that humanity could empathise with. Moreover, he explained how oral history provides people with the human face to history, as detailed recounts/stories in the book allows readers to almost 'relive' the participants' experiences.

For the rest of the afternoon, everyone mingled in the warm atmosphere to celebrate the launch of 'Across Lands and Oceans'. One of the highlights of the afternoon was Andra Krumins' performance of a traditional Estonian song- as the song was about childhood, it prompted many people to reminisce about their childhood memories.Korean Pop, known universally as K-Pop, has been around since the 1990s. In 2012, a K-Pop artist known as PSY broke the internet with his hit “Gangnam Style,” garnering around 1.7 billion views on YouTube.

For many, PSY may be considered a trailblazer for K-Pop music, but he is unable to say he beat Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes for the Top Social Artist award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards. Actually, another K-Pop group did. A boy band called BTS took the award home, to the shock of many.

BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys or Bulletproof Boy Scouts, is a seven-member South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Entertainment. Their members include Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Rap Monster, Jimin, V and Jungkook. The


name is Kim Seok Jin, is a vocalist, and most importantly, the visual of the group. Being the visual of the group means fans consider him the best-looking member. Also, in being the oldest, he is the one who usually takes care of the other members (as the hyung, or “older guy,” is known to do in Korean culture).

Suga, whose name is Min Yoon Gi, is one of the lead rappers within the group. Often, Suga delivers crisp lines in a manly, passionate fashion. J-Hope, whose real name is Jung Ho Seok, is also a lead rapper, but most importantly, he is the dancer of the group. As the dancer of the group, he is in charge of coming up with the choreography for many of the group’ssongs. Jimin, whose full name is Park Ji Min, is the lead vocalist and the main dancer. Much of the singing is done by Jimin, but he’s also recognized for his execution of the dance moves.

V, whose real name is Kim Tae Hyung, is a vocalist and the mood maker of the group. While fans did not originally know who V was like they had other members at the time of the debut, he’s now known for his quirky behavior and deep voice. Lastly, Jungkook, whose real name is Jeon Jeong-guk, is a sub-rapper, the face of the group and the maknae (which means the youngest). Being the face of the group means Jungkook is often the center focus when it comes to songs and choreography.

BTS started out


fiercely, taking no prisoners. Like headhunters keeping body parts as mementos from a successful hunt, BTS are not strangers to bringing home awards. Their first album, “2 Cool 4 Skool,” won several New Artist of the Year awards at functions, such as the 2013 Melon Music Awards, the 2014 Golden Disk Awards and the 2014 Seoul Music Awards. It is composed of three songs, an intro, an outro, an interlude and a skit, which made the seven-track album a little over twenty minutes. The rap element found in the album gave BTS an edge.

The track “We Are Bulletproof Pt. 2” plays off of the name Bulletproof Boy Scouts. Throughout the song, the group repeats the English phrase “We are bulletproof,” showing everyone the song is a boast. The& Tears,” which is considered Major Lazer-esque due to the arrangement of the music and the tempo. With its combination of house music and reggaetón, “Blood Sweat & Tears” quickly became the group’s first, domestic number-one hit on Gaon Digital Chart, as well as becoming the first song from the group to sell over one million copies in South Korea. Like the rest of the album, the message of the single stands out. According to Rap Monster, the song is about how a person thinks, chooses and grows, especially in the face of temptation.

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How did BTS manage to gain the attention of fans in the U.S.? The answer was given in an article on Billboard.com. Grace Jeong,


Steve Johnson is in his fifth year as the head coach of the men's golf program. Johnson guided the Golden Eagles to a second place finish Fairway Club Invitational at the Firethorn Golf Club in Lincoln, Neb., in September.

Johnson, a two-year letter winner with the Golden Eagles' men's golf program from 1991 to 1993, spent four seasons as an assistant golf coach at Southern Miss, working primarily with the women's golf team under then Head Coach Sam Hall.

It was not until Hall was recovering from a 1995 heart attack that Johnson's importance was truly noticed, and the young coach guided both programs and gained valuable recruiting and teaching experience.

When Southern Miss made a full-time commitment to women's golf in 1997, Johnson took over the women's program as headcoach, while Hall focused solely on the men's program.

During Johnson's three-year stint as head coach of the women's program, the Lady Eagles won four tournaments, had eight Academic All-America selections, earned four all-conference selections, and gained the attention of many throughout the Southeast. In 1998-99, the Lady Eagles rewrote the school's record books. Prior to that season, Southern miss had just one tournament title. Johnson's Lady eagles won four tournaments and set a record for a team low round in 1998-99.

Johnson received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Southern Miss in 1993. He completed his master's degree in sport administration in 1995 at Southern Miss. Johnson and his wife, Rhonda, have two daughters, Ellen and Leigh.


Hugo came to the United

States to find his children. He denied being violent and testified that Maria and her

sister conspired to take his children to the United States out of revenge for the love

triangle. After moving to the United States, Maria’s sister eventually married and has a

family. Maria and T.H.A.G. live with them in Vernon.2

       Hugo is an educated bookkeeper and owned a factory in Mexico. He liquidated

his business to come to the United States and locate his sons. He settled in Wichita

Falls and found work as a handyman. With assistance from the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, he located his children in 2009.

       In 2010, the trial court entered an Order in Suit Affecting the Parent-Child

Relationship appointingchild was honest. She opined it was in his best

interest to terminate the parent-child relationship.

       On the other hand, the counselor had only two visits with T.H.A.G. when he was

four years old. She described him as a “sweet little boy who was silent.” She found his

lack of communication disturbing, and her opinion regarding any contact between him

and his father was the same as for the older brother. However, when questioned by the

court on whether the same situation existed as with the older brother, she testified

“there’s no way for me to know other than the fact that they are brothers.”

       At the time of the hearing, Maria and T.H.A.G. were living with her sister and her

sister’s husband


and other children. She testified that when she lived in Mexico, Hugo

was very abusive to her and her son. She was locked away for years by him, and he

constantly threatened her family. Other than the testimony of Maria and her sister,

there was no other evidence to support the allegations of years of abuse.

       Hugo testified that Maria’s allegations, as well as her sister’s, were all lies. He

acknowledged both are good mothers but believed Maria’s older sister sought revenge

because he left her for Maria. He adamantly denied being violent or ever threatening

Maria’s family. Two character witnesses testified to his good character and non-violent

nature.

       At the close of the testimony, the trial court cleared the courtroom and

interviewed Hugo’sAltcoin News: PepsiCo Appreciates the Advantages of Using Zilliqa Blockchain in Marketing

May 6, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

PepsiCo Corporation was satisfied with the blockchain technology tests, during which it was able to increase the effectiveness of marketing operations by 28% using smart contracts, writes The Drum portal.

Testing of the Proton project was conducted in March in the Asia-Pacific region and was aimed at the so-called “visible impressions”. One of the campaigns included the use of smart contracts, the second — no.

PepsiCo collaborated with Mindshare, which also attracted Zilliqa Research, Rubicon Project, MediaMath and Integral Ad Science to participate in the project. The group has been working together for almost a whole year.

According to Mindshare, smart contracts were launched on the Zilliqa blockchain and made it possible


much the “character” enjoys spending time with his stepdaughter, similar to the relationship he had with his own stepfather growing up.

Lauren Weigleis a senior contributor to Heavy specializing in celebrity and reality television. She has an extensive background in entertainment, fashion, PR, lifestyle and journalism. Follow her on Twitter @NYCPRTeam.August 9, 2013 12:28 pmDrivers of Ride Sharing Services to Legally Pick Up Passengers at Airport in Atlanta Soon

D rivers who work for the ride sharing services known as either Uber or Lyft will be legally permitted to pick up passengers at the international airport which serves the greater Atlanta metropolitan area as of Sunday, January 1, 2017 as the result of a vote of 14-1 on Monday, September 19, 2016 by the city council of Atlanta to approve an ordinance which sets regulations for the ride sharing industry.

