Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University.
A 73-year-old man who had been receiving chronic anticoagulation treatment with warfarin for multiple prior strokes presented to the hospital because of several weeks of pain in his right calf. He also complained of several months of anorexia and weight loss of 20 lbs. On physical examination, he was thin and showed signs of temporal wasting. There was minimal pitting edema in the right leg, with a positive Homans' sign. Lower extremity Doppler ultrasound showed a popliteal thrombus. The morning after admission, he developed an acutely swollen, painful upper extremity and was found to have an occlusive clot in the left subclavian vein. Because these thrombi occurred in the setting of a therapeutic prothrombin time (international normalized ratio, 2.7)of public infrastructure in Canada, the Ontario Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (OCSI) is committed to the sustainability of our transportation, water and sewer systems and other public infrastructure in Ontario. Our mandate is: Promoting safe and sustainable infrastructure. Our coalition of associations represents public works practitioners in Ontario including:


tour will keep you busy. Founded in
1488, Bikaner is named after its founder Rao Bikaji. However,
long before this, it was trade center on the caravan routes
from Africa and West Asia. Enclosing the city is a 7 km wall,
having 5 gates for entrance. The attractions of the city
include a 16th century fort containing old palaces, temples
and mosque. Also in the itinerary for Bikaner, will be a visit
to Lallgarh Palace, the museum, Bhanda Sagar Jain temple and
Dashnok Rat temple. The overnight stay will be at the hotel.

DAY 13 :: BIKANER - MANDAWA
You will leave in the morning drive for Mandawa. First thing
on arrival, will be a check in at the hotel. Afternoon will be
reserved for exploring Mandawa. The city has beautiful
frescoes, havelis and mansions. Mandawa castle was one of the
finestthe center electrode in a lateral direction of the spark plug. The noble metal-made tip is connected to the body through a fused portion formed by materials of the body and the noble metal-made tip melted together and extends toward the center electrode to define a spark gap between the noble metal-made tip and the center electrode. If a portion of the noble metal-made tip of the ground electrode closest to the tip of the center electrode is defined as a ground electrode tip, and a portion of the fused portion closest to the tip of the center electrode is defined as a fused portion tip, the ground electrode tip and the fused portion tip are located within a range defined by a first line extending from the


tip of the center electrode in a lateral direction of the center electrode and a second line extending from a portion of the center electrode closest to the ground electrode in a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal center line of the center electrode so that the ground electrode tip and the fused portion tip do not overlap with the tip of the center electrode both in the lateral direction and in the longitudinal direction of the center electrode, thereby securing the stability of a sequence of sparks without sacrificing the growth of a flame kernel, which results in improved ignitability of fuel. The fused portion is not located on a line passing through the spark gap, thus avoiding the dislodgement of the noble metal-made tip from theSeay and McGee, together with their wives, drove into downtown Mobile, Alabama where they made a number of different purchases of small articles costing from less than one to about three dollars. Later in the day the group drove to a shopping center in the southwest part of Mobile and McGee went to the Auto-Lec Store to purchase a putty knife for the alleged purpose of scraping bugs off of his automobile windshield. The store had no putty knives so McGee purchased a 1 dollar and 2 cent wall scraper instead and gave Edgar Murphy, the sales clerk, a 20 dollar bill, received his change and left the store. After McGee left the Auto-Lec Store, Murphy thought the 20 dollar bill looked peculiar so he conferred with the


store manager, who agreed that the bill was counterfeit and sent Murphy and Steve Leslie, the Assistant Manager, to follow McGee. Murphy saw McGee walk down the shopping center sidewalk and enter the West Department Store, where he purchased a pair of men's undershorts costing 1 dollar and 35 cents, paid for them with a 20 dollar bill, received his change and returned to his car. This bill was later discovered to be counterfeit currency of a common origin with that passed at the Auto-Lec Store. Murphy wrote down the automobile license number and called the Mobile police. Leslie got into his car and went to search for the car containing Seay, McGee and their wives. Upon catching up with the McGee auto, Leslie observed it to bedriven recklessly and at high speeds until it turned into another shopping center and parked. Leslie thereupon telephoned this information to the manager of the Auto-Lec Store, who in turn advised the Mobile police. After searching several stores at this second shopping center, policemen from Prichard, Alabama who were assisting the Mobile police in this case, located Seay, McGee and their wives in a drugstore. Leslie made a positive identification of McGee as the man who passed the counterfeit 20 dollar bill at the Auto-Lec Store. Seay, McGee and their wives were thereupon arrested.

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At the time of the arrests, all of the defendants were out of McGee's car and the car was locked. One of the arresting officers obtained the door key from McGee, unlocked the door, put


incarcerated on the Alabama vagrancy charge, the United States Commissioner issued a warrant to search McGee's vehicle based on an affidavit by treasury agents. The car was searched pursuant to this warrant, certain of the contents were seized and a copy of the warrant and a receipt for the property taken were left in the automobile. On the following day, April 26, 1968, a sworn complaint was filed against Seay and McGee, and they were taken before the Commissioner who ordered them held to answer in the district court. Subsequently, the vagrancy charges were dismissed by Mobile authorities and Seay and McGee were released from their custody. The counterfeiting charges were set down for preliminary examination before the Commissioner on May 14, 1968. However, when the government refuseddeveloped on this counterfeit bill by latent fingerprint processes.

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A Miss Janice Van Horn identified Seay and McGee as the two men who, in her presence, purchased one thousand dollars in counterfeit bills (of the same printing as those passed in Mobile on April 25, 1968) from her boyfriend, Charles Petty, at a truck stop near Baldwyn, Mississippi in early April 1968 for 250 genuine dollars. Both defendants testified and both admitted being in Mobile and together all of the day of April 25, 1968. McGee admitted making "maybe a half a dozen" purchases including those made in the Auto-Lec and West Department Stores, that day, Seay denied purchasing anything in Mobile on that occasion other than his breakfast and he denied knowing that McGee or the women with


them were passing counterfeit money. Both Seay and McGee denied all knowledge of any purchase of counterfeit bills from Charles Petty or any other person in or near Baldwyn, Mississippi.

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On September 20, 1968, Seay and McGee were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of uttering counterfeit obligations of the United States. The indictment charged both defendants with three specific instances of uttering counterfeit 20 dollar bills of the same serial and plate number at three different retail establishments in the City of Mobile on April 25, 1968 — the Auto-Lec Store, West Department Store and Eckerd's No. 70. Not guilty pleas were taken on November 25, 1968 and their joint trial followed on February 13, 1969.

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I. SEAY'S ARREST — PROBABLE CAUSE?

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As bases for the contention thatTHAILAND soccer coach Winfried Schafer says he's not expecting an aerial bombardment from Australia in Friday's World Cup qualifier to be staged in Brisbane.

The Socceroos kick off their qualifying campaign for Brazil 2014 against the Group D outsiders, and Schafer admits the match will be Thailand's toughest outing in a group that also includes Saudi Arabia and Oman.

The experienced German, who led Cameroon to the African Nations Cup title in 2002, also faces a selection headache with several key players unavailable through injury.

Although the Socceroos attack features the twin threat of beanpole striker Josh Kennedy, currently top scorer in Japan's J-League, and the famed heading ability of Tim Cahill, Schafer expects much of the match to be played along the ground.

"Australia do not play high balls, they play


very good football with the ball going to strikers along the ground," said Schafer.

"I watched the Australia team matches against Germany and also Wales. Australia is a very good team with good discipline.

"You must fight, you must run and you must play with courage against Australia.

"We are happy to qualify for this stage and have the chance to play against Australia."

Thailand last week played out a scoreless draw against Singapore in its most recent international outing with Australia's coach Holger Osieck, an acquaintance of Schafer's, in Bangkok for the match.

The Thais will be without a trio of defenders this Friday with captain Nattaporn Phanrit the biggest loss.Air Transport Competitiveness in the Netherlands

Air transport is a key enabler of economic activity in the Netherlands

It supports 306,000 jobs and EUR 22.4 billion of gross value to GDP, which accounts for 3.2% of Dutch GDP.

Main Industry Priorities

Airport Expansion at Schiphol

Airport Charges and airport investment

Schiphol Airport (AMS) part of New Experience Travel Technologies (NEXTT)

National Airspace Strategy (NAS)

Use of IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) as oversight by Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in the Netherlands

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Provide details on the recently announced moderate increase of the cap on aircraft movements and make sure the cost-efficient expansion of major airports is delivered in consultation with users

Foster the implementation of the existing Carbon Offsetting Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) as an effective tool to mitigate CO2 emissions and avoid introducing new environmental


Sonia Gandhi will be travelling abroad for her annual medical examination

Will be out of India for a few days, accompanying Sonia ji to her annual medical check up.

To my friends in the BJP social media troll army: don't get too worked up...I'll be back soon!- Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 27, 2018

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by her son and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, had to leave for abroad on Sunday night for a medical check-up, party sources said.According to the sources, Sonia Gandhi will be travelling abroad for her annual medical examination. She had undergone a surgery in the US in 2011.While Rahul Gandhi will return within a week, Sonia Gandhi will stay abroad for a longer period, the sources told PTI.They said some key decisions, including theallocation of ministerial portfolios in Karnataka after a Congress-JD(S) government led by HD Kumaraswamy was formed in the southern state last week, have been put on hold.Rahul Gandhi also had a message for his trolls, saying he will be back soon. He tweeted:Some fresh appointments in the Congress are also awaited as part of the party's rejig under Rahul Gandhi.

