next 15 days, the sources said.

The official line taken by PDP is that it needs a seat-sharing arrangement for Rajya Sabha polls. But the party has declined to name the outfit with which it is looking to enter into an understanding.

"We will have to have a seat-sharing arrangement with one of the parties to safeguard PDP's interest and win all the four seats," said Naeem Akhtar, PDP's chief spokesman.

PDP has already announced two candidates for the polls - Nazir Ahmad Laway and Fayaz Ahmad Mir, both of whom unsuccessfully contested the Assembly elections from Kulgam and Kupwara seats, respectively, losing narrowly.

"The process is going on... We will let you know in due course of time," he said.

The Election Commission on January 21 issued three notifications for the fourRajya Sabha seats in the state - one each for two seats and another for the remaining two. While 44 votes will be required to win the seats for which separate notifications have been issued, 30 votes each will ensure victory on the remaining two seats.

PDP, with 28 seats, is the single-largest party in the state Assembly, which is currently in suspended animation, while BJP has 25 seats and enjoys the support of at least two other MLAs in the 87-member house.

The numbers under PDP-BJP together are enough to get them three seats but the opposition camp - National Conference (15 seats) and Congress (12 seats) - can run away with the fourth seat.

NC working President Omar Abdullah said his party is discussing the various possibilities for the


The National Hockey League is facing multiple lawsuits at the moment citing its lack of attention to and prevention of concussions through the decades. None of them bring the National Hockey League Players Association under the same microscope, perhaps out of fear of litigious cannibalism.

But the players’ role in the concussion protocol’s challenges and failures is something that, frankly, can’t be ignored.

Take James Wisniewski of the Columbus Blue Jackets as the latest example.

In Game 6 against the Pittsburgh Penguins, with his team facing elimination, the Wiz was knocked into the boards violently by Tanner Glass, resulting in a Blue Jackets power play. Wisniewski had to be assisted to his skates before leaving for the back. He would return in the second period.

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But reading his comments on theThe rock band Ho-Kago Tea Time, which consists of the voice actors of the K-ON! anime, last performed onstage in 2011. Eight years later, the band made a surprise appearance on Sunday at the yearly anime song concert event Animelo Summer Live 2019.

Voices actresses Aki Toyosaki (Yui Hirasawa), Yōko Hikasa (Mio Akiyama), Satomi Satou (Ritsu Tainaka), Minako Kotobuki (Tsumugi Kotobuki ), and Ayana Taketatsu (Azusa Nakano) performed as their respective characters in the anime's soundtrack and best-selling CD releases.

The five members lined up onstage and said, "This is Ho-Kago Tea Time!" before uttering their signature lines. Toyosaki said, "Sorry to keep you waiting!" Hikasa said, "Moe Moe Kyun!" and Satou said, "I'm the club president!" They also spoke of how touched they were at the audience's support after


the anime's original release 10 years ago. After that, they played K-ON!!'s first opening theme song "GO! GO! MANIAC." After they finished performing, Satou told Hikasa, "Mio, don't cry," as they walked off the stage.

kakifly 's original four-panel comedy manga follows a group of high school girls who form an afterschool rock band. The manga inspired two television anime series from Kyoto Animation in 2009 and 2010. It also received an anime film in 2011.

This year's Animelo Summer Live event was held from August 30 to September 1 at the Saitama Super Arena. Dwango and Nippon Cultural Broadcasting have been holding the anime song event annually since 2005.

Source: Ongaku Natalieis the surgical procedure in which a non healing wound or a burn wound is covered by a piece of healthy skin taken either from the patient or from a cadaver or an animal; the graft taken does not have its own blood supply and is completely separated from its original site . Skin graft is either used a temporary wound cover or a permanent one. Some wounds such as third degree burns if left to heal on their own can lead to scarring and contractions.

As the skin is the largest organ in the body and among its functions is playing a major role in protecting the body from fluid loss and help in preventing harmful micro organisims such as bacteria and viruses from entering the body and


the Pentagon outlined the basics of how it would implement President Barack Obama's promised repeal of DADT in a 95-page report that accompanied a much larger review of the issue.

In December, Congress repealed the 17-year-old policy, and the next month, the Pentagon outlined the steps it would take to comply with the new law.

The military services began training senior officers, chaplains, lawyers and counselors on the new policy last month. But the bulk of troops will be briefed on how openly gay service members will be integrated over the next few weeks.

The Army, the largest of the services, plans to train its 565,000 active-duty troops by mid-July and 567,000 members of the Guard and Reserve by mid-August.

"We believe training can be wrapped up by the end of nextmonth," Sarvis said, noting that there will be an additional 60 days for training that may take place after the White House and Pentagon leaders certify the military is good to go on repeal.

Among the "guiding principles" laid out in the Army slides: "standards of conduct apply to everyone regardless of sexual orientation," soldiers should "treat each other with dignity and respect" and "there is no expectation to change religious or moral views."

The document also notes that the Defense of Marriage Act, which Democrats in Congress launched a campaign to overturn on Wednesday, will still bar soldiers in legally sanctioned same-sex marriages from receiving spousal medical, housing and other benefits taken for granted by straight service members.

Alex Nicholson, the executive director of the gay-rights group Servicemembers United, said


Nigerian Government Promises An Amendment To The Cybercrime Act

The Federal Government has stated that the Federal Ministry of Justice is committed to pursuing the amendment of the Cybercrimes Act, which many lawyers, journalists and activists have considered repressive, unconstitutional and illegal.

This was stated on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, by Mr. Terlumun George Tyendezwa, Head, Cybercrimes Prosecution Unit, Federal Ministry of Justice, at a Media Interactive Session on the Constitutionality and Legality of the Cybercrimes Act in Nigeria, organized by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USA.

At the Media Interactive Session held in Ikeja, Lagos, Mr. Tyendezwa said: The Cybercrimes Act is not perfect. One of the reasons why I am here is that I have an open door,Cybercrimes Act as repressive, oppressive and unconstitutional. The Act should immediately be repealed or dropped, as many of its provisions blatantly offend the rights to freedom of expression, association and media freedom.

The group also called on the next Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to prioritize challenging in court the constitutionality and legality of the Cybercrime Act, which is antithetical to respect for freedom of expression including online and the governments commitment to fight grand corruption.

Participants at the interactive session included: representatives of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, PTCIJ, National Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International, Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism, Media Rights Agenda, the German Consulate, Director General of the National Orientation Agency.

Earlier, Mr Tayo Oyetibo, SAN in his paper titled The


their differences. When Moon and Christine become neighbors, they quickly become BFFs, with Moon even revealing that she sometimes has visions of celestial beings — but when the all-too-Earthly root of these visions lands Moon in the hospital, Christine has to navigate being her friend even when the sky is falling, and not just when they’re sharing music and painting their toenails in the absence of Christine’s strict parents.

Stunt

Cartoonist: Michael Deforge

Publisher: Koyama Press

Release Date: Sept. 10

List Price: $15.00

Seeing your double is often viewed as an ill omen, a portent of bad luck, and a harbinger of death. Hiring a professional double, an actor spurs on his own demise as he and his double explore the depths of degradation and self-destruction.

Bloodlust & Bonnets

Cartoonist: Emily McGovern

Publisher: Andrews McMeel

Release Date: Sept.17

List Price: $19.99

Lady Violet Travesty, the leader of a local vampire cult, is very intrigued by unworldly debutante Lucy. However, before Lucy can go galavanting off to a life of vampiric debauchery, she’s unexpectedly thrown together with the flamboyant poet Lord Byron and a bounty-hunter named Sham. The trio make their way across 19th-century Britain together, desperately trying not to reveal their feelings to each other, even as they flirt and fight and disrupt society balls — you know, the usual.

Cats of the Louvre

Cartoonist: Taiyo Matsumoto

Translator: Michael Arias

Publisher: Viz Media LLC

Release Date: Sept. 17

List Price: $29.99

The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris contains more than just the most famous works of art in history. At night, within its darkened galleries, an unseen and surreal world comes alive—a world witnessed


be lurking in one of the rooms. But when he meets a young companion—the only other soul in this vast, enveloping emptiness—his new friend begs him not to unlock the door. There must be something behind it…but what?

The River at Night

Cartoonist: Kevin Huizenga

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Release Date: Sept. 24

List Price: $34.95

In The River at Night, Kevin Huizenga delves deep into consciousness. What begins as a simple, distracted conversation between husband and wife, Glenn and Wendy Ganges—him reading a library book and her working on her computer—becomes an exploration of being and the passage of time. As they head to bed, Wendy exhausted by a fussy editor and Glenn energized by his reading and no small amount of caffeine, the story begins to fracture.

Rusty Brown

Cartoonist: Chris Ware

Publisher: Pantheon Graphicto cope with their lives. Bob is an artist with a creative block who loses himself in an aimless existence; while Casey suffers from deep-seated anxiety and feelings of abandonment. Brought together through an unexpected circumstance, they begin to open up and trust each other, gradually finding that their fears of being hurt are overcome by the simple joys that they now share. As they tentatively try to build a life together, the harsh realities of the outside world begin to intrude on their happiness, but the experience changes them both in fundamental ways.

