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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Three people were attacked by a large group of teenagers Saturday night. The incident happened around 9:15 p.m. in the parking lot of the Kroger at Highland and Poplar. A store employee caught video of the attack. A 25-year-old man said he was attacked by the group as he walked to his car. Two Kroger employees, 17 and 18, ran to help the man. Both were repeatedly hit in the headthe New York State Energy Conservation and Construction Code.

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Victoria Campbell: This divorce, on a scale of one to 10, I'd rank it at about a 12.

It was an epic and bitter divorce, a relationship that ended in rancor, but began with hot-blooded romance.

It was the spring of 1994. Darren Mack, then 33, had been riding high in his career. He’d taken over Palace Jewelry and Loan. The pawnshop was a profitable landmark on the Reno strip. Darren’s brother, Landon.

A passion that wore thin. Soorya says a few years into the marriage, Charla decided to leave -- until she found out she was pregnant.

Victoria Corderi: What was


her reaction?

Soorya Townley: Well, it had been unplanned. And that was when she knew that she was going to make the marriage work.

So Charla stayed, and soon after the birth of their baby girl, the Macks moved into a million-dollar mansion. They had elaborate family get togethers, fancy cars, and lived prosperously.

But Charla's mother says behind the fancy facade, this marriage was falling apart and Charla's desperation to make her husband happy took an ugly turn into a sordid world.

Soorya Townley: Darren came in and gave her an ultimatum. Right after the birth when she was still nursing, he said, "You either do this or I'm leaving you."

Victoria Corderi: Do what?

Soorya Townley: Swing.

Swinging...opening up their marriage to sex with strangers. Soorya says Charla and Darren began taking tripsto adult resorts in places like Jamaica... went to strip bars and experimented with the club drug, ecstasy... all in the name of saving the marriage.

Soorya says Charla went along but became unhappy with the kinky lifestyle.

Soorya Townley: She just put her foot down-- finally and said, "I don't wanna do this anymore." And, that's when they started having serious problems.

Darren’s brother says Soorya's version of events is a lie, that Darren Mack never forced Charla into anything.

Victoria Corderi: As far as you were concerned, they were both on the same page?

Landon Mack: Yes. Oh, absolutely they were on the same page. It was a mutual consenting deal.

Landon Mack says Charla was not a frightened victim but a woman with her own demons, which included a violent temper.

Landon


Mack: I watched Charla hit my brother so hard it knocked him over a bar table in a disco.

Landon Mack says his brother's marriage continued to deteriorate until Darren finally moved out in the fall of 2004. In February 2005, Charla filed for divorce, a move that would land them in Judge Charles Weller’s courtroom -- and at each other's throats in a blistering battle over money.

Judge Weller: This is the case of Charla Mack versus Darren Mack.

Early in the proceedings, the judge ordered Darren to pay Charla more than ten thousand dollars a month in temporary alimony and child support. But Mack said he couldn't and afford it and declared bankruptcy. Charla's lawyer claimed Mack was far from being bankrupt and said Mack was making $44,000 dollarsWashoe County jail.

Landon Mack claims from the moment his brother stepped in the courtroom, the judge had it out for Darren.

Landon Mack: From the very first meeting Judge Weller was going-- had already made a ruling that Darren was wrong, Charla was right.

As the divorce raged on, Landon Mack says his brother's hatred of the judge intensified. During that time Darren met and began a relationship with a woman who claimed she too had been mistreated by Judge Weller.

Alecia Biddison: Everybody loses in family court matters. But, I think what he felt as well as what many others feel is I'm not losing in any fair way. Decisions are being made without considering all the facts, all the evidence.

Alecia Biddison was on a mission, lobbying state legislators for


judicial reform in family court. She says she found a kindred spirit in Darren who was searching desperately for someone to intervene in his court case.

Alecia Biddison: And he went to people saying, "Look at my case. Look at what's going on. Look at how these decisions are being made. Somebody intervene and help."

Landon Mack: He went to State senators. He went to judges. Pleading that he's being absolutely unfairly handled in the family court system.

Judge Weller: Some of Mack's apologists appear to have divorced themselves from reality in order to maintain their support for him. They have made similar outrageous attacks on me, other judges, and lawyers involved with the case. These attacks on the judicial process and those of us who administer it have been shown2006, the residents of Reno were easing back into the work week when all hell broke loose in the downtown business district.

Detective Ron Chalmers: Shortly after 11:07, we received a telephone call of a possible sniper-style shooting over at the Mills Lane Justice Center.

For Reno detective Ron Chalmers, it would be the start of a long, brutal day, beginning with a sniper attack in broad daylight.

Dick Gammick, the local district attorney, was in a meeting when his secretary interrupted with news that terrorized everyone in the courthouse.

Dick Gammick: She came back in and said, "There's been a judge shot over in the family court."

Ron Chalmers: He's here for about 15 or 20 minutes, then that camera depicts the vehicle back up, pulls forward, and then backs that-- so


that the rear end of the vehicle is now facing the Mills Lane Justice Center.

A few minutes later, Chalmers says the video shows the Explorer's rear hatch being lifted.

Ron Chalmers: And then, at about 11:06 in the morning, about the same time when Judge Weller is shot, the rear hatch is suddenly closed and the vehicle flees the parking garage.

The cameras didn't capture the sniper's face, but they did give police their first solid lead - a silver 2006 Ford Explorer. Meanwhile back inside the courthouse, paramedics worked on Judge Weller and Annie Allison. She had been hit with glass and shards of metal.

Annie Allison: I thought, what just happened? My perfect little world is not so perfect anymore.

The judge was in far worse shape. He had beenhim, what about his wife, who had dragged him into court in the first place?

Dick Gammick: We started becoming concerned about Charla. And where she was at and we could not find her.

Detective Ron Chalmers: And as we make our way to the middle of the two vehicles, now we see this large pooling of blood that leads to Charla Mack's body.

Chalmers says despite his experience investigating homicides, the blood-soaked scene was hard to take in. Charla had been stabbed multiple times. Her body, dragged across the floor.

It became the second big story on a very, very busy news day. Reporter Victoria Campbell with KRNV-TV in Reno.

Victoria Campbell: The Reno Police Department held a news conference and said, "These two unthinkable crimes in this community are linked."

In short


order, Darren Mack became a wanted man -- possibly armed and dangerous.

Detective Ron Chalmers: He's lashed out at a Judge, by sniper-style shooting at him. He has murdered his wife. And you just wonder, where's the next victim?

A judge had been shot at a downtown Reno courthouse and a woman had been stabbed to death across town. Darren Mack, now the prime suspect, was missing. Police hurried to figure out his next move. Was he on a killing spree? Detectives canvassed Mack’s family and friends, including his brother, Landon.

Landon Mack: We were at my mom's house and a SWAT team came to clear the house. And then they wanted to, you know, see what we knew.

Charla's brother, Chris says he had feared for his sister's safety and hadcan hear me, I am pleading with him to please contact me.

His girlfriend, Alecia Biddison says she grew more worried by the day.

Alecia Biddison: I was afraid that he would be harmed and killed.

More than a week had passed and Darren Mack’s trail was now cold. Mack was assumed to have fled the country. Then a call came in that would change everything. A call from Mexico -- Mack phoned his old friend, the very man who would prosecute him, Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick.

The next day, federal agents brought Mack back to the United States, and he was booked into the Reno jail.

"Darren Mack was led in handcuffs..."

Mack's girlfriend Alecia finally spoke to him and says he pleaded with her.

Alecia Biddison: "You need to believe in


me. Believe in who you believe I am. Because I reserve the right to set the record straight."

The Macks hired two of Nevada’s most seasoned lawyers -- Scott Freeman, a prominent criminal defense attorney in Reno, and David Chesnoff, a high-profile lawyer from Las Vegas with a celebrity client list that included Martha Stewart and Britney Spears.

Mack’s lawyers steered Darren away from his death penalty demands and he pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder. The high profile case was moved from Reno to Las Vegas and the state appointed two special prosecutors and a special judge from Las Vegas to preside. In October 2007, Darren Mack was ready to face a jury.

It had been 12 years since the Macks had been married inLake Tahoe. And now, in the cold confines of a Las Vegas courtroom, Charla's mother and Darren’s mother found themselves sitting across the aisle once again, this time grieving over their losses. Darren Mack stood accused of stabbing to death the wife he once loved so dearly and then shooting the judge who had been handling their divorce.

Robert Daskas:You will learn the defendant had a motive to kill both Charla Mack and Judge Charles Weller.

Prosecutors Robert Daskas and Christopher Lalli told the jury that the motive in this case was simple.

Darren Mack:They lie, lie, lie.

