the truck on which they belonged. Drivers who discovered errant packages had to travel out of their way to deliver them or summon a supervisor to transfer them to the correct truck.

Now UPS can curtail these delays and give consumers more details about upcoming deliveries. When UPS workers scan packages in the morning, the data updates the service the company has put in place to send people progress e-mails about their shipments. Customers who have signed up for the free service then receive a message that their package will arrive that day, along with an estimated delivery time. UPS has incorporated Bluetooth beacons into 35 percent of its US driver routes, as well as a site in Germany, and plans to extend the system to Canada and thedominated by farmers of Swedish and Norwegian origin.

The days of family farms have passed here. Many of the large agribusinesses that have since taken their place now depend on immigrant labor.

From Civil War to Jennie-O

The first wave of Somalis came to Minnesota as refugees in the 1990s after the outbreak of civil war in their homeland. After settling in the Twin Cities, many moved to Willmar, where they found work at the local Hormel-owned Jennie-O turkey processing plant.

Today over 20 businesses in and around Main Street are Somali-owned. Many of those have used community-based financing which complies with Islamic law prohibiting the collection or payment of interest.

Despite religious and cultural differences, there are many things these Somali immigrants share with their neighbors, said Abdirizak Mahboub, a local entrepreneur


There are adjustments in the curriculum to address local markets. In Singapore, for example, there is an additional session on doing business in China. Sessions are taught by chapter leaders and by seasoned entrepreneurs who can also serve as mentors.

Fundamental to the institute is the belief that many aspects of entrepreneurship can be taught.

Jose Luis Senent, 43, had been a car broker in Paris for 20 years, but had no previous experience with technology or start-ups. He graduated from the Paris chapter in April 2011 and now runs Autoreduc, a group-buying site for cars that he says is profitable and will expand into Spain, Belgium and Switzerland this year.

“I cannot imagine starting a company without knowing what I learned at the institute — there is so much toLast night, all cable networks were focused on one story: The Washington Post's bombshell report that Trump spilled sensitive secrets to the Russians last week. However, Fox News stood out from the crowd by taking a more defensive approach with its coverage:

Last night's cable news banners read:

CNN: "WashPost: Trump shared highly classified info with Russians"

"WashPost: Trump shared highly classified info with Russians" MSNBC: "WAPO: Trump revealed highly classified info to Russians"

"WAPO: Trump revealed highly classified info to Russians" Fox: "Leftists protest gay conservative journalist."

Fox News' Jesse Watters on "The Five": "The story is the leak... if you're a disloyal person, you sing to the Washington Post. If you're a loyal person, you take it to your superior."

Sean Hannity at the top of his show: "I have a message


Born out of the empty blackness farther than infinity and grimmer than darkness, Ghidorah was raised by a deity named Death to be a destroyer of dying planets. There was an occasion that the space dragon escaped his masters hands, unintentionally summoned into a world called Earth. A rift between time and space, caused by sorcery, became his doorway unto this planet and thus wrecked havoc upon it. Those who accidentally opened the rift fought it back and though, the battle was not easy, they managed to send it back to space, and back into the hands of his master.

After a few years passed, Death was beckoned and asked for aid against a demon ( Onijira [link]) in Earth. The Demon had surpassed the strength of some ofearths guardians and now the human had summoned Death to victory. Death instead had sent his pet to do battle against it.

King Ghidorah had fought at the side of the same planet he once tried to destroy, defeating the demon with the aid of two earth monsters ( Mothra and Godzilla) and locking his remains from the lights of the world.

After that, Death rewarded the dragon his freedom for his loyalty and deeds, breaking his seal of ownership and turning the Dragon into a god. It was a mistake as the Dragon betrays his masters trust by the time he had bestowed his godly powers, abusing it as he plunges deeper into space and destroying everything that breathes and grow

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looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.” (James 1:23-24)
Looking in the mirror does imply introspection. Before criticizing or blaming others, you should first look in the mirror and realize that you have to take responsibility for your actions. I believe that is what John Edwards was saying.

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December Term, 1871

THIS was a petition by the State of Kentucky, through its constituted authority, asking this court, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, for a writ of mandamus to compel the Honorable G. S. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to deliver to the said State a warrant to which it alleged itself entitled for expenses incurred in defence of the Union. The application was founded on the provisions of an act of Congress of July 27th, 1861,1 directing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to the governor of any State the expenses properly incurred in raising troops to aid in the suppression of the late rebellion; an act which, having been in force and acted


on for several years, was repealed from the 1st July, 1871, by act of the 12th July, 1870.2
The petition, after setting forth the nature of the claim of Kentucky under this law, its approval by the Secretary of War and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, alleged that the acting Secretary of the Treasury, on the 30th of June, 1871, caused to be issued and signed a warrant upon the Treasurer of the United States for the sum due the State, which, after being countersigned by the First Comptroller, was withheld from the relator by direction of the defendant.
The purpose of the petition was to obtain possession of this warrant, or, if this could not be done, to procure the delivery to the agent of the Stateof another warrant of like amount.
The court having ordered an alternative writ of mandamus, the defendant, in his return to it, among other things, denied that the acting Secretary of the Treasury, on the 30th day of June, 1871, or on any other day, caused to be issued the warrant as alleged in the petition, but asserted that as he was informed and believed, the facts in regard to the said pretended warrant were these, to wit:
That on said 30th June, one Fayette Hewitt, the agent of the State of Kentucky, about the close of business hours, applied to the chief of the warrant division in the office of respondent to prepare a warrant for the said sum claimed, and that the said chief declined to prepare such


warrant at that time, unless specially directed to do so by the acting secretary; that the agent applied to the acting secretary, who determined not to issue such warrant, on the ground that, by the act of July 27th, 1861, the matter was lodged specially in the discretion and judgment of the secretary himself, who was absent, and that the propriety of issuing the said warrant would be determined by him on his return; but that in view of the urgent request of the agent, and representations by him that, after said 30th of June, an appropriation made in the matter would be no longer available for the payment of the said claim, the acting secretary determined to confer with the officers of the department, and, if itand that the said warrant was accordingly prepared and signed, and countersigned at the office of the acting secretary, and was so retained; that, on the secretary's return to Washington, about the middle of July, 1871, the warrant prepared was presented to him for approval by the acting secretary, in accordance with the understanding between him and the said agent, Hewitt, and that upon mature consideration the claim was rejected and the warrant cancelled by him.
And as a conclusion from these facts the defendant in the case denied that it was the legal right of the said Commonwealth of Kentucky to have the said warrant, and to receive the sum of money as alleged, and asserted that he, the said defendant, could not now deliver the warrant, conditionally


Congress has seen fit to withdraw the appropriation for refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers during the late rebellion, it is difficult to see on what ground it can be based. If it be conceded that the State had a right, on the 30th of June, 1871, to demand of the Secretary of the Treasury, in person, payment of the amount due her under the terms of the act of July 27th, 1861, and that the claim was in such a condition of settlement that he had no power to revise it, still it is manifest that he was justified in refusing compliance with a demand made after that day. Congress, on the 12th of July, 1870, repealed the law on which this claim is founded.much different from his own and of dealing with medical situations unlike any he had encountered: village children attacked by a mad dog, a psychotic woman chained to a stake, infants dead from malaria, banana workers bitten by venomous snakes. Not only did Miller respond readily and with compassion, he also acted with ingenuity, discovering, for example, that the malaria organism was crossing the placental barrier.

Throughout a year of challenges, Dr. Miller had his Mennonite faith and the abiding support of Somali hospital staff and mission personnel to sustain him. Readers will be moved by the climax of this drama, a surprising outcome involving the actions of a single Somali family.

Paraguay – A Tour GuideAuthor: Erwin Boschmann

This colorful book on PARAGUAY is the first comprehensive English language tour


chapter on the West detailing the civilizing of the Chaco by the Mennonites.

The final two chapters, Uniquely Paraguay and Oddities explain the name Guarani, nanduti, sopa Paraguaya, yerba mate, algorrobo, mandioca, long life milk, the Southern Cross, and the reversal of periods and commas. The Appendix contains measurement conversion factors, basic Spanish, bibliography, and personal interest stories such as Kornelius Issak, Liese Kaethler, Madame Lynch, and Katharina Warkentin.

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The Gospels tell us that when Jesus preached, the people were “astounded at his teaching, for he taught hem as one having authority, and not as the scribes” (Mark 1:22). Unlike the scribes, Jesus spoke like a prophet, announcing what God is doing and saying now, and facilitating an encounterPokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition is headed to Western store shelves as Pokemon Conquest this June.

