the knots and she admitted that it can make her wrist very painful after a while but it is necessary to ensure the tightness of the knots. She also said that sitting at her loom for hours on end can give her back ache so whilst the carpets and rugs are beautiful and very desirable, they clearly come at a personal cost to health.

Mrs Aghaee insisted on us staying for some tea (chai) whilst she showed us some of her carpets and rugs. She also told us about her seven children, six of whom are highly educated with her youngest son being an incredibly talented artist. Sadly, none of the children are in the least interested in carrying on the family carpet making tradition and so the specialistfeature of Persian mosques is the finely carved stucco which decorates the mihrab and columns. The Congregational mosque has a beautiful stucco mihrab which is the traditional semi-circular niche in the wall of the mosque directing Muslims to face Mecca when praying. These unique carvings are echoed on the fourteen surrounding columns making this part of the mosque the most ornate.

The minaret at the Southeast corner, which led us to the mosque when approaching the town, is most unusual. It is 28m high and can be seen from miles around. It is also octagonal, a feature which makes it completely different from any other minaret found in the Esfahan area.

Na’in old mosque

We were now entering the hottest part of the day, and with travelling East to the edge


of desert country the temperature was rising steadily to 40 degrees +. Although we were walking slowly around the stone built building and being comparatively cool compared to out in the open, it was still very hot. I was very thankful therefore when Mr Aghaee, our impromptu guide, told us about the underground prayer hall and qanats which were much cooler.

Mr Aghaee proceeded to take us down two flights of stone steps leading to the Prayer Hall. He told us that the Prayer Hall remains at a constant temperature throughout the year only fluctuating 10-15 degrees even in the hottest and coldest times of year and is mostly used during high summer and mid winter when temperatures are at their least comfortable. It was a relief to escapethe idea behind it was to make neverseenbefore 3DTotal headquarters. The building it self is unique not only by style and orientation to the surface, than it's way it has affected the surrounding area, causing cracks in the surface. A more stylized approach as to say how awesome, or heavy the building or the meaning is behind knowledge, company etc...

A part of the road underneath along with the picket fence describes a small country road, also providing the sense of scale.

Since this was a concept i thought of while trying to think of a cuckoo clock, hence the hatch opening for the roof on top of the building - the bird goes out of there, as well as the point that if we are watching this from a


RCMP officers stood guard outside a high school in Red Deer, Alta., Tuesday morning as more than 40 demonstrators staged an anti-immigration protest in the parking lot across the street.

The demonstration, which included members of the anti-immigration group Worldwide Coalition Against Islam, was staged after two fights last week that involved students from Syria, who critics claim were not as harshly punished as other students who took part.

In a statement posted Friday, school officials said the brawls resulted in the suspension of all eight students involved, and they rejected social media claims that Syrian students were less harshly disciplined.

Stephen Garvey, who is the leader of the National Advancement Party of Canada, a federally registered political party, said the intent of the protest was to raise awareness about thein the statement.

"I encourage you to make sure that your kids come to school ... so that their education is not disrupted by the fear-mongering of people that know nothing about us," Lower said.

"Many of our refugee and immigrant students have indicated that they are afraid to come to school," he added. "This makes me ill."

He also encouraged parents and members of the public to "get the real facts."

School board superintendent Stu Henry and principal Dan Lower answer questions from the protesters. (CBC)

On Tuesday, Lower told media that the conflict arose out of a misunderstanding due to a language barrier between two Grade 9 boys at a skatepark.

Lower said the Syrian boy thought something derogatory was said toward a Syrian girl, and when some boys later sought clarification


Deer are reassuring parents and students after a school fight fuelled calls for an anti-immigration protest. (Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School)

A Facebook post about the fight last Tuesday shows a graphic video of what appears to be a scrap between several boys in a parking lot. The same post criticizes the school's handling of the incident.

The post, which has been viewed more than 22,000 times, claimed "refugee kids" were running around whipping other children at the school, and suggested the perpetrators would not be punished because they were "acting within their religious beliefs."

The video was posted by Never Again Canada, a group that claims to fight against "anti-Semitism, propaganda, terror and Jew hatred In Canada." The protest group, and many commenters, had spoken of plans for a stagedVancouver 2010 Olympic Gamesofficially XXI Olympic Winter GamesThe XXI Olympic Winter Games opened in Vancouver, B.C., Can., on Feb. 12, 2010. To celebrate the Games, Britannica is pleased to offer a broad selection of information on Vancouver and the Olympics, including a video highlighting the city’s history and geography; an interactive map of the Olympic venues; a brief history of the Winter Olympic Games and past Canadian Games, with tables featuring International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidents, sites of the Olympic Games through the years, and medal winners of 2006; a colourful photo gallery; and daily highlights of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Vancouver’s Olympic quest began in 1998, when the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) selected the city over Calgary and Quebec for Canada’s bid to host the 2010 Winter


Games. The bid was technically a joint venture between Vancouver and the Coast Mountains resort town of Whistler, which lies about 70 miles (110 km) north of Vancouver and was the proposed site of most of the Games’ skiing and sliding events. The Vancouver bid to host the Games was shortlisted along with those from Bern, Switz., P’yŏngyang, N.Kor., and Salzburg, Austria, in August 2002. Bern withdrew its bid one month later after a referendum indicated that most Bern voters did not want to pay for the Games. On July 2, 2003, the final vote of the IOC was held in Prague. In the first round of balloting, P’yŏngyang captured 51 votes, while Vancouver trailed in second place with 40 and Salzburg received 16. Salzburg was eliminated forthe second round of voting, which Vancouver won 56 to 53, bringing the Olympic Games to Canada for a third time (Montreal had hosted in 1976 and Calgary in 1988).

Vancouver City InformationFounded:1886Area:44 square miles (114 square km)City Population (2006):578,041 (8th largest city in Canada)Metropolitan Area Population (2006):2,116,581 (3rd largest metropolitan area in Canada)

Vancouver lies between Burrard Inlet (an arm of the Strait of Georgia) to the north and the Fraser River delta to the south, opposite Vancouver Island. The city is just north of the U.S. state of Washington. It has a fine natural harbour on a superb site facing the sea and mountains.

Vancouver was originally a small sawmilling settlement, called Granville in the 1870s. It was incorporated as a city in April 1886 (just before it became


the western terminus of the first trans-Canada railway, the Canadian Pacific) and was renamed to honour the English navigator George Vancouver, of the Royal Navy, who had explored and surveyed the coast in 1792. In 1929 two large suburbs to the south, Point Grey and South Vancouver, amalgamated with Vancouver, and its metropolitan area became the third most populous in Canada. By the 1930s Vancouver was Canada’s major Pacific coast port. After World War II it developed into Canada’s main business hub for trade with Asia and the Pacific Rim.

For more Britannica coverage, see Vancouver.

Notable Events from the Vancouver Winter GamesFebruary 24:Canada took both the gold and silver medals in the women’s bobsled. With the U.S. winning bronze, Germany’s women’s bobsled teams were denied a medal for thefirst time in Olympic and world championship history.Lydia Lassila of Australia won the gold medal in women’s aerial skiing, four years after she was felled by a devastating knee injury in the same event at the 2006 Winter Games.China was awarded the gold medal in the women’s 3,000-metre short-track relay after four-time defending Olympic gold medalist South Korea was disqualified during the final.February 23:Carlo Janka of Switzerland captured his country’s first giant slalom gold medal in 26 years. Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud took silver, and his countryman Aksel Lund Svindal won bronze.Austria won the Nordic combined team gold medal for the second consecutive Olympics.February 22:Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took the ice dancing gold medal, the first win in the event for any North American country.Austria dominated the


team ski jumping competition, easily beating Germany for the gold medal.The women’s and men’s cross-country team sprint events both had close finishes and were won by Germany and Norway, respectively.February 21:Germany took the gold medal in the two-man bobsled event. It was driver André Lange’s fourth career Olympic gold, the most of all time for a bobsled driver.U.S. skier Bode Miller captured the first Olympic gold medal of his career by winning the men’s super combined event.The newest Olympic event, ski cross, made its debut, with Michael Schmid of Switzerland taking the men’s gold medal.February 20:Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann won the individual large hill event, seven days after capturing gold in the normal hill event. Ammann’s double win gave him four career individual Olympic ski-jumping golds, themost of all time.South Korea’s Lee Jung-Su captured his second gold medal of the Games by winning the 1,500-metre short-track speed skating event. U.S. skater Apolo Ohno placed third, and his bronze medal gave him the most career medals (with seven) in American Winter Olympics history.The women’s super-G event was won by Austria’s Andrea Fischbacher. In winning Austria’s first Alpine gold medal of the Vancouver Olympics, she reversed a disappointing start to the Games for the historic skiing power.February 19:Amy Williams of Great Britain prevailed in women’s skeleton, becoming the first Briton to win an individual Winter Olympic gold medal in 30 years.The men’s super-G Alpine skiing event was won by Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal, giving the reigning World Cup overall champion his first Olympic gold.February 18:Evan Lysacek


