Arts represents a coup d'état of the cultural and artistic life of the United States.

The Celebrate Freedom Rally and Concert ran for over two hours and featured a mixture of both religious and patriotic songs, interspersed with quasi-religious political speeches from Tea Party Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Dr. Robert Jeffress, and President Donald Trump himself. Designed and marketed to honor military veterans and current members of the United States Military, the Celebrate Freedom Rally often drifted into different terrain. It celebrated religious freedom while espousing fundamentalist, evangelical Christian views and perspectives that demonize the role of government in the United States of America.

The Celebrate Freedom Rally taking place inside the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts represents a coup d'état of the cultural and artistic life of theUnited States. The July 1, 2017 event went largely unnoticed by American arts leaders. This is beyond astonishing. When it happened, the Celebrate Freedom Rally was barely reported on by American journalists -- to such an extent that now it cannot even be cited by the Associated Press (when Trump himself spoke at the event!). This is nothing short of remarkable and terrifying.

The Kennedy Center and the public funding of the arts

It required nearly 33 years to realize the Kennedy Center -- from the first congressional resolution in 1938 calling for a “National Cultural Center” -- to passage of the National Cultural Center Act in 1958 by President Eisenhower -- to the delayed groundbreaking by President Johnson in 1964 -- until the first live performance was held there


in September 1971. During that time, what would eventually be called “The Kennedy Center” faced many fundraising challenges to cover its construction costs. Ultimately, fundraising was aided only by the outpouring of grief following the assassination of President Kennedy; with Congress finally stepping in to cover $43 million of construction costs; supplemented by an additional $23 million in donations from corporations, foundations, and private individuals.

For those who may not recall -- because it has been a tumultuous year -- President Trump began his first term in 2017 calling for the total elimination of the NEA and NEH. While he was unsuccessful, it revealed President Trump’s desire to erase from American history a right which took decades to argue into existence -- that Americans can and should expect theirgovernment to adequately fund the arts and culture. President Kennedy is one of the key figures who helped establish the very same cultural rights President Trump wishes to erase. That American arts leaders are unaware of what President Trump said and did during his first appearance at the Kennedy Center -- our national cultural center -- boggles the mind. We are not even interested in the art President Trump experienced -- specifically what music and songs were played (and by whom) during the Celebrate Freedom Rally. This represents an oversight of tragically epic proportions.

The Celebrate Freedom Rally and the betrayal of the arts leaders

Even if the Celebrate Freedom Rally organized by Concert Tours International was a “rental event” not part of any official Kennedy Center artistic programming --


say and satirize, to blog and post about, surrounding President Trump’s decision not to appear last December at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. There was so much to say when Trump did not appear inside the building. What did the arts and entertainment sectors say when Trump did appear at the Kennedy Center five months earlier?

What to do?

The answers to these questions are not pretty ones. Our inability to even pose the questions stems from “a series of interconnected delusions” (to quote the late Neil Postman) that the American arts sector has operated within for far too long. There are a number of contradictions embedded in the American arts sector. They are a reflection of even greater contradictions running rampant through the nation as a whole. IBy One Championship

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According to data from Nielsen, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, ONE: KINGDOM OF HEROES posted excellent viewership numbers, drawing over 25 million viewers, while setting a record-breaking peak TV ratings share of 58.5% in Thailand, and registering similarly strong numbers across the region in Asia.

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Canada’s new minister of National Defence has now been released from the Canadian Forces.

Last week the Ottawa Citizen reported that Vancouver South MP Harjit Sajjan, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserves, was trying to get his release from the Canadian Forces. He was named the country’s new defence minister on Nov. 4 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Sajjan’s status as a serving member of the military put him in a unique situation in that theoretically he would be required to take orders from generals who areMayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton speak at police headquarters about the investigation into an axe-wielding attacker who injured two police officers in Jamaica, Queens Thursday afternoon.� View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ben Fractenberg

NEW YORK CITY — The NYPD's statistics released to the public about the number of murders, rapes, robberies, assaults and other major crimes are consistently off by as many as 229 incidents per month, DNAinfo New York has found.

The NYPD’s CompStat figures, which the department presents to the public each week, are regularly cited as an accurate measure of the city's safety.

However, when the numbers released each week by precinct and by crime category are added up and compared to the statistics the NYPD releases for its 28-day total for the same time period,


the numbers often don't match, DNAinfo found.

The revelation comes on the heels of 19 officers in The Bronx being disciplined for underreporting crime numbers.

While the overwhelming majority of the adjustments were upwards — meaning the department added more incidents to the citywide total between the weekly and monthly roundups — in other instances, the number of crimes went down.

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DNAinfo examined the period between Dec. 14, 2014 and June 21, 2015.

In the 28-day period ending Jan. 25, the NYPD presented 7,625 incidents for the seven major crimes as part of its weekly CompStat reports. But when the NYPD presented its 28-day tally for citywide major crimes, the total was 7,396 — at least 229 major crimes lower than the numbers originally released.

The NYPD's monthly tally ofthe NYPD has a “Quality Assurance Unit” that randomly checks hundreds of complaints as a further audit. The unit was primarily created to prevent commanders from cooking their numbers and to see if there are patterns where crime complaints are being under-reported.

When disparities are concentrated in certain precincts or part of the city, officials say a broader examination will likely be performed by the Quality Assurance Unit.

In the case of The Bronx's 40th Precinct, that system of checks and balances resulted in the discovery of the fudged numbers. Deputy Inspector Lorenzo Johnson, the commanding officer of the precinct, was removed from duty at the precinct and the NYPD brought disciplinary charges against 19 officers — including one lieutenant, eight sergeants, nine police officers and one detective, according to


The Genealogy Roots Blog is for finding online genealogy databases, records and resources. The focus is on vital records (birth, marriage, divorce & death records), obituaries, census records, naturalization records, military records and ship passenger lists. The Genealogy Roots Blog is based in the USA, but online European, Canadian, and other records sources are sometimes included. Mixed in with all this you will occasionally find a fun post or genealogy news.

Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Death Records 1906-1915 from FamilySearch Labs (will eventually cover 1841-1915; includes scanned images of the death registers and certificates)
- Middlesex County: St. Patrick Cemetery Burials (Lowell, Massachusetts)
- Worcester County: Town of Rutland Death Records to the end of the year 1849 (also includes birth and marriage records)

Tennessee
- Blount County Death Records Database (includes more than 42,000entries from Blount County newspapers and funeral home records)
- Davidson County: Death Notices in Nashville Newspapers 1855-1907 (not complete)

North Carolina - North Carolina Deaths 1906-1930 from FamilySearch Labs (includes digitized images of the death records) - Wake County: North Carolina Family Records Online (includes "Marriage and Death Notices from the Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette: 1799-1893" and 220 family Bible records)

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Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic sinking, died on May 31 at age 97. She was nine weeks old when her family boarded the Titanic in 1912. Her mother and brother also survived the sinking. Her father died in the tragedy. You can read more here: Millvina Dean, last remaining survivor of the Titanic, dies aged 97

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is a portion of the Carpathia passenger list showing the three surviving members of the Dean family, siblings Bertram and Elizabeth (two-month-old Eliza) and their mother Georgette (Ettie). The Carpathia rescued 705 of the Titanic's survivors and brought them to New York on April 18, 1912. See: Partial List of Survivors of the Titanic who were taken aboard the Carpathia at the U.S. National Archives website.

James Cameron, director of the popular film, Titanic, along with two of the film's stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, donated money to help pay Millvina Dean's nursing home costs in her last days.

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Here are some suggestions for finding your immigrant ancestors on a ship passenger list (or manifest) for their arrival in the United States from 1820 to thethe Civil War), he or she may have landed at New Orleans and taken a riverboat up the Mississippi.

Indexes for Various Ethnic Groups: Germans to America, Italians to America, Irish Immigrants, etc.
Some ship passenger indexes have been created for various ethnic groups and these may be helpful as alternate resources if you can't find your immigrant ancestor in other indexes.

Passenger Lists and Indexes on Microfilm
Although many of the National Archives publications of ship passenger lists have been digitized and put online, you may still want to use these microfilms in your search. A little old school genealogy can sometimes go a long way...

