writing easier.

So when you discuss the Early Middle Ages, keep these things in mind:

TOP 10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

#10 – GREGORIAN CHANT – This type of singing in unison is also known as plainchant or plainsong. It was the music of the Roman Catholic church. Neumes (the predecessor of musical notes) were invented. (You can listen to the 1990s version of Gregorian Chant as performed by Enigma or the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo.)

#9 – ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS – These book pages have decorated borders and large fancy initial letters. Monks wrote each page of the bible and other books by hand.

#8 – CHRISTIAN RELIGION was frowned upon. Early Christians met secretly in the catacombs of Rome.

#3 – THE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN – Egyptian ratsMeet The Team

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In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, it was Harry Friebel’s job to assess the effectiveness of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ coastal protection projects … and share that work with Washington.

Vice President Joe Biden wanted to see the destruction for himself. Last November, he stood on what remained of the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, a New Jersey resort town that had previously been best-known as the summertime home of MTV reality stars Snooki and The Situation.

That image changed in the days following Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that touched down on Oct. 29, claiming at least 159 lives and causing upwards of $50 billion in damage across the Northeast coastline. Dressed in a leather bomber jacket and khakis with a Seaside Heights Police baseball cap, Biden stood


weeks later, as Friebel and his teams were busy assessing beach erosion and drawing up plans for repairs, he received a call at home on a Saturday morning—Biden was visiting New Jersey the next day and the Corps wanted Friebel to help brief him. The vice president’s entourage arrived by helicopter and met with state and federal officials for a closed-door session at a Seaside Heights fire hall, where Biden threw the engineer into the conversation, literally. “I was actually hanging in the back and he was talking to the higher-ups with FEMA,” Friebel recalls. “Somebody said ‘There’s a guy from the Corps here.’ And he reached behind, grabbed me by the shoulder and literally pushed me to the table.”

During that meeting and a walk along the beach,Wests Tigers have today confirmed that Life Member Robbie Farah will be returning to the club for the remainder of the 2018 NRL season.

Farah, who has played 247 first-grade games for Wests Tigers, has signed a new playing contract until the end of the current season.

Under the new agreement Farah will begin training with Wests Tigers this week and is eligible for selection for the club's next game against the Gold Coast Titans at Leichhardt Oval on Sunday 1 July.

Wests Tigers Head Coach Ivan Cleary welcomed Farah back to the club.

"I look forward to welcoming Robbie back home to Wests Tigers this week," said Cleary.

"Robbie brings a wealth of experience back to the club in a position where we feel we need some additional support at this stage


is taken off the alms-faring by living in a monastery where food is almost certainly guaranteed to be given by its supporters, and where food is often stored up by lay attendants living in the monastery. (And thank you all very much.) This means that with not having to walk to the town, spend an hour or so on an alms-round, and then walk back again, there's more time to do other things - meditate, teach, manage the place, have meetings, etc. So faring out for alms frequently gets put aside. However in terms of the 'tudong', the long-distance unccompanied walk that I'm currently in the middle of, the alms-round is frequently the only way I'll get food for the day. On some days it's the case thatthis area of town, like many in Britain, has been bought by a property developer and turned into a shopping mall over which they have rights of access - and the right to evict anyone considered 'unsuitable' (i.e. not shopping). Naturally I agree to move but as I'm packing, I ask him how his day is and whether he has to deal with many problems on the street. He softens a little more and talks about his day. Nothing much happens - a kid on drugs yesterday was the event of the week. What a job. I notice he has studs in his ears and try to imagine his life outside his uniform. He is quite young and has a local accent; probably grew up in this town.


be a disturbance. Afer I've eaten, I find I still have the small pack of tomatoes. On the way out of town, I try giving it away. After two sets of people have reeled back in shock at being approached by a robed man with backpack bearing down on them proffering tomatoes, I find an old people's nursing home and hang them on the railings of the front gate. There the bag dangles, suspect emissary from a human world, until someone dares to peek inside it.the time allowed for transportation, the alteration of quality and the impairment of formability owing to the waiting time at the site of placement, and such troubles as decline of durability originating as from cold joints. At a factory for the manufacture of secondary concrete products, when the forced transfer of a cement composition with a pump is temporarily suspended and then resumed, the slump loss induces such accidents as a sudden increase in the pressure of forced transfer and a block in the operation of the pump. When the cement composition is placed in a mold and then such a work of formation as compaction is delayed for some reason, the slump loss may result in incomplete placement. At places such as a factory for the preparation


Jon Blundy

Jonathan David Blundy FRS (born 7 August 1961) is Professor of Petrology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Education
He is a graduate of University College, Oxford (B.A., 1983) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, (PhD, 1989) and a former Kennedy Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985). He was educated at St Paul's School, Brazil, Giggleswick School and Leeds Grammar School, where petrologists Keith Cox and Lawrence Wager also studied.

Career
Blundy is most noted for advancing the understanding of how magmas are generated in the Earth's crust and mantle and of the processes that occur in volcanoes before they erupt. He undertook his PhD research at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Robert Stephen John Sparks on the granites of Adamello-Presanella inthey need to establish a quality control taste panel.”

Some brewers have already had an opportunity to preview this training program through seminars conducted at the North Carolina Craft Brewers Conference and in conjunction with Cigar City brewing in Florida, said Daniels.

The new line of taste panel kits will fall under the Flavor Training by Cicerone brand umbrella.

The Cicerone Taste Panel Training Kit trains on: acetaldehyde, acetic acid, butyric acid, chlorophenol, diacetyl, DMS, ethyl acetate, 4-ethyl phenol, geosmin, H2S, isoamyl acetate, isovaleric, lactic acid, mercaptan, and metallic.

About The Cicerone Certification Program:

Founded in 2007 by brewer, author, and beer educator Ray Daniels, the Cicerone Certification Program seeks to ensure that consumers receive the best quality beer at every service occasion. To facilitate this, those who sell and serve beer are


Monday, October 7, 2013

Permuted Press Acquires New Story Set in J.L. Bourne's Day By Day Armageddon Series

A new short story from JL Bourne, Grey Fox, set in the universe of his successful Day by Day Armageddon series, has been acquired for independent publisher Permuted Press by Michael L. Wilson from Marc Gerald at The Agency Group for North American English publication. Bourne says his readers will have "stumbled upon a ticket with service through the apocalyptic wastes, but this time the train is a little bit older, a little more beat up, and maybe a little wiser." Grey Fox will be available in eBook format at major online retailers on Tuesday, October 15th. For additional media inquiries, email contact@permutedpress.com.The doctor who was sent to prison after patients became sick and died because of practices at his endoscopy clinic and a Hepatitis C outbreak has died.

Dipak Desai was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for murder in the 2nd degree, criminal neglect of patients resulting in bodily harm, insurance fraud and more. He was imprisoned at Northern Nevada Correctional Center.

The hep C outbreak happened primarily in 2007 and was revealed in 2008. Multiple patients were infected, including 77-year-old Rodolfo Meana who died. Tens of thousands of Southern Nevadans had to be tested at the time. It is believed that it was common practice at the endoscopy clinic to double dip syringes into bottles of the anesthetic propofol among other things.

Desai was convicted in July


White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller's briefing appeared an attempt to contain damage from the president's recent tweet that Democrats were to blame for family separations at the border. | AP Photo White House's Miller blames Democrats for border crisis

White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller bashed Democrats on Tuesday for not repealing laws and overriding court rulings that he said encourage Central American migrants to seek refuge in the United States.

Miller's rare on-the-record briefing appeared an attempt to contain damage from President Donald Trump's tweet over the holiday weekend that Democrats are to blame for family separations at the border. The claim was characterized widely in the press as a blatant falsehood.

In a telephonic briefing with reporters, Miller and other senior administration officials ticked off afrom POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

One incontestable truth amid many claims of varying accuracy is a recent increase in the number of people caught trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. That number plummeted after Trump took office in January 2017 but has climbed in recent months. In April, Border Patrol agents arrested 38,234 people, a figure more than three times the number during the same month a year earlier.

With the increased arrests, the Trump administration ratcheted up its immigration crackdown.

Earlier this month, administration officials announced that the Department of Homeland Security would refer all people suspected of crossing the border illegally to the Justice Department for prosecution, a controversial move


First-Ever Beaverton Night Market

The Beaverton Night Market is a pilot project of Beaverton’s Diversity Advisory Board, and the market is hoped to be the first of several markets.

