a shoe that falls right in line with Fall's lady chic trend and will also last through many seasons to come.

Details

Patent leather with ribbon and silver bow.

Almond toe.

Low, leg-slimming vamp.

3" heel.

Leather sole.

"Carla" is made in Italy.

Designer

About Ferragamo:A native of Naples, Italy, Salvatore Ferragamo was a teenaged shoe apprentice before moving to California and becoming known as the shoemaker to the stars. Ferragamo returned to Italy in 1927, where he officially launched his own collection. Today the Ferragamo line encompasses not only exquisitely made shoes for men and women, but also infinitely stylish handbags and fragrances. The company is still family owned and operated in Florence, where you'll also find the Ferragamo Museum, home to thousands of shoes (including the famous invisible sandal, cage shoe, and wedge heel).end of the second cable (J7), a spherical portion (J10) is connected as a second end portion which interfits into the key-shaped hole (J5). A lid cap (J11) is provided to shield an open ended area of the casing (J1).
Upon connecting the first cable (J2) to the second cable (J7), the spherical portion (J10) of the second cable (J7) is brought into the key-shaped hole (J5) of the first end portion (J6), and then the second casing cap (J9) is attached to the casing (J1). Finally, the lid cap (J11) is clamped on the casing (J1) to secure the connected portions against removal.
This, however, requires the three-step procedure which results in a complicated and time-consuming operation. For this reason, it is difficult to handle the cable joint structure


it's supposed to be 120." "I haven't counted them, though." "stewart:" "Supposed to be 120?" "yeah." "When, uh..." "When he got in the" "Car, I asked him..." "I said, "are you the person" "That's supposed to be selling me" "The pills?"" "And he said, "yeah."" "He then removed this pill bottle" "From his pocket." "stewart:" "Okay." "and I asked him..." "I said, "are they all there?" He said, "yeah, all 120 of them are there."" "stewart:" "Okay." "He then gave me the pills." "So that's how, when I gave the" "Move in signals, I was counting" "The money, um, and he kept, you" "Know, insinuating that he knew" "The other person, said, "yeah, I'm straight, they're good, they're all there."" "stewart:" "So, this..." "He was unknown to youhair." "no, she was talking to the" "Woman in that house over there on the yard, like, flipping out, freaking out." "yelling." "she took off running." "padron:" "The guy right here in the red hat, right behind you, by that dryer... vanover:" "Uh-huh." "padron:" "He got a full description of her... vanover:" "All right." "Hey, man, what's-- what does," "What does she look like?" "she's got a gray t-shirt... vanover:" "Okay." "...And blue jeans, brown hair up in a ponytail." "vanover:" "Hispanic, white?" "she looked white, but she" "Took off running this way." "vanover:" "Okay, and we didn't see where she went after she went running." "She went through there." "I was dealing with him." "there's an empty field." "vanover:" "How long ago was that that she took


off running" "That way?" "before they pulled up." "vanover:" "Was it about five minutes ago?" "maybe..." "Yeah, five minutes" "Ago, yeah, she's... she was freaking out all over" "The place." "she's in the neighborhood" "Somewhere." "vanover:" "All right." "Right now we're looking for a, a" "Female that was probably going" "To be one half of this wreck." "The man that was driving the" "Motorcycle is severely injured," "And she was driving this car." "I don't know exactly what" "Happened with the wreck, but the" "Witnesses here are saying a" "White or hispanic female in a" "Gray shirt and blue jeans was" "Hysterical after the wreck" "Happened and took off running" "Westbound away from the scene," "So we're going to go see her and" "Find out if she's involvedThis is coming from a life long Revere resident and a personal friend of Danny and the other officers , well not all. NOT that scumbag SCEANE LEAVING.RUNNING with his tail between the legs. coward Even Fraidy cat. but the others there that night.So people if your bashing MR King for reporting this case. only the facts and a few opinions were used. He is also not a cop hater. Respect the man. He brought us what we have to believe was the truth.I guess justice was served. .....Don't hate the player . Hate the game. I applaud you MR King..Keep up the good work PLAYA.

Richard Ireton at North Shore Tab was searing in his condemnation, and I must say he makes a point here on the M1-M2


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This movie shows some Q3 games by the best CPMa players in Poland - matrox and his twin brother sting, who's just a little worse than his brother, but still one of the best in Poland. The "Power of Speed" looks very good, there's also a very good music in background (for example Nightwish).

Unlagged Freeze Tag is a teamplay modification based on Darrell Bircsak's Freeze Tag 1.5. You should catch on pretty fast - just shoot the other team up, and when they'd usually die they freeze instead. Once you have all the players on the other team frozen at the same time, your team gets a point and another round willthe commercial crew test flights continue to slip.

The ISS is a partnership among the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and 11 European countries working through the European Space Agency. NASA emphasizes that ISS operations require at least one American and one Russian to be aboard since most of the systems were provided by the two countries and each has a mission control center needed for ISS operations.

As the solicitation makes clear:

The consequences of no US crew on ISS warrant protection by acquiring additional seats. The absence of U.S. crewmembers at any point would diminish ISS operations to an inoperable state.

The ISS is divided into the U.S. Orbital Segment (USOS), which includes modules and systems from the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan, and the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS).


NASA has said in the past that it takes three years to negotiate with Russia to obtain more seats because it takes that long to build a Soyuz, although that seems questionable since Russia plans to continue building Soyuz spacecraft for its own purposes. Each Soyuz can accommodate three people and Russia is offering seats to other customers to fly non-professional astronauts — sometimes called spaceflight participants or tourists — so it would appear that seats are available. The United Arab Emirates, for example, plans to fly its first astronaut to ISS aboard a Soyuz this year. Russia media sources say the price is about $45-50 million for a one-week flight.

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it all means. Front and center among these mysteries are the various images captured of strange, unknown individuals, often linked to some tragedy or crime, whose spooky visages only serve to pull us into intrigue and mystery, their identities unclear and purposes hidden in shadows.

Mysterious crimes and conspiracies have a way of turning up baffling photographic evidence featuring unidentified people. Perhaps one of the most famous such photos are those of who has come to be known as the “Babushka Lady.” On November 22, 1963, then president of the United States, John K. Kennedy, was riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, along with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife, Nellie, when the president was assassinated by a former U.S. Marine and communistby the name of Lee Harvey Oswald, who would himself be assassinated later by a Jack Ruby. At least that is the official, commonly accepted scenario, but the Kennedy assassination has grown into a morass of conspiracy theories and mysteries that I do not intend to get into here, yet one curious one is the image of a mysterious woman who has shown up in numerous photos and videos of the assassination both before and after the president was shot.

In the photos, a woman wearing a long headscarf reminiscent of a Russian headwear called a babushka, from where she gets her nickname, can be seen standing across the street from the scene of the crime, and even more importantly can clearly be seen taking photos or videos with


she is. In 1970 there was a woman who came forward by the name of Beverly Oliver, who claimed that she was the Babushka Lady, that she had filmed the event, and that she had been approached after the assassination by FBI agents who had taken the film from her. However, it has never been proven that her story is anything more than a hoax or tall tale, no evidence to point to her being the Babushka Lady, and indeed her story has turned up various inconsistencies such as the fact that the camera she claimed to have used, a Super 8 Yashica, had not even been developed until years later, as well as the fact that she would have been 17 at the time, much younger thanthe mystery woman seems to be. To this day no one knows who the Babushka Lady was, what she managed to film, or what significance it may have in the John F. Kennedy assassination mystery.

Other mystery photos linked to crimes also potentially hold profound evidence and insights into puzzling cold cases, and feature as yet unknown individuals. One of the most chilling concerns the sadistic serial killer Dean Corll, also known as The Candyman, who along with two accomplices terrorized the Houston, Texas region of the United States between the years of 1970 and 1973. Corll was known to use candy to lure in young boys, earning him his sinister nickname, after which he and his associates would rape, torture, and kill them. The group officially killed 28


U.S. history, yet despite wide circulation of the photograph and appeals by law enforcement for anyone who has more information to come forward, the boy in the photograph has never been identified. He remains a nameless specter, forever etched upon film in no doubt his final terrifying moments, his face forever set into that grimace of terror.

In other cases such mysterious photographs point towards evidence of the identity of the actual killers. Take the strange story of cocktail waitress and former model Eva Kay Wenal. On May 1, 2008, Eva had lunch with her husband, millionaire Hal Wenal, after which Hal went off to work. When he returned home that evening he was welcomed to the gruesome sight of his wife’s dead body sprawled out in their home.Eva showed signs that she had been severely beaten and she had also had her throat savagely cut open. The obvious suspect at the time was her husband, but he was quickly cleared of any wrongdoing. A mysterious letter received by the newspaper The Atlanta Journal Constitution seemed to point to the possibility that the culprit had been a jilted lover who Eva had had an affair with. The letter read:

I loved her. She said we could be together. She told me she hated her house and that fat miserable lying [expletive] husband. She said she loved me, but that was a lie too. I told her this would happen if she didn’t keep her [expletive] promises to me. His money was more important than our love. We


the man in the photo remains mysterious, and he has not been found despite extensive police and FBI efforts to track down his whereabouts.

