defensive genius and stinting puncher. That is the 21st-century man. An earlier Hopkins did something very mean to the middleweight field of the late 20th century. After getting out of prison, he scored 23 consecutive wins, 16 by knockout, 12 in the first round. He knocked out Wayne Powell in 21 seconds to win the U.S. Boxing Association middleweight belt. It took three seconds more to floor Steve Frank and retain the International Boxing Federation belt. In a 1993 bout, Hopkins was by the third round punishing Wendell Hall so surgically, so factually, that Hall’s trainer threw his towel into the ring. That deserves italics: Hall’s trainer threw his towel into the ring. Now, it must be noted that cornermen usually don’t throw towels into rings, not becauseinstance, Joe Lipsey chuckled at the display. Then, in the fourth round, he threw a left hook; Hopkins slipped it, and as he did launched from his back foot and caught Lipsey with a left hook of his own, following it with a right uppercut that moved with such force it left Lipsey hovering in the middle of the ring, bent at the waist, arms quivering faintly at his sides. The immediate and unmistakable visual reference was of a broken-necked corpse dangling from a rope. Realizing Lipsey had already been rendered unable to continue the fight (at best) on his feet, the referee went to embrace him, but before he could Hopkins landed a four-punch combination that sent Lipsey to the canvas in a dropping quarter-circle, like a


control the whole fight.” Hopkins and Jones faced off for the first time in 1993. Hopkins lost, but after Jones moved up weight classes, Hopkins won the IBF championship. He would remain atop the field for over a decade. And yet little fame and less money came to him. At 30, years into his sultanate, he was still working part-time in a transmission repair shop. His predicament was summed up by Lampley, who, as he watched Hopkins superintend a six-round razing of Simon Brown, mused: “There was a time, a long time, many decades, in boxing when a lot of glamour would automatically have attached to the identity of being the best 160-pound fighter in the world. Bernard Hopkins is by most accounts the best 160-pound fighter inthe world, and he carries virtually no glamour as the result of it.”

When Hopkins is on his way to Joe Hand’s, his assistants trickle in before him and the manager clears out the members and replaces the hip-hop station that is normally on the radio with an oldies soul station. On a sparring evening in early October, with the Dawson fight a little over a week away, Smokey Robinson was followed by Sam Cooke as the autumn light faded, and the atmosphere drifted backward in time. I half expected to see Liston in the corner skipping rope to “Night Train.” By the time James Brown came on, Hopkins’ door-minder, a looming old presence named Akbar, had taken up his post at the back entrance, swaying to the music


Bundini Brown, a booster and poetic foil. Like Hopkins a reformed juvenile delinquent, he has thick, powerful arms that he drapes over a stolid middle, and is never seen in public without a colored kufi to match his color-coordinated training suits. I asked Richardson how he was. “Holding on with both hands, man,” he said.

Hopkins had driven down from his home in Delaware, where he lives with his wife, Jeanette (they’ve been together for 17 years), their two daughters, and a new son, Bernard III. He emerged from the locker room, in spandex leggings, beat-up Asics boxing shoes, and a T-shirt, and sat down in reverse on a folding chair as a short, peppy assistant, Danny Davis, wrapped his hands. Over the years, Hopkins’ muscles have receded fromhis chest and back and accumulated in his arms and legs. When he was young he resembled, not just in his pouncing fighting style but in his visage, a cat, with watchful eyes and a ramp nose. His eyes are the same, but the cartilage in the bridge between them has collapsed, giving his face the contours of a Roman bust or a well-worn coin. A dusting of hair sat on his head, flecks of gray in a two-day beard.

Richardson had brought in a group of left-handed sparring partners. In the early rounds with a young southpaw from New Jersey with the curious ring name of Derrick “Take It to the Bank” Webster, Hopkins threw only the occasional counterpunch, but controlled the ring with meticulous footwork. By the


a cat toying with a mouse before killing it too much for that. No, I’ve become convinced that it was a way of signaling his superiority and mastery of self to the crowd, a way of making an example of his opponent, perhaps, just as he believes boxing has tried to make an example of him.

He can be cruel outside the ring, too. In 2001, after nine title defenses, he was to earn his first seven-figure purse against Trinidad. (Trinidad earned $8 million for the fight, Hopkins $2.8 million.) So he undertook an intimidation campaign against the good-natured Puerto Rican. At a press conference in San Juan, he threw a Puerto Rican flag to the ground. An enraged crowd rushed the stage, and Hopkins leapt over a wallformer promoter, Lou DiBella, more than half a million dollars in a libel suit after accusing DiBella of soliciting a bribe. DiBella called him a “selfish ingrate.” Another former promoter who’s sued him, Dan Goosen, said Hopkins is “really not a good person.” Even Bouie Fisher sued Hopkins, after accusing him of withholding pay. They reconciled before Fisher died, in June.

Giving testimony may be his natural state. He was one of the few boxers who accepted invitations to testify about corruption in the sport before the National Association of Attorneys General and, later, the Senate. He dreams about a federal boxing commission, he told me, and were one ever to be created, he’d lobby to be appointed its head. He has that avuncular side. Trainer Pat Burns said,


and fine metronomic combinations, stalked Hopkins, poking at him. Hopkins ducked and blocked, controlling the pace not with his arms but with his feet. He kept one step ahead of Dawson by keeping his lead left foot on the outside of Dawson’s right, pivoting in anticipation, switching directions, dragging Dawson around the ring. Twice Hopkins threw the overhand right lead followed by the head, and twice Dawson wrapped him up, a knowing look on his face. Dawson had said his plan was to throw between 70 and 90 punches per round. At the bell he’d thrown 31, Hopkins half that.

Halfway through the second round, Hopkins threw the lead right again, this time without the head, and Dawson countered with a right that Hopkins circled around. Lampley noted: “Ifcontract to wear and promote Prada eyewear. Its main appeal, he confided, is the free glasses. As a Muslim, he necessarily lionizes Muhammad Ali and has a framed photograph of him in the pool room of his home — it shows Ali falling at the hands of the workingman’s heavyweight, Joe Frazier. Upstairs, in the kitchen, hangs a portrait of him fighting Antonio Tarver. It was not painted by a professional, but by an inmate at Graterford, where Hopkins often returns to counsel young men and check in on Smokey Wilson.

It can be argued — and in his worse moods Hopkins argues it — that he is also among the unluckiest of prizefighters. He’s cheated time, but time had it coming. Had he been born a few years


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Reaction is still coming in to video of the brutal execution of an American journalist. Wednesday, President Obama said the entire world is appalled by the beheading carried out by the terrorist group ISIS.

We're also learning more about the man in that video, James Foley. He was embedded with Indiana National Guard troops in Iraq in 2008.

Foley spent months with troops in Iraq, documenting the war. Those with him at the time said he was genuine and cared about the story of the soldier.

"There are certain people thatyou haven't thought about in a while, and this is about the worst way to start thinking about them," said Sgt. Josh Stoppenhagen.

For him, James Foley isn't just a name on the news. Jim, as he's called, was part of Stoppenhagen's time in Iraq with the Indiana National Guard, a journalist with a passion for covering war and all the people it affects.

"I still think the neatest thing about him is we were the first unit that he did anything like this with," Stoppenhagen said.

In 2008, James Foley graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Chicago. He then embedded with Indiana's 76th Infantry Brigade, based in Lawrence.

"He was just focused kind of on the next trip and the next time they were going out," said Stoppenhagen,


"He was very into what he was doing over there."

Foley spent time freelancing in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was even captured and held in Libya in 2011. He disappeared while covering the conflict in Syria in 2012. Tuesday, he reappeared to the world in the graphic video showing his killing.

The Indiana National Guard Issued a statement on Wednesday:

"The Indiana National Guard sends our deepest condolences to the family of James Foley. Jim served alongside troops of the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Troop in Iraq as an embedded reporter in 2008. He was able to document the war and tell the story to the American public from the perspective of the Soldier. He was very well liked by many of the troops and had a genuine appreciation for themand the job they were required to do. The Soldiers he served alongside in the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will certainly miss him."

Stoppenhagen said Foley's legacy will live on now, showing the power and evil the militant group ISIS brings to the Middle East and the world.

"In a couple months or a year, the general public will forget his name. But they'll never forget he was the guy that held his head high and kind of showed the rest of the world what these people are capable of," he said.

Wednesday night U.S. officials revealed there was an operation in place earlier this summer to free Foley and others captured in Syria, though it was unsuccessful.


But thankfully, the issue should come under serious scrutiny in the financial system inquiry being led by former Commonwealth Bank boss David Murray. As submissions from the Reserve Bank and Treasury highlight, ours is one of the most expensive private pension schemes in the world. The RBA cites Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures on pension funds' operating expenses as a share of total assets. In the RBA's graph, Australia's cost ratio was third-highest among OECD countries, behind Spain and Mexico. So, why do Australians pay so much for the management of their retirement savings? In part, the RBA reckons it's a result of some distinctive features of our system. Generally, the Australian ''defined contribution'' approach, whereby many privately managed funds compete for your business, is moreJoseph Chamberlain, it has been widely remarked, serves as an inspiration for Theresa May’s premiership. The great municipal reformer and champion of imperial protectionism bestrode the politics of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He was a social reformer, a keen unionist and an advocate for the industrial as well as the national interest – all values espoused by the Prime Minister.