Batman: Nightwalker

Writer: Marie Lu

Adaptor: Stuart Moore

Illustrator: Chris Wildgoose

Publisher: DC Ink

Release Date: Sept. 25 (Comic Shops), Oct. 1 (Bookstores)

List Price: $16.99

A new ruthless gang of criminals known only as Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham and the city’s


elite are being taken out one by one. On the way home from his eighteenth birthday party, newly-minted billionaire Bruce Wayne makes an impulsive choice that puts him in their crosshairs and lands him in Arkham Asylum, the once infamous psychiatric hospital. There, he meets Madeleine Wallace, a brilliant killer…and Bruce’s only hope. Madeleine is the mystery Bruce must unravel, but is he convincing her to divulge her secrets, or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees?

Nancy

Cartoonist: Olivia Jaimes

Publisher: Andrew McMeel Publishing

Release Date: Oct. 1

List Price: $14.99

In 2018, Olivia Jaimes became the first woman to write and illustrate the classic comic strip Nancy. Her fresh, irreverent take on the classic comic strip has become a sensation with readers and hasearned praise from dozens of media outlets, several of which have named it the best comic of the year. This hardcover collection includes the first nine months of Jaimes’ run on Nancy, along with an introduction, essay, interview with the author, and a special gallery of Nancy fan art by the author.

Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps

Cartoonist: David Heatley

Publisher: Pantheon Graphic Library

Release Date: Oct. 1

List Price: $26.95

From the author of My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, a new graphic memoir brimming with black humor, which explores the ultimate irony: the author’s addiction to 12-Step programs.

Bury the Lede

Writer: Gaby Dunn

Artist: Claire Roe

Colorist: Miguel Muerto

Publisher: BOOM! Studios

Release Date: Oct. 2 (Comic Shops), Oct. 9 (Bookstores)

List Price: $19.99

When cub reporter Madison Jackson races to the scene of a brutal murder


Action

Writer: Shea Fontana

Cover Artist: Jen Bartel

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Release Date: Oct. 22

List Price: $29.95

This illustrated collection features profiles some of the strongest women in DC Comics canon, as well as real-life women integral to their development, including Karen Berger and artist Ramona Fradon. DC: Women of Action also features exclusive art by Annie Wu, Brittney Williams, Colleen Doran, Elsa Chang, Emanuela Lupacchino, Gisele Lagace, Irene Koh, Jen Bartel, Jennifer Aberin Johnson, Little Corvus, Mingjue Helen Chen, Paulina Ganucheau, Stephanie Hans, and Winona Nelson.

Black Canary: Ignite

Writer: Meg Cabot

Artist: Cara McGee

Publisher: DC Ink

Release Date: Oct. 29

List Price: $9.99

Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance knows exactly what she wants, who she is, and where she’s going. First, she’ll win the battle of the bands with her two best friends, then she’ll join the Gotham Cityand belief become blurred and lead to religious cult indoctrination. Loosely inspired by the life of the notorious Jim Jones and updated for the social media age, Holy Hannah explores family and the ways in which people’s lives become intertwined in unexpected and toxic ways.

The Banks

Writer: Roxane Gay

Artist: Ming Doyle

Colorist: Jordie Bellaire

Letterer: Ariana Maher

Publisher: TKO Studios

Release Date: October 2019

List Price: $17.99

Three generations of women work together to pull off the heist of a lifetime, and avenge a life taken too soon.

Sentient

Writer: Jeff Lemire

Artist: Gabriel Walta

Letterer: Steve Wands

Publisher: TKO Studios

Release Date: October 2019

List Price: $17.99

When the adults aboard a colony ship are killed, it is up to VALERIE, the on-board AI, to help the ship’s children survive.

Street Angel: Deadliest Girl Alive

Writers: Jim Rugg & Brian Maruca

Artist: Jim Rugg

Publisher: Image


they can, and, most important, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn.

Swimming in Darkness

Cartoonist: Lucas Harari

Translator: David Homel

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Release Date: Nov. 5

List Price: $24.95

Pierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject of Pierre’s thesis. The mountain holds many mysteries; it was said to have a mouth that periodically swallowed people up. Pierre, sketchbook in hand, is drawn to the enigmatic powers of the mountain and its springs, and attempts to uncover the truth behind them in theDe M.A.Y.O: TATA RAMBO is based on the oral history of Ramon Jaurigue, an orphan and WWII veteran who co-founded the Mexican, American, Yaqui, and Others (M.A.Y.O.) organization, which successfully lobbied the Tucson City Council to improve living and working conditions for members of the Pascua Yaqui tribe. Thanks to this period of activism, the Yaquis were federally recognized as one of the remaining Native American tribes. Meanwhile Ramon’s home life suffered as his focus was pulled from family to wider community, and from domesticity to the adrenaline of the campaign.

After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth

Cartoonist: Helene Aldeguer

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Release Date: Nov. 19

List Price: $21.99

Two years after the “Jasmine Revolution,” Tunisia is unstable and facing economic hardship. Saif, Aziz, Meriem, and Chayma are among those who


How Boehner Got A Fractured GOP To Back His Plan

Speaker of the House John Boehner as he arrived for a House GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2011.

Chip Somodevilla
/ Getty Images

What a difference a day makes.

Less than 24 hours ago, Republican House Speaker John Boehner was forced to postpone a vote on his debt ceiling plan after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office calculated that it cut spending by about $350 billion less than promised.

The Tea Party wing of the leader's ornery caucus was continuing to slam his proposal as not going far enough or fast enough in cutting spending as a prerequisite to raising the nation's debt ceiling by Aug. 2.

And the influential free-marketers at Club for Growth, also opposed to Boehner's effort, warnedas recently as midday Tuesday had showed him still about 50 yeas short.

It also gave the more extreme members of his caucus time to launch a "kill Boehner's plan" email campaign, which thoroughly infuriated many of their GOP colleagues.

The effort by the conservative Republican Study Committee caucus resulted in an ugly behind-closed-doors confrontation Wednesday during a meeting of the GOP House members.Politicoreported that members directed a chant of "fire him, fire him" at the RSC staffer who sent the emails to conservative groups.

As for Boehner?

He had an opportunity to exhort his members, at a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning, to "get your a** in line" to pass his plan. On Tuesday, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a similar tack after a meeting with fellow Republicans.

"We cannot


Members of Earsdon & Wellfield WI were entertained at their September meeting by Mrs Gillian Kenyon who gave an amusing talk on her life and travels. The competition of an amusing photograph was won by Mrs J Gill, Mrs A Perritt and Mrs P Ellison. The raffle prizes, one of which was donated by Mrs Kenyon, were won by Mrs L Hall and Mrs N Connolly.

The next meeting will be held on October 17 when the entertainment will be by Paul and Malcolm who will sing songs from the shows.

WREKENTON WI met on Tuesday, September 9, and the ladies were entertained by Mrs Nelson who talked about making fabric dolls, and brought a number of models she had made and dressed.bald She
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full of hatred She hated everyone
and everything and had no conception
of consequences or what self preservation
was She'd do stuff that would
spin your head around in terms
of how unsafe it was and
she just had no reaction There
was no getting through to her
as she needed the interventions when
she was a very small child
to be able to move forward
successfully She was discharged when it
was found out that she was
hiding knives under her mattress I
would not be surprised if she
was in jail at this point
Worked with a patient that complained
of reoccurring night terrors about lobsters

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lá, mas ficou claro a partir de
o salto que ela tinha profundo
Coisas profundas de


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पिछले सप्ताह के सत्र में वह मुझे बताता है
के बारे में कितना वह अपने से नफरत करता है

English:
staff I was walking away from
the patient and she grabbed me
by my hair pulled me to
the ground and dragged me for
several feet down the hallway where
she began kicking me in the
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to a higher security unit as
a result I guess I was
afraid of her after that but
she wasn’t there long There was
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a pregnant nurse pulled her to
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client bring a large hunting knife
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it in his waistband in the
back He revealed it halfway through
our session He had been referred
toTAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has been reported in the Chinese province of Hunan, which lies to the south of Hubei Province, where the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) originated.

While the world continues its attempt to contain the Wuhan coronavirus, a recurrence of bird flu has killed more than 4,500 chickens on a Hunan farm, said the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Saturday (Feb. 1). The Chinese authorities said that they have culled 17,828 poultry as a result of the H5N1 outbreak.

The H5N1 is extremely deadly to birds, but so far no human cases have been reported. Despite its inability to spread between humans, the avian flu can still be transmitted to people in a contaminated environment and has proven to be


highly fatal to those who contract it, according to the World Health Organization.

Coming at a sensitive time, the bird flu outbreak follows 305 confirmed coronavirus deaths in China. However, China is not the only country affected by the bird flu this winter, as European countries, including Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and the Czech Republic, all identified cases of the H5N8 avian flu in January, reported ETtoday.Shivah-conman film could make Oscars

A critically acclaimed short film starring Sir Derek Jacobi as a trickster targeting shivah houses could be nominated for an Oscar after winning a prestigious award in Hollywood.

