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A month after moving into the White House, Betty Ford was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy. She became an advocate for breast cancer research and early detection.

Asked about her illness, she said, "I'm very glad that I brought cancer to the forefront."

She was also outspoken on women's rights issues. She supported the equal rights amendment and the legalization of abortion.

She became famous for her candor. In an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," she talked about marijuana, equal rights for women, abortion and the possibility of a premarital affair for her daughter, Susan.

Went Public With Addiction Battle

After leaving the White House, Betty Ford publicly acknowledged her addiction to alcohol and painkillers.

"This is not a lack of willpower, this is a disease," she said at thetime.

In 1982, she co-founded the Betty Ford Center in California. Her candor in talking about and dealing with substance abuse and treatment helped led to an improvement in how Americans talk about such matters.

Helping others overcome addiction became her chief cause.

"I'm not out to rescue anybody who doesn't want to be rescued," she once said. "I just think it's important to say how easy it is to slip into a dependency on pills or alcohol, and how hard it is to admit that dependency."

By not being the "political wife" of self-sacrificing legend, she both reflected and advanced public views about women in politics.

"In the end, simply by being herself, she made it easier for millions of American women to be themselves," Smith told ABC News.

ABC News' David Reiter


grew, so did the participants. In May 2002, New York and Ohio joined Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and Virginia to create Mega Millions! Sales for the country's newest multi-state jackpot game began on May 15, 2002, and the first drawing was May 17, 2002. It didn't take long for players in other states to join the mega fun! By September 2002, Washington had joined Mega Millions and in December 2003, Texas began offering the game to its players. In June 2005, California became the 12th member, solidifying Mega Millions as the country's most widely played multi-state jackpot game. On January 31, 2010, 23 more state lotteries joined Mega Millions as an historic cross-selling agreement between Mega Millions and Powerball went into effect. Today, all Americanon the residents of the targeted cities, towns, and residential communities once completed.’

Dr. Abshi added that the 1 billion SYP out of the needed 4 billion SYP to complete the project was budgeted in the 2019 plan which will cover the cost of the 4th stage extending from Rastan city to the city of Hama.

The water supplies will come from Al-Bassil Damn in Zeeta town and from the top of Orontes River as it enters Syria from Lebanon.

Engineer Sawsan Urabi, head of economic units in the Hama Public Water Company, confirmed that the cities of Hama, Salamiyeh, Rastan, Talbeeseh, and the dozens of residential communities (villages and towns) will feel the positive effects of the project which will put an end to the drought problem in this area,


failed to consider in its
savings estimate the cost of packing, shipping and storing, the report
said.

"There are parks on the list where short-term savings will exceed the
cost of packing them up," Lia Moore, author of the report, told the
Associated Press.

According to the LAO report there are a number of cost-saving and
revenue generating ideas that the parks department has not implemented,
despite years of declining budgets, that could have helped keep more
parks from closing.

Some
of the ideas include charging entrance fees rather than parking fees to
deter visitors from leaving cars along roadways outside of parks and
hiking in to avoid paying. The analyst estimated that if just one in
eight people who visit parks paid to enter the state could reap "in the
low tens of millions of dollars annually."

"The argument is you limit accessMineral Museum Association is
working ... to keep it open and keep it there in Mariposa," said Kent
Gresham, the park's sector superintendent. "If that doesn't work out,
then as of July 1 we're going to have to pack up and relocate the
collection."

The minerals museum alone is home to more than 13,000 artifacts that
would cost more than $100,000 to pack and ship to storage, Gresham said.

The Shasta historical park houses another 23,000 items, including
more than 100 early 1900s urban and landscape paintings by famous
California artists such as Jules Pages, Maynard Dixon and Thaddeus Welch
collected and donated by the late suffragette and arts patron Mae
Helene Bacon Boggs.

"If she were alive this wouldn't be happening," said the park's sector superintendent Heidi Horvitz. "She was a real dynamo."

At nearby Weaverville Joss House State Historic


Trent Reznor has returned in bloody, fiery form with "The Space in Between", the first video from How to Destroy Angels, his new collaboration with his wife, former West Indian Girl frontwoman Mariqueen Maandig. Watch it below or over at Pitchfork.tv.

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Soon I set forth on yet another journey that leads me to a part of this country that I have never seen, or more importantly, heard. I am off to the PNW. Astoria and the Oregon coast to be exact.

Lewis and Clark National Historic Site has asked that I travel to their park with my recording equipment in tow. My goal? To recreate the natural and cultural sounds that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered during the culmination of their famous journey westward in the 19th century.

It is a huge honor that the park considered me for the job, one they take very seriously. And I do so for two main reasons.

The first is that I truly believe these recordings have the power to further aid


appellant was appointed Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Nippon Yusen Kaisya, a bankrupt Japanese Corporation, (hereafter called NYK) which prior to World War II had been engaged in ship transportation throughout the world. In 1943, and following summary proceedings before a Referee in bankruptcy (which proceedings were abandoned because of doubt as to whether the fund was subject to summary orders) appellant, in his capacity as Trustee in Bankruptcy, brought an action in equity in the lower court in which he prayed, inter alia, for a decree declaring that the funds in the Yoshio Muto "special account" referred to in the lower court's opinion are the property of NYK, the bankrupt; directing that they be placed in possession of appellant as such Trustee for the benefitof the Trading with the Enemy Act, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1 et seq. This Executive Order prohibited all financial transactions between any banking institution in the United States and Japan, or any national thereof, unless licensed by the Treasury Department through an office of the Federal Reverse Bank. It was stipulated between the parties that the opening of the bank account which is here involved, and all transactions pursuant thereto, were subject to the Freezing Order.

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As a result of the Freezing Order NYK suspended the operation of its ships and services in the United States.

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Prior to October 14, 1941, NYK had owned and operated the steamship vessel Tatuta Maru, and on that date the Imperial Government of Japan formally requisitioned this vessel, the order of requisition reciting generally


that the taking of the vessel was with the view of transporting passengers and mail between Japan and the United States, via Honolulu. The fact of the requisitioning of the vessel was made public in the United States; employees of NYK were appointed to the personnel of the Ministry of Communications of the Government of Japan and engaged in the operation of the vessel.

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On October 17, 1941 the Japanese Government gave a written power of attorney to NYK to operate the ship as the attorney in fact for that Government. Thereafter NYK made written application to the United States Treasury Department for a license to handle the requisitioned ship in the port of San Francisco where it was due to arrive about October 30, 1941. The operation herenoted was to be executed as authorized by the power of attorney executed by Muto, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco.

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NYK stated in its application to the Treasury Department that "all receipts and disbursements incident to this operation are independent and bear no connection with the Nippon Yusen Kaisya funds." The statements in the NYK application were made under oath of an officer of that company.

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At the conclusion of the trial the lower court made elaborate findings of fact in which, among other matters, it found generally that the Japanese Government had made written verified application to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to authorize the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., San Francisco to receive a remittance of the sum of $39,000, from the Japanese


Government for deposit to its credit in the United States in an account to be maintained in the name of Consul General Yoshio Muto, Special Account; that in said application the Japanese Government admitted under oath that no one other than the Japanese Government had any [any] interest whatsoever, direct or indirect, in the said $39,000 and upon this basis the Secretary of the Treasury issued a license authorizing the said Japanese Consul to receive said remittance of money belonging solely to the Japanese Government; that subsequently said Japanese Government made further written application to the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize the said Consul General to receive the sum of approximately $68,000 estimated as the income to result from the operation of the steamship Tatuta Maru andapplication for any license authorizing such transactions as transactions involving funds in which NYK had an interest was ever made to the Secretary of the Treasury; that no license for such transactions, as transactions involving funds in which NYK had an interest was ever granted by the Secretary of the Treasury; that on October 14, 1941 the Imperial Government of Japan requisitioned the said steamship Tatuta Maru by its official requisition No. EN No. 2044, and by virtue of said requisition became the owner of said vessel, and operated said steamship vessel from October 14, 1941 to and including December 7, 1941 for the purpose of returning Japanese nationals located in the United States to Japan; that any and all services performed by said NYK concerning the operation


of said steamship vessel from the period of October 14, 1941 to and including December 7, 1941 was as an agent on behalf of the Imperial Government of Japan; that on November 21, 1941 said NYK was paid the sum of $4,771.58 by the Imperial Government of Japan for all services rendered by NYK as agents for the Government of Japan in the operation of said vessel by the Government of Japan for the period from October 14, 1941 to and including November 21, 1941; that at no time did the San Francisco office of The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd. have any knowledge of, or any reason to believe that NYK had, or claimed to have, any interest whatsoever in the funds of said account; that the JapaneseGovernment was at all times during the period of the aforesaid transactions the sole, legal and beneficial owner of the funds of said account; that the balance of said account (here involved) was never at any time held by the said Yoshio Muto in trust for, or on behalf of, NYK; that NYK never had any beneficial interest in, or ownership of the said balance of said account; that by Vesting Order No. 256 dated October 27, 1942, as amended by Amendment to Vesting Order No. 256, dated September 7, 1942, the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, acting under authority granted by the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, seized all interests of said Yoshio Muto or the Japanese Government or the Imperial Government of


the said Consul General of Japan and the said Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., entered into a plan and conspiracy to have the said Tatuta Maru declared as requisitioned by the Japanese Government.

