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Norma Rae

Norma Rae (Sally Field, Forest Gump) is a single mother of two working at a textile mill along with her father Vernon (Pat Hingle, Hang ‘Em High) and her mother Leona (Barbara Blaxley). Norma has a big mouth and a strong will, which gets her a reputation and a fair amount of trouble in small town Alabama. When union organizer Reuben Warshowsky (Ron Liebman, Rhinestone) arrives, Norma Rae is the first worker who joins and becomes the leading force in unionizing the mill, at the same time balancing a romance and new marriage to single father Sonny (Beau Bridges, Village of the Giants).

Norma Rae and her momma

The plot of Norma Rae is relatively simple, a straight forward


she even entered office.

Press Conference Controversy

Back in October of 2013, when Hodges was a member of the city council, she and two fellow council members held a press conference to announce a pilot program for the city: a test group of police officers would be fitted with body cameras to wear at all times while on duty.

However, no law enforcement officials were present at the conference, and that did not sit well with Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau.

Harteau told a local NBC affiliate that she was “very frustrated because I’m out of town and all this stuff is happening without me there and nobody ever asked me to be there.”

Battle of the Open Letters

Fast forward about one year, to late September of 2014. Councilwoman Hodges was now Mayoron October 17, 2014. Hodges was apparently undeterred by Delmonico’s response, and her office planned to move forward with the body camera program as planned.

A press conference was scheduled for the afternoon of November 7th, where Hodges – along with Chief Harteau – would launch the pilot program and explain its details to the press. The #pointergate story aired on the morning of November 7th.

Heavily featured in that KSTP story? John Delmonico.

At one point, Delmonico asks, “For as critical as she can be with the cops, ah, is she gonna support gangs in this city or cops?”

One last point: in the segment, the anchor says that “law enforcement sources tell us they found the photo on the man’s Facebook page while they were doing investigative work.” That’s certainly


left in Inglewood, California in December) after the actress complained of her traffic troubles amid the deadly southern Californian mudslides

Thorne took to her page in the afternoon writing: 'F**k u 101 Barbara. I'm missing my boyfriend's first date on his tour.' Lowe replied after, saying, 'this is why people hate celebrities'

Bella Thorne was complaining about missing her boyfriend rapper Mod Sun's (pictured together) gig - but her post backfired spectacularly

The 101 Highway which Thorne spoke of is seen closed on both sides in Montecito, California on Thursday

Vehicles are seen stopped after a 6pm mandatory evacuation order is placed following the mudslide and its devastation

A damaged house and vehicle are seen after a mudslide that left 17 dead, 43 missing and hundreds of others trapped inside their homes

Many wereevacuated from their homes by local police while others decided to stay

Homes were ripped open by debris carried by the mudslides that ravaged Santa Barbara

A destroyed vehicle is shown amid the California mudslide that forced highways to close down

Rescue workers slogged through knee-deep ooze and used long poles to probe for bodies as the search dragged on for victims of the mudslides that slammed this wealthy coastal town

Bill Asher attempted to walk through tough mud inside his home that was damaged by storms in Montecito

Bill Asher, left, and his friend Gil Loustalot survey storm damage to Asher's home in Montecito

Cars and debris that washed to the coast from storms and flooding are shown on a beach. Rescue workers slogged through knee-deep ooze and used long poles to probe


for bodies

Search and rescue workers and a dog scour through properties after the deadly mudslide. Several people are still missing

Rescue workers scour through properties after a deadly combination of wildfires and heavy rainfall triggered mudslides

A search and rescue worker is seen trekking through properties from the mudslide that destroyed hundreds of homes

Meanwhile, celebs like Gwyenth Paltrow suffered double heartbreak after the mudslides wrecked the grounds of her multimillion dollar Montecito home and 'devastated' the beautiful boutique hotel where she married Chris Martin.

Paltrow only bought the $4.9 million property, in Tollis Avenue in 2016, which boasted 'Monet-like gardens' and stunning water features.

Sadly, it's the grounds that have been hit hardest by the deadly mudslides. The floods dumped thick mud over its lawns and in its ponds and swimming pool,while photos show that sections of her awning and veranda appear to have been torn off.

The actress still hasn't moved into the Montecito property, which was advertised as a fixer upper on one site, and another listing as 'vacant land with two existing residential structures,' which has it has been mired in planning issues after the Shakespeare in Love star's proposals for a new mansion infuriated her neighbors.

‹ Slide me › Gwyneth Paltrow's $4.9 million Montecito home's 'Monet-like' gardens have been ravaged by mudslides. Pictured before the deluge, left, and after, right

After the floods: Sections of her awning and veranda appear to have been torn off and a water feature in the center of her yard is now filled with muddy water

Pretty as a picture: Before the mudslides,


the property's best features were its stunning pool (pictured) and pretty grounds

Piece of art: The pretty gardens, and water features (pictured before Tuesday's downpour) have now been buried under mud

Paltrow only bought the $4.9 million property, in Tollis Avenue in 2016, and proposals to tear down the structure and build a new mansion in place have been mired in planning issues

Paltrow (pictured) suffered double heartbreak after the southern Californian mudslides which not only wrecked the grounds of her multimillion dollar Montecito home, but also all but destroyed the beautiful boutique hotel where she married Chris Martin

And it's not just her property portfolio that took a hit on Tuesday.

San Ysidro Ranch, where she tied the knot with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, has been all but destroyed by themudslides. The couple wed in the ranch's Willow Cottage in a private ceremony on December 5, 2003. They divorced last year but the pair remain friends and have two children together.

The beloved venue for countless celebrity weddings, from Lawrence Olivier's nuptials with Vivien Leigh in 1940, to Jessica Simpson's wedding to Eric Johnson in 2014. Hilary Duff and Sandra Bullock both spent their wedding nights at the San Ysidro Ranch.

Even the Kennedys honeymooned here after JFK wed Jacqueline in 1953.

But the ranch, which is nestled 500 acres of gardens in the mountains of Montecito, was ravaged by Tuesday's mudslides that tore through the wealthy enclave bringing death and destruction to anything that stood in its way.

‹ Slide me › San Ysidro Ranch, pictured before the mudslides, left, and


show that Oprah Winfrey's $50million estate managed to survive the mudslide. She said her property had suffered some minor damage, but nothing compared to that of her neighbors.

Shocking images that captured the area north of Oprah's estate show severely damaged homes that were completely engulfed by the river of mud. She shared video of her in knee-deep mud and debris as she said a fence had been knocked down and that she was 'devastated' over the damage to her neighbor's home.

Talent agent Scooter Braun, who represents the stars such as Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, has also been affected by the mudslides

Oprah's mansion: Aerial images of the area show that Oprah's $50million estate managed to survive the mudslide

Talent agent Scooter Braun, who represents the stars such as JustinAdvertising

'Venetica' (X360/PC) - 11 New Screens

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It is set in a fantastic 16th century Venice, where the player assumes the role of young Scarlett, daughter of Death himself. She must fight against a threat that could not be worse… A Necromancer has stolen the supernatural powers of Death and managed to become immortal. Only a hero with equal powers will be able to stop him and his henchmen. Scarlett must answer the call.

On a journey through Venice and other areas Scarlett battles against


and president, South Asia, at advertising agency McCann, who wrote the BJP anthem and Piyush Pandey, executive chairman and creative director, South Asia, at Ogilvy and Mather, whose agency Soho Square created the lead campaign with the tagline Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. Clearly, the communication was sharply focused on Modi and the tenor of the campaign was determined with the help of BJP party members Piyush Goyal and Ajay Singh.

Modi’s image was ubiquitous in this campaign. He stared out of full, front page ads in newspapers across languages, commercials across television channels and hoardings across cities, especially Delhi. Commercial time was bought big time on radio networks to reach out to the smallest cities.

The success of Modi’s digital media strategy story has been well documented by theArchive for December, 2014

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ST. PETERSBURG – The Pinellas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL) elected Bruce H. Denson as the new President for 2014 – 2015. Since 1994, Mr. Denson has been involved in criminal justice in Pinellas County and the Tampa Bay…


Taking place on the planet Sera, Gears of War is an epic story depicting the fight for the fate of humanity. Now the protagonist, Marcus Fenix, joins the fray as a Play Arts Kai action figure!

Marcus is a Sergeant with the COG and the leader of Delta squad, and established himself as a war hero during the Pendulum Wars. Our designers meticulously recreated his unique, brawny physique. In addition, his joints have a wide range of motion which allows the collector a great deal of freedom in posing Marcus and reenacting iconic in-game action poses.

The paintwork on his armor exhibits a worn patina and weathering, giving the viewer an image of the brutality of the battles in which he has fought. Marcus comes with the Lancer MK2 AssaultZurich-based Credit Suisse has for the past decade been a major global player in the lucrative business of privatizing government infrastructure, including airports. Indeed, in 2009, Credit Suisse bought Gatwick Airport in the U.K., through a joint venture with General Electric. Credit Suisse also recently indicated an interest in advising the Russian government on its plans to privatize some major Russian state-owned enterprises.

So the Trudeau government, which has asked Credit Suisse to report back before the end of the year, can count on an earful of advice about the wonderful benefits of airport privatization.

But while selling our airports would mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for the banks and law firms involved in the deals, aviation authorities say Canadian air travellers would face higher costs to


the far crown of the runway; then a moment later it would reappear, streaking up into the sky and you could track the twin plumes like a comet heading home. It was impossible not to stare at it and smile until the burner cans twinkled out.

On this night Lucky and I were the only two in the shack. Due to our squadron’s mechanical issues, the schedule had bled into the very late night and I was anxious to get home before Miramar closed at midnight sharp. They were very strict, and the last thing I wanted was to spend the night at NAS North Island, tantalizingly just down the road from home and hearth. So I sent my last guy, Truck, back at 23:30. Lucky and I jumpedConstruction set to begin on HS2 this year after royal approval

Work on HS2 is all set to start following the formal seal of approval from the Queen, which was given today (Thursday February 23).