Less noticed, however, is that May’s excavation of Chamberlain’s legacy is a symptom of two larger historical dynamics that have been exposed by the vote for Brexit. The first is the reopening on the British body politic of deep wounds of race, citizenship and belonging, issues that home rule for Ireland, and then the end of empire, followed by immigration from the former colonies, made central to British politics


during the 20th century. Over the course of the century, the imperial subjects of the queen-empress became British and Irish nationals, citizens of the Commonwealth and finally citizens of a multicultural country in the European Union. The long arc of this history has left scars that do not appear to have healed fully.

The second dynamic is the renewal of patterns of disagreement over free trade and social reform that shaped profound divisions roughly a century ago. Specifically, the rivalry was between a vision of Britain as the free-trade “world island”, supported by the City of London and most of the country’s governing elite, and the protectionist project, or “imperial preference”, articulated by Chamberlain, which sought to bind together the British empire in a new imperial tariff union, layingthe foundations for industrial renewal, social progress and national security. The roots of these commitments lay in his career as a self-made businessman and reforming mayor of Birmingham. A leading Liberal politician, Chamberlain broke with his own party over home rule for Ireland and, with a small group of Liberal Unionists, joined Lord Salisbury’s Conservative government of 1895, becoming colonial secretary. He subsequently resigned in 1903 to campaign on the question of imperial preference.

The fault lines in contemporary political economy that Brexit has starkly exposed mimic those first staked out in the early part of the 20th century, which lie at the heart of Chamberlain’s career: industry v finance, London v the nations and regions, intervention v free trade. This time, however, these divides are refracted through the


politics of Britain’s relationship with Europe, producing new economic interests and political alliances. What’s more, the City now serves the European economy, not just Britain and her former colonies.

Chamberlain is the junction between these two critical dynamics, where race and political economy interweave, because of his advocacy of “Greater Britain” – the late-Victorian idea that the white settler colonies of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa should be joined with the mother country, in ties of “kith-and-kin” solidarity, or more ambitiously in a new imperial federation. Greater Britain owed much to the Anglo-Saxonism of Victorian historians and politicians, and was as much a Liberal as a Conservative idea. Greater Britain was a new way of imagining the English race – a ten-million-strong, worldwide realm dispersed across the“white” colonies. It was a global commonwealth, but emphatically not one composed of rootless cosmopolitans. Deep ties, fostered by trade and migration, held what the historian James Belich calls “the Anglo-world” together. It helped equip the English with an account of their place in the world that would survive at least until the 1956 Suez crisis, and it was plundered again by latter-day Eurosceptics as they developed a vision of the UK as an integral part, not of the EU, but of an “Anglosphere”, the liberal, free-market, parliamentary democracies of the English-speaking world.

Greater Britain carried deep contradictions within itself, however. Because it was associated with notions of racial membership and, more specifically, with Protestantism, it could not readily accommodate divisions within the UK itself. The political realignment triggered


by Chamberlain’s split with Gladstone over Irish home rule, which set one of the most enduring and intractable political divides of the era, was symptomatic of this. For Chamberlain, Irish home rule would have entailed Protestant Ireland being dominated by people of “another race and religion”. Unless there could be “home rule all round” and a new imperial parliament, he preferred an alliance with “English gentlemen” in the Tory party to deals with Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of Ireland’s constitutional nationalists.

The failure of Chamberlain’s kith-and-kin federalism, and the long struggle of nationalist Ireland to leave the UK, left a bitter legacy in the form of partition and a border that threatens once again, after Brexit, to disrupt British politics. But it also left less visible marks. OnIreland becoming a republic, its citizens retained rights to travel, settle and vote in the UK. The Ireland Act 1949 that followed hard on the Irish Free State’s exit from the Commonwealth defined Irish citizens as “non-foreign”.

A common travel area between the two countries was maintained, and when immigration legislation restricted rights to enter and reside in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, Irish citizens were almost wholly exempted. By the early 1970s, nearly a million Irish people had taken up their rights to work and settle in the UK – more than all of those who had come to Britain from the Caribbean and south Asia combined. Even after the Republic of Ireland followed the UK into the European common market, its citizens retained rights that


were stronger than those given to other European nationals.

In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement went a step further. It recognised the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to hold both British and Irish citizenship. Common EU citizenship north and south of the border made this relatively straightforward. But under a “hard Brexit”, Britain may be asked to treat Irish citizens just like other EU citizens. And so, unless it can secure a bilateral deal with the Republic of Ireland, the UK will be forced to reinvent or annul the common travel area, reintroducing border and customs controls and unstitching this important aspect of its post-imperial, 20th-century settlement. Will Ireland and its people remain “non-foreign”, or is the past now another country?

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Today’s equivalent of 19th-century Irish nationalismthe first days of her premiership – will be enormously tested by a hard Brexit that cannot accommodate Scottish claims for retention of single-market status or something close to it. Separation, difficult as this may be for the Scottish National Party to secure, may follow.

The idea of Greater Britain also left behind it a complex and contentious politics of citizenship. As colonial secretary at the end for 19th century, Chamberlain faced demands for political equality of the subjects of the crown in the empire; Indians, in particular, were discriminated against in the white settler colonies. He strongly resisted colour codes or bars against any of the queen’s subjects but allowed the settler colonies to adopt educational qualifications for their immigration laws that laid the foundation for the racial


discrimination of “White Australia”, as well as Canadian immigration and settlement policies, and later, of course, the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Nonetheless, these inequalities were not formally written into imperial citizenship. The British subject was a national of the empire, which was held together by a common code of citizenship. That unity started to unravel as the colonies became independent. Specifically, a trigger point was reached when, in 1946, the Canadian government legislated to create a new national status, separate and distinct from the common code of imperial citizenship hitherto embodied in the status of the British subject.

The Attlee government responded with the watershed British Nationality Act 1948. This created a new form of citizenship for the UK and the colonies under its direct rule, while conferring thestatus of British subject or Commonwealth citizen on the peoples of the former countries of empire that had become independent. It was this that has made the act so controversial: as the historian Andrew Roberts has argued, it “gave over 800 million Commonwealth citizens the perfectly legal right to reside in the United Kingdom”.

This criticism of the act echoed through the postwar decades as immigration into the UK from its former empire increased. Yet it is historically misplaced. The right to move to the UK without immigration control had always existed for British subjects; the new law merely codified it. (Indeed, the Empire Windrush, which brought British subjects from the Caribbean to London in June 1948, docked at Tilbury even before the act had received royal assent.)

At the


sham. The citizens of the Commonwealth truly were “citizens of nowhere”, as Theresa May recently put it. As Powell said of the 1948 act: “It recognised a citizenship to which no nation of even the most shadowy and vestigial character corresponded; and conversely, it still continued not to recognise the nationhood of the United Kingdom.”

Once the British empire was finished, its core Anglo-Saxon populace needed to come back, he believed, to find their national mission again, to what he viewed as their English home – in reality, the unitary state of the UK – rather than pretend that something of imperialism still survived. On England’s soil, they would remake a genuine political community, under the sovereignty of the Crown-in-Parliament. If Greater Britain could not exist as an imperialcomplex mix of anxiety and anger, hostility to large-scale immigration and desire for greater self-government that motivated English voters who favoured Brexit – it is clear that identity and belonging now shape and configure political arguments and culture in England.

Yet, with a handful of notable exceptions, the rise in political Englishness is being given expression only on the right, by Eurosceptics and nationalists. The left is significantly inhibited by the dearth of serious attempts to reimagine England and different English futures, whether culturally or democratically.

It is not just the deep politics of the Union and its different peoples that Brexit has revived. The divisions over Britain’s economy that were opened up and positioned during the Edwardian era have also returned to the centre of political debate. Though as


standard in 1931 and cheap money revived the national economy. The collectivism of the wartime command economy and the postwar Keynesian settlement followed. New forms of economic strategy, industrial policy and social reform were pioneered, and the Treasury beliefs in limited state intervention, “sound money” and free trade that had defined the first decades of the 20th century were defeated.

This era was brought to an end by the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Her government smashed the industrial pillars and the class compromises that had underpinned the postwar world. The ensuing “New Labour” governments inherited a transformed political economy and, in turn, sought to fuse liberal with collectivist strands in a new settlement for the post-industrial economy. What many now view as the end of the neoliberalconsensus is, therefore, better seen as the revival of patterns of thinking that pre-date Thatcherism. This tells us much about the persistent and deep problems of Britain’s open economic model and the continuing, unresolved conflict between finance and parts of industry, as well as London and the regions.

Brexit brings these tensions back to the surface of British politics, because it requires the construction of a completely new national economic and political settlement – one that will be thrashed out between the social classes, the leading sectors of the economy, and the nations and regions of the United Kingdom.

Few peacetime prime ministers have confronted the scale and kinds of challenge that Brexit will throw up: holding together the UK, revitalising our industrial base, delivering shared prosperity to working people


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LONDON (AP) â¿¿ Barclays PLC on Thursday named the head of its retail and business banking operations its new chief executive, as shares in the troubled bank dropped following word of a new investigation into its deals.

Barclays said that Antony Jenkins, 51, would fill the post vacated by the resignation of Bob Diamond in the wake of a scandal over attempts to manipulate a key interest rate index.

Jenkins takes over just as the bank has been hit by more bad news.