10
Upon these and other pertinent findings the court entered conclusions of law in which, among other matters, it recited that until the effective date of Vesting Order No. 256, dated October 27, 1942, as amended by Amendment to Vesting Order No. 256, dated September 2, 1942, the Japanese Government was the sole owner of the entire legal and beneficial interest in the balance of $66,882.15 on deposit in the said bank account maintained in the name of Yoshio Muto, Consul General of Japan, Special Account; that NYK at no time had any interest, legal or equitable, insaid account; that no part of said sum in said bank account ever became part of the assets of the estate of the bankrupt, and that the plaintiff herein never acquired any interest, legal or equitable, in said funds; that if NYK had any interest, direct or indirect, in the funds in said account, the lack of an authorization by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States authorizing the transfer of banking credits from a banking institution in Japan to a banking institution in the United States and the payment of monies into said account for the benefit of NYK, as required by Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940, as amended by Executive Order No. 8832 of July 26, 1941, 12 U.S.C.A. § 95a


facts as they were found by the court. The receipts here involved which make up the funds in dispute came into existence not as a result of NYK furnishing the consideration; they owe their existence to the fact that the Japanese Government stepped into the whole picture as a sovereign power and gave formal assurance to the United States Government that it was exercising official governmental control over every transaction here involved, a fact which we think has controlling legal force and effect.

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And to this must be added the important fact that no application for any license authorizing such transactions (as transactions involving funds in which NYK had an interest) was ever made to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and no license for suchtransactions (as transactions involving funds in which NYK had an interest) was ever granted by the said Secretary. Certainly no federal court can now sanction an undisclosed proceeding in 1941 which left the Government of the United States in complete ignorance of important facts upon which solemn commitments had to be made during the 1941 period of great world tension. If the funds were really the funds of NYK the United States Government was never made aware of that fact despite the fact that the law called for that sort of a disclosure.

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The essential fact is that the Japanese Government made a requisition and made a certain agreement with the United States and the United States had a right to rely upon such a formal commitment. Whether the


Key Islamic State official killed in Syria, group says (Los Angeles Times)

Lone wolves and Islamic State’s most lethally trained operatives alike heeded his words -- and turned them into bloody deeds.

Abu Muhammad Adnani, whose death was announced Tuesday by the extremist group, was a chief architect of its war against the West. He exhorted European-born fighters to commit attacks on home ground rather than joining the fight in Syria and Iraq – and pointed the way for those with no ties to the group to embrace “martyrdom” on its behalf.

Adnani was killed while overseeing Islamic State field operations in northern Syria, the group said. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook confirmed late Tuesday that Adnani was targeted in an airstrike in Al Bab, Syria, but could not confirm his death.

IfInland Regional Center in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015, killing 14 people; the couple had no previous ties to terrorists. Omar Mateen killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12; he pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a phone call to 911, but was not believed to have had any formal contact with the group.

In some instances, the connection has been explicit. In a case last year in New York state, court papers documented online praise for Adnani by a defendant, Arafat Nagi, who was charged with trying to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group.

The significant operations carried out on his watch include the Paris attacks, the Brussels airport attack, the Istanbul airport attack, the downing of the Russian airliner in


the Sinai, the suicide bombings during a rally in Ankara, and the attack on a cafe in Bangladesh. In total, these attacks killed more than 1,800 people and wounded nearly 4,000.

“He’s definitely one of the most senior officials, and probably the most visible,” said Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior editor of the Long War Journal. “To call him a spokesman kind of downplays how important he was.”

Adnani helped orchestrate the group’s attacks against Western targets, and urged fighters with European passports to take advantage of their ability to move about Europe – a crucial component in the Paris attacks in November, in which 130 people died in strikes on a concert hall, a stadium and several nightspots.

Using social mediaand militant-affiliated sites as a platform, he was a font of inflammatory rhetoric, calling on all Muslims to avenge themselves against the U.S.-led coalition formed to confront the group. Speaking in impeccable classical Arabic, Adnani would mock Islamic State’s opponents even when the group suffered defeats on the battlefield.

One of his trademark declarations came in September 2014, when he urged followers to take up arms everywhere, even with the crudest of weapons. In that address, nearly two years before the truck rampage in the French Riviera city of Nice that killed 86 people on July 14, Adnani had specifically urged the use of vehicles in attacks.

“If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian,


in Iraq and Syria. Those killed this year include Omar Shishani, Islamic State’s minister of war; Rahman Mustafa Qaduli, its minister of finance; and Abu Wahib, military emir for Iraq’s Anbar province.

Adnani was born in the northwestern Syrian city of Binnish. In his early years he was repeatedly detained by Syrian authorities for proselytizing and jihadi activities, according to a biography published by Islamic State’s Abu Turki bin Mubarek al-Benali in November 2014.

In 2000, he managed to contact and pledge his allegiance to Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born jihadi leader notorious for savage attacks on Iraq’s Shiite Muslim population, and the spiritual godfather of Islamic State. Adnani would later be among the rare few within Islamic State to have had a personal relationship with Zarqawi.

He was one ofthe first foreign fighters to join the insurgency against the U.S. occupation of Iraq in 2003. Adnani crossed the border and led the takeover of the city of Haditha, reportedly transforming it into an insurgent haven that applied the harsh interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, now applied in areas Islamic State control. He rose from commanding the city to being the top cleric of western Anbar.

According to his biography, he was arrested twice by the coalition, and imprisoned for about six years at the U.S.-maintained Camp Bucca, along with other Zarqawi lieutenants. Many other prisoners there went on to senior positions in Islamic State. During his time there, he managed to hide his prominent role in jihadi circles from his captors by going under a pseudonym.

Upon his


release, he was appointed as spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq, the progenitor of Islamic State. By that time, Syria was already descending into the chaos teetering into the bloodbath that would characterize the dark side of the “Arab Spring” revolutions and provide the safe haven necessary for Islamic State’s resurgence. Adnani was reportedly dispatched to create the Al Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front, the one-time ally-turned-nemesis of Islamic State.

It was Adnani who informed the world in June 2014 that the nascent group had established a “caliphate” led by Abu Bakr Baghdadi, which swiftly seized the world’s attention with brutal tactics – beheadings, crucifixions, sexual slavery and baroque means of torture. In a dramatic video released the same month, Adnani and other Islamic State officials are seen smashingthe border crossing between Syria and Iraq’s Nineveh province.

Islamic State vowed vengeance against those under "the banner of the cross" -- its code for the West.

Adnani's death, it said, would only increase the group's "steadfastness on the path of jihad."


a little more than 12 percent in the past year.)

Procrastinating buyers and sellers assumed that mortgage rates would stay low for a long time, if not indefinitely. As rates rise - though they are still low by historical standards - those who were playing the waiting game likely feel pressure to jump back into the housing market. Buyers will want to hurry to take advantage of still-low mortgage rates before they rise even more. Sellers will seek to benefit from the fairly strong market before higher mortgage rates undercut housing once again. It is not unreasonable to expect the housing market to pick up in many areas, at least for the immediate future.