In the same year was the very unsettling case of a series of disturbing photographs that were uncovered in 2008 by the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children, showing a young blonde girl being brutally sexually assaulted by a man whose face is not visible. Among these sickening images is a photo of another man holding the same young girl, and in this case the man’s face is clearly seen, indeed he seems to be posing for the photograph. On the man’s finger can be seen a ring, which is oddly similar to a ring on the sexual assailant’s finger as well. The manmysterious individuals immortalized on film from our species’ numerous wars, massacres, and tragedies, and here we have some of perhaps the most truly haunting of these photos; nameless faces who were there front and center for some of our greatest atrocities. First up we have a photograph that was turned up in a scrapbook owned by a German officer during World War II. The soldier in question had been part of the “death squad,” called the Einsatzgruppen in German, who were those tasked with the systematic extermination of the Jewish people, and he had been stationed in the town of Vinnitsa, in Ukraine, where around 28,000 Jews were eventually brutally wiped out in 1941.

The photograph in question shows a single man kneeling over the ghoulish sight of a


mass grave of dead bodies and looking forlorn but intensely and almost defiantly at the camera as a German soldier looms behind him with a pistol to his head, surrounded by other death squad soldiers milling about the gruesome scene. It is undoubtedly the final haunting image of this man in the last moments before he joins the tangled mass of corpses below him, and on the back of this photo were found written the words “Last Jew of Vinnitsa.” Neither the man about to be shot nor his executioner have ever been identified, and they remain nameless faces of the horrors of war and genocide.

Also from 1941 is the disturbing image of an unidentified woman, this time in the city of Lviv, Ukraine, where Ukrainian nationalists brutallyannihilated Jews by the thousands, and over 120,000 others suppressed and locked away in filthy, disease-ridden ghettos, from which they were doomed to be sent off to extermination camps. This active genocide of Ukrainian Jews by other Ukrainians was called the Lviv pogroms, and consisted of two main massacres. In this photograph, a Ukrainian Jewish woman is seen being chased by ruthless club wielding men, who doubtlessly bludgeoned her to death shortly after this was taken. Sadly, the woman’s identity has never been found, and she too remains an anonymous reminder of the darkness and utter evil that was creeping and slithering across the earth at the time.

In later years violence was certainly not gone from our world when the the notorious Tiananmen Square Massacre broke out in


China in June of 1989. At this time, thousands upon thousands of student led pro-democracy activists had gathered in Tiananmen Square for demonstrations seeking basic rights, culminating in a vicious crackdown enacted by the Chinese government. After declaring martial law, heavily armed troops descended towards the square, arresting and killing indiscriminately as protestors attempted to block their progress.

These shockingly violent tactics employed by the Chinese government brought about outrage and worldwide condemnation, yet even then the killings and arrests continued virtually unabated. Amongst all of this mayhem an image emerged which seemed to perfectly encapsulate the strife that was rocking the area at the time. Called the “Tiananmen Square Tank Man,” the image shows a lone, unarmed man defiantly and bravely standing in the path of an incomingChinese tank, which is followed by a whole procession of other tanks. Video footage of the incident shows the unnamed individual sidestepping and remaining in its way even when it tries to go around him, and even jumping up onto the tank to apparently have a short chat with the tank’s driver before dropping down and taking up his defiant position once more.

This continues for several minutes before the man is swept away by a group of people. The iconic photograph of this incident, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener, has become one of the most potent, famous, and instantly recognizable images of the century, yet to this day no one knows who he was, what became of him, or who the group of people was who


ushered him away from the tense scene. It has been theorized that the people who pulled him away were with the government, and that the fearless man was executed shortly after, but no one knows, and he remains a faceless, unsung hero of one of the most important tragedies of the 20th century.

Finally we come to one of the greater and more resounding recent tragedies of modern times, that of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, when two planes were hijacked and sent into a suicide run straight into the World Trade Center towers to collapse them with ominous finality. It was an unprecedented act of terrorism on American soil which shocked the world, killed thousands, and sends out ripples which still reverberate around the world today.most influential photos ever taken, it was shot by Richard Drew moments after the attacks, and shows a man plummeting to his death from dizzying heights towards the ground head first from the North Tower. It is estimated that up to 200 people chose to leap from these towers in such a way rather than face the inexorable approach of the smoke and fire that was threatening to consume them, but although some of these were captured on film none of them seem to have the incredibly potent effect that “The Falling Man” has.

Perhaps it is the way he was so clearly captured diving headfirst towards his doom, or that he doesn’t seem to struggle, merely resigned to his fate, but it definitely struck a chord with the


public, with some even complaining that it was too graphic to be published. Behind all of the gasping and controversy surrounding the Falling Man photo, nobody has ever been able to identify who the man actually is. Some theories suggest that he was a maintenance worker washing the windows, while others think it is a man named Jonathan Briley, who worked at a restaurant in the tower and whose body was never recovered, but there has been no conclusive identification, and the subject of one of the most powerful images from the 9/11 disaster remains with no name other that “The Falling Man.” Why did he jump from the tower in those last terrifying moments? What was going through his head as the ground rushed up to greetEngineering sciences University of Oxford.

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before his study of Kafka. He was all the more thrilled to be able to accept Axelos's proposal, because it gave him an opportunity to break with the intellectual taste for Sade, which effectively reduced Masoch to a secondary ingredient of sadism in what was called sadomasochism.  With this study, Deleuze killed two birds with one stone: he immersed himself in literature and began studying psychoanalysis at a time when Lacan was increasingly popular among French intellectuals. As of 1961, long before he met Guattari, Deleuze was drawn toward analytical categories. As he explained to Arnaud Villani, a book owes its utility to several imperatives. As for his 1967 _Presentation of Sacher-Masoch_ , Deleuze explained why his book met these criteria. "The error is to have neglected


thinking. Eisenstein and Abel Gance believed that cinema could become the mode of expression of a universal language that would ultimately cut its teeth on the tragedy of history. However, cinema also became a propaganda tool of totalitarian politics, used to manipulate the masses. On this point, Deleuze adopted Serge Daney's analyses of the liberating ambitions of cinema transformed into an enterprise of enslavement.

After World War II, "the grand political staging, State propaganda transformed into _tableaux vivants_ and the first human mass manipulations"  were called into question, which led to a radical break with cinema as a movement-image. The politics of concentration camps and the cinema that accompanied it, with its chief practitioner Leni Riefenstahl, triumphed over the dreams of liberation borne by cinema. Rather than beinga book considered too political. "I started working and found in this book memories of what I had lived through in the 1960s." Deeply involved in protest movements against the Japanese emperor and challenging the very foundations of the imperial system, Sugimura found in Deleuze and Guattari the instruments for conceiving a new type of militant group and the idea of a molecular revolution, which he saw as particularly pertinent for the Japanese context. In the early 1980s, as Deleuze and Guattari's books were beginning to be translated in Japan, "a fashion developed around them. Many Japanese intellectuals proclaimed themselves partisans of their thinking." Indeed, since the end of World War II, Japan was quite receptive to French  intellectual currents. Sugimura met Guattari only after having translated


Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Sue currently has work on exhibit at Vivo Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is one of eleven book artists participating it a “book art eVent” April 22 to May 10, 2011. Vivo Contemporary is an exciting new gallery located at 725 Canyon Road in Santa Fe. Along with the eclectic mix of Santa Fe artists represented, they include an innovative Book Arts Gallery within the gallery, “a hands-on showcase of book arts in an inviting atmosphere.”

Vivo's “book art eVent” is a regional invitational exhibit featuring artists from California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. For those not familiar with the term “book art” here is an explanation from Vivo Contemporary Gallery's own website:

Contemporary book art integrates media such as printmaking, drawing, painting,Airstream back on the road for some time.The old 6 volt brakes that came with the trailer served us well for many years with a voltage resister on the break controller, but the time had come to replace them. The easiest way seemed to be to replace the entire axel with new, modern brakes. The next question was, where do we find new axles for a 55 year old trailer? At this point we had no idea.

In May of 2010 I was in Canyon de Chelly, AZ on a painting trip, car camping in my mobile studio. I pulled into the campground near the canyon entrance to discover some 90 Airstreams taking up most of the park. It was a WBCCI (Wally Byan Caravan Club International) caravan touring


the South West.

WBCCI Caravan in Canyon de Chelly, May 2010

Being a proud Airstream owner I just had to talk to someone in the group. A man named Jerry Hall from North Carolina was very helpful and gave me good information about what’s going on in Airstream circles these days. He informed me Airstream now uses Dexter Axles and directed me to a source. When I returned home I got on-line, joined the WBCCI and then VAC (Vintage Airstream Club). Through the VAC on-line forum I found someone with a trailer close to the same year as mine, Bill Kerfoot from California who owns a 1954 Airstream double-door Liner. Bill confirmed what I had concluded, that replacing the old axles with new axles and brakes was indeed the bestEd Vickers-Willis is set to become Shinboner #1001, after being named in North’s team to take on Fremantle.