Darren Mack had walked away from his contentious divorce a loser to the tune of a million dollars. They said Mack was so upset, so angry, that he ambushed his estranged wife the morning


to cock the hammer again. Darren lunges at her. All he gets was a handful of hair. Darren knew he was going to die. Charla rolled to her left. They both fell to the ground. The terror for Darren is overwhelming.

And that, Freeman says, is when Darren reached for his knife.

Scott Freeman: Charla is kicking and he is trying to pull the knife out. They are both struggling on the ground. Darren plunges the knife into her neck once.

Freeman then attempted to explain away the so-called "to-do" list. He said after the fight with Charla, Darren was out of his mind and simply scribbled the list as a way to help him organize his thoughts.

But if this was truly self-defense, why then, would Darren drive to the parkinggarage and shoot Judge Weller?

The opening statement continued, as attorney David Chesnoff picked up the story, telling the jury that the fight in the garage caused Mack to snap. It triggered a long simmering delusional state in Darren. Charla had finally pushed him over the edge with her hatred, and the drug fueled party life they had shared during their marriage had damaged his reason.

David Chesnoff: Darren Mack was suffering from a recognized mental disorder.

Chesnoff told the jury that Mack started to believe the Second Amendment gave him the right to shoot the judge, and he said the prosecution had already provided evidence of Mack’s unbalanced state: the interview tape.

Darren Mack: (videotape) "It's time to not let this tyranny go under the wraps..."

David Chesnoff: If that's not delusional,


I don't know what is. He was basically comparing himself to Benjamin Franklin.

David Chesnoff: Darren acted upon his delusions in shooting Judge Weller and the disease he suffers from caused the delusions to control his actions.

The defense attorneys said they would put on experts and witnesses to back-up these remarkable claims. But the jury never got to hear from them. Instead of calling its first witness, the defense announced news that left everyone stunned: Darren Mack had agreed to a deal -- and would plead guilty.

Judge: Okay. As to Count (1), murder in the first degree, how do you plead?

He pleaded guilty to shooting the judge as well. Mack's lawyers said they convinced Darren to take the deal so he could avoid a potential life sentence in prison.Darren Mack. He had fired his attorneys and told the court he wanted out of the deal.

Victoria Campbell: It wasn't just big news. It was cataclysmic.

This case was far from over. Mack hired a new lawyer named William Routsis, a former semi-pro boxer, who immediately jumped into this case swinging.

William Routsis: What happened to Darren was a manifest injustice. They destroyed the man's character.

Routsis filed motion after motion with the court, making incredible allegations and demanding that Mack be given a new trial.

William Routsis: Everybody's going to look back and say, "My god. They made a monster of a man."

The judge scheduled a hearing. Could Darren Mack get out of his plea deal and win a new trial? At least one thing seemed certain --Darren Mack finally would


tell his story.

Judge: "We will be on the record with State of Nevada versus Darren Roy Mack..."

With a new attorney by his side, Darren Mack came to court ready to unleash a series of incredible allegations in an effort to convince the judge to let him take back his guilty plea and get a new trial.

Attorney William Routsis: Darren, did you want a fair trial?

Darren Mack: Absolutely. That's what I’ve wanted from as soon as these events happened. All I wanted to do is come back, tell the truth.

Mack told the court he never got the chance to tell his truth before a jury because his former attorneys abandoned him in the middle of the trial and coerced him into taking the plea deal.

Darren Mack: It was likethe garage. We can figure out what caused the misfire. And it will corroborate everything I said. And he refused.

But why would Mack’s former attorneys force him to take a plea? Mack's girlfriend, Alecia Biddison, says it was because they botched his case so badly by arguing self-defense and insanity at the same time, when a person has to be sane to act in self defense.

David Chesnoff: Darren Mack was suffering from a recognized mental disorder...

Alecia Biddison: What he was arguing was not temporary insanity. He was arguing that Darren was insane prior to the death of Charla. He, in my opinion, completely undermined the self-defense.

Mack's new lawyer, William Routsis, told the judge that not only was the plea coerced, but Darren Mack had never signed the agreement


LOS ANGELES, June 24, (AFP): Michael Jackson fans will place flowers on his grave in Los Angeles this week to mark the fifth anniversary of his death, but half a decade on, the pop icon’s financial fortunes are positively blooming. The self-proclaimed King of Pop was struggling to avoid bankruptcy when he died on June 25, 2009. At the time, he was in rehearsals for a series of comeback shows he hoped would resurrect his earlier jaw-dropping wealth. But in five years since, the Michael Jackson Estate — which runs his affairs on behalf of Jackson’s mother and three children — has earned over $700 million, according to a new book about the singer’s business empire. “Michael Jackson is making more money now, five years after his death,years ago. Murray was eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter and jailed for four years. He was released last October after two years behind bars. Then came the civil trial brought by Jackson’s aging mother Katherine, who sued tour promoters AEG Live claiming they negligently hired an incompetent doctor and drove her son to his death. A jury threw out her claims. But while the family came to grips with their loss, the Michael Jackson Estate, led by executors John Branca and John McClain, got straight down to business five years ago.

Above all, they had to rapidly generate revenues to stave off the massive debts that Jackson had built up in the last five years of his life. In his heyday, Jackson — whom Greenburg said “fundamentally changed the


first money-making ventures was the “This is It” motion picture, patched together from footage of rehearsals for the doomed final tour. The film made some $200 million worldwide. A few months after his death, Sony and his lawyers signed a record contract said to be worth over $200 million by The Wall Street Journal — foreseeing the release of seven albums over 10 years.

The estate also did deals with Cirque du Soleil for both a touring show and a permanent show based at the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas. Only last month, Jackson was back on stage — as a hologram — performing at the Billboard 2014 Music Award event in Las Vegas. Jackson, or rather his hologram, sang and moonwalked to “A Slave to the Rhythm”The story covers 7 weeks in the lives of four friends. Three of them are single and one is married. They meet every Sunday in a diner for breakfast where they talk about their sexual conquests. The married man doesn't come to the group that often because well he's married.

The men seem simply to live for their sexual conquests. Two of them are very successful with women but the third has almost no luck and spends every day masturbating. They try to help each other with their sexual adventures and in one scene they see three women in a park and discuss how they will meet the women. One of the men approaches the three women and starts to talk to them. They women smile, and speak with


him somewhat coolly. Then one of the other guys pretends to be walking by, sees his buddy, and joins in. Finally, the third man does the same.

A few weeks later at one of their Sunday meetings the men are talking and the three of them each has met a woman that is rather special to them. We soon find out that the special woman is in fact, the same woman - Amanda Peet.

One day they are all at her apartment and are angry with each other and her, but she tells them that she cares for them all and they decide to continue to see her.

She has sex with them all, putting a great strain on the three men's friendship. This continues for a few weeks. The marriedman even goes to her and asks her to make a choice because she is destroying the friendship.

They all love her and one of the men (the masturbating one) is going to ask her to marry him. They get in a large argument and are fighting at her apartment when Amanda Peet gets out of the shower and is furious.

The men leave and don't see her for awhile. They have started up their Sunday meetings again and the one that proposed to her decides to get back in touch with her so they can resume their relationship. Just then, Amanda Peet walks into the diner with three Italian men, all of whom are touching and kissing her.

She sees the three friends, walks over to them and says that


she'll be "in touch" when the Italians leave. The men never see her again and the group breaks up completely.

The final scene in the movie is Amanda Peet sitting in a restaurant with a group of her girlfriends. She is telling them how she picked these three men to sexually destroy them. She had seen them hitting on the three women in the park and right there decided that if men can do that to women, she could do the same.Packed resort for Live Weekender

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Thousands attended the new Morecambe Live weekender which brought five diverse music sessions over 25 hours.

Megan S, Alice Hollywood, Jay Blackburn, Where Angels Play, Ashleigh Wood and The Good Souls were among the many performers.

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Top new Liverpool band The Jjohns also put in great sets at The Platform and at night at the Winter Gardens. The event was also held outside for the first time with the brand new 1950s Juke Box Jive – which attracting around 600 people to a high octane afternoon of rock’n’roll with Ricky Aron and the Black Cat Trio.

The new look Disco Inferno finished the event


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East Meets West: Blanc de Chine Spring/Summer 2010

It is a testament to the enduring popularity of luxury brand Blanc de Chine that loyal admirers braved one of the rainiest nights of the season to attend their Spring 2010 Runway Presentation. The much anticipated event took place in their ultra-chic New York store, located on Fifth Avenue. Guests had an opportunity to unwind prior to the show at a cocktail reception held on the boutique’s first floor. Just before 7:30 event producer Patty Hughes guided everyone up the grand staircase to take their seats for the runway show.

