of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior Series (also known as the Surveys of Consumers) was undertaken to measure changes in consumer attitudes and expectations, to understand why such changes occur, and to evaluate how they relate to consumer decisions to save, borrow, or make discretionary purchases. The data regularly include the Index of Consumer Sentiment, the Index of Current Economic Conditions, and the Index of Consumer Expectations. Since the 1940s, these surveys have been produced quarterly through 1977 and monthly thereafter.
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The surveys conducted in 2004 focused on topics such as evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, price changes, and the national business situation. Opinions were collected regarding respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses, automobiles, computers, and other durables. Also explored in this survey, were respondents' types of savings and financial investments, loan use, family income, and retirement planning.
Other topics in this series typically include ownership, lease, and use of automobiles, respondents' use of personal computers at home and in the office, and respondents' familiarity with and use of the Internet. Demographic information includes ethnic


This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions.Also available as downloadable files.
The purpose of this study was to assess the ways in which
recent economic and social changes in Russia, specifically those since
the collapse of the Soviet system, have affected the social
stratification of Russian society, the composition and nature of the
Russian labor market, and Russian public opinion regarding the state
of the Russian economy. The survey covered the population of the
Russian Federation 16 years of age and older, excluding residents of
four Caucasus republics and eight inaccessible regions of the Russian
far north. Respondents were asked to complete a self-administered
written questionnaire in the presence of an interviewer, with a
portion of the survey administered directly by the interviewer. The
main aim of the project was to gather information on respondents'
social origins (including pasttheir views on their relationship with
their spouse or cohabitating partner, including relative status,
perceived marital/relationship quality, and perceived verbal and
physical abuse, as well as generational differences with respect to
gender attitudes and marital relationships. Cohabitating respondents
were asked the same questions as married respondents, in these cases,
reference was made to the partner instead of the spouse and to their
relationship rather than marriage. Respondents were asked to describe
their views, as well as those of their spouse or partner and of
society in general, regarding women working outside the home, marital
decision-making, and gender traits. Those queried also commented on
their satisfaction with the division of labor in their marriage or
cohabitating relationship, included housekeeping, managing family
finances, earning income, raising children, and caring for
parents. Married and previously married respondents were asked about
their marital history, including age at


a scrambler circuit, a descrambler circuit, a compression circuit, and an interleaver circuit. The descrambler circuit and compression circuit operate as described above regarding the compression system.
According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, a receiving ATU includes a deinterleaver circuit, a decompression circuit, a scrambler circuit, a descrambler circuit, and an ATM transmission convergence circuit. The scrambler circuit and decompression circuit operate to decompress the compressed data received from the above-described transmitting ATU.
One aspect of the invention provides for the limiting of the maximum compression bandwidth to assist ATM provisioning.
Another aspect of the invention provides for limiting the average compression bandwidth to assist ATM provisioning.
A still further aspect of the invention provides for ATM flow control over the ADSL loop to assist ATM provisioning in theIt is still a year to go before Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya's birth centenary celebrations begin. But, the BJP has already got down to the task of drawing out plans to commemorate it.

From football matches to literature on his life, the party is planning a series of programmes across the country to familiarise people with its icon and his concept of "integral humanism" as against communism and capitalism.The party would not only underline his philosophy as being the basis for the organisation's ideology but also seek to decode its relevance in the contemporary world, 50 years after he propounded it.

The BJP's intellectual cell, which is anchoring the year-long celebration, is roping in organisations like those of Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Vivekanda Kendra and Ramakrishna Mission


for the centenary celebrations. "Its aimed at popularising his name, idea and placing the party on this ideological foundation of integral humanism, more of a left of centre philosophy which we believe is the ideology of the 21st century, particularly in the context of collapse of communism and failure of capitalism," said R Balashankar, convenor of the BJP's intellectual cell.

Besides the RSS, which is already commemorating 50 years of propagating integral humanism under an 80-organisation platform "Pragya Pravaha", the Deendayal Upadhyaya Research Institute (DRI), will also hold parallel centenary celebrations. Along with Upadhyaya's, the DRI will be celebrating the birth centenary of social activist Nanaji Deshmukh, who founded the institute in 1972. Prime minister Narendra Modi is expected to take time off campaigning in Maharashtra and Haryana laterthis week to launch six volumes of collected works of Deshmukh, whom he has described as a "paragon of simplicity, dedication and service".

"Nanaji had founded DRI to propagate integral humanism. The concept of sustainable consumption, sustainable production and sustainable development was propounded by Deendayalji around 40 years before the UNEP adopted it though it was not attributed to him. We need to tell the world," said Atul Jain, editor of DRI publications. The political philosophy, adopted by the Jan Sangh in 1965, revolves around swadeshi and morality in politics.At a rally in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections last year on September 25, Deendayal's birth anniversary, Modi had said that when the country celebrates his birth centenary in 2015-16, the BJP will be ruling in most states


in the country. The party is fighting a crucial battle in UPA ruled states of Maharashtra and Haryana.

With its government in power at the Centre, it is bound to help the BJP in making the centenary celebrations a grand affair. The party has drafted a plan under which at least 300 programmes—around ten in each state—will be held through the year. The party is planning to tie-up with schools, institutes and other organisations to hold quiz and sports events like football and kabaddi matches besides launching more schemes in his name, sources said.

"One of the builders of the organisation, he spread its influence in north India in a big way. It was in his time that the idea of coalition government was conceived way back in 1967. AllSince I imagine that American fans would be reading this, the names from Sailor Moon are reused. The only Japanese names are the ones who never got English name (Yes, I know that Sailor Pluto might of gotten a name since the rest of R is playing in Canada. I just don't know her name)The music playing is the opening music to the Stars series.

Sailor Moon Sailor Stars

My source did not have enough info on Sailor Moon Super S to make a summary out of. But, I have found out that the Inner Scouts got their Super powers from Pegasus. The beginning of this series is the end of the bad guys from the last.

In Super S, the scouts don't get rid of the enemy. The first six


episodes of Stars are about destroying the enemy. If you never seen Super S, please skip these first paragraphs.

Tomoe was with his daughter, Hotaru, when Setsuna came. Hotaru had a strange vision of Sailor Moon with wings. Sailor Moon was in deep trouble. Setsuna said she came to take Hotaru.

Baby Hotaru

Serena and her friends passed those tests (that was the only test Serena passed I bet), and Serena, Mina, Ami, and Lita were in Juuban High School. Rei still was at the same school because it was a private school. She has the same school uniform as before. Renie and Darien came up to them and Renie said she had to go back to the future (sound's familiar, doesn't it?). The beam was created with Renie's key. Neherenia,into the Super Scouts (the Inner Scouts turned into Supers last season). Hotaru grows to be four instantly. She has the same vision as before. The monster was defeated.

Because of the piece that hit his eye, Darien wasn't his usual self. He didn't pay attention to Serena at all. Meanwhile, Hotaru is awakened by Sailor Saturn, who tells her to remember what has happened in the past. She tells Hotaru that the time has come, and touches Hotaru on her forehead. The Saturn symbol appears on her head, and she remebers the events of Sailor Moon S. She grows to her real size. She tells the rest of the Outer Scouts that the princess is in danger. The pieces of a mirrior turn into monsters and the Sailor


doesn't exist. The Scouts then start their final battle against Neherenia. They split up in groups of two and go through illisions of different settings. Serena is put in a trance by Neherenia, and Jupiter defends her. Jupiter then gets captured. Jupiter's rose earing falls and Serena sees it. She recovers and finds herself at a stairway with thornbushes guarding the way down. The rest of the scouts are captured except for Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Saturn, who made it to Neherenia's palace. Sailor Saturn whirls her glaive, and then holds the point a mere inch from Neherenia's throat. Sailor Chibi Moon goes to Darien's side, and starts to become transparent. Meanwhile, people are being trapped in reflected things. Saturn is thrown away from a burst ofpower, and Chibi Moon fades away even more. Neherenia traps Saturn in a mirror, and Chibi Moon is fading in and out. Serena comes, and Neherenia says that when dawn comes, the Sailor Scouts and Darienwill be hers forever. Chibi Moon vanishes finally. A mirror comes and Chibi Neherenia appears. Neherenia ignores it and blasts Serena. She starts to strangle Serena, and tears roll down Serena's cheeks. Neherenia throws Serena; Serena tells Neherenia to free the others, for she is willing to risk herself for her friends. The Sailor Scouts become free and Darien is back to normal, not to mention Chibi Moon comes back. The Scouts concentrate their energy into Serena who turns into Eternal Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon tells Neherenia to change her ways because it


destroyed when The Three Lights come through. Seiya senses something weird about Serena.

In space, there was a evil looking woman wearing a gold sailor costume (Galaxia). She says she needs star seeds to take over the galaxy. A light then hurls through Earth's sky and hits the airplane Darien is in. The plane disappears.

Sailor Galaxia

The Three Lights were filming something in the park. Their fans gathered and wanted to see, including Amy. Behind a tree, not far away, is a small, white-haired girl wearing a Chicago gangster-style pin stripe suit and sunglasses. Serena sneaks around where the Authorized Personel were allowed to go. She meets Seiya there, and he calls her "Odango" (Japanese for those meatballs of hers). She gets upset because Darien was supposed to call herthat. Serena says she doesn't know who he was, and he says he wasn't as popular as he thought. It's weird because he takes that very seriously. The woman with the Chicago shirt attacked an actress there. She turned into Sailor Iron Mouse.

Sailor Iron Mouse

Sailor Moon comes, and all of a sudden three mysterious figures appear. They called themselves Sailor Starfighter (Seiya), Sailor Starhealer (Yaten), and Sailor Starmaker (Taiki). They say together they are the Sailor Star Lights.