of the U.S. won the men’s figure skating gold medal over favorite Yevgeny Plushchenko of Russia, the defending gold medalist.Biathlete Tora Berger won the women’s 15-km individual event, garnering Norway’s 100th all-time Winter Olympic gold medal, the most in the history of the Games.Germany’s Maria Riesch took gold in the women’s super combined Alpine skiing event.February 17:Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn became the first American woman ever to win a gold medal in the downhill event.Shani Davis of the U.S. successfully defended his 1,000-metre speed skating title from the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. In so doing, he became to first man to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals at that distance.Russian cross-country skier Nikita Kriukov beat countryman Alexander Panzhinskiy in a photo finish in the 1.6-km sprint event.Snowboarder Shaun Whitecapped off a banner day for the American Olympic team by winning the men’s snowboard halfpipe event in dominant fashion.February 16:One day after her countryman Mo Tae-Bum won South Korea’s first long-track speed-skating gold medal in the men’s 500-metre race, Lee Sang-Hwa captured the gold in the women’s 500-metre event.Maelle Ricker of Canada took the host country’s second gold medal of the Vancouver Games by finishing first in the women’s snowboard cross.The women’s luge event was won by Tatjana Hüfner of Germany.February 15:The husband-and-wife team of Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue from China won the pairs figure skating gold medal—the first figure skating gold in China’s Olympic history and the first time since 1960 that a team not from the U.S.S.R. or Russia captured the pairs gold.The men’s


downhill final was won by Switzerland’s Didier Défago, now the oldest men’s downhill Olympic champion, age 32 years 136 days. Défago’s winning run was only 0.07 second faster than that of silver medalist Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway and 0.09 second faster than that of American Bode Miller, who took the bronze.American Seth Wescott took the gold in the first snowboarding event of the Games, the men’s snowboard cross.February 14:Skier Alexandre Bilodeau won the men’s moguls event and thus became the first Canadian to capture a gold medal in an Olympics held in Canada.In response to the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, an attempt was made to make the luge track slower and safer by shortening it. Felix Loch of Germany took the gold medal when the men’s singlesluge event was held this day.France’s Jason Lamy Chappuis edged out Johnny Spillane of the U.S. by four-tenths of a second in the Nordic combined normal hill event, the closest finish at a Nordic combined event in Olympic history.February 13:Simon Ammann of Switzerland was awarded the first gold medal of the Vancouver Olympics after winning the normal hill ski jumping event.Slovakia’s Anastazia Kuzmina won the first Winter Olympic gold medal in her country’s history by scoring a surprise victory in the women’s 7.5-km biathlon sprint.Short-track speed skater Apolo Ohno took the silver medal in the men’s 1,500-metre race, which was his sixth career Olympic medal, tying speed skater Bonnie Blair’s record for the most career Winter Olympics medals won by an American.February 12:Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died after


crashing during a practice run hours before the Vancouver Olympic Games were set to open.Technical difficulties caused delays at the opening ceremonies—the first Olympic opening ceremonies held indoors—which featured Canadian Olympic greats such as skier Nancy Greene, ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky, and basketball player Steve Nash.

Canada and the Winter Olympics in Pictures

Notable Athletes Competing at the Vancouver Winter Olympics

A number of prominent athletes who have had past Olympic success will be competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics. While other less-known competitors will surely make their marks on the upcoming Games, the following athletes are all leading medal contenders in their respective sports.

The first organized international competition involving winter sports was introduced just five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896. This competition, the NordicGames, included only athletes from the Scandinavian countries and was held quadrennially in Sweden, beginning in 1901. Figure skating was included in the Olympics for the first time in the 1908 Summer Games in London, although the skating competition was not actually held until October, some three months after the other events were over. The great Ulrich Salchow (Sweden) won the first Olympic gold medal awarded for men’s figure skating. British skater Madge Cave Syers captured the first women’s title and won the bronze in pairs with her husband, Edgar Syers. Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger of Germany won the gold medal in pairs.

In 1911 Count Eugenio Brunetta d’Usseaux, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from Italy, suggested that Sweden should either include winter sports in


the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm or stage a separate Winter Olympics in the same year. Sweden, concerned that such a move would jeopardize the Nordic Games, refused. Germany supported plans to stage a competition of winter events in early 1916 as part of the Games of the VI Olympiad scheduled for Berlin later that year. The outbreak of World War I in 1914 caused the cancellation of the Berlin Olympics and made the question of Winter Games moot.

At the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belg., athletes competed for medals in figure skating and ice hockey, despite continuing protests from the Scandinavian countries. Nordic nations dominated the figure skating events. Swedish skaters Magda Julin and Gillis Grafström won the women’s and men’s singles competitions, respectively, while Ludovika Jakobsson and WalterJakobsson of Finland won the pairs. Another Swedish skater, Svea Norén, won the silver in women’s singles, while Norwegians captured silver in the men’s and pairs events, as well as the bronze in the men’s singles. Only the British team and American Theresa Weld, who won the bronze medals in pairs and women’s singles respectively, prevented a Scandinavian sweep. Canada captured the gold medal in ice hockey, with the United States winning silver and Czechoslovakia finishing with the bronze.

Two years later an agreement was reached to celebrate an IOC-sanctioned International Winter Sports Week. It was held in Chamonix, France, from Jan. 25 to Feb. 4, 1924, and was a huge success. Norway topped the medals table with a total of 17, and the Scandinavian countries, which altogether captured


28 of the 43 medals awarded, dropped their previous objections. The following year the IOC altered its charter to create a separate Winter Olympics. The Games staged in St. Moritz, Switz., in 1928 were formally designated the second Winter Olympics.

From 1928 the Winter Games were held every four years in the same calendar year as the Summer Games. In 1986 IOC officials, in response to concerns over the increasing cost and logistic complications of the Olympics, voted to alter the schedule. Only two years separated the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Nor. Thereafter the Winter and Summer Games were each held quadrennially, alternating in even-numbered years.

The Olympic Games in Canada

Vancouver is the third Canadian city to host an Olympiad. Montreal, Que.,was the site of the 1976 Summer Games and Calgary, Alberta, hosted the 1992 1988 Winter Olympics. The following summaries of the two previous Canadian Olympics are taken from Britannica’s Olympic Games article.

The 1976 Montreal Summer Games

Despite producing 32 world records and a host of memorable performances, the 1976 Games drew more attention to the apparent problems of the Olympic movement. Twenty-six countries, mostly from Africa, chose to boycott the Games when the IOC denied their request to ban New Zealand, whose national rugby team had recently toured South Africa. Taiwan also boycotted, when Canada, which officially recognized the People’s Republic of China, would not permit Taiwan to be identified at the Games as the Republic of China. Questions arose about the integrity of the competition itself. Many


athletes—particularly the East German women swimmers—were suspected of using anabolic steroids to enhance their performance. There was also concern that the amateur spirit of the Games had been undermined by the growing commercial influence on sports in the West and the pervasive government control of athletes in the Eastern bloc countries. The Montreal Games were a financial disaster, placing a burden of debt on the people of Canada and Quebec that lasted for decades.

More than 6,000 athletes competed, representing 92 countries. There were three double gold medal performances in the track-and-field competition: distance runner Lasse Virén of Finland repeated his 1972 double of the 5,000- and 10,000-metre events; Cuban Alberto Juantorena won the 400- and 800-metre runs; and Soviet runner Tatyana Kazankina earned gold medals in the 800-and 1,500-metre runs. East German Waldemar Cierpinski won the first of his consecutive Olympic marathon gold medals. Legendary hurdler Edwin Moses of the United States earned his first gold medal.

The swimming was dominated by the American men and the East German women. The American men, led by John Naber (who took four gold medals), won all but one event and set 11 world records. Kornelia Ender, winner of four gold medals, led the East German team as it took 10 of the 11 individual events and set eight world records.

Nadia Comăneci of Romania won three gold medals and scored a perfect score of 10 seven times in gymnastics. Women competed in basketball and rowing for the first time. Pertti Karppinen of Finland won the first of his three


the Brians” as Brian Boitano (U.S.) and Brian Orser (Canada) vied for the gold. Though Orser held the edge in international competition, Boitano was victorious at Calgary, skating a nearly perfect performance to narrowly defeat his Canadian rival.

The women’s speed skating competition was marked by upsets. While most attention was focused on the East German women and the American Bonnie Blair, Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands dominated, winning three gold medals. Blair and Christa Luding-Rothenburger (East Germany) claimed the other two golds.

In the Alpine events the supergiant slalom (super-G) was added, and the Alpine combined returned after being absent from the Olympics for 40 years. The stars on the slopes were the flamboyant Alberto Tomba (Italy) and Vreni Schneider (Switzerland), each of whom won gold in boththe slalom and giant slalom events.

Nordic skiing underwent numerous modifications at Calgary. Team competitions were added in the Nordic combined and the ski jumping events. Cross-country events were revamped because of the “skating technique,” which was introduced at the 1984 Games. The men’s 15- and 30-km races and the women’s 5- and 10-km races were skied using the classic style. The longer distances and relay events used the freestyle, or skating, method. Ski jumping was dominated by Matti Nykänen (Finland), whose three gold medals made him the most successful male athlete at Calgary.

Turin 2006: A Look Back

In 2006 the Winter Games returned to Italy after a 50-year absence. Unlike the 1956 Games, which were held in the small resort town of Cortina d’Ampezzo, the 2006 Games were hosted


by Turin, an industrial city and provincial capital located in northwestern Italy. The competition venues were spread between seven villages (most in the mountainous Piedmont region to the west) and Turin, and beforehand there was some concern that the widespread Games would suffer from logistics problems and low attendance. The concerns proved to be unfounded, as the competitions were both exciting and well-attended. The festive side of the Games was greatly helped by the nightly medal ceremonies held in the Piazza Castello, Turin’s main piazza. IOC president Jacques Rogge, impressed with the large, happy crowds that the medal ceremonies routinely attracted, suggested that the concept be carried over to subsequent Olympiads.