Spanish American War
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World War One
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war, missing in action, and more items

New York
- Chautauqua County Cemeteries (also has some church death and burial transcriptions)
- Western New York Genealogy Indexes from the Painted Hills Genealogy Society (includes cemetery burials and other indexes for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County and Steuben County)
- Northern New York Historical Newspapers (for Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and Saint Lawrence Counties)
- For more historical NY newspapers see the New York section at: Historical Newspapers and Indexes on the Internet - USA

Pennsylvania
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- McKean County Cemeteries
- Philadelphia County Cemeteries (USGenWeb Archives)
- Potter County Cemeteries
- York County Death Indexes and Genealogy Indexes (update: new URL and new indexes added)

German Genealogy Records at the Family HistoryIvanka Trump is officially joining her father's administration as an unpaid employee, after her plans to serve in a more informal capacity were questioned by ethics experts.

The first daughter announced Wednesday that she will serve as an unpaid employee in the White House, saying she had "heard the concerns some have with my advising the president in my personal capacity."

She added that she has been "working in good faith with the White House Counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role."

The news about Ivanka Trump was first reported by The New York Times. A White House official said her title will be assistant to the president.

In a statement, the White House said it was "pleased that Ivanka Trump has chosen to take this


step in her unprecedented role as first daughter and in support of the president."

Trump previously announced she was getting a West Wing office and security clearance, but would not officially join the administration. That decision had drawn criticism from ethics experts.

Several attorneys and government watchdog leaders last week wrote a letter to White House Counsel Don McGahn, asking him to reconsider his approval of Ivanka Trump serving her father without becoming an official government employee. Such a designation carries with it the requirement to follow an array of transparency and ethical provisions, including a law prohibiting conflicts of interest.

Trump had said she'd voluntarily follow such provisions.

'An isolated moment of sanity'

Norman Eisen, who was former president Barack Obama's ethics counsellor, was among those who signed the letter.

He said that"for a change, in what has largely been an ethics disaster, the White House came to their senses. Let's hope it doesn't turn out to be an isolated moment of sanity."

Fred Wertheimer, president of the government watchdog group Democracy 21 and a co-author of the letter, said he commended Ivanka Trump for formalizing her status.

"Democracy 21 praises Ms. Trump for her decision, which recognizes that it would have been wrong for her to function as a White House employee and not be subject to the same rules that apply to other White House employees," he said in a statement.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens as Ivanka Trump speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on March 17. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)

Ivanka Trump's attorney Jamie


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A young mum who was glassed in a nightclub is calling for action as shock figures reveal violent drunken attacks have soared across Teesside.

In just 12 months the number of violent crimes committed under the influence of intoxicating substances has gone up by a third, while levels of violent drunken behaviour are now more than twice the national average.

The startling increase was revealed in a Home Office report on the performance record of Cleveland Police.

Young mum Nadia Gibany, 24, who lost an eye after being glassed in a Redcar nightclub last year, is now calling for tougher action in a bid to prevent drunken attacks.

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"But I doTHE release of Raymond Davis followed by a deadly drone strike in North Waziristan, which killed over 40 tribal people, shows not only the arrogance the US usually displays it also exposes dissimilitude in US-Pakistan relations in this so-called ‘war on terror’.

The public was already furious about the way in which Raymond Davis was released and whisked away within hours of completing the court proceedings and all the other formalities that citizens of this country face for years. The drone attack that then followed shook the people of Pakistan.

There was a perception that Raymond Davis was probably released as a result of a secret deal between the two governments or their agencies. This was not an unreasonable assumption considering that people’s emotions were running high and the media


was very active over the issue. It was therefore a wise decision to conduct these complicated dealings behind the scenes.

Yet some elements suggested that the deal, with all the attendant risks for the government of Pakistan, may have placed the country in a better manoeuvring position vis-à-vis the US and the CIA, and that it would have got assurances that the latter may cut down operations in Pakistan — that probably, Pakistani air space would no longer be violated by drone attacks.

However, such hopes appear to have been dashed by the New York Times March 17 report asserting that the CIA has not promised to scale down operations in Pakistan, and that it will not share its duty roster with the ISI. The missile strike in Waziristan wasVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has asked aides to resume plans for a visit to South Sudan, a trip that had to be scrapped in 2017 because of the civil war in the world’s youngest country.

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During a meeting with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir on Saturday, Francis “expressed the wish to ascertain the conditions for a possible visit to South Sudan,” a Vatican statement said.

It added that he wanted to make the trip as “a sign of closeness to the population and of encouragement for the peace process”.

Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar sparked fighting, often along ethnic lines.

In September, Kiir, who is


Catholic, and Machar, a Presbyterian, signed a peace deal calling on the two main rival factions to assemble, screen and train their respective forces and unify them into a national army before the formation of a unity government in May.

Three days ago, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said in a report that the six-month-old peace deal risked collapse because none of these steps have occurred, just two months before the deadline.

More than half of the population of South Sudan is Christian, while Sudan is predominantly Muslim.

In 2017, Catholic Church leaders in the country said they had expected the pope would visit the capital, Juba, in the autumn of that year. The tentative plans were scrapped because of security concerns.

About 400,000 people have been killed, and more than athird of the country’s 12 million people uprooted by the civil war - a conflict punctuated by multiple rounds of mediation followed by renewed bloodshed.

The original trip was to have lasted only one day for security reasons and the pope was to have flown in after spending a night in another African country.

Francis is expected to visit several African countries this year, including Madagascar.

The pope was to have made the 2017 trip to South Sudan with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the worldwide Anglican communion, in an effort to promote unity in the mostly Christian country.

The conflict sparked Africa’s worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide and plunged parts of the country into famine.

More than 875,000 refugees have fled into neighboring Uganda since the war


Hatsune Miku is currently on a mission in Thailand. A train designed with Japan’s most famous virtual idol has been seen travelling through the city of Bangkok, to promote Sapporo tourism.

This special tourism promotion, which started just today, August 16, aims to promote tourism in the city of Sapporo by using the popular vocaloid, Hatsune Miku as their ambassador. This was organized by the Sapporo city government as well as the Hokkaido District Transport Bureau.

The train’s design shows Miku dressed in traditional Japanese winter garb promoting the beauty of Sapporo. Inside the train, several other ads also show the beauty of the city as well as some activities like skiing as well as all those food you can eat in Sapporo!

These Sapporo tourism ads mainly promote two seasons-WASHINGTON — When President Trump made Saudi Arabia his first foreign destination after taking office last year, he struck what amounted to a fundamental bargain with the royal family: He would not lecture them about human rights, and they would buy plenty of American weapons and military hardware.

So as the world recoils at reports that the Saudis sent agents to Turkey to kill and dismember a Saudi dissident journalist with a bone saw, Mr. Trump faces the most profound test of that trade-off. For days, he has rebuffed pressure to punish the Saudis by canceling arms sales that he secured during his visit, arguing that it would cost Americans money and jobs.

That he would prioritize potentially tens of billions of dollars for the United States over moral outrage


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I loved my grade four teacher. It was the late seventies and, at that time, she was already “an old lady”. She was really wrinkly, didn't smile much, she was grumpy most of the time and she ran her classroom in a strict old-fashioned way, but I loved her anyway. She had a great big piano and from time to time she would play "I's the by...", a Canadian folk song from the East Coast as we all sang along, happily but not quite sure what it was all about.

My grade four teacher spent a lot of time lecturing us about "the good old days", like how it had been when she had gone to school in a one-room schoolhouse. That fact alone fascinated me, whenThe national selection committee, headed by Chief Selector Inzamamul Haq, has made three changes to Pakistan’s 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup squad, after consultation with team management.

According to details, after a disappointing one-day international (ODI) series against England, which Pakistan lost 4-0, the team management and selection committee has decided to make a few changes to the World Cup squad, in order to strengthen the Men in Green side ahead of the mega event.

The players who are sent back home include opener Abid Ali, who played in only the fifth ODI of the series against England, all-rounder Faheem Ashraf, who struggled with, both, bat and ball during the series, and pacer Junaid Khan.

Their replacements include veteran pacer Mohammad Amir, middle-order batsman Asif Ali, who scored two


Malik in the side.

“Malik and Hafeez are experienced and important to our team combination,” he said. “They will add value to the side, in terms of, both, bowling and batting.”

The former Pakistan batsman was also optimistic about team’s chances, despite a poor series against England.

“We are hopeful that team will put up a good show during the World Cup and not repeat the mistakes made during the England series,” he said.

Leg-spinner Yasir Shah will also return home as his fellow leg-spinner Shadab Khan has also recovered from the virus, he suffered before the beginning of England tour.

