Large drug seizures on both sides of border

Meth, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana seized along the U.S.-Mexico border

A series of large drug seizures, by law enforcement departments on both sides of the border, have occurred over the last week. The largest seizure occurred at the Otay Mesa cargo facility on July 30. According to Customs and Border Protection officers, large boxes of marijuana were found in a semi-trailer that was valued at $940,000.

On July 31, authorities at the San Ysidro port of entry seized 10 pounds of heroin and 40 pounds of cocaine from a passenger vehicle. A 23 year old female California resident was arrested.

Also on July 31, a mother and daughter were stopped at the Calexico port of entry while attempting to smuggle 30 pounds of methamphetamine.Montreal city council passed a motion Monday making it the latest Canadian jurisdiction to declare itself a "sanctuary city" for non-status immigrants. The designation means undocumented refugees will have full access to local services regardless of their situation, with the city following in the footsteps of Toronto, Hamilton and London, Ont. Mayor Denis Coderre told reporters he felt compelled to act because of events south of the border.

"One of the reasons I've done that is clearly because of what's happening in the United States and what I'm witnessing in Europe," Coderre said. In recent weeks, more and more people have flowed illegally across the U.S. border into Canada as President Donald Trump cracks down on illegal immigration and imposes new restrictions on refugees. Canada Border Services Agency says


to remain here." Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre speaks to reporters in February 2016. File photo by The Canadian Press But some migrant rights' groups called the measure largely symbolic as Montreal joined other North American cities such as San Francisco, Boston, New York and Chicago as designated sanctuary cities. A number of groups told a news conference a few hours before the motion passed that while the gesture would be in good faith, it wouldn't provide the tangible changes to make Montreal truly a sanctuary city. "He's coming from a good place, I'm not going to deny that," said Jaggi Singh, a spokesman for Solidarity Across Borders. "But it doesn't go far enough." Singh said the city should at least ensure that Montreal police and transit officials willPope talks of suffering during Good Friday TV show

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI consoled a 7-year-old Japanese girl, reassured a mother about her ailing son’s soul and advised a Muslim woman that dialogue was the way to peace in Ivory Coast.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI consoled a 7-year-old Japanese girl, reassured a mother about her ailing son’s soul and advised a Muslim woman that dialogue was the way to peace in Ivory Coast.In a push to engage the world online, the pontiff fielded their questions during an unusual Good Friday appearance on Italian TV. It was hardly a casual or spontaneous chat: Seven questions were selected from thousands that poured in via RAI television’s website, and Benedict recorded his answers last week.He seemed a bit stiff,


direct meeting with the pope, but through the Internet can put their questions there,” Tighe said.That was certainly the case for Bintu, a Muslim woman who greeted the pope in Arabic and asked him in French for his advice on bringing peace to Ivory Coast, which has been wracked by political violence.“How many innocents have lost their lives!” she said.Benedict told her he was grieved that he could do so little, saying he had tasked the head of the Vatican’s justice and peace office, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Turkson, to try to mediate between the country’s opposing factions.“The only path is to renounce violence, to begin anew with dialogue, with the attempt to find peace together, with a new concern for one another, a new willingness to be openWe also enjoyed chatting with Darian's wife Trudy and playing with their three wonderful kids . . .

On the way to the airport, we spent a couple of very enjoyable hours at the Mt. Coot-tha Botanical Gardens and ate lunch there. The gardens were beautiful, and the bonsai collection was especially impressive.

We arrived in Sydney in the afternoon and caught a couple of trains to my aunt (Mum's sister) and uncle's house, where we had dinner.We stayed the night with friends of Dave's, who would soon become "our" friends! That is one of may excellent things about marriage . . . friends multiply!

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Charles Hoodenpyl

Charles Hoodenpyl (1904–1986) was mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana. Charles Hoodenpyl would serve as the mayor of Jeffersonville in 1952 until 1963 as the last part-time mayor before being replaced by Richard Vissing. Hoodenpyl was mayor during the urban renewal era of Jeffersonville in which the former City Hall was dubbed the "White Elephant" by mayor Hoodenpyl. The building which was left vacant in 1935 before moving to the City-County building, was demolished during Hoodenpyl's administration. As mayor Hoodenpyl would work with Louisville in lobbying to secure funds in 1957 for the reconstruction of the McAlpine Locks and Dam on the Ohio River.

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Category:20th-century American politiciansAfro-Brazilian composer, Antonio C. Gomes

Antonio Gomes

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Mon, 1836-07-11

Antonio Carlos Gomes was born on this date in 1836. He was an African Brazilian composer, one of the most distinguished 19th century operatic composers in the world.

He was born in Campinas, Sro Paulo State, the son of the Maestro Manuel José and Fabiana Maria Jaguari Cardoso. His childhood musical tendencies were soon stimulated by his father and by his older brother, José Pedro de Sant'Ana Gomés, also a conductor. José Pedro was the most dedicated guide and adviser in his brother’s artistic career. He convinced Antonio to visit the Court where he became the protegé of Emperor Dom Pedro II, who was famous for his interest in the careers of Brazilian artists and intellectuals. The emperor made it possible for Antônio


Carlos to study at the Musical Conservatory of Rio de Janeiro.

Carlos graduated with honors and then produced his first opera, A Noite Do Castelo (September 1861), a big success. Two years later, produced his second opera, Joana De Flandres, which was considered superior to the first.

These two pieces convinced the Emperor to offer him a prize to study in Italy. Carlos studied in Milan at the local Conservatory until 1866, when he graduated as a composer-conductor. He soon became famous within the European artistic world with his most well-known opera, Il Guarany, performed in 1870 at the Milan Scala Theater, a place of great lyrical performances.

Gomes wrote and performed many other notable musical plays, such as the operas Fosca (1873) considered by some critics as his masterpiece, SalvadorRosa (1874), Maria Tudor (1878), O Éscravo (1889), Condor (1891), and the symphonic poem, Colombo (1892).

Returning to Italy, Carlos Gomes married Adelina Peri, an Italian pianist he had met while studying in Milan. He wrote the hymn Il saluto del Brasile for the centenary of American independence which was performed in Philadelphia, on July 19, 1876.

Gomes, faithful to the monarchy and Dom Pedro II, refused the opportunity President Deodoro da Fonseca gave him to compose the new Brazilian National Anthem.

Economic difficulties forced him to leave Italy and go to Belém do Pará, the capital of the Brazilian province, that had supported him with great nobility. He was given the direction of the Musical Conservatory, but by then he was an elderly man and he died there on September


The company also introduced the SURUS (Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure) a fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck with four-wheel steering. The vehicle is part of GM's plan to introduce fuel-cell vehicles to its lineup in addition to plug-in electric vehicles and hybrids.

Reuss said both EV and fuel-cell vehicles will be based on upon what GM has learned from the Chevy Bolt EV which launched in December of 2016 in California and Oregon and has since become available nationwide. The car's relatively low price, long range and kudos from the owners and the automotive press have been a huge win for the automaker. In its wake, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a "zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion" vision.

Today's announcement is the zero emissions portion of that vision.Anxiety attacks that occur while sleeping, also called nocturnal panic attacks, occur less often than panic attacks during the daytime but affect about 40%-70% of those who suffer from daytime panic attacks. This symptom is also important because people who suffer from panic symptoms during sleep tend to have more respiratory distress associated with their panic. They also tend to experience more symptoms of depression and other psychiatric disorders compared to people who do not have panic attacks at night. Nocturnal panic attacks tend to cause sufferers to wake suddenly from sleep in a state of sudden fear or dread for no apparent reason. In contrast to people with sleep apnea and other sleep disorders, sufferers of nocturnal panic can have all the other symptoms of a panic


Impulse snuck up on us. Having aired on YouTube's premium service, it wasn't until the entire first season of this series was made available for free that it drew our attention, especially since the fact that it was loosely based on the Stephen Gould Jumper novels wasn't necessarily a strong draw. However, Doug Liman, who directed the 2008 film and also executive produces on Impulse, may have finally found the correct formula in this iteration of the teleportation story.

Impulse is a show that not enough people are watching, but everyone should. Centering around Henry Coles (Maddie Hasson), a sullen, rebellious young woman who has followed her drifter mother to yet another sleepy town, the show sees her teleportation powers awaken after a sexual assault triggers a deep-seeded senseroutine traffic stop.

