the wrongful death claim. Ms. Mack-Evans was appointed the personal representative of her mother's estate approximately eleven days after her mother passed away. She asserts that she did not know that a wrongful death claim existed against the Hospital until an expert reviewed her mother's medical records. She admits, however, that she did not even request those records until shortly before filing this suit. Because Ms. Mack-Evans had the ability to request Ms. Mack's medical records as soon as she was appointed as the personal representative of the estate, a jury could reasonably conclude that, under the discovery rule, the statute of limitations would only toll until Ms. Mack-Evans had obtained the ability to request the medical records. At that point, the exercise of reasonable diligence would haveto sew some hapless lodger into counterfeit blubber, creating a chimera in an effort to answer the ultimate riddle, “Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?!”

By the time the podcast was half an hour in Smith was ready to pitch the idea to the production house behind Paranormal Activity. The amazing reaction on Twitter from his listeners (who voted #WalrusYes or #WalrusNo) was enough to convince him of the greatness of the idea to ditch Clerks 3 – the film that was to be his last – and instead make the film that will now be called ‘Tusk’. The script is already written, Tarantino favourite Michael Parks is in as the lead and shooting starts in mid-September. Smith has even offered Quentin a role himself.

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floor that was little more than a thinly-veiled tirade against President Trump. This was followed up by a self-congratulatory — and self-serving — op-ed in the liberal New York Times in which he implied the President is a danger to our society.

In that melodramatic screed, Flake wrote that, “[a]s a conservative, I do not seek conflict with the president of the United States.” Interesting considering he wrote an entire book — Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle — criticizing President Trump and the movement that sent him to the White House.

But if Flake is a conservative, he’s a terrible one with a long record of betraying traditionally conservative principles.

In 2007, Flake introduced his own amnesty bill that provided illegal aliensa pathway to citizenship — a mockery of our immigration laws and a gross insult to all the immigrants who came here legally.

In 2013, he joined the treacherous Gang of Eight to push amnesty yet again.

Flake also supported President Obama’s efforts to normalize relations with the brutal communist dictatorship in Cuba.

The Senator’s past establishment positions and pathological obsession with removing President Trump’s tariffs proves that the only thing Flake the “conservative” truly cares about conserving is the power of the establishment elites.

Senator Flake is the living embodiment of everything that has gone wrong with the GOP and the conservative movement in the last 30 years — everything President Trump is fixing.

For too long, politicians like Flake have claimed the conservative mantle while doing absolutely nothing to conserve Americans’


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Thirty-two years ago, in the late 1970s, Maine was a very different place. People who were minorities in this state, whether based on race or religion, had only recently received the protections of the Maine Human Rights Act. Maine was a place where Jews had typically been excluded from private clubs, until the laws were finally changed to make that illegal.

It was against this backdrop, and on an anniversary marked this week, that two members of the Legislature took a very bold step, bringing forward the first bill that would end discrimination against gays and lesbians in this state. It was March 31, 1977, and our friend, brother and former president of the NAACP Portland Branch Rep. Gerald E. Talbot, sponsored athis important anniversary as we commemorate the leadership of Gerald E. Talbot, the late Laurence Connolly who co-sponsored the original legislation and so many others who advocated early on for civil rights, we look to a future where all people enjoy equal protection under the law as promised in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Robert Talbot of Bangor was the first director of the Maine Human Rights Commission. He is Gerald E. Talbot’s brother. Sallie Chandler is a former


to obtain a condition in which the propagation loss is zero.
In radio equipment used in a frequency band such as the 800 MHz band, the 900 MHz band, or the 1,900 MHz band, which is represented by cell phones, transmission and reception are performed at the same time in a transmission band and a reception band that have different frequencies. In such radio equipment, a transmission filter in which the transmission band is the passband and the reception band is the stopband, and a reception filter in which the reception band is the passband and the transmission band is the stopband are used.
Each of the transmission filter and the reception filter may be provided as a single chip component. Alternatively, the transmission filter and the reception filter maya rapid pace. SWIFT Goes Blockchain with R3 Trial According to the announcement, SWIFT and R3 have developed a proof of concept that links SWIFTâs GIP payments network with R3âs Corda platform to monitor payment flows, settle gpi payments through their bank, and receive credit confirmations. The groups will publish the results of the trial in September. XRP bulls

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The Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) listed the cryptocurrency market as one of the six focus points of its compliance monitoring activities for 2019. Spotlight on the Cryptocurrency Market According to a report titled “2019 Examination Priorities,” OCIE says it


the slabs, a further embodiment of the device according to the invention is characterized in that the furnace device comprises a first zone and a second zone which, as seen in the standard passage direction, are positioned one behind the other, and the welding machine is arranged between the first and the second zones. The furnace device preferably has means for conveying through slabs at an accelerated speed in order to be able to empty the furnace device quickly following an interruption to the process, whether planned or not, and before another interruption occurs.
It has been found that a good weld, with little cooling of the slabs, can be obtained in an embodiment of the device according to the invention which is characterized in that the first zoneand the second zone are positioned at a distance apart which, measured in the standard passage direction, is 4-25 m, preferably 5-17 m. In order to return the slabs which have cooled down during the welding to the correct temperature, a second zone is positioned downstream of the welding machine, as seen in the standard passage direction, which second zone, according to the invention, is characterized in that it has a length of between 25 and 100 m. It has been found that, depending on the rate at which welding can be carried out and the welding length, sufficient temperature homogenization can be achieved with such a length.
In the second zone, the welded slab is to reach a temperature homogeneity which is desired for the subsequent rolling process.


furnace device to be provided with a first heat-up section and a first heat-through section, positioned downstream of the first heat-up section, on the entry side of the furnace device, as seen in the standard passage direction of the slabs.
In connection with achieving flexibility in the operation of the furnace device, inter alia in the event of or after a planned or chance interruption, it is preferable for the furnace device to be provided at the end, as seen in the standard passage direction, with a further heat-through section which is arranged downstream of the conveyor means, if present, and upstream of the welding machine.
The invention is also embodied by a process for producing a steel strip, in which liquid steel is cast in at least one continuous-castingIf Congress makes good on its promise to repeal parts of Obamacare, by 2019 an estimate 2.55 million Texans would no longer have coverage, resulting in greater financial pressure on local governments, healthcare providers and the insured, according to a new public health study.

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Saturday is the opening of the second part of the divided season on ducks in the South Zone, which includes all of the coastal and adjoining counties. It could not come at a better time as conditions have changed dramatically from two weeks ago when the first part of the season closed.

It looks like Santa will be taking a different route this year. The Santa Hustle race series, known for dressing its participants in Santa hats and fluffy white beards, has developed a new


ugliness” prevails.

The recent election was also a referendum on the medical, and yes, recreational use of marijuana. Voters in Nevada, Massachusetts, Maine and California approved the recreational use of marijuana; bringing the number of approving states to eight. Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas will now join others that allow the medical use of it. With chronic marijuana use, questions about its influence on a person’s health are being debated.

Dr. Gulshan Sharma has been appointed vice president and chief medical and clinical innovation officer of the University of Texas Medical Branch’s health system. Sharma, who holds the Sealy & Smith Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine, will retain his position as director of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Sharma, who joined the medical branch in 2004, received histhe intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium is one of the most prevalent causes of diarrhea in the world. Castellanos-Gonzalez has a novel method to study the function of potential drugs against the parasite.

When the Galveston National Laboratory opened months after Hurricane Ike in 2008, leaders knew researchers there would battle infectious diseases on a global scale — forever changing the status of the University of Texas Medical Branch.

The biggest philanthropic effort in the University of Texas Medical Branch history, a $450 million Working Wonders Campaign, officially concluded last week, having exceeded the goal by raising $450,954,995 for various initiatives at the university. Medical branch President Dr. David L. Callender said the campaign was “transformative,” enabling the medical branch to construct the new Jennie Sealy Hospital, add 153 new endowments and


presence of certain markers that are only present in patients with lung cancer. How is that for patient-friendly?

Artifacts and documents from 15 different University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine alumni will be on display on the third floor of the Moody Medical Library for the next two months. The stories of the former students are told through photographs, letters, diaries and other materials that make up part of the Truman G. Blocker Jr. History of Medicine Collections. The exhibit includes displays on Dr. Herman Barnet III, a World War II fighter pilot who would become the first African American admitted to medical school in Texas, Dr. Edith Bonnet, the first woman intern at John Sealy Hospital, and Dr. Felix Miller who spent a day in 1911common diseases that occur periodically like outbreaks of measles or the yearly influenza outbreak.

Although there has been much hope for the educational potential of interactive media for young children, there are also fears about their overuse during this crucial early period of rapid brain development.

Dr. Courtney Townsend is the new president of the American College of Surgeons, becoming the 97th leader of the largest organization of surgeons in the world. Townsend, who holds the Robertson-Poth Distinguished Chair in General Surgery, has served as editor-in-chief of the “Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice” since 2000 and was also the editor of “Surgical Oncology.”