Sailor Starfighter

Sailor Starhealer

Sailor Starmaker

And together they are known as the Star Lights

Serena keeps on writing to Darien about what is going on. She nevers does get a response from him. The Three Lights join Serena's school, and Serena isn't really pleased. She hates Seiya for calling her "Odango". Most episodes are


the ringing of phones followed her. She finally answered; when she heard Galaxia she hung up. When Iron Mouse answered the phone, Galaxia came and took Iron Mouse's bracelets: taking them caused Iron Mouse's death. Iron Mouse quickly vanished.

Iron Mouse was quickly replaced by Sailor Aluminum Siren and Sailor Lead Crow. Galaxia had three star seeds from previous battles. She called for Lead Crow and Aluminum Siren. They said that 80% of the galaxy was taken over and in order to take over the rest, they had to find the star seeds on Earth. Meanwhile, when Serena was writing her 30th letter, a little girl comes flying down with an umbrella... The girls were talking about Galaxia. She came from outer space, and the girls were wondering whetheror not they should trust the Star Lights. Setsuna said that there was a strange evil around the galaxy that took the glitter away from stars. She said not to trust the Star Lights. Then a little girl with two red heart-shaped meatballs (sort of like Serena's) came floating in with her umbrella. The umbrella. The umbrella blew away but Serena got it back. Luna and Serena were walking home when Luna noticed the little girl was following them. The girl only said Chibi.

Chibi Chibi

When Serena got home she tripped over the little girl. Her mother told her to be careful around her sister, Chibi Chibi. Luna and Serena were shocked. Later the girls were staring at Chibi Chibi when she was going clothes shopping with her "mother".


They considered Chibi Chibi to be Renie's younger sister, but Setsuna came and said that was impossible. Serena and Darien only had one child. Chibi Chibi got lost, and Serena found her with Seiya. At the poilce station, mother was united with second daughter. Lead Crow decided the police cheif was the one with the star seed. Aluminum Siren was eating a rice cracker. They both got into a fight. Sailor Aluminum Siren got the star seed of the cheif, but it wasn't the one they were looking for. Sailor Moon and Sailor Pluto came to the scene. Sailor Moon asked who they were, and Sailor Aluminum Siren gave Sailor Moon her business card (^_^). Chibi Chibi was a really strange child because one day she went (byherself) toan old man's house to get snacks, and Serena followed. Chibi Chibi passed by an angry bull dog, but it became nice around Chibi Chibi. It almost bit Serena. Chibi Chibi crossed a road without getting hit, but Serena almost got ran over. When Sailor Moon was fighting the enemy, Chibi Chibi threw a vase and a fragile doll at Sailor Moon thinking it was really funny. Don't believe me about the doll and the vase? see the scene yourself. One time Siren saw the glitter of Sailor Moon's transformation. She thought it was the glitter of a star seed but then she went up, face to face, to Sailor Moon. Siren thinks Sailor Moon might have a star seed so she attacks her. Sailor Moon dropped


her tier she used to change people back. Chibi Chibi came and took the eternal tier. She transformed into Sailor Chibi Chibi. When she did, everyone felt a warm feeling in their hearts. She came floating to Sailor Moon. They touched each other's hands, and Sailor Moon felt another power come into her. Sailor Chibi Chibi turned back into Chibi Chibi (all of those Chibi Chibi's!!!!!). Sailor Moon used her new attack, silver moon crystal power kiss, on the monster to change it back to human.

Sailor Chibi Chibi comes flying to Sailor Moon

Mina, Ami, Lita, and Rei were planning to go to a Three Lights concert one night, but Serena found out. She wished she could go but she had to have the tickets. At home, Chibi Chibihad a letter for Serena. The letter did not have any addresses on it at all. Inside there was a ticket to the concert and a letter. The letter was from Siren! Siren figured out Serena was Sailor Moon! Serena was very shocked, but she left to the airport anyway. People with tickets were supposed to fly in an airplane with the Three Lights. Serena asked the stewardess to cancel the flight, but she just pushed Serena on. Serena wanted to tell the Three Lights, but she couldn't let them know it was a trap, or the fact that she was Sailor Moon. At the place, the fans were watching a movie with the Three Lights in it. Three monsters strapped the Three Lights to their seats, as


Siren was releasing sleeping gas to the fans. Siren appoarched Serena and called her Sailor Moon. She said that Serena had to give up her star seed in order for the Three Lights to live. Rei, Amy, Lita, and Mina came and attacked Sailor Stewardess. Serena couldn't do anything because she didn't want the Three Lights see her as Sailor Moon. Siren grabbed Serena's locket, but it was so powerful that Siren had to let go. Seiya ripped himself out of the seat and transformed into Starfighter. The other two transformed as the Sailor Stewardess came to attack them. Rei, Amy, Lita, and Mina saw everything and were shocked. Starhealer told the girls to escape, but they just transformed. Sailor Moon turned the sailors back into humans. Sirenwas outnumbered, so she left. She returned a really pissed Galaxia and made up an excuse. One of Galaxia's Scouts came and said Siren was lying. Galaxia immediately took Siren's bracelets, and Siren died. Tin Nyanko, another evil scout, and Lead Crow took her place.

Chibi Chibi was walking around and saw a pink butterfly. She followed it to a lake where there were more pink butterflies. She walked into the lake. She was walking on top of the surface! Althrough the time the Star Lights appeared, they were determined to find some princess. They don't say which princess, so it gets you wondering. The Three Lights smell a certain fragrance from Chibi Chibi and Serena, and the fragrance was the one of the princess. Chibi Chibi found a


pink butterfly and chased it. She eventually sat down beside a tree and took out a censor. Yaten and Taiki were behind her and chased her, wanting to get the censor. The girls saw them and defended Chibi Chibi from them. The Three Lights were talking about the fragrance coming from Chibi Chibi when a pink butterfly came flying around them. Lead Crow was beating up the Sailor Scouts. She was too powerful for them. The Star Lights appeared. Sailor Moon had a star seed, and she gave it up. There was suddenly a blast and then a capsule from Crow's bracelets came crashing down. It broke, and it formed a black hole. Chibi Chibi, Serena, and Serena's star seed were sucked into it. The black hole blewup. The princess appeared, holding Serena in her arms. The Princess (whose name translated to English would be Princess Fireball) was talking about a holy war going on in the galaxy for a long time, known as the Sailor Wars. The Sailor Scouts (from all over the galaxy) had always fought off evil, but one Sailor Scout sealed the chaos, the cause of the evil. But the chaos reappeared (I guess since Queen Beryl broke out of Negaverse to destroy the Moon Kingdom so long ago). Galaxia wanted to collect star seeds to put the gallaxy in a state of chaos. The Starlights said that they could return to their planet to save it, but the Princess said they shouldn't. She said that they should stay and help


fight off Galaxia. She said that they had to find a light ofhope to fight of Galaxia. The Princess and the Star Lights walked off.

Galaxia noticed Lead Crow's energy gone. She also noticed there was a lot of energy on Earth. She decided to do something about it.

Seiya reveals why he is a boy in regular form and a girl as a scout. He said that he needed to find a girl, so he became a boy to get the princess. He said the only reason why they had a band was to help find the princess. So, really they were girls to begin with. Lita, Ami, and Mina become Serena's bodyguards. They didn't leave Serena at all. They finally gave her a few minutes to herself. Serenawent to the roof of the high school. Remember Tin Nyanko, that evil dude? Well, this guy did not vanish! She attacked Serena on the roof. Serena turned into Sailor Moon and hits her with her power. Tin Nyanko manages to get to safety, but she isn't really ok. Half of her is black, and the other white.

The group finds out Darien never made it to America. Serena is really disturbed by this. The Three Lights have their final concert. Tin Nyanko appeared and demanded to get the star seed. Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and the princess confronted her. Tin Nyanko got beat up bad when Sailor Moon showed up. She returned to Galaxia, and Galaxia took her bracelet. Galaxia came to the stage and started to throw


blasts at the princess. The Princess had a force field, but she was no match to Galaxia's power. Galaxia got the princess' star seed. When the princess was dying, she said for the Star Lights to combine their powers. When Sailor Chibi Chibi held the princess' hand, the princess felt warmth. The princess died.

Galaxia made a statement on TV saying she was going to take over the planet. Sailor Mercury located Galaxia at a TV station. The Star Lights went after Galaxia. They said their duty was to the protect the princess, but they couldn't do that. They had nothing else to live for. They would seek revenge on Galaxia. When they got their, Galaxia trapped them and sent them to her dimension. The Outer Scouts go tothe TV station, Ginga TV. Chibi Chibi gets really scared, and Serena holds her tight. Serena puts Chibi Chibi down and transforms along with the rest of the girls. They go to Ginga TV. There is a force field around so the Inners can't get in. The Outer Scouts managed to get in and saw what was happening from the TV Control Room. Sailor Mars and Jupiter held Sailor Moon from trying to break in because of the force field. Suddenly a glowing ball appears with Chibi Chibi in the middle of it. Galaxia had been attacking the Star Lights for a good time now, and she was about to finish them off when the glowing ball appeared and the Inner Scouts. Galaxia was going to strike the


Star Lights, but the Inners minus Sailor Moon blocked the power. The Outers were watching it. The star seeds of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus appeared. Uranus said the glitter of those four planets was fading. Galaxia took the star seeds. Galaxia shows Sailor Moon a gold star seed that was from Earth. Sailor Moon figures Darien was dead.