The Congress chief held deliberations with party leaders since yesterday to decide on the portfolios for the party's legislators in Karnataka, but the discussions remained inconclusive.The sources said Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a rally at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh on June 6 to mark the first anniversary of police firing on farmers there.


directors of county departments of public welfare.
The named plaintiffs include three families whose personal circumstances are typical of the conditions shared by the plaintiff class.
*94 Emma West lives with her seven children at Hollandale in Washington County. Six of her children are without disability, and they receive a total of $96 per month in AFDC benefits. The seventh child, 10 year old Larry, suffered severe brain damage when he was 5 and is now receiving federal SSI disability benefits. Soon after Larry's SSI benefits began, however, the county department of public welfare, pursuant to a Mississippi Welfare Department directive, terminated his Medicaid benefits, which he had been receiving continuously since before January 1, 1972.
Christine Williams also resides in Hollandale with her two children and disabled mother. She currentlytragedy. A recurring tragedy. Some would say an endless tragedy:

“On the northern shore of the lake, right under the precipitous cliffs on which the modern village of Nemi is perched, stood the sacred grove and the sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis or Diana of the Wood. The lake and the grove were sometimes known as the lake and grove of Aricia. But the town of Aricia (the modern La Riccia) was situated about three miles off, at the foot of the Alban Mount, and separated by a steep descent from the lake, which lies in a small crater-like hollow on the mountainside.

“In this sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be


seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword—”

Let’s say, for kicks, the name of the sword was Folly.

“—and he kept peering warily about him as if at every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; and the man for whom he looked was sooner or later to murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead. Such was the rule of the sanctuary. A candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to office by slaying the priest and having slain him, he retained office till he was himself slain but a stronger or a craftier.

“The post which he held by this precarious tenure carried with it the title of king; but surely no crowned headevery lay uneasier, or was visited by more evil dreams, than his. For year in, year out, in summer and winter, in fair weather and in foul, he had to keep his lonely watch, and whenver he snatched a troubled slumber it was at the peril of his life. The least relaxation of his vigilance, the smallest abatement of his strength of limb or skill of fence, put him in jeopardy; grey hairs might seal his death-warrens. To gentle and pious pilgrims at the shrine the sight of him might well seem to darken the fair landscape as when a cloud suddenly blots the sun on a bright day. The dreamy blue of Italian skies, the dappled shade of summer woods, and the sparkle of waves in the


sun, can have accorded but ill with that stern and sinister figure.

“Rather we picture outselves the scene as it may have been witnessed by the belated wayfarer on one of those wild autumn nights when the dead leaves are falling thick and the winds seem to sing the dirge of the dying year. It is a somber picture, set to melancholy music — the background of forest showing black and jagged against a lowering and stormy sky, the sighing of the wind in the branches, the rustle of the withered leaves under foot, the lapping of cold water on the shore, and in the foreground, pacing to and fro, now in twilight and now in good, a dark figure with a glitter of steel at the shoulder wheneverthis is my thesis in brief:

Kvothe has bound himself by blood-oath to protect the Kingkiller equivalent of the temple of Diana of the Wood making him King of the Wood. He has killed the priest-king responsible for protecting her temple, making the former priest a human sacrifice, and has now taken that priest’s place. He is waiting to die because inevitably someone will come to claim him who is stronger or craftier than he is. They will kill him as a human sacrifice and take his place as priest-king. It’s quite possible that this will be his second — and final — death.

Likely, to prevent this from happening, he has stored his death (or his soul, or his life, or all of that in his name) outside of


his body. There are tons of folk-tales with external souls and people who store their death in gold (which is one interpretation of the end of the alchemical great work — the philosopher’s stone that produces gold and the water of eternal life). For instance:

“In a Siamese or Cambodian story, probably derived from India, we are told that Thossakan or Ravana, the King of Ceylong, was able by magic art to take his soul out of his body and leave it in a box at home, while he went to the wars. Thus he was invulnerable in battle. When he was about to give battle to Rama, he deposited his soul with a merit called Fire-eye, who was to keep it safe for him. So in the fightwiles, he opened his heart to her and told her the truth. “My death,” said he, “is far from here and hard to find, on the wide ocean. In that sea is an island, and on the island there grows a green oak, and beneath the oak is an iron chest, and in the chest is a small basket, and in the basket is a hare, and in the hare is a duck, and in the duck is an egg; and he who finds the egg and breaks it, kills me at the same time.” The prince naturally procured the fateful egg and with it in his hands he confronted the deathless warlock. The monster would have killed him, but the prince began to squeeze the egg. At


and all metals, stones and earth, from trees, sicknesses and poisons, and from all four-footed beasts, birds, and creeping things, that they would not hurt Balder. When this was done Balder was deemed invulnerable; so the gods amused themselves by setting him in their midst, while some shot at him, others hewed at him, and others threw stones at him. But whatever they did, nothing could hurt him; and at this they were all glad. Only Loki, the mischief-maker, was displeased, and he went in the guise of an old woman to Frigg, who told him that the weapons of the gods could not wound Balder, since she had made them all swear not to hurt him. Then Loki asked, “Have all things sworn to spare Balder?” Shefell down dead. And that was the greatest misfortune that ever befell gods and men. For a while the gods stood speechless, then they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly. They took Balder’s body and brought it to the sea-shore. There stood Balder’s ship; it was called Ringhorn, and was the hugest of all ships. The gods wished to launch the ship and to burn Balder’s body on it, but the ship would not stir. So they sent for a giantess called Hyrrockin. She came riding on a wolf and gave the ship such a push that fire flashed from the rollers and all the earth shook. Then Balder’s body was taken and placed on the funeral pile upon his ship. When his wife Nanna saw that,


offers a parallel to the Balder myth, Indra swore to the demon Namuci that he would slay him neither by day nor by night, neither with staff nor with bow, neither with the palm of the hand nor with the fist, neither with the wet nor with the dry. But he killed him in the morning twilight by sprinkling over him the foam of the sea. The foam of the sea is just such an object as a savage might choose to put his life in, because it occupies that sort of intermediate or nondescript position between earth and sky or sea and sky in which primitive man sees safety. It is therefore not surprising that the foam of the river should be the totem of a clanthe mistletoe was not merely the instrument of Balder’s death, but that it contained his life, is countenanced by the analogy of a Scottish superstition. …

Frazer’s bringing this up because at the start of the book, which we quoted first, he points out how:

Within the sanctuary at Nemi grew a certain tree of which no branch might be broken. Only a runaway slave was allowed to break off, if he could, one of its boughs. Success in the attempt entitled him to fight the priest in single combat, and if he slew him he signed in his stead with the title of King of the Wood. According to the public opinion of the ancients the fateful branch was that Golden Bough which, at the Sibyl’s bidding, Aeneas plucked


before he essayed the perilous journey to the world of the dead. The flight of the slave represented, it was said, the flight of Orestes; his combat with the priest was a reminiscence of the human sacrifices once offered to the Tauric Diana. This rule of succession by the sword was observed down to imperial times; for amongst his other freaks Caligula, thinking that the priest of Nemi had held office too long, hired a more stalwart ruffian to slay him; and a Greek traveller, who visited Italy in the age of the Antonines, remarks that down to his time the priesthood was still the prize of victory in a single combat.

…But Diana did not reign alone in her grove at Nemi. Two lesser divinities shared her forestsanctuary. One was Egeria, the nymph of the clear water which, bubbling from the basaltic rocks, used to fall in graceful cascades into the lake at the place called Le Mole, because here were established the mills of the modern village of Nemi. The purling of the stream as it ran over the pebbles is mentioned by Ovid, who tells us that he had often drunk of its water. Women with child used to sacrifice to Egeria, because she was believed, like Diana, to be able to grant them an easy delivery. Tradition ran that the nymph had been the wife or mistress of the wise king Numa, that he had consorted with her in the secrecy of the sacred grove, and that the laws which he gave


the Romans had been inspired by communion with her divinity….

According to some, the trysting-place of the lovers was not in the woods of Nemi but in a grove outside the dripping Porta Capena at Rome, where another sacred spring of Egeria gushed from a dark cavern.

The other of the minor deities at Nemi was Virbius. Legend had it that Virbius was the young Greek hero Hippolytus, chaste and fair, who learned the art of venery from the centaur Chiron, and spent all his days in the greenwood chasing wild beasts with the virgin huntress Artemis (the Greek counterpart of Diana) for his only comrade. Proud of her divine society, he spurned the love of women, and this proved his bane. For Aphrodite, stung by his scorn, inspired hisstepmother Phaedra with love of him; and when he disdained her wicked advances she falsely accused him to his father Theseus. The slander was believed, and Theseus prayed to his sire Poseidon to avenge the imagined wrong. So while Hippolytus drove in a chariot by the shore of the Saronic Gulf, the sea-god sent a fierce bull forth from the waves. The terrified horses bolted, threw Hippolytus from the chariot, and dragged him at their hoofs to death. But Diana, for the love she bore Hippolytus, persuaded the leech Aesculapius to bring her fair young hunter back to life by his simples. Jupiter, indignant that a mortal man should return from the gates of death, thrust down the meddling leech himself to Hades.

But Diana hid her favourite from


the angry god in a thick cloud, disguised his features by adding years to his life, and then bore him far away to the dells of Nemi, where she entrusted him to the nymph Egeria, to live there, unknown and solitary, under the name of Virbius, in the depth of the Italian forest. There he reigned a king, and there he dedicated a precinct to Diana. He had a comely son, Virbius, who, undaunted by his father’s fate, drove a team of fiery steeds to join the Latins in the war against Aeneas and the Trojans. Virbius was worshipped as a god not only at Nemi but elsewhere; for in Campania we hear of a special priest devoted to his service. Horses were excluded from the Arician groveand sanctuary because horses had killed Hippolytus. It was unlawful to touch his image. Some thought that he was the sun. …

…These hapless lovers were probably not always mere myths, and the legends which traced their spilt blood in the purple bloom of the violet, the scarlet stain of the anemone, or the crimson flush of the rose were no idle poetic emblems of youth and beauty fleeting as the summer flowers. Such fables contain a deeper philosophy of the relation of the life of man to the life of nature—a sad philosophy which gave birth to a tragic practice.

