oxycodone in West Virginia for 2014,” and

the drug made up 70% of the pharmacy’s annual dosage units for

2014.

      The        law     enforcement           agents     also   began         investigating

Agyekum’s banking practices.                    A bank teller at the Fifth Third

Bank in Barboursville told agents that when Agyekum attempted to

deposit $16,000 in cash into a savings account on December 23,

2013, the teller began completing a currency transaction report

for   the    deposit,               The court thereupon

terminated the plea hearing.

      A week later, however, Agyekum again appeared before the

district court to plead guilty under the plea agreement.                         He

stated that after further discussion with his attorney, he had

decided to go through with the agreement.                    He stated that he

understood “about the forfeiture provisions that are in the plea


           While the evidence

does not reveal any drug transactions on the specific dates in

which    he       engaged        in    structuring,         the    ongoing       conspiratorial

activity       was       broader       than    the     individual        drug    transactions.

During the entire year of the conspiracy, Agyekum was ordering

oxycodone         units    For instance, rather

than purchasing oxycodone from his distributor for dispensation

to patients with prescriptions to serve legitimate purposes, as

the distributor assumed he was doing, he purchased oxycodone to

supply   drug     dealers      illegally           and       without      prescriptions;           and

rather than reporting filled prescriptions to the West Virginia

Board of Pharmacy as required, he altered computer records to

avoid proper reporting and to conceal the extent of his illegal


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activities.             In this manner, Agyekum abused his positions as a

licensed intern in a pharmacy and as the functioning CEO with

complete control of A+ Care Pharmacy by taking advantage of his

role    in        the   relationships         with    his    distributor         and    the    West

Virginia Board of Pharmacy.                     See Caplinger, 339 F.3d at 237.

Moreover,           Agyekum’s         conduct       corrupted       many     of     his       other

professional relationships, including his relationship with his

wife in her capacity as an employee and the licensed pharmacist

at     the    pharmacy          and    his    relationship          with    the


appeared before the

court after discussing all of his options with his lawyer and

stated that he was prepared to accept the plea agreement as

written.       When    asked    again   whether   he    went    over     the   plea

agreement paragraph by paragraph with his attorney, Agyekum said

that he had and that he was accepting the agreement as written.

When the court pressed Agyekum further, Agyekum explained that

he was agreeing because he had “no choice.”                     The court then

stated, “Well, your choice would be to either comply with the

plea agreementBarklay

Meaning

English Meaning:

The name Barklay is an English
baby name. In English the meaning of the name Barklay is:
Birch valley; birch tree meadow.

Numerology

SoulUrge Number: 2

People with this name have a deep inner desire for love and companionship, and want to work with others to achieve peace and harmony.

Expression Number: 7

People with this name are excellent at analyzing, understanding, and learning. They tend to be mystics, philosophers, scholars, and teachers. Because they live so much in the mind, they tend to be quiet and introspective, and are usually introverts. When presented with issues, they will see the larger picture. Their solitary thoughtfulness and analysis of people and world events may make them seem aloof, and sometimes even melancholy.


much as 92% of aluminium) and their polishing with a hand-held drill and angle grinder. These activities accounted for approximately 25% of his working time. An extremely dusty seasonal work was the so-called airplane refurbishment, with sheet grinding including removal of anodic films accounting for up to 80% of the working time.

The hygienic conditions at the workplace were generally unsatisfactory. The place was only naturally ventilated through windows and gates, with dust constantly raised. Personal protective equipment was inadequate as simple cloth dust masks could not sufficiently protect from exposure to fine aluminium dust.

Thus, according to the industrial hygiene specialists' statement, conditions in the patient's workplace met the criteria for the development of an occupational disease.

Later, approximately 5 yr after the exposure was discontinued, increased aluminium concentration in themonopolise the gardens in the evenings".

The salt water baths were closed in 1920 and the superstructure moved to Evans Bay for dressing sheds. New baths opened in Murphy Street in November 1924 with certain hours set aside for mixed bathing.

Notes

References

External links

Archives New Zealand
National Library
Thorndon History by Jeremy Lowe

Category:Suburbs of Wellington City


I was very impressed with the sound for the latest trailer for the hotly-anticipated ‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ – and discovered that the sound design and mix was done by sound designer Yohann Boudreault. I managed to get in touch with him to get the story behind the sound, and in this A Sound Effect interview, he shares his approach, ideas and techniques for the Deus Ex trailer sound:

The Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – 101 Trailer

Hi Yohann, how did you get started in sound – and how did you get involved with Deus Ex?

Hello! After being active in the Montreal music scene as a guitar player, I was offered a job as an in-house music composer in a small videogame company. From that moment, I realised the importanceand the power of sounds other than music in the videogame/film world. Music plays a big role in carrying emotion, but sound design lets you become completely immersed into a virtual world that could otherwise be dull.

My involvement with Deus Ex all started in 2009, when Steve Szczepkowski, Executive Audio Director at Eidos Montreal hired me as a sound designer to work on the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I think from that moment, we established a good relationship based on trust, so he just keeps calling me to mix and do the sound design for the game trailers. Having been part of the audio team, it might also be because I know the sound universe of the Deus Ex franchise very well :)

What was your overall vision


technology matter comes alive.

A big thanks to Yohann Boudreault for the story behind the Deus Ex trailer!

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About Deus Ex: Mankind Divided:

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming August 23rd, 2016 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. More info about the game

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A sobering "freeze frame" report was published by Freedom House, a watchdog group based in D.C., pulling together several factors that add up to "the retreat of the United States as both a champion and an exemplar of democracy."

The global picture: Of 195 countries, 88 (45%) were rated Free, 58 (30%) Partly Free, and 49 (25%) Not Free.

The annual report finds "democracy is in retreat around the world" for the 12th year in a row.

finds "democracy is in retreat around the world" for the 12th year in a row. "This year, this includes the United States, which in 2017, experienced [its] sharpest one-year drop since we began doing the survey more than 40 years ago."

this includes the United States, which in 2017, experienced [its] sharpest one-year drop sinceYour Packers Fan Podcast is the show BY FANS and FOR FANS of the 13-Time NFL Champion Green Bay Packers!

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proof? Consider an experiment conducted several years ago by Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester, marketing professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The pair organized a real-life, sealed-bid auction for tickets to a Boston Celtics game (this was during the Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish era, so the tickets were especially valuable). Half the participants in the auction were informed that whoever won the bidding would have to pay for the tickets in cash (although they had a day to come up with the funds). The other half were told that the winning bidder would have to pay by credit card. Prelec and Simester then averaged the bids of those who thought they would have to pay in cash and those who thought theyfor cash in the bank. Several years ago, however, Sara inherited about $17,000 from her grandmother. Although she didn't need the money for any particular short-term or long-term goal, Sara parked her grandmother's inheritance in a bank account paying about 3 percent a year in interest. Her grandmother, whom Sara adored, had worked and saved all her life to scrape together the money that she eventually left to Sara and her four siblings. As a result, Sara was hesitant to put her grandmother's money at risk in the stock market, not least because S ara was raised by parents whose memory of the Great Depression and the stock market crash of 1929 made them and their daughter overly fearful about the risks of stocks. In any event, it


91 F.3d 135
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit Local Rule 36(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.George H. LAMSON;  Rosemarie Lamson, Defendants-Appellants,and21.52 Acres of Land, more or less, in Clarke County,Virginia, Defendant.
No. 95-2770.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted:  May 21, 1996Decided:  July 15, 1996

Norman Lamson, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellants.
Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, Robert L. Klarquist, Jonathan F. Klein, Appellate Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.;   Robert P. Crouch, Jr., United States Attorney, Richard A. Lloret, Assistant United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia;  Anthony R. Conte,Office of the Solicitor, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Newton Corner, Massachusetts, for Appellee.
Before HALL, LUTTIG, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
OPINION
PER CURIAM:

1
Appellants, George and Rosemarie Lamson ("the Lamsons"), appeal an order of the magistrate judge1 denying their application for attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA).2  The issue is whether the district court abused its discretion in finding the government's position "substantially justified."   We affirm.

2
The National Park Service attempted for a number of years to acquire 21.52 acres of a 163.52 acre tract of land located solely in Clarke County, Virginia, and owned by the Lamsons, to serve as part of a wooded corridor to protect the Appalachian National Scenic Trail from residential development.  The government hired an appraiser, Richard Bowers, who prepared


Joe Wingate, was unqualified because his office was in Roanoke, Virginia, was four hours from the Lamsons' land, and because the comparable sales upon which he based his appraisal were all from Clarke County.