Galaxia said that everyone had star seeds, but the one's of Sailor Scouts would glitter forever. There is a flashback to when the airplane Darien was on. When the plane got hit by the light, it went into another dimension. Tuxedo Mask went to face Galaxia on one of the plane's wings. Galaxia stole his star seed. In other words, Tuxedo Mask is the Sailor Scout of Earth. As hewas dying, he told Galaxia of the Sailor Scouts on Earth. Galaxia was going to blast Sailor Moon and Starfighter when there was a blast of light. Sailor Moon woke up from it and saw Sailor Saturn and Sailor Pluto. They were somewhere in Ginga TV. Sailor Uranus and Neptune were there too. Sailor Chibi Chibi was sleeping. The Star Lights were there also. Neptune and Uranus were going to face Galaxia. Saturn and Pluto ran off. Galaxia appeared and Uranus used her space sword, but Galaxia grabbed it and tossed Uranus. She blasted Uranus annd Neptune, but her next attempt was blocked by Saturn's silent wall. Chibi Chibi wakes up and goes to the Star Lights. She tries to say "Not left?". The Outer Scouts were battling


Galaxia when she told them it was her who revived Neherenia, the enemy from Super S. She did that because she knew Saturn would come back so she could get the star seeds. Before killin the Outers, she offered an option. Galaxia said that they could have the bracelets she wore and live for eternality, even without their star seeds. Saturn and Pluto decided not to quickly. Uranus and Neptune decided to go along with it. They wanted to be together, eevn if it meant spending eternality in you know where. Galaxia blasted them, and got their star seeds. Then Sailor Galaxia put bracelets on them. They attacked Saturn and Pluto, and it took awhile for them to realize that Uranus and Neptune were fighting for real. Finally,Saturn and Pluto closed their eyes and took the hit of power. They got their star seeds taken, and eventually died. Uranus and Neptune were ordered by Galaxia to get Sailor Moon's star seed. Sailor Moon couldn't believe what she was seeing. Her old friends were suddenly evil Scouts in front of her. All of a sudden, Sailor Moon is in a dream like place and the Outer Scouts tell her it is an act to destroy the enemy. Darien and Renie appear in it also. Darien said the fighting was over. She returns to reality, finding out nothing changed, the fighting wasn't over. Uranus slapped Sailor Moon and called the Star Lights losers for not protecting their princess. Galaxia came back and asked Sailor Moon if she


gave up hope. Being Sailor Moon, she didn't. The city, meanwhile, was getting very dark and was getting destroyed. Uranus and Neptune were going to get Sailor Moon's star seed, but their eyes, which hazy, became normal. They turned around and attacked Galaxia, hoping for her star seed to pop out. Nothing came out. Galaxia took their bracelets, and they fell, fading away. The Star Lights, Sailor Chibi Chibi, and Sailor Moon were the only Scouts left. Galaxia decided to take the star seeds herself, and she throws some power, but the Star Lights take the blast.

Sailor Moon was finally starting to give up. She wanted to see her friends. Starfighter came and talked her into continuing. The Star Lights say to Sailor Moon that when she givesup and attacked Galaxia. Galaxia mentioned the Star Lights abondoning their planet, which got the Lights pretty ticked. The more the Star Lights attacked, the stronger each attack became. Galaxia dropped down to the ground with blood dripping. She was injured. She got back at the Lights by sticking her sword into the ground. Sailor Moon kept on trying to talk Galaxia out of it, but it didn't work. Galaxia said she created the future of the galaxy and she should be treated like a god. Sailor Moon tried her power on her, but Galaxia quickly recovered. She blasted the Star Lights one last time, and Sailor Moon's star seed came out. The star seed was no match for Galaxia though. Sailor Moon's suit disappeared and theonly thing


covering her body were the red ribbions of power.

There is a flashback yet again. Galaxia is thinking about what she did when she sealed chaos in her body. She knew then it would tak over her body. So she took her star seed and sent it to a place where she wouldn't find it. The flashback ends. Galaxia raised her sword to finish Sailor Moon, and Sailor Chibi Chibi starts praying.

Sailor Chibi Chibi starts praying

A light comes around Sailor Chibi Chibi. Galaxia becomes scared, for she fears of it to be the light that can defeat her. Sailor Moon's star seed returned to her. Chibi Chibi is in a pool of light. Galaxia wonders if it is the light of hope awakening.

The rest of the info occurs onepisode #200, the last Sailor Moon episode

There are rings of light coming out of Chibi Chibi. There is a big blast, Sailor Chibi Chibi is the source. A girl with wings (grown up Chibi Chibi) came and started to talk to Sailor Moon. She said she was the glitter of Galaxia's star. A pink butterfly flew to Sailor Moon and she turned into Princess Serenity. The star seed turned into a sword similar to Galaxia's. Chibi Chibi said that Princess Serenity should defeat Galaxia. Princess Serenity grew wings out of her back. She floated, and Galaxia crashed to the ground. Sailor Galaxia's outfit turned into a black outfit. Galaxia grew black wings on her back and attacked with hersword, but Serenity blocked it. Galaxia said she had to


put a end to the Sailor Wars by getting rid of the glitter of stars. From the momment she sealed chaos into her body, it started to take over it. She sent her star seed away and it found it's way to Sailor Moon. Chibi Chibi was that star seed. Chibi Chibi said it was too late to save Galaxia. Serenity stabbed Galaxia's wing. Galaxia shattered Serenity's sword. Chibi Chibi floated unconsious in front of Serenity. Serenity's star seed glowed even more than before and Serenity flied to Galaxia. Galaxia was overpowering Serenity. Serenity says that she thinks the piece of hope is in Galaxia's heart. All of a sudden, in an alternate dimension, Galaxia had long gold and red hair. She was in a field of flowers.Back to reality, Serenity keeps on saying she won't give up, she won't lose hope. She got close to Galaxia, and Galaxia's sword shatters. Serenity takes Galaxia's hand, and the chaos leaves Galaxia's body. She was turned into the real Galaxia. They are floating in the sky together. Serenity's glow lit up the galaxy. Galaxia freed the star seeds she collected. The Sailor Scouts appear around Serenity. (Look for that webring picture that has the scouts surrounding Sailor Moon) Two more star seeds appear. Darien comes with Chibi Chibi. She hugs him, and Chibi Chibi says in a babish way, "thank you". She vanishes. The angel of the princess whodied comes back to the Star Lights.

Later, the five girls, Luna, Artumus, Star Lights, and the princess are on


a roof. The sun is setting. Seiya says something to Serena, but she misinterupts. The Star Lights and the princess go back to their home planet. Later, Serena asks Darien if he loves her. He says he does, and they kiss.

"I'm Tsukino Usagi, 16 years old, in first year of high school. I'm a little clumsy, and a little bit of a cry baby. But actually, I'm the fighter for love and justice, Sailor Moon,"many times do you get to write a sentence with three "Q" words in a row?): Do you know who Father Coughlin was?

Coughlin was a Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest; in the 1920s, he began working at a parish in Detroit. Almost as a novelty, he began doing radio broadcasts in 1926, giving a local weekly on-air sermon. These broadcasts grew in popularity…and started taking on subjects other than religion. As the broadcasting medium grew – and, following the Wall Street Crash of ’29 – his radio sermons became a nation-wide source of comfort and inspiration to a country trying to make it through tough times. And he continued to morph his "sermons" from religious teaching to more political and economic philosophizing – and, indeed, even very demanding "preaching."


It was estimated that more than 40 million listeners tuned in to his weekly programs during the 1930s.

The first important, influential political stands that Coughlin took were – ultimately, ironically – in support of first candidate and then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was credited with coining and popularizing the phrase "Roosevelt or ruin"…and he supported FDR through his election and the first few (very active) years of his administration. During much of the 1930s, Coughlin was perhaps the second-most-popular person in the entire country, trailing only the either beloved or despised President.

Father Coughlin's radio support for FDR and the New Deal faded later in 1934, when he founded an organization called the National Union for Social Justice (NUSJ). NUSJ was a nationalistic worker's rights organization that opposedFDR’s economic policies as only supporting the wealthy or established – not the working-class. Charges of anti-Semitism – and growing descriptions of Coughlin as a "fascist" – followed his increasing radio preaching about what he called "the money changers."

As his programs became more openly anti-Semitic – he blamed the horrible 1938 "Kristallnacht" persecution in Germany on its Jewish victims – some radio stations (including those in New York and Chicago) began limiting or even cancelling his shows unless his scripts were pre-approved. These statements and the resulting reactions even made Coughlin a hero in Nazi Germany; he also made multiple speeches that attempted to rationalize policies being enacted by Hitler and Mussolini.

Coughlin’s fall was both gradual, then sudden. His support of a group called the Christian Front backfired


in 1940, when the group was busted by the FBI over a plot "to murder Jews, communists, and a dozen Congressmen." He was not directly linked to the scheme, but he continued to speak in their support. And, after Pearl Harbor, his continued isolationist, right-wing stands were seen as being in direct opposition to what the vast majority of Americans (AND their government) saw as the vitally needed next steps.

As it became more difficult to get his broadcasts – or even written statements via his publications or the US mail – out to his dwindling number of followers, the Catholic Church decided they had had enough as well. In 1942, Coughlin’s bishop demanded he completely stop his political activities and limit himself to – once again – simplybeing a parish priest. He complied – and remained the local pastor there until retiring in 1966. He turned down all interview requests after that (although he occasionally wrote anti-Communist pamphlets), and died a nearly-completely-forgotten figure at the age of 88 in 1979.

Coughlin is thought of as one of the major demagogues of the 20th century – because he gathered a deep core of followers and attempted to influence politics merely through his broadcasts. He never ran for or held political office…although he founded a short-lived third party and supported a failed candidate in the 1936 Presidential election.

So…a radio demagogue…clearly racist and probably fascist…never offers himself to voters, so they can make their choices about him…opposing – with his inconsequential, coded, and blatantly over-the-top words – a popular


West African heads urge Mali to act over militants

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - West African leaders urged Mali’s politicians on Saturday to urgently form a national unity government and request U.N. backing for troops from the ECOWAS regional bloc to help in the fight against al Qaeda-linked militants occupying the north.