Drivers of Ride Sharing Services to Legally Pick Up Passengers at Airport in Atlanta Soon

There are some details which still need to be resolved even though the ordinance was officially approved — such as the location at the airport as to where the area


for drivers will be designated for them to wait in their vehicles prior to picking up passengers.

Representatives of taxi and limousine companies were unhappy about the outcome of the vote — according to this article written by Dave Williams of the Atlanta Business Chronicle — and complained that “the ordinance treats them unfairly and threatens the passenger safety.” This is despite months of meetings in crafting the proposal for the ordinance. “Others representing taxi and limousine companies objected to provisions in the ordinance requiring permanent city-issued decals on for-hire vehicles and limiting vehicles used for airport pickups to no more than seven years of age.”

Prior to the approval of the ordinance, some drivers of ride sharing services had supposedly risked disciplinary action for secretly sneaking their vehicles illegallyto pick up passengers at the busiest airport in the world.

House Bill 190 and House Bill 225 were enacted into law enacted last year by the Georgia General Assembly; and they established rules specifically for limousines, taxis and ride sharing companies in most locations across the state — but the regulation of the operation of those services at airports was left up to the discretion of local jurisdictions such as cities and counties.

Another reason for fingerprinting to be a requirement was incidents such as the one involving Jason Brian Dalton — who is 45 years old and supposedly had no criminal history — as he was charged with murder in February of 2016 after a deadly shooting spree where he allegedly killed six people and injured two more


Aleppo bombing 'kills 14 members of one family' Published duration 17 October 2016 Related Topics Syrian civil war

image copyright AFP image caption Rescuers used a crane to reach this 12-year-old boy who was trapped in rubble

Fourteen members of one family have died in an air strike on rebel-held east Aleppo, volunteer rescuers say.

Eight children and two women were among the dead, said the civil defence force known as the White Helmets.

An Aleppo resident told the BBC the city had endured heavy bombing in the past 24 hours, with "bunker-buster" munitions shaking the ground.

The EU foreign affairs chief has said sanctions against Syria might be expanded.

But Federica Mogherini said increased sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad's Russian backers were not on the agenda.

She was speaking as EU foreign ministersmet in Luxembourg.

The family died in the al-Marja area of the city on Monday, after what the Syrian Civil Defence force said was a strike by a Russian jet.

The White Helmets said another 25 people were killed late on Sunday in a strike on a residential building in the al-Qaterji district.

Rescuers used a crane to extract a 12-year-old boy from an upper floor after part of the building collapsed on his legs, and they later carried a dead baby from the rubble, her face caked in mud, AFP reported.

image copyright AFP

In a BBC interview, a teacher in Aleppo described the latest wave of air strikes: "They are using a new kind of weapons. The same bunker-busters but they are stronger. The earth would shake for longer time. We


had to wake up about five or six times. This is the first time it happened like this."

A ceasefire in Syria brokered last month collapsed after just a few days.

Since then Syrian forces, backed by Russia, have been bombing the city of Aleppo - the most high-profile battleground in the country's civil war - in what Washington has called a war crime.

Aid agencies say a 72-hour ceasefire is urgently needed to allow supplies in and civilians out of devastated areas in the rebel-held and government-besieged east of the city, where 275,000 people live.

'Crimes against humanity'

The US and UK warned of new sanctions in response to continued air strikes on Aleppo following talks in London on Sunday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said "crimes against humanity" were taking placechoose to get 50 percent of their bonus as an upfront lump-sum payment.

The 80 undergraduate pilot training graduates directed into drone squadrons will serve one assignment tour — typically lasting three years — before being offered the opportunity to move to a manned aircraft.

The last time the Air Force did this was between 2009 and 2011. About 30 percent of the 248 pilots who were given the opportunity to fly manned aircraft at the end of their tours decided to remain drone pilots, Karns said.

The Air Force hopes these moves will lessen the strain on overworked drone squadrons. Fighter pilots fly an average of 250 hours per year, Karns said. But drone pilots fly about 900 hours per year, and are taxed by combatant commanders' ever-growing need for


Miranda Kerr's Main Factor in Deciding What to Wear

Miranda Kerr gave a bit of insight to People last week as to how she plans her outfits for her jet-setting lifestyle. Spending the majority of her time in Los Angeles, New York, and Australia, the supermodel requires variety in her wardrobe due to the major differences between the locations. She says of the change in her style when travelling, “In New York, I feel like anything goes. In L.A., it’s definitely a lot more casual. In New York, I love to dress up for the winter season and really embrace the layers and have over-the-knee boots, where if I wore that in Malibu, people would think I was crazy.” She also has a footwear style of choice when intheir sorry life story in an extensive interview with an international television station. Then again, most of us do not lead such exceptional lives that our worst behaviour gets to be examined and showcased around the world for months on end, and then have the privilege to howl about it on television later.

Oscar Pistorius fired four high-calibre bullets into Reeva Steenkamp and then felt sorry for himself for being burdened with the process of justice that held him accountable for killing her. An even greater inconvenience was being sentenced again, for murder instead of the initial culpable homicide conviction, after a ridiculous one-year incarceration before he was paroled. Judge Thokozile Masipa, responsible for handing down the first farcical five-year jail term for culpable homicide, got a second opportunity


Bosnian bishops have announced the establishment of a commission to review the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje, which are marking their 25th anniversary this year.

Catholic News Service reports that Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, also announced the commission would review pastoral provisions for the thousands of pilgrims who visit the town each year.

"The commission members have not been named yet," Cardinal Puljic said. "I am awaiting suggestions from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" on theologians to appoint.

"But this commission will be under the (Bosnian) bishops' conference" as is the usual practice with alleged apparitions, he said.

The Cardinal said he did not expect the commission to be established until sometime in September. He said the primary task of the commission would be to review a1991 report from the region's bishops that concluded, "It cannot be affirmed that these matters concern supernatural apparitions or revelations."

In addition, he said, the commission would be asked to review pastoral provisions that forbid official diocesan and parish pilgrimages to Medjugorje, while at the same time allowing priests to accompany groups of Catholics in order to provide the sacraments and spiritual guidance.

When asked if the new commission was the idea of the doctrinal congregation or of the bishops' conference, Cardinal Puljic said, "I would rather not answer that question."

On 25 June, thousands of pilgrims converged on Medjugorje to mark the 25th anniversary of the first alleged apparition to six young people.

The Vatican continues to monitor events at Medjugorje, where the apparitions apparently continue, but it has not taken


Talk of the Table // Ethiopian Food

An Ancient Cuisine, Rediscovered

Ethiopian food, famous for its spicy stews and the spongy flatbread called injera, burst onto the international food scene—especially in the United States—in the 1970s and 1980s, when thousands of Ethiopians fled political turmoil in their home country. When Ethiopia’s Jews were airlifted to Israel during Israeli and American government operations from the 1970s to the 1990s, they brought their food with them.

Jews’ history in Ethiopia goes back centuries, with several competing theories as to how they came to Africa. The Beta Israel, as Ethiopian Jews are known, believe themselves to be descendants of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, or else descendants of the lost tribe of Dan. Other theories contend that the community is a result ofDMT Use Skyrockets Among American Users

An ayahuasca ceremony house in Peru.

Photo via Shutterstock

DMT, a powerful hallucinogenic compound used in religious rituals among Amazon tribes, has now become a popular recreational drug among U.S. residents.

According to recent reports by the Global Drug Survey and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the number of people in the U.S. who have used DMT in some form has risen every year since 2006, with over a million users reported in 2012. The drug is a key component in ayahuasca brew, a combination of two plants grown in South America that has been used as a medicinal and religious aid for tribal peoples in the region for countless years.