At the same time, bond prices have fallen sharply since interest rates began to rise. Theyimmutability mantra

Authors: Ben Vickers

Keywords: Systems, Socialism, Etherium, Markets, Failure

First 100 words: All of our technological systems are haunted by the imprint of dreams and nightmares now lost in time. The reckless drive of human civilizations to continually innovate – from deep time to the present – has led to the invention of the strange and the miraculous, be it the seamless astrotheological mathematics that constitute ancient Egypt's Mirror of Heaven; the rumblings of immortality in the early-twentieth-century Russian philosophy known as Cosmism, which became the catalyst for space exploration; or Chile's Project Cybersyn in the 1970s: an advanced cybernetic system capable of automating away government. Hybrid socio-technical systems such as these, capable of…


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Hildegard von Bingen 1098 - 17 September 1179 - Hace 832 Años

Visionary, Composer, WriterBorn in Bemersheim (Böckelheim), West Franconia (now Germany), she was the tenth child of a well-to-do family. She'd had visions connected with illness (perhaps migraines) from a young age, and in 1106 her parents sent her to a 400-year-old Benedictine monastery which had only recently added a section for women. They put her under the care of a noblewoman and resident there, Jutta, calling Hildegard the family's "tithe" to God. Jutta, whom Hildegard later referred to as an "unlearned woman," taught Hildegard to read and to write. Jutta became the abbess of the convent, which attracted other young women of noble background. In that time, convents were often places of learning,a welcome home to women who had intellectual gifts. Hildegard, as was true of many other women in convents at the time, learned Latin, read the scriptures, and had access to many other books of religious and philosophical nature. Those who have traced the influence of ideas in her writings find that Hildegard must have read quite extensively. Part of the Benedictine rule required study, and Hildegard clearly availed herself of the opportunities.When Jutta died in 1136, Hildegard was elected unanimously as the new abbess. Rather than continue as part of a double house -- a monastery with units for men and for women -- Hildegard in 1148 decided to move the convent to Rupertsberg, where it was on its own, not directly under the supervision of a


male house. This gave Hildegard considerable freedom as an administrator, and she traveled frequently in Germany and France. She claimed that she was following God's order in making the move, firmly opposing her abbot's opposition. Literally firmly: she assumed a rigid position, lying like a rock, until he gave his permission for the move. The move was completed in 1150.The Rupertsberg convent grew to as many as 50 women, and became a popular burial site for the wealthy of the area. The women who joined the convent were of wealthy backgrounds, and the convent did not discourage them from maintaining something of their lifestyle. Hildegard of Bingen withstood criticism of this practice, claiming that wearing jewelry to worship God was honoring God, not practicing selfishness. Part of theBenedictine rule is labor, and Hildegard spent early years in nursing, and at Rupertsberg in illustrating ("illuminating") manuscripts. She hid her early visions; only after she was elected abbess did she receive a vision which she said clarified her knowledge of "the psaltery..., the evangelists and the volumes of the Old and New Testament." Still showing much self-doubt, she began to write and to share her visions.Hildegard of Bingen lived at a time when, within the Benedictine movement, there was stress on the inner experience, personal meditation, an immediate relationship with God, and visions. It was also a time in Germany of striving between papal authority and the authority of the German (Holy Roman) emperor, and by a papal schism.Hildegard of Bingen, through her many letters, took to


task both the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the archbishop of Main. She wrote to such luminaries as King Henry II of England and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. She also corresponded with many individuals of low and high estate who wanted her advice or prayers.Richardis or Ricardis von Stade, one of the convent's nuns who was a personal assistant to Hildegard of Bingen, was a special favorite of Hildegard. Richardis' brother was an archbishop, and he arranged for his sister to head another convent. Hildegard tried to persuade Richardis to stay, and wrote insulting letters to the brother and even wrote to the Pope hoping to stop the move. But Richardis left, and died after she decided to return to Rupertsberg but before she could do so.Afinal famous incident happened near the end of Hildegard's life, when she was in her eighties. She allowed a nobleman who had been excommunicated to be buried at the convent, seeing that he had last rites. She claimed she'd received word from God allowing the burial. But her ecclesiastical superiors intervened, and ordered the body exhumed. Hildegard defied the authorities by hiding the grave, and the authorities excommunicated the entire convent community. Most insultingly to Hildegard, the interdict prohibited the community from singing. She complied with the interdict, avoiding singing and communion, but did not comply with the command to exhume the corpse. Hildegard appealed the decision to yet higher church authorities, and finally had the interdict lifted.

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In commemoration of Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 5, Apple on Thursday posted to its YouTube channel a special "Shot on iPhone" short film created by renowned director and screenwriter Jia Zhangke.

Titled "The Bucket," Jia's film uses footage pulled from iPhone XS to tell the tale of a son traveling from his rural hometown to an apartment in the city, riding on bikes, ferries and buses while carrying precious cargo from his mother.

"What gifts would your parents prepare when your Chinese New Year visit comes to an end?" Apple asks in the video's description.

Like last year's film, "Three Minutes," the short by Jia highlights the close family bonds and familial responsibilities that stand at the center of Chinese culture.

Apple also posted two behind-the-scenes featurettes detailing howVidya lonely & waiting for Love

With two bumper hits in her kitty Vidya Balan's career is going great guns. Lots of commercial successes. Plenty to smile about. "I was very happy about all my five releases in 2007, though some of them didn't do well.

From the very start when Dada (Pradeep Sarkar) showed so much faith in me by giving me Parineeta the industry has made a substantial space for me. By the grace of God, there're lots of interesting roles happening.

I'm in the process of signing some more. Since I came to cinema my criteria for signing a role remains unchanged. I've never been in a hurry to get anywhere.

She ponders for a few seconds as kids approach her for her autograph at the airport. Then she


Malayalam."

This year Vidya was supposed to do another film with Priyan. "But there's a problem with the leading man. I'd love to work with Priyan again. I've been fortunate in the fact that directors have signed me more than once."

So is she doing her Heyy Babby director Sajid Khan's film? "There's been no formal talk on this. Sajid hasn't offered me the role. I've been reading reports that I'm doing the film.

Right now he's writing his next film…I'm lucky to be a part of the movie industry when leading ladies are no longer decorative. It's providential that I started with Parineeta."

She gets sentimental about Pradeep Sarkar. "Staying away from his second film Laga Chunari Mein Daag was unbearable for me. I want to be part of his nextYesterday, the Observer printed an interview with Omer Tsimhoni, the Michigan father whose bitter custody battle with ex-wife Maya Tsimhoni led to their three children—Liam, Roee, and Natalie, 14, 10 and 9—being placed in state facilities. The essence of the story is that the Tsimhonis split in 2008 and had joint custody of the kids with Ms. Tsimhoni having physical custody of them and Mr. Tsimhonis allowed visits, sometimes supervised, sometimes unsupervised.

After several rounds of acrimonious legal battles, Oakland County Family Court Judge Lisa Gorcyca concluded that their mother had once again failed to live up to the terms of the couple’s shared custody arrangement. Two weeks ago she ordered the children into two different juvenile facilities.

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Ontario Recreational Marijuana To Be Sold In 150 Stores Limited supply for a product in such high use already will only lead marijuana users to buy from their existing underground suppliers. The Liberals' law-and-order rhetoric, while satisfying conservatives who did not want marijuana legalized in the first place, will only escalate the failed war on weed. The Wynne Liberals seem to have forgotten why marijuana was legalized in the first place — ending the wasteful and ineffective war on a plant that is commonly used; shutting down the illegal market; and stopping the criminalizationand effective date of § 9545(b) . . . thereby making it relatively easy for [Holland] to amend his petition within the statutory restrictions." Id. at 724-25. Thus, the District Court found that Holland "had adequate opportunity to include his claims in his . . . petition for state collateral relief." Id. at 725.
The parties continue to disagree as to when Holland procedurally defaulted his opportunity to bring his Ake claim in the state courts  Holland contending that the date was August 15, 1989, one year after his conviction became final when the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari on his direct appeal from his convictions, thus implicitly taking the position that he had to assert the claim in a second PCRA petition, and respondents


Instead, he successfully sought to have the petition dismissed. Nevertheless, we held that Bronshtein's habeas corpus petition was not barred on an independent and adequate state ground even though it should have been evident to Bronshtein after the Supreme Court decided Albrecht and Peterkin that by seeking the dismissal of the December 3, 1997 petition, in light of those two cases and section 9545(b)(1) he was risking losing his opportunity to bring timely claims at the time when state law compelled him to bring them.

It is the circumstance that the December 3, 1997 PCRA petition likely could have been amended after the Supreme Court decided Albrecht on November 23, 1998, and Peterkin on December 21, 1998, before the PCRA court dismissed the petition on January 26, 1999, toKate Likhacheva, Vice President Quality Management

Kate started her journey with DC BARS as an intern in 2002 when she was an undergraduate of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Until becoming a DC BARS employee in 2005, Kate had been sharing her effort between quality engineer tasks here and another job at a biomedical technology company. Her decision in favor of quality management was guided by growing eagerness to discover the big picture of “how it all works”.Quickly stepped up to a totally deserved position of Senior Quality Engineer, she has played a significant role in our first ISO 9001:2000/AS9100B certifications.

Kate was appointed Vice President Quality Management in 2015, has navigated the company through an AS9100C oversight audit, and continues her work on ensuring sustained quality management system and process


he would be what he has always been, a good teammate, and continue to prepare to help this team win games. Daniel understands the challenge at hand, and he will be ready to play on Sunday.”

The 38-year-old Manning is in the final year of his four-year, $84 million contract. He also has a no-trade clause. His salary cap hit this season is $23.2 million.

The Giants acquired Manning in 2004 NFL Draft day trade with the then-San Diego Chargers. Manning, the No. 1 overall pick in that draft, refused to play for the Chargers and forced a trade to New York.