Once seen as an example of African democracy, Mali was plunged into chaos in March after troops toppled the president, leaving a power vacuum that enabled separatist Tuareg rebels, back by Islamists, to seize nearly two-thirds of the country.

The Salafist Ansar Dine and other militant groups have since hijacked the uprising and now control Mali’s desert north, which includes the regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu where historic and religious sites have been destroyed in recent days by the Islamists.

Westincluding a plurality of self-luminous pixels, a DC/DC converter serving as a power supply for supplying power to the self-luminous display unit and including a series circuit of a changeover switch connected at an input terminal thereof to a DC power supply and serving as changeover means which is controlled for changing over with a changeover control signal and a plurality of choke coils having first terminals connected to corresponding ones of changeover contacts of the changeover switch and second terminals connected to each other and having inductance values different from each other, a transistor connected at a collector terminal and an emitter terminal thereof between a node between the choke coils of the series circuit and the ground, a rectifying diode having an anode terminal connected to


Ellis' successful music career ended abruptly.  He lost his hearing.  Permanent nerve damage.

4
Focus for Employees, 1976.  As this excerpt from a federal employees' newsletter succinctly explains, Ellis has had an almost total hearing loss since sometime prior to 1970.  In 1971, Ellis successfully filed a claim for Social Security benefits, and began receiving disability payments effective September 30, 1970.

5
In 1976 Ellis became a federal government employee in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).  That employment continued until 1983, when Ellis was discharged for absenteeism.  Ellis filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and is pursuing an employment discrimination claim against the federal government and some of its employees.  He also filed the instant application for social securitydisability benefits.

6
Ellis's application for disability benefits was denied and he appealed.  After a hearing an Administrative Law Judge awarded disability benefits retroactive to 1970 and supplemental security benefits from date of filing.  The Social Security Appeals Council reversed the ALJ's award of disability benefits.  Ellis sought judicial review.  The district court upheld the decision of the Appeals Council and Ellis appealed to this court.Analysis

7
The claim for disability benefits as awarded by the ALJ must be divided into three discrete periods.  The first period began September 30, 1970, when Ellis first began receiving disability payments, and continued until February 28, 1977, when payments terminated upon Ellis commencing substantial, gainful employment as an HEW employee.  It is manifest that the Appeals Council correctly ruled


Association ("ALPA"), the union which represented Western's flight deck personnel. On Western's wide-bodied aircraft (DC-10's) the second officer is the third member of the flight deck crew and is equivalent to a flight engineer, as that term is employed *388 by the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA").
Captain Criswell's bid was rejected by Western, not because there were no second officer openings or because none were contemplated or for any other reason normally associated with consideration of bids by flight deck personnel, but solely because he was approaching age 60 and because Western had a policy which required all flight deck personnel to retire at age 60.
Plaintiff Starley was also involuntarily retired by Western at age 60 in July 1978. The circumstances of his retirement, however, are even more explicitlyage-related and deserve recounting because they clearly indicate that Western, beyond any doubt, has enforced a mandatory retirement rule at age 60 for all flight deck personnel.
Starley had been employed by Western as a pilot or copilot for 32 years and had been a DC-10 captain for the last five years prior to his retirement. One year prior to his sixtieth birthday, Captain Starley learned that Western would soon have DC-10 second officer openings, resulting from the acquisition of new aircraft. After discussing the matter with Western's Vice President for Flight Operations, Captain Starley, in September 1977, submitted a bid for a DC-10 second officer position. In the following month, the bid was actually awarded to Captain Starley and he discussed with Western personnel the training normally given


by Western to flight deck personnel who move from one position to another. In February 1978, Western changed its position and, claiming that the position had been awarded to him in error, informed Captain Starley that he would be retired at age 60, which was the normal retirement age set forth in its pilot pension plan negotiated with ALPA.
Plaintiff Ron, whose sixtieth birthday was in June 1978, is a "career" second officer with Western, neither having been required to nor chosen to advance to first officer (copilot) or captain (pilot). He has been employed by Western since 1945 and as flight engineer or second officer since 1954. He, too, discussed staying on with Western with its management personnel and in December 1977 gave Western written notice of hisintention to remain past his sixtieth birthday in his then position of DC-10 second officer. In February 1978, Western informed Ron, as it had Starley, that he would be retired at the normal retirement age of 60 under the pilot pension plan.
As indicated earlier, a preliminary injunction was issued in Ron's favor, prohibiting Western from terminating his employment as a second officer pending the outcome of this lawsuit. Plaintiff Ron has, thus, continued to fly the line for Western as a DC-10 second officer during the two and one-half years between the commencement and trial of this action. He has continued to perform all of the normal duties of DC-10 second officer on both domestic and international flights efficiently, without untoward incident and without any complaint from flight


officers.
As might be expected, testimony on this subject was conflicting. Western relied primarily on the expert opinion of a former FAA Deputy Federal Air Surgeon. His testimony was that the onset of at least certain diseases is age-related, that with advancing age the likelihood of onset of disease increases and that in persons over age 60 it could not be predicted whether and when such diseases would occur. In particular, he was concerned with the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, such as a miocardial infarction, in flight.
On the other hand, plaintiffs' experts, a medical doctor of aerospace medicine and aging and a professor of psychiatry, specializing in the psychology of aging, cognition and gerontology, testified to the contrary. In their opinion, physiological deterioration is not caused by noraircraft the flight engineer sits at his own instrument panel. His function during normal flight is to monitor and adjust a number of the systems which are necessary to the operation of the aircraft, such as the hydraulic and electrical systems. He does not manipulate the flight controls. Thus, his normal duties are less critical to the safety of flight than those of a pilot. He does have important contingency duties in emergency situations, such as an all-engine flameout. Even if the flight engineer were to become incapacitated in flight, the crew redundancy concept employed by Western and other carriers provides for other members of the flight deck crew to perform the necessary procedures of the flight engineer until the aircraft can be landed at the nearest available


to second officer, as well as downbids within status. Of special significance to this case is Western's policy, instituted in 1975, of medical downgrades. Under this policy a captain or second officer who cannot hold a FAA first class medical certificate but can hold a second class medical certificate is permitted to continue flying the line as a second officer. Four pilots have been downgraded by Western under this policy including a DC-10 captain who became a second officer at age 56. Downgrades also have occurred as a result of "displacements," which are caused by curtailment of flights and flying time and consequent downward "bumping" by senior pilots whose flights have been cancelled. Testimony indicated that at least on one occasion a displaced DC-10 captain who was highFootball Needs to Protect Its Integrity

The spectacle of a police raid at the Italian national team's training camp days on the eve of the start of the European Football Championship today and the arrest of top players for alleged match-fixing was a sorry indictment of the state of football. If the stars of the game can't play by the rules what message does this send to the billions of fans and millions of players, coaches and referees worldwide?

Football needs to keep its integrity to preserve its popularity. The essence of competitive sport is that you don't know the result at the start. If you lose that, you lose everything that makes a fan's heart beat faster and a player fight hard. But you also lose an important opportunity


to show the youth of the world that fair play and 100 per cent effort - plus luck sometimes - win the day. It is one of life's most important lessons.

There are two types of match fixing, one for sporting reasons and one for betting reasons. The first usually occurs at the end of a season when teams face relegation or have nothing to play for. This has, in some countries, become a tradition with people inside and outside football also seeing it as an opportunity to bet on the sport.

Match fixing for betting is usually the domain of organised crime, either on a small scale or transnationally. Online betting has changed the scope of this type of match-fixing. Today billions of dollars are in play every dayritualer vid viktiga affärsuppgörelser till tron på snabba självhjälpslösningar.

De som forskar på vad livskvalitet egentligen är kommer hela tiden fram till samma grundläggande sanning: de som inte känner att de har _kontroll_ över sina liv är både mindre framgångsrika och effektiva och mår sämre än de som känner att de har kontroll. Mitt mål är därför att ge dig så många verktyg jag kan för att du ska kunna ta kontroll över så många olika områden av ditt liv som möjligt.

Om du lär dig att bemästra ett eller flera av de områden som finns i den här boken kommer du att upptäcka att titeln inte bara är pretentiös marknadsföring. Du kommer att upptäcka att du faktiskt _har_ mentala superkrafter. Jag vill dock vara noga med att påpeka att


steg innan breven nådde sina mål! Milgram hade rätt: Världen är betydligt mindre än vi tror. Hur otroligt det än verkar är du i genomsnitt bara sex vänner ifrån en zooföreståndare i Kina – eller Barack Obama. Och förmodligen är du ännu närmare han eller hon som du bara fick en skymt av på trottoaren igår men som stal ditt hjärta, och som du undrar om du någonsin kommer att se igen. Med största sannolikhet var det i själva verket kompisen till en av dina kompisars kompisar.

Du är också sex steg ifrån Kevin Bacon. Därav det populära sällskapsspelet _Six degrees of Kevin Bacon_ , där det gäller att para ihop andra kända människor med Kevin Bacon i max sex steg. Tack vare sökmotorerna på internet går det intekommunikationsproblem, och en stor del av det består i vår bild av dess utövare. Det leder till att vi lekmän inte tar till oss kunskap som skulle kunna göra tillvaron enklare för oss. Ta en sådan sak som vårt centrala nervsystem – det har studerats i hundratals år och vi lär oss fortfarande mer och mer. Ändå finns det kvar uråldriga och omoderna uppfattningar om hur vår hjärna fungerar, som att vi bara använder 10 procent av hjärnan eller att vårt medvetande kan vistas utanför vår egen kropp. Vi hade för länge sen förstått att det inte stämmer om vi bara hade tyckt att killarna i de vita rockarna var värda att lyssna på lite mer.

