spur growth, she added.

Kanyange said the move will also help attract more investors into the identified satellite cities in different parts of the country.

The government, under the second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, identified six towns to be developed into secondary cities. They are Musanze in Northern Province, Nyagatare in Eastern Province, Huye and Muhanga in Southern province, as well as Rubavu and Rusizi in Western Province.

The move seeks to reduce rural-urban migration, fast-track the rate of urbanisation across the country and create more employment opportunities, especially for the youth, as well as help propel the country into a middle-income economy.

Kanyange said PSF is already working with district vice-mayors for economic planning to ensure that investors at district level are given the necessarily assistance.

Daniel Nkubito, the Rwandaencouraging the informal sector players to join the formal sector. He argued that operating formal entities has more benefits, like access to finance and government support, which are not at the disposal of informal sector businesses.

Most of the small and medium enterprises operate in an informal manner, a situation that limits their growth or contribution to national development.


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Established in 2009, VVA is currently operating in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, DC, with liaisons in California, and Texas.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

President Obama on Budget Negotiations: "We Have Now Matched the Number the Speaker Originally Sought"

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For Immediate Release April 05, 2011 Remarks by the President After Meeting with House Republican and Senate Democratic LeadershipJames S. Brady Press Briefing Room2:02 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Good afternoon. As many of you know, this morning I had a meeting with Speaker Boehner, Leader Reid, as well as the two appropriations chairs, Inouye and Rogers, to discuss the situation with last year’sArchery program thriving in schools

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The National Archery in the Schools Program was actually started by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources in 2002. Its purpose was to address the lack of archery competition shooting in physical education classes of public schools. To date, millions of youth have participated in this program, not only in the United States, but also in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.

NASP teaches two-week archery classes to students in the grades 4 through 12. Some of the topics that are discussed with this subject include the history of the sport, equipment, safety, proper techniques, concentration, physical fitness and self-improvement.

The teachers themselves must complete an eight-hour NASP Basic Archery Instructor Training Program prior to teaching the course. Archers often shoot in


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The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Tuesday the plea of a woman BJP activist challenging her arrest by West Bengal police for allegedly sharing a morphed photo of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media.

A vacation bench, comprising justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna, on Monday took note of the plea of advocate N K Kaul, representing the activist, that the issue of her arrest be accorded urgent hearing.

The bench posted the plea for hearing on Tuesday after the senior lawyer submitted that there has been a complete strike in West Bengal and it has forced the woman to challenge her arrest in the apex court.

The senior lawyer said the woman activist is in judicial custody following her arrest by the police.

Priyankaentertaining), with charisma and clap-trap dialoguebaazi." Al Pacino saw the film's trailer and promos and admired Kumar's portrayal of Shoaib Khan, a gangster. He said that the promos and posters reminded him of his own The Godfather. Kumar said of Pacino's response: "A touch of appreciation is always held dearly in an actor's arms, even if it's from the simplest of people like our beloved spot boys. But to have your work spoken of so kindly by the world's most admired gangster Al Pacino himself – I had goose-bumps thinking about him watching the promo! I was so humbled, not only as an actor but as a fan of his legendary work." Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN criticised Kumar for his "in-your-face flamboyance". After the film's mainly negative reviews,


Wheels of Aurelia Review

Nothing beats a long road trip, especially in the long stretches of unfamiliar road that coat a new vacation, but in Wheels of Aurelia, the roads are all too similar, and the dialogue that accompanies them tells stories of an eclectic group of people. This range of conversations strewn over each of the 16-minute micro-sessions of play boasted a string of attached convictions but dropped any sense of narrative structure. Still, the amount of times I caught myself slightly giggling or tapping next to see what happens kept me playing the odd text adventure.

Our expedition by car starts off easy enough, the player leading a girl, Lella, to France with a friend named Olga. Discovering the history between the two characters makes for a detective-likeDaniel O. Treibel

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Dan holds a master’s degree in systems engineering from the George Washington University. He earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico.


By Luke Baker

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sidestepped a question on whether he still supports the creation of a Palestinian state as he left for the United States on Monday on his first visit since President Donald Trump took office.

Netanyahu has never publicly abandoned his conditional backing for Palestinian statehood, which he first stated in 2009, but Palestinians say that commitment has been rendered worthless by Israeli settlement building on occupied land.

Hours before Netanyahu’s departure for Washington, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told Army Radio that “all members of the security cabinet, and foremost the prime minister, oppose a Palestinian state”. The forum convened on Sunday ahead of Wednesday’s White House meeting between Netanyahu and Trump.

On the Tel Aviv airport tarmac, Netanyahu was askedrecognition of Israel as the “nation-state” of the Jewish people.

A one-state solution to the conflict would compromise Israel’s Jewish character through the absorption of several million Palestinians.

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Erdan belongs to the right-wing Likud party, many of whose legislators often espouse a harder line than Netanyahu himself.

Asked about Erdan’s comments, Wasel Abu Youssef, an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said it is also “what the government of the extreme right in Israel does on the ground (that) prevents any chance of the establishment of a Palestinian state”.

Palestinians seek a state in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel captured those areas in a 1967 war; it pulled its troops and settlers out of Gaza in 2005.

Since Trump took office last month,


Netanyahu has approved construction of 6,000 settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, drawing international condemnation which the White House did not join.

In recent days, however, the Trump administration has taken a more nuanced position, saying building new settlements or expanding existing ones may not be helpful in achieving peace.

But in his airport remarks, Netanyahu said that he and Trump “see eye-to-eye on the dangers emanating from the region but also on the opportunities, and we’ll talk about both as well as upgrading the relations between Israel and the United States in many, many fields.”

Also on the agenda will be the situation in Syria, and a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that Netanyahuand Trump have strongly criticized. Before flying home on Thursday, Netanyahu plans to meetExactly three years ago today, I finished binge-watching my very first Korean drama. Back in the summer days of 2014, I didn’t really imagine I could enjoy watching this kind of TV show that rarely attracts the male audience. But on April 21 in that year, out of sheer boredom and curiosity, I tried to watch the first episode of City Hunter.

Since then I have watched a total of 40 Korean dramas (on average, about 13 per year). I put the blame on City Hunter’s impressive storytelling and badass cliffhangers which left me longing for the next episodes. I was entirely immersed in its narrative—in its fictional world and characters—that I felt so depressed in the following day (April 22, 2014) after watching the 20th and final episode.


now is the fact that not all of them are romantic comedies bearing no substance in their stories. There is plenty of genre to choose from.

Misaeng is a slice-of-life drama that tells the story of Jang Geu-rae, a former baduk player who gets hired as an intern at a large trading company through a connection. Later on he manages to get a two-year contract that lets him continue working in the company as an employee. The drama essentially depicts what it is like to live in a corporate world for a person like Geu-rae, a regular worker who have nothing on his resume but a high school equivalency exam.

