as long as is necessary.
Id. art. 29.03.
	Appellant acknowledges that a pretrial hearing was scheduled for March 22, 2000,
but her counsel had to attend a matter in a district court in Potter County on the same day
and, counsel says, the trial judge here was notified of that conflict.  The hearing was
continued until March 24, 2000, but, counsel says, he was unable to attend because he
was scheduled to attend a legal seminar in Houston for which he had already purchased
tickets.  Thereafter, the trial court denied all of appellant's pretrial motions because he
deemed them waived.  Appellant's counsel asserts he had filed a motion seeking a
continuance of the pretrial hearing because he would be out of town.  He again filed a
motion seeking a continuance of the trialsetting asserting he was not prepared to proceed
because the pretrial motions had been denied without a hearing.  The last motion for
continuance was denied.
	The record shows that counsel was appointed to represent appellant on February
17, 2000, after he was retained.  Appellant's previous counsel had filed a number of
pretrial motions.  Appellant's present counsel filed a motion seeking a continuance from
a March 8, 2000 hearing because he was attending a legal seminar in Dallas.  That motion
was granted and the hearing rescheduled for March 22, 2000.  Counsel filed another
motion for continuance from that hearing on the basis that he was involved in a criminal
trial in Carson County.  In his written order granting that motion, the trial court stated the
case was set for pretrial hearing on March


and the hearing was reset for 10:00 A.M. on
March 22, 2000;

	24.  On March 20, 2000, Ronald Spriggs filed another Motion for
Continuance requesting that the hearing set for March 22nd be continued,
reciting that he "is involved in a criminal trial on [sic] the week of March 20,
2000, . . . in the 100th District Court Carson County";

	25.  On March 20, 2000, the Court granted such motion;

	26.  On the morning of March 22, 2000, the Court received a telephone call
from the coordinator of the 181st District Court of Potter County, Texas,
advising the Court that Ronald Spriggs was in the 181st District Court for a
revocation hearing and would not be in this Court;

	27.  No showing was made to this Court that the revocation hearing in the
181stthat appellant was indigent and that he had been appointed to represent
her.  Inasmuch as appellant had not been found to be indigent at the time, the trial judge
set a hearing on the question of her indigency.  However, appellant's counsel never
appeared for any of the scheduled hearings and on multiple occasions requested
continuances, even though the case had been set for trial on its merits and the trial court
had notified him that it had no other available dates to hear the indigency matter prior to
the trial date.  In appellant's continuance motion, with respect to the April 4, 2000 trial
setting, appellant's counsel did not contend that he would be ineffective if a pretrial hearing
was not held but, rather, only asserted that a "pretrial hearing would aid in the


 She further
averred that the park contained multiple slides, monkey bars, swings, a horseshoe pitching
location, and a basketball goal.  Several photographs were introduced of the park.
	Appellant challenges the State's proof by arguing there was no evidence as to the
size of the property on which the sale took place and that it was possible for part of an
address to be within 1000 feet from the playground and parts of the same address to be
more than 1000 feet from the playground.  She also posits that the slides, monkey bars,
and swings were not separate apparatus and a horseshoe pitching location and basketball
goals are not the type of playground items listed in the statute.
	The name of the premises alone may be sufficient to raise a presumption that the
location is aCode Ann. § 481.134(b)(1) (Vernon Supp. 2002).  Coleman testified in the
first phase of the trial that appellant pulled alongside of him at the Allsup's store and sold
him some marijuana.  During the punishment hearing, Rogers testified that she went to the
Allsup's store at 517 Southwest 2nd and measured the distance to Connor Street Park,
which was 234 feet.
	Although appellant addresses most of the same complaints to this charge that we
have discussed and disposed of in prior paragraphs, she also contends in connection with
this conviction that Coleman never actually testified as to the location of the Allsup's store
where the offense took place.  As we have noted, Coleman's testimony was that he pulled
into "the" Allsup's store.  Appellant did not cross-examine Rogers as to whether there was
more than one


2002).
Coleman testified he purchased rock cocaine from appellant on that date after he saw her
on South El Paso Street.  Rogers stated that she measured from the intersection of 5th and
El Paso Street to the front door of the school, a distance of 184 feet.  However, there was
no testimony as to any specific address where Coleman met with appellant, and the State,
with commendable candor, concedes that the evidence is insufficient to support the
enhancement finding for this sentence.  Therefore, appellant's fifth issue is sustained as
far as the enhancement finding in this cause.
	In summary, we overrule appellant's first, second, third, and fourth issues.
Appellant's fifth issue is also overruled with the exception of that portion of the issue
challenging the enhancement of the punishment in trial court causeSunday, June 7, 2015

Rated: PG-13STARS: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Alec BaldwinDIRECTOR: Cameron CroweGENRE: Romantic ComedyIf I had to sum up Aloha in one sentence, it would be: Impressive cast does what it can with what it had to work with.
Brian Gilcrest (the bankable Bradley Cooper) is an ex-military private defense contractor with a checkered past, coming home to Hawaii to help facilitate, in conjunction with the Air Force, the launching of a satellite--the pet project of billionaire Carson Welch (Bill Murray). While there, he steps into a romantic triangle involving his now married former girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) and the young Air Force assistant assigned to him (Emma Stone). In one scene, he is standing right between the two of them, and you


trying to sneak into another--a not uncommon occurrence at today's multiplexes.) The theatre was a convenient place for vagrants to snooze the day away. (Now it's the public library!)

We'd watch the movie from whatever point it had progressed to when we arrived, then catch the first fifteen minutes or so during the next showing, finally grasping--in a somewhat anti-climactic way--what we hadn't understood about the characters and the plot because we'd missed certain critical information at the beginning.

And that's how the phrase "THIS IS WHERE WE CAME IN" was born.

It seemed lots of people were accustomed to viewing films in this casual manner because, after all, it was only "entertainment." But somewhere along the way, the theatre owners realized they could put more butts in the seats (andVillage team leader training, and has since led Global Village builds to Chile (2008), India (2009), Hungary twice (2011, 2015), Kenya (2012), and Maui (2017).

The home-builds, he said, "allow me a chance to gain satisfaction through giving back." And, "they allow me to experience and see culture like I never have before."

"Working (with) families in need allows us to have a window into their daily life and struggle. The local home owners love to share their culture and heritage, and at the end of the day, the team becomes better people because of it."

Liberatore, who lives in Evanston, is the Assistant Principal for Student Services at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights. He left Chicago for Maui on March 25, and the multi-day build was completed March


31.

Liberatore was responsible for the 11 other team members, hence, his job wasn't truly over until the last person was dropped off back at the airport for their return flight home.

"This year was special," Liberatore said of the build done in Kahului, on the island of Maui. "We were building for a family of four adult siblings, some (with) physical disabilities. The family was approved for a Habitat home repair and when Habitat came to assess the repairs they deemed the house too unsafe for repairs and slated the property as a complete rebuild. For sweat equity, Habitat requires that the local family put in hours on the build, (so), we (also) had the sibling's cousin working alongside us. Her name was Kelly and she was one ofthe most special individuals. She was a seventh-generation Hawaiian and loved sharing everything about her family and the Hawaiian culture."

The home was about 1,400 square-feet with four bedrooms.

Liberatore and his team were working on siding, roof framing, trimming, waterproofing, and other roof details. They worked under the blazing sun, with the temperature hovering near 85.

His India build in 2009 saw day-time temperatures reach 110 degrees.

Liberatore certainly had a fun tale to tell students and staff at Hersey about his spring break adventure.

The build truly lets him return to school "reset and fresh," he said.

"Many staff and fellow administrators are aware and ask me all sorts of questions," about the build, he said. "I am happy to share about the experience, but usually keep pretty quiet about my past


life," he said. "The family (who the build is for), not knowingly, gives me a complete understanding of their culture on another level that I would never get just (by) visiting the location solo or even in a tour group. Most of all, I get to witness the pure joy and gratitude on the families faces when they realize the team is there to help."

Liberatore's Maui team ranged in age from 22 to 68 – with a truly diverse crew, including fellow Chicago resident Adam Bogucki.

"Never before did I see a team bond and give such personal care and concern for each other's well-being," he said. "I planned the trip eight months ago and, on paper, you never know how the personalities are going to gel until everyoneCategories

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Blog #1: Saudi Arabia’s Oil-based Economy

This document from the U.S. Library of Congress gives an overview of the economy of Saudi Arabia. It provides a timeline of the oil industry in Saudi Arabia and an explanation of the strong position the kingdom has in the global oil market.

The discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia has dramatically transformed the country on many levels. In the years before the 1930s, people in the region where depending on various economical activities. For example, the western province “Hijaz” was dependent on agriculture, trade, and religious tourism due to the existence of the two Islamic holy sites, Makkah and Medina, their. Another provinces like the eastern province had a mainly plantation economy and was dependent on cash crops like dates. With no doubt,


oil played as a unification tool that encouraged urbanization and formed a large but closer communities. For many decades before oil, the people were considered hostile and separated from each-other; due to the requirements of the nomadic lifestyle that does not encourage permanent habitation on one place; as people were in constant looking for water sources.Three major events could describe the contemporary image of Saudi Arabia. First, the establishment of the kingdom in 1932. Second, the discovery of oil in the eastern province in 1938. Third, the high need for the cheap Saudi Arabian oil in the aftermath of the second world war in order for the European countries to rebuild their destroyed infrastructures.The Saudi Arabian oil industry flourished as a result and it later became a necessityto sustain the international economic stability. The importance of the Saudi oil is easily understandable from the intervention of the U.S in the 1991 Persian gulf war; in order to protect its favorite oil provider in the world. Further more, Saudi Arabia as one of the largest oil producing countries has a strong influence on the international oil prices; and its current strategies to secure its economy among the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is expected to damaged many of the smaller oil producing countries in both the short and the long run.