Vi tar alltså inte till oss vetenskapen så mycket som vi kanske borde.


det bara inte kunde stämma berodde det nog på att du räknade på oddsen för att någon skulle ha samma födelsedag som en specifik person med en viss födelsedag, istället för att inse hur många olika kombinationer det fanns på festen: I en grupp på tjugotre personer finns det tvåhundrafemtiotre möjliga par. Sannolikheten att någon i ett par ska ha födelsedag på en viss dag är 1 på 365. Det gäller förstås för båda i paret. Och med tvåhundrafemtiotre möjliga par blir chansen att någon ska ha födelsedag samtidigt betydligt större än 50 procent. En otrolig slump förvandlas till en statistisk trolighet.

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Varför blir vi då imponerade av våra "omöjliga" upplevelser så till den grad att de får oss att tro att det måste ligga mystiskain the state political machine he would look good for the big campaign.

He would. Fighting corruption wins votes. It helped Thomas Dewey become the gov 80 years ago. He put his name in lights by nailing big-time crooks. As a federal and state prosecutor. He still basked in that reputation when he ran for the presidency.

He ran against Harry Truman. Truman was a little-known senator. Until he led a committee that exposed crooks among wartime contractors. Without the publicity, it is possible he would have remained as “Harry who?” to Roosevelt. He might never have been ordained vice-president.

Good luck with this, Gov. If you want to dig into muck you can send guys to the stables at Aqueduct. Or to the stables known as the state legislature. You


Present status of residency training in mammography.
We conducted a telephone interview of all 207 accredited diagnostic radiology residency training programs listed in the American Medical Association's Directory of Graduate Medical Education Programs. Resident training in mammography was offered in 206 programs, and 35% of the programs had initiated this training within the past 3 years. Residents had an assigned block of time to do mammography in 84% of the programs. Of the 206 programs, 40% had rotations devoted exclusively to mammography, with 82% of the exclusive rotations lasting from 4 to 8 weeks. Residents were performing localization procedures in 91% of the programs and dictating cases in 81%. A distinction was made between screening and diagnostic examinations by 35% of the training institutions, at least in terms ofFLORIDA — At least two people were taken to the hospital after gunshots rang out at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach Sunday night.

The scene is at 4441 Collins Avenue.

There was a heavy police presence and helicopters were seen in the area. Witness photos showed crime scene tape in the lobby of the business.

It was unclear if a suspect was in custody—-a motive for the crime was not known.

This is the scene outside of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach – https://t.co/yfy4OaiL9e pic.twitter.com/SbHqC5AiIt — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 8, 2017

This is the scene outside of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach – https://t.co/yfy4OaiL9e pic.twitter.com/SbHqC5AiIt — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 8, 2017

BREAKING: 2 people shot at @Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach – Police — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 8, 2017

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Course Descriptions - Listed by Department

ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, & RECONCILIATION STUDIES

ANT241UZ • Peoples and Cultures of Africa (3
credits)

Comparative
ethnography of contemporary African societies and cultures with particular
reference to the Sub-Saharan region. Examination of Africa’s geography and
historical context. Topics include: politics and economies of the region,
population and urbanization, social institutions, women’s issues, the family,
and religion. Prerequisites: GES130 (may be taken concurrently) or GES244 (may
be taken concurrently).

ART

ART103A • Drawing (3
credits)

Development of visual perception through observation, drawing, and
a study of structural form and space relationships. Experiences in line, value,
texture, basic perspective, and composition using various materials and
techniques.

BIBLICAL
AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

BIB101  Introduction to the Bible (3
credits)

Traces the
journey of God’ people from Abraham and Sarah through the New Testament church,
highlighting the unifying self-disclosure of God in the various cultures and
types of writing of the OldSpecific technologies such as
Facebook, Instant Messenger, text-messaging, and video games are evaluated for
their effect on users.

COM213  Media
Communication (3
credits)

An overview of
mass media industries, including print, broadcast, cable, film, and the
internet. Survey of media history, functions, and impacts on society.

COM310K Communication,
Technology, and Society (3
credits)

An examination of the impact communication
technology has on communication and society. Evaluation and exploration of
technologies such as digital media, the internet, email, chat rooms, and other
emerging technologies. Analysis of the ethical and spiritual implications and
applications of these technologies. Prerequisites: Laboratory Science (D)
course, Mathematics (M) course.

COM314G  Gender
Communication (3
credits)

Examination of
the force of rhetoric on historical and social movements since 1800. Concentrates
on movements that cross gender lines and impact modern men and women. Studies
religious revivals and Christian action groups as related to the sweep of
history. Considers gender differences


symptoms, and treatment of various forms of psychopathology. Analysis
of Christian and secular perspectives of psychopathology and a survey of some
major issues in the field of mental health. Prerequisite: PSY100.

PSY315 • History of
Psychology (3
credits)

Historical roots
of contemporary psychology. Focus is on the influence of historical trends,
people, and events on the evolution of psychological questions, constructs,
methods, and issues from the early Greeks to the present. Prerequisites:
PSY100; GES130 or GES145, 146; junior or senior standing.

Understanding issues pertaining to the nature and occurrence of
psychological disorders during childhood and adolescence, including topics such
as classification, developmental context, etiology, and treatment. Critical
evaluation of contemporary theory and research, including conceptualizations,
methodologies, and statistical approaches.

PSY493  Psychology Internship and Seminar (4
credits)

A professionally supervised,
applied learning experience in the work world. The senior internship includes a
seminar component in which students meet1622 or not even born in New France at all depending on what source is checked.

The next likely child who would have been the first born would have been the child of Anne Hebert and her husband Etienne Jonquet born in 1620. According to Samuel Champlain Anne Hebert died in child birth previous to 1620 and with no further mention of her child it was presumed stillborn. So this takes us back to Helene.

The historian Benjamin Sulte (1841-1923)1 maintains that Guillemette Hebert was the first born Canadienne because he assumed that Marie Rollet had come to Acadia with her husband Louis Hebert in 1606 but this has been refuted and she is said to have come from Paris in 1617.

It is believed that Helene's father, Pierre came to


New France with Abraham Martin (as in The Plains of Abraham) who was married to Marguerite Langlois, the sister of Pierre's wife, Francois Langlois. Pierre could read and write and held some standing in the community. He signed on behalf of the inhabitants of New France in appeal to the King of France. .

When Helene and Guillaume Hebert's marriage contract was drawn up in 16342 her parents did not sign as witnesses. They had 3 children, one who died in infancy. Joseph, born 16363 and Francoise, born 16384

Helene's husband Guillaume died in 16395 and she married Noel Morin. He was a wheelwright and became one of the early pioneers of Montmagny.
Their son, Germain was consecrated to the priesthood in September, 1665, making him the first Canadienne born priest.Their daughter Marie became the first Canadienne born nun. And their other son Jean Baptiste was member of the Conseil Souverain, political body appointed by the King of France, chosen as a part of French nobility.6
There have been many firsts in my family history. I believe I am the first to blog.

On any given day I think I must pass someone, somewhere, maybe on the street, in a car....someone who is related to my big French/Metis family. So nice to hear from you no matter how distant a relative.


2016 -- the same day that the

parties filed the pretrial order -- Appellees filed a motion to exclude in-court testing of

the bike on the grounds that the condition of the bike might have changed since the

accident. That should have been a clear indication to Appellants that the condition of the

bike might be an issue at trial.      Second, Appellants should have realized that the

condition of the bike might be an issue at trial when the condition of the bike did, in fact,

change.

       Appellants alone possessed the bike during the five years between the accident and

the trial. At some point during those five years, the position of the barrel at the end of the

rear brake cable and the position                        e. Explanation

       Finally, Appellees had an unimpeachable explanation for their failure to identify

the issue in the pretrial order: the bike was in Appellants’ custody. Before the trial began,

Appellees had no reason to suspect that its condition had changed. As soon as Appellees

did have reason to suspect the condition of the bike had changed, they raised the issue.

       The balance of the factors weighs in favor of Appellees. Accordingly, the district

court did not abuse its discretion by allowing Appellees to present evidence regarding the

change in the condition of the bike.


spoliation instruction came after the second day of trial, when Appellees’ expert

“inspect[ed] the bike to assess its current condition” and observed that the brake was

more difficult to squeeze at that time than it was at the time of his initial inspection. J.A.

339. Appellees’ expert also noticed that the orientation of the handlebars had changed

since the time of his initial inspection. At the time of his initial inspection, the bike

“[was] in a permanent left-turn position” -- when the handlebars were positioned at a 90

degree angle from the body of the bike, the front wheel was askew at about a 45 degree

angle. Id. In contrast, on the morning of the second day of trial, the wheel was directly

aligned with the body of the bike.

      Record-breaking 30,000 student bed spaces provided in 2017 (GB)

A record number of new student accommodation bed spaces (30,000) have been delivered in 2017, taking the total number of purpose-built spaces available to 602,000.

Cushman & Wakefield’s UK Student Accommodation Report 2017/18 looks at the student accommodation market across the UK, including demand and supply of new developments. While the numbers of newly delivered en-suite and studio spaces have both increased significantly, the supply of studio rooms has increased by 106% since 2014.

Overall rents per bed space in student accommodation increased 2.9% between academic years 2016/17 and 2017/18, marginally above the 2.7% seen during the same period in the previous year, indicating the sustained health of the student accommodation market as a whole. However, there were significant variations across the


UK as well as by type and sector.

