be 100 degrees, and he was still wearing that overcoat.”

Another neighbor, Conception Garcia, 59, who lives two doors down from Lopez, confirmed he would wear a dark overcoat even in the heat of summer. She described him as someone “very off to himself.”

But she added that “he never gave anybody any problems.”

She said she believed he lived in a small trailer behind the home listed as his residence, where he tended a small garden. By the time she got outside Saturday to see what was going on, the police were already there, she said.

“The chief was well-liked. He was a good man,” she said, recounting how he would greet folks as if they were old friends. “That was the kind of chief he was.”

nhicks@express-news.net

Twitter: @ndhappleBy Shadow State

A very serious obstacle obstructing the exoneration of John Tighe is that courts do not like to admit they’re wrong, even when evidence points clearly to miscarriage of justice.

The case of Chicagoan, Gary E. Dotson is pertinent to this point.

Dotson (born August 3, 1957) was the first person to be exonerated of a criminal conviction by DNA evidence.

In May 1979, he was found guilty and sentenced to 25 to 50 years’ imprisonment for rape, and kidnapping. The conviction was upheld by the appellate court in 1981.

In 1985, the accusing witness, Cathy Crowell Webb, after joining a Baptist church, recanted her testimony, which had been the only evidence against Dotson.

She admitted she lied.

Dotson was not exonerated or pardoned but due to popular belief that he was a


Pascal Pavani , AFP | In this file photo taken on September 27, 2019, the Airbus delivery center in Colomiers, southwestern France, shows a logo of Aircalin airline based in New Caledonia.

After getting the green light from the World Trade Organization, Washington moved Wednesday to retaliate against the EU over illegal subsidies for Airbus, announcing tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European goods starting October 18.

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The ruling is the largest arbitration award in WTO history and a landmark moment in the longstanding Airbus-Boeing battle, which threatens to intensify already strained trade relations between the United States and the European Union.

The top US trade negotiator said he expects to begin talks with Brussels soon to try to resolve the dispute. But President Donald Trump hailed the decision,calling it a "big win" for the United States and claiming credit for the outcome of the 15-year-old case.

"We're having a lot of wins at the WTO," Trump said. "All of those countries were ripping off the United States for many years and they know I'm wise to it."

Airbus dispute 'goes back 15 years'

The EU will face tariffs of 10 percent on aircraft and 25 percent on other goods, like cheeses, whiskey and olive oil, as some industrial products, largely from the four countries that support Airbus: France, Germany, Spain and Britain.

"For years, Europe has been providing massive subsidies to Airbus that have seriously injured the US aerospace industry and our workers," US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement.

"We expect to enter into negotiations with the


and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point?

Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growersagribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanna Fluke
Independent-minded Hannah Swenson makes her debut in a cleverly plotted cozy, full of appealing characters and delicious cookie recipes. Returning after her father’s death to her hometown of Lake Eden, Minn., Hannah opens her own shop, the Cookie Jar, where much of the town’s gossip percolates along with the strong coffee. Early one morning, she finds the driver of a delivery truck shot dead in the alley behind her shop. Hannah’s brother-in-law, Bill, the county’s deputy sheriff, recruits her to help him chase down the culprit. A surprising number of suspects emerges, but due to her cafe business and catering of local


social events, Hannah is admirably placed to hear all, see much and investigate a little. Motives ranging from blackmail to extortion abound, as do descriptions of clothing and shopping. Cat fanciers will appreciate knowing how Hannah found her cat, but separating the wheat of the significant from the chaff of the irrelevant can be challenging. Fluke also stretches the imagination when Bill leaves most of the sleuthing to Hannah and when the sheriff’s men fail to discover a second body at the dairy where the first victim was employed. But these are minor lapses in a story satisfyingly packed with plot twists

The Family Kitchen: Easy and Delicious Recipes for Parents and Kids to Make and Enjoy Together by Debra Ponzek
Want to prepare one meal the entire family willby Janet Stevens
Stevens and her sister cook up a boisterous romp as four animal friends set out to bake a strawberry shortcake. Rooster, tired of pecking for chicken feed, remembers that his famous great-grandmother (the Little Red Hen) wrote a cookbook, and in it he finds the recipe. Turtle, Iguana and Pig volunteer to help. If left solely to the text, the rest of the comedy-cum-cookery lesson would be fairly predictable: Turtle, reading the recipe, announces they need flour and Iguana rushes outside to pick a petunia; asked to beat an egg, Iguana hoists a baseball bat. (Handsomely illustrated sidebars explain most of the directions in depth.) Rooster sets Iguana straight while Pig keeps wanting to taste everything in sight. The illustrations, however, are startling in their pop-off-the-page


to their fellow students. The whole school is intrigued when a mysterious limo appears, bringing a shy and sad-looking new girl, Lillian. When Sassy and her friends welcome her, she begins to emerge from her shell, and Sassy decides to research recipes and throw a dazzling dinner party at her house. She succeeds in talking her mom into it by promising that nothing she makes will involve cooking. She invites her entire class and must combat her brother’s sock- and food-eating dog; an electricity outage that threatens her frozen foods; a purple kitchen; and the possible disappearance of Lillian. As in the earlier tales, the protagonist’s sparkly “Sassy sack” contains everything she needs to counter any dilemma. Themes of loyalty and friendship run throughout as Lillian finds ato make some predictions, and about half of them turned out to be either wrong, or have not yet materialized. I was fairly certain that Trump would leave office during 2018. This turned out to be wrong, but maybe not by a lot. I still think he will leave the presidency soon: he qualifies for several mental health disorders, advisors abandon him in droves, and he has only brought chaos to the country and to the world. Republicans are beginning to realize that they cannot win the next presidential election with him, so the replacement has to happen in 2019, before the primaries begin in early 2020. On the Democratic side, the field of candidates is very strong, and a new generation with more women is entering American


politics.

The Trump Presidency will end in some kind of storm, and it will leave lasting damages. America is divided and shaken, and the world has now seen its vulnerabilities. American foreign policy is unsteady, its military power is overrated and extremely expensive, and the US has become an unreliable partner in world politics.

America’s political system has constitutional problems that are not easy to fix. The Electoral College, which, according to the Constitution elects the President, sometimes displaces the popular vote. The Constitution also prescribes that the Senate be composed of two Senators from each State (therefore, the Senate currently has 100 Members. ) This leads to the absurd situation that a senator from a small state like Wyoming (579,315 people) has the same voting power as a senatorteams---not one best way, but different coherent articulations of the resources at hand, given environmental constraints and team objectives. The broad range of organisational structures that, according to the literature, appears to succeed in delivering high-quality care efficiently and effectively points to the need for a contingency approach to understand primary care structures and process optimisation.

The review also led to the identification of two dimensions that appeared important for classifying and analysing promising multiprofessional primary care teams. The first was the degree to which the division of tasks in the team was formalised. At one extreme were formal models relying on explicit procedures that specified what service would be provided by which professional, to which patient, and at what point in time. At the other were organic approaches


stop speaking about it. But it had no religious meaning.

My mother lost her parents when she was very young and moved in with my father’s family, so she grew up in a strong, secular, socialistic, but culturally very strong Jewish family and society. Friday night was holy, with lots of delicious food, although they were as poor as church mice. They did not eat kosher, but no treif meat would ever enter the house. Jewish expressions, customs, and jokes were the daily language.

My father was an ardent admirer of Spinoza, the great Jewish philosopher in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century who walked out on Judaism and was banned by the rabbis. It is the most well known Jewish ban ever. It made him world famous; I am stillAs international manhunt continues, focus shifts to the victim

René Bruemmer, Postmedia News06.01.2012

Unconfirmed photo of Lin Jun, who was allegedly killed and dismembered in Montreal by Luka Rocco Magnotta. Lin, a 33-year old from China, was studying at Concordia University and hasn’t been seen since May 24.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is wanted for second-degree murder in Canada for the killing and dismemberment of a man.
/ Montreal Gazette

Police on Friday confirmed the identity of the man killed and dismembered in Montreal as Lin Jun, a 33-year old from China who was studying at Concordia University.

