We'd soon realise this was Johnny Depp, but the audience only had one thing on their minds: "CHARLIE, CHARLIE, CHARLIE!"

Watch Ryan Adams and Johnny Depp cover 'Mother' below

Ryan Adams played

Gimme Something Good

Fix It

Dirty Rain

Stay With Me

Easy Plateau

Am I Safe

Let It Ride

Trouble

Shadows

The Door (from "Black Hole")

Oh My Sweet Carolina

Peaceful Valley

A Kiss Before I Go

My Wrecking Ball

When The Summer Ends

Come Pick Me Up

Encore:

Mother (Danzig cover) (with Johnny Depp)

Kim (with Johnny Depp)

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Below: 5 photos of Ryan Adams live at Shepherds Bush EmpireBy Minority Rights Group International

On May 26, 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the “African Court”) delivered a long-awaited judgment on a case brought before it by Ogiek Peoples against the Kenyan government for consistent violations and denial of their land rights.

The Court set a major precedent for Indigenous Peoples’ land rights by ruling in favor of the Ogiek community of Kenya. Putting an end to an eight-year legal battle of a land rights case that dates back to colonial times, the Kenyan government was found in violation of seven separate articles of the African Charter.

“Crucially, the Court has recognized that the Ogiek— and therefore many other Indigenous Peoples in Africa—have a leading role to play as guardians of local ecosystems and in conserving and


Peoples’ Rights (the “African Commission”), it was referred to the Court on the basis that it evinces serious and mass human

Minority Rights Group International, Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program, and Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE) were the three original Complainants before the African Commission. This is also one of the first cases brought originally by NGOs to have been referred to the African Court by the African Commission, and is the first case to have reached hearing stage. It sets important procedural as well as legal precedents.

In 2009, a case was lodged by OPDP and CEMIRIDE on behalf of the Ogiek before the African Commission against the government of Kenya. Minority Rights Group International became involved in April 2010 and, after an extensive fact finding mission and communityconsultations, drafted and filed admissibility submissions before the African Commission in August of that year.

In 2012, the African Commission decided to refer the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as it demonstrated serious and mass human rights violations. On March 15, 2013, the African Court issued a provisional measures order requiring the Kenyan government to (i) immediately reinstate the restrictions it had imposed on land transactions in the Mau Forest Complex, and (ii) refrain from any act/thing that would/might irreparably prejudice the main application, until the African Court gives its final decision in the case. The order was issued as the African Court considered that “there is a situation of extreme gravity and urgency, as well as a risk of irreparable harm to the


[rights of the] Ogiek of the Mau Forest.”

In late November 2014, the African Court heard arguments from the African Commission legal team as well as two Ogiek witnesses, an expert witness, and an intervention by Minority Rights Group on behalf of the original complainants. Twenty-five Ogiek community members were able to attend the hearing, and an additional 40 were able to view the hearing in Kenya via livestream.

While awaiting judgement, there have been continuing violations of the provisional measures order, including a violent eviction of approximately 1,000 Ogiek and police intimidation. In May 2017, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) noted its concern in response to reports of ongoing forced evictions, and urged the Kenyan government to ensure legal acknowledgement of theany strong features.
Her Roman equivalent
is Vesta;
Vesta has similar functions
as a divine personification
of Rome's "public",
domestic, and colonial hearths,
binding Romans
together within a form
of extended family.
Customarily,
in Greek culture,
Hestia received
the first offering
at every sacrifice
in the household.
In the public domain,
the hearth of the prytaneum
functioned as her
official sanctuary, and,
when a new colony was established,
flame from Hestia's
public hearth
in the mother city
would be carried
to the new settlement.
Hestia was born to
Kronos and Rhea.
Hestia had been
growing inside Kronos
for years,
being immortal.
She was thrown up last.
She also was a
part of the Titanomachy,
where she fought the Titans.
When the gods won,
she would become
one of the twelve Olympians.
Throughout mythology,
Hestia rejected the
marriage suits of
Poseidon and Apollo,
and swore herself
to perpetual virginity.
She thus rejected
Aphrodite's values
and becomes,
to some extent,
her chaste,
domestic complementary,
or antithesis,
since Aphrodite couldn’t bend
or ensnare her heart.
Only once
was Hestia's virginity
ever in danger.
After a feast attended
by all


the gods,
after everyone fell asleep.
Priapus, a fertility god
who was the son of
Aphrodite and Dionysus,
made his way over to her
and tried to ravish her
while she was asleep.
A donkey brayed
just in time
to awaken Hestia,
who screamed
when she saw Priapus
about to mount her.
Her screaming
frightened him away
and her virginity
was secure once again.
Hestia's Olympian status
is equivocal
to her status among men.
However, at Athens,
"in Plato's time,"
notes Kenneth Dorter
"There was a discrepancy
in the list of the
twelve chief gods,
as to whether Hestia
or Dionysus was included
with the other eleven.
The altar to them
at the agora, for example,
included Hestia,
but the east frieze
of the Parthenon
had Dionysus instead."
Hestia's omission
from some lists of
the Twelve Olympians
is sometimes taken
as illustration of her passive,
non-confrontational nature –
by giving her Olympian seat
to the more forceful Dionysus
she prevents heavenly conflict –
but no ancient source or myth
describes such a
surrender or removal.
ThanksFoxconn to Replace a Percentage of its Workers with 1M Robots

Foxconn, Apple's manufacturing partner, plans to replace some of its workers with 1 million humanoid robots.

Foxconn announced their plans of substituting most of their workers with one million robots for the next three years. According to Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Foxconn, the purpose of this action was to minimize the costs of labor and enhance the working productivity in the plant. With the addition of humanoid robot workers, simple routines such as spraying, welding and assembling could be done in no time.

Terry Gou also revealed that as of now, the company holds a number of 10,000 robots — which is expected to rise to over 300,000 next year and to a million in three years. Knowing


that the shipment of 1,200 tons of such products to the U.S. could not have been possible without Chinese...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Forced apart by the coronavirus pandemic, Southeast Asian leaders linked up by video Tuesday to plot a strategy to overcome a crisis that has threatened their economies and kept millions of people in their homes under lockdowns. The 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast...

In this March 31, 2020 photo, workers in protective suits stand near a COSCO container ship docked at a port in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province. China's government reported Tuesday, April 14, 2020 that exports fell further in March compared with February amid a global economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. (Chinatopix via AP)

BEIJING (AP) — China’s exports fell infight with manufacturing giant 3M, a major producer and exporter of face masks used to protect health care workers from the coronavirus. 3M argued that...

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2019 file photo cargo cranes are used to take containers off of a Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation boat at the Port of Tacoma in Tacoma, Wash. The U.S. trade deficit tumbled in February 2020 to the lowest level since 2016 as exports fell and imports fell more. The politically sensitive gap in the trade of goods with China narrowed in February when the world's No. 2 economy was locked down to combat the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit tumbled in February to the lowest level since 2016 as exports


that trend.  In light of our decision, we do not reach the merits of the defamation claim.  And so, we begin with the route it has taken to get here.

3
Defendant Simon and Schuster published the book on October 25, 1990.  Nearly two years later, on October 23, 1992, Schweihs filed his initial defamation suit in Illinois state court.  Before Schweihs had served any of the defendants, the court dismissed the complaint for want of prosecution on October 20, 1993.  A year later, on October 19, 1994, Schweihs filed a second complaint against the same three defendants.  Schweihs served the complaint and summons on Simon and Schuster on November 2, 1994, but defendants Burdick and Mitchell have yet to be served.

4
On November 28,case Illinois.  See ECHO v. Whitson Co., 52 F.3d 702, 707 (7th Cir.1995).  Under Illinois law,

6
Actions for slander, libel or for publication of matter violating the right of privacy, shall be commenced within one year next after the cause of action accrued.

7
735 ILCS 5/13-201.  From the defendants' perspective, the timeline is simple--they distributed Blue Thunder to the public on October 25, 1990, and Schweihs did not sue until October 1992.1  Schweihs, however, claims that he was not aware of the publication until July or August of 1992, and that his incarceration tolled the statute of limitations until his release from prison.  Although the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure previously tolled the statute of limitations for prisoners' claims until their release, an amendment effective


he was diagnosed with essential hypertension and was started on lisinopril. In addition, he denied any recent abdominal or flank trauma. Of note, his past medical history is significant for a diagnosis of MEN2A which was made at the age of 18 months, and a prophylactic total thyroidectomy at age 10 secondary to elevated serum calcitonin levels. Since that time he has had no further follow-up, although of his two children, his daughter has been diagnosed with MEN2A and undergone a prophylactic total thyroidectomy 2 years prior to this event. On arrival, paramedics found him near syncopal and diaphoretic with a heart rate of 180 bpm and systolic blood pressure of 64 mmHg. Fluid resuscitation was initiated and the patient was taken to an outside hospital. Initial evaluationin addition to acute hemorrhage of unclear etiology. In the course of the second laparotomy, hemodynamic instability, the need to address the sequelae of abdominal hypertension, and worsening coagulopathy precluded further exploration of the LUQ for the continued source of hemorrhage. Moreover, given the presence of bilateral adrenal masses in the setting of a history of MEN2A, further exploration of the adrenals without proper α-blockade presented addition significant risk of morbidity and mortality. Therefore the decision was made to proceed with angiographic embolization in the setting of continued bleeding.

TAE as a therapeutic option for pheochromocytoma was first described in 1978 by Bunuan \[[@B62]\] and collegues. Their effort to use gel foam TAE was met with significant hemodynamic instability resulting in emergent laparotomy for excision of the necrotic tumor.


Today, Axl Rose is the only remaining original member in a lineup that comprises of guitarists DJ Ashba, Ron Thal and Richard Fortus, keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Chris Pitman, bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Frank Ferrer.