In Manchester, which has the largest student population outside of London, annual studio rents increased by 5% despite the number of studio beds rising 61% thanks to tight restrictions on development. In Glasgow, however, the number of studio beds increased 29%, while annual rents decreased by 2%. En-suite rents have increased by the most in Birmingham and Bristol (4%), followed by Edinburgh, Manchester and Nottingham (3%). En-suite rents are highest in London, at an average cost of €221.2 (£195) per week. In Manchester, they average €161.1 (£142) per week but the cheapest average weekly rent of the cities surveyed was in Sheffield - €136.1 (£120) per week.

The private sector continues to offer the most expensive accommodation in the market, with averagethat spurred interest in long-distance bicycle travel. More than 4,000 people rode their bikes coast to coast on the TransAmerica Trail that year.

An Eastern Washington state legislator is back pedaling on his scheme to close 130 miles of the John Wayne Pioneer Trail and turn it over to private landowners after a public hearing in Tekoa on Wednesday.

Republican Rep. Joe Schmick, at a public meeting with the Tekoa Trail & Trestle Association, agreed to set up …

The attempt by two eastern Washington state legislators to give away 130 miles of public rail-trail to adjacent private landowners is raising more public awareness to the possibilities for the John Wayne Pioneer Trail. [See “Proposed land grab threatens eastern John Wayne Pioneer Trail“]

A tradition for tandem cyclists dating back to 1988,


suddenly illiquid. And the credit derivative hedges and leveraged bets layered upon them magnified the problem throughout the entire banking system, creating the financial collapse that plunged most of the world into recession.

In China, a number of smaller banks are now trying to do the same thing.

"China’s financial system could be vulnerable to a Lehman Brothers-style collapse," the FT says. The FT's article is based on this report from the IMF, published in August.

Normally, banks get their funding for loans from customers' retail deposits. This is a stable source of funds because people rarely close or move their bank accounts, and their salaries are often deposited directly into them on a regular basis. The funding is "sticky," as the FT describes it.

But some Chinese banks have been generating1Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA2Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA


made, for instance, a couple hundred attempts to contact the command for information, comment, and clarification while working on an article about criminal acts and untoward behavior by U.S. troops in Africa — sexual assaults, the shooting of an officer by an enlisted man, drug use, sex with prostitutes, a bar crawl that ended in six deaths. Dozens of phone calls to public affairs personnel went unanswered, countless email requests were ignored. At one point, I called Benson, the AFRICOM media chief, 32 times on a single business day from a phone line that identified me by name. He never picked up. I then placed a call from another number so that my identity would be concealed. He answered on the second ring. Once I identified myself, heThe thesis makes a contribution to the study of the history of modern Scotland, and examines
the history of an ethno-religious community in Scotland's capital. It also adds to British-Jewish
historiography. The study commences with a brief outline of the origins of Edinburgh
Jewry, before proceeding to an account beginning with the arrival of thousands of Jewish
immigrants in the latter half of the nineteenth-century, and concluding with the decline of the
community which marked the period after the Second World War. The thesis has three main
aims: firstly, it seeks to illuminate the circumstances in which Jewish immigrants to the city
found themselves in the period 1880-1914; secondly, it aims to explore the manner in which
this community adapted and integrated into Edinburgh society in the following decades; and
thirdly, it seeks to evaluate the nature


of Jewish/non-Jewish interactions throughout the
period under discussion. While the focus of the study is to a large extent 'local,' it is intended
that the national and international connections of the community under study do not go
unacknowledged.
The thesis proceeds in a largely chronological format. A strong thematic element will
also be apparent, broaching such topics as: Jewish economic activity, education and social
mobility, religion and culture, and issues of assimilation and acculturation. The majority of
the thesis is concerned with a period spanning some 70 years, during which time there was
mass emigration from Russia, technological advancement in transport and in all walks of life,
two world wars, and genocide targeting Europe's Jews. It is necessary, therefore, to
incorporate these events in a manner relevant to the study. The thesis uses a wide variety of
source material,in liaison with the US Department of Defense, started his research on weather modification in the late 1940s at the height of the Cold War and foresaw ‘forms of climatic warfare as yet unimagined’. During the Vietnam war, cloud-seeding techniques were used, starting in 1967 under Project Popeye, the objective of which was to prolong the monsoon season and block enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

The US military has developed advanced capabilities that enable it selectively to alter weather patterns. The technology, which was initially developed in the 1990s under the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), was an appendage of the Strategic Defense Initiative – ‘Star Wars’. From a military standpoint, HAARP –which was officially abolished in 2014– is a weapon of mass destruction,


Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, debate on weather modification for military use has become a scientific taboo.

Military analysts and scientists are mute on the subject. Meteorologists are not investigating the matter and environmentalists are largely focussing on greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. The possibility of climatic or environmental manipulations as part of a military and intelligence agenda, while tacitly acknowledged, is not part of the broader debate on climate change under UN auspices.

While discussion of the post Cold War military applications of weather warfare is a taboo, the US Air Force has nonetheless acknowledged the strategic importance of ENMOD techniques in the modern battlefield of non-conventional warfare and intel ops, including the conduct, without the enemy’s knowledge, ofa nation” without the deployment of troops and military hardware.

The following text, with the exception of some small edits was first published in September 2004.

This essay is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Rosalie Bertell, who, from the very outset revealed the diabolical nature of the HAARP project, as part of an integrated non-conventional weapons program:

“It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere. … HAARP is an integral part of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate military nature. The military implications of combining these projects is alarming. … The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver very large amounts of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth


are so broad. This time, I have researched for several hours to write this, but it turned out that most of part is not related with the answer. I think I am going to leave the information I collected this time below for people who are interested this topic.
The following explanation is not based on formal study, but I believe this point of view is shared as a common sense among Japanese people.
History of Japanese Loan Words
In my opinion, Japanese loan words might be roughly classified by the Japanese historical eras. Depends of the era when a loan word imported to Japanese language, different pronunciation conversion rule is applied.

Heian era (794 – 1185)
Muromati era (1336 – 1573)
Edo era (1603 – 1868)
Meiji era (1868 – 1912)
Shohwa era (1926 –1989)

Heian era (Kanji)
Japanese imported a great number of loan words from China at Heian era. This group of loan words are playing very important role in the language; these are called 漢字 Kanji.
In spite of the fact that Kanjis are actually loan words, most Japanese people forget about the fact, and consider Kanjis are originated in Japan. I feel very lucky that Chinese government still have not litigated Japanese government due to copyright infringement. So please do not tell this to Japanese people or they will strongly oppose to you.
Muromati ~ Edo era
In Muromati era, a Spanish Christian preacher Francisco de Xavier came to Japan and bring the "good news" to Japanese people. In this era, Japanese government were running trading business between European countries such as Spanish


to visit the United States and an important translator during the Opening of Japan.

ジョン万次郎とその英語
An English Japanese Dictionary which is written by John Banjiro

こーる(cool)
わら(water)
さんれぃ(Sunday)
にゅうよぅ(New York)
エンケレセ(English)
しゃま(summer)
キャア(cat)
ナイ(night)
モヲネン(morning)
イヴネン(evening)
ウィンダ(winter)
コヲル(cold)
ウヱシツ(west)
ゲイ(gate)
ネ(net)
フワザ(Father)
エネ(any)
ソレ(sorry)
センカ(think)
ゼシ(this)
コシチャン(question)
メクダノ(McDonald)
ハマチ(How much?)
ヤロ(yellow)
アー　ユー　カメン？(Are you coming?)
アイ　アム　ゴイン(I am going)
イータ　イシ　エイ　ムーン　ライト　ナイ(It is a moon light night.)

His conversion rule of pronunciation is based on the actual pronunciation of American English, not on its spelling. Some people consider John Manjiro's rule is easier to comprehend to native English speakers than the current standard conversion rule, Hepburn's rule.
Later day, Manjiro's conversion rule was disputed by the Japanese government and the government accepted the Hepburn's rule as standard.
Hepburn's rule
Hepburn's rule is a method to spell Japanese words by alphabet. Hepburn's rule was invented James Curtis Hepburn in 1886. See Romanization of Japanese. Japanese romanization rule is a topic which is so broad. Please readQ:

Were well-connected Germans able to park their sons in Norway during WWII?

Reading Antony Beevor's "The Second World War" he makes the point several times that a peculiar obsession of Hitler's was the defence of Norway and that there were close to half a million German troops kept fairly idle in the region right up to the German surrender in May 1945. He also writes that partisan activity in Norway was minor compared to most of the other occupied territories.
Bearing in mind that - assuming you weren't a fanatical nazi - service elsewhere in the German army from 1942/3 onwards was grim, involving heavy losses, constant instructions to hold hopeless positions and fight to the last man, and with no prospect of anything but certain defeat, was Norway


the perfect posting?
Was this generally (if quietly) acknowledged and is there any evidence that well connected families were able to have their sons posted to Norway?
Edit:
Since posting this I've seen Beevor lecture. He mentioned interviewing at least two wealthy Prussian aristocrats, in old age, for his book about Stalingrad. One of them ran into one of his former tenants in Stalingrad (the tenant says "I used to see you driving past in your Mercedes"). Both peasant and aristrocrat at this point were reduced to ransacking bodies in the mortuary for scraps of food.
Clearly, anecdotally, some of the Prussian nobility, either as a point of honour or because it was unavoidable, were sending their sons to the very worst of the fighting.