8
The district court denied the application and found the government's position "substantially justified."   The Lamsons appealed.  Because the magistrate judge failed to use the proper test to evaluate the government's position, we reversed and remanded with instructions.

9
On remand, the magistrate judge again denied the Lamsons' petition for attorney's fees.  The magistrate judge found that based on the totality of the circumstances, both prelitigation and at trial, the government's position was substantially justified.  The Lamsons appeal, arguing that the magistrate judge abused his discretion by failing to find that the appraisalsa National Day of Action on the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision. These events were coordinated by Move to Amend, a coalition made up of local and national groups for the purpose of raising awareness and building momentum toward passing a constitutional amendment to abolish corporate personhood and overturn Citizens United. Support for this idea is growing. Los Angeles and New York are now among the many US cities that have adopted resolutions supporting this movement in some form.

Passing a constitutional amendment abolishing corporate personhood would not just level the playing field, it would change the playing field altogether. It would help prevent corporations from drowning out the voices of the people.

This campaign to amend the constitution is born out of the vision is of a


Wounded Knee, hamlet and creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, U.S. It was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government.

On Dec. 29, 1890, more than 200 Sioux men, women, and children were massacred by U.S. troops in what has been called the Battle of Wounded Knee, an episode that concluded the conquest of the North American Indian. Reaching out for some hope of salvation from hard conditions, such as semistarvation caused by reduction in the size of their reservation in the late 1880s, the Teton Sioux responded affirmatively to Wovoka, a Paiute prophet who promised the disappearance of the white man and a return of native lands and buffalo if certain rites and dances wereperformed. These rites, known as the Ghost Dance(q.v.), caused alarm among whites and led to federal military intervention. The army subdued the Ghost Dance movement, but Chief Sitting Bull was killed by reservation police while being arrested (December 14), and a few hundred Sioux left their reservation at Pine Ridge, seeking to hide in the Badlands. Technically classified as hostiles because they had left the reservation, the Indians gathered around Chief Big Foot (byname of Chief Spotted Elk), who was dying of pneumonia) but . However, they surrendered quietly to pursuing troops of the 7th Cavalry on the night of December 28. Following an overnight encampment near Wounded Knee Creek, the Indians were surrounded and were nearly disarmed when a scuffle broke out over a young brave’s new


rifle. A shot was fired from within the group of struggling men, and a trooper fell. From close range the soldiers, supported by machine guns, fired into the Indians, whose only arms were the clubs and knives that they had hidden in blankets. Fleeing Indians were pursued, and some were killed miles from the camp. Although the number of Indian dead is unknown (the Indians removed some of the dead later), 144 Indians, including 44 women and 16 children, were buried in a mass grave the following spring when the weather permitted the army to return. About 30 soldiers were killed during the hostilities.

On Feb. 27, 1973, some 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), led by Russell Means and Dennis Banks, took the reservation hamlet ofThe Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature. It was created to celebrate the 81 years of discerning, thoughtful criticism Kirkus Reviews has contributed to both the publishing industry and readers at large. Books that earned the Kirkus Star with publication dates between November 1, 2015, and October 31, 2016 (see FAQ for exceptions), are automatically nominated for the 2016 Kirkus Prize, and the winners will be selected on November 3, 2016, by an esteemed panel composed of nationally respected writers and highly regarded booksellers, librarians and Kirkus critics.

Crime and thriller novels, once read, can usually be slotted with ease into one of three categories: those you


Image copyright AFP Image caption IS militants are moving to less well-known sites after being chased off mainstream social media

Online jihadist propaganda attracts more clicks in the UK than any other country in Europe, a report has found.

Britain is the fifth-biggest audience in the world for extremist content after Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Policy Exchange's study said.

The think tank suggested the UK public would support new laws criminalising reading content that glorifies terror.

The government has told internet companies like Facebook and Google to do more to remove jihadist material.

Former US military chief General David Petraeus, who wrote a foreword to the report, said efforts to combat online extremism were "inadequate".

He said the bombing of a London Tube train last week "merely underscored once again theand newspapers in a week - saying any decline of the terror group in the online space had been "significantly overstated".

"For at least a year, the production of content has continued despite the death of key figures, loss of territory and ongoing fighting," it said.

The jihadist group has retreated from territories it has seized in the Middle East, following pressure from a number of Iraqi and Syrian forces.

IS, also known as Daesh, disseminated its online propaganda across a "vast ecosystem" of platforms, the report found - including file-sharing services, encrypted messaging platforms and social media websites, as well as Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Internet giants say they have made efforts to clamp down on extremist content, with Google describing online extremism as a "critical challenge for us all".

Facebook said


Lawsuit over play-calling at Texas heating up

December 18, 2014

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The contract dispute between Oklahoma State and University of Texas assistant Joe Wickline hit courtrooms in two states Thursday, and lawyers for both sides said Texas coaches, administrators and players could ultimately be called to testify about who is calling the plays for the Longhorns.

Oklahoma State and Wickline sued each other in Oklahoma and Texas over what Oklahoma State considers a breach of contract by its former assistant.

At issue is whether Wickline is calling plays for Longhorns. Wickline says he is. Oklahoma State says he's not and wants him to pay a $600,000 penalty, arguing he took a lateral move to Texas, not a promotion as specified in his contract.

On Thursday, a judge in Stillwater, Oklahoma, allowedthe school's case against the coach to proceed in that state. About three hours later in Austin, Texas, a judge heard arguments whether to dismiss Wickline's counter lawsuit, but indicated she may not rule until January.

The arguments in Austin focused on Wickline's legal standing to file a case in Texas that raises many of the same issues in the Oklahoma case. It did not touch on whether Wickline calls the offensive plays for the Longhorns.

Wickline attorney David Beck said outside the courtroom that Wickline's contract didn't specify that he call ''all plays,'' but that he ''just has play-calling duties.'' Beck said the Texas coaching staff and others could be asked to testify about who calls plays and what happens in the coaching booth during games.

''If your game plan


is running, I would assume coach Wickline is going to have a lot of play-calling responsibilities,'' Beck said.

Neither Wickline nor Texas head coach Charlie Strong attended the hearing in Austin, but Strong's previous public statements have only confused the matter of who is calling plays for the Longhorns.

When announcing his staff in January, Strong said assistant Shawn Watson would collaborate but that ''Joe will call the plays on offense.'' In March, Strong said Wickline would be ''involved'' in play-calling but that ''the one final voice will be Shawn.''

After hearing Strong say Watson had ''final'' call on plays, Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder informed Wickline it considered him in breach of contract and sued him October for $593,478 in damages.

Sean Breen, Oklahoma State's attorney in the Texas case,Chrysanthemum

Written
by Kevin Henkes  Illustrated by Kevin Henkes

Reviewed by Morgan C. (age 8)

This book is about a little girl mouse named Chrysanthemum. Everybody in her class makes fun of her name. She gets upset. At the end, her teacher was having a baby and it turns out that she names her little girl Chrysanthemum. This makes Chrysanthemum feel very special.

My favorite part of this book is when Chrysanthemum's teacher has a baby girl. I like the way the illustrator made the picture of the chrysanthemum flower. It looks like a bunch of banannas bunched together.

This story reminds me of when I was eating at a resturant and saw a little mouse run into the wall. I recommend this book to anyone as it is a really good story.


hearing continued on a rocky footing with McCain later claiming Shanahan was ducking questions from senators.

Shanahan would help fill a key position under Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon if he is confirmed.

But he must first pass a vote in the Armed Services Committee, then his nomination would be taken up for a final vote on the Senate floor.pursued. The patient failed conservative management and 1 year later underwent a repeat arthroscopy at which time an unstable 3 cm × 3 cm lesion involving his medial femoral condyle was removed. It was felt that as the fragment had little subchondral bone that direct repair was not achievable. A further arthroscopy was performed 8 months later and a chondral biopsy was taken for later autologous chondrocyte transplantation. At the time it was noted that no healing had occurred at the site of the defect.

Two months later, the treating surgeon, using a lateral arthrotomy approach, patched the defect using a matrix induced autologous chondrocyte implant (MACI). The patch was fixed in place using fibrin glue. One year later, and due to persistent discomfort and swelling of the knee, the patient underwent a further


arthroscopy. It was noted that the outer rim of the MACI patch had incorporated well, yet an inner area of 1.5 cm × 1.5 cm had failed to fill completely.

