a long term partnership, but they rarely make a complete mess of things.

Against Panama, pay close attention to the ways in which they move in response to each other. The back four for the U.S. did a nice job staying compact against Jamaica, and they stepped and dropped well in unison. The next step for Gonzalez and Besler is instinctively covering for each other. Gonzalez often aggressively steps to ball handlers with their back to him. In the same moment that he steps, Besler has to drop and pinch. Jamaica was able to exploit the space behind Gonzalez on one of his steps when Besler was caught reacting, and the result was a man in behind and a shot off the post. Against a better side (like Belgium,for instance), that fraction of a second delay is all the time needed to exploit and finish.

Midfield

Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones were excruciating to watch in the first half against Jamaica. They appeared to be almost too similar to function well together in the straightforward 4-4-2 Klinsmann employed on Friday. Both essentially played a defensive holding position, often checking all the way into the back line to receive the ball and play forward, at the expense of any serious attacking threat through the middle.

After suffering what appeared to be a concussion, Jones was replaced around the 60 minute mark by Geoff Cameron. This switch opened the game up considerably for the U.S., allowing Bradley to attack while Cameron (quite capably) patrolled the midfield on defense. My understanding is


Altidore creates massive problems with his strength, runs and finishing in the box, and Dempsey is devastating on the follow up as a poaching goal scorer.

Getting the ball wide, as on the Altidore goal from Zusi, creates enough space in the middle for Bradley, Dempsey, Altidore and eventually Donovan to do work in and around the box. The problem for the U.S. is that in the 4-4-2, the outside fullbacks need to press forward as well, getting around the midfielders on the outside to create a more dynamic attack. On Friday, Evans and Beasley stayed home for almost the entire game, making the offensive strategy fairly predictable since Zusi was the only player getting forward and wide to swing balls into the box. It was barely enough againstDickens - Harris

Minister Thomas Sweeley officiated at the double-ring ceremony at Rosemary United Methodist Church.

Elbert Lee and Sabrina Stamey Harris of Goldsboro and Wayne Oscar Burton of Carolina Beach are parents of the bride. She is the granddaughter of the late Theodore and Thelma Stamey, the late Clara and William Harris and the late Leon Burton of Kernersville.

Parents of the groom are Vicky Isles Merritt and Samuel Patterson Dickens of Roanoke Rapids. He is the stepson of William Donald Merritt and Christine Davis Merritt. He is the grandson of Dolly and Calvin Anderson of Whitakers, the late Ned Jones and Mable Cullom Dickens, Pearl Francis Davis, the late Elbert Woodrow Davis and W.S. Merritt of Roanoke Rapids, the late Rachel Jones Merritt and the late Wilfred Elliot Isles.

Given


in marriage by her family, the bride wore a white portrait neckline satin ballgown embellished with embroidery, pearls, sequins and silver accents. It had a cathedral-length train.

For her headpiece, she chose a tiara with rhinestones and pearls attached to a fingertip-length veil. She carried a bouquet of white lilies, white hydrangea and vogue roses.

Erica Alayne Burton, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. Suzanne Marie Anderson, friend of the couple, was matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Anita Joy Cherry, friend of the bride; Leigh Ann Harris Collins, sister of the bride; and Sarah Jones Dickens, Melissa Gail Merritt and Hope Merritt Switzer, sisters of the groom.

Samuel Patterson Dickens was his son’s best man. Ushers were Mitchell Lee Anderson, friend of the couple, and William Ashley Sparks, friendof the groom. Groomsmen were John Wayne Beaver II, Matthew Paige Merritt and Mark Christopher Gauley, friends of the groom; Eric Guy Collins, brother-in-law of the bride; James Howard Inscoe, cousin of the groom; and had Elliott Merritt

Kiersten Danielle Beach, niece of the groom, and Britnie Elisabeth Marie Collins, niece of the bride, were flower girls. William Henry Harris Collins, nephew of the bride, was ring bearer.

A program of wedding music was provided by Dwight Payne Berry, organist, and Denise Miller Hackenburg, vocalist.

After a wedding trip to Cancun, Mexico, the couple will reside in Wallace.

The bride is a 1995 honor graduate of Charles B. Aycock High School and a 2000 graduate of North Carolina State University with bachelor of science degree in animal science and biological business management.


She is a member of the Chi Omega Sorority. She is employed as a chemist at Del Laboratories of Rocky Point.

The groom graduated from Roanoke Rapids High School in 1994 and North Carolina State University in 1999 with a bachelor of science degree in recreation and tourism management. He is a member of the North Carolina State University golf team. He is employed as an assistant golf professional at River Landing Country Club of Wallace.

A rehearsal dinner was hosted by Samuel and Christine Dickens at Chockoyotte Country Club in Weldon. The groom presented attendant gifts.

Following the ceremony, a reception was held at Chockoyotte Country Club of Weldon. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence George of Wilmington, friends of the couple, and Mr. and Mrs. David King of Roanoke Rapids, friendsof the groom, greeted guests.

On Aug. 3, a dinner party was held at the home of Bev and Ann Paul of Wallace.

On Aug. 19, a guys’ golf outing was held at Chokoyotte Country Club.

An after rehearsal party was held Aug. 19 at Chokoyotte Country Club.

On Aug. 19, a bridesmaids’ luncheon was held at the home of Francis Bass in Littleton. The bride chose this time to present gifts to her attendants.

A sisters’ outing was held Aug. 13 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

On July 29, a guys’ golf outing was held at Raleigh Country Club.

Erica Burton and Leigh Ann Collins held a shower July 30 in Greensboro.

On July 23, a honey-do shower was held at Cottages at Bay Ridge Clubhouse of Atlantic Beach.

James “Jamie’ and Elizabeth Inscoe held a couple’s


UPDATED: School that Fired Teacher over Gay Son Receives State Tax Dollars

A teacher is suing a Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania, conservative Christian school for allowing her contract to lapse after the school expelled one of her sons for being gay and then pressured her (unsuccessfully) to force the son to “renounce his sin.”

Sharon Wright contends that hostile school officials at Covenant Christian Academy caused her to suffer a stress-related disability and then failed to accommodate that disability, which she contends is a violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

According to The Patriot-News, the school responds that Constitutional religious-freedom provisions entitle it to discriminate against faculty and students on the basis of religious belief. School officials opted not to renew Wright’s contract, they say, when Wright objected in writingSign In Instantly

WATCH: City in Motion Captures Chicago's Beauty During the Winter Season

Winter in Chicago can be cold, dark, dreary, and any other negative word you can find to describe what most would say is their least favorite season. But for those of us who truly love living in Chicago, it’s still possible to find beauty in our amazing city even during the dark days of winter. And there’s no better proof of that than what’s on display in this mesmerizing video that captures some of Chicago’s most well known places during the height of the winter season.

Familiar spots in the video include the United Center, Adams and Sangamon Park in the West Loop, Roosevelt University, Grant Park, the Adler Planetarium, Maggie Daley Park, the new 606 Trail,


Mental health and psychosocial aspects of disaster preparedness in Thailand.
After the Asian tsunami, the Department of Mental Health, Thailand developed a national guideline for mental health interventions in disasters based on the lessons learnt from the mental health and psychosocial relief efforts launched. We advocate the integration of social interventions for the affected community into the general mental healthcare, which in turn should be available in the general healthcare setting. This set-up of the mental healthcare delivery system, can provide the daily needs of the community and can be rapidly scaled up in times of a disaster. The organization of the delivery of mental healthcare is discussed in the paper.Cops Try to Make Sense of Deadly Skinhead Machete Attack Four New Hampshire teenagers are accused of murdering woman, injuring daughter.

Oct. 8, 2009 -- A close-knit New Hampshire town is reeling from the grisly weekend attack on a woman and her young daughter allegedly by a band of teenage skinheads who hacked the mother to death with machetes and knives and left an 11-year-old girl severely injured and bleeding in the family's front yard.

Adding to the horror are the coldhearted remarks two of the alleged teens made online and in person shortly after the killing, indicating a nonchalance about the gruesome crime.

Police arrested four teenagers in connection with the home invasion-turned-bloodbath, charging that the suspects chose the home of Kim Cates, 42, simply because of its distance from


any other homes in the rural town of Mont Vernon.

Prosecutors on Tuesday arraigned Christopher Gribble, 19, a devout Mormon scheduled to go on a church mission, and three younger suspects Steven Spader, 17, Quinn Glover, 17, and William Marks, 18, in connection with the robbery and killing.

Cates died from multiple injuries to the head, torso, left arm, and left leg, according to a statement from the New Hampshire attorney general. Her daughter, Jamie Cates, 11, who was slashed and tried to run for help, remains in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital in Boston.

Gribble updated his Facebook page just hours after the attack, writing on Sunday: "had an awesome time with steve and autumn [sic]! dexter is such a funny show!" "Dexter" is a drama on Showtimeareas to meet at regional high schools and through other activities."

