had WTTW's Soundstage From Chicago and KLRN's (now KLRU) Austin City Limits from the corner of 26th (now Dean Keeton) and Guadalupe.

Despite focusing on concert performances, clips of lip-synched performances were also screened on shows like The Midnight Special. More often than not, these clips came from overseas artists, including Queen, David Bowie, and ABBA. These nascent clips served as stopgap promotional devices in America, because they were much less expensive than touring. Moreover, countries such as Great Britain already had TV shows that relied heavily on promo clips.

Former Monkee and native Texan Michael Nesmith noticed one such show during a tour of Australia. Although a video clip program called Nightclubbing was shown on Manhattan cable TV starting in 1975, and USA Network's Night Flight began showing aneclectic mix of rock videos and movies in 1980, Nesmith's Popclips was the immediate precursor to MTV.

Popclips aired on Nickelodeon in 1980, and its success got the Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company to consider the possibilities of a 24-hour cable music channel. Preliminary planning for this channel involved Nesmith, but his artistic vision of music video clashed with Warner Amex's vision of a heavily formatted and researched album-oriented rock outlet for the eyeballs. Nez balked and Warner Amex went ahead without him.

One Step Beyond

Before we get caught up imagining how MTV might have turned out under Nesmith, let me relate the thrill of coming home from middle school in 1982 and seeing MTV for the first time. Back then, as an underage music fan, you didn't take music


guys. But the dearth of videos, let alone good ones, by established American artists forced MTV to be more adventurous and play British groups like ABC and Depeche Mode. By 1983, a second British Invasion was in full effect. It's impossible to imagine Duran Duran achieving such success without MTV.

Something you didn't see on early MTV were videos by black artists. By positing itself in the guise of AOR radio, MTV could systematically deny airplay to artists like Rick James and Grandmaster Flash, because they "didn't fit the format." But this refusal smacked of institutionalized racism since MTV was the only game in town. When rock writer Dave Marsh and others objected, co-founder Pittman characterized them as "little Hitlers" (see below).

Then along came Michael Jackson with the videofor "Billie Jean." Thriller was already a monster hit and "Billie Jean" a compelling video, yet MTV still hedged on airing it. CBS Records, Jackson's label, reportedly threatened to pull all CBS videos from MTV if "Billie Jean" didn't air.

Of course, "Billie Jean" aired, Jackson became the King of Pop, and the video revolution was ignited in earnest. Today, MTV portrays "Billie Jean" as the video that broke the color barrier, even though the channel itself was responsible for erecting that barrier in the first place. So much for institutional memory ...

Becoming

In 1983,'s Stephen Levy wrote, "MTV's greatest achievement has been to coax rock & roll into the video arena where you can't distinguish between entertainment and the sales pitch." This remains MTV's legacy, but its implications stretch


far beyond rock & roll.

With programming supplied free by record companies, MTV spent its early creative energy on establishing an identity, which was crucial as cable expanded viewers' choices; "I Want My MTV!" became an effective rallying bray compelling cable operators to add MTV to their lineup. Meanwhile, the eye-candy overload in MTV's on-air promos was the video equivalent of the zip-bang jingles produced for Sixties Top 40 radio by Dallas-based PAMS Inc. Before long, MTV's branding techniques and visual styles were all over television.

MTV's status as a visual panoply of texts no longer than five minutes meant rock stars now had to devote considerable energy to their image. A few artists protested this new order. After trashing MTV in song on "Seen Your Video," the Replacements' 1985clip for "Bastards of Young" consisted of a single still shot of a stereo speaker playing the song. But this was an anomaly. The new reality quickly made a mega-star of Madonna and a mockery of old-guard acts like Toto who didn't have the looks, style, and/or media savvy to re-create themselves at the speed MTV demanded.

Another MTV legacy was bringing viewers closer to the stars in a manner that makes Tiger Beat look tame by comparison. The channel first introduced this concept with extravagant meet-the-stars contests (e.g., "Win a Pink House from John Cougar Mellencamp!"). Today, a show called Becoming takes lucky fans on an adventure where they actually "become" their favorite pop star. After the obligatory makeovers, dance rehearsals, and a video pep talk from the


scouts have been busy recently, and I can see them staying that way in 2017.

Toronto Maple Leafs – Erik Brannstrom (D) – HV71 (SHL) I’m a little biased as a born and raised Leafs fan, but I promise that I didn’t see Bransstrom being picked before 17. I’m very high on Brannstrom, and while he’s ranked to go somewhere between 20-30, I can see the Leafs reaching and taking the player who has the tools to be the best offensive defender in the first round. He is the epitome of the modern puck mover. His skating is second to none, exemplified by his ability to not only walk the blueline extremely well, but also his raw north-south speed. He can make stretch passes with the best of themBrannstrom at 17.

Boston Bruins – Ryan Poehling (C) – St. Cloud St. University (NCAA) Boston historically values North American players in the higher end of the draft, and with Poehling still on the board, he’s tough to resist. Similar to Andersson, Poehling’s best assets come from in front of the next. His offensive production wasn’t ideal, and historically, he has had a relatively weak year for non-overage NCAA 1st round picks, but his raw ability around the net and hand-eye coordination are great tools that I could see fitting in as a #3 two-way centre down the line. What is troublesome is the last few non-overage 1st round picks from the NCAA have been nearly point per game players, and his 12.7%INV puts him on the same level


His two-way play is quite good, and his Corsi data from the SM-Liiga (a men’s league, mind you) exemplifies that (61%CF in the playoffs (+6.8rel) and 56.3% (+5.4rel) during the season). While he only managed 6 points all year, which came short of his production at 16 in the same league, he does have solid offensive tools as he showed at the U18s. He isn’t a flashy player, but he makes his linemates better and drives possession well. He could slot in as a solid #4 in Columbus and add another solid piece to one of the better groups of young defensemen in the NHL.

Montreal Canadiens – Klim Kostin (RW) – Moscow (KHL) Kostin is a strange one. A very highly touted power scorer last year, he struggledviolation of the same statute.  The first count of the indictment set forth the nature of the alleged scheme and the remaining counts incorporated the details thereof by reference to Count One.  The indictment charged that beginning on or about July 1st, 1957 and continuing to on or about March 15th, 1959 appellant devised a scheme to defraud and obtain money and property from amateur song writers, lyric writers and composers by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises.  The indictment further alleged that appellant falsely represented himself as the operator of a legitimate and well established song servicing and marketing business which could, and did, for a service charge have songs, lyrics and other musical compositions arranged, orchestrated, edited, published, recorded and


▲ Image via LoLesports Flickr

2018 Spring Split all-NA ADC Cody Sun took a step backward and joined Clutch Gaming Academy.

On the 12th of December, Clutch Gaming announced that they have acquired Cody “Cody Sun” Sun for their Academy team.

Cody Sun was recently released from 100 Thieves as a free agent. With the 100 Thieves, he played through 2018, becoming the ALl-NA AD Carry for the spring split. Cody Sun had mentioned that he will not be playing in the LCS next split in a recent tweet. Now, he will be playing in the academy team of Clutch Gaming with a possibility to sub-in in the NA LCS.

Clutch Gaming went through drastic changes during the stove league. They signed Heo “Huni” Seung-hoon and Tanner “Damonte” Damonte while sending ColinBen Berman

Director; Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary

Ben Berman, a veteran comedy director and writer, previously debuted his short films I’m a Mitzvah (starring Parks & Recreation‘s Ben Schwartz) at Sundance in 2014 and How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps starring Beck Bennett in 2016. Berman’s surprising, unorthodox film begins as a documentary about “The Amazing Johnathan,” a uniquely deranged magician who built a career out of shock and deception in the 1980s – but becomes a bizarre story about the unravelling of his documentarian.

Hulu acquired the rights to Ben Berman’s feature debut Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary in a competitive situation following its world premiere in the US Documentary Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.


FOI reveals 18 teachers assaulted by pupils in Plymouth state schools last year

THE number of teachers who were attacked by pupils in state schools in Plymouth fell last year.

Figures released to The Herald under the Freedom of Information Act show that 18 teachers were either physically or verbally attacked in the 2012-13 academic year in schools under local authority control, down from 20 the year before.

The data reveals that 15 such assaults took place in city primary schools, with just three in secondary schools.

I am a journalist and author. I am a staff writer at the UK edition of WIRED magazine and in 2015 my book, Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. I created FOI Directory in 2012.is completely covered in chewing gum left behind by past visitors.

Sound gross? It kind of is, but it is also a colorful and lighthearted attraction that has been featured on a number of television shows and in many newspapers. Perhaps what is most interesting is that this is actually not the only gum wall in existence. Seattle tourists can check out the Market Theater Gum Wall for another chewy experience.

2. Nagoro Scarecrow Village (Tokushima Prefecture, Japan)

This creepy feature is also known as The Village of Dolls. This now deserted town only ever boasted 300 inhabitants in its heyday and is now known for the many numerous life-sized scarecrows built in the likeness of its former residents.

The scarecrows are positioned around Nagoro as if going about daily activities, such


Bay (Vieques, Puerto Rico)

This incredible area looks like it was picked from a fantasy world, yet it is right here on Earth. It is listed as a national natural landmark, and the bioluminescence is actually created by a microorganism. The microorganism lets off it’s signature blue glow whenever the water is disturbed.

There are a few bays in the area that are explorable to tourists, but the most well-known and brightest is Mosquito Bay. In fact, in 2018 the bay was listed as the brightest bioluminescent bay in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records.

6. The Gnome Reserve (Devon, England)

Created by Ann Atkin in 1976, the Gnome Reserve is precisely what its name suggests: A large four-acre garden overflowing with more than two thousand gnomes. Ann welcomeis autonomous enough to justify favourable US trading terms that have helped it become a world financial centre. It also threatens sanctions for human rights violations.