At age 23 and due to troubling discomfort and mechanical features of instability the patient underwent another arthroscopy. Numerous loose bodies within both the medial and lateral compartments were washed out. The area of the past OCD and MACI graft had failed with exposure of underlying subchondral bone and formation of a large subchondral cyst. Unstable edges of the area of MACI graft were debrided but as the entrance to the subchondral cyst was small a surgical decision was made not to further expose nor debride the cavity.

Failing to symptomatically improve, the patient underwent a further arthrotomy with debridement of the subchondral cyst,His most famous crime was the kidnapping of oil tycoon and businessman Charles Urschel in July 1933 for which he, and his gang, earned $200,000 ransom. The FBI investigation eventually led to Kelly's arrest in Memphis, Tennessee on September 26, 1933. His crimes also included bootlegging and armed robbery.During the Prohibition era of the 1920s and 1930s Kelly worked as a bootlegger for himself as well as a colleague. After a short time, and several run-ins with the local Memphis police, he decided to leave town and head west with a new girlfriend. To protect his family and escape law enforcement officers, he changed his name to George R. Kelly. He continued to commit smaller crimes and bootlegging. He was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for smuggling liquor onto


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"A Branford Police Officer successfully deployed his department issued TASER to gain control of Werblow," the State Police report said. "Officers were able to remove Werblow from the vehicle and place him in handcuffs."

Officers immediately noticed that Werblow was in medical distress" and called for an ambulance. Werblow was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to State Police. The Connecticut Medical Examiner's staff will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

Vance said there was no evidence found that Werblow was armed at the time of the incident.

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Grady Thomas was the first witness calledfor the defense, testifying he was not positive of his identification, that defendant's height and face did not look the same.  He denied making an identification at the time of the arrest.  On cross-examination Thomas testified that after he had testified for the Government he met defendant's brother and mother in the waiting room.  He had known "Babe" Ruth since 1961 but they were not friends, for he was "not my type of people . . . not the good type."  He denied being scared of the brother.  He further acknowledged that a month after the robbery he had given testimony to the grand jury saying he had made an on-the-scene identification of the man in the orange shirt.  He said the


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If confirmed, the Chinese role in the Polonez and the use of Chinese rockets would take military cooperation between the two countries "to a new level," wrote the Belarus Security Blog, suggesting that this could open the door for more advance equipment sales, such as China's J-10 fighter jet as a replacement for Belarus's ageing MiG-29s.


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In a release, Hensarling stated that Republicans are eager to work with President Donald Trump to use the Financial CHOICE Act as a replacement for the “mistake” of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. “We will work with President Trump to follow


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Shah Rukh said having his humanitarian endeavours recognised for the first time in Australia was a great honour. “I’m proud to be conferred with a great University like La Trobe which has a long-standing relationship with Indian culture and impressive track record in advocating forthe pyramid means something real. Ancient visitors to these extraordinary monuments were able to use the structures as a means of negotiation for direct [third eye] connection with the Akashic Records. Our modern day all Seeing Eye has been twisted into pulp fiction courtesy of the illuminating Illuminati.

Toxication of vaccines was achieved, arguably, when Eli Lilly launched their Thimerosal preservative brand; a mercury compound. Though patented in 1931, ingredients have increased to include the heavy metal, aluminium and, best known as rat poison, formaldehyde, in more recent times. Even back in the 1940’s Thimerosal was known to cause Pink’s Disease. Physicians, such as Andrew Wakefield, were not prepared to stand idly by when patient after patient was clearly and irresponsibly injured by their vaccines. In 1930 one in


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The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) last week sentenced convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison for planning and for aiding and abetting crimes committed by Sierra Leonean rebel forces during the country's decade-long civil war. The SCSL's Trial Chamber unanimously imposed the single global sentence for all 11 counts of the crimes for which Mr. Taylor was found guilty of in April. These included acts of terrorism, murder, rape, sexual slavery, outrages upon personal dignity, cruel treatment, conscripting or enlisting of child soldiers, enslavement and pillage, related to the civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s.

The Trial Chamber found that Mr. Taylor's abused his position as President of Liberia to aid and abet the commission of crimesin Sierra Leone. It also found that "an aggravating factor of great weight" was the abuse of his position as a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Committee of Five (later Six), which was "part of the process relied on by the international community to bring peace to Sierra Leone."

The Trial Chamber also cited the extra-territoriality of Mr. Taylor's acts, and his exploitation of the Sierra Leone conflict for financial gain, as aggravating factors considered in the sentencing. It took into account the report of his good conduct in detention, but otherwise rejected a number of mitigating factors proposed by his defence lawyers.

While the jurisprudence of the SCSL and other tribunals "holds that aiding and abetting as a mode of liability generally warrants a


lesser sentence than that imposed for more direct forms of participation," the presiding judge, Justice Richard Lussick of Samoa, said in a news release, that Mr. Taylor's leadership role "puts him in a class of his own."

At an earlier hearing, Mr. Taylor had told the SCSL that he was saddened by the atrocities and crimes committed in Sierra Leone, but denied that he aided the rebels who committed the abuses. He had asked that "reconciliation and healing and not retribution should be the guiding principles in your honours' task" in determining his sentence. Any intention to appeal the Trial Chamber's decision must be submitted in writing to the SCSL's Appeals Chamber within 14 days of the sentencing judgement, setting forth the grounds of appeal.

The SCSL is an independenttribunal set up jointly by the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations. It is mandated to try those who bear the greatest responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law and Sierra Leonean law committed in the country since 30 November 1996.


Sciences, Makerere University.

SMA and DMK designed the study. NL was BSc student and helped in recruitment of patients. SMA undertook this work as part of his MSc Research Project. SMA and DMK analyzed the data. The study was undertaken under the supervision of DMK. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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SMA (BSc, MSc Biochemistry) was an MSc Biochemistry Student at Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, School of Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences.

NL (BSc) was a BSc student at Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, School of Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences.

DMK (BSc, MSc Molecular Biology, PhD) is Lecturer at Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, School of Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University.

The research received financial support from the DRGT 377 Project ofTwo fun-filled stories written by Michael Bond - Paddington's First Concert and Paddington at St. Paul's – read by Simon Russell Beale with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Two fun-filled stories for all the family written by Michael Bond - Paddington's First Concert and Paddington at St. Paul's – read by Simon Russell Beale with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Recorded at Milton Court Concert Hall, London, on 7 October 2018.

Herbert CHAPPELL: Paddington Bear's First Concert

Paddington at St Paul’s featuring:

BRITTEN: Cakes and Ale from Suite on English Folk Tunes

RAVEL: Le jardin féerique from Ma mère l'oye

RUDERS: Whispering from Four Dances in One Movement

RAVEL: Petit Poucet from Ma mère l'oye

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Flight of the Bumble Bee

TCHAIKOVSKY: Preghiera from Suite No. 4 Op. 61 "Mozartiana"

ARNOLD: Allegro Vivace from Serenade for Small Orchestra

Simon Russell


Beale (narrator)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Ben Palmer (conductor)

Paddington’s First Concert sees the marmalade-loving Peruvian bear making his conducting debut - at the Royal Albert Hall. And in Paddington at St Paul’s he is surprised to find himself a member of the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral.

Paddington's First Concert was written by © Michael Bond 1973 and is published by Chester Music. Paddington at St Paul’s was written by © Michael Bond 2018 and is published by HarperCollins Children’s Books. Illustrations © R. W. Alley 2018.between

June 13, 1996 and May 1, 1998.

      On February 27, 1997, during the time the Plaintiffs were filing these

requests for reopening, but before the fiscal intermediary had ruled on any of the

requests, the Secretary issued Ruling 97-2. Ruling 97-2 stated that the Secretary

would prospectively change his interpretation of the DSH provision to accord

with the decisions of the Courts of Appeals that had reached the issue. The new

interpretation would apply to any NPRs for which there were appeals pending

before the PRRB, but no NPRs would be reopened on the basis of this changed

interpretation. 4 Thus, none of the NPRs challenged in the instant case were

      The fiscal intermediary issued these fifteen NPRs between June 18, 1993,


Monday, May 5, 2014

Sharswood Fellowship to Mayeaux

It's that time of year when we announce and congratulate the incoming class of legal history fellows. Last week we announced the Miller Center's latest group, which traditionally includes at least a few legal historians. Next on our list: we've learned that Sara Mayeux, who is currently finishing up a year at Harvard Law School as the Raoul Berger-Mark De Wolfe Howe Legal History Fellow, is headed to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she will be the George Sharswood Fellow in Law and History.