Reflection:

In the recent few years, we could see the global oil prices and demand experiencing many fluctuations; which I expected would seriously affect the country if it continued its heavy reliance on oil.Thankfully, the


and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” said Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former Saudi Arabian oil minister. The article is saying that the dependency of the Middle East on oil revenue is somehow resulting from the dependency of the world on the Middle Eastern oil. When the other countries of the world is self sufficient in terms of energy sources, they would no longer see the necessity of importing oil from the Middle East, and the region would realize the bad situation it is stock in by solely depending on such source. Saudi Arabia, as the largest exporter of oil in the world, is particularly in a great risk due to the uncertainty regarding the fate of oil in the nearwill provide 152 units designed specifically for students enrolled in Mason’s Medical Education Program, 15,000 square feet of retail space and 10,000 square feet of space for Mason’s medical program on the ground floor. The privately leased retail space is designed for the campus community and the employees of the adjacent Innovation @ Prince William business park. It will offer various casual dining space – which will include outdoor seating shaped in a pleasant plaza across from the Hylton Center for the Performing Arts – as well as convenience retail amenities.

The second project is scheduled to be completed in January 2013. It is a three-story building totaling 75,000 square feet of space, 58,000 of which will become university laboratory/office space set to accommodate the Center for Applied Proteomics


International stars Pat Cummins and Glenn Maxwell will join captain Michael Hussey and a group of young talent in the Prime Minister's XI match against England next week.

The team has a heavy Western Australia flavour with Hussey joined by four from the Alcohol.Think Again Western Warriors squad, including tall fast bowling prospects Jason Behrendorff and Simon Mackin, as well as promising batsman Cameron Bancroft and David Moody, nephew of former Australia player Tom.

England will play Tony Abbott's team at Canberra's Manuka Oval on January 14 in a match that will be live streamed on cricket.com.au. The game will be a warm-up for England ahead of the Carlton Mid ODI Tri-Series also featuring Australia and India.

Canberra boy Behrendorff is in top form // Getty Images

Cricket Australia's National Selection Panelchairman Rod Marsh said the annual PM's XI match was "a special fixture on the Australian cricketing calendar and a magnificent tradition".

"Pat (Cummins) has been in excellent form bowling fast for the Sydney Thunder this summer, while Glenn (Maxwell) can electrify the crowd with his daring and aggressive stroke play," said Marsh.

"Eighteen-year-old batsman Jake Doran is in the team, and he will also take the gloves.

"I think we all realise what a great talent Jake is, and his selection will provide another opportunity for him to continue his development."

Although he plays in the west, Behrendorff is a local Canberra product, and will be joined by ACT Comets player Matt Condon.

The team also includes Papua New Guinea star Lega Siaka, who is contracted to the Melbourne Renegades for the


KFC T20 Big Bash League.

Lega Siaka hits out in PNG colours // Getty Images

"Lega scored a century for Papua New Guinea in their first ever one-day international series in November when they defeated Hong Kong, and he is a confident young batsman who will excite the fans," said Marsh.

"His selection highlights PNG’s growth as a cricketing nation."

Prime Minister's XI: Mike Hussey (c, WA), Cameron Bancroft (WA), Jason Behrendorff (WA), Matt Condon (ACT), Pat Cummins (NSW), Jake Doran (wk, NSW), Peter Handscomb (VIC), Simon Mackin (WA), Glenn Maxwell (VIC), David Moody (WA), Lega Siaka (PNG). Mac Wright (12th, ACT).seeking regulatory approval for their products or operations. It also helps customers improve manufacturing processes and defend their products in court and the media. It has approximately 75 employees. Myron Weinberg was the Chief Executive Officer of the Company until 1997. His son, Michael Weinberg, succeeded him as ECO. Arlyne Weinberg was the President of an affiliated company that also participated in the Company's benefit plan ("the Plan").
Plaintiff was employed with the Company from September 1, 1990 until February 28, 2002. She was 47 years old when she left. According to her Affidavit, her income from employment with the Company ranged from $352,297.52 to $852,145.10 between 1996 and 2001. From 1998 until 2002, Plaintiff was employed as a director and officer of the Company. As a Company employee,


duties of the Company and the individual Defendants, and constituted prohibited transactions under ERISA.
In a staff meeting on February 15, 2002, Matthew Weinberg informed all employees that the Company would no longer make any lump sum distributions of benefits to Plan participants, because, according to Plaintiff, "the Pension Plan had paid out a significant number of benefits to previously retired or terminated participants."
On February 28, 2002, the Company terminated Plaintiffs employment.
On November 27, 2002, Plaintiff filed a claim with the Plan Administrator for a lump sum distribution of her benefits.
By letter dated December 19, 2002, the Company informed Plaintiff that "[t]he Plan is both willing and able to pay Dr. Becker the full amount of her accrued benefit in a lump sum subject to the restrictions described inher with only seven "years of participation" in the Plan, rather than ten years. Dkt. # 59, March 18, 2003 Letter.
On May 7, 2003, the Company, acting as Plan Administrator, sent a letter to Plaintiff with a detailed explanation of why her assertion that she should have been credited with ten years of participation was rejected. Dkt. #58 Ex. G.
In December of 2004, Matthew Weinberg personally borrowed $3,000,000.00, which he loaned to the Company to contribute to the Plan in order to fully fund and ultimately terminate it. Between January 1, 2005 and July 6, 2005, the Company contributed the total amount of $2,276,128.00 to the Plan.
On August 12, 2005, the Company provided Plaintiff with an unrestricted lump sum payment of $484,194.98. On August 18, 2005, Plaintiff cashed


the check for her benefit.
On March 21, 2005, the Plan Administrator filed a standard termination notice with the PBGC with respect to the Plan. Am. Compl. ¶ 84. On April 28, 2005, Plaintiff submitted a letter to the PBGC alleging that the Plan Administrator had miscalculated her benefits, and asking the PBGC to suspend termination of the Plan. See Dkt. #73 Ex. D. The PBGC had a 60-day period from the time of the termination notice within which to issue any notice of noncompliance; it did not issue any such notice. On November 28, 2005, the Plan Administrator filed a certification with the PBGC certifying that all assets of the Plan had been distributed to Plan participants. The PBGC responded on December 9, 2005, notifying the Plan Administratorand ultimate termination of the Plan and upheld the reasonableness of the Plan Administrator's calculations of the precise benefit amount to which Plaintiff was entitled.
If, however, culpability or bad faith must be assigned, it must be assigned to Defendants. From November 27, 2002, when Plaintiff first made a request for the payment of her lump sum benefit, until August 12, 2005, when she was finally paid the entire amount of $484,194.98without any restrictionsto which she was entitled, Defendants refused to pay either Plaintiff or other Plan beneficiaries the unrestricted lump sum benefits they had earned. Moreover, in their own Petition for Attorneys' Fees, Defendants are disingenuous to say the least when they argue that "eight months before Plaintiff filed her lawsuit, The Weinberg Group offered Plaintiff the full


the Polish barricade, for they know that behind each one wait determined troops of AK with petrol bottles. The same petrol bottles that have caused the destruction of so many of their comrades.

The German forces have brutally murdered wounded and sick people both men and women who were lying in St. Lazarus Hospital in Wolska Street, Nr. 18, and Karol and Maria Hospital in Przejazd Street, Nr. 5.

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AUGUST 13

In Jerozolimska Avenue when the Germans were bringing supplies by tank to one of their outposts they drove before them 500 women and children to prevent the troops of AK from taking action against them. Many of them were killed and wounded. The same kind of action has been reported from many other parts of the city.

* **

AUGUST 13

Despite lack of weapons the Polish forces continue to hold the initiative in the battle of Warsaw. In some places they have broken into German strongholds and captured much-needed arms and ammunition. On August the 12th were captured 11,600 rounds rifle ammunition, five machine guns, 8,500 small arm ammunition, 20 pistols, 30 anti-tank mines, three hand machines and motor-cars. The German forces are fighting desperately. In Jerozolimska Avenue when AK set fire to a building which the Germans were holding as a fortress, two German soldiers tried to escape to the Polish lines with a white flag. An SS officer saw them and shot them dead. During the night from 12th/13th AK at 1 o'clock in the morning received some weapons from Allied aircraft.

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august 13

Fighting


for the electric power station began on August 1st at 5.10 p.m. Twenty-three soldiers of the Polish Home Army were stationed in the works before that hour because they were employed there in the normal course of things, expecting the outbreak of the uprising. The Germans had the day before raised the strength of the garrison to 150 militarized police stationed in concrete pillboxes and block houses, also in all the works' buildings. The signal for action was the explosion of a mine under one of the buildings.. After 19 hours of fighting the electric power station was fully in Polish hands on August 2nd at 12 o'clock noon. The Polish losses were 17 killed and 27 wounded. The German losses were 20 killed and 22 wounded withare huge concentration camps full of women and children living in the open air without food or help of any kind. They are dying of hunger and disease under the most terrible conditions. The Germans show no mercy to these helpless people. They have no men to look after them. The men were shot when the women and children were taken prisoner.

