Rachel Heath Cited in Article on Impacts of Ready-Made Garment Industry in Bangladesh

Affiliate Rachel Heath, Assistant Professor of Economics and CSDE Seminar Coordinator, was cited in a Dhaka Tribune article highlighting the positive socio-economic impacts of the ready-made garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh. The RMG industry has not only created jobs, reduced poverty, and enabled the nation to achieve its target GDP growth, but has also empowered women by providing them with employment opportunities and enabling them to build better lives for their children, particularly girls. The article points to a study by Heath and a colleague at Yale University, which demonstrated that there has been a 27% increase in the number of girls attending school in Bangladesh compared to before the RMG industry emerged.interview calls and trying to change my phone plan with the provider became so frustrating that I found myself shouting down the line from outside in the street as well as the very top of my house, and eventually bursting into tears and throwing the phone across the floor.

I also had to find a job as soon as possible, so I had to learn to hide my grief and panic, put on a face and go on as many interviews as I could land in the middle of summer when most executives are off on holidays, and convince countless people that I was a happy, competent, fun and skilled person they needed on their team. Putting on an act is something that does NOT come easily to someone


Turok (video game)

Turok is a first-person shooter video game developed by Propaganda Games, and published by Disney Interactive Studios (through its Touchstone Games banner) for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in February 2008. It was ported on to Microsoft Windows in April 2008.

The game is loosely based on the comic book series of the same title and is unrelated to the story and setting of previous Turok video games. Players assume the role of Native American space marine Joseph Turok, who is part of a team sent to a remote planet to apprehend General Roland Kane, Turok's former commanding officer, who is now a wanted war criminal. After crash landing, Turok discovers that the planet is home to all manner of dinosaurs, and must fight bothHe went on to say that developers were planning to release a patch removing Grab Bag if excessive team killing became a problem after launch. In the launch version of the game, however, while the "Grab Bag" Achievement is still present, it removed the requirement of killing a teammate, and is awarded after the player kills an enemy, a dinosaur, and themselves in the same match. A Map pack called the "Velociraptor Pack" was later released, containing two new multiplayer maps, one new Co-op map, and 2 refurbished maps, which now take place at night.

The online multiplayer for the PlayStation 3 version has been permanently shutdown since February 2011.

Plot

The player controls Corporal Joseph Turok (voiced by Gregory Cruz), former member of the Wolf Pack, a specialized military detachment


computer network connection, such as the popular Ethernet connection. Such a network connection typically contains a backbone, or main data communication routing path (such as wire connections within a building), together with numerous communication branches or paths connected to the backbone. A branch path may have one or more workstations or personal computers connected to the backbone via switches, which serve to connect multiple workstations and to pass communications as necessary from the workstations to the backbone.
Given this common type of multiple processor network connection, the resulting speed of communication between any two processors within the network is dependent upon the location of the each processor within the network. Generally, the fastest inter-processor communication is between two processors located within the same workstation or personal computer. In contrast,Rudi Gfaller, Austrian composer and his wife, the operetta singer Therese Wiet lived in Bad Ischl for many years and are buried in the Bad Ischl Cemetery

Twin towns
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See also
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References

External links

 Bad Ischl's government website
 Bad Ischl Tourist Board
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Magnolia, but his genuine love for his guild overrode the spell's effects. After he was defeated by Natsu Dragneel and Gajeel Redfox, Makarov expels him for endangering his guildmates, although he leaves on friendlier terms with them. He later joined Fairy Tail's battle against Hades on Sirius Island, and is reinstated into the guild by Gildarts Clive during the latter's brief period as guild master.

Gildarts Clive

 is an S-Class wizard who is regarded by Fairy Tail to be their most powerful member. He can break any object or spell he touches down into blocks using the magic , which requires Magnolia's streets to reconfigure into a single, narrow path towards the guild to prevent him from stumbling into buildings by mistake. Because he embarks on missions that havejet pack who performs the same magic his opponents use by swallowing them.

Raven Tail
 is a dark guild that acts independently from the Balam Alliance, and becomes an official guild shortly after Fairy Tail's return from Sirius Island. The guild is led by , Makarov Dreyar's estranged son and Laxus Dreyar's father, who is obsessed with acquiring Lumen Histoire, an act resulting in his expulsion from Fairy Tail six years earlier. Disguising himself as an armored wizard named , Ivan leads a five-wizard team in the Grand Magic Games that consists of , an imp who operates a humanoid puppet and drains wizards of their magic; , a young woman with prehensile hair that can transform and ignite; , a snake-like humanoid who mimics others' magic; and ,


from Extalia and Ichiya's counterpart from Edolas. Other members of the guild include Laxus Dreyar and the Raijin Tribe, who temporarily join Blue Pegasus during Fairy Tail's dissolution; and , a celestial wizard and Loke's first owner, who is killed by the Oración Seis' member Sorano three years before he meets Lucy Heartfilia.

Lamia Scale
 is one of Fiore's legal guilds, led by a cantankerous old woman named . It is famous in the kingdom for its ace member , a member of the Ten Wizard Saints who turns soil into iron-hard rock columns. A trio of defectors from the guild oppose Fairy Tail as Lyon Vastia's followers to take revenge against the demon Deliora for killing their families: the love-obsessed woman Sherry Blendy; , a man with largeGaluna Island to release the demon, intending to defeat it and prove his superiority over Ur. After discovering Deliora's death upon its release, Lyon decides to move on by joining Lamia Scale, becoming a cornerstone member of the guild. He also adopts the two-handed casting gesture Ur and Gray use, as well as Gray's stripping habit. Seven years later, Lyon humorously falls in love at first sight with Juvia Lockser, forming a love triangle with her and Gray; he later concedes her feelings for Gray after the latter is killed and resurrected by Ultear Milkovich. Following the character's initial role, Mashima commented that he enjoyed drawing Lyon again after his absence.

Sherry Blendy

, spelled "Blendi" in the English anime dub, is a love-obsessed woman whose romantic interest she feels


to foresee the dragons' moves within this critical time frame, preventing the deaths of several wizards. The spell also rapidly ages Ultear into an elderly woman, and she leaves Jellal and Merudy to assume that she has been killed in the attack.

Merudy

Adopted and raised by Ultear Milkovich as a survivor of her hometown's destruction, , spelled "Meldy" in the English dub, becomes one of Grimoire Heart's Seven Kin of Purgatory. She uses the Lost Magic  to synchronize the physical senses and emotions of two or more people, and the spell  to produce blades of light that directly affect their target's sense of pain. She participates in her guild's hunt for Fairy Tail's members on Sirius Island, making Gray Fullbuster her primary target, blaming him for hurtinggoverned by an all-powerful spirit called the , and are each named after and based on one of the 88 modern constellations. They are immortal and possess various magic powers and abilities, but lose their power when they remain outside their realm for extended periods of time, which is fatal to them.

Numerous spirits are summoned using store-bought silver keys, including , a breed of "dog" spirits kept by celestial wizards as pets; Lucy keeps a Nikora that she names , who is identical to the character of the same name from Hiro Mashima's earlier work, Rave Master. There are also twelve golden Gatekeys that summon more powerful spirits that are based on the zodiacal constellations, including Leo, the true form of Loke.  is a foul-tempered mermaid who


spell , transforming her body into ice to permanently freeze the demon. She remains alive in this form until Lyon melts her with the Moon Drip spell to release Deliora, essentially killing her as she drifts out to sea as water. Later, Ultear falls into the sea while dueling with Gray, causing her to experience her mother's memories. She realizes the truth of what transpired at the research facility, and that her assumption that Ur had abandoned her there is wrong.

Jude Heartfilia

A wealthy business tycoon and president of the esteemed Heartfilia Konzern,  is Lucy Heartfilia's father. Like Lucy, his name is based on a Beatles song - in this case "Hey Jude". After Layla's death, Jude's relationship with Lucy becomes fractured, which eventually leads to Lucy runningThe ADAG group entity, which already has 36.55% in the remittance major through a subsidiary called Reliance Money Express, is looking to infuse more capital through a preferential allotment.

This will eventually lead to a majority stake for the Ambani group, according to a source familiar with the development.

"We are looking to infuse funds. First, the shareholders must approve," said Sudip Bandyopadhyay, director & CEO, Reliance Money, who is also a member of the Wall Street board, talking to DNA Money from Hong Kong. He refused to give details.

Wall Street Finance itself is seeking a shareholder approval for alteration of share capital in an extraordinary general meeting on Friday. According to a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange, the company is seeking to pass an ordinary resolution wherein it


world's largest recipient of remittance money in 2008, amounting to $31 billion. The global business leader in this segment is Western Union. Reliance Money is aiming to break into this league through both international and local remittance business.

Wall St Finance has already applied to the Reserve Bank of India in October last to be a domestic money remittance licencee, which will compete with the money order business.

The company's shareholders will also consider a special resolution to give sweeping powers to the company's board of directors to decide on the time and mode of share allotment. Repeated attempts to contact Areef A Patel, promoter of Wall Street Finance, failed.

The Patel family, which runs the Patel Roadways, one of India's biggest fleet operators, was holding close to 66% stake inthis 20-year-old company. Late last year, the family transferred half of that stake to Reliance Money Express by selling Wall Street Constructions, another group firm, to Reliance Money Express.

By virtue of that transaction, Reliance Money became a co-promoter of Wall Street Finance because it got a 35% stake in the company. Subsequently Wall Street Constructions was merged with Reliance Money Express and the former now ceases to exist.