One of the plants in the brew, Psychotria viridis, contains dimethyltryptamine, or DMT,


The Oroville Dam Crisis

The Oroville was a dam that helps water for the northern California cities. At least 188,000 people have evacuated from several Northern California counties after damage to a spillway at the Oroville Dam. The dams spillway was flooded with double the amount of water that normally flows. The lake spillways were damaged with a huge potholes that’s 100 feet wide and 40-50 feet deep. With the Oroville Dam being the 2nd biggest dam in California.

After the big rain storm that was double the amount that the average rainfall in northern California, the dams spillway was over used and had major effects of erosion and had to hold water for a couple days for workers to make changes to prevent flooding the town. The large amountsof fast flowing water has eroded away large amounts of concrete and tons of dirt and stone. Now that the rains have stopped for a while, the Oroville county and the State will give assistance to the Dams spillway and all the damage that the over flow down the river. The dam is still holding even after the hard rain that nearly doubled the average rainfall for the northern Californians.

The Oroville dam Crisis will slowly be resolved and the people of Oroville county will, have this dam emergency spillway rebuilt and have all the damage fixed. The state will give support to the people that homes were waterlogged and flooded. The damage will be rebuilt and the dam will hold water for the entire northern California.


EAST LANSING -- Michigan State stands at No. 7 in the country in spring football game attendance, an indicator Spartans' fans are dialed in to the program.

Ohio State leads the nation in spring attendance, with 100,189 announced at Ohio Stadium on April 16 -- 92,500 of those fans buying $5 tickets, with students and children under 6 attending for free.

Michigan State, like Ohio State, set a school record for spring game attendance -- drawing an announced crowd of 51,000 on Saturday at Spartan Stadium. Attendance and parking was free in East Lansing.

The Spartans drew better for its spring game than did Michigan (35,000) and several other Big Ten schools. But the MSU attendance was behind Ohio State, Nebraska and Penn State within the Big Ten.

Coach Mark Dantonio creditedthe winningest class in MSU history for the record turnout that witnessed the White team defeat the Green team in a split-squad scrimmage, 14-11.

"We had 51,000-plus come to the spring game (Saturday), and that's really because of what you've accomplished," Dantonio said at Sunday's team banquet at Breslin Center. "People come to watch winners, because that's the way the world is, and you've set that standard in terms of what you've been able to accomplish."

Michigan State football is enjoying its most successful run in the modern era, with three straight top-6 finishes, two Big Ten titles the past three seasons and an unprecedented seven wins in the past eight games against rival Michigan.

The Spartans held a free youth football clinic prior to the spring game, with their players


Fantasy Tip: Stewart has received at least 15 carries in five of his last seven games and probably will continue to see plenty of carries in the offense. He has scored three touchdowns in his last three games and can be a flex option for fantasy owners.

Fantasy Tip: J-Stew has a midrange matchup against the San Diego Chargers this week. He was quiet last week in a blowout, but he scored three times in the two previous games. He's a low-end RB2 this week.

Fantasy Tip: It was simply a day of rest for Stewart. He'll be fine for Week 14 in a plus matchup against the San Diego Chargers. San Diego has given up 16 total touchdowns to running backs this year, tied for second most in theOn the links | Saturday’s professional golf results

Lexi Thompson moved into position for her second victory in her last four starts, taking the third-round lead Saturday in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. The 18-year-old Thompson shot a 5-under 67 to reach 13-under 203 at Guadalajara Country Club. She had a one-stroke lead over South Korea’s I.K. Kim. Thompson won the 2011 LPGA Navistar Classic at 16, and took the LPGA Malaysia last month for her second tour title. After opening with a 72, she had a 64 — the best round of the week in the 36-player event— Friday to pull within a stroke of second-round leaders Anna Nordqvist, So Yeon Ryu and Pornanong Phatlum. Kim birdied the final two holes for a 67. Third-ranked Stacy Lewis was third


El Camaleon course. The 24-year-old former Georgia star won the FedEx St. Jude Classic in June for his first PGA Tour title. Karlsson played 36 holes Friday, shooting 63-67. The 44-year-old Swede, an 11-time winner on the European Tour, tied for 10th last weekend in the McGladrey Classic to earn a spot in the field this week. Rory Sabbatini and Kevin Stadler were tied for second at 12 under.

AUSTRALIAN MASTERS

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Defending champion Adam Scott shot a 5-under 66 at Royal Melbourne to open a four-stroke lead at 14-under 199 in the Australian Masters. The second-ranked Scott won the Australian PGA on Sunday at Royal Pines in his first home event since winning the Masters at Augusta National. He will team with Jason Day for Australia next week inthe World Cup, also at Royal Melbourne, then play the Australian Open the following week at Royal Sydney. Fifty-year-old Vijay Singh had a 63 to join Australians Matthew Griffin (69), Nick Cullen (69) and Nathan Holman (70) at 10 under.

WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

DUBAI, UAE

Henrik Stenson closed in on the European Tour money title, birdieing four of the last five holes to take a one-shot lead in the season-ending World Tour Championship. Trying to become the first player to win the FedEx Cup and European title in the same year, the Swede finished with a 5-under 67 to reach 17-under 199 on Jumeriah’s Earth Course. Stenson also leads the Race to Dubai standings.


Toledo Chamber Blog

Coyle Funeral Home has been providing healing funeral services to the Toledo Region for nearly 130 years. The family owned funeral home has been owned and operated by five generations of Coyle’s. Most recent to carry on the family legacy is Megan Coyle-Stamos, who bought the business in 2012.

Megan’s great-great grandfather started the Coyle legacy in 1888. He was a brick layer and a mason who was very involved in helping migrant Hispanic workers in the area. He saw a need for comfort and healing services and opened the first Coyle Funeral Home on Broadway in South Toledo near the high-level bridge.

James Coyle Founder

William C. Coyle II

James P. Coyle

William C. Coyle

Joseph J. Coyle

William J. Coyle

Megan Coyle-Stamos

A graduate of Indiana University with a bachelors in fashion designand business management, Megan never imagined she would become the sole proprietor of Coyle Funeral Home. She recalls working with her siblings at the funeral home growing up, in a role they self-titled, “Garage People”. They would clean the facilities and help to provide services to clients. Upon graduation, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, prepared to take on the fashion world with Parisian Department Stores.

While working in retail fashion industry, Megan felt the call to find a new challenge and make a big impact on the world around her. She became a pre-arrangement counselor with Trust 100 and worked for several family owned funeral homes in Detroit, Michigan and ultimately moved back to Toledo to begin her family for the affordability, amenities and proximity to relatives. In 2012


she bought the business and over the course of her career has won many national Preneed industry awards, including the locally prestigious 20 Under 40 award in 2011.Megan brings a sense of calm and comfort to those around her. She believes in providing an honorable and healing way for families to say goodbye.

“There are no do-overs with a funeral. You have one time to have a meaningful funeral ceremony; you must do it right. It is a service and intimate business.” - Megan Coyle-Stamos

Original Funeral Home

The entire staff at Coyle is committed to providing a healing sendoff for loved ones. They do a beautiful job of creating meaningful experiences. They offer many options and opportunities for families to choose from in creating a unique sendoff. Every family receivesother groups.

In order to offer a wealth of choices and a comforting experience, Coyle Funeral Home partners with many local vendors and businesses. They joined the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce more than 25 years ago and are also a part of the University of Toledo Family Business Center. For nearly the duration of their businesses, Coyle has relied on Florian Insurance, another five generation community business, to provide coverage. Coyle prides itself on honoring the fire, police and military veterans with special services, like the Last Alarm, 21 gun salute, and other fitting ceremonies.

Vintage Procession

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AWARDS

2011 - 20 under 40

2013 - Torch Award (BBB)

2013 - 2014 Peer Award (Outlook Group)

2013 – President’s Award Physicians Mutual

2015 – Best Block of preneed business – National Award from The Outlook


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For their 125th anniversary, the State of Ohio Governor Kasich and City of Toledo both recognized Coyle Funeral Home. Former Mayor Mike Bell, and Mike Collins presented the group with a Key to the City, which is displayed at the funeral home. Known politicians also reached out to honor the business, including Marcy Kaptur and President Barack Obama.