The Games were attended by approximately 2,600 athletes representing 80 countries. New events included speed skating team pursuit,mass-start biathlon races, and snowboard cross, which pits four boarders against each other in a thrilling race downhill through a series of jumps and sharp turns. The women’s snowboard cross final produced the most drama when American Lindsey Jacobellis, who seemed assured of victory after the other three racers fell at the top of the course, took a tumble on the last jump and was passed by Switzerland’s Tanja Frieden. American snowboarder Shaun White, known as the “Flying Tomato” because of his long red hair, entertained onlookers with his back-to-back 1080s (three full turns in the air) on his way to claiming the gold medal in the halfpipe competition.

The Alpine competition was marked by the surprising success of the Austrian skiers, who won 14 medals in all, including


gold medals in the women’s downhill and super-G by Michaela Dorfmeister, and by the disappointing performance of the American team led by World Cup champion Bode Miller, who was entered in five events but earned no Olympic medals. Michael Greis of Germany won three gold medals in biathlon events, but his success was overshadowed by the drug controversies in the Nordic skiing competition. Olga Pyleva, a Russian silver medalist in the biathlon, was disqualified after failing her drug test. Coach Walter Mayer, who had been banned for suspicion of blood doping, was discovered in the Austrian camp, resulting in an investigation of 10 athletes.

The Russian team dominated the figure skating competition, collecting three gold medals and a bronze. Men’s champion Yevgeny Plushchenko and pairs champions Tatyana Totmyanina andMaksim Marinin gave exceptionally brilliant performances, while ice-dancing gold medalists Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov skated without mistakes to win a somewhat lacklustre competition. Irina Slutskaya, the favourite in the women’s competition, had to settle for the bronze medal after Japan’s Arakawa Shizuka gave a dazzling performance to win her nation’s first gold medal in that event.

Canadian Cindy Klassen and Italian Enrico Fabris were the stars of the speed skating competition. Klassen won five medals in all—one gold, two silver, and two bronze. The young Italian collected two gold and a bronze, outshining American favourites Chad Hedrick and Shani Davis. German speed skater Claudia Pechstein won two medals in Turin, bringing her career total to nine and making her the top medal winner in her sport’s Olympic history.


Ahn Hyun-Soo of South Korea dominated the short-track skating, winning three gold medals and one bronze.

Turin 2006 Final Medal Rankings

The table provides the final medal rankings of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.

Sites of the Modern Olympic Games

The table provides a list of the sites of the modern Olympic Games.

International Olympic Committee Presidents

The table provides a list of the International Olympic Committee presidents.since on the platform my eyes
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Petitioner Eddy Johnny Roman, a native and citizen of the Dominican Republic and a lawful permanent resident of the United States, seeks review of a November 21, 2007 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the May 17, 2006 decision of Immigration Judge (“IJ”) Jeffrey S. Chase finding Roman inadmissible and ordering him removed to the Dominican Republic. In re Eddy Johnny Roman, No. A 40 520 891, 2007 WL 4699877 (B.I.A. November 21, 2007), affg No. A 40 520 891 (Immig. Ct. N.Y. City May 17, 2006). Roman argues that the IJ was prohibited, as a matter of law, from relying entirely on admissions made by Roman (through his lawyer) to establish his removability based on a prior conviction. We conclude that this argument hasAdrian Wojnarowski tells the Dan Le Batard Show Heat guard Tyler Johnson will command a minimum of $10 million per season and Dan Le Batard can't believe it. (1:38)

Woj: Tyler Johnson will get minimum of $10 million per season (1:38)

The Miami Heat have extended a qualifying offer to third-year guard Tyler Johnson, the team announced Tuesday.

The move guarantees the Heat the chance to match any outside offers Johnson, a restricted free agent, gets from another team when he enters free agency July 1.

Johnson, 24, earned $845,059 during his second season in Miami. He was an undrafted guard out of Fresno State.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra regarded Johnson as a key member of a rapidly developing young core on the team, a unit that also includes 2015 draft picks Justise


But I assume it's because you are trying to 'quick sell' futures? We all experience this and it appears that it's used to reduce volatility in the market.

At the weekend, it happened with the player Kike from Eibar. He was top of the player buzz, prior to the 2pm deadline, and people were throwing cash at him ... Ultimately he lost out to Ademola, and everyone then started attempting to quick sell. During the course of the day, his price had roughly risen from 40p to 80p and then everyone began to quick sell when they realised they weren't gonna win the PB.

It appeared to me that they suspended the quick sell for a good hour, and then it became available again.

Like I said, it happens to usup.

The report is accompanied by an EJOLT produced video from the Unis´tot´en camp in North-Western British Colombia showing how the successful camp is stopping up to seven oil and gas pipelines, holding up billions in investment and keeping millions of barrels (and cubic metres) of fossil fuels under the ground.


A 27-year-old woman was several minutes into her conversation with a veteran police officer outside his Manhattan station house when the officer made the crucial statement.

“Yes I did,” said the officer, Kenneth Moreno, after the woman pressed him on whether he had used a condom during sexual intercourse she claimed he had with her a few nights earlier.

What those words amount to  an admission of guilt or an effort to get the woman to leave him alone  is a point of contention that could prove critical in the rape trial of Officer Moreno and his partner, Officer Franklin L. Mata.

Justice Gregory Carro of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled Monday that those words, from a secretly recorded conversation between Officer Moreno and the woman, could beFebruary 2008, she received levodopa (200 mg/day) and pramipexole (0.5 mg/day). She showed signs of moderate parkinsonism, including resting tremor in the right hand, right-dominant rigidity in all four limbs, and akinesia. In August 2009, the dose of pramipexole was increased to 1 mg/day because of the resting tremor. She complained that her trunk became bent, and lumbar pain was evident. She showed mild-to-moderate trunk flexion. Pramipexole was discontinued, and the symptoms resolved. Since 2010, the severity of akinesia increased, and gait difficulty gradually developed. In June 2014, she received levodopa (300 mg/day), selegiline (10 mg/day), and zonisamide (50 mg/day). In May 2015, wearing-off was evident, and the dose of levodopa was increased to 400 mg/day. In October, peak-dose dyskinesia was evident, and zonisamide was withdrawn. In April 2016, wearing off and troublesome dyskinesia developed.


in payment on them occurred.
Here the renewal notes were payable "at any office of said payee or at such other place as holder may designate from time to time." Thus, since they were payable at any office, they were payable at either the Birmingham or the Bessemer branch.
In a situation like this in which notes were payable at any office of the payee, the bank has the right to elect at which office the payment was due and the default had occurred. Cf. Stansbury v. Embrey, 128 Tenn. 103, 158 S.W. 991 (1913). The bank, as holder here, was given the option to select the Bessemer office as the one in which the payments were due and in which default occurred, and thus to select Bessemer as theview rankings as obsolete in an era of high expectations for every student, association spokesman Bob Farrace said.

There are also concerns about intense, potentially unhealthy competition and students letting worries about rank drive their course selections.

Among those weighing a change is Lancaster High School in suburban Buffalo, where students are leading an exploration of replacing valedictorian-salutatorian recognitions with the college-style Latin honors of summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude.

The principal, Cesar Marchioli, said he’s neutral on the issue, though he feels for the 11th-ranked student who falls just short of the recognition awarded to the top 10 seniors honored at the annual banquet.

Graduating Lancaster senior Connor Carrow, 17, has pressed for the switch to Latin honors since his sophomore year, well before landing just out


point out the often statistically insignificant differences that separate students.

Rankings still play an important part in aspects of the college admissions process. There are scholarships for the top-ranked students, and the number of top students at colleges is factored into college rankings.

Class ranks are also credited with improving diversity at the University of Texas, where a law guaranteed that a school’s top 10 percent would be accepted into a public university.

Colleges are adjusting to the increasing number of applications arriving without class rank, though many applications still ask for it if available.

Even so, students’ individual grades and the rigor of the curriculum they chose tend to weigh more heavily, said Melanie Gottlieb, deputy director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. ‘More and more schoolsouter legs or walls spaced radially apart. Each wall has a sealing band on its upper end that engages one of the sidewall surfaces. The seal is metal, and the sealing band is coated with a material to enhance sealing.
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on 8 November, and his second son Orazio at Casale in 1534. Here he became acquainted with Fulvio Pellegrino Morato, professor at Vicenza, who was visiting Piedmont: they agreed in religious matters so much that Morato later said that Curio had been for him what Ananias had been for St Paul.

His brethren having died of the plague Curio should have returned to Moncalieri to settle his inheritance with his only surviving sister, but, faced with being denounced for heresy, he renounced his rights. Having failed to respond to a summons to Casale from Federico Gonzaga, successor to the Marquessate, he took work as a teacher at Castiglione Torinese, where in a disputation with a Dominican preacher in 1535 he argued in defence of Luther. Denounced to the SuffraganCarlos Dorce

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This beautiful doodle was published by google in the Persian and Arabic countries last 10th June because in 10th June 940 the great Abû al-Wafâ’ al-Buzjanî was born in Persia. Since 959, he worked in the Caliph’s court in Baghdad among other distinguished mathematicians and scientists who remained in the city after Sharâf al-Dawlâh became the new caliph in 983. He continued to support mathematics and astronomy and built a new observatory in the gardens of his palace in Baghdad (June 988) which included a quadrant over 6 metres long and a sextant of 18 metres.