And then he returns to the flowers — mindful of the external souls and the priest-kings who waited to die — at the end:

It is not a new opinion


the gentle breeze the golden leaf.” Here Virgil definitely describes the Golden Bough as growing on a holm-oak, and compares it with the mistletoe. The inference is almost inevitable that the Golden Bough was nothing but the mistletoe seen through the haze of poetry or of popular superstition.

Now grounds have been shown for believing that the priest of the Arician grove—the King of the Wood—personified the tree on which grew the Golden Bough. Hence if that tree was the oak, the King of the Wood must have been a personification of the oakspirit. It is, therefore, easy to understand why, before he could be slain, it was necessary to break the Golden Bough. As an oak-spirit, his life or death was in the mistletoe on the oak, andso long as the mistletoe remained intact, he, like Balder, could not die. To slay him, therefore, it was necessary to break the mistletoe, and probably, as in the case of Balder, to throw it at him. And to complete the parallel, it is only necessary to suppose that the King of the Wood was formerly burned, dead or alive, at the midsummer fire festival which, as we have seen, was annually celebrated in the Arician grove. The perpetual fire which burned in the grove, like the perpetual fire which burned in the temple of Vesta at Rome and under the oak at Romove, was probably fed with the sacred oak-wood; and thus it would be in a great fire of oak that the King of the Wood


formerly met his end. At a later time, as I have suggested, his annual tenure of office was lengthened or shortened, as the case might be, by the rule which allowed him to live so long as he could prove his divine right by the strong hand. But he only escaped the fire to fall by the sword.

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It only remains to ask, Why was the mistletoe called the Golden Bough? The whitish-yellow of the mistletoe berries is hardly enough to account for the name, for Virgil says that the bough was altogether golden, stems as well as leaves. Perhaps the name may be derived from the rich golden yellow which a bough of mistletoe assumes when it has been cut and kept for some months; the bright tintfor a similar reason it enriches its possessor with an unfailing supply of gold. But while the fern-seed is described as golden, it is equally described as glowing and fiery. Hence, when we consider that two great days for gathering the fabulous seed are Midsummer Eve and Christmas—that is, the two solstices (for Christmas is nothing but an old heathen celebration of the winter solstice)—we are led to regard the fiery aspect of the fern-seed as primary, and its golden aspect as secondary and derivative. Fern-seed, in fact, would seem to be an emanation of the sun’s fire at the two turning-points of its course, the summer and winter solstices. This view is confirmed by a German story in which a hunter is said to have procured fern-seed


with a golden splendour, and was called the Golden Bough.

…. Further, we can perhaps see why in antiquity mistletoe was believed to possess the remarkable property of extinguishing fire, and why in Sweden it is still kept in houses as a safeguard against conflagration. Its fiery nature marks it out, on homoeopathic principles, as the best possible cure or preventive of injury by fire.

These considerations may partially explain why Virgil makes Aeneas carry a glorified bough of mistletoe with him on his descent into the gloomy subterranean world. The poet describes how at the very gates of hell there stretched a vast and gloomy wood, and how the hero, following the flight of two doves that lured him on, wandered into the depths of the immemorial forest tillhe saw afar off through the shadows of the trees the flickering light of the Golden Bough illuminating the matted boughs overhead. If the mistletoe, as a yellow withered bough in the sad autumn woods, was conceived to contain the seed of fire, what better companion could a forlorn wanderer in the nether shades take with him than a bough that would be a lamp to his feet as well as a rod and staff to his hands? Armed with it he might boldly confront the dreadful spectres that would cross his path on his adventurous journey. Hence when Aeneas, emerging from the forest, comes to the banks of Styx, winding slow with sluggish stream through the infernal marsh, and the surly ferryman refuses him passage in his


or of his death, was torn from the branch and hurled at the trunk, the tree fell—the god died—smitten by a thunderbolt.

And what we have said of Balder in the oak forests of Scandinavia may perhaps, with all due diffidence in a question so obscure and uncertain, be applied to the priest of Diana, the King of the Wood, at Aricia in the oak forests of Italy. He may have personated in flesh and blood the great Italian god of the sky, Jupiter, who had kindly come down from heaven in the lightning flash to dwell among men in the mistletoe—the thunder-besom—the Golden Bough—growing on the sacred oak in the dells of Nemi. If that was so, we need not wonder that the priest guarded with drawn swordThe Australian arm of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been encouraged by New Zealand's decision to grant the church approval to conduct weddings.

Key points: Church had application for NPO status rejected in Australia, appeal planned

Church had application for NPO status rejected in Australia, appeal planned Began in US as protest against creationism in schools

Began in US as protest against creationism in schools Australian pastafarians encouraged by church's recognition in New Zealand

The oddly named church started as a satirical religious protest group in the US but, as New Zealand's decision shows, the church is gaining some official international recognition.

New Zealand's registrar-general of Births Deaths and Marriages Jeff Montgomery approved the church's application to be able to nominate marriage celebrants.

"My role is to enact the Marriage Act


and that act enables organisations who promote religious beliefs or philosophical convictions to become a nominating organisation for marriage celebrants," Mr Montgomery said.

"I've assessed their application against that criteria and have come to the view that they uphold or promote philosophical convictions and therefore are able to nominate marriage celebrants for me to consider further down the track."

Born from satire, church wants recognition

The church began in the United States a decade ago when founder Bobby Henderson wrote an open letter in protest at the teaching of creationism in schools.

Simon Cuthbert, an ordained minister of the church, said while it was born of satire, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster should be taken seriously.

"We have a supreme being like any other religion," Mr Cuthbert said, "wonderful carbohydrate, there'sHemorrhoids are cushions of tissue and varicose veins located in and around the rectal area. Hemorrhoids are very common, especially during pregnancy and after childbirth. It has been estimated that about half the population has hemorrhoids by age 50. They are caused by increased pressure in the veins of the anus. The most common cause is straining during bowel movements. Constipation, prolonged sitting during bowel movements, and anal infection may also contribute to the development of hemorrhoids. In some cases, hemorrhoids may be a manifestation of other diseases, such as liver cirrhosis.
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MB Parliamentary Bloc Secretary General Sobhi Saleh called on the ruling regime to end its political crimes, bullying, electoral fraud, and for once to practice "respectful" political activity.

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, Saleh described the ruling regime, which had launched a fierce attack on the MB in its annual conference, as "broke" and surviving on "corruption and bullying."

In response to NDP leader Ahmed Ezz"s statement in which he explained that the 88 parliament seats seized by the MB was due to an "NDP organizational error," Saleh asked, "Are people"s election of the MB and fierce defense for them in most of the districts all an "organizational error" on the part of the ruling regime?Were the people that left Ahmed Ezz and his partners the real reason behind ourplayed against a whiny little kid who complained that I was beating his ass (who resorted to cheap tactics and whatever) so my enjoyment of the game was kind of tainted, but all in all, it's a decent game.

Is there manual targeting in the game? It's not a big deal in single player mode, but can be a huge pain in the ass in multiplayer. Last years version was a blast in multiplayer, but all too often you'd be engaged with a friend and then suddenly at the worst moment you try to attack another player giving the person you want to attack an opening.

Thread ahead: Wii Music and Tetris: Wii releases for the week of October 20, 2008Next thread: Another million DS releases: week of October 27,


officer pulling someone over in traffic.

The bill could lead to higher traffic safety compliance, Representative Fitzgibbon said. The impetus for this bill came from issues he has seen in areas of his district like West Seattle where buses often are delayed by motorists. He also thinks that the bill could help first responders and people with disabilities, too.

When drivers block the box, it makes the streets more dangerous for everyone – which is why we're joining @transpochoices to support legislation to allow traffic enforcement cameras. pic.twitter.com/NN4p9Cy6Iq — Rooted in Rights (@RootedInRights) January 31, 2019

Rooted in Rights, a local group dedicated to disability rights and accessibility issues, has joined Transportation Choices Coalition in advocating for the bill. They see intersection and crosswalk blocking as a serious problem for peopleNashville’s players will be taking off to the Czech Republic to represent their home countries in the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. Here’s who we have thus far:

TEAM SUOMI (FINLAND): PEKKA RINNE

Pekka was named to the World Championship All-Star team in 2014 and also won MVP that year as well.

TEAM SUISSE (SWITZERLAND): ROMAN JOSI & KEVIN FIALA

Kevin Fiala may be young, but he is no stranger to Team Switzerland. Fiala has competed for Suisse in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Roman Josi has a number of accolades from participation with Team Switzerland, including IIHF World Champion MVP, Silver Medalist, Media All-Star Team, and Best Defenseman in 2013.

TEAM USA: Seth Jones

Seth Jones, like Kevin Fiala, is no stranger to the IIHF Worlds for Team USA. Jones helped lead Team USA to


gold medals in 2011 (WJC18), 2012 (WJC18), and 2013 (WJC). He played alongside teammate Craig Smith last year and helped bring Team USA to 6th place.

tre kronor (sweden): filip forsberg & mattias ekholm

Filip Forsberg has never seen less than second place while suited up for Tre Kronor, winning the silver medal in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Forsberg helped lead his World Juniors team to overall victory in 2012. In 2014, Forsberg was named World Junior Best Forward and MVP. Surprisingly, this will be Forsberg’s first bout away from World Juniors.

Mattias Ekholm has had as lucrative of a career with Tre Kronor has Forsberg has, but he did help Sweden collect the bronze medal last year.

Since the tournament officially begins Friday, I do not if any other Predatorsplayer in Preds franchise history to score a post-season goal.