With Real Housewives star Alex McCord and her husband Simon seated front andcenter, the show began with sheer black ensembles for women that conveyed an air of graceful sophistication, in keeping with the theme of the collection: “The Refinement of Ming Elegance.” These looks were free from any ornamental details except for the occasional pleat or tie belt.

The classic Ming Dynasty styling continued with mandarin collared jackets for men in neutral tones of blue, black, tan or gray. These were shown with white, round neck, cotton button down shirts and simple black, Zurrer pants.

There was more variation in the women’s collection with dynamic looks featuring halter tops, harem pants, and even a sequin jump suit. These pieces stood out in bright shades of purple, blue, or silver.

Two of the most interesting designs were the black Qi Pao gown and the


short black dress with sheer sleeves. Each had a detachable zippered bottom to allow the wearer to creatively mix and match tops and bottoms.

At the conclusion of the show, guests made their way downstairs and each was given a black Blanc de Chine gift bag as they exited the store into the cold, rainy night.

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Israeli combat veterans teach United States Jews how to protect themselves and their communities, using rapid response techniques.

By Maayana Miskin

First Publish: 7/23/2009, 10:05 PM

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Starting in late July, a group of Israeli combat veterans will be holding a training camp in New York to teach advanced self-defense techniques to Jews in U.S. communities. An increasing number of American Jews have expressed interest in the program following a wave of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide over the past year, organizers report.

The group calls itself Kitat Konenut New York – a reference to the “rapid response teams” active throughout Judea and Samaria. Rapid response teams in Israel, comprised of local civilians who are IDF veterans, have often been the first on the scene of terrorist


attacks and other emergencies, and have prevented casualties.

It was founded in 2006 in response to a shooting attack at a Jewish center in Seattle, Washington. One woman was murdered in the attack, and several others were wounded.

Kitat Konenut in action (Israel news photo: Kitat Konenut)

The group is apolitical, and does not take part in demonstrations. “Our agenda is to protect Jews,” says group member Yonatan Stern.

However, the group does have a firmly held political belief. “We believe in the constitutional right to bear arms,” Stern says. Kitat Konenut encourages all American Jews to learn how to use weapons, and to purchase their own firearms for self-defense.

Trainees learn the IDF's unique martial arts style, known as Krav Maga, and learn to identify suspicious objects and dismantle improvised explosives. TheyThe highest rate of child marriage is in Bangladesh (where two out of every three girls marry before age 18), followed by India, Nepal and Afghanistan.

India had the highest number of unregistered children under age five between 2000 and 2012 and the second-highest number of child marriages, according to a U.N. report which said the country still needs to improve immunisation coverage and stop gender-based sex selection.

The report “Improving Children’s Lives, Transforming the Future — 25 years of child rights in South Asia” by the United Nations’ children agency, Unicef, analyses the progress made over the last quarter century on key issues that directly affect the lives of children in the region.

At 71 million, India had the largest number of children under the age of five whose births


0-4 in India was 924.

On immunisation coverage, it said some countries in South Asia, particularly Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, have made significant improvements since 1990 but coverage is still far too low in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.

The report was released to commemorate 25 years since the 1989 U.N. adoption of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. It pointed to some improvements over the past two decades as South Asian government adopted policies to protect child rights.

The prevalence of children with stunted growth in the region dropped from more than 60 per cent in 1990 to 38 per cent in 2012 as nutrition improved, the report said. Still, the report said regional averages mask disparities, with stunting far more pervasive among children from poor families, ruralMurry signed with Utah this summer after spending his rookie season with the New York Knicks. At that time, New York had expressed interest in re-signing him and he also received looks from the Miami Heat. But in Utah, Murry found himself at the end of coach Quin Snyder's bench. Twice he was sent to the D-League and it wasn't until Saturday night that he made his debut with the Jazz  logging a single minute of playing time.


NEW DELHI (AP) — Maoist rebels on Saturday shot and killed at least 11 Indian paramilitary soldiers in an ambush in central India, police said.

The attack also left three soldiers wounded in the rebel-infested Sukma forest area in Chattisgarh state, top police officer R.K. Vij said. It wasn’t clear if any rebels were killed or injured when the Central Reserve Police Force soldiers returned fire, he said.

The Press Trust of India news agency said the rebel attack targeted more than 100 soldiers who had gone to the area to clear a road blocked by the insurgents.

The insurgents, who say they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting for more than three decades in central and eastern India, staging hit-and-run attacks to press their demandouted by the fanatical right wing as an earmarking, foreign aid lover, has nothing to offer CPAC as red meat except hypocritical attacks on partisan tactics,” the aide said.

The attacks are an attempt by McConnell to make an election-year argument aimed at painting President Barack Obama as ideologically driven at the expense of the economy. It comes as Republicans are divided over whether to produce their own election-year agenda or simply take aim at the president and his policies.

McConnell wants the focus to be squarely on the president.

In his remarks, McConnell will say that the government uses resources “to intimidate or silence” their critics,” and then he plans to renew his attacks on the administration’s controversial policies calling for faith-based organizations to offer contraceptives and other birth-control devices.

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a prospective juror, plaintiff's attorney was told by the prospective juror that she *531 worked for an advertising firm. He asked whether "they" had anything to do with law business where people are engaged in "this type of work." She answered, "no." She was asked whether she worked in a law office. She answered, "no." Then, "Have you ever been engaged by any employer that had anything to do with either the street car company, railroad companies or insurance companies, having anything to do with these type of cases?" She answered, "no."
[5] We infer from the record that defendant made a motion for a mistrial in chambers during the voir dire. The motion was denied. He contends that the question was artful, planted the seed of prejudice byinforming the jury that defendant was insured against liability and explains the excessive verdict. The question asked was not as direct as the one in Wheeler v. Rudek, 397 Ill. 438. It was objectionable because neither streetcar companies, railroad companies, nor insurance companies were parties. The only meaning the question taken literally could have had was in relation to the fact that the defendant was in the insurance business. This fact was subsequently given to the jury by defendant's testimony, that he was an assistant office manager for John Hancock Life Insurance Company. The question was not properly stated if it related to his employment. The contention about prejudice will be answered hereinafter.
[6] Plaintiff testified that twice before the accident, defendant while driving placed his hand on her


knee and that once he slipped his right arm from her shoulders down her back, and she remonstrated him each time. She denied, but defendant testified, that they parked south of Soldier's Field for about 20 minutes. He said that during this time his hands "roamed," but that he was stopped; that plaintiff at no time indicated she was looking for any "necking"; that she told him politely that she wanted no "handling"; that *532 he sought to put his hand on her breast; that it was in the parking lot that she protested against his attempt to put his hand on her "bust or breast"; that she told him politely that she wanted no "handling"; and that she made it clear to him that there was "nosoap." We cannot say that plaintiff's attorney over emphasized this testimony by his questions, and we think the testimony was relevant to the conduct attributed to him just prior to the accident.
[7] Plaintiff was 31 years old and the mother of three children at the time the accident occurred. When admitted to the hospital she was suffering from a lacerated eyelid and nose, both of which required stitches, a bruised nose, and a comminuted fracture of the right femur requiring surgery. She was rendered unconscious as the result of a head injury which was diagnosed as a brain concussion in an "admission diagnosis." She was in the hospital from August 15 to September 16, 1947, and used crutches for 6 to 8 weeks thereafter. She did not resume


WATCH: Donald Trump says he wants to clean up the "ghettos" While Donald Trump says he'll help clean up the inner cities, maybe he can look at Clinton, who he praised

At his rally in Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, Donald Trump used the politically incorrect term "ghetto" as a placeholder for "inner city," which is itself racially charged.

"We’re gonna work on our . . . ghettos," Trump said, searching recklessly for the right turns of phrase. "You take a look at what's going on, where you have pockets of — areas of land, where you have the inner cities and you have so many things, so many problems. So many horrible, horrible problems — the violence, the death, the lack of education, no jobs."

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Gay Civil Unions Passed By Brazilian Senate

Brazil has become the latest country to pave the way for same-sex marriage after it approved a measure on Thursday changing the legal definition of a "civil union" to simply be between two people, without making it exclusive to a man and a woman.

The measure passed the Brazilian senate, its first legislative step in congress, after the issue had been disputed for 16 years, the Associated Press reported.

The Senate still does not approve of gay marriage, but Brazil's judiciary has already moved toward legalizing same-sex marriages after state courts last year began allowing civil unions between homosexuals to be converted to full marriages.

The bill still needs to pass other Senate committees before going to a full vote, but Sen. Marta Suplicy, whoJohnny Bernardo, founder of the Institute for Religious Research (INPR), the number of congregation members in liberal churches was less than half that; only 4,500 members in total.

