colors as charcoal, turquoise, Prussian blue and champagne. Today Bellerby & Co. is a team of 10 or so artists and globe makers operating out of a studio in North London. The globes have appeared in the 2011 film Hugo, and as the starts of a first-ever globe exhibit at the Royal Geographical Society. Online, they maintain a big social presence, especially through their Instagram, which features office dog George and daily globe facts (like Uruguay has the longest national anthem and its president donates 90 percent of his salary and lives in a one-bedroom house with a three-legged dog).

When the Louvre wanted a copy of the original celestial globe made for Louis XVI in 1683, the commission was given to Bellerby.

A colour chart made by the headAuston Matthews to start as third-line center

Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock says play of top pick in 2016 NHL Draft will determine 'where it goes from there'

Auston Matthews will start his NHL career as the third-line center for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

"He determines where it goes from there," coach Mike Babcock said Wednesday when asked where the No. 1 pick in the 2016 NHL Draft would play.

Babcock is coaching Team Canada at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 in Toronto, but next week he'll return to his regular job with the Maple Leafs. Matthews was impressive while playing with Team North America at the World Cup, but Babcock doesn't want to put too much pressure, too soon, on the 18-year-old.

"He's a good young player," Babcock said. "But we


this year to pay a $10m (£6.3m) penalty for trading glitches.

"It's conservative and likely going to be raised as they start the road show at least once if not twice," Sam Hamadeh of PrivCo, a private company research firm, said.

"The size of the offering is also a bit small.

"But they may only choose to raise the price once they gauge investor demand. Raising both the price and the size was Facebook's fatal mistake."

Twitter plans to list its stock under the ticker symbol "TWTR" on the New York Stock Exchange, with trading possibly beginning within the next few weeks.

The San Francisco-based micro-blogging service had more than 215 million active users as of the end of June, up 44% from the previous year.

Separately Twitter announced it had hired former NBCexecutive Vivian Schiller to head its news operations.

Ms Schiller has been the chief digital officer for NBC News since 2011, and has some 25 years experience in the media business. She is expected to be a key liaison between Twitter and the news industry.

The appointment highlights the growing role of Twitter and other social media in the news industry.


can sometimes hold more challenges. Same goes for being in an intercultural relationship. But Heather Subba's found that though she's an American Jew and her husband is a Nepali Hindu, the blessings outweigh the challenges — even when her in-laws move in. Read more in An Extended Love.

Weekly TorahThe timing couldn't have been better: as 2012 came to a close, we wrapped up the first book of the Torah and as 2013 began, we started the second book. Check out what Nechama Tamler had to say about the last portion of Genesis and the first of Exodus on the Animated Torahlog: presented by G-dcast.

Among other things, the family blessings (said on Shabbat) originate in this Torah portion. Of course, as we've come to expect, there's still family dramaare open to everybody.

One of 54 sections of the Torah read, during Shabbat services, in order on a weekly basis throughout the year. The Jewish Sabbath, from sunset on Friday to nightfall on Saturday.A member of the Jewish clergy who leads a congregation in songful prayer. ("Hazzan" in Hebrew.)Hebrew for "fit" (as in, "fit for consumption"), the Jewish dietary laws.Hebrew for "my master," the term refers to a spiritual leader and teacher of Torah. Often, but not always, a rabbi is the leader of a synagogue congregation. The first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), or the scroll that contains them.


if these were the only three in the liter or if there were others. Since their mother had been mauled and carried off by a dog it is possible that there were other babies that were still in her pouch and carried off with her. Of the three we got they had only minor injuries from the dog attack. One had an eye popped out, probably from being squeezed too hard either in the jaws of the dog or underfoot (either stepped on by the dog or by the mother possum, it has been known that baby possums die from their mothers accidently treading on them). Another one needed a small stitch in her back left side, probably scratched by the dog, and the third, a boy wasA man looking to trade a live, four-foot long alligator for a 12-pack of beer at a Miami convenience store was cited for the illegal possession and attempted sale of the creature, NBC News reports.

Fernando Caignet Aguilera came across the gator at a nearby park, where he trapped it, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) spokesman Jorge Pino. Although there are no specific laws that apply to Aguilera's case, it's illegal to harass, touch or feed alligators in the state.

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FWC officials say the animal was "pretty much in good shape" after its ordeal, and they released it back into the wild.

Pino was unable to comment on why Aguilera thought the convenience store would accept payment in the form of an alligator. "I have never experienced


with a rapier wit). Many newspapers and online publications run Matt’s columns, to include WND, TheBlaze, the Washington Times, TownHall and many more. Author of the book, “The Right Hook: From the Ring to the Culture War,” Matt is currently penning his first novel. In addition to frequent public speaking engagements, Matt has appeared as a cultural analyst on the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN and is a regular guest on dozens of talk radio programs and networks including Michael Savage, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, Dennis Prager, the Michael Medved Show, the Janet Mefferd Show and others. Matt also co-hosts “Faith and Freedom” a daily legal and cultural issues talk radio program heard on about 90 stations across the country.
Matt served twelve years in the ArmyNational Guard, was a law enforcement officer for three years and a corporate fraud investigator for five years.
Setting him apart from others in his various fields, Matt was an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer retiring in 2004. Prior to turning pro, he was a several time state and regional Golden Gloves champion, competing in the 1992 Western Olympic Trials and winning a Gold Medal in the 1993 Police and Fire World Games.

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Pastor Jamiu Ishola Kolawole of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for stealing the sum of N9m from his tenant, Dr. Emeka Ugwunze, in Lagos

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The 60-year-old pastor was sentenced on Tuesday by Magistrate O.A. Adedayo of the Ogba Magistrates court.

The convict was the resident pastor of the RCCG, Ikosi Paris, Ketu District, before he committed the fraud.

His trial started sometime in 2016 after he approached the victim, Dr. Ugwunze who was his tenant and defrauded him of the said amount of money under false pretence.

The parties negotiated for the house for N20m and the victim paid him N9m to effect the balance at an agreed period. He convinced the victim that he wanted to sell the house tohim because he had assisted him in the past.

To prove authenticity of the deal, the pastor handed him all the house documents except for the deed of agreement which he promised to process upon receipt of the full payment.

However, he disappeared after he obtained the initial payment. The matter was reported to the police and he was arrested, then dragged to court.

Magistrate O.A. Adedayo. the presiding judge found Pastor Kolawole guilty and sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment.

Meanwhile, it was gathered that Pastor Kolawole is still facing another criminal charge before another court in Lagos for forgery. He was said to have forged the medical report of the Gbagada General Hospital to mislead the court that he was sick.


In America

Sickness In the N.Y.P.D.

By BOB HERBERT

Published: October 11, 1996

One April morning in 1973 a veteran police officer named Thomas Shea pulled his service revolver and blew away a young black boy on a street in Jamaica, Queens. He shot the kid in the back. There was no chance of survival. Afterward, no one could figure out why the officer had done it. There was no reason for the shooting, no threat to Officer Shea of any kind. The boy's name was Clifford Glover and he was 10 years old.

Officer Shea was charged with murder but of course he was acquitted.

On Thanksgiving Day in 1976 an officer named Robert Torsney fired a bullet into the head of Randolph Evans, 15, outside a housing project in Brooklyn. No onecould figure that one out, either. Officer Torsney would later claim he had been afflicted with a rare form of epilepsy that, remarkably, had never been noticed before the killing and was never seen after it.

The ''epilepsy'' defense worked. Officer Torsney was acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing.

The bridge between those outlandish cases of the 1970's and Monday's demoralizing acquittal of Police Officer Francis X. Livoti in the killing of Anthony Baez is littered with the bodies of New Yorkers of all ages whose lives were summarily and unjustly taken by New York City cops who managed in virtually every instance to beat the rap.

Eleanor Bumpurs is on that bridge, and Anibal Carasquillo. Ms. Bumpurs was the overweight, arthritic, emotionally disturbed 66-year-old woman who was shotgunned to death by


police who broke into her apartment in a case that had to do with unpaid rent. Ms. Bumpurs, confused and counseled by her family never to let strangers into the apartment, picked up a carving knife when the cops burst in. That was the end of her.

Mr. Carasquillo, 21, was shot to death on a Brooklyn street by a police officer in January 1995. The worst the police could say about Mr. Carasquillo, who was unarmed, was that he had been peering into the windows of parked cars. There is reason to doubt the police on even that point inasmuch as they also said he had been shot in the chest. It turned out he had been shot in the back.

