a panel of 25 AI scientists, roboticists, and ethical and legal scholars has been convened to address these issues, under the auspices of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in Menlo Park, California. It looked at the feasibility and ramifications of seemingly far-fetched ideas, such as the possibility of the internet becoming self-aware.

The panel drew inspiration from the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA in California, in which over 140 biologists, physicians, and lawyers considered the possibilities and dangers of the then emerging technology for creating DNA sequences that did not exist in nature. Delegates at that conference foresaw that genetic engineering would become widespread, even though practical applications – such as growing genetically modified crops – had not yet been developed.

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Unlike recombinant DNA inMassimiliano received his PhD in Gedoesy and Geomatics after his master degree in environmental engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Since 2007 he's the head of the geomatic division within the Institute of Earth Sciences (www.ist.supsi.ch) in Switzerland.
He participated in the community since it's inception at various levels. He's a director of the Open Source Geospatial foundation (OSGeo) and member of the project steering committee of the projects and ZOO (http://www.zoo-project.org). From 2006 to 2016 he was also PSC member of the GIS GRASS (http://grass.osgeo.org). He's group lead the developement of the istSOS project (http://istsos.org) implementing open standards for sensor observation services. Co-chair of the UnitedNation committee and of the Open Geoscience committee.

Professor in enginering geomatics at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)

Location

Campus Trevano,


Canobbio, Switzerland

Short Bio

Massimiliano received his PhD in Gedoesy and Geomatics after his master degree in environmental engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Since 2007 he's the head of the geomatic division within the Institute of Earth Sciences (www.ist.supsi.ch) in Switzerland.

He participated in the community since it's inception at various levels. He's a director of the Open Source Geospatial foundation (OSGeo) and member of the project steering committee of the projects and ZOO (http://www.zoo-project.org). From 2006 to 2016 he was also PSC member of the GIS GRASS (http://grass.osgeo.org). He's group lead the developement of the istSOS project (http://istsos.org) implementing open standards for sensor observation services. Co-chair of the UnitedNation committee and of the Open Geoscience committee.

Research

Massimiliano start his research activities working on methodologies for LiDAR data filtering and analyses,but from 2002, he start focusing his activities on the GIS embedded environmental modeling, geospatial Web technologies and interoperability and the sensor Web.

He conducted a large number of research project and consultancies for the local government administration in the field of spatial data infrastructure, natural hazard mitigation, environmental monitoring network, decision support systems. He also leads the scientific execution of projects funded by the World Bank, the European Union and gained extensive experince in working with developing countries.

Education

Currently Massimiliano is teaching Gematic I, Geomatic II and GIS in the Bachelor of Science SUPSI in Civil engineering and Geoinformation and 3D data in the Bachelor of Science SUPSI in Architeture. From 2006 to 2010 Lecturer ex cathedra at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio.


Badrashin railway accident

The Badrashin railway accident took place near Badrashin station in Giza, Egypt, on 15 January 2013. A train en route to Cairo from Sohag derailed, leaving at least 19 people dead and 120 injured.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi visited victims of the crash on 15 January, pledging to hold those responsible to account. Meanwhile, witnesses said the last carriage of the train jumped the tracks and crashed into another train parked nearby. The 12-carriage train was carrying more than 1,300 Egyptian soldiers, and according to reports, had to stop several times during the journey to fix an apparent technical problem.

The same stretch of railroad was the site of a head-on collision that killed more than 40 people in 1992.

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Category:Gizachange, combined with groundwater shortages to cripple agricultural production. That crisis left large numbers of people – especially young men – unemployed, discontent and desperate. Many flooded into urban centres, overwhelming limited resources and services there. Pre-existing ethnic tensions increased, creating fertile grounds for violence and conflict. On top of that, poor governance – including neoliberal policies that eliminated water subsidies in the middle of the drought – tipped the country into civil war in 2011 and sent it careening toward collapse.

In Syria’s case – as with so many other societal collapses throughout history – it was not one but a plethora of factors that contributed, says Thomas Homer-Dixon, chair of global systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, and author of The Upside


Romans had spread across the Mediterranean, to the places most easily accessed by sea. They should have stopped there, but things were going well and they felt empowered to expand to new frontiers by land. While transportation by sea was economical, however, transportation across land was slow and expensive. All the while, they were overextending themselves and running up costs. The Empire managed to remain stable in the ensuing centuries, but repercussions for spreading themselves too thin caught up with them in the 3rd Century, which was plagued by civil war and invasions. The Empire tried to maintain its core lands, even as the army ate up its budget and inflation climbed ever higher as the government debased its silver currency to try to cover its mounting expenses.While some scholars cite the beginning of collapse as the year 410, when the invading Visigoths sacked the capital, that dramatic event was made possible by a downward spiral spanning more than a century.

According to Joseph Tainter, a professor of environment and society at Utah State University and author of The Collapse of Complex Societies, one of the most important lessons from Rome’s fall is that complexity has a cost. As stated in the laws of thermodynamics, it takes energy to maintain any system in a complex, ordered state – and human society is no exception. By the 3rd Century, Rome was increasingly adding new things – an army double the size, a cavalry, subdivided provinces that each needed their own bureaucracies, courts and defences – just to


history until the end of WW2?

ZH does a good job airing ridiculous leftist arguments for critical thinking.

Are you calling out Howard Zinn's version of history? Karl Marx who couldn't support his family but knew what was wrong with the world? Those leftists? I like Diamond's concepts on collapse, society losing its energy subsidy and then local economic supports.

There is always Asimov's Foundation and Empire histories for broad reaches across human enterprise.

At its most extreme, authoritarianism is exemplified by the isms of the 20th Century - Communism, Fascism and Nazism. The Fascists and Nazis were responsible for the deaths of more than 30 million human beings, while more than 50 million are estimated to have been murdered by Stalin and the Russian Communists, while Mao Tse Tung and thea very old alien race but the problem this alien society has is constant explosive population and technological growth followed by sudden total collapse when they reach a tipping point, in a never ending cycle of thousands of years. And the higher the societies technological advances when the collapse occurs the further back they fall and the longer the next rise takes.


... Also posted a pair of tackles with a sack in the win at Delaware ... Registered two tackles with 0.5 tackles for a loss in the win at New Hampshire ... Earned a season-high three stops in the victory against VMI ...

FRESHMAN YEAR (2007)
Scout team linebacker ...

HIGH SCHOOL
Named the AAA State Defensive Player of the Year by the Virginia High School League Coaches Association as a senior after leading Osbourn to a perfect 14-0 record and the AAA State Championship ... Tallied 181 tackles, 10 sacks, eight forced fumbles and two blocked punts to also earn first-team all-state honors under head coach Steve Schultz ... Named a Second-Team All-Met selection by the Washington Post and the Northwest Region Defensive Player of the Year ... Recorded three quarterbacksacks and forced two fumbles that led to touchdowns in the state championship game ... Collected 149 tackles as a junior and 67 as a sophomore ... Also lettered three years in track and field and earned two letters in lacrosse ...

PERSONAL
Son of Gary D. Hyde, Jr. and Vivien Hyde ... Enjoys training and working with computers ... Majoring in sociology ... Born on October 24, 1988 in Cape Coral, Fla.


[Compression of the internal carotid artery due to elongated styloid process].
Elongation of the styloid process has been reported as a source of pain in the head and neck region. However, transient ischemic attack (TIA) due to mechanical compression of the internal carotid artery (ICA) by an elongated styloid process has never been mentioned in the literature. Male aged 36 years, with a ten-year history of dull intermittent pain in the left side of the neck that worsened on turning the head, suffered a TIA in the silvian territory, ten days after a minor neck trauma. The eco-Doppler exploration demonstrated a compression of the ICA after rotation of the head. The arteriography revealed an stenosis of the cervical ICA by an external compression. The length of the elongated processin the orthopantomogram and the computed tomography was 35 mm. Angiotomography showed a closed relationship between the tip of the left elongated process and the stenosis of the ICA. Surgical styloidectomy was performed via an extraoral approach under general anaesthesia. The excised specimen measured 30 mm long. All symptoms were relieved with no recurrence during a three-year follow up period. TIA should be taken into account in the clinical feature associated to an elongated styloid process. Angiotomography is very reliable to define the anatomic relationship between the styloid process and the ICA. The treatment of choice is surgical shortening trough an external approach which provides an adequate control of the carotid artery.


[The formation of professional identity in nursing students: a qualitative study].
To investigate how students, who begin their studies in nursing, understand this profession from their own personal experiences and discover the processes of changing, contributing to the identification with the profession. Students from the first year nursing in 2010-2011 participated. Four online discussion groups were established. The grounded theory methodology was used for qualitative analysis. Before starting studies, the students acknowledged having a vision of nursing as a female profession subordinate to medicine but more human and close. Direct contact with the profession through the family and personal experiences contributed to the development of a conception of nursing as an autonomous profession while the media projected a social image of nursing as an auxiliary profession. With the earlyMICHAEL Johnson admitted he was puzzled by the criticism Steve Bruce and Blues have received this season.

There has been a turnover of 38 players and a net transfer profit of #8.7million since relegation, and a huge weight of pressure and expectation, yet Blues have maintained a challenge for automatic promotion.