Pick 36 in the 2014 National Draft, Vickers-Willis played in all three JLT Community Series games before impressing with a best-on-ground performance against Geelong in the VFL on Sunday.

Shoulder injuries meant the defender had limited opportunities in 2015 and the early part of 2016, but a full pre-season has been invaluable.

Vickers-Willis, 21, will slot into the back half, while at the other end of the ground Mason Wood makes his long awaited return.

Wood hasn’t played since Round 16 last year, with injuries keeping him sidelined for an extended period, but made a successful return for Werribee last week.

The agile forward impressed in eight senior games in 2016, booting 12 goals.

Ruckman Braydon


Oliver, and is thereby clearly distinguishable from "dark field" systems, a brief description of "bright field" and "dark field" illumination will help to differentiate and more fully highlight the attributes of the present invention.
Illumination systems that direct rays onto a specimen along the optical axis create "bright field" illumination, so named because the rays passing through the field surrounding the specimen and entering the microscope objective lens are unimpeded and thus bright compared to the rays attenuated by passing through the specimen. In a "dark field" system, the relative brightness is reversed by directing only light rays onto the specimen field which are angled relative to the optical axis and directed to fall outside the objective aperture. All of the light passing through the specimen field surrounding theJulian Assange has found a new platform on which to press his case against extradition: the vast "little monster" fanbase of the pop star Lady Gaga, who has visited him for dinner at the Ecuadorean embassy.

Gaga dined with the WikiLeaks founder on Monday night after launching a perfume at the Harrods department store next door to the embassy where Assange, 41, has been holed up since seeking political asylum in June.

WikiLeaks seized on the apparently impromptu visit by one of the world's biggest-selling singers to urge its defenders to "educate her support base", which includes over 30 million followers on Twitter.

Assange broke his bail conditions to evade extradition to Sweden where he is wanted to face allegations of rape and sexual assault, which he strenuously denies.

He believes he


faces imprisonment in the US and has claimed he could be sent to Guantánamo Bay for his role in disseminating classified US government documents.

Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, has backed several political campaigns, notably gay rights campaigns in America. This week she urged her fans, who she calls "little monsters", to read up on fracking, the controversial technique of extracting shale gas, which campaigners complain causes environmental destruction.

Gaga's meeting with Assange was heavily plugged by WikiLeaks, which urged supporters to join protests outside the embassy and kept them up to date about Gaga's arrival. The Bad Romance singer posted pictures of the visit on her website, including one of her with Assange inside the embassy. Her trademark extravagant dress, including a witch-style hat, made for astark contrast with Assange's plain white T-shirt.

Assange is able to accept visitors but cannot step outside the embassy because the British authorities have posted policemen at the front and back entrances who are poised to arrest him if he leaves. He would then be sent to Sweden under the terms of a European arrest warrant (EAW).

Last week, Assange's visitors included a group of financial backers who stood to lose £140,000 in bail money because of Assange's refusal to accept the supreme court's verdict upholding the EAW. On Monday a court ordered them to forfeit £93,500.

It is understood Lady Gaga was encouraged to meet Assange by MIA, the British rapper who scored the music for Assange's chatshow on Russia Today, the Kremlin-funded English language TV channel.

Gaga already has a


In 2001, Houston barbecue pitmaker David Klose got a call from a TV producer asking if he would be willing to host a New York chef at his pit factory and take him out for great barbecue at a local joint.

"Just don't send me a chef with that froufrou hair, because we'll tear him apart," Klose said, referencing the rough-and-tumble welders and crew at his shop.

He need not have worried: That chef was Anthony Bourdain, who at the time was working on a barbecue-focused episode of his still-fairly-new Food Network show, "A Cook's Tour."

Klose had never heard of Bourdain, who died Friday at 61, but felt an immediate kinship when they met.

"I looked at his eyes," Klose recalled. "I said, 'yep, you are one of us.' He wascrazy as a loon. He'd been around, you know what I mean? He was sharp. I don't think there was very much in life that got past him."

That was one of several visits Bourdain made to Houston over the years, for both TV shows and speaking engagements. While he was in town he dabbled in our restaurant scene – Klose took him for ribs at Burns BBQ in Acres Homes, by the way – and made an impression on many people he encountered.

During a trip in the 1990s, Bourdain dined at Mai's restaurant in Midtown. Years later, he said it was his favorite place to eat in Houston.

"From my limited time in Houston," he told the Chronicle in a 2010 interview, "I've come to believe it has some


of the best Vietnamese (food) in the country, if not the best."

The acknowledgment profoundly affected business, said Mai's general manager Anna Pham.

"That he remembered his experience here was such an honor," Pham said of her mother Mai Nguyen's restaurant. "In our history at Mai's we will always go back to that time when we were truly a hole in the wall restaurant. It put us on the map."

Later that year, she was able to tell him how much his words meant to her family – who were in the process of reopening the restaurant after a devastating fire – during one of his speaking engagements presented by Society for the Performing Arts at Jones Hall.

"He helped bring notice to the Vietnamese community in Houston and allowed people toembrace it," Pham said. "He had such enthusiasm."

In 2012, Bourdain returned to Jones Hall, this time with chef Eric Ripert on a tour called "Good vs. Evil." Ripert found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning in France. His death was called a suicide.

Kathryn Lott, Society for the Performing Arts' then-director of operations, was struck by the closeness between the two men.

"They were genuine friends," she said. "He opened up so much more around Eric. When they were in their dressing rooms, they were nonstop inseparable."

Lott also noted that Bourdain always made sure he had local craft beer in his dressing room, and commented positively to her on the selection from Saint Arnold.

"The first time we presented Bourdain was the first time I realized chefs were turning


into legitimate show-business stars," she said. "He could carry himself on stage, have a rapport with the audience, and for 90 minutes be as engaging as a movie star like Al Pacino or Lily Tomlin, both of whom SPA brought to Houston for their own shows."

In 2016, Bourdain was back again, this time filming for his CNN show "Parts Unknown."

One of the places he hit was Indo-Pakistani restaurant Himalaya. Owner Kaiser Lashkari remembers when Bourdain walked through the door.

"He was 6 foot 7, so he had to put his head down to come in," Lashkari said.

He also remembers Bourdain's favorite dishes at the restaurant: green curry chicken, biryani and steak tikka washed down with Shiner Bock. Lashkari was so honored by Bourdain's visit that his menu now hasseveral dishes marked with a thumbs up as "Bourdain approved."

In their conversation at the restaurant Lashkari told Bourdain that he gave up his medical school education to become a restaurateur: "He said to me, 'I'm glad you didn't become a doctor.'"

Lashkari describes the mood during that day of filming at his restaurant as jubilant.

"People were falling all over themselves to get a picture with him," he said. "He was so talented. He was an iconic personality with great achievement under his belt."

Bourdain spent a good chunk of another day filming for "Parts Unknown" at Burns BBQ, the same place pitmaker Klose had taken him more than a decade earlier.

Burns co-owner Cory Crawford cherished the day Bourdain visited in June 2016.

"He treated you like he's known you for years,"


Crawford said. "He was a very down-to-earth person. You could talk to him about anything, not just food."

And they did. While eating barbecue on the Burns patio, Bourdain engaged several Houstonians, including rapper Slim Thug, on topics such as Houston's car culture, Houston flooding, diversity and the oil slump.

After the episode aired, Burns was deluged with customers – a standing-room-only rush that lasted months, Crawford said.

"People still to this day come on their layover from the airport," he said. "They even come with their luggage. He did that much for the business."

Crawford said that Bourdain understood what Houstonians treasure about the city.

"One thing that stayed with me is that he liked the diversity of Houston," he said. "The whole episode he dug deep down in Houston as oneBelgium and Switzerland combined.

READ MORE: Facing Hurricane Harvey

Texas officials said on Monday that six more people are feared to have died in the Houston area as a result of the storm and flooding.

Tricia Bentley, spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office in Harris County - which includes the city of Houston - confirmed six deaths since Sunday that are "potentially tied to Hurricane Harvey".

She was unable to specify the causes of death, explaining that "some people may have had a medical emergency and just could not seek help because of the flooding".

The fatalities were distinct from unconfirmed reports that a family of six had died in a van caught in floodwaters.

Three people were previously confirmed to have died after Harvey hit Texas on Friday. In Houston, a woman drowned


when she left a car that had stalled in high water. Another man was found dead in a flooded Wal-Mart car park in Galveston County.

Thousands seek shelter from floods after Harvey

And one person was killed when a house caught fire in the Rockport area, where Harvey made landfall.

Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou-Castro, reporting from Houston, the largest city in Texas, said that in the last 48 hours, emergency agencies have received some 6,000 calls for help.

She said that between 300 to 400 households were still waiting to be reached by rescuers as of 13:00 GMT on Monday.

Our correspondent also said that the flooding is expected to rise in some parts of Houston, as authorities are expected to open dams and levies in the area, to ease pressure from thecontinuous rain.

Al Jazeera's weather presenter Richard Angwin reported that the "worst is probably yet to come", saying that the storm, which is moving only at an estimated five kilometres per hour, could dump more rain in the coming days.