The case went before a grand jury butracists in the Police Department that their murderous behavior will not be tolerated.

Instead, the entire political and criminal justice establishment has gone out of its way to send the opposite message: Once you button up that uniform and strap on that sidearm you can brutalize certain types of people with impunity.

Officer Livoti, acquitted of choking Mr. Baez to death in a confrontation over a touch football game, had been the focus of 14 prior civilian complaints, only one of which was substantiated. In that one, still pending, he is accused of slapping and choking a 16-year-old boy who allegedly had ridden a go-cart recklessly. That complaint was made by the boy's mother in September 1993 but was not acted upon until after Mr. Baez was killed in December


circuit board on which the component is to be mounted, upon heating. FIG. 1 shows the longitudinal direction of the component and printed circuit board on the abscissa, and the amount of warpage on the ordinate.
Referring to FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 denotes warpage of a component, reference numeral 102 denotes warpage of a printed circuit board, and reference numeral 103 denotes the total amount of warpage of the component and printed circuit board. The amounts of warpage of the component and printed circuit board are relatively large in the vicinities of their central portions. In this manner, a component and a printed circuit board often warp in opposite directions, so failures in mounting (solder separation) occur in a component with a large total warpage value, or inshe doesn’t tell anyone but Frenchy about this part of the scheme), Brenda can eliminate everybody who came with her into the bogs and skip town with Frenchy to live it up on their newfound wealth.

Like Voodoo Woman, The Curse of the Swamp Creature embarks on a lengthy stretch of following the travelers on their journey at this point, and as in my review of the former film, I’m going to ignore this part almost completely on the grounds that it’s incredibly fucking boring. What I’m going to talk about instead is Dr. Trent and his private little monster factory. Whereas most of your mad scientists live alone, Trent has quite an entourage over at his place. In addition to Tom, his laboratory assistant (Tony Hutton, another familiar


good manufacturing jobs.

However, he noted that even if the world trade system was fairer, the US could still experience some "blameless" trade deficits because of oil imports.

But Mr Ross admitted the Trump administration's plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) had hurt the Mexican peso and worsened the US trade deficit amid delays by Congress in starting negotiations.

Apple hits $US800b market value

Overall, global markets had a fairly quiet session.

A fall in the price of oil saw US stocks slip after new record highs for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq in early trade.

The Nasdaq's 0.3 per cent rise was driven by IT giant Apple, which became the first US company to reach the $US800 billion market value mark.

The rise in value comes just two years afterit hit $US700 billion.

Apple's shares rose 98 US cents to $US153.99.

Apple's shares have increased by one third this year and by almost half since the US presidential election last November.

Rick Meckler, head of US fund manager LibertyView Capital Management, said the rise in value reflects Apple's domination of the market.

"It's just reflective of how powerful a franchise it is," Mr Meckler said.

"It may be the most powerful franchise in the country today."

European markets finished mainly higher.


The Hollywood Reporter Spike Lee spoke with Bernie Sanders for an interview published by The Hollywood Reporter.

Spike Lee believes in Bernie Sanders.

The two men, who both hail from Brooklyn and share a strong admiration for the borough, met for the first time in New York this week. The high-profile director and Sanders supporter spoke with the Democratic presidential hopeful for an interview published by The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.

Lee, who announced his endorsement of Sanders in February, questioned the candidate in a candid interview on a number of topics including gun violence, black voters and "entertainer" Donald Trump. He also asked Sanders outright what Black Lives Matter means to him.

"What it means is that we are all sick and tired of seeing unarmed people shot by police officers,"A switched reluctance motor includes a stator having a central bore for rotation of a rotor therein. The stator has four equally spaced teeth extending radially inwardly from the yoke of the stator to define the central bore. A rotor assembly for rotation in the central bore of the stator is included....http://www.google.ca/patents/US5432390?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5432390 - Switched reluctance motor

A switched reluctance motor includes a stator having a central bore for rotation of a rotor therein. The stator has four equally spaced teeth extending radially inwardly from the yoke of the stator to define the central bore. A rotor assembly for rotation in the central bore of the stator is included. The rotor assembly has three teeth extending radially outwardly from the central axis of the motor to terminate in close


proximity to the stator teeth. Stator windings associated with the stator teeth generate a magnetic field in the central bore to cause rotation of the rotor assembly.

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What is claimed is:

1. A switched reluctance motor comprising:

a stator having a yoke and a central bore for rotation of a rotor therein, said stator having four equally spaced teeth extending radially inwardly from the yoke of the stator to define the central bore;

a rotor assembly mounted for rotation in the central bore of the stator, said rotor assembly having three teeth extending radially outwardly from a central axis of the motor to terminate in close proximity to the stator teeth, said rotor assembly including a stack of rotor laminations and means for compressing the stack to secure the stack together againstwhich are proportional to the number of rotor poles, appeared only in the stator poles and the edges of the rotor poles. As a result, the core losses in the stator yoke and rotor core were reduced at the expense of some torque imbalance. Of greater concern are the losses in the stator poles due to flux bypass with such a construction. This bypass flux produces a torque in the opposite direction, and the bypass mmf has the opposite direction from the main mmf to be established when the next phase is energized. This change in the mmf direction in the stator poles of prior motors increased the range of flux variation and lead to increased core losses in stator poles.

In addition to the normal losses due to


the alignment of the stator and rotor poles, resulting in increased losses. Rounding of these corners would, on the other hand, appear to require a new method of lamination stamping.

Furthermore, the stamping method presently used on conventional machines requires final machining of the rotor surface, to obtain the exact rotor diameter. This machining normally results in short circuiting of some of the rotor laminations, as does the welding used to hold the laminations together. Although the frequency of the rotor flux in induction machines is low, this manufacturing method and the resulting short-circuiting of laminations causes additional losses which may amount to several percent of the total losses. In switched reluctance motors the machining necessary to obtain the exact rotor diameter would considerably increase the total losses giventhe directions of mmf as indicated by the arrows labelled 21. The teeth of stator 13 are equally spaced about its perimeter and the gaps 100 between the teeth as measured at the central bore of the stator are just slightly larger than the widths 101 of the teeth themselves.

The teeth of rotor 15 are also equally spaced around its perimeter. The width of the teeth of rotor 15 is generally the same as the width of the stator teeth at the central bore, so as to minimize losses. The width of the rotor teeth is also slightly less than the gap between adjacent stator teeth for a reason which will become apparent in connection with the discussion of FIG. 7. It should also be noted that the


bore opening is off-center with respect to placement holes 71. Next the rotor lamination is stamped out along with a series of notches 73, best shown in FIG. 1. In the third stage, the interior configuration 75 of the stator lamination 13A is stamped out. And in the fourth stage the perimeter 77 of the stator lamination is stamped out, resulting in the finished stator lamination.

The methods and constructions described above provide several advantages. For one, they result in a sufficient cross-section in a three-pole rotor to reduce rotor core losses to an acceptable level. The three-pole rotor in turn reduces the stator losses by reducing the flux frequency in the stator yoke and poles, while still providing a substantial starting torque. Secondly, the rotor laminations with thesethe samples from the P41-S site in relation to the sampling sites in the Antas reservoir for the physical and chemical variables, throughout the whole period of the study. The samples from the P41-S site indicated the strongest positive correlation with uranium, manganese, aluminum, electrical conductivity, hardness, and sulfate in November 2014. In addition, the same site indicated a positive correlation with pH, zinc and fluoride in July and October 2015. On the other hand, for the sites at the Antas reservoir (CAB, P41-E and P14) it was shown that, in November 2014, these sites indicated correlations with hardness, uranium, electrical conductivity, manganese, aluminum and sulfate values. In addition, in November 2014, the P41-E site showed the strongest positive correlation for these same parameters. In February and October


Saturday, 14 July 2012

Dying without dignity or choice

On Friday, (at about the time the island workforce was going
home so nobody would be paying attention) the Manx government's Department of (ill) Health
announced that their dodgy survey on ‘End of Life Care’ is done and dusted.