Their debut album 'Appetite for Destruction' has sold over 18 million copies, making it the best-selling debut album of all time in the US.

Justin Bieber recently announced he's a big fan of the band's music and regularly listens to it.John Lott wants college students to carry concealed handguns on campus if they want.

His book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” argues the safety factor involved if a gunman, as happened three years ago at Virginia Tech, were to shoot up a college campus. Armed students, Lott holds, can defend themselves and others.

Lott was scheduled to address an audience of likeminded University of Texas students — members of the Libertarian Longhorns, the UT Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, the UT Objectivism Society, and the UT Federalist Society — tonight to state his case.

Despite earlier reports that the lecture was canceled after someone made an even more emphatic point on the topic earlier this morning, the lecture is a go. If you haven't been paying attention, a lone gunman fired


Dykstra allegedly put a weapon to the driver's head and threatened to kill him, according to police.

Author:
Suzanne Russell, Bridgewater Courier News

Published:
10:25 AM CDT October 11, 2018

Updated:
10:59 AM CDT October 11, 2018

ELIZABETH, N.J. — Former Major League Baseball player Lenny Dykstra has been indicted by a Union County (New Jersey) grand jury on two drug charges and allegedly threatening an Uber driver during a May incident in Linden, N.J.

Dykstra was indicted on possession of cocaine and possession of methamphetamine, both third-degree crimes, according to the indictment handed up Tuesday. He was also indicted on a terroristic threat charge, also a third-degree crime.

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Dykstra, a three-time All-Star, played 12 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets and was a member of the Mets’ 1986 championship team. He isslated to be arraigned on the indictment charges, but that court date has yet to be scheduled, according to the Union County Prosecutor's Office.

In August, Dykstra, through his attorney Michael Brucki, rejected a non-custodial probation plea offer on the terroristic threats charge. Brucki said Dykstra was maintaining his innocence.

But the judge also alerted Brucki and Dykstra to the Union County Prosecutor's Office escalating plea policy in which once Dykstra rejects the plea, it is off the table and will not be offered again.

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On May 23, 2018, Dykstra, 55,


of Linden, was arrested by Linden police in connection with allegedly threatening an Uber driver. Linden police were alerted to a vehicle that sped into the parking garage attached to police headquarters in the early morning hours of May 23. The driver repeatedly honked his horn before coming to an abrupt stop.

The Uber driver ran from the vehicle and told police he had picked up Dykstra in Linden for a scheduled fare before Dykstra apparently tried to change the destination. The driver refused to make the destination change.

Dykstra allegedly put a weapon to the driver's head and threatened to kill him, according to police. No weapon was found in Dykstra's possession. Both Dykstra and the Uber driver, Brian Lutty, 47, allege the other made him fear for hisDespite the flood, 60-year-old Rodney Ham believed he could drive his Mercedes-Benz through the rising waters at the junction of Upper Changi Road and Bedok North Avenue 4 on Monday morning.

But as he was making his move, another vehicle coming in the opposite direction sent water washing over his car's bonnet.

"Thank God that I was still able to drive about five to 10 metres out of the area. The engine choked a few times and the car stalled," the managing director of an automation firm told The Straits Times yesterday.

He added that his year-old vehicle had to be towed away, probably to have its engine replaced.

Monday's intense downpour resulted in flash floods in nine areas on the island, partially submerging cars, flooding the cabins of buses and disrupting


some businesses.

BMW driver Ricky Ng, 50, was also caught in the flood. "The damage is quite bad as water got into the engine, exhaust and air intake system. The engine has to be dismantled to be repaired too," he said.

Garages said flood-damaged cars can cost anywhere between thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to repair, and insurance companies may instead write them off.

Related Story Brief flash floods hit Tanjong Pagar junction

Mr Francis Lim, president of the Singapore Motor Workshop Association, said: "Flooded cars are tricky. Electrical components and computers installed in the floorboards and side panels of the cars may also be shorted."

The floods started at 8.30am and took two hours to subside, keeping towing services busy.

Mr Teo Kian Hock, 57, who runs a towing company underhis name, has a fleet of eight trucks that usually assist about 20 vehicles a day. On Monday they helped 40.

Asked if he had been concerned that the tow trucks could have become trapped in the water, Mr Teo said in Mandarin: "Of course we were afraid, but we also have long cables that can be extended to reach the cars, which we used.

Monday's flash floods: Where and why

Flash floods struck nine areas of Singapore on Monday morning, including Tampines Road, Sims Avenue, Upper Changi Road, and Arumugam Road near Paya Lebar. The deluge was brought on by an intense downpour when about two weeks' worth of rain fell in just four hours, overwhelming drainage systems. The first flash flood occurred at 8.30am, and all the floods subsided


by 10.30am, the PUB said. The floods lasted between 15 minutes and an hour. The national water agency said that drainage improvement works were taking place in eight of the nine affected areas. The works are expected to be completed by March next year, and when finished, water will be discharged more quickly, reducing the chance of flash floods. The agency is, however, looking into what caused the flash flood in Tampines Avenue 12, although preliminary results did not show any obstructions in the drainage. While wet weather is expected for the first fortnight of this month because of the prevailing north-east monsoon, the rain has been aggravated by the development of a Sumatra squall over the Strait of Malacca which moved eastwards, affecting Singapore. The PUB hasher 60s and a receptionist for Kingsmen Creatives in Changi South Lane, said its dispatch biker had to ride on the pavement to avoid the floods, while some staff were forced to park across the road at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College East.

"It is the first time since the company moved here 18 years ago that the flooding has been so bad," said Ms Jenkins.

Classes at ITE College East were not affected.

SBS Transit said that 12 of its buses, which operate routes nine and 10, were affected.

"As water levels rose, the cabins of these buses became flooded, some with ankle-high water, as they travelled along Upper Changi Road and Paya Lebar Road," said Ms Tammy Tan, SBS Transit's senior vice-president for corporate communications.

The buses were called


see. This is Sinbad’s territory—he’s named after a Fiordland gully where many kākāpō were found—and in breeding season, he fashions his bowl up here, along with a couple of other males.

I glance back down at Sinbad, but he seems to have dissolved into the air. There was a kākāpō here a moment ago, chewing. Then he lifts a claw to take a step forward and the shape of his body coalesces right in front of me.

The colours of his back feathers are perfectly calibrated to the carpet of mosses, lichens and dead twigs: a mix of every shade of green, with mottled black striations passing through them.

Sinbad has different features from the average kākāpō—his eyes are rounder, beadier, making him look particularly inquisitive.

He has spent several summers boomingtaken up the idea since it started to receive widespread publicity three years ago, but not all get pupils to complete a mile every single day.

The scheme was pioneered by Elaine Wyllie, who was then the head teacher at St Ninian's Primary School in Stirling, and has been widely praised and won several awards since.

The researchers from Stirling University and Moray House College of Education at Edinburgh University say more policymakers across the world should now consider introducing the initiative.

What are the benefits of the Daily Mile?

Researchers compared a total of 391 children aged between 4 and 12 at two primary schools in the Stirling area - one where pupils were doing the Daily Mile, and another where they were not.

The children wore accelerometers which recorded how much


schools worldwide have introduced the initiative, including about 1,200 in England, 770 in Scotland, 210 in Wales, 85 in Northern Ireland and more than 100 in the Republic of Ireland.

The scheme has spread around the world, with more than 800 schools in Belgium and 200 in the Netherlands said to be taking part, as well as schools in countries such as Australia, the US, Jamaica, Canada and Germany.

BBC Scotland checked with Scotland's 32 councils to find out how many of their primary schools were regularly using the Daily Mile.

Image copyright Daily Mile Foundation Image caption The initiative is said to have been introduced at schools in 30 countries across the world

Decisions on whether to take part have generally been taken by individual head teachers and not by councils- and some local authorities do not collate the information centrally.

Some said a number of schools taking part were not offering the Daily Mile every single day - for example some schools said children only took part on days when they were not taking part in PE.

In Angus, for example, 34 out of 51 primary schools take part in the scheme. 14 do it every day but the rest typically take part three days a week.

West Lothian said children at 17 of its schools did a mile every day, while children at another 31 schools did it at least once a week.

One school in Inverclyde also seemed to be counting the Daily Mile as a contribution towards the two hours of physical activity primary school children should receive


KPCC Spokessperson SM Patil Ganihar seeks ban on Sri Ram Sene

Describing Sri Ram Sene, a Hindutva outfit, as extremely dangerous to society, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson S.M. Patil Ganihar has demanded that the government not only immediately arrest its founder Pramod Mutalik but also ban the organisation.

Addressing presspersons here on Saturday, he said that following the arrest of an active member of the sene, Parashuram Waghmore, in connection with the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, it is now clearly evident that the sene is behind such anti-social elements.

Mr. Ganihar accused the sene and Mr. Mutalik of misleading innocent Hindu youths and brainwashing them into becoming hardcore criminals in the name of protecting Hindu religion. “Poor Hindu youths from backward communities are falling prey to his hate speechesWomen in the Air Force: Separate and definitely not equal

Jeff Brown; jeff.brown@doverpost.com; @DoPoJeff

Thursday

May 17, 2018 at 8:00 AMMay 17, 2018 at 10:08 AM

Although women today are an integral part of the Air Force, that wasn't always the case.

Despite the smiling faces presented in commercial advertisements of the time, being a member of the Women in the Air Force, or WAF, during the late 1960s and early 1970s wasn’t necessarily easy. Women were facing changing times and an evolution of their roles in society and in the military.

This was true at Dover Air Force Base and throughout the Air Force.