Similar to the night markets that take place around the world, the Beaverton Night Market will be a vibrant multicultural and family-friendly event.

During the evening, visitors will enjoy a night of diverse entertainment and purchasing.

There will be performances by Japanese taiko drummers, traditional Mexican dances, and the local Italian Indie-rock band, Mbrascatu, to name a few.

During and after the entertainment, visitors will be able to peruse through vendors selling food and handcrafted items from East Africa, Lebanon, Mexico, El Salvador, Cambodia, Korea, Hawaii, Latin America Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Japan, and the Pacific Northwest.

"The night market brings back memories of thebustling streets, crowded with couples and families enjoying the night out. Beaverton Night Market is where you can 'taste' the diverse cultures that make up our city,” said Dr. Edward Kimmi, a member of the DAB who will emcee the event with fellow member Ruth Parra.

In addition to being a fantastic event, the Beaverton Night Market will also be held on the same day when the TriMet rail and bus lines are free in celebration of the opening of the Orange Line. Making it nearly impossible to miss, then, visitors will be able to travel to and enter the market for free.

Related Slideshow: 15 Farmers Markets to Check Out in Portland

PSU Market

One of Portland’s favorite attractions is the bustling market held at the PSU campus. A year round


market, the vendors come and go depending on what’s in season. This makes the PSU market one of the most varied markets in the city. There is also musical entertainment, cooking classes for children, and chef demonstrations offered on select market days.

Photo Credit: Portland Farmers Market (Image cropped)

Kenton Market

Located in the historic Kenton neighborhood, The Kenton Farmers Market is the perfect place to spend your summer evenings. The market features over 20 vendor stalls that provide fresh food and entertainment to visitors.

Photo Credit: Portland Farmers Market (Image Cropped)

Moreland Farmers Market

The Moreland Farmers Market is a midweek market that strives to cultivate a strong sense of community amongst patrons and farmers. The vendors of this market are also guaranteed to be selling 100% local products that are direct fromthe farm.

Photo Credit: Moreland Farmers Market (Image Cropped)

Buckman Market

Located in SE Portland, the Buckman Market offers friends and neighbors a chance to come together while supporting their local farmers. The market was founded in 2003 and is noted on their website as being an “important community focal point.” So if you’re interested in a healthy body and healthy relationships, the Buckman Market is the place for you.

Photo Credit: Portland Farmers Market (Image Cropped)

King Portland's Market

The King Neighborhood hosts a family-friendly famers market located in the parking lot of King Elementary School. Established in 2009 by the NE Coalition of Neighborhoods, this market has become a favorite spot to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and has over 35 vendor stalls.

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OHSU Farmers Market

The OHSU


Jay Lawson

Who | Jay LawsonWhere | Montreal, CanadaCurrent Bar | Knox TavernePast Bar(s) | Pistolero, Dominion Square Tavern, N sur MackayFavourite Spirit | WhiskeyFavourite Juice | PineappleFavourite Classic Cocktail | ManhattanFavourite Part of the Job | Customer ServiceFavouriteAfter Work Drink | Whiskey neatFavourite at Home Drink | Whiskey neatFavourite bar in the world | CloakroomBest known for | WhiskeyBest story from behind the wood | On St Patrick’s day parade day, after finishing up at 5am the night before, started working at 11am. I was exhausted and shot gunned a redbull, gross, but affective!

What do you collect? WhiskeyFavourite thing about your city? The tight bartender communityWhat was the last photo that you took? My newest tattooWhere was your last vacation?Camp RunamokAny claims to fame? First Montrealer to beDubai has it all.

Mall of the Emirates is also home to the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (DUCTAC). With a 543-seat theatre, a black box studio theatre, dance and rehearsal studios plus 18 art studios, workshops, and classrooms, this creative district and theatre is the ideal spot for art lovers during a day off.

There are options available for all age ranges (from kids to adults classes), get your creative juices flowing and sign up now.

Magic Planet

Aimed at younger ages (and the inner child in all of us), Magic Planet Dubai is an entertainment area jam-packed with games, rides, and attractions. The fun adventure zone houses individual game and challenges for all, including bumper cars, ten-pin bowling alleys, and so much more.

You will also discover a range of


Hayek, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, and Gary Oldman, this action/comedy follows a top protection agent who must guard his mortal enemy, the world's most notorious hitman. Expect plenty of explosions, fight scenes and even a few laughs along the way.

The Beguiled

The long-awaited new film from director Sofia Coppola (of Marie Antoinette and The Bling Ring fame) has finally hit the big screen. Starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, The Beguiled tells a tale of jealousy, betrayal, and revenge as a group of students take in a wounded Union soldier (played by Colin Farrell) during the American Civil War.

Eid Al-Adha 2017: Celebrate In Style

Everything you need to know about the Islamic holiday and what to wear to ring in the festivities with your family

An important datein the Muslim calendar and expected to take place in the early days of September (depending on the moon), Eid Al-Adha is an Islamic festival celebrated worldwide. Otherwise known as the ‘Feast of Sacrifice’, the celebration will see many of the UAE’s residents enjoy a three-day holiday to mark the holy occasion.

A special time of both family and religious devotion, Eid Al-Adha brings with it a host of celebratory events where loved ones feast and share gifts with one another.

Here we reveal the ultimate Eid gifts to buy from the Dubai shopping malls and the stylish shopping picks to celebrate the occasion in fashionable form.

With rich notes of saffron, ginger and oud, this decadent candle is sure to be a well-received gift across the board.

Satin gown by Rochas


level the story is simple – a woman renovating her home while her partner writes a book finds their tranquil existence threatened by the arrival of uninvited visitors. But as their relationship unravels into a harrowing tale of twisted devotion and sacrifice, critics have chosen to interpret the film as a commentary on anything from relationships to climate change. You will either love it or hate it, but you should definitely see it.

Release date: 19th October

Thor: Ragnarok

Chris Hemsworth is back in swashbuckling form but this time around, he’s lost his hammer (and his hair). Following the events of the previous film, Thor finds himself imprisoned on the other side of the universe. Escaping proves to the be the least of his problems though – once he’s free, thearound in the -4 degrees snow, play with the Ski Dubai penguins or try your hand at one of the many entertainment options, which include bobsledding, tubing, tobogganing, climbing walls, zorbing, snow bumpers and much more, Ski Dubai has it all.

Mall of the Emirates is also home to the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (DUCTAC). With a 543-seat theatre, a black box studio theatre, dance and rehearsal studios plus 18 art studios, workshops, and classrooms, this creative district and theatre is the ideal spot for art lovers during a day off.

There are options available for all age ranges (from kids to adults classes), get your creative juices flowing and sign up now.

Magic Planet

Aimed at younger ages (and the inner child in all of us), Magic Planet Dubai


East, including the largest cinema in the region at Mall of the Emirates. One of the best places to visit in Dubai, it also boats the UAE’s first IMAX laser screen plus a VOX 4DX auditorium and The ThEATre by Rhodes – a luxurious experience with plush reclining seats, first class service, and gourmet cuisine created by famous chef Gary Rhodes. Each dish will be cooked fresh and delivered straight to your seat to enjoy while you watch.

Scroll down below to see our pick of the top three must-watch movies…

IT

A seriously creepy remake of the classic horror film, Stephen King’s IT tells the terrifying tale of a corrupt clown (played by the talented Bill Skarsgård) as he hunts a group of kids. The movie smashed industry records withsoldier (played by Colin Farrell) during the American Civil War.

Eid Al-Adha 2017: Celebrate In Style

Everything you need to know about the Islamic holiday and what to wear to ring in the festivities with your family

An important date in the Muslim calendar and expected to take place in the early days of September (depending on the moon), Eid Al-Adha is an Islamic festival celebrated worldwide. Otherwise known as the ‘Feast of Sacrifice’, the celebration will see many of the UAE’s residents enjoy a three-day holiday to mark the holy occasion.

A special time of both family and religious devotion, Eid Al-Adha brings with it a host of celebratory events where loved ones feast and share gifts with one another.

Here we reveal the ultimate Eid gifts to buy from the Dubai


wore the naval uniform that he first put on in the 1950s as the commander of an amphibious Soviet assault ship.