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A. Sexual Assault at the Balcones Heights Police Station

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The sexual assault at the Balcones Police Station gave rise to Count Four, which alleged that Guidry conspired to deprive five women of their due process right to bodily integrity. Guidry and his partner Rolando Trevino arrested Denise Almodovar, Sarah Adams, Candace Ramirez, Becki Taylor, and Lindsey Valsamaki at 1:00 a.m. on November 24, 2002, when a local gas station attendant reported that the women were visibly intoxicated when they arrived in separate cars at the station. The women had each consumed over 11 alcoholic drinks that night and acknowledged they were drunk. Guidry and Trevino handcuffed the five women, placed them in their patrol car, and drove them to the Balcones Heights police station. The only other


person at the police station, besides the two officers and the five women, was the dispatcher, who sat in a secure booth in a separate part of the police station. The officers followed normal booking procedure by taking the women's personal belongings, fingerprinting and photographing them, and placing them in holding cells. When the officers were photographing the women, they allowed the women to take "stupid mug shots." They also allowed the women to be in one cell together.

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After a while, Guidry and Trevino led the five women out of their cell and into the patrol workroom, which is one of few rooms without video surveillance. Generally, adult arrestees are not permitted in the patrol workroom. The officers informed the women that they were not going to chargethem and were going to "pretend like it never happened." Guidry ripped up the arrest papers. Guidry said, "[Y]ou are all going to be free to go, but it will take a while," and asked what the women were "going to do for" him and Trevino in return for letting them go without filing criminal charges.

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Guidry pulled Becki Taylor to him and kissed her on the mouth. At trial, Taylor testified that this advance was unwanted. The officers told the women to dance for them and turned on the workroom radio. The women danced. Taylor and Adams called their friend Will Thompson, who had also been drinking with them, to pick the women up at the police station. The officers then made sexual advances on the five women.


Trevino moved behind Candace Ramirez and reached his hand down her jeans and underwear. Ramirez turned around to find that Trevino had unzipped his pants. Trevino forced Ramirez's hand to touch his exposed penis. When she resisted, he forced her head towards his penis. Ramirez resisted and extricated herself. She moved closer to her friend Valmasaki, who was talking to Guidry. Guidry turned to Ramirez and forced her to kiss him. Meanwhile, Trevino moved on to Almodovar and Adams. Almodovar testified that Trevino shocked her by putting his hands down her pants and touching her genital area. Adams stated that Trevino reached around from behind her and put his hand down her pants while he tried to pull his penis out of his pants.

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At some point, Guidry toldValsamaki to go with him to retrieve the women's personal belongings. Instead, Guidry led her to a bathroom, where he opened the door, unzipped his pants, pulled out his penis, and attempted to force her to grab it. She resisted, and Guidry masturbated in front of her. Valsamaki testified that she did not feel she could run away because "[h]e had his gun and I was singled out. I was by myself. I didn't know what door led out. I couldn't go anywhere."

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Thompson arrived to pick the women up, and the officers returned their personal belongings. Three of the women walked out of the building. Thompson later testified that the women "were pretty shocked" and that "they had tears in their eyes and they were running down their


face." Taylor and Adams, meanwhile, did not want the officers to retain the photographs they took of the women and asked the officers to give them the pictures. The officers told them to "come back in here." The two returned to the patrol workroom. Guidry put Adams in a chair, undid her pants, and put his tongue on her vagina. Trevino took a picture of the event with a Polaroid camera. Trevino then did the same thing to Taylor while Guidry took a photograph. Taylor testified, "I didn't want to be in there all .... I just wanted to leave." The women expressed their desire to leave, and the officers led them out of the station saying, "Nobody is going to know about this." Taylor took the pictureof Guidry and Adams. Taylor gave Trevino her telephone number, and testified that she was afraid if she refused the officers would take them back into the patrol room.

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Afterward, Guidry wrote up an incident report, noting the women's detention. No criminal charges were filed against the five women. Guidry then went to see the police dispatcher, Lee Faz, to ask him what he had seen on the video surveillance that night. Faz said he did not see anything, and Guidry asked to borrow the surveillance tape. This is a departure from normal procedure, which requires that the surveillance tapes be stored in the dispatch area.

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The five women filed a civil lawsuit, which they settled. Upon learning of the lawsuit, the City of Balcones Heights asked the Texas Rangers


he told Hearn that no charges were filed against the five women because they were "stone cold sober" when they arrived at the police station. Guidry did not deny engaging in sexual activity with the women and said it was consensual.

B. Sexual Assault of Denise Limon

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The sexual assault of Denise Limon gave rise to Count One, depriving Limon of her civil rights by kidnapping; Count Two, violating her constitutional right to bodily integrity; and Count Three, carrying a firearm "during and in relation to" the sexual assault of Limon.

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Approximately one month after the sexual assault at the Balcones Heights police station, Guidry raped Denise Limon. On December 19, 2002, between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m., Denise Limon and her fiancé Ricardo Alvarez were arguing while driving home froma friend's party. Alvarez pulled the car over, and the two got out of the car and continued arguing. They got back in the car to continue their drive home and noticed a police vehicle was following them. Alvarez was nervous because he had outstanding traffic warrants, did not have his driver's license, and had been drinking. The officer signaled for Alvarez to pull over, and Alvarez complied. When the officer approached the car, Alvarez gave him a copy of his license. The officer looked at it and gave it back to him without further investigation. The officer told Alvarez that he received a report of a domestic dispute and that Limon could not remain in the car. He took Limon and put her in the back of


his patrol car. The officer told Alvarez "to go home and to wait by the phone" for Limon's phone call.

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The officer drove Limon to a dark, wooded area, parked the car, unzipped his pants, pulled his penis out, and opened the driver's side back door. He pushed Limon down, removed her pants, and raped her. The officer wore his gun belt throughout the rape. Limon heard the gun hitting the side of the car while the officer was raping her. The officer stood up, turned away from her, "moaning and grabbing himself." Limon quickly collected her clothes and ran home. She told Alvarez and Alvarez's mother that the officer had raped her. Limon refused to call the police that night, fearing the officer who raped her would comewith SAPD officers. Limon stated that her assailant was not in the photos. The investigating officers expanded their search to surrounding police departments and local security guards. When the investigating officers learned that Guidry matched the physical description Limon had provided, and then learned that he had been on patrol the night of the rape, they included Guidry's photo in a second photographic line-up. Limon identified Guidry as the rapist, as part of a photographic line-up and also in the courtroom.

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Guidry's police vehicle was impounded and searched by a forensic team. They found a hair in the backseat that had similar characteristics to a hair sample taken from Limon. They also found DNA in the backseat that matched Limon's DNA. Guidry's DNA was not found on Limon's body


or clothing. The DNA expert testified that DNA would not necessarily be found on Limon's body or clothing.

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At some point, Guidry telephoned his friend Terry Moten who worked in the Sex Crimes Unit of SAPD and told him he had been charged with rape. Guidry indicated to Moten that he had sex with Limon, but claimed it was consensual. After Guidry's arrest, he phoned Moten to inquire if their previous conversation in which he admitted having sex with Limon was on or off the record.

II. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

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Guidry pled not guilty to all counts. The jury trial began on January 19, 2005. On January 21, Julie Ristaino contacted the Assistant United States Attorney ("AUSA") prosecuting the case with information about Guidry. She had learned from a website that Guidrywas charged with raping Limon, and an attorney had advised her to contact the United States District Court Clerk's Office in order to contact the AUSA handling the case. When Ristaino and the AUSA met, she told him that Guidry had sexually assaulted her while he was on duty.

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The Government sought admission of Ristaino's testimony to show Guidry's propensity to engage in such conduct. The prosecutor called defense counsel on the day he met Ristaino, faxed a written description of her testimony to defense counsel the next day, and filed a notification and memorandum with the court on the next business day, Monday, January 24, 2005.

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On January 25, the district court held a preliminary hearing outside of the jury's presence to hear from Ristaino and to determine whether


to interview them, and to secure the timecards and attendance logs to determine if Guidry was on duty the night on which Ristaino alleged the assault took place. The prosecution complied that afternoon. The court also stated that it would permit defense counsel to recall Ristaino if there was insufficient time for investigation.

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Later that day, the Government put Ristaino on the stand. She testified that during her 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. shift as a veterinary technician in Balcones Heights, Guidry had fondled her at her place of employment. After that incident, he often waited until the end of her shift at 2:00 a.m. to pull her vehicle over in traffic stops and would proceed to make sexually suggestive comments while fondling Ristaino over her clothing.