"I have found all the stick Brucie and the players have been getting very harsh," said former St Andrew's favourite Johnson.

"He's had to completely change it around, sell some top players and he and the team have also had to cope with everyone demanding that they get straight back up.

"The fact that they are still in the shake-up tells you what a good job Brucie has done, and is also a tribute to the players. This league is very,


very tough, believe me. Nobody has run away with the Championship this season.

"So many teams are fighting for promotion, and then there's those at the bottom who are capable of beating anyone on their day. It's all about having that gutsy determination, not so much skill and technical ability.

"Brucie's done a tremendous job as Birmingham have been there or thereabouts all season and are in a great position now. I think they can get up. They've got good players, a manager who knows what it takes and they've got a fair bit of experience."

Johnson said that the team who have caught his eye are Albion.

"The way they have gone about their business, in league and cup, has been impressive," he said. "They have got some terrific players -LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Fred Willard, perhaps best-known as a dog-show announcer in the movie "Best in Show," was arrested on suspicion of committing a lewd act at a Hollywood adult theater and later fired from his work on a PBS series.

Uniformed vice officers were conducting a routine investigation of the theater Wednesday night and saw Willard engaging in a lewd act, Los Angeles police Sgt. Mark Ro said. The actor appeared to be alone, he said.

Willard, 72, was booked at the Hollywood police station on suspicion of committing a lewd act in public. Ro said Willard was released after midnight without posting bail.

By Thursday afternoon, Willard had lost his job narrating "Market Warriors," which is produced by Boston public television station WGBH.

"Given the unfortunate news reported


by the second identification input component.

9. The airport security system of claim 8, further comprising the identity
transaction engine component, security information provided by the
identity transaction engine component being based, at least in part, upon
analysis of the identification information received from the local
transaction component and information stored in at least one data store.

10. The airport security system of claim 9, the at least one data store
storing information related to at least one of Social Security records,
drivers license records, motor vehicle records, state identification
records, military identification records, voter registration records,
birth records, passport records, selective service records, national
identification records, and work authorization records.

11. The airport security system of claim 8, at least one of the first
identification input component and the second identification input
component comprising at least one of a card reader,a magnetic card
reader, a keyboard, a touch screen device, an optical character reader,
an iris scanner, a retinal scanner, a thumb print reader, a digital
camera, a pointing device, a microphone, an IR remote control, a
joystick, a DNA fingerprint analyzer, a DNA profile analyzer, a game pad,
a personal digital assistant, a pager, a text messaging device, a smart
card reader and an electronic ticket machine.

12. The airport security system of claim 8, at least one of the first
identification input component and the second identification input
component coupled to the local identification component by at least one
of a telephone connection, a network connection, an extranet, an
intranet, the Internet, a satellite link, a wireless communication link,
a serial communication link and a parallel communication link.

13. The airport security system of claim 8, the security output


component
comprising at least one of a telephone, a computer system, a light bar,
an audible alarm, a touch screen device, a computer monitor, a television
screen, a printer, a personal digital assistant, a wireless telephone
display and a speaker.

14. The airport security system of claim 8, the security information
provided by the identity transaction engine component being based, at
least in part, upon at least one of the following associated with the
person: a DNA profile, a date of birth, name, Social Security Number,
identifier, identification number, address, age, ethnicity, citizenship,
religious affiliation, political affiliation, health status, failure to
have a particular disease, gender, Selective Service registration status,
biometric data, height, weight, history of felony conviction, criminal
history, inclusion on a list maintained by a governmental agency and
inclusion on a list maintained by a private entity.

15. The airport securitysettlement dated April 28, 2003. This was roughly one month after Plaintiffs complaint against Kirk Braun was filed in the Central District of California. Notably, the Central District of California appointed the receiver on February 21, 2002, more than a year earlier than the assets at issue in this case were transferred from Kirk Braun to Defendant.
On March 31, 2007, the Central District of California declined to adopt a stipulation between the parties to transfer this case to the District of Nevada. On April 30, 2007, Defendant filed a motion in the Central District of California to dismiss this case for lack of personal jurisdiction. In support of the motion, Defendant argued that she "does not have the minimum contacts with California necessary for [the Central District of


Erin Solstice was sleeping, and then she woke up. That was generally how her life worked. She squirmed about comfortably in the blankets that were her bed in one corner of the kitchen, and then opened her eyes. Sleepily, she changed clothes beneath the sheets, grabbing freshly laundered clothes from the neat pile lying next to her bed. Ishkr was good at washing things.

Next, Erin got up. She looked around, yawned, and then opened a cupboard for breakfast. Normally, in her world, she would have pulled out a box of cereal. Or a sugary pop tart. Or, if she was really energetic, she’d go to the fridge for some eggs or find some bread to toast. But in this world, Erin reached into the cupboard and pulled outa steak, seared to perfection and glazed with a bit of butter and sauce. She stared at it and shook her head.

“Nah.”

She put the plate back in the cupboard and peered inside. After a second, Erin came out with a ham and cheese roll. She licked her lips, and went over to her oven.

It took Erin seconds to light the fire and find some tongs to warm the roll up over the fire. Soon it was steaming hot and she juggled it as she bit into the warm sandwich. She looked around, opened another cupboard that she’d labeled ‘drinks’, and pulled out a pitcher filled with milk. She filled a cup as she chewed, and had herself a breakfast on a stool in the kitchen.

Life was good. Erin


Octavia.”

Erin sighed and found the green stone for Liscor. She slapped it on the door, opened the door, and stared into the wet and dark streets of Liscor just before dawn. No one there. She shrugged, closed the door, plucked the green mana stone off and found the blue stone for Celum. She placed it on the door and then opened it.

A Dragon stared at her through the doorway. His eyes were bright yellow and his head was taller than she was. His nose was inches from Erin’s face. She froze.

He was standing in a massive cave. Where was Octavia’s shop? The question fled Erin’s mind as the Dragon opened his mouth. Red and orange flames licked around his teeth as he spoke.

“Human girl, do not be afraid.I am—”

“Aaah!”

Erin screamed and punched the Dragon straight in the nose. Instead of connecting with his scales, her fist passed through the Dragon’s face. Erin felt her fist connect with something else, though. Something that went crack. She heard a yelp and a crash.

The Dragon vanished. Erin blinked as Octavia’s shop, cluttered but familiar, appeared. And lying on the hardwood floor was a man with bright green hair. He was dressed in colorful blue robes decorated with magical symbols and mystical monsters like the dragon in gold, and he looked like he was in his mid-thirties. He was also lying on the ground, clutching a bleeding nose.

“What the heck?”

Erin stared at the man, and then looked around. Octavia’s shop was right there, as it always was. And sitting


to fight the Goblin Lord. He was going to push the entire army straight through the High Passes or around Liscor so they could cause more havoc in Drake lands.

“That scaleless, fleshy bastard!”

Embria was the first to react. She hurled the report onto the table and stood up. She began striding about the conference room, her claws opening and closing as if she wished she were holding her spear. Ilvriss looked up and glowered.

“Swifttail, do you concur with this analysis?”

“I do, sir.”

Olesm gulped and sat up straight. He felt comfortable around the other Drakes normally—okay, he’d avoided sitting in the same room as Embria after she’d tried to invite him out for drinks and Ilvriss was still a Wall Lord—but right now he was in his official capacityend? It has to be next week at the latest, right?”

The [Strategist]’s aggrieved comments drew little notice from the Drakes and Gnolls hurrying about on their business in the wet streets. Complaining about the rain was practically a tradition in Liscor. That and moaning about clogged sewers or Quillfish. Then again, comments about the sewers had stopped due to a sudden improvement in the drainage system underneath Liscor, much to the displeasure of those who liked to groan about such things.

Olesm paused as a torrent of water from above nearly missed him. He shook a fist at a Drake who was unapologetically emptying a bucket from a balcony above, and wondered when he’d see the sun again. Maybe if he went to Celum after visiting Selys. It would


be nice to see clear skies.

Clear skies. Olesm paused as he stared up at the cloudy, rain-sodden skies. When would Liscor have clear skies? It had to be…how long had it been raining? A month, now? He paused, and then picked up his pace. But this time he was staring up at the sky. The rain had to stop soon. Olesm felt that way as any native of Liscor did. But how soon? When, exactly, would it change? There was something about that thought that disturbed him greatly.

—-

Day ???

She dreamt she was floating in a sea of clouds. As high up as she could go, and resting on a cloud as soft as cotton. But then she felt a hideous pain in her chest. She looked around andrealized she was falling. And suddenly she was bleeding, and she saw a Goblin staring at her with eyes like crimson fire—

Durene shouted as she woke. She sat up and cried out in pain as whomever was standing next to her went flying. She heard a shout, and then someone rushed into the room. Durene was too busy clutching at her chest. It hurt! But the pain was illusory—as soon as she touched her chest she felt only rough skin. Raised skin. A scar.

“Durene?”

The half-Troll girl looked up. A young woman with a pointy hat stood in the doorway.