Even these liberal churches, however, face a strong resistance from mainstream evangelical and Catholic churches in Brazil who adhere to the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.

Argentina is the only other South American country that currently has fully legalized same-sex marriage, as do nine other nations worldwide. In the U.S., only the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and D.C. have such provisions.


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(e.g., Junoon). In 1977, he won the top prize in the "All India Sur Singaar Competition" and was promptly signed on by the late music director Jaidev to sing for his new Hindi film Gaman (1978). His debut song "Ajeeb Sa neha Mujh Par Guzar gaya yaaron" in that movie became such a hit that it won him an Uttar Pradesh State Film Award, as well as a National Award nomination.

Hariharan entered the world of Tamil films in 1992 introduced by debutant music director A.R. Rahman with the patriotic song "Thamizha Thamizha" in Maniratnam's film Roja. He was judged best male playback singer in the 1995 Tamil Nadu State Government Film Awards for his soulful rendition of the song "Uyire Uyire" also by music director A.R Rahman inThe police officer advised the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

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DEA Special Agent Barkett investigated and also detected the odor.  He observed Gaskin leave the residence.

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Armed with a search warrant, Barkett and other federal and state law enforcement officers subsequently approached Gaskin's residence, and smelled a particularly strong ether odor.  When Barkett knocked and announced the search, no one answered.  After a forced entry, Barkett encountered Gaskin five feet from the door.  Initially Gaskin did not believe that Barkett was with the DEA, because someone told him earlier in the day that he would be the target of a "rip-off" that evening.

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During the search, the odor of ether was so strong within the house that some officers required respirators.  In the garage, the officers found


a large-scale, operational methamphetamine laboratory, a chemical formula for manufacturing methamphetamine, and a daily log book containing a daily record of the manufacturing process.  They also found receipts from the establishment where Gaskin made his earlier purchase for chemicals and equipment, including a receipt for ether and for a thermometer.  In addition, they found a little over three thousand grams of methamphetamine.

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Following his arrest, Gaskin waived his rights and stated that the laboratory and the drugs belonged to Sanders, his brother-in-law.  Gaskin claimed that his fingerprints were on the laboratory equipment because he had attempted to disassemble the laboratory when he learned what Sanders was doing and that he had also received the chemical burns on his hands at that time.  He claimed thathad reached a unanimous verdict.  As to count one, the jury concluded that Gaskin was not guilty of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, but was guilty of the lesser included offense of possession of methamphetamine.  As to count two, the jury concluded that Gaskin was guilty of manufacturing methamphetamine.  The jury, however, attached a note to the verdict signed by six jurors which stated:  "Although we found Mr. Gaskin guilty of manufacturing methamphetamine, we feel that he was indirectly involved."

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The judge stated, out of the jury's presence, that he believed that six jurors found Gaskin guilty on an aiding and abetting theory on count two.  The government agreed, but thought no additional instruction was necessary.  Gaskin's counsel argued that the


of her plagues;" Revelation 18:4

For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

Acts 15:21

20th Parashah Reading (Torah Portion) for Adar 7, 5778 or February 24, 2018 according to the published calendar for Israel (for New Moon calendar see below):

Tetzaveh ("You shall command")

Torah (Law)

Exodus 27:20-30:10

Haftarah (Prophets)

Ezekiel 43:10-27

B'rit Hadashah (New Covenant)

Mark 12

Hebrew Calendar - Based on New Moon Sliver Sighted in Jerusalem, Israel

Are you waiting for the sign of the new month or following man's calculated calendar?

In the calendar below the highlighted days show the moedim according to Scriptures.Early Phase of Akbar’s Reign

Since Akbar held the throne at his teen age; he had been supported by a group of nobles.

Bairam Khan’s Conquest

Bairam Khan remained at the helm of affairs of the Mughal Empire for almost next four years and during this period, he kept the nobility fully under control.

The territories of the Mughal Empire were extended from Kabul (in the north) to Jaunpur (in the east) and Ajmer (in the west).

Mughal forces captured Gwalior and vigorous efforts were made to conquer Ranthambhor and Malwa.

Bairam Khan’s Downfall

Over a period of time, Akbar was approaching the age of maturity. On the other hand, Bairam Khan became arrogant and had offended many powerful persons and nobles of Mughal court (as he held supreme power). Many of the nobles complained


to Akbar that Bairam Khan was a Shia, and that he was appointing his own supporters and Shias to high offices, while neglecting the old nobles.

The charges against Bairam Khan were not much serious in themselves, but he (Bairam Khan) became egoistical, and hence failed to realize that Akbar was growing up. In fact, there was friction on a petty matter, which made Akbar realize that he could not leave the state affairs in someone else’s hands for any more.

To control Bairam Khan, Akbar played his cards cleverly. He left Agra on the pretext of hunting, and came Delhi. From Delhi, Akbar issued a farman(summon) dismissed Bairam Khan from his office, and ordered all the nobles to come and submit to him personally.

The farman made Bairam Khan realizethat Akbar wanted to take power in his own hands; so, he was prepared to submit, but his opponents were keen to ruin him. They heaped humiliation upon him until he was goaded to rebel.

The rebellion distracted the empire for almost six months. Finally, Bairam Khan was forced to submit in Akbar’s court; Akbar received him cordially, and gave him the option of serving at the court (anywhere), or retiring to Mecca.

Bairam Khan chose to retire to Mecca. On his way to Mecca, he was assassinated at Patan near Ahmadabad by an Afghan who bore him a personal grudge.

Bairam Khan’s wife and a young child were brought to Akbar at Agra. Akbar married Bairam Khan’s widow (who was also his cousin), and brought up the child as his


own son.

Bairam Khan’s child later became popular as Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan and held some of the most significant offices and commands in the Mughal Empire.

During Bairam Khan’s rebellion, some groups and individuals in the nobility became politically active. The group included Akbar’s foster-mother, Maham Anaga, and her relatives. However, Maham Anaga soon withdrew from politics.

Maham Anaga’s son, Adham Khan, was an impetuous young man. He assumed independent airs when he had been sent to command an expedition against Malwa. He claimed the post of the wazir, and when this was not accepted, he stabbed the acting wazir in his office. His tyrannical act enraged Akbar. In 1561, Adham Khan had been thrown down from the parapet of the fort and he died.

Much before Akbar’s maturity and establishing hishim to triumph.

From Jaunpur, Akbar directly moved to Lahore, forced Mirza Hakim to retire. Meanwhile, the rebellion of the Mirza’s was crushed, the Mirzas fled to Malwa and thence to Gujarat.

In 1567, Akbar returned back to Jaunpur from Lahore. Crossing the river Yamuna nearby Allahabad (at the peak of the rainy season), Akbar surprised the rebels led by the Uzbek nobles and completely routed them out.

The Uzbek leaders were killed in the battle; likewise, their protracted rebellion came to an end.


Hillary Clinton is getting serious about winning Florida in 2016.

On Tuesday, the Clinton campaign announced its Florida Leadership Council, a high-profile team of more than 150 top Democrats from all corners of the Sunshine State.

As noted by Marc Caputo and POLITICO, the list of Clinton’s endorsements dwarfs those of her two rivals – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley – which also mirrors her domination in Florida polling.

Included in this august group is everyone who is anyone in Democratic politics: state and local party leaders, members of Congress, mayors, fundraisers – and Congressman Alan Grayson.

What makes the outspoken liberal from Orlando – and candidate for U.S. Senate – stand out in this crowd is that it will be the first time Grayson publicly supportstop end portion with a rib extending thereacross, and said rib being of greater thickness than the thickness of the top end portion, said device comprising a member having at least one slot at least as long as the bag width, the slot being narrower than the ri thickness but of a width which will freely receive the bag top portion thickness, and an entrance into the slot through which the top end portion of the bag can insert by movement longitudinally along the slot for storage of the bag on the device with the rib located at one side of the slot and the remainder of the bag located at the opposite side of the slot.


INCORPORATED,

            Petitioner,

      v.

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

            Respondent.

On Petition for Review of Final Agency Action of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency.

Argued: December 7, 2017                                     Decided: July 20, 2018

Before NIEMEYER and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and Paula XINIS, United States District
Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Petition for review granted, final agency action vacated, and remanded for further
proceedings by published opinion. Judge Agee wrote theopinion, in which Judge
Niemeyer and Judge Xinis joined.