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Manning became the Giants’ starter in his first season. He replaced Kurt Warner nine games into thewith the hopes of having the program up and running for the Fall 2020 semester.

Yavapai College has six locations in Yavapai County, including campuses in Prescott and Clarkdale, and centers in Chino Valley, Sedona, Prescott Valley, and near the Prescott Airport. To learn more about the college, visit www.yc.edu.


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Just over a year ago, two days before the start of a new season, Tom Poynton was one of county cricket's bright young prospects.

And then, in one fatal instant, the lights went out.

The Derbyshire wicketkeeper was in the passenger seat of a Ferrari Spider when his dad, Keith, lost control and crashed into a tree. Keith, 57, died instantly, while Tom suffered serious leg injuries.

Overnight, the then 24-year-old had to face up to not only the loss of a parent but also the real possibility he might never have been able to play cricket again.

"I can't even think about the period of time after the crash," Poynton, a former England Under-19 international, tells BBC Sport. "It's a very surreal experience when you go through


a tragedy and trauma to that extent.

"It's a little bit dreamy and then you realise the repercussions and significance of what has happened thereafter. You've got to live with that forever.

"The most difficult time is when you have no stimulus around you and you are alone with your own thoughts, lying there in bed with the darkness.

Tom Poynton with mum Sheena and late father Keith after he had scored his maiden first-class century at Northampton in 2012

"You never get over it but you find a way to cope with it. I just don't believe in being anything other than an optimist."

Poynton's positive outlook has been central to a physical and emotional rehabilitation that has taken him back into the Derbyshire first-team squad for the start of the 2015season and created the possibility of a career beyond his playing days.

As messages of sympathy flooded in - former England captain Michael Vaughan and wicketkeeper Matt Prior were among those to offer their condolences - he had surgery to repair his shattered ankle and stimulate the growth of new cartilage.

But while many, understandably, would have been engulfed by grief and self-pity, Poynton launched himself into community projects with Derbyshire.

He was given a role in the club's commercial and marketing department and put in charge of fostering better relations with Derby's cricket-mad south-Asian population.

Poynton scored 443 runs for Derbyshire in the 2013 championship season

He also bought a stake in a start-up food business, worked as sponsorship liaison manager with Briggs of Burton - the company where his father was


into his father's death external-link was bringing the tragedy back into sharp focus, he was awarded a personal development scholarship by the Professional Cricketers' Association in recognition of his efforts to gain skills that would help him in life after cricket.

Tom Poynton's career 2007: Makes T20, List A and first-class debuts as a 17-year-old 2008: Selected for England's Elite Player Programme 2009: Tours South Africa with England Under-19s 2011: Loses place to returning wicketkeeper Luke Sutton 2012: Establishes himself as first-choice keeper and scores first hundred in a 261-run partnership with Wayne Madsen, only 23 runs short of breaking the world record for the ninth wicket that had stood for 102 years 2013: Full season as first-choice Derbyshire wicketkeeper 2014: Misses entire season following ankle surgery 2015: Awarded#ARTaments were first created by artist, Jennie Traill Schaeffer, for her children after discovering a lack of unique ornaments on their travels. She wanted to give her children an ornament each year to remember special memories. Since then, Jennie has created a line of #ARTaments called "Wheels that Go" featuring stylized Corvette and bicycle wheels. Custom #ARTaments are a special way to cherish a birth, wedding, vacation, new home, pet or other memory.


Chelsea Clinton quits as NBC News reporter

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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 28, 2013, file photo, Chelsea Clinton, from the Clinton Foundation, speaks during an interview at the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Clinton is quitting her job as a reporter at NBC News. Clinton has been working at the network since 2011, sporadically doing feature stories on people or organizations doing public-spirited work. The network announced her exit on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. She was initially hired to do stories for Brian Williams' "Rock Center" newsmagazine, but that program was canceled. Her work occasionally appeared on NBC's "Nightly News." (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Clinton said Friday she is quitting her jobas a reporter at NBC News, citing increased work at the Clinton Foundation and the imminent birth of her first child.

Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's daughter had been working at the network since 2011, sporadically doing feature stories on people or organizations doing public-spirited work. Politico magazine reported earlier this year that NBC was paying her $600,000 a year.

"I loved watching the 'Making a Difference' stories about remarkable people and organizations making a profound difference in our country and our world," Clinton said in a statement posted on her Facebook page. "I am grateful NBC gave me the opportunity to continue this important legacy."

She was initially hired to do stories for Brian Williams' "Rock Center" newsmagazine, but that program was canceled. Her work occasionally appeared on NBC's "Nightly


News."

Two Clinton stories that aired in January were on education programs targeting the underprivileged. She's done stories on a school program for jailed teenagers named after Maya Angelou, an Arkansas tutoring program and a restaurant chain that donates leftover food to the needy. Her story on actor Jeff Bridges' work on childhood hunger aired Aug. 1, and another story about a school lunch program for poor children in New Mexico is scheduled to air this Sunday.

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"Chelsea's storytelling inspired people across the country and showcased the real power we have as individuals to make a difference in our communities," said Alex Wallace, senior vice president at NBC News.

Her exit removes some potential awkwardness for the network if her mother runs for president in 2016. NBC made certain to keepthe RSV season. The secondary objective was to assess disease severity in the two cohorts.

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Yet, they come. They come and stand. They fulfil mundane goals in time that is suspended. In that moment, they bring together the permanence and transience of nature. Bhigwan, year after year, fills me up.


the ground that Paris had not complied with certain conditions precedent to liability on the policy. Paris appealed. The policy in question explicitly provides that an insured may not sue the company unless all terms of the policy have been fully met. Among the terms of the policy are provisions that written notice of any accident must be given "as soon as practicable," and that the "insured shall immediately forward to the Company every demand, notice, summons or other process received by him or his representatives." Written notice of the accident was first given over nine months after the accident occurred. Papers pertinent to the suit brought by Mrs. Horton against Paris were not forwarded to State Farm until almost two months after the suit was brought andguru"

The strand became popular, with Rowlatt reporting on global warming and environment issues across all BBC outlets. Panorama broadcast an Ethical Man special "Go Green or Else". In 2007 Rowlatt presented an hour-long prime-time programme exploring how the United States is engaging with the climate issue for BBC Two's This World, titled "Can Obama Save the Planet?".

Later career
Much of Rowlatt's career has focussed on current affairs and business and economic reporting. He was part of the original reporting team for BBC One's popular prime time factual programme, The One Show, "reporting on current affairs with flair".  He was a relief presenter for BBC Breakfast in 2010 and for BBC Radio 4's PM programme in 2014. During his time as a Newsnight correspondent he caused a minor scandal


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Found in possession of drugs in nine plastic bags – also found in possession of $2350 and $15,000 – offences planned and organised and forBengaluru FC-bound Kean Lewis blasts FC Pune City's Ranko Popovic

Kean Lewis fires shots in a no holds barred interview with GOAL as he retrospects his season with FC Pune City....

In June 2015, when Kean Lewis was still plying his trade with Laredo Heat in the United States of America (USA), his agent coerced him to terminate his contract mid-season, convincing him that were willing to offer him a trial. As Laredo Heat was already out of contention for the play-offs in that season, Lewis managed to make his way out and return to with the hope of donning the blue jersey.

But he landed in Bengaluru only to find out that his agent was duping him all throughout. When Lewis contacted Ashley Westwood, the then coach of Bengaluru, he


was told the Southern Eagles were not looking for a winger and he cannot be offered an immediate trial as the team was yet to start practising for the next season.

"I was annoyed after hearing all this. I left my club mid-season in the States, spent around INR 1 lakh to get back to in three days, only to understand that I have to wait for three more weeks to get a trial as the team would resume practice only in July," said the Mumbai-based winger reminiscing the torrid time he underwent.

He went on to join a few weeks later but Lewis will finally get to walk out on the pitch at the Sree Kanteerava stadium next season as he is all set to feature for the SuperCup champions in the 5th edition of the (ISL), having agreed to a one-year deal.

The Tata Football Academy (TFA) product is coming off a dismal domestic season which was marred by an injury and later a tussle with management and coach Ranko Popovic. It also meant he was sidelined from the starting XI for the rest of the season. He made only seven appearances, clocking a mere 207 minutes in which he could not even register a shot on target.

"There are a lot of things responsible for my dip in performance since I joined Pune. I got injured and it took a really long time to get to a conclusive decision with the Pune medical staff. It took around a month to find the correct rehabilitation method and


I missed a crucial part of the pre-season where the team was gelling.