Beijing, which is seeking to end a damaging trade war with the United States, warned Washington of “firm counter measures” after Trump signed the legislation into law.

Anti-government protests have rocked the former British colony since June, at times forcing businesses, government, schools and even the international airport to close.

Demonstrators are angry at what they see as Chinese meddling in the freedoms promised when Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997. China denies interfering and says it is committed to the “one country, two systems” formula put in place at that time and has blamed foreign forces for fomenting unrest.

Worst clashes

Protesters have


stirred support for more rallies over the weekend, as police withdrew on Friday from a university campus that has seen some of the worst clashes with security forces during nearly six months of unrest.

Partly numbed by the violent scenes at the Polytechnic University since mid-November, the Asian financial hub has enjoyed a week of relative calm since local elections on Sunday delivered an overwhelming victory to pro-democracy candidates.

Later on Friday, at 7pm (11am Irish time), protesters plan to gather at the British consulate to urge the British government to protect nationals based in the Chinese territory.

The rally comes after a former employee of Britain’s consulate in Hong Kong said Chinese secret police beat him, deprived him of sleep and shackled him in an attempt to force him toand remove dangerous items including thousands of petrol bombs, arrows and chemicals which had been strewn around the site.

Chow Yat-ming, a senior police officer said investigators had finished their work at the site on Friday and all officers were leaving the campus, enabling people to come and go freely.

Located on Kowloon peninsula, the campus was turned into a battleground in mid-November, when protesters barricaded themselves in and clashed with riot police in a hail of petrol bombs, water cannon and tear gas. About 1,100 people were arrested last week, some while trying to escape.

Police said they found more than 3,000 Molotov cocktails and hundreds of bottles of corrosive liquids on the campus. It was unclear whether any protesters remained at the university on Friday but police made no


I had wanted to see it.

Finally, as I started to make my
way back towards the entrance, having all but given up hope, I saw him. He was
standing in an unostentatious glass cabinet, at one side of an otherwise
unremarkable room, for all the world just minding his own business and watching
the visitors go by.

William (or “Figure of a
Hippopotamus” as he is referred to, with commendable understatement, in the Met
catalogue) is barely more than 11 cm tall and is glazed in a vivid aquamarine
and patterned with lotus flowers. He is from Egypt and is nearly four thousand
years old. For most of the last hundred years, having been gifted by Edward S.
Harkness in 1917, he has been at the Met in New York.

For an object of such antiquity,
William has an endearinglysprightly charm. He stands, looking out of his glass
case with a curiously benign expression of bemused indulgence, as if he had
spent the last century casually watching the comings and goings of visitors to
his new home. Maybe it is his broad snout that appeals, or possibly his
pleasingly stumpy feet, which make him look like a puppy standing to attention,
but whatever it is, he appears to be a hippo that is pleased to meet you.

As the unofficial mascot of the
Met, I had assumed that William would have a display case all to himself, and
be the centre of attention, but I was the only one at that moment who was
looking at him.


Africa is the second most populated continent in the world?

With around 1.2 billion people, or estimated 15% of the world’s population, Africa is the second most populated continent in the world. There are 1250-3000 native languages. It contains 54fully recognizedsovereign states (countries) & hosts a large diversity of ethnicities, cultures and languages.

Obviously this chart is not counting the African descendants out side the continent.

Historical migration of human populations begins with the movement of Homo erectus out of Africa across Eurasia about a million years ago. Homo sapiens appear to have occupied all of Africa about 150,000 years ago, moved out of Africa 50,000 – 60,000 years ago, and had spread across Australia, Asia and Europe by 30,000 years BC. Migration to the Americas took place 20,000 to 15,000years ago, and by 2,000 years ago, most of the Pacific Islands were colonized.

Similar posts

Ethiopian Princess Andromeda and Gree...
—
Aphrike in Greek means “without cold.” The word Ethiopia in Greek means “burnt complexion.” This maybe one of the oldest surviving ancient writings of an Interracial Couple. The beautiful Andromeda was the daughter of the Ethiopian king Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia. One day, the vain Queen had bragged that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful [...]

80,000 views in less than 3 months fo...
—
I love you guys! Thank you so much for visiting this site. I started this as a hobby and I secretly hoped that it will expand somehow in the near future. It was and still is a passion of mine to share interesting subject matters with the world.


Q:

Is there, or was there, a Christian denomination that believes, or believed, that Jesus Christ was "just a normal human"?

I have met several people that came in contact with Christianity as adults. Their perception is that Christ was a human preacher that voiced his concerns in a time of corruption, abuse by authorities, dishonesty, crime and debauchery. This makes me wonder if in the time of Christ some of his followers had similar impression and took him as a role model, but not as a divine entity.

A:

Historically, there have been a number of sects that denied the divinity of Jesus, claiming that he was a man, and nothing more.*
In the first few centuries of Christianity, most of these groups held the Christiological heresy (from the point of viewof mainstream Christianity) called Adoptionism, also known as dynamic monarchianism. Its basic tenet is that Jesus was merely a man, and that he became the Son of God by adoption at some historical moment: generally the Baptism in the Jordan, at the Resurrection, or the Ascension.
The most famous adherents of this heresy were Theodotus of Byzantium and Paul of Samosata. This was also the theory, apparently, of the Ebionites, who were a group of Jews living in the first and second century, who considered Jesus the Messiah, but not the natural Son of God (as orthodox Christians do).
These early sects have long since died out; however, in later centuries, there have been many individuals who have considered Jesus to be a great moral teacher, or a wise philosopher,


letter which says:

Whereas he has departed from the rule of faith, and has turned aside after base and spurious teachings, it is not necessary,—since he is without,—that we should pass judgment upon his practices: as for instance in that although formerly destitute and poor, and having received no wealth from his fathers, nor made anything by trade or business, he now possesses abundant wealth through his iniquities and sacrilegious acts, and through those things which he extorts from the brethren, depriving the injured of their rights and promising to assist them for reward, yet deceiving them, and plundering those who in their trouble are ready to give that they may obtain reconciliation with their oppressors, ‘supposing that gain is godliness

So rather than offer any argument against Paul's doctrine,the writer simply says they do not feel it necessary to attack Paul's character...but they're gonna do it anyways. Unfortunately, Eusibius doesn't offer any quotes from Paul, but some of his writings have been preserved.
After the Nicea Council, the Catholic Church basically dominated all intellectual thought. Issac Newton is believed to be an Arian, though it's hard to tell. He was definitely nontrinitarian, and had to hide his beliefs to avoid the death penalty.
During the Reformation, a few men saw the opportunity to bring the issue up again. Although it's unclear what Michael Servetus believed, he is definitely worth mentioning. Servetus wrote a few books about his theology, and he was a key player in the Reformation. His views were considered heresy by both the Catholic and the


Protestant churches. In 1553, he was arrested and condemned to death by John Calvin. Calvin wanted Servetus to be beheaded, but the council that held his trial denied this request; instead, they burned him at the stake while his books provided the fuel for the flames.
Also around this time was Fausto Sozzini, from which the label Socinianism comes from. Scozzini denied that Messiah preexisted, though he did believe in the virgin birth. His followers became know as Socinians until Henry Hedworth introduced the term "unitarian" in 1673.
During the Enlightenment in the late 1700's, there was a man named Joseph Priestley, who is considered the father of modern chemistry. He wrote a book called A History of the Corruptions of Christianity. Priestley helped form the first Unitarian churches inEngland and was very outspoken about his beliefs. He is well known for his accomplishments in the secular world, but he considered these things hobbies and likened himself as a theologian above all else. In 1791, his home and church in London was burned to the ground, so he spent the rest of his days in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson was a big fan of Priestley, and he wrote many letters to him. He also wrote to John Adams about Priestley, in which he said:

You are right in supposing, in one of yours, that I had not read much of Priestley's Predestination, his no-soul system, or his controversy with Horsley. But I have read his Corruptions of Christianity, and Early Opinions of Jesus, over and over again;


Stuart McCall says Rangers could have competition for Jamie Murphy

Motherwell manager Stuart McCall believes Rangers could face competition from clubs in England for the signature of Jamie Murphy.

The striker is out of contract at the end of the season and reports at the weekend suggest he is one of a number of players on Ally McCoist’s radar.

Rangers are under a SFA transfer embargo but could formally complete the move on 1 September once their registration ban is lifted. A switch to Ibrox would mean dropping down the divisions and McCall says he has no idea whether the player would be tempted by such a move.

However, the Fir Park boss would be surprised if his former club proved to be the only interested party.

He said: “A lot of ourtouchstones, such as music, television shows or fashion. For children of the 1970s and '80s, the so-called Generation X, divorce is one of those touchstones. A reported 40 percent of Gen-X children's parents divorced in that time, mine included. Ours was the era of the latch-key child and the popularization of the term "benign neglect."

Thomas' memoir talks about her own childhood and how the epidemic of divorce shaped a generation of battle-scarred, neglected children who grew into insecure, though very self-reliant, adults whose attempts to avoid the mistakes of their parents led to child-obsessed helicopter parenting, poor financial choices and many unhappy marriages.

Thomas discusses the impact of her parents' divorce on her own life as a wife, mother and eventually a divorced parent. While it's a sad story,


it's well-written and surprisingly funny at times. She interweaves statistics and references to literature, religion and pop culture. Those who grew up in that era will find nostalgic warmth when they encounter references to the stuff of their childhood, such as "The Brady Bunch" or Strawberry Shortcake dolls.

When Thomas was 12 and her brother 9, their father, a charming alcoholic, dramatically abandoned them while their mother was out of the country. He later remarried and moved five states away. After the split, Thomas describes her mother, "formerly a regal, erudite figure," as "a phantom in a sweaty nightgown and matted hair, howling on the floor."