The 2019 World Cup is scheduled to begin on May 30, 2019 in England and Wales, while Pakistan will play their first match of the tournament against Windies on May 31.Ireland was one of the countries hardest hit by the financial crisis, however it has emerged with a strong recovery and now boasts the fastest pace of economic growth of any country in the Euro area. But what explains the Irish recovery and could it act as a model for other Eurozone states? Aidan Regan writes that contrary to the interpretation put forward by some policymakers, the recovery has had little to do with structural reforms or austerity policies, but instead reflects a successful development strategy focused on securing foreign direct investment, particularly from the United States.

It has been a truly remarkable few years for Ireland and the European Union. In the space of five years Ireland has gone from being the basket case of the European Monetary


declining labour costs or macroeconomic stabilisation.

It is, fundamentally, about strategic political decision-making, and economic coordination rather than market competition. If the European Commission is serious about generating the conditions for economic and employment growth in the Euro area it needs to rethink its textbook approach to supply-side “structural reform”. It needs a State-led industrial and enterprise policy.

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Schroeder, Robert Schwagmeier, Ruth Weber, and Richard Shoddy, individually.
We affirm.

STATEMENT OF THE RECORD
The evidentiary material before the court is as follows. The decedent died on April 2, 1986, without a wife, children, or lineal descendants surviving him. He left as his heirs at law Louise and Ruth Weber, sisters, and Robert Schwagmeier and Richard Shoddy, nephews. An instrument purporting to be his last will and testament and bearing the date of January 31, 1986, was admitted to probate on April 11, 1986, after which letters testamentary naming Linda *351 and Gaberella as co-executrices were issued. By its terms, the will, after directing that all debts be paid, left all of the decedent's property to Linda. Thereafter, Louise commenced her action to contest the will on July 25, 1986,his property, the natural objects of his bounty, the consequences of his act, and was not under undue influence, duress, coercion, or fraud when he executed his will. The answers to interrogatories reflected that Linda was not related to the decedent, but had been a friend since 1945. She had taken care of him prior to his death for a short time and stated that the decedent had no mental infirmaties. The will had been executed in a lawyer's office but she had not been present.
In opposition to the motion for summary judgment, Louise filed a counteraffidavit of her own, the affidavit of Dr. James R. Davis (Dr. Davis), a psychiatrist, and an affidavit of a minister.
Louise's affidavit stated that the decedent had been a patient in the


hospital from January 11, 1986, to January 25, 1986, after he had suffered a heart attack. His wife of over 50 years died on January 27 and was buried on January 29, after which his will was executed on January 31, 1986. There was no prior will. Louise stated that she had spoken with the decedent on January 31 at which time he appeared to be in a very weak physical and mental condition, cried over the loss of his wife, and expressed fear about death and loneliness. He stated that Linda and her husband, Richard, had promised to terminate their employment in Florida and move to the Schwagmeier farm in Ripley County and begin farming. He told Louise that based upon those promises and in order tobuy peace of mind and avoid a confrontation between the family and Linda, he gave Linda and Richard the farm in exchange for their promise of constant care, company, and companionship until his death. At no time did he mention he had executed a will on January 31, 1986.
Louise continued that on March 10, 1986, Linda had gone to Florida, leaving the decedent unattended in his home where he fell and was injured. The decedent was admitted to a hospital where he subsequently died on April 2, 1986. In her opinion the execution of the will was accomplished upon the exertion of undue influence over the decedent by Linda and Richard. Louise asserted further that it had been the decedent's wish that she be his administratrix and that


he had promised that additional sums of money would be coming to her on his death. Louise also stated that Linda represented to others that she was the decedent's daughter.
The minister's affidavit spoke only of the decedent's poor health, of Linda's domineering and possessive attitude, and of the fact that the decedent and his wife had been reclusive and isolated. In his affidavit, Dr. Davis stated that he had examined hospital records which showed that the decedent was admitted to the hospital on January 11, 1986, for acute myocardial infarction. The affidavit, after reciting various entries from the hospital records addressed to the decedent's physical condition, stated that the records showed that the decedent was confused on January 13, 15, 20, 21, and 22. Nevertheless, the decedent wasdischarged on January 25. The hospital records were not certified by the hospital personnel, nor were they attached to the *352 affidavit. Dr. Davis concluded his affidavit with the following opinion:
It is my professional opinion, based upon Raymond Schwagmeier's age, his physical condition, including the degenerative hip disease, recent history of acute myocardial infarction, arteriosclerosis which is commonly known as hardening of the arteries or senility when associated with old age, his isolation at his home in the country, the emotional distress he was experiencing due to the death of his wife of over fifty years on January 27, 1986, the recognition of his own mortality when faced with his wife's burial and funeral on January 29, 1986, and the dissension between family and friends, that there was


Trafficking in Persons for the purpose of organ removal

Herat City (Pajhwok): An Afghan woman from Herat Province was forced to sell her kidney in order to rescue her husband from captivity in Iran.

While Afghans are already suffering from various political, economic and security challenges, organ trafficking has emerged as the country’s latest form within a broader human trafficking problem.

Hameeda, 35, is among those persons who sold her body organ in order to bail out her family from trouble.

She said her husband went to Iran in search of employment where he fell in trouble after some time. According to Hameeda she received a call from Iran and was instructed to provide 50 million Rials (100 thousand AFS) in order to rescue her husband.

“How could I have paid 100 thousandAFS while I had no money to even provide food for my children,” she said. “They called me incessantly and asked for money. I told them that how could she arrange such an amount of money.” Hameeda said the callers from Iran asked her to sell her kidneys and send the money to them.

The mother of four children, Hameeda, living in a rented house in Herat City, said she had no option but to sell her left kidney. She sent part of the money to those persons in Iran and rest of the money was used in repaying the loans that she had taken from people.

She said she sold her kidney for 200,000 AFS to a patient in Herat's Luqman Hakim Hospital.

Hameeda is not the only person who


province is hospitalized at Luqman Hakim Hospial for kidney transplant. He said: “We bought a kidney against 480,000 Afghani that would be transplanted soon.”

His brother said Amin was a policeman in Kabul and was diagnosed of kidney problem.

Another Afghan, Mohammad Salak, 25, who is hospitalized at Luqman Hakim hospital, said he went to Pakistan for kidney transplant but somehow was not able to get treatment there. Now, he is admitted in this hospital where his wife will donate her kidney.

It is not only the economic problems that forces people to sell their body organs, however there is an emerging trend of organ trading that is being evidenced in Afghanistan. This emerging phenomena of organ trafficking is also acknowledged by concerned organizations in the country.

Human body organs sold inblack market: AIHRC

According to Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), local agents connected with broader trafficking nexus kidnap children from across the country and send them to Kabul for exploitation.

AIHRC Commissioner, Sorayya Sobhrang said that some of these abducted children end up in the hands of organ traffickers who then mutilate their body organs and sell them in the black market.

She said: "The internal organs of these abducted children are sold by the traffickers for kidney transplantation in the country. These criminal gangs also traffick livers of these children. This is a matter of grave concern to us all."

More than 100 kidney transplants so far: Luqman Hakim Hospital

Luqman Hakim Hospital is located in the capital of eastern Herat Province and it is the only hospital in Afghanistan that


has facilities for kidney transplant operations.

Dr. Farid Ejaz, director of the hospital, in an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, said that they transplanted a kidney for the first time in May, 2016.

He said 12 health professionals of the hospital had received a six-month kidney transplant training in Iran’s Kidney Hospital in Mashhad.

“In the past one year, we have so far conducted kidney transplantation on 55 women and 45 men in the past one year, only one person lost his life during the operation,” adding that the first kidney operation was performed on a 11 years old girl.

In most cases, the kidneys are given by the family members of the patient, therefore only a limited number of people sold their kidneys, he said.

Ejaz said the kidney donation shouldparticularly children about the ominous consequences and modus operandi of human traffickers, he said.

He said human trafficking is a crime and those involved in such activities have been sentenced with different types of punishments.

Major kidney transplant hospital to be build in Nangarhar: MoPH

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) spokesman, Wahid Majroh, confirmed thousands of people in the country were suffering from kidney diseases.

He said there was not a dedicated hospital for the treatment of kidney disease in the country, hence the MoPH had decided to establish a national center for the treatment of this disease.

Building construction, equipments supply and training of the staff members of the hospital have been completed and the center would be inaugurated in the next one month, he said.

Majroh said the ministry has also


The U.S. Role in Yemen

March 15, 2016

To the Editor:

In “Quiet Support for Saudis Entangles U.S. in Yemen” (“Secrets of the Kingdom” series, front page, March 14), Robert Malley, the Obama administration official in charge of Middle East policy, endorses the United States backing of Saudi Arabia in its armed conflict in Yemen but says “this is not our war.”