Emily DammeyerEmily Dammeyer is the Communications Manager for the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce. Please email emily.dammeyer@toledochamber.com to submit a story for our blog.Director Fury

 expressly told the Koenigs to recognize Coulson as the new Director,

it seems fairly obvious which side they would choose if given the choice.

A:

As we see in "Scars", the 20th episode of Agents of SHIELD season 2, at least one of the Koenig brothers has been overseeing the maintenance of a SHIELD helicarrier, and remains loyal to Agent Director Coulson.

 This helicarrier is later used by Nick Fury in order to help evacuate Sokovia in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Interestingly, we see whichever of the Koening brother we are following perform his morning routine at the start of this episode, in which he rips a post-it note off his mirror. The text on this note is some variation of "Call your sister" - maybe implying that the


very pleased.

"This is great!" he told St. Peter. "If this is Hell, I really want to
see Heaven!"

"Fine," said St. Peter, and off they went.

Heaven was a place high in the clouds, with angels drifting about,
playing harps and singing. It was very nice, but not as enticing as
Hell.

Bill thought for a quick minute, and rendered his decision. "Hmmm. I
think I'd prefer Hell," he told St. Peter.

"Fine," retorted St. Peter, "as you desire." So Bill Gates went to
Hell.

Two weeks later, St. Peter decided to check on the late billionaire to
see how he was doing in Hell. When he got there, he found Bill
shackled to a wall in a dark cave, screaming amongst hot flames, being
burned and tortured by demons.

"How's everything going?" he asked Bill.

With his voice filled with anguish anddisappointment, Bill responded,
"This is awful! This is nothing like the Hell I visited two weeks ago!
I can't believe this is happening! What happened to that other place,
with the beautiful beaches and the scantily clad women playing in the
water?"

"That was a demo," replied St. Peter.

10/23/01
In a crowded city at a crowded bus stop a stunningly beautiful young
woman was waiting for the bus. She was decked out in a tight black
leather mini skirt with matching leather boots and jacket.

As the bus rolled up and it became her turn to get on the bus she became
aware that her skirt was too tight to allow her leg to come up to the
height of the bus' first step.

So, slightly embarrassed and with a quick smile to the bus driver, she
reached behind her and


unzipped her skirt a little thinking that this
would give her enough slack to raise her leg. Again she tried to make
the step onto the bus only to discover she still could not make the
step.

So, a little more embarrassed, she once again reached behind her and
unzipped her skirt a little more. And for a second time she attempted
the step and once again, much to her dismay, she could not raise her leg
because of the tight skirt.

So, with a coy little smile to the driver, she again unzipped the
offending skirt to give a little more slack and again was unable to make
the step.

About this time the big Texan that was behind her in the line picked her
up easily from the waist and placed her lightly on the step of theand going to school. One day, when Billy went down to the bus stop to meet the bus to go to school, he found all of his friends huddled around in a little group, talking about the Purple Wombat.

Being a little boy, Billy was curious. So he asked them, "What's the Purple Wombat?"

"You don't know what the Purple Wombat is?" the children exclaimed disgustedly. For the rest of the morning, they would not go near Billy, always standing far away and staring at him. Then the bus came. Billy, confused, got on the bus along with the rest of the children.

The bus driver turned around abruptly. "You don't know what the Purple Wombat is?" he said in disbelief. He ordered Billy to sit in the very back of


the bus, all by himself.

Eventually, they got to school, and Billy got off the bus and went to class. Class proceeded normally; the students did the pledge of allegiance and worked on their multiplication tables for a while. Then the teacher led them into a unit on geography. Billy was not really paying attention, but he heard the teacher mention something about the Purple Wombat.

"You don't know what the Purple Wombat is?" the teacher cried in alarm, "Get yourself to the principal's office right now, young man. No, no buts -- march!"

So Billy headed down the long, dark, frightening hallway to the principal's office. He slowly opened the large, heavy door, and timidly entered the room behind it. There, at a large, imposing desk, sat the principal. Theprincipal was a hulking man, balding, with a thin mustache. He spoke in a deep baritone voice. He was enough to frighten little boys like Billy who had been sent to his office almost to tears.

"Well, Billy," he began slowly. "What seems to be the problem?"

"Mr. Principal, I just don't know what's going on today. Everyone's been acting weird, and they're all treating me really badly. Like teacher just sent me to you and stuff."

"Now, Billy, I'm here to help you. I'm the princi-Pal, after all. Heh heh. Can you tell me why everyone's acting so strangely?"

The principal threw Billy out of his office and told him to go home. Billy, crying, began the long walk home. When he got there, his mother was standing in the doorway


waiting for him.

"Billy!" she called, sobbing, "I was so worried about you! What happened?"

"Mom," Billy cried, "Everyone was being mean to me and I had to sit in the back of the bus all by myself and the teacher sent me to the principal's office and the principal suspended me, all because I don't know what the Purple Wombat is!"

"What? You don't know what the Purple Wombat is?" Billy's mother shrieked. "Go to your room this minute. Go! Just wait until your father gets home!"

So Billy marched up the stairs and into his room. He collapsed on the bed, crying. After some amount of time, he heard a car pull in and some doors shutting. His father was home. He could hear his parents talking downstairs but didn'tWombat, Billy."

Billy sat up with a start. He looked around the room, trying to find the source of the voice, but he could not.

"Billy. I am the Purple Wombat. Find me, Billy."

It was coming from out the window. So Billy got up, put his shoes on, opened the window, and climbed out on to the roof.

"Billy. I am the Purple Wombat."

Billy jumped down off the roof and followed the voice down the road. He got to the edge of a wood.

"Billy. I am the Purple Wombat. Follow me, Billy."

The voice was coming from inside the wood. It was very dark and very frightening, but Billy didn't care. He had to find out what the Purple Wombat was. So, bravely, he entered the wood.

"Billy. I am the Purple Wombat.


Keep going, Billy."

Billy kept going into the wood. He could hardly see anything, and he kept falling down and walking into things and hurting himself. But he kept going, driven by a need to find this enigma that kept calling his name.

"Billy. I am the Purple Wombat. This way, Billy."

Eventually, Billy emerged from the wood. He was on the shore of the town lake.

"Billy. I am the Purple Wombat. I'm out here, Billy."

It was coming from out across the lake. Billy got one of the small rowboats from the dock, untied it, and rowed out. Since he was only a small boy, it was very difficult. But he had to find out what the Purple Wombat was.

"Billy. I am the Purple Wombat. Row, Billy."

The voice was coming fromacross the lake. Billy doubled his effort, and the boat began to move a little faster. When he was about half way across the lake, he heard: "Billy, I am the Purple Wombat. I'm up here, Billy."

It was coming from directly above him. Billy stopped rowing and stood up to look for it. The boat tipped over, dumping him in the lake. Billy didn't know how to swim, so he drowned.

What's the moral of the story? Don't stand up in a boat.

9/26/01
One day a American, Jacob, and his friend, Bubba, decided to take a tour of Europe. They arrived in England and started site seeing around town. Everywhere that they went, people would shout out "Hello Bubba!" Bubba would just nod, or say hello back. They continued on


by name. Jacob couldn't stand it any longer.

They made a small wager, and set out to the Vatican the next day. Then, Bubba disappeared for awhile. Later on, the Pope gave an appearance to the crowd that day, and at his right side, was none other than Bubba. Jacob was completely mystified. He picked up a conversation with the man next to him. "I can't believe it! Everywhere I go he knows everybody! And now he is standing up there!" Jacob cried up to the man. To which, the man replied, "You mean the man standing next to Bubba?"

9/25/01
Farmer Joe was in an accident with a semi-truck. Farmer Joe decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company responsible for the accident tomy client. Please tell him to simply answer the question."

But by this time, the judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe's answer and said, "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie."