“Wiskeria? What’s going on? Where are the Goblins? Where—”

Durene tried to swing herself out of bed. She heard an exclamation and reached down, unthinking. She pulled up a terrified woman


Selys as he heard a guttural hissing sound coming from inside the office. He wavered at the door and then he slapped himself and focused. He had to know about the rains. He stepped inside—

Below the office, the adventurers who weren’t Revi and Yvlon were sitting together, glaring at each other and speculating about why they looked so happy. They looked up as one as they heard a shout of terror. They saw Olesm Swifttail dash downstairs, crash, roll, and spring to his feet and run out of the Guild’s doors. He was pursued a moment later by an angry old Drake holding a barbed spear.

Olesm ran frantically and felt Tekshia’s spear graze his shoulder. He ducked and ran faster as the old Drake hurled obscenities at hishim to the bone. Yitton closed his eyes. The Great Chieftain of the Mountain had not died, though he had been speared through the heart, though they had torn him practically to shreds.

“Dead gods. I thought I’d seen the last of such monsters in the Second Antinium War. How many more beasts like that roam the earth? Hidden in mountains. Underground?”

His blood chilled at the thought. And it grew colder still to think of one of his offspring, Ylawes, for instance, facing a beast like that alone. Six Gold-rank adventurers had died or been maimed in the battle. Six. Yitton was proud of his son and ranked the Silver Swords highly even among the continent’s Gold-rank teams. But Tremborag was a monster worthy of a Named Adventurer.

“Why didn’t


intelligent, too. They’d come to the same realization as the Drake [Strategists] quickly enough when they’d tracked their progress on a map. By now the entire camp knew what Tyrion Veltras was doing: sending the Goblin Lord and all the Goblins into Drake lands.

The idea had shocked Yitton the first time it had been suggested. He was no lover of the Drake people, with all their pride and hotheadedness and provocations, but he had grown used to the idea of the peace they had between north and south. True, tempers flared occasionally and then both races would send an army to fight in the Blood Fields during a preselected time, but that was different from this. This was tantamount to war, but it wouldn’t be because of politics.

Fewrepast set on the table, and six chairs had been set around the table.

If the nobles had listened to Yitton a moment longer, they might not have been so surprised later on. For Yitton had his own opinion of what was going on. He was no [Strategist], but he knew Tyrion if by reputation alone. Simply pushing Goblins into Drake lands? It couldn’t be that simple. And when he saw the young man standing next to Tyrion, he was certain.

His eyes were closed, so Yitton could not see the color of his pupils, but the young man was thin, and his hair was flaxen, slightly darkened, and his skin pale. His clothes were simple, far too plain for any [Lord], even a poor one. His eyes were closed.


They remained closed as the nobles entered the tent and stared at him. And Tyrion Veltras. The [Lord] stood next to the young man, as if they were equals.

Yitton stared at the youthful stranger. Even Erill was older than him by at least a decade. He could have passed for a commoner with his garb. And yet, he had a presence. Yitton saw the young man tilt his head towards the four nobles. And still he did not open his eyes.

“Lord Tyrion. We’ve come at your request. Who is this?”

Lady Ieka did not waste time. She peered at the stranger, her eyes narrowed as she flicked her gaze to Tyrion. The [Lord]’s face was impassive as he indicated a chair.

“I apologize for the delay, Lady Ieka. Please havedespite being held in a war camp. Almost ridiculously so; Yitton eyed the gilded plates and silver silverware with deep concern for the priorities of whoever had packed the camp’s supplies. There was no need for this.

Then again however, it suited the gathering. Emperor Laken Godart sat next to Lord Tyrion, dining carefully. He was blind. Yitton had met men blinded in battle and Laken behaved as they did, although there was a surety to his movements that he had that the men had lacked.

The young man sat stiffly, head slightly tilted towards Tyrion. He moved slowly, but not randomly, carefully finding his plate and food with knife and fork. He was able to eat with only a minimal amount of inconvenience. But his presence disturbed the others.


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All vocals by Brooks Strause. Produced, recorded, and mixed by Brooks Strause in the Blue House basement, Iowa City, IA, 2010-2014. Except drums on The Past recorded by Landon Strause at Birds of Paradise studios, Traer, IA.also received a verbal warning after she reached six points on March 27, 2009. Claimant received a written warning about her attendance after she reached nine points on June 12, 2009. Claimant reached twelve and one half attendance points on July 14, 2009. On July 15, 2009, her employment was terminated due to absenteeism.
Claimant subsequently applied for unemployment benefits. A deputy denied Claimant's petition for unemployment benefits, finding she was discharged for misconduct connected with work. Claimant appealed this initial determination, and the appeals tribunal affirmed the deputy's decision, finding "the evidence showed that the majority of the points [Claimant] accumulated under the [Convergys] attendance policy, resulting in her discharge, were for absences that were avoidable or willful." Thus, the appeals tribunal found Claimant's absenteeism constituted misconduct.
Claimant filed


substantial explanation for the employee's absences, it could not say the conduct reached a level sufficient to be misconduct connected with work. Id.
In this case, Claimant incurred attendance infractions and was assessed points as follows: three points on January 27, 2009, six points on March 27, 2009, nine points on June 12, 2009, and twelve and one half attendance points on July 14, 2009. On July 15, 2009, her employment was terminated due to absenteeism.
Although Employer did not keep records indicating the reasons for the infractions leadings to these points, Claimant did testify as to the reasons for some of them. In particular, the Commission found Claimant's absence for shifts on November 28, 2008, and May 4, June 27, July 13, and July 14, 2009 was not willful.Muhammad, must have been present at some of the revelations that became A Book of Signs or The Noble Qur'an. Lacking explicit mention of 'Ali in the Qur'anic revelations, how can one detect indirect references to him and also to his family? This was a question that motivated much of Imam Ja'far's effort to make sense of A Book of Signs. Like other descendants of the House of the Prophet ( _ahl al-bayt_ ) who became known as Shi'ites, or partisans of 'Ali, he distinguished between clear and ambiguous verses. As the Imam of the time, Ja'far as-Sadiq was respected as the most authoritative source of that knowledge which includes esoteric as well as evident meanings of the Qur'an. He could move deftly between clear verses in which


well as poetry, to justify his case against both the Saudis and their Zionist-Crusader allies, i.e. Israel and the United States. Yet his embrace of a minority exegetical tradition of the Qur'an provides the backbone of his appeal, which does two things simultaneously. First, he selects only those Qur'anic verses that fit his message, and then cites them exclusively for his own purposes. He ignores both their original context and also the variety of historical differences among committed Muslims about how to apply their dicta. Second, he collapses the broad spectrum of Qur'anic teaching into a double requirement: first to believe and then to fight. There may be other duties but the first two – and by implication, the only two that matter in a time of crisishearing on the charge defendant Barnes found him guilty of gambling.  When Holland asked on what evidence Barnes based his finding, Barnes stated that he didn't have to show Holland any evidence, but that Holland was guilty.  As punishment Holland's typewriter was confiscated for two months, he was moved out of honor housing, he lost his job, and he lost an opportunity to appear before the Parole Board.  Claiming that his constitutional rights were violated because he was found guilty without evidence and because he, as a black inmate, was treated differently than similarly situated white inmates, Holland brought suit in federal court against the Indiana Department of Corrections, Barnes, and Lori Ditmer, the Disciplinary Review Manager who sustained Barnes's decision.1  After reviewing the


The Cowboy anthology by Kensington/Aphrodisia. It received a Passionate Plume award. Her first novel, the literary work Dreamtown, was published by a small press, The Fiction Works.In film, her work spans a variety of genres from supernatural thriller to romantic drama, family, teen, and comedy with an emphasis on independent film. A member of the Writer’s Guild of America, she’s written on staff for ABC-TV’s Port Charles; written, produced, and directed reality programming and documentaries for TLC, Lifetime, PBS, and HGTV, as well as numerous television commercials and corporate videos.She’s also written dozens of articles on travel, love, writing, sex, child-rearing and more for ezines, blogs and websites.Character Counts, presented by Genie Davis, runs from May 2, 2011 through May 30, 2011

Awesome post! Someone recently gave the adviceDefining moments of history.
In the life of a nation, as in the life of a man, there are moments that have changed the entire course of its eventful history by the totally unexpected happening at an inordinate time. The defining moments of history are almost always inconspicuous situations that plays its assertive role in determining the final outcome of a grand design without in itself seeking prominence or due acknowledgement. This is very true when an individual is involved in the process.


in this State, was found wandering in a helpless, mentally deranged condition in the Village of Mound, Hennepin County. His mental condition was such that the sheriff of the county removed him to the Hennepin County Jail, and while so confined he became so violent that the jailer called the matter to the attention of the court commissioner of the county. Pursuant to statutory authority (Minn.Stat.1941, § 525.751), the court commissioner ordered the removal of the plaintiff to the Minneapolis General Hospital and his temporary confinement in the mental ward thereof for observation and examination and the necessary restraint pending proceedings for his commitment as an insane person. It was during such restraint, and on July 22, 1945, that he alleges he was assaulted by the orderly, whichrequired the removal of one of his eyes. On August 14, 1945, in statutory proceedings before the court commissioner, he was found to be suffering from a manic depressive psychosis, and was adjudicated insane and committed to the State Hospital at Rochester, Minnesota.
The City of Minneapolis is under a home rule charter, adopted pursuant to Section 36, Article 4, of the Constitution of the State of Minnesota and the statutes enacted in pursuance thereof. By virtue of said charter, it was empowered to provide hospitals and hospital grounds for the City, and, pursuant to said power, it maintained and operated the Minneapolis General Hospital. According to the stipulation entered into herein, the Board of Public Welfare under the city charter is empowered to exercise general supervision and administrative