Authorities believe Spader, who dropped out of high school last year, led the gang and is responsible for slitting sixth-grader Jamie Cates' throat with a machete. They believe he and Gribble, a handyman at Mormon church who was preparing to go on a mission, hacked Kim Cates to death.

Gribble was in the ROTC. On his Facebook page he posted photos showing him in uniform and holding a "favorite knife."

Anything sharp really, but I love swords and knives," Gribble wrote on Facebook in February.

Friends of the teenagers were shocked that the boys who came from middle class families and participated in activities like school musicals and the Boy Scouts could conspire to commit such brutality.

However, those who knew the


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Suredran made the post at a time when there was already outrage against Youth Congress activists for slaughtering a calf in public in protest against the blanket ban on sale of cattle for slaughter. The fact that Surendran did not specify that the photo he shared with the post was of a scene from Uttar Pradesh and not from Kerala is indicative of his intentions and it misleads people even more since he talks about cows being slaughtered in public in Kerala.

Here is the post that became the talk of the town as many Facebook users called out the bluff of the BJP leader.

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Shaquille O'Neal's DJ Alter Ego Among InfieldFest Performers

DJ Diesel performs during the 2019 Electric Zoo Festival at Randall's Island on August 31, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Taylor Hill/Getty Images

Is the infield at Pimlico Race Course ready for a Shaq Attack?

Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neil, under his pseudonym DJ Diesel, is among the artists set to perform at InfieldFest on May 16, the day of the Preakness Stakes. The show will be headlined by Marshmello and rapper DaBaby. DJs GATTÜSO and DJ Pauly D, along with vocalist Quinn XCII and dance-pop act Two Friends.

O'Neal discovered electronic dance music in 2015 at TomorrowWorld, a music festival in Georgia, and made his debut as DJ Diesel at the same festival the following year.

Marshmello is one of the top artists onthe music-streaming service Spotify. His single "Happier" was certified five-times platinum in the U.S. and spent nearly a year atop Billboard's Dance/Electronic Hot 100 chart.

DaBaby, a Charlotte, North Carolina native, started putting out mixtapes and working the festival circuit in 2015. In 2019, he signed his first deal with a major label. His sophomore album, "Kirk" entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1. "Suge," a track on that album, was nominated for two Grammys.

Quinn XCII debuted in 2017 with his album "The Story of Us." The single "Straightjacket" has been streamed more than 80 million times on Spotify. His third album is set to release this spring.

Two Friends' eponymous friends, Matt Halper and Eli Sones, started producing together during their senior year of high school in 2011. They


went viral with remixes of songs such as The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" and transitioned from the internet to radio and tours.

DJ Pauly D may look familiar to viewers of MTV's "Jersey Shore." In 2011, 50 Cent signed Pauly D to G-Note Records. He quickly gained recognition from the music media and has toured with artists including Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj.

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Histon-based Relph became the first rower to be crowned a double Paralympic champion last year when she followed up the gold she won in the mixed adaptive coxed fours in London by topping the podium in the same event in Rio.

In a message on her Instagram account, she said: "I have had the most amazing journey over the past 6 years and I am so so excited for what comes next.

"I appreciate all the amazing support I have had. 6 years, 6 titles!"

Relph, 27, began rowing in 2010 after being introduced to the sport by elder sister Monica, who also competed for Great Britain.

And the following year she picked up her first honour, taking the world title in Slovenia with Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe and coxLily can den Broecke before joining them for Paralympic success in 2012.

Although the GB crew in the discipline changed over time, Relph remained a constant as they retained their world title in 2013 and won it again in 2014 and 2015.

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Relph made history when helping the British crew of Oliver Hester, James Fox, Grace Clough and cox Oliver James to victory at the Rio Games, becoming the sport’s first double Paralympic gold medallist.

And she was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours thanks to her achievement.


The square is built on the former Domitian's stadium, hence the long, oval shape of the square. The main attraction of the Piazza Navona is the three fountains. The central and largest fountain is the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), which was constructed between 1647 and 1651 on request of the Pope Innocent X. The fountain features four figures, each representing a river from a different continent - the Nile, Ganges, Danube and Rio della Plata. The statues are at the base of a rock supporting an obelisk, originally located at the Massenzio Circus.

The two other fountains on the piazza are the Fontana di Nettuno (Neptune Fountain) at the northern end and the Fontana del Moro (Moor Fountain) at the southern end.LISBON — Surveys often show the Portuguese rivaling Greeks and Bulgarians for the title of Europe’s gloomiest people. Yet since Prime Minister António Costa took office 18 months ago, it feels like the land of fado and saudade has been popping happy pills.

Costa has overseen a return to robust economic growth after a decade of recession and stagnation.

The budget deficit is the lowest since democracy was restored in 1974. Unemployment stands in single figures for the first time since the eurozone debt crisis engulfed the country in 2010. Tourism and exports are booming.

The European Commission last month agreed to remove Portugal from its excessive deficit naughty list, where Lisbon had lingered since 2009.

Adding to the party atmosphere, this football-obsessed country was crowned European champion for the first time


the Correio da Manhã newspaper.

Despite the spate of good news, the government knows Portugal’s economy remains fragile and vulnerable to external shocks. It wants to use the recovery to cut the national debt, which at 130.4 percent of gross domestic product remains the third highest in the European Union.

Centeno aims to cut the debt ratio by 2.5 points this year. With that he hopes to persuade the three main international rating agencies to lift their assessment of Portuguese bonds above “junk” level, easing borrowing costs and giving the government more financial wiggle room.

Optimistic Portuguese

It’s not just the Portuguese whom Centeno is making happy.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble — who barely a year ago warned that the Socialists' fiscal laxity was pushing Portugal toward a new international bailout —These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon, Atlas, were taken on April 12, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of about 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers).

These images are the closest ever taken of Atlas and will help to characterize its shape and geology. Atlas (19 miles, or 30 kilometers across) orbits Saturn just outside the A ring -- the outermost of the planet's bright, main rings.

Additional raw images from Cassini are available at:

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/raw-images

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Caltech


Family feud sparks revolt at grocery store chain

By DENISE LAVOIE / Associated Press

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07/26/2014 03:00:00 AM EDT

Updated:
07/28/2014 10:12:15 PM EDT

Market Basket employees Rees Gemmell, far right, and colleagues acknowledge passing supporters as they picket in front of the supermarket Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Haverhill, Mass. A decades-long family feud, which brought about the ouster of Arthur T. Demoulas as CEO of the privately held company, led to a worker revolt, customer boycotts and empty shelves in the grocery chain's stores in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. More than 100 Massachusetts legislators and mayors, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan have publicly supported the employees. (AP Photo)

WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- It's been called a David vs. Goliath story, a "Tale of Two Arthurs" and-- opened the first store in Lowell nearly a century ago. Gradually, Market Basket became a regional powerhouse, with 25,000 employees and 71 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.

The feud dates back to the 1970s, but the most recent round of infighting began last year when Arthur S. Demoulas gained control of the board of directors. Last month, the board fired Arthur T., sparking the current uprising.

Workers are fiercely loyal to Arthur T.

"You know the movie, 'It's a Wonderful Life.' He's George Bailey," said Tom Trainor, a district supervisor who worked for the company for 41 years before being fired last weekend over the protests. "He's just a tremendous human being that puts people above profits. He can walk through a store, and if he's met you


at a Market Basket store in Tewksbury.

Employees said they believe the fight between the family members loyal to Arthur T. and Arthur S. is largely over money and the direction of the company. They say Arthur S. and his supporters have pressed for a greater return to shareholders.

Arthur T. and his supporters have focused on keeping prices low.

Many employees are distrustful of Arthur S. and two co-chief executives who were brought in from outside the company: Felicia Thornton, a former executive of the grocery chain Albertsons, and Jim Gooch, former president and chief executive at RadioShack Corp.

"I'm worried about my job," said Valerie Burke, a worker in the West Bridgewater store. "It's a great company to work for now, but we are worried it won't stay that way,"said it was a positive sign that foreign ministers "agreed once again for the state of a ceasefire on February 20."

He added that the deal was "the start of the withdrawal of heavy arms" in eastern Ukraine.

However, the sustainability of the peace deal is in doubt as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Saturday, which recognises passports and other documents issued by the separatists in eastern Ukraine. It allows people in eastern Ukraine to travel, work and study in Russia.

Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukraine's Secretary of National Security and Defense has said, "By signing this decree, Putin legally recognized quasi-terrorist groups that have this as a fig leaf covering the Russian occupation of Donbass."

This decision by Kremlin "completely negates the Minsk process and states Russia's exit," he


The Yankees made their share of notable trades during the off-season, eschewing traditional free agency to acquire Starlin Castro, Aroldis Chapman, and Aaron Hicks. Some pretty good players left New York in these deals, but none of these trades remotely resembled the impact of one hypothetical discussed between the Yankees and Braves last off-season.