"So Popovic started getting annoyed as there was no fixed date of my return and it took a long time to correctly diagnose my injury. It is one of the reasons. When the games began, we had a shaky start to the tournament. For some reason, he started blaming me for the losses. And the weird part was he never picked on anybody else," Lewis opened up.

"If we closely analyse, we find that in the first game, other players made mistakes and we lost the tie. Even the goal that we conceded against , he didn't blame the player who was marking Henrique Sereno but blamed me saying that if I had moved quicker, I wouldhave got to the ball first," rued Lewis.

The Serbian tactician had openly criticised the winger in the post-match press conference after losing 3-1 to Bengaluru FC saying, "Kean today did nothing for our team. We are losing as a team but he has to think and to do a little bit more."

It was rumoured that the 25-year-old had an opportunity to try his luck elsewhere as and were interested in him during the January transfer window. Surprisingly, the team management did not allow Lewis to leave even when he was not part of the coach's plans.

"It is very frustrating for a player to sit on the bench. You want to play every minute. But there were some other players as well who were bench-warmers even after performing well


Soprano Michela Macfarlane delights in moving fluidly between genres, from medieval chansons to baroque and jazz standards to pop and new music. Her voice most recently has been described as "the closest thing to heaven you might hear while you’re down on planet earth.” She sings regularly with Musae, her band Cantamos, and in various projects with Jesse Rodin and Cut Circle in the San Francisco Bay Area, including one pairing music with an exquisite medieval feast. Michela is trained in the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education, teaches children ukulele, and volunteers countless hours at her boys’ public school.

Soprano Mara Bonde has thrilled audiences in diverse venues throughout the United States and Europe with her electric stage presence and musical artistry. Her voice has been described as having"sweet purity of tone" (Boston Herald) and "ravishing" (The Boston Globe). Equally at home in both classical and popular styles, Mara is no stranger to the world of symphony pops. She has been the guest artist for "Holiday Pops" concerts with the Boston Pops, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Naples Philharmonic, and with the Baton Rouge, Lansing, New Haven, Syracuse, and Charlotte Symphony Orchestras. Other orchestral engagements have taken her to the South Florida, Utah, San Diego, Stamford, Ridgefield, Waterbury, Cape, Cape Ann, and Nashua Symphony Orchestras, the Handel & Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque. Mara also performs with Boston Musical Theater (specializing in the "Great American Songbook") and has toured with the ensemble to South Korea, Russia and Belgium. A very special recording project is "Sound Spectrum" (Navona


Records) featuring Mara collaborating with her father, composer and pianist Allen Bonde. Mara was a National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (first place winner Rocky Mountain Region) and the first prize winner in the Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Awards. She has also received finalist awards from the Liederkranz Foundation, the Oratorio Society of New York, Connecticut Opera Guild, and the Jensen Foundation. Later this season Mara returns to Boston Lyric Opera for their spring production of Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti". This program marks her debut with Florestan Recital Project.

Brian McCreath is the Executive Producer of WCRB’s Boston Symphony Orchestra and weekly In Concert series of broadcasts. He also produces and hosts both The Bach Hour and The Answered Question (an interview podcast), and supervises digitalcontent production for classicalwcrb.org. He came to WGBH from a diverse background in music. With degrees in trumpet performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and The College of Wooster, he spent several years as a musician, including two years with the Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico and five years as Principal Trumpet of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. Ideas about the business of music, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit, led him into artist management in 2000, and radio wasn’t far behind. He worked on the production team for the talk shows of Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network in Milwaukee before moving to Boston in 2001. Three years later he joined the classical music production staff of WGBH. Since then, in addition to those noted previously,


Image caption Lloyd Schofield described the ancient Jewish and Muslim rite as "forced genital cutting"

A San Francisco judge has struck a proposed male circumcision ban from a November ballot, ruling that the city cannot regulate medical procedure and citing religious freedom protections.

The ruling was applauded by opponents of the proposed ban, who attacked it as anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim.

In May, advocates of a ban gathered enough voter signatures to put the measure on the city's ballot.

They described the sacred rite for Jews and Muslims as "genital mutilation".

The measure, which qualified in May for a spot on the ballot, would have made circumcision of a minor boy punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 (£612) fine.

The US federal government already bans female circumcision.

Jewish and Muslim groupsgovernment and describe AU troops as “Christian enemies”. The Islamist group also wants to impose its own strict version of sharia law in the country.

The raid showed al Shabaab’s ability to carry out high-profile attacks in the capital even as it is losing territory in rural areas to AU peacekeepers who have launched two major offensives this year.

“The terrorists, some of whom were disguised in Somali National Army uniforms, breached the base camp around lunch hour and attempted to gain access to critical infrastructure, during which five of them were killed and three others captured,” the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia, AMISOM, said in a statement.

It did not disclose the nationalities of the peacekeepers and civilian contractor killed in the attack.

The AU’s Halane base is on the edge


of the Mogadishu international airport compound, which houses the base for U.N. operations in Somalia as well as the British and Italian embassies and has a tight security cordon and blast walls.

Western diplomats who were celebrating Christmas in the sweltering Mogadishu heat were evacuated to safety bunkers until the raid was over.

Aleem Siddique, spokesman for the United Nations in Somalia, said all U.N. staff were safe and accounted for.

Al Shabaab was pushed out of Mogadishu in 2011 but it still controls chunks of the countryside in south and central Somalia. This year it has lost several key towns, including the port city of Barawe, during the two AMISOM offensives.

(REUTERS)

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To evaluate the impact of national multifaceted initiatives to improve use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) on the use of PPIs among older Australians. Interrupted time series analysis using administrative health claims data from the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA). Australia. All veterans and dependents who received PPIs between January 2003 and December 2013. National, multifaceted interventions to improve PPI use were conducted by the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs Veterans' MATES programme and Australia's NPS MedicineWise in April 2004, June 2006, May 2009 and August 2012. Trends in monthly rate of use of any PPI among the veteran population, and the monthly rate of use of low


Kaiparathina boucheti

Kaiparathina boucheti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Caledonia.

References

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Damphousse, March 2008: According to a recent study funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), two of the most popular VSA programs in use by police departments across the country are no better than flipping a coin when it comes to detecting deception regarding recent drug use.

A review of the software by two Swedish linguists, Anders Eriksson and Francisco Lacerda — in a 2007 article in the International Journal of Speech Language and the Law — was even more damning in its assessment of LVA.

Eriksson and Lacerda, 2007: Indeed, our review of scientific studies will show that these machines perform at chance level when tested for reliability. Given such results and the absence of scientific support


July 2005, he committed suicide in Sweden after a car chase with Swedish undercover police.

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After Bach's death, Gerhard Cok sued Ole Christian Bach's lawyer Ronny Mulstad for his role in securing Cok's loan to Bach. The dispute was settled outside court.

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Category:Prisoners and detainees of NorwaySchultz, at the Barnes & Noble where a man called him an “egotistical billionaire asshole.” Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

On Sunday, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he may run as an independent in 2020, a move that was derided on the left as a politically clueless maneuver that could split the vote of billionaire-affectionate centrists away from Democrats and place Trump in the White House for another term. Apparently, the president is on the same page.

At a fundraiser at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. on Monday night, the president reportedly told the crowd that he was trying to coax Schultz into the 2020 race with a tweet from earlier in the day. (Trump’s message was that “Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President …


Mike & Mike react to Eagles QB Carson Wentz having the top-selling jersey in the NFL, as well as President Barack Obama being advised by Joe Biden to get on the Wentz bandwagon. (2:03)

PHILADELPHIA -- There were some Carson Wentz shirts and jerseys sprinkled throughout Lincoln Financial Field Sunday for the Philadelphia Eagles home opener against the Cleveland Browns, but most of the fans donning green sported throwbacks, from No. 5 (Donovan McNabb) to No. 20 (Brian Dawkins) to No. 7 (Michael Vick).

Expect to see plenty more of No. 11 soon.

Rookie Carson Wentz's jersey sales are leading the NFL after his two-touchdown effort in Sunday's win over the Browns. Photo by Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire

According to Fanatics, which runs NFL Shop (the league's official merchandise website) and powers over300 stores for all the major sports leagues, Wentz's jersey has been the top seller across the company's platform of e-commerce sites since this weekend, thanks in large part to a 278-yard, two-touchdown performance against Cleveland.

Wentz was the top-selling Eagles player during the offseason as well, according to Fanatics.

The rookie's debut has created buzz both locally and nationally. Beyond Philadelphia, the top markets for Wentz merchandise are New York, Washington, Baltimore and Los Angeles.