Mayeux is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, where she also earned her J.D. She writes about the development of American criminal law and criminal justice institutions. You can read more about her research here, at her0 SHARES Share Tweet

Cartoon Network’s animated series Steven Universe, created by Rebecca Sugar, recently ended its fourth season on a five-night, one-episode-per-night event, known unofficially as a “Steven Bomb,” an all-too-common airing technique that has generated much debate and discourse over the years within the TV animation community.

The show, first airing in 2013, centers around the titular “Steven Universe” (played by Zach Callison), a young boy living with a group of magical guardians, “The Crystal Gems,” who defend the Earth and humanity from extraterrestrial threats. Said guardians include: The stoic-but-sweet Garnet (played by singer-songwriter Estelle), the rambunctious Amethyst (played by Michaela Dietz), and the overprotective Pearl (played by Deedee Magno Hall).

Over the years, the series has garnered critical acclaim for its relatable and compelling characters, dedication to stellar


storytelling, and excellent music (the series’ first soundtrack release on June 2nd has been lobbied for by fans since the first season). It has also developed a large online following, with numerous accounts across Tumblr and YouTube being dedicated to discussing the show, and the Steven Universe subreddit, r/StevenUniverse, having close to 90,000 subscribers as of the writing of this article.

“Steven Bomb 6,” as the recent event was called online, was the latest in Cartoon Network’s seemingly unusual method of releasing their shows: Week-long special events, followed (occasionally) by a month or so of weekly episodes, then followed almost always by a hiatus, with no new episodes airing and no word of when they will air until just a few weeks prior. Since the series’ premiere, the Tumblrrecently-concluded series Gravity Falls on a 364 day hiatus in-between seasons in 2013 and 2014, and has currently put the popular series Star vs. The Forces of Evil on a hiatus following the conclusion of its second season. Nickelodeon’s long-running show SpongeBob SquarePants was notoriously subject to hiatuses throughout its ninth season, which began in 2012 and only ended in 2017, a whopping five years later. Right now, Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball, following a month-long event this past February, is in the middle of a hiatus, as is Adventure Time, following its four-night-long, eight-part “Elements” miniseries. Steven Universe itself is also on a brief hiatus until it airs an hour-long, four-episode special event titled “Wanted” on Memorial Day at 7pm.

The Bomb-Then-Break method is especially damaging


back on the air for a while now. In last night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen struck upon a brilliant idea: that he alone has the ability to end the confrontation between the studios and the writers guild.

In the episode, Stephen discussed his father’s role in helping to bring about the end of a strike of black hospital workers in 1969. Stephen’s father was the administrator of the hospital at the time. Stephen’s guest on the show was the union leader who had negotiated with his father on behalf of the striking workers.

Stephen ended the show with a song dedicated to his striking writers: he, his guests, and the Harlem Gospel Choir joined in to sing Let My People Go. Pure genius.

I can imagine another episode ofIndonesian police say a boat carrying 65 asylum seekers has crashed onto a reef after being turned back by Australian authorities.

Those aboard — 54 Sri Lankans, 10 Bangladeshis, one person from Myanmar and five additional crew — told Indonesian police they were trying to get to New Zealand.

There were four women and three toddlers on board.

They are now being held on Rote Island off West Timor after crashing onto a reef near the remote Landuti Island.

One of the crew members fled from police and has not been located.

Island chief of police senior commissioner Hidayat told the ABC the latest boat was intercepted by an Australian border patrol after setting off from West Java on May 5.

The asylum seekers told police the Australians transferred them onto a more seaworthy


Love Child

There's Laura Love, the singer -- famous in regional music circles for her flying dreadlocks, her booty-gyrating Afro-Celtic rhythms, and her outspoken views on everything from the current administration to the evils of Wal-Mart. This Laura Love has eight albums under her belt - including her breakout Pangaea and the critically acclaimed Fourteen Days.

Now there's Laura Love, the memoirist. You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes, Love's first book, comes out from Hyperion this week in tandem with a new musical CD of songs written to accompany specific chapters in the book.

"There were a couple of really big motivating factors in writing this book," she says. She's speaking from her home in Seattle, and in the background her two-and-a-half-year-old foster daughter loudly voices her displeasure with breakfast. "Itwas necessary for me to have a record of what I've done in my life. In my liner notes, especially for the last two albums, I'd briefly describe what it was like growing up in Nebraska, being black in the '60s during the civil rights movement. Fans of my music were often telling me 'you really need to get into that a little bit more.'"

Love's father was Preston Love, a jazz saxophonist who'd worked with Johnny Otis and Count Basie before starting his own band in the '50s. Laura's mother, Wini, was a backup singer in the band. The catch, of course, was that Preston Love already had a wife and children of his own, leaving Wini to raise Laura and her sister on her own. In You


Ain't Got No Easter Clothes, Love recalls the poverty of her youth and the anxiety of watching her mother fall victim to mental illness. This is not, however, another "poor me" memoir in the tradition of Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird. Instead, it's a spirited, often funny, story of someone who made it through on wit, talent and hidden stores of resilience. Sprinkled among the stories - of Love being bounced around orphanages, meeting her father when she was 16 (after being told all her life that he'd died) and being kidnapped by her crazy mother -- are some interesting thoughts on race, social justice and belonging.

"I spent the first nine years of my life in Lincoln, Nebraska, which was a college town -- lots of literacy, kind of anoasis out there on the plains. My sister and I were the only black kids in the whole Catholic school that we went to, and aside from the occasional n-word thrown at us from time to time, we hardly knew we were black," recalls Love. She describes how, in 1969, her mother moved the family to a new life in Omaha and how light-skinned Laura and her darker-skinned sister were enrolled in an all-black Catholic school. "The difference between Lincoln and Omaha was huge -- the difference between the black world and white world, it just hit us in high relief. And then I go to this school and I become" -- she pauses and drops her voice for dramatic effect -- "the only white child in the


business with that Spanish club, with an offer to their sporting director Monchi to fill a similar, newly-created role.

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Koeman has no objection to the sporting director model and if Saints give their blessing he is expected to arrive on Merseyside with his agent Rob Jansen to thrash out details of a deal over the weekend.

His first job will be to persuade England internationals John Stones and Ross Barkley to stay, with Stones a target for Chelsea and both Manchester United and Man City.

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He will be promised funds to give both men a major pay-rise.

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Lukaku is likely to leave, but his potential £65m fee will be reinvested in another striker and Koeman has proven at Southampton that he is adept at replacing stars who move on.

(Image:The Central Coast Mariners can today confirm that Usain Bolt has committed to an indefinite training period with the Club, with the aim to develop the ‘world’s fastest man’ into a professional footballer.

The agreement between the Central Coast Mariners and Usain Bolt does not guarantee a professional playing contract but does provide the eight-time Olympic gold medallist with an opportunity to achieve his burning desire to play football professionally.

Bolt, who has trained with the likes of Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Mamelodi Sundowns FC (South Africa) and Strømsgodset (Norway) is scheduled to link up with the Central Coast Mariners for the first time later this month.

Bolt is thrilled to be continuing his journey to become a professional footballer with the Central Coast Mariners.

“I am very excited about coming to Australia


were killed across the country over the weekend, according to Syrian human rights groups.

Seven people died on Monday in renewed violence, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, according to the New York Times.

The Arab League has repeatedly extended deadlines in its efforts to mediate the Syrian conflict, now in its ninth month.

The league increased pressure on Assad on Nov 27, when it imposed sweeping sanctions that included banning senior Syrian officials from traveling to other Arab countries, freezing Syrian assets in Arab countries and halting financial operations with major Syrian banks.

Those steps came amid more sanctions imposed by the US, the EU and Turkey.

Despite the pressure, the crackdown has continued. The United Nations said in a report last week that more than 4,000 people had been killedMickelson meant no disrespect to the game and its rules.

"Phil knows the rules," Spieth said. "If there was a chance it was going to go back behind the bunker and he's got to chip back or he was going to play off the green anyway ... so he was potentially saving himself a shot. So if that was the intent, then what's the harm in that? He's playing for the best score he can.