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august 20

The Germans have, in many areas, gone over from the defensive to the attack. The high school of Snakeskin Street was taken by Germans at 5.00 hours on the 19th August. The attack was carried out by a heavy artillery barrage and supported by tanks. The lack of ammunition and weapons is being heavily felt by the Polish forces. Despite these drawbacks, however, the


difficult for the British nation to understand. It is a battle that is being carried on as much by the civil population a; by A. K., the troops of the Polish Home Army. It is total warfare. Every street in the city has been a field of battle for the past 24 days. The enemy mine-throwers, artillery and aircraft are taking a heavy toll of human life. The damage to property is incalculable. Normal life in the city is, of course, at a complete standstill. Practically the whole population is engaged in some sort of public duty. Thousands of people have been mobilized to stand by to put out the fires that are raging throughout the city day and night. Thousands more are engaged in keeping the streetswas given these shells were thrown from a second floor window as near to the German position as possible, and then the company of A. K. fled to such cover as was obtainable, the effect of this ingenious maneuver being considerable. The weapons that have been dropped by the GRAF have been of great value but are in quantity inadequate.

Another problem that is facing the population today is the shortage of food. Warsaw is a city that has been starved by the Germans for nearly five years. The quantity of food in the city at the outbreak of hostilities was small. It is already 24 days since hostilities began and at the moment in Warsaw we see no hope of a speedy end to the present state of


affairs.

The population have a second great worry. What form will the Russian occupation take? News comes daily of further leading members of the community being arrested in territories occupied by Soviet troops. Also a large number of officers from A. K. have been put into Soviet concentration camps. It was understood by the Polish people when the uprising started that it was only a question of a few days before the Soviet troops entered the city. The fight against the common enemy that has been waged in Poland during the past five years has been hard and bitter. The population of the Capital was called upon to make one final effort. The call was answered gallantly. Hardships are many, losses very high, but despite all this the determination26

The Germans are continuing their campaign of murder in Warsaw. Three days ago two Polish prisoners came with a message from Gestapo headquarters in Such Avenue. The message was that the German troops who were in the post in Pius Street should be allowed to join Gestapo headquarters in Such Avenue. The Germans said that in exchange they would release some Polish prisoners and send some medical supplies. The request was, of course, refused.
The two Polish people who brought the message say that the Germans have constructed a crematorium and are shooting and burning about 300 men daily. Up till the time these two people left Gestapo H.Q. 3,000 suits of civil clothing had been received into the German store. That means that 3,000 Polish patriots have already


as a whole after one month of desperate fighting is practically unchanged. Many German strong-points have been taken by storm, but all the main enemy strongholds are still intact. Warsaw is truly a city of ruins and the dead are either buried inside the ruins or alongside them. The losses among the civilian population are very high. Today the German Air Force dropped a leaflet in which they stated that unless the fight were stopped at once, they would burn the whole city. They have been doing that for two weeks, there are now only ruins left to be burnt. Despite all set-backs, the lack of expected help and the heavy losses, the determination of the people to fight to the last man is as firm as ever.1st September, 1944. In the other parts of the city the Germans are continuing their periodical air artillery and mine-thrower attacks. There are two kinds of mines in use, one is composed of half explosive and half incendiary material, and the other of pure explosive material. The list of casualties mounts daily. It is impossible to calculate yet just how high the losses of human life are. Thousands of people have been taken out from the city by the Germans, thousands more are cut off from any communication with parts of the town occupied by AK, and thousands more are buried under the ruins of houses. In the large concentration camps formed by the Germans on the city outskirts tens of thousands of Polish people are starving to


was approximately six years old. In 1993, shortly before the victim started the second grade, defendant, her mother, and the victim moved from Houston to Denver.
In August 2002, the victim informed her mother that she had been sexually abused, but she did not say by whom. At the end of October 2002, the victim had the first of four counseling sessions with Dr. Patricia Howard, a psychologist. During that session, the victim told Howard that defendant might have molested her when she was younger. In early November, the victim told her high school guidance counselor that defendant had sexually molested her. The counselor informed the police and the mother about the victim's allegation.
Defendant was subsequently charged with ten counts each of sexual assault on a child, sexual assaulton a child by one in a position of trust, and aggravated incest.
At trial, the victim testified about defendant's alleged abuse and her counseling sessions with Howard. The victim's mother, her school counselor, a school resource officer, and a sheriff's department investigator testified and corroborated the victim's allegations of sexual abuse. The jury was also shown a videotape of an interview with the victim regarding the abuse, which was conducted by *321 a forensic interviewer from a child advocacy center.
After the prosecution presented its case, defendant sought to admit Howard as a witness and made an offer of proof regarding Howard's proposed testimony. The trial court denied defendant's request on the ground that the victim had neither consented to the admission of Howard's testimony nor waived her psychologist-patient


San Francisco to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous materials at its retail stores across the United States. The Bentonville, Ark.-based company also pleaded guilty today in Kansas City, Mo., to violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) by failing to properly handle pesticides that had been returned by customers at its stores across the country. As a result of the three criminal cases brought by the Justice Department, as well as a related civil case filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Wal-Mart will pay approximately $81.6 million for its unlawful conduct. Coupled with previous actions brought by the states of California and Missouri for the same conduct, Wal-Mart will pay a combined total ofNew agreement between DTI and IADS aims to strengthen the dental community

LEIPZIG, Germany: Dental Tribune International (DTI) and the International Association of Dental Students (IADS) recently signed a collaboration agreement to help strengthen their networks and promote the important work both organisations are doing. With a combined audience of around one million dentists, industry professionals and dental students worldwide, the collaboration will bring together professionals from a variety of fields in a more informed and up-to-date format.

Representing the interests of more than 200,000 dental students in around 60 countries, the IADS shares its headquarters with the FDI World Dental Federation in Geneva and strives toward educational and scientific excellence through the international projects and initiatives it manages.

Speaking directly with Dental Tribune Online, the editor of IADS Abanob Yosry


very very dumb, and it should be obvious to the North Koreans that it’s bad for their health!

So how good is North Korean weed?

During the days of the Korean War many decades ago, American soldiers stationed at the border between North Korea and South Korea found wild cannabis growing everywhere, but it was ditchweed, similar to hemp.

These days, North Koreans have somehow managed to improve their cannabis genetics and cultivation techniques so they have at least a quality level that we’d call “mids” here in the United States.

But if you want a marijuana tourism experience, go to Denver or Jamaica, not North Korea. Western visitors say that when they ask North Koreans to procure marijuana for them, people are unfriendly if not outright hostile.

Still, with all the badFour people found dead in suspected suicide pact

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Four people were found dead inside a guesthouse room near Gyeongpo lake in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, Tuesday.The four are suspected to have gassed themselves to death in a suicide pact as a nitrogen tank and plastic bags were found in the room.The men and women were initially found dead by the owner of the guesthouse who entered the room after the scheduled check-out time.The police are investigating how the four people, who have little in common in terms of age and place of residence, ended up together in the fatal incident.(mjk625@heraldcorp.com)


ABOUT DR. ADAM BROOK

Dr. Adam Brook attended Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His graduate thesis focused on regulation of cell cycle transcription factors implicated in carcinogenesis.

Dr. Brook completed formal training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Tennessee, under Dr. Darryl Weiman. He has served as Registrar in Thoracic Surgery at Mount Hope in Trinidad, under Mr. Ian Ramnarine, and as Specialist Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Barts and the London NHS Trust, under Mr. Alan Wood.

Dr. Brook is certified in cardiothoracic surgery by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery.

Over the course of his career Dr. Brook has participated in over 2500 surgical procedures, including over 1000allowing them to deploy critical resources nearly a year before a Democrat is nominated.

Whoever thought this fight would start in the general election campaign had it all wrong. This terrifying realization is now causing allies of former Vice President Joe Biden to mull the creation of a super PAC since he is not only struggling to raise adequate sums but has been forced to fend off attacks by Trump months before the first votes in the primary contest will even be cast.

In August, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez acknowledged the threat after the RNC tripled the amount the DNC raised in July. In an email he sent supporters sounding the alarm, he wrote that “our eventual nominee won't stand a chance against Trump and the GOP’s fundraising


donors just in that quarter.

Impeachment has been a boon to GOP fundraising and grassroots organizing. Since the official start of impeachment, $10.3 million has been spent between the RNC and the Trump campaign in ads on air and online and the RNC has held 60 events in swing or Trump districts held by Democrats, and in Senate and gubernatorial races, just since Sept. 30.

For the 2020 campaign, RNC has staff deployed in 19 states including New Hampshire and New Mexico, with five regional communications directors and nine regional political directors. By Election Day there will be 2 million volunteers coordinated by 60,000 “fellows,” who are trained grassroots volunteers. In 2016 the RNC had 5,000 fellows, then in 2018 that grew to 25,000, and more than 30,000 additional fellowsA couple of first time writers and a director making his feature debut hit it big today, with Paramount Pictures picking up their project titled, Almanac.THR reports that Paramount is looking to move aggressively with the film, that has been in development over at Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller's Platinum Dunes for the past year. Bay and his cohorts are attached to produce the project.