The epidemic of opioid abuse and the resulting increases in overdoses and deaths have been front and center in the news for


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The first Iron Man film launched one of the most successful series of comic boom movies to date. It not only forged ahead on its own, but also set up a miniature universe where many of Marvel's greats were able to show their stuff and do it with style. In retrospect, the character of Iron Man seemed like the perfect way to get people into superheroes other than Spider-Man or Batman because underneath his fancy armor he's just a regular guy who comes out ahead thanks to his wits, charm, and incredibly smarmy attitude. No more was this more evident than in the cinematic version of his origin story in where a near fatally wounded Tony Stark bands together with his brief BFF to put togethera means to escape their captors. From there he became the most sensational super-hero of them all!

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And so I present to all the true believers out there the Revoltech Iron Man Mark 1. This majestic bucket of bolts stands a good six inches tall and is one of the beefiest Revoltech figures on the market. Tony's first armor in the cinematic universe has a perfectly clunky and pragmatic aura surrounding it as befitting a contraption built in a cave with a box of scraps.

Sci-Fi Revoltechs eschew the dynamic sculpts of the parent line in favor of more faithful proportions and functionality. However, they still seek to maintain the level of detail found on other Kaiyodo products and as a result the Iron Man Mark 1 figure does


In an embarassment to the US, special forces soldiers have revealed that the military mistakenly released one of the six most wanted Taliban leaders.

Mullah Akhter Mohammed Osmani, one of Taliban's top generals who lead thousands of troops as coalition forces ousted the hard-line regime, quickly fled to Pakistan, where he remains today, military officials were quoted as saying by the Washington Times on Wednesday.

They said that in late July, a Green Beret (Special Forces) A-Team apprehended Osmani as he left his compound at daybreak in a town west of Kandahar. He was flown to a detention centre at Bagram air base for interrogation.

However, the soldiers said, Task Force 180, the overall command in Afghanistan, released Osmani a few weeks later.

A senior administration official and two soldiers said thata US intelligence report placed Osmani in another location after his detention, and this led to his release.

Osmani and other former Taliban leaders are now trying to organise a guerrilla force to disrupt the government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.

Besides Osmani, former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar, his top aide Tayeb Agha, and top military commander Jalaluddin Happani are also among the most wanted list.

Mullah Omar is believed to be in hiding in his native Uruzgan Province, an area riddled with drug traffickers and Taliban supporters north of Kandahar. The soldiers also told the Times that they gained information on several occasions last summer on the whereabouts of Mullah Omar but commanders turned down the missions, citing extreme risk.


First came the government's "time management" motion, requiring us to sit until the Electoral Reform Bill, plus 10 others, had been considered. The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party's Ricky Muir immediately sought to move a motion replacing electoral reform with the government's Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) Bill as the week's key bill.

Despite arguing this bill was critical to its legislative agenda, the government – with the Greens' support – gagged debate and voted down Ricky's motion. This was the first of Ricky's many forays into the week's politics and policy, proving he is far more competent than some of the nameless backbenchers in the major parties. He'd make a great Labor member for the seat of Gippsland.

As for the Coalition voting against its own ABCC Bill, atliberty (and thus always voting in favour of same-sex marriage), it was obvious there would be a lot of senators wanting a say. It was idiotic for the Greens to believe they could force a vote after such a short debate.

Senate crossbenchers including Ricky Muir, Dio Wang, Jacqui Lambie, Glenn Lazarus and the Greens, during the swearing-in of new senators at Parliament House in Canberra in 2014. Alex Ellinghausen

The Senate sat until just after midnight.

Wednesday

On Wednesday, during a brief pause in debate on electoral reform, I gave a speech on Australia's deteriorating financial position and alarming similarities to Greece. During question time I asked the Minister for Finance, representing the Treasurer, whether Australia would ever see a budget surplus again. He gave an answer to a different question.

Debate


resumed later in the day, pausing for new Liberal Senator James Paterson's excellent first speech. I do hope he sees the light and joins the Liberal Democrats. Debate on electoral reform continued into the night.

Thursday (all day and all night) and Friday (all day)

On Thursday morning I tried again to move an amendment to the government's time management motion to allow full consideration of the Greens' bill on same-sex marriage. Once again the government gagged debate, with Greens' support.

Debate resumed on electoral reform later in the day in the knowledge it would continue until the bill had been decided. Labor was hoping to force the government, with Greens' support, to gag debate. And yet, despite voting to gag debate on their own bill, the Greens told the governmenta night of interminable speeches, many profoundly boring but with occasional moments of hilarity. While few senators were in the chamber, most of us watched from our offices. Some slept on couches, on the floor, or in chairs. Several times during the night we were called to vote when Labor moved debate be suspended. The government was having none of it.

I slept for perhaps 10 minutes, interrupted by division bells. I was in the chamber when Stephen Conroy named the front parties established to assist Lee Rhiannon's election to the NSW parliament in 1999. I heard Sam Dastyari's description of Richard Di Natale's fashion shoot with GQ Magazine, labelling him "the Black Wiggle".

I heard Glenn Sterle talking about his colonoscopy and, tired as I was, I laughed when


voted against donation reform (and people realised how cynical they are), I was accused – repeatedly and with defamatory crudeness – of "pulling a stunt", of being "put up to it by Labor". The NSW Greens – on their official Facebook page – asserted I was opposed to same-sex marriage. False and malicious attacks are apparently acceptable when the Greens' hypocrisy is exposed.

As it happens, I wasn't a party to the decision to filibuster although I was happy that it put the dirty deal between the government and the Greens in the spotlight. Nobody has ever argued that Senate voting reform was not needed, but the government's changes will merely replace one set of problems with another. Entrenching the Greens is one of them.

So now we have Malcolmthe stimulus.

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Clinically induced pain was recorded with a paper and pencil form of a 100 mm VAS. After the extraction of the impacted third molars, pain was recorded every 20 minutes by VAS until subjects requested analgesic medication as the local anesthesia was eliminated and post-operative pain onset occurred. Ketorolac tromethamine (Toradol) was administered intravenously at the recommended dose (30 mg) and pain was recorded by VAS again at 15 minutes interval for 180 minutes. The maximum post-operative pain rating, onset time of post-operative pain, the analgesic onset time after medication and pain relief at 180 minutes after medication were used as measures of clinical pain.

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To resolve phase unknown genotypes and estimate population frequencies in unrelated individuals we employed PHASE method, a probability based Bayesian


United could be in ‘trouble’ at the start of the season unless some of his senior players come back early from holidays, and revealed that Valencia – who has flown home with a calf injury – was out of shape when he returned for pre-season.

Mourinho believes his side could be in trouble at the start of the Premier League season

‘Antonio Valencia comes from holiday,’ he said. ‘I think too much holiday for him. His condition was not good when he was back.

‘I just hope the boys on deserved holidays, they take care of themselves a little bit and somebody wants to do what Rashford and (Phil) Jones do, which is to be back a little bit earlier to try and help the team, because for the beginning ofthe season we are going to be in trouble.’

The United boss also had pop at the American match officials conceded two penalties against Liverpool. ‘The referee was called in by mistake,’ he added. ‘They must have been called in by the baseball federation because they didn’t have soccer in their heads. It was fun.’


Phillips Petroleum Company in a territory consisting primarily of Curry County and a portion of Quay County, New Mexico." Plaintiffs also allege that they make bulk retail sales to farmers, and that they are in direct competition with jobbers, distributors, consignees, and to some extent with service stations in the area. Part of the claim against Phillips is that it has sold gasoline to jobbers in Parmer County, Texas, at prices lower than it has exacted from plaintiffs, and at prices lower than exacted by "defendant for products of like grade and quality elsewhere in the United States." Allegations against the other defendants are that during the period from March 1, 1965, to May 10, 1965, the date of the filing of the action, they have sold orof trade, the object and purpose of which was to secure a monopoly in the lines of trade and commerce involved in the action. It is alleged that "This conspiracy has been accomplished by agreements and understandings among the defendants to fix the prices of gasoline in the area involved."
The "State Law Violations" which are set forth in Count III rely on the conduct described in Count I. It is alleged that defendants' acts constitute violations of the state statutes also.
The relief sought is injunction against imminent harm from defendants' practices and policies.
Defendants California Oil Co. (Standard of Texas), Gulf, Humble, Phillips, Shell and Texaco have moved for summary judgment on the basis that on the facts revealed no violation is shown and no genuine issue of fact


as to any material matter exists.
D. L. and E. H. Ingram, doing business as Ingram Brothers Oil Company, hereinafter Ingram, is a jobber for Phillips. Ingram does business primarily in Curry and Quay Counties, New Mexico. At the wholesale level it services eight service stations in Clovis, New Mexico, one truck stop three miles east of Clovis, a service station in Broadview, New Mexico, and a service station in Hollene, New Mexico. D. L. Ingram stated in his deposition that these eleven customers purchased from Ingram on a consignment basis, which means the gasoline is owned by Ingram until delivered to the retail customer. Ingram also sells directly to several bulk consumers, one of whom is serviced at two points located in Texas, just across the New Mexico-Texasthe area involved. However, it further states that two or three former Humble accounts had transferred to Ingram. It also contends that none of its New Mexico agents ever solicited trade from Ingram's customers, that its retail service stations in Clovis cannot be deemed in competition with Ingram at the wholesale level, and that as an independent jobber in Farwell, Texas, to whom Humble sells does not operate in New Mexico, that jobber does not compete with Ingram. Humble argues that its affidavits demonstrate an absence of any conspiracy in making price reductions.
California (Standard of Texas) argues that the facts "testified to" by D. L. Ingram in his deposition reveal that the only competition from Standard relates to a truck stop in Texico, New Mexico; that there is


