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His reasoning behind the determination included the following facts: damage was not over $500,000; there were no injuries or fatalities and no explosions.

He did point out that the insurance company “is probably going to bring in a private investigator tomorrow,” April 10th. He reiterated, however, that he felt there was nothing suspicious.

The Merkley Street home had been listed for sale at the time of the fire for a list price of $239,000.

Ontario East British Home Child Family, in partnership with Upper Canada Village, is pleased to announce that the Aultsville Train Station will house a British Home Child exhibit on weekends from August 31st 2013 until September 28, 2013.

Between the 1860’s and the 1930’s, over 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent to Canada to


work as indentured servants in the homes and farms of this country. These children, ranging in age from infancy to 16 years, were removed from their homes by philanthropic organizations and sent to Canada in hopes of securing a better future for them.

After travelling to Canada by ship and spending time at one of the many receiving homes located in this country, the British Home Child would often travel to their new “home” via train. There is little doubt that many of these littlest of immigrants would have been found waiting in or near a building such as the Aultsville Train Station for pick up by their new “family”.

It is for this reason that the Ontario East British Home Child Family, which seeks to preserve and promote thestory of the British Home Child, approached Upper Canada Village to seek permission to house a collection of memorabilia and information on British Home Children in Canada at the Aultsville Station.

The Aultsville Station will be open from 12 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays from August 31st until September 28, 2013.

The exhibit will be composed of various artifacts and information that have been collected by British Home Child Descendants and interested members of the public.

On site there will be a member of the OEBHCF available to provide information and answer questions as required.


A YOUNG soldier has told of being strip-searched by police in front of his home as the Queensland Government's tough anti-bikie laws continue to take a toll on recreational riders.

1RAR soldier Private Noah Schefe, 22, who is a member of the Townsville chapter of the Patriots Motorcycle Club, was searched by police outside his home about three weeks ago, late at night, after he returned from the chapter's clubhouse.

He was not charged with any offences.

Patriots Australia is a military club for serving, former regular and reserve members of the Australian, Commonwealth and Allied Defence Forces.

It regularly participates in fundraising for charities, recently raising $4500 for Legacy Townsville.

The club publicly condemns all criminal activity, and is not included in the government's list of bikie gangs declared as criminal organisations.

media_camerabikie who's moved into the neighbourhood."

There is about 20 members of the Patriot's Townsville chapter, who based their constitution on the Defence Law Manual, following the rule of civilian law.

``We're only doing good things for the community,'' Pte Schefe said.

``To be treated like a criminal, for the same reason someone's shot somebody on the Gold coast, it's absolutely ridiculous."

Local Government Minister and Mundingburra MP David Crisafulli told motorcyclists gathered at a public rally at Anderson Park yesterday the new laws should not be making innocent people feel like they were being treated as criminals.

At least 100 motorcyclists attended the protest, alongside riders from across the state as a show of solidarity against the laws, aimed at criminal bikie gangs, that have resulted in the harassment of law-abiding people.

Mr


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Sickened by moral corrosion in his own shadowy cabal, Benedict can only rid Rome of its malign influence by resigning... a leading Catholic writer's explosive analysis

The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrung his hands above his head in triumph as he emerged as Pope on to the balcony of St Peter’s eight years ago. He had won!

He had longed to be Pope. He has loved being Pope. He expected to die as Pope.

Two weeks ago he announced in Latin he wasn’t up to it any more. Up to what? He spent most of his time writing and took time off to tinkle on the piano and stroke his cat.

He’s been waited on hand and foot. He has


them was a psychopath.

They were sacked by a council of all the bishops and cardinals to get back to one Pope at a time. Since then, every Pope has died in office.

Resignation isn’t in Benedict’s vocabulary. The real reason he has quit is far more spectacular.

It is to save the Catholic Church from ignominy: he has voluntarily delivered himself up as a sacrificial lamb to purge the Church of what he calls ‘The Filth’. And it must have taken courage.

Here is the remarkable thing you are seldom told about a papal death or resignation: every one of the senior office-holders in the Vatican – those at the highest level of its internal bureaucracy, called the Curia – loses his job.

A report Benedict himself commissioned into the state ofthe Curia landed on his desk in January. It revealed that ‘The Filth’ – or more specifically, the paedophile priest scandal – had entered the bureaucracy.

He resigned in early February. That report was a final straw. The Filth has been corroding the soul of the Catholic Church for years, and the reason is the power-grabbing ineptitude and secrecy of the Curia – which failed to deal with the perpetrators. Now the Curia itself stands accused of being part of The Filth.

Benedict realises the Curia must be reformed root and branch. He knows this is a mammoth task.

He is too old, and too implicated, to clean it up himself. He has resigned to make way for a younger, more dynamic successor, untainted by scandal – and a similarly recast


Curia.

Benedict was not prepared to wait for his own death to sweep out the gang who run the place.

In one extraordinary gesture, by resigning, he gets rid of the lot of them. But what then?

The Curia are usually quickly reappointed. This time it may be different. It involves scores of departments, like the civil service of a middling-sized country.

It has a Home and Foreign Office called the Secretariat of State. There’s a department that watches out for heresy – the former Holy Inquisition which under Cardinal Ratzinger dealt with, or failed to deal with, paedophile priests.

Who is next in line? Pope Benedict announced his resignation as head of the Catholic Church last month

Two weeks ago Benedict announced in Latin he wasn¿t up to it any more

And there isa Vatican Bank, the dubiously named Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), which was rocked by scandal in the early Eighties for links with the mafia.

The Curia is a big operation. It maintains contact with all the bishops of the world, more than 3,000, in 110 countries.

The Curia oversees the hundreds of thousands of priests who care for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. The flow of information, and money, in and out of the Vatican is prodigious.

What makes the bureaucrats different from normal executives is they don’t go home and have another life.

Unless you’re a full cardinal, with a nice flat and housekeeper, you go back on a bus to the microwave and TV in a Vatican-owned garret.

Rivalries between departments, vendettas between individuals, naked ambition, calumny, backstabbing and


intrigues are endemic.

The former president of the Vatican Bank, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, once told me that the Curia is a ‘village of washerwomen. They wash clothes, punch ’em, dance on ’em, squeezing all the old dirt out’.

Confidant: The Pope with his secretary Georg Ganswein

But who was he to talk? In that same interview Marcinkus admitted he appropriated $250 million from the Vatican pension fund to pay a fine, levied by the Italian government, for financial misdemeanours. Amazingly, he saw nothing wrong with that.

Not surprisingly, some of the bureaucrats let off steam in unpriestly ways. Some are actively gay men who cannot normalise their lives with a partner because of Catholic teaching.

They frequent discreet bars, saunas and ‘safe houses’. On another level there are individuals known to have achorister in St Peter’s was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes, one of them a seminarian, for a papal gentleman-in-waiting who was also a senior adviser in the Curial department that oversees the church’s worldwide missionary activities.

Last autumn Benedict ordered three trusted high-ranking cardinals to investigate the state of the Curia. This was the report that was delivered to him just weeks ago.

It was meant for Benedict’s ‘eyes only’ but details of a sex ring and money-laundering scams last week reached the Italian weekly Panorama. Then the daily La Repubblica ran the story.

The timing of the report has coincided with fresh allegations of priestly sexual abuse in Germany. Meanwhile, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Cardinal Sean Brady of Ireland have been accused of covering up paedophile


abuse.

Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, left, and Cardinal Sean Brady of Ireland, right, have been accused of covering up paedophile abuse

Benedict has resigned to ensure that the whole ‘Filth’ from many countries of the world right up to the Vatican centre is cleansed. He has given up his job to kick out all the office-holders and start again.

While the college of cardinals appears to have been shocked by the resignation, Benedict’s drastic decision was both predicted and strongly recommended two years ago by an eminent American psychologist and former priest.

In 2011, Dr Richard Sipe, a greatly respected world expert on the priestly abuse scandal, declared that only the Pope’s resignation would resolve the paedophile priest crisis. Sipe charged that ‘along with other bishops, Benedict was complicit earlierin tolerating and covering up the crimes of the priests’.

This month a documentary film, Mea Maxima Culpa, is on release in the UK. It claims that Benedict, as Cardinal Ratzinger, refused to remove a paedophile priest called Father Murphy in the Nineties.

Sipe concluded that the Church’s only hope was a ‘courageous act’ on the part of the Pope. He could begin to heal the Church ‘by resigning from the papacy and calling for the resignation of all the other bishops, like him, who were complicit in the abuse scandal’.

'Benedict's self-sacrifice is the biggest ever gamble in the Church'

So the Pope’s resignation could be just the beginning of a wave of resignations, and/or sackings, when the new Pope comes in.

With just three days left of his pontificate, Benedict accepted


with lightning speed Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s resignation. O’Brien was not involved in covering up for paedophile priests – but allegations that he had made inappropriate advances towards priests in the Eighties were enough for Benedict to confirm that he was not to join the conclave.

On Tuesday, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, former head of the Catholic Church in England, declared that the Vatican must ‘put its own house in order’.

In a bold castigation of the papacy and the Curia, the cardinal said: ‘There is no doubt that today there needs to be renewal in the Church, reform in the Church, and especially of its government.’

The cardinal was referring to the decision made at an historic meeting of the world’s bishops in 1962, known as the Second Vatican Council, which calledfor devolution of power from Rome.

Bishops and lay Catholics throughout the world complain that the shift of authority away from Rome to the local churches has not happened. As a result, the absolute power of the Vatican has been corrupting absolutely.

