with spending money to do that."

For Kate Kahan, Executive Director of Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL), a grassroots organization that started in response to welfare reform, fighting marriage promotion campaigns at the state and federal level has been both personally and politically important. Kahan, a single mother with a nine-year-old son, was on welfare and going to college when the 1996 welfare reforms happened. "I experienced that big transition of welfare reform personally, and barely finished college," she said in a recent interview. "I bring a strong feminist element and approach to this [work], and one of the big issues that everyone in this organization has had is this direct attack on women's private lives by trying to control who they marry and whether or notwere able to figure that out; it was pretty soon after welfare reform. We immediately identified the reauthorization of the welfare reform bill as something we needed to be involved in, and because we had the experience from the ground - our members, some of us staff members, had been there directly. That element was missing in '96 in the debates, and is an absolute necessity for the 2002 debates."

Through a particularly serendipitous turn of political events, Kahan's home state was thrust into the welfare-reform spotlight. "Montana has key congressional delegation for the welfare reform issue," she said. "Montana Senator Max Baucus is chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, the committee which holds jurisdiction over welfare. Essentially, Senator Baucus will be responsible for creating the welfare bill


concurrently. Two priors were also charged but admitted.
 On February 15, 1962, four deputy sheriffs assigned to the vice detail knocked on the door of an apartment in North Hollywood leased by one George Acevedo ostensibly to interview *340 Patricia Ricketts, a person known to at least one of them to be a narcotics user who was occupying the apartment at the time. Deputy Phillips testified he knocked on the door and when Miss Ricketts answered, he stated that it was Ray Phillips and that he wanted to see Pat. Receiving no reply to this statement, he moved to the window of the apartment and looked inside. He observed Miss Ricketts walking away from the door and thought he heard a commode being flushed.
 Deputy Lesnick, one ofthe four who was known to Miss Ricketts by name, then said: "Sheriff's Vice Detail"-- ... "Pat. This is Joe Lesnick. Open the door." Lesnick told her they wanted to talk to her and she then according to Lesnick opened the door and said "Well, come on in." Whereupon all four deputies entered the apartment. Miss Ricketts however testified that Deputy Lesnick identified himself and then said: "Okay, Pat, open up the door or we're going to break it down."
 Phillips, who by stipulation qualified as an expert on narcotics, testified that on entering the apartment the bathroom door was open to his left and he could see the appellant inside, nude from the waist up, in a kneeling or stooped position over the commode, and with his


desire to testify.  [fn. 1]*343
 On cross-examination of Acevedo, respondent impeached him by showing that he had been convicted of a felony and brought out the fact that within the past few days he had talked to appellant. When appellant attempted on redirect to rehabilitate his witness by showing that he had nothing to gain but had in fact, with specific and immediate knowledge of what would happen to him, insisted on taking the witness stand, the court, on objection of respondent, excluded the evidence on the ground that it was improper redirect. Nothing in section 2050 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which is the only authority cited by respondent in support of its position, justifies this ruling. The witness in spite of what amounted toreligion of Islam.

“This measure is a sovereign decision aimed at preventing terrorists from entering the United States of America.

“President Trump expressed his deep respect for the religion of Islam, considering it one of the divine religions that came with great human principles kidnapped by radical groups.”

Saudi Arabia has been accused of fuelling Islamist extremism with its adherence to fundamentalist Wahhabism and funding foreign mosques and schools that spread the ideology, sparking criticism from German intelligence services in a recent report.

Saudi foreign minister: Donald Trump 'is a friend to everybody'

Mr Trump was criticised for omitting the Kingdom from the six predominantly Muslim countries included in his second attempted immigration ban.

It claims to be “protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States” but opponents have pointed out


that the nations linked to most atrocities, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt, are not barred.

Almost 3,000 people died in the attacks on 11 September 2001, the world’s deadliest ever terror attack, which was carried out by 15 hijackers from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.

The countries included Mr Trump’s travel ban – Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – only have a handful of citizens involved in terror attacks on US soil but the White House argues the countries prevent an increased threat because of activity by Isis and al-Qaeda linked groups.

Prince Mohammad, who is also the Saudi defence minister, told the President his intelligence services had received information on a terror plot against the US.

A spokespersonsaid he expressed his “satisfaction with the positive attitude and clarifications he heard from President Trump about his stance on Islam”, adding: “President Trump has an unprecedented and serious intention to work with the Muslim world and to achieve its interests and Prince Mohammed considers his Excellency as a true friend of Muslims.”

The two leaders held talks in the Oval Office, with Vice President Mike Pence, Mr Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, chief of staff Reince Priebus and strategist Steve Bannon also present.

Donald Trump and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman prepare to have lunch in the State Dining Room at the White House on 14 March (Getty Images)

Separately, the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson received Saudi foreign minister Arabia Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, for talks


A Saudi Arabia-led coalition has responded with air strikes in order to reinstate Mr Hadi. It has since been accused of committing war crimes in the country. Getty Images 10 examples of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses Women who supported the Women2Drive campaign, launched in 2011 to challenge the ban on women driving vehicles, faced harassment and intimidation by the authorities. The government warned that women drivers would face arrest. Getty Images 10 examples of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses Members of the Kingdom’s Shia minority, most of whom live in the oil-rich Eastern Province, continue to face discrimination that limits their access to government services and employment. Activists have received death sentences or long prison terms for their alleged participation in protests in 2011 and 2012. GettyImages 10 examples of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses All public gatherings are prohibited under an order issued by the Interior Ministry in 2011. Those defy the ban face arrest, prosecution and imprisonment on charges such as “inciting people against the authorities”. Getty Images 10 examples of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses In March 2014, the Interior Ministry stated that authorities had deported over 370,000 foreign migrants and that 18,000 others were in detention. Thousands of workers were returned to Somalia and other states where they were at risk of human rights abuses, with large numbers also returned to Yemen, in order to open more jobs to Saudi Arabians. Many migrants reported that prior to their deportation they had been packed into overcrowded makeshift detention facilities where they


After refusing to spy on his fellow protestors, he was tortured and forced to sign a blank document that would later contain his ‘confession’. At Dawood’s trial, the prosecution requested death by crucifixion while refusing him a lawyer. Getty Images 10 examples of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was arrested in 2012 aged either 16 or 17 for participating in protests during the Arab spring. His sentence includes beheading and crucifixion. The international community has spoken out against the punishment and has called on Saudi Arabia to stop. He is the nephew of a prominent government dissident. Getty

They are also both accused of a litany of human rights abuses, including executions and Sharia-inspired justice systems, as well as crackdowns on freedom of speech and religion.

TheOnly a day after they left hospital, the royal couple - Prince William and Kate Middleton - announced that their baby's name is George Alexander Louis.
He will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and one day as King George VII, unless he decide to use his middle name.

Yesterday, July 23, 2013, 7:14 p.m. London time, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stepped out of the doors of St. Mary's Hospital's Lindo Wing in London to pose for photographs with their newborn son.
The proud father said that they are still working on a name. His title will be His Royal Highness Prince (name) of Cambridge.
The day-old baby was swaddled in a white blanket, Kate was wearing a bespoke blue polka dot dress by British designers,


Jenny Packham, and signature wedges in cream, while William was in dark pants and ubiquitous blue collared shirt.

In September 2010 Givenchy launches Play for Her, a female version of the famous and seductive Play for Him fragrance from 2008. The face of the campaign, together with Justin Timberlake is the Canadian model and actress Noot Sear.

This new fragrance comes in two variations created around a common spirit. The Eau de Parfum is a delicate echo of the Eau de Parfum Intense.

Beyonce shoot hot photo session for her new fragrance commercial. Singer posed
with vivid red dress showing her hips for the commercial of her new fragrance "Catch The Fever".

Beyonce's last business project come a few days after she and her husband Jay
Z were announced for the richest couple inDelicious and nutritious, wild turkeys were heading for extinction in the US a century ago – but now the tables have turned for the iconic gobbler

WE HUMANS have a fondness for calling someone or something we consider inept a “turkey”. Could turkeys talk, they might be inclined to throw the insult back the other way.

Ecologist Michael Chamberlain of the University of Georgia has witnessed the bird’s ability to outsmart people at first hand. He was in the field tracking a mother turkey and her poults. Thanks to the micro-GPS units he co-developed, he knew their exact whereabouts, and sent a fieldworker into the forest to find them. His colleague walked around for almost an hour trying to track them down, and never once spotted them. Chamberlain did, though.


“I was sitting in the truck,” he says. Through the windshield, he saw the turkey sneak across the road with her brood, right in front of him. The fieldworker had been behind her the whole time, but she was clever enough to keep out of sight.

“Smart” isn’t a word most of us associate with the bird that graces many a Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner plate. Yet it is the domesticated cousin of the wily wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, which without its guile might well have gone the way of the passenger pigeon. However, in a heart-warming success story for conservation, this native American has made it back from the brink of extinction. Better yet, while many other species are feeling the heat of climate change, the wild turkeyis going from strength to strength.

Turkeys are native to North and Central America, with six regional subspecies. Although domesticated by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica some 2000 years ago, the wild variety was an important resource for many Native American peoples, not just for its meat and eggs, but also for feathers, bones and spurs, which were used to make clothing, spoons, musical instruments, arrow tips and more. Estimates put the wild turkey population before Columbus arrived at some 10 million, though no one was counting. Around 1600, when Europeans first began settling in North America, the wild birds were so abundant they could be seen in flocks of hundreds.