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A Walgreens security guard was charged with murder after he allegedly shot a suspected shoplifter in the back as the man fled from the store, prosecutors said.

Donald Vincent Ciota II, 28, was charged with one count of murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a press release Monday.

Ciota allegedly confronted Jonathan Hart, 21, inside the Hollywood, California, store on Dec. 2 after accusing Hart of stealing, prosecutors said in the press release. The two men got into a physical altercation, and Ciota pulled out a gun and is "alleged to have fatally shot Hart in the back as he ran away," the release stated.

Hart, who is believed to have been


habits. We do not think that, when
Congress passed the Act, it intended for the law to cover
factual circumstances far removed from those that motivated
its passage.

       This becomes apparent by tracing the Video Privacy
Protection Act’s legislative history. The Senate version of the
Act was introduced in May of 1988, and the coordinate House
bill was introduced about a month later. The two bills were
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relevant House and Senate subcommittees.141 The then-extant
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Senate Subcommittee on Technology and the Law,
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Should there be an offence of blasphemy (again)?

A little bit of history. There was a time when, in the Christian world, blasphemy was a punishable by death. The last person so killed in Britain was Thomas Aikenhead (March 1676 – 8th January 1697). He was a Scottish student from Edinburgh who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20 on a charge of blasphemy. The last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy was John William Gott on 9 December 1921.Summary

The company provides investors a pure-play exposure to core areas within the dry gas windows of the Marcellus and Utica shale plays.

Rice is expected to more than double its production in 2014.

Based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Rice Energy (NYSE:RICE) is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and development company. The company was founded in 2007 by former BlackRock Energy portfolio manager, Daniel J. Rice III, and began leasing in the southwestern core of the Marcellus Shale in 2008. RICE's key operating areas are in the Marcellus Shale in southwest Pennsylvania and the Utica Shale in Ohio. The company has significant positions in core areas of the dry gas windows in the Marcellus (43,000 net acres) and Utica (46,000 net acres) in addition to longer-term potential in the Upper


asset where dry-gas Marcellus well results have been very encouraging. Moreover, well control from the company's peers operating in the region including Range Resources (NYSE:RRC), EQT Corporation (NYSE:EQT), and Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) should give investors strong confidence in RICE's results going forward.

In the Utica Shale, Rice Energy has about 49,000 net acres, predominantly in Belmont County, Ohio in the dry- gas window of the play. RICE entered Ohio in November 2012 and subsequently executed a joint venture agreement with peer Gulfport Energy (NASDAQ:GPOR), which holds approx. 150,000 net acres in the play. The company's first horizontal Utica well just finished drilling without any operational issues and completion operations are set to commence in the next 2-3 weeks. Although this program is in the early stages, RICE's exposure toonly reported strong well results but has also successfully translated these strong results into an impressive track record of growth, ramping up gross operated production from zero at the time of its first horizontal well in October 2010 to 206 MMcfe/d during November, last year. Driven by a backlog of uncompleted wells in the Marcellus waiting to be turned to sale, initial well completions from a second rig in the Marcellus added in 2Q13 and with the contribution from a first rig in the Utica, the company is expected to more than double its production in 2014. The production is expected to average 310 MMcf/d (the high end of the guidance) in 2014, representing solid organic Y/Y growth of 148%. As mentioned earlier the Marcellus program is set


to drive most of the growth in 2014, though the Utica should also contribute modestly as the company begins its appraisal program there. With both strong production and cash flow growth, it would not be a surprise if management evaluates the opportunity to put additional rigs to work in both the Marcellus and Utica.

First Utica Well Drilled

The company has completed drilling operations on the Bigfoot 9H in the Utica Shale and plans to bring in a frac crew later this month. RICE should be able to release initial production data before the Q2 earnings call. Despite encountering the same amount of gas as seen at the Bigfoot 7H, the 6,500-feet lateral well was drilled without any operational issues, which indicates the operational design changes have been effective. Interestingly,production and cash flow growth outlooks, and generates better cash-on-cash returns. The company provides investors a pure-play exposure to core areas within the dry gas windows of the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays, which provide the company with a long resource life and a solid outlook for growth. The company has delivered strong results to date from its Marcellus position and going forward the Utica is also expected to delivery strong cash flow growth through 2016. The company offers investors a very attractive asset base among U.S. onshore SMID E&Ps, particularly when compared to many other gas-levered stocks.

According to Barclays analysts, the company is estimated to generate balance sheet adjusted production growth of 86% in 2014 and 48% in 2015, which puts it at the high end of


nuclear program, Mr. Bush questioned whether it was wise to lift sanctions against Tehran when the Islamic government seemed to be caving in, and suggested that the United States risked losing leverage if it did so.

The former president, in an expansive mood, also offered his views on Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the joy his grandchild had brought him and the difficulty his younger brother Jeb would face as a 2016 presidential candidate because of his famous last name. The New York Times received accounts of the president’s remarks from a dozen people who attended the meeting.of being singled out. Under the British, the Brahmins of southern India acquired a near monopoly on jobs in education and the civil service, engendering resentment among their British overlords and the lower castes. In the twentieth century, a succession of political parties organized against Brahmin control, changing the balance of power by setting aside positions for other castes in schools and the public sector. When the tables turned, the Tamil Brahmins left for greener pastures rather than put up a fight. Today the majority of Tamil Brahmins live outside Tamil Nadu, their home province. Some relocated to different parts of India, while countless others decamped to Europe and North America. Today most Tamil Brahmins in India have family members abroad; many live in the United States and


Committee to court for defamation of character. He often pens caustic letters to local newspapers, deploring the many travesties of contemporary Indian politics. And yet he is warm, quick with a smile or a self-deprecating comment, even as he shares his apocalyptic hope that the Naxalites will destroy India, ushering in a new beginning.

Aiyer lives in a third-floor Bangalore apartment with a fortified door that’s emblazoned with a rooster and the words “From Darkness to Life.” (The family crest, he later reveals.) Upon arriving, I remove my shoes and walk down a corridor lined with Stetson hats and photographs of lions looming over dead zebras. The living room has a wooden shelf stretching from one end to the other, lined with college trophies for debate, elocution, and quizzing,only a part of the nightmare realm.

Henry was always there in the first place. While Henry feels like he's trapped in his room, most likely he's asleep in the real world, stuck in a dream like everyone else. The 'surprise' is there in the real world as well.


may even require lifelong nursing home care. Prevention of AHT focuses on reducing child maltreatment and increasing education. Parents need to know how to deal with child\'s cry and the danger of shaking a baby \[[@bib21]\]. Besides public service announcements, education is also focused on family resource centers and home visit programs, particularly in high-risk families with young parents.

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The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome targets new and future parents. The organization attempts to increase skills and confidence for the parents, with the mission of commitment to prevent shaken baby syndrome and promote the well-being of infants through the development and implementation of programs, policy and research, and to support and educate families,caregivers, and professionals \[[@bib91],[@bib92]\]. The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome estimates 1200--1400 children are injured or killed by AHT each year with the mortality rate up to 30% in the United States \[[@bib93]\].

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a dentist on his contract to extract the plaintiff's teeth and make her a new set. The dentist had broken off one of her jaw teeth and left it in the gum, causing her great pain, suffering and loss of time.
"This Court held that the effect of the Tennessee statutes is to limit the bringing of a suit to one year, whenever the action is one to recover damages for injuries to the person irrespective of the fact that prior to the statute there could have been two independent causes of action, one on contract and the other in tort, between which the plaintiff might have chosen. The Court said:
"`The word "action" as used in the statute, has reference to the subject-matter or nature thereof, not to itsThe program has a long history of attracting students from all over the world, and this year's class is no different. Students from nine different countries attended the program's orientation session. Taken together, the students span the globe from many key regions and countries involved with important environmental and resource issues.

The specific countries represented were:

Brazil

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China

Ghana

Japan

Peru

Russia

Saudi Arabia

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Continuing students from Mexico and many of the countries listed mean that this year's class will include students from 10 different countries.

In terms of the United States, the program will include in-coming students from California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

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Gaddafi opponent elected Libya assembly chief

National Assembly chooses Mohammed Magarief, seen as moderate Islamist, to head 200-member congress.

10 Aug 2012 03:40 GMT

Magarief, middle, had made several attempts to put an end to the rule of the late Muammar Gaddafi [AFP]

Libya's national assembly has chosen Mohammed Magarief, a former opposition leader, as president as the North African country's newly elected congress began its rule.

Magarief, leader of the National Front Party, will head the 200-member congress, which will name a prime minister, pass laws and steer Libya to full parliamentary elections after a new constitution is drafted next year.

Magarief, seen as a moderate Islamist, is effectively Libya's acting head of state, but the true extent of his powersis yet to be determined.

A former diplomat who had lived in exilesince the 1980s, Magarief was a leading figures in Libya's oldest opposition movement - the National Front for the Salvation of Libya - which had made several attempts to put an end to rule of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Magarief's National Front Party is an offshoot of the old opposition movement and it won three seats in the July 7 pollfor the national assembly - Libya's first free vote in a generation.

"I am very very happy. This is a big responsibility," he told Reuters.

Magarief won 113 votes versus independent Ali Zidan who secured 85 votes. Voting went to a second round after no onemanaged to win an outright majority in the first round.