Krasko, who will turn 85 in two weeks, went on to graduate from the Leningrad Theatre Institute and became famous for appearances in dozens of Russian films, television series and plays.

Shevel is his fourth wife, following his last divorce in 2011 from Natalya Shchepinsky, who was 47 years his junior.

Ivan Krasko married his 24-year-old former student Natalya Shevel

She told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that he proposed by getting down on one knee and offering her a diamond ring on the St Petersburg metro.

Shevel defended their relationship from criticism, describing how they “gradually got closer acquainted” and she realised that she “needed” him.

“In this age they do almost anything, weoxycardium in containers of water.  Indoor plants thrive at temperatures between 15 and 18 °C and can survive at lower light levels than other house plants. Although philodendrons can survive in dark places, they much prefer bright lights. Wiping the leaves off with water  will remove any dust and insects.  Plants in pots with good root systems will benefit from a weak fertilizer solution every other week.

Propagation
New plants can be grown by taking stem cuttings with at least two joints.  Cuttings then can be rooted in pots of sand and peat moss mixtures. These pots are placed in greenhouses with bottom heat of 21–24 °C.  During the rooting, cuttings should be kept out of direct sunlight.  Once rooted, the plants can be transplanted to


refrigerator.  Artificial pollination is usually achieved by first mixing the pollen with water. A window is then cut into the spathe and the water-pollen mixture is rubbed on the fertile female flowers. The entire spathe is then covered in a plastic bag so the water–pollen mixture does not dry out; the bag is removed a few days later. If the inflorescence has not been fertilized, it will fall off, usually within a few weeks.

Uses
The resins produced during the flowering of Monstera and Philodendron are known to be used by Trigona bees in the construction of their nests. Native Indians from South America use the resin from the bees' nests to make their blowguns air- and watertight.

Though they contain calcium oxalate crystals, the berries of some species areMicrosoft releases Halo Channel for Xbox One

Microsoft has released the Halo Channel app for the Xbox One, just in time for HaloFest, as well as tomorrow's launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The channel plugs you in to all things Halo, with different sections for different aspects of the Halo franchise. Halo Channel gives you access to original programming, gameplay, and behind the scenes videos.

The app is divided into a number of sections. The Featured section includes videos from behind the scenes of the Halo 2 Anniversary edition. The News & Community section gives you the latest in Halo news. You can queue videos to watch whenever you want, and the Originals area holds original Halo programming, such as the new Nightfall live-action series. Halo Channel also


pull the listener into the sound of Dust Moth, as the moody drone tones of guitarist Ryan Frederiksen soothe you into the heart beat of Scale, along with bassist Steve Becker and drummer Justin Rodda. The evolving nature of Dust Moth is present in their track, “Lift,” where haunting vocals die out into an instrumental driven finish.

a girthful slab of majestic, melodic metal, elevated to a higher level by the dulcet, goth-grande-dame vocals of Irene Barber…” — The Stranger

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The debut full length from Seattle, WA's Dust Moth. The band features members of These Arms Are Snakes, XVIII Eyes, and Giza. Produced by Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Isis, Botch). Three different vinyl colors to choose from, housed in gatefold jackets withof, well, anybody else who was shopping there, which included a number of families with children.

In the same week, we’ve seen a surprisingly minor furore erupt in the press about the Unholy Trinity – Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond – and their witless, racist evaluation of a Mexican sports car. The BBC’s apology managed to be both grudging and startlingly insincere, citing a long-standing British tradition of humour based on national stereotyping – because, really, what could be funnier, edgier or more worth defending than three white, overpaid, conservative motoring journalists poking fun at people with a different skin colour who are poorer than they are? Only comedian Steve Coogan, writing in the Observer, has, as of this writing, responded to the incident with the venom


confronted him with a borderline-racist question about Eastern European migrants as “bigoted”, our national media – more or less all of it, including the broadsheets – crucified him and deified her, despite the fact that, given her line of questioning, “bigoted” was a fairly accurate description. It was also sobering, during the last general election campaign, to note the absolute reluctance of any politician from any party to get up and say, unequivocally, that immigrants who are here legally, work hard and pay their taxes – in other words, the vast majority of them – make a positive contribution to our nation and our society, which of course sends an absolutely poisonous message to immigrants who are here legally, work hard, pay their taxes and all the restShetty too spread some cheer at a big fat Punjabi wedding of her family member Reena Kundra. The gorgeous diva took to Instagram to share some pictures and videos from the mehendi and sangeet ceremonies.

Shilpa was dancing her heart out with husband Raj Kundra on the Punjabi chartbuster ‘Lamberghini’ song.

Shilpa was wearing a parandi (hair tassel worn by women, popular in Punjabi functions), flared sharara-style trousers and a short kurti. And, the ‘Dhadkan’ actress was looking quite elegant and magnifiecent.

Shilpa Shetty was in full flow and was enjoying the occasion with her loved ones, which included her sister Shamita Shetty and mother as well. When it comes to dancing, very few people can match or outdance Shilpa Shetty.


August 2012, father

petitioned for dissolution of the marriage. In October 2012, the parties participated in the

Social Early Neutral Evaluation process and voluntarily agreed to share temporary joint

physical and legal custody of the child. In April 2013, the district court granted the

parties’ stipulation to a bifurcated judgment dissolving their marriage and reserved for

trial all issues relating to child custody, parenting time, and spousal maintenance.

       In anticipation of a court trial on custody and parenting time issues, the parties

hired a custody investigator. The custody investigator filed her report with the district

court in July 2013 recommending that the parties share joint legal custody and that father

have sole physical custody of the child.

       On October 31, father filed an exJERSEY CITY, NJ — Another year, another ranking confirming what we already know: The best pizza in the United States is served in Connecticut, New York City and Chicago, but quality slices can be found in many other cities as well.

The Daily Meal released its list of the "101 Best Pizzas in America" at the end of September, and restaurants from 30 states made the ranking. The food blog considered nearly 1,000 pizzas and looked for such qualities as a nuanced sauce, well-distributed cheese, a flavorful crust and an overall balance of ingredients. The "101 Best Pizzas in America" list is culled from a preferred pool of perfect pies. The Daily Meal then reached out to a diverse list of pizza chefs, bloggers, critics and writers, and asked


them to take a survey on the pizza shops where they actually had eaten.

At the end of the process, Jersey City had two pizza joint make the rankings. The food and dining website ranked Razza Pizza Artigianale as the top spot in Jersey City and third overall in the country. "When assembled, the pizza is as close to perfection as possible," The Daily Meal said.

Razza Pizza Artigianale (third in the United States and tops in New Jersey)

Bread and Salt (No. 55) "Rick Easton is one of the country's most meticulous and renowned bakers, and he first gained recognition back in 2015 for a stone-milled, high-extraction wheat flour 'local bread' sold at his shop in Pittsburgh. So it goes without saying that the pizza dough he's turning out atthe Jersey City location of Bread and Salt is going to be equally fussed-over," according to The Daily Meal. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut was named the best pizza joint in the nation for the third year in a row. Connecticut might have had the No. 1 pizza, but New York led the way overall with 28 pizza places on the Daily Meal list. New York was followed by Illinois with nine, California with seven, and Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey all with six.

Here are the top 10 overall pizzas in America:

10. John's of Bleecker Street (New York, New York)

9. Lou Malnati's Pizzeria (Chicago, Illinois)

8. Patsy's (New York, New York)

7. Sally's Apizza (New Haven, Connecticut)

6. Totonno's (Brooklyn, NY)

5. Buddy's Pizza (Detroit, Michigan)

4. Pequod's (Chicago, Illinois)

3.


attorney and two other attorneys not connected with the case. She was brought to the United States illegally when she was 4, and is living here legally because of the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival program.

In closing arguments Wednesday morning, Senior Deputy District Attorney Bracken McKey made clear this was not a case of manslaughter or homicide. There is no evidence in this case that would have led one to believe she intentionally ran over two children in the leaves.

He detailed the Oregon law that requires an exchange of information  drivers license, registration, proof of insurance, name and address  when an accident occurs and told jurors that disregarding any of the duties listed in the law would require a verdict of guilty. The bottom line is this:you have an obligation to help somebody, he said.

McKey returned to the moment Mario Garcia (he and Cinthya do not use the Cisneros) told his sister she had run over children in the leaf pile. At that point, she had an obligation to return to the scene, he said. It is not only morally the right thing to do, but is also required by law.