The establishment of a large, over-powerful Curia is a quirk of history. When the Pope lost his papal territories, which stretched from Venice down to Naples, in the mid 19th Century, the civil service stayed on to run the Church from Rome.

On Tuesday, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O¿Connor, former head of the Catholic Church in England, declared that the Vatican must ¿put its own house in order¿

The culture of a highly centralised Church government is now deeply entrenched. John Paul II, the energetic superstar Pope, seemed just the man to


The Hualapai Tribe is expanding tourist offerings at the west rim of the Grand Canyon.

More than 1 million people a year visit Grand Canyon West, outside the boundaries of the national park. It's best known for the Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped glass bridge that juts out 70 feet from the canyon wall and gives visitors a view of the Colorado River 4,000 feet below.

The tribal corporation that runs it recently opened a restaurant in a connected visitor center that had been the subject of a bitter dispute between a late Las Vegas businessman and the tribe.

In January, the corporation plans to open a pair of zip lines that will send guests nearly 1,000 feet above a side canyon. Each zip line will carry four people.this message to say, the choice should be yours."

The ad highlights the ongoing debate on how Democrats move ahead on the issue of health care after a groundswell of House candidates successfully campaigned on the issue in 2018, in part leading to the party's majority in the lower chamber.

Sanders and Warren's Medicare for All plans have been a top issue in the debates, with the progressive senators pushing to replace private health insurance with a single plan run by the government.

Buttigieg criticized Warren last week for not saying whether her health care plan would raise middle-class taxes, calling her "evasive" on the issue.

"Senator Warren is known for being straightforward and was extremely evasive when asked that question, and we've seen that repeatedly," Buttigieg said last Thursday during an


are designed to be automatically released by a relatively small force and relatively slight movement applied to the panic bar from the inside of the building to facilitate actuation of the panic bar and unlocking of the door upon application of pressure toward the surface of the door upon which the panic exit device is mounted. Typically, such panic exit devices include a primary latch bolt mounted in the vertical free edge of the door at approximately the level of the panic exit device and a pair of secondary latch bolts at the top and at the bottom of the door, all operated from the panic bar. Usually, a main center case is provided having bell crank mechanisms interconnecting a rectilinearly reciprocating control link activated by a panicmounted on the inside with no means of entry from the outside. This door always remains locked from the outside. The other door uses a high security lock as a means for passage from the outside of the door to the inside. The present invention is designed to eliminate the need for two doors where both high security and panic egress requirements are needed, and which permits operation of the panic exit lock mechanism to retract the primary latch bolt responsive to and outside key or outside activation of a remote control access system without retracting the high security lock, and which provides that the primary latch bolt in the panic exit device will not retract when the high security lock is retracted. In other words, both the


six
inches to over 240 feet; and can weigh from approximately four ounces
to over 32,000 pounds. The one thing they have in common is that their
numbers and uses are growing dramatically. In the United States alone,
approximately 50 companies, universities, and government organizations
are developing and producing some 155 unmanned aircraft designs.
Regulatory standards need to be developed to enable current technology
for unmanned aircraft, and unmanned aircraft operations, to comply with
Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Additionally, research
needs to be performed to assess and mitigate operational safety and
efficiency issues to enable routine UAS operations in the NAS.
Congressional Mandate Under FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012
On February 14, 2012, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012
was signed by the President. The Act includes specific requirements for
unmanned aerial [aircraft] systems andthe date
the pilot project is established.
No later than 90 days after the date of completing a pilot project,
the Administrator shall submit a report to: the Committee on Armed
Services, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of
Representatives; and, the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. The report will
include a description and assessment of the progress being made in
establishing special use airspace to fill the immediate need of DoD.
The program shall terminate on the date that is five years after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
II. Discussion
To meet the Congressional timeline and increasing demand from the
UAS community, the FAA intends to designate UAS test sites based on
locations/applications submitted by interested government agencies,
private


agonists (LABA). It has been also suggested that tiotropium exerts its beneficial effects through mechanisms other than the reduction on the cholinergic tone of the airways, some of which still need to be confirmed in humans \[[@CR17]\].

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Electronic searches were undertaken in MEDLINE, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library and Scopus databases. The registers were searched using the keywords "asthma" AND "tiotropium" from the date of inception to March 2017. FollowingMiquan city in the western province of
Xinjiang reported 2,604 poultry died on Nov. 15, the Ministry of
Agriculture said in a statement on its Web site today.

The above report of yet another outbreak of H5N1 in Xinjiang Province
highlights a failure to control the infections there in spite of
repeated vaccination campaigns. The initial report of H5N1 in
Xinjiang province was for a June 1 outbreak in Tacheng.
This outbreak followed the May outbreak in Qingahi, which touched off a
major vaccine program for Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Tibet regions.
On June 10 there was another outbreak in Xinjiang in Changji
just northwest of the capital, Urumqi (see June
map).

The two June outbreaks were under the migratory bird flight path from
Qinghai Lake to Chany Lake in Novosibirsk, Russia. The July
outbreaks (see July
map) provided convincing evidence that H5N1 was


being transported
and transmitted by migratory birds.

The November 9 outbreaks in the Beidalu and Anning regions of Urumqi
signaled a return of the migratory birds from Russia and
Kazakhstan. This was followed by November 10 outbreaks in Hetian
City, including the Gujianbage section. Another outbreak began on
November 12 in the big bay region of Urumqi followed by nearby
outbreaks in Miquan on November 15 and Dabancheng on November 16.
Thus, the reported outbreaks in Xinjiang
have been reported at a rate of one per day for the past week.

The clustering of these outbreaks in Xinjiang in spite of major
vaccination efforts highlights the difficulties of controlling H5N1
infections, especially when associated with migratory birds.
Similar difficulties were encountered in Liaoning
Province where there have been repeated outbreaks and boxun reports
indicated 77
people have died from H5N1 infections.

Official reports have describedevents leading up to and during a chess federation

meeting, the chess players filed suit against the federation in

Puerto Rico Superior Court, alleging violations of their rights

protected by the United States and Puerto Rico constitutions and

Puerto Rico law.     The chess federation removed the case to federal

court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441.                The chess players filed a

second case, similar to the first, again in Puerto Rico court, this

time excluding and waiving any claims under federal law. The chess

federation      removed    this    case    as     well,   the   district


                             -2-
Chessplayers"), are members of the Puerto Rico Chess Federation,

appellee Federación de Ajedrez de Puerto Rico, Inc. ("FAPR"). FAPR

is a private, not-for-profit corporation, organized under the laws

of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, established for the promotion

and dissemination of chess. As a member of the international chess

federation, Fédération Internationale des Eches ("FIDE"), FAPR also

participates in international chess competitions.

             Every two years, FAPR elects a Board of Directors in

charge of the administration of the affairs of the organization.

The election of interest in this case was scheduled to take place

at theordinary meeting scheduled for January 2011. On November 7,

2010, one of the Chessplayers, Cristóbal Vega-Adorno, submitted his

candidacy for FAPR President in the upcoming election.               The next

day,   ten   FAPR   members     submitted   a   petition   calling      for   an

extraordinary    meeting   on    November   20,   2010,    to   amend   FAPR's

constitution and restructure its organization administratively and

fiscally.

             FAPR's then-administrator, Vance Berríos, sent a message

to the group e-mail address


  Superior    Court    of   Puerto   Rico,   seeking

invalidation of the November 20 meeting and the newly adopted

constitutional amendments.            This request alleged FAPR violated

rights guaranteed to its members under the Constitution of the

United States, the Constitution of Puerto Rico, and the General

                                       -4-
Corporations Law of Puerto Rico.      FAPR's counterplay was to remove

the case to the Federal District Court of Puerto Rico.

  their favor on what they

asserted was now a request for permanent injunction.            The district

                                     -8-
court considered FAPR's motion as it applied to the Chessplayers'

request for a permanent injunction, ultimately granting summary

judgment in favor of FAPR, and dismissed the Chessplayers' claims

under the United States and Puerto Rico constitutions premised on

state action by FAPR.         As to the Chessplayers' Puerto Rico law

claims, the district court determined that FAPR's actions did not

warrant judicial intervention and dismissed the


of speech and to freedom of association of the
    co-plaintiffs guaranteed by the Constitution of the
    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Constitution of the
    United States of America. . . .

     37. The series of arguments contained in this petition,
    and specially the elements just described, illegally
    injured the right to vote, and the rights of freedom of
    speech and of free association of the above-mentioned
    members of the FAPR.       These are rights that are

                     in assemblies of the FAPR,
     including decisions with an impact on the use of public
     funds that the institution receives as a direct allotment
     from the PR Legislative Assembly; and particularly
     including the right to vote directly for the president
     and the other members of the Board of Directors of the
     FAPR every two years; and the right of freedom of
     expression and freedom of association guaranteed by the
     Constitution of the Commonwealth of PR and the
     Constitution of the United States of America. (emphasis
     added).

These paragraphs plainly


Existing Members

            The Chessplayers challenge FAPR's exclusion of certain

members from participating in the extraordinary meeting on the

grounds they were not "active" members.                They specifically take

issue   with     former    president     Añeses's    definition    for   "active"

membership, which he enforced prior to and at the extraordinary

meeting.    The definition of "active" imposed by Añeses allowed

members who were "up to date with the payment of their membership

fees" and "also participated in at least one chess tournament

sponsored by the Federation during the immediately preceding twelve

months" to          The definition of "active" employed by Añeses draws from

the   FIDE     (the       International     Chess   Federation)    handbook,

specifically the section pertaining to the criteria for ranking the

top FIDE chess players.         Six times each year, the Qualification

Commission of FIDE prepares a list of the top active players; a

player will not be included on the list if he or she is inactive.