in regard to alleged secondary-line injury under the Robinson-Patman Act that the Texas and New Mexico regions involved are separate markets; that though Clovis in Curry County, New *678 Mexico, and towns in Parmer County, Texas, are not far distant from one another, the state line operates to separate the markets.
Shell also urges that Texas and New Mexico constitute separate markets. But Shell has more to offer than this. It urges that its method of distribution, its action during the alleged price reductions and its location within the alleged market area remove it from any possibility of liability to Ingram under the complaint. It is true that the uncontradicted evidence shows that Shell distributes solely through jobbers throughout the Texas area, and its closest jobber to Ingram isThis subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. In response to the national effort to develop, improve, and deliver clinical and translational science, the leadership of Emory University challenged both faculty and the administration to transform clinical and translational research within the University and its numerous components and affiliates. With ongoing collaborations in heath-care, education, and interdisciplinary research, Emory also chose to engage two of its close academic partners in metropolitan Atlanta - Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)


training and community outreach focus of MSM together with the engineering and bioinformatics achievements of GA Tech. The planning efforts also led to the creation of a new and innovative pediatric clinical and translational research program and a partnership with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, new partnerships with the emerging Georgia biotechnology community and with Kaiser Permanente, and the further development of partnerships with state sponsored agencies (Georgia Research Alliance) and with the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Atlanta-CTSI is a model designed to harness the scientific, technological, and clinical advantages of these institutions around the major aims of discovery, training, and community engagement to create a new city wide home for clinical and translational research. Other new programs resulting from the synergistic partnership include an innovative pilot projectsChimpanzees' responses to the dead body of a 9-year-old group member.
The social behavior of chimpanzees has been extensively studied, yet not much is known about how they behave in response to the death of a group member. Here, we provide a detailed report of the reactions of a group of chimpanzees to finding the dead body of a 9-year-old male group member. The behavior of the group was characterized by quiet attendance and close inspections punctuated by rare displays. Moreover, the body was continuously attended and closely inspected by several adults and juveniles, including an adult male who formed a close social bond with the deceased individual after the deceased individual's mother died 4 years earlier. When considered with observations of how chimpanzees respond to dead infants and


and i pulled my barretta out.
She cried out Sylvester please don't.
Visions of him making love to her.
He said man put the gun on the floor.
I can't stop thinking about him and her.
I slowly put the gun and then I put my hands up.
He winked at me and smiled.
And that is when I went nuts.
Hopped all over him grabbed the gun.
She screaming settle down.
Going all around both handling the gun then all of a sudden POW.Berlin (AFP) - A member of Germany's far-right and anti-Muslim Alternative for Germany party (AfD) who recently converted to Islam has said he did so in protest at what he sees as the "moral decline" of the Protestant church.

Arthur Wagner, 48, until recently a leading party member in the state of Brandenburg, told the Bild newspaper on Wednesday that his decision was in part sparked by the church's acceptance of same-sex marriage and the presence of priests at gay pride marches.

"One of the reasons (for the conversion) is tied to changes that have taken place in the church, which no longer reflects my values," he told the daily.

Explaining his decision, he singled out the church's position "with regard to the AfD, its support for marriage for all and


the participation of pastors at Christopher Street Day, where there are children. It's unacceptable!"

Christopher Street Day is an annual gathering of the LGBT community in several German and Swiss cities.

Wagner's conversion is perhaps all the more surprising given that he formerly held an official position within the Protestant church.

He converted in October but only announced the decision last week, when he quit his leadership role in the AfD, although he remains a party member.

His decision has not gone down well in the party, which is strongly anti-Islam.

One of his local party colleagues, Kai Berger, said he was "very disappointed".

"Many members are waiting for him to quit the party. Unfortunately our statutes do not allow us to kick him out," he said.

Wagner told Bild he had received several threats“Some People Call Me Obsessive Or Driven Or Lucky Or Whatever. I’m All Of Those Things. Shouldn’t We All Be?” – Kelly Slater

In positive psychology, flow, also known as zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does.

About Kelly Slater

Robert Kelly Slater (born February 11, 1972) is an American professional surfer known for his competitive prowess and style. He has been crowned World Surf League Champion a record 11 times, including 5 consecutive titles in 1994–98. He is the youngest (at age 20) and the oldest (at age 39) to win the title.

Upon


winning his 5th world title in 1997, Slater passed Australian surfer Mark Richards to become the most successful champion in the history of the sport. In 2007 he also became the all-time leader in career event wins by winning the Boost Mobile Pro event at Lower Trestles near San Clemente, California. The previous record was held by Slater’s childhood hero, three-time world champion Tom Curren.The Terrapins (6-0) led 53-51 in the final minute before Brianna Fraser hit a jumper and Taylor Mikesell added a free throw with 20 seconds left to quell the comeback bid.

Maryland made more field goals in the first quarter (10) than over the final three periods (nine).

Jones scored 17 in the first half, and the Terps held a 15-point lead early in the second quarter. But Georgia (3-3) went ahead 40-38 shortly after halftime, and the game remained close during a fourth quarter in which the Terrapins missed nine of 11 shots from the field and the Bulldogs went 3 for 20.

Jones was the only Maryland player to score in double figures. Mikesell and Fraser had eight points apiece and Shakira Austin contributed 14 rebounds.

Gabby Connally scored 16


Photo by the mad LOL ScientistDuring a probation violation hearing, Idaho Judge Peter D. McDermott took extreme measures after losing patience with the defendant, whose behavior was described as "strange and erratic;" and told court officials to tape Nicklas Frasure's mouth shut with duct tape.

Frasure, who was recently released from a state mental hospital in Blackfoot, Idaho, after being sentenced there following a felony theft conviction, had apparently not been taking his medication and was having severe mood swings. During the proceedings, the defendant interrupted many times and ignored the judge's orders to stop. Finally, McDermott instructed the bailiffs to apply a piece of duct tape over his mouth. Talk about a gag order.TORONTO: Toronto-based former Akal Takht head priest Darshan Singh Ragi, who was excommunicated by the Sikh high priests in December for questioning the authenticity of the scripture Dasam Granth, says his voice cannot be silenced.

Because of his excommunication over the Dasam Granth, he was not allowed to speak at a Toronto-area gurdwara and his supporters were attacked with kirpans last week.

In Sikhsim, the Dasam Granth is considered the second important scripture after the holy Granth which was declared the eternal guru of the Sikhs by Guru Gobind Singh before his death in 1708.

But according to Ragi and other Sikh scholars, the Dasam Granth - attributed to the last Sikh guru Gobind Singh - is full of derogatory words, references to sexual promiscuity and intoxicants.

Because of these references, they


the lower 80s.

Ant-Man and The Wasp opens in theaters on July 6
The trailer of the film starts on a very intimate note with Scott Lang talking to his daughter about his superhero stint. Ant-Man is portrayed by Paul Rudd while Evangeline Lilly has taken on the role of the Wasp.

'Women first' is the mantra of govt and BJP, says PM Modi

Kalaburagi: Appealing to regional pride and painting the Congress as a "has been" party, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Thursday appealed to the people of Karnataka to vote for the BJP "for a better future for their youth, farmers and women".

In the wake of the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, if netas (politicians) at public rallies are at their "devilish" best throwing muck at each other, social media accounts ofAn old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly woman in France earlier this year -- which was determined to be a work of art from a 13th-century artist -- made her a multimillionaire on Sunday.

The work, a masterpiece titled "Christ Mocked" and attributed to the Italian painter Cimabue, sold for $26.6 million (24 million euros) to an anonymous buyer near Chantilly, north of Paris, reportedly making it the most expensive medieval painting ever sold.

The expected sale price of the unsigned work, measuring about 10 inches by 8 inches, had been between $4.4 million to $6.6 million.

LONG-LOST 13TH CENTURY PAINTING FOUND IN WOMAN'S KITCHEN

In June, an auctioneer discovered the painting hanging on a wall while inspecting the woman's house in Compiegne, which is in northern France, and


recommended that she bring it to experts to be evaluated. The painting hadn't attracted much attention from the woman, who is in her 90s, or her family, who thought it was an old icon from Russia, according to The Guardian.

Acteon Auction House, which sold the masterpiece to the anonymous buyer, said the woman will receive "the majority" of the sale money.

Dominique Le Coent of Acteon Auction House said the sale represented a "world record for a primitive, or a pre-1500 work."

"It's a painting that was unique, splendid and monumental. Cimabue was the father of the Renaissance, but this sale goes beyond all our dreams," Le Coent said.