After a disappointing 2014 campaign which saw the Yankees miss the playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time in 22 years, Brian Cashman had some serious work to do to get the team ready for 2015. The Yankees had open spots at shortstop and third base due to Derek Jeter's retirement and Chase Headley's potential departure via free agency. Carlos Beltran was a letdown in right field in the first season of a three-yearthe Cardinals on November 17th, which was after the Yankees dealt Cervelli and re-signed Chris Young (though Martin Prado was still in tow), but it's hard to imagine they would have discussed taking on Melvin Upton's ugly contract with Young already signed.

Nonetheless, that prospect cost was more than enough for the Yankees to turn the Braves down. It would have been painful losing both Luis Severino and Aaron Judge in one trade, particularly since Heyward, the best player involved, was only under contract one year. An agreement for an extension would have needed to be worked out for it to make any sense. Acquiring Johnson and Simmons would have meant the Yankees did not have to re-sign Headley or do the three-player trade for Didi Gregorius. Thus, they


Pritzker vote in Senate likely next week

June 21, 2013|By Katherine Skiba | Tribune reporter

Penny Pritzker testifies before a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be Commerce secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 23. (Yuri Gripas / Reuters)

WASHINGTON — The Senate is likely to vote early next week on whether Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker gets the top job at the Commerce Department, a Senate aide said today.

Pritzker, 54, nominated in May by President Barack Obama, is a business executive and Democratic mega-donor whose family founded the Hyatt Hotels chain and is among the nation’s wealthiest. She helped lead Obama’s campaigns for the presidency.

On June 10, Pritzker’s nomination won unanimous approval from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, a signal thatof rape across Kerala churches

Mulakkal has been asked to surrender his passport and not enter Kerala except to appear before the investigation officers once in two weeks.

In June, a nun in Kerala had alleged that the Jalandhar-based bishop had raped her 13 times between 2014 and 2016 during his visits to the southern state.

He wrote to Pope Francis offering to “step aside temporarily”, and was arrested on 21 September after a vociferous and continuous protest by nuns and priests in Kerala demanding action on the nun’s complaint.

Mullakal had denied the charges claiming that “anti-church” forces were bent upon bringing a bad name to the institution. He alleged that that nun was involved in an “illicit relationship” with her relative and he had ordered action against her.

A grand welcome

The


Jalandhar diocese organised a grand welcome for Bishop Mulakkal on his arrival from Kerala Tuesday. Almost 2,000 supporters led by employees of the various educational and charitable institutions controlled by the Diocese came in buses from across the state to show solidarity with him. Posters and hoardings welcoming the bishop were put up.

He was received by the Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bombay, Agnelo Rufino Gracias, who has taken over the administration of the Jalandhar diocese from him. Mulakkal said since he is expected to remain busy with his case, Bishop Gracias will continue to administer the diocese and they will both share the Bishop House.

A prayer meeting was held inside the Bishop House, which was telecast live outside on a screen for the supporters.

Addressing his supporters,promotes all Catholic Christian activities in Amritsar, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Moga, Muktsar, Nawanshahr, Tarn Taran in Punjab besides Chamba, Hamirpur, Kangra and Una in Himachal Pradesh.

As its head, the bishop commanded control over the hundreds of institutions — educational and charitable —spread across the two states.

Catholic church-run schools are the most sought-after in Punjab. In 2016, the bishop tried to promote “course sheets” to replace heavy school bags in the schools the diocese runs. He also rooted for eco-friendly Diwali and Christmas celebrations in schools run by the the diocese.

Apart from the schools and colleges run by the diocese, it also directs all spiritual activities of the Church, patronising several convents, seminaries and houses in the state.

Humble beginnings

Mulakkal belongs to Thrissur in Kerala. His


father was a headmaster in a local school. He studied at St Mary’s Petit Seminary there.

Impressed with the work of Bishop Keeprath (of Jalandhar diocese from 1971 to 2007), Mulakkal decided to shift his base to Punjab. He was first ordained as a priest in Jalandhar in April 1990.

He did his Master’s in English and sociology from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and earned a doctorate degree in moral theology from Alphonsian Academy of Lateran University, Rome. He remained international treasurer of the Priest Union of India while he was there.

In 2001, he authored A theological investigation into the moral teachings of Guru Nànak from a catholic perspective, his doctoral work. He remained head of the department and professor at Holy Trinity Regional Major Seminary in Jalandhar andmember of the diocesan College of Consulters. He also served the Jalandhar diocese as its spokesperson.

Mulakkal was appointed auxiliary bishop of Delhi and Titular Bishop of Culla in 2009. He held vital positions in the organisation of the church. He remained the regional chairman of Northern Regional Youth Commission, secretary of the regional bishops’ conference of North India and consulter of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed the bishop as the consulter for the pontifical council of inter-religious dialogue in Rome.

In June 2013, Pope Francis appointed him the Bishop of Jalandhar. He paid obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar soon after his coronation in the first week of August. The event was attended by almost 25,000 people, including over 700 sisters, 400 priests,


27 bishops and a cardinal.

Politicians flocked to him

In August 2014, then deputy chief minister of Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal met the bishop at Trinity College in Jalandhar where a sarv dharma prayer had been organised by the diocese. Then chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh too attended the prayer.

Punjab’s former education minister Daljit Singh Cheema was the chief guest at the silver jubilee celebrations of the bishop’s baptism as a priest in May 2015.

Also read: Bishop Franco Mulakkal steps down, to face interrogation by Kerala police

The elaborate celebrations took place at the bishop’s native place in Thrissur in Kerala. Apart from the senior Akali leader, former union minister Oscar Fernandes, Thrissur MP C.N. Jayadevan, members of the minority commission were also presentALLIANCE, Ohio -- On a late July day in 1999, Matt Campbell drove along U.S. Route 62, unsure of his next football destination.

He knew he couldn't go back to Pitt for another season. The football program there had turned toxic. So Campbell packed up and left. He wasn't far from his home near Canton when he first saw them by chance: about 60 young men, crossing the four-lane highway that flanks the campus of the University of Mount Union, headed for a workout at the stadium.

"It was a fascinating moment," Campbell said. "Here's where there are no scholarships, there is no money, there is no flash, but these guys love football."

Campbell wanted in. He transferred to Mount Union and became an All-American defensive lineman. Then he entered coaching.

"It


saved my life," said Campbell, who is entering his third season as Iowa State's coach. "That's how passionate I am about my Mount Union experience and coach [Larry] Kehres. My life probably goes a whole different way if not for finding that place."

Campbell is among a growing group who found Mount Union as players and, after graduating, launched coaching careers. Mount Union claims two FBS head coaches in Campbell and Toledo's Jason Candle, coordinators such as Ohio State's Alex Grinch and Wake Forest's Jay Sawvel, position coaches such as Michigan's Ed Warinner, an NFL coordinator in the Indianapolis Colts' Nick Sirianni and many others leading small-college and high school teams.

The school has long produced accomplished coaches -- including former Carolina Panthers coach and longtime NFL assistant Dom Capers(class of 1971) and Ron Lynn, another longtime NFL assistant (class of 1966) -- but the number has spiked in the past 15 years. Campbell and Candle, both 38, are among the 10 youngest FBS coaches. Grinch, 37, is one of the nation's top coordinators. Sirianni just turned 37.

How did a private, liberal arts school with an undergraduate enrollment of only 2,095 become football's newest coaching cradle? It took a College Football Hall of Fame program patriarch too afraid to leave, 200-man rosters filled with "player-coaches" and a campus located in the garden spot for coaching.

And winning. Lots and lots of winning.

On a snowy morning in March, Kehres sat in his office at the McPherson Academic and Athletic Complex, stumped by the first question: Why does Mount Union


-- or Mount, as it's usually called -- produce so many coaches?

"I don't know," he said. "That's the honest answer."

The honest answer is, in fact, Kehres. He coached Mount Union from 1986 to 2012 and now serves as the school's athletic director. He won 11 NCAA titles and 23 conference titles, posted 21 undefeated regular seasons, collected eight national coach of the year awards and has the highest win percentage (.929) in college football history. He'll never say it, but his former players turned coaches are unanimous.

None of this happens without Kehres.

"He's the reason," said Washington & Jefferson coach Mike Sirianni, a former Mount Union wide receiver. "He's the reason this all started."

These days, the top coaching buzzword is culture. Anyone who listens to coaches speak has heardMount Union and spent 13 years as an assistant before succeeding his father as head coach after the 2012 season. "There was some subtle way that he would motivate you, whether he'd get under your skin or he'd chew your ass or he'd just whisper something to you or praise. That was my dad's strongest suit."

Former Mount Union coach Larry Kehres had simple priorities for his team. Adam Rittenberg / ESPN

Kehres was similar with his staff, which increasingly featured recent graduates pursuing coaching to stay in the game. He taught them to be specific with both praise and criticism. He taught them to study behavior and to listen. He cautioned those who coached elsewhere not to thrust the Mount Union way on others.