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Previously described as " the craziest Pokemon game you've ever seen ," Pokemon Conquest is set in feudal Japan. The game is a crossover with Tecmo Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition strategy series and follows the story of a young Warlord recruiting allies to strengthen his kingdom.Pokemon Conquest is being developed by Tecmo Koei and will include nearly 200 pokemon, largely from 2011's Pokemon Black and White roster. The game features turn-based six-on-six battles in which players must "choose the correct Pokemon type to inflict maximum damage on their opponents."Pokemon Conquest will hit Nintendo DS in the United States on June 18th. A European release date has not yet


Building A Company From The Ground Up Today, What Would It Look Like?

Organizations over the past twenty, fifty, and one hundred years were very heavily modeled after the military. There were a few people at the top who made decisions and had access to all the information, there was a central headquarters everyone had to come in to on a set schedule, and everyone was just expected to "shut up and do their jobs." It's no wonder that when you look up synonyms for "work" you come across words such as: drudgery, toil, or daily-grind. The same goes for "employee" which brings up synonyms such as: servant, slave, and cog. Finally we have "manager" which brings up synonyms such as: slavedriver, boss, and zookeeper (it's also interesting towere to build a company from the ground up today, what would it look like?

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and daughter because of their race.

After he was arrested, Powell was sent to the Atlantic County Justice Facility. On Nov. 7, 2018, he punched and kicked an inmate at the jail, causing significant bodily injury. He also resolved that charge with the plea Monday before Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Waldman.

“Kyle Powell represents the worst that our society has to offer,” Tyner said in the statement. “Like a coward, he hid behind his keyboard and targeted an innocent six-year-old girl with racial slurs simply because she was bi-racial. I firmly believe that love will always overcome hate and that justice will always prevail. Hate has no place in Atlantic County or in this world.”

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alike have howled for days about what they believe are mixed messages being sent on Capitol Hill. On one hand, the Office of the Attending Physician at the Capitol is recommending social distancing and imploring lawmakers to avoid “mingling” around large groups. On the other hand, the Capitol has throbbed all week long with thousands of visitors, parading through the complex on guided tours.

At one point today, the Capitol Rotunda was so packed that aides, lawmakers and others could barely cut from the House side to the Senate side.

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Fox is told that House and Senate leaders, along with officials from both sides of the Capitol, are likely to make a formal announcement in the next day or so over what activities at theWheelchair-bound trumpet player to march thanks to friend at Milwaukee Parade

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On Memorial Day, hundreds of people will participate in Milwaukee's downtown parade, but one group of students in particular will likely stand out in the crowd.70 students from Lincoln Center of the Arts in Milwaukee have the privilege of being a part of the parade.They've been practicing outside for about a month to prepare for the big day.\"I'm so proud of how far the kids have come. I can't wait to see them in their uniform and on Monday, it'll be touching,\" said Kimberly Dueysen, the Director of Arts and leader of the Marching band at L.C.A.M.Among the students, are two best friends. One of them, is Marquise Clay. A sixth grader with disabilities who is


of major elements such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur both in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem.”

Microorganisms have various uses - in bread, cheese, soy sauce, antibiotics, vaccines and hormones. Conversely, microorganisms likewise play a role in food spoilage, food poisoning and diseases such as pneumonia, typhoid, cholera, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Under the proposed law, fields in microbiology will include bacteriology, virology, protozoology, phycology, and mycology.

Applicants will have to pass a written technical examination given by a professional board once a year. Aside from earning 24 units in Microbiology, other qualifications include Philippine citizenship, good moral character, as well as never having been convicted with moral turpitude.

The examination scope includes general microbiology, microbial physiology, microbial genetics, microbial ecology, applied microbiology, and the Philippine Microbiology Act of 2017and Code of Ethics.

It was further proposed that certificates be renewed every three years.

Further, a Board of Microbiology, composed of a chairman and two members with at least 5-year teaching experience will comprise the members, shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines, on the recommendation of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

The Board, similarly with other professional Boards, will prepare the contents of the examination, supervise and regulate the registration, and maintain a roster of certified microbiologists.

The Board will also monitor the practice of microbiology in the country and adopt measures that will enhance the practice.

However, Doctors of Medicine, Doctors of Veterinary Medicine and Medical Technologists which include microbiology in their practice may continue to practice without taking the exam, Senator Zubiri noted.

The bill is awaiting action


Medical emergency sparks panic, fear of shooter at 'Hamilton' show in San Francisco The Friday night performance ended abruptly and the theater was evacuated.

A medical emergency sparked panic and fears of an active shooter situation at a performance of "Hamilton" in San Francisco Friday night.

The incident happened at the SHN Orpheum Theatre when a woman suffered a medical emergency at about 10 p.m. San Francisco police said the woman collapsed at the same time as a scene on stage involving gunfire and audience members apparently though the woman might have been shot.

Theatergoers fled in a panic and the performance came to an abrupt conclusion.

In the resulting mayhem caused by the woman's medical emergency, three people suffered injuries. One person suffered a broken leg, according to the San FranciscoFire Department, while two other people suffered "moderate" injuries.

The woman who suffered the initial medical emergency is in critical condition.

"The original patient who required an AED [automated external defibrillator] had a return of pulses with CPR and paramedic and remains in critical condition," the fire department tweeted.

There was no shooter and no shots were fired.

"Hamilton had just died and what I saw, we were in the back of the orchestra, was someone stand up and get carried out. That's when someone screamed, 'Lights, lights,'" eyewitness Leo McCaffrey told San Francisco ABC station KGO.

The musical was almost over and was not continued, but attendees were allowed to go back in and get their belongings.

In a video posted by an attendee outside even the musical's performers can be seen going


back in the theater to cheers.

The smash-hit "Hamilton" was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and first debuted on Broadway in 2015. It tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, the country's first secretary of the treasury, his relationships with the other Founding Fathers and his feud with Vice President Aaron Burr. It won 11 Tony Awards in 2016, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Actor and Best Actress. It was nominated for five other awards.

The musical is being put on in San Francisco through Sept. 8. Its first showing was just on Feb. 12.

ABC News' Will Gretsky and Timmy Truong contributed to this report.Willie Geist and a guest on Morning Joe who explains that his red suit is
"Not republican red. This represents the Democratic bloodbath."

The American people have spoken. They "rightly" repudiated failed leaders, corporate cronies and arrogant centralized, top-down politics.

Let's start with President Obama. He betrayed voters before his inauguration, appointing a team of Clintonites and banksters. That set the tone, sent a signal that made it clear he was not going the president for change.

By appointing Rahm Emanuel, who hated the man who'd architected the Democratic party's 50 state strategy that produced such success in 2006 and 2008, Obama set the Democratic party back decades-- six to be precise. It's been over 60 years since there was such a congressional bloodbath. But Rahm Emanuel played a role in the


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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, whenLead sat up from behind the crate he was using as cover and looked down the hall. Nothing, except for the carbon scoring on the walls, fallen support beams, broken maintenance panels, and other debris strewn everywhere. It had been almost two weeks since the Prosecutor had been attacked originally. At least he thought it was two weeks. The remaining clones on the ship had been fighting for their very survival day after day for so long that the time just seemed to blur together after a while. Lead pulled the power pack from his rifle and checked the display. It read fifty three shots left, and it was the fullest one he had. Their ammo had been starting to run low over the past day or two,


so all the clones were working off of partial blaster packs and leftovers. The precious few grenades they had left were being saved in case of a really big problem.

Lead had seen this whole battle play out over time, at least the last week and a half of it. During the initial attack when the Trandos first hit, he'd been knocked unconscious and was out for about a day. The headache he woke up with afterward would've made a gundark cry. It was Gamma unit's "none left behind" policy that saved his hide. Since then, he'd seen the Trandos attack in wave after wave with no care for self preservation. They'd recently been adopting berserker tactics, charging in large numbers with close-quarters weapons to attack the Republic troops,very effectively so. Gamma unit had been reduced by ten soldiers by now, and what was left was scattered throughout the ship. All that was left of the Republic forces on the Prosecutor were some handfuls of desperate clones fighting to save their skins, never mind the ship.

It almost reminded Lead of his first sim in command back on Kamino.

He looked around at the men he had available. This group had members of Tau, Beta, Kappa, and Epsilon platoons. Lead was the only Gamma here. He was also the ranking trooper here since the bridge crew and officers had been all been killed in the first strike. There were a couple of other lieutenants somewhere on the ship, but he was the only one present.

He pointed at his


defense. The problem was the Trandos had been making runs for the panel to recalibrate the turrets' IFF codes. If they did that, the turrets would fire on the clones. Lead had a guard stationed at the panel constantly, but an armed sentry never stopped a Trando from trying.

He looked back at the group, "Guard this console with your lives. If the lizards reprogram the codes, we're in a heap of it." With that comment, he turned down a hallway and disappeared from their sight. He kept his rifle at the ready. Those accursed scavenger droids were still patrolling the halls and vents of the ship and could pop out anywhere, and the last thing Lead wanted was to have his brain impaled by one of the malevolentso he would know how to deal with a no-win situation.