No information is given on the story, penned by first-time writers Andrew Stark and Jason Pagan, other than that it is intended to be a found-footage project. AFI grad Dean Israelite, will make Almanac his feature directorial debut. Israelite just so happens to be the cousin of director Jonathan Liebesman, who is attached to direct Ninja Turtles for Platinum Dunes and Paramount.


Abarth 850 Record Monza Bialbero 1960 Rosso

The first owner was Fiat Canada and they raced the car in 1960 and 1961.

In 1962 the car was sold to a Mr Hunter Floyd for the total price of 2.900 Canadian Dollars.

Invoice on file.

He raced the car at Harewood Acres, Gosport, Green Acres and Saint Ugine of which pictures and timing charts are available.

In 1963 the car was sold to a Mr Raymond Murray who raced the car sparingly and stored it away in 1964. He would keep the car for 24 years when it sold to a Mr. Murray Wivell.

In 1990 the car was repainted and the engine was rebuilt.

In 2005 the current owner bought the car. The car is well maintained and on the button for normal road use.situations – and they can often provide additional guidance relating to your claim and how best to proceed.

McDowall is a northern suburb of Brisbane within the City of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia. McDowall is notable for the Raven Street Reserve, which is a 24.3 hectare bushland area surrounded by urban housing and busy roads.


Lawyers who represented rugby player Paddy Jackson in the Belfast rape trial have issued defamation proceedings against former Ireland captain Rory Best, it can be revealed.

The lawsuit relates to a radio appearance by the recently retired sports star in January, in which he expressed regret at having attended the high-profile trial.

Other comments he made during the interview prompted legal correspondence from solicitors acting on behalf of the team which represented Mr Jackson during the case.

Court records now show the matter has escalated and a writ of summons has been issued against Mr Best (37), who earned 124 caps for Ireland during a glittering career.

As part of the action, two solicitors and two barristers who acted for Mr Jackson are seeking damages from the former Ulster and Ireland hookerfor libel. The case was initiated on March 20 in the Queen’s Bench Division of Northern Ireland’s High Court by solicitors Kevin Winters and Joe McVeigh, both of Belfast firm KRW Law, and barristers Brendan Kelly QC and Stephen Toal BL.

They were all part of the legal team which successfully defended Mr Jackson against charges of raping and assaulting a 19-year-old woman in June 2016.

Mr Jackson’s former Ulster team-mate Stuart Olding was also acquitted of rape following the trial in 2018.

Their friend Blane McIlroy was found not guilty of exposure, while a fourth accused, Rory Harrison, was found not guilty of concealing evidence and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Mr Best, who lives in Co Armagh, had agreed to appear as a character witness for Mr Jackson


Hear Nas' J Dilla–Sampling New Song 'The Season'

Earlier this week, Nas crashed a Run the Jewels listening party to play fans his latest single, “The Season.” Now the rapper has shared the smoothly soulful song online, making it available to stream below and download.

Nas: My Life in 20 Songs

After months of promoting the 20th anniversary edition of his breakthrough debut, Illmatic, and the documentary, Time Is Illmatic, Nas has been spending his time crafting his next record with producers Timbaland, Swizz Beats and No I.D. The rapper has yet to announce a release date for the album.

Midway into “The Season,” which may or may not appear on the LP, the track finds the rapper bragging, “Hands in the air, the season of Nasir,” as well as “This soulfulClarke Carlisle - back and gone again

Central defender Clarke Carlisle began yesterday as a Preston North End player and ended it with Northampton Town after one loan was terminated and another commenced during what is his last year at Turf Moor.

It looked as though Carlisle had left Burnley for good during the summer when he joined his home town club Preston North End on a season long loan. That loan was set to take him to the end of his Burnley contract and it was widely reported at the time that he would probably become a full time Preston player after this season.

He's played fairly regularly for Preston and I can only assume he's had some good days and some not so good for them. What turned out


to be his last appearance for the Lilywhites, their 2-1 defeat at Yeovil last Saturday, proved to be one in the latter category despite him scoring their late consolation goal.

Rumours strengthened that he'd left the club but I was convinced that couldn't really happen because of the terms of the loan, and I'm sure had another club not been found then he would have remained at Deepdale for the remainder of the season.

Those rumours persisted right into yesterday that he'd gone and it was all finally confirmed. The loan agreement was terminated by mutual consent and Clarke would move to Northampton for the remainder of the season, joining up for a third time with their manager Aidy Boothroyd.

Preston thanked Clarke for his services and new manage Graham Westley(and I wonder whether this was all done by text in the early hours) said: ""Clarke has been a terrific professional over the last couple of weeks but was finding it difficult to merge his wider responsibilities with the new regime that I have introduced at the Club.

"He gave me all he could whilst I settled in, never missing a moment until I could replace him. The move to Northampton allows us both to move on in a positive way which is how we agreed to work together."

Over at Northampton, Boothroyd was delighted to get him for their fight at the bottom of League Two.

"Clarke is a player I have worked with before," Boothroyd said. "He is a leader in every sense of the word. He has won


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Although the number is large on its face, it nonetheless represents a massive reduction from the amount of information the agency gathered previously. Under the old system, it collected potentially “billions of records per day,” according to a 2014 study.

During his final year in office, President Obama's team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.

In all, government officials conducted


U.S. names being distributed across government in 2016, and another 3,354 reports in 2015. About half the time, U.S. identities were unredacted in the original reports while the other half were unmasked after the fact by special request of Obama administration officials.

A top lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which has long raised concerns about the NSA’s ability to spy on Americans, said the rise in searches is a troubling pattern that should concern members of both political parties because it has occurred with little oversight from the courts or Congress.ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Personnel from the Coast Guard, Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Department of Conservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Cook Inlet Regional Citizen Advisory Council are responding to a report of a landing craft with a punctured fuel tanker on board in southeastern Cook Inlet, south of Port Graham, Saturday.

The crew of a 116-foot landing craft, Thor’s Hammer, were transiting from Seward to Bristol Bay when the vessel reportedly encountered heavy seas which caused a breach in the 9,000-gallon diesel-fuel tanker on board.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mustang, a 110-foot patrol boat, was diverted to the vessel’s location. The Mustang is expected on scene Saturday evening.

The owner of Thor’s Hammer contracted the Alaska Chadux Corporation to assist in containing and


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He completed his doctoral thesis on psychologism in 1914, In the two years following, he worked first as an unsalaried Privatdozent.

He served as a soldier during the final year of World War I, working behind a desk and never leaving Germany.

When Husserl retired as Professor of Philosophy in 1928, Heidegger accepted Freiburg's election to be his successor, in spite of a counter-offer by Marburg.

According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century." Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification." In


the first division of the work, Heidegger attempted to turn away from "ontic" questions about beings to ontological questions about Being, and recover the most fundamental philosophical question: the question of Being, of what it means for something to be.

Heidegger approached the question through an inquiry into the being that has an understanding of Being, and asks the question about it, namely, Human being, which he called Dasein ("being-there").

He helped Blochmann emigrate from Germany before the start of World War II and resumed contact with both of them after the war.

Heidegger spent much time at his vacation home at Todtnauberg, on the edge of the Black Forest.

Heidegger also made critical contributions to philosophical conceptions of truth, arguing that its original meaning was unconcealment, to philosophical analyses of artas a site of the revelation of truth, and to philosophical understanding of language as the "house of being." Heidegger's later work includes criticisms of technology's instrumentalist understanding in the Western tradition as "enframing," treating all of Nature as a "standing reserve" on call for human purposes.

Heidegger is a controversial figure, largely for his affiliation with Nazism, as Rector of the University of Freiburg for 11 months, before his resignation in April 1934, for which he neither apologized nor publicly expressed regret, Raised a Roman Catholic, he was the son of the sexton of the village church that adhered to the First Vatican Council of 1870, which was observed mainly by the poorer class of Meßkirch.

His family could not afford to send him to university, so he entered


a Jesuit seminary, though he was turned away within weeks because of the health requirement and what the director and doctor of the seminary described as a psychosomatic heart condition.

Heidegger was short and sinewy, with dark piercing eyes.

He also read the works of Dilthey, Husserl, and Max Scheler.

In 1927, Heidegger published his main work Sein und Zeit (Being and Time).

The consequence of this is that our capacity to think cannot be the most central quality of our being because thinking is a reflecting upon this more original way of discovering the world.still put too many obstacles in their path."

Career satisfaction in first-place Bahrain

Bahrain ranks first place in the 2018 survey. The country makes it easy for people to feel welcome and settled, and the working conditions are favorable. Expats also felt good about life in Taiwan, which ranks second for its "quality of life," InterNations head Zeeck says.

More than 18,000 expats in 187 countries were questioned about their experience living in a foreign country; 1,692 expats participated in Germany. The survey did not focus on facts — comparing the cost of living, for instance — as much as on people's personal perceptions. At least 75 participants per country were required, and in the end, 68 countries were part of the ranking.

Estonia: Digitization pioneer

For the first time, the survey also


version of which was released publicly, found that Russian hackers breached the DNC and committed other cyberattacks with the intention of helping Trump win the White House over Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Virginia Democrat blasts Trump's 'appalling' remark about COVID-19 deaths in 'blue states' The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE.

