it with domestic supplies. By the end of 2014, sour Canadian crude will displace shipments from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Mexico and Venezuela.

Rising U.S. production has helped keep domestic oil prices pegged to the West Texas Intermediate futures contract cheaper than London-traded Brent, giving U.S. refiners an advantage and making the country the world's largest exporter of refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel.

Record petroleum exports helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit in December to the smallest in almost three years. The gap narrowed 20.7 percent to $38.5 billion, the least since January 2010, the Commerce Department reported earlier this month. The U.S. imported 223 million barrels of crude oil, the least since February 1997.Hundreds of foreigners are expected to enter America within the next month in order to observe the American electoral process.

The United States sends representatives to other nations with dubious democratic processes to survey the voting systems and look for fraudulent practices. But now it seems that America is the one being inspected and scrutinized.

With the help of President Barack Obama, the Organization of American States (OAS) will send roughly 30 to 40 spectators to polling locations across the country for the first time ever, according to The Washington Post. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been consigning a small contingent of bystanders to U.S. elections since 2002, but this time it plans to send extra reinforcements.

The OAS is an intercontinental association that includes nations


and sovereign states from North, Central and South America. Like the OAS, the OSCE is an international bureaucracy, but with mainly European members, including Russia.

Yury Melnik, a spokesperson for the Russian Embassy in Washington, told The Post that Russia is interested in sending officials to watch Americans cast their ballots.

This is a seemingly unsavory idea given the amount of hacks in recent years whereupon American institutions were victims of possible Russian cyber-attacks.

Countries coming to monitor the American electoral process justify intervention because of external skepticism in the integrity of elections, likely stemming from new voter registration laws passed by states and vulnerability of some voting equipment to hacking.

FBI Director James Comey said in September concerning Russia and other possible evildoers, that any would-be hack of U.S. elections wouldwas important to add an extra body to the defensive department and Doneil was the obvious choice."

Henry enjoyed a brief but successful spell with Rovers towards the end of last season. Signing mere hours before the team took on Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough, the central defender put in an outstanding debut display in a 2-1 victory.

The following weekend the Canadian impressed once more, claiming an assist as Rovers defeated Bolton Wanderers at Ewood.

However his loan spell would be cut short the very next match as Henry sustained a serious hamstring injury in the 3-1 away win at Charlton Athletic. Forcing the defender to return to West Ham for surgery.

Henry could make his second debut for the club against Sheffield Wednesday once more this Saturday.

Tickets for the game are


A CONVICTED wife beater who also assaulted his 24-year-old daughter has been reinstated to his job as a prison guard despite repeated attempts by Corrective Services to sack him.

The Industrial Relations Commission found there was no connection between Michael Silling's ability to carry out his duties at Goulburn jail and his ''out-of-hours criminal history'', ordering he be returned to work.

Justice Wayne Haylen said the sacking of Mr Silling after his third conviction for domestic violence was ''harsh, unjust and unreasonable''.

Mr Silling was fired in June 2011 after 15 ''unblemished'' years as a correctional officer at the high-security Goulburn jail, home to killers including Ivan Milat.

According to the commission's finding late last month, he was convicted in February 2011 of assaulting his wife during an argument at their homesimply lovely. The era in which they were built, an era that included
trans-Atlantic flights, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, Mae West, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Bonnie and Clyde, the Olympics of Jessie Owens, and the rise of Adolf Hitler, saw many old conventions fall away and opened the door to both miraculous progresses and never before imagined horrors. To some degree, I look back and think of those years as, in Dicken’s words, the best of
times and the worst of times. And the people who built and lived in those homes saw it all. How cool is that!?

Sadly, that was also the era when Jim Crow reigned, with no small thanks to that progressive demon Woodrow Wilson, mind you. In all likelihood those grand


greenery, and brightly painted front doors. Not to mention the fact that I might someday actually be able to afford a mortgage on such a property. After

Event this small shack would run you about $600K

all, Fantasies are all well and good, but in the end, I’m a realist.

Eventually, I reached a block where the lots gave up on sidewalks, as the front doors were just a few feet from the street. At that point, sidewalks apparently became less important than a tenuous, but necessary finger hold on green space.Sadly, it was at that moment the outside world intruded into my day dreams, just as the street had intruded upon the front yards of these fanciful doll houses. As I glanced a little farther along my path, I recognizedthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Explore the interactive visualization to learn more about overdose deaths caused by narcotics and hallucinogens from 1999 to 2014.

STAT examined data reporting for all institutions – federal agencies, universities, hospitals, nonprofits, and corporations – required to report results to ClinicalTrials.gov for at least 20 human experiments since 2008. This visualization shows the first comparative analysis of their performance. Among the groups, just two companies provided trial results within the legal deadline more that half the time. Most – including the National Institutes of Health, which oversees the reporting system – violated the law the vast majority of the time.

Support for statements about regulation and health effects of e-cigarettes by those who have never used e-cigarettes (76%) and those who have ever


according to the National Rural Health Association. One in four is at risk of closing in the next decade.

It might seem like the Zika virus exploded out of nowhere in Brazil a few months ago, but the virus has been all over the world since it was discovered in Uganda in 1947. Discover the distribution of the Zika virus infection and associated neurological disorders across time and geographies, starting in 1947.

In recent years the NFL has implemented new rules to reduce concussions among players. But with two weeks to go in the 2015 regular season, players have already suffered more concussions than in either of the previous two seasons. Here are the recent statistics, by team.

Six out of ten low achievers in reading, math, and science in OECDPISA surveys are boys. Analysis reveals that boys are much more likely to underperform in school than girls, leading to disengagement and higher dropout rates. The map shows the gender gap, the difference between low-achieving boys and girls per 100 school students.

This visualization was created in memory of prominent Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, who was one of the most vocal critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and who was demonstratively killed in front of the Kremlin by ... . The information in his post from September 7, 2014, visualized here, may have changed by now, especially after he had aired it, but his message remains true today: members of Russia's ruling elite publicly accuse the West of promoting immoral lifestyles, sparking world conflicts, and call it the


Samuel, of course, was the subject of trade rumors following the Eagles acquisition of free agent corner Nnamdi Asomugha. The team, at the time, said that they had received offers for Samuel and that every player was on the market for the right price.its Caspian offshore fields, for onward transportation to Europe after 2016. Turkmenistan plans to finance the overland pipeline from its own budget, but is running into problems with funding and subcontracting some of the work.

Ashgabat adheres to the policy of selling its gas at the country’s borders, without becoming involved in transportation projects beyond its territory. Accordingly, the European Commission seeks to coordinate a trans-Caspian transportation solution, with Azerbaijan as a linchpin. The trans-Anatolia pipeline to Europe, recently initiated by Azerbaijan with Turkey, due on stream by 2016 and scalable up to 30 bcm per year, opens the way for Turkmenistani gas to Europe. The line is so designed to accommodate significant volumes of Turkmenistan’s gas. Without those volumes, the Southern Corridor to Europe would be stunted, and


travels the world. And watch what happens if you type "do a barrel roll" next time you're using Google.com or in a Chrome browser.

All this fun might sound too frivolous to take seriously, but fun is an important part of Google, creating an opportunity for unguarded exploration and discovery. Yet fun is an outcome of who we are, rather than the defining characteristic. It doesn't explain how Google works or why we choose to operate the way we do. To understand that, you have to explore the three defining aspects of our culture: mission, transparency, and voice.

# A mission that matters

Google's mission is the first cornerstone of our culture. Our mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." How does our missionso of our employees. These individuals form the bottom tail of our performance distribution. Note that this happens outside our formal performance management process. We're not looking to fire people: We're finding the people who need help.

I confess that we don't have a reliable absolute measure for performance for every job, and we don't force a distribution of ratings, because different teams perform at different levels. It would be madness to force the manager of a team of all superstars to rank someone as failing. So this is a human process, not an algorithmic one, where managers and the People Operations team look at individuals. In practice, the bottom tail does end up including those who "need improvement," but it also captures "skimmers," people who have been skimming


was employee number 107, and worked as a software engineer on search from 2000 to 2008 before refocusing his work and life (while still at Google) on achieving world peace through sharing and spreading the notion of mindfulness. Jon Kabat-Zinn, professor emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, defines it as "paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally." A simple exercise to instill mindfulness is to sit quietly and focus on your breathing for two minutes. It's also been shown to improve cognitive functioning and decision-making.