Joe thanked the judge and proceeded. "Well as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite mule, into the trailer and was driving her down the highway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my truck right in the side. I was thrown in one ditch and Bessie was thrown into the other.

I was hurting real bad and didn't want to move. However, I could hear old Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans. Shortly after


the accident a highway patrolman came on the scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes.
Then the patrolman came across the road with his gun in his hand and looked at me. He said, 'Your mule was in such bad shape I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?'''

9/13/01
Mary Poppins was traveling home, but due to worsening weather, she
decided to stop at a hotel for the night. She approached the
receptionist and asked for a room for the night.

"Certainly madam", he replied courteously.

"Is the restaurant open still?" inquired Mary.

"Sorry, no," came the reply, "but room service is available all night.
Would you care to select something fromagain says (with a drunken slur), "Bartender, buy everyone in the house a drink, pour yourself one, and give me the bill."

The bartender looks at the guy and figures to himself that he can't possibly be stupid enough to pull the same trick twice, so he gives him the benefit of the doubt, pours a round of drinks for the house, has a drink himself and hands the drunk a bill for $37.00.

The drunk says, "I haven't got it." The bartender can't believe it, so he picks the guy up, beats the living day lights out of him, then throws him out into the street.

The next day the same drunk walks back into the same bar and says (with a drunken slur), "bartender, buy every one in the


said the he was too important to die because his
family depended on him for survival because he was the head of house
hold and the sole bread winner. So, he took one of the parachutes and
jumped out of the aircraft.

Finally, there were only two people left, and one parachute. One
person was a 12-year-old boy, and the other was a 65-year-old man.
The old man said, "Well son, I have lived a good life, and you are too
young to die...you have a long life ahead of you. So, you take the
last parachute.

The boy asked, "Why, Sir?"

The old man said, "Well, there is only one parachute left."

The little lad said, "Sir there are really two parachutes left."

The old gentlemen asked, excitedly, "Yeah? How?"

"Well," replied the boy, "you know that guy who thoughtdaily version of NASCAR.

20. LBJ is called "The Death Trap" for two reasons: "death" and "trap."

21. If it's 100 degrees, Thanksgiving must be next weekend.

22. If it's 10 degrees and sleeting/snowing, the Fort Worth Live Stock show is going on.

23. If it's rained 6 inches in the last hour, the Byron Nelson Golf Classic is in the second round.

24. Amusement parks, stadiums, arenas, race tracks, airports, etc. are conveniently located as far away from EVERYTHING as possible so as to allow for ample parking on grassy areas.

8/29/01
A man goes to the doctor with a long history of migraine headaches. When the doctor does his history and physical, he discovers that his poor patient has had practically every therapy known to man for his migraines and still shows no


complete."

The man was skeptical, and became irritated that the doctor thought
his machine was so good he didn't need to speak with his patients.
"So," he thought, "I'll teach him." He asked to take the cup home and
bring it in the next day. The nurse agreed, and the man left.

When he got home, he explained everything to his family and asked for
their help. They agreed, and everyone contributed a urine sample to
the cup. The next day, before he left, the man became cocky and
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doctor. Thedoctor was leaning back in his chair and giving the man
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tennis elbow!"

8/28/01
A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural Arizona. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing.
The litigator responded, "I shot a duck and it


that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.

The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the city feller. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick nearly wiped the man's nose off his face. The barrister was flat on his belly when the farmer's third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up.

The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet and said, "Okay, you old coot! Now, it's my turn!"

The old farmer grinned and said, "Naw, I give up. You can have the duck!"

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(24 April 2004, Jakarta Post) A tightrope walker is just recovering. In her last open-air performance, an unexpected rainstorm struck her down, causing serious injuries. Doctors agree that she is in a stable condition, yet are unsure whether she is strong enough to perform. However, her next show cannot be postponed, and as that day approaches, show officials deliberate.

A rather meek, conservative doctor thinks she might be not strong enough. Worried about recent storms, he suggests that, for the show, officials maintain the safety net currently used for practice only. Despite her continuing therapy and practice, he doubts she can weather the impending storm on the big day. A more gung-ho official doctor, however, disagrees.

He thinks that the safety net, previously neverMum felt "sick to the stomach" after he sent 4am post asking if she was "behaving" herself along with messages to her daughter, 23, and a 15-year-old girl

A mum yesterday revealed how she was left “creeped out” after shamed TD Patrick Nulty sent her a late-night Facebook message asking if she was “behaving”.

And the 41-year-old claimed the former Independent deputy also wrote posts to her daughter, 23, and a 15-year-old girl.

Less than 24 hours after gardai confirmed they plan to quiz Nulty over his “spanking” message to a 17-year-old Leaving Cert student, we can reveal more women from his Dublin West constituency have come forward to claim he bombarded them with disturbing notices.

And one even claimed the politician had been warned “in the past” over girls who were


“unhappy” about getting messages from him.

The married mum who spoke to the Irish Mirror said she had never met Nulty but recognised his face when he sent her a Facebook friend request.

But she felt distressed after he sent her a post at 4am in July last year asking: “Are you behaving madam?”

And she was “sick to the stomach” yesterday when she discovered Nulty had also messaged her daughter and the pal of her youngest girl.

The woman said: “The first message was just a, ‘Hi, how are you?’ so I ignored that.

“Then a few months later I discovered he had messaged me at 4am saying, ‘Are you behaving madam?’

“I found it so creepy but I never told a soul.

"Then after it all erupted at the weekend and he resignedAnd if anyone knows about protecting the country...

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Doug Marrone has agreed to leave Syracuse and become the coach of the Buffalo Bills, league sources told ESPN on Sunday.

Marrone will replace Chan Gailey, who was fired after going 16-32 in three seasons leading the Bills. Marrone agreed to a four-year contract but has yet to sign the deal, a league sources told ESPN.

Marrone takes over a Bills team that has not had a winning record since 2004, when it finished 9-7, and has missed the playoffs for 13 straight seasons -- the NFL's longest active drought.

The 48-year-old Marrone went 25-25 in four seasons at Syracuse, turning around a program that had gone 26-57 in the previous seven years.

Syracuse rolled to an 8-5 finish by winning six of its last seven games this past season, including a38-14 win over West Virginia in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.

The Orange offered congratulations to Marrone on his new job with a tweet Monday.

"#OrangeNation wishes head coach Doug Marrone all the best in NFL with the Bills. Thanks for what you've done at the 'Cuse," the school posted on its Twitter account.

The Syracuse job was Marrone's first as a head coach. He has seven years of NFL experience. Marrone spent 2006-08 as the New Orleans Saints' offensive coordinator and was the New York Jets' offensive line coach from 2002-05.


League had warned all its clubs about Mr Higgins in 1989.

In a letter issued to the managers of all the clubs in the Football League, the Football Association stated: “I understand that you may recently have received a letter from Mr. Bob Higgins, inviting your club to become involved with the above organisation [BHSA].

“The Football Association, Football League and English Schools’ Football Association are opposed to this organisation and I would ask all clubs which might be thinking of becoming involved to give this office the opportunity of appraising them of the situation before taking any steps in this direction.”

Mr Higgins worked at Southampton throughout the 1980s and was cleared of sexual offences against boys in 1992 before going on to join Peterborough in the mid-1990s.

It’s understood thatat least six players have now approached Hampshire Police with allegations against the coach.

The 57-year-old has denied all claims made against him.

Le Tissier in action for Southampton against Manchester United during a Premiership match between the two sides in 1996 (Getty)

Despite being named in connection with historical child sex abuse, it recently emerged that Mr Higgins was still at work within the sport as a coach at Fleet Town. The club have since said he is no longer part of their set-up.

Southampton are now one of 55 clubs understood to be looking into historical allegations of child abuse.

QPR became the latest club to reveal they are acting upon abuse allegations after a player came forward with claims against one-time scout Chris Gieler.