Jun Lin was last seen on May 24 and reported missing on May 29, according to Montreal police. (Facebook)

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MONTREAL — In a murder case so macabre and bizarre all focus has until now fixated on the


attention-obsessed suspect and the international manhunt for him, the spotlight shifted Friday to the dead man at the heart of the drama.

Police confirmed the victim of alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta was a 33-year-old student named Lin Jun from China, who came to Montreal to study in the engineering and computer science faculty at Concordia University. He was alone in the city, his family 18,000 kilometres away in his home city of Wuhan. He was a well-liked part-time employee at a convenience store.

And he had the misfortune to make the acquaintance of Magnotta.

“We believe the victim and the suspect knew each other,” Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière said. “He was not a stranger. This was not a random attack.”

Details about Lin are scant, limited so far to picturesseeing Gregory King." "Oh." "Hello?" "It's Scanlon." "He's right here." "They picked up Henry Alonso." "He was high as a kite." "He pawned a 5 carat diamond ring, and a diamond face watch." "Both stolen from Gregory King the night he died." "Yeah, he is smiling." "Ok." " Hey." " Yes!" "How did it go?" "She's still mad at me.?" "Well, she still thinks what she had dreamt was a truth, so I guess so." "How about our fourth child?" "The big lump living on the couch?" "He fell asleep watching TV." "Fell asleep or passed out?" "I'll have you know he didn't drink anything stronger than orange juice today." "Geez" "The guy cracks one lousy murder case and suddenly he's the poster child for sobriety" "Hey!" "He


times.  The first such transformation occurred on February 28, 1989, when SASA was placed in conservatorship.  At this time, the RTC chose to carry on SASA's operations, and requested SASA's senior executives, appellants in this matter, stay on in their former positions.  As a result, appellants managed the thrift in conservatorship for about six months, until July 1989, when regulators decided to close SASA and replace the conservator with a receiver.

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A new institution, San Antonio Savings Association, Federal Association ("SASA, FA"), was established at that time.  SASA, FA was chartered and placed in conservatorship by federal regulators on July 13, 1989, to acquire substantially all of SASA's assets and deposit liabilities.  The executives again stayed on as employees of the successor conservatorship fromJuly 1989, until March 1990, when regulators closed SASA, FA, and appointed the RTC as the thrift's Receiver.  The Receiver then proceeded to liquidate SASA, FA's assets for the benefit of depositors and creditors.

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Two executives, not appellants in this matter, opted for early retirement during the first conservator phase.   As the thrift was not yet in insolvency and was not yet at the phase of distribution, these executives received their vested SERP benefits in full, without controversy.

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It is clear that no written contract governed the employment relationship between appellants and the SASA and SASA, FA conservatorships.  The RTC maintains that the conservatorships continued to pay appellants their salaries, as well as their health, vacation, and pension benefits, in the ordinary course of business, as


the SERP agreement requires that in the event of insolvency all SERP assets be available to pay the thrift's creditors.  Specifically, the Umbrella trust directs the trustee to "hold the trust fund for the benefit of the general creditors of the Company" during any periods of insolvency.  In accordance with this language, plan participants are explicitly classified as unsecured general creditors.4

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Appellants, under the plain terms of the SERP and Umbrella trust agreements, attained the legal status of unsecured general creditors at the time SASA, FA was placed into receivership.  The preference status accorded appellants' rights stems from two sources in law: the Internal Revenue Code and the Texas Civil Statutes concerning savings and loans.  As previously noted, the Internal Revenue Code permits grantor trustsunder existing service contracts, and to treat those obligations as expenses of administration.  However, the two entities - conservatorships and receiverships - are separate, with separate obligations, and separate expenses of administration.  Only the expenses incurred by a receiver constitute expenses of liquidation.  As appellants never performed any services for the Receiver, they are not entitled to any preferential treatment for the services they performed for the Conservator.  These provisions function to guarantee payment under existing service contracts to those individuals who perform services for a failed, and liquidating, institution.  Here, only the Conservator accepted the executives' services, and in so doing adopted, not repudiated, their pre-existing terms of employment.  Pursuant to this adoption, appellants received their salaries, and all benefit packages


The statute at issue is 12 U.S.C.  1821(d), Powers and duties of Corporation as Conservator or Receiver.  In the interest of brevity, the full text is not quoted here.

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  Appellants emphasize the fact that McAllister, who served as Chairman of the Board of San Antonio Federal Savings Bank, a banking subsidiary of SASA and later SASA, FA, maintained his position as Chairman after SASA, FA entered receivership.  He apparently was not compensated for his work in this position, and in fact apparently incurred personal financial losses canvassing the country in search of an investment group to acquire SAFSB.  McAllister's actions taken in this position, however, are irrelevant to his claim for SERP benefits, as his participation in the SERP plan was independent ofit is Stan’s right to have babies, if he could, and that they will fight for this right. Says Francis, “It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression!” Retorts Reg, “Symbolic of his struggle against reality.”

Flash forward to 2010. Earlier this month, I opened the sports page of the Minneapolis paper to a report, based on a New York Times story, that a former girls basketball star from one of our local high schools has been playing Division I college basketball. She has also announced that she is a man. The college has agreed that their player is a man, and further agreed to refer to this player at all times with male pronouns. The NCAA has agreed that “he” will continue to play on the women’s team.

As


is the participation in a patent falsehood by two institutions whose raison d’être is to seek out and disseminate the truth: the university and the news media.

The university exists to seek the truth. Its faculty attempts to extend our knowledge of reality through theories based on observable facts. Yet in this instance at least, the university in question has acquiesced to the obviously false claim that one of its student athletes is a man, agreeing to call her a man, and to refer to her with male pronouns. The university might claim that it is not giving in to the claim that she is a man, but merely to her request to be referred to in a certain way. But when a student says that she wants toNagaland Tourist Places - Festivals
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Yemshe
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phases, namely the Big and small Yemshe. The Big Yemshe


is the time for preparations all
around as the village youth cleanses the whole village. The purification of the house and a ritual
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Sekrenyi
The principal Angami festival is the Sekrenyi. It is celebrated in February by the Western
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enormous quantities of rice-beer, beef and pork are consumed.

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This is the most important festival of the Sumi Nagas in Nagaland. The Tuluni Festival in
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This festivalThe present invention relates to a recording medium player apparatus such as a cassette tape recorder, and particularly to a recording medium player apparatus such as a small-sized cassette tape recorder having a recording medium insertion slot.
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that better cleaning results are achieved in the presence of ammonia.
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The volatile alkaline earth metal and metal complexes removed from the interior of the reactor after the cleaning can advantageously beGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

The Illinois attorney general is challenging the sentence of a former Chicago police officer found guilty of fatally shooting a black teenager more than a dozen times as he walked away.

Jason Van Dyke was sentenced in January to six years and nine months in prison after he was found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery in the killing of Laquan McDonald in October 2014.

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Prosecutors had initially asked for Van Dyke, 40, to be sentenced to a minimum of 18 years, although the state's sentencing guidelines allowed a term of


16 times, some striking him in the back as he was moving away from Van Dyke and other officers responding to reports the teenager was carrying a knife and breaking into cars in the city's Southwest Side. McDonald, 17, was holding a folded knife when he was shot.

Van Dyke said at his trial that he shot McDonald because he feared for his life, but dashcam footage showed that the former officer was moving toward McDonald as the teenager walked away.In just over two months, Bernie Sanders has risen from a more-than-30-point underdog in the polls to leading Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.

Sanders is leading Clinton 42 percent to 35 percent among Democratic primary voters in the state, according to a poll released Monday by Public Policy Polling.

It’s the second time in less than two weeks a poll showed Sanders ahead in the Granite State.

