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Category:2003 albumsEx-UK envoy calls White House wiretap claims 'gratuitously damaging'

The former British envoy to Washington, Sir Peter Westmacott, has released a curse critique of Donald Trump and his middle circle, accusing them of creation absurd, inconceivable and foolish claims about a UK’s impasse in alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower that he warns could repairs tighten ties between a dual countries.

Writing in a Guardian, Westmacott accuses a White House of not usually “peddling falsehoods” that a British comprehension group GCHQ assisted afterwards boss Barack Obama in drumming Trump’s New York phones, though of potentially harming comprehension team-work opposite a Atlantic.

His comments come as a Republican chair of a House of Representatives comprehension cabinet has pronounced he has seen no justification to behind Trump’s claims, and as a Republican member of


State.

In his Guardian column, Westmacott exhorts Johnson to seize a impulse and make British exasperation known. “He needs to make really transparent that this is not a game,” a former envoy writes.

The British quarrel erupted final Thursday when a White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, cited an unsubstantiated news by Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano that claimed Obama had used GCHQ to view on Trump. Fox News after dissociated itself from a allegations, observant there was no justification for them.

In a rarely surprising open involvement from GCHQ, a view agency’s orator called a claims “utterly ridiculous”.

Westmacott, who served as British envoy to Turkey and France before relocating to a US between 2012 and Jan 2016, underlines a clarity of startle in a UK during a wiretapping claims.

“Anyone with
284 U.S. 1 (1931)
UNITED STATES
v.
KIRBY LUMBER CO.
No. 26.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued October 21, 1931.
Decided November 2, 1931.
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CLAIMS.
Assistant Attorney General Rugg, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. Fred K. Dyar, Bradley B. Gilman, Erwin N. Griswold, Paul D. Miller, Clarence M. Charest, and T.H. Lewis, Jr., were on the brief, for the United States.
Mr. Robert Ash for respondent.
*2 MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.
In July, 1923, the plaintiff, the Kirby Lumber Company, issued its own bonds for $12,126,800 for which it received their par value. Later in the same year it purchased in the open market some of the same bonds at less than par, the difference of price being $137,521.30. The question is whether this difference is a


rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday: 'A new post-debate poll that just came out, the Google poll, has us leading Hillary Clinton by two points nationwide.

'And that's despite the fact that Google search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton. How about that.'

'The Google poll' was a reference to a Independent Journal Review poll that Google Consumer Surveys had conducted, according to The Verge.

The website said that 'Google Consumer Surveys is a poll service of debatable quality'.

In June, SourceFed posted a video on YouTube titled Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? which has been viewed more than 1million times.

In the video, SourceFed says it 'has discovered that Google has been actively altering search recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton's campaign'.

The Hollywood actor and the Republican presidential candidateWhen I was a junior in college, a friend was teaching us a song in Sunday School one day. I started singing along. He was very interested in finding out how I knew that song. I could only remember learning it in the back of the bus on the way back from a service project I was doing in 7th grade at a youth conference. I was with 2 or 3 friends and some guys taught us that song.

Well, it turned out that my college friend was the one who wrote the song when he was in junior high. It also turned out that he was one of the guys who was on that bus and taught us the song.

I lived in PA in 7th grade. He lived


don't tell it as well as my mom does, but the Germany thing reminded me When my mom was in high school, her family (my grandparents, mom, and uncle who was ~8 at the time) went to Europe for - I don't know what you call it, but it's when a pastor swaps churches with another pastor for a month or more. Anyway, as part of this, they did some touring around, including East Germany. Mom remembers it as being one of the scarier aspects of the trip, because of the intense security involved in getting into the country.

I should mention that my uncle has always been a huge nerd since before being a nerd was cool, and he looks (and has always looked) it. At the time,he had giant glasses, buck teeth, and wispy white-blond hair that stuck up in all directions - about as stereotypically dorky as you could get at the time

So they get to the wall and they hand over their passports and exchange some very, very limited German with the guards (who didn't speak English). And the guard is staring intently at the passport, scowling at mom, staring at her passport, scowling at her again, etc. Same with my grandparents. And then he gets to my uncle's picture - giant glasses, buck teeth, anti-gravity hair. And he looks at my uncle - dorky glasses, buck teeth, and crazy hair - and absolutely loses it. He calls all the other guards over, and they're all looking back and forth from the


same town. Sproglet is 18 months old, too young to go along. BF's car breaks down in a small town not quite an hour from the state border. Due to both towns' relative growth, the city they broke down in now is probably about the exact same size as the town we broke down in decades ago was.

Good news, it's a minor issue with his car, they've made appointments at a dealership in BigCity for when they get there and were only really put back a few hours. Everyone is fine. But it's kind of weird that this is on its way to family tradition...

I was sitting in the zocalo in the center of Guanajuato, Mexico, enjoying a coffee, when the plaza was suddenly invaded by about 2dozen guys wearing traditional central Mexican dress, each leading a donkey wildly decked out in garlands of bright fake flowers and draped with colorful tapestries. They paraded around the plaza for a bit, then went off down the main street, presumably to the next plaza to do it again. I had no idea what was going on, and when I asked a local woman, all she said was, "It's a burro parade!" Yes, yes it was.

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If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, librarians are a global threat.

Not as cool as some of your stories, but the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me on holiday was in Russia. It was a school trip, and we (a group of about 30 thirteen/fourteen year olds) went to this "cultural"


were here for six weeks and we had to find entertainment for them on the weekends. I lived in West Virginia and offered to set up a tour of the Harper's Ferry historical site. They had an interpreter and the park ranger did a marvelous tour.

After the tour, I took them to the gift shops and one of them asked me to explain "abolishonist movement" to them. Their interpreter didn't know the history. As I launch into a simple American history lesson one of the gentleman cried out "Like Gone with the Wind!". Yes, I agreed (I figured it was a good frame of reference). His next sentence was...

"Scarlet O'Hara is not a good choice for a wife. She would make a better mistress."

DH (who was fiance atthe time) and I took my mother on a bus trip to Atlantic City. Mom ended up seated next to an elderly man named Steve.

Steve would.not.stop.talking. Throughout the entire 2 hour bus ride he told Mom his life story, wrote down his address and phone number and gave it to her. Gave her his daughter's address and phone number in Florida and his son's in California. He asked to be invited to our wedding. He told Mom "My wife loves when I go on these trips". Gee, I wonder why?

On the trip home, Mom thought he might sleep. Nope. Kept on talking. When she fell asleep he nudged her awake. We had to change buses after an hour so one bus could go to our stop without waiting


for the passengers to get off at a later stop. I think Mom wanted to hug the new bus driver.

I kept thinking: One day this man is going to give his personal information to the wrong person.

When I was still working in Washington DC we had some of our counterparts from South Korea travel over for training. They were here for six weeks and we had to find entertainment for them on the weekends. I lived in West Virginia and offered to set up a tour of the Harper's Ferry historical site. They had an interpreter and the park ranger did a marvelous tour.

After the tour, I took them to the gift shops and one of them asked me to explain "abolishonist movement" to them. Their interpreter didn'tday lost on which we have not danced at least once.

1973, London. I was 11. London at the time was a very interesting place for an Australian country-town pre-teen.

One day, the whole family stopped at a burger place somewhere in London - I think it was a Wimpy Burgers? Anyway, I'd finished, and the younger siblings were still eating, so I went outside for a walk up the street.

Near the restaurant was a men's wear shop. There was a crowd of men around the front window, so I got curious, and worked my way through the crowd. In the window was a very attractive young lady, wearing a pair of men's shorts and go-go boots - and nothing else. She was dancing away happily in the window.

I wonder


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Review by Andy Martin for The Savoy by Magikraft Studios, Eric Lewis

Review by Andy Martin for The Savoy by Magikraft Studios, Eric Lewis

5 out of 5

I’ve been trying to track one of these bad boys down for a while. This is Eric Lewis’ wonderful Savoy from his book A Continuation of Miracles, built by his son Martin Lewis at Magikraft Studios in 1993. Martin has made a few improvements to the original design, and the finished product works flawlessly and is a real beauty. What most impressed me when I finally saw this up close was how small the unit was and how much better it is than the Mikame version (which, like many items built by Mikame Craft, was not credited to Eric).

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MartinsMagic.com is aTimothy B. Lee covers technology policy, including copyright and patent law, telecom regulation, privacy, and free speech. He also writes about the economics of technology. He has previously written for Ars Technica and Forbes. You can follow him on Twitter or send him email.

Brian Fung covers technology for The Washington Post, focusing on electronic privacy, national security, digital politics and the Internet that binds it all together. He was previously the technology correspondent for National Journal and an associate editor at the Atlantic. His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, Talking Points Memo, the American Prospect and Nonprofit Quarterly. Follow Brian on Google+ .

Andrea Peterson covers technology policy for The Washington Post, with an emphasis on cybersecurity, consumer privacy, transparency, surveillance and open government. She also delves


in the university’s libraries voted 67-13, with 13 challenged ballots, to unionize with Teamsters Local 743. They’re the first-ever undergrad student worker group in the U.S. to go union. The university may challenge that vote, the Chicago Tribune reported then.

“Graduate employees work with students every day. They understand what their students need better than most. With a union, they will have the voice they need to push for improvements to the classes they teach and the research they conduct,” Graduate Students United said in a statement. In its organizing drive, the 10-year-old GSU has emphasized health care coverage, better stipends to match the city’s cost of living and a regular pay schedule. It hopes to open talks with the university administration soon.