The handbook describes inactivity as when a player has played "no

rated games in a one year period." Añeses's definition of "active"

combined     the   FIDE    handbook's


Tribunal of Australia (AATA) deputy president Brian Rayment, Queen’s Counsel, which was published on the AATA website.

“The uncorroborated evidence given by the applicant that orders were given to him to assassinate a Russian spy did not satisfy me that orders had been given to him in those terms, or that he was acting on any such basis,” he added.

The respondent in the tribunal, the Australian Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, had argued that asylum is not owed to Sirul if there are serious reasons for considering that he committed a serious and non-political crime in Malaysia before entering Australia.

In 2009, Sirul and Azilah Hadri were found guilty of murdering Altantuya in 2006 but were released in 2013 on appeal.

The Federal Court reinstated their death sentence in 2015just as it did in section 706(k) with respect to attorneys' fees of the EEOC and the United States.

Costs of special master

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In opposing the district court's taxation of one-half the special master's fees and expenses to them, the unions make the point that only one of the four Georgia class members with seniority claims won before the special master.  However, the district court correctly found that the Private Plaintiffs "prevailed on such issues as the burden of proof and the reemployment rights of former employees."  Moreover, of the fifteen claimants before the special master, he awarded relief to nine (including the one Georgia class member) and denied relief to six (including the other three Georgia claimants).12 That plaintiffs were not successful on all claims does not


Conservative Party lawyer Arthur Hamilton, who wrote a $13,500 cheque to cover Senator Mike Duffy's legal fees earlier this year, also assisted MP Dean Del Mastro while he was in caucus.

Del Mastro is no longer in the Conservative caucus after he was charged under the Elections Act with filing a false document and failing to report $21,000 in expenses from the 2008 election. The allegations had been dogging Del Mastro for more than a year.

But Del Mastro said he received free legal advice from the party's lawyer while he was in the caucus and after he left to sit as an independent.

"I never submitted any invoices from my personal lawyer to the party for payment. That said, [Conservative Party of Canada] lawyer Arthur Hamilton has assisted me throughoutthe House of Commons that NDP Leader Tom Mulcair had legal fees covered by his party when he was a Quebec Liberal MNA.

Edmonton Conservative MP Peter Goldring said Wednesday he paid his own "very expensive" legal fees while facing a criminal charge this year.

Goldring was acquitted in June of refusing to provide a breath sample after he had run up significant legal bills of his own.


[Ultrastructure of the surface sculpture of the nematodes Thelazia gulosa and Thelazia rhodesi].
An electron-microscope study of the cuticle of two thelazia species revealed very interesting architectonics of the sculpture of the body surface of these nematodes. The surface layer of the cuticle is crosswise and lengthwise ridged. While certain uniformity of the shape and distribution of the surface structures can be seen in Thelazia gulosa, the case is contrary in Thelazia rhodesi. The ridges and projections of the cuticle have different structure and incidence in particular thirds of the nematode body. This unusually formed structure of body surface, which is found in thelazia, complies with the fixation and locomotion of these nematodes at the exacting place of their parasitizing--in the host's eye.had agreed to provide the nuclear reactors.

Bulgarian authorities have already said that Belene could be built without state guarantees or obligatory long-term contracts for the government to purchase power from it.

"Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said the government is looking for a strategic private investor to develop the project," the government's press office said in a statement.

In December, the Bulgarian government said that Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China's biggest lender by assets, was ready to finance the Belene nuclear power project. China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has also expressed an interest in investing in the project.

During their phone call, Borisov and Putin also underlined their mutual interest in the construction of the natural gas hub on Bulgarian territory, the government's press office said.

Plans for a hub


at the Black Sea port of Varna, which would store and transport gas from Russia and the Caspian Sea to southeastern and central Europe, follow the cancellation of Russian gas giant Gazprom's South Stream gas pipeline project, which would have shipped Russian gas under the Black Sea via Bulgaria to central Europe.

(Reporting by Angel Krasimirov; Editing by Susan Fenton)collection!

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Alan Tracy 'Ricochet'

Named after astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Alan Tracy was born on March 12th, 2044, and is now 21 years old. Caring and romantic, he has a love of motor-racing and was a champion driver prior to becoming the pilot of Thunderbird 3, International Rescue's massive space rocket.

The blond-haired, baby-faced astronaut is utterly dedicated to International Rescue, meeting his tremendous responsibilities with a maturity that belies his years. Yet there are times when his father still sees him as the college student whose rocket experiments went haywire and accordingly treats him like a


wayward school boy.

Educated at Colorado University, Alan is a great sportsman and practical joker. However, he is not without his quiet side and likes nothing better than to explore the rocks and potholes located in the more inaccessible points of Tracy Island. Apart from piloting Thunderbird 3, Alan also assists his brother John by taking turns at manning the Thunderbird 5 space station.its own motion, the court ruled that policyholders were not entitled to attorneys' fees associated with establishing the insurer's duty to indemnify, even though an exception to the American Rule had been recognized under Massachusetts law for policyholder fees in cases involving litigation of an insurer's wrongful failure to defend a suit against the policyholder.

After affirming the court below on the coverage issue, the Massachusetts high court then reversed the trial court's extension of the exception to the American Rule (under which each litigant bears his own legal expenses) in duty to defend insurance cases to cases concerning the duty to indemnify. In particular, the court rejected the policyholders' suggestion that they were entitled to attorneys' fees given the "special relationship" between an insurer and its policyholder. The


Shipping Jobs to India: Democratic Foe and Republican Ally?

Democrats are notorious for criticizing Republicans’ support of worldwide American companies who “outsource” (i.e., move operations and workers) to nations like India. While Democrats’ opposition to outsourcing was initially meant to incite sympathy and support from voters on “Main Street”, it has begun to alienate wealthy and influential Indian-American voters, most of whom were previously supporters of Democratic candidates.

Shipping jobs to India has long been a rival issue between Democrats and Republicans. However, Elizabeth Williamson’s Wall Street Journal article entitled “Outsource Attack Ads Alienate Voters Tied to India” provides a new spin to the decade old party battle. According to the article, USINPAC, the chief Indian-American lobbying group who have long funded the Democratic Party, is now contributing money to“outsourcing” because it enables them to limit their labor costs while, at the same time, benefit from the knowledge and experience that local workers acquire while working with other companies, both local and foreign. Thus, Dell outsources not just for lower labor costs but also to learn from Indian-based companies. If this Act were implemented, American companies (and therefore the U.S. global economy) would be deprived of knowledge from competitors around the world. As a result, the “Stop Outsourcing and Create American Jobs Act of 2010” legislation would not only alienate Indian-Americans who want the Indian economy to thrive, but will also stunt U.S. corporations’ ability to grow, learn, and progress from outsourcing to countries around the world, such as India.

This should be an awakening for Democratic politicians


Ooni Commends Aregbesola’s Handling Of Osun’s Affairs

…Governor says peace and development of the state not negotiable

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II has commended the maturity of the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in his handling of the illegal entry of Ife locals and residents into the Shasha forest in the state to avert crisis.

This was even as the Governor noted that his government will do everything possible to avoid being confrontational with monarchs in the state but seek amicable ways of resolving issues that will affect the peace in the state.

Aregbesola and the Monarch stated these at an interactive meeting called by the Governor preceding the issuance of white paper by the state government over the illegal entry, demarcation, allocation and farming at theShasha Forest Reserve in Ile-Ife.

The meeting had in attendance: The Deputy Governor of Osun, Mrs. Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, Chief of Staff to Aregbesola, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, Osun Head of Service, Mr. Sunday Owoeye, security Chiefs from The Nigeria Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, State Security Services, professionals, technocrats, traditional rulers and members of the public.

Aregbesola had earlier set up a Committee in order to foster the peaceful atmosphere that is needed for the development of the state in accordance with the six-point integral action plan of his administration

The monarch lauded Aregbesola for always adopting dialogue to engender peace in the state since assumption of office, saying the Governor had been consciously prioritizing public opinions and views in conflicts and disputes resolution.

According to the Ooni of Ife,


kept not only for socio-economic advantages but for environmental protection.

“I have been a proponent of replacing nature of tree being fell at this reserve because with my various researches on this, I came to realize that it is very important for government and the community to be on the same page because people have been very lawless as regards the forest.”

Earlier, the Governor called for continued peace and harmony among the citizens saying his government adopted dialogue as the only panacea to promote sustainable peace and harmony.

He described wide consultation and dialogue as veritable ingredients to peaceful cohabitation among the citizenry, noting that his government is being cautious not to have any friction with the Ooni of Ife and other monarchs in the state.

Aregbesola frowned at what heImage copyright PA

Changes to the rules on Scottish MPs voting on England-only measures should be brought in at the same time as Scotland gets more control over tax and spending, Deputy PM Nick Clegg says.

Allowing Scottish MPs to vote on English matters "is simply not fair", the Lib Dem leader told LBC Radio.

UK leaders have promised new powers to Scotland if there's a No vote.

But First Minister Alex Salmond says only independence would deliver the powers Scotland needs.

The Yes campaign for Thursday's independence referendum described the pledge by David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg of more powers as an "insult to the intelligence of the people of Scotland".

