A cyclist was hauled from the start line of a naked bike race and spoken to by police following reports that he had an erection.

The "aroused" and "overexcited" man was spotted at the start of the World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) event in Canterbury, Kent, on Sunday.

He was ordered by stewards to put his jeans on before being spoken to by police, and was not allowed to take part in the event - aimed at raising awareness of the dangers faced by cyclists on the road.

A witness was told the Kent Online website: "Everyone was taking their clothes off to get ready for the ride. I heard gasps and I turned around - it was a horrible sight.

"It's fair to say he was overexcited and got aroused. Itlooked like he was enjoying the event a bit too much.

"One of the organisers went over to him and told him to put his trousers on while speaking on a walkie-talkie to police.

"The man looked sheepish when he was spoken to by the police."

Responding to complaints on Facebook, ride organiser Barry Freeman said: "We do not accept this behaviour and he was dealt with and removed before the ride started."

A spokesman for Kent Police said that a man had been told to get dressed and leave the race, which he did. Officers took the man's details but no further action will be taken.

Another complaint from the member of the public that the event was allowed to take place was being "dealt with", the spokesman added.

"Generally speaking, nudity in


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Celtic boss backs Hooper to fire again

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has tipped Gary Hooper to end his five-game goal drought when his side take on bottom of the table Dundee at Parkhead on Sunday.

The striker has failed to find the back of the net in February as he suffers a dramatic dip of form following some impressive displays in January that earned him the player of the month award.

Hooper has already notched up 23 strikes for the season -- just six short of last year's personal best of 29 -- but missed two gilt-edged chances in the 1-1 draw with St Johnstone on Tuesday leading to suggestions the forward may be distracted by off-field events.

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World Teachers' Day is celebrated on October 5th and serves as a day for us to show gratitude toward educators and all of the contributions that they've made in our lives. It was first established in 1994 by UNESCO, but the theme for this year is "Young Teachers: The Future of the Profession" in hopes of bringing attention to the challenges that young teachers face.

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In some cases, teaching can be so stressful that even one of the world's most renowned badasses wasn't up for the job. Before he was famous, Liam Neeson tried to go into teaching and called it "probablydancing. Following a licensing dispute with the River City Chamber of Commerce (“Only the smiles are free”), Cornet took her gig on the road. In addition to her musical talents and weaponized dessert-summoning horn, Cornet’s showings in Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure and La Pucelle Ragnarok demonstrate her keen tactical mind and experience with crossover situations. Strengths: Horn, vocals, support, tactics, craft services Eiko Carol lights up the stage with a trill of her flute and blast of holy radiance. Her lilting melodies keep her friends on her feet and the dead off the dancefloor. When the tour van breaks down and hecklers are on the rise, she puts in a call to the Rollers’ very own instant fan club: Earth, Wind, and Fire. Strengths: Flute, backup vocals, visual


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Britannica World Language Dictionary...[and]...In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, 'Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?'"

Alan Trist, director of the Grateful Dead's music publisher company Ice Nine, notes that Garcia found the name in the Funk & Wadnalls Folklore Dictionary, when his finger landed on that phrase while playing a game of "dictionary". In the Garcia biography, "Captain Trips," author Sandy Troy states that the band was smoking the psychedelic DMT at the time.

In the summer of '69, Phil Lesh told another version of the story to Carol Maw, a young Texan visiting with the band in Marin County… In this version, Phil said, "Jerry found the name spontaneously when he picked up a dictionary and the pages fell open. The words 'grateful' and 'dead' appearedstraight opposite each other across the crack between the pages in unrelated text."

And in Blair Jackson's book "Playin' In The Band" we find all of these paths fusing in Garcia's own telling: "One day we were over at Phil's house...He had a big dictionary. I opened it and there was 'Grateful Dead', those words juxtaposed. It was one of those moments, you know, like everything else went blank, diffuse, just sort of oozed away, and there was GRATEFUL DEAD in big, black letters edged all around in gold, man, blasting out at me, such a stunning combination. So I said, 'How about Grateful Dead?' And that was it."

This last version is the one that rings most true with how the story made its way to my ears long


voidin order that others may know.In the land of the nightthe ship of the sunis drawn by the grateful dead.-- Egyptian Book of the Dead

Very thought provoking. This is a wonderful connection to the term "grateful dead" and lyrically it could just as easily come out of some lost song that didn't make it on to the Aoxomoxoa album.

Finally, the band's musical story-scape itself finds a wonderful tie in when checking out that old Funk & Wagnalls Folklore dictionary entry which reads something like this:

GRATEFUL DEAD: The motif of a cycle of folk tales which begin with the hero coming upon a group of people ill-treating or refusing to bury the corpse of a man who had died without paying his debts. He gives his last penny, eitherplayed "divorcee bars" on the Peninsula. Travers says "really?," and Garcia says "oh, yeah for years!" with great conviction.

Actually they played divorcee bars on the Peninsula for about 7 weeks, perhaps 10 weeks at the most. Now, it must have seemed like years to Jerry, but it simply wasn't true. At the time of the interview, it was just 10 years prior, but already the inserted memory has become real to him, because that's how human nature works.

We will never find out the true story of the Dead's naming, which is part of the charm. The people there don't remember, and anyone else who might recall--a girlfriend who was told later that night, for example--has also had their memories mediated by the endless retellings.

Now, if someone asked Weir


really documented that quote in the text of the book, ie. translator, page number, published by, etc. However the "Anthem of the Sun" is said to be a musical piece played by an Egyptian orchestra back in Pharonic times.

Grateful Dead, the Dead, The Other Ones, whatever the name their mission is to take us FURTHUR. :-)

Somewhere back in the 80s Garcia told me his version of the name change. He stated that Bill Graham was going to have some flyers printed up to promote a local concert and he stipulated that if they didn't change their name from The Warlocks to something else he wasn't going to include them on the flyer. Jerry did find The Grateful Dead in Phil's Dictionary and thought well OK how about Gratefulfoundational CALO project that later evolved into Apple’s Siri. Antoine was also COO of Zi Corporation, whose smart text input software was embedded in hundreds of millions of devices.

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in Victorian times, as depicted in the book.

The 2017 series finale of Sherlock is named for this story, but bears little resemblance to the canon story.

The 2018 HBO Asia/Hulu Japan series Miss Sherlock loosely adapts this story for its series finale "The Dock." In this version, the famous scene at the Reichenbach Falls is replaced by an analogous scene set at a fictional "Reichenbach Building" in Tokyo.

The penultimate episode (Season 7 Episode 12) of the CBS adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, was named "Reichenbach Falls", and portrayed Sherlock's ploy to bring down a powerful serial killer billionaire, Odin Reichenbach.

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Meeting. Deified by forum posters with GIFs and proclaiming him as the savior of Sony to some, Mark Cerny started off as a developer with humble beginnings. Primarily known as the man responsible for Marble Madness, Cerny also had his hands on Sonic 2, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Jak and Daxter, and the Ratchet and Clank series, making him a very experienced developer. But the real news to take out of Mark Cerny’s involvement is that finally, Sony didn’t stick with a Japanese engineer to create a platform for a predominantly Western developer base. As much as I’d hate to say this, game development hasn’t exactly been booming in Japan, so the choice to have Cerny create the architecture was a stroke of brilliance.

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Shenny Yang is a Singaporean influencer with over 20,000 followers on Instagram.

She recently took a trip to Bali with some of her girl friends.

On Monday, Oct. 22, her group of friends had gone to Sky Garden, a Thai nightclub, for a night out.

Assaulted

Yang drew out the events on Insagram for a more succinct explanation:

While six of them were walking back, a group of 10 people descended upon her.

According to Yang, they targeted her because she was a weak link.

Yang screamed for help.

Fortunately, her friends were there to get the men off her.

The men took advantage of the numerical opportunity to grab their phones.

It transpired that the men's attempts to molest the women was a diversion to steal the phones.

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The incident, while quite traumatic, didn't dampen her love forAlexis Sanchez pleaded guilty to tax fraud in Spain. (PA Wire)

Manchester United’s Alexis Sanchez has accepted a 16-month prison sentence after defrauding the Spanish tax authorities of almost €1 million.