Ironically, early settlers brought domesticated turkeys with them – these were the descendants of Mesoamerican poultry that had been


faced another threat, too. Turkeys aren’t particular about where they live, but they do have one requirement: trees. As settlers crossed the country, logging for timber and clearing forest to create farmland, suitable turkey habitat diminished. All this unfettered felling and trapping meant that by the end of the 19th century – around the time that passenger pigeon populations began to plummet – the wild turkey was in trouble. By 1920, it had been eradicated in 18 of the 39 states it had once occupied, and had also disappeared from Ontario, Canada.

Estimates of the population size at its nadir range from 30,000 to 200,000. Yet, as the passenger pigeon was sucked into the vortex of extinction, concern arose about the disappearance of wild turkeys. This was especially ferventBury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown ; with a foreword by Hampton Sides.

Authors:

Brown, Dee, 1908-2002.

Call number:

SHARED SYSTEM

Publisher:

New York : Sterling Signature, 2012, c1970.

Publication date:

2012, c1970.

Subject:

Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History.
West (U.S.) -- History.

Title:

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown ; with a foreword by Hampton Sides.

Edition:

Illustrated ed., Pbk. ed.

Physical description:

xiv, 544 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), music ; 26 cm.

Summary note:

An illustrated history of the destruction of Native American tribes across the country during the second half of the nineteenth century, taken from council records, first-hand experiences, and memoirs from the 1860s to


Mexican peso

The Mexican peso (sign: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 15th–19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$". The Mexican peso is the 10th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded currency from the Americas (after the United States dollar and Canadian dollar), and the most traded currency from Latin America.

The current ISO 4217 code for the peso is MXN; prior to the 1993  revaluation (see below), the code MXP was used. The peso is subdivided into 100 centavos, represented by "¢". , the peso's exchange rate was $21.43 per euro and $19.52 per U.S. dollar.

Etymology

The name was first used in reference to pesos oro (gold weights)were minted in .903 silver from 1910 to 1914.

In 1947, a new issue of silver coins was struck, with the 50-centavo and 1-peso in .500 fineness and a new 5-peso coin in .900 fineness. A portrait of José María Morelos appeared on the 1 peso and this was to remain a feature of the 1-peso coin until its demise. The silver content of this series was 5.4 g to the peso. This was reduced to 4 g in 1950, when .300 fineness 25- and 50-centavo, and 1-peso coins were minted alongside .720 fineness 5 pesos. A new portrait of Morelos appeared on the 1 peso, with Cuauhtemoc on the 50-centavo and Miguel Hidalgo on the 5-peso coins. No reference was made to the silver content except on the


anyone. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who dedicated his life to her service, once said the queen was “more than a man and, in truth, something less than a woman.” And yet, perhaps that was a man’s perspective, or one man’s perspective of a woman with power. Elizabeth knew how to dress like a woman, flirt like a woman, fall in love like a woman, and there were certainly women who were in every sense her lifelong friends.

Take for example, Katherine Carey Knollys, daughter of Mary Boleyn. Shortly after Elizabeth became queen, she installed this cousin as Chief Lady of the Bedchamber and kept her close at hand, perhaps to the detriment of Knollys family, till the day Lady Knollys died.Katherine “Kat” Ashley and Blanche Parry stayed withElizabeth from her childhood until each woman died. Because Elizabeth was deprived of her own mother as a young girl, Ashley and Parry became surrogate mothers to her. Ashley spoke bluntly to Elizabeth when no one else dared, and Parry continued on in Elizabeth’s household in positions of honor and affection long past her abilities warranted them.

Anne Russell Dudley married Lord Ambrose Dudley, the brother of Elizabeth’s longtime love, Robert, and became the Countess of Warwick. But even before then, Anne served Elizabeth as a maid of honor. They became great friends, and Anne stayed by her mistress’ side until Elizabeth died in 1603. Catherine Carey, the Countess of Nottingham, was the eldest daughter of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Mary Boleyn’s son and therefore a cousin to


Elizabeth; she died shortly before Elizabeth did, and it was said that her death was the loss Elizabeth was unable to bear, eventually leading to the queen’s lack of will to live.

And then in 1566, Elin von Snakenborg came from Sweden to England. The queen intervened, unusually, with another monarch in order to allow Elin to remain in England. Elizabeth, as famous for counting her pennies as her grandfather Henry VII, atypically awarded rooms, a servant, and a horse to Elin (later Helena) within months of her arrival. Throughout her service, Helena was known as someone who couldn’t be bribed. She became a great friend of the queen and the highest ranking woman in England after Elizabeth, though that friendship was tested perhaps more than many of thePalestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah arrived in the occupied Gaza Strip on Monday, in the latest effort at national reconciliation between the West Bank-based PA and the Hamas government in Gaza.

In a press conference upon his arrival, Hamdallah described the visit as a "historic moment" towards unity of the Palestinian people.

"We came at the orders of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to announce to the world, from the heart of Gaza that the Palestinian state cannot be without political and geographic unity between the West Bank and Gaza

"We know that the only way to achieve our goals is through unity, and to protect the Palestinian political system," said Hamdallah, adding that the national unity government would start to assume its administrative responsibility of the Strip.

The premier also announced


that several committees have been established to handle issues such as border crossings and PA employees in the Strip.

The visit is Hamdallah's first to Gaza in two years.

"We look forward to turning over the page of division forever, and achieving comprehensive national reconciliation that would strengthen the perseverance of our people and preserve their rights," Iyad al-Buzom, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior in Gaza, said in a statement ahead of the visit.

Hamdallah will also be visiting the Shujayea neighbourhood, where the Israeli army committed a massacre during the 2014 war on Gaza.

An Egyptian security delegation led by the Egyptian ambassador to Israel, Hazem Khairat, will be monitoring the reconciliation process.

READ MORE: Hamas ready to reconcile with Fatah - reports

After a Hamas delegation met Egyptian diplomats in Cairolate last month, the movement decided it would dissolve its administrative committee and expressed its willingness to reconcile with its rival, the Fatah political party, after a decade of division.

"Hamas's decision to respond to Abbas's intitiative and to dissolve the administrative committee is an important step that we will build on with lots of work," Hamdallah said at the press conference.

Hamas has been the de-facto ruler in the Gaza Strip since 2007 after the party defeated President Mahmoud Abbas' long-dominant Fatah party in parliamentary elections.

Hamas then pushed Fatah out of Gaza in a bloody conflict, when the latter refused to recognise the result of the vote. Hamas and Fatah have ruled the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively ever since, and multiple attempts at reconciliation have since


failed for several reasons.

The latest attempt in 2014 was thwarted when Israel launched a 51-day war against Gaza.

Hamas' control over security and its nature as an armed resistance movement have also constituted an obstacle for the PA, which cooperates with Israel on security-related matters, as laid out in the Oslo Accords, signed in 1993 and 1995 between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

READ MORE: Is the PLO facing a legitimacy crisis?

While administrative control will be handed over, the Hamas government will retain authority over security, a factor that political analysts say is likely to result in the failure of the unity government.

Abdulsattar Qassem, a political science professor at the an-Najah University in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, said it was "very unlikely that there will be lastingLast season:Allen Robinson finished with the best statistical receiving year in Penn State history. He broke the school's single-season records for both receptions (97) and receiving yards (1,432) on his way to earning his second straight honor as Big Ten receiver of the year. He accounted for about 46 percent of the passing offense -- the most a single PSU receiver's been relied on in more than 25 years -- while Brandon Felder, a senior in 2013, finished second with 28 catches for 312 yards. Robinson was among the best receivers in the nation, but Christian Hackenberg had few reliable targets outside of him who weren't listed at tight end.

What's missing: A-Rob and experience. One quick look at the returning players is all it takes to understand what


think everyone's in the same mind-set."

Different players reacted differently. But everyone seemed to agree that Penn State's certainly been through worse, and that it would emerge once again just fine.

Those same players who congratulated their head coach first met O'Brien in January 2012 when the relative unknown landed in Happy Valley and told the media he was "thrilled to be the head football coach," months before the NCAA levied unprecedented sanctions against the school. O'Brien asked players for their commitment, their loyalty, and they overwhelmingly surrendered it.

Eugene Lewis, now a rising redshirt sophomore, was one of those players. The coveted four-star recruit arrived on campus a few weeks before those sanctions, and he could've chosen to transfer elsewhere without penalty. But he decided to stick with O'Brien inHappy Valley.

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And, even now, Lewis doesn't regret his decision. Even now, he bristled at feeling even the slightest twinge of betrayal by his old coach.

"That's a strong word because you have to look at it from his point of view," Lewis said Wednesday. "He came into a position that was hard for his family, with the sanctions that we got. You have to look at what he did and how he did all he could. You can't really be mad at him for leaving after two years. I still really respect him."

Lewis was at a friend's house, watching ESPN, when he discovered the news of O'Brien's


next coach the same way we greeted Coach O'Brien."

Defensive end Curtis Cothran echoed Lewis' words and succinctly summed up the message from Penn State's players: "We're going to be OK."

Rich Barnes/US PresswireMuch will be expected of Stephen Obeng-Agyapong in his senior season for the Lions.

Who:Stephen Obeng-Agyapong and Malcolm Willis both return as starters and rising redshirt seniors. Willis was known as the quarterback of the secondary, while teammates called Obeng-Agyapong the most improved player since Week 1. Ryan Keiser is a solid special teams player and might be next in line if someone goes down. Then again, there's certainly enough young players here to push for time as backups. Jake Kiley and Jordan Lucas (listed as a CB but could also play S) appear to be the furthestahead, while incoming freshman Neiko Robinson should be a solid addition to the scout team for now. Kasey Gaines is almost guaranteed to redshirt.