"It was like a modern-day think


forever," said Candle, who succeeded Campbell at Toledo in December 2015. "Unintentionally, there's something every day that comes either out of my mouth or some type of action I learned there. It was a very impressionable age for me and probably a perfect time to go through there and gravitate toward somebody who I ultimately wanted to be like someday."

Kehres also showed the future coaches about adaptability. His schematic philosophy started with players and moved to formations and, eventually, plays. Year to year, he welcomed change.

In January 2005, Kehres brought Campbell back to install the spread offense, which Campbell had learned as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green. "I was afraid I was getting a little stale," Kehres said. "We had lost a game or two."

Campbell remembers Vincewho played linebacker at Mount Union from 1989 to 1993. "So more than 10 percent of your campus played football. Obviously, there was a love for football. The whole place was that way."

Most of Mount Union's coaching alumni didn't arrive as players thinking they would become coaches, but it was a natural step. Kehres went to great lengths to recruit "young achievers working hard to avoid anyone being disappointed in them."

Almost none could play football beyond the Division III level, but many wanted to stay involved. So they coached.

Vince Kehres played at Mount Union and was an assistant for his father for 13 years before getting the head-coaching job. Courtesy of Mount Union

"They were almost player-coaches as student-athletes," Vince Kehres said. "They were diving into as much film


study as they could. They're always around the office. They don't just show up and go to practice and then you don't see them anymore. They're inquisitive."

Mount Union football players didn't hold big-man-on-campus status, even after the team started winning national championships. They practiced at 5 a.m. because that's when the stadium was available. They packed into cheap, off-campus apartments. They didn't eat in a special dining hall or get priority access to classes.

"Here's a T-shirt and a pair of shorts, and you do the work," Vince Kehres said. "It's not like going to Ohio State."

The spartan existence helped during the transition to coaching. Around the time Campbell, Candle, Alex Grinch and others were finishing their playing careers at Mount Union, the program started hiring intern coaches, whoout football coaches like rubber and tires.

Of the 11 college coaches to win national titles since 2000, four are from northeast Ohio: Urban Meyer (Ashtabula), Jim Tressel (Berea), Les Miles (Elyria) and Bob Stoops (Youngstown). Nick Saban (six titles since 2003) isn't from Ohio but played at Kent State and began his coaching career there. Mount Union's league, the Ohio Athletic Conference, features several schools with strong coaching traditions, from John Carroll University (Don Shula, Josh McDaniels, Greg Roman) to Baldwin Wallace (Lee Tressel, Jim Tressel, Norb Hecker).

"It starts with how they feel about high school football around there, and then that carries over," said Capers, who grew up in Buffalo, Ohio. "Friday nights, people are at high school games. Saturday, they're involved in college, and Sunday, the


NFL. It gets into your bloodlines a little bit."

Mount Union drew players from decorated high school programs. Some came from coaching families. Campbell's father, Rick, was a longtime high school coach who played at Mount. Grinch's uncle is Gary Pinkel, the former Missouri and Toledo coach.

When the upper-level colleges passed on them, they flocked to play for Larry Kehres at Mount.

"It's not a soft, cake-eater school," Sawvel said. "There were a lot of Youngstown kids, a lot of Cleveland and Akron and Canton. All these people grew up in places where football was king. We're all middle-class kids, we work hard, our families worked hard. It was great."

They might have been blue-collar kids from little schools in the Rust Belt, but Mount Union's players began their coaching jobsearches with unique credentials.

Grinch and Campbell went 54-1 as Mount players with three national championships. Candle, who transferred to Mount for his final two seasons, never lost a game there. All three finished their careers during Mount's NCAA-record 55-game win streak. The one loss Grinch and Campbell endured, which ended the 1999 season, snapped a 54-game win streak that had broken the previous NCAA record, which had stood since 1957. Nick Sirianni played during the entire 55-game surge, which ended in his final game.

"The desire to hire Mount Union graduates became very prevalent because of the success," said Toledo offensive line coach Mike Hallett, who captained Mount's first national title team in 1993 and was a two-time All-America selection.

Erik Raeburn "became, like, the most popular guy ever" after


playing for Mount and spending six years as an assistant there. Coaches wanted to know Larry Kehres' secret. Raeburn, now head coach at Savannah State, couldn't pinpoint one thing.

Division III Mount Union's weight room doesn't compare to the flashy facilities in the FBS. But the titles listed on the wall prove that it gets the job done. Adam Rittenberg / ESPN

From planning for games to recruiting to meetings to travel plans, Kehres addressed everything with championship-level detail.

"He does everything better than you do it," Raeburn said. "They do the laundry better than you do the laundry."

Campbell insists that the championship rings he won at Mount Union didn't prepare him for coaching as much as embracing the daily tasks that generate success did. It's the same thing that drewhim there 19 years ago on his drive home from Pitt.

"We don't get lost," Campbell said. "From Alex Grinch to Jason to the other guys, nobody's gotten lost in the ego of this profession, whether it's what you're getting paid to what stadium or what brand is representing your school."

Added Warinner: "It doesn't matter where you're coaching. We're all Division III guys from Mount Union."

Although Kehres never left Mount, he encouraged and assisted his former players who wanted to move up. He made calls on their behalf. "As the wins piled up, the phone call meant more," he said.

When Campbell left Toledo for Iowa State, Candle went to join him as offensive coordinator. But Kehres encouraged Candle to tell Toledo athletic director Mike O'Brien that he wanted the


Nigeria's embattled petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has secured an interim court injunction ordering the House of Representatives to discontinue an ongoing investigation of how the minister allegedly squandered more than N10billion of public funds leasing private jets for two years.

A federal court in Abuja restrained the House, its committees or representatives from summoning Mrs. Alison-Madueke or requesting that she produce papers, documents or give evidence relating to the jet spending.

The presiding judge, A. R. Mohammed, also barred the lawmakers from ordering the minister's arrest for failing to appear before the House Committee on Public Accounts, which is probing the allegation.

The interim order was given April 14, while the court asked that a representative of the House appear on a later date and argue why full injunction as requestedby the minister should not be granted.

"It is directed that the respondents shall be served with the motion exparte dated and filed on 11th April, 2014 for interim orders of injunction," the court mandated.

Mrs. Alison-Madueke is accused of spending billions of naira for the services of private jets she deployed for mostly personal trips. State oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, supervised by the minister, has absolved the minister of wrongdoing.

As petroleum minister, Mrs. Alison-Madueke has been repeatedly investigated by the National Assembly. Multiple reports have blamed the minister for either maladministration, corruption or violation of the law.

A key probe which found the minister wanting was the 2012 fuel subsidy inquiry which exposed how the government spent more than N2 trillion subsidizing petrol in one year


when actual subsidy cost was less than N500 billion.

There is also the recent allegation of missing $20 billion oil funds.

Amid the charges, Mrs. Alison-Madueke has also drawn praise for ensuring a year-round availability of petrol, a significant achievement in Nigeria's notoriously corrupt oil sector.

Yet, that achievement recently ebbed with fuel shortage across the country lasting months.

The latest allegation against Mrs. Alison-Madueke came March 20 in a motion presented by a member of the House of Representatives, Samuel Adejare, accusing the minister of committing about 500,000 Euros (N130 million naira) monthly to maintain an aircraft for her personal needs and those of her immediate family.

Mr. Adejare said preliminary investigations showed government funds were used for financing the deal.

Preliminary investigation by the House public accounts committee showed more than onethe papers from the public.

But the chairman of the House Public Accounts Committee, Solomon Olamilekan, said he was surprised the minister waited until Monday- the scheduled day of the commencement of the investigation- before coming up with a court order, giving the impression the court document had just been served.

House agrees to soft pedal

The order raised immediate concerns whether the court, as a separate arm of government, has powers to restrain another arm-legislature- from its constitutional functions of investigating government agencies.

The NNPC spokesperson, Mr. Alegbe, said the order was not "unusual". "There is nothing strange about it. There is a precedent," he said.

In its reaction Monday, the House of Representatives on Monday said it would study the order and decide on a response.

"As a law abiding arm of


JAMMU: The family of a youth, who was shot dead by CRPF guards at the residence of NC leader Farooq Abdullah , here last week, on Tuesday demanded arrest of the personnel involved in his "cold-blooded murder" and registration of an FIR against them.

The city administration had already ordered a magisterial probe into the incident, described by police as a "security breach".

The youth's killing had triggered massive protests by his relatives. Various political parties, including the BJP and Congress, had demanded a thorough probe into the incident.

According to the police statement, Syed Murfad Shah, 25, the resident of Chinore locality here, allegedly crashed his private car into the gate of heavily fortified residence of Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah at Bhatindi on August 4, attempted tosnatch a weapon from a CRPF officer and entered into a scuffle with the guards before being shot dead inside the house.

He hit the CRPF officer at the head with a flower pot and injured him, it added.