He ducked into what was left of an armory. The door had been blown open and there were signs of previous battle around it. Lead half expected the armory to have been ransacked already in a previous gathering run, but was pleasantly surprised to find two cases of blaster ammo. That meant they only had ten more power packs to split between six troopers, but that was practically a lifetime supply. He also found a satchel of grenades, giving them some more firepower to use in hotter battles.

Lead eyed the burned out hulk of what used to be one of the scav droids. Someone must have discharged an ECD on this one. He pried off the outer casing


and started rummaging through its innards. A side objective for this excursion was that Lead was keeping his eyes peeled for components they could cobble together into a communications system, something they could use to contact the Republic. He would call Sensors over to his group to put it together if he could find enough parts. Sensors had fortunately survived the slaughter of the bridge crew, barely at that. He dug through the parts searching for what looked like communication gear that the droid would use to receive orders and communicate with others of its kind. He found what looked like a transceiver array and gingerly removed it from its seating to look it over. It had been badly surged by the EMP, but none of the partswere fused and it looked like it was still operable. He put it in the pack and stood to check the hallway. There was nothing out there, so he continued on to where he remembered the nearest communications console was. It had been destroyed in battle, but maybe there were some parts still functional that they could use.

As he began to move down the hallway, a part of the "ceiling" spotted him and detached itself to follow him. The droid closed to about two meters with Lead completely none the wiser, when it struck with characteristic swiftness. The droid grabbed Lead's back with half a dozen arms and readied its drill. Lead knew when it grabbed him that the arms were no danger, but the drill was. He


dropped his rifle and grabbed the drill, pushing it away from his face as best he could. It was running full speed and would only take a moment to get through his visor if he let up. He staggered back and rammed the droid into the wall. That didn't damage it, but it shifted it up where he could reach it better. Lead grabbed his pistol, jammed the muzzle into the droids innards, and started firing. He fired five times before the drill stopped and the clamps on his back released. The dead droid slid off Lead's back and fell to the deck, smoke poring from the hole his blaster made. He kicked the carcass down the hall and shot it twice more before holstering his pistol, pickingup his rifle, and cautiously proceeding down the hall. He reached the communication console without further incident. Along the way, he found the body of another dead trooper. He was holding an empty blaster with several spent power packs around him.

Good man to go down fighting.

Lead removed the good power packs from his body, saluted his fallen brother, and went on. When he got to the console, the first thing he did was pry off the front panel to get a good look at the internals. There was a huge hole blasted in the center of the console, but there was a good chance some of the internal components were still operable. In conjunction with the hole in the outer panel, there was a carbon crusted hole in


the center of the devices and components beneath. In spite of the damage done, however, Lead managed to acquire a working comms processor, a signal booster, an antennae array, and a frequency scanner. He took the mike and speaker set from the helmet of another fallen clone trooper to round out the package. He also found another half case of blaster packs and three more grenades. On his way back to the campsite he assessed what he'd collected. He had managed to acquire all the parts for a functional communication system. He didn't know how far it would reach, but it was something. For all they knew, there was a Republic ship right outside trying to get a hold of them. The only problem was getting a holdbefore his hour time limit was up, and the others were very glad to see that he'd found extra ammo and grenades.

He handed the carry pack to Tau 19, "Divide that ammo amongst yourselves. Leave the electronic components in the bag. Same as before, if I'm not back in an hour, you're in command. I have to go find someone." Without another word, he turned and left. The trip to find Sensors was a lot less eventful than Lead expected it to be. He nearly had another run in with another attack droid, but he spotted it while it was still lying in wait attached to the wall, so he pulled his blaster pistol and removed the nuisance. Lead was trying to use his pistol wherever he could


because it wasn't as powerful as his rifle and he had more of its ammo. He wanted to save his rifle ammo for when he needed it. When he arrived at Sensors' campsite, he found everyone hunkered down in defensive positions, scanning the hallways with their weapons, but there was no threat in sight.

"Sensors, if you got some time on your hands -"

"Lead, behind you!" Sensors leveled his rifle on Lead's head as he spoke. Without hesitation, the clone dropped flat on the deck just in time to hear the weapon fire and strike something behind him. Lead pulled himself up and turned to see a droid fall to the deck smoking.

"You caught us right in the middle of a droid raid. We think there's about three moreIt may take longer if it's the garbage these Trandos use." As he finished speaking, he wheeled around and put a rifle blast into a piece of wall that was slowly crawling towards them. The droid released the wall and fell dead on the floor.

Lead nodded, "Only one piece isn't, that's the transceiver unit. Will that be a problem?"

58 shook his head, "Those are pretty universal. It should mesh with the rest, no problem." He scanned the hallway again, "Now where's that last–" Before he could finish, the last droid dropped from the ceiling and clamped onto Sensors shoulders. The clone immediately dropped his rifle and stood to his feet. Lead turned to try to draw a bead on the droid, but it was too late. Sensors had


already slammed the droid against the wall to loosen the clamps, pulled it off his shoulders, and pinned it against the wall with one hand, holding the active drill in the other.

"How's this, you frelling fierfek?" Sensors jammed the drill into an opening in the droid's belly. Sparks shot from every joint the droid had and it convulsed for several moments before all its limbs went limp. Sensors dropped the droid's carcass to the floor and brushed himself off.

"I hate those bloody droids."

Lead nodded, "Can you hate them later? You're on my chip right now, Sensors. We gotta move." The clone picked up his rifle and the two headed off. The lead Epsilon would take charge without pause in Sensors' absence. As they went, the two caught upoptimism. I'm trying to get you ready to die here, and you're not playing along." Both of them chuckled at the exchange, but their levity was cut short by the sound of gunfire ahead.

Lead heard the blast and stopped in his tracks, "That's a Trando weapon. Let's move!" Most of the Transoshans were using an antiquated spread gun that looked and sounded for all the world like an old slug thrower shotgun. Whatever sound it made, it was a bad sound. The two double-timed it for the remaining distance and arrived to find the camp under Trandoshan attack. Lead knelt into a firing position and put a shot right in one Trando's face, stopping him cold. Sensors planted a couple of bursts into another to bring the odds


down closer to theirs. The auto turrets were firing at any Trandos that came in sight. It looked like they were in the clear when three more came into view – right next to the auto turret console. Lead's stomach turned to stone and he fired at the Trando nearest him. He had to get a clear shot at the one headed for the console.

Suddenly, a hail of blaster fire erupted from the other end of the hall. A commando in orange highlight armor appeared out of nowhere, punched a Trandoshan with his gauntlet vibroblade, and then put a burst of blaster fire into the head of the one behind the console.

He pointed at the one remaining Trando, "Better not let him take over the turrets." The lastTrando fired his gun at the commando only to be rewarded with a flash of blue around his armor as the shields absorbed the damage. The commando grabbed the Trando's wrist, twisted his arm around so the spread gun was pointed into the lizard's belly, and pulled the trigger. Without skipping a beat, he walked to the console and began looking it over. After he was satisfied that it was intact, he looked at the rest of the clones to see if they needed further aid. Lead could almost swear he'd seen that particular set of orange commando armor before.

One of the troopers, Beta 142, walked up to the commando, "Oh, one of the deluxe models. Come to save us with your 'superior training'?" Lead thought the mocking


quality of his voice thoroughly inappropriate to the soldier who'd just saved their lives.

The commando responded quickly enough, "This 'deluxe model' is the only thing standing between you and a bloody death," He touched his rifle muzzle to the clone's chest and his tone dropped to a growl, "so you'd best be showing some respect, trooper."

The Beta straightened up right quick with that response, "Yes, sir! What are your orders, sir?"

The commando motioned to the campsite and surrounding area, "Hold the line. Kill any lizards you see. I'm going to get to the bottom of this."

The clone saluted as the commando walked away, "Will do, sir." Lead definitely recognized the voice, because the accent was identical to his own. He'd seen a few commandoes in his time, butboth made it out all right.

"Where the devil did the droids show up from?"

Sensors shifted his weight on his knees, "Just before they cut off, they said something about a Trando leading them."

Lead pulled his helmet off and scratched his head, "All right, new question: how did the Trandos get a hold of Sep battle droids?"

One of the other clones spoke up, "They could have some alliance with the Seps that we never knew about."

Lead nodded, "Or maybe they formed it just recently." He sat down on a nearby crate and rubbed his scar, a habit he'd formed while it was healing that had extended to something he did while he was thinking, "The Trandoshans have always been a neutral party. Why would they start taking sides in


was monotone and mechanical, like the droids, "Roger, roger. All B1 units moving to neutralize Republic presence. Await reinforcements in hanger bay A."