A timetable for the new powers has also been set out, with a promise that they would be put in


by former House of Commons clerk Sir William McKay, said decisions affecting England "should normally be taken only with the consent of a majority of MPs for constituencies in England (or England-and-Wales)".

But it ruled out an English Parliament, saying Scottish MPs would also be allowed to vote on issues affecting England to avoid creating two different classes of MP and provoking "deadlock between the UK government and the majority of MPs in England".

Instead, English MPs should have the majority on committees considering laws affecting England only.

The report was dismissed by critics at the time as a "fudge" - and the detailed response promised in March 2013 by the Cabinet Office has yet to materialise.George Walford: Shenfan

The events of the Chinese Revolution, even since 1945, are complex, dramatic, and on an enormous scale. Some of them, particularly incidents of the Cultural Revolution, are bizarre; in the course of that upheaval the youth of Peking and other cities smashed monuments, invaded homes, broke records, burnt books – and demanded red as the colour for “go” in traffic lights. It requires a hero to attempt a narrative account, and William Hinton attacks the problem by looking, as it were, through the lens of one village. The village is Long Bow, in Shansi. Province, and Hinton first went, to live there in 1947. He published Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village in 1966 and the present work, Shenfan: the Continuing Revolution in


a Chinese Village (London, Martin Seeker and Warburg), in 1983. Fanshen means to turn over, hence to make a revolution,and shenfan means digging deeply into the earth to extract its most fertile soil.

It is a big book, and packed solid with detail, with the personal experiences of individual people and with many conversations reported in direct speech, but it is far from being the cosy sort of local history we know in Britain; it is intended to illustrate the broad social movements of the time. Hinton writes as a supporter of the revolution and of Chairman Mao, presumably therefore as a marxist; he has trouble reconciling his theories with his observations. This is a part of his concluding summary:

post-liberation China developed by means of a series of wavelikethat the repeated efforts to progress toward communism – the Socialist Education movement, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the rest – were not undertaken by Mao in conjunction with the masses. It may well be true that Mao provided the immediate impulse for each of them, but in each of them there were many activists of the Chinese Communist Party striving to impose socialism or communism on the people. Each of them was resisted by the broad masses and it was this, rather than any cunning manoeuvres of a minority of bureaucrats, that defeated them. Every attempt to induce the general body of the people to work primarily for the collectivity of which they were constituents was a failure. At the beginning of the Great


said Coun. Ian Paton. "That land can be put in good farmland but we have to find a way to do it."

Coun. Scott Hamilton said 81 hectares of Southlands was farmed last year but not harvested because the land needs work to make it viable. The Southlands plan, he said, is the "best compromise" to heal the divisive community.

The development has been dogged by controversy, sparking the longest public hearing in Canadian history in 1989 and a failed attempt by Delta to have the land put back in the Agricultural Land Reserve.

The land was removed from the ALR in 1981, not by the Agricultural Land Commission but in a decision of the Social Credit government of the day, though it is still zoned for agricultural use by thedevelopment, saying such a move would set a dangerous precedent for other municipalities. Langley Township also unsuccessfully sought to change another eight-hectare area of North Murrayville from agricultural to "general urban," which was outlined in its Official Community Plan in 1979.

Metro's regional growth strategy aims to "protect the supply of agricultural land and promote agricultural viability with an emphasis on food production." The strategy is aimed at providing a framework for development through to 2040, when the region expects to see another one million people and 600,000 new jobs. Two-thirds of growth is expected to be contained in urban centres with protective pockets of agricultural and industrial land and mixed-use developments.

Developer Sean Hodgins acknowledged the Southlands project has divided the populace in Tsawwassen and said he has worked


on the property for 15 years. Council refuses to allow him to submit his proposal.

1995: Council rezones a 3.5-hectare parcel of Hodgins' land along 56th street from duplex to agricultural; Hodgins says he will sue the municipality and five former or current council members.

1998 to 2008: Various proposals are put forward for Southlands, including one by a parents' group to build a private school there and another by Beach Grove Golf Course to put in a new course that would extend onto the lands.

2009: Century Group president Sean Hodgins (George's son) proposes a plan for 1,900 homes on one-third of the acreage, with the rest as public parkland and a community farm.

2010: Civic politicians send Southlands plan back to Century Group and refund fees because the land isThe Seven Seas of The iPhone 4G.

Many of us have heard about the tales told of Apple's next iPhone, the iPhone 4G. With a revamped design and brand new internal doodads (full list later), it's easy to be compelled by another revolutionary product by a revolutionary company...arguably. But that's for another time. For now, we map the journey of the disguised iPhone 4G from a Beer Garden in Redwood City into the hands of Jason Chen, editor of popular tech blog, Gizmodo, and the explosion of police reports and Page Hits.

Gray Powell works as an Apple Software Engineer, working on iPhone Baseband Software. For his 27th Birthday, he visited the Gourmet Haus Staudt, a German Beer Garden in Redwood City, California. Underestimating the power of German Beer, as


he wrote into his Facebook status that night, he foolishly leaves his iPhone on the bar before leaving. Moments after, a drunk man wanders up to the man that had been sitting next to Powell at the bar, asking if the iPhone was his. The man said no, though the drunk assumed it was the man's friend, telling him to hold on to it, lest he loses the precious gem. And so the man held on to it, asking around if it belonged to anyone at the bar. Everyone replied with a "negatory," leading to the man checking among the six pages of Apps for Facebook... where he found the page of Gray Powell open and ready with a recently produced Status Update about German Beer sits steaming,typed in only mere minutes ago. Taking the iPhone 3GS home, he wakes up the next day with the intention of returning it. The device is shut down with MobileMe, what Apple uses to brick lost iPhones. It was then the man noticed the peculiar exterior of the iPhone 3GS. After all, there was a camera on the front. After some tries, he pried open the fake external disguise, revealing a bright, shiny, new thing. Attempting to give it back, our hero calls numerous Apple numbers, though to no avail.

As the weeks trailed on, Tech Blog Gizmodo bought the prototype iPhone 4G for $5,000. Gizmodo only after discovered it was Gray Powell's lost iPhone and contacted him about it. In the weeks following this, Apple sent a letter


Aventics participates in Future Day and Girls Day events

This spring, Aventics will again sponsor several campaigns aimed at getting young people interested in technology. By participating in “Girls Day” and “Future Day,” the pneumatics specialist hopes to draw the interest of children and youth in compressed air as a technology. On April 12, 2018, Aventics welcomed ten participants to its Girls Day in Boxtel, the home to the Dutch sales entity, while the German headquarters in Laatzen have planned a Future Day, inviting 25 youth to their program on April 26, 2018.

“Girls Day and Future Day serve the same purpose: We hope to encourage younger generations to consider a technology-oriented career. We see these events as an opportunity to present various professions and get the specialists of tomorrowMitochondrial phylogeography of the European ground squirrel, Spermophilus citellus, yields evidence on refugia for steppic taxa in the southern Balkans.
The spatial genetic structure of the European ground squirrel, a species characteristic of the short-grass steppe, was investigated on the basis of a 1140-bp cyt b gene sequence. The phylogeographical architecture of this species is expected to shed light on the putative long-term presence of the steppic ecosystem in south-eastern Europe and the evolutionary consequences of glacial cycles as forcing factors in speciation. Among 31 haplotypes, three highly divergent phylogenetic lineages (Southern, Northern and Jakupica) were recognized. This result suggests the past existence of an allopatric fragmentation event caused by effective biogeographical barriers. The Southern lineage consisted of the southernmost populations, those from Greece, Macedonia and European Turkey, and


Revisiting Hitchcock

By Matthew Cheney

15 February 2010

Sometime last year, I decided to watch some Alfred Hitchcock movies I hadn't seen in a while, and also to fill in a few gaps in my viewing. I've been watching Hitchcock's films since I was a child and was introduced to him through the new version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents that appeared on NBC in 1985. I had known his name previously through the Three Investigators series of children's mystery novels, which were originally billed as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators" and came with an introduction supposedly written by the man himself (though as with the magazine and the various anthologies that licensed his name, Hitchcock himself had nothing to do with it). In the books, Hitchcock was just some guythan most of Hitchcock's movies provided—I wanted them to be more like his TV show, the episodes of which usually relied upon a twist ending. Even in college, when I should have known better, I saw Vertigo on its re-release in theatres and thought it was terribly paced. Many of Hitchcock's most famous films, particularly from the 1950s, felt too slow to me, which is perhaps why I considered North by Northwest to be his real masterpiece—it's one of his plottiest, zippiest movies.

Over the years, I kept coming back to Hitchcock, watching one or two of his films each year, and as I began to shed the expectations I had of him from my childhood, I realized such films as Notorious and Rear Window were the equals of


North by Northwest.

When I plunged myself into Hitchcock's whole oeuvre, though, even more wonders revealed themselves. I had spent much of my life watching the movies for their thrills and shocks, but though Hitchcock was, from early in his career, pigeonholed as a director of "thrillers," and though there are certainly thrills and shocks to be found on a first viewing of many of his films, the richness and power of his art derives from other elements.