And, quickly after Forsberg, Craig Smith wanted another taste and notched his second goal of the night on Corey Crawford. Ah, and Pekka Rinne picked up the assist on his goal, too.

Mike Santorelli would get the deciding goal for his first in the playoffs, making the final score 6-2 in favor of Nashville.

Vince Vaughn was in town to watch his beloved Blackhawks along with NHL Commissioner, Gary Bettman. The Predators should be beaming to show off such a great game to someone who doesn’t care much for small markets.

That, ladies and gentlemen, was a game for the ages. The Predators went in knowing that things would possibly go against them – as it always has. Instead of taking the


mustered. For someone who has only tended NHL ice once previously to this match, Domingue brought his A-game; a testament to his solid abilities.

Pekka was on point, too, last night, blocking all nine shots-on-goal from the Coyotes in the first period.

SECOND PERIOD:

At 3:26 into the second period, Paul Gaustad collected his third goal of the season with assistance from Taylor Beck (7).

Both Arizona and Nashville were given two power play opportunities, but neither could capitalize on the advantage.

The Coyotes out-shot the Predators eleven to eight.

THIRD PERIOD:

At 7:27 into the third, the Coyotes set the game with a tip-in from Kyle Chipchura, his 4th goal of the season.

Nashville was awarded three power play chances in the third, including one that would follow up to the end of regulation, butfour, but it was Ennis who found the sweet spot.

THIRD PERIOD:

Relief for the Predators came at 15:43 on the powerplay as Mike Ribeiro (12) deflected a shot to tie the game at one. Cody Franson (27) and Seth Jones (16) notch the assists.

The Predators only managed ten shots-on-goal during the third, but again, out-shot the Sabres by four.

OVERTIME:

The Predators were given a late overtime powerplay chance, but nothing could be accomplished by either team in OT, so onward to the shootout…

SHOOTOUT:

BUF – Matt Moulson – MISS

NSH – Mike Santorelli – GOAL

BUF – Tyler Ennis – GOAL

NSH – Craig Smith – MISS

BUF – Zemgus Girgensons – MISS

NSH – Matt Cullen – MISS

BUF – Brian Gionta – MISS

NSH – Filip Forsberg – GOAL

POST GAME NOTES:

The Predators are the first team


setup the play, I’ll just dump it” mentality, which has gotten better this season than in the past, but with a in-your-face team like Tampa Bay, the Predators needed to be a little more risqué when it comes to shooting the puck… at the net.

SCRATCHES: Mattias Ekholm, Colin Wilson, Olli Jokinen

FIRST PERIOD:

For the third game in a row, neither team was able to get one in the net during the third period. Chalk this one up to both Pekka Rinne and Andrei Vasilevskiy just being on point. Rinne blocked ten shots-on-goal while Vasilevskiy blocked his eight shots. I mean, look what this kid did to rob Mike Ribeiro:

In only his second NHL Career game, Anthony Bitetto – who was called up to fill in for the injured Mattiasand sent a wrister whizzing past Rinne, his 10th of the season.

And, just seven minutes later, Nikita Kucherov would tie the game at 7:50 with a slapshot, his 21st of the season.

The Predators just couldn’t muster up another goal (nor could Tampa Bay) so thus the déjà vu of bonus hockey returns.

OVERTIME:

In what everyone deemed was going into a shootout, James Neal had other plans. Breaking the puck away with less than 30 seconds left in overtime, Neal connected on a wrister to win the game, his 18th goal of the season. Roman Josi (28) and Matt Cullen (7) assisted in the winner.

Viktor Stalberg, who was called up to fill in for the ailing Colin Wilson, saw 11:43 of ice time walked away with one point (assist).

With the


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Microorganisms found in the ocean played an important role in breaking up millions of gallons of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. The warm waters and abundance of oil-eating bacteria are thought to have significantly aided recovery, however a large amount of oil still reached the seafloor. Oil accumulating in ocean floor sediments can persist for decades and cause harmful effects.

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Union Pacific to improve Nebraska infrastructure

Union Pacific Railroad is enhancing Nebraska's transportation infrastructure by investing more than $29 million in the rail line that runs between Grand Island and Havens.

The project is in progress and scheduled to be completed by the end of November.

The project includes replacing 88,400 concrete ties, installing more than 33 miles of new rail, spreading 115,500 tons of ballast, renewing the surfaces at 16 road crossings and replacing six switches.

Union Pacific is using a modern track renewal train, the TRT 909, which installs rail and concrete ties in one pass. The TRT can install up to 6,000 ties in a twelve-hour day. The track renewal train consists of approximately 30 rail cars, with each car capable of carrying 210 concrete ties. Three sets ofgantry cranes move the concrete ties forward for the TRT to drop into place and the machine then threads the new rail onto the ties. The old wooden ties are picked up and discarded rail is threaded out as the machine works its way down the track. A conveyor positions the removed ties for the gantry cranes to load them onto railcars for movement to a facility for sorting.

Union Pacific plans to invest $3.6 billion in its rail network during 2012, supporting America's current and future freight transportation needs and enhancing the safety and efficiency of the railroad's 32,000-mile network.


of Advanced Studies, University of Strathclyde, Montrose Street, Glasgow; Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University, Belfast. The venue in Cardiff is yet to be confirmed.

For information and to buy tickets at £35 (concession £20), please visit: modernliberty.netfor Elba to mirror Mandela in looks or speech in the film, it was meant for him to epitomize Mandela’s passion for the struggle for freedom and equality, which he does brilliantly. Just look at the trailer. The film will open in U.S. theatres on November 29, 2013.

The forty year-old started acting in the early nineties and has been going strong ever since. With a following in the U.S., Britain and anywhere else that appreciates hot and hunky, Elba is on top of his game and intends to stay there.

Although his parents are originally from Africa, he was raised in Canning Town, East London. It is his multicultural (African/British) background that gives Elba the depth as an actor to play an impressively intelligent and sedate British homicide detective


many roles have led to Elba’s path to fame, he is best known for his role as Russell “Stringer” Bell in the HBO series The Wire. It was his portrayal of a smart and savvy drug-kingpin who ran his drug empire like a business while taking no prisoners that garnered him a Golden Globe .

Idris Elba is not one of those actors that you want looming in the shadows. His ruggedly handsome looks and acting chops make him a perfect and brilliant leading man. Sure, he’s a bit of a scene-stealer, but he does it with such panache that you almost want to rewind the movie and watch it again.

Of late, there has been talk of Elba possibly being the newest face of super spy, 007…Bond…James Bond. HeMain menu

On Music: The Evolution of Phil Collins

It's been about 5 years since we've had a new album from Phil Collins. In case you've been wondering where he's been and what he's been up to, his Web site has this recent quote from him on the subject: "In 2004 I came to a major decision in my life. I decided to stop my seemingly endless days of touring. I had been on the road for the last 30 years, and now with 2 young children I decided that enough was enough. It was time to say goodnight."

True, 30 years is a long time in the music business. Here's a few soundbites that track Phil's evolution from Genesis drummer, to Genesis vocalist/drummer/songwriter, on up to some of his big


hit singles as a soloist. What's most interesting about this stroll down Collins' lane is this: with each clip you're about to hear, Collins became more famous, more popular, and his albums were consumed by more and more people. (Obviously he made more money, as well.)

The question is, and I open this post to debate now in the comments below, did the music get better or worse? More interesting as time went on, or less? More engaging or less? You be the judge:

"In the Cage" "“ This is a clip of Phil singing a song off Genesis' 1974 album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Peter Gabriel was still the lead singer of Genesis in those days, and Phil was the band's drummer (and a damn good one,at that). But once Gabriel left, Phil took over as the lead singer, often singing while playing drums simultaneously. "Squonk" "“ This clip comes from Genesis' 1976 album, A Trick of the Tail, the first studio album with Phil as lead vocalist. "Follow You, Follow Me" "“ A short clip from Genesis' 1978 album called And Then There Were Three. "That's All" "“ In 1983, Genesis released an album simply called Genesis, which yielded this clip. "One More Night" "“ By 1985, in addition to his work with Genesis, Phil had released his third solo album, No Jacket Required, which yielded this clip."Invisible Touch" "“ This was Genesis in 1986 off an album with the same name. Can't argue with a catchy tune, can you? The debate starts


Court of Philadelphia County. Service was effected on both defendants on September 7, 1971. The defendant insurance companies filed a Petition for Removal from the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. A copy of this removal petition was forwarded to counsel for plaintiffs on September 22, 1971. Plaintiffs' next step was to take a default judgment and assess damages on September 28, 1971 in the State court. The final fact necessary to develop fully the picture was the *551 filing of a copy of the Petition for Removal by the defendants with the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County on October 1, 1971.
At the outset it must be notedof golf.

Course improvement and the modernization and expansion of the clubhouse was accelerated when Arnold Palmer purchased the club in 1971. The interior of the clubhouse was redesigned. Tennis courts, maintenance buildings and cart storage areas were all constructed. Over the years, many of the holes have been revised and lengthened, a modern irrigation system was installed, permanent cart paths were added and a practice range was created.

Deacon Palmer, who had become the grounds superintendent in 1926 and the golf professional in 1931, remained active until his death at the age of 71 in February 1976.

Covered Bridges

When Arnold Palmer was designing the back nine at Latrobe Country Club, he wanted to create something that was innovative, yet reflective of western Pennsylvania's rich culture and traditions. He found his


NEW YORK—Abduwali Abdukhadir Musé, the Somali pirate who led the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to two felony counts of hijacking maritime vessels, two felony counts of kidnapping, and two felony counts of hostage taking. Musé's guilty plea arose from his participation in the April 8, 2009, hijacking of the Maersk Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean, and the subsequent taking of the captain of the ship as a hostage, as well as his participation in the hijacking of two other vessels in late March and early April of 2009 and related hostage-taking, announced Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

According to the superseding indictment to which Musé pleadedEach of the four pirates who boarded the Maersk Alabama, including Musé, was armed with a gun. Once on board the Maersk Alabama, Musé, who conducted himself as the leader of the pirates, demanded, among other things, that the ship be stopped. Several hours after boarding the Maersk Alabama, the pirates took a life boat from the ship, on which they held the captain of the ship as a hostage.