"We are only half-way through the rainfall," he said.

"The storm is going nowhere very fast. It is going so slowly. There's still a lot still coming out of it, picking up warm water in the Gulf of Mexico."

'Catastrophic'

In some areas just north of Houston, rainfall has already reached 1,000mm in the last three days, which our correspondent described as "catastrophic".

Aside from the 50 counties affected in southern Texas, a portion of the south-western state of Louisiana was also affected by Harvey, which made landfall late on Friday as a Category


4 hurricane.

Harvey has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, but the damage it has left is extensive.

About 450,000 people are anticipated to apply for disaster assistance, which would make them eligible for financial support, possible replacement of property and other disaster-related aid.

President Donald Trump is expected to visit Texas on Tuesday, but not Houston as flooding in the US' fourth-largest city continues.

Harvey is the first major natural disaster to hit the United States during Trump's presidency. On Sunday, he convened a cabinet meeting by telephone in response to the disaster.

Harvey was the fiercest hurricane to hit the country in 13 years, and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961's Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record.Breaks Yet Another Key Campaign Promise on Executive Orders, Signing Statements

After the legislation cleared Congress, the ACLU commented that signing the bill “will damage both his legacy and American’s reputation for upholding the rule of law,” while executive director of the Human Rights Watch blasted the President for being ‘on the wrong side of history,’ noting that “Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law.”

Presidential candidate Ron Paul went even further, declaring that the NDAA bill begins the official establishment of martial law in the United States (see video).

Below is the signing statement issued by the White House in full:

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 31, 2011

Statement by the President on H.R. 1540

Today I have


Severe storms in the past week kept rivers on the rise and most fishermen off the water, but without any heavy rainfall in the forecast, a handful of rivers like the Smith should come back in time for the weekend.

Many other regional rivers will be blown out for a while.

Smith River

The rocky watershed of the Smith River makes it one of the first and fastest rivers to drop to fishable levels.

Fishing guides predicted that the Smith might be low enough for plunking for steelhead today and Friday, and possibly low enough for side-drifting from the forks this weekend.

The National Weather Service predicts the Smith will drop to 9 to 12 feet this weekend at the Jed Smith gauge — a more than 10-foot drop from the river’s 22.37-footpeak early Wednesday morning.

Fishing guide Jim Mitchell recommended plunking once the river gets that “olive color.” Fish close to the bank on the inside edge of river bends where fish like to travel, Mitchell recommended.

Quarter-sized, orange and chartreuse spin-n-glos with a small piece of roe and enough weight to keep the rig in place should do the trick, Mitchell said.

Klamath/Trinity rivers

After being blown out for a few days, sections of the upper Trinity River opened back up for some steelhead fishing.

In the Lewiston area near Junction City and Douglas City, fishing guide Ed Duggan predicted the river would be low enough to target steelies.

The Trinity River below Weaver Creek will be blown out for a few more days. A high-flowing Klamath River was unfishable from the I-5 bridge


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US photonics societies launch national initiative

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The National Photonics Initiative (NPI) – an alliance seeking to unite experts from industry, academia and the government to advance photonics R&D, grow the US economy and improve national security – was launched in late May by a partnership of photonics societies: The American Physical Society, IEEE Photonics Society, Laser Institute of America (LIA), The Optical Society (OSA) and SPIE.

“Life without photonics is almost unimaginable,” said OSA CEO Elizabeth Rogan, adding that the initiative will “advance photonics in the areas that are most critical to the US, like improving the economy, creating jobs, saving lives and sparking innovation for future generations.”

In 1998, the NationalResearch Council released the report Harnessing Light, which presented a comprehensive overview of the potential impact of photonics on major industry sectors. In response, several worldwide economies moved to advance their already strong photonics industries. The US, however, did not develop a cohesive strategy. As a result, the US lost its competitive advantage in a number of cutting-edge technologies as well as thousands of jobs and companies to overseas markets.

In 2012, the National Research Council released Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for our Nation, which called for a national photonics initiative to regain US leadership in key photonics-driven fields. The NPI was established in response to that call.

As part of the effort, more than 100 experts from industry, academia and government collaborated to draft a white paper detailing


The ComeUp brand is rated as one of the highest quality winches in the world. ComeUp has exclusively manufactured nothing but winches for over 37 years. As a behind the scenes private label manufacturer for the U.S. market for many years, ComeUp has chosen to go direct with its own brand name to bring its value added high quality winches to the U.S. market at a lower price. Though the ComeUp brand is not yet known in the U.S. ComeUp is highly regarded, very popular and widely used in the rest of the world. ComeUp winches reputation for quality, durability and innovative engineering won it the selection for use by Artic Truck in Polar expeditions to both the South and the North Poles. The expedition to the Northdelivered a speech emphasizing national unity and extended his “heartfelt thanks” to Turkey, according to reports by Daily Sabah.In addition to participants from different religious backgrounds, Turkish and foreign state officials also stood with Jewish citizens in celebrating their holiday, also known as the Festival of Lights.Officials from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Istanbul Governor’s Office, Foreign Ministry and office of the mufti in Istanbul attended the event, alongside the consul generals of the United States, Spain and Israel.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu also issued statements on Dec. 7 marking the Turkish Jewish community’s Hanukkah.Erdoğan underscored that Turkey had become an important regional player because it was part of a civilization that accepted social, cultural and political differences as richness, while emphasizing the need


a fourth
semiconductor element whose one end is connected to a negative electrode
end of a DC voltage source in an odd-numbered stage, the fourth
semiconductor element being in common to the M phases; first to third
semiconductor elements of the M phases which are sequentially connected
in series between a positive electrode end of the DC voltage source in
the odd-numbered stage and the other end of the fourth semiconductor
element in the odd-numbered stage; and fifth semiconductor elements of
the M phases whose one ends are connected to common connection points of
the first and second semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage; a
flying capacitor in the even-numbered stage that is inserted between a
common connection point of the first and second semiconductor elements in
the even-numbered stage and the other ends of the sixth semiconductor
elements of allthe phases in the even-numbered stage, the flying
capacitor being in common to the M phases; a flying capacitor in the
odd-numbered stage that is inserted between the other ends of the fifth
semiconductor elements of all the phases in the odd-numbered stage and a
common connection point of the third and fourth semiconductor elements in
the odd-numbered stage, the flying capacitor being in common to the M
phases; and voltage selection circuits of the M phases, each of which has
common connection points of the second and third semiconductor elements
of each basic circuit as input terminals, includes semiconductor elements
between the input terminals and an output terminal, and outputs a
potential of any one of the input terminals from the output terminal by
selectively controlling ON/OFF of the semiconductor elements.

3. A multilevel power convertor that generates AC


whose one ends are connected to common connection points of the
first and second semiconductor elements in the even-numbered stage; a
first semiconductor element whose one end is connected to a positive
electrode end of a DC voltage source in an odd-numbered stage, the first
semiconductor element being in common to the M phases; second to fourth
semiconductor elements of the M phases which are sequentially connected
in series between the other end of the first semiconductor element in the
odd-numbered stage and a negative electrode end of the DC voltage source
in the odd-numbered stage; and sixth semiconductor elements of the M
phases whose one ends are connected to common connection points of the
third and fourth semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage; a
flying capacitor in the even-numbered stage that is inserted between all
the fifth semiconductor elementsodd-numbered stage, the flying capacitor
being in common to the M phases; and voltage selection circuits of the M
phases, each of which has common connection points of the second and
third semiconductor elements of each basic circuit and a common
connection point of a negative electrode end of the DC voltage source in
the even-numbered stage and a positive electrode end of the DC voltage
source in the odd-numbered stage as input terminals, includes
semiconductor elements between the input terminals and an output
terminal, and outputs a potential of any one of the input terminals from
the output terminal by selectively controlling ON/OFF of the
semiconductor elements.

5. A multilevel power convertor that generates AC outputs with a
plurality of voltage levels obtained by conversion of voltages of a DC
voltage source and a flying capacitor, the multilevel power convertor
comprising:


and second semiconductor elements
in the odd-numbered stage; a flying capacitor in the even-numbered stage
that is inserted between the other ends of all the sixth semiconductor
elements in the even-numbered stage and a common connection point of a
positive electrode end of the DC voltage source and the second
semiconductor element in the even-numbered stage, the flying capacitor
being in common to the M phases; a flying capacitor in the odd-numbered
stage that is inserted between the other ends of all the fifth
semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage and a common connection
point of a negative electrode end of the DC voltage source and the third
semiconductor element in the odd-numbered stage, the flying capacitor
being in common to the M phases; and voltage selection circuits of the M
phases, each of which has common connection points ofvoltage sources; a fifth semiconductor
element whose one end is connected to a common connection point of the
first and second semiconductor elements in the even-numbered stage;
second to fourth semiconductor elements which are sequentially connected
in series between positive and negative electrode ends of a DC voltage
source in an odd-numbered stage of the N serially connected DC voltage
sources; and a sixth semiconductor element whose one end is connected to
a common connection point of the third and fourth semiconductor elements
in the odd-numbered stage; a flying capacitor in the even-numbered stage
that is inserted between the other ends of all the fifth semiconductor
elements in the even-numbered stage and a common connection point of a
negative electrode end of the DC voltage source and the third
semiconductor element in the even-numbered stage, the flying capacitor
being in common


to the M phases; a flying capacitor in the odd-numbered
stage that is inserted between the other ends of all the sixth
semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage and a common connection
point of a positive electrode end of the DC voltage source and the second
semiconductor element in the odd-numbered stage, the flying capacitor
being in common to the M phases; and voltage selection circuits of the M
phases, each of which has common connection points of the second and
third semiconductor elements of each basic circuit as input terminals,
includes semiconductor elements between the input terminals and an output
terminal, and outputs a potential of any one of the input terminals from
the output terminal by selectively controlling ON/OFF of the
semiconductor elements.