The next voice was much lower, "Roger, roger. SBD-457 through 469 moving to intercept and neutralize Republic commando squad. All units assist when able. Awaiting reinforcements."

Lead head came up fast, "SBD? That nomenclature is 'super battle droid'."

Sensors nodded again, "And they're after the Deltas."

Some more came over the line from the Delta advisor, "Calling all Republic ships near the Corbantis system, this is an emergency." There was a long pause, "All Republic ships in the Corbantis system, respond immediately!" There was another long pause before another voice came on, "This is Capt. Talbot, of the R.A.S. cruiser Arrestor. Who am I speaking to?"

"This is Delta squadronadvisor 01/425. Separatist forces are attempting to capture our ship."

"Roger that. Help is on the way."

All the clones listening let out a whoop of joy. Finally, there was a Republic cruiser on its way to get them out of this mess. There was finally some hope that they might survive. All the clones who could hear cheered.

All except Lead. His blood ran cold as he thought about what was going on.

Sensors stopped celebrating and looked at his CO, "What's wrong, Lead?"

Lead looked up at Sensors, "There's only one reason the Delta Squad advisor would declare an emergency," He stood up from the crate he was seated on, "and that's if that Sep battle cruiser has already shown up."

The thought hit Sensors like an ion blast to his brain,


"That means…" He trailed off, "That means they could send an endless stream of battle droids into this ship."

Lead pulled his helmet back on, "Call the Gammas to form up at this location. We've got work to do." It took the better part of twenty minutes to get the Gammas back together again, but they all finally reconnoitered at camp one. 76 came up leading the last of the Gammas to the gather point.

Lead shook his XO's hand, "Good to see you again, Deuce. It's been over a week and a half, hasn't it?"

The clone shrugged, "I stopped counting after two days. They all just tend to run together when you're fighting for your life."

"You're right there." Lead opened his unit-wide channel and addressed his remaining soldiers, "Listenwhat it was, but his sensor pack was destroyed in the first attack. Lead held up two fingers and began to advance slowly, with the two men closest to him in his wake. He stopped at the corner of the hallway and leaned around as carefully as possible. He spied with one eye two SBDs trying to figure out a way through a blocked door. Lead gave a "follow" motion with his first two fingers, signaling the rest of the platoon to come up quietly. He looked to his contact man, 89, and held up two fingers, then one finger in a crooked form, then pointed around the corner at the droids. His motions were a silent order to throw two ECDs at the droids on the mark.


Lead looked to everyone else, tapped his rifle, and pointed around the corner, signaling them to fire on the mark. Lead readied himself and held up three fingers. He counted down to one, then sprung out from the corner with the Gammas following him. 89 tossed two ECDs at the SBDs, which went off moments later, engulfing the droids in static lightning. The combination of the EMP and the Gammas' gunfire killed the droids without them ever knowing they were there. The two super battle droids fell to the deck quite dead, covered in carbon score marks and lightning still playing over their frames. 89 saved using their remaining detonation packs by using a combination of a thermal detonator and the droids' power cells to clear the rubblefrom the door. The Gammas pressed on, eliminating droids as they went. They came to an intersection and Lead stopped to get his bearings. He looked left but didn't find a way out like he was looking for. He looked right just in time to see an SBD launch a wrist rocket at the unit.

Lead's eyes bugged and he dove away, "Scatter!" The Gammas dove in every direction as the rocket streaked through where they just were and exploded on a wall near them. There were three SBDs in the hallway, and Lead figured that the path of most resistance was probably the way they wanted to go. The problem was the droid roadblock in their way.

Lead called to contact, "ECDs, now!" 89 tossed two more grenades down


the hall and landed them right in front of the droids. The grenades went off and blue ionized lightning played over the droids' skins, and they convulsed violently.

"Move in!" Lead called as he shouldered his rifle and fired as he closed distance with the droids, his troopers following. The droids took tremendous fire before going limp and standing dead in the hallway. Lead signaled his men to keep moving forward.

The third droid, though, had escaped the EMP. It smashed the carcasses of its fallen brethren out of it way and unleashed a hailstorm of suppressing fire that the Gammas were not prepared for. Everyone got to cover in time with only minor wounds, but their path was blocked again, and it was hard to get out with thegunfire. Lead pulled an ECD from his belt and armed it. He waited for a split second for the fire to let up slightly, then he cranked around his cover and tossed the grenade. He started out from behind his cover toward the droid and prepared to fire when the detonator went off. The grenade landed, but what happened next took Lead completely by surprise. The super battle droid raised its foot and stomped on part of the grenade, crushing the circuitry pack that told the detonator when to go off, but leaving the rest intact. Lead's eyes went wide. The ECD was now useless in every sense of the word, and that left him out in the open with an SBD aiming at him. He saw a


rocket load into its launcher and knew what was to follow. Lead broke his forward momentum and lost his balance, falling to the deck, the droid keeping its bead on him. Lead closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, preparing for the worst.

"NO!" The scream came from behind him. Sensors jumped over Lead and tackled the droid, throwing off its aim just as the rocket fired. It soared down the hall and exploded when it hit the end. Sensors hung onto the droid as it moved to try to grab him. Lead used this opportunity to get to his feet and ready his rifle, but his jaw went limp at what he saw next. The droid yanked Sensors off itself and, holding him at arm's length, fired threeblasts into his chest, Sensors screaming with each one. The droid reared back and threw Sensors toward Lead and halted to assess its own damage. Lead dropped his rifle and scrambled over to where Sensors was. He pulled Sensors' helmet off and lifted him up. There was a fist-sized, carbon-crusted hole in the center of his armor, with a lot worse inside. There wasn't anything they could do for him in time.

Lead looked down at his soldier, "Well, you got your heroic death, Sensors. How's it feel?"

Sensors coughed and spoke through shallow breaths. He smiled, "Not all it's cracked up to be."

Lead smiled too. Leave it to Sensors to be the optimist.

His smile faded and he looked Lead in the eye, "Lead, the mission…Remember…the mission…" With that last


breath, Sensors' head fell back in Lead's arms. Lead gritted his teeth. Sensors had died saving his life, and that sacrifice would not be in vain.

He closed Sensors' eyes and laid him back on the deck, "Your mission's done, soldier."

Lead then looked at the SBD still standing there, the SBD that had killed his trooper. A burst of rage permeated his guts as he glared at the droid. Without warning, Lead snapped and sprang. He tackled the SBD and took it off its feet. He straddled the droid, grabbed its chest casing, and pulled furiously until it came loose. He braced his foot against its gun arm to pry the plate open, reached into the droid's innards, grabbed as much as his hand could hold, and jerked itall out. He came out with a fist full of wires and circuits. Sparks shot from the droid's joints and it convulsed for a moment, but it was still alive. Its legs had gone dead, but it was still flailing with its arms. Lead reached back in, higher up this time, and yanked another handful of droid guts. The arms sparked and went dead. He yanked out one last handful just to be sure before standing and looking at his men. They were all staring at him in utter disbelief, and rightly so, considering their lieutenant had just killed a super battle droid with his bare hands.

"What are you looking at? We've got a job to do." His men all snapped out of it and started to form


up when the ship rocked hard.

Lead looked to Deuce, "That felt like a turbolaser blast."

Deuce nodded, "More than one, at that."

The ship rocked again, shortly followed by another. A cold realization entered Lead's mind.

He looked to Deuce, "It's the Sep cruiser. They can't take the ship, so they're going to destroy it."

Snipes looked at Lead, "Now what're we going to do?"

Lead shrugged, "We're going to find Delta Squad. Hopefully they'll know what to do." The Gammas continued on as best the ship's shuddering and rocking would allow. They left Sensors' body where it was and memorized the location. The Gammas would give him a proper service before he got shipped back to Kamino after this all blew over. The unit continued on through the ship as best theycould. With every blast from the Sep ship the clones were thrown to the floor and tossed against bulkheads, significantly slowing their progress. They came into the service corridors and started moving a little faster.

Lead rounded a corner only to be staring down the blaster barrels of an SBD and about half a dozen battle droids. Lead and a couple others dove to the other side of the corridor out of the way of their gunfire and hunkered down. Lead rolled on his shoulders and came up against the wall. There was a hailstorm of gunfire coming down the hall that was nearly impenetrable.

Lead hollered to contact, "ECD, now!" Con promptly obeyed and tossed an ECD down the hall. Lead did the same and was pleased to hear


the static crackle of the grenades going off. He wheeled around the corner to fire and was displeased to see that there were more droids coming to the line and the SBD was still live and firing. Lead cursed. They were quickly running out of ECDs. Lead figured a bold move was in order. He pulled two thermals from his belt, armed one and tossed it, then waited. Like clockwork, when the grenade landed, the SBD shielded itself, a limited-use high energy shield used specifically for explosive blasts equipped on the recent SBD models. The grenade detonated and deflected against the shield, leaving the droid unscathed.