Strengths: These starters are experienced, and they made some nice improvements in the second half of the season. Willis added a lot to the communication of the defense, and it was pretty evident when he was out of the lineup. Obeng-Agyapong made longer strides than anyone else on defense, and there's a lot of potential here in a quartet consisting of incoming freshmen and redshirt freshmen.

Weaknesses: Although the safeties made great strides last season, they were still the Achilles' heel of this defense. PSU had to resort to more zone coverage because they seemed to lack awareness and were a liability on third downs. Neither


safety recorded an interception, and they need to shore up the middle of the field better than in 2012.

Surprise player: Kiley. Bill O'Brien mentioned him by name on Monday, and he's also been a player who's received quite a bit of praise since preseason camp. He likely won't see much time this season, but he could still end up being a three-year starter. This year will go a long way in determining his development and future role. Somebody needs to replace Willis and Obeng-Agyapong in 2014.

Overall: This will obviously be an improved group from last season because both starters return and finally have more experience under their belts. The graduation of Jake Fagnano doesn't hurt that much, and fans can expect to see above-average production out of thepicked up a reputation as a hard worker. He earned the Jim O'Hora Award, given to the most improved defensive player, after spring practice.

By the numbers: He finished fifth on the team with 60 tackles (41 solo stops), five tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and five pass breakups. He was part of a pass defense that was ranked No. 50 nationally and allowed 225 yards per game.

Job description: Morris may have preferred man coverage, but Penn State was forced to stick with zone coverage for most of 2012 because of some early secondary struggles. Whoever fills in for Morris will likely be counted on for more man coverage, though, and his replacement will be asked to force more turnovers. Morris was a good corner, but he didn't come


away with a single interception, fumble recovery or forced fumble.

Top candidates: Rising sophomore Da'Quan Davis is the favorite to fill in because he was the only other cornerback to really see time at the position in 2012. Incoming freshman Jordan Smith, who will enroll in less than a week, is a definite darkhorse here, but PSU could always turn to its other two 2012 DBs. Jordan Lucas and Jake Kiley might be better suited at safety, but both could be moved around in case of injury or to add some competition.

One to watch: Davis. He was our No. 1 2012 player to watch next season, and that's because a lot will be resting on his young shoulders. He's not the biggest corner at 161 pounds, but another offseasonshould help him bulk up. He's being groomed to take over for Morris -- and Morris, Bill O'Brien and two high school coaches all commented on Davis' work ethic. It's his job to lose at this point.

Courtesy of Brandon FranklinAs the first player to commit to Penn State following the NCAA sanctions, Brennan Franklin's the wild card of the class of 2012. If he develops, he could turn into the ultimate recruiting steal.

The defensive players in Penn State's 2012 recruiting class are not the most heralded the Nittany Lions have ever snagged. But defense has been a strength of Penn State since before some of these recruits' parents were born -- and that's not expected to change.

Four-star defensive tackle Brian Gaia heads the incoming defensive class, and several


(as well as instructions on how to build a microfilm projector), Camel cigarettes, an RKO newsreel, and various seeds, fabrics, metals, and plastics. The ’64 capsule included updated materials referring to atomic energy and the nascent space program.

Further Down The Wormhole: Earlier we mentioned the Pyramid Of The Sun; a perusal of Wikipedia’s List Of Tallest Pyramids shows it to be behind La Danta in Guatemala, the Great Pyramid Of Giza, its neighbors Khafre and the Red Pyramid, the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, the Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, and the Great Pyramid Of Cholula, one foot taller and also located in Mexico.

Our much-politicized neighbor to the south is one of America’s biggest trading partners, and both countries were participants in NAFTA. While conservatives dislike that trade agreementECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE The marketplace in which most commerce takes place today is not a pre-existing condition of the universe. It's not nature. It's a game, with very particular rules, set in motion by real people with real purposes. That's why it's so amazing to me that scientists, and people calling themselves scientists, would propose to study the market as if it were some natural system — like the weather, or a coral reef. It's not. It's a product not of nature but of engineering. And to treat the market as nature, as some product of purely evolutionary forces, is to deny ourselves access to its ongoing redesign. It's as if we woke up in a world where just one operating system was running on all


as false, dangerous, and ultimately deadly as any religion. The trend began on the pages of the digital business magazine, Wired, which served to reframe new tech innovations and science discoveries in terms friendly to disoriented speculators. Wired would not fundamentally challenge the market; it would provide bankers and investors with a map to the new territory, including the consultants they'd need to maintain their authority over the economy. The first and probably most influential among them was Peter Schwartz, who, in 1997, with Peter Leyden, forecast a "long boom" of at least 25 years of prosperity and environmental health fueled by digital technology and, most importantly, the maintenance of open markets. Kevin Kelly foresaw the way digital abundance would challenge scarce markets, and offered clear rules through(The economy we now celebrate as the happy result of these Renaissance innovations only took effect after Europe had lost half of its population.) As it's currently practiced, the issuance of currency — a public utility, really — is still controlled in much the same manner by central banks. They issue the currency in the form of a loan to a bank, which in turn loans it a business. Each borrower must pay back more then he has acquired, necessitating competition — and more borrowing. An economy with a strictly enforced central currency must expand at the rate of debt; it is no longer ruled principally by the laws of supply and demand, but the debt structures of its lenders and borrowers. Those who can't grow organically must


in a way that could not have been extracted by a central authority. Instead, colonists were required to sell cotton to the Company, at fixed prices, who shipped it back to England where it was fabricated into clothes by another chartered monopoly, and then shipped to back to America for sale to the colonists. It was not more efficient; it was simply more extractive. The resulting economy encouraged — and often forced — people to accept employment from chartered corporations rather than create value for themselves. When natives of the Indies began making rope to sell to the Dutch East India Trading Company, the Company sought and won laws making rope fabrication in the Indies illegal for anyone except the Company itself. Former rope-makers had to close theirsecond half saves to deny Sissoko twice, Ayoze Perez and at the death, substitute Jamaal Lascelles.

England goalkeeper Jack Butland was in sensational form and made a number of impressive saves

Asked if he had seen a better goalkeeping performance this season, Anita said: 'Not with so many chances.

'We have played a couple of good games and today was a good game for us. Unfortunately. we didn't score one of the chances.'

Stoke gave as good as they got for long periods and had a gilt-edged chance of their own when Jonathan Walters powered a header towards goal from Marko Arnautovic's 52nd minute cross and saw keeper Rob Elliot make a save of which Butland would have been proud.

Manager Mark Hughes was satisfied with a point after admitting the midweek Capital


rotate freely. Perhaps the most simple wire dispenser is a dowel inserted through the center of the roll. Holding the dowel on either side of the roll while walking backwards allows the wire to pay out as the roll unwinds. Heavier rolls of wire may be unwound by two people, one on either side of the roll supporting the respective ends of a shaft inserted through the roll, reel or drum. Still heavier rolls may be carried on motorized vehicles—a common method being a shaft resting on the side walls of a pickup truck's bed.
Barbed wire is commonly manufactured in rolls 80 rods (1320 feet) in length, 70-90 lbs per roll depending on the gauge, number of strands, type and number of barbs. The rolls are typically woundA new deep-water Astyris species (Buccinoidea: Columbellidae) from the southeastern Pacific.
Marine mollusks from northern Chile and from the Región de Atacama in particular have been sparsely documented, and only a few works have reviewed the area (see Araya & Araya, 2015; Labrín et al. 2015; Araya & Valdés 2016). Mollusks from deep water and offshore areas are one of the least known groups and, apart from some classic works from the 19th century, only McLean (1970), Bernard (1983), Véliz and Vásquez (2000), Fraussen & Haddorn (2000), Houart (2003), Vilvens & Sellanes (2010), and Araya (2013) have included deep-water molluscan species from northern Chile. Among the Neogastropoda, the Columbellidae constitute a quite diverse and well-distributed family of small snails, with about seven hundred extant species distributed in 70 genera


Friday and Saturday nights; Barry gives him a shower on the other nights of the week). When the bath is finished and he’s let all the water out (his job), he normally climbs out, balancing precariously on the edge of the bath for a second before launching himself into my arms with one of his heart-stopping toothy grins. Last night some water had been splashed on the edge of the bath, and he had a bit of trouble getting purchase to climb up. "It seems," he announced thoughtfully to himself, "that you are too slippery to climb out."

As I type this, he’s playing his DVDs on the computer behind me. His game for tonight has been to open up Word and type the title of each DVD beforeBruce Springsteen with his wife Patti Scialfa in October. Tickets are selling upwards of $1,200 on the secondary market.
Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Born to run, indeed. Bruce Springsteen’s hit Broadway show, Springsteen on Broadway, which was originally slated to last until 26 November, and then February, has now been extended again to June 2018. The new tranche of tickets goes on sale on Tuesday.

The extension of the rocker’s Broadway run confirms Springsteen has established a new paradigm for performers: tapping a seemingly insatiable demand by audiences for what amounts to a nightly reading from his hit autobiography, set to music, interspersed with songs performed solo and with his wife, Patti Scialfa.