"The magisterial inquiry is of no consequences and it is merely a time buying exercise... We demand registration of an FIR against the personnel involved in his cold-blooded murder and who posed their pictures on social media," one of the deceased's kin Syed Junaid Hashmi told reporters here.

"He was not carrying any weapon and was not affiliated with any terrorist or separatist organisation. Why gun shots were fired to kill him instead of making any attempt to overpower him and arrest him," he said, adding the family was told that there


in the day, Farooq Abdullah met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and requested for an impartial enquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of the youth at his residence.

"There are different theories emerging in the media and versions of the family and friends of the deceased young man. Only an impartial enquiry will put to rest all the speculations by bringing the truth to fore," he said after meeting Singh.

On Burmese Amber and Fossil Repositories: SVP Members' Cooperation Requested!

April 21, 2020Dear Fellow SVP Members:Vertebrate paleontology as a field of science depends upon the ethical acquisition and long-term availability of fossil specimens. These fundamentals are written into SVP’s bylaws and code of ethics . Nonetheless, our profession also exists within a broader community, where new ethical situations arise in the face of global events.One area of growing concern centers on the Cretaceous amber mines of northern Myanmar. The amber from Kachin State (so-called Burmese amber) has been used in jewelry for centuries, and a number of exquisitely preserved vertebrate fossils have been published recently. Although these finds have advanced scientific knowledge, they come with a human cost. The region has been in the throes of a civil war


Research Scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the New National Excellence Program from the Ministry of Human Capacities. We are grateful to Professor Janina Kulka (2nd Department of Pathology, Semmelweis University) and Professor Mária Judit Molnár (Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Semmelweis University) for their essential help. This work was supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund - OTKA (grant numbers 124442, 111031, 112696, and 105246); the Hungarian--Flemish Mobility Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (grant number NKM-52/2016); the Fondazione Telethon Grant (grant number GGP13167) to M.C.; the Methusalem grant of Ghent University (grant number BOF08/01M01108), and the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (G057413N).

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Chavez Receives Iran's Highest Honor

Iran awarded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez its highest state medal on Sunday for supporting Tehran in its nuclear standoff with the international community, while Chavez urged the world to rise up and defeat the U.S., state-run media in both countries reported.

The leftist Venezuelan leader also condemned Israel for what he called the "terrorism" and "madness" of its attacks in Lebanon, Venezuelan state television reported.

"Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire," Chavez said. "This (task) must be assumed with strength by the majority of the peoples of the world."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented Chavez with the Islamic Republic Medal in a ceremony at Tehran University. The award was to show Iran's gratitude for his "support for Iran's stance on


the international scene, especially its opposition to a resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency," Iranian state-run television said.

"He is the one who has resisted imperialism for years and has defended the interests of his and other Latin American countries," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.

The 1930s had the Hitler-Stalin pact which enabled WWII, and the early 21st century has Chavez and Ahmadinejad. They may not have earned the stature of infamy of their dicatorial predecessors, but give them time. . .

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Co-founder of The Film Empire and MixKnowledgy, Brandon is currently attached as a producer on a slate of films to include a horror/thriller called Subliminal with producer Warren Zide (American Pie, Final Destination). He is also working on some horror projects with screenwriter Jeff Howard (Gerald's Game, Ouija: Origin of Evil and Oculus), director Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan and Insidious: Chapter 4), cinematographer Pedro Luque (Don’t Breathe), cinematographer (Saw franchises), composer Charles Bernstein (Nightmare on Elm Street) and composer Chris Bacon (Bates Motel)Bolton would find a way back into the contest until a Ryan Clarke howler afforded the visitors a priceless breakthrough.

Mark Davies swooped on a clearance to feed Madine, whose low left-footed shot inexplicably wrong-footed the goalkeeper and dribbled into the back of the net.

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for the inmates to sell and trade goods while being locked up. Weapons are of course used for protection for the inside of jail and out of jails.

A gang member has to be armed at all times because they are aware that someone may try to kill them. Weapons are used to make deals with and be sold for other things as well. A gang member is known for having the most drugs and weapons and is ranked for having the most of these things. Payback and recruiting new members are almost the same in gangs because if old members are recruiting new members, the new members are either getting beat up or they will have to hurt someone to get in.

If a rival gang does something tothe calculations they are capable of delivering is limited. In many, generally technical, applications the precision such a construction affords is insufficient for satisfactory results to be obtained using such a calculation device.
To improve the precision of the slide chart, workers in the art have constructed railed slide charts, similar in many respects to slide rules, which have found wide acceptance in the technical arts.
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slide with the edges of the face, to assure proper alignment of any data contained on the slide with the remainder of the slide chart. Two more ribbons of glue are then placed along the longitudinally extending strips of the slide. The second face is then placed over the slide and affixed thereto, taking care to assure proper alignment between the respective surfaces.
In manufacturing the slide of a railed slide chart, two scored lines are placed along the longitudinal edges of the slide to form the narrow strips previously mentioned. By scoring the slide for a distance less than the length of the slide the narrow strips are maintained in alignment with the slide prior to assembly of the slide chart. After assembly of the slide chart, theA suspect believed to be behind the kidnapping of a woman and a 10-year-old girl was shot and killed following a multistate police pursuit, authorities said Wednesday.

The episode originated in Jefferson City, Missouri, on Tuesday and ended hours later in Greenville, Illinois, according to The Associated Press.

Illinois State Police took over the pursuit of suspect Leslie Austin, 39 -- driver of an SUV – from Missouri authorities after the vehicle crossed state lines around 9:34 p.m., the state police said in a news release on Facebook.

Roughly an hour later, deputies “deployed stop sticks” on the highway, authorities said.

BAT-WIELDING MAN’S ATTACK ON NEW YORK WOMAN IN FRONT YARD CAPTURED ON VIDEO, POLICE SAY

“Because the vehicle had slowed considerably after striking the stop sticks, this gave the alleged kidnapping victims,


Olympics Commercials Feature Work by Emmy-Winning Music Alum

Dan Zank BM '95 (Music Performance) is music arranger, creative director for spots by United Airlines

Dan Zank BM '95 (Music Performance) may not be competing for a gold medal, but this Emmy Award-winning composer/arranger is still part of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Music that he arranged can be heard in a TV commercial by United Airlines that features Olympic athletes on their way to the U.K. for the games (above). Zank, a full-time film composer for New York-based production house Yessian, also served as creative director for a second United Olympics spot (below).

Zank has worked with other A-list clients at Yessian, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, Ford and Disney. His music arrangement for the opening number to the 81st Oscar AwardsPalestinians vow to suspend talks if US closes PLO mission

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Published: Nov 18, 2017 at 4:20 a.m.

Updated: Nov 19, 2017 at 1:30 a.m.

WASHINGTON — The Palestinians threatened on Saturday to suspend all communication with the United States if the Trump administration follows through with plans to close their diplomatic office in Washington. The potential rupture in relations threatens to undermine President Donald Trump's bid for Mideast peace — a mission he has handed his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the U.S. decision was "very unfortunate and unacceptable," and accused Washington of bowing to pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government "at a time when we are trying to co-operate to achieve the ultimate deal."

In a video statement on social media, Erekat said: "We will


the move was the result of "the pressure being exerted on this administration by the Netanyahu government."

In response, the Israeli prime minister's office said, "We respect the decision and look forward to continuing to work with the U.S. to advance peace and security in the region."

The Israelis and Palestinians are not engaged in active, direct negotiations. But Trump's team, led by Kushner in his role as senior White House adviser, is working to broker a deal aimed at settling the intractable conflict.

The Palestinians, publicly supportive of the U.S. effort, are nonetheless skeptical because Trump's close ties to Israel suggest whatever deal he proposes might be unfavourable to them. The threat of losing their office in the American capital could become one more pressure point as the Trump administrationits effort to achieve an agreement that ostensibly would grant the Palestinians an independent state in exchange for an end to its conflict with the Israelis. Kushner and other top Trump aides have been shuttling to the region to meet with Palestinians, Israelis and officials from Arab nations.

The requirement about the mission closing stems from a little-noticed provision in U.S. law that says the U.S. cannot allow the Palestinians to have a Washington office if they back the international court's move to investigate or prosecute Israeli nationals for alleged crimes against Palestinians.

Abbas said at the United Nations in September that the Palestinians had "called on the International Criminal Court to open an investigation and to prosecute Israeli officials for their involvement in settlement activities and aggressions against our


Sultan ordered his confectioner to create a unique sweet. Eager to please his Sultan, the confectioner blended a concoction of sugar syrup, various flavorings, nuts and dried fruits then bound them together with mastic (gum arabic). After many attempts, the delicately scented and sugary sweet Lokum - better known in the West as Turkish Delight - was created. The Sultan was so taken by this elegant new creation that he appointed the sweet maker the court’s Chief Confectioner. Thereafter a plate of Lokum was served at daily feast in the Ottoman Court.