Hospital." Moreover, it appears from the stipulation that the City of Minneapolis is under the statutory duty *469 of providing for the general support and medical, hospital and nursing care of its poor persons, and it is recited in the stipulation that "the principal function of the said Minneapolis General Hospital is to carry out the defendant City's said statutory duty in providing for the medical, hospital and nursing care of its poor, aged and indigent."
It appears from the admitted facts that the expense of maintaining said hospital is, and always has been, mainly paid from the tax collected funds of the City, and in the year 1945, which is the year under consideration, the cost of maintaining the hospital, exclusive of the City's investment in its buildingshospital. When a city engages in activities which are of a nature ordinarily engaged in by private persons and which subjects private persons to liability for negligence, the city is likewise liable for negligence."
In short, the City of Owatonna was operating a hospital entirely comparable with any private hospital and was engaged in an enterprise which is ordinarily maintained and operated by private charitable concerns. The only inference to be drawn from the Borwege case is that, if the hospital had been one which had been operated by the city in performance of its statutory duty in taking care of the medical needs of the poor and indigent, and as such was a tax supported institution, it would have had complete immunity from its torts.
It has been held


manure from the business and residence part of the city as a protection against disease."
It seems evident that, in the City of Minneapolis which has a population of approximately five hundred thousand inhabitants, suitable hospital facilities are required in the treatment of the poor, aged and indigent who become sick or injured. This hospital does not compete with private or various charitable hospitals which may be located in this community. The fact that it costs the taxpayers of Minneapolis over $900,000 per year to maintain it convincingly reflects that fact, and under the stipulation between the parties it is recognized that the primary purpose of the hospital is the carrying out of the City's statutory duty in providing medical care for its poor and indigent.
If, as stated bywelfare of the community at large depends upon the health and well-being of the poor and unfortunate, who by reason of their circumstances are more apt to be subject to disease and misfortune than persons more fortunately situated.
Plaintiff stresses the fact that, after he had been admitted to the hospital, his wife came to the City and agreed to pay the sum required by the hospital authorities for his hospital care. While the sum agreed upon was never demanded, or paid by the plaintiff or anyone in his behalf, it would seem that this circumstance in determining the liability of the City becomes wholly immaterial. Certainly, the fact that plaintiff had agreed to pay a daily charge for his care in a hospital of this character does not


militate against the fact that the maintenance and operation of the hospital was nevertheless the performance of a governmental function. The charge agreed upon, according to the stipulation of facts, was less than the cost to the City in caring for the plaintiff. In considering the activities of the City in caring for its poor and indigent, it was at best an incidental charge which had no possible effect in transforming a purely governmental function into a private one. It may be observed in passing that plaintiff was a non-resident; he was in dire need of some care, and the court commissioner, who refers the large majority of such mental cases to the City Hospital for temporary care, directed where plaintiff should be confined. Plaintiff was thereby affordedcare in a hospital maintained by the City in the performance of its statutory duty to care for its own sick and needy. As heretofore stated, his confinement was in pursuance of the Minnesota statute which authorizes the court commissioner to confine a mentally deranged person in a hospital for observation and examination. This confinement was but the preliminary step to the hearing before the commissioner on the question of plaintiff's insanity. Surely, the care and restraint of an insane person by giving him a temporary haven where he will not harm himself or others peculiarly comes within the affirmative duty of the Board of Public Welfare of the defendant City, which is specifically empowered by the charter
"To aid in the enforcement of, and, as far as practicable,


Supreme Court in cases which it had under consideration where it held that the governmental agency was performing a governmental function notwithstanding that some consideration had been paid by those who were enjoying the facilities afforded by that particular activity. In Mokovich v. School District, supra, it appears that a boy was injured while playing football and lost the sight of one eye by reason of lime that was used as a gridiron line marker. The court held that the School District was not liable in that the football game was carried on in performance of the general educational activities of the District and that the incidental charge made for attendance by the public at the game did not transform a governmental function into a private one. Furthermore,Mike Mendel, a prolific producer whose work included The Simpsons and Rick and Morty, has reportedly passed away at the age of 54. According to his biography on Fadango.com, Mendel got his start working as a summertime studio assistant on the soap operas All My Children and Loving. After graduating from Syracuse University, Mendel served as a production assistant on Broadcast News and Big. He served as an associate producer on The Tracey Ullman Show from 1986 to 1988, before going to work on spinoffs The Simpsons and The Critic.

Mendel served as an associate producer on The Simpsons for the show's first five seasons, and continued to produce episodes up until the Season 10 episode "Make Room for Lisa". After leaving the job in 1999, Mendel went on


to produce animated shows such as The PJs, Drawn Together, and Sit Down Shut Up. On the film side, he also served as an associate producer of Jerry Maguire.

Beginning in 2013, Mendel served as a producer on Rick and Morty, having a hand in 22 of the show's episodes. The most recent episode he is credited on is the show's Season 3 premiere, "The Rickshank Rickdemption".

Over his life, Mendel earned seven nominations and four wins at the Emmys, winning for The Simpsons in 1995, 1997, and 1998, as well as for Rick and Morty's "Pickle Rick" episode in 2018.

The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean posted a tribute to Mendel on social media on Tuesday, calling him a "great guy".

.@TheSimpsons V v sorry to learn of the passing ofstarter Raul Valdes that set the rhythm and quelled the BayStars’ offense until a lapse by the lefty in the third.

Ricardo Nanita had a leadoff double to left leading off the second and Chunichi was on the scoreboard the very next at-bat, when Shuhei Takahashi doubled down the right-field line to make it 1-0.

Yokohama got a chance when Jose Lopez drew a one-out walk in the second, but the first baseman was thrown out by a mile when he tried to reach third from first on Aarom Baldiris’ bloop single to left, and the next batter was retired to end the inning.

The game took a twist in the home half of the third with a leadoff blast by second-year man Minei — his first career homer. Leadoff man


Alaskans. They hunt whales, seals, walrus, caribou and other game for food so they watch the weather and the changes in seasons closely.

I moved in with the Kaleak family who helped me get used to the cold. They lent me a fur parka and introduced me to native foods, including maktak, which is whale blubber and skin.

They also told me about the ice cellars melting. Many families have ice cellars, natural freezers down below the ground. As the climate in the North Slope warms, it is becoming more difficult to store food.

ON WHALE HUNT

In spring, people in Barrow start to get excited. It's whaling season.

The subsistence hunters get ready to travel out on the sea ice. Living with the Kaleaks, I learned that a huge amount of workTechweek triples attendance, plans LA sibling

(Crain's) — Techweek, the Chicago tech confab that wound up its second run on Tuesday, will be shorter but bigger next year. And it will have a sibling in Los Angeles.

The conference nearly tripled attendance to more than 6,000 from a little over 2,000 last year, says Iain Shovlin, a venture investor and chairman of the for-profit group behind Techweek.

He hopes to hit the 10,000 mark next year. But the conference will be three days, instead of five, Thursday through Saturday next year, June 20-22. This year's show ran Friday-Tuesday.

"It's a reaction to what attendees and partners told us," said Mr. Shovlin, chairman of GuildCapital, a Chicago-based private investment fund.

He says Techweek will put on a conference in Los Angeles in 2013, but


he didn't disclose the dates.

"Chicago and Los Angeles are similar in being a little underserved from a tech perspective," he said. "There's no need for a Techweek in San Francisco. Our first priority is to make Chicago a tremendous experience. We'll only expand elsewhere when we've done a good job at the other two (cities)."

The conference launched last year as a way to get the city's tech community together and "promote the innovation ecoystem" in Chicago. It launched at the Merchandise Mart, which has emerged as a hub for the city's high-tech scene. The format is part panel discussions with tech-company CEOs, a hiring fair, a startup competition and company expo.if Owen Smith wins in 2016, then reverts to the pre-2015 strategy and fails are much better. Keeping Corbyn until 2020 simply delays the date of his departure, with nothing achieved and much lost in the meantime.

The concern that most party members about Owen Smith is that, once elected, he will slip back into the disastrous form of right wing appeasement that led to Corbyn's election last year. Smith's support for Trident adds credence to that view. But there are important reasons why this may not happen.

The political landscape after the Brexit vote has changed substantially. May's cabinet appointments effectively put the Brexit side in charge of negotiations. That might be clever politics by May as far as her position in the Conservative party is concerned, but it


devastating.

Thursday, 21 July 2016

I have an essay in the latest New Statesman marking what seems like the end of UK austerity, or more specifically the end of what I have call 'deficit deceit' in the UK: using a manufactured concern about high levels of government debt as a means of achieving an otherwise unpopular reduction in the size of the state. The article goes through the history of UK austerity because this is important in understanding what has and has not happened as a result of Brexit.