Post-divorce, Thomas and her brother were left to their own devices. They came home after school to an empty house, watched a lot oftelevision and prepared their own meals of Top Ramen washed down with Tang. Her adolescence was rich with angst and bad decisions, binge drinking, drugs, and by her senior year, a brief stay in a psych ward for anxiety. In spite of the emotional (and in her father's case, physical) distance of her parents, Thomas did not have an underprivileged childhood. She and her brother attended private school, but they were left to navigate childhood on their own.

When Thomas met her husband, Cal, in 1991, she believed she had found her soul mate. She writes, "I entered marriage with the presumption that Cal and I were going to outdo my parents altogether."

She and Cal both worked from home, used an "attachment parenting" style to raise their daughters, and


focused almost obsessively on renovating their Brooklyn brownstone. She reflects on their preoccupation with the home and its larger meaning: "Gen X's rapacious need for the perfect nest drove them to take out more home equity loans and spend more on house remodeling, per capita, than any generation before." (Thomas' previous book, "Buy, Buy Baby," is an investigation of manipulative marketing and consumer culture.)

After 16 years, her marriage crumbled. Thomas is honest in discussing its end, including her and Cal's sincere attempts to shield their children from pain.

I kept waiting for the book to turn whiney, for Thomas to blame all her problems on her parents, but that didn't happen. Even the story of her own divorce is told with calm reflection. Thomas' anger in the book istheir so-called "grounding line." But a recent survey found evidence for ephemeral lakes and river networks across Antarctica, raising concerns that surface melting could also play a significant role in ice sheet disintegration.

118-year-old painting found in Antarctica

A lost 118-year-old painting by one of Britain's most famous explorers has been discovered in Antarctica. Scientists stumbled on the delicate watercolour of a bird in a hut on Cape Adare, a peninsula on the continent's far east side.The almost perfectly-preserved artwork was painted by Dr Edward Wilson, a British polar explorer who died in Antarctica with his expedition leader Captain Robert Falcon Scott.It was hidden among penguin excrement, dust and mouldy papers in the hut he sheltered in on a 1911 expedition from which he never returned.

blog 'kristinaustin.blogdetik.com' is not exists.


Why Do I Think I Am Nothing epub pdf txt.

blog 'tracyhodges.blogdetik.com' is not exists. The West in the World, Volume II: From 1600 eBook.

The researchers think this unseasonably warm air was due primarily to the powerful 2015-2016 El Niño. As they write in their paper, the El Niño climate pattern, which starts with high sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, tends to promote the advection of high pressure air masses over this part of Antarctica. But they're not sure -- after all, the comparably-strong 1997-98 El Niño event didn't cause widespread melting in West Antarctica. And although the data points to a correlation between El Niño and melty ice in West Antarctica, that doesn't necessarily imply causation.

Regardless, the authors warn that the melt event, one of thelargest ever recorded in the Ross Sea sector, could be a sign of what's to come as human carbon emissions continue to heat up the atmosphere. "Given the role of El Niño-related atmospheric circulation in promoting warm air advection to the Ross sector, a greater number of extreme El Niño events," as are projected due to climate change, "could foster more frequent major melt events in this area," the researchers write.

118-year-old painting found in Antarctica

A lost 118-year-old painting by one of Britain's most famous explorers has been discovered in Antarctica. Scientists stumbled on the delicate watercolour of a bird in a hut on Cape Adare, a peninsula on the continent's far east side.The almost perfectly-preserved artwork was painted by Dr Edward Wilson, a British polar explorer who died


West in a new pic his mom shared to Snapchat on Saturday.

— Share news in the SOC. Networks

Topical videos:

Giant Antarctic iceberg set to break away - BBC News

An iceberg expected to be one of the 10 largest ever recorded is ready to break away from Antarctica, scientists say. A long-running rift in the Larsen C ice shelf ...

Similar from the Web

Why Did An Enormous Chunk Of West Antarctica Suddenly Start - www.gizmodo.com.au

In January 2016, over the course of just a few weeks, a 300,000 square mile chunk of the West Antarctic ice sheet started turning to slush, in one of the largest But they're not sure — after all, the comparably-strong 1997-98 El Niño event didn't cause widespread melting in West Antarctica .

Why Did an Enormous Chunk ofWest Antarctica Suddenly Start - gizmodo.com

In January 2016, over the course of just a few weeks, a 300,000 square mile chunk of the West Antarctic ice sheet started turning to slush, in one of the largest melt -outs ever recorded. Scientists with the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE)

Part of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting at a Rate - Motherboard - motherboard.vice.com

Why did such a huge chunk of the south pole suddenly start melting into the ocean? The warming climate and depleted ozone have fueled the westerly winds that gust around Antarctica , making them more powerful.

Archaeologists have long wondered how the ancient Egyptians aligned the corners of the pyramids of Giza along the cardinal points so accurately. But now an electrical engineer with an interest in archaeology thinks


he has the answer.The near-perfect alignment along the four points of the […]

Pirate websites blocked by the Australian government are used 50 per cent less than a year ago.In the past year there has been a 25 per cent drop in overall piracy in the year and a 53 per cent drop in the use of blocked sites, the Australian Site-Blocking Efficacy Report released on […]

Looters created a tunnel that archaeologists later explored.In present-day Mosul, Iraq, archaeologists have been exploring and documenting tombs from the kingdom of Nineveh. Looters, with a suspected affiliation with ISIS, had dug a tunnel under the supposed tomb of the biblical prophet […]

To the disbelief of spectators, all of the animals which entered into the gates perished, while miraculously, the priests emerged unscathed.as genetics. One genetic defect now known to be endemic among blacks everywhere is sickle-cell anemia, an endemic and hereditary blood disorder which occurs in children of African/black origin in West Africa or in diaspora.

Its presentations include debilitating and often lethal afflictions, and a life of chronic-acute pains and crises. In the olden days it was nearly always a death sentence for a child born with the condition. Therefore, it was probably one major player in the syndrome called Ogbanjé by Igbos (and Abiku by Yorubas). Abiku or Ogbanje was a rationalization by terrified, ignorant people. In either culture it was a subject of mystic horror and hush-hush speculation about the wicked spirits of children who die before the age of puberty, sometimes to be reborn to the


to assume that their new child was indeed ogbanje and go ahead with the cycle-breaking ritual for every child they bore.

It was believed that each ogbanje had its tiny icon or fetish object which the spirit buried, at the time of its conception, in some part of its body or at some subterranean spot near the home of the couple to whom it was being born. So the first line of attack was to examine the body of a child and extract its fetish. Unlike circumcision (ime nka) which was performed on a child within days of birth, ogbanje
exorcism was performed when the child was old enough to participate in the ceremony. That delay had a second motive. The longer a baby survives into childhood the more itbonds with the family into which it was born; hence the more strongly it has resisted the dark forces that relentlessly try to draw it back to the spirit world. In other words, the older a child becomes, the higher the chances of success in the ritual to break its link with sinister, other-worldly influences.

It was a simple ritual. While everybody watched the proceedings, the clever doctor would create a commotion to draw attention away as he/she made a quick little incision on the child’s skin and at the same time released a pebble or so into a waiting cup; the clatter of that pebble announced that the fetish had been drawn out. Mine was extracted from under the corner of my left eye. I never saw what


head of the chicken to eat —while adults ate the real meat, the juicy thigh and breast and gizzard being reserved for adult males only!)

Some cases were tougher: The fetish was not inside the child; it was hidden elsewhere. The poor child was pestered to reveal where it had hidden its fetish before it was born. Some children rose to the spirit of the game and led the crowd of adults on a weird hunt around the house, under this tree and that brush, out to the brook, back into the house and out again, in seeming confusion until it pointed at a spot under a tree. But the result was the same. The doctors always found the fetish, dug it out, and dropped it noisily into aHurricane Michael is expected to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 storm with 145 miles per hour winds later today, marking the first storm of that strength to hit the Panhandle in recorded history.

Corelogic noted the compact nature of hurricane Michael, which will have limited the size of the swathe of damage on landfall, but the storm surge has impacted a wide area from Mobile, AL to Tampa, FL, with the maximum storm surge anticipated to be east of Panama City to coastal cities south of Tallahassee, the firm said.

Authorities said at least two people have died, a man killed by a tree falling on a Panhandle home and according to WMAZ-TV, an 11-year-old girl was also killed by a tree falling on a


home in southwest Georgia.

Michael is now a tropical storm and, as of Thursday morning, was pushing its way across SC - while also lashing North Carolina and Virginia with strong winds and heavy rains amid a tornado threat.

The storm, which had caught many by surprise with its rapid intensification as it churned north over the Gulf of Mexico, made landfall north-west of the town of Mexico Beach at about 1:40 pm (local time) as a category four hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. She said she could smell the pine from snapped tree branches. The lead-gray water was so high that roofs were about all that could be seen of many homes.

Hurricane Michael is now moving northeast with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour.

Officials at theTyndall Air Force Base in Panama City said dozens of trees and power lines went down, and several buildings lost their roofs across the military base.

A woman checks on her vehicle as Hurricane Michael passes through in Panama City Beach, Fla., Oct. 10, 2018.

Part of the reason Hurricane Michael became so strong and developed so quickly is that the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are much warmer right now than what's normal for October.

Winds gusts of around 60 miles per hour were reported in towns near the Georgia-Alabama border, according to the National Weather Service.

-Strorm riders: Roughly 375,000 people in Florida warned to evacuate; many refused.

About 3,500 Florida National Guard troops were deployed, along with more than 1,000 search-and-rescue personnel, Governor Scott said. "The historical record, going


back to 1851, finds no Category-4 hurricane ever hitting the Florida Panhandle". "THIS IS A WORST CASE SCENARIO for the Florida Panhandle!" the agency tweeted.

The Carolinas are still recovering from Hurricane Florence, which left dozens dead and is estimated to have caused billions of dollars in damage last month.