The Chilean admitted to evading payments totaling €983,443 (£874,810) in 2012 and 2013 while he was playing for Barcelona.

Sanchez appeared in court via video link in January and pleaded guilty to concealing part of what he earned from image rights during his time at Camp Nou.

The 29-year-old has now been given a 16-month prison suspended sentence, which means he will not serve any time in jail.

Sanchez admitted to avoiding nearly €1m in tax during his time at Barca. (Getty Images)

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Sanchez has also


agreed to pay back all of the money, plus interest, to the Spanish treasury.

Sanchez’s former Barcelona teammates Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano have also been prosecuted by the Spanish courts for tax evasion.

Messi was given a 21-month prison sentence in 2016, although that was changed to a €252,000 (£223,000) fine last year.

Lionel Messi’s 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud was reduced to a fine last year. (Reuters)

Mascherano, meanwhile, was given a one-year prison sentence and a €800,000 (£611,000) fine in 2016.

Sanchez completed his move from Arsenal to Manchester United in the January transfer window and has made three appearances for Jose Mourinho’s side.a supermarket in 1979.

That man's mother challenged a trial court's decision to release the records to defendants who were hoping to determine the 18-year-old's lost earning capacity.

Johnson is editor-in-chief of the website GotNews.com. He also attended the hearing.

Judge Ellen Levy Siwack did not indicate how long she would take before releasing a ruling.

Also on Wednesday, a grand jury was scheduled to meet for the third time since Brown's death to consider evidence in a possible criminal case. The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division also is investigating the police shooting.

Some media members want access to any juvie files he may or may not
have? The dead victim's juvenile history is on trial but not the
killer's? Anything to attempt to smear this kid as a violent 'big Black
brute'?

AP source: US


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department plans to open a
wide-ranging investigation into the practices of the Ferguson Police
Department following the shooting last month of an unarmed black
18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb, a person
briefed on the matter said Wednesday night.

The person said the investigation could be
announced as early as Thursday afternoon. Missouri officials were
notified Wednesday of the investigation.

The investigation will
look at the overall practices of the police department, including
patterns of stops, arrests and use-of-force, as well as the training the
officers receive, the person said.

The inquiry is separate from
an ongoing civil rights investigation the Justice Department is
conducting into the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Officer
Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. A local grand jury is alsoinvestigating the
shooting, which set off nearly two weeks of unrest in Ferguson and
became a flashpoint in the national discussion of police treatment of
minorities across the country. Attorney General Eric Holder two weeks
ago visited the St. Louis suburb, where he sought to reassure residents
about the Justice Department investigation and shared personal
experiences of having himself been mistreated by the police.

The
person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation, first
reported by The Washington Post, had not yet been announced.

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Police have said the shooting followed a scuffle that broke out
after Wilson told Brown and a friend to move out of the street and onto
a sidewalk. Police say Wilson was pushed into his squad


car and
physically assaulted. Some witnesses have reported seeing Brown's arms
up in the air before the shooting in an act of surrender. An autopsy
paid for by Brown's family concluded that he was shot six times, twice
in the head.

The Justice Department's civil rights division
routinely investigates individual police departments when there are
allegations of systemic abuse or other problems. The department says
it's opened more than twice as many investigations into police
department in the past five years as were opened in the previous five
years. Among those that have recently come under investigation are the
Albuquerque, New Mexico, department, which was the subject of a harshly
critical report in April that faulted the police for a pattern of
excessive force and called an overhaul of its internal affairs unit.

Normally,
the federal investigation seeks to encourage significant changes to
policiesLidar (light and radar) systems, which can "see" a street in 3D, similar to the human eye - are now bringing driverless cars closer to the market.

Several manufacturers are working towards integrating such systems into their fleets, and expect to start selling premium cars with different degrees of autonomy as early as 2016. According to a recently released report, in a few decades, virtually all vehicles on the road might be self-driving.

As this revolution develops, it will certainly transform our daily routines: imagine driving hands-free while having the luxury of reading a book, taking a nap, or guiltlessly texting on the road. At the same time, something far more interesting - and still unexplored - is the potential transformation of our cities themselves.

AVs promise a dramatic impact by


how the TRC facilitated the process of reconciliation and forgiveness. By listening to their stories, I was able to gain a greater understanding of the power of forgiveness and how many South Africans found the strength and courage to forgive torturers and murderers.

Before serving on the TRC, Dr. Piet Miering was a professor of theology at the University of Pretoria. Dr. Miering provided us with background and history about the TRC and shared his experiences in serving on the commission. Established under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, the TRC was designed to help deal with the aftermath of apartheid and to promote the process of reconciliation within South Africa. The Commission included three committees: The Human Rights Violations Committee, the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee, andafter meeting with Dr. Miering and learning about the history and structure of the TRC, we had the opportunity to hear about the significance of restorative justice in the TRC process from commissioner Glenda Wildchut. Before Glenda was appointed by Nelson Mandela to serve on the Commission, she was a psychiatric nurse at a mental institution. She worked with political prisoners and victims of human rights violations, which made her a good candidate for the TRC. Glenda was able to give us a personal and insightful view of restorative justice and its significance to the success of the TRC. Restorative justice is a system of criminal justice that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large. Unlike retributive justice, which is


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judge prior to acceptance of Magnuson’s pleas that Magnuson had in fact been

institutionalized and treated for mental health problems but added that he could

not say whether psychiatrists had been involved. Counsel then stated that

Magnuson had been found competent to stand trial, to which the court

responded, “he appears as such.” The court ultimately accepted Magnuson’s

pleas without making any further inquiry into his mental health history or his

then-current mental state.2 After a sentencing hearing, Magnuson was sentenced

to two consecutive 20-year terms of imprisonment on the enticement charges,

a consecutive 20-year probated term of imprisonment on the pornography

charge, and a consecutive five-year probated term of imprisonment on the

attempted kidnapping charge.

       In 2008, Magnuson filed a petition for habeas corpus asserting that his

mental condition prevented him


to the trial court at the

time of his plea.

      An evidentiary hearing was held at which evidence of Magnuson’s long

history of mental health problems was introduced. This undisputed evidence

showed that since an early age, Magnuson has suffered from mental disorders

requiring the care of psychiatrists and mental health providers, the taking of

prescribed medications, and his participation in regular group and individual

mental health therapies. His disorders have on several occasions resulted in his

hospitalization. In addition to this evidence, Magnuson presented the testimony

of two expert witnesses. The first witness, Joanne Kimball, is a mental health

therapist who treated Magnuson both before and after his arrest on the instant

charges. Kimball testified that when she first met Magnuson, he had a diagnosis

of bipolar disorder, he was functioning at a                       6
for weeks, not years. At the same time, because plea counsel died prior to the

habeas proceedings and the plea court failed to make an independent inquiry

related to Magnuson’s mental state or his understanding of the proceedings,

there is no evidence in the record showing that Magnuson gained a more

accurate understanding of the consequences of his pleas through conversations

with plea counsel.

      The warden rebuts the habeas court’s view of the evidence by pointing to

the fact that Magnuson, who was 23 years old at the time of sentencing and had

completed the 12th grade, was advised at the plea hearing of all of the


TOKYO — Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had allowed American nuclear-armed warships to sail into Japanese ports in violation of Japan’s non-nuclear policies.

The existence of the pacts, known in Japan as the “secret treaties,” has long been known from declassified documents in the United States and the testimony of former American and Japanese diplomats. But successive prime ministers denied their existence, turning the agreements into a symbol for many Japanese of how Liberal Democratic governments had turned their country into a stunted democracy run without full consent by the public.

After ending the Liberal Democrats’ nearly unbroken 54-year grip on power last summer, the new Democratic Party government opened an investigation intoprocess as the "vicious cycle" of obesity.

Mr Griffiths said modern the commercial nature of Australian society made it difficult for people to escape the lure of comfort food.

"We live in a world designed to erode willpower. Chocolate bars are placed at the check-out of every supermarket," he said.

"Artificial aromas of baked bread and other treats are pumped into the air surrounding consumers.

"Advertisers spend millions to link their food with images of attractive young people having fun and living enviable lives.