The club are taking the matter “very


Amnesty International USA Commends President Obama’s Statement on “Comfort Women”

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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Amnesty International USA today commended President Obama for publicly raising the issue of “Comfort Women” during his recent visit to East Asia.

According to media reports, President Obama referred to the “Comfort Women,” stating: “Those women were violated in ways that even in the midst of war was shocking. They deserve be heard, they deserve to be respected.”

Over 200,000 of these women and girls were trapped, deceived or otherwise forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army in the different occupied countries throughout the Asia Pacific region before and during World War II. They were kept in Japanese military camps where they were repeatedly raped and brutalized for months or years on end. The vast majoritywere under 20 and some were as young as 12.

By speaking out on this issue, President Obama has added his voice to those of the survivors, who for decades have been denied justice, truth and reparation.

Amnesty International hopes that President Obama’s words will be followed by concrete action to press the Japanese Government to accept full legal responsibility for the crimes against these women, and to provide them with an unequivocal and sincere apology and adequate and effective reparation.

Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 3 million members in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied.

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Boulder, CO-based Limitless Computing Inc. has provided cloud
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WY-GOV: GOP candidates react to the passage of Obamacare

It has been a little while since my last update and a lot has happened in the Equality State in regard to the race for governor. In case you have been living in a cave, popular incumbant Gov. Dave Freudenthal has deicded to call it quits after two terms. Gov. Dave is a Democrat and was relected with 70% in Wyoming in 2006. However, I have heard that Gov. Dave had a choice; leave office as the most popular politician and Democrat in the state of Wyoming, or leave office because Wyomingites still prefer term limits to Gov. Dave. Anyway, that’s just a rumor.

There are four serious GOP candidates for governor in Wyoming; Ron Micheli, Colin Simpson, Matt Mead,Vatican has said he hopes to use the meetings to make a “fundamental step forward” in ridding the church of abuse.

Cruz, for his part, has said he will tell Francis he needs to first of all get rid of a handful of problematic bishops in Chile, Barros included, and then rid himself of the “toxic” churchmen who repeatedly discredit, demean and defame victims for the sake of protecting the church.


According to many theorists of humour, a funny event must contain one of three elements to be truly comedic.

The first is incongruity. So let’s imagine a man sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper: not funny. Not until you zoom out and see that the toilet the man is sitting on is actually at the centre of an installation in a modern art gallery, surrounded by bemused members of the public. The man gets up and flushes the toilet, and instantly the entire gallery and everyone in it disappears. For the second element of comedy is surprise.

The third element is recognition, which is why the fact that Arsenal have been drawn with Bayern Munich for the fourth season out of five may not be incongruous or surprising, butshowed that the defendant did not have a clear title to the equipment but that the Merchants & Farmers Bank held a bill of sale in which the equipment was conveyed for the purpose of securing a debt owed by the defendant to the bank. The defendant contended that he was selling the equipment not only for the purpose of paying the bank, but also to obtain money with which to discharge other liens against the equipment held by Mose Gordon Lumber Company and Westbrook Motor Company. On the trial the defendant testified that this was his intention. He introduced three notes in evidence; one for the principal sum of $633, executed on April 15, 1953, and made payable to Trussell Equipment Company. Entered on this note was


1949, payable to Westbrook Motor Company, Inc., and covering a part of the defendant's farm equipment. This note showed no credit. The defendant testified that he telephoned Mose Gordon, and Gordon told him to sell the machinery and bring the money to him. His testimony included the statement "Yes, I owe all the note calls for to Mose Gordon now on this tractor." He did not designate to which of the two notes held by Mose Gordon Lumber Company this reference was made. He made no statement as to what balance was due on his note to Westbrook Motor Company. The defendant further related that after the equipment was levied upon, and subsequent to having obtained its release from the *389 levy of attachment by giving the replevyand Westbrook Motor Company after it was levied upon and possession of it obtained by giving the replevy bond. The defendant, though he could have established these facts by the books of the Mose Gordon Lumber Company, Westbrook Motor Company and the Merchants & Farmers Bank and the testimony of the employees of those concerns in charge of the books, that they actually were the notes in the form of retention-of-title contracts and bills of sales to secure debt, that he testified constituted liens on the equipment at the time it was sold by him to C. L. Gordon, and just what balance, if any, was at the time of the sale to Gordon owing on the notes. He could have produced Mose Gordon and officers of the


Westbrook Motor Company to corroborate his statements that he had, after the levy on the machinery was dissolved by him giving a replevy bond, actually returned the machinery to them.
The defendant did not by his own testimony, or by material evidence within his control, furnish to the jury data from which they could decide whether he acted in good faith when selling the machinery to C. L. Gordon pending the plaintiff's suit brought against him on a money demand.
In Hoffer v. Gladden, 75 Ga. 532 (5), it is held: "Failure to produce testimony is a badge of fraud, where the bona fides of the transaction is in issue, and witnesses who ought to be able to explain it are in reach."
The defendant had material evidence within his reachfor check-up on March 12. Case 243, a 34-year-old woman, lived and worked in Russia. On March 25, she returned to Vietnam on Flight SU290 and entered the country via Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. Case 244, a 44-year-old woman, is an employee of a fast food restaurant in Germany. She went from Germany to Russia on Flight SU2313 and then continued her trip from Russia to Vietnam on Flight SU290 to arrive at Noi Bai airport on March 25. The 245th patient, a 21-year-old woman, is a nail salon worker in Spain. She landed at Noi Bai airport… Read full this story

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The launch team also uses radar to watch for birds before a shuttle liftoff.Nevertheless, the bat stayed in place and it was seen changing positions from time to time.Launch controllers spotted the bat after it had clawed onto the foam of the external tank as Discovery stood at Launch Pad 39A. The temperature never dropped below 60 degrees at that part of the tank, and infrared cameras showed that the bat was 70 degrees through launch.The final inspection team that surveys the outside of the shuttle and tank for signs of ice buildup observed the small bat, hoping it would wake up and fly away before the shuttle engines ignited.It was not the first bat to land on a shuttle during a countdown. Previously, one of the wingedAccording to SPORT, Manchester City have broken the bank in order to beat the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Juventus to the signature of Gabriel Jesus in a deal worth €32 million (£26.4 million).

Gabriel Jesus has been attracting the attention of multiple European clubs due to performances for Palmeiras and he has signed a 5-year deal at City – he will however return to Brazil to finish off the season with Palmeiras as they try and win the Brazilian league which ends in December.

The €32 million fee will be split amongst the club, the player himself and his agent. The club will receive just €9.2 million, 25% of the fee (€8 million) will go to the player and his two agents will receive €7.2 million


with Scandinavia than Russia. In fact, Russia conquered the territory from Sweden in the 1700s.

Russia coveted the territory to provide a buffer to protect St Petersburg and to increase Russia’s access to the sea.

The Russian empire continued in control until World War I, after which the tiny nation fought and won its independence. But that only lasted until World War II which ended with Estonia annexed to the Soviet Union.

That was when Juri Toomepuu’s family fled Estonia. Toomepuu was just a boy.

The Soviet occupation was brutal. Elites and intellectuals were liquidated. Property was collectivized. Resistance -- even criticism -- resulted in deportation, torture or death. Even so, guerrilla warfare continued into the 1950s.

The population of Estonia was forced to learn and use Russian. Hundreds of thousands of ethnicact as a “Fifth Column” on behalf of Putin.

Toomepuu took his opposition to Soviet power seriously. He joined the US army because - in his words - he wanted to fight communists.

He did. He served in the Korean War, and later in Vietnam, where he received the Distinguished Service Cross, for valour.

After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Toomepuu returned to Estonia, and became a member of parliament for several years.

Now he's a writer, living in Florida. Toomepuu rejects a comparison between Russians who refuse to learn Estonian to Hispanics in Florida who fail to learn English.

“Americans come from many different backgrounds,” he says. “And they (all) become loyal Americans. But the Russians in Estonia, they are not loyal to the Estonian republic. They would welcome Putin.”