Defense counsel Ethan Levi attempted to soften the hearts of the jurors in his appeal. Every day Cinthya Garcia has been in the Washington County Jail waiting for this trial. Cinthya Garcia has thought every day about those horrible events. As he spoke, Susan Dieter-Robinson quickly left the courtroom.

He emphasized that due to her compromised mental state, Garcia did not cognitively understand that she


that according to the law, a driver may not be convicted under the theory that she failed to provide aid or arrange conveyance to a hospital unless she believed under the circumstances that she could render reasonable assistance. By the time Mario Garcia arrived home to tell his sister of the aftermath of the accident, paramedics were on site. Therefore, he said, there was no assistance that Garcia could appropriately render.

'She's a good person'

In rebuttal, McKey reminded jurors that although she is young, a person can obtain a drivers license at age 16. He also noted that We send young men and women to Afghanistan and we expect them to make life and death decisions every day at age 18, adding that when they make a mistake inthose duties, they are held responsible. This is consistently an age of responsibility.

McKey then used testimony for the defense against the young woman, reminding the jury that Garcia was tasked as the mother of this family, and was the eldest of the three involved.

As they watched the final day of trial, the family of Anna and Abigail was joined by their pastor, Rudy Tinoco, from Sonrise Church in Forest Grove. Two other pastors from the church were present, including one who sat and offered comfort to spectators on both sides of the case.

Jury members re-entered the courtroom after less than three hours of deliberation and looked directly at the judge. Susan Dieter-Robinson sat in the front row with her husband, nervously handling tissues. Tinoco sat next to Tom


Robinson, taking the time to put his arm around the grieving fathers shoulder. At the opposite end of the bench, the father of Anna Dieter-Eckerdt, Randall Eckerdt, sat somberly with Jane Samuels, his fiancée.

As the attorneys argued about the date of sentencing, Garcia sobbed. Her brother, Mario, sat quietly, showing no emotion.

Its a really sad case, said McKey after the trial. Due to Garcias actions that night, the family wasnt able to say goodbye to their children, he said. The defendant is guilty, but that doesnt bring back the kids.

According to McKey, punishment could range from probation to 16 to 18 months for each count. In addition, Garcia faces an immigration hold and almost-certain deportation, according to her immigration attorney and two other attorneys not connected with thecase.

She was brought to the U.S. illegally when she was 4 years old and is living in the U.S. legally only because of the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival program.

Nia Jarnica, a friend of Garcia, was distressed by the verdict. I know her. Shes a good person. This was an accident. It could have happened to anybody.


Israeli Army Spokesman Unlikely Media Hero

When the air-raid sirens ring out in Israel, there is only one sure prescription for calming the public’s frazzled nerves – hearing the voice of the Israeli army spokesman, Nachman Shai.

The handsome 44-year-old brigadier general has become the country’s hottest media superstar. His reassuring, personable demeanor on radio and tv after each air-raid alert has endeared him to the public.

Shai has been army spokesman for only six months, but already he has restored credibility to a position tarnished during the Palestinian uprising and the war with Lebanon. A recent poll found that 95% of the Israeli public have complete trust in what Shai says, compared with a high of 69% for the previous army spokesman.

Shai, who previously worked for both Israeli tv and   primarily in Toronto, Canada, but he became interested in expanding his business to include
        a similar company in the United States. About this time he met Michael Harris, and the two
        eventually decided to form a new company, Claimsco International, Inc., to operate in the
        United States. Miller’s Canadian business provided almost $100,000 to commence operation
        of the new company. Shortly after Claimsco began doing business, Harris and Miller entered
        into a shareholders’ agreement (the 1990 Agreement). Under that agreement, Miller would


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       that following the 2002 Agreement would require him to place the interests of Harris and
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       providing accounting services not only to the Millers but also to Harris and Claimsco. These
       allegations are unaffected by the validity or invalidity of the 2002The Chris Ward Biography From …Lost

What you’ll see below and on the following pages is a killer project that Joe Alani and the guys at …Lost have been working on for years. The webisodes document and follow the life on longtime team rider and former World Tour surfer Chris Ward, who burst onto the scene as a crazy talented 15-year old from San Clemente. His story since then has many twists and turns, and more valleys than peaks. Tune into the Ward(d) Stories…

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Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.

Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- In a recent trip to Pakistan to report on the recent spike in the region's violence and bloodshed, I heard over and over the same sentiment from people on the ground; America's war on terror is falling flat on its face.

The military conflict in neighboring Afghanistan, repeatedly cited by locals,sends a constant flood of guns, refugees, militants and heroin into Pakistan.

Heroin is now actually cheaper than hashish in cities such as Lahore. The Kalashnikov culture, the foundation of which was laid 30 years ago when the CIA financed the mujahedeen, is all-consuming. According to the Pakistanis I spoke to, it's all taken a devastating toll on the country and created the next generation of militants at the same time.

In Peshawar, I met with Rahimullah Yusufzai, who was one of the last people to interview Osama bin Laden and one of Pakistan's most respected journalists.

He emphasized that much of the resulting anti-Western sentiment in the country is because of anger directed at American foreign policy.

"People have suffered, and they are willing to take revenge," he said. "All villages


have been attacked, women and children have been killed. So the Taliban can very easily motivate these families to supply suicide bombers."

Today's anti-West tide in Pakistan boils down to reactivity, retaliation and revenge.

"In Pashtun society, taking revenge is very important," Yusufzai said. "You know, there is a saying in Pashto: 'Even if you take revenge after 100 years, it's not too late.' And most of these I believe are retaliation attacks. Suicide bombings and the use of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) are the two most effective means of weaponry that the militants can use in this part of the world."

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Guy Webster, a self-trained photographer who helped shape the late 1960s music scene with album covers that became as familiar as the songs they held, has died at his home in Ojai.

In demand by musicians and celebrities throughout his life, Webster died Feb. 5 at the age of 79. His death was not publicly announced at the time. The cause was liver cancer, said rock historian Harvey Kubernik, who was Webster’s biographer.

Webster was an under-recognized star during a musical era when album covers were part of the visceral experience of record-buying. His was the moody lakeside shot of the Rolling Stones used on the cover of “Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)” and the unsettling photo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel looking over their shoulders asthey hurry down a dirt path on “Sounds of Silence.” The Doors, the Byrds, the Mamas and the Papas, the Turtles, Procol Harum, Carole King, Nico — his photos stood as a gateway to the sounds of the ’60s and early ’70s.

Kubernik, who with his brother Kenneth wrote “Big Shots: The Photography of Guy Webster,” said he first noticed Webster when he was 14 and took a chunk of his bar mitzvah money to buy an armload of records. As he looked them over, he noticed a commonality: Most of the photos used on the album covers had been shot by Webster.

“You’d cradle the cover, read the notes on the sleeve and listen to the music,” he said. “His images captured the music, they were part of the


music.”

Shown are an array of album covers by rock photographer Guy Webster. (Guy Webster)

Born Sept. 14, 1939, Webster grew up in Beverly Hills in a home filled with music. His father, Paul Francis Webster, was a renowned lyricist who won three Academy Awards and Webster said he recalled seeing megastars such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington drift through their house.

His parents saw Ivy League potential in their son. He saw a different future and went off to Whittier College and the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena instead. But it wasn’t until a stint in the military that he was introduced to photography. A conscientious objector, he said he refused to handle a weapon. Exacerbated, his sergeant at what was then Ft. Ord eventually assignedhim to teach recruits how to handle a camera. Knowing little about photography, he hurriedly read a few books on photography to get up to speed.

A chance meeting on a basketball court with producer Lou Adler led to a job as the house photographer for Dunhill Records, then a fledgling label with just one client, protest singer Barry McGuire. When Adler went on to help pull together the Monterey Pop Festival, Webster tagged along and shot pictures of a just-emerging Jimi Hendrix and the Who, with Pete Townshend smashing his guitar to splinters. As his portfolio grew, so did his reputation among artists and their managers.

In 1966, as the L.A. music scene was taking root, Webster met up with the members of the Mamas and Papas at a


rented house in West Hollywood, where the group was holed up waiting for fame to find them.

The house was thick with smoke and the band members were so stoned they could barely stand, Webster said in an interview with Harvey Kubernik.