But the new ticket allocation will be distributed to the same original list of fans organisers received before the show


loves is monetarily gutted by her cheating fiancé Juliet is forced to take a job as the new manager of Java Jive. It's owned by her best friend Pete, they've known each other since University. What could go wrong?On Juliet's first day she doesn't make a good impression on her staff. She fights with the head cook and alienates the baristas. The day gets even worse when she finds the cook she argued with dead in the dumpster out back. Now she's a suspect in a murder, her employees hate her, Java Jive is hemorrhaging money and she can't count the health code violations she's spotted all over the restaurant.Juliet wonders what she's gotten herself into. She decides she better find the real killer before the police decideWolves pick up contract options on Rubio, Williams

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Timberwolves have exercised their fourth-year contract options on point guard Ricky Rubio and small forward Derrick Williams, as expected.

The move on Williams was less of a sure thing, but the Wolves are counting on continued improvement this season from the second overall pick in the 2011 draft. The decision on these third-year players was announced by the Wolves on Saturday, along with the move to waive center Chris Johnson.

That brought the roster to 15 players for the regular season, giving forward Robbie Hummel and guard A.J. Price the last two spots.

Former basketball boss David Kahn's last move before he was fired was to guarantee the 28-year-old Johnson's $916,000 salary for 2013-14. He played in 30 games last


(CNN) Sometimes presidential inaugurations are full of pomp and circumstance. Sometimes they end with the newly sworn-in president jumping out of a White House window. Intrigued yet?

Whether you're stoked or bummed about the way the election turned out, here are some fun facts to make you look like a history buff to your friends as the inauguration festivities near

Yes, this stuff really happened.

When William Henry Harrison was too proud to wear a coat.

What, you don't remember who William Henry Harrison is? Probably because while he holds the record for giving the longest inaugural address, he didn't hang around the White House too long. His 8,500-word address took about an hour and 45 minutes to read. But it was a super cold and rainy day in 1841, and Harrisonrefused to wear a hat or coat. He caught a cold that developed into pneumonia and died a month later.

That's what his official cause of death was, but that's been called into question , with contaminated water being a possible culprit.

Harrison became the first president to die in office and served the shortest tenure in US history.

William Henry Harrison apparently didn't even use an umbrella.

Abraham Lincoln's soon-to-be assassin took part in the festivities.

It was Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865, the first time African-Americans participated in the inaugural parade. Concerns about Lincoln's safety lingered. His inauguration four years earlier was the first to incorporate major security measures.

There was a guest in the crowd that day in 1865 who would become Lincoln's biggest threat. John Wilkes Booth, the man who


would shoot Lincoln a month later, can be seen in photos near the President as he delivers his address.

Assassin John Wilkes Booth got close to President Lincoln more than once.

Teddy Roosevelt's unique inauguration jewelry.

For his second inauguration in 1905, Roosevelt wore a ring containing a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair.

Wait, what? Roosevelt was inspired by Lincoln. His admiration started early. There's an image of Roosevelt as a boy looking out of a second-story window onto Lincoln's funeral procession. Roosevelt called himself an heir to Lincoln's policies during his presidency, referring to his relationship with the African-American community.

President Theodore Roosevelt was an admirer of Lincoln.

That time Andrew Jackson jumped out of a White House window. Maybe.

It was 1829. One of the nastiest campaigns in US history had just endedwith Andrew Jackson winning the presidency over John Quincy Adams. The White House held an open house after Jackson's inauguration inviting anyone to come hang out. Problem was, the White House wasn't prepared for the crowd.

Accounts vary. Some say it was a wild party where furniture was destroyed and the mob of people had to be lured outside with punch. Others say the riotous atmosphere was fabricated into lore by Jackson's enemies. No one disputes that the number of people at the party was insane. Jackson had to get out. So did he really escape through a White House window or did his staff quietly escort him from the property? Depends on which account you believe.

Andrew Jackson's inaugural party was a wild time.

The 'So help me God' line


was ad-libbed.

The actual oath, laid out in Article II Section I of the Constitution , is just 35 words : "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

During his first inauguration in 1789 in New York, it is said that George Washington added the phrase, "So help me God," and so the precedent was set that presidents follow to this day. There isn't any hard evidence of this, but even the National Archives credits him with doing it.

Why did Washington take the oath in New York? That was the seat of the government at the time. Thomas Jefferson wasthe first president to be inaugurated in Washington, in 1801 after it became the capital city.

President George Washington set the tone for future inaugural oaths.

Inauguration festivities weren't always so chilly to attend.

Washington winters aren't exactly ideal for outdoor gatherings, so why hold inaugurations in January?

James Buchanan didn't have to worry about a chance of snow when he was inaugurated in 1857. It was a beautiful spring day, which helped make the first known photograph of a presidential inauguration that much more perfect.

It wasn't until the 20th Amendment was ratified in 1933 that the date of January 20 was set as the end of the term of office for the president and vice president.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk in the 2009 inaugural parade.

Whose line is


The Dutch international spent last season on loan at the Liberty and Swans chairman Huw Jenkins has confirmed that the winger will be remaining in South Wales next term after agreement was reached with his parent-club Villarreal.

``Everyone is happy the loan is continuing,'' Jenkins told www.swanseacity.net. ''Then Jonathan will review his long-term future next summer.''

De Guzman scored eight goals last season as the Swans finished ninth in the Premier League and won the Capital One Cup and he is aiming to continue that progression come August.

``I had a great year at Swansea,'' said the 25-year-old. ``The people around the club and the fans treated me well.

``It was not just the results we had; it was more about showing we can also compete with the big teams. We playedcounts, but he was soon released on bail. Officials then booked him Monday on an earlier, minor theft from a bookstore, but he again posted bail.

Hours later Tuesday morning, Gleason was arrested in the two homicides and the shooting, a culmination of a multi-agency investigation that used video, tips from local businesses, witness statements and detective work. Authorities said the key evidence came from "touch DNA" found on casings gathered by police on Florida Street, where Bruce Cofield was shot dead the night of Sept. 12 while on the side of the road. The DNA matched a swab taken from Gleason.

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"Had there not been a swift conclusion to this case I feel confident this killer would have probably killed again," said Baton


either victim.

In the shooting from the 3400 block of Florida Street around 10:30 p.m. Sept. 12, witnesses told police that a white man wearing tactical gear in a red car had committed the crime, Moore said.

Two nights later, around 11 p.m. at 3014 Alaska Street where Smart was gunned down, two witnesses told police the shooter had been a white man in a red car.

At both locations, police were able to find some relevant video but it was of little use, Moore said.

However, law enforcement determined Friday that the two men were killed in the same manner, alleging that Gleason shot at the pedestrians while in his car, then exited once they fell to the ground. He then stood over the victims while continuing to fire shots, MooreOffice received a call from a Jiffy Lube employee saying they saw someone putting a gun in nearby bushes, though no weapon was recovered by deputies. The description given was a white male in a red car.

Later that night, three bullets pierced through the front door of a home on Sandy Ridge Drive, the street where Gleason lived with his parents. Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said the shots were fired from a close range, and the black family who lived there said the bullets flew through their entire house, with at least one exiting a back window. No one was hurt, though two residents were home.

The next day, Custom Security, a local surveillance company, alerted law enforcement that in a parking lot they were monitoring it appeared a man


was taking his license plate off his red car and putting a gun in his trunk. No one immediately responded to that call, Moore said.

That night, Sept. 12, Cofield was killed.

On Wednesday, Sept. 13, about 10:30 a.m., deputies responded to a call about a stolen book from Books a Million in Towne Center. The report indicated that a white male in a red car came into the store and took the book "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Moore said. No one was immediately arrested.

The next night Smart was killed. Ten rounds were fired, Moore said.

On Friday, the day police matched the bullets from the Smart and Cofield shootings as coming from the same gun, law enforcement working together at the Violent Crimes Unit at State Policeheadquarters also received two videos that allowed them to better target a specific red car.

Custom Security was able to provide footage of the man taking a license plate off a car, which also showed the man using duct tape to cover an American flag sticker and dealership emblem on the back. The car also had a dent in the back bumper. A Walgreens a few blocks from the Florida Street shooting also provided video of a red car driving by around the time of the shooting, Moore said.

A Baton Rouge Police officer stopped a red car with the same dent in the bumper and American flag Saturday afternoon and took Gleason into custody. As detectives questioned the 23-year-old, the State Police crime lab and other officials continued to


of first-degree murder, two counts of illegal use of a weapon, two counts of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated criminal damage to property.

But Moore emphasized that investigators are still working to process more DNA evidence from the two other crime scenes, and have "more work to do."

Moore and other law enforcement officials said the arrest was only possible through the Violent Crimes Unit, which was established in 2011 to bring together the Baton Rouge Police, the Sheriff's Office, State Police, the District Attorney's Office and federal agencies.