Despite having been incorporated into the Air Force in 1948, during the 1950s even official circles in Washington tended to downplay the need for female airmen -- some said the


percent of them were nurses who flew into Vietnam to evacuate wounded men.

Holm, who had two tours as director of the WAF, noted women wanted to serve, despite the dangers.

A female sergeant, denied an assignment to Vietnam, told her, “If American women were half as fragile as the brass seem to think they are, we never would have conquered the West.”

It took the end of the Vietnam conflict, and rising female activism in the civilian world, to start changing minds in Washington. Even so, old prejudices remained and this chauvinism tended to limit the role women could expect to play while in uniform.

Taking charge

In May 1970, USAF headquarters told 436th Military Airlift Wing commander Brig. Gen. Fred W. Vetter Jr. to expect an influx of women at Doverthey were taught to take care of women, and I think it was a huge shift for them. They had to accept women as being equals.”

Changing times

Responding to continuing public pressure in the 1970s, the Air Force slowly began liberalizing rules for its women.

In 1971, women could apply for a waiver to remain in the service instead of being subject to an automatic discharge for pregnancy. In October that year, they began training as security police officers.

Women made another stride forward in August 1972, when Col. Norma E. Brown was named commander of the 6970th Air Base Group at Fort Meade, Md.

Addressing an Air Force Association meeting in September 1972, WAF director Brig. Gen. Jeanne Holm said women had increasingly been assigned jobs once filled only by men.

“If


anyone had told me a few years ago the Air Force would have women with families, missile maintenance officers, women generals, most of would have scoffed at the idea,” she said. “It could never happen . . . but it has happened and there is more to come.”

By November 1972, 237 of the 242 enlisted airmen career fields were open to women, while all but five were closed to women officers. More than 16,500 women were in the Air Force at the time.

In June 1973, Holm’s successor WAF director Col. Billie Bobbitt, said that after that year, Air Force women no longer would observe June as the anniversary of the 1948 Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, which created the WAF.

In response, Logan, who by then had been promotedto captain, said, “In the past 25 years we have seen great changes in policy and attitude toward women in the Air Force. Each change, particularly in the past few years, has brought us closer to real equality in treatment, opportunity, and responsibility.”

Also in June 1973, the Department of Defense bowed to a Supreme Court ruling and authorized Air Force women, married to civilians, to receive pay for housing. Up until then, only Air Force men could draw the quarters allowance.

With advances in policy and law, Air Force leaders saw the handwriting on the wall, and in February 1975 announced all WAF units would be deactivated by June.

No longer would single women be assigned to squadron sections that would oversee their “housing, counseling, off-duty supervision, morale and welfare,”


Hamilton police are asking for the public's help find a 75-year-old Dundas man missing from his retirement home.

Franco Mamone was last week at the Governors Manor Retirement Home, on Ogilvie Street, Wednesday afternoon.

He's described as approximately 5-feet, 120 pounds, with short grey hair. He speaks Italian and is only easily understood by close friends and family.

Police said he's well-known in Dundas, where he is often seen walking downtown and has a "distinct shuffle."

It's believed he was wearing dark clothing when he went missing.

Anyone with information is asked to call 905-546-4930 or 905-546-4931 and request the on duty Staff Sergeant.Isaias Raziel Ochoa, 19, died at the scene of the predawn shootout, which erupted in the 2100 block of Rebecca Way in Lemon Grove following a road chaseThe events that led to Ochoa’s death began shortly before 1:30 a.m., when a patrol officer spotted a gray Ford sedan with an open door stopped at a green light near Fletcher Parkway and Baltimore Drive in La Mesa, according to police.While approaching to investigate, the officer heard a scream from inside the car, after which it sped away, Nelson said.The officer gave chase, following the vehicle into Spring Valley, where a sheriff’s sergeant joined the pursuit. After entering Lemon Grove and winding up on a dead-end street just west of state Route 125, the Ford rolled to a stop, and


Ochoa jumped out and ran off along with two companions.Ochoa climbed over a nearby fence and fled onto a hillside behind a home, a short distance from the abandoned car. Officers then heard gunshots from his direction, Nelson said.At that point, a San Diego police officer who had been dispatched to aid in the chase released a service dog, which charged Ochoa on the embankment and began biting him.While struggling with the attacking animal, Ochoa allegedly began shooting a pistol, prompting the sheriff’s sergeant and three officers to return fire.One of Ochoa’s cohorts, meanwhile, had escaped. The other was taken into custody near the site of the shootoutfamily spread across the north of England.

Shafilea on the other hand, born and brought up in modern Britain had other priorities.

She had friends, both Asian and white, some of them boys. A fan of Justin Timberlake, tight jeans and t-shirts she loved talking and texting on her mobile phone which she paid or with money earned from her part time job.

She was, according to the prosecution at the trial of her parents, “a thoroughly Westernised young British girl of Pakistani origin”.

But though she was popular, clever, conscientious and ambitious, it was not enough for Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed. They subjected their eldest daughter to sustained campaign of domestic violence in a bid to crush her independence, limit her movements and her friends.

Iftikhar had himself brought shame on his


family – cheating on his first wife in Denmark and abandoning her and his son to return to an arranged marriage.

His relationship with his daughter was fraught manifesting itself in repeated beatings handed out by both him and his wife which saw her attend school covered in cuts and bruises.

It was a relationship which was to end in a murderous rage at the family home in Warrington in September 2003.

On that night, following yet another row over clothes, boys, and her continued refusal to be cowed into an arranged marriage with a Pakistani stranger, her father forced a carrier bag into her mouth egged on by his wife who urged him to “just finish it here”.

The taxi driver, then bound his daughter’s asphyxiated body in black plastic bagsthe family in silence would never break.

Yet Cheshire Police had gone to great lengths to tread carefully and not alienate the community as they struggled to reach into the Urdu speaking homes in Warrington and Bradford in a bid to break the deadlock.

In one effort to encourage witnesses the actress Shobna Gulati read extracts of the teenager’s poems. A lack of forensics as a result of the advanced state of decomposition of the body found four months after she disappeared hampered the investigation too and the first case review by prosecutors concluded their was no likelihood of conviction based on the evidence gathered.

But the breakthrough eventually came from within the very heart of the Ahmed family itself.

At around 10pm on 25 August 2010, shortly after Iftikhar Ahmed had


left his home to attend the local mosque, three men forced their way into smartly kept, red brick semi-detached house on Liverpool Road.

Mrs Ahmed and three of her children were tied up – although not Alesha Ahmed, who was being blackmailed by the gang after owing them £3,900. They were threatened with a gun, a hammer and an iron bar and £30,000 in cash and jewellery was stolen.

In December that year Alesha was arrested in connection with the break in, later pleading guilty to conspiracy to rob.

During her interviews with police she revealed the missing piece in the jigsaw – an eye witness account of Shafilea’s final moments.

Ms Ahmed, who is awaiting sentencing in connection with the robbery, graphically re-lived the brutal attack on her older sister.

Then agedjust 15, she had initially found the secret too big to keep. She told friends that her parents had murdered her sister, “chopping her up” and disposing of the body. She said she feared the same thing could happen to her.

In tearful evidence given from behind a screen at the trial she described how her sister had been brought home from her part time job, searched for money or evidence of boys’ names and pushed onto the settee.

“Frozen with shock” she saw her father and mother suffocate her older sister, holding their hands over her airways, watching as Shafilea wet herself in the struggle before her eyes rolled and Mr Ahmed punched her inert body.

She explained how the couple later worked together to wrap up their eldest child


before Mr Ahmed loaded it into a vehicle and drove off into the summer night.

All four children, including sister Mevish, 12, and her 13-year-old brother Junyard were in the house at the time of the killing. Junyard later told his sisters that Shafilea had deserved to die, she claimed.

The children were ordered to tell anyone who asked that their sister had run away and warned that if they spoke out a similar fate would befall them.

But rumours soon began circulating that Shafilea’s dismembered body was hidden in the back garden.

Yet when teachers passed this information on to the police Alesha changed her story Meanwhile the Ahmeds stuck rigidly to their version of events that she had run away with a boy stonewalling during lengthy police interviews

Shafilea had beenmissing several times before including in February 2003 when she was away for a week and sought help from social services.

In her statement for emergency accommodation the teenager described being subjected to domestic abuse since the age of 15 in which “one parent would hold me whilst the other would hit me” and how she was regularly prevented from going to college or her part time job.

But despite her pleas to be given a one bedroom flat in the hope that the involvement of social workers and police would convince her parents to leave her alone, she returned home accompanied by her father insisting everything had been worked out.

The latest flashpoint had come over a matchmaking trip to Pakistan in which the Ahmeds were planning an arranged marriage.


It was a thought that revolted Shafilea who wanted to make her own decisions about the future.

But they ignored her wishes, even emptying her bank account of £2000 to fund the journey.

Mr Ahmed set off on 18 February 2003 with his two eldest daughters and son. Shafilea was given a drugged drink to get her on board the plane. In the alien surroundings of a Pakistan village, two and a half hours drive from Islamabad she received a series of marriage proposals and was shown pictures of potential suitors but tensions grew as she rejected any attempts to arrange a match.

During a family row in the midst of a massive power cut, Shafilea drank bleach causing severe damage to her throat. Her mother, who had later joined theCultures clash in a bitter literary feud

'The Bookseller of Kabul' is the focus of a harsh dispute between its Norwegian author and her Afghan subject.

LONDON — She is a Norwegian journalist who covered the war on the Taliban and stayed to write a postscript about the Afghan people. He is an erudite Kabul bookseller who, intrigued by her curiosity, invited her into his home to live with his family for five months.