"I don't think people thought that was the intent, but I'll take his word it was his intent. He knows the rules."

Rory McIlroy, who along with Spieth was paired with Mickelson for the first two rounds at Shinnecock Hills, also said it was blown out of proportion.

"Honestly, I laughed [when I heard about it]," McIlroy


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Free agent running back Alfred Blue has agreed to terms on a one-year deal with the Jaguars, a source tells PFT.

Blue fills a need behind Leonard Fournette with T.J. Yeldon a free agent and Carlos Hyde having signed with Kansas City after being cut.

The Jaguars visited with both Blue and Benny Cunningham.

Blue, 27, had 150 carries for 499 yards for the Texans last season.

Houston made Blue a sixth-round pick in 2014, and in five years there, he had 673 carries for 2,407 yards and eight touchdowns, while catching 69 passes for 470 yards and two touchdowns.


In the fall of 1946, a 508-foot ship steamed out of the port of Odessa, Ukraine. In a previous life she was called the Wikinger (“Viking”) and sailed under the German flag, but she had been appropriated by the Soviet Union after the war and renamed the Slava (“Glory”). The Slava was a factory ship, crewed and equipped to separate one whale every 30 minutes into its useful elements, destined for oil, canned meat and liver, and bone meal. Sailing with her was a retinue of smaller, nimbler catcher vessels, their purpose betrayed by the harpoon guns mounted atop each clipper bow. They were bound for the whaling grounds off the coast of Antarctica. It was the first time Soviet whalers had ventured so far south.

The work beganinauspiciously. In her first season, the Slava caught just 386 whales. But by the fifth—before which the fleet’s crew wrote a letter to Stalin pledging to bring home more than 500 tons of whale oil—the Slava’s annual catch was approaching 2,000. The next year it was 3,000. Then, in 1957, the ship’s crew discovered dense conglomerations of humpback whales to the north, off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. There were so many of them, packed so close together, the Slava’s helicopter pilots joked that they could make an emergency landing on the animals’ backs.

In November 1959, the Slava was joined by a new fleet led by the Sovetskaya Ukraina, the largest whaling factory ship the world had ever seen. By now the harpooners—talented marksmen whose work


demanded the dead-eyed calm of a sniper—were killing whales faster than the factory ships could process them. Sometimes the carcasses would drift alongside the ships until the meat spoiled, and the flensers would simply strip them of the blubber—a whaler on another fleet likened the process to peeling a banana—and heave the rest back into the sea.

The Soviet fleets killed almost 13,000 humpback whales in the 1959-60 season and nearly as many the next, when the Slava and Sovetskaya Ukraina were joined by a third factory ship, the Yuriy Dolgorukiy. It was grueling work: One former whaler, writing years later in a Moscow newspaper, claimed that five or six Soviet crewmen died on the Southern Hemisphere expeditions each year, and that a comparable number went mad. A scientistworking aboard a factory ship in the Antarctic on a later voyage described seeing a deckhand lose his footing on a blubber-slicked deck and catch his legs in a coil of whale intestine as it slid overboard. By the time his mates were able to retrieve him from the water he had succumbed to hypothermia. He was buried at sea, lowered into the water with a pair of harpoons to weight down his body.

Still, whaling jobs were well-paying and glamorous by Soviet standards. Whalers got to see the world and stock up on foreign products that were prized on the black market back home, and were welcomed with parades when they returned. When a fourth factory ship, the Sovetskaya Rossiya, prepared for her maiden voyage from the remote


eastern naval port of Vladivostok in 1961, the men and women who found positions onboard would have considered themselves lucky.

When the Sovetskaya Rossiya reached the western coast of Australia late that year, however, the whalers found themselves in a desert ocean. By the end of the season the ship had managed to round up only a few hundred animals, many of them calves—what the whalers called “small-sized gloves.” Harpooners on the other fleets’ catcher ships, too, accustomed to the miraculous abundance of years past, now looked upon a blank horizon. Alfred Berzin, a scientist aboard the Sovetskaya Rossiya, offered an alarmed and unequivocal summary in his seasonal report to the state fisheries ministry. “In five years of intensive whaling by first one, then two, three, and finally fourfleets,” he wrote, the populations of humpback whales off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand “were so reduced in abundance that we can now say that they are completely destroyed!”

It was one of the fastest decimations of an animal population in world history—and it had happened almost entirely in secret. The Soviet Union was a party to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, a 1946 treaty that limited countries to a set quota of whales each year. By the time a ban on commercial whaling went into effect, in 1986, the Soviets had reported killing a total of 2,710 humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere. In fact, the country’s fleets had killed nearly 18 times that many, along with thousands of unreported whales of other


species. It had been an elaborate and audacious deception: Soviet captains had disguised ships, tampered with scientific data, and misled international authorities for decades. In the estimation of the marine biologists Yulia Ivashchenko, Phillip Clapham, and Robert Brownell, it was “arguably one of the greatest environmental crimes of the 20th century.”

The Aleut, the Soviet Union's oldest factory ship, works off the coast of Kamchatka in 1958. (Photo: Yulia Ivashchenko)

It was also a perplexing one. Environmental crimes are, generally speaking, the most rational of crimes. The upsides are obvious: Fortunes have been made selling contraband rhino horns and mahogany or helping toxic waste disappear, and the risks are minimal—poaching, illegal logging, and dumping are penalized only weakly in most countries, when they’re penalized at all.

The Soviet whale slaughter followedwith so little use for whales kill so many of them?

"It was a good product," a scientist who worked on the Russian fleets wryly recalls, "but maybe not so important as to support a whole whaling industry."

ONE AFTERNOON LAST APRIL, I visited Clapham and Ivashchenko at their home in Seattle, a century-old Craftsman overlooking the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. When I rapped the mermaid-shaped knocker, the two scientists, who are married, appeared in the doorway together, a study in opposites. Ivashchenko is a 38-year-old willowy blonde of almost translucent complexion; Clapham, a 57-year-old Englishman with the build of a bouncer and arms sleeved in Maori tattoos, looks less like a man who studies whales than one who might have harpooned them 150 years ago.

At their feet was a


Union’s whaling fleets made in the middle years of the 20th century. On the most basic level, it was an accounting exercise, an attempt to correct the false records the Soviets had released to the world at the time.

But it was in this space, between the false numbers and the real ones, that the researchers’ work became engrossing in ways that had little to do with marine biology. In gathering the figures, the researchers had also gathered stories that explained how the figures had come to be—the scientist who had stashed heaps of documents in his potato cellar; the whaling ship captain accused of espionage; elaborate acts of high-seas tactical misdirection and disguise usually reserved for navies in battle. The authors, I realized, were assembling not just ascientific record but also a human history, an account of a remarkable collision between political ideology and the natural world—and a lesson for anyone seeking to protect the fragile ecosystems that exist in the world’s least governed spaces.

The first time I called him, Clapham explained that the work had begun around the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse, when an earlier generation of Russian scientists and their foreign colleagues began gathering the fragmented documentary records of the program. The Soviet Union had kept the records secret for years, and many had been lost; the scientists were reconstructing the numbers from files that had been left behind in obscure provincial repositories, or quietly preserved by the scientists themselves.

This was not quite what Ivashchenko had envisioned doing with her life.


ago, but it is difficult to think of the industry as anything other than an exotic holdover from a long-receded age—to imagine anyone sailing a small armada of ships to the end of the Earth to kill an animal the size of a school bus whose flesh, to the uninitiated, would seem too gamey to eat. And yet as recently as the mid-20th century, the waters surrounding Antarctica—the most populous whale habitat on Earth, what the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton half a century earlier called “a veritable playground for these monsters”—were crowded with whaling ships not just from Norway and Japan but also Britain and the Netherlands. Farther north, Australian and New Zealander whalers, operating from shore-based stations, plied their own coastlines. There were so many of themthat even in an era when marine ecosystems were poorly understood, the need for some sort of regulations became impossible to ignore.