Here is a look at the top-selling NFL players for Fanatics since Sunday:

1. Carson Wentz

2. Odell Beckham Jr.

3. Tom Brady

4. Dak Prescott

5. Antonio Brown

Prescott, another rookie signal-caller, followed up a strong preseason with a 25-for-45, 227-yard outing for the Cowboys in their opening-day loss to the New York Giants. Beckham led all receivers in that


game with 73 yards on four catches. Brown is coming off a huge game against the Washington Redskins in which he caught eight balls for 126 yards and two touchdowns in a Pittsburgh Steelers win on Monday Night Football.

Brady is suspended for the first four games of the season.

No jersey is hotter than Wentz's at the moment. Following the win over the Browns on Sunday, he was asked if he was ready for the type of reaction his performance was sure to bring.

"I mean, we'll see what happens," he said. "Obviously, it's kind of all part of it. At the end of the day for me, it's still just about playing football. I've got to block out the noise -- both good and bad -- and just getignorance to which its representatives have condemned it….

The city, as the meeting place of diverse populations, serves as a source of cultural, economic, and educational enrichment. On the other side of the scale, the village dwellings are fragmented and scattered, founded upon tribal and clan identities which suffocate the citizen, the individual, and which offer no means for social development or opportunities for making a living, for cultural or educational experience…

The urban structure lets people meet one another, multiplies opportunities, enriches the horizons of each and every one in the family or tribe as in the wider society. Thus, in our view, the present plan is but another attempt to prevent this impoverished population from making progress…

It also prevents the Palestinian woman from liberating herself from the cycle


system in the area of the Hasan Shinran family in the western part of Susya.

The western part, inhabited mostly by families of the Shinran clan is in Area B (where construction is authorized mostly by the Palestinian Authority). The new bio-gas system is constructed in this part of Susya, and is relatively safe. Unlike its predecessors, this system is meant to supply not only gas for family needs, but also for winter heating of the local schoolhouse – is also under threat of demolition by the “civil administration”, who claims it lies about 150 meters inside Area C.

According to plan, as soon as the bio-gas system itself will be completed, the second phase will begin, whereby two green-houses will be created at this site: one for educational purposes,in the area of the school. The schoolchildren of Susya will cultivate this greehouse under guidance from Arava Institute instructors. Thus they will learn to apply ecological principles in farming. The second green-house will be built in the Hasan Shinran compound, and to grow vegetables for both local consumption and marketing. Crops of both planned green-houses will be fertilized by compost produced from the surplus production processes of the gas system.

In conclusion, to the best of our understanding, when the heart listens, other hearts are heard, and fertile cooperation ensues. Even if the demolishing hand carries out its threats, the hearts will go on beating. Hearts are not to be demolished.

On Sunday November 14 2010, around 12 noon, smoke was seen rising from the olive orchards on the


informs us on the minibus on the way down. Apparently as a result of continuous pressure by Ta’ayush activists on the ground, backed up by our lawyers, the army and the occupation bureaucrats have moved toward recognizing that Palestinian farmers and shepherds in south Hebron do have some rights—an almost unimaginable thought under the standard conditions of the occupation. The new Brigade Commander in the area is said to be reevaluating army policy in the area to ensure Palestinian access to fields and wells.

There was a flurry of phone calls and faxes between our people and the officer in charge of land rights and the custodian of what are called “state lands” (miri), that is, lands not registered in the name of private individuals or families (much ofdepression, and built a very basic green house. With simple tools and techniques he succeeded to surprise us with excellent organic vegetables.

The vegetables are an essential addition to the family’s poor diet, based mainly on dairy products from the herd which is their main source of making a living. And while both herding and growing grains is restricted by the settlers/army, green-housing is a brilliant solution for growing food which does not require much land.

One day Mahmud discovered a vegetable disease on the leaves of his tomatoes. We could not help with the disease, but by suggested to finance for him an agricultural course. When he returned from his two months’ course at al-Arroub College north of Hebron, he also built a beehive.

Then, he turned out to be


also a guide for Ahmad, from another family in Susiya. He taught him and helped him to build his own green house.

Meanwhile, since this area is a draught area, both by nature and by the Occupation (the regime prevents direct water supply), we supported 4 families in building 4 wells.

Recently we joined the building the first prototype home Bio-Gas system. The system was built by Yair Teller from the Arava Institute with our financial support. This system, the first one of its kind to operate in the Middle East, turns animals’ feces into gas for cooking needs. The previous success of the solar and wind based electricity systems which we, with COMET-ME, first built in Susiya two years ago, has motivated us to build this first prototype inwhich led from Concrete and Constructivist art, Op art, and Kinetic art with its dynamic apparatuses to computer-generated graphics, film, and sculpture – from “programmed art” without computers to art generated or controlled by computers.

With their exhibitions and conferences on the theme of computers and visual research and the launch of the multilingual, groundbreaking magazine bit international in 1968, the New Tendencies transformed Zagreb, already one of the most vibrant artistic centers in Yugoslavia, into an international meeting place where artists, engineers, and scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain gathered around the then-new technology. For a brief moment in time, Zagreb was the epicenter for exploring the aesthetic, scientific, and political potential of the computer.
This volume, edited by Margit Rosen, includes new essays by Jerko Denegri,


Darko Fritz, Margit Rosen, and Peter Weibel; a great number of essays and texts that were first published in New Tendencies exhibition catalogs and bit international magazine; and historic documents. Over 650 black-and-white and color illustrations testify to the wide and diverse panorama of artworks that were presented in the exhibitions, and introduce the movement’s protagonists. Many of the historic photographs, translations, and documents are presented here for the first time. The book presents the long overdue history of the New Tendencies experiment and its impact on the art of the twentieth century.Two Black Eyes for a Favor

Two Black Eyes for a Favor

A man walks into work with two black eyes. His boss asks what happened.

The man says, "I was sitting behind a big woman at church. When we stood up to sing hymns, I noticed that her dress was caught in her crack, so I pulled it out. She turned around and punched me square in the eye."

"Where did you get the other shiner?" the boss asks.

"Well," the man says, "I figured she preferred it in the crack, so I pushed it back in."


Jonathan Lumpkin, a first-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania, died suddenly in his campus residence Tuesday, University officials announced.

The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that news of Lumpkin’s death was shared in an email sent to the Penn Law community from Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger and Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCollum.

Lumpkin, 25, reportedly died in the graduate dorm building Sansom Place East. He had just returned to Penn after taking a leave of absence, originally starting his studies in 2015.

The student was originally from Baton Rouge, La., and received a B.A. in history, political science, and philosophy from the University of New Orleans. He graduated summa cum laude.

Details surrounding the cause of death have not been shared.

Lumpkin’s death is the latest in several studentdeaths that have occurred at Penn just in the last few weeks. The body of Blaze Bernstein, a sophomore at Penn, was found stabbed to death in southern California earlier this month in what may have been a hate crime.

Another Penn student, freshman William Steinberg, died with his parents and two brothers Dec. 31 in a plane crash in Costa Rica.

With the start of the 2017 fall semester, three student deaths were additionally reported at the Ivy League school. Nicholas Moya, a senior engineering student, was found dead by suicide on Aug. 21. Brett Cooper, a Penn veterinary student, was found dead for causes that remain unclear just a few weeks later.

In October, Penn senior Henry Rogers died in his off-campus residence, though reports deny that his death


This invention relates to a new and distinct selection of Bougainvillea, a member of the Nyctaginaceae family, which was discovered by me as a sport occurring in a group of the Bougainvillea Hybrid cultivar Juanita Hatten (unpatented). This sport was discovered in the summer of 1989 in Mobile, Ala. in one of the commercial greenhouses of Hatten's Nursery, Inc. as a spontaneous bud sport growing on a potted specimen plant of the Bougainvillea Hybrid cv. Juanita Hatten. Because of the high quality growth habit, and the unusual coloration of the flower bracts of this plant, it was selected by me for propagation. Asexual reproduction of this plant by cutting at my nursery in Mobile, Ala. has continued from generation to generation and shows that its characteristics remain fixedinstitutions of the Classical world, allowing for their application to systems beyond the structure of an empire and creating the familiar institutions of medieval Christendom.7 Christianity was thus the means for turning the Roman Empire into a Christian commonwealth that adopted and made use of most of what was bequeathed to it as the Classical heritage.8 Since the 1990s, the framework of Late Antiquity and its emphasis on continuity has been adapted to the non-Roman world as well, as historians of Sasanian Iran and Islam have argued for a similarly changing world in West and Central Asia. A major characteristic of this development has been a tendency to see the Islamic conquests not as a radical break with the past, but rather as a transformation due to internal


is a prime example of how we might put these methodologies to use. This date, chosen only partially at random, is the year in which Pērōz, the Sasanian emperor or shāhānshāh (King of Kings), was defeated and killed by the Hephthalites somewhere near Balkh, in present-day northern Afghanistan. The Hephthalites, a newly formed political entity in the region, became masters of East Iran and imposed heavy reparations on the Sasanians. Moreover, for almost two decades, they became the kingmakers of the Sasanians, removing and installing Sasanian claimants to the throne, mostly indirectly. The heavy payments of war damages to the Hephthalites must have drained the Sasanian treasury, although no direct evidence is available for this. It did, clearly, turn the Sasanians into predatory actors in Syria, the easternterritories of the Romans, which Kavād I, the winner of two decades of royal musical chairs, invaded and from which he tried to exact as much cash as possible.