As an experiment, in late 2013 I invited Googler Bill Duane, a former engineering leader turned Mindfulness Guru, to start my weekly staff meetings with the exercise. I wanted to experiment on ourselves first, andthat you can prove change people's behavior.

#

# Pay Unfairly

## Why it's okay to pay two people in the same job completely different amounts

I never had the pleasure of working with Wayne Rosing, our first VP of engineering. He retired before my first day. But stories about him still percolate throughout Google. My favorite is about a speech he gave to our engineers in the weeks leading up to our initial public offering. It was about staying true to our values, focusing on the user, and how an IPO is just another day. The next day, we're going to come back to work and keep building cool stuff for users. People will be richer, some unfathomably so. But that ought not change who we are. To underscore his point,


average.

Of course, this doesn't apply everywhere. As O'Boyle and Aguinis point out, "Industries and organizations that rely on manual labor, have limited technology, and place strict standards for both minimum and maximum production" are places where you'll see a normal distribution of performance. In those environments there's little opportunity for exceptional achievement. But everywhere else, this distribution holds sway.

How can you tell if you're in this kind of workplace? Alan gave me a simple test. He asks himself, "How many people would I trade for one Jeff Dean or Sanjay Ghemawat?" Jeff and Sanjay, you'll remember, invented one of the technologies that made Google and just about every big data company that exists today possible.

How many people would you trade for your very best performer? If the numberYears before Bolivian Hugo Dellien made Grand Slam history for his country on Sunday at Roland Garros, he had quit tennis.

In December 2016, after moving twice years earlier to follow his dream of becoming a professional tennis player, Dellien wanted to return home and train in Bolivia. But he found no support in his home nation, which lacks much tennis history, so he stopped playing.

Dellien got a girlfriend, hung out with friends and formed an ice company with his father, investing the $15,000 he had saved from his tennis career – he was ranked No. 743 at the time – in the business. He was living, he said, “a normal life”.

“The first two months were perfect,” Dellien told ATPTour.com in Paris. “But I started to feel that this


was not the life I wanted.”

The first hint came when one of his brothers was playing at an international tournament in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and people started asking for photos with Dellien and quizzing him on his life. “Why aren't you playing anymore?” they wanted to know.

They had looked up to him, and couldn't figure out why he, the player with so much promise, had stopped. Dellien kept quiet, even though he felt nostalgic for his old tennis days.

Rock bottom of his brief stint without tennis, however, came when he went to an ATM to pull out money and had nothing. Dellien was broke, and he had to ask his father for money.

“It gave me so much shame and made me think about what I really wanted todo,” Dellien said.

He landed on a familiar subject: tennis. “I was sending a message to the kids that it's impossible, and nobody's leaving Bolivia,” he said. “I set out to get to where I had to go. It didn't matter how.”

He moved to Mexico to train and live with his coach Eduardo Médica, who let him stay rent-free. “I will always be grateful to him,” Dellien said.

In late January 2017, in his first tournament back, Dellien won the Futures event in Weston, Florida, U.S.A. Twelve months later, he had climbed 502 ATP Rankings spots, from No. 743 to No. 241 to finish 2017.

He spent the bulk of 2018 on the ATP Challenger Tour, and this year, including during day one of Roland Garros, he's made Bolivian tennis history.

“I


crack the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings, and in February, Dellien became the first Bolivian since Martinez to win an ATP Tour or Grand Slam match en route to the Rio Open presented by Claro quarter-finals, the first of his three ATP Tour quarter-finals this season (Sao Paulo, Geneva).

“All of my results are compared to 30 years ago,” Dellien said with a laugh.

More On Dellien: Bolivian Takes Savannah Challenger Crown | Q&A With Dellien | Dellien Celebrates Bolivian History With Title

Bolivia has little tennis history, and, in his family, only his uncle played the sport recreationally. Dellien started playing tennis during an after-school program. He learned the game at a club with four courts – all clay – in Trinidad.

But when he was 13, he moved towill know his name – and his country – if he can make the third round in Paris. He next faces sixth seed and Next Gen ATP Finals champion Stefanos Tsitsipas, one of the favourites to make a deep run at Roland Garros.

Beat Tsitsipas and Dellien will have a piece of Bolivian tennis history all to himself. Martinez gained three wins in Paris, but never against a Top 10 player. Dellien could become the first Bolivian player, period, to beat a Top 10 player at Roland Garros, a marker for future generations to chase.


Illustrators: Gambino, Alisha Ann Guadalupe

Ten-year-old Elena sets up a snow cone stand in front of her house, and when her friend Alma sets up a stand of her own, it creates an ever-escalating competition between the two girls to see who can outdo the other.

After helping her grandfather plant squash, onions, carrots, cabbage, and other vegetables that her mother uses in soups and salsas, seven-year-old Marisol plants sunflower seeds in her neighbors' yards, and weeks later, everyone gets to enjoy the fruits of Marisol's labor.Australia is preparing to return more than 200 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, despite alleging the country is responsible for government-sponsored torture, abuse and mistreatment by police and security forces.

The Tamils, whose boat was intercepted by a customs vessel last week, will be transferred to the custody of a Sri Lankan naval ship at sea in coming days.

They will be returned to Sri Lanka, the country they originally fled, raising concerns Australia will breach its non-refoulement obligations under international law by sending people back to a place where they face threat of persecution.

At the most recent assessment of Sri Lanka at the United Nation’s Universal Periodic Review – during which all UN countries have their human rights records assessed by fellow member states – Australia accused the


400 cases of torture including “beatings, sometimes with the victim hung upside down, to the use of chilli powder applied to the eyes and genitals".

Colombo and former war-zone cities such as Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, are notorious for "white van disappearances", where vans without number plates snatch people from the street.

And members of Sri Lanka’s navy – into whose custody the asylum seekers are expected to be transferred – are allegedly among the most prolific people-smugglers in the country.

Four navy officers and sailors have been arrested and charged with people-smuggling. The alleged leader of the biggest smuggling racket, Lieutenant Commander Sanjeewa Annatugoda, briefed Australian border protection officials on navy counter-smuggling measures.

The Sri Lankan government has consistently denied abuses by its security forces, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa says hisadministration brought peace after 30 years of brutal civil war.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – a terrorist organisation proscribed by Australia – was routed by the Sri Lankan army in 2009 .

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is to visit Sri Lanka on Wednesday. He will attend a commissioning ceremony for two patrol boats Australia has given the Sri Lankan navy to assist with asylum seeker interdiction.

A motion will be put before the Senate on Monday by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young that condemns the government for its secrecy over the asylum seekers and calls on it to explain the transfer on the high seas.


Woman solo film is just how closely it will tie in with the broader DC universe. As it’s set mainly in the early 20th century, the film could purely be seen as a foundation for films placed in the present day. However, as seen in fan photos, from the set in Paris that first appeared on Batman-News, have revealed that there may be at least a passing nod to the greater universe the film takes place in. Take a look at the image below and notice the name on the side of the truck. While it may be a not so subtle nod to Batman, it may also be a precursor to a possible Dark Knight cameo.

JUSTICE LEAGUE PART ONE: November 2017

As he does the press rounds, questionsThe BBC describes their production of Hiroshima (2005) as "a dramatized documentary" exploring "the humanity and the horror of the first atomic attack." The 92-minute program, which is 16:9 widescreen, mixes archival footage and new interviews with elaborate CGI visual effects and fairly extravagant live-action recreations with actors and meticulously recreated props and sets. This might seem like a great idea at first - instead of relying on scratchy black and white newsreel footage and the like, events of 61 years ago could be brought to life in very immediate, vivid terms.

But while the production values, on par with pricey TV movies, and CGI effects are somewhat impressive, their effect is quite the opposite of what was intended. The inter-cutting of the actual footage with the dramatic recreations


dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to save "as many as a million lives" were an Allied land invasion necessary, and that Hiroshima was "an important military base." Like the implied links between Iraq and 9/11, these beliefs continue to be widely held despite much scholarship that, at the very least, call these assertions into question.

Only in the final few minutes does it really address and in some particulars ignores altogether the enormous moral quandary dropping the Bomb creates, the argument that state terrorism utilizing weapons of mass destruction on noncombatants for the "greater good" is justifiable.

Video & Audio

Hiroshima is presented in a good, not great 16:9 transfer that's a little soft but otherwise up to contemporary standards, as is the stereo soundtrack. Included are optional English subtitles forthe deaf and hearing impaired.