In December 1946, representatives of the whaling nations gathered in Washington to draw up the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. “[T]he history of whaling has seen overfishing of one area after another and of one species of whale after another,” the treaty read, “to such a degree that it is essential to protect all species of whales from further overfishing.” The countries that were party to the treaty were limited to an annual quota set by the newly formed International Whaling Commission. But the science guiding the quotas was rudimentary at best, and it was only in 1960 that the IWC enlisted the help of


Aleut with a fin whale. (Photo: Yulia Ivashchenko)

In the following years, observers noticed other differences, too. The Soviet Union had many more ships in the Antarctic than any other country, sometimes twice as many catchers for each factory ship. And they worked differently, sweeping the sea in a line like a naval blockade. Holt had met Alexei Solyanik, the captain of the Slava fleet, on several occasions, and had dined with Soviet scientists onboard the country’s research vessels. (Friends of Holt's who were well-versed in the Soviet crews’ liberality with their ships’ vodka supplies had instructed him to fortify himself with butter before coming aboard.) But, he recalls, “It never occurred to us in the 1960s that the USSR was falsifying the submitted catch statistics.” And even thoughwas trying to track down data on right whale fetuses. Right whales were the first whale species to come under international protection, in 1935, and Best had been able to locate records of just 13 fetus specimens. On a hunch, he thought to ask Yablokov. Replying months later, Yablokov reported that he had records of about 150 fetuses. At first, Best recalls, he thought he had misunderstood: 150 fetuses would mean that the Soviets had killed at least one or two thousand members of the most protected whale species in the world.

In fact, it turned out to be more than three thousand. Brownell arranged for Yablokov—now the science adviser to the new Russian president, Boris Yeltsin—to make his confession public, in a short speech before a marine mammalogy


about whale conservation and population science. It was possible that much of what scientists outside of Russia believed they understood was wrong.

The most valuable set of records came from the scientist Dmitri Tormosov, who had been stationed aboard the factory ship Yuriy Dolgorukiy beginning in the late 1950s. Tormosov had quietly instructed his colleagues to save their individual catch records—what they called “whale passports”—instead of burning them after the record of the season had been filed, as required by the fisheries ministry. When the collection grew into the tens of thousands of pages, Tormosov moved it into his potato cellar. The records covered 15 whaling seasons, and they allowed the non-Russian scientists to grasp, for the first time, the scale of the killing. Even scientists who for yearsdecade later that he thought to give it to Yulia Ivashchenko, who had worked for him in the late 1990s on a research trip in the Russian Far East.

The Aleut, the Soviet Union's oldest factory ship. (Photo: Yulia Ivashchenko)

Ivashchenko’s translation—the work remains unpublished in Russian—appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Marine Fisheries Review, a small research journal published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, under the title “The Truth About Soviet Whaling: A Memoir.” It is an uncommonly urgent document, animated by Berzin’s understanding that he had witnessed something much stranger than a simple act of industrialized killing.

The Soviet whalers, Berzin wrote, had been sent forth to kill whales for little reason other than to say they had killed them. They were motivated by an obligation to


highest honor—in 1936. The following year, however, his fleet failed to meet its production targets. When the Aleut fleet docked in Vladivostok in 1938, Dudnik was arrested by the secret police and thrown in jail, where he was interrogated on charges of being a Japanese agent. If his downfall was of a piece with the unique paranoia of the Stalin years, it was also an indelible reminder to captains in the decades that followed. As Berzin wrote, “The plan—at any price!”

Berzin recalled seeing so many spouting humpbacks that their blows reminded him of a forest. Years later, he saw only blubber-stripped carcasses bobbing on the waves.

AS THE PLAN TARGETS rose year after year, they inevitably exceeded what was allowed under the IWC quotas. This meant that the Sovietand back aboard the Aleut in the late 1950s, recalled seeing so many spouting humpbacks that their blows reminded him of a forest. Scanning the same horizon from the deck of the Sovetskaya Rossiya years later, he saw only blubber-stripped carcasses bobbing on the waves.

In one season alone, from 1959 to 1960, Soviet ships killed nearly 13,000 humpback whales. (Photo: Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images)

On a 1971 voyage north of Hawaii, Berzin watched a catcher vessel systematically run down a mother sperm whale and her calf, betrayed by their telltale blows—two of them, huddled close together, one large and one small. The Sovetskaya Rossiya’s crew, it seemed to him, had become ghastly parodies of the Yankee whalers of the 19th century. “Even now,” he wrote in his memoir, “I can recall


other countries had already badly pillaged the oceans before the Slava ever sailed from Odessa, scientists now believe that the timing and frenetic pace of Soviet whaling lent it an outsized impact. The Soviets did not lead the world’s whales to the precipice—but they likely pushed the most vulnerable of them over it. Bowhead whales in the Sea of Okhotsk, which were severely depleted by 19th-century whaling, are believed to be endangered today as a result of Soviet whaling. The IWC now charges the Soviets with delaying the recovery of right whale populations in the Southern Hemisphere by 20 years. Blue whales in the North Pacific, whose population had been reduced to an estimated 1,400 by the mid-1970s, now number only between 2,000 and 3,000. The condition ofsome of them actually having been saved is oddly difficult to grapple with. And it’s true that many species soon may be as threatened by the vast changes imposed upon their habitat—the overfishing and climatic transformations that stand to upend entire ocean ecosystems—as they once were by the harpoon. Still, the cloud of existential peril has lifted enough that in 2010, the IWC began considering a possibility that not long before would have been unthinkable: ending the moratorium on commercial whaling.

The whaling nations lobbying for the change have been joined, improbably, by several countries that generally oppose commercial whaling, including the United States. These supporters point to the increasing number of whales that are being killed, in spite of the moratorium, by Norway, Iceland, and Japan. (Japan categorizes


on having additional simulations incorporated into the curriculum, and learning more specifics of the roles of other healthcare team members. The most agreed upon and discussed recommendation revolved around standardizing this experience across all the various domains of clinical learning, with support from other attendings and members of the healthcare team. The students highlighted the importance of taking these core concepts and applying them in other scenarios and different situations, such as acute care and primary care.

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The purpose of this study was to gather student feedback on the inaugural year of the SELECT training program as part of the ongoing program evaluation of this curriculum. Focus groups using guiding questions were held with first-year medical students to provide an open forum for discussion. Themes generated from these focusgame itself plays like Gauntlet, with a lot of running around, item collection, and whaling on the enemies. The stylized, animated look was inviting, and I had already begun to look forward to playing this with my kids. The representative was getting restless watching me play alone, so he grabbed another member of the press, who chose a little imp with two guns to place on the portal. The character warped into the game, and soon we were playing co-op.

The game feels like a child-friendly Gauntlet

The speed in which you can switch characters was impressive, as was the physical action of swapping out toys. If you're in an ice area, find yourself a fire character and swap him out. If you're in a fire area, bring in your


Sunday, October 16, 2011

1991 terry pendleton

terry pendelton joined the braves in december of 1990 as a free agent. here is his 1991 o-pee-chee card:

here's the topps front:

now the o-pee-chee back:

and the topps back:

pendleton wound up having a good year for the braves, leading the national league in hits, total bases and batting average en route to winning the mvp award over a probably more deserving barry bonds. pendleton also reached the world series for the third time in his career in 1991 (he was a member of the cardinals' losing teams in 1985 and 1987). pendleton wound up in a total of 5 fall classics, but failed to win a ring. he left the braves for the marlins prior to their triumph over the indians, and then returnedone count indictment charged that the appellants wilfully and knowingly conspired to defraud the United States of and concerning its governmental functions and rights.  The rights involved are its right to have the official business of the Small Business Administration conducted honestly and impartially, its right to have the personnel of the agency free to conduct business without exertion upon them of undue pressure and influence, and its right to the loyal and unbiased services, decisions, and performance of his duties of Jack L. Biggs in his capacity as a supervisory loan specialist, free from any corruption, partiality, improper influence, bias and fraud resulting from his personal and pecuniary interest in a business, American Western Plastics (A.W.P.), which was sought to be financed by others with the


appellants would use corporations to frustrate S.B.A. efforts to collect on the loan in the event of default.

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Fifteen overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy were listed in the indictment.

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The facts as introduced by the prosecution are as follows.  Appellant Smith moved to Denver, Colorado, and, in the summer and fall of 1970, began looking for a business to purchase.  He opened an account at a Denver bank in September, and appellant Biggs, who had known Smith in California, was asked by Smith to call an official at the bank to give Smith a good reference, which Biggs did.

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Smith proposed to buy any business located and for sale by exchanging for it certain stock.  He did not want, however, to be the named purchaser ofCarroll Capital Corporation, contacted Fitzgerald in the fall of 1970 about another business matter.  Fitzgerald indicated to him in late 1970 his desire to leave his law practice and go into business.  This resulted in the assignment by Carroll Capital of its interest in the purchase contract for A.W.P. to him.  He became on the contract finally signed the president of A.W.P. and, together with McAnnany, the accountant hired by A.W.P. after the contract was signed, the ostensible owner of all the stock in the company.