Musé and the other three pirates then held the captain hostage on the life boat from April 8 to April 12, 2009. During this period, in radio communications between the pirates and the United States Navy, the pirates threatened to kill the captain if they were not provided with safe passage away from the scene. On April 12, 2009,


Musé requested and was permitted to board the USS Bainbridge, a United States Navy missile destroyer that had arrived on the scene. On the USS Bainbridge, Musé continued to demand for himself and the other pirates safe passage from the scene in exchange for the captain's release. On April 12, 2009, Musé was taken into custody by the U.S. Navy.

Musé is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Preska on October 19, 2010.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: "Today, Abduwali Abdukhadir Musé admitted his leadership role in the armed hijacking of an American-flagged vessel and two international ships in the Indian Ocean. The five-day Maersk hijacking and the events leading up to it make clear that modern-day piracy is a crime against the international community and a form of terrorismon the high seas. Pirates who attack U.S. ships overseas and take American hostages should know that they will face stiff justice in an American courtroom. I would like to recognize the extraordinary collective efforts of local, federal, and international law enforcement and pay special thanks to the men and women of the U.S. Navy without whose bravery today's result would not have been possible."

Mr. Bharara praised the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force—which principally consists of agents of the FBI and detectives of the New York City Police Department—and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for their extraordinary efforts in the investigation of this case. Mr. Bharara thanked the U.S. Navy for its cooperation throughout the case, and particularly the Office of the Judge Advocate General for its


invaluable assistance. Mr. Bharara also thanked the Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, the Department of State, specifically the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the FBI's Legal Attaché Office in Nairobi, and the Department of Defense. Mr. Bharara also expressed his gratitude to the Government of Kenya and Maersk Line, Limited, for their cooperation and assistance.

The case is being handled by the Office's Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brendan R. McGuire and Jeffrey Brown are in charge of the prosecution.of The Express-Times editorial board -- our boss Joe Owens was fired up before his butt even hit the chair -- Freeman was caught off balance on more than one occasion. This wasn't a civil discussion, which is why it was fun, as voices raised and charges flew with the base premise of the meeting being to discuss the Pennsylvania budget.

Democratic legislators from Northampton County Joe Brennan, Rich Grucela and Freeman made some reasonable points at times but at other times seemed terribly out of touch with the non-Harrisburg world.

When quizzed on the state's reliance on sin taxes -- video poker is the latest targeted cash cow -- the discussion turned to legalizing marijuana and prostitution, regulating it, taxing it and, for lack of a better word, benefiting


Friday, April 30, 2010

Ken Kwapis directs the story about the real-life 1988 rescue of three California gray whales trapped under Arctic Circle ice. Their plight made world news and saw US and Soviet leaders teaming to help.

Krasinski plays a small town newspaper reporter who breaks the story while Barrymore plays a Greenpeace activist.

Written by Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) Howard would helm the pic which Grazer produces-which-would lead to a TV series

The Dark Tower series is comprised of seven books and is a hybrid of the western and fantasy genres filled gunslinging trips through time, and a commentary on, connected to, and a culmination of King's work as a writer.

George Ratliff is directing the adaptation of Larry Beinhart 's book about a former Grateful Dead fan who, after discoveringthe Christian faith, later finds himself on the run from the fundamentalist followers of his "mega-church"

The spring boxoffice season's final weekend matches an R-rated horror pic against a family-friendly comedy as Warner Bros. debuts the remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street," and Summit Entertainment bows "Furry Vengeance."

"Nightmare" is sure to top the session, with solid tracking indicating prospects of scaring up as much as $30 million through Sunday. So that leaves the PG-rated "Vengeance" to duke it out with DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon" in the competition for the frame's other two medal positions.

"Dragon" has mounted a leggier run than expected, running north of $180 million, and the Paramount-distributed adventure looks likely to fetch low-teen millions in its sixth domestic session playing in a mix


of 2D and 3D auditoriums. The film has rung up more than 60% of its theatrical coin in 3D venues each weekend.

Imax venues have offered the richest vein of 3D loot for "Dragon." Family moviegoers have been its chief base of support.

Craven says the story is set ten years after the events of the previous films - "There have been 10 years of no Ghostface, but there has been the movie-within-a-movie Stab. We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid (Neve Campbell) goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they’ve been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels. She has beenwill play a disgraced former Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard of a judge's 21-year-old daughter who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of a member of a powerful Mexican cartel.

The pair go on the run across both sides of the border with the cartel's enforcers, who want to kill the girl before she can testify, in close pursuit.

West had previously been attached but left the pic-then Clive Owen and director Patrick Alessandrin were going to make the fillm but both recently left as well.

Gere plays a retired Central Intelligence Agency operative who is reactivated to find the Soviet assassin Cassius, a killer long thought to be dead who seems to be behind the recent murder of a senator.

Grace would play a young FBI agent teamed up with


Gere who spent much of his career tracking Cassius down.

The story follows a screenwriter who locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer as inspiration and motivation to finish a script.

He soon starts writing the story of a tow truck driver who finds himself accidentally locked in a slaughterhouse freezer with the barely alive victim of a serial killer. Soon his own personal demons, and the freezing temperatures, start to take its toll on his sanity.

The idea of J.J. Abrams paying stylistic homage to cinema master Steven Spielberg-specifically the 70's and 80's period-for his next flick sounds interesting....

Vulture reports that the pic "will deal with everyday people whose personal relationships are tested when they are thrown up against extraordinarily fantastic - and possibly other-worldly - events."--a la “Close Encounters of'grounded' and real-world approach says Deadline New York.

In the original Arnold Schwarzenegger played John Matrix, a retired special forces Colonel who learns that Bennett, a former disgraced member of his unit is still alive and has been killing off Matrix's former colleagues.

Bennett, now working for a warlord names Arius, kidnaps Matrix's daughter (Alyssa Milano) as leverage to get him to lead Arius' military coup of Val Verde. Matrix soon goes on a one-man rampage to rescue his daughter and essentially kills Arius' entire private army along the way.

But "These guys that were supposedly the writers that were going to do it, they wrote a film that came out and people saw the film and went, 'We're not going to do it after all, are we?'"

Murray says that he's


others teaming for a major heist. Flying carpets, sword fights and genies are all worked into the action.

Based upon Kathryn Stockett'sbook that explores the the complicated use by the upper class matriarchs of their servants in the American South of the early 1960's.

The story follows Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a white recent college graduate uncomfortable with the current social norms of Mississippi at the time - a time when black maids did all the work and received no respect. Her plan is to write a book detailing the life of the various maids in the area, but her research soon uncovers not just racism but cruelty and criminal action by white society women, some of them even her friends.

Viola Davis is playing the role of Aibileen, a maidwhom aspiring writer Phelan candidly interviews. That interview sets off shock waves that reverberate across the entire community as it uncovers not just racism but cruelty and criminal action by white society women.

Howard plays Hilly Holbrook, a beehive hairdo-wearing busybody socialite who is cruel to the black maids.

The film was one of the biggest blockbusters of 2009, despite horrible reviewes with a haul of $442m worldwide. Now, a firm that represents the family of the series' creator is suing the studio for half of all profits from the film

The family's complaint reads: "Karman's provision of her screenplay writings to Fox was conditioned upon the payment of adequate compensation for those writings and her attendant services, which Karman never received."

Fox studio executives are planning to fight this one calling


it "completely without merit".

Adding "We look forward to resolving our differences and, in the meantime, we are continuing to move forward with this franchise."

The plaintiffs want Karman to be made a co-owner of the script, and argue she should receive half of all profits "attributable to The Squeakquel's screenplay".

Described as The Fast And The Furious meets Point Break.the story comes from attorney-turned-screenwriter George Mahaffey, It sees a young former military pilot who is tasked with infiltrating a gang of aerial pirates in Bangkok. Their latest heist involves breaking into a massive tower using parachutes and powered gliders.

The film would tell the story of the Hatfields and the McCoys, who were in the first wave of settlers in Tug Valley, with the McCoys living on the Kentucky side andLast updated on .From the section American football

Tom Brady has won three Super Bowl Most Valuable Player awards

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady damaged "the integrity" of American Football and attempted to hide evidence during the 'Deflate-gate' investigation, the National Football League has said.

The Patriots deflated balls to give themselves an advantage during January's 45-7 AFC Championship over the Indianapolis Colts in Boston which sent them to the Super Bowl.

Brady, 37, was found earlier this year to be "at least generally aware of inappropriate activities" and handed a four-match ban, which was upheld on Tuesday.

An NFL statement external-link says that Brady, who went on to lead the Patriots to Super Bowl victory, had ordered the destruction of his mobile phone during the investigation.

What is Deflate-gate? Read more background


the allegations were first made

According to reports, 11 of the 12 game balls the Patriots provided were under-inflated by about two pounds per square inch, giving Brady more grip in the cold and wet conditions.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said: "I find that, with respect to the game balls used in the AFC Championship game and the subsequent investigation, Mr Brady engaged in conduct detrimental to the integrity of, and public confidence in, the game of professional football."

Brady is considered to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, winning the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award three times.

He will now miss a quarter of the upcoming regular season, and is scheduled to make his return against the Colts on 18 October.

Did deflating balls make a difference? "Theycould have played with soap for balls and beat us," tweeted Colts tight end Dwayne Allen at the time. "Simply the better team." The Patriots scored 17 points in the first half against Indianapolis, when the balls were below their optimum pressure. After the interval, when the balls had been re-inflated, they scored 28.