A:

The German high command (OKW and OKH)was never of a single mind on anything but, not being privy to the intense pressure applied by Stalin for a second front in France, many high ranking officers believed that the Western Allies would begin the re-conquest of Western Europe by invading Norway and then blocking transport of the Swedish iron ore which were almost as vital to the German war effort as the oil in Ploesti.
This importance in the minds of both Hitler and the Wehrmacht can be seen by tracking number of divisions stationed in Norway over the curse of the war:
Sep. 1940   7
Mar. 1941   7
Sep. 1941   7
Mar. 1942   8
Sep. 1942  11
Mar. 1943  12
Sep. 1943  13
Mar. 1944  13
Sep. 1944  11
Mar. 1945


13

So while Norway eventually ended up being a safe haven for German soldiers, this was far from a foregone conclusion while the war was in progress.
With a ballpark figure of 10,000 men per division, 500,000 men would be roughly 50 divisions. That figure is out by a factor of 3 to 5 in regards to infantry and armour forces. Naval and Air forces were of course also stationed in Norway, but those were primarily offensive forces engaged in combat against the Murmansk Convoys and, to a lesser extent, the North-West approaches to the British Isles by merchant marine convoys. (The South-West approaches used so extensively during WW I, passing south of Ireland, were unusable for much of WW II because of the vulnerability to air attack from FranceNorth Korea said Friday that the new missile test is a “solemn warning” to “South Korean military warmongers” over its weapons development and plans to hold joint military drills with the U.S.

South Korea’s military said the information about the weapon launched by the North on Thursday shows similarities to the Russian-made Iskander, a short-range missile with nuclear capabilities. A North Korean version of the missile could potentially reach all of South Korea — and the 28,500 U.S. forces stationed there — and would be especially hard to intercept, the military added.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test launch on Thursday, with pictures of him looking through binoculars released by the state media. The leader urged earlier this week to boost the country's defense capabilities and inspected


a new submarine.

KIM JONG UN INSPECTS NEW SUBMARINE IN A BID TO MOUNT PRESSURE ON US TO REVIVE TALKS, REPORT SAYS

Pyongyang’s message comes amid its continued pressure campaign in the wake of the potential nuclear talks with President Trump.

Kim and Trump recently met on the Korean border where they supposedly agreed to continue the dialogue. But despite the promise, the U.S. and North Korean officials have been struggling to set up working-level talks.

Yet while North Korea was particularly harsh toward South Korea in its statement carried by the state media, it also stayed clear of the attacks on the U.S., signaling that the regime still seeks to have a dialogue.

NORTH KOREA'S ECONOMY CONTRACTS BY MOST IN 21 YEARS: REPORT

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo downplayed the significance ofИнформация:Hailing from Clermont Fd (France), Shall Remain distils a sharp and energetic hardcore just like their influences (Death Before Dishonor, Betrayal, Walls of Jericho, Sworn Enemy, First Blood, Reign Supreme).

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Anomalous origin of a coronary artery in a transplanted heart.
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A NSW Liberal MP says the coalition is "secretly hoping Malcolm Turnbull faces a crisis" in the next 12 months so federal issues don't affect the state government's chances of being re-elected in 2019.

Opinion polls suggest the Berejiklian government and Labor are neck-and-neck a year out from the NSW election on March 23 as Opposition Leader Luke Foley attacks the coalition's $2.5 billion stadiums spend.

Upper house Liberal MP Peter Phelps isn't worried about the stadiums spat; he says it won't cost the government a single vote, but is concerned the prime minister's on the nose.

Mr Phelps said many within the party are hoping for a circuit breaker, with the federal election to be called before the state poll.

"Secretly everyone in the coalition is hoping Malcolm faces some sortsame sort of people who would never complain about arts funding," he said.

"It's Mr and Ms Killara who've got their season ticket to the Australian Opera."

Premier Gladys Berejiklian wants voters to allow her government to finish what it's started - specifically its staggering $190 billion infrastructure program.

"We have been playing catch-up and now we are at an exciting crossroads," Ms Berejiklian said in a speech on Friday.

The premier argues the government is "only just getting ahead of the game" and she's counting on voters putting the cost of rebuilding Allianz and ANZ stadiums in context.

Mr Foley has already kicked off a year-long campaign with a tour of the state in a big red bus emblazoned with his catch-cry: "Schools and hospitals before stadiums".

Along with Western Sydney, the ALP


believes the 2019 election will be won in regional NSW.

"Labor wins government when it wins regional seats and we've got more focus on that than we've had for a very long time," a Labor MP told AAP this week.

"We detect a great level of dissatisfaction in the regions with the government. It's about priorities. There's a lot of money in the state and how that is spent ... that's the key contest."

Mr Phelps said the government was unified ahead of the 2019 poll with the Right of the party working "hand in glove" with Ms Berejiklian's moderates.

He says voters appreciate the premier's strong work ethic.

"Her idea of fun is going home and reading an economics textbook and she's extremely competent," he said.

Mr Foley has been attacked for beingclass to Florida employees, adding a claim for quantum meruit, and altering the theory of their breach of contract claim.
Plaintiffs seek to certify a class defined as "All employees of [FedEx] paid on an *1186 hourly basis as nonexempt employees, who were employed in the state of Florida, from the maximum time period preceding the filing of this complaint, as permitted by the statute of limitation, until such time as the Class period closes." The class includes couriers, courier/handlers, service agents, and any other non-exempt employees who are, or were, required during the class period to punch in and out on a manual time clock, but were paid only from their scheduled start time to their scheduled end time. The class also includes employees who worked during unpaid


Victorian clubs inquiring about the services of new Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe have been told they would have to pay more than $1.2 million a season to lure him away from Western Australia.

The Brownlow medallist, who is out of contract at the end of the year, will be the most hunted player in the league, despite being named as David Mundy's successor as captain last week.

$1.2 million man?: Fremantle Docker Nat Fyfe. Credit:Getty Images

While several interested Melbourne clubs believe Fyfe is now more likely to remain at Freo , that hasn't impacted on the level of interest in the star midfielder.

Fyfe is adamant that he will wait until later in the year to consider his future.Media Foundation for West Africa’s head, Sulemana Braimah, is advocating
for Martin Amidu and Daniel Domelevo, the Special Prosecutor and
Auditor General as independent presidential and vice-presidential
candidates in the 2020 presidential polls.

In a Facebook post, the veteran media personality posited that Ghana was
a state where citizens are fed with both the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He recounted how some persons have told him they would not waste their time in voting for these two parties.

In his view, the candidacy of Mr. Amidu and Domelevo will be a guarantee to fight corruption.

He has promised to quit his job to campaign for these two individuals should they decide to contest.

Read Below his post (unedited)

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sat in the parliament for 74 days even though he was under a cloud. There is no real substance to the demands that the members now facing the voters again should apologise for the inconvenience and expense the byelections will cost. In all their cases, their good faith is established by their genuine efforts to comply with section 44, according to serious legal advice, which was clearly not the case with the politicians who were bundled out of the parliament last year.

Richard Ackland
This week Gadfly thinks it’s high time to unload some festering snipes and snarls. Take the Australian Press Council as a starting point. The press “regulator” is in the process of rissoling the Indigenous woman Carla McGrath as a public member of the council, on theThere is no real substance to the demands that the members now facing the voters again should apologise for the inconvenience and expense the byelections will cost. In all their cases, their good faith is established by their genuine efforts to comply with section 44, according to serious legal advice, which was clearly not the case with the politicians who were bundled out of the parliament last year.

Richard Ackland
This week Gadfly thinks it’s high time to unload some festering snipes and snarls. Take the Australian Press Council as a starting point. The press “regulator” is in the process of rissoling the Indigenous woman Carla McGrath as a public member of the council, on the feeble excuse that her position as deputy chair of GetUp! creates a conflict of


such as CV90 was a unique challenge for us, but this advanced technology will deliver results to our customers in terms of vehicle performance and savings on the through life costs, as well as providing real benefits to the front line solider”

The CV90 is designed and built by BAE Systems in Sweden and is one of the largest families of armoured combat vehicles. CV90 is currently used in countries such as Norway, Finland and Denmark and has successfully performed in global operations including UN and NATO collaborations.

Formula 1 has considered re-introducing active damping in recent months to make up for the loss of front to rear interconnected suspension systems. Active suspension was openly used in F1 during straight line testing until testing away from F1 standard circuits wasEmerging civil society groups, backed by international donors, try to increase transparency with tech solutions.

In 2012, Nigeria witnessed the worst flood in nearly five decades. Two million people were displaced and around 363 killed. Crops, homes, and entire communities were destroyed.

The central government swung into action and disbursed around $110m to affected states in October that year. Additional funding flowed from a public-private relief fund and the international community, including Canada, the European Commission, Japan, Norway and Sweden.

Back in Lagos, the team at BudgIT, a civil society organisation founded in 2011, watched closely. In September 2013, it sent a small research team to tour 12 affected states for a period of five months to find out whether the funds released were put to good use.

“We discovered that these


funds went into the wrong hands and people never benefited,” says Uadamen Ilevbaoje, who was part of the team.

Several decades of corruption have slowed progress in Nigeria, which is the largest oil producer in Africa. Public funds allocated for projects and services often go unaccounted for; mismanagement and corruption have fuelled inequality and poverty.

After deadly floods in 2012, BudgIT sent teams to check if donations were reaching the victims [Linus Unah/Al Jazeera]

By the end of May, Nigeria became host to the world’s largest population of people in extreme poverty with some 87 million in crisis, overtaking India’s 73 million.

Across the country, but especially in remote areas, abandoned projects dot the landscape.

Citizens live without basic amenities like roads, housing, schools, potable water, hospitals and sanitation facilities.

In Maito village, ingovernment

In June 2014, BudgIT started the Tracka initiative to follow public projects and help communities ask serious questions that would enhance efficiency.

Tracka staff extract capital projects from the budget and design a pamphlet containing the project title, amount and phone number of public officials for each of the 22 states where it operates.

Armed with these details, tracking officers who have been recruited and trained visit the communities, hold town hall meetings with communities and help them ask government agencies and legislatures to complete projects which have either been abandoned or yet to start.

Tracking officers also take photos and upload them on Twitter and Facebook, adding pressure on government ministries to act transparently.

