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On his blog, Little identifies himself as "the only America first candidate in California." He also asserts that there is no evidence the Germans killed 6 million Jews during World War II and that Hitler ordered that "Jews in internment were to be treated well."

According to Little, who has won the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke, "there were concert halls, swimming polls, soccer fields, ice cream, and many other luxuries at Auschwitz."

On top of that, Little has called


Hitler "one of the greatest leaders in history," vowed that "America will no longer be Israel’s whore" and said President Trump "has caved to the Jewish supremacists who control this country."

Little's poll performance raises the legitimate possibility that he could be the Republican option against Feinstein on November's ballot thanks to California's "jungle primary" in which the top two vote-getters go on to the general election regardless of party.

"For the first time, there is clarity on her likely November opponent," SurveyUSA wrote after releasing its recent poll. "It is Republican Patrick Little, who today polls at 18% overall, but whose rural coalition is strong enough that he ties Feinstein in California's Central Valley."

Little's strong polling is sure to be a topic of conversation and consternation at the CaliforniaTrucking, Auto Industries Praise Elaine Chao Transportation Secretary Nomination

Elaine Chao, President-elect Trump's nominee to head the U.S. Department of Transportation, at the 2015 State of the Union. (Photo: Flickr

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Elaine L. Chao, a well-connected Republican and former official in two Bush administrations, to be his transportation secretary on Tuesday.

Chao, 62, formerly served as labor secretary under President George W. Bush and as deputy secretary of transportation under President George H.W. Bush. She is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

If confirmed, Chao would become transportation secretary just as the department gets ready to implement regulation of self-driving vehicles, push forward with new safety systems for passenger cars and to complete rules to force the trucking industry to use electronic devices to limit the


to improve auto safety?” asked Daniel Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign at the Center for Auto Safety. “I certainly hope not.”

Chao, a native of Taiwan, is the third woman Trump has picked for a top role in his administration. Previously he has nominated South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Betsy DeVos, a charter school advocate, to become education secretary.

Chao formerly served as director of the Peace Corps and worked as the chief executive of the United Way of America. She holds a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University.

The confirmation process requires approval by the U. S. Senate. She would replace Anthony Foxx, who has headed the department since 2013.Anthology of Inspiration, an interactive DVD project commissioned by Thrill Jockey Records.  The film features interviews with 112 musicians and artists, including Björk, Califone, Freakwater, Mouse on Mars, Sea and Cake, Tortoise, Trans Am, Yo La Tengo, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Jem Cohen, Vic Chesnutt, Kurt Wagner, Ian Mackaye, Steve Albini and Jon Spencer.

In 2002, King produced and co-curated (with curator Astria Suparak) Boxhead Ensemble’s Stories, Maps and Notes From the Half-Light tour, a program of short films with a live soundtrack at Fotofest in Houston. Films by Jem Cohen, Paula Froehle, David Gatten, Barbara Meter, Julie Murray, Guy Sherwin and Phil Solomon were presented.

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Environmental Protection Agency, a federal agency emphasizing prevention of exposure to SHS. On the state level, stakeholders included State Tobacco Control Programs and agencies responsible for overseeing tobacco cessation and prevention activities, including the provision of services and administration of grant funding to provider organizations; the State Head Start Collaboration Office, where HS staff members facilitated collaboration among HS agencies and state and local entities as charged by the Office of Head Start; Head Start Associations, the voluntary organizations in each state representing the interests of the HS programs at the state and local levels; and State Offices of Public Health, which often house the tobacco control and other maternal and child and chronic disease prevention programs. On the local level, organizations that provide tobacco cessation and preventionthe tobacco intervention at HS sites. Following training and organizational assessments, participating sites used their enhanced capacity to address tobacco use among their families.Table 2Start-up timeline for the Tobacco Cessation Initiative identified in the Head Start formative pilot, 2004--2006ActivitiesMonths12345678910111213Assess interest of stakeholders in the initiativeXXXXXInitiate trainingXXIdentify cessation resources and partnersXXXXProvide additional training, revise protocols, create referral processXXDevelop memoranda of understanding with referral organizationsX

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US President Donald Trump (R) and First Lady Melania Trump disembark from Air Force One at Orly airport, Paris, France, Nov. 9, 2018. EPA-EFE/Ian Langsdon

US President Donald Trump (R) and First Lady Melania Trump disembark from Air Force One at Orly airport, Paris, France, Nov. 9, 2018. EPA-EFE/Ian Langsdon

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on Friday attacked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Twitter moments after landing in Paris, where he is taking part in the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I.

"President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the U.S., China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its


fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly!," Trump wrote.

On Tuesday, Macron mentioned during a radio interview the need for a "strong and sovereign Europe" with a "real European army" to allow the continent to rely less on the United States in its defense against new threats.

The president and
First Lady
Melania Trump landed at Orly airport at 10:21 pm, where they were received by US Ambassador to France Jamie McCourt and by French officials.

The controversial Tweet comes on the eve of Trump's visit to the Elysee Palace, where he will meet with Macron for bilateral talks on Saturday.

After his meeting with Macron, Trump is scheduled to visit the Belleau Wood battle ground and the adjacent US military cemetery, followed by a visit to the Picasso exhibition at theThe Innovative Transportation Index

Rapid technological advances have enabled the creation of new transportation tools that make it possible for more Americans to live full and engaged lives without owning a car. Many of these new tools have been in existence for less than a decade – some for less than five years – but they have spread rapidly to cities across the United States.

This report reviews the availability of 11 technology-enabled transportation services – including online ridesourcing, carsharing, ridesharing, taxi hailing, static and real-time transit information, multi-modal apps, and virtual transit ticketing – in 70 U.S. cities. It finds that residents of 19 cities, with a combined population of nearly 28 million people, have access to eight or more of these services, with other cities catching up rapidly.

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finds:

There are at least 19 cities with Abundant Choices, places where at least some residents have access to all or nearly all of these new transportation services. Austin, Texas is the only city in the United States to have access to all 11 kinds of services evaluated here. San Francisco and Washington, D.C., have access to 10 of the services evaluated. (See Table ES-1.)

Another 35 cities have Growing Choices. Residents of these cities have access to many kinds of innovative transportation services, but not as many as cities with Abundant Choices. Orlando, Atlanta, Louisville, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, Newark, Pittsburgh and Raleigh lead this category, and several are already planning the addition of new technology-enabled services within the next year.

The remaining 16 cities have Emerging Choices2014 NFL Thursday Night Football Schedule

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apart— the One Must-See TV Lineup to Rule Them All. It’s the schedule NBC birthed in the fall of 1994, when established blockbuster Seinfeld was married with newcomers Friends and ER. Almost literally overnight, the TV world changed: Superstars were born, network fortunes changed. NBC, which had established a tradition of both qualitative and commercial success a decade earlier, transformed into an unstoppable Thursday juggernaut. It became immune, at least on one night, to whatever rivals threw at it. And after finishing in third place the season before, it suddenly found itself challenging ABC for the overall Nielsen crown, particular with younger viewers.

Things are much different for NBC on Thursday nights now, of course. The Peacock long ago surrendered its ratings crown to CBS, which has dominated theTuesday's House hearing with Corey Lewandowksi culminated with angry threats by the Democratic majority to hold him in contempt – and damaging admissions by the former Donald Trump campaign manager that he has been untruthful in national TV interviews.

The fireworks came after a full day of testimony, after House Democrats armed with new rules they pushed through allowed an outside consultant to grill Trump's combative former campaign head for 30 consecutive minutes.

Lewandowski was for the first time confronted with his past statements on Fox and MSNBC interviews, as well as statements he made in his own book about his interactions with the president.

'I have no obligation to be candid with the media whatsoever,' Lewandowski said at one point.

'I'm a truth teller every time I stand before Congress,' he


said under questioning by majority counsel Barry Berke, saying he was truthful 'every time I raised my right hand to God.'

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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was aggressive and combative in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee

Lewandowski was confronted with a clip of himself saying on MSNBC he didn't ever remember the president 'ever asking me to get involved with [former attorney general] Jeff Sessions or the Department of Justice in any way shape, or form, ever.'

It was a key moment of alleged obstruction from the Mueller report – where Trump dictated to Lewandowski, a private citizen, a statement he wanted the former attorney general to give while curtailing the special counsel's investigation.