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Ristaino said that,on approximately October 12, 2005, she was driving home from her shift when Guidry pulled her over in an isolated area. In uniform and badge, and carrying a gun, he entered Ristaino's car through the front passenger door and forced Ristaino to perform oral sex on him. Ristaino stated that the contact was nonconsensual, but she did not resist because she was intimidated and physically overpowered.

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Immediately after her testimony, the district court gave the jury an instruction limiting the consideration of Ristaino's testimony to the question of Guidry's state of mind or his intent. Meanwhile, Ristaino's employer was unsuccessful in locating a more detailed version of Ristaino's employment records. Defense counsel requested a recess to investigate further whether Ristaino's and Guidry's shifts coincided. The district court denied defense


"what will you do for us?" The fact that Guidry and Trevino were on duty, in police uniform, wearing their badges and carrying their weapons when they took the women into custody and booked them would be enough for a jury to find that the officers used their positions of power to, at the very least, intimidate, and at the most, force the five women to engage in nonconsensual sexual conduct. In addition, the officers handcuffed and booked the women, took their personal belongings, fingerprinted and photographed them. Even considering that at first, when the officers were booking the women, there was a sense of joviality when the women posed for "silly mug shots," a jury could find that the atmosphere changed when the women were led tothe five victims of their Fourteenth Amendment rights.

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D. Sufficiency of the evidence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)

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Guidry contends that the Government failed to meet its burden in showing that he carried a firearm in relation to the deprivation of due process and aggravated sexual abuse of Denise Limon. He maintains that the only evidence of a gun was hearsay, when a detective who interviewed Limon testified that Limon told her she heard the gun banging on the side of the car during the rape. Guidry argues that the hearsay statement suffices to show that Guidry carried a firearm during the offense, but fails to show that it was carried "in relation to" the offense. As the argument goes, as a police officer, Guidry must carry his gun, and


it was merely present when he raped Limon. In fact, Guidry further argues that Limon said she did not resist Guidry because she was physically overpowered rather than explicitly threatened by Guidry when he raped her. The logical inference, as the argument continues, is that Guidry's gun was not used to facilitate the crime. Guidry claims the conviction and consecutive five-year sentence for Count Three must be vacated.

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Section 924(c)(1)(A) of Title 18 of the United States Code states in relevant part:

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[A]ny person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime ... for which the person may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, uses or carries a firearm, or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm, shall,car during the assault, this Court found that a jury could have reasonably concluded that he was emboldened by his possession of the gun to assault his victim, that he displayed the gun in order to intimidate the victim, and that he had the opportunity and ability to discharge the gun throughout the sexual assault. Id. at 242. Thus, the firearm played a sufficient role in facilitating the defendant's crime to support his § 924(c) conviction. Id.

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As in Contreras, Guidry did not take his gun out of his belt and actually threaten his victim, but he did keep his belt on such that Limon heard his gun banging against the side of the car while he was raping her. Guidry's gun remained holstered during the rape, but was


always within his reach. A jury could reasonably conclude that Guidry was emboldened by his possession of the gun to rape Limon, and that the gun was a threat to and intimidated Limon.

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We find the evidence sufficient to prove that Guidry carried a firearm "during and in relation to" the rape of Denise Limon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).

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E. Kidnapping enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 242

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Guidry argues the Government failed to prove under the instant facts that Guidry qualified for the sentence enhancement for kidnapping in 18 U.S.C. § 242. He contends that in the absence of a definition of "kidnap" in § 242, this Court must rely on the "common law" definition of "kidnap," which he contends requires proof that a victim was carried outof state or out of the country to constitute kidnapping. Guidry states that there is no evidence that Congress intended differently from this common law meaning of "kidnapping." Thus, he claims his sentence on Count One must be reduced to the ten-year maximum applicable to the lesser-included offense that does not involve kidnapping.

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Section 242 of Title 18 of the United States Code states:

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Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States . . .; and . . . if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap . . . shall be


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Stoke holds Liverpool

ACTION APLENTY: Sotiris Kyrgiakos (third from right) puts Liverpool in front against Stoke City in the Premier League match on Saturday.

LONDON: Robert Huth deprived Rafael Benitez of a vital victory as Stoke claimed a dramatic late equaliser against Liverpool at the Britannia Stadium to force a 1-1 draw.

Huth pounced from close range to ensure a frustrating end to a tortuous week for Benitez with Stoke’s first-ever Premier League goal against Liverpool.

Sotirios Kyrgiakos had appeared set to ease the pressure on the Liverpool manager with his first goal for the club. But a sustained period of late pressure from Stoke was rewarded right at the death.

Alberto Aquilani and new signing Maxi Rodriguez started on the bench while Phillip Degen, Lucas Leiva and Fabio Aurelio allstarted on a day when Benitez was without five first-team players: Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Yossi Benayoun, Daniel Agger and Glen Johnson.

A series of long throw-ins from Rory Delap typically unnerved the Liverpool defence early on in a frantic start.

Chances were at a minimum after such a cagey opening but Benitez was fidgeting with fury midway through the half when Lucas was clearly hacked down in the penalty area by Danny Higginbotham.

Not only did referee Lee Mason refuse to award a penalty but he booked the Brazilian for diving .

Breaking through

Liverpool stunned the noisy home crowd into silence in the 58th minute.

Aurelio’s free kick was fumbled by Thomas Sorensen and Kyrgiakos bundled the ball over the line despite the frantic attempts of Higginbotham to hack clear.


were a major positive funding shock for US wide banks: different from local banks, these banks held a geographically diversified portfolio of mortgages which allowed them to tap the global demand for safe assets by issuing private-label safe assets backed by the country-wide US housing market. This, in turn, allowed them to expand mortgage lending and lower interest rates, driving up housing prices. -- downloaded via iPhone to DBOX

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This paper is a first attempt to garner the theory and evidence on the political economy of the first wave of financial liberalisation during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and of its demise after World War I. Not everyone gained from the process of globalisation (of trade, labour, and finance), which brought about important changes in the structure ofthe economy and the distribution of income in nations across the world. This paper explores how the economic incentives generated by these dislocations translated, through the political system, into choices about openness to foreign capital and financial integration. The period before World War I is remarkable by the almost absence of restrictions on cross-border capital flows, which may explain the little attention it has received in the historical literature, compared to the extensive study of trade protectionism in this period. After the War, many countries experimented with capital controls which varied in nature and intensity and were intensified during the Depression. Despite the attempt made here to reconcile these stylized facts to models of political economy, the analysis requires a better empirical foundation and some suggestions for further


of probity and transparency, disciplined by membership in the Quaker community - allowed them to not only grow in the loan business, but become big in the bills market. The Quaker method of collecting views re appropriate moral life practices, which were documented and circulated among the members - and set mutual expectations for ethical practices, including areas like bookkeeping and full disclosure. The Quaker firms were central to the system of country banks, capable of providing liquidity to halt bank runs, wind down problem institutions etc. Their bills business didn't survive the switch to the Bank of England becoming lender of last resort in the 1844 crisis. And their information advantages don't seem to have remained a competitive advantage as it had been in the pre Napoleonic_Wars15th century, supporting merchants in their long-distance trade. This approach persisted in the Anglo-American tradition, where banks discounted promissory notes and held the rest of the portfolio in easily saleable securities, especially Consols. This enabled a credible promise to depositors, as banks’ assets were either short-term, or easily sold, with little maturity mismatch. -- And then came Continental universal banking, employed to play catch up -- and then with disintermediation, and the need for banks to find other business, and securitization, and they became hostage to the long-wave boom and bust of real estate -- Land is scarce and its availability is fxed. In other words, real estate value has a large pure rent component. Thus in any expansion, real estate prices generally rise faster than consumer prices,