Sidney Turtlebaum won best foreign film at the annual LA Shorts Fest — the world’s largest short film festival — last week and is now automatically eligible for Academy Award consideration.

The 10-minute comedy was first screened at last year’s UK Jewish film festival.

It features an 80-something gay conman who steals from mourners in the Jewish heartlands of north west London — using a newspaper that looks worryingly like the JC to track down the shivahs.

It was shot in Golders Green and funded using a £10,000 grant from the Pears Foundation UKJFF Short Film Fund.

In March it was


announced that the film would be made into a full-length feature.

Sir Derek has agreed to appear again in the lead role and the original artistic team from Third Man Films — including producer Daniel Jewel, director Tristram Shapeero, and writer Raphael Smith — will also all return.Our Team

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* Gary Barnhart was the owner and operator of the English Garage, a business engaging in the repair and restoration of imported classic automobiles such as Jaguars and Rolls Royces.  In April of 1983, Natale, one of Barnhart's customers, discussed with Barnhart the possibility of restoring a 1955 Aston Martin owned by Barnhart.  Natale told Barnhart of an acquaintance, Jim Graham, who could provide Barnhart with the capital needed for the restoration.  Sometime later, Barnhart entered an unwritten business agreement with Natale pursuant to which Graham advanced $8,000 to Barnhart;  in exchange Barnhart agreed to give Graham half the profit from the sale of the car.  Natale received a $2,000 fee


to pursue the action in civil court.

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By March 1984 the automobiles still had not been restored, and Natale had not received a refund of the money that Graham had invested in the cars.  Natale then informed Barnhart that Graham was getting impatient, and that if Barnhart did not refund the money very quickly, Graham's "axe squad" would attempt the collection.  Natale also told Barnhart that he knew of a man who was put in the trunk of his car with a bullet in his head for failing to repay Graham.

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In the meantime, Barnhart was contemplating the sale of his business for reasons not directly related to the Graham debt.  Barnhart and Natale discussed on several occasions during March the sale of Barnhart's business to aMr. Gilbert, another acquaintance of Natale.  Natale was apparently acting as a middleman, and Barnhart provided Natale with financial statements regarding the business's operations, financial position, and the European companies Barnhart used in connection with importing the automobiles.  The proposed sales agreement, pursuant to an understanding with Natale, also provided for the repayment of the Graham loan as a condition of the sale.

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Natale and Barnhart arranged a meeting on March 30, 1984 at the Amore Restaurant in Dallas to discuss further the plans regarding the sale of Barnhart's business.  When Barnhart arrived at the restaurant, Natale was already seated at a table;  two men, later identified as codefendants Malina and Wash, were seated at an adjoining table.  Barnhart joined Natale who asked him


Graham, by Tuesday, April 3 he had only raised approximately $2,800.  On the afternoon of April 3, Barnhart went to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance.

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FBI agents wired Barnhart with a tape recorder and instructed him to meet with Wash and Malina as planned.  Barnhart then went to the restaurant where he met Wash and Malina who asked Barnhart if he had brought the money.  When Barnhart replied that he did not have it all, Wash and Malina told Barnhart that if he saw Natale, he should tell Natale that he had been beaten for not paying the full amount.  At the conclusion of the meeting, Wash and Malina were arrested.

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Later, Natale was arrested.  All three defendants were then indicted by athere was an extension of credit.

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First, the evidence shows the "claim" on the part of Natale arose once Barnhart failed to repair the automobiles in accordance with the earlier agreement;  the nature of the arrangement had changed, at least as far as Natale was concerned.  The evidence introduced at trial supporting this conclusion are the two written demands dated October 25 and November 1, 1983, for the repayment of the money previously advanced to Barnhart by Natale.  These demands clearly indicate that Natale no longer viewed the arrangement as a joint venture with the sharing of profits, but as an "advance" for which repayment forthwith was required.

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There was also an agreement to defer the payment.  Natale agreed to a ten-day extension of credit in


It has been a long time since Australian director Fred Schepisi has been behind camera. His last effort was the acclaimed HBO mini-series "Empire Falls" and before that his last feature film was 2003's forgettable "It Runs In The Family." But the director is back, and we'll soon see if he still has his mojo and he heads to TIFF with the acerbic looking drama "Eye Of The Storm" and the first trailer certainly shows some promise.

It has been a long time since Australian director Fred Schepisi has been behind camera. His last effort was the acclaimed HBO mini-series "Empire Falls" and before that his last feature film was 2003's forgettable "It Runs In The Family." But the director is back, and we'll soon see if he stillhas his mojo and he heads to TIFF with the acerbic looking drama "Eye Of The Storm" and the first trailer certainly shows some promise.

Starring a triple threat of Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis, the film is an adaptation of Patrick White's novel, and centers on a powerful, ex-socialite matriarch (Rampling) and the array of characters — including her celebrated ex-patriate actor son (Rush) and her daughter who married into French royalty (Davis) — who convene at her deathbed and find themselves still under her destructive influence. These are some meaty roles and the trio certainly seem to be biting into their parts with relish with a tone that appears to be both darkly comic and heavily dramatic. And that seems to be where the success


or failure of the film will lie in a work that has drawn comparisons to "King Lear" and Anton Chekov.

The film will premiere very soon at TIFF, however, there is no U.S. distributor just yet. Check out the synopsis, trailer and a couple more images from the film below.

In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But in dying, as in living, Mrs. Hunter remains a powerful force on those who surround her. Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm is a savage exploration of family relationships – and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, whichone such meeting, he fell ill, and died shortly after his arrival. He was buried at Honmyō-ji temple in Kumamoto, but also has graves in Yamagata Prefecture and Tokyo. Kiyomasa is also enshrined in many Shinto shrines in Japan, including Katō Shrine in Kumamoto.

His son, Katō Tadahiro, succeeded him as Higo no kami 肥後守 (provincial governor of Higo), but his fief (Kumamoto) was confiscated, and he was exiled (kaieki; attaindered) in 1632 by Tokugawa Iemitsu on suspicion of conspiring against him, possibly with the likes of Tokugawa Tadanaga; who was ordered to commit seppuku in 1633.

Kiyomasa married a daughter of Mizuno Tadashige, Shōjō-in, who was adopted by Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to their marriage. Their daughter, Yōrin-in, would go on to marry Tokugawa Ieyasu's 10th son, Tokugawa Yorinobu.

In 1910,


A NEW group plans to bring together young activists from across London who are campaigning for Palestine.

The Young London Palestine Solidarity Campaign launched on Thursday night in Kentish Town.

So many activists arrived that its original venue, Cafe Palestina, was not large enough and local parks were commandeered for the landmark meeting.

“With the average age of Palestinians trapped in the West Bank and Gaza barely 20 years old, this is the cause of our generation and our generation wants to act,” said local activist and organiser Sorcha Thomson.

In a statement the group hailed the success of the launch event, which they said “showed clearly that young people in London support the liberation of Palestine and the fight against racism in all forms.”

They added: “This new group is about connecting,exponentially with age.

Of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds—100,000 per day—die of age-related causes. In industrialized nations, the proportion is higher, reaching 90%.

Patterns of differences
By age 3 about 30% of rats have had cancer, whereas by age 85 about 30% of humans have had cancer. Humans, dogs and rabbits get Alzheimer's disease, but rodents do not. Elderly rodents typically die of cancer or kidney disease, but not of cardiovascular disease. In humans, the relative incidence of cancer increases exponentially with age for most cancers, but levels off or may even decline by age 60–75 (although colon/rectal cancer continues to increase).

People with the so-called segmental progerias are vulnerable to different sets of diseases. Those with Werner's syndrome suffer from osteoporosis, cataracts, and


Dubbed the “Super Mercedes,” this rare vehicle, which reportedly conveyed the infamous Nazi dictator to victory parades and other appearances in Germany and which was offered at an auction by Worldwide Auctioneers in Scottsdale, Arizona, failed to reach its minimum sale price on January 17, 2018.

The highest bid hit $7 million, but that did not surpass the reserve price, an amount set by the anonymous seller of the Nazi artifact that was not revealed to the public. Some surmise that the automobile was expected to fetch double the recent highest bid solely for its engineering and design.

The automobile, a Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser Offener Tourenwagen, was reportedly delivered to Hitler in 1939 and is said to be one of just five, with three out of the five being inhis Number One chauffeur from 1934 up until the very end. Kempka is remembered as one of the persons responsible for the burning of the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun after their suicide on April 30, 1945.

The splendid model was delivered to Hitler in Berlin on July 29, 1939. For the Führer and his distinguished guests, the vehicle would provide not only maximum protection but also a display of luxury and prestige. The first outing of the Super Mercedes took place in early October that year, when it joined a crowded motorcade in which Hitler was brought to the Old Reich Chancellery. It was a motorcade widely followed by both domestic and international journalists.

The vehicle reportedly carried Hitler during victory parades after capturing territories such as France,


Greece, and Yugoslavia, and it was used in Munich for an official visit by Hitler’s Italian colleague, Benito Mussolini, in June 1940, the Mail Online has reported.