Lokum was unveiled to the west in the 19th century. During his travels to Istanbul, an unknown British traveler became very fond of the Turkish delicacies, purchased cases of Lokum and he shipped them to Britain underA sweeping study of some 130,213 news articles on the 2012 presidential match between President Obama and Mitt Romney has proven anew that there was a strong pro-Democratic bias in the U.S. and international press.

The study, published in the authoritative journal Big Data & Society, also tested the campaign themes the media focused on and determined that Obama succeeded in stealing the economic issue from Republican Romney.

"The 2012 elections saw an 'issue trespassing' strategy with President Obama taking the initiative on the economy," found the survey of stories produced by 719 U.S. and international outlets.

RELATED: Study finds IRS suppression of Tea Party swung 2012 election

The survey used a technical language processing analysis to filter all the stories and found that Obama was portrayed as an attack dog and


the Trustee and AIG oppose the Motion to Convert.
The Debtor has worked in the insurance and securities industries for over thirty (30) years. On August 19, 1993, the Debtor formed Seniors Insurance Agency of South Florida, Inc. ("Seniors"), which sold securities, viatical health insurance, and other regulated products, as well as nonregulated insurance products. Regulatory requirements mandated that Seniors employees who sold securities maintained a securities license through a licensed broker who was a member of the NASD (now FINRA).[1]
From 1995 through April 30, 2003, the Florida Secretary of State listed the Debtor as the sole officer and director of Seniors. The Debtor's wife, Pamela Cherry ("Pamela"), was the Vice President of Seniors from May 2003 until May 2005, when she was deleted as an officer of thecompany. Since May 2005, the Debtor has been the sole officer and director of Seniors.
From August 2000 through May 2004, the Debtor maintained his securities license through Sentra, a broker-dealer and member of the NASD (now FINRA). The Debtor was a successful securities salesman at both Sentra and Seniors. Specifically, Sentra paid the following amounts to the Debtor as non-employee compensation for the years 2000-2004:

  SENTRA    1099-MISC    for    2000:
  $673,725.49;
  SENTRA    1099-MISC    for    2001:
  $1,416,690.08;
  SENTRA    1099-MISC    for    2002:
  $923,232.17;
  SENTRA    1099-MISC    for    2003:


delays from 2004 until February 25, 2008. On February 21, 2008, the Debtor filed a voluntary chapter 7 petition in an effort to stop the arbitration and discharge the above-referenced debt.
Just two months after Sentra commenced the NASD Arbitration proceeding, Pamela formed Cherry & Cherry, Inc. ("C & C"). C & C is a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Broward County. Prior to February 2008, its principal address was 7124 N. Nob Hill Road, Tamarac, Florida 33321 (the "Nob Hill Office"), the same address and location used by Debtor's other company, Seniors.
Each member of Debtor's family, with the exception of him, has held a position at C & C as an officer or director. Pamela is the President, Treasurer, Director, and 50% shareholder ofC & C. Justin A. Cherry ("Justin"), the son of the Debtor, is the Vice-President, Secretary, Director, and 50% shareholder of C & C. Jill Cherry ("Jill"), the daughter of the Debtor, was the Vice-President, Secretary and a Director of C & C at the time the Debtor filed his bankruptcy petition. Pamela, Justin, and Jill held these positions despite the fact the Debtor generated most of the commissions for C & C.
After Sentra terminated the Debtor, he and certain of his family members needed to locate another broker/dealer affiliation to enable them to continue their securities business. The Debtor and Justin subsequently entered into contracts with Independent Financial Group ("IFG"), an NASD/FINRA member firm in or about September 2004. However, due to the number of customer complaints


filed against the Debtor and other matters, it took the Debtor approximately one year to obtain regulatory approval to transfer his securities license to IFG. He was approved to once again sell securities in Florida in or about July 2005. In the meantime, the Debtor sold insurance products to members of the public through Seniors or C & C.
Seniors has remained in business even after January 2005, but it did not conduct any new business. Since at least January 2007, Seniors' only income has been from renewals of insurance policies.
Seniors and C & C are engaged in substantially the same business. On March 31, 2005, Pamela wrote a letter to ECA Marketing, Inc. on Seniors' letterhead, to advise that Seniors was "changing our corporate name from Seniors ...a third country like Uganda or Rwanda, which has an agreement with Israel to receive the migrants in exchange for $5,000 per person.

Levelling accusations of racism at the Israeli government, which they say has singled them out for the colour of their skin, the Eritrean men describe an often confounding set of rules and regulations designed to push them from the country.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest A group of Eritrean men outside Holot detention centre in the Negev desert. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

Among those facing potential removal from Israel are Tomas Yohnass and Filmon Belay, both Eritreans, whom the Guardian met outside Holot detention centre, not far from the Egyptian border.

Although the men had been living and working in Israel for several years, they were sent to Holot under retroactively applied


Evaluating the benefits of a clinical ladder for nursing staff: an international review.
This paper reviews the use of clinical ladders for nursing staff and examines the extent to which their claimed benefits have been realised, on the basis of available published research-based evaluation. A 'clinical ladder' is a grading structure which facilitates career progression and associated differentation of pay by defining different levels of clinical practice. The review examines publications from the United States, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. It notes that the vast majority of publications are descriptive 'this is how we did it' articles which do not provide any evaluation. The relatively few published evaluations are assessed, and it is concluded that the evidence base for supporting the claimed benefits of the use ofFriday, 19 August 2011

Godstorm pt. 2: Wailing Winds

Ephea, god, servant, is on his knees in his king’s bedchamber. Before him lies Kraius, the godking, run through with a writhing sword of blackest, churning smoke. The sword is as long as Ephea is tall and as it twists and shifts it tears the flesh it is embedded in, spraying blood in cruel, crimson spurts. Kraius twitches, his mouth gasping in a silent scream, and then he is still.

The godking is dead.

Even through the thick walls Ephea can still hear the high-pitched clamouring of the black shrikes. Kraius’ tower is the tallest in the city and the whirling, tornadoing flock runs the height of it; there must be every shrike in Vallya drawn by the death. They only gather when


lifeblood is spilt and they have been gathering since before Ephea began climbing the stairs. He dare not imagine what it has been like for the godking, his father, to have lain here, dying violently, for all that time.

Ephea realises he can hear other sounds too. From inside the tower. He gets to his feet and shakily steps back into the corridor. The doors at the end, to the armoury, are open.

Ephea has never been in the armoury. The closest he came was only a week earlier, when Kraius had bid him wait outside. The godking had returned with a short sword in a rigid scabbard of mottled white. He had presented it to Ephea with a simple statement.

“This is a gift I do not give lightly. Thisis no practice sword. This sword you wear only at ceremony or war; you draw only when life is to be taken.”

Ephea had nodded dumbly. Kraius had made him the only god who was a servant, a grand insult, and yet had then given him a sword, from his own armoury no less, an unwarranted honour. Ephea wishes he had the sword with him now, but he is permitted no weapons in his daily duties.

He forces himself to approach the open doors and look inside.

The walls of the armoury are lined with weapon racks; the only other feature in the room is a stone plinth at the far end with a stand for holding two swords, one above the other; the stand is empty. Many of the weapons


are out of their racks, knocked down or taken down.

In the room two gods face each other. The godqueen, Elenor, stands with her back to Ephea, she is crouched in a defensive stance, her white wings drawn up tight onto her back; this is too enclosed a space for her to fight as she might otherwise choose. He can see she has a jade warhammer in her right hand; the head of the hammer exudes moss-green droplets that evaporate before ever reaching the floor. Nearby he can see the singing spear Valkyrie, the queen’s spear, but the haft has been shattered and something like blood oozes from the remains.

Opposite her is a cobalt-skinned god with bone-plate armour and eyes like burning coals. Ephea can see that the blackAppellee was not a contractor.

      The parties stipulated to the following facts prior to the hearing:

      1.     [Appellee] is the owner of the Garden Apartments, located on Pecan
             Grove Drive in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee; a hotel building
             located at 105 West Market Street in Bolivar, Hardeman County,
             Tennessee; and a restaurant building located at 109 West Market Street
             in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee (collectively, the


the motion to dismiss the indictments. At the
hearing, prior to the introduction of evidence, the parties informed the trial court that the real
issue before the court was whether Appellee was engaged in contracting when he directed
work on properties that he owns in Bolivar.

       Christopher Cravens was presented as a witness at the hearing. Mr. Cravens served
as general counsel to the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors (“Board”) from 1993
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5 Best Stephen King Books on Bookaxe

5 Best Stephen King Books on Bookaxe

We run down the best rated Stephen King books on Bookaxe according to our readers

King’s 1986 horror-slash-coming-of-age novel is currently enjoying a resurgence following a 2017 film adaptation, and the release of a new edition with a particularly striking cover.