Meantime, both Reliance Money Express and the Patel family have been buying shares in the open market over the last two months, after this transaction. Reliance Money, which had a stake of 35.63% as on December 31, 2008, has upped it to 36.5% by buying over 1 lakh shares in the open market.

Areef A Patel also bought nearly 44,000 shares in


This little-known inventor has probably saved your life By Rebecca Seales

BBC News, in Melbourne Published duration 18 July 2019

image copyright Warren family collection image caption Hubert Warren (left) died in one of Australia's first major plane accidents

On Friday 19 October, 1934, the passenger plane Miss Hobart fell from the sky to the sea.

Eight men, three women and a baby boy fell with her, swallowed - it's believed - by the waters of the Bass Strait that lies between Tasmania and mainland Australia.

The plane's wreckage was never found.

One of those on board was a 33-year-old Anglican missionary, Rev Hubert Warren, who had been travelling to his new parish in Enfield, Sydney. His wife Ellie and four children had stayed behind, intending to follow by boat.

The reverend's last present tohis eight-year-old son, David, had been a crystal radio set that the boy treasured deeply.

As a boarder at Launceston Boys' Grammar School in Tasmania, David Warren tinkered with the machine after lessons, learning what made it work. He charged friends a penny to listen to cricket matches, and within a few years was selling home-made copies at five shillings each.

image copyright Warren family collection image caption As a schoolboy, David was fascinated by electronics and learned to build his own radio sets

Young David was charismatic and a wonderful orator - a boy with star quality. His family, who were deeply religious, dreamed he would become an evangelical preacher.

But that was not to be. The gift from Rev Hubert, Man of God, had launched a love affair with Science.

It


would prove to be of life-saving significance.

By his mid-twenties, David Warren had studied his way to a science degree from the University of Sydney, a diploma in education from Melbourne University and a PhD in chemistry from Imperial College, London.

His specialty was rocket science, and he went to work as a researcher for the Aeronautical Research Laboratories (ARL), a part of Australia's Defence Department that focused on planes.

In 1953, the department loaned him to an expert panel trying to solve a costly and distressing mystery: why did the British de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner and the great hope of the new Jet Age, keep crashing?

He thought it might be the fuel tanks; but there were dozens of possible causes and nothing but death anddebris as evidence. The panel sat down to discuss what they knew.

"People were rattling on about staff training and pilots' errors, and did a fin break off the tail, and all sorts of things that I knew nothing about," Dr Warren recalled more than 50 years later.

"I found myself dreaming of something I'd seen the week before at Sydney's first post-war trade fair. And that is - what claimed to be the first pocket recorder, the Miniphon. A German device. There'd been nothing before like it…"

The Miniphon was marketed as a dictation machine for businessmen, who could sit at their desks (or on trains and planes) recording letters that would later be typed up by their secretaries. David, who loved swing music and played the clarinet, only wanted


one so he could make bootleg recordings of the jazz musician Woody Herman.

However, when one of his fellow scientists suggested the latest doomed Comet might have been hijacked, something clicked for him.

The chances that a recorder had been on board - and survived the fiery wreck - were basically nil. But what if every plane in the sky had a mini recorder in the cockpit? If it was tough enough, accident investigators would never be this confused again, because they'd have audio right up to the moment of the crash. At the very least, they'd know what the pilots had said and heard.

The idea fascinated him. Back at ARL, he rushed to tell his boss about it.

Alas, his superior didn't share his enthusiasm. Dr Warren said he washim: "If I find you talking to anyone, including me, about this matter, I will have to sack you."

It was a sobering thought for a young man with a wife and two children.

But his boss's backing extended to sneakily buying one of the precious new dictation recorders, and chalking it up as "an instrument required for the laboratory…"

image copyright Defence Science and Technology, Australia image caption David holding forth at ARL in 1958

Encouraged, Dr Warren wrote up his idea in a report, titled "A Device for Assisting Investigation into Aircraft Accidents", and sent it out across the industry.

The pilots' union responded with fury, branding the recorder a snooping device, and insisted "no plane would take off in Australia with Big Brother listening".

That was one of his better reviews.

Australia's


civilian aviation authorities declared it had "no immediate significance", and the air force feared it would "yield more expletives than explanations".

Dr Warren was tempted to pack it all in.

But his eldest son, Peter, says his father was stubborn, with a non-conformist streak that coloured his whole worldview.

"He took us skiing," he recalls, "but he did the skiing in washing-up gloves, because he wasn't going to pay $30 for a pair of ski gloves. He wasn't the least bit afraid. He wasn't going to wait and follow the herd at all."

It was in that spirit that Dr Warren took to his garage and assembled his 20-year-old radio parts. He'd decided the only way to overcome his critics' mockery and suspicion was to build a solid prototype.

It would be thefirst ever "black box" flight recorder.

'Put that lad on the next courier!'

One day in 1958, when the little flight recorder had been finished and finessed, the lab received an unusual visitor. Dr Coombes, the chief superintendent, was showing round a friend from England.

"Dave!" he said, "Tell him what you're doing!"

Dr Warren explained: his world-first prototype used steel wire to store four hours of pilot voices plus instrument readings and automatically erased older records so it was reusable.

There was a pause, then the visitor said: "I say Coombes old chap, that's a damn good idea. Put that lad on the next courier, and we'll show it in London."

The courier was a Hastings transport aircraft, making a run to England. You had to know somebody pretty powerful to get a


seat on it. Dr Warren wondered who this man was who was giving away tickets round the world to somebody he'd never met.

The answer was Robert Hardingham (later Sir Robert), the secretary of the British Air Registration Board and a former Air Vice-Marshal in the RAF.

In David's words: "He was a hero. And he was a friend of Coombes, and if he gave away a seat, you took it."

A few weeks later, Dr Warren was on a plane bound for England - with strict instructions not to tell Australia's Department of Defence what he was really doing there, because "somebody would frown on it".

In a near-unbelievable irony, the plane lost an engine over the Mediterranean.

Dr Warren recalled: "I said, 'Chaps, we seem to have lost a donk -civil aviation authority started work to make the device mandatory in civil aircraft. A Middlesex firm, S Davall and Sons, approached ARL about the production rights, and kicked off manufacturing.

Though the device started to be called "the black box", the first ones off the line were orange so they'd be easier to find after a crash - and they remain so today.

Peter Warren believes the name dates from a 1958 interview his father gave the BBC.

"Right at the end there was a journalist who referred to this as a 'black box'. It's a generic word from electronics engineering, and the name stuck."

media caption In footage from 1958, David Warren explains his invention to the BBC

image copyright AFP/GettyImages image caption The so-called "black box" is in fact a strident


orange colour

In 1960, Australia became the first country to make cockpit voice recorders mandatory, after an unexplained plane crash in Queensland killed 29 people. The ruling came from a judicial inquiry, and took a further three years to become law.

Today, black boxes are fire-proof, ocean-proof and encased in steel. And they are compulsory on every commercial flight.

It's impossible to say how many people owe their lives to data captured in the death throes of a failing plane - to the flaws exposed, and the safety innovations that followed.

'I'm a lucky bastard'

David Warren worked at ARL until his retirement in 1983, becoming its principal research scientist. He died on 19 July, 2010, at the age of 85.

image copyright Fairfax Media via Getty Images image caption David Warren pictured in2002 with a Miniphon, which inspired the first combined voice and data recorder

For more than 50 years, his pioneering work on the black box went almost unacknowledged. Finally in 1999, he was awarded the Australian Institute of Energy Medal, and then in 2002 was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his service to the aviation industry.

Asked why it took so long for him to be recognised, his daughter Jenny observes: "His battle was inertia. He had this huge enquiring mind, scientifically visionary, and could see how it would work - how it would play out.

"He was sitting there in 1958, saying 'this device can make this happen.'"

Peter Warren blames "a 1950s colonial mindset which said nothing good could come out of this country, and


everything good would get invented in either the UK, or Germany or America".

The historic secrecy surrounding ARL's work, which is now more widely understood, is another likely factor.

Dr Warren lived to see Qantas name an Airbus A380 after him in 2008. Jenny Warren says she's been trying to get a seat on it ever since.

But he never saw a penny in royalties from the black box.

image copyright Reuters image caption David Warren's funeral featured a tongue-in-cheek nod to his legacy

He was often asked if he felt hard done by. Peter says his standard response was: "Yes, the government got the results of what I did. But then, they also didn't charge me for the other hundred ideas that didn't work."

David's children inherited his sense of humour.

At Peter's urging,Theresa May has appointed Gavin Barwell, the Croydon Central MP who lost his seat to Labour in the general election, as her new chief of staff.

Mr Barwell had clung on to his seat with a tiny 165-vote majority in 2015, but lost out to Sarah Jones on Thursday night by more than 5,000 votes.

The ex-housing minister had written a book about how to win a marginal parliamentary seat.

He replaces Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, the double act who had been the Prime Minister's closest advisers.

Ms May is spending her weekend attempting to rebuild her top team and form a government.

Of Mr Barwell, she said: "He has been a first-class minister and is widely respected. He will bring considerable experience of the party to the post.

"As I said yesterday,


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Wife of Jonathan J or Jerome J. Nickey. Came to Billings from Wisconsin in 1882 or 1883. She is the mother of O.W. Nickey and Mrs. Alice Beulah Fraser (married James Fraser in 1897). Mr. Nickey died in 1896. She remarried his contractor...