After the war, the U.S. military police forces in France used the vehicle, and after a time it was sent to the United States, where the vehicle appeared in several military parades. Nothing significant happened with the car in the next couple of decades, until 1976, when the model was restored and exhibited in a museum in Chicago. After that, the Mercedes changed ownership a couple of times, the last time reportedly being in 2009, when it came into the hands of a Russian private collector.

Related story from us: David Bowie’s vintage Volvo, reflecting the discreet, quiet book lover behind the wildlythe development of future launch vehicles. Its chief mission is to chart the roadmap for Ariane Next and in particular its first phase, the Themis demonstrator. ArianeWorks ties in with preparations in the lead-up to this year’s ESA Ministerial Conference and its results will be made available to ESA.

The CNES Board also recalled the success of the 11th European Space Policy Conference organized by CNES and the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), which brought together Europe’s key players in space, and the announcement at the beginning of the year by Frédérique Vidal, the Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, that Thomas Pesquet will be returning to the International Space Station late in 2020.

In the field of international relations, three agreements were signed recently with Australia on tackling climate


change, innovation and human spaceflight, making France the first international partner of the newly formed Australian Space Agency (ASA).

At the end of the Board meeting, François Houllier, Chairman and CEO of IFREMER, the French institute of marine research and exploration, was appointed to the Audit Committee of CNES’s Board of Directors.Senators hear testimony from executives of NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL after string of controversies involving athletes accused of abuse

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The American sporting establishment was accused on Tuesday of presiding over a “culture of silence” that has enabled professional athletes to commit domestic violence with impunity.

Top executives and counsel from the main football, basketball, hockey and baseball leagues appeared before the Senate commerce committee after a string of controversies involving athletes accused of abusing their partners or children.

On Friday Ray Rice, the former Baltimore Ravens running back who was caught on an elevator security camera punching his then fiancee to the floor, won his appeal against indefinite suspension, making him eligible to play again with


human rights, the US State Department noted that some Christian groups and churches reported they had been pressured to end worship activities after authorities classified them as “unauthorised gatherings.”

The death toll in today’s shocking attack has risen to 207, according to Sri Lanka’s deputy transport minister — with just one of the church attacks said to have seen 300 victims.

Worshippers were attacked at St Anthony’s Shrine, a Catholic Church in Kochchikade, Colombo, St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, a majority Catholic town north of Colombo, and at Zion Church in the eastern town of Batticaloa — where more than 300 people are thought to have been injured.

BUFFET BOMBER

According to The Daily Mail, a Sri Lanka bomber queued at hotel buffet then unleashed devastation on unsuspecting crowds at the EasterSunday breakfast buffet at Sri Lanka’s Cinnamon Grand hotel before setting off explosives that were strapped to his back as he waited in the buffet queue.

The man was a Sri Lankan and had registered at the hotel the night before as Mohamed Azzam Mohamed, and was carrying a breakfast plate about to be served at around 8.30am when he set off his bomb in the packed restaurant, a manager at the Sri Lankan hotel said.

“There was utter chaos,” said the manager, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.

It was one of the busiest family days of the year inside the Taprobane restaurant at the hotel.

“One of our managers who was welcoming guests was among those killed instantly.”

The bomber also died and parts of his body were found


listen to Barr and Farrar (a duo known as the 6Rs), go to town on archival label Mississippi Records during Farrar's Strawberry Flats Radio show on AshevilleFM. Tune in early, and keep some wings and tall boys close, y'all.Mysterious microblog portrays new leader Xi as Chinese Everyman

‘Fans’ fawn over ‘Pingping’

BEIJING – When Communist Party leader Xi Jinping made his first official trip outside the capital recently, to the prosperous southern province of Guangdong, his every movement was fawningly chronicled by a mysterious new microblog that seemed always one step — and many days — ahead of the official media.

The microblog, called the “Learning from Xi Fan Club,” accurately reported his planned visits to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other southern cities well before the news was run on state-run CCTV television, and days before the official Xinhua news agency, which waited to make any mention of Xi’s trip until it was complete.

The fan site posted rare early photographs of Xi and his family members — highly unusual in


On May 25, 2013, local lawyers cooked and volunteered in the disaster area for Oklahomans who were impacted by tornadoes, straight line winds, severe storms and flooding May 18-June 2. The same lawyers are still helping survivors through the Oklahoma Lawyers Care group. They are answering disaster-related legal questions. The project is just one example of how people near and far are putting their special talents to use. Volunteer wisely.

"It was probably no more than an hour after the tornado hit Moore that our special projects group started talking," says Christine Sterkel, Director of Oklahoma Association for Justice. It's normal for Sterkel and her team of attorneys to get together and provide service to their communities. When the initial tornado touched down, she saw an opportunity for herThe New York Monday is the effect of the brain's response to extreme automobile traffic in the New York area for a prolonged period over which an individual perceives it has no control. It involves an endocrine system response in which occurs a release of corticosteroids. Sweating, nervousness and sometimes nausea may accompany this caught in traffic person. The effects of stress are often enhanced due to the fact that Sunday is a relaxing day and the following day, Monday, causes an extreme shock to the driver.

Carl got touraids from the New York Monday after being 2 hours late for work and stuck at the Lincoln Tunnel.


Alchemical Patronage and the Making of an Adept: Letters of Michael Sendivogius to Emperor Rudolf II and His Chamberlain Hans Popp.
Based on four extant letters the famous Polish alchemist Michael Sendivogius wrote to Emperor Rudolf II and his first chamberlain Hans Popp between 1597 and 1602, this paper adds to a growing body of revisionist scholarship on alchemy in Rudolfine Prague. Unlike most of his many rivals - including luminaries such as John Dee and Michael Maier - who hoped for the Emperor's patronage in vain, Sendivogius officially became a courtier at the imperial court in 1594. As such he was in the privileged position of having access to the Emperor and his close advisors. The surviving correspondence shows how the Pole successfully balanced his alchemical promises againstCANBERRA, Australia – Facebook is under pressure in Australia to take down a page that insults Aborigines with the government accusing the social networking company of using its U.S. base to avoid Australian anti-discrimination laws.

The Aboriginal Memes Facebook page has created a furor in Australia this week with its depictions of indigenous Australians as drunks and welfare cheats.

Australia's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, is investigating complaints about the page and Race Discrimination Commissioner Helen Szoke said it could breach Australian anti-discrimination laws.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said late Wednesday his office had called on Facebook's Sydney office to take the page down.

But he said the page had recently been reclassified "controversial humor" and that Facebook maintained it did not adjudicate on humor.

Conroy said the creator of


the page, whom he believed was a 16-year-old Australian living in the west coast city of Perth, was getting around Australian anti-discrimination laws through U.S. guarantees of free speech.

"We don't live by American laws here in Australia; we live by Australian laws and this is an Australian who is using the fact that Facebook is based in the U.S. to get away from Australian laws," Conroy told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television.

"Facebook should take this site down," he added.

He said Australia had tried to get Australian court orders enforced in the U.S. against Facebook and other websites in the past, but "we've got nowhere."

Facebook said in a statement issued by its Sydney office that it sometimes restricts access to content that violates local law and was engaged in aa first world issue. Take a Western woman in her pantsuit walking to work, hit pause, and start to deconstruct her life. Take some things out of her purse, take people out of the picture. Seize her birth control. What happens? She gets impregnated or must become chaste—against her would-be will. She becomes a slave to her uterus—where she goes, with whom, who she visits, and the time of day she travels, all drastically change, along with the moral choices she’s presented with or would experience.

Almost all of her life’s decisions have drastically been altered because you took away a one ounce plastic canister of chemical hormones she bought from the utterly patriarchal government protected intellectual-propertied pharmaceutical industry. Take away the abortionist and the abortion industry and the


knights, and the other (patriarchal or capitalist) luxuries (dishwashers, automobiles, infant formula, criminal justice, welfare, military) and you are left with just another woman of the world, living in the third world, never even debating her lack or moral agency with men in public. She is blown about upon the winds of men. As Camile Paglia recently remarked at Time Ideas:

“Every day along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, one can watch the passage of vast oil tankers and towering cargo ships arriving from all over the world. These stately colossi are loaded, steered and off-loaded by men. The modern economy, with its vast production and distribution network, is a male epic, in which women have found a productive role — but women were not its author.”

Take a man,pause the picture, start stripping him of his accoutrements, and he remains mostly unchanged. He needs food and water. Not free healthcare, not VAWA, no Pell Grants, no EEOC. He accepts pain and even death, and there are many more willing to replace him in the struggle, and almost nobody cries when he does meet his end—except the women who depend on him of course. He is the master of his fate; he is the captain of his soul.