Trump, who has continuously cast doubt on intelligence agencies’ findings, did not say that he agrees with the report's conclusions in a statement after his briefing.

“[T]here was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that thereThere is a dispute brewing over beer at Rogers Place.

Brad Kwasnycia, an Edmonton Oilers season ticket holder, is accusing the new arena of short-changing patrons with short pours on pricey draft.

"They are using a 20-ounce cup, but they're not filling it to top. The head might be going to the top, but the liquid level is not near what they're advertising on the board," said Kwasnycia in a Wednesday morning interview with CBC Radio's Edmonton AM.

"At the end of the day, it's about getting what you pay for and everyone is entitled to do that if they're going to be paying the prices that they're charging."

Kwasnycia was at last Thursday's preseason game between the Oilers and the Winnipeg Jets with his daughter.

During the first intermission, Kwasnycia sidled up


(or all three!) parades before he returns to the North Pole briefly before making his rounds on the 25th of December.

The 48th Annual Help Santa Toy Parade takes place on Saturday November 18th, starting downtown at City Hall on Laurier Avenue at 11am, where it will travel down Bank Street and finish at Lansdowne. Ottawa Fire Fighters will be collecting new toys and cash donations along the route that day in an effort to help the less fortunate children in the region.

Later that evening, you will find Santa in Barrhaven where festive lights will glow and music will fill the neighbourhood as the parade travels down Strandherd Drive, starting at 5:30pm. Visit their website and view the route!

After dreams of sugarplums have danced in your head and you’veHer young adult novel Caramel Hearts, published in 2016, is a coming-of-age novel about love, disappointment and hope, and discovering the true value of friends and family, no matter how dysfunctional they are.

Elizabeth was born in England and lives in West Cork, Ireland, where she likes to fish, grow her own vegetables and enjoy adventures with her dog, Franklyn.

Elizabeth also encourages new and emerging writers, regularly facilitating workshops for both adults and children. She also provides manuscript reports and online workshops for Big Smoke Writing Factory and Inkwell Group.


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This Frenchman has a knack for Hollywood-style escapes. In 2001, he fled a French prison via helicopter. In 2003, he again used a chopper to help three others escape the same facility. After he was recaptured, Payet escaped yet again in an even more dramatic jailbreak. A copter was hijacked in Cannes and flown to a state penitentiary in Grasse, where it landed on the prison's roof. Three men jumped out with pistols and sawed-off shotguns, busted their way in and came out with Payet. That unleashed a massive search for the men, and three months later Payet was caught in Spain. It's unclear whether he's got another dramatic escape in him.

Read TIME's top 10 zoo escapes.

Next John Gerard and the Tower of LondonProfiles:
Chris W. Strand

Part of the Family

Chris hails from a long line of Seattle-area entrepreneurs. His grandfather presided
over the popular upscale Wharf Restaurant, welcoming generations of Seattleites during
the halcyon days of the 1960s. Keeping customers coming back is the heart of success.
Like his granddad, Chris is a man with an open smile and a winning way. One of the
city's high-profile natives, Chris seems to know just about everyone. Specializing
in integrating tax strategies with wealth planning, accounting and business consulting
for affluent individuals and families, his client portfolio includes a range of clients.
For many of those clients, Chris has become more than just another advisor; he has
become part of the family. This meant meeting clients on-schedule every week for 30
years, scheduling vacations around appointments times and even programming a phone.

It was


this attention to detail and to his clients that caused Strand to be named
one of the best personal wealth managers in the Seattle area in 2008, 2010 and 2012,
and a top CPA in 2013. Bader Martin is consistently ranked as one of the best places
to work in Seattle and even in the country, according to Accounting Today. Moreover,
Chris is often recognized as one of the top personal wealth managers in the Pacific
Northwest. There is no secret to that success: hard work, finely honed skills and
an honest desire to provide exemplary service to the clients.

Today Chris is at the top of his game, but it didn't start out that way. He started
out to be a court reporter, like his wife. Chris recalls meeting Colleen back at the
Sunnybeam Preschool onMercer Island, although her first memories of him are from
a few years later, when they began dating in junior high. High school sweethearts,
they set off for Washington State University. After a year at WSU, they settled on
court reporting as a career choice and enrolled together at Green River Community
College in Auburn, Washington. They graduated from the program, married soon after,
and started their new careers. They were both 20 years old.

When the young couple returned from a week-long vacation, they discovered the agency
he'd worked for had folded. Chris, who saw no viable future for himself in court reporting,
started casting about for a new career direction. When he took his first accounting
courses, he found a match. When Chris's friends lamented the difficulty of accounting,
he would reassure them. He never wavered.


As the courses became more advanced, his
fascination with the field grew.

While still a student, he wrote a cost-accounting program for the first business in
the country that produced printable tickets in movie theaters. Before that company's
innovation, movie tickets were more like raffle tickets, pre-printed on a big roll.
He was just 22 years old and on track to becoming a great cost accountant.

It was the late 1970s and Chris Strand, with his long hair and beard, didn't think
he would fit the image of a public accountant. Like most young graduates, he set out
in 1980 making the rounds, looking to launch his career. After hearing that message
a few more times, he asked the interviewers why. Their response was they couldn't
see Chris sitting in a room by himself all day working withnumbers. He realized they
were advising him to become a public accountant. He ramped up the interview schedule,
got a haircut, shaved his beard, and started making the rounds, albeit a bit later
than his fellow accounting grads.

New Year 1981 brought big changes. Chris started work for the Seattle office of Laventhol
& Horwath, the largest second-tier national accounting firm in the country, and three
weeks later became a first-time father when his daughter, Kirsten, was born. Four
years later to the day, his son, Alex, arrived.

By then, Chris was a CPA specializing in tax work, another serendipitous move, as
it turned out; although there were a few hurdles he had to clear. Laventhol in Seattle
had just merged with a smaller firm that dealt with taxation. Chris agreed to work
in the tax department and began


preparation for the CPA exam. In three days, with
a thick book and his family on vacation, he studied for the exam and passed on the
first try.

Armed with his new CPA license, Chris continued to work in taxation and climb the
Laventhol career ladder. His first post-busy season had been earmarked for the CPA
exam; his second lap began when he was introduced to Golden Gate University's taxation
program at the Seattle center. It was a natural fit for a man seeking to advance in
his field. Chris Strand had never heard of the place. The invitation had come from
the professional tax community; some of the area's most prestigious tax professionals
comprised the faculty. That, alone, was a strong selling point for Strand.

"At work, I accelerated past a lot of my peers because Ihad gathered so much more
tax knowledge than those who hadn't taken the courses."

Strand recalls one night when all of the students arrived unprepared. Finally, in
frustration, Bob declared: "We're done for the night. Next week we're having a six-hour
class and you'd better be prepared, or the next week we'll have a nine-hour class."
It was the last time the students arrived unprepared. Strand graduated in 1987 with
an MS in taxation, but his relationship with Shaw continued. The two families, each
with young children who attended the same daycare center, had become personal friends.
The two men often called on clients together. Chris recalls a fateful Thursday when
he called to make arrangements to ride together with Shaw for a client visit the following
day. When his friend didn't pick up his private line, Chris


dialed the main number
at the firm and was told he needed to talk to a partner. Instead, Chris learned that
his longtime mentor and friend was hospitalized with terminal cancer. He died within
a few days. That was in June 2000; just a year earlier Bob Shaw had been named Washington
Super Lawyer by the State Bar Association. He also had been named one of the Best
Lawyers in America by American Lawyer magazine, and became a Golden Gate University
Outstanding Faculty member. In his honor, Chris and other area practitioners started
a scholarship fund at Golden Gate University in Bob Shaw's name.

Many firms, including Bader Martin, reimburse their employees for taking Golden Gate
taxation courses, so it was important to those designing the fund that the scholarships
go to a student with financial need whodriving trucks and hauling furniture and equipment, even cubicle walls. Some
clients prepaid for the services — one large client paid the whole year's fees, enabling
the fledgling firm to make payroll and overhead from the start. The firm easily adopted
its new identity.Today, about 60% of the firm's business is taxation, with the remainder
devoted to financial statements and consulting. Since its inception, Bader Martin
has grown steadily from about 55 employees to approximately 80.

Simply put, families and family ties are important to Chris Strand. It shows in his
work and his personal life. When Chris has an out-of-town business meeting, he sometimes
extends his stays in cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco to vacation with
family. His two preschool-aged grandchildren, who live next door, are a constant source
of entertainment and joy. In


said Nainoa Thompson, navigator and president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society who oversaw the expedition and mission.

Traditional way-finding

The voyage is perpetuating the traditional way-finding that brought the first Polynesians several thousand miles to Hawaii hundreds of years ago. The trip also helped train a new generation of young navigators.

Mau Piailug, from a small island called Satawal in Micronesia, was among the last half-dozen people in the world to practice the art of traditional navigation and agreed to guide Hokulea to Tahiti in 1976. “Without him, our voyaging would never have taken place,” the Polynesian Voyaging Society said on the website for Hokulea. “Mau was the only traditional navigator who was willing and able to reach beyond his culture to ours.”

The epic round-the-world voyage that started in 2014 showshow far Hokulea has gone since its first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976.