ARGUED: Jonathan Grant Hardin, PERKINS COIE LLP, Washington, D.C., for
Petitioner. Patrick Reinhold Jacobi, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: LeAnn M. Johnson, PERKINS COIE
LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Jeffrey H. Wood, Acting Assistant Attorney
General, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Susan Stahle, UNITED STATES
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
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AGEE, Circuit Judge:

       Until 2011, Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. enjoyed an exemption as a small refinery

from the Environmental Protection Agency’s renewable fuel standard program, which

requires refineries and other facilities to allocate a certain percentage of their fuel

production to renewable fuels. When Ergon filed for an extension of the small refinery

exemption, the EPA denied its petition on the basis


   Ergon owns a refinery in Newell, West Virginia, with a maximum crude oil

capacity of 23,000 barrels per day, well under the small refinery threshold. The facility

primarily produces paraffinic lube oils, and the transportation fuels it produces are

byproducts of that lube oil production. 6 Nearly all (99%) of Ergon’s transportation fuels

are sold within a 170-mile radius of the facility.

       In April 2016, Ergon filed a petition with the EPA for a small refinery exemption

for compliance years 2014, 2015, and 2016. In its petition, Ergon claimed that it is at an

economic disadvantage because, while there was a widespread market for blended

gasoline, there was no such market for blended diesel. Ergon also claimed that its ability

to comply with the Program was limitedThe international criminal court has freed the former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo after his shock acquittal in January on charges of crimes against humanity.

Supporters sang and waved flags in The Hague after judges decided to release the 73-year-old on condition that he stays in an as-yet-unnamed country pending an appeal by the prosecution.

Gbagbo, the first former head of state ever to stand trial at the ICC, and his aide Charles Ble Goude were cleared on 15 January over a wave of violence after disputed elections in the west African nation in 2010.

More than 3,000 people died on both sides after Gbagbo refused to concede defeat to his internationally backed-rival – and now president – Alassane Ouattara.

Gbagbo and Ble Goude were accused of playing a role in murder,


[Food insecurity and nutritional status of preschool children in Mexico].
To describe the relation between malnutrition and food insecurity (FI) in preschool children from Mexico. Information of 10 513 preschool children and their families was analyzed. The FI was measured through the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (ELCSA). Adjusted prevalence of FI and malnutrition with related variables were assessed by logistic regression. 31% of households had moderate and server FI. Rural and south, indigenous households, in the Q1 and Q2, showed the highest prevalence of moderate and severe FI as well. We observed a high tendency of malnutrition in the severe FI group; the prevalence of overweight was similar in the four groups of FI. Conclusions. The risk of chronic malnutrition is 42% bigger in children lessthe next ten years. Though India crossed over 1,000 units per person in the last year, it is still far behind the global per capita consumption levels of 5,000 units.

According to Minister of New and Renewable Energy RK Singh, the potential for energy saving in India is immense. As per a report by the World Bank titled 'Utility scale DSM opportunities and business models in India', the size of the energy efficiency market is Rs 1.6 trillion, having risen four times in six years from Rs 440 billion in 2010.

The minister's point on energy efficiency is reiterated by the industry. One of the leading suppliers of energy efficiency products in the market has pointed out that the demand for such products is ever increasing as the awareness level


A review of books, articles and blog posts by Judge — a freelance writer who has shifted among jobs at a record store, substitute teaching, housesitting and most recently at a liquor store — describes an ’80s private-school party scene in which heavy drinking and sexual encounters were standard fare.

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Judge wrote about the pledge he and his friends at the all-male school on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, Md., made to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation. On their way to that goal, there was a “disastrous” party “at my house where the place was trashed,” Judge wrote in his book “God and Man at Georgetown Prep.” Kavanaugh listed himself in the class yearbook as treasurer of the “100 Kegs or Bust” club.

“I’ll be the first onegirls, heavy petting was basically an orgy.”

While many of his classmates moved on to careers in law, politics, business and education, Judge seemed to some friends to stay fixed in the experiences of his adolescence. Over time, his politics shifted from left to right, and his writing often focused on his view of masculinity (“the wonderful beauty of uncontrollable male passion”) and his concern that gay culture was corroding traditional values.

In one column for Acculturated, Judge wrote that it is “important that for some brief moments in his life — preferably when he is young — a man should be, at times, arrogant, a little reckless, and looking for kicks.”

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Judge — who did not respond to emails and phone calls requesting comment and who has deleted his Twitter


into trouble, and science and psychotherapy are useless to explain it. I just liked causing trouble.”

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Judge has written about his Prep years as a time of drunken debauchery. Beach Week, a summertime excursion with classmates, was a nonstop roller coaster of drinking, sexual encounters with girls from other prep schools, blackouts and more drinking. “It was impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated,” he wrote.

Such experiences filled weekends during the school year as well, and on Monday mornings during senior year, the boys would tell their Marriage and Sex teacher, Bernie Ward, about their excesses.

“The drinking was unbelievable,” said Ward, who later spent two decades as a radio talk-show host in San Francisco and served six years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. “It was partpolitics.

Like Kavanaugh, Judge grew up in a Catholic Washington that formed its own social world, centered in the big old houses of Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Potomac, places today known as home to millionaires but through most of the second half of the 20th century communities where police officers, civil servants and teachers lived alongside lawyers and doctors.

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The big houses were perfect for large Catholic families, and the lives of kids and parents alike revolved around a core set of institutions — parishes such as Our Lady of Mercy in Potomac and Blessed Sacrament in upper Northwest Washington, and the private Catholic high schools within easy reach, such as St. John’s College, Georgetown Visitation, Stone Ridge and Georgetown Prep.

Judge spent two decades in Catholic education, from Our Lady


Catcher in the Rye.’ ”

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“I was a Catholic illiterate kept that way in a Catholic school,” he wrote in “God and Man.”

Judge spent years struggling with his faith. He relished boxing with God, questioning and testing his beliefs. He read his father’s copies of books by G.K. Chesterton and Thomas Merton, works that embraced the mystery of faith, an idea that appealed to Judge’s belief that the most complete people are those who, as Chesterton wrote, have “permitted the twilight . . . with one foot in earth and the other in fairyland.”

Judge, whose father worked as a writer and editor at National Geographic, launched his own journalism career writing for left-leaning magazines and journals devoted to change in the Catholic Church. But he soon concluded that hehad been led astray by liberals and secularists, and he turned toward conservative views on faith, culture and politics.

A talented polemicist with a broad array of passions and interests, Judge writes often on movies, rock and video games, on theology and on what he views as the fallen nature of American masculinity. He has written in praise of handkerchiefs, “The Lego Movie,” Hugh Hefner, Marvel Comics’ creation of a Muslim superhero, and his favorite band, the Twilight Sad. He has lamented the decline of great album cover art, the crew cut and the art of conversation.

He writes often about his father, a towering figure in his life. “I wanted to be like him,” Judge wrote in one of his memoirs, “maybe even become a famous writer.”

Judge aimed to


follow in his father’s professional footsteps, and he has been published in many local and national magazines and newspapers. His book about his grandfather, Washington Senators first baseman Joe Judge, won praise from The Post, NPR and the Boston Herald.

But he also earned a reputation as a prickly writer who could be difficult to work with, according to several of his editors.

“Doctors have called it attention deficit disorder, psychiatrists have cited my behavior as a cry for attention from my distant, drinking father, but at the end of the day I simply had a problem with authority,” Judge wrote in “Wasted.” His behavior when he was drinking was, he wrote, “not dignified.”

In the 1990s, he wrote about the D.C. arts scene for Washington City Paper, the alternative weeklythat served as an early career stop for many prominent writers.

In 1998, Judge wrote a piece about 1950s-era swing dancing, recalled Brad McKee, the arts editor at the time. But when Judge pitched more articles about swing dancing, McKee rejected them; the weekly was more focused on the District’s booming punk-rock scene.

McKee said Judge blew up at him after the rejections. McKee, who is gay, said Judge sent a vituperative email wishing him the same fate as Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was beaten and left to die in Wyoming in 1998.

“He shows signs of true hatred,” said McKee, now the editor of Landscape Architecture magazine. “It was one of those few kind of showstopping moments at the paper.”

McKee said he forwarded the email to his


rape, a crime that I think is almost akin to murder . . . what women wear and their body language also send signals about their sexuality.”

As far back as 1985, as a student at Catholic University, he wrote empathetic pieces in the student newspaper about the then-new AIDS epidemic, slamming “the attitude dominant in Amerikan Kulture” that gay sex was unnatural and the disease “some punishment from ‘heaven.’ ”

But as his political views shifted, so did his approach to sex and sexuality.

In 2003, a student named Eric Ruyak reported to school authorities that a Jesuit priest who was a teacher at Georgetown Prep had touched him inappropriately. Some Prep alumni, including Judge, rallied around the teacher, the Rev. Garrett Orr, according to several Prep graduates.