“Two polls in a row gives a little more credence to the idea that things are deadlocked, essentially neck and neck,’’ Danta Scala, University of New Hampshire professor of political science, told Boston.com. For the first time, Sanders is also leading Clinton by a slim margin according to the latest polling average by Real Clear Politics.

But the bigger surprise is in the details, said


commuting. This involved finding “park and ride” lots at varying distances from the office, a little further each week. Which led to a big leap around mid-summer; from park-and-rides in Saint Louis Park, seven miles from the office, to having to ride all the way across Minneapolis (where there are no park and rides), and do the whole 16 miles.

Which, at long last, I did – once. I rode 16 miles to work in the morning. And then I rode home that night. And as I got to the top of the long, grueling climb up Marshall Avenue, two miles from home, I got a call – my son was in the ER, the beginning of a three month ordeal that had me at the hospital most evenings,of 2011, after a month or two of riding from Park and Ride lots in the western subs to work, I did the whole thing for the first time, there and back…

…and as I sat at a stoplight at Prior and Marshall, after climbing the long, grueling hill up from the Marshall-Lake bridge, got a cell phone call about a family medical emergency that ended the biking season, and pretty much everything else, for the next three months.

After that, I spent a year at another contract at another building without a locker room, silently gnashing my teeth at the fates that left me commuting in a car through such a gorgeous summer for riding.

But now – knock wood – things may be looking up.

Started a new gig last


make Jefferson, especially at Cleveland Avenue, virtually impassable to cars.

St. Paul Public Works plans to move forward this year with a grassy, bicycle-friendly median along Cleveland Avenue at Jefferson Avenue that has drawn both praise and criticism from residents in the area who are weighing the merits of a narrower crossing.

The median would force northbound and southbound traffic along Cleveland Avenue to slow and traffic along Jefferson Avenue to make right turns.

Public Works has tentatively proposed that the median go before the St. Paul City Council on Aug. 17. If approved, construction could begin in October or November.

Cleveland is the main way of getting north and south from Highland to the Midway. Having a big gnarly bottleneck at Jefferson will not just be a huge pain, but it’llfair, kept my head swiveling about like an owl on the hunt) for the last couple of miles in to the office.

The last three miles is, as it happens, the worst part of the whole trip. The rest of the commute – from my front door to somewhere in the western subs, on a hypothetical all-bike ride to work – is striped bike lanes (Minnehaha, Prior, Marshall) or dedicated bike paths (the Greenway, the River Bluffs trail), up to that last little gauntlet of death.

So my goal for my abbreviated biking season; get to the point where I can do the whole, Saint Paul-to-western-subs trip at least once a week.

Getting a late start on the bike commuting this year. Part of it is because my commute jumped from


single nation in the world, really. Even in countries where biking isn’t the most affordable means of transportation for the regular schmuck, bikes are more common among adults everywhere.

While kids sit at home texting their friends and slaying computer-generated monsters, a growing number of their parexnts and grandparents are clogging the roads atop a contraption that was once considered a child’s toy.

Well, no.

The bike became a mass-market commodity item long before the automobile became affordable to most Americans. In many places, the bike was the first ticket the working stiff had to get off mass transit or quit walking, in those days before cars (and manufacturing jobs) became ubiquitous. In some parts of the country, the move to build paved roads was driven initially by the number ofhowling, screaming little prick.

he said, adding that he has contacted the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom from Religion Foundation about the issue.

I was enjoying an all-too-rare hour of listening to Jason Lewis the other day.

I was driving through the teller line at the bank, when he chimed in with an oldie but goodie: “Bikers don’t pay taxes”.

And the teller looked at me, perplexed, when I shouted “you are wrong for two reasons!”.

First: I do pay taxes. City and county taxes. Some of which go to paying for bike lanes – the odd strip of asphalt around the lakes, and a stripe lane on the occasional street. Not every street mind you; one street about every mile or so, generally, usually not the high-traffic ones. (And by


Six years have passed since Occupy Wall Street called attention to one of the most vexing problems of our time: an abstract financial system that concentrates prosperity at the top, produces massive inequality and drowns working people in unpayable debts. It is worth noting that some of the largest Occupy encampments occurred in some of the most liberal cities: New York, Oakland, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago among them. Indeed, it is difficult to reconcile how progressive leadership has been unable to address myriad social problems, income inequality chief among them. Case in point: In San Francisco, home district of Nancy Pelosi, the top 1 percent of earners take home 30.8 percent of the total income in the region. Almost every major coastal city is dealing with somedifferent now, from you to me, how much are you different now from when you started?' - and just kind of hear him out, to hear where he's at. And then I sat down and made a cutup of every error he made last year that was related to inexperience, and that's kind of been his offseason program. He's done a great job with it, you know, very diligent, and as of today, he's miles away of where he was at the end of the season, so good things ahead.

When a defensive line would stem or move on him, - so he went from covered to uncovered or visa versa right before the snap - with experience, your rules would just kick right in, and they're not set


settled in camp and through the pre-season."

ON BRENO GIACOMINI:

"People right now have a sour taste because in the first six games he's got nine penalties, and he doesn't really have his emotions under control - you kind of want him there on the edge but maybe not over the edge - but the second half of the season, he had two penalties, so people need to get over that. That's important to know. This guy - our mindset, how we play the game as a team - I would say you put him right at the front of that in terms of competing, and tough, and finish, and he's a guy that we know has some limitations athletically, but you get everything he's got and then a littlePlanning a cardiovascular hybrid operating room: the technical point of view.
The integration of interventional techniques into cardiovascular surgery requires angiographic imaging capabilities in the operating room. A deep understanding of the technology and its implication for the surgical workflow is scarce. Before planning a hybrid operating room, a clear vision for the utilization should be established. Commonly, the theaters are in interdisciplinary usage by interventionalists, anesthesiologists, and surgeons of various disciplines. The multitude of requirements determines necessary resources -- location, space, and imaging equipment. Besides fluoroscopy, intraoperative 3D imaging with the angiography system and its combination with fluoroscopy evolves as a very important imaging modality enabling the surgeon to navigate in 3D anatomy. With the growing trend toward endovascular procedures during surgery, the hybrid operating room will become


a particular payments service is subject to regulation as money transmission. A number of states have determined that under certain conditions, state money transmission licensing laws do not apply to services provided as an agent of the payee. The most recent states to affirm this are Hawaii and Connecticut.

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During the first session, our speakers will provide an overview of debt capital market trends in 2017 and what to expect in the months ahead. We will discuss some of the regulatory developments that are, and will continue to, impact issuances by financial institutions, including the Canadian banks. In particular, we will discuss issuance trends for financial institutions in the United States,added.

Projects of this size are highly complex and require
capital and expertise from multiple sources. Sol Systems managed the investment
on behalf of an insurance client as part of the firm’s tax equity initiative to
produce secure, sustainable solar investments for banks, insurance companies,
utilities, and Fortune 100 clients. Strata Solar developed the project
opportunities, and National Cooperative Bank served as the lender in the
transactions.

"Strata Solar continues to lead the North Carolina
market in solar deployment," said David Scoglio, Strata Solar CFO.
"We have been fortunate to work with several strong partners in the tax
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state."

“National Cooperative Bank has a
strong commitment to the solar industry, and we look forward to working with
Strata Solar and Sol Systems on future transactions,” said Matthew Wright,
Senior Vice President,


National Cooperative Bank.

This is the first half of a the investment that the
partners will channel into the North Carolina solar market, which now ranks
fourth in the country having installed 592 MW of solar electric capacity
according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

The three new arrays will displace about 16,000 tons of
carbon dioxide each year, about the same as providing electricity for 2,300
homes for one year. The farms, located
in Laurinburg, Clarkton, and Spring Hope, are home to 60,436 solar panels and
are projected to produce 30 million kilowatt hours annually.