The result has been a cross-cultural literary feud for our times: a bitter argument between Asne Seierstad, the journalist whose war coverage made her a media star at home, and Shah Mohammed Rais, a businessman from the impoverished Muslim country whose intimate family business she revealed. The focus of their clash is "The Bookseller of Kabul," Seierstad's


poignant tale about life in the rubble of war.

"The Bookseller" has become a surprise hit in Europe, with 200,000 copies sold in Norway alone since it was published in fall 2002. That makes it the biggest-selling nonfiction book in the country's history, says Anders Heger, Seierstad's Norwegian publisher. It has been translated into 17 languages, and an American edition -- with some significant editorial changes -- will be published this month by Little Brown.

"The Bookseller of Kabul" is a searing attack on the way Afghan men treat women. Seierstad makes no effort to disguise her anger at the plight of the Afghan women she lived with and at a culture in which a woman can be killed for adultery.

It is Rais, now 59, who shoulders this cultural indictmentof Afghan males. He is the bookseller at the center of Seierstad's story, portrayed as a domineering, frequently cruel patriarch who makes life miserable for his sister and first wife (though a teenage second bride gets off more lightly).

Seierstad calls the women's condition nothing less than "slavery." The book was making waves in only Scandinavia until Rais got his hands on one of the first English translations in late August. The contents so enraged him that he left his shop in Kabul in September and flew to Europe for what might be called an "anti-book tour." He has vowed to sue Seierstad and her various publishers for defamation.

"It is shameful. I am not a domestic tyrant," Rais says of his portrayal in Seierstad's book in an interview from


not a picture of my life.

"Maybe not burned," he says when pressed. "Recycled. Into toilet paper."

His quarrels with Seierstad's research and conclusions are numerous and diverse. They range from shock at her detailed description of women's bodies as they bathe -- including his elderly mother -- to what he says is the misrepresentation of traditional Afghan bargaining over marriage expenses as the buying and selling of women. And he accuses Seierstad of concocting events, including what he sees as an egregious reference to the "perverse sexual practices" of his wife's aunt.

Rais also complains about Seierstad's portrayal of his sister, Leila, a beautifully drawn character whose life emerges in the book as a Sisyphean series of household chores, her ambitions stunted by servitude to the men in the family.

"Isaw her as the main victim," Seierstad says by phone from her home in Oslo. "She had the abilities, she had the intelligence, she had everything, but she couldn't leave the house."

Leila is not a slave, Rais counters. She had been given shelter from the "disruptions of war," and the work she does is to repay the favor.

Perhaps most provocatively, Rais accuses Seierstad of putting "the lives of innocent village girls in danger" by amplifying gossip of extramarital affairs. Such information would bring shame to the families and death to the girls, Rais says. "We have had to hide the book from many people."

Seierstad fiercely rejects suggestions that her book has imperiled lives. "He is accusing me of writing stories about sex that are not in the book,"


Toussaint, who was nicknamed La Panthère, joined the maison soon after that the fabulous feline became a prominent motif on watches, jewels, vanity cases and other accessories.

Toussaint personally catered to Cartier’s high-society patrons, including Barbara Hutton (who favoured tigers) and the Duchess of Windsor, in her private salon at the Rue de la Paix flagship near Place Vendôme. As legendary tastemakers, the Duchess and her husband, the Duke of Windsor, who famously abdicated his crown to marry her, were regular customers. In 1948, the Duke commissioned the first three-dimensional panther jewellery design: a yellow gold and black enamel brooch depicting a sculpted panther with emerald eyes perched on a 90-plus carat emerald cabochon.

Sleek and elegant, the panther complemented the sensuous Art Deco designs of the day. The modernin the world to this day.

The minimalist Alhambra was perfectly suited for the brand’s La Boutique, which opened in Paris in 1954 (and in New York, three years later) with a focus on more accessible, fashionable everyday jewellery, in contrast to the opulent high jewels for which Van Cleef & Arpels had become famous.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Arpels brothers travelled extensively throughout the world – from locales in the Far East, China and India to chic jet-set resorts in Ibiza, the Bahamas and elsewhere. Influences from these destinations made their way into the house’s collections with noteworthy designs, such as the Cachemire clips, Osaka pendant, Ibiza clip-pendant and Bahamas bracelet.

The Alhambra’s symmetrical, geometric quatrefoil medallions are reminiscent of prevalent motifs in Moorish architecture, as exemplified by


Villa's second away victory of the season - secured courtesy of Libor Kozak's first goal for the club - was soured by the sight of last season's top scorer limping away from the action midway through the first half.

Benteke slipped when looking to control a ball out of defence and appeared to stretch his groin. He attempted to play on but was forced off, to be replaced by Kozak.atom for the first time in 1932. This was also the year that James Chadwick discovered the neutron and Carl Anderson discovered the positron while working on cosmic rays.

The experiment by Cockcroft and Walton split the nucleus at the heart of the atom with protons that were lower in energy than seemed possible, and achieved this by insights from quantum mechanical tunnelling – a phenomenon new to physics at that time.

Cockcroft realized the immense potential of accelerators in research and in particular for the progression of fundamental physics. He later played an instrumental role in establishing large accelerator laboratories, including CERN in 1954.

The sequence of events that led to the pioneering experiment – the specification of particle beam parameters; the innovation and development of the necessary technologies to


Julia to the Bellagio because I wanted to see the Autumn Celebration theme at the Conservatory & Botanical Garden before they take it down and replace it with the Christmas theme. It was very pretty. I took pics of the mushrooms, the enchanted trees, the animals etc but they didn't come out too good. It's still flip flop season (for me at least) in Vegas during the day but when the sun goes down it becomes chilly and I change to sneakers.

The view from the rooftop parking at the Bellagio is pretty nice.

Then I took Chhaya for some outside time. She is so beautiful! ❤

Then I was starving and picked up some of those amazing fries and a Greek salad from Paymon's Mediterranean Cafe. Dinner is not completestate and federal funding.

The district must reach new contracts with its employee unions. It faces chronic problems of low graduation rates and high student transience. It is competing to run the Toledo-Lucas County Head Start program of preschool education and social services.

Toledo’s progress depends greatly on the success of its public school system. TPS’ success depends largely on the capacities of its new leaders. All Toledoans have an interest in enabling them to do well.

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of suggestive dancing,
we decline to hold Greenway liable.
II.   FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
      A.     Facts1
              Simone Greenway met Carrie Randall-Evans in the summer of 2006 at a
mutual friend’s house where Carrie was staying because she was afraid of her husband,
Jeffrey Evans. The two women took walks together, and Carrie confided in Greenway
that Jeffrey scared her and that she was happy to have a job on the Slope so that she
could be independent. Carrie confessed to Greenway that she was afraid that Jeffrey
would hurt her, that she would never get away, and that Jeffrey might kill her.
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             Jeffrey left the room and Carrie left for the bathroom. Jeffrey returned with
a gun. Greenway did not know that Jeffrey had brought a gun, and she did not keep guns
in her home. Jeffrey shot Greenway, who fell to the floor. Anthony, who had rejoined
the gathering earlier, entered the room, and Jeffrey shot him five times. Jeffrey went to
Greenway, knelt beside her, showed Greenway her car keys in one hand, and shot her
again in the chest. Jeffrey then ran after Carrie and shot her three times,


281 F.3d 38
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Luis Santiago GONZALEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Docket No. 01-1073.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued August 8, 2001.
Decided February 7, 2002.

Darrell B. Fields, The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division — Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.
Daniel A. Braun, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, NY (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief), for Appellee.
Before: MINER, JACOBS, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.
MINER, Circuit Judge.

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Defendant-appellant Luis Santiago Gonzalez appeals from a judgment of conviction and sentence entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kaplan, J.), sentencing him principally to a term of imprisonment of twelve months and one day. The sentence was imposed following his conviction on a plea ofJanuary 28, 2000. Bajaj had been fired by the bank on December 31, 1999. Gonzalez also altered direct deposit information to transfer the severance payment for deposit into an account at Fleet Bank opened by his brother at his direction on January 7, 2000. Taxes and payroll deductions subtracted from the $140,000 payout left a net amount of approximately $83,405 for deposit in the Fleet Bank account. On the same date that the funds were deposited, Gonzalez' brother attempted to make a withdrawal of $20,000. Suspicious of the transaction, officials at Fleet Bank contacted their counterparts at Deutsche Bank to inquire about the deposited funds. Deutsche Bank promptly discovered the embezzlement and confronted Gonzalez, who admitted what he had done and signed a written statement. Since Fleet Bank


not qualify for a downward departure. In support of its position, the government asserted, among other things, that Gonzalez planned and committed his offense over a three-week period and therefore that the offense could not be considered spontaneous; that Gonzalez enlisted the help of another person, his brother; that he was motivated by pecuniary gain; that his early confession was not significant due to the transparent nature of his conduct; and that he offered no justification, such as extreme pressure or psychological disorder, for his conduct. The government argued that there was no basis for a claim that the crime committed by Gonzalez was a single occurrence that was committed without significant planning or was of a limited duration.

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Gonzalez appeared for sentencing on February 5, 2001. Also presentdeparture was not warranted under either Section 5K2.20 or Zecevic, the court proceeded first to examine the requirements of Application Note 1 of the guideline.

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The court stated that the Application Note "requires that the crime had been a single criminal occurrence or criminal transaction that was committed without significant planning, was of limited duration, and represented a marked deviation by the defendant from an otherwise law-abiding life." Noting that it was undisputed in Gonzalez' case that there was but a single criminal occurrence reflecting a marked deviation from a life that was otherwise law abiding, the district court found "that the offense was not of limited duration in the sense that phrase is used in the application note." This finding was said to eliminate the need for a


he failed the totality test as well. The panel wrote:

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Although he had the opportunity to and did present other evidence bearing on the totality standard, Zecevic presented no evidence to suggest he was suffering from any disorders or operating under any extreme pressures at the time he committed the offense, nor did he demonstrate any particular motive other than pecuniary gain. He did not claim that he had made efforts to mitigate the effects of the crime. Apart from his status as a first offender and the support of his mother, Zecevic has little else to recommend him for an aberrant behavior departure.