The title of the press release (‘Dignity and choice at the heart of Island’s
first ever End of Life Care Framework’) is an outright lie. The plan offers
neither to any dying person with more than a few functioning brain cells and
the desire to actually choose, rather than be told, how to die. The opening
sentence, in which it is claimed that the framework comes “after 18 months of a
detailed research and analysis into end of life care elsewhere, as well as a
review of the care available in1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a retractor with a take-up force reducing device which reduces tension in a take-up direction applied to a webbing during the wearing of the webbing and prevents any excessive pressure force from being applied to the webbing wearer's body.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Generally, a biasing force of considerable intensity in a take-up direction is applied to a take-up shaft in order that webbing drawn out from the retractor for wearing may be again fully taken up onto the take-up shaft in the retractor. Therefore, even during the wearing of the webbing, a strong biasing force in the take-up direction is applied to the webbing and a pressure force of considerable intensity is applied to the wearer, and this gives


Brendan Sinclair North American Editor Monday 17th August 2015 Share this article Share

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Denver-based development studio IllFonic has cut staff. GamesIndustry.biz has confirmed some of the details contained in a Facebook post from developer (and vocal critic of Star Citizen creator Cloud Imperium Games) Derek Smart indicating that the studio, which has been at work on the first-person shooter module for Star Citizen, trimmed its headcount recently.

"We have laid off 6 members of our staff," IllFonic president Charles Brungardt told GI.biz. "Actually, only three of those were on the Star Citizen team. However, our work for Star Citizen on the FPS module is almost completed, so we are also reassigning more and more members of that team to other projects. Unfortunately we didn't have roomfor all positions on our other projects and had to lay some people off, which is never an easy decision. We appreciate the opportunity we've been given to work on Star Citizen and we know the individuals affected will land on their feet as they were extremely talented which any team would be lucky to have them."

The FPS module for Star Citizen had previously been expected to see release in early 2015, but technical and gameplay issues prompted an indefinite delay. A request for comment to Cloud Imperium went unreturned as of press time.

As for IllFonic, the studio's website indicates that it has one other announced project in the works, the online role-playing game Revival. Like Star Citizen, the development of Revival will be funded in part by


Drastic plans by Australia to become the first country to enforce plain packaging for cigarettes could cut smoking rates, and are likely to be emulated by Canada, New Zealand, and Britain, reinforcing Australia's record as a world leader in antismoking measures.

The Australian government has announced draft legislation to outlaw all logos, colors, brand imagery, and promotional text from cigarette packets. The move will “take away the tobacco industry’s final capacity to promote its product,” says John Daube, professor of public health at Curtin University’s Institute of Public Policy in Perth.

Australia has long been at the forefront of the war on tobacco. More than 20 years ago, it was one of the first countries to ban tobacco advertising, and in some states smoking has been illegal in indoor public
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is interested in placing a follow-up order for 36 additional fourth-generation Dassault Rafale multirole fighter jets, according to Indian Ministry of Defense (MoD) sources.

The Indian government and French aircraft maker Dassault Aviation signed a 7.87 billion euros agreement for the sale of 36 Rafale fighter jets in September 2016, following four years of protracted negotiations. Delivery of the Rafale fighter jets is expected to begin in November 2019 and will likely be completed in the middle of 2022.

Sources have now revealed to The Times of India that the IAF has made “some presentations” on the operational need for an additional 36 Rafale fighter jets arguing that a follow-up order would just cost around 60 percent of the original acquisition and induction price.

The IAFs


Rafale will be cheaper than the Sukhoi/HAL Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), known in India as the Perspective Multirole Fighter (PMF) currently under development. In 2010, India and Russia began work on a next-generation joint stealth fighter; however, work on the program has stalled for numerous reasons including the inability to reach a work sharing agreement.

The IAF purportedly needs to add 200 to 250 new aircraft in the medium-weight fighter jet category to maintain its edge over China and Pakistan. The IAF currently fields 33 fighter squadrons each at various degrees of operational readiness. However, that number is supposed to increase to 42 by 2027. “The number of squadrons is based on a hypothetical joint threat from China and Pakistan,” I explained. “The IAF will need at leasthis father introduced him to the Apple II computer when he was three years old, and when his mother discovered he had taught himself how to read. Through his formative years and achievements, finally to his death on January 11, 2013.

"He was a prodigy, although he never thought of himself as such." —Lawrence Lessig.

Notable events in Aaron's life

When Aaron was twelve, he created a website called TheInfo.org, a knowledge-sharing site, open for anyone to edit; it was essentially an early precursor of the Wikipedia. This site won a school competition held by ArsDigita. Then, not yet a teenager, Aaron got involved in the development of RSS. In the film, Cory Doctorow tells the story of how after participating in the design discussions of RSS for a year, Aaron


was invited to attend an in-person meeting. But, he declined, saying: "I don’t think my mom will not let me, I just turned fourteen."

Unhindered by his age, Aaron worked shoulder to shoulder with luminaries of the Internet.

I first met him over IRC.

He didn’t just write code,

he also got people excited about solving problems,

he was a connector. The free culture movement has a lot of his energy.

I think Aaron was trying to make the world work;

he was trying to fix it. —Tim Berners-Lee

Then, by exploring the history of education, that knowledge became a vehicle for Aaron's coming of age. He was quite interested in copyright and how it obstructed the free sharing of knowledge in the digital age.

I started reading books about the history of education,

and how this educationsystem was developed, [...]

and this led me down this path of questioning things,

and once I questioned the school,

I questioned the society that built the school,

I questioned the business that the school was training people for,

I questioned the government that set up this whole structure. —Aaron Swartz

At 15 years old, he flew from Chicago to Washington, to attended the Supreme Court hearing on the challenge that Lawrence Lessig brought on behalf of Eldred against the Copyright Extension act of 1998 (also known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act). When the challenge failed in the Supreme Court, and Lessig conceived of Creative Commons as the next line of defense for the open sharing of knowledge and information, Aaron became enthusiastically engaged and began designing the computer representation of the CC


for free to the publishers, and the reviewers work for free as volunteers.

Then Aaron's legal troubles began in earnest. On January 6, 2011, Aaron was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state charges of breaking-and-entering, after he systematically downloaded academic journal articles from JSTOR. Federal prosecutors later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and 11 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.

The charges were considered by many to be out of proportion, especially considering that JSTOR decided not to press charges. Then, after defending himself for over two years, Aaron committed suicide on January 11, 2013.

One of his last commits in GitHubwas on the victorykit project, a free and open source platform to run campaigns for social change. And, on August 3, 2013, Aaron was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

The documentary is free and available to watch on YouTube. Lasting 1 hour and 45 minutes, the film does a masterful job of following the events of Aaron Swartz's life and their context. His is a story that must be known, and must be told, by all of us who live in the digital age.


Lowry's talk is titled "Choosing to Work for a Start-up." All students are invited to attend one of three sessions: 9:45 or 11:15 a.m. in 307 Hammond or 1 p.m. in 306 Hammond.

Prior to helping to found Curalate, the world’s leading marketing and analytics suite for the visual Web with major clients including Pinterest and Instagram, Lowry was an education producer at Skillshare in Philadelphia. He completed public relations internships at Buchanan Public Relations, LLC, and with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Lowry received his undergraduate degree from Temple University.

Established in 2008, the Norbert and Audrey Gaelen Entrepreneurship Speaker Series invites entrepreneurs to the University in the hopes of encouraging entrepreneurship among Penn State students, faculty and staff. Norbert Gaelen is a 1947 industrial engineering alumnus.SAN JOSE — A homeless man was stabbed to death overnight in downtown San Jose near Cesar Chavez Park, and investigators are working to piece together what marked the city’s fifth homicide of the year.

San Jose police were called about 12:20 a.m. Thursday after someone found the gravely injured victim near Market Street and Paseo de San Antonio, Sgt. Heather Randol said. He suffered at least one stab wound and was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

No suspects have been identified as investigators spent the morning interviewing people who were in the area around the time of the attack.

The victim has only been described a local transient known in the area, Randol said. His identity was not released pending notification of relatives.

Contact Mark Gomez at


The Mystery of Flight MH370: As the search continues, there are some theories not being reported in the news... until now.

The Mystery of Flight MH370: As the search continues, there are some theories not being reported in the news... until now.

THE final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been traced in a new documentary.

National Geographic’s Drain The Oceans series, which details some of the most intriguing secrets that lie in the world’s oceans, explores a “handful of clues” about the jet’s disappearance in an episode set to air on Tuesday night.

Perth-based Electric Pictures worked closely with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the official government investigation team on the episode. It is the only documentary team to be given such access.

The team of experts used groundbreakingestablish an aircraft’s position based on info that was never intended for that purpose.

“This is something extraordinary that was captured by Inmarsat (satellite) at the time the aircraft was in the air, which very few people knew about and which is absolutely key to the search.”

It was the biggest breakthrough so far, shifting the search around 500km south of the last military radar contact and into the jurisdiction of the Australian Government.

The experts then started looking around the final arc — also known as the seventh arc — which is located deep in the Indian Ocean.