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thanks to two GEF projects in Rwanda.

The first project ran from 2010 to 2015 and has helped Rwandans reduce their vulnerability to floods and droughts. Funded by the GEF and implemented by UNEP and UNDP with local partners, the Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change by Establishing Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness Systems and Support for Integrated Watershed Management in Flood Prone Areas project worked to reduce the vulnerability of people living in the crest area of the Nile-Congo basins, also known as the Gishwati ecosystem.

The project developed an early warning system for climate change risks, increased capacity for risk responsive planning at the district and local levels, created risk maps and land-use plans to help increase ecosystem and community resilience to climatic shocks, and developed the national informationalternative livelihoods projects (poultry and mushrooms) were set up in parts of Nyabihu District.

To further develop the national information base on climate change and adaptation, the project also made a short documentary on its activities and established the online Rwanda Climate Portal. Related activities including developing a beekeeping training manual in the local language (Kinyarwanda), training over 180 local beekeepers, constructing a honey-processing centre, and establishing a beekeeping union in Nyabihu District with 250 active members across eight cooperatives.

“This year’s honey production is expected to be around 10 tons, but after improvement of productivity per cooperative the potential in coming years is expected to be 30 tons per year,” says beekeeping union president Theonest Harelimana.

A survey conducted in October 2014 concluded that the project had reduced the vulnerability


lot since Lewis and Clark made their way to the Pacific Ocean. Since 1902, 14 dams have turned the wild Columbia into a series of lakes making river passage more convenient all the way from the Pacific Ocean to Lewiston, Idaho. Next to the Mississippi River, the Columbia is the biggest river I’ve ever seen.

We made a stop at Cascade Locks and spent a couple of hours exploring. Humans have been living along the Columbia River for an estimated 14,000 years—we just happen to be the most recent inhabitants. One of the old lock keeper homes has been turned into a quaint little museum (worth a few minutes, in my opinion) that provides a glimpse into what it must of been like to have lived along the riverarrows from his mighty bow; one to the north and the other to the south. He then built Tanmahawis, the Bridge of the Gods, so his family could meet periodically.

When the two sons of Saghalie both fell in love with a beautiful maiden named Loowit, she could not choose between them. The two young chiefs fought over her, burying villages and forests in the process. The area was devastated and the earth shook so violently that the huge bridge fell into the river, creating the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River Gorge.

For punishment, Saghalie struck down each of the lovers and transformed them into great mountains where they fell. One, became the volcano known today as Mount Hood and the other, Mount Adams. Their love became Mount St.


In the red corner, standing at six-foot-four (excluding the stovetop hat), with only one defeat in 300 matches, the reigning champion of New Salem County, and a future member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame… ladies and gentlemen, we give you the Great Emancipator!

By all accounts, Abraham Lincoln — yes, the sixteenth President of the United States — was indeed a skilled and accomplished wrestler. However, as with any good story, tales of his prowess in the ring have been exaggerated over the years — and never more so than in the Internet Age.

Several rumors are regularly shared in a popular meme that features a rendering of Lincoln with a championship belt draped across his shoulder:

Abraham Lincoln is honored in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Asa young man, his long limbs and ability to rile up his opponents won him every match. He also liked to talk smack and once said to an entire crowd, “I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.” Though he competed in about 300 matches, he was only defeated once.

Another rumor is that Lincoln was a regional champion at 21:

Abraham Lincoln, as a 21 year old in 1830, was the wrestling champion of his county in Illinois. At this time, where working at a store in New Salem, Illinois, Lincoln had a famous bout with Jack Armstrong, also a county wrestling champion. Lincoln won decisively when, after losing his temper when Armstrong began fouling him,


Lincoln’s most loyal and enthusiastic admirers.

The descriptions of Armstrong as a champion are not actually referring to some official title, but instead that he was known as the toughest man in the area. So when Lincoln defeated him — if he actually did — during their storied bout, he may have usurped the informal “champion” title in the area, but this was not done in any official capacity.

We reached out to researchers at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation for more information; they told us that Lincoln was never an official county wrestling champion in Illinois, but for a very good reason: “County wrestling championships did not exist in Illinois in the 1830s.”

Was Lincoln honored by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame?

A number of United States presidents havebeen honored by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. In 1992, Lincoln was given the organization’s “Outstanding American” award:

Born in a log cabin in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln received little schooling as his family moved through the wilderness, but he read and reread the Bible and the few other books he could get hold of. Growing up in Illinois, he clerked in a store, studied law, served in the Black Hawk War and took part in political talk of the day. In the rough and ready style of the frontier, “catch as catch can” wrestling was more hand-to-hand combat than sport. Lincoln, an awesome physical specimen at 6-feet-4, was widely known for his wrestling skills and had only one recorded defeat in a dozen years.

The National Wrestling Hall of


the details about Lincoln’s most famous bouts are unclear.

This rumor, however, is rooted in some truth. We know that Lincoln frequently engaged in wrestling matches and that he was especially skilled at the sport. In fact, when Lincoln was reminiscing about his wrestling days on the campaign trail in 1860, he told Risdon Moore, a college professor whose father served with Lincoln during the Black Hawk War, that he was undefeated until he was thrown by a man named Lorenzo Dow Thompson:

Gentleman, I felt of Mr. Thompson, the St. Clair champion, and told my boys I could throw him, and they could bet what they pleased. You see, I had never been thrown, or dusted, as the phrase then was, and, I believe, Thompson said the same tomany of these stories were retold as Lincoln was running for president, and may therefore have been presented by that time in a far more favorable light.

Did Lincoln tell a crowd: “I’m the Big Buck of this lick”?

This quote comes from the biography “Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years,” which was written by poet and author Carl Sandburg in 1926. Lincoln reportedly said this phrase after a raucous battle with his stepbrother, John Johnston, which was initiated by a man named William Grigsby. As Sandburg tells it, Lincoln defeated Johnston, went searching for Grigsby in the crowd, threw the man into the middle of the ring, and then sparked an all out brawl when he issued this challenge to the crowd:

The two fighters, stripped to the waist, mauled at


Q:

Does this music from *Assassin's Creed* align with Renaissance music techniques?

Please see this YouTube video starting from 0:00 to 0:19s.

All of Ezio's "Requiescat in Pace's"

Now, this Assassin's Creed game covers the life of Ezio Auditore, an assassin who lived in Italy during the Renaissance period. All the buildings, like the Colosseum, different churches, etc. are all in their correct position in the game. The date and place of death of the Pope (Rodrigo Borgia) in the game is also correct. The buildings in the game and the dresses of different characters, all give a feel of Italy of those times.
Question: Does the music in the video, that I linked above, also follow typical Renaissance music structure?

A:

I believe the tune in that extract is "Ezio's family" by Jesper Kyd,conductive material, the mask including a plurality of apertures defining locations for the formation of a plurality of spacers. The spacers are then formed by introducing a selected material into the apertures. Portions of the second layer of conductive material are selectively removed to expose areas of surfaces of the cathode stripes. Finally, a plurality of amorphic diamond emitter regions are formed in selected portions of the surfaces of the cathode stripes.

According to an additional embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for fabricating a pixel of a triode display cathode which includes the steps of forming a conductive stripe at a face of a substrate. A layer of insulator is formed adjacent the conductive stripe. A layer of conductor is next formed adjacent the insulator


etch may be accomplished for example using a buffer-HF solution. The cathode/grid structure 62 is essentially completed with the formation of the emitter areas 76. In FIG. 5k, a metal mask 102 is formed defining the boundaries and locations of emitter areas 76. Emitter areas 76 are then fabricated by the formation of amorphic diamond films comprising a plurality of diamond micro-crystallites in an overall amorphic structure. In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 5j, the amorphic diamond is formed through the openings in metal mask 102 using laser ablation. Again, the present invention however is not limited to the technique of laser ablation. For example, emitter areas 76 having micro-crystallites in an overall amorphic structure may be formed using laser plasma deposition, chemical vapor deposition, ion beam deposition,facilitate our review.

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On June 29, 1988, Fincham, then forty-six years old and a long-term smoker, went to a hospital emergency room.   Fincham related that she was experiencing breathlessness, numbness in her left arm, a shaky feeling, and chest pain.   She was seen by Seeley Feldmeyer, M.D.  (Feldmeyer) who diagnosed her as having an anxiety attack and treated her with medication.   Fincham then went home.

3
Fincham returned to the emergency room at midnight on July 1, 1988, again complaining of chest pains, anxieties, and other symptoms.   Feldmeyer did not see her, but he did, by voice order, prescribe additional medication and release her to go home.   Fincham returned to the emergency room at 10:15 p.m. on July 2, 1988,


at which time she was seen but not examined by Feldmeyer who prescribed medication.

4
Approximately forty-five minutes later, Fincham returned to the hospital parking lot in a pickup truck.   While in the pickup, she was given a shot of valium and sent home.   Fincham died during the early morning hours the next day at her home.

5
An autopsy was performed on Fincham by a Dr. Ayuthia at the request of Feldmeyer.   Dr. Ayuthia's autopsy report set forth Fincham's cause of death as cardiac arrhythmia secondary to hyperacute myocardial infarction.

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Moss subsequently filed a complaint against Feldmeyer, contending that he had departed from standard approved medical practice by failing to hospitalize Fincham from June 29, 1988, to July 2, 1988, and asserting that Fincham, in allprobability, would have survived with proper treatment.