Through its work, Tracka was able to speed up the construction of a school in Iwoye Ilogbo


Nelson Cruz also had two RBI, while Jeff Baker collected three hits and scored three runs. Derek Holland scattered three hits over four innings of work.

Zach McAllister started for the Indians and surrendered five runs on seven hits in two frames.

Lance Berkman singled, walked and scored two runs in his Rangers' spring training debut, a 10-0 win over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday that gave Texas its first exhibition victory this year after an 0-5 start.

Berkman, who was limited to 32 games last year with St. Louis and needed two knee operations, was held out of the first six exhibition games because of a strained right calf.

Winner Derek Holland allowed three hits, struck out two and walked none in four innings. Jeff Baker had three of the Rangers'harassed and occasionally assaulted the women they encountered, both their colleagues in theoffice and Russian women— some as young as 15 —they met socially. Many of these passages have previously been quoted in Internet forums such as Reddit, but they took on a new life this morning on Twitter. Bayne summarized them in her review:More selections from the book have surfaced online, including the following that involves Ames and Taibbi's first business manager, an American woman named Kara:NPR's Robin Young asked Taibbi about these passages at an event on October 25 at the Harvard Bookstore, and Taibbi took to Facebook to acknowledge them , while also claiming that a lot of material in the bookwas satire and exaggerated and meant to be funny.This morning the story got a


sure to take the medication several hours before boarding, because the drugs need time to take effect. And check with your doctor to make sure there's no negative interaction with any medication you're taking.

Seasickness patches mete out a drug called scopolamine through the skin behind your ear. The patches release small amounts of the drug for several days, keeping nausea at bay for long periods of time. But doctors say scopolamine has been tied to such side effects as delusions and delirium among the elderly, and vision problems for people who accidentally get the medication on their fingers and rub their eyes.

Dr. Arthur Diskin, vice president and chief medical officer for Royal Caribbean Cruises, suggests you try the patches a day before your cruise to see if yousuch as the use of gastric pacemakers, he says.

“We hope that over the next few years our devices will evolve into routine clinical tools for diagnosing gastroparesis as well as other significant disorders of stomach function,” says Dr O’Grady.

The research programme was led for many years by the late Professor Andrew Pullan, a principal investigator with the ABI and a member of the Department of Engineering Science within the Faculty of Engineering, who passed away earlier this year.

The research is continued by Dr O’Grady, and the other lead investigators of the study Drs Leo Cheng and Peng Du from the ABI and Professor John Windsor from the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.

The research was funded primarily by a project grant from the Health Research Council of New


said that his administration "will do everything in its power to defend and protect religious liberty."

The story quotes the President as saying that he would "get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment," which is described by the website as "a 1954 law that bars churches and other tax-exempt organizations from endorsing political candidates."

The Baptist Press piece also reported:

Trump said his high regard for religious liberty motivates his opposition to the Johnson Amendment as well as his immigration policy and his fight against radical Islamic terrorism.

"We will be a country where all citizens can practice their beliefs without fear of hostility or fear of violence," Trump said. "America will flourish as long as our liberty, and in particular our religious liberty, is allowed to flourish."

Immigration policy, Trumpand other tax-exempt entities to intervene on behalf of or against candidates in an election campaign." Sen. James Lankford is sponsoring in the Senate, and Rep. Steve Scalise is the House sponsor.

2 - Boy Scouts to accept transgender "boys"
A stunning, but not necessarily surprising announcement was made recently by the Boy Scouts of America. Todd Starnes of Fox Newswrote this:

On Monday, the BSA announced that girls who identify as boys will now be allowed to join the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts – marking a complete capitulation to the gender and sex revolutionaries.

John Stemberger, who is now chairman of the board of directors for a Christ-centered character-based organization called Trail Life USA, told Starnes that "the BSA decision is 'sad beyond belief.'"

Stemberger also said, that this new direction


to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill the open seat left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia.

This was excellent news, particularly for the evangelicals that had helped push Trump to victory. Not only had the president made good on his promise to select a nominee from the list of 21 names he had released during his campaign, but Gorsuch was the kind of constitutional originalist that he had promised for the post.

Pro-life groups are getting mobilized to support the nominee. The Susan B. Anthony List website announced the formation of a coalition, represented at prolifecourt.com, "where grassroots activists can send an immediate message to their U.S. Senators, and are planning coordinated email and phone call campaigns to offices, in-state demonstrations targeting key Senators,One hundred years ago today, long lines of British infantry climbed out of their trenches in the Somme region of France and hurled themselves at the entrenched Germans. The next 24 hours would turn out to be the bloodiest day in British military history, with 60,000 casualties. Battalions lost 90 percent of their personnel in an hour. One division, the 36th, took 5,000 casualties in 2 days (56 percent) and had to be pulled out — after one year of training, it had lasted 48 hours in combat. The offensive petered out after three months, having advanced only five miles at the cost of 350,000 British and 70,000 Dominion casualties. For the high casualties and lack of success, historians and memoirists have harshly criticized British generals — “donkeys,”


continuation of traditional maneuver warfare, punctuated by periodic sieges of cities and fortresses, as had been the experience in warfare for thousands of years. Here is the pre-World War I history that the generals had available to learn from.

The siege of Richmond and Petersburg at the end of the Civil War (July 1864 to April 1865) is often cited as an example of what the generals of World War I should have expected. The siege positions, extending 35 miles, comprised a continuous line of trenches and fortifications. Union infantry assaults failed, even when supported by surprise or extensive preparation (for example, the Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864). With its extensive fortifications, powerful artillery, intense infantry fire, and rapid reinforcement of threatened sectors, the siege did indeedlook a lot like the western front in World War I. However, this was an exceptional experience during the Civil War. In the west, the war was one of continuous maneuver, punctuated by periodic city sieges (for example, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Atlanta). In April 1865, when Grant finally outflanked Lee’s entrenched army, the war in the east broke into open maneuver once again.

The Austro-Prussian war of 1866 never devolved into trenches or sieges at all, but instead saw continuous rapid maneuver aided by railroads and telegraph communications, as had been seen in the American Civil War. The decisive battle, Koniggratz, was positively Napoleonic in its movement of corps over large spaces and in the decisive strike to an exposed flank. The war between two great powers was over in


seven weeks.

The Franco-Prussian War (1870 to 1871) looked the same, with mass armies sweeping across the map until the Prussians finally encircled the French at Sedan and Metz. The final siege of Paris, with its concentric fortification lines, artillery attacks, and prolonged operations, looked much like city sieges seen through millennia of warfare. The same could be said of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 to 1878.

The Russo-Japanese War continued the pattern in 1904. Armies maneuvered over vast distances. The great siege of Port Arthur looked much like the siege of Sevastopol 50 years earlier, evincing the same Russian toughness and engineering prowess and the same unsuccessful result (for the Russians). The machine gun and quick-firing field artillery made their first extensive battlefield appearances and ensured that frontal assaultswould be as difficult and costly as before, but they did not fundamentally change the nature of the war.

Immediately before World War I, the Balkan states fought two wars between 1910 and 1913, which, because of their nearness in time and the involvement of major powers, seemed to be reasonable models for forecasting the course of a war in 1914. The byzantine political details need not concern us here, only the conduct of the two wars. Operations in the wars followed the established pattern: mass armies, wide maneuver, a major, successful siege (Adrianople), and short duration — eight months for the first war, seven weeks for the second.

So if all these previous conflicts had exhibited extensive maneuver and come to rapid conclusions, what produced the trench system and


it is worth trying to see where present trends are headed. Yes, it is also worthwhile trying to imagine future conflicts and their nature. But we ought to be humble, recognize the limits of foresight, and be ready to adapt to the inevitable surprises that occur.

Mark Cancian (Colonel, USMCR, ret.) is a senior adviser with the CSIS International Security Program. Colonel Cancian spent over three decades in the U.S. Marine Corps, active and reserve, serving as an infantry, artillery, and civil affairs officer and on overseas tours in Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Iraq (twice).My World Cup experience

IT'S game day. The Socceroos play The Netherlands in their second round games and it's an early kick-off.

After an early morning stroll and some time in the sun on one of Salvador's many beautiful beaches, we make our way to the FIFA fan fest site - a specifically set up location to enable all fans to watch the games as one in a unique atmosphere.

As we arrive 30 minutes before kick-off we find that in true relaxed Brazilian style this game will not be televised at the fan zone.

Wind back 24 hours and an estimated 10,000-15,000 fans packed the site to witness the Brazil v Mexico game. That was in an amazing atmosphere, showcasing just how passionate the Brazilian fans can be . The result


was not ideal for the locals. It was a great example of how quickly the mood can change, as joy turned frustration.

Our travelling party, which includes Vikings captain Matt Jamieson and Ballarat Red Devils forward Dom Swinton, is left to find a new spot to watch the game with just 25 minutes of kick-off.

Matthew Jamieson, left, and Michael Busija who are enjoyiing the World Cup party, Brazilian style.

After frantically searching, we ffind a bar in the Barra region and as match starting time etches closer the Aussie contingent begins to grow.

Expectations are not too high, but as the Socceroos settle into the game spirits rise. That is until that man Arjen Robben gets a half opportunity and scores.

The disappointment is only momentary as Tim Cahill typifies what thewhich was owned by CNG Financial. Her job duties included assisting customers at the front counter, answering telephones, photocopying and faxing documents, and running errands to the post office or bank. With no soft drinks available onsite, Misek would also occasionally leave to get soft drinks for herself and her coworkers, sometimes at her own request and sometimes at the request of her supervisor. Misek was not required to "clock out" in order to run these errands and was paid for her time.
Check `n Go had no formal break policy in place. Misek testified that any break she took had to be approved by her supervisor and that she had never been told she could not take a break. Misek would not usually tell her supervisor precisely what