Disaster befell another voyage in 1978 when the canoe capsized off the Hawaiian island of Molokai in a blinding storm. Eddie Aikau, a revered Hawaiian surfer and lifeguard on the crew, grabbed his surfboard and paddled for help, but was never seen again. The rest of the crew members were rescued.

Indigenous cultures

Crew members hope the success of the latest journey will inspire other indigenous cultures to rediscover and revive traditions. Mr. Thompson said he also hopes indigenous cultures can help with solutions to modern-day problems such as climate change.

Native Hawaiian ancestors were not only skilled navigators but good stewards of the islands who farmed and fished sustainably. “They figured it out how to live


for two legs.

The voyage has had challenges and reaching South Africa in 2015 the journey’s halfway point was the most dangerous leg because of complicated ocean conditions. In February, a team of four apprentice navigators spotted tiny, remote Easter Island. Pinpointing the island that is also known as Rapa Nui at sunset was a major accomplishment because it is considered one of the most difficult islands to find using traditional way-finding.Terrence Malick's Tree of Life is an often-dazzling, frequently engaging, powerful spectacle. There are times when the movie grips the viewer with an unexpected intensity, as if Malick is pushing directly on emotional pressure points. At the same time, the film is frustratingly ethereal. To expect a movie like this to give the viewer easy answers or to hold their hand through many of the film's deeply abstract visual passages is unrealistic, but even gathering the film up in one's head is a nearly insurmountable challenge, with pieces from one part so disconnected from another, it's as if someone took several gorgeous, unique puzzles, shuffled them together, and asked the audience to try and form a single image.

The first 40 or so minutes are devoted to a history


of the universe, shown essentially without comment, drifting through the birth of the universe and passing on through an era with dinosaurs. Malick's imagery is undeniably gorgeous, but the sequence, set to classical music, felt like a shadow of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, which said more about the nature of nature, using existing footage, than Malick does with his created visuals. Eventually, Malick revises his focus on a family living in Texas in the 1950s, and the film gains a more palpable sense of motivation.

The primary focus of the family segments is Jack, a character played by Hunter McCracken as a youth, and Sean Penn as an adult. The film is loosely framed with the idea that the adult Jack is reflecting on the death of his younger brother,and eventually, on his youth as a whole. Young Jack is an angry kid: constantly provoked and criticized by his father (Brad Pitt), unable to respect his mother (Jessica Chastain), distant to his two brothers R.L. and Steve (Laramie Eppler and Tye Sheridan). All of the footage that concerns the O'Briens is transfixing, with Malick picking up on the most subtle emotional cues from his actors, particularly Pitt, whose unnamed father figure acts tough, to ensure his boys are tough, but frequently confesses quiet, softly sorrowful regrets about his life and the direction it's taken. Malick also captures a startling, crackling sense of danger: it's rare that a scene is more gripping than a moment when Jack and R.L. play with a lamp and a coat hanger, and


It all began with the surprise departure.

On July 7, after four full and very productive seasons for the New York Red Bulls, popular winger Lloyd Sam was traded to rival D.C. United. With no more than a single day to process that RBNY were shopping the Leeds, England-native, Red Bulls observers were trying to make sense of the move.

While New York brass gave vague reasons for the move, it has become clear that it was orchestrated to create salary cap flexibility and to insert rookie Alex Muyl into the starting lineup. Since the trade Muyl has made 13 of his 17 starts in 2016.

Unlike Sam, who often channeled the RBNY offense through his runs down the right side, Muyl’s role has been completely different. The Red Bull AcademyHomegrown from the Lower East Side of Manhattan has been tasked with being a defensive winger and a main cog in New York’s high press.

In Sunday’s win over Columbus Crew SC, Muyl displayed the attributes that have made the former Georgetown Hoya a fixture in Jesse Marsch’s starting XI since the departure of Sam. And he has showed why some question his continued place in the starting lineup.

Muyl made his first major impact of the afternoon in the sixth minute as he used his hustle and defensive tenacity to turn a wayward pass form Sacha Kljestan into a penalty opportunity for RBNY.

Attempting to spring Muyl down the right sideline, Kljestan overhit his pass and Crew center back Michael Parkhurst ushered the ball towards goalkeeper Brad Stuver for the


end of the field. No other other Red Bull would have more than three on the day.

Muyl even got into the act as a distributor, notching his sixth assist of the season in the 58th minute after finding Bradley Wright-Phillips open down the left channel. The Englishman did his best Thierry Henry impression to double the Red Bulls’ lead.

While there was plenty of good from Muyl, we also saw some of the inconsistencies that still exist in his game.

Alex Muyl...

Marking man with ball: Good.

In possession of ball: Ungood.#RBNY — Joshua John (@JJHargs) October 16, 2016

The biggest gripe many have made about Muyl, myself included, has been about his current ability with the ball at his feet and in attacking areas. Despite his assist earlier in the game, hisUN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia | Roman Boed

The Balkan borders could be redrawn, Steven Meyer, a CIA veteran, who served as deputy of the US administration's Balkan Task Force for five years in the 1990s, told Sputnik Serbia.

Known as a critique of the US's policies in the Balkans, Meyer argues that the borders "more or less imposed" on the Balkan nations by the US and its European allies following the collapse of Yugoslavia do not correspond to the true state of affairs.

Recalling the conclusion of the Dayton Peace Accords, signed in December 1995, the CIA veteran pointed out that the agreement, aimed at ending the bloodshed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was made in a hurry.

"They [US President Bill Clinton and Assistant Secretary of State Richard


Holbrooke] were so anxious to get a solution and to do it quickly. I understand that a good part of Dayton was ending the bloodshed in Bosnia and [President of Serbia Slobodan] Milosevic was anxious to please the US, he wanted aid from the US and he spoke for the Bosnian Serbs," Meyer told Sputnik.

In accordance with the Dayton agreements, the State of Bosnia-Herzegovina was established as the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and of the Republika Srpska.

"Holbrooke was very adamant, very tough about the solution. He convinced the [US] administration that it was the right way to go," the CIA veteran said.

However, according to Meyer, it was clear from the very beginning that the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina wouldn't be sustainable in the long run.

The country Bosnia existsthe border change issue is the Albanians, who seek the creation of the so-called Greater Albania.

The Greater Albania doctrine envisions that the territories in southern Montenegro, southern Serbian territories including Kosovo and the Presevo Valley and northwestern parts of Macedonia should be incorporated into the existing Republic of Albania.

The CIA veteran doesn't exclude the possibility of the establishment of Greater Albania. Likewise, however, according to Meyer, some sort of "Greater Serbia" or a confederation of Orthodox populations of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the Republika Srpska could be created.

He called attention to the fact that the Republika Srpska is also seeking the possibility to join Serbia.

To accomplish such a bold task, the former Yugoslav nations should take their fate into their own hands, Meyer insists. According to the CIA


veteran, the Balkan region needs "creative leadership."

However, not all observers share Meyer's enthusiasm, saying that the devil is always in the detail.

"Experts say that relations between the republics of the former Yugoslavia are now worse than ever since the Yugoslav Wars of 1991-2001. More and more republics and national entities in the Balkans are calling for redrawing borders and creating federations in already existing states," veteran journalist and RIA Novosti contributor Dmitri Dobrov writes, warning that the region risks becoming the "powder keg of Europe."

In this context, the efforts aimed at creating the Greater Albania could become the trigger for a new Balkan war. That means that Meyer's concept of a peaceful redrawing of borders in the Balkans may turn out to be nothing but wishful thinking.

At thesame time, it's obvious that the US and EU's Balkan policy has proved inefficient.

"It is quite obvious that the 1990s policies of Washington and Brussels aimed at reconciling warring parties and creating multiethnic states in the Balkans have collapsed," Dobrov stressed.

Recently, religious and ethnic contradictions have intensified in the territory of former Yugoslavia. According to the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK), the Balkan region has been engulfed by 18 major and minor conflicts. Bitter contradictions continue to simmer between Slovenia and Croatia over border issues in the Piran Gulf; Serbia and Croatia still struggle to reach an agreement on the Island of Sarengrad and the Island of Vukovar; Republika Srpska signaling its interest in joining Serbia, while the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo remains a sore spot


The most striking is the experience of the agent at the hands of the Gestapo, which was recreated in a scene from the first Bond novel, Casino Royale – as well as the more recent film of the same name – in which the fictional spy is tortured using the same techniques.family moved to California in October 2013, Hodgson had reached the level of Life Scout and completed his Eagle project, which was to build two round picnic tables for St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, which his family attended in Iowa. Church officials suggested the project since they wanted a place for people in the neighborhood to gather while drinking free lemonade and visiting on summer weekends. The program was part of the church’s community outreach.

Maggie Hodgson said Boy Scouts of America has a modified version of its Eagle Scout requirements so members like her son can also attain the award. This includes waiving the requirement that it must be earned before turning 18 years old.

“Elliott — not his parents — had the dream of attaining Eagle pretty early


in his scouting experience,” his mother said. “He never lost sight of that dream, and is extremely proud to be an Eagle Scout.”

During his five years in Boy Scouts, Hodgson has earned 32 merit badges (the minimum to become an Eagle is 21), with his favorites being the badges for hiking, swimming and camping. He also earned the Order of the Arrow.