Their financial troubles aside, the defeat and death of Pērōz left the Sasanian court in disarray, and probably devastated its nobility. The reparations to the Hephthalites were almost certainly not all paid from the treasury of the king; the coffers of the nobility and the pockets of the working man were also undoubtedly tapped. The loss of prestige must have made it quite hard for the nobility to keep a straight face when addressing puppet kings such as Walāsh and Jāmāsp, and Kavād himself in his earlier short reign, as King of Kings. This all resulted in a rebellion, the


as military reorganization, which divided the empire into four zones of defense. Kavād and Khosrow’s reforms were happening at the same time that Justinian was re-establishing his rule in Byzantium following several early blows, and the two empires were engaged in heavy fighting on their borders. In the east, the Hephthalite power had slowly settled and was less influential in the affairs of the Sasanian court, although the Hephthalites were in charge of most of East Iran.

Kavād’s reign ended with what later historians called the Mazdakite rebellion, a socio-religious uprising that was brutally oppressed by Khosrow I, making him a hero in Zoroastrian texts. The Mazdakite revolt, whatever its religious concerns might have been, was mainly a social uprising. What the rebels actually desired is less clear tous, as we only know the rebellion from the sources hostile to it. The regular charges of the sharing of property and women have given it a proto-socialist overtone, something that was heavily exploited by Marxist historians.12 It appears, however, that this was only one facet of a larger religious and social movement. Later versions of the same movement, appearing in the Islamic period under the general rubric of the Khurramdīniyya, betray it to be a religious amalgamation, showing characteristics of many different doctrines. From a late antique point of view, alongside the Christian commonwealth, the Khurramdīniyya/Mazdakite religious movements might have been in the process of creating a socio-religious commonwealth.13

In contrast, Zoroastrianism, the dominant state religion of the Sasanians, shows less interest in playing such a role. The


and, upon conquering and entering Jerusalem, moved the True Cross from Jerusalem to Khūzestān in order to provide much prestige for the Christians of his empire. A theocratic, dominant Zoroastrian religious structure, if it existed, would simply not have allowed the king to have open relations with members of another religion, let alone to promote their interests.

Christians, in fact, were the dominant population in the western regions of the Sasanian realm in this time period. Aramaic-speaking Christians and Jews were the main population of Mesopotamia, the heart of the Sasanian Empire (Middle Persian dil-i Ērānshahr). South-western Mesopotamia was the realm of the Arab kingdom of Ḥīra, the land of the Lakhmids, who ruled the Arab tribes of northern Arabia on behalf of the Sasanians. Eastern Arabia was alsopopulated by Arabic-speaking tribes who were controlled via the Sasanian administration of Baḥrayn, including all of Eastern Arabia down to Oman. Southern Arabia, the former kingdom of Ḥimyar, had become part of the Sasanian Empire following its conquest about 570 CE in wars against the Axumites.15

In this environment, Khosrow II invaded Syria in 602 and defeated the Byzantine armies there. Soon, all of Syria, Palestine, and most of Anatolia had fallen into Sasanian hands. By 615, Egypt was also a Sasanian territory. For over two decades, a whole generation in fact, the Sasanians were masters of all of West Asia, and by having defeated the Hephthalites with the help of the Western Turks in the 560s, they were also in secure control of much of their lost territory


in East Iran. When the prophet of Islam was migrating from Mecca to Medina to establish his religious state there, he was living in a world dominated by Sasanian power. The state that he went on to found, and which came to dominate the Sasanian territories, should not be seen as an element external to the Sasanian Empire that caused its “fall.” Rather, we can view the nascent Islamic state as an element internal to the Sasanian order that lent itself to furthering change that was already well underway, as will be discussed in the second part of this essay.

KHODADAD REZAKHANI is a Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and the webmaster of Iranologie.com, as well as the broadcaster of the History of Iran Podcast. Heholds a Ph.D. in Late Antique History from The University of California, Los Angeles and an M.Sc. in Global History from The London School of Economics and Political Science, where he concentrated on medieval Scandinavia. His forthcoming book, ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), is concerned with the history of East Iran and Central Asia between 100–750 CE.

[1] The preference given here to an ethnic adjective in place of the cultural or religious one – i.e. ‘Arab’ conquests vs. ‘Islamic’ conquests – is in accordance with the conventions of contemporary scholarship in designating the earliest stages of the conquests. Neither the pure ethnic identity of the conquering armies in all stages of conquest nor their religious beliefs can be ascertained definitively, of


phrase (and parts of the concept) from Garth Fowden, Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 1993), although I do not agree with everything that Fowden says about the Sasanians.

[9] This is probably best discussed by Michael G. Morony, Iraq After the Muslim Conquest (Princeton University Press, 1984) and Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (I. B. Tauris, 2007); see also Khodadad Rezakhani, “Empires and Microsystems: Sasanian Iran in Late Antiquity, 500–750” (Ph.D. diss., 2010). General studies of the continuities between the pre-Islamic and Islamic Middle East include Robert G. Hoyland, “Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion,” in Scott F. Johnson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2012), 1053–1077 and Hugh Kennedy, “Islam,”Chico Unified School District and CSU, Chico Collaborate on Math and Science

Eleven new California Math Science Partnerships (MSPs) have been funded in the state, and Chico Unified School District (CUSD) has received two of them, one in science and one in mathematics. Both of these are collaborative ventures with California State University, Chico faculty, and both will support the efforts to establish professional learning communities within the school district. The grants extend for a three-year period and will involve more than 85 teachers.

The science grant Building Bridges seeks to connect expertise and research efforts in science education at CSU, Chico with the development of professional learning communities in the CUSD. The grant, for $1.08 million over three years, will allow a cohort of 36 teachers in grades 5-8


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Margo Condos is a condominium development made by Aspen Ridge Homes that is currently in pre-construction. This new project is located at 1735 Bur Oak Avenue in the Mount Joy neighbourhood of Markham and has a tentative occupancy date of May 2022.

Quite simply, in address and in design, there is no proposal more ideal for a property at the edge of the Greater Toronto Area.

Featuring a contemporary facade that fuses sharp colour contrasts with bold asymmetrical contours, this forward-thinking 22 storey-high condo towers effortlessly combines form and function into a harmonious whole that seamlessly blends into itssurroundings.

The building exterior features a design that exudes airiness, deflecting attention from its eye-catching shell. The design offsets its dense mass by projecting a feeling of lightness with its extenuated balconies, each coloured in contrasting white and irregularly placed around the building facade as single and grouped compartments.

But appearances are just the start of it. Situated just north of Markham’s historic Main Street, this upscale development Is served by a GO station located right across the street that offers convenient access to public transportation. Not only that, condo residents have no shortage of local services and shops that allow most daily errands to be performed on foot.As an exquisite residence offering excellent convenience, this condo is perfect for the active urbanite looking to find a tranquil home.Choose luxury,


20 paletas and gave him a $50 and said may God bless him and drove away."

After posting a picture of Sanchez on Facebook, Macias quickly learned that others had the same response to seeing the man bent over to push his cart full of paletas, the traditional Mexican frozen treats. Many who commented wanted to know how they could help the man — and one of them, Joe Loera, suggested the Go Fund Me page.

Several donations total more than $1,000, but most of them are much smaller. In all, more than 7,000 people have chipped in. And when Sanchez began his day Monday morning, he did so with a half-dozen news crews around him, including one from Telemundo.

The fundraising campaign also helped Sanchez's story emerge. On the campaignthe fundraising campaign page. "This is a true example of people showing love for one another and how we can together accomplish something beautiful and greater than ourselves."

In another update on the campaign, Macias says they are leaving the page up for a week "because people still seem to be donating."

Macias plans to give the campaign's proceeds to Sanchez later this week, in an exchange that he intends to put on Facebook Live.

In the meantime, Sanchez still hasn't taken that day off. As La Villita reported over the weekend, he was at Sunday's Mexican Independence Day Parade, along with his cart of paletas.


in this area put their faith in GeorgeBush ... and we cannot afford four more years of the same policies they took a shot on four years ago, ladies and gentlemen."

There were four stops yesterday, the horse farm, a tiny campaign office too small for all of the small press corps to fit in and another ice cream and candy shop.