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Art experts said the painting likely was part of a larger diptych thatCimabue painted around 1280; two other panels were displayed at the Frick Collection in New York and the National Gallery in London. The experts at Turquin in Paris reportedly used infrared reflectography to confirm that the piece was part of the diptych containing eight scenes of the passion and crucifixion of Christ.

Cimabue, who was said to have taught Italian master Giotto, broke from the Byzantine style, popular in the Middle Ages, and started including elements of movement and perspective that came to characterize Western painting. Only 11 works painted on wood, none of them signed, have been attributed to Cimabue, as The Guardian reported.

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The painting had hung on the kitchen wall of the woman’s home for so long that she reportedly


public funds. What Ford rarely says is that his father was a millionaire businessman who sat in the Ontario legislature between 1995 and 1999 as part of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party, during a period of privatization, tax cuts and brutal cuts to social programs.

Ford has succeeded in Toronto's working-class neighborhoods by campaigning on issues that appeal to their needs (most notably his plan to extend the city’s subway to the far-flung suburbs). And the rest of Ford Nation, as Ford calls his supporters, is united in the almost fundamentalist belief that he will save them tax money.

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Part of Ford’s costume as an average guy is a readiness to admit that he likes to party — a cheery euphemism for his substance abuse problems. He likes to partywant your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?” On St. Patrick’s Day last year, he was seen stumbling down the street “inebriated and sweaty but in a jovial way,” before being ejected from a private party later that night for, according to the Toronto Star, “fighting and carrying on ‘like an idiot,’ [… and] ‘storming the dance floor.’”

He’s been photographed seemingly drunk with a bachelorette party, and spotted at Wal-Mart late at night wearing pajama pants and a hoodie. In February, he arrived late to the ball honoring Canadian soldiers, where he was described as “rambling” and “incoherent” — he was once again asked to leave. At a party for the Canadian Jewish Political Action Committee in March, former mayoral rival Sarah


Thomson alleged that he groped her buttocks while the two posed for a picture together and told her, she "should have been [on his recent vacation] in Florida with him because his wife wasn't there"; she said at the time that his behavior was consistent with someone on cocaine.

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Much of this has been dismissed by his supporters as the behavior of a guy who likes to have a few drinks. It says nothing of the charges of assault and uttering death threats laid against him by his wife, Renata, in 2008 (the charges were dropped), or the call she made to police on Christmas Eve of 2011 following a domestic dispute or the 911 call his mother-in-law made the next day claiming that Ford was drunk and attemptingto take his children to Florida against Renata’s wishes (no charges were laid; Doug Ford, the mayor's brother, later claimed it was a “misunderstanding” that was “blown out of proportion”).

Ford is also a big football fan, enough of one that he invited his high-school football coach David Price to join his team at City Hall, inventing an estimated $130,000 per year position in his office (“director of operations and logistics”) that he would not describe to the media — Price later repaid Ford by making a series of supportive calls to Ford’s radio show claiming to be different people. Though he was dismissed as head coach of Etobicoke’s Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School’s football team following the initial rush of crack accusations in May, Ford had by that


time already hired a former drug enforcer with a history of violent crimes to coach the team.

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Perhaps most famously, Ford used official City Council letterhead to solicit donations to his football charity from lobbyists registered with the city. Despite having been warned by the speaker that he was in a potential conflict of interest, he then voted against a city council motion to force him to pay back the money he received. In the court case that followed, Ford claimed he did not understand the meaning of “conflict of interest,” maintaining that he had never read the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act or the City of Toronto councillor orientation handbook, which described potential conflict-of-interest situations, and had never attended the City Council training sessions in which conflicts ofa public meeting to discuss this? Why don’t we have a public lynching?”

He has fought a long campaign against Toronto cyclists, whom he has described as “a pain in the ass,” arguing that cyclists are to blame whenever one of them gets killed, and spending $300,000 to remove bicycle lanes from one city thoroughfare. Though he has achieved suburban support for his subway plan, it comes at the expense of plans for a light rail system that the city of Toronto had already finalized. Canceling the plan cost the city $65 million in penalties.

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On gay and lesbian issues Ford has been particularly consistent, from his 2001 and 2005 attacks on government grants for causes benefiting gay and transgender people to his 2006 argument against an AIDS prevention program,


Sonbong County

Sonbong County, formerly called Unggi (Chosŏn'gŭl: 웅기, Hancha: 雄基), is a subdivision of the North Korean city of Rason. It is located at the northeastern extreme of North Korea, bordering Russia and China. It lies on Unggi Bay, an extension of the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea). A uranium mine is allegedly located there, as is a 200 megawatt oil-fired power plant. The word Sonbong means "Vanguard" in Korean.

The Sonbong Revolutionary Site there is dedicated to a visit by Kim Jong-suk in November 1945 "upholding the policy of building a new country advanced by President Kim Il Sung" after the liberation of Korea. It includes the Sonbong Revolutionary Museum, a monument to the historic site, and the hose where she stayed.

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Sonbong is North Korea's railThis summer, coaches from the world-famous Liverpool FC International Youth Academy will be flown in from England to lead a camp right here in Anne Arundel County. Players will be taught to play the Liverpool way and learn more about the club that has produced some of the world’s best players.

As part of Arundel Soccer Association’s relationship with Liverpool Football Club International Academy (FCIAA) Maryland, a discounted registration rate is being offered to ASA players through May 1st. Registration for the 2018 summer camp, being held at Indian Creek Upper School, July 23-27, can be found at the link below. Given the rare and special opportunity to play in front of Liverpool’s academy coaching staff, we urge you to sign up quickly to avoid missing out on this


Dubai-UAE: 12 October, 2017: In January 2014 Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, launched the social media hashtag #MyDubai, inviting the Emirate's residents and visitors to write the social media biography of the city.
Since then, across the various social media platforms, countless pictures and videos have been shared using the metadata tag. Each post tells a unique story of the Dubai experience.

The progressive design studio Apical Reform visualises the Emirate's vibrant spirit and its emotional bond with residents and visitors through a new interactive public sculpture, inspired by and named after the social media movement.

Delivering a definitive image of Dubai to the world, ‘MY Dubai’ is the latest chapter in the established traditions of large-scale city sign sculptures evidenced in iconic citiesacross the world.

Located in the heart of Dubai Design District - the city’s purpose-built creative hub - the installation will interact with its surroundings and the people, offering photo-ops to visitors. It will also serve as a landmark for buskers and street performances.

Mohammad Saeed Al Shehhi, COO, Dubai Design District says: 'Dubai Design District is the gateway to creativity, innovation and the human experience. The MY Dubai City Sign is symbolic of the very personal connection that both residents and visitors have with the Emirate. Having it placed in the heart of d3 not only underscores our community's culture, it is a nod to Dubai's leadership and their vision to create new, sustainable economies.'

The design of the installation blends the innovative attitude of Dubai with its natural landscape.

Each


alphabet is extruded into the third dimension using stringent Parametric Design formulae. Then, each layer is composed by hand to represent the ripples on the surface of a sand dune.

“Dubai is an exciting blend of tradition and modernity, of the man-made and nature. We wanted to translate that into a visual that is rooted in the local context but has global appeal” says Amrish Patel, of Apical Reform, the studio behind this new city icon.

Manifested in a colour inspired by the UAE Flag, ‘MY Dubai’, the city sign is a new emblem of Dubai and a cherished part of the Emirate’s urban fabric.

Posted by : Dubai PR Network Editorial TeamViewed 6216 times PR Category :Travel & TourismPosted on : Thursday, October 12, 2017 12:20:00 PM UAE local timeMore than 1,300 Catholic educators are urging the Trump administration to leave in place the Obama-era policy that protects young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

"We stand with our students who are DACA beneficiaries," they wrote in what they're calling a "moral mandate" released Monday.

"Their perseverance, hard work and hopefulness is an example to us as teachers," they wrote. "We witness the obstacles they overcome each day as they pursue their dream of a better life for themselves and their families. In facing adversity and uncertainty with grace and hope, they embody the best of our schools, our country and the Catholic tradition."

The move comes as the president runs up against a Sept. 5 deadline set by 10 state


attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, for him to end DACA or face a challenge in federal court.

The DACA policy currently protects about 750,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.

On Tuesday, a handful of Catholic education leaders – including Bishop Mark Seitz, Diocese of El Paso, Texas; Father Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States; Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, and others – will specifically call on retired Gen. John Kelly, Trump's White House chief of staff, to protect the DACA policy.

The educators will argue that Catholic teaching "clearly and strongly" calls for immigration policies that "uphold the dignity of immigrants and their families."

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Speaking of, fifth is Together Now, a song about a person who is consummating his or her relationship in saying how they're together now, and nothing is going to shake their faith in how well this one's gonna work.