"Bring him down!" Lead called out to his troops. They all obediently fired, but Lead knew they'd only crack its armor plating withits shield up. The shield dropped and somebody's blast cracked a chest plate off. Lead held his fist in the air and halted everyone's gunfire. Lead left his rifle behind his cover and charged the droid with the other grenade. The next moment whizzed by in a flash. Lead armed the grenade, ducked under the droid's left hook, jammed the grenade into the droid's guts, and snapped out his hardest linear kick to the droid's middle. Lead twisted and strained something in his leg when his foot hit, but it worked. The droid flew backward and exploded brilliantly, taking another half dozen other droids with it. The blast knocked Lead on his back and he felt a burning pain driving up his leg. He tried to stand and


got no response from his leg. Blaster bolts were pocking the floor as the droids tried to get him while he was down. Lead pulled himself along as best he could until he felt two sets of hands grab his arms and start dragging him. Three of his troopers had taken up cover fire positions over him while two more drug him back to cover.

The first thing Lead did once he was safe was look over his cover to assess the situation. There were droids pouring out of the door at the end of the corridor and they were quickly outnumbering the Gammas. They were in a bad way.

Deuce knelt down next to Lead, "We can't hold much longer."

Lead set his rifle up on his cover as atripod, "Then we'll hold as long as we can." Lead pulled himself up and sighted a droid to take out, but before he could shoot, he felt something run through the deck.

He looked back at Deuce, "Did you feel that? That wasn't a turbolaser blast."

Deuce nodded, "Maybe it was, just not hitting us."

"Then that means we're shooting back." Lead shook his head, "But how? There's no one available to man the gunnery stations." Each blast vibration was steadily followed by another. After one blast, all the droids in the corridor halted their actions and stood still. The Gammas all stopped firing and look around puzzled. Snipes helped Lead hobble over to one of the droids. He gently pushed the mech and it harmlessly fell to the floor.

"They're all


offline," Lead muttered to himself, "We must've gotten the Sep ship's droid control systems." The turbolaser vibrations had ended and a low shockwave reverberated through the corridor.

Snipes looked around, "What was that?"

Lead smiled behind his helmet, "That must've been the Sep ship going up." Lead raised his voice, "That means we've won!" The platoon let out a cheer of joy.

"We're getting out of here!"

"The Republic's found us!"

All of Lead's troops rejoiced at winning. Lead let out a burdened sigh of relief. After two weeks of day-to-day fighting for their lives, it was finally over. The unit cautiously continued through the ship, stepping over hundreds of inert droid carcasses, until they found Delta Squad at gunnery station 3B.

Snipes helped Lead up to Delta 38, who shook his hand, "319weeks of down time the Gammas were rewarded with couldn't have been more needed. Lead had worked himself over solidly. From kicking one SBD, he'd strained four muscles in his thigh, slipped the cartilage out of his knee, and tore his Achilles tendon. It was nothing the med droids and a little bacta soak couldn't fix, but he still needed time to fully heal. The platoon needed time to adjust to the ten new troopers who joined their ranks as replacements. On top of all that, they just wanted a little peace and quiet.


Sense of Duty Behind Cuba's Global Role

The controversy over U.S. charges about a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba has obscured an important aspect of Cuba's role in international affairs: Fidel Castro's own 20 years of military diplomacy in the service of radical revolutionary movements around the world.

Because Castro's overseas activities usually have dovetailed with Soviet policy and profited from Russian financial and material support, there has been a tendency to regard his Cuban troops as communist-bloc "Gurkhas" hired out to Moscow in the service of Soviet expansionism.

In reality, though, the Cuban leader has not been a mere Soviet mercenary sending his soldiers across the globe at the Kremlin's dictate. Instead, Castro has chosen to involve himself in military conflicts beyond the confines of Cuba for reasons that transcendthe revalries between Moscow and Washington.

Thus, whatever settlement of the current crisis finally is reached between the two superpowers, none of it is expected by U.S. experts to limit Castro's future military interventions in the civil wars and guerrilla revolutions of other countries.

Cuban military involvement in Africa, Latin American and the Middle East traces back almost to Castro's 1959 seizure of power.

As early as 1961, there was a handful of Cuban troops in Ghana giving training in guerrilla tactics; in 1963, Cuban tanks, other arms and more than 50 technicians arrived in Algeria to fight in the Moroccan border dispute; in 1965, about 250 Cuban military men went to Congo-Brazzaville to train a militia, and in 1973, about 200 Cubans went to South Yemen to provide both guerrilla


and pilot training. Unconfirmed Israeli reports put Cubans in Syria that same year.

Over that same time period, small training groups of Cuban soldiers had worked in Guinea, Equitorial Guinea, Somalia, Zaire, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Iraq.

Thus precedent existed for the 20,000 Cubans who went to Angola beginning in 1975 and the 16,000 who arrived a year later in Ethiopia.

The approach was slightly different in the Western Hemisphere, Castro's backyard, but the pace was no less hectic.

Training for guerrillas from Latin and Central American countries was begun in Cuba in the early 1960s; a Cuban-led guerilla group, headed by Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Castro's close friend, was discovered and destroyed in Bolivia in 1967 while similar Cuban-backed efforts were being quashed in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia.

Although the Cubans have beenreported by U.S. intelligence sources as taking high casualties from their African ventures, exact figures are not known. But what ever they are, the dead and wounded have not dampened the island's support for Castro's deployments.

The overseas military adventures are accepted by the Cuban people, according to U.S. intelligence, "as an international responsibility to assist wars of liberation."

The Cuban job market is also overflowing and overseas military service, with special family and pay benefits, has become a means of advancement in the Cuban revolutionary society.

The Sandinista movement dedicated to the overthrow of Nicaragua's Somoza regime began in Cuba in 1962. Similar groups, opposed to regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, are represented in Cuba.

The Soviets provide direct and indirect financial aid to Cuba at a rate now


pegged at $3 billion a year by U.S. intelligence. Shipments of military equipment also have been stepped up recently. The reason, according to a recent Defense Intelligence Agency briefing to a House subcommittee, was that in the past Cuba got older weapons but now "Cuba has been taking delivery of newer weapons systems comparable to those received by Moscow's other allied states. . . ."

Some American politicians and intelligence analysts look on this stepup of aid and the discovery of a Soviet combat brigade as signs of a new, direct Kremlin challenge to a weakened President Carter. But many Cuban experts in the United States see it only as an extension of what has gone on in the past, inside and outside Castro's island.

A 1977 Pentagon-financed study ofCuban military activities in Africa and the Middle East underscored the nature of the Havana-Moscow relationship.

The study rejected the assumption that Castro's dispatch of thousands of combat troops to aid the Marxist forces in Angola in 1975 was "a radical and dangerous departure in Cuban foreign policy . . . a calling-in of Cuban debts that led Cuban troops to fight as Moscow's all-purpose mercenaries in a war by proxy."

Instead, the sutdy said that "Though Angola was unique in some respects, in others it matches a pattern of Cuban military diplomacy established over the past decade and a half." In terms of Africa, that Cuban policy goes back at least to the 1961 Ghana mission.

A year or two later, a boatload of Cuban tanks -- obtained from Russia


-- and military personnel arrived in Algeria to fight in the Moroccan border war. While it wasn't until the mid-1970s that Cuban troops began showing up by the thousands in countries like Angola and Ethiopia, their tracks have been discernible in many of Africa's lesser conflicts as advisers to the radical side in all the ensuing years.

These African involvements have been part of a larger pattern that has seen the Castro regime, throughout its years in power, identify openly with what it regards as Third World "wars of liberation" against imperialism and offer military aid to "progressive" regimes and revolutionary movements.

At different times, the main thrust of this aid has been directed at different areas -- Latin America in the 1960s, Africa and secondarily the Middle East inthe 1970s and, in the upcoming years, possibly back toward Latin America, where increasing instability within Central America and the Caribbean could present Castro with new targets of opportunity for military assistance activities.

In most cases there has been a natural community of interest between these Cuban activities and Soviet policy. By cooperating militarily with the Soviets, Castro unquestionably has been able to make partial repayment to Moscow for the massive financial and economic assistance that enables him to maintain Cuba as an independent communist bastion 90 miles from the shores of the United States. Soviet subsidies often pay for troop and weapons transportation and Soviet equipment is provided Cuban forces overseas.

Although Castro regards the Soviet Union as Cuba's natural ally, he has always been assertive of Cuba's right


to chart its own course in foreign affairs.

Throughout Castro's years in power, the dominant, unchanging thread in this course has been the line enunciated by his most famous collaborator, the late Guevara, who said: "The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolutions."