Brady, who denies being involved in any scheme to tamper with balls, could take the case to a federal court in a bid to overturn the suspension.

In a statement external-link on Tuesday, Patriots said they "cannot comprehend" the NFL's position and claimed the league "has no hard evidence of wrongdoing".

They accused the league of "attempting to destroy the reputation of one of its greatest players and representatives" and added: "We continue to unequivocally believe in


and support Tom Brady."

And the NFL Players Association said it would appeal external-link "this outrageous decision" on behalf of Brady, describing the ban as a "new low" based on a "smokescreen of irrelevant text messages".

Locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski exchanged colourful text messages which implied the pair worked together to deflate match balls, the NFL said in its report in May.

In the messages McNally described himself as "the deflator" and revealed requests to Brady for cash, shoes and signed footballs.

McNally and Jastremski were indefinitely suspended by the Patriots. The report absolved other Patriots players and staff, as well as all coaches, including head coach Bill Belichick, and the team ownership.

Brady will not receive any pay during his ban, while the Patriots were finedSpecies of reptiles, amphibians and other vertebrates are becoming extinct in Haiti as deforestation has claimed more than 99 percent of the country's original wooded areas.

A research collaboration that included two scientists affiliated with Oregon State University found that 42 of Haiti's 50 largest mountains have lost all of their primary forest.

Moreover, mountaintop surveys of vertebrates showed that species are disappearing along with the trees, highlighting the global threat to biodiversity by human causes.

Along with the mass extinctions, the findings, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that over the next two decades Haiti will lose all of its remaining primary forest cover.

The National Science Foundation and the Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund supported this research.

Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the developing


world, is a small, densely populated Caribbean nation that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti's land area is less than 11,000 square miles - one-ninth the size of Oregon - but it holds nearly 11 million people, roughly 1,000 per square mile.

Likely the world's most deforested nation, Haiti saw its primary forest cover decline from 4.4 percent of total land area in 1988 to 0.32 percent in 2016.

Humans first appeared on Hispaniola 6,000 years ago and possibly numbered greater than 1 million by the time of Columbus. But the greatest levels of deforestation occurred following European colonization, resulting in complete primary forest loss on the first of those 50 mountains by 1986.

Tropical forests hold most of the Earth's biodiversity, and deforestation is the mainGenotoxic assessment of selected native plants to deferentially exposed urban ecosystems.
The aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the impact of ecogenotoxicity on native flora abortivity in various urban areas. In which, there was an analysis of 5 groupings of locations with a differing environmental load intensity within the city of Bratislava (Slovakia) over a 2-year period. Our results show varying data depending on the proximity of each site relating to a direct source of pollution and the potential impact of localized wind currents on the distribution of pollutants in the urban environment. The highest value of pollen abortivity in the city was observed in a group of locations exposed to heavy traffic pollution loads. Abortivity of native flora near heavy traffic road areas correlated


If the latest polls are to be believed, the Republican frontrunner is John McCain, who favors continuing the Iraq War for decades if not centuries, and the leading Democrat is Hillary Clinton, who voted to give George W. Bush the power to start the misadventure in 2002 and remained a staunch war supporter until the eve of Campaign 2008.

In Congress, the Democrats appear so spooked about being accused of “partisanship” that they have replaced their periodic little white flags of surrender to President Bush on Iraq with a permanent large one. For his part, Bush is on his own personal victory lap of the Middle East, hailing the success of his “surge.”

In the U.S. news media, the Washington Post’s editorial page, which beat the drums early and often– and the two major parties nominate John McCain and Hillary Clinton – the overriding message will be that no one will pay a serious political price for handing George W. Bush a blank check for war in 2002.

And elsewhere within the U.S. political and media establishments, virtually all the architects and all the apologists for the war will continue to profit from their positions while avoiding any meaningful accountability.

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About author Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered at Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth.'

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in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book,, can be ordered at secrecyandprivilege.com . It's also available at Amazon.com , as is his 1999 book,Robert Parry's web site is Consortium NewsPresident Obama was six months into his first term and still focused on stabilizing the economy, establishing himself on the world stage and passing a health-care bill. Race was a secondary agenda issue. In fact, on July 16, 2009, in an address to the centennial convention of the NAACP in New York, Obama held up his election as an American triumph:

“Because ordinary people did such extraordinary things, because they made the civil rights movement their own, even though there may not be a plaque or their names might not be in the history books — because of their efforts I made a little trip to Springfield, Illinois, a couple years ago, where Lincoln once lived and race riots once raged, and began the journey that has led me


trying to get into a house in what she worried might be a burglary.

The two men were Gates, who was returning from a television production trip to China, and the cabdriver who brought him home from Boston’s Logan International Airport. Gates, who walks with a cane, found his front door damaged and jammed. Gates went in through the back with a key, turned off his alarm and, with the driver’s help, forced opened the front door.

By the time police arrived, Gates was inside and the driver who had carried his luggage into the house was gone.

The responding officer, Sgt. James Crowley, asked Gates to step outside of the house. Gates refused. A confrontation followed, and Crowley arrested Gates on a charge of disorderly conduct and led him outof his house in handcuffs.

News of the arrest set off a national debate about racial profiling that consumed the first summer of Obama’s presidency.

Six days after the arrest, Obama held a conference to talk about health care and was asked about the Gates arrest. He gave his comments, which he later said he regretted.

The beer summit yielded fuzzy photographs of the four men drinking and eating peanuts. But the lasting impression was that the president had stepped into a divisive racial debate for which he was unprepared.

— From staff reports


counties of a central state in Mexico: San Luis Potosí. Participants were students from elementary school, junior high school, and high school, from 6--18 years old, who studied during the 2015--2017 school years.

The sample was a stratified random sampling of each education level (elementary school, junior high school, and high school). First, for each education level, two schools were randomly selected from the complete list of the state of San Luis Potosí. Half of the schools were located in places with very high and very low marginalization index. The index of marginalization measures ten socioeconomic indicators (deficit variables). The final sample resulted in eight schools and 801 students accepted to participate and sign an inform consent; however, only 548 had all the complete data required and were includedIndian prime minister Manmohan Singh said today he will not seek a third term, and will “hand the baton” to a new prime minister, one he “hopes” is selected by the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance after this year’s general election.

The announcement was a not-unexpected development for the 81-year-old, who has become noticeably less enthusiastic over the course of his nearly ten-year tenure. Still, the speech marks an important historical milestone for the man who helped drive India’s economic policy for more than two decades. And, as it was given during the prime minister’s third press conference ever, it’s likely to be one of the last public utterances from the Oxford-educated economist known for his Coke-bottle glasses and effacing manner.

A former reserve bank governor, Singh first burst on


"Oh, look." "The HebreWs took the broken pieces and put them in the Ark." "When they settled in Canaan, they put the Ark in a place called the Temple of Solomon." "In Jerusalem." "Where it stayed for many years." "Until, all of a sudden, Whoosh, it's gone." "Where?" "Well, nobody knows Where or When." "however, an Egyptian pharaoh..." "Shishak." "Yes." "...invaded the city of Jerusalem right about 980 BC, and he may have taken the Ark back to the city of Tanis and hidden it in a secret chamber called the Well of Souls." "Secret chamber?" "however, about a year after the pharaoh Would return to Egypt, the city of Tanis Was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm Which lasted a Whole year." "Wiped clean by theSturgill Simpson got to mark off a big bucket list item over the last week or so when he was asked to open for Guns N’ Roses during their current Not In This Lifetime arena tour at stops in Denver on August 2nd, Little Rock on August 5th, and Miami on August 8th. With his new stripped down band that only consists of drums, bass, keys, and Sturgill on guitar, Simpson brought the pain according to reviews, and had to fight through some serious physical ailments to make it happen.

After a recent trip to Japan to play a festival in Niigata, Sturgill contracted a good ol’ fashioned case of “bubble guts” according to the Grammy-award winning performer, and had to fight through it as best he could for


Born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey on April 30, 1982, actress Kirsten Dunst’s parents separated when she was 8 years old. She moved, along with her mother and brother, to Los Angeles where she went to school in North Hollywood. She went to high school in Notre Dame Catholic High School. Her breakthrough role was as Claudia, the vampire child in "Interview with the Vampire." She was treated for depression in 2008 in Utah at a drug addiction and alcoholism rehab facility. She holds dual citizenship with Germany and the United States.Night Of The Living Dead (1990). Directed by Tom Savini. Screenplay by George A. Romero, based on the 1968 screenplay by George Romero and John Russo. Starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles. 92 minutes. ***

Night Of the Living Dead 3-D (2006). Directed by Jeff Broadstreet. Screenplay by Jeff Broadstreet, inspired by the 1968 Screenplay by George A. Romero and John Russo. Starring Brianna Brown, Sid Haig. 80 minutes. *

Other Known Versions: Night Of the Living Dead Re-Animated (2009; jam animated version); too many sequels and films inspired by the original concept to list.

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Before we begin this one, we’ll note that we had an ulterior motive for placing this series of films so high up on the list of possible remake blog topics: the recent release of my


dealing with. They called their shambling assailants “those things,” and they struggled with the evidence of their eyes and their sense, learning the new paradigm of their world even as the monsters loose in that world closed in around them.

Night Of the Living Dead is the seed of the myth.

And all three of the movies bearing the same title share much of the opening premise. All three open with a pair of bickering siblings, Johnny and Barbara, on a long and unpleasant trip road trip to a cemetery. In all three, Barbara is the good daughter, fulfilling a family obligation to the dead; in all three, Johnny is the obnoxiously contrary brother, vocal about finding the entire exercise hypocritical and ridiculous. In all three, Barbara initially believes inand we get another accidental resonance, very vivid to those who first saw the film in those days of rural assassins taking up rifles against Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Martin Luther King, and the Civil Rights Workers Cheney, Shwermer, and Goodman.