“Our overwhelming victory is a testament toin the name of certain of Larsen's employees (secretaries and a law clerk).

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After receiving the Order to Show Cause, Humphreys and his attorney each filed a response to the Order.  Humphreys' primary defense was that, by prescribing the medication in the names of Larsen's close professional associates, he was merely attempting to protect Larsen's privacy and doing so in a manner common and acceptable in standard medical practice for famous patients with mental conditions.

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On January 23, 1996, the Deputy Administrator entered his Final Order.  The Deputy Administrator acknowledged that he could revoke Humphreys' registration only if continued registration would be inconsistent with the public interest pursuant to the five factors set forth in 21 U.S.C. § 823(f).  The Deputy Administrator considered, discussed and relied upon


Lessons learned for pediatric disaster preparedness from September 11, 2001: New York City trauma centers.
The assault on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has mandated that there be improved disaster preparedness for both children and adults in the immediate future. Fortunately, the events of September 11, 2001, spared 3,400 near miss children from substantial harm; however, NYC was not well prepared to handle significant numbers of pediatric patients had they been severely injured. Furthermore, there have been several medical sequelae of the attacks that have manifest long after the immediate postevent period. Both respiratory illness and mental health issues have been suffered by children because of the environmental toxins and the trauma of witnessing the event, respectively. The pediatric practitioners in the area did not feelOff the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

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The last time I discussed MediaGoblin, the decentralized media-sharer, the software was minimally functional. Eighteen months later, the project is approaching general release, and a third of the way through a second round of crowdfunding intended to help it add privacy and anti-surveillance features.

What hasn't changed in those eighteen months is MediaGoblin's joint emphasis on coding and philosophy. Led by Deb Nicholson and Chris Webber, two veteran free software advocates, MediaGoblin is not simply planning a one-stop site for sharing different media formats, but also promoting de-centralization of the Internet through what it calls federation -- a collection of coordinated but independent sites instead of the single centralized site typical of most social media.

The idealistic and the practical

This combination of interests makes


the opposing strands by from 90 to 400 nucleotides, the third and fourth primers having the characteristics defined above, and
c) at least one additional PCR reagent.
Still further, this invention provides a method for the amplification and detection of human cytomegaloviral DNA and a second target DNA comprising:
A) simultaneously subjecting the denatured opposing strands of hCMV DNA and the denatured opposing strands of a second target DNA to polymerase chain reaction in the presence of:
i) the aqueous composition described above, and
ii) the additional PCR reagents: a thermostable DNA polymerase, a DNA polymerase cofactor and at least one dNTP, any or all of the additional PCR reagents being in the same or a different composition as defined in i),
to simultaneously amplify the opposing hCMV DNA strands and the opposing secondhis work." "Did you find anything else on the body?" "A melted cell phone belt clip, but there was no cell phone." "Yeah, it wasn't at the crime scene, either." "And that's his wallet." "Some credit cards, driver's license." "That's all melted." "Girlfriend?" "Wife?" "Burns is listed as divorced, no next of kin." "He was a war correspondent, an investigative reporter." "What was he doing in a pizza oven?" "Well, maybe his editor knows." "We were friends." "When I became editor of the paper, he was my first hire." "The kinds of stories he wrote, he must've stepped on his fair share of toes." "Not for years." "He'd been out of the game for a while." "Why's that?" "His kid was killed in an accident." "She was 10."


"That was a date." "But he didn't show." "You said you hadn't seen him in years." "How did you end up on a date?" "We bumped into each other on the street the other day." "It was weird, because it was in the Village and I never go down there." "And he said he doesn't go down there either, but he was working on a story." "Did he tell you what it was about?" "No." "How did he seem?" "Worried?" "Distressed?" "He seemed like himself." "Like his old self, like he was onto something." "He'd just come from the Hall of Records, and whatever he found he was really excited about." "The Hall of Records?" "Yeah." "Ms. Wyatt, do the names Johnny Farrell or Swede Andersen mean anythingCongress the next day to present allegations that then-President Cristina Fernandez orchestrated a secret deal to cover up Iranian officials' alleged role in the attack. Fernandez denied it and judges later threw out the case.

A year and a half after Nisman's death, authorities have yet to determine whether he took his own life or was killed by someone else.

Conspiracy theories swirl around the case. Some people believe Nisman killed himself because he felt his claims against Fernandez lacked proof. Others say he was slain because he was a threat to the Argentine and Iranian governments.


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This is an early work by Bergman. It's not as powerful as his late masterpieces but it's, nevertheless, a great film.

I've ripped it from the Eclipse DVD myself, with the English subtitles, translated the PtBr subs, and grab the French and Spanish from opensubs and resynchronized them.

Hope you enjoy!

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Several stories by Birgit Tengroth intertwine. In 1946, nervous ballet dancer Rut and her husband Bertil are returning to Sweden from his scholarship tour around Italy. In a Basle hotel room and on a train they quarrel, give food through the window to starving Germans, overhear wisdoms about marriage by Swedish clergymen returning from a conference, and finally make up. In flashbacks, Rut reminisces her romance with middle-aged officer Raoul, her subsequent abortion, and herEmily Kimbrough

Emily Kimbrough (1899–1989) was an American author and journalist.

Biography
Emily Kimbrough was born in Muncie, Indiana on October 23, 1899 and died February 10, 1989 at her home in Manhattan. In 1921 she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and went on a trip to Europe with her friend Cornelia Otis Skinner. The two friends co-authored the memoir Our Hearts Were Young and Gay based on their European adventures. The success of the book as a New York Times best seller led to Kimbrough and Skinner going to Hollywood to work on a script for the movie version. Kimbrough wrote about the experience in We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood.

Kimbrough's journalistic career included an editor post at Fashions of the Hour, managing editorship at the Ladies Home Journal and


was, what a stupid position I'd put myself in, all in the name of misplaced machismo, romantic notions of worldliness, and getting my teeth fixed. Out there in the field with a beat up Hemingway novel, who was I fucking fooling? I was a poor kid, I grew up in a cabin in the mountains, I had no insurance. Most of the guys I served with came from similar backgrounds.

Pitchfork: Are you still in graduate school now?

MW: I'm no longer in graduate school. I have my degree in English and was almost done with an MFA in Creative Writing when I became a student of the great Scottish author James Kelman. He's been called the Scottish Kafka or Beckett, and I'd hold him in just as high regard.that I should have to scream over a distorted guitar about living together in equality.

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Extra: Defunct Oakland crust quintet Stormcrow's 2005 full-length debut Enslaved in Darkness was recently reissued by Selfmadegod, and it still feels highly relevent. (They put out great splits between 2006 and 2010, but at their time of their breakup, this was the only LP.) In the spirit of California extremes, and folks associated with Exhumed, here it is in full:

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Seattle Police are investigating a mugging at 23rd and Union Wednesday night that reportedly netted a group of three thieves thousands in cash.

Officers were called to the southeast corner of the intersection at the Midtown Center shopping center around 9:15 PM to a report that a group of three males was seen pushing another person to the ground before fleeing in a vehicle last seen headed south.

Police found a man who appeared to have suffered a serious knock to the back of his head and who told police he had just been mugged of $4,600 in cash, according to East Precinct radio dispatches.

Police were searching for a vehicle described as a tan or beige four-door sedan and the three suspects. Police did not have specific descriptions of theAdulation or Adulteration? Representing Chemical Dyes in the Victorian Media.
This essay describes how the Victorian media reported on the transformation of coal tar into a synthetic palette of colours in the form of aniline and azo dyes. These dyes were the first of many new chemical substances including drugs, perfumes, and flavourings, which chemists began to synthesise and produce on an industrial scale from a waste product of the coal gas industry. Although intended for use in the textile industry, the new dyes soon began to be added to food, becoming one of the first examples of laboratory-created, industrially manufactured chemicals to permeate our daily life in unexpected ways. The essay describes how the initial media portrayal of the dyes as wonders of science became more nuanced as


How to Write a Short Report on Job Shadowing

Kristine Tucker

Some high schools and colleges offer job shadowing opportunities for students to learn about specific careers and observe professionals in their workplace environments. Job shadowing typically lasts from one day to one week, and teachers often require a short summary report following the experience. The report should include details about the person you shadowed, education and skills needed for the job, your daily schedule and personal observations.

Who, When and Where You Shadowed

Start your report with a brief explanation of who, when and where you job shadowed. Include the dates, the person's name and title, details about the job site and the total number of hours you spent observing. Explain the person's role in the company, such as her goalsTaken from the section Wales politics BBC News Damp, mould and condensation has been caused in Welsh social housing by inappropriate cavity wall insulation, a report has found. More than 280 homes have had insulation removed in Rhondda Cynon Taff alone, while 900 properties require remedial action in Neath Port Talbot. The problems have been revealed in a draft report for the Welsh government, seen by BBC Wales.

The Welsh government said it could not comment.

The report, by the Building Research Establishment (BRE), was commissioned by the Wales Low and Zero Carbon Hub, which advises the Welsh government. It was obtained under a Freedom of Information request by campaign group Cavity Insulation Victims Alliance.

Cavity wall insulation Campaigners believe more needs to be done to help those affected

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New Gun Laws in Illinois & the Effects on Domestic Violence Households

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New Gun Laws in Illinois & the Effects on Domestic Violence Households

By
Roscich & Martell Law Firm, LLC
|March 28, 2014

Illinois is about to see a
significant shift in its day-to-day life. Starting soon, the first 5,000 licenses to carry
a concealed weapon will arrive at residences. Reported by
The Chicago Tribune, the new law allows Illinois residents to apply for a license to carry
a concealed weapon out in public. The law, however, does not provide for
a right to shoot that weapon, except in situations where imminent danger
to yourself or others is present.