The best thing that I like about this drama is its realistic portrayal of the day-to-day routine of regular officethe introduction of the general consumer entitlement to compensation for material and moral damages. In addition, I think that not only should consumer law be related to civil and commercial law, but that measures should also be taken to limit the penetration of low-quality products and services into the market.
Leopold Józef Rutowicz
on behalf of the UEN Group. - (PL) Mr President, the review of the consumer acquis is of particular importance for the development and functioning of the single market. Doing away with barriers and inefficient solutions in the area of consumer protection would make life easier for the millions of citizens who move between Member States of the Union.
Clear and easily comprehensible provisions that are consequently easy to implement help to boost consumer confidence in the functioning


to offer my sincere congratulations. I think that a revision of the acquis communautaire in the consumer protection field is necessary not only because of the evolution of the European market and of the relationship between producers and consumers but also because of the problems which occurred following enlargement of the European Union .
From this last point of view, I would like to draw your attention to a negative situation that occurs in the consumer protection field in the new Member States. I notice the deficiencies and the great delays in the process of labelling goods in the languages of the new Member States that, as of 1 January 2007, became official EU languages.
For example, most of the goods imported from the European Union into Romania are notinto reality. Among the recent legislative acts, the roaming directive indicates that one of the significant barriers to the freedom of movement felt by the European citizen was removed.
The directive on passenger car taxation follows the same route. Unfortunately a Council decision is still pending from 2005, although both the Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee gave their favourable opinion last autumn. This paper is absolutely necessary as, currently, 16 Member States impose a tax at 16 different levels, and this is a barrier for buying a passenger car from another EU Member State. In most cases, citizens who change their residence from one Member State to another who applying for registration tax happen to pay it twice.
The Parliament and the European Commission have to make


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Category:Columbia Graphophone Company singlesSteelers Nation is mostly excited with the new acquisition of cornerback Joe Haden. The team had a weakness on the roster, they threw a name at the weakness and will see if he can help. Of course, while any Steelers fan will want to see a strong and complete season out of Joe Haden, the most attention will come when the team plays the Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots.

These are the two teams they know that they have to beat every season to earn legitimacy across the NFL. Joe Haden played in three games against the Ravens and Patriots combined in 2016. The best game of his season and the worst game of his season were likely in this set of games. Now presenting, the good, the


bad and the ugly from Joe Haden’s performances against the Steelers fiercest opponents.

Joe Haden vs. New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens: Good, Bad and Ugly

The Good

The best game of Haden’s 2016 season came in week two against the Baltimore Ravens. Haden picked off three passes all season. All three occurred against Joe Flacco and the Ravens. He caught a gimme in week 10, but in week two, arguably the two most impressive plays of his season occurred.

This brings back vintage Haden. He sits back, reads the play and times his jump perfectly. He totally baits Flacco into making the throw and gives himself momentum to run forward following the pick.

Haden had struggled with getting beat deep all season. However, on this play, he runs step for step withsupposed big play threat Breshad Perriman. He reads the ball better, boxes out and makes the athletic play. This is a play that Ross Cockrell doesn’t make.

Haden also added four tackles, defended four passes and had his lowest completion percentage against in week two.

The Bad

While the Steelers have to love how he handled their primary rival, who they will face twice per year, they had to hate his performance against the Patriots just as much.

On the first offensive play of the game, the Patriots attacked Haden for a quick out route for 10 yards. This play could remind Steelers fans of almost every pass in the AFC Championship game.

From there, the Pats drew his eyes in and exposed him deep.

The Ugly

However, the worst came when the Patriots would


catch Haden with his hand in the cookie jar. Twice the team caught Haden falling for a trap that led to scores.

Haden’s responsibility is the flat. Tom Brady looks Haden off into the end zone, and Haden takes the bait. Brady finds his flaring tight end Martellus Bennett for a much too easy touchdown.

Haden sniffs out the run and attacks. Unfortunately, he later learns he became the victim to a quick play action fake by Tom Brady. Bennett blows by Haden and before he realizes Bennett has no interest in blocking him Bennett is gone on his way to another easy touchdown.

Biting on a fake against the Patriots is a scene all too familiar to the Steelers.

The Patriots completed five passes Haden’s way. Two went for touchdowns, twowent for first downs and Brady put up 122 yards targeting Haden. If the Haden trade was in part to remain atop of the AFC North, the mission may have been accomplished. Unfortunately, Haden has experiences with the Patriots that the Steelers have seen before.

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given a rare thrill off shore from St. Andrewsn New Brunswick last week. The Quoddy Link Marine boat had sailed out of St. Andrews Monday with about 20 passengers aboard and documented the sighting of a great white with both photos and videos.

Dr. Steve Turnbull of the University of New Brunswick has viewed the photos and confirmed it was a great white shark.

St. Andrews is about 100 km northwest of Digby across the Bay of Fundy.

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it may well be the largest accurately measured but going by images of the other largest caught specimens, it's clearly not the largest. ( that honor is a toss up between the Cuban and vic hislops 1987 5000lbs beast IMO )

You as the reader should educate yourself. I bet you do notseventies/early eighties there was a large shark caught there as well, I remember going down to the wharf with my folks and seeing this huge great white hanging on a rack at the wharf.. Someone else must remember this fish, it was huge news around the area at the time

I was lifeguarding in PEI National Park the summer that the Covehead Great White was landed by a boat from there. By the time I, and a few of the other guards got there after work, the jaws were almost cut-out (I later heard that they had been set to Dal but also that they were sold and that the rest was towed back out to sea). A small crowd was present and watching, so someone else must remember


of habeas corpus was ordered to issue forthwith. On the same day the Warden produced the body of Dennis Collins before the court and made the usual return, attaching thereto a certified copy of the mittimus under which said Dennis Collins was *537 detained. A brief hearing was had in which Dennis Collins testified that at the time of his indictment for the murder of his father he was thirteen years old and that the date of his birth was February 23, 1937.
The record as reported includes the petition for the writ, the writ, the return of the writ by the Warden of the State Prison, with a certified copy of the mittimus, the record of the original case in Knox County Superior Court and the facts takenout at the hearing. It also includes a stipulation that said Dennis Collins was arraigned in the Rockland Municipal Court on October 30, 1950, on the charge of murder and that he was bound over to the grand jury of the Superior Court, November Term, Knox County, 1950.
The Knox County records of the Superior Court for the November Term, 1950, disclose that the grand jury indicted Dennis Collins for murder and that Counsel was appointed by the court to represent said Dennis Collins. Upon arraignment said Dennis Collins pleaded guilty to the crime of manslaughter which plea the court accepted and sentenced him to be confined to hard labor in the State Prison at Thomaston for the term of not less than five years and not more than


or did not know how to appeal (five per cent).

In all, just eight per cent of those who decided not to appeal after a no-change MR said this was because they were happy with the award they were given.

Between the introduction of PIP in April 2013 and April 2018, more than 3.4 million claims for PIP were dealt with and completed, the report says, with about 1.6 million rejected.

By the end of April 2018, there had been 781,000 requests for an MR, with about four-fifths of those resulting in no change to the PIP award.

But by March 2018, only 300,000 PIP appeals had been lodged and 211,000 PIP had been decided at a tribunal hearing, with 65 per cent decided in favour of the claimant.

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600 Pro-Choice Republicans Crowd 'Big Tent' Gala

By Cynthia L. Cooper

WeNews correspondent

Thursday, September 2, 2004

Pro-Choice Republicans made their presence known this week at the Republican National Convention. Speaking out against the anti-choice views of Bush and the party platform, these delegates say they provide the "Big Tent" for their party.

(WOMENSENEWS)--A buzz of excitement energized 600 hundred pro-choice Republicans from across the country who crowded into the elegant Sky Club in New York City, 14 blocks north and 56 stories above the party's convention site on Tuesday night.

With cityscapes visible from floor-to-ceiling windows, a raft of pro-choice elected officials, convention delegates and guests of the Republican Majority for Choice staked out political turf, claiming to provide the "big tent" under which all Republicans can unite. Organizers originally expected around


200 people, but Republicans from 35 states, including Virginia, Florida and Kansas, attended the gathering, co-hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Pataki, the wife of New York State Governor George Pataki.

Even if many Republicans would not personally choose abortion for themselves, this cohort contends, most in the GOP still see it as a matter of individual, not state, responsibility.