'That was not true, was it?' the Harvard law grad and whitecollar defense attorney Berke asked him.

Outside lawyer Barry Berke tore into Lewandowski on behalf of the majority

The Trump loyalist was forced to defend public statements about the special counsel and his relationship with the president

'I have no obligation to be honest with the media because they are just as dishonest as everybody else,' Lewandowski responded.

Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler, who during the hearing shut down fellow Democrats efforts to bring maximum pressure on the witness, came down on the witness at the end of the hearing.

'Mr. Lewandowski, your behavior in this hearing room has been completely unacceptable. It is part of a pattern of a White House desperate for the American people not to hear the truth,' the New York Democrat fumed.

'I’ve been asked several times today whether the


committee will hold you in contempt. It is certainly under consideration,' he warned.

Republicans howled in protest when the Democrats brought in their ringer to conduct intensive questioning at the end of the hearing. Previously, individual members tried to get the former New Hampshire police officer to buckle during five-minute increments of questioning.

In another tense moment with Berke, the lawyer asked him: 'On national television did you lie about your relationship with the special counsel and whether they sought your interview?'

'I don't know,' he replied.

Lewandowski tweeted out a message about the launch of his campaign for senator from New Hampshire during the hearing, irking one Democratic lawmaker who mentioned it.

He got accolades from the president for his early loyal performance, but cracks soon developed in his testimony as theday wore on.

Lewandowski has stonewalled Democrats who were questioning him about possible obstruction of justice charges against Donald Trump as the president praised his former campaign manager's tough stance.

Lewandowski took a combative and aggressive stance from the start of his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, which he could also use as a launch pad for a Senate bid.

The former Trump campaign manager offered a strong defense of the president, claiming he was a victim of 'haters' and resisted Democrats' efforts to ask him about his conversations with the president.

The hearing is part of the Democrats' strategy to prove there is enough evidence to impeach President Trump and they've issued a round of subpoena to witnesses from special counsel Robert Mueller's report to help make their case to


the American people.

Lewandowski's more than four hours before the panel had its share of made-for-TV moments as he resisted their efforts to implicate Trump and snapped back at many of their questions.

In one of those moments, he mocked Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell, who suggested Lewandowski was 'ashamed' to read his own words from Mueller's report that were projected on a screen in the room.

'Why don’t you want to read it Mr. Lewandowski?’ the congressman for California asked.

‘I think you should afford me the same privilege you gave Mr. Mueller,' he responded, referring to Mueller's June testimony before the committee, where he did not have to read from his report.

'Are you ashamed of the words you wrote down,' Swalwell asked.

Lewandowski then called him 'President Swalwell,' in his response, alludingLewandowski could answer her last question.

'I don't believe there was a question, congressman,' Lewandowski responded. 'Just a rant.'

Corey Lewandoski was combative with Democratic lawmakers

Corey Lewandoski testified for more than four hours before the House Judiciary Committee

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone warned the Judiciary panel in a letter Monday night that Lewandowski would not discuss conversations he had with President Trump about government matters.

Lewandowski has remained a close adviser to Trump even though he has no formal role in the Trump White House. He is often seen in the White House and on Air Force One, acting as an informal adviser to the president and meeting with him.

He is also the first impeachment witness to appear before the committee since Mueller testified in July.

He came out fighting in his


opening statement.

'As the special counsel determined, there was no conspiracy or collusion between the Trump campaign and any foreign government, either on my watch or going forward. Not surprisingly after the Mueller report was made public, interest in the Fake Russian collusion narrative has fallen apart,' he said.

'Sadly the country spent over three years and 40 million taxpayer dollars on these investigations. It is now clear the investigation was populated by many Trump haters who had their own agenda – to try and take down a duly elected president of the United States. As for actual ‘collusion’ or ‘conspiracy, there was none. What there has been however, is harassment of the president from the day he won the election,' he added.

President Trump praised Lewandowski's opening statement, calling it'beautiful' in a tweet.

'Such a beautiful Opening Statement by Corey Lewandowski! Thank you Corey!,' he wrote.

Corey Lewandowski did not work in the White House but was an informal adviser to President Trump

Corey Lewandowski with his lawyer Peter Chavkin

After his opening statement, Lewandowski began his stonewalling, telling Nadler he could not answer his questions about parts of Mueller's report as he did not have the report in front of him. Committee staff provided him with a copy.

'The White House has directed I not disclose the substance of any communications with the president or his advisers,' Lewandowski said when asked about conversations with the president.

It was a line he used repeatedly in his four-hours plus of testimony.

House Democrats wanted to ask Lewandowski about an effort by the president to get


then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to redirect the Mueller probe away from Trump's 2016 campaign.

The episode is outlined in Mueller's 448-page report: In June 2017, Trump met with Lewandowski at the White House and gave him a message to pass along to Sessions - that the attorney general should shift the focus of the Russia probe to future elections.

Sessions had recused himself from overseeing Mueller's investigation.

A month later, Trump asked about the matter and said Lewandowski should 'tell Sessions he was fired' if he would not meet with the former campaign manager, according to Mueller's report.

Lewandowski asked then-White House aide Rick Dearborn to deliver the message for him but Dearborn, uncomfortable with it, did not do so, Mueller's report noted.

Rep. Hank Johnson asked Corey Lewandowski about a message Presidentthe special counsel's office due to the Department's policy precluding indictment of a sitting president, President Trump now appears to be using the powers of his office to obstruct all investigations by the only branch of the federal government currently capable of holding him accountable,' Nadler wrote to Cipollone.

Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler charged the president with obstructing House Democrats' investigation

The White House forbid former White House aides Rob Porter and Rick Dearborn from testifying

Cipollone told the committee in a letter Monday night that Lewandowski - who is mulling a New Hampshire Senate bid - would not to discuss conversations he had with Trump about government matters unless those subjects were already mentioned in Mueller's report.

'The White House has directed Mr. Lewandowski not to discuss the substance of any


conversations he had with the President or senior Presidential advisers about official government matters, unless the information is expressly contained in the Report,' Cipollone wrote.

'Mr. Lewandowski's conversations with the President and with senior advisers to the President are protected from disclosure by long-settled principles protecting Executive Branch confidentiality interests,' Cipollone argued.

Additionally, Cipollone, in a separate letter, ordered former Porter and Dearborn not to testify, arguing they are 'absolutely immune' from congressional testimony.

The White House already forbid former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying before Nadler's committee. McGahn defied his subpoena and the matter is now before the federal courts. Whatever the court rules on McGahn will likely apply to Dearborn and Porter.

Nadler blasted the Cipollone in his opening statement and lectured Lewandowski.

'Mr. Lewandowski, you are here underto achieve compliance by next July without significant planning, facility changes, and training.

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Chris Smalley recently retired from Merck, where he had responsibility for innovative implementation and validation, including single-use systems, globally. Previously, he was director of quality operations for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals for 12 years, with responsibility for setting validation standards and validation activities globally. His research experience includes responsibility for quality in the U.S. operations of the Sanofi Research Division, and earlier he worked for the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, where he was a plant manager. Chris is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. His graduate education includes an MBA from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and an MS in pharmaceutical chemistry from


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Chris has been a member of the PDA Board of Directors, as well as a member of the PDA Science Advisory Board. Currently he is a member of the ISPE Disposables Community of Practice (COP). You can reach him at camalley@valsource.com or on LinkedIn.Ariana Grande returned to Manchester on Sunday to headline Manchester Pride. The performance marked her first show in the city since her 2017 tribute concert following the Manchester Arena bombing.

During the show, the 26-year-old singer wished the audience a happy Pride.

"The gays have always had my heart personally," she said. "I spent some of the happiest times of my teenage years singing in gay bars in New York City. I was in a Broadway show, and whenever I'd finish a show, I'd just go to a gay bar and sing Whitney Houston covers until someone would ask me to leave. It's always been such a special thing for me. So, thank you so much for accepting me, celebrating me the way I've always celebrated you guys."