And though this new concealed weapon law is controversial in its own right,
it becomes even more so in the context of domestic violence, where a gun
may be used against aarrested, but has never been convicted.

The way the law is currently written, a person may be arrested up to five
times within a seven-year-period for any offense before his or her application
for a license to carry a concealed weapon is denied. Many times, in domestic
violence cases, the perpetrator does not necessarily need multiple violent
incidents before inflicting serious or fatal harm to his or her spouse.
A report by the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network cited
a study showing that the threat of homicide increases by up to 500 percent
when firearms are present in a domestic violence home.

Law Enforcement Officials' Revision of Applications in Illinois

As it stands, it is up to law enforcement officials to review all applications
for a permit to carry a concealed weapon in public. Though there are many
objective qualifications


The Council has added one person and 21 entities to the list of those subject to restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), transposing into EU law sanctions imposed on 30 March 2018 by the UN Security Council (UNSC) Committee established by UNSC resolution 1718 (2006). These restrictive measures consists of a travel ban and an asset freeze for individuals and an asset freeze for entities. It has also transposed the asset freeze targeting 15 vessels, the port entry ban on 25 vessels and the de-flagging of 12 vessels.

The sanctions were imposed on the DPRK in response to its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile development activities, which are in breach of numerous UNSC resolutions.

The decision brings the total number of persons and entities subject torestrictive measures against the DPRK to 80 persons and 75 entities as listed by the UN. In addition, 55 persons and 9 entities have been sanctioned by the EU autonomously.

EU foreign ministers discussed the situation in the Korean peninsula with the South Korean Foreign Minister, Kang Kyung-wha, on 19 March 2018, in light of the recent announcements made by the DPRK's leadership and looking ahead to the summit between Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in scheduled for April and the announced meeting between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. They welcomed South Korea's efforts to de-escalate tensions in the peninsula and improve intra-Korean relations, and to create the conditions needed to work towards a diplomatic solution aimed at the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of


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two major party candidates to elect Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the state's first independent governor, after Democrat FrankCaprio lashed out at President Obama for not endorsing him. The race swung Chafee's way when Caprio said Obama could "shove

ad for the Democrats seeking his old senate seat what does the White House make Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate FrankCaprio has remarked that the president could chabot. Spokesman Robert Gibbs I was. It's His words don't in any meet the

gubernatorial contests and has the soft spot. For the independent candidate in the race. Democrat gubernatorial candidate FrankCaprio did not seem to care for the news. Across the show. He could take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I'm

politically in Rhode Island today, where President Obama has declinedhas been a Democrat. Most polls show a neck-and-neck race between Democrat FrankCaprio and Chafee, considered to be the most liberal candidate on the ballot. What Chafee has going for him is a strong base

for the current Republican governor, got his party's nomination. He'll face off against the State Treasurer, FrankCaprio , in November. But also on the ballot will be former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chaffee, now an Independent. Chaffee

moderator Tim White and the prime target of attack. "He wants to raise taxes and I want to cut spending," Democrat FrankCaprio , the state treasurer and Chafee's leading competitor, said after the debate when asked about his strategy. "That's

from running again. Democrats running to succeed Carcieri include Attorney General Patrick Lynch and General Treasurer FrankCaprio . Republicans are


Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has qualified for the second Democratic primary debate in July, after failing to qualify for the first debate in June because he did not meet the polling and donation requirements set by the Democratic National Committee.

Bullock received 1% in a CBS News Battleground Tracker poll released on Sunday, which the DNC has confirmed meets the qualification threshold.

"As the only candidate who has won a Trump state, we are excited that Governor Steve Bullock's important voice will be on the stage for the second debate," campaign manager Jenn Ridder said in a statement.

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To qualify for the first and second debates in June and July, the DNC required that a candidate obtain 1% or more in three polls that metthe DNC's standards, or raise funds from 65,000 donors from 20 states. Bullock's campaign argued that he had obtained 1% in three polls, but the DNC determined that one of those polls was not specific enough.

Bullock will be holding town halls on the nights of the first debate, June 26 and 27. Because there are 20 candidates who qualified for the debates, the field has been split into two groups of ten that will debate on each night.

On Wednesday June 26, the night of the first debate, Bullock will appear at a town hall in Iowa broadcast on WHO-DT, a Des Moines NBC affiliate. On June 27, the night of the second debate, he will be holding a town hall in New Hampshire broadcast on Manchester's WMUR, an


kingdom should thrill all who believe in him as men have not been stirred since the days when they walked about on earth as his companions in the flesh.

The many religions of Urantia are all good to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionists to conceive of their creed as The Truth; such attitudes bespeak more of theological arrogance than of certainty of faith. There is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth. Religionists would do better to borrow the best in their neighbors' living spiritual faith rather than to denounceworld

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French authorities have called off their hunt for the wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after air and sea searches for more than one week off its Reunion island in Indian Ocean yielded no results, media reported on Tuesday.

However, the island's top authority has said its search teams would maintain "vigilance".

A wing component (flaperon), washed up on the island on July 29, was confirmed by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to be part of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 aircraft which went missing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people onboard.

The finding raised hopes of finally solving the mystery of what happened to the plane, prompting investigators to search a maritime surface of 10,000 sq km and scour the island's eastern coastline.

But


before teeing off. He was apologetic for forcing the military couple to change venues on short notice and according to Jamie McCarthy, sister of the groom, he phoned the newlyweds to congratulate them on their marriage:

“He apologized and congratulated them. (It was a) wonderful talk. We were all there, it was perfect. Made their day.”

McCarthy said the venue change was stressful for the newlyweds. Still, the couple uploaded several photos of the wedding to Instagram with the hashtag #ThanksObama:

#MallueWedding #ThanksObama14 A photo posted by Paige Walker (@pagoodes89) on Dec 12, 2014 at 4:32am PST

A South Shore man was charged with phoning in a bogus bomb threat and falsely reporting that officers had been shot in a series of 911 calls he allegedly made for his own enjoyment.

Terreance M. King Jr., 22, faces a felony count of disorderly conduct, according to Cook County court and Chicago police records.

During King’s initial court hearing Sunday, prosecutors said he used his own cellphone to call in 10 sham reports to Chicago’s emergency dispatch center.

During most of the calls, in which King allegedly used the aliases “Antoine” and “Whodie” to identify himself, he falsely claimed that officers had been wounded in shootings near his apartment, prosecutors said. Another time, he allegedly called in the bomb threat.

About 11:40 p.m. Friday, King was arrested on the street in


the 7000 block of South Clyde Avenue when officers learned he was wanted for making the phony police reports, police said.

After allegedly admitting to making the calls, King said he routed officers to addresses near his home because he enjoyed watching emergency crews respond to the reports, prosecutors said.

On Sunday, prosecutors noted that King was convicted of aggravated sexual assault in 2011, when he was still a juvenile.

An assistant public defender assigned to King told Judge John F. Lyke Jr. that he has since graduated from high school and is now enrolled in Job Corps, the federally-funded program that offers free job training and educational opportunities to men and women in their teens and early-20s. The public defender then claimed that King had no cash to post bail.

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Former U.S. President George W. Bush recently dedicated his Presidential Library in Dallas. The ceremony included speeches by President Obama, ex-President Bush, and every other living ex-president. But none of the speeches so much as mentioned to Iraq war — the undertaking that dominated George W. Bush’s presidency, and will define his historic legacy.
This omission might be due, at least in part, to the fact that Mr. Bush is now a convicted war criminal who dares not travel abroad out of fear of being arrested.
In February 2011, Bush was forced to cancel a scheduled appearance in Geneva, Switzerland after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint charging him with violating international treaties against torture.


Since getting his first Game Boy at five years old, Aaron Winston knew he wanted to work in the gaming industry. But as he got older, the prospect seemed less and less likely: Winston, who is autistic, enrolled in community college but never made it to his first day of classes. "The social environment scared me off," he told The Verge. "I was too nervous."

Three years later, however, Winston is thriving as a staff programmer at the nonPareil Institute in Dallas, TX. His first game, Space Ape, is available on iOS and Android, and Winston now looks forward to a future in the industry. "This is the right environment for me, and I want to stay at nonPareil for years," he said. "They gave me a career."

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Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University is the First International University in Russia

International Medical School is open to new strategic partnerships and actively pursues international activities at all levels. The international activities of RNRMU are broad and varied.

Possible areas for cooperation include, but are not limited to:

The project is based on the EU concept double degree diploma education (Double Degree Curriculum Act,EU Reg Code # JX54007, 2005) and is unprecedented in the practice of the higher medical education in Russian Federation.

The purpose of the project of the International Medical School is to createa mechanism of access to standards and innovations of European medical education, rapid assessment of these data and, if necessary, their integration into the system of Russian education in the shortest possible time.

This is currently carried out by comparing the educational programs of N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University and the University of Milan (credits, hours, load on students and teachers).

It is planned to prepare the faculty of the RNRMU on the basis of the chairs of the University of Milan with the purpose of acquaintance with the educational process and methods of knowledge control.

Implementation of training programs in the framework of the international Medical School is planned to start from the 1st year.

Intermediate exams for students will be held in RNRMU and at the University of


2016," he adds. Going ahead, he wants to see decentralisation of decision-making.

Another issue that is plaguing the entire nation is that of land acquisition. When asked if it was a problem in the state as well, Sanjiv Puri, Director, ITC, while praising the Bengal government, says all my projects in Bengal have commenced, which means land was made available. ITC is investing Rs 3000 crore in the state.