'Democracy'

"This is democracy, this is what we have dreamt of," Zidan told Reuters, congratulating Magarief.

The


assembly was also set to pick two deputies for Magarief, who had been seen as a leading contender for the top job.

"He is a political personality and everybody knows him." said Othman Sassi, a former official of the NationalTransitional Council. "He has very good experience to lead congress and the Libyan democratic state."

The national assembly began life on Wednesday after it took power from the National Transitional Council, the political arm of the opposition forces that toppled Gaddafi a year ago and which has now been dissolved.

The late-night ceremony was the first peaceful transition of power in Libya's modern history but it has been overshadowed by several violent incidents in the past week that have underscored the country's precarious stability.

These include a car bomb near the offices ofthe military police in the capital, Tripoli, and an explosion at the emptyformer military intelligence offices in the eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of the revolt against Gaddafi.

In the new assembly, 80 seats are held by parties. A liberal coalition led by wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril won 39 of those seats, while the Justice and Construction Party - the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood - won 17.

The remaining 120 seats are in the hands of independent candidates whose allegiances are hard to pin down.


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in treatment using a prospectively collected paediatric nationally representative database. Methods: A total of 9034 patients undergoing treatment for idiopathic SCFE were selected by querying the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's Kids' Inpatient Database for the years 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2012...

The Maori of New Zealand have been identified as a high-risk population for slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE). This study assessed whether the burden of disease from SCFE in the American Territory of American Samoa is similar to that identified in the Maori. This was a retrospective review of children from American Samoa treated for SCFE at a tertiary care pediatric hospital between 2005-2014. Demographic, clinical, and radiographic information was collected. All patients were followed for at least one year after surgery and prophylactically pinnedShort Summary

FEARS OF A NEW EAST-WEST CRISIS OVER BERLIN ARE MOUNTING WITH THE APPROACH THIS MONTH OF THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE ERECTION OF THE BERLIN WALL - THE JAGGED LINE OF FORTIFICATION THAT SLICE THROUGH THE HEART OF THE DIVIDED CITY.

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FEARS OF A NEW EAST-WEST CRISIS OVER BERLIN ARE MOUNTING WITH THE APPROACH THIS MONTH OF THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE ERECTION OF THE BERLIN WALL - THE JAGGED LINE OF FORTIFICATION THAT SLICE THROUGH THE HEART OF THE DIVIDED CITY. UNEASE IN BERLIN HAS RISEN SINCE THE U.S.-SOVIET TALKS ON THE CITY REACHED APPARENT DEADLOCK LAST MONTH. ADDING TO THE UNEASE HAVE BEEN RECENT SOVIET FLIGHTS IN THE BERLIN AIR CORRIDORS, TOGETHER WITH THE DISPUTE EARLY THIS MONTH ON U.S. HELICOPTER FLIGHTS OVER BERLIN, AND THE


CURRENT VISIT OF EAST GERMAN LEADER HERR WALTER ULBRICHT TO THE SOVIET UNION.

THE WALL FIRST CAME INTO BEING AUGUST 13, 1961 WHEN THE EAST GERMAN REGIME SEALED THE EAST-WEST BERLIN CITY BORDER, THUS HALTING THE EXODUS OF EAST GERMAN REFUGEES INTO WEST BERLIN. THE BAN WAS ENFORCED BY SETTING UP BARBED WIRE BARRICADES ON THE EAST-WEST CITY BORDER AND BY REDUCING THE NUMEROUS CROSSING POINTS TO A FEW CLOSELY GUARDED CHECKPOINTS. EAST GERMAN POLICE SET UP MACHINE - GUN NESTS ALONG THE BORDER AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE AND EAST GERMAN MILITA WITH SOVIET TANKS IN RESERVE TOOK UP STRATEGIC POSITIONS. A FEW DAY LATER, THE WIRE BARRIERS WERE REINFORCED WITH CONCRETED SLABS AND BLOCKS. THE WALL GREW TO A MASSIVE BARRICADE 16 FT. HIGH AND FOUR FEET THICKIN PLACES, STRETCHING FOR 25 MILES ALONG THE SECTOR BORDER. THEN CAME FORTIFICATIONS: TRIPLE BARBED WIRE FENCES FLANKED WITH TANK OBSTACLES AND WATCH TOWERS.

EAST GERMAN LEADER HERR WALTER ULBRICHT, FILMED INSPECTING EAST GERMAN TROOPS AT THE BERLIN WALL DURING AUGUST LAST YEAR, TOLD THE WORLD THAT THE WALL WAS A FRONTIER "THE SAME AS OTHER NATIONS ERECT FOR THEIR OWN SECURITY." AND IT WOULD REMAIN, HE SAID, UNTIL THE SOVIET UNION SIGNED A PEACE SECURITY WITH EAST GERMANY. THE WEST FEARED THAT SUCH A TREATY WOULD RESULT IN EAST GERMANY CUTTING ACROSS ROUTES TO WEST BERLIN ACROSS EAST GERMANY TERRITORY. WEST BERLIN NOW FOUND ITSELF FACING ITS WORST CRISIS SINCE THE 1948 SOVIET BLOCKADE.

TO MANY BERLINERS THE WALL BECAME A GRIM JOKE; TO OTHERS IT WAS SEEN AS


A MONUMENT TO THE GRIEF OF A DIVIDED NATION. THE EAST GERMAN REGIME HAILED IT AS "A WALL OF PEACE." WEST GERMANS DUBBED IT "THE WALL OF SHAME," CLAIMING ITS SOLE PURPOSE WAS TO STEM THE FLOW OF DISCONTENTED EAST GERMANS INTO WEST BERLIN. EITHER WAY, ERECTION OF THE WALL HEIGHTENED WORLD TENSION AND BROUGHT ABOUT A WORSENING IN EAST-WEST RELATIONS THAT CAME PERILOUSLY CLOSE TO FLASHPOINT DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.

WITHIN A FORTNIGHT OF THE WALL BEING BUILT, THE WESTERN POWERS BROUGHT TROOP REINFORCEMENTS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR WEST BERLIN GARRISONS. THE FIRST WESTERN MILITARY REINFORCEMENTS -- A CONVOY OF U.S. TROOPS -- DROVE INTO THE CITY AUGUST 20 TO A WARM WELCOME FROM WEST BERLINERS, REMINISCENT OF LIBERATION DAY, 1945. THEN CAME A SHOW OF STRENGTH BYBOTH EAST AND WEST WITH TANKS AND ARMOURED TROOP CARRIERS RANGED MENACINGLY AT CHECKPOINTS ON THE CITY BORDER. ONE OF THE TENSION POINTS WAS 'CHECKPOINT CHARLIE' IN WEST BERLIN'S FRIEDRICHSTRASSE, WHERE ARMED TROOPS AND TANKS FACED EACH OTHER ONLY YARDS APART ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BORDER.

NEXT MONTH, SEPTEMBER, 1961 THE COMPULSORY EVACUATION OF EAST BERLINERS ALONG THE CITY'S SECTOR BORDER SPARKED TWO INCIDENTS WHICH ILLUSTRATED THE TENSION AND FRUSTRATION ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DIVIDING WALL. WHILE EAST BERLIN POLICE WERE SUPERVISING REMOVAL OF OCCUPANTS AND FURNITURE IN THE BERNAUERSTRASSE DISTRICT, THEY WERE JEERED AND CATCALLED BY A WEST BERLIN CROWD GATHERED AT THE FRENCH SECTOR BORDER. THE POLICE TOSSED SMOKE BOMBS TO DISPERSE THE CROWD, WHO PROMPTLY THREW THEM BACK. THE EAST GERMANS RETALIATED WITH DRENCHING


SPRAY FROM HIGH-POWER WATER CANNON.

MEANWHILE, IN ONE OF THE BUILDINGS BEING EVACUATED, A 77-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DECIDED SHE WOULD RATHER JUMP FROM AN UPSTAIRS WINDOW INTO WEST BERLIN THAN BE FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM HER HOME. THE HOUSE WAS IN EAST BERLIN BUT THE STREET OUTSIDE OPENED INTO WEST BERLIN. AS SHE HUNG OUT OF THE WINDOW, TWO EAST BERLIN POLICE HELD HER HANDS AND TRIED TO PULL HER BACK INTO THE HOUSE. A WEST BERLIN YOUTH PERCHED ON A LOWER WINDOW LEDGE, JUMPED UP AND GRABBED HER ANKLES. THE TUG-OF-WAR WENT ON UNTIL THE WOMAN FELL TO SAFETY INTO A CANVASS HELD BY WEST BERLINERS. SIMILAR EXITS IN BUILDINGS ALONG THE CITY BORDER WERE BRICKED UP BY EAST GERMAN WORKERS, BUT ESCAPE SIDE - SOME DARING, SOME FATAL -WENT ON FOR MONTHS. TODAY, FEW EAST GERMANS DARE TO BREAK THROUGH THE CORDON OF GUARDS AND CLAMBER THE WALL INTO WEST BERLIN, FOR TO DO SO MEANS ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH.