“We gotta shoot something,” Webster recalled saying, before hitting on the idea of positioning them in a bathtub — Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot and John Phillips, with Michelle Phillips sprawled over her bandmates.

There was one complication, however. The bathroom’s toilet was clearly visible and Adler worried that the large department stores — a marketplace for albums sales at the time — would balk at allowing the album to be displayed. So Adler and Webster came up with a clever solution: putting a small sticker on the shrink-wrap thatthe Beach Boys and increasingly was in demand in Hollywood. He told Kubernik he was fed up with the Nixon administration, the war in Vietnam and the direction the country was headed. He also was put off by the increasingly corporate structure of the record industry, in which agents and executives second-guessed his creative impulses.

So he moved to Spain and then to Italy, where he studied art and became enamored with Italian motorcycles.

Before he left California, he bumped into Morrison, whom he’d known since college. The musician was bearded, overweight, hardly recognizable. Two months later, he was dead. In Spain he bumped into Nico, the former frontwoman for the Velvet Underground, whom he’d photographed for a solo album. She approached him at a bar and asked if he


had any drugs. When he said no, she wandered away. Before long, she too was dead.

Guy Webster is surrounded by his portraits in his Venice studio. (Lisa Gizara / Gizara Arts)

After half a decade abroad, he returned to California and resumed his photography career, shooting Hollywood celebrities, authors, musicians, U.S. presidents, too — among them actor Dennis Hopper and President Reagan. He also opened a studio in Venice.

Photography had been kind to Webster.

“Within one year, I was making money,” he told The Times in 2017. “Within two years, I was rich. I was a celebrity.”

He bought a house in Beverly Hills, another on Martha’s Vineyard and a ranch in Ojai, where he stored his massive collection of motorcycles. He said it was likely the best collection of Italianmotorcycles in the Unites States, worth as much as $5 million. Occasionally, he would open his private collection to visitors and motorcycle buffs.

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But a debilitating stroke in 2015 left him unable to move his left arm and leg. Unable to ride his motorcycles anymore, he sold them off, one by one.

Kubernik said while Webster was aware of his contributions to the music world of the ’60s, he never worried about what his legacy might be.

“But he did understand the lasting durability of music.”

Webster is survived by his wife, Leone, daughters Erin, Sarah, Jessie and Merry, son Michael, two grandchildren and a brother, Roger. His first marriage, to Bettie Beal, ended in divorce.

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the deal includes pay progression for all civil servants who were in post on 30 November last year, and the “vast majority” of staff will receive a pay rise that is above the rate of inflation.

“In combination with the pay award negotiated in autumn last year, the offer means that, in the year April 2017 to April 2018, members will have seen their consolidated salaries grow by at least 4%,” he said.

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The Scottish government sets the pay for some 485,000 public sector workers in Scotland, amounting to around 90 per cent of the total. The pay of NHS staff across the UK – including Scotland – is set by the independent NHS Pay Review Body.

In its manifesto for the June 2017 general election, the Conservative Party pledgedclassic Christmas character. Ever since the film was released in 2003, it has gained more acclaim, gaining fans all around the world. Starring as one of Santa’s elves, Ferrell discovers he is in fact human, and goes on a soul-searching journey to New York City to find his father, spreading Christmas cheer as he goes. Strong supporting roles come from James Caan and Zooey Deschanel, but this is Ferrell’s film, as he makes Buddy the Elf one of the all-time great festive characters.

Home Alone

A film that is incredibly 27 years old this year has lived long in the memory for millions, Home Alone introduces us to Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin. A sharp, smart eight-year-old who is left in the family home over the holidays, however, two


devious criminals discover this and target Kevin’s house, leading to some hilarious takedowns. While his parents try and make it back home to their son in time for Christmas, this classic makes for a great flick!

It’s A Wonderful Life

Following its 70th anniversary last year, It’s A Wonderful Life has been a staple of the festive season for years. Rated as one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, it stars James Stewart in the lead role of George Bailey, a man on the verge of ending his life, before a guardian angel shows him all the good his life has had on others around him. It’s an ultimately heart-warming film, that director Frank Capra regarded as his personal favourite of his, showing it to his familyfly emerged. Thus, flies that were oviposited and burrowed alone into larger hosts were larger than those that emerged from a smaller host or one that was superparasitized. A study shows that the sex of the emerging flies does not correspond to the host size or superparasitism of the host, though the two factors influence the size of adult flies, and the larger adult flies deposit a larger number of eggs than the smaller ones. Additionally, host larvae activity has a larger impact on parasite oviposition than host larvae size.

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Demolition of 1st studio building to take place from January to April

A neighborhood association from the Fushimi Ward in Kyoto has sent a written request to Kyoto Animation not to build a monument or a park at the site of the 1st studio building, which was the target of a tragic fire on July 18 that took 36 lives. The association expressed concern that the large number of visitors that a memorial site could bring would affect the tranquility of the neighborhood.

The association has also asked that its members be allowed to participate in negotiations on how to use the site after the studio building is completely demolished. The association requested that the plans be submitted before the demolition finishes. Preparation for the demolition work started in November,and the actual demolition will start in early January and go through late April.

Kyoto Animation has not yet stated plans for after the demolition. The Mainichi Shimbun reports that a Kyoto Animation representative said, "We'll consider all the factors and make a decision after consulting with the bereaved families, local residents and other related parties."

Kyoto Animation president Hideaki Hatta had stated in an interview two days after the deadly fire at the building that he was considering demolishing the building and creating a public park at the spot of the fire that would include a monument. At the time, Hatta stated, "when I consider the staff and the people in this neighborhood, there are people who don't want to see such a gruesome sight." Hatta added in a


press conference on October 18, "It truly pains my heart whenever I see that treasured building in that state."

On July 18, a devastating fire broke out at Kyoto Animation 's Studio 1 building. A total of 70 people were inside the building at the time. The fire killed 36 people and injured 33 others. In addition to those victims, a man in his 40s on his way to work in the area suffered minor injuries from smoke inhalation.

Kyoto Prefectural Police have apprehended a 41-year-old man who allegedly used gasoline to start the fire, and they are investigating the case as arson. The man allegedly bought 40 liters of gasoline in two canisters and used a cart to transport the gasoline to Kyoto Animation 's Studio 1 building. Policehave yet to arrest the man as he is still in the hospital recovering from his injuries from the fire. The man is now undergoing rehabilitation and is able to communicate.

Kyoto Animation held a public memorial service for the victims of the fire at the Miyako Messe event hall in Kyoto on November 3-4.

Source: Mainichi Shimbun


Heineken Cup - Saracens stars to watch

Colm Kinsella picks out four of Saracens main men ahead of the Heineken Cup showdown with Munster in Thomond Park.

Colm Kinsella picks out four of Saracens main men ahead of the Heineken Cup showdown with Munster in Thomond Park.

AVIVA Premiership giants Saracens jet into Limerick this weekend with a star-studded side, including five members of the England squad which sensationally defeated New Zealand last weekend. Listed below are four of their leading lights hoping to dazzle at Thomond Park.

Owen Farrell

THE talented 21-year-old played at out-half in England’s stunning autumn international victory over the All-Blacks at Twickenham last weekend, but is more likely to feature in the centre for Sarries against Munster on Saturday with Charlie Hodgson set to line out at out-half.Four years ago, Farrell became the youngest player at the time to make his debut in the professional game and now boasts 12 full England caps.

Chris Ashton

MUNSTER fans are fully aware of the threat winger Ashton poses following the province’s recent meetings with his previous club Northampton Saints.

The 25-year-old has an impressive strike rate in Europe, bagging 16 tries in 25 appearances for both Sarries and the Saints in European and Challenge Cup competitions. Will arrive in Limerick in confident mood after bagging a try in England’s weekend win over the All-Blacks.

Steve Borthwick

SECOND-ROW and team captain Borthwick is a key member of the Sarries pack.

The 35-year-old has played more than 50 times for England as well as 80 times in European competition for both Saracens and Bath. Borthwick


is an acclaimed line-out operator and has been instrumental in helping Saracens boast the most impressive line-out in the Heineken Cup this season.

Schalk Brits

SOUTH African hooker Brits has been keeping Springbok legend John Smit on the replacements bench, testimony to his quality. The dynamic Brits - who has played five times for South Africa, including in their recent win over England - signed for Saracens at the start of the 2009/10 season, bringing a wealth of talent and experience at Super 14 and international level.