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SUBPOENA DATED JULY 6, 2005,
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20   Before:
21                        POOLER , PARKER , B.D., and WESLEY , Circuit Judges.
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23         Appeal from orders of the Eastern District of New York (Garaufis, J.), entered on
24   October 19, 2005 and December 1, 2005, directing Appellant to comply with a grand jury
25   subpoena dated July 6, 2005.
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27          AFFIRMED .
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31                 PAULA SCHWARTZ FROME, Law Office of Paula Schwartz Frome, Esq., Garden
32                      City, New York, for Appellant.
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34                 ROBERT M. RADICK , Assistant United States Attorney (Jo Ann M. Navickas,
35                      Assistant United States Attorney, Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States
36                      Attorney for the Eastern District of New York on the brief) Brooklyn,
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   Appellant,1 a former mortgage broker, is the subject2 of an ongoing grand jury

12   investigation. He appeals from sealed orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern

13   District of New York (Garaufis, J.) dated October 19, 2005 and December 1, 2005. Collectively,

14   the orders directed him to comply with a July 6, 2005 grand jury subpoena that required him to

15   produce copies of recordings3 he surreptitiously made of conversations with another mortgage

            1
             Because both sides have filed submissions under seal, and because the grand jury
     investigation is ongoing,In January 2005, a prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern

 3   District of New York contacted Appellant’s counsel and indicated that Appellant was a subject

 4   of a grand jury investigation. Appellant and his attorney met twice—on January 12, 2005, and

 5   May 15, 2005—with the prosecutor and several federal agents. There was no proffer agreement

 6   covering either meeting. At both, Appellant discussed his role in certain transactions, and at the

 7   latter meeting, appellant indicated that he had surreptitiously recorded conversations with Broker

 8   sometime after January 12, 2005. He explained that he made the recordings on the advice of his

 9   counsel to protect himself and that


for the recordings and that it was

 9   unable to obtain equivalent evidence by other means. The government argued that it needed the

10   recordings because they presumably contained Broker’s candid discussions of his role in the

11   scheme, which were relevant to the grand jury’s investigation into whether Appellant, Broker,

12   and others had violated federal criminal law. The government pressed that the recordings

13   provided uniquely valuable evidence because they were not subject to impeachment or fading

14   memory. As a result, the government contended it was entitled to the recordings even though

15   they were fact work product.

16          In a sealed memorandum and order, the district court requiredthe third month in a row during which encounters topped 100,000, and verified apprehensions have grown every month since January. In total, well over half a million illegal migrants have been arrested by Border Patrol this fiscal year, and experts believe that number will hit one million when the year reaches its end.

A vast majority of these migrants are family units or unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The Department of Homeland Security — burdened by regulations intended only for large-scale apprehensions of lone Mexican men — are buckling under the weight of the new migrant demographics.

The Trump administration has made concerted efforts to control the flow of Central American immigrants pouring across Mexico and into the U.S. southern border. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan


Mideast: Arafat's officials lament 'bias' toward Israel, look forward to Bush team. In Jewish state, right never warmed to U.S. leader, but most of left will miss him.

JERUSALEM — When President Clinton visited the Gaza Strip 25 months ago, he received a hero's welcome and the grateful fawnings of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.

Today, Arafat, or at least those around him, is openly contemptuous of Clinton and the U.S. "peace team" that toiled in the diplomatic trenches for the last eight years with, the Palestinians argue, little to show for it.

During Clinton's Gaza visit, stores sold U.S. flags and youngsters proudly wore T-shirts with the president's picture. Today, the same souvenir shops sell the flags of radical Islamic militants, and the American versions are being burned in thestreets. This week, Gazans marched in honor not of Bill Clinton, but of Saddam Hussein.

The Palestinian disillusionment with Clinton is perhaps the most vivid of the shifting views held here of Clinton's legacy. From the moment in 1993 when he coaxed the famous handshake on the White House lawn between Arafat and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton has invested tremendous personal energy and time in the peace process. He has been extraordinarily friendly to Israel but also built unprecedented ties with the Palestinians.

Like the Palestinians, Israelis are thinking a lot about Clinton these days. The Israeli right, which never much liked him, now lashes out even more intensely, accusing the president of trying to impose dire solutions on the Jewish state.

Earlier this month, Ehud Olmert,


the right-wing mayor of Jerusalem, spoke at a rally of tens of thousands of Israelis that was characterized by boisterous boos and catcalls at the very mention of Clinton's name.

Roughly the other half of Israel, including most of the left and the government of caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Barak, continues to admire Clinton. A Tel Aviv pub is promoting him as its candidate in upcoming elections for prime minister. The top-selling Israeli daily, Yediot Aharonot, on Thursday dedicated 10 flattering pages to Clinton, asking the question, "How, how, can we live without you?"

But among erstwhile Israeli admirers of Clinton, there are grumblings about his failure to really grasp the deep-seated animosities long held by the parties that he tried to bring together.

"I see Clinton as a political lightweightwho undertook a historical task to which he was quite inadequate," said veteran leftist activist Uri Avnery. "He had an immense, irresistible personal charm, and he had the feeling that with his charm he could solve all the problems. This was incredibly naive."

Still, Palestinians are expressing the most marked reversal of opinion, and they have begun to speak in glowing terms about the incoming Bush administration.

Arafat's official newspaper, Al Hayat al Jadida, heralded the end of the Clinton administration as "the end of the era of the Jewish lobby." A senior Palestinian official, briefing reporters, said he is confident that the new U.S. government under George W. Bush "will be 100 times better" than the Clinton administration.

Recalling what they say was the more balanced approach of Bush's father,


Palestinian officials maintain that the large number of American Jews on Clinton's staff and negotiating team created a pro-Israel bias in U.S. policy. They were especially incensed when Clinton blamed Arafat, seemingly exclusively, for the collapse of July's Camp David summit. Arafat rejected Clinton's proposals, and the Mideast region erupted into violence two months later.

And a remarkable speech by Clinton earlier this month to the Israel Policy Forum in New York, in which he laid out in the most explicit terms to date his proposal for both Israelis and Palestinians to have pieces of Jerusalem as their respective capitals, drew sharp criticism from the Palestinian leadership. Similarly, Clinton's offer to dispatch his indefatigable special envoy Dennis B. Ross on one last push for peace was rejected.

"This will nothad an additional preoccupation. That province’s French language charter, Law 101, made it obligatory for the children of immigrants to attend French schools. Most immigrants were not Roman Catholics, but most French language schools were. That anomaly led to a movement to secularise the school system.

It took a while for the Quebec government to act, but it finally did, about two decades after it passed Law 101. Today there are only linguistic, French and English, school boards in Quebec. Catholic and Protestant schools are a distant memory.

Ontario is out of step

Oddly, Canada’s largest province, Ontario, has not seen fit to follow the Newfoundland and Quebec example.

There are still Catholic (euphemistically called ‘separate’) and public English school boards and separate and public French school boards throughout Ontario. It is


as he put it, he loves the black community and they love him in return). One black community activist who is also a mother, and very concerned about education, told CBC she appreciated the Green party leader’s position in favour of streamlining the education system.

It is possible she is not alone.

Back in Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty’s time, the Ontario government missed a golden opportunity to, at the very least, open a public dialogue on denominational schools when it hired economist Don Drummond to recommend ways to trim the provincial budget.

It would be possible for Ontario to realize big savings by consolidating school boards, as they did in Quebec, but the Liberal government told Drummond the existing system was sacrosanct. Changing the denominational system was off the table.

In hiswere organized on religious lines, the way we organize our schools. Imagine two systems of libraries - one system for Catholics and another system for other religious groups, all paid for out of the public purse. Absurd!”

Again, the government responded with patronizing and self-congratulatory platitudes.

“The Education Act requires both public and Catholic school boards to promote student achievement and well-being by providing safe, inclusive and accepting learning environments,” Education Minister Indira Naidoo-Harris wrote. Then she too proceeded with the history lesson: “Denominational schools in Ontario were part of the agreement that created Canada in 1867.”

The minister was anxious to point out that she was mindful of the issue of waste and duplication. She wanted her interlocutor to know that the government was, in fact, trying to tackle that


Tag Archives: #a blessing to the nations

The week’s Torah reading provides us with a shift in the direction of the narrative thus far. During the first eleven chapters of Genesis, there has been a consistent theme of sin followed by punishment. It began with Adam and Eve.

Before long we had the days of Noah in which mankind had already sunk into untenable moral decay. God saw the condition of mankind as a whole and He destroyed the earth and all its people, except for Noah and his family, with a flood.