Extra Features

Extras include a four-minute Interview with the Producer, nine minutes of murky Interview Footage with the Enola Gay crew dated August 14, 1945, and Tale of Two Cities, an Army-Navy film produced in 1946 that has fascinating, well-preserved film of Hiroshima but frequently outrageous narration high on Cold War propaganda.

Parting Thoughts

Though sincere, Hiroshima fundamentally errs in assuming that 21st century technical wizardry and meticulous recreations would carry more weight than real footage and detailed accounts from actual witnesses. And though it does an adequate job in explaining what happened, it barely scratches the surface as to how and why. In that sense another British series, the 30-year-old The World at War, is infinitely superior. Rent It.


Times Square announced that it would be the first permanent home for BODY WORLDS, the world-renowned, international traveling exhibitions of aesthetic anatomy. BODY WORLDS: PULSE, the multimedia experience about the human body and the challenges it faces navigating the 21st century, will be a star attraction in the Theater District for the foreseeable future.

BODY WORLDS reveals the splendor, form, and function of the human body through Plastination, the science of specimen preservation invented by German anatomist, Dr. Gunther von Hagens. The exhibitions, seen by more than 37 million people worldwide since 1995, have opened to critical acclaim in major global cities including London, Milan, Vienna, and Berlin, but have not, until now, had a permanent home.

Discovery Times Square is located at 226 W. 44th St. btw. 7th &The Bucs were interested in trading up two spots to No. 3 overall with the Vikings to take Alabama running back Trent Richardson.

That's according to a conversation between Vikings general manager Rick Spielman and Peter King, Sports Illustrated's senior NFL writer.

Here's the confirmation from King's column:

Talked to Minnesota GM Rick Spielman after round one. He told me there was another team -- Tampa Bay -- interested in moving to No. 3. And before the round began, Spielman was talking to both teams about swapping picks with Cleveland at four and Tampa Bay at five.

Cleveland had two picks in the fourth round (100 and 118 overall), the second pick acquired from Atlanta in the Julio Jones deal last draft day. The Browns had two picks in the fifth round


(139 and 160 overall), the second one part of the Brady Quinn deal with Denver two years ago. The Browns had three seventh-round picks (211, 245, 247 overall), the final two compensatory picks awarded by the league.

Was Spielman bluffing? Would Tampa Bay have made the move up? I'm not so sure. But after the Browns lost Robert Griffin III to Washington because the Redskins made a better "final'' offer for the second overall pick in March, you can be sure Cleveland wasn't going to get caught short again.

"Cleveland had house money to play with,'' Spielman said. "Why not use the house money they built up from making good trades to get something they really wanted? Because there was a legitimate threat behind them, they moved up and didmissing has found its way back – enough that she was making sure News On 6 photojournalist Chris McNamara was following behind her.

"Come on,” she told him.

“He's coming, too," Straight said with a laugh.

So from house to house, she went, picking up the treats she almost missed.

"Happy Halloween, dear,” another neighbor said.

Some of the people put out Halloween decorations and even wore costumes again to play along.

Even though it's not quite the right holiday, Molly's mom since they live in a neighborhood called Holliday Hills, it's not shocking to see so many with the holiday spirit.


erythromycin were inactive in these in vitro assays. In vivo, in therapy of Staphylococcus aureus arthritis and peritonitis in humans and in certain mouse models rifampin has generally been shown to be more effective than comparator antibiotics. In a staphylococcal subcutaneous abscess model, however, clindamycin was very effective in curing the Staphylococcus aureus abscesses in this system where PMNs were the primary inflammatory cells involved. The intracellular bacterial counts decreased as rapidly as the extracellular bacteria. Rifampin was also effective in the abscess model but ciprofloxacin was ineffective at the highest doses tested. The relevance of in vitro and in vivo models and the importance of PMNs as a reservoir of infection in staphylococcal diseases in humans and the dairy cow are discussed.online at www.rithockey.com , or by calling the box office at (585) 475-4121.Current season ticket holders can currently purchase season tickets, while season seat packages for the RIT community go on sale Monday, July 20.The Tigers begin their second season at the 4,300-seat Gene Polisseni Center, located on the south end of campus. Here is the complete 2015-16 RIT men's hockey schedule Season-ticket holders enjoy great benefits, including 10 percent off hockey merchandise at the SpiRIT store at the Gene Polisseni Center. Season ticket holders also receive exclusive invitations to "Skate with the Tigers", access to the annual season ticket holder kick-off event in mid-Sept., the ability to purchase tickets to playoff games prior to going on sale to the general public, priority status for purchasing 2016-17 season


tickets, special deals, and promotions.In addition, with the purchase of any men's season ticket, fans are eligible to purchase a RIT women's hockey season ticket package for just $20. The RIT women's program begins its fourth season at the Division I level and is the two-time defending College Hockey America Champions. The women's squad will play 20 games at the Gene Polisseni Center in 2015-16. Here is the complete 2015-16 RIT women's hockey schedule On Oct. 17, the RIT men will host Bowling Green State University at Blue Cross Arena, the focal point of RIT's Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend. RIT has drawn a sellout crowd of 10,556 fans for each of the last five Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend contests, selling out last year's gamefew brave men, who had only ever pretended to believe in the monster, unearthed a chest of strange metal. The chest had been hidden by earlier, wiser, freer people, who had lived in the land before the monster came, and had known a better way of life. Ever so slowly, the men began to work the metal, which they called ‘reason,’ using it to forge a new weapon, which they called ‘science,’ and they used ‘science‘ to attack the monster, and the very clever men. They had to be very careful at first because if anyone was caught using ‘science,’ they would be dragged into market squares where they would be burned alive, and indeed this was how many lost their lives. But these were brave men, not


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Spencer, a Catholic whoMarine Le Pen's top aide and and architect of her far-Right Front National's "detoxification" drive has stepped down in what he called a "terrifying" victory for hardliners.

Florian Philippot, one of Ms Le Pen's closest allies, said he was leaving the party a day after she stripped him of his role as FN chief strategist while allowing him to retain his title of vice president.

"They told me that I was vice-president of nothing," Mr Philippot, 35, told France 2. "Listen, I'm not into being ridiculed. I have no taste for doing nothing, so of course I am leaving the Front National."

Since its disappointing performance in both the May presidential and June parliamentary elections Mr Philippot said the FN was showing signs of taking "an absolutely terrifying backward slide" to


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areas of the university campus and invited them to participate. In the latter half of the study, a snowball approach was used. The snowball approach was adopted due to problems with identifying and recruiting postgraduate students. They constitute a considerably smaller percentage of the total student body, often are enrolled externally and attend classes in the late afternoon/evening. Students were classified on the basis of their enrolment status: undergraduate vs. postgraduate, and domestic vs. international. We aimed to recruit a sample of students from each classification and hence we firstly screened the student to identify their enrolment status. Students enrolled in the bachelor of medicine were excluded as it was assumed they would not be representative of the general student body, and would have had more exposure toinfluenza in Australia during an outbreak, almost all of them rated themselves at the low end of the scale. Being young and leading a healthy lifestyle were the major reasons provided to justify the low self-perceived risks levels. Only two overseas participants considered themselves at the 'relatively high risk' end. However, they presented very different justifications for this ranking, as one thought that their 'adventurous lifestyle' put them at risk and the other because of the dynamic nature of the university environment.

"...may be I travel a lot more than the other people, and I go to polluted environments, institutions.... and I meet people I don't know. "(International undergraduate student)

Five of the international students perceived themselves to be at a higher risk of catching pandemic influenza in their 'home


town' than in Australia. Differences in population density, quality of transport, connectivity to other countries, hygiene levels, accessibility to and quality of health care were the main reasons given for the differences.

Regular hand washing, cough etiquette (covering mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing), and avoiding the sick were suggested as good strategies to prevent becoming infected with pandemic influenza. The use of social distancing/isolation or masks/respirators was not very popular. Social avoidance was considered to be the most difficult intervention to comply with and impractical due to the vast amount of human interaction existing in the society. One international student also felt that it was impolite to maintain a distance to a sick acquaintance or relative. The use of masks was dismissed, as they were considered uncomfortable,“Widespread poverty, low educational attainment, high rates of community and interpersonal violence, high rates of alcohol-related deaths and suicide, poor physical health, and corroded family and community relationships.” (Shattered Hearts)

In the following video, Rose Henry, an Aboriginal community consultant from the Coast Salish territory, addresses why Aboriginal people are uniquely vulnerable to human trafficking in Canada.