PUC does condemn sectarian violence

Sir: Apropos to the column ‘Does PUC condemn sectarian violence’ by Kashif N Chaudhry (Daily Times, June 10, 2014), the writer has criticised the National Conference Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) conducted on June 5 in Islamabad on the importance of dialogue to create inter-faith and inter-sect harmony. According to the writer the conference has failed to meet its expected goal of creating harmony among different religions and religious denominations in the country for its incomplete audience. He had complained that since nobody from the Ahmadiyya community was invited, the conference was therefore flawed in its concept and ended being a hypocritical effort by the bunch of Ulema who had been instrumental in describing the Ahmadis as non-Muslims through a constitutional amendment in 1974. Healso said that one of the chairmen of PUC was part of this amendment. The writer said that he met Chairman PUC Maulana Tahir Ashrafi in the conference and asked him a few questions about the Ahmadis, but to the writer’s chagrin Maulana gave one answer to all of his questions: “The Ahmadis are Kafir.”PUC strongly objects to the lie the writer has made regarding meeting Chairman PUC on the sideline of the conference. Maulana Tahir has never met the writer personally. PUC also objects to the debate the writer has tried to develop without understanding the basis on which the Ahmadiyya were not invited to the conference. It must not be forgotten that PUC was the only organization among the religious outfits that went out of the


way to criticise attacks on the places of worship of the Ahmadis in May 2010. It was at the forefront to condemn blasphemous charges against Governor Salmaan Taseer. PUC has been defending Christians as well as Hindus against their prosecution by Muslim extremists. Therefore unlike other religious organizations, PUC has never shied away from talking for the rights of the non-Muslims. As far as inviting the Ahmadis to the conference was concerned, the PUC was not sure that under which category they should be invited: as a separate religion, as a religious denomination, or as a religious group. None of this might have gone down well with the community or with other religious groups such as the Christians who have strong reservations against the Ahmadis for having theirThe farm bills now before Congress — one from the Senate, the other from the House — attest, if
nothing else, to the inertia of politics. There is no “public interest” in having government
subsidize farmers. Food would be produced without subsidies. The uncertainties and insecurities
faced by farmers from unpredictable weather and global markets, though often compelling, are
paralleled by the uncertainties and insecurities faced by many industries from disruptive
technologies, erratic business cycles and shifting public tastes. Yet, unlike most industries,
agriculture is lavishly subsidized and protected by government.

The explanation is force of habit. Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, when there were
plausible reasons to aid farmers, government has consistently accorded agriculture special
treatment. The politics of doing so long ago became self-perpetuating. Without the massive
subsidies, the Agriculture Department would be far


Push for new clinic in Avondale shot down by Finance Committee

There is a major disagreement between the Cincinnati Health Department and members of the Cincinnati City Council over a proposed health clinic.

"I think it was silly not to allow the Health Department to apply for this grant," said City Council Member Laure Quinlivan.

Supporters of the clinic say the 3-year, $650,000 grant won't cost the city a dime.

They also say the grant covers everything from construction to pharmaceuticals.

Opponents are concerned about how to fund the clinic after the three year time period ends and that the clinic could drain funds from an already cash-strapped city budget.

Still, Health Department officials and those at Children's Hospital are shaking their heads at this one and wondering how the Finance Committee could voteduring the national anthem but seems to muddle the issue even more.

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin). In this May 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Two House lawmakers who are allies of President Donald Tr...

A briefing Thursday about classified documents will be for just two Republican House members, both Trump allies, as Trump and his supporters in Congress press for information on the outside informant.

The passenger jet was headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when it was was blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 298 passengers and crew were killed. (Source: CNN)

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Ryan Many: Through the Years

New York blader Ryan Many reflects on how he first got introduced to the sport and talks about some of the pivotal moments in his life since picking up a pair of skates.

When we started Wheel Scene, we were fortunate enough that many like-minded people from various parts of the world got in contact with us in order to get involved and contribute in any way they can – one of those individuals was Ryan Loewy. Despite the fact that he is an extremely driven individual with a career, he regularly takes time out of his busy schedule to hook us up with some pretty great content and is always full of ideas. While discussing our plans for issue 9, he offered the suggestion


It was there that I met the local scene and started to make a name for myself. I was the younger guy of the crew, so getting harassed was natural. I began blading with and learning from guys like Bo Bird, Marc Messina, Jim Frey, Casey Guttman and the god himself, Mike Duke. Mike Duke was one of the best bladers in the world. He was so far ahead of his time. I mean, this guy was doing switch fakie flatspin 720′s over launch boxes back in Oxygens, true top porns switch and natural and disasters on down rails long before I could even fathom what the fuck was going on. This guy was incredible.

By 2002, Mike had gone off to college and later started working on Wallbefore cornering him on a fire escape.  Among a hail of bullets, he manages to mortally wound Martin who falls onto the street below. While on the ground he engages oncoming police officers in a fire fight, shooting a couple before they open fire and kill him.

As the police and a crowd of people gather around Martin's body, the doorman (Ward Bond) recognizes Spit as being a member of the gang that attacked the rich kid's father and identifies him to Officer Mulligan (James Burke). Spit exonerates himself by informing the police that the man was cut by Tommy, who has returned to say goodbye to Drina before running away.

Meanwhile, Kay approaches Dave asking him to go away with her, using the reward money that he received


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had discontinued producing the type ofTaveras in 2014 providing he shows that he is completely healthy after surgery on his ankle this off-season. The Cardinals had Taveras fly into St. Louis once or twice a month this off-season in order to watch him at the Central Institute for Human Performance where they send most of their rehabbing players. This special attention proves that Taveras is not just another big league prospect but a very important part of the Cardinals future. Monitor him closely in spring training and if he is proving himself healthy, he is definitely worth a late round stash in every Fantasy league this year.

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KFYO’s Rescue of the Week: Valentine the Vizsla Mix

Valentine

Meet Valentine, a 2 year old Vizsla/Yellow Lab mix. Valentine has been at the Haven Animal Care Shelter since February 2011. She was turned over to the Haven by authorities after she was found abandoned in new owner's yard.

Her History

Valentine came to the Haven in terrible condition. She had been tied down in the yard by her owners before they abandoned the house, and was left without access to food or clean water. When authorities found her she was nearly dead from emaciation, and is now the subject of an animal cruelty case. After months of rehabilitation, Valentine has gained all of her weight back and is ready to move into a loving home.

Her Personality

Valentine will keep you constant companyif you let her. Because Valentine is a "people person," staff at the Haven want her to be a mostly inside dog. She would need a larger yard so she would have plenty of room to exercise when she's outside. She would make a very good family dog, especially for an active family. She would be a great walking/running companion as well. She is a very sweet dog, which makes it baffling that she was abandoned.. Valentine does very well with children but is slightly dog aggressive, so she needs to go to a one-dog family. Also, because of her long period of starvation, she is also somewhat food aggressive. Food and dog aggression are both qualities that can diminish with time and proper training.

Her Breed

The Vizsla is


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JOHANNESBURG - Five people were killed and three others seriously injured in a drag racing crash in Kagiso on the West Rand, reports the Sowetan.

The bakkie was allegedly racing another vehicle when the driver lost control on Sebenzisa Street on January 1 2013. Four passengers and pedestrian Nko Motshwane (78) were killed in the crash.

'CHILDREN DO NOT LISTEN'

Motshwane, who was cut in half by the bakkie, was walking to a local cemetery with his daughter.

The second vehicle involved in the "race" fled from the scene.

Jaftha Motsumi, uncle of Thapelo Seloro, one of the passengers killed, said: "Our children do not listen and these are the results.

"One would have hoped that after the Jub Jub (Molemo Maarohanye) case they would have learnt, but clearly not.

Police are investigating.

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Jan Blaha

Jan Blaha (March 12, 1938 – December 13, 2012) was a Czech clandestine Roman Catholic bishop. After the Velvet Revolution he no longer ministered as a bishop.

Ordained to the priesthood on July 12, 1967, Blaha was secretly ordained a bishop on October 28, 1967 because of the Communist Government of Czechoslovakia and the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church by the government. He secretly ordained as a bishop Felix Maria Davídek, who was his teacher in the clandestine Church.

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Category:Czech Roman Catholic bishopsgetting the business done on his front parts on a supposedly empty mountain-top trail. Dance weird hiking dance. Done.

Solo road trip to Narcisse Snake Dens, Manitoba, Canada, to see the snakes awaken from hibernation. Try to do headstand. Stay in a tiny room over a noisy bar one night with locked door. Scribble furiously in journal. Done.

Organize three-person show at Orchard Artworks. Make lots of new work for show. Attend opening. Done.

Grow lots of veggies in garden. Meet Tim for dinner in backyard often to grill said veggies and sit by chiminea at dusk with fireflies. Done.