Abû al-Wafâ’ wrote commentaries on works of Euclid, Ptolemy, Diophantus and al-Khwârizmî, and his works


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Twin Vision's yoga pants are perfect for either cheering on your favorite team or working out in style and comfort. With distinguishable school team colors and markings, Twin Vision allows you to feel a part of the game. Using high quality custom woven fabric, the pants are thick, stretchy, and durable.Story highlights A note from the detained boy tells his parents he is OK and not to worry, an uncle says

Tariq Khdeir, 15, was born in the U.S. and is a high school sophomore in Tampa, Florida

He was visiting his Palestinian relatives for the first time in over a decade

Israel's Justice Ministry says it will investigate the beating

A Florida resident and cousin of a Palestinian teenager killed in Jerusalem this week is the young man seen in separate videos being held down and pummeled by men in the uniform of Israeli security forces, relatives said.

Tariq Khdeir, 15, a high school sophomore in Tampa, was visiting his Palestinian relatives in Jerusalem for the first time in over a decade when he was attacked and detained, family members told CNN.

Tariq,


born in Baltimore, was outside the home of his cousin, who was kidnapped and killed on Wednesday in an incident that has further stoked tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. The tensions already had risen sharply after three Israeli teens were found dead in the West Bank.

The two videos, which were posted independently, say the beating occurred on Thursday.

In Tampa, Tariq's aunt, Sanah Abukhdeir, said the boy was visiting his grandmother, who is on her deathbed.

The teen's mother identified him in the video by the clothing he was wearing, including an Ecko T-shirt, his aunt said.

"Send our boy home," she said, expressing concern about the medical attention he was receiving. "He's pure American."

An uncle who is in regular contact with the boy's parents said the family was told Tariqwas shackled to a hospital bed. After being treated in a hospital, he was moved to a detention center.

"It's unbelievable how they kicked him," the uncle said of the beating.

Tariq is a typical teenager who takes lots of selfies and enjoys fishing, according to his family. Among his friends, his nickname is "Fish," after his favorite hobby.

'A very serious incident'

The Israeli Defense Forces issued a statement Saturday seeking to distance themselves from the beating.

"It seems that the Israel Police Forces were involved in the incident, and not the IDF Forces," the statement said.

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In a statement, the Justice Ministry said the government's legal adviser will investigate the videotaped beating


custody. She did not know why he was arrested.

She and the boy's father, Salah Eddeine Abu Khdeir, said the teenager was among people protesting the death of his cousin, but wasn't involved in the clashes with Israeli security forces.

"I asked my son, 'Did you throw rocks?' He said no," his father said.

"He didn't have to throw rocks, he's just a Palestinian, in front of his neighborhood, hanging out with his relatives," Tariq's mother said.

Complaints of rough treatment

Palestinians have long complained of rough treatment by the Israeli police and double standards when it comes to justice, says Bill van Esveld of Human Rights Watch.

"The concern is that we've got plenty of evidence that this child of 15 was brutally beaten by Israeli law enforcement," van Esveld told CNN. "Andinstead of the law enforcement officials responsible for the beating being questioned and detained, the child who is the victim is being questioned and detained."

One neighbor shot a video of the beating and distributed it to family and a television station. Another video was shot from the other side of the street and posted to YouTube.

Relatives watched the video and told CNN that the teen is Tariq Khdeir. Relatives released pictures of the bruised teenager with swelling on his lips and nose.

The men delivered more than 20 blows to the youth over a period of two minutes. He did not appear to be struggling and police carried away his limp body afterward.

Both videos start after the incident began, and it's not clear why Khdeir was attacked.

'That should not


happened during his arrest.

The officer passed on a note from Tariq in which he said he was OK and told his parents not to worry about him, according to the uncle who is in regular contact with the parents.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the reports "troubling" and called for a "speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full accountability for any excessive use of force."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations urged the United States to help free the teen.

"It is the duty of American officials to intervene and secure the release of an American citizen who was so viciously attacked," said Hassan Shibly, executive director of CAIR-Florida.

Khdeir is expected to appear at the Jerusalem magistrate court at 11 a.m. Sunday (4 a.m. ET), according to his father.

His cousin,Mohammed Abu Khedair , who was abducted and killed in Jerusalem this week, died from being burned alive and hit on the head with a blunt object, according to Palestinian General Prosecutor Mohammed al-Auwewy, citing a medical autopsy.

Al-Auwewy said the autopsy discovered traces of smoke inside the lungs of the 16-year-old, indicating that it was inhaled while the fire was burning.

After the teen's funeral on Friday, more than 60 people were injured in clashes with Israeli security forces in parts of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, a group that said it was involved in evacuating injured Palestinians. It said the injuries mostly involved rubber bullets fired at the upper body and chest.


Russians were almost useless, Spiridov and Count Feodor Orlov (brother of the commander), had left Sv. Evstafii before the fighting became close-range. Spiridov ended up on Tri Svyatitelya. Sv. Evstafii'''s captain, Kruse, survived too. At about 2pm the fighting ended, as the Ottomans cut their cables and moved south into the bay, forming themselves into a defensive line of eight ships of the line, a second line, and the rest beyond.

On 6 July, the Russians bombarded the Ottoman ships and land positions. At about 12:30 a.m. on the morning of 7 July, Orlov sent Samuel Greig (who transferred to Rostislav) to attack with Evropa, Rostislav and Ne tron menya forming a south-north line facing the Ottomans, and with Saratov in reserve, Nadezhda attacking the batteries at the eastern sideAcoustic Trio Melodix vocals is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts and has been a member with GigMasters since 2014. Melodix vocals services Essex County and will travel up to 10 miles from Gloucester, MA. Hire Melodix vocals through GigMasters today!


hotel fire in the history of the United States.

“A flawed building design was a major contributing factor to the significant number of deaths and injuries,” said Chris Jelenewicz, Engineering Program Manager with the Bethesda, Maryland-Based Society of Fire Protection Engineers. “Additionally, since the building was constructed of non-combustible materials, the building was mistakenly thought to be fireproof. This gave the building owners and occupants a false sense of security.”

At the time of the fire, the Hotel Winecoff had only one exit stairway available for occupants to escape the upper floors of the 15 story building. The doors to this stairway were not fire-rated and many of the doors were left open. “Once the fire started on the third floor, the stairway effectively became a chimney — allowing thesmoke and fire to spread quickly up this stair and throughout the upper floors,” said Jelenewicz.

Many of the hotel guests died in their sleep. Because the stairway was inaccessible, other occupants chose to jump to their deaths. Others died by trying to escape the building while climbing down a makeshift escape line made out of bed sheets.

Additional contributing factors to the number of deaths and injuries included combustible interior finishes, a delay in calling the fire department, and the lack of a fire alarm and automatic fire suppression system.

Included in the death toll were 30 teenagers who were part a Youth Assembly at the Georgia State Capitol. The teenagers were visiting from cities and towns all across the State of Georgia and were taking part in a “mock”


April 21, 1969, appellant filed a complaint in the United States District Court under the Federal Tort Claims Act. On January 5, 1970 he moved to amend his complaint to allege that an administrative claim had been filed with the Post Office Department and that the Government failed to make a final disposition of it within six months after the filing. The Government moved to dismiss the action in the district court on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction since the plaintiff failed to file a proper administrative claim before instituting suit. After a hearing on the motion on July 15, 1970, the court, by memorandum and order entered the same day, granted the Government's motion.

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On appeal, appellant's principal contentions are that he was not requiredwill have lapsed unless he can show that he submitted a valid claim to the Post Office Department.

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The claim (Form 95) submitted by appellant to the Post Office Department, the appropriate federal agency here, was neither dated nor signed. No specific sum was set forth in the claim, nor was there any information supplied from which a specific amount could be computed. Wink, the postal inspector, called this deficiency to appellant's attention by telephone. On July 9th, he specifically referred to this requirement in his letter to the appellant in which he provided additional forms to cure the deficiency. Appellant's only effort in rectifying his incomplete administrative claim was a telephone call to Wink informing him that he wanted a couple of thousand dollars for suffering. He contends


prevent the collapse of the American wind industry, and it's created thousands of American jobs; like the stimulus in general, it's helped advance Obama's long-term goal of weaning the economy off carbon as well as his short-term goal of saving the economy from a second Great Depression. But like the stimulus in general, it's also creating political headaches for Democrats  at least partly self-inflicted. (See the best viral campaign ads of 2010.)

"These ads are completely at odds with reality," says Liz Salerno, director of industry data and analysis for the American Wind Energy Association. "This myth about jobs has just been snowballing. It couldn't be more opposite to the facts." (Where did the transportation stimulus money go?)

For what it's worth, here are some facts.

When credit markets frozein 2008, the U.S. wind industry froze as well. Since the first Bush Administration, Congress had extended bipartisan tax credits to promote renewable energy projects, but after the financial meltdown those credits became virtually unusable; when no one has profits, no one needs tax credits. Wind projects were stalling, and turbines the size of 747's were lying in fields; the industry was bracing for a 50% decline in new capacity in 2009. So the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided nearly $2 billion in direct grants to wind projects, in effect "monetizing" the tax credits. (See Grunwald's viewpoint on why the stimulus wasn't a waste of money.)

The results were immediate and impressive. The industry came back from the dead to add a record 10,000 megawatts in 2009, almost


a 20% increase. AWEA credits the stimulus with saving at least 40,000 jobs in construction, engineering, trucking and yes, manufacturing. According to the Department of Energy, the U.S. only imported 40% of the components for its wind turbines in 2009, down from about 80% in 2006. And according to the International Trade Commission, less than 5% of those components came from China. In a Facebook posting in February that helped inspire the Republican wind-bashing, Sarah Palin claimed that "80% of the $2 billion they spent on alternative energy went to purchase wind turbines built in China." In fact, only 3 of America's 33,000 turbines were built in China.