The most significant risks for the region are flash flooding in the Interstate 77 corridor, including metro Charlotte, and potentially damaging wind.

Past year saw a string of catastrophic storms batter the western Atlantic - including Irma, Maria and Harvey, which caused a record-equaling $125 billion in damage when it flooded the Houston metropolitan area.

As the hurricane moves out of Florida, Scott warned that flash floods and tornadoes are still possibilities and said "the weather is still extremely risky".Esio Trot

Esio Trot is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Published in 1990, it was the last of Dahl's books to be published in his lifetime. Unlike other Dahl works (which often feature tyrannical adults and heroic/magical children), Esio Trot is the story of an old, lonely man (Mr Hoppy), trying to make a connection with a person that he has loved from afar (a widow named Mrs Silver).

In 1994, Monty Python member Michael Palin provided the English language audiobook recording of the book. In 2015 it was adapted by Richard Curtis into a BBC television film, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench as the couple, with James Corden narrating.

Story
Mr Hoppy is a shy old man


Growth deficiency of a Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae fur mutant in rice leaves is rescued by ascorbic acid supplementation.
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae causes bacterial leaf blight, a serious disease of rice. A mutation was isolated in the ferric uptake regulator (fur) gene of X. oryzae pv. oryzae and it was shown to result in the production of siderophores in a constitutive manner. The fur mutant is hypersensitive to the metallo-antibiotic streptonigrin, a phenotype that is indicative of intracellular free-iron overload, and also exhibits a slow growth phenotype on rich medium. The fur mutant is virulence deficient, hypersensitive to hydrogen peroxide, and exhibits reduced catalase activity. Exogenous supplementation with ascorbic acid (an antioxidant) rescues the growth deficiency of the fur mutant in rice leaves. The virulence deficiency of thefilm Natural Born Killers.

After serving as a field producer for the reality show COPS in 1989 and then producing and creating the ABC series American Detective, Stojanovich executive produced a series of crime reality shows, including World's Scariest Police Chases and Ultimate Police Challenge. His legacy as an innovative creator and producer still commands respect in the entertainment business.

The Beaverton, Oregon Police Department made Stojanovich an Honorary Special Reserve Officer.

Death
Stojanovich died on March 15, 2003 after accidentally falling off a cliff on the Oregon coast while posing for a photograph his fiance, Kim Crowell, was taking. He was 47. His body was found 29 days later by kayakers Ben Baker and David Steinberg at Short Sands Beach after his body washed up to the shore. He is survived


Neonatal and postneonatal mortality by maternal education--a population-based study of trends in the Nordic countries, 1981-2000.
This study examined changes in the educational gradients in neonatal and postneonatal mortality over a 20-year period in the four largest Nordic countries. The study populations were all live-born singleton infants with gestational age of at least 22 weeks from 1981 to 2000 (Finland 1987-2000). Information on births and infant deaths from the Medical Birth Registries was linked to information from census statistics. Numbers of eligible live-births were: Denmark 1 179 831, Finland 834 299 (1987-2000), Norway 1 017 168 and Sweden 1 971 645. Differences in mortality between education groups were estimated as risk differences (RD), relative risks (RR) and index of inequality ratio (RII). Overall, rates of infant mortality were inEva'll probably let Gloria have that room so she can bunk out here and gab all night with Leslie.

guy suddenly reappears in the doorway.

guy: Gloria? Gloria Atherly?

peggy: Yeah. Didn't Pat tell you she was coming?

guy: No.

peggy: Oh, well, when your sister asked me to make the wedding dresses, I bartered my time for a free weekend for all us girls at the resort. We've been trying to have a boathouse blast for years but something always gets in the way of our reunion. Even now two cancelled out and Leslie's only good for tonight. Gloria arranged for them all to play golf tomorrow morning but I guess she doesn't have a foursome now. She'll be so disappointed. Hey, maybe you could play with her?

guy: Gloria Atherly is coming


head behind the ear by a spring arrangement extending from the other side of the head. The steel spring arrangement is sometimes built into an eyeglass frame. The vibrations are transmitted through the skin and the skull bone into the inner ear. For the traditional bone conductors with a spring arrangement around the head, the constant pressure against the skull bone often causes headaches and skin irritation. The spring arrangement is also bulky and is not a practical or user friendly solution.
Another type of established bone conductor, which is sometimes called a direct bone conductor, includes a vibrator, which is directly and firmly connected to an anchoring component that is anchored to the skull bone through which the vibrations are directly transmitted from the vibrator to the skullstate prison, housed at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Corcoran. One day, the lieutenant received information there was going to be gang fighting in one of the yards. He went to the yard and requested that additional officers join him. While he waited for backup, he noticed defendant swaggering in a "gangster" fashion. He searched defendant and found a razor blade, which had been removed from its plastic casing (having been originally supplied as a disposable shaver) and fashioned into a weapon.
Defendant was charged and convicted of a violation of Penal Code section 4502. He was sentenced to eight years fully consecutive to the term he was currently serving.

DISCUSSION
The sole issue on appeal is whether, under the circumstances presented here, defendant was entitled to a jury instruction


Amina Hall, (left) University of Akron Campus Services Manager for Rape Crisis Center of Summit and Medina Counties assists her husband Jacob Hall, a deputy with the Summit County Sheriff's Department as he walks in women's heels during the 11th Annual Walk a Mile In Her Shoes - Akron on April 29, 2016. Over 700 people participated in the fundraiser for the Rape Crisis Center of Summit and Medina Counties. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

Image 2 of 3

Kevin Klopfenstein, a police officer with the Creston Police Department rests in his platform heels before participating in the 10th Annual Walk A Mile in Her Shoes fundraising event for the Rape Crisis Center Medina and Summit Counties on April 24, 2015 in Akron. The event raised over $100,000 for the RapeCrisis Center. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

Image 3 of 3

Kevin Klopfenstein, a police officer with the Creston Police Department rests in his platform heels before participating in the 10th Annual Walk A Mile in Her Shoes fundraising event for the Rape Crisis Center Medina and Summit Counties on April 24, 2015 in Akron. The event raised over $100,000 for the Rape Crisis Center. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

Amina Hall, (left) University of Akron Campus Services Manager for Rape Crisis Center of Summit and Medina Counties assists her husband Jacob Hall, a deputy with the Summit County Sheriff's Department as he walks in women's heels during the 11th Annual Walk a Mile In Her Shoes - Akron on April 29, 2016. Over 700 people participated in the fundraiser for the Rape


Black Flash

This is the Black Flash disambiguation page. The Black Flash is a supernatural agent who acts as the "Grim Reaper" for speedsters. His existence is apparently tied to the Speed Force. Because of this, he appears shortly before thNews

Over half of Zimbabweans need food aid: WFP

More than half of Zimbabwe's population, suffering under a severe economic and political crisis, will need food aid in February and March, the World Food Programme said on Thursday. The WFP said in a statement that it aims to assist 5.1 million people in February while a group of U.S.-sponsored aid organisations plans to assist 1.8 million more people in the southern African country. "The overall total for people in need of assistance in February and March is around 7 million," the WFP said. [...] Regional leaders decided at a summit on Tuesday that a unity government should be formed next month. Fears of the cholera spreading in Zimbabwe have stepped up pressure on rival parties to end the political uncertainty.


In mid-July 2007, Abdul announced that she had begun dating J.T.Torregiani, a restaurant owner 12 years her junior. She told Access Hollywood: "He is a good guy. Things are looking upwards. It's looking good right now. I wasn't even looking for someone and that's what usually happens." Abdul and Torregiani broke up in June 2008, citing their hectic work schedules.

Paula Julie Abdul was born June 19, 1962 in San Fernando, California, to Jewish parents. Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born into the Syrian Jewish community in Aleppo, Syria, was raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to the United States. Her mother, the concert pianist Lorraine M., grew up in one of the two Jewish families in Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada, and has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors from Russia andUkraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her. She has a sister named Wendy, who is seven years her senior. In 1980, she graduated from Van Nuys High School.An avid dancer, Paula Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin' in the Rain.Abdul began taking dance lessons at an early age in ballet, Jazz, and Tap. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader and an honor student. At 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1980 appeared in a low-budget Independent musical film, Junior High School.Paula Abdul studied broadcasting at the California State University at Northridge. During her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates


for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team—the famed Laker Girls. Within a year, she became head choreographer.Abdul was married to Emilio Estevez from 1992 to 1994. She married clothing designer Brad Beckerman in 1996 at the New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, Connecticut. They divorced in 1998, citing irreconcilable differences.On Valentine's Day 2006, Abdul appeared on Dr. Phil as part of a prime time special on love and relationships. She was set up on two dates, and Phil McGraw gave her advice. Paula Abdul is an American singer, choreographer, songwriter, dancer, and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 before rising to prominence in the 1980s as a highly sought-after choreographerat the height of the music video era. Abdul later scored a string of pop music hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her with Diana Ross for sixth among the female solo performers who have topped the chart. She won a Grammy for "Best Music Video – Short Form" for "Opposites Attract" and twice won the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography". After her initial period of success, Abdul suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life. She saw renewed fame and success as an original judge on American Idol in the 2000s, which she left after the eighth season. She went on to star on CBS' short-lived television series Live to


Dance, which lasted one season in 2011, and was subsequently a judge on the first season of the American version of The X Factor along with her former American Idol co-judge Simon Cowell, the creator and producer of the show. She was also a guest judge on the All-Stars edition of Dancing with the Stars in 2012 and the tenth season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2013, and more recently has become a permanent judge for the Australian version of the show for its 2014 revival.On December 20, 2004, Abdul was driving her Mercedes on a Los Angeles-area freeway when she changed lanes and hit another vehicle. The driver and passenger snapped a photograph with a cell phone camera and wrote down the license platenumber of the car, which was traced to Abdul. On March 24, 2005, Abdul was fined $900 and given 24 months of informal probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor hit-and-run driving in Los Angeles. In addition to the fines, she was ordered to pay $775 for damage to the other car.On April 4, 2006, Abdul filed a report at a Hollywood police station claiming she had been a victim of battery at a private party at about 1 a.m. April 2, according to L.A.P.D. spokesman police Lt. Paul Vernon. "According to Abdul, the man at the party argued with her, grabbed her by the arm and threw her against a wall," Vernon said. "She said she had sustained a concussion and spinal injuries."In April 2005, Abdul revealed


up adding a little tamarind to the mix. No one dared correct him and he ended up liking what he came up with, and the final product was called sambar, obviously named after him.