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Jim is one of the few honest lawyers I have had the pleasure of working with.Hickry Hawkins (Production Artist at Lola Star)

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with the paramount responsibility of the judiciary to maintain the independence of its members and employees in both fact and appearance. We find that the activities considered in this record realistically pose the likelihood of such a disruptive effect upon the work of the judiciary. Accordingly, we deny the employee's request to continue the activities while serving as an officer of the court.
The petitioner, Norma Randolph, was hired by the Sheriff of Monmouth County as a court attendant in January 1983. She is a uniformed employee who attends the judges of one or more of the courts located in the Monmouth County Court House in Freehold, New Jersey. Her duties include supervision of the activities of parties, jurors, and witnesses in the courtroom; the work of court crier;swearing in witnesses; sequestering jurors; and in general the performance of nonsecurity tasks related to the conduct of courtroom business. Shortly after the commencement of her employment, petitioner submitted a list of her outside activities to the Monmouth County trial court administrator. After review, the Administrative Office of the Courts advised petitioner that she could not continue to serve, as requested, on the Monmouth County Mental Health Board, the Freehold Borough Municipal Youth Guidance Council, the Freehold Borough Citizens Participation Committee for HUD, or the Freehold Borough Board of Assessment, "primarily because they are committees of other branches of government, and also they involve a significant likelihood of involvement in political activity." The letter further advised Mrs. Randolph that she could not continue as an officer in the


of Monmouth County. That court submitted recommended findings of fact in accordance with the Supreme Court's order. The petitioner does not take exception to any of those findings, merely adding to them that Mrs. Randolph is the mother of four children and that on the modest salary of a court attendant she supports herself and her youngest son, who is about to enter college; that she has been involved in community activities for over thirty years; that she is an exemplary citizen whose service to the community has gained her many awards, and is deeply committed to the service of her community.
It is no longer appropriate to dispatch such worthy goals and desires with an epigram as Justice Holmes could do when sitting on the Supreme Judicial Courtto serve, among other things, as members of a local board of education, on a board of adjustment, as a tax assessor, on a commission for youth and economic rehabilitation, on the municipal utilities authority, in an anti-poverty program, on a county community action planning committee. These restraints, as noted, became express following the 1969 amendment to the Rules that specifically prohibited any form of political activity by court officials; and, generally speaking, since then our decisions have precluded service by such persons as probation officers and court clerks on parking authorities, boards of adjustment, planning boards, library boards, boards of health, drug abuse commissions, local property owners' associations, youth guidance councils, and a national political organization of women. At the same time, the Court was not intractable


appointment was not likely to involve the officer in controversy; that a probation officer be allowed to serve on a county advisory committee on alcoholism because of the special role of the probation services in understanding such concerns and because of the assistance it could render in the program and the limited role of the agency itself. These decisions reflect a balance that is related to the closeness of the employee to the judicial decision-maker and the realistic likelihood that the activities will become the focus of public controversy.
Our dissenting members chide us on two scores: they claim that we have adopted a "blanket ban" on all community and civic involvement, post at 474, but at the same time accuse us of inconsistency through "uneven application," post atbuilding known as the "Court Street School" as a community resource facility. Norma Randolph is second vice-president of the organization; her name is on the letterhead. She describes her duties as being to fill in for the president and first vice-president if necessary. Petitioner negotiated directly with county officials for the allocation of funds; she has been described as the spokesperson for the organization; and serves as the liaison representative of the Greater Red Bank NAACP to this organization.
We are satisfied that on this record petitioner's advocacy role on behalf of this organization in the solicitation of funds from public agencies and in its efforts to influence the appropriation or allocation of public funds to the development of the community center possesses the realistic likelihood for political conflict


candidates for public office.
The Red Bank chapter does not support or oppose specific political candidates. Once a year, however, the branch does host a "Candidate Night" on which all candidates are invited to present their views; local press coverage of the event in 1983 is part of the record below. The organization's primary work consists of efforts to register voters. All of its members participate in house-by-house canvassing for registration, and on election days, including the day of a school board election, members record non-voters and offer transportation to polling *449 places. No record or apparent effort is made to ascertain or advocate a particular party affiliation of any voter.
In this case the record discloses as well that in the period of inquiry the Greater Red Bank BranchAssessment. As the Administrative Office of the Courts advised Mrs. Randolph, "they are committees of other branches of government and they also involve a significant likelihood of involvement in political activity."
I would, however, permit her to continue to serve on the Executive Committee of the Red Bank Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and as second vice-president of the United Progressive Homeowners & Taxpayers Association, Inc. (Homeowners Association). In my judgment, her service on the executive committee of a local chapter of the NAACP does not "pose a realistic likelihood of compromising the independence of the judiciary." Ante at 447.
Her activities on behalf of the Homeowners Association present a closer case. She is the agent for the service of process on the


resign as an officer of two private organizations.
GARIBALDI, J., dissenting.
Today, the majority holds that Norma Randolph, a $7,000-a-year court aide who is an employee of the Sheriff's Office, is prohibited by Rule 1:17-1 from exercising her First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association because her activities in certain organizations constitute a threat to the impartiality and independence of the judiciary. As a matter of both constitutional law and public policy, I would allow Randolph to serve as well as to speak. Accordingly, I dissent.

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The constitutional basis for my position is found in the fundamental liberties protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and article one, paragraphs six and eighteen of the New Jersey Constitution (1947).
The First Amendment "was fashioned to assureto continue that role or even participation in any capacity. However, such a conclusion should be reached only after a thorough and vigorous analysis of the employee's activity, his or her position in the judiciary, and the impact of the challenged actions on the judiciary. Otherwise, we merely pay lip service to the Pickering analytical framework, too readily allowing the State's admittedly real but unfocused interest in averting threats to the independence and impartiality of the judiciary to outweigh the citizen's core First Amendment rights.

III
On the other side of the Pickering balance, one must analyze the interest of the State as an employer that is invoked to justify the restriction upon the citizen-employee's rights of speech and association, along with the fit between this end and the means


as a member of the Citizens' Advisory Commission at Mercer County Community College; and as a trustee of Rutgers University. Permission was denied to serve on the board of directors of the Trenton Chapter of the Urban League; as chairman of the board of trustees of Gloucester County College; on the board of directors of the Jewish Hospital and Rehabilitation Center; and as alternate member of the Elizabeth Fair Rental Housing Board.
[4]  Randolph also argues that as an employee of the Sheriff's Department, she falls within the category of persons exempted from Rule 1:17-1 under Rule 1:17-2, which provides:

Rule 1:17-1 shall not apply to county clerks, county prosecutors, sheriffs nor to employees of their respective offices except as such employees are specifically referred to therein and exceptthese were somehow triggered by the Sumatran-Andaman earthquake that occurred on Dec. 26, 2004, but this is the first direct evidence that the quake could change fault strength of a fault remotely."

Earthquakes are caused when a fault fails, either because of the buildup of stress or because of the weakening of the fault. The latter is more difficult to measure.

The magnitude 9 earthquake in 2004 occurred beneath the ocean west of Sumatra and was the second-largest quake ever measured by seismograph. The temblor spawned tsunamis as large as 100 feet that killed an estimated 230,000, mostly in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.

In the new study, Niu and co-authors Taka'aki Taira and Paul Silver, both of the Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington, D.C., and Robert Nadeau of


the University of California, Berkeley, examined more than 20 years of seismic records from Parkfield, Calif., which sits astride the San Andreas Fault.

The team zeroed in on a set of repeating microearthquakes that occurred near Parkfield over two decades. Each of these tiny quakes originated in almost exactly the same location. By closely comparing seismic readings from these quakes, the team was able to determine the "fault strength" -- the shear stress level required to cause the fault to slip -- at Parkfield between 1987 and 2008.

The team found fault strength changed markedly at three times during the 20-year period. The authors surmised that the 1992 Landers earthquake, a magnitude 7 quake north of Palm Springs, Calif. -- about 200 miles from Parkfield -- caused the first ofthese changes. The study found the Landers quake destabilized the fault near Parkfield, causing a series of magnitude 4 quakes and a notable "aseismic" event -- a movement of the fault that played out over several months -- in 1993.

The second change in fault strength occurred in conjunction with a magnitude 6 earthquake at Parkfield in September 2004. The team found another change at Parkfield later that year that could not be accounted for by the September quake alone. Eventually, they were able to narrow the onset of this third shift to a five-day window in late December during which the Sumatran quake occurred.

"The long-range influence of the 2004 Sumatran-Andaman earthquake on this patch of the San Andreas suggests that the quake may have affected other faults, bringing


a significant fraction of them closer to failure," said Taira. "This hypothesis appears to be borne out by the unusually high number of large earthquakes that occurred in the three years after the Sumatran-Andaman quake."

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the University of California, Berkeley, and the U.S. Geological Survey.