Dalmia Bharat Cement has gone a step further. The company has invested Rs 600 crore in Maoist-infested West Midnapore. Puneet Dalmia, MD, Dalmia Bharat Cement says despite all the fears attached to it, the company had no cost overruns or time overruns as far as the project is concerned.Reconstruction of Hyman's second pacemaker.
Though journal articles and newspaper reports suggest that three Hyman pacemakers existed or were intended; a patent, descriptive photographs and a written description of an earlier model and only a photograph of a later model exist. A replica of the earlier has been made based on the patent and description, and a new replica of the second based on a critical deconstruction and analysis of the photograph of the second with a modern circuit duplicating the function of the earlier circuit. Both replicas were "operational" in that stimuli were mimicked though not delivered and neither could under any circumstances actually resuscitate the heart. The design and construction of the second Hyman pacemaker are presented.


Monday, November 15, 2010

man vs wild

If I can choose one of the bravest man on earth TV, he must be BEAR GRYLLS.

For those of you who love spending time doing nothing but watch TV, please do watch Bear Grylls' Man VS Wild/Born Survivor. Forget crocodiles, sharks, or insects that make you bleed through your ass. Bear Grylls is the scariest thing on TV. And last night, it was his 25 best episodes. Which were crazy, sick, and eventually became my new version of Man VS Vomiting . LOL.

..man VS wild..

The premise for the programme is quite ridiculous. Basically, every week Grylls is dumped in an extreme location somewhere around the world and armed with ONLY his wits and whatever food he can lay his hands on has tohelicopters or balloons, or paragliding crossing the Mt Everest.. Jump in a free waterfalls. And this one is crazy: he run before the train in the tunnel. His most creative idea was when he utilizing the corpse of a sheep as a sleeping bag and flotation device. Climbing is not a new thing for him, as he became the youngest British who climbed the Mt Everest (at age 23).


During a hearing in April, a doctor hired by the city argued Leago’s cancer was related to his family history. On appeal, a panel of three judges concluded the doctor had failed to establish a connection between Leago’s cancer and his family history, and was unable to state the cause of his illness.

The initial ruling against Leago, the panel wrote in a decision filed on Tuesday, was “so against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence as to be clearly wrong or manifestly unjust.”

Sprain said in his experience, appeals in workers comp cases have a success rate of less than 10 percent.

Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association President Marty Lancton, praised Leago for continuing to fight after his claim was denied. He said the city of Houston has(CNN) Revelers on the United States' west coast cheered the advent of the new year and said good riddance to 2016.

Celebrants in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle -- eagerly turning the page on a year roiled by a bitterly partisan election -- caroused, sang, hugged, kissed and danced to standards like " Auld Lang Syne " as they welcomed the Happy New Year.

Tens of thousands of people packed LA's Grand Park and Music Center to welcome 2017 amid increased security after a deadly attack in Turkey early New Year's Day.

Let's do this #2017 pic.twitter.com/Tm1SYoLzEp

There were more than 600 law-enforcement officers and security personnel assigned to Grand Park. A perimeter was set up around the park with checkpoints at the entrances, but the Los Angeles Police Department said


there were no credible security threats to the greater LA area.

San Francisco was also treated to a spectacular fireworks show and a beefed-up security presence

Happy New Year and happy 2017! #sanfrancisco #fireworks 🎉🍭🌸🎁🎄 pic.twitter.com/vSQs4mKRtH

Plainclothes and uniformed police patrolled the Embarcadero for the annual event.

Seattle shot from Alki....2017 pic.twitter.com/Nokueiy9Ki — Daniel Acosta (@DanielA92559262) January 1, 2017

New York

In New York's Times Square, party-goers cheered the new year and shouted in jubilation as the iconic ball dropped.

The New York Police Department remained vigilant and focused on protecting the gleeful crowds ringing in the New Year.

"We are closely following the developments regarding the night club shooting in #Istanbul #Turkey," the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau tweeted.

Ben Von Klemperer took in the heightened security as the gates opened more than 12 hours before the bigsecurity ahead of their celebrations, following truck-ramming attacks in 2016 on crowds in Berlin and Nice, France.

London

In London, tickets sold out for a dramatic pyrotechnics display above the River Thames, complete with a concert by singer Robbie Williams.

The New Year's Eve revelry was choreographed according to the world's more than 20 time zones -- some separated by one hour, others by 30 or 45 minutes.

Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world People celebrate 2017 as confetti flies over Times Square in New York City on Sunday, January 1. Hide Caption 1 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world People watch fireworks explode over Copacabana Beach during celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hide Caption 2 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the


world People watch a light show by the Giza Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt. Hide Caption 3 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world Fireworks light up the sky above Funchal Bay on Madeira Island. Hide Caption 4 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world People watch as fireworks explode over the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Hide Caption 5 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world Fireworks are lit near the London Eye just after midnight in London, England. Hide Caption 6 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world Fireworks illuminate the night sky over Cologne Cathedral and the Rhine River during New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne, Germany. Hide Caption 7 of 24 Photos: NewYear's 2017 celebrations around the world Fireworks explode at Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Hide Caption 8 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, is illuminated by a laser and 3D mapping display reading "Bonne Année" ("Happy New Year"). Hide Caption 9 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world An Iraqi girl who fled the violence in Mosul, Iraq, poses with a mask on New Year's Eve at the Hasansham camp in northern Iraq. Hide Caption 10 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world Fireworks illuminate the sky near the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hide Caption 11 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017


Hide Caption 20 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world People gather in central Vladivostok as Russia's Pacific coast celebrates the arrival of the new year. Hide Caption 21 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House as the arrival of 2017 is celebrated in Australia. Hide Caption 22 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world The Sky Tower is seen among fireworks during New Year's Eve celebrations in Auckland, New Zealand. Hide Caption 23 of 24 Photos: New Year's 2017 celebrations around the world A Palestinian girl writes "2017" on the sand during the last sunset of 2016 on a beach in Gaza City on New Year'sduring new year celebrations in Russia.

United Arab Emirates

At midnight, light streaks erupted above and around the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai.

Happy New Year #2017 #fireworks #burjkhalifa A video posted by Mara Colette 마라 (@__maracolette___) on Dec 31, 2016 at 12:01pm PST

Happy New 2017 🎉🎉🎉 #mydubai #dubaifirework A video posted by Eugenia (@applebums) on Dec 31, 2016 at 12:08pm PST

Happy New Year 2017 A photo posted by Ahmed_Naseeh (@the_innocent_guy69) on Dec 31, 2016 at 12:09pm PST

Bangladesh

In Dhaka, at 1 p.m. Eastern time, people marked the change in the calendar by lighting the traditional fanush, or sky lanterns fashioned from paper and bamboo.

#Class_Party #Faanushh #byebye2016👋 A photo posted by Kumar Swastik (@kswastik) on Dec 31, 2016 at 9:51am PST

Thailand

Revelers in Bangkok, about an hour earlier, counted down the


seconds to 2017 amid cascading balloons and confetti.

Happy New Year 2017 ✨❤⭐🍾🎉🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉wish u guys a terrific year ahead !!! A video posted by Mint B. (@mintpb) on Dec 31, 2016 at 9:03am PST

Southeastern China

At midnight in Hong Kong, red streaks of light crisscrossed the night sky.

Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour to celebrate the new year in Hong Kong.

Night gives way to a red sky over the Hong Kong skyline.

Philippines

At Manila's Ocean Park, Kevin Gener photographed shafts of crimson light rising over the marine theme park.

Best year so far! Thankful for my loving family, awesome friends and supportive colleagues who made it so exciting and full of life! New Year's Resolution, beat 2016! 😊🎉🎇 #newyear #2017 A photo posted by Kevin Gener (@kevingener) on Dec 31, 2016 at 8:15amPST

Riley Nolan marveled at the illuminated outlines of the Philippines' financial hub in the city of Makati.

Happy New Year! A photo posted by Riley Nolan (@rnolan54) on Dec 31, 2016 at 8:13am PST

Japan

Asimina Tzatha stood with revelers in Tokyo, cheerily dispatching the final 12 seconds of 2016.

HAPPY NEW YEAR from Tokyo Japan #newyears #lifestyle #tokyo #japan #shibuya #2017 A video posted by Asimina Tzatha (@asiminatzatha) on Dec 31, 2016 at 8:37am PST

South Korea

In Seoul, Boram Brian Kim took video of fireworks over the bustling streets of the South Korean capital. His favorite memory of 2016, he said, was "traveling in Europe and southeast Asia and getting to meet a lot of new people."

Australia

The palm trees and glass high-rises of Brisbane glowed under bursts of light.

And with that, we


say goodbye to 2016 and hello to a wonderful #2017! Happy New Year! 💥😃#brisbaneanyday pic.twitter.com/bxo0qDfGm4 — Brisbane City (@Brisbane_City) December 31, 2016

In Melbourne, Instagram user Nathanael Campbell captured the magnificent, cacophonous crescendo marking the end of 2016. Still, despite the impressive display, he said: "I think winning my league bowling award in cricket was my highlight for 2016."

2017 #newyears #melbourne #fireworks A video posted by Nathanael Campbell (@ndacampbell) on Dec 31, 2016 at 6:44am PST

And more spectacular fireworks rocketed from the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and from barges on the water beneath.

Fireworks illuminate the sky over the Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.