3. Final sound from the plane?

A team from Western Australia’s Curtin University use hydrophones — sensitive underwater microphones — positioned all around the Australian coast to monitor a range of sounds including earthquakes


out of fuel, making it possible to recreate the final moments of the mysterious flight.

According to Drain The Oceans, the right engine flamed out first, the autopilot compensated for the imbalance with a hard left turn, then the second engine flamed out minutes later. With no power, the autopilot shut down, leaving MH370 in a “long spiral descent”.

Every Boeing simulation shows the crash site lying within 46km of the seventh arc, so they are able to reduce the size of the search area from 745,000sq km to 37,000sq km.

After having no luck searching 80 locations in detail, in May 2015 the sonar picked up a debris field that looked like a possible wreck site. So the team investigated closer up with the “drained the oceans” technique, revealing aof styrene monomer units and hydrogenated conjugated diene monomer units. The polystyrene block acts as a crosslinking point at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of polystyrene. The rubber block acts as an origin of rubber-like properties, hydrogenation thereof provides excellent heat resistance and weatherability. The triblock structure of the SEPTON-4033 rubber molecule has poly-styrene end blocks and an elastomeric midblock.
Prior to processing, the polystyrene end blocks are associated in rigid domains. In the presence of heat and shear such as during processing, the polystyrene domains soften and permit flow. After cooling, the polystyrene domains reform and harden, locking the rubber network in place. This physical phenomenon provides SEPTON-4033 rubber with its high tensile strength. The rubber midlock provides SEPTON-4033 rubber its elasticity. Since SEPTON rubber is


Toto Wolff says he is insipired by the Mercedes team's approach to this year's Formula 1 championship battle in the face of fresh pressure from Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel.

Mercedes has swept to the last three F1 constructors' titles with relative ease, but has faced its toughest challenge yet through the V6 turbo era in 2017 after a resurgence from Ferrari over the winter.

Mercedes currently leads the teams' standings by 55 points, but it is Ferrari's Vettel who heads up the drivers' table, sitting one point clear of Lewis Hamilton.

"Both championships are very much in the balance right now," Wolff said ahead of this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.

"The points tables show that we have a small buffer in the constructors' race and a small deficit on the drivers' side.comes out of the ground depends on the level of the water table. At the moment the water table is very high and the water is coming out of the ground at Buckskin. The watershed is out at Oakley, so in theory the souce can be anywhere this side of there. In practice it is hardly ever any further west than West Ham Farm (the recognised source) and in dry spells it rises under the town centre - I do not remember it ever being dry to the east of the town centre. The Buckskin resisdents are paying the price of planners building on what used to be an area of seasonal springs feeding the Loddon. The culverts used to contain the Loddon under the town centre will


very high and the water is coming out of the ground at Buckskin. The watershed is out at Oakley, so in theory the souce can be anywhere this side of there. In practice it is hardly ever any further west than West Ham Farm (the recognised source) and in dry spells it rises under the town centre - I do not remember it ever being dry to the east of the town centre. The Buckskin resisdents are paying the price of planners building on what used to be an area of seasonal springs feeding the Loddon. The culverts used to contain the Loddon under the town centre will only carry the water which has already entered the water course to the west of the town. Any water risingin theory the souce can be anywhere this side of there. In practice it is hardly ever any further west than West Ham Farm (the recognised source) and in dry spells it rises under the town centre - I do not remember it ever being dry to the east of the town centre. The Buckskin resisdents are paying the price of planners building on what used to be an area of seasonal springs feeding the Loddon. The culverts used to contain the Loddon under the town centre will only carry the water which has already entered the water course to the west of the town. Any water rising under the town centre will find its own way out to the main channels east of the town.

This is quite


used to be an area of seasonal springs feeding the Loddon. The culverts used to contain the Loddon under the town centre will only carry the water which has already entered the water course to the west of the town. Any water rising under the town centre will find its own way out to the main channels east of the town.[/p][/quote]This is quite true. The river used to rise further west than now in the Buckskin area, in fact where the fire station is now was a large pond.If you read Arthur Atwoods books on Basingstoke's history you'll find out where the river flowed and what has happened in past flooding in the town. These days the millions of gallons pumped out of the chalk near the leisureGeoffrey Kondogbia has made an impressive start to life in La Liga with Sevilla © Getty Images Enlarge

Sevilla midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia is on Arsenal's summer shopping list, Arsene Wenger has confirmed.

Kondogbia, 20, has caught the attention of a number of clubs with some commanding performances after moving to La Liga from Lens last summer. The Sun report that the Arsenal boss is keen to add a defensive midfielder to his ranks.

The Gunners have struggled in that position with Abou Diaby again a long-term casualty to injury, while Sevilla president Jose Maria Del Nido has previously admitted the club may be forced to sell the player.

When asked about his interest in the France Under-20 international, Wenger said: "I don't really want to talk about Kondogbia too much because everyone's


after him at the moment.

"When you ask 'Are you also interested?' what do you expect me to say?"

Meanwhile, the player himself has told French station Telefoot that Real Madrid would be his preferred destination should he leave Sevilla.

"It is always a pleasure to know that they are following you and they want you," Kondogbia said. "Real Madrid? That makes me dream but it is only a rumour at the moment. With clubs like that I can play in the Champions League. A preference? Since I was small, Real Madrid."

Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Milan and Inter Milan have all previously linked with the box-to-box midfielder, who has impressed at Sevilla since joining for €3 million from Lens in summer 2012.

Third-party investment fund the Doyen GroupProviding early clinical experience in primary care.
Undergraduate courses in British medical schools are changing following recommendations from the General Medical Council. Increasing emphasis has been placed on teaching in the community. Nottingham Medical School has pioneered the teaching of basic clinical skills in primary care during the pre-clinical course to help produce an integrated curriculum. This qualitative study evaluated the first two years of the new early clinical experience course at Nottingham by using interviews with 19 students and their GP tutors. Students claimed to have gained confidence in talking to patients, their understanding of the role of the doctor and the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. Students were less confident about examining patients and some reported having had little opportunity to practice examination skills. Half the students


relationship, declaring, "Trump realizes the great potential of Newsmax and has been using it very adroitly. We're well aware he's using it, happy he's using it."

But when President Obama's release of his long-form birth certificate torpedoed Trump's main talking point and collapsed the Trump boomlet. Trump ultimately decided not to jump in the race -- contradicting what Kessler had claimed would happen.

In April Kessler wrote, citing "sources close to the real estate titan,' that during the finale of the Trump's TV show "Celebrity Apprentice," Trump "plans to say that he will be holding a press conference in the next few days at Trump Towers in New York," at which "Trump will be announcing his candidacy for the presidency." But National Journal pointed out that the season finale oflike a press release,touting how Newsmax is "the largest online conservative news outlet in the nation" and propping up the little-watched, rerun-laden TV network Ion Television. No mention is made of Trump's birtherism, nor of Newsmax's rampant boosterism of Trump.

Newsmax ramped up its self-promotion in the run-up to the debate, creating an email list (screenshot) where people can "get special notices about this debate, be invited to online VIP events before and after the Debate and have an opportunity to participate online in the event itself!"

That was followed by a Dec. 4 article announcing that "A prestigious team of some of the top producers in network and cable television news ... which collectively has more than a century of experience in managing major network coverage of U.S. presidential


debates and elections" had been assembled to produce the debate. What Newsmax didn't mention: the team -- with previous experience mostly at CNN and CBS -- are part of the dreaded "liberal media" that is supposed to be anathema to conservatives.

The head of Newsmax's team was a particularly surprising choice: Eason Jordan, the former chief news executive at CNN.

In February 2005, Newsmax published a column by Michelle Malkin attacking Jordan for "incurable anti-American pandering" for supposedly claiming that American troops have deliberately targeted and killed journalists in Iraq. Jordan denied making such a claim, but the right-wing furor over the supposed remarks led to his resignation from CNN. And in an April 2003 Newsmax column, Michael Glueck and Robert Cihak bashed Jordan for his admission that CNN hadthat?"

Matt Towery similarly took aim at Mitt Romney's refusal to enter the debate, declaring without evidence that Romney's refusal "has sealed his fate in Florida, where the Newsmax/Trump world dominates." Really? If there's any domination of that "world" anywhere in Florida, it's pretty much limited to their mutual Palm Beach base.

Dick Morris weighed in as well; a Dec. 8 article claimed that "those who skip the debate are misjudging the broad reach such a debate would have." The article didn't mention Morris' extensive business relationship with Newsmax, which includes management of Morris' email list and his shilling for Newsmax's financial products.