The HS2 Hybrid Bill has now officially become an Act of Parliament after it was given Royal Assent - a formal act of approval from the monarch which is never refused.

HS2 Ltd now intends to carry out early works this year ahead of the main contractors starting on site from 2018 onwards.

The early works include site investigations, enabling works, demolition and land preparation, and new wildlife habitat creations.

Cllr Peter Butlin, Warwickshire County Council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet member for HS2, said: “The Royal Assent for the HS2 Bill concludes almost three-and-a-half years lobbying Parliament for


siphon for the rapidly-depleting supply of red.

He shall now look up at you, and look you deep in the eyes. It is unavoidable, and he shall find his missing color. Should you look into his eyes, you will find that the color of his is the exact same as yours. You must then rip the dull paintbrush from the man's hands and gouge it into his eye, before he has the chance to get it to you. Rip out the paint brush, and the man will scream in an ungodly way, shaking the very scenery. He will attack you, and begin to claw at your eyes. Do not kill this man, for to do so is to take his place as the painter of the universe. Remove hisNews Updates

Responding to charges that education officials censored materials,
the California state board of education has asked the state education
department to reinstate the works of two authors to the pool of
selections for possible use in statewide 10th-grade assessments.

After a public hearing this month, the board also asked the
department to review its procedures for choosing materials for the
California Learning Assessment System test.

Two short stories by Alice Walker and one by Annie Dillard were
excluded from the pool after state education officials expressed
concern that the pieces might engender controversy and jeopardize the
testing program, which asks students to analyze reading passages. (See
Education Week, March 9, 1994.)

An organization that advocates the teaching of Christian values in
the schools, for example, has complained that one of Ms. Walker's
stories is antireligious.

Health-Textbook Publisher Says No to Texas Schools

A


leading publisher has withdrawn a health textbook from the Texas
market rather than make the hundreds of revisions required by the state
board of education.

Holt, Rinehart, & Winston last week announced that it would stop
marketing its health textbook in the state.

Company officials, according to published reports, cited as reasons
for their decision the cost of making the revisions and the potential
for causing harm to students if the books were stripped of information
about the prevention of AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and
pregnancy. Most of the revisions sought by the state from Holt,
Rinehart and four other publishers deal with sex education. (See
Education Week, Feb. 23, 1994.)

Health and family-planning advocates said the board's action was
sparked by conservatives who are pushing a curriculum that emphasizes
sexual abstinence.

Truancy Plan Put on Ice: The acting superintendent of the
Philadelphiaof the film," the ad buyers tell The Hollywood Reporter. The marketers, though, note that the network — which is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture of Walt Disney and Hearst Communications — previously promoted an interview with Scarlett Johansson where she pitches Planned Parenthood.

The Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, HGTV and Food Network, each of which are owned by Discovery, also refused to sell ad time for Unplanned due to the "sensitive nature" of the movie, say those who tried buying air time.

Other networks that refused to advertise the movie include the Hallmark Channel and USA Network, the latter of which is owned by NBCUniversal.

"We were looking to spend money, but they didn't want to get involved," said John Sullivan, a producer of Unplanned. THR reached out


an R-rated movie for the first time.

Along with Fox News, The Christian Broadcast Network accepted ads, as has conservative talk radio, with Glenn Beck taking a particularly active role in promoting the movie, including his hosting of a special screening of the movie in Salt Lake City scheduled for tonight. One of the rejected TV commercials, in fact, features a blurb from Beck that reads: "You have never seen anything like this."

Due to the lack of commercial airtime available to the film, marketers have been relying on more innovative techniques. Pure Flix, for example, debuted the film at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.

Mike Lindell, the founder of My Pillow who invested $1 million in Unplanned, is also promoting the movie, which tells the true story offormer Planned Parenthood executive Abby Johnson, who quit the organization to become a prominent pro-life advocate. Unplanned also got some publicity at its Hollywood premiere when singer Joy Villa attended in a dress emblazoned with the title of the film and the phrase, "F*CK Planned Parenthood."

Similar to the networks taking a pass on selling ads, Unplanned previously had no luck licensing mainstream music for the movie, as a half-dozen major music labels said no to the filmmakers, including Disney, Universal Music, Sony/ATV and Round Hill Music.

Planned Parenthood issued the following statement about Unplanned, "The claims in this film are simply false. Planned Parenthood is proud to provide expert, high-quality health care to our patients, including safe and legal abortion, in a safe and compassionate environment. The movie promotes


spirit of the nation.

But, just as in other parts of the world, the geostrategists from the north are interested in dividing countries that are rich in hydrocarbons, and rebelling against the established order and North American peace. Groups of oligarchic power would prefer to divide the country to satisfy their own interests, rather that conciliate with the national government of Evo. That is why the working people, conscious of the need to maintain the unity of the homeland have risen up, with marches and popular cabildos to isolate the quisling prefects.

The people are aware that there exists a favourable international context for their aspirations to rise up out of poverty and nationalise political power, which today is subjugated by the nefarious influence of the empire. The US hasFor them, trade only exists if the US, Canada, Europe or Japan are present. On the other hand, the national government accepts with delight the arrival of strategic companies such as PDVSA, BIV or Industrial Bank of Venezuela, and Telesur. And the formation of Petroandina and Petrosur. Integration and trade between the people and countries of ALBA signifies the solution, in the first instance, to social, economic and cultural problems, and in the second instance, to political problems, combined with investigation, innovation, competitiveness, science and technology.

Bolivarian Venezuela and Bolivia are one and the same country and habitants of both nations should constitute themselves with the same personal documentation in jobs that would be generated by the protection of companies, agroindustry, petrochemical plants, financial banks, media outlets, education and


Nicaragua, to begin with, but also Ecuador, MERCOSUR, Peru and Chile were supplied with Bolivian produced iron, steel and finished products such as construction steels, irons, machinery, rails and tubes.

Another similarly transcendental possibility is in energy planning, with the exportation of gas to all of South America by Bolivarian Venezuela and Bolivia, using the Gas Duct of the South which will be constructed with Venezuelan financing. The exportation of electrical energy to neighbouring countries is a fact in Bolivia via the company ENDE, refounded in association with YPFB, municipalities, prefectures, cooperatives, and campesino communities.

Bolivarian revolution would permit the creation of thousands of popular universities and industrial or technological schools of production, to place technical knowledge, for all branches and sectors, within the reach of each Latin American citizenand campesino. With the Bolivarian revolution knowledge would no longer be a mystery and it should reach youth and adults equally via the dual system of theory and practice at the same time.

This Latin American vision is counterposed to savage capitalism, and frightens the US and its multinationals, accustomed as they are to just seeing poor, highly indebted countries, with quisling bourgeoisies and oligarchies tied to their interests. When they look at this dignified, sovereign, independent Bolivia united, by a concrete treaty of integral integration like ALBA, with Bolivarian Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, they being to move their internal servants, or separatist prefects, to impede the Bolivarian democracy of the free and sovereign peoples continuing to grow and exercising popular and protagonist power. The national government needs more


The address by Prime Minister A.K. Cajander on the 23rd of November
1939, at Helsinki Fair Hall, at a national defence celebration arranged
by Finnish private enterprise owners

The people of Finland stands in front of an unexpected incident. The
events followed in a quick succession and the whole sequence of events
emerged as a total surprise for the majority of the Finnish people.

It is hardly a wrong conclusion if one, trying to interpret the
present flow of events around the world, sees it as an expansionist
tendency of the great powers, a constant and understandable phenomenon
in world history irrespective of whether you consider it being
justified or not.

The Tsarist state had in its final days a strong westward drive
down to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. The independent status of
Finland was an obstacle to thisgoal and this was the motive to end the
internal home rule, the autonomous status of Finland. The years of
oppression in Finland derived from that. This policy was essentially
different from the benevolent policy employed by the previous Emperors,
especially Alexander I and II who therefore enjoyed an undivided love
of the Finnish people. This new policy embittered and strained the
relationship between Finland and Russia to the extreme.

History seldom follows a straightforward course. The great war
crushed the intentions of the Tsarist regime. On its ruins the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics was born. It recognised nations' rights to
self-determination and it has on all occasions assured its willingness
to maintain friendly relations to her neighbors. Even the independence
of Finland was recognised by her.

Thus the end of the World War also brought independence to
Finland, but not


its
troops into eastern Poland and occupied it. Simultaneously the Soviet
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs made it known to the governments
of Finland and the Baltic countries, as well as to other countries,
that it would conduct a policy of neutrality towards them.

The defection of a Polish submarine
to Tallinn (the capital of Estonia) was at first brought out as an
excuse for proposals made by the Soviet Union to Estonia, which then
finally resulted in allocating important military bases to the Soviet
Union in Paldiski (Baltischport), Saaremaa (Ösel) and Hiiumaa
(Dagö). In quick succession similar events followed in Latvia and
Lithuania. These three vigorous Baltic countries with their own
charasteristic old cultures and a splendid future ahead were overnight
turned into more or less dependencies of the Soviet Union.

Especially depressing for us, the Finns, is the fact thatamong
these countries faced by this unfavorable fate is the State of Estonia,
our dear fraternal nation. A follow-up was also the mass departure of
Germans from the Baltics where they over a time period of 600 years had
made history and have loftily carried the national flag of the German
stock.