Food is a big part of our culture and so is the case in Svatma as well. Svatma has two restaurants, Aaharam and Palaharam. The former is indoor and doubles up for breakfast (Indian and continental) and lunch (only Indian) while the latter is an outdoor setting and caters to the European crowd with continental cuisine.

Their entire cuisine (except for the continental fare of course) has the local Thanjavur connect, something we don’t get to experience in Chennai at all. The breakfast consists of a good spread of Indian (read that as South Indian) andis mixed with 6 ounces (177 milliliters) of water, the resulting drink has the same alcohol content as a standard mixed drink, the company says.

Palcohol's maker expects to begin selling the product this summer. [The Drug Talk: 7 New Tips for Today's Parents]

However, a number of states are taking steps to ban the product, including Colorado, New York and Rhode Island. It is already banned in South Carolina, Louisiana and Vermont, according to the Wall Street Journal. And powered alcohol cannot be sold in Massachusetts, because the state defines an alcoholic beverage as a liquid, according to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Alcohol Beverages Control Commission.

Lawmakers are expressing concern that Palcohol could be more easily transported than liquid alcohol, and thus sneaked into places where alcohol is not allowed.


cover loss of market value when the home is taken, plus up to $50,000 to relieve the expense of moving.

Contributor
Jon Coupal

Jon
Coupal is an attorney and president of the Howard
Jarvis Taxpayers Association -- California's largest
taxpayer organization with offices in Los Angeles
and Sacramento. [go to website][go
to Coupal index]

The use and abuse of eminent domain has become a major issue since the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Kelo v. the City of New London. In this case, the city wanted to take the middle class homes of Susette Kelo and her neighbors to make way for a development including an office building for Pfizer, the giant pharmaceutical company. The court said there were no federal constitutional protections for the homeowners -- even if the property would notwould need to apply directly with the intelligence agencies prior to the event in order to secure interviews.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have long spotlighted the challenge faced by the federal government in recruiting and retaining tech and cyber personnel, with a House panel holding a hearing on the issue as recently as last week.

The Trump administration has faced its own challenges in filling these roles and has lost a flurry of high-ranking IT officials in recent weeks. The chief information officer at Homeland Security, for instance, announced his resignation in early August after just three months on the job.

The Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Council, made up of top IT officials from 28 agencies in the federal executive branch, is hosting the government-wide hiring event. Their goal is


for fear it would hurt his reelection hopes.

At a rally in Florida on Wednesday, Clinton declined to answer a reporter’s question about whether she thought Emanuel should resign—he and Alvarez, both elected officials, say they won’t.

The Department of Justice investigated the Ferguson Police Department last year following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed man named Michael Brown. It also probed the practices of the Cleveland Police Department, one of whose officers could face charges in the killing of a 12-year-old boy. In both cases, investigators determined that officers discriminated against minorities and used force disproportionately against them. McDonald, 17, was armed with a three-inch knife and apparently walking away from officers at the scene when Officer Van Dyke unloaded the first of 16 bullets into him—at leastMolecular Genetic Markers of Intra- and Interspecific Divergence within Starfish and Sea Urchins (Echinodermata).
A fragment of the mitochondrial COI gene from isolates of several echinoderm species was sequenced. The isolates were from three species of starfish from the Asteriidae family (Asterias amurensis and Aphelasterias japonica collected in the Sea of Japan and Asterias rubens collected in the White Sea) and from the sea urchin Echinocardium cordatum (family Loveniidae) collected in the Sea of Japan. Additionally, regions including internal transcribed spacers and 5.8S rRNA (ITS1 - 5.8S rDNA - ITS2) were sequenced for the three studied starfish species. Phylogenetic analysis of the obtained COI sequences together with earlier determined homologous COI sequences from Ast. forbesii, Ast. rubens, and Echinocardium laevigaster from the North Atlantic and E. cordatum from the


the way, just in passing, the rigged 2016 Democratic primary was revealed to the world by Wikileaks, which published the ‘leaked not hacked’ Podesta emails and whose editor-in-chief Julian Assange is currently sitting in London’s maximum security Belmarsh Prison awaiting possible extradition to the US under the US Espionage Act for his role, while at the helm of whistleblowing organisation, in exposing the war crimes, high crimes and corruption of an elite made up of moral midgets such as Hillary Clinton — people who believe that they have right to rule, kill, and enrich themselves exactly as they please.

Speaking of which, Hillary Clinton has not been shy in voicing criticisms of Bernie Sanders as he picks up the kind of support and momentum that is consonant with aAbout Carolina

Through its teaching, research and engagement, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves as an educational and economic beacon for the people of North Carolina and beyond.

History

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the nation’s first state university to open its doors and the only public university to award degrees in the 18th century. Authorized by the N.C. Constitution in 1776, the University was chartered by the N.C. General Assembly Dec. 11, 1789, the same year George Washington first was inaugurated as president. The cornerstone was laid for Old East, the nation’s first state university building, Oct. 12, 1793. Hinton James, the first student, arrived from Wilmington, N.C., Feb. 12, 1795.

View of Old East at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Recent


Rankings and Ratings

Several national publications regularly publish rankings that listed Carolina prominently in categories ranging from academic quality to affordability to diversity to engagement to international presence. Click here to read recent highlights.

Graduates turn their tassles at Commencement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Key Statistics

Carolina is proud of its legacy of excellence and public service and its capacity to help build a just, safe, more prosperous, and sustainable world. Click here for a look at Carolina’s academic community and the breadth of education provided by the University.

Distinguished Alumni honorees at University Day 2013.

The Carolina Covenant

The Carolina Covenant is part of Carolina’s commitment to making college possible for qualified students regardless of their financial means. Eligible low-income students who are admitted to Carolina can enroll withoutworrying about how they will pay for it. The Carolina Covenant also includes academic and personal support services to help Covenant Scholars make the most of their college experience and succeed in completing their undergraduate degree program. Click here to learn more.

Teon Brooks, a former Carolina Covenant Scholar, prepares to observe the brain activity of his friend Matt Lowder, background, on the computer screen in his lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Private Support

Each year, private support provides the funding that creates Carolina’s margin of excellence. Read aboutprivate gifts to Carolina and the Carolina First Campaign, the fifth biggest fund-raising drive among completed campaigns at that time in the history of U.S. higher education and as the largest in the South.

Cake celebrating the passing of


the $2-Billion goal in the Carolina First fundraising campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007)

Students

In fall 2015, Carolina enrolled 4,081 first-year students from a record 31,955 applications. Nearly 77 percent graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class, and the middle 50 percent of the class scored between 1820 and 2130 on the SAT. More than 19 percent were first-generation college students; another 14 percent were eligible for the Carolina Covenant, which promises qualified low-income students the chance to graduate debt-free.

Prof. Lawrence Naumoff takes his English 130 class outside on Polk Place the main academic quad the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Faculty

UNC faculty is dedicated to innovation and excellence in their teaching; their discoveries touch every aspect of society,UNC system campuses.

Grayson Clamp hears for the very first time after receiving an auditory brainstem implant. Photo courtesy of UNC Medical Center Public Affairs.

Education and Cultural Resources

From the Ackland Art Museum and the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and Carolina Performing Arts, Carolina offers a vast array of educational and cultural opportunities.

The Ackland’s permanent collection of more than 16,500 works includes significant holdings of 20th-century and contemporary art, European masterworks, African art, North Carolina pottery and the state’s premier collections of Asian art and works on paper (drawings, prints and photographs).

Carolina Performing Arts brings the entertainment world to Chapel Hill. The 2011-12 season features American icons including Mavis Staples and Allen Toussaint, Europe’s best chamber orchestras and other performers. Astronomy enthusiasts and


schoolchildren from across North Carolina enjoy the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s multimedia star shows and interactive exhibits. The North Carolina Botanical Garden offers displays of native and unusual plants, art exhibits, nature walks, activities for kids, and courses on topics ranging from home gardening to botanical illustration.

Daughter Mary Friday Leadbetter speaks at the memorial service for her father, William C. Friday, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Public Service

UNC was recognized in 2013 for the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Carolina Center for Public Service estimated that over the past year 20,672 Carolina students gave a total of 952,170 hours in service to the(CNN) Less than 12 hours after being caught in a lie about his knowledge of a payoff to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, President Donald Trump turned to an old friend for solace: The conspiracy theory.

In a tweet responding to the release of audio of a secretly recorded conversation between Trump and his one-time personal attorney Michael Cohen, Trump floated the idea that the tape was either incomplete or edited to make him look bad.

Which, of course, doesn't make much rational sense.

The tape's quality -- and length -- is almost certainly the result of the fact that Cohen was secretly taping the conversation. This was not an NPR podcast. This was a surreptitious attempt to capture a conversation.

As for Trump's contentions that he was "presumably saying positive things"


first time that Trump has turned to a conspiracy theory to explain the unexplainable to his backers. Remember that Trump has floated the idea that it isn't actually his voice on the "Access Hollywood" tape in which he is caught speaking in crude terms about women.

This, from The New York Times , in the midst of Roy Moore's campaign for the Alabama Senate last fall, is startling:

"[Trump] sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous 'Access Hollywood' tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women's genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an advisermore recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.)"