Sixth is Allies, which Rob Smith, the guy behind Death By Power Ballad over at PopDose said in a comment about 3 years ago was the other side of a coin flip that wrought his marvelously funny review of Heart's Alone. I would very much enjoy hearing his thoughts on the entire Passionworks album, and this one in particular. It has a superb piano line to start off, and has my attention throughout and I can sing along, moderately. This one


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John Kosich was one of the most outstanding and durable two-sport athletes in Wyoming history. A four-year letterman in both football and baseball, Kosich missed just two games in four season due to an injury. He earned either first or second team all-conference each of his four years in both sports. Playing on both sides of the football, Kosich was regarded the best tackle to ever play at Wyoming at the end of his career. Kosich was honored as the 1947 Wyoming Athlete of the Year, and was selected all-conference and third team All-American by UPI after his senior season, 1949. As a catcher on the Cowboy baseball squad, again Kosich was an all-star performer. He batted over .300 each of hisHer bold colours and contrast prints help with visual stimulation and development. High-contrast patterns stimulate vision. Crinkle for auditory development. Perfect for baby's first doll. Suitable from birth to 24 months.

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Esteban Ocon has the same potential as Max Verstappen, according to Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley.

Fernley also confirmed to Sky F1 that the Frenchman signed a two-year contract with the team when he replaced Nico Hulkenberg at the start of 2017.

Verstappen has lit up Formula 1 since entering the sport as a 17-year-old with Toro Rosso in 2015 and he became the youngest-ever winner of a grand prix last year with victory at the Spanish GP on his Red Bull debut.

In 2014, Ocon won the European Formula 3 championship ahead of Verstappen and Fernley believes he can go on to enjoy similar success in Formula 1.

"I absolutely do [believe he has the potential of Verstappen]. That's why we brought him on," Fernley told Sky F1.

"He's withus for sure for two years and hopefully a little longer.

Sky F1's Simon Lazenby is put through his paces in the gym by Force India driver Esteban Ocon to see exactly how fit you need to be to drive a 2017 F1 car Sky F1's Simon Lazenby is put through his paces in the gym by Force India driver Esteban Ocon to see exactly how fit you need to be to drive a 2017 F1 car

"We were very fortunate to be able to have a look at him early on in his career. At that time he dealt very well with the engineers, showed his promise on track and we were very optimistic that we could get him later.

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& landforms, or a combination of such natural features. They are the essential building blocks of Scotland's protected areas for nature conservation … It is an offence for any person to intentionally or recklessly damage the protected natural features of an SSSI."

Trump got official approval to destroy Foveran Links SSSI after exaggerating economic benefits, much shenanigans & Scottish Government intervention. That site will probably be denotified as SSSI. Presently the speculator is Coul Links Ltd. led by Mike Keiser, President of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Oregon, Trump Golf’s main global rival, & entrepreneur Todd Warnock who claims (like Trump's 'it will be done environmentally perfect') 'I can make this environment better'.

From October 2015, press articles publicised proposals for the international 18-hole golf course. The developers blithely spoke ofshe complained about — Dr. GreggStanwood — was never her direct supervisor.

Goswick-Childers said her troubles began in February 2016, when Stanwood — a developmental neuropharmacologist and behavioral neuroscientist — joked in front of two other co-workers he couldn’t give Goswick-Childers his credit card information because “she may use the card to purchase porn or online sex toys and his wife may find out,” according to the complaint.

After she reported the remark about two months later, “the (work) environment became hostile and extremely stressful” as Goswick-Childers “believed she would face retaliation.”

She said she did the following January, after a guest speaker “made reference to sex toys in (a) presentation (on the) Zika virus,” the suit said. Stanwood told her in front of four others that “he had made a


Before that, he covered three legislative sessions in Florida for The Associated Press. Jim graduated from law school in 2009 after spending nearly a decade covering courts for the Tallahassee Democrat, including reporting on the 2000 presidential recount. He can be reached at jim@floridapolitics.com.

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Florida Politics is a statewide, new media platform covering campaigns, elections, government, policy, and lobbying in Florida. This platform and all of its content are owned by Extensive Enterprises Media.Search underway for 10 sailors after USS John S. McCain collision near Singapore

American, Singaporean and Malaysian armed forces on Monday are searching for 10 U.S. sailors missing after an early-morning collision between a Navy destroyer and a tanker near Singapore–the second collision involving a Navy ship in the Asia-Pacific region in two months.

The Navy says five sailors were hurt in Monday’s collision between the USS John S. McCain and the 600-foot Alnic MC, an oil and chemical tanker. The four who required additional treatment were taken by helicopter to Singapore, where the McCain had been headed.

One of the injured, Operations Specialist 2nd Class Navin Ramdhun, posted a Facebook message saying he was OK and awaiting surgery for an arm injury. He told The Associated Press that he was


sleeping at the time of the collision and is not sure what happened.

The collision occurred at 6:24 a.m. Japan Standard Time. Significant damage to the hull resulted in flooding to nearby compartments, including crew berthing, machinery, and communications rooms a Navy statement said. Damage control efforts by the crew prevented further flooding, the statement said.

The ship has arrived at Changi Naval Base in Singapore. It sailed under its own power, Reuters reported.

The warship is named after John S. McCain, Sr., and John S. McCain, Jr., both Admirals in the U.S. Navy, and the grandfather and father, respectively, of the Arizona senator.

The ship is based at the fleet’s homeport of Yokosuka, Japan. It was commissioned in 1994 and has a crew of 23 officers, 24 chief petty officers andfirst petrol-powered car, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, patented in January 1886 and Gottlieb Daimlerand engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a stagecoach by the addition of a petrol engine later that year. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 byDaimler Motoren Gesellschaft. The first Mercedes-Benz brand name vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz's and Gottlieb Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company.Mercedes-Benz has introduced many technological and safety innovations that later became common in other vehicles.Mercedes-Benz is one of the most well-known and established automotive brands in the world, and is also the world's oldest automotive brand still in existence today. For information relating to the famous 3-pointed star, see under the title Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft including the merger into Daimler-Benz.


Groveton, Prince William County, Virginia

Groveton is an extinct unincorporated Civil War era village in Prince William County, Virginia. The village is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 29 (Lee Highway) and Groveton Road on land that is now part of Manassas National Battlefield Park, a National Park Service property. The only remnant of the village is the L. Dogan House, a small, white frame structure, and the nearby Groveton Confederate Cemetery that contains the remains of over 260 Confederate soldiers.

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Michael Vick was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week. He becomes the first quarterback to do that since Randall Cunningham with the Vikings in 1998 for Weeks 4 and 5.

Also, the Pro Football Hall of Fame has requested Vick's jersey from last night's game. A Hall spokesman said the Eagles have said the jersey will be sent to be displayed in the Hall.

The Eagles played the first of four games over 18 days last night with a win over Washington, and the first of three prime-time games in that span.

The one game that was to begin at 1 p.m. at Chicago no longer begins at that time. The NFL announced time


Epidemic adenoviral conjunctivitis report of an outbreak in a military garrison and recommendations for its management and prevention.
The study was conducted to document the cases of adenoviral conjunctivitis, evaluate its clinical patterns, prevent its transmission and reduce its severity and complications during an epidemic. A total of 2968 cases of adenoviral conjunctivitis were documented during the months of June, July and August 2003. By simple randomization, 200 Patients were selected and divided into two groups on the basis of treatment. Group 1 (Treatment group) 40% patients were given topical anti-histamine/decongestant eye drops whereas Group 2 (Control group) 60% patients were managed conservatively by washing eyes with cold water and applying ice packs on the eyes. Highest incidence of the disease was seen in the month of July 2003.transported    Williamson   to   Geisinger   Hospital.

Williamson told medical personnel there that Earl Johnson, her ex-boyfriend

from six or seven years ago, caused the injuries. She later admitted that

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broken in three places, her nose was broken, her eye socket was broken,

and she needed stiches on her right eyebrow. She underwent surgery and

had three plates and three screws inserted into the left side of her face. Her

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eat solid food, so she subsisted on Boost nutritional drinks, cream of wheat,

and other soft food. She was unable to live by


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Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting for DB challenge

After two months of working with the savory side of baking, Daring Bakers are once again exploring the sweet sensations! The challenge for the month of November is Caramel cake with Caramelized butter frosting. According to Shuna Fish Lydon of Eggbeater, the leading lady of this month's challenge, sugar is the STAR of the party! Her co-hosts are Dolores of Chronicles of Culinary Curiosity, Alex - Brownie of the Blondie and Brownie duo: and Jenny of Foray into Food. The gluten-free version was provided by Natalie of Gluten-a-Go-Go.

This challenge was unique in that there was also an optional challenge of making Caramels -Sovereign Military Order of Malta (1957)

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them, according to a 2013 report issued by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Between 1995 and 2010, states reduced the share of Medicaid spending on nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals and institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from 79 percent to 50 percent.

However, progress on what’s known as “deinstitutionalization” has varied between the states, which are generally allowed to run their own Medicaid programs. By 2010, only 12 states were spending more than half of their Medicaid dollars on long-term supportive services at home and community-based providers for people with disabilities, according to the report. From 2008 to 2012, the number of people with disabilities under the age of 65 and living in nursing homes actually increased.

This disparity was visible back in 1991,when activist Latonya Reeves became one of the first people to leave an expensive nursing home in Tennessee and move to Colorado, where long-term home-based support services were available and she could live in her own home. Reeves made the journey with help from fellow activists, and soon came back to help others leave on what’s known as the “disability underground railroad.” Reeves currently lives and works in Denver.