The film itself still works, decades after zombies became commonplace on screen. The grainy black and white photography, the building tensions among the people in the house, the grinding unfairness of everything that happens, the inexorably worsening news on the radio, and the absolute dearth of any happy-ever-afters, still render it a powerful tour-de-force. There are some impressive non-performances, but Jones remains fine.

Alas for Romero, the distribution company never properly copyrighted it. The movie passed into the public domain almost immediately, and he no longer makes money from


it.

Which was the key reason for the first of the two remakes.

The Unfairly Maligned First Remake: Night Of the Living Dead (1990)

By 1990, the very idea of remaking Night Of the Living Dead seemed so sacrilegious, to so many, that many critics who’d embraced the original (some retroactively) attacked this one as a blot on its memory.

It was, of course, impossible for any mere remake to have the impact or influence of the original. Among other things, the casting of a black lead was no longer shocking by then. But, largely, people who condemned this one condemned the very idea of it, rather than its execution. They hated that director Tom Savini chose to film this one in vivid color, instead of grainy black and white; they hatedjust a few minutes in, when the first person to bump into Barbara (Patricia Tallman) is not a walking corpse, but a traumatized survivor of a prior massacre.

Barbara is just as traumatized, just as unresponsive, when she gets to the house as she was in the original film. When Ben (Tony Todd) shows up, she is just as unable to answer him. But circumstances soon force her to kill a zombie sneaking up behind her, and unlike the original Barbara she soon starts to (forgive us) rise to the occasion, stunningly becoming one of the strongest people in the house.

By the time the Ben / Harry antagonism begins, Barbara begins to reveal herself as having more sense and more guts than the two of them put together. She


this version to something on the level ofAvatarto counter even one-tenth of the damage their other big ideas did to the story.

The danger signs start very early. In both prior versions, the teasing Barbara’s brother Johnny subjects her to in the cemetery ends as soon as the first zombie attacks; then the first zombie attacks, he sees that the danger is real, and he rushes to protect his sister, at the cost of his own life. This makes psychological sense, as it’s what a big brother would do. In this film, he runs to their car and drives away, abandoning her to her fate. That is the act of an unbelievable asshole, which doesn’t ring true at all. Still…all right. Maybe this Johnny really is just an asshole.isn’t good enough to overcome a story which, ironically enough, has had all its life sucked out of it.

The Final Respects

The 1968 version, a hugely influential and still terrifying horror film. The 1990 version, a worthy remake marked by a genuinely different take. The 2006 version, nothing but rotten meat.

Night Of The Living Dead (1990). Directed by Tom Savini. Screenplay by George A. Romero, based on the 1968 screenplay by George Romero and John Russo. Starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles. 92 minutes.***

Night Of the Living Dead 3-D (2006). Directed by Jeff Broadstreet. Screenplay by Jeff Broadstreet, inspired by the 1968 Screenplay by George A. Romero and John Russo. Starring Brianna Brown, Sid Haig. 80 minutes. 0000000 NO!!!!!

Other Known Versions: Night Of the Living Dead Re-Animated (2009;


story. The third has a climax of truly transcendent dumbness. There’s precious little intended subtext in any of them.

We’re talking about the three Houses of Wax, all of them horror films set in and around the titular tourist destinations, which are all run by mad craftsmen who achieve realism in their sculptures by entombing their hapless victims in paraffin. Each one of them features a hideously disfigured murderer, and a catastrophic fire that consumes the buildings and melts the sculptures to bubbling puddles. Beyond that, though, the differences are instructive. Each in their own way, they all embody the nature of popular filmmaking in their respective times. Stretching the point somewhat further than the evidence will bear, you could even look at all three and call them atransfer to home DVD on the flip side of the 1953 version made serious tint-adjustment errors that resulted in looking weak and washed-out, almost like a bad colorization of a film originally shot in black-in white.)

House Of Wax (1953)

The second film changes the name of the mad sculptor to Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) and the name of the young woman who begins to suspect what he’s up to to Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk). Sue is particularly drawn to the figure of Joan of Arc, who bears a remarkable resemblance to her murdered best friend Cathy (Carolyn Jones). The creepy deaf-mute assistance is Igor (here pronounced Ee-gor, and played by the future Charles Bronson).

Price was already an established actor whose gallery of roles had included the villainous Counselor (note:


off removes the skin as well. Meanwhile, the villain captures Carly, straps her to a chair, and crazy-glues her lips shut. This is pretty nasty, but since she frees herself from her bonds within minutes and physically pries her lips apart with her fingers so she can go back to screaming, the worst effect the crazy glue has is rendering her lips raw and bloody, which in practice just makes her look like she’s wearing bright red lipstick. (Her speech remains unaffected.) But she does get the tip of one finger chopped off, so that’s something.

In the place of the offended and wronged artists Lionel Atwill and Vincent Price played in the first two movies, both driven mad by crimes committed against them after they tried to adhereon-screen than she does in her life as a personality famous for being famous by displaying considerably more than one facial expression.

It all leads up to the fire in the museum, which is actually, literally, I mean seriously literally, a House of Wax, so that the staircase and the furniture and the walls get all mushy as Carly and her brother try to evade killers as the entire building turns soft as snot all around them. In the entire history of mad slasher movies, this may be the one, the one, where it’s least advisable to flee up the stairs. Expect a scene where her brother tries to run up after her and sinks ankle-deep in the ooze. Expect one of the evil siamese-twin brothers to fall through


From an early age Nadezhda wrote her own stories and fairy tales. Her story "Pustiak" was based on her first dramatic experience of reading aloud for the class .

University
After school 1968 Nadezhda went to A.M. Gorky Ural State University to study philology. She actively took part as an actress and an accompanist in student theatres of the University and Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts. She composed music and easily played in the piano, guitar and accordion that gave a nudge to the decision to study in the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire, but her mother made a requirement that Nadezhda should graduate the University first. In preparation to her thesis, Nadezhda worked in the museum of Muranovo, where she also gave guided tours about Fyodor Tyutchev.Clifford May - Who won the Battle of Gaza?

Published: December 3, 2012 12:00PM

There was no uncertainly about who won the battle for Constantinople in 1453 (the Ottoman Caliphate), or who lost the battle for Vienna in 1529 (the Ottoman Caliphate). In the Civil War, the North decisively defeated the South. In the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies prevailed, and the Axis never recovered.

These days, however, the fog of war shrouds not only conflicts while they are under way, but even conflicts that have ended. And so there is now a debate about the outcome of what might be called November's Battle of Gaza.

On one hand, Israeli Defense Forces hit with extraordinary precision -- and astonishingly limited civilian casualties considering Hamas' use of civilians as human shields --


more than 1,600 targets during their eight-day campaign, demolishing Hamas' command-and-control apparatus, killing more than 100 Hamas commanders, crippling Hamas' rocket-launching capability, destroying 26 weapons caches and more than 200 tunnels used for arms smuggling and terrorist attacks.

On the other hand, The Wall Street Journal editorialized that Hamas emerged politically intact and strategically stronger after eight days of inconclusive fighting. The terrorist group fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel, forcing millions of Israelis into bunkers and bomb shelters but suffered no decisive military defeat. Hamas openly dared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to invade the Gaza Strip, and by not doing so Netanyahu left the terror leaders alive to strike again. Hamas also won a new international patron in Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who brokered the cease-fire.

WhoEgyptians who now fear that their revolution will end up replacing an autocracy with a theocracy.

Best-case scenario: Morsi decides to rein in Hamas and accedes to the demands of the protesters, allowing Egypt's democratic experiment to survive another day. That may require more pressure than Washington has applied so far.

Worst-case scenario: Morsi becomes an Islamist pharaoh and, sooner or later, lets Hamas, with Iran's backing, drag Egypt into another war, one as damaging -- if also as inconclusive -- as were the wars Egypt fought against Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973.

(Clifford May is president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism.)


small red stars collected by two robotically controlled observatories, called the MEarth Project, when he spotted something promising. The signal for star LHS 1140 looked like the telltale dip in light that signifies an exoplanet in orbit.

He approached the European Southern Observatory's HARPS team, home of the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, and they confirmed it. They were also able to help him discover its orbit, which is 25 days, as well as the planet's mass and density.

This also allowed them to be sure that the planet is rocky, said HARPS team member Nicola Astudillo-Defru, because HARPS is the most precise instrument that can measure the "wobble" of the planet as the star tugs on it. That is proportional to the planet's mass.

"The density that we measureA temporary baby Jesus statue head that raised eyebrows around the world is back in the hands of the artist who created it.

"The artist asked to have it returned to her," said Gérald Lajeunesse, the priest of Ste. Anne Des Pins parish in Sudbury, Ont. "The reason she gave was, 'This is my most famous piece of art.'"

The terracotta head grabbed global attention in October when it appeared on a pearly white statue of Mother Mary and her baby Jesus. The result was a bit startling due to the contrast in colours, as well as the fact that the clay began to erode from the rain about a week after it went up.

The original head was repeatedly stolen and had been missing for months when a local artist


came forward, offering to construct a new head for the decapitated statue.

The international attention around that temporary head led to the original missing head being returned to the church.

The terracotta head, which eroded in the rain, inspired several internet memes and was likened by some to Lisa Simpson or a Chia Pet. (Marina von Stackelberg/CBC)

The original head will be reattached to the statue in the spring — a process being paid for by a benefactor, according to Lajeunesse.

Lajeunesse told CBC News that he promised himself the artist could have the unique creation back if she wanted it.