In short, Cuba has been willing to involve itself in foreign military adventures, not solely because it's been told to do so by the Soviets, but because Castro and his closest associates believe deeply that it is their duty.

In some instances, this Cuban belief blends easily with Soviet aspirations. That was the case in Angola where both Havana and Moscow emerged as natural allies of the Marxists contending for power in that country's civil war. But, as the Pentagon study notes, each took part for itsprovince of Eritrea, the Cubans balked on the grounds that they considered the Eritrean rebels' cause as a possible legitimate struggle for independence.

An even deeper schism occurred in the 1960s when Havana turned itself into a training center, refuge and source of arms for guerrilla movements trying to overthrow the governments of such Latin American countries as Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Guatemala. In that period, Castro even tried unsuccessfully to promote the Latin American Solidarity Organization (known as OLAS after its Spanish initials) as a mechanism for fostering violent revolution throughout Latin America.

Such tactics ran directly counter to Soviet policy, which emphasized trying to win power in Latin America through orthodox, Moscow-line communist parties operating within the established political processes. In this, the Soviets were influenced partly by


the desire to make some detente tradeoffs with the United States and partly by fear that Castro was trying to use the guerrilla movements to make himself the ultimate arbiter of communism within the hemisphere.

These differences put severe strains on the Soviet-Cuban relationship. It wasn't until the end of the decade when most of the guerrilla movements -- including Guevara's abortive foray into Bolivia -- had failed and Castro was encountering severe domestic economic difficulties that Moscow was able to exert sufficient leverage to cool off Havana's support of Latin guerrilla forces.

Walter Pincus reported on intelligence, defense and foreign policy for The Washington Post. He first came to the paper in 1966 and has covered numerous subjects, including nuclear weapons and arms control, politics and congressional investigations. Heheld with NYU-Polytechnic University in New York City. Some of the "dumb ideas" were myths held by nonsecurity professionals, and others were attitudes still circulating within the security community, Pfleeger said.

In 2005, Marcus Ranum, a chief of security for Tenable Security, published six "dumbest ideas in computer security," including the idea that hacking is cool and just patching flaws found in software products will make it more secure. While many of Ranum's points were valid, Pfleeger developed his own list of security mistakes that are made every day in organizations around the world. The security mistakes are generally the result of ignorance and limited time available to address issues, he said.

"There are a lot of dumb ideas," Pfleeger said.

Further reading

The first one was the idea that organizations can


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister David Cameron will raise the issue of governments that pay ransoms for hostages when they meet with global leaders next week.

A Canadian government source told CBC News the two leaders plan to broach the issue with their counterparts at the G7 meetings in Japan.

Canada and the U.K. have campaigned against the practice of governments paying for the release of their citizens, arguing that the ransoms finance global terrorism and invite more kidnappings. Both countries have firm policies against paying ransoms ― even if it means the death of their own citizens.

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In April, Canadian James Ridsdel was beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines, where he had been held hostage for months.

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Other issues on Trudeau's G7 agenda

The ransom discussion is only one item Trudeau may raise during his first political trip to Japan. Trudeau hopes to get support for his investment agenda of using government spending to stimulate the economy.

He's also seeking to rebuild trade ties with Asia ― especially Japan, Canada's fifth largest trading partner. A key focus will be the auto sector as Trudeau is slated to meet with top officials from companies such as Honda and Toyota.

The G7 Leaders' Summit is set for May 26 and 27. Before that, Trudeau will have an official working visit to Japan that will include meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and an audience with the Emperor and Empress of


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James Hemi Gates, 69, who pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful interfering with motor vehicles when he appeared in Tauranga District Court, was jailed for six months.

This is a charge which attracts a maximum penalty of two years' prison.

The court was told that at 9.16pm on January 29 this year Gates approached multiple vehicles on Devonport Rd, and tried five door handles to see if the cars were unlocked.

His actions were captured on the Tauranga City Council's CCTV security system, and the operator reported the matter to police.

Gates initially claimed he was checking his daughter's vehicle to see if it was unlocked.

But once confronted


with the CCTV footage evidence, he told police that he had not yet received his benefit payment and was "trying to survive".

Gates had only been released from prison two weeks earlier after he was jailed for 11 months in August last year for the same type of offending, the court heard.

Lawyer Tony Balme told Judge Christopher Harding that his client's National Super payments had not yet been resumed after being suspended when he was jailed in August.

Fortunately, there was no damage and no inconvenience caused to members of the public and Mr Gates wished to be sentenced without a report, Balme said.

Mr Balme said Gates was currently of no fixed abode.

His client had rejected an offer to live at the Tauranga Men's Shelter, and he could not offeran alternative address where he could serve a community-based sentence, he said.

Judge Harding told Gates there was only one sentence that could be imposed given he had 253 prior convictions and served 128 previous sentences of imprisonment.

"Mr Gates you had only released from prison two weeks ago, and here you are again back before the court for doing the same thing."

Gates had numerous dishonesty convictions of a similar nature, and also been trespassed from some business premises in the central business district, the judge said.

Judge Harding said Gates had been sent to prison a number of times for this type of charge and the public had the right to be protected from his continued offending.

Gates was sentenced to six months' prison with no conditions upon release.

Judge Harding urged


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image copyright Getty Images image caption The Arsenal midfielder's security guard told a court two men threatened to kill the footballer

Two men said they would kill Arsenal star Mesut Ozil as they threatened his security guards, a court has heard.

Salaman Ekinci and Ferhat Ercun, both 27, deny behaving in a threatening or abusive manner outside the north London home of the Premier League midfielder.

The guards told Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court they were hired after the footballer was involved in an unrelated attack weeks earlier.

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There is a lengthy 12-year waiting period for Indians applying for permanent residency also known as Green Card in the US as skilled employees, according to a new report.However, India is also among the top countries whose residents get Green Cards every year.In 2015, about 36,318 Indians adjusted their status to permanent residency while 27,798 Indians are new arrivals who received lawful permanent residency in the form of a Green Card, Pew Research said."In one employment-related category, people from India applying for permanent residence as skilled employees currently have a 12-year waiting list. In other words, the government currently is processing applications filed in May of 2005," the report said.Pew said from fiscal 2010 to 2014, about 36 per cent of employment-related Green cards - more than 222,000In the 1980's, Def Leppard lived the dream. The band hit it big with albums like 1983's "Pyromania" and 1987's "Hysteria," including such memorable songs as "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and "Photograph." They spent years on tour, playing packed houses across the globe.

But in its early years, the band struggled. "Money was tight until about 1983," lead singer Joe Elliott recently told Reuters. "We had signed a record deal in '79, but that all that money went into running the band." Elliott says they earned around £30 per week ($39.40), which "wasn't even enough to buy stage clothes."

When Def Leppard started touring the U.S. as an opener for larger acts, they traveled in a station wagon and shared rooms in budget hotels. "All the profit from the


shows went into getting a tour bus, so we never saw a penny," Elliott says.

Eventually, things turned around and they had a hit with "Pyromania." Released in January of 1983, it went platinum just three months later. By October of 1984, the album had sold over six million copies.Greens candidate David Hay has been suspended from the party for a year after challenging Russel Norman for the co-leadership.

Hay stood for the party in the Epsom electorate in 2011, but fell out of favour last year when he went after Norman's job.

In December, he said both Norman and co-leader Metiria Turei had betrayed the Greens' core principles and should resign.

In a statement issued this morning the party confirmed his membership was suspended "following an investigation into misconduct."

A panel found his behaviour breached party rules. A report recommended a "cooling down" period of one year, after which Hay can reapply for membership.

It said Hay admitted breaking the rules by attacking the leadership through the media and releasing internal party documents.

But the report also found he had a genuine


The Trolly Remembers an intervention at Tate Britain as part of there Tourettes Hero event We Forgot the Lot . Made in collaboration with Jenny Moore and anyone who wanted to get involved through out the day. The trolley picked up influences from the art work it visited and became a massive rolling documentary of visitors memories.Depictions of Language Change and Dialect Diversity in Children's Books

Note: This paper was presented at the Children's Literature Association Conference, Normal, Illinois, June 12, 2008, where the conference theme was "Reimagining Normal." The original title was "Reimagining Normal in Literary Depictions of Language Change and Dialect Diversity." This is a work in progress. If you know of other children's books with explicit treatment of language change and dialect diversity, please contact Tina L. Hanlon. Appalachian references in this paper are to comments by Anndrena Belcher and books by Rebecca Caudill, Ruth White, Laurence Yep, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, as well as Roberta Herrin's essay.