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Id.

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In United States v. Martinez, 207 F.3d 133 (2d Cir.2000), we reversed a downward departure for aberrant behavior by a district court after a remand forconsideration in light of Zecevic. The defendant there participated in cocaine importation schemes spanning at least thirteen months. The panel noted the defendant's lack of a criminal record but observed that the schemes did not constitute a "short-lived departure" from a law-abiding life. Id. at 137. It rejected the trial court's reliance on a claim that the defendant was under pressure to pay the workers at his factory, finding the economic considerations for the crime did not meet the "extreme pressures" factor described in Zecevic. Id. at 138. The panel also rejected the following factors, considered by the district court, as of "highly questionable" connection to the aberrance of the defendant's behavior: charitable and volunteer activity, Type II diabetic condition, rehabilitative efforts, and family circumstances. Id. at 138-39.


Validity and reliability of the 'Ten Questions' questionnaire for detecting moderate to severe neurological impairment in children aged 6-9 years in rural Kenya.
The 'Ten Questions' Questionnaire (TQQ) is used to detect severe neurological impairment in children living in resource-poor countries. Its usefulness has been established in Asia and the Caribbean, but there are a few published studies from Africa. We evaluated the TQQ as part of a larger study of neurological impairment in a rural community, on the coast of Kenya. The study was conducted in two phases from June 2001 to May 2002; in phase one, a community household screening of 10,218 children aged 6-9 years using the TQQ was performed. Phase two involved a comprehensive clinical and psychological assessment of all children testing positive on thethe President was reelected he has more leverage this time. As if Democrats ever use leverage after they win elections like how they kept funding the Iraq war in 2006 after their opposition to the war gave them those mid term victories. Nancy Pelosi also took impeachment of the war criminal GWB off the table so future war crimes could be committed.

And then in 2008 after winning an unprecedented majority in both Houses of Congress, higher than at anytime leading up to that point on the GOP's end, we were told we didn't have a mandate for progressive polices despite the fact that the right's neoconservative Laissez-faire ideology had been fully discredited.

As I predicted a while back, the Partisan-Industrial Complex in Washington, D.C. has deployed its quadrennial Mandate


wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career. ... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. But in general, entitlements have to be slowed down and contained.

We are being told that the mess this President caused when he helped pass the Bush tax cuts in exchange for 1 year of unemployment insurance - which was unnecessary because Republicans caved on UE extension before - WITHOUT even securing a rise in the debt ceiling by putting his full trust in John Boehner with the full faith and credit of the US was "worthread about."

Though his encouragement to his activist base may be encouraging to some, the President's preemptive admission that he's willing to give away bargaining chips so early in the game will surely irk those who criticized Obama for his negotiating style throughout his first term. That will be doubly true for progressives who have publicly called for a more hardline stance when it comes to defending key social programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

We know from the president's interview with the Des Moines register that much of what was in the memo revealed by Bob Woodward as part and parcel of all of this nonsense we shouldn't even have to be dealing with in the first place is a starting point. Oh yes, many will screech about


belts the belt is usually driven by a toothed drive pulley which engages the inner side, i.e. the inner peripheral surface, of the belt. At least one driven pulley also engages the same inner side of the toothed belt, while one or more additional driven pulleys engage the outer toothed surface of the double-sided toothed belt. Thus, it will be seen, in such double-sided belt systems, the drive pulley is in engagement with the inner toothed surface while at least one of the driven pulleys is in engagement with the outer toothed surface of the belt. Forces must, therefore, be transmitted from the teeth on the inner toothed surface to the teeth on the outer toothed surface while maintaining accurate synchronization between the teeth. Moreover, the "wrap" ofspike is aligned and coincident with the longitudinal axis of the interior space of the body to an articulated position where the longitudinal axis of the spike is angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the body. The tip of the spike protrudes from the receptacle and is prevented from receding into the interior space by a collar on the spike which enables the swiveling movement while providing a base which promotes positioning of the spike in a stable, upright position.
The foregoing is accomplished by providing the spike, which has a proximate end and a distal end, with a collar which is engaged by the body, and an enlarged head which is sized and configured to be forced past a neck in the body. The collar having a


surface which mates and engages with a seat of the body. The body includes a barrel defining therein the interior space and is preferably externally threaded for screwing into a complementally threaded receptacle in the sole of the shoe. Both the collar and the body around the seat are preferably circular, the diameter of the collar being somewhat smaller than the diameter of the seat to permit limited swiveling of the spike relative to the receiver. Swiveling, as used herein, includes both rotation around the longitudinal axis of the receiver body and tilting along two axes but not up and down translational movement.
Swiveling of the spike with respect to the receiver is further enabled by the sizing of the head and the interior space. The interior space hasa somewhat greater transverse dimension or diameter than the transverse dimension or diameter of the head, such that the spike is able to swing and swivel within the barrel of the receiver. Thus, when a moment is applied to the distal end of the spike, the spike is able to swivel and thus swing to a limited degree by the ability of the head at the proximate end to move laterally within the interior space of the barrel of the receiver. On the other hand, when a golfer is standing still, the collar of the spike helps to maintain a stable position by flat engagement with the seat.
The shoe cleat apparatus is configured for removable attachment to the sole of a shoe such as a golf shoe. To


this end, the externally threaded barrel of the receiver may be easily screwed into a receptacle complementally configured with internal threads, the receptacle being permanently mounted in the sole as is conventional. The spike may be replaced within the receiver because the head is sized and configured to be forced through the neck of the receiver and removed by pulling therethrough in the same manner. Preferably, the head is slotted to provide two ears which are yieldable when compressed and then, after passing through the narrowed neck, spring back to the original expanded position. The receiver and the spike may be made of metal or of synthetic resin.
By wearing shoes equipped with the shoe cleat apparatus hereof, the tips of the spikes, when embedded in the playing surface,remain relatively stationary with respect to the surface on which the golfer is standing during swinging. As the golfer rotates his or her hips during the swing, one or both feet may shift or pivot. The spikes embedded in the playing surface retain their position, while those on the moving foot may swivel and tilt. When the golfer""s feet lift to walk across the playing surface, such as a golf green, the distal end of the spike is permitted to swivel when engaged by the green, which prevents the spike from digging into the green and causing damage thereto during movement of the golfer across the green.
These and other advantages of the golf cleat apparatus hereof will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art with respect


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Accompanying note: "[Major General] Mark W. Lance [left] and [Brigadier General Gentry White (right)] accompanying the Governor and cabinet to the swearing in ceremony on west side of Capitol. Going up the stairs: Governor Collins and Secretary of State R.A. Gray, Richard Ervin and Ray Green, J. Edwin Larson and Thomas Bailey, probably Nathan Mayo and ?, W.V. Knott. This was the first time the cabinet was sworn in at the same time as the Governor."

Florida Memory is funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Florida’s LSTA program is administered by the Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services.Hales' office on Wednesday.

Commissioner Steve Novick, who oversees the transportation bureau, declined to comment for this story.

Sometime during the midst of a long City Council agenda packed that dragged on for hours, Hales' and Novick's staff decided the business fee had too many questions. McDonough said she was in touch with Hales' staff on Wednesday.

Willamette Week first reported the delay Wednesday.

Dana Haynes, Hales' spokesman said, the city is "taking our time to get things right" and taking a step back to figure out what to charge businesses under the controversial street fee. The proposed street fee is expected to bring in as much as $50 million per year in revenue for street safety projects and paving work.

The city is charging businesses based on the number of trips generated


Known as the “Michelango of Caricature,” Honore Daumier was a prolific painter, printmaker, sculptor, and caricaturist. He produced over 4000 lithographs in his lifetime, which were known for their satires of political figures and the behavior of the bourgeois inn society. As a boy he showed an inclination towards art, which his father tried to discourage, and so he put him to work as an usher. But, Daumier’s talents could not be dissuades, and he later work at a booksellers, eventually landing in the employ of Alexandre Lenoir, an artist and archaeologist, and becoming his protégé. It was here that he began making his first attempts at lithography, and began a career producing plates for music producers and advertisement illustrations.

He began working for the comic journal La Caricatureduring the reign of King Louis Phillippe, and produced many caricatures outlining corruption on the law, the mistakes of the bourgeois, and the incompetence of the government. It was at this time that he published a satire of the king as Gargantua, which landed him in prison for six months, after which the journal La Caricature ceased publication. He also produced caricatures for the publication Le Chavivari, holding the bourgeois up to more scrutiny

One of his favorite themes was Don Quixote, of which he drew 49 drawings, and completed 29 paintings depicting his life. Daumier received little recognition until 1878, a year before his death, when his works were put on exhibition. Posthumously, more recognition has been placed on Daumier and his revered social commentary.


considering adding the rusty patched bumble bee to the endangered species list; if added, it will be the first North American bumble bee to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

To participate in a citizen science effort to track and conserve this and other species of North American bumble bees, visit BumbleBeeWatch.org

About Days Edge Productions Day’s Edge Productions is a nonfiction production company specializing in telling stories about science, nature, conservation and adventure. A team of Ph.D.-trained scientists and award-winning filmmakers, Day’s Edge brings cutting-edge science, captivating human stories, and important messages to broad audiences. Projects include broadcast documentaries, web series, advocacy films, and educational videos. Day’s Edge has been supported by National Geographic, Smithsonian Channel, the National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Templeton Foundation, WorldCam Newton Rocks Skintight Zebra Pants Before Super Bowl: Hot Or Not?