FRESH HOPES FOR A SETTLEMENT OF THE BERLIN DISPUTED CAME LAST MONTH AT THE 17-NATION DISARMAMENT TALKS BEING HELD IN GENEVA, DURING A BREAK IN THE TALKS, MR. GROMYKO, SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER, AND MR. DEAN RUSX, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, MET FOR DISCUSSING ON THE BERLIN PROBLEM. BUT THEIR CONFERENCE - AND LATER TALKS ON THE SAME ISSUE - FAILED TO YIELD POSITIVE RESULTS AND NOW SEEM TO HAVE REACHED DEADLOCK. MEANWHILE, THE BERLIN WALL REMAINS, SOLID AND SEEMINGLY IMPENETRABLE, SYMBOL OF A DIVIDED NATION IN A DIVIDED WORLD...


Archaeologists differed with the Ministry of Antiquities over a site known as Al-Abd Theatre overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Camp Shizar, Alexandria. The site was discovered in 2013 during excavation works carried out by the ministry on the request of the Al-Abd Theatre owner.According to Antiquities Law no 117 of 1983, the Ministry of Antiquities is the principal authority in charge of approving the construction of new buildings on any land in Egypt after inspecting it for archaeological value.

Excavations went as far as eight metres underground, uncovering a collection of Roman and Hellenistic objects including rock-hewn catacombs, statues, columns, vases and vessels.

But, regretfully, an archaeologist speaking on condition of anonymity said the residents nearby complained that it threatened the architectural stability of their buildings. “The technical report saidthe depth of the excavations undermined the surrounding buildings and recommended closing the site.”

One resident, Mustafa Hussein, complained after he noticed cracks appearing in a neighbouring building.

In March 2015, the source said, the archaeological committee that supervised the excavations sent its official report to the Permanent Committee for Ancient Egyptian Antiquities in order to take the suitable decision whether to relocate the newly uncovered objects to another location and give the land to its owner or declare the land an archaeological site under the umbrella of the ministry and recompense the owner.

When the report was submitted, he said, the Permanent Committee decided to remove the authentic objects and return the land to its original owner who in turn partially filled the site with sand after the artefacts were


On Nov. 11 thousands of people across Nova Scotia will gather at their local cenotaph to honour the men and women who fought and died in battle.

The Nova Scotia legion says there will be a ceremony at almost every cenotaph in the province.

Under the Remembrance Day Act, most stores, government offices and banks are closed.

Here's a list:

Halifax Transit:

Halifax Transit will be operating on its holiday schedule on Remembrance Day.

Halifax Transit is offering a free ride to veterans, military members and their accompanying family members on Remembrance Day. They ask members be in uniform or flash their military identification card.

Waste collection:

There will be no garbage, organics or recyclable collection service on Tuesday. Collection took place on Saturday Nov. 8.

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Under the Remembrance Day Act most retail businesses must be closedSecretary Kerry released a statement on the one year anniversary of the terror attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and the kosher supermarket in Paris. In the Weekly Standard, Elliott Abrams describes how Kerry moved from diminishing the tragedy of the targeted killing of France's Jewish citizens to ignoring it completely.

In an article for The Weekly Standard, Elliott Abrams discusses John Kerry’s remarks on terrorism that seem to distinguish attacks committed against the general population from those against targeted groups like journalists and Jews.

In the aftermath of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people, French authorities have conducted raids on suspected militants across France and launched airstrikes targeting the self-proclaimed Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa. Below, the Council on Foreign


Relations (CFR) and Foreign Affairs offer resources on the Paris attacks.

Tunisia was struck by a terrible act of terrorism today: gunmen, presumably of Islamist persuasion, stormed the Bardo museum in the capital, Tunis, killing tourists indiscriminately. Early news accounts suggest that at least 19 people were killed before security forces stormed the building and killed the terrorists.

Listen to Farah Pandith, CFR adjunct senior fellow and the first-ever State Department special representative to Muslim communities, put the January 7, 2015 massacre at the office of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in context, explain the appeal of violent Islamic extremism, and offer a long-term strategy to combat extremist ideology.

The U.S. has 9/11. Spain has 11-M (the March 11, 2004, bombings of the Madrid commuter trains which killed 191). Britain has 7/7have been prevented and according to the New York Times, it is "the first public examination of a breakdown in communications between the State Department and the C.I.A. during the weeks leading up to the deadly episode at the diplomatic compound." The Accountability Review Board released an unclassified report on the embassy attacks in December 2012.

Three State Department officials testified at the Committee for Oversight and Government Reform on May 8, 2013. The Accountability Review Board released an unclassified report on the embassy attacks in December 2012.


(CNN) A shark attack killed a 65-year-old man as he was swimming off the coast of Maui Saturday morning, according to authorities.

The man, who was from California, encountered the shark about 60 yards off of Kaanapali Beach at around 8:30 a.m. local time, Dan Dennison, a spokesman for Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources, told CNN. A close friend identified the victim as optometrist Dr. Thomas Smiley.

As a matter of protocol, authorities posted signs along a half-mile stretch beach warning people of a shark, Dennison said.

"Tom should be remembered for his zest for life. He enjoyed being around people and I don't think he liked being alone. He loved being around family and friends," Smiley's friend Gary Taxera told CNN.

An incident report from the County of Mauicampus gatekeepers have consistently chosen liars (Sean Spicer), war criminals (Henry Kissinger), people who physically assaulted journalists (Corey Lewandoski) and torture defenders (former CIA deputy director Michael Morell) rather than dissidents (Chelsea Manning) to inform their students about the state of modern politics. Harvard also denied Michelle Jones, a formerly incarcerated woman of color, the opportunity to pursue her Ph.D there (she ended up going to NYU). Meanwhile, the architects of torture, drone strikes, and illegal wars have had no trouble booking campus gigs. Yet there are few articles questioning these choices. Recent reporting revealed that the demand for prominent white-nationalist figures to speak on campus is not being driven by students wanting diverse speech, but rather a secretive foundation backed by the billionaire Koch brothers that aims


deeply held liberal notions of tolerance and equality, but rather an impulsive reaction to the demands of groups: women, people of color, LGBTQ people and others who have been silenced for decades demanding representation.

The Real Threat To Speech: The Billionaires and White Supremacists Who Control The Government

While views on free speech among the young haven’t changed, and much of the backlash is rooted in bigotry, there is another group who have used their wealth to dramatically limit speech: billionaires. From actually suing publications into oblivion, to attempting to sue publications into oblivion, to threatening to sue publications into oblivion, to buying publications and then pushing out people who disagree with them, to literally buying and then destroying publications in a hissyfit, billionaires have long been keen on silencingEurope, and Australia.

Apple Search Ads momentum continues

Less than two years after launching, Apple Search Ads is a mainstream media source coming in at number 3 in the number of apps running on the platform, just behind Facebook and Google. Its prime App Store real estate is lucrative space for marketers eager to get in front of the competition.

In gaming, ASA improved their rank from 5th to 4th place in the power ranking, while jumping four spots in install volume: from 14 to 10. Among non-gaming apps, Apple also advanced in the volume rankings: from 6th to 3rd.

Overall, their share in the app install pie has increased by nearly 20%. Most of this growth was driven by LATAM and Australia. Apple Search Ads certainly has significant momentum as it


Former NFL Player Gets Tased, Fights with Cops in Wild Arrest Video

Malik McDowell, a former 2nd round draft pick of the Seattle Seahawks, was arrested in February for assaulting a police officer. Now, the intense arrest footage has been released.

TMZ has obtained video of the incident, which shows McDowell getting tased after walking away from the officer, sitting on the floor of a store, and refusing to follow commands. Though, the taser did not seem to hinder McDowell. The former player rose to his feet after getting tased and then fought with the officer.

Watch:

The incident took place in February, in Lathrup Village, Michigan. As can be seen in the video, the officer tells McDowell to remain in his vehicle. However, McDowell refuses, and continues inside the convenience store.on a suspended license. In a separate incident, he is facing a charge of concealing a stolen vehicle,” Pro Football Talk reports.The Seattle Seahawks selected McDowell with the 35th overall pick in 2017. However, due to injuries suffered in an ATV accident only months after the draft, McDowell never played a snap in the league.Story cited here.


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her official capacity as a Member of the Texas Board of Dental Examiners;
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Board of Dental Examiners; TIM O'HARE, in his official capacity as a
Member of the Texas Board of Dental Examiners; KIRBY BUNEL, JR., D. D.
S., in his official capacity as a Member of the Texas Board of Dental
Examiners; WILLIAM R. BIRDWELL, D. D. S., in his official capacity as a
Member of the Texas Board of Dental Examiners; EMILY A. CHRISTY, in
her official capacity as a Member of the Texas Board of Dental Examiners;
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the TexasBoard of Dental Examiners; RODOLFO G. RAMOS, JR., D. D. S.,
in his official capacity as a Member of the Texas Board of Dental Examiners;
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Dental Examiners; WHITNEY HYDE, in her official capacity as a Member of
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wish to advertise in areas recognized as specialties by
other dental organizations but not by the ADA. They argue the First and
Fourteenth Amendments give them the right to do so.
      This appeal involves several plaintiffs. The organizational plaintiffs
include the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, the American Society of
Dental Anesthesiologists, the American Academy of Oral Medicine, and the
American Academy of Orofacial Pain.          These organizations are national
organizations with member dentists. The purpose of each organization is to
advance the interests of dentists practicing in the organization’s respective
practice area. Each organization sponsors a credentialing board and offers
credentials to members who demonstrate expertise in their respective field.