The Higher Values

Feminism is an operation of patriarchy. Feminism constantly identifies problems and proposes patriarchal solutions pressed down on us from high and rammed home by men with guns and badges. Feminism cannot exist without the men and the patriarchy enabling their delusions of agency and independence. Women are not


1. Field of Invention
The invention relates to an electrical connection clamp or terminal clamp for connecting an electrical conductor, with a clamp spring and with a metal part, the clamp spring having one clamp leg and one contact leg, in the clamp leg a recess for insertion of the electrical conductor which is to be connected being made, the clamp leg and the contact leg of the clamp spring being bent to one another such that the end of the clamp leg is inserted through a recess, on the end of the recess which is away from the end of the clamp leg a retaining section being punched out of the contact leg and being bent in the insertion direction of the electrical conductor which is to bepiece has a retaining leg which is located perpendicular to the conductor insertion, direction and a contact leg, in the retaining leg a rectangular opening being formed through which the electrical conductor to be connected can be inserted. The U-shaped clamp spring is inserted with the ends of its two legs in the opening and held such that the backward arc of the clamp spring in the conductor insertion direction is located in front of the opening and the clamp leg of the clamp spring presses an inserted electrical conductor against the contact leg so that the clamp spring and the conductor bar piece form a spring force terminal connection.
Similar electrical connection clamps with an essentially U-shaped clamp spring and a metal part are also known from German


configuration and in their function from the initially described connection clamp or terminal clamp. In the known loop-shaped tension springs, corresponding to their name, the conductor to be connected is pulled by the clamp leg against the conductor bar. In contrast, in the above described connection clamps or terminal clamps the conductor to be connected is pressed by the clamp leg against a region of the metal part.
The initially described electrical connection clamp or terminal clamp underlying the invention is known from German Patent Application DE 10 2004 046 471 B3. In this known connection clamp, the clamp spring however is not made U-shaped—as in the terminal clamp known from German Patent Application DE 196 54 611 A 1—but loop-shaped, in the contact leg of the clamp springthe electrical conductor to be connected. To mount the clamp spring on the metal part, thus, the contact leg with its recess is inserted over the two attachment sections of the metal part so that the recess extends around the two attachment sections in the manner of a frame. In addition, on the end of the recess away from the end of the clamp leg, a retaining section is punched out of the contact leg of the clamp spring and is bent essentially perpendicular to the contact leg and extends behind the attachment section of the retaining leg from the outside.
But, for this terminal clamp, there is also the danger of the clamp spring being detached or lifted off from the metal part. This danger exists especially when


film industry since an early age, first as an actor, then as a writer and director—her debut film “Beautiful Souvenirs” brought her a César. She directed “The Swallows of Kabul,” her animation debut, alongside another woman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec, who had never directed before, but brought in her decade of experience in animation, including on “The Rabbi’s Cat.” Meanwhile, the screenplay was adapted by Breitman, along with Patricia Mortagne and Sébastien Tavel, from Yasmina Khadra’s popular book “The Swallows of Kabul.” An officer in the Algerian army at the start of his career, Khadra had to do something to avoid censorship, and his wife offered to him to write under her name. Despite having been unveiled since then, Khadra remains the most prominent Algerian author alive today, and “TheArchives

There’s no luck in physics. When the sun and the moon and the Earth aligned this week, an Alaska Airlines jet was in the right place at the right time to catch the total solar eclipse. The March 8 rendezvous over the Pacific Ocean was not luck, but a precisely planned equation. The calculations began a year ago. The only variable was the plane. NEW: WATCH THE ECLIPSE VIDEO Video by Mike Kentrianakis/American Astronomical… Read More


Regulators close 3 more U.S. banks

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U.S. regulators Friday announced the collapse of two more banks in Florida, one of the most failure-plagued states in the country this year, as well as a failure in Colorado.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Florida's LandMark Bank and Southshore Community Bank were closed by the state's office of financial regulation. Tampa's American Momentum Bank agreed to take over both as part of purchase-and-assumption agreements with the FDIC. Florida has the second highest amount of bank failures this year with nine after Georgia's 16.

Also Friday, the FDIC said Colorado's Division of Banking shuttered Bank of Choice in Greeley, Colo. Its 17 branches will become part of Bank Midwest NA of Kansas City, Mo., and it represents Colorado's fifth failure this year.

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In 1913 the federal division of the Federated Saw Mill, Timber Yard and General Wood Workers Employees' Association changed its name to the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia. The earlier union had been registered federally in 1907 and had registered branches in Victoria from 1905, Adelaide 1906, New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania 1908. Although this union was deregistered in 1918 its members formed a new union, the Australian Timber Workers' Union, in the same year.

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The Australian Timber Workers' Union was registered in 1918 after the deregistration of the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia. The new union extended coverage to workers in box and case factories, saw makers' shops, joiners' workshops, carpenters, implement workers


and wood working machinists. In 1940 the union filed an application and succeeded in extending its coverage to most workers employed in the timber and wood industry including cabinet makers and furniture factories. In 1991 it amalgamated with the Pulp & Paper Workers' Federation of Australia to form the Australian Timber & Allied Industries Union. Later in the year another amalgamation with the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia created the ATAIU & BWIU Amalgamated Union. Further amalgamations eventually saw this union become part of the Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union in 1993.

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The Constuction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is the result of a series of amalgamations during the early 1990s. Prior to amalgamation there were numerous unions spread across construction, forestry, mining andenergy industries. Those unions amalgamated along industry lines to form each of the divisions of the CFMEU. Each division operates autonomously, with its own membership, executive, resources, industry policies and campaigns. These divisions date as far back as the mid-nineteenth century and include such notable unions as the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (the Miners' Federation), the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, the Australian Timber Workers' Union, the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia, the Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia, the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union of Australia, and the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia.


(JTA) — Pennsylvania’s homeland security director quit in the wake of revelations that he hired an Israeli-American agency that reported peaceful protests as potential terrorist threats.

Jim Powers resigned two weeks after Gov. Ed Rendell said that he was "deeply embarrassed" by revelations of a $125,000 contract with the Philadelphia-based Institute of Terrorism Research and Response.

Rendell announced the resignation at a news conference last Friday, although for weeks he had insisted that he wanted Powers to stay.

"Jim is a good man who made a very significant mistake in judgment," the governor said at the news conference.

Rendell terminated the contract with ITRR immediately upon learning of it.

The state’s Office of Homeland Security contracted the institute to track threats, then relayed its reports to many law enforcement and private groups.

Its "alerts"U.S. soldiers are not allowed to direct airstrikes on ISIS positions in Iraq, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, a practice that their Canadian military allies have been engaged in despite it being seen by some as a combat manoeuvre.

The Canadian government has acknowledged that Canadian advisers have been acting as forward observers, calling in airstrikes on ISIS positions and marking the targets with lasers.

But those roles are seen as combat roles. U.S. military Cmdr. Elissa Smith at the Pentagon told CBC News that that particular role — sometimes called JTAC or joint terminal attack controller — is one U.S. advisers on the ground in Iraq are barred from doing.

"The advisers are assisting with planning ground operations, intelligence sharing, integrating air support into their operations, not as JTACs, but


the former commander of Canada's elite JTF2 unit, said Western air forces always prefer to have their own trained soldiers guiding those attacks.

"The gold standard is to always receive intelligence from your own Western sources. So, it's always best, especially in built-up areas, to have a Western set of eyes looking at the target."

This is another case where Canadian forces seem to be going further than their coalition allies — at least publicly.

Military advisers in firefights

Although the U.S. is leading the coalition, officials say American military advisers aren't accompanying Iraqi forces on the frontlines. But Canadians have gone close to the frontlines . At one point, the military estimated Canadian advisers spent 20 per cent of the time there. And those advisers have now been involved in threein Iraq,

He said that Canadian troops are executing the mission that Canadians and Parliament have given them.

"They are advising, they are assisting," he said. "Guess what, if fired upon, they are going to shoot back; and if they kill some of the ISIL terrorists, Canadians are going to support that, no matter what the New Democrats think."

CDS meets Kurdish officials

An Iraqi news agency, BasNews, reported Tuesday that Chief of Defence Staff Tom Lawson was in Erbil over the weekend to meet with Kurdish officials, including Masrour Barzani, the chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council.

Gen. Tom Lawson, chief of the defence staff, met with Kurdish officials over the weekend, according to reports, and also visited Canadian Forces deployed in the Middle East. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

Canada's Defence Department confirmed


Lawson's travel to the region later in the day, saying the purpose of the meetings was to "exchange information, and to update them on Canada’s ongoing contributions to the advise and assist mission."

The CDS also delivered a new shipment of non-lethal military gear from Canada, including clothing to equip the Iraqis for cold weather.

Canada's combat mission is up for renewal in April.a station at the corner of Victoria Parade and Latrobe Street (Melbourne CBD) still included in the ACORN-SAT network when this station is known to have become sheltered from previously cooling southerly winds following construction of office towers.

I understand ACORN-SAT was used to calculate the statistics indicating 2013 was the hottest year on record, but it is unclear specifically which stations from this network were used and how data may have been further adjusted in the development of the record breaking temperature anomaly.

Rockhampton-based blogger Ken Stewart, for example, has suggested that in the calculation of the annual average temperature for Australia, the eight sites acknowledged as having anomalous warming due to the UHI would not have been included. Is this the case? I had assumed that the Bureau


grab-bag of disconnected geographic zones called Australia. Why not last year? No big deal.

And if Jen should write him a polite letter – as she has done – asking for clarification of some details, I can’t imagine why Jones would baulk.