It was to be expected, when thinking about the previous conduct
by the Soviet Union, that she would make similar proposals also to the
Finnish goverment. It should be stated, however, that the previously
expressed reasons for Soviet intentions towards Finland had, at least
in two counts, disappeared. The only great power which could have
earlier been a potential threat to Leningrad - well, in that case
presumably along the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland - namely
Germany, has concluded a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union,
which


means that there exists no threat against the Soviet Union and
Leningrad from there - without considering the overall present
importance of Leningrad to the Soviet Union. And the new Soviet naval
and air bases in Liepaja (Libau), Ventpils (Windau), Hiiumaa, Saaremaa
and Paldiski permit, as disclosed by the Soviets, the Soviet Union to
rule the Baltic Sea and thus the Gulf of Finland and up to the Gulf's
farthest recess in front of Leningrad.

Judging from the present facts, all arguments about threats to
Leningrad from the Finnish territory are very difficult to understand.

A request for negotiations with the Soviet government was
received on the 5th of October. For over a month friendly discussions
were carried out between the Finnish and Soviet Cabinets concerning
concrete political issues of certain territorial exchanges to improve
the security of Leningrad.

The Cabinet ofGrbeši

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SEOUL — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump soon to hasten denuclearization, South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday quoted the North’s leader as saying at a summit this week.

Kim, who recently proposed the second meeting with Trump after their unprecedented June summit in Singapore, added that declaring a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War would prompt rapid further steps by the North to abandon its nuclear and missile programs, Moon said.

“Chairman Kim expressed his wish that he wanted to complete denuclearization quickly and focus on economic development,” Moon told a news conference in Seoul, describing his three-day summit with Kim in the North’s capital, Pyongyang.

“He said he hoped (US Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo would visitNorth Korea soon, and also a second summit with Trump would take place in the near future, in order to move the denuclearization process along quickly,” Moon said.

Kim pledged to work toward the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” during two meetings with Moon this year and at his summit with Trump, but talks on how to implement the vague commitments have since faltered.

Washington has demanded concrete action, such as a full disclosure of North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities, before agreeing to Pyongyang’s key goals, including an easing of international sanctions and an official end to the Korean War.

An end-of-war declaration would not affect the presence of US troops and the United Nations Command in South Korea, Moon said, adding that Kim shared his view.

“It would be


In the theology and piety of the Orthodox Church, a special place of honor is given to the Mother of God the Most-Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, who is reverenced by the Orthodox as being more honorable than the Cherubim and more glorious, beyond compare, than the Seraphim. As Orthodox we style her as the most exalted among God's creatures; but we do not regard her as some sort of goddess, the 4th Person of the Trinity, as some accuse us; nor do we render her the worship due God alone. Just as with the Holy Icons, the veneration due Mary is expressed in quite different words in the Greek writings of the Fathers than that due God.

At many of the Divine Services, the Deacon exclaims: Commemorating ourMost-Holy, Most-Pure, Most-Blessed and Glorious Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary with all the Saints.... And here we can see three basic truths expressed concerning her.

The Virgin Mary is honored because she is Theotokos the Mother of God not of His divinity, but of His humanity, yet of God in that Jesus Christ was, in the theology of the Church, both God and Man, at one and the same time, in the Incarnation. Therefore, the honor given Mary is due to her relationship to Christ. And this honor, rather than taking away from that due God, makes us more aware of God's majesty; for it is precisely on account of the Son (Himself God) that she is venerated. Of times, when men refuse to honor Mary, it is because


honored as Theotokos, so too, she is honored because she is Panagia All-Holy. She is the supreme example of the cooperation between God and Man; for God, Who always respects human freedom, did not become incarnate without her free consent which, as Holy Scripture tells us, was freely given: Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word (Luke 1:38). Thus Mary is seen by the Church as the New Eve (as Christ is the New Adam) whose perfect obedience contrasted the disobedience of the First Mother, Eve, in Paradise. As St. Irenaeus says, the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed through the obedience of Mary; for what Eve, a virgin, bound by her unbelief, that Mary, a virgin, unloosedby her faith [Against the Heresies, III, xxii, 4],

As All-Holy and Most-Pure, Mary was free from actual sin, but, in the opinion of most Orthodox theologians, although not dogmatized by the Church, she did fall under the curse of Original Sin as does all mankind. For this reason by virtue of her solidarity with all humanity the Theotokos died a bodily death. Yet, in her case, the resurrection of the body had been anticipated; and she was assumed body and soul into Heaven; and her tomb was found empty an event celebrated in the Feast of the Falling-Asleep (or Dormition) of the Most-Holy Theotokos (Aug. 15). Thus, as the hymns of that Feast proclaim, she has passed from earth to heaven, beyond death and judgment, living already in


the age to come. She enjoys now the same bodily glory all of us hope to share one day.

Whereas the Church has officially proclaimed as dogmas the doctrines concerning the Trinity and the Incarnation, the glorification of the Mother of God belongs to the Inner Tradition of the Church. As the noted Orthodox theologian, Vladimir Lossky writes: It is hard to speak and not less hard to think about the mysteries which the Church keeps in the hidden depths of her inner consciousness.... The Mother of God was never a theme of the public preaching of the Apostles; while Christ was preached on the housetops, and proclaimed for all to know in an initiatory teaching addressed to the whole world, the mystery of His Mother was revealed onlysaw the Bush that was burning, but was not consumed. So too, the Theotokos bore the fire of Divinity, but was not consumed (Ex. 3:1-6).

(Golden) Candlestick.

In the Old Testament Tabernacle, there were found in the Sanctuary golden candlesticks. The Theotokos is the Candlestick which held that Light that illumines the world (Ex. 25:31-40).

(Golden) Censer.

Just as the censer holds a burning coal, so too, the Theotokos held the Living Coal. In the Apocalypse, there stands an Angel before the Throne of God, swinging a censer, representing the prayers of the Saints rising up to God. This is also seen as a symbol of the Theotokos, for it is her prayers that find special favor before her Son.

Cloud.

In the Exodus, the Israelites were led out of Egypt by a Cloud


hand of man).

The Prophet Daniel saw a mountain, from which was cut a stone, not by the hand of man (Dan. 2:34, 45). This is a reference to the miraculous Virgin Birth which was accomplished without the hand of man.

Palace.

The Theotokos was the Palace within which the King Christ our God dwelt.

Pot.

[See Urn]

Stem of Jesse.

In the Nativity Service, the Lord is referred to as the Rod from the Stem of Jesse (Is. 11:1), indicating His lineage from David, which was fulfilled through the Theotokos, who was a scion (or stem) of the line of David, the son of Jesse.

Tabernacle.

The Tabernacle was the place where the Glory of God dwelt. So too, the Glory of God dwelt in the Theotokos the Living Tabernacle (Ex. 40:34).

(Holy) Table.

This refers to theMichigan Theater a 5-star show

Keeping its Ann Arbor News Readers' Choice Award streak alive - it's won each year since the program's inception in 2004 - the Michigan Theater has once again been voted the area's best movie theater.

By showing art house fare in a historic movie palace setting, the Michigan fuses new and old to create a memorable moviegoing experience.

"For the last 15 years or so, I think that the Michigan Theater has had the two dynamics of computers," said Russ Collins, executive director and CEO of the Michigan. "There's the hardware and the software. And clearly, the Michigan Theater as a piece of hardware - people respond extremely strongly to it, because it's a restored, historic theater. It's a slice of the past, and it's intrinsically


beautiful. ... But you also have to have the software to make it something that is usable. And so the program of films that we're able to offer in this community keeps the hardware enlivened and vital."

Indeed, the Michigan Theater is one of a few places in the state where cinephiles can consistently view a program of independent films, foreign films and documentaries.

Plus, at the national level, Collins was invited to last year's Sundance Film Festival to participate in a specialty theater panel discussion, and the Michigan also won the League of Historic American Theatre's 2006 award for Outstanding Historic Theatre of the Year.

But the details that make the Michigan a longtime local favorite hangout include the live music that's performed on a Barton theater organ before andLast night, President Maduro made an announcement that could change the game. Rolling out yet another mission billed as the Cure to the Common Shortage (but which in fact simply gives the government even more discretional power), Maduro announced that the Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino López, will henceforth wield powers that…are just not normal for a Defense Minister.

The only way to pull it off is with a single commander in charge. A single command, gentlemen. All ministries, all the ministers, all the institutions of the state are henceforth at the command and the absolute subordination of the National Command of the Gran Misión Abastecimiento Soberano y Seguro, under the command of the president of the republic and under the command of General-in-Chief Vladimir Padrino López, beginning immediately. All


liable for workers' compensation benefits paid to Lee. Stephen J. Smith, Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, acting in his capacity as administrator of the Uninsured Employers Fund (UEF), filed a petition for writ of review of the WCAB's decision. We deny the petition.

RELEVANT FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In May 1994, Yoon applied to the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) for a painting contractor's license. Yoon's application indicated that he would do business as an individual and that he was the sole owner. In support of his application, Yoon submitted a declaration that he had no employees, and was thus exempt from the requirement under Business and Professions Code section 7125[1] to secure a certificate of workers' compensation insurance. On May 13, 1995, Yoon was issued a licensedid not respond to Lee's claim for workers' compensation benefits, and Lee applied to *732 the WCAB for an adjudication of his claim. Tomadur was joined in the action, and the UEF[2] stipulated to advance benefits to Lee.
On March 8, 2001, the workers' compensation judge (WCJ) found that Yoon lacked a valid contractor's license when Lee sustained his injuries, that Yoon and Tomadur were Lee's joint employers on that date, and that they were jointly and severally liable for his injuries.
On March 12, 2001, Tomadur filed a petition for reconsideration. In the WCJ's report and recommendation on reconsideration, the WCJ explained that Yoon lacked workers' compensation insurance when he employed Lee, and that under the WCJ's understanding of sections 7125 and 7125.2, Yoon's license was suspended immediately upon


his employment of workers. The WCJ concluded that Yoon lacked the valid license required for the status of independent contractor when Lee was injured, and thus Tomadur shared liability for Lee's injuries.
On May 8, 2001, the WCAB granted reconsideration and amended the WCJ's findings, concluding that Yoon had a valid license when Lee was injured, and that Yoon doing business as Universal was Lee's sole employer on that date. The WCAB reasoned that under subdivision (a) of section 7125.2, a contractor's license is suspended 30 days after the CSLB sends the contractor a notice concerning the lack of workers' compensation insurance, and that no such notice was sent to Yoon.
On June 21, 2001, petitioner filed a petition for writ of review on behalf of the UEF, challenging theSagamore on track under new managers

September 19, 1993|By Ross Peddicord | Ross Peddicord,Staff Writer

Once again the fields of Sagamore Farm, one of Maryland's great thoroughbred breeding and training establishments, are filled with mares and foals and there are horses galloping on the historic six-furlong training track.