This realization struck me most forcefully when I watched The Birds. I had avoided it for years, having heard somewhere that it was boring and silly. It was, instead, one of the most unsettling movies I'd ever seen—a movie that seemed, on my first viewing, to take a shallow and beautiful womanand slowly, sadistically destroy her. What makes it particularly unsettling is that the film achieves its effect in a complex way, and much of the complexity lies in the viewer's relationship to the story and characters, especially the character of Melanie Daniels, played by Tippi Hedren. There's not a lot of depth to the character: we learn only bits and pieces about her past and very little about her feelings and desires. Yet Hedren's performance is a rich one, for though it is as if she had inhabited a mannequin, her struggle to give the mannequin life matches Melanie's own struggle to overcome the mask she has created for herself and the emotional repression that makes her seem so shallow. There's very little that is likeable about her,


imposed as much understanding as I could onto Melanie's character. Nothing alleviates the effect of the last scene of the film, however, with Melanie shattered and the birds having won. It's just about Hitchcock's bleakest ending, and he was a director who had little use for unqualifiedly happy conclusions—in his earlier film about punishing a female protagonist, Notorious, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is saved at the last moment, but the film ends with Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains) walking back to what we presume will be his death. In The Birds, Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) carries Melanie out to the car much as Devlin carries Alicia, but Mitch has no one to sacrifice; the birds have won in a way the Nazis in Notorious have not.

The play of genderin Hitchcock's films is one of the things that continues to fascinate me, and has fascinated plenty of film scholars. It wouldn't be hard to make a superficial case for Hitchcock's films as misogynist in their tendencies, and there are certainly misogynist characters in many of his movies, but the characters and their relationships are too complex and ambivalent for such an interpretation to be useful or convincing. The films frequently portray the gender assumptions of their time as entrapping or destructive. Hitchcock was a master of manipulating the audience's sympathies, and the manipulations often cause us to note some humanity in antagonists and some inhumanity in protagonists. Even in an early film such as Murder!, where the killer is a "half-caste" transvestite trapeze artist, divided in his


race and gender (he performs as a woman, but murders for love of a woman), in the end, we are encouraged to feel nothing so much as a kind of tragic pity, perhaps even sympathy—much as we might feel for Boris Karloff's monster in Frankenstein. With time, Hitchcock's divided characters gained more nuance and complexity, as did the director's manipulations of the audience's identifications. Vertigo, the film I once thought so badly paced, is the apex of that movement. The great shock of the story, and one I was not enough aware of when I first viewed it, is the shock that comes when we realize the power and scope of Scottie's (James Stewart's) obsession—and how that obsession creates an insane and destructive possessiveness in him.

Vertigo's meaning changescomedic scene, to a closing off of his personality—he becomes a person who must flee strangers rather than talk with them. In Psycho, the film Hitchcock made just before The Birds, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) repents of her crimes too late and is murdered as she tries to wash her sins away; at the end of the movie, the knowledge given to us by a psychiatrist arrives too late to help any of the characters we've cared about in the story, and the final shot suggests that insanity and evil have so deeply infested Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) that both innocence and knowledge are irrelevant—Mother has won as conclusively as the birds.

I'm one of the people who believes that after The Birds, Hitchcock made his last masterpiece, Marnie.


that are much clearer, and in many ways much more detestable: like Scottie in Vertigo, Mark wants to shape a woman into a form he can appreciate and control. The melodrama of Marnie's original sin explains, at least in narrative terms, her personality and behavior, but it certainly doesn't justify Mark's actions or prove that he and Marnie will live happily ever after. Mark and Marnie driving off at the end of the film echoes both the endings of Notorious and The Birds: Marnie has gone through the hell a man sent her into, she has come through scratched and bloody and hollowed out, and her future with Mark seems about as bright as that of Cathy Brennan's lovebirds—caged, safe from any wild or dangerous influences, domesticated andContents

Maturin was descended from Huguenots who found shelter in Ireland, one of whom was Gabriel Jacques Maturin who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin after Jonathan Swift in 1745. Charles Robert Maturin was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College. Shortly after being ordained as curate of Loughrea, County Galway, in 1803, he moved back to Dublin as curate of St Peter's Church. He lived in York Street with his father William, a Post Office official, and his mother, Fedelia Watson, and married on 7 October 1804 the acclaimed singer Henrietta Kingsbury.

His first three works were Gothic novels published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy and were critical and commercial failures. They did, however, catch the attention of Sir Walter Scott, who recommended Maturin's work to Lord


Byron. With their help, Maturin's play, Bertram was staged in 1816 at the Drury Lane for 22 nights, with Edmund Kean starring in the lead role as Bertram.[2] Financial success, however, eluded Maturin, as the play's run coincided with his father's unemployment and another relative's bankruptcy, both of them assisted by the fledgling writer. To make matters worse, Samuel Taylor Coleridge publicly denounced the play as dull and loathsome, and "melancholy proof of the depravation of the public mind",[3] going nearly so far as to decry it as atheistic.

The Church of Ireland took note of these and earlier criticisms and, having discovered the identity of Bertram's author (Maturin had shed his nom de plume to collect the profits from the play), subsequently barred Maturin's further clerical advancement. Forcedto support his wife and four children by writing (his salary as curate was £80-90 per annum, compared to the £1000 he made for Bertram), he switched back from playwright to novelist after a string of his plays met with failure. He produced several novels in addition to Melmoth the Wanderer, including some on Irish subjects and The Albigenses, a historical novel which features werewolves.[1] Various poems have also been ascribed to Maturin on dubious grounds and appear to be the work of others. The prize-winning "Lines on the Battle of Waterloo" was published in 1816 under the name of the university graduate John Shee. "The Universe" appeared with Maturin’s name on the title page in 1821 but is now thought to be almost completely the work of


James Wills.[4]

The exaggerated effectiveness of Maturin’s preaching can be gauged from the two series of sermons that he published. On the occasion of the death of Princess Charlotte, he declared: "Life is full of death; the steps of the living cannot press the earth without disturbing the ashes of the dead - we walk upon our ancestors - the globe itself is one vast churchyard." A contemporary account records that there had seldom been seen such crowds at St Peter’s. "Despite the severe weather, people of all persuasions flocked to the church and listened spellbound to this prince of preachers. In his obituary it was said that, ‘did he leave no other monument whereon to rest his fame, these sermons alone would be sufficient’."[5]

Maturin died in Dublin on30 October 1824. A writer in the University Magazine was later to sum up his character as "eccentric almost to insanity and compounded of opposites — an insatiable reader of novels; an elegant preacher; an incessant dancer; a coxcomb in dress and manners."[6]

The novel Melmoth the Wanderer was also published in French translation in 1821 and served as an influential model for writers in France. In 1835 Honoré de Balzac wrote a parody, Melmoth Reconcilié in which Maturin’s hero goes to Paris where he finds in its banking world an ethos that "has replaced the principle of honour by the principle of money" and easily finds someone to accept damnation in his place. In Balzac’s eyes "this novel is taken up with the same idea to which we


already owe the drama of Faust and out of which Lord Byron has cut his cloth since Manfred. Charles Baudelaire was also an admirer of Maturin’s novel, equating it with the poetry of Byron and Edgar Allan Poe.[7]

A sister of Maturin’s wife married Charles Elgee, whose daughter Jane Francesca became the mother of Oscar Wilde. Thus Charles Maturin was Oscar Wilde's great-uncle by marriage.[8] Wilde discarded his own name and adopted the name of Maturin's novel, Melmoth, during his exile in France.[9]

Maturin’s eldest son, William Basil Kingsbury Maturin, followed him into the ministry, as did several of his grandsons. One of these, Basil W. Maturin, died in the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915. The second son was Edward Maturin, who emigrated to the United States and becamebelieve that defendant had been convicted of only those offenses which the defendant had enumerated. In fact, the most recent *81 offense for which the defendant was convicted was the sale of drugs (LSD). The State attempted to bring this fact out on cross-examination, but the defendant, at the direction of his attorney, pled the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify as to his conviction of the previous drug offense. The trial court instructed the jury that it was to disregard this testimony in deciding the guilt or innocence of the defendant on the present charges.
Judge Owen Ballinger presided at the trial. As noted above, his son was a prosecuting attorney employed by the district attorney of Sedgwick County  the same district over which his father presides.


did not actually participate in the case.
Being a party to the lawsuit is interpreted to mean having a *85 financial interest in the outcome of the lawsuit. Obviously, Judge Ballinger's son was not a "party" to this action, where that term is given a narrow and technical meaning.
In Brown v. Brown, 103 Kan. 53, 56, 172 Pac. 1005 (1918), the term "party," as used in constitutional and statutory provisions intended to disqualify a judge, was interpreted to mean having a financial interest in the outcome of the lawsuit. It was there held, if a judge is related to an attorney in the cause whose fee is contingent upon success, or the amount of the fee is to be fixed and determined by the court, the attorney is aApple has confirmed a Financial Times report that high school students interning at Foxconn exceeded their legal hours while working on the iPhone X production line. The company has, however, denied claims that the students were forced to carry out the work as a condition of graduation from school.

The report relates to 3,000 high school students who take part in a three-month long work experience program …

Six high school students told the Financial Times they routinely work 11-hour days assembling the iPhone X at a factory in Zhengzhou, China, which constitutes illegal overtime for student interns under Chinese law. The six said they were among a group of 3,000 students from Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School sent in September to work at the local facility run by Taiwan-based


mm per year, the current sea level rises twice as fast as during the 20th century. The expectations are a rise of at least 70 cm by the turn of this century. The principal causes are clear: global decline of land ice (mountain glaciers & ice sheets) and thermal expansion of ocean water (water expands as it becomes warmer). To clarify, land ice is resting on land and can reach a thicknesses of up to several kilometers, in contrast to seasonally restricted sea ice (mainly just frozen ocean water), that is typically only a few meters thick and has no direct influence on sea level. Studies have indicated an increasing contribution of the two largest ice sheets, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, to sea level rise.