“Numerous alumni toldSan Francisco

ON June 23, 1982, in Detroit, a young man named Vincent Chin died. Four nights earlier, he had been enjoying his bachelor party with friends at a local bar when they were accosted by two white men, who blamed them for the success of Japan’s auto industry. “It’s because of you we’re out of work,” they were said to have shouted, adding a word that can’t be printed here. The men bludgeoned Mr. Chin, 27, with a baseball bat until his head cracked open.

The men — a Chrysler plant supervisor named Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz — never denied the acts, but they insisted that the matter was simply a bar brawl that had ended badly for one of the parties. In an agreement with


in cities across the country. For all that Asians had been through — racial exclusion, starting with a ban on Chinese migrant labor in 1882; the unconstitutional detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II; the legacy of America’s wars in the Philippines, Korea and Vietnam — no single episode involving an individual Asian-American had ever had such an effect before. And none has since.facie case of age discrimination, and Smith appealed.  Because the appellant did not defer first to state remedies by commencing proceedings under the appropriate state law before bringing suit under the ADEA, we now vacate the decision of the district court and dismiss appellant's claim.

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* On October 3, 1980, GSI hired appellant Smith, then 57 years old, to be an Applications Engineer/Sales Person in its Eastern Region motor division office in Boston.  A year later the company transferred him to the Central Region office in Chicago, as a Sales Engineer, to promote GSI's two basic products, Electro-Optical (laser) Scanners and Electro-Mechanical (strip chart) Recorders.  However, Smith was notified by letter dated December 9, 1983, that GSI was closing its Central Region sales office, and that


Smith's duties would terminate on December 31, 1983.  The reason given for the termination was that GSI was forced to reduce its sales staff "because of a second year of flat sales and reduced profits."    Smith was then 60 years old.

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Smith filed a charge of age discrimination with the Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations on June 26, 1984.  That agency returned the charge to him for lack of jurisdiction over an employer located in Massachusetts.  Thereafter, on September 5 of that year, he submitted the charge to the Boston office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission;  the EEOC replied that it would not proceed further with its processing of Smith's charge.  Smith's third filing was this action,447 (4th Cir.1986).  In Cornett the West Virginia plaintiff filed his age discrimination charge with the U.S. Department of Labor in its West Virginia office.  The Labor Department transferred it to the EEOC, which reviewed the complaint in Philadelphia (the geographical jurisdiction of the employer's office) and in California (the employer's principal place of business).  After an unsuccessful attempt at conciliation, the Labor Department, EEOC, and California State Department of Fair Employment and Housing notified the plaintiff that he could proceed as a private litigant.  However, when he did, the district court dismissed his action for failure to commence state proceedings.  On appeal the Fourth Circuit affirmed, relying on the Oscar Mayer holding that the commencement of state proceedings under section 633(b) is


Convergence is in the air again, but this time the focus is not on multi-media phones or bizarre combinations of functions like pacemakers with integrated MP3 players and DAB radios.

The real interest at the moment is convergence at the service delivery end, following NTL's purchase of Virgin Mobile last week and Sky's earlier acquisition of internet service provider Easynet.

Virgin TV, as the combined NTL/Virgin business is likely to be branded later this year, will be the first combined communications company in the UK to offer cable TV, broadband, and both fixed-line and mobile telephone services to its customers.

Most people call this "quadplay", though Virgin's Richard Branson prefers the seaside postcard-level double entendre of "fourplay", and it is being pushed as the next big thing for communications companies, whetherSeptember) weekend and ending with the last Saturday of November. The next time that a 12-game regular season will be allowed is 2024.

"Week Zero"
The regular season began with two games on Saturday, August 24:
Villanova def. No. 13 Colgate, 34–14
FCS Kickoff (Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama): Youngstown State def. Samford, 45–22

FCS team wins over FBS teams
(FCS rankings from the STATS poll, FBS rankings from the AP poll.)
August 29:
Central Arkansas 35, Western Kentucky 28
September 7:
Southern Illinois 45, UMass 20
September 14:
The Citadel 27, Georgia Tech 24 OT

Non-DI team wins over FCS teams
September 7:
Kentucky State 13, Robert Morris 7
East Stroudsburg 24, Wagner 14
Virginia Union 36, Hampton 17
Truman 10, Drake 7
Midwestern State 33, Northwestern State 7
Tarleton State 37, Stephen F. Austin 26
September 14:
Taylor (IN) 17, Butler 14
September 21:
Truman 38, Valparaiso 7
September 28:
Charleston (WV)


The 5-star Aqua Hotel provides guests with a tranquil accommodation featuring medical service, laundry and 24-hour security. The property opened in 1992 and features Mediterranean architecture.

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of Battlefield 3, a remarkable game with varied missions in gorgeous environments, featuring a wide range of weapons and awesome array of vehicles. Since then DICE has been consistent in keeping up with its promised release schedule. DICE launches an expansion every three months and refreshes the . . . → Read More: EA’s ‘BattleField 3: AfterMath’ Game Review

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In an assessment sure to send shivers down Obama-camp spines, Todd added that "Romney appears to have the advantages going into the next couple of weeks." View the video after the jump.

Todd was careful to add a couple outs, relating to tonight's debate and other possible game-changers. But consider Todd's statement of last week, in which he saw a "structural shift" favoring Romney in the polling numbers, couple it with his pronouncement of today, and it seems clear that


Penn Jillette has made a career of challenging “Bullshit,” at least as he sees it. The Centre for Inquiry Canada hosted an event at JJR MacLeod Auditorium on Saturday night featuring the magician and TV personality. Jillette is best known as part of the Las Vegas magic duo Penn and Teller, and hosted the Showtime TV program Bullshit! from 2003 to 2011.

Jillette spoke at the event as part of a tour for his new book Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday, which tells anecdotes from his life. The speaking engagement featured the retelling of some of the events described in the book, along with other stories. Jillette often related these accounts to secular ethical maxims.

During the event Jillette said that his inspiration for writing the book, as wellas his previous book God, No!, was an exchange with TV and radio personality Glenn Beck, a Mormon and American conservative pundit. During an argument between Beck and Jillette regarding the showing of the Ten Commandments in the US Supreme Court, Beck suggested to Jillette that he write his own “Ten Commandments of atheism,” which Jillette did. He later expanded upon this idea in two books.

Secularism, the principle of separation of government and religious institutions, has garnered recent public attention as a result of the “New Atheism” movement, which has been advanced by a series of books by Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and the late Christopher Hitchens. The movement has been praised largely for bringing issues of secularism and humanism to greater prominence, while also criticized


The world is the planet Earth and all life
upon it, including human civilization.
In a philosophical context, the "world" is
the whole of the physical Universe, or an
ontological world (the "world" of an individual).
In a theological context, the world is the
material or the profane sphere, as opposed
to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent
or sacred spheres.
"End of the world" scenarios refer to the
end of human history, often in religious contexts.
The history of the world is commonly understood
as spanning the major geopolitical developments
of about five millennia, from the first civilizations
to the present.
In terms such as world religion, world language,
world government, and world war, the term
world suggests an international or intercontinental
scope without necessarily implying participation
of every part of the world.
The world population is the sum of all human
populations at any time; similarly, the world
economy isthe sum of the economies of all
societies or countries, especially in the
context of globalization.
Terms such as "world championship", "gross
world product", and "world flags" imply the
sum or combination of all sovereign states.
== Etymology and usage ==
The English word world comes from the Old
English weorold (-uld), weorld, worold (-uld,
-eld), a compound of wer "man" and eld "age,"
which thus means roughly "Age of Man."
The Old English is a reflex of the Common
Germanic *wira-alđiz, also reflected in Old
Saxon werold, Old Dutch werilt, Old High German
weralt, Old Frisian warld and Old Norse verǫld
(whence the Icelandic veröld).The corresponding
word in Latin is mundus, literally "clean,
elegant", itself a loan translation of Greek
cosmos "orderly arrangement."
While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological
notion of a "domain of Man" (compare Midgard),
presumably as opposed to the divine sphere
on the one


hand and the chthonic sphere of
the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin
term expresses a notion of creation as an
act of establishing order out of chaos.
"World" distinguishes the entire planet or
population from any particular country or
region: world affairs pertain not just to
one place but to the whole world, and world
history is a field of history that examines
events from a global (rather than a national
or a regional) perspective.
Earth, on the other hand, refers to the planet
as a physical entity, and distinguishes it
from other planets and physical objects.
"World" was also classically used to mean
the material universe, or the cosmos: "The
worlde is an apte frame of heauen and earthe,
and all other naturall thinges contained in
them."
The earth was often described as "the center
of the world".The term can also be used attributively,
to mean "global",or "relating to the whole
world", forming usages such as world community
or world canonical texts.By extension, a world
may refer to any planet or heavenly body,
especially when it is thought of as inhabited,
especially in the context of science fiction
or futurology.
World, in its original sense, when qualified,
can also refer to a particular domain of human
experience.
The world of work describes paid work and
the pursuit of a career, in all its social
aspects, to distinguish it from home life
and academic study.
The fashion world describes the environment
of the designers, fashion houses and consumers
that make up the fashion industry.
historically, the New World vs. the Old World,
referring to the parts of the world colonized
in the wake of the age of discovery.
Now mostly used in zoology and botany, as
in New World monkey.
== Philosophy ==
In philosophy, the term world


