nile

The group was split into two, with one half going for a game drive while the other group took a boat ride on the River Nile.

Our guide, a one David explained to us that the animals that could be spotted while on the boat included Crocodiles, Hippos and the various bird species. The Park has over 460 bird species including Shoebill storks.

Group one takes a launch drive on the Nile

I however was much interested in the animals so I chose to take the game drive first.

Safari Drive Through the Park

At around 4pm, we set off for a safariwith, proposed to his girlfriend right in front of the falls, the excitement was taken a notch higher.

At the end of it all, it could be seen that Ugandans had actually appreciated the beauty of their country and they could tell how Uganda’s tourist has come of age. They will have many tales about their experience of being in the wild.

Some of the group members pose for a photo in front of Murchison Falls

Many will undertake personal initiatives to explore other exciting features in the different tourist sites that Uganda is endowed with and will encourage their friends who could have missed out on the trip.

Sharing their experiences both on Social media, blogs and use of word of mouth will be a very great tool for marketing Uganda’s


less than 15 percent of household income, while in Los Angeles the figure was 97 percent.

Researchers looked at a broad sample of households receiving HUD rental assistance who had also completed the National Household Travel Survey, then modeled what they spend on transportation using estimates for the costs of car ownership and transit. They concluded that transportation costs exceed the affordability threshold for 48 percent of those households.

Among the cities with the highest share of rental assistance properties with high transportation costs are Houston, Phoenix, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. “Not surprisingly, these and other metropolitan areas… are found to be among the most sprawling MSAs in the country by previous studies,” write authors Shima Hamidi and Reid Ewing.

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Sir John Major has attacked Jacob Rees-Mogg's European Research Group – claiming they are worse than the bullies in his party under his premiership.

The former Conservative prime minister said that the pressure the ERG were applying was worse than the eurosceptic members of his own cabinet which he called 'bastards' when they opposed his support for the European Union back in the 1990s.

He told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast that he had great sympathy for Theresa May.

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Editorial departmentSammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti. Written by johnno.r[at]xtra.co.nzcenters across the country. One of these centers is located behind closed doors at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Sci Fri producers Alexa Lim and Becky Fogel got a tour from Marc Hachadourian, the director of the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections at the garden.

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To describe some of the suggested health benefits and risks of regular running in young and middle-aged women, a group of 428 Swiss female contestants in a popular 16-km race was studied by questionnaire (response rate 86%). The estimated endurance estimate capacity of female runners (VO2max equivalents, based on 16-km running time) was superior to the endurance capacity of both the female and the male general population. The strongest predictor of runners' VO2max was habitual weekly training distance. Training and life-style characteristics of the contestants were able to explain part of, but not the whole, difference in VO2max seen between runners and women of the general population. Running activity was positively associated with reported weight loss and quitting smoking.Total and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

:: Putin reaffirms Russia's Arctic oil claims with visit to island chain

Image: More than 50% of the plant is owned by Russian gas producer Novatek

The project's first deputy director, Dmitry Monakov, appeared to take a swipe at Qatar as he said producing LNG in permafrost was easier than in warmer climates.

He said: "Nature itself helps us to more effectively liquefy gas with the help of such low temperatures."

Mr Monakov also said transportation costs were low as the plant effectively sat on a gas field.

Total chairman Patrick Pouyanne praised the "low upstream costs" and added: "Together we managed to build from scratch a world-class LNG project in extreme conditions to exploit the vast gas resources of the Yamal peninsula."

The Yamal facility aims to


demonstrate the capacity Russia, the world's biggest gas exporter, has to exploit its Arctic reserves while strengthening its market presence in Asia.

The first LNG cargo tanker, which is named after former Total CEO Christophe de Margerie, who died in an accident on a Moscow airport runway in 2014, is expected to leave on Saturday for China.

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The Yamal LNG company is owned by Novatek - 50.1%, Total - 20%, CNPC - 20%, and Silk Road Fund - 9.9%.

Samuel Lussac, oil and gas specialist at Wood Mackenzie consultancy, said: "Despite challenging operating conditions, Yamal LNG was delivered on time and on budget.

"That is unusual in the LNGbottom.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]Baker, Zumaya, Perkins and Blackburn are established MLB talents that the Twins were counting on to carry weight on a questionable staff. Attempting to fill holes with the same marginal pitchers who were rejected during spring training isn't likely to pay dividends.Instead, the Twins should take advantage of an opportunity afforded to them by their status as a retooling American League cellar-dweller.Up until the end of April, waiver claim priority is dictated by last year's records, meaning that the Twins get first dibs on any player waived by an AL club. At the beginning of May, the waiver order determinant flips over to this year's records, but the Twins should remain near the top of the list at that point unless they start rattling off wins over the


Lalgarh rally to be a turning point after Nandigram, Singur: TC

The Trinamool Congress will launch a Nandigram type of movement with its rally at Lalgarh on Monday in 'Jungle Mahal' prior to the assembly elections in West Bengal next year.

'Jungle Mahal' has 18 assembly seats, a majority of which are held by the CPI(M).

"A movement will be built up in Jungle Mahal in the coming days for restoration of peace, democracy and development which will be a turning point after Nandigram and Singur," senior Trinamool Congress leader and union minister Sisir Adhikary told PTI from Lalgarh.

"The Nandigram and Singur mass movements contributed to the defeat of the CPI(M) in Bengal," he said.

'Jungle Mahal', the Maoist-affected areas of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts, were Left bastions in the2006 assembly elections and the last year's Lok Sabha polls with the Trinamool making no headway.

The West Bengal government in a climb-down agreed to give permission for the August 9 rally and roll back prohibitory orders for it in the heart of 'Jungle Mahal' after the Trinamool Congress rejected conditions set by it.

The Centre has allowed the state government to deploy the CRPF for the rally, which would be addressed by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

Banerjee had last visited West Midnapore district on January 15 for a rally at Jhargram where she had given a call to the Maoists to come forward for talks after giving up arms.

The Trinamool Congress chief, who has denied the CPI(M) allegations of links with the Maoists, has called the rally under an


and Binpur."

WBPCC president Manas Bhunia said though the party was yet to receive a formal invitation he wished the Trinamool Congress chief success with the rally.

"We are wishing success to the rally as it is directed against the stifling of democracy and torture on innocent tribals by the ruling party," he said.

The green signal for the rally came from the government in spite of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee saying recently that it could not be allowed because of the Maoist threat in Lalgarh.

CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose has alleged that the Trinamool banner has been withdrawn from the rally to make room for Maoists.Armed Man holed up inside Pico Rivera home. At least one person shot and killed. (Credit: KTLA)

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Sheriff's deputies were on the scene Friday of a shooting and hostage situation unfolding at a home in Pico Rivera.

The incident began as a search for a parolee wanted for a variety of felonies, according to Nicole Nishida with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

During the search, the parolee broke into a home in the 9000 Block of Rosehedge Drive, Nishida said.

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