             Eradication of dracunculiasis from Pakistan.
In 1986 the World Health Organization targeted dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease), which seriously impairs socioeconomic development in 16 African countries, India, Pakistan, and Yemen, to be eradicated globally. The target date for eradication by the end of 1995 was established in 1991. Pakistan eradicated dracunculiasis from the country in October, 1993, after a national campaign which began in 1987 with a nationwide village-by-village search for cases. The infection, which is transmitted by drinking water from ponds containing infected water fleas, was eradicated by using health education, cloth filters, and the cyclopsicide, temephos; and in the later stages, by case containment. Methods pioneered in Pakistan's National Guinea Worm Eradication Program are now being applied in remaining endemic countries.


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PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders – including actors Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover – descended on the media area of the Democratic National Convention Wednesday to show support for former Ohio Sen. Nina Turner, who says she was not permitted to speak at the convention.

Turner, Ohio's highest-profile Sanders supporter, has developed a national following. Sanders asked Cleveland's Turner to give a speech to put his name in nomination Tuesday, but she ultimately was not allowed to speak, she told Cleveland.com.

Tweets and reports said that night the Hillary Clinton campaign had revoked her credentials, but Turner told The Enquirer in a text message she had not been escorted out. Still, her saga galvanized Sanders supporters still disappointed in their candidate's loss to Clinton andtrying to get involved,” Watral said.

Despite the excitement at the media center, the rally did not involve a majority of Sanders' 1,900 delegates and didn't interrupt the convention, which was already underway Wednesday evening.

"Honestly, I don't know anything about it," said Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper, who was inside the arena. "Lots of excitement inside to hear from (former Congresswoman) Gabby Giffords, the vice president and president among others."

Staff writer Chrissie Thompson contributed.


can be premised on an uninformed and simplistic version of the dilemma being faced.

To return to my initial points, starting with the matter of whether Mr Rose should have been invited in the first instance. The Academic Freedom Committee comprises 13 members, who receive nominations from the university community, and select a speaker from those nominated.

In March 2015, when the decision to invite Mr Rose was taken, it was in part because of threats to education posed by ISIS and Boko Haram, as well as emerging debates on visual representation (the Rhodes statue), that the committee considered him to be the strongest candidate of those nominated.

It would also be an error to view the 2016 invitee in isolation, rather than considering the history of the TB Davie lectureknow what Mr Rose intended to say, because he wasn’t allowed to speak. In consequence, those who see him as a cartoon villain protect their prejudices from challenge, and we diminish the advance of reason, and the discovery of truth.

Jacques Rousseau is an author, academic and activist, who was serving as the Chair of the Academic Freedom Committee during the time these events unfolded.

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PEN South Africa, founded in 1927, is one of more than 140 Centres of PEN International, which currently operate in over 100 countries. A worldwide, politically non-aligned organisation of writers, PEN International is dedicated to promoting freedom of expression, and encouraging the growth and strengthening of literature. Its foundational text is the PEN Charter, which all Centres and members of PEN must uphold.


not appear to be in dispute.   Delaware County ("Delaware" or the "County"), organized by the New York State legislature in 1797, is one of New York's 62 counties and covers an area of 1460 square miles in the central region of the State.   According to the 1990 census, the County has a total population of 47,225, spread over 19 towns that have disparate numbers of residents.   The smallest town is Bovina with a population of 550;  the largest is Sidney with a population of 6,667.   The mean population of Delaware's towns is 2,486.   The County is governed by its 19-member Board of Supervisors, with each member (or "Supervisor") elected by the citizens who reside in his orher town.

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The plaintiffs in the present action are Roxbury Alliance, an unincorporated association organized to monitor compliance by County officials with local laws;  Susan E. Moore and Edward V.S. Moore (the "Moores"), who are residents of the Town of Middletown (population 3,406);  and Elsa MacDonald who is a resident of Sidney.   Plaintiffs contended that the County's use of single-member voting districts of disparate populations impermissibly dilutes the votes of those citizens residing in towns with larger-than-average populations.   They sought a declaratory judgment that the system of electing one representative from each town violates the Equal Protection Clause and an injunction requiring reapportionment of the voting districts.

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The Board defended on the ground that, notwithstanding the single-member voting districts of disparate populations, there is


of vote taken by the Board, to the Board members in proportion to their respective towns' populations based on the 1990 census.

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For example, as to proposed County legislation needing the affirmative vote of a simple majority, the Supervisor representing Bovina (population 550) is allocated 39 votes, which he or she must cast as a bloc;  the Bovina Supervisor has, instead, 28 votes when a two-thirds majority is needed, and 27 votes when a three-fifths majority is required.   In comparison, the Supervisor representing Sidney (population 6,667) has 468 votes when a simple majority is needed, 358 votes when the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Board's total votes is required, and 308 votes when a three-fifths majority is needed. Thus, where a resolution requires a simpleyear.

Google chairman Eric Schmidt.

Eric Schmidt, the billionaire chairman of Google, is just one of many trying – and so far failing – to find a suitable home despite his willingness to part with over £30m.

The internet entrepreneur has appointed a friend of Prince William to find him a family-sized home in the upmarket London neighbourhoods of Chelsea or Holland Park. He is yet to find somewhere despite being described as not a particularly "fussy buyer".

The Guardian is aware of at least one famous footballer who is struggling to find a suitable home in central London with a similar sum to Schmidt at his disposal.

David Adams, whose agency John Taylor specialises in marketing luxury homes with an average asking price of £15.5m, said it was getting harder to find


at dinner parties. "It's how the market is right now," he said.

According to investment firm London Central Portfolio, there have only been nine properties sold for more than £20m in London so far this year, although these figures exclude those bought in the name of a company, a technique used by many overseas buyers.

Agents report houses in the £1m-£2m price bracket selling fast, but fear the £6m-£15m market is flooded with sellers who are rushing to cash in on recent prices. De Keyzer said at the very top end, properties were simply not changing hands.

"A lot of the international buyers who bought a few years ago have seen the values of those properties rise – in Knightsbridge, for example prices have gone up by 130% over the lastdonors” might have contacted Yale to suggest that such a paradigm is unthinkable at a leading institution of higher learning. Just speculating, mind you.

Across the pond, British Member of Parliament George Galloway was recently attacked and beaten in London by a man wearing an Israeli Defense Forces t-shirt who shouted about the holocaust as he dislocated Galloway’s jaw and broke his ribs. The attacker had been stalking Galloway and had written on his Facebook page that he would like to cut his throat. During the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, the parliamentarian had declared that his district in Bradford should be an “Israel free zone” and he urged his supporters to boycott all Israeli goods, services, academics and tourists. He was subsequently “interviewed under caution” by the police and


bodies are biased against Israel and can safely be ignored. The Arabs are so heedless of the value of human life that they deliberately used their own children as human shields while the Israeli army “the most moral in the world” reacted humanely and only returned fire when fired upon. In support of that line, Israel is disputing reliable United Nations statistics, obtained on the ground in Gaza, revealing that three quarters of the victims of the Israeli assault on Gaza were civilians, including 495 children and 253 women. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is instead insisting that 1000 of the more than two thousand dead were “terrorist operatives,” the preferred Israeli term, even though Israel has had no access to the actual casualties.

Of course the new “Standby Israel” narrative is wrong in nearly every detail: the Israelis have rejected Arab offers for a comprehensive peace agreement; Israel started terrorism in the Middle East when it ethnically cleansed the Palestinians starting in 1948; the Israeli army epitomizes state sponsored terrorism in its brutal and illegal occupation of the West Bank; Israel is a true democracy only for its Jewish citizens; Israel provoked the carnage in Gaza; and there is no actual evidence of Palestinians using children as human shields. Israeli gunners killed civilians indiscriminately in their attack on Gaza just as they did in 2009 and, it might be added, that Israel has frequently been accused of other assorted crimes against humanity as well as war crimes over its oppression of the Palestinians. It has


5-year-old girl hit by van as school bus loaded students in SW Houston

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 5-year-old girl crossing the street was hit by a van Thursday morning in southwest Houston.

Around 7:30 a.m., police say a school bus was loading kids in the 9000 block of Lipan Road and Armstrong Street when a woman in a silver van was heading toward the bus.

The van approached the bus, which had its stop sign arm deployed, but the driver says she didn't see it.

At that same moment, a 5-year-old girl who had just been dropped off by her parents crossed the street and the van hit her.

HPD says the woman is being cited for failing to stop for a school bus. She said it is not uncommon to seeThe publishing world sees very few books reach blockbuster status, but William Paul Young’s The Shack has now exceeded even that. The book, originally self-published by Young and two friends, has now sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into over thirty languages. It is now one of the best-selling paperback books of all time, and its readers are enthusiastic.
According to Young, the book was originally written for his own children. In essence, it can be described as a narrative theodicy — an attempt to answer the question of evil and the character of God by means of a story. In this story, the main character is grieving the brutal kidnapping and murder of his seven-year-old daughter when he receives what turns out to be


considering the offer.

Van Gaal gave debuts to 14 academy graduates, including midfielder Jesse Lingard, who scored the winner in Saturday’s FA Cup final, and striker Marcus Rashford, who has netted eight goals since making his debut in February, earning a call-up to the England squad.

“He leaves us with a legacy of having given several young players the confidence to show their ability on the highest stage,” added Woodward.