The case of Iberdrola Renewables, headquartered in Portland, Ore., helps illustrate the program's impact. After Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008,followed.
 It appears from the record that at approximately 10 a. m. on September 17, 1955, Officer Anthony Coia, an investigator for the district attorney's office, drove with appellant, appellant's wife, and an unidentified informer, to a location in Los Angeles. Appellant left the car, returning about ten minutes later to a point some 50 feet away, from where appellant called and motioned to his wife to join him. Appellant spoke to the wife and handed her a small white package. Appellant's wife then walked back to the automobile, entered the rear seat and handed three "caps" of heroin to Officer Coia, left the vehicle, and the officer drove away.
 There was testimony that on September 27, 1955, Lieutenant Nick Cimino talked to appellant in the Hall of


of slow ambulation and she was dyspneic. Just after the leukapheresis, her dyspnea on exertion was much improved and her SpO2 remained at 98% with repeat ambulation. Spirometry and lung volume studies obtained before and after her first leukapheresis demonstrated 32 and 31% improvements in forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in 1 s respectively, a 25% increase in functional residual capacity, and a 142% improvement in expiratory reserve volume. Residual volume decreased by almost 20%. Three times in a week, leukapheresis was continued until her WBC was controlled with interferon α-2b approximately 4 weeks later. Her dyspnea had completely resolved. She gave birth by elective caesarean section to a healthy boy at 32 weeks. Corroboration of symptom relief by leukapheresis with physiological data may justify sucheffectively bans them from speaking. E.g.,

Pls.’ Mot. at 14. If her radio ads are electioneering communications, they say, Brown must

include a disclaimer saying that she either did or did not authorize the ads. Id. The latter would

be untrue because she wrote and recorded them; the former would, they contend, make the ad a

coordinated communication and therefore an illegal campaign contribution by her company. Id.

at 14–15. Her choice, as they see it, is to lie or to not air her ads at all. Id. at 15–16, 19–20.

        The FEC argues that there is no quandary. ECF No. 14 (“Def.’s Opp’n”) at 21. To

comply with the disclaimer requirement, the FEC says, all Brown has to do is state at the end of

her ad


his kill files caught up, and filtered every item that wasn’t on his diet out of his senses.

Simon grimaced. “Looks like I’m having the salad again. Oh, joy.”

He looked over at Stephanie, and she was still engrossed in the menu, her mind being tugged at by a dozen entrees, each caressing her thoughts with sensations and emotions to entice, each trying to earn that extra dollar.

Simon saw his chance. He activated the ad-buyer interface on his own implant, took out some extremely targeted ads, paid top dollar to be sure he came out on top of the instant auction, and then authorized them against his line of credit. A running tab for the new ad campaign appeared in the corner of his vision, accumulating even as he watched.off your ads, for a night.” His own advertech whispered sweeter things to her brain, more personal, more sensual.

Simon saw Stephanie hesitate, torn. He moved to wrap his arms around her, moved his face towards hers for a kiss.

Stephanie turned her face away abruptly, and his lips brushed her cheek instead. She squeezed him in a sudden, brisk hug, her hands pressing almost roughly into his back.

“Never,” she said. Then she pushed away from him and was gone.

• • • •

Simon stood there, shaking his head, watching as Stephanie walked past the fountain and out of his view.

In the corner of his sight, an impressive tally of what he’d just spent on highly targeted advertising loomed. He blinked it away in annoyance. It was just a number. His


fuming. She couldn’t believe he’d tried that crap on her. If she’d had any shred of doubt remaining, he’d eliminated it. No. He deserved what was coming.

Steph straightened herself, put out a mental bid for a taxi, rode it to Brooklyn, and stepped up to the door of the rented one-room flat. She knocked—short, short, long, long, short. She heard motion inside the room, then saw an eye press itself to the other side of the ancient peephole.

They knew too well that electronic systems could be compromised.

The door opened a fraction, the chain still on it, and Lisa’s face appeared. The short-haired brunette nodded, then unlatched the chain, opened the door fully.

Steph walked into the room, closed the door behind her, saw Lisa tucking the home-printed pistol backestimates of weight and height and gender, plots of probabilistic walking paths, data collected for the city planners. Embedded bio-sensors monitored the trees lining the street, the hydration of their soils, the condition of their limbs. Health monitors watched for runny noses, sneezing, coughing, any signs of an outbreak of disease. New York City’s nervous system kept constant vigil, keeping the city healthy, looking for ways to improve it.

The commercial dataflow interested Simon more than the civic. His pricey, top-of-the-line implants let him monitor that traffic as only a few could.

In Tribeca he watched as a woman walked by a storefront. He saw a mannequin size her up, then felt the traffic as it caressed her mind with a mental image of herself, clothed in a new summer


dress, looking ten years younger and twenty pounds lighter. Beneath the physical the mannequin layered an emotional tone in the advert: feelings of vigor, joy, carefree delight. Simon nodded to himself. A nice piece of work, that. He took note of the brand for later study. The woman turned and entered the shop.

He felt other advertech reaching out, all around him, to the networked brains of the crowd. Full sensory teasers for beach vacations from a travel shop, a hint of the taste of chocolate from a candy store, the sight and feel of a taut, rippling body from a sports nutrition store. He passed by a bodega, its façade open to the warm air, and came close enough that the individual bottles of soda and juice andSimon gave their top competitor’s products the evil eye. Someday Pura Vita would own this whole building, and then he’d personally see to it that not a single bottle of NutriYum remained.

The lobby floor tiles whispered ahead to the inner security doors, which in turn alerted the elevators. Simon strode forward confidently, layers of doors opening for him of their own accord, one by one, perfectly in time with his stride. He stepped into the waiting elevator and it began to ascend immediately, bound for his level. The lift opened again moments later, and he strode to his window office. Smart routing kept subordinates out of his path. The glass door to his magnificent office swung open for him. A bottle of cold Pura Vita was on his


systems of Pura Vita enterprises, and through them, to the onboard processors of nearly a billion Pura Vita products on shelves around the world.

• • • •

In a warehouse outside Tulsa, a bottle of Pura Vita water suddenly labels itself as RECALLED. Its onboard processor broadcasts the state to all nearby. Within milliseconds, the other bottles in the same case, then the rest of the pallet, then all the pallets of Pura Vita water in the warehouse register as RECALLED. The warehouse inventory management AI issues a notice of return to Pura Vita, Inc.

In a restaurant Palo Alto, Marie Evans soaks up the sun, then reaches out to touch her bottle of Pura Vita. She likes to savor this moment, to force herself to wait, to make thestock, with no resupply date specified. Confused, the inventory management AI passes along this information to the convenience store’s business management AI, requesting instructions.

Meanwhile, on the shelves immediately surrounding the recalled bottles of Pura Vita, other bottled products take note. Bottles of NutriYum, OhSoSweet, OrganiTaste, and BetterYou, constantly monitoring their peers and rivals, observe the sudden recall of all Pura Vita water. They virtually salivate at the new opportunity created by the temporary hole in the local market landscape. Within a few millionths of a second, they are adapting their marketing pitches, simulating tens of thousands of scenarios in which buyers encounter the unavailable Pura Vita, angling for ways to appeal to this newly available market. Labels on bottles morph, new sub-brands appear on the shelves as experiments,


of himself nodded approvingly from the bottom shelf, promising the body that Johnny Ray could have. An overwhelmingly delicious citrus taste drew him to the top.

Johnny Ray’s mouth opened in a daze. His eyes grew glassy. His hands slid the door to the drinks fridge open, reached inside, came out with some bottle, the rest of him not even aware the decision had been made.

Johnny Ray looked down at the bottle in his hand. Nutri Vita. He’d never even heard of this stuff before. His mouth felt dry, hungry for the cold drink. The sweat beaded on his brow. Wow. He couldn’t wait to try this.

• • • •

While the corporate AIs of the other brands dithered, wasting whole precious seconds, debating how to persuade the inefficient bottleneckoffice and down the corridor. Lurid product adverts swam at him from the open door to the break room. He pushed past them. He had to get home somehow, get to his apartment, do . . . something.

He half-collapsed into the elevator, fought to keep himself from hyperventilating as it dropped to the lobby floor. Adverts from the lobby restaurants flashed at him from the wall panel as they dropped, inundating him with juicy steak flavor, glorious red wine aroma, the laughter and bonhomie of friends he didn’t have. The ads he habitually blocked out reached him raw and unfiltered now, with an intensity he wasn’t accustomed to in his exclusive, ad-free life. He crawled back as far as he could into the corner of the lift, whimpering,


struggling to escape the barrage. The doors opened, and he bolted forward, into the lobby and the crowd, heading out, out into the city.

The snack bar caught him first. It reached right into him, with its scents and flavors and the incredible joy a bite of a YumDog would bring him. He stumbled towards the snack bar, unthinkingly. His mouth was dry, parched, a desert. He was so hot in this suit, sweating, burning up, even as the suit’s pumps ran faster and faster to cool him down.

Water. He needed water.

He blinked to clear his vision, searching, searching for a refreshing Pura Vita.