The evening's pyrotechnics, a family display at 9 p.m. and a midnight show, included tributes to Prince -- in the form of a shower1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to improving the rebound characteristics of a bat for baseball or softball.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, the flying distance of a ball is thought to be extended when hit by a high strength bat. This is because it was considered that a bat with a high degree of strength has excellent rebound characteristics and the flying distance of a ball depended solely on these rebound characteristics of the bat. However, in recent years, it is understood that a bat which can reduce the consumption of impact energy as ball transformation energy when a ball and bat collide, can extend the flying distance of a ball. In addition, it is understood that the higher the rebound force of the bat itself,


tube 20. Here the grip part 4 is the part of the bat which is held by a batter and is the thinnest part of the bat which extends to a predetermined length from the end of the grip. The taper part 3 is the part which has a diameter which gradually becomes larger from the grip part 4. In addition, the bat tip part 1 is the part which is formed by a resin for example, and is the end of the bat located in the furthest position from the grip end. The bat impact part 2 is the part except the bat tip part 1, the bat taper part 3 and the bat grip part 4, and which extends to a predetermined length towards the bata modern free trade Agreement and the EFTA States are confident that it will be a solid basis for increased trade and investment between the Parties. We are convinced that this Agreement will create additional business opportunities for economic operators both in Ecuador and in the EFTA States,” said Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Iceland’s Foreign Minister, as Chair of the EFTA States.

The EFTA-Ecuador CEPA was signed by Mr Pablo Campana Sáenz, Minister for Foreign Trade of Ecuador, and, on the EFTA side, by Mr Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland and Chair of the EFTA Council at Ministerial Level, as well as by Ms Aurelia C.K. Frick, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Justice and Culture of Liechtenstein, Mr Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, Minister of Trade


and Industry of Norway and Mr Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research of Switzerland . Building on a Joint Declaration on Cooperation signed by the EFTA States and Ecuador in Schaan, Liechtenstein on 22 June 2015, the negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the EFTA States and Ecuador were launched on 27 June 2016 at the EFTA Ministerial meeting in Bern, Switzerland. Negotiations started in November 2016 and were finalised in the first half of 2018. The EFTA-Ecuador CEPA has a comprehensive coverage, comprising trade in goods (including sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, trade remedies, rules of origin and trade facilitation), trade in services, establishment (investment), intellectual property rights, government procurement, competition, tradeand sustainable development and cooperation. A Joint Committee will oversee the implementation of the Agreement. The Agreement will enter into force after completion of the necessary internal procedures for ratification by the Parties. The Ministers of Ecuador and the EFTA States noted the close and significant economic relations between both sides and they underlined that the signing of the Agreement represented a landmark for further strengthening this relationship. The preferential market access and the rules and disciplines governing the economic relations between the Parties under the CEPA will provide a strong stimulus for the further development of trade and investment by creating new opportunities for economic actors of both sides.

Economic relations between the EFTA States and Ecuador

Merchandise trade between the EFTA States and Ecuador reached USD 245 million


Church Shootings In Ohio, Texas Stir Concerns

(RNS) Three outbursts of violence in or near churches, including one during worship services, are raising safety concerns for church leaders.

Eddie Contreras, youth pastor at Walnut Park Casa De Mi Gloria Church in Garland, Texas, was speaking to a group of students Friday evening (Sept. 24) when Jose Pablo, a student struggling with family problems, walked into the service.

Contreras continued preaching despite the interruption, and then Pablo pulled out a gun and shot the youth pastor, according to NBC News. Contreras is expected to recover.

Meanwhile, 75-year-old Thomas Repchic of Youngstown, Ohio, was shot and killed Saturday as he was driving his wife, Jacqueline, 74, home from St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church, where she works in the offices, The Associated Press reported.

Repchic waskilled when six to 12 gunshots were fired at the couple's Cadillac. His wife was wounded but is expected to recover.

Repchic's death was the second shooting death outside St. Dominic's; last January, 80-year-old Angeline Fimognari was shot and killed after Mass in the church parking lot.

Youngstown Bishop George Murry encouraged the community to support each other during the tragedy.

"While we pray for justice for the Repchic family, it is important to remember that we also must work together to prevent crime by building safe and secure communities," he said in a statement.

The church is located in a neighborhood of older homes, some of which are boarded up and abandoned. The Repchics' car was found four blocks away from the church in an area close to empty, closed commercial


outlets.

The community has struggled with the loss of local steel factories and has lost more than half its population to job losses. Murry urged members of the diocese to pray for safety and healing in the area.

"I ask the faithful of St. Dominic Parish, all members of the Diocese of Youngstown and indeed all people within the diocese, to pray for the Repchic family and for an end to violence in our community," he said.

Mauricio Elizondo, senior pastor at Walnut Park, also encouraged his congregation to move past the violence. "We will not start living in fear," he told NBC News. "We will not be held captive by the things that happen in society."Cultural policies and measures - Best practices

Cameroon, Mexico, and Andorra contribute to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity

During the month of May 2011, Cameroon, Mexico, and Andorra contributed to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD). This marked Cameroon's first contribution (US$4,368.45). Mexico and Andorra made their third and fourth contributions, respectively (US$71,208 and US$14,306.20).

The International Fund for Cultural Diversity is a voluntary multidonor fund that seeks to promote sustainable development cooperation and reduce poverty to help foster a vibrant culture industry in developing countries. IFCD resources come from voluntary contributions from Parties and other states, regional and international organizations, public and private bodies, and individuals. The Conference of Parties recommended that Parties make annual contributions to IFCD of at least 1% of their countries' contributions to the


do not represent the views of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government.

**Funding.** This study was funded by an Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 award (DK082435) and a VA Merit award (BX002638) from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service to SD. This study was also funded by a VA Career Development award (BX003486) from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service to MM.

[^1]: Edited by: Hansen Wang, University of Toronto, Canada

[^2]: Reviewed by: Javier Vaquero, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain; Ana María Sanchez-Perez, Jaume I University, Spain; Li-Tung Huang, Kaohsiung Changare provoking people, seeking confrontation and violence. The time for all democracy-loving Venezuelans to ignore the incendiary rethoric of Hugo Chavez and his thuggish collaborators has come. It is imperative that the institution with the highest level of credibility in the country, i.e. the Church, steps up to the plate in order to placate emotions.

Alek Boyd created Vcrisis.com and started blogging about Venezuela in Oct. 2002. Since, he has worked as an independent researcher, reporter, lobbyist, civil and political rights activist, and has experience in strategic and media consulting throughout Latin America. In 2006, Alek became the first blogger ever to shadow a presidential candidate in Venezuela. In 2009 he gained a MA (merits) in Spanish American Studies (King's College London). Alek can be contracted to do due


Fuller. Mr. Frank Fuller

January 29, 1997

FULLER. Mr. Frank Fuller, 82, of Stafford Road, Burlington, husband of the late Lena (Falcucci) Fuller, died Monday (Jan. 27, 1997). Born in Unionville, April 22, 1914, son of the late Charles W. and Eva (Martin) Fuller, he resided in the area all of his life. Prior to retiring, he was employed by the Town of Farmington in the Highway Department. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Marie and Frank Fazio of Burlington; a sister, Edith Delbon of Avon; three grandchildren, Ruth Bates, Frank Fazio, Jr., and Natalena Fazio; two great-grandchildren, Kyle Bates, Jr. and Michael Bates. Memorial Funeral Services will be Thursday, Jan. 30, 2 p.m., The Ahern Funeral Home, 111 Main St., Rt. 4, Unionville. There are no callingmaneuvering lever and a safety lever hinged to the ski upstream with respect to two abutments that are complementary to the seatings.
The skier couples the seatings of the sole with the abutments. Following this, the ratchet is positioned at the projection position.
In a known way, intervention is made in order on the maneuvering lever and the safety lever, with a consequent forced enveloping of the projection by the ratchet. This leads to the removable blocking to the ski of the central-front part of the boot, the heel of the boot being de-constrained from the ski.
The drawback of the above devices derives from the fact that it is necessary to realize boots that can receive them, with the consequent costs this incurs.
Further devices are known that comprise an abutment


levels too high.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones and plague and pestilence. All caused by Donald Trump and his total denial. In a world where a thin and unlikely and unsubstantiated line of thought is considered the truth, all the world’s problems are clearly caused by Donald Trump. Born in 1946, he was the product of WW2 and all the evils of the world were placed in one individual and despite the monumental efforts of St. Hilary and the media, he has come to rule over us and the time of troubles will start. The only hope now is to overturn the election result or the happy and safe world of windmills will end and the 44,000 people who work for the UN might have to go home and get realat the Old Mutual Wisdom Forum (Johannesburg) where keynote speaker – renowned United States economist and special adviser to the UN’s secretary general, Professor Jeffrey Sachs – provided the attendees with his take on the future of globalisation…
Except, the event was held on the evening when the US was going to the polls. And then I woke up to the somewhat unexpected news that ‘The Don’ had won.
With retrospective irony, Sachs opened his presentation by answering the theme of the evening ‘is globalisation crumbling?’ by joking that if Donald Trump were to win the election then the answer is ‘yes’. Oh hindsight, what a funny fellow you are…
He listed five reasons why we find ourselves in a climate where Brexit and Donald Trump have surprised many analysts and


of the leading consuming countries, revealing opportunities opened for producers and exporters across the globe.
According to IndexBox estimates, Australia continued to lead the way by a large margin in the global supplies of coal. In 2015, Australia’s coal exports totaled 29,630 million USD, which accounted for a 39% share of global exports. Indonesia, Russia, USA, and Colombia were the other key global suppliers of coal in 2015, with a 45% combined share of global exports.
Indonesia (+10.3% per year) and Australia (+6.9% per year) were the fastest growing exporters from 2007 to 2015. Indonesia significantly strengthened its position in the global coal export structure, growing its share from 13% in 2007 to 19% in 2015.
On the other hand, Japan (18%, based on value terms), India (16%), China (11%), thePlain packaging on cigars and other tobacco products is about to become a reality in Australia, as the country’s High Court upheld the constitutionality of a law passed by Parliament requiring the change. The ruling was announced on August 15, yet the court’s opinion on the case has yet to be published.