"I was hoping to keep it myself. But the artist asked for it back. I had decided, by myself, since she had made it, if ever she wanted it back, she couldRelated Articles

The rescue effort saw 97 per cent of the 438 oiled penguins rehabilitated and released back into the wild.

The Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre at Phillip Island Nature Parks is Victoria's only seabird rehabilitation facility and is capable of caring for up to 1500 little penguins in the event of an oil spill.

The little penguin is the smallest species of penguin, with adults standing up to 40 centimetres tall.


It could soon become illegal to protest outside ACT abortion clinics under draft legislation being developed by Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury.

The draft laws could make it illegal for people to protest in the vicinity of the clinics at certain times and to prevent them from filming people entering and leaving.

Mr Rattenbury said the bill will mean women could access medical services safely and discreetly.

"I've been approached by members of the community in the ACT who want to see this put in place so that a woman can access a legal abortion service without feeling like she has to run the gauntlet at a time in which she might already feel vulnerable in seeking the service," he said.

"In the ACT we have certainly have seen a range of protestsand vigils taking place outside the Territory's recognised abortion facility."

The legislation could create an exclusion zone around medical facilities that provide abortions.

The yellow markings show the exclusion zone proposed by Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury. ( Supplied )

"The legislation has a very defined area immediately around the ACT Health building and covers the opening hours of the facility," Mr Rattenbury said.

"It includes the footpath outside the building and across the street.

"This is not an anti-protest bill, this is a bill about protecting a woman's right to privacy when seeking a medical service."

Mr Rattenbury said a ban on filming people going in or out of the clinic would also be included to prevent people using social media to embarrass.

"Limiting the ability to take photos of people accessing services is a


full-text searchable archive of Gateway, 1910-2006  from Peel's Prairie Provinces and University of Alberta Libraries: Sources for Western Canada and Western Canadian History
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Category:Newspapers published in EdmontonQ: Why ISO 9000?A:The ISO 9000 management system standards were developed during the 1980s. They were derived from many similar individual national standards around the world which had been developed from about 1970 onwards. Neighbors in Canada had their Z299 standards, the Australians had AS3900, and here in the US, the nuclear industry had the NQA-1 standard. The defense industry had been using similar standards for years – many will be familiar with MIL-Q-9858A.
Probably the best recognized nondefense management system initiative was established in the United Kingdom in 1983 when the British government created the National Accreditation Council for Certification Bodies, now the National Accreditation of Certification Bodies (NACB). This was created to monitor the activities of companies like BSi, Lloyds and BVQi performing third-party audits on management


systems implemented by British businesses using the British standard for quality management systems, known as BS5750:1979. BS5750 became one of the strongest models reviewed by the international committees of the International Organization for Standardization as they started to develop the ISO 9000 standards.
The ISO 9000 standards were first issued in 1987, reissued in 1994 and again in 2000. They rapidly became very popular, and have now been adopted by over 180 nations worldwide, including every major trading partner of the US and the European Community. For any organization seeking an internationally recognized model for management systems, here is the perfect answer. Not only are the standards already written, but thousands of companies have implemented them successfully, achieving third-party certification to prove it. In addition, many customers are startingCommittees (TCs), and publish their work when it is completed. Individual countries then decide whether or not to use the standards that the International Organization for Standardization publishes.
The ISO 9000 standards were written by TC 176, which has a wide representation from many countries including the US, and they have been adopted by the national standards organizations of countries worldwide. When a national standards body "adopts" an ISO document, it usually gives it a national number – hence, in the UK the ISO 9000 standards are called BS5750, in the European Community they are the EN29000 standards.

THE HISTORY OF ISO 9000
Why ISO 9000?

Developed during the 1980s

Followed on from many similar quality standards around the world

Similar to the highly successful BS5750:1979 management system initiative.

The standard has been around -


be next to useless.

Q: What happens during an audit?A: The audit process is divided into two major activities. The first being the adequacy or desk audit, the second is the compliance audit. During the desk audit, auditors compare the company's documented system with the requirements of the standard. They are looking for the system to meet the fundamentals of the requirements. This initial audit produces an audit report, and as a result of this audit report – assuming all is well – the decision is made to proceed with the second part of the audit.
During the compliance audit, auditors are on site talking to staff, asking questions about what they do and how they do it, what documents they have to use, what records they maintain, and whothat to the extreme, with the return to city-
states, Burning-Man style with citizens moving house in their shipping-
container homes as their loyalties/desires change.

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jerf
One of the great stories of the political landscape today is the... impedance
mismatch, for lack of a better word... between technology enabling ever more
decentralized control (and for "control", read "government"), and the fact
that everywhere you look, centralized governments are expanding their power.

It's one of those thing we're all too close to see clearly, and I do not
exempt myself from that problem, but I suspect in a hundred years it'll be one
of the "big stories" told about this time period.

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eli_gottlieb
Strange how centralized governments everywhere are expanding their power under
what are, universally, "small government" neoliberal regimes.

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Nutella4
Not strange at all. Neoliberals are for big government everywhere except
government regulation of


Pulwama terror attack: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to the 40 CRPF personnel killed in the Valley on Thursday. Their bodies were flown to New Delhi before being sent home Friday. (PTI Photo) Pulwama terror attack: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to the 40 CRPF personnel killed in the Valley on Thursday. Their bodies were flown to New Delhi before being sent home Friday. (PTI Photo)

Sending a clear warning to Pakistan and the perpetrators of the terror attack on a CRPF convoy in the Valley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said security forces have been given “full freedom” to choose a “time and place” for the “future course of action”.

He promised a “muhtod jawab” (befitting reply) for the attack that claimed the lives of 40 CRPFabetting them that they have made a big mistake. They will have to pay a very heavy price for their actions. Let me assure the nation that those behind this attack, the perpetrators of this attack will be punished,” he said.

He appealed to leaders of all political parties not to “politicise” the terror attack because “the neighbouring country” — he did not name Pakistan — was trying to “destabilise” India.

Pulwama attack: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore with Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and IAF chief Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa pay tribute to martyred CRPF jawans in New Delhi, Friday, Feb 15, 2019. (PTI Photo: Manvender Vashist) Pulwama attack: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh


alias: The Midnight Rider, is a Christian, a writer, provocateur, free-thinker, thrill-seeker, adventurer, warrior, and certified alligator wrestler, who keeps his sail set for the far horizon and thrills to the splash of seawater across the bow. Additionally, Tom is an ordained minister, who has officiated at 40 weddings in the last 15 years. He challenges everyone he meets to open their minds, dangling as a carrot freedom from all self-imposed limits. He likes to jump – off of cliffs, out of hot air balloons and airplanes, and off the edge of all that is known into the Unknown, where he is sure that one of two things will happen: either he will find something solid on which to stand, or he will be taught to fly. InJack Wilshere in line for England recall for Holland and Italy friendlies

Jack Wilshere has won 34 caps for England, scoring twice

Jack Wilshere is set for an England recall when Gareth Southgate names his squad for the pre-World Cup friendlies against the Netherlands and Italy on Thursday.

The 26-year-old has not played for his country since the embarrassing Euro 2016 defeat to Iceland but has impressed after winning back his club place with Arsenal.

Wilshere's likely return comes amid concern over Tottenham striker Harry Kane, who will be sidelined until next month after preliminary assessments showed damage to the lateral ligaments in his right ankle.

While Kane's absence will be a blow to Southgate, the striker is clearly determined that his latest setback will not affect his chances of going to Russia.

Harry


Kane will miss this month's friendlies with an ankle injury

"Disappointing to be out until next month but injuries are part of the game," Kane wrote on Twitter. "Will do everything I can to get back out there asap."

Kane aside, Southgate's attacking options have increased with the fine form of Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, as well as Danny Welbeck's return to the Arsenal front-line.

Among the uncapped players looking to land call-ups are Callum Wilson, Glenn Murray and Ashley Barnes, while Joe Hart's lack of Premier League game time this season has led to calls in some quarters to elevate the in-form Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope.

And England's participation in this summer's finals will come under continued scrutiny given the current political tensions between the UK and hosts Russia.

Prime MinisterTheresa May said on Wednesday that UK dignitaries, including members of the royal family, will not attend this summer's tournament as the fall-out to the nerve agent attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia continues.

Russia has denied any involvement in the Salisbury attack and the Foreign Office has now warned those travelling to Russia in the coming weeks about the "possibility of anti-British sentiment or harassment at this time".

When asked in the Commons about Football Association senior officials travelling to the World Cup, May said she was "sure they will want to be considering their position", but stressed it was theirs to make.

A statement from the FA in the wake of Mrs May's comments read: "The FA will continue to work closely with the UK Government


"He's . . . deadly."

"I'm deadly in any form," Avery said, touching his wound and wincing. "Bloody hell, woman. What did you hit me with?"

"You don't want to know," I told him, helping him sit up. I had to admit I didn't at all mind the silky sensation of his naked back against my hands. "How do you feel?"

"That's it. I give up. He's clearly got you under his sway, or lure, or whatever it is vampires do. There's no hope for you now," Cora said, slumping down the wall to sit on the floor. "Next you'll be eating bugs and calling him master."

"It's called a thrall, and we don't do that," Avery told her, squinting at the blood on his fingers.

"You don't?" she asked.

"No." He gave megood thing I bought the extra-long length of hose—they were out of rope, so I figured the hose would do to tie Avery up. Now I'll have enough for both."

"What a very odd woman you are," Sam said, tipping her head on the side to consider my clearly deranged sister. "You don't like Dark Ones?"

"Like them!" gasped Cora, horrified.

"Don't get her started," I begged Sam, marching over to Cora to gently pry the trowel from her hands. "There will be no staking and no tying anyone up with a hose, not that I think you could to begin with. Honestly, Cora, a hose?"

"It's all they had," she snapped, her arms crossed as she plopped herself down on a low chest of drawers. "And can I just say that