There have been two phases in UK austerity. The first began in 2010, and was mirrored by similar moves in the Eurozone and the US. The second began after the 2015 election, and was very much a uniquely UK affair, as PaulJeremy Corbyn “showed off” a naked Diane Abbott to impress his Left-wing friends when he was a young Labour activist, a new book has revealed.

The Labour leader invited fellow activists to his London flat where they were “shaken” to find Ms Abbott in his bed, one of his friends recalled.

The incident took place in 1979 soon after Mr Corbyn’s first marriage broke down because of his near-obsessive dedication to his political activism.

It is described in Comrade Corbyn, a biography of the Labour leader by Rosa Prince, which is being serialised by The Telegraph.


broke the record and she thought she could just walk back on and it was going to be easy. She was a fool to get pregnant 2 wins out from breaking the record she is young and had plenty of time for babies.

federer the big waster of opportunity the biggest cocky shocking mind in the crucial moments the players who have technically almost everything but against that a poor or lets say not a big giang mind!!

Out of nowhere , how could this dude called medvedez, beats dimitrov so convincingly in straight sets? Nadal should give him a restaurant treat for helping him clear t path for him to win his 19th GS. Give medvedez his credits for his spectacular atp run.

At 44.51, medvedev, in his bone-sapping fatigues,runs wt all his might for his elusive first grand slam. Alas, it is not there for him yet. It is all heart breaking to see him run wt all his might only to fail to reach the elusive ball. Give this dude his due credits.

Should have been a straight sets victory but glad the crowd got an entertaining match out of it. Nadal got a bit tight and let Med back in with a few weak serving games, but he was able to recompose himself and close it out.

Glad Djoker won but all in all a forgettable USO Final. Maybe one of the worst of the decade along with Anderson-Nadal and Cilic-Nishikori. Not a patch on classic USO Finals like 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2019. 2011 and


with two people who were in a van
      attempting to purchase cocaine. The nature of the disagreement is not
      entirely clear, but there is evidence that Mr. Lee thought he was owed
      forty dollars. Mr. Lee threatened to shoot the driver if he drove away.
      When the driver attempted to leave, Mr. Lee carried through with his
      threat. He shot the driver, who sustained permanent, disabling
      injuries. Mr. Lee was fifteen years old at the time of these events.
             The State filed an information charging Mr.Turkish government launches new invasion of Syria, targeting Kurdish forces

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Originally published Jan. 28, 2018

It is now more than a week since the start of the Turkish military assault targeting Kurdish forces in the Afrin region of northern Syria. Following heavy artillery strikes launched on January 17, the operation initiated by the ruling, right-wing Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey quickly escalated into an all-out military incursion into Syria with ground troops from both the Turkish armed forces and the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA).

Shortly after the start of the attack by Turkey, the Syrian government issued a statement strongly condemning the actions of the AKP government, saying they represent a violation of Syria’s sovereignty.

The Afrin region is under the control


of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its militia, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). For the last several years, the YPG has received major military assistance from the United States. However, to the great dismay of the Turkish government, the YPG is linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a 30-year-long armed struggle for Kurdish independence or autonomy in southeast Turkey.

The timing of the attack by Turkey in Afrin seems to be directly connected to an earlier revelation that the United States intended to set up a 30,000-strong border security force, to be made up primarily of YPG forces. The Turkish government was furious. They said in a statement, “It is regrettable that a state [the United States], which is part of NATO and ourhelped turn the tide of the war against the opposition. While Russia is not an imperialist power like the United States, its foreign policy is motivated by nationalist considerations, not international solidarity.

U.S. and Turkish military intervention in Syria: a blatant violation of international law

Flying in the face of an earlier U.S. statement on January 22 that “urged Turkey to exercise restraint in its military actions and rhetoric; ensure that its operations are limited in scope and duration,” Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on January 26 that the military operation would extend east all the way to the Iraqi border, including Manbij where some U.S. troops are stationed. While the chances of a military confrontation between the United States and Turkey, both NATO members, are slim, the fact


largely defeated by the Syrian government and its allies. Unlike the military interventions of Russia and Iran, which were formally requested by the sovereign Syrian government, the United States and Turkey’s presence in Syria are illegitimate and an outright violation of international law.

While at odds at the moment, it is important to remember that both U.S. imperialism and the AKP have been partners in crime in the carnage and bloodbath in Syria. Along with reactionary Gulf monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, they supported reactionary terror groups including ISIS, al-Qaeda and others in their joint effort to overthrow the Syrian government. It is the height of hypocrisy that two main sources of terror in Syria, namely the U.S. and Turkish governments, continue to justify their actions underthe pretext of “fighting terror.”

A showcase of U.S. imperialist treachery

The U.S. government has absolutely no concern for the well being of the Kurdish people and in the past has not hesitated to break their alliance with various Kurdish forces when it suited their imperial interests.

The AKP’s current military move in Syria forces the United States into a corner — forced to choose between Turkey and the YPG. Turkey is a more valuable partner when it comes to weakening and overthrowing the Syrian government itself, while the elements of the Pentagon and State Department who are most committed to the strategy of partitioning Syria see the YPG as a more important ally.

Betrayal of its Kurdish allies by U.S. imperialism is certainly no small possibility. A Pentagon official speaking to


of the outraged foreign attacks and we will confront the attempts of the Turkish occupation of Afrin. We call upon the Syrian state to carry out its sovereign duties towards Afrin and protect its borders with Turkey from attacks by the Turkish occupier, and to deploy its Syrian armed forces to secure the borders of the Afrin region.”

What does AKP hope to gain from Afrin operation?

At a time when the ruling AKP government is facing domestic and international problems, the military operation in Afrin serves AKP’s interests on a number of fronts.

On the domestic front, as the workers and poor face more and more economic hardships, unemployment of over 10 percent, inflation on the rise and an economy heading towards a deep crisis, the AKP had slowly beenwar that is facing extreme repression at the hands of the AKP. There are reports of people being detained based on social media posts that oppose the military operation in Afrin.

Other than the Kurdish opposition HDP (Peoples’ Democracy Party), all the parties represented in parliament including the social democrat CHP (Republican People’s Party), the fascist MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) and the new center-right IYI (Good) Party came out in support of the military operation in Afrin.

Speaking to the media on January 20, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said, “We are totally confident about our brave army and give full support to the operation. What we care about is the security of our borders. No country would want a terrorist organization on their border.”

With the general elections approaching in 2019,


there were talks about a possible CHP-HDP coalition which would pose a serious threat to continued AKP rule. Given the CHP’s position in support of the attack on Afrin, the AKP can now rest easy as a CHP-HDP coalition appears out of the question.

It is also no surprise that the capitalist class lent full support to the invasion of Afrin. In a written statement released on January 21, the president of the Turkish Business and Industry Association (TÜSİAD) Erol Bilecik said: “Our hearts are with the Turkish Armed Forces in our rightful fight against terror elements.”

Erdoğan was on the verge of a major setback as Syrian government forces launched an offensive in December 2017 to liberate Idlib, the largest remaining bastion of ultra-reactionary, religious forces remaining in Syria.The main group under attack in Idlib is the AKP-backed Tahrir al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra front, the branch of al-Qaeda in Syria).

The Afrin operation gave the AKP a chance to get back in the game in Syria, redeploy some of the remaining jihadist forces from Idlib under the banner of the “moderate” FSA and use them against what it considers a mortal enemy — the YPG. It is also certain that the AKP will use Afrin to strengthen its role within the broader U.S.-led regime change project in Syria.

As progressives and revolutionaries in the United States, it is crucial that we uphold the right to self determination of the people of Syria, free of intervention by U.S. imperialism or its partners like Turkey. The U.S. anti-war movement


The US was wrong to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal, but Tehran’s response, to enrich uranium beyond the limits set in the accord, is a path to war, French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said.

"The situation is serious. The rise of tensions could lead to accidents” between the US and Iran, Le Drian warned.

Tensions have only been mounting between the two countries since May, after Washington beefed up its military presence in the region. The fears of a war were in the air a number of times, including when US blamed Tehran for attacks on oil tankers and Iran shot down a US surveillance drone. Donald Trump said he’d even ordered airstrikes in retaliation, but had called them off at the last moment. The US’ closestParamount Pictures didn’t know what they were giving up 40 years ago when they donated the 135-inch studio model of the U.S.S. Enterprise—the fictional, 23rd century starship at the center of the groundbreaking science fiction series Star Trek—to the Smithsonian. Star Trek had been canceled after three seasons five years earlier; the first of the now 12 Trek motion pictures was still five years away. Though the first Star Trek convention had taken place in 1972, there was little reason to suspect the beloved but low-rated TV show—unique for its optimistic vision of a future where men and women of all races and ethnicities, not to mention non-humans, merrily travel the galaxies together “to seek out new life and new civilizations”—would blossom into a 50-year multimedia franchise, and


on the night to break 80% passing accuracy). He was subbed off after 65 minutes so fitness is still a bit of a concern for him but it was a good 65 minutes.

Aly Ghazal: 9/10

The only player on the night to have over 80% passing accuracy and he coupled this with an enormous nine tackles. Ghazal was a huge part of the Whitecaps holding on to the win as he helped calm things down a bit in the centre of the park. To top it all off he also made one of his biannual key passes.