The largestThe BrainDance Awards encourage high school students to gain knowledge about psychiatric diseases and develop a more tolerant and realistic perspective toward people with severe psychiatric problems. The competition also aims to promote students’ interest in careers in mental health care.

Awards and cash prizes were given to first, second and third-place finishers in the Art, Academic and Mixed Media categories. Additionally, two teachers were honored for their support of the BrainDance Awards and their work done to help stop the stigma of mental illness.

Awards were presented by Nancy Hubbard, LCSW, from the Institute of Living and Matcheri S. Keshavan, MD, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and Harvard Medical School. The awards were followed by a panel discussion with mental health professionals and


a Grand Rounds Lecture from Dr. Keshavan entitled, “Why is adolescence a period of risk for emotional brain disorders?”

Founded in 1822, The Institute of Living was one of the first mental health centers in the United States, and the first hospital of any kind in Connecticut. Located on 35 acres landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, The Institute of Living lies near the center of Hartford, Connecticut. Becoming a Division of Hartford Hospital in 1994, it remains one of America’s leading not-for-profit centers for comprehensive patient care, research and education in the fields of behavioral, psychiatric, and addiction disorders.their friend's name and that he or she was in a photo, but with automatic alternative text, they'll hear how many people are in the picture, how many comments and likes there currently are, and the words "image may contain" followed by elements of the photo such as jewelry, smiling, outdoor, cloud or foliage.

The development of the technology was informed in part by a paper that Facebook worked on with Cornell University to better understand how visually impaired users interact with social media.

While the technology is currently only available in English for iOS users in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the company says that it is working on expanding into more countries and languages.

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An odd extinct mammal that lived in South America during the last ice age had a long neck like a llama's, three-toed feet like a rhino's and what may have been a tapir-like trunk. This peculiar combination of traits fueled a mystery lasting nearly two centuries about how to classify the bizarre beast.

The Macrauchenia genus has puzzled scientists since Charles Darwin discovered limb bones and vertebrae fossils "of some very large animal" in Patagonia and fancied it to be a mastodon, as he wrote in a letter to his mentor, the naturalist John Stevens Henslow, in March 1834. Upon analyzing Darwin's finds, the scientist Sir Richard Owen declared in a species description published in 1838 that the creature resembled a camel, but uncertainty remained about where Macrauchenia fitanimal was about the size of the average horse, and had a long, narrow skull that was also vaguely horse-like. But its nasal aperture sat squarely between its eyes, leading researchers to speculate that it had either a type of muscular trunk like an elephant's or a fleshy protuberance like a tapir's, MacPhee explained.

Because of these physical features, Macrauchenia was long thought to belong to the branch of the mammalian family tree known as Perissodactyls, which includes tapirs, horses and rhinos. But that group wasn't a perfect fit for Macrauchenia or for other bizarre ice age mammals that were native only to South America, said study co-author Michael Hofreiter, a professor of evolutionary adaptive genomics at the University of Potsdam in Germany.

"These animals are so weird — and


International Service that Really Serves: Experiences in Latin America and Africa

In most countries throughout the world speech-language pathology and audiology are underdeveloped fields with only a handful of professionals. Over the past decade, however, U.S.-based SLPs and Audiologists have begun to travel and offer their services abroad. Some trips are study tours, others provide direct services, and a few develop university training programs.Dr. Cate Crowley has significant international experience in places like Ghana, Bolivia, and Guatemala. On most trips she brings a team of graduate students and clinical supervisors who provide services and offer professional development in schools and hospitals, across practice areas including aural habilitation, intellectual disabilities, cleft palate, aphasia, and autism. With the goal of developing sustainable programs and building in-country capacity, Cate works throughout theyear on these programs using available technology. In this talk Cate shares proven approaches and strategies, and offers reflections on challenges and unsuccessful initiatives. She also focuses on long- and short-term benefits to her team, and to her university SLP program. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions and raise concerns related to their own interests in international work.

Catherine J. Crowley, CCC-SLP, JD, PhD,Distinguished Senior Lecturer in speech-language pathology at Teachers College Columbia University, founded and directs the bilingual/multicultural program focus and the Bilingual Extension Institute. In Ghana, Bolivia, and Guatemala she creates innovative, sustainable approaches to meeting the needs of people with communication disabilities. An experienced attorney, Cate is working with NYCDOE on a multi-year project to improve the accuracy of disability evaluations. Cate, an ASHA fellow, received


2004, with assault, maltreatment and dereliction of duty in Dilawar's death and with dereliction of duty in the death of a detainee named Habibullah on Dec. 3, 2002.

Army pathologists classified both deaths as homicides and noted that both men had sustained blunt-force injuries to their legs. Army investigators also found that the men had been chained to the ceiling for prolonged periods.

The Department of Defense has acknowledged the deaths of eight detainees in Afghanistan.

The investigations into the deaths of Dilawar and Habibullah were finished in October 2004.

In February, the Army announced that Maj. Gen. Michael A. Vane, the commanding general of Fort Bliss, would decide which of the 28 soldiers identified by criminal investigators would receive trial by courts-martial or administrative punishment.

Jean Offutt, a spokeswoman for Fort Bliss,said a preliminary hearing on the charges against Brand was scheduled for later in March and that a hearing on the charges against Boland had been delayed at the request of his attorney. After the hearings, Vane will decide whether to proceed with courts-martial.

Offutt said no other form of discipline had been decided on for any of the other soldiers said to be involved in the deaths, including six interrogators from the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, based in Fort Bragg, N.C.

Two of the interrogators believed to be involved in the Bagram deaths later were sent to Iraq, and one was subsequently disciplined for allegedly mistreating a female detainee at Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison that was the focus of a notorious abuse scandal last year.

In August, an Army


morning or a bring your own refreshment and enjoy the evening twilight. The Hides Hotel Cairns also offers 24 hour reception and tour booking service, guest laundry, valet, limited secured car parking, pool and a 24 hour Internet Cafe or wireless internet in rooms and on the balcony.

The Northern Greenhouse Backpacker Hostel (formerly the Shooting Star Apartments) is a bright, modern complex situated right in the heart of the Cairns city centre.
It is within easy walking distance of the many restaurants, cafe's, bars and clubs the Cairns has to offer.
The Northern Greenhouse Backpackers is built around a lovely central courtyard swimming pool, tropical BBQ area and recreation area with pool table.
Each of this budget Cairns hostel accommodation features King size dorm beds, ensuite bathroom with shower, balcony, sofatables.

The White Rock Leisure Park specializes in providing budget Cairns accommodation for individuals, couples, families and groups. This budget holiday accommodation in White Rock is centrally located off the Bruce Highway 8kms from the Cairns city centre. White Rock Leisure Park is set in a pleasantly maintained tropical corner of Cairns, with nature at your doorstep. This share, cabin and villas provide leafy and well established surroundings in which to relax on your next holiday to Cairns. The casual environment of the White Rock Leisure Park offers guests the perfect getaway for families and holiday makers alike who are seeking a budget priced holiday. With a focus and commitment to providing friendly customer service to all guests, White Rock Leisure Park has a list of resort facilities to


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The Oasis Inn Holiday Apartments Cairns is positioned close to the main city shopping centre, Cairns business centre, the Reef Casino, Pier Market place, the beautiful botanical gardens and the lagoon on the Esplanade. It provides budget holiday accommodation in motel rooms, studio apartments and self-contained 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, right in the heart of Cairns. When you stay at the Oasis InnCairns Motel & Apartments you not only get great value for money holiday apartments but also easy access to the tropical Cairns beaches including seven mile beach at Paradise Beach, diving in the Great Barrier Reef and the beautiful world heritage listed tropical rainforests of Australia. The Oasis Inn Cairns Motel & Apartments Cairns provides a wide range of facilities including a landscaped saltwater swimming pool set among swaying tropical palm trees, BBQ facilities, entertaining area, free undercover parking, luggage storage, guest laundry, cot hire and wheelchair accessibility.

Located in the heart of the city centre the luxury Cairns accommodation provided by the Rydges Esplanade Resort is convenient to everything that Cairns has to offer. Holiday guests can easily explore all the attractions and activities in the city, whilst


Inn provides all types of travellers with discount accommodation in Cairns. It also features a wide range of modern amenities and services such as business centre, direct internet access, disabled facilities, faxing facilities, free car parking, guest laundry, restaurant, outdoor swimming pool, tour desk, bbq, massage room, garden, baby cots available and daily housekeeping. With beautiful tropical gardens, fantastic location, exceptional service and affordable rates, the Coral Tree Inn in Cairns provides the perfect accommodation for your next stay in Cairns.

Palm Royale Cairns is a mediterranean hotel resort, surrounded by lush landscaped gardens located in the heart of tropical Cairns. Staying in Cairns offers something for everyone from the reef, rainforest and outback for the adventurous to or just relaxing by the pool for the not so adventurous.The Palm Royale Cairns in Cairns is close to everything that the city has to offer, as well as having a numerous guests facilities and services including lounge bar, direct internet access, free car parking, guest laundry, lift, restaurant, spa, outdoor swimming pool, tour desk, bbq, airport shuttle, 24 hour reception and daily housekeeping.