The same theme was sounded at a breakfast the next morning sponsored by The WISH List, which drew 300 to a nearby Sheraton hotel in support of pro-choice women running for state and federal offices.

"The best way to change a party is from within. We have a role in this party," declared former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman, a pro-choice Republican, who spoke at bothevents.

Whitman, who served as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Bush administration from January 2001 to May 2003, is writing a book on her experiences in politics due out in January called, "It's My Party, Too."

Along with party members, some Democrats also turned up to the events. Bush administration Cabinet member Tommy Thompson also put in an appearance. "I'm here as a pragmatic Republican who does not call myself pro-choice but understands that all Republicans need to be with us," he said in an interview.

The Republican Party platform is profoundly anti-choice and calls for an amendment to the constitution giving equal rights to fetuses, use of an anti-abortion litmus test in the naming of judges and the removal of funding from organizations that offer abortion counseling.

Nonetheless,


pro-choice Republicans used the convention--in a city and state with a pro-choice Republican mayor and governor--to highlight what they say is a distortion of the true position of a majority of party members' tolerance for reproductive rights.

"Choice is a personal issue, and I believe it's a conservative issue," Whitman told Women's eNews. "There are some people who have narrowed the party. It's important to stand up to them. They are trying to force the Republican Party to the right and I have concerns about that."

Gabriel Schwartz, a delegate from Colorado, who attended the evening event agreed with Whitman. "It's unfortunate that our own party is fighting on choice," he said. "It shouldn't be an issue. Moderates will support a conservative. But conservatives won't support a moderate, and it'sthe Christian Coalition that does it."

While generally toeing the line of party unity, some attendees spoke out against their party's treatment of them.

New York State Sen. Nancy Larraine Hoffman wove her way through the crowd, describing how she was being targeted by an anti-choice Republican opponent intent on using her as an example for the wrath that could befall Republicans who support choice, as she does.

"So we need your help," she appealed to people in attendance. "I want to do a job in New York. We cannot afford to go back to the coat-hanger era."

Wishing for Women

The WISH List, based in Washington, D.C., tries to re-align Republicans on this issue by raising funds to elect pro-choice women to state and federal political offices. A dozen such candidates greeted


Run toward fear: new poems and a poet's handbook

Haki R. Madhubuti minces no words in 'Run Toward Fear', a powerful new collection of poetry. The collection offers readers a mixture of poems that challenge and cause both reflection and question on many of the headline issues that have launched this century. Madhubuti includes poignant moving tributes to Jacob Carruthers, Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka, as well as, heartfelt words that provide comfort and guidance to the families of the twenty-one who lost their lives in Chicago's E-2 night club tragedy. Madhubuti, motivated by constant requests from younger poets and teachers of poetry to share his insights on writing and the art of producing poetry, offers an added extra in 'Run Toward Fear'. The final section of the book,'A Poet's Handbook', provides personal and sometimes anecdotal insights on the craft of writing poetry. The 'Handbook' serves as a practical answer to the book's final poem 'For the Consideration of Poets'.


PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

According to the amended complaint, from March 1995 and thereafter the Dodge-Markham 401(K) pension plan was an employee benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA. The pension plan was established to provide benefits to Dodge-Markham employees and the employees of its subsidiaries. The pension plan was a contribution plan funded by employee salary deferrals and employer contributions. The terms of the pension plan required employee salary deferrals to be paid to the pension plan no later than 90 days after the receipt of the contribution. Plaintiff asserts that when Dodge-Markham began to experience financial difficulties in or about 1995, its President, James Docster started retaining some employee contributions rather than forwarding them to the pension plan. Plaintiff asserts that James Docster was involved in systematic "juggling" ofcompany cash insofar as deciding which bills and financial obligations to pay as funds became available. Included in said "juggling" were contributions owed to the company's 401(K) plan. Plaintiff contends that Jack Docster, a former president of Dodge-Markham and its CEO, Secretary and Chairman of the board of directors, participated in this "juggling" of company cash which included failing to make contributions to the retirement plan as required by ERISA. In or about late spring or early summer of 1999, Jack Docster became aware of the grave nature of the company's financial condition and resumed his status as company president. Plaintiff alleges that James and Jack Docster failed to discharge their fiduciary duties with respect to the pension plan and caused the pension plan to engage in certain


transactions that violated ERISA, all in violation of ERISA. It is undisputed that funds owed to the retirement plan were withheld and never repaid by the time the company became defunct in 2001. What is disputed is the nature and fact of the fiduciary duty, if any, owed by each defendant and the extent to which each defendant may have breached said duty.

Defendant Jack Docster had been the president and CEO of Dodge-Markham until his limited retirement in 1992 or 1993 at which time his son, James Docster, took over as president and a Member of the board of directors of the company. Although James Docster asserts that his father "was always in charge of the company," see Response to Statement of Material Facts by James Docster, ¶20, during all times relative to this action, he does not seriously dispute plaintiff's contentions that he ran day-to-day operations of the company from the date of his father's retirement until he was relieved of his duties on April 30, 1999. See Response to Statement of Material Facts by James Docster, Affidavit of James Docster and Reply Affidavit of James Docster. James Docster also does not dispute that he was a trustee and fiduciary of the subject 401(K) plan until the afore-referenced date. James Docster's factual disputes with plaintiff center on his liability under ERISA for actions or inactions taken in connection with the retirement plan after April 30, 1999.*fn2

With respect to the position, actions or inactions of Jack Docster during the relevant period, the Court notes the


following facts taken from his deposition testimony, from his response to plaintiff's Local Rule 7.1(f) Statement of Undisputed Material Facts and from an affidavit submitted in opposition to plaintiff's summary judgment motion: Following his limited "retirement" as president, Jack Docster maintained his status as CEO and Corporate Secretary of Dodge-Markham as well as his title as Chairman of the board of directors. See Response to Statement of Material Facts by Jack Docster, ¶ 10. Defendants Jack and James Docster were the sole shareholders of Dodge-Markham. When James became President of the company, he owned most of the common stock, but Jack Docster retained a controlling majority of the company's voting shares. See Deposition of Jack Docster, at p. 74-75. In or about 1995, Jack Docster suggested to hisplan. Id. at 8. The reasons for this were multiple according to Jack Docster. First, he was not allowed to participate in the plan since he was over age 70. See id. at p. 9. Secondly, Jack Docster testified that he was "busy with other things" such as "the running of the shop" and the company's "lack of finances." Id.

Upon his retirement, though he lived in Florida during the winter months, Jack Docster continued to reside in Binghamton, New York for seven or eight months each year. See Deposition of Jack Docster, p. 5. When he was not in Florida or traveling, Jack Docster generally went to the Dodge-Markham offices and shop every day. See id. Jack Docster also continued to collect a salary for his continued involvement


of Jack Docster, p. 26. In early July 1999, Jack Docster received a letter from the Department of Labor regarding the failure of the company to make contributions to the retirement plan as required by ERISA. See Deposition of Jack Docster, pp. 26, 30-31, 39.*fn7 This letter "surprised" and "disturbed" Jack Docster. Id. at 31. In early July 1999, Jack Docster also met with his son at James' house and told him company employees were accusing James of "stealing their 401(K) money." Id. at p. 30. According to Jack Docster, James denied these accusations and said that the company was simply "behind" in making payments to the retirement plan.

However, in "mid 1999," Jack Docster did finally learn of Dodge-Markham's failure to make employee and company contributions to thedid talk to James about the deficiency in the Dodge-Markham retirement plan, that he did know the amount of the deficiency and he did have a strategy for how to resolve the deficiency.