"Food companies spend millions on the science of food optimisation; the "bliss point" being the relative amounts of salt, sugar or fat in a food that optimises palatability."

This research, carried out by Cambridge Weight Plan, was released to coincide with Healthy Weight Week which is being run by the


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We had company for Easter, so I was feeling festive and seasonal--so I made a carrot pie. Basically: just follow a pumpkin pie recipe, but substitute carrots--microwave the heck out of them first, and then put the whole filling mix in the blender long enough to make sure it's not stringy.

The carrot pie was a success, and disappeared quickly, so I decided to bake another pie. I decided to try something I've been meaning to try for a long time.

This is ube. It's a purple yam from the Philippines. It's dull and gray on the outside, but bright purple on the inside. It's available at Asian markets--I stopped by the Mountain View Market, on Castro in Mtn View, on the way to the station after


Some government agencies, Mr. Miller said, did anticipate a crisis, but the Homeland Security Department appears not to have gotten the message.

The department had planned a worldwide network using the new detectors, which were supposed to detect plutonium or uranium in shipping containers. The government wanted 1,300 to 1,400 machines, which cost $800,000 each, for use in ports around the world to thwart terrorists who might try to deliver a nuclear bomb to a big city by stashing it in one of the millions of containers that enter the United States every year.

At the White House, Steve Fetter, an assistant director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the helium 3 problem was short-term because other technologies would be developed. But, he said, while the governmentmilitias that forced alienated Sunnis into the arms of ISIS. In Syria it ignores, even accommodates, the regime whose brutality spawned the jihadi menace in the first place. In both countries its actions address symptoms rather than causes and alienate people without providing any commensurate security gains.

But would the situation improve if the United States were to withdraw? Ask the Yazidis of Iraq, whose tragedy would have been much larger had it not been for the timely US intervention; ask the Kurds of Syria, who would have been routed in Kobani had it not been for the sustained airstrikes that helped them repel an ISIS offensive. The Sunnis of Iraq might well ask who would protect them from the revanchist fury of the newly empowered sectarian militias, absent


of Iraq and Syria, for that would undermine the military and diplomatic progress that has been made in recent weeks. But it is time for the United States to move away from policies that have destabilized the region and put us on the front lines of a war with radical Salafists. Over the past few months, the Obama administration has finally sobered up from its Arab Spring triumphalism and has begun to back away from its policy of regime change in Syria. This, together with the Russian intervention in support of the Syrian government and army, has begun to turn the tide against the advance of the Islamic State and other foreign-supported Salafist groups. For the first time since 2012, an end to the Syrian war is dimlyvisible.

But it will require a more substantive change in American strategy and, to some degree, a realignment of US relations in the Middle East. Our support of the Kurds and the Iraqi army will remain important. But the United States also needs to work more closely with Russia and its coalition of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran, as well as with France and our European allies, to form a broader internationalist coalition committed to defeating ISIS and other radical Salafist groups and to establishing a more widely functioning government and economy in Syria. In the process, it will need to challenge, like it never has before, its Sunni allies—Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey—to end their double game of supporting Salafist groups and fanning sectarian tensions while pleading for


special attention as American allies.

This shift in strategy toward an internationalist coalition would have three dimensions: military, political, and diplomatic. The first would entail coordinated military action between the Russian-supported Syrian army advance and the American-European Kurdish offensive in the north and east. The goal would be to seal the Turkish border so as to stop the flow of arms and foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq. The political dimension would be the isolation of the three main radical Salafist groups—ISIS, al-Nusra Front, and Ahrar al-Sham. It would also involve the expansion of the cease-fires between the Syrian government and local militias to create an end to the internal Syrian civil war and establish the framework for a lasting political settlement. The diplomatic dimension, started at Vienna, wouldbe an international agreement to end international support of ISIS and to support an internal political settlement with a blueprint for elections and political reform.

It is critically important to US interests and to international order to change US strategy, because stabilizing the Syrian-Iraqi-Lebanon-Jordan core of the Middle East is essential for international stability and for any hope of progress in the Arab world. It will not end the threat of Wahhabi-inspired terrorism in northern Africa, Europe, and other places, but it will help prevent the further disintegration of the international order in Europe and the Middle East and allow the region to turn to a new narrative of economic reconstruction and social progress rather than a narrative of religious war. If the United States can’t adapt its strategy


Prenatal diagnosis of citrullinemia type 1: a Chinese family with a novel mutation of the ASS1 gene.
Argininosuccinate synthetase deficiency (citrullinemia type 1) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of the urea cycle characterized by elevated concentrations of citrulline, ammonia, and orotic acid, manifesting with acute hyperammonemic crises, usually early in life, with concurrent neurologic deterioration. Only a few cases of citrullinemia type 1 have been documented from mainland China. Prenatal diagnosis has not been performed. A Chinese family affected by citrullinemia type 1 was studied. The proband, a girl, was the second child born to a non-consanguineous couple. Her elder brother died at 19months due to coma and liver dysfunction of unknown cause. The proband was admitted because of severe mental retardation and lethargy at the age ofFederal (USV)

Private

Thomas Dickman

Before the Antietam Campaign: Age 19 years. Enlisted August 14, 1862 at New York City; mustered in as Private, Company A, same date, to serve three years.

In the Antietam Campaign: He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War: He was discharged for disability April 21, 1863.

References, Sources, and other notes: Basic information from State of New York1.

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pp. 646 - 660 [AotW citation 12668]


REWILD Our Planet is a Social Augmented Reality experience that reconnects you to nature

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Our Planet is an eight-part series that showcases the planet’s most fragile habitats and some of the species most at threat of extinction and is the result of a four-year collaboration with Silverback Films and WWF. Footage was filmed by more than 600 crew members over 3,500 filming days in 50 countries across all continents of the world, making it one of the largest-scale operations undertaken thus far.

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manifesting the signs and symptoms of POAG was diagnosed at the Xiangya 1^st^ Affiliated Hospital in Changsha, Hunan. The family included 15 males and 12 females, of which four male and two female members were affected with PAOG. All the subjects included in the study signed informed consent approved by Changsha Xiangya Hospital Ethics Committee, and were diagnosed according to the POAG diagnostic criteria drafted in 1987 by Glaucoma Group, Commission of Ophthalmology, Chinese Medical Association.

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The proband and other members of the family took a physical and ophthalmologic examination, which included visual acuity testing, intraocular pressure (IOP), visual field, slit lamp examination and ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM).

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DNA extraction was performed following the standard phenol/chloroform extraction method as previously described [@B6]. After dissolving, the concentration and purity ofParis (AFP) - Short on the sides and thinning on top, French President Francois Hollande's hair is kept perfectly groomed at a cost of almost 10,000 euros a month, the Canard Enchaine weekly reported Wednesday.

The unpopular leader's hair has never been the topic of scrutiny, unlike other high-profile male politicians such as US presidential candidate Donald Trump or former London mayor Boris Johnson.

However the publication of the contract of his hairdresser, identified only as Olivier B., by the investigative newspaper had the French public bristling over such extravagant spending by a Socialist president.

"I can understand the questions, I can understand that there are judgements," said government spokesman Stephane Le Foll, who confirmed the hairdresser's steep salary of 9,895 euros ($10,900) a month.

"Everyone has their hair done, don't they?"


added Le Foll, his trademark thick grey mane flopping over his forehead.

- 'Coiffeurgate' -

A lawmaker with the far-right National Front (FN) referred to Hollande as "his majesty" on Twitter, while other users superimposed afros, mullets and other hairstyles on pictures of the president, to "help his hairdresser earn his salary".

The hashtag #Coiffeurgate was trending on Twitter in France.

Some Twitter users also suggested other balding candidates for the presidency in 2017, such as Alain Juppe of the opposition Republicans, could save taxpayers money.

An image of Hollande with a beanie photoshopped onto his head was captioned "budget cuts".

Hollande himself earns an annual wage of 179,000 euros a year or 14,900 euros a month.

The Canard Enchaine reported that in addition to his salary, the hairdresser was entitled to a "housing allowance"and other "family benefits".

He has been employed since 2012 and travels with the president on most of his foreign trips.

The hairdresser's contract states that he must "maintain absolute secrecy about his work and any information he may have gathered both during and after his contract".