As I understand it Brisbane used to be a site in the Botanical Gardens – Brisbane Regional Office Number: 40214 Opened: 1840 Now: Closed 01 Jul 1994 It had data back to 1887.

Brisbane is now at a site on the other side of the river in a Park at Kangaroo Point, .9km away. Brisbane Number: 40913 Opened: 1999 Now: Open

It was interesting last week when apparently Brisbane broke the record, it was in fact another station at Archerfield Airport Number: 40211 Opened: 1929 Now: Open which is 11.4SANAA – Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of the southern city of Taiz on Friday, railing against the government's mishandling of the economy and a Saudi-led coalition fighting on its behalf.

The scene was quite different three years ago, when the city's residents also flooded its streets and squares, then thanking the coalition for intervening against the Houthi rebels in support of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi's government.

Instead of supporting the legitimacy, the coalition has turned into an occupier - banner at Taiz protest

Residents erected banners thanking the Saudis and plastered walls with pictures of King Salman in appreciation.

Day by day, however, support for Hadi and the Saudis has dwindled, as the war drags on, the economy spirals out of control, and more and more people are forced


into poverty.

Now, the people of Taiz accuse the Saudi-led coalition of being the main reason behind Yemen's worsening situation.

Where once images of the Saudi king were put up with fondness, now they are being torn apart by Yemenis sick of war, poverty and dwindling sovereignty.

"Instead of supporting the legitimacy, the coalition has turned into an occupier," one banner seen on Friday read.

"Instead of opening the door for Yemeni asylum-seekers, Saudi exiles Yemeni expatriates," read another.

A woman holds up a placard with the defaced posters of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) and Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during a protest against the deteriorating economy in Taiz. (Reuters) Ahmed al-Masani, a 38-year-old protester in Taiz city, told Middle East Eye: "I thanked the Saudis inof people have been killed in fighting and bombardment, and the Yemeni rial's value has halved.

As the economy worsens, prices of essential goods are rocketing.

The UN calls Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Masani was working in marketing with a local company, but he lost his job in 2015 and is now unemployed. He believes that the intervention of the Saudi-led coalition has not helped his country.

"We were stupid to believe the Saudis in 2015, they have not helped us to liberate Taiz from the Houthis, they have not helped us to revive public institutions and they have not done anything good. Moreover, they hinder any solution in Taiz," he said.

Though Taiz city has mostly been retaken by pro-Hadi forces, much of the eponymous province and some of the


demand that they leave our country, and we will manage our wealth ourselves," he said.

"The oil wells in Marib, Shabwa and Hadhramout are under the control of the Saudis, and they closed the oil fields. We want President Hadi to return to Yemen and resume the production of oil."

Though Yemen is not oil rich like its Gulf neighbours, its oil fields have in the past been an important source of revenue.

Most of the fields, if not all, are in now under control of pro-government forces, but output, already declining since 2004, has been negligible for the past three years, only contributing to the economic gloom.

However, some production has recently been brought back on line, and at the start of August, the country exported its first shipment of oilfor their own goals.

"In 2011, I was one of the first youths who joined the revolution [against longtime leader Ali Abdullah Saleh] in Taiz, and I was willing to lose my life for the sake of freedom, as we were demanding a civil country," Abdulqawi told MEE.

"But then the political parties joined the protests and they stole our revolution, and since then we have been suffering from the intervention of the political parties."

The political parties have not announced their participation in the protests against the Saudi-led coalition, but it seems they have participated indirectly by having their members attend.

Meanwhile, many shops have closed their doors in Taiz city to avoid being stormed by protesters, as happened in the 2011 anti-Saleh protests.

Hisham al-Shadadi, owner of a grocery in Taiz


city, closed his shop on Wednesday. "Usually there are some thieves in the protests, and they exploit the protests to storm shops, so I preferred to close the grocery," he said.

Yemen's UAE-backed southern separatists announce popular uprising Read More »

The Saudis do have their defenders in the southern city, however.

A pro-government fighter in Taiz, who spoke to MEE on condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to speak to the media, said criticism of the Saudi-led coalition has been too harsh.

"The coalition has made mistakes – in Taiz and across the whole country - but that does not mean they do not do anything," he said.

"The Saudi-led air strikes helped us to liberate many areas from the Houthis, and today the air strikes are still helping us.the program that placed men on the moon.
He was 66, born in Keyesport, Illinois, and died at his Downey home April 26.
He was active in the Downey Junior Athletic Association for many years as a coach and was baseball
commissioner with DJAA for three years.
Survivors include his wife, Jacqueline; two sons, Scott Essington of Valencia, Stephen Essington of Long
Beach; three sisters, Eloise Hodges of Washington, Illinois, Phyllis Wade of Greenville, Illinois, Susan
Walker of Kokomo, Indiana; three brothers, Conrad Essington of Washington, Illinois, Gerald Essington
of Greenfield, Illinois, Terry Essington of East Peoria, Illinois; seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
Arrangements were by the Miller-Mies Mortuary of Downey.


86-year-old woman beaten in random LA street attack.

LOS ANGELES — An 86-year-old Korean woman was punched in the face and sent tumbling to the ground, smashing her head against the pavement, in a random and unprovoked attack about a block from a police station in Los Angeles, authorities said Monday. The victim, Mi Reum Song, was walking down the street in the...

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The victim, Mi Reum Song, was walking down the street in the city’s Koreatown neighborhood Saturday afternoon when a man came up to her and “violently struck her” in the face, Capt. David Kowalski said.

The attack, which occurred right under the historic Koreatown sign, caused Song to fall and slam her head against the pavement, leaving a large gash that required stitches to close,police said.

On Monday, blood stains were still visible on the sidewalk where the attack occurred.

“She was just walking along and this attack comes unprovoked and she’s struck by this person and falls to the ground and loses consciousness,” Kowalski said at a news conference. “Somebody saw this crime. It happened in the middle of the day, in one of the busiest parts of Los Angeles.”

While nothing was taken from Song, detectives are exploring several possibilities, including that the suspect may have been trying to rob Song and then ran off when she fell and began bleeding profusely.

At this point, the attack still appears unprovoked, Kowalski said.

Surveillance video from a nearby smoke shop captured a man running away from the scene moments after the attack, Kowalski said. The video


231 Minn. 127 (1950)
STATE
v.
CITY OF HUDSON.[1]
No. 35,104.
Supreme Court of Minnesota.
May 5, 1950.
*128 Wendell A. Petersen, City Attorney, Cole Oehler, and Linn Firestone, for appellant.
J.A.A. Burnquist, Attorney General, Charles P. Stone, Assistant Attorney General, and William T. Johnson, County Attorney, for the State.
PETERSON, JUSTICE.
The state having recovered a judgment for the amount of personal property taxes for the year 1947 assessed on the portion of the interstate bridge owned and operated by the city of Hudson, Wisconsin, located in Washington county, Minnesota, the city appeals.
The question for decision is whether a municipality of a foreign state owning and operating a toll bridge located partly in such state and partly in this state is entitled, under a constitutional provision (Minn. Const. art. 9, § 1) exempting from taxation public propertyused exclusively for any public purpose, to exemption from taxation of the portion of such bridge located in this state.
The interstate toll bridge owned and operated by the city of Hudson, Wisconsin, extends from that city across the St. Croix River into Washington county, Minnesota. The bridge was constructed under authorization granted by 36 Stat. c. 119, p. 921, and 34 Stat. c. 1130, p. 84, 33 USCA, § 491, et seq. It has been designated as part of the route of U.S. highway No. 12. Toll rates are fixed by the War Department of the United States. All tolls are collected in the state of Wisconsin and are paid into the treasury of the city of Hudson. No part of the operation of the bridge inures to


used exclusively for public purposes and as such is exempt from taxation by the state of Minnesota. In opposition thereto, the state contends that, while the city is a public corporation of the state of Wisconsin and as such owns and operates the bridge, the city has no attributes of a public nature within the state of Minnesota so far as concerns its ownership and operation of the portion of the bridge located therein, and that, on the contrary, the city's status in Minnesota is the same as that of any private corporation owning and operating property within this state. The state's theory is that the public character of the city of Hudson ceased at the state line between the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota and that, afterforward.  Leonidas, despite his arrogance, was looking at the long game.

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While I agree with other users that the throw was in fact very hard, and that Leonidas pulled an impressive stunt even with that minor injury, I think there's a point in particular that needs to be considered, from a narrative point of view.
The movie is narrated by Dilios, the only Spartan soldier that left the battle. He was specifically asked by Leonidas to leave so that he could tell the story of the battle: his precise mission was to inspire others so that the war could still rage on after Leonidas's defeat.
Dilios is telling the story one year after it took place, as the Greek allied army was going to fight the Persians once


more. Xerxes was leading that army too: everybody knew that he lived through the battle of Thermopylae, so it was evident that Leonidas could not manage to take his life.
Also, Dilios left the place before the final showdown happened. He never saw the spear throw, he never saw Xerxes bleed, he never even saw Leonidas die. Speaking from an in-universe perspective, the entire final scene is just a glorification of Leonidas that Dilios completely made up. Dilios was still alive because he had to inspire the Greek people, and he did that fairly well :)

NYC Police Officer Found Guilty Of Manslaughter In Shooting Of Unarmed Man

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A jury in New York has convicted NYPD Officer Peter Liang of manslaughter over his shooting of an unarmed black man in a dark stairwell in 2014. Liang, who was a rookie at the time, was also faulted for not aiding his victim.