According to Jack Docster, "when [he] learned of the Plan's problems [he] received assurances from James Docster that he intended to use his account in the Plan to cure the deficiency. His account was of an amount nearly equal to the deficiency and I thought this would resolve the Plan's problems." Affidavit of Jack Docster at ¶ 40. However, "James Docster withdrew the funds from his account and did not use them to cure the deficiency." See id. at ¶ 41. When Jack Docster protested the proposed withdrawal of funds by James from the 401(K) plan,


he testified that Nationwide Insurance Company told him simply there "was nothing they can do about it." Deposition of Jack Docster at p. 84. In his affidavit, Jack Docster averred that Nationwide told him that because he "was not a trustee, [he] had no authority to prevent the withdrawal" by James. Affidavit of Jack Docster at ¶ 41.

James Docster's version of how he intended to remedy the deficiency in the company's 401(K) plan is unremarkably at odds with his father's recollection. Indeed, James asserted in his answer and third-party complaint that he secured a loan for the company via Dodge-Markham's lender, BSB Bank, based on assignment of the value of life insurance policies owned by he and his wife.*fn8 James Docster asserts that he provided this collateral toself-serving contention that he procured a loan to pay the unremitted contributions to the Dodge-Markham 401(K) plan, even assuming this was the purpose of the 1999 company loan, is not sufficient to demonstrate a "remedy" of his fiduciary breach.

C. Fiduciary Status of Jack Docster

Throughout the present litigation, Jack Docster has vigorously denied that he was ever a fiduciary of the subject retirement plan or that he knew of and could have done anything to prevent or cure the deficiencies allegedly caused by company President James Docster. However, as evidenced by the record in this case, Jack Docster was a named trustee of the Dodge-Markham 401(K) plan and he was the company's CEO, Secretary and Chairman of the board of directors. He was one of only two shareholders of


the company and held a majority of the voting stock. Furthermore, despite his arguments to the contrary, Jack Docster clearly had significant involvement in the management of the company and its financial affairs even after his limited "retirement." As the "retired" CEO and Secretary of the company, Jack Docster: 1) continued to receive a paycheck; 2) went to the office nearly every day of the 7 or 8 months of the year that he lived in Binghamton and "worked with Jamie [James Docster]" and concerned himself with "the running of the shop" and the company's "lack of finances;" 3) signed checks and assisted James with "juggling" payments to creditors based on availability of accounts payable funds; and 4) received daily financial information concerning company operations while in Florida.

Furthermore,with respect to his knowledge or involvement in administration of the company's retirement plan, Jack Docster admitted that he knew that Dodge-Markham, as the employer, was responsible for administering the plan which included making required company and employee contributions. He also knew that James was a trustee of the plan since he and James were the sole officers of the company. Jack Docster conceded that on at least one occasion prior to 1999, he noticed that contributions to the company's 401(K) plan owed to the Bay Ridge Group were on the list of accounts payable and he asked James Docster about it. However, Jack Docster conceded that he never followed up with James to ensure he had taken care of the failure to make timely contributions. Jack Docster


simply doing nothing"); Freund v. Marshall & Ilsley Bank, 485 F.Supp. 629, 640 (D.C. Wis. 1979). Throughout the period of James Docster's tenure as President of Dodge-Markham, he deliberately failed to remit thousands of dollars in contributions to the plan. The fact that this was occurring would have been obvious to a genuine trustee. James Docster's ability to withhold significant contributions from the plan and to continue doing so for nearly five years was directly attributable to Jack Docster's abdication of the duty he owed to the plan's beneficiaries. Jack Docster's breach of his fiduciary duty enabled James Docster to commit his repeated breaches. Thus, even accepting Jack Docster's claim of complete non-involvement in the administration of the retirement plan, he breached his fiduciary obligations with respect tothe plan as a matter of law.

Finally, to the extent that Jack Docster argued he is not liable under ERISA because by the time he learned of the problems with the 401(K), the company was "too far gone" for him to remedy the problems, he is gravely mistaken. Indeed, this contention is belied by the fact that as trustee of the plan and an integral officer in the management of the company's financial affairs who failed to ensure that plan contributions were made as required under ERISA, he contributed to and created the "difficult and unusual situation" he now attempts to use as a liability shield.

IV. CONCLUSION

For the foregoing reasons it is hereby

ORDERED that plaintiff's motion for summary judgment is GRANTED; and it is further

ORDERED that James Docster


Apis Dorsata And Related Species

The large single-comb nests of the giant honey bee, A. dorsata, built in the open, are still the most important source of honey in India and some other tropical Asian countries. A. dorsata is present in most of the Indo-Malayan region, from the Indus River in the west to the eastern end of the

Indonesian chain of islands, and from the Himalayas to Java in the south. A. breviligula is in the Philippines, and A. binghami in the Celebes. In the high Himalayas, A. laboriosa—a species even larger than A. dorsata—nests up to 3000 m, whereas A. dorsata rarely nests above 1250 m.backsheet and an absorbent panel disposed therebetween extends longitudinally in and from the crotch section into proximity to the front and rear sections. In accordance with the invention, a pair of first suspending flaps are carried on inner sides of the front and rear sections in circumferentially middle regions thereof. The first suspending flaps hang down from and beyond a peripheral edge region of the waist-opening toward the crotch section and have provided at free ends thereof, first fastening means which are more rigid than the first suspending flaps. The pad has second suspending flaps, formed of at least one of the topsheet and the backsheet or both, extending outward beyond longitudinally opposite ends of the panel. The second suspending flaps are provided with second fastening means which


at a time, to hot oil. Fry about 4 minutes or until crisp and golden brown, turning once. Drain on paper towels. Repeat with remaining okra, adding more oil if necessary.

5. Serve warm okra slices with dipping sauce.

EACH 4 SLICES + 1 TABLESPOON DIPPING SAUCE 164 cal, 14 g fat, 35 mg chol, 275 mg sodium, 6 g carb, 1 g fiber, 3 g pro.

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St Hild of Whitby

Hild is a significant figure in the history of English Christianity. As the abbess of Whitby – a monastery for both men and women – she led one of the most important religious centres in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Lived: 614–680

Field: Abbess

Top fact: In 664 Hild’s monastery hosted the Synod of Whitby, which set the course for the future of Christianity in England.

A Dream of Brilliance

Hild’s life is recalled with wonder by Bede, the 8th-century historian of Christian England. An early sign of her brilliance, he says, came in the form of a


dream. Bede describes how during Hild’s infancy her mother dreamt of a ‘most precious necklace’ glowing under her garment. ‘It seemed to shine forth with such a blaze of light that it filled all Britain with the glory of its brilliance.’ The necklace, Bede writes, represented Hild, because her life ‘was an example of the works of light’.

Most of what we known about Hild, or Hilda as she is also known, comes from Bede. His account may be a sentimental one, but it demonstrates Hild’s status as one of the most revered abbesses in Anglo-Saxon England.

Conversion to Christianity

Hild was converted to Christianity at a time of immense political and religious change. Following the collapse of Roman rule in Britain in the fifth century and the arrival of theAngles and Saxons, the country fragmented into small warring kingdoms. Hild was born into one of the most powerful kingdoms, Northumbria, which covered an area roughly equivalent to modern-day Northumberland and Yorkshire. She was the great-niece of the Northumbrian king, Edwin, and she and her sister Hereswith were raised in his court after their father was murdered.

At this time Christianity was spreading across the country. Missions arrived from two different traditions: the Celtic Christians in Ireland and the Roman Christians in Italy. Hild was baptised into the Christian faith along with King Edwin in about 627. They were converted by Paulinus, who was part of the Roman mission led by St Augustine, but Hild became more influenced by the teachings of the Irish monk Aidan, the Bishop of


Lindisfarne.