On June 10 he graduated from Abraxas High School’s Transition Program, which helps 18- to 22-year-olds with disabilities prepare for life after high school. Now, Hodgson is starting a program through Goodwill that gets him out into the community plus provides him paid employment at one of its stores.

As for other activities, he recently became vice president of the newly-formed Abraxas Aktion Club of Poway, which isbased out of Abraxas High School and sponsored by the Poway Kiwanis Club. Aktion is a service club for adults with disabilities. His other activities include karate, line dancing, swimming, bowling, soccer and basketball. He attends The Church at Rancho Bernardo.

As for Hodgson’s favorite Boy Scout memories, they include the weeks he spent at Boy Scout camp in Iowa, which he attended every summer for four years and where he also volunteered as a counselor in training. Also memorable was a high adventure to Mount Rushmore, where his troop participated in the flag lowering ceremony and slept under the stars in the Badlands.


Vulvar myiasis.
To report a rare case of vulvar myiasis caused by Wohlfartia magnifica, including clinical and microscopic observations. A vulvar lesion was found in a 31-year old married female villager with the history of dropping fly larvae from vulva, vulvar pain and itching sensation. The larvae were identified as the species of Wohlfartia magnifica. The lesion was washed with batticon over a period of five days and the patient was discharged. Vulvar myiasis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of genital lesions. The diagnosis can be easily established based on microscopic features of the maggots, especially those relating to stigma structures.regulations in this part, compliance with section 9(h) of the act means in the case of a national or international labor organization, that it has filed with the general counsel in Washington, D.C., and in the case of a local labor organization, that any national or international labor organization of which it is an affiliate or constituent body has filed with the general counsel in Washington, D.C., and that the labor organization has filed with the regional director in the region in which the proceeding is pending:

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'(1) A declaration by an authorized representative of the labor organization, executed contemporaneously with the charge (or petition) or within the preceding 12-month period, listing the titles of all offices of the filing organization and stating the name of the incumbent, if


satisfied that the Dant case was correctly decided.  Therefore we hold that in this matter the Board was without jurisdiction to issue its complaint.

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There is one incident in the case which occurred a few weeks prior to the hearing and after the national union's compliance with Section 9(f), (g), and (h).  At that time, Blauser, one of respondent's employees, admittedly had just been properly interrogated by an attorney of respondent at the plant office.  Rhodes, president of respondent, had been present.  After giving the information requested, Blauser waited for his statement to be typed up.  Rhodes was also waiting and at that time Rhodes allegedly asked Blauser why he had been so strongly in favor of the union during the early stages ofGeorgia has nothing to do with Stalin – Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, claimed his country is getting rid of "Stalin's legacy."

He raised the issue when answering the question of Bulvar [Ukrainian newspaper] journalist whether he feels ties with ex-leader of the USSR - RosBalt.

"History, as it's known from the statement of the philosophy classic Hegel, repeats twice, once as a tragedy, second time as a farce. I think we are very different, and in fact Georgia is getting free from the shadow of Ioseph Jugashvili, in which it was living for decades," Saakashvili said.

The president of Georgia reminded the demolition of Stalin monument in Gori. According to Saakashvili, this event was hardly noticed in the country.

"Thanks God, we are now in another epoch: we have another


Iran should immediately halt the execution of 12 men convicted of drug offences, scheduled for 14 January in Karaj Central Prison, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. The human rights organizations expressed concern that, despite repeated government promises, Iran has not made any tangible progress in reducing its alarming execution rate.

On 8 January, officials at the prison, in Alborz province, west of Tehran, transferred at least 12 people sentenced to death on drug charges to solitary confinement, notifying them that their execution was imminent. However, the execution was postponed due to the death of Iran’s former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have been able to confirm the identities of four of the 12: Ali Mohammad Lorestani, Mohammad Soleimani, Ali Ebadisuch as heroin, morphine, cocaine, or their chemical derivatives. Iran executed hundreds of people in 2016, the majority for drug offences. According to Hassan Noroozi, a member of parliament, there are 5,000 people on death row for drug offences in Iran, the majority between the ages of 20 and 30.

The Iranian authorities arrested Mohammad Soleimani, who is from the city of Kermanshah and the father of three children, in Karaj in March 2015 in connection with the alleged possession of between 700 and 800 grams of heroin. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have communicated with an informed source who said that Soleimani was not in possession of any drugs at the time of his arrest. According to the source, his sentence was based on the confessions of


drug offences,” said Philip Luther, Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.

“Instead of condemning 12 people to the gallows Iran should immediately establish an official moratorium on executions and focus on working to abolish the death penalty in Iran once and for all,” Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said.

In December 2015, members of parliament submitted a proposal to eliminate the death penalty for drug offences, except for armed smuggling, but the initiative did not move forward. On 23 November 2016, 100 members of parliament introduced new draft legislation that is weaker than the 2015 attempt, as the bill only forbids the use of the death penalty in the case of non-violent drug offences and maintains several categories of drug offencesInternational oppose the death penalty in all circumstances because it is inherently irreversible and is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

Iran should reverse the death sentences against these 12 individuals and abolish the death penalty once and for all, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said.

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Greg McWilliams, former attack coach of the Ireland women’s team, has been named US Eagles men’s backs coach for their November tour of Europe.

The USA face Germany on November 18th in Frankfurt and Georgia a week later in Tbilisi, with McWilliams, who has worked in the American system since becoming Yale Director of Rugby in 2015, added to Gary Gold’s new coaching ticket.

Gold, currently with the Worcester Warriors, will officially succeed John Mitchell at the end of this season. In the meantime former All Black Dave Hewitt has been named US head coach on an interim basis.

McWilliams links up with AJ MacGinty, who he coached at Blackrock College under-20s, while Cork born flanker John Quill is also part of the squad.

“I’ll be running the attack and backs which460 properties that range from modest bungalows in El Sereno to Craftsman mansions on stately streets in South Pasadena.

One of the best-known is the childhood home of chef Julia Child. The Pasadena house, built in 1911, has been vacant for more than 35 years.

Caltrans has started the process of selling the homes, which are required by law to be offered first to former owners and current tenants who meet certain income requirements, but the vast majority are still owned by the state.

Caltrans did not respond to a request for comment.

Escudero, who works two days a week as an elderly caregiver, said the mothers in Oakland inspired her to occupy the vacant home on Saturday morning. She said the protesters are trying to push the state and city to


according to state laws, but did not provide a timeline.

On Saturday morning, the families and their supporters moved furniture and plants from a U-Haul truck and into the bungalow. Escudero said they planned to bring in a generator for electricity and urged state and local officials to turn on water service.

Originally, the protesters had planned to take over multiple vacant, Caltrans-owned houses in El Sereno. But in the pre-dawn hours, the Los Angeles Police Department was alerted that multiple men were attempting to break into a property, said Los Angeles police Officer Drake Madison, an LAPD spokesman. Two people were arrested and cited for misdemeanor trespassing, Madison said.

By late morning, officers had gathered across the street but were not attempting to evict the families. While they watched, supportershearing at the L.A. City Council.

A group of homeless and housing insecure protesters and their supporters hold a rally on Sheffield Avenue on Saturday to take over a vacant home. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

In Oakland, the group of mothers occupied the house for two months before they were evicted in January. After that happened, Wedgewood agreed to give community land trusts, affordable housing organizations and the city the right of first refusal for the vacant home and about 50 others it owned in Oakland. The company is finalizing a deal with the land trust for the property, which is intended to house those who had occupied it.

The case attracted national attention and Gov. Gavin Newsom helped broker the deal, which was announced on Martin Luther King Jr. Day


Speaking to Daily Telegraph, Harry said that opening up about his own mental health struggles on her podcast ‘Mad World’ inspired him to team up on the new project with Oprah.

Speaking to Daily Telegraph, Harry said that opening up about his own mental health struggles on her podcast ‘Mad World’ inspired him to team up on the new project with Oprah.

Prince Harry said he hopes it will show examples of “human spirit fighting back from the darkest places”. He added that he was “incredibly proud to be working alongside Oprah on this vital series, which we have been developing together for several months”.

Speaking to the paper, the Duke said:

When I did your podcast two years ago the response made me realise what an impact sharing my story couldWBO junior welterweight title

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by Stacy Perman in
2006 citing statistics from the University of Southern Maine's Institute for Family-Owned Businesses.
Such businesses account for half of all U.S. gross domestic product, 60 percent of the country's employment,
and 78 percent of all new jobs, she states.

But for every successful, multigenerational, family-owned business, there are two that don't make it from
the first to the second generation, Perman also notes.

What characterizes the success stories? Traits common to the family-owned businesses featured here include
a spirit of entrepreneurship and creativity, mutual respect and cooperation, clear communication, willingness
to change, fair play, and a commitment to good citizenship.

A haven for entrepreneurs

After graduating from the Johnson School, Scott Weaver, MBA '90, president and CEO of APR Supply Company,
turned down offers from Procter & Gamble and Silicon Valley firms to join APRSupply, a successful wholesale
distributor of plumbing, heating, and air conditioning supplies in central Pennsylvania, because he liked
the entrepreneurial opportunity it offered.

The company, headed by his father-in-law, Randy Tice, grew out of one started by Tice's father in 1922.
But before he accepted the offer, Weaver told his father-in-law: "If I'm going to come and work for you
I want to control my own destiny." What mattered most to him was ensuring his independence while harnessing
his entrepreneurial drive to help the company grow.