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A status conference was held before the district court on January 4, 1990, and trial was set for September 11, 1990.   Another status conference was held on April 27, 1990, at which time the court moved the trial date to October 9, 1990.

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On August 10, 1990, a pretrial order was entered.   Feldmeyer listed David DeJong, M.D. as a witness and Dennis Kepka, M.D. and Roger Evans, M.D. as expert witnesses.   The order provided that a "list of all exhibits, not described herein, to be used by any party and a list of all witnesses, not named herein, to be called by either party, shall be filed ... not later than October 5, 1990."  (Appellants' Appendices,


and that it was not necessarily myocardial infarction as previously found by Dr. Ayuthia and as reported by Feldmeyer on Fincham's death certificate.

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Moss objected to Dr. DeJong's testimony on the basis that:  the time to identify expert witnesses had long since expired;  Dr. DeJong was named outside the time permitted by the pretrial order;  the naming of Dr. DeJong as an additional expert witness who would introduce a completely new issue in the case would cause her unfair prejudice and surprise.   A hearing was conducted on October 4, 1990, following which the court ruled that Dr. DeJong would not be permitted to testify.

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HENDRICKS COUNTY, Ind. (Feb. 26, 2016) -- The former manager of the Chili's restaurant in Martinsville has turned himself in after being charged with voyeurism.

Justin Behnke is accused of recording women in the restroom of his home. Police went to Behnke's home in the 1300 block of Chestnut River on Feb. 22 on a report of voyeurism. Investigators found video files taken from inside Behnke's restroom that showed women in various states of undress. Neighbors tell FOX 59 they are disgusted that he was violating women's privacy for his own pleasure.

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to the completion in the New Testament. As it is said. New Testament in the Old Concealed. Old Testament in the New Revealed.
Also you must have missed all the OT verses in the NT.
But you do seem to pull a lot out of conjecture. Rather than even period secular history. It was the Greeks and Romans who did as much or more against Paul than the Jewish religious leaders.

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Many of the OT verses found in the NT are there as a result of plagiarism with the intent to promote the Pauline policy of Replacement Theology. Just mention some of them to me and, if I fail to tell you what they point to, I'll be more than fair to give you the benefit of90 important environmental issues.

They concluded that meaningful progress had been made on just four - making petrol lead-free, tackling ozone layer depletion, increasing access to clean water and boosting research on marine pollution.

A further 40 showed some progress, including the establishment of protected habitat for plants and animals on land and slowing the rate of deforestation.

Little or no progress was noted for 24, including tackling climate change, while clear deterioration was found in eight, including the parlous state of coral reefs around the world.

For the remainder, there was too little data to draw firm conclusions.

This is despite more than 700 international agreements designed to tackle specific aspects of environmental decline, and agreements on alleviating poverty and malnutrition such as the Millennium Development Goals.

Among the report's "low-lights" are:

air pollution


indoors and outdoors is probably causing more than six million premature deaths each year

greenhouse gas emissions are on track to warm the world by at least 3C on average by 2100

most river basins contain places where drinking water standards are below World Health Organization standards

only 1.6% of the world's oceans are protected.

A few hours after GEO-5's release, the journal Nature published a review of evidence on environmental change concluding that the biosphere - the part of the planet that supports life - could be heading for rapid, possibly irreversible change.

The authors, headed by Anthony Barnofsky from the University of California, Berkeley, combined information on major transformations in the Earth's past (such as mass extinctions) with models incorporating the present and the immediate future.

More than 40% of the Earth'sParks in Dubuque, Iowa

The City of Dubuque, Iowa maintains an extensive park system. Because of Dubuque's varied topography, several of the parks feature panoramic views of the city, including: Cleveland Park, Eagle Point Park, Madison Park, and Murphy Park. The city currently operates 39 parks, 6 trails, 2 swimming pools, a golf course, arboretum, campground, and 3 other properties. In total, more than 1,060 acres (4.3 km2) of parks and recreation facilities are city-owned and available for public use.[1]

In recent years, the city's park system has been greatly expanded. Many new neighborhood "mini" parks and playgrounds have been built, and all of the existing parks have been renovated since the mid-1990s. Currently, 8 parks are in some phase of development. The city is also working on an interconnected


Europe braces for Russian hacking in upcoming elections

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and the State Premier of the southwestern federal state of Saarland Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer at an IT summit in Germany | Oliver Dietze/AFP via Getty Images

European governments are bracing for cyber-meddling by Moscow in upcoming national elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany.

Amid uproar in the United States over CIA findings that Russian hackers interceded in the election to help President-elect Donald Trump, a series of incidents in Europe have led to stark warnings by high-level officials, particularly in Germany, and by cybersecurity experts who say online political and information warfare is certain to worsen.

In a remarkable two-page warning late last week, Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany’s FederalOffice for Protection of the Constitution, a domestic security agency, said there was a clear threat from Russian hackers seeking to sow “uncertainty in German society” and to destabilize the country.

“In the political arena we see increasing and aggressive cyber-espionage,” Maaßen said. “We see a potential hazard to members of the German government, the Bundestag and employees of democratic parties through cyber-operations.” On Monday, German MPs across the political spectrum echoed those worries.

During the American election, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed admiration for Trump, who returned the compliment. (Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is known for her combative relationship with Putin.)

The Kremlin also has clear preferences when it comes to elections in Europe — and a far more direct economic stake in the outcome.

In Germany, where


Sergey Lavrov even demanded publicly that the case “not be swept under the rug.”

In France, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front, has admitted taking an €11 million loan from a Russian bank, and had hoped to get much more. But Russian cyber-operatives might be just as content to aid the conservative candidate François Fillon, who is known as a long-time defender of Russia and a critic of Western sanctions against the Kremlin.

In a recent report forecasting major threat trends, Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based cybersecurity powerhouse, said a new era of cyber-sabotage had begun.

“In 2016, the world started to take seriously the dumping of hacked information for aggressive purposes,” the firm’s top security analysts wrote. Such attacks are likely to increase in 2017, and therein 2015 to the same alleged Russian hackers, known as “Fancy Bear” and APT28, who were allegedly responsible for penetrating election systems in Arizona and Illinois last summer. Russia has also been accused of hacking Ukraine’s power grid in 2015, and of carrying out an overwhelming cyber attack on Estonia in 2007.

“Fancy Bear,” which is allegedly connected to Russian’s military intelligence agency, the G.R.U., is one of two Russian-connected hacking groups believed to be responsible for infiltrating the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and stealing emails and other documents that were leaked to the public.

Those leaks led to the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and her top aides. Putin, in an interview with Bloomberg News, expressed no interest in who was responsible for the hacks


New Delhi: BJP's Chief Ministerial nominee Kiran Bedi, known for her image as a tough police officer, on Wednesday turned emotional while addressing a roadshow and said she will return the people's love by serving them.

Overwhelmed with the affection of people who had got tea flasks for her at the roadshow in Krishnanagar constituency from where she is contesting her maiden election, Bedi broke down and was seen wiping her tears.

"I have no words for the kind of love I am getting. I will return the love to them. I will try my best to remain capable of getting their love. We will serve them with honesty," the former IPS officer said with moist eyes.Earlier, she also attacked Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal for daring the governmentNational hospital discharge survey: annual summary, 1994.
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Hatch-period-dependent early growth and survival of Pacific herring Clupea pallasii in Miyako Bay, Japan.
Considerable interannual variation in the abundance of larval and juvenile Pacific herring Clupea pallasii was detected in Miyako Bay, on the Pacific coast of northern Japan; abundances were high in 2001 and 2003 and low in 2000 and 2002. Hatch dates and growth rates for larval and juvenile survivors were estimated through otolith analysis. Water temperature and food availability were monitored on the spawning and nursery grounds in the inner part of the bay. The number of spawning females caught in nets set around the spawning ground was recorded during each spawning season (January to May) in 2000-2003. No correlation was found between the number of spawning females and the abundance of larvae and juvenileson the spawning and nursery grounds. The hatch dates of surviving larvae and juveniles were concentrated at the end of the spawning season in 2001 and in the middle of the season in 2003. The larvae experienced relatively high prey concentrations during the first-feeding period in 2001 but low concentrations in 2003. Survival of larvae during the first-feeding period may be a function of prey concentration as well as water temperature. In 2003, low water temperature would reduce starvation mortality during the first-feeding period. In contrast, unfavourable feeding conditions with higher temperatures during the first-feeding period seemed to result in low larval survival in 2000 and 2002. The 2001 larvae grew faster than those in 2003 because of the late hatch dates and the higher ambient temperatures that