Not too long afterward, there was the Tower of Babel where mankind had gathered together and decided to build a tower that would reach the heavens in order to ‘make a name for ourselves.’ (Gen. 11:4) At firstScottish Book Trade Conference, Edinburgh

The annual Scottish Book Trade Conference from Publishing Scotland and the Booksellers Association is set for February 22 at Central Hall, Tollcross, Edinburgh. The event will begin with an opening keynote by writer and broadcaster Sally Magnusson.

Research director at Nielsen Book Research Steve Bohme offers key retail trends from the past year, and later sessions in the daylong event will focus on issues including:

Book covers with Jon Gray and Jamie Keenan of the Academy of British Cover Design

Using book promotions in marketing with Forum Books’ Helen Stanton

Developing events in cooperation with community partners with Lighthouse Bookshop’s Mairi Oliver

Bookshops’ best practices in using Instagram with Julie Danskin of the Golden Hare

Annie Stone

Julia Kingsford of The Good Agency will be speaking on widening audiences and reflecting


April 10 through 12.

Held again at London’s Olympia complex in the conference center wing, the show will be in its eighth year and again is being produced in partnership with Nielsen Book.

A key focus this year, in addition to Nielsen’s newest research on the UK and international marketplace is audiobooks. Another point being stressed by organizers is inclusivity, with a plan to incorporate a majority of voices “as yet unheard” in publishing circles.

The show is also being programmed to include, according to press materials, “consumer dynamics, influencer marketing, new creative talent and competition from the wider creative industries, channels for increased sales, and key industry trends.”

Matt Haslum

Consultant and past managing director of Faber & Faber Matt Haslum is the program chair this year. The conference has an optionin this year’s conference here.

About the Author

Porter Anderson

Porter Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. Prior to that he was Associate Editor for The FutureBook, a channel at The Bookseller focused on digital publishing. Anderson has also worked with CNN International, CNN.com, CNN USA, the Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and other media.


Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney

The exception rather than the rule ... protesters take to the street to Reclaim the Night in Melbourne. Photo: Wayne Hawkins

In the late '90s, when raving meant dancing and sun-dried tomatoes meant culinary sophistication, I joined a group at university called the Activist Left. It was the obvious choice for someone who had spent her high school years weeping over woodchips. I believed another world was possible but had no faith in parliamentary reform. Revolutionary overthrow sounded infinitely more exciting than gradual change.

So I sailed past the Labor Party at O-Week and headed for the kids with radical politics and whose verdant forests of body hair should have constituted a zoning issue. I exchanged friends for comrades, tampons for moon cups,          I.

      In June 2012, New Jersey State Police informed the Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that Green was trafficking firearms from

Georgia to New Jersey in exchange for heroin. As a convicted felon, Green could

not purchase the firearms himself, so he asked an acquaintance, Tishard Brown, to

do it. Brown was in Green’s debt, and Green said that purchasing the firearms for

him would make them even. Brown agreed, and on June 15, 2012, Green drove

Brown from Savannah, Georgia to Arrowhead Pawn Shop near Atlanta, Georgia,

where he purchased three firearms. When filling out the ATF paperwork, Brown

indicated that he was the actual purchaser of the firearms, but he later related that

Green had directed him


developed shoulder or elbow injuries, indicated by episodes of elbow or shoulder pain while throwing, between early and end of the season measurements. Similarly, those who did not develop an injury during the season were included in the non-pain group. The non-pain group included players who sustained a slight external wound, such as a blow to the body; players who sustained leg or back injuries/pain were excluded from the study. Before enrollment in the study, the subjects provided written informed consent. The study conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Gunma University (Japan) Ethics Committee.

Muscle tightness was measured according to the method described by Tolii[@r9]^)^ by measuring the angle of each joint connected to the bilateral iliopsoas, quadriceps, hamstring, and gastrocnemius muscles. Additionally, thethe hip internal rotation and extension ROM of the axis leg compared with the step leg. In their studies[@r4], [@r8]^)^, professional and college baseball player participated. In the current study, the participating baseball players were still in a growth phase. Therefore, the changes in the flexibility of the lower extremities and shoulders of the pain group athletes may have been different from those observed in the older players in the previous studies. During the throwing motion, the body weight may remain on the axis leg or the trunk rotation and hip extension and rotation may increase the load on the lower extremity, causing muscle flexibility to decrease. Moreover, the pain group already demonstrated significantly greater tightness of the hip external rotator of the step leg and of the


53-page resume (PDF) is filled with academic articles and honors for her work.

In her research and her teaching, one theme resounds: Popular beliefs about fat are often flat wrong.

"Every one of us thinks of an obese person as a glutton, a person who's unable to control themselves, who probably sneaks into the other room and grabs ice cream and potato chips," Hansen said as a guest lecturer to a graduate class of USF students last year. "In fact, that is a very rare event."

Obese people, she pointed out, generally eat the number of calories they need to maintain their current weight, like thin people do. That, she says, is not overeating.

But if gluttony isn't the cause of obesity, what is?

Hansen points to genetics as the reason why sosupport has been essential to her work.

Her monkeys, which are housed off-campus, live in large cages that sit in white-walled, brightly lit rooms.

In her most famous experiment, she kept one group of monkeys on a strict, meticulously documented diet from their early adulthood until death. The other group had unlimited access to healthy food.

In the group that could eat freely, some monkeys grew plump, while others stayed thin. Some developed obesity and diabetes; others did not.

In the calorie-restricted group, not a single monkey developed obesity or diabetes.

Hansen believes the implications are tremendous — strict calorie limits could prevent obesity and diabetes. And in the absence of such food restrictions, genetics kick in.

To drive home the point, Hansen cites another experiment.

In this one, she placed feeding tubes into the


months and may involve extraordinary measures.

Ebola virus first emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in South Sudan in 1976 and reappeared in South Sudan in 1979, but it caused no further outbreaks until 1994. Since then, there have been several outbreaks in Africa, but none approached the magnitude of the current outbreak. The natural reservoir of the virus remains unclear, but it is suspected to be the fruit bat. However, Ebola virus also infects nonhuman primates, a species of antelope and porcupines, all of which could be sources of human transmission.

The unusually rapid and far-reaching spread of the virus during the current outbreak has been facilitated by insufficient treatment and containment facilities in West African nations that had no prior experience with Ebola; asporadic. Lacking market-driven forces, financial investment in their development is therefore dependent on governments of wealthy nations. However, the citizens of these nations may have limited exposure to the specific pathogens, and, as such, governments may not prioritize the development of drugs to fight them. For example, in 2012, around the time of the US \'fiscal cliff\' scenario, the US Department of Defense (DoD), citing budget constraints, issued separate stop-work orders to Sarepta Therapeutics and Tekmira Pharmaceuticals on their programs aimed at developing morpholinos and RNAi therapeutics, respectively, against Ebola virus. The DoD ultimately reinstated Ebola research funding to Tekmira but not Sarepta.

In view of the unprecedented severity of the current Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that it would be ethical to use experimental


Citizens Should Avoid North Platte River After Mills Sewage Spill

People are being asked to avoid all recreational activities on a stretch of the North Platte River following Monday's sewage spill in the Town of Mills.

The stretch of river extends from the SW Wyoming Boulevard bridge downstream, or east, to the Natrona County/Converse County line. That's according to a joint statement from the Town, the Casper-Natrona County Health Department and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.

Mills officials on Monday discovered the leak and found that it came from a sewer line. Per the statement, the damaged line was shut down and sewage was rerouted.

However, an unknown quantity of sewage had already reached Casper Creek, which is a tributary of the North Platte River.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality isShare

Located along Algoa Bay in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, Port Elizabeth is one of the country's major port cities and a popular destination for tourists, who enjoy Port Elizabeth's beaches, historical attractions, nearby national parks and game reserves, and opportunities for numerous watersports. With so much variety to offer, it's no wonder that so many people on South Africa vacations include Port Elizabeth on their travel itineraries. Thus there are many kinds of accommodation in Port Elizabeth for visitors, so whether you are looking for luxury hotels or cheap hotels, there will be something suitable for your tastes and travel budget.

One of the Port Elizabeth hotels to consider is the Protea Hotel Marine (pictured). This four-star luxury hotel is located on Pollock Beach and offers expansive views


of Algoa Bay. From this elegant Port Elizabeth hotel you will have easy access to the city's beaches and a variety of watersports, including diving, swimming, and sailing. The hotel contains nearly 100 standard rooms, executive rooms, lofts, and suites, and the amenities include air-conditioning, satellite TV, and wireless internet access. The Port Elizabeth Protea also features two pools, two restaurants, a bar, and six conference venues, as well as valet, laundry, and dry-cleaning services.