Toomepuu is


currently visiting Estonia to promote his book: "Three Fundamental Problems in Estonia’s Recent History: Thirty-three Solutions."

In his book, he predicted the kind of things that have happened in Ukraine. He jokes that “it seems like Putin did all this actually to promote my book!” It has become a best-seller in Estonia.

As a military man, Toomepuu concludes that there isn’t much Estonia can do by itself to stop any Russian intervention. He says the National Guard should be encouraged to fight on as guerrillas, to try to make the annexation an unpalatable prospect.

He has no confidence in the international community coming to Estonia’s assistance, despite being a full member of NATO.

President Obama and NATO have stated that any move by Russian forces into the territory of NATO members wouldBlueberry bushes are arranged in long parallel rows. Blueberry harvesting machines are several feet long and look like an inverted U when observed from the front to back. The machines straddle the bushes as they move along the rows to pick the berries. Various means are used to loosen the berries from the bushes and dropping them onto leaves or scales that fill the space inside the bottom of the inverted U to collect the berries. The leaves are arranged in two parallel rows with a pivot on one end of each leaf connected to a bearing in a rail. The rails are attached to the inside surface or frame of the machine and run parallel to the rows of bushes when the machine runs over the bushes.


the card 8c is held in the housing 81. By pulling out the card 8c with a comparatively strong force, the oblique surface of the convex latching portion 86c and the corner of the latching concave portion slide, and the sliding member 86 pivots in the releasing direction to enable the card to be withdrawn.
Here, it is conceivable that with the card connector of Patent Document 1, when the card 8c is ejected, inertial force acts on the card 8c, causing the card 8c to unexpectedly be ejected. To prevent the unexpected ejection of the card 8c, it would be difficult to pull out the card 8c if the oblique surface of the convex latching portion 86c were moderately oblique. It is also difficult to attempt to attainthe inside 92a to the entrance 92b by the returning force of a coil spring 95. At that time, the card bearing portion 94b, formed to a substantially L-shape on the leading end of the sliding member 94, pushes the leading end of the card 9c so the card 9c also moves.
In the ejection process of the card 9c, one end 94c of the sliding member 94 starts to compress the rubber brake 97. A hollow portion 97b is provided in the rubber brake 97. This resiliently deforms in a right-angle direction to a compression direction so a contact portion 97a of the triangular shaped leading end compresses a side portion of the card 9c. Therefore, the card connector of Patent Document 2_inhibits the card 9c from unexpectedly


development and Gunners boss Wenger regards him as a huge prospect.

(Image: David Price) (Image: Stuart MacFarlane)

Arsenal looked at Oxford before he signed a contract at West Ham and now they head a queue of big clubs who are keen.

Rowley has scouted him regularly while Manchester United and Manchester City have also been watching him.

Oxford, whose contract expires in 2018, can play centre half or central midfield and Arsenal like his composure on the ball.

Reece Oxford in numbers 17 Age 5 Starts 2 Sub

West Ham blocked Oxford from going to the Under-17s World Cup in Chile - he was captain of England’s team - in October and since then he has not started a Premier League game.

That has given clubs encouragement that a deal might be able to beClowe, Michael Ryder, and Rostislav Olesz. With a surprise "retirement" of a player, the Devils added Jaromir Jagr almost as a response. Damien Brunner was brought into training camp and signed to a contract. Other, more minor moves were made like dumping Krys Barch as well as keeping Mattias Tedenby and Peter Harrold. For the most part, though, only Jagr turned out to be a big win from free agency. Ryder was doing OK until his current arctic-cold streak. Clowe missed a big part of the season, part of the risk of signing him. Olesz didn't work out at all. Brunner has been deservedly benched at times for his lackadaiscal play and has been inconsistent at best with his usefulness. The team needed help in scoring and at


the trade deadline, he essentially swapped Andrei Loktionov for Tuomo Ruutu. Ruutu may turn out to be good but he is not likely the scorer they needed - and the team remained to have load of defensemen. If you feel the problem with this season's team is a lack of talent and not addressing needs mid-season, then a finger has to be pointed at the man at the top.

Why It May Not Be the Biggest Problem: Other than the site being named after him? OK, he's just the overseer. He really comes into play with respect to larger personnel decisions like acquiring players, trades, and so forth. Probably calling up and demoting players as well. As involved as a GM gets, he tries to get the talent that'sHumanity Says Hi To Pluto For The First Time

The New Horizons mission launched on January 19, 2006. It sent its piano-sized probe hurtling toward Jupiter, where the gas giant's gravity slingshotted the spacecraft at 82,000 kph (51,000 mph) in the direction of Pluto. After more than 3 billion miles, New Horizons reached its closest distance to Pluto on July 14, 2015. The journey had lasted 9 years, 5 months, and 25 days, and would reward Earth with the most detailed images of Pluto to date.


wars in Angola, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, and Sierra Leone are often cited as examples of this dynamic. In Angola, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, UNITA) financed its war largely through the taxation and encouragement of the illicit trade in diamonds from the mid-1990s until the war ended in 2002. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone also financed itself by trading in illicit diamonds. In the DRC, control of diamonds, coltan, and timber has been a powerful incentive to prolong the country’s vicious civil war. Collier has also classified the illegal drug trade and kidnapping for profit—predominantly by rebel groups in Colombia—as part of this equation. It is undeniable that non-statewar in resource-rich Angola began some twenty years before UNITA started to finance itself with illicit diamond sales in the mid-1990s. Indeed, UNITA agreed to a ceasefire roughly two months after the death of Jonas Savimbi in February 2002, even though U.N. investigators estimated that UNITA was still able to earn as much as U.S. $1 million per day from illicit diamond sales. Had greed been the primary motive of the rebels, they could have continued to fight for much longer to the detriment of the country and civilians caught in the middle of the conflict. This suggests that funding from commodities was secondary to Savimbi’s larger goal of defeating the Angolan government, and was not much of a factor in UNITA’s choice to end the war after


government becomes predatory, committing abuses to maintain power and controlling the resources of the state for the benefit of a few. Researchers at the World Bank sometimes refer to these governments as “Predatory Autocracies,” where:

[S]tate power faces few constraints and the exploitation of public and private resources for the gain of elite interests is embedded in institutionalized practices with greater continuity of individual leaders. Such regimes are nontransparent and corrupt—little financial and human capital flows into productive occupations, whose returns are depressed by a dysfunctional environment.

The government of Angola, largely dependent on oil during the latter years of its war with UNITA, is one example of such an unaccountable, predatory state. The roots of the Angolan civil war were political, influenced by the dynamics of the Cold Warand divisions among the former nationalist movements. The Angolan government enjoyed significant military assistance from the Soviet Union and Cuba and conducted a semi-conventional war against UNITA, which in turn was supported by its apartheid South Africa backers and encouraged by the West. However, this conflict had been transformed into a low intensity conflict by the end of 1998, and the government of Angola increasingly took on the attributes of a predatory state. During the last years of the war, huge sums of money simply unaccountably disappeared from government coffers, and the population grew ever more impoverished.

Second, unaccountable governments with large revenue streams at their disposal have multiple opportunities to divert funds for illegal purposes. When such a government is involved in armed conflict, the resulting rights abuses


during the final years of its long conflict with UNITA, when oil was the main source of government funding. In 1999, for example, at a time of a renewed offensives, about 88 percent of the government’s total revenue came from oil—more than U.S.$4 billion. In addition to the substantial revenues that went into the war effort, some U.S.$1.1 billion, nearly 20 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), simply disappeared from government coffers in the same year, much of it likely siphoned off through corruption. In its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999, the U.S. State Department noted, “[t]he country’s wealth continued to be concentrated in the hands of a small elite whose members used government positions for massive personal enrichment, and corruption continued toAngolans do not see the benefits of their sizable natural wealth, the country may not slide into war, but into lawlessness. Angola has a great potential for improvements in human rights and social development, but if the status quo persists, then that squandered potential could lead to future grievances and prevent the resolution of current ones.