All he saw was NutriYum. He stared at the bottles, the shelves upon shelves of them. And the NutriYum stared back into him. It saw hisMilton Friedman was one of the world-s foremost economists. He was originally a believer in government intervention in economics but then believed that a hands-off policy is best. According to Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia Friedman-s political philosophy -- considered classically liberal and libertarian -- stressed the advantages of the marketplace and the disadvantages of government intervention and regulation. From Chicago School of Economics. A two and a half minute clip on the Phil Donahue show probably from the 1970s. A very cogent discussion by a very engaging Milton Freedman.


Linguistic courses to serve 'Belt and Road'

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies plans to increase the number of foreign languages it teaches to about 25 in the coming five years, from the current 20, to serve demand arising from the country's Belt and Road Initiative.

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies plans to increase the number of foreign languages it teaches to about 25 in the coming five years, from the current 20, to serve demand arising from the country's Belt and Road Initiative.

New languages to be added may include Greek, Serbian, Swedish and Turkish, said President Zhong Weihe.

"We plan to introduce languages of strategic importance and demand in the country, with a focus on those spoken in the countries along the Belt and Road," Zhong said.

More than 50 major languagesare spoken in the countries along the proposed Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, which China seeks to develop.

"I think languages are one of the basic elements in building the Belt and Road," Zhong said, adding that some language programs are necessary even though the cost of running them is exceptionally high, given limited resources and small classes.

The university runs an undergraduate program recognized by the Ministry of Education for languages that are less commonly taught. The program has expanded to include 13 languages.

Major languages used in Southeast Asian countries have been added to the curriculum at the university.

Malaysian and Urdu programs will start enrolling students before September of this year.

A lack of qualified teachers stands as a challenge in initiating new language


programs, Zhong said. To facilitate new programs, the university will step up its efforts to hire foreign teachers.

The administration also plans to enhance the university's role as a think tank by expanding country-specific research, especially on countries and regions along the Belt and Road, and by introducing more postgraduate programs in those fields, Zhong said.

The university launched its Collaborative Innovation Center for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Studies last month in cooperation with related arms of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Ministry of Commerce, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a number of universities.

Linguistic courses to serve 'Belt and Road'

It also plans to promote exchanges with overseas universities, research institutes and think tanks. Cooperative ties already were established with 268 universities and research institutes in38 countries and regions as of October.

Southeast Asian language programs in China have received impetus from the strategies of "Go Global" and "One Belt, One Road", as well as from the expanding role of China in international affairs, said Zhong Zhixiang, president of the National Education Association of Less Commonly Taught Languages.

The demand for talented people with Southeast Asian language capability continues to increase, he said at the first national seminar on such language programs held at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies earlier this month.

High school students who score high in the college entrance examination are increasingly enrolled in non-English programs at the university.

Fourth-year student Xu Shan chose the Indonesian program as a niche four years ago and has been recruited by a research institute in Zhuhai, Guangdong


In-gap state generated by La-on-Sr substitutional defects within the bulk of SrTiO3.
Local distortion in the conduction pathway has a significant influence on the conducting properties of oxides. The electronic states induced in the band gap of SrTiO3 by La doping were investigated using photoemission spectroscopy (PES) and soft X-ray emission spectroscopy (SXES); moreover, the local distortion in the conduction pathway was examined using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS). An itinerant state and a localized state were observed as a metallic state and an in-gap state, respectively, in the PES spectra and as inelastic peaks in the SXES spectra. This implied that the itinerant state and the in-gap state coexisted within the bulk. From EXAFS results, it was observed that La doped into SrTiO3 substituted Sr and locallybiofilms, was also assessed by use of immunofluorescence microscopy. Incubation of S epidermidis with catecholamine inotropes in the presence of human plasma resulted in a significant increase in growth compared with control on both polystyrene and silicone surfaces, with pronounced increases in biofilm formation as visualised by scanning electronmicroscopy. Experiments with transferrin labelled with radioactive iron showed the ability of catecholamine inotropes to facilitate acquisition of iron by S epidermidis. Immunofluorescence microscopy revealed extensive exopolysaccharide production associated with S epidermidis biofilms. The ability of catecholamine inotropic drugs to stimulate bacterial proliferation and biofilm formation may be an aetiological factor in the development of intravascular catheter colonisation and catheter-related infection. The removal of iron from transferrin for subsequent use by S epidermidis is a possible mechanism by which catecholamine


Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Geranium versicolor

Beautifully veined flower of Geranium versicolor.

Notice how the intricate violet design begins as lime-green lines from the center.

Geranium versicolor is a geranium species native to Italy, Greece, Albania, and former Yugoslavia, and an introduced species in only a few other European countries. Formerly known as Geranium striatum, it is commonly named Veiny Geranium or Wood Cranesbill. This is a perennial geranium that is semi-evergreen, occurring as a flourishing green ground cover in moist, partly shaded areas in deciduous woodlands. The large, five-lobed leaves are deeply veined, usually bearing brown blotches on the inner end of each lobe. The white flowers are uniquely adorned with an intricate, violet, linear design. Geranium versicolor has a long flowering season, and is frequently used in gardens as aThe French left has been exiled from the presidential Elysée Palace since 1995, which suggests that, in a democracy whose bona fides, like those of any democracy, depend on political rotation, the time has come for Nicolas Sarkozy to lose. And he did seem headed for defeat, especially if Strauss-Kahn were the Socialist candidate. Here is something to consider.

In America, not even the historians remember that French anti-Americanism got started in the 1830s as a result of a decision by the Andrew Jackson administration to insist on getting reimbursed by the French for the many American ships that France had seized during the time of Napoleon. The Jackson administration was entirely justified, but not in the eyes of the French, and the resentments lingered long enough to become


UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.                                                                     No. 00-4117

JOHN HOWARD HUDSON, a/k/a Nort,
Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston.
John T. Copenhaver, Jr., District Judge.
(CR-99-48)

Submitted: August 10, 2000

Decided: September 20, 2000

Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.

_________________________________________________________________

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

_________________________________________________________________

COUNSEL

Jane Moran, JANE MORAN LAW OFFICES, Williamson, WestFemale Economists Push Their Field Toward a #MeToo Reckoning

Stories of harassment and discrimination, long shared in private conversations and email chains, began to be aired more publicly last year with allegations that Roland G. Fryer, a prominent Harvard economist, had harassed and bullied women in his university-affiliated research lab. The New York Times reported last month that a Harvard investigation had substantiated some of those claims while other investigations are continuing.

The economics association last year approved its first code of professional conduct, which calls for “equal opportunity and fair treatment for all economists” regardless of sex, race or other characteristics. The association also created a standing committee to address diversity, and is surveying its members about harassment and discrimination.

But many economists, particularly younger ones, pushed leaders here for


High rates of physician services utilization at least five years before multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) management has changed over time, but changes in health care utilization by MS patients remain understudied. We estimated physician services utilization in the five-year periods before and after MS diagnosis, and over the period 1984-2008. Using administrative data we identified 4092 persons with MS and a matched general population (GPOP) cohort of 21,446 persons. Using general linear models we compared physician visits between the MS and GPOPs for the period 1984-2008, the year of MS diagnosis, and for the five-year periods pre- and post-diagnosis. From 1984 to 2008, 98% of the MS population averaged ≥1 physician visits/year versus 87% of the GPOP. In 2008, the MS population had 12.9 physician visits/person-year whilesupport for her position on appeal. Second, the parties vigorously dispute the basis of the challenged ruling.
Frohwein Stores, Inc. owned and operated a convenience grocery store in Colo, Iowa, under a written franchise agreement with defendant Casey's General Stores, Inc. Pursuant to this agreement Frohwein did business in Colo as "Casey's." Plaintiff Esther M. Toney was hired under an oral contract by Frohwein to manage the store, beginning in April 1976.
Plaintiff enjoyed a cordial and productive working relationship with Frohwein. The store operated smoothly until February 1980 when defendant Casey's decided, apparently for economic reasons, that all employees of its franchises in Iowa should sign a uniform contract of employment. The uniform contract was less advantageous to plaintiff than the oral one under which she had performed.
According to


Researchers sample soil at the Pendleton Research Station (Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center, OSU). Marco Keiluweit of Oregon State University (in the pit) takes soil samples and is assisted by collaborators Jeremy Bougoure and Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Credit: Markus Kleber

Soil, long thought to be a semi-permanent storehouse for ancient carbon, may be releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere faster than anyone thought, according to Oregon State University soil scientists.

In a study published in this week's online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers showed that chemicals emitted by plant roots act on carbon that is bonded to minerals in the soil, breaking the bonds and exposing previously protected carbon to decomposition by microbes.

The carbon then passes into the atmosphere as carbon dioxideto be built along the Arunachal Pradesh border.China claims Arunachal Pradesh as southern Tibet. China's reaction is a trifle different from its reaction on October 15 to the plans announced by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju to build new roads along the boundary from Mago-Thingbu in Tawang to Vijaynagar in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh to match China's infrastructure development."There is a dispute about the east part of the China- India border. Before final settlement is reached we hope that India will not take any action that may further complicate the situation," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei said earlier while reacting to the road proposal."We should jointly safeguard the peace and tranquillity of the border area and create favourable conditions for the final


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"I will tell the truth in the face of the sweet talk and the onslaught of smiles," Netanyahu said before boarding his flight from Israel to the United States on Sunday. "Telling the truth today is vital for the security and peace of the world and, of course, it is vital for the security of the state of Israel."

Obama spoke Friday with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the first direct conversation between the two countries' leaders since they broke off diplomatic relations after mobs in Tehran stormed the U.S. embassy in 1979 and held a total of 52 hostages for 444 days.