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It was that this boss of all people actually suggested getting a fake as a temporary replacement. The whole purpose was just record keeping but he insisted that it25 Crazy Awesome College Basketball Championship Moments

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The savings account was opened by Mrs. Steding (then Mrs. Farmer) in 1935 and was carried in her individual name for


many years. In 1938 she also rented a safety deposit box in the same bank. She did not have a checking account, and it was her custom to cash dividend and interest checks and place the funds in the safety deposit box, from which she withdrew them as needed.
Mrs. Steding was 83 years of age at the time of her death. She was hospitalized in November of 1953 for a week and, according to the witnesses, was never really well after that time. She was taken to the hospital again in April of 1954, where she died on May 6, 1954. All three of her daughters lived in other states. Mrs. Canny came to Florida to stay with her mother on December 17, 1953; and on December 18,1953, Mrs. Steding arranged for Mrs. Canny to *309 have access to the safety deposit box. On January 5, 1954, Mrs. Steding changed the savings account from her individual name to a joint account in the names of herself and Mrs. Canny or the survivor. It is conceded that the instruments executed at the bank were sufficient to establish a joint account with the right of survivorship, as between the bank and the parties hereto; but as between the parties themselves a different situation may prevail, as is more fully discussed hereafter.
The bank's records show that Mrs. Steding entered the safety deposit box for the last time on January 13, 1954; that, beginning January 25th, Mrs. Canny entered it four times before her mother's death on May 6th;


and that, between May 7th and May 15th, she entered it five times. There was no cash in the safety deposit box at the time the estate was inventoried. Neither Mrs. Steding nor Mrs. Canny made any withdrawals from the savings account during the time it was in their joint names. However, three days after Mrs. Steding's death, Mrs. Canny withdrew $1,500 from the savings account and had the balance transferred to her individual name. She used the $1,500 to pay her mother's hospital and funeral expenses and thereafter filed a claim against the estate in the amount of approximately $1,750 to reimburse her for these and other bills she had paid.
The theory of Mrs. Spark's complaint was that Mrs. Steding gave Mrs. Canny access to the safetyshe married in 1950), her son and her daughter-in-law (none of whom were "interested parties" within the meaning of the Dead Man's Statute) all testified to this effect. Her son testified that when he was trying to persuade her to have a private nurse at the hospital, and offered to pay for one himself, she said that she had enough money to see her through and that she had had "to get somebody to go down to the bank and withdraw the money from the savings account. I've had to let DeVera [Mrs. Canny] sign for me so that she could get enough out of there to pay any expenses," and that Mrs. Canny "has promised me faithfully to see that the girls get their third and to


see that things work out the way that I have always wanted them to." Mrs. Steding's husband testified that during January, 1954, Mrs. Steding discussed with him and Mrs. Spark the account in the First Federal and told them that Mrs. Canny had charge of it so that she could "go to the bank and pay the money and pay the hospital and doctor and whatever was left would go to the three girls, after all the expenses were paid." There was other testimony of these witnesses along this same line, and Mrs. Steding's daughter-in-law testified to the same effect. It was also shown that, while Mrs. Steding made occasional trips to the doctor during her last illness and sometimes went out to dinner or for a drivethe Chancellor gave no consideration to Mrs. Steding's "donative intent" in deciding the cause. And the argument made here on behalf of Mrs. Canny in support of the decree confirms this assumption.
It is contended here on behalf of Mrs. Canny that the banking instruments constituted a contract binding on Mrs. Steding's heirs and personal representatives, in the absence of a showing of fraud or misconduct on the part of Mrs. Canny. It is contended equally strongly in behalf of Mrs. Spark that a donative intent on the part of Mrs. Steding was necessary to the establishment, with her own funds, of a joint bank account with right of survivorship. This question has not heretofore been directly decided by this court, so far as we can tell.
In upholding the


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Archaeologists will scan two hectares (five acres) of the vast mound to look for clues about what may lie beneath - hopefully more chambers

Reports suggest the tomb was built for a Macedonian general, but its thought the skeleton may be Alexander the Great himself

in the tomb is still undergoing DNA analysis

Archaeologists may have recovered a skeleton from a large burial mound in Amphipolis, but now they are hopeful there could be more to find.

Experts have opened the second phase of their excavation of the vast 4th-century BC tomb in search of more burial chambers.

They hope these chambers may hold ancient members of the Macedonian royal family, or the legendary warrior king Alexander the Great himself.

Experts have opened the second phase of their excavation of the vast 4th-century BCtomb (pictured) in search of more burial chambers that they hope may hold ancient member of the Macedonian royal family, or legendary warrior king Alexander the Great himself

The team will scan two hectares (five acres) of the vast mound to look for clues about what may lie beneath.

The first search of the site, which was built shortly after Alexander the Great's death, yielded an elaborately decorated tomb containing a skeleton, as well as large sculptures and a beautiful mosaic floor.

Earlier this month, experts analysing the skeleton found in the vault, claimed that the person who was buried there was male and probably an 'important general'.

He was of medium height with pale skin and brown or red hair, they said, suggesting that the remains could belong to blue-eyed king,


Alexander the Great himself, who was reputed to have strawberry blonde hair.

Geophysicists will scan two hectares (five acres) of the vast mound to look for clues about what may lie beneath. This image shows one of its entrances, guarded by two mythical sphixes

Experts believe the ancient mound, situated around 65 miles (100km) from Thessaloniki (shown on the map) was built for a prominent Macedonian in around 300 to 325 BC

Analysis of the skeleton discovered in an underground vault has revealed the man buried there was of medium height, with pale skin and brown or red hair (illustrated). While some experts dare to hope it could be Alexander the Great himself, others say that even the skeleton's gender is in doubt

THE MAN IN THE TOMB Skeletal remains show theman buried in the Amphipolis tomb was of medium height with pale skin and brown or red hair. He must have been of high social status, based on his opulent final surroundings. Archaeologists say he was probably an important general, although because the tomb was looted in antiquity, no shield or sword have been found, which were typically buried with Macedonian warriors. Experts are studying the bones to reveal what the man died of and what he ate. However, doubt has now been cast on this and some experts claim the sex of the remains is not known. Advertisement

Katerina Peristeri, head of the Amphipolis Tomb excavation said that the man was probably of high status, but because robbers removed valuable items in antiquity, no weapons or precious objects


remain in situ.

The skeleton is undergoing DNA analysis to deduce if the man was a member of the Macedonian royal family, as well as to learn his age.

Greek Culture Minister Costas Tasoulas visited the burial mound to announce the new phase of the exploration.

Geophysicists are scanning the site to see if there are other structures besides the impressive, three-chamber tomb discovered in August.

The area being scanned is about one-seventh of the total area of the mound.

Scientists will compare the DNA of the bones to that of Phillip II, who was buried at Vergina, but this will be difficult because the genetic material is 'overworked,' Lina Mendoni, the culture ministry's general secretary told Iefimerida.

The bones of Phillip II - father of Alexander the Great - were burnt and becauseremains are of Alexander's mother, widow, son, half-brother, or Nearchos, one of Alexander's closest aides and an Amphipolis native.

Meanwhile, archaeologists are still uncovering multicoloured decorations found inside the dug up tomb.

And lasers will be used to study them, Ms Mendoni said.

Greece’s Ministry of Culture revealed earlier this month that the body had been placed in a wooden coffin, which disintegrated over time.

The skeletal remains were found both inside and outside the rectangular stone-lined cist, under the floor of the cavernous, vaulted structure that is 26ft (eight metres) tall

Iron and bronze nails, as well as carved bone and glass decorations from the coffin, were also found scattered in the grave.

Archaeologists in the past have said the grave likely belonged to a prominent Macedonian – possibly a military man.

Clockwise from


top right shows two headless, marble sphinxes found above the entrance to the barrel-vaulted tomb, details of the facade and the lower courses of the blocking wall, the antechamber's mosaic floor, a 4.2-metre long stone slab, and the upper uncovered sections of two female figures. The second and third chambers, not pictured, have not yet been explored

Archaeologists are now searching for more burial chambers and bodies hidden in the vast mound, they have already uncovered many sculptures such as this bust, thought to be the head of a sphinx

WHO WAS ALEXANDER THE GREAT? Alexander III of Macedon was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July 356 BC. He died of a fever in Babylon in June 323 BC. Alexander led an army across the Persianterritories of Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt claiming the land as he went. His greatest victory was at the Battle of Gaugamela, now northern Iraq, in 331 BC, and during his trek across these Persian territories, he was said to never have suffered a defeat. This led him to be known as Alexander the Great. Following this battle in Gaugamela, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles (17,700km), founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents. This covered from Greece in the west, to Egypt in the south, Danube in the north, and Indian Punjab to the East. Alexander was buried in Egypt, but it is thought his body was moved to prevent looting. His fellow royals were traditionally interred in a


cemetery near Vergina, far to the west. The lavishly-furnished tomb of Alexander's father, Philip II, was discovered during the 1970s. Advertisement

The Culture Ministry said: 'It is probably the monument of a dead person who became a hero, meaning a mortal who was worshipped by society at that time.