Liberia: Misuse of Resource Revenues for Sanctions-Busting

Unaccountable governments with large revenue streams at their disposal have multiple opportunities to divert funds for illegal purposes. Relying on off-budget accounts, the Taylor government in Liberia fomented national and regional instability by providing arms and other support to a vicious rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), in neighboring Sierra Leone and rebel groups in western Côte D’Ivoire, as well as to fund its own war


within Liberia. Meanwhile, Liberia remained one of the poorest countries in the world.

Despite international arms embargoes, the Taylor government spent millions for his own wars and to supply the RUF, using revenue from government-controlled diamond and timber sales, and from monies diverted from Liberia’s lucrative maritime registry. An arms embargo was placed on all parties to the civil war in Liberia in 1992 after the Economic Community of West African States intervened militarily in large part to prevent Taylor, at the time leader of rebel forces known as the National Patriotic Front for Liberia, from taking power. The sanctions remained in effect when Taylor subsequently was elected president of Liberia in 1997 but were largely ineffective because they were poorly enforced. It was only after the U.N. Securitygovernment spent on education and health.

Taylor was able to secretly divert these funds until U.N. investigative panels were constituted to monitor sanctions-busting by the government. In March 2001, the U.N. Security Council decided to approve new sanctions on Liberia to start in May 2001. The sanctions were in response to a report presented by the Panel of Experts on Liberia established to monitor sanctions applied to the RUF and other forces operating in Sierra Leone. The basis for these sanctions was President Taylor’s support for the RUF in Sierra Leone in violation of the existing sanctions. Security Council Resolution 1343, passed in March 2001, reauthorized the arms embargo on Liberia; imposed a travel ban on key officials, their spouses, and business associates; called on U.N. member states to


freeze all financial assets of the RUF; and called for the expulsion of RUF members from Liberia. An embargo was also imposed on all of Liberia’s diamond exports, and in July 2003 a timber embargo was added.

The panel examined the Taylor government’s misuse of maritime revenues in order to violate sanctions. Liberia today has the second-largest maritime fleet in the world, and in 2002, maritime revenue constituted about 18 percent of government revenue—about U.S.$13 million. The U.S.-based Liberian International Shipping and Corporate Registry used off-budget accounts to pay U.S.$925,000 for illegal arms and other prohibited items at the request of the government in 2000, a period when Liberia was still deeply involved in supporting the RUF and had also launched incursions into neighboring Guinea. Nathanial Barnes, finance ministerdirect role in combat there. Ituri is rich in gold reserves, and the dispute in part involved control of those resources. The Ugandan economy significantly benefited from the re-exportation of gold, diamonds, coltan, timber, and coffee, and commodity sales significantly improved the country’s balance of payments. Uganda is often cited as an economic success story in Africa, a model of economic growth and a country committed to poverty reduction, but there has been little scrutiny by international financial institutions (IFIs) regarding the role of its illegal exploitation of resources in the DRC in bolstering its economy. The U.N. Panel reported in 2001:

[T]he illegal exploitation of gold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo brought a significant improvement in the balance of payments of Uganda. This in turn gave


diamond reserves of its own, began to export diamonds after it became involved in the war. It found that the Rwandan military financed its involvement in the DRC through commercial exploitation of resources, shareholding in businesses operating in the DRC, payments from the rebel group RCD-Goma, and taxation and protection payments from businesses operating in Rwandan-controlled areas in the DRC. Most of the revenues generated from these activities are opaque and off-budget. Uganda has been more brazen and has kept this revenue on-budget, even though the source of that revenue is considered to be illegal exploitation of another country’s resources; funds are brought in through formal channels and openly included as a source of government revenue. The panel of experts further concluded that the nature of combat inthe DRC was intertwined with control over resources. It noted in 2001:

Current big battles have been fought in areas of major economic importance, towards the cobalt- and copper-rich area of Katanga and the diamond area of Mbuji Mayi. Military specialists argue that the Rwandan objective is to capture these mineral-rich areas to deprive the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of the financial sources of its war effort. Without the control of this area, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo cannot sustain the war. This rationale confirms that the availability of natural resources permits the continuation of the war —. In view of the current experience of the illegal exploitation of the resources of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo by Rwanda


and Uganda, it could also be thought that the capturing of this mineral-rich area would lead to the exploitation of those resources. In that case, control of those areas by Rwanda could be seen primarily as an economic and financial objective rather than a security objective for the Rwandan borders.

The Ugandan Government established the Porter Commission on May 23, 2001 to look into the allegations of Ugandan involvement in illegal exploitation of Congolese resources.The final report was produced in November 2002, but only made public in 2003. The report exonerated the Ugandan government and its army of official involvement in such exploitation up to 2002. The Commission did, however, support the U.N. panel's findings in relation to senior Ugandan military officials.The Commission strongly recommended further investigation of diamondbeen moving towards a consistent approach on transparency. A two-year-long review by the World Bank assessing its role in the extractive industries has largely concluded that the bank should consistently address these issues. The Chad-Cameroon pipeline has promising transparency measures built in to it, but it is too early to tell whether they will be consistently enforced. The bank is also providing technical assistance to countries like Angola in order to help them better manage revenue. Recently, the bank approved financing for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and has required government disclosure of oil revenues as a condition of financing. But it is less forceful in Central Asia or in Uganda on these issues. By requiring audits, accurate public disclosure of revenues and expenditures, the public in resource-rich countries could


The official investigation into the 1989 murder of the Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane, one of the most notorious killings of the Troubles, was ineffective and failed to meet the standards required under human rights law, the supreme court has ruled.

In a unanimous judgment, five justices said the investigation carried out by Sir Desmond de Silva in 2011 was frustrated by his inability to compel witnesses to testify about the killing. The court did not, however, order a public inquiry and has left it up to the government to decide whether further investigation is needed.

Finucane, 39, a Belfast lawyer who represented a number of high-profile republicans, was shot dead in front of his family by loyalist gunmen who forced their way into his Belfast home 30 years ago thismonth in an attack found to have involved state collusion.

Lawyers for his widow, Geraldine Finucane, have argued that the decision to hold only a paper-based review of the killing rather than a public hearing led to there being no effective scrutiny of the murder.

After Finucane’s death it emerged that the loyalist paramilitary intelligence officer responsible for directing Ulster Defence Association attacks, Brian Nelson, was an agent controlled by the British army’s force research unit.

A senior police officer, John Stevens, conducted a series of investigations into the murder. In 2001, political agreement between the UK and Irish governments established that an international judge would investigate the Finucane killing, among others. It was agreed that an inquiry would be held into Finucane’s murder, but that decision was reversed in 2010


The invention relates to a tundish having a refractory lining for producing and transferring high-purity metal melt from a casting ladle into the permanent mold of a continuous casting installation, and to a process for producing a high-purity metal strand using a continuous casting installation.
During the continuous casting of metal strands, in particular during the continuous casting of steel, a tundish is usually fitted between the casting ladle and the continuous casting permanent mold, in order to compensate for fluctuations in the supply of melt and in the rate at which the metal strand is drawn off from the continuous-casting installation. Especially in the case of sequence casting, it is necessary to store a sufficient quantity of metal melt in the tundish to span the time required tochange the ladle.
The melt is usually transferred from the tundish to the permanent mold of a continuous casting installation through an outflow opening in the tundish base, which is assigned a controllable closure member, such as a slide or a stopper, and also through a submerged casting pipe or a casting nozzle. The permanent mold may be designed in a very wide range of ways, for example it may be an oscillating tube or plate mold, a mold formed by a single casting roll or by two interacting casting rolls and side plates, or a mold formed by revolving belts or tracks.
In the case of multi-strand casting installations, this tundish is designed as a distributor vessel and, via a plurality of melt outlets, supplies a plurality of continuous