“I would be dead if I would have stayed in Tennessee,” Reeves said in a recent statement aimed at Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who is under pressure from ADAPT activists to add his name to the list of Disability Integration Act co-sponsors.

From 2008 to 2012, the number of people with disabilities under the age of 65 and living


The warning specifically refers to events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed when a car crashed into a group of people protesting against a white nationalist rally. Such statements are usually issued by the UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd) over fears of ethnic or religious conflict. In the past decade, the committee has only issued six warnings. Those admonishments went to Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria.

Civilisations are undone in many ways, not all of them obvious. We tend to think of decline along military or economic lines but it is actually a nation’s culture, particularly in terms of equality, that determines its civilisational credentials. America’s descent into what looks like a full on race crisis isand continued to be laid even during Obama’s leadership.

It is no coincidence that the rights most easily dislodged and taken back – whether it is those of transgender members of the military or Muslim US citizens of certain origins – are those of minorities. Even in the UK, it is no coincidence that the first jubilant spasm after the Brexit vote was manifested in a rise in hate crime. It is no coincidence that making America great again, or taking back control, inevitably involves wanting to claw back whatever little space was ceded to diversity and equality. This reclamation lies at the very heart of the US and UK’s modern nation-building.

America must build statues against slavery and racism. It can start with these | Sidney Blumenthal Read more

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vertebrate groups. The body size distribution of extant and Cenozoic mammals were also compared using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.

To evaluate the consistency of observed patterns in the body size distribution of dinosaurs, the data were reanalysed after sub-dividing by clades, time periods and formations. Three major clades were employed in this analysis: Ornithischia, Sauropodomorpha and Theropoda, with 143, 86 and 100 data points, respectively. Six time periods were used: Late Triassic, Early, Middle and Late Jurassic, and Early and Late Cretaceous which used 23, 21, 31, 58, 61 and 135 data points, respectively. Finally, two major rock formations also had a sufficient number of species to be utilised: the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation in the western United States of America and the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta,* *" § 348, supra.
The bill shows that the appellee insurance company is a foreign corporation with its home office in Connecticut and was engaged in an interstate business by and through independent contractors called agents, who were residents of Alabama; that it was a stock insurance company, the principal business of which was the writing of life and accident insurance; that the authority of these agents was limited to soliciting applications for insurance, submitting these applications for acceptance or rejection and collecting and remitting to appellee the premiums collected on the policies of insurance, less the agent's commission; usually the premiums collected by appellee's agent were deposited in Alabama banks in the name of the agent and at stated intervals the agent would draw checks on the


bank in appellee's favor in payment of the amount due appellee for the premiums collected, less the agent's commission thereon; no salary or wage was paid the agent, the only compensation being the agreed percentage commissions on the individual premiums collected; the agent paid all expenses of maintaining an office and all other expenses incident to the securing of the policy; appellee exercised no control whatsoever over when, how and where its agent should secure an application for himself; that each of appellee's so-called agents in Alabama during the year 1949 was an independent contractor engaged in building and operating his own business in the manner aforesaid.
The bill also shows that the State Department of Revenue, purporting to act under these provisions, assessed appellee's franchise tax for 1949Alabama payroll percentage to get the allocation fraction.
The formula devised is a rather complicated theory and the chart is here reproduced as it was applied to the instant assessment and as exhibited with the bill.

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beginning the world of the story is established and the main characters are introduced. The fatal flaw the main character spends the rest of the story dealing with is also introduced. The second act is when the plot unfolds and the main character is taken on a journey that usually forces him to see and try to deal with his fatal flaw. The third act is where everything comes together to create the ultimate test for the main protagonist and we see if he overcomes his fatal flaw or is overcome by it. It really is as simple as that.

The three acts in storytelling are not in place to limit the storyteller. As I said, there is a beginning, middle, and end in every story. Most likely youscenes feature and commentary on Pixar. Few have taught me more about filmmaking and the art of story than Pixar studios. The studio was one of my first and greatest teachers in filmmaking. It is safe to say I have always held them to a higher standard than any other studio in the modern era of film.

I am not the only one who holds Pixar in great regard. There are millions of fans out there who count down the days until the next Pixar premier. Almost anyone who works in animation would consider working at Pixar a dream job. The beauty of creating quality work again and again is: you attract the most ambitious artists. John Lasseter, the president of Pixar Studios, has said several times that he


movies like Finding Nemo and How to Train Your Dragon. However the individual exploration of the characters in Finding Nemo and How to Train Your Dragon is what makes those movies worth going back to again and again. In Finding Nemo the father Marlin needs to face his own insecurities in order to let his son Nemo take risks and explore the world. In How to Train Your Dragon young Hiccup needs to dessert his need to live up to his Viking roots before he can find his own voice and really appreciate the leadership and sacrifice of his father.

The change Mark Andrews said he made was with the stuff holding the story back. With Brave we get a very fast paced story which lasts just slightly overFormer President Obama praised Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who helped him shape a response to the financial crisis early in his first term, after news broke on Monday that Volcker had died at the age of 92.

“I’ll remember Paul for his consummate wisdom, untethered honesty, and a level of dignity that matched his towering stature,” Obama said in a statement. “To me, he was the very definition of integrity, and I’m proud to have called him not just an adviser, but a friend.”

The Volcker Alliance, the former chairman’s nonprofit group, said that Volcker had died Sunday.

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Volcker served as chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Carter and Reagan and joined the Obama administration to craft a response to the 2007-2008 financial crisis and recession, which


What is the WordMasters Challenge™?

The WordMasters Challenge™ is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 that encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning. Each year, over 125,000 students from some of the best public and private schools throughout the United States participate in the WordMasters Challenge.

Unlike other language arts competitions for this age group – which focus on grammar, punctuation, spelling and other language mechanics – the WordMasters Challenge™ helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. The contest addresses higher-level word comprehension and verbal reasoning in two ways:

It challenges students to complete analogies based on relationships among words they have learned.

It bases the analogies on special vocabulary lists, developed for each grade and difficulty level by experienced teachers, which participants are encouraged to study before
313 F.Supp. 1100 (1970)
Bernard H. WHITE
v.
Frank A. SNEAR, Jr., Harry A. McNichol, and Edward A. McErlean, individually and as Commissioners of the County of Delaware, Pennsylvania.
Civ. A. No. 70-1072.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
May 19, 1970.
*1101 Fronefield Crawford, Jr., Wayne, Pa., for plaintiff.
Edward H. P. Fronefield, Media, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION
LUONGO, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Bernard H. White, is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the United States House of Representatives in the 7th Congressional District which includes Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He seeks here a preliminary injunction against defendants, Frank A. Snear, Jr., Harry A. McNichol and Edward A. McErlean, County Commissioners of Delaware County, to prevent their giving county employees the day off on Primary Election Day, May 19, 1970, to engage in political activities. Plaintiff's argument is


appointed under the patronage system, that is, one seeking employment with the county must first gain approval of his local Republican committeeman or committeewoman and local member of the Republican Board of Supervisors. Defendants also admit that these employees *1103 are "requested"[4] to make voluntary contributions to the campaign treasury established by the Board of Supervisors for endorsed candidates. In recent years, the employees' contributions have amounted to as much as 75-80% of the total campaign funds.
On Primary Election Day, patronage employees are required by the Republican Board of Supervisors to be present at the polls to aid those candidates endorsed by the Board. These county employees, unlike other party workers, are not remunerated for their services by campaign funds since they are regarded as being present andworking at their county jobs. These employees perform valuable services for the endorsed candidates.
Under Salary Board regulations, county employees are entitled to a specified number of days for vacation and for sick leave, depending upon length of service. Absences from employment (on other than regular holidays) are recorded. Absences are charged either to vacation or, where appropriate, to sick leave. When the allotted number of vacation and sick leave days has been used up, employees are docked for further time absent from work. Recording an employee present at his county job when in fact he is away from it electioneering, results in the county paying him a day's wages for political activity, not for the performance of his county job.
Plaintiff contends that the necessary effect of this practice


the Calles administration. When railway workers struck in 1926, Morones sent scabs to break the strike.

Finance
During the Calles presidency, he relied on the financial acumen of his Secretary of the Treasury, Alberto J. Pani, who was a loyalist of Obregón and served in his cabinet. Pani's classical liberal policies of a balanced budget and stable currency helped restore foreign investors' confidence in Mexico. Pani advised the founding of several banks in support of campesinos, but more importantly the Banco de México, Mexico's national bank. Pani also managed to achieve relief of part of Mexico's foreign debt. After coming into conflict with Calles, Pani resigned in 1927.

Military

The military continued to be very top heavy with revolutionary generals and army was allocated a third of the national budget. Generals hadMaximato, Calles became increasingly authoritarian and would also serve as Minister of Industry and Commerce. In the early 1930s, he appears to have flirted with the idea of implementing aspects of fascism in the government, and the ideology clearly had an influence on him.