The 15-minute phone call was a watershed diplomatic moment and that suggested Rouhani -- with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's permission --was interested in re-engaging with the West.

But it also irritated Israel, a U.S. ally that has declared an Iranian nuclear program unacceptable and a threat to the region. Israelis derisively called Iran's efforts the "smiley campaign" and tried to persuade the United States not to be swayed by Iran's courtship, however persuasive.

"Negotiations are on the table to discuss various aspects of Iran's enrichment program," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Sunday in an English-language interview with ABC's "This Week."

It's a tempting offer for the United States, but one that could strain the already rocky relationship between Obama and Netanyahu over construction of new housing settlements, negotiations with Palestinians and even their personal feelings about each other that have occasionally spilled into public view.

The United States vowed to consult


the whole tree, but instead in its four-leaf subtrees, which have only one branch each. The topology of a tree is known to be unambiguously determined by the topologies of its four-leaf subtrees. At the same time, many branch-compatible positions should occur in a four-sequence alignment. Hence, a correct tree should contain more alignment positions that support splits of the four-leaf subtrees, relative to an incorrect tree.

We propose the position-quartet (PQ) score, which counts the number of pairs of an alignment position and a quartet of sequences such that the position supports the subtree of the quartet. In the simplest variant (which is used for nucleic acid alignments) "support" means that one side of the quartet contains the same letter in the position and both letters on thewas possible, using the procedure described in \[[@CR14]\]. In brief, this procedure uses the following instructions.

From a set of species, take all Pfam families that are present in all species. For each family, take all sequences of protein domains of this family from all species. Then construct pairwise global alignments of the sequences from different species and compute the alignment scores. Finally, find the best bidirectional hits, which are pairs of domains from different species in which each member of the pair has the maximum alignment score with the other member when compared with all other domains of the same species. An orthologous group is defined as a set of domains, one from each species, such that each pair of the domains forms a best bidirectional hit.

The organisms


Kenyan opposition MPs boycott Uhuru Kenyatta's speech Published duration 12 September 2017 Related Topics Kenya general election 2017

image copyright AFP image caption Mr Kenyatta had dared the opposition to skip the opening of parliament

Opposition MPs in Kenya have boycotted the opening of the new parliament to protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta's decision to address it after a court annulled his election win.

They say that parliament should not have been convened until after the election re-run slated for 17 October.

The MPs instead joined opposition leader Raila Odinga for a campaign rally in the capital, Nairobi.

Mr Kenyatta said he still had the power to convene parliament.

"The set term of a president is embedded until a new one is sworn in as per the constitution," he told lawmakers.

"I want to assureevery Kenyan and the world that every arm of government is in place and operational," he added.

Mr Kenyatta was declared winner of the 8 August poll, garnering 54% of the vote against Mr Odinga's 44%.

Mr Kenyatta had dared opposition MPs to skip the opening of parliament saying that his Jubilee Party had enough MPs to carry on with parliament's activities.

Only one MP from the opposition was present, according to Kenya's privately-owned Star newspaper

The Standard publication reports that Supreme Court judges, who traditionally attend the official opening of parliament, were absent.

Chief Justice David Maraga's office however told the BBC that the judges had not been invited.

Written judgement

The judges are expected to make public their written judgment explaining why they annulled Mr Kenyatta's win before 21 September.

A majority of the


six judges who listened to the election petition ruled that there had been some "irregularities and illegalities" in the election.

Mr Kenyatta, who has been critical of the judges, said in his parliamentary speech that their decision had overturned the voters' will.

image copyright EPA image caption Mr Odinga told supporters that the opposition would boycott the re-run if some election officials are not fired

He also repeated his strong disapproval of the ruling but said he respects it.

He said that he had a track record of respecting the justice system: "I have previously demonstrated this before, when I conceded defeat in 2002 and heeded summons from an international court [ICC ] when I knew I was facing trumped up charges."

His initial reaction to the 1 September ruling was however scathing,with him calling the Chief Justice and his five colleagues " thugs" and promising to "fix" the court after the re-run election.

He was widely condemned for the comments but he has maintained that he has a right to criticise the court.

Meanwhile, Mr Odinga repeated his threat to boycott the election re-run unless some officials of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( IEBC), which is in charge of elections, are fired.

He accuses them of deliberately interfering with the electoral systems to favour Mr Kenyatta.


installed in an entranceway to CAC Bretigny, but impossibly to relocate without damage. ‘Reversibility’ is an ongoing project first performed at the Frieze Art Fair in 2008, and published by Mousse Publishing in 2013.[10]

Biography:Pierre Bal-Blanc is a French Curator and director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Bretigney, Paris. Bal-Blanc’s curatorial work mostly serves to “de-gentrify” the philosophical works of Pierre Klossowski (whose drawings he has also collected in ‘The Death of the Audience, 2010).[11] Kossowski, and by extension, the curatorial works of Bal-Blanc, focus on paradoxes of perversion and transgression, living and object, via industrialization and processes of production. Following his experience as a go-go dancer in the Gonzalez-Torres’s Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform), 1991, Bal-Blanc organized ‘La Monnaie Vivante’, an illustration of the Kossowski book of theassociated with the bottoming out of the proportion of women without mammography that has been seen since early this decade. Counties in southern and northern part of the state generally have higher invasive breast cancer incidence rates than those in the central part. Breast cancer-related mortality is higher among southern counties in comparison to counties in northern and central part of the state, with mortality rates higher than the national average in McDowell, Mingo, Wayne, and Mason Counties. There is a compelling need to increase access to mammography screening among women residents in the state.


seven years, having concluded that it deceived US regulators after it settled charges last year of sanctions violations. Instead of disciplining all employees involved, the department said, ZTE had paid some of them full bonuses and then lied about it.

The decision amounted to a death sentence to ZTE, which relies on US parts and which announced that it was halting operations. The ban also hurt American companies that supply ZTE.

Trump barged into the ZTE case last month by tweeting that he was working with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to put ZTE “back in business, fast” and save tens of thousands of Chinese jobs. He later tweeted that the ZTE talks were “part of a larger trade deal” being negotiated with China.

Trump has drawn criticism from members ofThe government has directed Internet service providers (ISP) to block distribution and transmission of child sexual abuse content by 31 July.

"ISP's having cable landing station gateways/ international long distance licences in India shall be required to adopt and implement IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) resources on or before 31 July, 2017, to prevent distribution and transmission of online CSAM in to India," the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) said in an order dated 18 April, 2017.

The directive has been issued after the recommendation of an inter-ministerial committee that was constituted to recommend solutions to address the issue of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) following a Supreme Court order.


gave the Unionville- Sebewaing Area Patriots girls basketball team their first conference championship since 2009. With a conference record of 9-1, USA will share the title with Reese, assum More...

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Jerry and Jill Wehner of Harbor Beach are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kimberly Jill Wehner, to Eric Daniel Bischer, son of Daniel and Sharon Bischer, also of Harbor Beach. More...who is eligible to vote (he/she does not necessarily have to be on the Electoral Register already) can be appointed by another voter as his/her proxy, but for the proxy to be able to vote in an election the proxy application must be received by the electoral registration officer at the voter's local authority by 5pm 6 working days before polling day. The proxy can either vote in person, or can apply for a postal proxy vote (though a postal proxy vote application has an even earlier deadline - any such request must be received by the electoral registration officer by 5pm 11 working days before polling day at the latest). A voter who has become ill or disabled after 5pm six working days before polling day can


regions took place in 2011 when the West Midlands gained an extra seat.

The following contains the regional distribution of the seats as it was for the 2019 election.

1 Includes Gibraltar, the only British overseas territory which was part of the European Union.

Reforms post-devolution in Scotland
Using powers granted by devolution, the Scottish Parliament has on two occasions broadened the franchise for elections under its control, namely Scottish Parliament elections and Scottish local authority elections.

Using powers granted by the Scotland Act 2012, in 2015 the Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a bill to lower the minimum voting age from 18 to 16. Prior to that, the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013 had likewise allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in the Scottish independence referendum, 2014.

Using powers granted by the ScotlandAmerica is on a war footing. While, a World War Three Scenario has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than ten years, military action against Russia is now contemplated at an “operational level”. Similarly, both the Senate and the House have introduced enabling legislation which provides legitimacy to the conduct of a war against Russia.

We are not dealing with a “Cold War”. None of the safeguards of the Cold War era prevail.

There has been a breakdown in East-West diplomacy coupled with extensive war propaganda. In turn the United Nations has turned a blind eye to extensive war crimes committed by the Western military alliance.

The adoption of a major piece of legislation by the US House of Representatives on December 4th (H. Res. 758) would


provide (pending a vote in the Senate) a de facto green light to the US president and commander in chief to initiate –without congressional approval– a process of military confrontation with Russia.

Global security is at stake. This historic vote –which potentially could affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people Worldwide– has received virtually no media coverage. A total media blackout prevails.

The World is at a dangerous crossroads. Moscow has responded to US-NATO threats. Its borders are threatened.

On December 3, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation announced the inauguration of a new military-political entity which would take over in the case of war.

Russia is launching a new national defense facility, which is meant to monitor threats to national security in peacetime, but would take controlSeptember NATO Summit in Wales. A so-called NATO action plan directed against the Russian Federation was decided upon. The Wales Summit had given the “green light”.

Barely a month later, in October, US-NATO military drills were held in the Baltic States. In early November, a second round of drills was held in both the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.