That logical contradiction -- Trump admitted his error and apologized for it but then said the voice may not be his at all -- is secondary to his belief that by throwing any sort of uncertainty into the mix, he benefits. Sort of like during the 2016 campaign when Trump suggested that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's father might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Or when he suggested that then-President Barack Obama approved surveillance of his phone lines at Trump Tower in 2016. Or when he said that 3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election. Or when


Rachel Kenny started listening to podcasts in 2015 — and quickly fell behind. "As I started subscribing to more and more podcasts, they started stacking up, and I couldn't keep up at normal speed," the 26-year-old data scientist in Indianapolis told BuzzFeed News. "I also had to listen to the backlist of all the podcasts when I subscribed to them." So Kenny began listening faster: first at 2x, then she worked her way up to 3x. She stopped only because "that's just as fast as the Downcast app allows." She estimates that she listens to five to seven hours of podcasts a day (which equals 15 to 21 hours at normal speed), "so maybe 20 to 40 episodes a day or 100 to 250 a week," she said.are above all, completists. That is, they have an almost obsessive need to listen to every episode of a podcast that they decide to commit to. Take 34-year-old Jason Strickland, who works for a land surveyor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He listens to around eight hours of podcasts at work every day, and listened at normal speed until he came upon the Movies by Minutes series of podcasts, which analyzes iconic movies minute by minute. (In other words, every episode is devoted to one minute of a movie.) When he found it, the hosts had already completed the original Star Wars trilogy, which was 378 episodes, plus a few special episodes, so he started downloading 50 episodes at a time and listening at 2x speed. "It took about


a month per movie to get caught up," he said, explaining that he would listen to whatever podcasts were on his current listening list in the morning, and then power through the Movies by Minutes episodes in the afternoons. "Once I was current, I would then go find another show to download and get caught up, repeating this for all the shows."

"I have often, when finding out about a new podcast with a large back catalog, made myself a 100-hour-plus playlist to catch up."

Sam Borley, a 28-year-old charity shop worker in Felixstowe, England, listens to his 56 weekly podcasts at different speeds, calibrating each one depending on the content and how fast or slow the hosts speak, though he said he listens to most at speeds between 2xnumber the anticipation of watching your favorite entertainment enjoying the summer season on The Deck or taking in the fabulous views of ocean and sky theres nothing that compares to the Trump Marina experience.

:
Treat yourself to breathtaking views of the marina bay from 364 sq ft of casually elegant accommodations. Your bayside getaway the DELUXE ROOM WITH BAY VIEW includes a refrigerator marble-top bath vanity and one king one queen or two double beds fit

JUNIOR SUITE

:
Looking for room to roam At 515 sq ft the JUNIOR SUITE has the space you crave and style that rivals that of the finest city hotels. Sweeping views of the bay marina nearby Brigantine Island complement deluxe amenities including dual plasma televisio

CRYSTAL CORNER SUITE

:
The CRYSTAL CORNER SUITE packs the wow factor. Designed


again, this was a branch that was in the early stages of development. Until nearly the end of the war in 1945 all parachute and dinghy maintenance was carried out by RAF personnel even aboard carriers. Thus there was no structure for promotion for Navy men doing this work.

Thus after leave at Christmas 1946 I left Raven and back to Daedalus on 10th January 1947 and just as quickly to the Drafting Officer. My luck was in. Within a few days, I was told I was to go to HMS Falcon which I knew was the Navel Air Station at Malta. I was sent off on 14 days embarkation leave and then back to Daedalus for vaccinations, innoculations and a medical examination before being kitted out with tropicalQ:

How much does the President have to take the Senate's appointment "advice?"

Article II, Section 2, of the US Constitution (emphasis added) states:

[The President] by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law[.]

Suppose the Senate were to pass a resolution advising the President to appoint a strict "originalist" who has been a long-time member and avid supporter of the Republican Party.  To what extent must the President heed this advice?
Taken further, does this mean the Senate can specifically identify who an appointee shall be?

A:

The President


A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.)
When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Family members of a Salt Lake City couple found dead in an apparent murder-suicide on Interstate 80 say the couple appeared happy and had never hinted there was any trouble in their relationship.

Utah Highway Patrol troopers found Felipe
Rodriguez, 37, and his wife, Iris, 32, deadCollege, Oxford
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom


"When considering a move people are concerned about finding a job in their field, earning enough to afford a home, sending their kids to good schools and feeling like a part of their community," said Kim Castro, executive editor at U.S. News. "The Best Places to Live ranking takes all of that into account – the metro areas that do well are the ones with strong job markets and high quality of life."

Several metro areas saw significant gains year over year. Boston, Massachusetts, moved to No. 8 from No. 30 thanks to a noteworthy drop in the unemployment rate. Salt Lake City's improved cost of living propelled it from No. 27 to No. 10. Hartford, Connecticut, Syracuse, New York, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, all made impressive strides, climbing morethan 20 spots into the top 50. Like Salt Lake City, all three metro areas earned higher affordability scores in 2017.

The 2017 Best Places to Live were determined in part by a public survey of thousands of individuals across the U.S. to find out what qualities they consider important in a home town. The methodology also factors in data from the United States Census Bureau, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as U.S. News rankings of the Best High Schools and Best Hospitals.

Best Places to Live is part of U.S. News' expanding Real Estate channel, which provides rankings, tools and advice to help individuals navigate the housing market, from getting a mortgage and working with an agent to buying and selling


notes, debentures, shares of capital stock, bonds, deeds of trust, mortgages and any legal or equitable interest therein."
 Basing its argument, for the main part, on the foregoing constitutional and statutory law in effect at the time the disputed assessment was made, the plaintiff contends that the property assessed was the trust receipts which were either "notes" or "mortgages" and therefore relieved from taxation, although taxed under the name of "solvent credits".
 It becomes necessary to examine the nature and terms of the trust receipts, a copy of which is attached to the complaint and made a part thereof. It is readily apparent that those trust receipts were prepared for use and were used pursuant to The Uniform Trust Receipts Law as originally passed in 1935. (Stats. 1935,p. 1930; secs. 3012 to 3016.16, inclusive, Civ. Code.) Under this law a trust receipt was given by the automobile dealer, called the trustee, to the plaintiff, called the entruster, to secure repayment by the dealer of money loaned to him by the plaintiff, which money enabled the dealer to pay for automobiles purchased from the manufacturer or distributor. The trust receipt recites that the trustee holds in trust for the entruster, as security for payment on demand of a stated amount, certain described motor vehicles in which "a security interest remains in or is hereby transferred to entruster as security for the payment *161 of the sums mentioned herein, together with interest and charges thereon from date hereof as agreed". The trustee agrees to hold the motor


vehicle in trust as the property of the entruster for the purpose of sale or exchange. The trustee is prohibited from lending, renting, mortgaging, pledging, encumbering, operating, using or demonstrating any of the motor vehicles, but may sell any of them for cash or on terms approved by the entruster and for amounts not less than the amounts due it, the cash and other considerations received to be paid to the entruster. The entruster is given the right to repossess any or all of the motor vehicles upon default by the trustee and to sell them after specified notice of intention to sell. The trust receipt provides that "The proceeds of any such sale or sale sales shall be applied, first, to payment of the expenses thereof; second,it is the unmitigated methodological pluralism in philosophy that offers a comprehensive explanation. Given the generally slow progress in philosophy and its so far unmitigated methodological pluralism, reflection on philosophy's own history may provide us with a helpful corrective. In this respect, the history of philosophy may have instrumental value for doing systematic philosophy. 13 13 Acknowledgements: Earlier drafts and parts of this paper were presented on a number of different occasions: at a workshop on Was bedeutet der aktuellen Philosophie ihre Geschichte? Zur Methodologie der Philosophie? at the Humboldt University Berlin in February 2013, at a workshop on What does philosophy owe to its history? at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (KWI) Essen in April 2015, and at a lecture series on disagreement in philosophy


at the University of Zurich in April 2015. Substantial comments from Dominik Balg, Merrie Bergmann, Anne Burkard, Joachim Horvath, Jens Kipper, Steffen Koch, Jan Wieben, and Marcel van Ackeren helped me to work out a significantly revised final version of this paper. 25 References Armstrong, D. (1989), Universals: An Opinionated Introduction (Boulder, Westview Press). Beckermann, A. (2008), 'Analytische Philosophie: Peter Bieris Frage nach der richtigen Art, Philosophie zu betreiben', Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 56: 599–613. Bieri, P. (2007), 'Was bleibt von der Analytischen Philosophie?', Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 55: 333–44. Black, M. (1952), 'The Identity of Indiscernibles', Mind, 62: 153–64. Bourget, D. & Chalmers, D. (2014), 'What Do Philosophers Believe?', Philosophical Studies, 170: 465–500. Brennan, J. (2010), 'Scepticism About Philosophy', Ratio, 61: 1–16. Chalmers, D. (2015), 'Why Isn'tthe Principles of Morals, 3rd ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press). Hume, D. (1978), A Treatise of Human Nature, 2nd ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press). Kenny, A. (2005), 'The Philosopher's History and the History of Philosophy', in: T. Sorell & G.A.J. Rogers (eds), Analytic Philosophy and the History of Philosophy (Oxford, Oxford University Press), 13–24. Kim, J. (1989), 'Mechanism, Purpose, and Explanatory Exclusion', Philosophical Perspectives, 3: 77–108. Kornblith, H. (2010), 'Believe in the Face of Controversy', in: R. Feldman & T. Warfield (eds), Disagreement (Oxford, Oxford University Press), 29–52. Kripke, S.A. (1980), Naming and Necessity (Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press). Lewis, D. (1973), 'Causation', Journal of Philosophy, 70: 556–67. Melnyk, A. (2008), 'Philosophy and the Study of Its History', Metaphilosophy, 39, 203–19. Moore, G.E. (1959), 'Four Forms of Scepticism',


Clinton pans Trump's campaign shakeup

Hillary Clinton said her Republican rival may have a new lineup of top aides, but dissed the idea that it would mean a new Donald Trump.