Another Port Elizabeth hotel to consider is the Paxton Hotel. This mid-range Port Elizabeth hotel features 63 air-conditioned guestrooms and suites. Rooms feature telephones, electronic safes, wireless internet connections, and television. Laundry and valet service, car rentals, in-room service, and babysitting service are also available. Centrally located, it is great for both business travelersand those on a leisure trip, as it's not only close to the airport and rail station, but also to beaches, shopping and entertainment complexes, and golf courses.

Another of the hotels in Port Elizabeth to consider booking is The Kelway Hotel, an elegant and inviting beachfront hotel that offers views of Nelson Mandela Bay. With 36 four-star luxury rooms, 23 three-star rooms, and two premier rooms, this hotel truly offers accommodations for all kinds of travelers. All rooms offer individually controlled air-conditioning, and in the four-star rooms, guests enjoy private balconies and spacious and stylish accommodations. This Port Elizabeth hotel also offers a restaurant and bar, two conferencing facilities, photocopying and faxing services, and laundry services. The staff is happy to assist guests with car rentals, airport transfers,


The place to begin picking up the pieces, in the aftermath of a cheerless Conservative conference and a botched leadership plot, is with Theresa May herself. Over half of Party member respondents to our last monthy survey said that she should not lead the Tories into the next election. There is no reason to believe that Conservative MPs take a different view. Today’s Sunday Timesclaims that at least three Cabinet Ministers discussed ousting her last week. None the less, she appears to believe that she can still lead an election campaign from office in 2022 or before. This spells trouble, sooner or later.

However, she is in place. Grant Shapps has been seen off. And it looks as though the Prime Minister will seek to revive her Government andthe Euro.

But for all its indispensability, the department goes through periods of intellectual exhaustion. One emerged during the early 1980s, when it was lashed to the Keynesian consensus: Geoffrey Howe had a lonely task in turning it round. Another came in the mid-1990s, after the department had bet the farm on ERM membership. Yet another came more recently. The Treasury was deeply implicated in George Osborne’s rubbish forecasts of an “immediate economic shock” and an increase in unemployment of “around 500,000” in the aftermath of a vote for Brexit. In essence, the department has no faith in leaving the EU – it pushed within government for a ten-year transition – and is wary of borrowing to build more houses.

If May, as this site would urge, is both to


been answered and he is finally coming home.”

Her son was 18 when he was arrested in the stabbing death of Kristina Hickey, who disappeared Oct. 3, 1984, as she walked home from her high school choir concert in Park Forest. Kristina’s body was found two days later, hidden behind some bushes. She had been stabbed multiple times and appeared to have been sexually assaulted, prosecutors said.

Abernathy knew the girl and was questioned by police early on, but he was released without charges. A year later he was arrested and charged with murder.

Kaeseberg, an attorney with the Illinois Innocence Project who has worked on Abernathy’s case for more than a year, said he was interrogated by police for two days and told that signing a confession was “the onlyTwo guilty of embassy bombing

Two Palestinian terrorists were convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday of plotting to bomb Jewish targets in Britain in a bid to sabotage the Middle East peace process.

Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami used their English university educations to make the high explosives for their bombing campaign. The two ex- students will be sentenced on Monday. A third defendant, Mahmoud Abu- Wardeh, was cleared of taking part in the conspiracy and released on order of the judge, Mr Justice Garland.

Both Mr Botmeh and Mr Alami showed no emotion as the jury returned their verdicts after six and a half hours of deliberations.

Mr Alami, 30, of South Kensington, central London, Mr Botmeh, a businessman, 28, of Bloomsbury, central London, and Mr Abu-Wardeh, 25, of Putney, south-


west London, had all denied conspiring to cause explosions between January 1993 and May 1995. They also denied possessing an explosive substance - Triacetone Triperoxide - of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious damage on or before 25 May 1995, and possession of firearms.

The jury were not asked to return verdicts on the possession charges against Mr Botmeh and Mr Alami after they were convicted of the bombing plot. But Mr Abu-Wardeh was cleared of all the charges. Mr Abu-Wardeh nodded to the jury as they cleared him of all charges against him. He hugged his co-defendants before leaving the dock.

Two car bombs rocked the Israeli Embassy, in Kensington Gardens, west London, and a Jewish charity in north London in July 1994 - causing millionsof pounds of damage. "Mercifully no one was killed or seriously injured but they were grave acts of terrorism," Mr Justice Garland said when summing up the two month trial.

Mr Botmeh and Mr Alami were members of a Palestinian terror cell in Britain. They believed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "was misguided in his attempts to come to any accommodation with Israel and wished to hinder the process", David Calvert-Smith, prosecuting, had told the court.

Earlier in the trial Mrs Nadia Zekra, a mother of two, who was originally accused of planting the bomb, was found not guilty on the orders of the judge after he described the evidence against her as suspect. Mr Justice Garland accepted a defence submission that Mrs Zekra, 49, who had denied causing the


instance. Several others are in the process of being sold, too.

Rosenberg said he sent information packages to prospective presenting companies last week. He already has received responses from 50 companies, although none have yet signed on as presenters.

Investor conferences are of growing interest in the technology world. Most large investment banks host their own conferences each year, bringing together a number of public companies to be showcased. Such events save investors from having to travel to see each of the companies individually, while giving the firms a soapbox from which to tout themselves.

The Capital Region Technology Investor Conference is different for a couple of reasons. It brings together several investment banks as sponsors rather than one. And it focuses on companies in an industry in geographical region, notjust in an industry, like the American Electronics Association's Monterey Classic, which focuses on information technology companies from around the country.

"We'll go back to at least support the region and the [technology] movement," said Karen Kazmark, who heads investor relations for Transaction Network Services Inc., Reston, Va. "For a first-year conference last year, the quality was good." Transaction Network Services was one of the presenting companies last year.

Aside from the change in venue, which is closer in proximity to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the region's business core, the other big change is sponsorship. Last year, prime sponsors included the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. and The Washington Post Co., both of which committed $50,000. (The Washington Post Co. owns Washington Technology.)

Below those sponsors were several investment banks,


time, I had crushes pretty much every year of kindergarten and elementary school. I had my first crush when I was five years old in kindergarten. His name was Terry. I liked him simply because he was cute. With each year, I would fall in like with a boy for a slightly more nuanced reason. By first grade, though, I hadn't gotten that far.

By the first grade, Terry went to another school. Our kindergarten was district-wide, so all of the kindergarteners of the five elementary school district attended school in one building, Thurston Early Childhood Development Center (Thurston ECDC). Graduating from kindergarten meant going to a new school. So it was in Ms. Miller's first grade class that I would meet my next crush, Darryl.

My like for Darrylwould begin a years-long preference for husky or chubby men--one that has not borne out in my present relationship, but that's a different story.

Darryl was a husky little boy. Looking back, he probably was prescribed a steroid inhaler for asthma. Or maybe he was just husky. He was in good company, because I was a chubby little girl. I liked him because he was bigger than the other boys. Bigger and a little bit brusk.

I don't think there was very much more to it than that.

Heaven for me was this one time when we were on a field trip to the Henry Ford Museum, which we lovingly called Greenfield Village, though we never spent time in the actual village, and I got to sit next to him on


liked him. He'd have no idea. A smart boy would begin to suspect it after he noticed a girl made effort to sit next to him on the bus so she could press her legs next to him and lie on him.

But no, he was an average boy, and average boys have no clue about those things.

I moved on to a boy named Michael in the third grade, who I liked not only for his looks, but because he was smart (I was getting there!). But not again until Kenneth in the fifth grade would I be so mortified at the possibility of someone knowing that I liked a boy.

...though I would continue to keep crushes secret until I was 25 years old.

Me. Mí. Mim!

Invisible Muslimah is notAmber Black Beats Her Senior Citizen Boyfriend Over TV Remote, Grabs His Genitals And Yells “You’re Old, I’m Stronger Than You!” | August 28

Palm Beach: 23-year-old Florida woman Amber Black grabbed her elderly boyfriend’s genitals and cut him with her fingernails after they argued about the television remote control, according to authorities.