This time he's in a retirement community, the nation's largest, and the scene of occasional golf cart traffic jams we are told. "The Villages" is near Lady Lake. Biden's visit is probably no coincidence. Sarah Palin campaigned here just after becoming the GOP VP nominee at their convention.

Finally, Biden touches down at a rally in a park just down the road from the "astronaut school," along the so-calledthe GOP really hopes and probably needs to win.

They, too, are campaigning hard in this state that has been kind to the GOP. The state's large veterans community, where McCain has roots, and its significant elderly and retiree population, are expected to help McCain here as well. The GOP also has a solid base of support in South Florida's Cuban-American communities.

However, in this election that variable has changed somewhat. Florida is experiencing a growing influx of new Latino immigrants, and growing generational differences within Cuban families now here more than half a century. The number of Latino Democrats is expected to top the number of Republicans statewide for the first time.

Today, Team Obama takes a big step to try to nail things down here. Florida will host the


first joint appearance by Bill Clinton and Obama. And, trying to take advantage of the changing demographics here, the campaign says the event will have a "Latin influence," and happen in Spanish as well as English.

Clinton is a popular and familiar figure with most Latino voters, one reason Hillary Clinton did so well in that community during the primaries. She, by the way, has been in Florida recently campaigning for Obama/Biden too. Latino voters are emerging as 2008's key swing demographic in other critical states like Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado as well.

Biden and Obama also have a rare joint rally Wednesday, yet another "get-out-the-vote," event. The last time they shared a stage some 35,000 people saw them in Detroit.

Meanwhile, Biden's final speech yesterday, at the event alongthe Space Coast, clocked in at around 17 minutes. Not a record, but not long ago 30 minutes and sometimes much more, was the meandering norm.

At one point Biden said, keeping his pace up, that if folks had time to come out to see him, they had time to go vote.

He shook a bunch of hands, posed for pictures, and then made his way behind the stage, and onto his bus, as the crowd waved Good Night.

Once again a chill wind was, like the senator, blowing through supposed-to-be balmy Florida, where voting turnout already is quite hot and heavy.


Estimating Risk of Venous-Thromboembolic Events in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Comparison between 2008 and 2012 Guidelines.
Prophylaxis for hospitalized venous-thromboembolic events (VTEs) is frequently underutilized, in part due to lack of a simple risk assessment model (RAM). To compare patient selection and administration of VTE prophylaxis according to the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) 2008 guidelines versus the newer 2012 guidelines, and assess the feasibility of developing simpler local RAMs. We conducted a prospective assessment of VTE risk among 300 unselected consecutive patients admitted to a medical hospital ward, using the 2008 and 2012 ACCP guidelines. The frequency and relative weight of each risk factor in the 2012 ACCP guidelines were used to develop a local VTE RAM. VTE prophylaxis was indicated by the 2008 and 2012 ACCP guidelinesthe sixth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution and 17 A.R.S. Rules of Criminal Procedure, rule 8.2?
6. Did appellant Zuck receive ineffective assistance from his trial counsel?
On March 19, 1980, David Fischer and Jeff Jones were at their home in Tucson. Fischer responded to a knock at the front door and was greeted by two men armed with pistols. Holding Fischer at gunpoint, the men entered the house, bound and blindfolded both residents, threatened to ignite them with gasoline and then took stereo and computer equipment worth about $2000. Fischer reports he heard a third voice while the equipment was being taken out the back door.
Four months later, in return for a reduced sentence in an unrelated matter, one Donald Ray ("Billy") Brownfield told police detectives


fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution and 17 A.R.S. Rules of Criminal Procedure, rule 8.2. We do not agree.
Zuck was indicted September 16, 1980 while he was in the Arizona State Prison for a prior conviction. He was arraigned September 24, 1980. On December 13, 1980 Zuck sent the trial court a motion requesting a "fast and speedy trial." Apparently, his court-appointed attorney received a copy of the motion, but neither he nor the court took any action regarding it.
The trial originally had been set for December 16, 1980, but various continuances were granted and the trial was finally held April 28, 1981. The continuances were either requested or acquiesced in by defense counsel.
The United States Supreme Court has set out these four factors for determining whethernutrition interventions for pain and mood. The next step is to look at whether this acute pain is the same as for chronic pain (like in arthritis or fibromyalgia) with a view to recommending healthy habits like good hydration. Ms Bear’s research was a collaboration with two Massey staff members from the School of Psychology, Dr Stephen Hill and Dr Michael Phillip.

Dr Blake Perry completed his Massey PhD (2014), looking at the brain blood flow response to certain types of exercise, under the supervision of Dr Toby Mündel in collaboration with Dr Sam Lucas from the University of Birmingham, UK. The 27-year-old is currently employed by Massey University, as the Human Performance Laboratory manager for the School of Sport and Exercise, based in Palmerston North.

Funding: This study was


21 percent. Today, its staff of 7,700 provides care at MetroHealth’s four hospitals, four emergency departments and more than 20 health centers and 40 additional sites throughout Cuyahoga County. In the past year, MetroHealth has served 300,000 patients at more than 1.4 million visits in its hospitals and health centers, 75 percent of whom are uninsured or covered by Medicare or Medicaid.

The health system is home to Cuyahoga County’s most experienced Level I Adult Trauma Center, verified since 1992, and the only adult and pediatric burn center in the state of Ohio.

As an academic medical center, MetroHealth is committed to teaching and research. Each active staff physician holds a faculty appointment at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and its main campus hospital houses a Cleveland MetropolitanImage: Adam Frank's CURRENT is a living map of Seattle's hydro-electric generation and electricity use. One of six temporary artworks and performances that celebrate The Next Fifty, the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World's Fair at Seattle Center. Photo by the artist.

Message from the director: Celebrating 50 years of arts in Seattle and The Next Fifty

The 1962 World's Fair put Seattle on the map, and this year Seattle Center celebrates the fair's 50th anniversary with The Next Fifty. Six months of artworks, events and activities at the Center April 21 through Oct. 21 will mark the legacy the fair left to the region and the opportunities that lie ahead. For the celebration's "Sustainable Futures Month," we're presenting six temporary artworks and performances that illustrate how contemporary artists are


shaping the conversation around environmental sustainability.

Before the World's Fair, when people thought of Seattle it was as a point of entry to the 19th-century gold rush. The fair branded Seattle as a timely place celebrating science and technology and opening the door to the future. Dusting off the ways of the Old West, the fair took on a space-age name: Century 21 Exposition.

In 1962, nearly 10 million people enjoyed a broad range of attractions, including more than 2,500 performing arts events with acts from around the world. The futuristically themed fair gave the city a 74-acre park devoted to history, science, arts and culture, and the Space Age. It also gave us the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the cultural fundraising organization Poncho, and the Horiuchi Mural, all celebrating 50thanniversaries this year. It gave us Seattle Opera and its home McCaw Hall (Mercer Arts Arena in 1962), KeyArena (formerly the Washington State Pavilion), the Intiman Theatre (then the World's Fair Playhouse), and a "modern art pavilion" for the Seattle Art Museum.

The cultural legacy the fair left to the city was profound. Today, Seattle's creative vitality is nearly three times the national average—among the highest in the nation—according to the recent Creative Vitality Index released by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). The measure is based on arts participation and employment. Nonprofit arts and arts-active organizations in Seattle earned $415 million in revenue in 2010. Ticket sales at Seattle's live performing arts venues generated $193 million in revenues. That's $235.17 per capita—nearly four-and-a-half times the national average.

Despite a


down economy, we are a region of arts consumers. Overall participation in arts and culture activities in King County is 71 percent higher than the national average, according to a recent Local Arts Index report released by Americans for the Arts. County nonprofit arts organizations inject $254 per capita into the local economy compared to a national average of $58 per capita. And nonprofit arts revenues in King County are 248 percent higher than the national average.

And here's more good news. We're pleased to report that the governor signed Senate Bill 6574 last week, protecting up to $900,000 in estimated admission tax revenue to the city. The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs receives 75 percent of admission tax revenues, which support our funding programs for Seattle's artsand cultural organizations and artists.

We're seeking artists to create temporary art installations along Greenwood Avenue North and the Central Waterfront for the project Art Interruptions. Art Interruptions encourages artists to install artworks on city sidewalks and parks and offer passers-by a brief interruption in their day with a moment of surprise, beauty or humor. Possible locations for artworks include street and park infrastructure and furniture (utility poles, trees, tree pits, walls, railings, stair risers, etc.). Up to 12 artists will be selected to develop artworks to be displayed for six weeks this summer.

Possible sidewalk and park locations include Greenwood Avenue North between North 65th and North 87th streets, Waterfront Park, Piers 62 and 63, and Pike Street Hill Climb between Alaskan Way and Western Avenue.

The call is open