Felipe: 7/10

On the one hand Felipe had a pretty monstrous performance defensively speaking. He had 5 tackles, 5 interceptions, 3 clearances and a blocked shot. On the other hand though his passing wasn’tneither has Pakistan attacked the U.S.

For the Afghanistan invasion of 2001, the Taliban was treated as the de facto ruling government of the state, and directly harbored al-Qa’ida. Thus the alliance between state and non-state actor was sufficient under international law to legitimate the U.S. to use force against Afghanistan. The situation in Pakistan is markedly different. The government routinely condemns militants and has previously been at war with them, as in the case of the Swat offensive of 2009. Likewise, the Pakistani Taliban has frequently retaliated against Pakistan’s law enforcement, killing military personnel by the thousands.

Security Council resolution 1368 stated that the September 11, 2001 attacks granted the U.S. the right to self-defense. However, it was not determined who was responsible for the attacks; moreover, none of


Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty said the UK's drop-off comes as Asian universities move up in the rankings and questioned whether funding cuts have contributed.

He said: "The UK will have to ensure that it can still draw in talent and investment from across the world and it does not lose its position at the heart of higher education's global elite."

Mr Baty said six universities, four from America as well as Oxford and Cambridge, have dominated the top half of the rankings for the past five years, but added that other countries are making gains.

He said: "Outside this tiny super group, the global higher education world is changing, and some leading lights in the US and UK, for example, household names, have lost ground, while universities inMalaysia's IPO boom is a one-off: analysts

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Chairman of Felda Global Ventures Holding Berhad Mohd Isa Abdul Samad points to a digital display showing share prices after the listing debut of Felda Global on the Malaysia Stock Exchange in Kuala Lumpur on June 28, 2012. Malaysia is tipped to be Asia's top IPO market for 2012 thanks to two of the world's biggest company listings this year, but analysts say the momentum is likely to fizzle out.

Malaysia is tipped to be Asia's top IPO market for 2012 thanks to two of the world's biggest company listings this year, but analysts say the momentum is likely to fizzle out.

At a time of global economic distress, Malaysia's drive for initial public offerings is being propped up by pre-election encouragement from


AFP.

IHH has already attracted 22 so-called cornerstone investors, including international fund managers, who have committed to buying more than 60 percent of the 2.23 billion shares on offer.

Ooi and others attribute their optimism in part to the support of cash-strong state funds keen to invest, as well as the government's backing of the IPOs ahead of elections that must be called by next April at the latest.

"It's time for the government to raise funds... The government is actually cashing in," Ooi said.

Felda Global is an arm of the Federal Land Development Authority, a government agency that previously provided land to the rural poor.

IHH is majority-owned by sovereign wealth fund Khazanah, which is chaired by Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Najib said the IPOs marked milestones in the government's plan todivest state-linked firms and attract foreign investors for the country to achieve developed nation status by 2020.

"I can safely say that this also offers further evidence of the vibrancy and growing depth of our capital markets -- once again underlining the fact that Malaysia can claim to be a bright spot on the otherwise dark canvas of global finance," Najib said at the IHH prospectus launch Tuesday.

Nazir Razak, chief executive of financial firm CIMB Group and Najib's brother, said Malaysia looked set to be Asia's top IPO market for this year. CIMB is the principal adviser and lead underwriter for the IHH listing.

Global accountancy firm Ernst and Young has said Bursa Malaysia was the third-biggest in terms of funds raised in IPOs in the second quarter of 2012,


following NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.

It said in a release last week that the momentum of IPOs in Southeast Asia was driven by "resilient financial performance, the support of cornerstone investors, pension and other funds, and ample liquidity".

But analysts said the Bursa Malaysia was unlikely to be able to sustain the momentum, noting that it had failed thus far to attract major listings from global players and remained far smaller than regional rivals.

Before this year, the last major listing in Malaysia was in 2010 when Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd., a unit of state oil firm Petronas, raised $4.14 billion.

Bernard Ching, head of Alliance Research, said big names wanting to list in Asia were still more likely to turn to Hong Kong or Singapore.

"In a volatile globalFreedom for Palestinian resistance icon Ahed Tamimi

Ahed Tamimi speaks at a press conference outside the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 29, with her mother and father by her side. Majdi Mohammed | AP

On July 29, Palestinian resistance icon Ahed Tamimi broke down in tears as an emotional crowd in her home village of Nabi Saleh welcomed her return from an Israeli prison.

She said she was “extremely happy” to be “in the arms and embrace of my family,” but she added that her “happiness is not complete” when other Palestinian female prisoners are still behind Israeli bars.

“My happiness is not complete without my sisters who are not with me. I hope that they will also be free,” she declared.

Ms.


Tamimi was released with her mother Nariman, who was also sentenced to eight months by the occupation regime’s military court system.

They were greeted with banners, cheers and Palestinian flags as they entered their home village.

She was sentenced for “terrorism” in slapping an occupation soldier who had entered her family’s West Bank property shortly after her cousin was put into a coma as the result of being hit by a rubber-coated steel bullet.

Her mother was arrested for videoing Ahed’s resistance and posting it online.

Israeli forces initiated a crackdown on Nabi Saleh after the video went viral, arresting residents and shooting dead Ahed’s 21-year-old relative Izz al-Din Tamimi during a raid on the village last month.

The 17-year-old relayed messages delivered to her by Palestinian female political prisoners, saying that theybelieve it was the work of Israeli settlers from the adjacent Halamish settlement, which was built on top of Nabi Saleh’s lands.

In another incident, settlers from Halamish demonstrated on a road that divides the village and the settlement, carrying makeshift coffins and chanting: “Death to Ahed Tamimi.”

On July 28, Israeli border police arrested two Italian artists who were painting a mural of Ahed Tamimi on Israel’s apartheid wall in Bethlehem, apparently to welcome her release.

They were charged with vandalism.

In contrast, Israeli settlers who set fire at the weekend to farmland as well as a house in the Palestinian village of Jaloud, near Ramallah, under the watchful eyes of occupation military, were allowed to carry out their intimidatory actions without interference.

At least 2.5 acres of wheat was burnt and


The interview has been conducted in French, and can be seen here, with Polish subtitles. Translation by the Visegrád Post.

Olivier Bault: Mr Saryusz-Wolski good morning and thank you for kindly speaking to us. You are one of the leading architects of Poland’s entry into the European Union. In the early 1990s, you started to prepare for integration. In the government of Jerzy Buzek, you were secretary to the European integration committee with the rank of minister, and since 2004, so since the very beginning, you have been a member of the European Parliament of which you have been the vice-president.

You also have been vice-president of the Group of the European People’s Party (EPP). After that we spoke a lot about you when you were the candidate of thethe dark side of the force,” on the side of the populists?

Jacek Saryuzs-Wolski: When I joined the Civic Platform, it was a different party than it is today. It was the party of Jan Rokita, Maciej Plażyński and others, with a very strong conservative Christian Democrat aspect, and all these right-wing conservatives were eliminated by the Liberals of Mr. Tusk and his colleagues.

At a certain moment, even the posts-Communists were invited in there. So it was a Center-Right party at its birth, which today has become a Center-Left party, a ruling party that has caused enormous damage to Poland, but what has really been unacceptable for me, was to attack Poland from the outside and use the instruments, the institutions of the European Union against our own country.

There


also the line of the Polish government, to follow the rules of the game and the laws of the EU, but we do not accept to follow some rules invented outside the Treaties by the institutions, because the procedure of the rule of law of the European Commission is outside the Treaties, the practices of Verhofstadt are outside the Treaties, and there is a temptation of the European Court of Justice to leave the Treaty framework.

The judicial system is not within the competence of the EU.

Olivier Bault: Then what can be done against the recent decision of the Vice-President of the Court of Justice, who forced the Polish government to suspend the reform of the law on Justice, therefore bringing some chaos into the judicial institutions as retiredhow innovation drives success in competitive markets, and Ford’s emphasis on original design – together with its frequent upgrades – have allowed the F-Series to gain an edge over its peers.

A post-war truck boom

By the end of World War II, the car market in the United States, was, by and large, a seller’s market.

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From February 1942 to October 1945, the War Production Board froze automobile production for civilian use, which created pent-up demand for 5 to 9 million new cars by the time the war ended.

In a race to cash in, U.S. automotive manufacturers capitalized on the expertise they had gained from manufacturing military trucks during the war and introduced trucks – in


mid-size sedan, on the other hand, is around $22,000 with a 10 percent profit margin.

This might explain why other car companies are also getting cold feet about their passenger cars. Fiat Chrysler has phased out the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 and announced that it will retool its factories in Michigan and Ohio in order to build a new pickup truck and two new SUVs. General Motors also reportedly plans to cut production of some of its passenger cars.

Car sales as a percentage of total light vehicles sales has been in steady decline since the early 1980s. In May 2018, car sales made up only 32.1 percent of all light vehicles sales in the U.S., down from a 40-year high of 83.2 percent in October 1980. According toNew York Red Bulls defenders Tim Parker and Aaron Long fooled around during a co-interview with the club after training.