Newsmax also went the Trump-fluffing route -- a Dec. 4 "Insider Report" touted how "Donald Trump’s organization is the largest privately held company in the New York metropolitan


Keene: Mitt Will Beat Newt

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination, Dave Keene, former chairman of the American Conservative Union, tells Newsmax.

“Romney has the discipline,” Keene says. “”He has the money. He has the organization.”

Why did Kessler's article disappear? After all, it's no secret that both Kessler and Keene are big fans of Romney -- in June, Kessler quoted Keene declaring Romney to be the likely GOP candidate, and in September, Kessler quoted Keene calling Rick Perry "a riskier presidential candidate" than Romney. The only apparent difference is that Romney turned down Newsmax's debate.

Kessler quickly got back on message with the company agenda -- the next day, he issued a column lavishing fawning praise on Trump's new book, asserting that Trump's earlier (Kessler-promoted) flirtationdirector of operations.

The school owns most of the block bounded by 12th and 13th avenues and Union and Spring streets, save for a warehouse space along 12th. The construction will largely be taking place along 13th Ave and around the corner onto Union, Ambach said. It will mean pedestrian blockages along those streets. The construction should not impact the school’s 12th Ave face. Plans call for the project to wrap up in time for the start of the 2018 school year.

The building currently on the site had been used largely as storage space. When completed, the new LMN Architects-designed Cardinal Union building will house 70,000 square feet of space including classrooms, a gymnasium and a rooftop field which could be used for PE or sports practices. It is


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Despite the success of China's experiments in free-market capitalism, the top-cat communists running the show in Beijing can't resist the temptation to engineer the economy. Their tinkering will increase in the next several years, according to Robert Hardy of Geostrat, a business-intelligence service that boasts clients in high places around the globe, including political and intelligence types in Washington, D.C. Pronouncements by Chinese leaders could provide clues to the Chinese stocks best poised to benefit.

The uptick in China's central planning owes to the scheduled overhaul in the country's leadership during the fallmeeting of the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. Seven of the nine members on the all-powerful Political Standing Committee of the Politburo will be replaced. During this transition, the leadership wants to assure domestic tranquility, especially since public disgust with official corruption is elevated. A healthy Chinese economy is the balm's essential ingredient.

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The Great Reversal: The Privatization of China, 1978–1989 (Monthly Review Press, 1990), Hinton publicly opposes the new regime and reaffirms the goals of the Cultural Revolution—even if it did not succeed in realizing them. Hinton further develops this line of thinking in his speeches and articles during the 1990s. His speech at the 1999 Socialist Scholars Convention in New York City is particularly noteworthy (Monthly Review, September 2004). One of Bill Hinton’s great strengths was his insistence on “seeking truth from facts.” He reported what he saw, and what others whom he trusted told him. At the same time he maintained a critical attitude and often let the reader decide how to evaluate key issues. Hinton was brutally honest and let the chips fall where they may. Atone time or another, he criticized the policies or actions of just about all of the Chinese leadership—but he never wavered in his support for the Chinese people and socialism. Turning Point in China In the early 1970s, Hinton firmly supported the goals, methods, and achievements of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. After a 1971 visit to China at the invitation of Premier Zhou Enlai, Hinton wrote in Turning Point in China: The heart of the Cultural Revolution has indeed been a struggle for power, a struggle over the control of state power….But it has not been a struggle over power for power’s sake….It has been a class struggle to determine whether individuals representing the working class or individuals representing the bourgeoisie will hold state power. It has


the countryside, as long as these inequalities exist they generate privilege, individualism, careerism and bourgeois ideology….They can and do create new bourgeois individuals who gather as a new privileged elite and ultimately as a new exploiting class. Thus socialism can be peacefully transformed back into capitalism. (20–21) In Turning Point, Hinton placed the Cultural Revolution within an international context. China faced a serious threat from U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and Southeast Asia (the Vietnam War was still raging in 1971). In Siberia, the Soviet Union posed a growing and possibly imminent threat to China’s nuclear program and plants. The primary foreign policy issues in the Cultural Revolution were: how to deal with military threats from the Soviet Union and the United States; how to develop modern defensiveviability of Mao’s socialist road in agriculture in Long Bow, and in the Dazhai brigade in southern Shanxi province. This model brigade was hailed for its ability to “grasp revolution, promote production.” On the basis of new collective forms of organization and the stronger unity and heightened revolutionary consciousness of its members, the Dazhai brigade built new infrastructural works and made big gains in agricultural production from formerly barren hillsides. The book also describes in detail the unprincipled factional strife and civil war from 1966–71 that left at least 800 dead in southern Shanxi. This must have come as a huge shock to Hinton, and no doubt made him much more critical of the Cultural Revolution. After Deng came to power in 1978, Hinton sought and received permission


from the Chinese government to live and work in China in the 1980s. He served as an agricultural consultant, and some of his reports and proposals (such as a UN-funded model collective villages project) are included in The Great Reversal. His presence in China enabled Hinton to witness and write about the process of capitalist restoration in the countryside. However, it also helped prevent him from drawing correct conclusions about the nature of the new regime for ten years. During these years, Hinton’s tended to be pragmatic and he uncharacteristically lost sight of the bigger picture. On one occasion, Hinton wrote about his post-1978 thinking: I did not leap from defender to critic overnight however. As an old friend of New China living abroad, I was certainly freeto speak out. But at the beginning of the reform period, I consciously avoided passing hasty judgment. I decided, with uncharacteristic forbearance, to wait and see what the new regime, with most of the old heroes gone, would do. My particular concern, was of course, the countryside. (The Great Reversal, 13) Hinton was more detailed and self-critical in his forward to the Chinese edition of Shenfan, which appeared in 1993. He even considered rewriting the book (Jose Maria Sison and Stefan Engle, eds., Mao Zedong Thought Lives [Utrecht, the Netherlands: Center for Social Studies, New Road Publication, 1995], 163–68). When Hinton summed up what had happened to socialism in China in the 1980s, he came out with guns blazing. The Great Reversal As many MR readers know, The


Great Reversal is a detailed study of how Deng and his fellow capitalist roaders dismantled collective agriculture in the 1980s through the imposition of the “family responsibility system.” This included a frontal attack on the model brigade in Dazhai. Hinton’s visits and talks with knowledgeable people inside China allowed him to refute the lies of the regime about the smashing “successes” of the so-called reforms. Hinton was also in Beijing during the Tienanmen crackdown in 1989, in which the army killed at least 2,000 civilians and injured thousands more. By the time he came out with The Great Reversal in 1990, Hinton’s view of the Cultural Revolution reaffirmed his position of the early 1970s. He refuted the claims of the new rulers that the Cultural Revolution was atook the form of an internal contest for control of the party and through it for control of the country. Mao saw this phenomenon pretty clearly and began a struggle against the opposition very early. As time went on the struggle escalated, reaching a climax in the Cultural Revolution. (158) Hinton also came to a more balanced understanding of the role of the gang of four. They included two Politbureau members from Shanghai, Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, writer Yao Wenyuan, and Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing. In Shenfan, Hinton wrote approvingly of the arrest of the gang of four by the combined forces of Deng and Hua Guofeng in 1976. In The Great Reversal, Hinton doesn’t mention the 1976 coup; instead he focuses on Deng’s coup against Hua


and upside down, and succeeded in wrecking whatever they touched. Although in previous periods Mao had been able to correct both right and “left” excesses, in the 1960s he found himself on “Liang Mountain” in regard to “leftism”—that is, virtually immobilized by a contradiction with the right that he felt tied his hands in dealing with the “left.” (158) Two Important Speeches in the 1990s In a 1991 speech at Harvard University, Hinton explained the very real obstacles faced by the Cultural Revolution: In the Cultural Revolution, Mao mobilized millions of citizens to confront powerholders, particularly capitalist roaders, to overthrow the traditional hierarchy from below, and to build a new government structure, starting with revolutionary committees composed of citizens, cadres and soldiers. But every effort in this directionafter generating a tremendous storm, wound down without consolidating its goals. However, the movement as a whole was a great creative departure in history. It was not a plot, not a purge, but a mass mobilization whereby people were inspired to intervene, to screen and supervise their cadres and form new popular committees to exercise control at the grassroots and higher. The whole idea, that the principal contradiction of the times was the class struggle between the working class and the capitalist class, expressed itself in the party center, and unless it was resolved in the interest of the working class the socialist revolution would founder. And the whole idea that the method must be to mobilize the common people to seize power from below in order to


the 1990s, Hinton marshals facts to demonstrate why Chinese agricultural production is already stagnating and in some areas is in acute crisis as a result of the capitalist “reforms.” He points to high levels of unemployment, migration, social ills, and open political unrest. He points to growing social polarization and a greater vulnerability of the Chinese economy to crises in the world capitalist economy. His conclusion: The future does not look bright for Deng’s successors. Throughout the 1980s, it appears that Hinton believed that the political direction of the new regime could still be reversed within the party by honest cadre. By 1989, in the wake of the Tienanmen Massacre of several thousand students and workers by units of the erstwhile People’s Liberation Army from Sichuan (Deng’s homeNewsroom

Books edited by UHV assistant professor explore electronic church in digital age

December 3, 2015

Two recent books edited by Mark Ward Sr., a University of Houston-Victoria assistant professor of communication, are the first major works to be published in a generation about the electronic church.