"It's a perfect example of what cooperation and collaboration can do when we're trying to fight crime," Gautreaux said. "It's an invaluable tool."Surgery of the head and 70-day brain surgeons.
In 1917, the Sugeon General of the United States Army, William Gorgas, learned that almost 15% of the casualties on the Western Front sustained intracranial injuries. Soon after the United States declared war in April 1917, the Council of National Defense established a General Medical Board and attached a brain surgery subsection to its Committee of Ophthalmology. Postcards were sent to experts around the country, asking for the names of individuals who had specialty training or practice in brain surgery. In August, Gorgas assumed control of this subsection and created a Division of Surgery of the Head in the American Army Medical Department, with additional sections for plastic surgery, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology. He needed almost 300 brain surgeons; he received 50


names. As Harvey Cushing, Gilbert Horrax, and others went to France, neurosurgeons at home trained student officers. Schools were established in Philadelphia (Charles Frazier), Chicago (Dean Lewis), New York City (Charles Elsberg), St. Louis (Ernest Sachs), and Camp Greenleaf in Georgia (Claude Coleman), with 10-week intensive courses for selected candidates. Basic science and x-ray classes and operative clinics addressed most aspects of neurosurgical care. An army manual outlined clinical diagnoses and surgical techniques. Lewis H. Weed established a laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital, staffed by volunteers such as K.D. Blackfan and W.E. Dandy, to investigate infections of the central nervous system. By the time of the armistice, Gorgas had his complement of brain surgeons. The newly trained brain surgeons and their mentors gradually made their way to theWestern Front during the summer of 1918. Plans for a neurosurgical school in France were quickly discarded as the American Army Medical Department changed the specialized assignments to front-line general surgical care. Some of the 190 brain surgeons in the American Expeditionary Forces, notably Gilbert Horrax, Charles E. Dowman, and Charles Neuhoff, treated head injuries exclusively, whereas others, such as Eustace Semmes and Howard Naffziger, treated all battle casualties depending on the tactical circumstances. The rational but naive recommendations for coordinated care made by Cushing, as senior consultant in neurosurgery, were hindered by the confusion of the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives and the chaos of war. Only three 70-day brain surgeons participated in the postwar development of the specialty. However, 9 of 10 original members of the


Neurosurgical Club, which was established 18 months after the armistice, taught in American Army Medical Department courses or served on the Western Front. The schools and their teachers emphasized a growing recognition of neurosurgical expertise in the early 20th century.board your Bus to Kozhikode Bus Stop which will take approx 3 hrs 15 mins while travelling 141 Km. After reaching Kozhikode Bus Stop take a Bus to reach Mysore, which is 198 km away and will take 5h 45m. After reaching Mysore Bus Stop take a Bus to reach Coorg, which is 81 km away and will take 4h. After reaching Coorg Bus Stop take a Auto to reach Madikeri, which is 12 km away and will take 48m. Your Overall Journey will cover 448 km and it will take you 14 hrs 16 mins to reach Madikeri.

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are unpredictable. This unpredictability is because the breeder's selection occurs in unique environments, with no control at the DNA level (using conventional breeding procedures), and with millions of different possible genetic combinations being generated. A breeder of ordinary skill in the art cannot predict the final resulting lines he develops, except possibly in a very gross and general fashion. The same breeder cannot produce the same variety twice by using the exact same original parents and the same selection techniques. This unpredictability results in the expenditure of large amounts of research monies to develop superior new cotton varieties.
Pureline cultivars, such as generally used in cotton and many other crops, are commonly bred by hybridization of two or more parents followed by selection. The complexity of inheritance, the breedingThis invention relates generally to thermoelectrically-powered wrist watches, and more particularly to a wrist watch of this type whose construction is such as to minimize shunt heat losses whereby the thermoelectric generator housed therein operates at high efficiency.
It is known to power analog or digital solid state wrist watches by means of a thermoelectric generator which operates on the Seebeck effect to develop a voltage due to differences in temperature between two junctions of dissimilar metals in the same circuit. In thermoelectrically powered wrist watches of this type, the components of the watch movement are supported on a metal carrier that is held within the watch casing with the major portion of the carrier in close proximity to the metal back of the casing.
The thermoelectric generator is placed


UT Geographers Conduct STEM Outreach with Morgan County Middle, High School Students

UT geography graduate student Zachary Merrill (right) discusses how different sensors attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle are used to collect imagery and elevation data.

Morgan County middle and high school students got a hands-on lesson on ways the field of geography can address real-world problems through technology, courtesy of staff and students from UT’s Department of Geography.

The UT team recently took part in the Morgan County College and Career Fair at the Wartburg Vocational Center. Several hundred middle and high school students and teachers attended the fair.

“My goal was to impress upon the students that there is more to geography than memorizing capitals and coloring in maps. To that end, we set up several stations to highlightTrinity team leads €12m EU-funded project to bring nature into cities

Scientists and business experts from Trinity College Dublin are leading a €12m Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme-funded project to bring nature back into cities across Europe. The Connecting Nature project will see 37 organisations from 19 countries work together to establish Europe as a global leader in rethinking how 21st Century cities can support and benefit from nature.

Through Connecting Nature, 11 European cities will invest in large-scale implementation of nature-based solutions, measure the impact of this approach, and share their experiences on a global scale.

There is growing recognition and EU-wide investment in smart, ‘engineered’ nature-based solutions designed to bring more nature and natural processes to cities, landscapes and seascapes. These innovative solutions help to improve urban environments


event, mayors, elected city officials, academics and industry participants from across Europe listened to speakers from the European Investment Bank, Social Finance UK and the European Venture Philanthropy Association as they identified current opportunities to finance large scale city-wide investment in nature-based solutions.

The market is significant; right now, over 70% of Europe’s population live in cities but this is expected to increase to over 80% by the middle of the century. This translates to 36 million new urban citizens, who will need housing, employment and care by 2050.

The project partners will develop innovative nature-based solutions in small, medium and large cities, with the aim being to roll successes out across a suite of other cities in Europe. For example, the Mayor of Genk, Belgium, (population ~65,000) is exploringThe present invention relates to an arrangement for a drawer pull-out guide having at least two rails guided telescopically one on the other, the arrangement having at least one roller and at least one roller axis and also at least one roller carrier body, and the roller being mounted rotatably on the roller axis and the roller axis being arranged, in particular fixedly, on the roller carrier body.
Drawer pull-out guides are known in the prior art in a multiplicity of embodiments. These are usually systems in which at least two rails are moved in and out telescopically one in the other or one on the other, so that a drawer can be pulled out of a furniture body and can be pushed into this again. In the prior


art, a distinction is made in drawer pull-out guides between what are known as simple pull-outs and what are known as full pull-outs. In simple pull-outs, as a rule, there are in each case two rails telescopically mounted one on the other. The rail to be fastened to the furniture body is often also designated as a body rail. The rail fastened or to be fastened to the drawer itself is designated inter alia as a drawer rail. In the case of a simple pull-out, part of the drawer remains in the furniture body even in the position pulled out to the maximum. This is not the case in what are known as full pull-outs. If a drawer is fastened in a furniture body by means of afull pull-out, the drawer can be pulled completely out of this furniture body. For this purpose, the full pull-out requires, as a rule, in each case three rails mounted telescopically one on the other. The rail to be fastened to the furniture body is in this case once again designated as a body rail and the rail fastened or to be fastened to the drawer is again designated as a drawer rail. The third rail makes the connection between the drawer rail and body rail and is usually designated as a middle rail. In order to mount these rails displaceably one in the other and one on the other, various systems are likewise known in the prior art.
The invention described below is concerned particularly with systems in which


the rails of the drawer pull-out guide are mounted displaceably one in the other or one on the other by means of rollers.
In the simple pull-outs known in the prior art, a roller is required at the front end of a drawer rail, as seen in the push-in direction. By contrast, in full pull-outs according to the prior art, it is neither necessary nor possible to provide a roller at the front end of the drawer rail, as seen in the push-in direction of the drawer. In the prior art, therefore, generic arrangements are drawer rails of simple pull-outs, on which the roller axis on which the roller is mounted rotatably is arranged directly. In these generic arrangements, the roller carrier body is therefore the drawer rail.
For theSpilosoma occidens

Spilosoma occidens is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

Larva have been reported feeding on Malvaceae.

Description

Male
Head and thorax ochreous, the vertex of head, tegulae, and patagia with greenish-grey patches, the back of head and tips of tegulae orange; palpi above blackish; antennae brown; legs blackish; abdomen orange with black segmental lines and dorsal band on 2nd segment, the sides fuscous, the ventral surface ochreous. Forewing uniform ochreous. Hindwing pale ochreous yellow, the inner area rather yellower.

Female
Abdomen with broad black dorsal hands; wings more orange yellow. Forewing with faint greyish fasciae in the interspaces, often more developed in the female.

Wingspan for the male 32–44 mm and


The Dwayne Johnson football comedy's exit is a massive blow to the Sunshine State, which is struggling to keep existing projects and lure new ones without an entertainment tax incentives program.

Ballers is leaving Florida for California in its upcoming third season.

The HBO comedy starring Dwayne Johnson is exiting the Sunshine State after filming two seasons in Miami. The move comes as Florida's film and television tax incentives program expired earlier this year after the state legislature voted down a measure in March to replenish the funds.

Since the government declined to add new monies to the pot, the future of Florida's once-booming film industry has been unclear. Production spending within the state has plummeted in recent years, down from $366 million in 2011 to $175 million in 2015 inMiami alone. The last of the state's funding (nearly $300 million was allocated for the program in 2010) went to Ballers and Netflix's Florida Keys-set drama Bloodline. But it was only enough to last two years, making subsequent seasons of the series a pricer undertaking.

In April, HBO revealed that it would be re-evaluating the situation given the lack of incentives. "We have a long history of shooting projects in Florida and were obviously disappointed in the recent vote to not renew the incentive program. We will be assessing its impact on any future productions like Ballers, who have established Florida as their home," the cable network said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. In October, THR broke the news that the upcoming third season of the Kyle


6 in Orleans. Chatham's section of the beach has three nests of unfledged chicks, which are foraging along the shore between exit 6 and 7. The chicks are estimated to fledge between July 26 and 28.