Cam Newton knows how to steal the show — both on the field and with his stellar street style! The quarterback is gearing up for Super Bowl with a seriously outrageous look — did you love or loathe his outfit?

All eyes were on Cam Newton, 26, when he stepped out in a pair of skintight zebra pants by Versace as he made his way to the Super Bowl on Jan. 31 — and the path is clearly paved in style! He paired the statement pants with a leather jacket, black and gold shoes and a pair of headphones. If he wanted to go incognito, his pants definitely sent a different message as he boarded the team jet,


Rob Reiner, Morgan Freeman Help Launch Committee to Investigate Russia

The nonprofit aims "to help Americans recognize and understand the gravity of Russia’s continuing attacks on our democracy."

Big Hollywood names have helped found the Committee to Investigate Russia, a nonprofit aiming to spread information about Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and create debate about possible threats to the country's institutions. The committee launched Tuesday in the U.S., with director Rob Reiner on the advisory board and actor Morgan Freeman featured in an introductory video.

"The Russian Active Measures campaign aimed at the United States has been exposed," reads a statement on the organization's website. "Using hacking, Twitter armies, and fake news, the Kremlin engaged in an aggressive effort to subvert the American democratic process."

The Committee to InvestigateRussia said it wants to be a nonprofit, non-partisan resource to "help Americans recognize and understand the gravity of Russia’s continuing attacks on our democracy," it continues.

"We need our president to speak directly to us and tell us the truth," Freeman says in a video published on the organization's website and on its YouTube channel. "We need him to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office and say 'My fellow Americans, during this past election, we came under attack by the Russian government.'"

The organization's Facebook page had nearly 62,903 likes and 64,090 followers as of Wednesday morning.

Among other members of the organization's advisory are former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, conservative commentator Charlie Sykes and scholars Max Boot and Norman Ornstein.


Randolph County’s History

History has a bold, yet charming way of presenting itself to you in Randolph County. The Old Historic Randolph County Courthouse, built in 1872, is in the middle of a charming town square. The courthouse has been restored and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The very first post office for the Arkansas Territory was in Randolph County… and today the site of that building is marked for visitors of the Old Davidsonville State Park. They Maynard Pioneer Museum is a delightful look into the past, to a time when the people of the east ventured with astounding vigor into the unknown, the West!

The Good Earth Association at Kilo Visita site, Birdall, Arkansas, also helps us remember the hardships that were borne by thosewho farmed this rich area so many decades ago.

The east side of Randolph County is part of the Delta, known for rich, fertile farmland, and abundant rice, bean and grain fields. The west side of the county slowly rises toward the higher elevations and the breathtakingly beautiful Ozark Mountains. The county is the only one in the state that can boast of having five rivers within its boundaries. The fishing and canoeing are excellent. The Black, Current, Spring, Eleven Point and Fourche rivers capture nature’s wonder as avid water-lovers and sportsmen are drawn to their shores. Come enjoy a water adventure at one of our rivers.

Randolph County offers something for everyone from outdoor recreation, historical sites, monuments and attractions, arts, museums, unique shopping, historic downtown square, beautiful fiver


LILLESTRØM, Norway (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Yesterday, 29th November 2018, the AIBN (Accident Investigation Board Norway) published a preliminary report on the collision between the KNM Helge Ingstad frigate and the Maltese registered tanker Sola TS in Hjeltefjorden, outside the Sture terminal in Øygarden Municipality in Hordaland County, Norway. The report presents the information obtained during the initial phase of the ongoing investigation and provides a preliminary description of the sequence of events, as well as the identified as of the moment safety-critical issues, learned BulgarianMilitary.com

Read more: The KNM Helge Instad Frigate of Norway is in Danger of Sinking

The preliminary report says that the a cause of the accident could be confusion on the bridge of the Ingstad frigate during watch turnover as a result of which the watch teamIRS was unmatured on August 12, 1982, the date the Debtors' Chapter 7 Petition was filed.
"13. The late payment penalty sought to be collected from the Debtors by IRS was unmatured on August 12, 1982, the date the Debtors' Chapter 7 Petition was filed.
"14. The post-petition interest and post-petition late payment penalties sought to be collected by IRS are not entitled to priority under Section 507 of the Bankruptcy Code."

Conclusions of Law
There can be little question that the virtually-undisturbed course of the existing law holds that postpetition interest is chargeable to debtors on nondischargeable tax obligations. The law which has governed the issue of postpetition interest on nondischargeable tax obligations has arisen in an era of bankruptcy administration in which the process of closing a case sometimes consumed


reasons abovementioned. See 65 B.R. at 151 to the following effect:
"No other rule can make any intelligible sense when the debtor cannot . . . be responsible for the delay in the distribution of monies in a title 11 case. The principle is recognized under the new provisions in the law instituted by the Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980. Although the provisions of this Act, technically, do not apply to this case, which was filed before its effective date, its provisions may nevertheless be considered in interpreting the preexisting law. Unless the old Act contained specific provisions contrary to the relevant provisions of the new Act, `[t]he same principles (in terms of the reasons given) for the creation of the new law, apply to corporate bankruptcies under thefor the United States to collect the interest from the debtor `from assets acquired by the taxpayer subsequent to the confirmation of the plan of arrangement.' 456 F.2d at 924. Under the former chapter XI, the bankruptcy was ordinarily regarded as closed as of the date of the confirmation of the plan. (The court was to retain jurisdiction only if `is so provided in the arrangement.' Section 368 of the Bankruptcy Act.) Thus, the ruling was to the effect that so much of the debt which survived bankruptcy and was not paid during the course of the bankruptcy proceedings might be collected thereafter, plus both prepetition and postpetition interest. The same holding was the rule of another decision now cited and relied upon by the government, In re


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The suspected alcohol-related death of a fraternity pledge has led Texas State University to join a growing list of colleges to suspend all Greek life activities.

Officers responded to an off-campus home around 11:30 a.m. Monday and found a sophomore Phi Kappa Psi pledge, Matthew Ellis, 20, unresponsive, authorities said. He was declared dead approximately an hour later.

Matthew McKinley Ellis, a former Phi Kappa Psi pledge at Texas State University. Courtesy Tom Amundsen

Ellis, of Humble, Texas, had attended a social event Sunday hosted by members of a university fraternity, according to Texas State President Denise M. Trauth.

It's unclear if the event was hosted by members of one fraternity or different fraternities.

An autopsy on Ellisin a statement that the organization is "heartbroken."

"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and the entire TSU student body during this difficult time," he said.

Bobcat Field opens in San Marcos as Texas State hosts the University of Texas. San Antonio Express-News/ZUMA via Alamy file

Texas State University now joins colleges like Florida State University and Louisiana State University that have suspended their Greek life programs after the deaths of new fraternity members.

According to a NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll, 75 percent of people said something needs to be done about hazing at fraternities and sororities

At Florida State University, Andrew Coffey, a civil engineering major from Pompano Beach, Florida, who was pledging Pi Kappa Phi, died earlier this month after after found unresponsive following a party.

Related: New Charges in


Penn State Hazing Trial After FBI Recovers Video

In September, LSU student Maxwell Gruver, who was in the process of being initiated into Phi Delta Theta fraternity, died at a Baton Rouge hospital with a blood alcohol level of .495 — more than six times the legal intoxication level in most states.

University of Michigan also suspended its Greek life activity after allegations of sexual misconduct, hazing and drug use.

Additionally, charges have been filed against 17 former Penn State University fraternity members after the alcohol-related death of a 19-year-old Beta Theta Pi pledge, Timothy Piazza.ND Volleyball

Irish prepare for final regular season home matches

Notre Dame (19-8, 9-7 ACC) takes on North Carolina and North Carolina State this weekend in the last two home matches of the regular season.

The Irish are coming off of two 3-0 wins against Virginia and Virginia Tech last weekend at home, and they are looking to carry this momentum into their next ACC matchup as the program makes a push for the postseason.

Notre Dame committed a season low in attacking errors against Virginia, something the team has been striving to achieve all season. In addition to minimizing errors, the Irish have also focused on getting out to an early lead in each set, something they did well in the match against the Cavaliers.

Head coach Jim McLaughlin said the Irish


Ragnar Söderberg\'s Foundation, the Petrus and Augusta Hedlunds Foundation, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The MrOS US study is supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute on Aging, the National Center for Research Resources, and the National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research under the following grants: U01 AR45580, U01 AR45614, U01 AR45632, U01 AR45647, U01 AR45654, U01 AR45583, U01 AG18197, U01-AG027810, and UL1 RR024140. The European Male Aging Study is funded by the Commission of the European Communities Fifth Framework Programme, Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Grant QLK6-CT-2001-00258 and supported by Arthritis Research UK. The principal investigator of the European Male Aging Study is Professor Frederick Wu, MD (Department of Endocrinology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester,Corsan, as the company is known, will invest about 790
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a sewer system in Alvorada and Viamao at a cost of 115 million
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Powerful storms hit western Minnesota, eastern North Dakota

Powerful storms knocked down utility lines and trees in western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota leaving thousands of people without power.

About 3,000 customers around Fargo and West Fargo were without power. Extra crews were brought in from Fargo and Minot to get the lights back on.

With winds reaching up to 70 miles per hour, a large power transmission tower located at 63rd Avenue and 25th Street South in Fargo was badly damaged.

Grand Forks park officials say it might take a couple of weeks to remove all the tree debris from neighborhoods.

Last night's storm left parts of the metro damaged.

At least 11 power poles on the Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative system were snapped along a road north of Fairmount, North Dakota inRichland County. One was spotted near Havana, in Sargent county and another near Hoffman, Minnesota in Grant County.