About Sol SystemsSol Systems is a renewable energy finance firm that provides
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Saturday, October 04, 2014

As another Saturday ends, I have chalked up a few more adventures in exploring London. This latest round started on September 21, when the "London Open House" meant that some of the city's architectural attractions would be open (and free) to visit. Among them was a location that was on my "must see" list: the Charterhouse.

Painting of the Trappists being led to Tyburn for execution.They were held in such esteem that their capitulation meanteverything to the King. But that esteem was merited: they didnot (except for a final few members) give in to his will.

The name "Charterhouse" sounds like it might be an old timey pub or perhaps a mapmakers, but it was actually the Trappist monastery on the London outskirts, and in its heyday(if a Trappist monastery can be said to have a "heyday"), it had quite a bit of terrain, along with the monastic chapel, the "chapter house" for community meetings, and the community living spaces (including the monks' cells). St Thomas More explored the Trappist vocation here for a while, before recognizing that his vocation was to be a Christian "in the world." He and the monks did not realize it at the time, but they did share a common vocation: that of martyrdom. For this Charterhouse was emptied, the monks condemned to ghastly executions, and the chapel torn down (its foundations lost until the bombing in World War II revealed them), all over the "King's Great Matter."

That little circle between the twosets of window is the "squint."

The property


exchanged hands a few times after the King gave it to one of his supporters (the one who tore the chapel down). Eventually, a prosperous Elizabethan businessman bought it and turned it into a charitable institution: on the one hand, a school for poor boys (with paying pupils as well), and on the other, a residence for poor, but respectable bachelors. By today's standards, a rather hideous situation, but it seems to have worked out for several hundred years. The school graduated such luminaries as William Makepeace Thackeray, John Wesley and Roger Williams (who went on to found the State of Rhode Island). Eventually the school relocated, but the residence continues on, and in the spirit of the home's origins, the residence call themselves Brothers, and commit toa simple form of community life. It was the Brothers who welcomed me and Sister Giovanna and the other visitors on the day of the Open House, and they could not have been more gracious. They were especially happy to talk about the martyrs to the visiting nuns (and also very proud of their association with the Benedictine sisters from the Tyburn convent). Each and every brother we met went out of his way to point out some of the hidden Catholic history of the place: "Did you see the painting of the martyrs?" "Sisters, look behind this panel in our chapel [the former Chapter Room]: this was the stone sink where the altar linens were washed." "Did you see 'the squint'?" That turned out to be a


kind of peep hole from the monastery office where the bursar could follow Mass from where he was: it looked straight down to the altar. Now it looks straight down into a grassy courtyard where only a stone outline marks where the chapel stood--and a commemorative stone where the altar once was honors the martyrs, with a plaque on the nearby wall listing them by name.

Sister Giovanna and I had planned to go to St Paul's for Evensong, but a headache ruled that out (it's still on the "to do" list!). London sightseeing would have to wait for another opportunity.

That opportunity came the following Saturday. I was on my own this time (not as much fun, for sure), but decided the time had come to visit the Royalof presentation (for more about the Green Room, press 1; for more about the princesses who used this doll house, press 2...). I loved the picture gallery where the first painting to greet me was a Rembrandt self-portrait, the second was a Rubens Assumption and down the line I discovered a Caravaggio I never knew existed (Jesus calling Peter and Andrew). The Royal Childhood exhibit was as sweet as you can imagine, with baby clothes from the 1700's up to Princes William and Harry, and the toys Queen Elizabeth and her sister played with. When I had made it through and thanked my benefactors (also promising prayers for David, the husband, who is also ill), I popped into the gift shop and got my sisters and nieces the


find!

The following day I was also free to explore, so I set off for the choir Mass at the Jesuit parish, Immaculate Conception, known as the "Farm Street Church." It is in a VERY posh district. (As I walked through the streets, I passed a parking lot with two Aston Martin convertibles in it.) The Jesuit church is lovely; built in the early 1900's in a lacy Gothic style, it reminded me of Holy Name Church where my parents were married--only half the size and twice as ornate. The choir Masses here are almost always in Latin, a kind of hybrid liturgy between the older rite and the contemporary missal--the readings are in English, the liturgy is mostly the "novus ordo" that we use in English, the altaris between the priest and the people, but instead of a Responsorial Psalm, the choir sings a couple of lines taken from the Psalms, and often the Sanctus is sung, but the Benedictus used either in addition to or before the acclamation of the Mystery of Faith! It takes a bit of getting used to, as does the Gregorian Chant prayer (in Latin) for Queen Elizabeth, graciously ruling over us.

Today, Saturday, was again my day on the town. Now, after Mass last week while I enjoyed the Jesuits' coffee, a woman from the parish welcomed me, and with great enthusiasm told me that I absolutely must visit Southwark Cathedral (the "w" is silent, as is usual here: Suthark is the pronunciation). It had been a convent as far


back as 600 AD, then an Augustinian priory and then, with the King's Great Matter, it was "surrendered" to the Crown and since then has been used by the Church of England. It is now the Cathedral of the Diocese of Southwark. When I got home, Sister Giovanna told me that she had been, of all places, to Southwark Cathedral. She even brought me the brochure to encourage me to visit. So what else could I do today but go to Southwark? I took the Underground to London Bridge (yes! that London Bridge), and got a little lost--actually I got

distracted by the sight of the bustling Southwark Market: an open air (mostly roofed) market filled with produce stalls, fishmongers, cheesemongers, butchers and bakers (probably candlestick makers, but theyDerek Pechous, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States; Carlos J. Orihuela, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

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Yellowstone: Hot spring colour changed due to pennies thrown by people making wishes

The Morning Glory Pool at Yellowstone National Park was once a uniform deep blue. The colours you see today are the results of pollution lowering the temperature of the poolJoseph Shaw, Montana State University

The next time you are tempted to make a wish by throwing a coin into a natural pond, lake or river, think again.

Optical researchers from Montana State University have found the colour of the world's third-largest hot spring has changed over time due to years of coins and other debris being thrown into the pool.

Their study, Colors Of Thermal Pools St Yellowstone National Park" is published in the journal Applied Optics.

Like many of the hot springs in the park, it gives off multipleOptical Technology Center.

"There are people at my university who are world experts in the biological side of what's going on in the pools.

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William Hartnell is the original Doctor in the most epic Doctor Who story ever made, in which his arch-enemies, the Daleks, threaten to destroy the fabric of Time itself!
In their quest to gain control of the Solar System, the Daleks have taken posession of the Time Destructor, a weapon which threatens the safety of all who stand in their way. As they head up an alliance of alien races bent on destroying the human race, in their midst is none other than the treacherous Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen.
A dangerous chase ensues across volcanos, jungles, deserts, and futuristic cities, as the Doctor and his companions struggle to prevent the Daleks'plans coming to fruition. The stakes are high, and for the first time in the programme's history the lives of two TARDIS travellers are lost....
Peter Purves (who played Steven in the story) narrates these thirteen episodes, only two of which survive in the television archives. Included is the special 'teaser', Mission To The Unknown, which was transmitted some weeks before the master plan itself was unleashed.
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"The Daleks' Masterplan" - starring William Hartnell in the title role--the original actor to play the part. This is one of many early stories that no longer exist (as video) in their entirety in the BBC archives, as they were among those deleted when the BBC was purging its video archives in the early 70's.

Dalekmania was in full swing at this point, and this twelve part story from the third season is simply space opera done Dalek style. The Daleks aren't just talking about universal domination here, they're doing something about it. The story opens with Doctor stumbling across a base of operations on the planet Kemball, from which the Daleks intend to launch a final conquest of everything in collusion with a number of power-hungry galactic leaders,was aired on Christmas and is a bit of a self-aware slapstick run-around, ending with Hartnell turning to the camera wishing the audience a good holiday (which is much maligned by fans, however given Hartnell's love of the program is somewhat fitting). It is nice to see it included here.