After a large demonstration in 1930, the Mexican Communist Party was banned, Mexico stopped its support for the rebels of César Sandino in Nicaragua, strikes were no longer tolerated, and the government ceased re-distributing lands to poorer peasants. Calles had once been the candidate of the workers and at one point had used Communist unions in his campaign against competing labor organizers, but later, having acquired wealth and engaging in finance, suppressed Communism.

By the summer of 1933, two of Calles's former wartime subordinates had risen


in 2016, when they went just 5-7. The defense improved just in time for the offense to regress by an equal amount. As is seemingly the case every year, Bowden struggled to keep the same QB on the field — three threw at least 26 passes, and none played more than 10 games — and a couple of key absences on defense made things more volatile than planned.

Oh, and Akron went 6-2 in the MAC and won its first division title in 12 years. The Zips beat WMU, Buffalo, Ohio, and Kent by a combined 15 points while losing to Toledo and Miami (Ohio) by a combined 37. They saved their best performance for their biggest game, a 37-34 upset of Ohio in mid-November.

They got obliterated by Toledo(in the MAC title game) and FAU (in the Boca Raton Bowl) to finish the season, yes. The Rockets and Owls pasted them by a combined 95-31. Because of this and blowout losses to Penn State and Iowa State in non-conference play (plus a tight loss at Troy), Akron finished with a rare 7-7 record.

Akron had an efficiency deficiency, posting just a 35 percent success rate on offense (124th in FBS) and allowing a 47 percent success rate on defense (119th). But the Zips prevented big plays and flashed just enough explosiveness to pull off some peaks with the valleys.

Seven wins at Akron is remarkable, regardless of context. In likely the final act of his coaching career, Bowden has brought a new level of expectations to Akron. In


State.

It’s a good news, bad news situation heading into 2018.

Good news : Milwee may have found his QB of the future in Kato Nelson, who took over late in the season. Nelson played brilliantly in the upset of Ohio (22-for-38 for 322 yards and four touchdowns, plus 45 non-sack rushing yards) before careening off a cliff in the next three games (combined: 23-for-53 for 326 yards). But unlike Thomas Woodson, the oft-injured incumbent, Nelson threw few interceptions and showed a bit of a big-play spark (14.1 yards per completion). He was inconsistent as hell, but of course he was. He was a freshman.

: Milwee may have found his QB of the future in Kato Nelson, who took over late in the season. Nelson played brilliantly in the upsetthan the others, so senior Van Edwards Jr. might be able to carry a heavier load with no appreciable drop-off. Plus, two wonderfully named mid-three-star freshmen — Keyondre White and Abraham Alce — are coming aboard, and it’s not too late for Milwee to figure out what to do with Deltron Sands. The junior didn’t earn many opportunities in 2017 but was starting to figure some things out (six carries for 52 yards vs. Ball State, seven for 70 vs. Buffalo) before suffering a season-ending injury.

At receiver, speedster Kwadarrius Smith (34 catches, 726 yards, seven touchdowns) is back. He was the second-most efficient and by far the most explosive member of the receiving corps. The others were basically replacement-level guys.

Akron has almost no proven depth. But Smith is


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Defense

College football got a little bit less chesty this offseason. In late-February, defensive coordinator Amato retired at age 71. The NC State grad began his college coaching career in 1971 at his alma mater, joined Bobby Bowden’s staff at Florida State in 1982, led NC State as head coach from 2000-06, and spent the last six years crafting often effective defenses for Bowden’s son in Akron.

The Amato era indeed saw moments of brilliance. He inherited a unit that had ranked 112th in Def. S&P+ in 2011 and needed just two years to move it into the top 80. In 2015, the Zips peaked at 37th with a senior-heavy lineup. After a predictable collapse in 2016, they rebounded to 82nd. (They dropped about 10 spots after theThis is competitive renewal of grant R01-AR32599, aimed at identifying the etiology of Brazilian pemphigus foliaceus or Foqo Selvagem (fs). FS is a human autoimmune disease mediated by pathogenic autoantibodies directed against desmoglein 1 (dsg1). Sensitized individuals living in certain rural areas of Brazil produce these autoantibodies. We have identified a new FS focus, with a 3% of disease-prevalence, and a unique set of environmental, genetic, and cultural characteristics. This community, the Limao Verde Reservation located in central Brazil, is composed of approximately 1100 members of the Terena Indian tribe. Geographic, familial, HLA and temporal clustering patterns have been described among the 35 cases of FS seen in this reservation. Based on our studies we predict that normal controls (pre-clinical state of FS), when exposed to certain environmental


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A neighbor, hearing the victim's screams, called the police. Two policemen came to the scene. They arrested defendant in a small hallway just outside the door to the victim's apartment. They arrested the juvenile *1002 inside the apartment. The victim identified both assailants to the police as being involved in the incident.
Defendant's defense was two-fold. First, he testified that he lived in another apartment in the building and had just been passing by the victim's apartment because he was taking his garbage outside. However, evidence showed that the entrance to defendant's apartment was on another side


at trial. For example, she could no longer remember at the time of trial, which took place five years after the incident, which one of the assailants had entered the apartment first. On the day of the incident, she had told the police the juvenile had entered first. At trial, she testified that she did not know the assailants had taken her jewelry until the jewelry was shown to her at the police station. However, the police officers testified that the victim had told them at the scene of the incident that the assailants took *1004 her jewelry. Finally, she could not identify defendant at trial, though she had identified him on the day of the occurrence. Nevertheless, her failure to identify defendant at trial was amply explainedat the time of the offense, suffering from a mental defect causing him to have lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.
 5 In rebuttal, the State presented its own psychiatrist who had examined defendant. He contradicted defendant's witnesses' opinions and stated he believed defendant was sane at the time of the offense. He also stated that in his opinion defendant's true IQ was between 70 and 80. During cross-examination, defense counsel tried to get the State's rebuttal witness to change his opinion and to admit that he had no objective basis for saying that defendant's IQ was greater than 60. The witness refused to do this. Over a period of several hours, counsel


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Continuity
References to Denzil and Trigger are made after they posed nude for Marlene’s calendar.
Colin Cakeworthy is made reference to again, posing for Marlene’s calendar.
Tyler’s band, Puddle of Agony, appears again.

Viewership
3.86 million

Notes
Sir Tristram's wife is referred to as Lady Veronica — this is probably an error (see forms of address in the United Kingdom). Similarly, if Boycie were knighted, Marlene would become "Lady Boyce", not "Lady Marlene".

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Cairngorm - Monday February 15th Cairngorm. Outstanding day & much credit to the lift co for keeping resort open an extra hour. Copyright: iPhone

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a good layer of snow falling from lunchtime has replenished a lot of the runs. it's still snowing quite hard now in the resort so tomorrow could be great on the mountain

a challenging mixture of ice, slush and groomed bits. interesting

windy today snow patchy and mixture of groomed,One Man’s Way: A Peter Singer Documentary About Henry Spira

I am excited to announce that One Man’s Way, a 1996 documentary where Peter Singer documents the efforts and philosophies of animal rights activist Henry Spira, is finally available for all to watch on youtube! Henry Spira is often remembered as the most effective animal activist of the 20th century, and is most notably known for his tireless efforts to expose the the cruel animal experimentation that goes on behind doors, especially in the cosmetic industry. Peter Singer is a philosopher and bioethics professor at Princeton, and is the author of the 1975 book Animal Liberation (just one of the many books he authored), which is what led me to go vegan nearly five years ago. As Erik Marcus


Ray Tobey

Ray Tobey (born c. 1965) is an American video game programmer best known for writing the combat flight simulation game Skyfox  for the Apple II, published by Electronic Arts in 1984. He was later hired by EA and wrote the fighting game Budokan: The Martial Spirit (1989).

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After taking a 6-week summer computer class at school when he was 13, Tobey saved for a year to purchase a Commodore PET 2001 for $800. He learned BASIC and then 6502 machine language and moved to the Apple II.

At 16, Tobey and a friend worked on a combat flight sim called Alpha Strike for the Apple II for two years.  When they went to Boston for the 1983 Applefest they were invited to meet Rod Nakamoto, a gameSpace X's recycled Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center, cheered by experts as a "historic" moment as companies scramble to lower space travel costs

SpaceX chief Elon Musk hailed a "revolution in spaceflight" on Thursday after blasting off a recycled rocket for the first time, a feat that could dramatically lower the cost of space travel.

Experts cheered the launch and landing of the previously used booster as a "historic" moment for spaceflight, particularly private industry, as companies like SpaceX and its competitors scramble to make space exploration cheaper and more efficient.

The slightly scuffed Falcon 9 rocket soared into the sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:27 pm (2227 GMT), on a mission to send a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based company SES into a distant orbit.

Its tall,


columnar portion known as the first stage, or booster, had already propelled the unmanned Dragon cargo ship to space in April 2016.

About 10 minutes after launch, screams and applause erupted at SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, California as the re-used rocket powered its engines and landed upright on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean marked with the words "Of Course I Still Love You."

The landing marked the ninth successful touchdown of a first stage rocket for SpaceX—six on ocean platforms, or drone ships, and three on land.