State Patrol Sgt. Jesse Grabow said he found four semi tractor-trailers tipped over on Interstate 94 east of Moorhead, Minn., after storms swept through the area. Grand Forks officially picked up.84 inches.


Press Release: Out of the Box Doll Project (July 27th, before the SOS March and Rally in Washington, DC)

WHERE: THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. IN THE PLAZA ALONG MARYLAND AVENUE BY THE BOG SCHOOL BELL

DATE: WEDNESDAY July 27th

TIME: 12:00-2:00

The purpose of this event is to call attention to educators, students, parents and community members who have been facing increasing restrictions on their rights to a meaningful and democratic education due to policies over the last ten years going back to No Child Left Behind.

While it is students, teachers, and parents who have the greatest stake in the decisions being made in educational policy, they have the least voice and visibility. The purpose of the Out of the Box Doll project is to create a visible public space for thesewill be held at American University July 28th and 29th. The march will be held July 30th beginning at Ellipse Park with a rally at 10:30 am.

Follow the Out of the Box Doll project on Facebook. The Doll Project event coordinator Morna McDermott invites interested individuals and groups from all over the country to begin their own Out of the Box groups, where anyone can join together and make dolls, put them in boxes, and place them collectively in public places such as government buildings and schools, letting their own communities that they are opposed to oppressive educational policies and will resist being boxed in by fear and intimidation. Such events can be documented and posted on the Out of the Box Facebook site, so that communities everywhere


ANNIVERSARY REVIEW: 50 years since the discovery of bromocriptine.
Ergotism is the long-term ergot poisoning by ingestion of rye or other grains infected with the fungus Claviceps purpurea and more recently by excessive intake of ergot drugs. It has either neuropsychiatric or vascular manifestations. In the Middle Ages, the gangrenous poisoning was known as St. Anthony's fire, after the order of the Monks of St. Anthony who were particularly skilled at treating the condition. In 1917, Prof. Arthur Stoll returned home to Switzerland from Germany, to lead the development of a new pharmaceutical department at Sandoz Chemical Company. Stoll, using the special methods of extraction learned from his work with his mentor Willstetter, started his industrial research work with ergot. He succeeded in isolating, from the ergot of rye,ergotamine as an active principle of an old popular remedy for excessive post-partum bleeding. The success of this discovery occurred in 1918 and was translated into a pharmaceutical product in 1921 under the trade name Gynergen. In subsequent work, Stoll and his team were leaders in identifying the structure of the many other alkaloids and amines produced by Claviceps purpurea This was the cultural background and scientific foundation on which bromocriptine was discovered.


Bioanalysis: challenges and solutions seminar.
Industry challenges and solutions for bioanalysis were top of the agenda for the Spring Seminar organized by Quotient Bioresearch in Munich, Germany. The seminar was attended by representatives from pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisations across Europe and featured debates and panel discussions from leading industry speakers on new techniques and hot topics, including the latest industry guidelines.197th District before personal profit. Cheri Honkala lives in this district and has fought for the people in and around this district for over 30 years. The people of the 197th are struggling and cannot afford another politician beholden to personal business interests--someone who was hand-picked by the outgoing, corrupt Leslie Acosta.'

'Cheri is beholden to no one but the people in these neighborhoods who encouraged her to run. As the founder of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, she has spent her life standing up to injustices and fighting for people to have the basic necessities to survive. She has slept on the street with them and taken them into her home. She has fought for their children's education and against welfare cuts. She has helped keep


Defensive Woes Continue

Ross Kinnaird/Getty ImagesNastasic was on an island much of the day on City's back line.

Any time the City team sheet does not include Vincent Kompany, City fans should grab their paper air sick bags and prepare for hyperventilation if not outright nausea.

City manager Manuel Pellegrini started midfielder Javi Garcia at centre-back again today. It is getting to the point where one wonders whether City are trying to punish Garcia or make him want to quit.

Garcia was woefully out of position a few times, the worst occasion coming in the 14th minute as Jonathan Walters got behind him for a good chance on Hart's goal.

He also needlessly conceded possession in a dangerous spot in the 64th minute, by which time the match commentators were openly questioning whywith New Zealand in accordance with the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement ). This, of course, allows their citizens to work on WWOOF farms.

There are also agreements between a number of countries, mainly in Europe, the British Commonwealth , and East Asia, which allow young people of these countries to obtain Working Holiday Visas , which allow them to work a year or two in their chosen country.

Australia

WWOOF volunteers are able to work on a tourist visa, provided that the main purpose of visiting Australia is tourism, a volunteer does not receive a salary (housing and meals, or reimbursement of expenses is allowed), and that the farmer can prove he is not abusing the WWOOF program in order to obtain free labour!Canada

In principle, foreign nationals need special permission (work permit)


overly cautious would not get bonuses. Surely we can rely on our bankers to exhibit the necessary degree of greed.

Bankslaughter would target the wild fringe rather than the average banker. The wild fringe matters: sometimes it generates a crisis that becomes systemic. We now know that as early as 2004, the Bank of England anticipated that Northern Rock would implode. Its business model was so risky that other banks had not adopted it. But in the short term, reckless behaviour looks smart, and so wiser management teams were coming under pressure to emulate it. By the time of its demise, the Rock was doing a fifth of British mortgages.

By curtailing the wild fringe, bankslaughter would complement Turner's approach, which is to make the average bank behave better. Boththe project in Indonesia. The team used a "participatory design process," says Aidan Cronin, UNICEF's chief of water, sanitation and hygiene for Indonesia. Team members met with about 100 boys and girls age 10 to 14 as well as teachers and parents in six provinces.

The idea for creating a comic came from the kids.

UNICEF began testing the comic last June, sharing it with about 4,000 boys and girls. The agency then hired Myriad Research, a research firm based in Jakarta, to talk to kids in two communities before and after the comic was published. They gathered survey responses from 245 girls and 129 boys.

"The overall feedback was great," says Cronin. "The students said challenging the myths gave them an opening to discuss menstruation with their parents and teachers."


Among the other findings from the survey:

Knowledge that menstruation is a normal process jumped from 81 percent to 97 percent in girls and from 61 percent to 89 percent in boys.

The percentage of girls feeling that menstruation should be kept secret fell from 38 percent to 20 percent.

The percentage of boys who felt it was wrong to bully menstruating girls increased from 61 percent to 95 percent.

"What does seem to be good about the comic is that it keeps the messaging simple and emphasizes that menstruation is a normal experience," says Marni Sommer, an associate professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Sommer runs a conference with UNICEF each year on menstrual hygiene management in schools. She herself has created illustratedbooks on menstruation used in several countries in the developing world but was not involved in the development of the Indonesian comic.

She likes the fact that the Indonesian comic book was produced with an eye to local traditions and taboos: "You need to know the local culture as well as beliefs, perceptions and norms in that community," she says, "so you can gently challenge them."

It's not only comic books that are doing the job. A new animated video on menstruation aimed at Indonesians — and also produced by UNICEF — is having an impact. It hasn't yet been widely shown to students, but when members of the Indonesian Council of Islamic Scholars viewed it, they decided it was time to partner with UNICEF on a book on menstrual


Aa criminal case was registered against YSR Congress MP Mithun Reddy in November last year after he allegedly had an altercation with an Air India official. Aa criminal case was registered against YSR Congress MP Mithun Reddy in November last year after he allegedly had an altercation with an Air India official.

YSR Congress Party MP from Rajampet P V Mithun Reddy was arrested at Chennai airport late Saturday night for assaulting an Air India official last November at Renigunta Airport in Chitoor District in Andhra Pradesh. Chittoor Police had registered a case against the MP after he and members of his family manhandled, slapped and assaulted the Air India station manager K Rajasekhar on November 27 after AI staff refused them boarding passes as the boarding for theNew Delhi flight they were supposed to catch has already closed.

The manager in the police complaint stated that the MP was scheduled to catch an Air India flight with his relatives to New Delhi but reached the airport several minutes late. When the Air India staff refused to issue boarding passes as boarding had already been closed, the MP summoned the AI station manager and got into an argument after the latter refused to entertain his plea to hold the flight and let him board.

During the heated argument the MP and his relatives assaulted the AI station manager. The airline had also lodged a complaint along with the AI station manager at the Yerpedu police station and an investigation was started based on CCTV footage which captured the


Actor Reg E. Cathey, who co-starred on HBO’s The Wire and Oz and won an Emmy for his role on Netflix’s House of Cards, has died at the age of 59.

The Wire creator David Simon remembered working with Cathey fondly in a tweet on Friday:

Reg Cathey, 1958-2018. Not only a fine, masterful actor — but simply one of the most delightful human beings with whom I ever shared some long days on set. On wit alone, he could double any man over and leave him thinking. Reg, your memory is a great blessing. pic.twitter.com/OHEUbAhTg0 — David Simon (@AoDespair) February 9, 2018

An Alabama native who grew up in West Germany and studied at the Yale School for Drama, Cathey was a celebrated character actor for decades, first rising toprominence on PBS’ math-centric kids’ show Square One, which debuted in 1987. Later, he became a familiar face to fans of acclaimed HBO dramas, playing drug dealer Scalio on Simon’s miniseries The Corner and prison staffer Martin Querns on Oz before starring as political operative Norman Wilson in Seasons 4 and 5 of The Wire.

More recently, Cathey played Frank Underwood’s favorite D.C. rib cook Freddy Hayes on House of Cards, notching three consecutive Emmy nominations in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series category and winning the award in 2015. His other recent TV credits included Grimm, Lights Out, Law & Order: SVU and last year’s Oprah Winfrey-starring HBO movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.