After sitting empty for nearly three years, Sagamore, near Hunt Valley in Baltimore County, reopened for business Aug. 1.

The 400-acre showplace, home and final resting place of Native Dancer, one of the sport's great equine performers, was sold by its longtime owner Alfred G. Vanderbilt to Baltimore developer Jim Ward in 1987.

Ward, who placed the property in farmland preservation, never could make a go of it in the horse business, however, and shut the place down about three years ago. Stallions such as


Oh Say, Hay Halo, Salutely, Jane's Dilemma and Another Reef were relocated by their manager Don Litz Jr. at Green Willow Farm near Westminster.

Now Ward has had a change of heart and has reopened the facility, leasing it in a package deal to some well-known local horse people.

Trainer Kim Godwin and her partner, former jockey J. K. Adams, have leased the 90-stall training barn and track for use as a breaking, rehabilitation and conditioning facility.

Trainer Carlos Garcia, his wife, Carol, and bloodstock agent Joe Hamilton have rented much of the rest of the farm for use as a breeding operation.

Godwin said that her previous training center in Sparks had outgrown its facilities. Through clients and veterinarian Mike Harrison, she learned that Ward was considering re-opening Sagamore.

"But it wasgraduate of Villa Julie College and was educated to be a court reporter.

"But somehow I ended up in the horse business," she said. She first rode dressage horses and eventually gravitated to the racetrack.

She has leased Sagamore on a yearly basis and figures that if Pimlico Race Course operator Joe De Francis closes half of the Baltimore track for winter training this year, Sagamore could be a convenient stabling facility for local trainers who are squeezed out at Old Hilltop.

"Horses love being at this farm," Godwin said about the facility where hundreds of stakes winners have been conceived, foaled or trained. "It's got a good atmosphere."


Today I found out that toilet paper was first used by the Chinese about 1300 years before it caught on with the rest of the world. The first references of people using toilet paper dates back to the 6th century AD in the Chinese Imperial courts and amongst the other wealthy citizens of China. This eventually spread throughout China and by the 14th century there was an annual manufacturing of around ten million packages of toilet paper in the Zhejiang province alone.

This however, did not catch on with the rest of the world for some time. Indeed, a Muslim traveler to China in the 8th century noted “They (the Chinese) are not careful about cleanliness, and they do not wash themselves with water when they have done theirKate Brown is almost 2 years old. She seemed fine when she was born, sweet and quiet, good at nursing and sleeping.

"She was just a dream baby in the beginning," says her mother, Rachael. "Looking back now I see all the signs — hindsight is kind of cruel in that way. But we didn't know — we had no idea we were carriers for this disease. I had no idea the disease even existed."

The disease is called spinal muscular atrophy. It's a rare gene defect; the severe form affects about 300 American infants a year. And until recently, it was a death sentence for babies like Kate.

By the time she was 10 weeks old, she was going downhill fast. Her limbs were floppy, and she hadn't gained any


Enlarge By AP Rev. Jeffrey Newell sits next to an altar boy during Mass in Tijuana, Mexico, June 22. U.S. church officials said Newell was supposed to never work around children again after he was accused of child molestation while serving in the Los Angeles archdiocese sixteen years ago. Join the conversation: Religion, spirituality & ethics | Reader forum: Your beliefs @FAITH_REASON ON TWITTER @FAITH_REASON ON TWITTER LOS ANGELES (AP)  The 20-year-old college student was working as a youth minister with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles when he revealed a long-buried secret to church authorities: He had been molested by a priest for several years, beginning when the cleric was first a youth minister and then a seminarian. The young man met with church officials, who promisedthe priest would never work around children again. Sixteen years later, the man — now a father of two — typed the Rev. Jeffrey Newell's name into a computer and was stunned by the results: Newell was still a priest, serving in the Diocese of Tijuana. His MySpace page lists a half-dozen teenage boys as his friends and includes pictures of Newell in his priest's collar. That discovery led to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Los Angeles archdiocese alleging that church leaders engaged in fraud and negligence by allowing Newell to continue serving as a priest long after his alleged crimes were reported. The lawsuit is the second to be filed in California in recent months that uses fraud — and not molestation or sexual battery —


into not suing earlier because he believed the archdiocese had removed Newell. "I thought the archdiocese would handle it. I was 20, 21 years old and here I was going up as high as I thought I could go," said the man, who requested anonymity because he is a sexual assault victim and is concerned about his reputation as an administrator at a private Christian school. The Associated Press does not name alleged victims of sexual abuse. A 2008 letter from a church attorney to law enforcement indicates Newell was ordained in 1990, a year before the alleged victim reported the abuse, and removed from the Los Angeles archdiocese in 1993 for unrelated reasons. The letter lists possible contact information for him in the Diocese of Tijuana. OnWednesday, church spokesman Tod Tamberg said Newell was removed for "not complying with a treatment program for personal issues including obesity and alcohol" and engaging in "sexual misconduct with an adult." He did not elaborate. Newell, 48, now ministers in a working-class neighborhood in Tijuana and holds a daily evening Mass with drums and electric bass that is broadcast live through the parish website. Young parishioners interviewed there said they think highly of "Padre Jeff," who runs a teen community group every week, holds a radio show for Catholic teens and takes groups of children on sleepovers to a church-owned ranch. There is no evidence of abuse allegations in Mexico. When approached by an Associated Press reporter, Newell said the Tijuana archdiocese told him not to comment. But


he did say he had done nothing wrong in Mexico. "I've lived a chaste life for the past 20 years, 17 years in this community," he said. Until now, the church has been immune to old sex claims not filed within the one-year window — but that could change if these new lawsuits survive legal challenges, said Anthony DeMarco, a plaintiff's attorney in Los Angeles. The claims could also be a financial pitfall for the Roman Catholic church in California. The grace period led to about 1,000 lawsuits in California and has cost the church more than $800 million in settlements in recent years, including a record-breaking $660 million payout in Los Angeles and a $100 million deal in Orange County. "We've routinely found evidence that the church306 ("A petition where the statute of limitations has long since run is frivolous and meritless[ ]").
This brings us to the contention raised by defendant in this appeal. According to defendant, his allegation that the prison in which he was incarcerated had been on lockdown since April 1996 was sufficient to show the late filing was not caused by his culpable negligence. Though defendant concedes he was late in filing his petition, he claims his lack of access to the law library during the lockdown interfered with his ability to research legal issues and consult his "jailhouse lawyer."
The record reveals defendant was convicted of the shooting death of Michael Martinez on April 26, 1994, and sentenced on June 28, 1994. After the trial court's decision was affirmed by


every right to be. She wore just the right amount of make up, kept every hair in place. She did her best. She did the best. And still.

She sat in the front row, having studied and done all her homework. She raised her hand and the world would not call on her. Instead they pulled the bully, the lazy lying jerk, cheating on his test and blowing spitballs from the back of the class and made him the principal. Made him the President.

I am Her. Every woman is, whether they know it or not. Every woman has been held back by, pushed down by, grabbed in the pussy by sexism that cannot, will not, allow a woman to rise higher than a man. The misogyny that pulses throughAt 14, Sammy Woodhouse met 24 year old Arshid Hussain whilst she was out with her friends. He took a shining to her and began showering her with gifts, turning up in his flashy car and making her feel wanted, something most teenage girls want once they reach secondary school.

As it turned out, Hussain was merely grooming Sammy who before long, became one of the estimated 1510 victims of sexual abuse in Rotherham between the years of 1997 and 2013. Hussain, along with the remaining members of his grooming gang was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Sammy, now 32, is a mother to two boys & continually campaigning against the growing trend of grooming gangs in the UK.

Her book, Just a Child, details her full ordeal at


include a mixture of metal and dielectric films which usually exhibit different mechanical, physical and thermal properties from those of the underlying substrate or wafer. Hence, such multiple layers can lead to high stresses in the film layers in the interconnection structures. These stresses can cause undesired stress-induced voiding in the metal interconnects and are directly related to electromigration. In addition, the stresses may cause cracking of some films and even delamination between various film layers, between interconnects and the encapsulating dielectrics, and between the films and the substrate. It is known that metal voiding, electromigration, cracking and delamination are among the leading causes for loss of subsequent process yield and failures in integrated circuits. Therefore, these and other stresses may adversely affect the structural integrity and operations Washington drove to a house where Wallace sold drugs.   Wallace, who had cocaine rocks in a large ziplock bag inside his jacket pocket, sold Washington four rocks for one hundred dollars.   Washington smoked the rocks and observed approximately eight to ten other individuals purchase drugs from Wallace.   After Washington finished smoking the rocks, she asked Wallace to give her an additional four rocks on credit, which he did.   Shortly thereafter, an argument ensued between Wallace and London, another drug customer.   Wallace slammed London against a wall and demanded seventy-five dollars, which she owed him.   After forcing London to sit on a couch, Wallace walked to a back bedroom and sold rocks to several other customers.


Heroin use in the US has grown by a staggering amount in recent years.

A report issued this summer by the Centers for Disease Control found the number of heroin users in the US had grown by almost 300,000 over the last decade, and the increase has occurred among men and women in almost every age group and at all income levels.