According to reports, Black and her senior citizen boyfriend were fighting over the TV remote. Black punched her older beau in the face and began attacking him with her fingernails as they fought.

Cops said she also took hold off the man’s genitals.

When he tried to call for help, she threw the phone against the wall and and exclaimed, “you’re old, and I’m stronger than you,” according to cops. She reportedly ordered him to tell police it was


Sunday, 31 October 2010

Rædwald Blog

RÆDWALD

A Roleplaying Game of Outlaw Scum

In an Anglo-Saxon World

BY

LEE REYNOLDSON

An Alternate Rules Set for Swords & Wizardry: Whitebox

INTRODUCTION

The world of Rædwald is a world where the bond of the warband, the oath of loyalty between warrior and king, your word, your honour and your status means everything. It is a world where family, community, and the king's laws are a shield against misfortune.

Unfortunately for the player characters the world of Rædwald is one in which they have none of these things. Instead, they are outsiders; wolfshead outlaws. Tired of merely surviving they take coin from a lord, and now serve as his wolfpack, a band of ruthless, expendable outlaw scum.

Working in the shadows of society and the darkness of night, the wolfpack does theCame. Stripped. Conquered. / Прийшла. Розділась. Перемогла.

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Cross-Chopping Femen Activist Flees Ukraine

A member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix in Kyiv in support of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website on Wednesday.

Femen says that Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested.

“The organization’s council ruled to evacuate activist Shevchenko to Paris, where she could continue her work,” Femen said on its website.

Shevchenko left her apartment via the balcony, then drove a car to the town of Korosten, where she boarded a train to Warsaw.

In an interview with the 1+1 TV channel, Femen said it planned to


Riot members are jailed.

Commenting on the incident, Alyokhina said she disapproved of cross cutting. The trend, however, has since spread to Russia.

In late August, four crosses were cut down in Russia's regions by a group who said the act was a "revenge" for the Pussy Riot sentence. Two weeks later, a wooden Orthodox Christian cross has been chopped down in the Altai region of Siberia.

About FEMEN

The mission of the "FEMEN" movement is to create the most favourable conditions for the young women to join up into a social group with the general idea of the mutual support and social responsibility, helping to reveal the talents of each member of the movement.Mount Santo Tomas in Baguio City - Philippines

A prime and popular tourist destination in the northern region of the Philippines, Baguio City houses many scenic parks, beautiful sanctuaries and attractive religious structures. Burnham Park, Mines View Park, The Mansion and Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary are some of the most visited spots in the city. To have a pristine and grandeur view on these fascinating sites, travelers need to go to the city’s highest peak which is Mount Santo Tomas.

Enjoying Scenic Views From Mount Santo Tomas

Recognized as one of the most visited sites in the city, Mount Santo Tomas is exactly situated in Tuba, Benguet. Experts estimate the mountain peek to 7,500 feet high so it really provides a good view on lakes, valleys and plains in some towns of


From the Phoenix Lights to the Mogollon Monster, Arizona has long been known as a mecca for the strange. According to the Mutual UFO Network’s reporting archives, Arizona ranked as one of the top three states in the country for UFO sightings per capita in 2013. Arguably, one of the most concentrated areas of reported anomalous activity is centered in Yavapai and Coconino counties. This area was first inhabited by indigenous tribes including the Anasazi, Hohokam, and the Sinagua, all of whom were deeply rooted in the belief that their ancestors came from the stars. Petroglyphs dot the canyon walls, hinting that visitors from other worlds had wandered amongst them and many locals maintain the belief that otherworldly visitors remain attracted to this unique area.

Sedona, a small cityHollywood gained significant interest in using the majestic red rocks as a backdrop in Westerns, television programs, and commercials. Bradshaw became integral in their productions.

In 1960, Bradshaw acquired a large parcel of land covering 140-acres. At the time, the only remaining structure was an old adobe house. He quickly put to use his Hollywood contacts and utilized the ranch as a filming destination. According to ADayintheWest.com, the tour company operated by the Bradshaws, Bob worked on twenty-eight films, nineteen television shows, and seventy-seven commercials during his lifetime, and the ranch itself hosted five films, two television series, and numerous commercials. An old western town movie set was erected on the grounds during filming of the 1967 Elvis Presley film Stay Away Joe, and remained a fixture of the


property until the 1986. Bitter Creek, as the town was known, was rebuilt in the mid 1990s. It was during this time when John Bradshaw took over management of the land and utilized it as a dude-ranch: a tourist destination for horseback rides, cookouts, and jeep tours. Bradshaw Ranch wasn’t all Hollywood glamour though; it hosts an obscure history that revealed itself suddenly, though for those involved, not unexpectedly.

Strange Anomalies Plague the Bradshaw Family:

It was in 1992 that Bob Bradshaw Jr.’s wife Linda, along with several of her sons, began to catalog unusual activity on the property. It began slowly with sightings of unusual lights in the clear desert sky and escalated into tales of Bigfoot, UFOs, extraterrestrial beings, dinosaurs, and strange creatures. The experiences she reported, alongalong with her close friend and UFO researcher Tom Dongo, published a book filled with their alleged encounters and photographs they claim are otherworldly beings, strange flying craft, and unexplained light anomalies. Merging Dimensions: The Opening Portals of Sedona was a book they thought would change the world, but they were both disappointed and frustrated that it released to little fanfare.

One encounter Linda described was that of being woken by one of her sons, who was in the company of a woman and her daughter, in the early hours of the morning. She alleges that at approximately 2:45 a.m. her son and the woman not only spotted an unidentified craft but had an encounter with extraterrestrial beings as well. She describes:

Strolling past the window were four short-statured aliens


footprints were spotted in the dirt and the evidence was documented via her son’s video camera. If the story is to be believed, the strangest turn occurred when the witnesses spotted what they referred to as a dinosaur in one of the washes. Two of the witnesses described a dusty-colored, five foot, lizard-like dinosaur that stood erect, while the other two only made it in time to see a long tail vanishing into the bushes. In future encounters, they would discover large reptilian-like prints on a reoccurring basis.

The strange sightings persisted, and Linda continued to document to the best of her ability. She would take photographs in random areas to see if things would develop on film that she could sense but were invisible to the naked eye.The photos were taken on 35mm film and developed at a local photo processing center. She amassed a large collection of photos of light anomalies, what she believed to be alien beings, as well as various unidentified craft. She also captured and had interactions with a Bigfoot she referred to as “Big Girl” and believed that she was in the company of young offspring as well.

As a self-described animal lover, Linda became increasingly agitated that some of her dogs and horses were falling ill with tumors and other maladies the vet could not rationally explain. She was also disturbed to discover that someone or something had torn the manes off several of her horses. She was perplexed, stating, “Her lovely, long golden mane was missing. The mare’s mane


wristwatch. It had stopped. He recounted that he had heard unusual voices or odd whispers coming from somewhere around him, experienced a brief period of missing time, and visually pointed out the electrical disturbance of his watch. The experience was not aired on television, and we can only speculate as to what really happened when Jones was alone in the desert.

Conclusion

Bradshaw Ranch is set to remain an enigma. The likelihood that any serious investigation could take place, akin to the in-depth scientific endeavors of the National Institute for Discovery Sciences (NIDS) at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, is slim. The U.S. Forest Service maintains a strict no trespassing policy in order to protect the historic and anthropological landmarks on the land.

This small piece, as well as the expansive canyonsThe Roosters second-rower was excited about what the Queensland legend could bring to the club, both on and off the field. It's made the tricolours favourites for the 2018 premiership, but Cordner said that meant "nothing". Cronk's arrival has meant Pearce, who has won a premiership and played 238 NRL games for the Roosters, was considering his future at the club. He's on holidays deciding whether he will leave the club or see out the final two years of his contract. Cordner was confident it wouldn't cause a rift in the playing group if the popular Pearce left.

"I don't think so. It's ultimately Pearcey's choice. He's gone away now to get away from everything and to think about it," Cordner said. "I'm here to support Pearcey and respect


his decision whichever way he wants to go, but at this stage it looks like he'll be a Rooster." Cronk's signature closed the curtain on the Kangaroos halfback's time with the Storm after he helped them to the 2017 premiership. Despite the Storm being the reigning premiers, Melbourne five-eighth Cameron Munster was quick to label the Roosters as next year's favourite. Munster said he needed to take his own game to another level in Cronk's absence because they couldn't rely on captain Cameron Smith and fullback Billy Slater to carry the team on their own.