There's also an additional unfledged piping plover brood just north of the flagpole that are estimated to fledge Aug. 3 to 5, as well as an unhatched plover nest closer to the inlet.

“As in previous years, least tern colonies are actively nesting with eggs and unfledged chicks throughout much of the area, particularly near the southern end of North Beach,” read a statement issued Friday.

Under the habitat conservation plan permit, escorted oversand access is only allowed in the vicinity of one piping plover brood. Given the number of plover and tern chicks throughoutThe reception in the US, and in other advanced economies, of Thomas Piketty's recent book Capital in the Twenty-First Century attests to growing concern about rising inequality. His book adds further weight to the overwhelming body of evidence concerning the soaring share of income and wealth at the very top.

Piketty's book provides a different perspective on the 30 or so years that followed the Great Depression and the second world war, viewing this period as a historical anomaly, perhaps caused by the unusual social cohesion that cataclysmic events can stimulate. In that era of rapid economic growth, prosperity was widely shared, with all groups advancing, but with those at the bottom seeing larger percentage gains.

Piketty also sheds light on the "reforms" sold by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher


capital in the 21st century. It is about democracy in the 21st century.

• Joseph E Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is university professor at Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Bruce Greenwald, is Creating a Learning Society: a New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress.

© Project Syndicate, 2014Palmetto Moon Blog Tour

June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found…Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself one day away from a wedding she doesn’t want, she’s left with no choice but to run away from the future her parents have so carefully planned for her. In Round O, South Carolina, Vada finds independence in the unexpected friendships she forms at the boarding house where she stays, and a quiet yet fulfilling courtship with the local diner owner, Frank Darling.


For the first time in her life, she finally feels like she’s where she’s meant to be. But when her dear friend Darby hunts her down, needing help, Vada will have to confront the life she gave up—and decide where her heart truly belongs.

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Vada Hadley does not want to marry Justin McLeod. He is crude and he will keep her caged up like a bird with a broken wing. With a little nudge Vada takes flight and runs away. She ends up in Round O, South Carolina. A small town where everyone knows everyone else's business.

Frank Darling was a military reject. He wanted to go but due to a heart condition he was not able to. Ever since than, he has been a little bitter. Heworks as a cook at a local diner. From the first moment that Frank lays eyes on Vada, it is love at first sight.

Palmetto Moon is a charming read. The characters make you want to hop into the book and stay with them forever. I am glad that Vada stepped out on her own. She blossomed into a good woman. There was a time of two where she did revert to being a young child like and needing assistance but luckily she had Frank there by her side. Speaking of Frank, he is such a sweetheart. He was like a giant teddy bear with a heart of gold. I had such an enjoyable time with Vada, Frank, Claire, and her boys that before I knew it I was


you’re a writer because you have to create your own crazy. PLUS after you’re published and you’re being interviewed, it’s very appealing when the author actually lived in Crazy Town or somewhere in the general vicinity.

Almost everything she learned about writing, she learned from her grandpa, an oral storyteller, who was a master teacher of pacing and sensory detail. He held court under an old mimosa tree on the family farm, and people used to come from all around to hear him tell stories about growing up in rural Georgia and share his unique take on the world.

As a stay-at-home mom, Kim started writing, grabbing snip-its of time in the car rider line or on the bleachers at swim practice. After her kids left the nest, she startedtaste of what it is like to deal with a relative with a mental illness. Although, my exposure was limited. Mr. Dunn did a marvelous…

Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre series of attacks, and Barlow is convinced it has something to do with a multiple murder in 1925, in which his family had a shameful part.

Ford doesn’t believe in curses, but as he and his friend Tomlinson begin to investigate, following the trail of the attacks from Key Largo to Tallahassee, they, too, suffer a series of near-fatal mishaps. Is it


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Saturday, April 19, 2014

The Beginning
of the New School Year Starts in April: Student, Staff, and School Transition
Activities to Help Prepare for a Successful New School Year

Dear Colleagues,

While many schools across the country are
currently finishing up their state's "high stakes"
assessments to determine their students' academic proficiency--once that is
over, it is important to remember that:

The New School Year (in August) begins this Month
(in April).

The Need to Conduct End-of-Year
Student, Staff, and School "Transition" Evaluations

That is, before
the end of the current school year, schools need to look at their students,
staff, and the school itself to identify (a) what has or has not worked
effectively this year, and (b) what services, supports, or other resources are
needed for success next year.

These
evaluations are particularly important for schools that are in
Improvement status, and/or that have large numberscolleagues are
geared up to finish the last 30 to 40 school days of the current school year
proactively, productively, and successfully.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

New U.S.
Department of Education Report Just Released:New Office for Civil Rights
Report Reveals that African American and Male
Preschool Students are Disproportionately Suspended from Preschool

Dear Colleagues,

Late last
month (March 21, 2014), the
U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights released its first
comprehensive look at civil rights data from every public school in the country
in nearly 15 years. Called The Civil Rights Data Collection
(CRDC), data from the 2011-2012 school year were reported, and the most
newsworthy information showed that:

More than
8,000 public preschoolers were suspended at least once, with black children
and boys receiving a disproportionate number of these suspensions. Indeed,
while Black youngsters made up about 20% of all preschool pupils, close to


will help all of us on our way.

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Howard M. Knoff, Ph.D. is the creator and Director of Project ACHIEVE.After 22 years as a university professor and over 12 years as a federal grant director for a state department of education, he continues his national work as a full-time national consultant, author, and presenter.

Dr. Knoff is recognized nationwide as an expert in the following areas:

·School Improvement and
Turn-Around, Strategic Planning and Organizational Development

·Differentiated Academic
Instruction and Academic Interventions for Struggling Students

·Social, Emotional, and
Behavioral Instruction and Strategic and Intensive Interventions for Challenging
Students

·Multi-tiered (RtI)
Services, Supports, and Program

·Effective Professional
Development and On-Site Consultation and Technical Assistance

From 2003 through 2015, he was the Director of the federally-funded State Improvement Grant (SIG; 2003-2009) which then became the State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG;2009-2015) for the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE). These grants funded the state-wide scale-up of Project ACHIEVE--especially its school improvement, positive behavioral support, and multi-tiered RtI service system components. Through the ADE's Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility process, Project ACHIEVE was the state's school improvement model for all Focus schools.

Prior to that, Dr. Knoff was a Professor of School Psychology at the University of South Florida (USF, Tampa, FL) for 18 years, and Director of its School Psychology Program for 12 years. He also was the creator and Director of the Institute for School Reform, Integrated Services, and Child Mental Health and Educational Policy at USF, and was instrumental in leading the program to the accreditation of its doctoral program by the American Psychological Association.

Project ACHIEVE is


a nationally-recognized school
effectiveness/school improvement program that has been designated a National
Model Prevention Program by the U. S. Department of Health & Human
Service’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA).Over the past 30 years, Howie
has implemented Project ACHIEVE components in thousands of schools or school
districts—training in every state in the country.He has also been awarded over $21 million in
federal, state, or foundation grants for this work, and recently received two
School Climate Transformation grants and one Elementary and Secondary
Counseling grant from the federal government to support work in Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and Kentucky.

Dr. Knoff received his Ph.D. degree from
Syracuse University in 1980, and has worked as a practitioner, consultant,
licensed private psychologist, and university professor since 1978.Dr. Knoff is widely respected for his
research and writing on school reform and organizational change, consultation
and interventionprocesses, social skills and behavior management training,
Response-to-Intervention, and professional issues.

He has authored or co-authored 18 books,
published over 100 articles and book chapters, and delivered over 1,000 papers
and workshops nationally—including the Stop & Think Social Skills
Program (preschool through middle school editions) and the Stop &
Think Parent Book:A Guide to Children’s
Good Behavior through Cambium Learning/Sopris West Publishers and Project
ACHIEVE Press, respectively.

Dr. Knoff has a long history of working
with schools, districts, and community and state agencies and
organizations.For example, he has consulted with a number of state departments of
education, the Department of Defense Dependents School District during Desert
Storm in 1991, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.He has also served as an expert witness in
federal court five times, in addition to working on many other state and local
cases—largely for legal advocacy firms who


are representing special education
and other students in need.

Specific to
school safety issues, Dr. Knoff was on the writing team that helped produce Early
Warning, Timely Response:A Guide to
Safe Schools, the document commissioned by President Clinton that was sent
to every school in the country in the Fall of 1998; and he participated in a
review capacity on the follow-up document, Safeguarding our Children: An
Action Guide.

A recipient of the Lightner Witmer Award
from the American Psychological Association's School Psychology Division for
early career contributions in 1990, and over $21 million in external grants
during his career, Dr. Knoff is a Fellow
of the American Psychological Association (School Psychology Division), a Nationally
Certified School Psychologist, a Licensed Psychologist in Arkansas, and he has
been trained in both crisis intervention and mediation processes.Frequently
interviewed in all areas of the media, Dr. Knoffhas been on the NBC Nightly
News, numerous television and radio talk shows, and he was highlighted on an
ABC News' 20/20 program on "Being Teased, Taunted, and
Bullied."