The spike has primarily been driven by the growing use of (and subsequent crackdown on the abuse of) opiate painkillers like Vicodin as well as heroin's increased availability as a cheap alternative to over-the-counter drugs.

The 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment, issued by the DEA in October, reveals not only how widespread heroin has become, but also where it is produced and how it enters the US.

The DEA reportalso found that, according to data from law-enforcement agencies, heroin availability was higher in 2015 than it was in 2008 in every region of the country.

Heroin availability increased in every region of the US between 2008 and 2015, according to the DEA. DEA 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment

“Most of the heroin available in the United States comes from Mexico and Colombia,” the DEA notes in its report.

“Despite significant decreases in Colombian heroin production between 2001 and 2009,” the report adds, “South American heroin continues to be the predominant type available in eastern US markets.”

Mexico and Colombia dominate the use market for the drug due to “their proximity, established transportation and distribution infrastructure, and ability to satisfy US heroin demand.”

Mexican cartels, however, have grown their share of the heroin


market tremendously in recent years. Together, Mexican drug traffickers smuggled nearly a quarter-million pounds of heroin into the US in 2014, according to The Washington Post.

South America and Mexico are responsible for the vast majority of heroin found in the US in recent years. DEA 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment

The report finds that white-powder heroin made from Mexican poppies, but produced using South American methods, has been seized near the southwest American border and along trafficking routes that Mexican cartels have established over the last 20 years.

(Mexican black-tar heroin, historically found west of the Mississippi River, has also started appearing in the eastern US.)

Increased smuggling has been met with more vigilant law-enforcement efforts, and seizures along the border have jumped, from 1,016 kilograms (2,240 pounds) in 2010 to2,188 kilograms (4,824 pounds) in 2014. Heroin is also seized at airports in Miami, Newark, New York City, and Orlando on a regular basis.

Heroin trafficking has increased along much of the US southwest border. DEA 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment

This production, the DEA notes, likely indicates that not only are Mexican drug organizations breaking free from a reliance on South American production, but also that they are aiming to take more extensive control over the US market for heroin.

In addition to increasing their heroin sales, this would allow Mexican organizations to diversify the kind of drugs they push to include cocaine, meth, and marijuana in addition to heroin.

Indeed, Mexican organizations have made a dramatic shift toward opium-poppy cultivation, reaching 17,000 hectares (42,008 acres) in 2014, an amount the


DEA says could produce 42 metric tons (46.3 tons) of heroin. Colombia, in contrast, only had 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of opium-poppy cultivation that year, which the DEA says could produce just 2 metric tons (2.2 tons) of heroin.

Much of the opium cultivation in Mexico takes place on the mountainous west coast. This area is dominated by the immensely powerful Sinaloa cartel, as well as the ascendant Jalisco New Generation cartel. (The two organizations are suspected of cooperating to some extent.)

A soldier cuts open an opium poppy capsule at a poppy field, during eradication supervised by the Mexican Army on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico, Thursday, March 4, 2010. AP

The Sinaloa cartel, regarded as the most powerful drug-trafficking cartel in the Western Hemisphere and in the world, alreadyprovided “80% of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine — with a street value of $3 billion — that floods the Chicago region each year," in 2013, the DEA said at the time.

Heroin use in the US is more common in the Northeast and Midwest regions, and Mexican cartels are, according to the DEA, trying to expand their share of sales in those areas.

“Mexican organizations are now the most prominent wholesale-level heroin traffickers in the DEA Chicago, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC FD AOR [field division area of responsibility], and have greatly expanded their presence in the New York City area.

A map of cartel influence in the US. Sinaloa areas are shaded in orange, with darker shading indicating higher population density. DEA Strategic Intelligence Section

The outlook for


November 26th.-

The expanded session began with a moment of silence for the fallen victims of the coup d’état in Bolivia and shouts of “Gloria a los caídos”, “Patria o muerte, venceremos” in Lauca Ñ, in the department of Cochabamba.

An emotional moment was when a young man from El Alto, who recently joined the ranks of the struggle for the defense of democracy in the country, took the floor: “I was at the Senkata plant (where one of the massacres occurred) I stopped there to observe the place, and I asked that democracy be respected because this Mr. Fernando Camacho, president of the civic committee for Santa Cruz brought racism and discrimination to the city of La Paz and El Alto, and not only there, but also to theas something natural and not as what it really was, a conquest resulting from the struggle of the Bolivian people, and especially the indigenous movement, whose fight has more than 500 years of history since 1492.

The country in its history as a Republic since 1825 was marked by 180 years of neoliberal governments and coups that broke the country in the past and spilled Bolivian blood. In 2006, with the refoundation of the Plurinational State, Bolivia became the first country in the world to declare itself plurinational. In this way, the government and the redistribution of wealth included those who were historically excluded and invisible, women and indigenous people.

The words of this young man: “I am forming myself as a new leader”, mark the prediction of the indigenous


en resistencia al golpe de Cochabamba at the headquarters of the federation of the tropic in Lauca Ñ, located in the department of Cochabamba.

The National Expansion of Social Organizations in Resistance to the Coup was conducted with social organizations from different parts of the Plurinational State of Bolivia: El Alto, the Chore of the municipality of Yapacani, of the municipality of San Julián, of the north of Potosí, etc., where the national situation and the national social mobilizations that are being carried out in defense of democracy against the de facto and coup government were analyzed. There, a Commitment of Unity of Social Movements was signed for the struggle in defense of democracy against the de facto and coup government.

Those who in use of their faculties granted byAn international research team led by Ariel Goobar at Stockholm University has detected for the first time multiple images from a gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernova. The new observations suggest promising new avenues for the study of the accelerated expansion of the Universe, gravity and distribution of dark matter in the universe.

Type Ia supernovae, nature's own "standard candles," have been used for many years by astronomers to measure cosmological distances. These studies led to the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe, a sensational discovery that won the 2011 Nobel prize in Physics. Professor Ariel Goobar at the Department of Physics at Stockholm University was a member of the team led by one of the Nobel laureates, Saul Perlmutter.

An international team of physicists and astronomers led from


may introduce new questions about the way matter clumps in the universe and challenge astronomers' understanding of gravitational lensing at small scales.

"The discovery of iPTF16geu is truly like finding a somewhat weird needle in a haystack. It reveals to us a bit more about the universe, but mostly triggers a wealth of new scientific questions. That's why I love science and astronomy" -- says Rahman Amanullah, a postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University and a co-author on the study.Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Moldova (except females aged between 15 and 35), Nicaragua, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Turkey who hold a return ticket, booked accommodation, and a signed guarantee letter from a travel agency, do not require a visa for Egypt.

Visa exemption also applies to sons and daughters born to an Egyptian father (except nationals of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Qatar), to an Egyptian mother if born after 25 July 2004 (except nationals of Syria, Iraq, Qatar, and Yemen), and to wives of Egyptian nationals holding proof of marriage (except nationals of Syria, Iraq, Morocco, and Qatar).

Visa on arrival

According to the Egyptian Consulate General in the United Kingdom, citizens of the following countries can obtain visa upon arrival at


Forget gun-toting terrorists, Lashkar-e-Taiba has introduced 'Cyber Mujahids' (warriors) to unleash new psychological warfare and radicalise youth for terror in the strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir.

Cyber Mujahid cells have been set up across Pakistan to exploit the social media and target the gullible youth in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Sponsored by some external forces, these elements are using social media to radicalise our youth for their vested interests. Across border they have put youth on this job, called Cyber Mujahids," said Dr Shesh Paul Vaid, director general of police (DGP), Jammu and Kashmir.

Jamat-ud-Dawa, the fountainhead of Lashkar-e-Taiba, has issued advertisements in the local newspapers in Pakistan seeking volunteers to fight Cyber Jihad using social media to the hilt.

"They (Jamat-ud-Dawa) have openly issued advertisements in the newspapers in Pakistan stating that toproject that uses warming cables in the ground to determine the combined effects of warmer winters and summer on the trees.

The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest was founded in 1955 in Woodstock, N.H., and is where acid rain was discovered in North America. Boston University, founded in 1839, is an internationally recognized research and teaching university. Its more than 33,000 students, 16 schools and colleges, and numerous multi-disciplinary centers and professional institutes make it the fourth-largest independent university in the United States. In 2012, BU joined the Association of American Universities (AAU), a consortium of 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada.# # #


Monthly Archives: November 2013

We are pleased to announce that we have appointed a new Admin & Fund-raising Assistant. Tam Gilbert joined LinkUpArts in October.

Tam will be working with the committee to support with the day-to-day issues, marketing and fund-raising.

Tam has over 10 years of hard earned experience in disability and community theatre. Since graduating with a second class honours English Degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury, she has thrown herself into the world of educational and community theatre and is an accomplished performer, facilitator and writer.

Tam spent 9 years with Bournemouth’s Double Act Disability Theatre Company, where she performed in 10 shows, learned the art of facilitating workshops and managed and organised tours and other projects.

Alongside her work with Double Act, Tam trained for four yearsas Assistant Director on the Remix Youth Performance Company (managed by Activate Performing Arts), where she worked alongside the Artistic Director, assisting on residencies and taking on admin as required.

Tam recently worked with both companies as an Emerging Artist on ‘Breathe’ – an exciting collaboration of professional and non-professional integrated artists and performers working with Dorset’s Diverse City Theatre Company. The show was the result of an Arts Council commission and was performed on Weymouth beach as part of the opening of the sailing events for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In addition to working with LinkUpArts, Tam is currently further developing herself as a disabled artist and has recently established Bournemouth-based Persuasion Arts, under which she runs drama workshops and projects for disabled people and other members


current welfare benefits overhaul, which threatens many with poverty and a propagandist campaign that has seen a doubling in disability hate crime.