Vulnerabilities of Aboriginal Peoples

In Canada, research has identified particular patterns in the way in which vulnerable Aboriginal women and girls are exploited:

According to Dr. Mark Totten, in research undertaken for the Native Women’s Association of Canada, “Sexual trafficking of Canadian Aboriginal girls and women is most common within the borders of Canada, particularly in the Prairie provinces. Trafficking networks are found in major cities (such as Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and Calgary) and


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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, health advocacy companies began to appear to help patients deal with the complexities of the healthcare system. The complexity of the healthcare system has resulted in a variety of problems for the American public. A study found that 62 percent of persons declaringinstitutions a wildly
disproportionate user of those funds – at first former system leaders
developed a strategy to cope by using mainly reserve funds, necessary because they
remained invested in the notion that public hospitals providing free care to
the indigent must exist.In retrospect,
this appears now accepted then only because of the compressed time frame, but
that the basing of the response on the concept of necessity of public hospitals
was not considered viable over the long haul.

As such, the officials in charge of the entire ten-hospital system and of
the Health Care Services Division that
oversees seven of them, while the remaining three in Shreveport, Monroe, and
Pineville are organized separately under the auspices of the Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, were
removed and the new officials came up with a different strategic paln for
the system


that largely gets it out of the direct provision of hospitalization
services. In its most radical version, the plan calls for all but the New
Orleans one to be downsized in bed capacity to 10, with the New Orleans one set
at 150.

11.9.12

Today is a big day in Louisiana higher education, a sector sliced many
times in recent years by planned and surprise budget cuts, with for most
institutions the reporting of enrollment figures (a couple of days late because
of Hurricane Isaac closures) that will determine its revenue picture for the
remainder of the year. Yet any good news (that is, enrollment increases,
meaning more revenue) for institutions only will delay the day of reckoning
coming to Louisiana higher education as a whole unless major policy changes occur.

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With the number of homeless people in New York City reaching an all-time high, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a five-year plan in February to reduce homelessness and provide better services by opening 90 new shelters and expanding 30 existing ones. As the de Blasio administration rolls out the plan, where the city decides to put the additional shelters has grown contentious.

The city’s primary shelter system is a patchwork of dormitories, family shelters, commercial hotel rooms and apartments in private buildings known as cluster apartments. Under the mayor’s plan, new and expanded shelters are to replace the hotel rooms and apartments that are scattered throughout 360 different sites across the city.

Bronx Number of people housed in shelters,

by ZIP code Man. 500 Queens 50 Brooklyn Staten Island Number ofresidents — including those who have sued the city unsuccessfully — have questioned why the de Blasio administration chose community districts. The answer is this: Some neighborhoods share ZIP codes but are in different community districts, and it is through districts, not neighborhoods, that city services are generally delivered.

Eric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president, has argued that someone who becomes homeless in working-class Crown Heights could live in a shelter in nearby, wealthier Park Slope without feeling displaced.

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Yesterday, about 171 girls and women were poisoned at a school in Afghanistan. Whereas the blame immediately went to the Taliban, Afghanistan is far too complex for reflexive answers. Further, there are many groups of "Taliban," and other associated enemies, making it impossible to affix responsibility to a monolithic enemy that does not exist. The attack might also be the work of a lone wolf.

The Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik recently slaughtered 77 people in Norway. That was terror by a Norwegian against Norwegians. Back in Afghanistan, at least one American Soldier is accused of recently killing 17 Afghans. Many victims were women and children. Back in America, years before the war, a former American soldier killed 168, including many very young children, in Oklahoma City.London courtroom the previous week when the WikiLeaks publisher, Julian Assange, appeared at the start of a landmark extradition case that will define the future of free journalism:

"The worst moment was one of a number of 'worst' moments. I have sat in many courtrooms and seen judges abuse their positions. This judge, Vanessa Baraitser - actually she isn't a judge at all; she's a magistrate - shocked all of us who were there.

"Her face was a progression of sneers and imperious indifference; she addressed Julian with an arrogance that reminded me of a magistrate presiding over apartheid South Africa's Race Classification Board. When Julian struggled to speak, he couldn't get words out, even stumbling over his name and date of birth.

"When he spoke truth and when his barrister


spoke, Baraitser contrived boredom; when the prosecuting barrister spoke, she was attentive. She had nothing to do; it was demonstrably preordained. In the table in front of us were a handful of American officials, whose directions to the prosecutor were carried by his junior; back and forth this young woman went, delivering instructions.

"The judge watched this outrage without a comment. It reminded me of a newsreel of a show trial in Stalin's Moscow; the difference was that Soviet show trials were broadcast. Here, the state broadcaster, the BBC, blacked it out, as did the other mainstream channels.

"Having ignored Julian's barrister's factual description of how the CIA had run a Spanish security firm that spied on him in the Ecuadorean embassy, she didn't yawn, but her disinterest was asthe aggressive prevention of his shaking Baltasar Garzón's hand goodbye).

"Baraitser insisted he might only be heard through his counsel, which given he was prevented from instructing them was a bit rich. This being pointed out, we had a ten minute adjournment while Julian and his counsel were allowed to talk down in the cells – presumably where they could be more conveniently bugged yet again.

"On return, Edward Fitzgerald made a formal application for Julian to be allowed to sit beside his lawyers in the court. Julian was “a gentle, intellectual man” and not a terrorist. Baraitser replied that releasing Assange from the dock into the body of the court would mean he was released from custody. To achieve that would require an application for bail.

"Again, the prosecution counsel


James Lewis intervened on the side of the defence to try to make Julian's treatment less extreme. He was not, he suggested diffidently, quite sure that it was correct that it required bail for Julian to be in the body of the court, or that being in the body of the court accompanied by security officers meant that a prisoner was no longer in custody. Prisoners, even the most dangerous of terrorists, gave evidence from the witness box in the body of the court nest to the lawyers and magistrate. In the High Court prisoners frequently sat with their lawyers in extradition hearings, in extreme cases of violent criminals handcuffed to a security officer.

"Baraitser replied that Assange might pose a danger to the public. It was a questionwas plain that the prosecution argue that the Extradition Act of 2003, under which the court is operating, makes no exception for political offences. All previous Extradition Acts had excluded extradition for political offences, so it must be the intention of the sovereign parliament that political offenders can now be extradited.

"Opening his argument, Edward Fitzgerald QC argued that the Extradition Act of 2003 alone is not enough to make an actual extradition. The extradition requires two things in place; the general Extradition Act and the Extradition Treaty with the country or countries concerned. 'No Treaty, No Extradition' was an unbreakable rule. The Treaty was the very basis of the request. So to say that the extradition was not governed by the terms of the very treaty under which


it was made, was to create a legal absurdity and thus an abuse of process. He cited examples of judgements made by the House of Lords and Privy Council where treaty rights were deemed enforceable despite the lack of incorporation into domestic legislation, particularly in order to stop people being extradited to potential execution from British colonies.

"Fitzgerald pointed out that while the Extradition Act of 2003 did not contain a bar on extraditions for political offences, it did not state there could not be such a bar in extradition treaties. And the Extradition Treaty of 2007 was ratified after the 2003 Extradition Act.

"At this stage Baraitser interrupted that it was plain the intention of parliament was that there could be extradition for political offences. Otherwise they would nothave removed the bar in previous legislation. Fitzgerald declined to agree, saying the Act did not say extradition for political offences could not be banned by the treaty enabling extradition.

"Fitzgerald then continued to say that international jurisprudence had accepted for a century or more that you did not extradite political offenders. No political extradition was in the European Convention on Extradition, the Model United Nations Extradition Treaty and the Interpol Convention on Extradition. It was in every single one of the United States’ extradition treaties with other countries, and had been for over a century, at the insistence of the United States. For both the UK and US Governments to say it did not apply was astonishing and would set a terrible precedent that would endanger dissidents and


potential political prisoners from China, Russia and regimes all over the world who had escaped to third countries.

"Fitzgerald stated that all major authorities agreed there were two types of political offence. The pure political offence and the relative political offence. A 'pure' political offence was defined as treason, espionage or sedition. A 'relative' political offence was an act which was normally criminal, like assault or vandalism, conducted with a political motive. Every one of the charges against Assange was a “pure” political offence. All but one were espionage charges, and the computer misuse charge had been compared by the prosecution to breach of the official secrets act to meet the dual criminality test. The overriding accusation that Assange was seeking to harm the political and military interests ofImage copyright Bloomington Police Department via Reuters Image caption Aranda has been sentenced to 19 years

A US man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to throwing a five-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony.