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This is the audio track from a 1963 BBC TV (with the first Doctor, William Hartnell) program with naration to fill in the blanks. It's sort of like an old radio show. Dated perhaps, but hey, it's Dr. Who - - battling the Daleks no less. This is a 13 part story, which was the longest of any Dr. Who story. Since it's so long, the plot wanders. Dr. Who finds himself on the planet


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[opening narration] There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it: The sound barrier. Then, they built a small plane, the X1, to try and break the soundbarrier. And men came to the High Desert in California to ride it. They were called test pilots. And no one knew their names.

[about manned space flight] Anyone who goes up in that damn thing is gonna be spam in a can.

[closing narration] The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen.

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Image copyright El Grafico Image caption Diego Maradona had England in a spin at the 1986 World Cup by scoring both goals in Argentina's 2-1 victory; one with his famous left foot and other with his infamous left 'hand of God'

Like many of us, Asif Kapadia seems to prefer his heroes when they're fundamentally flawed.

From the Bafta-winning Senna; the tale of the life and tragic death of Brazilian F1 racer Ayrton Senna, to the Oscar-winning Amy; which chronicled the rise and similarly sad fall of the singer Amy Winehouse, the British director has specialised in telling stories surrounding a complicated genius.

Few are more fitting of that description than the Argentine football star Diego Armando Maradona.

Not for the first time the troubled figure, who tormented England at the 1986World Cup, finds himself the subject of a new documentary - which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night.

Kapadia's version focuses largely on his explosive spell with the Italian club Napoli, with its glorious on-field highs and his painful cocaine-induced lows.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Maradona is now the manager of Mexican side Dorados

Ahead of its world debut, the film's producer James Gay-Rees tells the BBC about the unforgettable time his director friend got up close and perhaps a little too personal with the film's title star.

"Asif did the interviews," he explains down the phone, en route to the festival.

"He was in his [Maradona's] house in Dubai interviewing for the first time and Diego was watching the football in the background, which is a challenge.

"So to


angle the camera on Diego he ends up kneeling on the ground.

"Maradona was in his shorts and his left leg was stretched out and Asif thought 'that was the foot that was blessed by God!'

"He couldn't help it, he said he had an out of body moment and reached out and touched his leg.

"Maradona was like 'what are you doing?!'"

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption James Gay-Rees (l) and Asif Kapadia with their Oscars awarded for Amy in 2016

The producer-director duo, along with co-producer Paul Martin, could not resist "the opportunity to get inside Diego's head" either, says Gay-Rees, "and see what made him tick and to try and make sense of it".

Serbian director Emir Kusturica attempted the same feat in 2008 with his documentary which followed Maradonafor two years and was similarly shown at Cannes.

The various off-screen narrators of Kapadia's effort, including the man himself, talk of there being two very different characters at play during the story of his life; First, 'Diego'; the football-mad boy from Buenos Aries, and then there's 'Maradona'.

Whether or not making sense of either of them is humanly possible on film or elsewhere is another matter altogether.

"If you want to understand him now you have to understand his rich turbulent period in Naples," adds Gay-Rees.

"It was a wonderful opportunity. I'm not sure we entirely got to the bottom of Diego, because I don't think you can."

'Safeguard against getting kidnapped'

The 58-year-old star, who is now the manager of Mexican side Dorados, missed the film's premiere on the French Riviera, due


to "a shoulder injury requiring medical attention," his publicist confirmed on the day.

The idea for the feature, which was screened out of competition at Cannes alongside Dexter Fletcher's Elton John biopic Rocketman, came about while Gay-Rees and Kapadia were still working on their Amy Winehouse film.

They were alerted about the existence of some unseen footage belonging to two cameramen in Naples.

The footage was apparently commissioned at the time by Maradona himself, in order to help him hide in plain sight.

"He shot the footage as a safeguard against getting kidnapped," reveals the producer.

"He wanted a record of his whereabouts.

"The town was run by The Camorra [mafia] and they partially financed his move [from FC Barcelona] and he ended up closely aligned with them.

"When Amy was finished Paul and Ijumped on a plane to Italy and met them.

"It was great, unfiltered material. You need that hidden stuff that people haven't seen."

They were also granted court subpoenas to release revealing calls recorded by the Italian police who had been tapping Maradona's phone.

"We were pleasantly surprised when we were granted that material," laughs Gay-Rees.

Image copyright El Grafico Image caption The new film shows footage of a young Maradona with his mother Dalma and father, also named Diego

'Force of nature'

As for working with the man/the myth himself - leg touching incident aside - there was a bit of mutual respect going on, it seems.

"He was great," beams Gay-Rees.

"Diego is Diego, I can't pretend I know him very well - he's a force of nature.

"He liked our previous films as he


and Senna were in Italy at the same time and both doing great things.

"I don't think there's a massive analysis about the decisions he makes and there were no editorial handbrakes put on us at all - he's not that bothered."

Now the film-makers, who between them have also worked with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Oasis and Banksy, have another controversial hero in their sites.

"The one we'd like to do is Mike Tyson, as I don't think the definitive Tyson film has been done yet.

"Even though Tyson is scary and Diego is crazy they are likeable and you have to be slightly romantic and fall in love with the characters if you're going to take on this challenge."

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A great performance by the Wallabies against a gallant Argentine outfit, but the Australians looked a class above tonight.

So the Wallabies are through to their fourth World Cup final. It's their first since 2003 and it's a dream date with the All Blacks.

Adam Ashley-Cooper continued his try-scoring ways with a well-earned hat-trick but the effect of David Pocock was probably the biggest difference.

Not to sound like a broken record, but his ability to impact the game at the breakdown is almost unrivalled and it was more of the same tonight. Scott Fardy, Michael Hooper and the second rowers were also excellent, but the front row has some issues.

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The victim is five feet three inches tall and weighed only ninety-eight pounds at the time of the incident. Although there was an emergencypull cord over her bed, she testified that she was afraid to reach up and pull it. She had a lung condition that prevented her from screaming, and she concentrated on being "nice" in an effort to stay alive. She testified that she "figured the only way I was going to come out of this alive was to talk my way out of it or bluff him." She talked him into eating some breakfast, which she *141 cooked. He was drinking coffee when he asked the victim to drive him to his sister's home. She agreed, and Goodroe took the coffee with him. The victim dropped Goodroe off at his sister's home and drove to a friend's home, hysterical. The victim told her friend that a black man


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Robinson testified that earlier that morning he responded to a complaint from another tenant living at the same apartment complex as the victim. The other tenant told him that she would not let Goodroe into her apartment and he was bothering her and threatening to kill her. When Robinson responded to the victim's call, she told him only that a black man had been trying to get into her apartment. Robinson took the information and left. After Robinson left, the victim began talking more to her friend, and when she told her friend that she had been raped, the friend called Robinson and asked him to return.He did so, returning with Police Chief Stewart O'Hearn. The victim told the police officers that Goodroe had raped her and that she had driven him to his sister's house.
The victim was taken to the hospital by ambulance. A doctor testified that the victim's panties were bloodstained but he did not observe any trauma to the vaginal area. He noted that the victim was "upset." A nurse testified to an abrasion on the victim's face.
The officers drove to the home of Goodroe's sister, found Goodroe, and took him into custody. The victim's coffee cup was found at Goodroe's sister's home. In his first interview, Goodroe denied seeing the victim, being in her apartment that night, or riding in her car. After locating the victim's coffee cup, a second


interview was conducted with Goodroe. In that interview, he admitted that he stopped at the victim's apartment and chatted with her; he claimed that he then flirted with her and offered her $20 for sex, which she accepted. After having sex with her, he concluded "the sex was not worth twenty dollars" and refused to pay. He stated that the victim agreed with him that "she got just as much out of it as he did," and she drove him to his sister's house.
The trial court allowed the introduction of evidence of a similar transaction that occurred in 1983. The victim in that incident, a woman who weighed approximately one hundred pounds, testified that she met Goodroe at a club one evening, he asked her to dance, andshe declined. The next day, she was in a friend's yard when Goodroe came up and lured her into nearby woods, saying her boyfriend was there. Goodroe had a shotgun, and he came up behind her, placed the shotgun at her back, and hit her with his fists when she resisted. He pulled her to an abandoned house, locked the doors, and raped her repeatedly, knocking her out each time she came to consciousness and threatening her life.
Goodroe argues, without citation to authority, that from the evidence presented, "no rational trier of fact could have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." Contrary to his unsupported argument, however, this court cannot weigh the evidence or determine the credibility of witnesses. We determine only the sufficiency of the evidence,