The law goes into effect on December 1, 2012, and requires that all tobacco products sold at retail be sold in plain packaging. The key issue before the court was whether, under the Constitution, plain packaging is an ‘acquisition of property’, which includes a corresponding benefit to the government.

There are several pending challenges between tobacco companies and the World Trade Organization regarding the issues, as some believe that the legislation contradicts Australia’s obligations as a WTO member.

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International Speedway Earnings Preview

International Speedway will unveil its latest earnings on Thursday, July 7.

Investors braced for a bumpy ride ahead of International Speedway's (Nasdaq: ISCA) earnings announcement as the company has wavered between beating and falling short of analyst predictions during the past fiscal year. The company will unveil its latest earnings on Thursday, July 7. International Speedway is an owner of major motorsports entertainment facilities and promoter of motorsports-themed entertainment activities in the United States.

What analysts say:

Buy, sell, or hold?: Analysts generally think investors should hang on to International Speedway, with half rating the stock a


out of contact with the brake drum and the relatively high braking forces when the shoes are in contact with the drum. An adjusting mechanism in the adjuster automatically makes a clearance decreasing adjustment when the low force part of the brake stroke exceeds a predetermined length. The adjusting mechanism is blocked out or prevented from making a clearance decreasing adjustment during the high force part of the brake stroke to prevent over adjustment of the brake. The high force part of the brake stroke is often larger than the first part due to the high forces causing deformation in the brake assembly and therefore can quickly over adjust the brake if the adjusting mechanism is not blocked out.
One prior art brake adjuster, of the clearance sensing type,considerable swelling and complicate the first 24 hours of treatment. The presence of soot and face burns are suggestive of a thermal lesion; the upper airways are frequently affected. (2) Chemical lesions, which appear when particles are aspirated and reach the lower airways (bronchia and bronchioles), where they cause inflammation with consequent neutrophilic infiltration and release of proteases and free radicals. As an inflammatory condition, a thermal lesion tends to appear within 12 to 36 hours; it is manifested by bronchorrhea and bronchospasm. Desquamation of the airway mucosa secondary to chemical lesions causes atelectasis and increases the odds of infection, in addition to airway obstruction, and leads to barotrauma in rare occasions. (3) Systemic poisoning, which is the main and most lethal problem. The most common causes of


Wednesday, January 23, 2013

2013 Fire and Ice

This past weekend we headed to Cave Lake for the annual Fire and Ice Festival. Down in the valleys it was frigid, but up in the pinyon/juniper zone, the temperatures were in the 30s and very pleasant.

The last two years I've entered the snow/ice sculpting contest, but the last two years it's been cancelled due to warm weather! (See what we did here and here.) Fortunately this year it was cold enough to have the competition. But alas, I did not enter. That was okay. It was great fun to go look at the sculptures and do some of the other activities.

One of those activities was sledding. Desert Girl was ready!

I went down with her multiple times, and each time at thethat, that would be worthwhile. So, I applied
for a number of schools and I ended up being accepted first at Utah State
University at that time it was Utah State agricultural college and while I was in the
Navy I had a good friend from Utah and he talked about the beauty of Utah
many, many times and I'd never been there but what I had the choice of choosing
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between the schools I thought gee, why not give Utah state a try and so I did and
I had an old 1935 Chevy that I just overhauled the engine on and took off with a
few possessions to Logan, Utah and I'll never forget coming up over the summit
there between Brigham City and Logan and looking out over cash valley, I
thought what a


southeastern
part of the state on an area called Digham marsh. It's a sixteen thousand acre
marsh at the upper end of Bear lake which straddles the border between Idaho
and Utah and he said, would you consider, would you be interested in doing the
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field work that we'd like to have done over there and he says perhaps you know,
he said you could use that for your graduate work too and immediately I was
interested in that and at first I thought about going to the University of Idaho, in
fact I'd already been accepted there for graduate work but I thought gee, that's in
another part, that's practically in another state and people in Idaho tell you that
we have two states, one is the southern part and then there's the totally detached
part upone had worked on it much. There were a number of problems associated
with it. The main one probably being that President Garfield back in the, back in
the mid 1850's had granted to the Utah power and light company storage rights
to use Digham marsh and also joining Bear Lake, Bear lake itself as storage for
spring run off coming down the Bear river. The water was diverted through a
canal into Digham marsh and of course the current flow of the water slowed
there, so it deposited a great amount of silt in the marsh and then when the water
was still high it was funneled off into Bear lake. Well, later in the summer the
water, water problem reversed, the lake was still high, the marsh had dried up
pretty much, the Bear river


was way down and so the waters returned from, was
thought Bear lake during exceptional years but usually the water is pumped
through a pumping station there on the edge of the lake into the marsh and then
flowed by gravity down the rainbow canal back into the, into the Bear river and so
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as an exchange of water into the marsh, into the lake, out of the lake and into the
marsh and on down the river, depending on whether it was spring or fall. Well, of
course this went through great fluctuations in the water level in the marsh itself
so there was a lot of concern about what this meant to waterfowl and there were
a fair number of geese nesting in the marsh. Bob Saughter told me when I
moved down there, ifI
concentrated chiefly on waterfowl production and harvest and also muskrat
production and harvest and a degree was accepted and I obtained the Master's
of Science degree there at Logan. I, I again had an important choice to make, go
back to the state of Idaho where I had a job up at the Alfred and Cort Awayne
way up in the north part of the state or maybe try something different. When in
the process I met a fellow by the name of Floyd Thompson who is a game
management agent and working for the Fish and Wildlife Service and he was in
charge of the state of Utah and I remember he came up one day and he said, he
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came over to visit our trailer and he, he said you know, what are you


own. Well, fortunately my office was in the San Manteo Post Office. They
had arranged for that, it was in the basement again, not air conditioned of course,
extremely humid but the great advantage here was that I'd be sharing the office,
office space with a fellow by the name of Luther C. Goldman who was refuge
manager of the Laguna Atascosa and San Ada National Wildlife refuges. Now,
Luther was the son of Major E.A. Goldman who was one of the pioneer biologists
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of the old Bureau of biological survey and also he was a nephew of Luther
Goldman, L.J. Goldman as he's called who is the first pacific flyway biologist so
here is this triumvirate of three Goldman's and I had the benefit you know, of
hearing Luther tell of the experiences of his fatherreceived their bird bands if they were on a banding
assignment, if they're on surveys they received their survey forms and
instructions and everything and the great thing was, it was just not US Fish and
Wildlife Service people, the bulk of those folks were Game management agents,
this was the workforce at the time, a few refuge people and but also the
Canadians, the wonderful group of Canadians. The Canadian wildlife service
people and a lot of provincial people and people from Ducks Unlimited.
Everyone who was doing work in Canada in spring would meet at Regina and it's
just a wonderful opportunity for a new kid on the block like me to, to learn the
people I've heard, heard so much about but it was there that I had a chance to
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meet many people which


later became good friends, folks like Walt Crissy and
Johnny Lynch and Jerry Stout, Al Smith, among the Canadians Guser
Grahamkooch, Al Exuban, Bernie Gallop and among the DU people, Bill, Bill
Leach and Bob Caldwell and a number of the provincial people too. It was truly a
cooperative program.
Q What year was this?
Good point. The first year up there was 1955, on assignment. I was assigned to
a brand new study area in north of Swift current and this was an area that had
just been set up by, a brand new area that had been set up by Walt Crissy. He'd
formed the area and thought it would make a wonderful study area for two
purposes. One purpose was to use it for air to ground comparison counts. In the
air ground comparison count surveysee every duck and you're hoping that do see a
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representative sample of them. So, we always see far more birds on the ground
doing the ground truthing then with the aerial crews and this of course still occurs
today and ground surveys are still used today for that purpose so this is an idea
that dates back prior to my first study up there dated back certainly into the early,
early 50's for developing the air to ground comparison corrections. But the area
we worked on was called the success area and people used to joke about that,
you know success stud area, that's a little bit pompous isn't it calling it the
success study area. Well, that was easy to explain because the only town along
the transect was named success. Well, in the southeast


but anyway he called the prairie pothole region of the southern
three Canadian provinces and the Dakotas, he called that area the BDF, BDF
being big duck factory. North of the BDF was the BFF, that was the big fish
factory and Johnny would simplify things for convenience but what, what he is
telling us here was that the, the BDF, the big duck factory, this is where the, is
really the heart of the waterfowl production in North America. This is where the
glaciers left the potholes and marshes. It's so productive for waterfowl and
although waterfowl of course breed farther north through the forested country
and clear, clear to the artic and through Alaska and some of our birds even get
into Siberia, the Pintails breed there but winter in, in North America. But, what
Johnnyremembered perpetually.
Clarence Caughtum is, is someone you read about a great deal too and of
course he came out of Utah and he was chief of Welark research for Bureau of
biological survey and, and also into the Fish and Wildlife Service days but
Caughtum was a, was a remarkable person. He knew everything about
anything, about migratory birds and he had an enormous memory. I don't think
he ever forgot anything but he came down to the Rio Grande Valley one day and,
and he asked (inaudible) I guess he'd been referred to me because I was the
local game management agent you know, and he said, I would like to look at
some white wing dove nesting colonies and the season was, that was the proper
time of the season and everything and I, he