7. The multilevel power convertor as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the
number of series-connection ofone end is connected to a negative electrode
end of a DC voltage source in an odd-numbered stage, the fourth
semiconductor element being in common to the M phases; first to third
semiconductor elements of the M phases which are sequentially connected
in series between a positive electrode end of the DC voltage source in
the odd-numbered stage and the other end of the fourth semiconductor
element in the odd-numbered stage; and fifth semiconductor elements of
the M phases whose one ends are connected to common connection points of
the first and second semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage; a
flying capacitor in the even-numbered stage that is inserted between a
common connection point of the first and second semiconductor elements in
the even-numbered stage and the other ends of the sixth semiconductor
elements of all the phases in the


even-numbered stage, the flying
capacitor being in common to the M phases; a flying capacitor in the
odd-numbered stage that is inserted between the other ends of the fifth
semiconductor elements of all the phases in the odd-numbered stage and a
common connection point of the third and fourth semiconductor elements in
the odd-numbered stage, the flying capacitor being in common to the M
phases; and voltage selection circuits of the M phases, each of which has
common connection points of the second and third semiconductor elements
of each basic circuit as input terminals, includes semiconductor elements
between the input terminals and an output terminal, and outputs a
potential of any one of the input terminals from the output terminal by
selectively controlling ON/OFF of the semiconductor elements.

[0018] In addition, according to still aspect of the present invention, a
multilevelthe M phases whose one ends are connected to
common connection points of the first and second semiconductor elements
in the even-numbered stage; a first semiconductor element whose one end
is connected to a positive electrode end of a DC voltage source in an
odd-numbered stage, the first semiconductor element being in common to
the M phases; second to fourth semiconductor elements of the M phases
which are sequentially connected in series between the other end of the
first semiconductor element in the odd-numbered stage and a negative
electrode end of the DC voltage source in the odd-numbered stage; and
sixth semiconductor elements of the M phases whose one ends are connected
to common connection points of the third and fourth semiconductor
elements in the odd-numbered stage; a flying capacitor in the
even-numbered stage that is inserted between all the


semiconductor element whose one
end is connected to a common connection point of the first and second
semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage; a flying capacitor in
the even-numbered stage that is inserted between the other ends of all
the sixth semiconductor elements in the even-numbered stage and a common
connection point of a positive electrode end of the DC voltage source and
the second semiconductor element in the even-numbered stage, the flying
capacitor being in common to the M phases; a flying capacitor in the
odd-numbered stage that is inserted between the other ends of all the
fifth semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage and a common
connection point of a negative electrode end of the DC voltage source and
the third semiconductor element in the odd-numbered stage, the flying
capacitor being in common to the M phases; andin
series between positive and negative electrode ends of a DC voltage
source in an even-numbered stage of the N serially connected DC voltage
sources; a fifth semiconductor element whose one end is connected to a
common connection point of the first and second semiconductor elements in
the even-numbered stage; second to fourth semiconductor elements which
are sequentially connected in series between positive and negative
electrode ends of a DC voltage source in an odd-numbered stage of the N
serially connected DC voltage sources; and a sixth semiconductor element
whose one end is connected to a common connection point of the third and
fourth semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage; a flying
capacitor in the even-numbered stage that is inserted between the other
ends of all the fifth semiconductor elements in the even-numbered stage
and a common connection point of a


negative electrode end of the DC
voltage source and the third semiconductor element in the even-numbered
stage, the flying capacitor being in common to the M phases; a flying
capacitor in the odd-numbered stage that is inserted between the other
ends of all the sixth semiconductor elements in the odd-numbered stage
and a common connection point of a positive electrode end of the DC
voltage source and the second semiconductor element in the odd-numbered
stage, the flying capacitor being in common to the M phases; and voltage
selection circuits of the M phases, each of which has common connection
points of the second and third semiconductor elements of each basic
circuit as input terminals, includes semiconductor elements between the
input terminals and an output terminal, and outputs a potential of any
one of the input terminals from the output terminalDeliver Us From Evil

Synopsis

New York police officer Ralph Sarchie, struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorizing their city.

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New York police officer Ralph Sarchie, struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorizing their city.

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accused the SPLM of fraud and voter intimidation. On 20 May 2010 he led an armed group in a clash with the SPLA. One casualty was reported by the SPLA. Yau Yau indicated that he was in contact with George Athor, another failed Jonglei candidate who led the South Sudan Democratic Movement (SSDM) into rebellion for similar reasons.

Yau Yau signed a ceasefire with the GoSS in June 2011, which integrated him and his militia with the SPLA. He had the rank of Brigadier General in the SPLA. In April 2012 he defected again, and lead a Murle-dominated militia in the South Sudan internal conflict for several years.

Yau Yau became the head of the Murle insurrection and the militia that he led became known as the "Cobra Faction" ofLandmark Diner Jr. has closed its location on Cheshire Bridge Road. The restaurant, an offshoot of Buckhead's Landmark Diner, opened in 2005 and reportedly closed quietly earlier this week. The restaurant, which was open 24/7, featured a huge menu of breakfast, lunch and dinner options ranging from traditional egg plates to steaks, shrimp entrees and gyros.

Photo courtesy of Russell Youngblood

When the Landmark Diner Jr. opened in 2005, it replaced longtime Cheshire Bridge "landmark" Dunk 'n Dine, a popular neighborhood restaurant that operated for more than four decades. The Landmark Diner building was originally built in 1960 according to Fulton County property records.

It's unclear what precipitated the sudden closure but the Cheshire Bridge Landmark as well as its larger sibling restaurants downtown and in Buckhead, all have bad reputations


for failing health inspections. Despite the poor heath scores, the restaurant seemed to do well and its closure could be due to a pending redevelopment.

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) is currently marketing not only the Landmark Diner property (2277 Cheshire Bridge Road) but the adjacent European Dry Cleaners (2297) and the former Happy Herman's (2299) too. Collectively, the three parcels are reportedly .76 acres are being marketed for lease, ground lease or build to suit.

According to the listing, the Landmark building is 2,300 square feet, European Dry Cleaners is 1,442 sf with 600 square foot basement and the former Happy Herman's is 6,096 square feet.

The marketing materials further describe the opportunity as "incredible" given its location "in highly desirable intown Atlanta location" with "dense population with high incomes andsurrounded by some of Atlanta’s best in-town neighborhoods including Morningside-Lenox Park, Piedmont Heights, Lavista Park and Peachtree-Hills."

It's a known fact that RaceTrac and QuikTrip would LOVE to be in the area but given the subject assemblage is not even .8 of an acre, it's likely too small for even the most compact of modern c-stores either company would want to open.

Cheshire Bridge Road, once a beacon of independent businesses, especially restaurants, has witnessed its fair share of casualties over the years. The aforementioned Happy Herman's closed in 2008 after more than three decades in business.

Just off Cheshire Bridge, on Lindbergh Drive, Varsity Jr. closed in 2010 and was later replaced by an uber boring self-storage facility.

Alfredo's, a popular Italian restaurant on Cheshire Bridge Road for more than 40


Baseball great, Rollie Fingers is a former MLB relief pitcher who played for the Oakland Athletics (1968–76), San Diego Padres (1977–80) and Milwaukee Brewers (1981–85). In addition to Rollie Fingers pitching ability, he was noted for his handlebar moustache which he originally grew to get a $300 bonus from Athletics owner Charles O. Finley. Although most former A's players shaved their handlebar moustaches off after the team traded most of their players in 1975-76, Fingers maintained it after being traded to the Padres in 1977 and still has the moustache today.

Fingers was one of the first players groomed in his minor league career to be a relief pitcher once he reached the majors. His former owner with the Athletics, Charles O. Finley, was one of the first todo this. Prior to this, most pitchers were starters first and foremost and usually ended up in the bullpen by either necessity or afterthought. Rollie Fingers's number 34 was retired by the Oakland Athletics in 1993 and by the Milwaukee Brewers in 1992. Rollie Fingers is one of only eight players who have had their numbers retired from more than one team.


DOJ said. The extradition hearing for the defendants in New Zealand was originally scheduled for August 2012 but was postponed to July 7, 2014.