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The South Perinton United Methodist Church is the oldest church In Perinton still in use. The Perinton Society, that is today the South Perinton United Methodist Church, was organized February 22, 1837. The original church building - the current sanctuary - was dedicated October 19, 1837. The early church served a growing number of people in the area who felt a deep need for worship and fellowship during periods of religious revivals in the mid 1800’s. Baptisms were sometimes held in White Brook Creek on Wilkinson Road. A vestibule and a room above the vestibule were added in 1867, and the bell tower and spire sometime later in the 1800’s. The sanctuary was heated by a wood stove, and church suppers were held in the small room overthe vestibule using a kerosene stove for cooking. Oil lamps were later converted to electric battery power and then municipal power. In 1915 a dining room was added on the east side, and in 1956 a kitchen was added at the rear of the dining room along with indoor plumbing. In 1961 the sanctuary was completely renovated and a carillon was installed that still plays for all in the neighborhood or who pause to listen, Many of the converted oil lights were reinstalled in the sanctuary and vestibule as part of 1960’s renovations. In the year 2000 a fellowship room and Sunday school rooms were added along with a new kitchen and a lift and restrooms for handicapped accessibility. The sanctuary was further updated in 2007 with new


carpeting and new pew cushions. The South Perinton UMC building is a registered historical landmark by the Perinton Historical Commission. Since 1859, South Perinton United Methodist church has been joined with Macedon Center United Methodist Church. The cemetery behind the church is now owned and operated by the separate South Perinton Cemetery Association. Several Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil war veterans are buried in the cemetery.It says it represents the interests of the ethnic Rakhines, the dominant group in the state, which is also the home of the Rohingya and other groups.

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Piazza di Colombo Park.

“We're not saying 100 percent that it's the site. But there's evidence that it could be,” said City Archaeologist Kay Hindes, who spearheaded an investigation on the society's 3-acre property.

If proven through further research, the discovery would be a major breakthrough in local history, revealing the first location of the city's most famous mission, which later moved twice before serving as a fortress known as the Alamo.

Officials declined to publicly pinpoint the site where artifacts were unearthed.

The local Italian community is attempting to reclaim its own, more recent heritage with planned improvements to the area near San Pedro Creek.

The project, known as Little Italy San Antonio, seeks to celebrate the history of the local Italian community, which established a neighborhood in the late 1800s andchartered the Italian society in 1890.

Hindes, in response to plans for some tree-planting, asked the Italian society early this year if she could inspect part of the property, where residences and shops are planned near San Francesco di Paola Catholic Church and the society's banquet hall.

She found some old wrought nails and ceramic shards in February, prompting the San Antonio Conservation Society to provide a $5,000 grant for work by the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Excavated items included blue rosary beads, part of a corroded horseshoe, lead-glazed wares and pieces of majolica, or Spanish pottery, that may be from the mysterious 1718 site on the west bank of San Pedro Creek.

But Hindes said she'd like to do more investigative studies that


might reveal definitive artifacts, such as a type of majolica known as Puebla Polychrome, which predates 1725, to prove the site with certainty.

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“The evidence is really good,” and may corroborate 18th century diaries that placed the first mission in the area, she said.

Steve Tomka, director of the UTSA center, said researchers excavated three square 1-meter units, and would like to return to the area for another professional dig.

Sue Ann Pemberton, president of the conservation society, said her group may need to raise funds for excavations “to answer the maybes.”

Historians have said Father Antonio Olivares built the original mission south of San Pedro Springs, though the exact location hasn't been clear. The mission has been described as composed of jacales, or temporary hut structures.

Hindes saidthe mission relocated in 1719 or 1720 to the east bank of the San Antonio River.

Some have said Olivares put the second site in the area of today's St. Joseph Catholic Church, by Rivercenter mall, because it had better topography for irrigating nearby fields.

After the second mission was destroyed by a hurricane in 1724, plans were started for a third mission about two blocks to the north.

By 1745, a convento, including the walls of today's historic Long Barrack, as well as adobe huts to house the indigenous mission inhabitants, a granary, shops and a farm were on the grounds.

The first church there collapsed, and the second one was not completed before the mission was secularized in 1793.

The mission, later renamed the Alamo by Spanish cavalry forces, was occupied


Turkey cannot limit its precautionary measures against Syrian Kurds' People's Protection Units (YPG) to Syria's Afrin district, it might move to the city of Manbij, also in Aleppo province, and to the east of the Euphrates River, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said after a meeting with his US counterpart Rex Tillerson in Canada's Vancouver.

Ankara has been suggesting the possibility of an offensive in Syria’s northern Kurdish-controlled Afrin since the US-led coalition announced last week it was training Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militants for a potential border control force. The SDF is affiliated with the YPG, which Ankara considers to be an offshoot of armed Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

"Turkey’s precautions against YPG/PKK cannot be limited to only Afrin. There is also Manbij and east of theEuphrates River," Çavuşoğlu said.

The foreign minister also reportedly said that contrary to the US promises, the cities of Manbij and Raqqa were not governed by local councils after being liberated from the Islamic State, but rather came u the der control of the PYD.

Both Turkish and US ministers were attending a Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The babies of a huge, long-necked dinosaur called Rapetosaurus that lived on the island of Madagascar did not just sit in a nest and look cute. They were born ready for action.

An artist's illustration showing the size comparisons of a newborn dinosaur called Rapetosaurus (2nd from L) that lived on the island of Madagascar to some large-bodied mammalian newborns such as a baby black rhino, African elephant, hippo and dog. Scientists April 21, 2016 announced the discovery of fossils of a baby Rapetosaurus the size of a big dog that apparentlystarved to death during a drought several weeks after hatching from its soccer-ball-sized egg. D.Vital/Handout via Reuters ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NOIt’s been a wonderful year for Sounders FC. From winning the Supporters’ Shield on Saturday against the LA Galaxy to September’s U.S. Open Cup title in Philadelphia back in September to a league-high 20 wins…things have gone pretty well for the club in 2014.

The success of the team was the culmination of some excellent individual seasons had by the Sounders, and because of this a number of players are up for MLS awards.

For your reading and #HellaGreedy pleasure, the reasons why each of these awards should go to a Sounders is listed below, starting with the big one - the 2014 Volkswagen MLS Most Valuable Player Award.

Volkswagen MLS MVP - Obafemi Martins, Clint Dempsey

Martins - The Sounders forward has been unstoppable this season, and with his dominance, the


club has in turn performed extremely well. Not counting his 17 goals and 13 assists, the Sounders are a perfect 12-0-0 when he scores. His work rate and unwavering determination to the team’s cause have propelled the club to first place overall in the regular season. As they say, best player on the best team.

Dempsey - He may have pulled himself out of the running slightly by saying the award should definitely go to Martins, but the USMNT captain still has a solid case at being named the best player in the league. His 15 goals and 10 assists in only 26 matches is a solid starting point, but it’s been his combination with Martins that has really taken the league by storm in his second year. Arguablythe best duo in MLS. Can they both win?

Defender of the Year - Chad Marshall

In his first season with the Sounders, Marshall has been immense in holding down the center of the defense. His presence in the back was felt from the first match of the year (a 1-0 victory of defending champion Sporting KC) and has continued throughout the season. Leading the league in interceptions with 136 and boasting impressive numbers in aerials won (126…#AirMarshall’ing, if you will), clearances (206) and passing accuracy (83%), Marshall has revitalized his career since joining Sounders FC.