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on Alabama's gulf coast at Perdido Key. ADEM's permit allowed construction one hundred feet from the mean high tide (coastline), and forty feet landward of the primary dune system. It found the primary dune system to be sixty feet from the coastline, and ordered artificial dunes to be constructed to aid the natural dune in reestablishing.
Some background on these permits will be helpful to the reader. In September 1979, Hurricane Frederic substantially eroded the dunes on Perdido Key. Thereafter, in November 1981, the former owner of the Perdido Quay and Broadmoor property requested that the Coastal Area Board (predecessor agency to ADEM) recognize and establish a "primary dune line" at sixty feet from the coastline and a construction setback one hundred feet from the coastline. In a hearingon March 12, 1982, witnesses testified that dunes were reestablishing at the sixty-foot mark. Although these witnesses were contradicted, the Coastal Area Board issued a policy statement concerning permit issuance. This policy statement said that the Board recognized a dune system establishing at the sixty-foot mark and that each construction project building permit would be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Almost a year after permits were issued for the Perdido Quay and Broadmoor projects, Save Our Dunes (SOD) requested a hearing before the Alabama Environmental Management Commission (Commission) to contest permit issuance on both projects. SOD was joined in this cause by the Alabama Conservancy, Sierra Club, League of Women Voters of Mobile and the League of Women Voters of Baldwin County (hereinafter referred to collectively as SOD). After


exists sixty feet landward from the coastline.
Testimony from the Commission hearing established without contradiction that the primary dune system is unstable, volatile, and serves as a "sacrificial lamb" which is eroded in the event of a serious storm and lost during a major storm event such as a hurricane. Mr. Robert Snyder, an oceanographer *523 and professional engineer, conducted an inspection of the area. In his report to the Coastal Area Board, he stated that there was a natural buildup of sand and a voluntary establishment of sea oats occurring at a line approximately fifty-five feet from the coastline. He recommended that the Board establish this line as the primary dune line. Other experts also testified or submitted affidavits that the primary dune line was reestablishing itself afterCopyright Statement

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The invasion of anthropogenic carbon dioxide into the surface ocean is altering seawater carbonate speciation, a process commonly called ocean acidification. The high latitude waters of the Southern Ocean are one of the primary and most severely affected regions. Coccolithophores are an important phytoplankton group, responsible for the majority of pelagic calcium carbonate production in the world’s oceans, with a distribution that ranges from tropical to polar waters. Emiliania huxleyi is numerically the most abundant coccolithophore species and appears in several different ecotypes. We tested the effects of ocean acidification on 3 carefully selected E. huxleyi ecotypes isolated from the Southern Ocean. Their responses were measured in terms of growth, photosynthesis, calcification, cellular geometry, and stoichiometry. The 3 ecotypes exhibited differing sensitivities in regards to seawater carbonate


ANN ARBOR, MI —Alex Grace finished in the Final Five of the 2014 Michigan High School Football Player of the Year Award for the second consecutive year.

But the Swan Valley star finished out of the top spot Saturday when another Alex, Birmingham Brother Rice quarterback Alex Malzone, took home the second annual award. Ithaca quarterback Travis Smith, who attended Saturday's trophy presentation, was the first Player of the Year winner.

"It's hard to be upset because all of the players were great," Grace said. "I know Alex, and he's a great quarterback. He's going to have a great career at Michigan. Being with those players is an honor."

The other members of the Final Five included Khari Willis from Jackson Lumen Christi, Tyree Jackson from Muskegon Mona Shores and MikeWeber from Detroit Cass Tech.

Grace finished second in the voting behind Malzone, with Weber third, Willis fourth and Jackson fifth.

Grace owns the state single-season rushing record with 2,962 yards as a junior. He finished with 7,551 yards in his career, the third most in state history but most for a three-year varsity player.

The 6-foot-1, 210-pound tailback also owns the state record with eight consecutive 200-yard games and finished with 23 consecutive 100-yard games.

Grace averaged 209.75 yards and 2.75 touchdowns per game.

Grace, who finished third in the Division 2 200-meter state finals in 2013, hopes to follow in the footsteps of Tim Shaw of Livonia Clarenceville, who is second in the state in career rushing with 7,813 yards.

Shaw went on to star at linebacker for Penn State before playing


every day. Since 1997, the Hickman County Chamber of Commerce has recognized our finest citizens with the annual Law and Safety
Luncheon, where responders from all critical departments and organizations enjoy a meal and receive accolades for their work, as chosen by their peers. Beginning in 2012, the Hickman County Chamber
of Commerce has presented the Livengood Award, in memory of the late Centerville Police Chief Roger T. Livengood and his "thoughtful, positive and spirited" approach to his work and to his life.
Sponsors support the cost of this recognition every year and would not be possible without them! This years sponsors included: TN Properties, Centerville Florist Shop, Centerville Forge, Coble Realty
Appraisal, Community First Bank & Trust, First Farmers Bank, Hickman County Economic & Community Development, Hillbilly Equipment, McDonald Funeral Home,McDonald's Restaurant, Meriwether
Lewis Electric Cooperative, Rob Mitchell, Porch Insurance, State Farm Insurance, Life Care Center of Centerville, King & King Detective Agency, St. Thomas Hickman Hospital, Town of Centerville,
Richard Boehms, Attorney at Law, Hickman County Officials, Bates & Bates Law Office, Dye & Vanderhorst, WNKX KIX 86, Melanie Totty Cagle, Attorney at Law, Liberty Pharmacy, Jewell Prince,
District 6, Hickman County School Board, Linda Gossett, Clerk & Master, Centerville Mayor Gary Jacobs, Fast Pace Medical Clinic, April's Attic, A Friend in the name of Jesus, Chappell's Hometown
Foods & Agrana.

This years honorees were: Caleb Pitman with the Centerville Police Department, Angie Green with Pleasantville Volunteer Fire & Rescue, Aaron Jackson with Hickman
County Fire & Rescue, the Lady Bakers with Shady Grove Volunteer Fire & Rescue, Cody Johnson with the Centerville


Volunteer Fire Dept., Leif Carlsen & David Nordan with the Hickman County
Sheriff's Dept., Samantha James with Hickman County EMS, Shelia Bettini with the TN River Chapter of the American Red Cross, David Nash with the Hickman Humane
Society, Trooper Bobby Clift with the THP, James "Will" Hill with the Hickman County Forestry Division, Chris Kimbro with St. Thomas Hickman Hospital Nursing Home and Charlie List. The receipents of
the Roger Livengood Award were Constables Wayne Qualls and Jerry Deal. Congratulations and thank you!

The 1st Annual Hickman County Agriculture Appreciation Breakfast

The 1st Annual Hickman County Agriculture Appreciation Breakfast was held on February 26th at the Stables in Centerville. The breakfast was
hosted by the Agriculture Committee which is a partnership between the UT Extension of Hickman County and the Hickman County ChamberFor anyone who finds the Hollywood awards season a little bit smug and self-congratulatory, good news: the Golden Raspberry Awards (or "Razzies") are back to lower the tone. Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp and Emma Watson are in the running for these annual anti-Oscars, doled out to the worst films of the year.

The full list of nominees, announced today, also includes Jennifer Lawrence, Russell Crowe and Javier Bardem.

Transformers: The Last Knight leads the pack with nominations in eight categories, while Fifty Shades of Grey sequel Fifty Shades Darker has seven, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge has three.

Founded in 1996, the Razzies are voted for by around 1,000 paying members of the Golden Rasberry Foundation, and generally held the day before the Oscars.

Nominees rarely attend the ceremony, with


a few memorable exceptions. Sandra Bullock turned up in person to collect her Worst Actress trophy for All About Steve in 2010, while in 2005 Halle Berry accepted the Worst Actress award for Catwoman, by delivering a spoof of the speech she gave that same weekend at the Academy Awards (where she won an Oscar for Monster's Ball).

The winners of the 2018 Razzies will be announced on March 3.Donald Trump’s top qualification for president was supposed to be his management prowess. On the campaign trail he repeatedly pledged to “hire the best people, not the biggest donors!” Less than a month into his presidency, the opposite appears to be true.

That was clear on Monday with the departure of Michael Flynn, whose resignation as national security adviser so early in a presidential tenure was unprecedented. With just 24 days in office, Flynn is the shortest-serving national security adviser in history, the average tenure being 2.6 years. And it was reaffirmed two days later, when Andrew Puzder, his pick to lead the department of labor, was forced to withdraw, making him only the 12th cabinet nominee ever to do so.

Trump built his entire brand on being an expert


manager and hiring the best people, from The Art of the Deal to The Apprentice. Now he is failing at what was meant to be one of his core strengths.

During the campaign, many Americans said they liked Trump because he was a businessman not a politician. Research showed Trump consistently beating opponents on metrics associated with management, including “emphasizes success” and is “competitive”. More recent polling evidence from Survey Monkey has backed that up.

More than anything else this year, polling has shown Americans wanted a “strong leader”. But with the White House staff reportedly in “survival mode” and death watches out for a whole host of leadership figures within the Trump campaign, from Reince Priebus to Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s already shown himself to be anythingThe biblical doctrine of “the husband is the head of the wife” is certainly related to the issue of abuse and domestic violence – especially by abusers hiding in the church. Wicked people take the good Word of God and twist and distort it to their own evil ends.

[Note from Barb: this page was condensed and updated in Feb 2020; new links were added —the articles by Wade Burleson.]

Whatever Scripture means by the husband being the head of the wife, and wives submitting to their husbands (Ephesians 5), we know that it is GOOD, just as Christ being head of His bride, the church is good. The question of course is, just exactly what does Scripture mean by these doctrines? It surely does NOT mean what the abuser


Old Lyme candy shop's cease-and-desist order upheld by Zoning Board of Appeals

Old Lyme - The Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously voted Tuesday to uphold a cease-and-desist order against the Chocolate Shell, a candy shop on the town's main street whose case has drawn public attention.

The board of appeals ruled Tuesday that recent additions to the more than 30-year-old shop on Lyme Street amounted to a "change in use" that is prohibited by zoning laws.

Shop owner Barbara Crowley, who has operated the store at 18 Lyme St. since 2011, recently began selling coffee and prebaked pastries. She installed a "Cafe Open" flag, additional outdoor seats and tables, and stools and a counter in the shop's back room. The town said these additions violated zoning regulations.