Finally, Dr. Knoff was the 21st President of the National Association of
School Psychologists which now represents more than 25,000 school psychologists
nationwide. He is constantly sought after for his expertise in a wide variety of school,
psychological, and other professional issues. You can e-mail him at: knoffprojectachieve@earthlink.net


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Amazing and at the same time, a strange story was told to me by an old acquaintance by correspondence. He told me of the time when he was nothing but a simple guy, yearning for a young female flesh. But due to the thunderstorm of events, in which he was cast, he found himself at a disastrous end. His birth was shrouded in mystery, and his goals were that of a simple man. His youth could be the envy of all. But to live through his destiny and bear the entirety of it, is even beyond my power. He will recite you a tale about the students who changed his life. And many women who he met, and how they have changed his fate. We are aboutVarious types of attachments have been used to hold the case of a wrist instrument or timepiece on the wrist of the wearer, such as expansion bands, link bracelets and flexible straps. A popular type of attachment is a strap consisting of two strap halves each of which are attached to lugs on the case of the wrist instrument at one end and which are then buckled together on the other ends. Buckles for watch straps are well known in the art. Ordinarily, one end of the strap is folded around a transverse member on the buckle frame and secured, the transversed member also pivotally supporting the tongue of the buckle which extends through a hole in the strap. The end of the other strap half contains a


Andrea von Wilmowsky was born in Dresden in 1955. She is married and lives near Munich.

For almost a quarter century she has worked as a nurse in intensive care units and seen much in this world between life and death – some of which has been declared a taboo by medical sciences. Questions around “brain death” accompanied her for many years and never let go of her. One day the subject entered into her personal life marking the beginning and the end of a true love story which could not be more extraordinary.

The book “Segelfalter”, an optimistic tragedy, encourages its readers to take a completely new approach to the fear-laden topics of death and dying.this Court concludes that it lacks jurisdiction, and therefore, the complaint will be dismissed with prejudice.

BACKGROUND
Plaintiff, a Delaware corporation with businesses located in various states, has brought this suit against the Secretary of Labor and the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health in their capacities as the administrators of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651 et seq., ("OSH Act"). Under the statute, the Secretary of Labor is responsible for administering the Act; she has delegated most of these duties to the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, who heads the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA").

A. Statutory and Regulatory Framework
Congress enacted the OSH Act "to assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation


of a method of reducing the current consumption in a liquid-crystal display panel drive power supply is a method for reducing the current consumption in a liquid-crystal display panel drive power supply circuit having a first power supply of a high potential, a second power supply of a potential that is lower than the potential of the first power supply, a plurality of voltage-dividing resistors provided in series between the above-noted first power supply and second power supply, and a plurality of voltage-follower configured amplifiers for introducing a plurality of differing voltages from the connection points between the above-noted resistors to a liquid-crystal display panel, wherein a capacitor is connected between an output terminal of the above-noted amplifier and the second power supply, and a charge that isplane were killed when it crashed in bad weather in Hussainabad village, located less than 10 km from the airport.

This was the second major air disaster near the Pakistani capital since July 2010, when an Airbus of private carrier AirBlue crashed into the Margalla Hills, killing all 152 people on board.

Yousufzai said the Bhoja Air Boeing 737-200 that had crashed had been certified by the CAA.

The airline too was operating in accordance with prescribed procedures.
"There was no compromise on safety standards," he said.

Bhoja Air was recently revived after being closed for over a decade due to financial problems.

Media reports said the airline has a fleet of ageing aircraft, mostly Boeing 737-200s.

Yousufzai said Bhoja Air`s revival had been cleared by the
CAA only after the airline had paid all its


outstanding dues and all its aircraft had been certified.

He said no political pressure was involved in the airline`s clearance.
The National Transportation Safety Board of the US and the aviation firms Boeing and Pratt and Whitney will be involved in the probe into the crash, Yousufzai said.

The aircraft was made by Boeing while its engines were manufactured by Pratt and Whitney.

Earlier in the day, Meteorological Department director Arif Mahmood told the media that his organisation had issued two warnings about bad weather at 3 pm and 6 pm yesterday.

Both warnings were valid for three hours and were issued due to heavy cloud cover over the airport.

Mahmood contended that no flights should have been allowed to operate in such weather and they should have been diverted to Lahore.

"There were highwind speeds and gusts of up to 65 knots or 100 kmph. In such a downdraft, it would be difficult for anything to survive," he said.

However, the CAA chief contended that the weather warnings were not so severe that the Rawalpindi airport should have been closed.

Meanwhile, Geo News channel quoted its sources as saying that a preliminary investigation had revealed that the plane had caught fire before it crashed and this may have been due to lighting striking the aircraft.

It reported that the record of the conversation between the pilot and the control tower had been sealed.

Other reports said that the Bhoja Air plane which crashed was 28 years old and had been bought on dry lease from a South African company.

The aircraft was recently cleared to fly


by aviation authorities after tests in South Africa.

Bhoja Air`s licence was restored in March and the aircraft that crashed was on the firm`s maiden evening flight from Karachi to Islamabad.

The pilot of the flight, Noorullah Afridi, and first officer Javed Mushtaq were both retired air force personnel.criminal justice reform.

Regenia Hicks, who was tapped to lead the diversion program in 2013 when it was first launched, said itwill continue with a more-than-$3 million commitment from the county. It's currently slated to continue until late 2017.

For years, Texas lagged behind other states in public funding for mental-health services. In 2013, lawmakers began changing course, investing millions in substance-abuse treatment, efforts to eliminate waiting lists for mental-health services and creating the pilot in Harris County.

Since then, the state and the county have contributed roughly $4 million apiece per year for the diversion program, county budget officials said.

Through jail-booking, health and other data, officials identified inmates who had been booked into the jail at least three times in the last four years and also had a severe mental


EXCLUSIVE: Southampton sack academy coaches Jason Dodd and Paul Williams (who brought through Luke Shaw) 'for not spending enough time with players'

Shaw has reacted furiously to sackings by Southampton

Left back currently in Portugal on pre-World Cup training with England

Dodd and Williams credited with emergence of Calum Chambers, James Ward-Prowse, Harry Reed and Sam Gallagher

Southampton players and staff stunned at decision to fire pair

Williams and Dodd 'did not spend enough time with the Under 16 squad'

Shaw, Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren set to quit Saints this summer

Southampton are in meltdown after they fired their two fabled academy coaches Jason Dodd and Paul Williams ‘for not spending enough time with the players’.

Dodd and Williams were sacked despite being credited with bringing through Luke Shaw, Calum Chambers, James Ward-Prowse, Harry Reedand Sam Gallagher through the club’s highly-regarded academy to the first team.

Sportsmail understands Shaw, who is currently away with the England squad in Portugal preparing for the World Cup, reacted furiously to the news.

The left-back posted on Twitter: 'Gutted for doddsy and Willo, helped me a lot in my development over the years, wish them all the best in their carers [sic]'

VIDEO Luke Shaw in action and James Ward-Prowse impersonating Gerrard

Sacked: Southampton have axed academy coaches Jason Dodd (left) and Paul Williams (right) for 'not spending enough time with the players'

Furious: Luke Shaw, away on England duty, reacted with anger at the news of the coaches' sacking Farewell: Southampton left-back Luke Shaw, whose career was overseen by Dodd and Williams, posted this message on Twitter Not happy: Shaw


then replied to a post by BBC reporter Adam Blackmore by saying 'wrong decision'

Dodd, who made nearly 400 appearances for Southampton, has been left stunned by the decision to fire him and Williams, who was a member of the Saints' FA Cup final squad against Arsenal in 2003..

The pair were called into the club on Monday and told of their fate by interim academy director Matt Hale.

It’s understood they were told they did not spend enough time with the Under 16 squad and that their relationship with another coach, Martin Hunter, was not healthy.

Giving youth a chance: Dodd pictured when Southampton's caretaker manager in 2008

Old boy: Paul Williams in a Southampton shirt against Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2002

THE YOUNG STARS THEY HAVE HELPED BRING THROUGH

Luke Shaw

18-year-oldleft back who has excelled at Saints this season and earned a call-up to the England World Cup squad.

Calum Chambers

Right back, 19, who also enjoyed a breakthrough season. England Under 19 star.

James Ward-Prowse

Midfielder, also 19, who has been a regular in Southampton's team this season and plays for England Under 21s.

Harry Reed

Midfielder who has made a handful of first team appearances this season and has been capped by England at Under 19 level.

Sam Gallagher

Striker who made 16 league appearances for Southampton this season and is also an England Under 19 international.

Dodd is highly regarded by the parents of the young players in Southampton’s academy, who will be shocked by the manner and timing of his departure.

There has been friction at the club between academy staff and coaches since


January as they bicker over the future direction of their youngsters.

Southampton are about to move into a stunning new training facility on the grounds of their existing complex, but Dodd and Williams will not be part of it.

The move has been met with disbelief at St Mary’s by both staff and players as they head into a summer of uncertainty.

Shaw is leaving Southampton when he returns from the World Cup with England and captain Adam Lallana has also made it clear he is quitting when he returns from South America.

Centre back Dejan Lovren, who was outstanding in his first season at St Mary's, will agitate to leave if the Saints start selling their best players.

Southampton were unavailable for comment.Staff MemberSupporter

Yesterday, Sept 25th, marked the first time since 1953 that a factory backed Indian Motorcycle lined up for an AMA Flat Track race. Indian Motorcycle Racing fielded their new FTR750 at the last Flat Track event of the AMA season as a glimpse into the next season of racing.

Joe Kopp came out of retirement to pilot the FTR750, that has been under development and testing for months, at the Ramspur Winery Santa Rosa Mile. The day before the race, the Indian FTR750 debuted itself to the public for the first time on track.