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Hollande's former partner Valerie Trierweiler denied that the hairdresser had been brought in at her request, as two journalists claimed in a book published in April.

"Let's be fair: F. Hollande was not aware of the hairdresser's salary," she said.

"I can attest to his anger when he learned it later," she added.

Trierweiler, a journalist, published a bestselling tell-all memoir of her relationship and break-up with Hollande, portraying the French leader as a cold-hearted egotist and champagne socialist, who was contemptuous of the "toothless" poor.

Hollande,


who was elected in 2012, has always portrayed himself as "Mr Normal", in stark contrast to his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy whose flashy lifestyle saw him dubbed "President Bling Bling".

A series of political and personal scandals along with a moribund economy and stubborn unemployment levels have driven Hollande's popularity rating to the lowest levels ever seen in modern French history.

Critics on the left of his party accuse him of betraying Socialist ideals and cosying up to business with a series of economic and labour reforms, despite stating during campaigning that the world of finance was his "enemy".

Hollande has said he will decide by the end of the year whether to stand for re-election next year. He has said his decision will depend on his success in cutting unemployment.and after becoming homeless, and 3) the contacts with social and medical services before and after becoming homeless.

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Included in our study were recently homeless adults defined as persons, 18 years and older, who lost their house for the first time during the last two years (between April 2002 and April 2004) and who were legally staying in the Netherlands. The choice of the length of homelessness up to two years was intended to enhance the reliability of the information reported and to overcome problems of memory. To find locations to meet recently homeless adults, data on rough sleepers and visitors of day centres in Amsterdam were studied \[[@B11],[@B12]\] Staff at one specific benefits provider for the homeless, at five day centres and at two emergency shelters were


of participants were recorded to exclude doubling; two persons were interviewed twice and were excluded from analysis. Three questionnaires were excluded as the respondents were homeless for longer than two years. In total 120 questionnaires were included in the analysis.

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Questionnaires for this study consisted of author-generated items. In consultation with city sociologists at the University of Amsterdam Department of Social Sciences, items of questionnaires used in follow up studies on rough sleepers were added \[[@B11]\]. Data were collected in a variety of areas addressing who, where, what, how and when questions following the process and antecedents of becoming homeless, self reported social and medical problems and contacts with social and medical services, before and after becoming homeless. Type of underlying problems chosen were based on the authorsIn 2014, the Free Library of Philadelphia, in partnership with The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre and numerous other cultural organizations from around the region, is offering up Year of the Bard: Shakespeare at 450—a year packed full of engaging, enlightening, and entertaining programs and events designed to celebrate Shakespeare in all his classic and modern incarnations. Throughout 2014, the Year of the Bard will offer Shakespeare buffs and newcomers alike a plethora of fun and festive ways to get in on the celebration. Every month throughout the year will feature numerous activities, including films, talks, an insult contest, digital and live exhibitions, pop-up and theatrical performances, and of course a big birthday bash on April 23. So check out our calendar of events and our Shakespeare blog, and get


However, he would soon be recognized as one of the most iconic influencers in the history of cannabis.

Before this would come to pass, Rick experienced several more hardships. He was working in a Canadian hospital when, due to asbestos, he fell from his ladder. He subsequently passed out after hitting his head in the fall. He woke up in the Emergency room of the same hospital which he was employed. Doctors diagnosed him with “post-concussion syndrome,” causing his ears to ring at all times. None of the medicines that were prescribed offered any relief.

After enduring this nearly unbearable side-effect for nearly a year, Rick rediscovers cannabis via “Reefer Madness 2” seeing it played on television. The characters were shown smoking marijuana to find relief from their various ailments.This is when everything changed.

Simpson decided to go to his doctor and inquire about the potential healing abilities of cannabis, he left with the doctor’s disapproval. Rick, like many others, decided to find some marijuana of his own and quickly noticed improvements in his condition. This was the first major leap in Simpson’s journey.

Several more years would pass until Rick faced another terrifying diagnosis. Doctors noticed three bumps that were cause for concern, the biopsy confirmed it was cancer. He then remembered a study released by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute concluding that cannabis helped prevent tumor growth in mice. Rick used cannabis successfully for his previous medical ailments, and after reading the study he was ready to try again. This time however, he decided to


to feel a mental high. RSO has a dark brown color as well as an intense taste and odor of the cannabis plant. Patients should consume a measured amount of RSO orally per their treatment plan.

In conclusion, after seeing his cousins debilitating battle with cancer Rick Simpson tried to find an alternative. When he was diagnosed he decided, after his prescriptions failed him, to use cannabis. In turn, he helped discover a revolutionary method of extracting cannabis oil. It ultimately saved his life. He’s taken his second chance at life and dedicated it to helping others in need, saving the lives of countless others.

Shop Now Find a Doctorand conserve the amount of floor space required in which to operate the equipment. However, single printing couples for duplex printing require relatively large and expensive master cylinders, blanket cylinders and impression cylinders because of the multiple images required on a single cylinder. Sometimes the cost is prohibitive. In addition, relatively complex gripper mechanisms are required on the impression cylinder, as well as complex mechanisms for handling sheets released from the impression cylinder and for re-feeding the sheets back to the gripper mechanisms on the cylinder.
Consequently, it is desirable to utilize plural printing couples employing less expensive cylinders and gripper mechanisms where the work area or floor space in which the machine is to be utilized is not a premium.
There have been various approaches in the printing and


second printing couple for imaging the opposite side of the sheet. Such machines are more compact than the tandem arrangement because of the L-shaped configuration of the sheet advancing paths. However, such an arrangement still is considerably more expensive and complex than the simple tandemly arranged printing apparatus.
An area of concentration in reducing the length or overall size of tandemly arranged duplicating machines is in the mechanism for reversing the sheets after receiving the first image at the first printing couple and inverting the sheets for receiving the second image at the second printing couple. Heretofore, mechanical means such as rakes employing mechanical fingers have been utilized to engage the trail ends of copy sheets travelling through the tandem machine, along with other mechanical mechanism, to reverse andSaint Peter Catholic Church is the fastest growing and most Biblical Doctrine following church in the world. We believe in every single verse in the Bible and we dedicate our lives by living by them. We answer to no one besides God, our Almighty.

Our staff is led by the wonderful Father Mike Murphy, who was born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at the famous St Patrick’s College, Maynooth in Ireland.He has led missionaries all around the world including Africa, Asia and South America. Father Murphy has spoken in nearly 90 nations across the globe. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed books “Jews Murdered Jesus” and “Do Africans Really Need Condoms?” and has written hundreds of articles for Catholic Newsletters.

While many churches are caving into the


Jimi Hendrix
Sure, one almost has to include Hendrix on a list of any guitar player's heroes. But the manual tape-flanging techniques employed on Siamese Dream were a Jimi Hendrix signature, and the '60s-style psychedelic trippiness found on much of Gish also owes a heavy debt to the one true guitar hero. The tastefully lo-fi "Glynis" — a song on the No Alternative compilation that finds the band drawing from Hendrix's "May This Be Love (Waterfall)" — also reveals the influence.Sonic Evidence: "Bury Me," "Hummer," "Glynis"

The Cure's Robert Smith
Corgan is adept at creating darkly moody atmospheres with his guitar (especially on Siamese Dream and 2000's Machina/The Machines of God), similar to those Robert Smith constructed with synths on the Cure's 1989 masterpiece Disintegration. But Smith's influence also shows throughon the drum-machine-driven "1979," with its bouncy, simplistic and clean guitar line. Corgan often employs the same type of straightforward, technically facile riffs that are Smith's trademark, but then juxtaposes them with denser passages of frenzied playing, which adds to the Pumpkins' dynamic intensity. (The band also covers the Cure's "A Night Like This" on the "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" single.)Sonic Evidence: "Soma," "1979," "The Everlasting Gaze"

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Queen's Brian May
The natural harmonic overtones and super-fuzz lead lines of "Rocket" sound about as close to Brian May as anyone can get. (May is known for building his own unique effects pedals and has a modified guitar rig.) In fact, the Pumpkins' most epic guitar constructs emulate the layered orchestral bombast of Queen records. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" incorporates


Westbury High student suffers gunshot injury on campus

The front entrance of Westbury High School is pictured. The front entrance of Westbury High School is pictured. Photo: Google Maps Photo: Google Maps Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Westbury High student suffers gunshot injury on campus 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

Houston ISD officials said a student suffered a gunshot injury Tuesday at Houston ISD's Westbury High School, with no additional information released about how the gun was fired.