Mark Ward

The two-volume set, “The Electronic Church in the Digital Age: Cultural Impacts of Evangelical Mass Media,” tackles a phenomenon hotly debated in the 1980s and explores its 21st-century incarnation on smartphones, tablets and computers, as well as television and radio.

“One in four adults in the U.S. identifies as evangelical Christian, while one in five consumes evangelical mass media on a daily basis,” Ward said. “The electronic church remains a key institution of American evangelicalism. Each month, more people are exposed to these media than


understand its religiousness without understanding the electronic church.”

Ward has published two histories of religious broadcasting and numerous scholarly articles about evangelical culture and media. One was named the 2014 article of the year by the Religious Communication Association. He serves on the association’s executive council and is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Communication and Religion. In 2014, Ward published a scholarly book about the Holocaust and earlier this year co-authored a textbook about organizational communication.

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classes at its Victoriaappeared, and caused the lawsuit to be continued, representing that the request for continuance was by agreement; that defendant's counsel had no contact with counsel for plaintiff and was unaware of any agreement to continue the matter; that defendant's counsel then asked the clerk for the new trial date; that through inadvertence or mistake, defendant's counsel was advised by the clerk of the court that the new *33 trial date was February 26, 1965; that in reliance upon the statement of the clerk, counsel recorded the February 26 trial date in his diary; that although defendant's counsel was advised that February 26 was the new trial date, the new trial date was January 29, 1965; that on February 26, defendant's counsel again appeared in Room 1121 but could


clerk of the court that the new trial date was February 26, 1965. There is no showing in the record that defendant received any further notification from any party of the continuance or the new trial date. On February 26, defendant's counsel again appeared in court. The case did not appear on the call. The file could not be found in the clerk's office. Thereafter, on March 7, defendant was served with a writ of execution. At this time defendant learned for the first time that the continued date of the trial was not February 26, as his attorney had been advised, but was in fact January 29, 1965, at which time plaintiff had appeared and taken judgment. No notice was given to defendant or his counsel atdisobeying a lawful command given by his superior officer.

Edward Reginald Williams was born in Woodbridge, England on 14 June 1892 and arrived in New Zealand in 1910 on the Ionic, with his occupation listed as draper.[4] When he was arrested in 1917 he described himself as a farm worker most recently employed by his brother Morgan Williams of Ohoka when he was arrested in 1917.[5] Little is known about his family background except that his brother, was also a committed pacifist, wrote a 24 page anti-militarist pamphlet, The Great White Elephant,[6] and helped the National Peace Council to organise anti-conscription meetings in the Rangiora and Kaiapoi area in 1912.[7]

Reg Williams first came to notice as one of the joint secretaries of the newly formed Passive Resisters Union (PRU)


in February 1912,[8] and later became president of the PRU and publisher of its magazine. While he was President of the PRU Williams served time in Lyttelton Gaol and in June 1913 was one of the fourteen young men who were arrested and detained in Fort Jervois on Ripapa Island. His accounts of his prison experiences were later published in the PRU's Repeal magazine in May 1913 as 'The Truth about Lyttelton Gaol' and in August 1913 as 'The Ripa Island Farce'.[9]

Reg Williams went on at least two speaking tours during this period: to the West Coast in 1912, and to Auckland, where he spoke on about 10 occasions in 1914.[10]

Reg Williams was also among a cluster of labour leaders arrested in early 1917 on a charge ofseditious intention. His case was heard before a crowded courtroom on 24 January 1917. Conducting his own defence Williams said that he did not think there was anything in the war regulations that prevented him from producing arguments that conscription was futile and ineffective, or to stop him from calling for the repeal of the Act. The extracts cited in court might appear seditious but were not if read in their context. He had a perfect right to question the reasons for conscription:

When Lord Tennyson wrote, “Their's not to reason why, their's but to do or die,” he was casting a stigma on the soldiers, for any intelligent working man has a right to question why he should give his life. He was more of a patriot standing


the sentence before being arrested again later the same year, this time for failing to attend a Medical Board when ordered to do so. Evidently his name had come up in the ballot for conscription.[12]

In June 1918 he was awarded a 'Sentence of Detention' and sent to the Wanganui Detention Barracks.[13]

In August he was back at Trentham Military Camp for his Court Martial. Here he was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for two years - a handwritten note at the bottom of the record of his Court-martial says: 'This man is a defiant objector'. [14]

By September 1918 Williams was in the Waikeria Reformatory and reported that he was content to be there - the gardening work was congenial, and he was in good health. In his sparetime he was studying Spanish and shorthand.[15]

This image of Waikeria Prison comes from a Government Publication called 'The Evolution of the Prison System', published in 1923. It shows a view of the prison from Reservoir Hill.

Reg Williams performing as 'Delgado'

By January 1919 he was living in a hut with three others at a 'camp on the farm' that belonged to the reformatory. He was pleased with the change and with the fact that they could swim in the river on Saturdays and on holidays. He also gave a full account of his interview with the “Conscience Board” in March 1919 and seems to have enjoyed some theological debate with the members of the Board. He was obviously disappointed when he was not found to be a 'genuine' objector,


but put on the defaulters' list and said he planned to appeal.[16]

In September 1920 Williams wrote from an address in Kaiapoi describing the two-horse wooden caravan he intended to make that would convert into a stage for meetings, and be a travelling bookshop, while also providing a home for the vanner and his mate.[17] He was later reported to have 'resisted overtures to become a Labour mouthpiece post-war and instead became a rather idiosyncratic figure touring the country preaching peace from a small gypsy caravan'.[18]

His later life was no less colourful than his war years. In the 1930s he was a trapeze artist ‘Delgado’ in a vaudeville show, with an act called the ‘Slide of Death’. Described as ‘a hair-raising exhibition’, the act consisted of Delgado sliding onpulleys from a height of 40 feet down a steeply inclined tight wire before somersaulting at tremendous speed into a canvas sheet held ready for him. Performing this act eventually led to a serious injury.[19]

By the 1940s he was living in Wellington where he described himself as Director of the South Pacific Aquarium and in 1951 A.H. and A.W. Reed published his book Let’s Look at the Sea, based on the creatures he had in the aquarium. He married but had no children and his wife did not accompany him when he moved away from Wellington.

By the 1940s he was living in Wellington where he described himself as Director of the South Pacific Aquarium and in 1951 A.H. and A.W. Reed published his book Let’s Look at the


Sea, based on the creatures he had in the aquarium. He married but had no children and his wife did not accompany him when he moved away from Wellington.[20]

In the early1950s he had a mini-zoo at North Beach in Christchurch but by 1954 was living in Napier. He had a travelling aquarium which he took to Napier and set up on Marine Parade opposite the soundshell (but which was not connected with the later Napier Aquarium).

While working in the office of the Napier Gas Works, he also wrote and illustrated a nature column in the Napier Daily Telegraph and broadcast a nature programme on the local radio station.[21]

In later life his main interest was the gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers. He set up a group of Junior WildlifeWardens who built a bunkhouse at Cape Kidnappers and stayed there each weekend and in the holidays to protect the gannets from vandals. In 1957 Reg’s book The Gannets of Cape Kidnappers was published, and includes a photograph of the author speaking to a group of visitors to the colony.[22]

Keen conservationists Bill and Ron Hartree, also became associated with the Junior Wildlife Wardens and would take the boys into the bush on educational trips, camping in the Hartree woolshed. After Bill Hartree’s death his wife Audrey gave 14h of regenerating bush to the Crown: this later became the William Hartree Memorial Scenic Reserve. Reg Williams and the Wildlife Wardens then worked to erect a ‘bush biological research station’ which was opened in 1967.[23]

Reg Williams died in Napier at


the age of 84 and was buried in the Wharerangi Cemetery in February 1976. His many books were given to the Aquarium Library and the Colenso High School Library. Two typescripts on Pacific Islands he had visited are also in the aquarium library while a third typescript about Cape Kidnappers came into the hands of the Department of Conservation.[24]

[6]'The Great White Elephant' by Morgan Williams was advertised in The Repeal of March 1914 as a 24 page anti-militarist pamphlet.