In January of 2013, Dotcom launched a new website called Mega, described as a cloud-storage service that uses encryption to shield users from being snooped on by governments or corporations.

The DOJ was ordered to unseal evidence in the Megaupload case by U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady of the Eastern District of Virginia to provide notice to potential victims in the case as soon as practicable after Dec. 12.

As of Jan. 5, 2012, Megaupload.com publicly claimed to have had more than 180 million registered users to date and an average of 50 million daily visits, accounting for 4% of the total traffic on the Internet.Off-Peak: A Review

Off-Peak, by Cosmo D, drops you off at a train station, next to a musician named Luuuke who offers you his ticket if you can find all the pieces and put it back together. Thus starts your short but absurd journey into this game. The train station is unlike anything we can image, despite being based on Grand Central Station in New York City going by the available stops. I didn’t see a mushroom garden last time I was there though.

The station in Off-Peak is grandiose, surreal, and full of oddities. The walls are plastered with posters and paintings. Some are disturbing, such as the Polish movie posters used in the dark stairwell, and others are happy and cheerful. The irregular and haphazard placement of these


memento of it. If I had been a quicker thinker, maybe I would have asked for a postcard instead.

Off-Peak emulates that feeling, of running into people and catching them in a moment of time. We learn a little bit about each of the characters and of the station. We are given a few hints to what to make of this surreal world where giants play pianos and security guards study game design next to giant mushrooms. Marcus and his station might represent two things, the crossroads between music and games, and the evolution of music and its relation to its audience. At first, Marcus seems like a patron of the arts because he is providing a space for all kinds of artists and shopkeepers. He supports them asJohn D. Miller

John D. Miller. From the ranks of the best citizens are chosen under the provisions of Indiana laws the officials known as township trustees. In many respects this office is the most important in the entire county scheme of governments, and the men who are entrusted with the duties and responsibilities of that office are of the substantial class whose ability has been thoroughly tested and who enjoy the complete confidence of their neighbors. Among the former trustees of Union township, John D. Miller represented in the highest degree the qualities of good citizenship and of business efficiency. Mr. Miller has spent practically all his life in Huntington county, and is the owner of a fine farm of seventy-six acres, three and a half miles northwest


of Markle. He is quiet, unassuming man, goes about his work without much noise, but with an efficiency which has brought him into the number of thoroughly prosperous Huntington county citizens.

John D. Miller, through both his parents, represents substantial German stock. He was born in Starke county, Ohio, August 12, 1857, a son of David and Sarah (Arnold) Miller. Both parents were likewise natives of Starke county, and were reared and married in that state. In 1857, a few weeks after John was born, the parents moved from Ohio and found a home in Huntington county in October of that year. Their location was in Union township, and they lived there until death. Of the eight children only two are living at the present time, the sister ofJohn D. Miller being Clara, wife of George Messler, of Nebraska.

John D. Miller grew up on the old farm in Union township, and as a boy was privileged to attend the country schools about three months each year. All his schooling was obtained at the Number Eight District school in Union township. With a fair equipment in line of education he started to work for his father and lived on the farm until he was twenty-one. He then began as a renter, and gradually accumulated the capital which gave him an independent position. Mr. Miller for a number of years has been proprietor of the Lone Oak Farm, and employs his acres for the production of the general crops, and also for considerable stock raising.

On October 5, 1884,


Mr. Miller married Amanda Brubaker, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Brubaker, who came from Perry county, Ohio, and were among the early settlers of Rock Creek township in Huntington county. Mrs. Miller died December 5, 1900, leaving four children, as follows: Bessie, the wife of Hugh Drabenstat; Gusta, who died February 2, 1901; Gale, who died at the age of seventeen months; and Rudy, who was born August 5, 1899. On December 14, 1902, Mr. Miller married Ida A. Keplinger, who was born in Huntington county. Mr. Miller is a Democrat in politics, and his services as trustee of Union township was from 1900 to 1905.SAN ANTONIO -- Authorities have rescued eight unsupervised children from a San Antonio home where a two-year-old boy was chained to the ground in the backyard and a three-year-old girl was tied to a door with a dog leash, sheriff's officials said Friday.

Deputies arrived at the home after receiving a call just before midnight about a child crying for a long time, Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesman James Keith said. The deputies didn't get a response when they knocked on the front door, and when they looked in the backyard they discovered the two restrained children.

"It makes you sick to see something like this. It makes you angry...This is as disturbing as it gets," Keith told CBS affiliate KENS.

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"To call this horrific


would be an understatement," he added.

The boy had a metal chain strapped around his ankle, with the other end of the chain fixed to the ground, Keith said, adding: "It was the same kind of setup you would use for a dog." Both children were taken to the hospital, and the girl was being treated for a broken arm, he said.

Deputies later found six unsupervised children inside the house on San Antonio's northeast side. Two people identified as parents of those six children arrived later and were taken into custody for questioning, Keith said. The children, between the ages of 10 months and 13 years, were placed in the care of child welfare authorities.

The mother of those six children, 34-year-old Porucha Phillips, was later arrested, Keith said. Hesaid Phillips was being held at a county magistrate's office facing two charges of injury to a child by omission. One of the charges alleges serious bodily injury.

Keith said authorities believe that Phillips was also responsible for the two children found outside. It was unclear if Phillips had an attorney, and The Associated Press couldn't immediately find a working phone number for her or the home.

The local district attorney's office didn't immediately return a message seeking comment, and the name of the father hasn't been released.

The two children found confined in the backyard also are in the temporary custody of child welfare workers. Keith said the boy and girl are believed to be siblings, and that authorities were "actively trying to find their parents."


friends. Thinking he recognized the occupants, Repka approached the van when it was stopped at a traffic signal. The driver of the van was the defendant, John Cronin, and the passenger was his co-defendant, Edward Hayes, neither of whom was previously acquainted with Repka. Realizing his mistake, Repka returned to his friends who were waiting for him on the sidewalk and they continued walking down the street.
Meanwhile the van drove around the corner and through the parking lot of a Gino's restaurant where it stopped. The defendants got out of the van and confronted Repka and his friends. Without provocation, Cronin punched Repka on the cheek with his fist knocking him to the ground and unconscious. While on the ground, Hayes began kicking Repka in the face.
As aresult of these blows, the victim sustained several injuries. There was a bruise on his left eye. His nose was bleeding. The entire mouth area was swollen, the cheeks were swollen, the lower lip was cut and two of the left teeth were knocked out. While subsequent dental surgery secured the two teeth back in the mouth, they were slightly out of line. Additionally, the victim testified at trial, some four months after the incident, that he could not chew certain foods.
Defendants contend that the Trial Court erroneously labeled the victim's injuries as "serious physical injury" within the meaning of the Delaware Criminal Code, and as a result of this the convictions of Assault in the Second Degree are improper. This contention is without merit.
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Development (HUD).  He appeals from the sentence he received for his crimes:  two consecutive two-year prison terms, totaling 48 months.  For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

2
* Tongo, a native of Nigeria, entered the United States in 1981 on a student visa.1  The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had approved his application to attend college in Macomb, Illinois.  He never went to Illinois;  rather, he headed straight for Tennessee.  From the fall term of 1982 until May 1986, Tongo attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration (B.B.A.).  For working capital to finance his education, he applied for and received federally guaranteed student loans, issued by Citibank, an FDIC-backed banking institution. Such student loans, by statute, are available only to United States citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPRs).

3
To qualify as an LPR, Tongo entered into a sham marriage2 with an American citizen, Carla Yvette Tuggle, in January 1983,3 and he fraudulently procured LPR status through that ruse.  After finishing college, Tongo attended Middle Tennessee State University from January 1987 to August 1989, where he obtained a master's degree in economics.  He continued to obtain federal student loans from Citibank on the basis of his fraudulently-obtained permanent residency.  In all, from 1983 to 1989, Tongo obtained close to $20,000 in such loans.  Moreover, he began obtaining housing subventions from HUD by asserting his fraudulent permanent residency, by amplifying his requests with fraudulent claims that he had


dependents to support, and by falsely understating his total outside income.  Between 1986 to 1992, he received over $24,000 in such federal housing assistance.

4
In March 1989, Tongo was arrested by the Nashville police while soliciting a street prostitute.  In Nashville, that charge is designated a misdemeanor.  When the police asked him for identification, he presented a Tennessee driver's license with the name Tongo Olumide Koyejo.  The name, the birthdate, and the social security number on the license all differed from Tongo's INS identification records.

5
Two months after the prostitution citation, Tongo petitioned the INS for citizenship.  As part of the formal naturalization petition process, Tongo was interviewed by John Cook, the INS senior immigration examiner in Memphis.  Cook asked whether Tongo had everused any other name;  he replied negatively.  Furthermore, Tongo responded in the negative to the standard question of whether he had ever procured anyone for prostitution.  He affirmed that his spouse, Carla, was still living with him.  Having answered all of his interviewer's questions with the right answers, Tongo was recommended for citizenship, and he was naturalized in December 1989.