Emmanuel Aranda, 24, told police he went to Minnesota's Mall of America "looking for someone to kill", before choosing the boy, identified as Landen.

In a statement read in court on Monday, Landen's parents decried Aranda's act as one "intended to kill and destroy".

Landen survived the almost 40ft (12m) fall, but required multiple surgeries.

His parents described his recovery from head trauma and broken bones sustained in the 12 April attack as "miraculous". No further update on his condition was provided.

"I wish you could experience the pain and suffering you inflicted on my


boy," Landen's parents said in a statement read by prosecutor Cheri Townsend on Monday.

"You should have the maximum punishment that this life has for you so you understand the impact of your actions."

Aranda pleaded guilty in May to one count of attempted premeditated murder as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

In court after his sentencing on Monday, Aranda declined to speak.

He had previously told investigators that he had made several unsuccessful attempts to talk to women in the Minnesota mall, but that their rejection "caused him to lash out and be aggressive", US media report.

He said he initially planned to kill an adult before choosing Landen instead.

Aranda had two past convictions for assault at the same mall, both in 2015, and had been banned from the areaat an earlier date, according to CBS News, the BBC's US affiliate.

Court records show he was ordered to undergo psychological evaluation after those incidents.

Aranda's friends and family told US media that he had been in and out of treatment for a variety of mental health issues, including attention deficit disorder, depression, autism and schizophrenia. They said believed he was homeless before the attack.

At trial, Aranda's attorney did not raise a mental illness defence.


Tensions rose in Kenya on Thursday as the government banned demonstrations and indicated that it would go ahead with an election rerun that the opposition is convinced cannot be free and fair under the current system.

The order sets authorities on a collision course with supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who earlier this week pulled out of the Oct. 26 vote. Major demonstrations against the electoral commission, which the opposition sees as favoring incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, have been called for Friday.

Last month, the Supreme Court invalidated the results of an Aug. 8 presidential election Kenyatta won, after allegations of widespread irregularities in vote counting. It ordered that new elections be held within 60 days.

Odinga directed much of the blame for the lapses at the Independent Electoral andup to be even more flawed than the original election.

Rather than postpone the new election or address his complaints, the IEBC said Wednesday that the vote would go forward and would include six minor candidates.

Previously, the rerun was to have involved only Kenyatta and Odinga. With none of the other candidates having garnered more than 1 percent of the vote in August, the incumbent was expected to notch an easy win in the new election.

On Tuesday, Kenyatta's Jubilee Party, which holds a majority in parliament, passed amendments to the electoral law that appeared designed to legalize many of the voting irregularities that prompted the high court to toss out the original election results.

One amendment says that if any candidate were to pull out of an election rerun involving


IEBC offices in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. They were dispersed with tear gas, and injuries were reported.

Politics in Kenya often has strong ethnic undertones, and the 2007 elections unleashed weeks of violence in which at least 1,400 people died.

Kenyatta, who presents himself as a pro-business candidate, is from the dominant Kikuyu tribe. Odinga, who is focusing on combating corruption and helping the disenfranchised, is from the smaller Luo tribe.

The uncertainty and prolonged election season have been hard on Kenya's economy, normally one of the region's most robust. The stock market has been down, and the Reuters news agency reported that the government trimmed 2017 growth forecasts to 5.5 percent from 5.9 percent.

Schemm reported from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Robotics Initiative and the 2015 Strategic Computing Initiative. Without consulting either the members of Congress, or We The People of the United States, President Obama therefore, has – – completely on his OWN authority – – effectively Booted-Up The Robo- Death Clock! Thus, Dr. Layman has courageously called for the impeachment and/or formal censure of President Obama, whom he has repeatedly identified as, “The President of the Robots”! This call reflects the “Three Stages of the Dark Robo-Descent”: First, they take away your job. Then, they take away your freedom. And finally, they take your life!” Dr. Layman thus calls President Obama, Barack “ROB-ama,” because he strongly feels that Obama is a Traitor to We, The People of the United States, as well as to We, The UnsuspectingCitizens of Planet, Earth! Dr. Layman sees that “ROB-ama” has given the American People (and Unsuspecting People throughout the entire World) a strong push down into the Dark Robo-Descent! Tragically, as a result, he so fears that, “Not much more time still remains!”

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Moments later the boat sank and both men ended up in the sea about 100m from shore.

The deceased told his son to swim to shore and he would follow him, but he never made it.

Mr Vahai junior estimated he was in the water for about 35 minutes. Police were notified at 7.56pm and despite an extensive search his father's body was not found until the next day on sandbank 200m off shore from Matapihi Bridge.

Dr Bain has reserved his findings, but noted Mr Vahai suffered from chronic ischemic heart disease which he said may well have contributed to his death.

On Tuesday he also heard evidence about the death of Shaun Hogarth, 23, who lost his life while fishing with three mates in rough seas in a stolen


small dinghy on October 16, 2012.

The group had been drinking, there were no lifejackets or oars on board, and when the boat began sinking they tried to use empty beer bottles and an empty tackle box to try and bail out the water.

Mr Hogarth was last seen swimming back to the submerged dinghy by one of his associates.

His body was recovered by the Coastguard nine days later.

Dr Bain, who reserved his findings, said it was clearly a "tragedy waiting to happen".

He also reserved his decision in the inquest case of 56-year-old charter yacht skipper Richard Rusbatch, also presumed drowned after he went missing at sea last February without trace.

Mr Rusbatch's leased 38-foot charter yacht Honfleur was found motoring in circles 11 nautical miles east of Mayor Island atmade since. The most interesting of these four periods for our purposes is the third, 1850-1873. There is a huge amount of material from this period attacking IP–and from a free market perspective–that I have not been able to access or study in detail yet (but plan to). In this period, patents were attacked along with tariffs by free-traders, since both were seen to be obviously contrary to the free market. But with the depression following the Panic of 1873, there was a rise in nationalism and a reduced opposition to tariffs and protectionism. With the free trade cause on the ropes, its opposition to patents also became less relevant. The willingness to tolerate protectionism and other incursions into free markets and free trade opened the door to


increased patent propaganda by special interest groups.

Thus, the anti-patent movement lost steam, and holdout nations such as Switzerland and the Netherlands finally gave in and reintroduced patent systems previously abolished (in the case of the Netherlands) or not yet adopted (Switzerland). Ever since, we have had a more or less universal, modern patent system in place in countries around the world.

2.The Debates among Individualist Anarchists the Late 1800s

As detailed by Wendy McElroy in works such as Copyright and Patent in Benjamin Tucker’s periodical Liberty and Contra Copyright, Again, early libertarian and proto-libertarians and anarchists in the late 1800s had vigorous debates on this topic. Lysander Spooner in The Law of Intellectual Property; Or an Essay on the Right of Authors and Inventors to a Perpetual Property in theirCelebrity mugshots: the good, the bad and the ugly

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This will be the fourth paving project for Talladega Superspeedway, with the first being the actual construction of the track for its opening in September 1969, which was followed by a repaving project completed in time for the 1970 season. The third and most recent paving was completed at the conclusion of the 1979 racing season. When drivers tested and practiced on the new surface prior to the May 4, 1980 race, they gave it rave reviews -- pointing out how the new, smooth surface greatly enhanced drafting and overall handling ability. The result was one of the most exciting races and dramatic finishes yet at the still-young superspeedway. A dozen drivers swapped the lead 40 times, and Buddy Baker took his fourth Talladega Superspeedway victory in thatevent, winning by just three feet after crossing the line side-by-side with Dale Earnhardt.

In the quarter of a century of racing that has since passed, the track has firmly established itself as the most competitive track on the circuit, holding both the record for most lead changes in a race (75, May 6,1984) and the record for most leaders in a race (26, most recently April 22, 2001).

Several top Nextel Cup Series drivers said the project comes as no surprise considering the age of the existing surface, and that the new surface will likely make the racing even more exciting at the legendary superspeedway.

There is a quaint fact that tends to be forgotten in discussions of immigration policy: the law is the law. The law says that some


here by the end of 2003. It's not like the public is unaware of the problem. Successive polling in recent years has consistently shown a clear – and thus far unanswered – mandate from the American electorate for its elected officials to faithfully enforce the laws they are sworn to uphold by removing the swelling illegal population. But key constituencies inside the governing class – principally the cheap labor lobby on the Republican side and the ethnic lobbies on the Democratic side – have successfully frustrated American democracy and the rule of law on this point.