The project sees artist-activist Liz Crow taking her private bed-oriented life and placing it in the public arena for all to see over a 48-hour period in order to show that what many see as contradiction, or fraud, is simply the complexity of real life. Bedding Out has gone on to tour as part of the People Like You exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre in April 2013, coinciding with the introduction of the Personal Independence Payment, which replaced Disability Living Allowance on 8 April 2013.

Members of the public are invited to participate in ‘Bedside Conversations’, gathering around the bed to talk about the work, its backdrop andequipment and an NHS wheelchair to excite, inspire and open up new ways of seeing, being and knowing.

Conceived by Artistic Director Sue Austin and produced through Freewheeling, ‘Creating the Spectacle!’ aims to generate a widespread public debate about the nature and value of contemporary arts practice shaped by the experience of disability. ‘Creating the Spectacle!’ was an Unlimited commission for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

‘Creating the Spectacle!’ Online: Part 1 Finding Freedom

Submerged in a turquoise tropical waterscape we dive straight into the action, a strange contraption – the back of a sub-aquatic wheelchair lifts off, whooshing up from the white sandy seabed leaving trails of tiny silver bubbles.

Its occupant waves her arms out to her sides in dancelike gestures, her long dark brown hair splayed up and out


behind her.

Breathing from a black air cylinder attached to the back of the chair she takes a journey through the underwater environment leaving a trail of bubbles.

Three screens show a turquoise blue mist. Teased with abstracts of bubbles and hair and chair the soundtrack urges the viewer to look on, waiting for a longer glimpse of what this might be. Then suddenly and unexpected, but serene and beautiful a woman comes into view. Wearing a green and white floral dress and seated in a wheelchair she glides through the water. Bubbles start rising up in the background emulating her joy and freedom as she dances.

‘Creating the Spectacle!’ 360 degree Part 2 In the Antheas at Ras Katy by Sue Austin

Three screens create a digital panoramic tropical aquarium. Hundredsof orange fish flicker in the light of the beautiful, tranquil red sea in Egypt. The view is filled by the deep blue sea with huge pastel coloured coral heads colonised by the sea life.

An aquanaut in her wheelchair explores the underwater environment. On closer inspection the standard red NHS Wheelchair has been adapted with propellers under the seat, large fin-shaped clear acrylic footplates and scuba diving breathing equipment. The woman is artist Sue Austin, whose long dark brown hair flows behind her as she loops, dives and dances through the water in the new found freedom of the underwater wheelchair.

‘Creating the Spectacle!’ 360 degree Part 3 Flowing Fire

The final film in the looped panoramas was created as part of a commission from LOCOG for 2012. It has


a narrative in which we find that the underwater aquanaut has discovered the 2012 Paralympic torch in the sea. She liberates it, as it smolders and burns leaving a trail of bubbles coming from the top. She dances with a ball of tiny glass fish as they flicker this way and that with flashes of light.

‘Creating the Spectacle!’ Online Part 2 Free Floating

The second single screen film is a brightly lit and euphoric piece in which the underwater wheelchair, with its human occupant becomes acrobatic, swirling around in a dance amidst a wall of bubbles. It’s the most animated and lively of the films and shows the true joy and freedom that being and performing in the chair brings.

With thanks to the Freewheeling team, Camel Dive team andaround the bed.

Mounted on the wall above the bedhead, a large monitor screens an eight-minute audio-visual slideshow drawn from a performance in which artist-activist Liz Crow took to her bed in a gallery for three days.

Accompanying the audio is a series of timelapse photographic stills of the performance, changing every two seconds to show the passing of time throughout a day.

The artist lies in a white walled room, high windows, warm wood floor. The door is propped open and people gather intermittently to look beyond a red rope into the room at the figure in the bed. The bed is wooden framed, homely, the quilt a soft expanse of white. Sun patterns stream from the window in patches on the wall, moving across the walls as time passes.

Twice


a flurry of people enter the room and sit around the bed in conversation, then leaving the woman, alone again.

Day’s end and the woman leaves the bed. The room is dismantled, emptied of chairs, bedding stripped, until all that is left is the empty bed, and the door closes to black.

Audiences can experience the work from the café via captions, or can go onto the stage where headphones are attached to the monitor. The slideshow loops, but can be reset by audience members to the beginning by pressing play on the DVD player.

Part 2: Performance – From 2pm on 10 April – 2pm on 12 April

Raised on the stage above the café area, a woman lies in her bed. Behind the bed, white drapes form a wall alongOn April 9, 1992, June Harris Smith (Smith), a social worker, responded. During their first meeting, the child told Smith that she had fallen on a stick. On April 10, 1992, Smith went to the child's home and spoke to her caretaker, Contra Pleasant, an aunt. Contra Pleasant told Smith that the incident with the stick had occurred several months earlier. Pleasant related that she had bathed Young and her little brother with laundry powder, which had chapped both of them. Smith asked the aunt to take the child to see Dr. Gambrell at the King's Daughters Hospital.
Friday night, Smith received a call from the staff at the hospital informing her that they suspected child abuse. A registered nurse on duty in the emergency room related that the


child had an abnormally large vaginal opening, twice the size of that of a normal six-year-old child. The child stated her name, that she had an uncle named Maine and, that she lived with her aunt. The nurse's notes from this visit state, in pertinent part, "Pt. will only tell me her name and that she has an uncle named `Mane,' but refused to name any other male family that visits home." Dr. Larry Cooper testified that in his expert opinion a smooth object had penetrated the child's vagina. He testified that the six-year-old child did not speak to him at all, but the child mentioned Uncle Maine's name. (Uncle Maine is another male relative living in the child's household, other than the defendant.) Dr. Cooper listed thisfact in his notes.
In response to the call from the hospital staff, Smith met the child in the emergency *200 room. She sat and talked to the child for about an hour. The child related that on a school night the previous week she had been in her bed. The child shared a room with another young person. The child stated that four relatives, including Uncle Maine, were in another room watching television. According to direct testimony of Smith, her question of the child related the following:
Q: Did she tell you what happened?
A: And then I asked her who. I said, "Who came in; who did this?" And she, as children will a lot of the time do, didn't really want to come right out with it, but


she did say Fred. And I asked her who was Fred. And she said, "That's my uncle." And I asked her what did  then I used Fred as a reference point from there on. "What did Fred do?"
Q: Did she tell you what he did once you asked her that?
A: She did. She told me that she was in the bed asleep, and that he came and got in the bed with her, and that she was on her back. She said that he got on top of her. And I said, you know, "Did you say anything?" She said, "I told him to stop, but he didn't." And she said he kept his clothes on. She said she had on a gown, a night shirt. Hepulled her panties off or down and pulled his clothes down, not necessarily off. I don't remember exactly, but left his upper clothing on. He got on top of her.
By using a drawing, Smith related that the child, when asked "what part of his body?", pointed to a space between the legs of a gender neutral figure. Smith then drew in the figure of a penis and asked the child to describe how it felt. The child said, "It was hard, and it pushed, and it hurt." Smith testified that the document was the most important document she possessed in her file regarding this case.
When Contra Pleasant returned home, she accused Freddie Young, the appellant, of raping the child. Young replied, "I never touched her."
The next morning Smith


went to the home of the child with John Abel, an officer with the Yazoo City Police Department. Smith asked the child, "Now ... are you sure this is what happened to you, and are you sure this is who did it?" The child replied affirmatively. Officer Abel corroborated that the child said her Uncle Fred did this act. Young was arrested later that day.
Elizabeth Milner (Milner), a child sexual abuse counselor, also interviewed the child. The State qualified Milner as an expert in child abuse. Milner testified that in an hour-long interview, the child played with four anatomically correct dolls, representing a man, a woman, a boy and a girl. The little girl was frightened and did not tell a story of what happened. However, she demonstratedFOR A DISCOVERY VIOLATION?
During the State's case-in-chief, Smith testified regarding her investigation of sexual abuse concerning this child. During her testimony, the defense objected that Smith was reading from a document. The defense requested to know the nature of the document. Smith testified that she was using an anatomical drawing she kept in her notes. *201 Smith had made these notes during her emergency room visit with the child.
The defense objected that the anatomical drawing had been withheld from a discovery request. The State replied that Smith had provided the drawing only immediately prior to the witness taking the stand. The trial court excused the jury. The trial court then conducted a hearing on the discovery violation. The trial court determined that as the State was planning to


harmless.

IV.

WAS THE VERDICT AGAINST THE OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE?
On appeal, Young raises no question as to the sufficiency of the evidence, but *205 questions the weight of it. Young points out that the statements of a six-year-old child, or repetitions of the child's statement, constituted the only evidence that he was the perpetrator. The State gained these statements, Young claims, through suggestive techniques against which he had an inadequate time to prepare. Young points out that before the interview with Smith, the name consistently mentioned was Uncle Maine. In later interviews with Milner, a child sexual abuse counselor, the young girl gave no name. Finally, Young points to the jury's difficulty with this case. The jury asked three questions of the judge,[1] which went unanswered because allthe purpose for the Box request in the first place.
As to assignment number three, in and of itself and taken in a vacuum, it is easy to agree that while the trial judge's reaction was highly inappropriate it was not prejudicial; however, when viewed in light of the judge's abuse of discretion with the discovery violation and in view of the fact that the jury was hopelessly deadlocked and asked three questions of the trial court and only brought in a verdict after being given a Sharplin charge, I find assignment number three to be meritorious.
Under the totality of the circumstances of this case the trial judge abused his discretion on two occasions and as a result deprived the defendant of having a fair trial. I would reverse


This invention is directed to a wheeled carrier device and in particular to a baggage carrier device having wheels retractable within the device.
The public is well acquainted with a large number of wheeled devices, generally of a collapsible nature, for use by the travelling public in handling their baggage. Many of these collapsible devices of the prior art are adapted for removable attachment to one side or to the bottom of the luggage, so as to travel in the baggage hold of an aircraft as a part of the luggage while being readily extensible when required by the owner, to facilitate handling of the luggage. Other, generally older types are incorporated into the actual construction of the luggage.
Certain examples of the prior art, of the types referred toBy now you have retraced every footstep he took on the road to nowhere. You know about the detours, and you know about the obstacles in the road.