But American support for the Saudi-led coalition, including by providing targeting assistance and air refueling of coalition warplanes, makes the United States a party to the conflict in Yemen under international law. This obligates Washington to investigate coalition airstrikes that may be war crimes for which American forces may be liable.

Given the coalition’s repeated unlawful attacks in Yemen over the last year, which Human Rights Watch and others have documented,The Essence Music Festival’s Still Got It

Two weeks ago, as I began to figure out my plans for the 2012 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, my SPIN magazine arrived in the mail. As I flipped through it, I saw a piece on up-and-coming artist Gary Clark Jr., who, according to the magazine, was performing at more major festivals than practically any other artist this summer. He was on my short list to see and interview once I arrived in New Orleans, so I was curious to see how crazy his touring schedule was. As I looked at the festivals listed, however, I saw a glaring exception. Essence wasn’t listed as one of the festivals.

Interesting.

As weeks became days and the time came where I had to actually purchase


Concertgoers No. 1: Not the biggest fans of change. They paid their money to see what they knew and hadn’t a care in the world for things they had yet to buy into.

After performing song after song that were jams (to some of us), he sat at the piano and played one note.

The first note of “(Untitled) How Does It Feel?”

He played it and the crowd rose to their feet. I don’t know if they expected a shirt to come off, but for five minutes D’Angelo had the crowd in the palm of his hands. After that, he went back into his newer catalog and, and even though he had converted a few people to his side, the crowd was back to their old, bored selves. They seemedchance to do that. When he launched into Gap Band classic “Early in the Morning,” I felt like I had sneaked into a taping of Soul Train. People were losing their minds, but no one in the crowd could keep up with Charlie. He was working so hard, he sweated clear through three suits (all were covered in glitter, and all glowed in the dark). After some dance hits, he slowed it down just a tad, with “Outstanding.”

Thing I Learned About Essence Concertgoers No. 3: They just want to belt songs while they dance. “Outstanding” was the first of many examples of this over the weekend.

As the time approached 1:15 a.m., Charlie looked like a man that had no intention of stopping. He was singing songs, bringing out


Aretha walked offstage and a long photo montage of Aretha’s career landed on the monitors, complete with interviews and testimonials. After that, a few people, including the editor-in-chief of Essence, the lieutenant governor of Louisiana, and the mayor of New Orleans, came out to talk more about her and give her the key to the city, as well as some other accolades. After this, Aretha came back onstage and, not knowing that this long tribute has taken place, introduced them and told them to come onstage because they had something to give to her.

Oh, Aretha.

So they come back onstage, do their best job at pretending like this is the first time this has happened, as does the crowd, who clap loudly for a second time. Hilarious.

But that’s notor because it was about to become Monday morning. Even to those of us who had no intention of leaving, there were some doubts as to whether Chaka would even come out anymore. Another tribute took place, with the likes of Faith Evans and Monifah singing songs of those who had passed in the last year. After 15 minutes of that — finally — we got our Essence Finale.

Chaka Khan

It was Friday night all over again. The second that redheaded, Pam Grier–looking beaut strutted onstage, the crowd was back for one final dance party. Chaka, like the two previous headliners, Charlie and Mary, was ready to work hard on that stage for her audience — and she did not disappoint.

She’s great for many reasons, but one of those


the students bite into their mock coal rig, brown crumbs and green icing smeared across their faces. This is certainly the tastiest part of their coal education — other lessons include talks from coal miners, a visit to the local coal museum, and written activities that highlight the advantages of coal as a source of clean and profitable energy. Southall has a knack for weaving Coal in the Classroom materials into other curricula — for instance, her students learn math skills by pretending to run a coal company, or a science class is taught by analyzing the different types of coal rock. Marmet Elementary school is the first public school in the country to participate in Coal in the Classroom, a program funded and propagated by the women’s-onlychapter of a group called Friends of Coal. Friends of Coal was established more than a decade ago by the West Virginia Coal Association, a century-old industrial lobby group that aims to protect coal’s business interests across the United States. Its 250-strong member base includes the industry’s major global players: Arch Coal, Caterpillar and Murray Energy, with a long list of smaller, more regional companies. Coal in the Classroom is just one of the various strategies used by Friends of Coal to keep Appalachia’s coal identity alive. Each year, Friends of Coal distributes a $48,000 Mining Scholarship to University of Kentucky engineering students. Friends of Coal banners line football fields and basketball stadiums, and are often official sponsors of local sports games. Its merchandise — the countless t-shirts,


license plates, stickers, notebooks, makeup mirrors and lip balms — are often given away for free via thick yellow packages sent in the post, and has helped make Friends of Coal a household name in Appalachia. By most counts, these strategies are working — and ensure that despite its economic decline, the coal industry maintains a strong grip over the region. West Virginia state lawmakers repeatedly block efforts to introduce climate change education into classrooms, while Friends of Coal’s program continues to expand. During his rally in Charleston in March, President Trump wore a Friends of Coal hardhat as he vowed to “put miners back to work” — a claim he repeated during his withdrawal from the Paris Accord. Politicians as far away as Australia have even caughtwind of the campaign, and attempted to launch a local Friends of Coal chapter. Through the Friends of Coal campaign, the corporate coal lobby has managed the impossible: to reinvent the coal industry as an ally and compatriot of Appalachia’s working class. But when Southall stands in front of her students to talk to them about the importance of coal, she rarely thinks of these larger political events. “I never bring politics into the classroom,” she says, and the negative side-effects of coal are not a “major focus” of her teaching. For Southall, her involvement with Friends of Coal is more a labor of love — with her husband, she meticulously bakes the cupcakes and cookies that become props for coal rigs in Coal in the Classroom. And


become ever more tied to “King Coal.”

The Trade-Off Sara Estep, a young mother from Letcher County, Kentucky, was in high school when she first started noticing Friends of Coal signs pop up in her community. She initially dismissed these unusual pro-coal slogans as mere propaganda, laughing them off as some petty gimmick. And then, in just the space of a few months, Friends of Coal churned into a massive movement. Her neighbors would hold large rallies in nearby cities, yelling: “Save coal mining! Stop Obama’s war on coal!” This rhetoric soon caught fire, and Estep watched her local politicians recite common Friends of Coal talking points, vowing to stop the Obama administration’s attacks on coal and revive the industry from the ashes. But it was only recently thatattempted to rally her neighbors to act. The creek ran through a long block of houses, and Estep thought that by distributing information about the dangers of black water to her community, she could encourage an investigation into the mining company. One by one, Estep knocked on doors, and discussed the contaminated water samples. Her neighbors clucked in sympathy, nodding their heads to Estep’s indignation at how the abandoned mining site was now wreaking havoc on their water ways. And then, just days later, Estep was shocked to find her neighbors’ children playing in the creek, the grey water swirling around their legs as parents looked on. Estep was right to be concerned. Appalachians’ elevated cancer mortality rates — up to 36 percent higher than those living elsewhere


mineral rights. This meant that companies could approach Appalachian farmers asking to simply buy the minerals underneath their soil — not the arable land above — often at incredibly low prices. Once enacted, the profits from coal mining went entirely to the coal company, and local “surface owners” were left penniless, with their land now hollowed out and useless. By the late 1960s, the ongoing fight for Appalachian justice in the face of marauding coal companies — some residents would literally lie in front of bulldozers to prevent mining on their land — led to sweeping federal regulation of the coal industry in the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. The courts killed the broad form deed, and pumped money and resources into the region asscars it left behind incensed local residents. As a result, support for the coal industry waned, and dozens of grassroots environmental and economic justice groups critical of the coal industry bloomed in their wake. American coal was in desperate need of a facelift. This came to head in 2002 when a string of deaths caused by overweight coal trucks — some were more than double their legal weight limit — allegedly forced the West Virginia Coal Association, led by its president Bill Raney, to address the industry’s public image. The deaths shone an uncomfortable light on the business interests of coal, and was set to be a public relations disaster. Instead of retreating to their usual lobbying tactics, targeting politicians and legislators that controlled the coal industry, Raney


Friends of Coal. A Christian missionary runs the only café in town, and sells meter-tall wooden cut-outs of coal miners yelling “Coal Keeps the Lights On” next to a sign with the acrostic “Christ Offers Forgiveness For Everyone Everywhere.” Across the road is Portal 31, an abandoned coal mine the local community has turned into an interactive exhibition to memorialize the community’s coal history. Cody Hall slowly pulls his trolley along the rails into the mouth of Portal 31, carefully steering his way across the curved entrance. The sky darkens overhead, and fat drops of rain let loose. Hall swings his miner’s hat on — the same hardhat that his grandfather used to wear when he was in the mines — and turns to face his passengers. “Pleasedeputy director of the International Cooperation Division of the Department of Climate Change of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).