In his first heat race, Kopp grabbed the holeshot and was able to hold off the Harley Davidson 750s in the long straights of the mile-long race. The Harley machines were able to reel the


FTR750 back in the corners, but the Indian had the drive and horsepower to pull them back on the straights.

Leader, Brad Baker had an engine failure late in the race and had a DNF result. Brandon Robinson, a privateer Harley 750 rider, was able to edge Kopp out on the Indian for the top spot on the podium. In a great show of sportsmanship Kopp headed back around the oval to give Baker a push from the back stretch back to the paddock.

With a top 4 finish, Kopp was secured a spot in the Main. The top 4 finishers of each heat race transfer to the main and the remaining riders must battle it out in two Semis. Baker was able to swap bikes and start at theback of the pack for his Semi race. With some terrific riding, he was able to secure one of the remaining spots in the main by getting a spot on the podium, as the top 3 finishers advance to the Main.

After the Semi races, the Dash for Cash was lined up for some manufacturer bragging rights and $2500 going to the winning rider. In a very exciting race, Harley and Indian were dicing it up in the corners and the FTR750 was able to pull ahead in the straights and fend off the HDs in the corners. Kopp, 48 years old, was able to edge out the Harley contingent and take the top step on the podium and with both those bragging rights and cash in his pocket.

The


lineup for the Main was set and it was time for the Indian v. Harley showdown to begin. Kopp once again got the holeshot and ran away from the pack along the back stretch. He was able to keep the lead all the way through lap 1 but was being stalked by Brad Baker on his Harley. Within a few laps, Kopp had fallen to 4th while the racers in contention for the Championship led the race.

As the race wore on, Jared Mees was able to overtake Kopp to take 4th. Once in the dust, the Indian fell rapidly to 9th place. Baker continued to expand his lead over the rest of the pack. Mees continued to push his pace, make some big passes and needed to makeup 6 seconds in 15 laps to overtake one more position and position himself for the Championship win.

While Baker was well ahead of the pack, the real race was for 2nd place and the Championship between Jared Mees and Brad Baker. It was a hell of a race as well. On the last lap, Mees capitalized on a Smith mistake and was able to overtake the Ninja 650, but it was for naught. While Mees was carried wide by his momentum in the last corner, Smith was able to sneak back inside on the tight line and retook his position for the second spot and his first Grand National Championship.

Kopp was able to work his way up to a 7th place finish. This was likely a strategy adopted


Sept 25th, marked the first time since 1953 that a factory backed Indian Motorcycle lined up for an AMA Flat Track race. Indian Motorcycle Racing fielded their new FTR750 at the last Flat Track event of the AMA season as a glimpse into the next season of racing.

Joe Kopp came out of retirement to pilot the FTR750, that has been under development and testing for months, at the Ramspur Winery Santa Rosa Mile. The day before the race, the Indian FTR750 debuted itself to the public for the first time on track.

In his first heat race, Kopp grabbed the holeshot and was able to hold off the Harley Davidson 750s in the long straights of the mile-long race. The Harley machines were able to reel the FTR750 backin the corners, but the Indian had the drive and horsepower to pull them back on the straights.

Leader, Brad Baker had an engine failure late in the race and had a DNF result. Brandon Robinson, a privateer Harley 750 rider, was able to edge Kopp out on the Indian for the top spot on the podium. In a great show of sportsmanship Kopp headed back around the oval to give Baker a push from the back stretch back to the paddock.

With a top 4 finish, Kopp was secured a spot in the Main. The top 4 finishers of each heat race transfer to the main and the remaining riders must battle it out in two Semis. Baker was able to swap bikes and start at the back of


the pack for his Semi race. With some terrific riding, he was able to secure one of the remaining spots in the main by getting a spot on the podium, as the top 3 finishers advance to the Main.

After the Semi races, the Dash for Cash was lined up for some manufacturer bragging rights and $2500 going to the winning rider. In a very exciting race, Harley and Indian were dicing it up in the corners and the FTR750 was able to pull ahead in the straights and fend off the HDs in the corners. Kopp, 48 years old, was able to edge out the Harley contingent and take the top step on the podium and with both those bragging rights and cash in his pocket.

The lineup forthe Main was set and it was time for the Indian v. Harley showdown to begin. Kopp once again got the holeshot and ran away from the pack along the back stretch. He was able to keep the lead all the way through lap 1 but was being stalked by Brad Baker on his Harley. Within a few laps, Kopp had fallen to 4th while the racers in contention for the Championship led the race.

As the race wore on, Jared Mees was able to overtake Kopp to take 4th. Once in the dust, the Indian fell rapidly to 9th place. Baker continued to expand his lead over the rest of the pack. Mees continued to push his pace, make some big passes and needed to make up 6


seconds in 15 laps to overtake one more position and position himself for the Championship win.

While Baker was well ahead of the pack, the real race was for 2nd place and the Championship between Jared Mees and Brad Baker. It was a hell of a race as well. On the last lap, Mees capitalized on a Smith mistake and was able to overtake the Ninja 650, but it was for naught. While Mees was carried wide by his momentum in the last corner, Smith was able to sneak back inside on the tight line and retook his position for the second spot and his first Grand National Championship.

Kopp was able to work his way up to a 7th place finish. This was likely a strategy adopted by thefrom Southern Lord.

8-23-10 - Nate of U.S. Christmas does video demo w/ his Monson Guitars.

8-19-10 - Monson Guitars artist Nate Hall of US Christmas is set to release their highly anticipated and amazing new album "Run Thick in the Night" on Neurot Records any day now.

"U.S. CHRISTMAS is a band from the Appalachian mountains in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. The band plays a unique brand of psychedelic, high-volume blues rock that evades any easy classification. Founded in Marion NC in the summer of 2002, the band played rough biker bars, art spaces, and house shows all over the southeast dirt circuit for years, self-releasing albums in rough cd-r form. Scott Kelly of Neurosis heard the bandís third record, Salt The Wound (which was released in Russia


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Trump made the preservation of American jobs, particularly manufacturing jobs, a staple of his 2016 presidential campaign. During the campaign, Trump said he was trying to convince the Carrier Corporation (Wikipedia entry) to change their plans to move some factory jobs to Mexico. Carrier is a brand of United Technologies Corporation Building & Industrial Systems and its products include HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) systems. As of December 2016, it had approximately 45,000 employees. As of 2014, Trump had an investment in United Technologies.

Over the November 2016 Thanksgiving weekend, Trump claimed responsibility for Carrier's decision to keep factory jobs in Indiana rather than moving them to Mexico. The Carrier jobs deal gave him an early opportunity to show factory workers he would make good


Lacoste has its first female creative director

Louise Trotter will be the first designer to take on that role in 85 years of the brand's life

Louise Trotter will be the first designer to take on that role in 85 years of the brand's life

Revolution in a historical fashion brand: Lacoste puts for the first time, in 85 years of life, a woman in charge of the creative direction of the brand. Her name is Louise Trotter, she is English, born in 1969 in Sunderland, she worked as artistic director of Jigsaw, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap and, from 2009 to August this year, for Joseph. Famous for its elegant-relaxed style, the designer takes the place of Felipe Oliveira Baptista who left Lacoste, after substantially increasing the company's turnover.

Thierry Guibert, President ofNeeds of specialists in rural and remote Canada.
Very little literature exists on rural specialists as a unique group and how best to meet their needs. We sought to provide some baseline information on specialists practising in rural and remote Canada to better understand their reasons for working rurally, their workload and how supported they felt, as well as their sources of advice and satisfaction with continuing medical education (CME). The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada mailed a survey to specialists working in rural and remote Canada. Specialists were identified based on databases of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and the provincial colleges. The survey focused on reason(s) for working in a rural or remote setting, level of support and CME. The survey was sent to 1500 physicians


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The 2013 DMCC season was one of the craziest seasons to date and with 8 rounds it was also the longest season DMCC has ever had. The championship came down to the very last round at Sanair where Francis Tasse…That Sam Mendes has proved himself as a quality filmmaker is in absolutely no doubt. With titles like Road to Perdition and the Academy Award-winning American Beauty, he has carved himself a solid brand recognition without being splashily famous like Christopher Nolan or James Cameron. So when he was announced as the director of the (then untitled) Bond project, everyone was up in the air. An Academy Award winner would definitely turn around the franchise after the faltering step that was Quantum of Solace. Right?

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there onwards, the sailing is generally smooth. The script is intriguing, though not the most original. Its biggest weakness is that it isn't really sharp and tight at places where it should have been (though the editing team manages to make up for that to an extent). The action sequences, especially the crashing of the London Underground and the amazing climax, are fabulously done. Mendes does a very good job weaving characters and action together with classic Bond elements to make this an old-and-yet-new addition to the series; unfortunately, his direction is bowed down by an occasionally inadequate screenplay.

The casting of Skyfall was a piece of sheer genius. Daniel Craig, undeniably one of the best Bonds till date, carries on his legacy to perfection, portraying an aged, wreckedand yet humorous 007 to the hilt (though his dialogue delivery at the very end made me cringe). Judi Dench was brilliant as the targeted and yet headstrong M, and shows exactly why she still gets so much work even at her age. Bérénice had a surprisingly small part to play, but she does it very well, giving the character an exotic, dangerous and yet highly vulnerable quality that is rare nowadays. As a Bond villain, Bardem is easily one of the greatest, playing a former MI6 agent (and M ex-faourite) like a pro and oozing a remarkably dangerous aura, despite his obvious emotional connection to the principal characters. Ralph Fiennes did not have too much to do, but acted the part of a cool, controlled and yet