just don't gulp two
hot cups of coffee, you, you have to exchange the pleasantries of the day and
everything and breakfast with Texas folks is a leisurely exercise but anyway we
did meet Dr. Caughtum at 4:00 in the morning and I think he was satisfied and
seen what there was to see at the breeding colonies. Of course Caughtum went
on to be co-editor of the book on the white winged dove.
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Q Well, continue your career from the work in Saskatchewan and being in
Texas and --
Well, okay for two, so for two years in 1955 and '56 I worked on the study area
there at Swift Current, okay, well, things happen on the prairies as they always
do, prairies got dry, the potholes didn't have water in the, in the spring of '57,now
that country only gets around 12 inches of precipitation a year. It is dry county
and only under the best of circumstances do the potholes really fill up so that
happened to be the situation in '57 so Crissy made the decision not to continue
the success study area but we still had the big survey banding program
underway, cooperative banding program and by cooperative I mean it was Fish
and Wildlife Service and it was volunteers or people assigned from various Fish
and Game departments, if Duck Unlimited had someone available or the
provincial people. So, the crews which were 5 to 6 people represented a broad
array of backgrounds and everything so anyway I was asked to lead the crew in
1957 through western Saskatchewan and the country was laid out in degree
blocks of latitude


my wife agreed with that, she'd been teaching school and everything
and we thought probably we'd spent enough time in Texas so I applied for the job
and I got it and it was stationed in Aberdeen, South Dakota and it was in what
was called then the WHP project, this is wetland habitat preservation project, it
was a new program that the service was just mounting and the reason for this
was that at the same time one part of the government, the US Fish and Wildlife
Service was interested in preserving waterfowl habitat on the breeding range
another part of the government in the department of agriculture and in the ASC
agricultural stabilization and conservation service in particular and the soil
conservation service were engaged in a program that was headed exactly the
opposite way to,bald open prairie of C-9
ditches did the same job cheaper. So, here we have these two, two parts of
government operating at just opposite means. Well, this first came to light in I
believe it was 1949 when Cory Shoenfeld wrote an article for Field and Stream, it
was called "Goodbye Potholes" and Cory who was a journalism student at the
University of Wisconsin, I never had the privilege of meeting him but he did this
wonderful, wonderful article, came out in the field, he talked to, he talked to
waterfowl biologist in the Fish and Wildlife Service, he talked to state biologists,
he talked to the people in the department of Agriculture who were involved in the
program and everything and he did a wonderful piece of investigative reporting
and "Goodbye Potholes" is truly one of


regional office, he as head of river basin studies but under him was a
fellow by the name of Burt Rouse and his deputy was Ray St Orrs I worked
directly with, with Burt and Ray for seven years out of Aberdeen. Our field
stations were called area, later became known as area acquisition offices and
they were located in Devil's lake in North Dakota, Jamestown and Mynot in South
Dakota we eventually had another office in, in Hyrum and in Minnesota the
offices were in Fergus Falls and Benson. Grady Mann was in Fergus Falls and
Clyde Oden in Jamestown and Blue Madden in Devil's Lake and George Jonco
in Hyrum and those are the names that come to mind. So we were, we were
essentially given a free hand. We were not told, you knowand there's only one Jerry Stout and we visited a great
deal and I learned a great deal about wetlands in the Dakotas and also from
Jerry's work in Canada. Ray Merty was also in the office for a while and he
worked out of Northern Prairie Wildlife research center once it got set up. Well,
enjoyed the days in Aberdeen a great deal and the habitat work a great deal but
an opportunity came back to go back to Patuxent to work with Walt Crissy and
his brand new deputy a fellow by the name of Dr. Al Guise. Al Guise was the
statistician and one of the most, together they were among the most remarkable
people I've ever met in my life and so, Al Guise came out to visit us in
Minneapolis. Let me


back up I missed a step. But going from Aberdeen had an
opportunity to go into Minneapolis to the regional office back in the outfit I left in
Texas and they had a job there that was called assistant regional supervisor
technical and this is chiefly a biological job in a law enforcement outfit which
sounds a little strange but law enforcement officers and game management
agents are still being used for banding and surveys and everything up to that
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time so there was a legitimate need there they participated in winter surveys and
went to Canada and everything so it made sense in that respect and Art Hawkins
at one time held that position and Art Hawkins was still in the Minneapolis office
as Mississippi flyway biologist and so I viewed that as an opportunity to--
Okay, we're back to Minneapolis again and the busy life there but one of the, one
of the key problems during the three years in Minneapolis was Canada geese
and particularly the Canada geese in the Mississippi valley population. These
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are geese that breed up on the western side of Hudson Bay and they, they
migrate down through Wisconsin and winter in Illinois, southern part of Illinois,
crab orchard and Horseshoe lake area but this is a population it's been studied
over the years on this, it's a population that attracts an awful lot of hunting
pressure and wildlife populations tend to react to changes in the environment and
as did the Canada Geese in the Horacan, around the refuge there that farmers
planted more and more corn and geese learned how to capitalize on the corn


brand
new appropriate of one point eight million dollars and part of it was ear marked
for research studies to be undertaken by the states and part of it to be done by
the Fish and Wildlife Service and how, how do you distribute this, this pot of
money in a useful and meaningful way so that was the job I got into upon getting
back to Patuxent. My title was really Chief of Migratory shore up and game bird
studies. But this is a big part of the job that first year and so, it meant a lot of
meetings with people state and state people and Federal people and the various
associations of state fish and game commissioners and the international
association of so four from, so we laid out criteria as to the typesthe management activities that their people would
participate in the past. This has both it's good and bad aspects of course, you
know, it probably made for a more sophisticated law enforcement, a concern was
coming up about the endangered, endangered species and, and unlawful
international trade and so there was a real need for a division of management
enforcement or branch of management enforcement to change and so it
eventually became the division of, of law enforcement and probably Clark Bavin
the Chief was instrumental in that but the, but the professionalism of, of service
enforcement officers became higher I think they were able to spend a much
higher part of their time in true enforcement activities, these have been
complicated by a number of things like I mentioned endangered species act and
sitees and some of the


other regulations that gave the Federal government more
authority in terms of wildlife importation and preservation. Likewise, things
changed from the management standpoint. Walt Crissy's migratory bird
population station which I went to work under existed there at Patuxent for I'm
guessing maybe 10 or 12 years and but we knew we saw changes there also
and so eventually the name migratory bird population station was changed to the
office of migratory bird management, it's located in Washington. Although Crissy
was located at Patuxent he spent a great deal of time in Washington in meetings
and things was quite unhandy at least in terms of the Washington people to have
the migratory bird population people out there in the countryside, they wanted
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them in closer. Also some of the legislation had changes, in the of setting
regulations for example.to evaluate them
before the final regulations are promulgated. The whole series of things like this
that, that came into being that greatly complicated the, the job of managing North
American waterfowl and setting regulations and a lot of these had legal
consequences so there’s a, there’s a justification for, for having sourcers at hand
to review the various required documents, things of that sort. So, after Walt
Crissy retired the office of migratory, migratory management, bird management
under Dr. John Rogers was, was established and so John’s office was moved
down to the interior building and I stayed at Patuxent as, as his assistant for two
or three years as I recall and eventually moved down to Washington myself and
my job then was Chief of the branch of operations in the office of migratory bird
management and


Fish and Wildlife Service had and it was one if the most memorable
occasions during the years I’m familiar with, with the Service was to have John
out there that day. And John visited every regional office that week. He went
from one to the other and he had exactly the same sort of meeting and I can tell
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you that at the end of that week he had, he had the troops one thousand percent
behind him. And John had a remarkable memory of facts and people and places
and at that meeting I, I had the occasion to, after his meeting in Minneapolis I
had the occasion to go up and visit briefly with him, with everyone else in the
regional office and so a few months after that I transferred to Patuxent and
Marilynfor your graduate work too and immediately I was
interested in that and at first I thought about going to the University of Idaho, in
fact I'd already been accepted there for graduate work but I thought gee, that's in
another part, that's practically in another state and people in Idaho tell you that
we have two states, one is the southern part and then there's the totally detached
part up there at the north, up in the pan handle and at that time you couldn't drive
through the state of Idaho to get to the north part of the state, you had to detour
off on a road into Washington State and I think that probably has been corrected
since but anyway on second thought I thought perhaps Logan would be the best
place to go


lived two
years that way, two winters. Well, the marsh itself is called Digham marsh and it
adjoins the Bear river which originates in Wyoming flows into, I'm sorry it
originates in Utah, flows into Wyoming into Idaho and back into Utah, empties
into the Great Salt Lake and in the process providing water to the Great Bear
river marshes. The state wanted a overall ecological study done of the marsh,
no one had worked on it much. There were a number of problems associated
with it. The main one probably being that President Garfield back in the, back in
the mid 1850's had granted to the Utah power and light company storage rights
to use Digham marsh and also joining Bear Lake, Bear lake itself as storage for
spring run off coming down the Bear river. Thewater was diverted through a
canal into Digham marsh and of course the current flow of the water slowed
there, so it deposited a great amount of silt in the marsh and then when the water
was still high it was funneled off into Bear lake. Well, later in the summer the
water, water problem reversed, the lake was still high, the marsh had dried up
pretty much, the Bear river was way down and so the waters returned from, was
thought Bear lake during exceptional years but usually the water is pumped
through a pumping station there on the edge of the lake into the marsh and then
flowed by gravity down the rainbow canal back into the, into the Bear river and so
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as an exchange of water into the marsh, into the lake, out