District administrators said the student received immediate medical attention and is recovering from injuries. HISD officials described the firearm discharge as an "isolated incident" that occurred after school hours. They refused to disclose whether investigators believe the shooting was accidental or intentional, and whether it involved multiple individuals.

RELATED: Man 'claimsAnderson becomes first woman with 2 snowboarding medals at single Olympics Jamie Anderson became the first woman with two snowboarding medals at one games.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- American Jamie Anderson finished second in the big-air event to become the first woman to medal twice in snowboarding at a single Olympics.

Two men, Zan Kosir and Vic Wild, each accomplished the feat in 2014.

Anderson, who earlier won gold in slopestyle, an event she also won in 2014, joined Kelly Clark and Shaun White as the only U.S. competitors to each win three snowboarding medals.

In big-air, snowboarders are judged on posture, tricks performed in mid-air, the difficulty of tricks and landings. Only the best two of three attempts are counted.

Anderson, 27, started out strong, leading by 6 points after her first


about because the trillium blooms with the return of the birds and the peak time for the sound of the whip-poor-will call into the dusk. Trilliums are an essential and iconic spring ephemeral.

American Trillium Species Listed as Endangered, Threatened or Vulnerable

Sessile

Trillium decumbens-Tennessee

Trillium discolor-North Carolina

Trillium lancifolium-Florida, Tennessee

Trillium parviflorum-Washington

Trillium recurvatum-Michigan

*Trillium reliquum – US, Georgia endangered species list

Trillium sessile-Michigan, New York

Trillium viride-Illinois, Michigan

Pedicillate

Trillium cernuum-Illinois, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Virginia

Trillium erectum-Illinois, New York, Rhode Island

Trillium flexipes-Maryland, New York

Trillium grandiflorum-Maine, New York

Trillium nivale-Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

*Trillium persistens – US, Georgia Endangered species list

Trillium pusillum-Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee

Trillium rugelii -Tennessee

Trillium undulatum-Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio

Trillium persistens and T. reliquum

* Listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. This is the most critical designation, meaning the plant is in danger of extinction.recording 10 albums and touring with him for over a 17-year period. His innovative style and solid backbeat became the driving force behind Mellencamp's long run of hit records in the '80's and '90s. In the mid-80s, Aronoff began to develop an enormously successful career as a studio musician and has also performed with John Fogerty for over 15 years. Today, he's among the world's most wanted session drummers, having played on hundreds of records, with 30 of those recordings having been Grammy-nominated.

"I just started using Evans Drumheads because Evans has made a product that makes my drums sound better than they have ever sounded, both live and in the studio," says Aronoff. "I also use the Puresound Snare Wires on my snare drums and Planet Waves cables


won't help my game," Ronaldinho Gaucho said.

"Only a win will do, so the responsibility is squarely on us, but then it is for other games as well. The most important thing is to win."

Midfielder Rafael Marquez is set to return from an ankle injury, but forwards Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi are out because of long-term injuries. Striker Javier Saviola injured his thigh last month and is out.

We must remember that Barcelona, which leads Real Madrid by one point in the Spanish league, has still scored 18 goals in its past six games in all competitions.

However, Barcelona's form in Europe has been shaky since its 2-1 win over Arsenal in April's final, a win that capped a European campaign without a single loss. Its only two win thisprior to start of a game to establish a connection therewith, and starts the network game. Thus, players cannot establish a connection with another game apparatus during playing a game. In addition, since a player starts a network game with another player after they have confirmed their intention to play the game, the game does not provide the players the element of surprise.


large-scale manufacturing technologies and finding the cash to build his gigantic room-sized engine, that seems pretty dumb. If he'd built a 3-digit AE, his instruction set would have exceeded the computing capabilities of every 8-bit machine in the home microcomputer revoloution of the 1980s. 5 digits and he'd have beaten the 16-bit PDP11, ST, Amiga and 8086 for per-instruction computing power. If he'd only aimed a little lower, he could almost have built the thing in his own workshop (his son constructed a three-digit Difference Engine from parts found in his house after his death!), instead of spending half his time arguing with his fabrication engineers and begging parliament and the Royal Society for ever-increasing sums of money. What a waste. But still - a genius of theNewRoads buys MacIver store

NEWMARKET, ONT. – NewRoads Automotive Group has added MacIver Dodge to its growing portfolio of York Region dealerships.

The deal for the newly renamed NewRoads Chrysler closed on Mar. 1 and sees group president and CEO Michael Croxon take over from former owner Ian MacIver the prime location on Yonge Street in Newmarket, Ont.

Financial details were not shared.

FCA is not entirely new to Croxon, who maintains a minority interest in North York Chrysler, which occupies the same lot as his family’s original store, North York Chevrolet.

“Obviously we see some upside in those numbers,” Croxon says of the growth forecast for the store.

The first order of business has been to install the “NewRoads way” into the existing culture, though that mostly starts with observing rather than dictating.

“First,


Before Kick-Off

It was a summer filled with excitement and restlessness: after England made it to the semi-finals at the World Cup, Newcastle supporters turned their attention back to the club.

Tensions mounted over the future of both Rafa Benitez and re-securing top-flight status, as there was a perceived lack of incoming quality over the transfer window. Though there was a quintet of new faces that arrived at Newcastle, there have been fears too little was done to keep pace with the rest of the league.

To kick off the campaign, St. James’ Park was host to title contenders Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham, visitors at the beginning of the ‘17-’18 campaign as well, defeated NUFC in both fixtures last season.

As Tottenham are favored to qualify for Champions League again, and Newcastle ison which Mother functioned. She did not focus on difficulties, incidents, people as such—everything was Jesus. What is He telling me, asking from me, giving me? That is, Mother sought the deeper truth in the situation—the Truth of Love—and she responded in that Truth. That is why when one asked Mother how to be really holy, the answer was invariably the same: "Take what He gives and give what He takes with a big smile." That's how, it seems, she could be twenty-four hours with Jesus—in love—and make her life something beautiful for God. To live like this consistently would require _heroic faith._[ 50

# Only Your Kindness Will Help

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love to have somebody to listen, even if they have to tell the story of thirty years ago, but it is good to listen, and I think it is a very beautiful thing....Once you start visiting those places, these people, you will very soon find that maybe a little thing will please that person, and that little thing you can [do for them]....You can find out what they need, go once and see, then you find out—a book, a card, only that simple contact with them.

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In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. As no other book has done before it, A Lethal Obsession reveals the causes behind this shameful and persistent form of hatred and offers a sobering look at how it may shake and reshape the world in years to come. Here are the fascinating and long-forgotten roots of the "Jewish difference"-the violence that greeted the Jewish Diaspora in first-century Alexandria. Wistrich suggests that the idea of a formless God who passed down a universal moral law to a chosen few deeply disconcerted the pagan world. The early leaders


of Christianity increased their strength by painting these "superior" Jews as a cosmic and satanic evil, and by the time of the Crusades, murdering a "Christ killer" had become an act of conscience. Moving seamlessly through centuries of war and dissidence, A Lethal Obsession powerfully portrays the creation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the fateful anti-Semitic tract commissioned by Russia's tsarist secret police at the end of the nineteenth century-and the prediction by Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of political Zionism, of eventual disaster for the Jews in Europe. The twentieth century fulfilled this dark prophecy, with the horrifying ascent of Hitler's Third Reich. Yet, as Wistrich disturbingly suggests, the end of World War II failed to neutralize the "Judeophobic virus": Pogroms and prejudice continued inSoviet-controlled territories and in the Arab-Muslim world that would fan flames for new decades of distrust, malice, and violence. Here, in pointed and devastating detail, is our own world, one in which jihadi terrorists and the radical left blame Israel for all global ills. In his concluding chapters, Wistrich warns of a possible nuclear "Final Solution" at the hands of Iran, a land in which a formerly prosperous Jewish community has declined in both fortunes and freedoms. Dazzling in scope and erudition, A Lethal Obsession is a riveting masterwork of investigative nonfiction, the definitive work on this unsettling yet essential subject. It is destined to become an indispensable source for any student of world affairs.


stock. Finally, the spirit of the doctrine outlined above is that an optionor in a stock option cannot benefit from its own wrongdoing. It follows, therefore, that it cannot benefit from the wrongdoing of its parent company. To hold otherwise would fly in the face of this rule.
Therefore, plaintiff is entitled to exercise his options under the Trak Plan. As with the other plans, his options shall be extended for the appropriate period. The time to exercise the option which has expired shall be extended for a period of time equal to the period of time between June 30, 1993 and its expiration at the price of said stock on June 30, 1993. The time to exercise the remaining unexpired options shall be extended for the period ofin a statement on Friday before being arrested for two months of preliminary detention.