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Fitzgerald and Biggs had known each other for a period of years.  In addition to the other contacts between Fitzgerald and Biggs reflected herein, Fitzgerald made payment on a bank loan of Biggs in the spring of 1971 before


was finally executed, Fitzgerald gave Betts certain airline stock, the value of which was guaranteed to Betts by Smith.  However, Smith's name never appeared on the contract for the purchase of the company or on any document submitted to the S.B.A. for a loan to finance the company.

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During the period before the S.B.A. loan for A.W.P. was approved, Smith discovered another plastics company, Polyco, and contacted one of its officials about its purchase.  In the spring of 1971, Fitzgerald and Biggs met with the attorney representing the parent company.  This attorney also spoke with Smith, and Smith, as well as Fitzgerald, told him that Smith was the principal for whom Polyco was being purchased.

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The company was included in the S.B.A. loan application, and its inclusionraised the amount applied for to $350,000.00.  It was not until after the loan had been approved that the loan papers were changed to reflect that part of the purchase price of Polyco was reflected by a $50,000.00 lien against its equipment.  This change was approved by Biggs, who had been present when the deal was made and who at that time had learned part of the purchase price would be in the form of the lien.

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At the time of its purchase, Polyco was not engaged in business and had not been since January of 1971.  The closing payment for its purchase was May 20, 1971, and the $100,000.00 cash part of the purchase price was paid from the proceeds of the S.B.A. loan.

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The statement


in support of the S.B.A. application had no date stamp and there was no S.B.A. form detailing when the first contact with the borrower had been made.

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Biggs' superior officer, the assistant chief of the division, had authority to approve loan applications up to $350,000.00.  He had expressed reservations about the feasibility of the loan.  Following the application's review by the screening committee composed of this officer, Biggs, and another loan supervisor named Bailey under the direction of Biggs, a feasibility report was ordered.  This came about because Bailey asked for approval of the loan on May 4, and the assistant chief of the division refused to give it without such a study.  The feasibility study indicated that the business had a good chance ofsucceeding and that the proposed loan should be a good one.

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Biggs was Bailey's immediate superior and the one who assigned the loan to Bailey for processing.  Bailey's only authority was to make recommendations to his supervisor, Biggs.  He had no authority himself to approve or disapprove loans.

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Biggs normally had authority to approve loans up to $50,000.00 in amount.  Under the line of authority established in the office, in the absence of his superior, he stood in that superior's place and had authority to approve a loan of any amount up to $350,000.00.

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On May 13, 1971, while Biggs' immediate supervisor was out of town, both Bailey and Biggs advised the Regional Chief of the Financing Division that the loan had to be approved that day or


the I.R.S. would close down the A.W.P. plant.

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Under a procedure instituted by the chief of the division, all applications had to be reviewed by him after approval by the loan officer.  He was in a meeting until 4:15 P.M. on the day in question and, so, upon the above advice, he waived the review, and Biggs' approval of the loan finalzed it.  Hence, the loan was approved in the absence of the person who had expressed reservations about it and who, had he been in the office that day, would have been the person who had to approve the loan application.  Further, the evidence at trial established that the I.R.S. had not issued an ultimatum, so that it was not a fact that the loanthe statement that Biggs would do whatever Smith wanted him to do.  In the fall of 1970, Smith wrote checks to Biggs on three, occasions, which Biggs deposited in his account.

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For his part, Biggs borrowed money from a bank in late 1970 and endorsed part of the loan proceeds over to Smith.  In the spring of 1971, before the S.B.A. loan was approved, he borrowed further money from another bank securing the loan with stock held in Fitzgerald's name.  In fact, there are several instances in the record of the appellants seeming to own and use, each as his own, the same shares of stock.  Biggs put one-half of the loan in the form of a cashier's check and endorsed the check.  This


Thursday, November 6, 2014

Music For Film - The Details

The Uncool has finally release details on the upcoming release of Music For Film by Mike McCready, and it's gonna be cool!

Vinyl Films Records is pleased to announce the release of Mike McCready’s Music for Film 10″ vinyl. Side A features Mike’s songs from Pearl Jam Twenty and Side B includes his We Bought a Zoo compositions. Music for Film will be released on November 25th on black vinyl at an Indie Record Store near you and on lavender colored vinyl on December 10th at pearljam.com — check out the Vinyl Films Records page for all the details and track listing.Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has claimed that it has come out of losses at the operational level after quite a long time as its revenues slightly exceeded the operating cost in the quarter ended March 31, 2019.“PIA has achieved breakeven at the operational level,” Adviser to PIA CEO Air Vice Marshal Noor Abbas told The Express Tribune. “It, however, may take three to four years to report a net profit.”The state-owned airline’s revenue surged to an average of Rs8-8.5 billion a month in the January-March 2019 quarter compared to around Rs7 billion a month in the same period of last year. “The operating cost was slightly lower than the monthly revenue or was almost equal,” he said.The adviser said a notable improvement in financial management came after the


month since it acquired the new ticket reservation software from Turkey-based firm Hitit in October 2018. “The new reservation software is costing half of what PIA was paying to the US-based firm Saber.”“The saving is playing a major role in turning around the airline,” he said.The adviser said seven aircraft had been grounded for repair and maintenance at the time the new management took over the airline. Some of them had remained in the hangar for over a year due to lack of finances. “We have now put four of them in the operational fleet,” Abbas said.It became possible after the government extended sovereign guarantees for commercial loans worth Rs5.6 billion for repair and maintenance in February 2019.“Another two grounded aircraft - Boing 777 AP-BHV and A-320 AP-BLVnew aircraft would be narrow-body and the remaining would be wide-body.He said the state-owned airline had started the process of human resources rationalisation. “We need to cut human resource by 25-30%. We may do so in the next two to three months. The rationalisation drive kicked off in January,” he said.There are around 13,000 regular employees and another 3,000 outsourced employees of PIA.He added the impact of HR rationalisation would not be at the mass level as 500-600 employees were leaving the organisation themselves every year including around 400 who were reaching the retirement age.He said PIA had increased the number of flights and started flying on around eight new international routes, mostly in the Middle East, since the change in management in November 2018. “PIA is also


does not deal with the reality of dangerously falling foreign exchange reserves and the headlong rush of the economy towards a bailout," Umar alleged.

PPP's Sherry Rehman, the leader of opposition in the upper house of Parliament, rejected the government's "22 trillion debt-laden budget", adding that the provinces were doing the right thing by presenting a short budget.

Earlier in the day, opposition members in the Parliament protested against PML-N presenting a full-year budget, saying it wanted the government to present a budget only for one quarter.

Umar's fellow PTI member, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, also took issue with Ismail "an un-elected minister" presenting the budget.

"The leader of the opposition has said there is no moral justification for the government to present the full-year budget," he added, backing Syed Khursheed Shah's reservations.left customer's office. Frank

It was my fault. When I removed the plastic tab the top portion of it was still in machine and it was catching the oval shaped protrusion on the back of the xerox cartridge. After removing it entirely it was okay. Frank


you see in the photo has been standing for two or three years, the harsh weather with the rain washes the walls away and leaves them on the bare ground. The cane for the roof, that is to say the leaf of the sugar cane, has to be cut green and put to dry for a few days to dry and then interlaced along the roof beam. Inside, the dirt floor is swept with a caserita broom. The bushes outside are the place to have a bowel movement, a few yards south of the water well.

Even living in these conditions there are those who have to face the Housing Lending Unit and their lapdogs and other state bloodsuckers who come to collect on the loan that the Revolutionis the popular name for the clasps people use in their hair to keep it in place.

They are tropical Barbies half hoping to saddle up. They have the illusion of climbing on to forge themselves a future of first world fantasy, leaving behind the provincial backwater and the label of being the reserve team of the Cuban Revolution.

The girls I’m talking about go to Terence’s house, the Haitian who owns the snails, the voodoo shrines and is in complete communication with the enggún (the dead).

They go to the home of Luisitio, a neighborhood fortune-teller who takes them through every turn of the deck of cards, the drawing speaks of the European or Canadian prince who will take them on Iberia, Air France or Air Canada on the far


side of the hell-fire invented by the fifty-year-old Cuban bureaucracy.