[7]Morgan Williams to Ellen Howell, 2 March 1912; Morgan Williams to Charles Mackie, 13 June 1912; Morgan Williams to Charles Mackie 28 April 1913, Mackie Papers, Series 14, Box 2, Folder 9, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. Morgan Williams was known to the Howells as he had been a student of JohnHowell's at King's College in London. Ellen Howell described him as able, keen, and a school committee man who took a great interest in his district. Ellen Howell to Charles Mackie, 5 March 1912, Mackie Papers, Series 23, Box 3, Folder, 12, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.

[12]The warrant for his arrest in November 1917 said that on the 25th October he had failed to attend a Medical Board when ordered to do so. It describes him as an apprentice printer's machinist, living at 25 Bath Street, Christchurch. WILLIAMS, Edward Reginald – WWI 84172 – Army, ANZ, [Archives Reference: W5557,0122673; R22019657].


with the Pioneers next season.

Wiercioch had a verbal agreement to play with Wisconsin. But when DU defender David Carle left the program two weeks ago because of a heart problem, Wiercioch saw that opening and decided to take it.

Wiercioch visited DU in November. He also visited Michigan and Wisconsin and eventually decided to play with the Badgers.

Wisconsin was deep with defensemen, so Wiercioch switched to Denver for a better opportunity for ice time.

DU believes Wiercioch’s arrival is a windfall. He was a second-round pick, 42nd overall, in the NHL Draft, by Ottawa via Chicago.

“I just think it’s a simple case of how much he developed over this past season and his draft status,” DU assistant coach Derek Lalonde said. “He wanted to get his college career going. Heby University of Denver recruit Joe Colborne being selected in Friday’s first round of the NHL draft was tempered by news that another incoming freshman has a serious heart condition and will not play for the Pioneers.

Defenseman David Carle, brother of former DU star Matt Carle of the San Jose Sharks, withdrew from the draft after being told by doctors Thursday that he has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart that has been linked to sudden death for athletes.

Among those that have died from the disease while participating in sports are basketball stars Hank Gathers of Loyola Marymount (1990) and Reggie Lewis of the Boston Celtics (1993), figure skater Sergei Grinkov (1995) and University of Massachusetts swimmer Greg Menton (1996).

“I’m really quite fortunate they were able to


An operation led by Europe's policy agency has shut down a number of Islamic State-linked servers, dealing a "severe blow" to the propaganda arm of the jihadist group.

Europol said on Monday the operation had closed accounts associated with the group's news outlet - Amaq News - after a days-long examination of "propaganda videos, publications and social media accounts supporting terrorism and violent extremism."

"For the time being, for as far as we know, IS is not present on the internet anymore. And we will see how fast, if ever, they will regain surface," said Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutor's office.

He also went on to highlight the importance of tackling the group's online presence just as much as on the physical battlefield.

"Besides the military activitieson battlefields in Syria and Iraq and the attacks on European territory, Islamic State conducts a huge battle on the world wide web - in the form of propaganda coordinated by the IS media network."

"All attacks on our country," he added, "were claimed in publications at that time by Amaq."

Europol had confirmed in an earlier statement that a large swathe of propaganda material had been found on the Telegram app, and assistance from the network had led to a "significant portion of key actors" in the IS network being "pushed away from the platform".

The agency later praised the app for assisting to "root out...malicious content".

Telegram is just one of nine platforms Europol collaborated with for the operation, including Google, Twitter, Instagram and Telegram.


the 2017 MotoGP World Championship. Not only is the Gran Premio Movistar de Aragón the last European round before the overseas races and Maverick Viñales’ home Grand Prix, but it’s also a home race for the team’s title sponsor, Movistar, and the scene for either Valentino Rossi’s return from injury, or Yamaha WorldSBK rider Michael van der Mark’s MotoGP debut as a replacement rider.

At the previous race in Misano, Viñales flew the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP flag alone. His fourth place at a very wet San Marino race was labelled as good progress by the Spaniard, as it was his first time trying the 2018 chassis in these conditions.

He currently holds third place in the championship standings, 16 points behind the joint leaders and – as the 2017 seasonhas four more rounds after this weekend and there are still 125 points up for grabs – the number 25-rider has all to play for. This weekend he will focus on getting his Yamaha set up for the elevation changes and multiple flowing corners at the Alcañiz track as soon as possible on the Friday, so he can make another step forward in his championship challenge in Sunday‘s race.

The young gun has stood on the podium in Aragón three times before, thanks to a third place in 2011 in the 125cc class, a Moto3 second place finish in 2013 and a Moto2 victory in 2014. Last year he just missed out on the premier class podium, securing a best MotoGP placement in Alcañiz of fourth position. This year


he fancies his chances to secure a place in the top-3.

After 17 days of recovering, Rossi got his first laps in at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli last Monday and Tuesday, before undergoing a medical examination today. Following the check-up, the Italian decided to make his way to Aragón in order to try to participate in this weekend’s race. He will have to successfully complete a mandatory physical check by the MotorLand Aragón Chief Medical Officer to be declared fit to take part in the Grand Prix weekend.

Despite missing the previous race due to injury, Rossi arrives at the 14th round holding fourth place in the championship, 42 points from the top of the standings. While his leg hasn‘t fully healed yet, the nine-time World Champion isNorthern Spain and is only a few hours’ drive from Barcelona. The circuit was added to the MotoGP calendar in 2010 and was given the IRTA Best Grand Prix of the Year award that same year, reflecting the riders’ and the fans’ appreciation of the venue. The fast and challenging 5.1km long track has ten left and seven right corners and a 968m longest straight. It draws thousands of fans, especially as it‘s the last European race before the triple header overseas, making it a round motorsport enthusiasts don‘t want to miss.

MASSIMO MEREGALLI, TEAM DIRECTOR:

“First of all, the team is looking forward to welcoming back Valentino and his crew in the pit box! The Aragón GP is very special for the team as we share the title sponsor


A former adviser to the Japanese cabinet has revealed the government has known for months that thousands of evacuees from around the Fukushima nuclear plant will not be able to return to their homes.

Nearly seven months after the meltdowns at Fukushima, about 80,000 people are still living in shelters or temporary housing.

Former special adviser to Japan's prime minister and cabinet Kenichi Matsumoto has told the ABC that the government has known for months that many who live close to the Fukushima plant will not be able to return to their homes for 10 to 20 years because of contamination.

The history professor and author has given the ABC an insider's account of what happened in the hours and days after March 11, as three of the Fukushima reactors bubbledtowards meltdown after a tsunami knocked out backup power to the plant.

Professor Matsumoto witnessed both the government's and the plant operator's responses to the worst nuclear accident in a quarter of a century.

He says the government is simply too scared to tell Fukushima residents that they cannot return.

"The cabinet knew right after the disaster that some people would not be able to live in their communities for 10 to 20 years, especially those a few kilometres from the plant," he said.

"The government should have conveyed the truth to the evacuees. But it felt scared; it feared telling the truth to the people."

Professor Matsumoto also confirms the prime minister at the time - Naoto Kan - also contemplated evacuating tens of millions of people from in and around Tokyo.

"It's


not to leave. So prime minister Kan was outraged because he wasn't getting proper information or the truth."

Mr Kan faced intense pressure and a drop in popularity over the government's handling of the tsunami and nuclear crisis until he ultimately resigned in August.

Professor Matsumoto has now left his government adviser role and returned the the world of academia, vowing to write down the history of the Fukushima nuclear crisis from his unique perspective from the inside.

The ABC's PM program approached Mr Kan for a response but received no reply.

A spokesman for TEPCO told the ABC the company never tried to downplay information about the nuclear disaster, but acknowledged there were mistakes made and some confusion at the start of the crisis.and the Cuban Club entered into a standard premium finance agreement which included a power of attorney giving PFS authority to cancel the policy in the event of non-payment by the Cuban Club. The policy's "Building and Personal Property Coverage Form" contained a provision requiring Scottsdale, as the insurer, to provide Northside Bank of Tampa ("Northside"), as the mortgagee, with ten days' notice prior to cancellation of the policy. When the Cuban Club failed to make its December 2000 payment, PFS mailed a "notice of cancellation" which Scottsdale received on January 9, 2001. Scottsdale, however, did not give the required notice to Northside until January 22, 2001.