An early election will be held on Sunday in a move to cement the outcome of a peaceful revolution when demonstrators led by opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan pushed the former ruling party out of power earlier this year.

Investigators have charged Kocharyan with an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order during events after the 2008 election when his ally Serzh Sarksyan became president.

In February-March 2008 the opposition held protest rallies, contesting the result of the election. The protests were dispersed and 10 people were killed in clashes with police. The Constitutional Court upheld the election result.

Pashinyan, an opposition activist at the time who was imprisoned in June 2009 on charges of fomenting unrest during post-election protests,


The first preseason game did little to help sort out the pecking order in any New Orleans Saints pre-season position battle. In fact, some players who were quiet in the early part of training camp suddenly emerged in the Saints 34-25 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. With training camp winding down and pre-season nearly halfway over, time is running out for roster longshots to make a strong impression.

Here’s where the Saints preseason position battles stand heading into the second preseason game.

New Orleans Saints Preseason Position Battle Update: Week Two

Running Back

The running back competition has become a bit clearer since the previous edition of this series. Dwayne Washington, who is hoping to reprise his reserve role from last season, made a strong impression in the first preseason game. Behinda second-team offensive line Washington managed to gain 36 yards on 8 rushes, averaging a healthy 4.5 yards per carry.

Jacquizz Rodgers saw five carries and three receptions versus Minnesota after being signed only a few days earlier. While Rodgers averaged just 3.5 yards per touch, he showed potential as receiving back in the Saints offense. Unfortunately, he did drop a pass on a two-point conversion, his best opportunity of the night.

Undrafted rookie Devine Ozigbo had just four touches late in the fourth quarter, but he made the most of them. Ozigbo fought for extra yardage on a nine-yard catch and picked up 11 yards on a sweep a few plays later. He’ll have to really turn it up in the remaining exhibition games to threaten Washington’s spot. He’s


Grayson and Harris are also auditioning for the return specialist role, meaning they may actually be stronger candidates than Butler.

Fortunately, all of these players on the bubble are still practice squad eligible. With that in mind, expect New Orleans to keep their somewhat proven commodities in Kirkwood and Carr. Bank on the rest clearing waivers, which most likely will.

Tight End

Converted wide receiver Dan Arnold had a rather mixed performance against Minnesota. In a two-minute drill situation late in the second quarter, Arnold caught two passes for 27 yards. That included an 18-yarder in which he fought through defenders for a touchdown. But he dropped a short, on-target pass on the Saints next possession. It was intercepted by a Vikings defender and returned it for a touchdown.

The mistake mayseveral practices this month), New Orleans will probably want an extra tackle in case Armstead and Ryan Ramczyk are both out of action.

Patrick Omameh, a late-July addition is the strongest candidate to sneak on the roster at tackle. He’s started 56 career games at guard. Although New Orleans has put him at right tackle with the second team and occasionally with the first team. Michael Ola filled in at right tackle for New Orleans last season, but he seems to be spending most of his time at left guard now. No other strong alternative at tackle has emerged at this point.

Defensive Line

2017 third-round pick Trey Hendrickson figures to be the top rotational option for both defensive end positions. Undrafted rookie Porter Gustin and veterans Wes Horton and Geneo


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Fermont, Quebec, was designed as the mining community of the future. Its 1.3 kilometre-long windscreen complex was built to shield residents from the bitter sub-arctic climate. Forty years later, contributor Simon Nakonechny heads north to find out what has become of this visionary town.

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(photographs by Simon Nakonechny)

In the early 1970s, Fermont, Quebec was created to mine some of the richest iron deposits in the world. It was a new kind of town, one that would directly confront the twin dangers of cold and isolation. The mining company built the Mur-écran to shield Fermont from the fierce sub-arctic winds. It also brought all the town's services under one roof, with the hope of creating a close-knit community in the process.Forty years later, what's become of Fermont andthree-year term.
On August 24, 1988, the General Services Administration of the United States government (GSA) agreed to lease space in the Atrium Building, which was owned by Limited III. The lease agreement named Limited III as the lessor. It was signed by Les Jones as president of Dulles, the general partner of Limited III.
Weber did not receive a bonus from Dulles for procuring this lease agreement. Although he continued to work for Dulles until March 1, 1991, he also was not paid his monthly salary for January and February, 1991.
Limited III had constructed the Atrium Building with financing provided by Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. (Riggs). Riggs later filed suit against Dulles, Limited III, and the Joneses for defaulting on the loan. As a result of this


suit, Riggs obtained title to the Atrium Building property. Thus, Riggs, or entities owned by Riggs, have received the benefit of the GSA lease.
The motion for judgment alleges that Les Jones and Dorothy Jones fraudulently diverted assets from Dulles to enrich themselves and to avoid paying creditors. The Joneses used Dulles' assets and credits to fund Armed Forces Electronics, Ltd. (Armed Forces), another company owned and controlled by Les Jones. Weber contends that the Joneses used Dulles' assets to support the continued operation of Armed Forces, and that Les Jones personally receives all of Armed Forces' profits.
Les Jones also allegedly used Dulles' funds to form another company, Dulles Equities of Virginia, Inc. (Dulles of Virginia), of which he is the sole shareholder. Les Jones sold several of Dulles'vehicles and used the proceeds to purchase new vehicles titled in the name of Dulles of Virginia.
The Joneses used Dulles' funds to lease a home for Les Jones from Trafalgar House Property, Inc. (Trafalgar). Les Jones had entered into a lease purchase contract with Trafalgar and, during the lease period, he used over $100,000 of Dulles' funds to improve the property. Trafalgar knew about these improvements, as well as the fact that Dulles was paying Les Jones's rent.
The motion for judgment further alleges that Dulles is planning to sell a Lear jet and that Les Jones intends to purchase another jet, with Dulles' funds, to be titled in his own name or that of another entity he owns. The motion for judgment names, among others, 1st Source Bank


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Upon arrival at Minangkabau International Airport, meeting and greeting service by our representative. Then drive directly to Bukittinggi via Anai Valley, and stop over at Anai Waterfall and Minangkabau Village. Lunch will be provided en route.

After lunch, another brief stop will be made at Pandai Sikek, a village famous for weaving and wood-carving. On arrival in Bukittinggi, check in to the hotel for overnight stay. Dinner will be provided at the local restaurant.

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Updated at 7:08 PM CDT on Friday, Feb 7, 2014

With hashtags like #TexasPride and #TeamTexas, local Olympians Jordan Malone and Johnny Quinn gave their fans a backstage and front-row view of the 2014 Sochi Olympics opening ceremony Friday afternoon.

While Quinn, who will be competing in the two-man and four-man bobsled events for Team USA, gave a joyful play-by-play in photos of his teammates and of the Russian ballet and theatrical performance of the opening ceremonies, speed skater Malone tweeted a heartfelt message about how his dream of being an Olympian now has happened twice.

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522 F.2d 1144
Erwine LAVERNE and Estelle Laverne, Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.Howard J. CORNING, Jr., Mayor, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 419, Docket 74-1856.
United States Court of Appeals,Second Circuit.
Argued April 30, 1975.Decided July 3, 1975.