Crowley appealed the town's Januarycease-and-desist order that stated she was operating a take-out and full-service restaurant without permits. Crowley agreed to take down the flag, which was part of the order. She has said she viewed the additions as an extension of her product line at the shop, where she previously sold hot chocolate, as well as chocolates and sweets.

The board's ruling Tuesday follows last week's three-hour public hearing in which residents spoke both for and against the order. Lawyers for the town, Crowley and several neighbors of the Chocolate Shell presented their cases. The zoning decision also set off a larger discussion about the town's zoning laws for Lyme Street.

The town considers commercial properties on Lyme Street, zoned residential in the late '70s, as "non-conforming uses," which means they can continue


to operate based on their historical use but cannot expand beyond that. The residential street, also a historic district, has shops along with houses, schools, Town Hall, galleries and a fire station.

In deliberations, several board members stressed that they were making their decisions solely based on interpretation of zoning laws and determining if the additions of the Chocolate Shell constitute a "change in use."

ZBA member Mary Stone said she was not saying the shop's additions were bad - in fact, she said the members could agree that "it's a wonderful thing" - but it nonetheless is illegal since it has changed from what was permitted.

Member Arthur Sibley said several aspects of the store had changed - hours were expanded and food items were now offered that could beconsumed on the premises rather than taken away - which made it an illegal change of use. He spoke about the history of how the town made a deliberate decision to preserve Lyme Street and to move its commercial operations to Halls Road.

In his remarks, member Kip Kotzan said he hopes the business would be able to seek a zoning exemption or apply for a variance.

"I want this clearly to be on the record that we're not making a judgment that this is a detriment to the town," he added.


Heaping praise on skipper Virat Kohli and his recent exploits in South Africa, India cricket team coach Ravi Shastri has compared the mercurial player to Pakistan's World Cup winning captain Imran Khan.

Kolkata: Heaping praise on skipper Virat Kohli and his recent exploits in South Africa, India cricket team coach Ravi Shastri has compared the mercurial player to Pakistan's World Cup winning captain Imran Khan.

"It's still early days for Virat. He is still very very young. But he is already there among the very best. He wants to lead by example. He reminds me a lot of Imran. He is still very young but he has got lot of qualities that Imran had when it came to leading a side. Which is great," Shastri told Anandabazar Patrika.

Kohli, ranked No.1batsman in One Day Internationals, was in imperious form against the Proteas becoming the first batsman ever to score 500 or more runs in a bilateral ODI series.

The dashing right-hander, rated as one of the finest in modern times, finished the series with 558 runs racking up three centuries, a record for an Indian batsman, and one fifty in six innings.

Kohli's six innings in the series are - 112, 46*, 160 not out, 75, 36 and 129 not out.

Imran led Pakistan to the 1992 World Cup and was arguably the best cricketer produced by Pakistan.

Asked about the similarities between Imran and Kohli, Shastri said the desire to always be on top and having an infectious energy level made him draw the comparision.

"Just the ability to always want to


been called by the match-referee for going over the top in his career. So where is the problem?"

Shastri also rated India's batting performance in the third Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg as "one of the most courageous and bravest batting performances ever."

India braved hostile batting conditions to win the game by 63 runs with batting salvos from Cheteshwar Pujara (50) and Kohli (54) in the first innings, then Ajinkya Rahane and (48) and Kohli (41) again in the second being the highlights.

"It has to go down as one of the most courageous and bravest batting performances ever," the 55-year-old opined.

"Not only in the history of Indian cricket, but in the history of the game. Absolutely no question about that because the conditions was such and with theof the respondents to a recent McKinsey Quarterly survey11.
“Building organizational capabilities: McKinsey Global Survey results,” March 2010.
said that building capabilities was a top-ten priority for their organizations. Only a quarter, though, said that their programs are effective at improving performance measurably, and only 8 percent track the programs’ return on investment.

The story of one social-sector group, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), illustrates how organizations can make the most of their outlays for training programs by doing a better job of understanding which of them create business value, and how. The answers are remarkably straightforward and have lessons for retailers, manufacturers, and a range of other organizations as well.

What the Boys & Girls Clubs do

BGCA faced a common problem: a lack of capabilities in a core


area—leadership—and a lack of funds to build those capabilities. Further, its donors were far more interested in financing programs directly aimed at children rather than “overhead,” such as training. That made it imperative for BGCA to prove the performance impact of any training it undertook.

BGCA is one of the largest nonprofits in the United States. It acts as an umbrella for more than 1,100 local organizations and 4,000 club locations, which provide safe places for young people to learn and participate in athletic and life skills programs. The 1,100 local organizations manage their own resource development, strategic planning, programming, and fund-raising.

In 2007, BGCA found itself facing an incipient shortage of leadership capabilities. The organization has an ongoing growth strategy to expand the number of club locations but anticipateda project chosen by each local team; projects ranged from implementing new HR processes to deepening the impact of after-school programs. By the end of 2009, over 650 leaders from approximately 250 local organizations had been trained.

Because the program was designed to improve specific organizational-performance outcomes, the process of assessing its impact was straightforward. Where the leaders of local organizations had received training, BGCA compared their pre- and post-training results. More important, it also compared the post-training results against those of a control set of organizations, which had similar characteristics (such as budget size) but whose leaders had not yet gone through the training. The downturn in the economy, as well as preexisting economic differences among cities, complicated efforts to assess gains in membership and fund-raising on an


U.S. Citizen of Palestinian Descent Convicted in Israel

By William ClaiborneBy William ClaiborneJune 8, 1978

Sami Esmail, a Brooklyn-born American citizen of Palestinian descent, was convicted yesterday in an Israeli court of belonging to an extremeist Palestinian organization that he joined on the campus of Michigan State University.

Esmail, 24, was arrested last December at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport while on his way to visit his dying father in the Israel-occupied West bank and accused of undergoing terrorist training in Libya during a visit there in the summer of 1976.

He could receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison at his sentencing next Monday. But the prosecution indicated in court yesterday that mitigating circumstances would probably result in a lighter sentence.

The Tel Aviv court acquited Esmail of a charge ofhaving contact with an enemy agent, in this case the Popular Fron for the Liberation of Palestine, which he is accused of joining while an electrical engineering student in Michigan.

Although the case contained elements common in the long-standing civil liberties controversy between the government and Israel's left, Israelis for the most part have reacted with ambivalance to the infrequent press accounts about the trial and to Esmail's lawyer's attempts to generate public interest in it.

In general, Israelis are far more concerned about civil liberties cases involving Israeli Arabs or those living on the occupied West Bank. The basic source of the ongoing dispute between the government and Israeli civil libertarians is the issue of how to preserve democratic procedures and at the same time meet security requirements of


a state surrounded by hostile neighbors.

Under Israeli security law, persons can be tried for offenses committed against Israel in other countries.

Esmail is the second American citizen imprisoned recently by Israeli authorities for alleged subversive activities, and his case attracted wide-spread attention in the United States as a result.

Terry Fleener, a 23-year-old American woman, pleaded guilty last January to charges of conveying information to the enemy, and rendering service to illegal organizations.

She is serving a five-year sentence in an Israel prison.

In pleading for a light sentence, defense attorney Felicia Langer argued that in military courts, where most security cases are prosecuted, prison sentences for similar crimes are usually gauged in months.

U.S. consular officials noted that Fleener's sentence had taken into account her conviction for contacting a Lebanese guerrilla group.Prosecutor Sara Sirota also noted that it had not been shown in court that Esmail came to Israel to cause damage.

After the verdict was read, Esmail declared, "I am innocent of the charge. My only crime is political solidarity of the homeless Palestinians and other people and I don't know how it could harm anybody."

Langer said acquital of the charge of contacting the enemy, which carries a 15-year term, "minimized the case. "It was ridiculous to convict him of anything. The main issue was the trip to Lily, so what is left?"

Civil liberties controversies here usually involve the authorities' treatment of Israeli Arabs or Palestinians living in the occupied territories, and they are often followed closely in the Hebrew press.

However, the Esmail case attracted less attention than that


of Raymonda Tawil, an activist on the West Bank political scene, who was kept in custody for six weeks and finally released May 7 without ever being charged formally.

Tawil, who was arrested on suspicion of subversive activity, maintained that her political activity - mainly through contacts with the international press - was legal under Israeli law.

Surpassing that case in intensity of emotions way the controversial "Koenig Report," a confidential memorandum by an interior department district officer in Galilee that asserted that Arabs in Israel's northern region were becoming too numerous.The report, which was bitterly criticized by Israeli Arabs and liberal Jews alike, recommended measures to limit the Arabs' population growth to prevent them from becoming a threat to the state.

Palestinian human rights activists, however, were able to generateconsiderable American support for Esmail, principally in the American Arab community and among Esmail's professors and classmates at Michigan State university.

At one point, Sen. James Abourezk (D-S.D.) threatened to filibuster a Justice Department confirmation vote until he received answers at the FBI's role in the case, and the City Council of Detroit, which has a large Arab population, passed a resolution in support of Esmail. The FBI acknowledged sending some information about Esmail to Israeli Authorities.

Langer recently made a trip to the United States on Esmail's behalf, conducting press conferences and attemtpting to generate support for what she termed systematic abuse of Esmail's rights by Israeli authorities.