Eleven starts and already Knicks guard Jeremy Lin has his own mania. With every point, and with every pun, the legend swells. He is twice as big as he was last week and a hundred times what he was three weeks ago.

As quickly as a flashbulb flashes, Lin has become the hottest story in sports. He is talented, and we love that about him. He is humble, and we love that, too. The league never saw him coming, and we really love that.

Lin has become one of those unexpected delights that sports offers us from time to time. A little more


of things taken away (like their function bar). And so on.

If Apple had just speed bumped the old MacBook Pro (in a single top-end SKU) and used the size/power capacity to offer a more "Pro" machine. (Maybe with a couple new ports, instead of all), it would have made the Pro's and Press a lot happier. Which is ironic, since Apple kept the old MacBook Pro's around for a while, in multiple SKU's, confusing the product line as it is.

NOTE: Apple could have slotted the new MacBook Pro's as MacBooks (and the old MacBook 12" as the new MacBook Air), and it would have made a lot more sense. Instead they kept old MacBook Air's. And the whole thing is a confusing mess.

Of course, that's not nearly asLondon is Still Top Global Commercial Real Estate Investment Target, Despite Brexit

According to Knight Frank's London Report, London retained its title as the world's top destination for investment in commercial real estate in 2018.

London remains by far the biggest global destination for investment in real estate, despite ongoing uncertainty around Brexit, with £16.2bn ($21bn) invested in the UK capital's commercial offices in 2018. This compares to £14.3bn ($18.5bn) invested in Manhattan, £12.1bn ($15.6bn) in Paris and £8.4bn ($10.8bn) in Hong Kong. While total investment volumes for Central London were down slightly on 2017 (£16.8bn, or $21.7bn) the average deal size rose to an all-time high of £81.5m ($105m) in 2018.

Global Commercial Investment Highlights of 2018 Include:

Central London commercial offices attracted £16.2bn ($21bn) of investment in 2018, more than


Manhattan, Paris and Hong Kong

Greater China remains the largest investor in London real estate

£40bn ($51.8bn) of global capital actively looking to invest

Greater China remains the largest source of investment in Central London real estate, despite new capital restrictions imposed this year, accounting for £3.48bn ($4.5bn) in 2018 and 21% of all investment in Central London offices last year. Although Greater China remains London's biggest source of capital, the total volume of investment from the region was down 51% on 2017, when Central London saw a record £7.12bn ($9.2bn) invested into commercial offices from Chinese investors.

2018 saw South Korea significantly increase its investment in Central London, with £2.56bn ($3.3bn) invested in the capital, an eight-fold increase on the £300m ($388m) invested in 2017. Capital from the Far East asa whole accounted for 47% (£7.67bn, $9.9bn) of all investment in Central London offices in 2018.

Nick Braybrook, Head of Central London Capital Markets, Knight Frank reports, "Although 2019 presents ongoing challenges, international investors remain undeterred. Our Global Capital Tracker identifies £40 billion ($51.8bn) still targeting London this year, with some seeing the political turbulence and currency weakness as an opportunity, combined with the strong occupational market fundamentals.

"Whilst demand from Greater China has reduced, they were still very active in 2018. The reduction is also partly countered by increases in demand from Singapore and Japan, and interestingly the tracker shows an increase in domestic demand this year. Domestic demand is often the first to react to improvements in occupier market trends."

William Beardmore-Gray, Head of Central London, Knight Frank also


became startled, the suit says, and began to “move about in an apparent effort to get up.” Some officers said he also swung his arms around.

That prompted the four armed officers who had been standing over November to “swarm” him, as one officer described it, and grab his arms and legs to keep him restrained.

Officer Gruarin, “a competitive weightlifter,” soon began punching November in the face and head with multiple blows, the complaint says.           Olympic Ambassador | Buddy Bear for the Hellenic Republic, publicly shown in 2003 Berlin | 2003 Kitzbühel (AU) | 2004 Hong Kong | 2004 Istanbul | 2005 Tokyo | 2005 Seoul | 2005 Sydney  | 2006 Berlin | 2006 Vienna | 2007 Cairo | 2007 Jerusalem | 2008 Warsaw | 2008 Stuttgart | 2008  Pong Yang | 2009 Buenos Aires  | 2009 Montevideo | 2009 Berlin  | 2010 Astana | 2010 Helsinki |2011 Sofia |2012 New Delhi |2013 Paris |2014 Rio de Janeiro |2015 Havana
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Union Rd.

·23 acres planted in June and July of 2002 and 2003

·Location – 35 miles from downtown Columbus on State Route 29, near intersections of State Route 161 and State Route56. Within 25 miles of Springfield, London, Urbana, Marysville, Bellefontaine and Sidney

·Soil – Warsaw, well drained and underlain with gravel

·Soil preparation – 3 tons per acre gypsum and 3 tons per acre composted chicken manure applied in the row and tilled in prior to formation of beds

·Weed Control – 2 quarts Surflan over the row after planting supplemented by hand spraying of Roundupyears of age at the time of the hearing. Mrs. Rodriguez testified in substance as follows: She and her daughter went into defendant's store in Mission to shop for groceries. She was reaching for a loaf of bread when she slipped on something and fell, hitting the ice cream stand in back of her. She found a mashed grape on the bottom of her shoe. There was a streak on the floor and the grape was dirty and muddy. The floor was dirty and there was paper and trash on it. The aisle where she fell was in the middle of the store and about eight or nine feet from the cashier at the check-out counter. Plaintiff did not see the grape on the floor before she stepped


on it. Mary Rodriguez, the plaintiff's daughter, testified in substance as follows: She was looking at magazines and heard her mother yell. Mary ran to see what had happened and found her mother on the floor. There was a grape on the floor and a piece of the skin of it on the mother's *217 shoe. There was also a big line on the floor where Mrs. Rodriguez had slipped on the grape. The grape was squashed and muddy, and the floor was dirty with pieces of paper thrown around. The parties stipulated that the location where Mrs. Rodriguez fell was two or three aisles over from the produce department; and that the court could judicially notice that Mission is located in Hidalgo County, Texas.
The parties recognize thehis warrant alleging that "William H. Bailey, a/k/a William Ocean, a/k/a William Herbert Bailey, Jr." had been charged with the crime of larceny in a building in the county of St. Clair on March 9, 1973 and that he had fled the State of Michigan and taken refuge in the State of Rhode Island.
Accompanying the warrant issued by the Governor of Michigan was an Application for Requisition and certified copies of a Complaint, a Warrant, a Criminal Information and other supporting papers. The Governor's warrant requests that Mr. Bailey be apprehended and delivered to Captain Edward Pare, a member of the Rhode Island State Police, and/or his deputy, and authorizes them to receive and convey Mr. Bailey to the State of Michigan to be there dealt with according


of record shall fix a reasonable time to be allowed him within which to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. When such writ is applied for, notice thereof, and of the time and place of hearing thereon, shall be given to the prosecuting officer and to the said agent of the demanding state."
[2]  Rhode Island Const. art. IV, § 5 reads as follows:

"Immunities of legislators.The person of every member of the general assembly shall be exempt from arrest, and his estate from attachment in any civil action, during the session of the general assembly, and two days before the commencement and two days after the termination thereof, and all process served contrary hereto shall be void. For any speech in debate in either house, no memberwere much larger. This trilobite is some 20cm (~8 in.) in length.

This is a detail of the trilobite above. Note that the trilobites had already evolved compound eyes, still used today by their relatives, the insects.

Others developed bizarre and ornate horns.

This is Phacops rana a common North American trilobite

Trilobites are hard-shelled, segmented creatures that existed over 300 million years ago in the Earth's ancient seas. They went extinct before dinosaurs even existed, and are one of the key signature creatures of the Paleozoic Era, the first era to exhibit a proliferation of the complex life-forms that established the foundation of life as it is today. Although dinosaurs are the most well-known fossil life forms, trilobites are also a favorite among those familiar with Paleontology (the study of the


development of life on Earth).

ANCIENT ARTHROPODS

Trilobites

were among the first of the arthropods, a phylum of hard-shelled creatures with multiple body segments and jointed legs (although the legs, antennae and other finer structures of trilobites only rarely are preserved). They constitute an extinct class of arthropods, the Trilobita, made up of eight orders, over 150 families, about 5000 genera, and over 15,000 described species. New species of trilobites are unearthed and described every year. This makes trilobites the single most diverse group of extinct organisms, and within the generalized body plan of trilobites there was a great deal of diversity of size and form. The smallest known trilobite species is just under a millimeter long, while the largest include species from 30 to 70 cm in length (roughly arelative to others). The development of schizochroal eyes in phacopid trilobites is a good example of post-displacement paedomorphosis. The eyes of immature holochroal Cambrian trilobites were basically miniature schizochroal eyes. In Phacopida, these were retained, via delayed growth of these immature structures (post-displacement), into the adult form.

Variation in trilobite eyes As with other aspects of the trilobite body, there was a huge variation of size and form among trilobite eyes, which in many cases seems related to the ecological life style of different species. The figures below show some of these variations. Many of the earliest trilobite eyes were cresentic, such as those of the Corynexochid Polypleuraspis.A conical section of schizochroal eyes gave species such as Phacops an excellent field of vision.In some trilobites, such as the free-swimming


tweet to John asking him if I remembered correctly that he was at SANS in New Orleans in 1999 when he was still at Hiverworld.

He responded back confirming he was, indeed, at SANS ’99. I remarked that this was where I first met many of today’s big names in security: Ed Skoudis, Ron Gula, Marty Roesch, Stephen Northcutt, Chris Klaus, JD Glaser, Greg Hoglund, and Bruce Schneier.