Abbess Hild

According to Bede, Hild lived a secular life until the age of 33, when she became a nun. She first travelled to East Anglia, intending to join her sister in a monastery in France, but returned to Northumbria at the request of Bishop Aidan. Soon afterwards she became the abbess of Hartlepool and in about 657 she founded the monastery at Whitby, then known as Streanaeshalch. Nothing of the original monastery can now be seen, but a Benedictine abbey was founded on the same site in the late 11th century. It is the ruins of that monastery which stand proud on Whitby’s headland today.

In Hild’s time the abbey was a double monastery, home to both monks and nuns. Double monasteries led by abbesses were common in thefifth to seventh centuries. At some, such as at Wimborne in Dorset, there was a strict separation between men and women, but there is no evidence for this at Whitby. Hild, for instance, seems to have had regular contact with visiting clerics and the religious elite.

Bede praises Hild for implementing a monastic regime that required strict observance of ‘justice piety, chastity’ and ‘particularly of peace and charity’. In her monastery, ‘no one there was rich, and none poor, for they had all things common’.

Power and Influence

Under Hild’s tutelage and guidance, several members of Whitby’s monastic community became important and powerful clerical figures. Five of her monks became bishops – Bosa, Aetla, Oftfor, John of Beverley, and Wilfrid – and one of the monastery’s lay brothers discovered he had


a special gift for poetic verse. Hild pronounced his gift divine and he subsequently became the first English poet whose name we know: Caedmon. Hild and her monastic rule became so respected, Bede says, that even kings and princes sought her advice.

She certainly played a role in the politics of her time, notably during the Synod of Whitby, which took place in 664 while she was abbess. The meeting was called to resolve the date of Easter, which was celebrated at different times by the Celtic and Roman Christians. Hild appears to have taken the side of the Celts, but Oswiu, the Northumbrian king, ruled in favour of the Roman tradition, signalling a landmark in the history of English Christianity.

The ruins of the Benedictine abbey at Whitby, seenfrom across the harbour

Visions of Hild’s Death

Hild was seriously ill for the last six years of her life and died in 680 at the age of 66. She was buried at Whitby, though her remains were later moved to Glastonbury. She was succeeded as abbess by King Oswiu’s daughter Aefflaed, who ruled jointly with her widowed mother, Eanflaed.

Bede records that Hild’s death was accompanied by visions. At Hackness – another monastery she founded – a nun was reported to have seen the roof of the dormitory open to reveal Hild’s soul ascending to heaven accompanied by angels. When the monks arrived from Whitby with the news of Hild’s death, the nuns were already singing psalms and praying for her soul.

There was no official canonisation of saints at this


One of the UK's most wanted suspects has been arrested during a drugs raid in Portugal.

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He is wanted for questioning over an elaborate £400m cocaine smuggling plot which ended when a boat capsized during a storm and gang members and bales of drugs were plucked from the sea during a dramatic rescue.

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On the orders of Mandalore's Prime Minister, Almec, two Death Watch warriors, Rook Kast and Gar Saxon, pursued the Sith to Stygeon, where they intended to rescue Maul from Separatist captivity. The two were able to free Maul after hehad been interrogated by the Sith LordCountDooku, and together the three rendezvoused with more Death Watch forces on the moon of Zanbar. Maul took command of his forces once again, and assured them that the war they had longed for was at hand.[1]

Maul was tracked to Zanbar by General Grievous, the leader of the Separatist military, and a Separatist fleet. Dooku ordered Grievous not to kill Maul, simply to defeat and wound his forces enough that Maul would seek out Mother Talzin's help. Grievous launched his forces towards the surface, and Maul's troops immediately began firing anti-aircraft weaponry at them. The heavy fire was not enough to repel the ships, however, so the Separatists pressed their attack and deployed all of their forces. Grievous knew that they would


their duel, kicking Maul backwards; the latter then recognized that he was losing the battle and sent in his Gauntlet fighters, which firebombed the battlefield and destroyed many of the Separatist battle droids. Maul used the chaos to his advantage by escaping onto one of the fighters, before ordering his surviving forces to retreat.[1]

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been a successful podiatrist for almost 15 years. He owns his office condo and has invested in its renovation. He offers a wide group of services to his patients including performing surgeries in his office, an ambulatory surgical center (that he is an investor in), and ultrasound. He has his nurse take care of most of the routine nail care but always walks into the exam room and says hello to those patients.

He has privileges at the local hospital. He has been in the same coverage group for almost ten years. He visits with his referring physicians twice a year and sends them a consult letter within 48 hours of seeing a new patient they referred. His office manager knows the names and phone numbers of all thereferring physicians’ office managers and she tracks how many referrals the practice gets each month from each referring physician. John has built a successful practice.

Three years ago, John went to a meeting with seven other podiatrists. Three of those in attendance wanted to create a large single specialty practice. They explained the group could centralize billing and some other administrative functions, and have one accountant instead of eight. The group could also recruit a new podiatrist to work at more than one office part time. The other four listened and began to agree with the concept.

John did not. He knew them for a number of years, shared calls with some and respected all of them. However, he could not bring himself to give up what his wife called


his mistress and child. He grew it from nothing and now it supplied his family with a comfortable lifestyle. He did not think he could work with partners after having none for so many years.

Three years later, the large group has become his competitor. The seven partners stayed in their offices for two years. Then two partners consolidated their office into a larger office. The new office is closer to John’s office. John’s patients used to wait two weeks for an appointment. His wait time is now down to a few days. In a meeting with his office manager, John discovered that many of his patients who had a two-week wait decided to see someone else and never came back. John and his accountant calculated that he couldnot afford to bring in a new podiatrist even though it would help him maintain the financial health of his practice.

A Closer Look At The Terms Of The Potential Merger

The partners of the large practice talk to John often and they remain friendly. They tell John if he does become interested in joining their practice, he should let them know and they will put together a term sheet for him to review. It will outline the process to join the group. After talking to his family and office manager and giving it much thought, John decided to request the term sheet.

The term sheet explained that if John joined the group, the partners would perform the following due diligence on John and his practice.

• Obtain the last three years’


tax returns of the practice
• Send an inquiry to his malpractice company for his history
• Review his staff’s benefits
• Review his year end productivity reports by CPT code and payer
• Get a list of his office furniture and equipment
• Review his office insurance policy, office lease, hours and policies
• Review his practice management system (all partners in the group have the same practice management system and electronic health records (EHR))
• Obtain a listing all his outside related activities or investments
• Review his office payroll (his wife could not stay on as manager)
• Gather other operational data

John would come in as an equal partner and would pay one-eighth of the start-up costs payable to the new practice. At 18 months, he would have to decide to make a commitment.If he wanted to leave before 18 months, he could take his accounts receivable and go back to his original practice. If he decided to leave after 18 months, he could go back to his original practice but could not take his accounts receivable. John would continue to own his office, furniture and equipment. However, if he wanted to purchase new equipment above a specific threshold, he would need a majority of the partners to approve. That applied to all partners. Since the group’s offices were not too far apart, they tried to send patients to the office that had a specific piece of equipment instead of all purchasing the same equipment. Revenue from those procedures went into a pool.

The group divided up the pool at the end


of the year. They distributed 40 percent of the revenue equally among the partners. They divided the rest of the revenue by how many patients a partner saw in his office.

John’s office would become a profit center. John would continue to make all the day-to-day decisions for his office. He could fire and hire staff, give bonuses, take vacations, decide on his office hours and continue to refer to those specialists he had a relationship with. All invoices for purchases went to the central business office for payment. That office also billed for all partner’s services. Payroll occurred online for all offices. At the beginning of each month, John would receive a profit and loss statement for his profit center for the previous month. He could not bepaid or spend more than his account balance would allow.