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Sometime after he obtained citizenship, the INS began investigating the circumstances under which Tongo had been approved for naturalization in 1989.4  In June 1992, INS agents arrested him at his place of employment.  At that time, the agents asked him whether he wanted them to remove anything from his car, which was parked at the work site.  He asked them to retrieve


his driver's license, which was in the trunk.  When they told him that they would do so and would inspect the document first, before handing it to him, he told the agents that, on second thought, he would rather that they not remove his license from his trunk.  The INS officer, Agent Evans, honored Tongo's request.  Afterwards, based on Tongo's suspicious behavior, Evans checked Tennessee state records and learned that no driver's license had ever been issued to a Billy Tongo.  However, a Tongo Koyejo had received a driver's license, had received citations for traffic violations that involved the Tongo automobile, and had been arrested for soliciting a prostitute.  With this new information, Evans obtained a warrant to search the vehicle.  Whileinterest in oil and gas, invests in the drilling of wells to produce that resource, and sells that production to a third party, thus "receiving a price." "Producer" could also mean the party who operates the well and is responsible for physically bringing the oil to the surface. The term "producer" is not defined in the taxation statutes or DOR's regulations. Nor is it a technical term in the oil and gas industry such that it has a well-developed meaning.
[¶21] In the development and production of any oil and gas well, various actors play a part: the lessor as the owner of the oil and gas estate who usually retains a royalty interest; the lessees who each have the right to drill and produce the resource and are


Temple of Heaven

Now a beautiful and popular Beijing park, this was once a sacred space accessible only to the Emperor of China. It was the place where the Son of Heaven sacrificed to his divine ancestors and requested their blessing on himself, his family and the vast empire over which he reigned.thermometry," said Prof. Uriel Levy, Director of the Harvey M. Krueger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a faculty member at the Department of Applied Physics in the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering.

Among the innovations that made this development possible are chip scale integration of reference measurement, and a servo-loop locking scheme that translates the measured effects from the optical domain to the radio frequency domain. These enabled the researchers to quantify their system capabilities using well-established RF technologies, such as frequency counters, spectrum analyzers, and atomic standards.

The research appears in the peer-reviewed journal Optica, published by The Optical Society. The MRRs were fabricated at the Hebrew University's Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.


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best-of program with highlights of the Airmen performing with such jazz talents as Al Jarreau, Kurt Elling, Joe Locke, the New York Voices and Phil Woods.

Night Train continues its month-long salute to Stevie Wonder and kicks off a week-long celebration of the birthday of Commodore Records founder Milt Gabler, including a four part Commodore Records Story special airing each night this week. Plus birthdays of Kansas City shouter Big Joe Turner and vibes player Christian Tamburr, and new music from Cory Weeds and Delfeayo Marsalis.

Night Train celebrates the birthday of legendary bassist Ron Carter with music he did as a leader, and with Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Steve Kuhn, Chico Hamilton, the V.S.O.P. Quintet, and Bill Frisell.

Plus music from Stevie Wonder (including music from saxophonist Dave Pietro’s tributealbum, Standard Wonder, and Brazilian pianist and singer Eliane Elias) and new releases from saxophonists Sax Gordon and Charles McPherson and pianist Dave Bass.

Night Train marks birthdays of Modern Jazz Quartet drummer Connie Kay, bassist Martin Wind (whose credits include work with Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts), and guitarist Lionel Loueke – including a special performance from him at the Savannah Music Festival in hour two of the show. Plus more music from Billie Holiday and new music from the Susan Krebs Chamber Band, Eric Reed, and Molly Johnson.


Video game characters have been accompanying us since "Space Invaders" was developed as a commercial video game for the first time in 1978. They have been with most of us since childhood, growing and evolving alongside, influencing our communication through visual media and gaining an almost iconic meaning. These characters soon became conveyors of the whole new iconography the video game technology brought with it. Massive expansion of video game industry at break neck speed launched some of these fictitious protagonists into stars, making them as famous as some real contemporary celebrities. Nowadays these characters seem like some sort of ancient cave drawings to us, simple by today's standards of graphic design, yet the feeling of awe towards their pioneering value still remains. This, combined with feelings ofnostalgia and warm memories of our childhood heroes, has earned these characters place in the hall of fame not only for video games, but for pop culture in general. Withstanding the test of time, their visual value has risen to a symbolic level, and through various media they are as present as ever in our everyday life. This is evident even more since some street artist have taken it upon themselves to revive them on our streets. We have selected the ten most popular video game characters in street art.


LIMA, Peru -- Authorities in Peru have detained a truck driver accused of damaging part of the world-renowned Nazca lines. The nation's Ministry of Culture says Jainer Flores drove into an unauthorized section of the U.N. World Heritage site on Saturday, leaving tracks and damaging part of three lines.

The Nazca lines are huge etchings depicting imaginary figures, creatures and plants that were scratched on the surface of a coastal desert between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago.

BBC News reports they took 1,000 years to finish. They are believed to have had ritual astronomical purposes.

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Greenpeace activists damaged the lines by leaving footprints in the adjacent desert during an event in 2014.

Because the area home to the lines -- stretching well over 150 square milesNEW DELHI: February 4, 2012 is an iconic day for Indian aviation. This day, for the first time ever, two

flew a chopper off a ship,

. It may sound easy but think about landing or flying a helicopter off a helipad that is in continuous motion, rolling, pitching, yawing and heaving in every possible direction. The only women helicopter operators in the Indian Coast Guard, assistant commandants Ruchi Sangwan and Bhawana Rana are now proud holders of the

(DLQ) that recognizes their ability to do just that.

Sangwan comes from the sleepy town of Charkhi Dadri in Haryana that shot to recognition in 1996 due to a mid-air collision over it. Sangwan was only 11-years-old then but she decided that she wanted to be a pilot. Her parents, both government school


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Well, I'm very interested in narrative nonfiction, and Jon Franklin has had an enormous impact on the narrative nonfiction. He's a two-time Pulitzer winner, and really pioneered the form. He produced a book called “Writing for Story,” which would be the first thing I’d recommend to anybody who wants to write nonfiction.

Folks at the Poynter Institute like Roy Peter Clark, who has a new book out that's also a good collection of writing tips, has been an important influence on me. Bill Blundell, the longtime writing coach at The Wall Street Journal, who wrote a book called “The Art and Craft of Feature Writing” — and who is probably


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MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES G. MIXON, Chief Judge.
On July 9, 1991, Jones Truck Lines, Inc. (Jones) filed a voluntary petition for relief under the provisions of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Simultaneously, with the filing of the bankruptcy petition, the debtor ceased its operations and began the process of self-liquidation. On April 30, 1992, Jones filed a complaint against Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund and Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund (collectively Central States) to recover preferential transfers made within ninety days of the petition date totalling $5,743,491.61 and to set aside as a preferential transfer a lien on Jones' assets granted to Central States by Jones during the preference period. On September 26, 1994, a trial was held inof whether the security interest granted by Jones in favor of Central States should be avoided under the provisions of 11 U.S.C. § 547(b) (1994). Each of these issues will be discussed separately below.

I

BACKGROUND
For many years Jones operated a trucking business from its headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas. Jones operated as a less-than-truckload motor carrier and, at the time Jones filed its bankruptcy petition, it employed approximately 3200 employees, most of whom were members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of American Labor Union (Teamsters Union). Since 1955, Jones had been obligated under various collective bargaining agreements with the Teamsters Union to make contributions to Central States.
Central States operates a multi-employer employee benefit plan that provides health, welfare, and pension benefits for employees covered by


collective bargaining agreements entered into from time to time by the Teamsters Union and various employers. The collective bargaining agreement that was effective between Jones and the Teamsters Union was referred to as the national master freight agreement. At the time of the filing of the bankruptcy petition, Jones was one of the largest contributors to Central States, with 2300 of its union employees being participants in Central States' funds.
Jones made payments to two separate funds, the health and welfare fund and the pension fund. Pursuant to the national master freight agreement, Jones became liable to pay the health and welfare fund the sum of $104.70 for "each week in which a regular employee works or is compensated at least two (2) days or tours of duty inStates during the second or third week of the month following the month being reported. Jones also forwarded the amount due for the previous month by wire transfers to two different accounts at Harris Trust Savings in Chicago, Illinois. Pursuant to the participation agreements, payments were considered delinquent if not received by Central States by the fifteenth day of the month following the month in which the employees' services were rendered.
In January 1991, Jones failed to make the required payment due for the month of December, 1990. Jones did make a partial payment of $300,000 on or about January 18, 1991. As of the January 18th payment, Jones had accrued an arrearage in excess of $2 million for the month of December 1990 for the health and welfare