You can contact us using the details below:Limerick Leader,54 O'Connell Street,LimerickEmail: news@limerickleader.ieTelephone: 061 214500

This website and its associated newspaper are full participating members of the Press Council of Ireland and supports the Office of the Press Ombudsman. This scheme in addition to defending theBehind Nicusor Dan, a 45 year-old with a doctorate in mathematics, is a wire shelf piled with hundreds of files.

These are cases Dan and his team from the NGO Save Bucharest! have brought against the mayor, the council, investors and other leading figures in Romania’s capital. Over 300 dossiers challenge unauthorised buildings, dodgy planning permission and the demolition of antique buildings.

Dan has spent a decade as the nemesis of Bucharest city hall, using the law to expose sleazy local politics. For much of this time, the authorities squeezed bribes from the population for permits to build whatever they wanted, ushering in a period of construction anarchy that deformed this urban centre.

As Dan says, it was, “An anarchy which comes from corruption”. In the years 2007 and 2008, Dan


city's taxi lobby, however, were not beside them at the podium. Gerard Alexandre, a representative of Newark-based Family Auto Cab, made remarks in support of the deal, but a number of cab drivers, including Newark Cab Association President Abbas Abbas, repeatedly interrupted to voice their displeasure.

The uproar marked the latest sign of rancor from taxi drivers over the city's dealings with Uber, following a large protest outside a City Council meeting last week. Officials had cautioned that they were still meeting with the cab lobby to negotiate a deal they hoped would placate the drivers' concerns, but those attempts appear to have fallen flat.

Pat Russo, a New York-based attorney representing the city's taxi associations said the regulations presented a "multitude of issues" that tipped the competitive balance infavor of Uber and its ilk.

Among those he listed were Uber's background checks -- which forgo fingerprinting in favor of a criminal and motor vehicle records search by a third-party provider -- along with potential legal issues regarding Uber drivers' use of personal insurance.

"This is going to promote a secondary standard, one that doesn't actually help the riding public," he said. "(The cab drivers) were not a part of the discussion."

Russo said the associations are weighing "all legal options" in an attempt to block the deal from becoming law.

Baraka said he had met with Abbas and representatives from the Communications Workers of America and the Newark Taxi Commission, but ultimately could not meet their demands.

"Obviously some of them don't want Uber to exist at all," he said. "That's


also put away. Oh, the depths of despair! as Anne Shirley would say. But books and music were my refuge, and I soon adapted and made some life-long friends. Kindred spirits.

In college, I studied biology and joined the science club. I fell in love with the Florida Everglades and thought about becoming an Oceanographer or Environmentalist. However, I soon married, started a family, and one day, I woke up barefoot with four children, living in Arkansas. It happens...

I soon fell in love with the natural beauty of Arkansas (click here) and became a children's book writer. I joined the SCBWI, took creative writing and literature courses at UALR, and met some really great people. Kindred spirits, in fact...

Now I live in the Pacific Northwest - a life longa key excerpt from Gardner’s summary:

Between 2005 and 2007, newbies started having real trouble successfully joining the Wikimedia community. Before 2005 in the English Wikipedia, nearly 40% of new editors would still be active a year after their first edit. After 2007, only about 12-15% of new editors were still active a year after their first edit. Post-2007, lots of people were still trying to become Wikipedia editors. What had changed, though, is that they were increasingly failing to integrate into the Wikipedia community, and failing increasingly quickly. The Wikimedia community had become too hard to penetrate.

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At the moment, Wikipedia has somewhat fewer editors than it had in 2006 and more than double the editors it had in 2005. But it only has slightly more new editors than it did that year: about 13,000 in 2010 compared to 12,200 new editors in 2005. For a better understanding of these trends, see this chart prepared for the survey:

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Our new studyChristian forces fighting to oust ISIS from its declared capital of Raqqa said today that while “hundreds, maybe thousands” of terrorists fled before the Syrian Democratic Forces laid siege to the city, the remaining terrorists have resorted to “dirty tactics” including dropping bombs on their forces from drones.

The Syriac Military Council (MFS), which consists of Assyrian men and women fighting alongside Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen and other ethnic groups under the umbrella of the SDF, also warned that the Turkish government and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are trying to stop the SDF’s offensive by attacking the anti-ISIS coalition.

In a video message today, MFS spokesman Kino Gabriel said that the operation to “liberate the so-called caliphate of the Islamic State,” in particular the current Wrath of Euphrates operation to liberate


troops from Transnistria in accordance with the treaty on principles of peaceful settlement of the military conflict that was signed on July 21, 1992 in Moscow.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and European Integration once again spoke for launching discussions on replacement of the current peacekeeping mission by civil monitors under international mandate.

The Joint Peacekeeping Forces that for more than 25 years have been securing peace in the region include 402 Russian, 492 Transnistrian, 355 Moldovan military men and ten military observers from Ukraine.

The Operative Group of Russian Troops in Transnistria guards munition warehouses.

In May 2017, the Moldovan Constitutional Court ruled that the Russian corps are occupation forces. Later, the Moldovan parliament passed a declaration urging withdrawal of the Russian troops and pulling out munitions from the republic.US voters will differ sharply on whether President Trump has 'made America great again,' but the economy over which he's presiding is undeniably on the upswing -- with several of his key policies playing essential roles in that comeback. The latest piece of data that fortifies America's renewed economic vigor is a surge in international competitiveness, as measured by a closely-watched annual ranking from a Switzerland-based think tank. Following tax reform's burst of hiring and growth, the United States has 'leapfrogged' back into the top slot (via Bloomberg):

The U.S. dethroned Hong Kong to retake first place among the world’s most competitive economies, thanks to faster economic growth and a supportive atmosphere for scientific and technological innovation, according to annual rankings by the Switzerland-based IMD World Competitiveness Center. The


U.S., which reclaimed the No. 1 spot for the first time since 2015, scored especially well in international investment, domestic economy and scientific infrastructure sub-categories while earning below-average marks in public finance and prices. The renewed top ranking aligns with the positive U.S. growth narrative over the past year. Growth averaged 2.9 percent in the four quarters through March, versus 2 percent in the prior period.

Meanwhile, in addition to the fabulous May jobs report (which featured the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded), US consumer confidence spiked to a 17-year high last month -- leading to a surge in consumer spending: "Americans’ spending gathered further momentum in April as incomes continued to rise, a sign consumers could drive stronger economic growth in the second quarter. Personal-consumption expenditures, afiled a response to the motion on December 6, 2007, and on December 7, 2007, filed a motion to hold Debtor in civil contempt for violating this Court's Order of July 28, 2006, ordering the Debtor not to interfere with the administration of the bankruptcy estate, The creditors' motion asked that the Debtor be found in civil contempt and incarcerated until he certified in writing that he would abide by this Court's Order of July 28, 2006, and the proposed Order of Contempt entered April 17, 2007; The Trustee also filed a response denying that he had done anything improper and objecting to the Debtor's request to sue the Trustee.
A hearing was conducted on the motion filed by the Debtor and the motion to hold the Debtor in


Order of July 28, 2006. A hearing was conducted on the Order to Show Cause on January 18, 2008, and the Debtor appeared in person and by counsel, Bill Lewellen.

I.