Former Lions Semp Player Sam Mahofski signs Division I Scholarship at Corpus Christi A&M out of Division I Weatherford JC

CORPUSCHRISTI, Texas – Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball has added six new faces to the fray during the 2015 fall signing period.

Head coach Scott Malone and recruiting coordinator Brett Gips announced the additions of Sam Mahofski, Korey Rasure, Alvin Lee, Jr., John Michael Rodriguez, Jr., Drake Osborn and Luke Marbach on Friday. Three of the Islanders high school prospects have been ranked an=mong the best in Texas and nationally by the major recruiting services.

SAMMAHOFSKI | Shortstop | Mansfield, Texas – Weatherford College

Mahofski will join the Islanders after two seasons at Weatherford College. In his freshman season at Weatherford, Mahofski helped the Coyotes to a 39-15 mark and a No. 1The Jurassic Coast is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2001) on the English Channel coast of southern England. The site stretches from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of 153 kilometres. The area has been studied for more than 300 years and has contributed to the development of earth sciences in the UK.
The site includes a near-continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock exposures, representing much of the Mesozoic era (251-66 million years ago) or approximately 185 million years of the Earth’s history.The site shows excellent examples of landforms, including the natural arch at Durdle Door, the cove and limestone folding at Lulworth Cove and an island, the Isle of Portland. Migratory wildfowl habitat occurs


Rescue bid in Black Sea as ship splits in two Published duration 19 April 2017

A cargo ship with 12 people on board has gone down in heavy seas in the Kerch Strait off the Russian Black Sea coast.

Rescue crews reached the scene early on Wednesday and officials said one person was pulled to safety. Two bodies were found and nine crew were missing.

Russia's marine agency said the 3,500-tonne Geroi Arsenala split in two and sank at about 03:40 (00:40 GMT).

The high winds hampered the search for survivors, reports said.

The Panamanian-registered ship went down around 19 nautical miles (35km) south of the Taman Peninsula.

Nine of those on board were Ukrainian, two were Russians and one was Georgian, officials said. The ship was carrying grain from the Russian port ofAzov to Turkey and officials said oil from the ship had spilt into the sea.

Russian emergency ministry officials said initially that three crew members had been saved but later it emerged that only one had been pulled from the water.

Four others were spotted in life jackets but rescuers were unable to find them in the high waves and strong winds, a spokesman told Interfax news agency. Some 200 people were taking part in the search by air and sea, Tass reported.

Russia is currently building a bridge over the Kerch Strait to Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.


residence anymore if Gerstner was going to continue to walk around naked.
¶ 13 When J.F. was spending the night at Gerstner's house during the Thanksgiving holiday, he woke up in the middle of the night with his hand behind him in Gerstner's pants. J.F. removed his hand and decided to sleep on the floor the rest of the night. In the morning, J.F. asked Gerstner how his hand got inside his pants, but Gerstner ignored the situation. Gerstner later admitted he put J.F.'s hand down his pants out of "curiosity." J.F. did not know what, if anything, his hand touched when it was in Gerstner's pants.
¶ 14 After a trial in April 2008, a jury found Gerstner guilty of sexually assaulting both L.L. and J.F., in violation ofthere was no evidence in the record to support a finding that he took any actions to cause bodily injury to the boys and no bodily injury occurred. However, the jury could have concluded the physical contact at issue in this case was minimal and did not rise to the level required for sexual assault. Gerstner had a very close relationship with the boys, was very affectionate with them, enjoyed their company, and was sad when they were not around. He was a young man himself, and immature for his age. The jury may have concluded Gerstner's subjecting fifteen-year-old males to inappropriate touching had nothing to do with a desire to humiliate, harass, or degrade the young men, but, nonetheless, was insulting or provoking in nature to these


contends that their morale "has to have deteriorated."

Indeed, he recently was informed by a reliable Polish source that 20 to 25 percent of Poland's armed forces are members of Solidarity, the country's giant independent trade union. Support for Solidarity, which so far has effected a peaceful revolution in the country, is even apparent among the Soviet officer corps, he adds.

It would be impossible to insulate Polish forces from a nation seething with dissent when 185,000 of them are conscripts, experts agree. The men in uniform, says Richard Davies, who served as US ambassador to Poland from 1972 to 1978, are "the sons and nephews and brothers of all the fellows demonstrating. They're very conscious of what's going on."

That support for Solidarity exists in the military appears to beborne out by other experts on Poland.

Tadeusz Szafar, a visiting Polish scholar at Harvard's Russian Research Center, reports that, according to one of his sources, Polish Army counterintelligence was very anxious to weed Solidarity sympathizers out of the Army after last year's big strikes. "I think it might be true," he says. "It makes sense."

According to his contact, moreover, workers at defense plants have been fired for their membership in the union, although dismissals of this kind have been officially blamed on economic stringency, he says.

Solidarity's appeal does not seem to be confined to the regular forces. The country's 350,000-strong citizens' Militia is thinking of joining the union, says Aloysius Mazewski, president of the Chicago- based Polish-American Congress. Mr. Mazewski recently returned from a trip to Poland.

While disaffection


in the ranks of Poland's military machine might ensure that any Russian invasion of the country was met with stiff resistance, it could also have dire strategic implications for Moscow.

"For a Soviet attack on NATO to be effective, participation of the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact forces -- particularly . . . those of Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, and Poland -- would be essential," declared a Congressional Budget Office study last year.

Without their cooperation, Moscow's ability to strike with little or no warning "would be significantly degraded," it observed, "as would the Pact's overall combat capability throughout the 90-day period following mobilization."

Might Poland desert the pact if it had to participate in an attack on the West?

Any member of the East-bloc alliance who felt an assault on NATO rancontrary to its interests "could present problems for the Soviets in combat operation," declared Warsaw Pact experts Dale Herspring and Ivan Volgyes in an article published in "Armed Forces and Society" last year.

"From Moscow's standpoint," they observe, "to be highly reliable in an offensive campaign, the populations of Eastern European countries involved would have to identify their own national interests closely with those of the USSR." And they add: "As recent events in Eastern Europe have shown, under most circumstances, such a development is unlikely."

The authors note that Poland's traditional foes in the West are the Germans. "Assuming that Moscow was able to convince the average Polish soldier that a preemptive attack was necessary in order to stave off a German invasion, the Poles would probably fight gallantly,"


from its 15 divisions (with their 3,600 tanks and 7,500 armored vehicles), Poland can field some 700 combat aircraft and a variety of naval vessels. It has always received the pick of Soviet military equipment, and in the view of some experts its Air Force is the most technically advanced in the Pact -- with the exception of the Soviet Union, that is.

But Poland brings more to the Warsaw Pact than its considerable military might. It also brings its crucial strategic location.

Not only does the country dominate the huge plain that stretches from the English Channel to the Urals, but also it carries vital road and rail links between the Soviet Union and East Germany, where Moscow maintains 19 divisions ( 9 tank and 10 motor rifle) inthe winner to control access to the Soviet Union," declared last year's Congressional Budget Office study.

Besides its strategic importance, Poland also performs something of a cordon sanitairem function for Moscow. Bluntly, it helps keep West Germany at arm's length.

Except for its broad rivers, marshland, and lack of all-weather roads, the western Soviet Union offers little to hinder an invader -- as the Nazis demonstrated when they ripped into the country in 1941. "The Russians are afraid of the [West] Germans," Mr. Mazewski says. "They want a big stretch of land between them."

When considering whether to invade Poland, the Soviet Politburo has no doubt weighed up the strategic perils of letting the country pursue a path of liberalization.

If Moscow intervenes, would the Poles fight?

"The probability of military resistance to


an external threat will increase to the degree to which the country concerned is being invaded by one of its traditional enemies," declare Herspring and Volgyes.

"The Poles continue to be willing to offer determined resistance to invasions from any of their traditional enemies," they assert -- one of which is Russia.

Poles have not forgotten that Stalin invaded their country in 1939 (when Hitler had virtually crushed it) and in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Pact seized a large tract of its eastern territory.

Neither have they forgotten that Soviet executioners shot some 4,000 officers and men of the Polish Army in Katyn forest near Smolensk in 1940 after they surrendered to the Red Army. A further 11,000 officers and men who gave themselves up at the same time never havebeen accounted for.

If Moscow decides to bring the Poles to heel with East German troops (regarding them, as it does, as extremely reliable and superbly trained), Poland's fury would know no bounds, say Western experts. Perhaps no other country -- with the exception of the USSR -- suffered so grievously under Nazi rule as did Poland in World War II.

The 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia (carried out by Soviet, East German, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Polish forces) showed that Pact members were not averse to interfering with another member's internal affairs, as Eastern European military authority A. Ross Johnson pointed out in a 1976 paper. But it did not indicate, he stressed, that they could "contribute effectively to military operations against one of their number."

The Polish forces that took part


degeneration on the motion were similar between genders. Facet joint osteoarthritis also affected segmental motion, and the influence differed for male and female spines. Further studies are needed to clarify whether the degenerative process of facet joint osteoarthritis differs between genders and how facet joint osteoarthritis affects the stability of the spinal motion segment.to two consecutive terms *142 of eleven and one-half to twenty-three months imprisonment, followed by a consecutive term of twenty-four months probation. The factual background of the case is as follows.
At approximately 2:00 p.m. on March 5, 1988, appellant brandished a gun and approached an individual, William Davis, along a street in Philadelphia and stated that he was going to kill him. Appellant fired three shots, one of which was aimed towards Davis, and then fled from the scene. Testimony regarding this incident came from both Davis and an eleven year old stepgrandaughter of Davis who was across the street at the time of the incident.
Appellant testified on his own behalf and asserted an alibi, claiming that he was visiting at the residence of his niece from approximately