"I need to step up my game and take more of a controlling role in the game and see how I can go with the pressure and see if I can get the Stormto back-to-back [premierships]," he said. "[Cronk's] got another couple of years in him and he's been playing some of his best football he's ever played. "I'm very lucky and very fortunate to play with him, and it's very exciting to play against him at the Roosters, and hopefully give him a bit of heckle. "It's a big loss and all us emerging leaders need to step up and take more ownership ... and [we] can't rely on the big two [Smith and Slater] now to do everything." It's been a big season for Munster, who shifted from fullback to five-eighth, won a premiership, made his State of Origin debut in Queensland's emphatic game-three victory and will now make his Kangaroos debut.

He was one of four debutants Australia coach


Smoking trends in the United States between 1969 and 1995 based on patients hospitalized with non-smoking-related diseases.
This study examines smoking trends in the United States by race, gender, education, and occupation. The data were collected between 1969 and 1995 through a hospital-based case-control study on tobacco-related cancers, including 21,057 male and 14,448 female control subjects who had been diagnosed of non-smoking-related diseases. Smoking measures were adjusted through direct standardization and regression methods. Despite the decline in smoking, daily cigarette consumption remained high among current smokers. Women's smoking prevalence decreased more slowly than men's and their age at smoking initiation also declined, while the inverse effects on smoking by education and occupation were more pronounced in men than in women. Smoking prevalence was higher, but daily cigarette consumption wasGed, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.

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late 1980’s led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates as a way to reduce inflationary pressure. Interest rates rose as high as 14% in 1990 before the Bank of Canada started to ease their stand on high interest rates.

High interest rates had a couple of different effects on Toronto’s real estate market. First, the higher costs of bowering made real estate less affordable. By the time the Bank of Canada decided to lower interest rates the downward spiral in our economy and in the real estate market had already started.

High interest rates also made it more expensive for Canadian businesses to operate. In January 1989 the Canada-US free trade agreement was put in place. With interest rates in Canada running higher than in the US, thebuilding the night before she died.

Police said the man had been a resident of the building and was able to get into an empty unit. Ciotola met him online. Reynolds also could not say if the materials found at the scene belonged to him.

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EU leaders were facing budget chaos today at a bruising first summit since Brexit as four wealthy nations refused to fill the gap left by Britain's departure.

The 27 leaders reached a stalemate after arguing into the early hours in Brussels, with talks on the trillion-euro budget resuming for a second day today and this afternoon there was still deadlock.

The UK's departure has left the bloc with a €75billion (£63billion) hole in its finances over seven years and the budget battle has exposed bitter divisions between EU members.

Germany wants to spend more on climate change while France is seeking more money for a joint defence, with poorer nations determined to keep their generous EU payouts.

But the so-called 'frugal four' of Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden are unwilling topresident Emmanuel Macron grimaces as he arrives for the second day of budget talks in Brussels today, after the negotiations reached a stalemate overnight

Dutch leader Mark Rutte (centre, facing the camera) embraces Portuguese leader Antonio Costa, with Finnish PM Sanna Marin (left) and Greece's Kyriakos Mitsotakis (right) looking on

German chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the second day of budget negotiations today. Leaders are battling over how to fill a budget gap left by Brexit

The 27-member bloc's unity during Brexit negotiations has given way to fractious talks on its future after Britain finally left on January 31.

A frustrated Czech prime minister Andrej Babis said there was 'no point continuing the summit' if the 'Frugal Four' refused to increase their contributions.

'If the group of four rich countries Sweden, Denmark, the


the sidelines of the summit in Brussels yesterday

Ursula von der Leyen (centre) meets European Parliament president David-Maria Sassoli and Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa in Brussels yesterday

'I cannot sign up to this proposal. The proposal is simply not good,' Rutte told reporters ahead of the talks.

Outside the summit centre, farmers rolled tractors down the street to push their demands for sufficient funds.

France, the number two contributor after Germany, wants to safeguard subsidies for farmers but is uneasy about the growth of so-called 'cohesion' funds for poorer nations.

Germany, the Netherlands and others are keen to shift funds towards new priorities including global warming, migration and growth in the digital economy.

The EU budget is drawn from national contributions as well as money from customs duties, a cut of sales tax(as confirmed by the local leadership). Most villagers are subsistence farmers. Malaria is transmitted year-round in Mozambique, with a seasonal peak during the rainy season, from October to April depending on location. Mozambique was chosen because it is a representative country with a high malaria burden.

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Kripke's skeptical interpretation of Wittgenstein's project in the Philosophical Investigations attributes to Wittgenstein a radical skepticism about the objectivity of rules and thus the meanings of words and the existence of language as well as a skepticism about the truth conditions underlying our alleged facts about the world. Kripke then contends that Wittgenstein solves this skeptical paradox by committing himself to what I shall call a Communitarian View of language. There are a number of difficulties with Kripke's interpretation of the project of the Philosophical Investigations. These include his evaluation of the notion of the rule, his interpretation of the private language arguments, his uses of the term intention, and his truncated reading of 201. In this paper I shall address and attack this interpretation of Wittgenstein asFlights to San Antonio from Sat
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NEWARK, N.J. -- The NHL will not discipline players on the Phoenix Coyotes after conducting an investigation of their postgame actions and comments following their season-ending, overtime loss in the Western Conference finals, league executive vice president Colin Campbell said Wednesday night before Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals.

The league was not pleased with some of what happened after Dustin Penner's overtime winner May 22, including Coyotes center Martin Hanzal skating aggressively toward a referee and making a gesture, goalie Mike Smith throwing his stick, Shane Doan's strong postgame comments and Keith Yandle's postgame comments.

Yandle suggested it was no surprise the calls didn't go his team's way given the similar colors of the refs' and Kings' uniforms.

Campbell said he interviewed all four players but ultimately decided notNEWS- Site visit: Scolded Med Center awaits a verdict

Judgment Day has come and gone for the UVA Medical Center, which has been on probation since April, its accreditation by the Council of Graduate Medical Education in limbo. But its fate still remains uncertain a week after the August 1 site visit by representatives of the group's accrediting committee. The site visit– completed at UVA's request– will determine whether the problems with UVA's residency program have improved enough to have its probationary status removed.

Among issues the Council cited in its probationary finding: violations of resident work hours and a lack of support staff, which put pressure on residents to complete non-medical tasks such as lining up transportation or scheduling follow-up appointments.

"I have worked many 100-plus hour weeks," said one


UVA resident, who spoke anonymously with the Hook for the July 20 cover story, "PR Emergency: UVA Med Center struggles with probation."

In 2003, the Council enacted rules limiting the average number of hours a resident could work to 80 hours a week as well as establishing guidelines for the maximum number of hours residents can be "on call." Other problems the Council cited at the Med Center included inadequate security on "call room" doors (rooms where residents can sleep) and the Medical Center's failure to schedule an interim site visit with the Council between its official five-year inspections.

While many hospitals have had departments placed on probation– Johns Hopkins' acclaimed Internal Medicine program was on probation two years ago– institutional accreditation is a new designation, implemented by the Councilthe senior physician says he's not at all certain the improvements made will be enough to put the Medical Center back on track. "I'm hearing people give it a 50/50 chance," he says. "It's anything but a done deal."

Whatever the odds, the decision won't be made until sometime in October, according to ACGME spokesperson John Nylen, who reports that the inspectors are preparing a report that will then be considered by the Council's review committee, composed of volunteer physicians from teaching hospitals around the country. The committee next meets in late September or October, Nylen says, meaning no answer is possible before then.

Meanwhile, says the senior physician, it's business as usual at the Med Center, where few people are even discussing the issue.

"There's nothing more we can do


reunites Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole for the first time since Lawrence of Arabia. In the end though it's difficult to decide which is more surprising, that O'Toole's appearance is as short as it is, or that Sharif's is so prominent. As one would expect, Omar Sharif turns in a solid performance, as does John Rhys-Davies as Mordecai. But all this would be largely irrelevant were it not also for an impressive debut performance by Tiffany Dupont. With only television work, and one supporting film role to her credit she effortlessly makes the transition to a lead role.