Michael Ratner, New York City (Cohn, Glickstein, Lurie, Ostrin & Lubell, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.
Henry Root Stern, Jr., New York City (Thomas R. Esposito, P. Jay Wilker, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.
Before MOORE and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges, and HOLDEN,* District Judge.
MOORE, Circuit Judge:

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The principal issue presented by this appeal is whether the defendants the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Building Inspector and other officials of the Village of Laurel Hollow, Nassau County, Long Island are entitled to assert good faith as a defense in this civil rights suit brought under42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-88 seeking damages for violations of the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights.  A brief outline of the facts and the procedural history of this litigation is required.

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The plaintiffs Erwine and Estelle Laverne are artists and designers.  In 1949 they purchased the Tiffany Estate, located in the Village of Laurel Hollow.  The area in which the premises are located was zoned exclusively for residential purposes and could not lawfully be used for commercial endeavors.  In 1950 the Village brought an action in state court to enjoin the Lavernes from using the premises as a factory.  The trial court granted the injunction, and the New York appellate courts modified it and kept it in effect.1

3
Sometime prior to July 1962, Hugh G. Johnson, the


noticed that the front gate was open, permitting access into the courtyard.  Johnson stopped and, accompanied by his friend, entered the gate.  He came upon three Laverne employees engaged in unclogging a drain. Johnson did not immediately identify himself and for some minutes had a friendly conversation with the employees, who apparently were under the impression that Johnson was a real estate broker.  When this initial confusion was cleared up and Johnson's actual position revealed, the three employees asked him to leave, and Johnson complied.  During this visit Johnson saw drying racks, cans of paint, rolls of paper and other materials which led him to believe that the Lavernes were violating the 1954 injunction and the Village ordinance.

5
Johnson reported what he had observed tothe Village Board of Trustees.  The Board considered the matter at its September 1962 meeting and, with the advice of the Village attorney, authorized Johnson and Hutchinson Dubosque, the Deputy Mayor of the Village, to make another inspection of the Laverne premises.

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Howard Corning, the Mayor, subsequently decided to accompany them, and an inspection was carried out on October 18, 1962.4  The inspection, which covered principally the main entry area of the premises, lasted some minutes until Estelle Laverne asked the officials to leave.  Several photographs were taken, and the three men observed the same sort of materials Johnson had seen on his earlier visit.

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On the basis of the evidence gathered during these inspections, the Village commenced contempt proceedings against the Lavernes for violating the 1954


94 S.Ct. 1683, 40 L.Ed.2d 90 (1974), a § 1983 action against the Governor of Ohio and various personnel connected with the Ohio National Guard arising out of the May 1970 shootings at Kent State University, the Supreme Court held that a qualified immunity existed for the defendant governmental officials.  The Court described the immunity essentially in terms of a good-faith defense:

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(I)n varying scope, a qualified immunity is available to officers of the executive branch of Government, the variation being dependent upon the scope of discretion and responsibilities of the office and all the circumstances as they reasonably appeared at the time of the action on which liability is sought to be based.  It is the existence of reasonable grounds for the belief formed at thethe state of the law as it existed in 1962.  Through his testimony the jury was apprised of the Supreme Court decision in Frank v. Maryland, supra, upholding administrative searches, and that case was contrasted with the New York Court of Appeals' 1964 holding in People v. Laverne, supra.  It was Professor Dorsen's opinion based on the existence of the ordinance authorizing entries by the building inspector, Supreme Court decisions existing at the time, and the fact that the Village attorney had advised that the entry could take place that "there was reasonable ground for belief that the entries were lawful at the time they took place in 1962."  (Tr. 294).  Speaking with particular reference to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, whose duty it


Inspector was giving a "tour" for his friend or performing an official inspection.  However, the question was not clearly a bifurcated one, as the plaintiffs contend, and the concern of the jury seems to have been whether the Building Inspector was attempting to conceal his purpose.  Consequently, we think that the judge's answer very adequately touched all bases.  It mentioned the architect and made it clear that the motive of the Building Inspector was the important factor for the jury to consider.

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The final point raised by the appellants relates to the judge's refusal to admit evidence describing the Lavernes' factory in Long Island City.  The object of the proof was to show that the Lavernes were simply using their home as a studio andtool when the adapter is connected to the tool and the battery pack.
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Mayor Kaminis was “physically attacked" on Sunday by suspected union workers protesting job cuts, his office announced, according to AFP. The incident happened as the mayor was leaving a Confederation of Greek Municipalities (KEDE) meeting, where he held discussions about the austerity measures and the way they affect thousands of municipal employees.

According to reports, he was struck by unionists representing municipal workers outside the building. Kaminis was checked in to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.

After being discharged, Kaminis issued a statement blaming POE-OTA union and its leader, Themis Balasopoulos, for the assault.

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NATO Adds Ex-Universal Exec Jerry Pierce As Tech Consultant

(Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain and North Hollywood, Calif., USA, June 20, 2012) — The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced today that Jerry Pierce, former Senior Vice President of Universal Pictures and Founder/Chairman of Inter-Society’s Digital Cinema Forum (ISDCF), will begin advising and consulting for NATO on technology issues starting July 1, 2012.

Pierce joined Universal in 1995 and immediately began work on the DVD format as part of the Universal/Panasonic/Warner Bros./Toshiba team that moved the format from concept to launch. Pierce and Panasonic received an Emmy award in 1999 for their contributions to the format.

In 2000, he joined the Theatrical Division in Universal and was at the ground floor of the launch of digital cinema. He served in the SocietyIndia, New Delhi, from 1974 to 1982, and a Faculty Member with the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, from 1985 to 1997. He is currently an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor and a Philip and Virginia Sproul Professor of electrical and computer engineering with Iowa State University.

Dr. Somani’s research interests are in the areas of computer system design and architecture, fault tolerant computing, computer interconnection networks, wavelength-division-multiplexing-based optical networking, and reconfigurable and parallel computer systems. He served as an IEEE Distinguished Visitor, an IEEE Distinguished Tutorial Speaker, and an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Visitor. He delivered several keynote speeches, tutorials, and distinguished and invited talks all over the world. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to theory and applications of computer networks in


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Baur had few details to share on what the park will look like, as it’s still in the planning stages with the City of Columbus. The riverfront site is currently home to a boat ramp for the Olentangy River, and the Olentangy bike trail runs along the opposite side of the water.

The Borror/Ruscilli project is just one piece of the larger puzzle that is coming together for the entire site located west of the Arena District. The City of Columbus announced plans last December to sell the old Municipal Light Plant buildings located on the south side of Nationwide Boulevard to Connect Realty and Schiff Capital, who plan to renovate the structures for office and event venue space. Nationwide Realty Investors also owns a largeJapan Foundation

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(CNN) It's been almost one year since first lady Melania Trump launched her official "Be Best" platform , a three-pillared program set to tackle the relatively vast topics of children's well-being, online behavior and how the opioid crisis affects kids and families.

Not only is it a comparatively large and complex set of issues for a presidential spouse to undertake, Trump is doing so with a skeleton crew of East Wing staff members.

Yet Trump, who this week embarked on her first solo domestic overnight trip to promote her initiative, has gone about building on her initiatives as she has with most other things during her tenure -- at her own pace, when she so chooses. She's carried on without concern for its compatibility (or not) with President Donald Trump'sagenda, or concern for how those who came before her accomplished their tasks.

And for much of her efforts, she's struggled to win headlines or command the media attention that followed her predecessors. It's something that frustrates Trump, as she stated Tuesday in Las Vegas, where the first lady spoke and took questions at a town hall about opioids hosted by Eric Bolling.

"I challenge the press to devote as much time to the lives lost (by drugs) -- and the potential lives that could be saved -- by dedicating the same amount of coverage that you do to idle gossip or trivial stories," she said.

But will we ever see her do pushups with Jimmy Fallon or sing carpool karaoke with James Corden, like Michelle Obama? Probably not.

It's expected that


into adults," Grisham told CNN. "When appropriate, we may look into opportunities to support legislation or policy on state or federal levels."

The launch of Trump's "Be Best" campaign has been a series of fits and starts.

Last May, one week after Trump unveiled the platform in a Rose Garden ceremony, she entered the hospital for a kidney procedure that kept her out of the public eye for weeks -- veering the national conversation from "Be Best" to Trump's well-being. In January 2018, she hired her first policy director, Regan Thompson, who shortly thereafter became one of the few turnovers in her hiring. She departed in August, just shy of seven months in the position.