The verdict was announced Thursday night; soon after, the NYPD announced that Liang has officially been fired from the police force.

Here's how member station WNYC describes the events of Nov. 20, 2014:

"The rookie officer was patrolling the stairwell with his gun drawn in 2014 when he fired. The bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit 28-year-old Akai Gurley on a lower floor. "Prosecutors said Liang handled his


gun recklessly and did almost nothing to help Gurley. "The 28-year-old Liang said he fired by accident after a noise startled him. He acknowledged not helping Gurley's girlfriend try to revive him, but Liang explained he thought it was wiser to wait for professional medical aid."

Gurley was in the Brooklyn public housing complex to have a friend do his hair before heading out on a Thanksgiving trip with his fiancée and their two children, BuzzFeed has reported. They planned to take the bus to Florida the next day to visit Gurley's mother.

The prosecution of Liang has been closely watched, in part because the case arose amid a string of high-profile police killings of unarmed black men. Gurley was shot four months after Eric Garner died in Staten Island,N.Y., and three months after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo.

"There's nothing in the world that can heal my pain, my heartache," Gurley's mother, Sylvia Palmer, told WNYC in 2014. "I pray to God I get justice for my son because he didn't deserve to die like that."

After the verdict, Gurley's aunt Hertencia Petersen told the New York Daily News, "We're not rejoicing." She added, "But it's about being accountable. It's about a girl who will never know her father."

Liang's sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 14.


Sebring Citrus Golf Trail Kicks Off New Year As Featured Destination on Traveling Golfer Show

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Sebring Citrus Golf Trail Kicks Off New Year As Featured Destination on Traveling Golfer Show

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – (January 1, 2019) – It has been tagged “America’s Value Golf Capital,” but the Sebring area in Florida has proven to be an excellent golf and vacation destination … at any price.

The Sebring Citrus Golf Trail is a collection of outstanding golf courses, hotels and attractions in an area that reminds visitors of Old Florida, uncluttered Florida and a refreshingly slower-paced Florida.

For all of those reasons, the Sebring Citrus Golf Trail kicks off the New Year in style as the January episode of the award-winning Traveling Golfer television show.

The golf courses in the Sebring area runlook at the research and development of high-quality golf equipment.

Responding to golfers' never-ending demands to learn more about interesting golf courses and golf resorts across the country and around the world, well-traveled host Tony Leodora created the Traveling Golfer so he could take viewers on video trips to some of the most exciting golf locations. The show repeated for an unprecedented third straight year as the No. 1 Golf Television Show in America in the prestigious International Network of Golf Awards, presented at the PGA Merchandise Show in January of 2018.

The Traveling Golfer is a series of monthly shows hosted by Leodora, who has 18 years of experience in televised golf. The featured destination stays on the website for one month, before being replaced by a new show.


resource limited and lack diagnostic capacity at the local level; therefore, it is highly likely that any Mayaro virus infections would be presumed as chikungunya virus due to the similarity of clinical symptoms, possibly allowing rapid transmission and subsequent spread throughout Central and North America to occur under our global health radar.

With locally acquired infections of both chikungunya and Zika virus now occurring in Texas and Florida in the US, we would presume these areas to also be at high risk for emergence of Mayaro virus. In May of 2016, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported on the first locally acquired case of chikungunya in Cameron County, Texas [21], while 2 years earlier, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on chikungunyaBrooding in a gonatid squid off northern Japan.
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As the shutdown, the longest of its type in US history, entered its 24th day, Trump told reporters he disagreed with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's proposal to reopen the government for three weeks.

If talks failed during that period, Graham said on Sunday, then Trump could go ahead and declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and get money for a wall on the US-Mexico border - the issue that triggered the shutdown on December 22.

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Amid swelling criticism, Trump has refused to budge on his demand that a spending bill include $5.7bn


shutdown also affected travellers as a jump in unscheduled absences among federal airport security screeners forced partial closures of airports in Houston and Miami.

National parks also remain closed, food and drug inspections have been curtailed and key economic data is on hold. Federal courts are set to run out of money on Friday.

During a rally in Washington, DC on Thursday, federal workers, union leaders and Democrats called on the Trump administration to reopen the government.

"Let's call this shutdown what it is: It's a lockout," Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions, told the crowd.

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"Shame on the Senate. Shame on the White House. This lockout has to end, and it has to end now."

At least two unions have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration over thehim.

"I've been waiting all weekend. Democrats must get to work now. Border must be secured!" Trump wrote in an early morning tweet on Monday.

About one-quarter of the US government shut down last month as Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress as well as the White House. In December, Trump said he would take responsibility for the shutdown but has since shifted the blame to the Democrats. A growing proportion of Americans blame Trump for the closures, a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The president now must win concessions from the Democrats, who took over the US House of Representatives this month following November's midterm elections. He also must win over enough Senate Democrats to secure the 60 votes needed to pass funding legislation in that chamber.

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of 60 million people, has been grappling with sectarian violence since June 2012.

The incident in Du Char Yar Tan, a village in Northern Rakhine state, appears to be the deadliest in a year, and would bring the total number killed nationwide in the sectarian violence to more than 280, most of them Muslims. Another 250,000 people have fled their homes.

Northern Rakhine — home to 80 percent of the country’s 1 million long-persecuted Muslim Rohingya population — runs along the Bay of Bengal and is cut off from the rest of the country by a mountain range. It is off-limits to foreign journalists and access for humanitarian aid workers severely restricted, adding to the difficulties of confirming details about the violence.

But evidence of a massacre, first reported by Theauthorities. There is also a chance that some of those presumed dead are still in hiding, but UN officials were confident that the massacre was of a large scale, attendees at the briefing said.

Security forces surrounded Du Char Yar Tan on January 14 after Rohingya Muslim residents allegedly abducted and killed a police sergeant, according to residents who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals. Worried about retaliatory attacks, most of the men fled, and soldiers and police did nothing to stop revenge-seeking a Buddhist mob that entered the village with knives and guns, attacking women, children and others left behind, they said.

Smith called on the government to give humanitarian workers, independent observers and journalists unfettered access to the village, which has been emptied and sealed


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National Archives of Canada (PA-137745).

Canadian Prisoners of War Arrive at Manila, Philippines, 13 September 1945.

The Japanese moved Canadian POWs taken during the Battle of Hong Kong to various camps throughout the South Pacific. These soldiers, such as the ones shown here, were often denied the basic necessities of life. Some did not survive the arduous conditions of camp life; all were profoundly affected by their experiences.

After Japan's victory at Hong Kong, the Japanese took almost 1,700 Canadian prisoners. The Canadian contingent surrendered on Christmas Day 1941. The Japanese rounded up Canadian POWs into two camps: Sham Shui Po, which had been the Canadians' original camp when they arrived in Hong Kong, and North Point, which had originally been a camp for Chinese refugees. As Private Don


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Lack of food and poor nutrition added to the risk of disease. In an undernourished state, Canadian POWs became even more susceptible to a plethora of diseases and ailments including diphtheria, pellagra (vitamin deficiency), malaria, and dysentery. Medicine was seldom available to treat the POWs who contracted these maladies, although sporadic supplies arrived courtesy of the International Red Cross. Many of the afflicted died before they could get treatment.

Of Canada's 1,700 Hong Kong POWs, only 1,428 survived the Japanese POW camps and made it home to Canada. The issue of compensation for these prisoners has never been resolved'. The brutality meted out by the Japanese to Allied prisoners of war was such that even more than half a century afterthe war most ex-POWs express a deep hatred and an almost complete unwillingness to forgive the Japanese. This bitterness is in good part due to the lack of public contrition or even recognition by the Japanese government and public for the grievous treatment inflicted on our prisoners. But ex-POWs of all Allied countries are also bitter about the failure of their own governments to pursue aggressively the Japanese government for compensation and formal acknowledgement for the subhuman treatment inflicted on their soldiers. The ex-POWs feel betrayed by their own governments, which they see cynically putting trade and commerce before the interests of servicemen who suffered severely at the hands of the Japanese. Canadian prisoners of war in Europe faced very different conditions.

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supply. In German POW camps, the basic daily diet was a couple slices of dark bread, sauerkraut (which was usually rancid), and a small amount of horse meat. The quantity and quality of food both decreased during the latter stages of the war, when Germany was assailed from all sides. Thankfully, the Red Cross made the food situation tolerable by supplying ample quantities of varied and nutritious foods on a fairly regular basis.

The Germans captors also tended to treat their POWs with more respect than did the Japanese. Canadian POWs reported that the Germans, for the most part, adhered to the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners. Nonetheless, the Germans could at time be severe captors. Trooper Cliff Hooey also later testified that guards would "think nothingstated that "past medical bills and expenses will be addressed at a later date."[1] The court approved that agreement and entered an order thereon on March 8, 2007.
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set of gun laws. That includes not just the licensing system, but also a safe storage law, the registration portal, legal requirements for reporting lost or stolen guns, restrictions on private sellers, bans on assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, a list of prohibited gun buyers that extends far beyond federal law, oversight on gun dealers that goes above the federal standard, and much more.