As part of this broader endeavour, NATO’s Iron Sword 2014 military exercises –involving the participation of nine member countries of the Atlantic Alliance– were launched in Lithuania in early November:

”US tanks rolled in to Lithuania earlier this month is a show of force to Russia that it’s not welcome in the region.”

The military exercises were explicitly directed against Russia. According to Moscow, they consisted in “increasing operation readiness” as well the


his intention to `reset’ relations with the Russian Federation, which was described by former United States Ambassador… (Introduced in House – IH)

HRES 758 IH

113th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. RES. 758

Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination.

(The full text of H. RES. 758 is contained in annex to this article)

H. Res. 758 not only accuses Russia of having invaded Ukraine, it also invokes article 5 of the Washington Treaty, namely NATO’s doctrine of collective security.

An attack on one member of the Atlantic alliance is an attack on all members of the Alliance.

The underlying narrative is supported by a string of baseless accusations directed against the Russian Federation. It accusesRussia of having invaded Ukraine. It states without evidence that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17, it accuses Russia of military aggression.

Ironically, it also accuses the Russian Federation of having imposed economic sanctions not only on Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova but also on several unnamed member states of the European Union. The resolution accuses the Russian Federation of having used “the supply of energy for political and economic coercion.”

In essence, House Resolution 758 were it to become law would provide a de facto green light to the President of the United States to declare war on the Russian Federation, without the formal permission of the US Congress.

In this regard, it could be interpreted as “mildly unconstitutional” in that it contravenes the substance of Article 1, Section


8, of the US Constitution which vests in the Congress “the Power to declare war…”

The resolution urges the President of the United States in consultation with the US Congress to:

“conduct a review of the force posture, readiness, and responsibilities of the United States Armed Forces and the forces of other members of NATO to determine if the contributions and actions of each is sufficient to meet the obligations of collective self defence under article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and to specify the measures needed to remedy any deficiencies” .

What the above paragraph suggests is that the US is contemplating the use of NATO’s collective security doctrine under article 5 with a views to triggering a process of military confrontation with the Russian Federation.

The structure of militaryplenary of the House for debate and adoption.

Two weeks (16 days) after it was first introduced by Rep. Kinzinger (Illinois) on November 18, it was adopted by 411-10 in an almost unanimous vote on the morning of December 4th.

Members of Congress are puppets. Their vote is controlled by Washington’s lobby groups. For the defence contractors, Wall Street and the Texas oil giants, “war is good for business”.

In the words of Dennis Kucinich in an open letter published on December 2:

The resolution demands Russia to be isolated … In other words, ‘let’s get ready for war with Russia.’ This is exactly the type of sabre rattling which led to the initiation and escalation of the Cold War. It is time we demanded that the US employ diplomacy, not more


A jealous shop assistant who stabbed to death her ex-boyfriend after finding out he was dating another woman has been jailed for life.

Hasna Begum, 25, flew into a rage and stabbed Pietro Sanna 36 times before leaving him for dead on his bedroom floor.

She waited three days before alerting anyone to his plight, in an anonymous tip-off to his brother to say that Mr Sanna was "in trouble".

Inner London crown court heard Begum had an "on-off" relationship with the Italian DJ after they met in Canary Wharf, where she was a Clintons cards shop assistant and he worked in a sandwich shop.

By the end of 2016 they had split up, but Begum retained an "unhealthy obsession" with her ex, monitoring his social media accounts and spotting he wasdating another woman.

She first tried to warn off the other woman, telling her to "get out of my country" and dubbing her an "ugly b*tch".

When that did not work, Begum went to Mr Sanna's Canning Town home to confront him, just after 6am on June 23.

Wearing all black clothes, gloves, and a blonde wig to disguise her appearance, Begum was caught on CCTV climbing out of the kitchen window of her family home, running through her estate, and then meeting the taxi which took her to Mr Sanna's home.

She was seen angrily banging on doors to try to find Mr Sanna's home, and around 80 minutes later, having carried out the murder, she fled again.

Begum, who denied murder, told the jury she had stabbed Mr Sanna in self-defence


after he had kicked her in the chest and come at her with a kitchen knife.

She claimed to only remember stabbing him three times, but jurors heard Mr Sanna had suffered 36 separate wounds including several to his back.

As he lay dying on the floor, Begum put on some of his clothes and then fled the scene, going to a medical centre for treatment to a minor cut on her finger.

She had stolen Mr Sanna's phone and wiped his Instagram account before the body was discovered.

Sentencing her to at least 20 years behind bars, Judge Jeremy Donne said Begum had an "unhealthy obsession" with Mr Sanna.

"What you did was a terrible wicked thing, it has had a damaging effect of depriving a family of a son, it hasShri Jagannath Temple - Puri

Jagannath Temple is one of the most renowned as well as the biggest temples of Orissa. Established in the 12th century, the temple is dedicated to Lord Jagannath (Lord Krishna), Lord of the Universe. The credit for laying the foundation of the Jagannath temple of Puri goes to Raja Ananta Varman Chodaganga Dev. The temple is located at a distance of 60 km from Bhubaneswar, on the coast of Bay of Bengal, and is greatly revered by the devotees following the Vaishnava traditions. There is an interesting legend associated with the Jagannatha temple of Puri. It is said that King Indradyumna, the ruler of the territory, saw Lord Jagannath in his dreams and following the Lord's wishes, as told to him in his dreams,


he got the Jagannath Puri Temple constructed. Situated in the heart of the holy city, the temple is visited by devotees from farthest corners of India as well as the world. It exudes splendor and its tall spires lend it a magnificent aura. The walls are embellished with exquisite carvings. The pillars that provide support to the temple are adorned with pictures depicting the life of Lord Krishna. In the list of the most splendid monuments of Orissa, Jagannath temple occupies a supreme position. One of the most popular attractions of the Jagannatha Temple of Puri comprises of its Rath Yatra that is organized every year. It is basically a chariot festival, where idols of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra, the main deities of Srimandir, are
595 F.3d 411 (2010)
Nichole Marie McDANIEL, Individually and on behalf of a class of others similarly situated, Lessie Lee Davies, Individually and on behalf of a class of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
COUNTY OF SCHENECTADY, Harry Buffardi, Both individually and in his official capacity as Sheriff of the County of Schenectady, Gordon Pollard, Both individually and as Undersheriff of the County of Schenectady, Robert Elwell Sr., Both Individually and as Major in the Schenectady County Sheriff's Department, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 07-5580-cv.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued: May 13, 2009.
Decided: February 16, 2010.
*412 Elmer Robert Keach, III, Law Office of Elmer Robert Keach III, PC, Amsterdam, NY, Jason J. Rozger, Bruce E. Menken, Beranbaum, Menken, Ben-Asher & Bierman LLP, New York, NY, Jonathan Watson Cuneo, Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, Gary E.


Mason, The Mason Law Firm, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
William G. Greagan, Goldberg Segalla, LLP, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.
Philip K. Howard, Jennifer O. Farina, Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY, as Amicus Curiae in support of Defendants-Appellees.
Before: WALKER, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, KAPLAN,[*] District Judge.
LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs-Appellants appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Sharpe, J.), approving the settlement of a class action arising from alleged violations of the their constitutional rights, but awarding less than the requested fee to their attorneys from the common fund established by the settlement. Rather than base its attorneys' fees calculation on a percentage of the fund, the district court elected to calculate fees using a variant of the lodestar method described bya complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, asserting that the Schenectady County Sheriff's Department maintained a policy, implemented by senior officers including Appellees Harry Buffardi, Gordon Pollard, and Robert Elwell, of strip-searching all individuals who were incarcerated at the Schenectady County Jail and placed in jail clothing, regardless of the crime with which they were charged. The complaint sought compensatory and punitive damages, as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. The parties vigorously litigated this action for a period of more than three years, with various attorneys for the plaintiff class spending more than 1000 hours working on the case.
Throughout the course of the litigation, Appellees maintained that the class members were


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Internationally acclaimed Dutch DJ and recording artist Armin Van Buuren has just released a new album titled “Balance,” which was released simultaneous worldwide on Oct. 25.

And as part of the album’s promotion, Van Buuren hired three global street artists to present works that reflect the music, including Mexican painter Ignacio Aldana, better known as Soltero.

Soltero and the other artists, from Amsterdam and New York, will each produce a public mural that will be unveiled along with a live Spotify performance of the album.


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How dry is it? Two areas of Wisconsin are showing up on drought maps.

The U.S. Drought Monitor's newest maps, released on Thursday, show Northeast Wisconsin from Brown County up to Florence County, and Vernon County into southern Juneau County, are abnormally dry.

Abnormally dry is the lowest level of drought in the monitor.

About 11 percent of Wisconsin's land area is abnormally dry. Last week it was 10 percent, and there were no drought conditions in the state three months ago.

No state can compare to California, with the entire state in some stage of drought, including almost 60 percent in exceptional drought, thedisparity, healthcare, the environment.

He later joked about wife Emily V.At that time, Emily was very ill and went into a medically induced coma for eight months.People really hated when I was doing that.

In similar archival entertainment, you don’t spend as long in rock as Alice Cooper without gaining an impressive circle of fellow musician pals.That was a weird couple of days, he says.).Gordon, Nanjiani has been chronicling all the mood swings, anxieties and small comforts of quarantine life from their home in Los Angeles in their for-charity podcast Staying In.

Her latest endeavor has been in film as a co-writer and co-executive producer with her husband, Kumail Nanjiani.Now that he’s 48 I am happy to report the sports car, sketchy social media behavior, and overinflated ego are gone but