The New York Red Bulls had the bright idea of conducting a co-interview between two of their players. As expected, it turned into a comedy show.

It was between two players who play right next to each other, centre-backs Aaron Long and Tim Parker. So yes, something interesting was coming.

The reporter informed that the first question was going to be for Parker. The former Vancouver Whitecaps F.C. man made sure to re-tell his teammate that he has the privilege of going first.

“Yeah, I got this one,” Parker told Long while tapping him in the chest during the interview.

Tim Parker & Aaron Long did a … co-interview? You just need to


which has considerable effect on its thickness.
 About  of steeply rising salinity and increasing temperature. This is the actual halocline.
 The deep layer with nearly constant salinity and slowly decreasing temperature.

A halocline can be easily created and observed in a drinking glass or other clear vessel.  If fresh water is slowly poured over a quantity of salt water, using a spoon held horizontally at water-level to prevent mixing, a hazy interface layer, the halocline, will soon be visible due to the varying index of refraction across the boundary.

A halocline is most commonly confused with a thermocline – a thermocline is an area within a body of water that marks a drastic change in temperature.
           cold. The family was informed about the risk posed by the probable dehydration episodes suffered by the child. The sc route for the desmopressin therapy and a new attempt at gastrostomy were once again recommended.

This advice was not followed, and at the age of 3 years and 5 months, the child was admitted to his local hospital after five days of a new nasal cold. His medical report registered a Glasgow Score of 8, body weight loss of 12%, and 189 mmol/L of serum sodium. After a few hours of saline infusion, he achieved a certain degree of clinical recovery. However, the next day he worsened again, and forty hours after his admittance, he entered into status epilepticus and was transferred to our hospital.

We received a sedated, malnourished child, with an


You can also join a headphone-viewing event to watch the screening in high quality sound and enjoy live streaming of the event.

Linked apps "Another Track" and "VISION α" are also available for even more exciting experience!

"LoveLive! Sunshine!!" is a cross-media project that began as an animation series. The nine female voice artists who lend their voices to the characters in the animation are members of an extremely popular unit, Aqours.The unit's first live tour "LoveLive! Sunshine!! Aqours 2nd LoveLive! HAPPY PARTY TRAIN TOUR" was held from August to September in 2017.We bring to you, a one-day premier screening of eight selected numbers (full length) from the live tour, ahead of the release of its video!In the live tour, the artists performed in synchrony with animation visuals shown onWatching this film about calming power of nature may relieve your 2020 stress

First spot from W&K London celebrates the U.K. National Trust's 125 year anniversary

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If your new year has already got off to a stressful start (what with Australian bushfires and war erupting in the Middle East), a new film from the U.K.'s National Trust, celebrating its 125 year anniversary, may be just the antidote.

The ad, the first work from Wieden & Kennedy London for the organization, which controls large areas of rural land as well as historic buildings throughout the U.K., contrasts the noise, pollution and stress of urban life with the calming power of nature.

Directed by Anthony Dickenson of All Mighty Pictures, the spot starts with a montage of hectic images


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: Nine out of ten of Britain's top economists working in London's City financial district, small business and academia believe the economy will be harmed if Britain leaves the European Union, a poll said on Sunday.The poll, which the Observer newspaper said was the biggest of its kind drawing responses from more than 600 economists, is a boost for Prime Minister David Cameron, who is leading the campaign for Britain to stay in the 28-member bloc at a referendum on June 23 despite opposition from some in his party.Carried out by pollster Ipsos-MORI, the poll found that 88 per cent of those asked said an exit from the EU and the single market would most likely damage Britain's growth prospects over the next five yearsIn this episode of Experts on Expert, the Armchair Expert speaks to author, professor and Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari. In this far too brief episode, Yuval discusses the differences between our experiential and narrative selves, he talks about a not so distant future in which AI will drastically alter the workforce and he theorizes on why the technological evolution could potentially warrant the return of communism. The two discuss the idea of myths, virtual reality and security. Dax and Monica mourn the fact that they only had an hour with Yuval and Dax takes an armcherry song request in the fact check.

Yuval Noah Harari is a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the international bestsellers


Bill Shorten will use a landmark speech on Tuesday to propose sweeping changes to the ALP to weaken the influence of unions, extend direct election of candidates, broaden policy formulation, and attract thousands of new members.

Relying on what he will call ''my mandate as the first member-elected leader of the Australian Labor Party'', his radical plan involves the most significant cultural shift in Labor internal structures in decades including an end to Labor's longstanding requirement on prospective members that they be members of a relevant union.

''I believe it should no longer be compulsory for prospective members of the Labor Party to join a union, and I have instructed our national secretary to have this requirement removed from Labor Party rules,'' his speech notes say.

He also has flagged ain November. John and I mostly just cleaned the house and John BBq'ed. The rest was put together by Heather's sister in law April. She is great and throws an awesome party! She is also pregnant! Yay! Here is a cute picture of Lina, Julie and Anna (Lina's cousin who's mom is expecting twin boys!). Aren't they adorable! Here is April and I with Heather. Love these girls!

Tonight we celebrated Uncle Monsters birthday! Julie could not wait for him to get here so they could watch the video to "Octopus's Garden" Andy enjoyed it as well.

A couple weeks ago Julie asked if she could blow out his birthday candles. Of course he said yes and she has been talking about it ever since. He kept his word and


He said that it was meant to be understood in a "spiritual" way. Yet he never made any attempt (that I am aware of anyway) to clarify that to the press, media, his followers, etc.-anyone he knew who were reporting on his prophecy. His followers clearly thought it would be a physical rapture. He talks about it as if prophesying the end of the world is a small matter. And now he's shameless?YL CR LP HL. Analyzed the data: SY QP QZ CR IKT CHY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH. Wrote the paper: SY QP IKT CHY.

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37 Million Bees Found Dead After GMO Fields Were Planted Nearby

Around 37 million bees at a farm in Canada have died after GMO corn was planted in the nearby area, according to a local beekeeper.

Dave Schuit, a beekeeper who produces honey in Elmwood, Canada, claims that since GMO corn was planted in the nearby area, his farm has lost around 37 million bees (approximately 600 hives). According to reports, Schuit and other local beekeepers believe neonicotinoids, or “neonics” are to blame for the influx of bee deaths.

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“Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said.

In Europe, the use of neonicotinoid class of pesticides has been reomoved from the market because they contaminate pollen and nectar, which ultimately damages andParticular fuel injection systems employ an air-assist system to encourage atomization of fuel that is metered out of a fuel injector into the air intake stream within an air induction device. In order to employ an air-assist system, the fuel injector needs to form operative seals with a plurality of structural members. In particular, the fuel injector needs to form at least one fuel seal and at least one atmosphere seal. The fuel seal being located between the fuel rail and the fuel injector. The atmosphere seal being located between the sub-atmospheric air in an air-assist passage of the air-assist system and the atmosphere air external to the air induction device.
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is sponsored by city recreational departments and agencies. Generally school sponsored programs have qualified coaches and dedicated facilities for their sports but that is not always the case.  Requirements for coaches for school sponsored programs vary from state to state, but the standard for the head coach of a major sport is usually a teaching certificate, with some coaching experience and training.  Non-school youth sports programs operate in a different way and use volunteers as coaches.  They have to find places to practice such as open gyms.  Youths in these programs are assigned or drafted to different teams depending on the program.

The Sport for Development and Peace organization was found in research by Simon Darnell to have positive outcomes on the twelve-year-old boys participatingDays after the amazing rescue of Maui hiker Amanda Eller, a second hiker who had gone missing on the island met a sadder fate.

Noah "Kekai" Mina, 35, was found dead by a helicopter early Wednesday at the bottom of a 300-foot fall line near the summit of Mauna Kahalawai, according to search-and-rescue teams from the West Maui watershed and Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife.

Mina's body was spotted by Windward Aviation, the same helicopter company hired to find Eller. Though many of same rescuers were involved, the two cases were unrelated and Mina had gone missing on the western side of the Island, while Eller went missing on the eastern side.

"The family would like to thank the community for their prayers and support and ask for privacy at


hearts with others you love, and hug a little longer your sons and daughters tonight and beyond."

Vincent Mina previously told Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV that his son had recently attempted suicide.

Mina had last been seen on May 20.

"We descended the fall line in the helicopter and about 300 feet down -- the sun was perfectly lighting the area -- and there was a second when the rotor wash blew open [brush] that was camouflaging his body and the light reflected from his skin; we were able to confirm it was Kekai," said Keahi Bustamente, from the Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, who was in the helicopter that located Mina's body.

Officials will conduct an autopsy to determine how Mina died.

Eller, whoTEHRAN, October 5 - A senior Iranian lawmaker stressed the county’s unwavering policy on the Syrian crisis, noting that the Islamic Republic would continue backing Damascus until its final victory over foreign-backed terrorist groups.

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi at a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem in Damascus welcomed recent gains of the Syrian army and allied forces against terrorists in the Syria.

“Iran will continue to support Syria in fighting terrorism and its supporters until the realization of victory and restoration of peace and stability to this country, which is imminent, is celebrated, which is in the offing,” he stressed.

Boroujerdi then emphasized the necessity of widening bilateral parliamentary ties between Iran and Syria.