The most recent offer is the South-South Climate Cooperation Fund, a US$3.1 billion fund pledged by Chinese President Xi Jinping last September to help developing countries address climate issues.

*(Plenary session week 3 2018 in Strasbourg - Debate on energy efficiency, renewables and the governance of the Energy Union. Image credit: European Parliament)


X-rays revolutionised diagnosis The public has voted the X-ray machine as the best invention, ahead of the Apollo 10 space capsule and Stephenson's Rocket. Out of nearly 50,000 votes cast, one in five people named it for having made the greatest impact on the past, present and future. Ten of the most significant objects in science, engineering, technology and medicine were selected for the vote. Information on all the items is found at the Science Museum in London. The first three positions were filled by medical inventions or discoveries, the X-ray machine being followed by the discoveries of penicillin and the DNA double helix structure. X-rays provided the first possibility of looking inside someone's body without cutting them open - a massive medical advance. 'Laying patients bare' Theworld history could be pioneered by enthusiastic amateur inventors." Professor Andy Adam, president of the Royal College of Radiologists, was delighted to learn of the result. He said the X-ray machine had revolutionised medical practice and that the technology had now advance so much that we are reaching the era of the "transparent patient". Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said: "Any competition that pits the Apollo 10 spacecraft against Stephenson's Rocket, and the DNA double helix against the Model T Ford, is bound to provide talking points aplenty. "The public's choice of the X-ray machine as the winner is testament to our insatiable curiosity to find out how things work." The poll was conducted as part of the Science Museum's events to mark its centenary. The 10 objects form


The volunteers are taught to begin at the head, washing the face before proceeding to the neck and right shoulder. The right side is to be washed before the left side, the front before the back. There are prayers to say. Small talk is forbidden.

The Jewish protocol for tending to the dead governs almost every interaction between the living and the deceased from the moment of death until burial. The ritual, which has been part of religious law for two millenniums, mandates the protection of the physical and spiritual remains.

But for many decades, most Jews in the United States have lost touch with those protocols — if they have ever heard of them — in favor of conventional funeral home services that replace volunteers with professionals who, bynoted that an illegal alien is suspected of gunning down Newman police officer Ronil Singh, a legal immigrant, just weeks ago.

“America’s heart broke the day after Christmas when a young police officer in California was savagely murdered in cold blood by an illegal alien, who just came across the border. The life of an American hero was stolen by someone who had no right to be in our country,” Trump said.

“Day after day, precious lives are cut short by those who have violated our borders. In California, an Air Force veteran was raped, murdered, and beaten to death with a hammer by an illegal alien with a long criminal history. In Georgia, an illegal alien was recently charged with murder for killing, beheading, and dismembering his neighbor. In


Maryland, MS-13 gang members who arrived in the United States as unaccompanied minors were arrested and charged last year after viciously stabbing and beating a 16-year-old girl.”

Appealing to the Democrats who have refused to negotiate with him on funding for the wall, Trump added, “To those who refuse to compromise in the name of border security, I would ask: Imagine if it was your child, your husband, or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken?”

Officer Ronil Singh, of the Newman Police Department, is survived by his wife and child. He was shot dead on Dec. 26, 2018, by an illegal immigrant, according to police officials. (Stanislaus Sheriff’s Department)

He asked members of Congress to pass a bill that includes funding for the wall and U.S.
In 1930 to 1931, Frenkel showed that neutral excitation of a crystal by light is possible, with an electron remaining bound to a hole created at a lattice site identified as a quasiparticle, the exciton. Mention should be made of Frenkel's works on the theory of metals, nuclear physics (the liquid drop model of the nucleus, in 1936), and semiconductors.

In 1934, Frenkel outlined the formalism for the multi-configuration self-consistent field method, later rediscovered and developed by Douglas Hartree.

He contributed to semiconductor and insulator physics by proposing a theory, which is now commonly known as the Poole–Frenkel effect, in 1938. "Poole" refers to H. H. Poole (Horace Hewitt Poole, 1886–1962), Ireland. Poole reported experimental results on the conduction in insulators and found an empirical relationship between conductivity and electrical


BEIJING — A fire at an underwear factory killed 14 people Tuesday and left another injured in the southern Chinese city of Shantou, state media reported, quoting authorities.

The fire broke out at around 3:30pm (0730 GMT), Guangdong province emergency officials told Xinhua, adding it was contained half an hour later. The injured worker is undergoing treatment at hospital.

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Senior officials have ordered an inquiry into the incident in order to prevent future cases, the agency said.

A fire at a garment factory on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka last week killed 110 workers in the export industry’s worst-ever accident.

In September, a similar blaze in the Pakistani port city of Karachi killed 289 workers.period, and in a second state, causing the count means to accumulate a scintillation count over a second period, the second period being longer than the first period; and second means removably positioned on the probe for causing, upon activation, the output means to manifest an accumulated scintillation count from the count means.
The radiation detection apparatus can include means for displaying a count value of the count means. The display means responds to activation to the second state of the first means, by displaying a count value accumulated over the second period for a preset time period.
Preferably, activation of the second means is operative, only during the preset time period, to cause the output means to manifest a scintillation count accumulated during the second period from the counter


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iTunes is a media player and distribution platform developed by Apple. It was initially released in 2001, and offers media storage, playing, and organizing capabilities as well as integrating with Apple devices such as iPhones, iPods, and iPads.

Apple's 4K TV has launched to a wealth of positive reviews, but it turns out the 4K experience comes with some odd fine print. For example: You can't actually download 4K movies from iTunes, only stream them.
MacRumors spotted the quirk in an Apple Support document. Customers can ...

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iTunes is apparently showing listing certain movies as 4K and HDR in users' purchase history, as reported by MacRumors. Users are still limited to 720p andpoint of no return.

“The NCAA is wrong.

“The commissioners are the ones on the proverbial take and everyone knows it.”

What she said.

While that’s strong stuff, and the media furor figures to grow with a fresh new game of musical chairs afoot, these hardly stack up on the audacity meter with major conference moves of the past.

Including the Big Ten in a time long before lucrative television contracts and multi-million dollar coaching salaries.

Earlier this year, East Lansing, Michigan native David Young published his book “Arrogance and Scheming in the Big Ten,” which recounts Michigan State’s battle to join the Big Ten in the years after World War II.

In 1946, the Big Ten was down to nine schools, with the departure of the University of Chicago, a charter member that produced


the very first Heisman Trophy winner — Jay Berwanger in 1935 — but that wrestled mightily with the balance between academics and athletics.

Four years later, Chicago dropped football, and seven years after that, de-emphasized athletics altogether.

Among the candidates to become the new 10th team of the Big Ten — commonly known as the Western Conference — included Pittsburgh and Nebraska before Michigan State was added in 1950.

But as Young, a Notre Dame graduate and physician in Holland, Mich., unfurls the story, the Spartans’ in-state archrival did everything it could to prevent the move. Thus, his book subtitle: “Michigan State’s Quest for Membership and Michigan’s Powerful Opposition.”

It was an ugly battle, according to Young, as bitter and nasty as the present-day poaching of BCS schools. While the money stakesGossip Hubb

Finally! Edunabon Palace Arsonists Face The Court

Finally! Edunabon Palace Arsonists Face The Court

An Osogbo based Magistrate Court has on Monday arraigned and remanded the arsonists of Edunabon Palace in Ife North Local Government, Osun State.The arsonists which include a 75-year-old Chief, Oyedokun and two others identified as Odebode Elijah and Gbenga Olasunbo were arraigned in court yesterday bothering their involvement in the burning down of an ancient town, Edunabon’ palace on December 19, 2018.

While appearing in court on Monday, Amiloaded had it that, Chief Oyedokun, Odebode Elijah and Gbenga Olasunbo pleaded not guilty to all the 16 counts against them.

Police Prosecutor, Inspector Joshua Oladoye, told the court that the accused persons and others at large, on December 19, 2018, at Edunabon, conspired among themselves to commit felony


A third senior Pentagon official has quit following Donald Trump's announcement that US forces would leave Syria.

Department of defence chief of staff Kevin Sweeney resigned after two years in the post.

He walks out just weeks after defence secretary James Mattis announced he was quitting.