distinct
worlds: the sensible world and the intelligible
world.
=== Hegel ===
In Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's philosophy
of history, the expression Weltgeschichte
ist Weltgericht (World History is a tribunal
that judges the World) is used to assert the
view that History is what judges men, their
actions and their opinions.
Science is born from the desire to transform
the World in relation to Man; its final end
is technical application.
=== Schopenhauer ===
The World as Will and Representation is the
central work of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Schopenhauer saw the human will as our one
window to the world behind the representation;
the Kantian thing-in-itself.
He believed, therefore, that we could gain
knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something
Kant said was impossible, since the rest of
the relationship between representation and
thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy
to the relationship between human will and
human body.
=== Wittgenstein ===
Two definitions that were both put forward
inthe 1920s, however, suggest the range of
available opinion.
"The world is everything that is the case,"
wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in his influential
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published
in 1921.
This definition would serve as the basis of
logical positivism, with its assumption that
there is exactly one world, consisting of
the totality of facts, regardless of the interpretations
that individual people may make of them.
=== Heidegger ===
Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that "the
surrounding world is different for each of
us, and notwithstanding that we move about
in a common world".
The world, for Heidegger, was that into which
we are always already "thrown" and with which
we, as beings-in-the-world, must come to terms.
His conception of "world disclosure" was most
notably elaborated in his 1927 work Being
and Time.
=== Freud ===
In response, Sigmund Freud proposed that we
do not move about in a common world, but a
common thought


and
the Ladder of Divine Ascent (the works of
Evagrius and John Climacus are also contained
within the Philokalia).
At the highest level of world transcendence
is hesychasm which culminates into the Vision
of God.
==== Orbis Catholicus ====
Orbis Catholicus is a Latin phrase meaning
Catholic world, per the expression Urbi et
Orbi, and refers to that area of Christendom
under papal supremacy.
It is somewhat similar to the phrases secular
world, Jewish world and Islamic world.
=== Islam ===
Dunya derives from the root word "dana" that
means to bring near.
In that sense, "dunya" is "what is brought
near".
=== Hinduism ===
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma,
or a way of life, widely practised in the
Indian subcontinent.
It includes a number of Indian religious traditions
with a loose sense of interconnection, as
different from Jainism and Buddhism, and (since
medieval and modern times) Islam and Christianity.
Hinduism has beenorganizations are often wrong in their reporting. Fifty-five percent of U.S. adults say that news organizations' stories and reports are "often inaccurate." In contrast, 36% say news organizations generally get the facts straight.

These are also not new perceptions; Americans have been saying for quite some time that news organizations are inaccurate. In December 2000, when another controversial election made headlines, 65% said the media was often inaccurate. But at several other points before 2000, Americans were either more likely to say the media got the facts straight or closely divided in their opinions on the matter.

A separate poll conducted in September 2016 mirrors the latest results showing views of the news media as often inaccurate, with 32% of Americans reporting a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust


in the news media to report the news fairly and accurately.

Bottom Line

During the 2016 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump and the GOP often said Hillary Clinton received favorable -- even preferential -- news coverage, while Democrats lamented that the media aired Trump's speeches and events uninterrupted. Overall, Americans' belief that the media favors one party over the other is the highest it has been in more than 20 years.

Amid Trump's accusations of media bias and inaccurate reporting over the past year or so, the frenzy over media bias has seemed to reach a fever pitch. Trump has labeled certain media organizations as purveyors of "fake news" and has referred to them as "the enemy of the people." Politicians, academics, talk radio hosts and other critics have also accusedTuesday, November 20, 2012

Remembering the Teton Dam disaster...

I was on an a morning rock-climbing jaunt at Heise Hot Springs when the Teton Dam broke on June 5, 1976.

Growing rupture in earthfill dam swallows Cats

Some time that morning, the as the breach in the Teton dam began to manifest, observers had raised the alarm that the dam was in danger of failing.

A couple of Caterpillar operators had tried to push dirt and rocks into the breach, but were swallowed up by the growing chasm. The men escaped, but the bulldozers were swept into the gulf and lost forever.

The Teton Dam bursts

On returning from the rock-climbing, we noticed that the Rexburg radio stations were no longer on the air. We had no inkling of the flood.

As we stopped at a


was apparent that the story was no exaggeration. The vista across the valley was a virtual lake.

Flooded Rexburg

At the transition to pavement we encountered a massive traffic jam of vehicles, driven by people from Rexburg who had gathered there, fleeing from the flood.

The Ricks College campus is built on the slope overlooking the valley, and was not flooded, but the water spread far and wide through downtown Rexburg and other smaller towns across the valley.

I left off my passengers at the Ricks College student union building, and attempted to travel across the main highway on the west side of town to reach my apartment. As I approached, the water was beginning to recede. Crossing the highway in my old Ford pickup, the water just reached up to themiddle of the doors.

Flooded highway

That summer I had been staying in a basement apartment in the home of Dr Sam Brewster on the southwest end of town. We had been working together on an agriculture research project. I forged through the swirling floodwaters and approached the home, just as the water began to ebb.

Flooded Rexburg home

As I approached the home on the mud-covered roads, everything else appeared to be normal. But as I drove up, I saw that the driveways and sidewalks were buried deep in the slick silty mud deposited by the flood waters.

I opened the garage door of the house, and went inside to inspect the basement. The entrance to the basement was completely filled to the top with water. It looked just like a muddy


the back yard mud, books and clothing and bed sheets, all wadded up in a sodden, muddy mess.

I gave up on trying to salvage anything of my belongings at that moment, and decided to instead begin work on clearing away the slimy mud that was covering the driveway and sidewalks. I located an old snowshovel in the wreckage of the garage and began attempting to shovel some of the mess out into the street.

Right about that time, Sam Brewster drove up. He expressed great relief on finding me well, as I had been out of contact since the flood hit.

We started in on trying to clean things up. It was a horrible mess, with all that stinking mud, and we wanted to shovel it off before it starteddrying.

Anyway, after our initial cleanup effort I went back into town and talked to Doc Lowder, one of the Ricks College professors. Doc said I could move back into the Delti Phi house where I had been staying earlier. It was on higher ground and had escaped the flood. So I had a place to take a bath and sleep.

The next day was Sunday, but I had no clean clothes to wear to church. All I had was the filthy stuff I had been wearing to clean up the mud. I went up to the Ricks College gym building, and they had a big collection of donated clothing, so I rummaged through it and found some trousers and a clean shirt to put on.

As I later found out,


President Eyring, who was then president of Ricks College, had taken steps to mobilize disaster relief efforts from the Church. He also opened up the facilities of the Ricks College campus for victims of the flood to take refuge. The cafeteria began serving meals to flood victims, and continued for several months.

As I recall, we had a very short Church meeting, and the branch president encouraged everyone to go out and do what they could to help the cleanup effort.

Also that Sunday, the phone company had set up a bank of emergency phones on the Ricks campus, and I was able to call my parents in southern California to assure them that I was okay. They had seen the news about the flood, but were unable to callno phone service and no way to communicate.

I drove out the highway that heads northwest out of Rexburg toward the Hibbard area, and found part of the road obstructed by houses that had been lifted off their foundation by the flood.

Teton River after flooding

After threading through the houses sitting in the middle of the road road, I approached the crossing of the Teton River. It had been scoured bare by the surging flood water. There were no standing trees or vegetation left. I bounced my pickup through the maze of cobblestones across the bare river channel. What had been a peaceful quiet flowing small stream of water now seemed to be something like a half mile wide.

After crossing the denuded river bed, I arrived in the Hibbard area


and higher ground. Joe's house appeared to be untouched by the flood - it was high and dry. As I drove up to the house, Erna was out trying to water her flowers from a watering can, and Joe was in the garage frying up meat on his Coleman stove, because the power had been out there since the flood, and all the food from their freezer was thawing.

Anyway, Joe said they had climbed up onto the roof of the house to watch the flood. The waters had parted around them, so their little neighborhood was a virtual island. But they were doing just fine.