Trump reorganized his campaign leadership Wednesday, bringing in Breitbart News Chairman Stephen Bannon as his campaign chief executive and pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager. Clinton, however, doesn’t think the changes will matter.

“I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump has shown us who he is. He can hire and fire anyone he wants from his campaign. They can make him read new words from a teleprompter but he's still the same man who insults Gold Star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities and thinks he knows more about ISIS than our generals,” Clinton said at aRubio Rubin and Fulham’s Emerson Hyndham both made the roster despite being with their club’s first team. Since this tournament does not take place during a FIFA international window, clubs are not required to release their players. It would seem as a foregone conclusion that Hyndman and Rubin would not be released for the tournament—but perhaps there is a glimmer of hope for Ramos.

Odds are that Hyndman and Rubin will not be in Jamaica in January but perhaps either or both of them could make a surprise appearance for a part of the tournament.

Similarly, Erik Palmer-Brown has been recovering from a fractured foot and only began training in December. It qualifies as a surprise to see him on the preliminary roster and odds are against him being part


of the qualifying team. But given how well he has played under Ramos in 2014, don’t be surprised to see him starting at the U-20 World Cup late next spring.

Two Disappointing Omissions

Boxi Yomba—the Georgia native surprised youth national team followers when he signed a deal with Atletico Madrid over the summer. Yomba, 18, only began playing with the U.S. under-20 team in November for a tournament in Spain, and he promptly scored two goals. As of now, it is unclear if Yomba was simply not released by Atletico or whether he is behind other players in the pool. Competition at the forward position is very intense right now with Paul Arriola, Bradford Jamieson IV, Amando Moreno, Alex Muyl, Andrija Novakovich, Rubin, Ben Spencer, and Tommy Thompson all makingthe defendant Safeway. We affirm.
Plaintiff was an invitee in the Safeway store located on East Court Street in Beatrice, Nebraska. While shopping for pop, she was standing in an aisle before the pop gondola. She placed a 6-pack of Fresca in her shopping cart and then a carton containing five bottles of assorted pop. She wanted a bottle of orange pop to fill out that carton and reached over another carton containing two bottles of unnamed pop to secure the bottle of orange. She pulled the bottle of orange from its carton and was in the act of conveying it to her cart when something hard hit the top of her right foot. She completed putting the bottle in her cart and then reached down to pick up


an empty carton from the floor, when she saw blood oozing profusely from the top of her right foot. She was alone in the aisle at the time, but almost immediately the assistant manager, who had heard something fall, arrived on the scene.
Plaintiff testified the pop was stacked on a gondola in the usual manner, and she observed nothing unusual about the pop stand. She does not know whether the bottle which struck her was from the carton she reached over or not. She has no idea where the bottle came from, how it fell, or how the broken glass got on the floor. There is no dispute the broken bottle was a 16-ounce Coca-Cola bottle. The *204 Coca-Cola cartons are stacked on the gondola by a representativeof the Coca-Cola company. The pop was kept in normal 6-pack cartons stacked one on top of the other, with a plastic flap as a divider between each tier of cartons. They are stacked three or four cartons high. Pop had been stacked in substantially the same manner in this store for at least 7 years. No regular inspection is made of the pop shelves, but every time an employee passes it if necessary he straightens it up, although most of the time the pop remains where the deliveryman puts it.
Defendant's manager testified that bottles do not fall off the shelves, but they do occasionally get knocked off. Plaintiff's son, who had worked in a Safeway store in O'Neill, Nebraska, testified that pop was stacked in the same


reasonably safe for the use of an invitee, but that he is not an insurer of the safety of the customers who patronize his place of business.
Plaintiff agrees that this is not a res ipsa loquitur situation, and we are directed to no specific evidence from which we can infer negligence on the part of Safeway. The burden is upon the plaintiff to prove that the condition which resulted in the falling object involved an unreasonable risk of harm to her as an invitee. She was alone in the aisle at the time of the occurrence. She did not observe anything unusual about the pop gondola. She had taken two cartons from the gondola without incident. She was not struck until after she had reached over another cartonis why supporting this motion is so important,” she told the UK Parliament.

She said MPs had heard from a woman who had come directly from Syria and spoke of Christians being killed and tortured, of children being beheaded in front of their parents and of mothers who had seen their own children crucified.

Fiona Bruce, MP (parliament.uk)

Ms Bruce said that Christians and Yazidis had been targeted explicitly because of their religion and ethnicity, and that recognition of ‘genocide’ brings obligations on the part of the international community to prevent, punish and protect.

Scottish MP Ian Blackford suggested that the UK should follow the example set by the Allied governments in 1942 when they made a joint statement condemning genocide.

“Just as we stood against genocide then and made sure that those


routine.Ben's Helicopter: A routine where a volley is started in one hand, while a whip is cracked repeatedly above the head. It starts of with a SLOW HELICOPTER, before moving to a FAST HELICOPTER, before finally volleying in the overhead plane.The final routine I can think of, that is available to every and all two-handed whip crackers, is the Intertwine. Basically, a volley is cracked in the frontal wall plane, while the other repeatedly cracks the whip THROUGH the volley, INTERTWINING the cracks.For more information on beginners routines, check out Simon Martin, and his range of DVDs. His most helpful is Two Handed Whip-cracking, Level 1.Hope this helps.Is success being vilified in America? The successful seem to think so. A new poll from American Express Publishing and Harrison Group finds that 1 percenters no longer like to be seen as such. One-third of members of the group said they "like it when others recognize me as wealthy." Though that number (taken in the fourth quarter of 2013) may sound high, it's down from 40 percent a year earlier. And it's far below the 53 percent who agreed with the statement in 2010. (Read more: The poor should stop whining, says luxury CEO )

An Occupy Los Angeles protest in 2011. Getty Images

Fully 28 percent say they worry about "being scorned for being in the top part of the economy," versus 24 percent who were concerned about


May 28, 2012

Sensible Planning for Euro Collapse

Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, yesterday described as “apocalyptic and unhelpful” talk about what might happen in the event of a eurozone meltdown. He was responding to an interview in this newspaper with Theresa May, the Home Secretary, in which she said the Government was drawing up contingency plans in case there was a sudden influx of immigrants into Britain from elsewhere in the EU. This seems eminently sensible.

RECOMMENDED ARTICLES

When I was asked to write a foreword to Geert Wilders’ new book, my first reaction, to be honest, was to pass. Mr. Wilders lives under 24/7 armed guard because significant numbers of motivated people wish to kill him,... more ››

The word on the lips of many of the 17 leaders ofDangerous waters

Sep 12, 2005 | 12:00 AM

WHERE THERE'S WATER, there are mosquitoes. And where there are mosquitoes, there is disease — even diseases we thought we had eliminated long ago.

In New Orleans, the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina were just the beginning. The waters are teeming with parasites and bacteria as well as deadly chemicals, bringing the danger of dysentery, severe infection and life-threatening diarrhea. And as the water drains or evaporates, standing pools will remain throughout New Orleans and other areas hit by the hurricane, posing an exotic threat seldom seen in the United States or any other industrialized nation: malaria.

The threat, though, is remote. To understand why, and to appreciate the magnitude of the challenge facing the developing world, it is helpful to know more about


11 times in the United States since 1992.

One such outbreak happened in Palm Beach County, Fla., in 2003. It was typical of a phenomenon often called "airport malaria." Seven people came down with the disease, six of whom had never traveled to a malaria-endemic country, and all of whom lived within 10 miles of Palm Beach International Airport. The origins of the outbreak were never discovered, but it's easy to guess what happened: Someone with malaria stepped off an airplane and was bitten by a mosquito, which later bit someone else. Or maybe a malarious mosquito stowed away on board the plane.

The response was dramatic. As with most disease outbreaks, there was extensive coverage in the media. The Palm Beach County Health Department delivered a prerecorded message toexist in the United States, either.

Battle of the bugs

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control takes malaria outbreaks very seriously. The agency still has a significant malaria branch, somewhat surprising given that the disease all but disappeared from these shores more than half a century ago. This is largely because of the persistent threat of a new outbreak, but it might also have something to do with the CDC's origins: The agency was born to fight malaria.

During World War II, the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas was established to protect American soldiers stationed in bases across the Southeastern United States, where the disease was still endemic. After the war, that office became the Communicable Disease Center, whose name was later changed to the Centers for Disease Control.


Its mandate went beyond malaria, but that was its main focus in the early years — which is why it was headquartered in Atlanta, which was still susceptible to malaria, instead of Washington, D.C.

The CDC helped lead a hugely successful campaign against the disease. The insides of thousands of homes across the South were sprayed with DDT; sources of standing water were drained or sprayed with pesticides; supplies were boosted of the drug chloroquine, which at that time was highly effective against malaria (the parasite in many parts of the world has now grown resistant to it).

Within five years of the CDC's founding, malaria was essentially wiped out in the United States.

But the agency and other organizations that led the fight, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority andthe Rockefeller Foundation, only deserve partial credit. At least as big a factor as the drugs and DDT was a change in economic circumstances, as well as agricultural reforms. By the time the CDC got involved in 1946, malaria was already fading fast.

Margaret Humphreys, a history professor at Duke University and author of "Malaria: Poverty, Race and Public Health in the United States," says that one of the most important factors in the eradication of malaria was the economic policy of the New Deal.

Under the New Deal, beginning in the early 1930s farmers were paid to leave their land fallow; this forced Southern farmworkers, who were the most common victims of malaria at the time because of their constant work in the fields and their proximity to big


mosquito populations, to move to towns to look for other jobs. New Deal loans to farmers, which allowed them to buy tractors and other equipment that meant less demand for labor, also helped stop the spread of the disease.