It also marked the first time a single rocket booster had ever been launched—and landed—twice.

SpaceX, the California-based company headed by visionary entrepreneur Musk, has for 15 years been honing the technology of powering its boosters back to careful Earth landings onmillion—by about 30 percent.

SpaceX, the California-based company headed by Elon Musk, has for 15 years been honing the technology of powering its boosters back to careful Earth landings

While the exact life of the re-used boosters is uncertain, Musk said they could be redeployed anywhere from 10 to 100 or even 1,000 times, depending on how much refurbishment is needed.

SpaceX competitor Blue Origin, run by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has also successfully landed its New Shepard booster after launch, by powering its engines to guide it down for a controlled, upright landing.

'Flight-proven'

Praise and congratulations for SpaceX poured in on Twitter.

"Congratulations on another historic launch," the US space agency NASA wrote on Twitter.

"Congrats, SpaceX," said the Defense Advances Research Projects agency (DARPA).

"DARPA facilitated the first SpaceX launch, and now commercial


Thursday, Dec. 6, the Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, issues its index of non-manufacturing activity for November. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. services firms grew at a slightly stronger pace in November, a sign that the recent stock market sell-offs have yet to dampen enthusiasm among consumers.

The Institute for Supply Management, which is composed of purchasing managers, reported Thursday that its services index rose to 60.7 last month, up from 60.3 in October. Readings above 50 point to further expansion. Services companies have been expanding for 106 months, or almost nine years.

The gain suggests that the U.S. expansion — in the middle of its 10th year — should continue, despite signs of a global slowdown and concerns about a trade warthe contact angle was 90.6 degrees. Thus, heparinized blood was assumed to act on the surface of the PTFE with a weak repellent force and for that reason had a tendency to easily leak from the EPTFE vascular prosthesis. When the surface of the PTFE was in contact with blood, blood protein was fixed to the surface of the PTFE and the contact angle of blood was thereby decreased. When the inner pressure of the vascular prosthesis was increased, the wall was stretched easily in a circumferential direction but with great difficulty in a longitudinal direction. With the PTFE stretched and released repeatedly, the expanded circumference was enlarged progressively due to the plastic character of the PTFE and because the spaces between the PTFE fibers were widened. In


Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar University – the oldest seat of Islamic learning in the Middle East – has expelled 76 students from different college departments for "involvement in riots" against the ruling military-installed government, state news agency MENA reported.

Al-Azhar students have been at the forefront of protest rallies supporting military-ousted president Mohamed Morsi and opposing Egypt's current interim authorities since the beginning of the academic year in August 2013.

Continuous clashes between security forces and students at the university have culminated in several deaths among their ranks. Numerous Al-Azhar students have been tried by the military-backed judiciary, with dozens sentenced for involvement in clashes with police.

Al-Azhar University President Osama El-Abd claimed that investigations proved the students took part in activities that violate university rules and that 36 of them werefemale students from the university's branch in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig, according to MENA.

Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour amended a law in February allowing university heads to expel protesting students. Twenty-five Al-Azhar students were expelled in March.

The start of the current academic term was postponed for three weeks for security reasons. Greater security measures were implemented to counter the pro-Morsi protests common at some of Egypt's top universities.

Egyptian police forces have widely been accused by rights groups of heavy handedness and random arrests during the confrontations with students.


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The means for effecting vertical movement of the pulley wheels may comprise vertical lift spindles operated, via a worm gear,Still, the administration appeared caught off guard by the speed of the reaction as word leaked out late Wednesday.

Undersecretary of State Ellen O. Tauscher and two high-level Pentagon officials made a whirlwind trip Wednesday night and Thursday to Poland, the Czech Republic and NATO to brief allies. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called several counterparts and Obama did the same, a State Department official said Thursday.

The move is likely to please some in Eastern Europe, who had been angered by Bush's plans for their countries. When Obama visited Prague in April, several hundred Czechs marched in the capital to decry the missile shield proposal, carrying balloons and placards, including one that read: "Yes We Can -- Say No to Missile Shield."

But at home, Obama's decision sparked immediate


condemnation from Republicans in Congress, who accused the administration of abandoning America's allies and putting the country's security at risk. House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) said in a statement that the move "does little more than empower Russia and Iran at the expense of our allies in Europe. It shows a willful determination to continue ignoring the threat posed by some of the most dangerous regimes in the world."

That concern was echoed by Obama's chief rival during the 2008 campaign, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who called the move away from a missile system designed to counter long-range weapons "seriously misguided."

"Given the serious and growing threats posed by Iran's missile and nuclear programs, now is the time when we should look to strengthen our defenses, and thoseof our allies," McCain said in a statement. "Missile defense in Europe has been a key component of this approach."

In his briefing, Gates anticipated those criticisms and fired back strongly. "Those who say we are scrapping missile defense in Europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting the reality of what we are doing," Gates said. "The security of Europe has been a vital national interest of the United States for my entire career. The circumstances, borders and threats may have changed, but that commitment continues."

For Gates, the president's decision is an especially dramatic reversal. In December 2006, shortly after assuming office as Bush's defense secretary, Gates recommended the missile defense system based in the Czech Republic and Poland to protect against the threat of longer-range missiles that Iran was


plan will unfold in three stages. By 2011, the Pentagon will deploy Navy Aegis ships equipped with SM-3 interceptors in the eastern Mediterranean.

A second phase in about 2015 will field an upgraded, land-based SM-3 in allied countries, and discussions are underway with Poland and the Czech Republic on basing the missiles in their territory, Gates said. In 2018, the third phase will deploy a larger and more capable missile, which will allow the defense shield to protect Europe and the United States against short- and intermediate-range rockets and, eventually, intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Tyson reported from the Pentagon. Staff writers Mary Beth Sheridan and Walter Pincus in Washington, correspondent Philip P. Pan in Helsinki and special correspondent Shannon Smiley in Berlin contributed to this report.Maurice Symonette has become a political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump's staff, which has repeatedly given the ex-member of Miami's deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the president at nationally televised rallies to show off his "Blacks for Trump" signs. But Symonette recently told a bankruptcy court that he's dead broke, raising the question of who's been paying for his recent trips to rallies from Arizona to Tampa.

Now a federal judge has banned one of Trump's most visible black supporters from bankruptcy court for five years and accused him of repeatedly abusing the system.

In an order issued Monday, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge Laurel M. Isicoff dismissed Symonette's latest bankruptcy case and ordered him not to file anything else with the court for the next five


her ruling.

Isicoff's order is just the latest bizarre chapter in the story of Symonette, also known as "Michael the Black Man," who beat charges in the early '90s that he participated in Yahweh ben Yahweh's brutal cult killings before transforming himself into a local anti-Obama activist.

Trump then helped catapult him onto a national stage, where he used his prominent placement at rallies to show off signs and T-shirts directing people to his truly insane website, which accuses Cherokees of secretly running America's banking system and alleges an FDR-created secret program is sabotaging conservatives.

As he traveled cross-country to rallies, though, Symonette struggled financially in South Florida. He filed for bankruptcy in May and reported having no income and zero dollars in the bank; he also said four banks hadLionsgate will distribute Dinesh D'Souza's next movie, which opens wide July 2 after a limited release June 27, insiders said Tuesday.

The movie, originally called America though now called America: Imagine a World Without Her, was set for wide release on July 4 to take advantage of Independence Day, though Lionsgate moved the date up two days, insiders say.

America is the follow-up to the right-leaning 2016: Obama's America, which is the second-most-successful political documentary in U.S. history after 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11, the left-leaning Michael Moore film also distributed by Lionsgate.

In America, D'Souza explores the most prominent complaints -- usually emanating from the political left -- about the U.S. and, judging from several trailers and clips from the film available online, finds them wanting.

Liberals who appear in the film include


Away from the high-profile embassies, the longer, untold narrative of the WikiLeaks cables is often one of triviality, inconsequence, and moments of wry, Beckettian humour. The US runs 292 diplomatic missions across 175 countries, and many of them lie within a kind of diplomatic hinterland. Cables sent from the islands of the Pacific, or the steppes of Mongolia, generally reveal not the fast-paced interaction of a global superpower, but the loneliness of the long-distance diplomat.

Some busy embassies churn out hundreds of cables a year. But since 2007, successive US ambassadors to Samoa (pop: 179,000) have compiled just nine – all of them odes to banality. The post's only two dispatches in 2007 noted little more than the embassy's inability "to provide 'meet-and-greet' service at the airport" to statecountries seem so small and helpless that diplomats report nothing but their host's farcical obsequiousness. US envoys to Palau (pop: 20,000) wrote only seven cables between 2008 and 2010; three of them report effusive praise of America by Palauan politicians.

In one cable, Palau "expresses its deepest gratitude and appreciation to the Government of the United States of America for its invaluable contributions to the development of the Republic of Palau", calling the US "the Republic's most important partner, defender, and supporter.". Little wonder that Palau is – along with Israel and America – one of only three countries to vote against the UN resolution condemning the US embargo of Cuba.

Diplomats in these backwaters often also have a habit of writing in staggeringly minute detail about seemingly irrelevant events.