Under pressure and in fits and starts, the federal government has been making token gestures of deportation, which prove that something could be done if the political decision were ever made to gethasn't been done before. In 1954, during the Eisenhower Administration, INS Commissioner Gen. Joseph May Swing instituted a mass search-and-removal operation targeting illegal aliens from Mexico scattered throughout the Southwest and Midwest. It coordinated the efforts of the U.S. Border Patrol, municipal, county, state and local police forces, along with the military. The coordinated and strategic use of resources and manpower soon produced positive results. In Texas, the nation's second-largest state, the government needed only around 700 men to do the job, netting approximately 4,800 deportees on its first day and 1,100 daily thereafter. Deportees were shipped back to Mexico via rail and ship, often deep into the interior of the country to discourage recidivism. When funding for the initiative ran out that fall, the INS claimed some


known immediately upon apprehension. Those who overstay their visas and become illegal would be quickly identified and tracked down through a more comprehensive verification system.

The tools and the public support for general deportation are already here and its implementation, while coming with initial added costs, would more than pay for itself in reduced social services to illegal aliens. Nothing less than the concept of being a nation of laws is at stake, in addition to the other immigration issues of national security, cultural identity, preventing cheap labor, environmental protection, and the survival of the Republican Party itself.

At the time of the first Mexican-American War, there were strains in Mexican as well as American society that parallel the strains in both societies today. Most importantly, the Mexican government atthat time was split between the Federalists and the Centralists. The Centralists favored an autocratic government and wanted to regain the lost territory of Texas, whereas the Federalists were more in favor of democratic reforms.

In the United States, the major strain was between the liberal Abolitionists who feared that Texas would become a slave holding state, and the Nationalists who envisioned America stretching "from sea to shining sea." It may be helpful to look again at some of this history to see if we can understand what the future may hold for these two countries.

People on both sides of the Mexican/U. S. border have to be reminded that Mexico has a different history from the United States. The indigenous Aztecs practiced such cannibalism and human sacrifice that it


shocked even the brutal Spanish conquistadors. Mexico has yet to repudiate its Aztec past the way the Germans repudiated their Nazi past.

The 1910 revolution in Mexico was no stroll down the Paseo de la Reforma, either. One just has to read Martin Luis Guzman's book The Eagle and the Serpent, to realize how bloody that revolution was. Although military casualties were high on both sides of the American War Between the States, civilian casualties were much higher during the Mexican Revolution.

Mexican culture is also different from American culture. An example of one important cultural difference between Mexico and the U. S. is religion. Mexico has Roman Catholic traditions, while the U. S. mainly has Protestant traditions. There were cultural reasons why Texas did not want to remain partof Mexico and first seceded and then became part of the United States. Many of those reasons are still valid today, in spite of NAFTA and Mexico's immigration and nationalization policies. Many Mexican immigrants to the U. S. have no desire to assimilate, to speak English, nor to become Americans. They are aggressively seeking to replace our culture with theirs.

When we celebrate Columbus Day in the U. S., and the Mexicans celebrate "El Día de la Raza," a statement is being made about how two cultures view their place in the world. El Día de la Raza can be translated as "The Day of the Race," an expression that has definite racist overtones. Columbus Day may carry overtones of conquest, but it links our culture with Europe. The


Day of the Race links Mexican culture with a brutal and indigenous people, the Aztecs, and carries shades of revenge and empire. The day of the Race is Mexico's answer to our "manifest destiny."

During the "conquista," Spain tried to impose on Mexico a common western language, religion, and culture, and to the degree it was successful. It was also anti-American. We should remember that the Spaniards were building the great cathedral at the Zocolo in Mexico City a hundred years before George Washington took control of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Here are two different world views, sharing the same continent.

In his article, Clash of Civilizations?, Samuel P. Huntington reminds us that cultural differences may cause future wars, and that these wars will be along cultural "faultlines." The U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines. Huntington writes, "Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future, and the world will be shaped in large measure by the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations. ...The most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating these civilizations from one another."

In regard to Mexico, Huntington writes, "During the past decade, Mexico has assumed a position somewhat similar to that of Turkey. Just as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe and attempted to join Europe, Mexico has stopped defining itself by its opposition to the United States and is instead attempting to imitate the United States." However, unlike Canada, Mexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population that has not


may be understood. Writing in The Miami Herald, for Sunday, January 12, 2003, Andres Oppenheimer openly wonders if Mexico's former Economy Minister and now new Foreign Minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, "may weaken what has been one of (President) Fox's most important accomplishments: bringing Mexico's foreign policy out of the dark ages of knee-jerk nationalism and pointless anti-Americanism." In fact, Derbez's job will be to say one thing and do another. Nationalism and anti-Americanism remain a part of Mexico's foreign policy, it's just not called that anymore.

Prior to Derbez's statements, Mexico's previous Foreign Minister and former Marxist, Jorge Castañeda said that nationalism and anti-Americanism made sense in the 19th and 20th centuries but are not viable in a globalized world, in which countries depend more on exchanges of goods,services, and people than at any time in recent history.

Mexico's traditional anti-Americanism "'creates a brutal national schizophrenia,'" said Castañeda. He further noted that 90 percent of Mexico's trade is with the United States. Yet, integrating the Mexican economy with the U. S. economy may be viewed more sinisterly. This economic integration can be also just one aspect of a Mexican foreign policy designed to get back territory.

Internationally, Mexico is a non-permanent member of the Security Council. It's hostile intentions towards the U. S. were made clear when it opposed any unilateral action against Iraq without a mandate from the Security Council. This stance on Iraq further angered many to the north.

If another 9/11 attack did occur in the U. S. and it did not damage Mexico's interests, Mexico


would remain indifferent. Mexico may even unintentionally aid terrorists by encouraging illegal immigration to the U. S. Furthermore, Mexico has never broken off relations with communist Cuba and gives it considerable development aid. In spite of American policy toward Cuba, Mexican President Fox visited the island in February, 2002.

The first war between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. On Monday, May 11, President Polk presented his war message to Congress, and on Wednesday, May 13, over the opposition of the Abolitionists, the U. S. Congress voted to declare war on Mexico. Fighting ended when U. S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847. The peace treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo was signed on Feb. 2, 1848, ending the war.

Ironically, the Confederate hero Jefferson Davis emerges as a figure from that war who may help us predict our future foreign policy towards Mexico. Davis distinguished himself fighting for the U. S., especially at the battle of Monterrey. You have to wonder if Davis ever imagined his world would be turned upside down when 15 years later he would become President of the Confederate States of America. Will our world also be turned upside down years from now because of NAFTA, illegal immigration, and drugs from Mexico?

As a Nationalist, Davis could see the importance of Texas to the expanding union. The Abolitionists argued that the move to the Rio Grande was an aggressive act by President Polk to start


a war with Mexico in order to add new slave territory to the United States. The Nationalists and Davis carried the day and the war was successfully waged.

Yet, years later Davis could not convert to the Abolitionist cause. He sided with the southern confederacy against the north. The War Between the States settled that issue, and Jefferson Davis ended up a federal prisoner held for trial on a charge of treason. In light of this history, one has to wonder if the liberals in the U. S. today, who favor NAFTA and open immigration will still stay with that position 15 years from now when Texas, New Mexico, California, and Wyoming secede from the U. S. and become part of Mexico.

The war with Mexico is considered by somehistorians to be the most costly by casualty count in American military history. Despite the objections of the Abolitionists, the Mexican war received enthusiastic support from all sections of the United States. The war was fought almost entirely by volunteers.

So, too, a future war with Mexico will be opposed by the liberals, but will receive support from America's white, working class, and many African-Americans. If past indications of Mexico's bloody history are to be projected to a new Mexican war, we can expect high casualties on both sides. Many northern U. S. cities like Chicago with large Mexican barrios as fifth columnists, may also suffer destruction.

In order to put oil on the troubled waters of current Mexican--U. S. relations, the two countries have been trying to downplay differences.


This may look good on a diplomatic level, but has not altered Mexico's aggressive policies towards the U. S. in the least. While talking, illegal immigration continues, cocaine flows across the border into the U.S., the Mexican government remains corrupt, and the Mexican elites still rely on the U. S. to solve the social and economic problems of Mexico.

President Fox was the first foreign leader to be received by President Bush after his inauguration. Likewise, President Bush's first trip abroad was to Mexico in February 2001. George Kourous writes about these visits. He says, "The White House has scheduled Bush's first official state dinner to crown the visit and is dressing up the event with pomp, circumstance, and recycled rhetoric about the new era of U. S.--Mexico relations.Divinity School. His book, A WINTER OF WORDS, about the ethnic cleansing at Daley College, is available from amazon.com.