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On January 13, 2001, Kathleen Miller was injured on the Cuban Club's property-four days after Scottsdale received the notice of cancellation, but


Jihadis: Who Are Their Targets? Translations of this item: German

Polish What "provocation" had the murdered priest, Father Jacques Hamel, provided?

An enemy willing to slaughter the most rollicking secularists and the most devout priest, both in their places of work, is an enemy with the entirety of French civilisation and culture in its sights. It is an enemy -- extremist Islam -- clearly intent not on some kind of tributary offering or suit for peace, but rather an enemy which seeks its opponent's total and utter destruction.

Should this not be the moment for the entirety of one of the greatest cultures on earth to unite as one, turn on this common enemy and destroy it first, in the name of civilisation? It is now 18 months since two gunmenforced their way into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and set about murdering the staff of that magazine. The gunmen from al-Qaeda in Yemen called for the editor -- "Charb" -- by name before murdering him and most of his colleagues. In an interview shortly before his death, taking into account the threat to his life which entailed constant security protection, Stéphane Charbonnier had said, "I prefer to die standing than live on my knees." Charb did die standing, in the office of the magazine he edited. In the 18 months since the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the massive demonstrations in solidarity on the streets of Paris, France has suffered a terrible set of further terrorist assaults The ISIS attack (which killed 130 people) last


November on the Bataclan Theatre and other sites around Paris and the attack (which killed 84 people) in Nice on July 14 are the deadliest and most prominent. But other acts of terror -- including the murder last month in their home of two members of the police, carried out by a man pledging allegiance to ISIS --have gone on and almost become normal. Yesterday's murder of an 84-year old priest, Father Jacques Hamel, while he was saying mass is shocking even by the standards of France during this period. Two men claiming allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) entered the church and ritually murdered the priest by slitting his throat. A second victim is currently struggling to stay alive. It is hard to see any end inthis sight of this horror, but these two atrocities across an 18-month gap are worth considering alongside each other -- not least because the reaction to them in France and outside may contain the tiniest glimmer of hope in a very dark time. One of the striking things about the outrage after the murders at Charlie Hebdo was that it very nearly united France. There were those, including people who had been the victims of Charlie Hebdo's satire in the past, who were not able to lionise them. But across mainstream society in France, there was near unanimity around the idea that the magazine and its rude, irreverent and specifically anti-clerical style of satire was uniquely French. No one seemed surprised that so many people around the world


had missed the point of the magazine -- people across the Muslim world in particular. The publication was recognised as a particularly French publication which as such stood for more than itself. In the days and weeks after January 7, 2015. the sense of the Republic itself having been attacked was especially strong. The attacks did of course also give rise to a flush of virtual solidarity. The "Je Suis Charlie" ('I am Charlie') tag prevailed not only in demonstrations but also across Twitter and other social media. In the 18 months since then, the hashtag became repetitively and wearily wheeled out: "Je Suis Paris", "Je Suis Bruxelles" and so on after every attack. Perhaps some people learned subsequently that solidarity on social media -- while having theadvantage of making people feel slightly better -- has no effect whatsoever on diminishing or ending the terror. Meanwhile, one of the most important acts of actual solidarity was sorely missing. The Pope's intervention into the debate after the Charlie Hebdo attack was one of the most regrettable of the whole period. Speaking to journalists on his plane in the week after the attack, Pope Francis signalled to a Vatican official beside him and said, "If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch in the nose." Pretending to throw a punch, the Pope then said: "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others." Charb and


Pope has condemned the killing of a priest of his own church. But many other anti-clerical figures in France may well pause before the enormity of what the jihadists have once again done. You do not have to be religious to experience revulsion at such an act being done to a man of God in the act of celebrating the Eucharist. The usual debates in French life over the role of the church and its role in the state may be able at least to pause during this period, raising the possibility of a more suitable and lengthy pause in hostilities. In these two attacks, eighteen months apart -- on a magazine office in Paris and a church in Rouen -- the nature of the enemy we allin 2000) back up car. It is the same car -- no changes except the engine is a little (and I emphasize a little) smaller. Mike Horvath, Marco Andretti's chief mechanic at Andretti Green Racing and winner of the 2005 Mechanic of the Year Award, helped me get into and get comfortable in the car. And Davy Hamilton, current Indy car driver and veteran of 50 Indy car races, put me through my paces on the track.

I arrived at the track approximately an hour before my schedule track time. It was quite exciting from the very beginning. I had the first Indy ride time of the day. As I walked out next to the track pit wall, I heard a roar and three Indy cars pulled up next


Dynamic Duo have canceled their schedule and postponed album in light of Sulli's passing.

Many artists have already delayed their albums and adjusted their schedules to mourn the passing of former f(x) member Sulli, but as Dynamic Duo member Choiza is known as Sulli's ex-boyfriend, this news is particularly catching attention.

On October 16, Dynamic Duo's label Amoeba Culture stated, "Firstly, we offer deep condolences and sympathy to the unfortunate news, and we hope she, who was cheerful and beautiful despite society's prejudices, may rest in peace. We're letting you know Dynamic Duo will be absent from their scheduled events." The agency further added that Dynamic Duo's album slated for release on October 25 will also be delayed.

As previously reported, Choiza has been receiving criticism for his speculated role onTitan - SEA pride against the world

Southeast Asia has shown strong performances during the past The Internationals. Aside from two third-place finishes, SEA also placed two teams in the top eight of the Chinese-dominated The International 2. This year, however, progress had been slow as the region bore witness to numerous roster changes and issue. Only one team was deemed worthy of a direct The International 4 invite this year, and that is team Titan.

Note: Hover over the player images to know more about individual stats!

Malaysian-team Titan is carrying the hopes of many on their shoulder. Southeast Asia has them as the sole invited team into this year's The International, a stark contrast from the at least three that the region had been receiving from that tournament's first


three installments. This development, however, came with little to no surprise. The region, in respect to the others, have lagged behind and have been totally outclassed by their eastern counterpart.

The players are not new to this situation, however. Not only did they encounter a similar adversary last year, they also broke past all expectations. Four out of the five members of Titan were actually part of the Orange eSports squad who finished third during last year’s The International. Outside of the players, it definitely would be rare to find someone who would have pegged the team to finish as high as they had.

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Word of their strong performance got around, and soon they were bigger gaming superstars than they already were. That, along with their winnings of nearlywith the team during the AsianCyberGames because of his nationality. Replacing him was one of the players originally considered as Mushi’s replacement, Wei Poong ‘Yamateh’ Ng. Despite not being able to practice together, YamateH played well and showed displayed good harmony with his teammates. In the end, Titan got payback against Mineski as they took the top honors after climbing from the lower bracket and then defeating Mineski in two straight best-of-three games.

Fresh from a big victory, Titan starts its 2014 with the RedBull ECL tournament at Beijing. Despite being the undisputed king of SEA and returning from their full roster, they placed last in this tournament. Their rather one-dimensional split-pushing riddle have been solved by the Chinese, and comparisons between YamateH and Meracle were inevitable.

With Meracle's playstyle


being the suspect of Titan's losses, the team has parted with him and has now finally added YamateH as part of the official team roster. This time, YamateH was willing to play full time and stay at the gaming house, and having played just a few months prior defiinitely helped their cause. Titan didn't waste any time, as they won the Malaysia Cup and had a strong start on JDL Asia just mere weeks after this addition.

Despite this, their struggles will return anew. They were among the first teams to be eliminated from the third season of Sina Cup, wherein they lost to LGD and DT after barely getting through New Elements on the qualifiers. They also finished third place on the AsianCyberGames best-of-the best invitational as theyrespectively.

But as always, the team has shown great resilience and have always come back strong after their defeats. Titan have won GosuCup June, and they are also in good position in the ongoing Goodplay Gaming tournament and datBet Dota Championship.

Titan had the rare privilege of experiencing the best of both worlds. Obviously, SEA was in abundance of those small, regular tournaments which exposed the teams to multiple styles and drafts. They were also able to compete on Chinese tournaments, experiencing the disciplined and methodological attack of of the teams there. While they were able to have a significant finish on their Chinese tournaments, the experience are still valuable part of their growth.

As the graph top shows, Titan's confidence rode over to a good start for their team. However,