Set in small-town Maine, the novel follows a group of men and women who were teenagers when they first discovered the horror that lurked in Derry. Now they’re grown-ups, out in the big wide world in pursuit of success and happiness. Yet none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to their hometown to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name…. It.

It takes on the form of


King first wrote his infamous 1983 horror novel, he was so terrified of what he’d produced, he put it in a drawer and swore never to publish it. Then he reached the end of his contract and with nothing else to show for it, his wife persuaded him it should see the light of day. Nothing like theatrics to set the mood!

In Pet Semetary, the Creed family move to remote, rural Maine in search of a better life, away from smoggy, dangerous Chicago. Their new home is quiet and peaceful, with only the occasional truck passing along the two-lane road out front. But behind the house is a carefully cleared path, one that leads through the woods to a place where generations of local children have buried theirThe Oregon International Air Show, a high-flying event featuring fighter jets and stunt planes, will move to McMinnville for 2019, forced from its normal Hillsboro location by airport construction.

“A major construction project at the Hillsboro Airport will close the main runway this summer/fall and has required us to consider an alternative location to hold the Air Show,” the organization wrote in an update on its website.

Few other details have been released, but the show, which is scheduled to take place the third weekend of September, will feature performances by the The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, also known as the Red Arrows, as well as a demonstration of the U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II.

Past shows have featured stunt pilots, aerial acrobatic teams and pilots who flew missions


has long been grappling with international agreements for such obligations; from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to repeated Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—COP—meetings, the best efforts have struggled to gain traction, in large part because political actions have not kept pace with promises made.

Aware of that gap, citizens have tried to litigate political leaders into action, but prior to the Urgenda (a portmanteau of “urgent agenda”) case there were no victories. In 2005, for example, the Inuit Circumpolar Council filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, based in Washington, DC, claiming that global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the United States violated the Inuit people’s right to sustain their traditional ways of life due to destructionsettlements, because they are exhausted in class,” a school administrator told HRW.

On average, children said they began working at the settlements when they were 13 or 14, but HRW found one boy who said he started working when he was 10. Work starts at 5:30 a.m. or 6 a.m. and lasts for seven to eight hours, which increases to 12 hours during harvest time, often for six or seven days a week.

“The work that children perform can be both grueling and hazardous,” the report says. Some children complained of skin rashes, dizziness and vomiting after spraying crops with pesticides without adequate protection while others were injured by sharp blades and machinery used to cut crops.

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in use in the 1940s. It has been suggested that the term was given impetus though its coincidence with related scatological slang.

Earliest use
The earliest published citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1963 (when it was reported in the journal American Speech), but the term is in fact somewhat older. Its frequent appearance in newspapers in the 1950s date back to the earliest known usage in 1951, where a man in the Los Angeles Times speaks of earning favor with his wife in terms of brownie points.

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Category:Ethics
Category:Fictional currenciesMorton Bahr, a national labor leader who helped his fellow communication workers survive threats to their jobs posed by digital technology and corporate revamping, died on July 30 at his home in Washington. He was 93.

His death was confirmed by his son, Daniel.

From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Bahr was also the president of the Jewish Labor Committee, a national advocacy group, which said the cause of death was pancreatic cancer.

Mr. Bahr, who began his career as a telegraph operator, was president of the Communications Workers of America from 1985 to 2005, running a union that today represents about 700,000 public and private sector employees in technology, media, airlines and law enforcement.

He presided during the convulsive breakup of AT&T’s Bell System as a telephone service monopoly, as mandated by


Dormition (Keemeesis)
of the Theotokos

Celebrated August 15

The dominions and the thrones, the rulers, the
principalities and the powers, the cherubim and the fearful
seraphim glorify thy Dominion (Vespers Sticheron, Tone
1).

The sacred Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos marks
her repose, which was followed by the translation of her
sacred body three days later into heaven. This feast,
therefore, marks her soul being commended into her Son's
hands and the short sojourn of her body in the tomb. Unlike
the Resurrection of Christ, the mysterious character of her
death, burial, resurrection and ascension were not the
subject of apostolic teachings, yet they were recorded by
the tradition of the Holy Orthodox Church and writings of
the Church Fathers.

The Dormition of the Theotokos took place while Apostle
Thomas was preaching the gospel in India. The other Apostles
had been caught up from variouslands on the clouds of
heaven, and were transported to Gethsemane, to the bier of
the all-blessed Virgin. This was permitted by the will of
God, so the faithful might be assured that the Mother of God
was bodily assumed into heaven. For just as they were more
greatly assured of the Resurrection of Christ, through the
disbelief of Thomas, so did they learned of the bodily
assumption into heaven of the all-pure Virgin Mary through
the delay of Thomas.

On the third day after the burial St. Thomas was suddenly
caught up in a cloud in India and transported to a place in
the air above the tomb of the Virgin. From that vantage
point, he beheld the translation of her body into the
heavens, and cried out to her, "Whither goest thou, O
all-holy one?" She removed her girdle and


her farewell!"

The Apostles took pity on St. Thomas and opened the tomb.
All were aghast when they found it empty, not realizing that
moments before she had been bodily transported to paradise
to be the mediatress of Christians. All that remained were
her burial clothes, which emitted a wonderful unearthly
fragrance.

The Feast's kontakion speaks of her as an unfailing hope
and mediation, reminding us of her intercessory role in
paradise. Neither the tomb nor death had power over the
Theotokos, who is ever watchful in her prayers and in whose
intercessions lies unfailing hope. For as the Mother of Life
she has been translated unto life by Him Who dwelt in her
ever-virgin womb.

after The Life of the Virgin Mary, The
Theotokospublished by Holy Apostles Convent and Dormition Skete,
Colorado USA, 1989, ISBN 0-944359-03-5NEW DELHI: Planning big ticket investments in India, China has evinced a keen interest in understanding the legal system here amid concerns expressed by foreign investors over delays in settling legal disputes.A Chinese delegation led by its Justice Minister Wu Aiying has met Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda with an offer to sign MoUs with India on various aspects of law."They have suggested some MoUs...they want to have mutual cooperation on various legal issues," Gowda told PTI.One of the areas where the two countries want to interact is alternate dispute resolution system in place in the two countries. "Settlement of cases at the pre-litigation stage helps in reducing pendency," he said.The Chinese delegation met Gowda and top Law Ministry officials here yesterday.In order to attract maximum foreign


issue of how India manages convicted prisoners. But since the issue falls in the domain of the Ministry of Home Affairs , the matter is being referred there.India, on the other hand, wants to have a closer look at the Chinese criminal justice system.Gowda said while the two systems are different, the Chinese rate of disposal of cases is high. "There are less delays also," he said.Seeking to woo Chinese investment as part of its 'Make In India' campaign, government plans to aggressively encourage Chinese companies set up their manufacturing units here."Bisou Records asked Eugene Chadbourne to do an album for children and he proposed an album about horror movies and monsters. Some references are obvious, like "The Thing", "Blacky Lagoony", etc., and some are about strange characters, like "Vampire Tiger Girl", and ...
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quarter. Effingham’s rigid defense forced Liberty to move the basketball and create scoring opportunities off of cuts and screens. Liberty also used more of a delayed break in transition.

"Because of their quickness we looked for the delay pass instead of forcing the early break in our transition game. We still were able to get the break going, we just made sure to take care of the basketball," Graham said.

Liberty and Effingham continued to exchange baskets and fouls throughout the second quarter. Effingham took a 29-26 lead in the final seconds of the second quarter off a 3-pointer. Liberty’s Shakur Cook hit a desperation last shot at the buzzer, tying the game at 29.

Effingham took a 31-29 lead in the first minutes of the third quarter, but by themarket growth. Furthermore, tablet aids in augmenting business setups, owing to different advanced and beneficial features offered by major vendors. For instance, in July 2015, according to Coherent Market Insights' analysis, increasing share of tablets is deployed across the U.K., French, and German companies. According to Coherent Market Insights’ analysis, around 40% of the users use tablets only for business purposes whereas the other 60% of the users use the device for entertainment or personal usage.

Asia Pacific region dominated the global Tablet Market in 2019, accounting for 34.8%% share in terms of value, followed by Europe, North America, Middle East and Africa and Latin America.

Source: Coherent Market Insights

Market Dynamics- Restraints

Availability of better alternatives is expected to restrain growth of the global tablet market during the forecast period

Growing consumer


tablets accounted for 74% share of the tablet market in Argentina and 71% share in Brazil and 59% share in Mexico.

Educational institutes are expected to emerge as new end users

Educational institutes in Latin America are increasingly adopting tablets, in order to modernize teaching methods that combine digital tools with conventional teaching techniques is expected to drive growth of the tablet market in Latin America. For instance, in 2014, the Government of Mexico announced plans to distribute 700,000 tablets to teachers and students in elementary schools in the next financial year. Moreover, in 2014, the Ministry of Education of Colombia distributed 300,000 units of tablets to various public schools in the countr

Value Chain Analysis

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In global Tablet Market, by operating system, iOS sub-segment dominated the global market in 2019,inducted Cardinals’ owner Bill Bidwill into its Hall of Fame in 2009, recognizing his contribution to the city through bringing the Cardinals to northern Arizona for more than 20 years.