Joyce Comments: A reader has been circulating a MoveOn.org Coward Dean like absurd plan involving the corrupt and embattled United Nations and bases in two additional Arab countries Qatar and Bahrain to essentially "run" Iraq and it's post-war rehabilitation. This is the most irresponsible and riduluous suggestion to be made since the United Nations is most thought of for it's "peacekeeping" failures from the 1990s in Rwanda and Somolia. Below is a more detailed and professional rundown as to why the United Nations should stay out of the business of Iraq.

May 21, 2003

Q:Would it be a Mistake to let the United Nations Play the Lead Role in Reconstructing Iraq?

Yes: Don't


allow European nations that opposed regime change to stake their economic and strategic claims in Iraq.

Numerous countries - including most members of the European Union, Russia, China and virtually all of the G-7 states - are clamoring for the United Nations to play a leading role in Iraq. Even some coalition partners such as Britain have been urging the United States to accord the United Nations considerable influence, mostly out of a desire to help heal the breach in the Atlantic alliance and rehabilitate the United Nation's tattered record.

While the United States always should listen respectfully to its allies, it is imperative in the weeks ahead for the Bush administration to rebuff U.N. plans for a central role in a postwar Iraqi government. Moreover, the Bush administration shouldof Iraqi oil now controlled by the United Nations are the sovereign property of Iraq and should immediately be turned over to the Iraqi interim government. The United States also should take the position that all of the outstanding Security Council Iraq-related sanctions resolutions have been vitiated by virtue of the regime change in Iraq. No new U.N. Security Council resolution repealing the previous sanctions is legally necessary. * The interim government run by coalition countries, and its eventual Iraqi successor government, should be viewed as the legitimate government of Iraq. * Oil and other financial contracts signed between Saddam Hussein's regime and European governments and companies that have violated either international law (by flouting the Saddam Hussein-era sanctions) or the applicable Iraqi national law should be scrutinized


to pay for the country's reconstruction and rebuilding projects. Over time, more and more power and authority would be assumed by the Iraqi-run democratic institutions. Eventually, coalition-run governing structures would be dissolved.

While the United Nations' endorsement of this effort would be politically advantageous, it is not legally required. Indeed, under the 1907 Hague Regulations, the 1949 Geneva Convention IV and customary international law norms, the coalition countries bear the ultimate responsibility for the safety and well-being of the Iraqi people until the full transition to a new Iraqi government takes place because the coalition caused the regime change in Iraq. They cannot legally delegate their duties, rights and obligations to any third parties or international institutions, including the United Nations.

Legal-authority issues aside, a U.N.-controlled postwar administration merely wouldserve as a Trojan horse for European nations opposed to regime change, enabling them to stake their economic and strategic claims in Iraq. This cannot be allowed. Efforts by Paris and Moscow to retain the United Nations' sanctions regime against Iraq, particularly the oil-for-food program, also ought to be vigorously opposed by the United States. As a matter of law, various Security Council resolutions imposed on Iraq under Saddam's regime were predicated upon the specific misdeeds committed by that regime. Since the conditions that gave rise to these resolutions now have been vitiated, it is entirely permissible and appropriate for the United States to hold that the resolutions are no longer in force and that rescinding them does not require a new Security Council resolution.

The United States also


tasks, the administration has articulated a set of far-ranging, ambitious, long-term goals, including fostering a democratic Iraq in which Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis would live in peace, developing a civil society and rule of law and empowering Iraqi women to become full-fledged participants in the country's political and economic life.

The United Nations slowly is dying as a force on the world stage and will go the way of the League of Nations unless it radically is reformed and restructured. It failed spectacularly to deal with the growing threat posed by Saddam, and its influence well may diminish further in the coming years. Indeed, what happens to the United Nations in the future very much depends upon how it behaves here and now. In this regard, there is nodoubt that France and Russia are pursuing narrow, selfish and anti-U.S. policy agendas with regard to Iraq's postwar governance and democratization. Unless the United Nations opposes the French and Russian plans at least with the same vigor it has displayed in trying to handicap the administration's Iraq policy, the United Nations would lose all credibility.

President George W. Bush should make it clear that no further discussions on the Iraq issue are needed at the United Nations. Indeed, the role of the United Nations in a postwar Iraq should be limited to purely humanitarian involvement. The United States and Britain should take the lead in administering a postwar Iraqi transition government with the United Nations playing only a subordinate role.

Gardiner is visiting fellow in Anglo-American security policy in the


Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Rivkin is a partner in the Washington office of Baker & Hostetler and has served in the Department of Justice and the White House Counsel's Office.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

European elites enjoy showcasing their opposition to the death penalty as a progressive policy based on the respect of human rights. This stance is portrayed in stark contrast to the their brethren across the pond in the U.S. who execute criminals on a whim, sometimes even juveniles (note: the prior ability to of states to execute adults who committed murder as juveniles was commonly misrepresented in the European press as the execution of juveniles.). Like many policies, however, the moral basis of European opposition to the deathAmericans, Germans point proudly to Article 102 of their Basic Law, adopted in 1949. It reads, simply: "The death penalty is abolished." They often say that this 56-year-old provision shows how thoroughly the postwar Federal Republic has learned -- and applied -- the lessons of Nazi state-sponsored killing. (Communist East Germany kept the death penalty until 1987.)

But the actual history of the German death penalty ban casts this claim in a different light. Article 102 was in fact the brainchild of a right-wing politician who sympathized with convicted Nazi war criminals -- and sought to prevent their execution by British and American occupation authorities. Far from intending to repudiate the barbarism of Hitler, the author of Article 102 wanted to make a statement about the supposed excesses of


University. The study found "a direct association between the reauthorization of the death penalty, in 1977, and reduced homicide rates," but also that "the 'conservative estimate' was that on average, every execution deters eighteen murders." Sunstein and his co-author concluded, "this calculus makes the death penalty not just morally licit but morally required." It can be expected that this report will never see the light of day in the European, or even the U.S. press for that matter. Posted by Jeff at June 7, 2005 09:30 PM

Joyce's Footnote: Stanley "Tookie" Williams was fortunately put to death by the state of California the morning of Tuesday, December 13th at the irrelevant outrage of European elitists, including Austrians. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's response, all 57 pages, is onlinepolitical parties recognized this new reality: We cannot allow the world's most dangerous men to get their hands on the world's most dangerous weapons. In an age of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. (Applause.)

We removed Saddam Hussein from power because he was a threat to our security. He had pursued and used weapons of mass destruction. He sponsored terrorists. He ordered his military to shoot at American and British pilots patrolling the no-fly zones. He invaded his neighbors. He fought a war against the United States and a broad coalition. He had declared that the United States of America was his enemy.

Over the course of a decade, Saddam Hussein refused to comply with


more than a dozen United Nations resolutions -- including demands that he respect the rights of the Iraqi people, disclose his weapons, and abide by the terms of a 1991 cease-fire. He deceived international inspectors, and he denied them the unconditional access they needed to do their jobs. When a unanimous Security Council gave him one final chance to disclose and disarm, or face serious consequences, he refused to comply with that final opportunity. At any point along the way, Saddam Hussein could have avoided war by complying with the just demands of the international community. The United States did not choose war -- the choice was Saddam Hussein's.

When we made the decision to go into Iraq, many intelligence agencies around the world judged that Saddam possessed weaponsof mass destruction. This judgment was shared by the intelligence agencies of governments who did not support my decision to remove Saddam. And it is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As President, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq -- and I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we're doing just that. At the same time, we must remember that an investigation after the war by chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer found that Saddam was using the U.N. oil-for-food program to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions, with the intent of restarting his weapons programs once the sanctions collapsed and the world looked the other way. Given Saddam's history


and the lessons of September the 11th, my decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision. Saddam was a threat -- and the American people and the world is better off because he is no longer in power. (Applause.) We are in Iraq today because our goal has always been more than the removal of a brutal dictator; it is to leave a free and democratic Iraq in its place.

As I stated in a speech in the lead-up to the war, a liberated Iraq could show the power of freedom to transform the Middle East by bringing hope and progress to the lives of millions. So we're helping the Iraqi -- Iraqi people build a lasting democracy that is peaceful and prosperous and an example for thethem revitalize Iraq's infrastructure and economy. Today, many cities like Mosul and Najaf are coming back to life, and Iraq's economy is growing. Thousands of new businesses have opened in Iraq, personal income is up, and according to one survey, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the next year.