Former Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Van Gaal has spent over £250m in his time at Old Trafford, achieving a fourth-place and fifth-place finish in the Premier League in his two seasons in charge. They missed out on Champions League qualification to neighbours Manchester City.

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Defiant Van Gaal ‘proud’ of Man Utd Cup triumph

FormerHe added: “Nobody but nobody in world football brings in the trophies like Jose Mourinho.”

And former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel said Mourinho “really could save” United, calling the decision “long overdue” after the club “moved a little bit backwards in terms of its philosophy and traditions”.

Van Gaal’s two years in stats

Manchester United scored 49 Premier League goals this season – their lowest since the 1989-90 season

For the second consecutive season, United ended up with a negative goal difference away from home

They went 11 home games without scoring a first-half goal earlier this season

They conceded the joint-fewest goals in the league – 35 – along with Tottenham

The team made 3,222 backwards passes – the most in the league

They had the highest possession average in the league at 58.47%

Van


Gaal used 33 players over the season – the second highest number after Liverpool (34)

United topped the clean sheet table alongside Arsenal with 18

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Van Gaal waved as he left Manchester United’s Carrington training ground for the last time on Monday at around 17:00 BST

In a statement released by the club at the same time his dismissal was announced, Van Gaal added: “It has been a pleasure to work with the players and it has been particularly rewarding to see so many young players take their chance to break into the first team and excel. I look forward to watching the continued development of these young players next season.”

This season’s 49 league goals is United’s lowest total since 1989-90 and they went 11 home games without scoring a first-halfgoal earlier this season.

Having discussed severance terms earlier on Monday – Van Gaal is believed to earn around £6.4m a year – United officially confirmed his departure late on Monday.

“It has been an honour to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition,” he said in a statement.

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Louis van Gaal leaves: Funniest moments from former Man Utd man

“I am immensely proud to have helped United win the FA Cup for the 12th time in the club’s history. I have been privileged during my management career to have won 20 trophies but winning the FA Cup, which is steeped in so much history, will always be one of the most special achievements


of my career. “

Despite being subject to chants of “attack, attack, attack” at Old Trafford this season and being booed by supporters when lifting the FA Cup trophy at Wembley, Van Gaal added: “I would also like to express my gratitude to the amazing United supporters. They are truly the best fans in the world.”

His statement also thanked everyone at the club from directors – including former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and club legend Bobby Charlton – through to the catering team and kit and laundry department, adding “never in my 25 years as a manager have I been so well supported in my role”.

Van Gaal arrived at Manchester United’s training ground at 08:45 BST on Monday and left shortly before 17:00.

United delayed announcing the decision of hisdeparture to allow Van Gaal to leave the country, and he has now gone to the Algarve, Portugal.

Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea last December, just seven months after leading the London club to the Premier League title.

The Portuguese agreed a deal in principle with United before the FA Cup final.

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Jose Mourinho was followed by reporters outside his home in London on Monday

Former Porto, Inter Milan and Real Madrid boss Mourinho is one of the game’s most successful coaches, winning three league titles in his two spells at Stamford Bridge, as well as guiding Porto and Inter to Champions League victories in 2004 and 2010 respectively.

He also led Real to the Spanish title in 2012 – and his arrival will mean a mouth-watering resumption of his rivalry with former


Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola. The Spaniard will take over at United’s arch-rivals Manchester City this summer.

He was previously linked with the Old Trafford post when Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, but the club appointed David Moyes instead.

Timeline of Van Gaal’s sacking

Saturday, 21 May. 20:00 BST – Manchester United win the FA Cup

Saturday, 21 May. 20:54 BST – BBC Sport breaks the news that Van Gaal will be sacked, with Jose Mourinho in line to replace himFirst European astronaut visits the International Space Station

Umberto Guidoni

11 April 2001

ESA Press Release No 17-2001Follow the Shuttle launch from various ESA establishments and monitor mission highlights live on the ESA web site.

ESA astronaut Umberto Guidoni from Italy will be the first European to visit the International Space Station when he lifts off aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on 19 April with an international crew of seven, including Canada’s Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.

On this ninth shuttle mission to the International Space Station the large Canadian robotic arm and a UHF antenna will be installed and the Italian-built logistics module Raffaello will deliver equipment, consumables and scientific experiments to the station’s Destiny laboratory module. At least two space walks will be needed to install the arm and antenna.

Launch


medicine, biology and technology.

The cargo carrier

Raffaello is one of three "multi-purpose logistics modules" developed by the Italian Space Agency, ASI, for NASA, with Alenia Spazio as prime contractor. The first module, Leonardo, made its debut last month, delivering the first major laboratory experiments and crew supplies to the Station. The Donatello module will make its first trip in July. Each module is designed to perform 25 missions during its 10-year operational life. And it was Italy’s development of these modules that earned ESA astronaut Guidoni his “ticket” to the International Space Station.

Media representatives in Europe can follow the STS-100 Space Shuttle mission from ESA/ESRIN in Frascati (Italy), ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk (the Netherlands) or the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne (Germany). At each site, a presentation of the missionrunning off the road. The airbags in Wilson's 1996 Ford Taurus did not deploy. A post-accident inspection revealed that the Taurus had no driver's side airbag and the passenger's side airbag was electronically detached and inoperable.
¶ 2. The Taurus had been previously owned by Carolyn Chestnutt, who bought the vehicle new on October 3, 1996. On March 17, 1997, Chestnutt rear-ended another vehicle, and both airbags properly deployed. In a deposition she testified that she did not have the airbags reinstalled. Instead she stuffed the driver's side airbag back into the steering wheel and taped it with duct tape. Chestnutt also stuffed the passenger's side airbag back into its compartment and clamped the cover back onto the dash. Chestnutt testified that the airbag warning light stayed illuminated after


mentioned that the vehicle had frame damage and "airbag deployed" was written on the windshield of the vehicle. The bill of sale also contained notations about the frame damage and the deployment of the airbags. A sticky residue was still on the steering wheel from the duct tape Chestnutt had used. Overby then sold the vehicle to Wilson on June 2, 2001.
¶ 5. On December 30, 2002, Earnestine Russell (Russell), individually and on behalf of the wrongful death beneficiaries of Wilson, filed suit in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jasper County against Ford and Overby. George Jean Hayes (Hayes), individually and on behalf of the wrongful death beneficiaries of Mario Hayes, filed suit on the same day against Ford, Overby, and the estate ofIt is widely known that variable valve actuation can be used to improve fuel economy and emissions by reintroducing hot exhaust gasses into the combustion chamber. This is often referred to as internal exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). It is distinguished from external EGR which is effected by way of a passage that leads from the exhaust to the intake manifold and includes an EGR valve.
One method of generating internal EGR involves the re-opening of the exhaust valve during the induction stroke. As the piston moves down the cylinder, exhaust as well as intake gases are introduced into the cylinder prior to compression and ignition.
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and Malaria audited its Mali program. The case "could threaten international aid flows into the West African country," according to the news service. Global Fund spokesman Andrew Hurd "said more than $300,000" of the group's grants to Mali had been stolen and the organization has not suspended grants to the country. "We would not consider such action until we have a complete investigation," Hurd said (Diallo, 9/8).

Most HIV-Positive Indians Not Receiving Treatment On Time, Global Fund Says

"[O]nly one-third of all the people who are estimated to be in need" of HIV treatment in India are receiving it on time, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine said, according to Reuters. "Clearly India is one of the countries with the smallest percent of healthis told that contrary to myth, eating fruits such as mango and proteins such as eggs is nutritious and won't harm the fetus." The article also examines mobile phone programs funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at banking and farming (Kang, 9/8).

Central Africa Polio Cases Threaten Eradication Efforts, WHO Warns

"The World Health Organization has warned that fresh cases of polio in Angola and Congo indicate the paralyzing disease is spreading again in central Africa," Canadian Press reports (9/8). In a press release, the WHO said that central Africa is at the "greatest risk to Africa's polio eradication efforts" and presents a "risk to achieving" polio eradication in Africa by the end of 2010. The organization recommended increased country surveillance and vaccination campaigns to "minimise the


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The video appeared for about half a minute on an electronic billboard at a busy intersection on the main road through Makati City, the central business district of the sprawling capital, Manila, on Tuesday afternoon.

Makati Mayor Abigail Binay immediately ordered the billboard shut down after the clip of a couple having sex was shown, but pictures and videos of it captured by motorists on their mobile phones were shared widely on social media.

The billboard will remain closed pending the results of an investigation, Binay said. That investigation will include whether


Three CNN employees have resigned from the company for their role in pushing a botched Trump-Russia story that claimed a member of the Trump transition team was under investigation.

Reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and executive editor Lex Haris all resigned from their positions following a company-wide investigation into the single-sourced story that was quickly debunked, The Washington Post first reported. CNN quickly followed up with a story of their own on the resignations. Lichtblau reportedly oversaw the false story, while Haris headed up CNN’s investigative unit.

“In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” CNN’s coverage quotes a company spokesman as saying.

The retracted story, which relied upon a single unnamed congressionalConcern over teenagers doing bombs into filthy floodwater at Porirua Railway Station saw the police called to cordon the area.

Mass rainfall on Thursday created a mucky pool from the platform down into the subway tunnel, with the ramp railing being used as a diving area for the night-time jumpers.