North Cove Waterfront Suites provides a range of 1, 2 & 3 bedroom self contained serviced apartments situated on the Cairns Esplanade waterfront. Set in its own lush tropical gardens, overlooking the Esplanade parkland and the shores of the Trinity Inlet, the North Cove Waterfront Suites & Apartments have a quiet location away from the main central area of noise, but within walking distance to Cairns city centre, restaurants, shops and the Casino. The North


Cove Waterfront Suites in Cairns is close to everything that the city has to offer, as well as having a numerous guests facilities and services including direct internet access, faxing facilities, free car parking, lift, spa, outdoor swimming pool, tour desk, bbq, garden, security, baby cots available and babysitting service. Ideal for corporate business travellers and holidaymakers alike, the North Cove Waterfront Suites offers the unsurpassed location of the Cairns Esplanade only minutes walk to central Cairns, shops and restaurants.

The 201 Lake Street property in Cairns offers modern King Hotel Rooms, 1 & 2 bedroom self contained serviced apartments that is ideally located just off the famous Esplanade in the cantre of the Cairns CBD. Positioned in the heart of tropical Far North Queensland the 201 Lake Streetprovides all types of travellers with discount accommodation in Cairns. It also features a wide range of modern amenities and services such as direct internet access, free car parking, lift, outdoor swimming pool, tour desk, bbq and baby cots available. The 201 Lake Street is only a short stroll from the central business district of Cairns, the Esplanade and the main Cairns shopping precinct, making it perfect for tourists, holiday makers and corporate business travellers alike.

The Getaway On Grafton offers 2 bedroom self contained apartments & townhouses located along the famous Esplanade in the heart of the Cairns City Centre. This affordable Cairns holiday accommodation is perfect for the families, inviduals and corporate travellers because the central location makes it ideal to take advantage of everything that the


city has to offer. It features numerous guests facilities and services including direct internet access, faxing facilities, free car parking, spa, outdoor swimming pool, tour desk, bbq and baby cots available. The Getaway on Grafton Apartments Cairns are perfect for tourists looking for a great location at the edge of city centre within a short walk to the Esplanade with the beautiful Muddies Playground, Lagoon Pool, Restaurants and Night Life.

The Tradewinds McLeod Holiday Apartments in Cairns offers self contained 2 bedroom serviced apartments at budget prices superbly located in a quiet environment on the fringe of the Cairns city centre. Tradewinds McLeod Apartments are ideal for tourists to this beautiful city in the heart of Far North Queensland. The Tradewinds McLeod Holiday Apartments in Cairns is close tofrom Myer and Cairns Central Shopping Mall. The property is also within easy walking distance to the famous Cairns Esplanade, city beach, night markets, Cairns Convention Centre, Reef Casino and night clubs. The Best Western Plus Cairns Central Apartments in Cairns features many facilities and services including conference centre, direct internet access, faxing facilities, free car parking, guest laundry, lift, massage, restaurant, spa, outdoor swimming pool, tour desk and baby cots.

The Mid City Luxury Suites in Cairns provides travelers with elegant holiday accommodation that is located in the heart of the Cairns city. This places the Mid City Luxury Suites central to all of Cairns major tourist attractions including the Esplanade, casino, shops, cafes, nightlife entertainment and numerous restaurants. The accommodation at this Cairns property consists of comfortable


video game consoles exists largely because of one small group of people. After sales ceased for the Sega Dreamcast, only two contenders remained: Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Nintendo’s GameCube. The playing field remained the same, but the players grew enormously.

One year before that, Blackley was working on Jurassic Park: Trespasser, a project with extensive funding and a host of promises. Steven Spielberg was attached, and the public was expectant. After exceeding the budget and cutting numerous features to release on time with the "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" film, DreamWorks Interactive released Trespasser. It sold only 50,000 copies and was a critical failure.

And now, Blackley was staring Microsoft’s co-founder in the eye, telling him to trust a team of young designers who might easily screw things up.

"Anybody whointoxicating.

"It was like practical magic," he says. "It really was. Being able to see real-time 3-D for the first time — it was like the first time you see the Star Destroyer flying overhead, and you hear John Williams’ music playing.

"It pummeled you."

Today, in November, 2014, Blackley has a collection of 500 old arcade games. Some date back to the bronze age of video games, when code and logic chips had yet to enter the equation. These old machines function on wiring and mechanics alone, built when programming, as it’s known today, was barely a concept.

Looking Glass came from a foundation of prolific programmers. And none of them really had a clear end goal in mind. There was no precedent, and they had no examples and no textbooks


Supporters of the Justice and Development Party wave Turkish and European Union flags as then- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives at the Istanbul airport in December 2004. (MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images)

Confetti and fireworks greeted Recep Tayypip Erdogan when he returned to Turkey in December 2004, flush with the good news that his country had been invited to start talks to join the European Union.

Addressing cheering crowds in the capital, Erdogan, then the prime minister, said the invitation was a sign of Turkey’s growing international clout.

After decades of effort, Turkey “will take its rightful place among modern and civilized countries,” he said at the time. “From now on, democracy will have a different meaning, and human rights and freedoms will be practiced in a more meaningful manner.”

But 13 yearscontrary making use of condoms by guys while having sex is not that high.

The oral contraceptives market consists of branded products and the generic versions of those brand names. These brand names, as an example the leading Yasmin brand by Bayer, are facing a threat to its market by the common medicines in the United States market.

The contraceptives and also prophylactics market is not so much affected or driven by the financial variables like the current economic decline as well as are thought to hold up well in such bumpy rides. This market often tends to have a modest as well as regular development price. This market is a lot more based on the group as well as sociological factors such as populace development, proportion of young populace,


By the late 1980’s, Germany’s regional railroads were in dismal shape. They suffered many of the problems we face in the US — antiquated locomotive-hauled trains, and inefficient operating practices. It seemed inevitable that these lines would either be abandoned, or stagger on with ridiculous subsidies — much like Amtrak.

Then came German reunification, the 1993 railway reform act, and huge changes in the organization of Deutsche Bundesbahn, the former National Railway:

In the next 5 years, DB will invest about DM7,000 million in new and modern short-distance rolling stock. The entire fleet will be replaced modernized before the end of the century. Three hundred lightweight powered railcars have already been ordered within this program — the largest investment in German railway history. These cars are about 30% lighter thanconventional cars. In addition, they are constructed mainly from proven components used in buses. They still cost more than a bus, but are equivalent in terms of maintenance expenses. These cars are a decisive step to become able to compete with the automobiles and buses on side tracks at low loads. Many side tracks — especially in the new states of the Federation — which were hardly profitable because trains were drawn by locomotives, are enjoying a renaissance. The cars reach an average maximum speed of about 130 km/h and present a real alternative to the automobile.

These modern DMU operations have been wildly successful, and emulated all over Europe. A 2007 paper, published by Dietmar Bosserhof, looks at ridership gains from dozens regional rail projects. The entire paper


The World of Ruth Draper: A Portrait of an Actress captures the life of the internationally acclaimed monologist and the familial, social, and theatrical worlds in which she lived from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1950s. Dorothy Warren draws on correspondence with family and friends, theatrical reviews, personal interviews, and her own long relationship with Ruth Draper in crafting this biography.

Born in New York City in 1884, Ruth Draper began giving monologues at private parties and schools at the age of twenty-six and made her professional debut in 1920 at London's Æolian Hall. In charting the course of Draper's impressive career, Warren follows her performances on stages around the world, including private recitals for Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the royal families of Britain, Spain, and Belgium.Warren also devotes a significant discussion to Draper's relationship with Lauro de Bosis, the Italian poet and political activist whose 1931 disappearance while dropping anti-Fascist pamphlets over Rome remains unexplained. Draper's long stage reign ended when she died in her sleep following a performance in New York City in December 1956.

Ruth Draper's specialty was the monologue, a dramatic composition for a single performer evoking other characters upon the stage. She had in her repertoire sixty dramatic sketches featuring fifty-two characters whom she performed, as well as 316 others whom she evoked during the course of the sketches. Some of her better-known sketches were "Opening the Bazaar," "Vive La France—1940," "The Scottish Immigrant," "The Actress," and "In County Kerry."

Draper's unique quality was her ability to project an illusion, to


evoke upon the stage the characters with whom she conversed and interacted. Lynn Fontanne said of this faculty of Draper's: "There is the flavor of parlor magic in it—something of conjuring." Bernard Levin, writing in the Times of London on April 4, 1988, recalls Draper's talent for evocation as "truly hallucinating" and adds, "Before the curtain came down, real hallucination had set in and we could see on the stage a crowd of people who were not there!" Eleonora Duse declared, "Ruth Draper is theater."

About the Author:

Dorothy Warren, a fifth-generation New Yorker, graduated from Miss Spence's School in 1925 and grew up with many associations in Ruth Draper's world. After working in business and on various charitable projects, she has devoted her retirement to photography and biography.people regularly type into their smartphones. It may also hamstring Google's efforts to remain at the core of the ever-expanding mobile web, reducing its market share as people shift from desktops to mobile devices.

"The real issue is the remedy," said Harry First, co-director of the competition, innovation, and information law program at New York University. "It's a question over whether they will be forced to open Android up, or not."

Through Android, Google has put its (often extremely popular) services like YouTube, Google Maps and the company's app store in the hands of billions. These efforts are at the heart of Google's strategy to ward off competition from Apple, Facebook and Amazon, which are also rapidly expanding their market share through their own apps and services in Silicon Valley's


version of "Manifest Destiny."

As the digital world matures, keeping users inside online walled gardens — think how hard it is to shift contacts and photos from an Apple iPhone to Samsung S9 — has become the name of the game. The more time people stay within companies' digital silos, the more money (either through online advertising, goods or services) these tech giants can pocket. It's a tactic that has turned them into some of the world's most profitable firms.