Rear Admiral Sweeney said in a statement that "the time is right to return to the private sector".

His resignation statement pointedly makes no mention of Mr Trump and says it had been an "an honour to serve" alongside his colleagues in the department.

General Mattis' departure was sped up, with the senior figure exiting two months earlier than planned reportedly because of Mr Trump's anger over the extensive coverage given to Mattis' resignation.

Brett McGurk, the presidential special envoy to the global coalition fighting so-called Islamic State,also quit following the Syria announcement, as did department spokeswoman Dana White.

Sky News' diplomatic editor Dominic Waghorn explains that Mr Trump is rapidly losing his support system.

He said: "You're looking at a president who is temperamentally unsuitable to be in the job, and it's been a roller coaster ride so far but he has had stabilisers on him in the form of these former generals - (James) Mattis, (John) Kelly, (HR) McMaster.

"He's now trying to buy not so much 'yes' men but people who do his bidding.

"They are intelligent people, like (Mike) Pompeo, (John) Bolton and others but they don't dissent.

"What's really important to say is every presidency so far - if you think about (Barack) Obama and the financial meltdown, George W Bush and 9/11, his father


A 52-year-old woman walked into a police station Thursday afternoon in west suburban Riverside, asked for help getting drugs back from her boyfriend and then battered the officer who wouldn’t assist her.

About 1 p.m. Thursday, Apryl A. Butler, of Riverside, walked into the lobby of the station at 31 Riverside Road and asked for help with an ongoing property dispute with her boyfriend, according to Riverside police. After she told the responding officer she needed to speak about the domestic situation in private, the officer took her to a conference room.

Once they entered the room, Butler immediately became violent and started screaming at the officer, police said. She then punched and kicked the officer before spitting on him and yelling, “You need to help me.” After hearing theThe Beatles were searching for answers to some of life's larger questions by the second half of 1967. This quest led them to meditation, Eastern philosophy and eventually to Rishikesh, India, where they began a period of study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Feb. 15, 1968.

"We'd been into drugs. The next step is you've got to try and find a meaning then," said Paul McCartney in the Anthology documentary. It was George Harrison, already a casual student of Eastern ways, who got the ball rolling. He, McCartney and John Lennon went to see a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in London in the summer of 1967. "That's where I really went for the meditation," said Harrison in Anthology. "There's this thing called a mantra. Through


the mantra you can follow a technique that helps you to transcend, that is, to go beyond the waking-sleeping-dreaming state."

Following the lecture, the three met Maharishi. "I said to him, 'got any mantras?" said George. The band were enamored with the mystic one, and the feeling appeared to be mutual. "They are the ideal of energy and intelligence in the younger generation," the Maharishi told a reporter after the lecture.

The Beatles took their interest a large step forward in February 1968 by traveling to the Maharishi's home base in northern India. Lennon and wife Cynthia, and Harrison and Pattie Boyd arrived first (Ringo Starr and Paul would soon join them) along with other notable friends such as Beach Boy Mike Love, Donovan and actress Mia Farrow.

During their stay,they would learn more about meditation and would also find time to write many of the songs that would ultimately end up on The Beatles (aka the White Album). "Back in the U.S.S.R.," "Dear Prudence" (written about Farrow's sister, also in attendance), "Mother Nature's Son," and "Sexy Sadie" were just a few of the songs born out of their experiences there.

"I was really impressed with the Maharishi. I was impressed because he was laughing all the time," said Ringo. "It was another point of view. It was the first time we're sort of getting into Eastern philosophies." McCartney described the stay in India as "very much like a summer camp," with Starr adding, "It was pretty far out."

Both McCartney and Starr cut their stay short, while others hung


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Evidence regarding taillight on the truck.
Konitzer and his son, who was with him, both testified that when the truck was loaded the taillight was burning. The highway patrolman and a garage employee, who arrived at the scene about a half hour after the accident, testified positively that the taillight was then burning. The garage-man who towed the truck away also so testified, stating that the taillight was on until the truck was brought to the garage and he disconnected the battery.
Appellants place considerable emphasis in their argument on the testimony of Konitzer that although on previous occasions he had noticed the red reflection of his taillight on the road as he went down the highway, he did not notice such a reflection before the collision. We donot consider this testimony of much probative value, especially since at the time in question the Hewitt car was approaching from the rear with its headlights on high beam and Konitzer testified he was watching the headlights which were "glaring through the window."
Arthur E. Helm, traffic officer of the sheriff's department, testified that he had no recollection about the taillight on the truck but the evidence shows that his accident report made no mention of the absence of a taillight, although there was a space on the printed form for such a notation.
Hewitt testified that there was no taillight on the truck. He had been traveling 40 to 50 miles per hour; he had been *495 looking to his left as he approached the intersection, watching a car


which was passing him, and did not see the truck until he was 20 to 30 feet from it. He testified that the passing car had its headlights on and that it was not crowding him in any way. No other witness testified as to a passing car; Konitzer testified there was only one pair of headlights reflected in his rear-view mirror.
Mrs. McFarlin testified she remembered nothing of the events immediately preceding the collision, having apparently suffered a retrograde amnesia attributable to the severe head injuries which she sustained in the accident.
Mrs. Hewitt testified, on adverse examination before trial, that she had been directing her attention to her husband, the driver, immediately before the collision and did not see the truck until it was right in front ofthem, within two or three feet ahead. On the trial she testified she saw the truck when it was 20 to 25 feet ahead and she was positive the taillight was not burning; that when she saw it she exclaimed "No taillight." On the adverse she had testified that no one in the car made an exclamation about the truck before the collision occurred. Traveling 50 miles an hour the Hewitt car covered approximately 75 feet per second. So in one third of a second Mrs. Hewitt had the opportunity to observe, distinguish, and remark about the absence of the taillight! Mrs. Hewitt explained that she was confused at the time of the adverse and that it was not until later when she went back to the scene


when he was 165 feet from it. Under all these circumstances, it was for the jury to decide whether or not a burning taillight on the truck would have made it possible for Hewitt to avoid the accident.
Since there must be a new trial, one other matter should be called to the trial court's attention. Originally Harry Hewitt commenced an action against respondents for his damages. Thereafter, Mrs. Hewitt and Mr. and Mrs. McFarlin commenced their action against Hewitt and his insurer and the respondents. Before the trial started appellants settled their claims with Hewitt's insurer and executed a release from further claim against Hewitt and his insurance company. The settlement was approved by the court. On the trial appellants called Hewitt adversely and his testimony was admittedinformation and belief.
Section 7-4 of the Act provides in part, "All petitions shall be supported by an affidavit of one or more of the petitioners, or someone on their behalf, that the signatures on the petition represent a majority of the property owners of record and the owners of record of more than 50% of the land in the territory described and a majority of the electors of the territory therein described. Petitions so verified shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of such facts."
As abstracted, a fair condensation of Mrs. Elting's testimony discloses that her affidavit was based upon her knowledge of landowners by discussions with them; that she had not checked with the Title Company; that she was familiar with the territory and knew who voted


there; that the surveyor and petitioners' attorney informed her as to the area of the territory; and that based upon the best of her knowledge knowing the people and the area the matters contained in the affidavit were true. She further testified she personally saw some of the petitioners sign the petition and was familiar with the signatures of those persons who did not sign the petition in her presence; that she is not familiar with the signatures of all of the petitioners but as to those persons she personally talked to, all but a few told her they had signed the petition; that as to those few she was told by Jim Heyworth that those *43 named petitioners had signed it; and that as to the genuinenessalmost a month after the hearing date fixed by the Judge of the County Court for the hearing upon the petition. The hearing date so fixed in compliance with Section 7-2 of the Act was August 16, 1960. On motion of the petitioners the objections of the objector were stricken.
*45 It is urged that the trial court erred in striking these objections in that they were filed five days before a continued hearing date, and that no proceedings on the validity of the petition or objections were had prior to such continued hearing date of September 20, 1960.
The record does not bear out objector's assertion that no proceedings were had upon the petition prior to September 20, 1960.
On August 16, 1960, the date fixed for hearing upon the


petition, the court heard proof of the service of notice of the hearing on the petition and proof of notice on the Clerk of the Village of Mettawa as required by law. On that same date, on motion of petitioners, certain other informal objections were stricken, and further hearing continued to September 20, 1960.
The precise question posed by this objector is, when must an objector file objections in annexation proceedings.
Section 7-3 of the Act provides, "After the filing of the petition but not less than five days prior to the date fixed for the hearing, any interested person may file with the county clerk his objections." (Emphasis supplied.)
Section 7-2 of the same Act provides for the filing of a written petition with the county clerk and thereafter inWomen's perceptions about abortion in their communities: perspectives from western Kenya.
Unsafe abortion in Kenya is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. In October 2012, we sought to understand the methods married women aged 24-49 and young, unmarried women aged ≤ 20 used to induce abortion, the providers they utilized and the social, economic and cultural norms that influenced women's access to safe abortion services in Bungoma and Trans Nzoia counties in western Kenya. We conducted five focus groups with young women and five with married women in rural and urban communities in each county. We trained local facilitators to conduct the focus groups in Swahili or English. All focus groups were audiotaped, transcribed, translated, computerized, and coded for analysis. Abortion outside public health facilities was mentioned


In the early 21st Century a man stands naked and frightened in a cell contemplating that when he dresses again it will probably be in an orange jumpsuit. We don’t need to be told what that means. He asks himself “How did it come to this?” and in the next 363 pages we find out.