Flood cleanup efforts continued. Dr Brewster's basement was pumped out and the mud scooped up. We set up a little reclamation station on hisdriveway, with Wilma running the hose trying to wash off the mud from items we were retrieving from the basement. Initially we tried putting some of the washable stuff through the washing machine, but the mud proved too much for the laundry, and we abandoned that effort.

Sam's academic book collection was not salvageable. The Bureau of Reclamation flood relief team recommeded to the people of Rexburg that floodwater contamination was likely to have spoiled all home-canned preserves, so we discarded hundreds of bottles of food that had been so laboriously prepared by Wilma. There was also tons of food storage wheat that had been in the basement, and was spoiled by the flood waters. Most all of the children's toys had been in the basement, and were ruined


by the muddy water. Of course all the major furniture was ruined and beyond salvage.

The water in Sam's basement had just lapped at the ceiling in most places, so none of the upstairs part of the house was too damaged. But all the sheetrock in the basement was ruined by the muddy water, and had to be ripped out.

When we finally had everything cleaned up and torn down to bare studs, there was one final insulting reminder of the flood. Turns out, the flood had carried silt and gravel into the sewers throughout Rexburg, and the sewage was no longer being carried away. Enough sewage backed up through the connection to the house that it began flooding out of the plumbing opening for the toilet that had beenthere.

Raw sewage began gushing out in a stinking geyser, and flooded the basement with several inches of filthy standing water, and other things the sewage brought. We reported the problem to the city, and they sent a vacuum truck to clean out the local sewer connections in the neighborhood the next day.

As we continued to work on recovering Sam's basement, I eventually had a bit of time to spend ranging around and exploring the area. I was amazed and dismayed at the devastation.

Junk piled up in the front yard, flooded Rexburg home

Prior to the flood, one of the people I had befriended in the Rexburg area lived on a ranch just northeast of town. It was a family with all daughters that for some reason had a number


of horses that the girls would no longer ride. I spent a number of weekend afternoons on that ranch, helping exercise the horses for them.

After the flood, I took a trip up to that area to see what had become of them. It was as if the face of the earth had been scoured clean. There was no trace left of the ranch house or barns, not even foundations to be seen. I never found out what happened to those people.

Throughout Rexburg, people had lived in their basements for years. The floodwaters made a wreck of many homes in just a few hours time.

Rexburg home basement ruins

On the north end of Rexburg, there had been a sawmill on the banks of the Teton River. Much of the flooddamage sustained in that area resulted from sawlogs that drifted on the surge. Logs were jammed up against the side of home and buildings, and many of them gave way under the pressure of the logs in the current.

Log damaged homes in Rexburg

Businesses along the highway going north out of Rexburg were destroyed by log and water damage. The highway paving itself was pretty much gone. The first time I braved the highway north, it was just a dirt path threaded through logjams and wreckage bulldozed out of the way by a big Caterpillar.

Rexburg gas station on north highway

Some of the Rexburg businesses on the north end of town were farm implement dealers, and they were virtually wiped out.

Wrecked farm machinery north Rexburg

Most of the little town of


Sugar City on the bank of the Teton River was virtually swept away in the flood. In many areas, bare foundations were left by the flood waters.

Sugar City flood damage

Some time later, the Bureau of Reclamation set up desks in the gym at the Ricks College campus for people to file damage claims.

People filing damage claims at Ricks gym

Turns out less than a dozen people were killed in the flood, but many hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage were sustained. Tens of thousands of cattle and horses were killed, along with many other domestic and wild animals in the flooded area. Estimates are that the Bureau of Reclamation spent $100 million to construct the Teton Dam, then caused up to $2 billion in damages from theFormer Borders employee Greg Popek Quit to spread the union's message to other stores in the chain.

Six months ago 45 staffers at Borders Books & Music in Lincoln Park made history when they became the first employees of a national bookstore chain to vote in a union, Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. No one involved in the campaign expected that Borders would make it easy for them once the vote went through, and so far that appears to be the case.

Contract negotiations are proceeding at a snail's pace. "The talks are going slowly, but I can't say anything about specifics," says Mark Gregory, the Lincoln Park store manager since last October. Employee Chris Grant, who led the union drive and is one of those


representing the rank and file at the bargaining table, says the two sides are meeting only every couple of weeks. "It's a common union-busting tactic to stretch out negotiations and get people frustrated," says Grant, who couldn't predict when the two sides would agree on a contract. "We have worked out a new grievance procedure that wasn't in place before," but crucial salary and health-insurance issues have barely been discussed.

In a move that caught some Borders staffers by surprise, Greg Popek, a former Borders employee who helped organize and sustain the unionizing movement, left the Lincoln Park store a couple of weeks ago to become a Local 881 representative. He says he made the switch because he'd worked in retail for nearly 20 years and was ready tovote have left the store for one reason or another--a whopping 45 percent turnover in just six months. He says the average turnover for the chain is around 30 percent. One of those who left in February was Tom Swiontek, who worked at the Borders in Schaumburg before moving to the Lincoln Park store. He admits to growing increasingly disenchanted with things there. "And I did not see the situation improving," he says, adding that management "seemed to become more antagonistic" toward the staff after the union vote. "I had a hard time with that."

Grant says he's also been struck by a change in disciplinary actions since the union vote last October. He points to one staffer who allegedly stole a "ten-cent piece of pita bread" from the


in-store cafe and was first suspended, then abruptly terminated a few days later. "I've never seen that level of discipline before," he says. Gregory would only confirm that an employee was fired.

How Many Bodies in the Pit?

The Walt Disney Company is known for keeping close tabs on expenses, a policy that has led to a confrontation with the Chicago Federation of Musicians, the union that represents pit musicians in Chicago-area musical-theater productions. At issue is how many musicians Disney must employ for the upcoming engagement of Beauty and the Beast, which begins an open run at the Chicago Theatre next October.

Disney has told the union it wants to employ 19 musicians at the 3,600-seat venue, but the union says Disney should hire 25, the same number now employedin the pit of the Broadway production at the Palace Theatre. Federation president Ed Ward maintains the union has agreements with all the other Loop theater venues specifying that any first national touring production of a Broadway musical running longer than a month must employ the same number of musicians as the original production. Ward sees no reason why Disney should be an exception. "I don't plan on jeopardizing my contacts with the other theaters just to accommodate Disney," he says.

According to Ward's calculations, the touring production of Beauty could gross as much as $1.3 million a week with a capacity crowd at the Chicago Theatre and a $70 top ticket. Putting another six musicians in the pit and giving the show the original Broadway sound would cost


the revenue generated from renting the newly renovated theater space. The touring production of Sunset Boulevard is there for 11 weeks this spring, and a touring Phantom of the Opera will have the same slot in 1998.

And for the first time in recent memory, Lyric will have a rent-paying tenant during the Christmas holidays, when the opera company traditionally doesn't perform: a touring production of Annie.

Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Photo of Greg Popek by Jon Randolph.[Analysis of the results of the eradication campaign against the Aedes aegypti mosquito in the municipality of Consolación del Sur].
This report examines the results of the Campaign of Eradication of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti in the Consolación del Sur district in Pinar del Rio, in the period ranging from August 1, 1981, to December 28, 1984, which included the intensive stage and the first 18 cycles of the consolidation stage. Data was tabulated and statistically elaborated. A significant decrease in the number of Aedes aegypti foci was found from the intensive stage on, and in this stage the largest figure of foci for this species was found. It was noted that no significant differences exist between urban and rural areas. Likewise, a larger number and distribution of foci


Fired U.S. Attorney Among Those Who Appealed DOJ's Hiring Decision

We already knew that Michael Elston, chief of staff to the Deputy Attorney General and former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, weren't best buds. Their acrimonious phone calls over her December 2006 firing as U.S. attorney for San Diego are well known, but according to the DOJ Inspector General's report issued today, the two butted heads as early as October 2006, over the "deselection" of a young attorney for the Justice Department Honor's Program.

On October 11, 2006, Lam sent an email to Elston inquiring as to why a candidate, an honors graduate from Stanford Law School who had held a Federal clerkship, was unqualified. Lam told the OIG that she suspected the candidate was deselected because of a previous articleI don't?"

Elston replied: "Not that I know of, Carol."

Elston was found by the report to be in violation of federal law for hiring candidates on "political and ideological" grounds.

Before leaping to the conclusion that Lam's firing, which has yet to be fully explained, was prompted by the honors program dispute, keep in mind that Lam's name appeared on a preliminary list of U.S. attorneys to be fired as early as January 2006. She was then fired in December of that year, one of eight U.S. attorneys asked to resign by the Justice Department, but one of the only ones (at least initially) to put up a fight. At the time she was asked to leave, Lam was in the midst of securing indictments on CIA operative Dusty Foggo