There are also policies that go beyond gun control, including youth intervention programs and evidence-based policing strategies like focused deterrence. Massachusetts has done a good job in this area: A 2017 report from the Giffords Law Center found that the state led the US, along with Connecticut and New York, in investing in evidence-based gun violence prevention strategies.

All of these policies work together tomake Massachusetts one of the safest states in the US when it comes to gun deaths.

A single state can only do so much

The reality, though, is Massachusetts has not vanquished gun deaths. It still has some gun violence, and its rates of gun deaths are still higher than that of other developed nations, like the United Kingdom and Japan.

Part of that is the national context that Massachusetts falls under. While Massachusetts certainly has strong gun laws, much of the US — including some of Massachusetts’s New England neighbors, like New Hampshire — does not. For a criminal or gun trafficker, this creates a loophole: If they want easy access to a gun, they can travel for a few hours to a state with laxer laws and purchase a


SAVE THE WORLD. A message from GRACE – Movement for a Free Earth

The text describes a vision of a new planetary movement:• Reconciliation and cooperation between humans and nature. • Reconciliation of the genders and the ending of the war of the sexes. Coming together of free love and real partnership. • Reunion of the human and the divine world. • Remembering the sources of culture. Connection of ancient and indigenous with today´s knowledge and technology.

The text describes a vision of a new planetary movement:• Reconciliation and cooperation between humans and nature. • Reconciliation of the genders and the ending of the war of the sexes. Coming together of free love and real partnership. • Reunion of the human and the divine world. • Remembering the sources ofRemembering the sources of culture.

Connection of ancient and indigenous withtoday´s knowledge and technology.One of the new planetary centers is Tamerain Portugal. Founded in 1995, it is a center forconcrete utopia with currently about 160 co-workers and young students. Here arises theSolar Village, a living model for decentralizedand self-sufficient energy supply, water supply


Brazil midfielder Fred thanked Manchester United teammate Nemanja Matic for welcoming to the club after the Selecao's 2-0 World Cup victory over Serbia on Wednesday and reckoned the towering midfielder will be a "great teammate" once the two join forces at Old Trafford next season.

Fred, 25, signed a five-year contract with the Premier League club after moving from Shakhtar Donetsk for a reported fee of €55 million last week.

The Brazil reserve has yet to feature at this summer's World Cup. However, he found time to exchange shirts and chat with the Serbia midfielder following Wednesday's match in Moscow.

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"It was a nice chat with him, he welcomed me for coming to the great club that is Manchester," Fred said. "We exchanged shirts, too, he will be a great teammate."

With Brazil on to the round-of-16 in Russia, Fred admitted he hasn't thought much about life at United just yet.

He said: "It's a big change, but I have not stopped yet ... It still hasn't set in, I'm very focused here on the World Cup.

"I do not think much about


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To increase the time the ball is on the playfield board, pinball games commonly have one or more flippers located near the mouth of the chute. The flipper(s) is actuated by a button(s) accessible to the player. When the ball strikes the flipper,last week’s bombshell decision to back Trump. According to two sources familiar with the call, Christie mounted a detailed defense of his endorsement, explaining that he’d known the real estate executive for over a decade and had grown confident in his ability to lead the country.

The stakes on Tuesday are perhaps highest for Cruz, who had once hoped to establish a stranglehold on Super Tuesday, carefully tailoring his evangelical image to the conservative states that are voting that day and campaigning heavily in towns throughout Tennessee and Oklahoma. He has described March 1 as the most important day of the Republican primary calendar.

Yet, with Trump rampaging throughout the South, it’s now possible that Cruz will only emerge with a win in his home state of Texas, a contest


released its post-Super Tuesday schedule. But in the immediate days ahead, Cruz is likely to campaign heavily in a trio of deeply conservative states – Idaho, Louisiana, and Kansas – that hold their nominating contests over the next week.

Rubio, meanwhile, will immediately pivot to his home state of Florida, where he will spend much of his time ahead of the do-or-die March 15 primary. With polls showing him badly trailing Trump, Rubio is expected to launch an all-out effort to win the state, where a defeat could be fatal. His top aides have vowed in unequivocal terms that they will not lose Florida, which awards its 99 delegates on a winner-take-all basis.

Rubio’s planning for the Florida primary has been long in the works. He recently dispatched Clint Reed,a former Republican National Committee political director, to Florida help guide his efforts to secure his home state, according to two sources familiar with the move. Reed also played key roles for Rubio in Iowa and South Carolina.

Rubio’s aides are convening top donors to a national finance meeting to coincide with the March 9 debate in Miami. On March 10 and March 11, he will embark on a fundraising tour that will take him to Palm Beach, Naples, and Ocean Reef. One of the events will be held at the home of Gerald and Darlene Jordan, prominent South Florida socialites who were major benefactors to Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.

No matter what happens on Tuesday, Cruz and Rubio’s allies point out, Trump will be nowhere close to securing the


wins most of the states voting on Super Tuesday and his rivals choose to stay in the contest, Trump will be the beneficiary of two major advantages: a lead in the delegate count, and a splintered Republican field.

With Rubio likely to be blown out on Tuesday, his allies are latching on to the notion that he could still keep Trump from amassing a majority of delegates and then win over party insiders at the convention in Cleveland, securing the nomination at the 11th hour.

“There is a very narrow way forward,” conceded Mel Martinez, a former Republican National Committee chairman and past Florida senator who endorsed Rubio on Monday.

But, Martinez said, there was hope. A majority of the party, he argued, found Trump “increasingly unpalatable,” and they would resistRomney and Jeb Bush have been loud critics of Trump, neither has endorsed the Florida senator – nods that would open up veins of fundraising dollars and help Rubio consolidate the party around him.

While many of Bush’s backers have announced their support for Rubio since the former Florida governor dropped out of the race, others have remained on the sidelines.

One top Bush donor — Mel Sembler, a Florida real estate developer and former ambassador to Italy – declined in an email exchange to say whether he’d support Rubio. He said he was focused on defeating a medical marijuana initiative and “recovering from Jeb’s withdrawal.”

A few Bush backers are throwing their support elsewhere. In a telephone interview on Monday, Doug Ose, a wealthy former Republican member of Congress who


L.B. Foster makes organizational changes

As a part of ongoing efforts to create a more customer-centered organization in L.B. Foster Company's recently consolidated rail businesses, a number of organizational changes have been made to its team led by Greg Lippard, vice president, rail products and sales.

Bill Zimmer was promoted to director, Class 1 rail sales. In this new position, Zimmer will direct all of the company's initiatives with the North American Class 1 railroads, including BNSF and Kansas City Southern, He has been in the rail industry since 1985 and joined L.B. Foster in 1994 as a sales representative.

Reporting to Zimmer will be David Sprinkle. Sprinkle returns to L.B. Foster as regional Class 1 sales manager, handling CSX and Norfolk Southern, after working for the company from 1996-2008.

Rick Steiningerwas promoted to director, technical rail sales. In his new position, he will focus on the sale of the company's many products for transit applications. Steininger joined L.B. Foster in 1987 as an inside sales representative.

Reporting to Steininger will be Mark Hammons, general manager, rail sales West. In this new position Mark will focus on existing and new western U.S. and Canadian transit systems and engineering design firms. Mark has more than 20 years of experience in freight, light and commuter rail industry.

Joe Mahoney was promoted to director of rail sales. In this new position, Mahoney will be responsible for all of the company's sales districts across North America and Canada. He joined L.B. Foster in 1995 as a sales representative.

Reporting to Mahoney will be Chuck Parks, who


has been promoted to regional sales manager, Southeast Sales District. Parks joined L.B. Foster in 2007 as a territory sales representative for CXT Concrete Ties, located in Spokane, Wash. In his new position, he will be responsible managing the company's sales activities in the southeastern U.S.

Also reporting to Mahoney will be Jay Roach who was promoted to regional sales manager, Midwest Sales District. Roach began his career in the rail industry in 1996. He joined L.B. Foster in 2000 as a sales representative and was later promoted to a district sales manager. In his new position, he will be responsible for sales of all rail products in a 13-state territory.

Reporting to Roach will be James Irr-Barr as sales representative in the Midwest Sales District. Roach joined L.B. Fosterin 2008 as an inside sales representative.

Hector Herrera was promoted to regional sales manager, Latin America. Herrera joined L.B. Foster in 2001 as the sales manager, Mexico. In his new position, he will be in charge of all sales activities for company's products and services in the Latin American markets.

Victor Gonzalez was promoted to sales manager, Mexico, with the responsibility to maintain and grow the company's business in Mexico. He joined L.B. Foster in January, 2012 after spending 16 years in a number of capacities with several Mexican firms.

Michelle Chapin was promoted to director of inside rail sales. In this position, she will lead a team of inside sales representatives servicing the company's North American customer base. She began working at L.B. Foster more than 30 years ago