However, law professors Monroe Freedman of Hofsta and Alan Dershowitz of Harvard visited Israel to study the case and concluded in a


report that many of Langer's allegations were unfounded, including the claim that Esmail had been tortured and held incommunicado.

They noted that Esmail and Langer themselves conceded that the defendant in fact went to Libya in August, 1976, despite his claims that he had been in Ohio that month. Also, the two professors reported that Esmail admitted he was visited by U.S. consular officials and two brothers two days before he signed a confession, and that he had been a confession, and that he had been punched once "not very hard" in the chest.

Even the liberal Hebrew press ignored many of those claims, and in an editorial the English-language Jerusalem Post yesterday took note of the Freedman-Dershowitz report and concluded "a fuller vindication of Israels system of justice .so it seems to them routine", the official said.

He added that West Bank Palestinians have expressed sympathy because Esmail's father was dying at the time of the arrest, but then he noted that last month an Arab father and son were imprisoned and that the father died in jail.

Pinina Lehav, an activist in the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, observed the irony that Esmail was charged under a law whose origin was under the British mandate of Palestine and was designed to counteract political activity by members of the Irgun and other Jewish underground groups.

"This law is not fit for a democratic state. Sympathy for the Plo is one thing. Helping it is another. If they felt he was conspiring to do something, they should have proved


US presidential TV ad campaign spending soars since 2012

This year's US presidential election campaigns are breaking new ground not only for the tone of their messages but for how hard they're trying to get Americans to listen to them.

The volume of television advertising since January 2015 is up 122 percent from the same period four years ago, according to a new study by the Wesleyan Media Project released Thursday.

Presidential campaigns and outside groups have spent a total of $408 million on 480,000 ad airings compared with $120 million on fewer than 220,000 advertisements by this point in 2012.

A campaign ad paid for by Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders' campaign on TV in a hotel breakfast room in Des Moines, Iowa on November 16, 2015 ©Alex Wong (Getty/AFP/File)

Republicansare outspending Democrats, having shelled out two-thirds of the total amount so far from January 1, 2015 through May 8.

Republican campaigns are airing ads at a volume of 80 percent more than four years ago, the report says.

The Democratic campaigns are airing ads at a frequency of 1,500 percent more than in 2012 only because incumbent President Barack Obama faced no primary opponent then.

This time, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been promoted by the highest number of ads, nearly 125,000.

The Vermont senator is followed by Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, with 105,000 ads supporting her White House bid.

While more than 98 percent of Democratic Party spending was by the campaigns themselves, some 76 percent in the GOP race has come from outside groups, many of them so-called super


PACs supporting single candidates, the study said.

More advertising hasn't necessarily translated into more votes, however.

"One remarkable aspect of this campaign is that the candidates who benefited from the most advertising did not necessarily fare well in the race," Wesleyan Media Project co-director Travis Ridout said in a statement. "Trump managed to become the presumptive Republican nominee in spite of being out-advertised. One reason for this is his amazing ability to attract free media."

While former Republican front-runner Jeb Bush has been ridiculed for spending some $130 million on his campaign before withdrawing from the race under relentless attack from Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, Trump has used social media to amplify controversial messages analysts say are aimed at dominating coverage on national news media.

Trump -- whose campaign has paidThe team on Thursday agreed to send veteran cornerback Aqib Talib to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for a 2018 fifth-round pick, an NFL source confirmed. The move, which reunites Talib with former Broncos defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, saves the Broncos $11 million in cap space and gives them a total of 11 draft picks this year that will be sorely needed to remake the roster.

The transaction cannot be made official until the new league year begins Wednesday.

Talib signed a six-year, $57 million contract with the Broncos as part of John Elway‘s defensive overhaul in 2014 and was selected to a Pro Bowl in each of his four seasons in Denver. Though he still played like a top corner, other numbers worked against him as the Broncos


six of those returned for touchdowns, a franchise record. He also amassed 183 total tackles, two forced fumbles, 48 pass-breakups and one sack, all while earning four Pro Bowl nods and his first and only first-team all-pro selection (2016).

On his career, Talib has 34 interceptions the most of any cornerback in the NFL since 2008 (when he was drafted), and his 10 total pick-sixes rank as the fourth-most all-time, behind Hall of Famers Rod Woodson (12), Darren Sharper (11), and Charles Woodson (11).

In Denver, Talib certainly sealed a Hall of Fame-worthy résumé, but his ride included some notable bumps — ones common in his previous NFL stops in Tampa Bay and New England.

On-field altercations — an eye-poke in Indianapolis and a fight in Oakland — resulted in twoNumbers

10: Years of NFL experience for Talib, who was drafted in the first round (No. 20) by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008. He played the last four seasons with the Broncos.

$57 million: Value of the six-year contract he signed with Denver in 2014.

11: Interceptions recorded by Talib during his time as a Broncos. He has 34 total on his career, the most by a cornerback since he entered the league in ’08.

6: Pick-sixes by Talib in his career as a Bronco, a franchise record.

103: Yards returned for a touchdown on Talib’s interception against Dallas last season. It is the longest pick-six in Broncos history.

4: Pro Bowl selections earned by Talib in Denver for a career total of five. He was also selected first-team all-pro in 2016.

Nicki Jhabvala


is the lead Broncos and NFL beat writer for The Denver Post. She was previously the digital news editor for sports. Before arriving at The Post in 2014, she spent nearly two years as a senior staff editor at The New York Times and five years at Sports Illustrated.Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A paralysed man in the US has regained limited use of his hand after pioneering surgery to bypass damage to his spinal cord

A paralysed man has regained limited use of his hand after pioneering surgery to bypass damage to his spinal cord.

His injury meant his brain could not "talk" to his hand, meaning all control was lost.

Surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine re-wired his nerves to build a new route between hand and brain.

He can now feed himself and can just about write.

The 71-year-old man was involved in a car accident in June 2008. His spinal cord was damaged at the base of the neck and he was unable to walk.

While he could still move his arms,


the connection to the brain."

She said it was a "really novel" and "refreshingly resourceful" way of restoring movement. However, she warned this would never restore normal function. "That isn't going to happen," she said.

Training

The surgery is not an overnight miracle. It takes intensive training to regain control of the hand. Nerves that used to bend the elbow are now making pinching movements.

After eight months, he was able to move his thumb, index and middle fingers. He can now feed himself and has "rudimentary writing".

With more physiotherapy, doctors expect his movement will continue to improve.

Dr Mark Bacon, the director of research at the charity Spinal Research, told the BBC: "One of the issues with techniques such as this is the permanence of the outcome - once done it isEvents

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On September 24, the US National Honey Board reported the results from three clinical trials on the use of honey by various athletes, reports IMAGINutrition.

The studies were undertaken to evaluate honey compared to other popular forms of carbohydrates used by athletes. All three double blind, placebo-controlled studies were conducted at the University of Memphis Exercise and Sport Nutrition Laboratory, led by Dr. Richard Kreider.

Data were presented at the annual meetings of Experimental Biology, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and research papers have been submitted to appropriate peer-reviewed journals. "We wanted to see if honey would be a good source of carbohydrate for athletes in comparison to other forms of carbohydrate. Honey did as well or better


Leaked Screenshots Reveal Plans for Life is Strange Prequel

According to some leaked screenshots, it seems like we could be in store for a Life is Strange prequel in the near future.

The original Life is Strange, developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix, was widely considered a surprise hit in 2015. The game followed the adventures of Max Caulfield, a high school senior who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time. While the original game focused mainly on Max and her relationship with Chloe, it appears that this prequel will instead focus on Chloe and her relationship with Rachel.

The screenshots were found in this gallery that was anonymously uploaded to Imgur. There are nine images altogether, eight screenshots and one piece of branded concept art.request, the cause for the delay is in dispute.

On Oct. 25, after MassLive published the first public account of the allegations, Deputy Chief Mark Anthony wrote to Police Commissioner John Barbieri questioning the length of the DA's criminal probe.

The department's Major Crimes Unit had turned over its criminal investigation to the DA's office on Aug. 14, 2015, Anthony wrote in the email, and since then the DA's office had neither released any findings or reached out to the department's Major Crimes Unit for further information.

"The question remains if there are no criminal charges or a grand jury presentment, what took so long?" Anthony wrote.

When asked in October why no disciplinary hearings had yet been held for the accused officers, the city's law office told MassLive that the department


to the length of the investigation, Gulluni said, with nearly everyone involved admitting to having consumed alcohol and with challenges in obtaining clear suspect identifications from the victims.

"This is a complicated situation that began and remains as somewhat difficult to get to the bottom of," Gulluni said. "It was indeed a bar fight. Sometimes these are complicated and murky situations."

Cumby and his cousins Jozelle and Jackie Ligon were drinking at Nathan Bill's Bar and Restaurant on April 7, 2015 when Jozelle got into an argument with a group of off-duty police officers. One of the officers believed that Ligon was hitting on the officer's girlfriend, while Ligon claimed he was whistling at a bartender for another round, Cumby said in an interview last month.

The groups took the disputeoutside, where the off duty officers made it clear Cumby and his cousins were no longer welcome, Cumby said. They left before the argument became physical, but that was not the end of the conflict.

FILE PHOTO: Hampden County District Attorney Anthony Gulluni. (Don Treeger / The Republican)

After 2 a.m., Cumby and his cousins were in the nearby parking lot of Rocky's Hardware Store when they saw the group of officers from the bar approaching them, Cumby and Ligon said. One of the officers allegedly began shoving Jozelle Ligon, and another allegedly clubbed Cumby in the back of the head with a baton, knocking him unconscious and loosening his front teeth.