John would have to freeze or terminate his retirement plan, and he and his staff could participate in the group’s 401k plan. His staff would have the same benefits as all other employees and the cost would be debited against his profit center. He could only advertise his office as part of the group. If his office was very busy, he could request that the group hire someone who could work at more than one office. The profit from that employee after paying for the direct expenses goes into the pool described above.

The group had formulas for what they would pay to a partner or his estate in case of death, disability or retirement.

Weighing The Options And Making A


Decision

John, his wife, accountant and I had several meetings over two months and discussed the following issues.

• John was at least 15 years from retirement and knew how difficult it was to recruit and pay for a new associate.
• John has seen his referral base decrease, not by a lot, but decrease nonetheless.
• He is seeing almost 5 percent more patients but his net has decreased.
• His procedural reimbursement has decreased.
• He has not had the time to investigate which EHR is best for him.
• Over the past few years, he has seen other groups form.
• He is not confident his billing staff is accurate but has no time to check.

I explained to John that he had the following choices.

He could continue as he is but would needto expand his hours in order to be more accessible to patients. He would have to invest in more patient friendly activities, such as taking the time to call the patient after every surgery, brighten up the office and add a water dispenser and maybe coffee along with having his staff take courses in customer service. However, in the long run, it will be more difficult to maintain his current cash flow.

He could join the group and jump in full force to see how it impacts his quality of life. He would have to work with the group’s bookkeeper and his wife would have to leave after a transition. He should do everything he can to understand everything about the group as quickly as he can so before


18 months is up, he can make an informed decision whether to stay or leave. He tried to sell his practice but no one was interested in paying what he asked for.

When There Is A Competing Offer From Another Group

John’s brother-in-law Paul is an internist in a group of 12 about 15 miles from his office. He gets referrals from that practice but knows that they also send their patients to a number of other podiatrists in town, including the seven-man group.

While John and his wife were considering what to do about the invitation from the large group, one night at dinner with his brother-in-law and both wives, his sister-in-law said, “John, why don’t you consider joining Paul’s group?” John and his wife looked at each other andpercent of his collections. He would be the only podiatrist the internists could refer to. He could set up his office, buy new equipment and would have to have the same malpractice insurance as the others in the group. He would have to purchase a tail from his present company. The tail insurance (extended endorsement) covers practitioners when they leave a claims made malpractice policy and go to another malpractice policy. It may be equal to about the fifth year premium on the claims made policy. The group would pay all those expenses and they wanted to set up an in-office surgical suite for him.

John knew he would probably lose his other referring physicians as they would not want to refer their podiatric patients to another primary care


surgeries, edited their patient consent for surgery forms, had strict rules for finishing charts on time and offered free time at the hospital emergency room. The group also had a seminar for all primary care physicians whether they referred to the practice twice a year and had guest speakers.

If a partner became disabled, he received his base for the next month and then nothing more. The group had life insurance policies on all partners. If a partner was permanently disabled, he got his accounts receivable and then a small buyout from the practice. All partners were encouraged to purchase the maximum personal disability insurance they could. Each partner had to work 15 years as a partner to get any part of his buyout and was required to givea full 12 months’ notice before deciding to retire.

The group was also in the process of hiring a fresh graduate to staff an office in an underserved area. They projected a small loss for the first year and then a large profit. The group had a professional administrator who held the partner’s feet to the fire when necessary. She understood her role as the manager of a practice that had thirty support staff. She understood finance, billing, was an RN, had training in human resources and knew how to communicate. She was also putting together a plan for an appraisal subcommittee owned by the group. She was also working on a collaborative effort with ophthalmologists and dieticians to form a diabetes initiative and treatment plan for all patients


with diabetes. One of the partners told John she played a major role in why the practice was successful.

What The Solo DPM Decided To Do

John’s wife did not like the idea that someone else was going to take care of the practice’s finances and John did not like the idea of giving up his autonomy. However, after another meeting with John, his wife, his accountant and I, John understood that he was not going to move from his office and in fact he would have time to work in the larger office near his office and another partner would use his office when he took a vacation. He would still make the day-to-day operational decisions for his office and staff.

The decision became clear when John attended a meetingMembers on this page are Senators

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What sounds like something akin to a death sentence, getting banished to Siberia was almost of a badge of honor among Russian revolutionaries in the 19th century. For one radical in particular, getting sent to Siberia probably saved his life.

The most notorious and feared anarchist in Europe during this time was Mikhail Bakunin, known as the Godfather of modern anarchism, was captured by the Austrian Empire in 1848 for his participation in a worker uprising in Dresden. The Austrians handed Bakunin over to Tsar Nicholas I, who let Bakunin nearly starve to death for seven years in the infamous Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.

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The Wildlife Conservation Society applauds American actor Ian Somerhalder for his testimony before a Congressional subcommittee at today’s Federal Hearing on the U.S. Ivory Ban on behalf of elephant conservation.

Newswise — The Wildlife Conservation Society applauds American actor Ian Somerhalder for his testimony before a Congressional subcommittee at today’s Federal Hearing on the U.S. Ivory Ban on behalf of elephant conservation.

Best known for his roles in the TV dramas Lost and The Vampire Diaries, Somerhalder appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources, where he testified in support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan for a ban on commercial trade in elephant ivory. He also emphasized the importance of the Multinational Species Conservation


like the Fish and Wildlife Service through the Multinational Species Conservation Funds and U.S. Agency for International Development play an absolutely essential role in supporting conservation forces internationally, from assisting in training eco-guards and supporting prosecutions to bolstering surveillance of key border crossings and investigating financial assets and much, much more.

“In my travels and interactions with people around the world, it has been made more than clear to me that animals like elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, sea turtles, and the Great Apes illuminate the imagination and inspire compassion from all corners of the globe. The United States has an incredible opportunity to safeguard the long-term future of endangered species and landscapes while also investing in the political and economic stability of foreign nations.”The global programmable robots market is estimated to grow at a healthy pace within the forecast period of 2016 to 2024 on account of the increasing adoption of robots in various educational institutions as many of them are including robots in their academic curriculum. Players in this field are focusing hard on innovation so as to cater to the specific needs of the consumers. Players are also striving to achieve durability, safety, effectiveness, and robustness of robots. While robotic toys are not so much in demand these days, robotic pets have become popular and will act as an offset for the robotic toys market.

The decreasing price of robots will also be one of the reasons behind their increased adoption. The reduction in the price of robots is anticipated


programmable robots are researchers, hobbyists, and students. Programmable robots are also used for driving cars and as robotic pets among the several other applications of them.

The market intelligence report is a comprehensive review of the growth trail in terms of current, historical, and future scenarios of the global programmable robots market. It offers an evaluation of the aspects that are expected to influence the development of the market and the primary trends have also been specified in the research study. The research study also offers a broad lookout on the vendor landscape of the market through Porter’s five forces analysis. The research publication provides references of mergers and acquisitions, the research and development activities, specifics on licensing and collaborations. The report probes into the strategies related to marketing,others are employed in various end-use industries. These programmable robots are also a considered as a significant asset in the military sector for the purpose of locating and destroying armed explosives and other dangerous things.

Global Programmable Robots Market: Regional Analysis

The global programmable robots market has been segmented into Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East and Africa. At present, North America holds the leading share in the market. Nevertheless, it has been projected that Asia Pacific will emerge as the leading market in terms of growth over the next couple of years owing to the growing demand from countries such as India, China, and Japan.