For Google, controlling the software that powers more than three-quarters of mobile devices worldwide means it's better placed than most to translate the company's online search dominance into the next technology, particularly on smartphones.

"Android was conceived by Google to promote its own services," said Geoff Blaber, a vice president atthe juveniles.

Reproduction:

It only takes about four
weeks for the ladybird beetle to transform from a tiny egg to an adult. Some
females can lay up to 1,000 eggs in one summer. The ladybird beetle may lay her
eggs near an aphid colony or on plants where the larvae will have a ready
supply of food when they hatch.

Beetles are endopterygotes, which means that before
emerging as winged adults, they undergo complete metamorphosis, a biological
process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching,
undergoing a series of conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in their body
structure. The larval life stages of beetles are very diverse in appearance,
but generally are elongate with three pairs of jointed legs at the front of the
body. They are told apart from caterpillars by the lack of claspers on the


four stamps released, but
with the four 1500 Paise or Rs.15/- stamp of the yellow coloured beetle
with black spots right in the centre

A
Souvenir Sheet of 16 stamps containing all the four stamps released, but
with the four 500 Paise or Rs.5/- stamp of the red coloured beetle
with black spots, facing left, in the centre

A
Souvenir Sheet of 16 stamps containing all the four stamps released, but
with the four 500 Paise or Rs.5/- stamp of the red coloured beetle
with black spots, facing right in the centre

The First Day Cover (FDC) issued
on the occasion of release of the stamps shows on the left side, a stylised
representation of a Ladybird beetle about to alight on a flower for sipping
nectar.

On the top right is the Miniature Sheet of the
four stamps two each of 500 Paiseassistant to the international president, and two years later, he was made organizing director of the central division.

In 1971, Wynn was elected an international vice-president of the RCIU, and in 1976, he became the union's international secretary treasurer.

Following the untimely death of Housewright in 1977, Wynn was elected RCIU international president.

Wynn advanced the work started by Housewright regarding a merger effort with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters. Under Wynn's leadership, the merger was completed in 1979, and the UFCW was created, becoming the AFL-CIO's largest affiliated union.

UFCW presidency

Wynn was the unanimous choice to lead the new union by delegates to the UFCW's founding convention in Montreal in 1979.

Through Wynn's leadership the UFCW grew significantly – via new member organizing and mergers with other unions – and pioneered the


“Aquatic Biomass: Sustainable Bioenergy from Algae?”

Oct 22, 2009 |

I will be participating in the international workshop entitled “Aquatic Biomass: Sustainable Bioenergy from Algae?” in Berlin, Germany November 2nd. The workshop will bring together key representatives from countries active in research and development of algae-based bioenergy. They will present and discuss the current status and future options for algae use, introduce relevant technology prospects and discuss environmental and development issues. To see the full description and agenda clickhere.NEW DELHI: Interrogation of Abdul Karim Tunda , the Lashkar master bomber arrested on Saturday, seems to be supporting an internal note exchanged between intelligence agencies and Delhi Police after the Mahabodhi Temple blast in Bodh Gaya .

The note, exclusively accessed by TOI, had stated that Tunda was trying to recruit Rohingya operatives for terror attacks. "It is learnt that Lashkar-e-Taiba was instigating Rohingyas to avenge the recent sectarian violence in Myanmar. This narrowly focuses on the Indian investigations into the July 7 serial bomb blasts at the Mahabodhi temple in Gaya, Bihar , on Islamic militant groups inside India and Bangladesh.

"The Rohingyas are Myanmar's Muslim minority, largely settled in the coastal Arakan province. Myanmar has seen increasing sectarian violence in the past two years between its dominant


Buddhist majority and the Rohingyas," it stated.

According to intelligence sources, the umbrella organizations like Jamaat-ul-Arakan and the Rohingya Solidarity Organization are running terror training camps in remote areas of Bandarban district in Bangladesh adjoining the Myanmar border. "It was Abdul Karim Tunda who was reportedly exploring the possibility of recruiting Rohingya youth for terror on behalf of the LeT," said the note.

Tunda, during the interrogation, has also allegedly given names of some Rohingya leaders. However, sources say, he has so far refrained from giving straight answers.

All these facts are leading the security agencies to believe that Indian Mujahideen may not be part of the Bodh Gaya serial blasts and it was a larger conspiracy hatched by LeT from Pakistan.

Sources say ISI and LeT are also funding Rohingyas. Theycontrol for now and it
remains unclear what their fate will be as the carrier is asking a
Brazilian court to allow it to keep the planes for now.

The airline said in the filing it largely blamed high fuel prices and a strong dollar for its troubles.

Avianca Brasil is owned by holding company Synergy Group, which also
controls the better-known Avianca Holdings SA, a publicly listed airline
based in Colombia. Still, the fate of one company is linked to the
other.


Remember Me (Hoobastank song)

"Remember Me" is the second single from the rock band Hoobastank, in the self-titled debut album. It was released as a single in 2002 following the successful first single "Crawling in the Dark. However, "Remember Me" was a downside from "Crawling in the Dark" and reached a disappointing number 23 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100, leading some to label Hoobastank as a one-hit wonder, the band later proved this wrong with the success of the next single, "Running Away".

There are two versions of the song, the album version which includes a long intro and the video version with a short guitar intro.

Music video and song meaning
The music video features Hoobastank performing in front of aTelevision channels have been restrained by the Bombay High Court from telecasting any programme on the hit and run case involving actor Salman Khan or publishing its contents on the Internet.

The order was passed by Justice SC Gupte yesterday on Salman's application pleading that allegations made in the shows were defamatory and sought to "dramatise and sensationalise" the case in which he is being prosecuted. The programme was first shown on May 21 on Headlines Today and its contents were submitted before the High court in a CD. The Bollywood actor has filed a suit against the defendants and also moved a notice of motion seeking a restraint order against the channels from repeating the controversial programme.

Salman's lawyer Gaurav Joshi, argued that allegations would influence and prejudice the


outcome of the case. He gave several instances of the "offending allegations" levelled in the programme against the plaintiff. No lawyer appeared for the defendants -- TV Today Network Ltd, Headlines Today and five other channels despite being served with a copy of the suit, notice of motion and the application seeking a restraint order, Salman's counsel said.

The Judge felt that the interest of justice would be served if the plaintiff (Salman) was asked to renew his application on June 2 with a fresh notice to the defendants. The Court has posted the matter for hearing on June 2 for ad-interim reliefs.

Salman is facing prosecution in the 2002 case in which he is alleged to have run his SUV over a group of people sleeping on a pavementThe Wednesday announcement by the Boy Scouts of America that it would soon allow girls into its organization raised questions among area Scout leaders on what the change would entail and the impact on Girl Scouts.

The plan, adopted unanimously by the BSA board, would allow for all-boy or all-girl Cub Scout dens and for co-ed Cub Scout packs beginning next year. It also would create a program in 2019 through which older girls could pursue the Eagle Scout.

Kerri Fischer, leader for Girl Scout Troop 2337 and Popcorn Kernel for Cub Scout Pack 601, both in the Greenwood area, said she initially had mixed emotions about the announcement.

"It might be easier for families who have both boys and girls; they can go to one organization," Fischer said. "But on


and not adequately address each group's developmental needs.

"It was a very male-focused organization and for a specific purpose: to nurture and promote the education of boys into men," he said. "Adding a female dynamic into that atmosphere, being forced or not, takes away from some of the core of what Boy Scouting is."

Messages left with representatives of the the Boy Scouts Crossroads of America Council, which represents Central Indiana, were not immediately returned Wednesday afternoon.

The Girl Scouts of Central Indiana said in a written statement Wednesday that the Girl Scouts will stay committed to the current girls-only environment.

"Offering safe, hands-on, girl-led, girl-centered learning in STEM, the outdoors, and entrepreneurship, and abundant opportunities to develop invaluable life skills, Girl Scouts helps all girls take the lead early and often,"Dream Theater’s The Astonishing — Live

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark hosted Dream Theater for ‘An Evening With’ as the progressive-metal giants played in its entirety their brand new album, the sprawling odyssey that is The Astonishing — an epic tale of betrayal, loss, hope and redemption set in a dystopian future circa 2285 in an America not that dissimilar to the one you find in The Hunger Games.

The Astonishing represents the band’s 13th studio release, and their third since the departure of original drummer and one of the band’s founding members Mike Portnoy in 2010. While the album certainly features all of the elements and ingredients that have helped maintain the band’s longevity (they’ve been rocking since 1989), The Astonishing


A Judge Makes a Decision

After her recent fly-fishing trip to Idaho, retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her definitive decision on Row vs. Wade. She declared that after sitting on the bench for so long, she prefers to wade.

During the interview, she also expressed her disdain for fellow Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who recently went to Alaska to fish for halibut.

"Catching a halibut isn't fishing," she said. "It's just dropping a big hunk of lead to the bottom and hauling something up."The former finance director of the San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District and her assistant have been charged with embezzling more than $450,000 from the agency, a prosecutor said Thursday.

For the former finance director, Jo Ann Seeney, 60, it's the third time she has faced such charges. The county didn't run a criminal background check when it hired her in 2009, so it was unaware she was already accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from two previous employers.

Seeney, also known as Jo Ann Dearman, and a bookkeeper, Vika Sinipata, 35, stole from the mosquito control district from 2009 to 2011 by giving themselves extra pay and bogus time off, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

The two also padded their deferred compensation funds