'The deceased was a prominent person, since only this could explain the construction of this unique burial complex.'

‘It is an extremely expensive construction, whose cost, clearly, is unlikely to have been borne by a private citizen.'

Michalis Tiverios, a professor of archaeology at the University of Thessaloniki who has not been involved with the dig, said the human remains should provide valuable information on the occupant of the tomb, which at about 49 ft (15 metres) long and 15 ft (4.5 metres)wide is one of the biggest ever found in the country.

The ministry confirmed fears that the tomb had been thoroughly and repeatedly plundered during antiquity.

‘Whatever objects of value the first thieves missed was taken by others later,’ Professor Tiverios said.

Excavations at the site in north eastern Greece near the city of Thessaloniki began in 2012.

They captured global attention in August when archaeologists announced the discovery of vast tomb guarded by two sphinxes and circled by a 497-metre marble wall.

Since then the tomb has also yielded a mosaic made of coloured pebbles depicting the abduction of Persephone, the daughter of Zeus, as well as two sculpted female figures also known as Caryatids.

The tomb dates to 300-325 BC. Alexander the Great died in 323 BC after a military campaign through


the Middle East, Asia and northeast Asia.

Surviving fragments of carved bone and glass coffin ornaments were found in the tomb at Amphipolis, but no helmet, shield or military objects which would be expected in the tomb of a Macedonian soldier were recovered making the skeleton's identity largely guess work at this stageInstitutional Links

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The Last Empire. 25 years of Portuguese decolonization

Bristol
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This volume is the result of a conference organized by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field to analyse and debate the process of Portuguese decolonization, which was then 25 years old, and the effects of this on the Portuguese themselves. The book takes a multidisciplinary look at both the causes and the consequences of Portuguese decolonization, and places the loss of Portugal's Eastern Empire in the context of the loss of its African Empire. It also relates the process of Portuguese decolonization


with the search for a new Portuguese vision of its place in the world.

Table of Contents

The influence of overseas issues in Portugal's transition to democracy

Richard A. H. Robinson

The transition to democracy and Portugal's decolonization

António Costa Pinto

São Tomé and Príncipe: decolonization and its legacy, 1974-90

Malyn Newitt

Macao, Timor and Portuguese India in the context of Portugal's recent decolonizationfor RJ and Michael What drew you there is obvious. There was the sky, and morning light in the sky, all mellow and golden, and there were flowers, dogwood, ironically, flinging their scent to the wind. And there was a toehold, a way to raise yourself higher, and another and yet another, a clear path to a loftier perspective. Think of that air, blossoms all around, and how always there is a branch leading higher. It is well worth the climb, worth holding on with all you or anyone has got.

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"engaged in repairing *916 a structure, which structure was one employed in aid of navigation, and at which time the plaintiff was working on or about the navigable waters of the United States".
The omnibus complaint advances about as many theories of jurisdiction and liability as could be thought of. It alleges diversity of citizenship and also that plaintiff was a seaman entitled to the benefits of the Jones Act. 46 U.S. C.A. § 688. It charges defendant with negligence, failure to provide a safe place to work and unseaworthiness in violation of the Jones Act, the general maritime law, the common law, and Section 240 of the New York Labor Law, McKinney's Consol.Laws, c. 31, in that the scaffold from which plaintiff fell was unsafe, insecure and lackedproper guard rails and adequate illumination. Plaintiff seeks damages in the sum of $350,000 for his resulting injuries. A second cause of action seeks $50,000 for maintenance and cure.
The affidavits submitted by the parties do not add much to the picture presented by the complaint.
Plaintiff states that he was a welder, that the scaffold had been set up on the outside of a floating drydock which had been moved to the place of the accident just prior to the time when work started on it; that he alternated between working on the drydock and on various vessels in the water nearby; that he did not work upon shore, and that all of his work was on navigable waters, and was of the type commonly done by seamen. He


further states that he was a member of the Maritime and Shipyard Workers Union; that all of his duties during the time he worked in the defendant's shipyard required him to work aboard various vessels while they were on navigable waters and on some occasions while the vessels were in floating drydocks, and that his work always required him to be upon vessels or structures used in navigation or as aids to navigation.
An assistant manager of defendant's shipyard states that at the time of his injuries plaintiff was engaged in the reconstruction of a drydock which was out of commission, that he was working on one of the wings of the drydock which was being converted from wood to steel, that he had never been employed by thedefendant as a seaman and that he was paid compensation for his injuries under the New York Workmen's Compensation Law, McKinney's Consol.Laws, c. 67. The assistant foreman also states that, while there were no eyewitnesses, he understood that the accident occurred on a pier adjacent to the drydock wing wall on which plaintiff had been working.
Defendant maintains that it appears from the face of the complaint, and if not there, from the affidavits it has submitted, that plaintiff has no cause of action under the Jones Act. It urges that upon the pleadings and the facts now before the court plaintiff cannot be considered to have been a member of the crew of a vessel and the drydock cannot be considered to be a vessel. It urges that


fanned out across neighborhoods in Juchitan to help demolish damaged buildings. Dump trucks choked some narrow streets as they began hauling away the many tons of rubble.

Maria de Lourdes Quintana Lopez said she couldn't wait for the government's assistance as she oversaw the demolition of her family candy business' warehouse.

"We have to work so that we're not overcome with sadness," Quintana said. "We're not going to wait for the government to do what it has to do."

The 8.1 magnitude earthquake caused so many deaths in Juchitan that slow-moving funeral processions caused temporary gridlock at intersections as they converged on the city's cemeteries.

Scenes of mourning were repeated over and over again in Juchitan, where a third of the city's homes collapsed or were uninhabitable, President Enrique Pena Nieto saidlate Friday. Part of the city hall collapsed.

On the outskirts of the city, the general hospital settled into its temporary home -- a school gymnasium with gurneys parked atop the basketball court. The earthquake rendered the hospital itself uninhabitable, so the gym contained a mix of patients that pre-dated the quake and those who suffered injuries as a result of it.

A resident walks near debris and destroyed houses after an earthquake struck the southern coast of Mexico late on Thursday, in Juchitan, Mexico, September 10, 2017. EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS

Maria Teresa Sales Alvarez said it was "chaos" when the earthquake struck the single-story hospital, but staff moved patients outside and transferred most of those who required specialized care to other facilities.

Selma Santiago Jimenez waved flies away from her husband and


mopped his brow while he awaited transfer for surgery. He suffered injuries in a motorcycle accident before the earthquake. Windows broke and doors fell in the hospital, but staff quickly helped get her husband out, she said.

Gov. Alejandro Murat said Sunday that the death toll in his state had risen to 71. Officials have reported 19 killed in neighboring states. Two others died in a mudslide in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz after Hurricane Katia hit late Friday.

Pena Nieto said authorities were working to re-establish supplies of water and food and provide medical attention to those who need it. He vowed the government would help rebuild.

At the local fairgrounds in Juchitan, about two dozen residents of a central neighborhood gathered at the gates to what the militarywas using as a staging ground.

They came to complain that aid packages that the military started distributing Saturday had not arrived to many families. An army captain pleaded for patience, but ultimately agreed to take two pickups full of packages and water to their neighborhood.

It wasn't enough to satisfy all the residents who mobbed the trucks, but the captain promised soldiers would continue canvassing the city street by street.


CHANGSHA, China — Sweeping heavenward like an enormous glass-and-metal ski jump, a new Protestant church dominates the crumbled earth, freshly planted trees and unfinished water features of a suburban park under construction in Changsha.

About 260 feet tall and topped by a cross, the Xingsha Church is bigger even than the biggest statue of Mao Zedong in China, less than 10 miles west of here.

On Tangerine Island, in the broad Xiang River, the massive granite head and shoulders of the revolutionary leader rear up as if surveying the world. But at 105 feet, the sculpture is still less than half the height of the church.