Global Programmable Robots Market: Companies Mentioned in the Report

The leading companies in the global programmable robots market are Orbotix Inc.,


a big bad union busting company does. This is exactly what a coal company or any other evil company does."

—Chris Schroth, fired Bright Power worker

As Motherboard reported Thursday, the New York City construction workers voted in April to form one of the first unions in the burgeoning solar energy industry.

"Workers decided to unionize following a couple work accidents and pressure from management to work outside in extreme weather conditions in the winter," according to Motherboard. "When workers announced their intention to unionize, Bright Power hired Littler Mendelson—the world's largest labor law firm representing management with ties to the Trump administration—to handle its union negotiations."

On Monday, in the middle of negotiations for the first union contract, Bright Power announced its decision to fire the 12 workers—who made up theare. The union wasn't about Bright Power giving us anything. It was about them respecting the voice of their workers."

Hours after Motherboard published its story on the firings, Ocasio-Cortez's team sent an email calling on supporters to sign on to a letter demanding that Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman rehire the construction crew and recognize the union contract.

"This was retaliation for unionizing, plain and simple. Even at a supposedly progressive green energy company, greedy CEOs can violate fundamental workers' rights," Ocasio-Cortez's team wrote. "Their example is an important reminder: as we push for more investment in renewable technology, we must also fight for good wages and the protections that all workers deserve."

The youth-led Sunrise Movement echoed Ocasio-Cortez's demand on Twitter:

BREAKING: After @BrightPowerInc employees—inspired by the vision of the


comes from, because everyone who knows anything about early exit polls knows that they’re not great. The 2000,2004, 2008- exit polls were biased. Kerry and Gore both lost.

In 2004, the exit polls showed John Kerry easily winning an election he clearly lost — with both a huge error and systematic bias outside of the “margin of error.” The national exits showed Kerry ahead by three points (and keep in mind the sample size on the national exit is vastly larger than for a state primary exit poll) and leading in states like Virginia, Ohio and Florida — which all went to George W. Bush.

The story was similar in 2000. The early exit polls showed Al Gore winning Alabama, Arizona, Colorado and North Carolina. Mr. Bush won these statesHis Name

The name Yusha (يوشع) is the Arabic form of the Hebrew name Yehoshua (يهوشواع). It means “Yahweh (God) is salvation.” This name was given to him by Prophet Musa (Moses) because his original name was Hoshe’a (شواع) but Prophet Musa added the first part and made it Yehoshua (يهوشواع). The name is shortened to Yeshua (يشوع) in the Old Testament. In the English world, he is known as Joshua in the Bible.

His Lineage

His full name was Yusha son of Nun, son of Ephraim, son of Prophet Yusuf (Joseph), son of Prophet Ya’qub (Jacob), son of Prophet Ishaaq (Isaac), son of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham). So Yusha is the great-grandson of Prophet Yusuf (pbuh) and out of six of his forefathers, four were prophets.

According to the Bible, he was


born in Egypt prior to the Exodus.

Brief Overview

Yusha bin Nun was one of prophets sent to the Children of Israel after Prophet Musa, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon them both. Prophet Yusha was the one responsible for leading an army into Jerusalem and conquering it with the Children of Israel. Before this point, they were all wandering in the desert for 40 years as a punishment from Allah due to constant disobedience of His commands by the Children of Israel. Prophet Musa and his brother Prophet Haroon (Aaron) both passed away during the wandering period. Yusha had taken over the leadership role of the Children of Israel after the death of Prophet Musa. Prophet Haroon died two years before Prophet Musa according to Ibn Kathir.

Yushathem but Yusha was one of the people who tried to persuade them into going into battle with the inhabitants. Due to their disobedience, Allah forbade them to be able to enter Jerusalem and they were made to wander in the desert for 40 years as mentioned in the Qur’an in verses 5:23-26.

One of the wisdoms behind their wandering is said to be that Allah did not want anyone who had worshiped the calf to enter Jerusalem. Therefore, after 40 years, that whole generation had passed away and the new generation was brought up under the direct teachings of Musa, Haroon, and Yusha. It was this new generation under the leadership of Yusha that was allowed to enter Jerusalem with a victory.

According to some sources, “he is also


forbidden by God to work on Saturdays.

There is a hadith which details this incident. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is reported to have said:

“One of the Prophets made a holy war. He said to his followers: ‘One who has married a woman and wants to consummate to his marriage but has not yet done so; another who has built a house but has not yet erected its roof; and another who has bought goats and pregnant she-camels and is waiting for their offspring-will not accompany me.’ So he marched on and approached a village at or about the time of the Asr prayers. He said to the sun: ‘Thou art subservient (to Allah) and so am I. O Allah, stop it for me a little.’ It was stopped forearlier this week, citing a rising threat from Pyongyang. The idea has been circulating among South Koran officials for a while, with some even suggesting that the assassination should not be delayed until an open military conflict.

The decision comes a month after Pyongyang angered Seoul by staging a military exercise involving a commando raid on a mock-up of the South Korean presidential residence, the Blue House. The drill was reminiscent of an actual attack in 1968 on the home of the South Korean president, which was attacked by North Korea in a failed assassination attempt.

A fictitious CIA plot to assassinate North Korea’s leader was explored in the 2014 comedy film The Interview. The film was drawn into the focus of the confrontation between Washington and Pyongyang after the


Americans are split on whether the federal government is responsible for making sure everyone has healthcare coverage, a new poll shows.

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While 45 percent feel the government is responsible for making sure citizens have healthcare, 52 percent disagree, the Gallup poll released Thursday shows.

Americans were more likely to say ensuring healthcare for citizens was a federal responsibility between 2000 and 2008, past Gallup polls indicate, but the passage of the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as ObamaCare, led to a division on the issue.

Between 2000 and 2008, 54 to 69 percent of Americans said ensuring healthcare was a federal responsibility. But by 2012, 54 percent said it wasn't.

A majority of Americans in the most recent poll said they prefer a private healthcare system over a government-run system.

Fifty-three percent saidWe are a mighty nation - ask Germany back in the 1920s and '40s - but we are not on the same plane on the pitch with the nation that made the great David Hasselhoff an international treasure.

Bottom line: If US/Germany ends in a tie on the pitch, both teams advance out of the Group of Death. With that reality, it's time for the US to send a text, memo, message in bottle, courier pigeon or singing telegram with these two words:

"Marshall. Plan".

After the Allied Forces destroyed the living hell out of Nazi Germany, and accepted unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945, Germany was worse off than when it signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1921, to end World War I.

That "agreement" between the U.S. and Germans sent


the losing team into an even deeper recession with a series of debts and bills it could not possibly repay; it eventually paved the path for Hitler, and World War II.

When the Germans lost WWII, U.S. President Harry S. Truman wanted no part of another sequel. Truman set in motion a comprehensive, and massive, rebuild of central Europe, including Germany.

Truman named U.S. general George Marshall his secretary of state, who in turn devised the "Marshall Plan" - a detailed plan to rebuild Europe. It was called the European Recovery Program, but it known as the Marshall Plan. Truman wanted to stability in Western Europe, and there was no better way than to give those war-crushed nations an economic lift.

The Marshall Plan went into effect in early 1947, andbetween 1948 and 1952 the Western European nations that for roughly a decade were in the middle of war were rebuilt, and rebranded.

There is nothing the Germans can do to adequately thank the Americans for the giant check we granted more than 60 years ago, and for the U.S. saying, "We're good" after the war.

A tie in the World Cup tomorrow would just be a solid way of saying thanks for The Marshall Plan.

06/11/2014

FRISCO, Texas - Having been called a "Know it All" and pretentious wind bag who think he knows everything, it is with great sadness and humility to have to find an expert. Alas, the World Cup and futbol is not The Big Mac Blog's forte.