Rural, poor and sick

Malaria, particularly in the United States, is largely a rural disease. Towns and cities have a smaller mosquito population because standing water is drained to make way for development; rural areas don't often have the tax base to pay for extensive drainage.

The nation's growing prosperity after World War II also played a key role, helping to create the modern infrastructure that is now so effective against malaria. Even as simple an improvement as screens on a house's doors and windows — a rarity in the rural SouthernA car accident changes the life of Dr. Stephen Strange's (Benedict Cumberbatch) forever since he lost the use of his hands. Stephen then sets out on a journey of healing, only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

In early 1945, as World War II is nearing its end, Gen. Douglas MacArthur selects Lt. Col. Henry Mucci to command a bold mission in the Philippines: to rescue 500 American Soldiers who have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years.


government of the South Moluccas fled to The
Netherlands with 12,000 Moluccan soldiers and their families in
1950 / 1951 and established a government in exile. Unfortunately
frustration seems to have gotten the better of the "RMS"
(Republik Maluku Selatan) and factions of it committed "terror"
attacks for example in 1978, when one RMS group took 70 civilians
hostage inside a Dutch government building in Assen, Holland /
The Netherlands after which the Dutch Government withdrew their
support for the organization.

5) The South Moluccas is or rather was predominantly Christian
but what many describe as deliberate attempts to change this through
"encouraged" Muslim Indonesian migration to the region
may have changed this.

6) Although the RMS lost its legitimacy in the Netherland, the
right for the people of the South Moluccas Islands to achieve
independence was not lost with it. International humanTeenage '21st century highwaymen' guilty of murder Published duration 18 May 2018

image copyright Met Police image caption Troy Thomas (left) and Nathan Gilmaney have been convicted of murder

Two teenage criminals who stabbed a charity youth worker to death during a "four-hour spree of violence" have been convicted of murder.

Moped riders Nathan Gilmaney, 19, and Troy Thomas, 18, from Maida Vale, west London, killed Abdul Samad, 28, as they tried to rob as many people as possible on the evening of 16 October.

The pair, described as "21st Century highwaymen" in court, had admitted manslaughter but denied murder.

They are due to be sentenced in June.

'Aggression and blood lust'

Prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told the Old Bailey the defendants were "highwaymen of the 21st Century who thought they had the right to


threaten and rob whoever they found, who attacked their targets in a brazen and shocking manner... for no reason other than simple aggression and blood lust".

He added: "By the end of their four-hour spree of violence, they had committed nine knife-point robberies, gratuitously stabbed four of their defenceless victims and killed Abdul Samad."

image copyright Met Police image caption Abdul Samad died after staggering home having been stabbed in the chest

Mr Samad handed over valuables when confronted in St Mary's Terrace, Paddington, but Gilmaney got off his moped and stabbed him in the chest anyway.

He collapsed on the doorstep of his home in front of his parents. Paramedics took him to hospital where he later died.

The court heard the defendants were unmoved by the plight of their victim andprowled the streets for their next target minutes later.

Thomas admitted robbing the victims, but denied responsibility for the violence.

Gilmaney had pleaded guilty to the robberies and violence, and admitted manslaughter, but claimed he did not intend really serious harm.

The jury found Thomas guilty of unlawful wounding and three counts of wounding with intent.

image copyright CPS image caption The defendants were caught on CCTV in a lift, having taken their balaclavas and helmets off, as they attended an address to sell their stolen goods

image copyright CPS image caption CCTV footage on the night shows Gilmaney filling up their scooter with petrol

Mr Samad was due to marry his girlfriend Sultana Ahmed.

Ms Ahmed said in a statement her boyfriend was "the change we needed to see in the world" and said


Carlo Gallopa Mercado at his arraignment on three counts of murder

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

SAN DIEGO – Prosecutors announced Thursday they will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing three young people on Christmas Eve in 2013.

Carlo Mercado, 30, is charged with murder in the Dec. 24, 2013, deaths of Ilona Flint and Salvatore Belvedere, and the killing of Belvedere’s older brother, Gianni, whose decomposing body was found in the trunk of his car in Riverside on Jan. 17, 2014.

Deputy District Attorney Brian Erickson said there appeared to be no connection between Mercado and the victims and the defendant allegedlyThe following video covers “Common Law”, and legal concept unknown to most of the citizenry in Texas, and America at large. Join me in viewing this video and sharing your options about in the comments section below.

There are number of people who want to live and work in the United States of America. As of recent policy changes by US Pres. Barack Obama, there are number of new programs coming available so to help facilitate a speedy and civil immigration and naturalization process.

No longer do the people have to risk their lives traveling across vast Southwestern deserts in order to reach the Promised Land known as the United States of America. Now, new policy changes dictatorial he placed in effect by Pres. Barack Hussein Obama will allow people


to lawfully immigrate into the United States without fear of deportation, criminal charges, ice raids, or being separated from their families at a moment’s notice.

New Immigration Programs

Texas immigration attorneys all over the state are able to help you take advantage of the new Dr. program, deferred actions for parent accountability, numerous processes for citizenship via naturalization, and removal of any conditions preventing you from lawfully attaining citizenship in the United States of America.

The United States has a number of programs available for people all over the world to lawfully immigrate into the country with an opportunity to gain lawful employment, work visas, and educational visas.

There also a number of attorneys who are willing to go above and beyond the call of duty to keep you out of jail,Ledezna-Vicuna was one of a total of 14 illegals captured in the El Paso Sector after attempting to sneak into the U.S.

Ledezna-Vicuna was caught alone near the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry. After interrogating him, agents learned he had two outstanding warrants in the United States – one for aggravated assault, and another issued by the Albuquerque Police Department for suspicion of homicide, according to Aaron Martinez of the El Paso Times.

If you’ve never heard of the fighting south of the Texas border between the Mormons or the Mexican drug lords then this video from Vice will take you to the front line of the situation. In Mexico, only criminals are allowed to own weapons due to the fact that guns are banned. Making for an unfair


Speaker Paul Ryan's announcement this morning that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term was a familiar scene. The year is different, the main character is different, the immediate circumstances are different, but the dramatic arc is identical: Paul Ryan was swallowed by the same forces that devoured Eric Cantor and John Boehner before him — the same forces that gave us Donald Trump.

Ryan, the earnest Wisconsin lawmaker and former vice presidential candidate quite plausibly has tired of being a long-distance dad to his three teenaged children. At his announcement, he sang notes in the key of "Mission Accomplished." "I like to think I've done my part, my little part in history to set us on a better course," he said. But there wasa lachrymose violin playing in the background. Paul Ryan, politically speaking, is a broken man.

Boehner, the former GOP speaker from Ohio, Cantor, the former Majority Leader from Virginia, and now Ryan: each of these men, to varying degrees, were in the political vanguard of intellectual conservatism, the movement that captured the House in 1994 and changed the face of Washington forever. I have been acquainted with all three of them personally; I do not believe either one of them cynically believed the movement was a ruse to deliver goods to owners of capital while torquing up the white working class with more viscerally satisfying campaigns of ethnic resentment of religious revanchism.

Yet that it is what the Republican Party has become. Donald Trump did not "hijack" it. He is


the culmination of the very darkest elements of a pragmatic bargain that began in the campaigns of Barry Goldwater and, later, Richard Nixon. The Tea Party, so-called liberty conservatism" or "constitutional conservatism," the alt-right — these splinter movements within the Republican firmament joined fantastical fiscal radicalism to the ethnic, racial, religious, and class resentments that bind the Republican coalition.

The arrow of the southern strategy, and of "white flight," pointed logically to birtherism and travel bans. Trump did not engineer this moral and intellectual declension. He's simply its latest and most successful champion.

Cantor, Boehner, and Ryan genuinely believed in the Sunny Side of Conservatism, the optimism of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. They believe that reducing taxes and lightening the burden of regulation on businesses leads to innovation andif they were to have any purchase in 21st-century America, would have to answer a different set of questions than they did in 1979. Two years after Cantor was dispatched, someone did rise up in the Republican Party to answer the peal of populism. That someone was Donald Trump.

His ascendance marks the end of Boehner-Cantor-Ryan conservatism. However much Paul Ryan feels he accomplished over the last 18 months will pale in comparison to the existential demise to which he, exhausted, permitted to happen on his watch.

History will remember that more than it will the impact of reversible tax cuts.


bringing from Mexico.  When he repeated the question in Spanish, she replied in Spanish.  According to Inspector Gomes, she said, "Nada, mi ropa, nada mas," which means "Nothing, my clothes, nothing more."  According to her, she said "Mi ropa, las mantillas (sic) y alhajas," which means, "My clothes, tablecloths and jewelry."

3
When Gomes searched Acevedo's duffel bag, he first found some tablecloths.  He asked her how many tablecloths she had, and what she intended to do with them.  She said there were ten, and that they were not for sale.  Gomes continued searching the duffel bag, and found three transparent plastic bags containing a large quantity of gold jewelry, later stipulated to have a value of about.$19,000.  After finding the first bag,Gomes asked Acevedo what was in the bag, and she replied in English, "It's jewelry."  As Gomes was in the process of taking out the other two bags of jewelry, Acevedo made an unsolicited statement that the jewelry belonged to someone else and she was merely delivering it for that person.

4
After placing all the jewelry on the inspection counter, Inspector Gomes went to find Customs Inspector Ronald Myslinski, and told him, "I think we've got a biggie here."  Gomes told Myslinski he was sure that the jewelry he had found was undeclared.

5
Myslinski then questioned Acevedo further.  At first, Acevedo continued to deny that the jewelry was hers, but she eventually admitted that it belonged to her.

6
Acevedo was arrested and charged with importing merchandise without declaring