Sports Illustrated rated the Cardinals training camp at NAU in the top three camps in the nation, citing the temperate summers, well-kept facilities and close proximity of players to fans.

Video

Arizona Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt talked to Inside NAU during the team’s 2009 training camp
about why the Cardinals love coming to NAU to train.

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done anything, even the impossible, just to preserve the one last thing that we feel was worth saving for.

Do the main characters change by the end of the book?

Greta most definitely were more strong-willed than when the book started. I knew that from the very beginning, her sole purpose was to be with her twin, but the idea that she manage to decides to leave her life in 1985 to start a new life in an unknown land such as 1918 with a baby coming (and without a husband) is something that I never thought Greta was willing or able to do. I guess, at the end of the day, you would do anything for your loved ones. The part where Greta said to her twin that shestay in 1918 because all she ever want was to save and resurrect her twin and she can have that if she stayed in 1918; while the original Greta in 1941 that chose to stay where she belongs also because that is where she is most needed with her own little family, where Greta 1985 had successfully helped her in saving Nathan and her marriage; and 1918 Greta that eventually were left behind in 1985 to find her true love, Leo, that was already passed away in 1918. In the end, all three Gretas had managed to save what they had wanted to save, and although it seemed too good to be true (not to mention too perfect and too convenient for everyone), I was satisfied and happy


The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial

Revolution Essay, Research Paper The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution by Curt Anderson Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short hisThe Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution

Revolution Essay, Research Paper

The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution

by Curt Anderson

Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short hisThe Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution

by Curt Anderson

Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines madeWhitney then single-handedly designed and built all the machinery to produce the weapons…all before a solitary worker entered the factory.

Later, in 1818, Whitney invented the first milling machine.

Also in the same year, Thomas Blanchard of Worcester, Mass. invented a copying machine for turning the stocks of rifles, using a model to key the machine.

Americans Elias Howe, Isaac Singer (sewing machines) and Cyrus McCormack (harvesters) and Henry Ford (automobiles) followed with inventions and innovations that used Whitney’s examples of mass production and interchangeable parts.

Return to Darex home page.tory of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines


made work more precise. Meanwhile, in sparsely populated America, the needs of a new nation required rapid and simple means of production. Machines augmented the scant work force. In England, machines served to make talented artisans better. In America, machines served to make entrepreneurs more productive.

ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS

In 1769, Englishman James Watt sparked the Industrial Revolution. His steam engine’s large cylinders posed a vexing problem. They had to be precise in interior size so that steam could not leak between cylinder and piston.

Another Englishman, John Wilkinson invented a precision horizontal-boring machine in 1775. Wilkinson’s machine made efficient steam engines possible. The steam engine cylinder could not be manufactured until machine tools had been devised that were capable of producing accurate parts.

A British subject, Henry Maudslay, developed the first enginemusket. Whitney then single-handedly designed and built all the machinery to produce the weapons…all before a solitary worker entered the factory.

Later, in 1818, Whitney invented the first milling machine.

Also in the same year, Thomas Blanchard of Worcester, Mass. invented a copying machine for turning the stocks of rifles, using a model to key the machine.

Americans Elias Howe, Isaac Singer (sewing machines) and Cyrus McCormack (harvesters) and Henry Ford (automobiles) followed with inventions and innovations that used Whitney’s examples of mass production and interchangeable parts.

Return to Darex home page.The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution

by Curt Anderson

Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England.


In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines made work more precise. Meanwhile, in sparsely populated America, the needs of a new nation required rapid and simple means of production. Machines augmented the scant work force. In England, machines served to make talented artisans better. In America, machines served to make entrepreneurs more productive.

ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS

In 1769, Englishman James Watt sparked the Industrial Revolution. His steam engine’s large cylinders posed a vexing problem. They had to be precise in interior size so that steam could not leak between cylinder and piston.

Another Englishman, John Wilkinson invented a precision horizontal-boring machine in 1775. Wilkinson’s machine made efficient steam engines possible. The steam engine cylinder could not bemanufactured until machine tools had been devised that were capable of producing accurate parts.

A British subject, Henry Maudslay, developed the first engine lathe and developed an improved micrometer. Other creative Englishmen, invented, perfected and produced various machines around the turn of the century.

Joseph Whitworth developed in 1830, a measuring instrument accurate to a millionth of an inch.

AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS

Eli Whitney. The term “Yankee ingenuity” could have been coined with Whitney in mind.

Americans solved issues of speed and mass production. In 1798, American Eli Whitney, secured a US government contract (for $134,000) to produce 10,000 army muskets. Whitney refined and successfully applied the “Uniformity-System” of production using inter-changeable parts. However, Whitney met bureaucratic disbelief and delays in implementing his ideas. He overcame these obstacles by convincingly demonstrating to President John


Adams the workability of the inter-changeable parts concept. He showed Adams that randomly selected parts would fit together as a whole working musket. Whitney then single-handedly designed and built all the machinery to produce the weapons…all before a solitary worker entered the factory.

Later, in 1818, Whitney invented the first milling machine.

Also in the same year, Thomas Blanchard of Worcester, Mass. invented a copying machine for turning the stocks of rifles, using a model to key the machine.

Americans Elias Howe, Isaac Singer (sewing machines) and Cyrus McCormack (harvesters) and Henry Ford (automobiles) followed with inventions and innovations that used Whitney’s examples of mass production and interchangeable parts.

Return to Darex home page.The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution

by Curt Anderson

Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ?A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines made work more precise. Meanwhile, in sparsely populated America, the needs of a new nation required rapid and simple means of production. Machines augmented the scant work force. In England, machines served to make talented artisans better. In America, machines served to make entrepreneurs more productive.

ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS

In 1769, Englishman James Watt sparked the Industrial Revolution. His steam engine’s large cylinders posed a vexing problem. They had to be precise in interior size so that steam could not leak between cylinder and piston.

Another Englishman, John


parts. However, Whitney met bureaucratic disbelief and delays in implementing his ideas. He overcame these obstacles by convincingly demonstrating to President John Adams the workability of the inter-changeable parts concept. He showed Adams that randomly selected parts would fit together as a whole working musket. Whitney then single-handedly designed and built all the machinery to produce the weapons…all before a solitary worker entered the factory.

Later, in 1818, Whitney invented the first milling machine.

Also in the same year, Thomas Blanchard of Worcester, Mass. invented a copying machine for turning the stocks of rifles, using a model to key the machine.

Americans Elias Howe, Isaac Singer (sewing machines) and Cyrus McCormack (harvesters) and Henry Ford (automobiles) followed with inventions and innovations that used Whitney’s examples of mass production and interchangeable parts.

Returnto Darex home page.The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution

by Curt Anderson

Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines made work more precise. Meanwhile, in sparsely populated America, the needs of a new nation required rapid and simple means of production. Machines augmented the scant work force. In England, machines served to make talented artisans better. In America, machines served to make entrepreneurs more productive.

ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS

In 1769, Englishman James Watt sparked the Industrial Revolution. His steam engine’s large cylinders posed a


a US government contract (for $134,000) to produce 10,000 army muskets. Whitney refined and successfully applied the “Uniformity-System” of production using inter-changeable parts. However, Whitney met bureaucratic disbelief and delays in implementing his ideas. He overcame these obstacles by convincingly demonstrating to President John Adams the workability of the inter-changeable parts concept. He showed Adams that randomly selected parts would fit together as a whole working musket. Whitney then single-handedly designed and built all the machinery to produce the weapons…all before a solitary worker entered the factory.

Later, in 1818, Whitney invented the first milling machine.

Also in the same year, Thomas Blanchard of Worcester, Mass. invented a copying machine for turning the stocks of rifles, using a model to key the machine.

Americans Elias Howe, Isaac Singer (sewing machines) andCyrus McCormack (harvesters) and Henry Ford (automobiles) followed with inventions and innovations that used Whitney’s examples of mass production and interchangeable parts.

Return to Darex home page.

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The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial RevolutionThe Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution

by Curt Anderson

Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines made work more precise. Meanwhile, in sparsely populated America, the needs of a new nation required rapid and simple means of production. Machines augmented the scant work force. In England, machines served to


Thomas Blanchard of Worcester, Mass. invented a copying machine for turning the stocks of rifles, using a model to key the machine.

Americans Elias Howe, Isaac Singer (sewing machines) and Cyrus McCormack (harvesters) and Henry Ford (automobiles) followed with inventions and innovations that used Whitney’s examples of mass production and interchangeable parts.

Return to Darex home page.

by Curt Anderson

Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines made work more precise. Meanwhile, in sparsely populated America, the needs of a new nation required rapid andFlorida Veterans Benefits Attorneys At The Florida Firm

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