DISCUSSION
After considering the record of July 26, 2006 hearing, the December 14, 2007 hearing, and the record of the January 18, 2008 hearing, together with the attached exhibits, the Court finds that the motion for leave to sue the Trustee, Bill Thompson, Boyd Bothwell, and Stuart Hankins is in contempt of this Court's Order of July 28, 2006. That Order specifically enjoined and restrained the Debtor from taking any action to interfere with the administration of the estate by acting to "coerce, intimidate, harass, hinder or threaten the Trustee, any creditors, attorneys, or parties in interest in these jointlyadministered bankruptcies until their completion and closure." (Order Regarding Motion for order of Contempt, July 38, 2006.)
By filing a frivolous motion to sue the Trustee and relitigate matters already litigated and resolved adversely to the Debtor, he is attempting to harass, intimidate, and threaten the proposed defendants in violation of the July 28, 2006, Order.
The Debtor produced no credible evidence at the January 18, 2008, hearing justifying his actions. Much of the Debtor's testimony was a monolog consisting of a rambling diatribe against the Trustee, Stuart Hankins, Bill Thompson and Boyd Bothwell. He acknowledges that a final Order was entered settling the fraud claims against Bill Thompson and Boyd Bothwell and the claim against Stuart Hankins. He now seeks permission to relitigate these same issues even though he


never appealed the Order. He remains adamant that he should be allowed to pursue this cause of action regardless of the fact that it belonged to the Trustee and was settled.
The Debtor is a bully and his weapon of choice is litigation. His conduct in this case shows a callous disregard for law and order. The. Debtor testified at the July 25, 2006, hearing that, "There is deep-seated hatred in our family over what they've [Bothwell and Thompson] done to all of our lives. . . ." (Tr. at 34, Hearing on Motion for Order of Contempt, July 26, 2006.) He refuses to believe this Court's final order settling these issues applies to him. He has already served five days in the Monroe County Jail for assaulting BillThompson and one day in the custody of the United States Marshall, along with his attorney, Roy Lewellen, for violation of this Court's Order of July 26, 2006. Further, the Debtor's discharge has been denied because the Court found that the bankruptcy petition was fraudulent.
The Debtor argues that he should not be held in contempt for asking permission to file the, lawsuit and that he has a constitutional right to ask permission. His argument might have merit if this were the first time he attempted to relitigate these same issues. But this is not the first time. He should know by now that his motion is frivolous for the reasons set out herein and in the pending Order of Contempt.
The Debtor shows no inclination to discontinue his actions,


and unless the United States District Court puts him in jail for a *259 period of time sufficient for him to reflect on his bad conduct, he will never cease this endless litigation. Therefore, the Debtor is found to be in criminal contempt a second tithe for violating this Court's Order of July 26, 2006.
Because Robinson is found to be in criminal contempt the Court orders the following sanctions:
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One Night In Vegas: Photographers Create Stunning Time-Lapse In Sin City

Three photographers drove across two different states to capture a stunning time-lapse video of Las Vegas at night.

Aaron Keigher, Michael Bloom and Arlene Ziordia set off from Los Angeles to film the flashing signs, neon lights and the many colorful individuals walk the streets Las Vegas. They darted around The Strip dodging crowds, the drunk tourists and trying to evade security guards as they recorded their footage during the 'run-and-gun filming'.

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The binders were known as “black books” and were seized by the FBI in a search of Petraeus’ home, according to court documents. He also lied about providing them to Broadwell, according to court documents.

The court papers give the following account: There were eight binders in all, each containing classified information about Petraeus’ time as the top general in Afghanistan. The material included his daily schedule and notes he took during official briefings. The books were top secret and also included notes about Petraeus’ discussions with the U.S. president.

Petraeus retained the black books in his home even after he left the Defence Department. On Aug. 28, 2011, he delivered them to a private residence in Washington where Broadwell was staying. Petraeus left the books with her


so she could use them as source material for the biography on Petraeus that she wrote, which was released in 2012. On Sept. 1, Petraeus brought the books back to his home in Arlington, Virginia.

When Petraeus resigned from the CIA, he signed a security exit form indicating he had no classified material in his possession. However, he still had the black books in his home at that time. On April 5, 2013, the FBI searched his home and seized the black books from an unlocked desk drawer in a first-floor study.

When interviewed by the FBI in 2012, Petraeus said he never provided classified information to his biographer. Prosecutors say that was false, and that Petraeus lied to federal investigators.

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The court of appeals affirmed theInsolvency code has been ranked at 136th position by World Bank in 2017.

Three banks have applied under IBC so far .

RBI is expected to to bring in some clarity on accounting treatment of assets under IBC.

Though there has been very slow response in the Insolvency & Bankruptcy code currently, yet it is expected to play a major role in addressing the non-performing assets of Indian Banks coming ahead.

With the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deciding to first tackle the top-50 large stressed assets into the banking universe, corporate insolvency will emerge as a credible solution for resolution bad assets.

On May 05, 2017, when the cabinet gave more power to RBI – the apex body is now in position to direct banks to initiate insolvency proceedings


with respect to a specific account.

Insolvency & Bankruptcy code 2016 (IBC):

The code is the bankruptcy law of India which seeks to combine the existing framework by creating a single law for insolvency and bankruptcy.

It recommends two separate tribunals to supervise the insolvency process– the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for companies and limited liability partnership for firms, while the Debt Recovery Tribunal for individuals and partnership.

Time period for completion of case has maximum limit of 180 days and can be extended further by 90 days. Both debtor or creditor can opt for this code.

Performance:

Currently, the code has been ranked at 136th position by World Bank in 2017, down from its position in 2016 despite all the efforts being inked by the Government.

World Bank stated that insolvency resolutions inIndia takes 4.3 years on an average to liquidate or dissolve a company – longest time compared to other countries, even South Asia and Middle East & North Africa take between 2.6 and 1.7 years, respectively.

So far, there has been 67 cases filed since the IBC came into effect in December 2016. First insolvency was filed by ICICI Bank against Innoventive Industries of Rs 100 crore on January 17, 2017.

Interestingly, data compiled by Ambit Capital revealed that from 30 insolvency applications made between January – March 2017, there has been only seven applications from financial creditors.

Even among these seven applications only three banks have applied under IBC so far – ICICI Bank, Bank of India and RBL Bank, and mostly are related to small accounts which are already


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Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Photograph: Stevie Crecelius

There is also a booming restaurant scene – 250 openings in 2015 alone – mostly in the Lower Downtown (LoDo) district. Its beacon is the rejuvenated Union Station – which is also, happily, still a train station. Craft beer features prominently, too (there are more than 100 city breweries), so the Denver Beer Trail is a hoppy affair: take this to the max atfrom one of the B-cycle stations around the city (from $9) and take the scenic Cherry Creek Trail, which runs 42 miles along the river from Downtown to Franktown. For something more relaxing, take in the lakes and mountain views in City Park or head to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal national wildlife refuge, where the City of Denver maintains a buffalo herd.

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DHAKA: Bangladesh's elite security force Tuesday arrested three suspected Islamist militants including a British citizen who police said was the "main planner" of the murders of two prominent atheist bloggers.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) spokesmen said they had arrested Touhidur Rahman, 58, and two other "active members" of Ansarullah Bangla Team, which was banned in May over a spate of killings of bloggers.

"We've arrested them in the capital today. We can confirm that Rahman is a Bangladesh origin British citizen. He is the main planner of the attacks on Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das,” Major Maksudul Alam of the RAB told AFP.

Four secular bloggers were killed in Bangladesh in the past six months. These include Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das.

This began when their photographs appeared on anew Facebook page registered under the name Ansar-BD. The post also said, "There are three anti-Islamic poets and three organisers of bloggers. They are the enemy of Islam. We should do whatever it takes."

Avijit Roy had founded a popular Bengali-language blog, Mukto-mona, or Free Mind, in which articles on scientific reasoning and religious extremism featured prominently.

“He was a free thinker. He was a Hindu but he was not only a strong voice against Islamic fanatics but also equally against other religious fanatics,” Baki Billah, a friend of Roy and a blogger, told Independent TV station.

The attack on Roy took place late Thursday when he and his wife Rafida Ahmed, who was seriously injured in the attack, were returning from a book fair at Dhaka University.

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All of this dystopia has been brought on by decades of massive disinvestment in public education and this sinister alchemy has turned college dreams into insidious financial schemes. To understand the social and economic implications of the current debt crisis, it is important to expose the institutional crisis of financial capitalism, along with the profit maximizing firms and hucksters and hustlers who are responsible for shepherding higher education into the grimy hands of the rentier class. Wall Street is not only producing a debt economy, but the packaging and buying and selling of student loan asset backed securities (SLABS) by pension funds is furthering and fueling the debt enslavement catastrophe while threatening current and future educational retirees.

For purposes of thisevident than in the United States, where the Declaration of Independence has been under siege by decades of ruthless attack by the forces of dis-Enlightenment. In fact, for more than 40 years in the United States, higher education has been the object of sordid disdain by the capitalist class, reduced to a mere commodity that serves the interest of financial capitalism to the detriment of human life and the growth of the human being.

The commodification of education and the monetization of students has not only prevented institutions of higher learning from constituting a foundation for continual self-improvement, personal freedom and societal transformation through critical thinking and learning, but in doing so it has managed to create modern indentured servants by way of a menacing form of debt slavery,


antithetical to perceiving education as a human right and educated people has a human resource.