and pension funds combined, and had accrued a liability for the first three weeks of January 1991.
Peter Priede (Priede), the group manager of operations accounting for Central States for both funds, testified on behalf of Central States. He participated in negotiations with Jones which ensued after Central States received the $300,000 partial payment instead of the full amount due on January 15th. After receipt of the partial payment, Priede attempted to contact officers of Jones and, after several unsuccessful attempts, he wrote a letter dated January 28, 1991, to P. Elliot Burnside, president of Jones. The letter provided, in part, as follows:
This is to advise you that unless full payment is received by the Funds or you *487 contact me to make arrangements to the Funds' satisfaction byin Chicago to discuss Jones' financial condition. The meeting in Chicago was attended by Shiffler and Ivan Crook, on behalf of Jones, and Priede and Tom Nyhan, general counsel of Central States, on behalf of Central States. Shiffler advised Priede of Jones' cash flow problems and stated that certain steps were being taken to improve the situation. Shiffler told Priede and Nyhan that Jones needed Central States to allow it more time to make the December contributions. Priede suggested that Jones begin making weekly payments to cover the accruing liability to prevent the arrearage from increasing.
The parties agreed that Jones would make estimated payments on each Friday and by the 15th of the following month actual accruals would be computed for the entire preceding month and any adjustment


the legal documents evidencing the agreement were executed May 7, 1991.
On February 25, 1991, Jones began making weekly payments in the sum of $425,000. Central States, in its answer to interrogatories, described the nature of the $425,000 weekly payments as follows:
These weekly payments were intended by the parties to approximate Jones' weekly obligations to Central States that were then accruing under Jones' collective bargaining agreements, and Central States so applied each such weekly payment to Jones' weekly obligations. However, because the payments of $425,000 per week were an approximation of Jones' weekly obligation, and the exact amount of Jones' obligation could not be known until Jones reported its employment levels to Central States at the end of each calendar month, Central States continued to submit monthly billing statementsto Jones. . . . Under the arrangement between the parties instituted in February of 1991, any such shortfall in the weekly payments made during a given calendar month was to be made up in a payment to Central States by the 15th of the following month.
The following is a listing of the payments Jones made to Central States:

Payment Date                   Amount of Payment
February 25, 1991                 $425,000.00
March 1, 1991                      425,000.00
March 8, 1991


at trial that Jones was insolvent at the time the transfers were made. Central States makes no argument that the remaining elements of a preference were not established. The transfers were of an interest of Jones in property, to or for the benefit of Central States, for or on account of an antecedent debt owed by Jones before such transfers were made and made while Jones was insolvent. The transfers were made within ninety days before the petition was filed and enabled Central States to receive more than it would receive if this were a case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. Therefore, Jones has met its burden of proving that all the elements of a preferential transfer are present as to the payments Jones made tointerest in and first lien on the Collateral and all related rights under the Loan documents, (y) rights under the Guaranty and (z) security interest in and first lien on the Pledged Stock and the proceeds therefrom and all related rights under the Pledge Agreement (collectively referred to herein as the "Funds' Security") (all of the Funds' rights hereunder, including the rights to the Funds Payments and the Funds' Security, are collectively referred to herein as the "Funds' Participation Rights").
Pl.'s Ex. 26. The transfers of the security interest and lien meet all the requirements of a preferential transfer. Therefore, Jones has met its burden of proving that all of the elements of a preferential transfer are present as to the claim of lien by Central States to the


Jones. The employees' right to receive benefits from Central States was not contingent on Jones making contribution payments to Central States. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Gerber Truck Serv., Inc., 870 F.2d at 1151. Providing benefits to Jones' employees is not tantamount to Central States' providing a workforce to Jones.
The new value given to Jones by Central States in exchange for the weekly contribution payments was forbearance. The participation agreement described the new value as follows:
Borrower has agreed to pay, on a current basis, weekly contributions to the Funds in such amounts (which currently approximate $425,000). . . .
D. The Funds will only forbear action against Borrower for unpaid and accrued pension and health and welfare contributions and accept the Fund Notes and therights under the Guaranty and (iii) security interest in and first lien on the Pledged Stock and the proceeds therefrom under the Pledge Agreement.
Pl.'s Ex. 26.
The deposition of Nyhan, Central States' general counsel, was introduced by Jones. The deposition included the following colloquy concerning ordinary business terms in the industry:
Q: Could you describe the part of the agreement that dealt with the deferral of the past due amounts?
A: Yes. The delinquency was calculated I believe as of February 15th, which would include all obligations accrued, delinquent obligations that had been accrued but not paid during the months of December and January. That was reflected in a note, and there was a participation agreement whereby we participated in the security being held by the senior lenders on a subordinated


President Donald Trump Kevin Lamarque | Reuters

President Donald Trump is hosting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House Monday in what will be his first official visit from an African head of state. The "struggle against Islamic terrorism in the Sahel," an area to the far north of Nigeria, as well as a "White House attempt to make nice to Africa after a series of false steps," could be part of the agenda, John Campbell, U.S. ambassador to Nigeria from 2004 to 2007 and now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, told CNBC last week. Campbell emphasized that his suggestions were just "speculation" and that he has no connection with the present U.S. administration. In January of this year Trump is alleged to havereferred to African nations as "s---hole countries," which the White House later did not deny.

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The invite to Buhari was issued earlier this month, with the intention for both leaders to discuss promoting economic growth, fighting terrorism and "building on Nigeria's role as a democratic leader in the region," a White House communique said. Nigeria has seen its economy hammered in recent years by the volatile oil price, plunging into its first annual recession in 25 years in 2016. Gross domestic product growth for 2018 is forecast to be 2.1 percent


by the International Monetary Fund. Nonetheless, Nigeria competes with South Africa for the title of the largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa and is the continent's most populous nation, with 200 million inhabitants. Last April, the Trump administration tied up a $600 million deal with Nigeria over the sale of military aircraft intended to be used in the fight against Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. The deal dates back to former President Barack Obama's tenure, but was delayed over human rights concerns.

Then U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria, on March 12, 2018. Nigerian presidency press office | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesSyria military resists major rebel assault in Aleppo Published duration 3 July 2015 Related Topics Syrian civil war

image copyright AFP image caption The rebel alliance mounting the offensive includes al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria

The Syrian military has carried out a series of air strikes after rebel forces launched a major assault to take control of the northern city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels fired hundreds of rockets and shells into at least seven government-held areas late on Thursday.

By Friday morning, they had made small advances, the monitoring group added.

But the Syrian state news agency Sana said the assault had been repelled and more than 100 "terrorists" killed.

Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in half between government-held areas in


the west and rebel-controlled eastern quarters for almost three years.

Fighting on the ground and government air strikes have left thousands dead, and destroyed more than 60% of the Old City, a Unesco World Heritage site.

image copyright Reuters image caption Aleppo has been a key battleground of the uprising since June 2012

But in recent months, the rebels have driven government forces out of several areas in the countryside to the north, as well as almost all of the neighbouring province of Idlib.

More than 230,000 people are believed to have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. Some 11.5 million others - more than half of the country's population - have fled their homes.

'Heavy casualties'

Rebels have made numerous attempts to seize keyinstallations held by the government, but with little effect.

On Thursday, 13 Islamist fighting groups and al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, came together to launch a co-ordinated assault on several fronts.

A statement said the aim of the new coalition, called Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), was "the liberation of Aleppo and its countryside", after which they would work with other groups to govern the city according to Islamic law.

Western-backed groups also said they were taking part in the offensive, organised through a joint operations room called Fatah Halab (Conquest of Aleppo), the New York Times reported.

The rebels launched simultaneous attacks on western districts of the city controlled by government forces, firing hundreds of rockets and shells, the Syrian Observatory reported.

Analysis: Jim Muir, BBC News, Beirut

The offensive unleashed


on government-held western Aleppo by Ansar al-Sharia seems to be the most serious since the battle for Aleppo began.

An early test of its prospects will be one of the first apparent objectives - the loathed and feared Air Force Intelligence headquarters in Zahra, on the western edge of the city. Rebels have tried many times to capture it, and failed.

The offensive has been building up for some time, following the capture of Idlib by a newly-coalesced rebel alliance, Jaish al-Fatah (Victory Army), in March.

What's making the difference is that rebel groups, and their outside backers like Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which were competing in the past, now seem to be pulling together - bad news for the regime.

The success of the new campaign may depend on whetherDamascus is seriously determined to hang on to Aleppo. If it is, rebel progress will be slow and hard.

image copyright Reuters image caption The fighting in Syria's second city has had a devastating impact on its residents

The UK-based group said the fighting continued into the early hours of Friday and was focused on the frontline in Zahra, a heavily-defended area that houses several major security compounds.

At least nine people were killed and dozens wounded by the rebel barrage, it added.

The military responded with a heavy aerial and artillery bombardment of rebel positions in the city, and the fighting continued for several hours.

On Friday morning, military sources told Sana and Reuters news agency that the assault had been repelled and that heavy casualties had been inflicted on the rebels.

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result of the overwhelming grief after her mother — who was also in the same hospital — died of cancer.attorney general.

Trump, a Republican businessman and former TV celebrity, was elected on Nov. 8 and took office on Jan. 20.

One possible contender for director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is Dana Boente, No. 3 at the Justice Department and former acting attorney general, said the two former FBIofficials.

Other potential choices include Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor who led a congressional inquiry into former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s role in the 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Close campaign allies of Trump include former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Sheriff David Clarke. But both men would be seen as highly political nominees for an agency designed to be independent.

“The White House has to avoid