Goalkeeper of the Year/Comeback Player of the Year - Stefan Frei

Our Swiss goalkeeper is up for two honors this year, one for his position and a second for his stellar return to prominence after a


number of tough seasons with Toronto FC. In 2014, Frei set a league record for the post-shootout era with 20 wins after returning to a starting role for the first time in three years. He also finished the season third in shutouts with nine and a 59% win percentage, good for tops in the league among regular starters.

Newcomer of the Year - Gonzalo Pineda

Pineda has proven to be a perfect foil for Ozzie Alonso in the center of the Sounders midfield and has chipped in three goals and seven assists. His presence and veteran savvy in the middle have been huge this season. After thinking his career may be over before joining the club due to a lingering sports hernia injury, the World Cup veteran has revitalized hiscareer and become fully engrained in the Sounders community since signing in preseason.

Coach of the Year - Sigi Schmid

Often hindered in the running for this award due to his overwhelming experience and familiarity with Major League Soccer, Schmid has a legitimate case in 2014. Entering the year with 14 new players, Schmid was asked to craft Sounders FC into a winning unit once more, but with the same lofty expectations that come with being the head coach of the club. He did just that and led the team to a league-record 20 wins, which included an 8-1-2 spell that helped strengthen the bid for the MLS Supporters’ Shield. Eventually winning the Shield and the U.S. Open Cup, the Sounders enter the playoffs following the club’s best ever regular


season.

Humanitarian of the Year - Dylan Remick

While Remick struggled with injuries for part of the season and was still the understudy to the always reliable Leo Gonzalez, he surely made a massive impact off the pitch. Remick, a second-year defender, was given the club Humanitarian of the Year award for his work at Hope Place, a shelter for homeless women and children as well as the numerous visits to Seattle Children’s and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospitals. In total, Remick had 18 unpaid community appearances this season and is a perfect example of the community values that the club holds dear.

The cases have been made. Vote Sounders in 2014!of 12 Apostles can be seen once you continue the Great Ocean Walk.

A few more sets of walks and we reached the Salt and Pepper Shakers. The two stacks in the middle were naturally formed by erosion over hundreds of years. Isn’t it amazing?!

Other natural formations include The Razorback – the big stack of land out in the sea.

The trip wouldn’t be complete without seeing Loch and Gorge. This area is known as the shipwreck area with hundreds of ships failed to set on land in 19th Century.

A family nearby is known to have acquired all the treasures from the ships carrying them from the coast up to the cliffs. Imagine how they managed to climbed the cliffs in 19th Century!

There used to be a heroic shipwreck in


1878 where an English man and an Irish woman survived.

Today there is a manmade staircase that allows tourists to go down to the sea almost enclosed by 60m high limestone walls. It is a natural pool tourists enjoy especially during the summer

Last stop was the famous London Bridge. It acquired its name after its similarity with the real London Bridge without knowing it will fall down too! In 1990, a couple was trapped in that stack in the sea after crossing the 15-metre wide bridge that used to connect the mainland to that stack.

It wasn’t 000 (Au emergency hotline) that came to the rescue. It was actually the Channel 7 (media) that went here to cover the collapse of the bridge and made a huge dramatic story outBy Wednesday afternoon comedian Kathy Griffin had apologized for posing for a photo with what looked like the blood-soaked decapitated head of President Donald Trump.

"I went too far," she said in a contrite follow-up video. "I sincerely apologize."

But it was too late.

Squatty Potty CEO Bobby Edwards announced that it was suspending an ad campaign featuring Griffin as the Utah-based bathroom-stool company saw the stunt as "deeply inappropriate" and "contrary to the core values our company stands for."

CNN also announced it was terminating Griffin's appearance its New Year's show, after earlier criticizing the photos as "disgusting and offensive."

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., still planned to appear with Griffin on a tour to promote his new book, "Al Franken: Giant of the Senate." Franken called the photo shoot "a horrible mistake,"


for apologizing and "my employer CNN for canceling her contract for New Year's Eve."

Since Trump won in November, he has been the brunt of hostile salvos lobbed by left-leaning entertainers. At a women's march following Trump's inauguration, Madonna confessed, "Yes, I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House." Her remarks barely registered on cable news' registry.

In a music video, Snoop Dogg shot a Trump-look-alike clown with a toy gun that released a flag that said "bang." Again, little outrage.

When British filmmaker Gabriel Range made a movie about the assassination of George W. Bush during a 2007 trip to Chicago, he won an award. Then the fantasy of assassinating a president was art, as Griffin described her photoshoot.

But when Republicans target Democrats in less direct fashion, they can be accused of inciting violence. Griffin herself assailed former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for releasing a map with targeted congressional districts in crosshairs. When a madman shot and critically wounded Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., whose district was in the map, Griffin tweeted, "Happy now Sarah?"

Democratic strategist Maria Cardona saw no need to condemn Griffin. "Frankly I don't think she matters," the CNN contributor wrote in an email. "I think Trump made a mistake in responding to her because it elevated her and her disgusting antic to a level she doesn't deserve. And sure, hypocrisy abounds on both sides. Ted Nugent threatened President Obama's life and Nugent was invited by Trump to the White House."

In 2012,


a plurality of insulator layers formed from a glass cloth material. Most insulator layers are formed from a glass cloth material, but an insulator layer positioned directly underneath a conductor layer including foot patterns is not formed from a glass cloth material but from a resin material, and a printed circuit board including such an insulator layer formed from a resin material is called and known as a built-up substrate. When compared with a printed circuit board in which all the insulator layers thereof are formed from a glass cloth material, the built-up substrate is lighter in weight and suitable for use in a semi-conductor apparatus such as a portable information apparatus or the like.
A number of electric or electronic components are mounted to a printed circuit board.a printed circuit board, wherein the signal pattern extending from the outer foot pattern has a first portion a predetermined distance distant from a connection position between the foot pattern and the signal pattern and a second portion connected to the first portion, wherein the width of the first portion of the signal pattern is greater than the width of the second portion of the signal pattern.
The present invention further provides a printed circuit board further including a plurality of insulator layers and a plurality of conductor layers, wherein an outermost layer of the conductor layers includes the foot patterns for attachment of a component.
The present invention also provides a printed circuit board, wherein the insulator layers include a first insulator layer positioned directly underneath the outermost layer


and a second insulator layer positioned inwardly of the first insulator layer, the first insulator layer being formed using a resin material, the second insulator layer being formed using a glass cloth material.
The present invention further provides a semiconductor apparatus comprising a printed circuit board, and a component mounted to the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board has a plurality of foot patterns for attachment of a component and signal patterns extending from the foot patterns, wherein the foot patterns include outer foot patterns and inner foot patterns, and wherein the width of at least a part of the signal pattern extending from the outer foot pattern is greater than the width of the signal pattern extending from the inner foot pattern.
According to the above construction,Iraqis aren’t thrilled with a restaurant being named after a politician that has campaigned to ban Muslims from entering his country, Zawiti defends the President-elect and said that he believes the people of the province will begin to back Trump if he makes good on his word about supporting the Kurds in the fight against ISIS.

“I expect, and I believe, that he will help the Kurds,” Zawiti said, also adding that he plans on expanding the restaurant across the Middle East and hopefully to the United States as well.

The cartoon Trump in the logo was taken from an Uproxx article published in 2015 that depicted every NFL team’s logo rebranded to feature Donald Trump.


of ironing presses out the wrinkles in the now more flexible fabric. When the fabric cools, it retains its new wrinkle-free shape.
Water is used during ironing for one important purpose. I tried to find the glass transition temperature of cellulose, but am unable to do so. Presumably it is close to the temperature at which cellulose begins to burn. Water prevents the burning, but not just in the way you would expect. Water does absorb heat from the iron in order to keep the fabric from getting too hot. However, if this were the only thing water was doing, the fabric would not reach the glass transition and ironing would not work. Water also acts as a plasticizer, lowering the glass transition temperature. Most fabrics are hydrophilic (andSend this page to someone via email

Video: A major fossil find in B.C. is being called a treasure trove, with hundreds of never-before-seen fossils being unearthed in Kootenay National Park. Robin Gill has the details.