Cumby said that he came to with a broken leg, and that responding officers downplayed his injuries and falsely


National Security Council Ukraine expert Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (C) arrives for a closed-door meeting with House committees conducting an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Photo by Pete Marovich/UPI | License Photo

Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A top White House official testified Tuesday that he does not know the identity of the whistle-blower who reported that President Donald Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on Trump's political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine policy expert for the National Security Council, appeared before the House intelligence, foreign affairs, and oversight and reform committees to answer questions about whether Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigations involving Biden's son, Hunter Biden, who worked forincluding U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. In his remarks, Vindman said Sondland had stressed to him the importance of Ukraine's cooperation, and that he'd been supported by former national security officer Fiona Hill.

"I stated to Sondland that his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate Biden and his son had nothing to do with national security, and that such investigations were not something the NSC was going to get involved in or push," he wrote.

"Following the debriefing meeting, I reported my concerns to the NSC's lead counsel. Dr. Hill also reported the incident to the NSC's lead counsel."

Vindman said in his statement that he worried the dealings would undermine U.S. interests in eastern Europe.

He said he decided


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delighted to be a part of the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017, the first FIFA tournament to be held in India. The event will help to enhance the future of Indian football. As a National Supporter of the event, it is a great opportunity for Dalmia to further our group’s vision of nurturing aspirations of young people in the country and help realise their true potential. This relationship is also important to us as we want to create pride among all stakeholders.”

Speaking about signing up as a National Supporter for the upcoming FIFA tournament in India, NTPC Director of HR Saptarishi Roy said: “NTPC, India’s largest power-generating company, is excited to be part of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, currently the most eagerly awaited event in India.We are proud to be associating ourselves with football – the most popular sport in the world that symbolises youth and energy.”

Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO of Byju’s – The Learning App, said: “We are excited to be a National Supporter of the first-ever FIFA World Cup in India. At Byju’s, we strongly believe in the holistic development of the student through both curricular and co-curricular learning, where sport plays an integral role. Football is fast gaining popularity in India among school students and this World Cup will increase it further.”

FIFA Director of Marketing Services Jean-François Pathy commented: “FIFA is delighted to join forces with Dalmia and to see a leading company embracing the full potential of football in India. Dalmia’s commitment to the FIFA U-17 World Cup


a National Supporter for the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017.

The FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 will kick off on 6 October 2017 and will be the first FIFA tournament to be played in India, where hundreds of young stars will get a chance to showcase their abilities on a global stage.transaction would make Pfizer the biggest company in Ireland, which has a $200 billion economy.

Facilitate Split

An agreement may also facilitate the widely discussed potential for Pfizer to reconfigure itself by splitting the newly enlarged company into two: one focused on new drug development, the other on selling older medications. Pfizer said Monday it will decide on a potential separation by the end of 2018.

Read initiated talks by calling Saunders earlier this fall. "It was a very strong case and I agreed with it," Saunders said in an interview Monday. Most of the dealmaking took place in October, he said.

The talk led to a series of conversations, including a meeting during a Business Council gathering in Colorado, that culminated in a handshake Oct. 28. Since then, the companies and


in mid-to late-stage development.

If the transaction gets regulatory approval, it will be a vindication for Pfizer CEO Read. A 62-year-old who was born in Scotland, he has been open about his pursuit of a lower tax rate even after a foiled attempt to acquire London-based AstraZeneca Plc last year.

Read, who has led Pfizer for almost five years, has said the U.S. corporate tax rate makes it tougher for American companies to compete. Presidential candidates including Donald Trump have called for changes in corporate tax rates to keep U.S. companies from moving. Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor known for picking fights with corporate executives, has said he will put $150 million into a new super-PAC that would push politicians for changes to the way U.S. corporations are taxed onto Western Uganda.

In 1985, the unit Nalweyiso commanded,  participated in the NRA forces that attacked Mbarara military barracks. Following that deployment, the NRA Women's Wing settled in Fort Portal, until the war ended in 1986.

In 1986, when the NRA captured power, Nalweyiso was given the rank of captain and appointed the commandant of the 800-member women's wing in the army, at that time. She steadily rose through the ranks and by 2000 was at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

For over a decade prior to her promotion to Major General, she had worked at the Uganda State House as an aide and military adviser to the president of Uganda.

In February 2019, in a promotions exercise that involved over 2,000 men and women of the UPDF, she was promoted


up similar enterprises abroad. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer

An estimated 300,000 tonnes of clothing was sent to landfill in the UK in 2016 and a report from Wrap puts the average lifespan for a piece of clothing in the UK at 3.3 years.

Globally, the amount of e-waste generated is expected to hit 50m tonnes by the end of 2018. This is partly driven by consumers’ eagerness for new products, but there are also concerns about built-in obsolescence, in which manufacturers design products to break down after a certain amount of time and are often difficult or expensive to fix. In December, Apple admitted to slowing older models of phones, though it claimed it did this for operational not obsolescence reasons.

Repair cafe volunteer Stuart Ward says that when fixingreading. Photograph: Nastco/iStockphoto

The financial viability of the shop makes it attractive as a model. In the last year, Sophie Unwin, the co-founder of the Remakery in Brixton and the founder of Edinburgh Remakery is setting up the Remakery network to replicate the work internationally.

She has had 53 inquiries from groups interested in setting up similar enterprises in the US, New Zealand, Canada, South Korea, Austria, Ireland, Germany, Australia and elsewhere in the UK.

The network will provide toolkits and advice to groups who want to recreate what she has done in Edinburgh. Unwin hopes that these resources will allow other groups to do in two years what it has taken eight years of trial and error and extremely hard graft to achieve.

For repairers, fixing things is a way of


A while ago (up until 1996 or so), tennis in India used to be played on courts made from dried cow dung, normally during Davis Cup ties, but also during tournaments such as the Indian Open (Vijay Amritaj notably won the title in 1977 in Mumbai when it was held on cow dung courts, who indeed went on to win multiple titles on the surface).According to this page, the cow dung paste is made in a large barrel using a stick of bamboo, which is used to mix the dung and the water together. This process can yield about 200 litres of cow dung paste. (See image below.)According to John Newcombe, who played in a Davis Cup tie against India on cow dung courts in 1973, the courtWASHINGTON (AP) — Three female plaintiffs claim an evangelical church group covered up allegations of sexual abuse against children, failed to report accusations to the police and discouraged its members from cooperating with law enforcement, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

The lawsuit was filed in Maryland state court against Sovereign Grace Ministries, a 30-year-old family of churches with more than 80 congregations. Most of its churches are in the U.S., but it also has planted congregations in other countries. The alleged abuse happened in Maryland and northern Virginia in the 1980s and 1990s.

The plaintiffs allege a conspiracy spanning more than two decades to conceal sexual abuse committed by church members. They accuse church representatives of permitting suspected pedophiles to interact with children, supplying them with free legal advice


to avoid prosecution and forcing victims to meet with and "forgive" the person that had molested them.

"The facts show that the Church cared more about protecting its financial and institutional standing than about protecting children, its most vulnerable members," the lawsuit claims.

The church said in a statement late Wednesday that it had not been served with the lawsuit and couldn't comment on the allegations. But it said it considered child abuse "reprehensible and criminal."

"Sovereign Grace Ministries takes seriously the Biblical commands to pursue the protection and well being of all people, especially the most vulnerable in its midst, little children," the statement said.

The suit names as defendants about a half-dozen pastors and church officials who plaintiffs say were alerted to the accusations but either failed to take actionrocked the Roman Catholic church over the last decade. But while that scandal centered on sex abuse by priests, the accusations in this case involve molestation by church members instead of clergy.

Sovereign Grace Ministries grew from its mother church in Gaithersburg, Md., in 1982. It moved its headquarters this year to Louisville, Ky., where it's also planting a new church. The group has struggled in recent years with fractured leadership and criticism over its discipline methods, especially the church's emphasis on sins, discipline and repentance. The lawsuit singles out the church's "Home Group" structure, in which children are provided with day care so that their parents can attend services, as fostering a poorly supervised environment that enabled the abuse to occur.

While the suit deals specifically with alleged abuse


in Maryland and northern Virginia, the church has faced scrutiny on other occasions for its handling of sexual abuse claims, and Susan Burke, a lawyer representing the three plaintiffs, said there are other alleged victims prepared to join in the case too. And an April report by a non-profit Lutheran mediation group that studied the church for nine months found that while church leaders showed "care and concern" about sex abuse allegations, a number of people interviewed felt the claims were handled irresponsibly and were left with "disappointments and hurts."

The lawsuit centers on allegations of three female plaintiffs.

One of the three plaintiffs, a high school student in Virginia, alleges she was sexually assaulted when she was 3 years old and that the mother of the boy who abusedher revealed the molestation to the church. But church officials discouraged her family from reporting the allegations to police and, instead, repeatedly interviewed the alleged abuser and worked with him and his mother to determine how best to prevent any prosecution and publicity regarding the abuse.

A second plaintiff, a college student in Maryland, was sexually abused as a toddler by a church member, the lawsuit claims. A pastor scolded her parents after they called police and then tipped off the accused that he had been reported, according to the lawsuit. Her parents were instructed to bring her to a meeting with her alleged abuser so they could be "reconciled," but she was "visibly scared and crawled under the chair" after being brought into the same room with him,