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al-Muallem, for his part, lauded Iran’s continued support for his country and said Damascus will keep battle against terrorism until all areas in Syria are liberated.

Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with various terrorist groups, including Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL), currently controlling parts of it.

According to a report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict has claimed the lives of over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the country’s pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond its borders.

In the meantime, Iran has remained a close ally of Syria and supports its legitimate government in the face of foreign-backed militancy.This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. This review describes the use of low-energy collisionally activated dissociation (CAD) with both tandem quadrupole and ion-trap mass spectrometry toward structural characterization of glycerophospholipids (GPLs), including classes of glycerophosphocholine, glycerophosphoethanolamine, glycerophosphoserine, glycerophosphoglycerol glycerophosphoinositol and glycerophosphatidic acid, as well as their lyso-, plasmanyl-, and plasmenylphospholipid subclasses.


common for games released in Asia but not in the West to include English subtitles, such as the Asian release of Summer Lesson.

This is a possible indication that the English version of Persona 5 Royal will be released close to the Asian versions in February 20, 2020. Other indications include the recent Australian rating for the game, and that both the West and Asia localizations were announced together.

Persona 5 Royal was announced for a Spring 2020 release in the West in August. Atlus will hold an announcement for the English release of Persona 5 Royal tomorrow, on December 3, 2019.

Persona 5 Royal was released on The PS4 in Japan on October 31, 2019. It will be released in the West in Spring 2020, with a Traditional Chinese andEVER since Donald Trump’s election, he has had in his sights the “worst deal ever”—the one reached in 2015 that sought to circumscribe Iran’s nuclear ambitions. For a while the threat to the survival of the agreement looked more rhetorical than real. No longer. On January 12th the president signed the waiver that prevents the reimposition of nuclear-related sanctions on Iran for a further 120 days. But, against the advice of his national-security team at the time, he warned that this would be the last such waiver unless the European parties to the deal—Britain, France and Germany—worked with America to fix what he regards as the fatal flaws in the agreement.

The prospects for the deal became even bleaker on March 13th, when Mr Trump announced the sacking of


Rex Tillerson. His replacement as secretary of state is Mike Pompeo, a fierce critic of the agreement, known more formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The replacement of H.R. McMaster as national security adviser nine days later by John Bolton almost certainly sounded its death knell. Mr Bolton was an abrasive American ambassador to the UN under George W. Bush. Despite a stint as under-secretary for arms control and international security in the same administration, Mr Bolton appears never to have seen an arms-control agreement he liked.

Unlike other self-declared haters of the Iran deal, Mr Bolton does at least have an answer to the question “what next?” if it is jettisoned. A few months before the deal was signed in July 2015, Mr Bolton boomed:path to developing nuclear weapons and thus starting not just the war that Mr Bolton has long thirsted for, but also a helter-skelter of proliferation in a volatile region close to Europe.

Working with a joint team from the State Department and the National Security Council, the E3 have been desperately trying to find a way for Mr Trump to claim enough of a win on May 12th to sign the sanctions waiver again. European diplomats had thought that they were making some progress on two crucial issues—ballistic missiles and inspections.

Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi of RUSI, a London-based think-tank, believes that, like the Americans, the E3 could impose sanctions related to Iranian ballistic-missile tests without violating the Iran deal. Sir Simon Gass, a former British ambassador to Tehran who led


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Members of the Boise City Council are (back, L-R) council members TJ Thomson, Ben Quintana, Lauren McLean, Scot Ludwig (front, L-R) Council Pro Tem Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter and Council President Maryanne Jordan.

The Mayor works full-time, managing the day-to-day operations of the City and providing leadership and policy direction to the City Council. The Mayor chairs all meetings of the City Council, voting only in the case of a tie. The six members of the City Council work part-time, holding budget and policy-setting authority for the city. The Mayor and City Council members are elected at large by popular vote. City Council members are elected to a specific Council seat, but the seats are not determined geographically. City elections are held in oddnumber years (e.g. 2007, 2009, 2011).

About the Mayor

David H. Bieter was elected Mayor of Boise in 2003 on the promise of making it the most livable city in the country. With his re-election in 2007 and again in 2011, Bieter continues to deliver on that pledge with new neighborhood libraries and parks, a strong economic development program and a commitment to environmental protection and sustainability.

Born and raised in Boise, Bieter is a graduate of Bishop Kelly High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in International Studies at The College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., before completing his Juris Doctorate at University of Idaho College of Law. He gained expertise in municipal issues as civil counsel to Bonner County in Sandpoint, as civil prosecutor and land-use specialist


in the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office, and later as a private attorney. He was chosen to assume his father’s seat in the Idaho House of Representatives after both of his parents, Pat and Eloise Bieter, were killed in an automobile accident in 1999. Voters elected him to full terms in the House in 2000 and again in 2002.

As mayor, Bieter created the first municipal ethics commission in Idaho. He succeeded in funding three new neighborhood libraries with no tax increase and oversaw the addition of hundreds of acres of parkland and Foothills open space. Bieter led the county-wideBlueprint for Good Growth and was the first mayor in Idaho to sign the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, committing Boise to reduce greenhouse emissions.

In the fall of 2014, the MayorBieter led a successful voter campaign for a $17 million public safety bond proposal to build a new firefighter training facility and upgrade or replace four aging fire stations. The proposal was overwhelmingly approved with 76 percent of the vote, ensuring firefighters have the right tools in the right places to keep Boise safe and making it the first City of Boise bond issue to gain approval more than 50 years. With bond proceeds paying for essential public safety facilities, other capital investment resources were freed up allowing the Mayor and City Council to approve a series of other resident-focused projects, including a new branch library at Bown Crossing.

Bieter is fluent in Basque and Spanish, and has been involved extensively in Boise’s Basque community. In 2005, Basque President


Juan Jose Ibarretxe presented Bieter with the Sabino Arana “Basques Throughout the World” Award for his work on behalf of Basque peace and self-determination.

Bieter has been married to his wife, Julia, since 1998. They have a daughter, Josie, born in 2005.People who bought this also bought...

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The Category 5 storm, one of the most powerful ever recorded in the Atlantic, isn't expected to reach Florida until early Sunday. By then, the storm may shift course. Late Wednesday, forecasters said her track was beginning to shift east. That happened with Hurricane Charley in 2004 and Hurricane Georges in 1998, with both storms changing directions and sparing the Tampa Bay area.

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"I'm


definitely getting out of Florida," Dotson said. "I'm probably getting out of here first thing in the morning."

For cornerback Robert McClain and new safety T.J. Ward, preparing for hurricanes is completely foreign. Same with rookie wide receiver Chris Godwin.

Godwin experienced snow days growing up in Middleton, Delaware, but not hurricanes. Neither has his girlfriend, who is also from Middleton. The two will head to South Carolina this week to stay with her grandparents.

"She's definitely nervous. We're just both not familiar with this," Godwin said, adding that had the game been moved to a neutral site rather than being postponed, he would have had a very difficult time focusing on football, worrying if his girlfriend were OK.

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Female Football continues to grow at a rapid rate, meaning accessing a single gender team locally is easier than ever. The participation pathway provides opportunities to players of all skill levels

Unlike boys, girls are less likely to have progressed from AFL Auskick and junior football through to youth girls. At Womens League level, clubs are still attracting new players who have never played the game before.

If your club wants to set up a new female team go to the AFL Female Club Guide for tips on how to best do this.Editor's note: Arthur Milnes, an award-winning Canadian journalist, is the Inaugural Fellow in Political History at Queen's University Archives in Kingston, Canada and the editor of "Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: A Canadian Tribute" (2011 McGill-Queen's University Press and the Queen's School of Policy Studies ). He can be reached at arthur.milnes@sympatico.ca

Kingston, Ontario, Canada (CNN) -- Though Georgia is a continent and an ocean away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, we can be confident that an 86-year-old man in that state knows full well the fears the Japanese cleanup crews are experiencing.

The Georgian's name? James Earl Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Almost 60 years ago, and then a young U.S. Naval officer working at the dawn of the nuclear age with the U.S. atomic submarine


program, Carter was physically lowered into a damaged nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, and exposed to levels of radiation unthinkable today after an accident.

"We were fairly well instructed then on what nuclear power was, but for about six months after that I had radioactivity in my urine," President Carter, now 86, told me during an interview for my new book in Plains in 2008. "They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now. It was in the early stages and they didn't know."

Despite the fears he had to overcome, Carter admits he was animated at the opportunity to put his top-secret training to use in the cleanup of the reactor, located along the Ottawa River northwest of Ottawa.

"It was a veryexciting time for me when the Chalk River plant melted down," he continued in the same interview. "I was one of the few people in the world who had clearance to go into a nuclear power plant," he said.

"There were 23 of us and I was in charge. I took my crew up there on the train."

On December 12, 1952, the NRX research reactor at Chalk River Laboratories suffered a partial meltdown. There was a power surge and as a result some fuel rods melted after rupturing. Millions of liters of radioactive water ended up in the reactor building's basement. The crucial reactor's core was left unusable. It was later rebuilt and worked for decades before its retirement in the early 1990s.

At the time, Carter was based in