At the spiritual consultations sometimes they bring a bunch of hens, a sheep, honey from the bees, sugar cane brandy and sugar cane, pesos, dollars, magua (hard cash), for those who send and receive the messages from the superior beings to put them at their ease and so nothing goes wrong with this coming and going through the fate that only the gods have the right to reveal.

In the long line one morning at the house of the black man, Terence, you meet those who come first, to be invisible to the anti-prostitution police of the tourist resorts; others, already in business looking for their Romeo return at the promised time and before they have enough to fix thebasil, melted wax and perfumed salves.

There is no ideological gibberish that can convince a people who are fed up with lies. The provincial concocters of discourse and the daily grind achieve nothing against the litany of citizen complaints

Since late January the city of Holguin has been without rail service to Havana. But since 2006 people have been transported not by train, but by Chinese (Yutong) buses which charged the modest price of 26 pesos.

Then the Ministry of Transport decided to cancel these trips for meeting their earnings estimates. In their place they have scheduled two trips a day to the old bus station at a price of 144 pesos in national currency, but since then a long line on the waiting list frightens those who arrive. Black market


tickets have risen from 10 to 15 convertible pesos (CUC), as the crowd of travelers has risen to the levels of peak travel (New Year, start of the school year, beginning of a holiday or Mother’s Day, when a significant number of Cubans decide to travel to or from their hometowns).

The same sort of thing occurs with the policing of the Holguin Terminal, where around-the-clock patrols harass the horse cart drivers, cart pullers, bicycle taxis, drivers of rental cars (clandestine or licensed) and other kinds of private carriers.

Holguin is crossed by the main road, but the bypass built in the 1980s detours away from the city most of the transportation going to and from other parts of eastern Cuba, which makes it a dead end on the railnetwork or by road in Cuba.

The latest evasions of the provincial government and their transport managers were published in the local press last February, but nothing resolves the obstruction or the interference with daily life.

Inventing an alternative title to a song attacking racism by the troubadour Frank Delgado serves me as a palliative against such an absurd measure: “How to get to Havana and not die in the attempt.”

Translator’s note: Frank Delgado (born October 19, 1960 in Pinar del Rio) is member of the novisima trova, heir to the nueva trova movement. The writer is referencing the popular song from 2002, “Como ser negro y no morir en el intento.” (How to be black and not die in the attempt.)


larger species such as predator sharks out, Stella said. She said occasionally, baby nurse sharks find their way into the lagoons and staff have to rescue them from the dolphins.

The center was home to the five dolphins that shared the lead role in the 1963 hit film "Flipper," and now has several third-generation offspring of the stars. It's also home to Theresa, who is more than 50 years old, a U.S. Navy "employee" until 1968 with a classified background, Stella said. She said the center's staff also assists in manatee rescues but has no permanent facility for them.

The center offers an assortment of "dolphin experiences" for visitors, including 20-minute, waist-deep, in-water visits in which a trainer works the mammals through routines such as a flipper-shakes, flipper-splashing and pairstowing visitors who hold onto dorsal fins.

There are also programs offering daylong courses in training and managing dolphins, marine research and special needs programs for the disabled.

During a recent visit, spectators watching small groups of visitors enter the lagoon area remarked to UPI that "as soon as people see dolphins, they smile." Indeed, the animals appeared healthy and happy and could be seen frolicking on their own without a trainer's instructions. Visitors who touched the dolphins described the feeling as being like "wet hot dogs" or "wet suede."

However, such facilities have their enemies, the biggest being the Humane Society of the United States.

In 1996, Naomi Rose, HSUS marine mammal scientist in Washington told UPI the society "strongly disapproves" of any swim with dolphin programs.

"I'm not denying there's probably


vitamins and antibiotics added when needed.

"We ask dolphins to participate -- we don't force," she said. "The truth of the matter is, you cannot make a dolphin do anything it doesn't choose to do."

Stella said the "Flipper" movie was integral in her personal career choice. The New Jersey native said after seeing the movie as a child, her parents brought her to the center in the 1960s and her passion for dolphins began. She said the 70 largely part-time staff and 20 volunteers often spend far more hours at the site than scheduled, and as with the visitors, UPI observed near-permanent smiles on workers' faces.Music and sounds of DJ Dave Thompson

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where he was injured all year) this was his 10th goal.

Marco Reus – goal, assist and 4 key passes against his old club, and smartly taken off by Tuchel, who was concerned about a potential injury for his forward, and when you are familiar with Woodyinho’s injury history, you can’t help but understand his manager’s thinking.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan –another routine day at the office- goal, assist, man of the match. 9 assists this season in the Bundesliga and 20 total to go along with 16 goals in all competitions. With apologies to Lewandowski, Aubameyang and Douglas Costa, the Armenian is the Bundesliga’s player of the year so far.

Third place Hertha Berlin played a yawner of a goalless draw against Augsburg, despite having a whopping 65% possession, 15 points higherof the season, perhaps inspired by this amazing display

Werder – Clemens Fritz scored his first goal since 2011 and the third of his Bundesliga career. The 35-year-old midfielder also set up goals by Ujah and 37-year-old Claudio Pizarro. Perhaps it was club loyalty that inspired Fritz, who is enjoying his 10th consecutive season for Bremen, or his announcement that he will retire at the end of the season, but on this day the right back turned defensive midfielder was the best player on the pitch, adding 3 interceptions and 3 clearances to his rare offensive contributions.

In the rest of the table, 8th place Mainz suffered a surprising defeat to 10th place Ingolstadt, who I predicted would fight against relegation in the spring, appear to desperately want to prove


“If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars.” So said Michael Bloomberg a decade ago, when he was mayor of New York City and proposing the idea of a congestion charge–a fee that drivers would pay to enter the heart of Manhattan in order to reduce gridlock and pollution.

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The congestion charge didn’t happen after opposition from people living in Queens and Brooklyn–though only 5% of residents commuted by car. Instead, the cost of bus and subway tickets has risen. But a report at the time, commissioned by mass transit advocate Theodore Kheel, suggested that a fee on drivers would not only reduce traffic and save the city billions by regaining the productivity of peopleKokorekino

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The changing profile of a nineteenth-century asylum: the York Retreat.
This paper focuses on the later history of the York Retreat after the initial period for which it is best known. It discusses the marked changes which occurred in the social composition of its patients and the way in which these changes modified the asylum's management and therapy. It argues that the conventional image of the Retreat, based as it is on the institution's earliest years, needs considerable revision.house arrest in his native Salerno, near Naples, and on trial in Rome for conspiring to smuggle some 20 million euros from Switzerland with a financier and a former secret services officer for rich shipbuilder friends in Salerno.

The new charge, which came after a separate, year-long investigation, concerns suspected money laundering through his accounts at the Vatican bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR). A police statement said millions of euros in "false donations" from offshore companies moved through Scarano's accounts there.

Police did not say exactly how much laundered money had moved through the IOR but said Scarano had about 5 million euros at his disposal in accounts at the Vatican and in Italian banks.

As part of their investigation, police froze two accounts in


an Italian bank just outside the Vatican, one for a real estate company he controlled. They also seized two apartments, for a total of about 6.5 million euros in financial and real estate assets.

Last July, the Vatican bank froze more than 2 million euros in about 10 accounts Scarano kept there.

Elena Guarino, the Salerno magistrate who led the investigation, told reporters the Vatican was fully cooperative and gave her much information on Scarano's bank movements.

VETERAN VATICAN FINANCIER

Scarano worked for 22 years at the Vatican's Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), which manages the city-state's real estate holdings and financial and stock portfolios and also acts as a purchasing and human resources department.

As a senior accountant at APSA, Scarano had ready access to the Vatican bank,which has been mired in a number of murky scandals over the decades.

APSA is currently being investigated by the same outside accounting firm that is also helping the Vatican bank close accounts that could potentially be used for money laundering.

In Salerno, Scarano lived in a luxury, 17-room apartment decorated with original artwork worth some 6 million euros ($8.1 million), investigators told Reuters after his arrest last June.

He had been under investigation for months over the suspicious movement of some 590,000 euros in 2012 in one cash transaction from the Vatican bank, investigators said last year.

Well-connected in local high society circles, Scarano divided the cash, most of it in 500 euro notes, among more than 50 friends, investigators said.

Each friend gave him a cashier's check drawn on Italian banks.