CALGARY – A new fossil site discovered in Kootenay National Park may be one of the world’s most important, according to researchers.

A century after the discovery of Yoho National Park’s 505 million-year-old Burgess Shale, officials say a new fossil site has been located just 42 kilometres away.

The new Marble Canyon fossil bed was found by an expedition team from the Royal Ontario Museum who made the trek to the Canadian Rockies.

It was actually a hunch that led the expedition team to the area of Marble Canyon, where they discovered a startling variety of fossils.

They


site is protected by Parks Canada, who says the exact location will remain confidential to protect its integrity.

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However, there may be an opportunity for guided hikes through the area in the future.

This latest discovery, made in the summer of 2012, is described in the latest edition of the prestigious science journal Nature Communication, released on Tuesday.

Officials say it will help scientists further understand the sudden explosion of animal life during the Cambrian period.

– With files from Cara FullertonDe La Salle High school in Concord (Calif.) is known for producing football talent, but few are as big as Kahlil McKenzie. The 6-foot-3, 315-pound defensive lineman and his play in the trenches helped the Spartans reach a CIF State Championship game. McKenzie's play also helped him land an invitation to USC for a junior event, which he took advantage of. Go inside for all the details of his trip to USC.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican foreign policy veterans and outside experts warned that the suggestion by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that he might abandon NATO's pledge to automatically defend all alliance members could destroy an organization that has helped keep the peace for 66 years and could invite Russian aggression.

"Statements like these make the world more dangerous and the United States less safe," Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump critic who is one of the Republican Party's leading foreign policy voices and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement on Thursday.

"I can only imagine how our allies in NATO, particularly the Baltic states, must feel after reading these comments from Mr. Trump. I'm 100 percent certain how Russian President


Putin feels – he's a very happy man," he said.Trump's comments in a New York Times interview "would seem to put him on the same page with Mr. Putin," Richard Armitage, who was deputy secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, said in an interview with Reuters.

In the New York Times interview, Trump, in response to a question about potential Russian aggression toward the Baltic states - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - said that if Moscow attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing whether those nations "have fulfilled their obligations to us." He added, "If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes."

"It's the end of NATO," Robert Hunter, a former U.S. ambassador to the alliance underPresident Bill Clinton, told Reuters. "The essence of NATO, more than any other single factor, is the commitment of the United States of America to the security of the other 27 members."

Asked about Trump's comments, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the EU knows it needs to "work more on our defense capabilities," but said the United States needs to keep solidarity with its allies.

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"It's very simple to realize that in the world of today, which is quite a complicated one and quite a dangerous one, you need friends," said Mogherini, who spoke in Washington at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

"INFLAMMATORY REMARKS"

A letter signed by a bipartisan group of 39 national security experts said Trump's "inflammatory remarks" do not represent the interests of the


United States.

"The strength of our alliances is at the core of those interests," said the group, which includes prominent Republicans such as former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former State Department official Eliot Cohen.

The United States must uphold the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's commitments "to all of our allies, including Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania," the letter said.

U.S. Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the mutual defense commitment was the essence of the Atlantic alliance.

But he added that both Republicans and Democrats "are becoming exasperated that most members of the alliance are not honoring their obligations" for military spending, Corker, a Tennessee Republican, said in a statement.

Responding to Trump's suggestion that his decisions would depend in part on whether states that wereattacked were meeting their financial commitments to the alliance, former diplomat Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said it is important not to see NATO or any alliance solely in budget terms.

"More important is the net benefit the U.S. derives from the stability and security of the country and region affected and the price the U.S. would pay if stability were to be lost or its interests undermined," Haass told Reuters.

Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which created NATO in 1949 and calls an attack on one member an attack on all, has been invoked once - to help defend the United States after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Following the attacks, NATO sent AWACS planes to patrol over U.S. skies, with more than 800


crew members from 13 NATO countries flying over 360 sorties. As part of the eight measures approved to support the United States, NATO, about three weeks later, sent elements of its Standing Naval Forces to patrol the Eastern Mediterranean and monitor shipping, expanding that to include the entire Mediterranean several months later.

A NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity, also noted that the alliance "deployed a third of the troops in Afghanistan for over a decade, where over one thousand soldiers from non-U.S. NATO allies and partners gave their lives.”

Still, some experts downplayed Trump's comments, even as they criticized them.

Kurt Volker, who was U.S. ambassador to NATO under both Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic President Barack Obama, said it was inadvisable to create doubts in adversaries'A student-athlete advocacy group has asked the NCAA to lift all transfer restrictions for Penn State football players, allowing them to switch schools without penalty. The request comes in the wake of the school-funded Freeh Commission concluding that administrators and coaches helped conceal the Jerry Sandusky sexual molestation scandal.

The request would allow any Penn State player to become immediately eligible to play at any other program and still receive a full scholarship. It would also allow other schools to communicate with players about potential transfers. NCAA rules stipulate a player on scholarship who transfers must sit out one year before becoming eligible.

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Citing "an apparent cover-up by Penn State officials" of Sandusky's crimes over a decade, Ramogi Huma, the president of the California-based National College Players Association, called


for the NCAA to remember current student-athletes are innocent bystanders in this case.

"While Penn State coaches and administrators have been implicated in heinous activities, Penn State football players have done nothing wrong," Huma wrote in a letter to NCAA president Mark Emmert dated Tuesday.

Emmert said Monday on PBS that he's "never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university" and that in terms of potential punishment for the university he didn't want to take "anything off the table."

That includes a possible "Death Penalty," which would prohibit Penn State from fielding a team for a period of time. The school said Tuesday that it was in the process of responding to the NCAA about possible violations stemming from the FreehCHICAGO -- Minnie Minoso, who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball's first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday.

The medical examiner's office did not immediately offer further details. There is some question about his age but the White Sox say he was 90.

"We have lost our dear friend and a great man," White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf said in a release. "Many tears are falling."

Later Sunday, in a conference call, Reinsdorf said that Minoso "was always upbeat."

"I don't think he ever had an unhappy day. At least if he did, he never let anyone know he was unhappy," he said. "He was always upbeat. He always had a smile. He always


had something nice to say to somebody. He never hesitated to sign an autograph. He never hesitated to try to answer people's questions. He never complained."

The White Sox also tweeted tributes to Minoso on Sunday morning.

Minnie Minoso - Mr. #WhiteSox - has died. Tears of sadness are falling for a great man. pic.twitter.com/zpi6WFuxH0 — Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) March 1, 2015

President Barack Obama released a statement on Sunday, saying Minoso "will always be 'Mr. White Sox.'"

"For South Siders and Sox fans all across the country...Minnie Minoso is and will always be 'Mr. White Sox.'" -Obama: pic.twitter.com/KitHSZodcm — The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 1, 2015

Minoso played 12 of his 17 seasons in Chicago, hitting .304 with 135 homers and 808 RBIs for the White Sox. The White Sox retiredhis No. 9 in 1983 and there is a statue of Minoso at U.S. Cellular Field.

Minoso made his major league debut with Cleveland in 1949 and was dealt to Chicago in a three-team trade two years later. He made his White Sox debut on May 1, 1951, and homered in his first plate appearance against Yankees right-hander Vic Raschi.

It was the start of a beautiful relationship between the Cuban slugger and the White Sox.

"Our entire family appreciates the kind expressions of concern, sympathy and compassion from so many of our friends and fans of the White Sox during this most difficult time," the Minoso family said in a statement. "Minnie lived a full life of joy and happiness, surrounded always by friends and family. It is during moments