John responded back:

I couldn’t agree more. That was an absolutely amazing time. I was on my second security startup (NodeWarrior Networks,) times were booming and this generation of the security industry as we know it was being given birth to.

Asking Ron Gula’s wife something about Dragon and her looking back at me like I was a total n00b

Asking Ron Gula the sameshare distribution scheme is in line with the Central Bank Circular issued in February 2014.

Tigo Tanzania became the first telecom company in the world in 2014 to share profit generated from its mobile money Trust Account in the form of a quarterly distribution to its customers.


words: eric ducker photography: justin hogan

In the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, there are two massive ski jumps. They were built when Lake Placid hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics, the same games where the US hockey team performed its "miracle on the ice." That year, the ski-jumping medals went to Austrian, Finnish, East German, and Japanese athletes. The ramps now serve as a year-round tourist attraction, but they're also used for summer training by a group of brave jumpers. Some are simply looking for something different to do in the off-season, while others harbor their own gold medal dreams.

The ski jump towers were originally built to reach 70 and 90 meters into the sky. To keep up with changing Olympic rules, in the 1990s the structures wereraised to their current heights of 90 and 120 meters. The only other jumps of that size in the United States are in Park City, Utah.

Tara Geraghty-Moats is from Vermont, but she trains in Lake Placid. She is 22 years old and part of the United States Women's Ski Jumping Team. Ski jumping didn't become an Olympic medal sport for women until the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia.

Miles Lussi is one of the few Lake Placid natives who competes internationally. Another is his older sister, Nina. Now 18, Lussi was skiing by the time he was two; he started ski jumping at the age of five. He is currently a freshman at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, and is trying to decide whether he will


that he can drop into the mores of his age group and beyond that into the social milieu in which he will live out his life. He is not an end in himself.

Jurisprudence has come around to the same idea, holding more and more that human behavior is not a matter of personal responsibility as much as it is a reflection of the social forces working on the individual; the tendency is to lay on Society the blame for crimes committed by its members. This, too, is a tenet of sociology, the increasing popularity of which, and its elevation to a science, attest to the hold that collectivism has on our times. The scientist is no longer honored as a bold adventurer into the unknown, in search ofthe Hegelian dictum that "the State is the general substance, whereof individuals are but the accidents." It is this acceptance of the State as "substance," as a suprapersonal reality, and its investment with a competence no individual can lay claim to, that is the special characteristic of the twentieth century.

In times past, the disposition was to look upon the State as something one had to reckon with, but as a complete outsider. One got along with the State as best one could, feared or admired it, hoped to be taken in by it and to enjoy its perquisites, or held it at arm's length as an untouchable thing; one hardly thought of the State as the integral of Society. One had to support the State—there was no way


of avoiding taxes—and one tolerated its interventions as interventions, not as the warp and woof of life. And the State itself was proud of its position apart from, and above, Society.

The present disposition is to liquidate any distinction between State and Society, conceptually or institutionally. The State is Society; the social order is indeed an appendage of the political establishment, depending on it for sustenance, health, education, communications, and all things coming under the head of "the pursuit of happiness." In theory, taking college textbooks on economics and political science for authority, the integration is about as complete as words can make it. In the operation of human affairs, despite the fact that lip service is rendered the concept of inherent personal rights, the tendency to call upon"same pants" notion rests on the identification of the amorphous "national economy" with the well-being of the individual; he is thus merged into the mass and loses his personality.

Of a piece with this kind of thinking is a companion phrase, "We are the government." Its use and acceptance is most illustrative of the hold collectivism has taken on the American mind in this century, to the exclusion of the basic American tradition. When the Union was founded, the overriding fear of Americans was that the new government might become a threat to their freedom, and the framers of the Constitution were hard put to allay this fear. Now it is held that freedom is a gift from government in return for subservience. The reversal has been accomplished by


then it follows that the man who finds himself in jail must blame himself for putting himself there, and the man who takes all the tax deductions the law allows is really cheating himself. While this may seem to be a farfetched reductio ad absurdum, the fact is that many an armed-services conscript consoles himself with that kind of logic. This country was largely populated by escapees from conscription—called "czarism" a generation or two ago and held to be the lowest form of involuntary servitude. Now it has come to pass that a conscript army is in fact a "democratic" army, composed of men who have made adjustment with the "social attitude" of the times. So does the run-of-the-mill draftee console himself when compelled to interrupt his dreamUS Markets Closed On Fifth Anniversary Of Jerome Kerviel Day

To some, today is Martin Luther King day and as a result the US markets are closed, especially since today is also the day when Obama celebrates his second inauguration with Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor at his side (hopefully not on the taxpayers' dime). To others, January 21 is nothing more than the anniversary of the real beginning of the end, when five years ago a little known SocGen trader named Jerome Kerviel could no longer hide his massive futures positions and was forced to unwind them, sending global indices plunging resulting in the biggest single day drop in the Dax (-7.2%), and punking the Fed into an unannounced 75 bps cut. Luckily, today such cataclysmic unwinds


Donald Trump’s administration admitted zero refugees to the United States for the first time since records began. Pictured right are protesters on the steps of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC (Pictures: AP)

The United States government admitted no refugees last month for the first time since records began.

Advocacy group World Relief said October 2019 was the first month in 30 years that the US government failed to allow a single refugee to resettle.

The US was the world’s leading refugee resettlement destination until Donald Trump became president in 2017.

It had previously resettled more refugees than all other countries on Earth put together, but began slipping down the ranks in the first year of Trump’s presidency.

Resettled refugees are those people who have sought asylum from another country, and whoultimately hope to become permanent residents of their host nation.

A protester is pictured at Portland International Airport in Oregon. President Trump was condemned for railing against refugees coming to the US from ‘shithole countries’ in Africa (Picture: AP)

The Los Angeles Times reports that the zero figure for October was partly because of bureaucratic reasons.

Hundreds of refugees who had been cleared for arrival were held up by the delayed signing of an order by Trump aimed at limiting refugee numbers to just 18,000 a year.

Ukrainian cadet jumps from a plane before crash kills 26 passengers

The president finally signed that order on Friday, with those refugees now expected to begin arriving in the US from Tuesday.

In 2016, the administration of then-President Barack Obama set the resettled refugee ceiling at 110,000


people. That plummeted to 45,000 in 2018 and 40,000 in 2019.

Trump was elected to power after promising a crackdown on immigration, including promises to build a wall spanning the United States’ southern border with Mexico.

But critics say his stance has harmed the world’s most vulnerable people who are in desperate need of safe sanctuary.

He sparked fury in January 2017 after signing a ‘Muslim-ban’ executive order which barred entry to the US to travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

That ban has since been largely overruled, but new restrictions it also imposed on prospective refugees have been upheld.

Trump has repeatedly been branded racist, and was condemned in January 2018 for railing against immigrants coming from ‘shithole countries’ in Africa.

And in July this year, he suggested fourethnic minority congresswomen – including Somali refugee Ilhan Omar should ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.’

There are believed to be around 70 million displaced people in the world, with human rights groups condemning the United States’ new restrictions.

Melanie Nezer, from humanitarian organization HIAS told The Nation: ‘We’re in the midst of the largest refugee crisis in recorded history.

‘So the number really should be going up, not coming down.’

And Omar Mohamed from Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Church World Services said Somali refugees were distraught by the United States’ new attitude when he recently visited a Kenyan refugee camp.

He said: ‘The question they ask me: “What have we done to the president…?

‘What did the immigrant people do to this administration?”‘


have declared null, void, and of no effect two contracts, dated April 25, 1922, and December 11, 1922, respectively, and two oil and gas leases to lands in the naval petroleum reserves in California, dated June 5, 1922, and December 11, 1922, respectively. The prayer of the bill is that these agreements and leases be canceled, for an accounting, and for general relief. The relief is sought upon two grounds: First, fraud in the making of the contracts and leases; and, second, lack of legal authority for their making.
The case has received the careful consideration that its importance demands, but existing circumstances, due to pressure and volume of work in the court, do not admit of the preparation of a detailed opinion upon every issue. The formal decisionupon all issues consists of the findings of fact and conclusions of law filed herewith. I feel impelled, however, to amplify such decision by this statement.
I will first consider the charge of fraud and official misconduct in the making of the contracts and leases in suit; and, secondly, whether the agreements were made pursuant to any legal authorization. The first involves mixed questions of law and fact, while the latter is solely a legal question. The contracts and leases in suit may be epitomized as follows:
The agreement of April 25, 1922, is between the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Company, a corporation, called the "contractor," and the United States of America, by the Acting Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Navy thereof, denominated the "government." It


by its lessees in reserves Nos. 1 and 2, until all claims of the contractor under the contract are satisfied."
Article V  Vests the Secretary of the Interior with exclusive discretion to grant additional leases on any lands he may designate in reserve No. 1, so as to maintain total deliveries of royalty oil under the contract at the approximate rate of 500,000 barrels per annum.
Article VI  Requires the government to deliver to the contractor on account of the "proposal sum" all royalty oil from reserves Nos. 1 and 2 which had been accumulated and was in storage at the time the contract was made.
Article VII  Requires the contractor to take the crude oil at the wells and bear every expense incident to its movement, andshall be granted by the government a preferential lease on such tracts as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to lease in the event of the failure of the contractor to agree to the conditions and royalties as proposed by the Secretary of the Interior, then said lease or leases may be offered for competitive bidding, but the contractor shall have a right to submit a bid on equal terms with others engaged in said bidding."
Article XII  Provides for the giving to the government of any saving in the cost of the construction of the storage facilities, should said cost be less than 3,197,086 barrels of "basic crude oil" at "reference price" thereof, such saving to be determined by agreement between the Secretary of the Interior