Sadly, the acting side of things is let down, badly, by poor performances by Luke Goss and Tommy "Tiny" Lister as Xerses and Hagai respectively. Goss is just plain awful. Unsureof his accent, and unconvincing both as a king, and as a lover he spoils almost every scene he features in.

Lister, on the other hand, is perhaps less to blame for his problems. One of his biggest attribute is his fearsome size, and the producers have done him no favours by trying to cast him against type in an ultra-sensitive, beauty-treatment-loving, girl’s-best-friend type role. Lister may have been able to pull this off had the dialogue he was given not so patchy. "You think a eunuch cannot know love?" and so on. Throughout the film, the dialogue is inconsistent, often being unsure whether to speak in "epic" language, or to use more every day dialogue. At one point the script has Xerses cram both into the same sentence;


Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com

Science writer and contributor to Radio Lab, Jonah Lehrer attends the 'You and Your Irrational Brain' panel discussion at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City in conjunction with the World Science Festival on May 29, 2008 in New York City.

Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for World Science Festival.

For the past three months, Jonah Lehrer, science journalist, author of three books, and (former) New Yorker staff writer has been under siege. In mid-June, he was accused of recycling his old work and publishing it as new. Since then, a numberofaccountsassert that Lehrer committed the two mortal sins of journalism: fabrication and plagiarism.

Before Lehrer joined TheNew Yorker, he was one of the premier bloggers at Wired.com; the site still boasts several hundred blog postsearlier. It's amazing—and disturbing—that it took so long for anyone to notice.

Press-release plagiarism

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Journalists disagree about whether it is acceptable to take passages and quotations from press releases without attribution. I'm on the less-tolerant end of the spectrum, so I looked for examples in Lehrer's work.

In the sample of posts I looked at, there were a number of places where it looked like Lehrer had taken text from a press release and placed it in his own blog after a light edit. For example, several paragraphs in "Are Emotions Prophetic," paralleled a Feb. 24, 2012, press release from the Columbia Business School.

For me, the most ethically fraught example of this practice was in "Does Inequality Make Us Unhappy." In that post, Lehrer wrote: "'We economists have a widespread view


who were neither coaches nor sportswriters.) Lehrer made the exact same mistake in precisely the same manner.

Issues with quotations

Lehrer has altered quotations, for instance of a written phrase in a scientific paper in "Basketball and Jazz." Lehrer says that the scientists described a behavior as a "covert simulation of the action," in quotation marks. The actual quotation, from a scientific paper, was that the subjects were performing "a covert simulation of the very same action" that was depicted on the video screen.

In "When Reinforcement Fails," Lehrer quotes scientists who authored a research article as saying, “The behavior of basketball players shows the limitations of learning from reinforcement, especially in a complex environment such as a basketball game.” This passage appears, verbatim, in a press release issued by theHebrew University of Jerusalem—but it is not a quotation from the scientists. (Conversely, a quotation in the press release attributed to Yonatan Lowenstein, "The study shows that despite many years of intense training, even the best basketball players over-generalize from their most recent actions and their outcomes...." appears, word for word, in Lehrer's blog post—without any indication that it is a direct quotation.)

In early August, Seth Mnookin of MIT pointed out a much clearer example of an improper quotation. In "The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories," published in August 2010 (and republished in "Cognitive Dissonance" in January 2011), Lehrer told the story of a cult that believed that there would be a world-changing cataclysmic flood on Dec. 21, 1954. The leader of the cult received psychic "telegrams" from an


alien presence, and Lehrer quoted what was supposedly part of the text from one of those missives. However, as Mnookin showed, the quotation was actually a pastiche—part of the passage was from an alien message, but part was a passage from Leon Festinger's When Prophecy Fails, the main eyewitness account of the cult's rise and fall.

Issues with Facts

Mnookin pointed out other details that Lehrer gets wrong. For instance, in his Aug. 4, 2010, post, "The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories," Lehrer wrote that the cultists believed that a cataclysmic flood would come soon after midnight. In fact, the flood was to begin at dawn. That error, by itself, would be of little consequence, but when Mnookin pointed out the error, Lehrer did not make a correction. What's more, Lehrermajor media companies, he was operating, most of the time, without a safety net. Nobody noticed that something was amiss until it was too late to save him.

*Correction, Aug. 31, 2012: This article originally misstated the name of Wired.com's editor, Evan Hansen.


letter, which was obtained and first described by Foreign Policy, highlights the urgency of Chinese action in the South China Sea. Beijing has built seven artificial islands in the Spratly group and militarized its Paracel group holdings in the meantime.

Moreover, last year, an international tribunal ruled that China’s claims in the South China Sea under the ambit of its ambiguous nine-dash line claim were illegitimate under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The tribunal ruled in a case filed by the Philippines in 2013, shortly after a highly publicized standoff between Beijing and Manila over Scarborough Shoal.

The senators urged the Trump administration “to take necessary steps to routinely exercise freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea, which is critical to U.S.national security interests and to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region” in the letter.

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The bipartisan letter comes in the aftermath of reports that the administration has actively rejected U.S. Pacific Command requests to carry out further freedom of navigation operation operations in the South China Sea. Specifically, the New York Times reported last week that a PACOM request to sail within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Shoal was turned down by the administration.

Though Trump criticized Chinese actions in the South China Sea during the presidential transition, he has not made the issue a priority in U.S.-China relations since coming into office. At his first face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in April, he


Underwater storage tanks have been used since at least as early as the Second World War for storing petroleum products underwater. During the 1940's, the primary purpose of maintaining underwater storage facilities was military, that is, to reduce the likelihood of destruction of the facility in the event of an air attack and to provide boats and ships with offshore refueling facilities so that they would not be required to return to port in order to refuel.
Today, underwater storage facilities generally have an entirely different primary purpose. The continued growth of offshore drilling and exploration, coupled with the necessity of exploring further from shore, often demands the ability to store the petroleum crude or processed petroleum at the drilling site. This enables the producer to store his outputArgentina's 12th biggest bank by assets. It has a full license, including retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking and other business.

After the transaction is completed, ICBC and Standard Bank London Holdings Plc plan to invest $100 million jointly in SBA.

"The acquisition is a win-win choice for all parties. It will help ICBC obtain a commercial banking license in Argentina and become the first Chinese financial institution to enter the local market, which is very important to ICBC's global strategy," said Jiang Jianqing, chairman of ICBC.

South America is a region that is an important component in the bank's globalization strategy, and Argentina is one of the key focused markets for the bank, with strong radiation to the whole South American region, said ICBC in a news release.

"If successfully completed,


the transaction will strengthen ICBC's business network across Latin America and enhance our operating capability in the Americas," said Jiang.

ICBC has a 20 percent stake in Standard Bank, Africa's top bank by assets, which increased its presence in Argentina in 2007 by acquiring the local operations of Bank Boston Corp.

"With China being Argentina's second-largest trading partner, the proposed transaction will provide ICBC with an entry point into Argentina as the first Chinese bank to operate there," said Jacko Maree, the chief executive of Standard Bank Group.

"It (SBA) is currently our only universal banking operation outside the African continent. The proposed transaction presents an opportunity to realize value from the group's successful investment in Argentina. It also offers us the opportunity to continue to develop our partnership with ICBCas Brazil, India and Pakistan.

ICBC has also opened five branches in Europe this year, and has applied to open new branches in Peru and Brazil.

China's tightened control over new credit this year contributed to banks' greater willingness to explore overseas markets, and the lower value of some foreign assets after the global financial crisis provided good acquisition opportunities, said Guo Tianyong, director of the Research Center of the Chinese Banking Industry at the Central University of Finance and Economics.

"In addition, increasing attempts by Chinese enterprises to explore overseas markets in the wake of the crisis also makes the globalization of Chinese banks a natural choice."

The deal in Argentina is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2012, said Standard Bank.

Juan


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The two companies announced that they plan to complete development of the platform by the end of the year, allowing customers to access full supply chain data by scanning QR codes on food products sold at supermarkets.

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An examiner places his fingers lightly on three locations along the radial artery of an examinee. The three locations shown in FIG. 3A are referred to as Vata (V), Pitta (P) and Kapha (K), and correspond roughly to the three locations in the Chinese Medicine known as the Chun, Guan and Chi. The examiner places his second finger on Vata (V), his third finger on Pitta (P) and his fourth finger on Kapha (K), and checks the pulsing motions at the variant depths.
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