In an effort to satiate and enlighten the masses and the


MIT's Folding City Car Is Finally a Reality

MIT's city car concept has been in the pipeline for a long time, but until now there's been nothing other than illustrations and half-size models. Now, however, the real thing is here, and it's about to go into testing in Europe.

The car isn't designed to be a Smart competitor: it's a bit cleverer than that. It folds in the middle to minimise the amount of room it takes up, and three of the vehicles can fit in a typical parking spot once folded.

Making a car that folds throws up some problems. As a result, the Hiriko has an upward-swinging windshield instead of doors, and each of its wheels have dedicated drive motors, steering, braking, and suspension to maintain space in thecabin. Those wheels mean it can turn on the spot, too.

The model that's going into testing has a 60-mile range, and although at some point in the future it may be sold to individuals, the current model that MIT plans to roll out is based on sharing. Much like shared-bicycle projects popping up in plenty of big cities, these cars could be used for short periods of time by anyone signed up to the scheme. The eventual target cost is £8,000.

The first test project aims to kick off by 2013 in Vitoria Gasteiz near Bilbao, Spain, where 20 cars will be available. Apparently San Francisco, Berlin, Barcelona, Malmö, and Hong Kong have all sown interest in the scheme, too, but there's no word on when it will spread


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performance. And fixing the worst schools or offering children an alternative.

Unfortunately for Virginians, the governor and state Board of Education have elected not to Race to the Top. Virginia's initial proposal looked more like Mosey to the Middle, and then it dropped out rather than give up its comfortable delusions. The state and local school boards have been eager to paint a happy picture of the condition of public education, and communities play along. Employers, colleges and objective observers knows better — there are some great schools in Virginia, and some terrible schools that are allowed to go on victimizing children, and many, many schools that are nowhere near as good as they can and should be.

On this, Obama is absolutely right about what the nation needs. OurA staple of the Odessa country music scene for 50 years, guitarist-fiddler Freddie Frank (1931-2005) spent his formative years in Kilgore. Part of the same circle that included Jack Rhodes, Red Hayes, Jimmy Johnson, Curtis Kirk, Al Petty, Bobby Garrett, and Jim Reeves, Freddie, like Johnson, was not able to translate his vocal talents into the sustained recording career that he deserved. Instead, there was the all-too-predictable pattern of a few scattered releases on oddball labels in the ’50s and early ’60s, including his own Permian label. A Capitol session c. 1955 could have turned things around for him — but it went unissued (and no one has got a trace of it).

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« 12,000 Texas Longhorns » was Freddie’s debut, from early 1953, and issued on


On the other hand, Frank was not listed among artists involved in the « Louisiana Hayride« , according to Imperial, who runs an ambitious reedition program (20 CD) of tapes saved from this famous radio/live show.

Earlier in 1953 the team Jimmy Rhodes-Freddie Frank had been cutting two sides for Starday in Beaumont, Texas. The very fast « Gypsy heart » (# 117) has fine fiddle and guitar, and vocal credited to Franks, while the flipside « Al’s steel guitar wobble » is a showcase for Al Petty, supported by a good piano (is this Starday house-musician Doc Lewis?). Both sides have Frank on rhythm guitar.

Next stop in Freddie Frank’s career is in Odessa (West Texas) in 1961. Unable to find a label proper to release real Hillbilly atNorCal Cycling News – Cycling and Racing in Northern California

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(RENO, NV) – Coby Rowe with Glacier Cycling and the Reno Wheelmen announced the inaugural to be held December 12th in Reno, Nevada at Hidden Valley Regional Park. Race organizer and Glacier Cycling Principal Coby Rowe said, “Nevada is filled with great traditions and this is the beginning of another. Cyclo-cross is the fastest growing...

A new women’s specific cyclocross team, Dirt Birds, has hatched in the Sacramento area. Created with the goal of “more women racing more often,” the new team has 23 riders that come from a variety of backgrounds and bike experience. Cofounders Audrey Biehle and JT Teerlink


aid proposal, his legislative experts joined Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., in intensive talks with Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., and other Democrats who express a willingness to extend conditional assistance to the anti-government contras in Nicaragua.

One Senate Democratic aide said ''two sticking points'' were blocking an agreement. One, the aide said, concerned Sasser's insistence that Congress -- after a delay in which negotiations with Nicaragua's ruling Sandinistas would be vigorously explored -- take a second vote on permitting military assistance to the contras.

The other, the aide said, dealt with the Democrats' demand that the United States undertake direct bilateral talks with the Sandinistas.

Reagan has resisted both conditions.

A second vote, the president says, would envelop the aid issue in continued uncertainty and encourage the Sandinistas to resist negotiations"I will try my best. If there is no major obstacle that affects my work, I am determined to continue," he said at a news conference a day after being discharged from hospital for a three-day medical checkup. Doctors said he had no major health problems.

Surayud, 63, was named premier after a Sept. 19 coup ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who had been accused of corruption and abuse of power.

He has come under criticism amid a run of bungled government policies and concerns that his administration will not meet its stated timeframe for drafting a constitution and holding elections by the end of the year.

Surayud said he could not predict whether there would be any "obstacles" for the rest of his term, but if there were, he


has said elections - originally promised for September - will be held by the end of the year.

Surayud, asked if the generals might stage another coup to oust him, said he had been assured by the military that such speculation was nothing more than rumors. Surayud said the council would try to ease the situation and prevent any violence, referring to the potential of escalating protests against his government.

He said the military's Council of National Security, headed by army commander Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, "has no plans to change the prime minister."

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Michael Calvey, the founder of Baring Vostok investment fund, on allegations of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles from Vostochny Bank. Calvey will be held in custody until April 13adapted to different environments. A good part of the evaluations in Brazil, attesting to consumer safety and the environment, are weak and inadequate. This can be verified by examination of the processes contributing to the deliberations, with arguments exposed in contradictory opinions, which are public and available in CTNBio.

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you may recall, with Dodson's appearance in a local TV news report about a break-in at his home. As NPR's Andy Carvin wrote afterward, the Bed Intruder Song meme was "a perfect storm of race, music, comedy and celebrity."NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a senior citizen by evicting the estranged daughter-in-law from his Yamuna Vihar property.

The apex court, in the process, upheld the verdict of the Delhi high court that a daughter in law has no special right over a self acquired property of the in-laws, against the latter's consent.

In a recent order, a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Uday Umesh Lalit also put an end to years of fighting between the woman , her in-laws and her husband by granting the couple divorce. To safeguard the rights of the single mother and her two children, SC ordered the husband to provide alternate accommodation/property in her name and pay monthly maintenance.

However the judges made it clear, she will


get possession of the flat only on vacating the father-in-law's property.

SC formalized an amicable settlement between the feuding parties on an appeal filed by the woman against the Delhi HC ruling. HC had directed her to hand over peaceful and vacant possession of the property to her estranged father-in-law, the owner, dismissing her argument that as a legally wedded wife, she had a right to live in the property.

She claimed that the property was purchased out of joint family funds, and argued that under Domestic Violence Act, the property is a shared household where she has the right to reside.

But the father in law through advocate Prabhjit Jauhar filed a suit for her eviction in 2011 in the Karkardooma Court , arguing in effect that a daughter inwhat the Pope is doing is very smart – to elevate the issue even further, to force actions by countries,” he added.

Hurricane Sandy, which affected much of the greater New York City area in 2012, was the second-costliest hurricane in US history, according to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency.

A 2013 study by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that climate-change related increases in sea level have nearly doubled today’s probability of a Sandy-level flood recurrence as compared to 1950.