Little explanation was given as to why Thompson's tenure was so brief -- Grisham provided agiven Mrs. Trump."

Small but mighty staff

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Michelle Obama and Laura Bush each had more than 20 staff members when they left the White House. But Trump operates her East Wing with just 12, all relative newcomers to national and global politics, and just one wholly assigned to policy.

Some could see the disparity as doing a disservice to the fully functioning potential of her platform. A bigger staff devoted solely to "Be Best" -- from marketing to more events, to building a national campaign around her chosen issues -- would likely do a more comprehensive job clearing the oblique language and fuzzy priorities of the initiative, just by


having more manpower.

But, that's not how Trump prefers to operate.

"As with all things that she does, the first lady is being very deliberate in her hiring, focusing on quality over quantity," Grisham told CNN.

On Tuesday, at a Las Vegas town hall about the opioid crisis, Trump revealed her typical work day.

"My days are very busy, I wake up very early," said Trump. "I make sure my son goes off to school."

She said she then goes to her East Wing office to meet with her "team of 12."

"I'm very detail oriented," Trump said, adding she works closely with the 100 White House residence staff, as well as the team at the White House Historical Association, to oversee any changes that the White House might need in terms of updating.

Infact, the first lady revealed she has just finished updating the White House bowling alley.

"I just renovated it," she said. "It really looks beautiful. We have fun sometimes, and I'm looking forward to using it more now."

Emotional focus

The most emotionally challenging part of her "Be Best" platform is most certainly the opioid crisis and its effect on families, particularly infants.

"After they are born, these innocent babies endure nausea, pain, anxiety, sleeplessness and trouble eating -- the same as adults who undergo detox," said Trump in her Las Vegas speech on Tuesday, the only formal remarks she made during her national tour.

Early in her tenure, Trump zeroed in on the particularly difficult sub-category of drug addiction in Neo-natal Abstinence Syndrome, or NAS. During Tuesday's town hall on the drug


"Be Best."

Fighting for attention

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Trump's most effective outreach comes in the human moments she gives to an administration that critics say lacks compassion.

Holding infants, asking questions of doctors, hugging nurses, encouraging young mothers to succeed in their sobriety, those continue to be the silent and under-the-radar, yet most genuine, forms of Trump's personal touch.

But like Michelle Obama, Trump is actually a frequent and fervent hugger. And there have been countless examples of Trump folding her 5-foot-11-inch frame into a tiny chair and pulling up to a kindergarten crafts table to help ill children make Valentine's Day cards or remind a second-grader bemoaning herhomework that, yes, it's a drag, but you need to study. She did just that on Monday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at a public charter school known for promoting kindness and respectful communication in its studies.

Trump does not have the same name or face recognition as her predecessor -- most of the children in the classrooms she visits glance up with brief interest when Trump walks in, but rarely if ever do they bound of their seats and run to her, as was often the reaction when Obama visited schools.

"I am very proud of what we achieved so far, for the well-being of children," Trump told the crowd Tuesday inside the Las Vegas theater venue where the town hall was held -- and which in the evenings converts to


the concert stage for singer Barry Manilow.

"I want to shine a light on the successful programs and give them the voice and support them and partner with them," she said. Her voice is certainly the engine "Be Best" needs, not necessarily with more frequency and more chutzpah, but to at least compete with a President who is a practiced rhetorician and a country still hungry to know more about its enigmatic first lady.

When Bolling asked Trump a random question about her cooking habits, the first lady, perhaps a little uncomfortable, paused before she revealed which meal would be best for a Trump family dinner.

"Maybe, spaghetti?" she answered, to which the audience erupted in applause, strong approval for pasta, apparently, with just as much enthusiasm as anything else Trumphave simply made himself invisible. Instead, he dramatically pulled a heavy-looking lighter from his pocket and used it to snuff out the street
lights, one-by-one.
“You're just a big show-off, Albluster!” a voice purred softly, making light of his behavior and thereby undoing all his efforts.
Albluster Dumasadore was positively glowing. With a heavy sigh, he dropped the lighter in one of his many pockets, confident that, heavy as the object was, it would not rip through his gown. Those pockets were heavily reinforced and as far as damage was concerned they had, in fact, become pockets of resistance.
Dumasadore turned abruptly to see a cat, which still had milk dribbling down its chin, sitting calmly on the pavement. He had almost stepped on it, but the cat escaped by a whisker.


A stone saucer sat by its side. It looked like it had recently been drained back to front and back again, of some very rich milk. Ergo, de puss supped, Ogre.
“You look like the cat who got the cream” Dumasadore mused as he stroked his whiskers. His eyes were twinkling. This was due to a disastrous spell sometime back in the 1920s. It was a spell of very hot, dry, dusty weather, which had irritated his eyes so much that he had attempted to shield them with some free-floating protective glasses.
Unfortunately, the glasses were neither free, nor floating, nor were they protective. In fact, they were downright dangerous as they became stuck so firmly to his face that they seemed to be a part of him. Moreover, theglasses began to enlarge quite alarmingly until Dumasadore had made a complete spectacle of himself.
The cat twitched its tail and suddenly was a delicate, rather severe-looking woman who was wearing eyeglasses which precisely mimicked the pattern that had been noticeable around the cat's eyes. The woman was professor Mcgonagen, teacher of transfiguration at Yogorts School of Kitchen Crafts and Whiskery.
The man with whom she was now vis-a-vis, was headmaster of that same school. The two of them were expecting a baby. And as if the fates had heard those very words typed, there closely followed a faint rumbling-bling nearby in the distance which changed tone in such a manner as to indicate that it was bearing down upon them at a steady flutter. It turned out to be


fate alone!”
Agreed frowned at him and hopped aboard the aurorbike once more. It promptly collapsed beneath his weight and he spent half the night fixing
it.

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Meanwhile, 11 years later, over a decade had passed and no one noticed.
The 11 year old boy lying on his back and gazing blankly into the blackness that was the underside of the stairs certainly didn't notice, but he didn't know he was supposed to.
Hoppy Poppy (for that was the name his mother most often called him) had a shock of hair which wouldn't stay flat, and a shock of a scar on his forehead that looked like it had been imprinted by a small shock of lightning. His eyes were shockingly green. He would have been shocked to learn he wasa wizard, but no one had told him. Little did Hoppy Poppy know
how little he knew.
He got up and put on a pair of dingy, baggy jeans that he tied with string, and an oversized shirt. All of his clothes were hand-me-downs by way of his shockingly plump cousin, Dud. Little did Hurry Pooper know, as he sped towards the toilet, that he was single-handedly inaugurating a fashion trend which would bedevil parents and school portrait photographers
alike for years to come.
The clothes were overly large, of course, thought Happy Pooper as he sat there in blessed relief, because his cousin was. He was corpulent.

He was rather obese, actually. Gargantuan, outsize, paunchy, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stout, tubby, adipose, blimp, butterball, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, outsize,


of all the kitchen had done nothing to him. Secondly, it was made of brick and wood, and he was made only of flesh and bone – mostly bone, and thirdly, it hurt like Hello!
What was worse, his entire family was already there to see him once again demonstrate his immense ineptitude.
Well, it wasn't his family. His family was the Potters, from Potters Bar. They spent way too much time in the bar, apparently which is how they came to die in a car crash.
And Harried Poppar knew he was inept, or in trouble, or in something. He just knew, deep down inside, that he didn't belong here.
“You're late!” snapped his uncle Turdley. "See to the breakfast at once. Be certain you put some hearty pepper in itthis time, and I don't want to end up with a hairy platter!”, he added, seeing Harry to push his hair out of his face again. He had tried trimming it this morning, but fairy lights, tinsel, and shiny little balls didn't make him look very good at all, even with a star on top. He had decided to cut it rather severely instead, but even after that it was groan again.
“And when you've done that, pick up the mail.”
Harry eventually managed to break everyone's fast without breaking his neck, and he trudged down the hallway to pick up the two pieces of mail from the floor.
One of them was a postcard from his obnoxious aunt. The other wasn't.

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