easily be flooded out and I did find
a few nests flooded out that first year but by in large most of the geese got off
successfully. There are a number of waterfowl, ducks that nested on the marsh
also and so I did a great deal of studies, nesting studies of the waterfowl and --
Well, to make a long story short after the field work was finished and I
concentrated chiefly on waterfowl production and harvest and also muskrat
production and harvest and a degree was accepted and I obtained the Master's
of Science degree there at Logan. I, I again had an important choice to make, go
back to the state of Idaho where I had a job up at the Alfred and Cort Awayne
way up in the north part of the stateof Idaho two years, you qualify for a position at US game and management
agent, you have to have two years of law enforcement experience and he said
we have two vacancies open in the Albuquerque region which is the
southwestern region of the Fish and Wildlife Service that he worked out of and he
said one job is in Tulsa, Oklahoma and he said the other job is in a new station
that we intend to open up in the lower route, Rio Grande valley in a place called
Harlington and I said well, tell me about both areas I've been in neither. Well, he
said let me tell you about Harlens in Texas and he says you may not what to
hear about the, about Tulsa, Oklahoma if I understand correctly, you are
interested in


to
work ourself, there's no, no moving expenses or anything like I understand is
given routinely now for people entering on work and we hauled the 20 foot trailer
down to, down to Texas and in a day or, we found a place to put it in a trailer
court and in a day or two later Ed Elmore, who is the game management agent in
Corpus Christi who I worked under came down to welcome us to Texas and I'd
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also received a note from Larry Marafcu who was the, the chief of law
enforcement out of the regional office and Larry told me that the first week of the
job down there would be spent with him on orientation. So, Larry showed up
shortly and he was staying in Brownsville and so I'd drive downWildlife refuges. Now,
Luther was the son of Major E.A. Goldman who was one of the pioneer biologists
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of the old Bureau of biological survey and also he was a nephew of Luther
Goldman, L.J. Goldman as he's called who is the first pacific flyway biologist so
here is this triumvirate of three Goldman's and I had the benefit you know, of
hearing Luther tell of the experiences of his father and his uncle in the very early
days of Bureau of biological survey and I'll never forget all of that and of course
Luther had a, had a history of his own. Wonderful fellow, one of the, one that
services the very best ornithologist and birds and Luther is right at his home town
there because of all the exotic species across the border and almost


of Canadians. The Canadian wildlife service
people and a lot of provincial people and people from Ducks Unlimited.
Everyone who was doing work in Canada in spring would meet at Regina and it's
just a wonderful opportunity for a new kid on the block like me to, to learn the
people I've heard, heard so much about but it was there that I had a chance to
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meet many people which later became good friends, folks like Walt Crissy and
Johnny Lynch and Jerry Stout, Al Smith, among the Canadians Guser
Grahamkooch, Al Exuban, Bernie Gallop and among the DU people, Bill, Bill
Leach and Bob Caldwell and a number of the provincial people too. It was truly a
cooperative program.
Q What year was this?
Good point. The first year up there was 1955, on assignment. I wasassigned to
a brand new study area in north of Swift current and this was an area that had
just been set up by, a brand new area that had been set up by Walt Crissy. He'd
formed the area and thought it would make a wonderful study area for two
purposes. One purpose was to use it for air to ground comparison counts. In the
air ground comparison count survey a, a designated area could be a lineal block
of habitat or whatever would be, would be flown by the air with the, with the
operational survey crew to see how many breeding ducks they would come up
with, at the same time the area would be checked on the ground by a ground
crew who would be ground truthing the area and between comparing the


back certainly into the early,
early 50's for developing the air to ground comparison corrections. But the area
we worked on was called the success area and people used to joke about that,
you know success stud area, that's a little bit pompous isn't it calling it the
success study area. Well, that was easy to explain because the only town along
the transect was named success. Well, in the southeast southwestern corner,
well success was a two elevator town and that needs a little explanation I think
but in Canada at least in those days it used to be customary to, to identify the
size of the town by their number of grain elevators it had, it be two elevator towns
which really weren't much and there'd be three elevator towns which gee, now
we're beginning toinformation at that time? As far as the
process, of setting the regulations and what was the procedure back then?
All the information went back to Patuxant into a, most of the field people I think
will send it into some big black box back there because they were really not
involved in the, in the processing of the data and there is a great deal of work
that had to be done with, with the survey information that came in from the field
and this rested chiefly in the hands of Walt Crissy. Walt at that time was the
Chief Waterfowl Population person I'd guess you'd call him. He was in the
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division wildlife research at that time. And it was his job to put together all the
information, the breeding ground survey information, the production


knew them for a year or perhaps a day. Let me, let me go
back to George Saunders if I might but I was a game management in south
Texas and, and I was in the office one day and this gentleman walked in and he
knew Luther Goldman the refuge manager and they evidently were real close
friends of course Luther introduced me and he said this is, this is George
Saunders. You know, George has spent a lot of time in the Rio Grande Valley in
Mexico on waterfowl and also white winged doves and everything and he said,
he's just going through down here some of his records are kept out here at the
refuge headquarters and so I got talking to George Saunders and I'd heard of
him you know, he's a legend.fascinating days that I can think of and that is the only day I
ever spent with George Saunders. I never saw him after that day and just
recently because George Saunders died in February at the age of 93 I was
asked to write his obituary for the York and I just completed that. So I hope that
George Saunders and some of the things he did will be remembered perpetually.
Clarence Caughtum is, is someone you read about a great deal too and of
course he came out of Utah and he was chief of Welark research for Bureau of
biological survey and, and also into the Fish and Wildlife Service days but
Caughtum was a, was a remarkable person. He knew everything about
anything, about migratory birds and he had an enormous memory. I


don't think
he ever forgot anything but he came down to the Rio Grande Valley one day and,
and he asked (inaudible) I guess he'd been referred to me because I was the
local game management agent you know, and he said, I would like to look at
some white wing dove nesting colonies and the season was, that was the proper
time of the season and everything and I, he was in the Washington office at the
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time and I, I was just delighted you know, to be able to spend some time with him
and I said well, I'd only been in the Rio Grande Valley a short while then and I
didn't know the locations well of the nesting colonies but I knew some state, state
officers that did and I said well, Dr.the book on the white winged dove.
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Q Well, continue your career from the work in Saskatchewan and being in
Texas and --
Well, okay for two, so for two years in 1955 and '56 I worked on the study area
there at Swift Current, okay, well, things happen on the prairies as they always
do, prairies got dry, the potholes didn't have water in the, in the spring of '57, now
that country only gets around 12 inches of precipitation a year. It is dry county
and only under the best of circumstances do the potholes really fill up so that
happened to be the situation in '57 so Crissy made the decision not to continue
the success study area but we still had the big survey banding program
underway, cooperative banding program and by cooperative I


mounting and the reason for this
was that at the same time one part of the government, the US Fish and Wildlife
Service was interested in preserving waterfowl habitat on the breeding range
another part of the government in the department of agriculture and in the ASC
agricultural stabilization and conservation service in particular and the soil
conservation service were engaged in a program that was headed exactly the
opposite way to, to destroy wetland habitat. Well, this program had originated
back in World War II as a means of increasing food production, the rational I
guess being that by, by draining potholes and potholes have very rich soils that
additional grain or other crops could be produced for the war effort and so the
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government was subsidizing farmers to drain potholes. There were two parts,
two so calledhad the privilege of meeting him but he did this
wonderful, wonderful article, came out in the field, he talked to, he talked to
waterfowl biologist in the Fish and Wildlife Service, he talked to state biologists,
he talked to the people in the department of Agriculture who were involved in the
program and everything and he did a wonderful piece of investigative reporting
and "Goodbye Potholes" is truly one of the most remarkable and important
pieces of popular literature in the whole era of waterfowl management and
research and I sometimes wonder how many waterfowl biologists have ever
read, particularly waterfowl biologist today have ever read "Goodbye Potholes".
So, in order to someway evaluate, better evaluate what is being done by the
Department of Agriculture and to find means of offsetting it the Fish and Wildlife
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Service set


up the WHP project in region three out of Minneapolis and the
program was under the division of river basin studies, they didn't know where
else to put it that seemed to be the most likely outfit because it was an outfit that
dealed with other Federal agencies particularly the Bureau of Reclamation and
so when I arrived on the scene the program was being administered by Warren
Nord in the regional office, he as head of river basin studies but under him was a
fellow by the name of Burt Rouse and his deputy was Ray St Orrs I worked
directly with, with Burt and Ray for seven years out of Aberdeen. Our field
stations were called area, later became known as area acquisition offices and
they were located in Devil's lake in North Dakota, Jamestownspent, Marilyn and I spent seven years in
Aberdeen on the wetlands program and raised a family in, part of a family in the
process there and the Aberdeen days were great days. We had some wonderful
times there. I was very fortunate to share an office in Aberdeen with Jerry Stout,
one of the old original flyway biologists and one of the most memorable people I
can ever imagine meeting and there's only one Jerry Stout and we visited a great
deal and I learned a great deal about wetlands in the Dakotas and also from
Jerry's work in Canada. Ray Merty was also in the office for a while and he
worked out of Northern Prairie Wildlife research center once it got set up. Well,
enjoyed the days in Aberdeen a great deal and the