Nearly 70 years before, Hiroko stood on the veranda thinking about Konrad, the man she had just agreed to marry. In a flash of white light Konrad became a shadow on a rock and Hiroko was scarred for life, the three cranes embroidered on her silk kimono fused to the skin of her back. The time is 1945, the place is Nagasaki.

Shunned by her neighbours Hiroko goes in search of Konrad’s sister Elizabeth, andfinds her living a privileged life in loveless marriage in Delhi with her husband James. The couple take her to their hearts and she becomes one of the family until she shocks her hosts by falling in love with their employee Sajjad, converts to Islam and marries him.

With the Partition of India imminent, James encourages the couple to flee to Turkey to escape the bloodshed, but when they want to return Sajjad is no longer welcome in the city he loves. They go instead to Pakistan where many years later they have a son, Raza. Like his mother, the boy is a talented linguist, picking up languages with ease but repeatedly failing his most crucial school exam.

With sharp intellect but no prospect of getting into university, the devil


World Trade Centre, via Partition and the Russian-Afghan war, she moves her characters from country to country to place them in the middle of some of the biggest events of recent history. By virtue of making her lead characters great linguists and by giving Raza a genetic mix that means nobody’s every quite sure who he is or where he’s from, she gives them a freedom to roam.

Burnt Shadows is a story of making your home where you find it, moving on and forgiving those who’ve trespassed against you, and of the power of loyalty to both family and friends. It’s not the story of a single character – I expected that Hiroko would lead us through the book but she hands the mantle of responsibility for theat the time when the Soviet Union broke up, and its former member-states headed to become democracies, the United States (if not also most of its NATO allies) headed towards dictatorship, and is now solidly into it. (Bernie Sanders in the current U.S. Presidential primaries is hoping to reverse that trend and to restore the FDR-progressive pro-democracy American tradition, but that’s considered a longshot effort in today’s fascist America.)

When Obama in private told the assembled Wall Street CEOs assembled inside the White House on 27 March 2009 “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks,” he was referring to the Wall Street chieftains whom, and whose investors, his Administration was bailing out with taxpayer dollars, as being like the Blacks that the KKK had infamously


Effect of dimethyl sulfoxide and glycerol on acute bowel ischemia in the rat.
After a 30 minute period of superior mesenteric artery occlusion in adult rats, there was a significant decrease in peritoneal inflammatory reaction, ileus, peritoneal adhesion formation, and histologically proved bowel wall necrosis in animals given intravenous dimethyl sulfoxide at the end of the ischemic period. In contrast, control rats given normal saline solution intravenously demonstrated severe inflammatory reaction, ileus, hemorrhagic peritoneal fluid, extensive adhesion formation, and areas of bowel wall necrosis. Intravenous glycerol did not have the beneficial effect seen with dimethyl sulfoxide. Neither compound was effective when given intraperitoneally. We conclude that intravenous dimethyl sulfoxide has a significant protective effect in rats with acute intestinal ischemia due to the superior mesenteric artery occlusion in theBOULDER — A cyclist in Boulder County was injured after a run-in, literally, with a bear.

Tim Egan, 53, was riding on Old Stage Road Tuesday afternoon when suddenly a bear appeared in front of him. Egan hit the bear and ended up skidding across the road. "This bear looked at me with a look of terror on his face and sort of made a noise," said Egan. "I looked at him with a look of terror and we went, 'aaaahhhhh.'"
He cracked some ribs, suffered cuts on his head and had road rash. Egan said he and the bike flipped and flew over the bear, hitting the pavement hard.

The bear ran away after the accident when a deer appeared.

Egan's nephew ran to help the injured cyclist.

"When I tell people,


It's a legal thing.

AlmostThere

06-28-2008, 01:41 AM

BOULDER — A cyclist in Boulder County was injured after a run-in, literally, with a bear.

Tim Egan, 53, was riding on Old Stage Road Tuesday afternoon when suddenly a bear appeared in front of him. Egan hit the bear and ended up skidding across the road. "This bear looked at me with a look of terror on his face and sort of made a noise," said Egan. "I looked at him with a look of terror and we went, 'aaaahhhhh.'"
He cracked some ribs, suffered cuts on his head and had road rash. Egan said he and the bike flipped and flew over the bear, hitting the pavement hard.

The bear ran away after the accident when a deer appeared.

Egan's nephew ran to help theinjured cyclist.

"When I tell people, they say 'Right, are you kidding me, who hits a bear?'"

Egan estimated he was going about 45 miles per hour at impact. He said the bear was about 6 feet tall and probably weighed 500 pounds.

Hit a 500 lb critter at 45mph, flipped over it and hit pavement hard. Bike was OK to get on and ride to hospital? I want one of those.

AmPat

06-28-2008, 04:31 AM

BOULDER — A cyclist in Boulder County was injured after a run-in, literally, with a bear.

Tim Egan, 53, was riding on Old Stage Road Tuesday afternoon when suddenly a bear appeared in front of him. Egan hit the bear and ended up skidding across the road. "This bear looked at me with a look of terror on his


face and sort of made a noise," said Egan. "I looked at him with a look of terror and we went, 'aaaahhhhh.'"
He cracked some ribs, suffered cuts on his head and had road rash. Egan said he and the bike flipped and flew over the bear, hitting the pavement hard.

The bear ran away after the accident when a deer appeared.

Egan's nephew ran to help the injured cyclist.

"When I tell people, they say 'Right, are you kidding me, who hits a bear?'"

Egan estimated he was going about 45 miles per hour at impact. He said the bear was about 6 feet tall and probably weighed 500 pounds.

Everybody knows this is a big lie, There is no way a 53 year old man pedals a bike 45 miles an hour.:D

megimoo

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"What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" (Stanley Adams, María Méndez Grever) - 3:28
 "No More" (Camarata, Bob Russell) - 3:09
 "Let's Do It" (Cole Porter) - 3:00
 "I Loves Ya Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 5:11
 "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) - 2:58
 "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:50
 "Had You Been Around" (Richard Jacques, Ronald Miller, Avery Vandenburg, Bernard Yuffy) - 3:29
 "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:00
 "Can't Get Started with You" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) - 3:10
 "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:13
 "You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) - 2:54
 "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) - 3:31
 "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)device useful in slicing a melon, such as a watermelon and the like, and, in particular, a device especially useful for making transverse slices of the desired width in an efficient manner. An elongated stand including a pair of oppositely disposed longitudinal horizontal melon retaining rails of equal length are provided. The elongated stand also includes transverse melon supporting members affixed to the pair of horizontal retaining rails. Support stand leg members are attached to the horizontal melon retaining rails in supportive relationship therewith. A melon cutting station assembly is provided. The cutting station assembly is engageable with the pair of melon retaining rails. The cutting station includes a pair of parallel longitudinal horizontal cutting station retaining rails of equal length. A pair of cutting station rails are


in coaxial alignment with a pair of melon retaining rails.
A first of the cutting station rails has first cutting station leg members affixed thereto in supportive relationship therewith. Likewise, the second of the cutting station rails has the second cutting station leg members affixed thereto in supportive relationship. A cutting blade member support and retaining bracket is included that is attached to a first adjoining pair of the first cutting station leg members. A first cutting station rail has a first opening therethrough in predetermined position between the first pair of the first cutting station leg members. The cutting device bracket has a first slot therein in vertical alignment with the first cutting station rail opening.
A blade end receiving and supporting bracket is attached to a second adjoiningpair of the second cutting station leg members opposite the first adjoining pair of the first cutting station leg members. The second cutting station rail has a second opening therethrough in predetermined position between the second pair of the second cutting station leg members. The blade end receiving and supporting bracket has a second slot therein in transverse alignment with the first slot of the cutting blade bracket and the second opening of the cutting station rail. An elongated cutting blade member is provided including a base pivotally mounted at one end thereof to the cutting blade bracket and operatively aligned with the first opening of the first cutting station rail and the second opening of the second cutting station rail. The cutting blade member includes a central