Anndrena Belcher, an eloquent, funny Southern storyteller, was in the second grade when her family moved from Eastern Kentucky to Chicago. She tells how they


then weren't supposed to say "git" for get or "gueetar" for "guitár," and the phrase "hain't got nary 'n" was forbidden as a double negative. But her old home was "where most everybody, even my teachers, said 'hain't got nary 'n ' except when they was trying to talk proper—the schoolbook stuff, you know, when they said 'I haven't one.'" The discomfort of her new environment made Belcher want to go home and talk to her grandmother, although she knew that being a hillbilly in the city had been described by Elvis in the 1950s and she discovered that immigrants had many similar stories and cultural traditions to share, when they got smart enough to stop calling each other names. She says they "could find a home ineach other's tales." She describes herself as "lucky to go to school with children from all over the world" and "one of the lucky mountaineers who got to come home" later in life.

A fictional child who endured culture shock earlier in the twentieth century is Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary's experience is the opposite of Belcher's in a way, since she has no emotional attachment to a nurturing home before she is sent to Yorkshire. Because her situation is so unusual at Misselthwaite Manor, the only people who care about talking to her speak more freely than they normally would with an upper-class person. The housemaid Martha realizes that she speaks too much Yorkshire to work upstairs in a house with a


grand mistress present and that she has to switch registers when Mary can't understand her dialect in their first conversation. Learning how to understand and talk a little of their Yorkshire dialect helps Mary make friends for the first time in her life, first with a robin and a gruff gardener, and then with a farm family. When Mary first meets Martha's intriguing brother Dickon, the novel says, "She wished she could talk as he did" (58).

In Rebecca Caudill's 1966 chapter book Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley?, a younger child whose initiation adventure is only a bus ride away down a familiar mountain is told by his numerous siblings what to expect at preschool. When he says of the teachers, "I ain't scared of any ofthem," brother Claude warns him, "You don't say 'ain't' in Little School,' …. You have to talk proper" (18).

The preteen narrator in Ruth White's 1996 novel Belle Prater's Boy observes, "Even though Grandpa was a schoolteacher at one time and knew better, he sometimes let his grammar slide back to the way he talked when he was a boy on the top of Wiley Mountain. He called it his everyday voice" (111).

These children, real and fictional, illustrate some common experiences for anyone who has moved from one region to another or gone to school or lived in a place where sharp distinctions separate social classes. Language is a major aspect of their feelings about home, their own identity, and their place in a community and society. In all


of dialect is politically charged because language represents groups that conflict and try to dominate or eradicate each other through our society's long histories of prejudice of various kinds. Education and assimilation offer minorities opportunities for prosperity and equality, but with the educational system in the English-speaking world conditioning people to think in terms of standard English as "normal" and everything else as "improper" or "incorrect," arguments continue about whether the culture and language of the oppressed should be reclaimed and celebrated or suppressed. Several callers to the radio showTalk of the Nation this winter described themselves as victims of a double standard, criticized by other black people for talking "too white" or "too proper." Randall Kennedy, author of Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal, responded that alliesbook Nappy Hair became the center of a bitter national controversy because having fun with minority language, culture and childhood can be confused with making fun of them. Authors with good intentions have written many books that are perceived as biased today for following the convention of representing, sometimes exaggerating, dialect features of some characters but not the speech of authority figures or more affluent characters. Lucy Maud Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Nancy Drew books, and Lois Lenski's regional novels are criticized for their treatment of minority or lower class characters although in some cases they were formerly praised for representations of regional cultures.

Our conflicting attitudes about dialect create a huge dilemma for authors and teachers. Studies by Robin Carr and others in the late 1960s and 1970s


expectations are unfamiliar. When her teacher visits her home, she is amazed to hear the teacher herself use "ain't" while reminiscing with her godmother about some shared family history in Charleston, South Carolina. Dana tells her friends that it's funny how her teacher "talks like real people here." She also convinces her friends that doing well in school and "talking strange," or "proper," do not make her feel superior and should not damage their friendship. She has to think hard about these confusing social changes but she figures it out and makes up a new jump rope rhyme about being bidialectal—about using "ain't" at home but not at school, where "speaking proper sets de tone" / So folks won't moan."

Although Irene Small provides a positive depiction of achild figuring out for herself how to adjust to complex social and linguistic realities, Dana's adjustment might have been easier if the adults explained dialect diversity to her more fully, as one West Virginia teacher does for Marty, the protagonist in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Shiloh trilogy. In the second book, Shiloh Season, Marty's nice new teacher has a talk with him while giving back reports on possible careers. She marked many corrections on his report although Mary and his friend got good grades after talking to professionals for their research. The teacher gently tells Marty that in her family, similar to his; she likes relaxing during family visits and talking their "personal talk; family talk," which "is slow and quiet and as soft and beautiful as a summer


language and to raise awareness of nonstandard dialects, rather than perpetuate myths." In spite of research about minority dialects in America since the 1960s and the "deep social and political implications" for the teaching of reading and improving students' acquisition of standard English, Thompson believes continuing opposition from the U.S. public makes it necessary for college English teachers to do more to "effect change in the outside community."

In Belle Prater's Boy, the same novel with the grandfather who sometimes speaks in his "everyday [southwestern Virginia mountain] voice," when the two main characters start seventh grade, their male teacher's gender is a novelty at their school. When Mr. Collins says "hoose," Woodrow asks what it means. An outspoken boy explains, "That's how they say 'house' in eastern Virginia' andwho has observed eastern vs. western Virginia pronunciation patterns, rather than being defensive about speech that might be perceived as nonstandard. The author, Ruth White, wove in an amusing illustration of dialect differences without trying to represent pronunciation extensively throughout her text.

In her picture book Flossie and the Fox, Patricia McKissack adds an additional layer of linguistic significance to the tradition of trickster tales in which a physically small or vulnerable hero uses verbal tricks to escape from a dangerous opponent. As Flossie walks through the woods to deliver eggs to a neighbor, she fends off a predatory fox by refusing to believe he's a fox. An article on "Flossie Ebonics" by Joseph O. Milner and Loraine Moses Stewart describes this text's "subtle sociolinguistic messages." I think it's


as "Top of the morning to you, Little Missy," in dialogue that is sometimes overly familiar and sometimes overly formal. Flossie starts to mock his arrogant diction in her retorts. When he says, "I beg your pardon," she responds, "You can beg all you wanna….That still don't make you no fox." He begins to stutter and plead for a chance to prove himself. Christine Doyle observed that "the fox's language more or less disintegrates as he gets flustered—he stutters, stammers—it's not dialect, but disintegration." He's "a snob" who "loses his sense of identity" while Flossie "keeps speaking just the way she speaks!"

Betty Bacon's excellent essay "'I Play It Cool and Dig All Jive': Languages in Children's Books" criticizes adults who think minority or working class kids have inferiorverbal skills, who want to avoid books with challenging language, buy only those written in the language of their community, or translate classics such as Peter Rabbit into Black English. Bacon argues that "It would be a poor civilization in which we gave A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich with its subtle permutation of Black English only to Black children or The Hobbit with its literary English-English only to the families of professors at Oxford or Harvard. Children have a right to the whole world. They have a right to see their own lives—including their language—reflected in their books, but they also have a right to go beyond that to other people, other times, other places, and other languages" (238). Because our society is full of conflicting


From interaction of lipidic vehicles with intestinal epithelial cell membranes to the formation and secretion of chylomicrons.
Lipophilic drugs are carried by chylomicrons that are secreted by the small intestine and transported in lymph. This review discusses the digestion, uptake, and transport of dietary lipids and the impact that these processes have on the absorption of lipophilic drugs by the gastrointestinal tract. This chapter complements Dr. Chris Potter's chapter on the "pre-absorptive" events of drug processing and solubilization. This chapter reviews the digestion of lipids in the gastric and intestinal lumen and the role of bile salts in the solubilization of lipid digestion products for uptake by the gut. Both the passive and active uptake of lipid digestion products is discussed. How intestinal lipid transporters located at the brushtradition in Panama, and I wanted to make sure there would be enough food to feed the flocks. Plus, it was a good conversation topic. People found it hilarious that I owned livestock and enjoyed asking me how fat he was getting. His name was well-known around town. Puerco de Paz means Peace Pig and is a play on the words for Peace Corps in Spanish, which is Cuerpo de Paz. It was impossible to mention him without grinning just a little.

Purchasing this piggy was perhaps one of the best decisions of my life. The day before my despedida, he was brought down from his house on the hill and my neighbors and BFF's Julio and Rosita took charge of the subsequent slaughter and preparation. Good thing, because


captivated. I would pay them for the plantains they had in their house? Ten cents each! Their eyes lit up at the mere idea. Abdiel, my ten-year-old neighbor was my best supplier. If he needed a few cents for a pencil for posterboard for school, he would come over and peddle whatever he had in exchange for a quarter. Or he'd ask me if I wanted anything in particular when he knew his family was headed to the farm. Sometimes the kids would still ask for money for no reason, and I always responded that they had to find a way to earn it. Little Rosibel would busy herself washing dishes, or collecting trash. Milexi might find me some firewood or put some elbow grease into the potsan elegant, grown-up version of The Neverending Story 2 movie).