After seeing a video on Facebook of the bombers, Porirua mayor Nick Leggett said he initially thought it was just a bit of fun, but ended up calling the police.

Leggett posted on Facebook to say he had shared the video himself, thinking it was "harmless", but after seeing copy-cat videos asked police to patrol the area to put a stop to it.

"Clearly it had given some other kids some ideas."

He was concerned about the contamination of the floodwater. "If there


is sewage in that water then there would be a health risk," he said.

Civil Defence warned people on Thursday to stay out of floodwaters because of potential sewage contamination.

Leggett said he was also worried about electrical currents in the water because of subway lights and wiring, as well as the risk of kids getting sucked under the subway.

"I saw the video, and a hundred thousand other people saw it, and you sort of think 'oh yep that's a bit of a laugh,'" he said.

But late at night when there was no one around, the risk in jumping in was not worth it, he said.

Police were called in to cordon-off the area and no jumpers were hurt, he said.

In the future, Leggett said the area would be better monitored.

"Nextof Nell Gwynn. The book opens in 17th century London, with a ten-year-old Gwynn selling oysters on the streets and trying to avoid beatings meted out by her alcoholic mother. Over the course of the book, Nell becomes a prostitute, an actress, and eventually mistress to the king.

Where Bagwell is head and shoulder above the rest, is in the easy delivery of dialogue that sounds about right for the time. Too often, dialogue in historical fiction can ring a little false. At worst, characters' speech read as though it were simply littered with period-appropriate words after the fact.

Perhaps key to this sense of verisimilitude is the fact that The Darling Strumpet manages to convey a sense of 17th century life that isn’t all nobility and wealth. Obviously, in


disgraced Marquess of Bourne, having gambled away his family fortune and been turned out of polite society. Years later, Lawler seeks to regain his lost family fortune from a new position of power in the London underworld.

He is matched by Lady Penelope Marbury, who was scandalized when her marriage was called off at the last moment. Now, by chance, her father has come into possession of Lawler's old estate, and you can probably imagine how things shape up from there.

Sarah MacLean is the winner of two RITA Awards for best historical romance from the Romance Writers of America. She's also another name from the file of “historical romance books with titles too good not to recommend.” A Rogue by Any Other Name is followed in short order bySouthcote, Berkshire

Southcote () is a suburb of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. Located to the south-west of Reading town centre, Southcote has a population of about 8,500 (as of 2011). The settlement lies primarily between the London-to-Bath road and the River Kennet.

The area was sparsely populated until after the Second World War, though excavations have revealed evidence of Paleolithic and Iron Age activity in Southcote, as well as Roman and Saxon habitation. By the time William the Conqueror undertook the Domesday Survey in 1086, Southcote was sufficiently established to warrant a Lord of the Manor, who at that time was William de Braose. From the 16th century onwards, Southcote Manor was owned by the Blagrave family, who sold the manor house in the 1920s. The area


More specifically, the 2000 survey showed different types of gravel, including Winter Hill (variably clayey and sandy), Lynch Hill (sand and gravel with lenses of silt, clay or peat), and head (a polymict deposit usually formed by periglacial solifluction or gelifluction). The survey also identified that much of the land south of the Kennet is "infilled" or "worked" ground; this area was formerly gravel pits and now used for leisure. The British Geological Survey defines infilled ground as "areas where the ground has been cut away then wholly or partially backfilled" and worked ground as "areas where the ground has been cut away such as quarries and road cuttings".

Built environment

The settlement is concentrated to the south of the Bath Road (A4). Southcote consists substantially of planned post-warHappy Days, that features some delightful guest appearances by the iconic Fonzie (Henry Winkler), Laverne & Shirley holds up surprisingly well as a female buddy comedy. The performances of Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams still provide their fair share of laughs, and fans should have a lot of nostalgic fun revisiting this classic Garry Marshall sitcom.

Along with all 176 episodes spread over eight seasons, Laverne & Shirley: The Complete Series also includes gag reels and the original episodic promos.

The Odd Couple: The Complete Series: Running from 1970 to 1975, The Odd Couple follows the friendship between the neat and organized photographer Felix Unger (Tony Randall), and the messy and disorganized sportswriter Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman), who are forced to share the same apartment after their wives divorce them.

Adapted


from the 1965 stage play of the same name by Neil Simon, and the 1968 movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathieu, The Odd Couple is one of the most iconic comedy pairings of all time. Produced by Garry Marshall, the show remains one of television’s most enduring sitcoms, with memorable dialogue and pitch perfect performances from Tony Randall and Jack Klugman.

Along with all 114 episodes spread over five seasons, The Odd Couple: The Complete Series also includes audio introductions by Garry Marshall and commentary tracks on selected episodes, as well as archival interviews and a gag reel.in such a way that lived it just by listening.’

Never read, or merely neglected, the letter remained untended until its discovery in 2012

As with many documents of the era, the ‘Joan Anderson’ letter travelled a complex path through many hands, and for the majority of the last 66 years was considered lost. After being entranced by it and responding, Kerouac gave the letter to Allen Ginsberg to read and offer to publishers. Ginsberg then took the letter to his friend Gerd Stern, who was living in Sausalito in California on a houseboat and working as a West Coast rep for Ace Books. Within the tight Beat nexus, Ginsberg and Stern formed a bond after meeting at the mental facility where they were both introduced to (Howl-dedicatee) Carl Solomon.


his death on 29 November 2011. On the following 15 May, Jack’s daughter Jean discovered this long-lost treasure of post-war American literature, buried among the files of the Golden Goose Press.

Only a fragment of the letter has ever been published — 14 years after it was written, and after the great works it influenced had come out. A portion of the letter, apparently copied by Kerouac before he passed it on to Ginsberg, was published in 1964 by John Bryan in his Notes from Underground #1, where it was called ‘The First Third’. Bryan claimed that Cassady himself came to help print it, while the title suggests that Cassady was by this time considering it as the first portion of his ongoing autobiography. The same extract was publishedBangladesh's cricket group was booked to play against New Zealand's national squad in Christchurch for an arrangement occurring on the island country, which has since been dropped. group was booked to play againstnational squad in Christchurch for an arrangement occurring on the island country, which has since been dropped.

After a conservative Australian fear based oppressor opened flame on admirers New Zealand's Christchurch, executing 49 individuals and harming scores of others, the whole world is as yet reeling from the assault, the aggregate of which was live-spilled via web-based networking media stages by the killer.

While examinations are continuous, and the injury of the assaults will keep on resounding over the typically serene nation and its transient Muslim people group, one specific gathering of would-be admirers had a lenient break.

Bangladesh's


cricket group was planned to play against New Zealand's national squad in Christchurch for an arrangement occurring on the island country, which has since been dropped. To be sure, Bangladeshi players were intended to go to their Friday supplications at one of the mosques targetted by the shooter.

In a video posted on Twitter, the group's administrator Khaled Mashud Pil uncovered that the players and care staff had a nearby getaway, barely maintaining a strategic distance from the assault from a negligible 50 feet away.

Practically cricket group, notwithstanding rare sorts of people who remained at the inn, was there, said Mashud Pil, including In the event that we had achieved any before, we would be inside the mosque. I'm extremely fortunate and appreciative that we were outside.

In the meantime,messages of solidarity and backing poured in from around the globe killed and injured in the deplorable wrongdoing, as did appreciation for the individuals who had gotten away. Adding to the reverberating theme were individuals from the Indian cricketing network, which included present and previous players, specialists and others. They incorporated their voices in the judgment of the assault, just as their help for the Bangladesh group.

Bangladeshi writer Mohammad Isam, in a tweet, announced that the whole Bangladesh cricket group were among the individuals who get away from the mosque close Hagley.

The Bangladesh Cricket Team's legitimate Twitter handle additionally gave a refresh, guaranteeing the open that all colleagues were sheltered, expressing, All individuals from are securely back in the inn following the occurrence.

The handle likewise declared the joint


HANOVER, Germany, Dec 4 Germany's conservative
Christian Democrats (CDU) put on a show of total unity at a
congress on Tuesday, re-electing Angela Merkel as party leader
by a record margin as she prepares to fight for a third term as
chancellor.

Merkel, at the height of her popularity, was returned
unopposed as CDU chairwoman with 97.9 percent of votes from
delegates who stood and applauded her for nearly eight minutes
after she lauded Germany's economic resilience in the euro
crisis and promised to fight for jobs and prosperity.

The score was her best since becoming CDU leader 12 years
ago and the highest since her political mentor Helmut Kohl won
by over 99 percent in 1975. German reporters joked that it was
the kind of overwhelming number Merkel saw communist leaders
score in sham elections during her youth in East Germany.

"Theseare turbulent times and sometimes we find ourselves
in stormy waters. But it is the German CDU that has the clear
direction to steer our country through these seas," said Merkel.

When Merkel, a former research physicist, vaulted to the
leadership of the CDU in 2000 after a campaign funding scandal
that had tarnished Kohl and his designated successor Wolfgang
Schaeuble, the party was dominated by older men from the west.

Since then, Merkel has sidelined a series of would-be male
rivals and modernised the party, bringing in more women and
people with immigrant backgrounds. With popularity ratings close
to 70 percent, no one questions her authority any more.

In a mark of her status, one lapel badge being given away at
the congress pictured her with the two giants of the CDU: Konrad
Adenauer, the first postwar chancellor, who forged