block member having a vertical slot therethrough in alignment with the base of the cutting device, whereby the cutting device may be retained by the resilient block member in an upright position while the melon is moved forward to contact the butt plate for the next slice. Preferably the resilient block comprises hard rubber.
Preferably, the diameter of the ends proximate the elongated stand of the first and second cutting station rails are sized so that the cutting station rails may slideably engage the ends of the horizontal retaining rails. Preferably the ends of the horizontal retaining rails further include spring-loaded detent members affixed thereto. The ends of the first and second cutting station rails preferably are provided with apertures therethrough in predetermined position to receive the second spring-loadeddetent members, whereby the cutting station may be affixed to the elongated stand or released from the stand as desired.
The retaining rails preferably further include a non-skid material affixed thereto, such as, neoprene. Also, preferably, the transverse melon supporting members are elliptically shaped and pliable. Desirably the bottoms of the support stand leg members and the cutting station leg members also have a non-skid material affixed thereto, such as, neoprene.
The cutting station assembly further includes a drip pan affixed between the first adjoining pair of the first cutting station leg members and the second adjoining pair of the second cutting station leg members. Preferably, the blade end receiving and supporting bracket further includes a resilient blade stop affixed to the bracket proximate the bottom of the second slot.


Caribbean Islands History: History of British Virgin Islands: Early history and People emigration, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Anguilla … Dominica, Grenada, and more four

The entire history and culture of Caribbean Island people, and immigration of Caribbean Islands People. and the commonwealth Caribbean islands, have a distinctive history. Permanently influenced by the experiences of colonialism and slavery, the Caribbean has produced a collection of societies that are markedly different in population composition from those in any other region of the world.

Lying on the sparsely settled periphery of an irregularly populated continent, the region was “discovered” by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Thereafter, it became the springboard for the European invasion and domination of the Americas, a transformation that historian D. W. Meinig has aptly described as the “radicalcan respond to a threat in a few
seconds. And no amount of discipline can completely prevent accidental
discharge.

~~~
jessaustin
The way to prevent accidental discharge is to keep the rifle slung over one's
shoulder, with an empty chamber, rather than nervously gripping it with one's
finger on the trigger guard as pictured in TFA. That posture serves no purpose
other than the intimidation of the ignorant. And it's clear from this picture
the magazines, if they exist, aren't secured in one place on a sensible
leather belt, but rather are rolling around in the bottom of one or more of
those giant pouches he's got hanging around.

~~~
kiiski
It's very unlikely that he is there to actually guard anything. In most
countries, outside a state of emergency or war, soldiers do not have any right
to shoot citizens in the streets.


bias-inducing excitement to catch a "baddie."

When terrorist attacks happen successfully, and enforcement agencies had some
prior knowledge of them, people blame the agencies. So surely when there is
some evidence apparently linking somebody to a planned terrorist attack, the
agencies are duty bound to at least investigate it. Of course, they're also
duty bound to investigate it _within the law_ , and if the investigation turns
out to be unfounded, they should forget about it. That's not what happened
here, and that's the problem.

The fact is, this was not just some bloke of a bureaucrat from New Zealand who
happened to be targeted as a terrorist. He grew up in Fiji, and his best
friend was a high ranking Fijian military officer. Their travel patterns
aligned. They had membership in the same group (yeah, it's a "proBut instead they seized his passport and
many of his possessions _before_ having the evidence to do so. He was fully
aware of the investigation in such a way that it materially and negatively
impacted his life.

To be fair, though, they did handle the aftermath in a somewhat commendable
fashion. They lifted the restriction on his passport without any further
hassle, within two years. That's pretty quick. Perhaps they should have done
more (apology, compensation), but even by US standards that seems like a
fairly equitable outcome. He never went to prison.

At the end of the day, it sucks for this guy. He was in the wrong places, with
the wrong people, at the wrong times. But I have trouble faulting the agencies
for their _initial_ suspicion. It's their handling of the aftermath that I
have a problem


Attackers have stolen almost $500,000 worth of the Ethereum Classic digital currency by carrying out a compute-intensive hack that rewrote its blockchain, officials with Coinbase, one of the leading crypto currency exchanges, said on Monday.

The heist was the result of carrying out what's known as a rollback attack, which allowed the attackers to reorganize the Ethereum Classic blockchain, Coinbase security engineer Mark Nesbitt said in a blog post. From there, the attackers were able to "double spend" about 88,500 ETC, meaning they were able to recover previously spent coins and transfer them to a new entity. As a result, the coins were effectively transferred from the rightful recipients to new entities chosen by the attackers.

"We observed repeated deep reorganizations of the Ethereum Classic blockchain, most of which containedof the network, this miner could pick an arbitrary previous block from which to extend an alternative block history, eventually outpacing the block history produced by the rest of the network and defining a new canonical transaction history. This is called a "chain reorganization," or "reorg" for short. All reorgs have a "depth," which is the number of blocks that were replaced, and a "length," which is the number of new blocks that did the replacing.

Stated a different way, a rollback attack generates a new fork of the blockchain. This causes nodes to replace the original blockchain with the new one and makes it possible for attackers to reverse previously made transactions. Rollback attacks require control of a substantial fraction of the total hashpower devoted to generating the


Eight years after his father's death, Trudeau began in politics. In the 2008 federal election, he was elected to represent the riding of Papineau in the House of Commons. In 2009, he was appointed the Liberal Party's critic for youth and multiculturalism, and the following year, became critic for citizenship and immigration. In 2011, he was appointed as critic for secondary education and youth and amateur sport. Trudeau won the leadership of the Liberal Party in April 2013 and went on to lead his party to victory in the 2015 federal election, moving the 3rd-placed Liberals from 36 seats to 184 seats, the largest-ever numerical increase by a party in a Canadian election.

Trudeau is the second child in Canadian history to be born to a prime minister inoffice; the first was John A. Macdonald's daughter Margaret Mary Theodora Macdonald (February 8, 1869 – January 28, 1933). Trudeau's younger brothers Alexandre (Sacha) (born December 25, 1973) and Michel (October 2, 1975 – November 13, 1998) were the third and fourth.[12][13]

Portrait of Ono Niha princesses. Through Trudeau's Ono Niha princess 6th-great grandmother and other remote ethnic Malaccan ancestors, Trudeau is the first Canadian Prime Minister to have verified non-European roots.

Trudeau was christened with his father's niece Anne Rouleau-Danis as godmother and his mother's brother-in-law Thomas Walker as godfather[26] at Ottawa's Notre Dame Basilica on the afternoon of January 16, 1972, which marked his first public appearance.[27] On April 14, 1972, Trudeau's father and mother hosted a gala at the National Arts Centre, at which visiting U.S. president


Richard M. Nixon said, "I’d like to toast the future prime minister of Canada, to Justin Pierre Trudeau" to which Pierre Elliott Trudeau responded that should his son ever assume the role, he hoped he would have "the grace and skill of the president".[28] Earlier that same day U.S. first lady Pat Nixon had come to see him in his nursery to deliver a gift, a stuffed toySnoopy.[29][30]Nixon's White House audio tapes later revealed Nixon referred to that visit as "wasting three days up there. That trip we needed like a hole in the head."[31][32]

Childhood

His parents publicly announced their separation on May 27, 1977,[33][34] when Trudeau was five years old, with his father having custody. There had been repeated rumours of a reconciliation in the public for manywhat encompassed my father's life, his duty, his country."[41] Trudeau has three half-siblings, Kyle and Alicia, from his mother's remarriage to Fried Kemper,[42] and Sarah, from his father's relationship with Deborah Coyne.[43]

Trudeau lived at 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, the official residence of Canada's prime minister, from his birth until his father's government was defeated in the federal election on May 22, 1979. The Trudeaus were expected to move into the residence of the Leader of the Official Opposition, Stornoway, at 541 Acacia Avenue in Rockcliffe Park, but because of flooding in the basement, prime minister Joe Clark offered them Harrington Lake, the prime minister's official country retreat in Gatineau Park, with the expectation they would move into Stornoway at the start of July.[44] However, the repairs were not