The Ice Dragon is an enchanting tale of courage and sacrifice for young readers and adults by the wildly popular author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Song of Ice and Fire series, George R.R. Martin. Lavish illustrations by acclaimed artist Luis Royo enrich this captivating and heartwarming story of a young girl and her dragon.

In the world of A Song of Ice and Fire the ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones,


could remember.

Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara’s home. And only a winter child—and the ice dragon who loved her—could save her world from utter destruction.

50-word Review: Gorgeously illustrated middle grade fable about a girl born with “winter in her”, and her impossible bond with anto discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.

But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen


window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.

Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm is a line from “Star Trek: ” “Because survival is insufficient.” But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.

Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say theirThe “Jerky boys of Russia” have struck again, and this time the Russian comedy duo targeted U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, engaging her in a conversation about a fictional island in the South China Sea. According to a report in the Hill, the two comedians, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, uploaded a video…


Trophoblast-uterine interactions in the first days of implantation: models for the study of implantation events in the human.
The most profound changes in the relationship of the trophoblast to endometrial tissues occur in the first 5 days after the initiation of implantation. Not only have the earliest stages--adhesion and epithelial penetration--never been seen in the human, but also the trophoblastic plate and lacunar stages that follow are not available for modern investigative methods. Studies of appropriately timed endometrium and of trophoblast- and endometrium-derived cell lines have important implications for aspects of implantation. Use of nonhuman primates and other animal models for appropriate stages in implantation could further our understanding of direct trophoblast-uterine interactions. The mechanisms involved in epithelial penetration by infiltration of the syncytial trophoblast into the uterine luminala much lower price.

The suggested deal was outlined in a Tuesday article by Anita Kumar, a reporter for the McClatchy news service. She uses the Democrats’ term ‘dreamers’ – to describe the 800,000 DACA illegals as she wrote:

White House officials want Trump to strike an ambitious deal with Congress that offers Dreamers protection in exchange for legislation that pays for a border wall and more detention facilities, curbs legal immigration and implements E-verify, an online system that allows businesses to check immigration status, according to a half-dozen people familiar with situation, most involved with the negotiations. The group includes former and current White House chiefs of staff, Reince Priebus and John Kelly, the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, who both serve as presidential advisers,


investors, and Wall Street.

The use of foreign labor is good, say forecasts by business advocates, because it expands the total economy and delivers more tax revenues to the federal government. But those forecasts also show the inflow reduces Americans’ wages.

The inflow of foreign workers to the coastal cities also hollows out businesses in the heartland, spurring the opioid death toll that Chief of Staff Kelly has denounced.

The inflow also preserves Democrats’ political power in the major cities where the middle-class and African-Americans are being pushed out by a combination of a well-paid elite and a mass of low-wage immigrant service workers.

The annual inflow pushes young high-performing Americans away from careers in science, biology, and technology, towards careers in culture, law, and politics. That replacement means the nation isRon Wilkins

rwilkins@jconline.com

LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

Purdue University police treated Tenecia Waddell differently than its other officers because of her skin color, according to allegations in a civil discrimination lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.

After the department wrongfully fired her in 2011, university police officers burned her uniform in effigy and shot up her bulletproof vest for sport in an effort to intimidate her, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Waddell was terminated in 2011 after she failed to qualify with her sidearm. She claims in her lawsuit that her weapon had been tampered with and that she had not been properly trained, which led to the firing. Waddell fought the 2011 termination, accusing the university of discrimination and won reinstatement about three months after her termination, according to the lawsuit.

She also


claims in the lawsuit that other African-American officers had their weapons tampered with, while non-black officers' weapons were not altered. She also states that she and other black officers endured harassing treatment by other officers and the department's administration.

Waddell, an African-American and former Purdue police officer, and former Purdue police Sgt. Ryan Pyle, who is white, were fired in June 2016.

Based on Pyle's lawsuit against the university filed in December, the reason for termination was because the two were dating, which violates the university's policy. However, Pyle's lawsuit states that the dating policy is often overlooked inside the department.

Responding to Pyle's lawsuit, Purdue denied Pyle's allegations and said it will show that Pyle's firing was justified.

In her lawsuit, Waddell says she was disparately disciplined compared to non-black officers.

Assubjected to the same."

Waddell's suit says that black officers were denied advancement. It alleges that when filling the position for police chief, the university loosened its qualifications so that current Police Chief John Cox might be considered for the position, ignoring a black candidate who was more qualified, according to the lawsuit.

As a black officer, Waddell was ordered to represent the department as it addressed issues with African-Americans in the community.

"In particular, Captain Baunach directed Ms. Waddell to go talk to 'those black girls on the basketball team' ... regarding a statement that 'those black girls on the basketball team' made about police," the lawsuit states.

Additionally, Waddell was ordered to address Purdue Social Justice Coalition protesters who demonstrated inside the university president's office, and she was asked if


any of her black friends might be recruited to the department, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit asks for back pay and the value of her lost benefits. It seeks compensatory damage for emotional and psychological distress.

The lawsuit also asks the court to order her reinstated to her former position with her seniority and other benefits, as if she had not been fired. It also asks that Purdue pay her attorney's fees and be assessed all other damage necessary and proper.

The Journal & Courier attempted to contact a Purdue University spokesman and Cox for comments about the lawsuit and its allegations. Neither has replied.

J&C breaking news reporter Ron Wilkins can be reached at 765-420-5231; follow on Twitter @RonWilkins2Infertility in central Africa.
To determine the prevalence and risk factors of primary and secondary infertility in the four Central African countries of Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic and Gabon. Primary infertility was approximated by the percentage of women childless after at least 5 years of marriage. The percentage with no birth at least 5 years subsequent to a previous birth was considered to have secondary infertility. Logistic regression and discrete logistic regression models were estimated to determine the risk factors of primary and secondary infertility, respectively. The relatively few women who were defined as infertile and reported using a traditional or modern method of contraception at survey date were considered fertile to reduce bias from falsely classifying effective contraceptive users as infertile. The prevalence of infertility was highest


in Central African Republic and lowest in Chad: primary infertility ranged from 6.9% to 3.1% and secondary infertility for women aged 20-44 years ranged from 26.5% to 18.9%. Women married more than once vs. only once and formerly married women vs. women living with their husbands had higher odds of primary and secondary infertility. Also, younger cohorts had relatively higher risks of primary (born after 1970) and secondary infertility (born after 1960) compared with women born before 1960. In contrast, place of residence, religion, education of wife or husband and socio-economic status were generally not associated with primary or secondary infertility. Infertility is still prevalent in Central Africa and new interventions aimed at reducing the incidence and social implications of pathologic infertility are needed.Juan Mata's two goals in two midfield starts for Chelsea suggest he is already repaying Roman Abramovich's £23.5m investment in him, unlike another Spain international who cost more than twice as much.

He has also saved Chelsea a potential headache for more than football reasons after they chose not to conclude their interest in Palermo's Javier Pastore. The Argentina international's agent, Marcelo Simonian, is said to have visited London for talks with Chelsea on 29 July after Pastore's club had described his transfer to Stamford Bridge as "very likely".

But something changed after that date and Paris Saint-Germain – now belonging to Qatar's sovereign-wealth fund – moved in, paying €43m (£37.3m) for the forward. A case before the Sicilian courts gives us an indication of what turned Chelsea off.

In the


Blatter's intervention overin the story is not so much because an article has appeared about the supposed deal, rather that so many senior people in the club game believe it to be true.

Statistics clanger

The government supports 30 sports financially and, according to Sport England's Active People survey for the 12 months to April this year, football is among the 21 whose participation statistics have declined since October 2008. In fact, in an environment where participation has collapsed by more than 40% in one of the government-funded sports, football fares fairly well in having lost 0.47% of its total players. Still, this outcome – halfway through a £25.6m four-year Sport England investment into the Football Association – certainly clangs against old government promises that hosting the Olympic Games would"help at least 2m more people in England be more active by 2012". So when the Football Association launches its Just Play scheme this week with airy claims of getting "150,000 new participants playing the game for at least 30 minutes a week by September 2013", it is hard not to doubt those promises.

Perfect irony for City

Manchester City's decision to look for a chief executive for whom football experience will be secondary to an ability to deliver infrastructure projects raises an intriguing prospect. Keith Edelman spent seven years as Arsenal's managing director, working first on the £12m training ground and then on the £400m Emirates Stadium development. Two years after the stadium opened, Edelmanthe former retail, planning and finance executive was made redundant as Arsenal sought instead someone