The disinvestment in public education

Compared to the rest of the world, the United States does a particularly poor job in providing education as a human right, although some other countries fair worse (9) (http://www.businessinsider.com/tuition-costs-by-country-college-higher-education-2012-6?op=1). However, this has not been the case simply for the United States, it is a delinquent and rapacious quandary that is seen in throughout the developed and developing world as the financialization of education diminishes what should be a human right to the profit maximizing goals of world capitalism. Massive levels of public disinvestment in all areas of education, has resulted in the creation of material conditions for the commodification of education and the monetization of human beings.

Certainly cavernous statebudget cuts since the early 1970’s have battered public higher education, but since the beginning of the Great Financial Crisis in 2008, the circumstances have gotten steadily worse. In the US, (10) per-student spending on education from state and local sources fell to less than $5,900 in the 2012 fiscal year, a 9.1-percent decrease from 2011 and a quarter-century low for the third consecutive year. In 1987, the State Higher Education Executive Officers (11) annual report showed that net tuition revenue (the cost of tuition) accounted for just 23 percent of those costs. In 2001, out of pocket college tuition costs exceeded more than a third of the costs. This percentage just continues to rise.

Currently, steady increases in college and university enrollment coupled with massive social and public


to be traded in financial markets by the ruling elite.

Today, the old model of the factory floor, where labor was ruthlessly disciplined, maintained under the lash of ruthless exploitation and then used for individual or corporate profit maximization has now morphed into a system whereby the capitalist accumulates wealth primarily through rent. This basically means that profits are now encapsulated and encased through finance and are guaranteed by and through financial instruments found within the central banking systems on Wall Street, the World Bank, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Modern capitalist exploitation is now based primarily and principally on debt. What this denotes is that the majority of the population of the world owes everything to the one percent: work, money, obedience, mind, bodycreating handsome profits from the production of rent and the enlargement of personal and social debt.

As poverty and inequality accelerate at lightening speeds and robotization increasingly renders labor unnecessary for profit maximization, thereby causing heightened levels of surplus labor or increasing unemployment, poverty is now exemplified primarily by how much one owes. The increasing generality of indebtedness today marks an unvarnished and stark restoration of the relations of servitude reminiscent of feudalism — now to be conceptually grasped in theory as neo-feudalism.

The new masters of the neo-feudal landscape, within which most of the world population is forced to live in bondage, are those of the new financial rulers — the uber class and under them and exploited by them — the new, post-modern indentured servant. Unable to rise


into student loans, student loan borrowers are falling behind on their payments faster than consumer demand is falling. According to a report issued in April 2013 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 31% of people paying back student loans were at least 90 days late at the end of the fourth quarter, up from 24% in the fourth quarter of 2008. The figures include federal student loans and those issued by private lenders. And this is just the beginning of plummeting repayments.

Add to this the fact that in a recent report, from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, the conclusion derived was that while college-educated Americans are less likely to collect unemployment, many of the jobs they do have aren’t worth the price of theircalls “rolling the dice in exotic investments”, for Wall Street and their minions (http://dollarcollapse.com/investing/pension-funds-become-hedge-funds-roll-the-dice-on-exotic-investments/) (44).

In a report written by author, John Rubino on January 28th, 2013, he notes that there was a time when running a pension fund used to be one of the more facile jobs in finance. Money came in steadily and predictably from member contributions and the funds were then invested in AAA grade bonds and blue chip stocks. The target was to meet a modest, but assured, annual return of 8% interest (ibid). Not anymore. That was before the financialization of capitalism and the economic collapse.

Now, as the author correctly notes, the pension funds in effect have two criminally incompetent overlords trying to serve two contradictory economic demands. On the one hand, at the


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When Wang Dehong saw the female boss of a Chinese online lender interviewed on state television CCTV, promising both safety and high returns, the stay-at-home mom thought she had found her ideal investment.

So she put her savings of 180,000 yuan ($27,000) into the financial products of Ezubao, or ‘easy rent treasure’, one of hundreds of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms in China that match lenders and borrowers through the internet.

For six months, she received regular messages on her smartphone showing payments into her Ezubao account, earning her as much as 12.8 per cent annually — far more than she could hope to get from a bank.

In December, they stopped.

Now the firm has collapsed, with police saying it bilked 900,000 investors out of $7.6 billion


Wang, the mother of a five-year-old son, who has turned back to the internet to sell shrimp from her native Shandong province at 64 yuan a kilogramme to make ends meet.

CCTV’s interviewee was Zhang Min, president of Ezubao’s parent firm, who said its products were better and safer than other assets.

In a television advertisement also shown on CCTV, Zhang appeared in a white jacket and tan skirt with a slogan urging investors to ‘have success’ with Ezubao.

Clad in an orange prison uniform, a tearful Zhang said in a broadcast on the same television network on Monday: “It was a typical Ponzi scheme.” Such public confessions while in custody are a regular event in Communist-ruled China, with critics saying there is no way to tell whether the detainee iskind to Baptists, either. In 1640s London, for instance, Baptist congregations found themselves altogether on the margins. Adherence to the doctrine of believer’s baptism put them at odds with the longstanding practice of baptizing infants, and their belief that church membership depended on such baptism meant separation from the established Church of England. Thus, Baptist gatherings were illegal, and entire congregations occasionally found themselves in prison. With the outbreak of civil war in 1642, enforcement broke down, and some churches began to meet more openly. For instance, a congregation led by Thomas Lambe held meetings in Bell Alley, Coleman Street that were open to the public and drew huge crowds.

Persecution did not end, however. In 1645, the Church of England clergyman Daniel Featley (himself in prison for supporting


acts (the Clarendon Code) designed to punish nonconformity to the newly re-established Church of England. Although the Toleration Act of 1689 put an end to official persecution, nonconformists (emphatically including Baptists) remained legally barred from participating in public affairs until 1828.

Conditions in England prompted some Baptists to leave for the American colonies, but these were not always hospitable, either. Roger Williams famously founded the first Baptist congregation in the colonies after being banished from Massachusetts Bay. Less prominently, other Baptists left New England in search of places where they could worship freely. Among these settlements was Piscataway, NJ, founded predominantly by Baptists who had left puritan New Hampshire (via Long Island) for the liberty of conscience offered by the New Jersey colonial constitution.

Several descendents of these seventeenth-century BaptistYork Public Library and on Google Books. This book is in the public domain.

For more on the founding and history of Piscataway, NJ, see J. F. Brown, History of the First Baptist Church of Piscataway, N. J. (Stelton, NJ, 1889), esp. pp. 11-20. This document mentions the arrival of the Manning family, identifies George Drake (Hannah’s great-great-great-grandfather) as the brother of the first pastor of the church, and discusses the movement of Baptists from New Hampshire to Long Island and later into New Jersey. It can be accessed here.

Further information about Hannah Manning Rowe can be found in this brief biography of her son, William.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s famous self-portrait recreated with Italian ingredients including pasta, meats and cheese for the first time to celebrate his life

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous self-portrait recreated with Italian ingredients including pasta, meats and cheeses for the first time

Food masterpiece was created to celebrate the life of the Italian artist, who died 500 years ago this month, who also had a great passion for invention and cookery – and who is credited as being the inventor of spaghetti

Commissioned by the leading Italian-style family restaurant brand Bella Italia following the launch of their brand new menu this month

Edible portrait includes classic Italian food including spaghetti, cured meats, olives and artisan bread

Leonardo da Vinci’s self-portrait has been reimagined with classic Italian ingredients, in celebration of the famous polymath who died500 years ago this month.

The food masterpiece was commissioned by Italian restaurant chain Bella Italia to celebrate Da Vinci’s life and work, and mark the launch of their new menu, available in restaurants since 8th May.

The portrait was inspired by Da Vinci’s passion for both art and invention, particularly in the world of food and kitchen design innovation, including his creation of a ‘spaghetti-making machine’ and an automated spit that roasted meat.

Food artist Carl Warner was the mastermind behind the striking work of art, which took over 20 hours for Carl and his team to design and create, as each ingredient was painstakingly laid out to perfectly reflect the Renaissance masterpiece.

The edible artwork was crafted from a range of Italian food favourites including six different Italian pastas, three


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