Earlier this week at the Philadelphia World Affairs Council, I spoke in depth about how we changed our approach to helping the Iraqis build their democracy. At the request of Iraqi leaders, we accelerated the transition to Iraqi self-government. We set four major milestones to guide Iraq's transition to constitutional democracy: the transfer of sovereignty, elections for a transitional government, the adoption of a democratic constitution, and


tactics continue to change, but our goal in Iraq has not changed: a free and democratic Iraq. I strongly believe a democratic Iraq is a crucial part of our strategy to defeat the terrorists, because only democracy can bring freedom and reconciliation to Iraq, and peace to this troubled part of the world. Our efforts to advance freedom in Iraq are driven by our vital interests and our deepest beliefs. America was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and we believe that the people of the Middle East desire freedom as much as we do. History has shown that free nations are peaceful nations. And as Iraqi democracy takes hold, Iraqi citizens will have a stake in a common and peaceful future.

As we advancethe cause of freedom in Iraq, our nation can proceed with confidence because we have done this kind of work before. After World War II, President Harry Truman believed that the way to help bring peace and prosperity to Asia was to plant the seeds of freedom and democracy in Japan. Like today, there were many skeptics and pessimists who said that the Japanese were not ready for democracy. Fortunately, President Harry Truman stuck to his guns. He believed, as I do, in freedom's power to transform an adversary into an ally. And because he stayed true to his convictions, today Japan is one of the world's freest and most prosperous nations, and one of America's closest allies in keeping the peace. The spread of freedom to Iraq


and the Middle East requires the same confidence and persistence, and it will lead to the same results. (Applause.)

The people of Iraq are now seeing some of the tangible benefits of their new democracy. They see that as freedom advances, their lives are improving. Iraqis have approved a bold constitution that guarantees the rule of law and freedom of assembly, and property rights, and freedom of speech and the press, and women's rights, and the right to vote. They see their freedom increasingly being defended by their own soldiers and police instead of foreign forces. And they see that freedom is bringing opportunity and a better life.

The Iraqis still face many challenges, including security, and reconstruction, and economic reform. But they are building a strong democracy that canterrorists. Their stated objective is to drive the United States and coalition forces out of the Middle East so they can gain control of Iraq and use that country as a base from which to launch attacks against America, overthrow moderate governments in the Middle East, and establish a totalitarian Islamic empire that stretches from Spain to Indonesia. Hear the words of the terrorists. In a letter to the terrorist leader Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader Zawahiri has outlined plans that will unfold in several stages. These are his words: "... Expel the Americans from Iraq. ... Establish an Islamic authority over as much territory as you can to spread its power in Iraq... Extend the jihad wave to secular countries neighboring Iraq." End quote.

To achieve these goals,


the terrorists are targeting innocent men, women, and children. The enemy has only the ability to create chaos for the cameras with spectacular acts of violence. They know they cannot defeat us militarily. So they're trying to break our will in the hopes of getting America to leave the battlefield early, and they cite Vietnam as a reason they can prevail. Zawahiri, in his letter to Zarqawi, wrote, "The aftermath of the collapse of the American power in Vietnam -- and how they ran and left their agents -- is noteworthy." In the past, al Qaeda has said that American pullouts of Lebanon and Somalia showed them that America is weak and could be made to run. And now the terrorists think they can make America run inby days of uncertainty. We may not know for certain who's won the elections until the early part of January -- and that's important for our citizens to understand. It's going to take a while. It's also going to take a while for them to form a government. The work ahead will require patience of the Iraqi people, and require our patience, as well. Yet we must remember that a free Iraq is in our interests, because a free Iraq will be a beacon of hope. And as the Middle East grows in liberty, the American people will become safer and our nation will be more secure.

The work ahead will also require continued sacrifice. Yet we can be confident, because history has shown the power of freedom to


overcome tyranny. And we can be confident because we have on our side the greatest force for freedom in human history: the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. (Applause.)

One of these men was a Marine lieutenant named Ryan McGlothlin, from Lebanon, Virginia. Ryan was a bright young man who had everything going for him and he always wanted to serve our nation. He was a valedictorian of his high school class. He graduated from William & Mary with near-perfect grade averages, and he was on a full scholarship at Stanford, where he was working toward a doctorate in chemistry.

Two years after the attacks of September the 11th, the young man who had the world at his feet came home from Stanford for a visit. Hetold his dad, "I just don't feel like I'm doing something that matters. I want to serve my country. I want to protect our lands from terrorists, so I joined the Marines." When his father asked him if there was some other way to serve, Ryan replied that he felt a special obligation to step up because he had been given so much. Ryan didn't support me in the last election, but he supported our mission in Iraq. And he supported his fellow Marines.

Ryan was killed last month fighting the terrorists near the -- Iraq's Syrian border. In his pocket was a poem that Ryan had read at his high school graduation, and it represented the spirit of this fine Marine. The poem was called "Don't Quit."

In our


to transform nations from bitter foes to strong allies. And history will say that this generation, like generations before, laid the foundation of peace for generations to come.

May God bless you all. (Applause.)

END 11:39 A.M. EST

Footnote: "Don't Quit" poem read by Ryan McGlothlin at his high school graduation

Joyce Comments: Even though this act was in effect from 1882-1943 on the Chinese, it should now be resurrected and used on Mexicans now with the same passion and force as it was then. This would be the law needed to use on frugal U.S. employers trying to get "cheap labor" and benefit the Mexicans from being exploited as well as us from being jipped from this available work here at home.

Preamble. Whereas, in the opinion of the Government of theUnited States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof:

Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or, having so come after the expiration of said ninety days, to remain within the United States.

SEC. 2. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring


within the United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed, and Chinese laborer, from any foreign port of place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and may be also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year.

SEC. 3. That the two foregoing sections shall not apply to Chinese laborers who were in the United States on the seventeenth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty, or who shall have come into the same before the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and who shall produce to such master before going on boardsuch vessel, and shall produce to the collector of the port in the United States at which such vessel shall arrive, the evidence hereinafter in this act required of his being one of the laborers in this section mentioned; nor shall the two foregoing sections apply to the case of any master whose vessel, being bound to a port not within the United States by reason of being in distress or in stress of weather, or touching at any port of the United States on its voyage to any foreign port of place: Provided, That all Chinese laborers brought on such vessel shall depart with the vessel on leaving port.

SEC. 4. That for the purpose of properly indentifying Chinese laborers who were in the United States on the


seventeenth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty, or who shall have come into the same before the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and in order to furnish them with the proper evidence of their right to go from and come to the United States of their free will and accord, as provided by the treaty between the United States and China dated November seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the collector of customs of the district from which any such Chinese laborer shall depart from the United States shall, in person or by deputy, go on board each vessel having on board any such Chinese laborer and cleared or about to sail from his district for a foreign port, and on suchvessel make a list of all such Chinese laborers, which shall be entered in registry-books to be kept for that purpose, in which shall be stated the name, age, occupation, last place of residence, physical marks or peculiarities, and all facts necessary for the indentification of each of such Chinese laborers, which books shall be safely kept in the custom-house; and every such Chinese laborer so departing from the United States shall be entitled to, and shall receive, free of any charge or cost upon application therefor, from the collector or his deputy, at the time such list is taken, a certificate, signed by the collector or his deputy and attested by his seal of office, in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, which


certificate shall contain a statement of the name, age, occupation, last place of residence, personal description, and fact of identification of the Chinese laborer to whom the certificate is issued, corresponding with the said list and registry in all particulars. In case any Chinese laborer after having received such certificate shall leave such vessel before her departure he shall deliver his certificate to the master of the vessel, and if such Chinese laborer shall fail to return to such vessel before her departure from port the certificate shall be delivered by the master to the collector of customs for cancellation. The certificate herein provided for shall entitle the Chinese laborer to whom the same is issued to return to and re-enter the United States upon producing and deliveringthe same to the collector of customs of the district at which such Chinese laborer shall seek to re-enter; and upon delivery of such certificate by such Chinese laborer to the collector of customs at the time of re-entry in the United States, said collector shall cause the same to be filed in the custom house and duly canceled.

SEC. 5. That any Chinese laborer mentioned in section four of this act being in the United States, and desiring to depart from the United States by land, shall have the right to demand and receive, free of charge or cost, a certificate of indentification similar to that provided for in section four of this act to be issued to such Chinese laborers as may desire to leave the United