That disparity, in the very city where Mao spent his youth and first embraced politically radical ideas, has infuriated his most fervent admirers across China.Optimizing use of revascularization and clinical outcomes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: insights from the GUSTO-V trial.
To examine the relationship between revascularization within 7 days and 1-year mortality among ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients enrolled in GUSTO-V trial (n=13 451). To examine the relative contribution of system and patient level factors to the variation in international revascularization rates, and their impact on mortality outcomes. Patients from North America (USA, Canada), Australia, and Europe (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland) were included in the study. Revascularization was associated with lower 1-year mortality. Norway, Belgium, Spain, Poland, and Italy also had lower than expected revascularization rates but higher than expected mortality rates. France and USA had almost two times the expected rate of 7-day revascularization, which was


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Working underground

It never occurred to the Moroccan authorities that it was me who distributed the leaflets, simply because they believed I was pro-Moroccan. This was at the end of 1985. Instead of me, the school administration accused four boys and one girl, including a brother and sister, and arrested them. The main reason for arresting them was the fact that they had family members in the Tindouf camps and their behavior at school gave a clue that they might have done it. They never talked to Moroccans, they didn't like them and didn't even sit at the same table with them.


the district. I was sure by then I would be kidnapped. My uncle is a kaid. It means he is a person responsible for a region under the supervision of the Governor. The police went up to him and said: 'In the area under your control lives a woman called Aminatou Haidar. We're going to arrest her and investigate her briefly. After that, she can go home again.' I hadn't slept all night. On Saturday 21 November 1987, plainclothes police officers knocked at the door and asked for me. My uncle opened the door and left again. I was in my pajamas. A relative of mine was lying on the bed asleep. 'Go and put something on,' the police said to me. 'And don't worry. We will onlylook forward to leaving behind. Each day we make moves to prevent a footprint on our planet's ecosystem. At the same time, I'm constantly thinking of ways in which I can increase the size of the footprint of my activism with OHVEC. Hopefully, someone somewhere will recognize that clean water and a healthy environment are connected to healthy people and a healthy economy.

Sleepless nights

At first, our work was totally ignored and we were ostracized in our own community. But when more and more people started supporting it, others started with open criticism and threats of violence. In 2006, it got really bad. After I had testified in federal court to stop that valley fill, apparently some people thought that killing me somehow or other might help. They threatened


assess, 15 years after the James Bay Agreement (see box), why the education system didn't seem to be working. Why were our kids not making it in school? Why did so many of them have self-destructive patterns? Many students were already coming down with a load of baggage. On top of that, they now had to adjust to city life. You can stay in Kuujjuaq and be the best cashier of the Hudson's Bay Company store. That's fine. But if your dream is to be something else, then you have to be realistic and make sure you are prepared effectively.

James Bay Northern Quebec Agreement (1975)

In the 1960s, Quebec began developing huge hydroelectric projects in the north, and in 1971 created the James Bay Development Corporation to pursue the
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NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY CO.
v.
NORTH CAROLINA EX REL. MAXWELL, COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE.
No. 610.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued March 6, 1936.
Decided March 30, 1936.
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
*683 Mr. F.M. Rivinus, with whom Messrs. Theodore W. Reath, W.W. Coxe, Murray Allen, and Burton Craige were on the brief, for appellant.
Mr. A.A.F. Seawell, Attorney General of North Carolina, with whom Mr. Harry McMullan, Assistant Attorney General, and Mr. I.M. Bailey were on the brief, for appellee.
MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.
The question is whether a statute of North Carolina laying a tax upon the net income of interstate railway companies has been so applied to the appellant as to violate the prohibitions of the Constitution of the United States.
The Norfolk &


For seven decades the UN has failed to fulfill its original mission. Israel is the epitome of this grand failure.

Stanley L Cohen is an attorney and human rights activist who has done extensive work in the Middle East and Africa.

The United Nations sits on First Avenue, just off of 41st Street, overlooking the East River in New York City. It opened to great applause and expectation. A wishful answer to the madness that had become a world unleashed with the scent of blood and the all too customary wail of mourn.

It was to be our collective hope. A grand oath by which, together, the world could find answers to the greed and arrogance of states long unbound in their historical feed upon those less powerful. It has notcraft the tone of the debate, but set about to ensure its content reflects their unique and predatory vision of the rule of law.

In what has become a political art form of pain and punishment, with repeated rerun a handful of powers have used their veto to ensure that the Security Council (UNSC), the UN’s most empowered organ, is long on vent, but short on action.

In first place stands Russia/Soviet Union which has used its veto 112 times– more than any other permanent member of the UNSC. Most recently, on April 10, 2018, Russia blocked a resolution to identify who was responsible for the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma in Syria. To date, since the conflict began in 2011, Russia has used its veto 12 times regarding


Syria. Earlier, it vetoed a Security Council condemnation of its annexation of Crimea in 2014.

In second place stands the United States. It has exercised its veto power some 80 times to date. Since 1982, the grand protector of Israel has vetoed 36 UNSC resolutions critical of it, more than the total number of vetoes cast by all the other UNSC members.

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Most recently, it vetoed a resolution proposed by Kuwait condemning Israeli attacks upon thousands of Palestinians during the Great March of Return that called for an independent investigation into mass killings and injuries that have ensued. On December 18, 2017, it vetoed a draft resolution approved by 14 of the 15 members of the Security Council urging countries to refrain from establishing embassies in Jerusalem.

In its most basicethnic cleansing in Palestine

Since literally its first day, when the UN announced to the world that Palestine was relegated to history and Israel crafted as a Middle East extension of Europe, this state has flouted international law in its march of ethnic cleansing.

With mayhem its mantra even before its artificial declaration of statehood, Israel’s Zionist framers never blinked at the use of unbridled terror to obtain their goal. The bombing of the King David Hotel, in 1946, by the Irgun, a UK-designated terrorist organisation, took the life of 91 mostly civilians.

While this massacre and the assassination of UN mediator Folke Bernadotte, in Jerusalem in 1948, by the group Lehi, momentarily captured the eye of the world, little was known about the decade of horror that both Palestinians and


been well recorded.

Not surprisingly, most killed or injured suffered gunshot wounds to the rear of their heads or backs. In the parlance of forensic science, these entry wounds are consistent not with attack but flight.

Civilian massacres are, of course, very much an essential part of the Israeli historical narrative. A walk down its memory lane shows an unbroken pattern of carnage perpetrated upon the most vulnerable of its enemies, real or imagined.

The 2008-2009 war on Gaza

In the winter of 2008-2009, Israel launched a massive assault on Gaza. Within the first 9 hours, it dropped more than 100 tonnes of explosives on the strip.

In the days to come, tens of thousands of its civilians were exposed to white phosphorous shells fired into crowded residential areas, not as incidental coverit is completely exhausted.

Throughout the attack, Israel fired some 7,000 dual-purpose improved “conventional” artillery shell designed to avoid international prohibitions against the use of traditional cluster bombs.

Intended as an anti-armour and antipersonnel weapon, each artillery shell explodes into hundreds of smaller fragments within a 100m radius, killing and wounding indiscriminately. One example of their destructive potential was a January 6 attack near an UNRWA school in Jabaliya, which killed 43 Palestinians. On that occasion, Israel acknowledged the use of the shells.

The UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict ruled that these attacks constituted violations of international human rights and humanitarian law as well as possible war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Israeli assault killed some 1,400 Palestinian men and women, including hundreds of children.

South African Jurist Richard


Goldstone, a former international war crimes prosecutor and member of the UN team that issued the report, described the Israeli conduct as “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.”

With the Obama administration taking the lead in defence of Israel, the UN took no steps to hold it accountable for repeated violations of international law during the massacre.

The 2014 war on Gaza

Five years later, Israel struck once again as it launched another war on Gaza with massively disproportionate force.

According to a UN report, “the scale of the devastation was unprecedented” with more than 6,000 air strikesPalestinians were killed, the majority of them civilians, including 538 children and 308 women. More than 11,000 others were wounded, a third of them children, with over 1,000 left permanently disabled.

Many of those killed or maimed were targeted while seeking refuge in various shelters, including UN schools. Twenty civilians lost their lives and dozens more injured in an overnight attack on the Jabaliya elementary school where more than 3,000 displaced civilians had sought refuge. Like during the previous war, Israel had the coordinates of the UN sites.

Criminal not just for the loss of life, the concentrated Israeli onslaught was designed to cause lasting devastation on a community already overwhelmed by poverty and still reeling from the last major assault on its infrastructure just a few years earlier.

The Israeli