He managed to accomplish that, as well as solve the knotty problem of succession, by working with Tice to
restructure APR into three separate companies that, to the outside world, look like a single entity.

In 1990 Weaver headed up the first of two spin-off companies. "I had 50 percent ownership,


and my father-in-law
held the other 50 percent," he explains. By 1995 his firm was doing so well that he was able to purchase all its
shares. Meanwhile, as part of the plan, his brother-in-law, John Tice, started the second spin-off company in 1994,
which also flourished. In 1998 the two smaller companies purchased the larger company, which is now the leader in
its region and growing at three times the industry rate. "We had the success and equity base to do that independently,"
says Weaver proudly. "And because we both still have our own companies John and I have never argued about a decision."

Carefully crafted succession

Scott Weaver, MBA '90, President and CEO of APR Supply Company

Weaver gained insight into what can go wrong when a family business passes from one generation toWisc., since its beginnings
in 1886, it now consists of four separate companies under the umbrella of the Johnson family name: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., headed
by H. Fisk Johnson, '79, MEng '80, MS '82, MBA '84, PhD '86; Johnson Outdoors and Johnson Financial Group, both headed by Helen
Johnson-Leipold '78; and JohnsonDiversey, headed by Curt Johnson '77. Winnie Johnson Marquart '81 is president of the
Johnson Family Foundation, a philanthropic group.

The succession plan was developed with family input by the siblings' father, Johnson School benefactor Sam Johnson
'50, who headed up S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. from 1967 to 2000 and died in 2004. His plan for succession was praised in The New York
Times in 1999 for the foresight of its vision.

"There's no tried-and-true formula to success in family


our spot as adults," Johnson-Leipold stated in the article.

Open to outside expertise

Kevin Malchoff, '74, MBA '75, President of Rich Products International Business Group,
holding a can of Rich's Whipped Topping that the company manufactures and sells in China.

What is it like to work for a family-owned company and not be a member of the family?

When Kevin Malchoff '74, MBA '75, left General Foods in 1981, after nearly six years there in marketing, to join
Rich Products Corp. at its headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y., the fact that the company was family-owned appealed to him.
"They had a true team environment, a passion for the customer and for innovation" that the larger firm didn't seem
to have, recalls Malchoff, who is president of Rich Products' International Business Group.

The firm garners $2.6 billion in annualsales as a supplier of a range of products  from pizzas to desserts  to
restaurants, in-store bakeries, university dining services, and other food-service operations. While business-to-business
clients know all its brands, the most-well-known to consumers may be Rich's Coffee Rich, the first non-dairy creamer.

Now president of the company's international business group, which counts clients in 73 countries, Malchoff says that
the company's motto, "We will treat our customers and associates like family," reflects the values of founder Bob Rich
Sr., and his son and daughter-in-law, Bob Rich Jr., now chairman, and Mindy Rich, co-chair. Rich Sr. is a former college
football player and wrestler who took time to elope with his sweetheart on his way to a competition at Cornell, company
legend has it. He "played to win" but also believed in


company's support for community involvement has
led to its hosting the Cornell Club of Buffalo's annual fundraiser in the soaring glass atrium at its headquarters. In
addition, Malchoff, who comes from a Cornell family (his father, Godfrey "Doc" Malchoff '43, as well as his brother,
son, and daughter-in-law are also graduates), has also been able to fit his volunteer efforts for the university into
his busy schedule. They include serving on the Cornell University Council and on the advisory council for Cornell's
undergraduate business program.

Not surprisingly, APR and S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. also see community involvement as a family-company value and champion
it among their employees.

Todd Schnuck, MBA '83, President of Schnuck Markets, Inc.

And Schnuck Markets Inc., another family-owned business with Johnson School links, recently won the Right Arm Award
for its commitmentto community leadership and service, from the Regional Chamber and Growth Association of Saint Louis,
where it has its headquarters. The company owns 103 supermarkets in seven Midwest states, from Mississippi to Wisconsin,
employs more than 15,000 people, and has annual revenues of $2.5 billion.

"Community involvement is one of our core values in our mission statement," says Craig Schnuck, MBA '71, former
chairman and CEO, who now serves as chairman of Schnuck's executive committee.

"It was instilled in us through example by our father, mother, and uncle," adds Todd Schnuck, MBA '83, now president
of the company. "We could see how important it was to our business and what it meant to our employees and customers."

Begun as a single meat market in 1939 by Craig and Todd Schnuck's grandparents, Schnucks stores today have


their own
pharmacies, florists, and in-store bakeries. Pricing is competitive, customers can shop online, and the company Web site
offers up-to-date information on product recalls and other news related to consumer health and safety.

Schnucks also is the largest contributor to Operation Food Search, a food bank that works to feed the St. Louis
community's poor and disadvantaged. Schnucks supermarkets in St. Louis and their associates have given more than
$1 million dollars annually to the city's United Way Campaign for many years. And Craig and Todd Schnuck and their
four siblings involved in the business today have served on the boards of most of the city's civic and non-profit
groups, working at such tasks as increasing diversity within area companies and improving city schools.

Clear expectations and Common Goals

Staying ahead of the competition continues tobusiness success. "It's something you have to work at," says Todd Schnuck. "We've all heard the war
stories and are dedicated to making sure they don't happen here." For him, the best thing about being in a family-owned
business is, "It's great to be successful and work toward common goals with siblings."

The best interests of the company remains the guiding principle at Bissell Inc., a maker of vacuum cleaners, cleaning,
home, allergen, and pet care products in Grand Rapids, Mich., that employs 3,000 people and has annual worldwide sales
of $850 million.

The company had its beginnings in 1876, when the great-grandfather of Mark Bissell, MBA '82, patented an improved carpet
sweeper that became a commercial success. And it made history in 1889 when Bissell's great-grandmother became CEO, after
her husband's untimely death that year.

But


by the time Bissell's father, John Bissell '52, MBA '54, took over the reins of the company, recalls Mark Bissell, "he
thought there were too many family members in the business." So he put a policy in place, similar to the constitution of
values at APR, which "specifies that anyone interested in entering the business needed an MBA and a minimum of five years
relevant work experience elsewhere."

With no pressure to join Bissell but a requirement to prepare himself if he was interested in the business, Mark Bissell
worked in credit, lending, and leveraged buyouts at several banks in New York City after earning his MBA, before deciding
to return to Grand Rapids to learn the business in detail. "I went through every department – sales, manufacturing, marketing
– before I knew enough andwhen it comes to issues involving
rules, boundaries, and transitions," he says.

Praising his father for communicating his plan for succession to family shareholders and employees over time and for
eventually turning over the reins, Mark Bissell says, "I give my dad a lot of credit. It's not easy to give up power."

His advice to others: "Always communicate everything. It's not a popularity contest. You've got to make tough decisions
in the company's best interests."

Like Malchoff, he sees the biggest advantage of remaining a private, family-owned business as "allowing you to focus on
long-term issues." But a less-tangible benefit also stands out. When a vice president who had risen through the ranks at
Bissell was honored at a retirement party recently, he praised the company, which had put him through college, for its role
in


Pyongyang called the 11-day operation a "reckless" invasion rehearsal that could trigger an "uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war".

China and Russia last week urged the United States to suspend the drills in exchange for North Korea suspending its missile and nuclear tests.

Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump vowed to respond to North Korea's actions with "fire and fury".

North Korea, for its part, threatened to fire a salvo of missiles towards the US territory of Guam - a plan that its leader Kim Jong-un delayed last week.

Kim warned the plan could still go ahead depending on Washington's next move.

South Korean protesters hold placards that read 'stop war exercise' during a rally denouncing the military exercise [Jung Yeon-Je/AFP]

The number of US soldiers in this year's drill was reduced bythe UFG drills, North Korea said the US was "pouring gasoline on fire".

In a commentary carried by the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, North Korea said Washington was "mistaken" to think that a nuclear war would take place on "somebody else's doorstep far away from them across the Pacific".


The remainder, though, despite also facing the death penalty for the treason of “breaking the peace of Christendom”, were eventually pardoned by the king, Henry VIII, probably largely thanks to pleas for mercy made by his queen, Catherine of Aragon, and by Thomas Wolsey. At this, the prisoners “took the halters from their necks and danced and sang”. In the aftermath of the riots, the annual May Day celebrations that had taken place for hundreds of years were discontinued, and the May Pole that gave Undershaft its name was taken away.

According to a contemporary account, in the “The Chronicle of the Grey Friars”:

“Thys yere was yell [evil] May Day, that yong men and prentes of London rose in the nyght, and wolde have had James Mottas an owte-landychAnn Ree Colton stemmed from her spontaneous answers to his every question without the need to go into trance. Her chief student, fellow teacher, and husband of 31 years, Jonathan Murro, co-wrote her biography/autobiography.

Starting in 1951 she began expounding on wide range of ideas. She felt that she needed to move from working with individuals to working in a more impersonal manner, to bring her ideas of a complete system to a broader audience. She said this system, Niscience, came from an actual heavenly, spiritual blueprint she called an archetype. These archetypes, she said, are not the archetypes described by Carl Jung.

The system of Niscience is extensive and covers many spiritual practices, such as meditation, the speaking of mantrams, dedicated fasting, mandala creation, spiritual movement, and dream research,